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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1745 CONTENTS: *DX and station news about: Alaska, Antarctica, Armenia, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Cuba and non, Egypt, France and non, Germany, Greece, Japan, Korea North non, Korea South non, Kurdistan non, México, New Zealand, Oman, Russia, Rwanda non, Saudi Arabia, Somalia non, South Carolina non, Spain and non, Sri Lanka, Sudan non, Taiwan non, Turkey, USA, Zimbabwe non SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1745, Oct 30-Nov 5, 2014 Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [1744 replayed] Thu 1230 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Fri 0327v WWRB 3185 [no show] Fri 2130 WRMI 7570 & 15770 Sat 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1003 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 [new] Sat 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sun 0131 KVOH 9975 [confirmed] Sun 1000 WRMI 5850 Sun 2300 WRMI 11580 [confirmed] Mon 0400v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 [confirmed on webcast only] Mon 2201 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 [new; confirmed] Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 [France via Taiwan QRM is finally gone] Wed 0503 WRMI 9495 via Global 24 [new] Wed 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [winter time shifted] Wed 1415 WRMI 9955 Wed 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [winter time shifted] Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v Thu 0430 WRMI 9955 [or 1746 if ready in time] NOTE: New time for first airing on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 will be: UT Friday 0030 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: 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 ALTERNATIVE, tnx Stephen Cooper, because RMRC was down: http://shortwave.am/wor.xml OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org DAY-BY-DAY ARCHIVE OF GLENN HAUSER`S LOG REPORTS: Unedited, uncondensed, unchanged from original version, many of them too complex, minutely researched, multi-frequency, opinionated, inconsequential, off-topic, or lengthy for some log editors to manage; and also ahead of their availability in these weekly issues: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser DXLD YAHOOGROUP: Why wait for DXLD? A lot more info, not all of it appearing in DXLD later, is posted at our yg without delay. When applying, please identify yourself with your real name and location, and say something about why you want to join. Those who do not, unless I recognize them, will be prompted once to do so and no action will be taken otherwise. Here`s where to sign up: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxld/ ** ALASKA. 7355, USA, KNLS, Alaska at 1200 with IS, 1201 s/on by Lucy Grant and Rod Sobey - Fair Oct 23 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, listening in my car, parked by the lake, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, Editor of World English Survey and Target Listening, available at http://www.odxa.on.ca dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) B-14 replaced by 9615, strangely enough (gh, DXLD) 9615, KNLS, 10/26, 1210. Segment on Exxon Valdez. VG today. However, I thought I'd take advantage of good reception and listen to the programming. In a short time, signal faded down to poor-fair. 73 and Good Listening! (Rick Barton, El Mirage, AZ, Grundig Satellit 750, short wire; also from car with Sat 750 and Wilson 1000 passive antenna, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DX LISTENING DIGEST) First day new frequency. KNLS B14 doesn`t copy well: http://www.knls.org/broadcasting-front.html This season *all* broadcasts 08-18 UT are on 9 MHz band frequencies, while some in A-14 were on 7 MHz, like 1200 English on 7355, now on 9615 --- Now, why would they go *up* in frequency during the long winter nights into East Asia??? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALBANIA. 9845, Oct 25 at 0126, still no signal from R. Tirana, but it`s on by 0127 with IS once, 0128 stops with carrier only, then off and on, no more IS, and shortly after 0130 theme, at 0130:15 signing on in English. This is the penultimate broadcast of the year on 9845, to be replaced by 7425 at 0230 from UT October 28 (and on WOR 1744 I neglected to specify that this and the 2100 English to Europe on 7465 take local Sundays off).(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7389.980, surprisingly powerful S=9+10dB or -62dBm signal strength of Radio Tirana's Albanian morning program to the Balcan at 0705 UT Oct 25. Heard all over western Europe remote stations. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7425, Oct 28 at 0237-0238 checking for R. Tirana on B-14 frequency for 0230 English to N America: unheard, unless it`s the JBA carrier detectable with BFO. Suspect it is off the air. On lo side 7420 there is a poor signal, presumed Iran as now scheduled in Spanish until 0320 instead of original registration as -0220. On hi side 7430 is lite irregular pulsing, which I have assumed is a Cuban jammer stray. Neither should be a problem for R. Tirana if it were on 7425 at normal signal level. Good thing not on alternate 7465, as altho that frequency has no carrier, there is heavy splash from TruNews via WRMI centered on 7455 but expanding to QRM all the way from 7440 to 7470, and really bad on 7465! Also checked 9845 in case Tirana were still there from A-14, but if so, that might have been an hour earlier when I did not check tonight. 7425, Oct 29 at 0230, R. Tirana audible but very poor; about equal level to 7420 Iran which has more fading but also more modulation. Should Albania go to 49m? 6100 and 6105 appear to be clear. 7425, Oct 30 at 0244, again very poor. Is something wrong at Shijak, low-powered instead of 100 kW? Nearby Greece maintains good signal on higher band, 9420. Romania on 7395 also has a much better signal than Tirana, but it`s always superior with newer 300 kW Continentals and high-gain antennas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALBANIA. Someone receives a card from a transmitting center CRI in Albania? After I wrote to me, I began to send out spam Albania. They are not serious (Andrey, Moscow / "open_dx" via RusDX Oct 26 via DXLD) Somewhat garbled pronouns, I suspect. Will somebody please create a decent Russian-English translation program? (gh, DXLD) ** ALGERIA. Concerning speculations about the 252 kHz transmitters: Tipaza (which, as already mentioned, used to run a pair of Tesla DRV- 750 transmitters, identical to the Czech 270 kHz facility) was to get new gear for 1500 kW again, at least acc. the PR of the supplier: http://www.transradio.de/index.php/de/news/154-tda-tipaza If you want to speculate about the power levels at which equipment is really run you could also talk about the other two Algerian longwave outlets down in the Sahara. There is an opinion that they sound like much less than the nominal 2000 kW. (Which equipment, by the way? My guess, but it's indeed a mere guess, would be Thomson-CSF.) Of course it is possible that the audio circuit to the Tipaza plant is already of degraded quality. Or maybe even already the studio audio; their webstream is a shabby 32 kbps, but it already reveals distortion and, when I "tuned" in right now, a quite bad rumble on the studio mics (sounds like some actual racket in the studio they do not care for). (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See IRELAND ** ALGERIA [non]. FRANCE, 11985, R. Algerienne via France: Oct 21 0648-0659*, 35433, Arabic, Talk, Arabic ID and frequency announce at 0653, French ID and frequency announce at 0655, 0659 sign off. Oct 23 0639-0659*, 35433, Arabic, Talk and Kor`an, Arabic ID and frequency announce at 0653, French ID and frequency announce at 0655, 0659 sign off. FRANCE, 11985, R. Algerienne via France, Oct 24 0650-0659*, 35433, Arabic, Talk, Arabic ID and frequency announce at 0653, French ID and frequency announce at 0654, 0659 sign off (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, 303WA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) FRANCE/ALGERIA, 5865, In 05-07 UT time slot RTA-TDA Algiers program via French Issoudun relay site on air, at 0450 UT Arabic language, and 0600-0610 UT short piece of French language news slot, followed by HQ prayer from 0612 UT Oct 28. S=9+20dB signal strength in southern Germany. In 05-06 UT \\ 7295 kHz with same HQ prayer (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANGUILLA. 1610, Caribbean Beacon/University Network. 2322 October 24, 2014. Dead Man Talking, big signal on my post sunset, parallel 6090 (neither of which was producing the hum Glenn Hauser has been hearing on the latter). (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARTICA. 15476, LRA 36, Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, Noticias sobre el fudamiento blanco, 21/10 às 1922, sinpo 45344 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2Ekho-saL0&feature=youtu.be 15476, LRA 36, Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, música argentina, 21/10 às 1926, sinpo 55444 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA7VXcftspk&feature=youtu.be 73s (Dexista PT 9008 SWL Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT, Brasil, Tecsun PL 660 Long wire 10 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15475.95, LRA 36, R Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel ATA Base Esperanza, 1920 Oct 20-24, px mx local in S, 23223 (Mauro Giroletti, IK2GFT- SWL1510, JRC 525 NRD-LOWE HF 150-Elad FDM S2, Antenna LOOP ALA100M- FLAG Antenna West direction, Filter PAR Electronics BCST-LPF, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) LRA36 en Santiago, Chile --- 15476, LRA36, Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, desde Antártica argentina, base Esperanza, llegando esta tarde primaveral casi veraniega con 31 C por Santiago de Chile con buena señal. 2002 UT. 17.02 Local, pleno sol entre emisor y receptor. 35433. Tecsun PL-660 Antena "V" 20 mts. (ce3BBC, Hugo López C.., Santiago de Chile, 23 Oct, condiglista yg via DXLD) Here is a link to a video I made of the reception. Tentative reception of LRA36 broadcasting from the Antarctic. Have a listen and let me know if I'm right. Thanks. Recorded 10/22/2014 2305 to 2315z. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6-crUikaMI&feature=youtu.be (myteaquinn, shortwavelistening yg via DXLD) Yet another Youtuber who doesn`t use a patch cord, and/or just give us the audio. Nothing identifiable I can hear, but if on that frequency and in Spanish, what else could it be? That date it was running way late (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) 15475.95, LRA36, R. Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, Base Esperanza [ARG] - 2312-2314* 10/22 - Amazingly strong and clear signal from LRA36 as noted by others in the #pirateradio [sic] IRC chat. Tuned in at 2312 and heard a very clear YL in Spanish with mentions of "Esperanza" and "Radio Nacional". Signal mode was upper sideband + carrier (nothing at all on the lower sideband). Reception undoubtedly enhanced by the recent solar conditions. Signal went off abruptly during mid-talk between two YLs at 2314. Signal best on North D-KAZ and barely detectable when reversing to the South (Tim Tromp, Muskegon MI, MARE Tipsheet 24 Oct via WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DXLD) So really long path??? This late broadcast was on a Wednesday, in case it recur (gh, DXLD) LRA 36 Radio Nacional Arcangel San Gabriel, Base Esperanza, 1923-1935, 24-10, comments in Spanish and songs. Comment about Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias. Good signal. 34323. (Méndez) 15476, LRA 36, Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, Base Esperanza, 1923-2134*, 24-10, very good signal and nice program, comments about Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias, "doble disco de platino en México, disco de platino en Argentina, nº 1 en 23 países", songs by this singer, at 2002 identification: "Transmite LRA 36, en Base Esperanza", "Hoy es viernes en Base Esperanza", comments about Martin Fierro, at 2132 identification: LRA 36, Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, desde Base Esperanza, sector antártico argentino, por la frecuencia de 15476 kHz, banda de 19 metros, transmitimos de lunes a viernes de 1530 a 1830 horario argentino. Close down at 2134. 34323. They announce schedule Monday to Friday, 1830-2130 UT (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante and Lugo, Tecsun PL-880, antenna: Degen 31MS antenna, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DX LISTENING DIGEST) We cruised today off southern Chile, latitude 38 deg S. Noted LRA36 pinning the strength meter on my little Eton e100. Unfortunately missed the sign on but monitored from 1955 UT October 28, and hoped to hear the sign off, but by 2115, they were still going strong. Frankly, I found the programming quite amateurish and boring (sorry to say). Single female announcer with extremely rapid diction often over or under music made following the program rather difficult. No TOH ID or news heard. I did record over an hour though which I'll listen to later without the noise of the wind and seas. 5 meter seas tonight giving us a major ride! 73, (Walt Salmaniw, International Waters, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. Volvió al aire Radio Antares, en la X Band by gruporadioescuchaargentino Radio Antares, que transmite desde la ciudad de Pilar, a 54 km al norte de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, retornó al aire en su frecuencia habitual de 1650 kHz. La emisora estuve sin transmitir durante varios meses pero fue escuchada nuevamente con programación variada y buena señal con la que cubre una amplia región del norte de la provincia de Buenos Aires. Radio Antares, cuyo slogan es "la emisora de la familia", transmite desde sus estudios ubicados en la calle Martitegui 598, Pilar, Partido de Pilar, Provincia de Buenos Aires (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, Oct 26, GRA blog via DXLD) LRI227 in WRTH, so not a pirate? 1/0.5 kW (gh) ** ARGENTINA. 15344.6, Radio Nacional, RAE, General Pacheco, 1820- 1905, 24-10, English, comments, Argentinian songs, at 1857, Spanish, identification and news: "RAE, noticias de la radio pública". 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante and Lugo, Tecsun PL-880, antenna: Degen 31MS antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15344.55, R. Nacional Argentina, Oct 26 2328-2340, 25332, Spanish, Talk, ID at 2336. 15344.65, RAE, Oct 27 2252-2302, 25432-24432, Spanish, Music and talk, ID and IS and Short music from 2256. 15345.20, RAE, Oct 27 1141-1152, 25432, Japanese, Music, URL announce at 1141 (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) [and non]. Log of 19 mb in 17-18 UT Oct 28, start at 1715 UT on lower end: Two carrier seen, but couldn't be not real listenable here in southern Germany, as 15345.089 suppose Radio Cairo; and 15345.164 kHz suppose RAE Buenos Aires, latter hopping 10-20 Hertz up and down (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) /INDIA, 11710.589, RAE Buenos Aires Harris transmitter unit wanders up and down 10 Hertz, station ID in Portuguese at 0043 UT on Oct 29. S=9+10dB or -64dBm strength observed in Germany. 11710 Heavily hit by co-channel program underneath, AIR Khampur (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 29, dxldyg via DXLD) ** ASIA [non]. USA [non] B-14 season from Oct 26, RFA - Daily Broadcast Frequencies. GERMANY/KOREA Rep.of/KUWAIT/LITHUANIA/MONGOLIA/SAIPAN MARIANA ISL/ SRI LANKA/TAIWAN/TAJIKISTAN/TINIAN MARIANA ISL/UAE All times in UT. Burmese (4 hours daily) 0030-0130 12115IRA 15700TIN 17510TIN 1230-1330 11795TIN 12105SAI 13735TIN 1330-1400 11795SAI 12105SAI 13735TIN 1400-1430 11795KWT 12105SAI 1630-1730 9940TIN Cantonese (2 hours daily) 1400-1500 13655TIN 2200-2300 9720SAI Khmer (2 hours daily) 1230-1330 11750SAI 2230-2330 11850IRA Korean (5 hours daily) 1500-1700 1188SEO-KOR 5855TIN 7210TIN 11985TIN 1700-1900 1188SEO-KOR 5855TIN 9720IRA 2100-2200 1188SEO-KOR 7460MNG 9690TIN 11995TIN Lao (2 hours daily) 0000-0100 15690SAI 1100-1200 13685IRA Mandarin (12 hours daily) - TIN frequency hopping on different days ceased so far in B-14 - ... 0300-0600 11980TJK 15665SAI 17690SAI 21700TIN 0600-0700 11980TJK 15150TIN 15665SAI 17690SAI 21700TIN 1500-1600 6020TIN 9440SAI 9495SAI 11945TJK 1600-1700 7415TIN 9465SAI 9590SAI 11945TJK 1700-1900 6020TIN 7415TIN 9355SAI 9455SAI 1900-2000 1098KOU-TWN 6020TIN 6095TIN 7415TIN 9355SAI 9455SAI 2000-2100 1098KOU-TWN 6020TIN 6095TIN 7415TIN 7495TIN 9355SAI 9455SAI 2100-2200 1098KOU-TWN 6020TIN 7495TIN 9355SAI 9455SAI 2300-0000 9585SAI 9825TIN 11775TIN Tibetan (10 hours daily) 0100-0200 9670TJK 11695UAE 13620KWT 15105TIN 17730MNG 0200-0300 9670TJK 9950KWT 11695UAE 15520TIN 17730MNG 0600-0700 17515TJK 17675KWT 21480TIN 21680UAE 1000-1100 9690SIT 15725LAM 17810LAM 1100-1200 7470MNG 9350TJK 11540KWT 15375UAE 1200-1300 7470MNG 9350TJK 11530KWT 12055TIN 15375TJK 1300-1400 7470MNG 9350TJK 11905KWT 12050TIN 15375TJK 1500-1600 5825TJK 9940TIN 11720KWT 11865UAE 2200-2300 5875TIN 7470TJK 9835LAM 2300-0000 6010UAE 7470TJK 7540KWT 9875SIT Uyghur (2 hours daily) 0100-0200 7480TJK 9480KWT 9645UAE 9690UAE 17535TIN 1600-1700 5830TJK 7310IRA 9725UAE 11545SAI Vietnamese (2 hours daily) 0000-0030 11695TIN 1400-1430 1503FAO-TWN 1400-1500 11890SAI 13870TIN 2330-2400 11695TIN (Radio Free Asia, via William Hague, UK, NWDXC Oct 21, via wb) PS: The US IBB organization is weakening. Thinned schedule now, frequency-wise (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. Podding Along - Issue 21 --- In addition to via the websites referenced, these podcasts generally are made available through several other popular internet sources such as iTunes and TuneIn. Late Night Live has been a staple of ABC-RN's (ABC Radio National) programming for nearly 25 years. The program's host, Phillip Adams, is a well respected Australian journalist, writer, cultural figure and political activist. He is a consummate interviewer and his roster of guests include Australian and international persons of stature from the worlds of literature, politics, culture and science. The program's web page includes an archive of some of the best of Late Night Live from the last quarter century and is well worth a perusal and more than several listens. [LNL is currently airing Mon-Thu at 1205-1300 UT on 9580 et al. – gh] ------------------------------ LATE NIGHT LIVE - ABC RN Robert Fisk on Gaza and MH17; Bob Dylan Tangled Up in Blue Veteran Middle East watcher Robert Fisk compares our reaction to two recent alarming death tolls – in Gaza where more than 1,300 people have died, and the 298 passengers who were killed on the MH17 plane crash. He explains the deep, historical background to the current conflict. Bill Wyman's recent article for New York magazine makes out this legendary pop icon is cloaked with decades of mystery and behaviour weirdly at odds with his contemporaries. And RN blogger Mark Sutton explains the difference between being an obsessive Dylan fan but not a nutter. (54') http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/past-programs/?page=5 (Scroll down to 31 July 2014) LATE NIGHT LIVE - ABC RN Should Scotland Leave the Union?; Thank You for Your Military Service The upcoming referendum (discussion took place prior to the referendum) for Scottish independence is the most important political decision of a generation. But a pervasive feeling of complacency exists, and many Scots assume that independence is either inconceivable, or irrelevant. Former first Minister for Scotland Henry McLeish and Rory Stewart OBE, Tory MP discuss what's at stake. Rory Stewart's constituency includes Hadrian’s Wall and half of the English Scottish Border. Two million Americans were sent to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and now between 20 to 30 per cent are grappling with psychological issues including chronic anxiety, nightmares, suicidal thoughts and traumatic brain injury. David Finkel was embedded with a group of men in Iraq, and now he tells their stories of life after war. ‘Every war has its after war; its consequences and reminders and the consequences and reminders of Iraq and Afghanistan will be some five hundred thousand mentally wounded veterans, a number significant enough to affect American social policy, medical care, even the broader economy, for decades,' writes Finkel. (54') http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/past-programs/?page=5 (Scroll down to 4 August 2014) (John Figliozzi, The Worldwide Listening Guide - 6th edition now available, wwlgonline.com, Oct 23, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glen[n], As an example of some really good SW listening, Australian radio ABC on their 27 October, 1200 UT broadcast on 9580 kHz reviewed the book "The Queen, Her Lover and the Most Notorious Spy in History" by Australian author Roland Perry that chronicles the "secret" love affairs of Queen Victoria. A really great program (Frank Reisch, Dallas TX, WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DX LISTENING DIGEST) That would also be Late Night Live (gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1745, ibid.) Radio Australia, 9580, 10/24/14 [Friday], I listened at 1200 UT to ABC News followed at 1205 with the Naked Scientist program. One of the science stories featured a discussion of the arrival of invasive mussels (mollusks) in the UK which are causing a number of ecological problems with the water. Another story discussed infectious viruses. ID at 1230. Best Regards, (Larry Zamora, Garland, TX, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6080, 6150, 9475, 9580, 12065, 12085, just as I suspected, R. Australia has totally changed programming this week compared to last Friday, when `Jazz Up Late` was on until 1330, then `Overnight from Classic FM` (classical). Friday Oct 24 at 1225, obviously not jazz but a talk program, with several odd scientific interviews, e.g. about athletic injuries; how high can a skyscraper made of wood go? So far only 10 stories before it collapses, but someone is working on a way to reach 20-30 stories, and adds that wood is *not* so (in)flammable and could even survive a fire better than steel, merely getting charred on the outside. 1241 ID as ``The Naked Scientists on RN`` and now an item about retrieving nasty fat, oil and grease (FOG) from London sewers they are constantly clogging and turning it into a fuel source for --- sewage treatment. At 1258 I can also barely hear it on 5995, echo apart from Shep, rather than Waltzing Matilda. 1259 promo for ``Sound Quality after the news, on RN`` --- the serious music show we used to enjoy. But not on RA any more! At 1305 all cut to rap-crap in progress, obviously back to Triple J network`s `Earthbeat` for the next quadrihour (and again no newsbreak at 1400). According to this, http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/nakedscientists/ It`s scheduled Fridays at 10 pm, presumably meaning 10:05, = 1105 UT. And info on this week`s ep: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/nakedscientists/new-document/5828978 Only by consulting the entire RN PDF program grid do we confirm that `TNS` is just one hour, tho we are hearing it an hour later, maybe on Queensland delayed feed? `The World` TV news audio should have still appeared `live` at 11-12 UT. That`s what RA`s own online program schedule still shows, uncorrected with nothing at 12-13, and Earthbeat after 13 to 17 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5995, Oct 28 at 1322, RA Brandon is again Waltzing Matilda. This happens periodically, but not every day, during this hour. Can it still be that no human at RA is aware of this wastage? Each iteration lasts 20 seconds, so that means it plays 180 times in a row over a 60- minute period. At 1334, I also amuse myself by trying to count the notes in the tune --- roughly 42 concentrating on the melody, not the bass-line = 7560 per hour. 5995, Oct 29 at 1301, RA news poor via Brandon, an echo apart from 6150 via Shepparton, so no Matilda-Waltzing today; 24 hours later I can`t hear 5995 at all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AZERBAIJAN. October 20: Ictimai Radio in Azeri to CeAs in FM mode 1319 on 9676,7 UNUD tx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScSIKaxwk0c&feature=youtu.be Ictimai Radio in Azeri to CeAs in FM mode 1329 on 9676,7 UNUD tx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3pc0pNB5oM&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 9455, Bangladesh Betar, 1329-1345* 16/17 Oct., Weak/clear with English ID at BOH ("in our Nepali Service, Bangladesh Betar"), W DJ with romantic/dance tunes, closing at 1344 and canned "Bangladesh Betar" at 1345* (Dan Sheedy, Encinitas/Moonlight Beach, CA, G5/6m X wire, via Bob Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9455, Bangladesh Betar, Oct 21 1333-1345*, 35443, Nepali, Bangladesh music, Closing announce at 1344, 1345 sign off. 15105, Bangladesh Betar, Oct 21 1230-1239, 35443, English, Opening music, ID, Opening announce, Theme music, News (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) 15505, Oct 24 at 1359, BB carrier is JBA, trace of IS, and also trace of mistimesignal ending at approx. 1359:54, before Urdu service (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9455, Bangladesh Betar, Oct 27 *1313-1325, 34443, Nepali, 1313 sign on with IS, ID, Opening music, Opening announce, Theme music, News. 15105, Bangladesh Betar, Oct 27 1231-1242, 25432, English, Theme music and ID at 1231, News (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) ** BERMUDA. 2582-USB, Bermuda Harbour Radio, 0035 to 0045 om with weather conditions 0600 winds… high winds … knots .. winds... Bermuda" 23 Oct. Similar same time 24 October (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, 60 and 90 meter dipoles, and XM, Cedar Key, South Florida, NRD 525D, R8A, E5, via Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BHUTAN. 6035, Oct 13, BBS heard from 1156 tune and as noted by Ron Howard, significant QRM from a pulse jammer on 6030 (QRM most noticeable after 1210, but seemed to fade in and out) - at 1200.5 and 1202.5 heard short indigenous instrumental music and a man announcer from 1201 to 1217. Another short instrumental music piece 1217 to 1217.5 followed by same announcer as at 1201. More music at 1221-22 followed by different man. At 1223.5 a male vocal with orchestral accompaniment to 1231. Flute instrumental at 1231 followed by what seemed to be an interview between studio announcer and a male remote caller to 1239.5 with more flute instrumental music. More orchestral music and female vocalist until off in mid-song. As Ron noted, decent sig strength this morning from the Perseus site NE of Edmonton with a SINPO of 33333. Improved to near S4 after 1220 until s/off. Program suddenly off in mid-song at 1241 but carrier appeared to stay on (however this might have been CNR-1 carrier as I did not see the spectrum display at s/off). (Bruce Churchill, CA, via DXPlorer via SW Bulletin Oct 26 via DXLD) BBS Thimphu programm auf klarem Kanal 6034.955 kHz sehr schoen mit S=8-9 Signal oder im peak bei -73dBm hier in Stuttgart zu hoeren, at 0030 UT am 19. Okt. Die letzten beiden Tage begann die Ausstrahlung um 0055 UT, dann ist Bhutan ca. 1 Std hier in Salzburg zu hoeren. Heute frueh startete man in Thimpu - Sangaygang um 01.31 UT mit dem Musikprogramm auf 6034.96 kHz. 73 Christoph Ratzer, OE2CRM, Austrria, A-DX Oct 25 via BCDX 29 Oct via DXLD) 6035v, Nothing heard of BBS Thimpu today, only China station co-channel even frequency there, no footprint from Bhutan seen. 73 wolfy df5sx (Wolfgang Bueschel, Checked the downunder remote SDR unit at Sydney in past hour, 1327 UT Oct 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6034.93 kHz BBS Bhutan, Traeger ab 0059:27 UT, dann asiatische Musik und maennliche Ansage in mir unbekannter Sprache, gute Modulation, aber Audio viel zu dumpf, ohne Hoehen, SIO 322. Auch gestern (Sa morgen) - wie Christoph schon schrieb - war Bhutan hier aufzunehmen: Sendestart 0132 UT, weibliche Ansage, dann Musik (Frank DD4WH, A-DX Oct 26, via BCDX 29 Oct via DXLD) re Bhutan - sie betaetigen sich sehr flexibel als Ein- und Ausschalter in Thimphu ... zwischen 00 und 02, sowie 12 und 13 UT ist alles moeglich (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 26, BCDX 29 Oct via DXLD) I haven't checked very carefully, but a few spot checks reveal off the air again on 6035 kHz at 0000-1300 [sic] slot. Heard with readable signal here in Finland between 1130-1215* UT on 6034.95 kHz and confirmed \\ with (Mauno Ritola, Finland, A-DX Oct 26, ibid.) ** BOLIVIA. 3310, Radio Mosoj Chaski, Cochabamba 2344 to 0010 yl in Quechua, presumed 20/21 October: 0940 - 0955 with yl and good signal 24 Oct (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, 60 and 90 meter dipoles, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4409.8, Radio Eco, Reyes, 2340 to 0000 noted with weak signal in Spanish 22 and 23 October and 2330 to 2335 on 25 October; no logs of this one during the 0900 to 1130 period (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, 60 and 90 meter dipoles, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4451.1, Radio Santa Ana, Santa Ana de Yacuma noted 2330 to 2339 on 20 Oct. with weak signal. 2330 to 2335 om in Spanish better than usual signal 25 October. Never noted during the 0900 to 1130 period (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, 60 and 90 meter dipoles, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4699.9, Radio San Miguel, Riberalta, 2340 to 0025 noted return to frequency with om Spanish but weak signal 21/22 October; again 2350 on 22 October; Noted better signal 2330 on 25 October (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, 60 and 90 meter dipoles, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 5580.2, Radio San José, San José de Chiquitos, 2330 with weak signal on 24 October; 2340 noted with Spanish on 21 Oct (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, 60 and 90 meter dipoles, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 6134.8, Radio Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, 0137- 0155, 25-10, Spanish, comments, identification: "Radio Santa Cruz", music. 13321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante and Lugo, Tecsun PL-880, antenna: Degen 31MS antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Listening tonight as typing to 6134.77 Bolivia, Radio Santa Cruz, 2330 to 0004 with excellent music ID 2347 by om and good signal ID on hour by yl, 25/26 Oct (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, 60 and 90 meter dipoles, DX LISTENING DIGEST) No ZY het QRM? (gh) ** BRAZIL. 3364.84, Brasil, Rádio Cultura, Araraquara, SP, 2342-2345 noted with music 20 Oct.; 2351 to 0000 om Portuguese brief music 21 October: noted fading in 2320 on 24 October (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, 60 and 90 meter dipoles, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Beware of RHC usurping 3365 ** BRAZIL. 3375.1, Brasil, Rádio Municipal São Gabriel da Cachoeira, 0942 locutor em português, better than usual signal, still there at recheck 1016. 24 October (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, 60 and 90 meter dipoles, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4754.9, Brasil, Rádio Imaculada Conceição, Campo Grande, MS 2324-0010 with om in Portuguese, music bridge and troubled by thunderstorm crackle 23/24 October; noted 0934 to 0950 on 24 October (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, 60 and 90 meter dipoles, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4805, Brasil, Rádio Difusora do Amazonas, Manáus, 0930 to 0940 om in Portuguese missing [mixing?] with light CODAR interference 24 Oct (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, 60 and 90 meter dipoles, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4875, Brasil, Rdif Roraima, Boa Vista, RR, 2327 to 2332 with Brasilin music and good strong signal 25 October (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, 60 and 90 meter dipoles, and XM, Cedar Key, South Florida, NRD 525D, R8A, E5, via Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 5999.58, Oct 24, 0059, R Nacional da Brasília back here. Long and impressive ID mentioning onda corta. Strong signal. No sign of R Guaíba at this time (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin Oct 26 via WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DXLD) 5999.54 UNID, SIO 221 hoert sich irgendwie nach Portugiesisch an!? Aber auch genau auf 6000 kHz zu dieser Zeit eine Station, kommt noch schwaecher. Eine von beiden sollte Radio Guaiba, B. sein. Aber welche? Und was ist dann die andere Station? Wuerde mich ueber Hinweise zu dieser schraegen Frequenz freuen! (Frank DD4WH, A-DX Aug 26 [sic = October?]) via BCDX 29 Oct via DXLD) Aber gerne Franz, das ist der reaktivierte Sender von Radio Nacional de Brasilia, deine Frequenzangabe ist absolut genau, wurde von Thomas Nilsson in Schweden vorgestern um 0054 UT ebenfalls gehoert. Zu dieser Zeit war in Schweden nichts von Guaiba auf genau 6000 kHz zu hoeren. 73 Christoph (Christoph Ratzer, Austria, OE2CRM, A-DX, ibid.) EBC Rodeador Park. Laut Glenn bei dxld hat man mal wieder DRM Testsendungen mit verschiedenen Antennen(-winkeln) in Richtung riesiges Amazonasgebiet vorzunehmen. Dazu nutzt man einen der dortigen Continental Sender mit 4 bis 10 kW variierend, teilweise auch mit halber/reduzierter Leistung 125 kW - tagsueber. Passend laesst man dann (in unserer Nacht) den Sender auf 6000v zugange - aber in AM Modus 'on air'. Antennenwinkel ist dann 344 Grad, nicht gerade "unsere Vorzugsrichtung" ... - Hier alles schoen zu sehen, downzuladen und nachzulesen: Geliefert wurden einst mal 6 Schweizer Produkte: 6 x 250 kW Kurzwellensender, delivered by Swiss BBC-Turgi Switzerland, model SK53F3 from 1974-1976y. zoom mit drauf Klicken: RNA Caixa Postal 258 Brasilia - DF, 70.359-970 Brasil (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 27, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews 29 Oct via DXLD) CUBA/BRAZIL, 6000, RHC English program observed at 0613 UT Oct 28 on East coast NAm remote SDR units. 5999.582, BUT hit severe by 420 Hertz heterodyne audio tone by - supposedly - Brazilian RNB low power EBC Brazilia test station 11780.121, At 0620 UT heard RNB more powerful outlet at 0625 UT on Oct 28. Little distorted audio quality of - probably - final tube transmitter stage, in frequency range 11774.2 to 11785.8 kHz, signal visible seen on Perseus browser screen is 10.4 kHz wide! (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11745 & 11815, Oct 23 at 0551, distorted spurs again weakly detectable from RNA 11780 with music, plus and minus 35 kHz, the lower one louder. 11745, Oct 24 at 0532, RNA distorted spur // 11780 music is JBA here vs local noise level, but not on 11815, probably obscured by the BS blast of splash from 11825 WRMI. RNA better pay attention to the spurs before they too blast out again. 11745, Oct 25 at 0537, RNA distorted spur with music matching fundamental 11780; weak but definitely there. On matching 11815 it`s also JBA vs BSplash from 11825. 11745, Oct 28 at 0557, RNA extremely distorted spur // fundamental 11780, a bit stronger than last time. It`s hard to be certain whether the spur output varies or depends on signal level of the fundamental which is always extremely strong. If there is a match on 11815 it is again blocked by the blast from the BS on 11825 WRMI (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11780.12, R. Nac. de Brasília via RNA, Oct 27 0615-0626, 35322, Portuguese, Talk and music, ID at 0614 and 0617 (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) I wonder if he could hear the 11745 & 11815 spurs (gh, DXLD) 11780.120, RNB Brasília in BrazPort logged at 0035 UT on Oct 29. Phone-in program by lady. S=9 or -70dBm here in Germany (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 29, dxldyg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL [and non]. ALBANIA/BRAZIL, 9590, CRI Cërrik relay site, carrying Arabic at 0535 UT Oct 28. S=8 sidelobe signl towards NAm. BUT hit by semi-co-channel heterodyne whistle tone of 3500 Hertz. Next door religious machine gun ZYE969 SRDA BrazPortuguese São Paulo SP signal on up-wandered 9586.504 kHz, hit each other. Latter SRDA also on \\ ZYE726 SRDA Curitiba PR, 11764.717 kHz at 0623 UT too (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 9629.964, ZYE 954, Rádio Aparecida in BrazPort language, light music singer heard at 0542 UT on Oct 28, S=7-8 or rather poor - 84dBm strength this morning from Brazil into East coast NoAM. 9645.391, ZYE957, Rádio Bandeirantes, São Paulo SP, phone-in program, two female voices heard at 0544 UT. 9664.757, ZYE890 Rádio Voz Missionária, nighttime/early morning phone- in service, S=7 signal at 0547 UT on Oct 28 (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 9630, Radio Aparecida, Aparecida, 0518-0539, 25-10, Religious program "Com A Mae Aparecida". 34433. (Méndez) 9645.4, Radio Bandeirantes, São Paulo, 0516-0540, 25-10, Portuguese, comments. 34433. (Méndez) 9664.75, Voz Missionária, Camboriú, 0520-0543, 25-10, religious, Portuguese, comments. 34443. (Méndez) 9819.9, Rádio 9 de Julho, São Paulo, 0514-0540, 25-10, religious songs, program "Com a Mãe Aparecida". 34433. (Méndez) 11855, Rádio Aparecida, Aparecida, 0523-0550, 25-10, religious program "Com a Mãe Aparecida". 34433 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante and Lugo, Tecsun PL-880, antenna: Degen 31MS antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 9819.89, R. Aparecida via R. 9 de Julho, Oct 21 0659-0710, 35443 Portuguese, ID at 0659, Talk and hymns, // 9629.97, 11855 kHz. 9819.89, R. 9 de Julho, Oct 23 0726-0737, 34443-33443, Portuguese, Chorus music and talk, ID at 0731 and 0732. 9819.87, R. 9 de Julho, Oct 24 0659-0733, 34443-33443, Portuguese, Chorus music and talk, ID at 0724 and 0729. 9819.87, R. Aparecida via R. 9 de Julho, Oct 27 0657-0659*, 34443, Portuguese, Talk, ID at 0658, // 9629.97 kHz. 9819.87, R. 9 de Julho, Oct 27 *0659-0710, 34443-35443, Portuguese, ID at 0659, Chorus music (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) ** BRAZIL. QSLs: BRASIL, Rádio Aparecida, 11855, QSL in 4 weeks for e- report to clube@radioaparecida.com.br and luis.oliveira@radioaparecida.com.br v/s Cassiano Macedo. Rádio Brasil Central, 11815, E-QSL in 8 months for e-report to rbcamfm@gmail.com (Artur Fernández Llorella, Catalonia, Spain, You can see some images in http://maresmedx.blogspot.com.es/ Hard-Core-DX via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 15190.16, R Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte, 2030 Oct 24, px mx local "Inconfidência apresentando...", 33333 (Mauro Giroletti, IK2GFT-SWL1510, JRC 525 NRD-LOWE HF 150-Elad FDM S2, Antenna LOOP ALA100M-FLAG Antenna West direction, Filter PAR Electronics BCST-LPF, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. [survey of active SW stations] FREQUENCY KWATS CALL STATE TIME BROADCASTING NAME WEB SITE 2.380 kHz 0.250 ZYG852 SP 2000-1030 Rádio Educadora de Limeira http://www.educadoraam.com.br/ *Ultima Escuta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZbp3uwcST0 Fonte: Gustavo Marcel Guaita Receptor: Sangean ATS 909X Antena Telescópica QTH: Florianópolis, Brasil Em 11 de abril de 2014 3.365 kHz 1.000 ZYG855 SP 0700-0300 Rádio Cultura de Araraquara http://www.Rádiocultura.net/ 3.375 kHz 1.000 ZYF276 AM 0000-2400 Rádio Municipal São Gabriel da Cachoeira http://www.criarbrasil.org.br/comunicacao/noticias-conteudo.asp?cod=3214 *No Ar., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZFtyMzeBxc 4.755 kHz 10.000 ZYF904 MS 0700-0300 Rádio Imaculada Conseição do MS http://www.miliciadaimaculada.org.br/ver3/Rádio.asp?Rádio= 4.775 kHz 1.000 ZYG207 MG 0900-2400 Rádio Congonhas http://www.Rádiocongonhas.com.br/ 4.785 kHz 10.000 ZYG790 RO 0900-0300 Rádio Caiari de Rondônia http://www.Rádiocaiari.com/ 4.805 kHz 10.000 ZYF273 AM 0930-0100 Rádio Difusora do Amazonas http://www.difusora24h.com/?page_id=1053 4.815 kHz 10.000 ZYG640 PR 0755-0355 Rádio Difusora de Londrina http://www.Rádioalvoradalondrina.com.br/ 4.845 kHz 5.000 ZYF278 AM 0800-0200 Rádio Cultura Ondas Tropicais de Manaus http://www.tvcultura.am.gov.br/site/pagina/Rádio-cultura/ 4.845 kHz 1.000 ZYG869 SP 0800-0200 Rádio Meteorologia Paulista http://www.jfmg.com.br/e/sociedade-Rádio-meteorologia-paulista-ltda 4.865 kHz 5.000 ZYF203 AC 1000-0300 Rádio Verdes Florestas http://www.diocesecruzeirodosul.org/index.php?s=Rádio-verdes-florestas 4.865 kHz 5.000 ZYG641 PR 0000-2400 Rádio Alvorada de Londrina http://www.Rádioalvoradalondrina.com.br/ 4.885 kHz 1.000 ZYF692 GO 0000-2400 Rádio A Voz do Coraçaõ Imaculado http://www.Rádiovozdocoracaoimaculado.com/ Sinal OFF há Alguns meses. 4.885 kHz 5.000 ---- -- AC 0000-2400 Rádio Difusora Acreana http://www.difusora.acre.gov.br/ 4.885 kHz 5.000 ZYG362 PA 0000-2400 Rádio Clube Do Pará http://www.Rádioclubedopara.com.br/ 4.875 kHz 10.000 ZYG810 RR 0800-0405 Rádio Roraima http://www.Rádioclubedopara.com.br/ 4.895 kHz 5.000 ZYR200 MS 0000-2400 Rádio Novo Tempo http://novotempo.com/campogrande/ 4.905 kHz 5.000 ZYG683 RJ 0730-0300 Rádio Relogio Rio de Janeiro http://www.Rádiorelogioam.com.br/ 4.915 kHz 10.000 ZYF691 GO 0900-0400 Rádio Daqui https://www.facebook.com/daquigoiania 4.915 kHz 10.000 ZYF360 AP 0000-2400 Rádio Difusora de Macapá http://www.difusora.ap.gov.br/ 4.925 kHz 5.000 ZYF271 AM 1030-0300 Rádio Educação Rural http://www.Rádioruraltefe.com.br/ 4.965 kHz 5.000 ZYF275 AM 2200-0200 Rádio Alvorada De Parintins http://www.alvoradaparintins.com.br/ 4.975 kHz 1.000 ZYG865 SP 0000-2400 Rádio Iguatemi http://www.Rádioiguatemi.com.br/ 4.985 kHz 10.000 ZYF690 GO 0000-2400 Rádio Brasil Central http://www.Rádiobrasilcentral.com.br/ 5.015 kHz 1.000 ZYF903 MT 0000-2400 Rádio Cultura De Cuiabá http://www.Rádioculturadecuiaba.com.br/ [5015, R Cultura, Cuiabá, MT, 1110, Oct 16, music with Debora Miranda, program from IPDA, 55444 (Wyllyans in HCDX). Not reported since Mar 2014 (Anker Petersen, ed., DSWCI DX Window via DXLD] 5.035 kHz --------- -------------- AM ----- Rádio Educação Rural http://Rádiocoariamot.blogspot.com/ 5.035 kHz 10.000 ZYG853 SP 0830-0400 Rádio Aparecida http://www.a12.com/Rádio-aparecida 5.940 kHz 0.500 RÁDIO VOZ MISSIONARIA SC 2100-0800 http://www.gideoes.com.br/ 5.965 kHz 7.500 ZYE858 RS 0300-1000 Rádio Transmundial http://www.transmundial.org.br/ 5.970 kHz 10.000 ZYE523 MG 0000-2400 Rádio Itatiaia http://www.itatiaia.com.br/ 6.000 kHz 10.000 ZYE852 RS 0700-0300 Rádio Guaíba http://www.Rádioguaiba.com.br/ 6.010 kHz 5.000 ZYE521 MG 0900-0600 Rádio Inconfidência http://www.inconfidencia.com.br/ 6.060 kHz 15.000 ZYE726 PR 0000-2400 SRDA Rádio Super Deus e Amor http://www.superRádiodeuseamor.com.br/ 6.080 kHz 10.000 ZYE726 PR 0000-2400 Rádio Marumby http://Rádioevangelismo.com 6.080 kHz 5.000 ZYE441 GO 0800-0300 Rádio Daqui https://www.facebook.com/daquigoiania [**IRREGULAR] 6.090 kHz 10.000 ZYE956 SP 0000-2400 Rádio Bandeirantes SP http://Rádiobandeirantes.band.uol.com.br/Rádioam.asp 6.105 kHz 5.000 ZYE728 PR 0945-0110 Rádio Filadélfia PR http://www.Rádiofiladelfia.com.br/ 6.120 kHz 10.000 ZYE969 SP 1100-0900 Rádio SRDA Rádio Super Deus é Amor [sic] http://www.superRádiodeuseamor.com.br/ 6.135 kHz 25.000 ZYE954 SP 0800-0300 Rádio Aparecida 6.160 kHz 10.000 ZYE854 RS 0000-2400 Rádio Legião Boa Vontade http://www.boavontade.com/Rádio/ 6.160 kHz 10.000 ZYE245 AM 0000-2400 Rádio Rio Mar http://www.rederiomar.com.br/ 6.180 kHz 250.000 ZYE365 DF 0000-2400 Rádio Nacional da Amazônia http://Rádios.ebc.com.br/nacionalamazonia 9.515 kHz 10.000 ZYE726 PR 0700-0100 Rádio Marumby http://Rádioevangelismo.com/ 9.530 kHz 10.000 ZYE858 RS 0700-0100 Rádio Transmundial http://www.transmundial.org.br/ 9.550 kHz 10.000 ZYE855 RS 0000-2400 Rádio Legião da Boa Vontade http://www.boavontade.com/Rádio/ 9.565 kHz 20.000 ZYE727 PR 0000-2400 Rádio SRDA Rádio Super Deus e Amor http://www.superRádiodeuseamor.com.br/ 9.585 kHz 10.000 ZYE969 SP 0700-0200 SRDA Rádio Super Deus e Amor http://www.superRádiodeuseamor.com.br/ 9.630 kHz 10.000 ZYE954 SP 0800-0300 Rádio Aparecida http://www.a12.com/Rádio-aparecida 9.645 kHz 7.500 ZYE957 SP 0000-2400 Rádio Bandeirantes http://Rádiobandeirantes.band.uol.com.br/Rádioam.asp 9.665 kHz 10.000 ZYE890 SC 0000-2400 Rádio Voz Missionaria http://www.gideoes.com.br/ 9.695 kHz 7.500 ZYE254 AM 1000-2100 Rádio Rio Mar http://www.rederiomar.com.br/ 9.815 kHz 10.000 ZYR96 SP 0000-2400 Rádio 9 de julho http://www.Rádio9dejulho.com.br/ 10.000 kHz 1.000 PPE RJ 0000-2400 Rádio do Observatorio Nacional da Hora http://www.horalegalbrasil.mct.on.br/ 11.735 kHz 50.000 ZYE857 RS 0700-2000 Rádio Transmundial http://www.transmundial.org.br/ 11.765 kHz 10.000 ZYE727 PR 0900-0200 Rádio SRDA Super Deus é Amor http://www.superRádiodeuseamor.com.br/ 11.780 kHz 250.000 ZYE365 DF 2300-0800 Rádio Nacional da Amazônia http://Rádios.ebc.com.br/nacionalamazonia 11.815 kHz 7.500 ZYE440 GO 0700-0400 Rádio Brasil Central http://www.Rádiobrasilcentral.com.br/ [**IRREGULAR] 11.830 kHz 10.000 ZYE441 GO 0800-2000 Rádio Daqui https://www.facebook.com/daquigoiania [**IRREGULAR] A Transmissão costuma ser SAB/DOM DW-MT 11.855 kHz 1.000 ZYE954 SP 0800-0320 Rádio Aparecida http://www.a12.com/Rádio-aparecida 11.895 kHz 1.000 ZYE856 RS 0700-0200 Rádio Legião da Boa Vontade http://www.boavontade.com/Rádio/ 11.915 kHz 10.000 ZYE851 RS 0900-0400 Rádio Gaucha http://gaucha.clicrbs.com.br/rs/ 11.925 kHz 10.000 ZYE958 SP 0000-2400 Rádio Bandeirantes http://Rádiobandeirantes.band.uol.com.br/Rádioam.asp 15.190 kHz 5.000 ZYE522 SP 0000-2400 Rádio Inconfidencia http://www.inconfidencia.com.br/ *Emissora Com poucos Logs **Transmissão Irregular A lista não siguinifica que as emissoras ira obedecer os horarios. B 14 EM IDIOMA PORTUGUES ORGANIZADO E EDITADO POR (DANIEL WYLLYANS, NOVA XAVANTINA MT, Oct 24, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. [fmtvbr] Migração OM para o FM Reenvio por considerarlo de interés (Horacio Nigro, Montevideo, Uruguay, Oct 23, condiglista yg via DXLD) A migração do AM para o FM vai aumentar muito o dexismo no FM. Vai ficar muito bom para fazer escuta de longa distância via tropo quando começar a entrar no ar as emissoras na banda estendida de FM. Como no início poucas emissoras estarão nestas frequências as chances serão ótimas. O cronograma de consultas públicas para migração das Rádios AM para FM no Rio Grande do Sul, divulgado pelo Ministério das Comunicações, prevê para o dia 28 de fevereiro de 2015, a realização da audiência no Estado. No dia 30 de outubro deste mês, ocorrerá a divulgação dos custos de migração. Na maioria dos Estados a adesão foi alta. Em Santa Catarina, por exemplo, das 108 emissoras AM existentes, 100 pediram a migração. Em São Paulo, que possui 274 rádios AM, 237 apresentaram o requerimento para mudar de faixa. 80% das emissoras de OM no Brasil solicitaram mudança para a faixa FM. Isso da mais de 1.300 novas emissoras no FM! Onde existe frequência sobrando as AMs vão migrar diretamente para a faixa atual de FM. Em Pelotas, das quatro AM, duas devem passar para o FM: Universidade e Tupanci. Em Porto Alegre devem migrar: Band, Farroupilha, Caiçara, Capital, Itaí, Universidade, Catedral, Rural, LBV, CBN e Esperança. Grande Porto Alegre: Real, Cinderela, ABC, América, Progresso e Metropole. Porto Alegre é uma das regiões que mais tem emissoras de Rádio no Brasil. Estas AMs serão atendidas na banda estendida. No começo de 2016 as AMs da região começam a ser desligadas (Se o cronograma for respeitado). A principio a maioria das AMs do Brasil irão para a faixa atual. Só nas regiões com o dial lotado é que será usado a banda estendida. Lembrando que a banda entendida contempla mais 55 canais de rádio. Uma maravilha. As primeiras autorizadas a migrar para o FM: Rio Grande do Norte: Fundação Eurico Bérgsten Ltda. Rádio a Voz do Seridó Ltda. Rádio Ouro Branco Ltda. Rádio Cultura do Oeste Ltda. Rádio Trairy Ltda. Rádio Curimataú de Nova Cruz Ltda. Rádio Cabugi Ltda. Alagamar Rádio Sociedade Ltda. As rádios AM dos estados do Amazonas, Rondônia, Amapá e Tocantins serão as próximas a fazer a transição, seguidas de emissoras do Acre e de Mato Grosso, que estão em consulta pública pela Anatel. Os estados mais problemáticos são São Paulo, Minas, Rio, Paraná e Rio Grande do Sul. Estes serão os últimos a migrar. Em breve novas caçadas!! Quem será o primeiro a escutar uma emissora acima de 500 km na banda estendida? Esse vai entrar pra história do dexismo no FM. :-) (via Fabio, Oct 23, via fmtvbr yg via Horacio Nigro, Uruguay, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** BULGARIA. 9400, TOM (Kostinbrod) 1503+ 24 Oct. LDPOG (Brother Stair) yakking away and sked 15-18 via "Bull"-garia (coincidence? I think not) (Dan Sheedy, Encinitas/Moonlight Beach, CA, G5/6m X wire, via Bob Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA [and non] /FRANCE, 9400 kHz terrible two stations program on 9400 kHz hit each other here co-channel in Europe! "Radyoya Denge Kurdistane" via Issoudun noted on even 9400.0 kHz well strong ahead, but underneath another sce on 9400.200 kHz and TOM Brother Stair sermon could be heard. Terrible mixture of two programs heard again 18-20 UT on Oct 28 and Oct 29. Heard here in all-Germany, various remote rx SDR Perseus in all over Europe. Co-channel terrible 200 Hertz heterodyne occurs as against 9400.00 kHz "Radyoya Denge Kurdistane" program to Kurdistan people target, broadcast via Issoudun France on even frequency. Tentatively - the odd frequency 9400.200 kHz carries TOM Brother Stair program brokered by Spaceline Ltd. Sofia people, from Bulgarian private outsourced site Kostinbrod near Sofia Bulgaria (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 29, dxldyg via DXLD) Hi folks, hi Ivo, (bc to Ludo) may you can ask the Spaceline Ltd. Sofia people, whether the odd frequency 9400.200 kHz TOM Brother Stair coming from Bulgarian private outsourced site Kostinbrod. Mr. Ventsislav Georgiev georgiev@spaceline.bg ventsislavbg@gmail.com Mr. Dimitar Todorov dtodorov@spaceline.bg Heard again in 18-20 UT time slot today Oct 29, here in all-Germany, various remote rx in all over Europe. Co-channel terrible 200 Hertz heterodyne occurs as against 9400.00 kHz "Radyoya Denge Kurdistane" program to Kurdistan people target, broadcast via Issoudun France. 73 wolfy (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 29, WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BURMA [non]. October 20: Democratic Voice of Burma in Burmese to SEAs 1526 on 11560 Dushanbe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a1BW9yCn6s&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BURMA [non]. Democratic V of Burma finale imminent MYANMAR EXILE RADIO DVB LEAVES SHORTWAVE, GOES ONLINE | Text of report in English by Norway-based, Myanmar-focused Democratic Voice of Burma website on 23 October Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), the country's longest running exile broadcaster, which first aired in 1992, will enter a new phase on 26 October, switching from shortwave to online radio. "Surveys show fewer people listen to shortwave nowadays, therefore DVB is focusing more of its content on new digital media and TV output, which will also be available via internet and mobile phones," said Aye Chan Naing, executive director of DVB Multimedia Group. October 2014 marks the end of an era for DVB radio, which was arguably the pioneer of Burmese exile broadcasting. Journalist Maung Too, who was a field reporter for DVB since its inception as a voice for the All Burma Students Democratic Front (ABSDF), reminisced about the days when Burma was iron curtained. His colleagues fondly tease him as a rebel by day who moonlighted as a reporter. "We are talking of a time when nobody knew what was happening inside the country; there was war and fighting and human rights violations, a repressive political atmosphere and information control," said Maung Too. The then exiled Burmese prime minister, Sein Win, requested assistance from the Norwegian government to help establish a radio station to reach Burma with information that the military regime would otherwise censor. Thus from Oslo, on 19 July 1992, the first shortwave transmission was broadcast. The demographic disposition of Burma, with large-scale poverty and illiteracy in remote regions, made radio news a permeable, feasible and ultimately popular medium among the public. The process of broadcasting one single episode seemed tenuous and long, but as Maung Too recounts the early years, one cannot miss the adventure that outlined the production of each episode. "In those days the process of broadcasting news in itself was a struggle, as we were not allowed inside Burma," he said, explaining how each episode was recorded on tape and sent to Bangkok, from where it would be sent to Oslo to be transmitted. "In a way, [DVB] always echoed the unified voices of all the ethnic groups in Burma - Shan, Karen, Chin, Mon - against the injustice of the military government," said a senior DVB reporter. DVB radio gained notoriety with the Burmese military junta to the extent that the regime described it as "a killer broadcast designed to cause troubles" which was "sowing hatred among the people". DVB radio was often accused of being biased towards Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy. However it has always maintained that it was never affiliated to any party but rather considered itself a part of the movement fighting for change in Burma's political system. "We have maintained a policy of giving voice to the democratic movement in Burma," says DVB deputy executive director Khin Maung Win. In 2005, DVB expanded into the domain of TV broadcasting. Asked if video was effectively killing off radio, Khin Maung Win said, "I don't think so. We are just entering a new phase." He explained that there is a possibility that the contents of the radio shows would be aired via other mediums and partnerships in Burma. DVB will also apply for FM radio licences in Burma, he added. The last episode of DVB radio will be broadcast from its Chiang Mai station on Sunday morning, 26 October, from 6 -7 a.m. Source: Democratic Voice of Burma website, Oslo, in English 23 Oct 14 (via BBCM via DXLD) WTFK? 2330 UT Oct 25 on 7510 or 11595 via ARMENIA until 0030 UT Oct 26, i.e. imminent. HFCC has both registered but 11595 is the one currently in use (Glenn Hauser, 2034 UT Oct 25, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) But Ivo thinx previous transmission was last: Last transmission for Democratic Voice of Burma on shortwave: 1430-1530 on 11560 DB 100 kW / 125 deg to SEAs Burmese, 2 videos on Oct. 25 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/10/last-transmission-for-democratic-voice.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #878 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Oct. 28, 2014 via DXLD) October 25, Democratic Voice of Burma in Burmese to SEAs, final broadcast on SW 1457 on 11560 Dushanbe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXI-G5JWjbw&feature=youtu.be Democratic Voice of Burma in Burmese to SEAs, final 3 min on SW 1527 on 11560 on Dushanbe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4J-FBF7n14&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CAMBODIA [non]. CLANDESTINE: 17860, V. of Khmer M'Chas Srok, Oct 27 *1130-1140, 35333-25332, Cambodian, 1130 sign on with opening music, ID, Opening announce, Music and talk (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) ** CAMEROON [non]. Sawtu Linjilia, Voice of Gospel: A-14 1830-1900 on 15315 ISS 500 kW / 180 deg to WCAf Fulfulde B-14 will be 1830-1900 on 9800 ISS 500 kW / 180 deg to WCAf Fulfulde http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/10/a-14-vs-b-14-changes-of-clandestine-and.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #878 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Oct. 28, 2014 via DXLD) ** CANADA. 740, CFZM, Toronto, Ontario. 1052 October 27, 2014. Gerry & the Pacemakers, "AM 740 Zoomer Radio" slogan, male and female hosts, she talking about John Denver, time check, traffic report with mention of South 401, Hwy 400 and Aurora Road, weather with a high of 13 C. Into news with the Toronto mayoral election leading off. Great signal, first time for me (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. News from Canada: 980, CHRF, QC, Montréal – CP for new station heard testing 10/12; will formally launch in mid-November, “Radio Fierté” in French for Montréal’s LGBT community (AM Switch, NRC DX News Nov 3 via DXLD) CHRF 980 Officially testing --- 16 days ago an open carrier appeared on 980 kHz from Montreal. As of noon today they are testing with current and older pop music with announcements in French stating their slogan, (Radio Fierté, which means pride radio in French) calls, and questions about interference as a result of the test being sent to an email address. The very early stages of the test were a simulcast of CIRR Toronto, but that changed just after 1 pm. So if you're hearing music in English and French in eastern North America, it's probably them (neofoodog, Oct 27, ABDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DXLD) 980 CHRF Montreal QC test transmission noted here at 2300 UT, "Radio Fierté" "AM le 80" [sic] Due to open in November (Paul Crankshaw, Troon, Scotland, Oct 27, IRCA via DXLD) 980 CHRF test transmission --- They're now testing with continuous music, short IDs and email address given to report interference problems. More details here: http://blog.fagstein.com/tag/chrf/ (Sylvain Naud, Portneuf, QC, 0045 UT Oct 28, IRCA via DXLD) October 27, 2014 at 6:02 pm Posted in Radio Radio Fierté begins testing on 980 AM Montreal’s newest radio station, and its first new general-interest [sic] commercial AM station in just about forever, is now transmitting as it undergoes the final stage before launch. For a couple of weeks now, radio watchers have been noticing an open carrier — silence instead of static — on 980 AM. Now that signal is starting to carry music as the station begins its on-air testing in preparation for launch. Radio Fierté CHRF is owned by Evanov Radio Group, which also owns Proud FM in Toronto, and the two have the same purpose, to serve the local LGBT community. Fierté will be Evanov’s first French-language radio station. Evanov told me last month that the station is expected to be on air by mid-November, so it’s a bit ahead of schedule. The actual launch is expected in January. Evanov hasn’t announced hires yet, but Marie-Noëlle (Marino) Gagnon has announced she will be the station’s music director and one of its hosts. The station’s application to the CRTC proposed a format of half music, half talk. The proposed program schedule was vague, but indicated mainly music on evenings and weekends. Though it would be mainly directed at the estimated 5-10% of the population that is gay (Evanov believes it could be even higher than that), its music and information is also designed to appeal to a wider audience. Its application promises some shows “will take a deeper look at issues of a more serious nature such as relationships, sex, health, politics and current events” with invited experts and call-in shows. Other shows will be music with “light banter.” It proposes 4-6 minutes of hard news an hour, and another 3-7 minutes an hour of sports, weather and traffic. The application shows a projected annual budget of $1 million to $1.5 million a year, based on ad rates averaging between $42 and $72 a minute. The station is playing mainly pop music in French and English (Tegan and Sara, Coeur de Pirate, Daft Punk, and a bunch of the songs you’d hear on The Beat or Virgin), but promises a mix of pop, disco and techno. Between songs, it’s airing several recorded messages noting the testing period, and identifying the station as “the first francophone LGBT station in North America” and “radio arc-en-ciel”. People who identify issues related to the transmission are asked to email info@radiofierte980.com. Fierté was approved by the CRTC in 2011, in the same proceeding that gave approval for CKGM (TSN Radio) to move to clear channel 690 AM. Fierté had originally been approved to take over the vacated 990 frequency and the same pattern as CKGM formerly had, but found that moving to 980 AM and adopting a less directional pattern at reduced power would result in better coverage at night. The CRTC approved a frequency and pattern change last December. Fagstein blog + 12 comments including:” Their new transmission pattern on 980, along with it being a much clearer frequency with the moving of the station in Quebec city seems to be just the ticket as well, they would appear to have very good coverage and a very decent looking night time pattern. They look to have absolutely nothing in the way as far east as they would like to go, and only really a 5000 watt AM station in Troy New York as an issue for night time coverage. They look primed to be a real powerhouse on that frequency, as many of the US stations seem to be in the 5KW and lower class (and some with as little as a couple of hundred watts at night). - Dilbert oct 29 CHRF 980 AM has begun testing. They have been on open carrier for about 2 weeks but today they started a mix of mostly dance music (B- 52s, Lady Gaga, etc.) and announcements in French. Giving an e-mail address of info@radiofierte980.com CHRF will be serving the gay and lesbian community in Quebec, using the 690 AM CKGM transmitter site in Mercier, Quebec. The owners of the station, Evanov, plan to have regular programming on the air in November. I posted info to NRC today (Sheldon Harvey, Radio H.F. - Canada`s specialist in radio communications, http://www.radiohf.ca 0156 UT Oct 28, IRCA via DXLD) Hello from Montreal, A new AM station is testing on 980 in the Montréal area, Radio Fierté / Radio Arc-en-ciel. Is a gay and lesbian community radio station with the Call letters CHRF. Packing a good signal with danse and pop music at 1400 UT October 28th 2014. This is a French language station. They have annoucements from time to time with ID and where to contact them in case of interference. Thank you to Sheldon Harvey for the tip on his CIDX facebook page. 73 (Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, Canada http://www.youtube.com/officialswlchannel dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thanks for the tip, Gilles. FCC AM Query does show a field pattern plot for the 10 kW nighttime with a deep null to South. Listeners in Boston and northern New England have a better chance at reception, as well as points more westerly such as Buffalo, NY and the northern US. I am currently pointing the handheld receiver (Tecsun PL-310) for N-S reception. Wash., DC sports WTEM fairly strong here as usual (Paul S. in CT, FN31nl, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DXLD) CHRF 980 is diplexed on the former CKGM 990 site, now CKGM 690. It's not using all six of the towers there, though. s (Scott Fybush, mwmasts yg via DXLD) Members, I have been quite warmed by the great response to the CHRF issue. Thank you to all of you. I have now entered full details on the database showing that this diplexed trio has two with capacitive top loading with all 3 being approximately 76M tall arranged with a maximum azimuth at 6 degrees. The help which I receive from all over the world makes my role as Group manager worthwhile. 73 and 88 (Dan Goldfarb, ibid.) ** CANADA. 1610, CHHA Toronto, Ontario. 1120 October 26, 2014. Nice signal through 1136 tune-out, Toronto sunrise today: 7:46 a.m. Spanish radio novela, delay parallel their live stream (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 6070.0, CFRX Toronto is back! At least a 5-minute ad-string upon tune in 2235 UT October 23, before News-Talk 10-10 ID at 2240 and into Events of the Day. Sufficient signal before RHC will wipe it out. Tnx to tip from WH2XDE`s Jerry Whitney in NY after 19 UT today. Looks like ``commercial SW`` is again live and well. Now to check their non- RHC-hours program schedule for anything of interest (Glenn Hauser, OK, 2313 UT Oct 23, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6070.0, CFRX Toronto is back! At least a 5-minute ad-string upon tune- in 2235 UT October 23, starting with Hallowe`en costumes, promos for Marketplace on CBC [television, understood] at 8 pm, and something else at 9, before ``News-Talk 10-10`` ID at 2240 and into Events of the Day. Sufficiently fair signal before RHC will wipe it out at 2300. Tnx to tip from WH2XDE`s Jerry Whitney in NY after 19 UT today. As Robert Lang, who first heard CFRX at 2200 Oct 23, points out, the ODXA site for CFRB/CFRX, http://cfrx.webs.com/ now proclaims: ``Status ON. As of 12:30 pm today [EDT = 1630 UT], October 23, 2014, CFRX was put back on the air.`` John Figliozzi found 1 kW CFRX to be an ``S9+ signal up here in New York (near Albany), absolutely burying Cuba at the moment (0154).`` Aoki supposes that RHC 6070 at 23-04 is 250 kW at 315 degrees right across mid-America. When both are audible, you should hear an 8 Hz SAH, as Wolfgang Büschel measured CFRX at 4 Hz below, and RHC 4 Hz above 6070.000. Looks like ``commercial SW`` is again alive and well. Now to check the CFRB non-RHC-hours program schedule for anything of interest. Instead of all-comedy overnight as previously, now it`s only two hours, 0400- 0600 UT M-F, right after Cuba closes: ``HUMBLE & FRED Beginning on Monday January 21, the funny and irreverent duo "Humble" Howard Glassman and Fred Patterson return to commercial radio with their popular show on NEWSTALK 1010 from midnight to 2AM. Since October 2011, Humble and Fred have been broadcasting a podcast at http://humbleandfredradio.com - a daily dose of humour uncut, uncensored, but definitely clever and interesting. "Howard and Fred are thrilled to be back and look forward to a long and healthy relationship at Astral, said Humble." "Having worked hard at trying to wreck the internet, we are happy to be back for another crack at wrecking radio." They will also be regular contributors to NEWSTALK 1010's programming throughout the week.`` There`s a lot more variety on the weekends, especially if you`re close enough to get CFRX in the daytime. Next check of 6070, 0525 UT October 24, during Humble & Fred show, evidently raw as they are getting bleeped, not ``uncensored`` here! Poor but clear, except RHC is splashing upon 6070 from 6060. Next next check of 6070, at 1257 Oct 24, CFRX is gone again! --- JBA carrier, probably North Korea. Altho it`s an all-day path now from Toronto to Enid, as I recall, the sun is still low enough for some signal to propagate. Did the transmitter crash again or was the latest activity just a test? 6070-, Oct 24 at 2246, ``News-Talk 10-10`` ID from CFRX, good signal and in the clear, some 24 hours after first heard reactivated, and some 10 hours since I found it missing again in the morning; maybe erratic. By next check 0033 UT Oct 25, heavy QRM with CUBA which was already using 6070+ all-evening, before CFRX last crashed. At this time here, the pair are about equal levels, making them equally useless, with a SAH of about 8 Hz as Wolfgang Büschel observed yesterday: CFRX is 4 Hz lo and RHC is 4 Hz hi. This is rather remarkable, considering that RHC is allegedly aiming 250 kW plus many dB of hi gain right at us, while CFRX is but 1 kW non-direxional. By 0126, CFRX has lost out to RHC dominance. So much for friendlier relations between Cuba and Canada. 6070 has been CFRX`s frequency forever (it was old already when I got my first QSL in 1957y), and Canadian SW stations do not have any frequency flexibility. RHC has lots of choices on the 49m band; for instance, there`s nothing much (except maybe Brasil) on 6080, if RHC really needs another frequency so close to 6060. O yeah, some lite intermittent pulse jamming against nothing, so Cuba already knows 6080! In B-14, IBB/VOA usage of 6080 ends at 2200, resumes at 0300 from eastern hemisphere sites, so the 03-04 hour could be a problem with VOA English via Vatican to Africa. Keep looking? With B-14 seasonal adjustments coming up shortly, now would be an excellent time for Prof. Arnaldo Coro Antich, frequency manager of RHC, to put this right and move off 6070 --- but don`t count on it, even tho it would also be to RHC`s own advantage to avoid this interference. 6070, Oct 25 at 1300, JBA signal with ad, fading up for Canadian PSA, ``news-Talk 10-10 from the broadcast centre in downtown Toronto``, 9 am news update. Very poor with fades. So maybe CFRX really was on 24 hours earlier when I couldn`t hear them. Too far for all-day reception here (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, when tuned in to remote SDR Rochester NY unit around 2345-2400 UT on Oct 23 noted a S=9 English language program, signal with phone discussion about Muslim terrorism and French first family names common in Canada. French-immigrant and inhabitants of the past 300 years, etc. etc. Also when checked on Massachusetts unit, CFRX Toronto is ahead of co-channel RHC signal. Despite in Lexington KY both station signals are equal signal strength around 2345-0015 UT. Measured CFRX Toronto on exact 6069.996 kHz, but 8 Hertz apart distance another station on 6070.004 underneath, which measured as slightly minor odd frequency of RHC on KY unit. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DXLD) 6070, CFRX, English OM/YL talk with RHC STRONGLY in the background making reception unpleasant at times, but RHC fading at times to provide decent reception of Toronto. Thanks to a tip-off from Steve Canney, apparently they came back on yesterday around 1630 or so. Many "NewsTalk 1010", t/c at "9 O'clock" at ToH and into news including details about the shooting in Ottawa yesterday. 5454+4 most of the time, but when RHC faded up it was 5354+3. 0057-0107 24/Oct (Ken Zichi, Williamston MI, MARE Tipsheet 24 Oct via DXLD) CFRX Toronto 6070 kHz heard Oct 24 from 0123 UT tune from Perseus site in Central Germany using the NAm beverage - much discussion about yesterday's terrorist attack at the Ottawa Parliament building and frequent ads (Nicoret ad at 0123 UT) - announcement by man giving schedule for complete coverage of Parliament attack "details tonight at 11". Time given as "9:45" at 0145 UT. Excellent signal mixing with RHC at approx. equal strength, SINPO 43544 - not bad considering 1 KW vs. 100 KW into Germany! Also heard at 0735 UT from Perseus site in Ireland - weaker signal but in the clear until tune out at 0810 UT with SINPO 24433. Signal remained steady even as Ireland passed into full daylight. Noted also from Perseus site in Brisbane with roughly equal signal as Ireland (S2+), but unfortunately covered by a strong carrier at 0840 UT (Bruce W. Churchill-CA-USA, DXplorer Oct 24 via BCDX 29 Oct via DXLD) 6070, CFRX, 0505, 0607, 24 Oct. Nice to have them back! JBA at tune-in with news, slightly better by 0600+ with "News-Talk 1010" slogan, weather/traffic reports (Dan Sheedy, Encinitas/Moonlight Beach, CA, G5/6m X wire, via Bob Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6070, CFRX Toronto, 0947 to 1010, “how quickly this happened … then we were on it…” description of the attack. Strong signal 24 Oct (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, 60 and 90 meter dipoles, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6070, CFRX Toronto, 0033+, clearly audible behind dominant RHC, at 1050+ in the clear and very strong with commentary on terrorism Oct 24 (XM, Cedar Key, South Florida, NRD 525D, R8A, E5, via Robert Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CFRX Toronto, 6070, 10/24/14, I listened at 1100 to news, traffic and weather. A fair signal with good audio quality. ID at 1107 UT, "In Depth Radio -- News Talk Radio 1010". Best Regards, (Larry Zamora, Garland, TX, WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non]. Sabato 25 ottobre 2014, 0535 - 6070 kHz (poi magari oltreoceano diranno "already discussed") Questa mattina c'erano di nuovo due segnali: in un momento ho sentito "Channel 292" e in un altro si è sentito un riferimento al Canada. Ho controllato quasi tutti i giorni e mi sembra che ieri (24/10) o al massimo l'altro ieri (23/10) c'era ancora solo la Germania. Segnali sufficienti-buoni B14, Domenica 26 ottobre 2014, 0643 - 6070 kHz :-o !!! R. VATICANA Messa in tedesco. Segnale molto buono. Channel 292 + CFRX docet (Luca Botto Fiora, QTH Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, G.C. 44 21' 06.89" N / 09 13' 30.94" E, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) [and non]. 6069.998, footprint of CFRX Toronto, which hit even the local hobby music station R ch292 News Radio/6150/6070 at 12 Hertz apart 6070.010 kHz, from Waal Rohrbach Ingolstadt Germany at 0712 UT Oct 25 (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) CFRX 6070 good at 0700 with newscast. Story on the funeral of the soldier killed in the Ottawa shooting tragedy. Female actualities. Good signal. No co or adjacent signals noted. Nice to have them back. 25 October (Brock Whaley, Ireland for WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DXLD) Not heard them for a while, but the past couple of mornings they have been weak but copyable with me around 0430 to 0600 UT. Slight co- channel QRM today at 0545 with oldies (Beatles, Men At Work etc..) which I presume was Germany. "Newstalk 1010" IDs just before the hour and half hour after the commercials. The adverts are easier to copy than the programmes as they tend to shout. Adverts for Honda and "discover a Bruno today..." 73's (Nick, Buxton UK, Rank, Sony ICF2001D, long wire, tuner, Oct 27, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) 6070, CFRX Radio 1010, on 2035, on 25 Oct. Two male announcers are commenting on a football game, with the Argonauts being one of the teams playing. A station ID came on during a break at 2036 and a commercial. At 2037 the sports announcer came back on and gave the score as 8-0 in favor of the Argos. Fair (John Cooper, Lebanon, PA; Equipment: Winradio-G33DDC, CommRadio 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 x 2, NASWA Flashsheet Oct 26 via DXLD) 6069.998, CFRX Toronto much well heard at 0500 UT Oct 28 in remote units at Rochester NY and Boston MA. "It's One o'clock in Toronto...", S=9+15dB or -61dBm, news on Toronto municipal and mayor John Tory election, "Toronto The Great", supporter election party report, political force noted on Newstalk program 10-10 (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. GHOMESHI SAYS HE WAS FIRED BECAUSE CBC THOUGHT HIS SEX LIFE was 'unbecoming' of the public broadcaster --- By The Canadian Press | https://ca.news.yahoo.com/canadian-press-newsalert-cbc-parts-ways-ghomeshi-180250964.html * Jian Ghomeshi, host of Q, no longer with CBC [caption] TORONTO - "Q" radio host Jian Ghomeshi says he has been fired from the CBC because they believed his "sexual behaviour was unbecoming of a prominent host" on the public broadcaster. Ghomeshi made the claim in a startling Facebook post Sunday that surfaced just hours after CBC issued a statement saying they were severing ties with the popular personality because of "information" they'd received about him. After that announcement, a Toronto law firm representing Ghomeshi issued a brief statement saying it would launch a lawsuit against the CBC. "I've been fired from the CBC because of the risk of my private sex life being made public as a result of a campaign of false allegations pursued by a jilted ex girlfriend and a freelance writer," Ghomeshi said in the post, which a publicist confirmed had indeed been written by the radio host. CBC says the decision to cut ties with Ghomeshi was "not made without serious deliberation" and that it would contest a lawsuit if served with legal documents. It declined to comment on the Facebook post, citing the pending suit. In the post, Ghomeshi said he has "always been interested in a variety of activities in the bedroom" but only engages in "sexual practices that are mutually agreed upon, consensual, and exciting for both partners." He said he began to date a woman in her late 20s two years ago and that they had an "affectionate, casual and passionate" relationship that involved "adventurous forms of sex." He went on to say he ended their relationship earlier this year, which upset the woman, and that early in the spring there was "a campaign of harassment, vengeance and demonization" that resulted in "months of anxiety." He went on to say in the post: "It came to light that a woman had begun anonymously reaching out to people that I had dated (via Facebook) to tell them she had been a victim of abusive relations with me. In other words, someone was reframing what had been an ongoing consensual relationship as something nefarious. I learned -- through one of my friends who got in contact with this person -- that someone had rifled through my phone on one occasion and taken down the names of any woman I had seemed to have been dating in recent years. This person had begun methodically contacting them to try to build a story against me." In addition, he asserted in the post: "Someone also began colluding with a freelance writer who was known not to be a fan of mine and, together, they set out to try to find corroborators to build a case to defame me." Ghomeshi said he has been open with CBC about the matter and that he has "never believed it was anyone's business" what he does in his private affairs but that he wanted his bosses to be aware of the situation. "CBC has been part of the team of friends and lawyers assembled to deal with this for months," he wrote. "On Thursday I voluntarily showed evidence that everything I have done has been consensual. I did this in good faith and because I know, as I have always known, that I have nothing to hide. This when the CBC decided to fire me." "CBC execs confirmed that the information provided showed that there was consent. In fact, they later said to me and my team that there is no question in their minds that there has always been consent. They said they're not concerned about the legal side. But then they said that this type of sexual behaviour was unbecoming of a prominent host on the CBC. They said that I was being dismissed for 'the risk of the perception that may come from a story that could come out.' To recap, I am being fired in my prime from the show I love and built and threw myself into for years because of what I do in my private life." Toronto law firm Dentons Canada LLP says the action will claim general and punitive damages for breach of confidence and bad faith in the amount of $50 million. The law firm said documents would be filed on Monday in court but did not elaborate. The statement also said Ghomeshi will commence a grievance for reinstatement with the CBC under his collective agreement. On Friday, Ghomeshi, 47, tweeted that he was taking some "much needed personal time" away from the broadcaster. That came after an emotional posting on his Facebook page earlier this month about the recent death of his father. It wasn't immediately clear what would happen to "Q," a daily national talk show on CBC Radio One and CBC-TV which Ghomeshi co-created. Thompson said "it's not uncommon for CBC to use guest hosts on Q and that's what we'll be doing for the foreseeable future." The departure leaves a gaping hole in the broadcaster's lineup. Ghomeshi was not only a force on radio but did TV appearances as well, and offered a dose of urbane cool to the often stodgy CBC. "Q," which launched in 2007, is also broadcast on over 180 NPR/PRI stations and syndicated in the U.S. Julia Yager, a spokeswoman for PRI, said the radio broadcaster will "work with the CBC as they plan what is next for Q." Ghomeshi has enjoyed a meteoric rise and publications like the New York Times and Toronto Life magazine have done lengthy profiles on him. His most well-known interview was his 2009 encounter with Billy Bob Thornton, which became a YouTube sensation. The actor wanted to talk about his musical endeavours and became gruff after the host asked him about his film career. Ghomeshi is also a published author, with the 2012 memoir "1982" and articles in various papers. He also hosted the CBC-TV program "Play." Ghomeshi had been scheduled to host the Scotiabank Giller Prize gala on CBC-TV on Nov. 10 in Toronto. But Elana Rabinovitch, a spokeswoman for the book prize, said in an email Sunday he will no longer preside over the gala. YahooCanadaNews (via Mike Cooper, WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DXLD) JIAN GHOMESHI, CBC RADIO HOST, IS FIRED IN SEX CASE By IAN AUSTEN October 27, 2014 http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/business/media/jian-ghomeshi-cbc-radio-host-is-fired-in-sex-case.html OTTAWA -- When the radio personality Jian Ghomeshi suddenly announced on Friday that he was taking a leave of absence from his popular show, many Canadians assumed it was related to the recent death of his father. Now, his departure is the sex scandal du jour. In a brief statement on Sunday, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation announced that it had simply cut ties with Mr. Ghomeshi. He quickly followed up that evening with a 1,500-word Facebook post, detailing his side of the story. In the post, Mr. Ghomeshi said that CBC had fired him over the concerns that consensual sexual acts, that he described as "a mild form of Fifty Shades of Grey," were about to become public. Jian Ghomeshi filed suit against the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, claiming breach of confidence and defamation. Ari Mintz for The New York Times [caption] Later Sunday, The Toronto Star reported that three young women had said Mr. Ghomeshi had been "physically violent to them without their consent during sexual encounters or in the lead-up to sexual encounters." The newspaper said that the radio host "struck them with a closed fist or open hand; bit them; choked them until they almost passed out; covered their nose and mouth so that they had difficulty breathing; and that they were verbally abused during and after sex." On Monday, lawyers for Mr. Ghomeshi filed a lawsuit against the government-owned CBC claiming breach of confidence, bad faith, and defamation, and seeking 55 million Canadian dollars, or $49 million. He has also retained a crisis management firm favored by politicians. The CBC said it would "vigorously" defend itself against litigation. In a country where the public broadcaster's radio stations still command big audiences, Mr. Ghomeshi loomed large. His daily two-hour cultural program, "Q," which heavily featured interviews with international film stars and musicians, was an important source of younger listeners. Broadcast weekdays at midmorning, "Q" had an average audience of 282,000, not counting a repeat broadcast at night. Mr. Ghomeshi, 47, helped create "Q," which was named for the broadcast center studio where it is recorded in Toronto and has run for about seven years. He was entwined with the show's identity, and the network often used Mr. Ghomeshi, who usually sported artfully barbered stubble, to host corporate events. His program also produced revenue for the CBC, which does not carry advertising on its main radio network. Public Radio International licensed the program and syndicates it to 57 public radio stations in the United States. Mr. Ghomeshi recently hosted a special broadcast of the show that was recorded with an audience in Los Angeles. He said in the Facebook post that his firing stemmed from a relationship he had with "a woman in her late 20s." Mr. Ghomeshi said that, after he broke up with her, the woman "set out to try to find corroborators to build a case to defame me." He said a freelance writer was among the people she sought out. "A major Canadian media publication did due diligence but never printed a story," Mr. Ghomeshi wrote in an apparent reference to The Toronto Star. "One assumes they recognized these attempts to recast my sexual behavior were fabrications." In an unusual note to readers, Michael Cooke, the editor of The Star, said that the newspaper began working on the article in May. Its publication had been withheld, he said, because none of the women had filed complaints with the police and there was no way to prove or disprove their accusations. Mr. Cooke said that Mr. Ghomeshi's "extraordinary statement" on Sunday was the determining factor in the decision to publish the article. The CBC quickly distanced itself from Mr. Ghomeshi. By Monday, it had stripped all traces of him from its website and stations, including an oversize portrait in the lobby of its main English language broadcasting center in Toronto (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) "Ghomeshi became bigger than the CBC" writes Simon Houpt in Globe and Mail. Whether Q is actually as big a success as it seems is up for debate: The listenership for its broadcasts (not including podcasts or streaming) is roughly half that of The Current, CBC Radio One's flagship current affairs show: perhaps as little as a couple of hundred thousand people. But nobody is asking Anna Maria Tremonti to host the Gillers book prizes (Dan Say, Oct 27, alt.radio.networks.cbc via Mike Cooper, DXLD) Depending on how the scandal unfolds, the CBC's big bet on Mr. Ghomeshi may turn out to have been a big risk for very little reward. Ghomeshi became bigger than the CBC SIMON HOUPT, The Globe and Mail Published Monday, Oct. 27 2014, 5:00 AM EDT Last updated Monday, Oct. 27 2014, 9:47 AM EDT http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/ghomeshi-became-bigger-than-the-cbc/article21311323/ These days, 24 hours is about as long as CBC gets to feel good about itself (via Dan Say, ibid.) ** CHILE. 7550-AM, RCW, 26/10 0030 UT. Programa `Frecuencia al día` con informaciones de captaciones, novedades de radiodifusión y el cese de emisiones de Radio Exterior de España. A las 01, hay un informativo de NHK en español por 10 minutos. Desde las 0110, música del recuerdo especialmente de los años 60s hasta las 0120. Luego ID en varios idiomas y música romántica o pop en español e inglés desde las 0122 en adelante. A las 0140, ID en francés, chino mandarín y español, para volver a un espacio de música pop hasta las 02. Desde las 0201 hasta las 0203 avisos de contacto de la emisora, himno nacional de Chile en versión jazz y despedida. SINPO: 55444 (Claudio Galaz, RX: Realistic DX-160, ANT: Helicoidal para banda de 40 Metros, QTH: Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** CHINA. 7502, Xing Xing GDD 4 (Kuanyin) *1200 9 Oct. OC, 1 minute flute intro, ID and into Chinese # groups. Also heard somewhat better at 1324 recheck (Dan Sheedy, Encinitas/Moonlight Beach, CA, G5/6m X wire, via Bob Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 19000, Oct 23 at 1325, CNR1 jammer, very poor making het with FRG-7 MHz birdie; a little stronger later in the hour on this, its Thursday only 13-14 frequency vs RFA Tibetan via Kuwait. 13920, Oct 23 at 1340, CNR1 jammer, fair vs uteroar, none in the 17s, 16s, 14s, 12s. 9230, Oct 24 at 1254, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter. No others OOB found higher in quick cursory bandscan (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12190, CNR1, 10/25, 1040. M and W in Chinese to ToH and close at pips. Also noted // on 11100. 10960 showed a station in Chinese and with music, but definitely NOT // to the others. Likely an unjammed Sound of Hope as often reported by Ron Howard. 10960, CNR 1, 10/26, 1120. Dialogue with M&W to pips and clear ID at the BoH. VG. 73 and Good Listening! (Rick Barton, El Mirage, AZ, Grundig Satellit 750, short wire; also from car with Sat 750 and Wilson 1000 passive antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Lots of CNR1 jammers on lower band morning of Oct 26: 9280, Oct 26 at 1250, CNR1 jammer with Chinese opera, commentary, fair 9230, Oct 26 at 1250, CNR1 jammer with Chinese opera, commentary, fair 9200, Oct 26 at 1251, CNR1 jammer with Chinese opera, commentary, poor 9150, Oct 26 at 1252, CNR1 jammer with Chinese opera, commentary, good All with some flutter; none in the 8s, 10s, 11s OOB, 13s 12190, Oct 26 at 1255, CNR1 jammer, poor with flutter 12500, Oct 26 at 1256, CNR1 jammer, poor with flutter 12910, Oct 26 at 1256, CNR1 jammer, very poor 9150, Oct 26 at 1342, CNR1 jammer, very poor with flutter 9200, Oct 26 at 1342, CNR1 jammer, fair 9230, Oct 26 at 1342, CNR1 jammer, fair-good 9320, Oct 26 at 1343, CNR1 jammer, good signal, best of the lot, recitation with music, seems same programming as others but way out of synch with them. At end of A-14, Aoki had this as a jammed frequency due to a many-hour 100-watt Sound of Hope relay of R. Free Asia, but don`t recall hearing CNR1 here before. Nothing on 9320 in HFCC B-14 after WRN Korean via Uzbekistan until 1330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12500, CNR1, 10/27, 1040. Talk by W in Chinese. Good, with good // on 12800. Was a faint station on 10960, but I wasn't able to determine if a legit broadcast or // CNR1 jamming. 13130, CNR1, 10/27, 1115. Programming in Chinese. No other OB CNR stations heard, nor opera [sic] crash and boom music (Rick Barton, El Mirage, AZ, Grundig Satellit 750, short wire; also from car with Sat 750 and Wilson 1000 passive antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15510, Oct 27 until 1330* cutoff, CNR1 jammer, very good with flutter. Now here to block BBC Uzbek via Thailand at 1300-1330 and presumably on several other B14 frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12560, CNR1, 10/28, 0940. M in Chinese over musical soundbed. No //s heard. 73 and Good Listening! (Rick Barton, El Mirage, AZ, Grundig Satellit 750, short wire; also from car with Sat 750 and Wilson 1000 passive antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. Jamming 12089.2 to 12100.4 kHz wide band, against 11995 kHz BBCWS Singapore at 0025 UT [sic: must mean BBC 12095 – gh] China mainland scratchy local low power jamming on 24 hour service, mostly against BBCWS, Uighur, Tibetan, and VoA programs noted on night time propagation on 11895, 15335, and against 13620 RFA kHz. (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 29, dxldyg via DXLD) ** CHINA. 5050, Beibu Bay Radio (Nanning), 1358-1404 16/17 Oct. W DJ chatting in Vietnamese + Vietnamese hip-hop/pop songs, pips at TOH, TC/ID in English ("The time is 10 PM, Beibu Bay Radio") and Chinese/Vietnamese, ending with station jingle with "FM 96.3 Beibu Bay Radio" tag. Heard with // programming on 9820 on the 16th, altho Aoki shows Chinese there 1330-1500 -- listing goof or were my ears deceiving me? (Dan Sheedy, Encinitas/Moonlight Beach, CA, G5/6m X wire, via Bob Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5050, Oct 19 -1601*, Beibu Bei Radio signed off with NA. Transmitter off at 1601:35. Strong (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin Oct 26 via DXLD) ** CHINA. Shortwave Frequencies (Beginning October 26th, 2014) Dear Mr. Akbar Indra Gunawan: For your listening convenience, you can check the shortwave frequencies in your area via the below links: America: http://english.cri.cn/7146/2010/03/30/2141s560015.htm Europe: http://english.cri.cn/7146/2010/03/30/2141s560016.htm Asia: http://english.cri.cn/7146/2010/03/30/2141s560017.htm Africa: http://english.cri.cn/7146/2010/03/30/2141s560021.htm The South Pacific: http://english.cri.cn/7146/2010/03/30/2141s560019.htm Best wishes, Yours sincerely, YingLian [collective name], English Service, China Radio International, http://english.cri.cn/ Facebook: Ying Lian https://www.facebook.com/ying.lian.39 Unsubscription: If you would rather not receive future communications from CRI, let us know by emailing crieng@cri.com.cn (CRI Eng via Gunawan, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 11910, Oct 29 at 1303, CRI English has still replaced the relay of Spain in Spanish, despite no B-14 HFCC registration for this frequency which had been Beijing site in A-14; and not // 11900 which is registered as CRI English via Kunming, and running ahead of // 9570 via Cuba. So 11910 & 11900 are carrying two different program hours among the five or so available from CRI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA. 6010.19, Oct 19, 0645, La Voz de tu Conciencia, very good signal at this time. REL just before TOTH and music prior to that (Arne Nilsson, Gransel, Sweden, SW Bulletin Oct 26 via DXLD) QSL: La Voz de tu Conciencia, 6010, QSL in 4 weeks for report to Apartado 67751, Oficina Red 4-72 Unicentro, Bogotá DC, Colombia. v/s Rafael Rodríguez. Sent IRC (Artur Fernández Llorella, Catalonia, Spain, You can see some images in http://maresmedx.blogspot.com.es/ Hard-Core-DX via DXLD) ** CONGO. QSL: Radio Congo Brazzaville, 6115, QSL letter in 2 years for last report sent to B.P. 2241, Brazzaville, Republique du Congo. v/s Jean de Dieu Oko, Directeur des Programmes. (Artur Fernández Llorella, Catalonia, Spain, You can see some images in http://maresmedx.blogspot.com.es/ Hard-Core-DX via DXLD) 6115, Radio Congo, Brazzaville, 1802-1835, 24-10, French, news, comments: "Les congolaises, "L'information", "Le Congo, Le Camerun". 23322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante and Lugo, Tecsun PL-880, antenna: Degen 31MS antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 1200, Radio Sancti Spíritus, Yaguajay, Sancti Spíritus. 1100 October 26, 2014. Canned program with female hosting opera, parallel 1190 and 1210 (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. October 20: Cuban Spy HM01 in Spanish 0507 on 5855 probably via La Habana, Bauta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9QeyRLESBQ&feature=youtu.be Cuban Spy HM01 in Spanish 0533 on 5855 probably via La Habana, Bauta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUWzaHbtPWw&feature=youtu.be Cuban Spy HM01 in Spanish 0602 on 10345 probably via La Habana, Bauta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H3xrhRrtKg&feature=youtu.be Cuban Spy HM01 in Spanish 0645 on 10345 probably via La Habana, Bauta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3nOreKimK4&feature=youtu.be Cuban Spy HM01 in Spanish 0700 on 9330 probably via La Habana, Bauta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A67AcMCy36U&feature=youtu.be Cuban Spy HM01 in Spanish 0748 on 9330 probably via La Habana, Bauta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sUrF8tFPIQ&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 3355, RHC, at 1127, on 21 Oct. A female announcer was talking on a live feed with a male speaker and another male talking in the background. A male announcer started talking at 1128 stated Cuba several times then a male and a female talked to each other. Fair (John Cooper, Lebanon, PA; Equipment: Winradio-G33DDC, CommRadio 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 x 2, NASWA Flashsheet Oct 26 via DXLD) How do you conclude this was RHC? Was there an RHC ID? Was it // known RHC frequencies? RHC is planning to test on 3365, so maybe this was a pre-test (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST via ptsw yg via DXLD) Glenn, In reference to Cuba, 3355, there was a station ID at the bottom of the hour by the male announcer. I was going for a Unidentified, and actually had that logged until I heard the station ID. There was no jingle with it, just a few words in Spanish by the Male announcer after the Station ID. It did not get on the report I submitted to NASWA when I cut and pasted my weekly log, but I did note it on my computer logging for the week. I would not have submitted it since it was a weird freq unless I had a real ID, because I know you would have been all over it. If you really don't believe me shoot an e-mail to Arnie. I heard what I heard (John Cooper, ibid.) Good. When you do get an ID on a new frequency like this, it`s important to say so in the report. 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** CUBA. 6000, Oct 23 at 0535 check is off again, but carrier is back from *0556 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Re: ``A greater anomaly is reported to me by Mike Stone in Arlington Heights IL: ``Hi Glen[n], Radio Havana Cuba at 2130 GMT, 6165 kHz, 10-15-14, English service with Latin Music and talk. Very good S7 signal with Yaesu FT840 and 45 foot longwire``. That`s a completely off-schedule emission both in frequency and in language (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` I later asked Mike about this anomaly, and he corrects the time: 2130 was really CDT = 0230 UT, so nothing out of the ordinary. RHC is off the hook on this one (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15370, Oct 24 at 1320, RHC Spanish mentioning that it`s United Nations Day, and then bringing up a UN Radio report about ébola. RHC is really the main SW outlet for UN Radio, which long ago had many hours available via US/VOA transmitters. Why did they ever let that go? We often hear UNR segments on RHC, but apparently at no specific times, so not formal relays which could be put into a reliable schedule. See also CANADA: CFRX 6060, Oct 25 at 0106, RHC is in wrong language, English instead of Spanish, so // 6000 & 6165; 6060 weaker than the others. Aoki says it`s 100 kW on 10 degree azimuth up the east coast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CANADA [non] re collision with 6070 CFRX 6165, Oct 26 at 0102, RHC English is AWOL while funxioning on 6000 (and 6060 is in proper language Spanish for a change); finally at *0106.4, 6165 pops on with program in progress, off and on and off and on, perhaps to stay. 6000, Oct 28 at 0601, RHC still absent from this English frequency, but it`s on by 0605 check. 9783-9837, Oct 29 at 0109, the RHC 9810 transmitter is putting a buzz field out to plus and minus 27 kHz, peaking worst at +/- 10-15 kHz. Fundamental itself is only fair strength and undermodulated. This is especially bad news for 9820v Brasil (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also KOREA NORTH [non] ** CUBA [non]. 9420, Oct 26 at 0110, ERTOpen, GREECE is not on tonite, and not on 9415 either, but if and when they get back on 9420 they are in for a rude surprise: Radio República and the inevitable heavy Cuban jamming. As I tune in 9420 at 0110, what`s this, something new in Spanish; check 6, 7, 9 and 11 MHz bands for //s but none found. Cuban accents and talking about Camagüey. Definitely not // RHC, Progreso, or Rebelde! 0111 about provincia de Mayabeque. Musical stingers intervene; 0113 song by una dominicana neoyorquina, ``Nadie como tú``. 0117 announcement mentioning this program was recorded in Miami, ``aquí en los Estados Unidos``, then YL with long talk about ébola, references to Cuba, gets in digs at ``la dictadura de Castro``. No, it`s not // R. Martí 7365 either. But NO IDs. However, I can`t hear any trace of R. República on 9490, where there remains wall-of- noise Cuban jamming. 0123 poesía de Octavio Paz, with music. 0125 another song, then mentions `Sencillamente Mujer`; report from Camagüey about political prisoners, including Sonia somebody. Finally at 0133 ID as ``Radio República presenta Sencillamente Mujer``. So R.R. has made a surprise frequency change from 9490 to 9420, presumably still via Issoudun, FRANCE. Good signal with rolling fades, and NO jamming --- yet, until the DentroCubans catch on. Latest HFCC B14 still shows 9490 for ``RMI`` at 00-03, NOT 9420. And presumably still using only last two hours of that span. But what if GREECE comes back on its #1 frequency, 9420 where it was just last night after a foray to 9415 for three nights. Or were they trying 9415, having been tipped off about the pending exile jump? How could R.R. pick 9420 if they knew Greece would be on it to North America already? But then the ``rebels`` aren`t registering in HFCC. Stay tuned! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re R. República on 9420 instead of 9490: ``Glenn: I think this was an error at Issoudun,`` says Jeff White. We`ll see if it`s back on 9490 to be jammed at 0100 Oct 27. 9490, Oct 27 at 0159-0200, R. República ID, back on scheduled frequency via FRANCE, and mixed with wall-of-noise jamming, tsk2, instead of clear 9420 where it had jumped 25 hours earlier. So apparently that had been a mistake (or an experiment?), suspiciously in the very first hour of the B-14 season when lots of frequency changes were being implemented (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9490, Oct 29 at 0111, R. República via FRANCE is still on listed frequency, now about equal level to wall-of-noise jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. 6030, Oct 27 at 0606, oh2, R. Martí is *on* during what had been its Monday-morning siesta from 03 to 09; some pulse jamming, but not wall-of-noise, as this also caught the DentroCuban Jamming Command by surprise. The other RM frequency at this hour, 7405, is also on with VG signal and no jamming audible. This would not have been a surprise to those consulting HFCC B-14, where indeed the Martí frequencies are now registered for 7 nights a week, no more silent periods. So our slim hopes for Radio ICDI, Central African Republic on 6030 have just evaporated, and it`s further bad news for Calgary`s CFVP (tho if they really cared, would have objected to OCB ever using 6030, or filed for a new frequency). Extracted from HFCC B-14, here`s the full R. Martí schedule: 00-04 7365 00-12 6030 04-07 7405 07-13 5980 12-14 7405 13-22 11930 14-20 13820 [ex-13605] 20-24 9565 22-24 7405 There could be some 1-hour adjustments in a week with DST over, but the registrations do not show any one-week-only segments. However, there are some one-hour broadcasts the same as adjacent longer ones. Or re-organized by each transmitter: 00-04 7365, 04-07 7405, 07-13 5980, 13-22 11930, 22-24 7405 00-12 6030, 12-14 7405, 14-20 13820, 20-24 9565 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11930, Oct 28 at 1309, R. Martí is jamming-free but only fair signal from Greenville, as the Dentro-Cuban Jamming Command hasn`t caught on that this frequency is now opening one hour earlier than in A-14. // 7405 is jammed but RM well atop it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DJIBOUTI. 4780, Radio Djibouti, Arta, 1706-1819, 24-10, vernacular songs and comments. 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante and Lugo, Tecsun PL-880, antenna: Degen 31MS antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EAST TURKISTAN. 7275, Uighur harsh audio tone quality heard here at 0148 UT. PBS Xinjiang from Urumqi. Started earlier, probably from 2350 UT, despite hfcc registration showing rather 03-12 UT slot in B13 and B14 season. Same level of Urumqi Chinese language service on nearby 7260 kHz at 0152 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 29, dxldyg via DXLD) ** EGYPT. 13850, Oct 23 at 0552, R. Cairo open carrier/dead air or maybe just barely modulated. 9965, Oct 23 at 2250, R. Cairo with tone test at quite a different pitch than the constant whine, fair signal, prior to the English sesquihour to North America. 2300 is the time to get it, as the next one at 0200 on 9315 is usually unusable with little or no modulation or signal. Per HFCC B-14 as of Oct 26, ERU plans to continue 9965 for English at 2300-2430; while at 0200-0330 four frequencies are listed, presumably only one to be used: 9315, 9720, 9835, 9860! The 2115-2245 English to Europe could be on any one of: 9895, 9900, 11890. Even more wooden stuff for Spanish: 0045-0200 on 9315, 9720, 9835, 9860, 11670, 11710, 12035, 12070, 12080, 13620, 13855! Pick three like the ones currently attempted: 9315, 11710, 12070. Look at 11670: that would collide with Cuba. 13850 is also on the B-14 schedule to continue at 02-07, Arabic to North America (if not alternate duplicate 9905), and 13850 heard here Oct 24 at 0533 with VG signal but Arabic modulation very distorted favoring the spikes. 9965, Oct 25 at 0040, R. Cairo, Arabic with Qur`an, whine, fair with flutter 9315, Oct 25 at 0045, R. Cairo opening Spanish with theme music, not distorted but undermodulated 11710, Oct 25 at 0045, R. Cairo Spanish is just the het with Argentina on the hi side; and its pitch varies as one or both stations are affected by ionospheric Doppler following the blackout a few hours earlier (See USA). 12070, Oct 25 at 0045, R. Cairo Spanish, music // 9315 but here it is very distorted with humwhine. 13850, Oct 25 at 0535, R. Cairo is the SSOB by far, not even Australia on 13630, but transmitting open carrier/dead air --- another great triumph of the ERTU. [and non]. 9860, Oct 26 at 0026, seems dead air, fair with flutter, but then just barely modulated in Spanish. This is right at the transition from the A-14 to B-14 season when there could be some one- day clashes. In A-14, 9860 has been Iran in Spanish at 0020-0320 [see also IRAN]. 12035, Oct 26 at 0040, Arab music, good signal but heavy distortion and hum à la Cairo, and now find it to be // 9860; 0044:28 mistimesignal ends and R. Cairo news theme. So did 9860 change from Iran to Egypt in the last few minutes or was it Egypt in the first place? In B-14, Cairo has registered 12035 at 2330-0200 in Arabic, then Spanish; and 9860 at 0045-0330 in Spanish, then English. But Cairo registers additional wooden frequencies to give them some flexibility. 9860, Oct 26 at 0242, R. Cairo English to N America is indeed here now, ex-9315; good signal but muffled and distorted so I have to listen intently for a while to be sure it`s English. 12080, Oct 26 at 0105, poor signal with distortion, flutter, i.e. R. Cairo Spanish, ex-12070 with the same degradation. JBA signal on 11710, maybe still //, and also on 9860 ex-9315 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Observation of Radio Cairo in 19 meterband on October 26: 1230-1400 15710 ABS 250 kW / 091 deg SEAs Indonesian 1300-1600 15800 ABS 250 kW / 241 deg WeAf Arabic 1330-1400 15360 ABS 250 kW / 061 deg WeAs Dari 1330-1530 15790 ABZ 100 kW / 070 deg WeAs Farsi, ex 15245 B-13 1400-1600 15545 ABZ 250 kW / 070 deg WeAs Pashto, alt 15350 not active All of these frequencies have severe technical problems such as extreme distortion and / or undermodulation from many, many years. Four videos: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/10/radio-cairo-in-19-meterband-on-october.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #878 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Oct. 28, 2014 via DXLD) Winter B-14 schedule of Radio Cairo, according to HFCC entries. Tentative schedule, not confirmed by monitoring yet. Intermodulation on 315/325/330deg antenna with ME Radio MW 774 kHz mediumwave, wb. 0030-0430 9965 ABS 250 kW 325 deg NEAm Arabic + MERadio 9191v 0030-0430 11530 ABS 250 kW 325 deg NoWeAM Arabic alt. + MERadio 10756v 0045-0200 9860 ABS 250 kW 331 deg NoEaAM Spanish alt. 9315 9720 9835 0045-0200 12080 ABS 250 kW 241 deg SoAM Spanish alt.11670 11710 13620 0045-0200 13620 ABS 250 kW 241 deg SoAM Spanish alt.11670 11710 12080 0200-0330 9720 ABS 250 kW 331 deg NoEaAM English alt. 9315 9835 9860 0200-0700 9905 ABS 250 kW 315 deg NoAM ArGenSce + MERadio 9131v 0200-0700 13850 ABS 250 kW 315 deg NoAM Arabic General Sce 0400-0600 15610 ABZ 250 kW 160 deg CEAF Swahili alt.13650 0700-1100 17510 ABZ 100 kW 250 deg WeAF Arabic General Sce 0800-1000 17830 ABZ 250 kW 110 deg SoEaAS Arabic 1015-1215 17830 ABZ 250 kW 090 deg WeAS Arabic alt. 17480 1215-1330 17870 ABZ 250 kW 090 deg WeAS English alt. 17480 1230-1400 15710 ABS 250 kW 091 deg SoEaAS Indonesian 1300-1600 15800 ABS 250 kW 241 deg WeAF Arabic alt. 15535 1330-1400 15360 ABZ 250 kW 070 deg WeAS Dari 1330-1530 15790 ABZ 100 kW 070 deg WeAS Persian alt. 15245 1400-1600 15545 ABZ 250 kW 070 deg WeAS Pashto alt. 15350 1500-1600 13770 ABS 250 kW 061 deg CeAS Uzbek, alt. 15160 1500-1600 13580 ABS 250 kW 315 deg EaEUR Albanian 1600-1700 15450 ABZ 100 kW 160 deg EaCeAF Afar 1600-1800 13820 ABS 250 kW 091 deg SoAS Urdu alt. 13670 15735 1600-1800 15345 ABS 150 kW 196 deg CeSoAF English 1600-1800 17840 ABZ 250 kW 170 deg CeEaAF Swahili 1700-1900 15285 ABZ 100 kW 160 deg EaCeAF Somali/Amharic 1700-1900 9280 ABS 250 kW 005 deg NE/ME Turkish, alt. 9745 1700-1900 9745 ABS 250 kW 005 deg NE/ME Turkish, alt. 9280 1700-2300 17485 ABZ 100 kW 170 deg AF Arabic 1800-1900 9490 ABS 200 kW 325 deg WeEUR Italian + MERadio 8716v 1800-1900 9655 ABS 200 kW 325 deg WeEUR Italian alt. + MERadio 8881v 1800-2100 9990 ABS 250 kW 241 deg WeAF Hausa alt.15710 1800-2100 15710 ABS 250 kW 241 deg WeAF Hausa alt. 9990 1845-2000 17625 ABZ 250 kW 245 deg Fulfulde alt. 15520 1900-0030 11540 ABZ 100 kW 160 deg EaCeAF Arabic R. Voice of Arabs 1900-0700 13810 ABS 250 kW 315 deg EUR/NoEaAM Arabic 1900-2000 9685 ABS 250 kW 005 deg EaEUR Russian alt. 9430 9885 1900-2000 9885 ABS 250 kW 005 deg EaEUR Russian alt. 9430 9685 1900-2030 15290 ABZ 100 kW 250 deg WeAF English 1900-2115 9410 ABS 200 kW 325 deg WeEUR Ge/Fr alt. + MERadio 8636v 1900-2115 9905 ABS 200 kW 325 deg WeEUR Ge/Fr alt. + MERadio 9131v 1900-2115 12050 ABS 200 kW 325 deg WeEUR Ge/Fr + MERadio 11276v 2000-2200 9855 ABZ 250 kW 110 deg AUS Arabic alt. 11610 15225 2100-2300 15205 ABS 250 kW 241 deg WeAF French alt. 13580 2115-2245 9895 ABS 200 kW 325 deg WeEUR English + MERadio 9121v 2115-2245 11890 ABS 200 kW 325 deg WeEUR English alt. + MERadio 11116v 2215-2330 15480 ABZ 250 kW 245 deg SoAM Portuguese alt. 12000 2300-0030 9965 ABS 250 kW 325 deg NoWeAM English + MERadio 9191v 2330-0045 12070 ABS 250 kW 282 deg CeAM Arabic alt. 12035 13855 2330-0045 15480 ABZ 250 kW 245 deg SoAM Arabic alt. 12000 [N.B.: Many (most?) of these frequencies have severe technical problems such as extreme distortion and/or undermodulation, gh] (updated B-13 schedule acc B-14 Oct 14 hfcc conference registrations, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 29 via DXLD) [and non]. Log of 19 mb in 17-18 UT Oct 28, start at 1715 UT on lower end: Two carrier seen, but couldn't be not real listenable here in southern Germany, as 15345.089 suppose Radio Cairo; and 15345.164 kHz suppose RAE Buenos Aires, latter hopping 10-20 Hertz up and down (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12080, Oct 29 at 0102, R. Cairo, fair with flutter, just barely modulated, presumably Spanish, ex-12070 9860, Oct 29 at 0102, R. Cairo, fair with flutter, JBM, presumably Spanish, ex-9315 11710, Oct 29 at 0102, very poor carrier enough to make a het with Argentina, but probably no longer Cairo, moved to 12035? HFCC shows CNR Beijing until 0130; (and also AIR Delhi in English until 0045) 9965, Oct 29 at 0104, R. Cairo, good with flutter, undermodulated Arabic, usual whine (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12080.049, Radio Cairo from Abis registered here, Spanish program, tremendous signal into Germany S=9+50dB or -36dBm! powerhouse, registered 0045-0200 UT, heard at 0105 UT. Signal well ahead, but suffered by OTHR in wideband 12038-12089 kHz range. 9965.271, NOT BAD AUDIO from Radio Cairo! here - phone-in program at 0124 UT on Oct 29. Radio Cairo from Abis in English and Arabic. Registered at 2300-0430 UT to zones NoAM 8 and 9, as well as EUR 27. ABS 250 kW 325deg. S=9+35dB or -41dBm strength. Nothing heard on registered 11530 kHz. 9860.000, Very LOW modulated Radio Cairo from Abis in Spanish and English, scheduled 0045-0330 UT to western AM ciraf zones 6 and 7, ABS 250kW 331deg. IS heard at 0124 UT Oct 29, S=9+20dB or -51dBm here in Germany (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 29, dxldyg via DXLD) ** ERITREA [non]. Radio Assenna: A-14 1700-1800 on 15245 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Mon/Thu/Sat B-14 will be 1700-1800 on 11720 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Mon/Thu/Sat Radio Eritrean Forum EYSC: A-14 1700-1800 on 15245 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Tue/Fri/Sun 1700-1800 on 15245 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Arabic Wed 1800-1900 on 15245 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Arabic Sat B-14 will be 1700-1800 on 11720 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Tue/Fri/Sun 1700-1800 on 11720 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Arabic Wed 1800-1900 on 11720 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Arabic Sat (DX RE MIX NEWS #878 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Oct. 28, 2014 via DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. CLANDESTINE, 13810, V. of Oromo Liberation, Oct 26 *1700-1710, 25332, Oromo, 1700 sign on with opening music, ID, Opening announce, Talk and Ethiopian pop (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) ** EUROPE. Radio Magic Int'l; 6205/AM, 2256-2306+, 17-Oct; Thumpity- thump music; ToH pips/tone & very brief English news & back to thumpage. SIO=2+22+ best peaks with strong buzz QRM. ID per HFU post (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. PIRATE-EURO. Cupid Radio-Holland, 15070 AM, 1735-1742*, 10- 18-14 SIO: 333. Tuned in late to hear pop music, talk and IDs by Rinus before signing off at 1742 UT (Chris Lobdell, Box 80146, Stoneham, MA 02180 USA, Receivers: Eton E1, NRD-545; Aerials: G5RV, 40 Meter Dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. Hello everyone, Cupid radio pirate now on 21460.1 AM mode at 1810 UT with fair to good signal into Montreal. 73's (Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, Canada, Sunday Oct 26, dxldyg via DXLD) Cupid is just audible above the noise on 21460 here in St. John's, Newfoundland a few minutes later (at 1820 UT). I can tell there's some heavy rock music playing, but can't pick out what it is. Grundig Satellit 750 with three-metre wire clipped to the set's aerial (Philip Hiscock, ibid.) It seems EuroPirates sometimes go on marathons just above the 15m hamband. Need to be on some chat to know about them (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** EUROPE. Dear FRS Friends, Last Sunday propagation conditions were not the best (lots of static noise). On top of that there was a total fade out on SW just before 12 CET and it took more than 2 hours before the signal had fully recovered. And if that's not enough --- our afternoon stream was affected by a technical break. Taking all this into consideration, we have decided to give it another try next Sunday November 3rd, same times, same frequencies! Despite the low power, 9301 kHz was doing fairly well last Sunday. Keep an eye on it as it was sometimes stronger than 7700! On Sunday November 3rd FRS-Holland will be on air with a full broadcast (repeat [of] Oct. 26th) between 0852-1500 UT. Frequencies will be 7700 // 9300 kHz. Programme line-up includes all FRS presenters and consists of FRS Magazine, the German Service, FRS Goes DX, 80s Show, Radio Waves and the FRS Golden Show. Ingredients: great music, DX News, letters, the Day Calendar and a number of radio related items. 'Old fashioned' free radio entertainment on a Sunday. Tune in: Internet Stream: That same day between 1452-2100 UT/15:52-22.00 CEST will see a full repeat on the internet. Check on your computer < http://nednl.net:8000/frsh.m3u >. New website. We need your input. In the mean time FRS-Holland has become 34 years. That was celebrated with an 'extra' broadcast on Sunday evening August 31st. FRS strives to have its brand new website on-line sometime in December. The site will emphasize on FRS' 30+ year history in words, pictures & sound. We invite you as a FRS listener to put your very own personal FRS memories on paper. - When did you hear us for the first time, what was (is) your favourite show, when did you get your first QSL, how much did you listen to FRS, any special on air moments you remember? All this info will be part of your personal FRS contribution. Any serious contribution will be part of the new website. We very much appreciate your input as an FRS listener! You can send your contribution to [frs@frsholland.nl]. Alternatively you can use POBox 2702, 6049 ZG Herten, the Netherlands. QSLs: There is a backlog as far as QSL cards is concerned. Next few weeks we will try to answer all mails/letters which haven't been handled so far. That's a promise! Remember that winter time started on Sunday October 26th: UT +1 hour = CET. 73s, Peter Verbruggen on behalf of the FRS Team (Jan, Paul, Roger, Dave, Brian, Bobby & Peter) a Balance between Music & Information joint to one Format FRS-Holland POBox 2702 6049 ZG Herten The Netherlands e-mail: [frs@frsholland.nl] future website: [ http://www.frsholland.nl ] (via Rich D`Angelo, Oct 29, NASWA yg via DXLD) ** FINLAND [and non]. Excellent signal from MIKES (stf) from Finland considering the power is only 0.1 kW (100 watts)! Some fading but overall SIO 554. And just faded in at 1539 UT underneath MIKES is WWV! 73's (John, Faversham Kent UK, Hoad, JRC NRD-515 / 10m random wire, Sent from my iPad, Oct 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. Re: 1278 kHz --- These six masts are two independent three mast systems, one for 1161 kHz that had been shut down at yearend 1996 when France Inter left mediumwave, and the pointed out western one for 1278 kHz. The 1161 kHz outlet had to protect Bulgaria. In the case of 1278 kHz I'm not sure about the actual pattern. It is of note that this frequency has over decades also been used to transmit RFI German until this relay stopped in 1996, for which the lame excuse of cost savings had been given; lame because of course all they could have been saved here was the additional audio circuit from Paris. It's pretty obvious that this was just a political decision to take it also off mediumwave when they took it off shortwave. Concerning "someone comes once a month": In last year 1278 kHz was down for a quite prolonged period, at least a couple of days if I recall correct, enough to make people suspicious that the whole thing has been closed without any announcement. Afterwards it had been stated that it was an equipment failure. Made me suspect that repairing it was of as little priority as in some cases here in eastern Germany in the nineties, such as Hoyerswerda 999 kHz where not just the permanent babysitting had ceased, it could also take days until someone bothered to drive out to the unattended site to put the transmitter back on when it went off. Concerning the France Bleu Elsass service: It has its own Twitter profile, https://twitter.com/BleuElsass All their tweets are, as you can see, in French. I draw my conclusions from this observation (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 26, mwmasts yg via DXLD) Why should they not be in French? France Bleu is a French station, so quite logically their tweets are in French (Bernard Enfelder, Turkmenistan?, ibid.) ** FRANCE [non]. Tentatively RFI Paris broadcasts via Taiwan relay in B-14 winter season, assumed all according RFI B-13 and A-14 season outlets 0930-1030 1494 Taipei 10kW n-d to local N Taiwan Chinese 1100-1130 15680 Pao Chung 100kW 352deg to China/EaAS French 1100-1200 7325 Pao Chung 250kW 352deg to China/EaAS Chinese 1100-1300 9955 Pao Chung 250kW 352deg to China/EaAS Chinese {formerly 11875 kHz at 0930-1030 UT in B-13 season} {NO --- see below --- gh} 1200-1300 747 Minhsiung 300kW 324deg to China/EaAS French 1200-1300 1503 Fangliano 600kW 247deg to SoEaAS Cambodian 1400-1500 7380 Pao Chung 100kW 250deg to SoEaAS Vietnamese 1500-1600 9565 Tamshui 100kW 250deg to SoEaAS Vietnamese 2200-2300 1098 Kouhu 300kW 299deg to China/EaAS Chinese 2200-2300 1557 Kouhu 300kW 315deg to China/EaAS Chinese 2200-2300 7310 Tamshui 300kW 325deg to China/EaAS Chinese 2200-2300 9660 Pao Chung 250kW 352deg to China/EaAS Chinese 2200-2400 1008 Lukang 600kW 290deg to China/EaAS Chinese 2300-2400 9955 Pao Chung 250kW 352deg to China/EaAS Chinese (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9955, RFI Chinese via TAIWAN at 11-13 seems to be gone, Oct 26 no longer audible QRMing WRMI at 1105 and 1230 chex; but where is it now? Can`t be listed in HFCC, say the ChiCom (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RFI in Chinese on new frequency in B-14 1100-1300 NF 9900 PAO 250 kW / 352 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 9955 -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Oct 27, dxldyg via DXLD) 9900, Oct 28 at 1255, poor signal in Chinese, presumably RFI via TAIWAN at 11-13, new frequency ex-9955 per Ivo Ivanov. For the past four months we had been trying to get RFI to move off 9955 where it was QRMing WORLD OF RADIO and numerous other programs on WRMI. (Now, `Angloparade` music on 9955 is CCCCI-free.) While there ought to be some clear frequencies in the 9.9s, this one is not so good for RFI: low audible heterodyne since Taiwan can`t maintain frequency precision, and weaker station underneath. No Taiwan listings allowed in HFCC thanks to ban by the ChiCom, but HFCC B-14 shows the other 9900 must be IBB in Pashto and Dari at 1130-1330, 250 kW, 70 degrees from KUWAIT. This is likely to carry on to RFI`s target China. Taiwan goes off at 1300* uncovering the other, very poor with stingers in news(?) (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DX LISTENING DIGEST) QSL: RFI English service 9955 (via WRMI) eQSL in 70 days. Report sent to: sebastien.bonjol@rfi.fr (Christian Ghibaudo, France, QSL REPORT OCTOBER 2014, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** FRANCE. QSLs: CLANDESTINE: Radio Inyabutatu, via Issoudun, 17870, E-QSL in 3 months for e-report to marie-helene.havard@tdf.fr Radio Hilaac, via Issoudun, 15180, E-QSL in 3 months for e-report to marie-helene.havard@tdf.fr (Artur Fernández Llorella, Catalonia, Spain, You can see some images in http://maresmedx.blogspot.com.es/ Hard-Core-DX via DXLD) ** GERMANY. QSLs: Atlantic 2000 International 6005 eQSL in 2 days. Report sent to: atlantic2000internatinal@gmail.co Radio Slovaquie Int. French service 6005 QSL in 42 days. Report sent to: rsi_french@slovakradio.sk Radio Mi Amigo 6005 QSL in 31 days. Report sent to: info@radiomiamigo.eu (Christian Ghibaudo, France, QSL REPORT OCTOBER 2014, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** GERMANY. 7315, Echo of Europe via Germany, Oct 21 *1830-1845*, 25322-25222, French, 1830 sign on with opening music, Opening announce, News, 1844 Closing music, 1845 sign off (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) Tuesday A-14 vs B-14 changes of Echo of Europe via Media Broadcast: A-14 1830-1845 on 7315 NAU 125 kW / 230 deg to WeEu French/English Tue/Fri B-14 will be: 1930-1945 on 5930 NAU 125 kW / 230 deg to WeEu French/English Tue/Fri http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/10/a-14-vs-b-14-changes-of-echo-of-europe.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Oct 27, dxldyg via DXLD) ** GERMANY [non]. 15700, Oct 26 at 0605, fair signal with YL in French about how to contract ebola; the SSOB and would be the OSOB if not for weakers, all Africans, on 15120 Nigeria and 15170 RFI South Africa. 15700 is DW via RWANDA at 0600-0630 USward too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ALEMANHA, 11955, Ultimas emissões da Rádio Deutsche Welle em português. Locutora avisa sobre o fim da DW Rádio ondas curtas 25/10 às 1945 UT, sinpo 45344 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlkjwsYtk0s&feature=youtu.be 11955, Ultimas emissões da Radio Deutsche Welle em português OM/noticiário 22/10? às 1938, sinpo 45444 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWWbPidVqAo 73s (Dexista PT 9008 SWL Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT, Brasil, Tecsun PL 660 Long wire 10 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GOA. 11775, Oct 23 at 1343, south Asian singing, must be AIR Nepali service, very poor but audible thanks to absence of Anguilla, and also of CNR1 jamming which could be here vs SOH, or in previous hour vs AIR Tibetan --- except for splatter from the strong 11785 CNR1 jammer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9705-, Oct 23 at 2246, AIR GOS opening English but with squeals which vary with modulation; during a long pause, the squeal stays at a constant pitch. Much like the squeals we hear from WEWN and some other stations, who are clueless how to fix it (by replacing modulation cards) or even that they have such a problem. B14 HFCC shows AIR plans to continue using this via Panaji: 9705 2230 0045 49,50,54 PAN 250 120 0 157 1234567 261014 290315 D AIR Wolfgang Büschel measured 30 Hz low on: ``9704.970 IND AIR Goa Panaji English service, 2245-0045 UT, 2347 UT Oct 17`` And also reported the squeal on another GOA off-frequency, 29 Hz low, perhaps same transmitter: ``9809.971, AIR Goa Panaji, 1115-1245 UT in Tamil and Telugu. But audio is annoying, high-pitched squealing tone accompanying the audio. And co-channel QRM of CNR 2nd program too. (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 17/18/19/20)`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. ERT Open was observed on new and wrong frequencies Oct. 23: from 0500 NF 9415 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg WeEu Greek, instead of 9420 from 0500 on 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg WeEu Greek, instead of 11645 Back to its usual frequencies 9420 and 11645 around 0640 UT. Later today ERTOpen again on new 9415. More videos: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/10/ert-open-on-new-9415-and-wrong-9935-on.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Oct 23, dxldyg via DXLD) ERT Open Greece currently on 9415 instead of 9420 kHz. TS at 1401 UT, 60 seconds late! followed by a short burst of their beautiful IS, in // with 9935 tho this is much weaker than 9415 which is SIO 554. 73's (John, Faversham Kent UK, Hoad, JRC NRD-525 / Wellbrook ALA1530LF, Sent from my iPad, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) I like this LATE avoid-selection at Avlis of new 9415 kHz frequency, even in coming B-14 season; only Beijing uses that channel 3 hours daily eastwards opposite 73 degrees. 73 wolfy (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9935, Oct 23 at 2245, ERTOPen is on here in Greek and suffering heavy ACI from the BS on 9930 WTWW; // 9415 which looks to be a permanent change [sic]. Maybe avoiding China certain hours on 9420 tho I have never noticed it; Iran already moved its lengthy Arabic broadcast months ago from 9420 to 9510. Nothing at all had been listed on 9415 in Aoki; but Greece on 9415 now causes ACI to 9410 stations such as BBC. HFCC B-14 public file lacks any listings for Greece, but has China on 9415 at 08-10 & 23-24. 9415 // 9935 ERTOpen still on at 0528 Oct 24 in Greek. 9935, Oct 25 at 0041, ERTOPen, good with Greek music, and no breakup tonite on this transmitter ---- and // is back on 9420 at 0042 check, none heard in the 11s or 15s. The 9420 transmitter had been on 9415 instead the past three nights; why? 9420, Oct 25 at 0538, ERTOpen with Greek music still on original frequency, very good with flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ERT-open on air this morning at 0630 UT Oct 25 on 9420.004 (most powerful ERT-open Avlis channel, not on 9415!); 11645.003; 15630.030 (hit by tiny signal of co-ch IRIB Dari 15630.007 kHz footprint) (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9420 & 9935, Oct 26 around 0030, ERTOpen is closed tonite, but if they come back on 9420 instead of 9415 they are in for a rude surprise: see CUBA [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ERT-open radio from Avlis on Oct 28 and 29. Today Tuesday Oct 28: yes loud and clear in southern Germany: 0400-0500 9935/285o/eu/cam 15630/182o/caf 9420/323o/eu/nam But close down then, nothing heard from 05 to 24 UTC Oct 28 though, on Oct 29th checked now at 1820 UT, yes Avlis is on air: 1800-1900 9935/323o/eu/nam 15650/285o/eu/cam 9420/323o/eu/nam (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 29, dxldyg via DXLD) Today Tue Oct 28: yes loud and clear in southern Germany: 0400-0500 9935/285o/eu/cam 15630/182o/caf 9420/323o/eu/nam But close down then, nothing herad at 05 and 06 UTC Oct 28 though. 0500-0600 7445/285o/eu/cam 11645/182o/caf 9420/323o/eu/nam 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 28, dxldyg via DXLD) A presumed schedule by John Babbis has 7445 in it for 0500-0800. Where did he get that? Would be new frequency; 7450 and 7475 had been the only 40-m channels, neither heard for months (gh, DXLD) [Later: John replies 7445 was typo, meant to be 7475 --- gh] Nothing heard from 05 to 24 UTC Oct 28 though (Büschel, ibid.) 9420, 9415, 9935, 7475, ERTOpen not on any of these frequencies Oct 29 at 0113 check. 7475? John Babbis` hypothetical ERTOpen schedule calls for 7475 at this time, but we`ve not heard them on 7 MHz for months; and he also shows 7445 at 05-08, which would not be a good idea due to BBC Ascension at 05-06; ERT`s other 7 MHz frequency used to be 7450, so not sure how he got 7445. Now he thinks they`ve stayed on the A- season schedule maybe until December (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) on Oct 29th checked now at 1820 UT, yes Avlis is on air 1800-1900 9935/323o/eu/nam 15650/285o/eu/cam 9420/323o/eu/nam on Oct 29th checked now at 2240 UT, yes Avlis is on air 2200-2300 9935/323º/eu/nam 15630/105º/me/au 9420/323º/eu/nam 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DXLD) ** GREENLAND. More info about the return of the MW-transmitters of Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa (KNR) (Cf. DX-Window no. 513. Ed): [target dates to resume:] Qeqertarsuaq – 650 kHz ( 5 kW) – Dec 01, 2014 Nuuk - 570 kHz ( 5 kW) – Mar 01, 2015 Simiutaq, Qaqortoq – 720 kHz (10 kW) – Jun 01, 2015 (Jens Søndergaard, Randers, Denmark, DSWCI DX Window October 29 via DXLD) ** GUATEMALA. 4055, Radio Verdad, 0943 “Radio Verdad onda corta” then repeated in English 21 October: 1040 to 1045 in Spanish preacher with “mensajes crisitianos” 25 Oct (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, 60 and 90 meter dipoles, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4055, Oct 28 at 0603, R. Truth final ID in English, national anthem preceding sign-off. Fair signal but with storm noise QRM on this lower band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HONDURAS. 630, Radio América, Choluteca or la Ceiba. 1045 October 27, 2014. Reverb ID into inspirational talk segment, something that seems the norm in this half hour block on an otherwise news format (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 4880, AIR-Lucknow, Oct 22 1436-1500, 35433, Hindi, India music, ID at 1459. 4990, AIR-Itanagar, Oct 22 1336-1404, 35443-33443, Hindi, Talk and India music, ID at 1359 (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) ** INDIA. The following Home service schedule (Uttarakhand program) of AIR is now dropped: 6030 0200-0228. The Uttarakhand program is now only at 1215-1430 on same frequency. Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, Oct 29, dx_india yg via DXLD) So does 6030 stay on the air at 0200-0228 with something else? (gh, DXLD) ** INDIA. 9380, Oct 25 at 0043, open carrier/dead air, fair with flutter, no doubt AIR Aligarh warming up for the 0100 Vividh Bharati service as per http://qsl.net/vu2jos/sw/freq.htm rather than Aoki which still mislabels it the National Channel (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA [and non]. 9870, Oct 26 at 0108, VBS with Indian music, fair but fluttery, finally rid of TRT Spanish CCI during this hour. VBS at 0010-0435 via Bangalore should now be QRM-free. (Turkey`s Spanish makes usual shift an hour later to 0200-0250 but now on 9410 & 9650) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. Latest changes to All India Radio : External Services B-14 0130-0230 Nepali Add 7420 0300-0430 Bengali Add 7420 0700-0800 Nepali Add 7420 0830-1100 Bengali Add 7420 0800-1130 Urdu Add 7250 1215-1330 Tibetan Add 7420 1330-1430 Nepali Add 7420 1445-1515 Bengali Add 7420 1600-1730 Bengali Add 7420 The new B-14 schedule of All India Radio External Services is now available in my site as follows: Time wise: http://qsl.net/vu2jos/es/time.htm Language wise: http://qsl.net/vu2jos/es/Language.htm Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, Mobile: +91 94416 96043 http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos Oct 27, dx_india yg via DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 11425-USB, again Oct 23 at 1252 I am hearing 2-way in Indonesian, and also similar signals on 11410, 11420, 11455 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 4869.915, RRI Wamena in BI, weak and tiny signal on downunder SDR unit, S=4 or -102dBm only, at 0913 UT on Oct 26 (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9525.88, V. of Indonesia, Oct 22 1213-1223, 43443, Japanese, News, ID and URL announce at 1215. 9525.90, V. of Indonesia, Oct 21 1210-1220, 43443, Japanese, News and talk, ID at 1211 (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) 9526-, Oct 26 at 1340, no signal from VOI English, now squeezed as always in B-seasons by 9530 China radio war (VOA Chinese via Philippines drawing it there), and by 9520 at 1355 with mass in some language, i.e. R. Veritas Asia in Sinhala, also Philippines. Atsunori Ishida`s Monitoring Report of Indonesian Radio does show 9526 today starting Japanese at 1200; but then? The 1300 English hour had been logged, so far, every day in October at slightly variable times. 9526-, Oct 27 at 1302, for the second day in a row, not even a carrier detectable from VOI during English hour; yet there are plenty of other signals from E/SE Asia, including what would be the ACI on 9530. http://rri.jpn.org/ agrees with no logs of it at all for Oct 27; and on Oct 26 it went off sometime between 1210 and 1255. 9526-, Oct 28 at 1307, third day with no carrier detectable from VOI during English hour; even if there were, we know it would be unusable for the Tuesday `Exotic Indonesia` hookup with RRI Banjarmasin. Atsunori Ishida agrees: still no signal since 1210 UT Oct 26. (And BTW, he says RRI Siaran Pro 4, Jakarta, 9680, was heard today Oct 28 for the first time since Sept 21!) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9526, VOI Jakarta Cimanggis NOT ON AIR today Oct 28. 9680.050, Tiny signal of RRI Jakarta noted here around 0920 UT Oct 28, logged on Tokyo remote SDR unit, and underneath even frequency tiny - supposedly - CHINA mainland parked jammer unit, later the day used against RTI Taiwan co-channel (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9526-, Oct 29 at 1258, off-off-frequency VOI carrier is now detectable after a few days` absence, not that it does us any good. Also Oct 30 at 1312 making a tell-tale het of ~4 kHz with the 9530 China radio war (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. OTHR. Again 28 Oct at 0755 UT: actually OTHR, 28600 kHz, 150 kHz BW! OTHR 28000 kHz with 150 kHz Bandwidth! Two pluses rate 310 & 870 Hz alternating every 5 sec, S7 in center of France, bearing 45 degrees (73, Francis F5MIU) OTH radar Iran (Wolf Hadel-D, DK2OM, IARU1 intruderalert mailing list Oct 27 via BC-DX Oct 29 via DXLD) OTHR, 7000 - 10 sps. 27 Oct 2014 at 2045 UT and later. QRGs: 6989 - 7149 kHz - OTH radar with 10 sps - 160 kHz wide - bursts of 51 or 102 seconds - every 150 sec. Audible in whole Europe with S9 (Wolf Hadel- D, DK2OM, IARU1 intruderalert mailing list Oct 27, ibid.) ** IRAN. IRIB`s B-14 Spanish is registered as: 0020-0220 on 9445, 0020-0320 on 7420. But Oct 26 at 0242 check I hear nothing on 7420. When there, it might be a problem for Albania at 0230 on 7425. In A14 these had been on 12025 and 9860 respectively (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Later: 7420 is on past 0230. See also EGYPT 9550, IRIB Tehran's Turkish language service, scheduled at 0420-0550 UT from Kamalabad center. Nice classical piano music, and female announcer at 0530 UT on Oct 28. S=7 or -83dBm fair signal towards East Coast NAm (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. CLANDESTINE: 15680, R. Mehr Iranian, Oct 27 *1630-1641, 25432, Farsi, 1630 sign on with opening music, ID, Opening announce, Talk (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellit 750, DE-1121; ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, 303WA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRELAND. QSL: RTÉ, 252, E-QSL in 8 weeks for e-report to info@rte.ie v/s Maeve Anslow (Artur Fernández Llorella, Catalonia, Spain, You can see some images in http://maresmedx.blogspot.com.es/ Hard-Core-DX via DXLD) ** IRELAND. Concerning the speculations about the 252 kHz transmitters: The Irish longwave facility for its part was originally equipped with two 250 kW Marconi transmitters (I understand that identical equipment is still in use on 198 kHz at Droitwich [England]): http://tx.mb21.co.uk/features/252/summerhill.shtml In 2007 these transmitters have been replaced by a new solid-state unit with indeed 300 kW "only" anymore (in doubt just count the cabinets: there are amplifiers for 50 kW behind each glass door of a TRAM transmitter): http://transradio.de/index.php/de/300kw-lw-summerhill-irland And not only the transmitter was replaced but also the antenna modified to make it DRM-capable: http://www.waniewski.de/LW/Summerhill/summerhill_lw_1en.htm So RTÉ has thrown money out of the window on this in the very same manner than Deutschlandradio (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also ALGERIA ** IRELAND & IRELAND NORTHERN. Church Logs Oct 23-28 Hi Glenn! Some church logs. IRELAND/NORTHERN IRELAND Thursday Oct 23 / 0935-1010 UT 27601, Daniel O´Connell Memorial Church Caherciveen, Co. Kerry, IRL 27815, Church of Immaculate Conception Boherbue, Co. Cork, IRL Friday Oct 24 / 1000-1030 UT 27601, St. Munchin´s Church Clancy Strand/Limerick, Co. Limerick, IRL 27651, Sts. Patrick & Brigid Church Clane, Co. Kildare, IRL 27755, St. Mary´s Church Kilsheelan, Co. Tipperary, IRL Saturday Oct 25 / 0900-1130 UT 27505, SS Peter and Paul Kilmallock, Co. Limerick, IRL 27618, Holy Trinity Church Adare, Co. Limerick, IRL 27631, St. John´s Church Ballybunion, Co. Kerry, IRL 27941, Church of the Assumption of the BVM Walkinstown, Dublin 12, IRL Sunday Oct 26 / 0840-0900 UT 27605, St. Mary´s Church Berrings, Co. Cork, IRL 27631, SS Mary & Peter Church Arklow, Co. Wicklow, IRL 27655, Church of Our Lady´s Nativity Leixlip, Co. Kildare, IRL 27871, Our Lady of Victories Church, Sallynoggin, Co. Dublin, IRL Sunday Oct 26 / 0900-1000 UT 27275, Holy Cross Church Kenmare, Co. Kerry, IRL 27618, Holy Trinity Abbey Church Adare, Co. Limerick, IRL 27761, St. Gerard´s Church Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim, G Sunday Oct 26 / 1000-1100 UT 27161, St. Anne´s Church Rathnure, Co. Wexford, IRL 27601, Church of Immaculate Conception Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny, IRL 27621, SS John & Paul Church Tullyvarraga, Co. Clare, IRL 27631, St. Joseph´s Church Glenville, Co. Cork, IRL 27745, Church of the Assumption Howth, Co. Dublin, IRL 27811, St. Anne´s Church Portmarnock, Co. Dublin, IRL 27811, St. Patrick´s Church Ballinderry, Co. Tyrone, G Sunday Oct 26 / 1100-1200 UT 27285, St. Jospeh´s Church Glenullin, Co. Derry, G 27761, St. Gerard´s Church Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim, G 27801, St. Mary´s Church Ardmore/Derry, Co. Derry, G Tuesday Oct 28 / 1100-1200 UT 27025, Church of Our Lady of the Rosary Newmarket-on-Fergus, Co. Clare, IRL The updated frequency list can be downloaded from: http://www.udxf.nl/WPAS-list-Oct2014.pdf 73, (Patrick Robic, Austria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. 3945, Radio Nikkei Two at 1036 with Western and Japanese pop songs - Fair Oct 23 Sellers-BC 3925, Radio Nikkei One at 1040 with traditional Japanese music, //6055 and 9595 - Good Oct 23 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, listening in my car, parked by the lake, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Nikkei, 9595, 10/27/14, 1207 UT with continuous classical Vivaldi music; very good morning reception. Best Regards, (Larry Zamora, Garland, TX, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9595, Oct 28 at 1345, R. Nikkei playing Broadway tunes in English with brief Japanese announcements between them: ``I Got Rhythm`` from Girl Crazy, ``Hey, Big Spender`` from Sweet Charity; ``Someone to Watch Over Me`` from Oh, Kay, and ``Favorite Things`` from Sound of Music. RN is great for eclectic music, vs the JJJ stuff on 9580 RA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [and non]. 13640, Oct 29 at 0529, NHK World Radio Japan with complete English schedule which it can fit into only one minute minus the sites, and does so at the end of every broadcast. Whence this? UAE, a surprise to me, but the other one at 0500 should be better here. From sked leaflet via BC-DX, all the English with sites added: 0500 13640 UAE, 9770 France 1000 9625 Japan (only one direct!) 1200 11740 Singapore 1400 11925 Palau, 11695 Uzbekistan 1800 11800 South Africa (G Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DX LISTENING DIGEST) FULL SKED: 14-43 ** KOREA NORTH [non]. Winter B-14 schedule of clandestine broadcasts to North Korea: Radio Free North Korea: 1230-1330 on 9320 DB 100 kW / 071 deg to KRE Korean Nippon no Kaze: 1300-1330 on 9950 TSH 100 kW / 002 deg to KRE Korean 1500-1530 on 9975 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg to KRE Korean 1530-1600 on 9965 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg to KRE Korean Voice of Wilderness (BVB): 1300-1400 on 11860 PUG 125 kW / 010 deg to KRE Korean 1400-1430 on 11860 PUG 125 kW / 010 deg to KRE Korean Sun 1900-2000 on 7375 DB 100 kW / 071 deg to KRE Korean 2000-2030 on 7375 DB 100 kW / 071 deg to KRE Korean Sat Radio Free Chosun: 1300-1500 on 7555 TAC 100 kW / 070 deg to KRE Korean on Oct. 26 1300-1500 on 7560 TAC 100 kW / 070 deg to KRE Korean on Oct. 27 [and seems to change from day to day if not week to week --- gh] Furusato no Kaze: 1330-1400 on 9950 TSH 100 kW / 002 deg to KRE Japanese 1430-1500 on 9960 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg to KRE Japanese 1600-1630 on 9975 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg to KRE Japanese North Korea Reform Radio: 1430-1530 on 7590 PUG 125 kW / 010 deg to KRE Korean Shiokaze Sea Breeze, the frequencies are not confirmed 1330-1400 on 5910 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE Japanese Mon 1330-1400 on 5910 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE Chinese Tue 1330-1400 on 5910 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE Japanese Wed 1330-1400 on 5910 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE English Thu 1330-1400 on 5910 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE Korean Fri 1330-1400 on 5910 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE Korean Sat 1330-1400 on 5910 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE Japanese Sun 1400-1430 on 5910 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE Japanese Mon 1400-1430 on 5910 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE Korean Tue 1400-1430 on 5910 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE Japanese Wed 1400-1430 on 5910 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE English Thu 1400-1430 on 5910 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE Korean Fri 1400-1430 on 5910 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE Japanese Sat 1400-1430 on 5910 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE Korean Sun alternative registered frequencies: 5985/6135/7220/7260 [really heard on 5985 by gh --- see below] 1600-1630 on 6135 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE Japanese Mon 1600-1630 on 6135 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE Chinese Tue 1600-1630 on 6135 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE Japanese Wed 1600-1630 on 6135 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE English Thu 1600-1630 on 6135 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE Korean Fri 1600-1630 on 6135 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE Korean Sat 1600-1630 on 6135 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE Japanese Sun 1630-1700 on 6135 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE Japanese Mon 1630-1700 on 6135 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE Korean Tue 1630-1700 on 6135 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE Japanese Wed 1630-1700 on 6135 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE English Thu 1630-1700 on 6135 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE Korean Fri 1630-1700 on 6135 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE Japanese Sat 1630-1700 on 6135 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg to KRE Korean Sun alternative registered frequencies: 5955/5975/6070/6110/6165/6185/7240/7245 (DX RE MIX NEWS #878 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Oct. 28, 2014 via DXLD) Oct 29 at 1330 I am looking for a new frequency from Shiokaze, JAPAN. Nothing heard on 5910, 6135, 6165; algo else on 6020 with music. 1341, here it is on 5985, talk and piano music, poor signal past 1405 when it`s very poor. No het audible from Myanmar (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 11860, Oct 29 at 1305, RHC now has heavy CCI from music, hymn? And fast SAH. HFCC B-14 shows it`s a WRN service via RVA PHILIPPINES in Korean. BC-DX lists it at 13-14 as V. of Wilderness on 10-degree beam from Palauig, which carries on to N America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 3480, Voice of the People, Republic of Korea, 1258 with Korean song, 1300 man speaking in Korean, this frequency was strong and clear, while 3912, 4450, 6518 and 6600 all were poor with white noise jamming - 45433 Good Oct 23 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, listening in my car, parked by the lake, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. 6094.997, UNIDentified East Asian, like Japanese language heard. At 0900-0930 UT Oct 26 came across of a funny song / music, from the 30s. In Japanese language of course. Really amusing jolly program. S=9+20dB -54dBm. Talk in between by female + male announcer. All very amusing and traditional easy listening program. KBS early appearance? Engineer on duty error? Not in \\ KBS Japanese 7275 kHz, which had rather hard rock music played. But on Oct 28 observed on SDR net at Tokyo unit as follows: 6155 and 7275 KBS Kimjae in Japanese language program. From 0900 UT KBS Japanese only on 7275 kHz. 6094.997 kHz again, from 0857 UT onwards heard chimes like interval signal to 0859 UT followed by female announcer in Japanese, mentioned KBS at 0900 UT ... but program was NOT \\ 7275 kHz. Nice proper S=9+15dB or -58dBm signal near Tokyo capital remote unit. I guess some new transmitter (and antenna?) equipment at Kimjae-KOR has been erected and tested now with special programs "now and then". Oct 26/28. Kimjae transmitting center was reported recently on refurbishing or repair work schedule? Signal heard downunder in Australia remote unit. Oh yes, KBS 6155 Kimjae is N O T on air, seemingly but on 6095 kHz instead? Scheduled 6155 0800-1000 44,45 KIM 100 0 Jpn KOR KBS At 0953 UT Oct 26 heard "Happy Birthday to you ..." song ... (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Due to unforeseen maintenance at Kimjae Transmission Center KBS World Radio announce a temporary change of the broadcast time for our Chinese Service and English Service to China. The current broadcast time at 1130-1330 UT will be temporarily changed to 2200-2400: 2200-2300 6095 KIM 250 kW 290 deg to China in Chinese, now 1130-1230 2300-2400 6095 KIM 250 kW 290 deg to China in English, now 1230-1330 This inevitable change will be effective from Oct. 19 for about 2 months. The exact date the broadcast will return to its original time will be announced in the near future (Ivo Ivanov-BUL, hcdx via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 26, ibid.) [non]. Winter B-14 frequencies of KBS World Radio via Bulgaria 1900-2000 on 5885 SOF 050 kW / 306 deg to WeEu German DRM mode 1900-2000 on 5900 SOF 100 kW / 306 deg to WeEu German AM. Video Oct 26 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/10/kbs-world-radio-via-bulgaria.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #878 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Oct. 28, 2014 via DXLD) [Re 14-42:] The 2200-2230 relay via Woofferton on 3955 didn't materialize last night. The transmitter was switched off at 2200 at the end of the French transmission. I wasn't surprised - a recent Listener's Lounge edition had already indicated in a reply to a listener that the relay in English would not be present in the B-14 season. As expected the 1900 transmission (on 5885 and 5900) is German, not English. (5900 being a late change from 5935) (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, Oct 27, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11510, Oct 24 at 1351, wonderful vocal music of the PKK terrorists on V. of Mesopotamia, via PRIDNESTROVYE, and good to very good signal too but marred by some IADs. If you have any 23 MHz propagation during the long hours this is on, try 2 x 11510 = 23020 as heard by Robin Harwood on the Utwente receiver (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1744, DX LISTENING DIGEST) A-14 vs B-14 changes of Denge Kurdistan: A-14 0300-1500 on 11510 KCH 250 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Kurdish 1500-1900 on 11510 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish B-14 will be 0400-0800 on 9400 KCH 300 kW / 130 deg to WeAs Kurdish, 0748-0749 co- channel RFI French!!! 0800-1200 on 9400 ERV 300 kW / 192 deg to WeAs Kurdish, poor signal 1200-1600 on 9400 KCH 300 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Kurdish 1600-2000 on 9400 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish, not KCH http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/10/a-14-vs-b-14-changes-of-denge-kurdistan.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #878 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Oct. 28, 2014 via DXLD) The transmission on 9400 (not really identified, so I'm just assuming that this is Denge Kurdistan) sounds at 1830 check like Issoudun rather than Maiac. Mediocre signal in eastern Germany, as to expect under the circumstances (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DXLD) Just checked out the videos: "0748-0749 co-ch RFI French!!!" --- I very much suspect that here Issoudun shortly tested to transmit on the new frequency, to be sure that it will work in the late afternoon. By the way, Dengê Kurdistanê should again be on Hotbird, the channel labelled "RDK Radio" on 11.642 GHz h. This is a mux by Belgium Satellite Services that also contains Newroz TV, the parent station of Dengê Kurdistanê, replacing the closed Roj TV under which the radio operation was called Dengê Mezopotamya. The playout presumably stayed at the former Roj TV studios in Denderleeuw near Brussels. If the actual programming is still produced there as well or now rather at Nacka near Stockholm, the city of licence, is hard to find out for an outsider (Kai Ludwig, 2045 UT< ibid.) Kai, I am of the same opinion. 16-20 is definitely Issoudun. Later will upload more videos (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) Brother Stair TOM vs Denge Kurdistan on October 26: 1200-1600 9400 KCH 300 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Kurdish Denge Kurdistan 1400-1700 9400vSOF 050 kW / 306 deg to WeEu English TOM, with breaks 1600-2000 9400 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish Denge Kurdistan 9400v=9400,2. Very strong signal from Issoudun completely covers TOM Videos: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/10/brother-stair-tom-vs-denge-kurdistan-on.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Oct 27, dxldyg via DXLD) Brother Stair TOM vs Denge Kurdistan October 26: 1200-1600 9400 KCH 300 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Kurdish Denge Kurdistan 1400-1700 9400vSOF 050 kW / 306 deg to WeEu English TOM, with breaks 1600-2000 9400 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish Denge Kurdistan 9400v=9400,2. Very strong signal from Issoudun completely covers TOM http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/10/brother-stair-tom-vs-denge-kurdistan-on.html Brother Stair on 9402 kHz vs Denge Kurdistan on 9400 kHz: 1200-1600 9400 KCH 300 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Kurdish Denge Kurdistan 1400-2000 9402 SOF 050 kW / 030 deg to EaEu English TOM, instead on 9400.2 1600-2000 9400 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish Denge Kurdistan Very strong signal from Issoudun and completely covers TOM, 5 videos on Oct. 27 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/10/brother-stair-on-9402-khz-vs-denge.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #878 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Oct. 28, 2014 via DXLD) October 25?: More videos of Denge Kurdistan and Brother Stair: Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish to WeAs 0528 on 9400 Grigoriopol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHoH87IYVAU&feature=youtu.be Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish to WeAs 0603 on 9400 Grigoriopol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCU7JNVhDA8&feature=youtu.be Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish to WeAs 1200 on 9400 Grigoriopol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHaN_ZnwXpQ&feature=youtu.be Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish vs FEBC Manila in Chinese 1345 on 9400 Grigoriopol vs Iba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuZefVyu7OY&feature=youtu.be Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish to WeAs 1907 on 9400 Issoudun, not Grigoriopol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIS-vz7PQ68&feature=youtu.be Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish to WeAs 1956 on 9400 Issoudun, not Grigoriopol, end of px https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSRpkM4Uro4&feature=youtu.be Brother Stair in English to EaEu 1959 on 9402 Kostinbrod, end of px https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPOHtsGTT58&feature=youtu.be October 26: Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish to WeAs 0746 on 9400 Grigoriopol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT8Jz9dnwO8&feature=youtu.be Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish to WeAs 0801 on 9400 Yerevan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZgS3zIiSbI&feature=youtu.be Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish to WeAs 1200 on 9400 Grigoriopol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLa6PeNOVm4&feature=youtu.be Brother Stair English vs Denge Kurdistan Kurdish 1415 on 9400 Kostinbrod vs Grigoriopol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88hvttuKesY&feature=youtu.be Brother Stair English vs Denge Kurdistan Kurdish 1445 on 9400 Kostinbrod vs Grigoriopol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0B33mPPAAI&feature=youtu.be Brother Stair English vs Denge Kurdistan Kurdish 1500 on 9400 Kostinbrod vs Grigoriopol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmwMIFFCd78&feature=youtu.be Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish to WeAs 1600 on 9400 Issoudun, not Grigoriopol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wifPvgGGgs&feature=youtu.be Denge Kurdistan Kurdish vs Brother Stair English 1632 on 9400 Issoudun vs Kostinbrod https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWwnSFDSwZw&feature=youtu.be Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish to WeAs 1710 on 9400 Issoudun, not Grigoriopol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4dD6fEhzag&feature=youtu.be Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish to WeAs 1807 on 9400 Issoudun, not Grigoriopol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HzGstyQa50&feature=youtu.be Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish to WeAs 1833 on 9400 Issoudun, not Grigoriopol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al4xFpFaBKM&feature=youtu.be October 27: Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish to WeAs 0528 on 9400 Grigoriopol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHoH87IYVAU&feature=youtu.be Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish to WeAs 0603 on 9400 Grigoriopol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCU7JNVhDA8&feature=youtu.be Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish to WeAs 1200 on 9400 Grigoriopol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHaN_ZnwXpQ&feature=youtu.be Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish vs FEBC Manila in Chinese 1345 on 9400 Grigoriopol vs Iba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuZefVyu7OY&feature=youtu.be Denge Kurdistan on 9400 Grigoriopol vs Brother Stair on 9402 Kostinbrod at 1400 UTC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-eXowvzOl8&feature=youtu.be Denge Kurdistan on 9400 Grigoriopol vs Brother Stair on 9402 Kostinbrod at 1430 UTC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hc22Sdijcc&feature=youtu.be Denge Kurdistan on 9400 Grigoriopol vs Brother Stair on 9402 Kostinbrod at 1502 UTC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM-40nP0YvM&feature=youtu.be Denge Kurdistan on 9400 Grigoriopol vs Brother Stair on 9402 Kostinbrod at 1550 UTC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0MiXd4bS08&feature=youtu.be Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish to WeAs on 9400 till 1600 Grigoriopol, from 1600 Issoudun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu8oLMVOhEM&feature=youtu.be Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish to WeAs 1907 on 9400 Issoudun, not Grigoriopol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIS-vz7PQ68&feature=youtu.be Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish to WeAs 1956 on 9400 Issoudun, not Grigoriopol, end of px https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSRpkM4Uro4&feature=youtu.be Brother Stair in English to EaEu 1959 on 9402 Kostinbrod, end of px https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPOHtsGTT58&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) MOLDOVA, 9400, new B-14 winter schedule channel from Grigoriopol Moldova [PRIDNESTROVYE] at 04-08 time slot. "Radyoya Denge Kurdistane" ex-11510 summer channel. Backlobe of only S=6-7 strength Oct 28 (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) No specific time given 9400, Oct 28 at 1302, Chinese is atop from FEBC Iba, PHILIPPINES, as ever, 100 kW at 330 degrees from 09 to 14, and likely to reach Kurdistan too. This did not deter Ludo Maes of BRB from moving Denge Kurdistane here via PRIDNESTROVYE, ex-11510 in A-14. SOB, its wonderful music is no longer accessible! By 1339 I can tell that Kurdish talk goes into music, still way under FEBC. Ivo Ivanov reported that Brother Scare via Bulgaria also moved to 9400 (or 9402?) and I was hearing BS too at first tune-in, but attenuation on the FRG- 7 got rid of him: it was axually crosstalk overload form 9980 WWCR. Ivo says D.K. on 9400 is now via three different sites: 04-08 & 12-16 KCH = Pridnestrovye; 08-12 ERV = Armenia; 16-20 ISS = France. Ivo says Brother Stair is also on 9402 (? Or is it 9400.2) via Bulgaria at 14- 20 getting heavy QRM (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re 9400 kHz terrible whistle heterodyne signal noted here for the first time from 1800 UT on Oct 28. "Radyoya Denge Kurdistane" via Issoudun noted on even 9400.0 well stronger ahead, but underneath another sce on 9400.200 kHz and TOM Brother Stair sermon could be heard. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DXLD) BULGARIA/FRANCE 9400 kHz terrible two stations program on 9400 kHz hit each other here co-channel in Europe! Terrible mixture of two programs heard again 18-20 UT on Oct 28 and Oct 29. Heard here in all-Germany, various remote rx SDR Perseus in all over Europe. Co-channel terrible 200 Hertz heterodyne occurs as against 9400.00 kHz "Radyoya Denge Kurdistane" program to Kurdistan people target, broadcast via Issoudun France on even frequency. Tentativelly - the odd frequency 9400.200 kHz carries TOM Brother Stair program brokered by Spaceline Ltd. Sofia people, from Bulgarian private outsourced site Kostinbrod near Sofia Bulgaria (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 29, dxldyg via DXLD) 9400, Oct 29 at 0525, singing presumably Kurdish from Denge K., fair with flutter and no QRM now; this block is via PRIDNESTROVYE, ex- 11510, where it`s also ex- circa 1300 when we had just been enjoying good reception until end of A-14; now 9400 collides with FEBC Philippines in our mornings, no good (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LAOS. 6129.988, Lao National Radio heard on Sydney remote unit, at 1215 UT on Oct 24, S=9+10 or -67dBm downunder. 73 wolfy df5sx (Wolfgang Bueschel, Checked the downunder remote SDR unit at Sydney in past hour, 1327 UT Oct 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LAOS [non]. CLANDESTINE, 7530, Suab Xaa Moo Zoo, Oct 27 *2230-2250, 35433 Hmong, 2230 sign on with opening music, Opening announce, Music and talk (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) ** LIBERIA. 4760, UnID, possibly Liberia ELWA, 2340 to 0000* off; too weak a signal for any identification on 20 and 22 October (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, 60 and 90 meter dipoles, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LITHUANIA. 5910, NHK World Radio Japan Tokyo carried Russian morning service via Sitkunai LTU relay site on Baltics. Came across at 0452 UT on Oct 28 S=9+5dB or -68dBm signals on both Boston MA and Rochester NY remote Perseus SDR radio posts. NHK station address in Russian 'todshka', ID and web page URL given at 0454 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MADAGASCAR. 5010.52, Radio Madigasakara heard Oct 25 above nominal frequency from 1835 UT tune from Perseus site in Brisbane. Nice high- life music with occasional man announcer in vernacular. SINPO 35333 with under-modulated audio. Still going at 1920 UT past nominal 1900* UT but signal starting to fade as gray line passed Brisbane (Bruce W. Churchill-CA-USA, DXplorer Oct 25, via BCDX 29 Oct via DXLD) [and non] 5010, RTI Taiwan International via KOU Kouhu site in B-14 again, at 2200-2400 UT 5010 KOU 100 kW 310 deg to EaAS Chinese (wb.) (Büschel, ibid.) ** MADAGASCAR. QSLs: Bible Voice, via Talata V, 21480, QSL from MGLOB in 2 weeks for e-report to monitoring@mglob.mg. Received QSL too from Canada for report sent to mail@bvbroadcasting.org BBC, via Talata V, 7445, QSL from MGLOB in 2 weeks for e-report to monitoring@mglob.mg (Artur Fernández Llorella, Catalonia, Spain, You can see some images in http://maresmedx.blogspot.com.es/ Hard-Core-DX via DXLD) ** MALAYSIA. 11665, Wai/Limbang FM (via RTM-Kajang) 1250-1323+ 20 Oct. Qira'ut until 1257, W DJ chat/song, 1+1 pips at TOH and RTM net news to 1309, Wai FM DJ intro'ing the upcoming Limbang FM programme (hello to the DJ, etc.), Limbang FM singing jingle, M DJ with several mentions of "berita hari Limbang FM" ["Limbang FM news of the day"] with calliope/circus organ background, EZL ML pop. Happy to finally hear the entire L-FM jingle (Dan Sheedy, Encinitas/Moonlight Beach, CA, G5/6m X wire, via Bob Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALAYSIA. 6049.98, Asyki FM via RTM, Oct 25 1203-1221, 44444, Malaysian, Music, ID at 1211 and 1212 and 1220 (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) ** MALAYSIA. 5965v and 7295, nothing heard of RTM Klasik Nasional and RTM Traxx FM - today, both empty channels. 6049.990, RTM Asyik FM from Kajang site, S=9+10 or -65dBm much fluttering today, 1220 UT - 1230 UT, compared the program easily with FM Radio on live radio webnet: on 9834.998, S=9+10dB -64dBm signal strength, nice smooth Malaysian singer at 1312 UT. 11665.002, RTM Wai from Kujang site, S=8 -79dBm, typical Malaysian announcer talk, male + female. 1320 UT Oct 24. 73 wolfy df5sx (Wolfgang Bueschel, Checked the downunder remote SDR unit at Sydney in past hour, 1327 UT Oct 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 640, Oct 29 at 0536 UT, Spanish song, 0537 mention ``BM Radio`` grupo. I already know this operates in Chihuahua, heard on some other frequencies, so which of the two 640s in that state? From http://www.gbmradio.com/ it`s XEJUA in Juárez, as their Parral affiliate must be one of the FMs. Usual references are not helpful when searching by Grupo (except for some national chains), altho this is a significant part of a station`s identity and likely to be mentioned on air as in this case. Even the search funxion within http://mexicoradiotv.com gets no resultados for BM Radio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. I was able to log XECAQ, Puerto Morelos QR, on 740 kHz. It was heard on a SRF-T615 at 1059-1120 GMT Oct 25, at times with a good signal, parallel the internet feed. It is ULR station #1043 (barefoot #1030). Hoping conditions improve soon - good DX all (Richard Allen, near Perry OK USA, Sent from my iPad, IRCA via DXLD) ** MEXICO. 740, MEXICO unidentified. 1030 October 28, 2014. Right on frequency, so not the low side unidentified Glenn Hauser is hearing. Spanish female 70's-style vocal, several mentions of "... AM y FM, mucho más..." after songs but unable to catch the slogan. Played Maroon 5's "Maps" at 1036, and for some reason, subjected to again at 1048. No anthem leading into the hour or through 1108 when the signal was lost in the jumble of others. XEKV Exa FM, Villahermosa, Tabasco? (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 770, Oct 25 at 1244, PSA about mosquitos from the Sinaloa department of Salud, 1245 back to ``Los 40 Principales``, i.e. Top 40 from XEREV, Los Mochis, 5/0.1 kW per IRCA Mexican Log 2014. Sinaloa, in the sesquimegameter range, continues to be a hotspot for MexDX at SRS here which is 1248 UT today; see also 1410 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1190, Oct 29 at 0123, mentions Padre Miguel Ángel ---, program promo for `El Tiempo de Dios` miércoles en ``Contacto 11-90``; website in .mx (not to be converted to music!), ad for PAN party, Policía Federal PSA, Secretaría de Gobernación. Loops N/S. That slogan leads right to Monterrey NL in WRTH 2014 (i.e. from more than a year ago) and the 2014 IRCA Mexican Log: XECT, 10/0.1 kW, I wonder which? Lots of QRM to combat on this channel. Cantú also agrees except name as merely ``Contacto`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1300-, Oct 24 at 1405 UT, romantic music in Spanish, 1407 UT ``son las 8 --- con 7`` autotimecheck, from the UT-6 zone; no doubt XEP Ciudad Juárez, still dominant slightly on lo side compared to neighbors, making fast SAH with Tulsa(?), still in more than an hour after sunrise here with its 38 kW day power, second in CiJz only to XEROK 800 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1410, Oct 25 at 1255, PSA from the Secretaría de -algo- de Sinaloa. IRCA shows XECF, Los Mochis, 10/0.5 kW, La Mexicana. Sinaloa, in the sesquimegameter range, continues to be a hotspot for MexDX at SRS here which is 1248 UT today; see also 770. City-to-city distance Los Mochis-to-Enid is: 1583 km = 984 miles (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1510, Oct 25 at 0112 UT, with WLAC nulled, romantic song in Spanish, YL really belting it out, but fades out and in; 0117 DJ introduces next tune as ``tiempo de vals`` and it certainly is, vocal with a strong 3/4 beat almost matching the meter of the pumping subaudible heterodyne with WLAC, or a third station? 0121 another announcement, and next a rock song in English, or is that another station? 0130 another longer announcement by OM DJ conversing with a YL who laughs, about compositores, then a polca. Nowhen is there anything resembling an ID, ad or local reference, which furthers my assumption that it`s cultural XEQI, Monterrey NL; but I am almost to the point of pining for an intrusive super-hype voice actor to shout an ID every three minutes like on many other Mexicans. Last year`s IRCA Mexican Log showed power as 50/0.25 kW, but this year, it`s 10 kW period in the day-power column, but ``24 hours``. WRTH 2014 also showed 10 kW fulltime; and Cantú currently has it at 10 kW days only. The slogan to be caught is ``La Nueva Radio`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 6185, Oct 23 at 0554, tropical music somewhat undermodulated, as XEEP, R. Educación is again on during hour following usual 0500*. Note that deep Mexico (beyond the US border) goes off DST this Sunday Oct 26, a week earlier than El Norte, so XEEP schedule will then normally last until 0600 UT, and if extended like this might run until 0700. 6185-, Oct 23 at 2243, soft vocal jazz tune, ``Misty``, slightly on the lo side, as XEPPM is obviously on the air already (and maybe has been all day); next check at 0526 UT Oct 24, it`s off again, instead of sometimes prolonged to 0600v. 6185, Oct 27 at 0607, XEPPM is still on with soft rock song in Spanish. Most of central Mexico just reverted to UT -6, so nominal schedule would be to 0600* which means it might run until about 0700. (BTW, RNA Brasil is still AWOL from 6180, a very good thing for Radio Educación) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6184.981, XEPPM Mexico City, Radio Educación program in Spanish this morning, heard in NY and MA at S=9+5dB -66dBm signal strength level. Station ID at 0509 UT Oct 28 and political commentary about US embargo against Castro's Cuba in half century (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6185-, Oct 28 at 0600 choral national anthem is playing from XEPPM, midnight in Mexico. Followed at 0602 by R. Educación ID only as ``10- 60 AM, 100 mil watts de potencia`` --- it better not be at night, authorized only 20 kW! Brief open carrier and off 6185. No ACI from absent Brasil 6180, but RHC is splattering all the way from 6165 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. A Chihuahua television station is off the air. XHABC-28 Chihuahua (and possibly 42-watt satellite XHCTH-2 Cd. Cuauhtémoc) went off the air after having their power service cut for nonpayment. The stations are permitted but locally owned, operated and controlled and are not operated by the state government. Javier Corral, a PAN senator whose name I've seen a lot on telecommunications issues (and who happens to represent Chihuahua), is cynical about it, saying that the station's newscasts were criticizing politicians over power "discounts" from the CFE (the state power company). XHABC is one station I would have said unlikely to make the transition without help for budgetary reasons (via Raymie Humbert, Oct 29, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) ** MICRONESIA. 4755.5, The Cross Radio at 1140 to 1147, man preaching about God and Jesus, then songs, DTMF tones at 1159:43 and off - Poor Oct 23 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, listening in my car, parked by the lake, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MONGOLIA [non]. Sabato 25 ottobre 2014, 1730 - 6005 kHz, VOICE OF MONGOLIA via R. 700 Kall Krekel (Germania), English, int/sig e nxs YL. Segnale buono-sufficiente. Secondo il sito di R. 700 l'emissione è prorogata fino al 31 dicembre, l'unica cosa è che potrebbe essere alle 18.30-19.00 UTC con l'ora solare (Luca Botto Fiora, QTH Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, G.C. 44 21' 06.89" N / 09 13' 30.94" E, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) ??? Seems to me DST summer time ought to be referred to as ``ora solare``, not standard winter time (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** MOROCCO. 9575, R. Medi Un: Oct 22 0705-0719, 45444, Arabic and French, News and talk, ID at 0709 and 0714; Oct 23 0714-0724, 45444, French, Talk, ID at 0714 (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) ** MYANMAR. 7200v, Nothing heard of Rangoon today, empty channel at 1230 UT. 5985.237, Older odd frequency unit used from empire Rangoon site at 1225 UT Oct 24. 5915 even frequency, R Myanmar program from Nay Pyi Taw, well on air this channel, ahead of tiny co-channel CRI Huhhot Mongolian singer in phone-line quality! Nay Pyi Taw at 1244 UT on Oct 24, S=9+5dB - 68dBm strength. 7345 Radio from Phin Oo Lwi, probably in scheduled Mon vernacular language, logged at 1250 UT on Oct 24. 73 wolfy df5sx (Wolfgang Bueschel, Checked the downunder remote SDR unit at Sydney in past hour, 1327 UT Oct 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NAVASSA ISLAND. PRESS RELEASE From: The KP1-5 Project Re: Navassa (KP1) DXpedition Dated: 22 October 2014 The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has notified the KP1-5 Project that they will be the team to activate Navassa Island (KP1) in January 2015. The DXpedition will be a maximum of fourteen days. The exact dates in January will be determined by USFWS mission requirements and weather windows. Our experienced team of fifteen is complete and is ready for the challenge. The weeks ahead will be extremely busy as the team has less than 90 days before the DXpedition comes on the air. January is the month of minimum bird nesting activity and this is the primary reason USFWS is asking that the operation be completed during that month. However, the weather is unpredictable in January and because Navassa is surrounded by cliffs, this may preclude a safe landing by boat. For safety reasons and in order to maximize our time on the Island and on the air, a helicopter operation is planned. Navassa is over 100 miles (160 km) from the nearest helicopter staging point and as many as ten round trips will be required at the beginning and end of the operation. Obviously, this means that there will be a significant cost for activating this #1 ranked DXCC entity. In the next few weeks, we be working with USFWS and as details firm up, we will issue periodic press releases. Check our webpage, http://www.kp1-5.com for more details of the operation and how you may financially support this DXpedition. The KP1-5 Project team has committed to fund 50% of the total costs. We are hopeful the DX community at large will fund the remainder. for The KP1-5 Project, Bob Allphin, K4UEE, President Glenn Johnson, W0GJ, Vice-president Mike Thomas, NA5U, Secretary I.C.P.O. Bulletin (24-31 October 2014) "Islands, Castles & Portable Operations" ADDED NOTES: * OPDX was informed that the callsign they will use on the island will be "K1N". * Press Release: "INDEXA Supports Navassa Island DXpedition -- Hello fellow DXers and INDEXA Members: INDEXA is pleased to announce that we are generously supporting the just announced major DXpedition to Navassa Island, KP1. The official team announcement says this will occur in January, 2015. The DXpedition call will be announced later. Navassa Island is currently ranked #2 on the DX Magazine's "Most Wanted list". The Navassa Island DXpedition Team leader is Bob Allphin, K4UEE, and he has assembled an extraordinary team of DXpeditioners with the know- how to plan, implement and activate the rarest of the rare DX entities. The team includes AA7JV, HA7RY, K0IR, K4UEE, K5AC, K9CT, N2TU, N4GRN, NA5U, NM1Y, VE7CT, W0GJ, W6IZT, and WB9Z. INDEXA is the first DXpedition support group to announce financial support for this DXpedition. This support is possible because of your membership in INDEXA and the many prior donations. Interestingly, over half of the DXpedition team is made up of INDEXA officers, directors and members. INDEXA has provided support that is over and above what is customary; so if you would like to help replenish our reserves you might consider an additional contribution via the web page . This DXpedition should provide many of you with an all-time new DXCC entity as well as new band/mode countries for various ARRL, CQ and IOTA awards. Regards, Gary Dixon, K4MQG - INDEXA President John Scott, K8YC - VP-Newsletter Editor Dick Williams, W3OA - Secretary-Treasurer" Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin No. 1186 (The Ohio/Penn DX PacketCluster, DX Bulletin No. 1186, October 27, 2014, Editor Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW, Provided by BARF80.ORG (Cleveland, Ohio), via Dave Raycroft, ODXA yg via DXLD) Add SWBC pse ** NEW ZEALAND. 6170, Friday Oct 24 at 1256 I find that RNZI is again on this frequency early, interview with drumming sounders; don`t know how early, as I was paying attention to RA on 6150 et al. 1258 Adrian Sainsbury announces QSY *to* 6170, where they already are instead of 9700, and Bell Bird IS. 1308 after news, `Dateline Pacific` so Pacificans are still getting something useful while RA has descended into rap-crap for a quadrihour. 6170, Oct 25 at *1259, RNZI cuts on with Bell Bird IS, at the correct time to switch from 9700, unlike yesterday when 6170 was on earlier, unbeknownst to the studio playing the QSY announcement anyway. 5950, Oct 26 at 1350, very poor signal with NZ accent, so RNZI has made its usual B-14 switch from 6170. Its sked also now shows no more 9700 preceding it on the NW beam, but: 1059-1258 13840 NW Pacific, PNG, Timor 1300-1550 5950 Pacific (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DX LISTENING DIGEST) New Zealand's B14 schedule is available on http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/listen 73's (John, Sent from my iPad, Hoad, Oct 24, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) RNZI good on new 9765 at 0800 UT, SIO 444. 73's (John, Faversham Kent UK, Hoad, JRC NRD-515 / 10m random wire, Sent from my iPad, Oct 26, ibid.) Also very good on new 13840 kHz at 1100 UT, SIO 444 (Hoad, Oct 27, ibid.) 13840, Oct 28 at 1251, JBA carrier under much stronger 13845 WWCR Joycesplash; checking for RNZI on new B-14 frequency, as expected no good here as it`s too hi, and to boot, aimed NNW instead of NNE. At 1258 I`m sitting on 5950 waiting for next channel to come up, which it does with fair-good signal at *1258:50 as Adrian Sainsbury is announcing that ``this`` frequency is about to change to ``6170``! Which is outdated A-14 info (and of course, the announcement should have aired before, not after the switch). Wake up, Adrian! Or maybe he`s away on another of his extended holidays in Europe. Then Bell Bird IS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 26 Oct 2014-28 Mar 2015 UTC kHz Target Days 0251-0400 17675 DRM Vanuatu Mon-Fri 0459-0759 11725 AM Pacific Daily 0651-0758 11690 DRM Tonga Mon-Fri 0759-1058 9765 AM Pacific Daily 1059-1258 13840 AM NW Pacific, PNG, Timor Daily 1300-1550 5950 AM Pacific Daily 1551-1650 9700 AM 9630 DRM Cook Islands, Samoa Daily 1651-1745 9700 AM 9630 DRM Cook Islands, Samoa, Niue, Tonga Daily 1746-1950 11725 AM 11690 DRM Cooks, Samoa, Niue, Tonga, Daily 1951-2150 11725 AM 15720 DRM Samoa, Niue, Tonga Daily 2051-2150 15720 DRM Solomon Islands Sun-Fri 2151-0458 15720 AM Pacific Daily (RNZI via WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DXLD) 5950, Oct 29 from *1258:50, RNZI pops on with Bell Bird IS, no announcement before TS and news, so making the QSY from 13840 properly for a change. Website gives full B-14 schedule on AM as: From 0459 11725, 0759 9765, 1059 13840, 1300 5950, 1551 9700, 1746 11725, 2151- 0458 15720 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. QSL: Auckland Volmet, 8828 USB, QSL letter in 14 days for e-report to Tim.Halpin@airways.co.nz v/s Tim Halpin (Artur Fernández Llorella, Catalonia, Spain, You can see some images in http://maresmedx.blogspot.com.es/ Hard-Core-DX via DXLD) ** NIGERIA. 6089.9, Voice of Nigeria (tentative); 2135-2145+, 22-Oct; M in Afro-language (listed as Hausa) taking phone calls or in discussion with several others and several mentions of Nigeria. SIO=353- (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 15120, V. of Nigeria, Oct 27 0710-0722, 35333, French, Talk, Theme music at 0713 and 0718, Modulation was riding tolerably (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) ** NORTH AMERICA. Old Radio Program Station: 3229.7/AM, 2317, 17-Oct; Amos & Andy episode. SIO=2+52 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) OLD TIME RADIO: 10/19, 0137-0157, 3229.73/AM; Normal programming. (25342) (Ron Hunsicker, 1238 Cleveland Ave., Wyomissing PA 19610-2102, FRW Oct 25 via DXLD) 3229.7, PIRATE (NA). Old Time Radio, at 0139, on 21 Oct. An old time radio show is playing with a male and a female talking along with canned laughter. The station appears to be parked here each evening since early September. Poor (John Cooper, Lebanon, PA; Equipment: Winradio-G33DDC, CommRadio 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 x 2, NASWA Flashsheet Oct 26 via DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. 1720 AM, Pirate, Undercover Radio, 0155 to 0220, ID at 0205 by om, Thanks Tim Tromp tip in “Shortwave Radio Station Listening” club, 25 October (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, 60 and 90 meter dipoles, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA 1720 PIRATE-NA. Undercover Radio, 1720 AM, 0052-0101*, 10-20-14 SIO: 242. Dr. Benway with a repeat of an old show about the Solomon Islands SCUBA diving incident. ID, tune "Halloween" by The Dead Kennedy's. Scary sound effects and off. [Lobdell-MA] PIRATE-NA. Undercover Radio, 6925 AM, 0105-0205*, 10-20-14 SIO: 454. DR. Benway with two stories, a repeat of the Solomon Islands SCUBA incident plus the chupacabra trick or treater's story. Very entertaining with great reception (Chris Lobdell, Box 80146, Stoneham, MA 02180 USA, Receivers: Eton E1, NRD-545; Aerials: G5RV, 40 Meter Dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. PIRATE-NA. Whiskey Redneck Radio, 6933.2 USB, 0100- 0105*, 10-20-14 SIO: 232. Country bluegrass tune, ID and "we're gone gone gone" at close down (Chris Lobdell, Box 80146, Stoneham, MA 02180 USA, Receivers: Eton E1, NRD-545; Aerials: G5RV, 40 Meter Dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6925-USB, Oct 25 at 0034, poor pirate signal with variety of music, beeps, dramatization of something, mentions radiation level; 0040 overridden by CW sending V`s and then SALLO--- something a few times. Pirate had stopped by 0046. This thread http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,19060.0.html says it was Rave On Radio about a zombie attack (ahem, we`re still a week from Hallowe`en, when there should be a lot more pirate activity, plus WBCQ) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6925-USB, Oct 29 at 0119, synthetic YL voice starts and stops intermittently, mentions pirate radio and an e-mail address. Free Radio Café forums shows 6925 occupied by Satan Radio until 0105, and Peskie Party Radio at 0141, but in the meantime? HF Underground forum which has more activity includes it in this thread by Rafman: http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,19123.0.html as WAHR, Automated Halloween Radio. Expect lots more pirate activity the next few nights (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 5795, YHWH (religious pirate) 0207+ 18 Oct. Usual "Yahweh'll get ya.." programming but with a much better signal here than when they're on 31M (Dan Sheedy, Encinitas/Moonlight Beach, CA, G5/6m X wire, via Bob Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11595, PIRATE (No. Am.), YHWH, 0227, 10/24/14. Usual YHWH preacher with teachings about keeping the Sabbath holy. Poor (Mark Taylor, Madison, WI, Perseus, WinRadio g313e, Eton e1, Grunding Satellit 800, Sangean 909X, Tecsun PL 660; 40 meters dipole, RF Systems Mk 2, Flextenna, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** NORWAY. 5895 kHz at 0000-0400 UT in B-14 season, to zone 18, SVE 1 kW nondir antenna #950, daily 271014-290315, Norwegisch, no DRM. NOR NPT Registration of Northern Star by Svenn Martinsen, via LLL-3 Bergen activity (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 23, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 29 via DXLD) But no reports it`s really on daily or at all ** OKLAHOMA. 740, Oct 23 at 1304, KRMG Tulsa has completely dissed its original AM frequency, IDing now only as ``News 102-3, KRMG``; and for weather it depends on ``Fox 23`` = KOKI on RF 22; might as well turn off 740? (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1640, UT Sat Oct 25 at 0109, local KZLS Enid-Hennessey- Oklahoma City is obviously another Friday-night ``STA`` cheater running day power to enhance its coverage during a silly ballgame, breaking its mostly talk-radio format, which judging from a mention during an adstring is ``Yukon-Miller football`` (Yukon is a western suburb of OKC, not a territory, but Miller?). The big sig of 10 kW direxional is splattering upon adjacents 1630 & 1650 just like in the daytime! No chance of nulling it now for WTNI like really with 1 kW last night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. Haven`t heard a familiar voice lately on KOSU in the mornings. Morning Edition local host lasted about a year before moving on to a larger market? http://kosu.org/people/nikole-robinson-carroll Nikole Robinson Carroll`s last day at KOSU was Sept 30, going to same kind of job at KNPR Las Vegas NV. I suppose it was KOSU policy, not her demand, but she got to/had to say her full name with every brief announcement break. What recognition! Yet when researching what happened to her, I couldn`t remember it exactly. Also others do it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN. 15144, RSO, 0057-0105, 0112, 0132 18 Oct. Thanks to Ivo Ivanov's info on the HCDX site for the ID. Heard as unID with qira'ut across TOH, 0112 audio gone and carrier gone by 0132 recheck. Supposed to be on 9500 00-02 (Dan Sheedy, Encinitas/Moonlight Beach, CA, G5/6m X wire, via Bob Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non]. 9500, Oct 25 at 0059, no signal from RSO where it should be; 15140 occupied only by CRI with music fill and 0100 IS; nothing on 15355, but RSO may be unpropagating on one of these alternate 19mb channels. HFCC B-14 has all these registered on the 315 antenna USward at 00-02: 9500, 9545, 11650 (pick one, only one); plus earlier in the day still 15140, 15355 likely to be prolonged (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DX LISTENING DIGEST) And they did pick a new one, at least once, 11650 --- (gh) Oman New Frequency 11650 --- Sorry, have not kept up with the seasonal frequency lists, but is this a previously unannounced frequency? Oman booming in on 11650 kHz through the evening with Koran chants, local ads and other programming as on 15140 (Dan Robinson, DC, 0056 UT Oct 29, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DXLD) Thumrayt entry. 11650 2200-0200 28,39N THU 100 315 Arabic OMA RSO (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) ** PERU. 4955, Perú, Radio Cultural Amauta, Huanta, 2350 to 2355 locutor en español, strong signal 22 October (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, 60 and 90 meter dipoles, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4985.5, Perú, Radio Voz Cristiana, Huancayo, 2348 to 2356 om preacher in Spanish, in USB, 1.3 k filter to avoid RTTY below; 2328 noted with weak signal but no RTTY on 4985 (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, 60 and 90 meter dipoles, and XM, Cedar Key, South Florida, NRD 525D, R8A, E5, via Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980, Oct 25 at 0035, JBA carrier from R. Chaski. After 0100, heavier splatter ACI than usual from 5985 WRMI BS, so I can barely make out the carrier with BFO, until cutoff at 0104:34* which is 47.5 seconds later than my last check an octonite ago, i.e. averaging 5.94 seconds later per uninite. 5980, Oct 26 from first check at 0025 past 0100, can`t detect a carrier from R. Chaski, so maybe off? WRMI is now starting the BSplash from 5985 at 0000 instead of 0100, which is no help. [non]. 5980, Oct 29 at 0100, JBA carrier, but 0108 still there after which R. Chaski should have cut off according to previous precession tracking. It`s harder to do this tnx to WRMI being on 5985 with BS. However, instead of slightly on the hi side for R. Chaski, carrier seems right on 5980.0 matching non-offset of 5985.0, so suspect Chaski is off (or reset earlier), and now there`s something else on 5980. And indeed there is per HFCC B-14: BBCWS via UAE at 0100-0200 in Hindi, then Urdu, 250 kW at 70, then 60 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 6173.9, Perú, Radio Tawantinsuyo, Cusco, 1018 to 1030 with gent in Spanish but weak signal 24 October, noted 2330-2333 on 25 October with weak signal. Needs an exceptional opening for a good log (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, 60 and 90 meter dipoles, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. Survey from a ship off the coast: see DX-PEDITIONS ** PHILIPPINES. 11650, R. Teos via Philippines, Oct 26 1510-1534, 35443, Russian, Talk and Chorus music, Address announce at 1529, ID at 1530 (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) ** POLAND [and non]. Jan Nowak-Jezioran'ski: A Sketch for a Portrait Published on Thursday, 02 October 2014 12:30 Category: Articles and Commentary Written by Slawomir Lukasiewicz In the history of 20th century Poland, there exist a few exceptional and symbolic figures. Undoubtedly, one of them is Jan Nowak- Jezioran'ski, the long-time chief of the Polish section of Radio Free Europe. While much is known about the man and his activities, new studies continue to emerge to help us understand the role he played in Polish history. . . http://www.neweasterneurope.eu/articles-and-commentary/1345-jan-nowak-jezioranski-a-sketch-for-a-portrait (via Juan Franco Crespo, Spain, Oct 27, DXLD) Very interesting and long article, illustrated (gh, DXLD) ** PRIDNESTROVYE. Re: ``MOLDOVA [PREDNESTROVIE] 621 Radio Pridnestrovye Tiraspol on the air Mon-Fri 0300-0400 UT on 621 kHz from Grigoriopol sitte with National Anthem, program in Ukrainian, at 0330 UT in Moldovian and from 0400 in Russian.`` Really? This would have required either Radio PMR to pay its debts (half a year of transmission fees) or RTRS writing off the money while increasingly making losses itself. Thus I would like to see a confirmation from another source, even more so after the recent report about Turkish mediumwave outlets that turned out to be wrong. [Later:] Just received word that Radio Pridnestrovya is indeed transmit on 621 kHz again, on workdays only in the morning. Further details not confirmed yet (Kai Ludwig, Oct 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST ** PUERTO RICO. 680, WAPA, 2335 mix with US stations, ID as WAPA, om and yl chit chat 24 October (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, 60 and 90 meter dipoles, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Wapa as a word or W-A-P-A? Alludes to ``guapa`` = femalely handsome (gh, DXLD) ** ROMANIA. Radio Romania International on 9645 from 0300 in English with very good to good signal, news followed by features. UT Oct. 24 2014. Great reception for the west coast. P.S. By the end of the broadcast (0355) the signal was fair to poor and only marginally intelligible (Robert Gorsch, San Francisco, CA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) That was A-14; now in B-14 replaced by 0400 on 7340 & 6020; 337 & 320 degrees respectively from Galbeni; is it just as great? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I haven't checked yet, but I am pretty sure 0400 on 7340 and 6020 will be inaudible (Gorsch, 0250 UT Oct 28, ibid.) ** ROMANIA [Re 14-43:] Winter B-14 schedule of Radio Romania International Bucharest ARABIC 0730-0756 11660G 15200G 15330T 17810T 1300-1326 11945G 13720T 15400T 15460G 17810T - additional - 1630-1656 9680T 11760T 11870G 15170G Last minute correxion: ARABIC 1300-1326 11945G 13560T* 15400T 15460G 17810T - additional - * ex-13720 to avoid Tinang, PHL co-channel (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 23, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13560??? That, in the US at least, and I suspected elsewhere, is reserved for industrial, scientific and mechanical devices (such as RF IDs), low-powered ``Part 15``, including within 10 kHz +/- those HIFER beacons we have been hearing, with ISM noiseblobs on 13560 itself. There should not be any broadcasters anywhere on 13560. Yes, HFCC has it on 13560 at 1300-1330, but could it be a typo? Tiganeshti is on 13660 at 1330-1400 in Chinese (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) 1300-1326 on 11945 GAL 300 kW / 140 deg to N/ME Arabic, ex 1500-1556 1300-1326 on 13560 TIG 300 kW / 142 deg to N/ME Arabic, ex 1500-1556 1300-1326 on 15460 GAL 300 kW / 245 deg to NoAf Arabic, ex 1500-1556 1300-1326 on 17810 TIG 300 kW / 247 deg to NoAf Arabic, ex 1500-1556, deleted 15400 More info: http://rri.ro/ar_ar/frecvente-266 (Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via DXLD) The Arabic pages with the number groups backward, Arabic at ``13:30- 1.3:00`` [sic], yes on [sic] 13560 (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) Update: 1300-1326 on 11945 GAL 300 kW / 140 deg to N/ME Arabic 1300-1326 NF 13660 TIG 300 kW / 142 deg to N/ME Arabic, registered today, ex 13560 1300-1326 on 15460 GAL 300 kW / 245 deg to NoAf Arabic 1300-1326 on 17810 TIG 300 kW / 247 deg to NoAf Arabic, deleted 15400 (Ivo Ivanov, 1128 UT Oct 28, dxldyg via DXLD) Frequency change of Radio Romania International: 1300-1326 NF 13660 TIG 300 kW / 142 deg to N/ME Arabic, ex 13560 // frequency 11945 GAL 300 kW / 140 deg to N/ME Arabic // frequency 15460 GAL 300 kW / 245 deg to NoAf Arabic // frequency 17810 TIG 300 kW / 247 deg to NoAf Arabic 1300-1356 on 9880 SAF 100 kW / 300 deg to WeEu Romanian 1330-1356 on 11880 TIG 300 kW / 067 deg to EaAs Chinese 1330-1356 on 13660 TIG 300 kW / 067 deg to EaAs Chinese And videos of Romanian and Chinese services at same time slot 1300- 1356: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/10/frequency-change-of-radio-romania.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via DXLD) See below Re: FRENCH 0200-0256 5975G 7395G 0600-0626 7360G 9650G-DRM 11790T 13740T 1000-1056 15260G 17870G Suns only 1100-1156 15150T 15255G 17820G 17870T 1700-1756 7400T 9690T 1800-1856 7350G 2000-2056 7430G 2100-2126 6030G 7370G-DRM As usual, some wrong data: French at 1000, 1800 and 2000 are imaginary broadcasts. Regards (Jean-Michel Aubier, France, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Romanian, not French: 1000-1056 15260G 17870G Suns only 1800-1856 7350G 2000-2056 7430G (Ivo to Wolfgang Büschel, via DXLD)) Ivo, thanks, also Jean-Michel reported that matter yesterday. How long they at RRI-RRO have published these four fake frequency registration entries before? Never came across or read about that matter before, also these 4 frequencies appeared always in previous lists, WRTH and other tables. I remember on a Sunday only RRI French outlet heard of RRI in about 15.1 or 15.2 MHz fq range, some 2 years ago? vy73 (Wolfgang, DXLD) 9765, Thu Oct 23 at 2248, RRI with classical music, English announcement, fair. From Oct 26 for B-14, this hour shifts to 2300- 2357, on 6015 and 7220 via Galbeni at 285 and 290 degrees; 7395 and 9620 via Tiganeshti at 52 degrees. Here in OK I expect the lower bands not to be an improvement, at least not yet. 7220 will of course hit QRhaM as it spreads beyond Europe. Both it at 6015 are registered as only for CIRAF 27N, not US. [and non]. 9730, Oct 26 at 0027, Spanish discussion of medical issues, 0029 outro `Romanía para el Mundo`, good and // weaker 9525, so RRI now on B-14 schedule of 00-01 Spanish on 7325, 7335, 9525 and 9730. 6145, Oct 26 at 0103, RRI in English with fair signal, new frequency and time for B-14: 01-02 on 6145 // 7325 (or if you prefer Romanian with its classical music on Saturday nights: 01-03 on 5910 // 7335). I think before 0100 tonight I was hearing Colombian music on 5910, but forget about it for the next bihour. 6020 & 7340, Oct 28 at 0401, RRI English to N America on new B-14 frequencies and one hour later than A-14: only fair signals, but no co-channel QRM. 13660, Oct 28 at 1312, RRI with good signal in Arabic, as now scheduled in A-14, but what will happen at 1330? HFCC registration showed next [sic] broadcast, in Chinese, to be on 13560, which as I have already pointed out, is the ISM band reserved for low-power Part- 15 devices at least in the US and probably elsewhere, so no broadcasters should be allowed! Altho Ivo Ivanov and Wolfgang Büschel quoted HFCC without question, I figured that ``13560`` must be a typo. 13660, Oct 28 at 1327 is off, but 1329, RRI IS preceding Chinese is indeed still here, weaker than Arabic had been, after beam switch from 142 degrees (close to off the back here via Tiganeshti), to 67 degrees --- NOT 13560 which remains clear for ISM noise, a 3-per-second beeper and on 13564, HIFER beacon GNK from Wisconsin. Ivo then published this as a ``change`` but I doubt RRI was ever really on 13560. And as of Oct 28, HFCC listing has been corrected to 13660: http://www.hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=B14&broadc=RRO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [Later: Now I had confused which one was listed on 13560 --- it was 1300 Arabic, not 1330 Chinese. Other than that, my suspicion that 13560 was a typo proved to be correct --- gh] 6020, RRI Galbeni, English program to North America at 04-05 UT, proper S=9+25dB or -54dBm on Oct 28, station ID til 0456:20 UT close- down. 6145, RRI Romanian to Balcan and all-Europe at 05-06 UT noted at 0504 UT, but also in North AM heard with S=9+20dB or -51dBm powerhouse, // 7220 kHz Galbeni relay same signal, but latter underneath CRI English from Cerrik ALB relay co-channel. Election report from Kiev Ukraine, Julia German locutor in studio. Romanian Balcan actual weather report at 0505 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. PERMANENT WINTER: RUSSIA TURNS BACK CLOCKS FOR LAST TIME Published time: October 26, 2014 19:41 Reuters / Sergei Karpukhin On this last October weekend, Russia turned its clocks one hour back - a practice that had been abolished for three years. But the daylight savings time (DST) policy remains abandoned, with the government's decision to stick to winter time permanently. The decision not to change clocks and keep summer time all year round was applied in Russia by its then president Dmitry Medvedev in 2011. Russia's clocks were then put one hour forward, not to be changed again later, making Moscow GMT +4. RUSSIA TURNS ITS CLOCK TO WINTER TIME, PERMANENTLY http://t.co/QIX3vh59n9 pic.twitter.com/Pem7r6RAfd — RT (@RT_com) October 26, 2014 The three-year experiment of living on perpetual summer time has proven to be unpopular among many Russians for various reasons. Some complained dark morning hours affected their body clocks badly, with people having to wake up for work or children go to school in complete darkness. "Dark mornings have a worse effect on people’s state of health than dark evenings," the head of sleep medicine at the Federal Medical and Biological Agency, Aleksandr Kalinkin, told TASS news agency. Being more hours ahead of GMT also made sports fans frustrated, as it meant they had to stay up longer hours at night to watch broadcasts from Europe. The abolished time changing has also caused confusion among travelers, who had to memorize various time differences in the summer and the winter. Many gadget and other digital clocks needed to be adjusted manually, as software did not always recognize the abolition of DST in Russia. While the two latter problems might remain, with permanent winter - instead of summer - time in Russia, the country will now have more hours of sunlight in the mornings in winter, and "Europe will now be closer," as representatives of the Russian Academy of Sciences put it at a press conference in Moscow. The difference between the capital and GMT will now be plus three hours. The revision will also bring back Russia's 11 time zones, from Kamchatka in the Pacific to Kaliningrad in Europe, with the number having been reduced to nine after the 2011 changes. The decision of switching back to winter time was submitted to the Russian parliament at the beginning of the year, with the law approved and then signed by president Vladimir Putin in July. No seasonal time change is expected in the country any time soon. The time changing dispute has been a long standing issue, both in Russia and internationally. In 1981 DST was introduced in the Soviet Union, which was previously abolished by the bolsheviks in 1930. Variations have also occurred several times in Europe and America throughout the 20th century. Now, clocks are set one hour back or ahead twice a year in over a hundred of the world's countries. DST practice is popular in Europe and America, while most Asian and African countries do not change their clocks. Half adjustments of 30 minutes, or two-hour switches have also been used in several countries during the past century. Canada's province of Newfoundland and Labrador has had a two-hour change, while Australia's Lord Howe Island currently applies DST to its clocks by being moved 30 minutes. First thought up back in the 18th century, the daylight saving practice has both opponents and supporters, with the most popular pros being for its energy efficiency, as it reduces the need for artificial lighting. Some researchers also suggest it provides financial boost in tourism, stimulating travelers to pursue outdoor activities (via A. Burnette, Oct 28, DXLD) Russia switched to winter time --- On Sunday, October 26th, the last time Russia switched to winter time - at 2:00 am local time, the arrow was transferred back one hour. This procedure took place for the first time after three years from the date of cancellation of winter time in 2011. Thus, in the country again appeared eleven time zones instead of nine. In the five regions of Russia did not translate back arrow. At summer time remained Udmurtia, Kamchatka, Chukotka, Kemerovo and Samara Oblast. [arrow === hands of clox?] With the transition to a permanent winter, Russia has become closer to Europe - Moscow time now differs from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is not at +4 and +3 hours. New members of the Federation - Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol - also went to Moscow time. Russia still remains in the winter time / Law abolishing the transition to winter time, introduced in the summer of 2011 on the initiative of the then president, Dmitry Medvedev. After the entry into force of the Law of the Russian time was ahead of the curve geographical time zone by one hour, and in some areas - for two (Lenta.ru via RusDX Oct 26 via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. 576, R. Rossii, Oct 21 1200-1210, 44343, Russian, News, ID at 1200 and 1209. 810, R. Rossii-Primor'e, Oct 22 *2010-2022, 43443, Russian, News and talk,, ID at 2010 and 2011 and 2012, Local program from 2010. 810, R. Rossii, Oct 23 0805-0815, 43443, Russian, Talk, ID at 0808 and 0810, SJ at 0814, // 576 kHz (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) ** RUSSIA. QSL: Radio Adygeya (GTRK Adygeya), 7325, via Krasnodar, partly detailed E-letter in 11 weeks for e-report to gtrkadygeya@yandex.ru (Artur Fernández Llorella, Catalonia, Spain, You can see some images in http://maresmedx.blogspot.com.es/ Hard-Core-DX via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. October 24 Adygeyan Radio in Adygeyan to ME 1755 on 7325 Armavir https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwdUjIEy2O0&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Probably its last broadcast of Adygeyan Radio on shortwave 1700-1800 on 7325 ARM 100 kW / 188 deg to CeAs Adygeyan Fri, Oct. 24. Video: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/10/last-broadcast-of-adygeyan-radio-on.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #878 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Oct. 28, 2014 via WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DXLD) 6020, Adygey Radio Maykop weekdays - not heard in B-14 Monday Oct 27. Further checks needed, because of Russia' standard time change. Negativ auf 6020 kHz heute Abend, nichts vom Cherkessen Radio aus Krasnodar Armavir site zu hoeren. Nur RFA Chinesisch aus Tinian Isl MRA unten, mit starkem Wort Jammer aus China oben auf (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RUSSIAN FEDERATION: Adygeyan Radio from Maycop, Adygeyan Republic was heard on 27 October 2014 from 1800 to 1900 h on 6000 KHz with usual Monday's prgr in Adygeyan, Arabic and Turkish and some texts also in Kurdish (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria), Oct 29, WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DXLD) ** RUSSIA. VOICE OF RUSSIA STILL IMAGINARY? To find the V of Russia schedule in HFCC B-14, you have to look under GFC = General Radio Frequency Center. http://www.hfcc.org/data/schedbyfmo.php?seas=B14&fmor=GFC They have quite a roster, presumably all imaginary, only as contingencies for eventual reactivation, but with a new season, worth checking a few, including some English, even to western North America at 03-07 on 12010, 12070 from Pet/Kam. Also within and on a separate schedule are three Radio Russia SW broadcasts, perhaps with a better chance of existing? Please check: 08-16 on 13820, 1230-1500 on 7310, both from Moskva site; and 20-16, 7245 via Khabarovsk (Glenn Hauser, OK, Oct 26, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Still not on air. Just went through some of the supposed European beams: Nothing. The situation is such that, as it could be somewhat vaguely gathered from Russian press reports, there is the idea to drag rubles from the defence budget to get the AM broadcasting running again. Thus these registrations are not pure phantasy but real plannings by RTRS. But no agreement between RTRS and the federal ministries of finance and defence could be reached so far, and at the moment no success is in sight. So the ultimate fate of the transmission facilities is still in limbo (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Russia is back. Hearing familiar V of Russia announcer with news of Syria, Iraq on 7505 kHz – 1500 UT Oct 26. Russia registered this as via Tajikistan. [5 minutes later:] Not really back: Further to my message earlier on Sunday: I DEFINITELY heard the Voice of Russia newscast at 15 UT, Sunday 26 Oct 14, recognizable VOR announcer. 7505 kHz. BUT - I have heard nothing from Russia since. Posts in reply to my logging on WRTH Facebook area speculate it was a misfeed via Tashkent and that VOR has no plans to return to SW (Derek Lynch, Ireland, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. 28600-USB, Oct 26 at 0057, UA0IDZ with quick contest contacts in English from Zone 19. Unlike some others, his fonetix are clear, so no doubt about the call. I figure he is in the DVR, and so he is per QRZ.com lookup: UA0IDZ Asiatic Russia Igor Dubinin P.O.Box 88 Magadan 685000 Russia 10 & 15 meters have been packed with DX contesters all day, and even 10 is still wide open well after dark here. Looks like they lucked into some above normal HF conditions. It takes a contest to fill 10m above 28500 or so, now up to 28700. This will be my token log for the contest and I didn`t even bother to copy some of his contact calls. I quickly tire of the get-on-and-get-off rat-a-tat no-nonsense contacts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RWANDA [non]. Radio Inyabutatu: A-14 1600-1700 on 17500 ISS 100 kW / 144 deg to CEAf Kinyarwanda Sat B-14 will be 1600-1700 on 17605 ISS 100 kW / 144 deg to CEAf Kinyarwanda Sat (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DXLD) ** SAAR. Hi group, Can anybody share the working QSL address for Europe 1, LW station on 183 kHz? I googled the matter and found some reports on getting QSLs via Postfach 1365 in Saarlouis, Germany -- however they all were not too fresh, the latest one was dated autumn 2012. Thanks in advance! 73, (Dmitry Mezinm Kazan, RUSSIA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 183 kHz, Germany, Europe 1, Saarbruecken, 0435 yl in French to 0440 om chat. First long wave transatlantic in weeks, 21 October (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, 60 and 90 meter dipoles, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SARAWAK [non]. 9835.02, Sarawak FM via RTM, Oct 24 1302-1314, 43443, Malaysian, News and music, ID at 1311 (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) ** SARAWAK [non]. 11665 Wai FM/Limbang FM (via RTM-Kajang) 1250-1323+ 20 Oct. Qira'ut until 1257, W DJ with chat and Malay pop song, 1+1 at TOH into RTM net news, 1309 Wai DJ back and apparently welcoming the Limbang FM DJ to the studio, Limbang singing jingle, M DJ with "berita hari Limbang FM" ("Limbang FM news of the day") with circus organ / calliope background tune & EZL Malay pop. Nice signal this morning and pleased to hear the entire opening jingle (Dan Sheedy, Encinitas, CA G5/6m X wire, via Robert Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SARAWAK [non]. CLANDESTINE: 15430, R. Free Sarawak, Oct 21 1221- 1230*, 44444-45444 Iban, Talk, ID at 1228 and 1229, Closing music, 1230 sign off 15420, R. Free Sarawak, Oct 27 1150-1202, 35443, Iban, Telephone-talk- back, ID at 1150 and 1159 (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) ** SAUDI ARABIA. Faulty transmitter of BSKSA from Riyadh with awful modulation and shifted frequency plus 2.7-3.0 kHz was noted from October 25 as follows: 0400-0600 15285 RIY / 190 deg CSAf Swahili Radio Saudi International 0900-1200 17615 RIY / 100 deg SEAs Arabic Holy Quran Radio Riyadh 1200-1400 17625 RIY / 100 deg SEAs Arabic Holy Quran Radio Riyadh 1400-1600 17660 RIY / 270 deg WCAf French Radio Saudi International 1600-1800 15205 RIY / 320 deg WeEu Arabic Holy Quran Radio Riyadh 1800-2300 9555 RIY / 295 deg NEAf Arabic General Service, not 11820`` (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, Oct 27, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DXLD) 17628 approx., Oct 28 at 1320, extremely distorted blob, probably // unmarred 17615 with repetitive Arabic talk, i.e. BSKSA Qur`aning. How much longer before somebody at BSKSA notices there is a problem? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DX LISTENING DIGEST) YES, nominal 15205 kHz. Much distorted transmitting signal from BSKSA Riyadh on HQ program at 1720 UT on Oct 28 on 15208.2 kHz. Wobbling carrier frequency, not really exact measurement possible, but visible broadband distorted range of 15194.4 to 15221.7 kHz range. Powerhouse S=9+40dB or -31dBm tremendously. The other BSKSA Riyadh's 1st program in Arabic, with some phone-in calls on both 15225 and 15435 kHz are heard both audio-wise on correct signal level, at same 17-18 UT time slot (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) SAUDI ARABIA (still) and now at 1840 UT Oct 28 distorted unit on 9557.83 variable wobbling signal, broadband audio distorted on range of 9545.3 to 9573.4 kHz. Next door adjacent powerful IBRA radio as Woofferton signal on 9550 kHz covers really the distortion, in 1800-1930 UT time slot (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17628, Oct 29 at 1319, BSKSA still emitting the extremely distorted blob here from 17625 transmitter, while 17615 is OK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Currently (14:§0 [sic] UTC) listening to Riyadh on 17705 kHz, which has frequent announcements of "FM", something like "Maodschatil FM". Can anyone shed light into whether this is their new ID, or just advertising for another program / channel? Thanks and 73, (Günter Lorenz, Germany, Oct 27, dxldyg via DXLD) I think they mentioned the main frequency band "mouzat'il FM" (sp?) or "FM Wave". They usually ID "Idha'at ar-Riyadh" nowadays. 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, ibid.) ** SERBIA [and non]. Question - Answer --- Something has gone wrong with my Radio Serbia. The last card received in 2008. Then - silence. Somebody gets confirmation from them? Which addresses using? What tricks? (Andrey, Moscow, Russia / "open_dx", via RusDX Oct 26 via DXLD) These clowns do not respond to emails. Just the usual. But quickly. Standard set - card sticker (Andrey Kuznetsov, Russia / "open_dx", ibid.) How relevant and reliable information? I received QSL to electronic reports in 2011 and in late 2013 (the last envelope, unfortunately, lost in a tram, and I do not even know it - but sorry, because Bosnia unique QSL-country). (Dmitry Mezin, Kazan, Russia / "open_dx" via RusDX Oct 26 via DXLD) No matter how many reports and send them by regular mail and e, but the answer is not received from them. Last QSL from them was in the 90's and with the inscription Radio Yugoslavia (Paul, Belgorod, Russia / "open_dx", ibid.) By clown - and so everything is clear, I think. The strategy to choose between. Radio Serbia in response to reports of reception received by e-mail, no matter how much fit in with what they are asking them to write and send reports in its daily broadcasts. I tried to write them on both their addresses by e-mail, and even go out to them via email RTS (internal broadcasting) - all useless. But in ordinary letters they meet. And pretty soon, in a couple of days ago, the answer has come. Last year, they wrote, often does not make sense: they have only one card that they send out the first year. Otherwise as clowning this situation can not be named. Compare the topic with Radio Sweden Intl.! In August, one day pass was on FM, it was nice to hear them even Stockholm transmitter. The so- called R6, British transmission. Interests to send them to the email address of the report in English Service. Two minutes later the answer - thank you, it's interesting. But the report did not confirm so years ... tsat like. Now that's service! Here it is of interest to the audience! And do not even hurt that has not received QSL. But the Serbs something quite sour. PS: RTS heard via Twitter confirms well. But he did not try. You can, probably, at the IFA zapulnut report via Twitter with Mordoknigoy if laziness for brands to go to the post office? Perhaps, you're lucky. (Andrey Kuznetsov, Russia / "open_dx", ibid.) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5020.000, even frequency, SIBC Honiara, came across at 0905 UT Oct 26, S=9+10dB -66dBm signal in downunder remote SDR unit in Sydney AUS. Bank news and state deficiency (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5020, SIBC, Oct 27 0805-0815, 35343, Pidgin, News, ID at 0807 and 0812, URL announce at 0813 (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) ** SOMALIA [non]. U.K. (non) Winter B-14 of Radio ERGO via BABCOCK will be at new time and frequency: 1200-1300 on 17845 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Somali, ex 0830-0930 on 17680 in B13 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/10/correction-radio-ergo-from-oct26-will.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DXLD) Updating ``gone from SW`` as reported last week and quoted on WOR; just total change of time and frequency (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) Maybe Tentatively from Oct 26 as follows: 17845 kHz at 1200-1300 UT, 48E,48SW Al Dhabbaya-UAE with 250kW at 225degr. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) Video on Oct.28: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/10/new-time-and-frequency-of-radio-ergo.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, ibid.) ** SOUTH AFRICA. SABC CHAIR SETS HER LAWYERS ONTO THE SOUTH AFRICAN PARLIAMENT. Ellen Tshabalala’s lawyers have launched a bid to stop an inquiry that had resolved to have her suspended for lying about her qualifications. http://newsletters2.mg.co.za/servlet/link/6026/452013/6505046/2391548 Posted by: (via Bill Bingham, RSA, Oct 23, dxldyg via DXLD) SABC CHAIR OBTAINS COURT INTERDICT AGAINST SA PARLIAMENT: SABC chair Zandile Tshabalala on Thursday obtained an interim interdict in the Western Cape high court halting an inquiry into whether she lied about her academic qualifications. . . http://www.techcentral.co.za/sabc-chair-secures-interdict-against-probe/51950/ (via Bill Bingham, RSA, Oct 24, dxldyg via DXLD) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. Last transmission of Brother Stair via Media Broadcast on Oct. 25 1400-1600 on 13810 ISS 100 kW / 120 deg to N&ME English Sat/Sun, two videos http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/10/last-transmission-of-brother-stair-via.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #878 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Oct. 28, 2014 via DXLD) See also KURDISTAN [non] Brother Stair on 9402 kHz vs Denge Kurdistan on 9400 kHz: 1200-1600 9400 KCH 300 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Kurdish Denge Kurdistan 1400-1700 9402 SOF 050 kW / 306 deg to WeEu English TOM, instead on 9400.2 1600-2000 9400 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish Denge Kurdistan Very strong signal from Issoudun and completely covers TOM, 5 videos on Oct. 27 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/10/brother-stair-on-9402-khz-vs-denge.html (Ivo, Oct 27, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DXLD) So which is it, 9400.2 or 9402? (gh, DXLD) Brother Stair TOM on 9400.2 or 9402.0 USA (non) Schedule of Brother Stair TOM via Secretbrod 1400-1700 on 9400vSCB 050 kW / 030 deg to EaEu English 1700-1800 on 9400vSCB 050 kW / 030 deg to EaEu English 1800-2000 on 9400vSCB 050 kW / 030 deg to EaEu English 9400v=9400.2 or 9402.0 in different days, old Soviet transmitter. Videos: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/10/brother-stair-tom-on-94002-or-94020.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) ** SPAIN. There are continuing protest campaigns in Spain against the closure of REE on SW, per numerous posts on this blog, all in Castilian. See the archivos of http://aer.org.es (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: Hola, Estas son las últimas novedades de blogAER sobre REE: ------------------------------ va respuesta de la defensora de RTVE ante pregunta del cese de la OC de REE http://aer.org.es/archivos/1669 Cuando pensábamos que la defensora del espectador, oyente e internauta de RTVE no nos podría sorprender, otro oyente nos hace llegar la pregunta que le mandó mediante el formulario de la web de RTVE: El motivo que me impulsa a dirigirle esta misiva es que he tenido noticias de la inminente desaparición de las transmisiones […] ------------------------------ En Noblejas debería intervenir la Fiscalía http://aer.org.es/archivos/1671 El 23 de octubre de 2014, la sección sindical de UGT en RTVE hace pública una nueva hoja informativa pidiendo la intervención de la Fiscalía General del Estado ante el desmantelamiento del centro de transmisión que Radio Exterior de España tiene Noblejas, Toledo, que reproducimos aquí por su interés: DESDE UGT EN CRTVE VENIMOS ADVIRTIENDO DEL ESCÁNDALO QUE SUPONE […] ------------------------------ Hola, Estas son las últimas novedades de blogAER relativas a REE que nos dejan perplejos: ------------------------------ Comentarios de un indignado a la nueva respuesta de la defensora de RTVE http://aer.org.es/archivos/1676 Les ha escocido, pero responden con más tomaduras de pelo. A vuelapluma: Se achaca el dato a la BBC pero ellos lo niegan remarcando la dificultad de que alguien pueda hacer un estudio de audiencia mundial. En otros citas, el dato de los 80 millones se rebaja a los 10. Pero vea usted que la […] ------------------------------ RTVE finiquita la Onda Corta en España al cerrar el centro de Noblejas http://aer.org.es/archivos/1678 Vende como chatarra, a 1.000 euros, equipos de 400.000 euros que están en perfecto estado Estrella Digital, M. Arroyo 21/10/2014 | 21:43 h. Indignación y estupor. Esos son los dos sentimientos principales que tienen ahora, y no es la primera vez, los trabajadores de RTVE ante la última “ocurrencia” de sus directivos. Lo primero por […] ------------------------------ ¿Censura en CRTVE Galiza? [a propósito de REE] http://aer.org.es/archivos/1680 CNT en RTVE jueves, 23 de octubre de 2014 Esta semana hemos sufrido un episodio en CRTVE Galicia que queremos poner en conocimiento de todos/as vosotros/as. El cierre de la Onda Corta supone un varapalo al servicio público, que es el principal cometido de nuestra Empresa, y además deja abandonadas a muchas personas que tienen, […] ------------------------------ Un saludo cordial ------------------------------ (Pedro Sedano, Madrid, España, COORDINADOR GENERAL, AER, noticiasdx yg via DXLD) Estimados Amigos DX: El teatro toma forma: http://laguiatv.abc.es/noticias/20141023/abci-posesion-jose-antonio-sanchez-201410231221.html Cordiales 73! ALFREDO Cañote, Lima, Perú, condiglista yg via DXLD)viz: JOSÉ ANTONIO SÁNCHEZ TOMA POSESIÓN COMO PRESIDENTE DE RTVE El presidente del Congreso, Jesús Posada, recuerda los «importantes desafíos» que tendrá que afrontar Radio Exterior dice que en el apagón de la onda corta no habrá marcha atrás http://aer.org.es/archivos/1687 «Ha sido una decisión dura, pero sopesada y necesaria», alega su director LA VOZ DE GALICIA, E. Abuín redacción / la voz 23 de octubre de 2014 07:14 GMT Antes que dirigir todo el conglomerado de Radio Exterior de España (REE), Antonio Szigriszt fue responsable de Informativos, de Programas e, incluso, presentador de Españoles en ... Hola, Estas son las últimas novedades de blogAER en relación a REE, en este caso de los sindicatos mayoritarios: ------------------------------ Un clamor social http://aer.org.es/archivos/1693 El 24 de octubre de 2014, la sección sindical de UGT en RTVE hace pública otra hoja informativa afirmando que es un clamor popular el regreso de REE a la OC, que reproducimos aquí por su interés: SOLO ASÍ SE PUEDE DEFINIR LA AVALANCHA DE MANIFESTACIONES QUE NOS LLEGAN DESDE TODOS LOS RINCONES DEL MUNDO, ES LA VOZ . . . ------------------------------ No saben gestionar CRTVE, no respetan a la ciudadanía http://aer.org.es/archivos/1696 El 24 de octubre de 2014, la sección sindical de CCOO en RTVE hace pública una hoja informativa, con recortes de prensa y testimonios a favor de la vuelta de REE a la OC, cuyo texto reproducimos aquí por su interés: El final de la onda corta indigna a los españoles en el extranjero A petición . . . ------------------------------ El PSOE se interesa por la supresión de la OC de REE http://aer.org.es/archivos/1700 A la iniciativa parlamentaria del BNG sobre la supresión de la OC de REE, se ha sumado hoy el PSOE que ha cursado una solicitud de comparecencia en el Congreso del Presidente de RTVE ante la Comisión Mixta de control de RTVE y sus sociedades , así mismo ha formulado por escrito las siguientes preguntas: ¿Qué criterios […] ------------------------------ Recogidas +1.300 firmas a favor de la OC de REE http://aer.org.es/archivos/1707 A día de hoy, ya hay más de 1.300 firmas a favor del regreso de la onda corta en Radio Exterior de España. Recordemos que la AER se sumó a la campaña de recogida de firmas que había lanzado el Club S500 en el portal change.org titulada “Queremos que Radio Exterior de España (REE) vuelva […] ------------------------------ Rajoy cierra las emisiones de Radio Exterior y priva a España de un medio de proyección mediática internacional http://aer.org.es/archivos/1712 UNA VERDADERA EMBAJADA EN LAS Diario Progresista, VIERNES, 24 DE OCTUBRE DE 2014, JUAN PEDRO ESTEVE Los temores que había expresado el mes pasado el sindicato Unión Sindical Obrera (USO) se han hecho realidad. El gran campo de antenas de Noblejas (Toledo) que desde los años 70 emitía la señal de Radio Exterior de España . . . ------------------------------ Aluvión de protestas por el cierre de Radio Exterior de España en Noblejas http://aer.org.es/archivos/1714 NUEVO RECORTE A LA ``SOBERANÍA TECNOLÓGICA`` DE ESPAÑA Diario Progesista, SÁBADO, 25 DE OCTUBRE DE 2014 JUAN PEDRO ESTEVE Tras el cierre de las emisiones en Onda Corta de Radio Exterior de España, que ha dejado a miles de oyentes sin noticias de España en lugares donde no hay medios de comunicación alternativos (barcos en . . . ------------------------------ Radio Exterior de España cesó su emisión en onda corta http://aer.org.es/archivos/1716 DESDE EL PASADO 15 DE OCTUBRE SÓLO SE PUEDE ACCEDER VÍA SATÉLITE, INTERNET O TDT http://www.cronicasdelaemigracion.com/ Redacción, Madrid | 24 Octubre 2014 – 13:09 h. Tras 72 años en funcionamiento, el pasado 15 de octubre cesó la emisión de Radio Exterior en onda corta quedando sólo accesible a través de satélite, internet o televisión digital . . . ------------------------------ Constituida la plataforma en defensa de la onda corta en Radio Exterior de España http://aer.org.es/archivos/1704 Al mediodía de hoy, 28 de octubre, se ha constituido en Madrid la plataforma en defensa de onda corta de Radio Exterior de España La Plataforma ha sido constituida por las siguientes organizaciones: Confederación Española de Pesca (CEPESCA) Organización de Palangreros Guardeses (ORPAGU) Asociación Española de Radioescucha (AER) Federación de Asociaciones de Periodistas de España […] ------------------------------ La dirección miente, según UGT http://aer.org.es/archivos/1731 A nuestras manos ha llegado el siguiente texto redactado por la sección sindical de UGT en RTVE: La dirección miente al Comité de Huelga Al parecer ha sido detenido en la “Operación Púnica” la mano negra sobre la que recaen sospechas de controlar desde la Comunidad de Madrid RNE, la persona que venimos advirtiendo desde […] ------------------------------ Primeras actuaciones de la Plataforma http://aer.org.es/archivos/1734 Representantes de la Plataforma en Defensa de la Onda Corta en Radio Exterior de España, entre ellos el vicepresidente primero de la FAPE, Aurelio Martín, han sido recibidos, esta misma mañana, en el Congreso de los Diputados por los portavoces socialistas en la Comisión de Control de la Corporación de RTVE, Germán Rodríguez, y en la […] ------------------------------ Un saludo cordial (Pedro Sedano, Madrid, España, noticias dx yg via DXLD) SOSTEGNO DELLLA PIATTAFORMA IN DIFESA DELL’ONDA CORTA DELLA REE Desde la Plataforma en Defensa de la Onda Corta de Radio Exterior de España os pedimos vuestro apoyo. Para ello, simplemente necesitamos que contestéis a este correo (con copia a plataformaondacorta@gmail.com ) manifestando que apoyáis nuestro esfuerzo por conseguir que repongan la emisión en onda corta de REE y que compartáis con todos vuestros colaboradores, asociados, cooperantes y voluntarios el enlace para firmar en la plataforma change.org: http://www.change.org/p/a-los-ministros-de-educaci%C3%B3n-y-cultura-y-de-asuntos-exteriores-queremos-que-radio-exterior-de-espa%C3%B1a-ree-vuelva-a-emitir-en-onda-corta Con tu correo de apoyo podremos decir que os sumáis a nuestros esfuerzos, de manera que ganaremos más peso que nos permita presione más a RTVE para que restablezca un servicio público que era el único canal de información del que disponían cooperantes, marineros y españoles que desempeñan sus funciones en todo el mundo; así como a todos aquellos interesados por España, su gente y cultura. Como ya sabéis la emisión de REE en internet tan sólo es accesible en muy pocos casos, ya que nuestros trabajos nos llevan a lugares del mundo donde la tecnología todavía es muy precaria. La plataforma la componen inicialmente las siguientes organizaciones: FAPE, FeSP, AER, ORPAGU, CEPESCA y multitud de Coordinadoras Autonómicas de ONGD, Colegios de periodistas, colectivos de cofradías. Ayer, 28 de octubre, nos creamos la plataforma y ahora hemos solicitado audiencia con la vicepresidenta del Gobierno y con el presidente del Parlamento y el presidente de RTVE. Vuestro apoyo es indispensable para conseguir que nos escuchen. En las redes sociales de ORPAGU, FAPE y otros colaboradores podéis encontrar los múltiples enlaces de medios de comunicación que están dando cobertura a nuestra reclamación. Por su parte, la AER ha creado un miniblog sobre este asunto: http://ree.aer.org.es Muchísimas gracias amigos por vuestra colaboración, un saludo ------------------------------ Pedro Sedano, Madrid, España COORDINADOR GENERAL coordinador@aer-dx.es ------------------------------ ASOCIACIÓN ESPAÑOLA DE RADIOESCUCHA (AER) http://aer-dx.es/ http://aer.org.es/ general@aer-dx.es twitter @aer_dx ------------ --------- --------- La ASOCIACIÓN ESPAÑOLA DE RADIOESCUCHA (AER) es miembro de pleno derecho del Consejo Europeo de Diexismo, EDXC; está inscrita en el Registro Nacional de Asociaciones, Sección Primera, con el número 53.079 y su N.I.F. es G79558557. Dirección postal: Apartado 10014, 50080 ZARAGOZA, España (via Roberto Scaglione, Sicilia, Oct 29, shortwave yg via DXLD) Hola, Estas son las últimas novedades sobre REE en blogAER: ------------------------------ Primeras reacciones a la creación de la Plataforma http://aer.org.es/archivos/1736 Curiosamente, ha sido un medio conservador el primero en dar a conocer la noticia de la creación de la Plataforma en Defensa de la Onda Corta en Radio Exterior de España: Nace la Plataforma en defensa de la Onda Corta de Radio Exterior de España 28/10/2014 (16:54) http://www.radiointereconomia.com/2014/10/28/nace-la-plataforma-en-defensa-de-la-onda-corta-de-radio-exterior-de-espana/ Por su parte, sospechosamente un poco después, […] ------------------------------ Los medios recogen ampliamente la creación de la Plataforma http://aer.org.es/archivos/1743 A las primeras reacciones de los medios de comunicación que publicamos ayer, relativa a la creación de la Plataforma en defensa de la Onda Corta en Radio Exterior de España, se suman muchos más, entre los que destacamos los siguientes: EL MUNDO, miércoles 29 de octubre http://www.elmundo.es/television/2014/10/29/544ff27fe2704e586d8b4591.html EL DÍA.es, martes 28 de octubre http://www.eldia.es/agencias/7774758-Nace-Plataforma-defensa-Onda-Corta-Radio-Exterior-Espana AGENCIA […] ----------------------------- Un saludo cordial (Pedro Sedano, Madrid, España, COORDINADOR GENERAL, AER, via lista condig via DXLD) FINALMENTE RADIO EXTERIOR DE ESPAÑA CESÓ SU EMISIÓN EN ONDA CORTA by gruporadioescuchaargentino Tras 72 años en funcionamiento, el pasado 15 de octubre cesó la emisión de Radio Exterior en onda corta quedando sólo accesible a través de satélite, internet o televisión digital terrestre (TDT) en España. Durante todos estos años, esta emisora fue el nexo de conexión con su tierra de los emigrantes y de los marineros embarcados, dos colectivos que se quejan del cese de la emisión, ya que, según explican, no todo el mundo cuenta con los sistemas que se proponen. Ya en el último Pleno del Consejo General de la Ciudadanía Española en el Exterior (CGCEE), celebrado el pasado mes de septiembre en Madrid, se apuntaba al cese de esta emisión y la presidenta de la Comisión de Educación y Cultura, Miriam Herrero, aseguraba que “ocasionaría unos gravísimos perjuicios culturales y económicos”. Herrero explicó que Radio Exterior está dirigida fundamentalmente a los emigrantes pero no sólo a ellos, ya que “llega a más de 80 millones de personas en el mundo”. Desde el mar también llegan las quejas por el cese de esta emisión en onda corta, ya que, como recuerda CC OO, “las nuevas tecnologías como internet están aún lejos de tener una implantación importante y mayoritaria en nuestros barcos, ni la mayor parte los buques la tienen, tampoco la flota de bajura, la del Atlántico Sur, la del Gran Sol o los cientos de barcos gallegos que operan a diario en nuestros mares”. Según este sindicato, el ahorro de un millón de euros no justifica el cese de esta emisión. El responsable de CIG-Mar, Xavier Aboi, va más allá y considera “terrible” la decisión de cerrar por “una cantidad irrisoria este servicio público”, “mientras no duda en repartir miles de millones a la banca y en despilfarrar con sus amigos”. El BNG también se suma a la queja y ha presentado en el Parlamento Gallego una Proposición no de Ley para que el Gobierno gallego inste a reclamar a RTVE la restitución de la emisión de la onda corta de Radio Exterior de manera que “no se apague este vínculo” que ha unido a miles de gallegos en la diáspora a través de las ondas de Radio Exterior. Por su parte, el director de Radio Exterior, Antonio Sigris, explicó en el programa ‘Amigos de la Onda Corta’, de Radio Exterior, que la tecnología de la onda corta se ido quedando “obsoleta” y “va desapareciendo”. Esto, sumado a las dificultades económicas que obligaron hace un año a cerrar el centro emisor de Costa Rica y a bajar recientemente, la potencia del centro de Noblejas, en Toledo, hacen que “la calidad de la audición” en las diferentes partes del mundo, “sea deficiente”. Según Sigris, mantener esta emisión en onda corta “es un esfuerzo económico importantísimo que no se traduce en resultados y por lo tanto hay que adoptar la decisión que duele, que es eliminarla” (tomada de Crónicas de la Emigración) (GRA blog via DXLD) ** SPAIN [non]. Radio Mi Amigo on SW on Sundays via relay Kall This just came in from Radio Mi Amigo (Spain). They have a nice (printed) QSL card. 73 (Harald Kuhl, Germany, BDXC-UK by via DXLD) Gesendet: Montag, 27. Oktober 2014 um 18:32 Uhr Von: info@radiomiamigo.es Betreff: Shortwave News Dear Shortwave listener, thanks again once more for your reception report about our testtramsmissions on Shortwave in September. I hope, you all recceived our QSL-Cards, from Spain it is sometimes a little bit difficult to send them. Now I have some good news for you: From 2nd November we (Radio Mi Amigo) will be on shortwave every Sunday for 8 hours: 8-12 CET on 49m = 6005 khz [07-11 UT] 12-16 CET on 41m = 7310 khz [11-15 UT] Our programs are in English, Deutsch and Nederlands. Also you can win on every Sunday great prizes as DVDs, Mi Amigo pens, Mi Amigo lighters, Mi Amigo postcards and also a brand new tablet pc. So, don`t forget to tune in!! All Infos, programm lineup and many more you find at: http://www.radiomiamigo.es/shortwave Keep shortwave alive. Best regards from the Costa Blanca, Cpt. Kord Posted by: (Harald Kuhl, Oct 27, BDXC_UK yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DXLD) ** SRI LANKA. QSL: SLBC, 11750, E-QSL in 3 months for e-report to victor.goonetilleke@gmail.com (Artur Fernández Llorella, Catalonia, Spain, You can see some images in http://maresmedx.blogspot.com.es/ Hard-Core-DX via DXLD) ** SRI LANKA. 11905, Oct 25 at 0114 I have one ear on the PL-880 while bandscanning on the DX-398, but tonight no carrier cuts on during this minute with music; instead, cuts on just in time for the last mistimepip at 0115:19.5 and sign-on of SLBC. Also seems to be powering up during these initial seconds to a fairly good level. 11905, Oct 29 at 0114, open carrier fair with flutter; 0114:47.5 music starts; mistimesignal until 0115:19 and SLBC opening (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN. 1296, R. Sudan. At 1900 UT with time signals and ID by man a few seconds after COPE [SPAIN]. Then into news. First time Sudan was slightly stronger than COPE at my home location. Normally I must walk outside to catch Sudan against very strong COPE Valencia. Later at 2240 UT again Sudan was clearly audible with Arabic talk by man. At best SIO: 333. Oct 18, 19 and 25 (Zeljko Crncic, Germany, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 28 via DXLD) ** SUDAN [non]. A-14 vs B-14 changes of clandestine and other target broadcasts. Radio Miraya: A-14 0300-0600 on 11560 KCH 300 kW / 180 deg to CeAf English/Arabic B-14 will be 0300-0600 on 9940 KCH 300 kW / 180 deg to CeAf English/Arabic (Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DXLD) ** SWAZILAND. 6119.995, once again heard TWR Manzini Swaziland before 07 UT here on various remote SDR units in Amberg Germany, in U.K. near London, and on northern tip of Republic Ireland between 0620 and 0712 UT Oct 25 (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN. 16100, Sound of Hope, at 2357, on 20 Oct. The station has a male announcer talking with music in the background. A female speaker also came on and talked briefly. The listed language is Chinese. At 2358 a child and a male adult were talking on what sounded like a commercial. Fair (John Cooper, Lebanon, PA; Equipment: Winradio- G33DDC, CommRadio 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 x 2, NASWA Flashsheet Oct 26 via DXLD) Sounds to me a lot more like CNR1 programming jamming than SOH. I`ve heard CNR1 jammer numerous times on 16100 but never SOH. On what basis do you conclude it was SOH and not CNR1 jamming? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN [and non]. 7445, RTI, 10/28, 1130. M and W cohosts with listener's letters. Noted unusually good signal this morning. Closing English at ToH to Chinese and ID by M. The PRC waited until 1203 to crank up the CNR1 competition broadcast jammer, which still could not overcome RTI at my location. 73 and Good Listening! (Rick Barton, El Mirage, AZ, Grundig Satellit 750, short wire; also from car with Sat 750 and Wilson 1000 passive antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN [and non]. TAIWAN [FRANCE/UAE/UK/USA] Winter B-14 SW/MW schedule of Radio Taiwan International 0000-0030 11655 PAO 100 kW 205 deg to SoEaAS Vietnamese 0000-0100 1422 MIN 50 kW 278 deg to SoEaAS Thai 0000-0200 9660 KOU 100 kW 267 deg to EaAS Chinese 0100-0200 1422 MIN 50 kW 278 deg to EaAS Amoy Mo-Fr 0200-0300 1422 MIN 50 kW 278 deg to EaAS Chinese Mo-Fr 0200-0300 9730 ISS 500 kW 232 deg to SoAM Spanish 0300-0400 15320 TAI 250 kW 225 deg to SoEaAS English 0300-0400 1206 MIN 100 kW n-d deg to SoEaAS Indonesian 0300-0400 1422 MIN 50 kW 278 deg to SoEaAS Indonesian 0300-0400 7730 OKE 100 kW 222 deg to CeAM Spanish 0400-0430 15320 PAO 250 kW 225 deg to SoEaAS Cantonese excSat 0400-0430 15320 PAO 250 kW 225 deg to SoEaAS Hakka Sat only 0400-0500 1206 MIN 100 kW n-d deg to EaAS Chinese Mon-Sat 0400-0500 1422 MIN 50 kW 278 deg to EaAS Chinese 0400-0600 11640 KOU 100 kW 310 deg to EaAS Chinese 0430-0500 15320 PAO 250 kW 225 deg to SoEaAS Hakka 0400-0500 1206 MIN 100 kW n-d deg to EaAS Chinese 0400-0500 1422 MIN 50 kW 278 deg to EaAS Chinese 0500-0600 1206 MIN 100 kW n-d deg to EaAS Amoy 0500-0600 1422 MIN 50 kW 278 deg to SoEaAS Vietnamese 0600-1100 1422 MIN 50 kW 278 deg to EaAS Chinese 0800-0900 11605 TAI 250 kW 45 deg to JPN Japanese 0900-1000 15465 PAO 100 kW 230 deg to EaAS Cantonese Sat/Sun 0900-1000 15465 PAO 100 kW 230 deg to EaAS Chinese Mon-Fri 0900-1000 11915 TAI 250 kW 205 deg to SoEaAS Indonesian 0900-1000 15270 PAO 100 kW 225 deg to SoEaAS Vietnamese 0900-1400 1557 KOU 300 kW 315 deg to EaAS Chinese 1000-1030 9735 TAI 250 kW 208 deg to SoEaAS Cantonese 1000-1030 15270 PAO 100 kW 225 deg to SoEaAS Cantonese 1000-1100 1206 MIN 100 kW n-d deg to EaAS Amoy 1000-1100 15465 PAO 100 kW 230 deg to EaAS Amoy 1000-1100 6105 KOU 100 kW 310 deg to EaAS Chinese 1000-1100 11915 TAI 250 kW 205 deg to SoEaAS Indonesian 1000-1200 1503 FAN 600 kW 250 deg to SoEaAS Chinese 1000-1400 9660 KOU 100 kW 267 deg to EaAS Chinese 1000-1700 11640 KOU 100 kW 310 deg to EaAS Chinese 1000-1500 6180 TSH 300 kW 002/352 deg to EaAS Chinese 1000-1705 7385 TSH 300 kW 002/352 deg to EaAS Chinese 1030-1100 9735 TAI 250 kW 208 deg to SoEaAS Hakka 1030-1100 15270 PAO 100 kW 225 deg to SoEaAS Hakka 1100-1200 1206 MIN 100 kW n-d deg to EaAS Chinese 1100-1200 11915 TAI 250 kW 205 deg to EaAS Chinese 1100-1200 1359 FAN 600 kW 220 deg to SoEaAS English 1100-1200 7445 PAO 100 kW 225 deg to SoEaAS English 1100-1158 9735 TAI 250 kW 45 deg to JPN Japanese 1100-1200 11985 TSH 100 kW 2 deg to NoEaAS Russian 1100-1200 1422 MIN 50 kW 278 deg to SoEaAS Vietnamese 1100-1600 9680 PAO 100 kW 310 deg to EaAS Chinese 1100-1705 612 LUK 500 kW 313 deg to EaAS Chinese 1200-1230 6105 KOU 100 kW 267 deg to EaAS Cantonese 1200-1230 11915 TAI 250 kW 225 deg to EaAS Cantonese 1200-1300 1206 MIN 100 kW n-d deg to EaAS Amoy 1200-1300 1422 MIN 50 kW 278 deg to SoEaAS Indonesian 1200-1300 9735 TAI 250 kW 208 deg to SoEaAS Indonesian 1200-1300 1359 FAN 600 kW 220 deg to SoEaAS Vietnamese 1200-1300 11765 PAO 100 kW 205 deg to SoEaAS Vietnamese 1200-1500 7445 PAO 100 kW 225 deg to EaAS Chinese 1230-1300 6105 KOU 100 kW 267 deg to EaAS Hakka 1230-1300 11915 TAI 250 kW 205 deg to EaAS Hakka 1300-1400 11915 TAI 250 kW 205 deg to EaAS Amoy 1300-1400 1422 MIN 50 kW 278 deg to SoEaAS Chinese 1300-1400 1503 FAN 600 kW 250 deg to SoEaAS Chinese 1300-1400 15265 TAI 250 kW 325 deg to EaAS Chinese 1300-1400 9735 TAI 250 kW 45 deg to JPN Japanese 1300-1400 1206 MIN 100 kW n-d deg to EaAS Vietnamese 1300-1705 1098 KOU 300 kW 299 deg to EaAS Chinese 1400-1500 9735 TAI 250 kW 205 deg to SoEaAS Indonesian 1400-1500 15180 ISS 500 kW 60 deg to RUS Russian 1400-1500 1422 MIN 50 kW 278 deg to SoEaAS Thai 1400-1500 9625 TAI 250 kW 250 deg to SoEaAS Vietnamese 1400-1600 9660 KOU 100 kW 245 deg to SoEaAS Thai 1400-1700 6075 KOU 100 kW 310 deg to EaAS Chinese 1400-1700 6145 KOU 100 kW 310 deg to EaAS Chinese 1500-1530 11605 TAI 250 kW 205 deg to SoEaAS Cantonese 1500-1600 1422 MIN 50 kW 278 deg to EaAS Chinese 1500-1600 1503 FAN 600 kW 250 deg to SoEaAS Thai 1500-1600 7380 PAO 100 kW 225 deg to EaAS Cantonese Sat/Sun 1500-1600 7380 PAO 100 kW 225 deg to EaAS Chinese Mon-Fri 1500-1600 7445 PAO 100 kW 225 deg to SoEaAS Thai 1500-1700 1557 KOU 300 kW 315 deg to EaAS Chinese 1500-1705 7300 TSH 300 kW 325 deg to EaAS Chinese 1530-1600 11605 TAI 250 kW 205 deg to SoEaAS Hakka 1600-1700 6180 TSH 300 kW 325 deg to EaAS English 1600-1700 13810 ISS 500 kW 85 deg to SoEaAS English 1600-1705 1503 FAN 600 kW 250 deg to SoEaAS Chinese 1700-1759 9540 ISS 500 kW 55 deg to RUS Russian 1700-1800 11975 ISS 500 kW 160 deg to SoAF CeAF English 1800-1900 3965 ISS 250 kW 345 deg to U.K./IRL English 1900-2000 3955 WOF 250 kW 114 deg to EUR German 1900-2000 9895 DHA 250 kW 315 deg to EUR French 1900-2000 11875 ISS 500 kW 190 deg to NoAF WeAF French 2000-2100 3965 ISS 250 kW 215 deg to EUR Spanish 2100-2200 3965 ISS 250 kW 50 deg to EUR German 2200-2300 1503 FAN 600 kW 250 deg to SoEaAS Thai 2200-2300 11605 TAI 250 kW 45 deg to JPN Japanese 2200-2400 1422 MIN 50 kW 278 deg to EaAS Chinese 2200-2400 5010 KOU 100 kW 310 deg to EaAS Chinese 2200-2400 6105 KOU 100 kW 310 deg to EaAS Chinese 2200-2400 9450 TSH 300 kW 2 deg to EaAS Chinese 2200-2400 11635 TAI 300 kW 208 deg to EaAS Chinese 2200-2400 9625 TAI 250 kW 250 deg to SoEaAS Thai 2300-2400 1206 MIN 100 kW n-d deg to EaAS Chinese 2300-2400 9660 KOU 100 kW 267 deg to EaAS Chinese 2300-2400 9685 PAO 100 kW 267 deg to EaAS Chinese 2330-2400 11655 PAO 100 kW 205 deg to SoEaAS Vietnamese FAN = Fangliano ISS = Issoudun, France KOU = Kouhu LUK = Lukang MIN = Minhsiung OKE = Okeechobee, Florida, USA PAO = Pao Chung TAI = Tainan TSH = Tamshui Taipei UAE = Al Dhabbaya, UAE WOF = Woofferton, U.K. (RTI Taipei Taiwan, via ADDX club Andreas Volk-Munich-D, via wwdxc BC- DX TopNews Oct 21 via DXLD) AWR 15445 0100-0200 TAI 100 kW 250 deg to SoEaAS Vietnamese Sat only. JCI Nippon no kaze_il bon ue baram 9950 1300-1330 TAI 100 kW 2 deg to KRE/KOR Korean Furusato no kaze 9950 1330-1357 TAI 100 kW 2 deg to KRE/KOR/JPN Japanese (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 21, via DXLD) ** TAIWAN [non]. Song of India schedule: November 1, 2014 1300-1358 UT on 13720 to India [Sat, via SRI LANKA] November 2, 2014 0100-0200 UT on 7570 to North America [UT Sun WRMI] (Keith Perron, Oct 29, WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Will both these continue every week? (gh, DXLD) So reverted back to 13720 it seems, and also added a North America transmission on 7570 - presumably this is via WRMI, Okeechobee (although new WRMI schedule (Oct 26+) shows The Overcomer Ministry at this time on 7570). 73, (Alan Pennington, Oct 29, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) BS is preëmtable (gh, DXLD) ** TAJIKISTAN. 4765.05, Tajik R., Oct 26 1419-1439, 35343, Tajik, Talk and music, ID at 1437 (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) ** TAJIKISTAN. QSL: Voice of Tibet, 15576, QSL in 13 days. Report sent to: info@vot.org (Christian Ghibaudo, France, QSL REPORT OCTOBER 2014, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** THAILAND [and non]. 9390, Oct 24 at 1229, open carrier from R. Thailand, 1230 chimes, military band, anthem? ``Public Relations Department`` opening `Newshour`, W&M alternating with headlines, time check as 7:02 (I think, so this is half an hour delayed?), 1232 ad for major sponsor Bangkok Airways. Fair signal with heavy flutter. This is the final week for ACI-free reception of Thailand on 9390, as WRMI begins 9395 on Nov 1 for 24 hours a day across North America, while HSK9 plans to stay on 9390 in B-14 for numerous broadcasts including four in English, notably the one we hear best at 1230-1300 altho intended for SE Asia, Australia. The so-called North American service makes its usual move from mostly inaudible 15590 in A-season to 13745 in B-season, English at 0000-0100 & 0200-0230; let us hope, less inaudible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9390, R. Thailand, Oct 27 1203-1214*, 33433-45433 Malaysian, News, ID at 1213, Closing announce, 1214 sign off. 13740, R. Thailand, Oct 27 0009-0018, 35433, English, Music and news, ID at 0014 and 0015 (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) Actually on 13740? Scheduled on 13745. Thanks for all observations! 73 (Eike Bierwirth, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13744.970, Radio Thailand from Udorn Thani site towards western Canada & USA, 30 degrees via Arctic and Alaska area. Only S=4-5 sidelobe signal at 0051 UT in English language (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 29, dxldyg via DXLD) 12140, UNID station test tone of 960 Hertz heard here before 0120 UT, seemingly IBB Udorn Thani engineers test tx/antenna circuit, which UDO later start here in Pashto language to Afghan target at 0130 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 29, dxldyg via DXLD) QSL: Radio Thailand English service, 9390, QSL in 33 days. Report sent to: feedback@hsk9.org (Christian Ghibaudo, France, QSL REPORT OCTOBER 2014, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) QSLs: Radio Thailand, 9390, QSL in 3 weeks for e-report to manager_thailand@tha.ibb.gov VOA Radio Farda, 12005, via Udorn Thani, QSL in 2 months for e-report to manager_thailand@tha.ibb.gov (Artur Fernández Llorella, Catalonia, Spain, You can see some images in http://maresmedx.blogspot.com.es/ Hard-Core-DX via DXLD) ** THAILAND. 5830, BBC (Nakhon Sawan) 1520 14 Oct. Odd time? Aoki has BBC English sked 13-15 Tues/Sat. only and noted as jammed, but in the clear this morning (Dan Sheedy, Encinitas/Moonlight Beach, CA, G5/6m X wire, via Bob Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TROMELIN. November 2014 --- Most of the DXers consider entities as check boxes to tick once the country is worked and confirmed. That’s the game! However, we hope to bring you a lot more than just a simple check mark as you discover our next destination. Let’s talk about the 9th most wanted DXCC entity according to the Clublog statistics, an empty box for 75% of the amateur radio community. Tromelin, as well as Glorioso, Juan de Nova, Europa, belongs to the Eparses, a French word to name these small islands scattered around Madagascar. These French territories are administered by the TAAF. Their access is strictly controlled and regulated in particular for ecological reasons. Tromelin is the smallest one (1 square km) and the human impact is all the more sensitive. That’s the only island where there are no French military troops and only 3 agents of the TAAF are posted there continuously. The last operation took place in 2000. A 4 men team made 50,000 contacts with the callsign FR/F6KDF/T. No authorization has been given ever since. The FT4TA's stamp ! [caption] 2014 will be the 60th anniversary of the first hamradio activity from Tromelin. The operator was Marc FB8BK/T. We received our landing permission and got the green light to conduct an amateur radio operation on this remote island. We’ll be active on Tromelin from October 30th to November 10th, 2014. 7 operators have been allowed to stay of the island. They have been selected for their experience and are ready to face the challenge. The team is made up of Seb F5UFX, Michel FM5CD, Flo F5CWU, Vincent F4BKV, Franck F4AJQ, Fred F5ROP, Guillaume F4FET. The request is huge and we are conscious of this. For this reason, we are working hard in order to prepare our operation in depth. Some places in the world will have short openings and we’ll do our best to exploit these short moments with proper planning adjusted with the help of pilots. . . http://www.tromelin2014.com/en/ (via Juan Franco Crespo, Spain, DXLD) With support from the NCDXF, also available in French. Our standard remark: while they`re at it, why not set up one transmitter at least on a part time basis to qualify as a shortwave-broadcast outlet? Because they single-mindedly are hams only? Bandplan includes SSB: http://www.tromelin2014.com/en/bandplan/ 3790, 7082, 14185, 18130, 21285, 24955, 28485, 50105 ``We’ll always work SPLIT. Please do not call on our transmit frequency. SSB split will start most of the time 5 kHz up to our transmit frequency. CW/RTTY will start 1 kHz up to our transmit frequency. 160m operation with JA: we’ll listen down 2 for Japanese stations. “50 MHz operation will be based on best effort and while we will have a TEP capable station ready for 50 MHz, we will not dedicated an operator for this band. Only conventional CW and/or SSB will be used (no EME, JT65 etc …)”.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. October 21: Voice of Turkey, Interval Signal, after German tranmission 1224 to 1228 on 13760 Emerler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC3uL6yBSz8&feature=youtu.be Voice of Turkey in English to WeEu 1330 on wrong frequency 13760 Emerler,instead of 15450 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzFXEam9wIU&feature=youtu.be Voice of Turkey in English to WeEu 1333 on scheduled frequency 15450 Emerler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8QxxoPqves&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Wrong frequency of Voice of Turkey observed Sat, Oct. 25 from 0600 11750 EMR 500 kW / 097 deg WeAs Turkish, scheduled till 0855 from 0600 11980 EMR 500 kW / 150 deg WeAs Turkish, instead 11955,-1155 from 0600 13635 EMR 500 kW / 310 deg WeEu Turkish, scheduled till 1255 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/10/wrong-frequency-of-voice-of-turkey-on_25.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #878 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Oct. 28, 2014 via DXLD) 9700, Oct 26 at 0610, TRT Turkish music with fair signal, now back here for B-14 replacing 11980 in A-14, and an hour later, 05-07 at 310-degree beam USward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) B14 V of Turkey English schedule, from: http://www.hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=B14&broadc=TRT (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE. IOTA NEWS: IOTA AND CRIMEA ---> IOTA Management has decided that, given the unresolved political situation in Crimea, it has no course open to it except, for a period initially of one year, to freeze certain actions connected with Crimea that it would normally take in the routine management of the IOTA programme. This means that it will not accept or issue credit for EU-180 operations taking place after 17 March 2014 that use a non-Ukrainian callsign, or accede to any requests from programme participants for update of their records or changes of callsign and/or checkpoint that involve a change of DXCC entity. The Committee will review the situation after one year in the light of developments. IOTA Management regrets taking this action but it accords with practice adopted elsewhere. [TNX G3KMA] (25 October 2014 A.R.I. DX Bulletin No 1225, 4 2 5 D X N E W S Edited by I1JQJ & IK1ADH, Direttore Responsabile I2VGW, via Dave Raycroft, ODXA yg via DXLD) ** U A E. 6180.098, odd frequency by Babcock brokered IBRA Radio program in Somali, from Al Dhabbaya-UAE site, scheduled 1700-1730 UT towards Somalia, heard on sidelobe signal here in Germany, S=9+10dB or -61dBm on Oct 27 in 1725-1730 UT time slot (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. UK back on GMT --- The Independent 26 October 2014 The clocks turned back one hour today to mark the end of British Summer Time. The time was officially pushed back at 2 am, which gives all of us an extra 60 minutes to enjoy over the weekend before most people resume their working week on Monday. It could be the last time that the UK lags behind mainland Europe as MPs and academics are backing a switch to Central European Time, which is currently one hour ahead, to ensure lighter evenings throughout the year. Scotland could run an hour behind the rest of the UK if they oppose the proposal to tick in time with Europe and petitions have been launched to stop changing the clocks completely. From today, early-risers and commuters will be met with lighter mornings due to [LACK OF! --- gh] Daylight Saving [sic] Time and afternoons will also be drawn to a close earlier throughout the autumn and winter months ahead of Halloween on Friday. The clocks last changed on 30 March when the time was pushed forward one hour to create longer and lighter summer nights. [SIC: nights are NOT longer and lighter; they are exactly the same length as they would be, by not messing with the clox --- gh] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/clocks-go-back-remember-to-change-yours--for-possibly-the-last-time-ever-9817740.html Posted by: (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U K. 29061-USB, Oct 26 at 1340, G2F with CQ-contest contacts: Now the 10m band is so full that some of them are even finding clear spots up to 29100!! QRZ.com shows: WISBECH AMATEUR RADIO & ELECTRONICS CLUB. Balmore, Swallow Lane Tydd Gote, Wisbech. Cambs PE13 5PQ England Also claims ``Green Stamps or IRC's are not valid in the UK, please do not send.`` Green stamps is a euphemism for US dollar bills, not an S&H promotional device long since abandoned. Since when are they non- negotiable in the UK? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. BBC Local station start times --- I tend to sleep rather erratically these days, so very early this morning I decided to have a twiddle round AM medium wave to see what can be heard. More in hope that recent experience, I was hoping to repeat that first ever North American AM catch during the half-term of 1976! Well, no surprise really that I didn't catch Newfoundland at 0400 UTC/GMT, but I was very surprised to find a number of the BBC local stations were just starting their transmissions for the day, at least in the east of England! The station I heard was, I think, BBC Three Counties ( didn't check the frequency at the time) and the presenter was a guy called Wally Webb. But this was no automated overnight- the programme included travel updates for the region as well as music and banter. Checking the new Radio Times listings today confirms that Wally Webb does indeed start the new broadcast day Mondays to Fridays on the BBC's English stations in a region encompassing BBC Essex, Northampton, Suffolk, Norfolk, Three Counties and I think even Kent. Given the recent high profile- and controversial- cuts to live overnight programmes on even network Radio, i.e. Radio Two, I thought it very surprising indeed that a local or regional programme was allowed to start again just three hours after closedown for the night; even Radio Four doesn't begin its day until 0520! I'm only able to check the listings for my own regional edition of Radio Times (London/Anglia/Midlands), so does anybody know if there are other examples of 'early riser' regional or local programmes these days, i.e. before 05.00 or 05.30 clock time which seems to be when most of the overnight feeds of 5-Live end? Four o'clock a.m. seems a very strange time indeed to begin! (Mark Savage, Feltham, Oct 28, BDXCUK yg via DXLD) ** U K. BBC WORLD SERVICE LAUNCHES THE INQUIRY Written by: Suzanne den Daas Date: 28/10/2014 http://www.featuresexec.com/bulletin/news_article.php?id=25420#.VFA9bGS9Kc0 BBC World Service has launched The Inquiry today (28 October). The show, which is 25 minutes long, will be broadcast every Tuesday at 1305 and 2005 GMT. Each episode gathers expert witnesses to try to answer a question based on recent news. The show says it aims to "get beyond the headlines to explore the trends, forces and ideas shaping the world". The team can be found tweeting @BBCTheInquiry (Media Database via Rich Cuff, swprograms via DXLD) ** U K [non]. 9460, BBC (Tashkent), *1355-1429* OC, abrupt opening in Hindi with world news (Ebola in NYC, greenhouse gases), BBC singing jingle at 1408 -- bothered by single-frequency TADIL-A bonker-style noise at 1414 which morphed into RTTY-ish bleeps by 1427. // 7565 (Nakhon Sawan) which was un-bonker/RTTYed (Dan Sheedy, Encinitas / Moonlight Beach, CA, G5/6m X wire, via Bob Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9460, Oct 26 at 0609, BBCWS in English with fair-good signal here, now scheduled at 06-07, 65 degrees from ASCENSION (and also 04-05, 15 degrees from South Africa). 9915, Oct 26 at 0610, BBCWS in English, good signal better than 9460, yet about 1 second behind it. 9915 is at 06-08 also ASCENSION, 65 degrees, but per HFCC at half-power 125 kW! (The 102 degree beam from ASC at 05-06, which served US so well in A- 14, has now in B-14 shifted to 7445; turned on too late to check on its first day) 9870, Oct 26 at 0611, hilife music in French, fair signal. Now it`s BBC from 0600 via ASCENSION. Hausa from 0629 on 9870 switches to Woofferton; why? 7445, Oct 29 at 0112, poor signal with W&M dialog, uncertain language; HFCC B-14 shows BBCWS alternating half-hours in Pashto and Dari at 0100-0330, first hour via Woofferton, second hour via Oman, finally Armenia at 0300-0330 (plus Farsi via Pridnestrovye at 0330-0430). 7445, Oct 29 at 0522 check, BBCWS now in English via ASCENSION confirmed as expected in B-14 to provide a very good signal over here like ex-7355, despite aiming ESE toward Africa, during this hour only. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. QSL card in the mail today from WH2XDE-1, 1750 kHz, Victor, NY, for the first test period on 10/15/2014. V/S Jerry Whitney (Tom Jasinski, Joliet, IL, Oct 27, NRC-AM via DXLD) I also received a card for a 10/16 reception; states 1 kW power (Brett Saylor, State College, PA, Oct 27, IRCA via DXLD) 1740/USB, WH2XDE/1V, Victor NY (KG2BK); 0108-0122+, 19-Oct; 1750 antenna test ham, IDing with the 1V suffix, in QSO with WH2XDE/2 (strong from Penn Yan NY) on 1745.7/U and WH2XDE/4 (weak) on 1750.1/USB. /1V also strong. Tnx to tip from Tim Tromp (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) WH2XDE, 1750, has been airing WORLD OF RADIO the past couple of weeks around 0300 UT Thursday, tnx (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DXLD) ** U S A. 4045-USB, Caribbean weather, 1057+, weather for Central and Southern Bahamas and then for Leeward and Windward Islands, 23 Oct (XM, Cedar Key, South Florida, NRD 525D, R8A, E5, via Robert Wilkner, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Presumably the Caribbean Weather Center, Public Coast Station, WCY, Lakeland FL, for yachters; as explained in DXLD 7-069, but current logs from S Florida never seem to mention this identity. Informal call was Bel Ami, but still? 4045 also is a net contacting other stations (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** U S A. 13557, MTI, Stone Mountain GA, hifer beacon; 1915, 22-Oct 13562.8, GNK, Madison WI, hifer beacon (KC9GNK); 1918, 22-Oct (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 25990/FM, KLDE-FM Eldorado TX studio relay; 1703-1745+, 20- Oct; Oldies medleys--mostly Beatles with some disco thrown in; many TX ads/PSAs; 1713 "Texas State Network TSN" ag news; 1726 "Lone Star Farm & Ranch Report"; 1745 ID as "KLDE 104.9 El Dorado & 105.3 San Angelo". Good on peaks with QSB to zilch; nothing on reported // 25910 and not there at 1400. (Frodge-MI) 25990/FM, WQGY434 studio relay for KLDE-FM Eldorado TX; 1854-1900+, 22-Oct; Oldies into TSN News at 1855--mentioned story about Saginaw school children attacked by bees. At 1856:30 there was a voice insert over news "WQGY434". 1858 TX PSA and back to ToH ID as "KLDE 104.9 El Dorado-San Angelo" and back to oldies. Good with some scratch; not there at 1400 and nothing on reported // 25910. FCC database still shows it associated with WBAP, Arlington TX (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) Saginaw, Texas, or Michigan? (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. 5745, VoA Radiogram #81 with the usual mix: WakaWaka solar LED light; Controlling invasive species by eating them; Balloons send leaflets to North Korea and a very poorly sent image of the Drone that disrupted the Serbia-Albania football match. The 'surprise modes were PSK-125R sent first at 1500 Hz then 1000 Hz then 2000 Hz but the software didn't 'auto-magically' recognize the last one and I had to set it manually. Interestingly, the 'header' of the first photo was garbled but I managed to figure out how to insert my own header and get the photo to decode. Unfortunately it decoded out of 'phase' so I had to colour correct. First the image as decoded, then the corrected image: [attached to the original MARE Tipsheet] The second photo was much more fun -- a coyp -- an invasive specie -- smaller than a capybara but just as tasty looking! 5554+4+, text decoding near 99%, photos as shown. 0930-1000* 18/Oct (Ken Zichi, Williamston MI, MARE Tipsheet 24 Oct via DXLD) VOA Radiogram this weekend includes news about shortwave initiatives, and about undersea microbes that eat methane. Details: http://voaradiogram.net/post/100828797787/voa-radiogram-25-26-oct-2014-shortwave-in-the-news Most of the show is in MFSK32. Patch the audio from your radio to your PC, and use Fldigi from w1hkj.com to decode the text and images. You'll be amazed at what a 50-year-old shortwave broadcast transmitter can do. If shortwave reception conditions, such as this weekend's solar events, render voice content difficult to comprehend, digital text often gets through. VOA Radiogram transmission schedule (all days and times UT): Sat 0930-1000 5745 kHz Sat 1600-1630 17860 kHz Sun 0230-0300 5745 kHz Sun 1930-2000 15670 kHz All via the Edward R. Murrow transmitting station in North Carolina. (Kim Elliott, Oct 25, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) http://voaradiogram.net/post/100828797787/voa-radiogram-25-26-oct-2014-shortwave-in-the-news The main thing is: no use of 8PSK .......... http://www.rhci-online.de/VoA_Radiogram_2014-10-25.htm (roger, Germany, Oct 26, ibid.) ** U S A [non]. GERMANY, 9760, IBB Special Slow English service of VoA item, about mosquito and Yellow Fever in March-Aug 1901 year on Cuba island and Mississippi. Seven times are bitten by infected mosquitos; Medical center decease report about department US Health Service. Transmission via MBR Nauen-Berlin Germany center, S=8-9 or -74dBm signal observed on remote posts in NY and MA east coast North America. (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 28, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Time? circa 0530 judging from adjacent logs (gh) 9800, Oct 26 at 1348, VG signal in Korean, i.e. VOA via PHILIPPINES back here for B-14, 13-15, 21 degrees from Tinang also USward, ex- 15780, which was good in the summer, but not propagating much lately. 9800 is // and synch with 7235 at 12-14, but which switches to Tinian for another hour at 14-15. 9775, no signal, so it seems there will be no resumption of another Korean broadcast via RVA Philippines last year, R. Free Chosun. WRN B- 14 registrations for this, via BC-DX show all these possibilities: 7590 1300-1430 44NE TAC 100 71 Kor UZB WRN WRN 7555 1300-1500 44NE TAC 100 70 Kor UZB WRN WRN 15630 1300-1500 44NE DB 100 71 Kor TJK WRN WRN 11570 1430-1630 44NE DB 200 71 Kor TJK WRN WRN A-14 usage was 15630, but where is it now? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Is Greenville having electrical outages? The VOA transmission on 17895, listed from Greenville, between 1730 and 1830z, has dropped out twice during its first five minutes this afternoon (John Figliozzi, NY, Oct 27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non] Voice of America in English heard on unscheduled frequency of 9780 from 1900-1930 on Monday 27 October with "International Edition" - presumably via Vatican and instead of scheduled Afia Durfur Radio. Probably a switching or feed error (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5890, Oct 28 at 1324, good signal with emphatic dialog in Korean, about 4 seconds behind // 7235. It`s VOA back on 5890 for B-14, at 12- 15 via TINIAN, while 7235 is Tinang, PHILIPPINES at 12-14 before switching to Tinian for final hour --- but even then will still be deliberately unsynchronized (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) An announcement at the end of "International Edition" on VOA today said that beginning Monday, November 3, the show would move to 1205 UT instead of the current 1230. (The show currently repeats in the two subsequent hours.) (Mike Cooper, GA, Oct 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1744 monitoring: on WWRB 3185 webcast, UT Thursday Oct 23 at 0329.5, preacher stops, hum comes up and shortly WOR playback starts with a blast, but stops before the intro finishes. 0330.5 try to start again, OK until abrupt stop at 0333. Then Dave comes on and apologizes for another week without WOR - -- says he doesn`t know why this is happening. Computer people checked and said everything was OK. Hymn music, and then back to Tullahoma. Next: Friday 2130 on WRMI 7570, 15770 Saturday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB UT Sunday 0131 on KVOH 9975 Sunday 1000 on WRMI 5850 Sunday 2300 on WRMI 11580 UT Monday 0259v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Tuesday 1100 on WRMI 9955 Wednesday 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB [HLR presumed shifted winter time like in B-13 season] Wednesday 1315 on WRMI 9955 Wednesday 2100 on WBCQ 7490v [US times shift one hour later from Nov 2, except 5850, 7570, 15770] SW blackout from a major solar flare --- Checking for World of Radio at 2130 Oct 24 on WRMI 15770 and 7570 --- JBA carrier on 15770, and all other US-based SWBC signals are either inaudible or greatly attenuated. WWV reports: ``:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt :Issued: 2014 Oct 24 2100 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # # Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 24 October follow. Solar flux 218 and estimated planetary A-index 13. The estimated planetary K-index at 2100 UTC on 24 October was 2. Space weather for the past 24 hours has been minor. Radio blackouts reaching the R1 level occurred. Space weather for the next 24 hours is predicted to be moderate. Radio blackouts reaching the R2 level are expected.`` By 2157, 15770 has recovered enough to tell that latest WOR 1744 is on there. Meanwhile, unusually at 2217 UT, WWV reissues the 2100 Geophysical Alert Message with some changes to the last part: ``Space weather for the past 24 hours has been strong. Radio blackouts reaching the R3 level occurred. Space weather for the next 24 hours is predicted to be moderate. Solar radiation storms reaching the S1 level are expected. Radio blackouts reaching the R2 level are likely.`` And later the details of the event: ``Space Weather Message Code: SUMX01 Serial Number: 106 Issue Time: 2014 Oct 24 2236 UTC SUMMARY: X-ray Event exceeded X1 Begin Time: 2014 Oct 24 2107 UTC Maximum Time: 2014 Oct 24 2141 UTC End Time: 2014 Oct 24 2213 UTC X-ray Class: X3.1 Optical Class: 3b Location: S12W22 NOAA Scale: R3 - Strong NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/NOAAscales Potential Impacts: Area of impact consists of large portions of the sunlit side of Earth, strongest at the sub-solar point. Radio - Wide area blackout of HF (high frequency) radio communication for about an hour``. Further airings of WORLD OF RADIO 1744: Sat 0630 & 1430 on HLR 7265-CUSB UT Sun 0131 on KVOH 9975 Sun 1000 on WRMI 5850 Sun 2300 on WRMI 11580 UT Mon 0300v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; etc. WORLD OF RADIO 1744 monitoring: confirmed on KVOH, 9975, UT Sunday Oct 26 from 0131:04, after opening procedure: 0123 open carrier, very good strength, brief tone tests, 0125 music, 0130 sign-on. Now, will this and all other KVOH transmissions shift one UT hour later from next Sunday on standard time? If so, that would not affect WOR until UT Nov 9, so one more at 0131+. Next, this week: Sunday 2300 on WRMI 11580 UT Monday 0259v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5109v-CUSB Tuesday 1100 on WRMI 9955* Wednesday 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB (time shifted) Wednesday 1315 on WRMI 9955 Wednesday 2100 on WBCQ 7490v *The CCI from RFI in Chinese via Taiwan on 9955 at 11-13 for the last several months seems to be gone as of Oct 26, not heard at 1105 or at 1230. Not sure where they went, as not heard either on nearby clear frequencies I suggested, and Taiwan transmissions are banned from HFCC by the ChiCom. WORLD OF RADIO 1744 monitoring: confirmed at 0300 UT Monday Oct 27 on Area 51 webcast, and also before 0330 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB. Next: Tuesday 1100 on WRMI 9955 (the RFI RFI via Taiwan has moved to 9900) Wednesday 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB [new timings] Wednesday 1315 on WRMI 9955 Wednesday 2100 on WBCQ 7490v WORLD OF RADIO 1744 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday Oct 29 at 1341, fair on WRMI 9955: from next week it will be at 1415 UT. Also confirmed before 2130 on WBCQ webcast and hardly audible on 7490v: from next week to be at 2200 UT Weds with more propagation. Also confirmed fair before 0400 UT Thursday Oct 30 on WRMI 9955: from next week to be at 0430 UT Thursdays. WORLD OF RADIO 1745 monitoring Oct 30: confirmed first SW broadcast at 1248, starting at 1230 UT Thursday on WRMI 9955, good signal with no QRM: from next week this will be at 1330 Thursdays. Further airings this week: UT Friday 0325v on WWRB 3185 (we hope, after download problems lately) Friday 2130 on WRMI 7570 & 15770 Saturday 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB UT Sunday 0131 on KVOH 9975 Sunday 1000 on WRMI 5850 [no time shifts on this and the next] Sunday 2300 on WRMI 11580 UT Monday 0400v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB [one hour later now] Tuesday 1200 on WRMI 9955 Wednesday 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wednesday 1415 on WRMI 9955 Wednesday 2200 on WBCQ 7490v Furthermore, from UT Nov 7, Global 24 via WRMI will be carrying one of the earliest airings of WOR, UT Fridays at 0030 on 9395, preceded by their own mailbag, followed by a ham radio show. Plus a couple more airings of WOR to be finalized. Here a list of programs, quite a few others already on WRMI too: http://about.global24radio.com/programs/ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi, Glenn. Yes, KVOH will adjust its broadcast schedule in line with the North American return to Standard Time. Most of the listeners to our Spanish language programming are in Mexico and Cuba, both of which observe Daylight Saving. Cuba even adjusts their clocks on the same weekend as the U.S. So, with effect from UT Mon 11/3, our schedule will be: 1400-2000 UT Mon-Fri (Spanish, 17775 kHz), and 0230-0500 UT Sun & Mon (English, 9975 kHz). WOR will then be heard at 0231 Suns, instead of 0131 (Ray Robinson, KVOH, Oct 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9330+CUSB, UT Sat Oct 25 at 0044, `Allan Weiner Worldwide` on WBCQ, slightly on the hi side, as AW is mentioning that `Marion`s Attic` Sundays at 5-6 pm [EDT = 21-22 UT this week, 22-23 UT from November], is on 7490 AND 15420. We knew he agreed to add 15420v-CUSB one week, but now it is apparently regular (and indeed has been added as the only non-GSP program on this schedule http://schedule.wbcq.com/main.php?fn=sked&freq=15420 of 15420). He also alludes to ``another network coming on SW`` as a good thing, apparently referring to Global 24 which starts in exactly one week via WRMI 9395. Now there`s nothing audible on 15420, but weaker 7490 is // and synched, while 5110v-CUSB is // but 35 seconds behind the others. I suppose that signal has to be routed by internet thru the Radio Free Mount Airy studio in Maryland, then back to the Monticello transmitter. 9330v-CUSB, UT Sunday Oct 26 at 0031, ``Radio Clandestine`` (KLAN-des- tyne) introducing some Eric Clapton, very good // much weaker 7490v, and also synchronized on 5110v, i.e. really WBCQ playing back old pirate shows on Saturday`s `Pirate Pizza Night`; but this is not what the online schedule shows, as if on only one transmitter, and with nothing on 9330 at all on weekends: Sa 7490 06:00PM 09:00PM ET 2200 0100 UTC Pirate Pizza Night Sa 5110 07:00PM 09:00PM ET 2300 0100 UTC Radio Timtron Worldwide (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15419.974, WBCQ The Planet in English, religious revolution talk (Wolfgang Büschel, Log of 19 mb in 17-18 UT Oct 28, start at 1715 UT on lower end, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9330, 7490, 5110, Oct 29 at 0112-0118, all three WBCQ frequencies are off in prime-time, as on their weekday schedule. However, check them all plus 15420 for special Hallowe`en programming in honor of Wolfman Jack at uncertain times Oct 31-UT Nov 1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5850 & 7455, UT Sun Oct 26 at 0034, surprised to find no signals from WRMI`s TruNews subcontractor, clearing 7455 for the RTTY. All the other WRMI frequencies are on, so not a power failure. But 5850 & 7355 appear at 0100, in accordance with new B-14 schedule which is up promptly now at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nEVwCMB9RSKowLzLXamyayVpCzjmPAw_SB1r3YOdzQc/edit#gid=0 showing T.N. at reduced hours of 01-07 UT but on three frequencies, adding 5015 southwards (instead of BS but who is still on it afterwards). T.N. starts at 0100 as `Radio Paradise[?]` ``with your end-time newsman, Rick Wiles`` who imagines the date is ``Friday October 24`` instead of 25 or even 26. So much for his time-keeping. 15190.0, Oct 26 at 0045, undermodulated gospel rock music, must be Radio Africa Network on WRMI: yes, per B-14 schedule, 15190 is now on air from 2103 until 0300. Goodbye, Inconfidência. 9955, Oct 26 at 1105, WRMI VG signal with preacher, and can`t detect any CCI from RFI in Chinese via TAIWAN which suddenly appeared here last summer at 11-13. Next check at 1230 Sunday when WRMI is still good but a bit weaker, still no QRM, as Jeff & Thaïs White are starting `Viva Okeechobee`, discussing their visit to Noruega in late August, on their way to HFCC in Bulgaria, via a new direct 9-hour flight from Fort Lauderdale to Oslo, where they were staying in a ski- area hotel, and re-met SWL/DXer Rolf Løvstrøm (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dear Glenn, My name is Phil Workman. I am the GM of Global 24 Radio http://www.global24radio.com We are a commercial venture commencing operations on SW (via WRMI) on November 1. I am familiar with your program and everything you have done for the SWL hobby. We also have an interest in airing your program as part of our "Radio Night" broadcast on Tuesday evenings eastern time. We will have our own mailbag program, a show about ham radio and hopefully, your program running on our "Radio Night". Regards, (Phil Workman to gh, via DXLD) I replied positively, but Thursday night would be better for a fresh WOR which would be one of its earliest airins (gh, DXLD) We have some relays of international broadcasters, some original news reporting, several music programs, several "talking head" opinion shows and much more. We will not have any religious programming on the schedule. Our hope is to build a dedicated audience of listeners and bring more and more people into the fold each month. I will be back in touch early next week with our proposed time(s)for WOR. Thank you, very much. Your feedback and opinions on building a commercial shortwave venture will be most appreciated. Regards, (Phil Workman, Oct 24 to gh via WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DXLD) So WOR is to air UT Fridays at 0030 on 9395, among other times (gh) ** U S A. 5810, Oct 26 at 0105, WEWN is AWOL, tho scheduled from 0000, but still very much present on 11520 English and 11870 Spanish. 15610, Oct 29 at 1316, open carrier/dead air from WEWN English; finally at 1325 carrier cuts off and on and off and on, then adding modulation in progress before 1326. They woke up in Vandiver or Irondale (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7555, Oct 26 at 0105, KJES is off and still off by 0130. Not until Nov 3 should this nominally undaylight shift to an 0200-0330 schedule, when they get around to it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7505.2 approx., Oct 25 at 0054, WRNO is already on with gospel huxter, big hum, and parasitic noise spurs spreading out each side as far as 7493 and 7515. WBCQ on 7490 barely escapes the mess, and the hi side is stopped short of 7517 only by the equally bigsig from 7520 WWCR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7505.305, Never heard such a distorted buzzy signal from WRNO before, bad audio signal at 0146 UT on Oct 29. S=8 or -82dBm transmission level. BUZZ was like bad Riyadh's buzzy unit outlet example! Wideband 7499.8 to 7510.8 kHz range signal (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 29, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A. 5085, Oct 26 at 0615, no BS on WTWW-2, but instead Ted Randall`s country music show (which was on as usual earlier UT Sunday around 0100, but should have gone back to BS long before 0615). What happened? Did Brother Scare pull out of WTWW, or did Ted`s automation run away/awry? Next check 1255, *still* C&W music, no BS. Next next check at 1512 on 9930 --- dead air! Burning 100 kW for nothing, SNAFU for how many hours this time? Not even an ID autofiring at 1600, still dead past 1638, when I check 9475 and first think WTWW-1 is totally off the air; but no, it`s on at very much weaker level than the carrier on 9930, must be greatly reduced power. Continued from last report, SNAFUs at WTWW: 9930, Oct 26 at 1719, still dead air on WTWW-2; and 12105, WTWW-3 is now also on the air (nominal *1700) and it too is DA! Next chex 1849 and 1930, both are still dead air. By 2000, 12105 is back with canned ID and into Portuguese Bibling, but 9930 is still DA. Next check at 2118, 9930 has finally resumed Brother Scaring. 9930, Oct 29 at 0101, WTWW-2 is still on day frequency with BS, not on 5085 yet, unlike in A-14. HFCC B-14 indeed shows the change times for this are 1400 & 0200. Not that it makes any propagational sense to run a day frequency *later* in the winter, but for now it`s holding up. The same UT span was also registered in A-14 but day-night switch from 9930 to 5085 was really being made at 0000. There could be a further shift Nov 2 after DST is off. 9475 and 12105 are also still on as usual after 0100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 12104.979, WTWW, Bible reading program in Russian language towards European Russia target?? Registration towards North American continent on ciraf zones 4,9,18 at 1400-0600 UT TWW 100 kW 40deg. S=8- 9 here in southern Germany at 0020 UT Oct 29. 9474.972 WTWW - Fair S=8 signal here in Germany at 0137 UT on Oct 29, WTWW in English (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 29, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. October 20: WWCR 1 English to WeEu 1203 on 15795 Nashville, plus DRM noise of AIR, instead of 15825 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUYbtiy4K4w&feature=youtu.be WWCR 1 English to WeEu 1230 on 15795 Nashville, plus DRM noise of AIR, instead of 15825 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frhjlvD7pCA&feature=youtu.be WWCR 1 English to WeEu 1300 on 15795 Nashville, plus DRM noise of AIR, instead of 15825 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txzgKSTdKI0&feature=youtu.be WWCR 1 English to WeEu 1333 on 15795 Nashville, instead of 15825 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8tXylRm_GY&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9830, WHRI Furman SC, powerhouse S=9+35dB or -38dBm, religious singer performance at 0553 UT on Oct 28. 10.3 Kilohertz wide signal 9824.8 to 9835.2 kHz range, nice audio quality (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Re: ``740 KTRH TX Houston – 10/18 2145 [EDT] – With KRMG nulled, again trying to ID the Spanish off-frequency by about 50 Hz making a rumbling het. 0148 [UT] woman mentions Tamaulipas but there are no stations there, again suspecting XEQN Coahuila. As I keep KRMG nulled, from 2152 [EDT] onward, KTRH Houston abruptly takes over the frequency, in fact stronger than KRMG, though KTRH is supposed to send very little signal this way. Something just happened to their DA pattern?? (GH-OK)`` [incomplete time conversions by editor to nonsensical EDT --- gh] 10/20, 0743 [EDT = 1143 UT] – Fair in nice CFZM null. Bryan Air/Church Services 722-5000, Howell Law Firm 281-298-29XX, R. Limbaugh at 11, etc. Not heard in quite a while! (John J. Rieger, So. Milwaukee, WI. Icom IC-R75 MFJ-959B tuner, preamp Kiwa loop, NRC DX News Nov 3 via DXLD) 10/20, 2025 [EDT = 0025 UT 10/21] – Excellent and in the clear with CL, then mention of programs for drug and alcohol abuse and company which can prevent your computer from getting a virus (J. E. Lewis, Kansas City MO, Honda Odyssey car radio, NRC DX News Nov 3 via DXLD) ** U S A. 750, Oct 23 at 1305 UT, ad for Branson Connexion, roughly east-west, 1306 Fox show or promo. Probably KBNN Lebanon MO, 5 kW daytimer, close enough for Branson to be a destination (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Hi, Christian station KKIM out of Albuquerque is nominally 38 watts ND at night (and 10 kW ND day), but I'm getting a strong signal 340 miles away at 10:30pm MST (0530 UT). Might be the auroral conditions or some other reason (Brian Rachford - Prescott, AZ, http://azswdixing.wordpress.com/ UT Oct 23, IRCA via DXLD) It sounds like they forgot to power down. I can clearly hear KKIM along with a Spanish station on the south loop. It's a real pest for KOMO tonight. Thanks (Derek Vincent, Northern California, 0714 UT Oct 23, ibid.) They are a habitual cheater. Sincerely, (Todd Skaine, Woodbury, MN, ibid.) Yes, even here 35 miles from Chicago's Loop, they can come thru WMVP sometimes and that is without phase nulling. 73 KAZ (Neil Kazaross, IL, ibid.) Their "38" watts got out really well last night. Quite loud here in Northern Minnesota with a SS over/under. WMVP was nowhere to be found for a change (John Sampson, Oct 23, ibid.) ** U S A. Applications to extend existing STAs were received from KXEN-1010 St. Louis MO (temporary antenna at night site); KCKN-1020 Roswell NM (U4 1000/1000 with auxiliary transmitter) [instead of 50 kW!!] (AM Switch, NRC DX News Nov 3 via DXLD) ** U S A. 1060, Oct 23 at 0535 UT, ``daytimer`` KIJN Farwell TX is dead air but plenty open carrier to maintain its off-frequency fast SAH with anything else, like WLNO or XEEP (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1080, WOAP Owosso MI on two nights illegally; 3 am [EDT = 0700 UT] 10/17 with meximusic, 8:26 pm 10/17 [0026 UT 10/18] and later with open carrier. Last time they went 4 nights before fixing themselves (Larry Russell, Flushing MI, MARE Tipsheet 24 Oct via DXLD) ** U S A. 1260, Oct 23 at 0530 UT, KSGF with local calendar of events, briefly atop the jumble, i.e. 5/5 kW U2 from Springfield MO. Night pattern is supposedly circle tangent south major lobe, and small ellipse opposite north minor lobe, i.e. null toward us. I at first took it as KSPF which would make more sense, but that`s a call for no US AM station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1370, Oct 23 at 2258 UT, something looping NW/SE with CCI, 1-800-MYSOLAR ad, just can`t make out any 2259 UT ID before CBS bong and news sounder at 2300 UT. I`m here seeking any trace of KGNO Dodge City KS on SSS, since I can`t hear it on daytime groundwave and suspect it`s off the air. But NRC AM Log doesn`t have CBS on it; the most likely affil in neighboring states would be KJCE Rollingwood TX (Austin market). I`ve been monitoring since 2230 UT during the partial solar eclipse, in case there`s anything of interest. Skywave is in at top end of band, but not really unusual. Clouds cleared for less than a minute, not long enough to set up a projexion for a glimpse of the Moonbite (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1390, WSPO, Charleston, SC DX Test UPDATE Time/Date: 0500-0600 UTC, November 10, 2014 EST: Midnight - 1 AM, November 10, 2014 CST: 11 PM - Midnight, November 9, 2014 MST: 10 - 11 PM, November 9, 2014 PST: 9 - 10 PM, November 9, 2014 Mode of Operation: 5 kW, daytime NDA non-directional pattern. The test will consist of distinctive audio clips, morse code and sweep tones. QSL Information: The station has requested that the IRCA/NRC DX Test team handle reception reports for this DX Test. All reception reports must include verifiable details. Snail mail reports with return postage for a paper QSL should be mailed to: IRCA/NRC DX Test Committee, WSPO DX Test, c/o Brandon Jordan, PO Box 338, Rossville, TN 38066. Email reports for an eQSL, recordings and comments can be submitted to amdxtests[at]gmail[dot]com. Credits: Many thanks to JD Stephens of Hampton Cove, AL for arranging this test and WSPO Engineer Bruce Roberts, KI4YST, for making this test possible! 73, (Brandon Jordan, IRCA/NRC DX Test Committee, Oct 21, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1640, Oct 24 at 0542 I find that local KZLS (site really east of Hennessey OK with 1 kW, but direxional SSE/NNW toward OKC/Enid) is totally nullable except for a fast SAH, audiblizing ESPN Radio, obviously the only one on 1640 and at somewhat CCW angle from KZLS, WTNI Biloxi MS. I wonder if they are also on 10 kW day power giving them an additional edge (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1680, UT Sat Oct 25 at 0108 UT, silly ballgame instead of country music, Panthers football, a Friday-night aberration from KRJO Monroe LA; also some CCI talk underneath as seldom the case audible during music. Normal good signal level, probably really 1 kW. Some months ago when it first reactivated in August? I suspected it was underpowered, but that recovered quite a while ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1690, Oct 25 at 0109 UT, KDDZ Arvada (Denver market) CO must still be going as Disneyc music is heard, stronger than further WVON Berwyn (Chicago market) IL with ID and talk; and the two are mutually nullable on the rotatable DX-398 with no trace of the other. Eyeballing a US map, they look to be 100-105 degrees apart from the angle of Enid (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Tip: 1720 kHz pirate "Undercover Radio" Just signed on the air at 0130 UT, decent signal here. I would expect 1710/1720 kHz to become more active as Halloween approaches. Might be worth watching if you've never heard a MW pirate before. 73, (Tim Tromp, West Michigan, UT Oct 25, ABDX via DXLD) More logs under NORTH AMERICA ** U S A. As announced Oct 22 and again Oct 29, UT Wednesdays from 0400 (soon 0500) on `Map Is Not Territory` webcast from KSFR Santa Fe NM 101.1, that show and all(?) others on the station are now archived and availablized on demand for two weeks via http://www.radiofreeamerica.com ---- along with KUNM Albuquerque, which already has its own 2-week archive. Other stations are to be added to that site, at least if they speak ``Lorem ipsum`` Latin. But you have to register and log in, etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Radio Insight: As part of the restructuring that saw Westwood One drop ABC News for a new CNN powered news service, Westwood One has notified affiliates it will also drop distribution of NBC News to affiliates on December 15. Affiliates will have the option to switch to the new CNN fueled Westwood One News following the ceasing of NBC News Radio operations. In an ironic twist, the current incarnation of NBC News Radio was established by Westwood One (then Dial-Global) as a replacement service following CNN’s closure of its radio network (AM Switch, NRC DX News Nov 3 via DXLD) ** VATICAN CITY. QSL: Radio Veritas Asia, 15320, via Santa Maria Galeria. QSL (with mention of transmitter), sticker, calendar, sked in 4 weeks for e-report to filipino@rveritas-asia.org v/s Arlene Arungayan-Donarber, Audience Relations Officer (Artur Fernández Llorella, Catalonia, Spain, You can see some images in http://maresmedx.blogspot.com.es/ Hard-Core-DX via DXLD) [non]. 9610, Oct 26 at 1246 speech, or rather low-key sermon, in Spanish, something new here, good signal. HFCC reveals it`s a new time for Vatican Radio relay via Greenville-B, 1230-1300, 250 kW, 184 degrees, replacing 1130-1200 on 7305. (There was no such shift last B- season). And continues at 0200-0245 on 7305, both violating Separation of Church & State (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM. 7906-USB, Oct 25 at 1306, YL in English, very weak but enough to copy ``longitude``, no doubt a notice to mariners of the coordinates of some obstruxion in Viet waters, i.e. Ho Chi Minh Radio. But there is CCI from some other talk, maybe a sibling station misfiring? The frequency is time-shared by many others (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM [non]. 6175, Oct 26 at 0102, VOV in English, now on B-14 frequency ex-12005 via Woofferton UK. While 6175 will be less subject to propagation variations thru winter nites, it`s only fair now. Why in the world don`t they use WHRI for all their relays to North America? In B-14, English on 6175 at 0330 is WHRI, but 0100 & 0230 are still and again WOF (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Zone 8 propagation towards US triangle MA - FL - IL / Eastern CAN. 6175 0100-0128 8 WOF 250 282 611 Eng G VOV BAB 6175 0130-0228 8 WOF 250 282 611 Vie G VOV BAB 6175 0230-0300 8 WOF 250 282 611 Eng G VOV BAB Zones 10/11 propagation towards area from Mexico to Panama, Latin America, Caribbean; North Colombia, North Venezuela. 840 km signal distance hop from Furman SC to Key West 6175 0300-0328 11NW HRI 250 173 146 Spa USA VOV BAB 6175 0300-0330 11NW HRI 250 173 146 Spa USA VOV FCC 6175 0330-0400 11NW HRI 250 173 146 Eng USA VOV FCC 6175 0330-0400 11 HRI 250 173 146 Eng USA VOV BAB 6175 0400-0428 11NW HRI 250 173 146 Spa USA VOV BAB 6175 0400-0430 11NW HRI 250 173 146 Spa USA VOV FCC 6175 0430-0500 10NW HRI 250 260 146 Vie USA VOV BAB 6175 0430-0530 10 HRI 250 260 146 Vie USA VOV FCC 6175 0500-0528 10NW HRI 250 260 146 Vie USA VOV BAB No nominal VOV target are NoAM zones 1-3 and 6-7 TX, CA, MidWest. (Wolfgang Büschel, BCDX 29 Oct via DXLD) 9840, Oct 27 at 1256, open carrier with heavy flutter, 1300 music and announcement. Must be VOV caught in a pause between Indonesian and English, not WHRI which is also registered to start 9840 at 1300, but apparently not really used on Mondays. No het, but if I had measured and found the frequency to be off, that would have clinched it as VN1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 1550, Radio Nacional de la R.A.S.D, ALGERIA, Rabouni, 2155-2010 [sic], Oct 20-24, px local, better USB, 22222 (Mauro Giroletti, IK2GFT-SWL1510, JRC 525 NRD-LOWE HF 150-Elad FDM S2, Antenna LOOP ALA100M-FLAG Antenna West direction, Filter PAR Electronics BCST-LPF, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) ** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. ALGERIA, 1550, Radio Nacional República Árabe Saharaui, 1840-1850, 24-10, Arabic songs and comments. Interference from Capital One, England, on 1548. 22322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante and Lugo, Tecsun PL-880, antenna: Degen 31MS antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** YEMEN. 6135, Radio Sana'a, *1800-1900*, 23-10, English, comments, news about Yemen and Abu Dabi, more comments, songs. 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante and Lugo, Tecsun PL-880, antenna: Degen 31MS antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** YEMEN. October 23: Radio Sana'a in English to ME 1800 on 6135 Al Hiswah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9VX-nb09Gc&feature=youtu.be Radio Sana'a in English to ME 1858 on 6135 Al Hiswah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vQ3IaIxfT8&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, Blgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZANZIBAR. Good signals from Zanzibar Broadcasting Corporation, Tanzania, on 11735 in Swahili and some great African music at 1640 UT, SIO 544 73's (John Hoad, Faversham Kent UK, Hoad, JRC NRD-515 / 10m random wire, Sent from my iPad, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZIMBABWE [non]. Radio Dialogue Zimbabwe via Madagascar on new for B14 - 12115 kHz SIO 554, 73's (John Hoad, Faversham Kent UK, Hoad, JRC NRD-515 / 10m random wire, Sent from my iPad, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Dialogue FM: A-14 1600-1700 on 12105 MDC 250 kW / 265 deg to ZWE English/Shona/Ndebele B-14 will be 1600-1700 on 12115 MDC 250 kW / 265 deg to ZWE English/Shona/Ndebele (Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADOI 1745, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific carrier search Oct 28 at 1250-1252: JBA carriers on 774, 702, 612, the last two looping westward rather than northwestward, probably 2BL in Sydney and 4QR in Brisbane, both ABC Local Radio network outlets with 50 kW. Our sunrise today 1251 UT, latening by one minute each day (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The transoceanic DX drought continues here on the southern Great Plains. No sign of a signal from Asia in over a fortnight. However, this morning (10-25) there was a trace of signal from about 250 degrees on 774 kHz at 1243 GMT (LSR at 1247). Possibly it was from 3LO, Melbourne NSW. Richard, Congratulations on your reception of a signal on 774 from a possible 3LO in Melbourne this morning, and also on your new logging of 740-XECAQ. 774-3LO runs the Australian LR network, which is also carried by 702-2BL and 828-3GI. It is the only logical DU that would show up with a signal on 774 kHz in Oklahoma, however, so if you had it anywhere around 250 degrees bearing there is little doubt about its identity. Good luck in tracking it down again, and in finding some more Australians. 73, (Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA), ibid.) More of Richard Allen`s TP DX logs under PROPAGATION UNIDENTIFIED. 1610-1620+, Oct 23 at 0524 UT, same thing is happening again, noise blob gradually moving upward from 1610 across 1615, by 0525 across 1620 stations. What is this? 1600-1602+, Oct 24 at 1401-1403+ UT, noise blob moving slowly upward across 1600 station, as previously heard in the 1610-1620+ range in the night; so maybe it`s something nearby (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 4863.4, UnID, 2345 to 2350 at the same time 4865 Brasil in Portuguese under hammering ute 20 Oct (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, 60 and 90 meter dipoles, DX LISTENING DIGEST) You mean, a broadcaster? (gh) UNIDENTIFIED. 4958.0, Oct 20, 2226 UNID. A very mysterious signal here with faint music. At next check of my recordings at 2256 the signal was gone. Only noted this day (Thomas Nilsson, Ängelholm, Sweden, SW Bulletin Oct 26 via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 6110, powerhouse DRM mode transmission heard here in 02- 03 UT Oct 29, S=9+20dB in southern Germany. Could be German army Bundeswehr radio and TV station service "Radio Andernach" encoded in special DRM derivative via MBR Nauen site? Who knows? (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 29, dxldyg via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 13564-CW, Oct 23 at 1334, HIFER beacon GNK, Madison WI, with continuous CW IDs, JBA at first but fading up nicely. QRM from the ISM hash around 13560, and also a beeper at the rate of exactly 3 per second from 13560.0; what`s that? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 13560, Oct 24 at 0536, I`m checking the Part 15 frequency for ISM hash like I hear all day, and now I am not, but it`s still inconclusive whether it`s from nearby medical equipment but turned off now, or if from far away, but not propagating in the nightmiddle. I am however hearing CW beeps on 13560.0 which at first seem at the rate of one per second, but counting them over a minute, there are 63 per, not good for timekeeping. Now, are these local or propagating? No HIFER beacons audible in the area at the moment (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1745: Thanks for World of Radio support from Carrie Hooper, Elmira NY, check to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 To be acknowledged futurely: Thanks for financial support from Tim Hendel, Huntsville AL, check to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessairly in US funds, to woradio at yahoo.com PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ USGS FREE TOPO MAPS For your next DX-pedition, the following may be useful (from the 'Broadcast' reflector): USGS is in the process of converting all of the 7.5 minute quads to GeoPDF, available for free download from the US Topo website: http://nationalmap.gov/ustopo/ The National Map Viewer is a very convenient tool to determine coordinates and spot elevations: http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ Cheers! (Mark Durenberger, Oct 23, NRC-AM via DXLD) HISTORIA DE LOS CLUBES DX EN LATINOAMÉRICA. EL MOVIMIENTO DXISTA DE LOS 70S. HISTORY OF THE LATIN AMERICAN DX CLUBS IN THE SEVENTIES. DX clubs in Latin America flourished notably in the 70s. I am publishing some stories and scans of DX-bulletins from my archive. Check my latest entries at my blog at http://lagalenadelsur.wordpress.com (in Spanish). Work is in progress. -- Un gran número de Clubes DX florecieron en América Latinade forma notable en los 70s. Estoy publicando algunas historias y escaneos de boletines DX que forman parte de mi archivo. Lean las últimas entradas en mi blog "La Galena del Sur". http://lagalenadelsur.wordpress.com 73 & DX – (Horacio Nigro, CX3BZ, "La Galena del Sur", Montevideo, Uruguay, Oct 24, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) TRAVELERS' INFORMATION STATIONS SEARCH http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/travelers-information-stations-search Governmental entities, as well as park districts and authorities, may be eligible to operate a Travelers' Information Station (TIS, also called Highway Advisory Radio (Martin Foltz, ABDX via DXLD) DX-PEDITIONS ++++++++++++ DX REPORT ON PERUVIAN SW STATIONS 23 OCTOBER, 2014 ABOARD THE MS ZAANDAM As we were preparing to leave Lima, Perú, I was able to set up a relatively decent radio setup aboard our cruise ship, the Holland America’s MS Zaandam. Over the last few weeks, I located a private area, electrically quiet, and almost ideal for reception. It’s located on the aft end, 6th deck with a convenient flag pole to secure my 75 feet of random wire which I brought along on the cruise, as well as my trusty Eton e100 tiny portable receiver. I coupled the wire to the receiver initially by wrapping a few strands of the Teflon coated wire to the collapsed whip, but later found that directly connecting via an alligator clip did not overload the receiver. I connected the receiver via a patch cord to record a few of the stations heard using Total Recorder Pro on my little MSI Wind notebook. What I have yet to try is the SDR-IQ which I also brought along. The main issue is the total lack of any electrical outlets, so the session lasted about 2 hours, the duration of the battery life of the little notebook. Here’s the setup at the aft end of the ship: [photo] Much more preferable than standing on the Promenade holding the receiver in my outstretched hand, and garnering a lot of puzzled looks (I was decoding VOA Radiogram). Interestingly, most people asked whether I had an “internet signal”. Understandable, I suppose, since the cost of internet aboard can be up to $0.75 a minute! Ouch!!! I had downloaded the A14 SW frequency schedule earlier, and noted the large number of Peruvian SW stations listed. Unfortunately, very few stations are still using SW in Peru, at least in the time frame of 2055 to past 2300 UT that I monitored. One more interesting photo is included below, taken while on a tour of Lima. Well worth the visit, as this is a truly fascinating and lovely city of almost 9 million people. The antenna itself had no obvious markings, so it may very well be abandoned. The building at the base was likewise abandoned in appearance. I’d welcome suggestions on what type of antenna this represents. Lima did list a number of SW stations, but not a single one I could find was on the air: [photo] As you might see, there were lots of insulators on the guy wires, as well as that interesting vertical component. I suspected that this might have been an old SW transmitting antenna? Now on to the report: I checked every frequency on SW for Peru, and also for Bolivia. Frequency was only readable down to 1 kHz on the Eton. I often tuned 1 kHz above or below to improve reception. 6174, Radio Tawantisuyo, Cusco. Good ID heard at 2055. Rapidly improving in strength to very good reception at 2200. All in Spanish. 4985.5m Listed as Radio Voz Cristiana, but not sure about this. Fair to good at 2107. Programming did not sound religious. 4955, Radio Cultural Amauta, Huanta. Nice ID heard at 2118. Very good at 2216. 4775, Radio Tarma, Tacna. Very good at 2122, and continued at great levels when rechecked at 2250 and 2310. Lots of local ads. 5025, Radio Quillabamba, Cusco. Not heard before 2100, but very good signal at 2138. ID at 2144, mentioning Onda Corta. 4747, Radio Huanta 2000, Huanta. Not on the air before 2200 but at very good level at 2215 and again at 2309. 5980, Radio Chaski, Perú at good level at 2240 UTC. Nothing heard earlier. Now, I also heard a number of other interesting stations. On the Eton, one has to be careful with images in the receiver, and perhaps some of these listed below might represent these. 3370, unID at 2200 with Koran chants fair level. Later, at 2251, there was a powerful Spanish station on this frequency. 3340, Likely Radio Misiones Internacional, Honduras. Fair/poor level at 2210. 3390, tentative Radio Em Camargo, Bolivia at fair level at 2250. A number of Brazilians started to fade in later in my session: 3370, 4805, 4815, 4865, 4885 to name a few. 3325, Spanish heard at 2307 unID. So, very few Latin American stations left on SW, but Brazil, if that is an interest, still seems to have many stations remaining on the tropical bands. I’m hoping to monitor a bit more, especially as we round the Cape. I have heard LRA 36 several days ago, at poor to good level, with deep fades. I expect reception will continue to improve over the next week or two, as we approach Antarctica. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, normally of Victoria, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Tnx for an interesting report, and look forward to more from your cruise / expedition. What A14 schedule are you referring to which has all the Peruvians listed but not to be heard? Aoki, I suppose, where they refuse to delete outdated info, and/or other databases blindly copying Aoki. I think your 3370 must be an image, and 3340 Honduras has been off the air for years. Hope you can recheck that one. I guess you don`t have a second receiver along for quick check of //s? 73 (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Hi, Glenn! Our voyage continues. Today, we're off northern Chile. I agree that the Eton is quite limiting, and of course, the lack of immediate internet resources. Thanks for correcting my 3340 faux pas. I downloaded a txt file from Dan Ferguson and the SW sked Yahoo group. yes, it was Aoki. I expect that many of the stations have not existed for years. They should be deleted for sure. Now, for backup, I did bring a SDR IQ along, and fired it up for the first time yesterday. At least images won't be an issue. I 'll continue to monitor as time allows. PS. Excellent reception of VOA Radiogram this morning at 0930 on 5745. 6:30 AM local, so not overly difficult to monitor live. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, ibid.) TRAVELS THROUGH EASTERN OZ! Hi Everyone, I've been through the centre of NSW, into southern QLD and now back over the northern NSW border again. My little road trip is going well and the weather has generally been kind. Once again, I must thank Craig Seager for showing such great hospitality last Monday week when I visited his home for dinner. Fabulous to see both his amazing collection of old radios and his latest SDR. Lovely to meet his four children, who proved to be a very engaging group of young people! Also it was a delight to meet up with both John Schache (who reliably informs me that the last time we met was in the 1970's!!!) and Phil Ireland. I've had the radios out a couple of times while on the road over the past two weeks. I found a great location on Bar Mountain, Border Ranges NP right near the border of NSW and QLD (of course!). I wrote about some very good lunchtime DX in my blog at: http://medxr.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/dx-notes-from-bar-mountain.html And I have just written another post this morning on the current high solar activity over the past 24 hours. Turn your attention to frequencies above 12 mHz this weekend. You may find significantly improved reception on 19, 16 and 13 mb, as observed here at Cabarita Beach, NSW last night: http://medxr.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/high-solar-activity-check-bands.html I'll be at "Cabba Beach" for the next week before heading slowly down the coast and into Victoria. Expect to be home after Cup Day. Cheers, all, (Rob Wagner VK3BVW, Oct 24, ARDXC mailing list via DXLD) WORLD OF HOROLOGY See MEXICO; RUSSIA; UK +++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See BRAZIL; IRELAND; KOREA SOUTH; NEW ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ZEALAND; NORWAY; ROMANIA; USA WWCR; UNID RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ INTERNET CAR RADIO POSES BIGGER THREAT FOR LOCAL AM-FM Henry Payne, The Detroit News 11:23 p.m. EDT October 24, 2014 STORY HIGHLIGHTS Now the Internet is changing car radio forever Apple CarPlay, Google, GM 4G change the radio interface Younger generations demand connected vehicles Twenty-five years ago, carmakers decorated their auto exteriors with eye-catching wood trim. Today, the wood is on the inside, complementing flashy center consoles with seven-inch, digital touch screens. The car dashboard is being transformed and it's taking AM-FM radio with it. Just as it did newspapers and broadcast television, the Internet revolution is roiling the local broadcast landscape that has long held a monopoly on the car radio. With center console infotainment systems, the in-car landscape has undergone a seismic shift started by satellite radio two decades ago and accelerated by Internet players like Pandora, Spotify, and iHeartRadio. Now, AM-FM stations face a tipping point as Apple CarPlay, Google's Android Auto, and in-car Wi-Fi hot spots fundamentally change the user interface in vehicles from radio to Internet. "The center stack has changed from two dials and three buttons to very complex systems that contain so many different options," says Paul Jacobs, vice president of Jacobs Media, a radio consulting firm in Bingham Farms. "The radio industry needs to work very hard to make sure radio remains vital in the car of the future." Jacobs Media hosted the Second Annual DASH conference in Detroit last week, bringing together radio executives, automakers, and auto suppliers from all over the country. "It's a much more competitive landscape," says Steve Chessare, who manages three Detroit stations — WRIF-101.1 FM, WCSX-94.7 FM, and Sports Radio 105.1 — for Greater Media. "It's more important than ever to create content that people want to engage in." It's a new landscape. Beginning with this year's Chevy Malibu, every new generation GM vehicle will come with a Wi-Fi hot spot that will allow up to seven devices to connect directly to the Internet. In December, the Hyundai Sonata promises to be the first car compatible with Apple CarPlay and Android Audio so that drivers can plug in their iPhones and mimic their interface on a vehicle's screen. That means customers can more easily bypass the AM-FM dial and go straight to their favorite Internet radio service. By allowing consumers greater control over their music choices, services like Spotify have proven popular with users — especially young listeners. "It's like the introduction of central door lock mechanisms," says radio consultant Larry Rosin, president of Edison Research in New Jersey. "Once you don't have to reach across the car to lock the doors, you never want to go back. It's the same with the choice Internet radio offers." Advertisers are following the users. While local media ad revenue in the U.S. is expected to increase 2.8 percent (to $151 billion) by 2017, that growth is expected to come almost entirely online. According to BIA/Kelsey, online advertising will rise 13.8 percent per year, while traditional advertising — TV, print, radio and yellow pages — is expected to remain flat (at $107 billion). According to an estimate by Statista, there are some 160 million digital radio listeners — a number expected to hit 183 million by 2018. That trend is driving once-big radio players like Walt Disney Co., which has radio stations that cover 42 percent of the country, out of the industry. Disney is selling 23 stations and going digital with Radio Disney kids programming. Unlike newspapers which have seen customers move away from home delivery, the Internet radio revolution is not driving listeners out of the car. Just the opposite. According to Jacobs Media, half of radio listening is in the car, with that percentage increasing with each new generation. For example, 45 percent of baby boomers get their radio fix in the car compared to nearly 60 percent of Generation Y. One-fifth of cars on the road are "connected" via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. With 90 percent of Gen Y drivers carrying a smartphone — versus 65 percent of baby boomers — in-car connectivity for new cars is a must. While AM-FM radio remains the leading infotainment priority of new car buyers in Jacobs' survey (89 percent), 66 percent of respondents say an iPod connector is important, 51 percent say Bluetooth, and 25 percent satellite radio. "The mainstay of local broadcast radio is news and traffic," says John Wordock, executive editor of the Wall Street Journal Radio Networks. "But I think apps may eventually cut into radio's monopoly on traffic reports in the car." Edison's Rosin points to growing Internet traffic sites like Waze, which calculates real-time traffic based on driver inputs to determine the fastest way to reach your destination. "No one cares about traffic reports but their own," says Rosin, who told the DASH conference that radio traffic reports may go the way of the dinosaurs. How will local radio compete? Rosin and Jacobs agree that stations must stay current with digital apps. They also agree that content is king and AM — long second sister to FM — may have the secret sauce given the strength of talk radio. "The way to compete is to continue to invest in local talent and great local content," says Jacobs. "People don't listen to stations, they listen to personalities." Greater Media's Chessare says his stations are pushing online apps as well as their own Internet sites. Their online advertising is up 43 percent this year. Jacobs was encouraged by what he saw at the DASH conference as radio owners and car dealers agreed to collaborate on making radio operation — programming presets, finding radio bands — part of the car-owning regimen. "I just bought a brand new Jeep Wrangler and the salesman had me in the car for 45 minutes showing me all the different things the car could do," says Greater Media's Chessare. "Cars are so complex these days. We need to be pushing dealers — and incentivizing dealers — to walk customers through the cars' features in their showrooms." "The car is the No. 1 listening location," adds Jacobs. "It is also the No. 1 revenue category. So it is imperative that the radio industry get to know the auto industry better. Radio needs to get a seat at the table making sure they are delivering their content in a way automakers want in order to ensure they have a place in the center stack of the future." Henry Payne is auto critic for The Detroit News. (via Harry Van Vugt, Canada, dxldyg via DXLD) LET’S SAVE A VITAL NATIONAL MEDIA RESOURCE: AM RADIO http://www.radioworld.com/article/let’s-save-a-vital-national-media-resource-am-radio/272946 (via Dennis Gibson, Sent from my iPhone, Oct 29, ABDX via DXLD) Very interesting article with a lot of good suggestions for improvements to AM tuners and this is the first time I have seen anything suggesting tighter frequency control of all AM transmitters to within .01-.001 Hz of each other to synchronize all AM transmitters to avoid off-frequency beats and interference with each other on the same frequency. The article correctly mentions that synchronizing AM transmitters will also eliminate unwanted phase interference to C-Quam AM Stereo stations that causes "platform motion" and "swishing" sounds of the AM stereo signal, while greatly increasing the listenable range between transmitters on the same channel. This would be one of the biggest improvements they could make to the AM band. Currently AM stations are allowed a frequency tolerance of +/- 20 Hz which means two AM stations can be as much as 40 Hz off frequency with each other on the same channel, causing a lot of annoying interference between the stations especially at night, well beyond the station's local area coverage. 73 (Todd WD4NGG Roberts, ABDX via DXLD) Some mistakes in the article: Narrowing the bandwidth will do little or nothing to alleviate interference. It will just limit its frequency response. I have already documented what is "inside the box" for virtually every home and portable radio manufactured in the last 35 years: The Current State of Radio Design I have been a radio design expert for almost 45 years. I delved into it as a hobby, and remain an active radio enthusiast and... http://earmark.net/gesr/Current_Radio_Design.htm All - as in ALL - radios made today are some slight variation of this, except for car radios. They can be decent performers - IF the manufacturers pick good quality ceramic filters, like CCrane, then the radios will be selective. If the manufacturer goes to the trouble of adding a tuned RF stage before the IC, then the radio will be sensitive. Even if all the manufacturer does is put a decent sized ferrite bar in the radio, the radio will be fairly sensitive. But the vast majority of home and portable AM radios do NOT have good IF ceramic filters. There are garbage filters +/- 40 kHz wide, I have encountered them. When I tune in a local on 620 kHz and it is covered up by a local on 660 kHz - that radio's selectivity is junk. Put in a decent filter, the problem goes away. Some manufacturers don't even put a ceramic filter, they just bypass the IF with a ceramic capacitor. The resulting radio's selectivity is entirely determined by the Q of the ferrite bar and antenna section of the tuning capacitor. It works. It also makes it possible to tune the 5 or 6 strongest local AM signals on a 3/8 inch dial that might have markings for only 5, 11, and 17 kHz [sic] printed on it. Or a sloppy ten bit tuning DAC in a digital radio that produces very imprecise tuning voltage steps. If the manufacturer put in a decent ceramic filter, not all AM frequencies could be tuned. Radios used to be narrowband in the all Japanese 6 era. NOBODY makes those radios any more. It costs too much for 3 IF cans, two transistors, and a pile of resistors and capacitors. It also takes up board space that is needed for more important things - like an iPod interface. When you plug one of those things in - even for charging - AM is completely wiped out by interference anyway. Most people confuse bandwidth for frequency response. These cheap radios have just one mission - to let somebody listen to talk or sports. If the IF is tens of kHz wide, they are dimly aware of interference issues, so they put in an RC low pass filter to limit audio response. But that does NOT make the radio narrowband!! !! It just rolls off the audio. The IF is still wideband, and adjacent stations will interfere (Bruce Carter, ABDX via DXLD) PROVE COL SOFTWARE FUNSDR+ Ciao, ho potuto provare un nuovo programma dedicato al piccolo ricevitore FunCube Pro+. Si tratta del FunSDR+ by Alberto I2PHD, un software facile da usare ed estremamente valido. Trovate le prove su questi blog: http://air-radiorama.blogspot.it/2014/10/funsdr-un-piccolo-grande-programma-per.html http://radiodxinfo.blogspot.it/ Durante le prove ho fatto qualche ascolto. Ecco il log (BC e utility): RX: FunCube Pro+ | Software: FunSDR+ V1.0d by Alberto I2PHD | ANT: T2FD | QTH Milano città (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Oct 25, playdx yg? via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ OKLAHOMA TP DX 10/27/14 This morning there was finally a break in the DX drought. 594 unID (JOAK?) - a trace of a signal heard a various times from 1014 until 1252 (LSR at 1249) 747 JOIB - Poor at 1003-1005 // JOUB. Not heard afterward. 774 JOUB - fading in and out between 0951 and 1228 with barely audible to poor signal. Receivers: Tecsun PL-310 and PL-606 with 8-inch FSL. Good DX. (Richard Allen, near Perry OK USA, IRCA via DXLD) [Later:] I noticed there was a significant solar flare after my DX session this morning. Usually strong short wave signals from Radio Australia faded out around 1440 GMT. K-index was reported to be 3. I'm curious to know how it might have affected medium wave DX along the Pacific Coast at that time (Richard Allen, ibid.) Oklahoma TP DX 10/29/14. This morning was possibly the best here for TP DX so far this season. 594 JOAK? - a barely audible signal at 1243-1245 (LSR at 1250). 747 JOIB - from 0936 until 1123, occasionally peaking to fair. 774 JOUB - from 0837, occasionally at fair strength. Signal not heard afterward. I imagine the signal was audible from sunset in Akita around 0742. There were traces of signals on 567 and 693 kHz, but nothing heard on 657, 666, 828, 972 or 1053. Not a peep has been heard from 972 HLCA this season. In the past there was usually there a strong heterodyne when I tune to 970 WDAY before sunrise. Receivers: PL-606 (8" FSL) and PL-310 (7.5 ferrite rod). Good DX (Richard Allen, near Perry OK USA, ibid.) Richard, Your continued ability to receive very long range TP-DX in Oklahoma (especially during this lackluster season) is pretty amazing. Your new 8" FSL antenna apparently is compensating somewhat for the generally meager propagation. <<<594 JOAK - a barely audible signal at 1243-1245 (LSR @ 1250).>>> It's probably tough in Oklahoma to track down an NHK1 parallel for positive identification of JOAK. The parallels used on the west coast (891 and 1503) are not likely to make the trip so far inland. On the other hand, no other TP on 594 is likely to make that inland trip, either, so if it sounds Japanese there's little doubt what you received. <<>> 567-JOIK (NHK1) is parallel to 594-JOAK, and 693-JOAB (NHK2) is parallel to 774-JOUB. But in your Oklahoma situation where the FSL antenna is probably necessary to get even a wispy TP signal on any frequency, retuning the antenna back and forth to check for a TP parallel is probably not a practical option. If you can get a reasonably fair signal on either 594 or 774, you might be able to use your 7" FSL to track that stable TP signal, while checking for a parallel on the weaker station by using your more sensitive 8" FSL (inductively coupled to another Ultralight radio). It's also possible to phase your 7" and 8" FSL antennas to provide cumulative gain --- simply tune in a TP signal on the more sensitive 8" FSL, then place the 7" FSL an equal distance away from the Ultralight radio (with the radio in the middle), and tune the 7" FSL to the same frequency. You should notice a fairly good gain boost. <<>> TP signals are generally down in strength this season, so it`s not surprising that 972-HLCA has yet to show up in Oklahoma. Here in Puyallup the station seems to have a special advantage, coming in at unusual strength. The other TP-DXers here on the coast don't seem to receive it at the same strength, and this location in general does seem to favor Korea and China, whereas the other TP-DXers on the coast seem to have better reception of Japanese stations. This pattern has been continuing for over 5 years now :-) 73, (Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA), ibid.) Gary: This morning the signal strengths of JOIB and JOUB were sometimes good enough to be heard on a barefoot PL-310ET. In past there were sometimes a NHK1 parallel audible on 567 or 666 kHz. Surprisingly neither 693 JOAB nor 828 JOBB haven't been heard thus far this season. With the monster sunspot moving away from the earth I'm hoping there is an improvement in transoceanic reception (Richard, Sent from my iPad, Oct 29, ibid.) LOTS OF SOLAR FLARES Spaceweather.com October 23, 2014 Solar activity is high. Since the week began, giant sunspot AR2192 has produced 27 C-class solar flares, 8 M-class flares, and 2 X-flares. (What do these classifications mean? Check out the Richter Scale of Solar Flares.) The most powerful eruption so far was an X1.6-category blast on Oct 22nd. Remarkably, not one of the explosions so far has hurled a significant CME toward Earth. The primary effect of the flares has been to ionize Earth's upper atmosphere, causing a series of short-lived HF radio communications blackouts. Such blackouts may be noticed by amateur radio operators, aviators, and mariners. Earth-effects could increase in the days ahead. AR2192 has an unstable 'beta-gamma-delta' magnetic field that harbors energy for powerful explosions, and the active region is turning toward Earth. NOAA forecasters estimate a 95% chance of M-class flares and a 55% chance of X-flares during the next 24 hours. More details at http://spaceweather.com/ (Posted by: Mike Terry, Oct 23, dxldyg via DXLD) This week's solar activity generated a lot of interest from the press, and here are a few articles to check out: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/10/22/sunspot_2192_x_flare_seen_this_morning.html http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/mammoth-earth-swallowing-sunspot-blasts-out-x-class-flare/38243/ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/22/solar-flares-disrupting-radio-communications_n_6029862.html?utm_hp_ref=email_share http://www.tampabay.com/news/science/space/ginormous-sunspot-makes-todays-solar-eclipse-much-cooler-wvideo/2203375 Thanks to W9IND and David Moore for news tips (QST de W1AW, Propagation Forecast Bulletin 43 ARLP043, From Tad Cook, K7RA, Seattle, WA October 24, 2014, To all radio amateurs via Dave Raycroft, ODXA yg via DXLD) Space Weather Message Code: SUMX01 Serial Number: 107 Issue Time: 2014 Oct 25 1825 UTC SUMMARY: X-ray Event exceeded X1 Begin Time: 2014 Oct 25 1655 UTC Maximum Time: 2014 Oct 25 1708 UTC End Time: 2014 Oct 25 1811 UTC X-ray Class: X1.0 Optical Class: 3b Location: S12W30 NOAA Scale: R3 - Strong NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/NOAAscales Potential Impacts: Area of impact consists of large portions of the sunlit side of Earth, strongest at the sub-solar point. Radio - Wide area blackout of HF (high frequency) radio communication for about an hour. (SWPC via DXLD) Space Weather Message Code: SUMX01 Serial Number: 108 Issue Time: 2014 Oct 26 1125 UTC SUMMARY: X-ray Event exceeded X1 Begin Time: 2014 Oct 26 1004 UTC Maximum Time: 2014 Oct 26 1056 UTC End Time: 2014 Oct 26 1118 UTC X-ray Class: X2.0 Optical Class: 2b Location: S15W35 NOAA Scale: R3 - Strong NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/NOAAscales Potential Impacts: Area of impact consists of large portions of the sunlit side of Earth, strongest at the sub-solar point. Radio - Wide area blackout of HF (high frequency) radio communication for about an hour. Space Weather Message Code: SUMX01 Serial Number: 109 Issue Time: 2014 Oct 27 1521 UTC SUMMARY: X-ray Event exceeded X1 Begin Time: 2014 Oct 27 1412 UTC Maximum Time: 2014 Oct 27 1447 UTC End Time: 2014 Oct 27 1509 UTC X-ray Class: X2.0 Optical Class: 2b Location: S17W52 NOAA Scale: R3 - Strong NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/NOAAscales Potential Impacts: Area of impact consists of large portions of the sunlit side of Earth, strongest at the sub-solar point. Radio - Wide area blackout of HF (high frequency) radio communication for about an hour (SWPC via DXLD) CONTINUOUS SOLAR FLARES EMITTING FROM HYPERACTIVE GIANT SUNSPOT It seems the torture never stops..... http://www.dumb-out.net/continuous-solar-flares-emitting-hyperactive-giant-sunspot/10191 A large active sunspot has emitted yet another X-Class flare on October 27. This is the fourth solar flare since October 19. X-Class stands for the most intense flares and the number with it denotes its strength. Such massive flares have been recorded on the sun’s surface since past two decades. More powerful flares erupting from the sunspot have been observed by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. It has also captured two M-Class flares erupting from the same area of the sun on October 26 and 27. The strength of M class flares is about one-tenth of that of X Class flares. These powerful flares have caused radio blackouts in some parts of the earth. There have been six flares in past seven days and five of them have been X Class flares. The huge region from where they are erupting is AR 12192, which is about 129,000 km across, almost as big as Jupiter. The flares have been strong enough to throw radio and satellite communications as well as navigational equipment on earth off gear. If these flares are in the direction of the earth, they can potentially harm spacecrafts as well as astronauts in space as well as communication signals from them. These solar flares emit harmful radiation which cannot cross the earth’s atmosphere to affect humans physically. Sunspots are regions on the sun which are created due to unstable magnetic fields which are cooler than their adjacent regions. This is why these regions are darker also. This particular sunspot is the biggest known till date. This gigantic sunspot was hard to miss during the partial solar eclipse in North America. Viewers who were able to take pictures of the eclipse were also able to see the huge sunspot on the sun’s surface (via Kevin Redding, Oct 28, ABDX via DXLD) Good Morning, Sadly, there are no coronal holes associated with AR2192. The region has been more of a propagation killer, than a propagation maker. There no geomagnetic storms with this one. It provided some great HF conditions during the weekend. I was working Japan and Eastern Europe on 10-Meters with a very modest setup here in AZ , then suddenly it would be deader than a door nail. It spit out M and X class flares one after the other. This really has shown how anemic this solar cycle has been. It is missing the CME elements this time. 11 and 12 years ago it was much more ex[c]iting as the solar cycle was beginning to come down. 73s (Art Jackson KA5DWI/7, Prescott area AZ, ibid.) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2014 Oct 27 0638 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 20 - 26 October 2014 Solar activity was at moderate levels on 21 and 23 October with high levels the rest of the period due in large part to flare activity associated with Region 2192 (S12, L=248, class/area Fkc/2750 on 26 October). Region 2192 began producing M-class flare activity before it rotated onto the visible disk late on 16 October. By the time the region was fully apparent on 18 October, it was already classified as an Fkc spot group with an area of 1240 millionths. The region continued to grow and spread as it transited across the disk culminating in an area near 2570 millionths by 26 October (the fourth largest region since March of 1989), all the while maintaining a complex beta-gamma-delta magnetic configuration. This region managed to produce a total of 58 C-class flares, 18 M-class flares, and 5 X-class flares as of the end of the reporting period. The largest of these flares were an X1/2b at 22/1428 UTC, a long duration X3/3b at 24/2141 UTC, a long duration X1/3b at 25/1708 UTC, and an X2/2b at 26/1056 UTC. Although these were significant flares in the X-ray trace, there were no Type II or Type IV radio sweeps associated or Earth-directed coronal mass ejections. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at moderate levels on 20 October and reached high levels for the rest of the reporting period. The highest reported value was 11,815 pfu at 22/1735 UTC. Geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to minor storm levels with major storm levels reported at high latitudes. The period began under the onset of a positive polarity coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS). Solar wind speeds increased from approximately 430 km/s to around 660 km/s by mid-day on 21 October before beginning a slow decline. Total field was initially elevated near 10 nT on 20 October before slightly decreasing while the Bz component fluctuated between +/- 8 nT. From late on 22 October through the end of the period, solar wind speeds slowly decreased from the upper 400 km/s range back to nominal solar wind conditions. The geomagnetic field responded with unsettled to minor storm levels on 20 October with major storm levels observed at high latitudes. From 21-24 October, quiet to unsettled conditions with isolated active periods prevailed. By 25-26 October, geomagnetic field activity had decreased to quiet to unsettled levels. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 27 OCT - 22 NOV 2014 Solar activity is likely to continue at high levels (R3-Strong or greater) from 27-30 October as Region 2192 transits off the visible disk. Very low to low levels are expected from 31 October through 10 November. By 11 November through the end of the reporting period, solar activity is expected to increase to moderate (R1-R2, Minor-Moderate) to high levels once again as Region 2192 returns on the visible disk. A chance for a greater than 10 MeV proton event (S1-Minor or greater) exists from 27-31 October and again from 15-22 November due to potential significant flare activity from Region 2192. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at high levels from 27- 29 October and again from 18-22 November due to CH HSS activity. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at quiet to unsettled levels with isolated active periods possible on 27-29 October, 04-07 November, 10-11 November, and again from 13-22 November due to combinations of recurrent southward Bz, solar sector boundary crossings, and CH HSS. Minor storm periods are possible on 16 November due to the onset of a recurrent positive polarity CH HSS. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2014 Oct 27 0638 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 2014-10-27 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2014 Oct 27 220 12 3 2014 Oct 28 220 10 3 2014 Oct 29 210 10 3 2014 Oct 30 200 5 2 2014 Oct 31 190 5 2 2014 Nov 01 180 5 2 2014 Nov 02 145 5 2 2014 Nov 03 140 5 2 2014 Nov 04 135 8 3 2014 Nov 05 130 10 3 2014 Nov 06 125 8 3 2014 Nov 07 120 8 3 2014 Nov 08 115 5 2 2014 Nov 09 115 5 2 2014 Nov 10 120 8 3 2014 Nov 11 125 8 3 2014 Nov 12 145 5 2 2014 Nov 13 150 8 3 2014 Nov 14 160 12 3 2014 Nov 15 170 12 3 2014 Nov 16 180 22 5 2014 Nov 17 180 15 4 2014 Nov 18 190 10 3 2014 Nov 19 200 8 3 2014 Nov 20 200 8 3 2014 Nov 21 195 8 3 2014 Nov 22 190 12 3 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1745, DXLD) GLENN`S PROPAGATION REPORT FOR MEDIA NETWORK PLUS, AS OF OCT 30 Keith, As you may have noticed, lots of disturbed propagation the past two weeks, as dumb-out.net put it, ``Continuous Solar Flares Emitting from Hyperactive Giant Sunspot``. But we try to look ahead with forecasts from different sources, none of which ever agree completely. IPS in Australia says Mostly Quiet conditions are expected for October 31 and November 1. From the Met office UK, the FOUR-DAY SPACE WEATHER FORECAST says Solar activity should be moderate with a chance of increasing to high levels on 30 October. From 31 October onwards the risk of X-class flares decreases as sunspots rotate around the west limb. Geomagnetic activity is expected to be quiet to unsettled thru November 2, but with a chance of active levels (K index of 4) periodically. OK1HH of the Czech propagation interest group says the Geomagnetic field will be: quiet October 31, November 1, 8, 9 mostly quiet on November 2, 7, quiet to unsettled on November 3, 11, 12, quiet to active on November 4, 6, 10, 13, 14 active to disturbed November (5, 15), [especially] 16 SWPC in Boulder says Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be quiet to unsettled with isolated active periods possible on November 04-07, 10, 11, and 13 thru 22nd. Minor storm periods possible November 16 with A and K indices peaking at 22 and 5. Solar flux declining from 180 November 1, to 115 on November 8 and 9, up to another peak of 200 November 19 and 20. Bill Hepburn`s TV and FM DX maps predict extreme tropospheric ducting this week between Mozambique and Madagascar (via DXLD) ###