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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1736 CONTENTS: *DX and station news about: Antarctica, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland, Iceland, Korea South, México, Micronesia, Mongolia, Morocco, Myanmar, New Zealand, Oklahoma, Papua New Guinea, Perú, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Islands, Sweden, Ukraine, USA SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1736, August 29-September 4, 2014 Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [confirmed on webcast] Thu 1230 WRMI 9955 [confirmed, with France via Taiwan QRM] Fri 0330 WWRB 3185 [confirmed] Fri 2130 WRMI 7570 & 15770 [confirmed but 1735 replay] Sat 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sun 0100 WRMI 5950 [confirmed but 1735 replay] Sun 0131 KVOH 9975 [not on the air] Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 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 Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or 1737 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/ ** ALBANIA. 9845, Aug 27 at 0148, R. Tirana English has modulation problems, with roaring sound, and also squeals going upward in pitch every few seconds. Carrier is OK. Only one transmitter and antenna in Shijak remain in service, fortunately aimed 310 degrees USward and UKward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALGERIA [non]. 7295, Aug 21 at 0530, RTA via FRANCE has good signal, but unusually flutter and echo (back scatter? Long path?) due to propagation disturbance; WWV reports, ``The estimated planetary K- index at 0600 UTC on 21 August was 3. No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Summer A-14 shortwave schedule of Radio TV Algerienne 0400-0459 on 7295 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf Arabic Nat. Chaîne 1 0500-0559 on 7295 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf Arabic Nat. Chaîne 1 0500-0505 on 9535 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf French news bulletin 0505-0559 on 9535 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf Arabic Holy Qur`an px 0600-0605 on 11985 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf French news bulletin 0605-0659 on 11985 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf Arabic Holy Qur`an px 1800-1900 on 13820 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf Arabic Nat. Chaîne 1 1900-2000 on 11765 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf Arabic Nat. Chaîne 1 1900-1905 on 13820 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf French news bulletin 1905-1959 on 13820 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf Arabic Holy Qur`an px 2000-2100 on 9375 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf Arabic Nat. Chaîne 1 2000-2005 on 11765 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf French news bulletin 2005-2059 on 11765 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf Arabic Holy Qur`an px 2100-2200 on 7495 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf Arabic Nat. Chaîne 1 2100-2105 on 9375 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf French news bulletin 2105-2159 on 9375 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg to CEAf Arabic Holy Qur`an px 2200-2205 on 7495 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf French news bulletin 2205-2259 on 7495 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg to NWAf Arabic Holy Qur`an px The times in announcement are given in UTC +1 hour. Video from Aug. 23 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/summer-14-shortwave-schedule-of-radio.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Aug 24, dxldyg via DXLD) ** ANTARCTICA. 15476.0, LRA36, Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, 1953-2012, Spanish comments by female with Argentine accent, music and songs in Spanish. Best on LSB. 14321, and very best with the Sony than with the Tecsun and Grundig (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Lugo, Sony ICF SW 7600 G, Tecsun PL-880 and Grundig Satellit 500, cable antenna, 8 meters, Aug 21, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) LSB??? I have LRA36 Base Esperanza on 15475.96 in USB plus carrier now at 2015 UT in Spanish. Quite weak but getting stronger. Noted their carrier already yesterday but then it was too weak for getting any audio. 73 (Harald ([visiting] Northern Denmark) Kuhl, Aug 21, BDXC-UK yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DXLD) 15476.00, 2025-2045 21.8, R Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, Base Esperanza. Reactivated. Mostly Spanish talk, music, best in USB because of weak CWQRM in LSB, 14221 (Anker Petersen, on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire here in Skovlunde, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) Reactivated? Off since when? (gh) 15475.973 kHz at 1936 UT Aug 22, LRA36 Arcángel, Argentine Antarctica, same signal like yesterday Aug 21, on threshold level S=4-5 -98dBm best on Sven's Perseus unit in Norway. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DX LISTENING DIGEST) LRA36 [?] Carrier frequency measured 15475.976. Carrier off at 2136:25 UT. 73 (Nick VK2DX Hacko, Sydney NSW, Aug 22, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Nick, Just back from listening at the beach (Aug 22). Not able to pull in anything on 15476; no hint of a carrier. Yesterday Dave Valko noted LRA-36 going off at 2135:48, on 15475.974 (Ron Howard, California, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Attention: LRA36 LOUD on air now --- Carrier + USB only. 15475.970, LRA36 still going strong past 2100, two female in Spanish. Via short path, S4, some noise. Best in USB (Nick Hacko, VK2DX, Sydney NSW, Perseus + 3el SteppIR, Aug 26, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Nothing heard in central Europe / ITALY / Queensland / Sydney units so far tonight on this channel. 15475.972 kHz at 2115 UT to close-down at 2135:45 UT. But as usual LRA36 Arcángel Antarctica at excellent remote SDR unit at Sven's location Midsund on central Norwegian coastline: LRA36 heard above [!] threshold from 2115 to 2135:45 UT close-down, cut off midst on music song. On Aug 26: S=5 or -98dBm signal strength. Piano music and chorus music at 2122 UT. Station identification spoken ahead of jingle? heard between 2130 to 2132 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 26, dxldyg via DXLD) Well done, Nick. Heard them here on 15476 from opening at 1930 UT right through to closedown at 2137:45 on 25 August, and again on 26 August past 2100. As good as I've heard them over the years (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai - New Zealand, AOR7030+ and EWEs to North, Central & South America, Aug 27, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DX LISTENING DIGEST) A curiosity taken from their FB page. This is the photo of a cake, baked in the base, which recreates the base buildings. The radio towers are placed (Horacio Nigro Geolkiewsky, Montevideo, Uruguay, dxldyg with attachment, via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I`m not sure how accurate this is: earlier photos showed all the Base buildings bright red (for visiblity in blizzards, I assume) but on the cake they are orange! (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DXLD) ANTARTIDA, 15476, LRA36, Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, Base Esperanza, 1933-1950, 26-08, señal muy débil hoy, sólo audible en LSB, comentarios en español y música. 14321. También escuchada 1915-1940, 27-08, mejor señal que 26-08, Comentarios, canciones, español. 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, España, Escuchas en Lugo, Sony ICF SW 7600G y Tecsun PL-880, antena de cable, 8 metros, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Fade-in now, let's hear LRA36 two hours later. ANTARCTICA ARGENTINE, 15475.974 kHz, LRA36 at 1912 UT on Aug 27, fade-in, 'seen' on remote units in Spain and Norway. But as usual LRA36 Arcngel Antarctica at excellent remote SDR unit at Sven's location Midsund on central Norwegian coastline (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 27, dxldyg via DXLD) ** ARGENTINA. 15345.11, RAE, Aug 21 1306-1334, 35333-25322, Spanish, Talk and music, ID at 1331 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD- 525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, 303WA, WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15345, RAE, 21/8 1650 UT. Gong de la RAE tocado durante 10 minutos seguidos, pitidos horarios a las 17 y comienzo del servicio en alemán. SINPO: 45344 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: TECSUN PL-660, ANT: Hilo de 30 metros. QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) 15345.335, RAE, Buenos Aires, German service, economic report at 2119 UT Aug 26. S=9+10dB or - 63dBm. 2147 UT jubilee Julio Florencio Cortázar 100 years of age old, 1914 born in Brussels, died 1984 in Paris. Julio Florencio Cortázar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Cort%C3%A1zar (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 26, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15344.405 kHz, very odd frequency at 13-15 UT slot, RAE Buenos Aires in Spanish, Mon-Fri only. Very weak tiny signal at 1303 UT on Aug 27, logged on remote SDR unit in Alberta-CANADA (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 27, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15345.333 .. x.343 kHz, wandering, very odd frequency at 1910 UT Aug 27 slot, RAE Buenos Aires in Italian, Mon-Fri only. S=9+10dB -66dBm here in southern Germany (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 27, ibid.) RAE Measured here 15345.358 (mostly), very poor stability. 73 (Nick VK2DX Hacko, with screenshot showing frequency jumps, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 24 hours scan, New South Wales 'local' stations. I think I got most of the active ones, give or take, not counting those under 0.2 kW (By the way NSW is 20% larger than Texas :-) VK2: 549 2CR Orange ABC 576 2RN Sydney ABC 603 2RN Nowra ABC 630 2PB Sydney 639 2HC Coffs Harbour "2HC 639 AM FM 100.5" 23AUG2014 10:00 News 648 2NU ABC Tamworth 675 2CO ABC Albury 684 2KP Kempsy 702 2BL Sydney 738 2NR Grafton 756 2TR Taree ABC 765 2EC Bega 801 2RF Gosford [HPONS] 810 2BA ABC Bega 819 2GL ABC Glen Innes 873 2GB Sydney Macquarie Nat news 900 2LT Lithgow 900 2LM Lismore 918 2XL Cooma 954 2UE Sydney 972 2DU Cobar 972 2MW Murwillumbah 981 2NM Muswellbrook "The Heart of the Hunter" 999 2NB Broken Hill 999 2ST Nowra 1017 2KY Sydney [Racing] 1035 2EA SBS Radio Wollongong 1044 2UH Muswellbrook 1080 2MO Gunnedah 1089 2EL Orange 15:00 News 1098 2RN ABC Radio, Goulburn 1107 2EA SBS Radio Sydney 1134 2AD Armidale 15:00 News 1143 2HD Newcastle 1152 2WG Wagga Wagga 1170 2CH Sydney "Complete news and information for Sydney 2CH" 1188 2NZ Inverell 1206 2GF Grafton "Complete news and information for Clarence valley" 1224 2RPH R for print-handicapped, Sydney 1233 2NC Newcastle ABC 1251 2DU Dubbo, "You are listening to western NSW 2DU" 1269 2SM Sydney "Sydney's Talking" 1314 2TAB Wollongong Racing TAB 1341 2TAB Newcastle Racing TAB [HPONS] 1350 2LF Young 1368 2GN Golburn 1395 2LG Lithgow 11:54 loud 1404 2PK Parkes "For the time of your life 1404 2PK" 1413 2EA Newcastle SBS 1449 2MG Mudgee 1458 2PB ABC News Radio, Newcastle 1431 2RN Wollongong 12:00 loud 1476 2KA Penrith [HPONS] 1485 2EA Shellharbour SBS 1494 2AY Albury 11:00 loud 1512 2RN ABC Newcastle 1521 2QN Denlinquin 1530 2VM Moree "We are 2VM and we are feeling good" 1539 2RF Sydney 1557 2RE Taree 1575 2RF Wollongong [HPONS] 1584 2EC Narooma 1665 2MM Sydney 09:00 loud Greek radio 73 (Nick VK2DX Hacko, Sydney, Aug 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 2368.475, Radio Symban / Radio La Manamea Samo. Radio Symban when checked at 1050 UT Aug 25, measured against 2500 kHz WWVH and 3330 kHz CHU Ottawa standard signal stations, via remote SDR units downunder in Queensland and Sydney. Talk or phone interview in Greek language, no music (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 25, dxldyg via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. 3210, Vintage FM, 1313-1322*, Aug 26. Today was the first day since I last heard them on their first day of reactivation, on Aug 19, that I could hear some audio; 1940s(?) songs and ballads till off; just above threshold level. Takes really good conditions for any reception! (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, E1 & CR- 1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. Re: ``15300, May 14 at 0300, yes, R. Australia is back here tonight, not 15530, but with news in English. A token French broadcast had been scheduled 0300-0315 M-F; what became of that? . . . (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1721, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` Hi Glenn, Not sure if your question was ever answered, but on Aug 22, on 15240 // 15300 heard French from starting at 0310 till 0320; interesting item with the song "We Are Heroes," which is the anthem for the 2015 Pacific Games to be held next year in PNG. http://www.portmoresby2015.com/ http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/radio/program/pacific-beat/we-are-heroes-the-pacific-games-launches-2015-anthem/1359724 Earlier had news in English 0300-0310; at 0318 "You are listening to Radio Australia" followed by the same filler music they play every day till 0320, when they suddenly switch to an already-in-progress audio feed in English. Have heard this recently several times (Ron Howard, California, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9580, 12065, etc., Aug 21 before 1400, R. Australia again with variety of world music, so `The Daily Planet` now seems to be regular during the 13-14 hour, at least on weekdays; and what will follow the 1400 news? No announcements, but 1405 right into hard rock and rapcrap, soon a tune-off. No more food for the mind in the form of one of the best talk/interview shows anywhere, `Late Night Live`, altho it presumably still exist somewhere on the RN schedule. 9580 & 12065, et al., Aug 22 before 1400 we continue to enjoy the variety of world-music on RA now carrying `The Daily Planet` show during this hour, but after the news at 1405, I think the ID was for ``Triple J``, ABC`s youth-music net, rapcrap again, begone. Maybe 13- 15 UT programming will differ on weekends. 9580, 12065 et al., Saturday August 23 at 1359, `Saturday Night Country` closing first hour to resume after news and so it does at 1405. Mentions Local [sic] Radio, its originating network? So RA has preserved at least one of its allegedly most popular shows. 9580 & 12065, et al., Aug 24 at 1254, during 1300 hour and after news at 1405, R. Australia is still running wide-ranging but religiously- orientated call-in talk show `Sunday Night` from ABC Local Radio, so spans 12-16 UT. 1405 promo about program sked changes in generalities. No ref to where we can find it, but now, at http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/radio/programschedule?tz=0&stream=asia ``New Radio Australia schedule --- Our new schedule is now online. We have some great new shows and even more fantastic Australian music. Some familiar programs have moved into new time slots but our much loved weekend coverage of the AFL and NRL remains. We hope you enjoy our new lineup - your feedback is always welcome.`` From that, we find the two shows which peripherally qualify for inclusion in our DX/SWL/Media Shows roster are now sked only at: `Future Tense`, Sun 0130 & Thu 0430 `Download This Show`, Sun 1100 & Tue 0430 `Late Night Live` is now really late night --- if you`re in North America: Tue-Fri 0600-0700, its only airing. Assuming there have been no changes in SW frequency usage, per the BDXC-UK BIE booklet for A- 14, the ones during this hour are: 11945, 13630, 15240, 15415, 17750, 21725 from Shep, and 9660, 12080 from Brandon. `Daily Planet`, world music show we`ve been hearing, is Mon-Thu 13-14. `Unearthed` is dispensable JJJ show now gulping 4 hours at 14-18 M-F Ignoring news on the hour, so presumably all start at :05 or :06. 9580 & 12065, et al., Aug 25 during 12 UT hour hearing talk show, so recheck R. Australia online schedule. Here`s the new lineup for prime morning listening hours in NAm: 11-12 UT: Mon Into the Music; Tue AWAYE; Wed Radiotonic; Thu Speaking Out/Pacific Break; Fri By Design/First Bite; Sat Grandstand continues; Sun Download This Show/Rare Collexions 12-13 UT: Mon Science Show; Tue-Fri The World = TV news soundtrack still exists; Sat Grandstand concludes; Sun Sunday Night till 16 13-14 UT: Mon-Thu Daily Planet; Fri Keys to Music (classical); Sat Sat Night Country till 16; Sun Sunday Night till 16 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5940, Aug 26 at 1323, R. Australia music poor // 5995, 9580, much weaker than 6150. Had not heard 5940 in a long time because it does not start from Shep until 1300, now propagating better. This one is 334 degrees toward Asia per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AZERBAIJAN. Ictimai Radio in FM mode was back to its traditional frequency 0000-2400 on 9677v UNIDentified tx site to CeAs Azeri, ex 11760. Videos: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/ictimai-radio-in-fm-mode-again-on-9677v.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SZzXEmBhEo&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLjIhxXJhLE&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkbLylC6FZU&feature=youtu.be (DX RE MIX NEWS #867 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, August 22, 2014 via DXLD) ** BANGLADESH. Received a QSL from Radio Bangladesh Betar for the reception at a frequency of 13580 15/03/2014. On the card - the river. The report sent by electronic mail to the address: rrc @ dhaka.net. (Dmitry Kutuzov, Ryazan, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" via RusDX Aug 24 via DXLD) QSL came from Bangladesh Betar, reception April 6, at a frequency of 15505 kHz. Sent a report on the two e-mail addresses rrc [at] dhaka.net and betar.external [at] yahoo.com, 135 days waiting for an answer. On the card - Photo fisherman casts his net. Chief Engineer Abu Tabib Md. Zia Hasan writes that waiting for new reports from listeners, it is very important for maintain the quality of translations (Dmitry Mezin, Kazan, Russia / "open-dx", ibid.) ** BELARUS. QSL letter from the First National Channel of the Belarusian Radio. 20/08/2014, 1620 to 1755 (UT) at a frequency of 6080 kHz. Response during the day. E-mail: radio1@tvr.by (Vasily Gulyaev, Astrakhan, Russia via RusDX Aug 24 via DXLD) WEB: http://radio1.tvr.by/ (Editor Anatoly Klepov, ibid.) ** BELARUS [and non]. BELARUS/THAILAND, Radio Belarus in Russian vs BBC in Bengali on Aug. 19 1400-1600 on 11730 MNS 100 kW / 246 deg to WeEu Russian 1400-1500 on 11730 NAK 250 kW / 305 deg to SoAs Bengali Tue/Sun. Video: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/radio-belarus-in-russian-vs-bbc-in.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Aug 21, dxldyg via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 5952, Radio Pio XII, 0201 UT 23 Agosto. ID por mujer, Radio Pio XII, anuncios de Basura Estacional [?? Seasonal trash?], ID "Sigan por la Red Pio XII". Luego un poco de anuncios y siguen con locutor hablando de la Radio Pio XII y sus oyentes, SINPO: 45444 (Marcos Cox, Vicuña, Chile, DEGEN DE1103 + 3 meters antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. Observaciones de emisoras y propagación desde Bolivia, el 21/8 entre las 1050 a 1115 UT, con los siguientes resultados: 1050 UT. 5952, R. PIO XII con noticias y SINPO: 45444 1055 UT. 5995, R. LOYOLA no hay portadora, ni modulación. Sólo ruido. ¿La escucha reportada por Fernando Viloria fue por un día especial? 1102 UT. 6025, R. PATRIA NUEVA con noticias nacionales. SINPO: 45343 1105 UT. 6134.8, R. SANTA CRUZ con programas de noticias y leve QRM de otra emisora. SINPO: 53443 1108 UT. 6155, R. FIDES sin portadora, ni modulación. 1112 UT. 9825 [sic], R. FIDES sin portadora, ni modulación (Claudio Galaz, Rx: TECSUN PL-660, ANT: Hilo de 30 metros. QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) Hope he was really checking 9625 (gh, DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 6134.8, Aug 22 at 0058, R. Santa Cruz with F-G signal, talk about Morales, song ``Amor``. No het from Aparecida, maybe off; lately others have been reporting it on the lower side of RSC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6135, Radio Santa Cruz, 0055 UT 23 Ago. Música en Español, luego varias noticias de Bolivia y del mundo como la propagación del Ebola en Africa y continúa música en español. Luego anuncios publicitarios e ID "Radio Santa Cruz, siempre en tu compañía" y continúan con música en español. Se escucha con leve QRM de Rádio Aparecida de Brasil, SINPO: 44444 (Marcos Cox, Vicuña, Chile, DEGEN DE1103 + 3 meters antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6134.819, UNIDENTIFIED carrier heard around 0345-0350 UT Aug 24 here in Europe as well as in NY and FL-USA, S=6 tiny -88dBm signal. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6135, R. SANTA CRUZ, 25/8 0645 UT. Avisos de la emisora, de la utilidad comercial de la radio, ID: “Radio Santa Cruz, la primera”. Canciones pop y pop rock: i.e.: “Panda - Y de la gasolina renació el amor”. También ID: “Radio Santa Cruz con sabor a pueblo” SINPO: 55444 (Claudio Galaz, RX: Tecsun PL-660, ANT: Hilo de 30 metros, QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) Note the times; didn`t think they would be on then, as usual sign-off is around 0200. I wonder if 0645 could be a typo? (gh, DXLD) ** BRAZIL [and non]. 6180, Aug 26 at 0109, RNA is off, leaving a JBA carrier, presumably CRI English via Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN, also scheduled 00-02 southward, normally totally blotted by Brasil. Not audible on 5990 either, presumed also off, but inbooming as usual on 11780. 6180, Aug 27 at 0140, RNA is still missing uncovering a JBA carrier presumably EAST TURKISTAN. 6180 still off at 0504 check but 11780 still on and spurless (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6180 back the next night ** BRAZIL [and non]. 9630, R. APARECIDA, 22/8 2337 UT. Canciones católicas, reflexiones acerca de María y el santuario de Aparecida. SINPO: 53443 con QRM de CNR-1 desde China // 6135 sólo audible como pequeño pitido tras R. Santa Cruz de Bolivia (Claudio Galaz, Tecsun PL-660, Ant Hilo de 30 metros, QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) 9630, R. APARECIDA, 23/8 2225 UT. Programa “Encontro DX” con lectura de frecuencias de onda corta que aún transmiten en idioma portugués para América Latina y África. SINPO: 43543 con QRM de CNR como jammer contra SOH u otra emisora en 9635 más siseos de CRI en español en 9640 (Claudio Galaz, RX: Tecsun PL-660, ANT: Hilo de 30 metros, QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 9819v, Aug 24 at 0110, no sign of R. Nove de Julho for some weeks now, at least not in this time period (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9818.7, 0947-1015 21/8, R. 9 de Julho, São Paulo SP. Talks, songs. Adjacent QRM de CHINA on 9820. F/out. 14321 9818.7, 2210-2222 21/8, R. 9 de Julho. National news magazine A Voz do Brasil part 1. Adjacent QRM de CHINA on 9820. 43432 (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal with JRC NRD-545DSP & DRAKE R8-E; Advanced ReceiverResearch amp.; 20 m T2FD, 45 m inv. V, 30 m 180º/0º mini-Bev., 80 m 300º/120º Bev., 200 m 270º/ 90º Bev., 270 m 145º/325º Bev., 300 m 225º/45º Bev., raised, 4 loop-K9AY, radioescutas yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DXLD) 9820, R. 9 DE JULHO, 23/8 2355 UT. Avisos de la emisora, horarios de las iglesias y misas para el día domingo. A las 00 del 24/8 UT, se da la hora e ID sin conexión con R. Aparecida. SINPO: 45444 (Claudio Galaz, RX: Tecsun PL-660, ANT: Hilo de 30 metros, QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) 9818.8, Radio 9 de Julho, Sao Paulo, 0540-0554, 23-08, religious program, Portuguese, "Com a Mãe Aparecida", "Emissora Católica de Rádio". 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante, Lugo, Tecsun PL-880, Sony ICF SW 7600 G, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11735, RTM, 22/8 1520 UT. Avisos de propaganda electoral del Partido de los Trabajadores, representantes para Porto Alegre, diputados ``gaúchos`` otras agrupaciones como el PSDB y PSB hasta las 1550 aprox. Es decir, media hora. SINPO: 45444 (Claudio Galaz, Tecsun PL-660, Ant Hilo de 30 metros, QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. Super Rádio Deus [é Amor] - Curitiba on 11765 at 0235 (Aug 27) in Portuguese. Fair, but audible most nights, here. Easy to spot by the evangelists screaming and pleading in Portuguese (Mike Bryant, KK4TSX, Louisville KY, Tecsun PL660, Aug 27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. QSL - Rádio Inconfidência, 15190, sent an attractive eQSL for a 2011 reception. V/s was Eng Gleison Ferreira gleisonferreira - at- inconfidencia.com.br This was my third follow up - the reply arrived 3 days after the latest email and 1246 days after my original report. This report and the reply were in Portuguese. I have several QSLs to report this time. Most of them took a long time to arrive, averaging about 1.5 years after sending my original reports (Bruce Portzer, WA, Aug 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA. Hey Glenn, I was looking for information about Radio Varna in Bulgaria on the Black Sea. I have Bulgarian friends who visited there for me and got loads of station memorabilia for me but I can't find the schedule. Do you have any logs of them being picked up in the states? If you have any at the time to share the information I sure would appreciate it (Chris Campbell, Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [this info should be of use to other researchers:] DXLD archives are in three different places. If you Google search on Varna at each of them you will find a number of references, including this one: http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1143.txt Radio Varna SW: Date of Passing --- Hi all, SW transmissions from Radio Varna ceased on April 6, 2010. RIP: Varna - Bolyartsi (SW) oldest: site:www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio mid: site:www.worldofradio.com newest: site:www.w4uvh.net (Glenn to Chris, via DXLD) I believe that R. Varna programs were just via regular R. Sofia / Bulgaria transmitters; or did it originally have own SW transmitter? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** BURMA [non]. 12115, Aug 23 at 0106, poor signal in apparent Burmese, since Radio Free Asia is scheduled here via KUWAIT at 0030- 0130 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CAMEROON [non]. LWF Voice of Gospel, Sawtu Linjilia in Fulfulde 1830 Aug 21 on 15315 Issoudun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpLFD7YM_Vw&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. CBGA-1 540 using just one stick? CBGA-1, which I now see is from Grand Anse, NB rather than New Carlisle [Carlîle?], Québec may be running ND as it was really too strong for either day or night pattern into my WI QTH a week ago Sunday. Phasing BOGs knocked down local ESPN 540 WAUK about 40 dB and French was strong enough to be called very good on peaks. ID at 2300 EDT basically as "ici Radio-Canada Première, Gaspé ... Madeleines". Get this one before they move to FM!! WLIE [LINHY] was also in there earlier. 73 (KAZ Grafton WI, Perseus and Phased BOGs at about 64 deg. 655 ft // 490 feet (200m // 150m spaced about 1/2 meter apart), Aug 26, NRC-AM via DXLD) They have been reputed to move to FM for a long time, but CBC/SRC just can't match the coverage so I expect that 540 will stay alive for a long time. Could have been a pattern switching issue - happens quite often on older AM sites. If it were a private station I would speculate that maybe one tower came down to be relocated for FM [CJFX did that back in 2003 and ran omni a while messing up CFRA] but the CBC would not likely recycle a tower (Phil VY2PR Rafuse, PEI, ABDX via DXLD) I read somewhere that some AM to FM flips were being put on hold indefinitely, due to budget cuts (Justin neofoodog Nielsen, ibid.) ** CHILE. 6925-AM, 22/8 2140 UT. Música chilena, avisos de la emisora y comienzo de las noticias de Radio Francia Internacional desde las 22 hasta cerca de las 2210 aprox. cuando comienza el programa `Frecuencia al día`. Señal con SINPO variable de 35422 a las 2140. Mejor a las 2203 con SINPO: 35333 y a las 2231 con SINPO: 25422, para posteriormente perderse. 7550-AM, RCW, 23/8 2255 UT. Conexión con Radio Biobío de Santiago de Chile con informaciones de cortes de luz y teléfono. Además de contactos con móviles y auditores debido al sismo de 6.2 de Quillota según sismología Chile y 6.6 según USGS. SINPO: 35443. Luego de las 2305 existe un corte en la transmisión, para volver dos minutos después con SINPO: 25342 como se ve en el video: http://youtu.be/lzWgOJJsDro (Claudio Galaz, Tecsun PL-660, Ant Hilo de 30 metros, QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DXLD) ** CHILE. 7050-LSB, Red Nacional de Emergencia. 23/8 2236 UT. Informe sobre el temblor 6.2 Mercalli con epicentro en Quillota, V región, Chile. SINPO: 45333 como promedio. Luego llamada general a otros radioaficionados (Claudio Galaz, RX: Tecsun PL-660, ANT: Hilo de 30 metros, QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DXLD) ** CHINA [and non]. 10000, Aug 27 at 1257, WWVH time pips with overlay from another station about half a second out of synch! So that`s no real time standard outlet. 1259 CW ID for BPM over and over this minute without pips, so the ChiCom are out of step with the rest of the world? Or was it a fourth station? WWV was JBA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 17560, CNR1, 8/18, 2400. Had thought I had been catching V o A via Tinang Philippines, afternoons, so I listened starting at 2340. Heard transmitter come on for a minute at 2349 with M in Chinese, then off. Back on at 2359, with W in Chinese dialect. On the hour, pips and ID in Chinese, clearly CNR. Evidently used to to jam VOA Chinese service at this time. 6970, CNR1, 8/21, 1045. M and W in Chinese. Pips at the ToH and off. VG. Returned to the air at 1120, but very poor. 6970, CNR1, 8/21, 1125, M in Chinese and breaks that sounded like commercial spots. Poor. // noted 12370 (outstanding), 14980 (good), 16750 (poor). Also noted open carrier on 16100 with fair signal level (Rick Barton, El Mirage, AZ, Mostly listening from my pickup truck, by the Agua Fría river, Grundig Satellit 750, passive Wilson 1000 antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6075, Firedrake, 1406, Aug 21. Strong against RTI; still going at 1446 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) CNR 1 jamming vs Radio Free Asia, Chinese, 1855 Aug 21 on 11555 Saipan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ivw2SJvlPxo&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13635, Aug 23 at 1423, CNR1 jamming, poor signal and target also audible. Per Aoki, a lucky catch as RFA Cantonese via TINIAN at 14-15 is on this frequency only on Saturdays. Per Aoki the others are: 13585 M/W/F; 13595 Tue/Thu {and 13700 Sundays}. Obviously the SARFT jamming command is on top of them, so why bother to jumparound in this and many other cases, merely confusing casual listeners who don`t have the full schedules? 16100, Aug 25 at 1241, CNR1 jammer, fair signal; no others audible 16- 19+ MHz. This is often the first frequency I check, most reliable. I`m wondering if the RFA Tibetan service via Kuwait is still on the 18-19 MHz band, as jammers unheard for a while, but it`s just poor propagation: 18930, Aug 25 at 1322, very poor talk but I can match it to CNR1 jammer on 11785; 18930 is in fact the Monday-only RFA frequency during this hour. CNR1 jammers, Aug 26: 10960, Aug 26 at 1334, CNR1 jammer, fair 13970, Aug 26 at 1338, CNR1 jammer, very good with flutter None in the 12s, 14s, 17s; in the 15s only usual 15115, 15195, 15265 16100, Aug 26 at 1340, CNR1 jammer transmitter obviously, but only open carrier/dead air now, fair with flutter 18980, Aug 26 at 1340, CNR1 jammer, poor with flutter; the Tue & Fri RFA Tibetan via Kuwait frequency during this hour and also 1100-1200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. COLLISIONS ON THE AIR 0523-1620 17550 KAM 500 kW / 259 deg NEAf Arabic VOIRI/IRIB 0523-1200 17550 BEI 100 kW / 251 deg CHN Chinese CNR-1 1400-1800 6075 secret / hidden site CHN Chinese CNR-1 Jamming 1400-1500 6075 KOU 100 kW / 310 deg EaAs Chinese Radio Taiwan Inter 1500-1800 6080 MNS 100 kW / 127 deg N/ME Belarussian Radio 1 1500-1800 6080 GEM 100 kW / 236 deg CHN Chinese CNR-1 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/collisions-on-air.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Aug 26, dxldyg via DXLD) COLLISIONS ON THE AIR, part 2: 1200-1300 11605 secret / hidden site CHN Chinese CNR-1 Jamming 1200-1300 11605 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg CeAs Tibetan Radio Free Asia 1215-1330 11775 secret / hidden site CHN Chinese CNR-1 Jamming 1215-1330 11775 PAN 250 kW / 025 deg CeAs Tibetan All India Radio 1300-1400 11785 secret / hidden site CHN Chinese CNR-1 Jamming 1300-1400 11785 UDO 250 kW / 349 deg EaAs Chinese Voice of America 1300-1400 11805 secret / hidden site CHN Chinese CNR-1 Jamming 1300-1400 11805 SAI 100 kW / 310 deg EaAs Chinese Voice of America 1300-1600 11740 LIN 100 kW / 286 deg CHN Chinese CNR-2 1315-1530 11740 PAN 500 kW / 300 deg WeAs Dari/Pashto All India Radio 1400-1500 11630 LIN 100 kW / 286 deg CHN Kazakh CNR-8 1400-1500 11630 KBD 500 kW / 230 deg CeAf Arabic Holy Quran R.Kuwait 1500-1600 9890 LIN 100 kW / 286 deg CHN Uyghur CNR-13 1500-1557 9890 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg N/ME Arabic Voice of Korea Videos: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/collisions-on-air-part-2.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) ** CHINA. 7315, CRI, 24/8 2220 UT. Mujer habla, en esperanto, sobre unos espectáculos teatrales en Pekín y las diferencias entre sí, como parte de la sección “La Cinia en la mondo, la mondo en la Cinia”. SINPO: 53443 con QRM de CNR-2 en la misma frecuencia // 9860 SINPO: 55454 (Claudio Galaz, RX: Tecsun PL-660, ANT: Hilo de 30 metros, QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** CHINA. Pirate Radio Stations Threaten Passenger Jet Safety: Xinhua scmp.com By Adrian Wan 25 August 2014 Law enforcement agencies have uncovered pirate radio stations operating in big cities and provinces using equipment that could disrupt communications between pilots and air traffic controllers, according to a state media report. A lack of regulations controlling the sale and use of radio transmitters meant the devices were easily available on the market, unnamed legal experts told Xinhua. The authorities said they had found high-powered radio transmitters in private hands in Beijing and Tianjin and in Hainan, Yunnan and Guangdong provinces. Okay Airways, based in Beijing, complained to radio administration officials in Tianjin in March that its radio frequency was severely disrupted by a pirate radio station, Xinhua said. Jiang Tao, a pilot with the airline, was quoted as saying that the inflight navigation system and communications with control towers were often disturbed by pirate radio broadcasts. If the radio frequency was occupied when aircraft had to take off or land, the pilots could lose contact with the control tower, threatening safety, the report said, quoting unnamed industry experts. The Beijing Municipal Bureau of Radio and Television recently uncovered a pirate radio station operating on top of a residential block in the capital's Chaoyang district. The station transmitted advertisements on a frequency usually used by licensed stations, the report said. Pirate stations try to sell ads for escort agencies, medical products and other services, according to Xinhua. The bureau has recently seized a 2,000-watt transmitter whose signal can reach most places in the capital. Pirate radio equipment could be bought easily on online shopping sites for less than 50,000 yuan (HK$62,900), the report added. Broadcast and print media are tightly controlled by the government on the mainland and the authorities are also trying to increase their grip on the use of social media. (This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as Pirate radio stations pose 'threat to aviation safety'). http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1580528/pirate-radio-stations-uncovered-mainland-equipment-seized (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) If properly engineered on the FM band up to 108 MHz, should not QRM aero comms on 108+ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA. 6010+, fair signal Aug 26 at 0534, romantic-sounding song, axually of adoration, off-frequency compared to 1010, but nothing to het it with XEOI long gone, and furthermore Cuba is off 6000 for even less interference. Must be The Voice of Thy Conscience, and its other Alcaraván outlet on 5910v is absent. Cuba is back by 0555, but at 0556 I can make out an automated timecheck for ``cero horas, 57 minutos`` and ID as La Voz de tu Conciencia, Colombia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CROATIA. VISITING RADIO RIJEKA: reports and photographs of a visit to Radio Rijeka, that broadcasts also in Italian. In the article there are photographs, stickers and recording of the last transmission on shortwave Radio Rijeka. The article is available here: UNA VISITA A RADIO RIJEKA su radioascolto http://blog.libero.it/radioascolto/12928461.html 73's de (Francesco Ceccone, noticiasdx yg via DXLD) Was via CRZ (gh) ** CUBA. 12180, HM-01 ## station. 8/21, 1010. Broadcast in progress with random tune. VG. 17480, HM-01, 8/21, 2230. In progress with long list of numbers before the digital stuff commenced, 55545 (Rick Barton, El Mirage, AZ, Mostly listening from my pickup truck, by the Agua Fría river, Grundig Satellit 750, passive Wilson 1000 antenna, dxldyg via DX LSITENING DIGEST) 5800-USB, just as I tune in poor signal at 0100 Aug 22 some YL Spanish numbers stop, presumably spy station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 6000, Aug 21 at 0513 and later, this RHC English frequency is off; all the others on 5 and 6 MHz nominal. 13740, Aug 23 at 0123, RHC Spanish missing frequency, supposed to be on until 0400. At least we can barely hear the 12140 harmonic of 6070, and it`s certainly not due to propagation as jamming pulses against nothing on 13605 are audible, and RHC fundamental 15230 is quite stronger than usual. 6000, Aug 23 at 0543, this RHC English frequency is off again, while the others are nominal. 13740, Aug 23 at 1401, open carrier/dead air when relay of CRI English should have started; it`s going at next check 1423 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15370, RHC, 24/8 2231 UT. Inicio del servicio en esperanto con ID: “Radio Habano Kubo”, luego presentación y lectura de los horarios y frecuencias del servicio. Así como de la página web de la emisora y de la “Kuba Esperanto Asocio”: ameriko.org. SINPO: 45343. [Esperanto rules: since Habana and Cuba are nouns they must end in -o. Stress is also invariably penultimate, so ``radío`` --- gh] 15370, RHC, 24/8 2316 UT. Mujer habla en idioma creole acerca de la cultura cubana, después presenta música de salsa en español. SINPO: 45444 (Claudio Galaz, RX: Tecsun PL-660, ANT: Hilo de 30 metros, QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) 13740, Aug 25 at 0127, RHC remains off this frequency evenings, still propagating on 15230. 12140, Aug 26 at 0107, RHC harmonic, 2 x 6070 is much better than usual, almost could be taken for a fundamental, fair-good, but very poor on 3 x = 18210. 13740, Aug 26 at 0123, RHC Spanish still AWOL, permanently? Maybe at least one transmitter is out of service, not unusual. 6000, Aug 26 at 0533, RHC English is off again, like it was on Aug 21 and 23 during this hour; but back on at 0555 check splattering upon 6010 COLOMBIA, q.v., which was clear before then. 12140, Aug 27 at 0152, RHC Spanish second harmonic of 6070 is readable here despite CODAR; while 18210 third harmonic is very poor. 12140 sorta substitutes for 13740 fundamental still AWOL at 0154 check Aug 27 15370, Aug 27 at 0155, good signal with open carrier/dead air; suspect RHC transmitter as used earlier, maybe explaining why 13740 or some other frequency is missing. Only thing HFCC knows about here is CNR 11840, Aug 27 at 0502, RHC is still on overtime, restarting an hour of Spanish programming, but cut to 2 or 3 words of English before cut off the air at 0502.6*; typical slopperation. Why is it so hard to at least turn down the modulation at the end of a transmission for a smooth departure? 6100, Aug 27 at 0505, another SNAFU, dead air instead of RHC English, which is OK on other members of The Cuban Five (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DIEGO GARCIA. 4319, AFN in USB at 2328 with pop music – Very weak Aug 24. Despite the weak signal it's nice to still be able to hear this one (Mark Coady, Ont., ODXA YRX via DXLD) ** EAST TURKISTAN. Re: Additional suspended frequencies of China Radio International [Urumqi list]: Effective from 1500 UT on Aug. 20 all listed frequencies are again on the air (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, Aug 21, dxld yg via DXLD) ** EAST TURKISTAN [and non]. CHINA, CRI English via Kashi to WeEu vs CRI English to AUS via Kunming: 0900-0957 on 17650 KAS 500 kW / 308 deg to WeEu 0900-0957 on 17650 KUN 500 kW / 135 deg to AUS. Videos: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/cri-english-via-kashi-to-weeu-vs-cri.html CRI Chinese via Urumqi to N/ME vs CRI Bengali to SoAs via Kunming: 1400-1457 on 11610 URU 500 kW / 270 deg to N/ME 1400-1457 on 11610 KUN 150 kW / 270 deg to SoAs. Videos: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/cri-chinese-via-urumqi-to-nme-vs-cri.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #867 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, August 22, 2014 via DXLD) ** EAST TURKISTAN. 17630, Aug 23 at 1403, CRI English with good signal, modulating unlike via Cuba 13740; as the Urumqi relay has resumed after a (maintenance?) break. During which there was no and still is no sign of the alleged co-channel CRI French ex-English relay via Mali during this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. 6050, Aug 21 at 1033, still no signal from HCJB, which if on would surely be propagating well, better than in evening; quaked off? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6050, HCJB, OFF: no se escucha señal ni detectando señal con SSB, a las 0242 UT 23 Agosto (Marcos Cox, Vicuña, Chile, DEGEN DE1103 + 3 meters antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. Observations of Radio Cairo on August 20/21 videos: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/observations-of-radio-cairo-on-august.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, Aug 21, dxldyg via DXLD) [and non]. 9965, Aug 20 at 2319 quick check, R. Cairo weak carrier, but on the air during scheduled English sesquihour. I`m busy recording WORLD OF RADIO, so another quick check not until 0156 UT Aug 21, when 11710 is on the air hetting Argentina on the hi side, and still doing so past 0203 instead of off by 0200. Bad news, as RAE is now in English. 12070 I tune in at 0157, just in time to hear what sounds like decent modulation for a change! In Spanish, but cutoff at 0157:15*. Maybe three days` downtime axually accomplished some repairs, but don`t bet on it. The other two frequencies are also on with carriers detected on 9315, 9965. Next check at 0345 I still hear a clash on 11710/11711, Cairo still on? No, apparently TWR Africa via UAE but which per Aoki is at 0330-0345 only, daily except Saturdays. Nothing heard on 13850 at 0513 check, but propagation is depressed, and Wolfgang Büschel was hearing it in Germany at 0515 (as well as the earlier frequencies this date). He and Ivo Ivanov have been checking out all the R. Cairo transmissions on Aug 20 and 21, finding many but not all of them missing. 12070, Aug 22 at 0055, R. Cairo Spanish is off. 11710, Aug 22 at 0055, poor signal hetting RAE, presumably Cairo. By 0205 it`s off leaving RAE alone closer to 11711 9965, Aug 22 at 0055, R. Cairo Arabic music, VG signal and modulation much improved if not perfect, some whine still 9315, Aug 22 at 0055, very poor signal on third R. Cairo Spanish channel, talk in unidentifiable language; 0117 improved to poor, with suppressed modulation, music. VERY strangely, this frequency much weaker and fadier than 9965. Both are listed as Abis, 250 kW with azimuths only 6 degrees apart, 331 on 9315 and 325 on 9965 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Cairo, 9315, 0200z just finishing up Spanish, then started English at 0205z; very strong carrier, hanging about s9 but audio is low and distorted. A fair amount of QSB on the signal; shortwave bands have been terrible today. I'm surprised I'm hearing them this good. I wish they had better audio because it would be nice to listen to another point of view from the Middle East (Chuck Sayers, K3ETD, Harrisburg PA, FN10of, UT Aug 22, swl at qth.net via DXLD) 12070, Aug 23 at 0107, R. Cairo back to abnormal, VG signal level but very distorted Spanish with rumble and crackle, spreading only out to 12060-12080 11710, Aug 23 at 0109, R. Cairo is off, leaving 11711- to Argentina 9965, Aug 23 at 0110, R. Cairo Arabic good signal but just barely modulated, less than or equal to the whine level 9315, Aug 23 at 0113, R. Cairo good signal level in presumed Spanish but just barely modulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9965, R. CAIRO, 23/8 0407 UT. Mujer habla en inglés y luego música instrumental. SINPO: 43343 con QRM de un RTTY proveniente de 9963 o cerca (Claudio Galaz, RX: Tecsun PL-660, ANT: Hilo de 30 metros, QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) Another odd report of English at an unscheduled time on any Cairo frequency! Playback mixup, or change, new? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) 13850, Aug 23 at 0537, R. Cairo with Arab music, fair signal and modulation not too bad (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12070, 08/24 0052, R. Cairo, Abu Zaabal, in Spanish??? Strong carrier but talks barely audible or unlistenable. At many times R. Cairo presents problems in its transmission in Portuguese (a long time s/off on all frequencies) and Spanish (Jose Ronaldo Xavier(JRX), Cabedelo- Paraíba, Brasil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 9315, Aug 24 at 0106, R. Cairo fair signal with suppressed Spanish modulation 9965, Aug 24 at 0106, R. Cairo, VG level, whine, Arabic undermodulated 11710, Aug 24 at 0107, this R. Cairo Spanish frequency still off, but a JBA carrier from something 12070, Aug 24 at 0107, R. Cairo Spanish, VG signal, but extremely distorted with humroar, unreadable but // 9315, splashing 12060-12080 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) At 0308 UT Aug 24 both on air: 9315.040 distorted audio transmission like rather English? Powerhouse. 13850.0 exact frequency, only CARRIER on air, or very, very low suppressed modulation underneath; hard to tell. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13850, Aug 24 at 0528, R. Cairo Arabic toward North America is just barely modulated, occasional peak spikes audible, fair with flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 24/08/2014, 2304 UT, 9965.0 kHz, R. CAIRO, Abu Zaabal, música popular, English, 44444 (Antonio Madrid, QTH: Moraleda (Granada) - España/Spain, coordenadas: 37º 08' 48'' N - 003º 56' 42'' O; Altitud: 625 metros. RX: Kenwood R5000; ANT: Dipolos de 100 y 60 metros. WWW: http://www.elradioescucha.net http://www.elradioescucha.net Hecho con Log-Report: http://www.log-report.tk playdx yg via DXLD) 9315, Aug 25 at 0112, R. Cairo Spanish modulation suppressed and distorted tho the signal level is good 9965, Aug 25 at 0112, R. Cairo Arabic, very good signal, adequate modulation but always with whine 11710, Aug 25 at 0112, R. Cairo Spanish still off but a JBA carrier from algo, possibly this on QRP?? Nothing else listed at this hour in Aoki. Since it`s only UT Monday, Argentina is off 11711- 12070, Aug 25 at 0113, R. Cairo Spanish is humroar only here, except for bits of scratching, presumably modulation trying to break thru, and splatting a bit plus/minus 10. 12070, Aug 26 at 0109, R. Cairo Spanish very distorted with humroar 11710, Aug 26 at 0109, R. Cairo Spanish is still off, but Argentina 11711- is too weak to benefit 9965, Aug 26 at 0110, R. Cairo Arabic, distorted with whine 9315, Aug 26 at 0110, R. Cairo Spanish is just barely modulated, and much weaker again than 9965 Arabic, despite similar parameters. 13850, Aug 26 at 0549, R. Cairo Arabic to North America has good signal, but open carrier/dead air, clear with no trace of modulation or other noise. 9965, Aug 27 at 0144, R. Cairo Arabic good with flutter, but undermodulated and always whiny 9315, Aug 27 at 0145, R. Cairo Spanish, open carrier/dead air, strangely much weaker than 9965 11710, Aug 27 at 0145, poor signal but at least a carrier back on to het Argentina on a weeknite, i.e. R. Cairo Spanish 12070, Aug 27 at 0146, R. Cairo, VG signal but extremely distorted Spanish with humroar 13850, Aug 27 at 0458, R. Cairo, distorted Arabic and hum, fair signal and the SSOB as 13630 Australia is not on quite yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ERITREA [non]. Radio Assenna in Tigrinya to EaAf, 1700 Aug 21 on 15245 Issoudun, over Voice of Korea in Korean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0O6sJEIbjg&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. Dimtse Radio Erena in Oromo to EaAf, 1724 Aug 21 on 11855 Kostinbrod: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_QdhgM1vaw&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [and non]. Radio Xoriyo in Somali to EaAf 1603 Aug 22 on 17870 Issoudun + white noise broadband DRM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK5hPhkx_dg&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. 12255.0, 1703-... 24/8, IRELAND, Reflections Europe - pirate, English religious propaganda. Rated 45444 at 1830. // 6295, 35342. 15331 (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal with JRC NRD- 545DSP & DRAKE R8-E; Advanced ReceiverResearch amp.; 20 m T2FD, 45 m inv. V, 30 m 180º/0º mini-Bev., 80 m 300º/120º Bev., 200 m 270º/ 90º Bev., 270 m 145º/325º Bev., 300 m 225º/45º Bev., raised, 4 loop-K9AY, radioescutas yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DXLD) ** EUROPE. NETHERLANDS (Dutch Pirate). QSL - Cupid Radio, 15070 sent a goodie packet that included 2 different FD QSL cards, pennant, handwritten note, and a three page form letter that had photos and a description of station. This was for a March 2012 reception and was received 857 days after sending an email report to cupidradio -at- hotmail.com I have several QSLs to report this time. Most of them took a long time to arrive, averaging about 1.5 years after sending my original reports (Bruce Portzer, WA, Aug 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FAROE ISLANDS. Like a local daytime on 531 kHz. 1245 on a stock car radio on the west coast of Ireland. Heard in the parking lot at the famous Cliffs of Moher. Speech by two males. 25 kW at 600 miles water path. 23 August (Brock Whaley, WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also ICELAND ** FINLAND. Radio Gramox audible here on 3960 kHz, since 2215 utc tune-in, very weak signal, but quite clear, parallel their web stream. SIO 142. Only audible using lower side band to avoid the strong DRM interference from adjacent 3965. 73s (Dave Kenny, Caversham, Berks, England, UK, AOR7030+ 25m long wire, 2234 UT Aug 23, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) 3960.00, 0350-0410 and 1755-2205 25.8, R Gramox, Hämeenkyrö (50 Watt). New station, Finnish talks and laughter, traditional and romantic Finnish songs; when best, 35343, but only audible in LSB, because of DRM noise from 3965 (Anker Petersen, on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire here in Skovlunde, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) Is this staying on indefinitely? (gh, DXLD) ** FRANCE. QSL - Oromo Voice via Issoudun, 17850, F/D eQSL from TDF after 4 days for March 2014 reception. V/s was marie-helene.havard - at- tdf.fr My original report sent to the station in March has thus far gone unanswered. I have several QSLs to report this time. Most of them took a long time to arrive, averaging about 1.5 years after sending my original reports (Bruce Portzer, WA, Aug 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [and non]. GERMAN BROADCASTER FIRES CHINESE BLOGGER By IAN JOHNSON AUG. 21, 2014 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/22/world/europe/german-broadcaster-fires-chinese-blogger.htm Su Yutong was told that her contract with Deutsche Welle, the German public broadcaster, would not be renewed in 2015. Credit Benjamin Kilb for The New York Times [caption] BERLIN -- In the wake of a debate over the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, a well-known Chinese government critic has been fired from her job at a German public broadcaster. The activist, Su Yutong, 38, who has been exiled in Germany since 2010, was informed Tuesday that her contract with Deutsche Welle would not be renewed in 2015. In a statement on Wednesday, the broadcaster said the decision had been made because she disclosed information about internal meetings and publicly criticized a co-worker. "It doesn't have anything to do with an evaluation of what she wrote," a Deutsche Welle spokesman, Johannes Hoffmann, said in a telephone interview from Bonn. "It's just that she tweeted about internal issues about the Deutsche Welle in a way that no company in the world would tolerate. We warned her, and she continued to do it." Many commentators on Chinese-language social media, however, see more at work, especially because Ms. Su was one of the most prolific bloggers on Deutsche Welle's widely read Chinese-language website, and often very critical of Chinese government policy. In recent months, they say, more pro-Beijing voices have been given greater prominence. "Deutsche Welle seems to need voices like this now," said the Beijing- based Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser. "As a foreign media outlet, it seems that Deutsche Welle has really deviated from standard news principles and values." Ms. Su's case stemmed from a column published on the Deutsche Welle website on June 4, the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre. Written by a regular Deutsche Welle columnist, the Beijing-based media consultant Frank Sieren, the column argued that some Western media outlets were unfairly critical of the Chinese government over the massacre. The article said that critics' and the government's points of view were equally valid, and that "1989 remains a one-off in recent Chinese history." This ignited a storm of lively debate, with some Chinese writers accusing Deutsche Welle of giving equal weight to viewpoints that many people believe are discredited. A prominent exiled Chinese journalist, Chang Ping, was invited to write a rejoinder, which Deutsche Welle also published. Mr. Sieren then followed with his reply, and Mr. Chang gave his. Ms. Su soon joined the fray. She, along with dozens of other Chinese intellectuals, signed a petition to Deutsche Welle protesting Mr. Sieren's articles. She also posted on Twitter an edited photo of Mr. Sieren perched atop tanks driving down the main boulevard in Beijing. Perhaps most significant, she posted accounts of internal meetings held between Deutsche Welle directors and its Chinese-language staff, in which the staff is said to have been told to tone down its coverage. "He told us that he had been to see the Chinese ambassador and that we shouldn't be so critical," Ms. Su said in an interview. "That seemed very problematic issue for us." The Deutsche Welle spokesman, Dr. Hoffmann, said the German broadcaster was committed to a broad range of voices. He noted that Mr. Chang had been given the opportunity to write his rebuttals to Mr. Sieren's articles. "It showed our willingness to have a broad dialogue," Dr. Hoffmann said. "We have critical positions toward China and other positions too." One Deutsche Welle contributor, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals for publicly criticizing the broadcaster, said that articles like Mr. Chang's were increasingly rare on the Deutsche Welle website, while columnists like Mr. Sieren had become more prominent. Since the beginning of the year, according to internal Deutsche Welle statistics, Mr. Sieren has published over 80 commentaries. Mr. Sieren is a well-known media consultant in Beijing, who has published numerous books with titles such as "The China Shock," "The China Code" and "The Concubine Economy." He also wrote a sympathetic book on China with the former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who publishes the newspaper where Mr. Sieren used to work, Die Zeit. Mr. Sieren helps organize a German-China media summit along with Global Times, the English-language tabloid controlled by the state-run People's Daily newspaper. His business partner runs a company in China, China Media Management, that has Deutsche Welle among its clients. The German broadcaster is not new to controversies about its Chinese-language services. In 2008, one of its editors wrote numerous flattering articles about the Communist Party until she was moved from the news to the business side of the company. In response to her reassignment, China's Xinhua news service said that the "Nazi spirit has returned" to Germany. In 2011, Deutsche Welle fired four Chinese staff members who said they were fired because they had not been sufficiently critical of China. Around that time, the German broadcaster added more voices critical of China, such as Ms. Su and the Beijing-based journalist Gao Yu. The 70-year-old Ms. Gao has been detained since May, after participating in an event in Beijing to commemorate the 1989 massacre. Liao Yiwu, a Chinese writer in exile in Berlin, said he worried that the case showed how even foreigners worry about how China will react to critical articles. Deutsche Welle is owned by the government, much like the British Broadcasting Corporation or the Voice of America, and has to balance journalistic issues with broader foreign-policy concerns. "I'm concerned that this is part of an overall trend in the world to play these issues down," Mr. Liao said in an interview. "A lot of people have economic interests at stake, and they are worried." Becky Davis contributed research from Beijing. A version of this article appears in print on August 22, 2014, on page A9 of the New York edition with the headline: German Broadcaster Fires Chinese Blogger (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** GERMANY. QSL - HCJB via Nauen 9835, sent a nice eQSL for a December 2013 reception. My original postal report went unanswered, so I sent a followup to info -at- hcjb.org After exchanging a few emails with Rebecca Gunzenhauser, I received the eQSL 193 days after the original report. I have several QSLs to report this time. Most of them took a long time to arrive, averaging about 1.5 years after sending my original reports (Bruce Portzer, WA, Aug 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. Radio Gloria International on 4th Sunday of month, Aug 24: 0800-1000 9485 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu Eng/Ger CUSB. Two videos: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/radio-gloria-international-on-sunday.html Hamburger Lokalradio relays on August 24, CUSB: 1300-1400 9485 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg CeEu English Sun Deutsche Welle 1400-1500 9485 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg CeEu Spanish Sun Radio Tropicana Videos: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/hamburger-lokalradio-relays-on-august-24.html 73 (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DXLD) Aug 24: Hamburger Lokalradio relay Deutsche Welle EuSce in English 1323 on 9485 CUSB Goehren https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRYBiWcMdPM&feature=youtu.be Hamburger Lokalradio relay Radio Tropicana in Spanish 1400 on 9485 CUSB Goehren https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRCtF3Tk72Y&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) ** GREECE [and non]. 9420 & 9935, Aug 22 at 0117, it`s another off- night for ERTOpen, allowing in weak Iran Arabic on 9420. 9935 & 9420, Aug 23 at 0112, ERTOpen is not tonight, so Iran`s ME music in Arabic service makes it poorly on open 9420. 9420, Aug 23 at 0539, fair signal with Greek music. ERTOpen had not been on at previous check circa 0100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ERT-open is on air Aug 23 in 1000-1030 UT slot: 9420.004, 11645.004, 15630.029 kHz. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DXLD) 9935 // slightly stronger 9420, Aug 24 at 0109, and JBA on 15630, Greek Music from ERTOpen on tonight (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ERTOpen: At 0315 UT Aug 24 on air on 9420.007, 9935.005, 15630.026 kHz. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9935, Aug 24 at 0533, Greek songs, fair, better than // 9420; don`t usually find 9935 on this late; Alan Roe found a nominal schedule from ERTOpen dated July 15 showing 1200-0350 on 9935 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ERA, 9420, 8/25/14, good reception at 0005 UT, heard with continuous Greek music selections (Larry Zamora, Garland, TX, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9935 // 9420, Aug 25 at 0113, ERTOpen is on with Greek music, VG signals here and VP on 15630. At 0518, 9420 // 9935 still audible with music, but declined to fair and poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ERT-open rebels radio noted ON AIR Aug 25 in 1700-1745 UT slot, political phone interviews in Greek: 9420.004, 9935.004, 15650.031 kHz. Tonight very strong signals on all three channels, powerhouse S=9+40dB or -31 dBm much strength (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 25, dxldyg via DXLD) 9935 // stronger 9420, Aug 26 at 0117, ERTOpen is on with Greek music. Nothing audible on 15630; but at 0124 I find it on 15650 instead, and with good signal, second strongest on band after 15770 WRMI, and ahead of 15720 NZ. 11645, Aug 26 at 0541, now ERTOpen on this one, poor with ACI from 11650 Dabanga via Vatican, and // 9420 is good, but 9935 is off, not on 7450 nor 7475 either. Third frequency is JBA 15630 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9420, Aug 27 at 0151, no ERTOpen so we can hear IRAN Arabic poorly, and 9935 is also off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREENLAND. Stig Hartvig Nielsen writes in MWDX: Good news from Greenland. It has been revealed a few hours ago, that KNR is to return to three Medium Wave frequencies following a lot of criticism about the lack of reception of KNR on the sea and outside towns and villages in Greenland. Three MW frequencies are expected to return: Qeqertarsuaq - anytime between October 1st and December 1st 2014 Nuuk - anytime between January and March 2015 Simiutaq, Qaqortoq – approx. June 1st 2015 No frequencies nor powers were quoted, but previously they were: Qeqertarsuaq – 650 kHz (5 kW) Nuuk - 570 kHz (5 kW) Simiutaq, Qaqortoq – 720 kHz (10 kW) And 650 kHz is of course the most commonly reported KNR frequency reported in Europe. Best 73’s Stig Hartvig Nielsen, Denmark (via Mike Terry, Aug 21, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Here, in Quebec Canada, it has been all Simiutaq from Greenland so far. Logical since the Simiutaq island faces North America. Unfortunately, I'll have to wait for the next season to look if I can hear it again as it is scheduled to get back on the air on June 2015. The station wasn't near to be regular though. Actually, I heard it only on a very few occasions and it was in 2009. Here's two samples: http://www.quebecdx.com/greenland_720b.mp3 (anthem apparently, with probable ID in Inuit followed by news in Danish. 11-22-2009 21:58 UT) http://www.quebecdx.com/greenland_720a.mp3 (Inuit talk program. 10-10-2009 22:28 UT) (Sylvain Naud, Portneuf, QC, CANADA, Perseus + 450 meters Beverage @ 35 degrees, MWDX YG via DXLD) From Newfoundland, we (lots of people) heard 570, 650, 720, 810 and 900 with not too much trouble given no aurora. 720 could be heard well before sunset and I think I remember someone getting a trace around noon local time. But reception from Newfoundland is cheating a bit, right? (Chuck Hutton, IRCA via DXLD) Not cheating at all, Chuck. Just in the right place at the right time! KNR Greenland-720 heard here a few times in Jan-Feb 2009 during the last solar minimum. It would be nice to hear them again - and try for 650 also - if those are among the frequencies that are reactivated (Marc DeLorenzo, South Dennis, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, ibid.) Believe I had decent signal on 720 during the day from Cappahayden many times (Jim Renfrew, IRCA via DXLD) I had news from Greenland today confirming frequencies and power of the three Medium Wave transmitters which are due to reopen in the next months: Qeqertarsuaq - 650 kHz (5 kW) - due on air in October or November 2014 Nuuk - 570 kHz (5 kW) - due on air in January, February or March 2015 Simiutaq, Qaqortoq - 720 kHz (10 kW) - due on air around June 1st 2015 With the reopening of these three MW frequencies, all plans about the launch of a Short Wave transmitter in Greenland have been given up for the time being. When all three MW transmitters are back on the air, it will decided if more MW frequencies are to be relaunched. Best 73's (Stig Hartvig Nielsen, Aug 25, HCDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DXLD) ** GUAM. 12040, KSDA-AWR, 24/8 2115 UT. Canto del himno “En el monte calvario (The Old Rugged Cross)” en idioma chino hasta las 2117, dando paso a una serie de reflexiones. SINPO: 45444 (Claudio Galaz, RX: Tecsun PL-660, ANT: Hilo de 30 metros, QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** ICELAND. Good daytime signal from RUV, 189 kHz at 1230 on a stock car radio on the west coast of Ireland. Heard in the parking lot at the famous Cliffs of Moher. Pop music and male announcer. 300 kW at around 1,000 miles water path. 207 much weaker and mixing with Germany. 23 August (Brock Whaley, WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also FAROE ISLANDS ** INDIA. High Power DRM-MW-AM http://www.nautel.com/solutions/digital-radio/high-power-drm-mw-am-transmitters-air/ (map of transmitter locations on site) Nautel is completing the deployment of 27 MW-AM transmitters and associated equipment ordered in 2013 by India’s Prasar Bharati. All the transmitters have shipped and are currently being installed, commissioned, and going on air for All India Radio (AIR). The orders for eleven NX100 (100 kW MW-AM transmitter), ten NX200 (200 kW MW-AM transmitter), and six Nautel NX300 (300 kW MW-AM transmitter) DRM-enabled transmitters comprise the world’s largest digital radio deployment to date. All transmitters in the system were configured for DRM30 transmission and will be used in 27 locations throughout India. Working with Nautel on the deployment are Comcon, Nautel’s in-country partner along with Altronic, providing RF test loads; Digidia, providing DRM modulators/content servers and Kintronic Labs, supplying matching systems for the project. Posted by: (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** INDIA. 5050, AIR Aizawl, 1220-1225, Aug 22. Commentary about "Nagaland" in English; 1230 news in English. Recently as strong as and mixing with BBR (China) (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 9690, Aug 24 at 1322, AIR open carrier already on, with flutter; 1327 music starts but not the AIR IS, // better 13710; 1330 sign-on GOS to E & SE Asia on 9690, 11620, 13710. On 11620 we have no more than a JBA carrier, maybe this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non]. RHC is still covering 11670 rendering it useless. I guess Arnie Coro feels we need to hear them rather than good Bollywood music (Mark Coady, Ont., ODXA YRX Aug 24 via DXLD) AIR-Bengaluru on 13695 at 0225 (Aug 27) in listed Kannada, but I’m just hearing clear subcontinental music without announcers. Presumed, but who else? (Mike Bryant, KK4TSX, Louisville KY, Tecsun PL660, Aug 27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9525.90, V. of Indonesia: Aug 21 1313-1222, 33443, Japanese, News, ID and URL announce at 1315 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, 303WA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9525.893, Voice of Indonesia at Cimanggis, Chinese scheduled 11-12 UT, logged at 1131 UT on Aug 25 played Gamelan music, station ID at 1132 UT, S=9+5dB or -74dBm noted via remote SDR units downunder in Queensland and Sydney (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 25, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL INTERNET. It is interesting about streaming, as most stations seem to stream their programming on radio and yet TV doesn't. The rights to network programming must be a lot more complicated. Also the cable services most often do not stream. There are a few exceptions, but they many require a subscription to their service on satellite or cable to get their stream. Whereas radio stream for free. It is amazing how many AM & FM radio stations stream after buying a wifi radio. It is great for checking //'s while DXing. I feel this is the future. But there are still a lot of hurtles to get over. Many TV stations do stream their local news though. There are a lot of international news services like BBC, France24, DW, etc that do stream. But in most areas there is not an inexpensive way to receive good solid streaming of radio stations in the car. It can be done to a certain amount, but the data costs are expensive. I looked into that from Verizon and on occasion the cost would do be bad, but all of the time, I would be looking at several hundred dollars a month. So streaming has a way to go (Patrick Martin, OR, Aug 19, NRC-AM via DXLD) I'm sure it's a difference in the syndication & affiliation contracts. I'm really somewhat surprised radio syndicators don't have a bigger problem with stations streaming their syndicated content online. I might imagine cable TV services don't stream in an attempt to dissuade cord-cutting. If you can't stream current episodes of "Breaking Bad", you're going to have to subscribe to the TV service to get your fix. If you *can* stream them, you can dump your TV service & just subscribe to the high-speed internet. Hmmm. I have a Verizon cellphone and frequently stream a radio station & have never come near overrunning my data allowance. Admittedly, when I'm at home it streams over wifi which doesn't count against the allowance (but I do use the cell data service when listening at work). I've had pretty good (but not complete) success listening in the car, even out here in this semi-rural area. Biggest problem I've got is the phone isn't loud enough & I don't have an auxiliary jack (or Bluetooth) to play it through the car radio. == (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, ibid.) Doug, Streaming TV shows via Hulu or Netflix are available, but at a fee. But Streaming radio is amazing. After I bought the Logitech Smart Radio, checking //s while DXing is fun. It is hard to do with Japanese MW stations, as many MW do not stream or at least N/A on the Smart Radio, but the FMs do. A great DXing tool. Being off topic a bit, I do wish channels like Antenna TV, METV, or THIS TV, streamed as none so far are available OTA here and Portland is too far over mountains to get their digital signal. But as fast as the industry is changing and all of the young people stream, I see a future with mostly streaming. Some free, some cost. But it is coming. I should check into Verizon about streaming Tune In or another service, if the rates are not that high, but unless my figuring was off, the cost was high, at least here (Patrick Martin, Seaside OR, KGED QSL Manager, ibid.) ** IRAN. 21470, Aug 25 at 1244, Chinese talk, not CNR1, poor signal but the SSOB, a bit better than 21505 Saudi or 21540 Kuwait; soon find the same on 21650, but not synchronized. At 1250 IRIB IS is playing on both, and 21470 goes off at 1250:42* while 21650 lasts a bit past 1253. VIRI is indeed sked in 500 kW Chinese on both at 1150-1250: 21470, 76 degrees from Sirjan, and 21650, 65 degrees from Kamalabad. 15520, Aug 25 at 1327, Qur`anish music, very poor with flutter; 1330 announcement and unfamiliar fanfare, talk, news? Must be only thing scheduled, also per Aoki, VIRI in Urdu at 1250-1420, 500 kW, 109 degrees from Kamalabad. 13800, Aug 27 at 0154, Qur`an, fair with flutter, i.e. VIRI Hindi service startup, via Sirjan. Isn`t it odd for mostly Hindus to get Qur`aned? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See GREECE [non] ** ITALY. 24/08/2014, 2048 UT, 2680.0 kHz, Romaradio IAR, Cagliari, Información Marítima, Italiano, 34443 (Antonio Madrid, QTH: Moraleda (Granada) - España/Spain, coordenadas: 37º 08' 48'' N - 003º 56' 42'' O; Altitud: 625 metros. RX: Kenwood R5000; ANT: Dipolos de 100 y 60 metros. WWW: http://www.elradioescucha.net http://www.elradioescucha.net Hecho con Log-Report: http://www.log-report.tk playdx yg via DXLD) ** ITALY. 15000.0, 1706-... 24/8, Associazione Amici di ITALCABLE, Massarosa. Italian, music pieces between TS+TCs. USB + carrier transmission. QRM de WWV (USA). 24331 (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal with JRC NRD-545DSP & DRAKE R8-E; Advanced ReceiverResearch amp.; 20 m T2FD, 45 m inv. V, 30 m 180º/0º mini-Bev., 80 m 300º/120º Bev., 200 m 270º/ 90º Bev., 270 m 145º/325º Bev., 300 m 225º/45º Bev., raised, 4 loop-K9AY, radioescutas yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DXLD) ** JAPAN [non]. Radio Japan NHK World via MW transmitter in Sitkunai: 1730-1800 on 1386 SIT 075 kW / non-dir to EaEu Russian. Video: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/radio-japan-nhk-world-via-mw.html -- 73! Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) LITHUANIA ** KOREA SOUTH. 6135, Voice of Freedom (clandestine). Thanks to an alert from Dave Valko that something was happening with N. Korean stations, I briefly checked VOF at 1204, Aug 22 and found them very readable without the normal white noise jamming from the north. From 1204 to 1211 listened to KBS Hanminjok Bangsong 1 on 6015; totally in the clear with fair to good reception, till finally hit with strong white noise. Re-checked VOF at 1211 and they also had white noise blocking them. So whatever the problem was in DPRK, it was quickly fixed (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH [non]. FRANCE, Test transmission of KBS World Radio in French from Sept. 1: 2000-2100 NF 6145 ISS 250 kW / 182 deg to NWAf, probably to replace 5950 -- 73! Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11510, Aug 27 at 1305, Voice of Kurdistan via PRIDNESTROVYE with talk presumed news, but from about 1310 it`s all- music with vocal ululations, 1341 switch to another protracted piece with more conventional vocalizations. Fair-good signal. I was enjoying this so much that I forgot to check for the 1315 WORLD OF RADIO on 9955 WRMI, until too late, 1344 Rudy Espinal ID; but confident it aired (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. Changes of R. Kuwait, General Service effective from Aug 13 0000-2400 15475 additional from July 24 to Aug. 12, Arabic, cancelled 0200-0900 5960 KBD 500 kW / non-dir N/ME Arabic, back on air 1700-2000 13650 KBD 500 kW / 350 deg NoAm Arabic, back on air+videos 2000-2400 17550 KBD 500 kW / 350 deg NoAm Arabic, back on air+video: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/radio-kuwait-general-service-cancelled.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #867 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, August 22, 2014 via DXLD) RK-Sulalbiyah, on 5960 at 0230 UT (Aug 27) in Arabic with Qu’ranic recitations. Fair to good (Mike Bryant, KK4TSX, Louisville KY, Tecsun PL660, Aug 27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15540, R Kuwait with the tail end of English news, including the weather. The high today was 50 degrees -- Celsius! That is 122 deg. F, what my grandmother would describe as a ‘slow roast’ temperature! You should not find that outside of an oven. Pop music after news, with lots of really bad recent stuff -- maybe the heat affects their ability to discern good music? S/off announcements at 2058, then anthem at 2059. Pips to ToH then Arabic announcements & carrier off. 5554+4+ with just a touch of selective fading. 2053-2100* 16/Aug (Ken Zichi, Port Hope MI2, MARE Tipsheet 22 Aug via DXLD) ** KUWAIT. Radio Kuwait General Sce in Arabic on odd frequency and dead air on Aug. 25: from 1210 on 21540 KBD 500 kW / 310 deg to WeEu dead air/carrier scheduled 1200-1600 from 1325 on 9748*KBD 300 kW / 286 deg to NEAf, instead of 9750 scheduled 1100-1600 *QRM Radio Japan NHK Japanese on 9750 and Guanghua zhi Sheng Chinese on 9745. Videos http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/rkuwait-general-sce-in-arabic-on-odd.html Back to the normal 9750 and 21540 with General Service in Arabic on August 26. Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USbjxcEOiCc&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQT4XXV9ai0&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) ** LAOS. 6129.982, Lao National R, Vientiane, Laotian program at 1159 UT on Aug 25, fair S=9+5dB or -66dBm signal. Local music with flute, followed by young lady singer in SoEaAsian style. Via remote SDR units downunder in Queensland and Sydney. Splatter of CNR1 on 6125 kHz from synchronized Beijing #572 and Shijiazhuang #723 transmitting centers. And North Korean noise scratching jamming on 6135 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 25, dxldyg via dXLD) This afternoon around 1530 UT on Aug 27 on 6129.984 kHz, similar signal like Rangoon 5985.238 noted on Tokyo JPN remote unit, S=9+5dB - 68dBm (Büschel, ibid.) ** MACEDONIA. Macedonian Radio in Bulgarian, 1800 Aug 21 on 810 Obche Pole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkg1bMnJO54&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALAYSIA. Could Malaysia to be divided into parts? Interesting story about the possible Independence of Sarawak and Sabah from Malaysia. Mentions the non-significance of the celebration of August 31, which is "Hari Merdeka" (Independence Day), a national day in Malaysia commemorating the independence of the Federation of Malaya from British colonial rule. Which is different from Sarawak Independence Day, celebrated on July 22 annually by the state of Sarawak, after discontent with the national "Hari Merdeka". http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/highlight/2014/08/22/merdeka-is-coming-but-how-united-are-we/ In part, article says: "Peter John Jaban, the human rights activist and co-founder of Radio Free Sarawak [currently on 15425 kHz, from 1100 to 1230 UT - Ron], has added his voice to the debate on the secession of Sarawak. He has joined 100 activists, NGOs and politicians, who have vowed to collect several hundred thousand signatures on a petition, which will be handed to the UN secretary-general. The petition is to draw attention to the increasing discontent of the people of Sabah and Sarawak, and their demand for self-determination. John Jaban said: “The spirit and the letter of the Malaysia Agreement have been ignored, relegating my homeland to one small, forgotten state in the Federation. Its religious and cultural mix is under threat, as evidenced by the ‘Allah’ issue, and its history is being wiped from memory. “Many young people of Sarawak are unaware that their own country gained independence on July 22 1963. They have been indoctrinated into celebrating Aug 31 1957, a date of no significance to them,” he added. John Jaban is in London, to encourage East Malaysians, to sign the petition, to defend their rights.East Malaysians are especially dissatisfied with their leaders who have been pushing their own selfish interests and not the people’s. One might compare East Malaysia with a company. If the directors make a mess of the company, siphon the profits, abuse the workers, and mismanage the organisation, what do you think the shareholders should do? Before a major push for secession is made, a debate, and a referendum, will help clarify many points." (via Ron Howard, Aug 23, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALAYSIA. 6049.988, Free channel in downunder. RTM Asyik FM from Kajang at 1113 UT Aug 25 in Bahasa Malay with woman light music singer, rather like Portuguese Fado singer style, accompanied by violin artist, characteristic sentiment of resignation and melancholia. Via remote SDR units downunder in Queensland and Sydney (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 25, dxldyg via DXLD) ** MEXICO. 540, Aug 21 at 0535, dominating is Mexican music from WSW, ID as frequently expected at 0537, ``La Ranchera de Paquimé``, i.e. XETX, Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, despite its 1 kW night, vs 150 kW ND listed XEWA San Luís Potosí, still surely way underpowered now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 580, Aug 21 at 1046, music and live DJ with 14:6 timecheck and at 1047, 13:6, temps in C&F so certainly on the border, and no doubt XEMU Piedras Negras, Coahuila, making 68/min SAH = 1.13 Hz with WIBW in KS, and close to collinear so I can`t null one or the other. WIBW is closer, stronger and beaming our way, but XEMU is non- direxional also with southern advantage. Slogan I took as ``La Ranchita`` but maybe really the listed ``Rancherita`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 700, Aug 21 at 1121, open carrier with hum, from SW/NE, which we`ve previously traced to XEGD, Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua. By 1130 probably same station now modulating with federal PSAs including one for the SEP, ads, program promo. Still some hum detectable but much less than with OC when the AVC boosts it up (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 710.0, Aug 21 at 1116, preacher we`ve heard before altho in good Spanish, has slight accent, or is it merely over-emphasized evangelistic? I think he`s the same one who sometimes preaches here in Low German. Closes at 1128 as ``La Biblia Dice``, but local rather than syndicated, with Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua address and phone; 1129 XEDP, La Ranchera de Cuauhtémoc jingle and into secular music main format. 5.5 hours earlier, this frequency had a big het on it, believed to be same XEDP, but with different or constantly jumpy transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 960, Aug 25 at 0503 UT during local KGWA Fox-hole of open carrier/dead air, after Mexican NA, XEK Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas calls itself ``La Estación Grande``. It`s interesting how during this pentaminute, sometimes XEK dominates, sometimes ABC News reverbing between San Angelo and Shenandoah, but no sign of them tonight or lately. Is it just propagation, or are the US stations sometimes out of whack, audiblizing themselves? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1610 MEXICO DX tonight --- 8/23/2014 times in UTC (z), KAITO KS-D6110: 1610, XEUACH, ``Radio Universidad Autónoma de Chapingo``, Chapingo, Estado de México, 0143z playing Red HOT Chili Peppers album CALIFORNICATION. Signal always seems to get better about 0100z. Woman in Spanish 0157z giving description of the songs just played (Steven C. Wiseblood/AB5GP, Harlingen TEXAS, ABDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DXLD) Shortly to sign off? Very seldom reported (gh) ** MICRONESIA. 4755.56, PMA-The Cross Radio, 1155, Aug 23. DTMF tones, but did not leave the air as expected; time check and ID followed by religious songs; off at 1159 with no tones at all, so must have been done manually. This would tend to explain the various sign off times recently (DTMF not working correctly); above average reception. Aug 22 off at 1200 with no DTMF tones (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4755.576,[FSM - Federated States of Micronesia], PMA - Pacific Missionary Aviation, Pohnpei, The Cross Radio, English sermon by male voice, S=7-8 or -84dBm signal strength in downunder remote unit SDR Queensland. 0905 UT Aug 24 (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 24, dxldyg via DXLD) Aug 24, the Cross did not turn off their transmitter, either manually or with DTMF tones. On long past their recent sign off times (about 1200); still on after 1340 (Ron Howard, CA, ibid.) 4755.566, [FSM - Federated States of Micronesia], PMA - Pacific Missionary Aviation, Pohnpei, The Cross Radio at 1057 UT on Aug 25, measured against 2500 kHz WWVH and 3330 kHz CHU Ottawa standard signal stations, via remote SDR units downunder in Queensland and Sydney (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 25, dxldyg via DXLD) 4755.56, PMA-The Cross Radio on Aug 27 continues with their malfunctioning DTMF tones; 1151-1252; at 1155 heard what sounded like DTMF tones followed by ID and local time check; mostly religious songs, but also many one minute religious spots; 1208 & 1249 James Dobson with spots for "Focus on the Family". Running well past their usual sign off time. Aug 25 gone by 1144; Aug 26 off by 1153. Manually erratically turning off the transmitter! (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MONGOLIA. 7260, Voice of Mongolia, 1120, Aug 26. Happened to tune by just as they gave multi-language IDs - "This is the Voice of Mongolia" and in Russian; perhaps in other languages as well. A first for me to catch a clear English ID here (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MOROCCO [and non]. 595.0, 1120-... 26/8, SNRT-"R", Oujda. Talks & phone-ins. Still off channel. Adjacent QRM de España on 603. PORTUGAL still silent on 594. 53453 (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, JRC NRD-545DSP & DRAKE R-E; Advanced Receiver amp.; raised, 4 loop K9AY, 30 m 180º/0º mini-Bev., 80 m 300º/120º Bev., 200 m 270º/90º Bev., 270 m 145º/325º Bev., 300 m 225º/45º Bev, radioescutas yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DXLD) ** MOROCCO. 9575, Aug 23 at 0539, Médi-1 with good signal better than usual, making it more obvious that it`s undermodulated with French talk. Stronger than 9700 Romania and weaker than 9535 Spain / Algeria / France, which would be hard to beat (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) QSL - Médi Un, 9575, sent a F/D eQSL for September 2012 reception. I had made several attempts at QSLing this station via postal, website, and email reports, all to no avail. Finally, I tried an address that had recently worked for others and received the QSL 2 days later, or 698 days after my original report was sent. V/s was Adbellah El- atmani, a.elatmani -at- medi1.com My report and the reply were both in French. I have several QSLs to report this time. Most of them took a long time to arrive, averaging about 1.5 years after sending my original reports (Bruce Portzer, WA, Aug 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MYANMAR. 7200.10, Myanmar Radio, 1430, Aug 21. Theme music for Distance Learning Service; started lecture on Calculus; many mentions of "Y equals . . X equals . . derivative . . X squared . . minus"; muffled audio, but fair signal strength (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9730.0, Myanmar R, Rangoon noted at 0912 UT Aug 24, but suffered a lot of co-channel a h e a d SOH/RFA Taiwan relay on odd 9730.065 kHz in undoubtedly Chinese language service (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 24, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9730.0, Myanmar Radio noted on air Aug 25 around 1020 UT, but seemingly with transmitter problems or early shut-down, nothing heard at 1138 UT, but to find co-channel SOH/RFA relay from Taiwan site on odd frequency 9730.055 kHz. Logged on remote SDR units downunder in Queensland and Sydney (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 25, ibid.) 9730, Myanmar Radio, Monday, Aug 25. Thought their English segment would start about 1030, but no, they fooled me; at 1033 they ended the ABC/Radio Australia segment; "Lesson 8 - In the Restaurant"; followed by ads; poor. Also at 1105, Wednesday, Aug 27 on 9730. They always play the same piece of classical music about this time, followed by series of ads; 1108-1119 repeat of Monday's " Lesson 8"; much better reception today. http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/sites/default/files/vn_eft_8_001.pdf (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5985.238 kHz, Myanmar Radio Rangoon, 1520 UT on Aug 27, chimes like SoEaASian type mx, noted on Tokyo JPN remote unit, S=9+5dB -68dBm. Nothing visible around 7185/7200/7215 kHz Rangoon channel txing center outlet there, today at 1535 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non?]. Andy Sennitt writes on Facebook: ``For those of you who liked listening to offshore radio in the 60s, 70s, and 80s a reminder that Radio Seagull has begun its live broadcasts from its radio ship, the LV Jenni Baynton, daily at 1700- 0500 UTC on 1602 kHz and online worldwide at radioseagull.com and iTunes. These will continue through 31st August. For the live broadcasts, the web feed is using the mediumwave signal, thus giving you the feel of listening on mediumwave wherever you are. Coming up tonight at 2300 UTC is Bob Noakes, formerly of RNI and Radio Caroline. The schedule changes each day, so everyone is on the air but at different times. I'll be on board for the whole of next week, and really looking forward to it. Joining us next week is Carl Kingston, who some of you will remember from the Voice of Peace. For updated schedules and photos visit our special Facebook page - Radio Seagull Offshore 2014.`` Andy adds in a footnote: ``Normally our radio ship is anchored in the harbour at Harlingen, in Friesland. But every so often, we go out to sea to promote the station and make a small amount of money by offering visitors the chance to come and visit the ship. August 31st 2014 is the 40th anniversary of the closure of RNI and Radio Veronica when the Dutch passed their own Marine Offences Act. The British equivalent had already been in force since 14 August 1967. But Radio Veronica was soon back on the air, landbased and licensed. On board the Jenni Baynton are several mediumwave transmitters, but we are only licensed to broadcast on 1602 kHz. The whole station is run by people who love radio and rock music :-)`` (via Mike Terry, Aug 21, mwdx yg via DXLD) Great programmes online tonight in memory of RNI and Veronica at http://www.radioseagull.com/ The internet is rebroadcasting the on air signal being received on shore in Harlingen, Holland from the MV Jenni Baynton sailing on the North Sea - real offshore radio, sadly now unique in the world. Reports of reception on 1602 from easterly parts of the UK (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. LOG: 6095 kHz 11.30z "The Mighty KBC - Big Beach World Service" ;-) MFSK-64 txt+img Before RSID: <<2014-08-23T11:30Z MFSK-64 @ 6095000+1500>> An interesting article about the future of shortwave broadcasting was published 15 August by the U.S. trade publication Radio World. "International Broadcasters Reconsider Shortwave" by James Careless http://www.radioworld.com/article/international-broadcasters-reconsider-shortwave/271847 It includes mention of the VOA Radiogram project -- http://www.voaradiogram.net Sending Pic:202x34C; http://www.rhci-online.de/files/pic_2014-08-23_113004z.png Thanks to The Mighty KBC... End of transmission ====================================================================== "Big Beach World Service": http://swling.com/blog/2014/04/the-mighty-kbc-surfing-the-shortwaves/ ====================================================================== I think, next weekend the last Beach Show running in this year. Latest DX-Headlines on KBC: http://www.kbcradio.eu/index.php?dir=news/detail&id=387 "................This is Peter John with the DX Headlines: On August 31 it will be 40 years ago the Dutch offshore radio stations due to changes in legislation. Many fans still mourn the loss of their beloved stations in 1974.........." ====================================================================== (via roger, Germany, Aug 23, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. Mark Nicholls – R.I.P. Posted on August 21, 2014 | http://www.radiodx.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/mn8.jpg http://www.radiodx.com/mark-nicholls-rip/ The New Zealand DX fraternity was stunned to learn of the passing of long-time NZRDXL member and DX Times editor, Mark Nicholls. Mark had long-term health issues, even so his passing on the morning of the 20th of August was a shock to us all. The following from NZRDXL President, Bryan Clark: Dear colleagues, As you will know by now, our long time Chief Editor and League Life Member Mark passed away yesterday. Mark’s funeral will be next Monday 25th August at St. John’s Church, Trentham, Upper Hutt at 1 pm [0100 UT]. There should be a notice in the Dominion Post on Saturday. The church is on the corner of Fergusson Drive and Moonshine Road, near the Trentham Railway Station. I hope that long-time Wellington members will make the effort to attend the service on Monday to acknowledge Mark’s outstanding contribution to the DX League and the DX hobby. Mark has battled ill health for a long time but he strived to ensure this did not interfere with his production of the DX Times every month. As our Patron Frank Glen has said Mark typified the kiwi “good keen man” committing time and enthusiasm to the hobby he loved. We return to NZ next week and I will prepare my personal tribute and memories of Mark for the September DX Times. Regards, Bryan & Sandra Clark travelling (via Mike Terry, Aug 25, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DXLD) obit ** NIGERIA. Aug. 21, 15120 -1801* tentative VON Lagos/Ikorodu, African music, not regular programme, huge signal, very loud audio, slightly overmodulated. Aug. 22, 15120 off at 0630/0700, but on at 0815, English regular programme. Relatively strong signal, but weak audio. The latter represents more or less the typical situation within the last two weeks. Maybe 50% off and 50% low audio or very low audio, especially newscasts are usually completely [un?]intelligible, prerecorded bits a little better. Evening segment from Abuja seems to start at 1800 on Fridays only, other days 1830v, 15120 DRM, tent. also 7254.9, rarely 9689.9 at that time. 73 (Thorsten Hallmann, Münster, Germany, http://www.muenster.org/uwz/ms-alt/africalist [rarely updated nowadays as not much to update, apart from lack of time...] Aug 22, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. Just back from the beach - Aug 22, from 0326 to 0329, heard weak signal from YHWH on 9600-AM kHz (Ron Howard, California, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6925-USB, Aug 27 at 0137, dialog about sunglasses, noisy background; 0138 hard rock song but lyrix parlato. High storm noise level impairs. 0144 song about underwear. Still good at 0156. Numerous logs here say it`s XLR8 at *0046-0213*: http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,18278.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. WOLVERINE RADIO: 6950/USB, 9:45 PM, August 16 [EDT? = 0145 UT Sun Aug 17]; It was Saturday night, warm, muggy night. I was laying in bed wearing little more than a Grundig G3. Wolverine Radio was coming in loud and clear on the portable’s whip antenna. The broadcast’s theme was songs about money. All sorts of songs: Jazz, Blues, Honky Tonk, popular & Rock & Roll. They covered everything from the 1930’s up to the present day & was played in chronological order. Whoever is doing their programming is doing a fantastic job at it! I had tuned in late so had missed a good portion of the show but now I’m hooked! I’ll be tuning for Wolverine Radio on future Saturday nights (Sparky Blue Fox, Southgate MI, MARE Tipsheet 22 Aug via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 780, Aug 21 at 0542 UT, open carrier obviously groundwave from 250-watt daytimer KSPI Stillwater, more than occupying the null of WBBM at approx. right-angle, otherwise making fast SAH with it. Next check 1050 UT, still OC, atop country music, no doubt KCEG Fountain CO from the backside. By next2 check 1115 UT, KSPI now modulating with CBS Sports talk, tsk2 vs WBBM regular CBS. Later in the mornings (from 1205 UT?) KSPI normally does local talk, not entirely sportive. 780, Aug 22 at 0546 UT, KSPI daytimer carrier from Stillwater is still running all-night, obvious with WBBM almost nulled, and making a fast SAH with it. 780, Aug 25 at 0531 UT check, 250-watt daytimer KSPI Stillwater is *still* running open carrier all night, obvious via groundwave here with WBBM nulled (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [non]. 1530, Aug 22 at 0137, daytimer KXTD Wagoner, ``La Qué Buena`` has finally turned off its 24-hour operation since at least Aug 16, re-audiblizing WCKY now with ESPN baseball scores. I would have preferred the Mexican music if it were legal. Also see other 1530 log under U S A (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1560, KEBC, Del City, OK old slogan: “Comedy Radio 1560”, new: “Sportsradio 1560”; was Today’s Comedy, now Westwood One NBC Sports network. 1590, KWEY, Weatherford, OK old slogan: “Coyote Country”, new: “1590 The Score”; was country, now Fox Sports Radio (IRCA DX Monitor Aug 23 via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. 1640, Aug 25 at 0546 UT, KZLS Enid-Hennessey-OKC is in open carrier/dead air, except always with hum. AGAIN/Still? so at next check 1203 UT. Finally at 1206 UT a solo YL rendition of the national anthem, as if it were a deliberate sign-on?, hard rock theme and into ``The Ride with Reid`` Mullins, local talkshow. He bids farewell to ex-OK congresscritter Ernest Istook, who had been doing a show here at 11 am until last Friday, but stand by for ``the biggest announcement in 25 years in OKC``. A new show which has never *officially* been on the air in OK, to replace Istook from 11 am [16+ UT] today. Reid keeps teasing about this to be revealed at the end of his own show. So stemming my revulsion at his anti-Democratic, far-right Republican diatribes, including denigrating Michael Brown on the day of his funeral, I keep listening with one ear off and on. This allows me to perceive what a sorry excuse for a radio station KZLS is, not only from the programming but from the technical standpoint. Modulation is interrupted unpredictably for varying periods of time; STL problem? This has been going on for ages. At 1257-1300+ UT just OCDA and hum; 1318 UT he`s back talking politix (what else?). Blaze `news` is interrupted at 1403 UT for 3 minutes of DA, till 1406 UT Reid resumes; at 1407 he mentions that the new show was formerly heard only on pirate stations in OK. Now I`m quite sure he`s referring to Alex Jones, whose live broadcast is at 11 am -2 pm CT (hmmm, what a coincidence, same time as Rush), because I myself had heard Jones on OKC and Enid FM pirates. 1427 UT during weather, mod cuts off again, on and off during car dealer ad (his only sponsor? Heard same several times), still off past 1431 UT; 1449 UT DA again; at 1455 he`s now promised the Big Announcement will be next, but guess what?? DEAD AIR AGAIN past 1501 UT so I turn off in disgust. 1526 UT check: DA; 1557 UT check still DA. 1600 UT comes alive with part of an ad, Blaze news. 1608 UT confirmed: Alex Jones - Infowars finally starts {Turns out to be with a subsitute, whose style if not content is much more palatable than AJ: whenever I encounter his constant rage on WWCR, I accelerate my tuning} (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. Stations Broadcasting at Low Power to Complete Antenna Repair --- By Frank Christel What's New? 10:29 am Wed August 20, 2014 View Slideshow 1 of 4 Listen online with the "Listen Live" box at the top of this page, the play buttons in our "Now Playing" guide to the right, or with NPR's iPhone app, iPad app, or Android app. Questions? Concerns? Email us at public@publicmediatulsa.org [reverse chrono order:] Fri, 8/22/14 • 7:48 pm: Everything seems to be back to normal. For a while, that is. Our day-and-a-half long internet disruption was restored, permitting our web and smartphone streams to once again be broadcast. Both stations are back on-the-air at full power until Monday morning when, if the tower winch is operational, we'll finish hoisting antenna elements #5-8. Once in place, we'll fine-tune the refurbished main antenna. When that's finished, we'll switch from our backup to main and hopefully enjoy many years of continuous and trouble free service to you. Fri, 8/22/14 • 5:14 pm: Public Radio 89.5 KWGS and Classical 88.7 KWTU are back on at FULL power for the remainder of this weekend. While the winds were cooperating, the winch used to hoist the antenna elements wasn't. After elements 1-4 were mounted, a part within the winch gave out which will need to be replaced over the weekend. Coincidentally, The University of Tulsa's connection to the internet failed, shutting down our alternate broadcast Listen Live web and smartphone internet streams, in addition to station telephones. Both University and station staff are working on this right now. Fri, 8/22/14 • 2:06 pm: Public Radio 89.5 KWGS and Classical 88.7 KWTU are still at LOW power. Antenna elements 1 through 4 are mounted on the tower. Just four more to go. It's August-sun hot on the tower. Fortunately, winds are cooperating. Fri, 8/22/14 • 9:19 am: Public Radio 89.5 KWGS and Classical 88.7 KWTU are again at LOW power. A hot day today and hopefully one with light enough winds to permit the hoisting of all eight antenna elements. They'll be rejoined into the eight-element backup antenna at the 1000' level on the tower. Thu, 8/21/14 • 2:14 pm: Public Radio 89.5 KWGS and Classical 88.7 KWTU are back on at FULL power. Work will resume tomorrow (Friday) morning. Weather permitting, it's hoped that all eight antenna elements can be hoisted onto the tower and then fine tuning of the antenna can begin. Thu, 8/21/14 • 9:40 am: Public Radio 89.5 KWGS and Classical 88.7 KWTU are again broadcasting at low power. Tuning is underway for Classical 88.7's auxiliary antenna, so KWTU's signal will periodically pop off- and on-the-air this morning to safely accommodate this procedure. The main antenna is being rigged to be hoisted in sections onto the tower to the 1000' level and then carefully interleaved into the backup antenna. Wed, 8/20/14 • 3:47 pm: Public Radio 89.5 KWGS and Classical 88.7 KWTU are now back on the air at FULL power until tomorrow (Thursday) morning. The low-power auxiliary antenna was mounted and a pressure leak on the backup antenna was repaired. Both stations will once again reduce power sometime after sunrise tomorrow to allow climbers to begin hoisting the refurbished main antenna. Wed, 8/20/14 • 10:08 am: Public Radio 89.5 KWGS and Classical 88.7 KWTU are broadcasting at low power until this evening. Our intrepid tower crew is temporarily mounting an auxiliary antenna to allow work to be completed on our main antenna, portions of which burned out in 2012 (see "Related Content", below.) Since then and now, the antenna manufacturer went bankrupt, but is now back in business. The rebuilt main half of our antenna, which has been on the ground waiting to be hoisted onto the tower, will (weather permitting) be joined to our backup antenna. For the remainder of the week, both stations will broadcast at lower power to protect workers on the tower. Listeners outside of the Tulsa metro area may not be able to receive these low-power signals. Related content: What's New? Stations Off-Air Due to Antenna Problem http://publicradiotulsa.org/post/stations-air-due-antenna-problem [What`s Old: starts with ``Thu 9/20``, which must have been in 2012y] What's New? Stations Off-Air for Antenna Re-installation http://publicradiotulsa.org/post/stations-air-antenna-re-installation What's New? Stations Off-Air to Exchange Broadcast Antennas http://publicradiotulsa.org/post/stations-air-exchange-broadcast-antennas (PRT via DXLD) Would that all stations were so diligent in keeping listeners informed about procedures underway! (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 89.1, Aug 22 at 0500 UT, surprise, the Enid translator of the Oasis Network (KYND 90.5 Broken Arrow), is back on its original frequency, after a few months shifted to 88.9; good quality stereo signal. Yes, FCC FM Query now shows K205FW on 88.9 but with a CP for 89.1, already obviously reactivated. What it does not explain is why the back-and-forth? So I guess: maybe had to move to 88.9 in order to protect new 89.3 KIEL in Loyal OK, but which is now off, altho still licensed (we discuss that case in DXLD 14-34). KMUW public radio in Wichita is again blocked here on 89.1. Will this translator be able to regain its former callsign K206CA? Who cares? We first noted that 89.1 was off April 19 this year, moved to 88.9. As of June 23, the callsign officially changed from K206CA to K205FW, as translator calls must contain the proper channel number, and then the suffix letters are assigned sequentially (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 89.3, Aug 22 at 2053 UT on caradio I find that KIEL, Loyal OK is back on the air after missing for a week or more: playing `Ode to Joy` on piano as part of a medley; 2100 UT ID. At sweet spots in Enid, KIEL makes it OK past our translator back on 89.1 instead of 88.9, so never mind my theory that these stations were avoiding each other (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN. 15355, Aug 22 at 0112, Qur`an from RSO, poor signal, instead of 9500, and hardly anything else on band besides 15770 WRMI, 15720 NZ, 15230 Cuba. Propagation above 12 MHz has been generally pitiful lately. 9500, Aug 23 at 0112, RSO is missing from scheduled bihour frequency, so figure I will find them when I get around to bandscanning 19m: at 0119, very poor ME music on 15140, nothing on 15355. 9500, Aug 24 at 0113, RSO with Qur`an, fair signal with moderate fading, so no need to check 19m for it erroneously. 9500, Aug 25 at 0117, RSO good with Qur`an rather than on equally probable 15355, 15140 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN. 7445, Aug 23 at 0125, S Asian music, poor with flutter; also storm noise on lower bands. Aoki shows it`s BBC Pashto via OMAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAKISTAN. 100-kW DIGITAL [sic] TRANSMITTER OPERATIONAL AT RADIO PAKISTAN HYDERABAD https://www.facebook.com/DGRadioPakistan Samina Parvez Khalid, 19. August Radio Pakistan Hyderabad went on air with its new 100-kilowatt digital transmitter on its 59th founding anniversary on Sunday. Director General Radio Pakistan Samina Parvez unveiled the plaque marking formal commissioning of the transmitter at an impressive ceremony. She also cut the anniversary cake on the occasion. Addressing the audience, the director general expressed the pleasure that Hyderabad radio which has a glorious past, has entered into the age of digitization. She hoped that the station would go a long way to promote both Pakistani and Sindhi cultures in a vast region. Samina Parvez hailed the role of Hyderabad radio in the construction and development of the region, promotion of culture, and welfare of the people particularly during wars of 1965 and 1971, and natural calamities such as hurricanes and floods. In this connection, she particularly quoted setting up of "Mehran Mauj Studio" during super flood. The Director General was happy that Radio Pakistan Hyderabad had produced legends like film star late Muhammad, Mustafa Qureshi, Reshma, Ibrahim Nafees and Himayat Ali Shaer. Similarly, it introduced prominent Sindhi artistes like Ustad Umeed Ali Khan, Ustad Muhammad Jumman, Robina Qureshi, Abida Parveen, Mai Bhagi, Alan Faqir and Sanam Marvi, who acclaimed the international repute. Later, a musical evening was also held in which Ambar Mehak, Akbar Khamisu, Faisal Aziz, Abdullah Khan, Diba Sehar, Muhammad Aziz, Taj Mastani, Amir Ali Haider Ali and other artistes performed. Hyderabad radio had initially started its journey with a two kilowatt small transmitter 59 years ago. After installation of 100-kilowatt digitized transmitter, quality broadcasts of Hyderabad station would be listened in a radius of 150 kilometers during the day and up to 250 kilometers at night. Launching of new transmitter at Hyderabad is part of gigantic program to replace the old transmitters of Radio Pakistan. Transmitters at Peshawar and Dera Ismail Khan stations have already been replaced. (12 Fotos) (via Hansjoerg Biener, DXLD) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3260 & 3385, Aug 25 at wakeup 1157, carriers with some audio from NBC stations only on these frequencies; too much storm noise from Kansas. At 1201, 3260 is in talk, 3385 in music; at 1213, 3385 still audible, 3260 not and presumed off. Today`s sunrise: 1157 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3275, NBC Southern Highlands (presumed). Continues to be heard, but their sign off is much earlier now; Aug 26 with 1145* and Aug 27 with 1147*; often just above threshold level; the weakest of all the NBC stations; 3385 being the best and then comes 3260. Silent are 3205 and 3905. BTW - Nothing heard at all on 3235. 7324.96, [non log] Wantok Radio Light continues to be silent. Aug 25 during a clear time pre-1000; nothing at all, with no trace of a carrier (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. Log Onda Media 23 Agosto 2014: 1360, OCU4L, Radio Nueva Q, Lima, 0227 UT, ID de Nueva Q FM "Donde Manda Nuestra Cumbia", anuncios publicitarios y siguen con programa de cumbias y anuncio "Nueva Q", con leve QRM de Radio UBB de Concepcion, Chile que tocan música selecta instrumental, SINPO: 54444 (Marcos Cox, Vicuña, Chile, DEGEN DE1103 + 3 meters antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4747, Radio Huanta 2000 por volta das 0030 UT, 45333, ID DE Comerciales. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAIdl8Beek0&feature=youtu.be 4775, Radio Tarma, Radio peruana por volta das 0017 UT, 35333 e 35222 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-uwUcQ8D-0&feature=youtu.be 4790, Radio Visión, LV de Salvación, às 0144 UT, SINPO 35222 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBTFlKJPuBw&feature=youtu.be 73s Receptor Tecsun Pl 660 antena long wire 7 meters (Dexista PT 9008 Swl Daniel Wyllyans Nova Xavantina MT, http://dxbrazilsw.blogspot.com/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980, Aug 22 at 0057 past 0107, no signal from R. Chaski, presumed off [last heard aug 19] 5980, Aug 23 at 0103, no signal from R. Chaski, presumed off again, or possibly reset to earlier cutoff. 5980, Aug 24 at 0058, no signal from R. Chaski, presumed still off; is anyone hearing them before 2400 or in the mornings? 5980, Aug 25 at 0106, R. Chaski still AWOL. 5980, Aug 26 at 0106, R. Chaski is still absent (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PORTUGAL. Re: ``720 kHz, Rádio Difusão Portuguesa (RDP) Antena 1 (1500 km). Fair reception early in the morning from 0400 to 0430 UT, but often hampered by rapid QSB and echoes that make signal uncopiable. There are 5 active RDP 1 transmitters on 720 kHz, impossible to tell which one it is. The only station from Portugal received here. 73 (Giovanni Carboni, IZ5PQT, MW Log from S. Antioco Island (39 N, 8 27' E) [southwest corner of Sardinia], SONY ICF-SW7600GR portable with own antenna, Cumbre DX yg via DXLD)`` Glenn, Maybe you want to mention this in a forthcoming DXLD bulletin or simply post a message in your DXLD yg instead. Some corrections are needed here, viz.: "Radiodifusão Portuguesa" does not exist anymore; both RDP and RTP (tv)* merged into a common company called RTP-Rádio e Televisão de Portugal. However, the initials of the old "RDP" and RTP" live on, but purely as brands so to speak, e.g. RDP Açores, RDP Madeira, RDPi, RDP África are actually names of radio-only channels. Consequentely, referring to "Antena 2" for instance as "RDP Antena 2" is wrong for it's just "Antena 2", RTP's radio ch. 2. As I said more than once, they should have chosen a better name for the company comprising both radio & tv instead of using letters R T P,~ and on the other hand drop "RDP" for good (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** QATAR [non]. Test transmissions on shortwave of the Al Jazeera Arabic TV news channel via Spaceline, Kostinbrod transmitter site on August 14/15: According to HFCC database: 0700-1555 on 15760 SOF 050 kW / 306 deg to WeEu 1600-0655 on 7305 SOF 050 kW / 306 deg to WeEu According to my personal and other DXers observations: 1100-1300 on 15760 SOF 050 kW / 306 deg to WeEu 1300-1555 on 15760 SOF 050 kW / 306 deg to WeEu 1600-1755 on 7305 SOF 050 kW / 306 deg to WeEu 1800-1955 on 7310 SOF 050 kW / 306 deg to WeEu 2000-2155 on 7305 SOF 050 kW / 306 deg to WeEu 2200-0355 on 7300 SOF 050 kW / 306 deg to WeEu http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/full-sw-schedule-of-al-jazeera-arabic.html http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/al-jazeera-tv-in-arabic-on-shortwave.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #867 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, August 22, 2014 via DXLD) ** ROMANIA [and non]. COLLISIONS ON THE AIR 1200-1356 on 11700 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Romanian R Romania Int 1230-1325 on 11700 EMR 500 kW / 072 deg to CeAs Uyghur TRT V of Turkey http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/collisions-on-air.html -- 73! Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Probably Voice of Russia to return to shortwave from Oct. 1 Registered frequencies in HFCC Database Oct. 1-26 may be found here: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/voice-of-russia-to-return-to-shortwave.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #867 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, August 22, 2014 via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. MOSCOW PUTS ICONIC SHUKHOV TOWER ON PROTECTED LANDMARK LIST http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/moscow-puts-iconic-shukhov-tower-on-protected-landmark-list/505295.html (Dennis Gibson, WB6TNB, Aug 22, Sent from my iPhone, ABDX via DXLD) ** RUSSIA [non]. FINLAND / RUSSIA: FINNISH RADIO RAPU PLANS TO START BROADCASTING IN RUSSIAN. Finnish commercial radio Radio Rapu submitted an application to the Ministry of Communications of Finland on access to radio frequencies intended for broadcasting to Russia, reports Helsingin Sanomat. Radio Rapu justifies his decision to go to the Russian-language broadcasting limited freedom of speech in Russia. According to preliminary estimates Radio Rapu, the launch of the Russian-language news portal will cost 500 thousand dollars. Money for the project was collected on kraudfandingovom American site Kickstarter.com. Finnish scheduled news broadcast medium wave (MW) and possibly via the Internet. Transfer to medium waves can be heard at least in St. Petersburg. News of the website will be transmitted to the satellite. Satellite transmission could broadcast to the entire western Russia. Radio Rapu say their goal - to start broadcasting no later than early 2015. fontanka.fi (OnAir.ru via RusDX Aug 24 via DXLD) WTFK??????????????? ** RWANDA [non]. Radio Impala, Radio Mara in Kinyarwanda to CeAf, 1702 Aug 21 on 17540 Talata, Madagascar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyismXvD2JE&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAUDI ARABIA. I'm surprised that the western TA reports aren't mentioning the 1521 Saudi. I heard them in 1986 from El Paso, TX (Residence Inn near airport) on a Sony '2010 with then-KOMA 1520 nulled. 1521 starts peeling the paint off the wall this time of year here in MA. Often the loudest TA and frequently good 2+ hours pre- sunset at beach sites (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, South Yarmouth, MA, Aug 25, IRCA, via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DXLD) For unknown reasons 1521 has never been a big player here in southern Alberta. The only time I've heard it was in the glory days of 2009. I've certainly tried many times when I've read about it doing so well further east, but generally I either hear a very feeble carrier, or none at all. 73, (Nigel Pimblett, Dunmore, AB ibid.) For once I have to agree with Nigel. 1521 was in here several times many years ago, but these days I consider myself lucky if I see a carrier. But then conditions can vary a great deal between here and the southern part of the province, for example: last night Nigel had TAs across the band whereas I had one faint lonely carrier on 162. (Mike in St Isidore, AB, Stonebridge, ibid.) Hi Ben, do you happen to know if 2 megawatt Duba on 1521 is direxional, and if so would the pattern account for the lack of reception further north? (Glenn to Ben Dawson, WA, via DXLD) Yes it is. Here is the radiation pattern data from the ITU GE-75 Database record: GE75GE75/075008695 Region 1 Geographic Area ARS Transmitting Antenna Site Name DUBA Longitude 35º E 36' 0" Latitude 27º N 25' 0" Assigned Frequency (KHz) 1521 Ground Conductivity(mS/m) 10 Syncronization Network Noise Zone A Night Time Operation Hours of operation 1500-0300 Carrier Power (kW) 2000 Bandwidth (kHz) 9 Antenna Type B Class of Emission A3E-- Transmission System ANALOG Adjacent Protection Ratio (dB) 5 Azimuth of Maximum Radiation( ) 296 Maximum Radiation (dB) 41.0103 Gain Horizontal Component (dB) 000 -8 010 -8 020 -12 030 -15 040 -15 050 -15 060 -15 070 -15 080 -15 090 -15 100 -15 110 -15 120 -15 130 -15 140 -15 150 -15 160 -15 170 -15 180 -15 190 -15 200 -15 210 -12 220 -8 230 -8 240 -3 250 1 260 4 270 6 280 7 290 8 300 7 310 6 320 4 330 1 340 -3 350 -8 Given the radiation pattern, and what I know of the Saudi very high power installations, I would suspect that this is one of the six-tower "sideways Yagis" or "half-Yagis" that were promoted for use by Eubank, Preece. They are very high gain, but very narrow bandwidth, and are not a very good design in my view. I looked on Google Earth, but I can't spot it: the coordinates in the ITU database are only to the nearest minute, which makes it tough to find in a place that is mostly sandy and brown. The ones in Saudi were from Continental Electronics, but Marconi installed some in other places. The Marconi one in Qatar is now dismantled. There reportedly was one in Swaziland, too (Ben Dawson, WA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Summarized in WORLD OF RADIO 1736 Ben, Tnx. Could you explain in layman`s terms how the dB figures relate? the max gain at 296 degrees is 41 dB, but the figures at the bottom every 10 degrees don`t match, circa +8 at that azimuth. Also what would be the ERP at max? What would be the ERP toward Boston 313 degrees, Enid 325 degrees, Calgary 340 degrees? Or the percentage compared to 296 (which hits eastern tip of Cuba). If it were non-D, the figures would all be 0 in all direxions, right? Everybody would be getting 2 megawatts worth. Tnx, (Glenn to Ben, via DXLD) Glenn, The way the ITU categorization of directional patterns in the GE-75 Agreement (ITU Regions I and III) works is confusing at best. The numbers given are for the azimuths +/- 5 degrees from each listed even 10 degree value, so that the authorized radiation pattern looks like a cogwheel. And the measured or calculated pattern is supposed to fit inside that perimeter. Not that many of them do actually fit, however, as the old calculations of efficiency were often wrong, and some administrations are lax in enforcing something that doesn't directly affect them. In ITU Region II (W. Hemisphere) we actually calculate a pattern, based on the entirely fictitious but not desperately erroneous sinusoidal current distribution assumption, and the assumption of 1 ohm loss in each element (radiator) of the array. That makes it conservative, since real loss is often higher and we usually use 2 ohms wherever we don't have to pay attention to the bureaucratically anal FCC. For arrays with parasitic elements we even use 3 ohms on occasion. But the real gain is sometimes even a bit higher than the calculated gain because of the effects described by Pocklington about current distribution and the speed of light in a conductor. So at 313 degrees you can assume the pattern has a gain of ~5 dB, at 325 a gain of ~2.5 dB, and at 340 a gain of -3 dB. And those values are relative to the 2 megawatt power. 2 megawatts is 33 dB above 1 kW. And the 1 kW antenna reference is for 300 mV/m/kW/km. So where the pattern says +8 dB, it's 8 db above 33 or 41 dBk. So the moderately valid calculation is that at 313 degrees 33+5=38 dBk, or an effective power of 6300 kW relative to the 300 mV/m/kW/km standard. (That's not really ERP as ERP is relative to a dipole.) At 325, 33 + 2.5 = 35.5, or 3548 kW, and at 340 degrees 33-3 = 30 or 1 megawatt. 3 dB gain, of course is double the power. 3/10 = 0.3 10 to the power of 0.3 is 2, i.e., double. But those values are really for administrative purposes, and the real antenna may have gain in a particular direction that is less, perhaps by several dB. And although those old CEMCO boxes were great transmitters in their day, I have yet to see one really running full power. In fact, I haven't ever seen any 250 + kW transmitters of that vintage really running full power. When the Harris DX-1000s replaced old CEMCOs also nominally rated at 1 MW, in at least once case we had to change out the transmission line because it wouldn't handle the positive peak voltages. (Benj. F. Dawson III, P.E. Hatfield & Dawson Consulting Engineers, LLC 9500 Greenwood Avenue North Seattle, WA 98103 USA 206 783 9151 206 789 9834 Facsimile dawson@hatdaw.com DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SERBIA [non]. BOSNIA: 6100 International Radio Serbia (when there is noise sounds like “International Radio Service” which isn’t horribly helpful!) with English YL/OM tx [talks or transmission??] re book -- the OM may have been the author -- noise made it hard to follow! Getting better by 2118 into music. ID at 2127 including addresses and mention of Serbia, then IS at 2128. This should be getting better as the nights grow longer. 2+43+42+ 2107-2128* 16/Aug (Ken Zichi, Port Hope MI2, MARE Tipsheet 22 Aug via DXLD) ** SINGAPORE. 11890, Aug 23 at 1425, excited commentary in English, sports show? Poor signal, shown in Aoki as BBCWS via Kranji: 14-15 100 kW 320 degrees, morphing at 15-17 to 250 kW, 315 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5020-, Aug 25 at I catch the SIBC carrier cutoff at 1158:36*. Assumed still on 5020.0, and did not pin down the frequency, but at 1123, Wolfgang Büschel had put it on 5019.878, so back to the old transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: 5019.878, S.I.B.C. Honiara, heard with woman prayer on Aug 25 at 1123 UT, preacher in local accented English pronunciation. S=9+10dB -62dBm signal strength, via remote SDR units downunder in Queensland and Sydney (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 25, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DXLD) ** SOMALIA. SOMALI RADIO CLOSURE: SHABELLE MANAGER 'IN HIDING' http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28869615 Radio Shabelle has long had a fractious relationship with the government. The manager of the independent Shabelle radio station in the Somali capital has told the BBC he is in hiding after the authorities took it off air. Mohamed Musa said soldiers stormed the radio's office on Friday, arresting about 20 people, three of whom are still in custody without being charged. When the station started broadcasting again on Tuesday, the office was raided again and all equipment removed. Mr Musa denied accusations that the station was spreading hate messages. The UN-backed government issued a statement saying that the station had been unprofessional by spreading disharmony amongst Mogadishu's clans. 'Very scary' There has been tension in the capital following the government's recent disarmament programme, which has seen the militias of clan leaders disarmed. Mr Musa said Shabelle had not broadcast either for or against the disarmament. "We are not on the side of government, we are not on the side of opposition, we only tell the people the truth," he told the BBC's Focus on Africa radio programme. The BBC's Mohammed Moalimu in Mogadishu says media organisations have condemned the arrests and been shocked at the heavy handed approach of the government. There have been calls for the detainees to be charged in accordance with the constitution, which only allows for 24 hours detention without charge. Mr Musa admitted Shabelle had a fractious relationship with the government, which evicted it from a state-owned building last year. He said he believed there was a warrant out for his arrest and he was concerned for the safety of his colleagues who remained in detention, fearing they were being maltreated. "I'm in hiding in Mogadishu.... I keep moving, it's really very scary." Clan-based warlords, rival politicians and Islamist militants have battled for control of Somalia since the fall of long-serving ruler Siad Barre in 1991. Under a UN-backed plan, a new government was formed in 2012 which is trying to win back territory occupied by the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabab insurgents, and bring back a measure of stability to the country with the help of an African Union force (via Terry L Krueger, FL, DXLD) Includes useful map of who controls what parts of Somalia (gh, DXLD) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [and non]. 3185 // much stronger 5050, Aug 27 at 0143, Brother Scare on both WWRB frequencies; presumably 3185 will resume breaking away for separate programming when available (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Cancelled transmissions of Brother Stair via World Harvest Radio 1600-1800 9840 HRI 250 kW / 025 deg ENAm English WHRI Angel 2 1600-1900 17610 HRI 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English WHRI Angel 6 2000-2100 9840 HRI 250 kW / 025 deg ENAm English WHRI Angel 2 Mon-Fri http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/dx-re-mix-news-867.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #867 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, August 22, 2014 via DXLD) Updated summer A-14 shortwave schedule of Brother Stair from Aug. 16: [NO! the primary WWRB frequency for BS at 00-04 is 5050; after that, 3185. But 3185 sometimes in addition to or instead of 5050 - gh, DXLD] 0000-0300 on 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to ENAm English 0000-0300 on 5015 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to CeAm English 0000-0300 on 5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 0000-0300 on 7490 BCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to ENAm English Mon-Sat 0000-0300 on 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 0000-0300 on 7730 YFR 100 kW / 222 deg to MEXI English 0000-0300 on 11580 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to CeAm English 0000-0300 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 0000-0300 on 15770 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 0300-0400 on 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to ENAm English 0300-0400 on 5015 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to CeAm English 0300-0400 on 5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 0300-0400 on 5890 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to ENAm English Tue-Sat 0300-0400 on 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 0300-0400 on 11580 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to CeAm English 0300-0400 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 0300-4000 on 15770 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 0400-0500 on 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to ENAm English 0400-0500 on 5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 0400-0500 on 5890 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to ENAm English 0400-0500 on 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 0400-0500 on 7730 YFR 100 kW / 222 deg to MEXI English 0400-0500 on 11580 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to CeAm English 0400-0500 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 0400-0500 on 15190 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg to NCAf English 0400-0500 on 15770 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 0500-0600 on 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to ENAm English 0500-0600 on 5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 0500-0600 on 5890 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to ENAm English 0500-0600 on 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 0500-0600 on 7730 YFR 100 kW / 222 deg to MEXI English 0500-0600 on 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to CeAm English 0500-0600 on 11580 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 0500-0600 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 0500-0600 on 15190 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg to NCAf English 0500-0600 on 15770 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 0600-0700 on 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to ENAm English 0600-0700 on 5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 0600-0700 on 5890 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to ENAm English 0600-0700 on 7365 HRI 250 kW / 047 deg to WeEu English 0600-0700 on 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 0600-0700 on 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to CeAm English 0600-0700 on 11580 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 0600-0700 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 0600-0700 on 15190 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg to NCAf English 0600-0700 on 15770 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 0700-0800 on 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to ENAm English 0700-0800 on 5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 0700-0800 on 5890 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to ENAm English 0700-0800 on 7365 HRI 250 kW / 047 deg to WeEu English 0700-0800 on 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 0700-0800 on 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to CeAm English 0700-0800 on 11580 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 0700-0800 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 0700-0800 on 15190 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg to NCAf English 0700-0800 on 15770 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 0800-1000 on 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to ENAm English 0800-1000 on 5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 0800-1000 on 5890 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to ENAm English 0800-1000 on 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 0800-1000 on 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to CeAm English 0800-1000 on 11580 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 0800-1000 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 0800-1000 on 15770 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 1000-1100 on 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to ENAm English 1000-1100 on 5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 1000-1100 on 5890 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to ENAm English 1000-1100 on 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 1000-1100 on 11565 HRI 250 kW / 245 deg to AUS English 1000-1100 on 11580 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 1000-1100 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 1000-1100 on 15770 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 1100-1200 on 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to ENAm English 1100-1200 on 5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 1100-1200 on 5890 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to ENAm English Mon-Fri 1100-1200 on 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 1100-1200 on 11565 HRI 250 kW / 245 deg to AUS English 1100-1200 on 11580 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 1100-1200 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 1100-1200 on 15770 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 1200-1300 on 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to ENAm English 1200-1300 on 5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 1200-1300 on 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 1200-1300 on 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to ENAm English Mon-Fri 1200-1300 on 11580 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 1200-1300 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 1200-1300 on 15770 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 1300-1400 NF 5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English, ex 9930 1300-1400 on 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 1300-1400 on 9370 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to ENAm English 1300-1400 on 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to ENAm English Mon-Fri 1300-1400 on 11580 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 1300-1400 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 1300-1400 on 15770 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 1400-1500 on 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 1400-1500 on 9370 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to ENAm English 1400-1500 on 9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 1400-1500 on 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to CeAm English 1400-1500 on 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to ENAm English 1400-1500 on 11580 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 1400-1500 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 1400-1500 on 13810 NAU 100 kW / 130 deg to N&ME English Mon-Fri 1400-1500 on 13810 ISS 100 kW / 120 deg to N&ME English Sat/Sun 1400-1500 on 15420 BCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to ENAm English Sat CUSB 1400-1500 on 15770 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 1500-1600 on 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 1500-1600 on 9370 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to ENAm English 1500-1600 on 9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 1500-1600 on 9955 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 1500-1600 on 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to ENAm English 1500-1600 on 11580 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 1500-1600 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to CeAm English 1500-1600 on 13810 NAU 100 kW / 130 deg to N&ME English Mon-Fri 1500-1600 on 13810 ISS 100 kW / 120 deg to N&ME English Sat/Sun 1500-1600 on 15420 BCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to ENAm English Sat CUSB 1500-1600 on 15770 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 1600-1700 on 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 1600-1700 on 9370 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to ENAm English 1600-1700 on 9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 1600-1700 on 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to CeAm English 1600-1700 on 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to ENAm English 1600-1600 on 11580 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 1600-1700 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 1600-1700 on 15420 BCQ 050 kW / 245 deg to ENAm English Sat CUSB 1600-1700 on 15770 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 1700-1800 on 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 1700-1800 on 9370 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to ENAm English 1700-1800 on 9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 1700-1800 on 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to CeAm English 1700-1800 on 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to ENAm English 1700-1800 on 11580 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 1700-1800 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 1700-1800 on 15770 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 1800-1900 on 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 1800-1900 on 9370 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to ENAm English 1800-1900 on 9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 1800-1900 on 9955 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 1800-1900 on 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to ENAm English 1800-1900 on 11580 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 1800-1900 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to CeAm English 1800-1900 on 15770 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 1800-1900 on 21600 HRI 250 kW / 085 deg to CeAf English Mon-Fri 1900-2000 on 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 1900-2000 on 9370 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to ENAm English 1900-2000 on 9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 1900-2000 on 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to CeAm English 1900-2000 on 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to ENAm English 1900-2000 on 11580 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 1900-2000 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 1900-2000 on 15770 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 1900-2000 on 21600 HRI 250 kW / 085 deg to CeAf English Mon-Fri 2000-2100 on 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 2000-2100 on 9370 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to ENAm English 2000-2100 on 9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 2000-2100 on 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to CeAm English 2000-2100 on 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to ENAm English 2000-2100 on 11580 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 2000-2100 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 2000-2100 on 15770 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 2000-2100 on 21600 HRI 250 kW / 085 deg to CeAf English Mon-Fri 2100-2200 on 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 2100-2200 on 9370 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to ENAm English 2100-2200 on 9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 2100-2200 on 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to CeAm English Mon-Fri 2100-2200 on 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to ENAm English 2100-2200 on 11580 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 2100-2200 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 2200-2300 on 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 2200-2300 on 7730 YFR 100 kW / 222 deg to MEXI English 2200-2300 on 9370 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to ENAm English 2200-2300 on 9690 YFR 100 kW / 222 deg to CARB English 2200-2300 on 9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 2200-2300 on 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to CeAm English Mon-Thu 2200-2300 on 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg to ENAm English 2200-2300 on 11580 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 2200-2300 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 2200-2300 on 15770 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 2300-2400 on 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 2300-2400 on 7730 YFR 100 kW / 222 deg to MEXI English 2300-2400 on 9370 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to ENAm English 2300-2400 on 9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm English 2300-2400 on 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to CeAm English 2300-2400 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English 2300-2400 on 15770 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/dx-re-mix-news-868.html -- 73! Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) GERMANY [and non]. Brother Stair, The Overcomer Ministries via MBR: 1400-1600 on 13810 NAU 100 kW / 130 deg to N&ME English Mon-Fri 1400-1600 on 13810 ISS 100 kW / 120 deg to N&ME English Sat/Sun Video: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-powerful-brother-stair-via-100-kw.html (Ivo Ivanov, Aug 28, dxldyg via DXLD) What is the real reason for going to the trouble of changing to a different site on weekends? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** SPAIN. 17850, REE 8/21, 2158. REE familiar IS to close. Outstanding reception (Rick Barton, El Mirage, AZ, Mostly listening from my pickup truck, by the Agua Fría river, Grundig Satellit 750, passive Wilson 1000 antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. REE - Encuesta de RTVE Int. Amigos, esta encuesta se realizó hace un tiempo e incluía a REE. Los resultados están publicados. Al final de menciona lo referente a REE. http://www.rtve.es/television/944209/encuesta-los-espectadores-dan-notable-tve-internacional/944209.shtml (ce3BBCHugo López C., Santiago de Chile, Aug 22, condiglista yg via DXLD) Yo disfruto mucho de la radio, tanto la Exterior, como RNE, "la 5". Notables programas culturales. Y todo a pesar de la crisis, y algunas críticas de los locales hacia algunas medidas tomadas por el gobierno actual. Es sin duda la más importante emisora de habla española. Por producción, infraestructura, calidad de contenidos. El sitio web es una enorme colección de enlaces a programas y archivo de podcasts. La calidad de TV via streaming es muy buena. Disfruto mucho de ella, no ya a través de la OC, sino a través de mi teléfono. En estéreo. Hugo, gracias por el enlace a la noticia. 73 (Horacio Nigro Geolkiewsky, Montevideo, Uruguay, ibid.) ** SRI LANKA. 11905, Aug 22 at 0114:46, SLBC starts musical prélude on carrier which popped on earlier in this minute; and 2+1 timesignal ends at 0115:18.5 as usual, then sign-on. Fair signal tonight = better than usual. 11905, Aug 23 at 0114:50, SLBC music starts, and 2+1 mistimesignal ends at 0115:18; fair signal with flutter. 11905, Aug 24 at *0114:13 carrier on from SLBC, fair with flutter, 0114:48 music starts, 0115:18 mistimesignal ends, sign-on announcement; song in S Asian language at 0117 has Christian hymn sound to it. 11905, Aug 25 at 0114, SLBC carrier, 0114:46 music starts, mis- timesignal ends `early` at 0115:17.5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) SLBC Sri Lanka noted sign off yesterday Sunday at 0330 on 11905 after Christian program in English. So the new sked on 11905 is: Mon-Sat 0115-0230 Sunday 0115-0330 -- Thanking you, Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, Aug 25, dxldyg via DXLD) Also in English: on Tuesdays already - at 0215-0230 Water Of Truth and on Thursdays 0200-0230 Let the Bible Speak - observed here on 26 and 21 August 2014 (Rumen Pankov, Blgaria, Aug 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11905, Aug 26 at 0114:47 SLBC music starts, 0115:17.5 timesignal ends, poor-fair with flutter. If they ever set their clock, we`ll be the first to know! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWEDEN. Radio Nord Revival update with frequency changes: Radio Nord Revival now testing on 1512 kHz. We are now testing from Kvarnberget, Vallentuna on MW 1512 kHz and tomorrow, Friday 22, we will start testing at 0800 UTC from Ringvalla, Sala on 3950 and 6065 kHz with 5 and 10 kW respectively. Also, tests are expected on 5770 kHz tomorrow. This is the one frequency that will be used from The Castle, as 6220 kHz has been deleted. 3915 kHz has been substituted by 3950 kHz. Please write a comment and tell us how you are receiving Radio Nord Revival. http://radionordrevival.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/radio-nord-revival-now-testing-on-1512.html (Thursday 21 Aug) 6065 kHz and 3950 kHz now testing (Friday) according to their Facebook - neither audible here in southern England yet, though 6065 is being heard further north and east (e.g. Sweden, Finland, Germany) Hopefully will be audible here later today (Alan Pennington, Caversham, UK, 1119 UT Aug 22, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) What must be Radio Nord is being heard currently on 6065 with Swedish speak and oldies. Their signal is peaking to about S-5 on the meter - not strong enough to overcome the local noise unfortunately. Should improve later if it's left on air. No trace of the other frequencies yet (Noel R. Green (NW England), 1440 UT Aug 22, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DXLD) Radio Nord started to fade in here too, on 6065 kHz, since about 1430, improving by 1450 UT, now quite clear. SIO 243. Best in USB – nothing in LSB. It`s not audible on 3950 yet, but that also may fade in later. 73s (Dave Kenny, Caversham Berks, AOR7030+ / 25m long wire, 1457 UT Aug 22, BDXC-UK yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DXLD) Radio Nord Revival now testing on 1512 / 3950 / 5770 / 6065 kHz --- We are now testing from Kvarnberget, Vallentuna on MW 1512 kHz and tomorrow, Friday 22, we will start testing at 0800 UTC from Ringvalla, Sala on 3950 and 6065 kHz with 5 and 10 kW respectively. Also, tests are expected on 5770 kHz. This is the one frequency that will be used from The Castle, as 6220 kHz has been deleted. 3915 kHz has been substituted by 3950 kHz (Source? via Roberto Scaglione, Sicily, 1450 UT Aug 22, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) ** SWEDEN. Test transmission of Radio Nord Revival on August 22 on 6065. Very weak signal in Sofia at 1445 UT and increased to good at 1700 UT. Poor signal on 3950 at 1851 UTC. Nothing on MW 1458, 1512 and SW 5770. All frequencies for the transmission on August 23 will be as follows: 1485 2.7 kW from Riga 1512 001 kW from Kvarnberget, Vallentuna 3950 005 kW from Ringvalla, Sala 5770 0.5 kW from The Castle, Vaxholm 6065 010 kW from Ringvalla, Sala More videos of Radio Nord Revival: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/test-transmission-of-radio-nord-revival.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #867 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, August 22, 2014 via DXLD) August 22l Test transmission of Radio Nord Revival 1445 on 6065 Ringvalla, Sala https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDeQPSw58jI&feature=youtu.be Test transmission of Radio Nord Revival 1615 on 6065 Ringvalla, Sala https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkcLBd5ZftA&feature=youtu.be Test transmission of Radio Nord Revival 1645 on 6065 Ringvalla, Sala https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkA57bMYXKk&feature=youtu.be Test transmission of Radio Nord Revival 1700 on 6065 Ringvalla, Sala https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWZ1nDwSvQA&feature=youtu.be Test transmission of Radio Nord Revival 1851 on 3950 and 6065 Ringvalla, Sala https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L5Slsi6QpM&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) Radio Nord Revival on 6065 at 1725 in North London. Concur with USB, nothing on LSB. SIO 343. Confirmed by checking internet broadcast stream. Nothing heard on 3950. 73s from (Gabby Simmonds, Edgware,, Middx., Sony ICF-2001D + telescopic, Aug 22, BDXC-UK yg via dXLD) Radio Nord Revival was coming in quite well here as darkness approached on 3950 kHz (// 6065 which is very good now). But since 2000 UTC 3950 suffering from strong German on 3955 kHz (KBS World R via Woofferton) - think KBS goes off at 2100 UT. 6065 kHz is USB+AM (no LSB) but 3950 is both USB+LSB+AM. 73 (Alan Pennington, Caversham, UK, AOR 7030plus, longwire, Aug 22, ibid.) Very weak on 3950, but audible // 6065. No joy on MW or 5770. However, 6065 has a very good signal and is steady. Excellent modulation. Swedish by male heard at 2008 UT followed by a 1950's sounding oldie. Song in what I presume to be Swedish accompanied by piano at 2012 (Brock Whaley, Ireland, Aug 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Nord Revival on August 23 at 0400 UT on 6065 CUSB. Video: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/radio-nord-revival-on-august-23-at-0400.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) World of Radio edition 1735 on HLR at 0630-0700 UT on 7265-USB. Includes the Radio Nord Revival information. Very good signal. Also at 0700, Radio Nord still going strong on 6065-USB, both on 23 August (Brock Whaley, Ireland, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DXLD) Just audible at the moment (1240 UT 23/8 SIO-141) on 6065. Full ID and frequencies in English with a mention of the relay on 1485 kHz. Far better reception last night with 6065 kHz SIO 444 and 3950 kHz SIO 343 (when Wooferton not on). Also tried 1512 kHz but the resident Dutch pirate dominated the channel. There was a weak station underneath, but don't think it was R. Nord. Had no luck with 5770 kHz here either. 73's (Nick Rank, Buxton UK, Sony ICF2001D / long wire / MW ferrite sleeve, Aug 23, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) Very fine reception in Denmark, interesting programs, all day 6065 S9+30, 3950 S9 (last night also S9+30) - and part of today, Saturday, 5770 has been S9 with another program (Erik Koie, presently in South East Denmark, 1509 UT Aug 23, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Update from Radio Nord Revival transmitter site: At 1900 UT (21.00 local), the 10 kW transmitter switch frekuency from 6065 kHz to 9295 kHz. The 6065 kHz will be back tomorrow morning. The 5 kW transmitter on 3950 kHz will be closed at 2200 UT and return tomorrow morning. Thanks for all reports here. Much appreciated, keep on reporting. /Bernt Radio Nord Revival. Transmitter site Sala. (on www.radionordrevival.blogspot.co.uk 23 Aug 2028 CET) Good signal here in Caversham on 9295 at 1915 UTC but seems to be USB only. 73 (Alan Pennington, AOR 7030plus, longwire, 1916 UT Aug 23, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) Radio Nord Revival currently heard with a fair signal here in UK this evening (23 August) on 9295 USB at 1930 UT (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9295 - R. Nord at 1935 with fair signal in USB. Talks & music. Positive ID heard at 1934 (Stephen Wood, Harwich, Mass., Aug 23, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Signal improving to good levels. Trying to post comment on blog but I just keep getting bumped out (Stephen C Wood, Harwich, Mass., 2018 UT Aug 23, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hello, 9295 USB is doing great in Cairo, SIO 433. 73 (Tarek Zeidan, Sent from my iPad, 2023 UT Aug 23, ibid.) At 2053 starting to get very weak audio on 9295 USB (myteaquinn, west of Cleveland, Aug 23, NASWA yg via DXLD) 9295, Radio Nord Revival - Ringvalla, Sala, 2206-2240, Aug 23 and 0011-0054, Aug 24. male announcer with Swedish talk playing old time musical selections, most in Swedish. On the early broadcast there was an interview and in the latter broadcast I heard several English lyric tunes (Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong and Dean Martin) as well as a nice English ID and frequency announcements. Poor to fair for the early transmission and fair to good for the later listening period. Noted again around 0400 with Neil Sedaka song with good signal (Rich D'Angelo, 2216 Burkey Drive, Wyomissing, PA 19610, Ten-Tec RX-340, Drake R-8B, Eton E1, Eton E5, Alpha Delta DX Sloper, RF Systems Mini- Windom, Datong FL3, JPS ANC-4, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) Surely USB 9295-USB, Radio Nord revival, 0026, 8/24/14. Radio play. Poor (Mark Taylor, Madison, Wisconsin, Perseus, WinRadio g313e, Eton e1, Grundig Satellit 800, Sangean 909X, Tecsun PL 660; EWE, RF Systems Mk 2, Flextenna, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) 9295-USB, Aug 24 at 0102, very poor signal with music, USB only, no LSB and can`t detect a reduced carrier either. 0102:45 announcement. The DX-398 magically displays ``SCHWEDEN`` in the RDS window, but that`s only because I had just tried 6065, an ancient Swedish frequency, and the DX-398 storehouse switched to German years ago when I dropped the receiver, suffering no other damage. Still there at 0134, very poor with talk, maybe English, 0135 vocal music, sad C&W song by M; occasional running-water ute QRM; 0138 another song and brief announcement talkover. I posted this on their blog http://www.radionordrevival.blogspot.com ``9295 USB only, no carrier detectable, barely audible here in Oklahoma at 0102-0138+ UT Aug 24. Music and announcements, some sound English intonation, some Swedish, but too weak to copy, SINPO 15221. 6065 would be no good here also due to Cuba on both sides. Anyone hearing further west?`` (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9295-USB, Radio Nord Revival, at 0155, on 24 Aug. I am hearing what sounds like a commercial or station ID. Listed language is Swedish. At 0157 there is a song playing with what sounds like orchestra[l] music. This is followed by a new song with a male singer at 0159. At 0201, the song ended with a male announcer talking about the song. At 0204, a male is speaking to another male back and forth. At 0207 a male is speaking with music in the background followed by a song with a female singer and a chorus. At 0209 a female is speaking. At 0210 a new song in English is playing “Old Cotton Fields Back Home.” At 0229 a song in English played, “Summertime Blues.” Fair (J. Cooper, Lebanon, PA, Winradio-G33DDC, Com Radio CR-1A, RF Space-SDR-IQ, Sangean ATS-909X w/ Clear Mod, Grundig Satellit 750, Wellbrook ALA 1530+, Super Sloper Tuned All Band Antenna, PARS- SWL End Fed, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) SWEDEN (International Waters [?]), 9295 kHz, Radio Nord Revival, 0228 UT August 24th with 60's tunes "Summertime Blues", "Mister Sandman" and others. Noted English IDs at 0245:55 and 0349:50 and 0449:50 UT. Also a promo in English for Columbia Pictures looking for the next Swedish star or model (are not we all looking for a Swedish model???) at 0255:30. All other DJ chat was in Swedish. Off the air at 0507 UT. Good signal (Mick Delmage, AB, Rx: Collins HF2050; Ant: 7-30 MHz KLM Log periodic, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Just uploaded a video of R. Nord Revival to Youtube. I know many have heard it this weekend but what mades this video a little different is that the first half was made during a micro-DXpedition and the second half was made during reception at home. Here's the link if you'd like to listen/watch: http://youtu.be/lppy0slPD2A (Dave Valko, Aug 24, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Radio Nord Revival on August 24 at 0300 UT on 9295 --- Good signal here in Alberta, Canada. No problem copying 100% of identification heard a little while ago. 73, (Nigel Pimblett, Alberta, Canada, Hard- Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 5770, 0830-0955 23.8, R Nord Revival, The Castle, Vaxholm, Stockholm (0.5 kW), Swedish programmes of R Nord, including talk of first Swedish radioamateur transmission 100 years ago at Vaxholm, 45343 fading to 35232 // 6065. 6065.00, 0758-0955 23.8, R Nord Revival, Ringvalla, Sala (10 kW). Reactivated station, Swedish announcer with occasional English, Swedish and English oldies, frequent R Nord ID's and ads, 55555. Also heard on 24.8 and on 25.8 at 0430-0435, but not later, // 3950 and 5770. 3950, 1140-1150 and 1645 24.8, R Nord Revival, Ringvalla, Sala (5 kW) Reactivated station, Swedish announcement with occasional English, Swedish and English oldies, frequent R Nord ID's and ads, 45333 // 5770 and 6065 (Anker Petersen, on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire here in Skovlunde, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) Radio Nord Revival on August 24: 1900-0500 on 3950 005 kW Ringvalla, Sala till 1900 on 6065 010 kW Ringvalla, Sala from 1900 on 9295 010 kW Ringvalla, Sala http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/radio-nord-revival-on-august-24.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) Aug 24: Radio Nord Revival 1805 on 6065 USB from Ringvalla, Sala https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH8Sxhp2IJQ&feature=youtu.be Radio Nord Revival 1854 on 6065 USB from Ringvalla, Sala https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNTYr8DROu8&feature=youtu.be Radio Nord Revival 1902 on 3950 from Ringvalla, Sala https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgAKV7u2Ex4&feature=youtu.be Radio Nord Revival 1919 on 9295v USB from Ringvalla, Sala https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xM0XYj8stY&feature=youtu.be -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) 9295-USB, Aug 25 at 0109, R. Nord Revival with better signal than 24 hours earlier, but still weak; music, running-water ute QRM intermittently; W&M dialog in Swedish; 0121 announcement and jingle; made out countdown to song in English, 5-4-3-2-1, rating SINPO now generously as 2-4-3-4-2; 0122 laser SFX; 0129 Swedish talk mixed with music; 0131 maybe mentions Radio Nord, first time `ID` heard; more H2O; 0139 more Swedish dialog. Is this the last day on air, or to continue?? Recheck at 0522, can`t hear it. Last night, Mick Delmage says it went off at 0507* (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [some items from the Radio Nord Revival blog:] Göran Lindemark 25 augusti 2014 07:22 All shortwave transmitter have now been closed down at 5 UTC. The Internetstream will continue for a while. / Göran Lindemark [WORLD OF RADIO 1736] Chicagoland DXer 25 augusti 2014 03:56 Putting a whopper of a signal into the Chicago area right now, even better than last night! Nice mix of US and Swedish old-time music, 40s and 50s, and of course the usual recorded ID at 48 minutes past the hour. Enjoying Dino singing "That's Amore!" right now. My report will be in the mail tomorrow, pls QSL. Thanks for the show! Ralph W. Perry,. Wheaton, Illinois, USA Thomas Drescher25 augusti 2014 12:20 Thomas Drescher Vierkotter Feld 20 51503 Rösrath Germany August 25, 2014 Dear Friends, even though reception was not the best it was great to listen at least to part of your Radio Nord Revival programme on SW. The only channel I could receive in the morning and in the afternoon (also at night) was 6065 kHz. Other channels did not reach me over here in the vicinity of Cologne in Western Germany. However, there was a very good signal in the evening for your USB-transmission on 9295 kHz on Aug. 24. I must admit that I do not understand Swedish, and in my younger days I did not know anything about Radio Nord. I first met Radios Caroline and London in 1966, when I was about 16 or 17 years, and later became a fan of RNI, Veronica, Caroline, Mi Amigo, and Atlantis. And the Mi Amigo actually was the ship used by Radio Nord previously on 495 m. The name at that time was "Bon Jour" and later "Magda Maria". But that's something else. Anyway, I want to send you a reception- report and I should be pleased to receive your QSL, if possible. A big thank you in advance for dealing with my letter. Yours Sincerely, Thomas Drescher Reception-Report Receiver: Tecsun PL-660 Antenna: telescopic whip Date: August 23, 2014 August 23, 2014 August 24, 2014 August 24, 2014 Time (UTC): 0710-0755 1600-1630 0735-0745 1915-1957 Frequency: 6065 kHz 6065 kHz 6065 kHz 9295 kHz (USB) SINPO: 25212 25211 15211 55434 (on August 23, 2014 after about 1610 UT: 45212) Detailed report follows by snail mail Thomas Drescher Vierkotter Feld 20 51503 Rösrath Germany (from RNR blog, via DXLD) ** TAIWAN. 9745, GUANGHUA ZHI SHENG, 24/8 2205 UT. Música pop en idioma chino, para luego pasar a diálogos entre mujer y hombre, de forma intercalada. SINPO: 45444 (Claudio Galaz, RX: Tecsun PL-660, ANT: Hilo de 30 metros, QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** TAIWAN. 16100, SOH Wang Zhi Sheng [sic], at 1233, on 22 Aug. The station has both a male and a female announcer speaking. A musical interlude came on at 1234 with a male speaking briefly. It sounded like a station ID at 1234 followed by a female speaking with music in the background. Fair (J. Cooper, Lebanon, PA, Winradio-G33DDC, Com Radio CR-1A, RF Space-SDR-IQ, Sangean ATS-909X w/ Clear Mod, Grundig Satellit 750, Wellbrook ALA 1530+, Super Sloper Tuned All Band Antenna, PARS-SWL End Fed, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) Can you be sure it was not instead the CNR1 jammer normally heard here? Did you check for // to other CNR1 jammers?? (gh, DXLD) ** TAIWAN. 11970.10, SOH relay of Radio Free Asia, 1052-1102, Aug 27. Thanks to Dave Valko for the original tip that he was hearing this on 11970.105. Certainly does not sound like a low powered SOH operation. Nice clear ID "www.rfa.org"; programming consisted almost entirely of phone conversations and frequently gave out phone number to call. Audio of ID attached. Per Aoki: 11970*SOH relay R. FREE ASIA 2300-1400 1234567 Chinese/RFA 0.1 ND ? (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hmmm, maybe it`s really a hi-power Taiwan government transmitter, but deniably blaming SOH (gh, DXLD) ** TAIWAN [and non]. As you may have heard, I am now doing a propagation report for `Media Network Plus`. The first edition for me is August 23. This and many preceding episodes may be accessed here: http://www.pcjmedia.com/medianetworkplus Aug 23 features an interview with Dan Robinson about how inept the VOA is in covering major news, like Ferguson; and about how ept ISIS is in its media output; with my minute+ item at the end. I assume this will also appear sometime during the one-hour PCJ block on WRMI, Tuesdays at 21-22 on 7570, 15770. Also on WRN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET [non]. 11695, Aug 26 at 0120, Chinesish dialog, but reception sounds uneastasian; only scheduled is RFA in Tibetan via UAE, plus ChiCom jamming, but I think this was really RFA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. Re 14-32: 10.8.2014 15:49, 'Kai Ludwig': ``I think that 891 and 927 kHz will go dark before long, too, considering that TRT is not even interested anymore in making its Kurdish program (launched only in 2009) audible also accross the border in that collapsing country. And trying to beam Arabic programming from Mersin into Syria, as reported in late 2012, was thus just a short-lived episode.`` From where is this info? AFAIK both 1062 and 630 kHz have been on continuously and I could confirm 630 kHz at 1700 even yesterday (Mauno Ritola, Finland, Aug 22, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) http://www.radioeins.de/programm/sendungen/medienmagazin/radio_news/beitraege/2014/tuerkei_mw.html "(Mit Recherchen von Rumen Pankov; Stand vom 10.08.2014)" 73, (Günter Lorenz, ibid.) Maybe Rumen really checked 1071 kHz instead of 1062 kHz or they were temporarily off? Mustafa Cankurt also checked and only 702 kHz is actually off now. 73, (Mauno, ibid.) TURKEY/CUBA, Voice of Turkey in English vs Radio Habana Cuba English: 0300-0355 on 6165 EMR 250 kW / 138 deg to N/ME English 0400-0500 on 6165 HAB 100 kW / 340 deg to NCAm English. Video: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/voice-of-turkey-in-english-vs-radio.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, Aug 21, dxldyg via DXLD) This might be an acceptable share with widely divergent target areas and transmitter sites? I`m rarely listening during that hour, but Turkey off the back might bother Cuba in N America (gh, DXLD) 9515, V. of Turkey, English Mailbag show reading a LONG letter from a dude in New York state lamenting that Radio Shack doesn’t sell inexpensive SW radios any more. Then LOTS of filler including mention of podcasts & multilingual IDs that took up three minutes! Into “Question of the Month” about tourism in Turkey. 55555 (really) 0315- 0325 17/Aug (Ken Zichi, Port Hope MI2, MARE Tipsheet 22 Aug via DXLD) 9870, Aug 27 at 0147, TRT Spanish during music with modulation horribly pulsing on and off roughly 10 times per second, while stronger // 9770 is OK; both of course from Emirler site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY [and non]. COLLISIONS ON THE AIR 1200-1356 on 11700 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Romanian R Romania Int 1230-1325 on 11700 EMR 500 kW / 072 deg to CeAs Uyghur TRT V of Turkey http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/collisions-on-air.html -- 73! Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) ** TURKEY. 1 QSL-card from Voice of Turkey for hosting in May 2014 on the card Teep Erdogan-friendly + Stand for tea with bugs. I have until 17 stands, a lot of stolen letters in 2013-2014 (Vladimir Pivivariv, Boyarka, Ukraine / "deneb-radio-dx" via RusDX Aug 24 via DXLD) Sic! ** UKRAINE. UKRAINE REGULATOR WARNS SATELLITE PLATFORM OVER "UNLICENSED" TVS | Text of report by UK-based Broadband TV News website on 18 August Viasat [satellite pay TV provider] has been issued with a warning by Ukraine's National TV and Radio Council for a number of violations. It has also been told by Yuriy Artemenko, the council's chairman, that as a major operator it should set an example to others. Viasat has in addition been given a month to eliminate the violations. Recent monitoring by the council found that Viasat was retransmitting 49 unlicensed TV channels on its network. It was also distributing, without permission, the Russian [state-run] channels RTR Planeta and Rossiya 24. Source: Broadband TV News website, Cambridge, in English 18 Aug 14 (via BBCM via DXLD) ** UKRAINE. UKRAINE TODAY --- Although RUI has left SW a few years ago, here's an alternative to the overwhelming volume of Russian propaganda and, frankly, hate and misinformation concerning events in Ukraine. Tomorrow, August 24th, marks the 24th anniversary of Ukrainian independence and will be marked by a launch of a 24/7 English language satellite television station, which will also be streamed on-line. Here's the link: http://uatoday.tv/ There are test bars and tones on it now. 73, (Volodya/Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, Aug 23, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I tried it but it froze after 24 seconds (gh, DXLD) ** UKRAINE. Extended schedule of Radio Dniprovska Hvylya on August 23/24: 0600-0900 on 11980.1 ZPR 0.3 kW / non-dir to UKR Ukrainian CUSB Sat/Sun. Videos: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/extended-scheddule-of-radio-dniprovska.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Aug 24, dxldyg via DXLD) Could use some narrower bandwidth, adjacent channel squeals (gh, DXLD) Aug 23: Radio Dniprovska Hvylya in Ukrainian 0628 on 11980.1 CUSB Zaporizhia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T58t_1-lMBc&feature=youtu.be Radio Dniprovska Hvylya in Ukrainian 0638 on 11980.1 CUSB Zaporizhia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgMOlM2HReE&feature=youtu.be Radio Dniprovska Hvylya in Ukrainian 0700 on 11980.1 CUSB Zaporizhia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig2SuoD8Ydc&feature=youtu.be August 24 Radio Dniprovska Hvylya in Ukrainian 0812 on 11980.1 CUSB Zaporizhia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRGFgpYp2TM&feature=youtu.be Radio Dniprovska Hvylya in Ukrainian 0852 on 11980,1 CUSB Zaporizhia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW5xXGKP4VA&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via DXLD) ** UKRAINE. RUSSIA/UKRAINE: Russian state radio station "Voice of Russia" launched on Fri Aug 01 that it is broadcasting on the Crimean federal district - the inhabitants of the peninsula will be available most operative and qualitative information about the events in the Crimea and Russia as a whole. "Crimea today the most important region of Russia, and our radio station will contribute to all the changes for the better on the peninsula," - said the launch of the "Voice of Russia" Dmitry Kiselev, CEO of MIA "Russia Today", which includes a radio station. "Voice of Russia" has the largest coverage in the Crimea on the FM waves: 102.3 FM - Simferopol, Alushta, Feodosia and Bakhchisarai, 104.1 FM - in Sevastopol, Yalta, Evpatoria, Jankoi and Krasnoperekopsk, 105.3 FM - Kerch and Sudak, 107.1 FM - in Belogorskiy and Nizhnegorskiy areas, 100.2 FM - in the Chernomorskiy area. "Its main purpose - not only to inform about the events of the Crimean people in social and political life of the Russian Federation, but also to a whole new level for the peninsula illuminate the processes taking place in the republic - better, deeper, more promptly," - said the head of the regional office, "Voice of Russia "Vadim Volchenko. According to him, even during the first hour of the broadcast station to the editors received calls from dozens of listeners, "thanking us for the fact that now and in the Crimea can be heard news radio." "After all, this kind of media like no other, is able to quickly and fully to cover the most urgent and pressing issues of living in such an important historical time for it," - said Volchenko. In addition to broadcast programs "Russian service" every hour will sound operational news of the peninsula, in the morning (8:00 to 10:00) and evening (from 16:00 to 18:00) ethers observers Crimean edition will disclose information picture of the day, poll experts on the hottest topics to discuss topical issues with the audience. Also in the plans of the Crimean of Radio - the author of the program leading journalists in the region, and special projects aimed at promoting the Russian culture, literature and history. President of the Russian Federation December 9, 2013 signed a decree on the establishment of an international news agency "Russia Today" on the basis of RIA Novosti, he became general director Dmitry Kiselev. Key areas of the agency, in accordance with the decree, are informational support Russian interests abroad and the formation of a positive image of the Russian Federation. Editor in chief of the agency became the head of the Russian news channel RT (Russia Today) Margarita Simonyan. In a new agency came as Russian State Broadcasting Company "Voice of Russia" (ria.ru in OnAir.ru, via RUS-DX No. 780, Aug 10 via RusDX Aug 24 via DXLD) Russia’s President Vladimir Putin visited Crimea on Aug 14 (Editor Anatoly Klepov, ibid.) ** U K. Wavelength, no kHz --- This morning I was listening on a remote Perseus in Manchester and I heard BBC Radio Lancashire (855) announcing its wavelengths in metres only, no kHz. Is it still common in the UK? I do not think I heard it very often (Karel Honzik, Czechia, Aug 26, MWCircle yg via DXLD) ** U K [non]. Just heard BBC WS Newshour then sign-off at 1359 gmt on unlisted 15150 kHz. Does anyone know the TX site please? (Jonathan Kempster, London e14, Icom 718, heli vertical, Aug 25, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) Thailand, according to Short Wave Info, Jonathan: http://www.short-wave.info/?freq=15150 (Russ Cummings, AOR7030+, 60ft long wire, North Ferriby, East Yorkshire, UK, ibid.) Yes, via Thailand - 15150 is one of the variable frequencies used by BBCWS in the 1300-1400 slot on Sundays and Mondays instead of scheduled 15310 (other days on 15660 or 15310). There is a full list of these variables in the June issue of Communication (DX News) – page 35. BBC WS are switching certain frequencies around from day to day to try and combat Chinese jamming but its seems guaranteed to confuse listeners. 73s (Dave Kenny, ibid.) ** U S A/UNID. 3326-USB // 4986-USB. It was last February I first noted these anomalies; heard again on Aug 26 from 1039 to 1103*; Coast Guard NOAA coastal conditions along the West Coast; both weak with 3326 slightly better. Is easy for me to tell when they are on, as my daily checking on RRI Palangkaraya finds QRM on the high side of 3325. At times both // 8764-USB (strong!). Rather strange occurrences! (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, E1 & CR-1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Hi all, Does anybody know any contact info to get a QSL from New York Radio? Thanks in advance! (Artur Fernández Llorella, Spain, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Presumably referring to aeronautical WSY70 (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. 13564 approx., Aug 26 at 1402, Hifer CW beacon barely audible sending G N K slowly; some QRM from an irregular beeper. Per previous logs this is in Madison WI. I often tune across this part-15 band, usually hearing no such beacons. 13563+, Aug 27 at 0133, G N K hifer beacon from Madison WI audible again and a little stronger than before; maybe its favorite daypart (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. Re: Effective July 1, 2014, VOA cut most of its shortwave transmissions to East Asia and South Asia and reduced transmission time available for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Radio Free Asia. On 17 August 2014 The Epoch Times has an article headed "VOA, RFA to End Shortwave English Broadcasts Into China" http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/885655-voa-rfa-to-end-shortwave-english-broadcasts-into-china/ I wonder if this is actually a correct interpretation of the situation by the Epoch Times? (Mike Terry, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) The elimination of English language broadcasts to Asia was announced back in June http://swling.com/blog/2014/06/sweeping-cuts-to-voa-rfe-and-rfa-shortwave-services/ Epoch Times says "yet news is only now beginning to circulate in the Chinese press" which either means no-one in China noticed the lack of transmissions until now or else Epoch Times is struggling to find stories and has just "reworked" on old news story to fill up space (Trevor, M5AKA, Aug 26, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** U S A. Am 21.08.2014 23:22, schrieb VOA Radiogram: ``Hello friends, VOA Radiogram for this weekend includes excerpts from an interesting Radio World article about the future of shortwave broadcasting. The article includes a mention of VOA Radiogram. http://www.rhci-online.de/VoA_Radiogram_2014-08-23.htm ====================================================================== "Back to the future - VoR" ? https://www.facebook.com/groups/140783092618190/permalink/899039390125886/ Voice of Russia back on shortwave ==> 1st October 2014. A new schedule has been uploaded to HFCC - http://hfcc.org/data/schedbyfmo.php?seas=A14&fmor=GFC http://www.rhci-online.de/files/VOR_csv_2014.gif ====================================================================== (roger, Germany, Aug 24, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. VOA, 17895, 8/25/14, good reception at 1806 UT with African News Tonight, items pertaining to the Ebola outbreak. Liberia hardest hit -- VOA reports UNICEF just delivered plane loads of medical supplies to Monrovia including 27 metric tons of chlorine. 1820 with ID and headlines; 1828 with a Doctors Without Borders public health service announcement on how to prevent the spread of Ebola. 1830 s/off and Yankee Doodle signature tune (Larry Zamora, Garland, TX, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1735 monitoring: confirmed first airing at 0331 UT Thursday August 21 on WRMI, 9955, fair signal; also second airing after 1230 UT Thu Aug 21 on WRMI, 9955, plus the CCCCI from France in Chinese via Taiwan, also making a SAH. Next: UT Friday 0326v on WWRB, 3185 Friday 2130 on WRMI, 7570 & 15770 [may be previous edition] Saturday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB UT Sunday 0100 on WRMI, 5950 [was current edition last week] UT Sunday 0131 on KVOH, 9975 UT Monday 0259v on Area 51 via WBCQ, 5110v-CUSB Tuesday 1100 on WRMI, 9955 Wednesday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB Wednesday 1315 on WRMI, 9955 Wednesday 2100 on WBCQ, 7490v WORLD OF RADIO 1735 monitoring: confirmed on WWRB from 0332 UT Friday Aug 22, the previous preacher having been cut off several seconds earlier, but only heard on webcast since 3185 is off. As usual, blasts on overmodulated at first, then turned down almost enough. Since it started 2 minutes late, last minute probably cut off webcast at 0500 for KJV, but I am not monitoring then. Next: Friday 2130 on WRMI 7570 to the NW and 15770 to the NE (maybe 1734) Saturday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB, low power UT Sunday 0100 on WRMI 5950 to the south UT Sunday 0131 on KVOH 9975 to the ESE (we hope; missed last week) UT Monday 0259v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5109v-CUSB to the WSW Tuesday 1100 on WRMI 9955 to the SSE with Taiwan CCI Wednesday 0620 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB, low power Wednesday 1315 on WRMI 9955 to the SSE without QRM Wednesday 2100 on WBCQ 7490v to the WSW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hearing World of Radio currently on 15770 kHz via WRMI at 2145 GMT. Very good signal into the UK on this frequency. As mentioned by Glenn in his WoR shortwave schedules, this is last week`s edition (1734) and not the latest one. Talking about All India Radio independence day broadcast as being in the future on the 15th August. WRMI station ID at 2200 (Keith Perron's voiceover?) and then crash into Brother Stair mid-sentence talking about Ferguson shooting (Stephen Cooper, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1734 monitoring: confirmed on WRMI, 7570 & 15770, Friday Aug 22 at 2130:30, like last week playing the previous show and also repeating the double WRMI IDs, first at 2129:30 by Rudy Espinal and then at 2130:00 by Ian McFarland. Even tho 7570 is beamed toward us and 15770 is off the side, much better signal here on 15770 as the higher band is propagating much better and less absorbed over a full- daylight path. Stephen Cooper in England says 15770 was also well- heard there. (I have no trouble hearing 15770 on the portable I`m checking, as I`m not home yet after witnessing new movie ``The Giver`` at Enid`s only cinema (recommended). Must have been their smallest auditorium, #1, with only 4 or 5 rows of seats, so back row center was plenty close. On this Friday matinée première, we were the only customers, best time to see movies without distraxion from any other audience.) WORLD OF RADIO 1735: Sat 0630 & 1430 on HLR 7265-CUSB; UT Sun 0100 on WRMI 5950 (last week was new show but could repeat previous); UT Sun 0131 on KVOH 9975; UT Mon 0259v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DX LISTENING DIGEST) World of Radio edition 1735 on HLR at 0630-0700 UT on 7265 USB. Includes the Radio Nord Revival information. Very good signal. Also at 0700 UT, Radio Nord still going strong on 6065U, both on 23 August (Brock Whaley, Ireland, Aug 23, dxldyg via DXLD) WORLD OF RADIO 1734 monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday August 24 at 0100 on WRMI, 5950, following ID in Spanish; very poor signal this time, but can tell it`s last week`s show, and presumably booming into target Cuba. WORLD OF RADIO 1735 monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday August 24 at 0131 (or a few seconds earlier) on KVOH, 9975, and still going past 0145. VG signal level, with some hum and undermodulation but readable. Earlier at *0120:44, KVOH carrier overcame the JBA one from Uzbekistan, with tone test; 0125 noticed soft music playing; 0130 ID, sign on, program summary and introducing WOR. Next: UT Monday 0259v on Area 51 via WBCQ, 5109v-CUSB Tuesday 1100 & Wednesday 1315 on WRMI, 9955 Wednesday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB (Brock Whaley says it`s well heard in Ireland at 1430) Wednesday 2100 on WBCQ, 7490v (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Log Onda Corta 23 Agosto 2014: 5950, WRMI, Blues Radio International, 0150 UT. Buena Musica de Blues y Guitarra con Piano, ID de Programa en Inglés "Blues Radio International", para terminar con ID de WRMI, Okeechobee Florida a las 02 y apagan transmisor. Se escucha mejor en los 5949 debido a choque de transmision con Radio Pio XII de Bolivia que se escucha mejor en los 5953 kHz; SINPO: 44444 (Marcos Cox, Vicuña, Chile, DEGEN DE1103 + 3 meters antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17790, Aug 23 at 1402, open carrier/dead air from WRMI with R. Africa Network, like CRI via Cuba 13740, slow starts on a Saturday morning. 17790 is modulating by next check 1421, probably much earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9955, WRMI, 24/8 0136 UT. Programa “Maravillosas palabras de vida” acerca de la ciudadanía espiritual del cristiano y avisos del “Ejército de salvación”. A las 0145 comienza el programa “Viva Miami” como “Viva Okeechobee” con lectura de cartas de un estudiante de español en China y otros informes de recepción. SINPO: 55454 (Claudio Galaz, RX: Tecsun PL-660, ANT: Hilo de 30 metros, QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) 11580, Aug 24 at 0527, this WRMI BS frequency is stronger than // 11825, reverse of usual situation, with 11825 aimed toward us and 11580 off the side. What could explain? Maybe very skewed propagation routes, assuming both transmitters and antennas are operating nominally (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WRMI: MASSIVE SHORTWAVE SITE GETS NEW LEASE ON LIFE http://www.radioworld.com/article/massive-shortwave-site-gets-a-new-lease-on-life/272037 (via Mike Barraclough, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DXLD) Lots of detail, photos about technical challenges, during Family Radio era, building own transmitters and antennas with permission to copy originals (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. WRMI is 24/7 on the frequency 15770 as follows: 0000-2100 on 15770 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English Brother Stair 2100-2200 on 15770 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu Various WRMI programs 2200-2400 on 15770 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English Brother Stair Co-channel on this frequency only from All India Radio 0400-0430 on 15770 DEL 250 kW / 282 deg to WeAs Farsi 0430-0530 on 15770 DEL 250 kW / 282 deg to N/ME Arabic, video Aug. 13 0845-0945 on 15770 ALG 250 kW / 132 deg to SEAs Indonesian 1115-1215 on 15770 ALG 250 kW / 132 deg to SEAs Tamil 1215-1245 on 15770 ALG 250 kW / 132 deg to SEAs Telugu http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/08/wrmi-okeechobee-247-on-15770.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNzp4uATEx4&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqd2PCP-IbQ&feature=youtu.be (DX RE MIX NEWS #867 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, August 22, 2014 via DXLD) WRMI Okeechobee is 24/7 on the frequency 7570: 0000-2100 on 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English Brother Stair 2100-2200 on 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm Various WRMI programs 2200-2400 on 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English Brother Stair This is free from collisions, but in B-14 will be Voice of Korea: 1300-1357 on 7570 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu English 1400-1457 on 7570 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu French 1500-1557 on 7570 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu English 1600-1657 on 7570 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu French 1700-1750 on 7570 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu Korean KCBS 1800-1857 on 7570 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu English 1900-1957 on 7570 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu Spanish 2000-2057 on 7570 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu French 2100-2157 on 7570 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu English 2200-2257 on 7570 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu Spanish 2300-2350 on 7570 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu Korean KCBS WRMI Okeechobee is 24/7 on the frequency 11825: 0000-2400 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English Brother Stair Collisions and co-channels from other really active stations: 0300-0357 on 11825 GAL 300 kW / 100 deg to SoAs English R Romania Int 0900-1300 on 11825 PHT 250 kW / 349 deg to EaAs Chinese V of America 1200-1225 on 11825 EMR 500 kW / 090 deg to CeAs Turkmen TRT V Turkey 1300-1330 on 11825 BOC 100 kW / 305 deg to CeAs Tibetan FEBC Manila 1330-1400 on 11825 SDA 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs Thai KSDA AWR As/Pac 1423-1520 on 11825 AHW 250 kW / 026 deg to CeAs Russian VIRI/IRIB 1623-1650 on 11825 KAM 500 kW / 094 deg to SoAs Bengali VIRI/IRIB 1700-1757 on 11825 BEI 500 kW / 322 deg to SEEu Croatian China R Inter (DX RE MIX NEWS #867 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, August 22, 2014 via DXLD) ** U S A. 3185 & 5050, Aug 22 at 0102, both WWRB transmitters are off (and not prolonged on 9370 either), so this bodes ill for WORLD OF RADIO later. Yes, by 0300, only 5050 is on with BS, so evidently a single transmitter is currently operational instead of two. The other three 100 kW have been unusable for a long time. By 0540 check, the BS has switched to 3185 as usual after 0500. 3185, Aug 23 at 0126, WWRB is off for a second night, while still on 5050 with BS, so only one transmitter can be used. 3185 // much stronger 5050, Aug 26 at 0113, WWRB is back on both transmitters and both with Brother Scare (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15420-CUSB, UT Sat Aug 23 at 0113, TimTron is wrapping up `Allan Weiner Worldwide,` so substituted this week? Figuring out how to get back to Brother Stair. So the #4 transmitter is again in service, much later than usual 2100* for the flagship live show of WBCQ. May have been sufficient from 0000, but by now it`s only poor, and found to be // VG 9330, poor 7490, and very poor 5110, all synchronized for a change. 15420 goes to dead air for a while but I can still detect the reduced carrier, 0116 back with WBCQ ID and jingle, a bit of music, and then really off. By now 9330 is back to regular programming, 7490 to BS (confirmed by // 7570 WRMI only an echo apart with non-BS psychophant), and 5110 some other music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7489.865, odd frequency WBCQ, wandered/jumped few Hertz frequency up and down, at 0325 UT Aug 24, sermon program, like S=7 or -86dBm fair signal here in southern Germany. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7520.0, WHRI, Russian program service, radioplay heard at 0339 UT Aug 24, S=9+20dB -48dBm real nice powerful transmission, excellent 10 kHz wideband audio on 7514.4 to 7525.4 kHz. Meant for Russian audience in Europe? Only Sat / Sun 03-04 UT with 250 kW at slewed 47 degrees to CIRAF zones 19 and 29 in Northern Europe. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 12105, Aug 21 at 1946, WTWW-3 is off (while neighbor 12160 WWCR is blasting in); while the other WTWWs on 9930 and 9475 are also blasting in. 12105 still AWOL at next check 0054 Aug 22, unimpeding the CODAR swishes. {Query: what effect if any does QRM from strong broadcast signals have on CODAR fulfilling missions successfully??}. 12105, Aug 23 at 0106, WTWW is still off. Looks like #3 transmitter is totally down. 12105, Aug 23 at 1817 check, and after 0100 UT Aug 24, WTWW-3 is still off. 5085 & 12105, Aug 25 at 0126, both WTWW-2 and WTWW-3 are off, but 9475, WTWW-1 remains on. 3 has been off for several days already, now joined by 2. 5085 & 9930 are off at 1217 Aug 25, while 5830 is on. They are obviously suffering critical technical/operational problems. 5085, Aug 26 at 0112, WTWW-2 is still AWOL, and so is WTWW-3 from 12105, leaving only WTWW-1 on 9475. At 0536 Aug 26, however, all three are back on: 5085 with BS, 5830 with music from SFAW, and even 12105 with talk, the latter only fair signal not sufficient to overcome CODAR. At 1335, 12105 is off as usual at this hour. 12105, Aug 27 at 0152, WTWW-3 is on with separate SFAW preaching not // 9475; unlike 9475, 12105 does not have a constant big hum; and 5085 with BS is also on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 13845, WWCR with Whackadoodle Preacher who never once said his name, church or any other identifying information (which in retrospect is probably wise of him -- it gives plausible deniability!) calling HIV & Ebola a racist plot by the Illuminati so they can take over Africa after all the people there die & other equally crazy stuff sprinkled with JUST a touch of truth to make it compelling to listen to. Kind of like a car crash you just HAVE to look at it! “Drop in” WWCR ID at ToH continuing on with the Whack job. 5554+4+ 1531-1601 16/Aug (Ken Zichi, Port Hope MI2, MARE Tipsheet 22 Aug via DXLD) [and non]. 15795, Aug 23 at 1401, preacher in English and nothing on 15825, so WWCR has failed to change frequency at 1200 --- or a deliberate extension? Still there at 1421, 1533, 1709. Sked at http://www.wwcr.com/transmitter-sched.html still shows *1200* change effective till Aug 31 (and modified sked after that not yet up). It really doesn`t matter as nothing else is scheduled on either frequency 24h except: 15795, 1145-1315 AIR in Chinese: HFCC says analog, Aoki & EiBi say DRM. Really? How is that faring against ChiCom CNR1/Firedrake jamming, as in EiBi but not Aoki? Anyhow, WWCR would already be conflicting with that. WWCR is really registered for 15795 until 1300, but no more. Moving 30 kHz down permanently would slightly increase their potential audience via multi-band but not general coverage receivers which don`t go all the way up to 15825. Original decision to go to the far right of the 15 MHz band did avoid interference problems as a trade-off, but no longer really necessary. And does anyone recall where the 15 MHz broadcast band officially ends per ITU allocations? I don`t. [Later:] My DX-398 thinx it`s 15800 warning with a beep; confirmed by FCC, per Jim, K5JG, 19m band runs 15100-15800, as on page 14 of: http://transition.fcc.gov/oet/spectrum/table/fcctable.pdf With 15825 officially in a fixed utility band, it would be subject to complaints from non-broadcast users taking priority, especially if US government/military, but has lasted many years without any. 15825, Aug 24 at 1315, WWCR is back on its proper frequency today after multi-hour excursion to 15795 yesterday; gospel huxter in progress (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 11550 // much weaker 12050, Aug 25 at 1225-1228, great organ music by Handel (I think), interlude in daily mass from WEWN, back to banal Latin/English, with voiceovers in banal Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7505+, Aug 23 at 0132, WRNO gospel-huxter marring himself with big humbuzz, even worse on the sidebands when stepping to 7500, 7510 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7505.257, WRNO noted here in Germany Europe at 0332 UT Aug 24, S=9+10dB -64dBm fluttery and accompanied by some BUZZ peaks visible on browser screen too, woman chorus at 0331 UT, then followed by - surprisingly - "Holy Night" Christmas carol, sung in English language. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. KJES, 11715, 8/26/14, with solid S-9 signal at 1435 UT with repeating biblical scripture readings (Larry Zamora, Garland, TX, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 630, Aug 23 at 1837 UT on caradio, weak almost readable talk signal, in the absence of IBOC from 640 KWPN Moore, but in the presence of some AM splatter. Surely KHOW Denver at the edge of its 5 kW groundwave while in a quiet spot, 5 minutes after local mean noon. Could not hear it an hour later driving elsewhere in Enid. Per sked at http://www.khow.com/onair/saturday/ it`s `America`s Wealth Management Show` during this hour only on Saturdays. Comparable signal to 50 kW KLTT, 670, which is more commonly heard here in daytime, noise level permitting. On 630, day lobe favors SSW from Denver, but not a complete null toward us, while at nite we have a lobe right at us; on 670, daytime lobe is mostly to the WSW, also unfavorable; per the NRC AM Pattern Book (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, take a look at Radio Locator. It seems to me that while there are prominent lobes as aforementioned, It seems both of them seem to go more your way. Sincerely, (Todd Skaine, Woodbury, MN, ABDX via DXLD) Yes, those are quite a bit at variance with the Pattern Book maps. On 670, I mixed up the day and night lobes, so it`s the night one to the WSW and with only 1400 watts, I can`t say I`ve ever heard KLTT at night vs WSCR, KHGZ, and CMBAs (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 750, Aug 21 at 0541 UT, KAMA El Paso is *still* running 10 kW day power and/or non-direxional, totally dominating frequency instead of WSB Atlanta which it is obliged to protect. Spanish call-in talk format; still the case at next check 1049 UT, caller about a terremoto, making slow SAH with algo, WSB? 1124 UT with Univisión América ID. 750, Aug 25 at 0531 UT, KAMA El Paso TX is *still* owning the channel, with Spanish talk from Univisión América, totally blotting out any WSB; presumably not only non-direxional, but 10 kW day power illegally (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 770, Aug 21 at 1125 UT, ``Newsradio 770, KKOB`` ID and Dr. Sanjay Gupta, good signal. At this early hour, Albuquerque should still be on night pattern with null toward WABC. As usual we are uncertain whether a bit of the 50 kW may be bleeding around the null not exactly toward us too; or the 230-watt ND filler in Santa Fe which operates only while the main rig is on DA. Attn CPC test arrangers: as I suggested years ago, but it never happened, try to get KKOB to do a DX test by turning off the main transmitter, however briefly, while still modulating the Santa Fean, so tuners can be certain that`s what they are picking up (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. UNIDENTIFIED. 840, Aug 21 at 0544 UT, romantic music in Spanish with WHAS nulled, while DF of this signal is close to N/S from here. 0545 UT non-ID slogan as ``noticias, deportes, entretenimiento todo el día; 840 AM te escucha``, more romx. Format doesn`t fit for any of the listed Mexicans in the IRCA Log. DF fits for KVJY Pharr (RGV) TX, but which in the NRC AM Log of last year was NWS/TLK ``Informativa 840``; while Radio-locator.com now calls it Radio Luz, which implies religion. 1 kW at night, it has a null toward WHAS but some signal to the north. Altho DF seemed wrong, another possibility in WHAS null would be CMHW in Santa Clara, CUBA; would the slogan above fit it? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 840, Aug 21 at 1057 UT, another try at the unID Spanish I was hearing 5+ hours earlier, now says ``Fórmula, detrás de las noticias, Grupo Fórmula`` . . . ``1,500 AM``. 1058 UT into choral Mex NA, and I make the mistake of tuning away, for at 1100 UT it`s already over and into news. Trouble is, I can`t find any Fórmula stations listed on 840, in Cantú or IRCA; and the Fórmula website is totally unhelpful, no station lists found. 1500, however, surely refers to their ``segunda cadena`` flagship XEDF in the DF (replacing what was one of our favorites relayed on SW sesquidecades ago, XERH/XEHR ``desde la muy noble y real Ciudad de México`` on 11880). That doesn`t necessarily mean this 840 station is on the Fórmula-2 net; it could have been just cross-promotion on the - 1 net originating with 970 XERFR. Presumably not the same as the other 840 unID in Spanish. Fórmula has this annoying habit of constantly referring to and IDing for the flagship frequency in Mexico City, meaningless and confusing on the numerous affiliates (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DX LISTENING DIGEST) http://ramsa.radioformula.com/estaciones.php?id=26 I don't think they've updated this list in years (Martin Foltz, CA, IRCA via DXLD) That listing is by major city, not state and not minor city of license, but I don`t find any 840 matches to those in Martin`s IRCA Mexican Log (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) Looks like KVJY carries R. Fórmula programming per their website http://informativorg.com/programacion/ which also displays the "noticias, deportes, entretenimiento" slogan. Here's an old report from when KVJY changed format in 2011 http://www.radiodiscussions.com/showthread.php?631451-ANOTHER-FLIP-FOR-KVJY-840-AM-%28Currently-FOX-Sports%29 (Bruce Conti, NH, mwdx yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DXLD) Viz.: Thread: ANOTHER FLIP FOR KVJY 840 AM (Currently FOX Sports) 08-20-2012, 12:15 AM #1 Bordercaster I was told that the new ownership (R Communications) is interested in flipping the only RGV Sports station to a News talk format; they also own KURV 710 AM. The kicker here is that they are going to feed it Radio Fórmula programming from Mexico City and have a local news segment with people that imported from México. All the Mexico City news formats are already on Mexican frequencies that can be heard Valleywide including Radio Fórmula, so it's anybody`s guess if they did any Market research on this move! I believe they flip tomorrow Aug 20th 08-20-2012, 03:13 AM #2 fredcantu Who is carrying Radio Formula in Matamoros or Reynosa? Their main affiliate XHRV 89.5 flipped to Exa FM months ago. This would not be the first Radio Fórmula affiliate to broadcast to Mexico from the US side. KXPL AM 1060 in El Paso was the RF affiliate for Cd. Juárez for many years. 08-22-2012, 12:32 AM #3 Bordercaster XEO 970 carries Fórmula in Matamoros XE?? 1110 carries Fórmula in Reynosa XHRV 89.5 has a very poor signal and not many in the Matamoros Market knew they had the Radio Fórmula feed and now much less with its current format. 08-22-2012, 12:37 AM #4 Bordercaster KXPL is owned by one of the owners of Radiorama from Mexico City. Their stations in Cd. Juárez are in LMA with the Aguirre family of Radio Centro. Same people operating KXOS Los Ángeles 08-22-2012, 03:35 AM #5 fredcantu NotiGape in Matamoros and Reynosa actually carry very little Radio Fórmula. They produce a good deal of their own programming. http://www.notigape.com/ Radio Fórmula is probably looking for someone to clear more of their lineup. Some Mexican markets repeat THREE Radio Fórmula networks fulltime. 08-26-2012, 03:12 AM #6 willdav713 You are also forgetting 102.3 in San Antonio. They also broadcast Radio Formula. 08-26-2012, 06:59 AM #7 fredcantu 1500/102.3 carry an American version of Radio Formula from a company called "Radio Formula Networks." The border stations are affiliated directly the actual Mexican Radio Formula (via DXLD) ** U S A. 850, Aug 26 at 0131 UT, piano hymn into organ music, good with KOA nulled, and DFing for The Metroplex, so no doubt KJON Carrollton TX, Guadalupe Radio Network (Catholic) on the facility hijacked from Anadarko OK without even changing the call letters. Is this after LSS in August? I`ll have to check FCC AM Query when Internet comes back (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) {Yes, sunset at 0115 UT in Aug, 0030 in Sept, so cheating, and no PSSA} {{But may really have been KFUO St Louis as authorised}} ** U S A [and non]. Spent last week at my 2nd home in Grafton WI to hopefully DX, but T-storm QRM didn't allow much. I did note KHAC 880 [Window Rock AZ/NM border] o/u Gospel from KLRG [AR] on my DU BOG (480 ft at 243 deg) on my 1100 UT (7 am EDT) recording with a nice ID Monday morning 8/18. All the audio seems to be on USB as there's basically no trace on LSB. It was hetted at times by a 882 carrier which I presume was from Oz but never has come within 5 dB of what I feel is needed for trace audio. 73 KAZ (Neil Kazaross, Grafton WI, NRC-AM via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DXLD) ** U S A. 910, Aug 21 at 1113 UT, ``91-Country KCJB`` ID in passing, notice of school opening delay until 10 am somewhere around Minot ND, due to power outage caused by lightning (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. [980] KFWB is CBS Sports (Jim Rome, etc.). As of a few days ago they had barely begun to update their web site. The main CBS web site for LA (cbsla.com) mentions KNX but not KFWB at all. 73 (Tim Hall, CA, Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile, ABDX via DXLD) That's because CBS doesn't legally own KFWB and hasn't since 2009 or thereabouts. The station has been in a divestiture trust to keep CBS under the ownership cap for the market, and CBS has been under increasing legal pressure to completely separate KFWB from the rest of the CBS LA operations. It's carrying "CBS Sports Radio," yes, but at an arm's-length distance - while CBS provides the programming for that network, the network is distributed by Cumulus. It's my understanding that at some point soon, KFWB will move out of the Wilshire Blvd. studios it shares with KNX, KTWV, KRTH and KAMP-FM (Scott Fybush, ibid.) ** U S A. 1010-, Aug 23 at 0139 UT, big het on low side loops east- west; keyboard not handy, but estimated pitch a little below Middle C. Something new, and already IDed a sesquihour earlier tnx to tip from Brandon Jordan near Memphis: ``1009.772, WHIN, Gallatin, TN, 23 Aug 0010 - WHIN with a significant offset with Beech Buccaneers vs Station Camp Bison's high school football, local spots. Fair in LSB but causing a major het on 1010 kHz. 73, Brandon Jordan, Fayette County, TN`` That makes 228 Hz off any 1010.000 stations, or between A and B-flat below Cm. I really can`t isolate its modulation among the QRM, but something sounds like a baseball game, and also a preacher, probably KXEN. Then I am also hearing: 1010, Aug 23 at 0143 UT, mention of Colorado and area code 719 --- presumably KSIR in Brush (Fort Morgan) (former WORLD OF RADIO affiliate), still on 25 kW day power until 0200 UT in Aug (0100 UT in Sept), pattern a tight figure-8 slightly CCW from east-west, so some but not much signal hereward. It`s in AC 970, but close to 719 which encompasses more than the SE quadrant of spherical rectangle CO (except for a bit of jog along the Utah border, bad surveying?) (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DX LISTENING DIGEST) It's not an offset. They are off frequency and have been for some years. They are too cheap to get that fixed on the old Harris MW-5 transmitter. The FCC ought to fine them (Powell E Way III, SC, ABDX via DXLD) By ``offset`` I don`t think he meant it was deliberate (gh) ** U S A. 1060, Aug 21 at 1109 UT, large steady open carrier, WSW/ENE, so no doubt KIJN Farwell TX, perpetually cheating daytimer; at least not modulating now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. DelDOT Continues to Dominate 1380 Here in Delaware, the Delaware Department if Transportation has a HAR/TIS station on 1380, WTMC from Wilmington, with 520/14 watts. DelDOT continues to expand their network of 10-watt stations on 1380 statewide. DelDOT only announces their Wilmington, Dover and Rehoboth Beach stations but I have also noticed outlets on 1380 in the following locations in Delaware: 1. North Smyrna, near exit 119 on Route 1 2. South Smyrna, near exit 114 on Route 1 3. North Dover, near exit 104 on Route 1 4. South Dover, near exit 98 on Route 1 5. Summit Bridge, along Route 896 6. Middletown, near exit 136 on Route 1 7. Little Heaven, along Route 1 8. Bridgeville along US 13 9. Milford, near the intersection of US 113 and Route 1 And this may not even be a complete list. The 10-watt stations can be spotted by the distinctive white transmitters with the circular fixtures at the top- they are popping up like mushrooms here in Delaware (John Cereghin, Smyrna DE, Aug 23, ABDX via DXLD) These are the DE TIS listings on 1380 from the latest TIS/HAR list. 1380 WQOS686 DE Middletown New Castle Delaware Department of Transportation (DE1 and DE 299) 1380 WQOS686 DE Middletown New Castle Delaware Department of Transportation (US 301 and DE 896) 1380 WQPV770 DE Middletown New Castle Deleware Department of Transportation (US 301 and DE 299) 1380 WQPV770 DE Milford Kent Deleware Department of Transportation (DE 1 and Thompsonville Rd N) 1380 WQPV771 DE Millsboro Sussex Deleware Department of Transportation (US 113 at Town Center Blvd) 1380 WQPV770 DE Nassau Sussex Deleware Department of Transportation (US 9 and DE 1) 1380 WPRH381 DE Newark New Castle Delaware Department of Transportation (I-95 and Rt 896) 1380 WQPV770 DE Newark New Castle Deleware Department of Transportation (DE 273 and S College Ave) 1380 WQPV771 DE Ocean View Sussex Deleware Department of Transportation (DE 26 at Central Ave) 1380 WPRH381 DE Rehoboth Beach Sussex Delaware Department of Transportation (Darts Lot off Country Club Rd) 1380 WQUD296 DE Seaford Sussex Deleware Department of Transportation (US 13 at Herring Run Rd) 1380 WPRH381 DE Smyrna Kent Delaware Department of Transportation (Access Rd to Rt 1 and Rt 13-SW quad) 1380 WPRH381 DE Smyrna Kent Delaware Department of Transportation (Public Service Pool) 1380 WQPV771 DE Smyrna New Castle Deleware Department of Transportation (DE 1 at US 13) (Phil Bytheway, IRCA President / Goodie Factory, Seattle WA, Drake R-7 / KIWA Loop, [now selling a new edition of the TIS/HAR list], ibid.) ** U S A. 1530, Aug 22 at 0545 UT, KXTD OK remains compliant with daytime-only license for now, after at least six nights of 24-houring, reaudiblizing a perennial cheater, KCMN Colorado Springs supposed to be 15 watts at night instead of 15,000 day power; a break in music for CS and Pueblo weather forecast on ``I-25 Radio``; now it`s the dominant signal, better than BS on WCKY or KLBW in TX if it`s still cheatin` too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1590, Aug 23 at 0129 UT, lucky catch just as I tune across, ``right here on KELP``, and then singing ID. 5 kW day pattern from El Paso TX is very favorable for us with broad lobe centered northeast. Its day ends at 0145 UT in Aug (0115 UT in Sept). Last year`s NRC AM Log shows religious format, partly in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1630, Aug 22 at 0122 UT, uptempo banda music loops NW/SE, 0123 UT DJ in Spanish, 0130 UT ID mentions 1630 but can`t make out the slogan, presumably still La Jota instead of Gran-D, the only SS around here, KRND in Fox Farm WY [Cheyenne]. Somewhat separable from KKGM The Metroplex, not exactly in opposite direxion, with praise music in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. EARTHQUAKE SETS A NEW CBS WEB RECORD: Radio Today August 26, 2104 Listeners didn’t just flock to on-air coverage — but also raced to the web to find out what was happening. CBS says its San Francisco portal, which is shared by its radio and TV stations, saw its total page views set a new one-day record with 1,243,978 page views on Sunday. That was helped by the quick posting of the news. Napa quake a fresh reminder for radio preparedness: A middle of the night 6.0 magnitude earthquake early Sunday is serving as a reminder to broadcasters in the Bay Area and beyond to be prepared for any disaster that may strike. But in a region where the “Big One” could come tomorrow, or 15 years from now, stations are standing at the ready. See http://www.insideradio.com/ for more (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) In the first hour or so after the quake, which most up much of the Bay Area, KCBS was the only outlet providing news. KGO AM was in network programming and the TV stations had nothing on air until about 4:30 am (Martyn Williams, CA, Aug 27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UZBEKISTAN. Aug 25: Voice of Martyrs in Korean to N Korea 1608 on 7530 Tashkent + 2nd harmonic 15060 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d7IOEWo_5s&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) ** VATICAN. Vatican Radio, 15570, 8/25/14, with poor to fair signal at 1735 UT with news reports from various African countries all pertaining to Ebola outbreak situations. 1740 ID: "You are listening to the daily African service of Vatican Radio". 1750 Music (Larry Zamora, Garland, TX, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM. 12019.098, "Colourful Vietnam" program in progress at 1149 UT Aug 25, V of Vietnam from Son Tay site noted in English service, S=9+10 -67dBm signal strength, via remote SDR units downunder in Queensland and Sydney. Hit heavily by annoying QRM of ute RTTY station on 12015.0 kHz. 12000.0, Voice of Vietnam's Russian service at 1152 UT on Aug 25, on S=9+10dB -66dBm strength (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 25, dxldyg via DXLD)) [non]. QSL - Voice of Vietnam via Cypress Creek 6175, sent a QSL card after 87 days for a report to englishsection -at- vov.org.vn I have several QSLs to report this time. Most of them took a long time to arrive, averaging about 1.5 years after sending my original reports (Bruce Portzer, WA, Aug 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** YEMEN. 24/08/2014, 1902 UT, 6135.0 kHz, Republic of Yemen Radio - Al Hiswah/Aden, Com OM/YL Música Madonna, Englist, 33333 (Antonio Madrid, QTH: Moraleda (Granada) - España/Spain, coordenadas: 37º 08' 48'' N - 003º 56' 42'' O; Altitud: 625 metros. RX: Kenwood R5000; ANT: Dipolos de 100 y 60 metros. WWW: http://www.elradioescucha.net http://www.elradioescucha.net Hecho con Log-Report: http://www.log- report.tk playdx yg via DXLD) About to sign-off? (gh) ** UNIDENTIFIED. 153 kHz: someone giving Germany a 3 Hz SAH. Some speech heard but the signal is so weak against Germany, I could not make out a language. 1215 on a stock car radio on the west coast of Ireland. Heard in the parking lot at the famous Cliffs of Moher. Algeria supposedly has a null towards this location and only sends 2 kW from their 2,000 kW here at 1470 miles water path. Romania runs 200 kW but it is land path at 1600 miles, and the Warsaw blaster on 225 also over land could not be heard at this QTH. Perhaps it was my most wanted Norway. I’ve heard both Algeria and Romania at night at the home QTH, while Norway remains elusive. But I’ll keep trying. There’s fun in the chase! Maybe it’s time to coil some wire on a few large oatmeal cylinder containers, and try some 153 kHz phasing. 23 August (Brock Whaley, WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 930, Aug 23 at 0549 UT, Coast to Coast AM affiliate // countless others, audible with WKY OKC nulled. Searching 930 at http://www.coasttocoastam.com/stations goes to NY, SD, MD, KY, IL and WY. Of those, most likely would be WTAD in Quincy IL as logged a number of times here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1510-, Aug 23 at 0132 UT, Mexican music vs WLAC, making low rumble SAH, very slightly on the lo side. 0133 UT, SHVA (super- hype voice actor) in what sounds like a full ID with slogans, but too much QRM and fade to make anything out. Rough DF for it maybe NE/SW, and best with WLAC nulled, which means aiming N/S. So what is it not? KNNS in Larned KS which flipped off Spanish in March. Last year`s NRC AM Log shows three of the 1510 Texans in Spanish, but as daytimers should be off by 0100 or 0115 UT in August per FCC AM Query (admittedly an often unwarranted assumption). IRCA Mexican Log shows a good possibility, a new radio station I was unaware of, XEQI, La Nueva Radio in Monterrey NL, listed as 50 kW day power, cutting to 250 watts at night. Need to keep after this one! BTW, no higher het, lower below 1510 at this time from KCTE, Independence MO (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 13547-USB, Aug 26 at 0122, 2-way in colloquial Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 18000-USB, Aug 26 at 0108, checking for possible third harmonic of RHC 6000, instead hear 2-way in Spanish with crackles (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1736: Thanks to John R. Smith, Jr., for 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 really want to thank you for your tireless efforts that you do each and every day. Your show is a big part of my life and I anxiously await each week`s new edition. I just turned 38 but I have been listening since the mid 1990 s. I used to be a senior development engineer at Honda in Marysville Ohio and I would always print the latest DX Listening Digest to read on the international flights. I've since had to leave due to Crohn's disease but that gives me more time to listen at home. During many of my travels, many to third world countries, I was able to see the importance shortwave radio had on people. I purchased many decent portable radios and gave them away to people in need. I helped start the local Columbus Ohio NASWA chapter that meets out at Universal radio monthly. In our discussions I am able to cite you and your DX listening digest in many of the discussions we have out there! They tend to look to me for the most current information on shortwave radio happenings thanks to you and your efforts!!! I read your logins daily and have a notebook solely dedicated to information you provide that I use when I am DXing. I wish you good health and good listening and again thanks for all you guys do for this great hobby. I am forever indebted to you, (Chris Campbell, Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android, Aug 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Chris, Tnx for your very kind remarks. It makes my day to have some response like yours (Glenn to Chris, via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CRTC LET'S TALK TV: PROPOSING SHUTTING DOWN TRANSMITTERS As part of its consultation on the future of television in Canada, the CRTC has published this working document: http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2014/2014-190-3.htm#a1 "Local stations would no longer have to operate transmitters. This would reduce some costs for struggling local stations so that they can continue to offer Canadians a local presence in their communities." Opening the door to ending OTA??? -------------- TV-FM antenna: Channel Master 3671 @ 35 feet AG FM receiver: SANGEAN HDT-1 TV: ZENITH DTT-901 + SONY HDTV Scanner Antenna: Diamond Discone D130J @ 25 feet AG Scanner: Uniden BC370CRS All Band Receiver: ICOM R-8500 All Band antenna: Create log-periodic 5130-2n @ 25 feet AG ------------- Personal weather website: http://www.meteo-brossard.com 73, (Charles Gauthier, Brossard, QC (FN35 GL), Aug 21, WTFDA via DXLD) IT BETTER NOT HAPPEN HERE IN THE USA. Americans here are discovering the OTA sub-channels and are disconnecting to Cable and Satellite since many sub-channels are offering a decent alternative. I am considering dropping cable to save $150 per month and go OTA all the way. I am well AWARE and know that the FCC wants to have TV stations discontinue using transmitters and broadcasting OTA and strictly to cable and Satellite. Course if that happens, WTFDA will die a sudden death, or at least change the name of the organization to World FM DX Association (WFDA) from (WTDFA). Let`s just hope the FCC will continue to offer OTA! (John Lentz, Franklin, WI, ibid.) The end will come. Sooner than you think. OTA is not financially viable. It survives only because of what it can bring to the program provider - like low numbered channel assignments and guaranteed carriage. Every cable network is building Internet and on-demand service. This is what people want. TV ratings now include 'air date plus three days. 'Portable TVs are called iPhones and iPads. Digital OTA is incapable of feeding portables or remote locations like your convenience store. One-play-only RF TV just doesn't fit today's technology and lifestyle. I want to see it now - not at 8 pm! Virtual channels are an interesting case. Very cheap to run - Programming is often public domain. You are watching a server playback stuff just like iTunes plays music to your playlist. No additional transmitter or facility overhead. Special feature: The programming may be 30 years old but it is watchable. No blood, no people slaying people, no salacious stories to feed a cheap thrill. Jeez. Jack Benny is funny without blood, sex and bad language. How did he do that? I'm tired of all this unwatchable, un-entertaining junk. Don't network execs know that people have completely rejected this stuff? Obviously not - and never will. A big rating is a three share! Please hand me a book (Karl Zuk, NY, ibid.) It will happen eventually. On a recent trip top Boston and the mountains and other stops and visits in between, we were very happy with the free XM radio service. It did cut out a bit in some mountain areas, but so did OTA FM. I'd expect an eventual transition or move, and that process could offer very interesting times for FM (and TV) DXers. As TV DXers in many parts of northern US and Canada have found, getting double-hop with relative ease into central and South America. I wonder what would end up on the FM band if and when broadcasters were to shutter or shift off elsewhere. I think it's safe to say this hobby will look very different in 10-20 years (Saul Chernos, Ont., ibid.) Maybe that's part of the reason why Univision was the number one network for the second consecutive July in the U.S., beating ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC. http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/07/31/univision-is-the-1-network-for-the-second-consecutive-july-sweep-among-both-adults-18-49-and-adults-18-34/289148/ (Steve Rich, Indianapolis, IN, ibid.) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See ETHIOPIA; FINLAND; INDIA; NIGERIA; ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ USA: WWCR [some just as QRDRM] DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Re: Sangean HDT-1 So I tested it out today. 50% of the time I got a lock on WCCO at around 25 miles. I had forgotten about 740 WDGY at 10 miles which was a solid lock. FM yielded HD on 89.3 91.1 92.5 93.7 94.5 which had 1500 KSTP On HD2. That locked only 50% of the time. Never got a lock 97.1 strangely enough. 98.5 99.5 100.3- which has K-LOVE on HD-3. 101.3 102.1 102.9- which also has WCCO on HD-2. No lock on 104.1, 106.1 didn`t lock but transmitter I believe is north of Anoka which is over 30 miles. 107.1- for 25 kw locked but no HD-2 and 107.9 locked which is also north of Anoka. Aside from the aforementioned and 89.3 all other frequencies are from the city of Shoreview mega towers-15+miles. Sincerely, (Todd Skaine, Woodbury, MN, ABDX via DXLD) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ Report showing how BBC Monitoring's sources of information have largely changed: USING SKILL AND TECHNOLOGY TO NAVIGATE THE AIRWAVES http://www.bbc.co.uk/monitoring/how-do-we-find-our-sources (via Mike Barraclough, dxldyg via DXLD) SHORTWAVE BROADCASTING CONTINUES DECLINE AMID NEWER TECHNOLOGY, REPORT FINDS --- Peter Miller, Hartford Hobby Radio Examiner August 22, 2014 http://www.examiner.com/article/shortwave-broadcasting-continues-decline-amid-newer-technology-report-finds There's something warm and comforting about the crackle of static and the hunt for signals on shortwave radio, even as our lives are immersed in digital technology. For those of us still tuning through the white noise, there are fewer international broadcasters to hear, as migration continues to the Internet, FM radio and satellite TV. That's the not-so-surprising finding of a report by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), overseers of the taxpayer-funded Voice of America and its affiliates, Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. The report, titled "To Be Where the Audience Is" suggests further cuts in traditional high-powered VOA radio transmissions aimed overseas, and a change to more Internet feeds, FM radio broadcasts and TV programming. It finds that listening habits have changed drastically in only a decade. Among the findings: People living in Asia and much of the Middle East have very little, if any reliance on shortwave radio and most get information from FM radio, and domestic and satellite television. Younger people in particular have abandoned shortwave radio for devices of the digital age - especially computers and smartphones, wherever they are available. Satellite TV is a growing trend, especially in the Middle East where it's officially banned in some countries. "Populations continue to gravitate to them (satellite dishes) because of both the richness of content available and the opportunity for interactions that so many repressed populations desperately want," the report states. It also notes that the repressive regimes of Syria and Iran have not been able to confiscate all of the satellite receivers in use, and now acknowledge that large segments of the population watch "prohibited" content. Shortwave isn't completely dead, though. The report found a large listener base in Nigeria and Burma, with more than six million listeners each, followed by Ethiopia, Sudan, Iran and Zimbabwe, with about four million each. In those regions, VOA will continue to reach targeted shortwave audiences. Glenn Hauser, editor of "DX Listening Digest" and host of "World of Radio" has been monitoring and writing about shortwave for more than 30 years. He tells Examiner.com that it's a tough time to be a shortwave hobbyist: "I can only lament the general demise of international shortwave broadcasting. However, there is also an apparent trend downward in solar activity, which means poorer propagation conditions, so even if a lot of stations weren`t closing, it might have become harder and harder to get reliable reception." "What will become of all that vacated spectrum? Nothing beats hearing a station direct from the source, even if reception is imperfect, but not everyone gets it," he said. Voice of America was founded during World War II on a 640-acre transmitter site in Bethany, Ohio. That site is now decommissioned and has become a museum, but other VOA sites are active in Greenville, North Carolina and the island nation of Sao Tome. Today VOA provides international news and entertainment programming in over 60 languages with an annual budget of more than $200 million. An interesting multimedia history of VOA can be found here: http://www.insidevoa.com/section/voa_history/2330.html (via Peter Miller, DXLD) NEW SOULRA/ETON RADIOS - UK AVAILABILITY I e-mailed Eton Corp some weeks ago about availability in the UK of their new Soulra (Eton) radios (that is: Mini 400, Field, Traveller III and Satellit). Just had a reply back saying they will be available in October. No further details (i.e. price) were given (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, Aug 23, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) CALL FOR DX TEST EPHEMERA Dear NRC and IRCA members -- Greetings from your new DX Test Coordinator. I believe we have been without any DX Test coordination for a few years, so do not expect too much this first year. Notice the Coordinator title, no more Chairmen. My sole experience at this, besides being a consumer of DX Tests, is hosting the hosting the old DXTests.Info web site. No miracles happening here, at least without YOUR help. I am working on the following media: Web site: http://dxtests.net/ Twitter: @AMDXTests Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/AM-Radio-DX-Tests/237526606438016 (please like) Now that is out of the way, I am looking for a few things: 1. Most importantly, volunteers to reach out to your CE contacts to set up tests, duh. 2. Historical IRCA/NRC DX Test/CPC brochures/documents/ephemera. 3. DX Test QSL card/letter scans Regarding #1, rest assured that the person who initiates a test will get full credit. Too many test credit hijacks have happened in the past decade to the detriment of everyone chasing DX Tests. That stops here. You will get kudos for your hard work. Make the initial contact, point them here for coordination and you will get full credit. Regarding #2, we need any and all CPC/DX Test documentation. I have already received some excellent documents from a past CPC/DX Test Chairman and I know there has to be much more out there. Scan, copy, fax what ever and send it on. The more we have on the web site, the better for the folks at the stations to see this is a long tradition and not some random nonsense. Regarding #3, not much needs to be said besides scan your QSLs and send them in. See #2. Most importantly, I am looking for the past CPC/DX Test chairman/coordinators to pitch in with your expertise. 73, (Brandon Jordan, TN, NRC-AM via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ LAKE MICHIGAN MID-LAKE BANDSCAN At 307 miles long, the middle of Lake Michigan is the perfect place for a Sunday evening bandscan aboard a 410-foot steamship. 193 stations up to 269 miles and spanning five states. I don't often DX on the water, and I suppose not many other people do either. After all, the wind was ripping the earphones out of my ears, ash from the coal-powered ship was raining down on me, and I had to hold onto my paper log for dear life as I dealt with frequencies loaded with as many as five stations at a time. For those interested, I've posted it on the forums in a nicely formatted manner and it can be compared to my Ludington bandscan taken immediately after on the beach: http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?9179-Lake-Michigan-Mid-Lake-Bandscan (Chris Kadlec, Fremont, Mich., Aug 21, WTFDA via DXLD) Solar activity forecast for the period August 22 - 28, 2014 Activity level: mostly low to high X-ray background flux (1.0-8.0 A): in the range B2.0-B9.5 Radio flux (10.7 cm): a fluctuation in the range 110-170 f.u. Events: class C (1-15/day), class M (0-5/day), class X (0-1/period), proton (0-1/period) Relative sunspot number (Ri): in the range 35-140 RWC Prague, Astronomical Institute, Solar Dept., Ondrejov, Czech Republic e-mail: sunwatch(at)asu.cas.cz Geomagnetic activity forecast for the period Aug 22 to Aug 28, 2014 quiet: Aug 23 to 28 quiet to unsettled: Aug 22 unsettled: 0 active: 0 minor storm: 0 major storm: 0 severe storm: 0 Geomagnetic activity summary: geomagnetic field was quiet on Aug 14, 15, 16, 18 and 20, quiet to unsettled on Aug 17, unsettled on Aug 19. RWC Prague, Geophysical Institute Prague, Geomagnetic Dept, Czech Republic GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY FORECAST FOR THE PERIOD AUGUST 22 - SEPTEMBER 9, 2014 Geomagnetic field will be: quiet on September 4 - 5, 7 mostly quiet on August 25, September 1 - 2, 8 quiet to unsettled on August 22, 24, September 3, 6, 9 quiet to active on August 26 - 29, 31 active to disturbed August 23, 30 Amplifications of the solar wind are expected on August (31,) September (1 - 3,) 7 - 9 Remark: - 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 25 0742 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 18 - 24 August 2014 Solar activity ranged from low to high levels. Low levels persisted from 18 August through 20 August. By 21-22 August, moderate levels were observed as Region 2149 (N11, L=278, class/area Eac/190 on 24 August) produced an M3/Sf flare at 21/1331 UTC and an M1/1f at 22/0628 UTC. Other activity on 22 August included a C2/Sf flare at 22/1027 UTC and a C6/Sn flare at 22/1552 UTC from Region 2146 (N09, L=346, class/area Dki/280 on 24 August). The C2 flare had an associated Type II (465 km/s) and Type IV radio emissions along with a partially Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME) first observed off the west limb in SOHO/LASCO C2 imagery at 22/1124 UTC. The C6 flare also had a Type II radio sweep (449 km/s) as well as a partial Earth-directed CME first visible in SOHO/LASCO C2 imagery at 22/1636 UTC. By 23 August, low levels returned, however Region 2146 did produce two flares (C6/Sf at 23/1727 UTC and a C1/Sf at 24/0016 UTC) with associated CMEs that were determined not to have a geoeffective component. By 24 August, high levels were observed due to an M5/2b flare at 24/1217 UTC from Region 2151 (S07, L=255, class/area Hax/110 on 24 August) which rotated around the SE limb on 23 August as a relatively simple looking alpha magnetic spot classification. Associated with this event was fairly weak discrete radio emissions, along with a Type II radio sweep (593 km/s), 10 cm radio burst (410 sfu), and an impressive CME off the ESE limb visible in SOHO/LASCO C2 imagery beginning at 24/1236 UTC. Due to the trajectory and location of this CME, it is unlikely to have a geoeffective component. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was normal to moderate levels. Moderate levels were observed from 21 August through 24 August. Geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to major storm levels. The geomagnetic field was quiet until late on 19 August when a CME associated with a filament eruption on 15 August impacted the geomagnetic field. At approximately 19/0558 UTC, a shock passage was observed at the ACE spacecraft. Total field increased from 7 to 13 nT, the Bz component went south to -11 nT, and solar wind speed increased from 289 km/s to 400 km/s initially. By 20 August, solar wind speed reached a maximum of 452 km/s at 19/1545 UTC before slowly declining thereafter. Total field reached a maximum of 21 nT at 20/0427 UTC while the maximum southward deflection of the Bz component reached -16 at 19/1936 UTC. A geomagnetic sudden impulse of 12 nT was observed in the Boulder magnetometer at 19/0700 UTC. Quiet to unsettled conditions were initially experienced until late on 19 August when active to major storm levels were observed. Quiet conditions prevailed on 20 August despite the continued presence of the 15 August CME observed in ACE solar wind measurements. Quiet to unsettled conditions were observed on 21-22 August as CME effects slowly diminished. Quiet conditions were observed on 23-24 August. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 25 AUG - 20 SEPT 2014 Solar activity is expected to be low with M-class flares (R1-R2, Minor-Moderate) likely and a slight chance for X-class flares (R3-Strong) from 25 August through 03 September as Regions 2146, 2149, and 2151 transit across the visible disk. From 04-20 September very low to low levels are expected. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be normal to moderate levels. A chance for high levels exists from 31 August through 04 September and again from 08-10 September due to coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS) influence. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at quiet to active conditions from 26-28 August as the CMEs from 22 August are expected to impact the geomagnetic field. Unsettled to active conditions are expected to continue through 02 September as a pair of positive polarity CH HSS are expected to become geoeffective. A recurrent negative polarity CH HSS is expected to cause unsettled to active levels on 07-08 September, while solar sector boundary crossings may cause unsettled periods on 06 September and 13 September. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2014 Aug 25 0742 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 2014-08-25 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2014 Aug 25 135 5 2 2014 Aug 26 135 15 4 2014 Aug 27 135 12 4 2014 Aug 28 125 10 4 2014 Aug 29 125 12 4 2014 Aug 30 130 8 3 2014 Aug 31 140 12 4 2014 Sep 01 135 10 3 2014 Sep 02 130 8 3 2014 Sep 03 125 5 2 2014 Sep 04 125 5 2 2014 Sep 05 120 5 2 2014 Sep 06 120 8 3 2014 Sep 07 125 8 3 2014 Sep 08 125 12 4 2014 Sep 09 120 5 2 2014 Sep 10 125 5 2 2014 Sep 11 130 5 2 2014 Sep 12 135 5 2 2014 Sep 13 130 8 3 2014 Sep 14 135 5 2 2014 Sep 15 140 5 2 2014 Sep 16 145 5 2 2014 Sep 17 145 5 2 2014 Sep 18 140 5 2 2014 Sep 19 140 5 2 2014 Sep 20 135 5 2 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1736, DXLD) ###