DX LISTENING DIGEST 13-42, October 17, 2013
Incorporating REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING
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SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1691, October 17-24, 2013
Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [repeated 1690 this week]
Thu 2101 WTWW 9479 [confirmed]
Fri 0326v WWRB 5050 [confirmed at 0328]
Sat 0200v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 [confirmed on webcast]
Sat 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio
Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio
Sat 1500 WRMI 9955 [confirmed on webcast]
Sat 2330v WTWW 9930
Sun 0401 WTWW 5830 [confirmed]
Tue 1100 WRMI 9955
Wed 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio
Wed 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio
Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or maybe 1692 if ready in time]
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DAY-BY-DAY ARCHIVE OF GLENN HAUSER`S LOG REPORTS:
Unedited, uncondensed, unchanged from original version, many of
them too complex, minutely researched, multi-frequency, opinionated,
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** ALASKA. 21305-USB, Oct 11 at 1959 after getting Guyana on 21320,
here`s a better signal, George in Wasilla, Alaska, where it`s 42
degrees and no hurry to move on from a conversation with a station in
Queens NY. George has a greenhouse, and is a competitive pistol-
shooter, finally ID as KL7GS. QRZ.com:
KL7GS
GEORGE C STROTHER
5935 E. Tex-Al Drive
WASILLA, AK 99654 USA
Say hello to Sarah (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ALBANIA [and non]. 9850, Oct 12 at 0125, R. Tirana IS again has QRM
from noisy spur out of 9860 WHRI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** ALBANIA [and non]. 9515, Oct 12 at 0543, Arab music, very poor
while // 9590 is a JBA carrier, i.e. CRI at 05-07 via Cërrik, 240 and
140 degrees respectively. Would expect 9590 to be better here, closer
to directly off the back. Strangely, Algeria-via-France 9535 normally
much stronger, is much weaker than 9515, and at first I wondered if
that had moved to 9515 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ALGERIA [non]. 9535, Oct 13 at 0502, RTA via FRANCE, mostly in
Arabic Qur`an, at certain hourtops switches to news in French, all
about Africa now; good signal and not // 7295 which stays with another
relay in Arabic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ANGOLA. 4949.76, 2205-2215 08.10, R Nacional de Angola, Mulenvos
Portuguese talk, 25242 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, heard in Skovlunde on
my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini,
playdx yg via DXLD)
4949.74, R. Nacional Angola (presumed), 0336-0347, Oct 10. Could tell
when they had music or talking (just above threshold level). Here in
Calif. unusual to get any audio (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA,
Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ARGENTINA. 6060, RAE, 09/10 2303 UT. Noticias del fútbol en el
programa “Siempre Argentina: Conexión en español” y música argentina
folklórica de forma instrumental. Señal con SINPO: 54555 con leve QRM
de otra emisora, pero no identificable, ni determinante // 15345 con
SINPO: 55555.
6060, RNA, 11/10 2345 UT. Transmisión del partido Argentina-Perú en
periodo de entretiempo. Se da datos de las emisoras conectadas a la
red deportiva y de partidos de otras selecciones latinoamericanas.
Señal con SINPO: 55555 // 15345 con SINPO: 44444 con programación de
RAE.
[and non]. 6060, RAE, 15/10 0000 UT. Comienzo del servicio en
português, en el cual una mujer nombra países del exterior en que se
escucha RAE, avisos de la emisora y presentación de música
folklórica. Señal sale del aire a las 0003. SINPO: 55555 con RHC por
debajo y que se oye de fondo, cuando RAE sale del aire // 11710 con
SINPO: 33333.
15345, RNA, 12/10 2022 UT. Programa “El juego en que andamos” con
temas sobre el peronismo y octubre. Señal con SINPO: 55353 (Claudio
Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Beverage de 20 metros con balun 9:1,
QTH: Centro de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD)
** ARGENTINA. 15345+, Oct 15 at 2148, RAE playing ``El Condor Pasa``
as Argentina is after all, marginally, an Andean nation too; fair with
flutter. This hour on weekdays is scheduled in German (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ARGENTINA. 28497-USB, Oct 11 at 2011, LU6HK calling CQ in English.
LU6HK
Eduardo Jorge Areal
Av. Nores Martínez 3045
5016 Córdoba
Argentina
Per QRZ.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ASCENSION. 21630, Oct 10 at 1229 I check 13m altho not expecting
anything since 16 and even 19 are almost dead, hearing a bit of
singing but cut off abruptly at 1230* before I can even be certain of
the frequency in this area, but must have been BBC French, the only
thing scheduled around here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 6150, Oct 10 at 1150, R. Australia in `Late Night Live`
interview with author of a book about Fidel Castro, currently
discussing Luis Posada Carriles, and how Cuban hardliners Ted Cruz and
Marco Rubio bear much responsibility for the US government shutdown.
Must listening, so I go get the 53-minute program via:
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/cuba-without-fidel-castro/4997132
``Cuba without Fidel Castro
Listen now Download audio
Thursday 10 October 2013 10:05PM
A penetrating biography of Fidel Castro, the politics of family
succession and the Cuban connection to the US Government shutdown.
Image: Former Cuban leader, Fidel Castro with Ann Louise Bardach
(supplied)`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
VERY INTERESTING ARTICLE AND WELL WORTH THE TIME TO LISTEN TO! (Edward
Kusalik 8-) Alberta, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 4750, Bangladesh Betar, Oct 09 1407-1413, 43443
Bengali, News, ID at 1410.
7250, Bangladesh Betar, Oct 09 *1313-1333, 33443, Nepali, 1313 sign on
with IS, Opening music, Opening announce, News and Bangladesh music.
7250, Bangladesh Betar, Oct 10 *1313-1321, 33433, Nepali, 1313 sign on
with IS, ID, Opening music, Opening announce, News.
15105, Bangladesh Betar, Oct 04 1228-1239, 25432, English, IS, Opening
music, Opening announce, News (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75,
NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121; ANT, 70m
Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15105, Oct 12 just as I tune in Bangladesh Betar at 1240, it dumps off
the air for about a minute, resuming in English and nice local music,
poor with heavy flutter.
15505, Oct 12 at 1357, BB carrier is VP with flutter; 1358 IS;
timesignal is JBA ending at 1400:02.5.
15505, Oct 13 at *1356:45 JBA carrier on from BB; IS plays a bit past
1400 until off-timesignal ending at 1400:10 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** BENIN. QSL card, schedule and tract received today from TWR Benin
1566, for an AUG 31 2013 reception. Signed by Lorraine S., from the
Swaziland address. The card says I heard this on 156 khz, but I think
everyone knows the actual channel! That's my 60th verified country of
78 heard.
So if we counted in Base 6 that would mean I've reached the century
mark. And for binary-only DXers, that would be country #111,100.- yes
you got it right - only 4 more to reach a million! Just came in from
raking leaves which might explain my interest in high numbers today.
Since we're on a roll with this - most contemporary cultures use base
10, but there's one that uses base 8 - derived not from fingers, but
from the spaces between fingers. An mystical concept - a counting
system derived from what is not there. Hmmmm (Jim Renfrew, Holley NY,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Besides the MW lists, Jim sent this directly to me, apparently knowing
how much I welcome digression (gh, DXLD)
Actually, 100 base 6 would be 36 base 10. So, you're really
approaching 200 countries heard base 6! Congratulations! (Earl
Higgins, St. Louis Missouri, IRCA via DXLD)
Hmm. If you can count what isn't there, then perhaps the tree falling
in the forest does make a sound after all (Russ Edmunds, 15 mi NNW of
Philadelphia, ibid.)
** BOLIVIA. 6134.8, R. SANTA CRUZ, 09/10 2315 UT. Noticiero conectado
a la “Red guaraní de comunicación”, con noticias en español y guaraní
desde el chaco boliviano. Señal con SINPO: 44343 con algo de QRN
(Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Beverage de 20 metros con
balun 9:1, QTH: Centro de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via
DXLD)
Two recent and very pleasing QSLs ~ [see also SUDAN] Country No. 98 -
Radio Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, 6135 kHz, 0942z, f/d
Spanish letter by air, stamped & v/s "Ma. Yolanda Marco Escobar,
Secretaria de Dirección", in 360 days for Spanish Report with
recording link and mint stamps by airmail (Bruce Jensen, California,
USA, Oct 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. Definite unknown SW TX sites in Brazil (Active or Current
SW Broadcasters) --- Okay, I've now exhaustively gone through my
Brazil Current Sites SW List & narrowed down the list to what are my
definite unknown SW TX sites for active/current Brazilian SW radio
broadcast stations.
Belém, Rádio Cultura do Pará - 5045 kHz
Congonhas, Rádio Congonhas - 4775 kHz
Manaus, Rádio Cultura Ondas Tropicais - 4845 kHz
Xapuri, Rádio Educadora 6 de Agosto - 3255 kHz
I might be a little tentative on the Rádio Educação Rural - 4925 Hz
(Ex 3385 kHz) tx site at Tefé here:
3 22'46.18" S, 64 43'17. 10"W
Any assistance in determining SW tx site locations FOR THE ABOVE
stations would be most appreciated by us all (Ian Baxter, Oct 12,
shotwavesites yg via DXLD)
** BRAZIL. HISTÓRIA DO RÀDIO NO BRASIL DA BBC --- O trabalho da BBC
sobre a história do rádio no Brasil está no YouTube. Passo o link da
primeira parte. Não deve ser difícil localizar as outras.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUQ5fIVdcZw
73 (Lucio Haeser, 12 Oct, radioescutas yg via DXLD) em inglês?
** BRAZIL. 4875.02, 2205-0040 07+08.10, R Dif. Roraima, Boa Vista, RR
Portuguese ann, Brazilian songs 32343 CODAR QRM (Anker Petersen,
Denmark, heard in Skovlunde on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of
longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD)
4875, 12/10 0330, R. Dif. Roraima - Boa Vista, PP MX buono but bad
audio (Roberto Pavanello, Italy, playdx yg via DXLD)
[and non]. 4874, Oct 13 at 0055, approx. center of wandering blob vs
4875 Rdif. Roraima, so need to hear it on USB.
4875, Oct 16 at 0108 music from presumed Rdif. Roraima, notable only
because the spurblob is nowhere around for once (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 4885, Oct 13 at 0142, fair signal with romantic music,
presumed R. Clube do Pará. I notice that there are CODAR swishes when
listening on USB, while there are none at all on LSB (but a fleeting
lite ``running water`` ute).
4885, Oct 16 at 0108, silly ballgame in Portuguese, presumed R. Clube
do Pará, but with frequent commercial/music breaks; 0109 heard
``gooaaaallll``. Suspect the same World Cup qualifying match I am
hearing on 12365-USB via CHILE, Ecuador v. Chile in Santiago. Or maybe
some other game is more important in Pará? As usual, CODAR avoided by
tuning LSB only from 4885 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. Realmente a Rádio Aparecida está estourando aqui por São
Paulo. Na frequência de 6135 kHz, o ponteiro do meu radio "cola" no
máximo, em qualquer hora do dia. Em 60m, 5035 continua fraquinha, mas
ouvi na programação, que estão trocando os transmissores de 60m.
(João Araújo, São Paulo - SP, Oct 13, radioescutas yg via DXLD)
Realmente João, A Rádio Aparecida em 6135 aqui em Goiânia às vezes, o
seu sinal está mais forte do que a Rádio Nacional da Amazônia 6180
(Cássio Santos - Goiânia-Goiás, ibid.)
PARABENS A RADIO APARECIDA; a B2 está voltando na OC, agora a EBC é
uma vergonha, investiu pesado nos novos estudios, mesa de audio de 300
mil reiais, mas a parte que interessa para o ouvinte, a OC e OM está
devendo (Neto Silva, Brasília DF, ibid.)
** BRAZIL. 9819.16, R Nove de Julho, São Paulo, 0625 11 Oct, px loc
mx, 23333 (Mauro Giroletti, Swl 1510, IK2GFT, JRC525Nrd, Lowe HF150,
Filter PAR Electronics - BCST-LPF + BCST-HPF- DSP 9, Eavesdropper SWL
Sloper 11 to 120m Band, Loop ALA 100 M; Lat. 45 25'0" N Long. 9 7'0"
E; Locator grid. Jn 45 Nk, bclnews.it yg via DXLD)
** BRAZIL. 10000, Oct 12 at 0103, pips every 10 seconds and continuous
talk between them, I can`t make out under WWV/WWVH, but surely the MO
of PPE in Rio de Janeiro; no music so not ``Italcable`` (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1691, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11780, Oct 16 at 0619, RNA, VG signal with good music, but
modulation is a bit rough, and with BFO can tell the carrier is
unstable; while // 6180 is OK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
See also PARABENS above
** BURMA [non]. CLANDESTINE, 11595, Dem. V. of Burma via Armenia, Oct
15 *2330-2336 35333 Burmese, 2330 sign on with opening music, ID,
Opening announce, Talk (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-
525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121; ANT, 70m Sloper
Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. Hi Glenn: Have you heard any news regarding the possible
return to air of CFRX 6070? Thanks, (Karl Zuk, NY, Oct 13, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Only the items in DXLD 13-41 [which I copied to him shortly before
publication] (Glenn to Karl, via WORLD OF RADIO 1691, DXLD)
Glenn: I guess it doesn't hurt to ask. A reply from Steve (Zuk, DXLD)
Viz.:
Re: Cfrx, Today at 3:45 PM, To Karl Zuk --- Nothing yet. I keep hoping
the engineers will get in there sooner rather than later. Maybe this
week coming. Fingers crossed. Hang in there. Steve, Sent from my
iPhone (via Karl Zuk, WORLD OF RADIO 1691, DXLD)
** CAYMAN ISLANDS. Caribbean cruise logs --- Third time's the charm.
My trip to Cozumel was cancelled due to my open heart surgery and then
Wendy booked a cruise that we had to cancel when I went into the
hospital for 6 days in May. We were able to book the same cruise;
Miami-Cozumel-Belize-Roatán (Honduras)-Grand Cayman-Miami. Ship was
the Carnival Liberty. 10/10 in Grand Cayman at 7-mile beach:
89.9, 12:50 PM EDT, Radio Cayman
107.9, 1:03 PM EDT, Weather station sounded like our NWS stations,
mentioned http://www.weather.gov.ky
(Martin Foltz, Sony SRF-M37W, Oct 14, ABDX via DXLD)
** CHAD. 6165-, Oct 10 at 0057, RHC carrier is already on, but turning
up the volume, can hear a LAH indicating CHAD is also on tonight. //
6000 RHC English carrier also on early (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
Giovedì 10 ottobre 2013, 0740! - 6165 kHz, RN TCHADIENNE - N'Djamena,
Francese, parlato OMs. Segnale sufficiente (Luca Botto Fiora, QTH G.C.
09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, bclnews.it yg via DXLD)
[and non]. 6165-, Oct 11 at 0059, poor carrier in noise level, but
characteristic RNT offset to lo side; RHC not yet on, and still not at
0105 tho 6000 has started English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CHILE. Antención a 12365 a las 21 UT --- DX y Radioham. Se les
solicita monitorear si en 12365 kHz a las 21 UT aproximadamente hay
alguna transmisión del partido Colombia-Chile, perteneciente a
Cooperativa y que a veces se activa en LSB o USB, cuando existen
encuentros de la selección. Saludos! (Claudio Galaz, Chile, in
advance: 1903 UT Oct 11, condiglista yg via DXLD)
Esto es algun feeder o similar? (Rodolfo Tizzi, Uruguay, ibid.)
Exacto, lo más probable que desde el norte de Chile. Con ubicación y
potencia desconocida. Aunque lo más probable sea de algún regimiento
de telecomunicaciones, o algún reforzado de la zona. No hay
información de quién lo realiza (Claudio Galaz, ibid.)
Sí, entra muy bajito por Neuquén! 2109 TU (José A. Kucher, Argentina,
ibid.)
Por acá, 55555; pronto les mando el vídeo de esto. La señal proviene
desde el norte cerca de Antofagasta o Calama, pues gente de aquellas
ciudades una vez reportó que la oía muy bien. Y los que vivimos más al
sur no podíamos tomarla muy bien, o simplemente no podíamos. Saludos!
(Claudio Galaz, Chile, 2121 UT, ibid.)
Not necessarily, unless in el norte they can tell they are close
enough for it to be groundwave. Otherwise, skip zone on 12+ MHz could
place it further south in Chile (gh, DXLD)
Yo, lo que escucho en esa frecuencia es como si fuera una frecuencia
adyacente de otra, algo como si hubiera una modulación pero deformada
y además mucho ruido (Ernesto Paulero, Argentina, 2131 UT, condiglist
yg via DXLD)
Ahora la modulación está deformada. Al parecer fue la emoción del
segundo gol; ya que desde ahí entraron unos pitidos y pasó aquella
modulación. Por otro lado, el sistema que usan pareciera ser re
simple. Un micrófono puesto en alguna radio e irradiado por onda
corta... no le veo mayor ciencia (Claudio Galaz, 2137 UT, ibid.)
Ahora, sí se escucha bien (2150 UT):
http://youtu.be/SuT3uTgS5pQ
(Rodolfo Tizzi, http://cx2abp.blogspot.com/ ibid.)
Son las 2135 y la escucho en Montevideo fuerte pero con mucha
distorsión. Es Agricultura, Claudio? No se entiende casi nada (Tizzi,
ibid.) He said initially that it came from Cooperativa (gh, DXLD)
Es Cooperativa amigo Rodolfo (Galaz, 2140 UT, condiglista yg via DXLD)
Yo lo único que escucho es una modulación baja que no se entiende ni
una letra siquiera, y ahora cesó a 2140 y hace dos minutos hubo una
intervención de algún radio aficionado como un CQ pero fue unos
segundos (Ernesto Paulero, ibid.)
Efectivamente es Radio Cooperativa de Santiago
http://www.cooperativa.cl --- Mucha distorsión, será RF que se inyecta
en el transmisor? Señal 55344 por Santiago (ce3BBC, Hugo López C.,
Santiago de Chile, 2145 UT, ibid.)
Asi se escucha Cooperativa en Montevideo en este mismo momento (2147
UT):
http://youtu.be/CV3hV58ozo4
(Rodolfo Tizzi, ibid.)
Hola Hugo: Cuando comenzó, la modulación estaba excelente. Después del
segundo gol, aparecieron unos pitidos de radioaficionados y se
sobremoduló todo (Nota al márgen: se fue al carajo!). (Galaz, ibid.)
Así por Chile antes que pasara lo que relaté anteriormente:
http://youtu. be/Saw-qHs2xWs
(Galaz, 2150 UT, ibid.)
Ahora se escucha mucho mejor. Hago una segunda grabación y la subo
(Rodolfo Tizzi, 2150 UT, ibid.)
Ahora sí, llega por acá 5/5 perfecto. Estoy grabando (Ernesto Paulero,
2150 UT, ibid.)
Como si fuera una emisora local, je je, ya me empezaba a preocupar
jajá, no podía ser que no se escuchara acá; si alguien quiere, le
mando audio (Ernesto Paulero, 2154 UT, ibid.)
Por acá excelente también; justo que llega tu vídeo, y justo que se
arregla la modulación, jaja (Claudio Galaz, 2155 UT, ibid.)
Acá el audio de Radio Cooperativa 12365 kHz (Paulero, 2201 UT,
attachment banned by list digest, ibid.)
Che, que bueno volver a escuchar Chile en Onda Corta. Ojalá se les
haga costumbre. 73! (Rodolfo Tizzi, Uruguay, 2201 UT, ibid.)
Ojalá fuera costumbre; sería hermoso que hubieran más instancias como
estas. Voy a ver si se me escucha en el SDR de Holanda (Claudio Galaz,
2208 UT, ibid.)
"Se me escucha" ??? :) (Rodolfo Tizzi, ibid.) [that would seem to
imply ``hearing myself`` as if he were doing it --- gh]
Sí, Rodolfo. Vía websdr de Utwente en Holanda. SINPO: 22222 (Galaz,
2223 UT, ibid.)
Radio Cooperativa --- Muy buena recepción ahora, siendo las 2224 UT,
por la zona norte de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, 44444 con el
segundo tiempo de Colombia vs Chile (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, ibid.)
Re: [Lista ConDig] Ahora llega muy bien por acá --- coincido con la
opinion de Rodolfo! (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, 2235 UT, ibid.)
Señal de onda corta desde Chile --- es una excelente idea a quienes se
les haya ocurrido. Ahora, en el entretiempo, la modulación USB es
excelente. Se imaginarán los amigos latinoamericanos la fiesta que se
está viviendo en todo Chile con este resultado, ya estamos en Brasil
2014, donde esperamos estas mismas emisiones se repitan. SINPO 2209
UT: 54444 73 (ce3BBC, Hugo López C., Santiago de Chile, ibid.)
Hola Colegas, Alcanzando a llegar a la casa, estoy también en la
sintonía de los 12365 USB señal fuerte con algo de ruido por Bogotá,
en esta oportunidad; ya me había llegado anteriormente pero no con
esta calidad. Buenos DX (Rafael Rodríguez R., 2238 UT, ibid.)
Ahora comprendo el gol de Colombia: llegó el amigo Rafael. Ojalá
puedas grabarla desde Bogotá. Más o menos que SINPO? (Claudio Galaz,
ibid.)
Hola Claudio, por acá haciendo fuerza, la señal 35333 (Rafael
Rodríguez R., 2248 UT, ibid.)
Consulta a los amigos chilenos --- Esta frecuencia por la que sale
Cooperativa, pertenece a Playa Ancha Radio? (Arnaldo Slaen, 2250 UT,
Enviado desde mi BlackBerry de Personal, ibid.)
Hola amigo Slaen: No se sabe a quién pertenece. Lo que sí se ha podido
monitorear es que la señal proviene desde el Norte, cercana a
Antofagasta o Calama, o quizás más al norte. Sin embargo, estos son
los reportes más al norte y con mejor SINPO e incluso, una vez no era
nada más que escuchable en aquella región. Además mientras más al
norte, mejor SINPO. Ergo, al parecer pertenece a las FFAA, ya que es
una zona con muchos regimientos con sección de telecomunicaciones e
incluso el Regimiento 1 de Calama tiene un batallón de Ingenieros, el
batallón Nº 1 "Atacama". Aunque no es nada seguro, pero es una
demostración de la zona. Saludos! (Claudio Galaz, 2258 UT, ibid.)
Gracias por la explicación, Claudio! 73's (Arnaldo Slaen, ibid.)
Claudio, podés explicar cómo se está llevando a cabo esta transmisión
por onda corta? o sos vos que la estas retransmitiendo? Gracias
(Ernesto Paulero, Argentina, ibid.)
Finalizó abruptamente a las 2303 UT, silencio total; hubo un pequeño
retorno de un segundo y desapareció (Paulero, ibid.)
Corte abrupto --- A las 2303 UT, breves instantes después de la
terminación del partido entre Colombia y Chile desde el Estadio
Metropolitano de Barranquilla, hubo un corte abrupto de la trasmisión.
73 (Arnaldo Slaen, Oct 11, ibid.)
Como es costumbre, se acaba el partido, se acaba todo. Aunque faltó el
comentario: "Jugaron como nunca y les pasó lo de siempre" - jajajajaa!
(Galaz, 2307 UT, ibid.)
Llamé a Cooperativa y no se explicaban el origen. Onda corta???
Quedará en el misterio del hobby? Ahora en los 12370 [sic] algo está
en 13370 [sic], mandarín? Saludos y por lo menos le dimos actividad a
nuestro continente y a la pasión, de la radio y lo demás. Saludos
Rafael y Colombia que bien merecido lo tiene (ce3BBC, Hugo López C.,
Santiago de Chile, 2318 UT, ibid.)
Saludos, amigo Claudio y demás colegas diexistas. Por Venezuela
también se escuchó la transmisión en 12365, aunque bajita; la pude
copiar y grabar algo de la misma. Un abrazo a todos (José Elías Díaz
Gómez, 2324 UT Oct 11, ibid.)
Igualmente, Claudio; es una fecha con varias sorpresas y resultados
inesperados, como la derrota de Uruguay o la remontada de Colombia
(Slaen, 2328 UT, ibid.)
Es cierto, Hugo! No olviden que hay varios feeders que se usaron
históricamente desde la Argentina: 15820, 13362 y 5460 (esta última
QRG a confirmar) para alcanzar Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur con
partidos de fútbol y otras retransmisiones. Ideal para chequear. Hace
tiempo que no están en el aire. La última escucha fue en 13362.
Siempre en modo LSB. Enviado desde mi BlackBerry de Personal (Arnaldo
Slaen, Argentina, 2330 UT, ibid.) Really 13363.55-LSB or so. Seems
there was also one in the lower 11 MHz area (gh)
Si así fuera, Arnaldo y demás, creo que no deben estar saliendo
precisamente con 50 vatios sino con bastante más. Si se escucha desde
Venezuela a la Argentina, y también en Twente [Holanda], debe ser un
transmisor bastante potente, quizás utilizado para transmisiones
utilitarias, militares o de servicios fijos. No creo que la geografía
de Chile pueda ser cubierta de norte a sur así nomas con poca potencia
(Rodolfo Tizzi, Uruguay, 2348 UT, ibid.)
Claudio, podés explicar cómo se está llevando a cabo esta transmisión
por onda corta? O sos vos que la estás retransmitiendo? Gracias
(Ernesto Paulero, Argentina, ibid.)
Hola Ernesto: No soy yo --- sólo sé que es una costumbre desde hace un
tiempo por parte de DX chilenos de monitorear esta frecuencia cuando
hay partidos oficiales de la selección, y que encontramos hace
exactamente un año atrás. Al parecer es telecomunicaciones del
Ejército, en la II Región de Chile o más al norte. No hay más datos
que meras suposiciones (Claudio Galaz, Chile, 2304 UT, ibid.)
Ya con un poco de calma luego de la "sufridera``, reviso mis
anotaciones y encuentro que precisamente hace un año fue reportada
esta transmisión; en ese momento fue con el partido Ecuador vs Chile.
La información vino de los colegas Marcos Cox y Luis Valderas via el
amigo Horacio Nigro. En esa oportunidad acá se escuchó con un 24222.
Desde ese momento dejé la frecuencia grabada en una memoria del
Winradio, así que cada vez que corro un escaneo de las memorias,
chequeo esta señal. No tengo anotaciones de alguna otra actividad
captada en la frecuencia que está asignada como canal simplex marítimo
para comunicación barco-barco.
Así que mi opinión es que no es originada por la CBV Playa Ancha
Radio, ya que de ésta cada tanto registro actividad con sus
comunicaciones costeras. Y por la fuerza de la señal escuchada hoy,
descataría que se tratase de emisión aficionada. Así que la
transmisión debería generarse en alguna de la bases militares que
reporta el colega Claudio. Queda el trabajo de investigación para los
colegas chilenos. Buenos DX (Rafael Rodríguez R. 0007 UT Oct 12,
http://dxdesdecolombia.blogspot.com ibid.)
Cooperativa --- Estimados amigos, También escuchada desde las 2230 UT
con SINPO 35343. En este momento estoy pensando si vale la pena enviar
un informe de recepción. :-) 73 (Ivan Dias Jr. - Sorocaba/SP, 0236 UT
Oct 12. http://ivandias.wordpress.com condiglista yg via DXLD)
12365 [USB], R. COOPERATIVA, 11/10 2123 UT. Sin información concreta
de Relay, ni potencia. Transmisión del partido de Colombia y Chile en
Barranquilla, con los relatos del “Aire libre en Cooperativa”. A las
2129, comienza una distorsión del audio, más algunos pitidos de CQ
[CW?] que afectan la recepción hasta las 2153 aproximadamente, cuando
la señal se normaliza. Sale del aire a las 2303 como corte abrupto.
Señal con SINPO: 55555. Informan, también, desde Chile desde sus
respectivos QTH: Alberto Silva en Concepción, VIII Región con SIO: 222
(2135) a SIO: 333 (2214), Hugo López con SINPO: 55344 desde Santiago y
Luis Valderas con SINPO: 35544 desde San Antonio, V región a las 2203
(Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Beverage de 20 metros con
balun 9:1, QTH: Centro de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via
DXLD)
RELAY R. CORPORACION [sic] CHILE 12365 kHz ASCOLTATA IN SUD AMERICA
Ciao! Ascoltata Radio Corporación Chile 1380 kHz con programma
sportivo qualificazione Mondiale 2014, partita Colombia-Chile, con
S/off 2303 UT sulla frequenza utilitaria 12365 USB mode (presumed Tx
Playa Ancha Radio, Valparaíso) segnale ascoltato in Chile, Argentina,
Uruguay, Colombia, il giorno 11 Ottobre. La ùltima giornata 18a delle
qualificazioni è in programma martedi prossimo 15 Ottobre, partita
Chile-Ecuador. Still no reports from Europe (Dario Monferini, Oct 12,
playdx yg via DXLD)
I would say Cooperativa. And probably not Playa Ancha but a mil base
in Northern Chile, probably in Antofagasta, as per further comments in
the list (Horacio Nigro, Montevideo, Uruguay, ibid.)
CHILE/FEEDER --- 12365-USB, Radio Cooperativa, Santiago, 2215-2303,
October 11, Spanish. Reported with the transmission from the Estadio
Metropolitano, Barranquilla with the football match for the 2014
Brazil World Cup between the national teams of Colombia and Chile.
Announcement and identification as: "Chile le gana a Colombia 3 a 1 y
usted lo vive por Radio Cooperativa". S/off abrupt at 2303 UT (seconds
after the end of the match), SINPO 44444 (USB mode). Thanks DXer
Claudio Galaz, Chile for the tip! (Arnaldo Slåen, Argentina, dxldyg
via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Any idea who's behind these transmissions? Chilean Army/Navy? 73,
(Jari Savolainen, Finland, ibid.)
Presumably Chilean Army. Northern Chile (Horacio Nigro, Uruguay,
ibid.)
CHILE/FEEDER --- 12365-USB. Radio Cooperativa, Santiago, 2215-2303,
Octubre 11, Español. Reportada con la transmisión desde el Estadio
Metropolitano, de Barranquilla, del partido por las eliminatorias de
la Copa del Mundo Brasil 2014 entre las selecciones nacionales de
Colombia y Chile. Anuncio e identificación: ``Chile le gana a Colombia
3 a 1 y usted lo vive por Radio Cooperativa``. Corte abrupto de la
transmisión a las 2303 UT, segundos después de la finalización del
match, 44444 siempre en modo USB. Gracias al colega Claudio Galaz,
Chile, por el dato que permitió conocer la existencia de esta
transmisión (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, radioescutas yg via DXLD))
Are there any more games in the series, on what dates and times? This
could be a problem for VMC Australia, marine weather on same
frequency. Same happened exactly a year ago; see DXLD 12-42 under
CHILE: http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1242.txt
(Glenn Hauser, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Next Oct 15. Chile vs. Ecuador (Horacio Nigro, Uruguay, ibid.)
Hi Glenn, only one game is pending for qualifications for Chile to
Brasil 2014. Next 15 October at 1830 hours [zone?]. Probably this is
another chanche to try this catch. good monitoring.
http://www.futbolya.com/eliminatorias/brasil-2014/fase-de-clasificacion
Próxima Jornada
Jornada N 18
15.10.13 [info] Chile 18:30 Ecuador
15.10.13 [info] Uruguay 18:30 Argentina
15.10.13 [info] Paraguay 18:30 Colombia
15.10.13 [info] Perú 21:15 Bolivia
73's (Dario Monferini, Italy, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Four days later, on Oct 15::::
R. Cooperativa en 12365 (usb) otra vez --- Hola a todos: Otra vez
Cooperativa con fútbol en 12365 en modo usb. Tal como el viernes.
Saludos (Claudio Galaz, 2350 UT Oct 15, condiglista yg via DXLD)
Hola Claudio, Por acá con mejor señal que el viernes (Rafael
Rodríguez, Bogotá, 0014 UT Oct 16, ibid.)
Qué bueno; yo algo puede filmar nuevamente.
http://youtu.be/WxuKsWdm728 (Claudio Galaz, 0027 UT, ibid.)
Me apoyo del reporte de Rafael; esta vez la señal por Santiago es
aceptable sin ser un 55555, es decir, las condiciones están para el
norte del continente. La pregunta: quien origina esta actividad
chilena en onda corta? 73 (ce3BBC, Hugo López C., Santiago de Chile,
ibid.)
El Ejército, la pregunta sigue siendo desde dónde? Pero tengo un amigo
en Calama y dice que allá tienen unas antenas como aquellas de onda
corta; aunque puede ser desde: Regimiento de Telecomunicaciones Nº6
“Tarapacá” en Iquique (Claudio Galaz, ibid.)
Tnx Horacio and Dario Monferini for tip, next game Oct 15 from
2130(?). But nothing heard at 2137, 2229, 2301 UT chex. However, there
it is, Oct 16 at 0059 and still at 0119, weak but clear fútbol in
Spanish. More details in my next log report. Also a long thread
discussing this in the condiglist is being edited for the next DXLD
(Glenn Hauser, OK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
12365 [USB], R. COOPERATIVA, 15/10 2346 UT. Partido de Chile versus
Ecuador, con avisos comerciales y de otros partidos. Señal con SINPO:
44444 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Beverage de 20 metros
con balun 9:1, QTH: Centro de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg
via DXLD)
12365-USB, Oct 16 at 0059, poor signal with broadcast in rapid Spanish
of a fútbol game frequently referring to the pelota; at 0105, also
mentions rodillas (so someone is on his knees); 0119 still in but very
poor. I started checking for this Oct 15 at 2147, also at 2229, 2301,
but nothing heard then (except CODAR).
Like exactly one year ago, an unofficial relay of Radio Cooperativa,
one of the major stations in Chile, has been put on 12365-USB because
Chile is competing in the qualifiers for next year`s World Cup in
Brasil. Claudio Galaz in Chile tipped the condiglista, Friday Oct 11
that this might be coming up, and it was then widely heard in South
America after 2100 UT, Colombia vs Chile from Barranquilla.
Lots of speculation on the condiglist about who is doing these relays.
I`m editing it all together for the next DXLD:
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1342.txt
Claudio thinx it`s coming from a military base in northern Chile,
Antofagasta or Calama, since monitors in the north are getting a
stronger signal; however, I think it could be just the opposite due to
skip distances, unless the northerners are really close, within
groundwave range.
Horacio Nigro and Dario Monferini checked the schedules and told me
one more match would be on October 15 from 2130(?), Chile vs Ecuador.
Looked up later, played in Santiago, Chile beat Ecuador 2-1, but
Ecuador is still in the running to qualify unless Uruguay surpasses
them later. On the Oct 11 match, Chile beat Colombia 3-1.
For last year`s reports about this see under CHILE:
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1242.txt
Another station on 12365-USB is marine weather from VMC in Australia,
which could be bothered, but no sign of it during my logs.
The Klingenfuss guidebook of 2002y showed 12365 also as a worldwide
simplex ship frequency. Current EiBi also has Russian spy numbers on
it, but only at 1000-1030 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1691, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) See also BRAZIL: 4885
** CHINA [and non]. Firedrake [non], CNR1 jamming before 1400 UT Oct
10: nothing heard on the WOOB spots, with degraded propagation, just:
15570 & 15550 with hets on lo side from V. Of Tibet, JBA at 1355
7445, Oct 10 at 1232, CNR1 echo jamming with SAH against RTI Chinese,
soon followed by CNR1 theme and CJKT/ZRGD ID. Similar pileup on 7385
also against RTI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
EAST JAMMERSTAN: 13675, Crash & Bang Music Jammer; 1928-1935+, 10-Oct;
Lotsa crashing & banging with brief segments w/flutes, tinkle chimes &
the horns of doom, similar to those played by Family Radio just before
the Alexander Scourby Bible readings. Neither Aoki nor EiBi list
anything on at this time (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B +
125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my
ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Fire Drake jammer on now. 9590 kcs; I first heard it at 2340 UT (Ernie
Rice, 0003 UT Oct 11, shortwavelistening yg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
17580, CNR-1 0152 Chinese, woman and man. Poor, // 17550 same, and
also 17510 heard, but very weak, as a jammer against Radio Free Asia’s
Tibetan service, Oct 11 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia,
Listening beside the lake, in my car, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1
active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Firedrake [non] Oct 11 before 1300:
13970, very poor at 1256
No others heard 12-18 MHz except for traces on the usual 15 MHz inband
spots and their hets from V. of Tibet, etc.
Firedrake [non] CNR1 jamming Oct 12, before 1400:
12500, very poor at 1351
Except for inband traces on 15 MHz, no others found 12-18 MHz
Firedrake [non] search for WOOB CNR1 jammers Oct 15 at 1355-1358 finds
nothing; just some traces inside the 19m band as evidenced by hets
with V. of Tibet.
Firedrake [non] CNR1 jammer search Oct 16 circa 1330:
12980, fair at 1324 with flutter. No others 13-18 MHz except:
15265, poor at 1330, // 12980 and with a lo het as usual, Taiwan askew
15575, very poor at 1327 with het on lo side, so V of Tibet must be on
15573 at the moment. One might have assumed 15575 was the ``North
American Service`` of KBS World Radio in English, had I not been able
to // it to 12980! So besides not propagating all winter, KBS
confronts CCI from the ChiCom
16110, fair at 1331 with similar flutter to 12980, just an open
carrier, but suspicious; checked with BFO, no, it`s not RTTY. Aoki and
I have had Sound of Hope/jamming as close as 16100 and 16160
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1691, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 4940, V. of the Strait, Fuzhou, 1109-1120 10/7 Chinese;
Continuous talk by M announcer; f/out around 1118; poor in ECCS-USB.
6115, V. of the Strait, Fuzhou, 1127-1133 10/7 Chinese; W announcer
with talk & occasional music bits; poor in ECCS-USB; checked to see if
// 4940, but 60m was long gone by this time (Scott R. Barbour Jr.
Intervale, NH, NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Venerdì 11 ottobre 2013, 1648-1703* - 5860 kHz, VOICE OF
JINLING - Nanjing, Musica leggera locale, jazz, annunci OM+YL. Segnale
sufficiente, ECSS LSB per QRM UTE-DIG. Se a qualcuno interessa provare
è meglio entro il 26 ottobre, poi sulla stessa frequenza o quelle
limitrofe potrebbe subentrare qualche emissione internazionale della
stagione B13 che inizia domenica 27 ottobre (Luca Botto Fiora, QTH
G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, bclnews.it yg via DXLD)
B-13 HFCC as of Oct 13 does not show anything else on 5860 during the
14-18 [sic] period NJG is scheduled (gh, DXLD)
5860, Voice of Jinling (presumed), 1445, Oct 10. Pop song followed by
two YL chatting in Chinese; fair (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach,
CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 6060, Sichuan PBS-2, 1500, Oct 10. Heard daily with fair to
good signal; still with recorded IDs in English; “Nationality Channel.
This is the People’s Radio Station. SW 6060, 7225, FM 88.1," so must
be given every ToH (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1,
dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1691, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 9645, Oct 12 at 1150, major Western piano concerto, fair
signal, and // 9540 poor; 1155 interrupted! for Cantonese
announcement, so it`s CRI, both via Beijing site, at 215 and 142
degrees respectively per Aoki.
[non]. 13645 // 13650, Oct 10 at 1227, CRI English, an echo apart and
about equal poor levels, i.e. southward from Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN
and northwestward from Cërrik, ALBANIA, respectively, both scheduled
11-13 UT; rather unusual to hear CRI 5 kHz apart from itself, but
bound to happen on this overkill multi-frequency service. I count 21
SW in use during the 12-13 hour per WRTH 2013 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
[non non]. 15110, CRI, 11/10 1135 UT. Un hombre y una mujer hablan en
idioma esperanto con acento chino como parte de un microprograma de
cultura. Señal con SINPO: 44444 // 11635 con SINPO: 52332 con QRM de
CNR-1 en 11630 y el CNR-1 jammer en 11640 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun
PL-660, Antena: Beverage de 20 metros con balun 9:1, QTH: Centro de
Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD)
** CHINA [non]. See LUXEMBOURG in this and recent issues
** COSTA RICA. Hi Glenn, More bad news out of Europe (You may have
already heard this by now). There will be no more REE transmissions
from the Cariari site starting on October 28. A real blow to all North
and South American listeners. Here is the link to the statement that
was posted today in Spanish on RTVE.es; below is my translation.
http://www.rtve.es/radio/20131014/loteria-navidad-radio-exterior/764480.shtml
"On October 28, Radio Exterior de España will permanently end its
shortwave transmissions from its relay station in Cariari, Costa Rica.
At the same time, from that date, broadcasts from its transmitters in
Noblejas, Spain will be considerably expanded.
These changes will affect those listeners in Central America, North
America and the northern part of South America’s Southern Cone who
tune us.
In the coming days, we will post on our webpage and announce on our
programs our new frequencies and times in which you can hear Radio
Exterior de España." (Marty Delfín, Madrid, Spain, Oct 15, WORLD OF
RADIO 1691, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
REE PONE FIN DE LAS EMISIONES EN ONDA CORTA DESDE EL CENTRO DE CARIARI
A partir del próximo 28 de octubre, Radio Exterior de España suspende
con carácter definitivo sus emisiones en onda corta desde el centro
emisor de Cariari, en Costa Rica. En paralelo, se aumentará
considerablemente a partir de esa misma fecha las emisiones por onda
corta desde el centro emisor de Noblejas, en España.
Estos cambios afectan a los oyentes que nos sintonizan desde Centro
América, Norteamérica y el norte del cono Sur americano.
En próximos días, a través de nuestra programación y de nuestra página
web, les informaremos de las nuevas frecuencias y horarios con los que
podrán seguir escuchando Radio Exterior de España.
Fuente:
http://www.rtve.es/radio/20131014/loteria-navidad-radio-exterior/764480.shtml
(via Claudio Galaz, Chile, Oct 14, condiglista yg via DXLD)
Le van cerrando cada vez más el oxígeno al respirador artificial de la
Onda Corta. Marche otro certificado de defunción! Enviado desde mi
BlackBerry® de Claro Argentina RGM (Rubén Guillermo Margenet,
Argentina, Oct 15, condiglista yg via DXLD)
En realidad no es cierre de transmisiones, sí de lugar de
transmisiones. ¿Comienzo del fin? Desde el 2010 que estoy escuchando
que REE fencerá [sic]. (Claudio Galaz, Chile, ibid.)
Es un radiopaís que se suma a los que vamos perdiendo. Costa Rica ya
no es la de antes. RGM (Margenet, ibid.)
I'm guessing that with the financial woes of the Spanish government,
it was a choice between closing Cariari or making major cuts to
overall output, and the relay station lost. Wonder if anyone is
interested in purchasing the Cariari facility? Doubtful, considering
the demise of other Western Hemishere sites in the past decade. Will
anything be left on SW from Cental America other than Radio Verdad?
Haven't checked for the two Hondurans recently (Steve Luce, Houston,
Texas, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
No, only Truth. NO definite logs of the last two Hondurans for many
months now (gh, DXLD)
11815, Oct 16 at 1322, REE poor in Spanish, but not much NHK CCI
today. Marty Delfín of El País in Madrid informs us that REE will be
CLOSING the Cariari relay at the end of A-13, off from October 27! One
more bites the dust. REE already canceled all CR transmissions
northward, except for DRM at 00-02 on 9630. Supposedly broadcasts
direct from Noblejas will be expanded to compensate.
The tentative HFCC B-13 schedule as of 14 Oct still lists Cariari on
six frequencies: 3350, 5965, 5970, 9675, 11815, 17850 as effective
until 30 March, apparently having been contingently registered and to
be removed. At least that will get rid of the wideband DRM noise
surrounding 9630 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1691, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
Keith Perron says: October 15, 2013 at 9:15 pm --- Not surprised. REE
was losing money on this relay. If they were smart that could have
leased time. But their prices were way out of the market norm. They
were charging nearly 200 Euros for a 100 kW. Just another example of a
public broadcaster that has no commercial sense (swlingpost.com via
DXLD)
Reply Marty Delfín says: October 16, 2013 at 4:44 pm --- Hi Keith –
Just curious — How was that breakdown in price? The €200 per 100 kW,
was that per hour or per broadcast? Do you know roughly how many
people stand to lose their jobs at Cariari? I informed La Nación and
Tico Times, both San José dailies, but the Costa Rican press seems too
busy celebrating that their national soccer team qualified for next
year’s World Cup (ibid.)
** CUBA. See AUSTRALIA for a show about Cuba without Castro
** CUBA. 890 // 900, Oct 16 at 0608, same song in Spanish from SE vs
CCI on both, surely R. Progreso, Chambas, Ciego de Ávila, and much
further San Germán, Holguín, respectively, 200 and 50 kW per WRTH.
There are also CMBC`s listed on 810, 820, 850, 880, 920, 940, etc.,
etc., which one might also be able to log by // to 890 if not 4765 at
this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Venerdì 11 ottobre 2013, Botta di insonnia: 0108 - 4765 kHz, R.
PROGRESO (Cuba), Musica bailable. Segnale buono-sufficiente. Co-ch
Tajik Radio 1. Leggero battimento, ma non ho capito quale delle due
fosse offset (Luca Botto Fiora, QTH G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo
(Genova) - Italia, bclnews.it yg via DXLD)
Leggero battimento = subaudible heterodyne (gh, DXLD)
4765, Radio Progreso, 0118 Spanish, popular Cuban music, 0126 news
update, 0129 ID “Radio Progreso, Cadena Nacional”. Fair, Oct 11
(Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening beside the lake,
in my car, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Radio Progreso was first logged here on 9362 on July 16, 1954, long
before Fidel was busy doing his thing (Gerry Dexter, Lake Geneva WI,
NASWA Flashsheet Oct 13, 2013 via DXLD)
** CUBA [and non]. 11930, R. MARTÍ, 09/10 2323 UT. Hombres hablan
sobre el desempeño de jugadores de béisbol estadounidenses y después
anuncios del servicio “Piravídeo”. Señal con SINPO: 55555 sin Cuban
Noise Jammer // 9565 con SINPO: 54454 con QRM poco pronunciado de S.
R. Deus é Amor, lo cual no se nota, pero sí con Cuban Noise Jammer
(Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Beverage de 20 metros con
balun 9:1, QTH: Centro de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via
DXLD)
11880, RHC. 09/10 2350 UT. Noticias culturales en inglés,
especialmente sobre las últimas actividades de la “Casa de las
Américas” y sobre la agencia Prensa Latina con SINPO: 55555
15370, RHC. 10/10 0001 UT. Mujer habla en idioma quechua presentando
la emisora y el programa del servicio en quechua, especialmente sobre
los Beatles y John Lennon. Señal con un poco de QRN y con SINPO: 55454
(Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Beverage de 20 metros con
balun 9:1, QTH: Centro de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via
DXLD)
6150, Oct 11 at 0517, RHC English is here instead of 6125! 6150 had
been a morning frequency until changed to 6000; apparently still on
the roster. Arnie is delivering the first of today`s editorials. //
frequencies are normal: 6165, 6060, 6000, 5040.
Ivo Ivanov, still monitoring SW in Bulgaria, also noticed this and
assumes 6150 was on from 0500 to 0700. On Oct 10, he also found 6000
and 6165 stayed on the air from 07 to 10 in English and Spanish
respectively (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1691, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) See also CHAD
Frequency change or mistake of Radio Habana Cuba on October 11:
0500-0700 NF 6150*HAB 100 kW / 010 deg to NoAm English, instead 6125.
// frequency 5040 till 0600 and frequencies 6000, 6060, 6165 till 0700
* strong QRM from 6155, Oesterreichischer Rundfunk in German 0500-0615
-- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30
m. long wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Back on 6125 next nite: below
9390-9540, Oct 11 at 0108, approximate varying extent of irregular
pulse jamming bleeding from the wall of noise on 9490 against R.
República, which itself is somewhat readable, matching the jamming
level at peaks, from site in FRANCE; it`s been mostly inaudible here
for months.
15230, Oct 11 at 1948, open carrier, good steady signal, surely RHC
turning on the transmitter way ahead of scheduled 2200 in Portuguese
(I can`t believe how often I see this misspelt ``Portugese``), or
maybe they never turned it off after Spanish finished at 1500? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15230, RHC. 11/10 2112 UT. Presencia de portadora abierta, sin
modulación por debajo y una hora antes de la transmisión del servicio
en portugués para Sudamérica (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660,
Antena: Beverage de 20 metros con balun 9:1, QTH: Centro de Ovalle, IV
Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD)
6125, Oct 12 at 0548, RHC English is back on proper frequency instead
of jump to 6150, 24 hours earlier, and // usual 6165, 6060, 6000,
5040. Token broadcast of Austrian classical music on 6155 is again
unimpeded.
12060, Oct 13 0119, grinding jammer vs station in Spanish. So the
DentroCuban jamming command is not only hitting R. Martí on 6030, but
La Voz de Rusia via ARMENIA on its second harmonic!
6000, Oct 13 at 0128, English here is not from RHC, but CRI! // 9580
and synchronized, as the RadioCuba operators have got their wires
crossed again. RHC English is at least on 6165. There can only be a
finite number of possible errors, and RHC is racking them up, one by
one (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1691, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
6000, Oct 13 at 0509, RHC is off; earlier at 0128, 6000 was carrying
CRI English instead of Habana but that had been fixed by a sesquihour
later. Now the other four overkill English frequencies remain on.
Stop press! The 2014 pocket calendar from RHC will exhibit a photo of
a mural in Spain of Simón Bolívar and a quotation from him, as
announced on RHC Spanish Oct 13. I still think he would be overrolling
in his grave if he knew he had become a darling of the Commies (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** DIEGO GARCIA. 12759-USB, Oct 13 at 0117, AFN is barely making it,
very poor signal with music; 0136 it`s better with some talk and rock
music. Unless the government shutdown has modified it, manager gave me
schedule last month that on Sunday mornings there are no relays of the
local FM outlet, so presumably plugged into some network service now.
At least this confirms it`s still on the air, unlike Guam (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1691, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EAST TURKISTAN [and non]. 11870, Oct 13 at 0121, CRI English mixing
about equally with WEWN Spanish. This hour only, it`s 173 degrees from
Kashgar. 11870 is also subject to breakthru of the second harmonic of
5935 WWCR, from receiver overload if not axual radiation, but not at
the moment. See also CUBA
9535, Oct 15 at 0102, REE Spanish from Spain, which I am comparing to
Costa Rica relay on wrong 5965 [see SPAIN], has considerable CCI from
something in English; hard to copy, but sounds like CRI, same
programming as on 9570 and 9580. Yes, per HFCC at 01-02, CRI English
is on 9535, 100 kW, 174 degrees from Kashgar. We can always depend on
the ChiCom to spoil other stations far beyond the nominal target
areas.
13575, Oct 13 at 1230, CRI with nice Chinese pop songs, announced in
Russian, but selective fading distortion, 500 kW, 308 degrees from
Urumqi, until I reluctantly tune over to RHC for the rest of `Cuba
Campesina` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 15710, Radio Cairo (presumed); 1923-1933+, 4-Oct; M in
Arabic with pop tunes. Sung anthem? At BoH and pop continued.
SIO=2+52; could find no //s. Most Aoki listed frequencies empty
(Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft.
RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in
real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, R Africa from Bata-GNE heard with sermon
by men and female around 0640 UT Oct 10, S=7 in Germany. 73 wb
(Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15190, Oct 10 at 2024 check, R. Africa is on with a screamer who is
fortunately undermodulated, and not Tony Alámo. 2117 recheck, still on
and JBM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGSET)
[and non]. 15190, Oct 11 at 1947, R. Africa is on, very poor in
English with gospel huxter (what else?); (meanwhile Nigeria DRM is
blasting around 15120). Still very poor at 2014 check (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also KUWAIT
Glenn, the Chinese transmitter engineers are touring on their anual
REPAIR and maintenance tour to African states, like Chad, Mali,
Zanzibar, Ethiopia soon??? - Equat Guinea 5005 and 15190 kHz -
finished now -, etc. etc.
Ethiopian gear is in a terrible condition now. 73 wb (Wolfgang
Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Interesting theory, or more than that? I see in TDP info,
http://www.swcountry.be/gne.html
that they got two x 50 kW transmitters from China in 1973 (gh, DXLD)
15190, 13/Oct 2007-2045, (Relay [?]), R Africa (PRESUMED) in English
(identified). Gospel music, at 2009 OM talk. Very weak signal.
Listening from SDR, Twente. The signal is degrading in SDR, Twente. At
2030 gospel music. A 2036 OM back to talk. At 2040 OM with a most
eloquent preaching, with several speech of God. Still in the air at
2045, but strong QRM from VOA on 15185.
15190, 13/Oct 2100-2112: At 2100 what seemed to be the ID, but I did
not understand. Still in the air at 2106 with OM talk and country
gospel music(?). The signal is improving. Listening from SDR, Twente.
(Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S 38 58´W - Brasil,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
[and non]. Quite good reception at 2125. Muddy audio, though. Sad to
watch the Perseus SDR waterfall. Not much on the band: 15140 Oman, and
15245 Voice of Korea are the next stations I see above and below Radio
Africa. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, ibid.)
Yes Walter, now at 2136, fair signal in SDR, Twente. 73 (Jorge
Freitas, ibid.)
Picked up very well as well via Perseus located in Sri Lanka. Also
another one located in Minnesota. Wish I'd be able to get it via my
receiver here in Cairo later tonight. 73 (Tarek Zeidan, Cairo, Egypt,
Sent from my iPad, 2237 UT Oct 13, ibid.)
15190, Oct 14 at 2042, R. Africa is on with gospel huxter, but
undermodulated and poor signal. That`s fine. Comparing to other
signals on band: 15140 Oman fair; 15540 Kuwait zilch; 15550 WJHR,
15610 WEWN, 15825 WWCR inbooming, must be HF sporadic E boost
affecting short-skip signals only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
15190.02, R. Africa, Oct 15, 0619-0719, 35433-25432-25332 English,
Talk, ID at 0620 and 0631 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-
525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121; ANT, 70m Sloper
Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15190, Oct 15 at 2148, R. Africa poor signal but just barely
modulated, and het from R. Inconfidência, Brasil, always off-
frequency, usually on the hi side. Wolfgang Büschel suggests that the
reactivation of this (and 5005) could be thanks to Chinese engineers
making the maintenance rounds thru Africa. TDP shows EqG got 2 x 50 kW
from China in 1973. Little did the ChiCom know (or care?) that one of
them would be devoted to American gospel huxters, even Tony Alamo
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1691, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005.01, 1945-2215 08+09.10, R Dif. de Guinea
Equatorial, Bata, Reactivated since [last reported] Jan 2013! Spanish
ann, Afropop songs, comments, jingle, speech, ID: "Radio Bata", 2200
time signal under song, 45333 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, heard in
Skovlunde on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario
Monferini, playdx yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1691, DXLD)
5005, R Difusión de Guinea Ecuatorial, Bata, 1913 11 Oct, programma
traditional afro music, 33333 (Mauro Giroletti, Swl 1510, IK2GFT,
JRC525Nrd, Lowe HF150, Filter PAR Electronics - BCST-LPF + BCST-HPF-
DSP 9, Eavesdropper SWL Sloper 11mt to 120mt Band, Loop ALA 100 M;
Lat. 45 25'0" N Long. 9 7'0" E; Locator grid. Jn 45 Nk, bclnews.it yg
via WORLD OF RADIO 1691, DXLD)
5005, 11/10 1940, R. Nacional - Bata, Equatorial Guinea, Vern. NX,
buono (Roberto Pavanello, Italy, playdx yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1691,
DXLD)
5005, Guinea Ecuatorial??? (posible), se notaba portadora y modulación
muy baja e ininteligible, el sábado [Oct 12] sobre las 2200 UT. 73's
(Miguel Castellino, Argentina, Oct 15, condiglista yg via WORLD OF
RADIO 1691, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ERITREA [non]. CLANDESTINE, 11560, Dimtse R. Erena via Bulgaria,
Oct 09, *1659-1709, 25332, Tigrigna, 1659 sign on with opening music,
ID, Opening announce, Talk and Eritrean pops (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN,
RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121;
ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ERITREA [non]. CLANDESTINE, 11610, Sunrise R. via Bulgaria, Oct 08
*1600-1611, 25332-35333, Arabic, 1600 sign on with IS, ID, Opening
announce, Talk (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830,
NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121; ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** ERITREA [non]. New Eritrean clandestine via Bulgaria: Voice of the
Forum of Eritreans began broadcasting on 15 October. It is on the air
at 1700-1800 (Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays) on 15245. It is
run by the National Dialogue Forum for Eritreans.
Pick your variant of the translated name - Voice of Forum, Voice of
the Forum, of Eritreans, for Eritreans, etc.
Note 1: Radio Assenna is on 15245 from Kostinbrod at 1700 on the other
days of the week.
Note 2: I spell it Assenna rather than Assena or Asena as that it what
they use on their website http://assenna.com/
The station announcement in Tigrinya is "Ezi Dmtsi Medrekh Ertrawian
Eyu" ("This is the Voice of the Forum of Eritreans"). (Chris Greenway,
UK, Oct 16, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1691, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ETHIOPIA. 5950, Voice of Tigray Revolution (tentative) 0259
stringed instrument IS, 0302 vernacular announcements over music, 0303
woman possibly with news. Poor, Oct 11 (Harold Sellers, Vernon,
British Columbia, Listening beside the lake, in my car, with the Eton
E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE. 21690, Oct 11 at 1300, 1319, RFI in French, poor signal.
I`m thinking that this isn`t usually heard after 1300, altho Aoki &
EiBI & HFCC show it all the way from 12 to 20 in three segments: 12-
13, 13-17, 17-20 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY. The next one: The last remaining mast of the Meßkirch-
Rohrdorf transmitter (ex. 666 kHz, closed 8 Jan 2012), with a height
quoted as either 240 or 244 metres, has been blown up on 10 Oct:
http://swrmediathek.de/player.htm?show=04c22980-329b-11e3-a378-0026b975f2e6
http://mp4-download.swr.de/swr-fernsehen/landesschau-bw/aktuell-3/20131011-1845-03.m.mp4
(Kai Ludwig, Germany, mwmasts yg via DXLD)
** GERMANY. CHANNEL 292 --- Dear friends of shortwave radio and our
station!
As you might have already noticed, there is some progress at the
moment. Unfortunately we could not yet buy a new transmitter (thanks
to RIZ for the offer, we will come back to you when we have 290.000 €
left), but we could make many useful contacts. We also thank all
those, who supported us after the last E-Mail with ideas and addresses
of possible providers, especially Mike from around London.
All remaining QSLs should have been sent by E-Mail during the last
days.
At the moment we are on air with the control [test?] transmitter and
1200 Watts. After German RNI was transmitted at the weekend, now we
are playing some music. To all radio stations reading this mail: cheap
transmitter times are available at short notice! The conditions on 49m
are excellent, at night we receive reports from the east coast of
America (up to now from New York and Georgia. Whoever has contacts to
America/Canada, could tell the listeners over there to try receiving
us. Please attach our e-mail address, as it is not always mentioned on
air). The week between 24. And 30.12.2013 is already booked out.
Now what's next? In the works are:
Stand-by-transmitter with 2500 Watts, Solid-state, Linear amp. The 9
kW power supply (50 Volts, 170 A) is already prepared, a little
reserve in the power supply is never harmful for linear amps. The
transmitter is in the works.
Main transmitter with xx? Watts. We are in the proceedings, we hope it
will work until [by] middle of December.
The existing antenna should be okay for 20 kW, but a new coax wire and
balun are required. The wire is already here, the balun finished, but
not yet tested. When the time has come we will be off air for some
time.
Stand-by-antenna --- Is in place, has to be installed. For that we
need the balun which is presently in use in the main antenna.
One request: As you might have seen, we have some ads on our website
http://www.channel292.de
It would be nice if you click them from time to time.
The name Radio6150 is of course not appropriate for 6070 kHz; anyhow
it was only for testing purposes. The whole project will be named
Channel 292. Maybe some still have an old QSL.
The new web page is
http://www.channel292.de
the new E-Mail is
info @ channel292.de
The existing website will be changed bit by bit, but it is still
accessible just like the old mail address.
One more Appeal: When you listen to our station, please send us a
short assessment of the modulation quality, especially: Frequency
range (bass/treble present?); Volume (especially compared to other 49m
stations); Your total opinion of the modulation.
In the morning from ca. 7 to 9 am CEST / 5 to 7 am UT the signal can
usually be received very strong and undisturbed. Thanks!
If you receive our messages multiple times, or want to unsubscribe,
just send us an E-Mail. Always keep our homepage in view, there we
will keep you informed about everything happening.
Bye for now! http://www.channel292.de (via Fabio Cambisi, Oct 14,
playdx via WORLD OF RADIO 1691, DXLD) Also in German, Dutch. So where
do they get the 292 number?? (gh)
** GERMANY. MV Baltic Radio Relays --- Dear Listeners, The MV Baltic
Radio Relay service hopes to return to the air between the 20th and
27th of October 2013. New aerial towers are being installed at the
Göhren Transmitting site in Germany. 73s (Tom Taylor, Oct 11, WORLD OF
RADIO 1691, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY. Dear Listeners, Atlantic 2000 will be on the air this
Sunday 13th of October between 0800 to 0900 UT (10:00 to 11:00 CEST)
on 7310 kHz via Radio 700. The programme will be streaming at the same
time on our website.
Atlantic 2000 sera sur les ondes ce dimanche 13 octobre de 08:00 à
09:00 TUC (10:00 à 11:00 à Paris) sur 7310 kHz. L'émission sera
diffusée à la même heure sur notre site Internet.
All reports to: atlantic2000international @ gmail.com
(Tom Taylor, Oct 12, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY. 7310, Atlantic 2000 International via R 700, *0800-0815,
13-10, French, identification, male: "Atlantic 2000 International",
pop music. 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Lugo, Sony ICF SW
7600 G, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY. 21600, Oct 10 at 1300, no signal from Gospel for Asia in
Nepali via Nauen, as heard Oct 8 1300-1315+ instead of(?) scheduled
15350. Inconclusive whether that was a one-off, as no hi-latitude
propagation today (or yesterday), from Europe or Mideast, just 21780
DW Rwanda.
21600, Oct 11 at 1259 past 1300, no signal from GFA in Nepali unlike
heard a few days ago. Once again today, Europe is finally propagating
on 13m from Spain, France, so it further looks like that was an
anomaly, now probably back on scheduled 15350 which is not propagating
today as usual.
15350, Oct 13 at 1313, very poor signal, presumably Nepali from Gospel
for Asia via Nauen on scheduled frequency, and still nothing heard on
21600 since that one occasion Oct 8. 1315 switching to apparent Hindi.
15390, Oct 15 at 1401, numbers pronounced in English, phones? Then
unknown language, fair signal. Aoki shows Athmeeya Yatra Radio (Gospel
for Asia), 250 kW, 85 degrees from Nauen, in Halam during this
quarter-hour on Tuesdays. Halam? EiBi`s readme language key shows:
``Chin-Falam / Halam: Myanmar, Bangladesh, India (125,000)``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [and non]. List of Broadcasters using MEDIA BROADCAST
technical equipment: [annotated key with tentative B13 schedules]
ADM internal name (not "Abu Dhabi Media Company")
AWR Adventist World Radio
BVB High Adventure Gospel - Bible Voice Broadcasting
CHW Christliche Wissenschaft
EMG Evangelische Missionsgemeinden in Deutschland
EYS MBR internal customer name
Eritrean Youth Solidarity for Change (EYSC)
GFA Gospel for Asia
HCJ Voice of the Andes
IBB International Broadcasting Bureau, USA
JOY MBR internal customer name
KBC Mighty KBC Radio
or write to
The Mighty KBC
Argonstraat 6
6718 WT Ede
The Netherlands, Europe
Website:
LWF Lutheran World Federation
MBR MEDIA BROADCAST (ex Deutsche Telekom, DTK),
MWF "Missionswerk Friedensstimme", Gummersbach-Germany
MSM probably XVRB Radio 3rd Sun and Radio Iceman 4th Sun (wb.)
XVRB Radio - It's The Music Museum
E-mail:
Radio Iceman
MWA Missionswerk Arche
NHK Nippon Hoso Kyokai, Radio Japan Tokyo
OGM NGO [RHU Radio Huriyo Xoriyo Ogaden]
PAB Pan Am Broadcasting
RMI Radio Miami International
RMI [Hamada Radio International], not in MBR and AOKI Nagoya schedule
list, but on HFCC file. {currently not in use --- gh}
A-13 Hausa Radio Mon-Fri 9610, 0530-0600, Nauen 100 kW 180degr
B-13 Hausa Radio Mon-Fri 7350, 0530-0600, Nauen 100 kW 180degr
SBO Sagalee Bilisummaa Oromoo, Voice of Oromo Liberation.
TOM The Overcomer Ministry
TRS Transport Radio Mon-Fri; KBC The Mighty KBC Radio, Sat/Sun.
TWR Trans World Radio
VZM [HCJB transmissions, Spanish, German, Kulina, Portuguese]
WRN World Radio Network
[A13, Radio Biafra London, A-13 Thur/Sat 11840 kHz ex WER/NAU]
{Biafra not currently active --- gh}
[B13, iraf feed, Mon/Fri 15680 kHz 1630-1700, 500 kW 91deg to
NE/ME, Clandestine Iran target station program Sedaye Radio-ye
Mehr Iran, produced by the Iranian National Council in Paris,
since 23 Sep]
(via WORLDWIDE DX CLUB, transformed and condensed to 71 column
by wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 9 via DXLD)
** GREECE. 9420, Oct 10 at 0513, blues guitar and YL in English from
ER, one of few usable signals on attenuated band.
9420 // 7475, good and fair, Oct 12 at 0113 classical music as
Ellenike Radiophonia as usual relays the Third Program during this
hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAM. 5765-USB, still no signal detected from AFN, Oct 10 at 1240.
Last date heard was Sept 19, by Bob Wilkner and myself (Glenn hauser,
OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1691, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
5765-USB and 13362-USB, AFN Guam, both remain silent through Oct 11
(Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF
RADIO 1691, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAM. 9910, KTWR, 11/10 1120 UT. Mujer habla en chino con SINPO:
54444 // 11580 interferido por el CNR-1 Jammer (Claudio Galaz, Rx:
Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Beverage de 20 metros con balun 9:1, QTH:
Centro de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD)
** GUATEMALA. 4055, R Verdad, 0450 10 Oct, local px mx rel, splatter
from STANAG tx, 33333 (Mauro Giroletti, Swl 1510, IK2GFT, JRC525Nrd,
Lowe HF150, Filter PAR Electronics - BCST-LPF + BCST-HPF- DSP 9,
Eavesdropper SWL Sloper 11mt to 120mt Band, Loop ALA 100 M; Lat.
45 25'0" N Long. 9 7'0" E; Locator grid. Jn 45 Nk, bclnews.it yg via
DXLD)
4055, Radio Verdad, 0203 organ music, 0207 xylophone and man in
Spanish with ID and announcements. Fair, Oct 11 (Harold Sellers,
Vernon, British Columbia, Listening beside the lake, in my car, with
the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
4055, Oct 12 at 1141, Chinese talk backed up by dramatic music,
probably something Biblical, as R. Verdad reproves it is multi-
lingual. Earlier around 0550 I heard Dr. Madrid in English (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUYANA. 21320-USB, Oct 11 at 1955, pileups of US stations indicate
some hot DX is here. He`s relatively weak and the call-attempts never
mention his call, just their own, so I have to keep listening for a
while to copy the DX giving his own call; from Georgetown, Guyana,
finally at 1959: 8R1Z. QRZ.com:
LENNOX O'BRIAN SMITH
Lot 74 D'Urban Street, Wortmanville
GEORGETOWN, Guyana
I had first scanned the ``13m`` broadcast band, to find absolutely
nothing. Obviously it could have been put to good use if any stations
with more than 100 times the power of hams cared to, or still existed,
like Bonaire and French Guiana. Or KNLS: see ALASKA. Then I found 12
and 10m also open (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** HAWAII. New on RNZI - Honolulu FM Radio --- Media Release
Radio Heritage Foundation http://www.radioheritage.com October 13 2013
The latest radio heritage feature on the Radio New Zealand
International Mailbox program is broadcast:
* Monday October 14 2013
* see http://www.rnzi.com for all shortwave broadcast times and dates
* live audio streaming at http://www.rnzi.com
* available as archived audio after broadcast
Continuing the contemporary Hawaiian radio series and visiting the FM
radio stations you'll find in Honolulu with an exclusive review of
websites, programs, personalities and interesting facts and comments
from David Ricquish of the Radio Heritage Foundation.
The Honolulu FM dial is dominated by several clusters of stations
owned by major broadcasters such as Clearchannel and Salem all based
on the US mainland, and there are relatively few locally owned and
operated stations. Listeners hear much the same music, formats and
other content as those in similar sized radio markets in other parts
of the USA.
Reggae and island music stations do exist and this program will visit
some of these locally flavored stations as well.
* Pacific Asian Listener Radio Guide lists all current Hawaiian AM
radio stations at www.radioheritage.net
* Enjoy the Retro Radio Dial Blue Hawaii 1961 and Art of Radio Hawaii
exclusive features at www.radioheritage.net
* Hawaii AM&FM contemporary Radio Guide [coming soon]
Honolulu FM Radio on shortwave for the first time from October 14
2013 on the Mailbox program from Radio New Zealand International.
Radio Heritage Foundation
http://www.radioheritage.net
The Global Radio Memories Project
Join us today from $25 regular supporter
(David Ricquish, NZ, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. CYCLONE PHAILIN IN BAY OF BENGAL --- AIR Vijayawada
Emergency Broadcast on 837 kHz. Heard from 1825 UT. Thanks for tips
from OM VU2JOS who must be in thick of the emergency operation as
CYCLONE PHAILIN moves! (Sudipto Ghose, UT Oct 11, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
AIR Vijayawada from Andhra Pradesh on 837 kHz (100 kW) was noted
continuously last night with special emergency broadcasts in
connection the Cyclone Phailin which is scheduled to hit the area
today evening. The programs consisted of latest weather warnings in
Telugu, Telugu film songs, classical music. More stations from Andhra
Pradesh / Odisha may be on with similar broadcasts tonight. Yours
sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio
Hyderabad, India, Mobile: +91 94416 96043, http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos
Oct 12, dx_india yg via DXLD)
HAM RADIO OPERATORS GEARED UP FOR CYCLONE PHAILIN
HYDERABAD: Ham radio operators have swung into action gearing up to
offer their services for communication with the dangerous threat of
Cyclone Phailin looming large.
Two amateur radio operators — experts who have rendered their services
in several disasters in the country and abroad over the years — are
rushing to Odisha. The National Institute of Amateur Radio (NIAR)
which was set up with the initiative taken by Rajiv Gandhi in 1983 has
trained several ham radio operators so far in the country.
More at .....
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Ham-radio-operators-geared-up-for-Cyclone-Phailin/articleshow/23988944.cms
(via Alokesh Gupta, Oct 12, dx_india yg via DXLD)
AIR Visakhapatnam has confirmed that tonight on 927 kHz (100 kW) will
operate continuously in view of Cyclone Phailan hitting the area. Look
out for AIR Vijayawada on 837 kHz (100 kW) was on similarly last
night. Some other stations from the area also may also be there. Yours
sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio
Hyderabad, India Oct 12, dx_india yg via DXLD)
Last night the following AIR stations were observed continuously from
Cyclone area with emergency messages, music, songs etc.
837 Vijayawada
927 Visakhapatnam
972 Cuttack
Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, Hyderabad Airport, Oct 13,
dx_india yg via DXLD)
Dear DX-friends, In Denmark I heard:
4800.00, AIR Hyderabad, 1450-1744*, Oct 10, 12 and 13, Telegu and
English talk and news, updates about the Cyclone Phailan, Indian
songs, signed off in mid-sentence at usual time. QRM Voice of China
4800 until it closed at 1735*, then weak QRM from Kyrgyz R on 4795,
44343. The MW transmitters with Cyclone broadcasts did not propagate
to Denmark. Best 73, (Anker Petersen, dx_india yg via DXLD)
** INDIA. 4775.00, AIR Imphal (presumed), 1205, Oct 11. Had been on
4775.10 for a while. Must still be working on tx, as today was on and
off again; only with open carrier.
4990, AIR Itanagar, 1420-1424*, Oct 10. Local ID in English and
news/local weather (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. AIR Delhi now noted on 6100 instead of 6030 parallel to
Lucknow 4880. It is special program for Uttarakhand broadcast daily at
1215-1430. Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of
Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, 1233 UT Oct 17, dx_india yg via DXLD)
** INDIA. 9870, AIR, 10/10 1045 UT. Música de la India que es parte de
películas, pues es el canal Vividh Bharati. Señal con SINPO: 54454
(Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Beverage de 20 metros con
balun 9:1, QTH: Centro de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via
DXLD)
** INDIA. 11985 // weaker 11740, Oct 10 at 0058, AIR sounds simulcast,
so they accomplished the Sinhala service on both frequencies this
time.
11985, Oct 11 at 0055, AIR Sinhala service from Delhi-Khampur site is
instead open carrier/dead air with flutter but fair signal; 0056 a hi-
pitched tone starts and falls gradually, then rises. Meanwhile, 11740
via GOA is in talk programming, poor signal and noticeably weaker than
11985 but trumps it by modulating properly, and with about same amount
of flutter. 0103 recheck, 11985 still OC/DA, but 0104 cuts on music so
I then switch to 11740 and find it has been silent, but soon brings up
the same music. Why is it so difficult for AIR to run these two
reliably??
11985 // 11740, Oct 12 at 0056, AIR Sinhala service is really parallel
on both at the moment tonight, both poor with flutter, but a bit of
echo on 11985 from Khampur.
11985 // 11740, Oct 13 at 0054, AIR Sinhala service is on both tonight
and about equal level.
11985 & 11740, Oct 14 at 0059, AIR is back to its old trix: the two
channels supposed to be // with Sinhala service at 0045-0115 are
totally separate again: 11985 playing AIR IS, 0100 announcement,
presumed really opening Sindhi service, which is their only language
scheduled to start at 0100, but supposed to be only on 5990 Khampur,
7370 Kingsway, 9635 Bengaluru, per Aoki. (I am getting traces of it
again on 5990 after CRI/Cuba closes; 9635 blocked by QRDRM from Costa
Rica). Maybe one of these nights I will be able to match the 11985
diversion to one of them.
11740, meanwhile, at 0059 is playing other music, presumably the real
Sinhala service, and at 0101 the two are playing very different music.
At 0111, 11985 is in talk, 11740 music. This date, 11985 is a bit
stronger, via Khampur than 11740 is via GOA.
11985, Oct 15 at 0055, 1-kHz tone, so here we go again, All India
Radio via Delhi/Khampur broadcasting wrong program contrary to own
schedule and all other listings; 0058 IS, 0100 talk in S Asian
language, presumably opening Sindhi not supposed to be on this
frequency; meanwhile at 0055, 11740 via GOA is not // but totally
separate presumably with correct Sinhala talk, started at 0045; both
have heavy flutter. 0106 recheck, still separate, 11985 talk, 11740
music.
11985 // 11740, Oct 16 at 0059, AIR Sinhala service succeeds in
occupying both frequencies with same music, probably out of synch,
heavy flutter. It`s supposed to last until 0115, but at 0112 check,
11740 via GOA has vanished, 11985 still in music.
With time running out, on 5990 there is a very poor signal which is
supposed to be the AIR Sindhi service, maybe a trace of musical
modulation, not enough to tell whether it`s // 11985 before the latter
goes to open carrier 0115 and off. Both 5990 and 11985 are listed as
the Delhi (Khampur) site, whatever the (mis)programming may be, easy
to cross feeds (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 15040, Oct 12 at 1245-1305 enjoying nice music from AIR
Burmese service, poor-fair, via Bengaluru, and better than 15105 BB.
[and non] BTW, don`t you believe the MYANMAR heading for a previous
log of this in Oct NASWA Journal: my quick correxion didn`t make it.
The editor also made some strange ``correxions`` to my other logs such
as the next one on 15105, ``R. Pyranga`` (trying for Pyongyang?)
instead of Voice of Korea (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 3344.86, RRI Ternate. Continues silent for about a month
now through Oct 11; safe to say they are gone till next Ramadan (Ron
Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 4749.96, RRI-Makassar, Oct 10 1215-1233, 33433,
Indonesian, Jakarta news realy, SNSB [??] at 1223, ID at 1225 (Kouji
Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345,
Satellite 750, DE-1121; ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
4750, Oct 15 at 1252, music from RRI Makassar, best heard in some
time; recent rain may have reduced the line noise level. 1258 YL
romantic song past 1300; 1302 Indonesian announcements, mentioning RRI
many times in promo (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 4869.90v, RRI Wamena, 1228, Oct 10 (Thursday). Kang Guru
Indonesia show with Ana and Greg; "What to do to stay healthy - Walk";
often talking about Australia; some pop songs; much better reception
than last Thursday (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
4870-, JBA carrier at 1252, presumed Wamena; 3325 carrier with some
talk at 1255, could be Palangkaraya or PNG (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9525.90, V. of Indonesia:
Oct 04, 1321-1332, 45444-44444, English, News and talk, ID at 1327
Oct 08, 1315-1325, 35443, English, News, ID at 1322
Oct 10, 1206-1215, 33433, Japanese, News, ID at 1213 (Kouji
Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345,
Satellite 750, DE-1121; ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. Dear All, Please note that there was a change
of our satellite/frequency details for the WRN Europe service on Sky
as a result of the dispute between Eutelsat and SES Astra. WRN
Broadcast’s capacity has now been moved from Eutelsat 28A to the new
Astra 2F satellite.
There was no impact to any listeners on the Sky platform; however any
listeners downlinking the service outside the Sky platform on free-to-
air receivers will need to manually retune their receiver.
We have provided these details on our website for listeners to check,
but please see the parameters below for reference in case of any
queries:
Astra 2F at 28.2 degrees East
D/L frequency: 12581 MHz
D/L polarity: Vertical
Symbol rate: 22.0 MSymb/sec
FEC: 5/6
Best regards, (Fleur Nittolo, Senior Client Account Manager,
http://www.wrnbroadcast.com Oct 14, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Fleur also confirms the B-13 scheduling for WORLD OF RADIO on WRN
undergoes the usual timeshifts by UT:
Sat 1000 UT to Europe from 27 Oct
Sat 1830 UT to North America from 3 Nov
Sun 1500 UT to Africa/Asia/Pacific from 27 Oct
(Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1691, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 11750, Voice of Islam, 2004 to 2019. Many IDs, one of which
was at 2017, SINFO=2,3,4,4,2. I heard a discussion about how the West
treats their older citizens in comparison to how well they are treated
in Muslim countries such as Iran. The 5050A and the 435 long wire
antenna connected to the 42’ Windom, this arrangement lessened the
interference. 10/1.
(John Davis. Our facility is located northeast of Columbus, Ohio. Our
outside antennae include a general coverage 435 foot long wire
antenna, a 195' V antenna oriented toward Asia (the old antenna was
dropped in the July 2012 storms), and a HVU-8. The inside antennae are
a 42 foot Windom and the 16 foot end fed antenna. Our receivers
include, but are not limited to R-390As, R-391s, a Mackay 5050A, and a
Watkins-Johnson HF-1000A. Our portable receivers include a Kaito 1103,
a Radio Shack 440, and a Sangean 803A. Our transceiver is an ICOM IC-
706 MK IIG (my wife is a ham) and it also works well on the shortwave
broadcast bands, NASWA Flashsheet Oct 13 via DXLD)
Did they really ID just as ``Voice of Islam`` rather than Voice of the
Islamic Republic of Iran?? (gh, DXLD)
** IRAN. 7295, Oct 12 at 0114, Turkic language on poor signal, main
QRM being an AM ham on 7291 rather than SSB. Aoki shows it must be
VIRI in Tajik, 0053-0220, 500 kW, 46 degrees from Sirjan (followed by
0223-0247 Uzbek via Kamalabad) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
12081.5 approx., Oct 11 at 2017, poor signal in Arabic, and wavering a
bit as I listen with BFO. It`s IRIB`s 13-hour transmission, now
starting at 1623 per Aoki, 500 kW, 289 degrees from Zahedan --- likely
the same transmitter Dave Valko had on 15151.35, 7 Oct at 1146; and
Wolfgang Büschel had on 15151.349, Oct 9 at 0825 – so maybe it was
really closer to 12081.35 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Just sent an e-mail to IRIB Tehran staff. 73 wolfy [Viz.:]
Subject:
IRAN, IRIB Arabic transmission Zahedan on odd frequency 15151.472 kHz!
07.00 UTC October 12, 2013.
15150 kHz For few weeks now the IRIB transmitter at Zahedan,
fundamental on frequency 15150 kHz at 05.30-14.30 UT ZAH 500kW 289degr
ant#145
broadcast some 1500 Hertz higher on odd frequency
15151.472 kHz <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Same transmitter unit at Zahedan heard on odd frequency
approx 12081.472 kHz
in the United States of America on October 11 at 2017 UTC.
Scheduled 12080 kHz at 16.23-05.30 UTC.
- - -
Please repair the Zahedan TX unit, and align the transmitter to exact
15150.000 kHz and 12080.000 kHz frequency. Thanks in beforehand.
kind regards, Wolfgang Bueschel df5sx, Stuttgart, Germany. October
12, 2013 (via wb, DXLD)
12080.0, Oct 13 at 0119, Qur`an, fair-good with flutter, so IRIB is
back on-frequency, in the same 1620-0520 UT transmission I logged Oct
11 at 2017 on 12081.5, listed as Zahedan site. Meanwhile, Wolfgang
Büschel had notified IRIB of his logs of the other 15150-off frequency
transmission and forwarded my log, so this may have caused it to be
fixed.
12081.64 approx. and wavering slightly, Oct 14 at 0114, VIRI Arabic
via Zahedan is off-frequency again, very poor, with Qur`an? 24 hours
earlier it was back on 12080.0 but the fix obviously was not
permanent; previously on 12081.5, Oct 11 at 2017. Everyone has a very
long span to try it, 1620-0520 scheduled.
12080.0, Oct 15 at 0105, very poor, flutter in Arabic: IRIB`s Zahedan
transmitter is back in whack today instead of a sesquikilohertz high –
perhaps they only do that on alternate days (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
13650, V.I.R.I./Voice of Justice, 0322 instrumental music, 0323
English s/on, “This is the Voice of Justice.”, national anthem, 0324
ID and list of how to hear them - SW, FM in Tehran, satellite and
internet - 0325:30 Islamic Call to Prayer. Very good, // 15470 fair,
Oct 11 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening beside the
lake, in my car, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg
via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN [non]. CLANDESTINE, 7575, R. Ranginkaman, Oct 14 1708-1715,
25322 Farsi, Music and talk, ID at 1711 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX,
IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121;
ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN [non]. CLANDESTINE, 15680, R. Mehr Iranian, Oct 07 *1630-1640,
25322, Farsi, 1630 sign on with opening music, Opening announce, Talk
(Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-
345, Satellite 750, DE-1121; ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
Clandestine Radio Ye Mehr --- FRI 10/11/13, 15680, sign on at 1630z
with music into man in Farsi till early 1658z sign off. To Iran from
unknown location. Mondays & Fridays. Recorded - sometimes fair,
sometimes terrible with QRM from some type of data broadcast (Rich
Ray, Burr Ridge, IL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
CLANDESTINE, 15680, R. Mehr Iranian, Oct 11 *1630-1641, 25332 Farsi,
1630 sign on with opening music, ID, Opening announce, Talk (Kouji
Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345,
Satellite 750, DE-1121; ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN [non]. 15680, Oct 15 at 1355, fair signal with what seemed
like praise music, but surely not as this turns out to be R. Farda;
1359 more like Pink Floyd; 1400, 4-pip timesignal at 2-second
intervals, bottom of the hour in Iran`s wacky timezone out of step
with most of the world, ID and into presumed news.
Aoki shows 15680 via Lampertheim, GERMANY at 1230-1430, but also on
15680 via Sri Lanka at 0230-1230. (And also on 15690 via Biblis at 12-
14, but not audible there; also 0130-1200 via Sri Lanka. However,
latest HFCC Oct 8 shows since Sept 9 most of the earlier hours are via
Thailand instead of SL) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ISRAEL. 6884.964 and 15850.004, Both GALEI ZAHAL army forces radio
transmitters from Israel on air again, after some irregularities in
past week. S=5-6 on 19mb, S=8-9 in our early morning, 0625 UT Oct 10,
here in Germany. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO
1691, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
6885, Galei Tzahal, Tel Aviv, 1755 12 Oct, px local mx + nx ID, 44444
(Mauro Giroletti, Swl 1510, IK2GFT, JRC525Nrd, Lowe HF150, Filter PAR
Electronics - BCST-LPF + BCST-HPF- DSP 9, Eavesdropper SWL Sloper 11mt
to 120mt Band, Loop ALA 100 M; Lat. 45 25'0" N Long. 9 7'0" E; Locator
grid. Jn 45 Nk, bclnews.it yg via DXLD)
15850, Galei Zahal, Oct 15 1317-1339, 25322-25332, Hebrew, Talk and
music, ID at 1330, SJ at 1332 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75,
NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121; ANT, 70m
Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ITALY. Ciao, oggi traffico su 6967.5 kHz, frequenza segnalata da
(BC) traffico tra navi e porto ICI106 Lampedusa (Mauro Giroletti, Oct
11, bclnews.it yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1691, DXLD)
6967.5, ICI106, Lampedusa, 0700 11 Oct, tfc work MV IHSA-V.5526, 333.
6967.5, ICI14, Augusta, 0935 12 Oct, tfc work MV IGQZ-CP828, 333
(Mauro Giroletti, Swl 1510, IK2GFT, JRC525Nrd, Lowe HF150, Filter PAR
Electronics - BCST-LPF + BCST-HPF- DSP 9, Eavesdropper SWL Sloper 11mt
to 120mt Band, Loop ALA 100 M; Lat. 45 25'0" N Long. 9 7'0" E; Locator
grid. Jn 45 Nk, bclnews.it yg via DXLD)
Lampedusa. Fiumi di inchiostro e parole. Per capire forse basterebbe
ascoltare quello che si sentiva ieri sera su questa frequenza (grazie
Mauro), poche frasi, ma sufficienti per comprendere.
"Quanti cadaveri avete a bordo, ripeto, quanti cadaveri avete a
bordo?" "Ragazzi, mantenete la calma a bordo..." "Entrambe le vedette
sull'ultima posizione data... massima velocità... gommoni"
E l'ultima posizione data, in piena notte, era 33 51,56' N, 014 29,5
E: toglietevi la curiosità di vedere dov'è. Chiedo scusa per l'OT
(Gianfranco Buonomo, Pontecagnano (SA), SWL I8-56330, Oct 12, ibid.)
** ITALY. 6210, 12/10 2045, R. Tango Italia - libertango58 @ libero.it
IT/SS/EE ID e tanghi buono (Roberto Pavanello, Italy, playdx yg via
DXLD)
Ciao, Email QSL "freccie tricolori" Radio Tango Italia 6210 kHz reply
with Email & QSL electronic in 3 days. Report to: libertango58 @
libero.it V/s: Tony (Roberto Pavanello, Oct 16, ibid.)
** ITALY [non non]. Radio IRRS NEXUS IBA: pictures of the OLD TX SITE
in ITALY
Dear Friends, thanks to the help of Wolfgang Bauschel DF5SX, I can
confirm that the italian site used from Italian Radio Relay Service
(IRRS NEXUS IBA) was Cascina Vaiana in Robecco sul Naviglio (Milan).
Some people think that they were transmitting from Trezzo d'Adda. This
information is also reported on several websites BUT IT's WRONG.
Wolfgang sent me 2 old articles (taken from MONITORING TIMES January
and February 2003) with some old pictures of the radio station.
So, this morning I've been there for a small tour in motorbike (the
site is 15minutes far from my home) and I have taken some new photos.
Hereby you can find a small photo-reportage (sorry for dimensions of
files).
I was right and it was exciting to know that a piece of history of
shortwave radio proudly happened close to my town.
Thanks again. 73 de IW2MXP Caliendo Domenico. SWL: I2-04640
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(Domenico Caliendo, Oct 12, bclnews.it yg via DXLD)
** JAPAN. 6190, Oct 16 at 1257, rock song in Japanese by girl group;
1300, 3+1 NHK timesignal a few seconds late, and opening Chinese with
`Sakura` theme; before 1300 scheduled in Korean, both 300 kW, 290
degrees from Ibaragi-Koga-Yamata site. Good signal, surely not blown
away by typhoon; vs hardly anything from BBC Singapore up 5 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KENYA. Long gone from shortwave of course but noticed that the KBC
English Service is now broadcasting on the Internet
http://www.kbc.co.ke/kbc-live-stream/
If you click on the KBC English Service link it will come up as 'Minto
FM' on the Windows Media Player but after listening for a while this
evening I can confirm it is actually the KBC's English Service.
"This is the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation English Service 95.6FM,
the news headlines follow at 10pm followed by the Jazz hour". (Rob
(Glasgow, Scotland) Wilson, Oct 13, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1691, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Thanks for the heads up Rob, here are my observations re the live
streams provided on this website:
English Service, formerly known as the General Service.
Radio Taifa, presented in Swahili. Formerly known as the National
Service.
Coro (pronounced 'Shoro') FM, presented in Kikuyu.
Kitwek FM, presented in Kalenjin.
Radio Mayienga, presented in Luo.
Venus FM, aimed at women and presented in English.
All are broadcast around the clock. KBC Channel 1 TV is also available
on a live stream (David Kernick, Interval Signals Online, Oct 15,
dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1691, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 9435, Oct 16 at 1320, VOK very good signal
with jamming mix noise in background, but no Chinese crosstalk! Usual
incredibly stilted exposition in English. // 11710 totally
overshadowed by the other automatons at The Lord`s Ranch on 11715.
Seems that 9435 is often missing or poorly audible, but not today
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH. 11795, KBS, 10/10 1055 UT. Mujer dice: “Esto es Kbs
World radio, emitiendo desde Seúl, república de Corea” en español y
después en coreano de manera intercalada con un gong de fondo. Señal
con SINPO: 55454 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Beverage
de 20 metros con balun 9:1, QTH: Centro de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile,
condiglista yg via DXLD)
** KURDISTAN [non]. CLANDESTINE, 11510, V. of Kurdistan, Oct 09 1340-
1405 25432 Kurdish, Kurdish music, ID at 1400, News (Kouji Hashimoto,
JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750,
DE-1121; ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT [and non]. 15540, Oct 12 at 1949, R. Kuwait has very good
signal with rock music! Yesterday and most days recently it was
inaudible. The MUF must have got a bump today. So keep checking.
I compare to some other signals: 15140 Oman is a JBA carrier, less
than something on 15130 = R Japan oppositeward from FRANCE. 15115-
15125, DRM from NIGERIA is very strong; 15580 VOA BOTSWANA is good
[before switch to Greenville at 20-21]; WEWN 15610 is blasting in with
spurs, q.v.
15540 at 2013 has one of their Islamic-history shows with W&M
narrators about Arafat, pilgrims, still good signal. By now 17550 in
Arabic to C&W NAm has started up, but it is much weaker, with deep
fades from fair to very poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KYRGYZSTAN. Venerdì 11 ottobre 2013, 0130 - 4010 kHz, KYRGYZ RADIO
1 - Bishkek, Notizie locali OM+YL. Segnale buono (Luca Botto Fiora,
QTH G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, bclnews.it yg via
DXLD)
** LAOS. 6130, Lao National R.-Vientiane, Oct 10 1158-1205, 32432,
Laotian, Theme music and seven gongs at 1159, News (Kouji Hashimoto,
JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750,
DE-1121; ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LAOS [non]. CLANDESTINE. 7530, Suab Xaa Moo Zoo via Taiwan, Oct 15
*2230-2240, 35333 Hmong, 2230 sign on with opening music, Opening
announce, Music (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830,
NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121; ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** LUXEMBOURG. Concerning the Marnach 1440 kHz transmitter:
>>> The deliberate change of antennas at 1900 was for English and
French to be served properly. Does this mean that the "daytime" trio
of masts at 50 02 47N 06 04 38E is also used at nights? <<<
It indeed seems that the eastern beam is always in use now. Using the
western beam would make no sense of course when all programming is in
German. Which, however, does not mean that the other antenna has been
shut down permanently, just that it is not in use at present.
And re:
>>> The Transradio TRAM600 transmitter must be configurated as two
TRAM300, one always in standby. <<<
Is this reliable information or just some of all the hearsaying that
surrounds the Marnach facility? It was indeed for years understood,
and perhaps initially the case, that the solid-state gear at Marnach
is 300 kW only. But now the manufacturer specifies the installation in
its résumé as TRAM/P 600, cf.
http://www.transradio.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=118&Itemid=105?=de
I.e. a 600 kW set-up, consisting of two blocks and a combiner. The
photo at least confirms these two blocks, with at least one of them
indeed consisting of six amplifier cabinets, each worth 50 kW.
Concerning the currently run powers I just received this report from
the groundwave coverage area:
"Im Übrigen kann ich Meldungen, der Sender Marnach auf 1440 kHz liefe
während der RTL-Sendezeit nur noch mit 50 bis 80 kW nicht
nachvollziehen. Letzte Woche, während eines Aufenthalts am elterlichen
Landsitz, verglich ich in den frühen Nachmittagsstunden 1179, 1422 und
1440 kHz. Die Standorte befinden sich in ähnlicher Distanz zum
Empfangsort. Geht man davon aus, dass der Sender auf 1422 kHz mit 400
kW läuft, so schätze ich die Leistung in Marnach auf immerhin noch 150
kW. Die SR-Funzel lag sehr weit abgeschlagen dahinter."
(I.e. opinions that during RTL Radio programming only 50...80 kW are
being run can not be confirmed from a location at similar distance to
both Marnach and Heusweiler, proceeding from the assumption that 1422
kHz runs with the listed 400 kW a comparison suggests ca. 150 kW for
1440 kHz while 1179 kHz / 10 kW was found very much weaker.)
And the last piece of official information about the fate of the
Marnach facility I'm aware of is this communiqué from October 2011,
announcing that the transmitter will be closed "within three years":
http://www.gouvernement.lu/salle_presse/actualite/2011/10-octobre/03-marnach/
A few months earlier an executive stated that they do not intend to
replace Marnach anymore:
http://www.wort.lu/wort/web/letzebuerg/artikel/2011/06/153563/hat-marnacher-sendeanlage-bald-ausgestrahlt.php
Now one could speculate if a big business with the Chinese could
change this strategy. As a matter of fact SARFT/CRI wanted in last
year to use 603 kHz for Berlin. An invitation of applications had been
posted by the media regulator MABB, but no follow-ups appeared in the
public domain afterwards. Now one could speculate again if the project
of a mediumwave service in Berlin has been terminated or (which
perhaps should not be ruled out in light of the big 1440 kHz
expansion) is still in the pipeline (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 12,
mwmasts yg via DXLD)
** MAURITANIA [and non]. 783, Oct 12 at 0053, one of only two JBA TA
carriers below 1200 is here, loops ENE, which fits for the 50 kW IGIM,
rather than other 783s: The Great Circle Distance Calculator for Enid
to Nouakchott shows: 8128 km at 80 degrees. Those with fancy fixed
antennas can`t get an idea of the bearing like I can with the hand-
held DX-398 on the porch. {but they can more likely pull some audio!}
882 is the other one, maybe the 20 kW COPE in the Canary Islands, if
active (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 540, Oct 16 at 1200 UT, partial ID mentions 95.9 FM, Ciudad
de México, and the four descending XEW chimes, then news headlines
with liners as ``info-radio``(?), mentions Planeta; 1203 already into
English music ``When You`re Smiling`` (Satchmo?), then DJ discussing
it in Spanglish.
From Cantú this appears to be the XEWA in Monterrey, which is W Radio
and presumably relaying from the DF, XEW-900 and 96.9 (not 95.9 as I
thought I heard); rather than the other XEWA in SLP, despite the power
disparity:
540 XEWA W Radio Monterrey, N.L. 1,500 1,000
540 XEWA Los 40 Principales + FM 103.9 San Luís Potosí 150,000 150,000
Looped roughly SSW, both in about the same direxion. By nulling this,
I could also hear another SS further west, presumably usual XETX in
Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 550, Oct 15 at 1231 UT, full ID for XEPL FM and AM,
Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, ``La Super-Estación``. 5000/150 watts per IRCA.
Our sunrise-skip window is latening, with bottom of the band still
open, our Enid sunrise today 1239. In a couple sesquiweeks it will
surpass 1300 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 610, Oct 11 at 1203 UT ``Sabinas al Día`` morning news,
``aquí en la región carbonita`` (coal-mining area), mixing more with
KCSP Kansas City than with XEGS in Guasave, Sinaloa, which usually
dominates a bit later. Cantú:
610 XEBX La Primera Sabinas, Coah. 5,000 500
Have not yet heard ``La Primera`` slogan as also in WRTH, IRCA (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 620, Oct 14 at 1201 UT, segué from norteña music
to national anthem --- this is really a fine piece of music and I
don`t tire of hearing it, especially this orchestral rendition, yet
multi-verse so you never know when the final cadence will really end
it, and so you don`t have to hear the bloodthirsty war-mongering
lyrix, rendered instead by violins.
1205 segué to also fine Chihuahua state anthem, this with lyrix by
baritone. 1206 full ID by SHVA for La Norteñita, XEBU 91.7 and 620
with 25 kW, ``llegando a Ud. en alta definición`` --- really? Maybe
IBOC on FM? Never hear the noise around it on AM, unlike from KMIK 620
The Metroplex, which this habitually dominates on sunrise skip (and
much of the night as well).
(Not sure if KMIK is IBOC at nite, as no problem with 610 and 630
signals; in daytime KMIK colludes with KWPN 640 Moore OK to IBOCize
everything from 610 to 660; BTW, on 640 you`re more likely to hear an
ID with its ex-call WWLS, now applying to 98.1.)
The 25 kW presumably applies to 91.7, as 620 power is listed as 5/1 kW
in WRTH, 10/1 kW in IRCA, and Cantú:
620 XEBU La Norteñita + FM 91.7 Chihuahua, Chih. 5,000 1,000
Thanks to non-direxionality and southern-advantage, even if really
running 1 kW at night, XEBU is the dominant 620 here, as we`re in a
`hole` among US stations, all of the nearest ones with nulls more or
less toward OK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 630, Oct 13 at 1159 UT, ``Somos Radio México, Monterrey``,
i.e. XEFB, that being their group rather than specific slogan. Oops, I
see XEFB is missing from the 2012 IRCA Mexican log; hope they got it
in the 2013 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 680, Oct 12 at 1211 UT, timecheck for 6:12, phone numbers;
1212 now it`s ``6:14`` so the studio clock must be a sesquiminute
fast; then guy on the phone with detailed ``estado del tiempo``
weather forecast for the entire nation; must have mentioned every
state, until 1220 finally gets to ``nuestra región del Pacífico
norte``, outro as named Rodríguez; 1221 ``desde Guasave, Sinaloa,
Noticias en Punto --- Multimedios``. Then on to a report on ``estado
de fresas`` --- strawberries?? They are measured in cubic meters,
``almacenados`` with impressive flow rates --- oh, it`s about *presas*
= dams and their storage and release capacity, etc. at 1223. Cantú:
680 XEORO La Mera Jefa + FM 93.7 Guasave, Sinaloa 1,000 500
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 690, Oct 16 at 1210 UT, promo with 800-numbers, XEN with
full ID, 100,000 watts, street address, Grupo Radio Centro, amid a
show which runs from 6 am to 1 pm (CT). KGGF nulled. Cantú:
690 XEN La 69 México, DF 100,000 5,000
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 700, Oct 11 at 1224 UT, ``La Poderosa`` ID and romantic
song; earlier there was some hum, but no big deadair pause today from:
700 XEGD La Poderosa + FM 90.3 Hidalgo del Parral, Chih. 5,000 1,000
700, Oct 12 at 1225 UT, choral NA is playing at odd time; 1226 bit of
a song about Chihuahua and Parral, then ID for ``XEGD, La Poderosa``,
and also FM on 90.3, ``sistema combo``; full name of city ``Hidalgo
del Parral`` is rarely heard. Hidalgo means noble or aristocrat, but
probably derived here from name of an historical figure. This station
habitually gets off to a rough start in the mornings, with dead air,
hum, variable sign-ons, etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 720, Oct 11 at 1209 UT, studio talk show pauses
for Grupo Radio Centro plug, romantic song in English, loops WSW, so
no doubt the only Mexican in the northwest, per Cantú:
720 XEJCC Extremo 7-20 Cd. Juárez, Chih. 1,000 1,0000 [sic]
then mixing with another Spanish station much further east which I can
still hear by nulling the first one, but that`s not XEDE in Saltillo
now, instead KSAH Universal City TX, since San Antonio mentioned, and
1216 UT ad in Spanish for A-1 Car Stereo, on I-10, and also has 877-
toll-free number. KSAH is listed with ESPN Deportes, but this may have
been a local show as well as local ads (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 760, Oct 10 at 1201 UT, YL with headlines in Spanish
interspersed with rapid beats of single-tone sounders; 1203 over to OM
with more detailed news including murders in BCS. Loops N/S and
probably from 70/10 kW XEABC in the DF, altho there are three others
in that general direxion (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 780, XESFT la Poderosa, San Fernando, Tamaulipas. 1059-1140
October 11, 2013. Tune in to ending of national anthem, canned “XESFT,
la Poderosa...” and FM and AM frequencies, into Mexi-tune. ID after
each Mexi-tune mentioning “... punto 7... frecuencia modulada... 780
AM, la Poderosa” by man. Female time check “Son las 6 y 25” at 1125.
FM frequency is presumably 103.7. Slogans listed as La Triple T/La
Caliente on Cantú's online list and in the WRTVH-2013. This surely is
Glenn Hauser's unID in IDXD 81-2. Another new XE for me here, if my
list is correct (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
780, Oct 12 at 1206 UT, full ID for ``La Poderosa``, ``25 años
sirviendo a la región``, XESFT, also FM 103.7, ``Grupo Radiorama, la
cadena que une a México``, then live show about Tamaulipas. Cantú:
780 XESFT La Triple T + FM 103.7 San Fernando, Tamps. 5,000 1,000
Did not hear the ``Triple T`` slogan mentioned, but maybe missed it.
This with KSPI Stillwater OK completely nulled, and it`s too late for
WBBM to be a problem (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 780-, Oct 16 at 0614 UT, some station is now off-
frequency enough to the lo side to make a lo audible het with WBBM,
approx. opposite direxion, as it`s not Pueblo music which makes only a
slow SAH with WBBM. At 1216 UT with KSPI OK nulled, I am again hearing
that het with a station in Spanish, but stepping up and down to nearby
frequencies with BFO, KSPI is also off to the lo side (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 810, Oct 12 at 1228 UT, rough hum loops NE/SW, overcome at
1229 by WHB KC as it pops onto day power and pattern, but can still
hear the hum for a while. Only two XEs in the NW part of the country:
810 XESB Radio Mexicana +FM 94.9 Hidalgo del Parral, Chih. 1,000 1,000
810 XERSV Tribuna Radio Cd. Obregón, Son. 5,000 D
per Cantú, so XESB is most likely. Altho KXOI, Crane (Odessa) TX is on
the way with Spanish religion (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 850, Oct 13 at 1220 UT, ``Milenio Radio, 103.7, éxitos de
todos los tiempos``, then Elvis` Love Me Tender (in English), i.e.
from XEM Chihuahua city, easy with KOA nulled (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 900, Oct 12 at 1202 UT, federal PSAs, ID only as ``900``,
1203 teléfonos en cabina 83-77-97-73 y 83-79-88-39 for call-ins to
live show from Iglesia de --- Impacto. Googling on Mexican phone
numbers is usually unproductive and so are these, but there is an
Iglesia de Alto Impacto of the Disciples of Christ in Monterrey NL, as
I already strongly suspect this is XEOK, OK?
You might think http://radioacir.net would go to network HQ in the DF,
but it`s axually XEOK`s own page, and displays the two phone numbers
at the bottom, except 83-77-95-73 instead of the -97- I must have
miscopied.
(Why didn`t USA just go to 8-digit local phone numbers, immediately
dekamating the availabilities, rather than messing with overlaying and
cleaving more and more area codes, requiring 11-digit dialing??)
Beware: website autolaunches audio whether wanted or not. Cantú:
900 XEOK OK 900 AM Monterrey, N.L. 10,000 2,500
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 970, Oct 16 at 0609 UT, really lovely heartfelt
version of ``Malagueña Salerosa``, maybe Linda Ronstadt? But no back-
announce, just 0612 ID as ``La Jota Mexicana, 970-AM``, i.e. XEJ,
Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. Salerosa refers to salt, salty? Witty? What
does it really connote in this title? Google translate can`t handle
saleroso/a at all.
950 and 970 stations have no problem getting past my local 960 KGWA,
while my other 1 kW local, 1390 KCRC, blox its adjacent channels and
desensitizes even further ones (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1030, Oct 16 at 1243 UT, two stations in Spanish, one of
which IDs as 103.3 y 970, Radio Fórmula, i.e. relaying the network
flagship in the DF; Cantú does not cross-reference 103.3 on the 970
frequency listing, but separately does have 103.3 as XERFR too. Per
1030 listing this one is:
1030 XEYC Radio Fórmula Cd. Juárez, Chih. 5,000 500
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Old XEG 1050 QSL card, shows transmitter site right in
front of Saddle Mountain, went for $21.71:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/XEG-QSL-Card-Monterrey-Mexico-/310767848585?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D17902%26meid%3D2006280925612660753%26pid%3D100020%26prg%3D8261%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D7%26sd%3D310767848585%26&nma=true&si=H59%252FeftwhsYerHtw2Ksan398FEc%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc
(via Artie Bigley, DXLD)
Gee, I thought they were in Fort Worth 11, Texas! (gh, DXLD)
** MEXICO. 1060, XEEP, R. Educación, México DF, OCT 9, 1000 - Over /
under KYW; choral national anthem, ID, "Radio Educación, mil
sesenta... desde la ciudad de México... cien mil wats de potencia...
radioeducacion punto edu punto mx." (Bruce Conti, WPC1CAT, Nashua NH;
WiNRADiO Excalibur, MWDX-5 phasing unit, 15 x 23-m variable
termination SuperLoop antennas 60 northeast and 180 south, mwdx yg
via DXLD)
[and non]. 1060, Oct 13 at 1206 UT, Radio Educación ID amid heavy CCI,
mainly from KIJN Farwell TX, the cheating 10 kW all-night ``daytime``
gospel-huxter on the NM border, playing praise music in Spanish, and
also easily recognizable by the fast SAH it makes with anything else.
When that`s nulled, XEEP confronts KGFX opposite from SD; see U S A.
Lucky XEEP in the DF is now the only Mexican left with a nationally
clear channel on MW, 100/20 kW, but does little good up here. (XEB
1220 now confronts a daytimer in Saltillo). They ought to upgrade
their SW to fulltime, high power, and preferably better frequencies
than 6185; that`ll never happen (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) And why should they cut to only 20 kW at nite on 1060???
** MEXICO. 1180, Oct 13 at 0559 UT, full ID for XEDCH and its FM;
hardly any R. Rebelde problem, but instead from KFAQ Tulsa 1183 IBOC
noise, and KZOT 1180 Nebraska, but the latter can be nulled. Yes,
XEDCH is the call I heard instead of as in current Cantú:
1180 XEJK Ke buena + FM 95.3 Cd. Delicias, Chih. 5,000 1,500
IRCA Mexican Log 2012 does list it as XEDCH, 5000/250 watts // XHDCH
95.3. WRTH 2013 splits the difference with XEDCH, 5000/1500 watts. All
agree on the Ke Buena slogan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. COMENZARÁ A TRANSMITIR EN POCOS DÍAS RADIO DISNEY MÉXICO
by gruporadioescuchaargentino
Hace unos días se dio la bienvenida a Radio Disney México en un evento
lleno de música y emoción. Mauricio Sañudo, Director General de The
Walt Disney Company México y Antonio Ibarra, Vicepresidente Ejecutivo
y Director General de Grupo ACIR, fueron los responsables de la
presentación de la estación, producto de la alianza de las dos grandes
empresas. En el evento, además, se presentaron los grupos musicales
Reik, Jesse & Joy, así como Aleks Syntek, quienes dieron un toque de
emoción y magia al evento.
Radio Disney, “la radio que te escucha”, iniciará transmisiones el
próximo 9 de octubre en la frecuencia 99.3 FM. Es una estación
radiofónica con formato joven, la cual lleva el espíritu de la marca
Disney. Esta alianza busca además, fomentar los valores que ambas
empresas comparten.
“Radio Disney ofrecerá entretenimiento y diversión, buscará generar un
fuerte vínculo con la audiencia, y el contacto con ella sin duda será
su mayor activo”, comenta Mauricio Sañudo, Director General de The
Walt Disney Company México (tomada de Starmedia.com via GRA blog via
DXLD)
Mexico is a huge country with several 99.3s, but I suppose this is
about México DF, unstated. Yes, Cantú already lists: `` 99.3 Radio
Disney, Audio, Música pop para niños y familias. XHPOP 90,000 watts.
Grupo ACIR.`` I wonder what it was before (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MONACO. VIDEO 2004 VISITA A LOS ANTIGUOS ESTUDIOS RMC MONACO
Hola ! Enric Roca señala Video You Tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zgY_xbc2SA
RADIO MONTE CARLO - 16 Bd Princesse Charlotte - MONACO. 2004. Sin
comentarios de lo que se puede ver (Dario Monferini, Oct 14, 2013,
playdx yg via DXLD)
** MOROCCO. 171 kHz, Médi 1 // Radio Méditerranée Internationale, OCT
1 0200 - tuned to this frequency to find a brand new Arabic talkshow
(?) leading to the 0200 UT eclectic Arabic music broadcast with female
announcer, playing among others Cheb Bilal at 0142. Generally near
excellent reception with Russian man talk fading up way Under barely
audible around 0118 UT (surprising since Bolshakovo do not propagate
during this type of mid to low latitude geomagnetic conditions). This
was the strongest trans-Atlantic. That`s it for now, DX-Wise! May the
good DX be with you! (Bogdan Chiochiu, from the Verdun // Lasalle
border in Montréal, Québec, Canada using the Grundig G5 with 2
assorted PK loops for long and mediumwave, Hard-Core-DX mailing list
Oct 2 but not delivered until Oct 14! Via DXLD)
** MYANMAR. 5915, Myanma Radio – Naypyidaw (Presumed), 1235, 10/13/13,
in Burmese. Program of indigenous music with Male announcer. Fair
(Mark Taylor, Madison WI, Perseus, WinRadio g313e, Eton e1, Grundig
G5, Tecsun PL 660; EWE, Flextenna, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD)
I would not presume that as long as CRI Mongolian via Hohhot is also
on 5915 after 1200 (gh, DXLD)
** NEW ZEALAND. RNZI Daily Program Schedule set to local time
Just noticed this. Radio New Zealand International's
http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/schedules
daily program schedule is now being shown in local NZ time. You will
have to subtract 13 hours to get UT (Mark Coady, Oct 14,
dxingwithcumbre yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1691, DXLD)
As a transplanted Kiwi, I'm having a hard time getting my head around
that sked! And as 15720 is pretty much a dead loss in the Vancouver
area these days, I end up listening to RNZ National streaming for
anything in our late afternoon/evening -- early till late afternoon
Down Under. Some monitoring is in order this evening after I give
thanks! (Theo Donnelly, BC, ODXA yg via DXLD)
Growing Pains for the new website, which has been rolled into the
domestic websites. We should be bringing these shortcomings to Myra Oh
(Richard Cuff, ibid.)
Well, 0300 UT/4 pm NZDT Tues 15 Oct was correct with Pacific Regional
News on the hour, followed by Dateline Pacific.
But 0400 UT/5 pm and 0500/6 pm were out to dinner: as expected, it was
the usual relay of RNZ National's flagship news programme, Checkpoint,
with the 0500 frequency switch opening with RNZ News, followed by the
remainder of Checkpoint.
RC could be right, but it's also likely complicated by the recent
daylight time switch for which RNZI doesn't adjust its own productions
(Theo Donnelly, Oct 15, ODXA yg via DXLD)
** NIGERIA. 15120, V. of Nigeria, Oct 09 0718-0728, 35433, French,
News, ID at 0721 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830,
NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121; ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Voice of Nigeria 15120 NOT HEARD. Oct 10. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Circa 0640 UT Oct 10
Listening to Voice of Nigeria, in DRM at 1929 on 15120. Interesting ad
for reproductive options. Technical glitches for sure, with the audio
being way overmodulated. Sports initially, then a live female
announcer almost shouting into the microphone. I had to do some
adjusting on the computer to make it a more comfortable listen. 100%
copy (Walt Salmaniw, [Ob/Gyn] Victoria, BC (13 October), dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6925, Oct 11 at 0107, AM carrier here, maybe another
pirate tuning up but not modulating yet, vs SSB on the sides (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6925-AM, Oct 13 at 0058, weak signal music mixing
with SSB QRM (``peskies`` to the HFU folk); 0135 still too weak. HF
Underground posts name it Radio Free Whatever (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. RADIO PAISANO: 10/11-12, 2350-2406+, 6925.1/AM,
2350-2406, 11/12-Oct; EE tunes & comedy re Italian courtship,
weddings, dining & related activities, including Italian version of
Hava Nagila. ID at 0005 with radiopaisano@gmail.com addy. SIO=343 with
buzz bursts (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, Free Radio Weekly via DXLD)
6925-RCUSB, Oct 14 at 0103 old Italian tunes, first one reminds me of
``Funiculì, Funiculà``, fair signal; 0105 story about mama bear and
papa bear, stereotypical Italian-accented English; 0120 another
traditional Italian novelty song. What else but Radio Paisano on
Columbus Day [non], as per several logs on HF Underground, said to be
on the air once a year. No one contradicted the initial log as on
``6925-AM`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. Radio Casablanca imminent --- We plan to be on the
air tonight on 6940 kHz AM, starting sometime around 2300 UTC, and
running until the plane to Lisbon has departed (Richard Blaine,
American, Radio Casablanca, 2204 UT Oct 10, via gh, 2228 UT Oct 18,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST; also via Gilles Letourneau)
6940-AM, Oct 10 at 2313, pirate with music, including whistling,
detectable in noise level. Must be R. Casablanca per direct tip from
Rick who said he would be on starting at 2300. Next check at 0053 Oct
11, I can tell it`s still on, but storm noise level is very heavy from
the line along the Kansas/Colorado border extending into the OK and TX
Panhandles. 0106 I can tell the music is small-band from the era of
the `40s, but way too much noise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6940-RCDSB, Oct 13 at 0106 announces 6-9-4-0 as I
tune in, music; 0112 talking and weird vocal SFX. 0113 synthetic YL
says ``coming up next is Radio Jamba International``. SSB tuning helps
as the carrier is somewhat reduced, but on both sidebands equally.
0130 it`s better with drumming but some audio interruptions; 0133
strange/strained voices ranting about Microsoft, pancakes, basketball,
pork rinds, etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6945-USB, Oct 12 at 0118, YL black torch singer
tunes, must have just come on, or was in a pause a minute earlier when
I tuned across. Good signal and modulation, and fortunately hits very
close to one of the 40-Hz steps on the DX-398 BFO. ``Nobody Knows You
When You`re Down and Out`` is playing; 0120 segue to ``Write Myself a
Letter``; 0124 another; 0126 quick ID ``Wolverine Radio`` and more
music, ``When my Sugar Walks Down the Street``. Recheck 0217, still
going with more music of that genre. Very enjoyable (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6950-AM, Oct 13 at 0058, another pirate, but very
poor with SSB QRM; 0107 says going to shut down very shortly, gives e-
mail which presumably includes an ID but I can`t copy it in the noise;
says will be back tomorrow or the next day. Now there is no QRM.
``Have a good evening, all``, e-mail again and again can`t copy it;
0109 music, goes off at 0114*. Maybe this was MAC Shortwave per
numerous logs on HF Underground starting at 2257 Oct 12, but none yet
posted later than 0033 Oct 13 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6950.5, Oct 15 at 0053 weak talk from pirate, very
poor in noise level; 0054 into music; 0107 ``thanks for tuning in ---
I`m tired of doing this stuff``. Numerous logs at
http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,13176.0.html
agree it`s MAC Shortwave. Everyone reports it as 6950-AM, not noting
the offset. Paying attention to precise frequencies and modes could
help correlate one pirate name/transmitter with another, which they
might rather avoid doing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6960-AM, Oct 16 at 0102, very poor signal with
music, SSB QRM. No other pirates found this time. Several logs on HF
Underground say this was a relay of The Crystal Ship (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6965-AM, Oct 13 at 0057, sounds like ``Peter Gunn``
theme vamping, but turns into something else. Best signal by far of
all the pirates tonite, but 0101.5 announcement with music background
is a bit undermodulated; mentions ``broadcasting under the stars this
evening``, ``second week of October``, ``cat`s fur is starting to
change color``, musing on Xmas, fall and Hallowe`en.
0103 address xfmshortwave@gmail.com and always welcomes reports on
FRN, FRC, HF Underground; live timecheck as 4 minutes after 1 o`clock;
`` no new music tonight but some slower stuff``; acknowledges a report
on HFU; ID as ``XFM, the Power of X``, intro Red Hot Chili Peppers,
but first where`s the liner? ``Broadcasting in C-Quam stereo from the
United States to the World on shortwave, this is XFM, music to the
power of X`` is asserted. Still going at 0110 and later chex till I
quit at 0140 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6965-AM, Oct 14 at 0102, very poor with weak talk,
conversation with laughter, 0109 music, 0120 talk. Numerous reports on
hfunderground say it`s Radio Free Whatever, from *0006 to 0144* (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 9775, Oct 10 at 0055 a JBA carrier, and after 0100
nothing at all, third night without any Radio YHWH; altho propagation
has really degraded since then.
9775, Oct 11 at 0057 looking for Radio YHWH again, but only a JBA
carrier, no ACI yet; at 0102 the ACI is on from both sides, and not
even the JBA carrier now. Perhaps Friday night = Sabbath will bring it
back.
9775, Oct 12 at 0101 and a few later chex, it`s the Sabbath and still
no repeat appearance of Radio YHWH, between 9770 Turkey and 9780 Sri
Lanka.
9775, Oct 13 at 0111 and a couple more chex, still no more show from
Radio YHWH. Wonder if they are using other frequencies? (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hi Glenn, Oct 14 from tune in at 0139 to tune out at 0220, on 3234.95,
found religious program in English with countless mentions of
"Yahweh"; anti-Christian and anti-Catholic; "This is station YHWH."
Two different audios to give you an idea of how they sound.
https://app.box.com/s/n5quk1qzbjv1ttpqb7n7
https://app.box.com/s/9rnb0moivju3pbixj9eo
(Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF
RADIO 1691, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
9775, Oct 14 a few chex after 0100, no show again from Radio YHWH, as
heard six nights ago only; maybe better luck after a week on UT
Tuesday 15? Or not: Ron Howard upon Asilomar State Beach, California,
did catch ``Station YHWH`` at 0139-0220 Oct 14 on 3234.95, ``with
countless mentions of "Yahweh"; anti-Christian and anti-Catholic``. So
a full bandscan is necessary to find it; at least the favorite time is
around 0100-0220+.
9775 & 3235, Oct 15 at 0057 and rechex until 0112, nothing from Radio
YHWH, the Yahweh pirate, two frequencies where it has shown up before
around this time (nor on 5990, 6010 as earlier).
9775 and 3235, Oct 16 at 0102 and later, no shows again from Station
YHWH. The one time I heard it 8 nights ago on 9775, it did sound like
Ron Howard`s recordings on 3234.95 [above]. That low frequency makes
me suspect a western USA location (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO
1691, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. WAZU will be on 13605 kHz this afternoon from 2000
to 2100 UT. If that frequency is occupied, try 13548 (Harold Frodge,
MI, Oct 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Missed it. Would people please be sure to send hot tips to my main e-
mail address wghauser @ yahoo.com Tnx (Glenn)
** NORTH AMERICA. Thanks to US shutdown, pirate radio activity reaches
an all-time high --- The SWLing Post By Thomas October 14, 2013
http://swling.com/blog/2013/10/thanks-to-us-shutdown-pirate-radio-activity-reaches-an-all-time-high/
As frustrated as many are over the US government shutdown, it
nonetheless offers one unique benefit to the shortwave radio
community, and to pirate radio in particular –– no FCC enforcement.
As we mentioned earlier, the FCC’s enforcement arm was shut down along
with all other FCC activities that weren’t directly connected with
“the protection of life or property.”
The result? Pirates –– lots of pirates –– on the air! The Jolly Roger
flaps in the breeze.
Pirate radio activity since the shutdown has truly been at a record
high, with pirates taking to the airwaves throughout the week, and
especially on the weekends.
Case in point: this past weekend, the North American “pirate radio
grounds” of 6920-6970 kHz were packed with pirate radio stations.
There were even crowded band conditions; at one point I tweeted that
there were no less than three pirates broadcasting simultaneously in
just a small chunk of bandwidth on AM. Indeed, there may even have
been a fourth that I couldn’t quite detect; an unusual occurrence, to
say the least. And with pirate radio’s favorite holiday, Halloween
(think War of the Worlds), fast approaching, there’s likely to be more
such unusual activity (via Mike Terry, Oct 15, dxldyg via DXLD)
** NORWAY. Svenn Martinsen writes on Facebook:
LKB/LLE is on the air with another set of test broadcasts today from
LLE-2 (1314 kHz) and LLE-3 (5895 kHz), in the morning and on Thursday
afternoon. Morning broadcasts run from @0515 to 0800 UT, and afternoon
broadcasts @1400-1600. Our QSL card has arrived, so why not send a
report to Box 100, N5331 RONG! Don't forget to include return postage.
(There is a photo of the QSL which shows the antenna tower)
(via Mike Terry, Oct 15, dxldyg via DXLD)
** OKLAHOMA. Glenn, Noticed this KTOK QSL card you may be interested
in. May be pretty rare?? HAVE YOU SEEN THIS DESIGN before? It is not
on the web. Since you are from Oklahoma...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/KTOK-QSL-Card-Oklahoma-City-Oklahoma-/310767895999?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item485b35c5bf&nma=true&si=H59%252FeftwhsYerHtw2Ksan398FEc%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
(Artie Bigley, OH, Oct 14, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
No, I hadn`t. Interesting home-made design. I never bothered to QSL
KTOK (gh, DXLD)
** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Oct 13 circa 1845 UT on caradio, and any other
daytime, KEOR Catoosa/Tulsa (really Sperry site), now has enough
signal to believe it is really running 7 kW as called for in its CP,
ex-2 kW: respectable but of course always weaker signal compared to 50
kW KFAQ 1170, R. Victoria with its Spanish praise music and preaching.
Also seems reliably on the air now after months of sporadicity. And
have not heard this daytimer for sure lately at night vs KMOX (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1150, Oct 10 at 1214 UT, something else audible with N/S
KSAL Salina KS nulled, mentioning local event in Krebs, which is a
dead giveaway for KNED, confirmed by the next mention of McAlester.
This Okie is too far to be audible on groundwave, as KSAL owns 1150 in
the daytime (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. KGYN 1210 inaudible again: see USA: KUBR log
1210, Oct 13 circa 1845 UT on caradio, no signal audible from KGYN
Guymon, which normally reaches Enid on groundwave. Also on DX-398 at
home after 0500 Oct 14, still can`t hear KGYN, so if on the air at
all, must be keeping to night pattern also in day, null toward
Philadelphia and Enid. Finally at 1214 UT Oct 14 I can barely hear it
with adstring, 1216 KGYN weather, 1216 ``US Country``. Whatever signal
they have is now getting an SRS boost (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. WBBZ 1230 possibly with Coast to Coast? see UNIDENTIFIED
** OKLAHOMA. 1520, KOKC, Oklahoma City, OCT 11, 1720 MST, HSFB p-b-p,
Eagles vs. Lions. KOKC running Moore HSFB again this year. Almost
local-like reception, strong and alone on the frequency, heard
barefoot G8 Grundig, monitored at El Mirage AZ (Rick Barton, dxldyg
via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Also check earlier in the afternoon: you may
be surprised how soon this starts skywaving (gh, DXLD)
** OMAN. Irregular broadcast(?) Radio Sultanate Oman, 15355 kHz, 0007z
10/13/13 strong here. Irregular per Eibi schedule - but have heard
most evenings this time & till past 0030z (Rich Ray, Burr Ridge, IL,
UT Oct 14, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1691, DX LISTENING DIGEST) By
0100 it`s usually heard on 9760, supposedly from *0000 (gh, WORLD OF
RADIO 1691, DXLD)
15140, Radio Sultantate of Oman; 1418-1500+, 4-Oct; Latino tunes to
BoH "News 90.4", English headlines/details/recap, closing as the "6:30
Bulletin". 1442 "Herbs & Health"; worked in a reference to "The
Prophet" (I'm guessing they weren't referring to Brother Stair, the
Last Days Prophet of God) & said that honey and the Koran will cure
any illness of the mind. 1454 pop tunes to late chimes at 1500:35 into
Arabic. SIO=353, much better sig than yesterday (Harold Frodge,
Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft.
center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
13600, Radio Sultanate of Oman, 0307 English, man with news to 0309,
0310 ID and into pop music. Poor, sweeper QRM Oct 11 (Harold Sellers,
Vernon, British Columbia, Listening beside the lake, in my car, with
the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO
1691, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PAKISTAN. 17720, R. Pakistan, Oct 11 0056-0108, 35443, Urdu, Talk
and news and koran, ID at 0100 and 0105, // 15490 (Kouji Hashimoto,
JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750,
DE-1121; ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
17720, R. Pakistan:
Oct 15 0159-0210*, 34443, Urdu, News, ID at 0200 and 0202 and 0205,
// 15490 kHz
Oct 16 0040-0055, 35443-45444, Urdu, Pakistan music, ID and IS at
0044, ID and opening announce at 0045, Koran
(Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-
345, Satellite 750, DE-1121; ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3365, NBC Milne Bay, 1413*, Oct 10. This station
stays on the air the longest of all the NBC stations; off with “The
Voice of yesterday, today … NBC National Radio" (Ron Howard, Asilomar
State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1691, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3905, Oct 10 at 1242, no signal, not even carrier
from Kavieng, so temporary anniversary reactivation over? But poor
propagation today, 3925 Japan JBA, and I should have checked an hour
earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
3905, NBC New Ireland. Very brief reactivation for the "anniversary
celebration of NBC New Ireland"; only heard Oct 7 and 8; has not been
heard again through Oct 11. What will be the next special New Ireland
event that will bring back their SW operation? (Ron Howard, Asilomar
State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
3905, NBC New Ireland, 1135-1241, Oct 12. After being off the air for
three days, today continued with special programming in Tok Pisin /
Pidgin; long monologue about "radio ... New Ireland ... Internet,
email ... NBC"; 1158 several mentions of "NBC celebrations"; after
1200 DJ format music program; playing pop Pacific Island songs;
frequent local IDs; poor/ham QRM/QRN (Ron Howard, Asilomar State
Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1691, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** PERU. Compañeros: Les informo que después de varios meses de no
escucha, hoy capté:
3329.54, PERÚ, R. Ondas del Huallaga, Huánuco, 2330-0010, 22222+, mx,
ID "Ondas del Huallaga", mxf huayno, mx en forma continua, ID "Si te
pregunta, responde conmigo, Yo escucho Ondas del Huallaga"; ads
Agropecuaria Falcón, SENASA Huánuco. 73 (Pedro F Arrunátegui, Lima,
Vivo en una casa muy pequeña, pero, sus ventanas se abren hacia un
mundo muy grande, Oct 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST via dxldyg, WORLD OF
RADIO 1691)
3329.554, Perú, Ondas del Huallaga, Huánuco, 12/10 2240-2245, mxf,
programa del folclore por Emy Falcón, ID ``A todos mis amigos que
están en la plena sintonía de la frecuencia modulada de los 88.9 de
Ondas del Huallaga", 5 de la tarde y 53 minutos. Que tenga buen fin de
semana, ID "Sigue la programación de Ondas del Huallaga" 12 October.
3329.54, Ondas del Huallaga, 13/10 1050-1110, 33333, s/on 1100. De
frente colocan mx y después dicen ID "Ondas del Huallaga, la radio
tridimensional" ads "frente a Radio Ondas del Huallaga" mx, Slogan
"Ondas del Huallaga, cultural, musical, deportiva, informativa,
divertida", programa Escuela Nueva, Oct 13 (Pedro F. Arrunátegui,
Lima, via Bob Wilkner, Cumbre DX via WORLD OF RADIO 1691, DXLD)
3329.5, Perú, Ondas del Huallaga, Huánuco, 1035 to 1055 with threshold
audio, music vocalist? 15 October. Previously only carrier on 12
October (Bob Wilkner, S Florida, Cumbre DX via DXLD)
** PERU. 5980, R. CHASKI, 09/10 0041 UT. Programa “El amor que vale”
con el tema de la soberanía de Jesús sobre la muerte. Señal con SINPO:
54454, sin sobremodulació n. Llama la atención que actualmente la
lista EiBi tenga la siguiente información:
5980 1000-1500 PRU Radio Chaski Q PRU u
5980 2200-0105 PRU R. Chaski Red Integridad S, Q PRU u
Sin información sobre potencia, ubicación, coordenadas y acimutal,
aunque sí con conocimiento de la retrasmisión de Red Radio Integridad
y de su salida cercana a las 0105 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660,
Antena: Beverage de 20 metros con balun 9:1, QTH: Centro de Ovalle, IV
Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD)
Just reset to 0101* and counting (gh, DXLD)
5980, R. CHASKI, 09/10 2331 UT. Comienzo del programa “Momento
decisivo” acerca de la formación de una unidad global y de una junta
de estabilidad financiera. Asimismo se señala el inminente “Armagedón
Económico venidero” que permitirá el establecimiento del anticristo,
según el libro del Apocalipsis. Señal con SINPO: 44444 con
sobremodulación no tan marcada (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660,
Antena: Beverage de 20 metros con balun 9:1, QTH: Centro de Ovalle, IV
Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD)
5980, Oct 10 at 0057, JBA carrier from R. Chaski, and CRI/Cuba 5990 is
already off which helps a bit. This time I am monitoring 5980
continually to catch the new cutoff time, which is: 0100:40*. Missed
it yesterday, so that means Oct 9 was the reset date to 0100:35*,
after having attained 0106:17* on October 8.
As I said in DXLD 13-39, ``The last reset was on July 21 as in DXLD
13-30 after it had reached 0105:44* on July 20``. This span was 81
days. So at the same rate, another 81 days later will be December 28.
The previous reset was extrapolated to 0059:12* on July 21, so that
makes a total span of 7 minutes and 5 seconds = 425 seconds. Divided
by 81 = 5.247 seconds per day on average. Using my watch in one-second
steps, it`s difficult to estimate to closer than 0.5 second (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1691, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
5980, R. CHASKI, 10/10 11 UT. Emisión de música y avisos en idioma
quechua. Anterior a esta hora solamente se escuchaba la portadora
abierta, sin ningún tipo de modulación. Señal con SINPO: 43343.
5980, R. CHASKI, 11/10 0033 UT. Programa “El amor que vale” de Adrian
Rogers en la voz de Lenin de Janón, con el tema intitulado: “la
asombrosa iglesia del primer siglo” y al finalizar este programa se da
música instrumental con tempo andante, parecida a aquella
perteneciente a la sinfonía Nº 21 de Mozart. Señal con SINPO: 43343
(Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Beverage de 20 metros con
balun 9:1, QTH: Centro de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via
DXLD)
5980, Oct 11 at 0055, JBA carrier in noise level from R. Chaski, until
cutoff at 0100:46*, six seconds later than yesterday (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
5980, R. CHASKI, 12/10 0016 UT. Programa “La Biblia dice” con el tema
de los 144 mil sellados del Apocalipsis y el arrebatamiento de la
Iglesia. Después música hasta las 0030. Señal con SINPO: 43343. Nota:
Investigando sobre la potencia, se indica que tiene 5 kW:
5980 kHz OBX4M Radio Chaski Urubamba/Cerro Sacro * 5
http://www.radio-america-latina.org/am/fm.php?itu=Per%FA®ion=cus
(Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Beverage de 20 metros con
balun 9:1, QTH: Centro de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via
DXLD)
Shows callsign as OBX4M, which I don`t think I`ve ever seen quoted.
Station missed completely being entered in WRTH 2013 (gh, DXLD)
5980, Oct 12 at 0056, JBA carrier from R. Chaski, bad splash from
China/Cuba 5990. Clear cutoff at 0100:51* which is 5 seconds later
than yesterday.
5980, Oct 13 at 0052, R. Chaski carrier with heavy splash from 5990
CRI via Cuba; cuts off at 0100:56.5* which is 5.5 seconds later than
yesterday.
5980, Oct 14 at 0050, R. Chaski carrier, until cutoff at 0101:02*
which is 5.5 seconds later than yesterday.
5980, Oct 15 at 0052, R. Chaski carrier, until cutoff at 0101:08*
which is six seconds later than yesterday, but probably more like 5.25
with margin of error (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
5980, R. CHASKI, 16/10 2235 UT. Inicio del programa “Visión para
vivir” con SINPO: 43343 con sobremodulación y cortes en la
transmisión (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Beverage de 20
metros con balun 9:1, QTH: Centro de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile,
condiglista yg via DXLD)
** PHILIPPINES. 9400, FEBC Iba, 1138-1147 10/7, Chinese; M & W
announcers with talk between various music bits; tentative ID at 1145;
fair & always a reliable catch here (Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale,
NH, NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** PORTUGAL. Re 13-41: Hello all, where the following report by Dave
Kenny was mentioned:
«Radio Renascença’s medium wave transmitters which now carry the
station’s Radio Sim channel aimed at older listeners are being run on
reduced power to save energy costs. The main Lisbon transmitter on 594
kHz which is rated at 100 kW (but had been operating at 10 kW) has now
been reduced to only 1.5 kW. Power of the 10 kW transmitters on 891,
963, 981 and 1251 kHz has been reduced to just 1 kW, while the 1 kW
transmitters continue to operate at full power. Braga 576 kHz has been
switched off as the area is served by an FM transmitter (Information
from Radio Renascenca technical staff during EDXC visit on 9 Sep)
Reception of Radio Sim on 594 kHz was extremely weak at our hotel in
central Lisbon (Dave Kenny, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD)»
I do not mean to contradict RR staff, but I suspect that the
transmitter at Seixal (963 kHz) is running at a power level higher
that the mentioned 1 kW; when Rádio Sim uses the spare transmitter (1
kW), in order to replace the main unit during maintenance work, the
signal on 963 kHz picked up here (at Évora) is much reduced. On the
other hand, when the transmitter is running at full power, I can get a
fair signal - even using an ordinary, cheap radio (for not mentioning
my Sony 7600 GR, for instance). I do not know whether R. Sim keeps
using 10 kW, but, as I explained, whether the power is strongly
reduced, the coverage beyond the region of Lisbon, specially in the
Alentejo region, is clearly affected.
While that, in spite of using only 1.5 kW, tx at Muge keeps providing
a fair coverage of the south & the center of the country; the signal
at Évora is stronger than the one from Seixal.
A note regarding the inactive MW outlets: besides Braga (to be more
accurate, the tx is actually located wothin the municipality of Vila
Verde, close to Braga), the remaining switched off txs are Valongo,
Viseu (both 1251 kHz 10 kW) and Évora (927 kHz 1 kW). These outlets
were actually chosen because they are located in areas where Rádio Sim
has VHF-FM txs: Braga 101.1 MHz 10 kW, Valongo 100.8 MHz 1.5 kW &
Portel (near Évora) 97.5 MHz 0.5 kW. Best regards & 73s, (Luís
Carvalho, Portugal, Oct 14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. R Romania Int`l B-13 English effective 27 October 2013
1200-1300 EU 15460 17530
1200-1300 seAf 17765 21570
1800-1900 EU 5940 (DRM) 9780
2130-2200 EU 6030 (DRM) 7380
2130-2200 eNAM 7310 9435
2300-0000 EU 6015 7220
2300-0000 Japan 7395 9620
0100-0200 eNAM 6145 7325
0400-0500 wNAM 6020 7305
0400-0500 India 11710 13730
0630-0700 EU 7345 9600 (DRM)
0630-0700 AU 17780 21600
(RRI website via Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, dxldyg via DXLD)
HORARIO DE INVIERNO DE R R I --- Estimados amigos, Aquí tenéis el
horario de invierno de nuestras emisiones en español. Gracias por su
apoyo. Un cordial saludo, Victoria Sepciu
A partir del 27 de octubre de 2013 y hasta el 30 de marzo de 2014, las
emisiones en español, por onda corta, de Radio Rumanía Internacional
se pueden sintonizar de este modo: [UT]
a las 2000 horas por 6010 y 7235 kilohercios, en España;
a las 2200 horas por 13860 y 15160 kilohercios, en Sudamérica;
a las 0000 horas por 13590 kilohercios y 15110 kilohercios, en
Sudamérica y por 7315 y 9525 kilohercios, en El Caribe;
a las 0300 horas de la madrugada por 11800 y 13630 kilohercios, en
Sudamérica y por 7345 y 9650 kilohercios, en Centroamérica;
También se pueden sintonizar vía satélite y en Internet, en formato
WMA (Windows Media Audio), en la página http://www.rri.ro Además, en
Europa, se pueden sintonizar a través del satélite HOT BIRD CINCO, en
la frecuencia de 11623.28 Megahercios, polarización vertical, acimut
13 grados. Victoria Sepciu (via Pepe Bueno, Spain, Oct 15, DXLD)
** RUSSIA. 1593, 9.10 *1159-, R Bonch, St Petersburg. 1244 at last I
succeeded. Power only 10 W or even less, so I suppose it is DX at 300
km. AM synchro in Perseus showed its strength, bringing the audio up
from local noise, NB or NR didn't help at all! Mika Mäkeläinen and
Willi Passmann checked via my remote receiver, but either too early
(too weak) or too late, when Romania took over around 1310. 1980.
Here's a short video of the weak signal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcEMEcu98fQ
MR (Mauno Ritola, Finland, ARC Mv-eko 14 October via DXLD)
NB/NR = noise blanking/reduxion
** RUSSIA. 5930, Oct 10 at 1241, R. Rossii, Pet/Kam, poor-fair with
rock music, and No signal, not even a carrier, on usual // 5940
Magadan --- so that`s off the air, or totally propped-out due to
higher-latitude path? From Magadan to Enid, grazes the Arctic Circle
between northern edge of Seward Peninsula and Kotzebue, while from
Pet-Kam not quite reaches the 60th parallel over SW Alaska.
Eclectic American music moves on to ``Danke Shane`` at 1245 (note:
must not be pronounced as ``Schön``, just like John Böhner), 1249
Beetles` ``Twist & Shout``, similar to ``La Bamba`` tune, but these
are clips with long narrations in Russian about the music.
5940, Oct 11 at 1240, R. Rossii, Magadan, poorly audible with jazz //
much stronger 5930 Petropavlovsk/Kamchatsky. 24 hours earlier, Magadan
was inaudible, but higher-latitude paths are now recovering somewhat
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
5930, R. Rossii-Kamchatka, Oct 15 0733-0745, 45444, Russian, News and
talk, ID at 0738 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830,
NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121; ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
5930 & 5940, Oct 16 at 1254, song in English on R. Rossii; another
instance of drastic difference in propagation from Pet/Kam and Magadan
respectively: good on 5930, JBA on 5940 over more northerly path.
Maybe also a direxional factor? Not per Aoki, showing both as 100 kW,
30 degrees, favorably USward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 6195, R. Rossii via Buryatskoe R., Oct 15 0757-0811, 35332,
Russian, News and talk, ID at 0758 and 0805. What time is it a local
program from? (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830,
NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121; ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. The local transmitters broadcasting Radio Rassii in Russian
(except on 4050 kHz) are still on the air. They are:
Stream (or Dubl)
# 1 on 5930Pet/Kam, 5940 and 7320
# 2 on 7230
# 3 on 6085, 6100 and 6195
# 4 only on LW/MW
# 5 on 5930Monchegorsk, 6160, 12070/13665/13735/....
and all on LW and MW. Here are some of these observed recently:
at 0340 5930M with own local program or stream 5 and 171 LW//945 MW
with another program on 10 October;
at 0415 stream #5 on 12070//5930M, 6160;
1545-1600 stream #5 13735//5930M//6160 and after 1600 only 13735 and
stream #3 on 6085 and 6115 and from 1612 with different program than
13735 on 7 October;
at 1912 on 7230 stream 2 and on 7215 stream # 5 on 10 October. The nx
bulletin on every hour is same for all Dubls (Rumen Pankov, Sofia,
Bulgaria, Oct 15, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
He spells it Rassii because it`s pronounced more like that, even tho
spelt with an o. And since we`re transliterating anyway from Cyrillic,
why not make it more fonetik? Notably the genitive suffix pronounced -
ovo but spelt equivalent of ogo, etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 6075, Oct 10 at 1236, poor signal in Chinese, mentions Mei-
Guo (America), totally different programing from multiple CNR1
frequencies on 6 MHz and higher bands --- because as Aoki shows, this
is VOR, 100 kW due west from Vladivostok-Tavrich site at 10-13 (plus
another hour in Mongolian except Sundays). Weaker than weak Australia
6080 next door (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. Estimados colegas del diexismo: Ante las noticias del cese
de emisiones por onda corta de La Voz de Rusia, sería interesante
enviar cartas, faxes o correos electrónicos de protesta. Os envio el
modelo que ya les he remitido por distintas vías. Por cierto. cuando
se intenta con el fax que ellos nos dieron al Club S500, contesta una
persona en ruso y no se consigue transmitir el fax. Un saludo.
EMILIO http://www.clubs500.es
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To: ELENA NIKOLÁEVA
Spanish Section
Radio LA VOZ DE RUSIA
(Servicio en español)
Pyátnitskaya, 25
Moscú 115326 RUSIA
post_es@ruvr.ru
Fax: +7 (495) 950 66 24
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Estimados amigos y amigas de la Voz de Rusia:
Hace unos días me comentaron unos colegas que la emisora de Radio La
Voz de Rusia cesaba sus transmisiones en onda corta a partir del 1 de
enero de 2014.
No puedo más que trasladar mi disgusto y desaprobación por lo que
considero una decisión absurda que priva al mundo del canal de
noticias más fiable e importante al que tenemos acceso.
No creo que la solución a este corte de emisiones sean las "nuevas
tecnologías" ya que no están disponibles en la mayor parte de los
países; y que la única forma de llegar a cada oyente no es otra que la
radio por onda corta.
Espero que dicha decisión se rectifique con la mayor brevedad pues su
país no puede permitirse el lujo de no hacerse sentir en cada rincón
del planeta, y perder así la influencia permanente que ejerce en la
opinión internacional.
Ya os trasladé mi decepción por la pérdida de las emisiones para
España (y el absurdo DRM) y no puedo más que solicitar la vuelta al
mismo ámbito con que se situaban las transmisiones de nuestra querida
emisora (para mí siempre Radio Moscú) hace pocos años.
Os ruego, por favor, que transmitáis a los directivos de la emisora mi
protesta por el cese de las emisiones en español en onda corta
convencional y mi deseo para que la decisión sea reconsiderada y
cuanto antes vuelvan (continúen) a nuestros receptores la sintonía de
la Voz de Rusia.
Reciban mi más sincera admiración,
Fdo:
Ciudad (País): (Julio Martínez, Oct 11, noticiasdx yg via DXLD)
** RWANDA. 6055, Radio Rwandaise (tentative) 0254 male chorus in
vernacular, 0255:30 man with announcements. Poor, Oct 11 (Harold
Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening beside the lake, in my
car, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAINT HELENA. 24943-USB, Oct 11 at 2004, pileups trying to contact
weak station. I have to listen to call after call from USA, till
finally at 2009 I make out Peter, ZD6FT, I thought, but it must have
been ZD7FT, as in http://www.qrz.com/db/ZD7FT
ZD7FT
Peter Constantine
PO. Box 33
Jamestown, St. Helena Island, South Atlantic Ocean, STHL 1ZZ
St Helena Island
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SARAWAK [non]. Radio Free Sarawak - Winds of Discontent over Borneo
. . . . In much more subdued Sarawak, where open discourse is much
more low-key, similar sentiments also exist, even within high ranks of
the civil service. Although the older generation is loyal to the
leaders, younger voters are much more widely exposed to the outside
world as they have left longhouses to work in cities and they use
social media heavily. They are coming home during festivals and
sharing new ideas and values with the older inhabitants. Together with
the dissemination of information from Radio Free Sarawak, this is
beginning to have an impact on rural areas. In addition there have
been major changes in electoral demographics in the urban areas of
Sarawak in the last two elections. . . . .
http://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/winds-of-discontent-over-borneo-4870/
(Ron Howard, CA, Oct 11, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOMALILAND. 7120, Radio Hargeisa, *0330, Oct 10. On with usual
National Anthem and into reciting from the Qur'an. Oct 10 with 1402*;
off with NA (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
7120, R. Hargeisa, Oct 15, 1850-1925 35333-25332 Somali, HOA music and
talk, IS at 1902, News, ID at 1922. It was extension broadcast, I was
not able to hear it until the end (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75,
NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121; ANT, 70m
Sloper Wire, WORLD OF RADIO 1691, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. This is the new LOCAL/REGIONAL program schedule of RNE
stations from October 14th 2013: (times UT)
M-F:
0525-0530 REG RN // R5
0550-0600 REG RN // R5
0645-0700 LOCAL R5
0705-0710 REG R5
0730-0745 LOCAL R5
1025-1030 REG R5
1310-1400 REG RN // R5
1730-1800 REG R5
S-Su:
0705-0715 REG R5
1130-1200 REG RN // R5
CEUTA & MELILLA:
They produce M-F the RN blocks and the 0645 and 0730 ones on R5
73! (Mauricio Molano, Salamanca, ESPAÑA - SPAIN
RX site: Aldea del Cano, Cáceres. LAT: 39º17'09.70 N, LONG: 6º19'00 W
RX: PERSEUS. ANT: WELLBROOK ALA1530S+
http://moladx.blogspot.com/ Oct 10, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
So will all the above shift one UT hour later from Oct 27 ---- or two
hours later if Spain permanently changes timezone? (gh, DXLD)
Well, this is not a formal decision at this moment. It is still in
study. 73! (Mauricio Molano, Salamanca, Oct 14, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hola Mauricio, Many thanks for this info. The last weekend of October,
Europe will change to "wintertime``. Does this mean that these RNE
transmission times also will change, so we have to add one hour to the
times you mentioned?
Do you also happen to have the time schedule of regional/local
transmissions of SER, COPE, OCR and Punto Radio? Many thanks, (Max Van
Arnhem, The Netherlands, MWCircle yg via DXLD)
Of course! It is the National radio so it works in Spanish local time.
About other networks, I´m sorry but I don´t have its schedules. I have
those of RNE as I work in RNE-Salamanca. 73! (Mauricio Molano,
Salamanca, ESPAÑA - SPAIN, ibid.)
** SPAIN. One of my beloved DX programs is Amigos de la Onda Corta in
Spanish aired on Sundays 1205-1255 on 11910, 21515, 21610 (in A 13)
and maybe there is a repeat on Mondays [UT 0005]. Heard on 6 October
2013. (I do know only some Spanish, sorry). (Rumen Pankov, Sofia,
Bulgaria, Oct 15, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
[and non]. 5965, Oct 15 at 0059, good signal with open carrier, and
nothing on 5995 --- bet it`s REE COSTA RICA getting ready to start the
wrong frequency; still dead air past 0100 but at 0103, modulating 5965
with REE, as usual a few seconds behind 9535 direct from Spain due to
multiple satellite feed hops? Or other digital delays in the circuit.
By 0108 recheck, however, back on correct 5995 instead of 5965
(axually they would be better off on 5965 now that RHC is on 6000,
unless the Brasilian is really active on 5965?). REE schedule is 00-04
on 5995, 04-08 on 5965, and sometimes they are reversed after 0400
too. This time at 0542 check, on correct 5965 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) See also EAST TURKISTAN. About to be closed: relay
in COSTA RICA - q.v.
** SRI LANKA. 9720, Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation, Colombo, Sri
Lanka. A full data QSL for a reception report in Malayalam language
made last August 18, 2013. Reported transmission power: 125 kW
V/S: Victor Goonetilleke. The report was sent by email and answered
first by email and then by conventional mail. The QSL card showing
different images of Sri Lanka and a map of the island (Arnaldo Slåen,
Argentina, Oct 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
11905, Radio Sri Lanka, 0114 carrier on, 0115 instrumental music, time
pips and woman with sign-on in vernacular. Very poor, Oct 11 (Harold
Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening beside the lake, in my
car, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. PCJ Radio DRM TESTS TO EUROPE --- PCJ Radio will beam to
Europe on the 13th October from 1030 to 1127 UT on 17560 kHz with a
beam heading of 335 degrees from Trincomalee. This beam heading is
excellent for our Indian listeners too. The power will be 80 kW. We
will appreciate reports and all correct reception reports will be
QSLd. For listeners to East Asia/Japan, 1130-1227 DRM on 15645 kHz.
The regular Sunday transmission of Happy Station continues on 11835
kHz 1330-1430. QSLs are available