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This makes it even more important to be a member of the DXLD yg for additional material which may not make it into weekly isssues (gh) 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/ ** AFGHANISTAN [non]. 9765.0, Feb 6 at 0111, S9+25 talk about Afghanistan, America; also some alternating tones, jamming? Aoki shows since Dec 27 this has been VOA Deewa Radio in Pashto at 01-04, 250 kW, 340 degrees from SRI LANKA, and onward to North America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALASKA. 9615 & 9655, Feb 8 at 1420, NO signals, not even carriers from KNLS as scheduled this hour in English, Chinese respectively; instead see ROMANIA. Off the air, or totally unpropagating? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. Reception of KNLS The New Life Station, Feb 9: 0900-1000 on 9680*NLS 100 kW / 300 deg to NEAs Russian tx#2 1000-1100 on 9615 NLS 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs English tx#2 *QRM Ictimai Radio with broadband FM modulation on 9676.8 kHz http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/02/reception-of-knls-new-life-station.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DXLD) ** ARGENTINA. Novedades en la X-Band Argentina by gruporadioescuchaargentino RADIO 20 DE AGOSTO, emisora de Onda Media que opera desde la localidad de Longchamps, Partido de Almirante Brown, Provincia de Buenos Aires, opera en la nueva frecuencia de 1650 kHz, abandonando así su anterior de 1500 kHz. Esta emisora ha cambiado varias veces de frecuencia, al principio en 1380, después en 1550, ya estuvo temporalmente en 1650, y últimamente en 1500 kHz, hasta que allí retornó al aire Radio Bonaerense de Llavallol. Los estudios de la estación se hallan ubicados sobre la calle General San Martín 933 de la ciudad de Longchamps, Teléfono: (011) 4233-7432. E-mail de contacto: radio_20deagosto@hotmail.com, y su Página Web es http://www.radio20deagosto.com.ar 20 de agosto 2 copia --- Es importante señalar que Radio 20 de Agosto es escuchada en paralelo en 880 kHz; se supone que en esa frecuencia es retransmitida por otra emisora del Partido de Almirante Brown, en este caso se trata de la emisora RADIO DEMOCRACIA (Burzaco), la cual emite de forma muy irregular y sin programación propia que no sea música e identificaciones (Marcelo A. Cornachioni, Buenos Aires, Argentina, GRA blog Feb 9 via DXLD) ** ARGENTINA. varying 15344.986 ... x.992 kHz, RAE Buenos Aires, Carnival song 1934 UT Feb 10, S=8-9 in Germany (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA [non]. 7570, Monday Feb 8 in the 21-22 UT hour on WRMI, `La Rosa de Tokio` is about radio in Catamarca province, which corresponds to this week`s episode per publicity (altho it could be a rerun from months ago) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. Re R. Symban site change, 16-05: Ian, so you have any idea how these frequencies could occur [10 & 13 MHz bands]; anything to do with site change? John may be very close? 73, (Glenn Hauser, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) Hi Glenn, All sounds very odd to me. I wasn't aware of those logs and unfortunately don't know anything more. Have checked ACMA records and only 120mb outlet on SW. I've just tried 2368.5 kHz & John's logged high frequencies on receiver but nothing here through the local QRN mid arvo. Only other antenna and transmitter at the site is the 151 MHz narrowband FM antenna. Angelo has several MW xband licences not on air. Mystery to me; sorry (Ian, NSW, Feb 6, ibid.) ** BAHRAIN. 9744.9935, Radio Bahrain in usb mode [H3E SSB-FC full carrier), from Abu Hayan site at 1020 UT on Feb 2. Arabic singer program. Heard on rather low tiny level in signal skip zone at remote Doha Qatar unit, - at this time of the day. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 2, dxldyg via DXLD) [and non]. Both 9744.992, Radio Bahrain from Abu Hayan heard with female Arabic modern song singer at 0517 UT on Feb 4, in USB/with carrier mode H3E. But underneath also co-channel Radio Cairo Arabic service at 02-07 UT, on odd frequency of 9745.054 kHz. And accompanied by the 70 Hertz deep BUZZ heterodyne tone interference. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 4, dxldyg via DXLD) ** BANGLADESH. BANGLADEXE, 4750, Bangladesh Betar, Khabirpur, 1700- 1707*, 07/2, bengali, noticiário (?); 25442. Fecho abrupto. ("Carlos L R de Assunção Gonçalves", 4-8 Feb HF observations from SW coast of Portugal, DXLD via dxldyg) 4750, Bangladesh Betar (Home Service), 1532, Feb 10. News / sports / weather in English; scores from the South Asian Games; 1542 "News Commentary," "The cabinet approved the draft of a Memorandum of Understanding with Malaysia with a target of sending 15 lakh Bangladeshi workers there in three years under a G2G Plus process. The approval came at the regular weekly cabinet meeting held at Bangladesh Secretariat with prime minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair."; 1545*; fairly readable even with CNR1 QRM (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BARBADOS. TEP em Jundiai - 05/02/2016 --- Ola pessoal! A forte chuva de hoje prejudicou a ida para casa fazendo eu atrasar quase duas horas. Por outro lado, ajudou na radioescuta. Em 97.5 MHz está a Transdigital de Itupeva; porém, devido à tempestade, hoje está inativa. Dai fiquei de ouvidos. Entao, por volta de 22:30h local, apareceu a Life 97.5FM de Barbados com bons sinais e livre de interferência. Durou poucos minutos, mas o sinal estava bastante interessante. Continuo monitorando e às vezes ela aparece ao fundo. O video esta no Youtube: https://youtu.be/9Rh8PUpEPyQ 73 de (PY2OC, Luiz Tresso, Feb 5, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Same evening Fran Jr was getting BBCWS on 100.7 and thought it was something new in the Caribbean, but someone else pointed out that Quality FM in Barbados, also relays BBCWS (gh, DXLD) Ola pessoal! Anderson, isto acontece devido estarmos mais ao norte, ou seja, mais "próximos" ao equador magnético. Dai as possibilidades são reduzidas e os sinais fracos. E para ajudar, estamos numa região onde a faixa de FM BC está lotada. Ai de baixo, mesmo que vocês tivessem o espectro lotado, mas utilizassem antenas direcionais, as possibilidades ainda seriam bem melhores que as nossas por aqui. Uma dica: se tiver receptor, tente ouvir algo em freqüências mais altas. A faixa aerea, os 144 MHz onde estão os radioamadores e acima, onde estão os serviços privados. 73 (Luiz Tresso, ibid.) ** BELARUS. 6080, 8 Feb 2016, 1840-1845, BELARUSKAYE RADIO 1; Male Announcer in Belarussian; Interesting music, with male vocals. Mention of Belarus. SINPO 44444 (Ed Sylvester, Baghdad, Iraq, AOR AR5000A PLUS 3, Indoor Pixel Magnetic Loop, dxldyg via DXLD) ** BERMUDA. While there were reports that BBN 1280 were still on the air (Stig Hartvig Nielsen DXLD Nov. 2016) and AM 1160 BBC is back on (Chris Dunne DXLD Jan. 2016), the website http://vsb.bm/ of Defontes Broadcasting seems to have been frozen in September 2015. White supremacists will certainly dislike hearing the headline item of the last VSB News Online broadcast of 29 September 2015 http://vsb.bm/vsb-tv-channel-11/ = https://youtu.be/GGvrXOc8XFE (about 48 seconds into the programme!). Maybe, BBN and BBC have found other partners to run the medium wave relays (Dr. Hansjoerg Biener 4. February 2016, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BERMUDA [and non]. 2582-USB, Feb 7 at 0036, listening for Bermuda Radio, ZBR, tnx to tips from DXLD yg members Stephen C Wood in MA who is hearing it nearly every evening at 0040, and Rich Ray near Chicago who reported it starting at 0036. At first I hear nothing, then 0037 barely audible talk, sounds like marine weather intonation, fades up a bit, but only S7, equivalent to noise level. 0039 a little better so I hear fragments such as ``through Sunday afternoon; gale warning, small craft warning, Monday evening and night``; British accent past 0042 but seems to have finished at 0043. EiBi shows ZBR as Bermuda Harbo[u]r, nominal 10-minute broadcasts at 0035, 0435, 0835, 1235, 1635. But it`s not the only marine station on 2582. Unlisted by him but in the Canadian Coast Guard page, 2582 is also used for shore-ship comms in Atlantic Canada and the North in summer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BIAFRA [non]. SECRETLAND, SPL The Global specialist for International Communications on shortwave and provided to you strong and quality signal around the world. SPL relay Radio Biafra, including music, live program and open carrier on February 3: 2000-2055 11600 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg WeAf Music not live transmission 2055-2059 11600 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg WeAf English live transmission & from 2059 11600 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg WeAf dead air and off at 2120 UT! http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/02/spl-relay-radio-biafra-incl-music-live.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #938 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Feb 8, 2016, Also visit: or , dxldyg via DXLD) SECRETLAND, SPL Secretbrod relay clandestine Radio Biafra, Feb 4: 2000-2040 11600 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to WeAf Music, not live program 2040-2300 11600 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to WeAf English, live broadcast http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/02/spl-secretbrod-relay-clandestine-radio.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Open carrier / dead air for Radio Biafra via SPL Secretbrod on Feb 8: 2000-2300 11600 SCB 100 kW / 195 deg to WeAf and off the air at 2030 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/02/spl-secretbrod-brother-stair-and-radio.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. I managed to get around WRMI on 5950 and heard Emisora Pio XII on 5952.4. It's not the best recording, but its a sample of what I managed to copy from here in Central Iowa. They were off at 0230. I used a Perseus SDR connected to a SAL-20 antenna. https://youtu.be/xj_7VLc9GuQ (Tim Rahto, Luther, IA, Feb 6, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA [and non]. 6135, Feb 7 at 0106 and later chex, not even a JBA carrier from R. Santa Cruz or R. Aparecida surrounding this frequency. Both off or extremely poor S American reception (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOUGAINVILLE [and non]. PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 6020, NBC Bougainville testing again on Feb 2nd - tuned at 0754 UT with locally-produced music to past 0800 UT, into English NBC news program with several field reports at 0802 UT. "you are listening to NBC news from Port Moresby" by woman at 0809 UT. Weather by man at 0812 UT followed by "NBC National News" announcement by woman. Commercial or PSA at 0813 UT. Short music segments to 0815 UT then into another news program with woman announcer and more field reports. Very nice signal here - armchair listening level at S4. Was surprised to see such a strong carrier when I first tuned - the Perseus S-meter was hitting S=8-9 on a regular basis! (Bruce W. Churchill-CA-USA, DXplorer Feb 2 via BCDX 7 Feb via DXLD) 3325, NBC Bougainville, my Latest Observations. There were at least three distinct signal levels used by NBC Bougainville (3325 kHz) on the late local evening of Feb 3rd as a result of whatever changes. I didn't hear any RRI before local midnight here. Ron's observations re levels & transmitter off fit with mine, I think off before 1340 UT. There's still a problem with the audio on 3325 kHz from my observations. Still seams muffled and spectrum view indicates narrow bandwidth. NBC Madang has wider bandwidth and thus more intelligible (Ian, Australia, BCDX 7 Feb via DXLD) 6020.00, Feb 4 at 0746, I have an S7-S9 signal, no QRM at all, with lo-key talk possibly in English; 0748 music, 0753 talk, 0758 piano music, and singing past 0801. 0802 an announcement I think mentioning NBC, cut off the air abruptly at 0802:44*. I figure the reactivated NBC outlet here has finished with its day frequency at 7 pm local, and is moving to night frequency 3325, which I do not expect to propagate this early, and do not hear; and besides it`s way past my bedtime. This was certainly not on 6020.7 where Karel Honzik recently reported it by long path to Czechia around this same time of day; maybe initially they did not have the frequency accurately tuned up. Yet I`m awake again at 1248, to find an S9 signal with music on 3325, maybe a second carrier? Not sure. But I decide this is INDONESIA, q.v. 6020, Feb 4 at 1315 I finally check NBC`s day frequency, and there it is, after midnight local time! With Indonesia on 3325, and only two frequencies available, it makes sense to stay/resume on 6020, altho designed for day propagation only. This is S9, and no sign of Vietnamese from Vietnam, or anything else on 6020. I hear some English words, constitution, people of Solomons, so in suspected Tok Pisin; lo-key studio announcer is interviewing various people on phone, with brief instrumental music interludes between, and abruptly faded out when someone else is ready to speak. 1320 seems to mention numbers, phone? 1323 music (different music on 3325 with Indonesia); 1324 back to tok in Pisin; 1326 music; 1330 phone talk; 1333 hear feminine voice on phone for first time; 1335 music and running-water ute QRM; 1356 woman singing, music past 1400, song maybe mentions ``my country``, anthem? 1401 definite ID by YL as ``NBC National Radio``, back to more music with autotune. At 1402, 6020 is S9+20; 1405 mentions Papua New Guinea, another song; 1410 NBC promo, mostly music. 1415, half a sesquihour after sunrise here, beginning to fade down, to only S9 by 1420; JBA carrier by 1443. If they are still testing the new 10 kW transmitter, can`t be sure which frequency if either will be on air at any particular time the next days. I wonder what kind of antenna, not NVIS? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1812, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glen[n], FYI: This morning while band scanning I was very pleased to pick this station up for my first time. It was coming through pretty good which is unusual for the East Coast or at least for me. I am not sure if there have been any other reports on this frequency but I did check WOR and didn't see anything. They did mention NBC several times but I did not pick up an individual station ID: 6020, PAPUA NEW GUINEA. NBC Radio-Bougainville, (Presumed), at 1255, on 4 Feb. An English speaking male announcer is asking a male speaker questions on a phone call into the station. He next takes a phone call into the station and starts to speak to another caller stating this will be the last caller for tonight. He takes a call and asks the caller to turn his radio down. There was a NBC News program ID given by a male announcer with talk about the Health Department. The newscaster mentioned NBC several times. A program/station ID/promo stated “NBC - Stories about real people-real events-reaching over five million people.” There was a brief musical interlude followed by a song about traveling though the Islands with several male singers singing. The programming then went back to a male announcer taking calls into the station with brief instrumental bridges played between calls. The station started to fade out with the audio becoming muddy around 1340 UTC Fair (John Cooper, Lebanon PA, WORLD OF RADIO 1812, DX LISTENING DIGEST) John, I was listening to it at same time, and also earlier until 6020 went off at 0804 and I assumed they changed to 3325, for a while, maybe (Glenn to John, via DXLD) Glen[n], I am so glad you heard the same thing as it was new for me and I really wanted to be sure I had the right station and country. Thanks so much. It was a good morning for DXing here. 73 (John Cooper, ibid.) I'm officially informed that DRM SW test transmissions from NBC Bougainville have occurred during the current testing phase to test linearity of the new 10 kW transmitter. I suspect Bryan Clark in NZ heard one such transmission on February 4th on 6020 kHz earlier in local evening. Further DRM testing will occur. Please don't ask when, as there is no schedule. But you have been alerted to keep an ear out :-) These DRM transmissions are the first such DRM transmissions to have occurred from PNG (Ian [AUS], 0757 UT Feb 5, dxldyg via DXLD) 6020, Feb 5 at 1345, JBA carrier, nothing like yesterday with NBC on day frequency at night. What else could it be? Aoki shows India finishes at 1230, but Vietnam runs until 1530. 3325, Feb 5 at 1352, music at S6-9, 1353 announcement, 1400 IS like I heard before from RRI, after mention of Palangkaraya, not Bougainville. 6020, Feb 6 at 1143 I find myself awake, so check for NBC: there it is with bouncy music at S9, 1150 heavy beat, no CCI, 1156 announcement sounds Tok Pisin, 1158 more music past 1200, to 1201.5 brief announcement, 1202 more music, 1205 announcement (and back to sleep for me). 1357 still S9 but sounds a bit louder with music, 1401 NBC ID, 1402 back to music. Walt Salmaniw in BC was still hearing it at 1632, mostly music, announcements in English. Earlier at first wakeup 1133 I checked for other carriers, and found JBA ones on 2325, 2485, 2850, 3240, 3320, 3325 and at 1147, 4835, i.e. Australia, North Korea and Indonesia. Except for odd one out, 3240, nothing listed, so that could be an harmonic from MW 1620, 1080, 810 or 540 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1812, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I've been listening to 6020 for the last 45 minutes at good level, although the audio is muddy when an announcer speaks. Mostly continual music, with short announcements. Just now, I can confirm that it is in English, so I'm quite certain that it's PNG on again. Those on the west coast might try now. I haven't read anyone else commenting on this so far this morning. 73 (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, 1634 UT Feb 6, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1812, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yup - heard them at 1510 on 6020 -- same thing - good quality on the music but muddy on the talk - which I think was Tok Pisin or Pidgin -- (Colin Newell - Editor and creator of Coffeecrew.com and DXer.ca - VA7WWV | Twitter @CoffeeCrew | Victoria - Canada, UT Feb 7, dxldyg via DXLD) Listened to the PNG Bougainville 6020 kHz reception in Brisbane Queensland. via remote Perseus net. 6020.000 kHz exact accurate frequency. Signal S=9+5dB ... +10dB in peaks, at 1048 UT on Feb 7. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3260, NBC Madang, 1200+, Feb 7. The syndicated (Florida, USA) Sunday program "Island Praise" presented by Stacy Rose, with her playing Caribbean gospel music (reggae, soca, calypso, hip hop gospel, etc.); off the air by 1229 check; clearly // 6020. 6020, NBC Bougainville, 1200-1258, Feb 7 (Sunday). Stacy Rose with her "Island Praise" Caribbean gospel music show (Richie Stephens “In The Name of God,” etc.); email, Facebook and Twitter info; many "Island Praise" IDs; "I'm Stacy Rose. Turn up your radio. You are listening to 'Island Praise' right here on the Voice of PNG, 90.7 FM"; "Island Praise, stay connected"; language lesson where she asked many people if they knew the word "Tandede" (stay right where you are); // 3260. Before 1200 pulsating noise jamming (N. Korea). Off the air by 1327; did not switch to 3325. First heard Stacy's "Island Praise" show back in July 2013 via NBC Madang (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1812, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6020, Feb 7 at 1349, S9 open carrier --- at least I can`t make out any modulation, but presumably NBC. By 1407 it`s S7 to S9 and maybe a trace of modulation. However, Ron Howard in CA says it was off the air by 1327, after carrying the `Island Praise` show from Voice of PNG, 90.7 FM at 1200-1258 Sundays. He also says they did not switch to 3325; so maybe they just left the carrier on 6020 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1812, DX LISTENING DIGEST) or the carrier I was getting that late was Vietnam (gh) [non-log]. Feb 8 (1228-1331), 9 (1232-1404) and 10 (1220-1530), did not hear NBC Bougainville on either 3325 nor 6020. BTW - RRI on 3325 noted off the air Feb 8 during 1228-1331. Also off the air Feb 10 at 1234 and subsequent checking till 1345, when I found open carrier and by 1459 could tell it was RRI (not NBC) (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1812, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Hello Anker, re: ``4885.03 0240-0310 31.1 B R Dif. Acreana, Rio Branco, AC (presumed) Portuguese ann, Brazilian pop songs 35233 The only South American station audible! AP-DNK`` Both Brazilian stations on 4885 are inactive as per WRTH 2016. But ZYG362 Rádio Clube do Pará was recently heard elsewhere, and would match the offset. 73, (Günter Lorenz, woldband yg via DXLD) Dear Günter, I also saw the information about the two Brazilian stations on 4885 kHz in WRTH 2016, which is edited not later than November 2015. But from experienced DX-ers in Brazil and USA I have the information from December-January, that R Clube do Pará signs off at 2230 and first opens at 0700. Whereas R Dif. Acreana is on the air from 0900 till 0400. Best 73, (Anker, ibid.) 4885, Radio Clube do Pará, Belém, 0740-0830, 05-02, Portuguese, comments: "Estamos apresentando Acorda Pará, ..., Bom dia, e Carnaval", "4 horas 44 minutos", "Radio Clube do Pará, bom día, bom día". 34433 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante, Tecsun PL- 880, Sangean ATS-909X, Cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Durante a tarde de hoje o sinal da Rádio Guaíba voltou em 49m, 6000 kHz. O sinal está um pouco mais fraco que a Gaúcha em 6020 kHz; por um momento a transmissão saiu do ar e logo retornou. Ainda devem estar ajustando o transmissor, este que estava a mais de um mês fora do ar. Recepção em Lajedo, 100 km de Porto Alegre (William Fischer, Feb 10, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Weak S=3-4 on 6010.032 kHz, and S=6 on 6010.110 ... 128 kHz very varying hopping 20 .. 30 Hertz up and down. Colombia and Brazil stations, but which is which? At 0650 UT on Feb 10. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, dxldyg via dXLD) ** BRAZIL. Dear Mr. Hauser, I'm a shortwave listening enthusiast based in London, UK. I run a blog at http://london-shortwave.blogspot.com and tweet at http://twitter.com/LondonShortwave I used to enjoy Rádio Nacional da Amazônia on 6180 kHz - up to autumn 2014 it would come in very clearly in the mornings. I'm wondering if there is any information on what happened to that transmission (I do occasionally pick up 11780 at night, but nowhere near as well) and if there is any chance it might come back. I tried emailing EBC in Portuguese but to no avail. I would be very grateful for any updates on this. Many thanks! (anon., Feb 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Interesting blog, with the emphasis on SW music. Too bad you appear to be anonymous. I don`t know exactly what happened to 6180, but surmise they may have moved that transmitter to 11780.1, as previously that one had big problems with distortion and spurs. We don`t miss 6180 here as it interfered with Mexico 6185, and 11780.1 puts in a very good signal here in our evenings and on into the night. I`d think it would be good for you after your midnight or so, if you listen then, but maybe not. It may be on a direxional antenna into the Amazon and us beyond. (Glenn to anon., via DXLD) Dear Glenn, Many thanks; to be honest I suspected transmitter problems as well. It's possible to get reasonable night-time reception of Brazil on 11780 in the summer here. Unfortunately I do most of my DXing from the local park nowadays, which is shut at night. This despite significant efforts to rid my shack of urban radio interference, which I describe here: http://london-shortwave.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/dealing-with-urban-radio-interference.html Catching Mexico on 6185 kHz would be amazing but I don't think it's even remotely possible here with a 1 kW signal! Still, whenever I get a good catch, I upload it here: http://shortwavearchive.com/?author=54a17f88e4b045b450238fb9 Also, I must mention that I am a regular listener of your podcast and enjoy it very much. Many thanks once again! (LS, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 15190, 2/10 2003-2030, R. Inconfidência, **Contagem, in Portuguese. Male singer plays a song "Ave Maria"; ID; Announcements; Call: MW, SW on *6010 and 15190 kHz - Rede Inconfidência de Rádio; 2029 returns a program "A Hora do Fazendeiro", Part II, by Cristiano Batista. Regional songs. 2013 "A receita da hora; local time. 2018 Weather; 2022 Rural products and the market prices. Very good signal and modulation, 45444. Note: *6010 kHz, no signal. **Contagem is a city of Belo Horizonte metropolitan area and has a transmitter site of R. Inconfidência (DXer José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX), Cabedelo [Paraíba], Brazil, Sony ICF-SW100S, Portable Telescopic antenna, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** CANADA. From Montreal in the last week of January in various DX postings, people were reporting hearing the new CHRN Radio Humsafar station on 1610 kHz. Sheldon Harvey e-mailed the station to find out what was going on and got this answer from Jasvir Sandhu, the President of Radio Humsafar: “Thank you for your e-mail, I would be more than happy to answer your questions. As you know, we have received CRTC approval to broadcast on the 1610 kHz frequency at a power of 1000 watts (day and night). The original plan was to share the antenna site with CJLO 1690. Given the close proximity of the frequencies, our engineers decided it was not feasible for the two stations to share one mutual site. As a result, we had no other choice but to move our antenna to a new site. In accordance with CRTC and Industry Canada regulations, we applied for the necessary adjustments. With the help of our engineers and the CRTC, we determined a solution to begin the testing phase as we await for approval to go on the air. It was determined that we can go on the air with only 500 watts of power (day and night), provided that we remain within the originally approved broadcast contours. In response to your initial question, yes, we were previously testing our transmission but at a reduced power of 500 watts in light of waiting for approval from the CRTC to begin complete testing. We hope to recommence testing in approximately one week. Should you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. Best Regards, Jasvir Sandhu, President Radio Humsafar 7655 rue Cordner Lasalle Que. H8N 2X2 Tel: 514.367.5555 Toll Free: 888.408.4555 Fax: 514.368.0565 http://www.radiohumsafar.com `` (Feb CIDX Messenger via WORLD OF RADIO 1812, DXLD) ** CANADA. 2748.98-USB, Feb 6 at 0155, YL in French with marine weather, 0156 switch to English and now she seems robotic. SSB sounds best when tuned slightly to lo side of 2749. CCG website shows it`s VCS Halifax via Chebogue NS site starting at 0140 in English, then French, but nothing else following immediately in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 2749-USB, Feb 7 at 0044, robotic YL in English with marine weather at S6. CCG website shows this is MCTS Sydney NS, VCO starting at 0040 via Port Caledonia site, with: ``Radiotelephony --- Technical marine synopsis and forecasts for marine areas 209, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 231 and 232. Wave height forecast for marine areas 209, 213, 214, 215 and 217. Notices to Shipping in areas Cape Breton Shore (covering Cabot Strait to Banquereau Bank), Gulf of St. Lawrence, Newfoundland South Coast, P.E.I. and Miramichi Bay. Notices to Shipping revising the position of every reported offshore exploration and exploitation vessel`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 7415/7445/9410/9455, Firedrake jamming, (Presumed), at 2020, on 5 Feb. Radio Free Asia is being broadcast, and it is being jammed by what sounds like Firedrake music playing on a loop. Fair (J. Cooper, Lebanon, PA, Winradio-G33DDC, CommRadio CR-1a, GAP-Hear It-In Line Module, Wellbrook ALA-1530S+, Wellbrook ALA1530 LN Pro, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) The loop is 60 minutes long (gh, DXLD) 4970, CNR1 jamming. As of Feb 10, continue to hear the jamming of AIR from just before 1300 till about 1331. Is here instead of being on 4790 against the BBC. Seems they are locked in here and may never note their error in frequency! (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1812, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 7269.99, Nei Menggu PBS, Hohhot/NMTS839, 0715-0730, Jan 22, signals of multi-modulation that are occupying an enormous bandwidth(?), condition on 9749.98 is better, 33232 (Tomoaki Wagai, Wakayama, Japan, DSWCI DX Window Feb 3 via DXLD) ** CHINA. CRI Station ID Help --- Although I've listened intently to several recordings of CRI's Beijing Hour, I can't make out all the words in the station identification preceding the program due to the loudness of the background music (or my old ears). What I get is "This is Beijing ... AM Discover Talk Radio, a division of China Radio International." What am I missing? It sounds like "Ten" something. A frequency? I know that there is a station on 1008 kHz in Beijing but, to me, it doesn't sound like they are saying that frequency. So, who knows the missing word(s)? Please spell phonetically, if you know. Thanks (-- Richard Langley, NB, Feb 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Have answered my own question with a bit more listening and consulting the Web. The full ID is ""This is Beijing ten-oh-eight AM, Discover Plus Radio, a division of China Radio International." 1008 kHz is the AM frequency of CRI's "News Plus" outlet in Beijing (Langley, ibid.) ** CHINA. Has anyone received a QSL by post from CRI recently? CRI used to send me copies of their magazine ‘The Messenger’ regularly but these became increasingly erratic and stopped completely a few years ago. It seems to be published quarterly now as China Plus which can be downloaded at http://english.cri.cn/messenger/ (Dave Kenny, Feb BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** COLOMBIA [and non]. COLOMBIA DX BLOG UPDATE --- My Colombia DX Travel Blog now has a complete medium wave bandscan with station recordings for the Cali area. Cali is the third largest city in Colombia. There is also a section of some "DX" (non-local) MW stations I heard in Cali. The regular travel blog has also been updated with photos from Cali. I had some great (and quiet) conditions a few days ago while staying in rural areas near Armenia, in the coffee region. I haven't begun to go through those recordings yet. http://www.pateplumaradio.com/blog/colombiadx/index.html http://www.pateplumaradio.com/blog/colombia/cali.html (Don Moore, Humpty Dumpty was pushed, Feb 7, WORLD OF RADIO 1812, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA. 5910.05, Feb 4 at 0547, tropical music at S9+15, so Alcaraván Radio is back on its usual + offset; no QRM now. BTW, the Tennesseans on 5830, 5890, 5935 are much weaker, S7 very poor, not always the case. I had thought HJDH inactive, as I have not been hearing it after ~0630 when I usually start bedtime monitoring. Maybe they sign off circa 0600 now? Also check for sibling on 6010, finding only a JBA carrier, maybe something other than Conciencia. I don`t check again until 0744 when 5910 is definitely off. I see in WRTH 2016 schedule as 23-10 UT for both 6010 and 5910, but 5910 has a single dagger by it, unexplained [elsewhere: means irregular], unlike the double dagger meaning inactive next to the only other Colombian SW listed, HJOY, LV del Guaviare, 2000-0300 with 5 kW on 6035 --- which has been gone for years, so is there some reason to expect it back? The April 2015 Domestic Broadcasting Survey from DSWCI has it on the ever-expanding roster of deleted stations, as not heard since May 2011 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5910.25, Alcaraván Radio, Puerto Lleras, 0735-0810, 06-02, religious comment in Spanish by Martin Stendal, ID, "Vd. está en sintonía del Sistema Alcaraván Radio, son las 2 de la mañana con 51 minutos", Latin American songs, ID "Desde Puerto Lleras, departamento del Meta, transmite Alcarván Radio, 1530 AM y en onda corta 5910 kHz.". 34433. (Méndez) 6010.1, La Voz de tu Conciencia, Puerto Lleras, 0733-0815, 05-02, religious comments in Spanish, Martin Stendal, mentioned "Rey de Reyes". 14321. Also 0805-0830, 06-02, religious comments, Spanish, Latin American songs, ID at 0845 "La Voz de tu Conciencia". 13221 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante, Tecsun PL-880, Sangean ATS-909X, Cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Weak S=3-4 on 6010.032 kHz, and S=6 on 6010.110 ... 128 kHz very varying hopping 20 .. 30 Hertz up and down. Colombia and Brazil stations, but which is which? At 0650 UT on Feb 10. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CONGO. 6115, Radio Congo, Brazzaville, 1725-1810, 05-02, French, comments, "Les congolaises", Vernacular songs, at 1803: "Radio Congo, le journal, bonsoir", news, French. 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante, Tecsun PL-880, Sangean ATS-909X, Cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6115, R. Congo, Brazzaville, 1755-1821, 06/2, francês, necrologia, noticiário das 1800; 33432, QRM adjacente. O fecho da emissão ocorreu por volta das 1830 ("Carlos L R de Assunção Gonçalves", 4-8 Feb HF observations from SW coast of Portugal, DXLD via dxldyg) Brazzaville, 6114.994, R. Congo, Brazzaville at 1740 UT Feb 7. S=4-5 tiny signal. 73 wb df5sx jn48or (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Feb 7, dxldyg via DXLD) ** CONGO DR. -Kinshasa, 5066.4, R. Télé Candip, Bunia, 1915-1928, 04/2, dialecto local, música africana, texto; 25332. Melhor sinal em 05/2, pelas 1900 ("Carlos L R de Assunção Gonçalves", 4-8 Feb HF observations from SW coast of Portugal, DXLD via dxldyg) ** CUBA. 670, Feb 9 at 0702:46 UT, surprised to hear a 2+1 timesignal and ID from R. Rebelde. Very late; maybe it`s more like a sound effect (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 890, Feb 7 at 0129, R. Progreso with Cuban historical propaganda piece, stronger than easily nulled WLS, but no // 900 audible in QRM. Outro as ``Cuba – Tierra de mis Amores``. It`s about time for their SW service, so I try 4765 for a //: open carrier at S9+40, not bad. Not until 0131:20 does modulation cut on there, as the previous MW program is ending, into an ID with music, and running about 2 seconds behind the 200-kW 890 outlet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 1040, Feb 7 at 0137, just missed a Cuban announcement, into Cuban music, hardly anything from WHO requiring nulling. This signal from the SE has some hum on it, especially evident in pauses or low passages. WRTH 2016 shows only one Cuban on 1040: CMCL, 10 kW, R. Mayabeque, Güines, Mayabeque. That`s one of the newer provinces created in 2010 just east of Habana, between it and Matanzas, spanning coast to coast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 1620, Feb 8 at 0502, dominant signal is Cuban NA at midnite, i.e. R. Rebelde, soon found // and well-synchronized with 5025, 670, 1180, ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 4765, Feb 6 at 0133, R. Progreso is on at the moment, S9+30 music; while 5025 Rebelde is S9+40 with béisbol (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 9790.00, Feb 6 at 0110, S9+25 open carrier/dead air. Likely the CRI relay checking up before the 03-05 UT transmission. Unlike any purely Cuban broadcasts, 9790 is HFCC-registered as 250 kW, 305 degrees USward. However, the already modulated CRI relay on 9580, Feb 6 at 0111, hits S9+45, but it`s 250 kW at 10 degrees so ought to be weaker (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Radio Habana Cuba --- 5040, 0614 5 FEB - in ENGLISH. SINPO = 35322. English, male and female announcers alternating with musical interludes. modulation very weak and tinny quality on moderately strong but wavy carrier (// 6000, 6060, 6100, 6165 kHz all weaker carriers with no modulation detected, bad audio feed to transmitters?!) sf120.4, a6, k3, geomag: unsettled. 100 kW, Omni, bearing 104 . Sangean ATS505 w/MFJ-1020C active antenna used to preselect experimental horizontal 38’ long wire loop. Transmitter in Bauta Latitude: 22 49'N Longitude: 082 17'W Distance: 3558 km. Received at Las Vegas, United States. Local time: 2214 (Rodney Johnson, NV, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6000, Feb 6 at 0700, RHC in Spanish instead of English, then to dead air, more examples of the ragged close-downs RHC accomplishes. Quickly tuning to 6060: DA; 6100: jazz music to DA; 6165 and 5040: already dead air. 17580, Feb 7 at 1510, open carrier/dead air from RHC which is supposed to quit at 1500 here; still programming on 17730, and just barely modulated on 17750 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CYPRUS [non]. 9955, Wed Feb 10 at 1402, tune-in to WRMI for `FG Radio`, just hearing one news item about North Korea missile. FG Radio ID and 1403 into a couple songs, outroed as ``Comin` inside So Strong``, a soulful protest; 1409 ``repeating the headlines`` for 4 minutes, a lot more than I heard at the top: NK satellite into space ``yesterday`` (it went up UT Sat Feb 6 circa 18 UT, so FG Radio is old news already); Turkey too full of refugees; someone killed in Cyprus fall; something up in UK; Zika virus risk; Dan Hicks dies. 1413 more music and no outro until 1415 gh ID preceding WORLD OF RADIO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DENMARK. AFTER MUCH UPHEAVAL DANISH TV HAS A REQUEST: "DON'T HATE US" -- By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press Feb 5, 5:03 PM EST http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_DENMARK_IMAGE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-02-05-17-03-37 Public television YouTube image segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhuJyCw06lw (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** EGYPT. 12070, 2/7 0120-0125, R. Cairo, Abis, in Spanish. Open carrier (S=3-4),zero modulation (DXer - JRX (José Ronaldo Xavier), Cabedelo, Brazil, Sony ICF-SW100S, Portable Telescopic - antenna, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** EGYPT [and non]. Both 9744.992, Radio Bahrain from Abu Hayan heard with female Arabic modern song singer at 0517 UT on Feb 4, in USB/with carrier mode H3E. But underneath also co-channel Radio Cairo Arabic service at 02-07 UT, on odd frequency of 9745.054 kHz. And accompanied by the 70 Hertz deep BUZZ heterodyne tone interference. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 4, dxldyg via DXLD) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5004.99, Feb 4 at 0520, very poor signal combating storm noise far from our area, with music, presumed R. Bata. I`m checking during this hour encouraged by Ron Howard re-hearing it in further California. By 0543 it`s up to S7 with talk, can`t tell if Spanish; 0556 still JBA. Very slightly on the lo side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, Feb 7 on 5005, RNGE signed on between 0531-0541, with 0541 till 0601 pop African music and very brief announcements in Spanish; 0601 till tuned out at 0621 with non-musical segment; 0601-0614 alternating announcers in Spanish with what sounded like news; 0614- 0621 monologue in Spanish; poor, but audio nicely above threshold level. Their sign on time varies a great deal; no consistency at all (Ron Howard, California, DX LISTENING DIGESET) 5005, RNGE, R. Bata, *0522, Feb 9. Straight into pop music; very weak and unable to make out language; not a good day for them! (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [non]. WRMI tx 7 on 21675 relay Brother Stair, instead [OF!] Radio Africa Network, after 1400 UT Feb 8, confirmed at 1500 and 1600. Videos later today -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See SOUTH CAROLINA; USA WRMI ** ERITREA [non]. SECRETLAND, Frequency change of SPL BaBcoCk Dimtse Radio Erena from February 3. Confirmed today February 4 in HFCC Database via Babcock Communications, request#17229 1700-1730 NF 11845 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg EaAf Afar Oromo Dly, ex 11850, re-ex 11855 1730-1800 NF 11845 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg EaAf Arabic Mon-Sat, ex 11850, re-ex 11855 1730-1800 NF 11845 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg EaAf Afar Oromo Sun, ex 11850, re-ex 11855 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/02/frequency-change-of-spl-babcock-dimtse.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) SPL Secretbrod relay BaBcoCk Dimtse Radio Erena, Feb 7 1700-1730 NF 11845 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg EaAf Afar Oromo Dly, ex 11850 1730-1800 NF 11845 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg EaAf Arabic Mon-Sat, ex 11850 1730-1800 NF 11845 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg EaAf Afar Oromo Sun, ex 11850 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/02/spl-secretbrod-relay-babcock-dimtse.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ESTONIA. UTE, 4645, Tallin Aereo, 2110 Feb 6, wx "THIS IS TALLIN AIRPORT INFORMATION" (Mauro Giroletti, IK2GFT-SWL1510, JRC 525 NRD- LOWE HF 150-Elad FDM S2, Antenna LOOP ALA100M- MiniWHIP, Filter PAR Electronics LPF - HPF, Locator grid. Jn 45 Nk, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA. 7236.425, Feb 8 at 1410, JBA carrier presumed the variable Addis Ababa-Gedja transmitter, which I last logged on the other side of 7235; by long path, or short-path grayline? Aoki shows during this hour it should be R. Ethiopia in Arabic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7236.673 kHz accurate, noted in Moscow remote unit at 1810 UT, as usual some frequency irregularly varying up and down, hit heavily by Woofferton Babcock powerhouse, KBS Seoul RUSSIAN sce at S=9+50dB powerhouse level, but heard tiny slight interference whistle difference tone of 1800 Hertz too. wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Feb 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. PIRATE-EURO. IBC/Italian Broadcasting Corporation, 6970 USB, 2300-2320+, 02-05-16. SIO: 232. IBC here playing tunes by Patrick Hernández, The Cure, Snap, Charles D. Lewis, interspersed with ID’s in English with email address For reports. Station sent email announcing broadcast. Email is: ibc@europe.com [Lobdell-MA] PIRATE-EUROPE. Mike Radio, 6295 USB, 2216-2300*, 02-06-16. SIO: 444. This Dutch pirate with a great signal playing tunes by Fools Garden, Alice Cooper, Jeff Wayne, etc. Frequent ID’s by OM, greetings top those posting on the HF underground. Said he was putting out 1 kW into a G5RV dipole. Announced email as mikeradio@live.nl [Lobdell-MA] PIRATE-EURO. Blue Dragon AM, 6975 AM, 2301-0010+, 02-6/7-16, SIO: 343. Per tip from German DXer Rainer Brandt, heard this Italian pirate with good AM signal. Playing oldies by Mike Oldfield, Simon Moon, Village People, Chic, Culture Club, etc. Occasional ID’s by OM in Italian and English. Reception report in English to bluedragonAM@hotmail.com Brought super cool eQSL the next morning (Chris Lobdell, Tewksbury, MA, Receivers: Eton E1, JRC NRD-525, Aerial: G5RV Dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. AFN in Germany --- Dr Hansjoerg Biener writes in Ydun's Medium Wave Info 4 February 2016: Yesterday, I checked the mediumwave frequency of AFN Bavaria in Vilseck on the radio of my car, something I regularly do when driving outside the city of Nuremberg. As of 3 February, the station was still audible on 1107 kHz. Posted by: (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** GERMANY. 6190, HLR, Göhren, 0728-0800, 06-02, English, comments, at 0730 Glenn Hauser's program "World of Radio" nº 1811. 34433 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante, Tecsun PL-880, Sangean ATS- 909X, Cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. Sunday 21 February: Annual SW broadcast of Radio Öömrang from Amrum Island, German North Frisian Islands. Tentatively 1600-1659 UT on 15215 kHz via Nauen in Frisian dialect, German and English. QSLs via Media Broadcast qsl-shortwave@media-broadcast.com (Feb BDXC-UK Communication via WORLD OF RADIO 1812, DXLD) Based on yearly appearances always Feb 21 in past, but nothing definite about it yet this year (gh, ibid.) ** GREECE. 9420 // 9935 - V. of Greece, Avilis, 0055 UT 04 Feb 2016 - Both Frequencies being received here with good signals. 9935 still suffers from the constant hum but otherwise the signal strength is up to S9. 9420 is actually only about S8 and has more fading. Music selections prior to top of the hour. YL with ID’s at TOH then more music (Stephen C Wood, Harwich, Mass., Perseus SDR, 25 x 50 variable terminated superloop antenna (60º N/E), dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Greece again on 2 freqs in // February 4 from 2000 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek tx#3 from 2000 on 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek tx#1 On Feb.5 no signal on 9420 & 9935 at 0600,0900,1200,1500UT http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/02/voice-of-greece-again-on-2-freqs-in.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non] Yesterday, The Voice Of Grease was heard on the pirate bands. The only thing similar was the show started with the VOG IS [on flute] and the National Anthem of Greece (Chris Lobdell, MA, Feb 5, NASWA yg via DXLD) WTFK? Voice of Greece, with English commercial about a writing contest sponsored jointly with the government of Cyprus. 1800 after ID and before the news in GK on 9420. Good signal, very little fading. 73s (Marty Delfin (Madrid, Spain), Sony ICF SW-77, telescopic antenna, Sent from Marty's iPad, Feb 5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) And around 0730 UT Feb 6 on 9420 and 11645: Random reception of Voice of Greece on February 6 from 0730 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek tx#3 from 0730 on 11645 AVL 100 kW / 182 deg to NoAf Greek tx#1 Confirmed again at 0830UT, no signal from Greece at 0850UT http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/02/random-reception-of-voice-of-greece-on.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #938 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, Feb 8, 2016, Also visit: or , dxldyg via DXLD) 9420, 6 FEB 2016, 0816-0820 UT, VOICE OF GREECE, Female announcer in Greek. Traditional music with flute and male vocals. SINPO 33323 (Ed Sylvester, Baghdad, Iraq, JRC NRD 545, Indoor Pixel Magnetic Loop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Greece on a single frequency on Feb 6-7: Feb 6: from 2100 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg WeEu Greek tx#3 Feb 7: 0730-1000 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg WeEu Greek tx#3 1000-1300 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg WeEu Greek tx#3 relay ERT-2 103.7 from 1300 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg WeEu Greek tx#3 continues 1400 UT http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/02/voice-of-greece-on-single-frequency-on.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 15650, Feb 7 at 1512, oh oh, that awful whining sound is here, and with BFO, from multiple carriers slightly above and below 15650.0 --- just like we have been getting from ERA`s malfunxioning transmitter on 9935 or sometimes 9420. They didn`t bother to register anything with HFCC for B-15, but we know 15650 is an old Avlis frequency. Currently, in fact, 15650 is reserved ONLY for IRDR, 24 hours from SMG Vatican site, 100 kW ND. That`s the international emergency broadcasting service envisaged, which so far has never been activated, despite numerous qualifying events in the past two years and ongoing: {not for real emergency, but I do recall some brief tests from several sites to coincide with some radio meeting; was it ASBU or HFCC?} HFCC, Intl. Radio for Disaster Relief project. B-15 schedule is here showing 17500 and 21840 also available 24 hours: http://www.hfcc.org/data/schedbyfmo.php?seas=B15&fmor=RDR and for lesser spans: 11995, 11840, 9430, 7400. AND, for ALL CIRAF zones 1-85! I assume SMG is merely a placeholder and if ever really in use, various more appropriate sites could be used, as several HFCC members supposedly support this (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1812, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Greece Feb 7 at 1600 UT on 15650 BUZZ audio and 9420 good audio -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) Voice of Greece on shortwave again, 2 frequencies in // on Feb 7 from 1600 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek tx#3 good audio from 1600 on 15650*AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek tx#1 buzz audio * not tx#2, rather tx#1, instead of scheduled frequencies 9935/11645! http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/02/voice-of-greece-on-shortwave-again-on-2.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Both with live coverage of football soccer match at 1751 UT on Febr 7 on Voice of Greece Avlis, 9420.004 kHz at S=9+45dB here in southern Germany, and 15649.964 kHz odd frequency with BUZZ whine signal, S=6- 7, too high meterband for short distance Greece to Germany. And accompanied 16 x 141 Hertz distance away like garden fence peaks visible of the BUZZ, either sideband. Unstable signal of the whine buzz, peaks hopp some 10 - 20 Hertz up and down. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) Voice of Greece from 1800 UT Feb 8 on 9420 and 9935, both with good audio -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, ibid.) Voice of Greece from 1840 UTC, Feb 8: 9420 good audio, 9935 BUZZ audio. Videos will be added later -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, ibid.) Voice of Greece on shortwave again on 2 frequencies in // Feb 8 1800-1840 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek tx#3 good audio 1800-1840 on 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek tx#1 GOOD audio from 1840 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek tx#3 good audio from 1840 on 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek tx#1 BUZZ audio http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/02/voice-of-greece-on-shortwave-again-on-2_8.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DXLD) Voice of Greece relay ERT-1 on a single frequency, Feb 9 0700 & 0800 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek tx#1, BUZZ audio Confirmed at 0900 & 0930 on same 9935 kHz and no signal at 0950 UT. http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/02/voice-of-greece-relay-ert-1-on-single.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DXLD) 9935, Feb 9 at 0719, ERA is on here and putting out the humwhine, S5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Greece added 9935 with awful modulation around 1120 UT, Feb.10 // 9420 -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DXLD) Voice of Greece back again on shortwave at 1100 UT, Feb 10: 1100-1105 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg WeEu tx#3 Greek 1105-1111 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg WeEu tx#3 Spanish/Albanian/Polish 1111-1200 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg WeEu tx#3 Greek 1121-1200 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg WeEu tx#1 Greek 1200-1301 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg WeEu tx#3 Greek, relay ERT-1 1200-1255 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg WeEu tx#1 Greek and off till 1440 1301-1305 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg WeEu tx#3 English, no // frequency 1305-1440 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg WeEu tx#3 Greek from 1440 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg WeEu tx#3 Greek continues at 1600 from 1440 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg WeEu tx#1 Greek continues at 1600 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/02/voice-of-greece-was-back-again-on_10.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DXLD) ** GUATEMALA. 4055, Feb 4 at 0528, R. Truth has preacher in English as usual during the final hour of the broadcast day, and still no sign of any clone signals around it. Ditto Feb 4 at 1250, one S7-9 station in Spanish, very poor S6 by 1310. On Feb 3 got this from Dr. Madrid: ``Dear Glenn Houser and Víctor Gutiérrez: Our test transmissions for Radio Verdad are on the same frequency 4055 kHz. However, in some countries the frequency may vary a Little (one or two points). If a country is close to Guatemala, the frequency may vary a little bit, in order not to bother our master signal. We are not using any transmitters, but only computers, which inject the signal into many short wave antennas. They are attempting to maintain the same frequency 4055, as far as it is possible. It is a completely new technology on trial. A group of European, US and one Mexican Engineers are working on it. It is a scientific experiment in order to rescue short wave. I myself do not fully comprehend the system. The whole transmission system is being controlled by satellite, and also the power injected into all short wave antennas in the whole world. I have paid different amounts of money for the United States, Canada, Europe, Africa, Russia, China, Japan, Mexico, South America and the Caribbean Islas. I hope everything comes out all right, as it is a scientific experiment. The schedule is the same as regular Radio Verdad, beginning by 1000 UT up to 0605 UT. This set of tests will last only this weeks. This week transmissions are being sent from Guatemala City, but, depending on the results, we´ll start permanent transmissions from Chiquimula. I will appreciate any reports about the quality and strength of the signal. May God be with you, Dr. Édgar Amílcar Madrid, Radio Verdad & Radio Verdad TV`` Can anyone explain how this could possibly work? If I were he, before handing over any money, would insist/demand that the purveyors explain exactly how this is supposed to be accomplished. It makes no sense to me, and I am almost certain this is a scam and a fraud, and have told Dr Madrid so. If anyone is so inclined, a thorough search for 4055v signals on SDRs around the world might disprove this, or prove, if R. Verdad is heard at a time of day when it could not possibly propagate from Guatemala. So far he says he has got good reports from Panamá and Indonesia, no details (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1811, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dear Glenn: I appreciate your opportune advise. I am just waighting to see what happens. If it comes out to be alright, it will be marvelous. If not, I will resignate. Thanks again (Édgar Amílcar Madrid, Radio Verdad, Feb 5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4055, Feb 6 at 0134, R. Verdad with hymn at S9+10, no sign of any clone signals nearby. Another check Feb 6 at 0559, now closing announcements in Italian, Swedish, Japanese. I suspect some DX reporters were prevailed upon to provide them. Again no sign of any other TGAV broadcasts between 4000 and 4100 kHz, let alone right next to 4055. Yet another check Feb 6 at 1138: just 4055 at S9. I understand why people don`t want to waste time looking for phantasms, but appreciate Bill Bingham in South Africa checking and finding nothing. I would welcome anyone Truly finding another Verdad, to prove wrong my fear that the worldwide relay deal Dr Madrid says he has been paying for is nothing but a scam (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) To: NASWA & The European DX Club Dear DX'ers: I have a special plea for you: Short Wave Alliance Euro-USA is providing Radio Verdad with a new short wave service. We have paid them some money for transmitting our Radio Verdad signal over the world with much power. At the present time, they are sending out some test transmissions from 10:00 hours UTC up to 06:05 hours UTC, on our regular frequency 4055 KHz. I need to verify in the world if our signal has increased power, or not. This is to verify whether the new transmissions are taking place or not. It is very important to Radio Verdad. I have received three reports which give some positive evidence, but I need a wider verification. I hope to hear from you. 73's (Dr. Édgar Amílcar Madrid, Radio Verdad & Radio Verdad TV, Feb 7, cc to gh, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dr Madrid, I have been watching carefully all the DX sources for any reports of TGAV, and so far have only these including my own which are ordinary indicating reception direct from Guatemala. If they weren`t trying to fool you, surely they would give you the EXACT frequencies, times and locations where the relays are supposedly going out. Claiming to be on (almost) the same frequency deliberately makes it more difficult to differentiate your normal transmissions from the ``relays``. You need to apply some logic and scientific rigor to this ``experiment`` (Glenn, Feb 7, via WORLD OF RADIO 1812, DXLD) Thank you, Glenn, for all your infomations. I am still expecting reports in order to confirm or not to confirm the situation. I hope it hasn't been a cheat (Édgar Madrid, Radio Verdad, Feb 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RADIO VERDAD OVER THE WORLD Dear Glenn: I have analysed the reports you sent me. It seems that DX'ers have checked on different closeby frequencies, but we are test transmitting on our same frequency 4055 kHz. They should try only 4055 kHz, and report any difference they find on power, quality and schedules. They should try on daytime, for example. Right now, I am conversing with one of the Engineers of the new system. He says that we are not transmitting in all places yet, they have established connections to the antennas, but not injecting the signal yet. In some places, the signal is already injected. They are preparing some detailed information about that. Examples: Oklahoma is not being injected yet. Connecticut is being injected (the place where I received a good signal report). Indonesia is being injected. Bolivia and Perú are also being injected. May be our search should wait some days yet. Whenever I have some more information, I will send it to you. Thank you for your help and interest on Radio Verdad. May God be with you. (Dr. Édgar Madrid, Radio Verdad, Feb 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) OK, but they should state first where the signals are being ``injected``, then we can try to hear them; rather than not hearing them and that being explained by no injection yet. And by the way, what about licensing these ``injections`` in each country? (Glenn to Dr Madrid, ibid.) I am expecting some more information from them. I will send it to you. Referring to licences in countries. I have paid that already (Édgar Madrid, Radio Verdad, ibid.) Doesn't this sound that cheaters are injecting Dr Madrid's money to their own pockets (Jari Savolainen, Finland, Feb 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, absolutely nothing heard here in the Rio Grande Valley of TEXAS, and as a matter of fact I consider myself lucky the rare evenings when I can receive their main transmission on 4055 kHz. My question is: what is the power of these injections and is there an actual transmitter with these injections? At any rate I will see what I can hear after sundown (Steven Wiseblood/AB5GP, Harlingen TEXAS, ibid.) I think it all must be by MAGIC! This requires the suspension of disbelief (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1812, DXLD) Dr. Madrid, I am sitting here listening to Radio Verdad and I must say it is coming through much clearer then several weeks ago. The signal strength is S-9 +10 and the audio is much cleaner and stronger then I have every heard it before. I will monitor all this week at different times you are on and send you in reports. Also, if you have an MP-3 player, I can send recordings right from my SDR Receiver of what I am picking up which might be better than writing about it. Overall I would say that what ever you paid for appears to be working tonight. 4055, GUATEMALA. Radio Verdad-Chiquimula, at 0357, on 9 Feb. A male speaker was talking in Spanish as listed. There was what sounded like (Presumed) instrumental music playing softly in the background. At the top of the hour a song came on with several male and female singers. A male announcer started to talk/preach. At 0405 instrumental music started to play in the background. A song followed sung by several male and female singers. Fair. 73 John c. [Cooper] Lebanon, PA (via Dr Madrid, DXLD) Dear John P. Cooper, Pennsylvania, USA: Your mail makes me happy. Your e-mail is the first precise report I have received about our new transmissions over short wave in the whole world. May be the first report was the one from Indonesia, but yours is the second one. I am preparing some prizes for the first reports. By the way, I sent your QSL today. People have to understand that these are test transmissions, and they have not been injected into all antennas yet. The área where our good friend Glenn Houser lives, has not been injected yet, but it may be injected soon. The special short wave world transmissions are been made on our same frequency 4055 kHz, therefore, you won't find cloned signals, but you will just notice an increase on power and clarity, as this signal is being injected from our Internet transmissions. To make sure that you are really picking up our new signal, you should tune us on different schedules, like tuning us during day time. If you get to tune our signal on day time, you will be sure that you are tuning our new system, even if you don't get the best signal on day time. Remember that the day time is the worst time for short wave. They said to me that they will send me the list of antennas which are been injected already, but they haven't yet. I should explain to you, that we are NOT using any transmitters, but only computers. This is a thoroughly new technology, which is still as a scientific experiment. Radio Verdad is one of the pioneer stations on this new system. I don't want to be frustrated on this Project, because I have paid very much money for it, and I do not have money. Of course, the whole amount of money I have paid for this service, is too Little in comparison with the good results. Thank you very much for your interest on Radio Verdad, and we'll keep in touch. May God bless you and keep tune (Dr. Édgar Amílcar Madrid, Radio Verdad & Radio Verdad TV, to Cooper, cc to gh, DXLD) I remain totally unconvinced. A few anecdotal reports of improved reception do not prove anything. How do you ``inject`` a signal on a SW frequency without a SW transmitter? So it takes a feed from internet? Then there will inevitably be a delay/echo with the main signal direct from Guatemala on the same frequency (unless it is turned off). Is John hearing any such thing? If you want to convince me, start ``injecting`` Radio Verdad into my SW receiver in the middle of the day, AND explain exactly how you are doing it! (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glen[n], I have no idea about this computer injection method Dr. Madrid is talking about. Last night the reception was bad, almost normal for Radio Verdad. The report I did send him for 9 Feb was because the reception was better than what I normally receive. I also get nothing during the daytime. I'm just reporting what I'm hearing nothing more. I'm not in a position to know what actually is being done to the signal if anything, only what I receive on my SDR. 73 (J. Cooper, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dr. Madrid, I saw the remarks from Glen[n] Hauser concerning my report. You have to understand that all I am reporting is what I personally hear at the time I have Radio Verdad tuned in, nothing more. I am not hearing any echo. 4055, GUATEMALA. Radio Verdad, at 1800-2000 UT, on 10 Feb. I am receiving no signal at all. This is 1:00-3:00 pm Eastern Time on the East Coast. I usually start to lose the signal around daybreak here. No Signal. (Cooper, Pa) 4055, GUATEMALA. Radio Verdad at 0230-0330 UT, on 10 Feb. I am barely being able to hear or understand the station tonight. There is a lot of atmospheric noise on the tropical bands as a whole tonight. However, this is normal for my location based on atmospheric weather conditions. Poor - JBA (Cooper, Pa) 73 (J.C. to Dr Madrid, cc to gh) [After closing date for this issue and WOR 1812, comes an idea from Ken Zichi: could it be carrier current they are talking about? t.b.c.] ** HUNGARY. 540.00 MW, Magyar R1, Solt, Kossuth, 0910-0920, Jan 22, Hungarian conversation with short musical interludes, 35333. (Anker Petersen, Denmark, DSWCI DX Window Feb 3 via DXLD) The Hungarian Radio -- Radio MR1-Kossuth is continuing transmission on Medium Wave 540 kHz, every day. Weekdays they begin at 0355. They close down at 2135. Language: Only Hungarian. This transmission is important for the State, spreading information about Hungary to the surrounding Hungarian speaking population, living in Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, Serbia, Slovenia and Croatia (Tibor Szilagyi, Västerhaninge, Sweden, DSWCI DX Window Feb 3 via DXLD) ** INDIA. AIR's Live Coverage of 67th Republic Day Parade from Rajpath (= ”King’s Way”), New Delhi Jan 26 is described generally at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhi_Republic_Day_parade It was heard on SW as follows: 6145, AIR Aligarh – 0426 Commentary in Hindi by man and a lady, signal strength was good and slight noise. 7315, AIR Shillong - *0346 Signature tune of AIR, ID and frequency ann in Hindi, same ann in English, mentioned of Republic Day, music, good signal strength with slight hum noise. 7430, AIR Bhopal – 0355 Commentary in Hindi of the parade, signal strength good and less noisy. 7440, AIR Lucknow – 0354 Commentary in Hindi of the parade, signal strength was fair and slight noisy. 15050, AIR Delhi Relay – 0350 Ann in English, live broadcast from Rajpath, good signal strength. This year there was no coverage from AIR Kohima and AIR Itanagar. AIR Kohima is off the air from a long time. As I reported last year there were extensive damage to SW and MW facilities of AIR Itanagar due to fire late September and the repair work might have not been completed. I also haven't heard AIR Itanagar on its MW frequency on 675 and perhaps AIR Itanagar is on the air only via FM. Also I've not heard for a long time AIR Aizawl on SW (Gautam Kumar Sharma, Abhayagiri, Assam, India, DSWCI DX Window Feb 3 via DXLD) ** INDIA. Some logs at the Moman antenna farm near Lamont Alberta. Perseus SDR with various beverage and Wellbrook loop antenna, Feb 7: AIR Chennai, 4920 kHz in English. Man talking about tourism, Hindi after 1515 UT. Very Good with PBS Lhasa under. AIR Jeypur [sic], 5040 kHz // 5010 AIR Thiruvananthapuram (Chennai transmitter site) at 1526 UT in Hindi. English News at 9 at 1530 UT. AIR Chennai, 4920 at 1535 UT in English, News @ 9. Very Good // 4810 AIR Bhopal weak (Mickey Delmage, AB, Feb 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 4970, AIR Shillong, randomly 1356-1547, Feb 10. Pre-empted regular programming for special live coverage from Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Shillong of the women's "football" (soccer) match between India and Sri Lanka; alternating coverage in English and Hindi; part of the 12th South Asian Games being held in both Shillong and also in Guwahati. The games end on Feb 16. http://goo.gl/X2bYJy Look for more live coverage from Shillong. Found no AIR stations //. Shillong today did not switch over to the usual audio feed from Delhi (1512-1515 advertisements; 1515-1530 news in Hindi; 1530-1545 news in English), but instead continued with the live sports coverage. Shillong is the capital and hill station of Meghalaya, also known as "The Abode of Clouds", one of the smallest states in India. It is said that the rolling hills around the town reminded the European settlers of Scotland. Hence, they would also refer to it as the "Scotland of the East" (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1812, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. And strange DRM on 15120 at 0755 UT, Feb 6. 73! (Ivo Ivanov, replying to a NIGERIA post, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via dXLD) Fwd: Re: Aktuell: DRM auf 15120 / AIR Raagam Saturday, February 6, 2016 9:26 AM -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: Re: [A-DX] Aktuell: DRM auf 15120 Datum: Sat, 6 Feb 2016 09:28:41 +0100 Am 06.02.2016 um 08:54 schrieb Roger: SPTAIR Bengaluru, ca. 21 db SNR, 2 x Audio, 1. Hindi Service 2. Raagam.. jeweils 3 kHz NF http://www.rhci-online.net/drm/2016-02-06_15120kHz_0755z_Bengaluru.gif http://www.rhci-online.net/drm/2016-02-06_15120kHz_0838z_Bengaluru.gif "Raagam is an Indian niche radio channel owned and operated by Prasar Bharati. The channel was launched on the Republic Day on 26 January 2016. Raagam is programmed to offer and devoted to classical music. The channel is a 24-hour internet radio channel, which represents a mosaic of Hindustani and Carnatic classical music through DTH facility.[1][2] Raagam was launched at a function in Bengaluru on 26 January 2016. The channel was in the Public Domain with AIR's Mobile App, All India Radio Live' which made available on Android, iOS and Windows platforms from 6 PM on 26 January 2016.[3]..." http://www.airbengaluru.com/ http://raagam.airbengaluru.com/ http://andromeda.shoutca.st:8312/stream (roger, Germany, A-DX, via roger? dxldyg via DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 3325, Feb 4 at 1248, S9 signal with music, so now is it Bougainville or Palangkaraya? 1300 soft announcement, 1302.5 announcement with music and hard-sell ads(?), think language is Indonesian, 1307 music. (At 1315 I start monitoring 6020 and find Bougainville, q.v. is still there on its `day` frequency at local midnight). At 1324, 3325 is playing different music than 6020; at 1356, 3325 has become much weaker, naturally fading down earlier than 6 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1812, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL INTERNET. The Global Voice, monthly `Voices` program, first airing with Chrissie Cochrane interviewing me, monitored Feb 5 at 1730 UT via http://theglobalvoice.info/tunein.php Repeats will be Sat 0630, Mon 1630 and to be available for one year ondemand via http://theglobalvoice.info/gallery.php?show=voices While there, check out the full current program schedule of TGV: http://theglobalvoice.info/schedule.php WORLD OF RADIO on TGV: Airs Thursday at 22:30 UTC, repeats Saturday at 06:00 UTC, and Monday at 17:00 UTC [times shown on the WOR page at TGV archive are incorrect; just before Voices until 1730 Friday was Keith Perron with Focus Asia Pacific]. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. 9549.973, Very odd signal of IRIB Turkish service at 0450 UT, S=9+20dB signal in Doha Qatar remote SDR unit. 2 x 14 kHz!! wideband signals either sideband. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 4, dxldyg via DXLD) ** ITALY. IBC on again this evening --- Hi All, Just seen this on the IBC Facebook page: IBC - Italian Broadcasting Corporation Dear listeners, we will broadcast again as follows: - Friday 5 February from 2200 UT on 6970 kHz USB - Saturday 6 February from 0800 UT on 6970 kHz AM Please spread the news and send your reception reports to ibc@europe.com Good listening! (via Alan Gale, UK, 1713 UT Feb 5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also EUROPE ** JAPAN [and non]. 11815+, Feb 5 at 1411, R. Japan has CCI from algo making a LAH to a fast SAH on the hi side. Aoki indicates it`s either Turkey in Turkish or R. Brasil Central, both of which could be at least that much off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KASHMIR [non]. Tony Rogers heard Voice of Jammu and Kashmir Freedom on 7030 kHz using the WebSDR receiver at Ariel on the West Bank [of ??] from 1430 tune-in to 1445 sign-off on 29 January. Tony adds “The closing announcement clearly mentioned ‘7.230 MHz’ which I think is a frequency they have used in the past for their evening broadcast, so possibly the wrong frequency punched in and it has ended up on 7030 kHz. Nice to hear it!“ (Tony Rogers, 29 January) (Feb BDXC-UK Communication via WORLD OF RADIO 1812, DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 7400, Feb 4 at 1327, Sea Breeze still here, with usual YL, seemingly in English as on Thursdays, heavy ACI from 7405 Radio Martí and Cuban jamming. Seems like there is also some CCI underneath 7400, which would be CRI Burmese via Kunming. 1356 before closing, some more Shiokaze-style talk and music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. PALAU, Very good signal of Furusato no Kaze via BaBcoCk, Feb 6 1430-1500 9960 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg to NEAs Japanese Furusato no Kaze 1600-1630 9975 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg to NEAs Japanese Furusato no Kaze http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/02/very-good-signal-of-furusato-no-kaze.html Very good signal of Nippon no Kaze via BaBcoCk, Feb 6 1500-1530 9975 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg to NEAs Korean Nippon no Kaze 1530-1600 9965 HBN 100 kW / 345 deg to NEAs Korean Nippon no Kaze http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/02/very-good-signal-of-nippon-no-kaze-via.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. National Unity Radio --- This clandestine aimed at North Korea was observed signing-on 7515 at 1300 UT 5 Feb 2016, preceded by a minute of Babcock music. Broadcast opened with their signature tune 'He's a Pirate' from a Pirates of the Caribbean film then opening announcements in Korean. Reception was fair via Global Tuners remote HK rx, also audible with poor reception via Netherlands Twente remote rx (David Kernick, Interval Signals Online, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1812, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Per EiBi, it`s a 2-hour broadcast via TAJIKISTAN, taking over 7515 just after WEWN closes (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1812, DXLD) TAJIKISTAN, Extended schedule of National Unity Radio via BaBcoCk 1300-1600 7515 DB 100 kW / 071 deg NEAs Korean ex 1300-1500 from Feb 1 1800-2000 7515 DB 100 kW / 071 deg NEAs Korean new but no signal Feb 6 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/02/extended-schedule-of-national-unity.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 4885, Feb 10 at 1355, song, and 1400 Korean announcement; Echo of Hope from the SOUTH is the SSOB now at S9+10, better than Australia on 4835. No jamming audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. 15575, Feb 4 at 1449, VP signal S5-7 with flutter, presumed KBS WR in Korean --- first sign of this all winter, the so- called North American service at 14-15, which KBS insists on keeping to the 15 MHz band which won`t propagate thru the winter nights. It`ll be longer before the previous hour 13-14 in English also starts to show, both to continue in A-16 when they will finally work much of the time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KYRGYZ REPUBLIC. 4819.885 kHz, Kyrgyz R1 - KGZ Krasnaya Rechka, Bishkek at 1723 UT, S=8. and \\ 4010.013 kHz at 1728 UT, S=9+10 -62dBm strength. 5129.624 kHz, KGZ, R Sedaye Zindagi, Krasnaya Rechka Bishkek, at 1732 UT, tiny S=4-5 73 wb df5sx jn48or (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Feb 7, dxldyg via DXLD) ** KYRGYZSTAN. 5129.97, SW Relay Service, Krasnaya Rechka Bishkek, 1625 Feb 2, program low mod music, tentative (Mauro Giroletti, IK2GFT- SWL1510, JRC 525 NRD-LOWE HF 150-Elad FDM S2, Antenna LOOP ALA100M- MiniWHIP, Filter PAR Electronics LPF - HPF, Locator grid. Jn 45 Nk, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) ** MALAYSIA. 5965, 8 Feb 2016, 1816-1822, RTM Klasik Nasional FM, Male announcer in Malaysian. Island-style music at 1821-1822. SINPO 23222. (Ed Sylvester, Baghdad, Iraq, JRC NRD 545 and AOR AR5000A Plus 3, Indoor Pixel Magnetic Loop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Oh, good; Ron Howard is no longer hearing it in his morning, suspected terminated. Oh2, Aoki shows TWR via UAE is on 5965 at this time, so are you sure?: 5965 TWR Africa 1800-1815 ...45.. Tigrinya 250 225 Dhabbaya UAE 5965 TWR Africa 1800-1830 1...... Kunama 250 225 Dhabbaya UAE 5965 TWR Africa 1800-1830 ......7 Tigre 250 225 Dhabbaya UAE 5965 TWR Africa 1815-1845 .23456. Tigrinya 250 225 Dhabbaya UAE 2410N 05415E TWR b15 BAB 5965 TWR Africa 1830-1900 1...... Amharic 250 225 Dhabbaya UAE (Glenn Hauser, dxldyg via DXLD) Hi Glenn & Ed, Recently checked 5965 after 1557, (*0900-1557* very strong CRI QRM) and found a clear frequency with no trace of Radio Klasik, but would indeed be wonderful if they have reactivated. When last heard was IDing as "Radio Klasik," formerly "Klasik Nasional." Audio from my 2013 reception on 5965.00 https://goo.gl/d8NhFD (Ron Howard, California, ibid.) On RTM, the language sounded like Tagalog which is similar to Malaysian, so I assume this is the case. Will take a listen and record (Ed, ibid.) ** MALI. 5995, R. Mali, Kati, 2344-2354, 04/2, dialecto local, texto, música pop'; 44433, QRM adjacente. 9635 idem, 1330-..., 05/2, dialecto local, texto; 35443, ou seja, quase invariàvelmente, temos uma portadora forte, porém, com um nível de modulação ou de fonte de áudio muito reduzida ("Carlos L R de Assunção Gonçalves", 4-8 Feb HF observations from SW coast of Portugal, DXLD via dxldyg) ** MEXICO. IFETEL LICITARÁ BANDA DE FRECUENCIA EN UHF PARA USO COMERCIAL --- by gruporadioescuchaargentino En este año, el Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (Ifetel) licitará la banda de frecuencia de 470-608 megahercios (Mhz) en UHF (ultra high frecuency) para uso comercial a fin de que se proporcione el servicio de televisión digital terrestre (televisión abierta) en 148 localidades de todos los estados del país y la Ciudad de México. También asignará para uso público la banda 174-216 MHz de VHF (very high frecuency) para que se cubran sólo 40 localidades de 23 entidades y el Distrito Federal. Para uso social las concesiones sólo cubrirán 6 localidades de los estados de Aguascalientes, Chihuahua, Guerrero, Durango, Jalisco y del Distrito Federal y su área metropolitana. En total, el Ifetel licitará o asiganará diferentes segmentos del espectro canales para cubrir con la TDT 194 localidades. Lo anterior forma parte del programa anual de uso y aprovechamiento de bandas de frecuencias correspondiente a 2016 que el Ifetel dio a conocer a través del diario oficial de la federación (DOF). Además, el organismo regulador también llevará a cabo licitaciones o asignaciones de otras bandas para que sean utilizadas en radiodifusión sonora, telecomunicaciones (como servicios móviles y de banda ancha) y para radio troncalizado y convencional. La banda de frecuencias 88-108 megahercios para el servicio de radiodifusión sonora en frecuencia modulada (FM) se concesionará para uso comercial en 42 localidades del país y para uso público en la misma frecuencia en 18 localidades y otras 69 para uso social. En amplitud modulada (AM) el Ifetel prevé la licitación o asignación en la banda 535-1705 kilohercio para uso comercial en 11 localidades, para uso público en sólo 4 y para uso social en 7. El programa anual del Ifetel reserva las bandas 106-108 MHz en FM y 1605-1705 de AM "para concesiones de radiodifusión sonora de uso social comunitarias e indígenas" pero en caso de que no haya disponibilidad verificará si existe en el resto de la banda de frecuencia que se trate. Para uso comercial pondrá a disposición la banda 2500-2900 megahercios en todo el país para el servicio móvil, pero sujeta al espectro disponible cuando se emita la convocatoria correspondiente. En tanto que la banda 415-420/ 425-430 MHz será para uso público para el servicio de radio troncalizado y convencional en todo el país pero por estado, municipio u localidad, con concesiones sujetas al reordenamiento de dicha banda. La 806-814/851-859 MHz también será para uso público y el servicio de radio troncalizado. El Ifetel también incluyó la banda de frecuencias824-849/ 869-894 MHz para uso social en el servicio de comunicación móvil, pero advirtió que "la utilización de estos segmentos de espectro en concesiones de uso social está disponible en las localidades para las que se determine que existen condiciones de operación libres de interferencias perjudiciales a otras redes o servicios de telecomunicaciones". (tomada de http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ via GRA blog Feb 8 via DXLD) ** MEXICO. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BEAT this week --- [Re article forwarded last week from GRA blog, source unknown]: That's an ancient article, Glenn... April 7, 2015. http://www.e-consulta.com/nota/2015-04-07/economia/licitacion-7-nuevas-estaciones-de-radio-para-puebla I'm fairly sure more Puebla stations were cleared in the PABF 2016. e-consulta is a Puebla site and they had one atrocious apagón article that turned me off. I think I even slammed it somewhere in this thread before. Those stations are finally going up to bid later this year (bidding process IFT-4). (Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ, Feb 5, 2016, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) Today Mexico and the US concluded two days of bilateral talks on communications issues held in Washington. http://www.ift.org.mx/comunicacion-y-medios/comunicados-ift/es/culminan-trabajos-de-coordinacion-bilateral-mexico-estados-unidos-en-materia-de-telecomunicaciones-y Topics covered included the theft of cell phones, roaming, emergency communications as well as issues related to new broadcast stations up for bid in Mexico and digital television. Este programa es público, ajeno a cualquier partido político. Queda prohibido el uso para fines distintos a los establecidos en el programa. Read my Mexico Beat blog (Raymie, Feb 5, ibid.) A small list of some shadows that aren't in the Doug Smith database (my most recent contribution was 25 shadows from the Chiapas state network): XHWX Saltillo XHI Los Mochis XHDF 19.x Pachuca XHCBM Zamora, Mich. - in the RPC, but the pages with the ERP and other technical information are missing. The databases do not list stations without ERPs. Its location is same as XHRAM. XEX Pachuca - auth will not load (broken link). RF has to be at variance. I think there are more missing Azteca shadows in central Mexico that were applied for prior to 2013. I distinctly remember seeing an auth on the Cofetel site for XHDF Amecameca, Edomex, and I know there have to be more (Raymie, Feb 6, ibid.) The Chiapas shadows (and a significant number of others Raymie located earlier in the week) should be up on my site on Tuesday. Most of these I'm not having much luck finding. As you say, the XHCBM facility isn't in there because the tech info is missing from the RPC entry. While looking unsuccessfully for these I found seven different shadows I didn't have!: XHI Guaymas, Sonora XEXs at San Martín Texmelucan, Huaquechula, and San Martín Alchichica all Puebla; Ixtapan de la Sal & Tejupilco de Hidalgo (Edo. México); and Taxco, Guerrero. They should be up by Tuesday as well (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66 http://www.w9wi.com Feb 6, ibid.) It seems Doug skips over accents unlike Raymie; I put some back on, but not always sure whether to with indigenous names (gh) Most of these I'm not having much luck finding. As you say, the XHCBM facility isn't in there because the tech info is missing from the RPC entry. Most of the specified locations seem to be municipal government buildings, much like in the Guanajuato, Aguascalientes and Sonora state networks (Raymie, Feb 6, ibid.) Let's review some of the 10 additional comments in the virtual channel proceeding that were filed between my last review and January 29: CIRT, Televisión Azteca, Televimex, Televisión de Navojoa and Radio Televisión It's not often you get Azteca and Televisa in perfect harmony, but these five filings basically all call for the same things, emphasizing the age of concessionaires as a priority in awarding virtual channels and having concessionaires propose their channels of interest, as well as having a marketing campaign on virtual channels. Another idea is having major channel numbers not be shared unless by express consent of the concessionaire. Universidad de Guadalajara The UDG suggests not allowing a virtual channel corresponding to another station's physical channel to be used, and it also suggests that the IFT assign channels on its own without the concessionaires having to do anything. Colegio de Ingenieros Mecánicos y Electricistas, A.C., Victor Arturo Magallón Loyola These two produced identical filings. They want the IFT to set a coordinated time, date, and ad campaign for the virtual channel switches, and they call for respect of local station identities. José Antonio García Herrera et al. A group of broadcast lawyers http://www.ghs.com.mx/ who are the only other people to heed the call about international coordination, saying: "With regard to the assignment and regulation of virtual channels, the importance and significance of international coordination in regions bordering the United States should be considered, this because all regulation will not be of much use in the border regions without a mechanism or process to coordinate with the US." Cadena Tres I, S.A. de C.V. Cadena Tres wants concessionaires that aren't on air yet, like them, to be able to participate in this process as well (Raymie, Feb 7, ibid.) A radio station in Veracruz could have to close up shop, but not for the usual reasons. The stations in question are XERUV-XHRUV Xalapa, the station of the Universidad Veracruzana. The UV is in dire financial straits and is warning that it may have to close http://www.animalpolitico.com/2016/02/universidad-veracruzana-dice-que-su-operacion-esta-en-riesgo-por-falta-de-pago-del-gobierno-de-duarte/ if the state government does not pay debt currently valued at US$110 million (Raymie, Feb 8, ibid.) ** MONACO. [re 16-05:] ``8728 [USB??], 0758, 3AC, Anthem; m speaker in French; f speaker in English giving transmission schedule and ID; anthem; end at 0802. poor-fair at Mopanui (Also 30/12(poor) and 6/1(poor) at Mosgiel, 0758) (Jonathan Wood, Mosgiel, New Zealand, Lowe HF-150 with 19 and 26m dipoles; at Mopanui, Lowe HF-150 with 46m, dipole, Feb NZ DX Times via DXLD)`` Wasn't this determined ages ago to be from nearby French dirt? (Terry Krueger, FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MOROCCO [and non]. Radio Medi 1, Feb 10 - tx is off & open carrier 0900-1100 9575 NAD 250 kW / 110 deg NoAf tx is off 1100-1140 9575 NAD 250 kW / 110 deg NoAf, dead air from 1140 9575 NAD 250 kW / 110 deg NoAf Arabic/French as scheduled 1530-1600 9575 YAM 300 kW / 290 deg EaAs Chinese R. Japan NHK World: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/02/radio-medi-1-on-feb10-tx-is-off-open.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 6040, UT Sun Feb 7 at 0050, The Mighty KBC via GERMANY is S9+35 for rock music into announcement, contact info in Dutch, as KBC is the #1 SW broadcaster in that language now, tho the program is mostly in English. Het from Brasil 6040.4 is barely detectable this week, almost ignorable, with southerly propagation degraded? Kraig Krist hears from Uncle Eric, who has also said it on air, that this N American service will end after B-15 unless he can get more sponsorship: Nauen transmitter time is expensive. I also suggest he could probably get a lower rate and count on more reliable reception in North America via WBCQ or WRMI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, I emailed Uncle Eric about WBCQ. Alan Weiner was advertising a special rate of $25/hour but perhaps this is no longer offered? I don't think you'd ever find a cheaper rate than that! 73 (Walt Salmaniw, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) $25 is what it costs for 5110 and 9330. 7490 is $50. But maybe WBCQ or WRMI won't hit his target audiences. Why waste money if it won't reach what you want? $25 per hour is what I'm paying for my time on 5110 and 9330 here soon (Paul Walker, AK, ibid.) His target is North America, which except for skip zones is better covered from the edges of North America than from Nauen. This is still on the WBCQ homepage: ``Free radio special continues Get on 9330 or 5110 transmitters for only $25 an hour. Quick start guide: Email us a request for time We will email back available times and where to send program files Pick a time and start date. Pay by PayPal or send check Send us your program You are on the air, on a real radio station Call us today for this great deal. 207-538-9180 or email wbcq@wbcq.com 23 November 2015 by cosmikdebris`` (Glenn Hauser, ibid.)) I wonder what WTWW would charge? (Glenn Blum, ibid.) I contacted WTWW last year. They were initially interested in selling me Time, but when I told them it'd just be a one off one time broadcast, they didn't respond to the two emails after that (Paul Walker, ibid.) ** NEWFOUNDLAND. 6160-, Feb 9 at 0725 UT as I am dozing off, hear an ID for ``The Current on CBC Radio One``, so is it CKZN or CKZU? CBCR1 schedule shows ``The Current Review`` at 3-4 am local time, so it`s not CKZU. Is CKZU on? This time of night should be hearing both (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Checking my overnight Excalibur recording, no sign of CKZU on my 0300 - 1320 overnight recording. CKZN was coming in very well on ~6159.86 kHz with no co-channel QRN. Nothing else on the frequency until 1005 UT when someone fired up on 6160.46 kHz, suspect one of the Brazilians. Despite a carrier surpassing CKZN at times, no audio. -- 73, (Brandon Jordan, KM4PBQ, Fayette County, TN EM55gc, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. I got an e-mail from the QSL Auckland Volmet from New Zealand for broadcast weather forecast at airports in New Zealand and Oceania - 31.01.2016, 1750-1755 UT at a frequency of 6679 kHz. The report sent the e-mail: Tim.Halpin @ airways.co.nz (Dmitry Kutuzov, Ryazan, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" via QSL World, RusDX Feb 7 via DXLD) ** NEW ZEALAND. 11724.984, Radio New Zealand International, via long path Pacific - via South America and Africa continent, fluttery poor S=6 signal, talk by two men at 0529 UT. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 4, dxldyg via DXLD) ** NICARAGUA. NICARÁGUA. 8989-BLS, El Pescador Predicador (O Pescador Pregador), 2314-..., 06/2, propag. relig.; 34343 ("Carlos L R de Assunção Gonçalves", 4-8 Feb HF observations from SW coast of Portugal, DXLD via dxldyg) Does he ever ID that way or is it only the monicker attached to him by DXers? (gh) ** NIGERIA [and non]. 6089.862, accurate frequency of Kaduna Radio Nigeria, drums program at 1710 UT Feb 7, S=9+10dB powerful seldom heard Kaduna signal. 6090 Channel is covered by CRI in Hakka language from Xian til 1657 UT end. 73 wb df5sx jn48or (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Feb 7, dxldyg via DXLD) ** NIGERIA. 15120, 1553 with a hip hop song called "One Nairobi Obaja". Off 1600. There was a wandering buzzer that changed with the modulation (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, Feb 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Subject: [A-DX] Log : 15120 kHz, DRM, Engl, o Nigeria. 1820 UTC / O=5 SNR 22.2 dB. 73, (Michael Gragovski, Germany, Winradio G31DDC, MiniWhip-PAØRDT, HDLA-6, Neu-Ulm, Germany, Feb 8, A-DX via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) Nur als Zuschauer, ohne Decodierungs Software: in Moskau und Zakynthos Griechenland: daten range 15115.090 bis 15124.610 kHz die Datenlücke in der Mitten bei 15119.850 kHz, {Thorsten, ist das die übliche DRM Lücke aus Nigeria ?} sowie drei echte Signal-Peaks zu sehen, an beiden Standorten, also keine Main Power Störungen in Putin City: 15120.587 15122.087 15122.837 kHz. Die rx verglichen mit dem Zeitzeichen bei 15 MHz und Woofferton 15400.000 kHz. Helau, wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also INDIA: 15120 DRM 7254.94, Feb 9 at 0718, VON in French, S9+10 but undermodulated; no sign of anything on 9689.9, which used to be // at least for the preceding hour in Hausa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA [non]. FRANCE, Poor signal of Manara Radio via TDF, Feb 10: 0730-0830 on 15440 ISS 150 kW / 170 deg to WeAf Hausa http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/02/poor-signal-of-manara-radio-via-tdf.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. == Editor's notes == No sign of the old time radio pirate on 6770 in several days. This station had been on more or less continuously for several months. The last log on the FRN was on 25 January (Larry Will, Free Radio Weekly Feb 6 via DXLD) 6770-AM, Feb 7 at 0048, JBA S7 AM signal, presumably the old-time- radio pirate back on at the usual unusable level here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6930-USB, Feb 7 at 0048, weak hard rock reading only S9, much less than 6950 Wolverine. To find a 6930 log on HFU we have to go back to 2304 UT Feb 6, for XLR8, and none later than 0038: http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,26190.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6950-USB, Feb 7 at 0045, big S9+30 signal from a pirate playing torch song, Mae West? 0046 change to ``Supper-Time``; bet it`s Wolverine Radio, confirmed by IDs at 0049, 0058. Still going VG at 0142. Many more logs with playlists, SSTV views, say theme was ``time``, at: http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,26201.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORWAY. LKB LLE 5895 kHz --- Better reception today than yesterday. IDs and request for MP3 sound file reception reports. "Stay tuned to LKB LLE" Then into CW IDs. Heard 1503 UT 7/2. 73 (Nick, Buxton UK, Rank, BDXC-UK yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1812, DXLD) Also readable signal here in Caversham this afternoon on 5895 kHz AM+USB. SIO 252. Scheduled on this frequency 1500-1700 UT. Power is 200 watts USB, 50 watts AM re [per] Svenn Martinsen. Announcements in English and German, ID, address, Morse IDs, YL with Radio Northern Star ID and instrumental music. Conditions must be good this afternoon! 73, (Alan Pennington, Caversham, UK, AOR 7030plus, longwire, Sun Feb 7, WORLD OF RADIO 1812, ibid.) Very weak but Vs and LLs in CW heard around 2121 UT tonight (7/2) on 1611 kHz. Had to use both ferrite sleeve and a small loop to phase out electrical noise. Another station on 1611. Greek pirate? 73 (Nick, Buxton, UK, WORLD OF RADIO 1812, ibid.) ** OKLAHOMA. Earthquake report: a bit of creaking and shaking around the walls/windows, Feb 5 at 1609:44 UT, confirmed by USGS, and another one 3 minutes earlier from same spot I did not notice: 3.4 19km NNE of Enid, Oklahoma 2016-02-05 16:09:30 UTC 5.0 km deep 2.9 19km NNE of Enid, Oklahoma 2016-02-05 16:06:24 UTC 5.0 km deep (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN. Great wideband signal via Twente today. Came up early (just before 1400 UT), so we got the call to prayer (but just "waterfall music" and the announcement -- no muezzin) and all of the news for a change. And Jazz Café, which I for one prefer to some of their other music. ;-) If my recording comes out well, will post to archive.org and the SRAA. Audio cut at about 1504 UT resulting in dead air instead of going to Arabic. At 1634 we still have a very strong unmodulated carrier -- doing nothing (except perhaps reserving the frequency). This isn't the first time this has happened recently. Why waste money just transmitting a carrier? Sure, probably the electricity cost isn't as much as when audio is transmitted but still a waste of money even for the rich Sultanate. Does no one at the station actually monitor the output? Surely, if they're trouble-shooting the problem (assuming they know about it), it shouldn't take that long (-- Richard Langley, NB, 5 Feb, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. David Ricquish writes on the WRTH Facebook group: February 3 2016: NBC Madang [called Radio Madang by locals] is on 3260 SW with 4 kW [reduced from 19 kW says the local technician] and 90.7 FM with 250 W. Daily schedule: 1900-2300 UT NBC Madang; 2300-0700 UT relay NBC National from Port Moresby; 0700-1200 UT NBC Madang; and 1200-0200 UT [must mean 1200-1900 to round out the 24h --- gh] relay NBC National from Port Moresby. The AM transmitter on 864 is no longer operational. Radio Wantok Light shares the NBC FM tower for 105.9 FM with 600 W which covers a greater area. Contact is Makalai Bell, Director Provincial Radio, NBC Madang. Email is rmadang@nbc.com.pg This information is correct as at February 3 2016 NZ date. Posted by: (Mike Terry, Feb 8, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1812, DXLD) Hi Mike, Thanks for sharing the interesting post from David re NBC Madang. However a couple of points. 1. I should think that SW TX power reduced from 10 kW down to 4 kW, not 19 kW (typo?) 2. The FM frequency of 90.7 should be for NBC Karai Radio in Madang & not NBC Madang. Happy to be proved wrong on this, but 90.7 MHz is a standard Karai service frequency throughout PNG. That said, there are frequency reassignments occurring within PNG for the NBC FM frequencies at the moment (Ian, NSW, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3260, NBC Madang, 1200+, Feb 7. The syndicated (Florida, USA) Sunday program "Island Praise" presented by Stacy Rose, with her playing Caribbean gospel music (reggae, soca, calypso, hip hop gospel, etc.); off the air by 1229 check; clearly // 6020 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1812, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Continued at BOUGAINVILLE Hi Glenn, Stacy's response below to my posting to her "Island Praise" Facebook page, regarding my SW reception of her Sunday show. Ron --- https://goo.gl/zIVBOs "Wowow!!! Hi Ron!! That's wild! Soooo happy that you are able to hear the show! Thanks for listening and reaching out. Blessings! Happy Chinese New Year to you too!" (Ron Howard, CA, dxldyg via DXLD) It's a pity, both remote Perseus SDR units at eastern Thailand and at Brisbane Queensland Australia are OFF today. 3259.996, Radio Madang, poor S=4-5 signal, Pidgin?, at 1050 UT on Feb 2, wandered up from x.992 kHz. 3274.993, NBC Southern Highlands logged at 1054 UT on Feb 2. Poor and tiny at S=4-5 level in remote Tokyo SDR. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 2, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1812, DXLD) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 7325, Wantok Radio Light, Port Moresby, OM and YL. Program was conducted in the voice of a man and a woman in English local language, Video part ll [sic]. SINPO 24222. Day 04 February 2016 0936 to 0941 UT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdUQQbGloiY&feature=youtu.be RX: Tecsun S-2000, Antenna: Long wire 700 Meters (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina, MT, Brazil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 7325, Wantok Radio Light, Port Moresby - Music Gospel - Gospel musics SINPO 35222. Day 04 [sic] February 2016 0927 UT. Note: The lists SW suggests AIR Jaipur is OFF at 0931 UT, And not what happened here maybe they are OFF, or is something propagation because my audio was very bad. Now that is S3 improved. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxuC3qlW34M&feature=youtu.be RX: Tecsun S-2000, Antenna: Long wire 700 Meters (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT, Brazil, Feb 5, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) So was this second log supposed to be on Feb 5, not Feb 4?? (gh) 7325-, Feb 4 at 1257, very poor carrier remains, after CRI Japanese cuts off for a couple minutes, so presumed Wantok Radio Light is active (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU [and non]. 5980, Feb 6 at 0103, JBA carrier(s) way under heavy Cuban pulse jamming against no Martí; no point in trying to catch the Chaski cutoff this time. At least the other non-jamming noise is not on now. 5980, Feb 7 at 0052, one JBA carrier, suffering from splash de 5990 CRI/Cuba music. From *0059 I now detect a second JBA carrier slightly offset causing a double-tone het with BFO, i.e. first R. Chaski, and second, BBC UAE about to start Hindi. After 0100 the ACI splash is from WRMIBS, but listening very carefully I can tell that one of the 5980 carriers, Chaski, goes away about 0105:41*, which is 58.5 seconds later than 0104:42.5* on January 29, nine nights ago, averaging 6.5 seconds later per (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. WRTH Facebook group: Victor Goonetilleke writes: Radio Veritas Asia: 0030-0055 15280 Hindi is now discontinued. Only on the Web and 11825 in the evening however, continues. They are winding down operations slowly. By the end of the year much of S. Asian broadcasts will be gone from Short Wave, only on the web, but I have not checked the web. For me Radio is on the air. Web is something else. I just don't have the time or inclination!! Posted by: (Mike Terry, Feb 7, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1812, DXLD) ** ROMANIA. 9655, Feb 8 at 1420, S8 station in Romanian, safely assuming it`s RRI as scheduled. I was looking for KNLS Alaska as also scheduled in Chinese, but no trace of it here, nor on 9615 in English. 1422 plays ``Love Me, Tender`` song in English but not sure it`s Elvis; did anyone else dare sing it? 1424 back to Romanian announcement (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. A-16 schedule of Radio Romania International from March 27 ARABIC 0630-0656 9770GAL 11790GAL 13750TIG 15700TIG 1200-1226 13790TIG 15150GAL 1530-1556 13660TIG 15130GAL AROMANIAN 1430-1456 ^5910SAF, not Macedonian 1630-1656 ^5910SAF, not Macedonian 1830-1856 ^5910SAF, not Macedonian CHINESE 0400-0426 *15220TIG 17780TIG 1230-1256 15160TIG 17755TIG new time ENGLISH 0000-0056 9730TIG 11800TIG 0300-0356 9730TIG 11800TIG 11825GAL *15220GAL 0530-0556 *7330TIG 9620GAL 17760GAL 21500TIG 1100-1156 13790TIG 15130TIG 15150GAL 17670GAL 1700-1756 9540TIG *11810TIG 2030-2056 6170GAL *11870GAL 13650TIG 15170TIG 2200-2256 7325TIG 7430GAL 9760GAL 9790TIG FRENCH 0100-0156 9730TIG 11800TIG 0500-0526 *7330GAL 9620GAL 11790TIG 15340TIG 1000-1056 11650GAL 15130TIG 15400GAL 17680TIG 1600-1656 9500TIG 11950GAL 2000-2026 6170GAL *11870GAL GERMAN 0600-0626 *7330TIG 9700TIG 1400-1456 9600TIG 11910TIG 1800-1856 9540TIG *11800TIG ITALIAN 1400-1426 ^9520SAF 1600-1626 ^5910SAF 1800-1826 *^5910SAF ROMANIAN 0000-0156 7335GAL 9790GAL 0400-0456 7330GAL 9620GAL 0700-0756 9540TIG 11790TIG 15400GAL 17750GAL "Curierul romanesc" Sun only 0800-0856 11650GAL 13750TIG 15400GAL 15700TIG "Curierul romanesc" Sun only 0900-0956 11650GAL 15400GAL 15700TIG 17680TIG "Curierul romanesc" Sun only 1200-1226 11700GAL 15130TIG 1200-1256 ^7375SAF-100kW 1300-1456 11950GAL 15130GAL 1530-1556 11900GAL 15300TIG 1600-1656 11800TIG 13660TIG to Israel 1700-1756 9500GAL 11975GAL 1800-1856 9500GAL 11975GAL 1900-1956 9500GAL 11975GAL RUSSIAN 0430-0456 *7390TIG 9770TIG 1300-1356 13740TIG 15160TIG extended to 60 minutes 1500-1526 *5925TIG 9500TIG shortened to 30 minutes SERBIAN 1530-1556 ^5910SAF 1730-1756 ^5910SAF 1930-1956 ^5910SAF SPANISH 0200-0256 9730TIG 9790GAL 11800TIG 11945GAL 1900-1956 15450TIG 17800TIG 2100-2156 15170TIG 17745TIG 2300-2356 9760GAL 11795GAL 13730TIG 15400TIG UKRAINIAN 1500-1526 ^5910SAF 1700-1726 ^5910SAF 1900-1926 ^5910SAF ^ Saftica 100 kW, all other Galbeni and Tsiganeshti 300 kW. * DRM via Saftica 100 kW; Galbeni or Tsiganeshti 300 kW. (RRI-RRO schedule; via Radiocom facilities at Saftica, Galbeni and Tsiganeshti; via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 7, BCDX 7 Feb via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. I Got eQSL Radio Komintern. January 29, 2016 / 1442-1501 UT / 6990 kHz. I asked why the station rarely announces its name on the air. He received the answer: "The fact that I do not call them the name of the air station. Komintern, yes, it's probably my fault. I will write soon in mp.3 file through a microphone his speech, which will be discussed listeners what they are listening to the radio and at what frequency, perhaps something else. This file will be automatically played 1-2 times per hour. Sincerely, Sergei, the city Rossosh, Voronezh region." (AK) (Anatoly Klepov, Moscow, Russia, QSL World via RusDX Feb 7 via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. [Re authorization for resuming SW on 41 mb:] Yakutsk is on UT +9 hours so the U times for the above transmissions should probably be Mon-Fri 2100-2400, 0300-0500, 0900-1200; Sat-Sun 2200-0500, 0900- 1200 UT (Ed., Feb BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** RUSSIA [and non]. CREDIBILITY OF RUSSIAN MEDIA LACKING IN BALTIC NATIONS FEBRUARY 9, 2016 A Chechen woman looks at a TV screen with Russian President Vladimir Putin. (AP Photo_Musa Sadulayev) [caption] Washington, D.C. - Russian speakers in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania rank Kremlin-backed media as the least trustworthy among international, Russian Federation and domestic news sources, according to research presented by the Broadcasting Board of Governors yesterday. In addition, only those survey respondents who considered Russian- backed media to be credible showed a majority support for President Vladimir Putin's domestic and international policies. In the three Baltic nations and Moldova, consuming Russian-backed media did not correlate with support for Russia's policies. The BBG data found that domestic media ranked first in trustworthiness in Estonia (80 percent) and Latvia (79 percent). International media took first in Lithuania (74 percent) and in Moldova there was a statistical tie between international media (45 percent), Russian- backed media (42 percent) and domestic media (42 percent). The findings were unveiled at Thursday's research briefing conducted by the BBG and Gallup on the consumption and influence of Russian- language media in Russia's periphery. Gallup's World Poll data, which was conducted in 2014 shortly after the Russian annexation of Crimea and hence over a year before the BBG data in the Baltics and Moldova was collected, examined how respondents in 12 former Soviet Union countries followed news about Russian actions in Ukraine and Crimea. Data showed the majority of respondents followed the events very closely and reported finding Russian media reliable. For some, that translated into support for some Russian policies. According to the 2014 Gallup findings, in seven of the 10 countries surveyed, the majority of respondents who consumed both "Western" and Russian media showed support for Russia's annexation of Crimea. "Western" media as defined in the Gallup World Poll survey did not specifically include or exclude U.S. international media, according to Gallup presenter Neli Esipova. Since this survey was initiated, the BBG language services at Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) have added or expanded more than 35 new programs on multiple media platforms in Russian, Ukrainian, and other languages to reach new audiences in the former Soviet space and around the world. Jeffrey Trimble, Deputy Director for the International Broadcasting Bureau, outlined the BBG's strategy in the region and highlighted the flag-ship program Current Time, a daily 30-minute Russian-language television news program produced by VOA and RFE/RL. Current Time is now on the air in nine countries via 25 media outlets. The European version airs in Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Lithuania, and Latvia, with segments of the program airing in Israel. A Central Asia version airs in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan. Weekend Current Time programs -- "Itogi" by VOA and "Nedelya" by RFE/RL -- are on the air as well. Current Time also reaches Russian- speaking news seekers worldwide via digital platforms curated by RFE/RL's DIGIM team, which was launched in September 2015 and which produces and disseminates innovative cross-platform digital content, promotes the Current Time brand in the digital space, and engages Russian-language audiences on social media. Russian authorities do not allow placement of Current Time on domestic television stations. Presenters at the research briefing cautioned that comparing the Gallup World Poll survey and the Gallup survey conducted for BBG was problematic, as the surveys targeted different countries, were conducted over a year apart and had several methodological differences, including question wording, context and sampling. A video and briefing documents are available on the BBG website. http://www.bbg.gov/blog/2016/01/20/assessing-russias-influence-in-its-periphery-is-russia-really-winning-an-information-war/ (BBG via Hansjoerg Biener, DXLD) ** SAINT KITTS & NEVIS. Coming SW station? I was awake earlier than usual today. Checked a couple of web pages and was pulling email when I turned the TV on and flipped through the channels. Stopped on one of the LeSea channels when I saw a Kaito crank radio on the screen. Turns out that Jim Bakker is selling them on his show. I thought the price was a little inflated but he's claiming that he's purchased all of the last run of these radios. Then they cut to a prerecorded segment that was filmed on the isle of Saint Kitts if I understood them correctly. Was an interview with Bakker conducted outdoors with several other people affiliated with some religious organization. They have one, possibly three? radio towers for sale. Bakker is trying to raise money to purchase them. He says it so that "when the USA goes off the grid because of EMP we can blanket the USA with the gospel". He's asking for donations, wants to sell the radios in batches of three and four and from I gathered in the ten minutes that I watched wants to build his own SW station on the isle of Saint Kitts. The interview with Bakker was done by TruNews and the antenna and facilities were abandoned by something called Radio Paradise. They talked about the grid being down and nothing in this country working as in an EMP situation. He wants to be able to broadcast into this country. Guess no one told him that in case of EMP no one would be able to hear him as the radios wouldn't work. For what it's worth, the guy from TruNews mentioned something about three antennas and three transmitters. So for a donation of twenty-five bucks you can become a member of Jim Bakker's radio club and receive a free copy of the journal he kept while in prison :) That's all I have. If I have to, I suppose I could watch the show another time and see if they say anything more about it, but I'm not looking forward to doing it. [later:] In the picture that was on the screen there was one tower and the little building at the bottom, transmitter building?, was terribly overgrown with all sorts of vegetation and might have been damaged. The longer I think about this, the more that comes back, so I guess I haven't lost all of my mind yet (John Carver, Mid-North Indiana, Feb 8, WORLD OF RADIO 1812, DX LISTENING DIGEST) John, Tnx for the info. They are talking about 820 kHz St Kitts station, R. Paradise, which was given to Rick Wiles, TruNews, but as I understand it still don`t have back on the air via MW, let alone SW. (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1812, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAIPAN. 11850.04, Feb 5 at 1409, S9 signal in Vietnamese (at first I thought it sounded more Cambodian), i.e. RFA due west from Agingan Point {BTW, Aoki misspells it Agignan --- at least I think so after some web research} (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAO TOME [and non]. [Re 1530 logs in USA:] Glenn, If memory serves, when we first put São Tomé on (only 100 kW then) the first audio was the Yankee Doodle interval signal! [On the other hand, favorite first audio on several domestic stations has been Memphis Slim's "If You See Kay" (tell her I still love her)] (Ben Dawson, WA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 9714.978, BSKSA Saudi Radio from Riyadh in Arabic, S=9+25dB signal in Qatar SDR unit, BUT AUDIO MUCH UNDERMODULATED! at 0458 UT on Febr 4. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 4, dxldyg via DXLD) ** SAUDI ARABIA. Febr 8 at 2000-2030 UT here in southern Germany: 11930, BSKSA Riyadh HQ prayer, S=9+15dB. Underneath: tiny IBB R Martí Spanish from Greenville NC-USA. 11914.989, BSKSA Riyadh HQ prayer, S=9+30dB. 11820.044, BSKSA Riyadh HQ prayer, S=9+40dB powerhouse at 2018 UT. {compare strength against 11860 kHz R Sana'a!} 11860, ARS, Radio Sana'a Arabic, female news reader at 2003 UT, S=6, very emotionally committed active female voice, modern sound. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Feb 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SEYCHELLES [non]. CHINA vs SRI LANKA, Strong co-channel between CNR-2 and FEBA Radio, Feb 8: 1330-1415 on 9775 BEI 150 kW / 270 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-2 1330-1345 on 9775 TRM 125 kW / 345 deg to SoAs English FEBA Radio 1345-1400 on 9775 TRM 125 kW / 345 deg to SoAs Kannada FEBA Radio 1400-1415 on 9775 TRM 125 kW / 345 deg to SoAs Tamil FEBA Radio http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/02/strong-co-ch-between-cnr-2-and-feba.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DXLD) ** SOUTH AFRICA. I got e-QSL from the official radio station of the South Africa - Cape Town Radio / ZSC for broadcast test Weather Forecast - 31.01.2016, 1800-1804 UT at a frequency of 8740 kHz. The report sent the e-mail: maritimeradio @ ixmail.co.za Confirmation of Ashraf Khan. Also sent a lot of information about Telkom Maritime Services (Dmitry Kutuzov, Ryazan, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" via QSL World, RusDX Feb 7 via DXLD) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non non]. 17530, WHRI Cypress Creek SC (presumed); 2044, 4-Feb; Bro. HyStairical mentions that Glenn Hauser called him scary! B.S. just passed it off without much comment. Of course the BIG question is; Does B.S. listen to Glenn, or does one of his supporters? SIO=3+54- (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, 5525 Whitehall St., Midland MI 48642-3156, Drake R8B + 185' & 60' RW + 125' bow-tie, logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non]. The "Wise" Words of Brother Stair --- Dear Glenn Hauser, I have listened to your shortwave program World of Radio for several years now and I follow your logs on Hard Core DX. I am a shortwave listener and enthusiast in Southern New York, and I even had a program on WBCQ for the first half of 2015. Anyways, I was monitoring the frequencies that Brother Stair was on tonight and I just happened to hear him begin to talk about you, so I figured I'd record it and let you get a laugh or two of it. https://soundcloud.com/user-99617771/brother-stair-talks-about-glenn-hauser-7355-khz All the best, (John Jurasek, Feb 5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3185, UT Sat Feb 6 at 0139, I find Brother Scare via WWRB is talking about ME. I`m expecting this since some listeners warned me he was doing so earlier on Friday, and we know he repeats stuff hour after hour each day. Says I find him ``scary``. NO, I find that he is *trying to scare* listeners. Apparently he has read my remarx about shoveling even more dough to WRMI, buying up ten transmitters` time. That`s the result of a million-dollar donation he got, and wonders if I am jealous. Says he is now on 12 transmitters, 300 hours per day (must be more than that, adding in all the other SW stations to the 240 on 10 WRMIs alone), and his goal is to be on 100 transmitters to ``take over the SW spectrum, for a period of time``. Doesn`t care if I and other ``antagonists`` don`t like him, as he is preaching only to Godly people (if so already, why do they need him?? O yeah, to remind them the world is about to end). Refers also to ``Brother Jeff`` at WRMI who said ``we`re going to help you reach the world``. Then on to something about Franklin Graham and when Billy dies that being another sign of the End Times (???). I don`t think I heard all the instances he mentioned me by name. The ``100 transmitters`` bit came up again at 1139 on 3185 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) SECRETLAND, Brother Stair TOM via SPL Secretbrod on February 6. Ralph G. Stair talking about Glenn Hauser from 2039 on 5900 SCB 050 kW / 306 deg to WeEu English from 2039 on 9465 SCB 100 kW / 195 deg to WeAf English from 2039 on 9500 SCB 100 kW / 306 deg to ENAm English http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/02/brother-stair-via-spl-on-february-6.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Brother Stair on Glenn Hauser --- As I was tuning through an overnight SDR recording, I was surprised to hear Brother Stair mentioning Glenn Hauser as I tuned by 5015. Below is a short recording from 0938 UT. He seemed to enjoy the Brother Scare moniker, he used it a few times after the recording also. http://swldx.us/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Brother-Stair-on-Glenn-Hauser.mp3 -- 73, (Brandon Jordan, KM4PBQ, Fayette County, TN EM55gc http://www.swldx.us Feb 9, dxldyg via DXLD) Note the date span for above logs from Feb 4 to 9 ??? Perhaps this be typical of the repetitiousness of BS. More below under UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 21675, Feb 8 circa 1443, WRMI is barely audible, but sure sounds like Brother Scare; 1719 UT recheck, now 21675 is good, much better than synchronized // 15770 and 11825. So what`s become of Radio Africa Network? RAN was also carrying BS but supposedly from 1000 until stopping at 1400. So did WRMI or RAN fail to make the switch, or is RAN gone? Ivo Ivanov later confirms it`s still BS on 21675 past 1500 and 1600. Mistake or replacement? By the time I check, Feb 9 at 1947, 21675 is back to non-BS programming. BTW, some days after 2200 they run old-time-radio secular episodes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) USA, WRMI relay Brother Stair, instead of Radio Africa Network on Feb 8 from 1400 on 21675 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg to NCAf English tx#07 Okeechobee http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/02/wrmi-relay-brother-stair-instead-of.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DXLD) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [and non]. Updated B-15 schedule of Brother HySTAIRical TOM: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/02/updated-b-15-schedule-of-brother.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, Circa Feb 9, dxldyg via DXLD) ** SPAIN. 9690, Feb 7 at 1511, JBA signal presumably REE as scheduled from 1500 on weekends only to ``North America``, reproving that they don`t know the first thing about Propagation 101. Instead, the best signal here is 15500, with very weak ones also on 15390 and 17755. 15500 is really 200 kW at 110 degrees for CIRAFs 38,39,47,48, i.e. Libya to Gabon to Kenya to Oman to Turkey, but directly off the back is 290 degrees, close enough for us, and in fact the exact reverse beam allegedly employed on 9690 except it`s too low to propagate. Of course, it`s all about silly ballgames on weekends, so who cares? Lots of alternatives are planned for A-16, including possibly going back to 17855 for NAm, or staying on 9690 when it would be even more useless in the summer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. 11905, Feb 7 at *0114:10.5, carrier cuts on at S5 level, prélude right on time from 0114:46.5, 2+1 mis-timesignal ends at 0115:16, YL sign-on for SLBC. Her modulation is somewhat suptorted unlike the music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. 7215, SAO TOME. Afia Darfur Radio, Pinheira, at 0305, on 4 Feb. A male speaker was talking to a male announcer in what sounded like a call in to the station. The listed language is Arabic. Fair (J. Cooper, Lebanon, PA, Winradio-G33DDC, CommRadio CR-1a, GAP- Hear It-In Line Module, Wellbrook ALA-1530S+, Wellbrook ALA1530 LN Pro, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. NETHERLANDS, 9600, 2/9 0420-0425 R. Tamazuj, Issoudun [FRANCE site], in Sudanese (Arabic Sudan). YL/OM talks- conversation; 0425 s/off (not 0430). Fair broadcast, 35433. Parallel logs on 7315, 35332; 15550 kHz, no signal (DXer José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX), Cabedelo [Paraíba], Brazil, Sony ICF-SW100S, Portable Telescopic antenna, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** SWEDEN. PARLIAMENT CONFIRMS REJECTION OF DAB RADIO IN SWEDEN [updated] (3 Feb 2016) http://digitalradioinsider.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/parliament-confirms-rejection-of-dab.html Public radio continues on FM and will push for extending its remit to include digital radio online. The Constitutional Standing Committee (KU) in Riksdagen (the Parliament) has processed the government missive regarding the 2015 National Audit review of digital radio in which the proposal for a transition from FM to DAB+ in 2017-2022 was rejected. After a short debate and without objection from any of the eight political parties Riksdagen today appended the missive to the protocol. This marks the end of 24 years of efforts to replace FM with DAB in Sweden. Already in June 2015 the Government took the decision to reject the proposal for a digital transition for terrestrial radio. In November this was piggy-backed in the budget proposal to the Parliament. This vote in the committee did not come as a big surprise as there has been an increasing skepticism in most parties against closing the FM band. A year ago in the consultation round the proposal was put into question or rejected by most qualified state institutions as PTS the telecom authority, KTH Royal Institute Of Technology, the Armed Forces, the Transport Agency and the Competition Authority as well as organizations as Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Ericsson and the Community Radio Assn. KU has been listening to the arguments for DAB+ from the two commercial networks and the public radio Sveriges Radio (SR) as well as critical comments by the Public Service Council. KU notes that the Government in its missive says that it cannot be ruled out that the question of digitalization of terrestrial radio will be on a future agenda. KU is satisfied with the Government plan to observe international developments. However, there was no other comments by the committee other than the missive should be appended to the protocol. This marks the end of 24 year period of futile efforts to introduce the DAB technology in Sweden. SR started testing DAB in Stockholm continuous since 1992 and officially went on air 1995 the same year as BBC introduced DAB in the UK. 2005 DAB was rejected for the first time by the socialdemocratic government. Program have been broadcast in an inofficial mode via DAB and DAB+ transmitter in four major cities but few listeners are reported. Today up to a third of all listening on the public radio channels are on-line. This is much due to the high smartphone usage on 3G/4G LTE networks in Sweden. While forced to leave the DAB agenda SR will now request that the politicians will include its Internet activities in the next public service remit 2018. The two commercial radio networks Bauer and MTG still hold licenses to start DAB+ broadcasting later this year. But they are not expected to go DAB alone without having the public radio onboard. 60 % of the radio audience in Sweden is listening to SR. In the consultation round the DAB proposal was rejected by the community radio organisations (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** TAJIKISTAN [and non]. Weak signal of Voice of Tajik on February 10: from 1255 on 7245 DB 100 kW / non-dir to CeAs Arabic from 1305 on 7245 DB 100 kW / non-dir to CeAs English from 1405 on 7245 DB 100 kW / non-dir to CeAs Tajik co-channel on 7245 BEI 150 kW / non-dir to EaAs Chinese CNR-2 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/02/weak-signal-of-voice-of-tajik-on.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DXLD) ** TIBET [non]. TAJIKISTAN/MADAGASCAR [+ CHN mainland] Voice of Tibet observed Feb 1 / 5 1200-1230 15543 DB 100 kW 95 deg to EaAS Chinese, 15540 CNR1 jamming, 15545 CNR1 jamming on Febr 5. 1230-1237 15568 DB 100 kW 131 deg to CeAS Tibetan, no jamming at 1230, jamming starts late at 1234 UT on 15570 kHz. On Febr 5 DB was on air on 15568 kHz already at 1224 UT. CNR1 jamming on 15570 kHz followed late with ID at 12.33:30 UT. 1238-1300 15562 DB 100 kW 131 deg to CeAS Tibetan. 15560 CNR1 jamming came late on air at 12.43:20 UT. \\ CNR1 on 13610 11925 11710 9860 9845 9830 9500 kHz. 1300-1400 12007*DB 100 kW 95 deg to EaAS Chinese, no jamming til 1304 or 1317 UT, then 12005 kHz, both CNR1 jamming and Radio Farda too. 1300-1329:05 13582 DB 100 kW 131 deg to CeAS Tibetan, ex-11512 kHz. No CNR1 jamming visible on Febr 5. 1329:35-1400 11512 DB 100 kW 131 deg to CeAS Tibetan. No CNR1 jamming visible on Febr 1 and 5. 1330-1400 12013#DB 100 kW 95 deg to EaAS Chinese, Febr 1. 12015 CRI Chinese. 1330-1335 12007*DB 100 kW 95 deg to EaAS Chinese, Febr 5 til 1335:00 1335-1400 12013#DB 100 kW 95 deg to EaAS Chinese, Febr 5 from 1335:05 1400-1407 11512 DB 100 kW 131 deg to CeAS Tibetan, no jamming Febr 1, CNR1 jamming 11510 kHz on Febr 5. Move 11512 to 11517 kHz already at 1405 UT on Febr 5. 1400-1407 15565 MDC 250 kW 45 deg to CeAS Tibetan, Monday/Friday 1407-1430 11517 DB 100 kW 131 deg to CeAS Tibetan, no jamming Feb 1. CNR1 jamming 11510 kHz on Feb 5. TX cut off at 14.30:33 UT on Feb 1. 1407-1428:08 UT 15570 MDC 250 kW 45 deg to CeAS Tibetan, Monday/Friday CHN mainland Firedrake mx jamming co-channel underneath of MDG 15570 kHz signal on Febr 5. Firedrake TX cut off at 14.30:33 UT on Febr 1st, at 14.30:05 UT on Febr 5th. * strong QRM from Radio Farda nominal 12005 via Biblis-Germany, and CNR1 jamming around 1330 UT. # strong QRM from CRI in Chinese nom. 12015 via Urumqi-China. I have gained the impression that China's JAMMING action against Voice of Tibet transmission via Dushanbe and Madagascar, has few reduced now in 2016. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 1 / 5, dxldyg via DXLD) ** TURKEY. 9820.020, TRT Emirler in Turkish, 2 x 5.3 kHz wideband signal, S=9+25dB into remote Doha Qatar SDR unit. Turkish female presenter heard at 0521 UT on Febr 4 [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 4, dxldyg via DXLD) 12035.025, Feb 8 at 1428, V. of Turkey IS, ID in unknown language but probably Kazakh, and stays on 12035+ thru accurate timesignal at 1430 and opening in presumed Kazakh. Still on 12035+ past 1437, so the poor Kazakhs are missing their service on 9785, as yet again the Emirler operator has been asleep at the switch, failing to make the change to 9785 a few minutes before 1430. When they are really on 9785, VOT should announce that listeners should check 12035 if they don`t hear anything on 9785; yeah, right (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U A E. NEW MALAYALAM RADIO CHANNEL LAUNCHED IN UAE February 2, 2016 Courtesy Abu Dhabi Media http://www.thenational.ae/arts-life/from-holly-to-bolly/new-malayalam-radio-channel-launched-in-uae The world’s first Malayalam-language digital radio station is now broadcasting from Abu Dhabi. Pravasi Bharathi 810 AM was launched with a live broadcast from popular playback singer, G Venugopal. The official switch-on was performed by Abdul Rahman Awadh Al Harthi, executive director of radio for Abu Dhabi Media, and Noushad Abdul Rahuman, chairman of Pravasi Bharathi Broadcasting Corporation. Also present at the inauguration ceremony were K?C Joseph, Kerala’s minister for rural development, planning, culture and Norka. Pravasi Bharathi 810 AM is also the first digital-radio station in the Middle East and North Africa region. The channel is broadcast under the licence of Abu Dhabi Media and Media Zone Authority, Abu Dhabi. The station hosts analogue transmission from 5am to 12.10am each day, with digital transmission between 12.10am and 5am every day, broadcast from its headquarters in Al Maqta. – The National staff (via Tony Ashar, Indonesia, DXLD) Digital, like what? Don`t they know there are several systems? DRM? DAB? IBOC? LT = UT +4, so ``digital`` hours would be 2010-0100 UT. WRTH 2016 shows 810, 50 kW from Maqtaa, already the prime MW frequency of Abu Dhabi Media Company (Pub.), in Arabic (only?) (gh, DXLD) ** U K. 7445, Feb 7 at 0151, huge steady S9+45 signal with talk in presumed Dari as scheduled for BBC via Woofferton, 250 kW at 82 degrees. Until I looked it up, I was thinking this bigsig had to be Greenville substituting for an overseas IBB site, if a VOA service. For comparison, Romania to North America had only S9+25 signals on 7325 and 7340 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [Re 16-05:]. BURNS, OREGON ON HAM RADIO --- Glen[n]: Tennessee ham radio operator David Parrish (callsign KI4THY) is interviewing various people living in Burns, Oregon with his phone patch and transmitting the conversations over the air on 3843 kHz [LSB?]. He has done this on previous nights as well. He has spoken to local citizen activist YouTubers, a mother and daughter working as manager and waitress at a local tavern, a desk clerk at a local motel and other figures. Other ham radio operators and phone callers from around the U.S. are asking questions and making comments in the discussion. It is also being streamed on http://livehams.com by another ham (Des Preston, KB8UYJ, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Sent from my iPhone, 0722 UT Jan 29, DX LISTENING DIGEST via dxldyg without delay, WORLD OF RADIO 1811) Despite posting the above to the 800+ DXLD yg members, it got zero response, and I myself did not get around to checking it until: 3843-LSB, Feb 4 at 0532, S9+25 signal from main ham about the Burns, Oregon standoff at a National Wildlife Refuge. Says people will be calling in during next hour. Hopes someone will record and put it on YouTube. It`s ``KI4THY, Captain Dave, here`` at 0533. Jamie and Dan will be live from the Pine Room Lounge in Burns shortly, a ``real volatile situation``. 0537 someone on phone, Ernest, KG4QIX, who is ``almost twin`` of KI4THY, really brothers? Invites SWLs to call in, but never hear a phone number. Brief `jamming` by someone singing. Reference to livehams.com; and to High Desert Amateur Radio Group, in Bend and Burns. Waiting for people to get off work; 0542 Dave is ``taking a break to change the ice on the deck``, ha ha. Now a spoiler emits several ``oink, oinx`` in the pause. 0550 resumes net. Says Danny in Burns OR is coming up; 0601 ``we got four people hanging on out there``. Unfortunately, at this point I have to QRX and finish distributing WORLD OF RADIO. Apparently they are doing this every night around midnight Central, and will continue for the duration. Not till 0733 UT am I back on 3843-LSB and find the post-discussion still going about this ``cliff-hanger``. Someone asks Dave about his phone patch. Says it`s home-made, and with a Bluetooth module it`s easy to hook up a cell phone to it. After transmission from an N5 in Waco, ``keep your powder dry``, trying to clear the net. Someone says ``tune to 3833 for the rest of the story``, but I hear nothing there immediately in a quick check. Since I missed the body of the broadcast (?) tonight, I`m still not quite sure where Dave and his friends are coming from. Are they doing impartial journalism by interviewing onlookers in Burns, or are they militia supporters? Or some of both? The question also arises whether this use of ham radio is kosher, altho it certainly makes for interesting monitoring. At least they are not trying to hide anything, using their callsigns. Where is KI4THY? 691 LAKEVIEW ST, ESTILL SPRINGS, TN 37330. His QRZ.com profile includes: ``73's to all from beautiful Tims Ford Lake, East of Lynchburg and West of Estill Springs, Tn. KI4THY is a Vietnam veteran and served the US Navy as an electronics technician aboard the USS Suribachi, an ammo ship, in the South China Sea in 1972, with the USN 6th fleet in the Mediterranean Sea in 1971, and USN Guam communications center/AFRTS in 1970``. 3843-LSB, Feb 5 at 0545 I`m looking for more from the Burns OR standoff like last night. There is a very informal ham net going here now with silly comments, but nothing about Burns and no KI4THY, so apparently that deal is irregular/unpredictable. 3843-LSB, UT Sat Feb 6 at 0703, the ham net about the Burns, OR standoff is back on tonite, unlike last nite, apparently during phone patch from someone there, Jamie, talking about the Bundys, ``preparation for an offensive``, ``attack by the people``. KI4THY, Cap`n Dave moderates, and appears to be blaming the US Government for the situation. At 0712 someone bumps his knob during transmission and jumps to 3842-LSB for a few minutes. Back on 3843-LSB, at 0723 KI4THY trying to close down for the night; Jamie shot some video, says this will be back on tomorrow night (circa 0600 UT? No times mentioned). Refers to ``third-party traffic from Burns, Oregon``. Somebody via cell phone has very poor enunciation, hard to understand. 0728 ``good night``, and ``cliffhanger – four people not giving up``. I haven`t seen anything about this past several days on TV news channels, preoccupied with IA and NH. Maybe they will pay attention if there`s another shootout. 3843-LSB, Feb 7 at 0612, ham QSOs going on, but nothing about the Burns OR situation despite promise last night to resume tonight. Possibly came on later after I quit (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1812, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 18150-USB, Feb 8 at 2145, ``CQ, CQ, Kilo-Six-Monkey, celebrating the Chinese calendar Year of the Monkey --- QRZ``. Ahh, a very special event station. But nothing further heard for a few minutes, so guess he gave up for now. Looking up K6M later: NO entry in the ARRL/FCC database! Could it be a pirate? Nothing, searching on Monkey and K6M in the latest ham DX bulletins archived on the ODXA yg. Then I try QRZ.com and do find it, including QSL illustration, so I guess ARRL/FCC don`t keep up with temporary calls: ``K6M USA flag USA "Year of the Monkey" Special Event Station c/o Rich Seifert 21885 Bear Creek Way Los Gatos, CA 95033 USA Page managed by KE1B Lookups: 6054 In honor of the Lunar (Chinese) New Year 2016, "The Year of the Monkey" the K6MMM Monkeys are celebrating with a Special Event Station: From February 1st through February 14th, the Monkeys will be operating as K6M, from Northern California, with lots of guest monkeys in the chair. Operations will take place most days, on 80 through 6 meters, in all modes (CW, SSB, RTTY, and possibly PSK31). Work the monkeys, and then request your special commemmorative [sic] QSL card (shown above) from the Clublog OQRS system (see below). Stations that work K6M on any FIVE (5) band/mode slots can request a special Year of the Monkey certificate. The actual Lunar New Year begins on February 8, 2016. Give us a call any time during the event, and say "Gung Hay Fat Choy" (Happy New Year)! To request a Year of the Monkey certificate (five or more QSOs), send $3 via PayPal to k6mmm@richseifert.com and be sure to indicate your callsign in a note or email. You can also mail $3 to K6MMM at the address below. Since Special Event (1x1) callsigns are for temporary use only, please request your QSL promptly. Because the ARRL Outgoing QSL Bureau does not handle USA-to-USA cards, any such requests must be made no later than February 28, 2016. At that time, we will send USA bureau cards directly to the various district QSL bureaus. 6932317 Last modified: 2015-12-16 20:21:07, 3207 bytes`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1812, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7425, Feb 7 at 0155, Greenville`s Vatican 7305/Martí 7365 leapfrog achieves S6 level with mixture of the double-Spanish audios (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RE: VOA Radiogram, 6-7 February 2016: MFSK32----- MFSK31 http://voaradiogram.net/post/138748787937/voa-radiogram-6-7-february-2016-mfsk32-1 ".....VOA Radiogram, 6-7 February 2016: MFSK32 - 1 = MFSK31...." (?) Hm, MFSK32 = MFSK31 x 2 ;-) http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/VoA_Radiogram_2016-02-06.htm#MFSK-31-32 The second image is an animation with 11 MB, ahem. As can be seen, the two modes have the same basic structure, the same track pattern. In MFSK32 the number of tracks is doubled, thereby twice the bandwidth and information content. However, thus less tracks get more audio level. One might think that this improves the SNR. It may be that in bad conditions the "half signal" has more audio level and MFSK-31 so a slight advantage (Roger, Germany, Feb 7, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Videos of VOA Radiogram as decoded in Italy and Colorado .... Text and images via shortwave herald World Radio Day http://voaradiogram.net/post/138987733077/text-and-images-via-shortwave-herald-world-radio (Kim Elliott, Feb 9, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A. THE NEGATIVE IMPACT OF IMPACT Should impact be the goal of international broadcasting? Should attempts be made to measure such impact? The Negative Impact of "Impact" | USC Center on Public Diplomacy Much attention has recently been directed to the measurement of media impact. In public diplomacy, the need to assess impact is readily apparent. . . http://uscpublicdiplomacy.org/blog/negative-impact-impact [with replies by Kim and by Dan Robinson] (Kim Elliott, dxldyg via DXLD; also via Mike Cooper, DXLD) BBG Watch does not like my views about impact, and they report that the BBG doesn't either ... BBG CEO and media executives disavow BBG analyst's view of impact - BBG Watch --- BBG CEO John Lansing and heads of BBG media entities strongly disavowed BBG analyst's article implying that seeking news impact amounts to propaganda. http://bbgwatch.com/bbgwatch/bbg-ceo-and-media-executives-disavow-bbg-analysts-view-of-impact/ (Kim Elliott, ibid.) ** U S A. BBG BUDGET PROPOSAL FOR 2017 - Article in Radio World today: http://www.radioworld.com/article/bbg-requests-7778m-budget-for-2017/278085 More emphasis on video, digital, and social media. Expansion of the Kuwait SW facility (due to cheap electricity) while cutting back or eliminating other sites. Hints at overall further reduction of SW. Consolidation and improved efficiency among the various BBG outlets. Of course this is the proposal from the Obama administration, likely to be altered by the Republican controlled Congress (Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1812, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. Dear Glenn: Yes, I did hear World of Radio, #1811, on 9330 kHz, WBCQ the Planet at 0030, on 9330 kHz, Feb 5 UT, (45443), and on tonight UT Saturday Feb 6, at 0030; this was the start of the evening transmissions on 9330 kHz despite very low propagation this evening, 0059, 9330 kHz, Feb 6 UT. Using a JRC NRD-535 HF and 25 m long wire antenna to the trees, pie shaped lot here in St. Albert (back yard) 73's, (Richard Lemke, Alberta, Canada, Feb 5, 2016, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1811 monitoring: confirmed UT Sat Feb 6 during 0030 repeat, at 0046 on WBCQ 9330.70-CUSB; by 0108 during Blalock the Blaster, has drifted up to 9330.80. Next: Sat 2030v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND? Sat 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sun 0410v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND? Mon 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0400v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 to WSW Mon 0430.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1415.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Thu 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1811 monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday Feb 7 at 0420 about 3 minutes into program on 1860-AM, WA0RCR, Wentzville MO, good with no CW QRM this week. Missed checking the new Sat 2330 time on WBCQ 9330v-CUSB. BTW, this and the new Sun thru Sat 0030 times on 9330 have not yet been entered on http://schedule.wbcq.com/main.php?fn=sked&freq=9330 Next: Mon 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0400v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 to WSW Mon 0430.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1415.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Thu 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1811 monitoring: confirmed from 0400 UT Mon Feb 8 on Area 51 webcast, and before 0428 also on WBCQ 5109.7-CUSB, S9+10. Also confirmed from 0430 UT Mon Feb 8 on WRMI 9955, S9+20, much better signal than usual and no jamming audible, on the R-75. (By 0440 on the NRD-545, S9+25, but other WRMI 9395 is S9+30 at 0445). Next: Tue 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1415.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Thu 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1811 monitoring: confirmed the Tuesday 1200 on WRMI 9955, tuned in just before ending at 1228, VG signal at S9+10 with no jamming audible. After 1230 on to `Angloparade`. Next: Wed 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1415.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Thu 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1811 monitoring: I haven`t checked every evening for the new 0030 UT airing on WBCQ 9330v-CUSB --- but I should: UT Wed Feb 10 at 0030 a JBA carrier, exciter? Only at *0032 does an S9 signal cut on 9330.07 with WOR two minutes in progress. Altho peaking S9 on the meter it`s hardly a strong signal to the ears. Next check for the Feb 10 Wed 1415 airing on WRMI 9955: as usual gh ID fires about 1415, and WOR play starts at 1415:33, good. Also confirmed Wed Feb 10 at 2200 on WBCQ at about 7490.018-AM, and probably drifting slowly downward. Also barely confirmed at 0030 UT Thu Feb 11 on WBCQ 9330v-CUSB, but tonight it`s just barely audible, apparently at whims of the MUF, but overall should be improving as the sun sets later and later. WORLD OF RADIO 1812 monitoring: confirmed first SW broadcast underway at 1233 UT Thu Feb 11 check on WRMI 9955, good but with pulse jamming; tnx a lot, Arnie! How would you like it if the Yanquis jammed your DX program, either deliberately or thru negligence? The fortunate Cubans have never needed to worry about that, tnx to American ideals. Also confirmed Thu Feb 12 at 2100 on WRMI 7570, but only a poor signal (while 15770 with other programming is much better now, as we have crossed the threshold of LUHF trumping azimuth --- 7570 is aimed right at us but getting more and more absorbed, yet 15 MHz aimed sidewise overcomes by being closer to the MUF). Next: Fri 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Fri 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE Fri 2130.5 WRMI 7570 to NW Sat 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sat 0730 HLR 6190-CUSB to SW Sat 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW Sat 2030v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND? Sat 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sun 0410v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND? Mon 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0400v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 to WSW Mon 0430.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1415.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Thu 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Update on frequencies for Mennonite Radio and Broad Spectrum Radio --- Hi Glenn, 5110 isn't getting out all tonight so I've asked WBCQ to replace that time/frequency with a second hour on 7490 (which is coming through fine for Allan W's show at this moment, when 5110 is completely dead). As soon as I know the new time and frequency I will let you know. If you are interested though in hearing programs that didn't make it through the airwaves, here's links to tonight's shows that should have been airing on 5110: http://mennoniteradio.org/2016/02/05/mennonite-radio-episode-13-february-4-2016-crime-punishment-and-peace-from-the-perspective-of-a-mennonite-lawyer-part-1/ Mennonite Radio - Part 1 of "Crime, Justice and Peace from the perspective of a Mennonite lawyer" http://broadspectrumradio.com/2016/02/05/bsr-hobby-radio-report-2-bsr-shortwave-service-february-4-2016/ Hobby Radio Report #2 - including discussion of (1) changes in my equipment, (2) plans to activate OKC National Memorial for ARRL National Parks on the Air event, (3) Commentary on what makes for good shortwave radio programming and (4) a review of interesting parts of my SWL log - to be continued on Saturday's show Lastly --- I don't have definite long-term plans for the Saturday hour of programming but for this week I will just have part 2 of tonight's episodes of Mennonite Radio and Hobby Radio Report. Long-term though, it looks like I may have another programmer lined up who may be joining me to do a 30 minute weekly show in the very near future (James Branum, MennoRadio & BSR, 0119 UT February 5, WORLD OF RADIO 1812, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Checking before 0200, no signal at all here on 5109.7 tho 7490 and 9330 were in OK, so I think 5109.7 must have been off the air completely (gh, OK, DXLD) 7490v, UT Sat Feb 6 from 0103, WBCQ with `Allan Weiner Worldwide` from Florida, lamenting how his generation (b. 1953y) has messed things up so badly, and trying to convince a young waitress at a restaurant that she should get involved in politix, at least take voting seriously. I`m distracted by Dave Frantz and Brother Scare on WWRBs, but recheck at 0159, find that 5109.7-CUSB is running 8 seconds behind 7490, and this week, does not cut away from AWWW at 0200, so no more Gun/Dish- Nuts Radio. But I`m not around-hanging any later as it`s time for `Live from Lincoln Center` on PBS, which I approve of unlike Allan 7490.05, Sat Feb 6 from 2230, WBCQ with James Branum`s `Broad Spectrum Radio` at its additional time, and the first week of month is about radio, his equipment, ham and otherwise, what he has been hearing past month on SW, and what makes good SW programming. This was originally to be part 2 of same subjects, but original airtime apparently was missed as WBCQ 5109.7-CUSB was off, at least inaudible, UT Friday Feb 5 at 0130, so this turned out to be the originally recorded part 1. 7489.9-AM, UT Mon Feb 8 at 0446, anti(?)-Mormon discussion evaluating plural marriages, by caller with YL host, not TOM. Then find same at 0454 on 5890//4840 WWCRs, but WBCQ`s is running half a sesquiminute behind them. Skeds of both stations confirm at 04-05 UT Mondays is `Herald of Truth`, i.e. from the white-racist Kingdom Identity Ministries out of Arkansas. 7490 is off after 0500 at 0509 recheck (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) FROM THE ISLE OF MUSIC --- Every Monday night from 8 to 9 pm EST in North, Central and South America (Tuesday morning 0100-0200 UT in Europe and Africa) on the short waves on WBCQ The Planet, 7.490 MHz: From the Isle of Music, a new radio program dedicated to the music of Cuba – Jazz, Fusion, Timba, Nueva Trova, Son, Classical, Folklorica, interviews with musicians, even a little history of the music now and then. Partly in English, en parte en español. There is a Facebook page, also called From the Isle of Music, with more details. Our next broadcast (Feb 8 local US date) will include an interview with (and the music of) Zule Guerra, leader of Blues de Habana, which just released a wonderful recording on the EGREM label. Zule is a fascinating person as well as an excellent artist. (William "Bill" Tilford, Owner/Producer Tilford Productions, LLC 5713 N. St. Louis Av Chicago IL 60659-4405 email: bill@tilfordproductions.com phone: 773.267.6548 website: http://www.tilfordproductions.com Feb 5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thank you for mentioning the new program in your World of Radio entry recently. I had thought that I had sent you a heads-up in advance of the program's premiere, but in looking through emails, I see that I had mistaken a different address for yours. Sorry about that. Let me take this opportunity to speak to some observations you made while we are here. 1. It is absolutely true that there is a lot of quality Cuban music on Cuban radio, which I will admit does beg the question "why do one from the US"? I began listening to RHC, Rebelde and Progreso in the 1960s and continue to do so along with Taíno and some others, but I am probably not a typical US listener. Your very good question does have what I feel is a very good answer: a. With the exception of RHC, all of the other Cuban radio programming is in Spanish and not really directed at the English-only set. You can obviously listen to the music, but unless you understand Spanish, you won't have the context of the music. From the Isle of Music is not designed to be an hour of uninterrupted background music - there will be regular interviews with the musicians, some in English, some in Spanish, along with explanations of where the music came from and when. And, as you know, although RHC still has some excellent music programming (I know some of the people there btw), less of its airtime is devoted to that than in the past. b. Unless one really is a hardcore listener to Cuban radio, it is easy to miss what is practically a musical renaissance at the moment, especially in Jazz. I am on the ground there regularly (and legally) and know this first hand. In several of the episodes, FTIOM is going to feature some of the younger generation of artists in Cuba that are going to blow listeners away. But there are also interesting developments in other genres, and the program will even include some classical interludes. In a different reality, I might take this program to an NPR or PRI for the wider exposure and better technical support. In this reality, they have mouths to feed, and this format would never sell to them for the subscriber numbers that they want. AM would have most of shortwave's downsides and the added hassles of keeping program directors happy. There is a story to tell here, and shortwave, for all of its challenges, is at least a format where this can be tried without risking bankruptcy. Besides, this is a way to give something back to the medium that first brought me to the music. Our guest for Monday Feb 8, Zule Guerra, is a good example of these new artists. Educated as a biochemist but also trained in music, listened to Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald as a child, now leads Blues de Habana. Excellent music and an interesting story to tell. c. I am indeed a serious fan of Cuban music, but I am also a little more than that. I write for a website dedicated to the genre (TIMBA.com) and interact with the music industry in Cuba to the extent that US law permits. Although I enjoy music from the entire planet (my record collection reflects that), I have special expertise in Cuban music, therefore this and not, say, Brasilian or Mexican. I am in a better position than most North Americans to share the music and the musicians with listeners up here, and for the musically adventurous, over time it will become evident that From the Isle of Music is not just re-hashing the programs in Cuba. It is my hope that the serious fan of the music will want to listen to both. 2. Over time, my Yanqui accent in Spanish will be complemented by the Cuban accents of some of our guests who are braving their English during interviews. Between us, we do manage to communicate. I would suggest to you that in this respect I am in good company with many other commentators from across the planet over the last few decades. One more reason why shortwave is the perfect home for us. 3. None of the spoken bits are done in a commercial studio. 90% of the interviews are done in the field (often but not always in Cuba), and these will often be in clubs, on the street, somewhere with things going on in the background. The other 10% is over the telephone when somebody happens to be on tour up here. It is recorded with stereo equipment. A fair amount of editing is inevitable, some of it easy to perceive, some of it not. Over time this may become more seamless, but only time will tell. The jury is still out regarding whether putting new music programs on shortwave is a fool's errand, a suicide mission or both. My love of the medium and the realities of the rest of the radio spectrum led me to decide that the best way to find out is to try it. Historically, the shortwave audience has been more sophisticated and open-minded than listeners to mainstream domestic US radio. IF that is still true, and they and FTIOM can find each other, a good time will be had by all. If this succeeds, who knows, you might see a second program dedicated to a more global music format in a year. But first things first. Wish me luck, and thank you for all you do for radio. (William "Bill" Tilford, Owner/Producer Tilford Productions, LLC 5713 N. St. Louis Av Chicago IL 60659-4405 email: bill@tilfordproductions.com phone: 773.267.6548 website: http://www.tilfordproductions.com Feb 7, WORLD OF RADIO 1812, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 11580, Wed Feb 4 at 2125, surprised to hear `Walking in Power` outroduxion on this frequency at this hour, which per revised schedule is supposed to be part of the deka-frequency BS-blast from WRMI. 11580, Feb 5 at 1417, surprised to hear WRMI, S9+10, with a quit- smoking PSA from CDC, and not // 11825 TOM, RMI programming 9955, nor 21675 R. Africa. Then mostly music ranging from bluegrass to country to rock, including (not necessarily correct titles), Song of the South, Three Steps, Bed of Roses; 1422 a Jeep Cherokee ad!, Grasshopper.com phone system ad; 1437 Too Late, Baby by Carly; Good Old Boy, Bat Plane; 1449 more ads for JB Power mattresses; snack planning for the big game from Publix (a grocery chain in the South); Golden Hair Surprise; Where Do We Go Now; Where the Sun Don`t Shine, past 1500 with no ID break for WRMI or anything else. 1503 valentine gift card ad; Turn Away; 1508.5 finally abrupt cut to Brother Scare now // 11825 et al. Seemed like they had been relaying a local station, except there were no IDs for it. There were also long pauses between tunes as if album playing. So I ask Terry Elders at Okeechobee what`s going on? He replies: ``Yes! You were hearing something a little different this AM. We are working on some automation issues and I placed some of my Pandora on it. Having some fun I guess, guilty as charged. Terry``. The WRMI schedule grid is ambiguous about what goes on 11580, #9 transmitter at 44 degrees: BS much of the time but not Sundays between 13 and 15, so apparently available for experimentation during that bihour on weekdays too like this Friday. 11580, Sat Feb 6 at 1440, WRMI is playing its familiar fill-music loop rather than yesterday with Terry`s Pandora: tropical tune, polka, 1459 harp & flute, and sometime after 1500 back to Brother Scare. 9955, Sunday Feb 7 at 1416, fill music from WRMI, instead of scheduled `Living the Bible` at 1400-1430. 11580 had a gospel huxter other than TOM as scheduled for Sundays only. 11580, Feb 8 at 1441, WRMI in fill-music loop, with Qur`an-sounding singing at the moment, 1442 into some Afro-pop. It seems the 13-15 bihour is a good time to enjoy the WRMI FML without interruption by programming, except on Sundays when there is some religionism other than Overcomerism (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1812, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Updated winter B-15 schedule of WRMI Okeechobee effective February 8: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/02/updated-winter-b-15-schedule-of-wrmi.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A. On February 9 WRMI tx#07 relay Radio Africa Network in English as scheduled: 1355 & 1400 on 21675 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg to NCAf, instead of Brother Stair on Feb 8 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/02/wrmi-tx07-relay-again-radio-africa.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A. 3215, UT Sat Feb 6 at 0136, I find WWRB with Dave Frantz in another rant, this time about how church members should require their pastors to punch time cards and account for how they spend their time every day (except days off); note that church parking lots are empty most of the time on weekdays. Sometimes occupied on Saturdays if there is a wedding and afterwards a --- can`t think of the word: (reception). 0148 recheck still railing against preachers not accounting for their time on the job. ``Most of `em don`t even believe in God``, just to make money for as little labor as possible. Says this issue of time sheets has brought in more hate mail than anything he has said. Refers to his ``beautiful wife of 35 years``. Meanwhile, Dave sent me an explanation of what he was saying about Obamacare, which I will put in DXLD. During this same hour I am switching back & forth to Brother Scare on the other WWRB frequency 3185, since he is talking about me – see SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. And also the more reasoned laments of Allan Weiner, Worldwide on WBCQ [q.v.] 7490v & 5109.7-CUSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7504.939, Poor S=5 signal heard in ME at 0415 UT on Feb 4, at remote Doha Qatar SDR site. From WRNO New Orleans from USA. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 4, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A. I had forgotten there was yet another Republican debate Saturday night, originating on ABC-TV, but run across WHAS 840 Louisville KY carrying the soundtrack at 0134 UT Feb 7 --- then scan the entire MW band for some others //, not necessarily synchronized: 750 WSB Atlanta GA, 740 KRMG Tulsa OK, 700 WLW Cincinnati OH, 1110 KFAB Omaha NE, 1160 KSL Salt Lake City UT. All the other big clear channel sigs I normally get were doing something else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1510, Sunday Feb 7 at 1403 UT, financial news, loops slightly CCW from E/W, so I figure it`s KFNN Phœnix AZ; 1404 UT PSA about asthma, 1405 UT about diabetes, no ID, and 1406 UT welcome back to `Real Estate Today`. KFNN program schedule is lengthy, http://www.moneyradio1510.com/Program-Schedule/Phoenix and does have R.E.T. on it but Saturdays at 11 am (MST = 18 UT); and there is a big gap between 3 and 8 am on Sundays! (MST = 10-15 UT). KFNN is axually licensed to Mesa with 22000/100 watts U3, and official February sunrise is not until 1415 UT; nothing about a PSRA in the NRC AM Log, so they jumped the gun. Also, day pattern major lobe is to the NE, good for us, with lesser lobes to the WNW and SE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. STORM CLOUDS OVER DENVER --- The poop is about to hit the fan in Denver. KCKK 1510 has been operating with a 99 watt translator on 93.7 as "The Rock" for more than a year. The 99 watt translator is on Lookout Mtn. and has a surprisingly good coverage are in the market and well beyond. However, the owner of the silent full power 93.7 signal east of Denver, licensed to Strasburg, has applied to increase power to 43 kW, which would put a city grade signal to the eastern edge of the Denver metro area along E-470. Since translators are at the bottom of the feeding chain, that almost certainly means the KCKK translator on 93.7 will have to shut down or change frequency if the power increase for the Strasburg station is granted. Since there are no additional frequencies available in the Denver area, that could leave KCKK out in the cold on AM only. I predict there will be a big ugly fuss fight over this frequency, and the only way KCKK will be able to keep their translator will be to pay off (in very large bills) the owner of the Strasburg license to not build the upgrade. 73, (Kit W5KAT, Feb 10, ABDX via DXLD) Denver correction --- I should mention as a correction to my last post that the new 93.7 license east of Denver is actually licensed to Deer Trail, not Strasburg, but the transmitter site for the license upgrade is in Strasburg, which is considerably closer to Denver than Deer Trail. This frequency was originally allocated to Limon, which is even farther east than Deer Trail, but was recently moved to Deer Trail by the new owner. 73, (Kit W5KAT, ibid.) ** U S A. 1520, KYND, TX, Cypress, 2/3 [Feb 3] 0622 [MST = 1322 UT]. Country music, right over KOKC and then burying it. ID at 0602, but I didn't get it then; ID given 2X at 0622 by man. First for me. "15-20 KYND" and new country song by alt/rocker Sheryl Crow. Good on Panasonic RF-2200. times / dates LOCAL. 73 and Good Listening (Rick Barton, AZ, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Harold F reports that Per John Wilkins in Wheat Ridge CO, the area relay on 25950 is not on (at least today). (Kenneth Vito Zichi, MI, MARE Tipsheet Feb 5 via DXLD) Of KOA and siblings ** U S A. Re: KRZA replaces Live365.com --- Thanks Glenn. I found the plain mp3 stream underlying the player. Here's a link: http://crystalout.surfernetwork.com:8001/KRZA-FM_MP3.m3u Always good to hear from you (Kevin A. Kelly, PublicRadioFan.com Bedford, Massachusetts, USA, e-mail: kakelly@alum.mit.edu DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. FMBC: 87.9, Midland MI, Northeast Midland Music Pirate: 11:33 AM...1:01+ PM EST, 30-Jan; On past usual 12:30 plugpull; "All the Hits, 95-1 Shine FM"; rock & rap, World Wrestling Federation intro & theme, Muppets novelty tune Mana Mana. Googling brings up 95.1 WRBS Shine FM in Baltimore MD; it's a religious hits station; I have heard what sounded like Jeezus pop at times. +++ 11:36 AM-12:04+ PM EST, 2-Feb; New feed today; classic rock; "98.7 K-Rock" (not 100% sure about the "Rock"). Googling brings up 98.7 CKXD Gander NL, Newfoundland's classic rock. Nothing local heard--this requires more ear-time. Noted off at 12:47 PM, so presume their usual 12:30*. +++ 11:23 AM...12:30+* PM, 3-Feb; New feed today; non-classic pop/rock -- nothing familiar; No IDs or non-IDs; Dr. Pepper ad; started into Brady Bunch TV theme & pulled plug. The adventure continues. (Frodge-MI) 87.9, Midland MI, Southeast Midland Music Pirate; 12:48...1:55 PM EST, 4-Feb; Non-Top-40 pop/rock/rap; promo for concert at Soaring Eagle Casino (Mt. Pleasant MI) & Kroger ad; no ID or non-ID heard. This one has been on only sporadically in recent weeks; with usual strong transmitter hum. No FMBC // found (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, 5525 Whitehall St., Midland MI 48642-3156, Drake R8B + 185' & 60' RW + 125' bow-tie, GMC Car Radio for FMBC logs, All dates and times for all logs are UT unless otherwise noted as AM or PM which is ELT, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN. Upcoming frequency change of Vatican Radio effective from Feb 8: 0040-0100 NF 5940 SMG 250 kW / 086 deg SoAs Hindi, ex 9560 // 7410 0100-0120 NF 5940 SMG 250 kW / 086 deg SoAs Tamil, ex 9560 // 7410 0120-0140 NF 5940 SMG 250 kW / 086 deg SoAs Malayalam, ex 9560 // 7410 0140-0200 NF 5940 SMG 250 kW / 086 deg SoAs English, ex 9560 // 7410 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/02/upcoming-frequency-change-of-vatican.html (Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1812, DXLD) ** VATICAN. WRTH Facebook group: Victor Goonetilleke writes in Asian DX League: Vatican Radio 0040-0200 using a back up frequency to improve winter reception 5940 kHz, The season started with 9560 and 7410 kHz, but 9560 is not too good at start up 0040. New freq will stay till the end of the B15 season in March. Excellent reception on 5940 kHz. It is interesting to watch the 3 frequencies here in Sri Lanka. At 0040 5940 is the best with 7410 good and 9560 just barely making it, By 0155 5940 starting to get weak while 7410 is all 555 and 9560 better than 5940. For A16 5940 will be dropped. http://www.radiovaticana.va/ Posted by: (Mike Terry, Feb 7, dxldyg via DXLD) ** YEMEN [non]. 11860.0, SAUDI ARABIA, Exile Radio Sana'a Arabic service, Arabic song singer at 0539 UT on Feb 4, S=9+30dB powerful signal heard in Doha Qatar site. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 4, dxldyg via DXLD) 11860, Feb 4 at 1309 check, R. Sana`a is already at good S9+10 level with Arabic talk. Previously it would not fade up to this level for another semihour. I`m mainly monitoring Bougainville during rest of this hour. At 1409, 11860 is S9+20 still M&W talk in Arabic about Yemen. 1421 audio stops during a non-Qur`an spoken recitation, and dead air continues until cuts back on with music at 1431.5; S9+20 here sounds much louder than the S9+20 metering on 6020. At 1501, 11860 switches from music to talk, still going at 1510 with no break for a call-to-prayer, which now seems quite hit-and-miss, optional (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Rep. Yemen Radio Sanaa (Saudi Arabia Relay?) 11860, 1559 4 FEB - (YEMEN CLA?). SINPO = 25322. Arabic, music with microtonal vocals, male announcer. 1600z female announcer apparently reading the news. QSB=ff. sf112.1, a14, k3, geomag: unsettled. 50kw?, Omni?, bearing 7 ?. Sangean ATS505 w/MFJ-1020C active antenna used to preselect Magic Wand Antenna hanging indoors on west wall. Received at Las Vegas, United States, 13045KM? from transmitter at Riyadh?. Local time: 0759. 11860, 1500 5 FEB - SINPO = 35333. Arabic, music with microtonal vocals. 1501z female announcer reading news (No 'Call To Prayer' today? 1504 ‘Israel prime minister’ mentioned, 1506z interviews male over the phone). QSB=ff, good modulation stays well above noise floor. sf120.4, a6, k2, geomag: quiet. 50kw?, Omni?, bearing 7 ? Sangean ATS505 with MFJ-1020C active antenna used to preselect Magic Wand Antenna hanging indoors on west wall. Received at Las Vegas, United States, 13045KM? from transmitter at Riyadh?. Local time: 0700 (Rodney Johnson, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11860, Feb 5 at 1408, R. Sana`a with music at S9+20; 1501 goes from music to talk, no call to prayer, still S9+20. 1543 recheck usual studio woman interviewing mostly men on phones, faded down now to only S9. A bit of an echo during one call made me wonder if it was long/short path but echo went away when caller (or callee) finished. BTW, I`m not noticing CCI from IBB Kuwait any more, scheduled 1430- 1630, so did they finally move off 11860 or just propagation shift. Yemen service continues to be so good for a couple of hours in our mornings that same band and parameters would be perfect for someone (Saudi Arabia?) to do a North American service in English; dream on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) YEMEN-NON, 11860, 6 Feb 2016, 0800-0815 UT, Male announcer in Arabic, with news program. News about Iraq. ID at 0811. Transmitter in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. SINPO 33333 (Ed Sylvester, Baghdad, Iraq, JRC NRD 545, Indoor Pixel Magnetic Loop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Ed, We had a long discussion when this first appeared about whether it was Jeddah site, and concluded that unlikely, more likely Riyadh if in Saudi Arabia at all. Also clues that more than one site is involved depending on time of day. So do you have some new/inside/additional info putting it in Jeddah? I see that Aoki is sticking to Jeddah only, 50 kW ND. But all this is `veiled` without any official info coming out (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) It seems logical to me, as the Yemeni government in exile was in Jeddah and that Jeddah is in closest proximity to Yemen. Outside of this, I have no further information (Ed Sylvester, Iraq, ibid.) Whichever it is, their signal has been big here lately 1330z or so on thru 1400z. Thanks everyone for the continued posts about this station as I am a fan of clandestine listening (Rich Near Chicago Ray, Ten Tec RX340 and Wellbrook loop, ibid.) Rep. Yemen Radio Sanaa (Saudi Arabia Relay?), 11860, 1458 6 FEB - SINPO = 45423. Arabic, music with microtonal vocals and traditional instrumentation. Music continues past 1510z (no news? no ‘call to prayer’?). QSB=ff somewhat deep, modulation well above almost inaudible noise floor. sf122.6, a12, k2, geomag: quiet. 50kw?, Omni?, bearing 7 ?. Sangean ATS505 w/Sony AN-LP1 active loop in west facing window. Received at Las Vegas, United States, 13045KM? from transmitter at Riyadh?. Local time: 0658 (Rodney Johnson, NV, ibid.) 11860, Feb 7 at 0112, S2 carrier, seems open, but very weak. Possibly Radio Sana`a at a very different time than when I hear it well, 12-14 hours later. Bill Bingham in South Africa has been checking it thru his night and sometimes hears it not, so not really 24 hours? Aoki has nothing else on 11860 at this time, altho China starts at 0130 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Times approximate. Radio Sana'a. 11860, Feb 7, 2016. Extremely strong echo tonight 1747 to 1752 at presumed transmitter change. The most intrusive echo I have heard during several weeks of monitoring this changeover period. Sorry, no recording tonight; hope someone else managed to get one (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA. Drake R8E, Sony ICF2001D. dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) At 1811 UT rather low level signals heard on various remote units in Doha Qatar ME S=5 in rather 25 mb skip zone. No echo heard on path towards ME and Europe, maybe echo occurs only on southern hemisphere paths around the earth. Very ambiguous, as the signal power evaluation here in Europe. S=6 in Belgium, Bavaria, Switzerland and Spain, S=8 in Zakynthos Greece island. Best signal at Calabria southern Italy unit mostly S=8, but jumps up to S=9 fluttery signal. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) Thanks Wolfie, It is unclear from your report what time you checked the European signals and echo towards the Middle East. If around 1811, at the same time as your Doha check, that was too late; it was all over by 1752. Regards, Bill. Monday Feb 8, 2016. Radio Sana'a already off-air at 0225 check, unable to find a carrier (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA. Drake R8E, Sony ICF2001D. dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) At 1150 UT Feb 8 - tune-in -, Radio Sana'a was on air 11860 kHz as usual. Best in Doha Qatar S=9+5dB. in Calabria Italy outstanding antenna installation? nice S=9. But not strong all over Europe`s remote net installations like in Greece S=5, in peaks S=6, same in Switzerland, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Belgium posts, weak and tiny S=3-4 on Germany's North Sea coast and England; nil in Sweden and Moscow. I guess the Saudi Arabia - Radio Sana'a-exile-radio antenna is of 8dB horizontal-log periodical type one, never a Saudi curtain 500 kW beast of 19 to 21 dB gain. wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) If it`s so lo-gain and so lo-power, howcum it puts an S9+10 to S9+20 signal into Oklahoma almost every morning between 1330 and 1530?? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) 11860, Feb 8 at 1445 I start monitoring R. Sana`a continuously in case some Call To Prayer should appear. First, heavy music and exhortations, bit of a distressed child`s voice; 1454 the vamping music with ``mission statement``; song past 1502, finally talk at 1506 past 1508, so it seems the CTP exercise in piety is a past-thing. I wonder if the Sunni and Shia disagree too about the importance of broadcasting them. By now the gaisma.com calculated sunsets have progressed to 1504 UT in Sana`a and Aden; the change is slowing so that it will take another month to laten by 6-8 minutes (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1812, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11860, 1458 8 FEB - REP.YEMEN RADIO SANAA (YEMEN CLA?). SINPO = 35323. Arabic, modern music with microtonal vocals (no news, no ‘call to prayer’ by 1505z? still music with a rather excited sounding male DJ). 1506z a rather stringent sounding male is speaking with faint music in background. 1510z music returns. QSB=ff. sf117.5, a8, k2, geomag: quiet. 50kw?, Omni, bearing 7 ?. Sangean ATS505 w/MFJ-1020C active antenna used to preselect Magic Wand Antenna hanging indoors on west wall. Received at Las Vegas, United States, 13045KM? from transmitter at Riyadh?. Local time: 0658 (Rodney Johnson, NV, dxldyg via DXLD) Strong co-channel between Radio Sana'a and Radio Ashna, Feb 8 1430-1630 on 11860 unknown tx / unknown to N/ME Arabic Radio Sana'a 1430-1500 on 11860 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Pashto Radio Ashna 1500-1630 on 11860 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg to WeAs Dari Radio Ashna -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DXLD) Radio Sana'a 11860, Monday Feb 8, 2016. Poor reception tonight from 1730 onwards, with severe QRM from AWR making it difficult to work out which was which. Even so, an echo was still audible on the Sana'a sound at presumed transmitter changeover, from 1751 to 1754. Quite a mild echo, not as severe as last night (Feb 7) at about this time. Reception had improved afterwards, but I'm not sure if this was due to AWR going off-air or being squashed by a stronger Sana'a signal. Jo'burg sunset tonight at 1656 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA. Drake R8E, Sony ICF2001D. dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Log of exile Radio Sana'a in Saudi Arabia, Feb 8 at 2000-2030 UT here in southern Germany. 11860, Radio Sana'a Arabic, female news reader at 2003 UT, S=6 very emotionally committed active female voice, modern sound. Wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) Radio Sana'a, Tues Feb 9. Not on-air at tune in, 0315, unable to find even a carrier. Suddenly came back on air at 0323, although very weak. Strengthened to fair but fadey over the next 15-20 seconds. At later check, 0413, a nice strong signal; possibly due to our sunrise at 0348 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA. Drake R8E, Sony ICF2001D. dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11860, Feb 9 at 1430, very weak signal from R. Sana`a! Not rechecked until 1455, as during this semihour the Tuesday following the first Wednesday of the month is KOSU`s `The Living Room` interview, this time with the OKC police chief and a subordinate. Then I realize this doesn`t sound like R. Sana`a at all --- none of the familiar music bits and exhortations, not even sure it`s Arabic, ergo, R. Sana`a is gone and I`m getting the station it normally covers up starting at 1430, VOA Radio Ashna, in Pashto, 250 kW, 70 degrees via KUWAIT (and switching to Dari at 1500). I quickly scan the entire 11 and 13 MHz bands for a new Sana`a frequency, but none found. Propagation seems to be normal or even above normal judging from other signals heard. Finally circa 1512, Sana`a cuts back on 11860 with Arabic talk, so it was just an outage. It`s at usual level of S9+10, still at 1535. BTW, Bill Bingham in South Africa finds no signal on 11860 early in the mornings, as of Feb 4: ``Although I can't monitor Sana'a every night (because of the awkward time here in Jo'burg) I have previously noted the following, and always with an abrupt change where any change was heard: Going off air at 0120. Already off air by 0100, 0132, 0308. Coming back on air by 0340. Coming back on air at 0324, 0329, 0338 (plus today 0326). From these timings it seems to me that Sana'a must go off air for an hour or two most mornings, if not every morning`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [Non-Log], 11860, 1459z-1502z 9 FEB - Listening for Rep. Yemen Radio Sana'a (CLA) but only heard a JBA carrier. (I wasn't sure if Geomagnetic activity had cut the polar paths or what, but then Glenn reports that the signal wasn't present at that time so this JBA was probably VOA-Kuwait) (Rodney Johnson, NV, dxldyg via DXLD) Checked 11860 at 1700-1805 UT on Feb 9, Sana'a in Arabic was well of S=7-8 strength, but not strong in southern Germany and Switzerland remote units. From 1730 UT accompanied CO-CHANNEL by slightly better S=8 AWR MBR brokered Nauen outlet in MRC/ALG Kabyle language programe, mostly spoken sermon by male announcer, but rather even level like old Radio Cairo singer group program on Radio Sana'a til 1801:20 UT, when female reader of exile Sana'a program started news reading. AWR Nauen Germany stopped at 1800:04 UT and immediately TX OFF. wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) Checked Radio Sana'a at 0040 UT Feb 10: Nil in Australia. Only tiny signal in Doha Qatar in skip zone, threshold level at MA-NY-USA, CT- US, MI-US, S=4 at FL-US, up to nil at Belgium and in Poland, S=6-7 in Spain at 0100 UT, S=5-6 in western Hungary, DARC Amberg and Switzerland. but S=9 signal strength in Calabria Italy, S=9+15dB in Zakynthos island Greece, and MUCH BEST on S=9+20dB strength at Moscow Russia 0120 UT. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) SAUDI ARABIA / CHINA and on 11860 kHz CRASH start of CRI Nepalese just with their interval signal midst on R Sana'a singer group performance, sudden CHINA at 0130:06 UT crash start on S=9+35dB powerhouse from Kunming 500 kW powerhouse broadcast center. Calabria Italy S=8 MUCH FLUTTERY at 0138 UT, CRI Kunming in Nepalese in background underneath, and ham radio chap at Zakynthos switched off the remote unit at 0125 UT unfortunately. Moscow remote unit SDR receiver is covered by CRI Kunming Nepalese sce at 0130-0227 UT unfortunately. and much FLUTTERY 11860 kHz signal RECORDING of CRI Kunming Nepalese at 0207 ... 0208 UT on Feb 10, FLUTTERY S=9+15dB signal and local Moscow Russia noise too. Sana's must have gone SWITCH OFF / BREAK around 0155 UT, not heard at 0210 UT anymore. Listen to final recording at 0226 till 0226:58 UT of CRI Nepalese service from Kunming, on Feb 10. NOTHING HEARD OF RADIO SANA'A in 0155 til 0233 UT check, EMPTY CHANNEL from 0227 UT when CRI Nepalese ceased (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) Hi Wolfie, Thanks for confirming that they switch off in the early morning. I no longer have to wake up at 3m! Regards, (Bill Bingham, RSA, Feb 10, ibid.) 11860, Feb 10 at 1417, R. Sana`a with loud ME music at S9+20; 1424 ``Allahu Akhbar``, and a brief speech with echo effect, background music, mentions Adan; 1425 back to music, song (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Sana'a 11860, Feb 10. Lots of QRM from AWR from 1730 onwards. Echo began at 1748 and lasted till about 1751. As soon as the echo began, AWR was almost totally suppressed leaving Sana'a more or less in the clear. Audio (5.5MB) at: https://app.box.com/s/qy4cgmep2c77d2ic1ar5kty4r59r4gaw This recording begins at 1745. The echo starts at 1748, or 2:55 in the recording (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA. Drake R8E, Sony ICF2001D. dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, that`s pretty clear evidence of a transmitter site transition (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1500, Feb 6 at 0106 UT check, warbling hets roughly east-west, as not much signal from KSTP at the moment. If not out of WPSO New Port Richey FL, allegedly a daytimer: Probably not, but just in case, note that the other FL on 1500, WKIZ in Cayo Hueso is Spanish religion per NRC AM Log, and is 24 hours with 250 watts. Should they lapse into anything anti-Castro, or even relay some Radio Marti, that could get them a bit o` jamming from down south (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1500, Feb 7 at 0119 UT, not much signal from KSTP, so I am hearing the blues music station and the warble-tone. KSTP is so weak that I can get pretty good bearings on these two, nulling them without KSTP in the way: warble is about 95 degrees, and blues about 135 degrees (assuming they are both eastward rather than westward). Tends to confirm blues source as the station doing that all-night, KCLF New Roads LA. At least on weeknights, with weekends unaccounted for: http://kclf1500am.com/shows.html Closest to the 95 degree angle from Enid with the warble are three Alabamans and one further Georgian: WQCR Alabaster, 2300/3 watts, WVSM Rainsville, 1000/-, WKAX Russellville, 1000/-; and WDPC Dallas GA, 5000/CH 3200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. [1530?] (Contd. Beginning in the last issue) News from "deneb-radio-dx" group - Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria, writes: Hello Basil! Maybe your note that this radio Constantsa will be back! The handbook ppir Alexander Berezkin editor specified that Constantsa closed on Wednesdays at 19.04-20.00, 909 kHz. It is based on the program "DX Club" RIR, but can be HH leading pripodnosit outdated information. What confuses me is the weak signal to 19.00, after 20.00 hours Constance, and after 20.00 are heard almost exclusively PPA and São Tomé, Africa on 1530 kHz. Many times he tried to grasp the religious radio station on 1630 kHz, but without success. Perhaps their irregular transfer, such as the "Voice of Life" from Bishkek on 5130 kHz? Thank you very much, 73, Rumen. Alexander Golovihin, Tolyatti, Russia wrote: Hello, Rumen and Basil! Now I look your journal. It was the case on September 30. He took on 1530 kHz with 1812 transfer to the Russian, a strong disturbance was from Romania. I listened to 1838, but could not understand. I thought, "Degen" buggy. After trying to not take. Almost all summer took on 1630 kHz religious station. Do not announce, does not comment, only Orthodox prayer. The signal is weak to complete decay. In Ukraine, the signal is stronger. It looks broadcast from Romania and other Balkan countries. Took 2014. That's all I have found to these stations. Alexander from Togliatti Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria, writes: Yesterday, February 1st tried on 1530 kHz between 1900 and 2000 hours UT - sounded Constantsa, only in Romanian // 909 kHz, too, and the PPA // 558, and others. This is in Sofia on the 8th floor on the ferrite antenna with a small Grundig Yachtboy 80. Tomorrow probably will be in the village and check 909 and 1530 kHz at the same time - where my Sony 2001D (with some defects) and tube "Symphony 10" with Luup antenna. Many thanks to Alexander, Vasily and Dmitry, 73 Rumen (RusDX Feb 7 via DXLD) Are the two references to 1630 instead of 1530 above, typos?? Maybe optical scanning made the translation even worse? (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 4083-USB, Feb 5 at 0645-0647+, continuous talk by same guy, poor signal, sounds like a broadcast, and think I hear one keyword, ``sedaye`` which would mean Farsi or similar. {Sedaye has been used in name of clandestine to Iran, but also Kashmir, so Urdu too?} Ideas? Could anystation be using SSB HF feeders anymore, emergency backup? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 5006, Feb 5 at 1402, very poor S7 carrier, maybe music? JG2XA, experimental propagation station in Japan is usually running open carrier here with occasional CW IDs, but it`s been spoilt lately by Chinese military numbers station, VC01 on exactly same frequency, but reported by Ron Howard as USB only, no carrier at all? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDentified. Station with Arabic music again on air, Feb 10 0850-0855 on 9550 unknown tx site, open carrier/dead air 0855-0900 on 9550 unknown tx site, test tone 1000 Hz and 0900-0920 on 9550 unknown tx site, good to strong signal http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/02/unidentified-station-with-arabic-mx_10.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DXLD) UNIDentified. station with Arabic music again on air, Feb 6: 1105-1115 on 9600 unknown tx site, good to strong signal http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/02/unidentified-station-with-arabic-mx_6.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Re exile Sana'a Yemen R via Saudi Arabia facility on Febr 8th: at 18 UT heard a strange BUBBLE NOISE OTHR of centered wide-range 11859 to 11880 kHz, in peaks either sideband 11851 to 11886 kHz. Could it be an Iranian OTHR testwise in 25 mb broadcast band ? 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DXLD) This noise was not audible in RSA. Sana'a reception became quite good here just before 1800, and still is, as of 1827 (Bill Bingham, ibid.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED on WORLD OF RADIO 1812: Hi Glenn, I really enjoy your broadcasts. Due to the high levels of noise caused by all the unshielded digital crap, I can`t do much DX work, but do enjoy listening to the more powerful broadcasts (Philip H Bronfin, Reston VA, Jan 11, with a generous check to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702) TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED FUTURELY: Hi Glenn, I wish to anonymously send you my small token of appreciation for your many tireless years of service to the Shortwave Listening hobby and Radio Industry in general. 73s and Good Listening! (With $50 via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com) I don`t mention the amount with non-anonymous contributions (gh) Hey Glenn: All the best for the new year. Really appreciate WOR/DXLD - an excellent source of DX and technical information! 73, (Mike Beu KD5DSQ Austin, Texas with a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com) Thanks for all you do for Radio listening Worldwide, Glen[n]. I listen to you Wednesdays on WBCQ 7490 at 2200 UT/5:00PM East Coast time here in the Monticello IN USA. All the best! Ramsey with a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com (James Reynolds) GLENN HAUSER INTERVIEW IMMINENT ON GLOBAL VOICE First airing of the Voices interview with gh is at 1730 UT Friday via: http://theglobalvoice.info/ or directly to listen: http://theglobalvoice.info/tunein.php (Glenn Hauser, Feb 5, dxldyg et al., via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thanks! Very candid! I wonder if a audio file can be obtained. I would like to post that to social media on the web. If it is not possible I will understand. Well! NW7US posted a link. Thanks to all. Kind regards and 73 de One of those ... ... (Sudipta Ghose VU2UT, ibid.) Listening now in the office (Rodney Johnson, 1747 UT Feb 5, ibid.) Thanks for the heads-up. I listened and it was really very good to hear Glenn chat (Philip Hiscock, Nfld., 1800 UT, ibid.) Audio file, also requested. Thanks! 73 (Horacio Nigro, Uruguay, ibid.) Nice one Glenn, I've retweeted a TGV tweet about you and favourited the others (Tim Bucknall, ibid.) Dear Glenn. I just heard this interview. Very interesting, indeed! Best 73, Anker Petersen (via Martin Schoech, ibid.) "He"? I believe Chrissie is a "she"? (Richard Langley, ibid.) Chrissie is short for Christine (gh, DXLD) Doesn't sound like it to me. http://theglobalvoice.info/fileserve.php?action=download&type=archive&show=voices&filedate=1454630400&file=voices-201602.mp3 or shortened URL: http://tinyurl.com/GlennHauser http://theglobalvoice.info/gallery.php?show=voices (Rodney Johnson, ibid.) I wonder if the audio file could be posted on another server? Keeps buffering long delays & then finally crashed. Anyone else have the same problem? (Ian, NSW, ibid.) I just tried it, and seems OK here both for Listen and Download. I`ve added links to this on my audio page, several more interviews at the bottom of http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Thanks Glenn, Must be something to do with connections to their server from this this part of the world. I've tried again (both streaming & downloading). Would take me over 2 hours to download at the rate it's downloading, should be around a minute. Everything normal with streaming & downloading here. Oh well. Thanks for checking (Ian, ibid.) Thanks Glenn, it`s very interesting. 73s (Mike Terry, UK, ibid.) BROTHER SCARE RANT Hi Glenn, Hope you are keeping well! It's Jordan (formally Radio Northern Ireland) just wanting to say I am hearing Brother scare on 5015 into Northern Ireland with my Kenwood R1000, time 0040 UT. I must note Scare was mentioning you about your comments towards him which I found funny. He went on a rant about how you should find the word of god etc. I was tuning around the bands when I heard your name and found it was Scare going mental! Keep up the great work! All the best, (Jordan Heyburn, 0048 UT Feb 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) More of same under SOUTH CAROLINA [non] WORLD OF HOROLOGY +++++++++++++++++ EBU TAKES LISTENERS ON A GLOBAL JOURNEY FOR WORLD RADIO DAY To mark World Radio Day (13 February), the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is organizing a 'Musical Caravan' from east to west in partnership with other broadcasting unions across the globe. Listeners will be taken around the world in a little over two hours. This special compilation submitted by EBU Members, Associates and its sister unions (ABU, ASBU and CBU*) and coordinated by the EBU Music Unit in Geneva consists of songs representing the musical heritage of 34 countries. The broad list of contributions include a Richard Strauss lied recorded by Bavarian Radio, an Indonesian song for peace and friendship, a folk tune from India and carnival music from the Caribbean. The EBU will also share key facts about radio listening compiled by the organization’s Media Intelligence Unit in the week leading up to World Radio Day 2016 on its Facebook page and Twitter account. Another highlight of the EBU’s contribution to World Radio Day 2016 will be a special performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony by the NHK Symphony Orchestra of Tokyo and the Kunitachi College of Music Chorus. An interview with conductor Paavo Järvi can be found here. EBU Head of Radio Graham Dixon said: “Radio plays a very significant part in all our lives. On average, we will listen to nine years of radio in a lifetime – more than any activity except breathing and sleeping! Radio provides a convenient way to encounter new ideas, new music and new ways of thinking, and also provides valuable company to counter isolation and loss. Nine years of an average lifetime is indeed an impressive figure, but the real personal impact of radio cannot be quantified. World Radio Day provides a great opportunity to reflect on the power of radio.“ The 35 WRD 2016 contributing broadcasters from the EBU and other regional broadcasting unions are: EBU Members PRA (Armenia) BTRC (Belarus) BNR (Bulgaria) HRT (Croatia) CYBC (Cyprus) ERR (Estonia) ARD/BR (Germany) ARD/NDR (Germany) ERT (Greece) MTVA (Hungary) RTÉ (Ireland) ERSL (Luxembourg) SNRT (Morocco ASBU/EBU) RTS (Serbia) RTVS (Slovakia) RTTT (Tunisia, ASBU/EBU) NRU (Ukraine) Other Unions RTA (Afghanistan, ABU) ABC (Australia, ABU/EBU Associate) NCN (Guyana, CBU) AIR (India, EBU Associate) RRI (Indonesia, ABU) IRIB (Iran, ABU/EBU Associate) RJR (Jamaica, CBU) KMO (Kazakhstan, ABU) PBCKR (Kyrgyzstan, ABU) TDM (Macau, ABU) PSM (Maldives, ABU) MRTV (Myanmar, ABU) VOP (Palestine, ASBU) SIBC (Solomon Islands, ABU) MBC (Sri Lanka, ABU) NBC (St. Vincent and the Grenadines, CBU) CCL (Trinidad and Tobago, CBU) VOV (Vietnam, ABU) *ABU - Asian Broadcasting Union ASBU - Arab States Broadcasting Union CBU - Caribbean Broadcasting Union WRD 2016 Track listing http://www3.ebu.ch/files/live/sites/ebu/files/News/2016/02/Tracklisting%20%40%20WRD%202016.doc --- (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, cumbredx via DXLD) CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES +++++++++++++++++++++++++ WINTER SWL FEST http://www.swlfest.com [WORLD OF RADIO 1812] We are just a couple of weeks away from the 29th annual Winter SWL Festival in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, February 19th and 20th, 2016. We now have the schedule of forums and other events taking place at this year’s festival. We hope to see many CIDXers there. 29th Annual Winter SWL Festival forum schedule: Friday, February 19, 2016 0845 – Forum 1 – Part 15 Broadcasting – Anthony Messina and Rob Femly Creating a radio station has always been a professional (not to mention expensive) endeavor that thousands of people have done for dozens of years now. The average guy setting up a legal radio station without breaking his bank account has been thought of as almost impossible. Messina and Femly, who chairs the Association of Low Power Broadcasters, explain in detail what Part 15 broadcasting is and how much fun it can be. 1000 – Forum 2 — Pirate Radio Year in Review – George Zeller George moderates our traditional review of the year in pirate radio, including the announcement of the 2016 inductees in the North American Pirate Radio Hall of Fame. 1115 – Forum 3 — Why We Still Believe in Shortwave – Paul Ladd World Christian Broadcasting, which has operated station KNLS in Alaska for more than 30 years, will begin broadcasting from Madagascar World Voice in the spring of 2016. Senior Correspondent Paul Ladd will talk about why WCB is committed to shortwave radio. 1345 – Forum 4 — Longwave Beacons: The Perfect DX Target – Kevin Carey Why longwave beacons make an ideal focus for DXers, covering the tools and techniques needed for success on the frequencies below 500 kHz. Receivers, antennas, accessories, and newly available software tools will all be explored in the context of growing your “life list” of beacon DX. Discover (or rediscover) the magic of longwave DXing! 1500 – Forum 5 — A 2016 Survey of Shortwave Receivers – Thomas Witherspoon Everything you wanted to know about shortwave radios, but were afraid to ask! From ultralight portables to hybrid SDRs, we’ll take a look at where receiver technology is in 2016 and what innovations await us. 1615 – Forum 6 — The Lows and Highs of the HF Spectrum — Alan Roberts/Sheldon Harvey Strange inhabitants dwell in the 0 to 500 kHz range and the 25 to 30 MHz segments of the HF radio spectrum. Alan Roberts searches out these signals using unique equipment and antennas. Presenting tips on hearing and identifying these signals in an audio/visual presentation. 1930 – Forum 7 — Kit receivers Old and New – Thomas “Skip” Arey N2EI “Uncle Skip” Arey, ARRL Section Manager for Southern New Jersey will take us through a bit of kit receiver history and bring us up to date with current receiver kits that might be of interest to SWLs and Hams alike. 2045 — The (Something)th Annual Shortwave Shindig! – David Goren #13, we think? Hey, our Bar Mitzvah year! Join David and friends for a celebration of shortwave sound, history and culture through live performance and archival recordings, with a homebrew “upconversion” to FM for an exclusive segment focusing on the hyperactive New York City pirate radio scene. Saturday, February 20, 2016 0930 – Forum 8 — Small Loop Antennas for Transmitting – Jef Eichner Building and using full wave, half wave and other types of loops–plus some new toys for show and tell and some modifications will be discussed. This presentation will be very light on theory, so if you’re a beginner you’ll be fine. 1100 – Forum 9 — Medium Wave: Your Next DX Frontier? — Brett Saylor With the continued decline in shortwave broadcasting stations, radio enthusiasts looking for a new listening challenge may want to consider DXing the AM broadcast band where there are over 10,000 stations on the air worldwide. Brett will discuss how your shortwave listening skills and equipment can be applied to medium wave DXing, and provide some tips & techniques to hear and identify both domestic and foreign stations. 1330 – Forum 10 — Scanning with the Scum – Eric Cottrell Eric leads the annual group effort. It has been an interesting year with several new scanners from Whistler, a digital receiver from AOR, and a Provoice option from Uniden. Plus there’s SDRPlay. 1500 – Forum 11 — A Dive Into Nostalgia: My Picks for Best Receivers of All Time! – Dan Robinson Put away those SDRs!….at least for an hour. Premium radio addict Dan Robinson, whose Watkins Johnsons, JRCs, and East German spy radios have filled the FEST hospitality room, takes a dive into nostalgia in a session focusing on the best performing and best looking receivers of all time! 1730 – Cocktail (Half)hour 1800 – Banquet (Speaker undetermined at this time) 2030 – The Raffle 2400 – The Annual Ride of The Voice of Pancho Villa If one were to know such things: every year at this time the annual advertures of Pancho Villa and his cast of characters take to the airwaves for a special Winterfest broadcast to wrap up the annual event. The 29th Annual Winter SWL Festival - February 19-20, 2016 - Plymouth Meeting, PA The Winter SWL Festival is a conference of radio hobbyists of all stripes, from DC to daylight. Every year scores of hobbyists descend on the Philadelphia suburbs for a weekend of camaraderie. The Festival is sponsored by NASWA, the North American Shortwave Association. It covers much more than just shortwave; mediumwave (AM), scanning, satellite TV, and pirate broadcasting are among the other topics covered. Hotel Registration: The Doubletree Guest Suites will offer a special $107 rate (single or double) that includes a full breakfast buffet. Phone the hotel at +1 610 834 8300 for reservations, using the group code “SWL” or reserve a room online here; you can visit the hotel’s general website here. Fest Registration: A paper reservation form is available here, and an online reservation capability is available here (Feb CIDX Messenger via DXLD) RADIO MEETINGS 2016 Dear friends, I have compiled the following list of radio and shortwave meetings to be held during 2016. I hope the list is of interest. Further distribution of the list is free. Your amendments and corrections are welcome, and if necessary I will release an updated version by the end of February. best 73's. Risto Vähäkainu, The Finnish DX Association Shortwave Radio Meetings – 2016 Date: February 13 Description: UNESCO World Radio Day Dates: February 19-20 Location: Plymouth Meeting (near Philadelphia), PA, USA Description: Winter SWL Fest More info: http://www.swlfest.com Expected attendance: 150 Date: March 5 (1430-1700 BST) Location: Reading International Solidarity Centre (RISC), 35-39 London Street, Reading RG1 4PS, England Organization: Reading International Radio Group Expected attendance: 20 More info: http://www.bdxc.org.uk , barraclough.mike at gmail.com Note: Reading DX meetings are held with about 2 months interval (next one on May 21) Dates: March 13-15 Location: Paris, France Description: Radiodays Europe 2016 -conference More info: http://www.radiodayseurope.com Dates: March 18-20 Location: Moeraki, North Otago, South Island, New Zealand Organization: New Zealand Radio DX League Description: DX Convention More info: http://www.radiodx.com, pauldx at xtra.co.nz (Paul Aronsen) Dates: May 20-22 Location: Dayton, Ohio, USA Organization: Dayton Hamvention Expected attendance: 20000 More info: http://www.hamvention.org Dates: May 21-22 Location: Zinkensdamm Hotel, Södermalm, Stockholm Description: DX-Parlamentet 2016, the annual meeting of the SDXF + SDXF’s 60th anniversary Organization: The Swedish DX-Federation (SDXF) More info: http://www.sdxf.se Dates: Jun 2-3 Location: Nashville TN, USA Description: Annual NASB Conference Oganization: National Association of Shortwave Broadcasters More info: http://www.shortwave.org Dates: June 24-26 Location: Friedrichshafen, Germany Description: Ham Radio, biggest annual hamfest in Europe Expected attendance: 20000 More info: http://www.hamradio-friedrichshafen.de Dates: July 30-August 13 Location: Döbriach, Austria Description: DX-Camp of ADXB-OE More info: http://www.dxcamp.org Dates: August 5-7 Location: Messilä, Lahti, Finland Description: Summer meeting of the Finnish DX Association Expected attendance: 80 More info: http://www.sdxl.org, rv at sdxl.org Dates: August 20-21 Location: Tokyo, Japan Description: Big ham fair with a SW sector (Japan SW Club stand & lectures) Organization: Tokyo HAM Fair sponsored by JARL Expected attendance: 30000 More info: ohtaket at live.jp Dates: September 2-7 Location: Berlin, Germany Name: IFA Internationale Funkausstellung Description: Consumer Electronics Fair - Including Radios More info: http://www.b2b.ifa-berlin.com Dates: September 8-13 Location: Amsterdam, Holland Decsription: IBC 2015, conference and exhibition More info: http://www.ibc.org Dates: September 9-11 Location: Kansas City MO, USA Description: Joint meeting of WTFDA, IRCA, NRC, all Dxers welcome Dates: September 9-12 Location: Manchester, United Kingdom Description: European DX Conference, the annual meeting of EDXC Organization: European DX Council (EDXC) & British DX Club Expected attendance: 50-70 More info: https://edxcnews.wordpress.com/category/edxc-conference-2016/ Date: October 8 Location: Kalundborg, Denmark Description: The final meeting of DSWCI Organization: Danish Short Wave Club International (DSWCI) More info: http://www.dswci.org anker.petersen at mail.dk Dates: not announced Location: Brahma Kumaris, Rajasthan, India Description: Ham Fest India 2016 Ham Fest India 2016 is scheduled to take place in November 2016 and to be hosted by Mount Abu International HAM Radio Club at Brahma Kumaris -- (Risto Vähäkainu tietotekniikka-asiantuntija Helsingin yliopisto Tietotekniikkakeskus p. 050-529 2909 Feb 9, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) EDXC CONFERENCE FRIDAY 9 - MONDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2016 Hosted by the British DX Club at The Castlefield Hotel, Manchester, M3 4JR. http://castlefield-hotel.co.uk Local organiser is Chrissy Brand editor@bdxc.org.uk Accommodation: Costs per night (in pounds and euros): Single room £87 (€118); Double room £95 (€129); 3 people in a room £117 (€158). Contact is Ann Shannon, Reservations and Meetings Manager, Tel +44(0)161 832 7073, ann@castlefieldhotel.co.uk Please mention EDXC 2016 and the reference number BK57133 when you make a booking. A separate delegate rate - a small amount for conference costs- plus prices for radio-themed excursions and the Sunday night banquet, in due course. Further details at the EDXC website/blog https://edxcnews.wordpress.com (Feb BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) Same weekend as the big joint con at Kansas City! What to do? (gh) LANGUAGE LESSONS ++++++++++++++++ END OF THE CIRCUMFLEX? ^ Changes in French spelling cause uproar http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35496893 (via Terry L Krueger, DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See BOUGAINVILLE; INDIA; NIGERIA; ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ROMANIA; UAE DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See MEXICO ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC See UAE +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DAB See also SWEDEN! UAE ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ GPS ANOMALIES CAUSED PROBLEMS FOR DAB AROUND THE UK Radio Magazine By Doug Irwin, CPBE AMD DRB February 5, 2016 U.S. Air Force confirmed that the removal of the satellite precipitated the issues LONDON — An error with the Global Positioning System network has been blamed for causing problems with digital radio broadcasts around the UK last week, reports BBC News. Networked DAB transmitters must broadcast at exactly the same frequencies and, in order to synchronize, they lock on to GPS satellite signals. This is typical of communications systems around the world. The problem occurred after a decommissioned satellite caused software problems which affected several other satellites. The U.S. Air Force confirmed that the removal of the satellite precipitated the issues. A BBC spokesman confirmed that the decommissioning of the GPS satellite led to difficulties for listeners receiving digital radio signals. In a response to the reported issues, the BBC said: "The outages were caused by a rogue GPS satellite (SVN23), which was taken out of service in the evening of 26 January." "While the core navigation systems were working normally, the co- ordinated universal time timing signal was off by 13 microseconds which exceeded the design specifications," said the U.S. Air Force in a statement. In fact, as a result of the problem, some GPS positioning would have been thrown off by nearly 4km. http://www.radiomagonline.com/around-the-world/0020/gps-anomalies-caused-problems-for-dab-around-the-uk/37393 Posted by: (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ BST-1 SW CAR RADIO I continue to enjoy having access to SW in the car via the BST-1 I have been evaluating; most of my driving is in the daytime, however, when loud & clear signals are predominantly gospel huxters or far- right talkshows on US stations. We did get one of the few VOA Greenville broadcasts left, Portuguese to Africa on Fridays only, Feb 12 at 1630-1730, booming in on 15730; discussion about drought, famine in Angola. Nighttime is much more productive: UT Feb 13 on the road from OKC to Enid, we had nice music from 9420 Voice of Greece, 5865 Algeria via France, 9790 CRI Cantonese via Cuba, and even 6070 CFRX talk was listenable. I`m impressed by the sensitivity and selectivity of this compact radio residing in the trunk, using nothing but a short whip mounted on the trunk lid. It funxions by scanning up to 100 memories for favorite stations, rather than direct frequency entry; everything is controlled by a remote fob with only two buttons, and its reception is transmitted on FM into the existing caradio. There are audio cues as to funxions, and visual display is thru the FM radio`s RDS. More details at: http://www.carshortwaveradio.com/ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WEBSDR'S FROM NEW ZEALAND AND BRITISH COLUMBIA AND NEW KIWISDR Hi, I have read on RTL-SDR.com website about a 0-30 MHz WebSDR from New Zealand http://www.jks.com:8073/ and also one from the University of Victoria, B.C., Canada - http://kiwisdr.ece.uvic.ca:8073/ They both use a new SDR called KiwiSDR which is hopefully soon to be on sale as a low priced 0-30 MHz SDR http://www.jks.com/KiwiSDR/ (Stephen Cooper, Feb 8, dxldyg via DXLD) THE UNOFFICIAL AM CHEATING THREAD Okay, call me naïve, but I suppose that is why these Fora are here. There is so much widespread cheating amongst AM stations that I could use some info, like: (1) Does the FCC have to wait for enough complaints, before the hammer is leveled? Are there not enough complaints, **at least from supposedly-protected stations**, that the offending AM station (whether running at nights when they shouldn't, or running day/higher power or different pattern) can keep it going? (2) How many of the daytime-only offenders have a listen-live link on their website, and figure that they need to run the AM to keep the feed fluid? Also, how many are announcing an FM frequency as well, and feel that they have to run the AM? I do know that one FL station runs 1 watt at night, ostensibly to keep the FM and/or Web stream going. (3) We have one member here I know, maybe two, who are whizzes when it comes to knowing about "HSFB" (high school football), and listens out for any cheaters who run such games on the air. (This time of year, I would figure basketball to play a similar role.) Do these sporting events affect what power/pattern a station uses? Anyway I know I am all over the place on this, but when I did AM DX in the 70s and 80s, this silliness just didn't happen. Never; unless there was a special DX program or special maintenance, assumed approved by the FCC. Any answers or comments? cd (Chris Dunne, Pembroke Pines FL, Feb 7, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) Mexico has a good set of cheaters too — especially the daytimers who run 6 am-midnight schedules. XEBCS comes booming in here at night. XEQI does the same thing (Raymie Humbert, AZ, ibid.) I don't suppose you're going to get any hard answers... - My sense is that the FCC no longer has the enforcement resources it once had. For the most part, what enforcement they have is wielded against violations that threaten public safety -- or financially well- heeled stakeholders. (i.e. cellular services) AM radio is small potatoes & not worth much effort. - The regulations specifically state an FM translator relaying a daytime-only AM station may operate if the AM station has operated in the last 24 hours. It's not legally required to operate the AM 24/7 if the FM is to operate at night. Since all FM translators relaying AM stations are "fill-in" translators, they may receive their programming via any terrestrial means - not just over the air. That said, one translator around here once picked up its daytime-only AM primary over the air, so they did have to operate the AM 24/7 if they wanted the FM to work. (that doesn't make it legal) (the station in question has since switched to other-than-OTA means and to the best of my knowledge is now turning the AM off at night) - High school sports are awfully lucrative. I've heard many small- town stations make all their money on these games -- if the games weren't airing, the stations would not be profitable. So yes, I think many stations do run the games on day facilities; the alternative is to go out of business. (again that doesn't make it right!) You may have read about the "Friday Night Football Exemption", a FCC regulation that supposedly makes the broadcast of a sporting event with day facilities legal. I have encountered AM station employees who are convinced this regulation is real and are VERY surprised to learn it isn't. There is no such regulation. I suspect they're thinking of 73.1520(f): (f) AM stations may, without further FCC authority, use their full daytime facilities during nighttime hours to broadcast emergency information (examples listed in paragraph (a) of this section), when necessary to the safety of life and property, in dangerous conditions of a general nature and when adequate advance warning cannot be given with the facilities authorized. Because of skywave interference impact on other stations assigned to the same channel, such operation may be undertaken only if regular, unlimited-time service, is non-existent, inadequate from the standpoint of coverage, or not serving the public need. All operation under this paragraph must be conducted on a noncommercial basis. Recorded music may be used to the extent necessary to provide program continuity. Football games do not appear in the list of examples in paragraph (a) (and notice the sentence about "...noncommercial basis.") They can get away with it, so they do it (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66 http://www.w9wi.com Feb 7, ibid.) Doug, you had me there when I first saw the high school football exemption! And it isn't even April 1! I was ready to reply, "no, I never heard of that!" We have a cheater in FL 250 miles away (unless their 33 watts are aimed my way, hi) and I heard a local ad. I suppose that when that business signed a contract, they were banking on full coverage, whether day or night. The whole thing about local advertisers - another fly in the ointment. Raymie, I was just transferring files tonight, including that XEQI; I admit that I did love their musical selections. All this is just amazing. cd (Chris Dunne, Feb 8, ibid.) Sometimes stations might run illegally without intending to do so. After hearing 540 WKFN TN, for example, night after night in Ontario at dominant strength, I contacted the CE, who worked for a groups of stations, and he said he'd look into it. He got back to me a day or so later and actually thanked me, acknowledging the station should have been on very reduced power, and somehow things got out of whack without it being apparent. WKFN has not appeared at night ever since, though I do note it often enough during authorized daylight hours. The e-mail exchange with the CE was very friendly. I consider that key in the early going if one's aim is to curtail such activity. Keep a log of when you hear something. If possible find DXers far away who can hear it loud enough. Have audio recordings made from a distance, even if it means asking distant DXers to do that (if you happen to be too close). If you do want to curtail the activity, publicize the situation (in a non-inflammatory way) widely on DX lists and bull-boards so DXers who want to can avail of the opportunity. Allow a generous window. Build and document your case in the meantime. Then at some point take it to the station and / or owners and/or engineer, and let them know the xmtr may be malfunctioning. If they indicate that they care (a good deal of them may not, or may be cheating deliberately), then I think it's OK to let them know you're part of the community of DXers, who if the CE wants can be eyes and ears. Might even pull off the occasional DX test. As for the cheaters who don't care: Leave a little time after letting them know. Perhaps they will fix a problem or stop on their own, quietly, wanting to save face. If nothing changes after, say, a month, contact the CE at stations that may be being interfered with. It helps if the person making that contact isn't in Idaho if the station being affected by the cheater is in Virginia - so consider enlisting help from another DXer if need be. If nothing resolves from there, after a month or so, perhaps contact the FCC. If anyone is going to take the matter this far, I'd really hope they would not have IDed themselves as a DXer anywhere in the process. I do think it's nice, if you're a DXer, to give other DXers ample opportunity to hear the station, by publicizing it's DXability in DXer venues. And even if the complaint level goes into high gear, remain polite, civilized and totally mellow in demeanour, and avoid inflammatory and accusatory words like 'cheating'. As for the footballers: if they sign off right after the game ends and aren't a chronic offender, publicize the opportunity and let 'em be. My two cents, as I enjoy this thread (Saul Chernos, Burnt River ON, Feb 8, ibid.) Good post, Saul. One time around 1996ish I was listening to Joe Donovan's 840 WHAS oldies show (fantastic show BTW), and heard (ISTR) CNN Headline News underneath it. This turned out to be KVJY Pharr TX running its day pattern. I had their number in the NRC Log so I called them (2:30 am local), and asked them if they are running day pattern by accident. Man! The guy on the phone was in such a panic --- said he'd call the CE right away. 10 minutes later, problem solved! I sure hate to interrupt people's sleep.....! So, yes, the nice approach works. As Saul knows, I do post on the BCB Log for other DXers where I notice violations. cd (Chris Dunne, ibid.) Further to Doug's post, if the FCC is going to respond to a complaint about AM, it's going to be mostly because another station had a legitimate complaint. Long gone are the days when the FCC had the staffing, budget and will to pursue rules violations simply because rules were violated. Saul's approach is the best one, I think. Particularly if you think that there's another station which is being interfered with (Russ Edmunds, 15 mi NW Philadelphia, PA, WB2BJH -- Grid FN20id, Feb 8, ibid.) Propagation can do strange things. I'm thinking of a time when I was AM DXing with a crystal radio set. There used to be a crystal radio contest... http://crystalradio.us/contests/index.htm ... in which I competed, years ago. (2004-2009) During this contest I was listening to my line-of-sight (my tower can 'see' their tower) local station, early one morning. It's licensed for, non-directional, 5 kW day and 53 watts night. On this particular morning it was VERY strong while it was supposed to be running low power. I thought they were, 'cheating.' A few minutes later they flipped the switch and nearly blew the headphones off of my head. Seems I was wrong about it, 'cheating.' Normally, when running low power, the local just blends in with all of the other mess. On this morning it was LOUD, even though it was obviously running low power. I was amazed how much propagation can vary the signals even when the station is LOS. The moral of the story is: Favorable propagation can, at times, turn a 'pea-shooter' into a 'big gun.' I've heard several other 'pea-shooters' (TIS stations, etc) over the years thanks to favorable propagation. Are there cheaters out there? Sure there are, but, just because they have a big signal doesn't necessarily mean they're cheating. FWIW: the FCC is too busy selling RF spectrum, it does not own, to be bothered with anything so trivial as enforcement of the rules. Remember: People who are completely un-employable will be employed by the government. I offer, 'inside the beltway' as proof. 73, (Ed NN2E, Owner / Operator - Murphy's Law Test Site & Thunderstorm Proving Grounds, KY, Feb 8, ibid.) Man I love this hobby. There was a station in Kansas on 1030, KBUF I believe that was on day power a few times during the summer and fall of last year (2015). Contact with the engineer was made and though he said everything was fine, I still heard it from MN. Eventually they fixed it. The biggest cheater I can think of off hand is KCTO 1160. Annoying station. Last edited by SlcDX; 02-09-2016 at 12:10 AM. (Justin W. - St. Cloud, Minnesota (EN25WM), Feb 8, ibid.) KRXR-1480 Gooding, ID KZXR-1310 Prosser, WA - Both Spanish speaking formats but MAN they cheat a lot! KRXR is always in the clear E-W on 1480, and Prosser dominates at night on 1310, 50 miles away. Their wattage at night should only be in the double digits...not 5,000. Ditto w/ KRXR. I hear KOHI 1600 St. Helens, OR cheating about once a month. They are 12 watts night, but cheat on 1000 watts. KSLL-1080 Price, UT is also common w/ their Classic Rock 105 the Kastle format, well into the night. They are a daytimer! (crainbebo, FM/AM/SW DXer of Yakima, WA! God Bless America! Feb 9, ibid.) If you haven't already read it: http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?5089-Wthq-750 Read down to post #23. It's a good summary of the status of AM radio - the FCC - inside the beltway. fwiw... 750 is still dead. 98.3 still has no top tower light. 73, (Ed NN2E, Feb 10, ibid.) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2016 Feb 08 0222 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 01 - 07 February 2016 Solar activity was at low levels throughout the entire period. Several regions produced low level C-class events, the largest a C5/Sf at 04/1822 UTC from Region 2494 (S11, L=162, class/area Dki/270 on 07 Feb). A filament eruption observed beginning on 05/1939 UTC near S19W28 was associated with a CME that is anticipated to be a glancing blow midday on 09 Feb. Several other small filament eruptions occurred but none were expected to be geoeffective. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at normal to moderate levels. Geomagnetic field activity began the week at quiet to unsettled levels. Active to minor storm conditions were observed early on 03 Feb due to a co-rotating interactive region (CIR) followed by the onset of a positive polarity coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS). Quiet to unsettled conditions were observed during largely nominal solar wind conditions from 04-07 Feb, with the exception of an isolated active period on 07 Feb due to prolonged negative Bz. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 08 FEBRUARY - 05 MARCH 2016 Solar activity is expected to be at low levels throughout the forecast period. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at normal to moderate levels with high levels possible from 12-16 Feb and 19-23 Feb following subsequent CH HSS events. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at unsettled to active levels with isolated minor storm periods on 08 Feb due to prolonged negative Bz and negative polarity CH HSS effects. Quiet to active conditions are likely to continue into 09 Feb as effects continue along with a possible glancing blow from the 05 Feb CME. Quiet to unsettled conditions are expected from 10-12 Feb as a recurrent positive polarity HSS moves into a geoeffective position. Mostly quiet conditions are expected from 13-16 Feb. Quiet to unsettled conditions are expected from 17-19 Feb with active periods possible on 18 Feb due to effects from a recurrent negative polarity HSS. Predominately quiet conditions are expected from 20-29 Feb. Quiet to unsettled conditions are expected with isolated active periods possible on 01-03 Mar as another positive polarity CH HSS becomes geoeffective. Quiet conditions are expected to close out the forecast period. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2016 Feb 08 0222 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 2016-02-08 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2016 Feb 08 115 18 5 2016 Feb 09 115 18 4 2016 Feb 10 118 8 3 2016 Feb 11 115 10 3 2016 Feb 12 112 10 3 2016 Feb 13 110 5 2 2016 Feb 14 110 5 2 2016 Feb 15 110 5 2 2016 Feb 16 110 5 2 2016 Feb 17 112 10 3 2016 Feb 18 112 15 4 2016 Feb 19 115 12 4 2016 Feb 20 110 8 3 2016 Feb 21 115 5 2 2016 Feb 22 115 5 2 2016 Feb 23 115 5 2 2016 Feb 24 110 5 2 2016 Feb 25 112 5 2 2016 Feb 26 115 5 2 2016 Feb 27 115 5 2 2016 Feb 28 112 5 2 2016 Feb 29 112 5 2 2016 Mar 01 110 15 3 2016 Mar 02 105 10 3 2016 Mar 03 100 12 3 2016 Mar 04 105 8 3 2016 Mar 05 100 5 2 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1812, DXLD) ###