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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1817 CONTENTS: *DX and station news about: Alaska, Australia, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Bougainville, Brazil, China, Cuba and non, Egypt, Europe, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Spain, Taiwan non, Uganda non, USA, Vatican, Vietnam, Zambia SHORTWAVE AIRINGS of WORLD OF RADIO 1817, March 18-24, 2016 Thu 1130 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Thu 2100 WRMI 13695 [confirmed] Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed] Fri 2130 WRMI 15770 [confirmed] Fri 2130 WRMI 13695 [confirmed] Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed] Sat 0730 HLR 6190-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [confirmed] Sat 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed] Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM [confirmed from 0316] Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed] Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130.815v-AM Area 51 [confirmed from 0302] Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [not confirmed - not on air] Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS: Tnx to Dr Harald Gabler and the Rhein-Main Radio Club. http://www.rmrc.de/index.php/rmrc-audio-plattform/podcast/glenn-hauser-wor ALTERNATIVE PODCASTS, tnx Stephen Cooper: http://shortwave.am/wor.xml AND ANOTHER PODCAST ALTERNATIVE, tnx to Keith Weston: http://feeds.feedburner.com/GlennHausersWorldOfRadio Also via [but still not back in service]: http://tunein.com/radio/World-of-Radio-p198/ OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org DAY-BY-DAY ARCHIVE OF GLENN HAUSER`S LOG REPORTS: Unedited, uncondensed, unchanged from original version, many of them too complex, minutely researched, multi-frequency, opinionated, inconsequential, off-topic, or lengthy for some log editors to manage; and also ahead of their availability in these weekly issues: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser NOTE: I have *resolved* to make DXLD leaner, more selective, as I seriously need to reduce my workload, much of which has been merely editing gobs of material into presentable form. 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]. KYRGYSTAN, Reception of Afghan Christian Radio Sadaye Zindagi, March 11 1548 & 1600 on 5130 BI 100 kW / non-dir to CeAs Pashto or Dari http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2016/03/reception-of-afghan-christian-radio.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALASKA. Summer A-16 of KNLS The New Life Station via tx#1 & tx#2 0800-0900 on 9655 NLS 100 kW / 285 deg to EaAs Chinese tx#1 0800-0900 on 11870 NLS 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs English tx#2 0900-1000 on 9655 NLS 100 kW / 285 deg to EaAs Chinese tx#1 0900-1000 on 11870 NLS 100 kW / 300 deg to NEAs Russian tx#2 1000-1100 on 9655 NLS 100 kW / 285 deg to EaAs Chinese tx#1 1000-1100 on 11870 NLS 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs English tx#2 1100-1200 on 9655 NLS 100 kW / 285 deg to EaAs Chinese tx#1 1100-1200 on 11870 NLS 100 kW / 300 deg to NEAs Russian tx#2 1200-1300 on 7355 NLS 100 kW / 285 deg to EaAs English tx#1 1200-1300 on 11870 NLS 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs English tx#2 1300-1400 on 9655 NLS 100 kW / 300 deg to NEAs Chinese tx#2 1300-1400 on 9920 NLS 100 kW / 285 deg to EaAs Chinese tx#1 1400-1500 on 7355 NLS 100 kW / 285 deg to EaAs Chinese tx#1 1400-1500 on 11765 NLS 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs English tx#2 1500-1600 on 9655 NLS 100 kW / 300 deg to NEAs Russian tx#2 1500-1600 on 9920 NLS 100 kW / 285 deg to EaAs Chinese tx#1 1600-1700 on 9655 NLS 100 kW / 315 deg to NEAs Russian tx#2 1600-1700 on 9920 NLS 100 kW / 285 deg to EaAs Chinese tx#1 1700-1800 on 9655 NLS 100 kW / 315 deg to NEAs Russian tx#2 1700-1800 on 9920 NLS 100 kW / 285 deg to EaAs Chinese tx#1 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/03/summer-16-of-knls-new-life-station-via.html (Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1817 [Eglish], DXLD) ** ALBANIA. 7465, Radio Tirana-Shijak, at 0240, on 8 Mar. A male announcer is talking in English about the station’s programs and times. He then went on to talk about a song that played next with a female singer. The song ended with the male announcer talking about the next singer and song. The station was scheduled on 7470 at this time. On 7470, at 0245, on 8 Mar, a female announcer is speaking in (Presumed) Albanian. It appears they are using both frequencies. Fair- Poor. (John Cooper, Lebanon, PA, Winradio-G33DDC, CommRadio CR-1a, SDR-IQ, GAP-Hear It-In Line Module, Wellbrook ALA-1530S+, Wellbrook ALA1530LNPro, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ?? Tirana in English at 0230 has been on 7465, not 7470, most of the B season, precisely to avoid QRM, from the 7470 station, which is really VOA Deewa Radio in Pashto via Kuwait (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7465, Radio Tirana, (USB mode was used to cut some noise), at 0225 I tuned to the station’s ID tape and listened until 0258, SINFO = 5,5,2,4,2, the overall merit was reduced due to the noise, I had one weak ID at 0231 and then a stronger one at 0258; I listened to a number of songs some of which sounded very dated, the Racal 6790 and the 42’ Windom antenna. 3/10 (John Davis, northeast of Columbus, Ohio, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** ANGUILLA [and non]. 11775, March 15 at 1434, Caribbean Beacon is off the air, still gone at 1502 and 1907 chex; at the latter time instead, very poor signal in Arabic, which is Algeria via FRANCE which has been colliding here all along at 19-21. 11775, March 15 at 2036, Caribbean Beacon remains off as it has been all day. But night frequency 6090 is on March 16 circa 0607 when I`m also hearing PMS on 1610. HFCC B15 also shows on 11775: AIR GOA in Tibetan and Nepali at 1200- 1430; NHK Urdu via UAE at 1515-1600. AIA could be stuck on inaudible night frequency 6090 which normally runs from 22 to 10 UT; if completely off, clearing 6090 could be good early UT March 16 for Brasil, Ethiopia, Nigeria; not to mention the imaginary Chilean in Aoki, which in WRTH is the only Chilean SW, but ``inactive`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. Der argentinische Auslandsdienst hat eine tolle Webseite mit hochaufgelösten Bildern seiner Kurzwellensender veröffentlicht. Die Sendeanlage befindet sich in der Ortschaft General Pacheco in der Provinz Buenos Aires und kann theoretisch mit bis zu 100 Kilowatt betrieben werden, wird aber aufgrund ihres Alters nur mit verminderter Sendeleistung eingesetzt. Danke an Horacio Nigro Geolkiewsky, CX3BZ für den Hinweis. http://www.rae.com.ar/?p=14535 73 (Christoph Ratzer, http://ratzer.at http://remotedx.wordpress.com A-DX via SW Bulletin March 14 via DXLD) ** ARGENTINA. RAE Buenos Aires, Argentina. Photos of historic transmitters and transmitter site. A web photo gallery has been posted at It doesn't run as a sequence (slideshow), but pics are full resolution (Horacio Nigro, URUGUAY, CX3BZ, DXplorer March 8 via BC-DX vua DXLD) General Pacheco pictures from Argentina. Bilder aus Argentinien. Der argentinische Auslandsdienst hat eine tolle Webseite mit hochaufgeloesten Bildern seiner Kurzwellensender veroeffentlicht. Die Sendeanlage befindet sich in der Ortschaft General Pacheco in der Provinz Buenos Aires und kann theoretisch mit bis zu 100 Kilowatt betrieben werden, wird aber aufgrund ihres Alters nur mit verminderter Sendeleistung eingesetzt. Danke an Horacio Nigro Geolkiewsky-URUGUAY, CX3BZ fuer den Hinweis. 73 Christoph (Christoph Ratzer, Austria, OE2CRM, A-DX March 10 via BCDX via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. Re: Radio Australia dead air 26 Feb: Further to Glenn Hauser's report of that day when there were open carriers from around 1400 UTC from RA's Shepparton transmitters, I reported this to RA and today received a response: "* AUSTRALIA. 9580, 12065 & 12085, Feb 26 at 1404, open carrier/dead air from all three R. Australia outlets! ..." RA's response: "Hi Jerome, Thanks for letting us know. We were aware of the outage, the issue was at contribution end not at Shepparton. Thanks again, Regards, Radio Australia" So in short there was a problem elsewhere within the Australian Broadcasting Commission in that area which had responsibility for generating the program feed. At that time it`s the middle of the night down here in Oz, and I think (a) there's no staff on duty at Shepparton, and (b) the ABC does not monitor the signals being transmitted from Shepparton to enable it to react and do something about it. Nevertheless interesting that they were (became?) aware of the outage. 73s (Jerome van der Linden, Director, Networks On Demand ACN 079312726, Tel (61) 0418 855953, Fax (618) 83813863 cid:image001.jpg@01CF690F.20835EA0 http://www.nod.com.au Computer Network Services, Mobotix Network Video Security Systems, March 15, ARDXC members discussion list via WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DXLD) Conditions here have been poor-to-fair in the mornings here the last few days which isn't surprising with the latest set of GeoMagnetic Storms with low 90s Solar Flux. One exception was Radio Australia on 9580 kHz this morning (~1345z) being stronger and clearer than normal (transmitter maintenance complete?). I was going to just keep on bandscanning after tuning it but I heard a very familiar voice. Alan Alda (Hawkeye Pierce from the M*A*S*H television show I grew up watching) was the guest of their 'Conversations' program. I couldn't tune on, I listened, transfixed, until it was over. He was relating the importance of Science and Mathematics schooling even though he was (obviously) an arts major. I ended up looking it up on podcast Alan Alda on bringing science to the stage) --- Actor Alan Alda has devoted his life to making science interesting and ... http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2016/03/15/4425193.htm and listening to the entire thing. Radio Australia, 9580, 1349 16 MAR - SINPO = 45334. English, male interviews, for ‘conversations’ program, Alan Alda about learning science and mathematics and his work on Scientific American Frontiers and flamechallenge.org. sf93.1, a24, k3, geomag: unsettled. 100kw, beamAz 70 , bearing 242 . Sangean ATS505 w/Sony AN-LP1 active loop in west facing window. Received at Las Vegas, United States, 13008KM from transmitter at Shepparton VIC. Local time: 0649 (Rodney Johnson, NV, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BAHRAIN. 9745, Radio Bahrain, Abu Hayan (presumed), 0119-0127. Middle Eastern vocal music. Possible quick announcement at 0125 followed by more music. Weak signal, initially quite readable, declining rapidly after 0124. Carrier plus USB with no LSB component present. Audio was good so does not appear to be an early start for Cairo, which was heard later in the evening with extremely distorted audio. Very good conditions for reception of signals from the Middle East existed at that time. 3/6/2016 (Jim Evans, Germantown, TN, IC- R75, CR-1a, Perseus, ICF-SW7600G, PL-660, Random Wire, ALA-100M, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) 9745, Mar 11, 1946, Radio Bahrain, CUSB mode, very good with classic Arabic vocals (David Sharp, NSW, SW Bulletin March 14 via DXLD) 9745, Radio Bahrain, CUSB mode, 1946, very good with classic Arabic vocals. 11 March (David Sharp, [NSW] FT-950, NRD-535D, R8, R30A, Timewave 599ZX, various Palstar and MFJ accessories, Quantum Phaser, various Sangean and Tecsun portables, EWE aerials via Robert Wilkner, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** BANGLADESH. 4750.0, Bangladesh Betar – Home Service, 1228, March 14. Back on the air again; not being heard before 1228. Almost seems to be their sign on? Theme music till ID at BoH. First noted back on the air March 10, also at 1228 with same theme music (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DX LISTENING DIGEST) No signal of Bangladesh Betar, March 10-11 1230-1300 on 15105 DKA 250 kW / 140 deg to SEAs English 1315-1345 on 9455 DKA 250 kW / 320 deg to SoAs Nepali 1400-1430 on 15505 DKA 250 kW / 290 deg to WeAs Urdu 1515-1545 on 15505 DKA 250 kW / 305 deg to SoAs Hindi 1600-1630 on 7250 DKA 250 kW / 290 deg to N/ME Arabic 1630-1730 on 7250 DKA 250 kW / 290 deg to N/ME Bangla 1745-1900 on 13580 DKA 250 kW / 320 deg to WeEu English 1915-2000 on 13580 DKA 250 kW / 320 deg to WeEu Bangla http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/03/no-signal-of-bangladesh-betar-march-10.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DXLD) 15505, March 15 at 1358, JBA S3 carrier from Bangladesh Betar, again starting to propagate as equinox is nigh. I can detect the IS/theme music from approx. 1358.5, and the *still* mis-timesignal really cuts thru with its final higher-pitched and prolonged pip way fast, at 1359:14; opening Urdu (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Poor signal of Bangladesh Betar, March 16: 1400-1430 on 15505 DKA 250 kW / 290 deg to WeAs Urdu 1515-1545 on 15505 DKA 250 kW / 305 deg to SoAs Hindi http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/03/poor-signal-of-bangladesh-betar-march-16.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELARUS. From April 1, 99% probability goes Belarusian Radio and radiostation Belarus LW, MW, SW. Location data? Well, just like the Voice of Russia. A few days so in the new broadcast season for prophesy. So I wrote earlier, according to one of the Polish Forum. And today called and found out in something like the department of BTRC, there have confirmed. And on the HF, for example, regularly reserved for the summer season all of their frequency, including the long-deceased 5 kW (Russian SWL / DX website. DX Forum portal - MW, LW broadcast via RusDX March 13 via DXLD) Reception of Belarusian Radio HS-1 on March 16: from 1500 on 6080 MNS 100 kW / 127 deg to N/ME Belarussian from 1500 on 7255 MNS 125 kW / 072 deg to EaEu Belarussian http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/03/reception-of-belarusian-radio-hs-1-on.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) When checked the 11600-11800 kHz SW range, nothing of former Radio Belarus 11730 kHz spurious signals could be monitored anymore. Then the protest against the strong SPURIOUS interference in the range 11700 and 11760 kHz of fundamental 11730 kHz broadcast, has yet demonstrated effectiveness. The German FCC - FNA Bundesnetzagentur - Federal Network Agency Berlin - protested to Broadcasting Service Dept. State Supervisory Department for Telecomm in Minsk Belarus recently in January. Wb (Wolfgang Büschl, BC-DX via DXLD) So is 11730 still on the air, but cleaned up?? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** BHUTAN. 6035.05, BBS (presumed), 1135-1154, March 14. Non-stop EZL pop songs, while PBS Yunnan was continual talking. Does seem they are now on a new, extended schedule (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) In northwesterly Japan remote SDR unit: 6035v, Nothing heard anymore of Bhutan at 1245 UT, only PBS Yunnan CHINA on exact 6035.0 kHz. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, March 15, ibid.) ** BIAFRA [non]. SECRETLAND, SPL Secretbrod relay clandestine Radio Biafra on March 12 from 2000 on 11600 SCB 100 kW / 195 deg to WeAf dead air/music/live English http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/03/spl-secretbrod-relay-clandestine-radio_12.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) March 16 from 2000 on 11600 SCB 100 kW / 195 deg to WeAf English, live broadcast http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/03/spl-secretbrod-relay-clandestine-radio_16.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 5952.43, Radio Pio Doce, 0059*, March 14. Seems that on the weekend they sign off early (not 0230*); off with the usual format (whistling “Colonel Bogey March,” but cut off during the ID was completed). (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. Radio Panamericana Bolivia --- I am currently hearing this (across the hour at 0600 UT) on extended schedule on 6105.34. A decent carrier but the audio somewhat subdued with some splatter from Radio Havana Cuba on 6100. Confirmed with webstream at Radio Panamericana - Transmisión en vivo sin límite, noticias, deportes, todo sobre Bolivia y el mundo. Radio Panamericana - Transmisión en vivo sin límites Radio Panamericana de Bolivia, el mas alto nivel em radiodifusion http://www.panamericana.bo/ (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai - New Zealand, AOR7030+ and EWE to South America, March 11, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6105.33, March 11 at 0636, JBA carrier in RHC 6100 splash; in clear at 0705 after RHC is off, but only S6 and can barely hear any modulation. Tnx to timely tip on the DXLD yg from Bryan Clark, New Zealand, this is R. Panamericana, on extended schedule. He had it on 6105.34 around 0600 and matched to their webstream. Will be interesting to see if this SWBC keep up, or a one-off. It might come in better at some other time. Nominally 10 kW per WRTH, like 6134.8v R. Santa Cruz and twice the power of 5952.4v Pio Doce. Possibly this presence have something to do with a big controversy in Bolivia, as the government is trying to get rid of many private stations with licenses about to expire (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, you probably had 'em. I have recently heard what is probably R Panamericana during local morning on the signature footprint fqy of 6105.34 hetting against the Asian signal that is already fading in. Fqy is a mess, but typically Panamericana comes on between around or after 1030 (Ralph Perry, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6105.33, March 12 at 0121, not even a carrier from R. Panamericana, which I ought to be able to detect if on, despite the splash from 6115 WWCR. Other CPs are there, 5952.48 and 6134.82. Ralph Perry in IL says he hears it coming on around 1030 on 6105.34 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 6134.82, R. Santa Cruz, 0208*, March 14. Off with usual "Santa Cruz" song; earlier at 0102 had live sports coverage (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOUGAINVILLE [and non]. 3325, NBC Bougainville, 1156, March 14. For sure two stations mixing together with RRI much stronger; 1200 both went to news; seemed NBC went off sometime around 1208, but is so weak is hard to be positive of exact time. 3325, NBC Bougainville on March 16, finally a day that propagation favored NBC instead of RRI Palangkaraya; 1145-1202*; DJ in Pidgin/Tok Pisin playing pop Pacific Island music; for a time (1155-1159) RRI was off the air; 1155 said "winding down" program; 1200 nice ID; "island broadcast . . NBC Bougainville . . frequency 3.325 kilohertz in 90 meter band, shortwave one, 94.5 frequency there . . 95.5 . . Central Bougainville . . . NBC Bougainville." My edited audio, starting with ID, followed by Pacific Island music - https://goo.gl/7gPXc4 Very enjoyable music show! (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 9629.946, March 16 at 0548 check, weak carrier from R. Aparecida. I`m always noticing low audible het as I step-tune by kHz with BFO, so pause to measure its offness this time on the R75 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL [and non]. There was some question about whether R. Bandeirantes had really reactivated 11925 kHz. It's on now (0227 hrs), measured at 11925.19, with male and female announcers in Portuguese, parallel to 9645.40. Fair signal. I don't think it was here yesterday at this time (Art Delibert, North Bethesda, Maryland, 3/11/16, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Art, at 0305, they're cochannel with Iran in listed Dari. VOIRI is the stronger by far on the west coast with a very smeared signal (on the Perseus waterfall), measuring 11925.017 and presumed Bandeirantes on 11925.179. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, March 11, ibid.) Radio Bandeirantes Reativado em 11925 kHz. O SINPO é 45444, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmVuf9lfyq0 (Daniel Wyllyans, Brasil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Time ? Nothing visible at 1630 UT, all other known Brazilians in 25 mb seen so far. Need more checks at Brazilian nighttime. Radio Bandeirantes 6090 9645 etc. No entries in Aoki Nagoya Japan fq list database at present. wb So I checked the channels at 1950-2010 UT on March 11: 11925.198 kHz accurate BrasPortuguese talk heard channel, S=6 -92dBm fair strength here in southern Germany. Little spur QRM, of broadband HQ Arabic muslim prayer of BSKSA Riyadh on 11930 kHz adjacent channel, splatters down to 11925 kHz. \\ also heard on 9645.392 kHz, but CRI Kunming in French QRM of even channel 9645 kHz. \\ 6089.997 kHz BrazPortuguese, which has powerful QRM of 6089.858 kHz from Nigerian Radio Kaduna service adjacent. Wb (Wolfgang Büschel, March 11, HCDX via DXLD) RE WB, Time 11925 kHz --- I listened at 1022 UT = 07:22 Morning time of Brasília and Nova Xavantina. But I just see HCDX post other DXer Art Delibert, heard first in USA. He says (0236), I imagine it must be time in the morning in your town USA, surely he heard it first. Rádio Bandeirantes transmits 24 hours, do not want to imagine the price of electric energy from them, Brazil to electric and expensive energy, especially with now 3 SW channels but I'm happy with their return. 73 DW (Daniel Wyllyans, Brasil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 11925.21, 2045-2055 11.3, R Bandeirantes, São Paulo, SP, REACTIVATED FREQUENCY, Portuguese talk, 25121 // 9645.41 (25232) AP-DNK. Best 73, (Anker Petersen, my latest loggings from Skovlunde, heard on the AOR AR7030PLUS, with 28 metres of outdoor longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) 11925.22, March 12 at 0140, JBA carrier hetting something equally weak closer to 11925.0. Presumably the off-frequency one is reactivated R. Bandeirantes. Art Delibert in Maryland IDed it 23 hours earlier on 11925.19, parallel to 9645.40. As for the otherstation, before 0200 that would be CNR1, 100 kW, 286 degrees from Lingshi 725 site, per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DX LISTENING DIGEST) BRAZIL it`s true – RB on 11925: Mar 12, 2016. 0222-0230, Rádio Bandeirantes, São Paulo, in Portuguese. "A Voz do Brasil" transmission (other stations at 2200 UT). Fair signal and modulation, 35433, in certain moments of this transmission, interference by RTI, Oke, in Spanish, on 11920 kHz. R. Bandeirantes returns on air, after many times s/off. // 9645 kHz, fair signal, spur transmitter and poor modulation or barely audible, 33332 or 33331 (José Ronaldo Xavier, Cabedelo - Brazil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 11925.2, Rádio Bandeirantes, São Paulo, 2100-2109, 12-03, Portuguese, news and soccer comments. Very weak. 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Lugo, Grundig Satellit 500, cable antenna 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11925.2, March 13 at 0026, enthusiastic Brazuguese, probably futebol, sounds the same as on 9645.4, i.e. R. Bandeirantes running on both frequencies; 11925.2 is S6 with het from a 11925 station; and altho also metering S6, neighbor on 11934.9 sounds quite louder, with Aparecida ID in passing (axually Rádio RB2 relaying R. Aparecida); also with a het, as to be a Brazilian SW broadcaster, you *must* be off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) BRASIL, Very weak signal of Rádio Bandeirantes, March 14: from 0600 on 9645.4 SA4 7.5 kW / 030 deg to BRA Portuguese http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/03/very-weak-signal-of-radio-bandeirantes.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA. SECRETLAND, Brother HySTAIRical only on 11600 kHz 1500-1700 on 11600 SCB 100 kW / 090 deg to WeAs English All other frequencies via SPL Secretbrod are cancelled: 1600-1800*on 15600 SCB 050 kW / 126 deg to N/ME English 1900-2000 on 5900 SCB 050 kW / 306 deg to WeEu English 1900-2000 on 11600 SCB 100 kW / 195 deg to WeAf English 2000-2200 on 5900 SCB 050 kW / 306 deg to WeEu English 2000-2200 on 9465 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to WeAf English 2200-2300 on 5900 SCB 050 kW / 306 deg to WeEu English * Mon/Fri till 1700 UT, due to Radio Ranginkaman/Rainbow 1700-1730 on 7460 SCB 050 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Persian http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/03/brother-hystairical-only-on-11600-khz.html SECRETLAND SPL Secretbrod relay Brother HySTAIRical, March 12 1500-1700 on 11600 SCB 100 kW / 090 deg to WeAs English, confirmed 1600-1800 on 15600 SCB 050 kW / 126 deg to N/ME English, no signal 1900-2300 on 5900 SCB 050 kW / 306 deg to WeEu English, no signal 2000-2100 on 9465 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to WeAf English, no signal 2000-2200 on 9500 SCB 100 kW / 306 deg to ENAm English, no signal http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/03/spl-secretbrod-relay-brother.html SECRETLAND, Brother HySTAIRical was back on 15600, 5900, 9500, Mar 16 1600-1800 15600 SCB 050 kW / 126 deg N/ME English, no signal at 17-18 1900-2300 5900 SCB 050 kW / 306 deg WeEu English 2000-2200 9500 SCB 100 kW / 306 deg ENAm English Today no signal 1900-2000 11600 SCB 100 kW / 195 deg WeAf English 2000-2200 9465 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg WeAf English http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/03/brother-hystairical-was-back-on-15600.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHILE. See WORLD OF HOROLOGY ** CHINA. 17585, CNR1, 1431-1500* 1 March. Jammer v. unheard VOA Tibetan service (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA E5/6m X wire, via Robert Wilkner, condiglista yg via DXLD) 6020, Firedragon/CNR1 1801+ 5 March, 1707+ 6 March. Firedragon belching away on the 5th with CNR1 jamming it up on the 6th, presumably v. RFA 17-22. 11470, CNR1 jammer, 1630+ 7 March. Loud v. unheard SOH and throwing spurs +/- 37 kHz [11433/11507]. 7415, Firedragon, 1612-1625 10 March. Being boisterous this morning with "wake-up-or-else" music v. (unheard) RFA's 15-21 Chinese broadcast (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA E5/6m X wire, via Robert Wilkner, condiglista yg via DXLD) 9480, Mar 11, 2016. 0125-0130, CNR1, Jammer-Firedrake and totally blocked RFA in Uyghur, this time. 45444 (DXer José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX), Cabedelo [B] Brazil, Sony ICF-SW100S, Portable Telescopic antenna, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 17585, March 14 at 1436, CNR1 jammer, S9 with flutter, in clear with RHC off 17580; and its target inaudible, which is VOA Tibetan via Biblis, Germany during this hour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 5050, Beibu Bay Radio, 1319-1322, March 16. Usual brief segment in English and Chinese; ID seems to be something like "Are you ready? Hi everyone. This is Beibu Bay Radio, the Voice of Guangxi, China"; seemed to be talking about the recent comments of Foreign Minister Wang Yi, to "build a community with a shared future for all of mankind." (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 13590, CRI (presumed), 0234, March 16. Special news conference given by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang about the economy of China; questions asked by Reuters reporter in English, with responses in Chinese (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Miss Yin Lian, English Department-Audience Relations (CRI editor Relations radio audience that checks QSL / Reception Reports) told me in English what budget Chinese government greatly reduced for the CRI and in 2016, they can not send their listeners NOTHING! !! Her e-mail address is: .Esch? [sic] in December they sent me by China Post international small package customized (Petit Paquet Racommandé Internationale). If everything I understand correctly that now is the time very bad for CRI and China and their DX-Listeners! Alas! (Sergey Izyumov, Moscow, Russia, RusDX March 13 via DXLD) Ying lian is a collective name for the English department, not a female individual. Or does ``she`` send you a portrait? Or so I was once told. Google translate`s first guess is ``couplets`` without getting into such details as tones and the original characters. Or yin lian goes to ``cup`` (gh) ** CONGO. 6115, Radio Congo, Brazzaville, 1800-1858, 15-03, French, id. "Radio Congo, le journal", news about Congo, comments, at 1835: "Le Musical du Radio Congo" [sic], vernacular songs, more comments. At 1858 strong interference from CRI on 6110. 13321 (Manuel Méndez, log in Lugo, Spain, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CONGO DR. 5066.44, Mar 11, 1706, R. Candip, fair despite heavy ute QRM. Hilife with French talk by a man and woman (David Sharp, NSW, SW Bulletin March 14 via DXLD) 5066.44, R. Candip, 1706, fair despite heavy ute QRM. Hilife with French talk by a man and woman. 11 March (David Sharp, [NSW] FT-950, NRD-535D, R8, R30A, Timewave 599ZX, various Palstar and MFJ accessories, Quantum Phaser, various Sangean and Tecsun portables, EWE aerials via Robert Wilkner, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** CUBA. 1000, Radio Guamá, Los Palacios, Pinar del Río. 0044 March 10, 2016. Traditional Cuban folk vocals, parallel 1020. Very good but with rapid, spastic warbling transmitter. This one has been here for a long time but not in the current EcuRed listing. Site per old WRTVH entry. 1060, Radio Veintiséis, Jovellanos, Matanzas. 0050 March 10, 2016. Spanish love ballads, excellent but badly over-driven audio. 1190, Radio Sancti Spíritus, Sancti Spíritus. 0108 March 10, 2016. Fair-poor, parallel generally better 1210 with English classic pop/rock songs such as Ian Gomm "Hold On," Peter Frampton "Shine On," Pilot "It's Magic," and BTO "Takin' Care Of Business" but annoyingly, only spinning about half of each song. 1210, Radio Reloj, unknown site. 0109 March 10, 2016. A new one, if I recall correctly, and not listed in EcuRed, or my stale list until now. Very poor under Radio Rebelde and Radio Sancti Spíritus. 1220, Radio Caribe, La Fe, Isla de la Juventud. 0150 March 10, 2016. Cuban pop/jazz, news summary 0159-0201, female canned, "Ésta es CMBY, Radio Caribe, desde la Isla de la Juventud, Cuba." As always, audio way over-modulated. Haven't heard the briefly existing and unlisted 1210 parallel in a few years, presumably long gone (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 6165, March 12 at 0120, RHC English is instead dead air at S9+35; and so is 6000, DA at S9+40; the SS frequencies 6075 & 6060 are OK. By 0148 next check, 6000 & 6165 have resumed. 13740, March 13 at 0100, RHC Spanish with full frequency announcement introducing evening span, but skips from 9 to 6 MHz band with no mention of 6870, the semi-harmonic I have just heard again with a JBA carrier. It`s been matched previously to 13740, so I try again for a few minutes, but 6870 is just too weak, and by 0154, 13740 itself has faded way down, while 6870 stays the same, during an Arnie Coro non-DX segment as I listen to 6075 instead (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Habana Cuba, daylight shifted times start March 13: from 1100 on 11760 BAU 100 kW / non-dir to NCAm Spanish, ex from 1200 from 1100 on 17580 BAU 100 kW / 160 deg to SoAm Spanish, ex from 1200 from 1100 on 17730 BAU 100 kW / 135 deg to SoAm Spanish, ex from 1200 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/03/radio-habana-cuba-daylight-shifted.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17580, March 13 at 1411, open carrier/dead air from RHC, while 17730 is VG in Spanish, // much weaker modulation on 17750. 1414 amid `Mundo de la Filatelia` with usual essay contest promotion (is importation of Cuban stamps to USA still banned??) I missed checking at 1335, but at 1434 on 11760, no `En Contacto` DX program, so the winter timing has been earlied. Instead a music program until 1455 with 10:55 timecheck, news, 1459 even mentions that hora de verano has started. 1501 into Esperanto on 11760 only, as its time has also shifted one UT hour earlier. Opening schedule announcement however still says 1600! On 11760, 2230 on 17730, and 6000 [sic] at 0700; again also giving the misimpression that the 0700 broadcast is a repeat rather than a prepeat early UT Sundays. These other two normally do not change time for DST, just the 1600/1500 one. As for the fourth airing, unknown to the Es`po dept itself, Sundays at 2130 on 11880, who knows what will happen with that? Timing of the other languages on 11880 normally jumbles with DST/ST changes (such as English moving *later* instead of earlier, 2300 instead of 2200). The DX program times during DST are traditionally: Sun 1335, 2240, UT Mon 0135, each one hour earlier than during ST, as the running dog of Yanqui Imperialism moves in lockstep with the USA clock changes. We`ll see how long it take for RHC to post an accurate updated schedule: http://www.radiohc.cu/interesantes/frecuencias seems to be down/blank at 1613 UT March 13; no, it`s just very slow- loading. Took about 20 minutes to come up, and it`s still the outdated one for standard time. Accompanying my previous log I also meant to mention that RHC referred to webcasting in ``tiempo real`` rather than ``Audio Real`` --- maybe they finally figured out that Real Audio is not and has not been the medium, rather Windows Media, as I have been pointing out for years. Stations really need to pay closer attention to my advice. Sunday March 13, checking out RHC now that Yankee-imposed DST is in vigor: at 2005, 11670 is in French, so presumably as expected, English has shifted an hour earlier to 19-20. 11880, at 2125, amid English broadcast! So at least today, the broadcast to ``Africa`` but with plenty sig back here, moved an hour earlier from 22-23, unlike last summers, when it was an hour later to 23-24. Confused, or permanent change? Certainly makes more sense for African timezones. 2136 into mailbag show, so that also does away with the secret Esperanto broadcast we have been hearing the past few Sundays at 2130. Meanwhile at 2125, 15370 is in Spanish and 17730 is off. At 2203, 11880 is off; 15370 // 15230 on in Spanish. At 2239, 15370 // 11760 in Filatelia show, while 17730 is still in Esperanto, Sundays only from 2230 instead of French. But at 2254, 17730 is off (or inaudible??); 11760 et al. at 2255 are in final minutes of `En Contacto`, the DX program confirmed moved an hour earlier to approx. 2245 (or 2240) Sundays. At 2341, 5040 is in English an hour earlier than before, but 11880 is still off, instead of //, having done its English at 21-22 at least today. More messups: UT Monday March 14 at 0502 check, RHC English on 6000 and 6165 are both just barely modulated, while weaker 6060 is OK, as are stronger 6100, 5040. 17580, March 14 at 1431, this RHC frequency is off already, while 17730 // 17750 continue. Makes 17585 clear for China, q.v. 11840, March 15 at 1417, RHC is on but dead air; off by 1434 recheck. 11760 remains on in Spanish past 1502, presumably the only mid-day frequency. 11670, March 15 at 1907 check, RHC is indeed in English one hour earlier than during standard time; after some clunx, ``Ed Newman`` promoting a 4-question listener survey including #4, suggestions for improving programming? How about: quit reporting only negative news about the USA and positive news about Cuba. Other guy then with item that from March 16, USA and Cuba restore direct postal service after more than 5 decades. Didn`t mention whether Cubans writing to USA will be allowed to affix regular postage stamps, previously banned from entry. RHC mail to US listeners should make sure to use stamps. Need to reconfirm whether 11880 is still in English at unexpected 21- 22 like it was on March 13, instead of 23-24 as it had been previous midyears. 13820, March 14 at 2047-2113+ UT, DentroCuban Jamming Command is still grinding away despite R. Martí finishing with this frequency at 2000 (moving to 9565, also heavily jammed as well as // 11930 --- don`t they know RM now employs only two frequencies at a time??). In addition to the noise, with BFO on I am again hearing those curious beeps which I have noticed previously on 11930 in the nightmiddle, also still being jammed against no Martí. They are a quick 5-in-a-row, sometimes 10, in irregular clusters, and their pitch changes from one group to the next. They are most audible if I tune to 13819-USB or 13821-LSB, so are quite close to the center frequency; strange artifacts obviously associated with jamming transmitters. Can anyone explain why? 11670, March 15 at 2034*, dead air and off --- RHC must have just finished French at 2000-2030, advanced an hour like English before it. Once it`s gone, no AIR audible either. Then check 11760 and find RHC on there with dead air. By 2120, 11760 is modulating Spanish. 11880, March 15 at 2120 check, this RHC frequency is off, despite having been on during the 21-22 hour March 13, switching English an hour earlier from 22-23; as I suspected a confused mistake on first day of DST; altho it would be sensible to do so for African target. Instead as of March 15 if not 14, 11880 English hour is one hour later, back to 23-24 in DST season, as found at 2331 check, and now // 5040, where English has been moved an hour earlier. (No wonder RHC never announces its English times and frequencies, unlike Spanish broadcasts; DST in Cuba should have nothing to do with when to hear it in Africa with no DST.) (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. Radio (& TV) Martí plan extensive coverage of `Obama en Cuba` March 20-22, pre-empting all other programming. It will be very interesting to note whether Cuban jamming continues unabated, or not. Martí correspondents are less likely to get accreditation than VOA (which no longer bothers with SW at all for Spanish). And whether any additional frequencies are employed. The normal Martí B-15 schedule: 00-04 7365 00-12 6030 04-07 7405 07-11 5980 11-13 5980 12-14 7405 13-14 11930 14-22 11930 14-20 13820 20-24 9565 22-24 7405 There might have been some 1-hour shifts in usage due to DST, but I am not yet aware of any, altho the programming within probably has. BTW, in A-16, many of the Martí frequencies are registered in HFCC to be reduced to only 62 kW. Some were already 125 kW, i.e. half the rated transmitter power of 250 kW, so 62.5 would be a further halving; who cares if it`s still jammed requiring as much power as possible? The VOA Radiogram frequencies will also be only 62 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thanks, Glenn for informing about the 65 kW Greenville transmissions. Yes of course, I had forgotten about the RadioGrams! I've never understood why Martí continues to use the same frequencies year in year out. And especially now when there are so many vacant frequencies they could shift to. A little bit of shifting around, and adjacent to RHC when they are doing Spanish, could bring better results - but perhaps more jammers spread all over the place. As for 1180 - I can hear the Cuban stations very loudly under the right conditions, and can't imagine that Martí could ever be heard at a listenable quality in Cuba. Going back into the mists of time, I used to monitor for Israel, and on one day they arranged for all of their SW transmitters to use frequencies in the 21 MHz band only for the Russian service. Several remained free of interference for a while until the Russian jammer command cottoned on to what was happening. Now that's what I call pre- emption! 73 from (Noel Green, England, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) All Martí broadcasts will be stopped soon this year, after Obama's visit to Cuba? I guess > Who cares if Martí is still jammed? According my experiences of cold war time to stop jamming between western Germany FRG and GDR jamming on US RIAS Berlin broadcasts towards GDR German nationals on MW 990 855 684 kHz when negotiations held between both were on ITU WARC at Geneva Switzerland in November 1978, the future of the Marti US propaganda transmissions and Cuban jamming come to a sudden end before Obama leave the duty in November 2016, - hopefully. But the Cubans will hold back the jamming operation in order TO GET BACK SOIL and stop the Guantánamo Bay and harbour rent contract? All these security radio-affin-staff at whole Cuba who handle the jamming, will LOSE THEIR JOBS then ... keep it in mind. But I don't know what is Mr. Trump doing, when elected for President at Enid Oklahoma properly? ‚-) ‚-) ‚-) regards de (Wolfy, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Why must you dismiss Radio Martí (also RFE/RL/RFA) as ``propaganda``? RM is run by Cuban exiles, so it`s anti-Castro, but hardly anti-Cuban. Do you ever dismiss RHC as propaganda? (gh, DXLD) ** EAST TURKISTAN. 7300, March 12 at 0131, music and Chinese announcement, poor at S9. It`s 100 kW southward from Kashi-Saibagh = Kashgar for CRI during this hour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. Hi all, The R Cairo N. American service transmission (for 2300-0030) is now being archived via the facilities of Radio360. However these are not found via the normal Radio360 archive pages. After some weeks of testing we found our podcast of Radio Cairo's English language program works relatively reliably. So from now on, you can find the English broadcasts from Egypt right here: http://radio360.eu/index.php/english-podcasts/83-egypt (the other website cairo.radio360.eu mentioned by Alan will disappear soon) Please note it is still some kind of experiment, but we hope to be able to expand the service and improve the quality together with the team at Radio Cairo. Furthermore, at www.radio360.eu we can offer the English broadcasts from Cuba, Turkmenistan, Taiwan, Albania and some other countries on- demand. Happy listening! :-) (via Daniel Kähler, Germany, March 12, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DXLD) ** EGYPT. 12070, Mar 11, 2016. 0023-0030, Radio Cairo, Abis. OM talks in Arabic. Fair signal, slight interference of FEBC Manila, and very distorted modulation, 34431. 12070, Mar 11, 2016. 0054-0059, Radio Cairo, Abis. YL talks in Spanish. Good signal, spur transmitter and very distorted modulation, 45431 (DXer José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX), Cabedelo [B] Brazil, Sony ICF- SW100S, Portable Telescopic antenna, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 9965.30, March 12 at 0135, R. Cairo is S9+5 with lite whine and JBM, but NO panoply of spur carriers. One can never assume any problem they have is permanently repaired. 9965.24, March 13 at 0024, R. Cairo English to North America sesquihour is about to end, but accomplishing only a whine and some just-barely modulation; S8 and no panoply of spur carriers (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Strong signal, awful modulation, distorted audio of R. Cairo, March 14 from 1350 on 15710 ABS 250 kW / 091 deg to SEAs Indonesian from 1502 on 13580 ABS 250 kW / 315 deg to EaEu Albanian from 1505 on 11790 ABS 250 kW / 061 deg to CeAs Uzbek http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/03/strong-signal-awful-modulation.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Strong signal & awful modulation of Radio Cairo, March 16 1800-1900 on 9435 ABS 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu Italian 1900-2000 on 9885 ABS 250 kW / 005 deg to EaEu Russian 1900-2000 on 9570 ABS 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu German http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2016/03/strong-signal-awful-modulation-of-radio.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. Hello Gents, Last weekend was good for Europirates: PIRATE- EURO. UNID-Ireland [Presumed] 6205 AM, 0200-0500+, 03-05-16, SIO: 444. Nice signal/audio with relay of Canary Islands station “Energy FM”. Frequent IDs, AD for “Atlantic Divers” aimed at tourists, etc. This is presumed to be the same transmitter that promoted Magic 6205 a few months back and relayed Horizon FM a couple of years ago. PIRATE-EURO. Technical Man-Holland, 6225 AM, 2249-0021, 03-05/6-16, SIO: 444. Excellent signal from this Dutch pirate, playing tunes by Baby Face, Sash, Shampoo, 2 Unlimited, Pierre VanDam, etc. Frequent IDs by OM and announcing email addy as technicalman@hotmail.nl PIRATE-EURO. Little Feat-UK, 6320 AM, 2335-0003*, 03-05/6-16, SIO: 232. OM playing tunes by Ariana Grande, Bruce Horny, Rick Springfield, Little Feat, Zara Larson, etc. IDs and email address as: littlefeatam@gmail.com. Very nice eQSL received the next day! Power only 50 watts (Chris Lobdell, Tewksbury, MA, Receivers: Eton E1, JRC NRD-535, Aerial: G5RV Dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. There is another relay of Laser Hot Hits on 5835 kHz. It is not // to 4029 kHz or TuneIn. 73's (John Faversham Kent UK Hoad, JRC NRD-525 + Wellbrook ALA1530LF, 1947 UT March 14, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** EUROPE. On Sunday March 20th FRS-Holland will hit the SW airwaves. Programmes that day will last all day and start at 0852 UT/09:52 CEST [sic] with no less than 5 hours of music and information. FRS will offer you a varied offer of programmes and no doubt it will be worth while to tune in our way. A Sunday full of music, information and radio related items --- the 'old fashioned' true sound of short wave free radio. Frequencies will 9300 // 7700 kHz throughout the day and 6070 kHz in the afternoon. Tune in! Go tell your friends. For more detailed information surf to http://www.frsholland.nl May we take this opportunity to tell you that any mail or snail mail is more than welcome. Remember your support (letters, mails, reception reports) is our reward and thus very important. Without support the motivation to produce an FRS Sunday with all the ingredients would be much less. It's the listeners (that's also you!!) keeping us going; please keep that in mind. We'd shortly like to focus on the subject of reception reports. In recent months we have been aware that there's a great difference in the quality of reports. Some reports are well written and contain all 'elements' any report should include (including various programme details). Unfortunately we also receive (most likely well- intentioned!) very plain two or three line reports in which some 'elements' are completely missing. We'd like to stress that we very much like to issue our QSL cards but not in case reports are incomplete! In this way we would refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reception_report It's very simple! Especially some of the listeners should be aware that details doesn't mean 'presenter' or 'pop music' but the name of the presenter, show and record/artist. Thanks for reading this mail; we very much hope to 'meet' you on Sunday March 20th on the short wave bands!! 73s Peter Verbruggen (on behalf of the entire FRS crew) Posted by: (Antonello Napolitano, March 10, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DXLD) ** GEORGIA. Georgia will begin broadcasting in the Abkhazian language In Georgia, it is planned to involve broadcasting in the Abkhazian language. The National Communications Commission issued the relevant license "Media Group", which is parallel to Georgia, will broadcast in the Abkhaz language. Information Grid will be mainly loaded with informative and entertainment programs, and in addition to the part of Guria and Samegrelo, cover the territory of Abkhazia. Director of "Media Group" said Irakli Bandzeladze "Layvpress" that the broadcast will be carried out from Mount Urta, and they want to go beyond the Gali district. According to him, the Abkhazian society will have the opportunity in their native language, read the news from the Georgian side in different directions. "Media Group" is working on ethnic minorities. We are already two years have a radio in the Azerbaijani language. Who turned on the radio in the Armenian and Abkhazian language. Since the possession of the Abkhaz language is problematic, we have two specialist. As far as I know, in Georgia, in Tbilisi there are only five people who are free to translate and read the information transfer. Subsequently, we will include the transfer in the Ossetian and Chechen language "- stated Irakli Bandzeladze. According to him, they will try as much as possible, so that the radio did not sound political statements, and new broadcasting has not been irritable for ethnic Abkhazians. They will work in a context in order to satisfy the taste of the Abkhazian listener, including a musical point of view. On Air will also sound Abkhazian songs. According to Irakli Bandzeladze, will broadcast 24 hours. Ether is mainly filled with music, presumably every three hours will go great newscast. abkhazeti.info (OnAir.ru via RusDX March 13 via DXLD) ** GERMANY. Re: I'm still no wiser about what PTHP stands for even after last night's broadcast. I doubt there can have been too many programmes broadcast from a German TX site that started with an air raid siren, Winston Churchill, and the White Cliffs of Dover, but it did however give me a few theories about what the 'PT' might stand for! :-D The presenter's name was Peter, and I assume it was some sort of podcast since there was no station name or contact details given. They're on again on Thursday and Sunday as well (Alan Gale, March 13, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) Hearing the Channel 292 relay of PTHP again tonight on 6070 kHz (10 March 2000-2100 UT). I have now worked out that I believe the presenter is Peter Haynes who presents shows on various internet radio stations, including: WRFN 1025: http://www.wrfn1025.org/ Big Venture Radio: http://www.ventureradio.org Radio Heatwave: http://www.radioheatwave.co.uk/ (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) The programme labelled as "PTHP" on the Channel 292 website is currently heard (at 1318 until 1500 UT) on 6070 with the "40s, 50s, & 60's show" and a great selection of songs from those decades. The presenter is Peter Haynes and can be contacted at petersoldies@gmail.com (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, Sunday March 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGST) ** GREECE. Voice of Greece on 2 frequencies in // on March 10-11: March 10: 0710&0718 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek+vary#tx#3 0710&0718 on 11645 AVL 100 kW / 182 deg to NoAf Greek+vary#tx#1 # recorded only Serbian and Romanian. No signal around 1100 UT! March 11: 0700-0748 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek+vary*tx#3 0700-0738 on 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek+vary*tx#1 * Serbian/Romanian/Spanish/Russian/Albanian/Polish and off air! http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/03/voice-of-greece-on-2-frequencies-in.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) No whine! No apparent whine on 9935 kHz this evening (about 0330 UT) // 9420 kHz as monitored here in NB. Transmitter fixed or just a fluke? (Richard Langley, UT March 11, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9935, March 11 at 0710, S4 signal but no whine! Apparently same Greek(?) talk as on // 9420 S5, rather late for them here, but at 0330 March 11, Richard Langley in New Brunswick also heard no whine; fixed, or a fluke? Ivo Ivanov says the 0700 hour started in Serbian and Romanian (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Random reception of Voice of Greece on March 12: from 0700 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek tx#3 No signal on 9935/11645 or 15630/15650 & off air at 0830UT http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/03/random-reception-of-voice-of-greece-on.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Greece was again on air on March 15 from 1945 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek tx#3 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 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2016/03/voice-of-greece-was-again-on-air-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Greece was back on shortwave on March 15 from 2100 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek tx#3 from 2100 on 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek tx#1 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/03/voice-of-greece-was-back-on-shortwave_16.html Very poor reception of Voice of Greece, March 16: from 0700 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek*tx#3 from 0700 on 11645 AVL 100 kW / 182 deg to NoAf Greek*tx#1 *plus 3-6 min news in Serbian, Romanian, Spanish, Russian, Albanian, Polish, Italian and Arabic and off air at 0801 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/03/very-poor-reception-of-voice-of-greece.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. New section for listeners introduced in All India Radio website --- All India Radio has introduced a new section "Listeners Corner" in their website http://allindiaradio.gov.in Listeners will now have to register one time to submit feedback / reception reports online, e-qsl's will also be available in future. Direct link for Listeners Corner : http://allindiaradio.gov.in/Information/ListenersCorner/Pages/default.aspx Following features are available in the Listeners Corner section: - Information On AIR’s Digital Transmission (Both In Medium Wave & Short Wave) - External & Home Frequency Schedule - Information on AIR’s DTH Channels - Reception Report/ Feedback from Listeners along with mandatory one time Listener - Registration - List/ Link of Channels available through Live Streaming - Mobile Apps with link for various AIR Channels Last three links will be activated very soon. Do let us know if you want any other feature/facility to be added in the listeners corner section. --- (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, March 11, dx_india yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DXLD) ** INDIA. First Anniversary of DRM Transmitter celebrated at AIR Pune. http://airddfamily.blogspot.de/2016/03/first-anniversary-of-drm-transmitter.html 9 March 2016; Video: https://youtu.be/XuJv0a3PRRc (via Dr Hansjoerg Biener, DXLD) ** INDIA. 7340, All India Radio, 1531 UT March 12 in (listed) Baluchi language of Pakistan with music program. Very Good. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, AB, Rx Perseus SDR, Ant Wellbrook loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Site: Mumbai, 100 kW at 10 degrees per Aoki (gh, DXLD) ** INDIA. 4810, AIR Bhopal, 1430 UT March 12 in Hindi, Very Good with CODAR. Other AIR stations in at this time 4895 kHz, Fair mix with PBS Tibet, 4950 kHz Poor, 5040 Strong with weak audio, 4800 kHz Fair all at 1435 UT. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, AB, Rx Perseus SDR, Ant Wellbrook loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, New 4810.25, AIR Bhopal, 1403, March 14. CODAR QRM, but almost fair; do not recall them being off frequency before (Ron Howard, California, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4810.264, Accurate measured AIR Bhopal on March 15 at 1230 UT, S=6 signal in northwesterly Japan remote SDR unit, wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4810.264 (thanks to Wolfy for accurate frequency!), AIR Bhopal continues to be off frequency (ex: 4810.0) on March 16 at 1242 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 4810.265, March 16 at 1329, JBA carrier vs CODAR. Ron Howard reports this one is AIR Bhopal, unusually off-frequency from 4810. 4870.00, March 16 at 1330, carrier here as well, presumably AIR Delhi starting Nepali service (frequency also carries domestic service at other times) --- rather than Indonesia which is off to low side, altho RRI is in from Makassar on 4749.95 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 3325, March 14 at 1142, S4 signal with JBM music, 1202 talk sounds Indonesian, so presumably RRI Palangkaraya instead of NBC Bougainville today. DST has messed up my sleep patterns, so I might as well turn on the radio if I have to be awake this early (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also BOUGAINVILLE 3325.0, Pro 1 RRI Palangkaraya, 1222, March 14. Ending the Jakarta news audio feed with distinctive patriotic song "Garuda Pancasila" (not the usual “Bagimu Negeri”); doing well and // 4749.95 Pro 4 RRI Makassar (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 3905, RRI Merauke at 1400+ UT March 11 in Indonesian. Did not hear 3325 kHz Palangkaraya on March 11 nor 13th but was in on March 12th. Good. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, AB, Rx Perseus SDR, Ant Wellbrook loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3904.98, Pro 1 RRI Merauke as of March 14 continues to be silent (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3904.98, Pro 1 RRI Merauke. Finally back on the air again March 16 and // 3325.0, Pro 1 RRI Palangkaraya and // 4749.95 Pro 4 RRI Makassar (even with CODAR QRM was especially good today!); at 1227 ending the Jakarta news audio feed with UNID song (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9525, March 16 at 1319 check, not even a carrier from V. of Indonesia; ditto March 17 at 1330. Atsunori Ishida says it was last heard on March 13 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. 11720.02, March 11 at 1323, Qur`an, S6 with heavy flutter; 1330 three ascending chimes at hourtop, Iran mentioned. No break for national anthem, etc., as this is amid a continuous Dari broadcast, 1150-1420, 500 kW, 85 degrees from Kamalabad. HFCC calls Dari ``PRS`` as in Persian, a language VIRI really refuses to radiate. But I suppose Persians abroad can mostly understand Dari. 11730.016, March 11 at 1335, better S9 signal from VIRI here in Urdu, 1250-1420, 500 kW, 118 degrees from Kamalabad (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [re BRAZIL, R. Bandeirantes reactivated on 11925+] Art, at 0305, they're cochannel with Iran in listed Dari. VOIRI is the stronger by far on the west coast with a very smeared signal (on the Perseus waterfall), measuring 11925.017 and presumed Bandeirantes on 11925.179. 73 (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, March 11, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thanks, Walt. Looks like Iran's transmission is beamed at 64 degrees, so they would be coming in here primarily from the west. My pennant has a null in that direction, so Iran is pretty weak here at 0430 -- just a het on 11925 -- and Bandeirantes is the stronger signal. My NW- facing pennant is actually pretty noisy, so I can't hear either of them on that antenna (Art Delibert, MD, ibid.) Art, Kamalabad is approx. 40 degrees from you, so it would be arriving from that direxion, regardless of the primary azimuth of the transmission going out. So it should be weak. Either that or long-path 220 degrees, unlikely, but not from the west (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Glenn -- My propagation program (W6EL Miniprop) shows two possibilities at that hour with a solar flux around 96 and a K index of 2 -- either short path propagation of a very strong signal but with a very low probability of making it here, or long path propagation of a very weak signal with a fair probability. The very weak signal I was receiving suggests it was the long path that I was hearing. At that time of night, I think the short path on 11.9 MHz had completely collapsed. Regards, (Art Delibert, ibid.) Wrong frequency of Voice of Islamic Republic of Iran IRIB, March 12 1823-1920 5900*KAM 500 kW / 244 deg to NWAf French, instead of 11955 1823-1920 5935 SIR 500 kW / 313 deg to WeEu French B-15 as scheduled 1823-1920 6135 KAM 500 kW / 304 deg to WeEu French B-15 as scheduled * no signal from Brother HySTAIRical via Secretbrod, scheduled 1900- 2300 UT http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2016/03/wrong-frequency-of-voice-of-islamic.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) This looks as if they use for this 11955 transmission the same transmitter as for German 1723-1820 on 5900 and simply missed the complete changeover. Which is interesting in as far as French 1823- 1920 on 6135 is supposed to use the very same antenna configuration than the preceding 5900 transmission, a 4/4 curtain with a 30 degree slew applied. Of course they could have two identical antennas or diplexing capabilities (Kai Ludwig, Germany, ibid.) ** IRAN. On IRIB http://russian.irib.ir/ website states that they change the name to ParsToday and move to the new site: http://parstoday.com/ru (Dmitry Kutuzov, Ryazan, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" via RusDX March 13 via DXLD) "On our site Pars new Today screen, we explain in detail in future programs. And the word "pars" means "Persia - Iran". ("Mailbox" IRIB from 28.02.2016. http://parstoday.com/ru/radio/programs-i13900 (RusDX March 13 via DXLD) Voice of Islamic Republic of Iran will change its name to Pars Today. Probably Russian transmissions on shortwave will be discontinued on March 21. Current winter B-15 schedule of Voice of Islamic Republic of Iran in Russian: 0823-0920 on 15170 SIR 500 kW / 031 deg to CeAs Russian 0823-0920 on 17685 KAM 500 kW / 321 deg to EaEu Russian 0823-0920 on 17820 SIR 500 kW / 040 deg to FERu Russian 1423-1520 on 7350 KAM 500 kW / 058 deg to CeAs Russian 1423-1520 on 9580 AHW 250 kW / 026 deg to CeAs Russian 1423-1520 on 11880 SIR 500 kW / 320 deg to EaEu Russian +videos Mar 13 1653-1750 on 6110 AHW 250 kW / 026 deg to CeAs Russian 1653-1750 on 7375 KAM 500 kW / 058 deg to EaEu Russian 1753-1850 on 6110 KAM 500 kW / 358 deg to EaEu Russian 1753-1850 on 7220 SIR 500 kW / 320 deg to EaEu Russian 1923-2020 on 6195 KAM 500 kW / 325 deg to EaEu Russian 1923-2020 on 7225 SIR 500 kW / 340 deg to EaEu Russian (DX RE MIX NEWS #943 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 14, 2016 via DXLD) Voice of Islamic Republic of Iran will change its name to Pars Today. Probably Russian transmissions on shortwave will be discontinued on March 21. http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/03/voice-of-islamic-republic-of-iran-will.html (Ivo Ivanov, March 12, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DXLD) What is the source of this news? Pars of course is the official Iranian news agency (gh, ibid.) MIDXB#985, more on http://parstoday.com/ru (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) VIRI English still identifies on air as Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran. This was monitored at 2015 UT today via a live stream on the new website/URL for VIRI World Service: parstoday.com (David Kernick, Interval Signals Online, March 12, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DXLD) The IRIB website on Hitlist http://english.irib.ir/index.php Already forwards to: http://parstoday.com/en/ including: http://parstoday.com/en/radio/frequencies So the question is exactly how do they ID on the air now? And is there still a separate name `Voice of Justice` for the 0320 broadcast to North America? On 7325, 9710. March 21 is the New Year in Iran by the season-based calendar (Glenn Hauser, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DX LISTENING DIGEST) VIRI English also identifying on air as 'IRIB English Radio' (David Kernick, Interval Signals Online, 2030 UT March 12, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Well, Pars *was* the Iranian news agency until 1981 when it had been renamed Islamic Republic News Agency, IRNA, with an own website at http://www.irna.ir/en/ This is obviously not the same as the new http://parstoday.com which appears to be a product by IRIB, specifically its traditional external service (i.e. not Press TV). The German section does not include any hints at a discontinuation of shortwave transmissions on March 21 or any other changes. Last Monday and Tuesday they have set up the standard pages for their radio service (which they still present as "Stimme der Islamischen Republik Iran") in the new system, and that's all so far. So has MIDXB further sources or are they just wildly speculating? (I can't find out by myself, the last edition of this newsletter that appeared on dxing.ru was No. 971, more than three months ago...) Of course the creation of this new URL is interesting and could signal larger-scale changes in the state-run Iranian media operations. But as said, in the German section no hints at such further changes can be found at this point (Kai Ludwig, ibid.) On the Dxing.ru forum there is this post - http://dxing.ru/forum.html?func=view&catid=21&id=34302 The news seems to have come from an email sent to a listener (Ste Cooper, ibid.) Which does not mention a name change for the radio service, just that it will no longer be broadcast on shortwave as of March 21. Further on in the thread they refer to MDKhB No. 981 "which you can find in the publications section" -- whatever section they mean, or do they now follow the Yandex approach to deliver a different version of the website to a foreign IP? This bulletin is supposed to quote a frequency hour figure for IRIB in the summer season and "you can imagine how free the air will be". Again I find no further sources whatsoever. This thread also includes, after dismissing the IRIB programming (is their Russian one really so much poorer than what they offer in German?), the statement that "it is a pity that the Romanians plan to go". Now what's this?? No word about all this from IRIB German service. Instead they said tonight on air that they hope for IRIB soon telling the frequencies to be used as of March 27, which they then will announce in every transmission during the week before. And they quoted various laments that the morning transmission is unusable because the signal strengths are always insufficient. They also quoted from the comments on the new website they got, a number of them describing a big surprise. They responded that the new URL had been announced on the old pages before and that of course a redirect has been set up. The new website may still have some glitches the IRIB IT department has still to sort out, and they said they are happy to forward further suggestions and comments. And another surprise to some regular listeners was a DVD set they received from Teheran as Christmas present, because this Iranian production has a sujet from Christian faith. This prompted one listener to give a detailed description of the Jugendweihe ("youth ordination"; atheist confirmation, so to speak) vs. confirmation situation back then in East Germany which they obviously found quite interesting. Btw, I think we have not noted this yet: Pars is Farsi for Persia. (Kai Ludwig, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DX LISTENING DIGEST) updated again according to March 8 ITU/HFCC requests: [which still includes Russian!! --- gh] Tentative A-16 for The Voice of Islamic Republic of Iran (VOIROI / IRIB) ALBANIAN 0620-0720 13845sir 17820kam 1820-1920 7235sir 11985kam 2020-2120 6060sir 9830kam ARABIC South Arabian peninsula target 0230-0530 11855kam 0530-0830 13780 del17710kam 0830-1130 13780 del17625kam 1030-1130 11925sir (ex AHW) 1130-1430 13785 del17755kam 1430-1730 13690kam 1730-2030 11740kam ARABIC Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Syria, -west Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan target. 0030-0230 7215zah 0230-0530 7370kam 11660zah "Al-Quds TV" 0530-0730 13610sir ex13870kam 0730-1430 13610kam ex13870kam 0530-1430 15750zah 1030-1130 9410kam 1430-1700 9580sir 1700-2100 7285zah 2100-0030 7285zah ARMENIAN 0250-0320 7220sir 9420sir delete-9750sir 0920-0950 11945sir 13720sir 1620-1720 7230sir 9655sir AZERI 0320-0520 11760sir 1420-1650 9475sir BENGALI 1420-1520 11720kam 13840ahw/sir 15400kam 1620-1650 9435kam 11825kam BOSNIAN 0520-0620 13590sir 15310kam [Se-Cr] 1720-1820 9610sir 11865kam 2120-2220 7310sir 11630kam CHINESE 1150-1250 17715kam 17870kam 21455sir 21520sir 2320-0020 7300sir 11865kam 13715sir DARI 0250-0620 12070kam 13740ahw 0620-0820 13740kam 0820-1150 13740kam 0820-1420 ex13765ahw 13840ahw 1150-1450 12070kam ENGLISH 0320-0420 9420kam 11780sir "Voice of Justice" 1020-1120 17820kam 21510kam 1520-1620 11640kam 13780sir 1920-2020 7315kam 9420kam 9665sir 12015sir [WORLD OF RADIO 1817] FRENCH 0620-0720 15430kam 17780sir 1820-1920 9820sir 9860kam 13730kam GERMAN 0720-0820 15175sir 17520sir 1720-1820 7235kam 9660sir HAUSA 0550-0650 17560sir 1120-1150 21505sir 21750sir 1820-1920 12015(ex13810)kam 15525sir HEBREW 0420-0450 9880kam 13770sir 1150-1220 13685kam 15180sir HINDI 0150-0250 9420sir 11955sir 1420-1520 11955sir 13830kam ITALIAN 0620-0720 13650kam 17660kam 1920-1950 5945sir 7205kam JAPANESE 1320-1420 13660sir 15225kam 2050-2150 9765sir 11695kam delete 9655sir 11865sir 11880sir KAZAKH 0920-1020 15715kam 17635sir (new time) 1520-1620 9800kam 11825sir KURDISH 0320-0420 7415kam 9695sir Sorrani dialect. 1320-1620 7410kam Kirmanji dialect. MALAY 1220-1320 17670sir 21750sir 2220-2320 7360sir 9720kam PASHTO 0220-0320 6175sir 9700kam 0720-0820 12010sir 13730sir 1220-1320 11730sir 13730kam 1620-1720 5925sir 9760ahw RUSSIAN 0820-1150 17635sir 17820sir CeSiberia FE Russia 1420-1520 9800kam 12085ahw CeSiberia FE Russia 1650-1750 7350kam 9480ahw CeSiberia FE Russia 1920-2020 6035kam CeSiberia zone 30 RUSSIAN 0820-0920 17760kam WeRUS Moscow St.P. 1420-1520 13660sir WeRUS Moscow St.P. 1750-1850 7300kam 9850sir WeRUS Moscow St.P. 1920-2020 6035kam 7405sir WeRUS Moscow St.P. SPANISH 0020-0220 9550kam 12025kam 0220-0320 9550kam (0520-0620 delete 15430kam 17530sir) 0720-0820 15430kam 17530sir (new time) 2020-2120 9665kam 11800sir SWAHILI 0350-0450 13750sir 15340kam 0820-0920 17830sir 21525sir 1720-1820 9540sir 11965kam TAJIK 0050-0220 5950sir 7280kam 1550-1720 5950sir 7435kam TURKISH 0420-0550 11925kam 13710kam 1550-1720 delete5940kam 7360kam 9850kam URDU 0120-0220 7410kam 9440kam 9620ahw 1250-1420 9790sir 13795sir 15520kam 1520-1620 9810sir UZBEK 0220-0250 7400kam 9840sir 1450-1550 9465kam 11880sir Saut Falestin "Voice of Islamic Palestinian Revolution" ARABIC 0320-0420 9825kam 11970sir (IRIB via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 8 via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH. 11735.0, March 11 at 0714, music detectable at S1. A good example of how HFCC is divorced from reality, not a single station registered anywhen on 11735. Yet we know it`s a VOK frequency, and indeed per Aoki in French during this hour, 28 degrees USward. And of course there are two others, R. Transmundial, Brasil, and Zanzibar, but not at this hour. (BTW, 11780.105 Brasil is quite attenuated right now, only S4) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. Shiokaze, 7400, 1338 14 MAR - SHIOKAZE (JAPAN CLA). SINPO = 15221. Korean, female announcer with music in background. QSB=moderate rate, modulation often dips below noise floor, mostly mixing with it. sf95.3, a4, k2, geomag: quiet. 300kw, beamAz 290 , bearing 307 . Sangean ATS505 w/Kaito KA33 active loop in west facing window. From Ibaragi-Koga-Yamata, Distance: 8920km. Received at Las Vegas, United States. Local time: 0638 (Rodney Johnson, NV, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7400, March 16 at 1335, algo here, but not sure it`s Shiokaze; I keep expecting another abrupt frequency change, back to one of the alternate 49m channels – but not on 5910 or 5985; on 6135 there are two stations making LAH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 7515, National Unity Radio (Dushanbe-Yangiyul) 1455-1510, 1542-1600* 28 Feb. Unjammed today with Korean chat, some almost "K-pop" tunes, closing announcement over instrumental music; signal fair at tune-in, but sinking rapidly by sign-off (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA, E5/6m X wire, via Robert Wilkner, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH [non]. 9840, March 14 at 2014, BST-1 caradio memory scan stops here for something in Arabic, poor signal, but enough, bit of music sounds Christian? Maybe, as that`s becoming the prime religion in South Korea. Then ``KBS World Radio`` ID pronounced in English, back to Arabic. HFCC B15 shows it`s a 250 kW, 285 degree relay via UAE during this hour only. Memory must have factory-stored this frequency for WHRI, whence it`s available 12-22 UT, but employed much less (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT [non]. 5960, March 12 at 0200, no signal; checking out a Pennsylvanian report that Arabic was here, tentatively R. Kuwait --- as still listed by HFCC as of last November, despite having quit SW a few years ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LIBERIA. LOCAL RADIO FLOURISHES IN LIBERIA DESPITE POWER PROBLEMS | Text of report by website of US-based media advocacy organization Internews on 9 March "When Internews contracted me to do an assessment of Liberian community radio stations with the aim of creating a community radio map for Liberia, I knew it was going to be both exciting and challenging," said Benjamin Kiplagat Sharp, a Kenyan radio engineer speaking at the end of an exhaustive exercise that took him across the 15 counties of Liberia. Benjamin' excitement about the project was the opportunity to see the topography of the tiny West African State, whose recent history is marred by violence and the Ebola virus disease. He was also eager to experience a country trying to rebuild its infrastructures and institutions after 14 years of brutal civil wars, under the watchful eyes of the continent's first elected woman president. Benjamin was right about the prospect of the huge challenge he would face on this assignment - exploring the highways and the city streets of the country for 55 days, searching for radio signals and talking to key people in this somewhat flourishing media industry - flourishing because there are stations everywhere. The task couldn't be more challenging. After painstakingly reaching the broadcast sites in villages and small, dusty cities, Benjamin sometimes had to wait hours for the manager to show up; in some cases spending nights in uncomfortable conditions, just for the opportunity to talk to relevant authorities and tour the broadcast facilities, including the transmitters. "Yes, it is exciting how [community] radio is spread across the country as there appears to be an uncontrolled growth of the sector, notwithstanding the cost to maintain the facilities," Benjamin says. However the challenges are great, ranging from inadequate national policy regulation to insufficient technical capacity, to staff training and retention, revenue sources, electricity (power) supply, internet and phone connectivity, and transmitter strength. An unending list of problems. "Sourcing electricity remains the biggest challenge in almost all the radio stations, save for the ones hosted by companies like Firestone, or learning institutions," he said. The lack of affordable and reliable electricity is a killer of big businesses in the country, let alone smaller ones like community media. As a result of this problem, media businesses have to depend on private generators as the main source of electricity and community radio stations have to survive at the mercy of GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) companies, for constant power supply. "It's a common thing in Liberia to see a radio station built next to a GSM station, in order to be close to the power supply, and to take advantage of the communication tower for their antenna," Benjamin added. But that comes at a price and with serious risks. Community stations are compelled to shut down their air conditioning and reduce the strength of their transmitter when mobile phone companies decide to reduce their power, often without informing them - a situation which leads to constant equipment breakdowns. According to Benjamin, most of the community radios are also operating without a production studio and acoustics systems, which affects the sound quality of their broadcast programmes. "As I went from station to station, I would come across a station with a 2,000-Watt transmitter while another would only be equipped with a 200-Watt transmitter," he observed. "This variation is too wide, especially if the two stations are supposed to operate as community radio stations. The 2,000-Watt transmitter is capable of propagating a signal strong enough to cover most of the country, while the 200-Watt would barely cover a county." Benjamin's research found there are presently close to 80 radio stations in Liberia serving the country's population of five million, while Kenya, which has a population of almost 45 million, relies on only 30 community radios. This is indicative of the lack of a national policy framework for the establishment and operation of, in particular, community radio stations. Addressing the policy challenge is a function of the media law reform project of the USAID-funded Liberia Media Development (LMD) programme, which is being implemented by Internews and for which this mapping was undertaken. This article was written by Peter Quaqua, former Chairperson of the Press Union of Liberia and present Head of the West Africa's Journalists Association (WAJA). He was recruited by Internews as the media Law Reform Specialist. Data for the article was provided by Benjamin Kiplagat Sharp, the Kenyan Consultant. Source: Internews website, in English 9 Mar 16 (via BBCM via DXLD) ** MADAGASCAR. 5010.98, Radio Malagasy, 1835, nice vocals and decent audio, but very warbly transmitter with het low side. 11 March (David Sharp, [NSW] FT-950, NRD-535D, R8, R30A, Timewave 599ZX, various Palstar and MFJ accessories, Quantum Phaser, various Sangean and Tecsun portables, EWE aerials via Robert Wilkner, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** MADAGASCAR. Re: ``und der Zwilling von KNLS, die Station aus Madagascar MWV WWCB [sic] Mahajanga sollte auch mal langsam in die Luft gehen.`` Laut der Internetseite von World Christian Broadcasting ist der Ostersonntag, 27. März 2016 für den offiziellen Sendebeginn geplant. http://www.worldchristian.org/Updates/LatestNews/updates.php (Ralf Urbanczyk via A-DX via SW Bulletin March 14 via DXLD) Summer A-16 of WWCB [sic] Madagascar World Voice 0100-0200 on 9665 MWV 100 kW / 040 deg to SoAs English 0200-0300 on 6190 MWV 100 kW / 250 deg to SoAm Spanish 0300-0400 on 6150 MWV 100 kW / 265 deg to SoAm Spanish 0400-0500 on 9480 MWV 100 kW / 295 deg to CeAf English 1800-1900 on 9570 MWV 100 kW / 355 deg to EaEu Russian 1800-1900 on 17640 MWV 100 kW / 310 deg to CeAf English 1900-2000 on 11945 MWV 100 kW / 355 deg to N/ME Arabic 1900-2000 on 13710 MWV 100 kW / 340 deg to EaAf Arabic 2100-2200 on 11615 MWV 100 kW / 325 deg to WeEu Chinese 2200-2300 on 9455 MWV 100 kW / 055 deg to EaAs Chinese 2200-2300 on 11770 MWV 100 kW / 325 deg to NoAf Arabic http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/03/summer-16-of-wwcb-madagascar-world-voice.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #943 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 14, 2016 via DXLD) It`s WORLD CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING, so where do you get the extra W to call it WWCB??? Wolfy has been doing this too (gh) ** MALAYSIA. 11665, Limbang FM (via RTM-Kajang) 1312-1340+ 3 March. Thanks to Ron Howard for the reminder and also to Harold Frodge for initially sussing out Limbang's Thursday 1315-1400 programming. Opening right after what sounded like Malay election info with full ID/frequency, DJ chat with occasional Malay pop, and long (presumed) election info monolog 1330-1340 (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA E5/6m X wire, via Robert Wilkner, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** MEXICO [and non]. 720, March 13 at 1308 UT, romantic music in Spanish from WSW, surely XEJCC Ciudad Juárez, now known as El Fonógrafo; with Spanish CCI from more to the south, 1311 UT ``La Estación de la Raza``, i.e. KSAH Universal City/San Antonio TX (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1030, March 13 at 0122, I find some Spanish dominant, PSA for Mexican maestros, probably from the SEP tho not heard credited, and another PSA, then 0123 mentions ``Radio Fórmula Monterrey 7-70``. As I try to DF it, losing out to English political talk NW/SE, presumably KTWO WY, and also another SS. I would assume this is XEYC in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, the only Fórmula listed on 1030, and which I used to get regularly; except this item via DXLD 16-07 said XEYC had moved to 1460: ``Changes at Grupo Radio México, Ciudad Juárez: 720 XEJCC El Fonógrafo, ex Extremo 7-20 970 XEJ R México Noticias, ex La J Mexicana 1190 XEPZ R Centro, ex R Norteña 1240 XEWG La Jefa, ex Cambio 12-40 1300 XEP R Mexicana ex R 13 1460 XEYC R Fórmula, ex 1030 kHz (Héctor García Bojorge via Mauno Ritola, WRTH via Central [sic] American News, ed. Tore Larsson, Feb MW News via DXLD) I had been hearing R. Fórmula Noticias, XEYC on 1030 as recently as Dec 29. 1460 would certainly be a clearer spot for it, with only 4 Mexicans already listed there, and nothing else in the tri-state area. But not for here: XEYC often dominated 1030 over KTWO or anything else. I had also been hearing Fonógrafo on 720, Centro on 1190 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` So what is going on here? If XEYC really vacated 1030, could XEACH 770 Monterrey have moved to 1030 yet not updated their ID??? Unlikely, and MTY has big guns on 990 and 1050. Maybe Fórmula 770 in MTY was simply mentioned in a promo on the entire network out of XERFR 970 DF? In any event, there is obviously still a Fórmula on 1030, so what else if not XEYC Juárez? {a DXer in El Paso could tell us} XEYC is nowhere to be found in this station list http://www.gradiomex.com/estaciones-por-ciudad/ nor do they have any Radio Fórmulas, so maybe GRM has nothing to do with the station on 1030. The Radio Fórmula website http://www.radioformula.com.mx/ is no help at all in finding affiliates around the country. BTW, WRTH 2016 keys 1030 XEYC as CH26, but that leads to a station addressed in Ojinaga/Presidio TX, some mixup there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Gulf of MEXICO Tropo in Tonight with FM stations from Veracruz, Bâton Rouge, Lake Charles and New Orleans. Times in CDT [sic] 3/14/2016. 96.7, XHBY, Veracruz, Tuxpan; man and woman in Spanish with political program. PSA's about voting, so sounds like MEXICO (or Veracruz) must have an election coming up soon. Sounds like a "get out the vote" campaign. slogan "EXTASIS DIGITAL 96.7" many promos, ads and PSA's (Steven Wiseblood, Harlingen TEXAS, 0229 UT March 15, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Not surprised, with the bright pink extreme-tropo-ducting on Bill Hepburn`s maps (gh, DXLD) ** MEXICO. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BEAT this week --- I ran across some of these lately and figured they'd be useful to put somewhere. I've added some of my own finds in green. FOUNDATION DATES OF MEXICO'S STATE NETWORKS Aguascalientes: October 12, 1977 on channel 10. Veracruz: January 1980. TVMás is named for XHGV's analog offset of + (it is not the only one, either - the QR net was the same deal). It is labeled to be the first in the country of its type. Guerrero: October 27, 1980 Tlaxcala: January 15, 1981 on channel 12. The first of the Imevisión Regional Production Centers (or CPR). Now channel 5. San Luis Potosí: March 1981 on channel 6 (CPR). Now channel 9. Puebla: March 1981 on channel 12. Originally a straight-up relayer of XHDF, later gaining autonomy. Also subsumed into Imevisión. Now channel 26, established 2003, so it looks like quite some time passed. Chiapas: June 7, 1981 on channel 2 (XHRPM). This date may be incorrect http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?10112-Great-new-log-from-Mexico-7-29-2015&p=36359#post36359 as it seems XHRPM may have been on by December 1980. Its original local programming was a newscast. Guanajuato: 1981 on channel 7. TRM optouts. Yucatán: 1981 (acquisition of XHST-13 from SOMEX) Nuevo León: May 14, 1982 Hidalgo: November 24, 1982. XHPAH plus six repeaters. Tabasco: September 5, 1983. XHSTA plus six repeaters. Televisión Tabasqueña got its concessions in the 90s...and the Tabasco state network has just two repeaters... Was there once a seven-transmitter Tabasco state net? Edomex: July 10, 1984 Michoacán: September 29, 1984 Sonora: October 1984 (XEWH). The original entry italicizes the fact that XEWH is a concession station — because that was super rare! Quintana Roo: January 31, 1985 Campeche: October 31, 1988. TRM optouts had been produced during the early 80s, but this is the date recognized by TRC. Oaxaca: March 21, 1989 Colima: June 26, 1989 Jalisco: January 16, 1991 (TV only) Morelos: April 17, 1991 Nayarit: 1993 Baja California Sur: 1994 Ciudad de México: February 2012 Querétaro: 2012 Zacatecas: February 22, 2016 (Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ, March 12, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) A few stories on stations affected by the apagón analógico. We first visit La Paz, Baja California Sur, where little has changed at the former XHK-TV. http://colectivopericu.net/2016/03/04/es-mi-opinion-336/ The Colectivo Pericú report says that the gates to the studios have been chained shut. Apparently the station is promising to return to the air in two months but has fired most of its employees, including a gardener who didn't show up to work one day so he could get a loan and pawn items to put food on his family's table. The Michoacán state network is also going through its own troubled times. On Thursday, unionized employees of the SM took over its studios. http://www.marmorinforma.mx/toman-sindicalizados-instalaciones-del-sistema-michoacano-radio-television/ The employees are not happy with missed paychecks, concerns that the system is being used as an official news outlet of the new government and not allowing much criticism, the unexplained firing of its longtime Uruapan correspondent for apparently being part indigenous, and a broken sanitary system. The union here isn't the normal broadcasting union but rather STASPE, a union for state employees. The union and management will meet today. http://www.cambiodemichoacan.com.mx/nota-n1398 That's not even getting to their need to start digitalizing. (Raymie Humbert, March 14, ibid.) ** MEXICO [non]. Today's tropo was a windfall for the Monterrey DXers who cashed in with reception of various stations in Florida. The furthest stations received were Jacksonville at about 1181 miles. WJXT, WJCT and WJXX were sighted. WTXL also came in from Tallahassee at 1,030 miles. One catch is noteworthy as it was an LPTV! 15 kW WECP- LD Panama City was received at 945 miles with its 18.x mux. You'll find images and proof here. http://www.network54.com/Forum/741612/thread/1406226958/9/Diexismo+en+Monterrey+%283era.+Parte%29 (Raymie Humbert, AZ, March 16, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) ** MYANMAR. 7200.09, Myanmar Radio, 1400-1450*, March 13. After CNR1 went off the air after their pips, Myanmar in the clear; longer broadcast than recently heard; audio quality varies from fair to garbled; ham QRM (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MYANMAR. Has anyone heard the Burmese army station lately? 73/Liz (Cameron, MI, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Liz, This posted to DXLD yg Aug 30, 2013: ``MYANMAR [non-log]. 5770, Myanmar Defense Forces Br. St. has not been heard at all this year. Aoki no longer lists them, so seems they are really gone forever. They are missed, as I often tuned in to enjoy their musical selections (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` My last reception of them on 5770 was Jan 2012 https://goo.gl/aDMXEL Believe went off the air sometime in Oct 2012. In fact I do often check 5770, just in case they return, but so far they have not. (Ron Howard, California, ibid.) I guess, not heard anymore in past half decade. Moved in January 2004 from 6570 to 5770 kHz. wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) History MYANMAR. 5770.016 Defence Forces Broadc. Unit, Taunggyi; difficult to catch with my limited equipment, always poor, but definitely s/on 1130 through 1440 UT. BRM Defence Forces Bcing Station, Taunggyi, Myanmar Armee is called "Tatmadaw". (G. Werdin, Febr / March 2012 on touring Thailand and Indonesia) I don't remember Panglong being mentioned with the Defence Forces site before. There was the description about a camp east of Taunggyi and I ended up here: 20 46 55 N 97 03 17 E or somewhere nearby. (Mauno Ritola-FIN, SW TXsite Sept 28, 2011) MYANMAR Defense Forces Broadcasting Unit, Taunggyi, Myanmar 5770 kHz sent me an E-mail QSL after 75 days for my S-mail reception report. They attached the jpeg file of my Prepared Form QSL Card, filled and completed in English. There is a signature on the card, but I cannot read the exact name of the singer. Probably from a military official of the broadcasting unit. The message says, "I appreciate your exact study. Please keep in touch again. Warmly welcome your visit our country." The mail was from: (Takahito Akabayashi-JPN, dxld Dec 21, 2004) An article by Win Kyaw Oo in the Myanmar Times no 104, 25 Feb - 4 Mar 2002, explains why the Myawaddy radio station has been silent on 5973 kHz since 1999. It was also listed on 1440 kHz. It's not clear to me whether the Thazin Radio mentioned is the same as the Defence Forces Broadcasting Station on 6570 kHz, whose listed location is Taunggyi, not Maymo. The following excerpts with my comments are taken from Lt-Col Maung Maung Oo, from the Directorate of Public Relations and Psychological Warfare at the Ministry of Defence which operates the channel [...] said Myawaddy television needed to cut operating costs because it relied on its own income, generated mainly by advertising revenue. [...] Myawaddy was officially launched in early 1995 and operates from a broadcast centre [at Hmawbi] about 22 miles north of central Yangon. Myawaddy's broadcasting operation also includes two radio stations. They include Thazin Radio, which operates from studios at Maymo [east of Mandalay], more than 400 miles north of Yangon. It broadcasts programs in nine national languages. Each is broadcast for a total of seven hours a day. Its other service, Myawaddy Radio, based at the television centre, is expected to resume operations later this year following repairs after being hit by lightning in 1999. (Regards from Surabaya, Alan Davies-INS, Dec 13, 2002, Cumbredx via dxld) and July 2001: I note with interest recent comments about the regional SW stn operated by the Burmese army, and the fact that it is described as a "mystery" stn. Back in the early part of 1985, I visited this stn which is located in a small army camp on the eastern edge of the regional city, Taunggyi. A Burmese doctor who was fluent in English drove me into the stn and also acted as translator. This stn was established in 1962 and I would suggest that the original tx was a 1 kW unit operating at 500 watts, on 5060 kHz. In 1987, a 10 kW NEC tx from Japan was installed and the freq was moved to 6570. Programming is locally produced in regional langs in half hour time blocks, though some programming is also prepared by BBS (Myanma [sic] Radio & TV) in Rangoon (Yangon). I am aware of only one QSL coming from this stn, and if I remember rightly, it was to a listener in JPN. I would suggest that the reasons why this stn could be described as a "mystery" stn are because it is isolated and no communications come from it to the DX world. In Southern Asia, the stn can be heard quite readily over a wide area. The stn is run by a comparatively small detachment of communication personnel in the army, and they are operating the stn on behalf of the Burmese (Myanmar) govt. I would suggest that it is not really a propaganda stn, but a legitimate nx & information stn with programming for minority peoples, particularly those in strategic border areas. I imagine that it was off the air for a few years, not by design, but simply because they did not have funding to procure spare parts. I asked one of the directors of BBS in Rangoon (Yangon) during a visit into this stn if BBS would QSL RRs of the regional stn in Taunggyi. He stated that it is true that they bc some programming prepared in the BBS studios, but no, they would not verify RRs on the regional stn. I wrote an article on this stn many years ago, and it was published in Popular Communication (Adrian Peterson-USA, July 17/18 2001, Cumbre via dxld) MYANMAR A quick check between 1230-1330 UTC reveals very good signals from Defense Forces Unit in Taunggi on 6570 kHz to s.off at 1330 UTC. Myawadi is on 5973 kHz doing good at 1230 past 1330 usual s.off at 1530. 4725 the local dialect sce is strong, but has been having a loud hum for a couple of months now. s.off at 1330 aprox. Yangon continues to be on 5985.85 to 1600 UTC (Victor Goonetilleke-CLN 4S7VK, UADX, Oct 12, 1997) MYANMAR Defence Forces Broadc. Unit, Taunggyi, 6570 1320 Bu folk mx and songs. Female speaker. Usual instrumental sign-off tune at 1329 and off-air at 1330. Very good: peaking at SINPO 34333 at times. Certainly my best reception so far of this stn (Michiel Schaay-HOL, Dec 29, 1997) Tnx Ron and Wolfy. I remember them fondly (Liz, ibid.) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 6040, March 13 at 0102, The Mighty KBC is only S7 via Nauen, GERMANY, with music, 0104 `Giant Jukebox` with Eric van Willigen, but copy is tough even once I switch to LSB to avoid the Brazilian het. Later he says he has bad news, but it`s a joke about something, not KBC going off the air. He would have a much better signal in North America if he could get on a pirate relay like Wolverine Radio! I`ve also suggested a Saturday- or Sunday-afternoon timing via a WRMI frequency blasting across the continent, when there would also be less competition from other SW programming than on Saturday night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Good signal of Mighty KBC Radio via MBR Mar 13: 1150 & 1350 on 6095 NAU 100 kW / 240 deg to WeEu English Sun http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/03/good-signal-of-mighty-kbc-radio-via-mbr.html GERMANY, The final broadcast of Mighty KBC Radio to WeEu will be: 0800-1500 6095 NAU 100 kW / 240 deg to WeEu English Sunday, March 27 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/03/the-final-broadcast-of-mighty-kbc-radio.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #943 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 14, 2016 via DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. PIRATE-NA. Amphetamine Radio, 6925 USB, 1940-1948, 02-28-16, SIO: 333. Rock tunes, frequents IDS, SSTV image 1947. PIRATE-NA. Radio Free Whatever, 6960 USB, 0028- 0050+, 03-06-16, SIO: 454. Show hosted by Dick Weed and friend from laundromat, playing great tunes and playing requests from those posting in the hfunderground. Nice audio, kickass signal (Chris Lobdell, Tewksbury, MA, Receivers: Eton E1, JRC NRD-535, Aerial: G5RV Dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST) PIRATE-NA. Radio Illuminati, 6150 AM, 2130-2330*, 03-06-16, SIO: 333/222. Long show of pop/rock oldies including The Who, Jefferson Starship, etc. 2326 station ID and requests to “like” on Facebook, close down announcements. QRM from VOA sign on at 2329. [Lobdell-MA] PIRATE-NA. Brownie Radio, 6905 USB, 0000-0009*, 03-15-16, SIO: 232. Songs by Silvers Pickups, Urchin, Spoon, ID by computerized YL voice 0009 to close down. [Lobdell-MA] PIRATE-NA. TCS/The Crystal Ship, 6876 AM, 0033-0141+, 03-16-16, SIO: 444/333. Nice oldies show with tunes by Los Bravos, Neil Diamond, Johnny Cash, Troggs, Youngbloods, Political AD for Bernie Sanders 0104. Frequent IDs (Chris Lobdell, Tewksbury, MA, Receivers: Eton E1, JRC NRD-535, Aerial: G5RV Dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6930-USB, March 13 at 0133, big S9+25 signal with torch song, 0134 honky-tonk piano, 0137 Wolverine Radio ID as expected, vocal tune; still going past 0200, and was not on at previous pirate band check circa 0100. Many other logs of it between 0140 and 0243*; keyword for song titles was ``life``: http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,26935.0.html {It`s probably misdirexion, but of course one associates the name with Michigan, and there is a little town of Wolverine at exit 301 of I-75 in northern Lower Peninsula} (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1650, March 16 at 1305 UT, nothing from KFSW Sallisaw, which ought to be inbooming here if on 10 kW ND day power, just something in Spanish. Ever since it succeeded KYHN last year, the signal has drastically degraded. KYHN with ``Arklahoma Talk Radio`` format would own 1650 at night, but now I can barely hear some gospel music sometimes vs Iowa, Colorado and Texas 1650s, the latter two in Spanish. KFSW may be at really low power, and/or ex-KYHN was really running 10 kW at night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 90.1, March 12 about 0557 UT, KUCO Edmond goes to dead air amid overnight classical from WCPE, and still dead past 0626 UT. Fortunately it`s back by 1400 UT for `Performance Oklahoma` featuring the Oklahoma City Philharmonic --- little known outside OK, no major recording contract? But achieving very high performance standards. This week: Mozart`s overture ``Abduction from the Seraglio``; ``The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto`` from China; and Berlioz` ``Symphonie Fantastique``, interspersed with performer interviews by Kimberly Powell. Details: http://www.kucofm.com/programs/performanceoklahoma PerfOkla features the Phil and other smaller classical groups, and I highly recommend it, proving this is not a cultural wasteland. During DST the times on KUCO are UT Thu 01-03, and Sat 13-15. Also on 88.7 KWTU Tulsa (with a mono webcast), UT Sun 01-03 after one more Standard repeat of this episode, 02-04 UT Sun March 13 (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN. 9540, Mar 11, 2016. 0330-0343, Radio Sultanate of Oman, Thumrait. English song; OM talks in English; other songs Fair signal and modulation, 35433 (First log in English language). (DXer José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX), Cabedelo [B] Brazil, Sony ICF-SW100S, Portable Telescopic antenna, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 15140, Radio Oman in Arabic with phone numbers and mention of Muscat at 1548 UT March 12. ID at 1600 and mention of 94.4 FM. Excellent. Heard in English at 1415 March 13 with Beatles song and call to prayer at 1420. Excellent. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, AB, Rx Perseus SDR, Ant Wellbrook loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3260, NBC Madang, 1204-1205*, March 16. Semi- readable with the end of the NBC news in English followed by "NBC National Radio" promo; suddenly off (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 7325, Mar 8, 0845, Wantok R Light noted with fair signal and no QRM from 0845 tune to sudden off at 0936 in mid-program. Syndicated program from 0845 to 0900 then local announcements and praise music interspersed until 0930 when another syndicated program started until carrier off at 0936. Better than normal signal level tonight (Bruce Churchill, CA, DXPlorer via SW Bulletin March 14 via DXLD) ** PARAGUAY. Radio Encarnación. Señores. Confirmado. Desde esta semana se está identificando como ZP80, la emisora que se sintoniza en la frecuencia 760 AM, desde la ciudad de Encarnación, Paraguay. Se identifica, da su frecuencia y direccion. Vivo en Posadas, Argentina y se escucha perfecto. No sé si tiene algo que ver con otra emisora de la misma ciudad que se identifica de la misma forma pero en FM. Bienvenida Radio Encarnación. Enviado desde mi teléfono inteligente Sony Xperia™ (Janz Julio, March 10, radioescutas yg via DXLD) WRTH 2016 has ZP80, 760, 25/10 kW, R. Encarnación with irregular tests. So off again? Was also once a SW station in the 11.9`s (gh) ** PARAGUAY. R.N. Paraguay AM 920 --- No sé que pasa con esta emisora dado que en la frecuencia tengo una especie de ruido ininteligible o se escucha una emisora religiosa del sur de Chile, fundamentalmente por las noches, y por las madrugadas, en forma intermitente, radio Uno de Tacna, Perú. No sé si está inactiva, ha bajado potencia o se ha degradado la calidad de modulación porque antes, si bien con una modulación baja, se escuchaba regularmente. 73's (Miguel Castellino, northern Argentina, March 11, condiglista yg via DXLD) Hola, Miguelito! Voy a chequear por estos lares ya que hoy me voy a Pavón y desde allí hay ruido cero. Antes de redactar este correo chequeé en el sitio web de ZP1 y no hay nada que alerte sobre algún problema en RNP. Y también me metí en el diario ABC pero tampoco dice nada. 73 (Arnaldo Slaen, March 12, condiglista yg via DXLD) Si no me equivoco, hay planes para mudarse de sitio transmisor (gh) Members, With no direct contact with Adan [Mur, Paraguay] I cannot obtain firm clarification. Miguel Castellino in Condiglist reports that Radio Nacional on 920 kHz is silent. This could be the prelude to the tx site move. Unfortunately it may not be until next week before this can be followed up. 73 and 88 (Dan Goldfarb, mwmasts yg via DXLD) [non] Hace ya bastante tiempo que ZP1 no es lo que era en 920. Deben haber bajado la potencia en forma drástica. La mayor parte de las veces, después de la caída del sol, lo que estoy escuchando en el sureste de Uruguay en esa frecuencia, de manera predominante, es ZYK348 Rádio Tramandaí, de la ciudad homónima del estado brasilero de Río Grande del Sur: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vClJ4gkVGB4 73 – (Rodolfo Tizzi, condiglista yg via DXLD) 20/2 kW per WRTH (gh) Hace tiempo que dentro de Paraguay mismo ha sido notablemente la caída de la señal de RNP. No estoy por Paraguay ahora pero la última vez que estuve por Paraguay era la misma cosa. A una distancia de 200 km sonaba más como una emisora de 10 kW. y no como 730 Radio Cardinal (30kW) y 780 R. Primero de marzo (50kW) que tenían mucho mejor señal- Pero según la prensa paraguaya en marzo de 2012 inauguraron un nuevo transmisor de 100 kW. Hay varios artículos al respecto; una de ellas aquí: http://www.paraguay.com/nacionales/radio-nacional-del-paraguay-inaugura-hoy-nuevo-transmisor-80959 Lo que también sé es que en el año 2003 la emisora recibió una donación de la República China (Taiwán) un transmisor de 10 kW. Saludos! (Levi (Iversen? or Peter?) condiglista yg via DXLD) Gracias por la información! Valioso aporte. Respecto a la donación recibida de la República de Taiwán, en algún lado leí que el transmisor recibido era de onda corta. Lo cierto es que desde hace añares que la frecuencia de 9735 kHz está fuera del aire. 73 (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, ibid.) Algo deben haber usado el nuevo transmisor; de eso no me cabe alguna duda, ya que en mi zona de recepción y durante unos meses ZP1 llegaba con una señal considerable. Aquí en Uruguay tenemos a CX20 Radio Montecarlo en 930, que ha de ser una de las pocas emisoras de alcance nacional en Onda Media, cuyas salpicaduras casi nunca dejaban escuchar nada ni en 920 ni en 940 durante casi todo el día. Durante algunos meses en 2012 y 2013, ZP1 se imponía claramente al splatter de CX20 en 920 kHz y se escuchaba con receptores de mano fuera de Montevideo con buena señal. Algo debió salir mal o algún funcionario o jerarca habrá metido la tijera (o la pata) y de pronto la señal cayó a la nada. La situación se mantiene igual al presente. 73 – (Rodolfo Tizzi http://elterrorylavirtud.blogspot.com/ http://cx2abp.blogspot.com/ condiglista yg via DXLD) ** PERU. 4747.63, Perú, Radio Huanta 2000, Huanta, Ayacucho, 1048 into rustic OA music featuring female vocalist, 1050 two men chat over music to 1051; the best signal for a long time, faded at 1100+, 10 March (Robert Wilkner, Pompano Beach, South Florida, 746Pro, Drake R8, NRD 525, Sony 2010XA, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** PERU [and non]. 5980, March 12 at 0107, two very weak carriers beating from slightly different frequencies. I expect R. Chaski to cut off, somewhat after 0109, and it seems this happen circa 0109:11.5, but it`s not sharp, as there is also propagational/Doppler fading. If that is the time, it`s 41 seconds later than last check eight nights ago, March 4 until 0108:30.5*, which would average 5.125 later per. Later before 0130 March 12, it`s clear there is only one carrier left, BBC/UAE. We`re looking forward to the new schedules in a biweek, when BBC as usual moves somewhere else in the A-seasons, leaving 5980 at this time only to Chaski. Right after my nearest streetlite ignites at 0041 UT March 13, with a burst of RF noise on the 49m band and beyond (orange sunset and it`s cloudy so would be a bit later with clear sky; tonight`s Enid SS was 0037 UT), I bring up the JBA carrier on 5980 from R. Chaski: now it suffers from 5990 China-via-Cuba musical splash. As expected second carrier from BBC/UAE cuts on about *0058:25 causing a warbling het as the two are not exactly same frequency. After 0100 the ACI comes from 5985 WRMI, but I still manage to detect the Chaski cutoff at 0109:28.5*. I`m making a point of rechecking only one night later, since on UT March 12 it wasn`t too clear circa 0109:11.5. Discounting the latter, and recomputing from previous timing March 4 until 0108:30.5, now 9 nights ago, it`s 58 seconds later, divided by 9 = 6.44 seconds per, closer to the slippage rate we were expecting (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 6173.9, March 13 at 0036, JBA carrier, S5 with traces of talk, presumed R. Tawantinsuyo, Cuzco on its signature off-frequency. No Vietnam yet via Woofferton on 6175 to block it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6173.92, 0025-0040 15.3, R Tawantinsuyo, Cusco, Spanish ann, Peruvian pop music, talk, Andean flute 25332 AP-DNK. Best 73, (Anker Petersen, Denmark, heard on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) 6173.835, March 16 at 0551, JBA carrier, presumed R. Tawantinsuyo; are they really programming all-night, or just leave carrier on? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. 15640 // 17700 // 17820, R. Pilipinas, 0214, March 14. “From the presidential palace Manila, Dateline Malacañang”; "From the News Center of PBS. This is the PBS News"; all fair (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PRIDNESTROVYE. Pridnestrovie Broadcasting House and smuggling PRTTS. NTA plot on 18.08.2010 --- Video clips on the activities of the customs authorities of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic. The investigation of the criminal case of smuggling generator tubes committed by an organized group of persons. NTA plot on 18.08.2010 Entertaining report with pictures :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tcQgoXMES4 (Leo Barmaleo, Moldova / "open_dx", via RusDX March 13 via DXLD) As previously under MOLDOVA ** RUSSIA. No signal of Comintern Radio/Local Radio Voronezh, March 7- 11, 1200-1500 on 6989.9 VOR 001 kW / non-dir to EaEu Russian http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/03/no-signal-of-comintern-radiolocal-radio.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voronezhskaya oblast. --- Radio Komintern (6990 kHz). On the 20th of February silently Radio Komintern at a frequency of 6990 kHz. I got a response from the operator Radio Komintern: "Roskomnadzor I discovered soon will be a trial, I hope a fine of 500 rubles will cost. In the near future going to register the equipment and call to receive, and there then we'll see. Sincerely, Sergei, the city Rossosh, Voronezh region." (Dmitry Kutuzov, Ryazan, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx", WORLD OF RADIO 1817, ibid.) See WORLD OF HOROLOGY ** RUSSIA. Termination FEBC broadcasting in Russia --- On April 16, 2016 cease broadcasting of Russian service FEBC two medium wave transmitters in Moscow and St. Petersburg, where stations were running under the name "Radio Teos". By that date, Your license expires soon, but they are no longer extended. Not I will mention here some of the reasons, although the broadcast organizers hint of political background of such failures. But that is what it is --- Original English text: We just received shocking news from the Russian government: "Your license to broadcast on AM radio in St. Petersburg and Moscow will not be renewed as of April 16, 2016." For more than a decade, these two AM stations have been our primary channels to share the Gospel with a potential audience of more than twenty million men, women, and children in Russia. You have rejoiced with us through the years as millions have responded and shared their life-changing testimonies. Now is the time to pray with us, for the millions more at risk of never hearing the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Using unofficial channels, we discovered that the pressure comes from particular people at the top, who are highly influential; that's all I am at liberty to share. We are convinced these forces are specifically targeting FEBC Russia because we are an evangelical organization that reaches so many with the Gospel. Challenges are great. Opportunities are exciting. We know that God still wants us to share the Good News with millions of Russians (via Vasily Gulyaev, Astrakhan, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" via RusDX March 13 via WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DXLD) Well, they can still be heard on shortwave from PHILIPPINES if anyone cares to listen (gh, ibid.) ** RUSSIA [non]. PHILIPPINES, Good signal of FEBC Radio Teos March 10: 1500-1530 on 11650 BOC 100 kW / 323 deg to CeAs Russian 1530-1540 on 11650 BOC 100 kW / 323 deg to CeAs Buryatian 1540-1600 on 11650 BOC 100 kW / 323 deg to CeAs Russian http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2016/03/good-signal-of-febc-radio-teos-march-10.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [non]. March 5, 2016 adopted a program of "Radiopanorama" Vadim Alexeev in Russian at a frequency of 11580 kHz, with 2315 on 2330 UT. Evaluation of hearing: somewhere in the 3-4. I have sent a report on WRMI and Vadim Alexeyev (Alexander Golovihin, Tolyatti, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" via RusDX March 13 via DXLD) ** SAO TOME [non]. U S A. 6080, Voice of America via São Tomé in English at 0640 UT March 13 with Top 40 pop music program to abrupt off at 0659:55. Excellent. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, AB, Rx Perseus SDR, Ant Wellbrook loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Mick, As I have reported a few times (but not lately), the excellent signal during this half hour only on 6080 is really Greenville, tho they haven`t bothered to register it as such. It`s been that way for a few months, most or all of the B season. You might be able to hear echo from ST also underneath as some reports have it. On weekdays it`s International Edition news magazine instead (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Hi Glenn, Ah, that is why it was soooo strong. I just can not keep up to all these relays so have to rely on published schedules. Long for the days of VoA and others for local sign off announcements. Thanks for the help on this. Hey, have you noticed the recent changes to Intervals Online? A tad harder to navigate. 73 (Mick Delmage, ibid.) ** SARAWAK. Upcoming Sarawak elections - ABC reporter & cameraman detained "Reporter Besser and camera operator Eroglu were arrested in the city of Kuching on Saturday night after questioning Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak, and their passports were confiscated . . . . "An ABC spokeswoman said the journalists had approached Najib at a public event at a mosque in Sarawak, where he was campaigning before local elections. There was a media call put out about the event and there were lots of media there." Full story at http://goo.gl/VXm3va Both 9835 (Sarawak FM) and 11665 (Wai FM) have been carrying info on the upcoming elections in Sarawak (Ron Howard, California, March 14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOMALILAND. 7120, Mar 11, 2016. 0350-0400, Radio Hargeisa, Hargeisa. OM talks in Somali; 0357 Music; Very weak signal and modulation or barely audible station, 25332/ 25331 (First log). (DXer José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX), Cabedelo [B] Brazil, Sony ICF-SW100S, Portable Telescopic antenna, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. BS: see BULGARIA; USA: WRMI ** SPAIN. PSOE PIDE AL GOBIERNO DE ESPAÑA QUE FUNCIONE LA EMISIÓN DE ONDA CORTA DE RADIO EXTERIOR [Partido Socialista Obrero Español] La portavoz de Pesca del PSOE en el Congreso, Margarita Pérez Herraiz, ha pedido al Gobierno que las emisiones de onda corta de Radio Exterior de España "funcionen", sin fallos en la señal y durante un horario amplio para garantizar el derecho a la información de los españoles que están fuera del país. El PSOE ha registrado una proposición no de ley, difundida hoy, en la que insiste en la importancia que Radio Exterior llegue a ciudadanos españoles, como los tripulantes de barcos que pescan en aguas lejanas. En la iniciativa, ha reclamado también "mantener la producción propia" de la emisora dirigida a los colectivos desplazados fuera del país, así como "un plan para garantizar la viabilidad de la onda corta de Radio Exterior, con medidas que permitan su continuidad sin devaluar el servicio público", según un comunicado. La diputada ha recordado que tras las "quejas" por la supresión de emisiones aprobada en 2014, Radio Exterior anunció en febrero de 2015 que "optimizaría las frecuencias de la onda corta para mejorar la calidad de emisión de su programación y que fuera recibida en las mismas condiciones que cuando se suspendió el servicio en octubre". "Sin embargo, la nueva onda corta se parece poco a la que decidieron cerrar", según Pérez Herraiz. En este sentido, ha señalado que de lunes a viernes sólo se emiten cuatro horas de programación, que aumenta a ocho horas los fines de semana. Además, "los buques de la flota que trabaja en el Pacífico vuelven a quedarse sin radio al fallar la señal de onda corta de RTVE". "Es muy injusto recortar las horas de emisión para quienes más necesitan un puente con nuestra sociedad para no quedar aislados", según la diputada. Ha añadido que el servicio de onda corta es la única vía que tienen para estar informados los marineros de las flotas que desarrollan su actividad en el exterior, "que muchas veces permanecen en alta mar durante meses" (tomada de El Día, España via GRA blog March 11 via DXLD) ** SPAIN. Esquema A-16 de Radio Exterior de España Publicado el 15 marzo 2016 18:15 por EA4-0003 http://aer.org.es/archivos/5559 La dirección de Radio Exterior de España ha comunicado a la Plataforma en Defensa de la Onda Corta en Radio Exterior de España el nuevo esquema de emisiones que entrará en vigor a partir del próximo domingo 27 de marzo, hasta el 29 de octubre. a.. De lunes a viernes, de 20 a 24 horas (1800-2200 UT) a.. 15390 kHz 03-402-161º África Occidental Atlántico Sur b.. 17715 kHz 13–101-230º América Sur Pacífico Sur c.. 17855 kHz 07 307-290º América Norte Pacífico Norte Groenlandia d.. 15500 kHz 02-303-110º Índico Oriente Medio Gran Sol b.. Sábado y domingo, de 16 a 20 horas (1400-1800 UT) a.. 21620 kHz 08-401-161º África Occidental Atlántico Sur c.. Sábado y domingo, de 20 a 24 horas (1800-2200 UT) a.. 15390 kHz 03-402-161º África Occidental Atlántico Sur d.. Sábado y domingo de 16 a 24 horas (1400-2200 UT) a.. 17715 kHz 13–101-230º América Sur Pacífico Sur b.. 17855 kHz 07 307-290º América Norte Pacífico Norte Groenlandia c.. 15500 kHz 02-303-110º Índico Oriente Medio Gran Sol Os recuerdo que desde la web de AER http://ree.es.org.es nos podéis ayudar a controlar las emisiones de REE, mandándonos un informe de recepción que haremos llegar a la dirección de REE... por ejemplo, también lo podéis hacer desde donde está el esquema A-16 de REE http://aer.org.es/archivos/5559 Un saludo (Pedro Sedano, Madrid, España, COORDINADOR GENERAL, AER, condiglista yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DXLD) ** SPAIN [non]. Radio Mi Amigo, info@radiomiamigointernational.com, Short Wave Broadcast Schedule via Kall Krekel. Time CET (UTC+1) WEEKDAYS Monday till Friday: Shortwave 49m band 6005 kHz: 14:00 - 15:00 hrs CET (new time as of Dec. 1st) Shortwave 75m band 3985 kHz: 19:00 - 20:00 hrs CET Mondays 14:00 and 19:00 hrs Bruno's Soulbox - Bruno Hantson (English) feat. the best of Soul Classics Tuesdays: 14:00 and 19:00 hrs Hello Europe! - Paul Newman (English) feat. Radio Mi Amigo charts from the 70s Wednesdays: 14:00 and 19:00 hrs Hello Europe! - Cpt. Kord (German) feat. RNI charts from the 70s Thursdays: 14:00 and 19:00 hrs Hello Europe! - Lion Keezer (Dutch) feat. the Radio Caroline all-time Top 500 Fridays: 14:00 and 19:00 hrs The weekend starts here - Paul Graham (English) 'Good music and tasteful chatter' SATURDAYS Shortwave 49m band 6005 kHz and 31m band 9560 kHz: 08.00h CET - Ook Goeie Morgen met Ton Polderman (Dutch) 09.00h CET - Rockin' Ron's Time Machine - Ron O'Quinn (English) 10.00h CET - Rewind-US Top 100 of a month from the past - Mike Uhini (German) 11.00h CET - Rewind-US Top 100 of a month from the past - Part 2 (German) 12.00h CET - Flashback - the best from the past - Cpt. Kord (German) 13.00h CET - Schoon Schip - Peter de Wit (Dutch) SUNDAYS Shortwave 49m band 6005 kHz 08.00h CET - Bruno's Soulbox - Bruno Hantson (English) 09.00h CET - Hello to the world - Lion Keezer (Dutch) 10.00h CET - Paul Newman's Radio Shack - including the 'Listener All Time Top 5' (English) 11.00h CET - Jeffrey's Stenen Tijdperk - Jeffrey Williams (Dutch) Shortwave 31m band 9560 kHz 10.00h CET - Paul Newman's Radio Shack - including the 'Listener All Time Top 5' (English) 11.00h CET - Jeffrey's Stenen Tijdperk - Jeffrey Williams (Dutch) 12.00h CET - Bruno's Soulbox - Bruno Hantson (English) 13.00h CET - Hello to the world - Lion Keezer (Dutch) Shortwave 41m band 7310 kHz 12.00h CET - Bruno's Soulbox - Bruno Hantson (English) 13.00h CET - Hello to the world - Lion Keezer (Dutch) 14.00h CET - Paul Newman's Radio Shack - including the 'Listener All Time Top 5' (English) 15.00h CET - Jeffrey's Stenen Tijdperk - Jeffrey Williams (Dutch) (via Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, March 12, dxldyg via DXLD) ** SUDAN [non]. 7215, Afia Darfur/Hello Darfur (Pinheira) *0258 27 Feb. Another evening of good reception of the YDD/VoA IS/ID tape followed by a severe drop in modulation, leaving the Sudanese/English program lost in the ozone (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA, E5/6m X wire, via Robert Wilkner, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** SUDAN SOUTH. RADIO REMAINS SOUTH SUDAN'S MOST POPULAR MEDIUM - SURVEY | Text of report by website of US-based media advocacy organisation Internews on 14 March South Sudan is the world's youngest and most fragile country and its media landscape reflects these challenges. While the media sector has made gains in recent years, it remains challenged by a rapidly changing environment and a population lacking access to reliable and trustworthy information. Also, there is a lack of reliable data on the extent of the population's information needs and media access. These challenges are further exacerbated by conflict that has once again developed into civil war and an ensuing widespread humanitarian crisis since December 2013. Despite the immense problems that South Sudan faces, its media landscape provides significant opportunities for growth. Internews commissioned Forcier Consulting to conduct an audience survey in South Sudan. While the ongoing security situation prevents coverage of the country on a fully national basis, this study set out to collect information on South Sudanese media access and consumption to inform the strategies and programming of media houses and media initiatives. This study is the first detailed analysis of the media landscape in South Sudan since the wide-scale conflict began in December 2013. Conducted across the country in April 2015, this survey collected data on media usage from 3,710 respondents. This survey does not purport to be nationally representative, but rather, is representative of the population that could be safely accessed in April 2015. Findings This survey produced a wealth of knowledge about the media landscape in South Sudan, including: -There are a sizable number of people who have never had access to any form of media or device. Roughly one in three (34 per cent) [of] respondents have never had access to radio, television, newspapers, internet, or mobile phones. -Overall, radio remains the most commonly accessed type of media (51 per cent). -While access to television, newspapers and internet remains sparse at the national level, mobile phone penetration levels are nearing levels of radio access. Overall, 44 per cent of respondents have access to a mobile phone. -As media access increases, trust in radio as a source of information also increases. Furthermore, those with media access tend to choose radio as their source of news and information, even if they have access to other forms of media. -Regardless of media access, radio broadcasts are thought to help reduce conflict and provide vital safety information. Recommendations The following items are recommended for the media sector to act upon on the basis of the findings in the report: -Expand opportunities for women's involvement with and access to media. Women have far lower levels of media access than men. Furthermore, it is uncommon for respondents to hear women express their opinions in public settings or on the radio or television. Determining how to reduce or remove obstacles to women's access should be further researched and media houses should ensure that women's voices are included in coverage of South Sudanese issues. -Augment radio's role as a means of conflict resolution and a source of vital information. Respondents tend to view radio favourably, with almost two-thirds (63 per cent) of respondents saying information from the radio has helped keep them safe and 67 per cent saying radio broadcasts in their area help to reduce conflict. Peace-building practitioners or actors with vital life-saving information should strongly consider sharing such messages via radio. -Monitor growth in internet usage vis-a-vis newspaper weekly reach along with internet-related activities conducted via mobile phone. The national weekly reach of both internet (7 per cent) and newspapers (10 per cent) are similar, which suggests rates of regular internet usage are not far behind rates of regular newspaper readership. In addition, mobile phone penetration (44 per cent) is nearly as high as radio access (51 per cent) and 85 per cent of respondents with internet access own a mobile phone themselves. Read the full report http://www.internews.org/research-publications/still-listening-survey-media-landscape-accessible-areas-south-sudan-2015 Source: Internews website, in English 14 Mar 16 (via BBCM via DXLD) ** SURINAME. 4989.975, Mar 9 2200, Tentative R Apintie on LA antenna direction. In the opposite direction Hunan on 4990.0 (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, SW Bulletin March 13 via DXLD) ** TAIWAN [non]. WRMI tests for Radio Taiwan International from WRMI Radio Miami International Facebook 4 hours ago: "Friends, we're doing another round of tests for Radio Taiwan International the nights of March 13, 14 and 15 (Sunday, Monday and Tuesday) in a new frequency of 11530 kHz. The transmissions will be at 0000-0100 and 0200-0300 UT (UT Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday). Very grateful any observation on the quality of the reception in your area, and especially a comparison between the two hours. Thank you in advance." (translated from Spanish below) "Amigos, estamos haciendo otra ronda de pruebas para Radio Taiwán Internacional las noches de marzo 13, 14 y 15 (domingo, lunes y martes) en una nueva frecuencia de 11530 kHz. Las transmisiones serán a la 0000-0100 y de 0200-0300 UT (UT lunes, martes y miércoles). Agradeceríamos cualquier observación sobre la calidad de la recepción en tu area, y especialmente una comparación entre los dos horarios. Muchas gracias en adelantado." (presumably testing to South America, in Spanish?) Posted by: ("Alan Pennington", 2104 UT March 13, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) Well, this is my catch of this test; Saludos desde El Salvador 11530 kHz, Radio Taiwan Internacional en Español UT 15/MARZO/2016 0224 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VwdYfe4T2I (Humberto Molina, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN [and non]. 6230, SOH/CNR1/VMW 1415-1435 29 Feb. Busy frequency! SOH weak but atop CNR1 jammer with digital blorps from VMW until 1430 when VMW opened with maritime weather forecast on top of everybody. SOH // 11530 (unjammed so far as I could tell) with web info at 1423 ("----@gmail.com"). 6900, SOH, 1510+ 1 March. Very weak & mixing with unID 2 x SSB // 6230 (with usual VMW CCI) & 9320 (unjammed). (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA E5/6m X wire, via Robert Wilkner, condiglista yg via DXLD) 11100, SOH, 1558-1605* 8 March. Clear in (presumed) Mandarin (different programme from 11470, et al.) with long yak over piano bed through TOH. 11470, SOH, 1530-1550 8 March. SOH in the clear today // 6900, 9155, 9180, 9200, 11500 (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA E5/6m X wire, via Robert Wilkner, condiglista yg via DXLD) 12910, Sound of Hope International, 1454 to 1500, a tentative ID via the WRTH, Chinese, SINFO=5,5,2,4,2, downgraded because of the high static level, the Mackay 5050A and the 42’ Windom antenna. 3/11 (John Davis, northeast of Columbus, Ohio in the USA, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) Might have been a CNR jammer? (Mark Taylor, Ed., ibid.) ** TAIWAN. 11764.7, TAIWAN? Sound of Hope - tentative, 0059, 3/13/16, in Mandarin. Man and woman announcers alternating. The signal faded down or signed off before ToH, so I didn’t hear an ID. I couldn’t find a CNR 1 or jammer to //, so I suspect from the off frequency that I was actually listening to SoH. Fair (Mark Taylor, Madison, Wisconsin, Perseus, SDRPlay, Eton e1, Grundig Satellit 800, Sangean 909X with clear mod, and various other portables; 40 meters dipole, 100’ long wire, Flextenna, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) I then pointed out that this frequency smacked of SRDA, as reported on 11764.7 recently by Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, but it sure wouldn`t be in Mandarin (gh) Hi Glenn, I was expecting SRDA, which was why I was surprised by Mandarin (Mark Taylor, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TASMANIA [non]. Even Hobart Radio will be on at 0000 UT on Sunday 20th, so a chance for more distant listeners to try and catch them then. The full list of stations and programmes can be found on the Channel 292 website at: http://www.channel292.de/schedule-for-bookings/ (Alan Gale, UK, March 16, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) i.e. 6070, despite CFRX. Would Channel 292 please find some other frequency when broadcasting after sunset in eastern North America (gh) ** TIBET. 4905.00 1600-1705 13.3 CHN Xizang PBS, Lhasa, Tibet English news and talk with Tibetan orchestral music in the background, Tibetan pop songs, 1657 closing ann in English, 1700 Tibetan ID and ann 35333 // 4920, 6110, 6130, 7385 AP-DNKmy latest loggings from Skovlunde on the AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire: I guess they are still calling the English program ``Holy Tibet`` ? How nice and respectful of their ChiCom masters! Next: invite Dalai Lama back (gh, DXLD) ** TIBET [non]. 15573, March 11 at 1320, JBA carrier. Must be V. of Tibet via TAJIKISTAN on typical split frequency to minimize jamming. Yes, latest info from Ivo Ivanov shows as of March 3-6: ``1315-1330 NF 15573 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 13583`` I was really checking for KBS World Radio on 15575, the so-called North American service in English. Not a trace of even a carrier! There is a carrier on 15570, however, which could be the CNR1 jammer, tho normally it would be 2, rather than 3 kHz away from VOT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) There was G2 level storm going on at that time. 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Even when there`s no storm, we can`t hear KBS 15575 (gh, OK, DXLD) 11992, March 13 at 1341, weak music and mushy noise, apparently a different kind of ChiCom jamming. There is no carrier on 11990, but something on 11995, while the mush can also be heard up to 11998, and again around 12008. 11992 cuts off at 1359*. This all smax of Voice of Tibet via TAJIKISTAN. As of Feb 21, Ivo Ivanov included: ``1345-1400 NF 11992 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 12013`` while 11997 was in use for same at 1315-1345 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY [and non]. 5960, March 13 at 0023, Stimme der Türkei in German! announcement, with flute music, S9+20 over lite CCI. Aoki lists this as if a scheduled broadcast, despite being 1:23 am in Germany, 500 kW, 310 degrees from Emirler at 0000-0055 --- but I think it`s a frequent mistake by the sleeping sloppyrator at Emirler, failing to turn off the transmitter circa 2355 after the English to North America, as German continues on the satellite/internet stream. No 0000 German broadcast is in WRTH, and it`s become impossible to find any SW scheduling information on the TRT website (about time I got a schedule in the P-mail unless they`ve deleted that too). Yup, it`s gone at 0043, long before the German service should have ended, uncovering the very weak S5 understation, which per Aoki should be: PBS Xinjiang, 100 kW ND from Urumqi, East Turkistan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UGANDA [non]. 15405, Uganda Diaspora P10 (Issoudun) *1630-1640+ 2 March. Fair with orchestral opening, ID/freq/announcer`s name, then voting info (how to spot ballot fraud, take photos/audio--upload to http://www.ugangadiasporap10.org/ + FB, international news sites). Dr. Kizza Besigye is #5 on the ballot, symbol is a key, color is blue (he's the opponent of Musveni), local song, Q&A with another well- known Besigye supporter. Update: no sign of UDP10 at 1630 on 7/8 March--off the air or just resting? (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA E5/6m X wire, via Robert Wilkner, condiglista yg via DXLD) Again no signal from Uganda Diaspora P10 Radio, March 9 1630-1700 on 15405 ISS 250 kW / 140 deg to CEAf Eng/Swa. My last videos: on Feb.26 - strong to poor signal and on March 6 - open carrier/dead air http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/03/oromo-voice-radio-eritrean-forum-uganda.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #943 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 14, 2016 via DXLD) ** UGANDA [non]. 5910, QSL Radio Lead Africa [target radio program station to Uganda] - via Meyerton. SenTech verified an electronic report with a no data electronic reply in only 16 minutes from Baker Mayambala who describes the station as "Independent, community radio that PROVIDES a platform for Human Rights civic education; EMBRACES diversity, tolerance of opinions & freedom of expression; SEEKS to stimulate, educate and entertain our audience to reflect, celebrate & promote the creative cultural & political vitality of all African Community; while ADVOCATING for peace, social and environmental justice." In a separate e-mail from Martha Leah Nangalamain, Moncton, in Canada comes the following information: "We broadcast in Ugandan languages in order to reach the wider audience in English but some of the broadcasts are in English. We will get you a schedule of the ones we broadcast in English. I am personally based in Canada and will start broadcasting this Monday but in my mother language Lumasaba. In time, I will also broadcast in English." (Rich D'Angelo-PA-USA, DXplorer March 7 via BC-DX via DXLD) 9410, Radio Lead Africa Media (Meyerton) 1731-1757* 5 March, 1708-1741 6 March. Tentative, with seguéd reggae 1731-1745, then just carrier on 5 March and late opening (carrier OK at 1700 mixing with CNR5, but no modulation until 1708 and then JBA with chat, brief group song at 1732 and modulation gone but back at 1741 recheck). (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA E5/6m X wire, via Robert Wilkner, condiglista yg via DXLD) 5910, Mar 11, 2016. 0324-0330, Radio Lead Africa, Meyerton. OM talks in Swahili. Fair signal and modulation, 35433. (First log). (DXer José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX), Cabedelo [B] Brazil, Sony ICF-SW100S, Portable Telescopic antenna, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 9430, Mar 12, 2016. 1955-2021, Radio Lead Africa, Meyerton. African mxs; YL/OM talks in English with a very African accent. RLA presents a fair signal and poor modulation, 35332 (DXer - José Ronaldo Xavier, Cabedelo - Brazil - Sony ICF-SW100S, Portable Telescopic - antenna, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 5910, UT Monday March 14 I tune in at 0329 to find good S9+10 reception of clandestine Radio Lead Africa, via SOUTH AFRICA during its Mon/Tue/Fri 03-04 UT broadcast --- and this time, no het from Colombia, which must be off. And it`s all in English with good enunciation, easy to follow! A critic of Museveni is talking at length; at 0343 interviewer is a YL with southern US accent (or New Brunswick?), says about to open lines for callers. Guest is referred to as ``doctor`` but can`t ever catch his name. He says Uganda has 90% unemployment among youth; his economic development plans; 0351 another break, but it`s been edited out, and never mentions the phone number for callers. One caller asks if he has dual citizenship, which would make him ineligible to be elected. Implies he does have, but will not really be a problem. Another asks how Uganda went wrong compared to more democratic Kenya and Tanzania. ``Mr. Museveni is a thief, liar, dictator --- don`t compare me to him``. A few seconds after 0359* cut off air abruptly as time is up, without any ID, which is SOP for the service allegedly called Radio Lead Africa. I strongly suspect this has been Museveni`s leading opponent in the recent ``elexion``, but isn`t he under arrest? Not sure of his latest situation (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5910, clandestine Radio Lead Africa, *0255-0359*, March 14 (Monday). Interview of Dr. Kizza Besigye (before the recently held election) [CORRECTED below] with questioning by Brenda & Lawrence; completely in English; fair and very readable. Surprisingly Colombia went off the air suddenly about 0257, leaving RLAM in the clear with good signal. Eleven minute audio at https://goo.gl/s91TtN Interesting interview! Never a station ID, just non-stop interview (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, Thanks to Edward Kusalik, who informs me he learned from Baker Mayambala of RLAM, that it was actually Dr. Aggrey Kiyi that I heard being interviewed, not Dr. Kizza Besigye as I had incorrectly assumed. Sorry for the confusion! (Ron Howard, California, March 14, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DX LISTENING DIGEST) SOUTH AFRICA, Summer [sic] A-16 of Radio Lead Africa from March 27: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/03/summer-16-of-radio-lead-africa-from.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U A E. UNITED KINGDOM [non], 9560, Mar 11, 2016. 0243-0250, BBC, Dhabbaya. OM talks in English: ID some times with interval. No programming, only IDs: BBC, BBCWS.com. Good signal and modulation, 45444 (DXer José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX), Cabedelo [B] Brazil, Sony ICF- SW100S, Portable Telescopic antenna, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** U K. We were shocked and deeply saddened to learn that our friend and long-time BDXC member and club officer Mark Savage passed away in the early hours of this morning, aged 56. Our thoughts and prayers are with Mark's only brother, Matthew who informed us of the terrible news this morning. RIP, Mark (Dave Kenny? March 14, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) OBIT And many tributes followed; several of Mark`s reports were quoted in DXLD from 2009 to 2014 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. The Radio Times has accused the Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) of not taking its readers' views on the future of the BBC into consideration. Press Association Last updated: 15 March 2016, 00:20 GMT http://home.bt.com/news/uk-news/radio-times-accuses-ministers-of-not-taking-readers-views-on-bbc-seriously-11364046140554 A BBC Royal Charter Renewal Public Consultation on Culture Secretary John Whittingdale's plans for a reform of the corporation was launched in July 2015. The Radio Times published 16 questions which, it said, mirrored those in the DCMS's official consultation. But in a letter dated March 11, the magazine said at least 6,000 digital responses delivered to the DCMS on an encrypted memory stick for data protection purposes were not included. The Radio Times said the DCMS published its consultation report without requesting the password to open the file, "and therefore cannot have taken the responses into consideration". The publication said Mr Whittingdale had told the Oxford Media Convention on March 2 that "every response has been read". In a statement, a DCMS spokesman said the Government is "committed" to a "thorough and open" BBC Charter Review process. "All responses to our formal consultation will feed into the process," the statement said. "We also received other views including results from the Radio Times survey, which asked different questions. "We will also take account of these as part of the Charter Review." Radio Times editor Ben Preston said he finds it "absolutely baffling" that the contribution of 9,000 Radio Times readers, with 3,000 responses sent by post, were not considered. In a statement, he said: "It is only thanks to an encrypted memory stick that we discover his department has not taken into consideration the wise words of so many people who have a genuine passion for quality broadcasting, despite claiming every response has been read". He added: "The future of British broadcasting is too important to be carved up by politicians alone and the Secretary of State should reopen the consultation and listen to all the voices of the British viewing public." In one of the largest ever responses to a government public consultation, in total 192,564 responses were received via emails, letters and an online survey. The results were published on March 1. The consultation revealed the majority of respondents backed the BBC and its independence from government (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** U S A. 2097.3, March 13 at 0056 UT, CW beacon A is JBA, just 19 minutes after my sunset in Enid, so it`s still daytime in Quartzsite AZ, alleged location of this; gaisma.com doesn`t realize Quartzsite is a major MF transmitter site, so closest listing is for Lake Havasu City, current night hours there 0143-1351 UT (Blythe CA would be closer but not listed either!). LSS is nigh enough for A to be propagating eastward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. HFCC A-16: I see a lot of IBB GB Greenville requests with 62 kW of Power instead of 250 kW, also some R Martí broadcasts (Wolfgang Bueschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I wonder what the 65 kW broadcasts from Greenville are for. DRM? I'll take a look and mark them for monitoring (Noel Green, Englalnd, ibid.) Noel, Besides some R. Marti broadcasts, the other 62 kW ones are for Radiograms. Gotta minimize costs for those, or maybe that`s all the old transmitter can handle. Who cares if Marti is still jammed? Original 250 kW transmitters have been running at half power 125, so then down to quarter-power 62.5 kW (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7425, March 12 at 0131, intermodulation leapfrog at Greenville is already on, S8 with // R. Martí audio weak from 7365 transmitter; since the other carrier, 7305 at S9+40 is already on prior to Vatican Radio relay from 0145. RM audio can also be detected bleeding into 7305. 7425, March 13 at 0142, gone again, no trace of the leapfrog mixing product from Greenville-B, which was there last night, despite huge signals again on its progenitors, 7305 Vatican relay and 7365 Martí. Something changes from one occasion to another, like different transmitter/antenna combination (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. LOG: 4 x DIGI MODES via SW: DigiDX, KBC, VOA, Easypal-DRM http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/VoA_Radiogram_2016-03-12.htm#DIGIDX http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/VoA_Radiogram_2016-03-12.htm#KBC http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/VoA_Radiogram_2016-03-12.htm#VOA http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/VoA_Radiogram_2016-03-12.htm#9H4CM All decoded into 3 kHz audio frequency and less, no special receiver needed. (only for hamradio easypal-drm: SSB-rx) (roger, Germany, March 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. For those in a hurry to hear a new WORLD OF RADIO, the first three SW broadcasts are reliably on Thursdays: 1130 on WRMI 9955, 2100 on WRMI 13695, 2330 on WBCQ 9330-CISB (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1816 monitoring: confirmed Thu March 10 at 2100 on WRMI 13695, very good. Also confirmed UT Fri March 10 at 0030 on WBCQ, 9330.279-CUSB, good. Next: Fri 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE Fri 2130.5 WRMI 13695 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 [daylight shifted times start here:] Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1816 monitoring: confirmed on BST-1 caradio, Friday March 11 at 2130, good on WRMI 15770; from 2130.5, very good on WRMI 13695. Also confirmed on the R75 UT Saturday March 12 at 0030 fair S4 via WBCQ, 9329.955-CUSB. Next: Sat 2030v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sat 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sun 0410v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND [daylight shifted times start here:] Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Sabato 12 marzo 2016, 0745 - 6190, WORLD OF RADIO (via MVBR Göhren- D?). Buono (SWL I1-0799GE, Luca Botto Fiora, QTH Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, G.C. 44 21' 06.89" N / 09 13' 30.94" E, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) WORLD OF RADIO 1816 monitoring: confirmed from 0427 UT Sunday March 13 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, Wentzville MO, good with no QRhaM. Next: [daylight shifted times start here:] Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1816 monitoring: confirmed Sunday March 13 at new time after 2330 UT on WBCQ 9330-v, sufficient. Now it`s Sunday-Friday at 2330, Saturday at 2230. Also confirmed UT Monday March 14 from 0304 on Area 51 webcast (tuned in at 0300 to hear overtime JL playing clip of Trump bragging about his genitals; sheesh); also confirmed at 0329 on WBCQ 5129.720. Also confirmed from 0330 on WRMI 9955, good, no jamming. Next: Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1816 monitoring: confirmed Monday March 14 at 2330 on WBCQ 9329.788-CUSB, sufficient. Next: Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1816 monitoring: confirmed Tue March 15 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9329.935-CUSB, sufficient. Also confirmed Wed March 16 from 1315:33 on WRMI 9955, good, no jamming. Also confirmed Wed March 16 at 2100 on WBCQ webcast; and fair at 2125 measured on approx. 7489.8635 (earlier at 2016 I measured it on 7490.058, S8-S6); by 2330 recheck with other programming, has drifted up to 7489.875. While next and final WOR 1816 airing is also confirmed at 2330 March 16 on exactly 9330.000-CUSB! WORLD OF RADIO 1817 monitoring: confirmed, barely audible, first SW airing, Thursday March 17 after 1130 on WRMI 9955; propagation is really degraded, still pre-sunrise, no better by 1159; but signal is much better during `Wavescan` until 1330. Next WORs, now with all applicable DST changes: Thu 2100 WRMI 13695 to NW Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Fri 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE Fri 2130.5 WRMI 13695 to NW Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sat 0730 HLR 6190-CUSB to SW Sat 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. 11580, Fri Mar 11 at 1315, WRMI has defaulted to fill music again, ``Up, Up & Away``, instead of Brother HyStairical, like still on 11825, but 11580 is colliding with KTWR in Vietnamese 1245-1330 (longer on weekends). By 1526 check, 11580 is back with BS. 9955, March 13 at 1417, no BS on this WRMI frequency, but music loop fill, including `Sandunga` at 1418, still music at 1434, 1452. During DST, Brother HyStairical is expected to start at 1400 instead of 1500 on 9955. Meanwhile, he is rampant today on 11580, 15440, etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9955, Sunday March 13 at 2207, WRMI is heavily jammed, why? Because `Foro Revolucionario Cubano` is now scheduled 2130-2230 instead of 2230-2330. Looks like the DentroCuban Jamming Command is right on it, or just conveniently since both Habana and Little Havana have made the DST change simultaneously, what a sign of international coöperation! FRC is the *only* exile program Sundays on WRMI, so no other hours should be jammed at all, yeah right. The WRMI 9955 program schedule as of March 14 is still dated ``effective January 1`` tho surely there were a number of changes in February. It also still alleges Eastern time is 5 hours behind UT instead of 4. Another show I had not noticed before, and no telling when it was inserted: `In Search of Truth-Braz`, Saturdays at 2230-2245 and Sundays at 2245-2300 on 9955 --- implying it`s in English, about Brazil. A new clandestine? Or merely religious? It still hasn`t been added to the programming roster page. [WORLD OF RADIO 1817] 11530, March 13 at 2208, surprised to find Brother Scare on a new frequency, and // synchro with much stronger 11565 and 15440, so must be WRMI, but why? Because 11530 is about to run another test for Radio Taiwán Internacional relay in Spanish, as it seems they have been dissatisfied with reception in Latin America on the original schedule of 02-03 on 11920, 03-04 on 5985. WRMI Facebook via Alan Pennington, BDXC-UK yg, says the tests are UT March 14-15-16 at 00-01 & 02-03 on 11530, reports wanted which is better. They`re not saying which transmitter and azimuth, but #2 had been in a break at 23-01, 222 degrees, so that`s likely it. Had been at 21-23 with BS on 5985, unknown whether 5985 was thus off on this occasion, and I didn`t check later for the RTI experiments, as they continue to dis English listeners in North America, whom they could easily reach via WRMI like they did for many years via WYFR. 11580, Sunday March 13 at 2341, WRMI with `radiogram` beeping. This went on for a full semi-hour? As publicized in advance on the DXLDyg, and WOR 1816, thanks to Adam Grzenia, Poland, this Digi-DX program from Ireland is being carried not only by Channel 292, 6070 in Germany, but also on WRMI 11580, Sundays March 13, 20 and 27 at 2330- 2400. Per WRMI sked, the program preëmpted is `In Christ We Live` which already has a duplicate(?) timing during the previous half-hour. But I`ve yet to see *any* other reports of this logged on 11580, even by MFSK32 enthusiasts [later: see below]. 9955, March 14 at 1359, I`m checking WRMI, since yesterday, day one of DST, it was music fill after 1400 instead of BS. No, today, after fill music and `Okeechobee Ocean`` ID, 1400 cut to BS. On the other hand, today after 1400, 11580 is running the fill music loop instead of BS: quena at first, 1407 `Up2 & Away`, 1410 Qur`an (to the consternation of BS? And all the other ``Christian`` clients??); 1428 *still* music fill loop on 11580. Meanwhile, I`ve noticed that 15440 is off at 1401, while BS is going on 11825, 13695, 17790 at least. By 1532 check, now 15440 is on (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. Glenn mentioned no reports on the DigiDX program via WRMI yesterday evening. Here is a copy of my initial report on reception here in NB (also via Radio Channel 292 heard with Twente SDR): "I had reasonably good success with Radio Channel 292 reception via Twente for the 12:30 UTC broadcast yesterday (this is a much better time for good Twente reception than 20:00 UTC, it seems) and even better success with the WRMI broadcast received with my own receiver. I had virtually perfect text decoding from the latter and a nice image of the QSL but the base64 file suffered a problem towards the end of the file presumably due to a deep fade (will check). But, as it happened, I had received a properly decoded end of the base64 file via 292/Twente. I was able to combine the good parts of both files and ended up with a complete base64 file (diversity reception?), which I was able to convert to the midi file and thence to an mp3 file (attached). The result? A rendition of the old BBC WS signature tune (for the English news) "Lilliburlero" as played on a flute. Nice. Info on the tune is on an old Web page buried on the BBC WS website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/us/001221_sigtunes.shtml " (Richard Langley, NB, March 14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) WRMI noted at 0201 UT on 11530 kHz with Radio Taiwan International in Spanish with a fair to good signal, presumably off the back of a beam to Latin America. One of a series of test transmissions this week http://swling.com/blog/2016/03/wrmi-test-transmissions-for-radio-taiwan-international/ There was a program from Family Radio in Spanish preceding the RTI broadcast. Another broadcast of RTI was scheduled for 0000 UT so rather than turn off the transmitter between the two RTI broadcasts, they ran the Family Radio broadcast. Didn't check to see if they were on 11530 kHz before 0000 or after 0300 (Richard Langley, 0208 UT March 16, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) more abut this under TAIWAN [non] [and non]. 11530, March 14 at 2332, WRMI is again on unscheduled weak frequency, a bonus for Brother Scare, // psychophants a-moanin` & a- groanin` on much stronger // 11825 et al. 11530 is on as lead-in to Taiwán Spanish relay test at 0000 on same. Checked earlier at 2115, 11530 of course bore REE in Spanish, scheduled until 2300, // 15500, 15390, 9690. 5985 not audible from WRMI at 2115 or 2332, maybe on but not propagating, or by the second hour, it`s the transmitter #2 trying 11530. 11580, March 15 at 1405, today WRMI is favoring us with its fill-music loop concert instead of BS on this frequency, African percussion, and eclectic variety to follow, still past 1503 when BS is available nearby on 11565, etc., etc., etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Weak signal of test frequency of WRMI Brother Stair, Mar 15 from 0700 NF 11530 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to CeAm English, ex 11920. Full B-15 winter schedule of WRMI Okeechobee tx#04 till March 26 is: 0100-0200 on 11530 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to CeAm Spanish Family Radio 0200-0300 on 11530 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to CeAm Spanish R.Taiwan Int 0300-1200 on 11530 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to CeAm English Brother Stair 2200-0100 on 11530 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to CeAm English Brother Stair http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/03/weak-signal-of-test-frequency-of-wrmi.html (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DXLD) No, it isn`t. Resumed 11920 after 3-day test of 11530 (gh, DXLD) 15770, Tue March 15 at 2120, something in Spanish about Argentina from weak WRMI. Strongly suspect it`s `La Rosa de Tokio` despite Radio France International (English) appearing on the schedule grid during this hour Mon & Tue. The grid is much in need of updating, with various other anomalies noted. 11530, March 15 at 2333, WRMI with hymn // 11825, i.e. amid Brother HyStairical, additional frequency on air for testing Taiwan in Spanish at 00-01 & 02-03, last of a three-day experiment. South Americans have been complaining of adjacent QRM from China on both sides of 11920, the RTI relay frequency, so this may be that same transmitter. I didn`t check whether 11920 was still running, but it is still on the schedule grid. Maybe shifting to 11530 in A-16, and along with it hours & hours of BS. Ivo Ivanov thinx they`ll just stay on 11530 ex- 11920 at 22-12 UT until March 26, 160 degrees to ``Central America``, which is not its direxion from Okeechobee, rather South America. 9955, March 16 at 1442, WRMI with Mideast music instead of BS, while BS is running on 11580 // 11825 etc. Sometimes it`s the other way around between 11580 and 9955 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7489.87, UT Sat March 12 after 0111, I`m listening to `Allan Weiner Worldwide` on WBCQ and 30 seconds later on 5129.74. He`s back with a live show from ``Studio 9 in Florida``, after a week off. AW allows phone calls to interrupt his main subject this week, reminiscing about TV and radio stations he visited as a young man, e.g. NBC in Rockefeller Center, WHOU in Houlton. Admits show is supposed to be one hour, but always runs over and Brother Scare doesn`t mind. At 0112, J. P. (Ferraro near NYC) says 7490 must be off the air as he can`t hear it. Allan says it is on, must be skipping over J. P. At 0117, George (Thurman) in Houston calls about the Trump riot in Chicago, so AW turns on Fox `News` and sees it too, shortly issues prayer that everyone will be OK. Recheck at 0234, still going on 7489.900 and 5129.734, reading texts as AW promises to respond to all mail during the program; 0235 one from Dr Elliott enjoying his narrative about early color TV. Eventually closes, and 5130v stays on with fill music until 0300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5130, WBCQ-Monticello, at 0300, on 12 Mar. A program of music and talk called The Classics Experience was presented by Paul Walker. He stated that his program was nonjudgmental and he would not carry on about “Silly Ballgames, or Gospel Hucksters,” he just wanted people to enjoy the music. He stated he would accept any reception reports sent to him, regardless of style or content. Fair (John Cooper, Lebanon, PA, Winradio-G33DDC, CommRadio CR-1a, SDR-IQ, GAP-Hear It-In Line Module, Wellbrook ALA-1530S+, Wellbrook ALA1530LNPro, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) Re Paul Walker`s show. Out of curiosity I listened to the show last night on 5130. There was nothing terribly wrong with the show but it was a yawner as the selection of music was rather pedestrian and not exciting or interesting in any way. Early in the second hour he said something that would have caused me to spew my drink had I been drinking at the time. Something to the effect that he was just playing music for us with no agenda and he wasn't going to tell us about DX stations that he'd logged, silly ballgames or religious huxters :) Take care man (John Carver, Mid-North Indiana, March 12, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Now Paul Walker is complaining he spent $300 on the recent SW broadcasts and only two "responses". I thought he previously wrote he just wanted to play music and didn't care about anything other than playing music (anon., via DXLD) 5129.75-AM, UT Sunday March 13 at 0029, WBCQ with `Radio TimTron Worldwide`, S9+20, drama about a Martian invasion. 7489.96-AM, UT Sunday March 13 at 0030, WBCQ with J. P. Ferraro on `Shortwave Saturday Night` originating from his real station WHVW 950 in Hyde Park NY, talking with a caller about the mafia. 9329.80-CUSB, UT Sunday March 13 at 0033, WBCQ with anti-Jewish comments as if Christians should own the Holy Land, reference to a revisionist history website (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WBCQ schedule alters with DST --- Daylight Saving Time (DST) began in North America this morning at 2 am (local time) so WBCQ schedule from tonight is one hour earlier UT on (new) 5130 kHz: Sunday, March 13, 2016 7pm 2300 UT Grits Radio 8pm 0000 UT John Lightning/11L-RNI 11pm 0300 UT Glenn Hauser’s World of Radio 11:30pm 0330 UT Hobart Radio International (Area 51 website: http://www.worldmicroscope.com/ linked from http://www.wbcq.com/ Posted by: (Alan Pennington, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) From the Isle of Music on 7490 at 00-01 UT Tuesday --- Starting March 14 we will be at 0000-0100 UT Tuesdays (8-9 PM EDT Mondays in the Americas) March 14 in the Americas (March 15 in Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania), our special guest will be Leo García, leader of Timbalive, which just released a new Timba album, Gasolina de Avión; we'll converse with him and play some music from the album. We'll also play a new single by Haila Maria Mompie. We'll also share more of the Cuban Classical album Piñera Concertante, a great new Jazz release by César López & Habana Ensemble, and some traditional music by Ecos de Tívoli. *** Every Monday night from 8 to 9 pm EDT in North, Central and South America (Tuesday morning from 0000-0100 UT in Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania) 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, Folklórica, interviews with musicians, even a little history of the music now and then. Partly in English, en parte en español. “Like” our page to keep informed about what we will bring you. (For those without shortwave or outside of viable signal range, there are also a couple of ways to stream the frequency via Internet; see the instructions in our NOTES section). 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 (via gh, dxldyg via DXLD) Amateur Radio Roundtable Subject: HR1301 and Heard Island DXpedition This week (March 15) Frank Howell, K4FMH returns and to discuss HR1301, the Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2015. Frank worked with Senator Wicker to introduce this bill into congress. It is important to understand how this bill will benefit amateur radio operators and the community, by allowing reasonable considerations for antennas in otherwise restricted areas. Rich Holoch, K6YR will provide an update on the Heard Island DXpedition. Team members are enroute to Heard Island at this time. Rich will provide the latest information and time frames. Remember to send your FCC questions to Riley at askriley@w5kub.com for discussion in the program. Riley is a retired FCC Special Counsel for enforcement and brings a lot of knowledge to this area. If you missed the March 8th show about satellite operations and hamfest reports, you can watch it here. Amateur Radio Roundtable, is a live weekly amateur radio and shortwave program, held every Tuesday night at 8 PM CDT (0100 UT Wednesday). The show can viewed at W5KUB.com or heard on shortwave radio station, WBCQ on 5130 kHz. To watch Amateur Radio Roundtable on Tuesday evenings, go to W5KUB.com. If you are listening on 5130, we would like to hear from you. Please send an email to tom@w5kub.com and tell us your location and signal report. We need help with topics. If you have a specific subject that you would like to present in a future show, send an email to tom@W5KUB.com. Forward this message to a Friend will allow you to share this message with your friends. Join us for fun and interesting discussions! Tom Medlin, W5KUB, Rich Holoch, KY6R (ARR mailing list March 14 via DXLD) ** U S A. Reception of test transmission of WMLK Bethel on Wednesday on March 9: from 1905 on 9275 MLK 250 kW / 053 deg to WeEu English, QRM carrier on 9273 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/03/weak-signal-of-test-transmission-of.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #943 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 14, 2016 via DXLD) 9275, Monday March 14 at 2041 check, no signal from WMLK. The second Monday they`ve been off? Tuesday March 15 at 1907, it`s on but barely modulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Good signal strength, low modulation of WMLK Bethel March 15 from 1830 on 9275 MLK 250 kW / 053 deg to WeEu English & off at 2030 Note: wrong frequency announcement: WMLK on 9475 kHz, instead of 9275! http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/03/good-signal-strength-low-modulation-of.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9275, Tue March 15 at 2037, WMLK seems off, but I can detect 9265 WINB. Not at 2120 either. Wonder if their appearances will now generally be one UT hour earlier, going by local EDT clock? 9275.03, March 16 at 1955 check, WMLK is on, undermodulated music, fading S9-S5. 9265 WINB is reading about the same but sounds louder. 1957 ID by WMLK dredged out of the depths of time, claiming to be on 9475, what nonsense; 2015 another ID with address (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Poor to good signal of WMLK Bethel on March 16: 1900 & 1957 on 9275 MLK 125 kW / 053 deg to WeEu English Announcing wrong schedule: 0400-0900&1700-2200 on 9475 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/03/poor-to-good-signal-of-wmlk-bethel-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5085, March 12 at 0616, surprised to hear Art Bell hosting `Midnight [sic] in the Desert`, indicating he likes Trump. Not clear whether this is an oldie or a newie, but where`s Heather Wade? Main topic on website for March 11 is Can you outrun a supervolcano? Also takes call from someone listening on WTWW with an SDR rather than a C Crane radio, oops (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9475, March 14 at 1435, and still at 1532, WTWW-1 is OFF, while `night` frequency 5830 is still ON. This late it must be another lapse in switching rather than DST confusion (Glenn Hauser, oK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 11520, March 11 at 0711, open fading S8-S3 carrier, dead air from WEWN English; at 0717, 11870 in Spanish is very poor but modulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 4840, March 14 at 1200, WWCR is already off, so no QRM for 4835 Australia. DST/B15 and initial A16 transmitter skeds have now been posted on WWCR website, also showing that #1 changes from 6115 to 3215 an hour *earlier* at 0100 instead of 0200, altho sunsets are getting *later*, as DST programming trumps propagation. (This also means that if Dave wants to rant on WWRB, he`ll have to do it on 3195 from 0100 instead of 3215 until 0200.) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** USA. 7504.93, WRNO, 0134, March 14. Earlier than normal sign on? Program about Eagle Mountain Church (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) No, now with DST it`s ``normal`` to sign on at 0100v instead of 0200v, as it`s yet another ``international`` SW station acting like a domestic one. And off around 0400 instead of 0500 UT (gh, DXLD) ** U S A [non]. Receive by mail Russia: 03.09.2016, the usual carton QSL-card (sent as a postcard Used self-adhesive postage stamp US - now USPS (United States Postal Service) due to inflation and devaluation and the rapid increase in postal rates within the United States! and when sending to other countries indicates the postal rate in arbitrary units on the US itself marks: eg Global Forever (so far, USD 001.20) or for domestic shipments on stamps indicated First-Class Forever; on my QSL-card on the stamp Set tariff. Postcard From Athmeeya Yathra Radio (on malayamskom language means "spiritual journey" (or also used the name Athmik Yathra Radio- indicated on the QSL-card) The obverse depicts a young man wielding a portable receiver c AM / FM bands -. Ajanta; was the QSL 23 dnya. Otpravlena of: two stamps: 1) North Texas, Texas; 2) Dallas, Texas 750; Postal address is shown as: St. 1116 Thomas Way, Wills Point, TX 75169, USA; It specifies only the date of reception! No Information: QTR in UTC; 00.00-00.15 language Bodo!; No QRG: 7240 kHz; no QTH: Nauen, Germany; although what is printed: by the grace of God, you take one of our broadcasts from Asia !; QSL / Reception Report I sent on the e-mail address: ; unknown: Verification Signer! Only indicated: Broadcasting and Media Relations. This Gospel For Asia Radio! The bad news is that many of the details of my QSL / Report are not listed! But very well that this station can still send normal carton QSL-cards !! I thank them for it! (Sergey Izyumov, Moscow, RusDX March 13 via DXLD) ** U S A. Dear Glenn, KFI 640 Los Angeles is also running a petition for its listeners to sign on their website. Obviously they are fighting for continued clear channel use of 640 but other corporate broadcasters have other plans for deregulation to a regional status and KFI could lose its 1A ranking and have its signal protected for only 750 miles during nighttime hours. Hope this helps. Your Faithful Listener, (Tom Roberts, March 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 760-, March 13 at 0127 UT, country gospel song about Jee- zus, VG signal looping ESE/WNW, slightly on low side making fast SAH with WJR which can only be heard by nulling this. I bet it`s the 10-kW ND daytimer in Arkansas. More segués of such tunes, with 7-second pauses between them; 0141 UT ``Old-Time Religion`` by Willie Nelson. Finally long announcement at unexpected break of 0151 UT, full unashamed ID from ``KMTL, Sherwood-Little Rock-North Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America`` pimping for new gospel program clients, also streaming via http://kmtl760am.com Yes, I said it`s a daytimer, nor do they mention any FM // wagger as an excuse for ``accidentally`` being on AM at night. FCC official night hours for NO KMTL on 760 are 0015-1215 UT in March; 0045-1145 UT in April (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1210, March 16 at 1252 UT, ad for something in Cheyenne & Laramie, ``New Country Buckin` 92``, C&W music, 1302 ID as ``KHAT, Laramie, and K222BL, 92.3, we`re Buckin` 92`` --- Another AM station, 10/1 kW U2, degrading itself to be a mere appendage of a tiny FM translator which gets top branding. KHAT night pattern is supposed to favor the west. Nothing much from our closer country 1210, KGYN Guymon OK, which is certainly no longer running 10 kW ND day power at night, and maybe not even authorized night power and pattern (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1300, March 13 at 1331 UT, a brief bit from ABC news, 1333 UT Fox Sports talk, from NW/SE, ID in passing as 1300 KBRL. That`s McCook NE, 5000/136 U3, and NRC AM Log confirms that both networks are among its many affiliations. Yet there has been heavy QRM and not sure both I heard were from same station. KBRL day pattern has three lobes, one of them toward Enid (and similar night pattern); March FCC sunrise is 1300 UT, April 1200 UT, a rare situation where there is a full hour shift from one month to the next (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. USA WPBC, Decatur GA AM 1310, is for sale --- Since the beginning of the year, this Atlanta metro station has been looping 60’s oldies and repeating a message every 15 minutes that the station is for sale. Details from the link below say Status: Licensed Class D. AM Station. Area of Coverage map: Day-night coverage map. Attached. Non-Directional: 1 Pattern. Day-time Power: 2500 Watts. Night-time Power: 31 Watts. Asking price: $550,000 http://www.bizbuysell.com/Business-Asset/REDUCE-PRICE-Broadcasting-Radio-WPBC-1310-AM/1235350/ While out of my price range and area of expertise, I wondered if anybody in the group with an interest in the state of AM radio in the US has an idea of whether this could be a viable station in a major market, or whether the asking price and operating expenses/rate of return rule that out. And if so, what do you do with a signal and coverage area like this? (Wally Leisering, Decatur, GA, March 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) That is a cheap price for a market the size of Atlanta, with good reason: Lousy signal coverage, and it's an AM. Many factors to consider, in no particular order: 1. How to obtain financing for a purchase 2. How much would debt service be 3. Demographics within the strongest signal area, which would influence any format decision 4. Operating costs for transmitter and studio building facilities 5. Staff payroll costs 6. How much initial cash on hand is needed to cover costs while an audience is (hopefully) built up (this would need to cover at least two year's operating expenses) 7. What are other, stronger AMs doing in the market and what programming niche is not being met 8. Is there any possibility of a signal upgrade 9. Nighttime signal (31 watts) is worthless 10. Daytime signal not very good 11. Produce your own programming or broker out the time 12. Having programming that provides an audience that advertisers actually want 13. Could you get a better ROI by pursuing some other line of business or investment 14. Etc, etc. IMHO, this would be a massive money pit. Probably the only thing that would be cashflow positive is a brokered ethnic/brokered religious model, where all you do is keep the transmitter on the air and run the programming that's provided to you. Of course you have to find paying clients whose checks won't bounce. In my home of Houston (roughly the same market size as Atlanta) there are several AM stations running brokered programming for the various Asian communities that live here, and those broadcasters seem to be doing okay. You also have to consider the future of AM radio, which has been falling into irrelevancy the past 40 years. There is a longstanding joke within the broadcast industry: "How do you make a small fortune in broadcasting? Start out with a large fortune." I would pass on WPBC (Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas, March 13, ibid.) Thanks for the response, Stephen. Thoughtful, specific, and realistic. WPBC did run brokered programming for years, but I suspect you're right, the market just ran out of clients who could pay the bills. The station here with G&S/CRI programming went to all Chinese language talk, and lots of Asian and Spanish speaking voice and music formats fill the AM Dial here. It strikes me that this coverage area would be about the same as for an LPFM where in both Atlanta and Houston available frequencies are scarce. If a station like WPBC goes dark, is there a financial crossover point where a non commercial local AM could be a possibility for community groups looking for a frequency? The stations are already licensed and, in theory, not interfering with anybody else (Wally Leisering, March 15, ibid.) ** U S A. 1370, March 11 at 1250 UT, from NNE/SSW, ad in English for Aquinas, a Catholic college in Nashville; 1257 UT Catholic talk and EWTN mentioned, lost before 1300 UT ToH. Therefore it must be the only EWTN Radio affiliate on 1370, KWTL Grand Forks ND, 12000/270/psra 500 watts U1, as in NRC AM Log, and confirmed the only 1370 hit at http://ewtn.com/radio/affiliates.pdf which is ``Domestic AM-FM affiliates, English-Spanish, Revised 02-17- 2016`` with Spanish ones a*terisked --- lots and lots of `em including many FM translators and LPs, arranged by state. There is also a map to click upon. As with any station near a state line, it is necessary to check which state it really transmit from: per http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=KWTL&service=AM&status=L&hours=D it is barely on the ND side; tho non-direxonal, coverage toward the east into Minnesota is reduced, due to terrain? March official FCC sunrise is 1245 UT; April: 1145 UT. Seems I have not logged KWTL before. Meanwhile, I still can`t get *anything* from my nearest 1370, the alleged 5000/230 U1 KGNO Dodge City KS. The FCC still thinx it does not qualify for http://transition.fcc.gov/mb/audio/newsite/docs/silentAM.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1380, March 16 at 0612 UT, gospel huxtress in Spanish, so KRCM Shenandoah TX still running 22 kW day power northeastward at night, as it was also heard by at least 8 European DXers in late January and early February per Mediumwave News (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1420, March 16 at 0610 UT tune-in, ID for ``Coast to Coast AM on KTOE, 1420, Mankato`` [man-KAY-toe]. Minnesota station overcomes spur from local KCRC 1390. KTOE is 5/5 kW U2, and night pattern is favorable, NE/SW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. 1440, FLORIDA, WWCL, Lehigh Acres. 0058 March 10, 2016. Radio Visión Cristiana with Spanish Christian vocals, The usual English male canned generic ID robot stepping atop programming at 0100 with six (I think) affiliate frequencies, call letters and cities, including the long-defunct "530 AM, British West Indies" Turks & Caicos reference. Their website lists affiliate as: 1330 AM – NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY & CONNECTICUT, 1440 AM – FORT MYERS, FLORIDA, 1310 AM – MOUNT KISCO, NEW YORK, 1580 AM – COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, 1020 AM – ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO, 1330 AM - SANTO DOMINGO, REPUBLICA DOMINICANA, 660 AM – SANTIAGO, REPUBLICA DOMINICANA, 530 AM – TURKS & CAICOS, 1330 AM – QUITO, ECUADOR, 1330 AM – CUENCA, ECUADOR. Anyone ever heard either of the two listed DR stations? (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1480, March 10 at 1335-1355+ UT, KBXD Dallas still nothing but classic country song segués, deep fades now after sunrise, and SAH of 2.3 Hz against KQAM Wichita which will eventually overcome it. Strangely enough, searching radioinsight.com on KBXD, there is nothing found since last April when it was purchased out of bankruptcy along with other stations. Someone now at radiodiscussions.com refers to this format as ``placeholder`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. CBS LOOKS TO EXIT RADIO BUSINESS --- By EMILY STEEL MARCH 15, 2016 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/business/media/cbs-looks-to-exit-radio-business.html?ref=todayspaper CBS Corporation announced on Tuesday that it was putting its radio business on the block, as the media company aims to streamline its business to focus on its broadcast network, the premium channel Showtime and digital. Leslie Moonves, the chief executive of CBS, said that the company was looking at a number of strategic options but provided few other details. Speaking at the company's investor meeting in New York, he compared the development to CBS's move two years ago to separate its billboard business in an effort to "unlock shareholder value." CBS owns 117 radio stations in 26 markets, which it estimates reach 70 million people in the United States each week. Mr. Moonves has been suggesting for years that he was willing to reduce the company's holdings in radio. CBS has disposed of a number of stations already, such as through a deal with the Beasley Broadcasting Group in 2014 in which CBS traded 14 of its stations for five of Beasley's. But Mr. Moonves's comments on Tuesday were his strongest on the subject so far, and reflect the challenges in the traditional radio business as it tries to compete with online services like Pandora and Spotify. Analysts said that CBS was just making official what it had been trying to do with its radio group for a while. The question really is, Who would buy traditional radio assets today? CBS said that revenue in its radio group was down 5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2015, because of "continued softness in the radio advertising marketplace and lower political advertising." CBS also reported an impairment charge of $484 million last year to reduce the value of F.C.C. radio licenses. Revenue in the company's local broadcasting group, which also includes its TV stations, totaled $719 million in the fourth quarter of 2015, down 9 percent from $785 million during the same period the previous year. CBS executives said that pursuing a sale of its radio holdings would help the company to shift its business away from the less-predictable advertising sales to the more-predictable revenue sources, such as subscription fees. CBS also outlined a four-point plan for growth that executives predicted would deliver an additional $3.75 billion annually in incremental revenues over the next five years. One pillar for growth is a boost in so-called retrans and reverse compensation revenues that traditional and digital distributors pay to CBS to include the content in its offerings. The goal to generate an additional $2.5 billion a year in those revenues is a continuation of a long push by CBS to get paid for its programming in the same way that cable networks are paid. Another area for growth, CBS executive said, is to land an additional $800 million a year from its streaming outlets, about half from Showtime's digital network and half from CBS's stand-alone streaming network. To reach that goal, Showtime and CBS each would need to recruit about four million subscribers in five years. CBS also expects to continue to build its international distribution business, selling about $2.3 billion in annual content sales. The fourth opportunity is so-called skinny bundles offered by cable, satellite and digital distributors that feature fewer networks. CBS executives said that they expected that selling CBS to those new TV packages should add an $200 million in annual revenues, because the value of its content increases when the number of options gets smaller. Mr. Moonves called the numbers "both eye-popping but we think conservative." Ben Sisario contributed reporting. A version of this article appears in print on March 16, 2016, on page B5 of the New York edition with the headline: CBS Says It Will Sell Its Radio Business to Focus on Digital (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) WHY CBS WANTS TO SELL ITS RADIO DIVISION Thursday, March 17, 2016 8:54 AM Inside Radio March 16, 2016 The end-of-an-era announcement Tuesday by CEO Les Moonves that CBS Corp. plans to sell or spin off its radio station group in the coming year came as a shock to many of the radio division’s employees. Brokers, however, weren’t surprised. They see the announcement as a logical step for a company intently focused on its broadcast network, premium cable channel Showtime and high-growth areas such as digital media. As the only Big Four network without a movie studio, CBS is at a competitive disadvantage to NBCUniversal, Fox and Disney. A cleverly constructed series of radio station sales could foot the bill for a studio deal. More here: http://www.insideradio.com/why-cbs-wants-to-sell-its-radio-division/article_4b2044c0-eb53-11e5-8101-677a4e675ae9.html The network has its origins in United Independent Broadcasters Inc., a collection of 16 radio stations that was purchased by Paley in 1928 and renamed the Columbia Broadcasting System. Under Paley's guidance, CBS would first become one of the largest radio networks in the United States, and eventually one of the Big Three American broadcast television networks. In 1974, CBS dropped its former full name and became known simply as CBS, Inc. The Westinghouse Electric Corporation acquired the network in 1995, renamed its corporate entity to the current CBS Broadcasting, Inc. in 1997, and eventually adopted the name of the company it had acquired to become CBS Corporation. In 2000, CBS came under the control of Viacom, which was formed as a spin-off of CBS in 1971. In late 2005, Viacom split itself into two separate companies, and re-established CBS Corporation – through the spin-off of its broadcast television, radio and select cable television and non-broadcasting assets – with the CBS television network at its core. CBS Corporation is controlled by Sumner Redstone through National Amusements, which also controls the current Viacom. (Wiki) Posted by: (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) CBS to Explore Selling its Radio Stations Perhaps a little less HD in the future? http://www.thewrap.com/cbs-to-explore-selling-radio-business/ (Mike Bugaj, Enfield, CT, March 15, WTFDA gg via DXLD) There is a LOT of misinformation and wild speculation floating around out there right now. Most of what I've been reading on FB and elsewhere has been way off the mark. Here's what's happening: the CEO of CBS Corp., Les Moonves, said on an investor call yesterday that the company is *exploring* the sale of its CBS Radio division. This division includes the O&O radio stations, 126 of them (IIRC) in 22 markets. It does *not* include CBS Radio News, which is staffed by employees of the CBS News Division and distributed by Westwood One (which is owned by Cumulus.) For a whole bunch of reasons, most of them having to do with taxes, it would make very little sense for CBS to start selling off individual radio stations to separate buyers, or even to sell entire clusters to buyers. What's much more likely is that they'll spin the CBS Radio division off as a separately-traded public company (as they did with CBS' outdoor ad division), or that they might engage in a tax-preferred swap with another large company. (One possibility that's being rumored is that CBS Radio might go to Liberty Media, which has a controlling interest in SiriusXM, in exchange for Liberty's Starz cable networks.) It's also entirely possible that CBS management will conclude that there's no benefit right now to a sale and they'll leave well enough alone. In any event, what we now know as CBS Radio is connected only in name and a handful of big-market stations (WCBS AM-FM, WPHT/WOGL, WBBM AM- FM, KNX-KCBS-FM, KCBS/KLLC, KMOX, WCCO) to the "CBS Radio" division of years gone by. Most of today's "CBS Radio" traces its heritage back either to Westinghouse/Group W or later acquisitions from Infinity and American Radio Systems. I wrote more extensively about what's going on at CBS in a column for my subscribers at fybush.com yesterday. I may post it to these lists if there's interest and if it can help quell some of the hysteria that seems to be surrounding yesterday's news (scott Fybush, March 16, NRC- AM via DXLD) viz.: NERW Extra: ABOUT THE CBS RADIO SALE… By SCOTT FYBUSH http://www.fybush.com/nerw-member-extra-about-the-cbs-radio-sale/ (now free to all readers – but if you enjoy what you’re reading here, please consider subscribing!) http://www.fybush.com/register/ You’d have to be under a rock this afternoon to miss the headline that’s ricocheting across the industry – CBS management finally acknowledged today what we’ve known for a long time, that its radio clusters are on the market. What can we read into the timing – and what will it mean in NERW-land? More so than any of its competitors in the two decades since deregulation, CBS figured out how to put together a true blue-chip collection of signals in the biggest markets. Clear Channel and Cumulus went for sheer volume, buying up station after station in medium and small markets that ultimately returned relatively little to the bottom line while adding massively to the complexity of managing dozens or even hundreds of markets. ABC figured out the real money would be in the biggest of markets, but it was slow to build 21st-century clusters, leaving it (and successor Citadel) with too few signals in the big markets to compete with the maxed-out station groups others were building. (Which meant, in turn, that there wasn’t the debt service that has crippled those other big groups.) But CBS Radio management understood that one path to success was to focus relentlessly on the biggest of markets – and through strategic combinations of the former Group W, Infinity, CBS and ARS groups they created a group that had very little fat and a lot of meat. Solid groups in markets such as Buffalo and Rochester that didn’t fit the big-market profile were sold off, followed later on by mid-sized markets including Tampa and Charlotte. Meanwhile, CBS took advantage of declining station pricing and clever trading to add a handful of signals in its biggest markets when most others had stopped buying. In those big markets, CBS bet correctly on the power of local spoken- word programming, investing in sports rights and local news to keep powerhouses such as Boston’s WBZ and WBZ-FM, New York’s WINS and WFAN and Philadelphia’s KYW and WIP at the top of the revenue charts. The result, as of 2016, finds the company with five clusters in NERW- land: New York: sports WFAN (660)/WFAN-FM (101.9), news WCBS (880), news WINS (1010), top-40 “Amp” WBMP (92.3), classic hits WCBS-FM (101.1), AC WNEW (102.7, which just changed calls today from WWFS, returning to its legacy callsign) Philadelphia: news KYW (1060), talk WPHT (1210), country WXTU (92.5), sports WIP (94.1), top-40 “Amp” WZMP (96.5), classic hits WOGL (98.1) Boston: news/talk WBZ (1030), sports WBZ-FM (98.5), classic rock WZLX (100.7), top-40 “Amp” WODS (103.3), hot AC WBMX (104.1) Pittsburgh: news/talk KDKA (1020), sports KDKA-FM (93.7), hot AC WBZZ (100.7), country WDSY (107.9) Hartford: news/talk WTIC (1080), rhythmic WZMX (93.7), hot AC WTIC-FM (96.5), AC WRCH (100.5) Pittsburgh and Hartford have been outliers in the current version of CBS Radio; as some of the smallest markets remaining in the company, they’ve long been rumored candidates for sale. If CBS breaks up its radio assets for sale, or if its “strategic exploration” ends up selling only some of its radio assets, it’s likely those will be some of the first markets to go. But if CBS CEO Les Moonves decides that radio as a whole is simply too slow-growing a business to remain in, and thus to sell the whole thing, that’s where things get interesting. Given that CBS maxed out (or came close to maxing) its clusters in those big markets, they’re a poor fit for any of the other big companies that might otherwise be logical buyers. Except for Boston, iHeart is already maxed out or close to it in all of these markets and most of CBS Radio’s others nationwide; even if it could somehow take on still more debt to buy the CBS stations, it would just end up having to spin off as much as it buys. Cumulus, under aggressive new CEO Mary Berner, has more space under the cap in most of its markets (and no presence at all in several, including Boston and Philadelphia), but it’s still in dire financial straits. There are plenty of medium-sized players who might have the financial ability to swallow some CBS markets but not all of them: Alpha Media has been widely rumored as a buyer, for instance, and would certainly fit nicely in a Pittsburgh or a Hartford, but could Larry Wilson put the billions of dollars together to get all of CBS Radio? Connoisseur would surely love to add the Hartford cluster to its own stations there. Greater Media is already capped (at least on FM) in Boston and Philadelphia. Entercom has space under the cap in Boston and no interests yet in the other Northeast CBS markets. Are there outside players interested in investing in radio in a very big way, acquiring CBS Radio in one big chunk at a price that’s likely to run into several billions of dollars? All of this, it seems, may create a problem for CBS: with no likely players to be able to do the kind of tax-friendly swap it did with Beasley last year, it may have little choice in selling but to accept the tax consequences of a flat-out sale…if it can find anyone else who’s playing in the same financial universe these days to be able to afford to do it. Will CBS Radio executives come back to Les Moonves in the end to report there are no plausible buyers out there right now for its Cadillac clusters, and perhaps it’s better off to leave them right where they are? We will, of course, continue to be watching very closely as Moonves and his board take the temperature of the radio world to see if there’s a willing and able partner out there for their station groups. And we’ll hope for the best for all of the talented folks who continue to fill those stations with content day in and day out. (Disclaimer: your editor worked in the newsroom at WBZ Boston from 1992-1997, including a year there under CBS Radio ownership.) (via DXLD) Interesting speculation however, Moonves explained exactly why he wanted to get rid of the radio network. He said to the shareholders that it was a 'backward looking asset' and he wanted to “unlock value for our shareholders,” (said during an 'investor day' in New York.) Of course he also famously told shareholders that 'Donald Trump is horrible for the country but GREAT for CBS' so we know he's interested in nothing but money! But I digress. Speculate all you want, and you may be right about CBS brass wanting to get into movies, but ultimately the reason is clear and plain: money. The sad part is that this attitude has broken radio in the US (and elsewhere, but particularly here!). After TV was introduced in the late 40s and 50s, network radio crashed. Radio, however, reinvented itself and not only stayed relevant but flourished by being something that was WORTH listening to. In the 80s and 90s that changed as conglomerates saw the money local radio was making and thought 'we can get economies of scale here and make a killing' and essentially killed the golden goose in the process by CHANGING that which made radio successful in an attempt to 'maximize shareholder value' by reducing costs through centralization. Of course, that didn't work, and we're reaping the results today as that model of radio is dying. NOTE WELL: I did NOT say radio was dying. *It does not need to die!* My HOPE is that radio can manage to 'reinvent' itself again and survive. The longer this takes and the more gamesmanship continues, the less likely that is to occur, but we can hope! In the mean time, support your LOCAL radio station (if you have one!) and shun the corporate shills. MAYBE the point will be driven home, and with luck some local mom-and-pop organizations will buy up some of the CBS assets they're selling off, and we can have some REAL radio again! We can hope anyway. 73 – (Kenneth V Zichi, Williamston MI, radioguy73@gmail.com Is it time to cook yet? dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Clear Channel / iheartradio.com is in deep doo doo http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/6975424/iheartmedia-with-20-billion-in-debt-looks-to-restructure-a-portion-while (via Kevin Redding, ABDX via DXLD) Viz.: iHeartMedia, WITH $20 BILLION IN DEBT, LOOKS TO RESTRUCTURE A PORTION WHILE HOLDING OFF CREDITORS --- 3/9/2016 by Glenn Peoples The radio and advertising giant needs more time to get out from under an enormous mountain of debt. iHeartMedia is fighting back against a default notice sent by a group of senior debt holders as it tries to restructure its massive debt load. A group of creditors claimed Monday that iHeartMedia had violated the lending agreement by shifting money from one division of the business to another. The company is seeking a temporary restraining order and a permanent injunction that would provide time to resolve the matter before its debt goes into default. iHeartMedia disagrees with the lenders, saying in a statement that the contribution “constituted a permitted investment under, and fully complied with, our financing agreements.” The event in question was iHeartMedia’s transfer of a $200 million dividend from Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc., it’s outdoor advertising company, to a subsidiary, Broader Media LLC. The senior debt holders — senior because the have the first claim to assets if a company goes out of business — believe the stock transfer constitutes a default and might call their debt within 60 days. That default would have a cascading effect, triggering defaults on other debts the company owes. The share transfer is more than simply moving assets from one company to another. The transfer would allow Broader Media an opportunity to exchange existing debt for new debt that would have more seniority than they have now, according to one report. This would give iHeartMedia breathing room by replacing existing debt that’s due soon for new debt it would pay at a much later date. However, the group of senior debt holders. The group of lenders represent about 25 percent of the outstanding amounts of four priority guarantee notes, according to reports. Debt is issued in terms of priority. Lenders with top priority are ensured payment before lower-priority debt holders is paid. iHeartMedia has over 840 radio stations and more than 110 million weekly listeners, while its iHeartRadio digital service has 80 million registered users. Despite those impressive listener figures, but the company is facing financial challenges as the broadcast radio industry shifts along with the digital -- its iHeartRadio digital brand lags behind Pandora and Spotify. According to a new report by Edison Research, younger listeners spend far more of their time streaming audio than older age groups. Streaming accounts for 21 percent of audio listening time among those aged 13 to 24, 11 percent for those 35-to-54, and 4 percent for listeners age 55 and older. For all three age groups, radio constitutes a higher listening share than streaming. The differences are stark, however. For the 55-and-over group, radio has a 71-percent share. For the youngest group radio holds a 39- percent share. The company has $20.6 billion in long-term debt related to its 2008 purchase by private equity groups Bain Capital Partners LLC and THL Partners. The interest paid on that debt ate up about a quarter of the company’s revenue in 2015. Revenue last year was $6.5 billion. A $1.74 billion interest expense drove a net loss of $661 million. The 2008 acquisition came at the peak of leveraged buyouts before the recession. It preceded by a year Terra Firma’s ill-fated acquisition of EMI Group. Citibank, which financed the EMI deal, ended up taking control of the once-major label in 2011 after a failed solvency test. Citibank later sold EMI’s recorded music division to Universal Music Group Over the years iHeartMedia has been able to postpone the maturity dates of its debt, but recent reports claim the company has hired financial advisory Moelis & Co. to help restructure part of its debt (via Kevin Redding, ABDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DXLD) ** U S A. Nice to see some tropo TVDX at last, morning of March 14 circa 1445 UT, even if just from Kansas with antenna pointed toward OKC: at least ``bad`` signals on most UHF and some hi-VHF channels. The only one Good enough to break thru at first is RF 26, KSAS-TV 24- 1, Fox in Wichita, accompanied by Antenna on 24-2, Comet on 24-3. Then fade down, but back up at 1620 altho not solid, and I notice at 1630 that the Comet bug in lower right also fires a brief KSAS ID in fine font below it, which I have not noticed on other Comet carriers. Meanwhile, some OKC channels are not decoding, no doubt messed up by DX QRM, notably KSBI RF 23. But W9WI.com shows the only KS 23s are LPs in Emporia, Manhattan, Sublette. Possibly 100 kW KOZK in Springfield MO or 1000 kW KUVN in Garland TX; or one of the closer ch 23 translators in OK. More from Wichita market: RF 31, 31-1, KDCU-DT in briefly at 1649 RF 35, 36-1, KMTW-DT at 1650 RF 45, 3-1, KSNW at 1650 RF 40, at 1649, NO signal at all from KAUT ``43`` OKC. Must be QRM here too; no bigsigs in KS, but there is a megawatt KXTX in Dallas (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** URUGUAY. “Una voz del Uruguay en el Mundo”: la Onda Corta de Radio El Espectador, Montevideo. en la frecuencia de 11835 kHz, banda de 25m: Full story at: https://lagalenadelsur.wordpress.com/2016/03/11/una-voz-del-uruguay-en-el-mundo-la-onda-corta-de-radioel-espectador-montevideo/ (Horacio Nigro Geolkiewsky, SW Bulletin March 13 via DXLD) ** VATICAN. 03/09/2016, I was suddenly and unexpectedly for Russian Post: usual normal carton QSL-card, magnetic souvenir - St. Peter's Cathedral in Vatican City State; station sticker from Ufficio Promozione (in English it means PROMOTION OFFICE!) Radio Vaticana; at the very QSL-cartolina (in English it means QSL-card!) has the stamp of this department! - His e-mail address is: ; Postal address is: Radio Vaticana, Ufficio Promozione, VA-00120 Statto della Città del Vaticano; Data indicated on my QSL-cartolina: Data 03/05/2015; (Day in Italian listed as Giorno!); QTR in UTC / GMT: 16.10-16.38 h UTC; mt. = meters are not specified, but it is 19.51 mt.; QTH: Transmitting Location: SMG or Santa Maria di Galleria Unknown. But Sergio Salvatori from Gestione Frequenzia (Technical Frequency Control!) (E-mail address is: ); Always on the QSL-cartolini also points QTH (Revised ever!); Tx Power in kW;! And azimuth antenna! QRG: 15370 kHz. Na the front side of the Pope Francis 1 in the cockpit during the flight - His Holiness Francis 1 visits the cockpit during the flight to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 22 July, 2013. Envelope walked from the Vatican 23 days. Post tariff paid: print on the envelope franking machine: Radio Vaticana; emblem Radio; Departure Date: 02/16/2016; Rate Poste Vaticane: EUR 00.90! This means that the letter paid at Carta Prioritaria Via Aereo (International Priority Airmail). (SI) (Sergey Izyumov, Moscow, RusDX March 13 via DXLD) I place a copy of the letter from the "Vatican Radio" regarding the continuation QSL policy: ``Glory to Jesus Christ! Dear Vladimir, thank you very much for your attention to our broadcasts. Currently, all Vatican media, including radio, are in transition reforms; This also applies to the system responses to the reports of listeners. Work is in progress in the direction of electronic QSL-cards, but when it will take a definite shift in favor of the figures, it is no longer dependent on our editorial staff, and certain information we do not have. Now, we try as much as possible to respond to all reports of our listeners, "the old way", and most likely it will last until the exhaustion of stocks of paper QSL-cards. As far as we know, the new will not be printed. If you get some kind of formal decision guidance Radio, we will inform about it immediately. Yours faithfully, Russian Service of Radio Vatican`` (Forum DX portal "Russian SWL / DX Site". http://dxing.ru/forum.html?func=view&catid=10&id=34293#34293, Author notes: UT4UGE), RusDX March 13 via WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DXLD) ** VIETNAM. Voice of Vietnam operates a portal website called 'Radio Vietnam' at http://www.radiovietnam.vn hosting web pages with live audio streaming of radio stations in each of the country's 58 provinces and five province-level municipalities (not all the streams actually work, but most do). The respective pages also have programme guides and contact details, as well as maps and other geographical info such as population statistics and ethnic composition. Most also offer audio files on demand. The site also has links to live streams of VoV's five main radio networks (including two discrete streams for their foreign-language service), two traffic channels, English-language FM service 'VoV 24/7' and a new station transmitting on 89.0 MHz, FM Cam Xuc [emotions]. (David Kernick, Interval Signals Online, March 11, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DX LISTENING DIGEST) http://sonla.radiovietnam.vn/ works well. This is a northern city. I might have heard them over the air many, many years ago, like 25. A neat way to hear Vietnamese. Thanks for the link. 73/Liz (Cameron, MI, ibid.) ** YEMEN [non]. Rep. Yemen Radio Sanaa (Saudi Arabia Relay?) 11860, 1423 9 MAR - SINPO = 25222. Arabic, music with microtonal vocals. (Spot check at 1555z SINPO 25322 music with microtonal vocals). QSB=rapid-to-ff rate, modulation on noisy carrier occasionally drops to the noise floor. sf95.3, 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: 0623. 11860, 1444 10 MAR - SINPO = 35323. Arabic, music with microtonal vocals. (Spot check at 1609z SINPO25222 female announcer reading) QSB=rapid-to-ff rate, modulation mostly well above noise floor. sf96.6, a6, 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: 0644 11860, 1430 11 MAR - SINPO = 35313. Arabic, music with microtonal vocals. QSB=rapid-to-ff rate, modulation often mixing with noise of fluttery carrier. sf95.4 a10, 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: 0630. 11860, 1439 12 MAR - SINPO = 35323. Arabic, music with microtonal vocals. QSB=rapid-to-ff rate, modulation periodically mixing with pronounced carrier noise. sf95.0 a23, 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: 0639. Conditions here have been fair-to-good in the mornings here the last few days. On the Morning of the March 13th Rep. of Yemen (Radio Sana'a, Saudi Arabia Relay?) was particularly strong (~1430z). Perhaps the strongest and most stable signal I've ever heard from it. I'm still having trouble believing this is a long path circuit, but why not, the long path isn't *that* much longer than the short path anyway (what, a few thousand km? OK, 27000 vs 13000). It was such a stable, strong signal there's really no way it could be less than 500 kW from my perspective, no matter the path. There was still some flutter, but it was so shallow it was almost imperceptible even on deeper fades, which really weren't that deep. It is still a very curious mystery. Whatever they are doing, they sure are doing it right! 11860, 1425 13 MAR - SINPO = 55434. Arabic, music with microtonal vocals. QSB=rapid-to-ff rate, shallow in depth. sf95.0 a13, k1, geomag: very 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: 0725 (Rodney Johnson, NV, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Rep. of Yemen Radio, Sana'a, March 13: Quite by chance turned on the Sony at 1753, to find a nice clear signal from Sana'a, with echo, but no co-channel AWR. By the time I was ready to start recording at 1755 the echo had gone, so I didn't bother. The rapid flutter that has bugged me for the past two or three weeks was absent, and the signal good. Compared it to the signal from 500 kW Iran at 1809, and the Sana'a signal was much stronger and more clear. The Drake confirmed the Sana'a signal was much better than Iran on 11830. Sana'a was S8-9, whilst Iran was S6-7 and much more noisy (despite being targeted towards me). Here's hoping the flutter has gone for good and reception is back to normal. Of course, these comparisons with Iran were made after the presumed Sana'a transmitter change at about 1753-1754. And I have reported before that AWR seems to be suppressed by the increased Sana'a carrier level which arrives along with the Sana'a echo (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA. Drake R8E, Sony ICF2001D. dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11860, March 14 at 1211 early check since I am awake, *no* signal from Republic of Yemen Radio, ``Sana`a``. Back to sleep, and by 1432 next check, usual very good S9+10/20 signal with music. Our sunrise today: 1243; Sana`a sunset: 1513. Is this entirely due to propagation, or is there a different site in use before 1300? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11860, 1504 14 MAR - REP.YEMEN RADIO SANAA (YEMEN) in ARABIC from RIYADH. SINPO = 35323. Arabic, music with microtonal vocals. QSB=ff, modulation periodically mixes with noise floor for very short durations, but mostly well above it. (spot check ~1340z nothing heard). sf95.0 a13, k1, geomag: very 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: 0804 (Rodney Johnson, NV, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Don, Hope you managed to pick up the echo tonight (March 14), it was a good one. Definitely not a deliberate studio echo. Started at 1746. Unfortunately my recording and listening were both cut short because my YL phoned me on the cellphone I use for recording!!!! so I don't know what time it ended. mp3 attached, its only about 1.2MB. Echo starts about 10 secs in. QRM is AWR. Regards, (Bill Bingham, RSA, via DXLD) Maybe tomorrow; I was gabbing away on 80m with some ham friends locally and totally forgot about the time. Quite a long delay on your recording, sure doesn't do anything for their signal clarity! 73 (Don Moman, AB, ibid.) Rep. Yemen Radio Sanaa (Saudi Arabia Relay?), 11860, 1457 15 MAR - SINPO = 35212. Arabic, music with microtonal vocals. 1500z station theme instrumental music fb male announcer reading (news?), also male announcer interviews male over the phone. QSB=rapid-to-ff rate, deep, modulation on noisy carrier often dips below noise floor, peaks are rarely well above it. sf93.6 a14, k4, geomag: active. 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: 0757. 11860, 1432 16 MAR - SINPO = 25222. Arabic, music with microtonal vocals. QSB=rapid-to-ff rate, modulation on noisy carrier only occasionally peaks above noise floor (spot check at 1440z nothing heard. 1508z same SINPO, male announcer). sf93.1 a24, 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: 0732 (Rodney Johnson, NV, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Reception of Republic of Yemen Radio, March 16 from 1800 on 11860 JED 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/03/reception-of-republic-of-yemen-radio_16.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZAMBIA. It seems that all frequency regulation matters for the former Christian Vision facility had been handled by Zambian authorities who also lumped together all sites into a single "LUS". Now let's proceed from the assumption that the filings from these bureaucrats are of little use and take a look at http://www.voiceofhope.com/station_africa.html What can be made out in the close-up photo to the left indeed looks like a short distance LPH, presumably chosen to achieve a broad frequency range. If assuming that at least the reference to TCI as supplier is correct, it could be their 615 model. What can be seen to the right indeed looks like a curtain, fitting TCI's 611 family. The exact configuration would still remain to be figured out, but at least it must be one for 9/11/13 MHz (or beyond if not just three-band), and of course it had been used for the transmissions shown with target 46SE, presumably always with the exact target being Nigeria. The other transmissions, filed as "ND" with whatever random selection of 48/52/53/57 zones, should have been aired with that LPH that appears to be the only other antenna, in fact the original one to which the Nigeria one with a second transmitter had later been added when Christian Vision decided to specifically target this country with its fancy "media products" (these guys may qualify as the most pragmatic shortwave broadcasters ever). Concerning program schedules: Meanwhile one has been posted at http://www.voiceofhope.com/schedule/kvoh_program_grid.pdf Of course nothing for the Zambia transmitters. Has a reactivation been reported in the meantime? I have not seen any such reports so far (Kai Ludwig, Germany, March 12, WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Hope, 6065 kHz have been running test transmissions from Zambia today, March 14. They began to fade in to Jo'burg from about 1345 UT and slowly strengthened as our sunset approached (Joburg sunset today 1625). Fair to good by 1445; an mp3 recording of their ID (506kB) made at 1437 has been posted to: https://app.box.com/s/7rsyc8zn6udgwr24o8vyquqg5idvp2wi Went off air after brief 1 kHz sine wave, sometime after 1500. (I plead guilty to not writing down the time). ZNBC1 on 5915 from Lusaka is coming in well at 1645 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA. Drake R8E, Sony ICF2001D. dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DX LISTENING DIGEST) American accent asks for reception reports to qsl@voiceofhope.com (gh, DXLD) So it begins! Let`s see how well they avoid the stations already on 6065: in B-15 per HFCC: 0200-0230 CRI Kashgar 0300-0400 AWR Madagascar 0415-0945 AIR Kohima (really?) 1100-1400 KBS Korea 1200-1605 CNR Beijing 2055-2330 CNR Beijing Things will get worse in in A16 (not A15 as typoed in my original critique): 0100-0600 KIMF (USA, imaginary) 0300-0400 AWR Madagascar 0415-0945 AIR Kohima 1100-1400 KBS Korea 1200-1605 CNR1 Beijing 1700-1800 VOA Botswana! 1800-1900 VOA São Tomé! 2055-2230 CNR Beijing Daytime in Asia should be sharable. But the VOA usage of course will be in prime evening time. Maybe Zambia doesn`t plan to run a long schedule on 6065, as KVOH is only a few hours each on its frequencies. Keep an ear on 13555 or a real frequency in the 21-22 mb (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) How wide is the target of VoH Zambia? 400 - 800 km around? I guess only 0300-0400 AWR Madagascar and 1500-2230 UT time slot may suffer around RSA, AGL, NMB, ZBW target from far away broadcaster co-channel signals. wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi, Glenn. Of course we are well aware of AWR's and VOA's use of 6065, and have no intention of interfering with them. Our need is for a good frequency that will put a solid signal throughout Southern Africa during daylight hours. Our plan was to start testing with 6065, since that is the frequency CV used until 2012, during the hours 05-17 UT (07-19 local). We would then switch to 60m (4965) for the evening and overnight hours, 17-05 UT. However, Bill's feedback today was very useful, and we will likely be testing on a 31m band frequency later this week (yet to be determined). We want to find something that works, and that fits in with existing users of the bands. Maybe we'll stay on 6065 during the daytime, maybe we won't, but whatever we do, we won't be causing interference. I'm sure a 49m band daylight signal from Zambia will not be any cause for concern in Korea, China or even India. Before we went off air today, we did succeed in getting the transmitter above 90 kW output power, so things are looking good. And BTW, 13555 was a misprint, as was the beam to West Africa. It's actually 315. The old CV frequency was 13590, but we know that now has other users. We won't begin testing on that antenna for a little while yet; first priority is to get the service for Southern Africa up and running first (Ray Robinson, Voice of Hope (Currently in Lusaka), 1925 UT March 14, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DX LISTENING DIGEST) In case there is an impression that this will be a first for this facility (i.e. specifically the southern Africa antenna): In summer 2005 Christian Vision ran it 0605-1600 on 9865, other hours on 4965. In winter 2005/2006 it was 9865 0800-1700, 6065 0400-0800 and 4965 the remaining 1700-0400 period. WORLD OF RADIO 1817, The rather noisy reception in South Africa is no surprise to me: Already more than 1000 km away from the transmitter, a distance where under broad daylight indeed 31 metres works better. In Europe the BBC's 9410 kHz was a typical example. Even Polskie Radio successfully used 9525 kHz for its noon broadcast in German. The price to be paid for such nice signals at medium distances is a dead zone of already a few hundred kilometres around the transmitter. Of course any such choice depends on the target areas/audiences... I just noted that the image files embedded at http://www.voiceofhope.com/station_africa.html are in fact 1024 pixels wide, enough to recognize the antenna designs: They are indeed both log.-periodics, a choice presumably made to achieve widest frequency agility with a single antenna. A range from 5 to 9 MHz would require two HQ's. For the West Africa antenna even frequencies from 49 up to 19 metres had been considered initially, a range that would require the typical high/low pair of curtains. "Initially" means 2007, when Christian Vision added this antenna and the second transmitter as replacement for the Wertachtal airtime they had leased until then for their Nigeria program. However, it seems that they never made real use of the frequency range and never used other bands than 13 and occasionally 9 MHz for this operation (Kai Ludwig, Germany, ibid.) ** ZANZIBAR. TANZANIA, Reception of Zanzibar Broadcasting Corporation /ZBC/ on March 15 [Tue]: from 1650 on 11735 DOL 050 kW / non-dir to CeAf Swahili, no English news at 1800 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/03/reception-of-zanzibar-broadcasting_15.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZIMBABWE [non]. 13860, VOA (Pinheira), *1700+ 10 March. "Studio 7 for Zimbabwe" with IDs in English/Shona/Ndebele (Shona 1700-1730, English 1730-1800, Ndebele 1800-1830 Mon-Thu according to Aoki) into (presumed) news with nice "local" music fills (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA E5/6m X wire, via Robert Wilkner, condiglista yg via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 1521.0, March 13 at 0118, JBA het against KOKC 1520.0 OKC with silly Capitol Hill HS football game, no doubt the 2-megawatt, BSKSA TA beacon from Duba, SAUDI ARABIA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1610, March 16 at 0607 UT, open carrier/dead air, loops NE. No TIS normally heard here at this level; suspect it`s CHHA Toronto; vs ESE a bit of PMS from Anguilla (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 4766.0 on March 14 from 1408 to 1420 noted a decent strength open carrier with very faint audio at times; also recently being heard in Japan by Hiroyuki Komatsubara; best in USB, with assume Tajik Radio as usual on 4765.0; also usual open carrier on 4760 from assume AIR Port Blair. Any possibility that UNID is AIR Leh up from 4760? (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) In northwesterly Japan remote SDR unit. Yes, heard 1 kHz tone on centered 4766 kHz at 1240 UT today. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, March 15, ibid.) 4766.0 on March 16 strong open carrier 1240; therefore believe there is no possibility that this is AIR Leh, as signal was just too strong to be them. Still a mystery. No trace of any audio today (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4766.0, March 16 at 1325, carrier definitely here and not on 4765, and also a much weaker JBA carrier on 4760. Same situation March 17 at 1131, S8-S6, flutter vs CODAR; 1203 maybe traces of musical modulation on 4766, S7. Ron Howard has also been hearing this and wonders if it could be AIR Leh, Kashmir, up from 4760? (leaving the other AIR, Port Blair on correct 4760). DXers in India should be able to tell (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6900-LSB, March 12 at 0116, 2-way in Spanish mentions Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche more than once, probably location of one of the Mexican communicators. Nothing much now from N American pirates, except a weak unID AM signal just above 6925 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 7202.8, Mar 2 -1957*, Hallo zusammen, hier ein möglicherweise völlig belangloser Log einer schwachen Nebenausstrahlung, aber vielleicht ja doch was Interessantes, daher mal für die kollektive Merkliste und zur Wiedervorlage: ca. 1930-1957* 7202.8 - ein ziemlich schwaches Signal mit vermutlich nur zeitweise aufgeschalteter Modulation. Für immer nur kurze Perioden von weniger als einer Minute war eine vermutlich weibliche Person mit ziemlich akzentfreiem, aber recht dahingeleiertem Französisch zu hören. Sonst nix, das aber immerhin auf verschiedenen Remote-Receivern in Europa ziemlich gleich. 73 (Thorsten Hallmann via A-DX via SW Bulletin March 14 via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 11460-USB, March 11 at 1313, Indonesian(?) QSO pirate mentions Jakarta; others at 1314 on 11440-USB, weaker 11435, and at 1315 two at least on 11420-USB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1817: Thanks to Kevin R Crouch, Northridge CA, for a check in the mail to World of Radio, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702. TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED FUTURELY: Mark Skinner, Columbus OH, generous contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com Thanks to Gerald T Pollard, NC, for a generous quarterly seasonal contribution to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 Thanks to Christopher Brennen for a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.coom Thanks to William Hassig, Mt Prospect IL, for a check to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 Glenn: -- Just to add my $.02, I also appreciate your opinionated approach to what could otherwise be rather tedious content, speaking of the DX world in general. Your sharings remind me of my old late friend Tom Kneitel, remembered by many as the longtime publisher of Electronics Illustrated, and by some of us old pharts as the guy who uncovered the mysteries of "Radio Americas" back in 1968. Tom was about the only writer adding his personal observations to news items of the day, back then. I had the pleasure of sharing several long conversations with him, in my role as an ABC Talkradio producer back 25-30ish years ago, and found him not to be nearly as biting and cynical as some of his work would have had many believe. I miss his views and presence very much, and am glad you, Glenn, can somewhat fill that role. I found Tom, and find you to be considerably less sanctimonious than one particular DX writer/publisher, who shall remain anonymous here (but I'm guessing you, Glenn, will know to whom I refer -- you had your own disagreements with this pompous ass years ago). It also goes without saying that the hobby would be much less enlightening, without your tireless contributions. As I've told you in the past, I read every word of each week's DXLD obsessively, as it is the only way I have to feel properly informed about the World Of Radio (as appropriately titled). So there --- Keep up the great work, and be well. Very 73z – (GREG HARDISON, CA, March 15, DX LISTENING DIGEST) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ The HFCC A-16 schedules are now available at http://www.hfcc.org/data/a16/ Haven't had a chance to go through the various broadcasters yet. Will be checking for further SW cuts (Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas, March 14, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DX LISTENING DIGEST) IRCA TIS/HAR LIST (Winter 2016) The IRCA TIS/HAR LIST lists all US and Canadian TIS/HAR stations, by frequency, including call letters, state (province,) city, county, licensee, address, coordinates, expiration date and dates of DXM/DXN reports/sources. It has been updated with FCC data, DXM, DXN and DXer reports, and on-line listings through March 1 2016. The 2016 IRCA TIS/HAR LIST is posted on the IRCA website for all to download. The link is: http://www.ircaonline.org/TIS_2016.pdf For those preferring a hard copy, one can be ordered from the IRCA. Prices: IRCA/NRC members – $9.50 (US), $11.00 (Canada) $12.50 (México), $14.00 (rest of the world). Non-IRCA/NRC members – add $2.00. To order from the IRCA, send the correct amount (in US funds payable to Phil Bytheway) to: IRCA, 9705 MARY NW, SEATTLE WA 98117-2334. Or, order through PayPal [add $1.00] to email: phil_tekno@yahoo.com (Phil Bytheway). Please state club affiliation when ordering (Phil Bytheway, ABDX via DXLD) WORLD OF HOROLOGY +++++++++++++++++ SOME NEW ENGLAND LAWMAKERS PROPOSE LEAVING EASTERN TIME By MATT O'BRIEN Associated Press Mar 10, 5:17 PM EST . . .Seceding from the populous Eastern Time Zone and throwing their lot in with Nova Scotia and Puerto Rico. . . http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_EASTERN_TIME_SECESSION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-03-10-17-17-39 (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) CHILE -4 UTC DESDE EL 14 DE MAYO AL 13 DE AGOSTO SANTIAGO.- Era una decisión solicitada por algunos especialistas, como Premios Nacionales de Ciencias, y miembros de la sociedad civil. Este domingo, el ministro de Energía, Máximo Pacheco, anunció el regreso del horario de invierno, que comenzará a aplicarse a partir del segundo sábado de mayo. Dicho horario tendrá una duración de tres meses, de mayo a agosto, y desde el segundo sábado del octavo mes volverá el horario de verano.Fuente: Emol.com - http://www.emol.com/noticias/Nacional/2016/03/13/792759/Gobierno-da-pie-atras-y-decide-reponer-el-cambio-de-hora.html (ce3BBC, Hugo López C., Santiago de Chile, March 13, condiglista yg via DXLD) Must be the shortest span of winter time anywhere making stupid switches to summer time (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) SOME RUSSIAN TIMEZONES ADJUSTED AGAIN, NOT FOR DST Moscow, March 9. / TASS / --- Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on the calculation of time, according to which in a number of regions of Russia will change the time zone and time to translate them for an hour in advance. The clock will be set forward one hour in the Ulyanovsk region, in the Altai Territory, in the Altai Republic and in the Sakhalin region in the framework of the Federal Law "On Amendments to Article 5 of the Federal Law On the Calculation of Time". It is reported by the press service of the Russian president. "Federal law provides for change of time zone of the Ulyanovsk region with the 2nd (Moscow time, the UTC + 3) in the third (Moscow time plus 1:00, the UTC + 4)." Federal law provides for changing time zones of the Altai Republic with the 5th (Moscow time plus 3 hours, the UTC + 6) to the 6th time zone (Moscow time plus 4 hours, the UTC + 7). Federal law provides for change of time zone of the Altai Territory from the 5th (Moscow time plus 3 hours, the UTC + 6) to the 6th time zone (4 Moscow time plus 4 hours, the UTC + 7). Federal law amends the Federal Law "On the Calculation of Time", according to which the entire territory of the Sakhalin Oblast will be the 10th time zone (Moscow time plus 8 hours, the UTC + 11)." The document was published on the official website of legal information on Wednesday, March 9. Changes in the calculation of the time in these regions of Russia will take effect March 27, 2016 at 02:00. Actions on transfer time calculation for an hour ahead and install a permanent summer time are called back historically in these regions timezones (RusDX March 13 via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See MEXICO; USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM [and DAB] See also INDIA; USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SOFTWARE PACKAGE FOR CAR RADIOS WITH DRM – DIGITAL RADIO MONDIALE Erlangen, Germany, March 10, 2016: A new generation of car radios is just around the corner. These devices receive information not by analog transmission, but digitally – for example, via the new standard, DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale). The advantages: increased sound quality, along with the ability to simultaneously transmit images and text information. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS are now offering device manufacturers a new software package with a decoder for DRM+, and in so doing have pushed digitization one step forward. DRM+ was developed for digital transmissions in the FM band and rounds out the DRM standard. In a sense, FM radios are true antiques: for decades, they have relied on traditional analog signals. Digital transmission, however, makes for a far superior listening experience. Rather than being sent over the airwaves in analog form, the information is broadcast digitally. An antenna picks up the signal, and software embedded in the radio converts it back into music. The result: enhanced audio signal quality. In the digitization of FM frequencies, many countries are moving to the new standard, DRM – short for Digital Radio Mondiale. India, with over a billion potential radio listeners, is but one example. The digital information is transmitted via the same frequencies that radio broadcasters have used for analog transmission for decades. Up to now, however, the introduction of the DRM standard has been delayed because broadcasters are waiting for device manufacturers to build DRM-capable radios. The manufacturers, in turn, have been holding back production until the broadcasting companies switch over to digital transmission signals. The researchers at Fraunhofer IIS are stepping up to help accelerate the international DRM rollout. After developing high-quality receiver software for the DAB standard, which is popular in Germany and Europe, it was a logical step for Fraunhofer IIS to take a comparable approach to DRM. “As with our established DAB software package, we have now developed receiver software for the complete DRM standard,” reveals Thomas Dettbarn, scientist at Fraunhofer IIS. “The radio manufacturers can build on a proven modular system, thus shortening their development times and, in turn, reducing their costs. This allows them to focus on integration and application development.” A central component of the modular system developed by Fraunhofer IIS, and the heart of any digital radio, is the baseband decoder. This converts the transmission signals received from the broadcaster into digital data streams. In the DRM standard, the sound quality is ensured by the new audio codec MPEG xHE-AAC – the successor to HE-AAC v2, which has a track record of success in DRM and DAB+. Numerous service decoders for the representation of text, images, and other value-added information are available as additional components of the modular DRM system. Of special note here is the text information service Journaline: similarly to teletext on TV, it presents specific information from the broadcaster that the users can read while listening to their favorite station. This may be news, weather reports, sports results, or station contact details for participating in the radio program. Journaline is also part of the DRM Emergency Warning Functionality, or EWF. In the case of an alert, EWF enables DRM receivers to switch automatically over to the emergency program, in which the audio announcement is accompanied by text giving multilingual details and instructions on looking up further needed information. For manufacturers, Fraunhofer’s modular approach to DRM means that they can select various features according to their own radio designs and compose the functional range of their devices as required. (Fraunhofer IIS Press Release via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, India, March 11, dx_india yg via DXLD) MUSEA +++++ SCHENECTADY SHORTWAVE TRANSMITTERS, 1941 March 14, 2016 Great article today in Radio World by John F. Schneider http://www.radioworld.com/article/schenectady-shortwave-transmitters-1941/278353 (Mike Terry, March 14, dxldyg via DXLD) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ BACKUP POWER FOR AN AM STATION I wonder how many AM stations today have a backup power system to keep them on the air during an emergency. The thread a few weeks back was the powerful AM station being a life line during a major event like WWL was during Hurricane Katrina. Back in the 1970's, during a visit to the WLS site near my home back then, I personally witnessed a backup power test. The very friendly engineer on duty at the site showed me their two separate ComEd feed lines coming in from two different directions. He even briefly interrupted one leg of one 3 phase line causing their emergency backup diesel generator to kick on and run for 10 minutes. The big diesel fuel tank could keep the generator running for several days if ComEd power was completely lost. Keeping all that equipment available cost money and I wonder if WLS or other big AM stations still have backup diesel generators (Tom Jasinski, IL, March 14, IRCA via DXLD) COMMENTS ON FCC PROPOSALS FOR MORE AM REVITALIZATION EFFORTS DUE MARCH 21 http://www.broadcastlawblog.com/2016/03/articles/comments-on-fcc-proposals-for-more-am-revitalization-efforts-due-march-21-what-questions-are-on-the-table/ (via Dennis Gibson, March 14, ABDX via DXLD) Why does the FCC persist in doing stupid stuff like this? They will allow an AM station to buy an FM translator as far away as 250 miles, and move it with a frequency change. Why not just allow the AM station to apply for a new translator in the same place as the AM station? What would be the problem with that? They have created a situation that has over inflated the value of translators, and will remove translators from the communities where they were originally licensed. How does that serve the public interest? What we need is a common sense solution to the problem, which the FCC seems incapable of offering. 73, (Kit W5KAT, March 15, ABDX via DXLD) Did you comment on the rulemaking proposal that created that 250-mile window? Are you going to comment on the next phase of that rulemaking? The FCC isn't stupid. It does what its constituents tell them they want it to do, and its constituents are anyone who actually weighs in with comments on rulemaking proposals like this one. You may not think the translator window was in the public interest. I think it's allowed broadcasters who have unneeded translators to unlock some value from them, and it's given a lot of AM stations a chance to get an FM frequency when they wouldn't have otherwise been able to do so. (I am, admittedly, biased; I've had a good year serving as a consultant and broker to help make those moves happen.) There will be another window in 2017 in which AMs that didn't or couldn't participate in the 250-mile windows can file for new translators, if there are frequencies available. It had to be this way in order to comply with Congressional rules that would otherwise have required auctions for new translator frequencies. That wasn't the FCC's doing; they were bound by the laws Congress passed (Scott Fybush, ibid.) ``Did you comment on the rulemaking proposal that created that 250- mile window? Are you going to comment on the next phase of that rulemaking?`` No and no. I commented on IBOC, as did many others, when that open for discussion, and we can all see (and hear) how much good that did. The FCC may pay some attention to what broadcasters think, but I don't think they care about what the public in general thinks or wants (Kit) I disagree. Particularly in the context of skywave protection, they need to hear from "average listeners" and DXers. If you don't provide input, the FCC hears silence. ``I think it's allowed broadcasters who have unneeded translators to unlock some value from them.`` And what does that have to do with AM "revitalization?" It's as much a matter of semantics as anything. I want the broadcasters I work with to continue to be able to provide viable content. I am agnostic as to the platform on which they do so. If the market has spoken in favor of FM - and it has - then I'm going to do whatever I can do within the rules to get my clients on FM. In the comments I filed last year, I spoke strongly in favor of just what you describe - eventually allowing owners to surrender AM facilities and go FM-only. ``There won't be any frequencies available in the major metro areas in 2017 because there aren't any available now in most of them`` Really? Because I just put translators in the heart of Boston as well as several other crowded New England communities. ``It had to be this way in order to comply with Congressional rules that would otherwise have required auctions for new translator frequencies. That wasn't the FCC's doing; they were bound by the laws Congress passed. The FCC didn't have a role in that legislation?`` Not much of one, no. It came down from higher levels. s (Scott Fybush, ibid.) re: ``I disagree. Particularly in the context of skywave protection, they need to hear from "average listeners" and DXers. If you don't provide input, the FCC hears silence.`` I would like to think you are right, but I don't think our government at any level pays much attention to individuals, or even small groups, unless they have some sort of financial angle that can empower them. ``It's as much a matter of semantics as anything. I want the broadcasters I work with to continue to be able to provide viable content. I am agnostic as to the platform on which they do so. If the market has spoken in favor of FM - and it has - then I'm going to do whatever I can do within the rules to get my clients on FM. In the comments I filed last year, I spoke strongly in favor of just what you describe - eventually allowing owners to surrender AM facilities and go FM-only.`` That is good to see that because it is the reality of where radio is today. We have seen it in other developed countries, many of which have completely abandoned medium wave, so one can only wonder why the US has been stubbornly clinging to outdated technology that nobody cares about. Don't get me wrong, I have been a big AM fan for decades, but the glory days of the band are long gone and the time has come (actually a long time ago) to move on. ``Really? Because I just put translators in the heart of Boston as well as several other crowded New England communities.`` All I know is what I see and hear in the Denver area and other locations I visit. There shouldn' t be any additional frequencies available, but the FCC keeps "shoe-horning`` more and more into the area, which is degrading the FM band. It has reached the point where turning a corner or dropping into a dip while driving will flip flop your radio back and forth between competing signals, some of which are translators, some full power. There have already been some fuss fights here between full power stations and translators. One frequency in my area is dominated by a full power from Colorado Springs and a translator in Boulder. When an AM wanted to buy the translator and move it to their AM tower, which would have dramatically increased the coverage area due to the location of the tower, the FM in Colo Spgs fought it and won, so the AM gave up on it and didn't buy it. Now we have a full power FM trying to move their xmtr site closer in, which will displace a translator on the same frequency, which is owned and operated by an AM. Prepare for another fuss fight on that one. If the FCC starts handing out way-too short spaced translator frequencies just to try to keep some people (including AM stations) happy, they will just jam the FM band even worse than it already is. Again, I say that the term "revitalization" is being grossly misapplied by the FCC in the case of AM. Simply allowing AM stations access to the FM band is doing absolutely nothing to revitalize AM, period. They should call it what it is. I will leave it up to everyone here as to what the exact term should be. Maybe something like "defection`` or "relocation`` would be more appropriate. As I have also mentioned earlier, the FCC has taken one step after another to degrade AM, so it seems ridiculous to think they would now try to do anything to "revitalize`` the band they contributed greatly to the destruction of. The examples I cited were the breaking down of clear channels, the narrowing of bandwidth, and their abject failure to select an analog stereo standard, which ultimately led to the failure of AM stereo, and killed the last chance AM had to be a viable music band. I hope everyone here is as disgusted as I am about the change in the way our government views broadcasting. It used to be that our government claimed the airwaves belong to the people, and they (the gov't.) were simply the steward and regulator. Broadcast licenses used to be awarded to the applicant whom the government felt could best serve the public interest, but all of that changed a couple of decades ago when our government decided that they now own the airwaves, not the people, and that broadcast licenses will no longer be awarded to the applicant who can best serve the public, but to the applicant who is willing and able to pay the most for it. I would be willing to bet the average person on the street isn't even aware of that change, which is truly sad. 73, (Kit W5KAT, CO, ABDX via DXLD) Kit, Your comment echoes my feelings on the FCC. They are like all government entities. They take care of the entrenched powers like the broadcasters and corporations that are involved. I have commented on so many things that its incredible. Commenting is useless if you are the public. The FCC has always worked for the broadcasters and against the general public. I fought the fight. I am done. The broadcasters won and the public, not so much. Let them do what they want. They will get their way (Kevin Crump, TN, ibid.) Hi Kevin, Nice to see some support. It's amazing how quiet the list gets sometimes when comments are made like this. I don't know if it's apathy or some people being afraid to get involved in the discussion, but I think it's always good to present some opinions and get some views from others. I was going to cheer the demise of crap channel, but I figured I should just let that one go. That outfit was the death of radio in my opinion, and they have poisoned every market they have operated in. I would like to see them sell out completely, but not to one or a few owners. What I would like to see is more local owners, or at least small group regional owners. The Comm. Act of 1996 (which I am sure crap channel lobbied heavily for) was the ultimate end of radio when the ownership cap was repealed. In the age of anti-monopoly moves by the government, it never made any sense that they allowed mini- monopolies like crap channel to be formed, but they did it. Why? Undoubtedly because Congress was bought off by the big companies, so now it's nice to see those big greedy companies drowning in their own red ink. We were better off with small companies limited to owning 7 stations under the ownership caps and the whole industry was far more healthy (Kit, ibid.) The airwaves have always belonged to the applicants willing to pay the most for them. Look at who dominated the biggest facilities in the early days of radio - Westinghouse, RCA, General Electric, big newspapers, big department stores. Spend some time in the 1950s and 1960s editions of Broadcasting magazine that are all scanned and searchable at americanradiohistory.com and you'll see how badly flawed the "public interest" criteria of the day worked. Joe Average Citizen might have been able to file for a new frequency or a power upgrade, but the comparative hearing process the FCC then went through could tie Joe Citizen up for years or even decades in expensive legal battles if a bigger player decided it wanted the channel instead. You had to have deep pockets and good connections to get through that process, even then. I wouldn't say that was the case universally. For the larger market and more powerful licenses, maybe, but for most smaller market stations where the big money companies were not involved, comparative hearings were held and the system seemed to work fairly well. I assume your references to the applicants willing to pay the most for them relates to the instances where the big money companies paid off the other applicants to drop their applications, which is legal. That has been going on for years, and as you probably know, there was a major case made of that in the 70s or 80s when the FCC shut down a couple of what I think were called application mills, or something like that. There were some enterprising individuals who got clients to apply for numerous licenses that they never intended to get just so they could profit by being bought out by the serious applicants. While it was not ethical, it was questionably legal, and I blame the FCC for leaving the door open to such abuse, but they went after the people who were doing it. The Rules & Regulations should have been written to prevent such abuse. It's no different than people who take advantage of IRS loopholes. Is it more proper to blame the people, or to blame the IRS for leaving the loopholes wide open? I was a subscriber of Broadcasting magazine for many years and I followed a lot of new license applications. The comparative hearing process worked to some degree, but there was a lot of obvious abuse, which I again blame the FCC for not preventing. During the time when there were minority preferences, it was common to see men applying for a license in their wife's name since women were considered to be a minority by the FCC. Pretty transparent, but legal. One has to wonder if the FCC really fell for things like that. A lot of the comparative hearing process involved the applicant' s intentions for programming the station, as well as their technical proposals for power and coverage. They even went as far as to consider whether the applicants had any broadcasting experience. Sometimes the process did drag on for months, but it did seem to be the most fair way for them to pick the winner based on who they felt would best serve the public interest. Unless one applicant bought off another to drop their application, money didn't really fit into the process. Unfortunately, now it is all money and nothing else. The FCC threw the minorities under the bus and no longer cares, which may or may not be a bad thing, but they sold them out purely for profit, which can't be a good reason for making any important rule changes (Kit, ibid.) I have no financial angle that would carry any kind of FCC power, but the FCC paid enough attention to the comments I filed in the last round of the "AM Revitalization" ; proceeding to have referenced them at several places in its Report & Order. If you don't file comments, you're 100% guaranteed to have no impact on the final ruling. If you do, you've at least got a chance. This is the first time in my adult lifetime that the FCC has asked for this kind of input on the AM rules. I'm not letting it go to waste even if the chances of being heard are small. I am still a fan of AM in the circumstances where it actually works. As long as the WBZs and KMOXs and KNBRs of the world continue to draw listeners and profits, I'm going to speak up loudly in favor of keeping the band as clean as possible to keep those signals as big as possible. And I'll speak up loudly for the class Cs and Ds that are providing good service to small communities. It's that "mushy middle" of class Bs that no longer provide full-market service and have ceased to be viable. I really wouldn't get too hung up on the title attached to the rulemaking proceeding, as some are doing. It's what's in the guts of the ruling that matters, and they can call it "Spam and Eggs" for all I care if the rules get changed in a useful way. What happened 30 years ago happened 30 years ago and isn't going to be changed now. My goal in the comments I'm filing and the work I'm doing for my clients is to make the best out of what we've all got now. This phase of the proceeding is responding very specifically to ideas that were floated by commenters in last year's phase. That seems fairly responsive to me (Scott Fybush, ibid.) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2016 Mar 14 0430 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 07 - 13 March 2016 Solar activity reached low levels on 08-09 and 12 March. The largest event of the period was a C3 flare from Region 2519 (N05, L=007, class/area=Cso/80 on 13 Mar) at 09/1250 UTC. Very low levels of solar activity were observed throughout the remainder of the period. No coronal mass ejections (CMEs) observed in coronagraph imagery were determined to be Earth-directed. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at high levels on 07-11 Mar and decreased to moderate levels on 12-13 Mar. Geomagnetic field activity reached G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm levels early on 07 Mar due to the influence of a positive polarity coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS). Activity levels subsided to quiet to unsettled levels on 08 Mar and quiet levels by 09 Mar. Quiet to unsettled conditions were observed on 10 Mar and continued into early on 11 Mar when the co-rotating interaction region (CIR) ahead of a positive polarity CH HSS caused G2 (Moderate) geomagnetic storm conditions. As the CH HSS progressed, conditions tapered down to active levels early on 12 Mar and into quiet to unsettled for the remainder of the day. Activity continued to subside with only quiet conditions observed on 13 Mar. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 14 MARCH - 09 APRIL 2016 Solar activity is expected to be at very low levels with a chance for C-class flares 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 high levels on 16-21 Mar and 04-06 Apr. Moderate levels are expected on 22 Mar-03 Apr and 07-09 Apr. Normal levels are expected on 14-15 Mar. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to reach G1 (Minor) storm levels on 15-16 Mar and 02-03 Apr due to the influence of a negative polarity CH HSS. Active conditions are expected on 17 Mar and 08 Apr. Unsettled conditions are expected 18 Mar and 01, 04, 07, 08 Apr. Quiet conditions are expected throughout the remainder of the outlook period under a nominal solar wind regime. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2016 Mar 14 0431 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 2016-03-14 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2016 Mar 14 93 5 2 2016 Mar 15 90 25 5 2016 Mar 16 90 22 5 2016 Mar 17 90 12 4 2016 Mar 18 90 8 3 2016 Mar 19 95 5 2 2016 Mar 20 95 5 2 2016 Mar 21 95 5 2 2016 Mar 22 90 5 2 2016 Mar 23 90 5 2 2016 Mar 24 95 5 2 2016 Mar 25 95 5 2 2016 Mar 26 95 5 2 2016 Mar 27 95 5 2 2016 Mar 28 95 5 2 2016 Mar 29 100 5 2 2016 Mar 30 100 5 2 2016 Mar 31 100 5 2 2016 Apr 01 95 8 3 2016 Apr 02 95 30 5 2016 Apr 03 95 25 5 2016 Apr 04 95 8 3 2016 Apr 05 95 5 2 2016 Apr 06 95 5 2 2016 Apr 07 95 8 3 2016 Apr 08 95 12 4 2016 Apr 09 95 8 3 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1817, DXLD) GLENN`S PROPAGATION OUTLOOK FOR MEDIA NETWORK PLUS AS OF MARCH 17 2016 From IPS in Australia, the global HF propagation forecast thru March 19: normal at all latitudes except normal to fair at hi latitudes on the 18th. From Spaceweather South africa, thru March 19, magnetic conditions quiet to unsettled, shortwave fadeouts unlikely, MUF unstable. From Met Office UK the Four-Day Space Weather Forecast Summary: geomagnetic activity waning to mainly quiet on March 19 and 20. From F K Janda, of the Czech Propagation Interested Group, the Geomagnetic field will be: quiet to active on March 17, 28, April 5 mostly quiet on March 18 - 19, 22, 24, 31, April 6 quiet on March 20 - 21, 23, 25 - 27, April 1 - 2 quiet to unsettled on March 29 - 30 active to disturbed on April 3 - 4 From SWPC in Boulder: A and K indices only 5 and 2 March 19 to 31. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to reach G1 (Minor) storm levels on April 2 and 3, peaking at 20 and 5. Active conditions are expected April 8 at 12 and 4. Solar flux peaking at 100 March 29-31, otherwise 95 or 90. Via ARRL, Spaceweather.com says the weeks around Vernal Equinox March 20 are a time for enhanced auroral activity. 6 meter operators will want to be alert (and FM DXers). Bill Hepburn`s VHF UHF DX maps show extreme tropospheric ducting off Baja California March 21 and 22; all week off the southern Arabian coast to India, and the Bay of Bengal from India to Myanmar (via DXLD) ###