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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1733 CONTENTS: *DX and station news about: Argentina, Ascension, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cuba and non, Egypt, Germany, Indonesia, Iran, Korea North non, Laos and non, Mali, Micronesia, Myanmar, Netherlands, North America, Panama non, Papua New Guinea, Perú, Spain, Uganda, Ukraine, USA, Yemen, Zimbabwe non SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1733, August 7-13, 2014 Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Thu 1230 WRMI 9955 [confirmed, with France via Taiwan QRM] Thu 2100 WBCQ 7490 [canceled without notice!] Fri 0326 WWRB 3185 [confirmed, still instead of 5050] Sat 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sun 0030 WRMI 9495 [confirmed, 1733 not 1732] Sun 0131 KVOH 9975 [confirmed] Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 Mon 2100 WRMI 15770 Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 [still with France via Taiwan QRM?] Wed 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 Wed 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v [not canceled?] Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or 1734 if ready in time] Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS HAVE RESUMED starting with #1730: Tnx to Dr Harald Gabler and the Rhein-Main Radio Club. http://www.rmrc.de/index.php?option=com_podcast&view=feed&format=raw&Itemid=156&lang=de or directly via: http://bit.ly/1xD5yyn Also via [but still not back in service]: http://tunein.com/radio/World-of-Radio-p198/ AND NEW ALTERNATIVE, tnx Stephen Cooper, because RMRC was down: http://shortwave.am/wor.xml OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org 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, inconsequential, off-topic, or lengthy for some log editors to manage; and also ahead of their availability in these weekly issues: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser DXLD YAHOOGROUP: Why wait for DXLD? A lot more info, not all of it appearing in DXLD later, is posted at our yg without delay. When applying, please identify yourself with your real name and location, and say something about why you want to join. Those who do not, unless I recognize them, will be prompted once to do so and no action will be taken otherwise. Here`s where to sign up: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxld/ ** ALASKA. 9910, KNLS, 02 AUG 2014 from 1340-1358 UT in Chinese, loud at Alaska sunrise on LSB only tnx to 9912.5 signal 9920, KNLS, 02 AUG 2014 from 1500 UT in English, S7, fairly noisy. Female + male, religious station announcement KNLS from the top of the world. 73 (Nick VK2DX Hacko, Sydney NSW, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALBANIA. 9845, UT Sunday August 3 at 0149, R. Tirana with some nice folk music resembling Greek style, YL with violin, harp accompaniment; 0150 introducing the final one, ``Song of the Violet``, 0154 starting sign-off (and takes UT Mondays off) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Christer Brunström: Radio Tirana 7465 trevligt QSL-kort som visar Kung Zogs invigning av den albanska radion 1938. Det är så trevligt att jag nog har med det i en kommande utgåva av Världsradiolyssnare i QTC. Mycket VARMA hälsningar! Radio Tirana, 7465, nice QSL card showing King Zog's inauguration of the Albanian Radio in 1938. It is so nice that I intend to publish it in a future edition of "the World radio listeners" in QTC. Very warm greetings! (Christer Brunström, Sweden, SW Bulletin Aug 3, translated by editor Thomas Nilsson for DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALGERIA [non]. FRANCE, 11985, R. Algerienne via France, Aug 01 0649-0659*, 25432, Arabic, Talk and Koran-like music, ID and frequency announce at 0654, Closing music from 0658, 0659 sign off (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. JULIAN ANDERSON --- Horacio Nigro Geolkiewsky has just reported on the Cumbre DX Facebook group: Well known Argentinian DXer Julian Anderson, has passed away today in Buenos Aires. He was an active DXer and edited "Pampas DXing", which delivered valuable DX info, mainly from LA stations for non Spanish speaking DXers (via Mike Terry, Aug 6, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DXLD) obit Julián Anderson, Q.E.P.D. --- Ha fallecido en Argentina otro grande del Diexismo Latinoamericano. Julian Anderson --- Uno de los más experimentados Diexistas del mundo. Amigo, editor y gran ejemplo de los Diexistas alrededor del mundo. Descansa en paz, querido amigo! (Dino Bloise, FL, condiglista yg via DXLD) Me acabo de enterar por Guillermo Klapka Anato de Venezuela. Y ahora veo las repercusiones en la Condiglist a través de mi BlackBerry. No me entra en la cabeza esta pérdida tan grande, cómo es posible retener imágenes tan felices de Julián con su familia y amigos a través de Facebook... Y hoy tener que digerir esta noticia, lo siento profundamente. Fue uno de mis primeros amigos, lo recordaré no sólo por su enorme capacidad y pasión por el DX sino también por su calidez humana. Mi más sentido pésame a sus seres queridos! RGM (Rubén Guillermo Margenet, ibid.) And many more tributes ** ARGENTINA. 1630 approx., Radio América on low side of frequency, about 1629.86 at 0554 20/6. Ident mentioning “San José, Argentina” at 0600, briefly good (Bryan Clark in Mangawhai, Northland, North Island, New Zealand, with AOR7030+ and directional EWE antennas to North, Central & South America, July NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** ARGENTINA. I found a station on 1710.165 kHz on June 29th, at 0300 UT with the National Anthem of Argentina, followed by a male Spanish announcer and Argentine music (Max van Arnhem, Netherlands) Radio Imagen, Castelar, Buenos Aires, was heard by Jim Solatie in Finland on 1 July on 1710.15, Next time you hear a signal on this offset frequency you may easily verify its authenticity by comparing it to that of http://www.amimagen.com.ar/reproductor.html (Henrik Klemetz responding to Max in the RealDX Yahoo Group via July NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** ARGENTINA. 15344.38, RAE, Jul 31 1400-1413, 35333, Spanish, IS and short music and ID repetition, Talk. 15344.38, RAE, Aug 01 1335-1350, 35333, Spanish, Talk and Argentine tango, ID at 1339 and 1342 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD- 525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15345, R Nacional Argentina, 02 AUG 2014 2208 GMT, in Spanish. Two male, long talk. Much better via long path. 73 (Nick VK2DX Hacko, Sydney NSW, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15345.16 approx., Mon Aug 4 at 0124, R. Nacional is up to fair level, better than usual, to go along with the boosted Brazilians on 25m; M&W dialog in Spanish. This frequency in evenings active only on weekends (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15345.21, R. Nacional, 0219-0305*, August 4 (Monday). Usual radio dramatization/play; after 0230 music program (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15344.450, R Argentina Exterior, 04 AUG 2014 2055 UT in French, loud S9+10dB via long path, right on sunrise / sunset terminator. 73 (Nick VK2DX Hacko, Sydney NSW, Australia, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11710.764, RAE, General Pacheco, 6 Aug 0012 - Anibal Troilo tango followed by female announcer in Portuguese. Nice S8 signal in USB to avoid weaker CNR1 on 11710. 73, (Brandon Jordan, Fayette County, TN USA, http://www.swldx.us WinRadio: G313e | G33DDC 'Excalibur Pro' RFSPACE: SDR-IQ | NetSDR [locked to Thunderbolt GPSDO] Array Solutions: SAL-12 & SAL-30 Shared Apex Loops DX Engineering: NCC-1 Phaser|2x ARAV3 Active Verticals dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ASCENSION. 7355, August 1 at 0528, BBCWS with VG signal tonight, while 7305 from *0529 in Hausa is fair-good (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Have noted very good signals from BBCWS Ascension on 7355 at 0500 the past three nights; pretty much the same level that was common prior to late May this year before some sort of change was made that ruined reception. Perhaps back on the previous antenna with the favorable backlobe? Possible antenna renovation now complete? Nice to have this transmission back at normal strength for those of us in NA. Enjoy while we have it; BBC SW cuts coming next year (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, August 1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DX LISTENING DIGEST) U K [non]. 7355, Aug 5 at 0602, BBCWS still with good signal via ASCENSION, after the scheduled 0600 switch from 100 to 65 degree azimuth, which normally means lesser signal for us closer to sidelobe than back. BTW, HFCC shows the 05-06 broadcast on 7355 with a start date of 26 June, thus admitting that it had been off for a while after starting the A-14 season with it (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. August 1, from 1304 to 1316, heard Greek music and singing via Radio Symban with stronger reception than July 30. Email from Angelo Matsoukas (Director - Symban World Radio) indicates station presently testing at 400 watts. Very enjoyable! (Ron Howard, CA, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 2368.48, Radio Symban, 1307-1326, August 5. Another day of Greek music and singing; not bad reception if still testing at 400w (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Over the past few years, they seem to have been doing a lot of tests and moving to different sites, not to mention using an odd frequency out of the range of a lot of domestic radios. And what size of listenership do they have? (Colin Miller, VE3CMT, July 31, shortwavesites yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DXLD) Hi Colin, I have no idea on listener-ship sorry. The reason for site move was due to time & money. Maintenance on transmitter was expensive due to staff having to make frequent long road trips out to site. Fuel costs and cost in time with increased road traffic took its toll, I believe (Ian, SWSites AUS via WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DXLD) 2368.474, Radio Symban / Radio La Manamea Samo, 0930 UT Aug 1. S=6 - 88dBm tiny signal on threshold. Impressive music like: (Wolfgang Büschel, heard remote in Brisbane SDR unit, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 1, dxldyg via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. 2485, VL8K, Katherine NT, 1025 weak signal, fades 27 July, 1020 to 1035 on 1 August (XM, FL, NRD 525D, R8A, E5, via Wilkner; and Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, Icom 746Pro Lankford modified; Drake R8; NRD 525 Lankford Modified; Sony 2010 XA Lankford created; Scotka antennas; and XM, FL, NRD 525D, R8A, E5, via Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. Anyone hearing RA tonight? RNZI is booming in here at 0230 UT, but none of the regular RA frequencies are making it here. Could be propagation, but that's usually not a problem during our summer and, since RNZI is evident, I wonder if there's a transmission problem. Or worse. Still not hearing anything out of Shepparton at 0500 (John Figliozzi, Halfmoon, NY, UT Aug 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13630, 15240, 15300, July 31 at 0521, R. Australia is missing from all three, certainly off the air, and causing apprehension since RA itself is threatened; as John Figliozzi in NY noted earlier all frequencies missing at 0230 and 0500. However, they were back on by 0550, says Steve Luce in TX, about a dekaminute after I quit monitoring; and also heard here on usual 9475, 9580, 12065 before 1300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RA seems to take maintenance breaks on Thursdays (Wednesday evenings in NA). This is the final Thursday of the month, perhaps we can discern a pattern. JL (Jerry Lenamon, Waco TX, ibid.) Scheduled maintenance (Keith Perron, Taiwan, Aug 1, ibid.) At 1020 UT July 31 - noon in Europe - today noted all on air: Dom 2325 Tennant Creek, 2485 Katherine, 4835 Alice Springs Pidgin program on 5995 6080 6150 9475 9710 12080 kHz Different English program to Pacific 9580 and 12065 kHz. All checked via remote net SDRs in Sydney and Brisbane AUS. 73 wb, (Wolfgang Büschel, Aug 1, ibid.) COMMENT ON RADIO AUSTRALIA BUDGET CUTS Mike Field, a New Zealand journalist who covers Pacific Affairs for the Fairfax Newspaper Group, gives a weekly comment on what s happening around the Pacific on our domestic Radio NZ National. Last Friday morning he spoke about the impact of budget cuts at Radio Australia. You should be able to catch this via the Internet at: http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/player/20143949 or by selecting the Friday 1 August link at: http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai - New Zealand, August 2, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Still listen to RA almost daily but if they go dark, I really see selling some radios. Cuba, the jerks, still make a mess of 9580 (Andy Reid, Ont., Aug 5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Spurs from 9570 [and non]. As shortwave enthusiasts we all know the ability of shortwave broadcasting to bypass geographic boundaries, political borders and agendas. I think it is very naïve and shortsighted to believe that the internet, social media and domestic relays in target countries can guarantee that your national and international perspectives can be adequately and securely communicated. Just recently we saw Radio Australia activate special shortwave transmissions into Northern Queensland when that part of Australia was being lashed by a tropical cyclone. Internet and mobile phones and their infrastructure are not yet so robust that we should dispense with shortwave radio transmissions. And of course the Fijian Government has previously closed RA’s FM relays in Fiji when it has not been happy with RA reports on Fiji. Sadly we are seeing the basis of our SWL hobby being dismantled ‘brick by brick’. BC (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai, Northland, North Island, New Zealand, July NZ DX Times via DXLD) Hello and welcome to Listening Post for August. One of the joys of shortwave listening, for me, is not knowing what you are going to listen to next. Internet listening is all very well, and I do listen to programmes via the internet from time to time. However, Internet listening requires you to make a choice of station, and then choose a programme to listen to, either because it is one you always tune to, or maybe the subject looks of interest. But you can’t beat the variability and unpredictability of random tuning around shortwave bands. Take these first two examples of random tuning – I doubt that I would have selected either of these via podcasts/internet listening [the other: USA: VOA]. Radio Australia do a great job in presenting fascinating interviews covering a vast range of subjects. The Margaret Throsby Interviews is one example. Another is Conversations with Richard Fidler. Neither of these programmes rely on cheap laughs and do not try to turn the guests into comedians. Instead, they are straightforward discussions with the guest about the subject in hand. But not dry discussions by any means, and always entertaining. If had been looking at Radio Australia’s internet page, and looking for a programme to listen to, I admit that it’s doubtful that I would have chosen this episode, but falling across it via shortwave on Saturday 28 June at 1605 UT on 12085 kHz, I was soon hooked. The conversation was with Dr. John Stanisic, who is an expert on native land snails, and was the lead author of "Australian Land Snails Volume 1: A field guide to eastern Australian species". It was a fascinating discussion. Here are just a few selected comments and facts taken from the programme: “Snails! Some people find them slightly revolting, some find them edible” “They have teeth – fifteen thousand tiny, tiny, teeth.” “The Giant African snail [C] was introduced into the Pacific area during the War by the Japanese as an extra food source for soldiers.” “[The Giant African snail] grows to about a foot long.” “There are two and a half to three thousand [Australian] native species [of snails C].” “Slugs are just snails without shells.” “The shell had to come first because it enabled the snail to move from the marine environment to the land environment.” “Freshwater ones evolved from the land snails [C] a secondary invasion of the freshwater by the land.” “[The shells of] most Australian snails are right-hand coiled.” “We estimate [that they have a life-span of] between five and fifteen years.” “It gives a new meaning to the term: ‘Darling, I’ve got a headache’.” The last was about the mating process of snails – you’ll need to listen to the podcast (which is available on the Radio Australia site) to find out more about that! Dr. John Stanisic was a great guest – you would never have thought that you could talk about snails and snail collecting for 50 minutes and remain entertained. Conversations is not normally scheduled at this time – 1605UT on Saturdays is normally taken by the excellent Australian history series Hindsight. The recent news of the job cuts and re-structuring of ABC and Radio Australia is bad news all round – the staff of ABC, the listeners in the Pacific target area (who rely on Radio Australia not only for day-to-day news and information, but also for emergency news and information during cyclones, etc), and of course last (and probably least) the shortwave listener hobbyists and DXers. We still await details of how these cuts will affect Radio Australia – let’s just hope that it’s not too catastrophic and that something worthwhile will remain (Listening Post with Alan Roe, August BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. Frequency change of Reach Beyond Australia (former HCJB): 1230-1430 NF 11590 KNX 100 kW / 310 deg to SoAs, ex 11595 to avoid RTTY 11598 1230-1300 Nepali Sat 1245-1300 Hindi Sun/Thu/Fri; Bangla Mon; Marwari Tue; Kuruk Wed 1300-1315 Punjabi Sun; Nepali Mon-Thu; Dzongkha Fri; Oriya Sat 1315-1330 Bhojpuri Sun; Tamil Mon/Tue; Hmar Wed 1315-1330 Malayalam Thu; Marathi Fri; Urdu Sat 1330-1345 Hindi Sat-Thu; English Fri 1345-1400 Hindi Daily 1400-1430 Urdu Daily Full A-14 schedule may found here http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/07/reach-beyond-australia.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #864 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, July 31, 2014 via DXLD) QSL received from Reach Beyond (former HCJB), a program in Japanese 31.05.2014 on 15525 kHz. A transmitter in Australia. The report was sent to an email address in Japan: Yodobashi Church (HCJB Japan), 1- 17-8 Hyakunin-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan 169-0073. Waiting period for reply: 2 months. The card is printed on a color printer, the details of the report written by hand (Vasily Kuznetsov, Moscow, Russia / “open_dx" via QSL World, RusDX Aug 3 via DXLD) ** AZERBAIJAN [and non]. 11760, 1940, Ictimai R, Azerbaijan. Turkic music, canned ID at 1957 // webfeed at http://www.itv.az (Narrow-band FM - presumably station is jamming V of Justice) SIO ~~2, 15/07 (Dave Kenny Caversham, Berkshire AOR 7030+/Wellbrook ALA1530, 90m bev, LW, Sony XDR F1HD, August BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** BAHAMAS. 810, ZNS, 2245 “Zed N S......Time for the weekend Report”, 2255 weather report for tropical storm, 2300 “preparations should begin for tropical storm” 2 August (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, Icom 746Pro Lankford modified; Drake R8; NRD 525 Lankford Modified; Sony 2010 XA Lankford created; Scotka antennas; and XM, FL, NRD 525D, R8A, E5, via Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 4750, Bangladesh Betar: Jul 26 1250-1303, 43443, Bengali, Koran and talk and news, ID at 1300 Jul 31 1259-1306, 33443, Bengali, Talk, ID at 1300 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX: IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD- 345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT: 130m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4750, Bangladesh Betar - HS, 1235-1243, August 4 (Monday). RRI Makassar continues to be absent here; now back to normal (post Ramadan) schedule; the Monday only SAARC (The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) news bulletin in English; 1243 ID (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 15105, Bangladesh Betar, OC from at least 1222, then tone, and IS at 1229. 1230 usual opening routine. Very very weak. Something must have happened to the transmitter since 19mb conditions were fairly decent. Wasn't on during a check last week. (28 July) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo PA, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 9455, Bangladesh Betar, Jul 31 *1313-1323 35433 Nepali, 1313 sign on with IS, ID, Opening music, Opening announce, News. 15105, Bangladesh Betar, Jul 31 1252-1259*, 34443, English, Magazine panorama program, ID at 1257, Closing announce at 1258, 1259 sign off 15505, Bangladesh Betar, Aug 02 1410-1420, 35333 Urdu, News and Bangladesh music, ID at 1416 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD- 525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Received QSL-letter and QSL-card for the reception of the English program, Bangladesh Berar. 05/09/14, 13580 kHz, 1745-1859. E-mail: rrc@dhaka.net WEB: http://www.betar.gov.bd The letter said - Abu Tabib Md. Zia Hasan, Senior Engineer Research & Receiving Centre, Bangladesh Betar. Mailing address: Recearch & Receiving Centre, Bangladesh Betar, 121, Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue Shahbag, Dhaka - 100, Bangladesh. The envelope was glued 37 stamps!!! Apparently there was a large denomination and pasted, what was at hand (Editor Anatoly Klepov, Russia, QSL World, RusDX Aug 3 via DXLD ** BOLIVIA. 3310, Radio Mosoj Chaski, Cochabamba, 0016 to 0047 under thunderstorm interference, en español at least part of the time. 1 August (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, Icom 746Pro Lankford modified; Drake R8; NRD 525 Lankford Modified; Sony 2010 XA Lankford created; Scotka antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4451.12- Unid- ?- Bolivia, Radio Santa Ana, Santa Ana de Yacuma 2330 to 2350 with weak audio on 2 August (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, Icom 746Pro Lankford modified; Drake R8; NRD 525 Lankford Modified; Sony 2010 XA Lankford created; Scotka antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4699.9, Radio San Miguel, Riberalta, 0000 to 0030 weak signal 27 July, 1020-1040 fade out with om en español, 29 July 0000 to 0025 on 1 August, 2330 noted on 2 August (XM, FL, NRD 525D, R8A, E5, via Wilkner; and Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, Icom 746Pro Lankford modified; Drake R8; NRD 525 Lankford Modified; Sony 2010 XA Lankford created; Scotka antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4716.6, Radio Yatun Ayllu Yura, Yura, 0010 to 0030 stronger than Radio San Miguel, mix of YL and OM and music 1 August (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, Icom 746Pro Lankford modified; Drake R8; NRD 525 Lankford Modified; Sony 2010 XA Lankford created; Scotka antennas; and XM, FL, NRD 525D, R8A, E5, via Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4717a Jul20 0054 Radio Yatun Ayllu Yura, Yura hördes ofta i vinter men ville aldrig IDa så trots att den gich bättre än nånsjn förr tänkte jag gå förbi den men efter ett tag kunde jag inte låta bli att gå tillbaka. Och tur det och tur var det för genast kom flera ID som " Radio Yura". Olz 4717 approx., Jul 20 0054, Yatun Ayllu Radio Yura, Yura was heard frequently during winter but never gave any ID, so despite a signal better than ever I thought to pass over but after a while I could not help but go back. Luckily enough immediately came several IDs as "Radio Yura." (Björn Olsson, Gran, Sweden, SW Bulletin Aug 3, translated by editor Thomas Nilsson for DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 5580.3, Jul 27 2256, R San José, San José de Chiquitos, with nice music and fair signal (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin Aug 3 via DXLD) 5580.2, Radio San José, San José de Chiquitos, 0020 to 0030 with fading signal, music 1 August; noted several other evenings same time in late July (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, Icom 746Pro Lankford modified; Drake R8; NRD 525 Lankford Modified; Sony 2010 XA Lankford created; Scotka antennas; and XM, FL, NRD 525D, R8A, E5, via Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 5952 Jul20 -0227 R Pio XII, Siglo XX med årets bästa signal och quechua med många spanska låneord. Stängde denna tid med marschen över floden Kwai som även R Santa Cruz gör. Olz 5952, Jul 20 -0227*, R Pio XII, Siglo XX with the year's best signal and Quechua with many Spanish loan words. Closed at this time with the "River Kwai march", just as R Santa Cruz do (Björn Olsson, Gran, Sweden, SW Bulletin Aug 3, translated by editor Thomas Nilsson for DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 6024.97, Aug 2, 0056, Red Patria Nueva, La Paz alone on the frequency at this time. Good signal (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin Aug 3 via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 6105.37 tentative, Radio Panamericana, La Paz, *1037 en español but weak to 0012 fade out 29 July (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, Icom 746Pro Lankford modified; Drake R8; NRD 525 Lankford Modified; Sony 2010 XA Lankford created; Scotka antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 6134.83, Radio Santa Cruz --- Coming in nicely tonight with local music and announcements mentioning Bolivia. 0000 UT. QRM from Brasil. 73 (Harald Kuhl, Germany, Aug 3, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) 6134.8, Aug 4 at 0109, R. Santa Cruz with announcement mentioning the city, in Spanish, atop but with considerable het from R. Aparecida, Brasil, circa 6135 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 6155.14, Aug 2, 0100, R Fides with very low modulation despite a S6 signal. Weak music (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin Aug 3 via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA [non]. 9624.91, Maurits van Driessche says in a July 30 log in HCDX: ``6155.13 at 2255, Radio Fides, La Paz, Bolivia. Weak Spanish talks, better on 9624.90 same time`` R Fides has not been reported here since July 2008 according to LASWLOGS! The station which can be heard here is R Taiwan International in Thai. According to Shortwave.info Thai language from 2200 to 2400 (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin Aug 3 via WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DXLD) Isn`t Maurits implying the frequencies were //, which would confirm 9625- is active? Thomas may well be correct, but he is referring to http://www.mcdxt.it/LASWLOGS.html which was a great resource, but not updated since 29 February 2012, so anything could have happened since then without being listed. BTW, the 2008y frequency was 9624.7v (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Final topic was the history of radio in Brazil which started with the listener supported Rádio Clube or Rádio Sociedade stations which later accepted commercial advertising. The start in 1936 of Rádio Nacional using medium and shortwave to cover the entire country included the one hour Government “A Voz do Brazil” programme which still has to be carried by all stations each evening. Brazilian stations have a long history of broadcasting on medium wave and on both the international and tropical shortwave bands. A briefing on Brazilian media prepared this year by BBC Monitoring reported that radio continues to be popular with a set in at least 80% of households and over 60% of the population listening regularly. Many recordings of Brazilian radio were played, both historical and current including Rádio Bandeirantes' football commentators` reaction to a goal being scored in two World Cup warm up games. The tradition of the long “g...o......a......l” started in the early days of South American radio when the commentary positions in large stadiums were too far away to identify the scorer. They used this method while they waited for a note with the scorer’s name and it has now turned into a friendly contest among commentators (Mike Barraclough, Reading Meeting Report, August BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 3365 Jul17 0030 R Cultura de Araraquara SP har svagt mumlat oläsbart hela våren och hittills i sommar, därför förvånad över hur pass bra den gick denna mediokra ZY-natt på tropikbanden, förmodligen hitlurad av att vi hade ett tropiskt dygn här i Umeå. SMHI:s definition är visst ett dygn då temperaturen inte understiger 20 grader. Olz 3365, Jul 17, 0030, R Cultura de Araraquara SP has been mumbling unreadably throughout spring and so far this summer, therefore surprised how well it could be heard this mediocre ZY-night on tropic bands, probably cheated by our also having a tropical night here in Umeå. SMHI's definition of a tropical night is when the temperature is no less than 20 degrees (Björn Olsson, Gran, Sweden, SW Bulletin Aug 3, translated by editor Thomas Nilsson for DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 3375.1, Brasil, Rádio Municipal São Gabriel da Cachoeira, 0015 to 0045 in Portuguese with weaker than normal signal, music and talk, fading and t-storm. 1 August (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, Icom 746Pro Lankford modified; Drake R8; NRD 525 Lankford Modified; Sony 2010 XA Lankford created; Scotka antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4805, Brasil, Rádio Difusora do Amazonas, Manaus, 0010-0015 average signal in Portuguese OM chat, 1 August (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, Icom 746Pro Lankford modified; Drake R8; NRD 525 Lankford Modified; Sony 2010 XA Lankford created; Scotka antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4875, Brasil, Rdif Roraima, Boa Vista RR, 0010 to 0055 strongest signal from Brasil on 60 meters, OM DJ with music 1 August (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, Icom 746Pro Lankford modified; Drake R8; NRD 525 Lankford Modified; Sony 2010 XA Lankford created; Scotka antennas; and XM, FL, NRD 525D, R8A, E5, via Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4875.077, Rádio Roraima, Boa Vista, 6 Aug 0255-0353* - station promos, mentions of web site, full ID at the top of the hour followed by a program of pop music by Pink Floyd, Elvis, George Michael, Lobo, Bon Jovi, etc. Another canned ID at 0348 followed by the Brazilian national anthem till 0353. Great signal. +6 Aug *0840 - noted sign-on at *0840 the next morning. 73, (Brandon Jordan, Fayette County, TN USA, http://www.swldx.us WinRadio: G313e | G33DDC 'Excalibur Pro' RFSPACE: SDR-IQ | NetSDR [locked to Thunderbolt GPSDO] Array Solutions: SAL-12 & SAL-30 Shared Apex Loops DX Engineering: NCC-1 Phaser|2x ARAV3 Active Verticals dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4914.92, [non], No sign of R Dif de Macapá for a few days (last check Aug 2), seems to be off air at the moment. [BUT:] 4915.00, Jul 24 0020*, R Daqui, Goiânia (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin Aug 3 via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 4925 Jul19 0130 Rádio Educação Rural, Tefé AM mkt starkt, ny brasse för mig i extremt belägen stad. ID bara som Rádio Rural, vilket den oxo kallar sig på sin hemsida. Olz 4925, Jul 19 0130, Rádio Educação Rural, Tefé AM, very strong, new Braz. for me in an extremely situated city. ID just as Rádio Rural, which also is the name on their website (Björn Olsson, Gran, Sweden, SW Bulletin Aug 3, translated by editor Thomas Nilsson for DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4925.2, Brasil, Rádio Educação Rural, Tefé, AM, OM talk in Portuguese 0030 to 0046 on 27 July (XM, Cedar Key, South Florida [sic --- Cedar Key is not in S Florida, but N Florida, about halfway between Tampa and Tallahassee --- gh], NRD 525D, R8A, E5, via Bob Wilkner, DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 4965.01, Jul 24 2300, R Alvorada de Parintins has been there every night for some time. But from July 25 no signal noted when checked in the evenings at 22-24, so obviously off air again (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin Aug 3 via WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 5999.99, R. Guaíba, 0018 discussion by men in Portuguese, 0024 ad block starting with possible ID, then definite ID at 0025:05. Adjacent slop QRM from 5990. (6 August) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA USA, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 6010.07, Jul 26 2200 [non], R Inconfidência off air since July 26 (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin Aug 3 via DXLD) ** BRAZIL [non]. 6020, Jul 31 2205: Maurits van Driessche says in a July 30 log in HCDX: ``6020 at 2227, R. Gaúcha, Porto Alegre, Brazil (tentative). Weak Portuguese talks.`` R Gaúcha has not been reported since Sept 2011 according to LASWLOGS. The station audible here is Voice of Vietnam, Dactac, with a clear ID at 2205. Strongest signal around 2200. I recommend all to use DBS16 compiled by Anker Petersen to avoid reporting inactive or closed stations (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin Aug 3 via DXLD) May well be correct, but he is referring to http://www.mcdxt.it/LASWLOGS.html which was a great resource, but not updated since 29 February 2012, so anything could have happened since then without being listed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 6129.86, Jul 31 1950, TWR, R Transmundial off frequency, strong signal (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin Aug 3 via DXLD) 9530v, R. Transmundial. Irregular here at this time but on today. 1006 program of ballads and M host with canned announcements. // 11735. Drifted down from above 9530.03 at the start and right on frequency at 1012. (6 August) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA USA, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 6134.69, Aug 2, 0057, R Aparecida very strong with ID and promo for Com a Mãe Aparecida (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin Aug 3 via DXLD) See also 11854+ below ** BRAZIL [and non]. 11720, 11750, 11810, 11840, July 31 at 0519, distorted spurs from 11780 RNA are still audible, the closer ones louder. 11660, 11690, 11720, 11750, 11810, and 11840 under RHC, August 1 at 0100, horrible distorted spurs continue from the 11780 RNA transmitter. This time they are so strong that each one damages plus/minus 5 kHz adjacent channels too. When I was monitoring SRI LANKA [q.v.] 11905, bothered by crackle circa 11903, which I suspect as a further spur from 11780, indicating each is slightly more than 30 kHz apart. Each has no definite carrier to pinpoint. Next check 0532 August 1: still nasty spurs every ~30 kHz, 11660, 11690, 11720, 11750, 11810, 11840, and 11870 under WEWN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Rádio Nacional em duas frequências. Amigos da Radioescutas. Vejam e comentem estes 2 Logs. 11749, 2/8/14 0345, R. Nacional, Brasilia, PP, ID, Notícias, programa Madrugada Nacional, música R. Carlos, Pepeu Gomes, Zeca Pagodinho; 45444. 11780, 2/8/14 0400 IRAN VOIRI, via Kamalabad, English, Notícias: crise Israel e Hamas; críticas ao governo norteamericano; leve QRM da Rádio Nacional; 0422 s/off, 54443. Resumo sobre estas duas escutas: Ocasionalmente encontrei a R. Nacional nesta freq. de 11749 kHz (melhor sinal) com um bom sinal e propagação. Ao ir buscá-la, também, nos 11780, encontrei uma station em Inglês com a ID da VOIRI e, um leve QRM da R. Nacional com o mesmo programa de 11749 kHz. O programa da Voiri terminou às 0422 UT e, aos poucos, foi chegando o sinal da Nacional, estabelecendo um SINPO 55444. Para obter estes dados, fiz a escuta em paralelo: 11749 x 11780 e a R. Nacional continuava, mesmo depois das 0500 UT, no ar nestas duas frequências. 73´ (José Ronaldo X., Degen DE 1101 + Antena Longwire, Cabedelo, Paraiba, Brasil, radioescutas yg via DXLD) 11780, August 2 at 0543, the huge defective RNA transmitter continues putting out extremely dirty distorted spurs, but at slightly greater displacements than before, approx. 32 kHz apart. Can`t pinpoint any carriers, but compared to adjacent signals and lowest-pitch sound of the spurs when tuning across, finds them about here: 11652, 11684, 11716, 11748; 11812, 11844, 11876, 11908, i.e. out to fourth orders. 11652 QRMs R. Dabanga, but 11876 is far enough away from 11870 WEWN now, as is 11716 from 11725 RNZI. The 11780 RNA spurs now seem to be 31 to 32 kHz apart, August 3 at 0154, as always with no specific carrier to pinpoint them, so approx.: 11656, 11687, 11718, 11749, 11811, 11842 (vs RHC 11840), 11873, 11904. About the same panoply at 0553 recheck. 5990, August 3 at 0200, RNA is off, and seems I have not heard it for several days now; while 6180 and 11780 plus spurs are on as usual. The last time I deliberately logged 5990 was UT July 25; has anyone since? 11812, August 4 at 0539, RNA spur is weaker than usual, and the modulation level on fundamental 11780 seems backed off to somewhere near normal, but not far enough. 11812 is in fact eclipsed now by the splashing BS from WRMI 11825; while RNA`s 11748 spur is still in the `clear` but also weaker than it has been. It is too early to conclude RNA is deliberately trying to rid itself of its monstruous spurious output rather than just random variation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Asi se escuchaba la frecuencia espuria de RNA en Uruguay a eso de las 1042 UTC del domingo 3 de agosto: http://youtu.be/BUXIruJCSRc —(Rodolfo Tizzi, condiglist yg via DXLD) Viz.: Reception of Rádio Nacional da Amazônia (Brasília, Brazil) spurious frequency on 11750 kHz by CX2ABP in Jaureguiberry, Uruguay (GF25hf). August 3, 2014 at 1042 UT. Receiver: Sony ICF-7600D. Antenna: 100 meters random wire + MFJ-956 (caption on YT via DXLD) Sesquiminute; distorted but understandable if you put up with it (gh, DXLD) Oi JR, Glenn Hauser (EUA) vem escutando estes espúrios da RNA há 2 semanas. Uma pena, energia desperdiçada e fonte de interferência. (pu3hag, Huelbe Garcia, Aug 4, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Contato Técnico na EBC ou RN Amazonia Pessoal, alguém lembra, conhece ou possui contato com a área técnica da EBC ou R N Amazônia? Nosso colega Guilherme Hauser dos EEUU reporta há semanas que o TX de 11780 está gerando uma quantidade notável de espúrios aproximadamente 30 kHz para cima e para baixo. Preenchi semana passada o formulário do ouvinte no site da EBC, mas não houve retorno até agora. Obrigado! (Huelbe Garcia, Aug 5, ibid.) Lucio Haeser trabalha ou trabalhou lá. Ele pertence ao grupo de radioescutas. 73 (Luiz Chaine Neto, Limeira sp, ibid.) 11812, Aug 4 at 0117, huge distorted spur from 11780 RNA, and a lesser one approx. 11844, another 32 kHz higher, bothering 11840 RHC; however not hearing much circa 11876 or 11908. Also around 11748, 11716. 11709-11723, August 5 at 0116, this time I am checking the audible range of the dirty FMy spurs out of 11780 RNA; 11739-11755 at 0123 August 5, very heavy, peaking around 11747-11748: also 11806-11819, peaking 11811-11812; 11841-11849. The full ranges may be lessened by ACI from legitimate AM broadcasts, such as 11760 & 11840 RHC. Incredibly, J. Ronaldo X. in Paraíba, Brasil has reported 11749 as a *better* RNA frequency than 11780 at 0400 Aug 2 due to Iran English to North America QRM on 11780. I have *never* heard anything approaching normal modulation on this or any of their spurs. 11717 and 11812 are approx. peaks of the spurs at 0559 Aug 5, nothing more now. 11780, Aug 6 at 0144 check, RNA *without any spurs*!!! Fingers crossed that they`ve finally rid them, but we know they`ll be back eventually unless engineers keep on top of the situation (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Não se dá trégua [no respite] à R. Nacional. Amigos da Lista. Além dos espúrios da R. Nacional em 11749kHz e 11811kHz (melhor sinal), às 0400 UT, as frequências normais (6180 e 11780 kHz) estão sendo "espremidas`` pela CRI em 6175 e 11785 kHz. 73, (José Ronaldo X, Escutas em Agosto 2014, dias 2, 3 e 6 com o Degen 1101 + Longwire. Aug 6, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Prezados. A diretoria da EBC serviços está atenta aos problemas de sinal da Nacional da Amazônia de qualquer forma o coordenador das rádios EBC encaminhou com urgência pedido de resolução dos problemas a coordenações técnica e de conteúdo para que tomem conhecimento desta informação e, obviamente, as providências sejam tomadas. Na oportunidade agradeço ao amigo Huebe e todos da lista que ajudou para encaminhar ao coordenador da ebc serviços a demanda de problemas (Danilo Nonato, ibid.) 11749 & 11811, Aug 6 at 0554 check, distorted spurs from 11780 RNA are audible but weak, having been inaudible at 0144. Looks like some progress is being made. 11780, Aug 7 at 0154 check I am not hearing any spurs, altho my household noise level has not been suppressed as much as possible. 11750 weak, and 11810 weaker, distorted RNA spurs still audible especially at modulation peaks of 11780, Aug 7 at 0524, but no further ones (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Sabato 2 agosto 2014, 2112 - 11854.94, R. APARECIDA, Portuguese, talk OM. Sufficient (Luca Botto Fiora, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, G.C. 44 21' 06.89" N / 09 13' 30.94" E, playdx yg via DXLD) 11854.96 approx., Aug 4 at 0117, R. Aparecida, very good with much better signal than usual on a good Brazilian night, phone caller about their Mãe, with a slight echo even audible on her line; then ordered to recite the Pai Nosso and does so; tho I assume their mother art in heaven too. Also active on 6135v to het BOLIVIA, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11915 approx., 0133, Rádio Gaúcha, a surprise signal in the clear on measured 11915.12, fair with Portuguese ident, promos & adverts 11/6 (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai, Northland, North Island, New Zealand, AOR7030+. EWEs to NAm, CAm & SAm, Drake SPR4 with Alpha Delta Sloper, July NZ DX Times via DXLD) 11915.12 is just where I had them: [and non]. 11915.12 approx., Aug 4 at 0120, Brazuguese but much weaker than 11854.96, i.e. R. Gaúcha; meanwhile R. Bandeirantes must be off 11925, as I am only getting IBB R. Ashna via KUWAIT, no het (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 15190, R Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte, 02 AUG 2014 2208 drums, very fast rhythm, S5, noisy. 73 (Nick VK2DX Hacko, Sydney NSW, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. RADIO PIRATAS DE SÃO PAULO --- Amigos, comecei um novo levantamento das emissoras clandestinas na faixa de FM da cidade de São Paulo e algumas de municipios vizinhos, de todas as que recebo dessa vez vou colocar no Youtube só as potentes que atrapalham os DXs. A maioria das emissoras piratas são religiosas evangélicas mas aumentaram as emissoras formada por imigrantes Bolivianos: RADIO PIRATA - 87.7 Mhz - Gigante Latino FM - São Paulo SP http://youtu.be/6yMq8ZAPDbw RADIO PIRATA - 87.9 Mhz - Radio Fox FM - São Paulo SP http://youtu.be/fzt24Tu4JWY RADIO PIRATA - 88.5 Mhz - Localiza FM - Osasco SP http://youtu.be/AePGqpYtPUQ RADIO PIRATA - 88.9 Mhz - Voz Gospel FM - São Paulo SP http://youtu.be/EopVOBF5bzY RADIO PIRATA - 88.7 Mhz - Certa FM - São Paulo SP http://youtu.be/v5pLYexgbKA RADIO PIRATA - 90.3 Mhz - Nova Canaã FM - São Paulo SP http://youtu.be/cDVI_qEh1h4 RADIO PIRATA - 91.5 Mhz - Radio Ventrilhas FM - São Paulo SP http://youtu.be/Y145Er0ulSk RADIO PIRATA - 92.3 Mhz - Resgate FM - São Paulo SP http://youtu.be/lRPXB5FGTzE RADIO PIRATA - 92.7 Mhz - São Paulo SP http://youtu.be/v1mP8xvgOsw RADIO PIRATA - 93.1 Mhz - Palavra da Fé FM - São Paulo SP http://youtu.be/M18hxV19QOM RADIO PIRATA - 93.3 Mhz - Nova Terra FM - Osasco SP http://youtu.be/ogaqr60-s5U RADIO PIRATA - 93.5 Mhz - São Paulo SP http://youtu.be/e2Xc4v0lpc4 RADIO PIRATA - 93.9 Mhz - São Paulo SP http://youtu.be/TmCci4yUYkc RADIO PIRATA - 94.9 Mhz - São Paulo SP http://youtu.be/Ta4ECY1UQEM RADIO PIRATA - 95.1 Mhz - Colina FM - São Paulo SP http://youtu.be/-HWnHI-PR3g RADIO PIRATA - 95.1 Mhz - São Paulo SP http://youtu.be/bbmacrREiQg RADIO PIRATA - 97.1 Mhz - Vide FM - São Paulo SP http://youtu.be/8qFLoSibOLk RADIO PIRATA - 97.5 Mhz - Diadema SP http://youtu.be/pmQkgJ36LTY RADIO PIRATA - 97.9 Mhz - São Paulo SP http://youtu.be/ioWNFFUOOUc 73´s (Fran Jr., São Paulo SP, Aug 4, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Fran, Você já pensou em mandar essa lista com as provas (o áudio) para a ANATEL, para ver no que dá? Eles não precisam nem fazer o levantamento, é só mandar ver; e olha que você só chegou à ``metade`` do dial de FM. Vai aí a sugestão. 73, (Rudolf Grimm, ibid.) Sem dúvidas, Rudolf, é uma ótima sujestão, mas não acredito que a fiscalização da ANATEL faça alguma coisa. Vou fazer um relato do que ocorreu comigo no inicio dos anos 90 quando as piratas estavam começando a dominar os espaços vazios do dial de FM. Anotei todas as emissoras que percebi ser pirata com os respectivos telefones fixos, naquele tem não tínhamos telefone celular e só havia um operadora de telefone a Telesp que era uma empresa estatal, essa anotação foi feita de casa e do carro e com isso conforme a minha localização entrava uma pirata diferente, consegui uma lista de quase 100 emissoras piratas e fui pessoalmente ao DENTEL que época era o orgão de fiscalização, fui recebido pelo responsavel do setor, ele analisou a minha lista e disse que como nenhum tinha endereço eles não poderiam fazer nada, aí indaguei se tendo o número do telefone fixo se eles não conseguiriam junto a Telesp investigar o endereço das piratas, e foi negado!!!por isso o tempo passou as piratas continuam em número cada vez maior e o orgão de fiscalização só mudou de nome. Eu acredito mais na repercussão que os vídeos que postei no Youtube façam aos proprietários das emissoras piratas que vendo exposto sua emissora pirata que estejam cometendo crime, também aos patrocinadores parem de dar dinheiro já que estariam associados a pirataria e aos pastores de igreja perderiam os fiéis contribuintes, se bem que se você ver os videos que fiz um ano atrás praticamente as emissoras piratas potentes são as mesmas alimentando ainda mais a impunidade. Peço desculpas se ofendi alguém da lista, mas é minha opinião. 73´s (Fran - São Paulo SP, ibid.) Fran, Isso quando essas piratas usam a freqüência de uma emissora concedida. Um exemplo disso é a Kiss FM que inaugurou uma filial no Rio em 91.9 e a sua frequencia vive sendo invadida e não apenas interferida por rádios piratas, sobretudo evangélicas. Tal fato mostra que não é necessário ter dinheiro ou armas pra ficar impune. A prova está aí (Leonardo Ivo Neves da Silva, ibid.) Caros, Como radialista, não vou fazer juízo da questão, porque a coisa só vai piorar em relação à eficiência, causa e consequência de todo este processo. Mas é fato que o poder público estatal, federal, não quer e não vai coibir nenhuma manobra contra emissoras --- comunitárias --- de nenhum tipo. Houve uma fiscalização eficiente e muito ágil, que chegou fechar dezenas de rádios em poucos meses em diversos bairros de SP, mas isso até a virada do ano 2002. Com a troca de governo, o Fistel foi praticamente desativado, mais da metade de seu pessoal foi remanejado, nunca mais eu vi uma única fiscalização técnica nas emissoras comerciais, imagine nas comunitárias. Quem seriam seus proprietários. Tirem suas próprias conclusões. 73, (Denis Zoqbi, ibid.) Amigos, durante essa semana percebi uma sensivel mudança no dial das piratas que publiquei, algumas sairam do ar, outras mudaram de frequencia e outras estão entrando no ar só a noite, se alguém tiver uma pirata por perto recomendo fazer o mesmo, grave um video e publique no Youtube dando destaque que são radios piratas, continuo fazendo as gravações das piratas e vou publicando a medida do possível. 73´s (Fran - São Paulo SP, Aug 8, ibid.) ** BULGARIA. According to the newspaper "Third Age", all MW transmitters in Bulgaria will close in the near future because of financial reasons. It is not clear which are the candidates for the private use of frequencies 828 and 1161 kHz (Rumen Pankov 22 July, August BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) Radio Blagoevgrad from Bulgaria ceased broadcasts on 864 kHz --- Today Radio Blagoevgrad (Bulgaria) informed its listeners that the 75 kW mediumwave transmitter on 864 kHz in "Belo Pole" had been switched off on August 1. The station now broadcasts only on the FM band. The only remaining MW broadcasts on the air in Bulgaria are BNR1 Horizont via Vidin-Gramada on 576 kHz (transmitting on half-power, only 200 kW) and the low-power mediumwave transmitters on 747 kHz (Salmanovo, 10 kW); 864 kHz (Samuil, 10 kW); 963 kHz (Kardzhali, 50 kW); 1161 kHz (Targovishte, 10 kW and Dulovo/Vodno, 10 kW), which carry both Radio Bulgaria programs for the Turkish-speaking minorities in the country and BNR1 Horizont. The longwave transmitter carrying BNR1 Horizont and the Parliament Channel on 261 kHz (Sofia-Vakarel, 75 kW) is also active (Georgi Bancov, Bulgaria, Aug 4, mwdx yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DXLD) ** BURMA [non]. Clandestine observations: Democratic Voice of Burma: 1430-1530 on 11560 DB [TAJIKISTAN] 100 kW / 125 deg to SEAs Burmese 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CAMBODIA [non]. TAJIKISTAN, Reception of Voice of Khmer M'Chas Srok on July 25 1130-1200 on 17860 DB 200 kW / 125 deg to EaAs Khmer. Two videos: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/07/tajikistannon-reception-of-voice-of.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #864 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, July 31, 2014 via DXLD) ** CANADA. 1280, CJSL, Estevan SK, granted move to new frequency 1150 and new transmitter location. Power will remain 10 kW fulltime. (IRCA) 1610, CHRN, Montreal QC, callsign allocated to newly granted 1 kW fulltime South Asian station Radio Humsafar (IRCA via July NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** CANADA. 2745-USB, VCO Sydney NS, 0050-0100 weather report, good signal 1 August (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, Icom 746Pro Lankford modified; Drake R8; NRD 525 Lankford Modified; Sony 2010 XA Lankford created; Scotka antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also NEWFOUNDLAND. That should be 2749-USB, as in http://dxinfocentre.com/mb.htm showing its broadcasts start at :40 past certain hours, shared with others (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. As for broadcasting, the scene in Canada is quiet lately. There are lots of applications and approvals out there but not much is really happening. For instance, CBC has 1, 2 3 --- 23 apps or approvals to flip AM LPRTs to FM. Some of these were approved over 2.5 years ago but nothing is really taking place. The CBC laid off my inside guy who gave me all the low down [I helped him out too] but now he is gone, I have to rely on the I.C. database info. I don't know if it is because of CBC budget cuts or what but they keep applying to convert these repeaters and then nothing happens. There is an application now for Bancroft ON which is near me [600 AM]. The outlet has been on the air since before I was born but now they are planning to move it to FM. When will it happen? Who knows. Same with commercial efforts. I dream that if I ever win the lottery, I would go around the country myself to find out what is happening! (Andy Reid, Ont., Aug 5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Canadian Auxiliary AM Towers --- I hope that members can help me out here. As far as I can tell there is no mention of Reserve or Auxiliary masts in the Industrie Canada databases. I cannot believe that there is no provision for back-up towers for AM stations North of the 49th Parallel. Could members please either supply me with details (preferably carrying coordinates) or point me towards websites where such information is held. Please reply directly to me at djg2405@sky.com 73's and 88's (Dan Goldfarb (owner of mwmasts Yahoo Group), August 6, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. CKUG FM is a very unique radio station operating on 88.7 in the hamlet of Kugluktuk, Nunavut, Canada. The station is celebrating its 15th anniversary in 2014. They not only serve the small hamlet but are now able to reach out to the world through their website. The station is operated by The Kugluktuk Radio Society (KRS). KRS has reinvented itself several times over the last 15 years. When they started in 1999, much of the pre-Nunavut telecommunications infrastructure sat idle, or under-utilized, and strangely still does. This was, and still is, due mainly to the lack of Human Capital. KRS was the first post-1999 Nunavut station to utilize this infrastructure to do a live coast-to-coast-to-coast show with NAHO and Jordin Tootoo. Being a pro-active part of a national broadcast whet their appetite for more of the same. They have maintained this infrastructure at considerable cost, but have also developed other broadcast options, including this website. Learn more about this unique radio station high in Canada’s north on their website and be sure to tune in through their live streaming option. http://www.ckug.ca/index.php (John Reisenauer, Jr. KL7JR, Fort Mill, SC, Arctic & Antarctic DX, Aug CIDX Messenger via DXLD) ** CHINA. 11555, 20/7/14, 1822, R. Nac. da China, programa em Mandarim; música instrumental aguda e contínua - Firedrake; 35443 (José Ronaldo Xavier, Receptor: Degen DE1101, Antena: Longwire, Local da Escuta: Cabedelo - Paraíba, Brasil, Aug 4, condiglista yg via DXLD) 16100, CNR1, 7/28 1130. W in Chinese, Fair. Faded out later. // 14980(VG), 10960 (poor). 16100, CNR1 7/30 0930. W in Chinese, Fair. Faded out later. // 16360 (Good), 10960 (poor). (Rick Barton, El Mirage, AZ, (not using long overhead backyard antenna due to monsoon T-storms) listening from my car next to dry riverbed, Grundig Sat 750, Wilson passive antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) CNR 1 jamming 2229 July 30 on 9815 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbQHgJMMRvU&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17560, CNR1, 7/31, 0050. W in Chinese to pips at 0100 and "X". Likely a jammer to cover VOA Chinese service via Taiwan (Rick Barton, El Mirage, AZ, (not using long overhead backyard antenna due to monsoon T-storms) listening from my car next to dry riverbed, Grundig Sat 750, Wilson passive antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) X meaning went off, nothing further?? (gh) 10960, CNR1, 8/1 [time?], M and W in Chinese. Echoey with fair signal level. (Barton-AZ ) 16100, CNR1, 8/1 0945. Monologue with M in Chinese. VG. Noted // 10960 (Rick Barton, El Mirage, AZ, (not using long overhead backyard antenna due to monsoon T-storms) listening from my car next to dry riverbed, Grundig Sat 750, Wilson passive antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) CNR 1 jamming vs Voice of America in Tibetan 1430 Aug 1 on 17485 Udorn Thani: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPux_a6GNxs&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) CNR1 jamming Sunday August 3 presents the Sunday-evening serious music show before and after 13 UT, a major choral work, also with soloists, probably extolling the Communist regime: 16100, August 3 at 1247, CNR1 jamming, fair-good // 15195, 15250 equally good; none now in the 17s, 18s or 14s 13970, August 3 at 1250, CNR1 jamming, fair 13830, August 3 at 1250, CNR1 jamming, poor 13795, August 3 at 1250, CNR1 jamming, fair 13610, August 3 at 1251, CNR1 jamming, fair, ACI from stronger 13605 Martí carrier and Cuban jammers ramping up 11825, August 3 at 1253, CNR1 jamming audible under WRMI/BS 11785, August 3 at 1254, CNR1 jamming now in talk break amid music 11430, August 3 at 1255, CNR1 jamming, fair 10960, August 3 at 1255, CNR1 jamming, good 11785, 11805, 13795, 13830 et al., CNR1 jammers continue choral, August 3 at 1305 10960, August 3 at 1318, CHR1 jammer after hourtop hiatus, is open carrier/dead air, allowing weak signal under to audiblize, presumably really Sound of Hope, Taiwan; 1320:35, fades up audio rejoining choral 9810, August 3 at 1321, CNR1 jammer 9680, August 3 at 1322, CNR1 jammer, poor with CCI 9660, August 3 at 1322, CNR1 jammer, very poor 9155, August 3 at 1325, CNR1 jammer, just barely audible 7445, August 3 at 1327, CNR1 jammer, very poor 7385, August 3 at 1327, CNR1 jammer, very poor 7365, August 3 at 1327, CNR1 jammer, very poor 19010, August 3 at 1350, CNR1 jammer in opera, poor, i.e. the Sunday- only frequency of RFA Tibetan via Kuwait at 13-14 (and 11-12) 13970, August 3 at 1354, CNR1 jammer, another talk break, fair with unusual het 10960, August 3 at 1355, CNR1 jammer, talk dialog, fair 17515, August 3 at 1430, CNR1 jammer, very poor; it`s the VOA Tibetan via Thailand frequency at 14-15 on Sun/Tue/Thu/Sat, per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non]. A quick scan of SOH Xi Wang Zhi Sheng around 0900 UT, signal(s) present on at least 40 different frequencies: 10960 11100.1 11180 11300.18 11430 11470 Jammed 11600.3 11820.05 11970 12190.2 12370.09 12500 12560.13 12800 12870.09 12910 12980.15 13129.96 13200.131 13530.034 13680 13775 13850 13920.16 13970.039 14370 14700.241 14870.021 14920 NEW 14980 NEW 15270.064 15340 15775.16 15800.131 15870 15940 1596.84 [sic, a digit missing] 16100.07 16250.042 16600 73 (Nick VK2DX Hacko, August 4, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 14970, CNR1, 8/4, 1030. W and a M in Chinese. Fair-poor. Noted // on 14920 (excellent). 14980, CNR1, 8/5, 0940. M and W, dialogue in Chinese, VG 10960, TAIWAN, Sound of Hope, 8/5, 0945. Some sort of variety show with laughter, music (Rick Barton, El Mirage, AZ, mostly listening from my car next to dry riverbed, Grundig Sat 750, Wilson passive antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Why do I think this sounds more like programming from CNR1 jamming? Have never heard variety show or laughter from SOH (Ron Howard, CA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12980, CHINA (and non), CNR1, 8/5, 1030. M and W in Chinese. Excellent. Recheck of band on 8/6 found no OOB CNR1 broadcasts or Firedrake opera jammers from 0900 to 1200 UT (Rick Barton, El Mirage, AZ, mostly listening from my car next to dry riverbed, Grundig Sat 750, Wilson passive antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) CNR1 jammers morning of August 6: 13530, August 6 at 1253, CNR1 jammer, fair-good with flutter; MUF about 14 MHz, nothing audible higher at this hour. It turns out this one is running a few seconds behind all the others then heard. 13530 also at 1337, good with flutter 12560, August 6 at 1255, CNR1 jammer, poor, ahead of 13530; 12560 is almost synch with 11785, echo apart, and off at 1300* after timesignal 12980, August 6 at 1255, CNR1 jammer, very poor, // 12560; 12980 also at 1335 August 6, now good level 13970, August 6 at 1338, CNR1 jammer, poor with het 14870, August 6 at 1338, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter 15115, 15195, 15265, August 6 at 1339, CNR1 jammers, fair, but MUF is about 16 MHz, nothing at all on 17 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 6185, China Huayi BC, Chengdu, 02 AUG 2014, 1515 in Chinese, male, loud S9+10. 73 (Nick VK2DX Hacko, Sydney NSW, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Nick, Great to see your dxldyg postings again. Well done. For years Aoki has shown CHBC to be in Chengdu, but not so. In reality is in Fuzhou (Fujian Province), a long way from Chengdu. Confirmed per their QSL card - https://app.box.com/s/kmt1b7d5bhbmues6i9ty Best regards, (Ron Howard, CA, ibid.) ** CHINA. CRI to WeEu vs CRI to WeAf on frequency 9685 kHz 1730-1827 9685 URU 500 kW / 308 deg to WeEu Chinese 1730-1827 9685 KUN 500 kW / 283 deg to WeAf Hausa, 2 videos July 28: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/07/china-radio-international-to-weeu-vs.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #864 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, July 31, 2014 via DXLD) 7430, August 2 at 1427, poor signal in Japanese, i.e. CRI still propagating, 500 kW, 59 degrees also USward from Jinhua-Youbu 831 site per Aoki, on air this hour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) QSL: China Radio International, 17490 kHz. F/D "The Great family of the Chinese nation" series, number 56-46 and features a young lady from the Jing ethnic minority. Also received a nice postcard in the same series, this as series number 56-48 and features another young lady, this time from the Mulao ethnic minority group. CRI also sent a copy of their quarterly magazine and a very nice set of paper cuts. This for a postal report, received in 32 days (Alan Roe, UK, Verie Interesting, Aug CIDX Messenger via DXLD) ** COLOMBIA. 5910, R. Alcaraván [sic], Puerto Lleras, 0945-1015 lovely Spanish ballads and other nice Spanish easy-listening music, ID, at very good level, when in this one in, is always a pleasure. 27 July 6010, unID, 0938-1010 fade, apparent religious with OM speaking Spanish, good at tune/in but gradually fading, suspect it may have been La Voz de tu Conciencia, Lomalinda, Colombia, 27 July (XM, Cedar Key, South Florida [sic --- Cedar Key is not in S Florida, but N Florida, about halfway between Tampa and Tallahassee --- gh], NRD 525D, R8A, E5, via Bob Wilkner, DXLD) ** CONGO DR. 5066.37, Jul 31 1955, R Candip with strong signal and music (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin Aug 3 via DXLD) ** CUBA. 980, COCO, Sapo, Ciudad de la Habana. 1714 July 30, 2014. Fair with Noticiero Nacional de Radio feed in progress. 970 kHz WFLA's daytime iBOC has been off for several days now, allowing 960 and 980 to be heard again (Terry Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Changes of Radio Habana Cuba effective from July 25: -cancelled transmissions 1100-1300 9550 HAB 100 kW / 130 deg to SoAm Spanish 1300-1500 15340 HAB 250 kW / 340 deg to NCAm Spanish 1500-1530 11760 HAB 100 kW / non-dir to CeAm Esperanto Sun is on air?? -additional transmissions 1500-1800 11760 HAB 100 kW / non-dir to CeAm Spanish, Sun from 1530? 1800-1830 11760 HAB 100 kW / non-dir to CeAm Arabic 1830-1900 11760 HAB 100 kW / non-dir to CeAm Portuguese (or Creole) (DX RE MIX NEWS #864 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, July 31, 2014 via DXLD) 6165, RHC English programme with dead air until 0102:57 when the news in progress kicked in with talks re Gaza. Arnie Coro’s DXers Unlimited at 0111 with over 91 different ways to enjoy radio hobbies. He never really explained them in numerical order though but he did talk about how they decide what frequencies to use to what target areas. Then “Breaking the Silence” episode 52,193 about the ‘Cuban 5’. What silence? They keep talking about this several times a week from what I can tell, although they call it a ‘weekly’ feature. Then at 0128 into Mailbag Plus. 4+4444, splatter from 6160 and thunderstorm noise. 0058- 0200 28/Jul (Kenneth Vito Zichi, MI, MARE Tipsheet 1 Aug via DXLD) 6270, UNID at 0611, man and woman talking in English about America - Very poor, July 30 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, listening in my car by the lake with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) That would be RHC leapfrog mixing product of 6060 over 6165 another 105 kHz higher; also heard here earlier in evenings when 6060 and 6270 are in Spanish, leaping over 6165 English. Always a good idea when hearing something like this to check for // on the nearest band. 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) 9810-9830, July 31 at 1237, buzz field coming out of the weak 9820 RHC transmitter, likely the same one centered on 9810 in the evenings. 9550, July 31 at 1245, no signal from RHC, just CRI in Vietnamese with a Chinese lesson. Has the schedule at http://www.radiohc.cu/interesantes/estaticas/frecuencias been updated to remove this 11-13 transmission to ``Buenos Aires``? Of course not! Nor any of the other recent changes; and in fact it still displays long-outdated info such as 9830 instead of 9820 in the mornings. BTW, from the homepage http://www.radiohc.cu the black bar at the top containing linx to other pages such as frecuencias under interesantes, is visible and usable only in Firefox, not IE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 11760, August 1 at 1831, RHC with VP signal in daytime absorption but I can re-reconfirm that the language is still Kriyol, not Portuguese. 9820, August 2 at 1422, RHC with fair-good signal, much better than usual on this frequency which is normally quite weak here; Aoki still shows no 9820, but ex-9830, abandoned months ago, at 11-13 only while RHC`s own sked only shows ex-9830 at 11-15. So is 9820 on a different transmitter/antenna and deliberately extended to 15? Aoki shows at the same time Goa, Nanning, Xinjiang and São Paulo all on 9820, but the only QRM is a lite SAH, not LAH or AH, so that rules out Brazil and India, with Beibu Bay Radio the most likely victim, Commies vs Commies. 9550, August 3 at 1323, RHC Spanish is very poor mixed with CRI Vietnamese, and at 1330 also barely audible on 9820 with CCI, both identifiable by // 15370; so these frequencies are still on, and after 1300, contrary to what Arnie Coro claims. 5040, August 4 at 0108, RHC is in English here // 6000 & 6165, instead of Spanish as scheduled, which remains on 6060, 6070, 9780-9840, 11760, 11840, 18210 at least; presumably another SNAFU by the sloperators of R. Cuba, wrong program feed line plugged in, rather than a deliberate change. 0144 still English; 0328 recheck, 5040 back in Spanish. 6060 & 6070 (but not 5040, in English by mistake), UT Monday Aug 4 at 0137, RHC `En Contacto` is introducing ``journalist`` Arnaldo Coro to tell about the expanded schedule on 11760 filling in the 15-19 UT gap, which significantly started 26 de julio to shortwave the ``Cuba Online`` program (which is in Spanish!) at 15-18, and this time he gets it right: plus 18-19 in Arabic and Creole; must have noted my correxion. Also says the new FM 102.5 significantly inaugurated May 1 barely covers Habana, range out to 40-50 km. Says the RadioCuba transmitter site on 11760, which is an historic RHC frequency from its earliest days in 1961y as ``Onda Corta Experimental Cubana``, is the #1, Bauta in Artemisa. Meanwhile I have switched to 11760 itself as the appropriate frequency to listen to this about 11760, only to find it still has CCI in Spanish from Iran! And just about zero-beat, which at least speaks well, for a change, of the frequency accuracy, if not the frequency choice, of both stations. But Iran is supposedly moving away! Q.v. 18210, Aug 4 at 0127, poor signal from RHC, but the prime harmonic on this band, 3 x 6070. 18090, Aug 4 at 0135, pulse jamming, third harmonic of the DentroCuban Jamming Command on 6030, landing inside the hamband. 9780-9840, Aug 4 at 0129, RHC 9810 transmitter with buzz field out to plus/minus 30 kHz. 6030, UT Monday Aug 4 at 0530, DentroCuban Jamming Command noise is only very lite pulsing, much less than usual when R. Martí is off (or on), and a trace of something else audible, maybe CFVP. But to hear that 100-watter this far away, one needs zero jamming! 5980, however, another silent R. Martí frequency is now occupied by wall-of-noise jamming at 0531 August 4! 9550 and 9820, August 4 at 1303 and still 1342, RHC frequencies continue to be active, but weak in QRM, identifiable by echoey // to bigsig on 15370. At 1303, 16m is totally dead, not even RHC, but by 1338, JBA carriers on 17580, 17730, and soon some modulation barely makes it. 5040, Aug 5 at 0124, RHC in Spanish // 11760, instead of English during this hour last night. 18210, Aug 5 at 0147, RHC very poor in Spanish on 3 x 6070. 5990, Aug 6 at 0136, tonight`s SNAFU at RHC: running this frequency in English instead of 6000, // 6165; while 5040, 6060, 6070, 6270 are properly in Spanish. 5990 normally carries CRI relay until 0057v*. By 0314 recheck, English has been moved back to 6000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. Amigos. Seguem dois logs para opiniões. Esta frequência está no ar há poucos dias, pelo menos com a finalidade que se apresenta. UNIDENTIFIED. 7210-usb, 31/7/14 0100, UNID, Spanish, Radioamadores(?) comentam e dão opiniões sobre as situações política, econômica e financeira, além da corrupção em países que chamam de comunistas, como Cuba, Venezuela e Rep. Dominicana, 34433. 7210, 1/8/14 0042, UNID, radioamadores falam em espanhol; deu o prefixo AFA (...America- Francia, 4kw), chamando Leandro; os comunistas são corruptos, roubam; Secretária de governo da Rep. Dominicana rouba 3 milhões de dólares; corrupção em Cuba de Fidel..., 34433 (J. Ronaldo X., Brasil, Degen DE 1101+Antena Longwire, Escuta desde Cabedelo-PB- Brasil, condigllista yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DXLD) ¿USB en vez de LSB? La República Dominicana, ¿comunista???? LOL! Lo mismo de siempre. La decadencia de la radioaficion en Sudamerica. Agrias discusiones politicas por radio operadores enfurruñados y faltos de ética, de conocimientos políticos y de buenos modales, que destilan su fastidio y su mal humor insignificantes pensando que hacen algo que aporta a los demás. Pandemia que tambien puede verse en listas de correo, foros y sitios web relacionados con nuestra comun afición, típica de estos tiempos de barbarie e ignorancia. Serían cómicos si no fueran trágicos (Rodolfo Tizzi, Uruguay, http://elterrorylavirtud.blogspot.com/ http://cx2abp.blogspot.com/ ibid.) Sounds like the N1NR group, mainly Cuban exile Nelson Roig in Pennsylvania, who hold forth in the mornings on this frequency, but was not aware of an evening net. Surely on LSB, not USB (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Afirmativo Glenn, heard Monday (Tue UT), N1NR Nelson talking with Guillermo, WI4E by LSB 7210 at 0130 UT. Strong signals (Dino Bloise, FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7210-LSB, Aug 5 at 0108, anti-Castro net is funxioning in the evening as well as in the morning around 11-13 when I usually hear it. One of them is surely Nelson Roig, N1NR in Pennsylvania; talking about Camagüey, Ébola at the moment. Checked following unID logs, allegedly on USB, by J. Ronaldo X., Cabedelo, Paraíba, Brasil, 31 July at 0100 and 1 August at 0042. Since this is a longtime favorite frequency for Cuban exiles and other anti-Commies, I`m surprised the DentroCuban Jamming Command doesn`t attack it; only an occasional AM carrier, as QRM? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. Observations of several clandestine stations: Radio República: 0100-0300 on 9490 ISS 250 kW / 275 deg to Cuba Spanish Radio Martí 2000-2400 on 9565 GB 250 kW / 164 deg to Cuba Spanish 2000-2400 on 11930 GB 250 kW / 184 deg to Cuba Spanish 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CYPRUS. 9491-9514, Aug 5 at 0129, OTH radar pulsing, perhaps from here, blocked only by Cuban jamming on 9490, and QRMing Oman acutally on its proper frequency tonight, 9500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DIEGO GARCIA. 4319-USB, AFN, 2312 to 0020, ute interference from 0006 on 26/27 July, similar since then, seems back. Mix of talk and pop music; good signal with narrow filter 1.2k (MDR, Fort Lauderdale & Mobile South Florida, NRD 515, Drake R8B, Timewave ANC-4, Quantum Phaser; XM, FL, NRD 525D, R8A, E5, both via Wilkner; and Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, Icom 746Pro Lankford modified; Drake R8; NRD 525 Lankford Modified; Sony 2010 XA Lankford created; Scotka antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) USA [sic], 4319-USB, AFN-Diego Garcia, Aug 01 *1257-1312, 35343 English, 1257 sign on with talk, Talk and music (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR [non]. GERMANY, HCJB transmissions that will be terminated from August 1: 2300-2330 9835 NAU 100 kW / 240 deg to BRA German 2300-0045 11920 NAU 100 kW / 240 deg to BRA Portuguese. Videos July 30 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/07/hcjb-transmissions-that-will-be.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #864 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, July 31, 2014 via DXLD) ** ECUADOR [non]. ASCENSION ISLAND, 11985, Akhbar Mufriha (via HCJB, Ascension Is.) Signal on at 2145, ID in Arabic by M, a lot of talk and occasional native stringed music with vocals with "Hallelujah"s. Music sounds like something from Mauritania. Nice ID with contact info at 2159. ID and contact info again at 2214, then off. Fairly good signal and clear. (19 July) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo PA, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** EGYPT. 13850, July 31 at 0520, yet another night with open carrier/dead air from R. Cairo, ``Arabic`` to North America. Well, almost --- a trace of modulation spike peaks now and then, but otherwise pleasant listening. They must have unlimited resources to burn all those megawatts for nothing. 13850, August 1 at 0535, still open carrier/dead air from R. Cairo ``Arabic`` to NAm; is it ever thus all the way from scheduled 02 to 07? Geez. 13850, August 2 at 0540, R. Cairo North American service tonight is not just open carrier/dead air, but now with an added rhumble! Much more interesting. 9315, August 3 at 0153, R. Cairo is open carrier/dead air instead of Spanish; 11710 is off already (or had not been on at all?); 12070 is nothing but motorboating roar, and no spurs! 13850, supposed to start at 0200, is missing at 0212. 12070, Aug 4 at 0116, R. Cairo Spanish is back to normal, i.e. extremely loud broken up distorted modulation, totally unlistenable, but the spurs extend out only plus/minus 15 or so, 12055-12085. How about the others? 11710 is off the air at 0116 Aug 4, as I think it was last night. 9315, Aug 4 at 0131 has no modulation except a humwhine spreading out to 9304-9320, asymmetrically, worse on the low side. 9965, Aug 4 at 0131, Arabic service, crackle and low modulation 13850, Aug 4 at 0539, R. Cairo, Arabic to North America has poor signal tonight with whine, which is axually louder on 13860 spur, and another on 13870; but no matches on lo side, fortunately vs the French broadcasts on 13830 and 13840 still in clear. [and non]. 11710.0, Aug 5 at 0116, R. Cairo ``Spanish`` service back on this frequency after missing a few nights, as obvious by the het it remakes with Argentina on hi side, which has been deliberately missing for two nights since it was the weekend. At 0120 I measure Cairo on exact frequency, but little if any modulation nor spurs; while RAE I put on 11710.76 approx., audibly in Japanese. 12070, Aug 5 at 0126, another Cairo Spanish frequency which is usually a horrible mess of crackling and spurs, tonight is merely a just- barely-modulated carrier, lite hum, no crackle or spurs! 9315, Aug 5 at 0130, third R. Cairo Spanish frequency: humwhine, distorted undermodulation, no good but no spurs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Cairo in Russian on two frequencies in parallel on August 5: 1900-2000 9410 ABS 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu Russian, instead of German parallel 9685 ABS 250 kW / 005 deg to EaEu Russian, as scheduled A-14 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/radio-cairo-in-russian-on-two.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) 11710.0, Aug 6 at 0130, R. Cairo Spanish has bigsig but open carrier/dead air, or rather a trace of modulation, vs het on hi side from Argentina with modulation in Japanese. 12070, Aug 6 at 0133, R. Cairo Spanish making big unreadable racket with hum but spreading only 12065-12075. 9315, Aug 6 at 0133, the third R. Cairo Spanish transmitter is off. 9965, Aug 6 at 0134, R. Cairo Arabic is almost dead air, more bits of modulation than on 11710. Something is always wrong at R. Cairo but what each of these four frequencies will do from one night to the next is unpredictable (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. 9301 kHz at 2010, NETHERLANDS, FRS Holland poor signal with special transmission in English, promising QSLs, music tracks, recordings of old North Sea pirate stations. Followed past 2130 on 15/6 (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai, Northland, North Island, New Zealand, AOR7030+. EWEs to NAm, CAm & SAm, Drake SPR4 with Alpha Delta Sloper, July NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** EUROPE. 13690 AM, PIRATE-EURO. Sluwe Vos-Holland, 2041-2137*, 07- 25-14, SIO 252. Tune in to weak signal, tune "Down In The Boondocks" by Billy Joe Royal. More pop tunes, shout out to me, etc. Signal peaking around 2115 with song "Long Cool Woman" by The Hollies. Off at 2137 (Chris Lobdell, Bakers Island MA, Aug CIDX Messenger via DXLD) As below Sluwe Vos == sly fox, says Google translate, first detecting it`s Afrikaans rather than the same in Dutch (gh, DXLD) ** EUROPE. The Swedish DX Club has a full list of E-mail addresses radio pirates. 96 pages. http://www.mkvk.se/ to get the contents of the site (publicationer) on (piratespecial) there will be a file in Pdf format -Download -1.96 MB. There is E-mail radio address Europe (Ukraine). (Vasily Lazarev, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx", QSL World, RusDX Aug 3 via DXLD) ** FINLAND. I think SWR, Finland is now on 11720 at 1335 UT although their schedule states 11690 kHz is on at this time. Currently playing heavy rock, SINPO 34223, lots of noise and static crashes (Russ Cummings, AOR7030+, 60ft long wire, North Ferriby, East Yorkshire, UK, Saturday Aug 2, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) Except for some specials, normally operates first Finnish Saturday of each month, 21-21 UT (gh, DXLD) ** FRANCE [and non]. RFI: shortwave gone, English reconfigured. RFI is now among those broadcasters who have ended regular shortwave usage (Richard Cuff, PA, Easy Listening, August NASWA Journal via DXLD) What?? I thought they still had a number of French, Hausa, Swahili SW broadcasts to Africa, as well as Vietnamese, Russian, Farsi. He then goes on to explain how to listen in English online, which indeed was dropped from SW some time ago. HFCC still shows a lot of broadcasts, altho probably over-registered, and some of them don`t start until Sept with seasonal frequency changes: http://www.hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=A14&broadc=RFI Beware of the very first entry, 02-03 on 11995, which is really a relay of Taiwan in Spanish, not RFI itself!!! Note that the only sites here are ISSoudun, FRANCE and MEYerton, SOUTH AFRICA. Tho we know they are also using TAIWAN, banned from HFCC by the ChiCom, e.g. QRMing WRMI on 9955. Of course all those registrations thru 30 Aug or 25 Oct could be wiped out in an instant if RFI really decide to delete all shortwave. RFI has been reported on SW the last few days, such as: ``11605 SOUTH AFRICA Radio France Int’l via Meyerton at 0630 in French, man and woman with news - Fair July 30 Harold Sellers-BC, dxldyg via DXLD`` ``7340 0457 SOUTH AFRICA. Radio France International – Meyerton, 0437- 0457* Jul 26, man and woman talking in Swahili language with periodic local music vocal selections. ID at 0456 followed by a woman with closedown announcements and brief African vocals until the transmission carrier was terminated. Fair to good. (D’Angelo-P A, July NZ DX Times via DXLD)`` And numerous clips from Ivo, presumably recent with dates on them: ``Radio France Internationale in French to CeAf 1253 on 17660 Meyerton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny6Jmj1v7AA&feature=youtu.be Radio France Internationale in French to WCAf 1705 on 9800 Meyerton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWA7DYOTtu8&feature=youtu.be Radio France Internationale in French to WCAf 1804 on 9800 Meyerton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWGrnZdtHSE&feature=youtu.be Radio France Internationale in Portuguese to SoAf 1703 on 9755 Meyerton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf5y2BweOE4&feature=youtu.be RFI in Portuguese to SoAf 1900 on 5950 Meyerton, QRM KBS German in DRM on 5950 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgXSoLFf7j8&feature=youtu.be Radio France Internationale in Swahili to CEAf 1502 on 15360 Meyerton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aYJ5lSV6Dg&feature=youtu.be DX RE MIX NEWS July 31`` Another version is in EiBi, searching on France Int. --- http://www.eibispace.de/dx/bc-a14.txt Including Taiwan relays, some of them even on MW. I also try to check out various listed RFI transmissions, but propagation is extremely degraded, and/or frequencies blocked by QRM: 0400-0500 on 7390, 9790, 13685 --- none heard 0430-0500 on 7340 --- not heard 0500-0600 11605, 11700, 13695 --- I do have a very poor signal on 11605 at 0530, 0551; and a smidgin better on 13695 which I can detect is in French until cutoff at 0557* 0530-0600 on 9835, 11790 --- unheard There are numerous frequencies scheduled after 12 or 13, 17660, 21580, 13695, 13740, 15300, 17850, 17620, 21690 but none of them are audible August 5, nor much of anything else on these almost-dead bands. Some of these may really be gone; I don`t recall hearing 17620 in ages. At 1530 Aug 5, I check all the listed frequencies: I can hear carriers only on 13630 and 17810, neither to be in French. From EiBi, some of the later listed French broadcasts, ISS, u.o.s.: 18-20 13695, 13740, 17850, 21690, 9800-South Africa 18-22 11995 19-22 9790 20-22 7205 Please confirm whether these remain (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Perhaps just a misunderstanding? At 2100: 7205 not definitely identified, but there is a signal that sounds like RFI. 9790 appears to be in use, too. 25 metres from Issoudun is nothing that could be checked portable indoors from Germany at this time. However, 5910 is empty, so has the airtime exchange with Radio Taiwan International been cancelled? No, RTI German 2300-2400 has simply been moved back to 3965. Could it be that this transmission had been temporarily put on 5910 only due to an equipment fault? Only a single transmission unit at Issoudun is suitable for 75 metres, and if either its transmitter or antenna fails no signal can be transmit on this band. It's the unit called "Gange", its large 4 MHz dipoles clearly stand out against the standard design: http://tvignaud.pagesperso-orange.fr/am/rfi/e1991-2001.htm (Kai Ludwig, Germany, August 5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) When did you have them on 5910 kHz? I must have missed that. 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, Aug 6, ibid.) RTI via Issoudun on new 5915, not 5910 2000-2100 NF 5915 ISS 250 kW / 210 deg to SoEu Spanish, ex 3965 2100-2200 NF 5915 ISS 250 kW / 050 deg to WeEu German, ex 3965 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/07/frequency-changes-or-radio-taiwan.html (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, ibid.) In fact it was 5915, as Ivo already posted, and it was in effect from July 21 or thereabouts. Aha: http://german.rti.org.tw/listening/?recordId=129 So since Aug 1 again on 3965 (only), after "in the second half of July" 5915 or at times both 5915 and 3965 were in use instead "due to an equipment fault". Indeed the scenario I suspected, demonstrating the disadvantage of the ALLISS concept (Kai Ludwig, Germany, ibid.) [and non]. 15300 // 13740, Aug 5 at 1815, RFI confirmed still active on SW in French, poor signals; while another listed channel, 17850, is of course occupied by SPAIN, its best daytime frequency incidentally in North America, tho it was a lot better before they closed Costa Rica. Kai Ludwig and Stephen Cooper also heard some RFI. Ivo Ivanov replies, Aug 5: ``RFI at 1800 UT: 9800 MEY 100 kW / 350 deg to WCAf French, confirmed 11795 ISS 500 kW / 055 deg to EaEu Russian, confirmed 11995 ISS 500 kW / 170 deg to CeAf French, confirmed 13620 ISS 500 kW / 080 deg to CeAs Russian, confirmed 13740 ISS 500 kW / 185 deg to WeAf French, confirmed 15300 ISS 500 kW / 185 deg to NWAf French, confirmed 17850 ISS 500 kW / 153 deg to CeAf French, confirmed, co-ch REE Spanish http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/04/radio-france-internationale.html Full A-14 schedule may be found here`` And Mauno Ritola, Finland says ``check the schedule in http://wrth.com/files/WRTH2014IntRadioSuppl2_A14Schedules.pdf All listed for 1930: 9800, 11995 13740 and 15300 kHz are there. 73, Mauno`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Quick check of Radio France Internationale 0600-1700 UT Aug. 6: 0600-0630 13750 ISS 500 kW / 170 deg WCAf Hausa, very weak signal 0600-0630 15340 ISS 500 kW / 170 deg WCAf Hausa from Aug. 31 on 11995 0600-0700 9790 ISS 500 kW / 204 deg NWAf French, no propagation 0600-0700 11605 MEY 100 kW / 345 deg WeAf French, no propagation 0600-0700 11700 ISS 500 kW / 185 deg NWAf French 0600-0700 15170 MEY 100 kW / 345 deg WeAf French, no propagation 0600-0700 15300 ISS 500 kW / 153 deg CeAf French 0700-0800 11700 ISS 500 kW / 204 deg NWAf French 0700-0800 13695 ISS 500 kW / 190 deg WCAf French, very very weak 0700-0800 15170 MEY 100 kW / 345 deg WeAf French, no propagation 0700-0800 15300 ISS 500 kW / 185 deg NWAf French 0700-0800 17850 ISS 500 kW / 153 deg CeAf French 0700-0800 21580 ISS 500 kW / 155 deg CeAf French 0800-0900 13695 ISS 500 kW / 204 deg NWAf French, very very weak 0800-0900 15170 MEY 100 kW / 345 deg WeAf French, no propagation 0800-0900 15300 ISS 500 kW / 190 deg NoAf French 0800-0900 17850 ISS 500 kW / 153 deg CeAf French 1200-1300 17620 ISS 500 kW / 200 deg NWAf French 1200-1300 17620 ISS 500 kW / 185 deg WCAf French 1200-1300 17660 MEY 250 kW / 342 deg CeAf French 1200-1300 21580 ISS 500 kW / 155 deg CeAf French 1500-1600 13630 ISS 500 kW / 055 deg EaEu Russian 1500-1600 15215 ISS 500 kW / 080 deg CeAs Russian 1500-1600 15360 MEY 250 kW / 007 deg EaAf Swahili 1500-1600 17810 ISS 500 kW / 065 deg SEAs Vietnamese from Aug.31 15630 1600-1700 17615 ISS 500 kW / 170 deg WCAf Hausa from Aug.31 on 15360 Videos: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/quick-check-of-radio-france.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Aug 6, dxldyg via DXLD) ** GERMANY. 31 July 2014 - Mauno Ritola posted on WRTH Facebook group: Thanks to a tip from Patrick Robic, Austria, Europa 24 from Datteln, Germany was heard testing on 6150 kHz yesterday at 1930 also here in Finland. According to Achim Brueckner in the Cumbre group it`s an LPAM-license (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Test transmissions of Radio Europe 24 on July 31 and August 1: from 1930 6150 KLL 015 kW / non-dir to CeEu registered 06-19. Videos http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/test-transmissions-of-radio-europe-24.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, Aug 2, dxldyg via DXLD) Not KLL, but Datteln in Northrine-Westfalia! (Chapri, Radio Joystick | Funky Sounds 4 Central Europe, HCDX via DXLD) Kall or Datteln, what does that make a difference for a station which will supply the whole continent, from Iceland to the Urals...... ;-) (roger, ibid.) While writing this around 2300 UT, Loop of IDs in English, Dutch, German, short guitar tunes (Harald Kuhl, Germany, Aug 2, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) Also audible here with fair signal at 2325 UT - best in lsb to avoid splatter. Very good audio modulation. Thank for the tip. 73s (Dave Kenny, Caversham, Berks, England, UK, AOR7030+ 25m long wire, ibid.) Yes, Dave, before 2300 UT the channel was clear from any QRM, but then the powerhouse on neighbouring 6155 kHz started. 73 (Harald Kuhl, ibid.) That would be Spain, in French (gh, DXLD) Test transmissions of Radio Europe 24 on July 31 and August 1, 4 from 1900 on 6150 KLL 015 kW / non-dir to CeEu registered 06-19. Videos: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/test-transmissions-of-radio-europe-24.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba-3SSj2mo8&feature=youtu.be (DX RE MIX NEWS #865 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, August 5, 2014 via DXLD) Test broadcast of Radio Europe 24 with ann in German, English, Dutch 1915 Aug 6 on 6150 Datteln https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KysLteI8bT8&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via DXLD) ** GERMANY. A bit of a non-log, but maybe of interest: 7325 kHz 3 Aug at 0205 UT, I have a DRM signal varying from 9dB to 17dB. There is no audio being decoded, but the DRM text shows "Mmedia, German, Germany, audio conditional access --- Information, Radio Andernach". At http://www.radio-andernach.bundeswehr.de/ I find (via Google translate): "Radio Andernach offers a 24-hour full program for use: In Kosovo and Afghanistan, the soldiers can receive the channel with FM. In addition, Radio Andernach for the relatives at home is also available via web stream." (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7320-7325-7330, August 3 at 0208, DRM noise on unlisted frequency. Must be totally blotting what is scheduled, Iran in Urdu at 0120-0220, 500 kW, 109 degrees from Kamalabad! I bet it`s R. Andernach, the encrypted German military service, and I am right, as Alan Roe, Teddington, England is monitoring at the same time [as above]. Roger in Germany replied: http://www.dxaktuell.de/2012/09/kunftig-uber-digitalradio-radio-andernach/ http://www.dxaktuell.de/2013/07/drm-digitalradio-radio-andernach-sendet-nach-somalia/ ``Here is a screenshot from last year: http://www.rhci-online.de/5995kHz_Radio_Andernach_02.gif Even then: Listen to nothing, encrypted audio. Just something to look at`` And more about R. Andernach is in the latest DXLD 14-31 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [and non]. A-14 shortwave schedule of Media Broadcast: Adventist World Radio 0000-0030 9730 TRM 125 kW / 045 deg SEAs Burmese 0000-0100 15215 TRM 125 kW / 025 deg EaAs Chinese 0030-0100 9730 TRM 125 kW / 045 deg SEAs Manumanaw Karen 0100-0130 15225 TRM 125 kW / 025 deg EaAs Min Nan Chinese Sun-Thu 0100-0130 15225 TRM 125 kW / 025 deg EaAs Chinese Fri/Sat 0130-0200 15225 TRM 125 kW / 025 deg EaAs Cantonese Sun-Thu 0130-0200 15225 TRM 125 kW / 025 deg EaAs Chinese Fri/Sat 0200-0230 9690 MOS 300 kW / 090 deg SoAs Urdu 0230-0300 9690 MOS 300 kW / 090 deg SoAs Punjabi 0300-0330 9530 NAU 250 kW / 142 deg EaAf Tigrigna 0300-0330 15500 TRM 125 kW / 270 deg EaAf Oromo 0330-0400 9505 MOS 300 kW / 100 deg WeAs Farsi 0330-0400 15500 TRM 125 kW / 270 deg EaAf Amharic 0400-0430 5975 NAU 100 kW / 130 deg EaEu Bulgarian 0400-0430 9455 MOS 300 kW / 115 deg N/ME Turkish 0430-0500 6155 MOS 300 kW / 220 deg NoAf French. Video July 28: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9S9ibmOSYQ&feature=youtu.be 0500-0530 11955 MOS 300 kW / 190 deg WeAf Hausa. Video July 27: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9q3SGPfdlQ&feature=youtu.be 0500-0600 15225 NAU 250 kW / 130 deg EaAf Arabic. Video July 25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwKdwagGZeM 0600-0700 11880 MOS 300 kW / 190 deg EaAf Arabic. Video July 25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOGTvVUZHBQ 0700-0800 15225 NAU 100 kW / 210 deg NoAf Arabic. Video July 25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EALuQHAcBAY 0800-0830 15140 NAU 100 kW / 205 deg NoAf French. Video July 25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frOa68hiWlY 0800-0830 15225 NAU 250 kW / 210 deg NoAf Kabyle. Video July 25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdSB6NW9HU8 0830-0900 15225 NAU 100 kW / 205 deg NoAf Tachelhit. Video July 28: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zaPtFH2L2M&feature=youtu.be 0900-1000 9790 NAU 100 kW / 180 deg SoEu Italian Sun. Video Aug.3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4y0mYKqmas&feature=youtu.be 1230-1300 12010 TRM 125 kW / 025 deg SoAs Manipuri Sun/Wed/Fri 1230-1300 12010 TRM 125 kW / 025 deg SoAs Bengali Mon/Tue/Thu/Sat 1300-1330 15320 TRM 125 kW / 075 deg SEAs Khmer 1300-1330 17810 NAU 250 kW / 070 deg EaAs Chinese Mon-Fri 1300-1330 17810 NAU 250 kW / 070 deg EaAs Uighur Sat/Sun 1330-1400 15320 TRM 125 kW / 075 deg SEAs Khmer Sun 1330-1400 15430 TRM 125 kW / 075 deg SEAs Lao Thu/Sat 1330-1400 15430 TRM 125 kW / 075 deg SEAs NoEa Thai Mon-Wed/Fri 1330-1500 17810 NAU 250 kW / 070 deg EaAs Chinese. Video July 19: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJdp3_QtUkI&feature=youtu.be 1400-1430 11845 TRM 125 kW / 045 deg SEAs Asho Chin 1400-1430 15440 MOS 300 kW / 090 deg SoAs Urdu. Video July 29: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhjsY0ABuVM&feature=youtu.be 1400-1500 11915 TRM 125 kW / 060 deg EaAs Chinese 1430-1500 15150 TRM 125 kW / 060 deg SEAs Pwo Western Karen 1430-1500 15175 TRM 125 kW / 060 deg SEAs Manumanaw Karen 1430-1500 17605 MOS 300 kW / 145 deg EaAf Afar. Video July 26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY74pQDQdoo&feature=youtu.be 1500-1530 7405 TRM 125 kW / 345 deg SoAs Telugu 1500-1530 9730 TRM 125 kW / 015 deg SoAs Nepali 1500-1530 11935 MOS 300 kW / 120 deg N/ME Turkish. Video July 25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d62M24S583k 1500-1530 15265 NAU 250 kW / 090 deg SoAs Punjabi. Video July 25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BzeT4UzcwQ 1500-1530 15710 TRM 125 kW / 025 deg SoAs Lushai 1530-1600 9830 TRM 125 kW / 345 deg SoAs Marathi 1530-1600 11995 TRM 125 kW / 345 deg SoAs Hindi 1530-1600 15265 NAU 250 kW / 090 deg SoAs Hindi. Video Aug.1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCwEZG2nHZw&feature=youtu.be 1530-1600 15290 MOS 300 kW / 090 deg SoAs Punjabi. Video July 26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAX2Ja_Gj5Y&feature=youtu.be 1530-1600 15670 ISS 250 kW / 075 deg SoAs English Sat-Wed 1530-1600 15670 ISS 250 kW / 075 deg SoAs Tibetan Thu/Fri. Vid Jul 25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qX8s1I4IEw 1600-1630 9830 NAU 100 kW / 133 deg EaEu Bulgarian. Video July 25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fsqSeFKN34 1600-1630 11995 TRM 125 kW / 345 deg SoAs English 1600-1630 15260 MOS 300 kW / 090 deg SoAs Urdu. Video Aug.1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgj1LGncsbM&feature=youtu.be 1630-1700 15150 MOS 300 kW / 100 deg WeAs Farsi. Video July 25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akq-oE89GZ4 1630-1700 15360 TRM 125 kW / 345 deg SoAs English M/W/F. Video Aug.1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRV1-KJaIP8&feature=youtu.be 1630-1700 15360 TRM 125 kW / 335 deg SoAs Sindhi Sun/Tue/Thu/Sat 1630-1700 17575 NAU 250 kW / 145 deg EaAf Somali. Video July 25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WAMNmV-SYs 1730-1800 15155 NAU 250 kW / 140 deg EaAf Oromo. Video Aug.1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKlN6yGSrCo&feature=youtu.be 1730-1800 15170 NAU 100 kW / 210 deg NoAf Kabyle. Video Aug.1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_awI0apbjpU&feature=youtu.be 1800-1900 11955 MOS 300 kW / 190 deg EaAf Arabic. Video July 26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-hdvsWP6e4&feature=youtu.be 1900-1930 11945 NAU 250 kW / 212 deg NoAf Wolof. Video July 26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT_PhjCA18Q&feature=youtu.be 1900-1930 11955 MOS 300 kW / 190 deg WeAf Hausa. Video July 26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV2EXYy9Zo0&feature=youtu.be 1900-2000 11605 NAU 250 kW / 130 deg EaAf Arabic 1900-2000 11840 NAU 100 kW / 215 deg NoAf Arabic. Video July 26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDWuWNyuQ4E&feature=youtu.be 1930-2000 9610 NAU 100 kW / 210 deg NoAf Tachelhit. Video July 26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=724lXj4JurM&feature=youtu.be 1930-2000 15205 NAU 250 kW / 180 deg WeAf Ibo. Video July 26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKbORBbSwAo&feature=youtu.be 1930-2000 15220 MOS 300 kW / 170 deg CeAf French. Video July 26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GJQaay59aw&feature=youtu.be 2000-2030 9610 NAU 100 kW / 210 deg NoAf French. Video July 28: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdgS4C5d7Yw&feature=youtu.be 2000-2030 11830 ISS 250 kW / 180 deg WeAf French. Video July 28: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PC13NyZITU&feature=youtu.be 2000-2030 11955 MOS 300 kW / 210 deg WeAf Dyula. Video Aug.1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR26HqB5LPg&feature=youtu.be 2030-2100 11755 ISS 250 kW / 165 deg WeAf Yoruba. Video Aug.1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWhbj1OluYs&feature=youtu.be 2030-2100 15155 MOS 300 kW / 210 deg WeAf French. Video Aug.1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YM77oEoG7M&feature=youtu.be 2100-2130 11955 MOS 300 kW / 210 deg WeAf English. Video Aug.1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq3DdJD9QuQ&feature=youtu.be 2200-2230 6180 TRM 125 kW / 120 deg SEAs Javanese Mighty KBC Radio 0000-0200 9925 NAU 125 kW / 300 deg NoAm English Sun till Aug.31 0000-0200 7375 NAU 125 kW / 300 deg NoAm English Sun from Sep.07 0800-1500 6095 NAU 100 kW / 240 deg WeEu English Sat/Sun. Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0egQ8IH2DYc&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilENjYRNecc&feature=youtu.be Gospel For Asia 0030-0130 9520 NAU 250 kW / 100 deg SoAs Vary Asian langs 1230-1500 15350 NAU 250 kW / 089 deg SoAs Vary Asian langs Vid Jul 25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA2zJQNXo7c&feature=youtu.be 1330-1530 15390 NAU 250 kW / 085 deg SEAs Vary Asian langs Vid Jul 25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WOF2KoKpFE&feature=youtu.be 1530-1630 15395 NAU 250 kW / 099 deg SoAs Vary Asian langs Vid Jul 26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wog9ZwS42YI&feature=youtu.be 2330-0030 9520 NAU 250 kW / 085 deg SEAs Vary Asian langs Bible Voice Broadcasting 0300-0315 7310 ISS 250 kW / 100 deg N/ME Arabic Dardasha 7 0400-0430 9550 NAU 100 kW / 110 deg WeAs Luri Sat-Mon 0430-0445 9550 NAU 125 kW / 120 deg N/ME Arabic Dardasha 7 Sat/Sun 0430-0450 9550 NAU 125 kW / 120 deg N/ME Arabic Dardasha 7 Mon-Fri 0500-0515 9735 NAU 250 kW / 120 deg N/ME Arabic Fri 0600-0615 11655 NAU 125 kW / 180 deg NoAf Arabic Dardasha 7. Vid Jul5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bTE9TOIT-0 0700-0730 5945 NAU 100 kW / 270 deg WeEu English Sun 0700-0745 5945 NAU 100 kW / 270 deg WeEu English Sat. Video Aug.2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RM587WX57U&feature=youtu.be 0830-1000 17535 NAU 125 kW / 145 deg NEAf Arabic Fri. Videos July 25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK2jwKE3Is0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLtM7Qn3jdU 0900-0915 17535 NAU 125 kW / 145 deg NEAf Arabic Sat. Video July 26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0pN9e3IARI&feature=youtu.be 1100-1130 21480 MDC 125 kW / 045 deg EaAs English Sat 1115-1130 21480 MDC 125 kW / 045 deg EaAs English Sun Eternal Gd News 1130-1145 21480 MDC 125 kW / 045 deg EaAs Japanese Sun 1300-1400 11860 TRM 250 kW / 045 deg KRE Korean VOWilderness 1400-1430 11860 TRM 250 kW / 045 deg KRE Korean Sun VOWilderness 1400-1430 17495 ISS 250 kW / 083 deg SoAs English 1st Sat Vid July 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEY0fcYTd8Y&feature=youtu.be 1430-1500 17495 ISS 250 kW / 083 deg SoAs English Sat. Video July 26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbRMFZqZjho&feature=youtu.be 1500-1515 15640 SOF 100 kW / 090 deg SoAs English 2nd/4th Sat 1515-1530 15640 SOF 100 kW / 090 deg SoAs English Fri/Sat Vid Jul25/26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTHoZN1Zji4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMd3ccde2B4&feature=youtu.be 1530-1545 15640 SOF 100 kW / 090 deg SoAs English 1st/3rd Sat 1530-1545 15640 SOF 100 kW / 090 deg SoAs Punjabi 2nd/4th Sat VidJul26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NusWLZvO0Bs&feature=youtu.be 1530-1600 15640 SOF 100 kW / 090 deg SoAs Urdu Fri 1530-1600 17515 ISS 100 kW / 135 deg EaAf Oromo Fri 1600-1630 17515 ISS 100 kW / 135 deg EaAf Amharic Fri 1600-1630 17515 ISS 100 kW / 135 deg EaAf Oromo Sun/Mon/Thu 1630-1700 15160 NAU 100 kW / 150 deg CeAf Nuer. Video July 25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLYDwrIy3JA 1630-1700 17515 ISS 100 kW / 135 deg EaAf Amharic Mon/Wed 1630-1730 17515 ISS 100 kW / 135 deg EaAf Tigrinya Fri 1630-1800 17515 ISS 100 kW / 135 deg EaAf Amharic Sun/Tue/Thu 1700-1715 13580 NAU 250 kW / 130 deg N/ME Arabic Mon/Tue/Thu/Fri 1700-1715 13810 ISS 100 kW / 120 deg N/ME Arabic Thu 1700-1715 13810 NAU 100 kW / 125 deg N/ME Arabic Sat/Sun 1700-1715 15215 MOS 100 kW / 115 deg N/ME English Fri 1700-1715 15215 MOS 100 kW / 115 deg N/ME English Sat Eternal Gd News 1700-1715 15215 MOS 100 kW / 115 deg N/ME English Sun 1700-1730 13580 NAU 250 kW / 130 deg N/ME Arabic Wed. Video July 23: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mto76G_ifZs&feature=youtu.be 1700-1730 15160 NAU 100 kW / 150 deg CeAf Dinka. Video July 26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvheoTuN9Ew&feature=youtu.be 1700-1730 15215 MOS 100 kW / 115 deg N/ME English Thu 1700-1730 17515 ISS 100 kW / 135 deg EaAf Tigrinya Mon/Wed. Vid Jul23: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVPY4iHgpMI&feature=youtu.be 1700-1745 13810 ISS 100 kW / 120 deg N/ME Arabic Tue 1700-1800 11600 SOF 100 kW / 090 deg WeAs Persian. Video July 27: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUbRFH7tAIQ&feature=youtu.be 1700-1800 13810 ISS 100 kW / 120 deg N/ME Arabic Mon/Wed/Fri 1700-1830 17515 ISS 100 kW / 135 deg EaAf Amharic Sat 1715-1730 13580 NAU 250 kW / 130 deg N/ME Arabic Sat 1715-1900 15215 MOS 100 kW / 115 deg N/ME English Sat/Sun. Vid Jul 12: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX3dRsMg0P0&feature=youtu.be 1730-1800 17515 ISS 100 kW / 135 deg EaAf Amharic Mon/Fri 1800-1815 6130 NAU 100 kW / 090 deg EaEu Ukrainian Thu. Vid July 10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbKq_98O8F4&feature=youtu.be 1800-1815 6130 NAU 100 kW / 090 deg EaEu Russian Fri 1800-1830 6130 NAU 100 kW / 090 deg EaEu Russian Tue 1800-1830 11855 NAU 100 kW / 105 deg WeAs Persian Fri. Video July 25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATe4X3OxaEM 1800-1830 17515 ISS 100 kW / 135 deg EaAf Tigrinya Tue/Thu 1800-1900 6130 NAU 100 kW / 090 deg EaEu English Sun 1800-1900 11855 NAU 100 kW / 105 deg WeAs Persian Thu 1815-1830 9430 MOS 300 kW / non-dir WeAs English Sun 1815-1830 11855 NAU 100 kW / 105 deg WeAs English Sun Eternal Good News. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1k00Qk_1nc&feature=youtu.be 1830-1845 6130 NAU 100 kW / 090 deg EaEu English Sat Eternal Good News. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDTkhhU_hgo&feature=youtu.be 1830-1900 11855 NAU 100 kW / 105 deg WeAs Persian Tue/Sun 1830-1915 NF 11600 SOF 100 kW / 126 deg N/ME English Sun, ex 9635. Videos July 20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9_uLg-B1iA&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsByht57Xfo&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh5LK3jkHsk&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gbxMx5vVwo&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-WC4KuKYR0&feature=youtu.be 1830-1915 9635 SOF 100 kW / 126 deg N/ME English Sun. Videos July 27: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wbh0wFCU20&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3gH0HBbtEk&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th1PJuujAHE&feature=youtu.be 2000-2015 5930 NAU 250 kW / 120 deg N/ME Arabic Dardasha 7. Video July 26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm-FFvmLO24&feature=youtu.be 2030-2045 9515 NAU 250 kW / 180 deg NoAf Arabic Dardasha 7. Video July 30: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5Ak7g08JwQ&feature=youtu.be Radio Japan NHK World 0300-0500 5910 ISS 500 kW / 290 deg CeAm Japanese 0300-0500 11680 NAU 250 kW / 140 deg WeAs Japanese 0400-0430 5985 YFR 100 kW / 222 deg MEXI Spanish 0500-0530 11970 ISS 500 kw / 155 deg SoAf English. Video July 26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sImA_ruDNs&feature=youtu.be 0530-0600 11730 ISS 500 kw / 190 deg WCAf French. Video July 25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAqiyBVF-_4&feature=youtu.be 0600-0630 11975 ISS 500 kW / 160 deg NoAf Arabic. Video July 25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvfsnx4D99M&feature=youtu.be 0800-1000 15290 ISS 500 kw / 190 deg WCAf Japanese 1430-1500 13680 ISS 500 kW / 090 deg WeAs Farsi. Video July 25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfdzOZoC9EA&feature=youtu.be 1700-1800 11945 ISS 500 kw / 155 deg SoAf Japanese 1700-1900 15445 NAU 250 kW / 140 deg WeAs Japanese. Video July 25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMy7Ohjbi-M&feature=youtu.be 1800-1900 11945 ISS 500 kw / 155 deg SoAf Japanese. Video July 26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAf3uyrIpsg&feature=youtu.be 1900-2100 15130 ISS 500 kw / 152 deg CeAf Japanese. Video July 12: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ7FdJGCkm4&feature=youtu.be Radio Mashaal 0400-0900 15360 NAU 250 kW / 090 deg WeAs Pashto. Video July 25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ba9CU3wq9c&feature=youtu.be Voice of America 0500-0530 11875 NAU 250 kW / 185 deg WCAf Hausa. Video July 27: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd1UfYYGJ_E&feature=youtu.be 1630-1700 11995 NAU 250 kW / 150 deg SDN English South Sudan Mon-Fri 1630-1700 13870 ISS 250 kW / 140 deg SDN English South Sudan Mon-Fri. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vVqzT8-U5E&feature=youtu.be 1730-1800 12005 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg EaAf Afan Oromo Mon-Fri. Video July 28: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWIYfAq8VYI&feature=youtu.be 1800-1830 9645 NAU 250 kW / 160 deg SDN Arabic Afia Darfur. Video July 28: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpxUR2n9rz0&feature=youtu.be 1800-1900 NF 12080 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg EaAf Amharic, ex 11925. Video July 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6zdhmFyL8U&feature=youtu.be 1800-1900 12005 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg EaAf Amharic 1800-1900 13870 NAU 250 kW / 140 deg EaAf Amharic. Video July 28: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddGkcd-R2nQ&feature=youtu.be 1900-1930 NF 12080 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg EaAf Tigrigna Mon-Fri, ex 11925. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrMscxT6JJI&feature=youtu.be 1900-1930 13870 NAU 250 kW / 140 deg EaAf Tigrigna Mon-Fri. Video July 28: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IPBPUvvVPU&feature=youtu.be 2030-2100 12040 NAU 250 kW / 190 deg WCAf Hausa Mon-Fri. Video July 29: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhgTWMpR99c&feature=youtu.be Trans World Radio 0545-0600 5910 MOS 100 kW / 030 deg EaEu Polish Mon-Fri 0545-0600 7320 MOS 100 kW / 300 deg WeEu Polish Mon-Fri. Video Jul28: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E52IieEETw&feature=youtu.be 0700-0720 6105 NAU 100 kW / 285 deg NoEu English 0700-0720 7400 MOS 100 kW / 300 deg NoEu English. Video July 25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_BI1ekkWZE&feature=youtu.be 0830-0900 7215 NAU 100 kW / 135 deg WeEu Hungarian. Video July 29: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5e7kluV5uE&feature=youtu.be 1400-1430 7320 NAU 100 kW / 065 deg EaEu Belarussian Mon 1400-1430 9800 MOS 100 kW / 055 deg EaEu Belarussian Mon. Vid Jul 7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofu8L5j5lAs&feature=youtu.be 1400-1430 7320 NAU 100 kW / 065 deg EaEu Russian Tue-Sun 1400-1430 9800 MOS 100 kW / 055 deg EaEu Russian Tue-Sun European Music Radio 0800-0900 6045 NAU 100 kW / 270 deg CeEu English/Music 3rd Sun Transportradio 0800-1000 6095 NAU 100 kW / 230 deg WeEu Dutch Mon/Wed/Fri. Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw19HpFTeLc&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1ZY3sQZA1o&feature=youtu.be Shortwave Rock 6045 0900-1000 6045 NAU 100 kW / 270 deg CeEu English/Music 4th Sun Radio Joystick 1000-1100 7330 MOS 100 kW / 283 deg CeEu German/Music 1st Sun Evangelische Missions Gemeiden 1030-1100 6055 NAU 125 kW / 122 deg CeEu German Sat/Sun. Vid Jul 26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z4frZh9eAI&feature=youtu.be Missionswerk Friedensstimme 1100-1130 13710 NAU 250 kW / 045 deg FE Russian Sat. Video July 26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWuZ60QaAJM&feature=youtu.be 1500-1530 11695 ISS 250 kW / 060 deg EaEu Russian Sat. Video July 26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26caGwr8uOg&feature=youtu.be Missionswerke Arche Stimme des Trostes 1100-1115 5945 NAU 250 kW / 122 deg CeEu German Sun. Videos July 27: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7Ci9MZw1jw&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVfoK9cMCiU&feature=youtu.be Pan American Broadcasting 1400-1415 15205 ISS 100 kW / 090 deg SoAs English Sun 1415-1430 15205 ISS 100 kW / 090 deg SoAs English. Video July 25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbjnCD9mQwI&feature=youtu.be 1430-1445 15205 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg SoAs English Sun 1930-2000 9515 NAU 250 kW / 155 deg NoAf English Sun Radio Liberty 1400-1500 15255 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg CeAs Turkmen. Video July 26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lYibHhIECA&feature=youtu.be 1500-1600 15460 NAU 250 kW / 085 deg CeAs Tajik. Video July 26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI0MdakBH2Q&feature=youtu.be 1500-1600 15620 NAU 250 kW / 090 deg CeAs Avari/Chechen/Chercassian. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmswMDG194U&feature=youtu.be Brother Stair/The Overcomer Ministries 1400-1600 13810 NAU 100 kW / 130 deg N&ME English M-F. Video July 25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NTHkQhxM0I 1400-1600 13810 ISS 100 kW / 120 deg N&ME English Sa/Su. Vid July 26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUBZhW21jOw&feature=youtu.be HCJB Voice of Andes 1530-1600 13800 MOS 100 kW / 095 deg CeAs Russian Sat. Video July 26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq5hrswOshU&feature=youtu.be 1600-1630 13800 MOS 100 kW / 095 deg CeAs Chechen Sat. Video July 26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37E0Mx8iYv0&feature=youtu.be Radio Xoriyo 1600-1630 17630 ISS 500 kW / 130 deg EaAf Somali Tue/Sat. Vid Jul 22: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqtXd5g-8UM&feature=youtu.be Video Aug.2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTM1jcN6s6M&feature=youtu.be Radio Inyabutatu: 1600-1700 NF 17500 ISS 100 kW / 144 deg CEAf Kinyarwanda Sat, ex 17870. Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdxproq8GqM&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqT3zrD8stM&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brX6jM8jTGc&feature=youtu.be Sedaye Radio-ye Mehr Iran 1630-1700 15670 ISS 500 kW / 091 deg WeAs Farsi Mon/Fri. Video Jul 25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nVI_BXixZw&feature=youtu.be Deewa Radio 1700-1800 9780 NAU 250 kW / 095 deg WeAs Pashto. Video July 26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wiv2ilCNAhk&feature=youtu.be Voice of Oromo Liberation 1700-1800 13830 ISS 100 kW / 125 deg EaAf Oromo/Amharic Sun/Wed Christian Science Sentinel 1800-1900 9585 NAU 100 kW / 090 deg EaEu Russian Sat. Vid July 12/26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xkVxmZ71tY&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlCoNtBSkfM&feature=youtu.be Echo of Europe 1830-1845 7315 NAU 125 kW / 230 deg WeEu French/English Tue/Fri. Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-HlQEo3Yps&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOmE2FYX9Kg&feature=youtu.be Lutheran World Federation,Voice of Gospel(Sawtu Linjilia) 1830-1900 15315 ISS 500 kW / 180 deg WCAf Fulfulde. Video July 25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUH5E-m11fQ&feature=youtu.be (DX RE MIX NEWS #865 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, August 5, 2014 via DXLD) Is it really worth all the trouble to put up so many videos (rather, audios) of ordinary stations? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** GOA. INDIA, 15410, AIR Panaji. Suddenly popped on at 1111:00, music for 1 second, then deadair for 31 seconds and music continued weakly modulated. Thai program started at 1115. ID at 1129, then deadair from 1130-1135, and news in English by M starting with ID from 1135 to 1140. Carrier with weak 1 kHz tone from 1140 until the signal suddenly went off at 1158:36. Not all that strong. (30 July) INDIA, 9705, 11740, AIR Panaji. No sign of either frequency for the English transmission at 2245. Was there a few days prior. (30 July) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo PA, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** GREECE. Station IDs observed on 11 July at 0001 as follows: Elliniki Dimostio Radiophonia on 729 and 1314; Elliniki Radiophonia on 1404, 1485, 1512 // SW 15630 The 1260 kHz transmitter in Rhodes not heard here since about 1 July (Rumen Pankov, Blgaria, 22 July, Aug BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** GREECE. 9935, August 1 at 0103, ERTOpen is active tonight after missing a few days, Greek music, but as has happened before to this transmitter only, it`s acting up with motorboating pulses, and with BFO it`s clear the center carrier is unstable. // 9420 is OK, VG but with lite SAH from Iran; and // 15630 also has good signal but undermodulated. 9935, August 3 at 0147 Greek music from ERTOPen, modulation back in whack tonight, as good as on // 9420; also on // 15630 at 0214 August 3, fair signal and somewhat undermodulated. 9935 has a bit of splash from Mighty KBC via GERMANY 9925, with a really mighty wide signal this week. [non]. 9935, Aug 4 at 0131, ERTOpen is off the air again, and also off 9420, leaving the frequency to Iran. 9935, Aug 5 at 0127, ERTOpen with Greek music, VG signal and modulation, // slightly stronger 9420, and JBA 15630. On again-off- again from one night to the next (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Good morning, Glenn, et al.: Nothing here from ERTOpen on Monday, August 4, but at my 0200 UT check on Tuesday, August 5, 9935 showed up with SINPO 45354 and 9420 was SINPO 55444; nothing here on 15630. I assume that the day shift showed up to turn the transmitters on in the morning. Regards, (John Babbis, Maryland, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9935 // 9420, Aug 6 at 0143, ERTOPen on again tonight with VG signals during Greek music // very poor 15630 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. Nice photo: TWR’s powerful transmitter site on the Pacific island of Guam http://www.bosnewslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/broadcaster.jpg -- (Andrea Borgnino IW0HK, Aug 4, shortwavesies yg via DXLD) ** GUATEMALA. 4055, GUATEMELA, Radio Verdad at 1020 with Glenn Campbell's “Try a Little Kindness” and a C&W version of “How Great Thou Art” - Fair Jul 29. They play music for about 15 minutes before their 1030 sign-on (Mark Coady, Ont., ODXA YRX via DXLD) That was Tue. It used to be circa *0930 = 3:30 am local; later on Sundays (gh, DXLD) ** HAWAII. 740, KCIK, Kihei, Maui, heard with Immaculate Heart Radio generally all night under KCBS-SF. At times faded up strong enough to tear KCBS up. Listed as 5 kW ND. At 0900 EDT 7/31, there was a pause and "KCIK Kihei" Then back into religious programming. Many mentions of Immaculate Heart Radio. KCBS had faded down by that time near LSR. Thanks to Chuck Hutton for the tip, as he heard it a Rockworks on the OR Coast. New station (Patrick Martin, Seaside OR, Drake R8, SW EWE KGED QSL Manager, NRC AM via DXLD) ** INDIA. 4970, AIR-Shillong, Aug 02 1335-1410, 45443, Hindi, Music and talk, ID at 1400 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD- 9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 9690, August 1 at 1410, AIR GOS with fair signal today, quite listenable during Indian vocal music, 1419 English announcement. Better than // 13710, and as usual, no signal on alleged // 11620. 9690 also has better signal than VBS on 9870 which also suffers CCCCI. 13695, August 3 at 0211, 1-kHz tone test, fair signal. And at 0212 I find an equal match on 15120. At 0213:05 both stop tone and soon start AIR IS in synch; 0215 music and pause, language opening announcement, 0217 song. HFCC confirms both are Bengaluru, 500 kW at 300 degrees in Kannada to CIRAF 39, which is from Turkey thru the entire Arabian peninsula; registered from 0200 to account for the open carriers. EiBI`s readme language list says ``Kannada: India-Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu (40 million)``. See also UNIDENTIFIED 11740 [and non]. 15040, Aug 5 at 1246, AIR Burmese is fair with flutter, yet amounts to the SSOB rivaled only 15610 WEWN. Bangladesh also showing poorly on 15105. 9690, August 5 at 1326, AIR is on with vocal music prélude rather than IS, presumably tail of Tibetan service supposed to be on other frequencies only; 1330 signing on GOS English, into news; also fair on // 13710 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 3344.87, RRI Ternate. Now that Ramadan is over, this station is off the air, probably till the next Ramadan; as of August 4. RRI Palangkaraya (3325) // RRI Wamena (4869.90), ending the news at 1231, August 4, with patriotic song “Dirgahayu Indonesiaku,” which was in fact played on August 1 and should be heard throughout the month. 3325, RRI Palangkaraya, 1335, August 5. Nice promo for iPhone application - "Download," "Audio streaming broadcasting," "Voice of Indonesia," "Audio on demand," list of RRI stations available. Audio - https://app.box.com/s/8yh19avonxmw0warlr0h Have heard this promo many times recently! (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 4869.920, RRI Wamena, male Indonesian announcer, S=7 poor, singer at 1026 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, heard remote in Brisbane SDR unit, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 1, dxldyg via DXLD) 4869.9, Aug 4 at 1119, music audible on the lo side of 4870, vs bonker QRM, presumably RRI Wamena, which Atsunori Ishida confirms active today. On July 31, Ron Howard had it on 4869.90; on Aug 1, Wolfgang Büschel on 4869.920 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 7290, RRI, Nabire. Fair only at 0136 with EZL songs, slow fade signal, more typical of summer conditions, 3/8. 73 (Craig Seager, Berry Springs NT, Perseus fed by EWE, Logs from the Top End, Sent from my iPhone, ARDXC mailing list via DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 9525.90, V. of Indonesia: Jul 28 1206-1221, 34433-33443, Chinese, News, No Japanese Jul 30 1201-1211, 43443, Japanese, News, ID at 1202 and 1206 and 1210 Jul 31 1217-1241, 33443 English, News and talk, ID at 1225, No Japanese (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX: IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD- 515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT: 130m Sloper Wire, WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Indonesia noted in French, instead of Spanish: 1700-1800 on 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 290 deg to WeEu. Video from July 28: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/07/voice-of-indonesia-in-french-instead-in.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #864 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, July 31, 2014 via DXLD) On July 29 Voice of Indonesia was back to your usual schedule: 1000-1100 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 135 deg AUS English, no signal here 1100-1200 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 010 deg EaAs Chinese, no signal here 1200-1300 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 010 deg EaAs Japanese, no signal here 1300-1400 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 010 deg EaAs English, no signal here 1400-1500 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 010 deg EaAs Indonesian under CRI Ru 1500-1600 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 010 deg EaAs Chinese, see 2 videos 1600-1700 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 290 deg N/ME Arabic, see 3 videos 1700-1800 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 290 deg WeEu Spanish, see 3 videos 1800-1900 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 290 deg WeEu German, see 3 videos 1900-2000 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 290 deg WeEu English, blocked by CRI Ru 2000-2100 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 290 deg WeEu French, blocked by CRI Ru Videos 15-19 UT, when the nominal frequency 9525 is free of other stations: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/07/voice-of-indonesia-was-back-to-your.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #864 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, July 31, 2014 via DXLD) But July 31, French heard once again at 1700-1800 (Jean-Michel Aubier, France, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) And in English till 1855, Chinese from 1855. Four videos wiil be uploaded after few minutes (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) July 31 Voice of Indonesia again with wrong order of languages: 1700-1800 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 290 deg WeEu French, not Spanish 1800-1855 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 290 deg WeEu English, not German from 1855 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 290 deg WeEu Chinese, not English. Videos http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/07/on-july-31-voice-of-indonesia-again.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9525.90, V. of Indonesia: Aug 01 1203-1217, 34443-33443, Japanese, News, ID at 1208. Aug 02 1249-1302, 33443-32442-34443, Japanese, Music, ID at 1257 and 1300, Closing announce at 1301, English program from 1302 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Indonesia on 9525.9, Aug.2 from 1500 in Chinese as scheduled from 1600 in Arabic as scheduled from 1700 in Spanish as scheduled from 1800 in French, instead [of] in German -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DXLD) Voice of Indonesia was noted in French, instead of German 1800-1900 on 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 290 deg to WeEu. Videos from Aug.2: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/voice-of-indonesia-1800-1900-in-french.html As scheduled: 1500 Chinese; 1600 Arabic; 1700 Spanish; 19-21 blocked by CRI Russian (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) Hello, They had English instead of Arabic, 1600 to 1700 UT as well (Tarek Zeidan, Cairo, Egypt, Sent from my iPad, Aug 3, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Observations for Voice of Indonesia on August 4 1508-1908 on 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 290 deg to WeEu in Chinese/Arabic/Spanish and German, but with 8 minutes delay between changes of languages. Videos: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/observations-for-voice-of-indonesia-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. Something called the Outernet will launch on 11 August. From its website: "Through satellite data broadcasting, Outernet is able to bypass censorship, ensure privacy, and offer a universally-accessible information service at no cost to global citizens. It's the modern version of shortwave radio, or BitTorrent from space." See https://www.outernet.is/ which is hip and stylish and, youtube resultingly, abstruse in its description of the project. See also: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/contents-internet-satellite Deutsche Welle Announces Content Partnership with Outernet http://blogs.dw.de/insider/tag/outernet/ I wish them luck -- whatever they are doing (Kim Elliott, VOA Radiogram Aug 2 via Roger Thayer, dxldyg via DXLD) ** IRAN. 21650, VOIRI, Jul 31 1241-1250*, 45444, Chinese, Talk, URL announce and ID at 1249, 1250 sign off (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX: IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT: 130m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15530, July 31 at 0521-0523* IRIB IS, poor with flutter, after the semihour Russian service via Sirjan; 15430, July 31 at 0522 IRIB IS here too, 0523 NA, poor signal as Spanish via Kamalabad is about to open. 13785, July 31 at 1258, 1324, 1351 chex, VIRI 9-hour Arabic service southward from Kamalabad suffers from a carrier on hi side making a wavering het, partly matching G4 on my keyboard = 394 Hz. But there`s another pitch, so the carrier may have its own tone modulation. Is someone really jamming this service, or is Iran jamming itself with a second transmitter off-frequency? 13785, August 2 before and after 1400, VIRI Arabic again with whine/het which I suspect is self-imposed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non?]. 13785, August 3 at 1310, VIRI Arabic fair signal, and again with constant het/tone on hi side; since they are talking about Israel, it occurs to me that the present war with Gaza may lead Israel to jam some enemy broadcasts in Arabic? After all, they have no further use for their former 300 kW broadcast transmitters. Even more susceptible should be: Saut Falestin "Voice of Islamic Palestinian Revolution" ARABIC 0320-0420 9610kam 11875sir, A14 sked per BC-DX. Are these jammed? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Frequency change of Voice of Islamic Republic of Iran IRIB in Spanish 0023-0220 NF 12025 KAM 500 kW / 274 deg to SoAm, ex 11760 to avoid RHCuba Sp. Parallel freq. 9860 KAM 500 kW / 259 deg to SoAm till 0320 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/frequency-change-of-voice-of-islamic.html (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11760, August 4 at 0139, RHC Spanish during Arnie Coro`s talk about how historic 11760 is for them, has co-channel QRM from another station in Spanish // clear 9860, VIRI, which has been on 11760 all season, and still is, despite Ivo Ivanov`s news August 3 claiming that the 0023-0220 Spanish broadcast via Kamalabad, 274 degrees to S America, has moved to 12025 to avoid RHC --- nothing on 12025 now. 11760 is virtually zero-beat to Habana, not as strong, but enough to be annoying. Did Ivo axually hear Iran on 12025 last night, or was this info from some other source? He does not make that clear, and no way of knowing unless he put up an audio clip, with none so far. Maybe the QSY is still pending (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also GREECE 11760, Aug 5 at 0115, VIRI is JBA underneath RHC, still not having uncollided its own Spanish service to South America by moving to 12025 as allegedly in the worx: nothing there. A little more detectable at 0142 when RHC is merely talking. 13785, Aug 5 at 1250, VIRI Arabic service at 0520-1420 still with big het/tone jammer? At 1338 main tone matches G4 = 392 Hz; still at 1407. Are others hearing this closer to the Mideast? What source do you think? I also checked the Palestinian service as previously mentioned, but inaudible Aug 5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DX LISTENING DIGEST) het turned out to be my router - ! grr (gh, DXLD) 11760, Aug 6 at 0145, VIRI Spanish barely audible way under RHC co- channel, but can make it // 9860 poor but clear, as at 0146 a correspondent from Radio Nacional de Venezuela is outroing a report for VIRI about Israel, no doubt negative. Kindred spirits, all. Into music. Still nothing on 12025, but I see in latest HFCC of Aug 3 that both 11760 and 12025 are registered with identical parameters for the entire A-14 season, obviously intended as alternates, so what are they waiting for?? 500 kW, 274 degrees from Kamalabad at 0020-0220 to CIRAF 11-15, no slew, antenna type 215 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DX LISTENING DIGEST) So Ivo revises: Upcoming frequency change of Voice of Islamic Republic of Iran in Spanish 0023-0220 NF 12025 KAM 500 kW / 274 deg to SoAm, ex 11760 to avoid RHCuba Spanish. Parallel freq. 9860 KAM 500 kW / 259 deg to SoAm till 0320. Video on 11760 & 9860 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/frequency-change-of-voice-of-islamic.html (Ivo Ivanov, Aug 6, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. Clandestine observation: Radio Payem e-Doost: 1800-1845 on 7480 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Farsi 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. Huge signal from Radio Farda on 1575 kHz, ID at 1943 UT, // 5860 & 7585, bubble jammer audible on 1575 kHz (John, Faversham, Kent UK, JRC NRD-515 / ALA1530LF + Sony ICF-2001D / 10mtr Long wire & AT-1000 ATU, Sent from my iPad, UT Aug 2, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** IRELAND [and non]. RTE Radio 1, 252 in clear with male and female announcers // website with very slight delay, sounds like an echo. (Bob Young, Millbury, MA, RCA 13K console, 600' LW/1000'dipole, 0305 UT Aug 5, NRC-AM via DXLD) Slightly better reception of Kalundborg, Denmark on 243 kHz this morning on the pocket portable (0630 UT 5/8) due to the absence of RTE 1 on 252 kHz. Chimes and announcements before early morning exercises to music at 0630 UT followed by weather forecast in Danish. I've not checked any web-sites yet, but presume RTE are off for maintenance. 73's (Nick, Buxton, Rank, Roberts R9924 portable on the hills, 0715 UT Aug 5, BDXC_UK yg via DXLD) RTE Radio 1 is back on 252 kHz at 1015 GMT (Tues 5th August 2014). (Rog Parsons (BDXC 782), Hinckley LE10 0NJ, ibid.) Thanks to Mike and Rog for their postings. I noted them back on air around 0930 UT, but then a sudden interruption (no signal) mid- sentence at 0937. Noted back on at 0956. 73's (Nick, Buxton, R9924 portable, wire fence aerial, 1128 UT, ibid.) ** ISRAEL. KNESSET PASSES LAW TO CLOSE IBA, ESTABLISH NEW PUBLIC BROADCASTER http://www.iba.org.il/world/?lang=en&entity=1030324&type=1 The Knesset plenum has passed second and third readings of the law to close down the Israel Broadcasting Authority and establish a new public broadcaster. In the vote, 45 MKS voted in favor, 11 against, and one abstained. Under the law the IBA will shut down and the license fee will be abolished by March 31, 2015. 30.07.14 - 07:46 (via Doni Rosenzweig, July 31, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY [non]. ROMANIA, NEXUS IRRS Shortwave transmissions via Tiganeshti on July 27 European Gospel Radio: 0930-1200 on 9510 TIG 150 kW / 290 deg to WeEu English Sun Radio Santec, The Word, Cosmic Wave: 1500-1530 on 15190 TIG 150 kW / 100 deg to SoAs German/English Sun Universal Life, The Word, Cosmic Wave: 1530-1600 on 15190 TIG 150 kW / 165 deg to CEAf German/English Sun. Videos: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/07/nexus-irrs-shortwave-transmissions-via.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #864 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, July 31, 2014 via DXLD) See also ROMANIA, canceled broadcasts ** JAPAN. Radio Nikkei es una estación de onda corta comercial japonesa cuya supervivencia me sigue asombrando. Sea como fuere, se trata de una de mis emisoras preferidas. Me resulta además una clara muestra de la apertura progresiva de la ruta de propagación por el Pacífico hacia Oriente: primero se la comenza a escuchar en 9595 kHz, más tarde en 6055, y finalmente, en esta frecuencia, 3925, que a pesar de un QRM de una estación utilitaria que no determino cual es, da buena señal aquí por el Río de la Plata. http://youtu.be/7xw5XB8XQPc Igualmente, su otro programa, Radio Nikkei 2, puede escucharse del mismo modo, secuencialmente por 9760, 6115 y raramente en 3945 kHz. —(Rodolfo Tizzi http://elterrorylavirtud.blogspot.com/ http://cx2abp.blogspot.com/ Aug 4, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH. I, surprisingly, found myself quite enjoying a programme of light music from Voice of Korea on 14 July from tune-in at 1929 UT on 11635 kHz including a song called “I Love China” followed by an article entitled “US Imperialists Reduce Korea to Debris During Three-Year War” (referring to 1950-53 Korean War). This was followed by another song sounding like a military band playing a marching song, and then more light music up to the end of the transmission (Listening Post with Alan Roe, August BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. SOUTH KOREA’S NEW PROPAGANDA RADIO STATION FACES STATIC http://www.northkoreatech.org/2014/07/23/south-koreas-new-propaganda-radio-station-faces-static/ South Korea’s latest attempt to sway the minds of the North Korean people looks like a dud before it’s even begun. This month, the South Korean military begins regular programming on a new shortwave radio station aimed at the DPRK, but the selection of frequency, low transmitter power and aggressive jamming means few if anyone in the DPRK can probably hear it. Voice of Freedom began several years ago on FM along the border. The use of FM hobbled the station because the signals typically only travel a few tens of kilometers and are susceptible to being blocked by the many hills in the area. The Voice of America / Radio Free Asia transmission site in Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands [caption] In May, Voice of Freedom began test broadcasts began on shortwave, http://www.northkoreatech.org/2014/06/13/south-korea-steps-up-propaganda-radio-broadcasts/ which can reach much further because the signals bounce off the ionosphere and come back down far from the transmitter site. It’s the only reliable way to get regular radio programming into North Korea and is used by several broadcasters, including outlets like Radio Free Asia, which use high power transmitters as far away as the Northern Mariana Islands to get their signal into the DPRK. Radio stations can choose their own spot on the shortwave dial and, while it’s less crowded than it used to, the frequency still needs to selected with care. It not only needs to avoid other stations, which come on and off the air at different times of day, but to match the expected atmospheric conditions for the time of year and the distance to be covered. Voice of Freedom turned up on 6,135kHz, well inside the most crowded shortwave band in East Asia. This means it not only has to overcome North Korean jamming, which is already aggressively blocking its signal most days, but it also has to compete with more powerful stations. “I don’t know who or why they picked this frequency,” said Jamie Labadia in an email to North Korea Tech. Labadia is a U.S.-based shortwave engineer who was contracted by the South Korean military to build the station. “Not only is it the most crowded band one could pick in the evening, it is also rather high in frequency for the short distance to the target area,” he said. The frequency was suitable for the daytime, but at night the signal was probably bouncing right over a large part of the southern portion of North Korea. In the couple of weeks before North Korea caught on to the broadcasts, they were being heard across Asia and in the United States, but no more. North Korean jamming, similar to that faced by Radio Free Asia, Voice of America, KBS and several other broadcasters, has been wiping out the signal. “I know the pulse is destroying us,” Labadia said to Glenn Hauser, author of the popular DXLD shortwave newsletter. http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html “Pretty discouraging to go through all of these struggles, only to have it be for naught.” Labadia said he had “tried to convince [the South Korean military] to use a second frequency, however as of now they are staying on 6135.” Two stations run by South Korea’s National Intelligence Service use a series of transmitters on different frequencies to maximize their chances of getting through North Korea’s jamming blockade. As of now, it looks like Voice of Freedom won’t be doing the same so the station might be an exercise in frustration. Here’s the broadcasting schedule, provided by Labadia to DXLD: 0800 to 0000 GMT / 1700 to 0900 local time 0300 to 0500 GMT / 1200 to 1400 local time The station isn’t on air during work hours because foreign radio listening is typically done in secret, at home (North Korea Tech via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [and non]. HACKERS DESIGN CLANDESTINE AERIALS TO HELP NORTH KOREANS WATCH BANNED TV http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/06/north-korea-clandestine-tv-aerials-banned-programmes Is North Korea using a digital platform compatible with South Korean digital standards? How else would this work? Do these proposed antennas and receivers provide a signal that a North Korean set would demodulate? How many sets in the North have USB or HDMI ports I wonder? As we know, over the air analog was different with South Korea using 6 MHz NTSC channels and the North using 8 MHz wide SECAM. And we have all heard that North Korea “seals” the VHF tuners to the channels used in each region (Brock Whaley, Ireland for DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 2850, NORTH KOREA, KCBS, 7/30 1140. With instrumental music. Good (Barton-AZ) 3320, NORTH KOREA, Pyongyang BS, 7/30 1130, Monologue by M in Korean. Fair; mixing with QRN (Barton-AZ) 3480, OPPOSITION, SOUTH KOREA, Voice of the People, 7/30 1120. M and W in dialogue under some T-storm static. Fair (Rick Barton, El Mirage, AZ, (not using long overhead backyard antenna due to monsoon T-storms) listening from my car next to dry riverbed, Grundig Sat 750, Wilson passive antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. TAJIKISTAN/PALAU, Reception of two clandestines: Radio Free North Korea 1530-1630 11550 DB 100 kW / 071 deg KRE Korean Furusato no Kaze 1600-1630 9960 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg NEAs Japanese. Videos Aug. 2: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/receptions-of-two-clandestine-stations.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #865 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, August 5, 2014 via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. Clandestine observations: Radio Free Chosun: 1300-1500 on 15630 PUG 250 kW / 020 deg to KRE Korean Nippon no Kaze: 1530-1600 on 9965 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg to NEAs Korean Furusato no Kaze: 1430-1500 on 9960 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg to NEAs Japanese 1600-1630 on 9960 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg to NEAs Japanese North Korea Reform Radio: 1430-1530 on 9300 TAC 100 kW / 070 deg to KRE Korean Radio Free North Korea: 1530-1630 on 11550 DB 100 kW / 071 deg to KRE Korean Voice of Martyrs: 1600-1730 on 7510 TAC 100 kW / 065 deg to KRE Korean 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UZBEKISTAN, Frequency change of Voice of Martyrs effective from Aug 6: 1600-1730 NF 7530 TAC 100 kW / 065 deg KRE Korean, ex 7510 from July 2 Altenative frequencies: 7505/7510/7520/7525. Video new 7530, old 7510: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/frequency-change-of-voice-of-martyrs.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnY6cgBdxuY&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Aug 6, dxldyg via WORLD OF RDIO 1733, DXLD) See also UZBEKISTAN harmonic ** KOREA SOUTH. 15575, KBSWR, 8/2, 1315. A "non-log", at imagination level, with a carrier detected only by BFO. Re-check at 1340 had them with mailbag program [Saturday], at sinpo 24433 (Rick Barton, El Mirage, AZ, mostly listening from my car next to dry riverbed, Grundig Sat 750, Wilson passive antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN. IRAQI KURDISTAN --- The Voice of Iraqi Kurdistan broadcasts from Salah al Din 6335 kHz, 5 kW. Schedule as per Aoki 1600-1700 English, 1700-1800 Kurdish, 1800-1900 Kurdish/Arabic. Have checked this out over the last few days but nothing audible. Maybe worth keeping a check on this as “nationhood” via a referendum is likely in the not too distant future (Editor, July NZ DX Times via DXLD) DXLD archive shows numerous logs in 2007 and 2008, apparently went off by July 1, 2008 and nothing since (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. Radio Kuwait General Service in Arabic additional frequency 0000-2400 15475, weak signal in Sofia. Videos on July 25, 26, 27, 28: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/07/rkuwait-general-service-in-arabic-on.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as0KViUXqB0&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=344m4pe1dv4&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp5rQnsXiCc&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjl9QG7_0aw&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fJbIAPqpyE&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l-oXRyqMPk&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go0ypvKaPf8&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRPv_jlibz8&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWes3Dkzm38&feature=youtu.be Current summer A-14 shortwave schedule of Radio Kuwait 0000-2400 15475 additional frequency effective July 23 or 24 Arabic 0200-0900 5960 KBD 250 kW / non-dir N/ME Arabic, off from July 24 0500-0900 15515 KBD 300 kW / 059 deg EaAs Arabic 0800-1000 7250 KBD 500 kW / non-dir WeAs Persian 0930-1600 11630 KBD 500 kW / 230 deg CeAf Arabic Holy Qur`an 1000-1200 21580 KBD 500 kW / 084 deg SEAs Tagalog 1100-1600 9750 KBD 300 kW / 286 deg NEAf Arabic 1200-1600 21540 KBD 500 kW / 310 deg WeEu Arabic 1600-1800 15540 KBD 300 kW / 100 deg SoAs Urdu 1600-2100 6050 KBD 250 kW / non-dir N/ME Arabic 1700-2000 13650 KBD 500 kW / 350 deg NoAm Arabic, off from July 24 1800-2100 15540 KBD 500 kW / 310 deg WeEu English 2000-2400 17550 KBD 500 kW / 350 deg NoAm Arabic, off from July 24 Unscheduled broadcast of Radio Kuwait in Arabic, after English program 2100-2120 on 15540 KBD 500 kW / 310 deg to WeEu. Videos from July 30: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/07/unscheduled-broadcast-of-radio-kuwait.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #864 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, July 31, 2014 via DXLD) 15475, August 3 at 0214, music very poor with flutter, no doubt Kuwait on new 24-hour frequency, despite LRA36 – still active on 15476 around 18-21 weekdays? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15475, R Kuwait, 2049 04 AUG 2014, 2040 in Arabic, loud. 73 (Nick VK2DX Hacko, Sydney NSW, Australia, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LAOS. 6130, Lao National Radio, 1359, August 5. Usual theme music before segment in English; heard bits & pieces of their normal ID; “This is the Lao National Radio, broadcasting from Vientiane capital, the Lao People's Democratic Republic. Our news in English program broadcasts at 2100 to 2130 hours local time daily, which is transmitted on AM 567 kHz on medium wave and on AM 6,130 kHz. on shortwave”; poor, but pleased to find they still have English at 1400 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LAOS [non]. USA (non), Radio Free Asia in Lao was back again on SW: 0000-0100 on 15690 TIN 250 kW / 289 deg to SEAs from July 19 1100-1200 on 15120 TIN 250 kW / 279 deg to SEAs from July 19 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/radio-free-asia-in-lao-was-back-again.html http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/frequency-changes-of-voice-of-america.html (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DXLD) ** LIBERIA. I see from news reports Aug 5 about Nancy ---, the second American ebola victim, that she`s with SIM --- originally standing for the Sudan Interior Mission, sponsor of ELWA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MADAGASCAR. 5010.564, Jul 31 1945, R Madagasikara still around with their unstable transmitter. Music just above QRN (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin Aug 3 via DXLD) ** MALI. UNIDentified with classical music and announcement in French: 1500-1600 17630, strong carrier, but very low modulation. From 1600 totally blocked by Radio Xoriyo in Somali scheduled Tue/Sat 1600-1630 17630 ISS 500 kW / 130 deg EaAf + white noise DRM. Video Aug. 2: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/unidentified-station-with-classical.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #865 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, August 5, 2014 via DXLD) UNIDentified station in French with classical music is CRI via Bamako: 1500-1600 on 17630 BKO 100 kW / 085 deg to CeAf French, not English, strong carrier, very low modulation, not // 11920 CER, 13670 CER. Videos on Aug. 4: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/unidentified-stn-in-french-with.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DXLD) ** MEXICO. 710-, August 2 at 0558, big het with US stations closer to 710.0, so XEDP Chihuahua is on its off-frequency transmitter tonight (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1060, August 3 at 0223 UT Sunday, reel music with fiddle, as long as cheater KIJN Farwell TX is nulled; presumably part of eclectic music from XEEP México DF; comparing to 6185 XEPPM surprisingly finds them //, altho in evenings SW programming is supposed to be distinct and separate. The latest monthly program schedules at http://www.radioeducacion.edu.mx/carta-programatica-del-mes are from May! But they show non-specific programming on both at this time, just part of a large lite blue blob on MW, a green blob on SW at 2120-2145 CDT Saturdays, so maybe the SW goes in and out of // music fill from MW, in between separate programming? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Report out to XEARZ, ZER Radio, Mexico City on 1650. Heard them on a jaunt to a nearby farm at home with 150m of temporary beverage almost on the ground a few weeks ago. I’ve had a facebook response from Nico del Real, of Grupo ZER, but calling it a QSL might be stretching it a little (Mike Smith, Opunake, New Zealand, July NZ DX Times via DXLD) 1650, XEARZ with Spanish ident 0901, format mainly orchestral music 21/6 (Bryan Clark in Mangawhai, Northland, North Island, New Zealand, with AOR7030+ and directional EWE antennas to North, Central & South America, July NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** MEXICO. Bits of sporadic E, August 2 as the season is about over: 1528 UT on 2, fade-in for a minute or so, variety show with Televisa net-2 star bug in LR; also some signs of video during the next hour. 1628 on 2, musical show with either Gala swirl bug in UR, or more like Azteca 13. 1639 on 2, now it`s the Televisa net-9 Gala TV swirl bug UR. These fade-ins are not the rapid spurts of meteor scatter, but Es MUF barely poking above ch 2 video. Still in and out, mostly out, past 1648 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MICRONESIA. 4755.568, FSM, PMA Pacific Missionary Aviation, Pohnpei, English religious program, "Glory Jesus Christ" matter, at 1022 UT Aug 1 (Wolfgang Büschel, heard remote in Brisbane SDR unit, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 1, dxldyg via DXLD) 4755+, Aug 4 at 1116, PMA The Cross, gospel talk in English, on poor signal; nevertheless, nice to hear some modulation from this rather than just timing the carrier cutoff (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4755.54, PMA-The Cross Radio, 1123-1130, August 4. Mostly religious songs; 1124 two minute sound bite "A Time for Harvest" with Pastor Greg Laurie; www.harvest.org; 1-800-821-3300; ID “The Cross Radio is a Ministry of Pacific Mission Fellowship. Find us on the web at radio dot pma pacific dot org," per audio attachment. Their website http://www.pmapacific.org/ministries/radio/shortwave.php shows "Our short-wave station 4755 kHz is down at the moment - awaiting engineer and parts," which is clearly not the case today. Old message? (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes -- that message has been there for years (gh) 4755.54, PMA-The Cross Radio. Strange happenings here August 6. At 1206 and subsequent checking through to 1333 heard strong open carrier after their usual sign off time with no audio at all; normally the transmitter automatically goes off after the DTMF tones, but not so today (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MOROCCO. 9575, Radio Medi Un at 0533 in French, possibly news, 0535 English pop tunes, 0539 canned ID - Fair July 30 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, listening in my car by the lake with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, a good time to hear it without heavy ACI on either side, but never very listenable here (gh, OK, DXLD) ** MYANMAR. 5985.23, Myanmar Radio. Yangon, Myanmar. 02 AUG 2014 from 1445 two male speakers, in Burmese? S7. 1446 southeast Asian music then getting stronger. From 1530 loud in English, news female speaker. 73 (Nick VK2DX Hacko, Sydney NSW, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7200.07, Myanmar Radio, August 4 found them back on this former frequency; 1414-1420 extremely distorted audio; audio suddenly cleared up; 1414-1429 indigenous style C&W singing; 1430 usual theme music leading into their Distance Learning Service with lecture in vernacular till off suddenly at 1456*; lecture was // 5915 as usual; overall poor. 7200.09, Myanmar Radio, August 6, believe I just missed their sign on at 1340; fair. August 5 from 1405-1530*; music show till 1430; theme music for Distance Learning Service with long lecture in vernacular; unable to determine what the subject was, but in the past have heard English and math lessons; lecture was // 5915; almost fair; frequency seemed higher than first day I heard them (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9730, Myanma R., 1036 usual closing for this early Monday airing of the ABC R. English language program. Canned spots then studio W announcer talk with M. Poor to fair. No sign of the presumed CNR channel that was here yesterday at this time. (28 July) 9730, Myanma R., 1105 incredible strength and thought it was CNR back on this frequency again, so tried to // but found none. By the time I came to the realization it was actually Myanmar, it had already dropped down. Was way down by 1120. Probably the best heard this year. (1 August) 9731, Myanma R. (presumed). Off frequency and barely audible. Just voices here and there after 1108, then music program from about 1114. Couldn't detect the usual theme music at 1129 but there was music. W announcer then at 1130, and gone at 1130:50. So it must have been Myanmar. Nowhere near as strong as it was yesterday on 9730. (2 August) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA USA, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. Radio Nederland announces that after prolonging SW for two years (only for a half hour M-F broadcast in Spanish), that too is being canceled as of August 2 --- no more SW at all. Had been 0000-0030 UT Tue-Sat via WHRI 9895, presumably now silent. However, some programs (? Is that what to call them?) remain via other media (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: TERMINA DEFINITIVAMENTE LA EMISIÓN RADIAL DE RADIO NEDERLAND POR OC. Estimados Socios y Amigos de RNW, Nuevamente estamos inmersos en una reorganización ante la necesidad de ajustar prioridades y aprendiendo a ser más competitivos después del análisis de estos dos años transcurridos desde el tránsito de la vieja Radio Nederland a la nueva RNW. Necesitamos fortalecer la efectividad de las plataformas que más nos han permitido llegar a las audiencias que nos enfocamos (los jóvenes), tal como las redes sociales y las plataformas online, dando una atención diferenciada a los países que son prioritarios. En esa línea es que estamos definiendo las nuevas herramientas y la nueva estrategia de comunicación. Esto significará una renovación de las plataformas online y el trabajo con nuevos formatos. También aprovechar mejor el personal para enfrentar los nuevos retos. Por eso queremos anunciarles el fin de la producción de El Toque Radio desde el 2 de agosto por todas las vías de distribución que teníamos, incluida la onda corta. Desde el lunes 21 de julio y hasta el último programa del 1 de agosto les vamos a ofrecer una repetición de los mejores programas de El Toque Audio a lo largo de casi dos años. No obstante y a pesar de los nuevos cambios, queremos mantener la producción de audios o de programas radiales en momentos determinados, cuando estimemos que podremos marcar la diferencia por la relevancia de los temas a tratar y su trascendencia para los públicos meta. Vamos a continuar también con la producción de El Toque Sexual todos los Viernes, una colaboración con Hablemosdesexo.com que ha tenido mucho éxito hasta el momento. Gracias por su comprensión y fidelidad. Esperamos poder seguir contando con Ustedes como socios/colaboradores o simplemente como seguidores/reproductores de eltoque.com y de hablemosdesexo.com Saludos de todo el equipo, Sergio Acosta (Via "El Toque" FB via Horacio Nigro, Uruguay. Ago 1, condiglista yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DXLD) Recordar que quedaba una frecuencia activa de lo que era RNW históricamente en la OC. Las vías son ahora digitales en especial para la juventud que es el público objeto de destino (target). Medios como difusión de mails via USB o redes intranet en Cuba y la blogosfera cubana específicamente son caminos de comunicación más eficaces visto el derrumbe de los sistemas de información via Onda Corta. Sin duda que no es el ideal. Pero es lo que es posible hoy en día en estas circunstancias (Horacio Nigro, Uruguay, ibid.) For reference: What's the quoted >>"El Toque" FB<< ? Searching https://www.facebook.com/eltoquecom/timeline does not yield this text. If this Facebook account was meant, the announcement appears to have already been deleted, maybe to get rid of the shortwave stuff as swiftly as possible. (But still sufficient evidence remains that indeed nothing goes out anymore as of today.) Is any linear radio left at RNW now at all? Not so, it seems. So it hereby ceased to be a radio station (Kai Ludwig, Aug 4, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I visited the RNW website a couple of weeks ago and noticed that there was no longer any reference to the SW transmission for El Toque. Not a good sign, I was thinking at the time. Guess this confirms my suspicion (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, Aug 4, ibid.) "El Toque" in Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eltoquecom?fref=ts (Horacio Nigro Geolkiewsky, Montevideo, Uruguay, ibid.) Nothing heard on 9895 checking after 0000 UT August 5, so it appears RNW is really gone from SW after 67 years. Of course, the real death was two years ago when all the old services were shut down, but still, end of a long era for the Dutch on SW that goes back to the 1920's. (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The last shortwave broadcasts of Radio Nederland via WHRI #1 after prolonging shortwave for two years was been Saturday, August 2: 0000-0030 9895 HRI 250 kW / 173 deg CeAm Spanish Tue-Sat. Goodbye! http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/dx-re-mix-news-865.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #865 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, August 5, 2014 via DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 9925, UT Sunday August 3 at 0148, Eric on The Mighty KBC is mighty wide this week, via Nauen, GERMANY, QRMing 9935 Greece, as he is fulfilling a song dedication to Lou Johnson in America; also splash against weaker signal on 9915, which per Aoki is BBC Urdu via ARMENIA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENINGT DIGEST) ** NEWFOUNDLAND. 2598-USB, Canada, VCP4 Placentia, Newfoundland, OM weather 0048 to 0058 “showers …boating..1.5 knots`` 1 August (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, Icom 746Pro Lankford modified; Drake R8; NRD 525 Lankford Modified; Sony 2010 XA Lankford created; Scotka antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEWFOUNDLAND. Hi Fred: “I recently discovered The Fisheries Broadcast from CBC Radio One. Below is some information from their website. Listening to an episode, I loved the East Coast and Newfoundland accents. Real local flavour! And to contact them by email, it's fish@cbc.ca, hah – hah.” (Harold Sellers) The Fisheries Broadcast CBC Radio Newfoundland and Labrador http://www.cbc.ca/fisheriesbroadcast/ This program airs weekdays at 5:30 pm Newfoundland Time [2000 UT] The Program --- Since going on the air in 1951, “The Broadcast,” as it is affectionately known, has been dedicated to covering stories about the fishing industry, reflecting the people and the communities that depend on the sea for their livelihood. The Fisheries Broadcast also provides basic survival information to fish harvesters, such as marine weather forecasts, meeting announcements and the opening and closing times of the various fisheries. The Host --- Jamie Baker brings nearly 20 years of experience as a journalist and follower of fisheries issues in Newfoundland and Labrador and throughout Atlantic Canada to his role as host of Fisheries Broadcast. Baker is an award-winning journalist, writer and photographer who has served as the managing editor for Navigator Magazine. He has covered a wide variety of issues, including a focus on fisheries in past roles with The Telegram and The Labradorian; he also worked alongside the fishing industry with the Fish, Food and Allied Workers. Contact Us --- Want to get in touch with The Broadcast? Call the Fish Line! (709) 576-5287 or toll free at 1-800-561-3474 or email us at: fish@cbc.ca Harold's note illustrates a valid point. In this internet age in which we live, it is possible to listen to local programming from throughout the world. In essence, EVERY radio station that streams worldwide is an international broadcaster. I have become fond of a radio station in Slovenia, which I discovered in much the same way I stumbled onto most of my DX catches. In this case, it was not so much spinning the dial until I found a signal, but searching around a site like TuneIn Radio. Let us know what YOU are listening to (Fred Waterer, Aug Programming Matters, ODXA via DXLD) ** NEW ZEALAND. 6170, no reception for the final RNZI Mailbox, August 4 at 1330v, so I just listened to the audio at: http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/player/20144321 Farewell (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. Re: Bauchi Radio Corporation has joined the HFCC, which just might imply they have plans for HF broadcasting from this Hausa- area state, although apparently only on FM so far. It’s station 21 in the WRTH National section (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Bauchi Radio Corp is a partner of Deutsche Welle and relays DW locally presumably on FM (ed., August BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD)) ** NIGERIA. 6089.85, Jul 31, 1950, R Kaduna very strong and alone on the frequency (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin Aug 3 via DXLD) ** NIGERIA. Morning programming on Voice of Nigeria (0500-1000 UT on 15120 kHz) continues to be a lottery. Will they be on-air? If they are, will the signal be sufficient to be able to listen? If it is, will the programmes be as scheduled, or will they be back-to-back repeats of Nigerian Popular Music and Time for Hilife. Actually, I quite enjoy hearing these fill-in programmes, so I’m not complaining; however you have wonder what the problem is that’s recently caused this to happen more frequently (Listening Post with Alan Roe, August BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) 15120-AM, VON, *0445-0450*, August 1. VON transmitter on at 0433 with strong test tone which covered CRI that was already broadcasting in English; *0445 test tone off and start of their African instrumental music IS with IDs in English - "This is the Voice of Nigeria, Lagos"; off at 0450* leaving CRI in the clear; VON mostly fair; checking till 0505 found that VON did not broadcast again. Full audio with IS & IDs: https://app.box.com/s/5hc0t6i5xhdlbfc7paop (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldy via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15120, August 2 at 0540, VON has fairly strong carrier but just barely modulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15120-AM, VON, 0501, August 4. In English with news and a lot of info about Ebola virus; time check 0529 UT ("just about 6:30 in Lagos"); into "half hour magazine" program; PSA about citizens must be alert to suspicious activity; decent signal strength, but het/hum and CRI QRM (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldy via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. The Old Time Radio Station Programs on 6770 kHz: Looks like this mysterious station has gone off for good. The last time I heard programming here was on July 11th. No one really seems to know if this was an “intentional” broadcast or was it some kind of accidental emission? In the beginning they did announce the “the 1920’s radio network” by later I never heard an ID between programs. Often, during the day, music was played as filler. Once a similar station was heard on 6800 and 6975 kHz. I’m not sure is this was the same station, or imitators. I’ve checked the FCC web site to see if the station might have been busted, but there is no issuance of a NOUO aka a “notice of unlicensed operation”. (Chris Lobdell, MA, Free Radio Scene, Aug CIDX Messenger via DXLD) Written before this: UNIDENTIFIED. 6770, Aug 4 at 0113, very weak AM carrier, so is the old-time-radio pirate back after an hiatus? Hardly ever was better signal here than this. 6770, Aug 6 at 0129 again a JBA AM carrier, presumed old-time-radio pirate, as also detected 48 hours earlier; and Chris Smolinski in Maryland confirms they are active again: ``Glenn, The presumed pirate Old Time Radio is back on 6770. I'm hearing it at 2352z. First logged at 2257z [Aug 5]: http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,17996.0.html Chris Smolinski, Black Cat Systems``. And also heard by DXLD yg members: Dave Hughes in Kansas City: ``Best reception of this OTR pirate tonight at 0200 UT [Aug 6]. This guy is usually JBA here in KC but aside from some ute QRM it is coming in pretty well tonight. 6770 AM``. And by John Figliozzi in Halfmoon at 0225 UT Aug 6: ``Got it here in upstate NY. Can tell it's playing a comedy but can't make out but a few words. Almost sounds like it's being blanketed by jamming. Steady signal, though, at about S8`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6935-USB, August 1 at 0058, hard rock pirate music, 0102 ID as XLR8 and off; fair signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6924-AM, 0144 UT Aug 3, rock music, poor; 0201 unreadable announcement, sounds like old-time narrator mixed with music; next check 0212 it`s off. We can almost always depend on an ID by someone else from one or more fora: This log identified it as Captain Morgan Shortwave: http://freeradiocafe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4733 As did a whole bunch more here: http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,17953.0.html One of which says the 0201 announcement was an old clip of Paul Harvey (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6950.44-AM, approx., Aug 5 at 0111, poor signal from pirate, mentioning James Stewart, then ``first tune`` by Tommy Dorsey, long pause until he starts it. Still going at 0130 and 0145 chex, while I have lots of other bandscanning to do rather than hope for an ID. Gilles Letourneau, Montréal, Canada was hearing it too, in the DXLD yg: ``Tuning around for pirates tonight and came across MAC shortwave radio pirate, the Jimmy Stewart show with oldies, 6950.5 AM mode with fair to good signal at 0120 UT into Montreal`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6925-USB, Aug 5 at 0113, pirate with bluegrass, ``Did you ever hear a church bell toll?``, still at 0130 and 0145 chex; somewhat better than MAC on 6950+AM. It`s XLR8 per: http://freeradiocafe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4736 http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,17989.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. Has anyone heard Station YHWH lately? I haven`t run across him since July 19, and last logs we`ve seen as in DXLD 14-30 were on 15655, July 20. Perhaps we shall shortly be seeing an FCC NAL, as YHWH was certainly asking for it, with extensive schedule on multiple frequencies; or vacation time (Glenn Hauser, OK, August 6, WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. PIRATE (NA), 6950-USB. R. Gallifrey Intergalactic, 0008 "Dr. Who" theme, then instrumental ethereal music. More music with breaks in between songs. Sounded like there was SSTV at 0037 and off at 0039. Nothing came up on the SSTV decoding. Recorded the audio, slowed it down and copied what seemed to be code but it just turned up jibberish. Very strong. (2 August) http://youtu.be/OgiIkrD4zGA Pirate station Radio Gallifrey Intergalactic 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA USA, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. Strong signals from Pirate stations Wolverine Radio and Radio Free Whatever: http://youtu.be/_V_S65dRjik Pirate, Unidentified on 6925.32 KiloHertz (I think this was Liquid R.) http://youtu.be/O73XT5bTViY 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo PA, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. Next is a commentary on something recently heard. Pirate Radio is regarded differently by different people and most vary from pretty good to uninspiring, mostly OK. I recently heard one that’s in a class by itself. It’s going by the apparent name that was referred to as Lode Radio, a station that is mentioned on the Internet. Every third or fourth word was obscene and the content mediocre. It was some kind of call in show. It is radio like this that draws unwanted attention to Free Radio. If you are curious and find them in the usual frequency slot, 6940, you can form your own opinion (Alan Rayment, Nelson BC, The Square Peg, Aug CIDX Messenger via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. 1210, July 31 at 0540 UT, good signal with country music, no doubt KGYN Guymon out of whack again on day pattern, failing to protect Philadelphia. When properly on night pattern, it`s barely audible here. Also noticed this the past couple of nights (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: 1640, WTNI ** OKLAHOMA. 1430, USA, KTBZ, Tulsa OK with “..on Sports Radio 14-30, the Buzz” at 0745 21/6 (Bryan Clark in Mangawhai, Northland, North Island, New Zealand, with AOR7030+ and directional EWE antennas to North, Central & South America, July NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1490, KBIX, Muskogee, OK silent again. Not heard this morning (0800 CDT 05 AUG 14) or evening (1930 CDT 05 AUG 14)driving to and from Tahlequah, OK. In its place this morning, I caught a great ID from KVWC Vernon, TX at 0805 CDT 05 AUG 14, about 5- 6 miles from KBIX transmitter site. 73, (Bruce Winkelman, Tulsa, OK, Ford Focus radio, NRC-AM via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 5995, Aug 4 at 0110, ESPN Radio mentioned, i.e. another external mixing product between local KCRC 1390, and this time WHRI 7385, which is 1390 kHz above this mix. No, I don`t expect anyone to publish this kind of local-log, but I include it for my own future reference. However, the same kind of thing can happen to others too close to some MW station. 6115.2, Aug 3 at 0159, KCRC 1390 Enid with SBG audible here, external mix with WRNO bigsig on 7505.2 --- and yes, the offset matches on both (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. KFOR NEWSCHANNEL4 ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR NEW DIGITAL MULTIMEDIA FORECASTING & NEWS INFORMATION COMPLEX --- Posted 1:34 pm, August 5, 2014, by KFOR-TV, Updated at 11:37am, August 6, 2014 http://kfor.com/2014/08/05/kfor-newschannel4-announces-major-plans-to-build-new-digital-multimedia-forecasting-information-center/ KFOR NewsChannel 4 & KAUT Freedom 43 TV are pleased to announce plans to break ground on the construction of a new, state-of-the-art weather, news and digital information center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The announcement was made during a staff appreciation luncheon Tuesday afternoon at the KFOR studios. Ground breaking and construction is tentatively set for January 2015. “This is a direct response to the new demands of our viewers and online readers. Our goal is to design the new KFOR-TV/KAUT-TV headquarters with an eye to the future. It’s about a culture of innovation to make this a great place to work and to serve this wonderful community in the digital age,” said Wes Milbourn, President and General Manager of KFOR NewsChannel 4 and KAUT Freedom 43 TV. The announcement comes as KFOR, Oklahoma’s first television station, celebrates its 65th anniversary. The current building has served the community for most of that time and has a proud history. KFOR (formerly WKY, KTVY) was the first station in the country to broadcast a tornado warning and the first color station in Oklahoma. The legacy of ‘firsts’ will continue as the station plans the most advanced information center in the state. Click here for a look at the 65th anniversary of this legacy station. “The new 4 Warn Storm Center will be designed from the ground up and stand as the centerpiece of the entire news operation. We’ll have the newest technology and the studios will be constructed utilizing the highest safety standards to withstand extreme severe weather so our team can deliver life-saving information on all digital platforms, without interruption, ” said Carlton Houston, News Director of KFOR NewsChannel 4 and KAUT Freedom 43 TV. The size and scope of the project are still in the early planning stages. The next steps include architectural design and surveyors who will be visiting the KFOR/KAUT 10-acre property at 444 E. Britton Road in the coming days. KFOR NewsChannel 4/ KAUT Freedom 43 are owned by Tribune Media. It is one of the country’s leading multimedia companies, operating businesses in broadcasting, publishing, and interactive. The company owns or operates 42 television stations, WGN America on national cable, the national multicast networks Antenna TV and THIS TV, Tribune Studios and Chicago’s WGN-AM. [including gallery of 11 images, 2:26 video] (via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. RF 31 & 32, August 4 at 1450 UT, I find that KXOK-LD Enid, ``TVOK`` audio modulation has miraculously appeared via both my Zenith set-top-box DTV converters. I have not rescanned or done anything to get the sound back; I did mention this problem to the contract engineer in charge a couple weeks ago, who then assured me the sound was OK, but he may have made some transmission change now to get it back to me. Wait --- recheck at 1604 UT, sound is gone again except for some hum, variable! Maybe working on it? Still *nothing* but the same few infomercials for exercising, comedy roasts; and still nothing but silent color bars on 31.2 and 31.3 altho labeled M-FOX and Azteca. Contract for those expired with change of ownership. What a sorry excuse for a TV station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN. 15140, Aug 6 at 0141, JBA carrier, presumed RSO since it`s missing again from proper channel 9500 (only WTWW splash from 9475), and not on 15355 either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAKISTAN. RADIO PAKISTAN INSTALLS NEW TRANSMITTER AT DI KHAN http://www.radio.gov.pk/newsdetail/66055/3 Director General Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation Samina Parvez will inaugurate the transmitter on Thursday. Radio Pakistan has installed a new high-power transmitter at Dera Ismail Khan to boost reach and quality of its broadcasts. The transmitter will be inaugurated at a ceremony at DI Khan on August 7, 2014, where Director General Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation Samina Parvez will be the chief guest. The new 100-KW transmitter, installed with the assistance of USAID, replaces 10-KW low power transmitter. The new digital transmitter is strong enough to carry broadcasts of DI Khan Radio to a radius of 160 kilometer during day time and over 400 kilometer during night, making broadcasts audible in entire KPK, FATA, many areas of Balochistan, Punjab, Gilgit-Baltistan and some areas of Afghanistan. The project is part of the plan being implemented by Radio Pakistan to replace old transmitters with modern digital transmitters. --- (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, dx_sasia yg via DXLD) The ``digital`` buzzword strikes again! Do they mean this will be in DRM? Of course not! ``Solid-state`` would be a better description. DI Khan?? Dera Ismail Khan is west of Lahore and south of Peshawar, as in WRTH 2014 on 711 kHz, already listed as 100 kW. Is that the frequency this is about? And may we hope that some gratitude will be shown to the US for this AID? A transmitter is shown in the original article, possibly this one --- does anyone recognize the make and/or model? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Then I find an earlier dx_sasia post from June 29 about this: RADIO PAKISTAN UPGRADES TRANSMITTER AT DERA ISMAIL KHAN ISLAMABAD - Radio Pakistan has upgraded its 10 kilowatt medium-wave transmitter at Dera Ismail Khan with a new 100 kilowatt transmitter. http://www.nation.com.pk/national/29-Jun-2014/radio-pakistan-upgrades-transmitter-at-dera-ismail-khan PS: PBC 711 kHz was spotted by Jose Jacob at 1750 UT on 14th June 2014 with improved signal strength suspecting upgradation of transmitter, which has now been confirmed. --- (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, dx_sasia yg via DXLD) Here is the entire nation story linked above: Radio Pakistan upgrades transmitter at Dera Ismail Khan ISLAMABAD - Radio Pakistan has upgraded its 10 kilowatt medium-wave transmitter at Dera Ismail Khan with a new 100 kilowatt transmitter to update the audience with the achievements being made in the ongoing military operation in North Waziristan and the efforts underway for relief and rehabilitation of Internally Displaced Persons [IDPs] currently housed in the local camps. Giving details of the project, a radio spokesperson explained that the project was actually launched in September 2010 under a statement of collaboration signed between Radio Pakistan and the USAID but in view of the ongoing military operation and mass displacement of population, Director General Samina Parvez Khalid directed to expedite the work and now it has become operational (via DXLD) ** PANAMA. @ntena DX --- El próximo 15 de agosto el Canal de Panamá cumplirá 100 años desde su inauguración en 1904, hasta la fecha el Canal de Panamá sigue siendo una empresa comercial rentable y también mantiene su desempeño fundamental de conexión marítima. La ubicación estratégica del Canal de Panamá y la corta distancia entre los océanos Atlántico y Pacífico, ha llevado durante muchos años a que esta sea una ruta muy frecuentada para la navegación. En Antena DX no podemos pasar por alto esta fecha tan importante para los panameños por lo que hemos elaborado una QSL especial para conmemorar el centenario del Canal de Panamá. En el próximos @ntena DX les estaremos dando detalles sobre la QSL especial en conmemoración de los 100 años del canal de Panamá. Ustedes pueden escucharnos en la onda corta [WRMI 9955] Lunes 1230 UT Miércoles 1100 UT Jueves 0100 UT También nos puede escuchar en http://programasdx.com/antenadx.htm los sábados en donde encontrara el listado de emisoras que emiten @ntena DX (@ntena DX via WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3204.966, NBC Sandaun West Sepik, female voice just on threshold level at 0947 UT. 3259.994, Radio Madang, talk, very weak signal, just under threshold. S=8 -78dBm increased strength suddenly at 1000 UT exact! 3384.994, NBC East New Britain, Rabaul, English lang program. S=8-9 -72dBm. Politics world service from Port Moresby, interview at 1006 UT Aug 1 (Wolfgang Büschel, heard remote in Brisbane SDR unit, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 1, dxldyg via DXLD) The only active PNG stations as of 3/8 on shortwave are: 3205 Radio Sundaun 3260 Radio Madang 3385 Radio East New Britain 7325 Wantok Radio Light (Craig Seager, Berry Creek NT, Sent from my iPhone, ARDXC mailing list via WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 3205, Aug 4 at 1102, YL talk on very poor signal, maybe Tok Pisin rather than straight English; 3260 sounds like the same, but both too weak for // matching on second receiver. 3385 also has non-// YL talk of a lower pitched voice, with signal up to poor level; at 1113 still talk, no music on any of them. Copy is tough with storm QRN level. Anyhow, these three frequencies match the 3 August report to ARDXC from Craig Seager, visiting Berry Creek, Northern Territory, as the ``only active PNG stations on SW`` (plus 7325 WRL). I also hear algo on 3325 which is probably Indonesia, confirmed active the past week by Atsunori Ishida, tho today`s monitoring is not yet posted (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3205, NBC Radio Sandaun, Vanimo, 4 Aug 1050 - long monologue in Tok Pisin, announcer in English with Monday evening greetings just after top of hour, NBC bird call at 1103 followed by NBC National news bulletin read by man followed by a brief news bulletin in Tok Pisin read by a woman, music, man with what sounded to be sports news in English from 1116 as the signal was fading. Good S7 signal with moderate static crashes. 3260, NBC Radio Madang, Madang, 4 Aug 1050 - talk in Tok Pisin, local music past top of hour, NBC bird call at 1103 followed by NBC National news bulletin read by man English followed by a brief news bulletin in Tok Pisin read by a woman then back to English. Good S7 signal with significant static crashes. 3385, NBC Radio East New Britain, Rabaul, 4 Aug, 1050 - spots for religious service, mechanic, cinema, etc. Instrumental music from 1058 past the top of the hour, NBC bird call at 1103 followed by NBC National news bulletin read by man, NBC Provincial News read by woman from 1106 until 1116. All in English. Excellent S9 signal. (Brandon Jordan, http://www.swldx.us Fayette County, TN [i.e. east side of Memphis], RFSPACE: SDR-IQ | NetSDR-01 [locked to Thunderbolt GPS Disciplined Oscillator]; WinRadio: WR-G313e | WR-G33DDC 'Excalibur Pro'; Array Solutions: SAL-12 & SAL-30 Shared Apex Loops; DX Engineering: DXE-AAPS3 Active Vertical Antenna Phasing System; dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3385, NBC East New Britain, 1208, August 4 with provincial news in Tok Pisin/Pidgin; ends at 1217 with ID in English for "NBC East New Britain Provincial News"; as others have reported, was well above the norm today (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldy via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 7324.96, Wantok R. Light, Aug 02 0909-0919, 35443, English, NBC news and music, ID at 0913 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7324.96, Wantok R. Light. End of what may have been the "Unshackled" program at 0955, then studio W announcer giving the program contact info, and China came on and ruined one of the best receptions as of late. (2 August) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA USA, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 7324.96, [non log], Wantok Radio Light. Fairly sure August 4 they were off the air; no trace of any open carrier during clear 1400 to 1430, whereas recently had decent WRL reception during this window of opportunity (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldy via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. Not enough time to DX like I want. Lots of radio stations on the AM band after dark. Good lists of South American radio stations seem to be hard to come by. I've been concentrating on the bottom of the band, 540 and 550, using my SRF-M37V + RS Loop. Maybe tomorrow I move up to 560 & 570. Here's what I have: [starting with] 540, OBX4E, Lima -- 2 Aug 2014 2102 (local time) -- R. Inca, playing a lot of Andean-insipred music that all sounds the same; With "INCA QUINIENTOS-QUARENTA" slogans randomly thrown in over the top of whatever music was playing. Supposedly 10 kW, packs a punch down here in central-north Chile. SRF-M37V with RS loop. Audio: http://mesamike.org/radio/mwdx/audio/lscdx/ignacio_serrano-0540-20140801-0229.mp3 (Mike Westfall, [ex-]Los Alamos, NM US AM Database, updated daily [still?]: http://mesamike.org/radio/cdbs/amdb.mvc My Logbooks: http://dxlogbook.gentoo.net/?account=mikew Reception report and QSL manager for KRSN 1490 [still?] ABDX yg via DXLD) ** PERU. I compiled a list of new authorizations covering year 2013 to June 2014 from the mediosperu website, available at http://www.bamlog.com/peruradio.htm After compiling the list of new authorizations in Perú, I found a complete list of AM and FM stations as of July 30, 2014, from MTC at http://www.mtc.gob.pe/portal/comunicacion/concesion/radiodifusion/Autorizadas_Sonora.PDF which includes the power and other details for new authorizations (Bruce Conti, NH, Aug 3, MWDX yg via DXLD) There are a *lot* more FM than OM, many provincias with no OM at all. And, **incidentally** SW stations are mixed in, the first column BANDA as OCT == onda corta tropical. But it`s 178 pages, a lot to plow thru for the relatively few such listings, by departamento, then by provincia, then in frequency order, also showing address of planta, and of studio (sometimes in another city, mainly Lima), distrito but no further info, not even callsign or station name, just licensee name. Here`s the first one, unknown to the DX world, presumably not on the air altho authorized: OCT, Amazonas, Chachapoyas, Asociación Católica San José, 5020 kHz, 5 kW, Planta: Av. Aeropuerto s/n, Afueras de la Ciudad Chachapoyas; Estudios: Jr. Amazonas No. 1177 We don`t find a second OCT until page 6, another unknown one: OCT, Empresa Radiodifusora Comercial Amistad S.C.R.L. 5050 kHz, 1 kW, Planta: Zona la Cantuta, Chiquian, Ancash, Bolognesi, Chiquian; estudios: Plaza de Armas s/n Chiquian, ibid. Searching ``previous`` eventually goes to the bottom of the huge file, for apparently the last one, starting with U-: OCT Asociación Promotora ``San Francisco Solano``, 4940 kHz, 1 kW, Planta y Estudios: Esquina de las Calles Rioja con Iquitos, Ucayali, Atalaya, Raymondi Finally it`s a real station we know about, a.k.a. Radio San Antonio, OAW8A. It should be interesting if someone could extract the OCT listings only, without a lot of time & trouble (And would there be any merely OC – non tropical listings?). Of course some could be on air but far from their authorized frequency. This list viewed Aug 5 is dated Aug 4, as if updated almost daily (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4747, Perú, Radio Huanta 2000, Huanta, Ayacucho, 0011-0015 noted weak in Spanish during band scan, noted same time on regular basis 1 August (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, Icom 746Pro Lankford modified; Drake R8; NRD 525 Lankford Modified; Sony 2010 XA Lankford created; Scotka antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4774.92, R. Tarma. Signal popped on at 0958:34, some deadair, then surprised to hear the Windows XP opening theme melody at 1000:35!! A little more deadair, then start with full canned ID announcement by M with frequencies and calls and contact info, into music program. Only fair and very noisy. (2 August) http://youtu.be/Jqx6pdXFKWo Radio Tarma coming on the air and starting Windows XP!! 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA USA, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** PERU. 4810, Perú, Radio Logos, Chazuta, Tarapoto 1030-1035 with enchanting music, the strongest signal from Perú on regular basis. 29 July (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, Icom 746Pro Lankford modified; Drake R8; NRD 525 Lankford Modified; Sony 2010 XA Lankford created; Scotka antennas; and XM, FL, NRD 525D, R8A, E5, via Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4810, Radio Logos, Chazuta, 6 Aug 0245* *1031 - noted sign-off at 0245* in passing and caught sign-on the next morning SDR recording at *1031 with Andean flute-flavoured hymns until announcements starting at 1040. Good signal in the evening, but poorer during sign-on as the SAL-30 was aimed NW during the recording. 4809.997 offset at sign-off, 4810.008 at sign-on. 73, (Brandon Jordan, Fayette County, TN USA, http://www.swldx.us WinRadio: G313e | G33DDC 'Excalibur Pro' RFSPACE: SDR-IQ | NetSDR [locked to Thunderbolt GPSDO] Array Solutions: SAL-12 & SAL-30 Shared Apex Loops DX Engineering: NCC-1 Phaser|2x ARAV3 Active Verticals dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4824.49, Perú, La Voz de la Selva, Iquitos, 0015-0020 with YL vocalist in Spanish, signal troubled by ute 1 August (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, Icom 746Pro Lankford modified; Drake R8; NRD 525 Lankford Modified; Sony 2010 XA Lankford created; Scotka antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4835a Jul12 0200 Ondas del Sur Oriente, Quillabamba blev ID på den peruan jag hört på fqn varje natt sen 2 juli med chicha mx. Bara kvinnliga artister, de andinska stationerna har påfallande många kvinnliga radiopratare tycker jag, i synnerhet då pxen är på quechua eller aymara. Fqn möjligen något högre. Den 12/7 nonstop mx tills en elektronisk trudelutt på heltimmen följdes av kort "Ondas del Sur… "utan uppfattbart Oriente men kondsen nästan uttömda då, kan ha dränkts i brus. Tnx TN 4 info! Olz 4835 approx., Jul 12 0200, Ondas del Sur Oriente, Quillabamba was the ID of the Peruvian I have heard on this frequency every night since July 2nd with chicha music. Only female artists, the Andean stations have a remarkable number of female radio hosts, I think, especially when the program is in Quechua or Aymara. The frequency possibly may be somewhat higher. The July 12 non-stop music until an electronic jingle on the hour followed by a short "Ondas del Sur ..." without any perceptible Oriente but the conditions were nearly gone then; may have drowned in the noise. Tnx TN 4 info! (Björn Olsson, Gran, Sweden, SW Bulletin Aug 3, translated by editor Thomas Nilsson for WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980, Jul 29 2356, R Chaski with ID at 2357. S7 signal. Off air on July 30 at check 2230 as reported by others. Back again as usual on July 31 when checked at 2230 (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin Aug 3 via DXLD) 5980, August 1 at 0057, R. Chaski carrier, not only on the DX-398 with longwire, but sufficient signal to hear it on the PL-880 with whip only, until cutoff at 0106:44.5*, which is 18 seconds later than last check 3 nights ago July 29 (and it was missing July 31). 5980, August 4 at 0106, R. Chaski carrier until cutoff at 0107:01* which is 17.5 seconds later than a trinite ago, averaging 5.83 later per nite (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5980, Aug 5 at 0107, R. Chaski carrier until cutoff at 0107:07* which is 6 seconds (or 5.83?) later than yesterday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. 17820, R. Pilipinas, Jul 31 0207-0216, 35443, Tagalog, Talk, ID at 0207, etc, // 15640 kHz (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX: IC- R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT: 130m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PUERTO RICO. 1660, WGIT, Faro de Santidad with talk about Puerto Rico 0438 19/6, then non-stop vocals, fair. Also 0800 22/6 when ‘Faro de Santidad’ ident given during evangelistic program. Quite regular during June (Bryan Clark in Mangawhai, Northland, North Island, New Zealand, with AOR7030+ and directional EWE antennas to North, Central & South America, July NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** ROMANIA. Cancelled transmission of NEXUS IRRS Shortwave via Radiocom: Radio Xoriyo 1500-1530 15515 TIG 150 kW / 175 deg EaAf Somali Fri Aug.1, no signal Sunset online is on air on Aug. 1, three videos 1530-1600 15515 TIG 150 kW / 175 deg EaAf Arabic Fri very weak signal http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/cancelled-transmission-of-nexus-irrs.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, Aug 2, dxldyg via DXLD) ** RUSSIA [non]. Trying to control BBCWS: see U K ** RWANDA. AUDIOCLIP RADIO RWANDA 6055 kHz JINGLE 6055, 5/8 0303, Radio Rwanda, ID with jingle in French, tx news and music in local language. The audioclip is available here: RADIO RWANDA 6055 KHz JINGLE su radioascolto http://blog.libero.it/radioascolto/12914150.html Quando il canale dei 6055 KHz non è occupato dalle varie emittenti di propaganda che ormai monopolizzano l'etere non è difficile ascolta 73-s De (Francesco Ceccone, QTH: CENTRAL ITALY, RX ICOM R71, ANT: 100 mt WIRW [sic], noticiasdx yg via DXLD) ** SAAR. Europe 1, 183 kHz noted off the air last night, and so far, all day today. 1630 UT 06 AUG (Brock Whaley, Ireland for DXLD) Off for maintenance till August 7 (Roberto Scaglione, Sicily, ibid.) re LW 183 kHz Saarlouis, at 1015 UT Aug 07 on air powerhouse as usual. 178 to 188 kHz wideband signal at S=9+45dB here in southern Germany. African MACUMBA song. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DXLD) ** SAUDI ARABIA. BSKSA Holy Quran Service on new frequency on Aug. 4: 0900-1200 NF 21600 RIY 500 kW / 310 deg to N/ME Arabic, ex 11935 // frequency 17570 RIY 500 kW / 070 deg to SEAs Arabic // frequency 17615 RIY 500 kW / 100 deg to SEAs Arabic http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/bsksa-holy-quran-sce-on-new-frequency.html BSKSA Holy Qur`an Sce new frequency Aug. 4, weak signal here: 0900-1200 NF 21600 RIY 500 kW / 310 deg N/ME Arabic, ex 11935 // 17570, 17615 (DX RE MIX NEWS #865 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, August 5, 2014 via DXLD) ** SAUDI ARABIA [non?]. Confirmação recebida - Utilitária. Caros amigos, Seguem os dados de mais uma confirmação muito especial que recebi: 20186 - Ministério das Relações Exteriores da Finlândia - Helsinki - FIN - Recebido PPC carimbado e assinado e fotos de equipamentos e da embaixada finlandesa em Riyadh. 5 dias. V/S: Jukka Seppälä (Head of Communication Unit). Informe enviado por email: jukka.seppala@formin.fin Quando enviei o informe solicitei gentilmente que após carimbar e assinar o PPC, que ele fosse digitalizado e enviado de volta. Deu certo! A Finlândia é meu 118º país confirmado e esta é a primeira confirmação de uma estação diplomática que recebi em quase 20 anos de hobby. A imagem desta confirmação estará disponível em breve em meu blog. 73 (Ivan Dias Jr. - Sorocaba/SP, Aug 1 https://www.youtube.com/regionaldx http://ivandias.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/ivandiasjr radioescutas yg via DXLD) But you seem to be saying the transmission was from the Finnish embassy in Saudi Arabia, yet you are counting this as Finland, extraterritorially? Or was Riyadh a red herring? What kind of transmission? Yet to find it on his slow-loading blog, which might clarify this; lots of interesting QSLs however, via http://ivandias.wordpress.com/category/confirmacoes-qsl/ all of which are overlain by his URL as spoiler for copyers Then I search 20186 in the UDXF yg and get a few logs from Nov 2012 of Finnish embassies in Turkey and Kenya, USB/ALE mode. So various ones on the frequency and probably HQ as well (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SERBIA [non]. Hi guys, it's been a few months since my last SWL report. Still stuck at 82 DXCC. The highlight of the listening session was bumping into one of the greatest Serbian gypsy singers Saban Bajramovic played on REE - as recorded here http://goo.gl/HZNosu For more see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16WihRiLGbA&index=6&list=PL77814552A97E95FA (Nick VK2DX, Hacko, Sydney NSW, Aug 3, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 9545, SIBC, random checking from 0423 to 0500*, August 1; started out with just open carrier below threshold level (no audio) and by sign off was hearing pop songs (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 5020.000, SLM SIBC Honiara, mens duo singer and guitar, folk song in Vernacular. Celebration of Lida and Christine guitar group. At 1030 UT S=9+10 -62dBm strength in Queensland remote SDR unit. But also heard 60 mb Cuban and US WWCR/BS-FL stations, as well as weak tiny Brazilian, Peruvian, Bolivian radio stations in 60mb downunder in Pacific in southern winter season (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 1, dxldyg via DXLD) 9545, Solomon Island BC, Honiara, SI, 03 AUG 2014 0450, noisy S7 in English, rock music. Carrier gone at 0500. 73 (Nick VK2DX Hacko, Sydney NSW, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9545, SIBC, Honiara. Fair with island singing, etc., until 0500*; seems regularly on this schedule, 3/8. 73 (Craig Seager, Berry Springs NT, Perseus fed by EWE, Logs from the Top End, Sent from my iPhone, ARDXC mailing list via DXLD) 5020.00, SIBC, 1155-1158*, August 4. The usual evening devotional in English; no full ID, as cut short when audio off at 1158, with transmitter going off at 1200. 9545, SIBC, usual 0500*, August 4 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldy via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOMALILAND. 7120, Radio Hargaysa, Somalia, 02 AUG 2014 from 1340 to 1400 UT, S5, noisy male speaker. Again form 1500 now loud s9+10dB, religion at their sunset. Station ID Radio Hargaysia at 1506 after prayer. 73 (Nick VK2DX Hacko, Sydney NSW, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Check at 1320-1340 whether still in English (gh, DXLD) ** SOUTH AFRICA. Several stations that use transmitters in Meyerton: Adventist World Radio in Maasai to CeAf 1730 on 9600 Meyrton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI-K_78tvTI&feature=youtu.be Adventist World Radio in Swahili to CeAf 1720 on 9600 Meyrton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufi4RYJc1R8&feature=youtu.be Adventist World Radio in Urdu to SoAs 1400 on 15440 Moosbrunn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhjsY0ABuVM&feature=youtu.be BBC in Kinyarwanda to ECAf 1830 on 9720 Meyerton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXq4Su1Mr1M&feature=youtu.be BBC in Kinyarwnda to ECAf 1631 on 15790 Meyerton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCG5D3mpi9o&feature=youtu.be BBC in Somali to EaAf 1806 on 7225, 9720 Meyerton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKQh1sTN9ms&feature=youtu.be BBC WS in English to CEAf 1623 on 12095 Meyerton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osg9XvR1hbg&feature=youtu.be BBC WS in English to SoAf 1846 on 6190 Meyerton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a29pAUPg1qM&feature=youtu.be Channel Africa in English to WeAf 1707 on 15235 Meyerton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSwy3ninbkg&feature=youtu.be Channel Africa in French to WeAf 1603 on 15235 Meyerton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT6z2GINEMk&feature=youtu.be Channel Africa in Swahili to CeAf 1500 on 15660 Meyerton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSuYXyIjCtE&feature=youtu.be IBRA Radio in Tigrinya to EaAf 1704 on 11610 Meyerton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EJXAOnxe2A&feature=youtu.be Radio France Internationale in French to CeAf 1253 on 17660 Meyerton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny6Jmj1v7AA&feature=youtu.be Radio France Internationale in French to WCAf 1705 on 9800 Meyerton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWA7DYOTtu8&feature=youtu.be Radio France Internationale in French to WCAf 1804 on 9800 Meyerton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWGrnZdtHSE&feature=youtu.be Radio France Internationale in Portuguese to SoAf 1703 on 9755 Meyerton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf5y2BweOE4&feature=youtu.be RFI in Portuguese to SoAf 1900 on 5950 Meyerton, QRM KBS German in DRM on 5950 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgXSoLFf7j8&feature=youtu.be Radio France Internationale in Swahili to CEAf 1502 on 15360 Meyerton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aYJ5lSV6Dg&feature=youtu.be Radio Japan NHK World in English to CEAf 1802 on 9755 Meyerton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV3g3uyXSvM&feature=youtu.be (DX RE MIX NEWS #864 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, July 31, 2014 via DXLD) ** SOUTH AMERICA. Sign-on gleanings from Wed morning (6 Aug 14); Excalibur SDR recording. Monitored for carrier-on only, the SAL-30 Loop was aimed NW for Asia so Latin signals non-optimal. True modulating sign-on may vary. 3309.99 *0827 R Mosoj Chaski, Bolivia 4699.95 *0905 R San Miguel, Bolivia 4747.64 *1007 R Huanta 2000, Perú 4765.00 *1015 UnID, likely one of the Brazilians listed here? 4774.92 *0959 R Tarma, Perú 4785.02 *0940 R Caiari, Brazil 4805.02 *0950 R Difusora do Amazonas, Brazil 4810.01 *1031 R Logos, Perú 4814.99 *0851 R Difusora, Brazil 4824.48 *1057 LV de Selva, Perú 4865.02 *1036 R Verdes Florestas, Brazil 4875.08 *0840 R Difusora Roraima, Brazil 4915.04 *0910 R Daqui, Brazil (presumed) 4925.24 *1000 R Educação Rural, Brazil 4955.01 *1031 R Cultural Amauta, Perú 6135v *0830 R Santa Cruz, Bolvia (opened on 6135.0 with sudden jump down to 6134.7 and then drifting between 6134.7-6134.8) 73, (Brandon Jordan, Fayette County, TN USA, http://www.swldx.us WinRadio: G313e | G33DDC 'Excalibur Pro' RFSPACE: SDR-IQ | NetSDR [locked to Thunderbolt GPSDO] Array Solutions: SAL-12 & SAL-30 Shared Apex Loops DX Engineering: NCC-1 Phaser|2x ARAV3 Active Verticals dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9370, August 2 at 1420, Brother Scare`s day frequency via WWRB is absent, and this late can`t tell whether night frequency 3185 still be on air, for the most important broadcast of the week, live Sabbath service from The Tabernacle. 15420-, August 2 at 1453, however, BS via WBCQ is certainly on the air but making het with BBC Somali service via SOUTH AFRICA, now daily during this hour only, at pitch somewhere between E4 and F4 above Middle C, approx. 340 Hz. SENTECH is more likely to be closer to on- frequency, so that relatively puts WBCQ circa 15419.66 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: WTWW et al. ** SPAIN. REE. Listening right now 2 August at 2100 UT to the English transmission on 9660 kHz and their programme "Listeners Club". Alison Hughes has just said that it is not certain right now that REE will be on air after 1 October. I assume she is referring to the English broadcast rather than REE as a whole, but she didn't clarify further. (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) This forum post in Russian when translated through Google translate seems to suggest that its been announced on air that REE Russian will be ending on SW soon. http://dxing.ru/forum.html?func=view&catid=21&id=26910 (Stephen Cooper, UK, ibid.) I have now just listened to the "Listeners Club" programme of 15 July with Justin Coe and Alison Hughes where some more detail was given. It seems that there are new bosses at REE, and here are a few quotes from the programme: JC: "[there are] a f--k load of rumours" (I re-listened, and that is what Justin said) ... AH: "the Spanish language news team for Radio Exterior will be leaving to be incorporated into [...] Radio Uno" JC: "it seems [that the bosses] might want to close the shortwave transmitter site with the curtain antennas which require a lot of electricity to transmit [...] the Unions have published a pamphlet against it [....] Everything is in a state of flux and there's a lot of rumours" AH: "I heard from a colleague of ours in the Spanish language news team who had met with the [...] new boss [...] who said 'On September 1st you'll be moving downstairs' " So the future doesn't look good for REE (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DX LISTENING DIGEST) There was a lot of noise out of REE in 2010 about possible total closure of SW, but we haven't heard much since, other than the demise of the Costa Rica relay facility, plus the temporary suspension of some transmissions (including English to NA) a couple of years ago. Looks like the axe is finally being sharpened (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, Aug 4, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17850, R Exterior de España, 02 AUG 2014 2208 GMT, loud S9+10 via long path. ####### local Sydney time 3 pm in the afternoon: 9535, R Exterior de España, 03 AUG 2014 0450 GMT, Spanish pop music, very loud S9+15 via long path. 0512 Gipsy Serbian music by Shaban Bajramovic. 73 (Nick VK2DX Hacko, Sydney NSW, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 9535, August 3 at 0151, REE with usual VG signal, but marred by some lite humwhine, unlike on other frequencies such as 9620. Same situation at 0555 as they are just closing down, uncovering Algeria via France, which is announcing its full schedule in Arabic. Do they mention that the 05 hour on 9535 is colliding with Spain and has been for months? Ha! 11795, UT Tuesday Aug 5 at 0124, 0137, 0144 chex, open carrier/dead air from REE instead of Sephardic service! Altho the ops at Noblejas remembered to turn on the transmitter, evidently master control in Madrid dozed thru the show rather than feeding the transmitter this easily overlooked weekly broadcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. 9720, SLBC, 1114 signal sudden on, then brief drum IS, time ticks, opening announcement by W in presumed Tamil, and into music. Weak but there (1 August) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA USA, Hard- Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 11905, August 1 at 0115, SLBC carrier on with prélude, timesignal ending at 0115:20; very poor with QRM from 11903 crackle, probably 11780 Brasil spur. 11905, Aug 4 at 0114, SLBC carrier, poor with flutter; 0114:46 music starts, 2 + 1 pips end at 0115:18, right on mistime. 11905, Aug 5 at 0114, SLBC very poor carrier, 0114:48 music starts, timesignal ends at 0114:18, its preferred off-time for the S Asian upwakers foolishly setting their watches by this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. 11560, MOLDOVA (PRIDNESTROVIE), Radio Miraya at 0540 with ID and Sudanese pop song - Very good - July 30 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, listening in my car by the lake with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. CLANDESTINE, 15550, R. Dabanga. Found here at 1528 mixing with WJHR. Since WJHR is in USB, Dabanga was audible in LSB with usual singing ID jingle. Both stations about equal. (3 August) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA USA, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** SWAZILAND [non]. U.K.(non), Additional broadcast of Trans World Radio Africa via BABCOCK: 0500-0515 15720 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Oromo Sat, from August 2 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/additional-broadcast-of-trans-world.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Aug 6, dxldyg via DXLD) ** TAIWAN [non]. FRANCE, Frequency change of Radio Taiwan International from August 1 2000-2100 NF 3965 ISS 250 kW / 210 deg to SoEu Spanish, ex 5915/3965, and 2100-2200 NF 3965 ISS 250 kW / 050 deg to WeEu German, ex 5915/3965. Videos: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/francenon-frequency-change-of-radio.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) ** TAIWAN [non]. SRI LANKA, Transmissions of PCJ Radio International are cancelled: 1230-1330 13720 TRM 125 kW / 045 deg EaAs English Sun from July 20 (DX RE MIX NEWS #865 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, August 5, 2014 via DXLD) Temporarily? Keith has been on vacation (gh) PCJ Media --- PCJ Radio International's new propagation editor as of August 16, 2014 will be Glenn Hauser. Glenn Hauser is well known to everyone in the hobby. Unless you have been in some sort of Rip Van Winkle-esque time warp. This is great news indeed. -fw (Fred Waterer, Aug Programming Matters, ODXA via WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DXLD) ** THAILAND. 17640, R. Thailand, Jul 31 0552-0600*, 35433, English, News and music, ID at 0554, 0600 sign off. 15590, R. Thailand, Aug 02 0030-0040, 35433, English, News, ID at 0034 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD- 345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET [non]. Frequency change of Voice of America Tibetan: 0000-0100 NF 13630 UDO 250 kW / 324 deg CeAs Mon, ex 9340 0000-0100 NF 13640 UDO 250 kW / 324 deg CeAs Tue, ex 9340 0000-0100 NF 13670 UDO 250 kW / 324 deg CeAs Wed, ex 9340 0000-0100 NF 13685 UDO 250 kW / 324 deg CeAs Thu, ex 9340 0000-0100 NF 13740 UDO 250 kW / 324 deg CeAs Fri, ex 9340 0000-0100 NF 13760 UDO 250 kW / 324 deg CeAs Sat, ex 9340 0000-0100 NF 13780 UDO 250 kW / 324 deg CeAs Sun, ex 9340 (DX RE MIX NEWS #865 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, August 5, 2014 via DXLD) ** TURKEY. Since about 1 July or earlier, TRT has not been heard on 630, 702, 954 or 1071 kHz. Daily on 891 kHz at 0255 is heard the interval signal and ID of Radio Antalya and on 927 kHz the ID of Izmir Radio, at 0258 playing the National Anthem of Turkey and from 0300 news from TRT1. Some weekdays local programmes of Antalya and Izmir are heard at 0330-0400 (Rumen Pankov, Blgaria, 22 July, August BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** TURKEY. 3. The Voice of Turkey now has bigger QSL cards. This is a sure sign they welcome reception reports (David Crystal, Israel, August BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** UGANDA. 4750, 1848, Dunamis Shortwave, Uganda (Tentative) – tribal- style songs, Closedown without announcements at 1859. 242, 08/07 AM 4750, 1853, Dunamis Shortwave, Uganda (Tentative) – lively Afro-style songs, no announcements. Closedown at 1928. 242, 17/07 AM Arthur Miller has also logged Dunamis Shortwave (tentatively) on 4750 kHz – tentative because he heard no announcements, though the African songs and closedown times make it the likely candidate on that frequency: “I last heard the station a couple of years ago, when their policy seemed to be to play soft Afro-style songs with few or no announcements. I’ve not seen any recent reports. I did check on other days but heard no trace of a station” (Arthur Miller, Llandrindod Wells, Powys, Wales, JRC NRD 525, NRD 545, G5RV 40m long wire, August BDXC-UK Communication via WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DXLD) I did hear Dunamis in October 2013 in Sheigra, Scotland, but also frustratingly with no IDs (Dave Kenny, ed., ibid.) ** UKRAINE [and non]. / RUSSIA --- 7050 LSB, Russian and Ukrainian radioamateurs are fighting a dirty war of words, sometimes interrupted by non-stop music and songs about Ukraine, with repeating loop text: "za nepravilnuyu propagandu budete goret' v adu..." = ”for wrong propaganda you'll burn in the hell....”. Heard around 1500 on July 31. (Vlad Titarev, Ukraine, DSWCI DX Window Aug 6 via WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DXLD) Also noted in Denmark 1655-1830, Aug 01 and 02, 35343 (Anker Petersen, ed., ibid.) ** UKRAINE. Reception of Ukrainian Radio HS-1 via Radio Dniprovska Hvylya: 0600-0730 11980.1 ZPR 0.3 kW / ND to UKR CUSB Sat/Sun. Video on Aug. 2 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/ukrainian-radio-hs-1-via-radio.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Dniprovska Hvylya, relay HS 1 in Ukrainian 0631 on 11980.1 Zaporizhia CUSB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FMyWal_ZwU&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) ** U K [and non]. BBC World Service statement: BBC Russian has been asked by Russian state media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, to remove an interview with Artem Loskutov, a Russian artist and activist, from bbcrussian.com. The piece is an audio interview, first broadcast on 31 July as part of BBSeva, a programme which looks at current affairs from a human- interest angle, with a special focus on arts and culture. In it, Mr Loskutov spoke with the BBC’s Seva Novgorodsev about the planned “march for the federalisation of Siberia” in Novosibirsk. On the webpage, the BBC also added background on Mr. Loskutov and his previous activities to provide further context to the story. A quote was added from a blog by Mr Loskutov in which he says that as an artist he views the event as “part parody, part provocation, but also, partly, a real attempt to gain autonomy” – but, he adds, as a Siberian, he is trying to raise serious questions about the future of Siberia. BBC spokesperson said: “We have no plans to remove this interview from our website. Mr Loskutov is an artist and activist known for organising events which are, at first sight, parodies of political activity, but which also bring out serious issues about life in Russia. Mr Loskutov’s views represent his personal position. The BBC aims to present all sides of a story in an impartial, unbiased way, and we have also requested an interview with a Russian government official to explain their position on the planned march. Our editorial decisions are guided by the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines and the story in question is in full compliance with the requirements set out by this document.” Ends// For more information please contact: BBC World Service Group Communications – Lala Najafova lala.najafova @ bbc.co.uk Notes for editors: The BBC’s editorial guidelines are publicly available: http://www.bbc.co.uk/editorialguidelines/guidelines/ (in English); http://www.bbc.co.uk/russian/institutional/2011/02/000000_g_editorial_values.shtml (highlights, in Russian). BBC Russian is part of BBC World Service, an international multimedia broadcaster delivering a wide range of language and regional services on radio, TV, online and via wireless handheld devices. BBC World Service uses multiple platforms to reach its weekly audience of over 191 million globally. The BBC attracts a weekly global audience of 265 million people to its international news services including BBC World Service, BBC World News television channel and bbc.com/news (BBCWS PR via DXLD) ** U K [non]. BBCWS reception: see ASCENSION ** U K. 4 Extra Saturday: The BBC Tour of London-based studios using archive material. This sounds interesting, 3 hour programme on Saturday http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04d0kl7 Radio Times adds Maida Vale and Bush House to the list (Mike Barraclough, Aug 6, bdxc-uk yg via DXLD) ** U K. UNIONS ACCEPT BBC PAY OFFER As part of the new deal, BBC director general Tony Hall has also agreed to talks about pay inequities in the World Service and BBC Monitoring. Full article here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ariel/28659901 (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A. 25950/FM, KB99696, KOA Denver CO, studio relay for 850 KOA; 1456-1504+, 30-July; News Radio 8-50 KOA; Rush Limbaugh promo; CO's Morning News; traffic at 1501 into Accu-Weather; flash flood warnings all over the area. VGood peaks with QSBs to zilch. Still there at 1658. Only a hint of audio at 1904. 1526, 31-July; more out than in; "Traffic every 10 minutes" (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 25000, July 31 at 1945, JBA second tix, and top-of-minute tone, but no voice announcement audible, so finally heard WWV on reactivated frequency --- normally too close at under 500 miles to Ft Collins, but had just noted VG signal on 20000 which is also too close, except when obviously sporadic-E is in play. Yet, *no* activity heard on 12m hamband just below 25 MHz, and very little on ``15m`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5332-CW, August 3 at 0205, CQ DE KG0EG repeated a few times, then stopped. ARRL lookup shows this is: KITCHEN, PHILLIP L, KG0EG, Waterloo, IL 62298, Previous call sign: WD9IPM. One of the five discrete so-called ``60 meter`` ham frequencies available, i.e. 56.22 meters using the 299,792.458 km/sec conversion factor, speed of light in vacuum, 56.26m using the rounded 300 factor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 21344-USB, July 31 at 1955, SSOB if not the OSOB, quick contest-like contacts by station failing to ID itself with each QSO, but eventually as W1AW portable 4 in Kentucky --- so it`s this week`s location for the year-long W1AW ARRL WAS marathon, setting a poor example non-IDing. Says he is listening on ``347``, and altho little else heard here on ``15m``, he`s working all over from Japan to South America to Europe. From *where* in KY? Two to four syllables to identify location would take up too much precious QSO time! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 13110-USB, August 1 at 1404, robofem with tropical storm warnings for Puerto Rico, Barbados, Vieques, and ``she`` spells C-U-L- E-B-R-A, not knowing how to pronounce it? Among other island targets. EiBi lists WLO Mobile on this frequency altho not at this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7615-USB, Aug 6 at 0149, the Civil Air Patrol net heard again, very formal with ``sirs``, one guy asking another for his e- mail address, which is then spelled out. So I send him a report, surprise! One or both make beeps at end of transmissions. The one requesting the e-mail is stronger, Blue Mesa 588, then doing a radio check with another. See previous reports on CAP 7615 in DXLDs 14-17 and 14-13 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 13561.6, GNK, Hifer Beacon via KC9GNK Madison WI; 0405, 31- July; 1417 moved up to 13562.8 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. USIB reform bill --- I recommend to take a look at the bill itself: http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/sites/republicans.foreignaffairs.house.gov/files/HR4490A%20-%20Suspension%20Text%20%28FINAL%29.pdf There are not just the already discussed requirements for VOA that have not so terribly much to do with editorial independence. The bill also seeks to commit VOA to report about the USA only. Anything else would, at least as I read the language, be explicitly banned. Which would require to transfer VOA PNN, Ashna Radio, Deewa Radio, Aap Ki Dinyaa, Studio 7 to Freedom News Network, else to shut them down or to change their concepts to such a degree that they will become irrelevant (which should apply to a number of other language services, too). Sounds like a really clever plan to me. It's also noteworth how the bill seeks to ban USIB from broadcasting to democratic countries altogether. In fact this is basically the practice at VOA for about 15 years now, but this way they would even need to, as an example, sneak in any reactions from Central/Western Europe in a manner similar to what AFN once did here in Germany ("the next song is for Peter..."). Which would mean that comparing Facebook likes, Twitter followers etc. will become pointless at all. It would be the very intention of the law if Rossiya Segodnya attracts a large audience in Central/Western Europe but USIB none at all. Sounds like a really clever plan to me, too. Or will Germany be officially declared a risk for the national security of the USA to justify another FM application at Berlin, to quote a hypothetical scenario? (Which of course would be absolutely discreditable for a project like a hypothetical revival of VOA Europe.) It could get quite interesting if this really becomes law (Kai Ludwig, Germany, August 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Greetings from the Broadcasting Board of Governors. Our Special Committee on the Future of Shortwave Broadcasting, formed by the Board last fall and led by Governor Matt Armstrong, today released its report assessing current and projected use of shortwave radio as a platform for programming by U.S. international media. Thank you for your contributions to this effort. Many people from a variety of perspectives provided ideas and views, which broadened the committee’s understanding of the issues involved. The report is now online here http://www.bbg.gov/wp-content/media/2014/08/SW-Committee-Final-Report.pdf along with a fact sheet, which is posted here http://www.bbg.gov/wp-content/media/2014/08/SW-Report-fact-sheet.pdf We hope you find these items informative. For any questions, please contact us at ShortwaveCommittee @ bbg.gov (Cassidy D. Tanner, BBG, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: BBG Seals the fate of SW --- SW Committee Final Report, August 2014 attached, 44 page pdf (tnx to Dan Robinson) We also received this notification directly from Cassidy D. Tanner of BBG, and it was also forwarded by Martin Gallas, and the link to it by Benn Kobb. Thanks to all. Bottom line: retain SW only to a few target areas where there is significant SW listening: Top Ten BBG Shortwave Audiences (in millions) from Appendix D: Over 1 million: Nigeria, Burma, Ethiopia, Darfur, DR Congo Under 1 million, but ranking 6-10: Iran, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Somalia (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hmmm! In South Asia, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka not counted at all. -- One of those Posted by: (Sudipta Ghose, India, dxldyg via DXLD) I find the the losses in listenership most revealing. As the income / tech advance increases, the SW-audience decreases. Tanzania, Kenya, and Russia quite notable. The SW-BCs have lost more than the top 5 Countries presently maintain. So if the VOA/Gummint BCs fail, get shut-off, etc., I guess its up to us good citizens/entities to BC to the rest of the world. If, and only if, they care to listen. It appears not in advanced countrries, social media reigns, fluff news reigns, and their SMD (Social Mediia Device) has an app for that. Again, if the population cares. The best propaganda is aimed at our own, not at someone else in a different country 5000 miles (8000 kilometers) distant. The previous statement knows no territorial/political boundary. Of course it`s nice to hear what RA, REE, VOV, RCI, BBC, et al. have to say about us. But it`s not about us, its about their own (diaspora). (Paul S. in CT, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) In terms of expenditure of energy, radio is wasteful by comparison to other means of distribution. It's true that as larger broadcasters leave shortwave, that will leave more room for smaller broadcasters on the bands. But really--who wants more religious swill on the air? The bands should be expanded for amateur use, IMHO (Clara Listensprechen, ibid.) Obviously this document has been distributed as widely as possible, quite apparently as another attempt to make up for the less than optimal (to say the least) communication of the July 1st cuts. So it was intended to keep the programming for Cambodia and Laos on shortwave for the time being due to "local circumstances", whatever that means. In the latter case this went wrong, RFA Laotian has been taken off and the Tinian signal being restored only on July 19, after almost three weeks. So one must indeed conclude that this all was a big mess. Still it remains a mystery why Kurdish, Bangla and the non-Russian programming for the FSU have this time being spared in the last moment, too. And it is quite unclear at all how they want to proceed with Belarusian. Other key points: Russian has for now being kept on shortwave only due to the Ukraine crisis, and programming for China and Iran is rather unlikely to stay on shortwave beyond 2015. With these cuts being implemented four unnamed (but, it appears to me, already choosen) transmitter sites can/will be closed. Note how they invited Guido Baumhauer of Deutsche Welle as an expert. I guess he told them encouraging things about DW's performance in Russia, China and Iran without shortwave. It is quite remarkable how they try to paint a picture that the shortwave relays of VOA Creole that were again on air from January til April 2010 were not meant for listeners at all and merely a feed for the Commando Solo aircraft. So you need to run two broadcasting transmitters of 250 kW each, even involving a third party facility (RNW Bonaire), to get audio to Commando Solo? Sorry, but I think this is clearly bonkers. Or, perhaps, it was back then a cover lie by those who simply went ahead and put the Haiti programming on shortwave within two days after the earthquake, told when being asked how they could act in such a misguided way. See http://kimelli.nfshost.com/index.php?id=8230 [from 2010; no further posts to this website in the last ten months] (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Kai - As a three decade and a half government employee, ostensibly hired in part to develop public policy, I can readily attest to the fact that most such policy is set first, with the accompanying analysis created after the fact solely to justify what is in essence a politically or ideologically motivated decision. This is a classic example of the proverbial "putting the cart before the horse". It is an affront to rational scientific inquiry in that policy should be developed as a result and response to objectively arrived at conclusions and criteria. The fight to conduct policy development and analysis in an honest fashion is the greatest challenge facing true professionals in government service and ultimately the frustration of those efforts becomes the biggest disappointments in one's career. Nonetheless, it is a fight worthy of pursuit regardless of the painfully low success rate. However, "We told you so" is small comfort when one views the damage done. This sorry BBG document falls right into place in this regard, and I sincerely doubt that the recently passed House "reform" bill should it actually become law will serve as any improvement because it too was arrived at using the same ill considered backward process (John Figliozzi, Halfmoon, NY, ibid.) Here I would add that this, as you put it, sorry BBG document is also an affront to those who bothered to send in comments. It is pretty obvious how the comments in favour of shortwave have been used as an argument against it, because from this point of view the distribution platform has the completely wrong supporters. Well, this is in fact just what I suspected: Any such statement, if it would make a difference at all, would be rather counterproductive. (Kai Ludwig, ibid.) TO BE WHERE THE AUDIENCE IS - Report of the BBG Special Committee on the Future of Shortwave Broadcasting --- August 1, 2014 http://www.bbg.gov/?p=19324 WASHINGTON (August 1, 2014) -- The Broadcasting Board of Governors today released "To Be Where the Audience Is," a report that found shortwave radio to be essential to listeners in target countries, but of marginal impact in most markets. The report's recommendations came after a comprehensive review, grounded in audience-based research, of the efficacy of shortwave as a distribution platform for U.S. international media. "Shortwave radio continues to be an important means for large numbers of people in some countries to receive news and information," said Matt Armstrong, who chaired the BBG's Special Committee on the Future of Shortwave Broadcasting, which issued the report. "However, many of our networks' target audiences have moved to newer platforms including TV, FM and digital media. This report maps a way forward for U.S. international media to remain accessible for all our audiences." Research-based evidence of media trends suggests that the increased availability and affordability of television, mobile devices and Internet access has led to the declining use of shortwave around the world. Still, the report finds that substantial audiences embrace shortwave in Nigeria, Burma, North Korea, Afghanistan, Somalia, Zimbabwe, Cuba and other target markets for the BBG. At the same time, the committee's recommendations make clear that the BBG will need to continue to reduce or eliminate shortwave broadcasts where there is either minimal audience or that audience is not a U.S. foreign policy priority. It also ratifies reductions that were made in redundant signals in 2013 and further cuts in transmissions that were made in 2014. Even with these recent reductions, the BBG makes programs in 35 of its 61 broadcast languages available on shortwave where there is a strategic reason to do so. The report notes there is no evidence that shortwave usage increases during crises. At such times, audiences continue to use their preferred platforms or seek out anti-censorship tools to help them navigate to the news online, including firewall circumvention tools or offline media including thumb drives and DVDs. The Shortwave Committee report will be discussed at the August 13 public meeting of the Broadcasting Board of Governors. The report can be found here [among others]: http://www.bbg.gov/about-the-agency/research-reports/board/ (Lynne Weil, Aug 1, BBG PR, via Dr Hansjoerg Biener, Aug 3, DXLD) http://bbgwatch.com/bbgwatch/house-passes-bill-to-overhaul-us-international-broadcasting-voice-of-america-take-lacks-balance/ (via Mike Terry, Aug 3, dxldyg via DXLD) viz.: HOUSE PASSES BILL TO OVERHAUL US INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING — VOICE OF AMERICA TAKE LACKS BALANCE July 28, 2014 - BBGWatcher - Congress, Featured News, Hot Tub Blog - 4 Comments BBG Watch Commentary It took Voice of America a few hours to post a report, which includes quotes by two outside opponents of the bill: former VOA deputy director Alan Heil and Reporters Without Borders Secretary-General Christophe Deloire, but has no quotes from any outside supporters of the bill, including human rights NGOs, U.S. community leaders, and former Voice of America journalists who wrote a letter to President Obama in support of the legislation. So much for balance in Voice of America news reporting as required by the VOA Charter. For an alternative view, see BBG Watch report and commentary on the House passage of H.R. 4490, called the U.S. International Communications Reform Act of 2014. If VOA English News quotes non-congressional critics of the bipartisan bill — there was no criticism of the bipartisan bill voiced today in Congress since it is widely supported as essential for saving Voice of America from mismanagement — VOA English News should have also quoted non-congressional supporters of the bill. But perhaps VOA executives and editors think that former BBG members and current and former VOA journalists who strongly support the reform bill do not count and do not fall under the VOA Charter provision: “2. VOA will represent America, not any single segment of American society, and will therefore present a balanced and comprehensive projection of significant American thought and institutions.” The VOA report does not say that the VOA employee union also strongly supports the bill with only some reservations about the wording concerning VOA’s mission. The VOA report also does not say that many VOA language service journalists also strongly support the bill and see it as the only way of saving them from mismanagement. The report does mention Hillary Clinton’s highly critical comment about U.S. international broadcasting, but her comment is quite old and is not connected with the bill passed today in the House. There are, however, many recent statements from U.S. experts, community leaders, former VOA journalists and others, specifically supporting the bill. They should have been acknowledged in the VOA report. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Ed Royce mentioned the letter to President Obama in a statement posted online by the committee. It was available to Voice of America and anybody else before the VOA report was posted, but VOA chose to ignore it and quoted instead only outside critics of the bill. Are several former presidentially-appointed and Senate-confirmed BBG members who strongly support the bill not representative of “significant American thought,” but others not appointed by the President and not confirmed by the Senate are? There are former Voice of America journalists and high-level managers who strongly support the bill, as well as the VOA Charter. They have been ignored in the VOA news report as if they did not exist. So much for accurate and balanced VOA news reporting as required by the VOA Charter. . . (BBG Watch via DXLD) CUSIB PANS SHORTWAVE REPORT --- Radio World August 4, 2014 http://www.radioworld.com/article/cusib-pans-shortwave-report/271659 The advocacy group Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting has panned the recent “To Be Where the Audience Is” report on the future of shortwave broadcasting conducted by a committee of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the body that oversees U.S. overseas broadcasting. The CUSIB said in its response that the shortwave committee is targeting poor and vulnerable audiences for cuts while the BBG doesn’t curb its own “wasteful” spending. CUSIB founder and Executive Director Ann Noonan and CUSIB co-founder Ted Lipien stated that they’re not questioning the need to adjust shortwave radio transmissions to changing audience preferences and they “support digital media expansion as part of a carefully-designed multimedia program delivery strategy.” However, they state CUSIB’s recommendation to the committee to broaden its scope and to look holistically and comprehensively on how the BBG’s International Broadcasting Bureau spends U.S. taxpayers’ money was ignored. CUSIB says the group advocates for “hundreds of millions of people who don’t have Internet access or are too poor to afford it. We also advocate for those who can’t see Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Office of Cuba Broadcasting and Middle East Broadcasting Networks’ news websites because of government filtering and censorship. They should not be forgotten, nor can most of them use Internet censorship circumvention tools being promoted by the BBG.” (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) SHORTWAVE AUDIENCE STILL DROPPING IN MOST MARKETS Radio World August 4, 2014 http://www.radioworld.com/article/shortwave-audience-still-dropping-in-most-markets/271654 Like other forms of radio, U.S. overseas broadcasters must reach their audience on multiple platforms; increasingly, that means using delivery mechanisms other than shortwave. The findings of a BBG report on the future of shortwave broadcasting for U.S. overseas broadcasting are key as shortwave transmission facilities continue to age, repairs are deemed expensive and the Broadcasting Board of Governors is trying to reduce what it considers to be unnecessary costs. The BBG oversees U.S. international broadcasters like Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Radio Martí. “While there is still a critical need for shortwave in key countries, it is a medium of marginal and continuously declining impact in most markets. Even in countries with currently significant levels of shortwave usage, audiences will migrate to other platforms as they become more accessible,” note the writers of a committee report on the future of shortwave, “To Be Where the Audience Is.” The BBG has found no evidence that shortwave use increased during a crisis. In the report, the committee observes that audiences continue to use their existing platforms like FM, TV and the Internet “or seek out anti-censorship tools including online firewall circumvention, private chat software, flash drives and DVDs to access content.” Digital shortwave, or Digital Radio Mondiale, is unlikely to become an established mass media distribution methodology in enough of the BBG’s current or future markets to justify the costs, notes the committee in the report. Still, the report finds that substantial audiences embrace shortwave in Nigeria, Burma, North Korea, Afghanistan, Somalia, Zimbabwe, Cuba and other target markets for the BBG. At the same time, the committee’s recommendations make clear that the BBG will need to continue to reduce or eliminate shortwave broadcasts where there is either minimal audience or that audience is not a U.S. foreign policy priority. The committee believes their findings back-up reductions that were made in redundant signals in 2013 and further cuts in transmissions that were made in 2014. The BBG notes that even with these recent reductions, U.S. overseas broadcasters make programs in 35 of a total 61 broadcast languages available on shortwave where there is a strategic reason to do so. The shortwave committee report will be discussed at a public BBG meeting on Aug. 13 (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) HILLARY CLINTON SKIPPED VOICE OF AMERICA MEETINGS, NOW MOURNS ITS DEMISE --- Secretary of State attended no board meetings of government’s broadcasting arm By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times - Monday, August 4, 2014 Hillary Rodham Clinton has bemoaned the decline of the U.S. government’s broadcasting arm Voice of America, but as Secretary of State she was an absentee overseer, failing to attend any meetings of the organization’s oversight board. Mrs. Clinton’s tenure as Secretary gave her an influential seat on the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which runs the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe and other international broadcasting efforts. But she, like her predecessors, sent a delegate in her place to cast votes, squandering the chance for more influence. “It is hard to take seriously her criticism of BBG or VOA when she simply never attended a meeting [when] she was a member or advocated her views to us in any serious format,” former board member Victor Ashe said Monday. “Had she attended, we would have adopted her advice and agenda, in all likelihood.” Mrs. Clinton, who is considering a run for President in 2016, last week told CNN she feared U.S. broadcasting’s public diplomacy outreach has slipped in recent years, saying that while the United States helped stop the march of communism, it hasn’t done a good job of telling the post-Cold War world “what we stand for and how we intend to lead and manage.” She sounded a similar note in her new book “Hard Choices,” saying the BBG and Voice of America played an important part of U.S. outreach during the Cold War. “But we had not kept up with the changing technological and market landscape,” she wrote. While seeing the need for “overhaul,” Mrs. Clinton said it proved “to be an uphill struggle to convince either Congress or the White House to make this a priority.” Also last week, the blog BBG Watch highlighted her criticism in a lengthy post titled “Hillary Clinton bemoans decline of U.S. outreach abroad through Voice of America,” which quoted her testimony last year before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, when she referred to the BBG as “practically defunct in terms of its capacity to be able to tell a message around the world.” Mr. Ashe, a Republican appointee to the board, said she could have helped make changes if she’d wanted (via John Babbis, DXLD) Usual slant of the Moony Times, anything to denigrate HRC; I think you`ll find that previous SOS did not personally attend BBG meetings either; too low on their priorities of international affairs, crises (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) MUCH more, including video clips: http://bbgwatch.com/bbgwatch/hillary-clinton-bemoans-decline-of-u-s-outreach-abroad-through-voice-of-america/ (via John Babbis, ibid.) JUST MYANMAR, NORTH KOREA STILL LISTEN ON SHORTWAVE – BBG Asia Radio Today August 6, 2014 http://asiaradiotoday.com/2014/08/just-myanmar-north-korea-still-listen-on-shortwave-bbg/ The US will only continue shortwave services for Voice of America and Radio Free Asia in markets where there is a critical need for it, according to a new paper. The Shortwave Committee report written for The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) has identified just a few countries where substantial audiences still listen on shortwave. In Asia, they are Myanmar (also known as Burma), Afghanistan and other Central Asian countries and North Korea. The report studied the efficacy of shortwave broadcasting in 2014 and found – perhaps not surprisingly – that overall usage continues to decline as audience get more access to news on other platforms like FM, television and internet on mobile phones. It found no evidence that shortwave usage increases during crises, as audience use other platforms for information. Shortwave was found to be a relatively expensive platform to operate and maintain and the committee recommended continuing to reduce or eliminate broadcasts where there is minimal audience reach. In Myanmar, where its service continues, BBG has the second highest number of shortwave audience with 6.2 million listeners. BBG, which controls US-funded international media, appears to have ruled out investing in Digital Radio Mundiale (DRM) technology for shortwave. The report said DRM is not likely to become an effective mass media in BBG’s target markets to justify the infrastructure cost. While India has invested in DRM for domestic as well as international use, BBG has decided to end its investment in this technology (via Mike Terry, Aug 6, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A. Hello and welcome to Listening Post for August. One of the joys of shortwave listening, for me, is not knowing what you are going to listen to next. Internet listening is all very well, and I do listen to programmes via the internet from time to time. However, Internet listening requires you to make a choice of station, and then choose a programme to listen to, either because it is one you always tune to, or maybe the subject looks of interest. But you can’t beat the variability and unpredictability of random tuning around shortwave bands. Take these first two examples of random tuning – I doubt that I would have selected either of these via podcasts/internet listening. [the other: AUSTRALIA] Voice of America The VOA Learning English programs were often overlooked by shortwave program listeners whose first language was English, and these are now unfortunately a victim of the BBG/IBB cuts from 1 July. However, it did often contain many interesting items. For example, on Sunday 29 June, I came across the People in America program (1645 UT on 13570 kHz via Botswana), with the fascinating story of Bessie Coleman – the first African-American female pilot in the US. She sadly died in 1926 aged just 34 whilst preparing to appear in an air show: “She did not use any safety devices, such as a seat belt or parachute. They would have prevented her from leaning over to see all of the field. During the flight, the plane's controls became stuck. The plane turned over in the air. Nothing was holding Coleman in. She fell more than a kilometer to her death. [C] “Throughout her life, Bessie Coleman had resisted society's restrictions against blacks and women. She believed that the air is the only place where everyone is free. She wanted to teach other black people about that special environment. It took some time until her wish was fulfilled. It was not until nineteen thirty-nine that black students were permitted to enter civilian flight schools in the United States. It was not until the Second World War that black male pilots were sent into battle. And, it was not until nineteen eighty that the first black women completed military pilot training in the United States. [C]” However, her influence continued long after her death and the City Council in Chicago, where she lived, passed a resolution in 1992: “praising her, saying ‘Bessie Coleman continues to inspire untold thousands, even millions of young persons with her sense of adventure, her positive attitude and her determination to succeed’. “In 1934, Lieutenant William Powell wrote a book called ‘Black Wings.’ saying ‘Because of Bessie Coleman, we have overcome that which was much worse than racial barriers. We have overcome the barriers within ourselves and dared to dream’. ”Clearly an inspiring person, and one wonders what she would have achieved if she had not lost her life so early. An excellent program, and none the less interesting by being presented in Special English. VOA Learning English programs remain available online only (Listening Post with Alan Roe, August BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) It so happens that Bessie Coleman was a character portrayed in last year`s Enid Chautauqua by Ilene Evans. Here`s a 48-minute video of that from a duplicate performance in Tulsa: http://vimeo.com/69508483 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. MFSK text from VOA Radiogram and VOA Mandarin VOA Radiogram this weekend includes a VOA News story about how moose drool detoxifies fungus. It's all in MFSK32 except for a couple of surprise modes at the end. Details: VOA Radiogram, 2-3 August 2014: House bill could affect VOA VOA Radiogram this weekend will include news about legislation that could bring major changes to VOA and to other entities of U.S. international broadcasting... http://voaradiogram.net/post/93423265147/voa-radiogram-2-3-august-2014-house-bill-could-affect To decode the text and images, patch the audio from your radio to your PC and decode the images using Fldigi from w1hkj.com. (Configure Fldigi for your PC's sound card. You might have to adjust some audio settings on your PC, especially recording devices. You can even place your radio's speaker next to the built-in mic of a laptop PC, then tell everyone else in the room to be quiet). VOA Radiogram transmission schedule (all days and times UT): Sat 0930-1000 5745 kHz Sat 1600-1630 17860 kHz Sun 0230-0300 5745 kHz Sun 1930-2000 15670 kHz All via the Edward R. Murrow transmitting station in North Carolina. VOA Mandarin is transmitting one minute, ten seconds of MFSK32 as follows: 2258:15 UT 6135 9845 kHz 0058:10 UT 9880 15385 15565 17560 kHz Via IBB relays in Asia. The MFSK32 is centered on 2500 Hz. To see how it works near the target country, I recommend these YouTube videos produced by TW in Japan. Note that VOA Mandarin is in the background under the co-channel Chinese domestic radio stations... 9845 kHz VOA Radiogram Chinese TXT trial 2258 UT MFSK32 July 28, 2014 2258 UTC Delta FLAG (Null:East) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yscPPKvxomg 17560 kHz VOA Radiogram Mandarin July 29, 2014 0058 UTC WSML 2-PCL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqLRnrKYVQE (Kim Elliott, August 2, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) LOG: KBC+VoA / Radiogram / 2014-08-02 / 6095k1130z + 17860k1600z http://www.rhci-online.de/VoA_Radiogram_2014-08-02.htm + a few extra images (roger, germany, ibid.) The MFSK experiments on the VOA Mandarin Service continue, but now we are switching from MFSK32 to MFSK16. These will be daily at ... 2258 UT 6135 9845 kHz 0058 UT 9880 15385 15565 17560 kHz via Asian relay transmitters. The center frequency for the MFSK16 is 2000 Hz. The audio as received may be plus or minus a few Hz. MFSK16 requires precise tuning of the audio frequency. If you can record the audio, this will give more than one chance to tune the audio to the correct frequency. Reception in Europe and North America is possible. Chinese domestic radio is co-channel with VOA Mandarin, and usually dominant. The VOA Mandarin MFSK tones may come through well enough for at least some decoding outside of Asia. Here are two recent videos of VOA Mandarin MFSK32 reception and decoding in Japan... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t29NN4fC-zM 15565 kHz VOA Radiogram USB / Aug. 04, 2014 - YouTube 0058 UTC Mandarin WSML 2-PCL Watch now... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW8q-YGa3-I (Kim Elliott, Aug 6, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A. 7405, Aug 5 at 0404, outro in Spanish for a VOA Editorial, reflecting the views of the US Government, and even a VOA jingle, so VOA Spanish, officially deleted from SW, lives on as a subsidiary of R. Martí, well above jamming at the moment; 0405 into the midnight repeat of the 8 pm show `Las Noticias Como Son` --- does that mean the news are musical? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1732 monitoring: confirmed first airing on WRMI 9955, UT Thursday July 31 at 0330; fair signal with some jamming, and some hum. Also confirmed July 31 at 1230 on WRMI 9955, this time above CCI from France in Chinese via Taiwan, which is close enough in frequency to produce a SAH rather than a LAH. Next: Thursday 2100 on WBCQ 7490v UT Friday 0327v on WWRB 3185 (or 5050?), and stay tuned afterwards Saturday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB UT Sunday 0030 on WRMI 9495 [probably previous edition 1731] UT Sunday 0131 on KVOH 9975 UT Monday 0259v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Monday 2100 on WRMI 15770 [? but missing last week] Tuesday 1100 on WRMI 9955 Wednesday 0630 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wednesday 1315 on WRMI 9955 Wednesday 0630 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wednesday 2100 on WBCQ 7490v ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1732 monitoring: confirmed on WBCQ 7490 webcast, Thursday July 31 at 2100. Also confirmed UT Friday August 1 from before 0327 on WWRB webcast: this time the audio quality is fine here, but somewhat degraded on 3185, which also combats summer noise level, and notably weaker than neighbor 3215 WWCR. Shortly after I finish, at 0356 Dave Frantz comes on live playing an off-air recording of the Swiss Radio International IS, lamenting the demise of so many SW stations like that one, and musing on his early years of SWLing from 1967. I`m listening now online, but at 0400 he`s automatically chopped off for the KJV Bible readings filling the rest of the time. Next: Saturday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB UT Sunday 0030 on WRMI 9495 (probably previous #1731) UT Sunday 0131 on KVOH 9975 UT Monday 0259v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Monday 2100 on WRMI 15770 (? Not last week) Tuesday 1100 on WRMI 9955 Wednesday 0630 on HLR 7265-CUSB Wednesday 1315 on WRMI 9955 Wednesday 1430 on HLR 7265-CUSB Wednesday 2100 on WBCQ 7490v The WOR podcast via Rhein-Main Radio Club has been resumed: http://www.rmrc.de or directly under: http://bit.ly/1xD5yyn (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9975, August 3 at 0143, KVOH is off when WORLD OF RADIO would have aired. KVOH is among few affiliates with the courtesy to notify us of such a problem: ``Hi, Glenn. Our operator is having a problem bringing up our 9975 tx tonight, and our tx engineer is out of town. If we can troubleshoot successfully, we may be on later, but it seems we will not be able to carry your program this week. Sorry`` (Ray Robinson, Operations Manager, KVOH - Voice of Hope / Voz de Esperanza, 0132 UT August 3) And also tnx to Thomas Völkner for another advisory about WOR missing an HLR broadcast: ``Glenn, On a very short notice and due to technical reasons, Hamburger Lokalradio will only run a short set of programmes on Saturday, August 2nd. 0500-0800 UT - 7265 kHz, 0800-1000 - 6190 kHz. Hence, the Sat 1430 slot of World of Radio will not go out on August 2nd. Please note that everything will be back to normal from Wednesday, August 6th 2014. Allbest,`` (Thomas, 0158 UT Aug 2) WORLD OF RADIO 1732 monitoring, next: UT Monday 0259v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Monday 2100 on WRMI 15770 (? Not last week) Tuesday 1100 on WRMI 9955 Wednesday 0630 on HLR 7265-CUSB Wednesday 1315 on WRMI 9955 Wednesday 1430 on HLR 7265-CUSB Wednesday 2100 on WBCQ 7490v WORLD OF RADIO 1732 monitoring: John Lightning wraps up on Area 51 webcast by 0300 UT Monday August 4, but pause, no WOR, then some more JL berating Best Buy, vamping with comedy bits, etc., until finally WOR starts at 0309. Must have had trouble downloading or starting the playback. Also sufficient on WBCQ 5110v-CUSB 0328 check. Next: Monday 2100 on WRMI 15770 (? Not last week) Tuesday 1100 on WRMI 9955 Wednesday 0630 on HLR 7265-CUSB Wednesday 1315 on WRMI 9955 Wednesday 1430 on HLR 7265-CUSB Wednesday 2100 on WBCQ 7490v WORLD OF RADIO 1732 monitoring: confirmed Monday August 4 at 2100 on WRMI, 15770. Next: Wednesday 0630 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wednesday 1315 on WRMI 9955 Wednesday 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wednesday 2100 on WBCQ 7490v ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1732 monitoring: confirmed on WRMI 9955, Wednesday August 6 at 1315, poor signal, but clear. Also confirmed on WBCQ 7490 webcast, August 6 from 2100 WORLD OF RADIO 1733 monitoring: confirmed first airing on WRMI 9955, UT Thursday August 7 at 0330; sufficient signal, but the Cairene mess on 9965 is causing some second-adjacent channel interference. Also confirmed after 1230 UT Thursday August 7 on 9955, atop the CCCCI from France via Taiwan. Next: Thursday 2100 on WBCQ 7490v [NO: it`s been canceled] UT Friday 0326v on WWRB 3185 UT Saturday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB UT Sunday 0030 on WRMI 9495 (probably 1732) UT Sunday 0131 on KVOH 9975 UT Monday 0300v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Monday 2100 on WRMI 15770, etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 17775, KVOH, 1515-1529 "Frecuencia al Dia" DX program in Spanish with many recordings of stations including R. Tarma, and mentions of other OA stations including R. Cultural Amauta, R. Chaski, and R. Quillabamba. Spanish ID at 1529, then into pleasant Ranchera music program with host Lorenzo Martínez who gave his name and many KVOH IDs and QTH as Los Ángeles CA. Also mention of Internet website. Not very strong and quite a bit of QSB. (1 August) http://youtu.be/ZeCrszzhhPg Radio Tarma on 17775 kiloHertz?????? 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA USA, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) FAD airs Fri & Mon at 1500-1530 on 17775 (gh, DXLD) [non]. 9975, UT Monday Aug 4 at 0128, KVOH is off the air again tonight, uncovering very poor signal with flutter, i.e. The Voice Asia, Tashkent. KVOH still off at 0328. I fear they will also be off 17775 which should resume weekdays at 13-19 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17775, Monday Aug 4 at 1338, JBA carrier, and 1555 usual fair level signal and modulation in Spanish from KVOH, back in biz, after missing the weekend English broadcasts on 9975 due to transmitter problems. 17775, Aug 5 at 1258, KVOH is already on with prélude, 1300 sign-on in English, into Spanish; very poor signal, and the OSOB with 16m almost dead: not even Cuba on 17580, 17730. By 1411, RAN via WRMI is starting to show on 17790 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9955, Monday Aug 4 at 1121, WRMI with `AWR Wavescan` as Yukiko is starting her JSWC report, vs pulse jamming, CCI from France in Chinese via Taiwan; at least it`s within SAH rather than LAH range. Retune 1341, there she is again, wrapping up same report now in the clear (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 3185, August 1 at 0113, WWRB with duet or trio of YLs singing ``God Will [allegedly] Take Care of You``, beautiful harmony! 9370, Aug 6 at 0139, WWRB BS still on here with bigsig, not 5050, while WWRB own programming is on much weaker 3185 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Unscheduled transmissions of Brother Stair TOM via WTWW-3 on July 25 till 0710 on 12105 TWW 100 kW / 040 deg to ENAm English, poor reception. Videos: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/07/unscheduled-transmissions-of-brother.html (Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via DXLD) 9475, WTWW Lebanon TN (presumed); 1441, 25-July; Pump-Action Passed Pastor Pete Peters waxing about gun control. S9+ with presumed Last Days Prophet of God studio bleed from 12105 also with S9+ signal. Noted same B.S. bleed on 9475 during 2100 yesterday (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12105, July 31 at 0517, WTWW-3 still on air, signal holding up to VG level, with preacher in English, probably PPP but not // 5830 WTWW-1; 5085, WTWW-2 is also on with BS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Unscheduled transmissions of WTWW-3 The Bible World Wide after 0200 UT 1700-1900 12105 TWW 100 kW / 040 deg ENAm English, no signal here 1900-2000 12105 TWW 100 kW / 040 deg ENAm Spanish, no signal here 2000-2100 12105 TWW 100 kW / 040 deg ENAm Portuguese, no signal here 2100-2200 12105 TWW 100 kW / 040 deg ENAm French, no signal here 2200-2300 12105 TWW 100 kW / 040 deg ENAm Arabic, see video 2300-2400 12105 TWW 100 kW / 040 deg ENAm Yoruba, see video 0000-0100 12105 TWW 100 kW / 040 deg ENAm Russian, see video 0100-0200 12105 TWW 100 kW / 040 deg ENAm English, see video from 0200 12105 TWW 100 kW / 040 deg ENAm English, see video http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/07/unscheduled-transmissions-of-wtww-3.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, 1223 UT July 31, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) So presumably these all refer to UT July 31 (gh) 12105, August 2 at 1740, WTWW-3 is on in English, but much weaker than neighbor 12160 WWCR-2 (note: Aoki says WWCR-1, incorrect, since that is on 15825); so I again conclude WTWW-3 is operating at considerably reduced power --- or its antenna configuration is much less favorable. 9475, August 4 at 0328, WTWW-1 is still on day frequency with blasting signal, so Ted must have failed to make the change to night frequency 5830 a sesquihour earlier at 0200. WTWW-2, however, with BS is on 5085; and WTWW-3, 12105 is off. 5830, Aug 4 at 0526 check, WTWW-1 is still absent from authorized night frequency, instead on 9475, unauthorized day frequency. By 0535 it`s weakened to ``hollow`` sounding level. Next check at 1124 Aug 4: 5830 is still off, and on 9475 I am hearing R. Australia, seemingly QRM-free, but WTWW could still be on there and totally not propagating with lowest pre-sunrise MUF. By 1342, 9475 is definitely on from WTWW, blotting out RA, rather than waiting until authorized *1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) No wonder I missed WTWW at 05 UT while going to tune in HM01 at 5855 early this AM. I guess they went 24/7 on 9475 and are still there now (Shawn Fahrer, NY, 2016 UT Aug 4, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9475, Aug 6 at 0141, WTWW-1 PPP with humbuzz and same pitch splash audibly spreading out as far as 9450-9500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15825, August 2 at 1455, neat old tunes on `The Talking [sic] Machine Show` from WWCR; frustratingly, Phil Patton gives the year the wax cylinder was made, 1916, but *not* the name of the song nor the composer, nor performer! The next one is faded out at 1459 before there can be another incomplete outro, let alone a program closing. Host is an engineer, not an experienced announcer, yet this is the only WWCR show worth listening to on WWCR. They still haven`t put up an August program schedule, but the latest dated June 20 shows for TTMS: Sat 1000 4840, Sat 1430 15825, Sat 2300 9350, Mon 0400 4840 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15795, WWCR Nashwille, 04 AUG 2014, 0915, powerhouse S9+10. 73 (Nick VK2DX Hacko, Sydney NSW, Australia, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Short path would be over darkside, so possible longpath? (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. 7505.24, WRNO, 0058 full ID by M, then another ID by different M at 0059 with frequency. email wrnoradio@mailus.net, address in Ft. Worth TX. (record) Into New Years religious music program "The Haven". Very good signal and nice audio, but off frequency as usual. (2 August) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA USA, Hard- Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** U S A. 12050, August 3 at 1314, WEWN is missing but still on 11550 in Spanish; and weakly on 15610 in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 11715, KJES, Carrier came on with low power at 1249, then boosted to full power at 1259, and broadcast began with girl giving ID and QTH in English, and into religious music with preaching. Strong but undermodulated. (28 July) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo PA, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 7555.033, KJES, 0157 children singing then repeating something in an almost screaming manner. 0159 girl with usual ID and QTH, then spiritual readings by W with group repeating. Good signal but ute QRM. (4 August) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA USA, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** U S A. YOUTUBE VIDEO OF ALL THE CURRENT US SHORTWAVE STATIONS I spent a few days recently "collecting" station identifications of all the shortwave stations from the US (I think I got them all!!). It took some time and I ran into a few snags, but I finally posted the video on Youtube. I added a few effects to jazz it up a little as well. Some of you may have already viewed one or two of the test videos and found some errors. If so, I apologize. It would have been much easier to just post the videos of each station on Youtube individually, but a full length video kept them all in one place with no need to search for a particular station ID. To aid in finding a station in the video, I included the time in the info box as part of all the other details. If you have a spare moment, please drop me a line and let me know how good the quality is on your end. Here's a link to the video: http://youtu.be/VtlXlWK4RDU 73 (Dave Valko, PA, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 18+ minutes Published on Aug 5, 2014 --- These are all the current shortwave radio stations from the USA together on one video. They were recorded in Dunlo, PA, USA between 31 July and 4 August 2014, and all include English station identifications except Radio Marti (Spanish). Stations are in date order with WWV and WWVH intentionally placed at the end. A Perseus SDR was used along with both Wellbrook ALA1530S amplified loop antenna and a 153 foot vertical, tilted, triangular Delta Loop. Below is the list. Frequency is in kiloHertz, times are in UT. At the end is the time in the video for each station WEWN 15610 kiloHertz 1759 UTC 31 July 0:00 WJHR 15549.97 USB 1801 31 July 0:47 WWCR 9980 2259 31 July 1:34 WBCQ 5109.76 carrier plus USB 0057 1 August 2:06 WWRB 5049.99 0100 sign off 1 August 3:23 WRMI 7570 1059 sign off 1 August 3:45 R. Africa (via WRMI) 17790 1859 1 August 4:35 WTWW 9474.98 1501 1 August 5:15 KVOH 17775.02 1854 (Spanish), 1858 (English) sign off 1 August 5:59 WHRI 7315 2259 signing on 1 August 8:23 WRNO 7505.24 0059 2 August 9:40 WINB 9265 0129 2 August 10:14 VOA, Greenville ("Radiogram") 5745 0230 3 August 11:05 R. Marti, Greenville 6030 (jammed) 1059 3 August 12:07 KNLS 9655 (weak signal) 0800 sign on in Russian, 1000 in English 4 August 12:46 KJES 7555.03 0159 11714.99 1259 sign on 4 August 14:20 WWV 15000 2000 2 August 15:27 WWVH 10000 1059 2 August 16:41 time station BPM audible as well (via DXLD) Video recordings of several US private religious stations July 30/31: WEWN 1 in English to ME 2324 on 15610 Vandiver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tximqiI1q68&feature=youtu.be WINB in English to CeAm 2243 on 9265 Red Lion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG421PE8mWU&feature=youtu.be WRMI Family Radio in Spanish to SoAm and CeAm 2312 on 9495 and 11730 Okeechobee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJv2Bgyd10o&feature=youtu.be WRMI Family Radio in Spanish to SoAm and CeAm 2358 on 9495 and 11730 Okeechobee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbC3kt0hQvs&feature=youtu.be WRMI, Viva Miami in English 2123 on 15770 Okeechobee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaoX-dj9mR8&feature=youtu.be WRMI, Viva Miami in English 2128 on 15770 Okeechobee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD9r_dza6MA&feature=youtu.be WTWW 1 Scriptures For America in English to ENAm 2249 on 9475 Lebanon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYJurAw6620&feature=youtu.be WTWW 2 Brother Stair in English to SoAm 2253 on 9930 Lebanon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M871RJ_x9_Q&feature=youtu.be WWCR 1 in English to NoAm 2347 on 6115 Nashville https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjg5w-266os&feature=youtu.be WWCR 2 in English to CeAf 2349 on 9350 Nashville https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvVnXhK79bg&feature=youtu.be WWCR 3 in English to NoAm 2327 on 13845 Nashville https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrHid8rLEKY&feature=youtu.be WWCR 4 Brother Stair in English to CeAm 2255 on 9980 Nashville https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXfoSuOMe-M&feature=youtu.be WWRB Brother Stair in English to ENAm 2247 on 9370 Morrison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf_aOwzUETM&feature=youtu.be WWRB Brother Stair in English to ENAm 2303 on 9370 Morrison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6KCbEu7M2M&feature=youtu.be WBCQ in English to ENAm 0131 on 9330 Monicello in CUSB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHNv90drRIU&feature=youtu.be WBCQ in English to ENAm 0227 on 5109.8 Monicello in CUSB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Naovwnk25o&feature=youtu.be WEWN 1 in English to WeAf 0250 on 11520 Vandiver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjbiuiQNmlw&feature=youtu.be WEWN 3 in Spanish to Mexico 0230 on 5810 Vandiver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CqarniJOH8&feature=youtu.be WHRI Angel 1 Tru News in English to WeEu 0100 on 5920 Cypress Creek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJkBvXfD3TY&feature=youtu.be WHRI Angel 2 in English to WeEu 0006 on 5920 Cypress Creek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu-fvEkMwos&feature=youtu.be WHRI Angel 2 in English WeEu 0212 on 5920, Angel 1 in English CeAm on 7315 Cypress Creek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2TT1wgAe7g&feature=youtu.be WRMI Tru News in English 0248 on 5850 Okeechobee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM8bqKoObHI&feature=youtu.be WRNO in English to NoAm 0209 on 7505.2 New Orlians https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5Q2i08_oBQ&feature=youtu.be WTWW 1 Scriptures For America in English to ENAm 0213 on 5830 Lebanon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y29uAD5Hsg&feature=youtu.be WTWW 2 Brother Stair in English to SoAm 0137 on 5085 Lebanon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXhcGJSclfQ&feature=youtu.be WWCR 2 in English to CeAf 0005 on 5935 Nashville https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRtbgHSmRog&feature=youtu.be WWCR 3 in English to NoAm 0228 on 4840 Nashville https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aedOww4E0pQ&feature=youtu.be WWRB Brother Stair in English to ENAm 0134 on 5050 Morrison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKD7upO-XNA&feature=youtu.be http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/07/dx-re-mix-news-864.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #864 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, July 31, 2014 via DXLD) ** U S A. 770, Sunday August 3 at 1234 UT, very poor but steady signal with Larry King doing a commercial (all he ever does these days, including half-hour TV infomercials bearing his name), 1235 UT resuming `Perspective` from ABC News, so no doubt KKOB Albuquerque NM which has been running this news magazine Sunday mornings at 6-7 MT for many years (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1060, July 31 at 0536 UT, open carrier/dead air from WSW/ENE, and making fast SAH with something, doubtless the perpetually off-frequency and perpetually cheating 10 kW daytimer, KIJN Farwell TX, only lacking its Spanish praise music and preaching modulation. Now how about taking a second step, turning off the transmitter at night? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TIS STATIONS --- Glenn, The primary if not only reason that there are no US full service AM stations on 1610 kHz is that there are a lot of U.S. government TIS stations on that frequency, dating from the original TIS rules/policies by FCC and IRAC which restricted them to 530 and 1610. And the IRAC authorized stations, because they are Federal, have primary status, unlike FCC licensed TIS stations which are secondary. So no part 73 broadcast station can be authorized which would interfere with them. And the Federal agencies have no interest in moving any of them off 1610 because it would cost money (Ben Dawson, Hatfield-Dawson, WA, Aug 4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1640, July 31 at 0459 UT, KZLS OK is still in dead air as for the last few hours, as noted at 0128 and 0310 (is no one paying attention at the station? May require a trip out to the remote Hennessey transmitter site). With its open carrier nulled, I hear ESPN Radio, and an ID for WTNI Biloxi MS, following IDs for two or three FM stations (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1680, August 1 at 0543 UT, `Clark Howard Show` fades up with caller, financial advice, again appropriate DF for KGED Fresno CA; 0558 UT ad for apocalyptic free book from an 800 number, fades for ID, 0600 UT SRN News; 0605 UT plug Dave Ramsey show at 11-2; 0606 UT resume Clark Howard. This matches the KGED sked at: http://www.my1680.com/index.php?c=2 which now bills itself as ``More Conservative Talk Radio`` but mostly Christian during the daytime on weekends. 1680, UT Sunday August 3 at 0603 UT, at occasional peaks, KGED sounds like a local talk show, guest named Rodríguez; not waiting for a 5- minute news on the hour from SRN; perhaps because as per sked http://www.my1680.com/index.php?c=2 `VALLEY TALK LIVE WITH JEFF CROW` has only one hour at 11 pm PDT Saturdays (and another at 3-4 pm Sundays; repeat?); yet the rest of the schedule totally ignores when there is ``news`` on the hour (or not) as so many other stations do as well. City to city distance for this 1 kW is 1954 km = 1214 statute miles. True bearing of Fresno from here is about 277 degrees (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UZBEKISTAN. Voice of Martyrs in Korean to NoKorea 1600 Aug 4 on 7510 Tashkent + weak 2nd harmonic on 15020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnY6cgBdxuY&feature=youtu.be ** UZBEKISTAN. 9670, August 6 at 1308, very poor signal, much weaker than CRI Russian 9675, as I am rechecking for CVC The Voice Asia, believed to have shifted from 9660, where I am only hearing the China radio war. 9670, Aug 7 at 1244, poor signal in Asian language, presumed CVC The Voice Asia, ex-9660, as 9670 is an alternate frequency for this on same Tashkent parameters, 11-14 in Hindi; no ACI from 9675 CRI Russian before 1300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VANUATU. 3945.000, Radio Vanuatu, Port Vila, S=8 -75dBm, smooth En pops. 1017UT (Wolfgang Büschel, heard remote in Brisbane SDR unit, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 1, dxldyg via DXLD) ** VATICAN. Vatican Radio --- Sunday morning, 6 July at 0630 UT, and Vatican Radio is coming in strong on 15570 kHz. The final feature in today’s programme is The World Around Us (and news about our environment); this is always an interesting programme. Amongst the items in today’s feature was a report on the summit reviewing the Ottawa Convention held in Maputo, Mozambique, on the prohibition on the use, stockpiling, production and transfer of anti-personnel mines, and of their destruction.“ ‘No child should live in fear of landmines’. These were the words at the heart of Pope Francis’ message to the summit. [C] The United Nations estimates that every year, landmines kills between 15-20,000 people; at least 10,000 are children. [C] They can kill and maim indiscriminately for decades, yet despite this random carnage, they continue to be used as weapons of war. Since the 1960’s as many as 110 million mines have spread throughout the world. [C] The only way to de-activate them is by individual removal at a cost of US$300-1000 per mine. Then, even with training, for every 5,000 mines cleared one worker will be killed and two workers will be injured. While 161 States have signed-up to the mine ban, key powers such as Russia, China, US, India, Pakistan and Iran have yet to ratify the convention.” Truly shocking. Regardless of faith, or not, it’s hard to understand why some countries have yet to ratify this convention, and I admire the work of those people who put their lives at risk to remove these devices. I’ve long supported the work of the UK charity, the Mines Action Group, in mine clearance, and so I’ll give them a quick plug: http://www.maginternational.org/ (Listening Post with Alan Roe, August BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** VIETNAM. 9839.85, V. of Vietnam, 1050 M in IN[donesian?] hosting presumed press program with journalist reports and soundbites. Fair signal // better 12019.105. (28 July 2014) http://youtu.be/Pf04zY7S7Mg Voice of Vietnam in parallel on 2 frequencies 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo PA, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** VIETNAM [non]. QSL: AUSTRIA: Voice of Vietnam, 9625 kHz. Two QSL cards for two separate postal reports received in 47 days. First QSL features a fantastic Black and White photograph of an H'Mong Lady. The second QSL features a colourful photograph of rolling terraced hills captioned "Che Tao Commune, Vietnam" (Alan Roe, UK, Verie Interesting, Aug CIDX Messenger via DXLD) ** YEMEN. Radio Sana'a was back on SW again after break for Ramazan: 1800-1900 6135 ALH 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME English. Videos on Aug. 5: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/radio-sanaa-in-english-was-back-on.html Radio Sana'a in English 1828 on 6135 Al Hiswah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy3a0kjM6BU&feature=youtu.be Radio Sana'a in English 1830 on 6135 Al Hiswah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG7TDsMn65o&feature=youtu.be Radio Sana'a in English 1856 on 6135 Al Hiswah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76TSdyQYS6Y&feature=youtu.be 05 08 2014 Radio Sana'a in Arabic 1859 on 6135 Al Hiswah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtbpQ76WPnA&feature=youtu.be Radio Sana'a in Arabic 1901 on 6135 Al Hiswah, off at 1902 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL3n0NI-O24&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DXLD) ** ZIMBABWE [non]. SW RADIO AFRICA IS CLOSING DOWN SW Radio Africa 4 August 2014 http://www.swradioafrica.com/2014/08/04/sw-radio-africa-is-closing-down/ It is with regret that SW Radio Africa announces that it is closing down. We recently stopped our shortwave transmissions but have continued to provide broadcasts via our website and other formats, but these too will cease. We’d like to thank the organisations and individuals who have supported us for the past 13 years and the contributors to our programs who have given so willingly of their time and expertise. In particular we’d like to thank our listeners, who have shared their lives, hopes and dreams and helped us to tell the story of Zimbabwe’s sad decline to the world. We hope that one day Zimbabwe finally has a government who understands that its sole responsibility is to ensure a safe, healthy, prosperous life for every man, woman and child in the country. Our first broadcast was on 19th December 2001. Our last broadcast will be on 10th August 2014. It’s been a privilege. Gerry Jackson, Founder/Editor, 4th August 2014 (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DXLD) ZIMBABWEANS REACT TO CLOSURE OF EXILE BROADCASTER SW RADIO AFRICA | Text of report by London-based Zimbabwe independent SW Radio Africa on 5 August Zimbabweans across the world have expressed their shock and sadness following the news that SW Radio Africa will be closing down after 13 years of broadcasting. On Monday [4 August], station manager Gerry Jackson said: "We'd like to thank the organizations and individuals who have supported us for the past 13 years and the contributors to our programmes who have given so willingly of their time and expertise. Our first broadcast was on 19th December 2001. Our last broadcast will be on 10th August 2014. It's been a privilege." The closure was preceded by a cessation of the shortwave transmissions, a move which was celebrated by many in ZANU PF, a party whose hostility to freedom of expression is well-documented. The station has been a thorn in the flesh of the paranoid ZANU PF regime and, in his first visit to the UK in 14 years, Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa tabled its closure as a condition for ZANU PF's re- engagement with the British. For ordinary Zimbabweans, especially those living in the rural areas, the station's broadcasts had become an important source of current affairs, judging by the popularity of the station's "Callback" programme and the solidarity messages from home and from Zimbabweans all over the world. On Monday, press freedom campaigners MISA-Zim director Nhlanhla Ngwenya described as sad the demise of the station which had established itself as an important news source amongst information- starved communities. "It is sad that one of the daily sources of alternative information is closing down. It is even worse if one considers that radio remains the most popular news source in Zimbabwe, covering almost 80 per cent of the population," Ngwenya told The Zimbabwean newspaper. Earnest Mudzengi, who runs journalist resource facility the Media Centre, said Zimbabweans will be deprived of an important channel through which to access information and to express themselves. "Radio broadcasting remains one of the most effective mediums in terms of reach. SW Radio Africa was playing its role in providing the much- needed diversity in our media environment," Mudzengi said. Rights campaigners have for many years condemned the state monopoly on broadcasting and want the ZANU PF government to democratize the airwaves, awarding licences to independent stations. The Ministry of Information has shortlisted applicants for radio licences but there are concerns that only those with links to the ruling party will get them. ZANU PF Deputy Information Minister Supa Mandiwanzira and Transport Minister Obert Mpofu are linked to some of the front-runners. Mandiwanzira already owns ZiFM, which was licensed three years ago together with another state entity, Zimpapers' Star FM, amid concerns that the two stations would simply operate as appendages of the ruling ZANU PF party. MDC spokesman Nhlanhla Dube said his party will miss the platform that SW Radio Africa afforded them to air their views on the state of Zim politics. "It is a very sad development. We also note the reality that the station has been telling the Zimbabwean story from outside Zimbabwe, a story that otherwise wouldn't have been heard. "SW Radio Africa has been broadcasting from outside the country because of the sad reality that is Zimbabwean politics. It is unfortunate that we have crafted a new constitution that remains unimplemented. "We therefore say goodbye to the station with a heavy heart because we do not believe that until the constitution is fully mechanized, the vacuum you are leaving behind will be filled by anybody. "We understand the different pressures that organizations like yours can come under, whether they are financial or political, but whatever the case, the departure of the station is a huge loss for Zimbabweans. "Closing down or allowing alternative voices to close down leaves Zimbabweans at the mercy of the authorities and deprives them of the channel through which to push and pressure the government to grant and respect their freedoms," Dube added. Source: SW Radio Africa, London, in English 5 Aug 14 (via BBCM via DXLD) HEARINGS FOR ZIMBABWE COMMERCIAL LICENSES BEGIN AS SW RADIO AFRICA SHUTS DOWN --- VOA By Ntungamili Nkomo Washington DC 4 August 2014 The Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) has scheduled public hearings in five towns and cities for aspiring provincial commercial radio broadcasters starting August 19 through 29. The hearings will be held in Masvingo, Zvishavane, Gweru, Mutare and Kariba where applicants on the broadcasting authority’s shortlist will be given the opportunity to market themselves and articulate their agenda. The companies seeking licences include AB Communications, owned by deputy information minister Super Mandiwanzira and the state-owned Zimpapers, which are already broadcasting after securing licences in 2012. The broadcasting authority’s announcement came as the London-based SW Radio Africa, which started broadcasting to Zimbabwe in 2001, announced that it was shutting down citing financial constraints. more at http://www.voazimbabwe.com/content/hearings-for-commercial-radio-licences-begin-as-sw-radio-africa-shuts-down/1971441.html (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) See what happens when you shut down SW Broadcast transmitters -- your mission fails (Tongue only SLIGHTLY in cheek there). It is becoming harder and harder to convince people that the 'conventional wisdom' is wrong. I think the Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting has the right idea, but again, I don't think anyone controlling purse strings 'gets' it. – (Kenneth V Zichi, MI, D<== I'm not with stupid ==> R dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZIMBABWE [non]. Clandestine observation: Radio Dialogue FM: 1600-1700 on 12105 MDC 250 kW / 265 deg to ZWE English/Shona 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) MADAGASCAR, Good reception of R. Dialogue July 26: 1600-1700 on 12105 MDC 250 kW / 265 deg to ZWE Shona/Ndebele. 3 videos http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/07/good-reception-of-radio-dialogue.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #864 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, July 31, 2014 via DXLD) ** ZIMBABWE. UNIDentified unmodulated carrier is on air only at times over Radio Dialogue: 1600-1700 on 12105 MDC 250 kW / 265 deg to ZWE English/Shona/Ndebele. Videos http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/07/unidentified-unmodulated-carrier-over.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #864 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, July 31, 2014 via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 590, Aug 5 at 0615 UT, tone test, 0616 UT tone off and back on. I would suspect KXSP Omaha, which has exhibited some post- midnight anomalies lately, but DF is more like 40 degrees, which points to KFNS Wood River IL (St Louis market) which has a night pattern to the SSW, close enough to our WSW bearing? Altho ND day. But I don`t normally hear it at night at all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1120, August 3 at 0221 UT, with KMOX baseball nulled, sermon in English, probably KTXW Manor (Austin) TX as now formatted, but catching an ID has been elusive; faded out by 0227 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 4895, 0010 to 0033 signal wiped out by CODAR 1 August (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, Icom 746Pro Lankford modified; Drake R8; NRD 525 Lankford Modified; Sony 2010 XA Lankford created; Scotka antennas, DX LISTENING DIGEST) BRAZIL? UNIDENTIFIED. 6270, at 0611 with a man and woman talking in English about America - Very poor Jul 30 (Sellers-BC, ODXA YRX via DXLD) Nothing listed on this frequency so my guess would be a Europirate - ed (Mark Coady, ODXA YRX via DXLD) As I already explained, and have logged numerous times, it`s RHC leapfrog of 6060 over 6165 another 105 kHz higher (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. DRM ON 9350 --- They were on there last night thru Alex Jones till past 0000 when you signed off. Most likely The Yeller will complain since it was on top of his show. About a 50/50 mix here in Atlanta. I can't think of a single independent broadcaster who is experimenting with this. I bet it`s VOA or DW, or BBC. I heard there is some software that`s available to decode it (Lou Johnson, GA, Aug 4 to WWCR, cc to DXLD) If this is really DRM, of which I am not convinced, I bet it`s R. Andernach, Nauen, Germany (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 9670, Aug 5 at 1316, S. Asian music and talk, fair with flutter, song, 1325 yelling announcers and phone ringing, birds chirping, 1327 addresses in India and Pakistan, phones with the numbers pronounced in English; believe I heard The Voice mentioned, i.e. CVC. After 1330 just talk. At 1335 sounds like drama, interjecting English ``hello, welcome back``, resuming a language. Nothing listed or heard here previously, so something brand-new. Ahá, looking at Aoki, I bet The Voice Asia, in Hindi just moved from 9660 to avoid the China/Taiwan radio war; via Tashkent, UZBEKISTAN at 11- 14. Second and third likelies would be GFA or BVB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 11740, August 3 at 0219, tone seems less than 1 kHz but off the air in a few seconds. Only thing scheduled here is AIR Pashto service, per Aoki via Aligarh, INDIA; per HFCC via Goa. Attempted and failed transmission? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 12759-USB, Aug 4 at 0121, another check for AFN Diego Garcia turns up some talk, barely audible, but can`t be sure it`s English; in fact, sounds more like Brasilian, and no music, perhaps two-way. So beware. This is after all a marine band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 15420, Aug 5 at 1243, something poor in French with clips in English, bits of music, language lesson? Cut off abruptly during music at 1245*. Nothing scheduled, but I suspect it`s SENTECH SOUTH AFRICA, messing around again, prior to the scheduled BBC relay in Somali after 1400, which is audible then. Still haven`t heard again the unID French on 15660 until 1300, which could have been the same situation prior to Channel Africa Swahili from 1500 on same (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 15565, August 1 at 1400, F-G signal but only open carrier/dead air, off by 1406, back on at *1407.5 and still on at 1423. EiBi lists Firedrake/CNR1 jammer at 1200-1430 vs V of Tibet via Tajikistan on 15563 also at 1200-1430 (continuously??), so apparently the carrier is ChiCom jammer transmitter but without any modulation. Nothing about either in Aoki, nor of course, HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 15660, August 1 at 1253, fair signal with something in rapid French, mentions Paris, an FM frequency, liners, even maybe commercial-sounding, with CCI from something weaker. French mod stops at 1256, carrier cut at 1257, uncovering the understation. Nothing in HFCC to account for this, leading me to suspect pariah Taiwan is involved, with another new RFI relay? but Aoki only shows CRI English via Kashgar until 1300, as do HFCC and EiBi, and nothing in French listed anywhere before 1300. 15660, August 3 at 1255, another try at the unlisted French broadcast as heard August 1 but today it`s too poor to tell if it`s there or just CRI English via East Turkistan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. UNKNOWNIA: 15710.16, 1616-1629:33*, 27-July; Language definitely Spanish; during M commentary thought I heard "China", Dios" & "palabra", so presume religious. During closing at 1628 by W, thought I hrd "kHz" & "Palau". Poor, but improved some toward s/off; USB helped with occasional rumble bursts. No candidates currently in Aoki, EiBi or July DXLDs. BBC via UAE upscrew? Listed for 1600-1630*, but didn't sound like typical BBC fare. This was UT Sunday; next day 28-July; Mumbling heard at 1336 on 15710.0, Cairo listed. 1545-1559:04*, AWR via Sri Lanka on 15710.05 in unknown language with English ID & addys at 1559. At 1600, a weaker one, weaker than AWR, came up on the same 15710.16 as yesterday. M&W talking plus music, but too weak to copy or detect language this time. Covered occasionally by rumble & buzz bursts. Off at 1629:34 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 17785-17790-17795, Aug 4 at 0125, sounds like DRM noise, overriding 17795 R. Australia, which is normally in clear but always weaker than // 17840 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 17880-17885-17890, Aug 5 at 0139, DRM-sounding noiseblob here, rather than 17785-17790-17795 last night which QRMed R. Australia AM 17795, in the clear tonight. Since RNZI DRM is very strong on 17670-17675-17680, I wonder if these could be spurs from it? After all, AM transmitters are subject to spurious output, so why not DRMs? The question is whether anything identifiable could be decoded on them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1733: Hi Glenn - while I had no time to listen lately, I just love what you do for SWL community. You are an asset. Keep up the good work. 73 (Nick Hacko, Sydney, Australia with a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com) One may also contribute by check or MO in US funds on a US bank to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 (gh) I listen to your broadcast whenever I can have a moment on an R7000 Trans-Oceanic. Is Ron Howard of California, "The Ron Howard" of Opie of television fame? Just curious. Also, an interesting observation I've made about Brother Stair's Overcomer Ministry Broadcasts, is that when I'm tuning my Zenith T/O, He (Brother Stair) is on so many frequencies from the Broadcast Band thru the shortwave bands, I almost start to wonder if I'm hearing the fundamental or an image in the radio. I guess he does broadcast worldwide. It reminds me of when radio Moscow was on in the 70's, across all the bands, hum and buzz and all. One last question, what is your receiving station consist of? You seem to be able to hear some weak stations amongst strong ones and measure frequencies to less than a cycle. Is it an SDR type radio? if so, may I ask what it is? I've been a ham for 40+ years, and don't have anything really modern, so I'm amazed of what you are hearing. Thank you for your broadcasts, I really find them fascinating (Francis k1yi, Aug 4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Francis, Glad to know you are a WOR listener. As far as I know, our Ron Howard is not the same one as the actor/director. I haven`t asked him directly, but he never refers to the movie/TV biz. Anyhow he`s retired and has a lot of time to DX. My equipment is ordinary: main rx FRG-7; also use DX-398, YB-400, PL- 880 and various lesser portables when needed. No SDRs here. I can get pretty close to an accurate frequency by the 40-Hz tuning steps on the DX-398 in SSB modes; also as I sometimes point out, by indirect means such as the pitch of heterodynes. Antennas just random/long wires. What I manage to get is the result of a lot of experience and time spent at the dials, rather than state of the art equipment. Some other guys such as Ron do a lot better on the weak signals (location, location helps), and many of the logs I mention on the show are not my own, as I attribute them to the source. Brother Stair is a `Godsend` (pardon the expression) to the private SW business. When he goes, many of the stations will find themselves in a financial bind, but the bands will be the better for it. 73, (Glenn to Francis, via DXLD) NOTE: I hate to be so negative in continually reporting technical flaws of various stations (Brazil, Egypt, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria this time), or operational anomalies, but *someone* has to hold stations accountable for doing their jobs to at least a minimum level of competency; and other monitors seldom track these problems for some reason. These are not to be ignored since they impact innocent bybroadcasters, reflect extremely poorly on the overall images of the countries involved, and on the MW or SWBC medium itself. I would like nothing better than to have no such items to report (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ ********* JUST RELEASED ********* ********* IRCA TIS/HAR LIST (Summer 2014) The IRCA TIS/HAR LIST lists all US and Canadian TIS/HAR stations, by frequency, including call letters, state (province,) city, county, licensee, address, coordinates, expiration date and dates of DXM/DXN reports/sources. It has been updated with FCC data, DXM, DXN and DXer reports, and on- line listings through August 1 2014. Prices: IRCA/NRC members $9.50 (US), $11.00 (Canada), $12.00 (México), $12.50 (rest of the world). Non-IRCA/NRC members add $2.00. To order from the IRCA Goodie Factory, send the correct amount (in US funds payable to Phil Bytheway) to: IRCA GOODIE FACTORY, 9705 MARY NW, SEATTLE WA? 98117-2334 Order through PayPal [add $1.00] to email: phil_tekno@yahoo.com Please state club affiliation when ordering (Phil Bytheway, IRCA Goodie Factory, Seattle WA, Drake R-7 / KIWA Loop, Aug 5, IRCA via DXLD) If you don`t know what TIS/HARs are, you may not need it (gh) CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES +++++++++++++++++++++++++ MADISON-MILWAUKEE GET-TOGETHER FOR DXERS AND RADIO ENTHUSIASTS, Aug 16 The summer has gone quickly, and the 21st Annual Madison-Milwaukee Get-together for DXers and Radio Enthusiasts is only 10 days away! WHEN: Saturday August 16, 2014 1-11 PM [CDT = 18-04 UT] WHERE: 3358 Ridgeway Avenue Madison Wisconsin 53704 (Bill and Nina's home) HOSTS: Bill and Nina Dvorak This all-band event has for many years been a popular destination for Upper Midwest (and even farther environs) DXers. With no NRC convention taking place this year, our get-together has become one alternative to meeting up with your fellow NRC members. Each year we have between 30 and 40 DXers participate in this event, and this year will be no exception. If you are from the Upper Midwest or visiting the area around that time, this is the place to meet other hobbyists and talk DX-- to make new friends and renew old friendships. The gathering itself is very informal, and you are invited to stay all day or only those parts of the day that are convenient to you (come when you can and leave when you must). Among the attractions at this years event is a display of around 40 Hallicrafters radios presented by renowned Wisconsin antique radio collector Stan Broome There are also demonstrations of antennas and radios and opportunities to DX. Add to these activities the annual dinner, the night session and the camaraderie and you have a fun and busy day. For an invitation or more information, please e-mail Bill at dxerak @ gmail.com (please include "Madison DX GTG" in the subject line). We hope to hear from you, and hope to see you in Madison on August 16! 73 (Bill Dvorak, Aug 6, NRC-AM via DXLD) HFCC-ASBU B14 COORDINATION CONFERENCE August 25-29, 2014 Sofia, Bulgaria http://www.hfcc.org/B14/ http://www.hfcc.org/index.phtml Conferences and On-line Co-ordination: The close co-operation of all participants from the very beginning and further improvements of working methods had shown that the management of all frequency requirements in one single, global database was realistic. At present about 85 percent of the overall amount of global shortwave frequency requirements used for broadcasting is kept in this database. The missing 15 percent comprises some smaller stations in Africa and Latin America, as well as stations in the so called tropical broadcasting zone that employ shortwave transmissions for local listeners and are not interested in international co-ordination. Face-to-face conferences facilitate the resolution of thousands of frequency collisions that are detected in the schedules at the start of every season. Informal personal contacts are established and they are extremely useful for effective and amicable agreements on the resolution of incompatibilities. Unfortunately some parts of the shortwave spectrum are so overloaded that a complete solution of all problems during a conference is only rarely reached. This is one of the reasons why co-ordination has to be ongoing. Tools for ongoing co-ordination after - and during - the periods between conferences have been developed over the years. An automatic web-based system of processing and identification of collisions in seasonal databases is in place. It is located on the HFCC server and available to all co-ordinators. The results of the schedule updates and of new frequency submissions can be viewed by all, as soon as each of a number of processing cycles is finished. An automated system checks for any changes or additions every ten minutes. If any changes or additions are detected, the processing then starts automatically, and amends the database as well as the lists of frequency incompatibilities or "collisions". The ongoing, web-based processing is especially useful for the members in the Asia-Pacific region for example. They organise e-mail co- ordination meetings for the "B" seasons of the year and they can use the on-line system for the solution of frequency incompatibilities. The flexibility of this system is beneficial for yet another reason: the possibility of updating frequency schedules at any time during a given season makes the existence of so-called "wooden", or reserve, frequencies that complicate co-ordination, completely unnecessary. Another co-ordination feature that improved the accuracy of the frequency collision calculations was introduced in 2008. Software has been developed that is based on a direct comparison of signal-to- interference values calculated for every test point in each Ciraf zone of world broadcasting and for every hour of the transmission that is involved in a given frequency collision. The severity of the collision is graded as a result of this. This can be useful during the the conferences for example, and co-ordinators are able to address the most important collisions first. The feedback has already indicated that the new method is capable of discovering hidden collisions undetected by the old system while some of the less severe collisions were left out (via Mike Terry, Aug 5, dxldyg via DXLD) The participants need to take a pro-active approach to avoiding, if not coordinating with non-participants, e.g. Iran vs Cuba on 11760, Iran vs Brasil on 11780, Egypt vs Argentina on 11710, and many other examples. But this would require paying attention to the Real World beyond the HFCC database, too much to ask? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) DX-PEDITIONS ++++++++++++ LOGGINGS FROM BORDER INN BEVERAGE DXPEDITION At long last --- Here are my loggings from my DXpedition to the Border Inn. I was there from Friday evening 6/13 (6/14 UT) to Monday morning 6/16. These 3 nights were my 5th, 6th and 7th nights of DXing from this location over the past 12 years. I have now logged 552 stations, including 113 GYers, from this location and still have some interesting UNIDs to check. See http://borderinncasino.com for the exact location of this site. I was located at the east end of the gravel parking area, on the south side of US 6/50, about 100 feet east of the NV-UT border. I only used the Perseus SDR-IQ (I had my Sony ICF-2010 with me but it was getting clobbered by laptop noise). I ran about 3520 feet of wire to the NE and 3200 ft. to the E. Both wires were terminated with 560 ohm resistors, but both wires broke overnight each of the 3 nights I was there, which was kind of interesting because it added California stations to my logs at sunrise each morning. I repaired the wires just before sunset each night (at least a 2-hour job). The NE wire had to run across the highway (first time I have tried that) but it was easy thanks to industrial strength duct tape. Next year I plan to run 3 wires, approximately N (or even NNW), ENE and ESE. I have run wires to the SE before, but they pick up a ton of Phoenix and Tucson pests. For next year's trip, I may wait until HS Football season. That could lead to some one-of-a-kind catches. There's a lot here. Hope I didn't make too many typos. All dates/times are UT. I still have to round up my loggings from the rest of the trip, but they will certainly not stack up to these! https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/ABDX/conversations/topics/66157 73 (Tim Hall, Aug 3, ABDX yg via DXLD) And also check the follows-up and correxions (gh) This setup (regarding the insta-beverage in the desert) sounds highly interesting; wonder what caused the breaks in the night? (Jim Rittenhouse, ibid.) Here's my diagnosis: We arrived a bit later than planned, so I had to rush to put the wires up before sundown the first night. This meant I was draping the wires over the short thorny scrub. It's not dense brush but there's enough of it to be a minor obstacle. My wire is about 25 years old and getting brittle. On the first night, a huge windstorm kicked up after 10pm. This absolutely shredded the NE wire. I think I had 13 breaks, starting at about 1300 feet and about every hundred feet or so after that. The E wire had only one break, around 2100 feet if I recall correctly. When I went to check the wires on the second evening and saw all the damage on the NE wire, I took the time to clear away lots of dead brush, eliminate "snag points" and lay the wire flat on the ground. On the second and third nights I had only one or two breaks in each wire (no wire was ever less than 1300 feet, so they continued to work well but just let in CA stations off the back end). On the NE wire the breaks appeared to be caused by critters tripping over the wire. There were a good number of jackrabbits in the area. On the E wire it was humans. In my rush to set up the wires the first night, I made the mistake of laying the E wire too close to the highway, maybe 20 feet S of the roadway, only slightly closer than last year's E wire, but I noticed one place in particular about 2100 feet out that had a pile of beer bottles. It looks like on both Saturday and Sunday nights, a drunk tripped over the wire, got mad, and started pulling the wire. I must have found 500 feet of it all wadded up in one spot. That was miserable to repair before sunset! The location is great for DX. It's an older motel but clean. A non- smoking room with queen bed and fridge was $69. They have a convenience store, GOOD family restaurant, laundry, RV park, gas station and a few slot machines. Other than that, there is nothing around. You can run a wire at least 3000 feet in any direction from N (maybe NNW - I need to scout that side now that I now I can cross the highway - at some point the land on the NV side is fenced) clockwise to SE. Last year I ran 4500 ft to the SE but I had to cross a dirt road. To the E you hit a paved state highway after about 3200 feet. If you used duct tape there, you could keep going for miles. 73 (Tim Hall, ibid.) GRAYLAND 10 DXPEDITION Between July 20 - 25 I was fortunate to DX from Grayland, WA and Sans Souci - between Yachats and Florence, OR - using 160' DKAZ antennas with fixed Rt pointing around 250 degrees. Results can be found on this web page: The highlight was an amazing opening to New Zealand on July 25th -- similar to one Gary DeBock and Chuck Hutton experienced a week earlier at Rockworks 4 (Bill Whitacre, Alexandria, VA, August 1, NRC-AM via DXLD) 64 NZ stations on one wav file is a record for me and will likely remain so for a long time I suspect! I've only just begun to go thru domestic stuff. I'm going to do July 22nd all-the-way-through as that's the only day I have from both locations. Good for comparison. You might be interested in this page too: http://realmonitor.com/grayland10/antena_cron.html which is a couple of tables showing front-to-back on both the Grayland and Sans Souci DKAZ for selected stations. Both were erected exactly the same but Sans Souci could only muster about 1/2 as deep a nulls as Grayland. I don't know why. Could've been mixed wire gauges. Could've been tall grass under Sans Souci. Could've been as much as 15 degree forward 'tilt' on Sans Souci being on a slant. I did not use remote Rt this time but used the old-fashioned trial and error method of fixed Rt (Whitacre, Aug 1, IRCA via DXLD) JULY 2014 ROCKWORK 4 OCEAN CLIFF COMBINED DXPEDITION REPORT Hello All, Last month Chuck Hutton and I visited the "Rockwork 4" ocean cliff on Highway 101 south of Cannon Beach, Oregon for a joint DXpedition -- using both a Perseus-SDR + 15' x 15' Flag antenna setup for spectrum capture and a 7.5" loopstick PL-380 Ultralight + 15" FSL for live DXing. As most of you know by now, we stumbled across some legendary New Zealand propagation -- far and away the best that either of us had ever experienced. As I was scrambling like mad to track down obscure Kiwi stations with the PL-380 and 15" FSL antenna Chuck was making out like a bandit with his Perseus-SDR, recording two phenomenal New Zealand mornings for future review. Chuck has just finished reviewing his Perseus .wav files from those two exceptional mornings, and has drafted a breakthrough logging report with 87 Kiwi stations (and possibly more, depending on some mysteries). Despite the relatively small antennas that we were using the ocean cliff propagation kicked in with serious force, giving us unprecedented success in both Kiwi signal strength and station variety. For those who are interested, a full Combined DXpedition Report (17 pages) has been uploaded to http://www.mediafire.com/view/gpjd7rge4dt2kof/July_2014_Rockwork_4_Ocean_Cliff_DU_(DeBock_&_Hutton).doc and will shortly be uploaded to the Ultralightdx file site. Included is a description of the ocean cliff propagation theory, a summary of the new 15" FSL antenna development, a day-by-day description of ocean cliff propagation, the Ultralight radio loggings and MP3 links, Chuck's Perseus-SDR loggings, and Chuck's maps showing the locations of the New Zealand stations which were heard and unheard. Chuck and I both had some serious fun during this ocean cliff DXpedition, and I was honored to share this exceptional experience with him. 73 and Good DX, (Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA), IRCA via DXLD) MUSEA +++++ ANTIQUE WIRELESS MUSEUM, 6925 ROUTE 5, BLOOMFIELD, NY 14469 YouTube Video of the Month Antique Wireless Association Museum Tour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6p4VrHwYqc This is a 30-minute 2013 tour of the AWA (Antique Wireless Association) Museum of wireless and radio communication in Bloomfield, NY, USA. AWA and Museum directors Robert Hobday and Bruce Roloson conduct the tour on the occasion of the museum grand opening in August, 2013. The AWA Museum has the most extensive collection in the world encompassing the entire history of electronic communication devices from telegraph to television, from experimental to commercial, to radio and TV for public audiences. Their Web address is: HTTP://WWW.ANTIQUEWIRELESS.ORG (Aug CIDX Messenger via DXLD) OPERATION ASPIDISTRA From: AudioCircle BDXC Back in the early Seventies, at around the time that the BDXC started incidentally, I remember hearing a brilliant Radio 4 radio play which for some time I had a recording of. Unfortunately, I no longer have the recording, but I was obviously not the only one recording the play because I have found a copy of it on Youtube. As my recording was made on 908 kHz MW complete with a constant whistle in the background and on a rather poor quality early cassette recorder, the fact that this one was obviously recorded on FM with a reel-to-reel recorder means that it is mostly a much better version. It is the dramatised story of the wartime "black radio propaganda" offensive which Sefton Delmar was instrumental in. If you would like to hear this, it can be downloaded at: https://app.box.com/s/4d4vxp0a5c48g1ky6of6 Further to the invitation to download this interesting radio play, I have discovered a little more about it thanks to that wonderful modern invention, the Internet: It was part of a series of plays called "The War in Secret" broadcast in September 1975 on BBC Radio 4. So my information (supplied by Youtube) of a broadcast date of 1973 was wrong. The play was adapted from Sefton Delmar's book "Black Boomerang" by James Follett. Sefton Delmar was played by Nigel Graham, and other actors in the play were Bruce Alexander, Hector Ross, David Sinclair, Denis McCarthy, Nigel Lambert, Roy Stevens, Roger Snowdon, Garard Green, Cari Hedderwick. The producer was Maurice Leek. The correct title of the play was "Operation Aspidistra". As yet I have not found any of the other radio plays on the Internet. Happy listening (Andrew, Aug 5, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) RADIO PHILATELY +++++++++++++++ Philatelic Play-DX --- RESISTANCE RADIO IN PALESTINE On 11 February 2014, Israel issued a most interesting stamp devoted to the illegal broadcasting activities in Palestine from 1939 to 1948. Since World War I, Palestine was a British mandate which led to numerous problems. Simply explained, the Jewish immigrants wanted all of Palestine for a future Jewish state while the existing Arab populations wanted to remain where they had lived for centuries. We all know how this conflict ended with the creation of the state of Israel and the expulsion of a very large segment of the Arab population. Despite many attempts to resolve the situation, nothing has happened. Israel effectively blocks all attempts to create a Palestinian state on the West Bank and in Gaza. In fact, Israel continues to build housing estates on occupied territory. In mainly Gaza, Palestinian extremists launch attacks on Israel. They want Palestine returned to the Arabs. This is obviously an impossible situation. The British founded Kol Jerusalem (Voice of Jerusalem) in 1936. Several Jewish organizations were far from pleased with the programming of this new radio stations as they felt that they were not allowed to present their own opinions. They further claimed that the British censored news reporting in Palestine. The Etzel Resistance movement thus started their own radio station in 1939. It was called Kol Zion Halochemet (Voice of Fighting Zion). The station was closed by the British authorities in 1944 but it returned to the air two years later. In the winter of 1940, the Haganah started Kol Yisrael (Voice of Israel). It was closed by the authorities after just three months but returned later using different names. The Lehi organization also had its own radio station called Kol Hamachteret Haivrit (Voice of the Hebrew Resistance). It started operations in 1942 and was closed by the British in 1946. Running these clandestine radio stations was both difficult and dangerous. They were all shortwave operations and their transmitters were small enough to fit a suitcase. They were continually moved to new locations to avoid discovery. Transmissions were generally very short ranging from five to 15 minutes and probably mostly consisted of news and military information. Many of the groups running these stations can best be described as terrorist organizations. One of the many victims of these murderous gangs was Swedish diplomat Folke Bernadotte. He was murdered by the Stern gang while trying to negotiate an agreement between the Jews and the Arabs. It might seem rather strange that Israel has chosen to issue a postage stamp honouring a number of terrorist groups (Christer Brunstrom, Sweden, paper play-dx 25-26 July via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See OKLAHOMA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See FRANCE; GERMANY; MALI; PAKISTAN; ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SOUTH AFRICA; USA; UNIDENTIFIED 17630; [including passing refs as QRM] UNIDENTIFIED 17790; UNIDENTIFIED 17885 RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ Israel’s DAVID CRYSTAL makes a few comments about various matters relating to radio: 1. The fourth edition of Fred Osterman’s receiver book is going to have more than 750 pages. He was pressured to write it by associates who did not find their receivers in the third edition. How did he get all that information? I just do the proofreading as best I can. 2. My wonderful earphones from Deutsche Welle – their brand name is ColorBang, and made in China. When I disconnect them from my AOR AR7030, the receiver goes quiet for a while, so I no longer use my earphones with my AOR AR7030. 4. I have been studying the behaviour of workhorse receivers Tecsun PL-360, Grundig G4000A, and Sony ICF-7600D using only their telescopic antenna with signals of moderate strength. It is not good enough. 5. Soon I will have no room for old receivers. I believe I am the only active SWL in this country. I will be happy to give these old receivers to anyone who wants them. 6. I have no contact with other SWLs other than through Communication (David Crystal, Israel, August BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) I TAKE PICTURES OF TRANSMITTER SITES FACEBOOK GROUP now has over 6,500 members! Awesome! (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) LOCATION, LOCATION I use mobile DXing mainly for AM radio at the beach. But for TV DX, being home also good as one can have a higher antenna to bring in signals. I remember watching analog signals from NS using the 55 ft. tower and went upstairs to try for NS using the antenna on the house roof, and no signals. I remember two times DXing for TV stations at or near the ocean. One time with a 7 ft. dish and R-10 receiver at the Woods Hole Lighthouse overlooking the ocean and eastern VA was in strong, and back at the house, only weak signals. Another time while working at a house in West Falmouth, also overlooking the ocean with just the R-10 and built-in antenna and SC DX signals were coming in around 4 PM. Yes, location means a lot. Many have used mobile DXing to get rid of locals as going behind a hill or mountain, etc. It's always fun to try new areas to DX from (Roy Barstow, Falmouth MA., WTFDA via DXLD) I decided to put up 2 dipoles in my DX shack ceiling - one aiming 070 (towards New England-Maritimes-Europe) and another facing 350 (for aurora). They are at 7' AGL and are terrain-blocked 120 -300 . No preamps or distribution amps. I've been able to get 104.7 Gatineau with Tropo Scatter, almost comparable to the 67' VHF antenna - with less signal strength but also less QRM. On 107.9, I am able to consistently get 94-mile Cobourg over 21-mile local - - but am unable to get Cobourg on a consistent basis on the high antenna nor using phasing. This will definitely help for Prairie & Maritime E-skip! So so far it appears as these dipoles may be an useful addition to the arsenal under certain DX conditions. I'm especially looking forward to using the "aurora dipole" during the next auroral event. Although Sudbury TrS (343 at 239 miles) is weaker on the dipole than the big antenna, there are a lot more empty channels thanks to half the directions being blocked. And as others have pointed out, some Es sigs from the blocked directions may still come in. Although Es will be weakened, the groundwave/TrS signals will be weakened even more. If the aurora dipole turns out to be useful, I may replace it by a high gain FM antenna in the garage. Bill H. (William Hepburn, Grimsby Ont., Aug 3, ibid.) I haven't been mobile with DVB digital DXing here since the analogue switch off, simply due to new translators coming on air making DX close to impossible. However, I too noticed significant differences in signal strengths of UHF reception which might best be attributed to the prevalence of tall & thick-trunked trees in suburban parks. When last at Mt Tamborine (1,722 ft) under flat conditions I stopped at three large suburban parks within five minutes drive of one other. With a 5.25 ft boom length fringe UHF yagi mounted just above ground level (no masthead IIRC), there were extraordinary differences between each park on analogue UHF broadcasts. So striking were the differences between the parks that I had to get out in the chilly night air & check the coaxial cable connections, as at the time (relative newbie to UHF) the differences seemed quite inexplicable. Even for the reception of a few locals (with a tightly directional array pattern) within 38 miles, the differences (due to trees) were clearly noticeable. Mt Tamborine = Gold Coast QLD By the end of that year (after about half a dozen field trips) it became clear the optimal spots for mobile UHF were sea level elevation parks overlooking waterways. These were also popular spots for day- trippers & on-lookers were very curious with their questions!!! -- Cheers (Ryan Leigh Donaldson, Australia, ibid.) For those of you not yet on the prowl, there's exceptionally strong tropo lingering over the Montreal/Kingston/Brockville ON area as of 9:30 ET this Monday morning! And a big thanks to Chris Kadlec for his FM bandscan from atop Mount Cadillac ME (Denis Allard, Montreal, ibid.) Thanks, guys for the feedback. I find the hit-or-miss issues with reception interesting. It's so evident while listening to a very weak FM station on the car radio when you have to stop for a stop sign or traffic light. Rolling the car a foot or so can either increase the station's signal or completely kill it. Moving a UHF antenna, especially while mobile, can make the signal even more elusive. I've also noticed another aspect of how trees affect UHF reception. While camping and DXing in a woods/forest, I've found that height is not always good. Several times I've had to LOWER the antenna height to get good DTV reception from stations. Not too long ago while camping approximately 85 miles from the Louisville, KY towers, I had a 4-bay antenna up around 12-14 ft. AGL. Several of the Louisville DTV stations were very close to decoding, but were not. I tried moving the antenna around at the same height, back and forth, side to side, but the results were the same. Then I tried lowering the antenna height to around 8-9 ft. AGL and boom, most of the stations popped in with good signal levels. Because the elevation and terrain conditions at this location were fairly flat, I can only assume that when the antenna was higher the signals were having to make their way through the lower leaves on the trees. When I lowered the antenna, most of that area was free of leaves with a clearer view of the horizon (Steve Rich, Indianapolis, IN, ibid.) Steve, You mention how trees affect UHF TV reception. Same goes for UHF two-way radios. You won't find any Forest workers or Game Wardens, using UHF radio in a Pine forest. Its seems that the pine needles` length, is the same as a quarter-wave length of UHF radio (appx. 6-7 inches)! The Pine trees just absorb ALL the signal! (Gary H., ibid.) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ FM DX PROPAGATION BASICS by ROB ROSS [with original capitalization] Well, July is almost over, but the E-Skip continues to trickle in! A nice opening last night with New Mexico logged and a One Station opening this morning that netted a NEW STATION from the BAHAMAS! Also a little bit of Tropo left over since the last report!! They are calling for Fog here overnight; perhaps that will contribute something to the Tropo Conditions. Some of my best Tropo openings ever, have been while there was thick fog! Well, the guys in the east that are experiencing an Es Drought this season will not be happy, but we have had another nice Es Opening last night here in S/W Ontario. It started for me in SASKATCHEWAN and then slid down into MONTANA, WYOMING and COLORADO, etc. Always fun to hear stations from that direction, as things are pretty sparse out there! Two New FMs were heard, 1 from Regina and 1 from Montana, as well as some nice RELOGS! Every time I think we've had the "Last" Opening of the year, another one shows up. Keep it coming. FM DXing Tips: FM DX'ing like any other form of DXing is made up of the following parts: 5 % Skill 5 % Equipment Used 10% Location, Location, Location 80% Luck! (To Prove this 80% Theory, both of my Long Haul catches the past 2 days, 1 from Mississippi, and 1 from Alabama, were heard while I was on a 10 Minute Break from Gardening Chores.) Yes, I was aware before going outside that conditions were favourable for some Good stuff the last 2 days; but I didn't know exactly WHEN or WHERE! Both of those logs were made within 5 Minutes of getting in the house! So, if that ain't luck, what is it? Maybe Divine Intervention? Total = 100 % Now there are a few other things you can do to make the odds more in your favour. 1. Hang around where the FM Dxers do; some of the best things I have ever heard --- Like Oaxaca, Mexico at over 2000 Miles are because someone else heard them first and tipped me off. 2. The internet has lots of tools we can use to help us figure out when to listen and where the DX may be coming from. 3. Years of Experience; sometimes I can tell there's gonna be good conditions --- by just walking out into my backyard and being hit by a wall of HUMIDITY! 4. More Luck! (This may be the single most factor of successful DXing!) 5. Have your Radio/Tuner ON ALL THE TIME! DX happens at all times of the day and all times of the year. Of course E-Skip and Tropo are mainly from April til October, but I've had BOTH occur pretty much every month of the year. Below are some links that will assist you in figuring out if the band is doing anything. http://www.dxmaps.com/spots/map.php?Lan=W&Frec=50&ML=M&Map=NA&DXC=N&HF=N&GL=N This is the DX Maps E-Skip Map. It shows WHEN Es are Happening, and where they are happening to. It also shows other neat stuff like MUF-- Maximum Usable Frequencies, so you know when the MUF is getting close to FM or TV for that matter. Half the Year it has nothing on it, but during E-Skip Season it can be very colourful http://aprs.mountainlake.k12.mn.us This is the APRS Mountain Lakes TROPO Map. It shows us when there is TROPO and Where it is. It also shows us how STRONG it is by the Various Colours. This is one of the tools that told me to keep an ear Open for Tropo to the Southern States the past 2 days. It showed a Big Red Blob stretching from Ontario to Mississippi and Alabama, telling me that conditions were Favourable for receptions from those 2 states. Of course just because the conditions are favourable --- doesn't mean you'll hear stuff from there, But you just might! Other factors like Your equipment, Your Geographical Location and other obstacles like Hills, Mountains, Trees in your backyard, etc. may affect things as well. I just found out there is a FACEBOOK GROUP called "FM DX WATCHDOGS". I think Niel also belongs to that group; there are always lots of alerts when things are coming in from various locations. I HATE FACEBOOK; I only signed up for it as my Son just moved to Edmonton, and it's a good way to communicate with him! But, There is some helpful stuff on there for DXers. If you sift thru all the Crap. http://www.dxinfocentre.com/tropo.html These are Bill Hepburn's Tropo Forecasting Maps. Bill is a Prominent Ontario DXer and a Trained Meteorologist. He has come up with a Computer Program that can PREDICT when Tropo is going to occur and where Based on various Weather Factors. He's not always on the Money, but sometimes he is DEADLY ACCURATE! The Various Colours on the Maps show the intensity of the Tropo and the shape of the Blobs shows where the troop is occurring. http://dxworld.com/tvfmlog.html This is the TV/FM Skip Log. It is a Bulletin Board of sorts that FM/TV Dxers use to exchange tips and Info, as it happens!! Sometimes you have to sift thru the Crap here too, but lots of great DX Help for FM/TV DXers. There are other Boards and Pages on the net, but these are the Main Ones that will give you the most bang for your buck. Any other questions, Just ask. Don't forget when looking at my Loggings, I use a High Grade Tuner, and have the Largest FM BEAM built for consumer use. It's a 14 Element Beam (Over 20 Foot Boom) that is mounted on a 50 Foot Tower with a Rotor. That usually helps a lot of the time. But when Conditions are good. You can hear great DX with a Portable and extended Whip, or even your Car Radio! The Big Beam really helps pull out the weak stuff, the strong stuff can be heard on anything! Happy FM DXing (Rob Ross, Ont., MARE Tipsheet July 31 via DXLD) This was prompted by a question from me. I alternate between a Realistic DX-398 (with RDS) and Sony ICF-7600G (no RDS) connected to a 2-element (at right angles) outdoor TV antenna. I'd be thrilled to catch one outside Michigan. Both these receivers suffer horrible side splash, covering potential DX frequencies (Harold Frodge, MI, ibid.) There is definitely some correlation between intense fog & tropospheric ducting. I noticed that fog was a characteristic discussed way back in the archived papers of late sixties experiments with troposcatter! The last notable winter tropo (a few months ago) occurred on the night after a bizarre winter thunderstorm in the afternoon. The result was think fog for many hours from about 6 pm within about a 10 mile radius. Visibility in the city's northern suburbs was poor. Congratulations on the comprehensive Es season in Canada, Robert! No winter FM Es have occurred in Australia, as far as I know from friends. Should winter Es on FM surface, these occur almost without exception during the first week of July. – Cheers (Ryan Leigh Donaldson, Brisbane, Australia http://fmdxing.wordpress.com Aug 1, WTFDA via DXLD) GEOMAGNETIC INDICES GEOMAGNETIC SUMMARY JULY 2014 Via Phil Bytheway – Tabulated from email status daily. Date Flx A K Space Weather 1 152 4 1 minor, R1 2 169 5 1 no storms 3 178 6 1 no storms 4 188 5 1 no storms 5 193 4 1 no storms 6 201 5 1 no storms 7 198 6 2 no storms 8 201 6 2 moderate, R2 9 198 7 3 minor, R1 10 177 8 2 minor, R1 11 166 6 2 no storms 12 145 6 1 no storms 13 127 5 2 no storms 14 109 9 2 no storms 15 101 7 1 no storms 16 92 5 1 no storms 17 89 5 2 no storms 18 89 3 1 no storms 19 86 3 0 no storms 20 87 3 1 no storms 21 90 5 2 no storms 22 93 5 2 no storms 23 99 6 3 no storms 24 104 5 1 no storms 25 107 6 1 no storms 26 117 7 1 no storms 27 121 5 2 no storms 28 132 9 1 no storms 29 142 4 1 no storms 30 152 5 1 no storms 31 156 5 2 minor, R1 Sx – Solar Radiation Storm Level / Gx – Geomagnetic Storm Level / Rx – Radio Blackouts Level (NRC DX News August 11 via DXLD) From: OK1HH --- P.I.G. Bulletin 140803 Solar & Geomagnetic activity forecast for the period August 4 - 24, 2014 Solar activity will continue to fluctuate at solar flux 90 - 150 s.f.u. during next few weeks. Irregular occurrence of C class flares is expected. Exceptionally are possible M class flares, perhaps also, but really very exceptionally, any X class flare. Geomagnetic field will be: quiet on August 12 - 15, 17 - 21 mostly quiet on August 5 - 7, 11, 22 quiet to active on August 4, 8 - 10, 16, 23 active to disturbed August 24 Amplifications of the solar wind are expected on August (5- 6,) 7 - 8, (9 - 10) Remarks: - Parenthesis means lower probability of activity enhancement. F. K. Janda, OK1HH, Czech Propagation Interest Group (OK1HH & OK1MGW, weekly forecasts since 1978) e-mail: ok1hh(at)rsys.cz (via Dario Monferini, DXLD) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2014 Aug 04 0452 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # Product description and SWPC contact on the Web # http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/weekly.html # # Weekly Highlights and Forecasts # Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 28 July - 03 August 2014 Solar activity ranged from low to moderate levels. A few weak C-class flares were observed on 28 - 29 July from Regions 2125 (S13, L=264, class/area Cao/050 on 28 Jul), 2126 (S09, L=324, class/area Dai/120 on 30 Jul) and 2130 (S07, L=229, class/area Dkc/290 on 31 Jul). On 30 July, Region 2127 (S09, L=247, class/area Dkc/300 on 30 Jul) produced a C9/1f event at 30/1617 UTC. Earlier on 30 July at about 0422 UTC, a 31 degree long filament, centered near N08E32, was observed erupting. A coronal mass ejection (CME) was evident in STEREO imagery and subsequent WSA-Enlil model analysis suggested a weak Earth-directed component was associated with this eruption. A glancing blow was expected mid to late on 02 August. An additional filament eruption was observed at about 30/1645 UTC. This 9 degree filament was centered near S32E62; WSA-Enlil analysis suggested no Earth-directed component was associated with the subsequent CME. Activity levels increased to moderate on 31 July and 01 August. Region 2130 produced an M2 flare at 31/1114 UTC and an M2/Sf at 01/1448 UTC. The second M-class event had associated weak discrete frequency radio emissions including a 340 sfu Tenflare. At 01/1813 UTC, Region 2127 produced a long-duration M1 flare with Type II (563 km/s shock velocity) and Type IV radio emissions. No Earth-directed CMEs were observed with the M-class activity. Low levels returned on 02 and 03 August with a few weak C-class events observed from Regions 2130, 2132 (S19, L=213, class/area Eai/220 on 03 Aug), 2133 (N18, L=184, class/area Hrx/020 on 02 Aug) and 2134 (N09, L=176, class/area Dao/150 on 03 Aug). At about 03/1805 UTC, a 15 degree long filament , centered near N13E32, was observed erupting. A narrow CME was observed in LASCO C2 imagery off the NE limb, but was not expected to impact Earth. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at normal levels. Geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to active levels. Quiet to unsettled periods were observed on 28 July due to waning effects from a negative polarity coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS). Mostly quiet levels dominated during 29 July to late on 01 August. Late on 01 August through early on 03 August, quiet to active levels were observed due to a geoeffective, positive CH HSS coupled with possible CME effects from the 30 July CME. Quiet levels closed out the summary period. Solar wind parameters reflected the quiet to active levels observed during the summary period. Solar wind speeds averaged about 425 km/s early on declining to near 300 km/s by late on 29 July. Speeds remained low through 01 August when a gradual increase became evident, peaking at about 475 km/s midday on 02 August. The period ended with wind speeds just above 400 km/s. Total field ranged from about 5 nT to 12 nT on 28 July with a weak field (4 nT) observed on 29 - 31 July. The remainder of the period saw a gradual increase in the total field with a peak of 11 nT midday on 01 August. The Bz component displayed a similar trend with variable readings of -8 nT to +11 nT on 28 July, +/- 4 nT readings from 29 - 31 July and -8 nT to +10 nT readings through the balance of the period. The phi component began the period in a predominately negative (towards) orientation before a sector boundary crossing to a positive (away) orientation was observed at about 31/1130 UTC. The phi angle remained mostly positive through the remainder of the period. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 04 AUGUST - 30 AUGUST 2014 Solar activity is expected to be at predominately low levels through the outlook period with a chance for moderate activity (R1-R2, minor to moderate) from 04 - 10 August and again from 21 - 30 August due to the presence of several complex regions on the disk. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at mostly normal to occasional moderate levels. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at mostly quiet levels for a majority of the outlook period in the absence of transient features. Unsettled to active conditions are possible associated with high speed solar wind streams on 04 - 05, 07 - 08, 22, 24 and 28 - 29 August. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2014 Aug 04 0453 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # Product description and SWPC contact on the Web # http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wwire.html # # 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table # Issued 2014-08-04 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2014 Aug 04 150 12 4 2014 Aug 05 150 8 3 2014 Aug 06 150 5 2 2014 Aug 07 150 8 3 2014 Aug 08 140 8 3 2014 Aug 09 135 5 2 2014 Aug 10 130 5 2 2014 Aug 11 120 5 2 2014 Aug 12 115 5 2 2014 Aug 13 115 5 2 2014 Aug 14 110 5 2 2014 Aug 15 110 5 2 2014 Aug 16 110 5 2 2014 Aug 17 100 5 2 2014 Aug 18 100 5 2 2014 Aug 19 100 5 2 2014 Aug 20 105 5 2 2014 Aug 21 105 5 2 2014 Aug 22 110 8 3 2014 Aug 23 115 5 2 2014 Aug 24 120 8 3 2014 Aug 25 120 5 2 2014 Aug 26 120 5 2 2014 Aug 27 125 5 2 2014 Aug 28 125 8 3 2014 Aug 29 120 8 3 2014 Aug 30 120 5 2 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1733, DXLD) ###