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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1834 CONTENTS: *DX and station news about: Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bougainville, Canada, China, Cuba and non, Germany, Indonesia, Ireland Northern non, Italy, Netherlands non, Oklahoma, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sudan South non, Taiwan, USA SHORTWAVE AIRINGS of WORLD OF RADIO 1834, July 14-20, 2016 Thu 1130 WRMI 9955 Thu 2100 WRMI 13695 [confirmed] Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [not on air] Fri 2130 WRMI 15770 [confirmed] Fri 2130 WRMI 13695 [confirmed] Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed] Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed] Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM [confirmed] Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB Mon 0030 WRMI 7730 Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v-AM Area 51 Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 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 AND NEW!! 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This makes it even more important to be a member of the DXLD yg for additional material which may not make it into weekly issues (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]. Frequency changes of VOA Deewa Radio in Pashto 0100-0400 NF 15205 UDO 250 kW / 304 deg to WeAs, ex 13840 1300-1700 NF 15650 LAM 100 kW / 092 deg to WeAs, ex 9335 1500-1700 NF 12150 UDO 250 kW / 311 deg to WeAs, ex 7540 1700-1900 NF 12150 LAM 100 kW / 092 deg to WeAs, ex 9335 1700-1900 NF 9335 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to WeAs, ex 9780 Full updated schedule of VOA Deewa Radio July 2 0100-0130 on 11700 LAM 100 kW / 092 deg to WeAs 0100-0130 on 12035 LAM 100 kW / 092 deg to WeAs 0100-0130 on 15205 UDO 250 kW / 304 deg to WeAs 0130-0300 on 11700 LAM 100 kW / 092 deg to WeAs 0130-0300 on 12035 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to WeAs 0130-0300 on 15205 UDO 250 kW / 304 deg to WeAs 0300-0400 on 11700 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to WeAs 0300-0400 on 12035 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to WeAs 0300-0400 on 15205 UDO 250 kW / 304 deg to WeAs 1300-1400 on 9310 UDO 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs 1300-1400 on 12035 UDO 250 kW / 305 deg to WeAs 1300-1400 on 13590 UDO 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs 1300-1400 on 15650 LAM 100 kW / 092 deg to WeAs 1400-1430 on 9310 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to WeAs 1400-1430 on 12035 UDO 250 kW / 305 deg to WeAs 1400-1430 on 13590 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to WeAs 1400-1430 on 15650 LAM 100 kW / 092 deg to WeAs 1430-1500 on 9310 UDO 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs 1430-1500 on 12035 UDO 250 kW / 305 deg to WeAs 1430-1500 on 13590 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to WeAs 1430-1500 on 15650 LAM 100 kW / 092 deg to WeAs 1500-1700 on 9310 UDO 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs 1500-1700 on 12150 UDO 250 kW / 311 deg to WeAs 1500-1700 on 13590 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to WeAs 1500-1700 on 15650 LAM 100 kW / 092 deg to WeAs 1700-1800 on 7540 UDO 250 kW / 311 deg to WeAs 1700-1800 on 9310 UDO 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs 1700-1800 on 9335 KWT 250 kW / 078 deg to WeAs 1700-1800 on 12150 LAM 100 kW / 092 deg to WeAs http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/07/frequency-changes-of-voa-deewa-radio-in.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #956 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, July 11, 2016, via DXLD) ** ALBANIA. 9854.95, July 8 at 0154 check, the R. Tirana 0130 English to North America is *still* a big humroar. There is yet hope: Manfred Reiff, Germany tells us in the DXLD yg on Thursday July 7: `` Good morning, yesterday I made a recording of parts of the German service of Radio Tirana and sent the cut to the head of the German service, Mr. Astrit Ibro. He replied this morning that they have a meeting with the technicians on Friday to solve the problem. 73, Manfred`` 9855-, July 8 at 2324, R. Tirana music during Albanian hour is audible but beneath the humroar. July 9 at 0130 for English, nothing but the humroar is audible at S3. 9855-, July 9 at 2255, R. Tirana humroar carrier is already on prior to the daily Albanian hour. So not fixed yet. Wolfgang Büschel was also monitoring during the following hour: ``9854.968, Radio Tirana Albanian service to North America, daily 23- 24 UT, logged tonight in 2325 to 2345 UT range on July-9-UT, on remote SDR units in Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, England, and at SDR unit in Detroit, Michigan. Usual distorted audio quality out of Shijak site shortwave transmitter via one of their two modern 100 kW transmitters, Made in BBEF Beijing China in 2006 year. Poor S=4-5 or -93dBm signal, on Perseus software screen some 10 x 50 Hertz distance apart powerful tone strings visible`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi everybody, The attached MP3 shows how 7465 sounds here in Germany. Wolfgang, are you sure that this is one of the new transmitters? As for the frequency offset I think it's one of the vintage transmitters. I had a telephone call with Astrit Ibro on Friday and he told me that the technicians checked everything at it should be fine. As for the studio I think this is the case. I'm pretty sure the problem is in the transmitter. The hum might be from a faulty part in the AC to DC conversion (capacitor, rectifier etc.), the distorted modulation might be a near-to-dead modulation tube. Has anybody contact to the staff at Shijak site to have a direct discussion with them? Best regards (Christian Milling, Germany, July 10, ibid.( An addition by Wolfy, hereby translated into English: Word from the editorial offices (by the way, Astrit Ibro denies that there are rumours about a possible closure of MW/SW) is that engineers now state that they have to check the whole distribution chain step by step. Which really surprises me a bit. Probably this is indeed the result of a misunderstanding, with people at the studio side probably believing that we're talking about the long-standing issues, such as comparatively mild hum on some studio sources and inconsistent audio levels, in some cases resulting in distortion when set way too high. All this of course indeed needs to be addressed. But it is not what we're talking about now: A strong buzz on the shortwave transmissions that obliterates the program audio almost completely. I already wrote down my guess about the cause. At least it does not sound as if the buzz is already on the feed incoming at Shijak. To find out as a first step does not require extensive checks and measurements, it can be found out already when comparing the incoming feed with the output of the modulation monitor. Now I don't know the Shijak installations, but at least on German transmitter sites this would be a matter of just pushing a button, and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5WYQ8lLrWI shows at 0:25 that it's the same at Shepparton, just with a rotary switch there. If the buzz is already on the incoming feed the routing needs to be changed, probably by simply using the audio circuits for Fllaka (I understand they're routed through Shijak) for the shortwave transmissions, too, since anyway no different programs are to be transmit anymore. But if monitoring at this point does not show the buzz it's the transmitter which then urgently needs to be repaired. Continuing its operation in the current state serves no purpose, this signal is definitely unlistenable. I would not emphasize distortion too much, it could be misleading because it's apparently a mere side effect, the program audio being modulated by the multiples of mains current that appear themselves as loud buzz. I suspect that the high-voltage rectifier, i.e. the section that provides the plate current, is defective. By the way, what about the second transmitter? It is no longer in regular use for some time, withdrawn when TWR ceased using Shijak if I recall correct, but are we to conclude now that it is no longer in operational condition at all? Otherwise one would really have to wonder why they keep using the broken transmitter, putting out unlistenable, thus useless signals. All the best, (Kai Ludwig, July 11 DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dear Drita, I hope you are fine. I’m so sorry that the RT shortwave transmissions are distorted in a way that they are almost not listenable. I hope the staff at Shijak will find the fault. Recently I found an 8 year old recording of the Radio Tirana Interval Signal. The first one you can hear in the attached MP3 file is the one which is still on air today. But it is followed by a bunch of nice variants which I didn’t hear again since then. Unfortunately the recording is clipped and distorted. Do you know if the original tape of the Interval Signal still exists and if it could be brought back on air? I would love to hear them all again. Thanks and best regards from Germany (Christian Milling, cc to gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9855-, July 12 at 0127, R. Tirana still hum-roar well atop the interval signal, as various departments of the station are apparently trying to figure out what`s causing it. Christian Milling of Radio 700 sends an old recording of the Tirana IS in some different variations on the same tune, I plan to play on next World of Radio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. Is anyone hearing RAE in English during the 18-19 UT Saturday hour on 15344-, instead of R Nacional in Spanish, as alleged by the WRTH Update? Here direct I can only pull a JBA carrier on 15343.92. And trouble getting UTwente to play. Please try again Sunday (Glenn Hauser, 1844 UT Sat July 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15343.92, Sat July 9 at 1823, JBA carrier from LRA, measured at 1830, far too weak to tell if it`s Radio Nacional in Spanish, or RAE in English, now extended to weekends on European service only. Manfred Reiff in Germany confirms it was in English until 1855, back to Spanish (Glenn Hauser, oK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, Glenn, RAE has changed from Spanish to English according to the 3rd supplement of WRTH 2016. English from 1800 to 1855 UT is broadcast on Saturdays and Sundays only. Signal strength: S9~S9+10. RAE switched to Spanish at 1855. In addition to that, the new WRTH supplement also lists new language services: Chinese at 0400-0500 (Tue~Sat) on 11710 kHz (directed to Americas!) English at 0200-0300 (Tue~Sat) on 11710 kHz (directed to the Americas) As said: English at 1800-1900 (Sat, Sun only) on 15345 kHz (ex Spanish, directed to Europe) French at 0300-0400 (Tue~Sat) on 11710 kHz (directed to the Americas) Japanese at 0100-0200 (Tue~Sat) on 11710 kHz (directed to Americas!) Portuguese at 0000-0100 (Mon~Fr) on 11710 kHz (directed to Americas) 73, (Manfred Reiff,1857 UT July 9, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Manfred, Tnx for checking. The other services on 11710v are not new -- - they have been on for many years, but were omitted somehow from WRTH 2016 (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) RAE's English service announced several weeks ago that they would soon be broadcasting seven days a week. They are also going to make some other changes to their programmes, which recently have included only news and music (Roger Tidy, UK, July 9, ibid.) Yes, I know; we were going on your original report about this. I am only trying to get it confirmed by monitoring, not listings (gh, DXLD) My reply to Glenn's mail needs a correction: My mail only concerned the "NEW" services according to the 3rd supplement (July 1 update) of the WRTH 2016. It didn't contained information about existing RAE services. This caused a wrong conclusion. English was ADDED on Sat and Sun INSTEAD of Spanish at 1800. English is still audible from Mon through Fri! So English can now be heard DAILY at 1800-1900 on 15345 kHz as RAE announced a couple of weeks ago. 73, (Manfred Reiff, ibid.) Just checked (today, Sunday, 10 July) It's Spanish. Tuned in just before 1800 UT using the U. Twente receiver. Signal is only fair. Strength about S9 and modulation is not great. Frequency near 15344 kHz (Richard Langley, 1808 UT, ibid.) At 1809 UT noted Spanish language talk between two female, on very ODD frequency, 15343.901 kHz, S=7 or -86dBm in Germany or remote Belgium SDR units. Listen to enclosed mp3 recording. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Stronger than I ever hear it; rather distorted (gh, DXLD) Signal strength improved over the hour but the audio was still poor. Around 1905 UT, I make the frequency 15343.908 kHz, again using the U. Twente receiver. Frequency calibration of receiver checked against RWM on 9996 kHz, which was spot on (Richard Langley, 1912 UT, IBID.) Updated A-16 shortwave schedule of Radio Argentina [al] Exterior: 1000-1100 6060 BUE 100 kW / non-dir SoAm Chinese Mon-Fri 1000-1100 15344vBUE 100 kW / 335 deg EaAs Chinese Mon-Fri 1100-1200 6060 BUE 100 kW / non-dir SoAm Japanese Mon-Fri 1100-1200 15344vBUE 100 kW / 335 deg EaAs Japanese Mon-Fri 1200-1300 6060 BUE 100 kW / non-dir SoAm Portuguese Mon-Fri 1200-1300 15344vBUE 100 kW / 335 deg SoAm Portuguese Mon-Fri 1300-1500 6060 BUE 100 kW / non-dir SoAm Spanish Mon-Fri 1300-1500 15344vBUE 100 kW / 335 deg NoAm Spanish Mon-Fri 1700-1800 15344vBUE 100 kW / 035 deg WeEu German Daily#*, ex Mon-Fri 1800-1900 15344vBUE 100 kW / 035 deg WeEu English Daily*, ex Mon-Fri [but 18-19 UT, Sunday July 10th heard intal [?] still Radio Nacional Spanish! language program, -- NOT ENGLISH, wb.] 1900-2000 15344vBUE 100 kW / 035 deg WeEu Italian Mon-Fri* 2000-2100 15344vBUE 100 kW / 035 deg WeEu French Mon-Fri* 2100-2200 15344vBUE 100 kW / 035 deg WeEu German Mon-Fri 2200-2400 6060 BUE 100 kW / non-dir SoAm Spanish Mon-Fri 2200-2400 15345vBUE 100 kW / 035 deg WeEu Spanish Mon-Fri 0000-0100 11711vBUE 100 kW / 335 deg NoAm Portuguese Tue-Sat* 0100-0200 11711vBUE 100 kW / 335 deg NoAm Japanese Tue-Sat* 0200-0300 11711vBUE 100 kW / 335 deg NoAm French Tue-Sat not 0300-0400 0300-0400 11711vBUE 100 kW / 335 deg NoAm English Tue-Sat, not 02-03 [these two were swapped many months ago, as reported in DXLD --- gh] 0400-0500 11711vBUE 100 kW / 335 deg EaAs Chinese Tue-Sat * news in Spanish in the last 3-5 minutes at xx55-xx00 # QRM co-ch 15345 ABS 250 kW / 196 deg CSAf English Radio Cairo Updated A-16 shortwave schedule of Radio Nacional Argentina, Spanish: 1500-1530 6060 BUE 100 kW / non-dir SoAm Mon-Fri 1500-1530 15344vBUE 100 kW / 335 deg NoAm Mon-Fri 1900-2400 6064 BUE 100 kW / non-dir SoAm Sat/Sun, ex from 1800 1900-2400 15344vBUE 100 kW / 035 deg WeEu Sat/Sun, ex from 1800 0000-0230 6060 BUE 100 kW / non-dir SoAm Sun/Mon 0000-0230 15344vBUE 100 kW / 035 deg WeEu Sun/Mon 0230-0300 6060 BUE 100 kW / non-dir SoAm Mon 0230-0300 15344vBUE 100 kW / 335 deg NoAm Mon http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/07/updated-16-shortwave-schedule-of-radio.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Blgariya, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DXLD) And from 1725 UT onwards heard test tone of RAE Buenos Aires on odd frequency 15343.915 kHz wandering down and up to 15343.911 kHz, at 1735 UT on July 11. 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. Bumpy German-English automatic translation: message from RAE Buenos Aires, I once demand because of transmitter problems RAE. Best regards Reinhard Weiss-D, July 13 Dear Mr. Weiss! Thank you very much for your email! It is a pity that although the receiving {propagation, wb.} actually reasonably good, the sound quality is rather faulty :-( Apparently there is a problem with one of final stage tube of the {Harris} transmitter, which is for the modulation "in charge", and unfortunately I do not know when the fault will be fixed. I know the Internet reception is nothing for a real DXer, but if you wish to receive us by Internet, you can try it here: or else you could share with our friends from the program simultaneously to listen to :-) Kind regards! - Rayén Braun, RAE German section (via A-DX ng July 13 via BC-DX 13 July via WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DXLD) - - - Nachricht von RAE Buenos Aires, ich hab mal bei RAE wegen der Senderprobleme nachgefragt. Viele Gruesse, Reinhard Weiss-D, July 13. Lieber Herr Weiss! Vielen Dank fuer Ihre E-Mail! Es ist wirklich schade, dass obwohl der Empfang {propagation, wb.} im Moment einigermassen gut ist, die Tonqualitaet es nicht ist :-( Anscheinend gibt es ein Problem mit einer Roehre der {Harris} Sendeanlage, die fuer die Modulation "zustaendig" ist, und ich weiss leider nicht, wann es behoben wird. Ich weiss, der Internet-Empfang ist nichts fuer einen echten DXer, aber falls Sie uns ueber Internet empfangen moechten, koennen Sie es hier versuchen: oder sonst koennen Sie bei unseren Freunden von radio360.eu die Sendungen nachhoeren :-) Liebe Gruesse! - Rayén Braun, Deutsche Redaktion (via A-DX ng July 13, via BC-DX 13 July via DXLD) ** ARMENIA. Special transmission of Radio Northern Ireland, July 9 2300-2400 on 17490 ERV 100 kW / 100 deg to SoAs English via CJSC http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/07/special-transmission-of-radio-northern.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DX LISTENING DIGEST) It seems such a scheduling was very optimistic propagationally: sunrise in Armenia not until approx. 0140 UT, and at 2300 UT it`s 3 am in Armenia, still pre-sunrise even in target South Asia! when the MUF from the west can be expected to be at its lowest. Rather like us in central N America trying to hear 17775 KVOH if it were on before sunrise (even from *1400 it`s normally very weak). Did they get any reports from S Asia?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 4835, ABC Alice Springs NT, 1222-1316, July 5. Talking about the late aboriginal singer Ruby Hunter; ID for "783 ABC Alice Springs, the talk of your town"; news & weather; Tony Delroy's "Nightlife" show; promo for the upcoming July 31 "ABC Alice Springs half marathon"; very readable; // 2325, ABC Tennant Creek NT (poor) // 2485, ABC Katherine NT (fair). Today with above average reception; rather good for summertime reception! Typical audio clip from today attached. 2325, ABC Tennant Creek NT (poor) // 2485, ABC Katherine NT (fair) // 4835, ABC Alice Springs NT (fair) // 9580, RA (good) // 12065, RA (fair) // 12085, RA (fair), at 1142, July 9. Commentary on the Melbourne vs Fremantle game via the "Grandstand" program. Recently the Northern Territory stations have been doing well. 2325, ABC Tennant Creek NT (fair) // 2485, ABC Katherine NT (fair) // 4835, ABC Alice Springs NT (fair-good) // 9580, RA (good) // 12065, RA (fair-poor) // 12085, RA (fair-good), at 1219 on July 13. Post-game commentary of the New South Wales vs Queensland match. Northern Territory stations continue to do well, with Alice Springs being consistently 100% readable by about 1300 (Ron Howard, Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1 with Par Electronics EF-SWL antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. [A-DX] Ein kleines Video über Shepperton (AUS) Häppy Filmgucking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5WYQ8lLrWI (Christian Milling, Germany, July 11, A-DX via Kai Ludwig, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) Includes current equipment views. The interviewed engineer also states that "when the cyclone warnings come on we back up local radio": Would the ABC really still ask for such additional transmissions now, with the self-imposed restrictions (as mentioned in this TV report, too) being in force? Or will these restrictions be lifted again, with the new boss already asking why no linear radio in Chinese is being provided anymore? (Kai Ludwig, ibid.) Thanks for the posting, Kai. I hadn't seen this WIN TV report/Youtube video. It's Terry (BA [Broadcast Australia] Team Leader) being interviewed. Re your questions, your guesses would be as good as mine. (Ian, ibid.) ** AUSTRALIA. Updated A-16 schedule of Reach Beyond Australia from June 26, videos: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/07/updated-16-schedule-of-reach-beyond.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA [and non]. vs SRI LANKA RBA vs SLBC on 9720 from June 26: 1200-1245 on 9720 KNX 100 kW / 315 deg to SEAs Indonesian RBA 1115-1215 on 9720*TRM 125 kW / 345 deg to SoAs various SLBC And same situation with China National Radio 2 vs FEBA Radio: 1300-1400 on 9775 BEI 150 kW / 270 deg to EaAs Chinese CNR-2 1330-1400 on 9775*TRM 125 kW / 345 deg to SoAs various FEBA. * unregistered frequencies from Trincomalee in HFCC Database. http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/07/reach-beyond-australia-vs-slbc-on-9720.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH [non-log]. 4750, Bangladesh Betar (Home Service). On July 8, at 1236, had only one station here and that was just CNR1. RRI Makassar (4749.95) continues silent. Clearly no BB today, as overall conditions were good (Ron Howard, Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1 with Par Electronics EF-SWL antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. Good signal of Bangladesh Betar, July 13 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/2016/07/good-signal-of-bangladesh-betar-july-13.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BHUTAN. 6035, BBS, 1202-1216*, July 9. Usual format; announcer in vernacular; briefly played indigenous instrumental music at 1210 and 1214; suddenly off. PBS Yunnan was already off the air. July 10. Same BBS format; 1201-1216*; announcer in vernacular; briefly played indigenous instrumental music at 1201, 1213 and 1215; suddenly off; PBS Yunnan was already off the air. Interesting to find two consecutive days with the same cut off time. 6035, BBS, 1208-1239*, July 11. Usual format; announcer in vernacular; briefly played indigenous instrumental music at 1214 and 1217; singing 1220-1227; suddenly off. Today with a perfect match up: my local sunrise 1259 UT and Thimphu sunset also at 1259 UT. PBS Yunnan was already off the air. For the last two days BBS had 1216*, so today they broke the pattern. 6035, BBS, 1257-1319*, July 13. Running much later than normal; indigenous music/chanting/singing 1257-1300; ToH usual BBS theme music; 1300-1319* announcer in vernacular with brief breaks at 1315 and 1318 for indigenous instrumental music; suddenly off at 1319*; poor. PBS Yunnan (China) had gone off earlier, so no QRM from them (Ron Howard, Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1 with Par Electronics EF-SWL antenna, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BIAFRA [non]. SECRETLAND, Clandestine Radio Biafra via SPL Secretbrod, July 13 1800-1802 on 11700 SCB 100 kW / 195 deg to WeAf English, open carrier, 1802-1823 on 11700 SCB 100 kW / 195 deg to WeAf transmitter is off air from 1823 on 11700 SCB 100 kW / 195 deg to WeAf English live broadcast http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/07/clandestine-radio-biafra-via-spl.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. July 12 with better than normal summertime reception. 5952.42, Radio Pio Doce, 0131-0156 and 0209-0230*. Pop LA songs; brief sports coverage with sound of the crowd in the background; 0228 usual sign off format with very distinctive whistling “Colonel Bogey March” (commonly known as the River Kwai March); along with clear IDs; followed by chimes till off. Even with the normal summertime QRN (static), had very respectable reception. This sign off format is still one of my favorites, my audio of which is at https://goo.gl/82GTaA 6024.95, presumed Red Patria Nueva with actual audio, which is a rare event for me; normally only an open carrier can be heard here; 0232- 0239 with EZL pop songs; poor. 6134.82, R. Santa Cruz went off at 0204*; after playing their usual "Santa Cruz" song; not as strong as Radio Pio Doce (Ron Howard, Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1 with Par Electronics EF-SWL antenna, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOUGAINVILLE [and non]. 3325, NBC Bougainville, 1149-1202*, July 8. Pop songs; 1200 time check ("11 o'clock") & "NBC Bougainville" ID; into NBC news in English; suddenly off; most of the time mixing badly with Pro 1 RRI Palangkaraya, which after 1202 was in the clear with fair reception, relaying the Jakarta news. 3325, NBC Bougainville, 1140, July 11. Pop Pacific Islands music; DJ in Pidgin; 1153 start of Michael Jackson's song "Heal the World"; 1155* cut off in mid-song; QRN (static); almost fair; no trace of RRI Palangkaraya at this time, but heard later. 3325, NBC Bougainville, 1133-1156*, July 12. Pop songs ("I Wanna Live My Life With You," etc.); many time checks ("25 to 11"); ID ("NBC Bougainville") with frequencies; DJ in Pidgin; fair signal strength today, but mixing with almost as strong RRI Palangkaraya, which was in the clear after 1156. 3325, NBC Bougainville, 1134-1210*, July 13. DJ in Pidgin with pop songs (Tina Turner song, etc.); 1156-1200 series of full IDs (usual FM frequencies 94.5 & 95.5 for Central Bougainville) and promo for NBC Bougainville; 1201 usual PNG bird call and "Good night Papua New Guinea . . NBC news in brief"; 1210 suddenly off in mid-song; light RRI Palangkaraya QRM (Ron Howard, Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1 with Par Electronics EF-SWL antenna, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4861.5, July 12 at 0141, JBA carrier; the off-frequency where Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal reports Rádio Alvorada, Londrina (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Nothing heard from CLM Alcaraván R, Puerto Lleras, on 5910 kHz. But on 6010.052 kHz a very tiny poor string visible, likely Brazilian ZYE521 of Radio Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte MG. 0600 UT on July 12. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 5939.856, Rádio Voz Missionária, at 0340 UT, Portuguese sermon talk. 6040.773, Rádio RB2, BrasPortuguese talk by male. 0351 UT, S=6 -89dBm. 6180.021, RNB Brasília, phone-in program to elder people at 0412 UT on July 8, S=9+30dB or -43dBm signal on NY-NJ-MA remote SDR unit on east coast network. BUZZY audio kind so far from southern winter skip/hop condition (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL [and non]. Bad mixture on 6180 kHz: SAO TOME/BRAZIL, 6179.994 odd frequency VoA French via São Tomé island noted at 0545 UT July 12, S=9+15dB here in Germany, scheduled 0530-0630 UT, - and co- channel 6180.025 kHz RNB from Brasilia, S=9+10dB (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11780, July 8 at 0216, RNA is S9 and considerably distorted modulation, after quite a spell of decent transmission. I look for spurs around the 25m band, but don`t find any now, so that`s a plus, but they could be less than the considerable band noise level. 6170-6190, July 10 at 0036, RNA is overmodulated and splattering plus/minus 10 kHz, much like 11780 out to 11769/11791 at 0020, vying with the RHC 11760 splatter out to 11773 for dominance of the 11769- 11773 splatterband (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11934.58, July 8 at 0212, JBA carrier, no doubt Rádio RB2, as it continues to drift very slowly downward from one night to the next. 11934.6-, July 12 at 0126, Rádio RB2 is OFF, which ought to be audible since its neighbor 11925.2, Rádio Bandeirantes is in Portuguese at S3. Other RB2 on 9724.9 was detected a bit earlier in bandscan. 11934.535 approx., July 13 at 0237, S3 gospel huxter in Portuguese, so R. RB2 is back after missing yesterday, and just a bit lower in its downward drift (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. [Re 16-27]: [IRCA] 730 BC Back on [CHMJ] --- I believe that's normally a back up for someone else, and was retuned for their use. They are definitely on AM :) It`s been said by one engineer that`s part of my facebook group that once it is safe to access the site (it is released to them?) they can get 10 kW omni directional (Paul Walker, AK, July 6, IRCA via DXLD) Strongly heard at S9 + 10 once again this morning at 1414 UT. Perhaps a very weak cochannel audible at same time. Normally much stronger here in Victoria with S9 + 40, so using their back up transmitter of 400 or 500 watts depending on source. Rainy day today which should help with the original fire. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, July 7, ibid., WORLD OF RADIO 1834) The 400 watt figure is direct from the mouth of one of the engineers with Corus Entertainment, CHMJ's owner. It was posted in the "I Take pictures of transmitter sites" facebook group I run (Paul Walker, ibid.) ** CANADA. 6069.975, odd signal from CFRX Toronto, English presenter at 0354 UT. Talk phone-in about black people working in factories. Concern matter about stolen goods and hijacking and kidnapping. Two domestic Canadian relays heard on both location in MA-NY US east coast, as well as in Edmonton Alberta CAN around 0405 UT July 8th. 6159.972 kHz, stronger inside US and West coast from CKZU Vancouver lower mainland. 6159.956 kHz, CKZN St. John`s, Nfld., heard at S=8 level in NY_NJ_DC_MA east coast (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. Analog TV audio skip logging --- 87.7 MHz, 1700 [UT], July 12, UNID, Ottawa, ONT, While driving around Nashville, TN today I noticed strong skip on the public radio portion of the FM broadcast band. I tuned below the broadcast portion to 87.7 Mhz and heard several Spanish speaking stations fading in and out. After 20 minutes or so heard English TV audio. Heard a number of commercials and weather forecast as well as a promo for CFRA radio in Ottawa. Did not get ID for signal I was hearing. Possibly the CHRO analog TV transmission which is listed as Pembroke, ONT near Ottawa. They supposedly transmit analog audio on channel 5 i.e. 81.7 Mhz, which is not a match for what I heard (David Hodgson, Nashville, TN, 1928 UT July 12, WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi David, Nice to hear from you. It`s been a long time. Here`s a convenient and presumably current listing of remaining Canadian analog TV stations on low band, including channel 6, one with Ottawa source: http://www.wtfda.org/canlbtv.html 6- CKCK2 Willow Bunch, SK CTV 52.7 6- CJOH6 Desoronto, ON CTV Ottawa 100 6z CHAT Medicine Hat, AB City TV 58 6z CJCB1 Inverness, NS CTV Atlantic 9.4 6+ CFTK1 Prince Rupert, BC CTV Two 2.44 6+ CHKM Kamloops, BC Global BC 4.0 6+ CFQC2 North Battleford, SK CTV 30.3 6+ CJCH6 Caledonia, NS CTV Atlantic 100 +102 low power analog stations 100 watts or less [2 thru 6] Revised 050316 to to change network affiliations. 73, (Glenn to David, via WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DXLD) Excellent. Thanks for the info. To what does the last number refer? Output power? It just goes to show that one does not need expensive equipment to hear interesting stuff on VHF. The radio is stock and the antenna is embedded in the back window glass of the car. I suspect this was a strong sporadic E opening. A couple hours after hearing the TV audio on the car radio, I made a ham radio contact on 15 meters (21 MHz) with Frank N8ORX in Michigan, which is not possible via F layer skip on that band at this distance especially in the Summer. Frank mentioned 6 meters was open yesterday (Dave Hodgson, ibid.) Yes, kW ERP. So 100 means top power {video; audio 0.2 or 0.1 of that?}. Yes, big Es opening widely reported today, one of few this summer (but not by me). (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Any conflicts about powers can be resolved by referring to the official IC database: http://sms-sgs.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/sms-sgs-prod.nsf/eng/h_00015.html Canada keeps track of both maximum ERP and average ERP in the case of directional antennas wrh (Bill Hepburn, WTFDA gg via DXLD) ** CHAD. Nothing heard of Chad 6165v kHz, - nor R Kaduna Nigeria 6089.v this July 12 morning (Wolfgang Büschel, 0607 UT, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 6035.0, PBS Yunnan (presumed). July 8 again had them running long past their usual 1200 sign off. As occasionally noted recently, today playing non-stop classical western orchestra music, with about one minute of dead air between selections; tuned in at 1212 and still being heard at my last check at 1251. Unable to confirm BBS/Bhutan reception today due to extended presents of PBS Yunnan (Ron Howard, Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1 with Par Electronics EF-SWL antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also BHUTAN ** CHINA. 4940 // 6115, Voice of Strait, 1030-1057, July 13. Clearly //; in Chinese with some pop songs; briefly at 1055 not // and then after 1057 no longer //; both fair. 7345-USB, V26 Chinese numbers station, 0906 & 0921*, July 13. weak with Chinese numbers. 17398-USB, Guangzhou Coast Radio Station, briefly noted at 1102, July 13. In Chinese with fair reception (Ron Howard, Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1 with Par Electronics EF-SWL antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. China Radio International --- On April 26th, China Radio International made a number of changes to their programme line-up, including the introduction of new programmes. Further changes were made sometime in mid June with additional new programmes. The programme day now runs from 1600 UT, so that for example you will find Weekend programming starting on Friday at 1600 UT. (For reference, prior to April, the programme day ran from 0000 UT). Former weekend programmes Heartbeat and Horizons now move to weekday slots and four new programmes are heard as follows: Chinese Theatre (on weekdays), Alight on Literature and Ink & Quill (on weekends), and Language Café (a daily English learning programme featuring English idioms). (Alan Roe, Listening Post, July BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) Followed by a table of full program schedule which will not reproduce in text (gh, DXLD) see aLSO WORLD OF HOROLOGY ** CHINA. CHINA PRESENTS ITS DIGITAL RADIO STANDARD Radio World: by Davide Moro on 07.05.2016 LAS VEGAS — China digital radio broadcasting in FM band, commonly referred to as CDR, is a digital radio broadcasting standard that operates in the FM band (87 MHz to 108 MHz). CDR is a type of In-Band On-Channel system that works in the FM band. Key Characteristics Chart The chart highlights the key characteristics of FM, HD Radio, China Digital Radio, DRM+ and DAB+. CREDIT: GatesAir/Tim Anderson Click on the Image to Enlarge [caption] IBOC is a hybrid method for simultaneously broadcasting digital radio and analog radio in the same frequency band by placing additional digital subcarriers in the sidebands of the AM or FM channel. Current IBOC systems include HD Radio, FMeXtra, CAM-D and DRM. SPECTRUM USAGE The CDR standard, operational since November 2013, is labeled as GY/T 268.1-2013 and was published by the authority State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television of the People’s Republic of China (SAPPRFT). At the spring NAB Show SAPPRFT’s Director of the Academy of Broadcasting Science, Peng Gao, held a session focusing on the background of the CDR Project and the general state of digital radio broadcasting in China. . . http://www.radioworld.com/article/china-presents-its-digital-radio-standard-/279175 Glenn: -- Chinese IBOC! Just wanted to be sure you saw this. 73z - (GREG HARDISON, CA, July 13, WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 1070, Trinchera Antiimperialista, Guantánamo, Guantánamo. 0105 July 8, 2016. Poor, occasionally surfacing through Radio Guamá, parallel better 1170 kc/s, with long Gilberto Santa Rosa music block. 1170, Trinchera Antiimperialista, Maisí, Guantánamo. 0057 July 8, 2016. Fair-good, with occasional Caracol, Cartagena co-channel. Cuban- accented female DJ, into "Conciencia" by Puerto Rican singer Gilberto Santa Rosa from 0059, segued to "Me Cambiaron Las Preguntas" also by Santa Rosa, and continued with more songs, including "Se Puede" all by the same artist until nearly the bottom of hour tune-out. No ID, but pulled a parallel to 1070 kc/s from 0105 onward. Website http://radioguantanamo.icrt.cu still logo brands this as "Radio Guantánamo Trinchera Antiimperialista" though I've never heard such an ID. Wonder if it may local daytime as Radio Guantánamo, and Trinchera evenings (or v. vs.). (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, NRD-535, IC-R75, ICF-7600GR, HQ-180A, roof dipole, active loop, All times/dates GMT, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 6165, July 7 at 0310, RHC English is missing from this frequency again tonight, leaving only 6000, in incessant complaining about the blockade. What about various Spanish frequencies scheduled this hour? 5040, 6060, 9535, 11670, 11840, 13740, 15230. Of those, these are not heard and presumed also OFF: 6060, 9535, 9710, 13740. 6165 is still off at 0437 check, but no further chex tonite. The frequencies still on are via Quivicán site; the missing ones are Bejucal or Bauta; except 5040 is Bauta. 6060, 6165, 9535, 9710, 11670, 13740, July 8 after 0204 UT chex, all these RHC frequencies scheduled this hour are OFF again tonight like yesterday and perhaps ante-yesterday. Only ones heard ON are: 5040 Spanish, 6000 English, 11840 & 15230 Spanish. 11840 as usual accompanied by JBA spurs on 11830 & 11850. A major breakdown at the Bejucal and Bauta sites? Or merely a mid-summer maintenance break? Now there`s less overkill by RHC on the bands. Probably there are similar absences in the morning and afternoon blox I have not investigated. Except I was not hearing 6000 in my unusual 1100 UT morning session July 7 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CUBA Missing a lot of RHC program frequencies services tonight, there seems a main power failure, a lot OFF tonight like 6060, 6100, 6165 kHz ?? > The frequencies still on are via Quivicán TITAN site; > the missing ones are Bejucal or Bauta ... 5040even, RHC Spanish at 0310 UT on July 8, 2 x 6.4 kHz wide music signal. Raul Torres escuchando... audio is a lot of distorted, NOT CLEAN tonight. 5025even, R Rebelde Cuban music, similar distortion like signal quality on 5040 kHz. 4765even, Radio Progreso, S=9+5dB or -63dBm signal. Violin music, nice sooooft music mixture, like my music taste. Narrow band audio like 2 x 2.6 kHz. Seemingly a re-built ute transmitter unit in use? 6000even, RHC English at 0345 UT, MUCH FLUTTERY unstable signal. S=9+15dB or -61dBm. Contracts reached between CUB and Finland / Vietnam business. Export running and prosperity. Studio-8 at 0348 UT. 6060 not - no signal from Cuba, only Brazilian SDRA on odd 6059.779 kHz. Nothing on 6100 and 6165 kHz either tonight (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9530, July 8 at 0205, Cuban pulse jamming against nothing, except: a JBA carrier, the second harmonic of 4765 Radio Progreso, as if they are trying to hide it, hi! This sounds like only one jammer, while there are several still attacking 9565, the Martí frequency never on the air at night; and MUCH heavier wall-of-noise on 9490 against Radio República, which really is there from France, but buried (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Checked all the Cuban SW fqs from 1300 UT onwards till 1340 UT on July 8. Used the remote SDR units in NJ/MA/NY on US east coast, s well as Edmonton Alberta in Canada. 11759.9985, The non-directional Latin America beam, S=8-9 in Alberta, 2 x 9.6 kHz wide signal in audio peaks. \\ 9710even S=6-7 at 1316 UT on July 8, 2 x 5.5 wide audio signal, in NJ/MA/NY east coast. 15230even, Poor backlobe-SoAM signal of S=5-6 strength in both, Alberta Canada as well as on US east coast target. 15370even, In Alberta noted only S=5 or -97dBm poor signal at 1322 UT on July 8, S=7-8 on east coast location. 9535even, Only S=2-3 threshold signal of CeAM antenna to Colombia - Mexico landscape. S=6-7 on east coast location. 9640.001, S=3-4 very tiny poor signal noted on remote units, of 110degr south-easterly Antilles target dipole. 17730even, At 1333 UT July 8, backlobe signal of Rio d'Janeiro Brazil 130degr array. S=3 poor in Alberta, S=8 or -78dBm on east coast. 17580even, On US east coast noted powerful S=9+10dB signal, excellent audio quality stated at 1337 UT on July 8. Male and female presenter, surprisingly up to 2 x 19 kHz broadband signal in peaks, "like a world record ...". and on noon July 9 too: 9849.997odd, Spanish palabras about Fidel Castro and connection to communist USSR and visitas en Moscou... at 1210 UT. S=7-8 signal in NJ/MA/NY east coast. But MUCH SCRATCHY DISTORTED audio quality. 6000 NOT - TITAN site at Quivicán San Felipe, nothing noted on US east coast this 11-13 UT segment on July 9. The channel was covered by CNR 1st px from Beijing-CHN heard on Alberta CAN remote unit. 9570even, CUB/CHN, CRI Cantonese sce relay heard at 1215 UT on July 9, via Cuban TITAN site at Quivicán San Felipe, 250 kW unit, S=9+20dB. BUT VERY LOW MODULATED audio level, - compared audio to next door RA Shepparton Australia English on 9580 kHz on S=9 from the Pacific westerly propagation path (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 8 / 9 via BC-DX 13 July via DXLD) ** CUBA. 15370, 15230, 11760, 9710, 9640, 9535, July 8 at 1323 check all these RHC frequencies on, as scheduled. 17580 and 17730 also listed, but 16m not really propagating yet. Evening check, July 9 at 0124: Spanish frequencies 9535, 9710, 11670, 11760, 11840 all on; 6060 at 0131; also 13740 at 0144. As for English at 0131, 6000 is S9+25 but very undermodulated while 6165 is just barely modulated, less than 6000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11635-11705, July 10 at 0019, RHC is splattering 35 kHz up and down from very strong 11670, which itself is overmodulated/distorted during talk; could be even worse during music. 11747-11773 approx., July 10 at 0020, this RHC frequency, 11760, is splattering only 13 kHz out, but on the hi side it merges with the splatter out to 11 kHz from BRAZIL`s RNA 11780. 13728-13752 approx., July 10 at 0032, this RHC Spanish is also overmodulated/distorted, splattering plus/minus 12 kHz or so. 6050-6070, July 10 at 0037, RHC 6060 is also splattering at least plus/minus 10, QRMing 6050 HCJB and 6070 CFRX. Tnx a lot, Arnie! 9710, July 10 at 1250, RHC is distorted and splattering plus/minus 10, vs 9700 RNZI. Similar situation from 9850. And 11760 at 1310 July 10, also overmodulated/distorted and splattering plus/minus 10. Likewise, July 11 at 0015 on 13740 and 11670. This seems to be the rule rather than exception at RHC lately. Maybe the feed level from the studio is too high, overdriving the transmitters (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15230, July 13 at 1321, RHC is undermodulated as usual, compensating for // 15370 being overmodulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. As referenced under PROPAGATION, a DXers Unlimited script for July 12 has been posted and abottom it, linx to some previous ones but they still appear to be sporadic by date: http://www.radiohc.cu/en/noticias/ciencias/99736-dxers-unlimited-middle-of-the-week-edition-for-tuesday-july-12-2016 As implied in the URL, these are now a subset under their Ciencias page, or Science & Environment News. Too bad we can`t skim them twice a week in case there be anything of interest; other than constantly changing and perishable propagation info, the topix are extremely repetitive (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. In a First, Radio Listener Visits Adventist Church in Cuba --- Adventist Review Ramírez listened to the program over her shortwave radio in her hometown of Bayamo, located on the eastern side of C . . . http://www.adventistreview.org/church-news/story4176-in-a-first-radio-listener-visits-adventist-church-in-cuba (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) ?? So they got *one* newsworthy convert after all those transmitter- hours via WRMI? Rather sad (gh, DXLD) ** CUBA [and non]. Cuban spy numbers story on CNN tonite ``Declassified: Untold Stories of American Spies: Cuba: Traitor on the Inside --- NEW --- The FBI and Defense Intelligence Agency team up to capture DIA Senior Analyst Ana Montes for allegedly passing sensitive intelligence to Cuba`` (ZAP2IT.com via gh, DXLD) The shortwave spy-numbers angle is first mentioned :35 minutes into the hour which I am watching at 02-03 UT Monday, and one repeat is scheduled at 05-06 UT (Glenn Hauser, 0241 UT July 11, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DX LISTENING DIGEST) http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/06/us/declassified-ana-montes-american-spy-profile/ Presumably, the full episode will be available for online viewing later (-- Richard Langley, NB, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11530, July 12 at 1718, Spy numbers in Spanish by YL, alternating with digibeeps, on a frequency which is WRMI elsewhen. 11635, July 12 at 1830, Spy numbers in Spanish by YL, alternating with digibeeps. This I still have in the BST-1 caradio memory, and often land on it during dead air. I certainly would not be listening to WHRI when it`s on 11635! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. QUEJAS EN REPÚBLICA DOMINICANA POR LA PROLIFERACIÓN DE RADIOS SIN AUTORIZACIÓN El director general de la emisora Z-101 dijo que las estaciones dominicanas que cumplen con la ley están siendo afectadas por una gran cantidad de emisoras que han sido instaladas de forma ilegal en distintos puntos del país, desde antes de la campaña política recién pasada. Willy Rodríguez precisó a ¡Alegría! que debido a ese problema, y a las interferencias de las emisoras haitianas, La Z-101 se ha visto obligada a instalar repetidores en todo el territorio nacional, “para poder garantizar la cobertura a la que tenemos derecho y que la audiencia reciba nuestro trabajo, porque tenemos un serio problema”. Indicó que las autoridades tienen un gran compromiso en este momento a nivel de telecomunicaciones, y es controlar una cantidad enorme de emisoras ilegales que han sido puestas al aire en gran parte del territorio nacional, incluyendo en Santiago y en Santo Domingo. “Le corresponde al Instituto Dominicano de las Telecomunicaciones - Indotel- buscar los mecanismos técnicos para ubicar esas estaciones y controlar el crecimiento de la radio ilegal en el país”, dijo. El veterano locutor conocido como “La leyenda de la radio” destacó que emisoras dominicanas están siendo seriamente afectadas por interferencias de estaciones haitianas, “y no dudo que muchas emisoras de nuestro país también estén azotando las emisiones de Haití. Allá hay un gran descontrol en ese sentido, como lo hay aquí”, expresó el también director y fundador del popular programa “El gobierno de la mañana”, de La Z-101. El comunicador agregó que en nuestra nación tenemos serios problemas y que el Instituto Dominicano de las Telecomunicaciones (Indotel) necesita revolución, cambios, modernismo. “Se requiere una institución para los tiempos actuales. La Ley de Telecomunicaciones es de 1998, hay que adecuarla a esta época. Este sector necesita un Indotel para la realidad actual de la radio y la televisión dominicanas”. Rodríguez añadió que tiene la impresión de que Gedeón Santos -el presidente del Indotel- está haciendo un gran esfuerzo para lograr todo esto, “pero no sabemos qué va a pasar en este momento de transición”. “Es un hombre con la capacidad para generar esos cambios, naturalmente, acompañado de un buen equipo técnico, porque una sola persona no tiene los conocimientos para manejar todo lo que tiene que ver con el órgano regulador de un país. Este es el momento”, aseguró Willy. La Z transmite actualmente en la frecuencia 101.3 FM para Santo Domingo, Puerto Plata y Monte Cristi; en 101.1 FM para el sur del país, y en 101.5 FM para Santiago, el este y San Juan de la Maguana. “El gobierno de la mañana”. Willy Rodríguez fundó “El gobierno de la mañana” en 1986, cuando asumió la dirección general de la emisora propiedad de Bienvenido Rodríguez. “Todos conocen el monstruo de audiencia nacional conformado por un equipo de profesionales. Pongo en primer plano a don Álvaro Arvelo hijo, quien ha sido uno de los grandes aportes a la comunicación en República Dominicana, y muy especialmente a este cambio que se genera de radio informativa y noticiosa en amplitud modulada (AM) a frecuencia modulada (FM)” (tomada de http://hoy.com.do via GRA blog via DXLD) ** EGYPT. 9315 English, 9965 Arabic, 12085 other Arabic, July 8 at 0203, 0208, all three R. Cairo frequencies are open carrier and dead air, instead of horrible noise from one or two of them. 9315 is S8, 12085 is only S3, often much stronger. No precise measurements made except to note that 9965.00 is exceptionally on-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12085.051, Radio Cairo Arabic at 02-07 UT, S=6 signal noted in Doha Qatar at 0415 UT July 9. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 9, dxldyg via DXLD) Reception of Radio Cairo, July 10: 1600-1800 on 15345*ABS 250 kW / 196 deg to CSAf English * QRM co-ch 15344vBUE 100 kW / 035 deg to WeEu German RAE from 1700UT https://www.youtube.com/embed/UjdcJiB6qfM https://www.youtube.com/embed/MP_NW9vBvpM -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Blgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15345.038 kHz Radio Cairo English 16-18 UT, noted at 1630 UT on July 11. S=9 in Germany. Remote SDR unit compared/aligned against EVEN channels BBC WOF 15330 VoA BOT 15265 VoA BOT 15580 as well as WWV / WWVH 15000 RMI Okeechobee 15770 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) 9745.00, July 11 at 0040, R. Cairo S8 with extremely distorted Arabic music and talk, but at least it`s on-frequency. 9965.22, July 11 at 0042, R. Cairo S9 with just-barely-modulated Arabic and whine. 9315.03, July 11 at 0044, R. Cairo S6 and dead air, maybe trace of modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also UNIDENTIFIED 9 MHz band ``Egyptian`` music station ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. Arthur Miller remarked in his logs this month that June “started brightly with a transmission of Radio Batá in Equatorial Guinea the highlight”. Sadly, it seemed to be just a one- off on 2nd June (continuing past midnight into 3rd June). Just a test of the transmitter or for a special occasion? The friendly football match between Uzbekistan and Equatorial Guinea on 2nd June had been cancelled and the President’s birthday wasn’t until 4th June. One can but hazard a guess as to the reason for the broadcast! Hopefully it won’t be the last we hear from Batá! Until next month, 73s and Good DX! (Alan Pennington, July BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** EUROPE. PIRATE RADIO, Eighties Radio back on air July 9, but ONLY for 34 minutes: 1730-1804 on 6040 unknown secret tx site to Eu English/Music and off air, 1808-1814 back on air with test tone, several words in English & off again http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/07/eighties-radio-back-on-air-july-9-but.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) PIRATE RADIO, Reception of Eighties Radio on July 13: 1921 & 2022 on 6040 unknown secret transmitter site to Eu English http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/07/reception-of-eighties-radio-on-july-13.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) So quite sure it`s not one of the licensed low-power Germans? (gh) ** FRANCE. [INTRUDER ALERT] Radio France on 7205 kHz. Sounding awfully wide. Do we have any list members in groundwave range (near Bourges, apparently) with an SDR unit, who can measure the actual width? Merci (John Kirk, VK4TJ, Australia, via intruderalert.iaru-r1.org June 27 via BC-DX 7 July via DXLD) Modulation Bandwidth: 7200-7210 kHz (Very sharp cut off at 7200 kHz). S=9+10dB. Splatters in range 7185-7200 kHz S7 signal, and 7210-7225 kHz S7 signal (-22dB from main modulation). (Francis F5MIU, via intruderalert.iaru-r1.org June 27, ibid.) See 3 screenshots taken on European remote SDR units today June 28, taken in Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, and at Sweden, between 2154 and exact 2200 UT June 28. I see always 10 kHz main power signal from 7200 till 7210 kHz, but also some spill over spurs in WIDE RANGE on 7186 to 7224 kHz range, - see especially 2200 UT shot, when Issoudun sign-OFF. 73 wolfy df5sx (via intruderalert.iaru-r1.org June 28 / 29, ibid.) ** FRANCE. Reception of Eye Radio and Radio Niger Delta via TDF July 8 0400-0500 11730 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg EaAf Ar/En/various Eye Radio 0500-0600 9515 ISS 250 kW / 170 deg WeAf English The Voice of Peace http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/07/reception-of-eye-radio-and-radio-niger.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Otherwise filed under NIGERIA [non]; SUDAN SOUTH [non] ** GERMANY. 11656 [sic], 0745, EMR [European Music Radio] via Germany. Mailbag, oldies, English, 554, 19/06 (Rafael Martínez, Barcelona, Catalonia, Grundig YB400, G3 & RP6901PLL with Tecsun AN-200 loop, July BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ?? Surely there is a typo in this frequency, but from what? (gh, DXLD) ** GERMANY. 9530, July 7 at 0312, Mideast? music at S9+10, not same as R. Progreso, 4765, which I recently confirmed to be harmonicizing on 9530. Aoki shows at 0300-0330 only, 9530 is AWR Tigrinya via Nauen (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. 9510, July 10 at 0014, VP S3 whistling music. Uplooked later in HFCC, it`s MBR in multiple languages from Nauen, 250 kW, 85 degrees at 2330-2430 daily. Aoki of July 8 details the Sunday languages, going at 0015 from Mis to Ben out of Athmeeya Yatra R., a.k.a. Gospel for Asia. Ben may be safely guessed as Bengali (Bangla), but Mis? EiBi`s readme.txt shows MIS Mising: India-Assam, Arunachal Pradesh (0.5 Megaspeakers), but the SIL language code for same in brackets is [mrg], while [ben] is Bengali, but plain BE without the brackets. Anyhow (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. Crap from the Past on 6005 kHz --- Hi All, Just saw this programme listed on the Shortwave Service schedule, looks like it's just a 'one-off' in English, but I'm certainly intrigued by the name! :-D 6005 1800-1930 Crap from the Past English Monday, 07/11/2016 Posted by: (Alan Gale, UK, 1642 UT July 11, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I think you will find that this programme comes from: Crap From The Past : Free Audio : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/crapfromthepast Crap From The Past: A pop music radio show for people who already know plenty about pop music. Hosted by Ron "Boogiemonster" Gerber. Friday nights ... Known about it for some years, some good novelty tunes on this show! Posted by: wirewaffle (Keith Knight, BDXC-UK yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DXLD) ** GERMANY. WHEREABOUTS OF 1951 BERLIN-BRITZ SHORTWAVE TRANSMITTER The attached newspaper clipping reports the whereabouts of the old Berlin-Britz shortwave transmitter. So the transmitter had already been scrapped, then the remains been taken away from the scrap yard at Neuruppin and in arduous work reassembled, at least parts of the final stage. This was done by a society who in 2009 just barely managed to save the historical collection of former Werk für Fernsehelektronik (WF) from being thrown away by Samsung when they cleared the building. WF products included transmitter tubes, also Image Orthicon tubes and complete studio cameras (for B&W; I understand that attempts to develop also colour cameras had been given up, found to be too complex and/or not economical) and so on: http://industriesalon.de/de/sammlung/wf-sammlung The idea to grab what remained of the old RIAS shortwave transmitter resulted from the circumstance that mediumwave jamming equipment, used until 1978 against the RIAS MW outlets, had been made by WF, too. The shortwave service of RIAS had been launched mostly due to this jamming, and so they think that the transmitter fits into their collection. Here is how it looked a bit more than a year after finally failing, with the console still being powered: http://www.radioeins.de/content/dam/rbb/rad/programm/medienmagazin/b/Britz%20Kurzwelle%20Endstufe%201280.jpg.jpg/img.jpg http://www.radioeins.de/content/dam/rbb/rad/programm/medienmagazin/b/Britz%20Kurzwelle%20Pult%201280.jpg.jpg/img.jpg http://www.radioeins.de/content/dam/rbb/rad/programm/medienmagazin/b/Britz%20Kurzwelle%20gesamt%201280.jpg.jpg/img.jpg And with the president posing for press photographers, reporting on the closure of 990 kHz: http://www.radioeins.de/content/dam/rbb/rad/programm/medienmagazin/b/089.jpg.jpg/img.jpg While still on air (Deutschlandradio press photo by Bettina Straub): http://www.radioeins.de/content/dam/rbb/rad/programm/medienmagazin/b/090.jpg.jpg/img.jpg The antenna, immediately behind the shack that housed this transmitter as well as an ancient 10 kW FM one and also the first mediumwave gear, removed already around 1990: http://www.radioeins.de/content/dam/rbb/rad/programm/medienmagazin/b/Britz%20KW-Antenne%201280.JPG.jpg/img.jpg Here one could in 2013 see that the game was over: http://www.radioeins.de/content/dam/rbb/rad/programm/medienmagazin/b/Britz%20Mod%201280.JPG.jpg/img.jpg And I guess the third from left level meter already had no inscription anymore at this point because... http://www.radioeins.de/content/dam/rbb/rad/programm/medienmagazin/b/Britz%20Kurzwelle%20neu%201280.jpg.jpg/img.jpg I don't know if any parts of this transmitter, such as the front plate with the chalk inscription, survived (Kai Ludwig, Germany, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) -----Original-Nachricht----- Datum: 2016-07-06T16:54:16+0200 Von: "Christian Schubert" Und noch ein Sender wandert ins Museum. Hier sind es wohl nur noch die Reste, weil man die Gesamtanlage schon dem Schrotthändler übergeben hatte. Ohne diese inzwischen schon von den Ostdeutschen in Gehorsam übernommene Siegerjustiz- Sprache kommt leider nichtmal so eine technische Notiz wie dieser Zeitungsartikel aus. C. (via Kai Ludwig, ibid.) ** GERMANY. Ismaning, Wiederau, Königs Wusterhausen, Zeesen etc. > 4 SW TX by US VoA [IBB] Ismaning August 1945 till April 1, 2005 I understand that this equipment has not been used beyond 1992. In fact the installation of six additional transmitters at the Wertachtal plant in the late eighties (now PDM ones, not the old plate modulation design until then installed) was an extension for VOA, meant as direct replacement for Ismaning. This is perhaps not so widely known because the West German postal office refused a fixed assignment of these transmitters as "the VOA relay Wertachtal" , unwilling to sacrifice operational flexibility for American sensitivities. Furthermore this lease arrangement had been terminated again already in the nineties. The later IBB leases, with which VOA returned to Wertachtal after an extended break, were a completely new arrangement. I understand that the additional Wertachtal transmitters ca. 1987/1988 took over all former Ismaning transmissions with the exception of 3980 kHz, lacking a 75 metres antenna (Wertachtal got one only when Deutsche Welle left Jülich). This 3980 kHz finally went to Biblis, as far as I known in 1992, when the strict separation of VOA and RFE/RL transmission facilities broke. The 2005 date (in fact it was 27 March 2005) refers to 1197 kHz. Has the transmitter afterwards been swiftly scrapped or as usable piece of equipment been moved to elsewhere? > DRP - Deutsche Reichspost Leipzig Wiederau. > French made SFR Paris (?Thomson-Houston? predecessor) 12 kW TX. > KWS, delivered in 1943, in use til April 12, 1945. The transmitter has not been put into operation under NS auspices anymore. That 12 April 1945 date refers to the cessation of NS transmissions on mediumwave. > DP - Deutsche Post [der DDR] in April 1947 til Sept 30, 1990 > used for Sender Leipzig, Radio DDR, and and RBI Radio Berlin International foreign sce of GDR til Sept 30, 1990. The old transmitter had in 1972 been replaced by a new Funkwerk Köpenick one, rated 100 kW. Probably the old rig has afterwards been kept as aux for some time, but it was gone already by 1989. The new Wiederau transmitter, just like Nauen and Königs Wusterhausen, transmit Radio Berlin International programming up to 2 Oct 1990, 23:59 CET (I have this from primary sources). Afterwards it had been used by Deutsche Welle until 1993, also for relays of Deutschlandfunk programming in Czech and Polish (on 5965 kHz I think, of course on a rhombic actually designed for long haul transmissions to Asia). > DRP - Deutsche Reichspost Königs-Wusterhausen 2 at Zeesen site. > domestic on Sept 1926, KWS from March 1933 til April 1945. > and later 5 kilometers distance away on older > DP - Deutsche Post [der DDR] Königs-Wusterhausen 1 Funkerberg It was the other way round: Königs Wusterhausen was first, starting with spark gap transmitters in 1915, first music transmissions on longwave in 1920 and the first shortwave broadcasts, on ca. 5770 kHz, in 1926. Zeesen started with a 30 kW longwave transmitter, later upgraded to 60 kW, in 1927. Shortwave followed with a 8 kW transmitter in 1929, followed by a second one with a first curtain antenna in 1932. Between 1934 and 1938 two large transmission complexes with eight 50 kW transmitters, numerous curtain antennas etc. have been built. All this equipment has been dismantled in 1945 and brought into the USSR. Two of the transmitters went to Sitkunai where they may or may not still rest in the transmitter hall. No traces of the other transmitters have been reported so far, but they may well have been used elsewhere in the USSR. Only Königs Wusterhausen facilities were still available, including shortwave transmitters installed for utility services but also usable for AM transmissions with 5 kW carrier power. One such transmitter had been activated in November 1945 on 6070 kHz and after a few weeks retuned to 6115 kHz, a frequency that remained in use at Königs Wusterhausen throughout the years until the very end in 1993. A second transmitter followed in early 1950 on 7150 kHz. As next step the postal office wanted to revive the Zeesen site, but at this point it had already been required by MfS for a spy numbers facility. Thus the postal office had to use Nauen instead, which otherwise would have remained a mere utility site. Königs Wusterhausen for its part got in 1961/1962 six Sneg transmitters, run in fixed 100 kW pairs, and in 1969 another 100 kW transmitter of a more recent Soviet design that already offered automated features. The whole stuff was not very flexible, especially lacking comprehensive antenna switching; any transmitter could only use a limited choice of antennas. It all ended the same way than at Wiederau. Just a few weeks before I still sat outside the compound and found as only local signal 6115 kHz, with the typical East German modulation Deutsche Welle wished to not get. But simply removing the W754+V754 processing was not as feasible as they were thinking at Cologne. > veiled GDR Clandestine transmissions in Greek and Turkish communist party radio services Probably also from Wiederau. For Königs Wusterhausen the site use is confirmed by local observations. I have not been able to find out more about these transmissions so far. It already starts with the question where this programming has been produced, at least where the tapes have been played out. Not necessarily at Nalepastraße, with Staatliches Komitee für Rundfunk apparently having been completely bypassed. > approx. summer 1995, when Bundespost Elmshorn ceased > DWL Deutsche Welle 6140 kHz daytime service. Wasn't this 6140 kHz transmission from Elmshorn USB or special in some other way? Either way Deutsche Welle not gave up the frequency at this point but continued to use it from transmitter KWZ 1 at Nauen, interrupted for two hours at noon when RNW in English had been transmit on either 41 or 31 metres towards the UK instead. From 2000, when the old KWZ 1 transmitter had finally been shut down (but later replaced by the ex- Jülich one still in use now), they even leased a Jülich transmitter again for their beloved 6140 if I recall correctly (Kai Ludwig, June 18, swsites yg via DXLD) ** GOA. 9704.97, July 11 at 0038, S4 carrier, but only modulation I can hear is some warbling tones. Presumed as scheduled here, AIR English until 0045 via a transmitter well-known to be defective (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 1007.9835, very odd frequency from Greek mediumwave Radio in Corfu island, at 0356 UT on July 9, \\ 729.0045 kHz GRC Athens Bogianti site, news at 0400 UT, also 1404.004 kHz GRC S=9+15dB signal strength during European morning logged in southern Italy SDR rx post in Calabria/Sicily. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 9, dxldyg via DXLD) ** GREECE. Voice of Greece on 9420 kHz & 9935 kHz on July 5: 0400-0800 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek*tx#3 0400-0800 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek*tx#1 * incl. nx in Serbian, Romanian, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Albanian and Arabic. Today missing Italian. Off at 0802 UT. http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/07/voice-of-greece-on-9420-khz-9935-khz-on.html Voice of Greece on 9420 and 9935 kHz on July 5/6: 1900-0600 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek tx#3 and off at 0601 1900-0600 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek tx#1 off at 0559.45! from 1800 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek tx#3 July 6 from 1845 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek tx#1 July 6 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/07/voice-of-greece-on-9420-and-9935-khz-on_6.html Reception of Voice of Greece on 9420 kHz on July 8/9: 1800-0555 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek tx#3 and off! no signal 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek tx#1 or 11645 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/07/reception-of-voice-of-greece-on-9420.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #956 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, July 11, 2016, via DXLD) Voice of Greece on 9420, 9935 & 11645 kHz on July 11/12: from 1900 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek tx#3 July 11 from 1900 on 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek tx#1 July 11 till 0618 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek*tx#3 July 12 till 0605 on 11645#AVL 100 kW / 182 deg to NoAf Greek*tx#1 July 12 # till 0557 strong co-ch Radio Dabanga in Arabic via SM di Galeria * including news only in Serbian, Romanian and off at 0605/0618UT! http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/07/voice-of-greece-on-9420-9935-11645-khz.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #956 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, July 11, 2016, via DXLD) Voice of Greece on 9420 kHz & 9935 kHz on July 13 from 1730 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek tx#3 from 1730 on 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek tx#1 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/07/voice-of-greece-on-9420-khz-9935-khz-on_13.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. Good reception of KTWR Trans World Radio Asia on July 8: 1527-1600 12120 TWR 100 kW / 293 deg SEAs English Mon-Sat ex till 1546 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/07/good-reception-of-ktwr-trans-world.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HUNGARY. Hi all, good reception last night in the center of France of the Hungarian radio: Kossuth radio on 1341 kHz; it's a temporary transmission during the renovation of the Solt transmitter (540 kHz), clear ID at 1900 UT with news. Best 73 (Franck Baste, Center France, July 12, mwcircle yg via DXLD) Probably sync mode on 1341 kHz? Szolnok location 47 11 19.91 N 20 13 45.06 E Siofok Balatonszabadi 46 55 18.18 N 18 06 49.97 E (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 7, BC-DX 13 July via DXLD) ** INDIA. Dear friends, AWR Hindi Programme Lamahe is scheduled in DRM on 1144 kHz FM Rainbow Delhi Fri, Sat, Sun 1015-1030 UT via Chinsurah (1000 kw Tx) Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India Mobile: +91 94416 96043 http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos, July 8, dx_india yg via DXLD) 1144 kHz? Another strange frequency, because it is +10 from the analog 1134 megawatt; never mind that there are two lower powered AIR outlets on 1143. So is this part of a more extensive DRM sked on 1144? (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Dear Glenn, Thanks for the email. AIR's DRM frequency is +10 kHz than the analog frequency. Full frequency chart is in their official website http://allindiaradio.gov.in/Oppurtunities/Tenders/Documents/DRM%20Medium%20Wave%20update%2004042016.pdf It is learnt that 1134/1144 kHz will change completely to 594/604 kHz once the new service to Bangladesh is inaugurated. Till the inauguration they will be on 1134/1144 & 594/604 at various times. Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The current schedule of AIR Chinsurah is: 594: 0130-0230 Nepali, 0230-0300 News from Delhi, 0700-0800 Nepali 1134: 1000-1100 GOS-2, 1115-1215 Tamil, 1215-1315 Burmese 594: 1330-1430 Nepali, 1515-1600 News from Delhi [English?]. DRM is now available with Delhi Rainbow channel at all the transmissions on 604 kHz during analogue broadcast times on 594 kHz and on 1144 kHz during 1134 kHz broadcast times. May vary the timings soon till the run-up to inauguration date of new Bangla Service. AWR program was heard yesterday (10 July 2016) in DRM on 1144 kHz at 1015-1030 UT. AWR program in Hindi is scheduled on Fri/Sat/Sun at 1015-1030 UTC on AIR FM Rainbow Nettwork Delhi Thanks to Alok Das Gupta, Kolkata (via Jose Jacob, July 11, dx_india yg via DXLD) 1134/1144 both missing today at 1115 UT. 73, (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, July 11, ibid.) I've checked at 1215 hrs and observed 1134 is carrying Burmese and DRM on 1144 kHz is carrying Delhi FM Rainbow with a program relay of Gyan Pith Award ceremony (-Alok Dasgupta, Kolkata, ibid.) ** INDONESIA. 3325, Pro 1 RRI Palangkaraya, 1224, July 12. Longer than normal Jakarta news relay (usually about 1201 to 1220, so today was a very busy day for news), which ended at 1239 with unid patriotic song; news // 4869.89, RRI Wamena (both about equal strength). 1300 full "Programa satu RRI Palangkaraya" ID and singing ID jingle; promo for an RRI app for "audio on demand" and "audio streaming"; my local sunrise at 1259 UT, so reception was almost fair, with QRN (static). My audio at https://goo.gl/I49P6b (Ron Howard, Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1 with Par Electronics EF-SWL antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 7289.93, RRI Nabire (tentative), 0931 and subsequent checking till final check at 1026, July 13. Only a decent open carrier heard; never any audio; if they were transmitting some modulation, thought I would have a trace of it, but none detected (Ron Howard, Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1 with Par Electronics EF-SWL antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9525.89, VOI, 1301-1326, July 8. In English with news, "Focus," "News in Brief," "Indonesia Wonders" (no segment of "Today in History"); promo for "VOI's International Quiz 2016"; this quiz only has three questions to answer to possibly win a free trip to Indonesia; poor, but semi-readable, which is certainly better than the norm here. In the past VOI carried "Exotic Indonesia" on Friday, but clearly was not on today and has been a long time now since I last heard that program. My audio https://goo.gl/JX4WvM July 9 & 10, VOI was off the air during my usual monitoring times (Ron Howard, Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1 with Par Electronics EF-SWL antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) No signal of Voice of Indonesia on July 9/10: 1000-1100 on 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 135 deg to AUS English 1100-1200 on 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 010 deg to EaAs Chinese 1200-1300 on 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 010 deg to EaAs Japanese 1300-1400 on 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 010 deg to EaAs English 1400-1500 on 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 010 deg to EaAs Indonesian 1500-1600 on 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 010 deg to EaAs Chinese 1600-1700 on 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 290 deg to N/ME Arabic 1700-1800 on 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 290 deg to WeEu Spanish 1800-1900 on 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 290 deg to WeEu German 1900-2000 on 9525.9*JAK 250 kW / 290 deg to WeEu English 2000-2100 on 9525.9*JAK 250 kW / 290 deg to WeEu French http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/07/no-signal-of-voice-of-indonesia-on-july.html (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) [non-log]. 9525.89, VOI. July 11 checking 1044 and subsequently till 1248, found them still off the air (Ron Howard, Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1 with Par Electronics EF-SWL antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9526-, July 11 around 1305, no signal from VOI. Seems to be missing a lot lately. Ron Howard agrees it was off today, last heard on July 8. Atsunori Ishida site http://rri.jpn.org says it has not been heard since July 8 except for 5 minutes of carrier on July 9 (And RRI Makassar 4750v not heard since June 8) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Not traced on July 10th and 11 (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DXLD) V of Indonesia on 9525.9 is on air today July 12. Videos will be uploaded later today -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, 1432 UT, dxldyg via DXLD) 9525.89, VOI. July 12 found back on the air at 1220 in Japanese. Also observed today by Ivo Ivanov and Atsunori Ishida (Ron Howard, Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1 with Par Electronics EF-SWL antenna, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9526-, July 12 at 1328, JBA carrier, so it`s safe to assume VOI English hour is back on the air after missing several days. I NEVER have enough signal + modulation to listen to the programming which I used to enjoy (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Indonesia was back on air, July 12: 1000-1100 on 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 135 deg to AUS English 1100-1200 on 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 010 deg to EaAs Chinese 1200-1300 on 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 010 deg to EaAs Japanese 1300-1400 on 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 010 deg to EaAs English 1400-1500 on 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 010 deg to EaAs Indonesian 1500-1600 on 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 010 deg to EaAs Chinese 1600-1700 on 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 290 deg to N/ME Arabic 1700-1800 on 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 290 deg to WeEu Spanish 1800-1900 on 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 290 deg to WeEu German 1900-2000 on 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 290 deg to WeEu English 2000-2100 on 9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 290 deg to WeEu French From 1900 totally blocked by CRI in Russian on nominal 9525.0 kHz http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/07/voice-of-indonesia-was-back-on-air-july.html -- 73! Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, Web: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/ dxldyg via DXLD) 9525.891 exact fq this 10 UT morning. Carrier already on air, when tuned-in around 0954 UT on July 13. Orchestra pause music heard at 0958-1000 UT. S=8 fluttery signal noted in remote SDR unit at Brisbane Queensland Australia. Not much strong signal, so the 135 degree azimuth given by Ivo in Bulgaria in his schedule table is to question. HFCC table request by RRI show 10-11 135deg, 11-16 10deg, and 16-21 UT towards ME/NE/EUR 290deg. V Of Indonesia fanfare noted at 1001:15 UT, station ID in English announcement, frequency 9525 kHz mentioned. Not much QRM by adjacents downunder: 9519.982 kHz CNR PBS Nei Menggu Huhhot, and 9530even of CNR11 program via Baoji bcast center. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, July 13, WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. SATELLITE TV MONITORING – STILL BEST STUFF ON C-BAND I am ALMOST done tweaking the hardware of my satellite system. I need to secure the cap of the weather cover with some screws (right now it is held in place with some carefully placed co-ax seal!) but that is all I need do to get it 'fully done'. It is now fully functional, with the ability to receive both C band and Ku band FTA ("Free To Air" a/k/a no subscription or monthly bill needed to receive) TV and radio. I'm FAR from done exploring what sorts of signals might be up there on those birds, and based on my playing around the last couple of months, I'd say cataloging what is up there may be a 'work in progress' -- it may NEVER be done -- because it changes every few weeks! Stations go and stations appear at random, with no apparent warning or logic. I installed a small amplifier for the Ku band to make those signals more reliable -- some were flirting with 47% signal quality and that just isn't good enough. The amp gets them to 55% which is generally stable and easily watchable. The amp was a 'close out' item from Radio Shack in Imlay City that cost me about $2 so I guess it was worth it! ANYHOO -- there will be lots of logs in the coming months as to what you might see if you looked birdward for international broadcasting. But...The "short" version? "Everyone" knows that 'everything' has moved the the Ku band so you don't need a big dish any more. I have discovered that, as usual, "everyone" is wrong. I have found that by far, MOST of the really interesting stuff I've seen, and 95+% of what I would want to watch more than a few minutes of to get an ID is on the C band. NBC has its network feed there, as does PBS. NASA TV, Deutsche Welle, Mexican TV like Puebla TV, and 'second stream' networks like Movies! and Cozi-TV etc. plus many many others are all on the C band. Ku has all the subscription/scrambled services that you need to pay for, and the Galaxy 19 satellite has all the Middle Eastern "religion" and such classics as the "University Network" so you can stare at Reverend Barbi as she pontificates, and Brother Swear (he only does audio, but he's on G-19 too) in glorious mono without the SW propagation issues. So far the only thing I've seen on Ku band only (some things like PBS and NBC are on BOTH Ku and C band...) that I would make a point of watching more than a few minutes of is NHK World TV. RT (Russia Today) is kind of fun, and their English service is only on Ku Band, but, frankly, it gets kind of old VERY quickly. Sputnik Radio (which is also on Ku band...) is actually better than TV from Russia. Go figure. Now don't get me wrong, there are a couple of stations (Yemen TV as one example) which provide much unintentional entertainment. There is even an "Arabic Robo-kids" show (Instead of the Bible, it is the Koran that is read 'call and response' style with kids sitting in the audience!) and the hats some of the Imams wear are truly inspired. These guys know hats! Yes, there will be photos eventually. The 'bottom line' is that there is a HUGE learning curve to getting FTA satellite reception. Fun, but don't expect to 'turn it on and watch'! —Satellite 113w, Eutel 113, 3.750-V/1454 Msps, Telemar, Yucatan in Spanish with s/off including videos of Mexican scenes and National Anthem with subtitles in Spanish and English. It is a very violent, gorey song -- all kinds of cannons and killing and 'defending the fatherland'! I never realized! Static screen with "Bienvenidos" and mentioning programming would resume at 0900. 59% quality, 0400-0406 2/Jul (Ken Zichi, Port Hope MI2, MARE Tipsheet July 9 via DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL [near] VACUUM. MESSAGE FROM MARS? MORSE CODE DUNES FOUND ON RED PLANET By Doug Criss, CNN Updated 7:57 AM ET, Wed July 13, 2016 http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/12/health/mars-morse-code-trnd/index.html Source: CNN Morse code spotted on Mars? 00:45 Story highlights A NASA camera's captured sand dunes of dots and dashes on Mars Scientists don't know how the Morse code-like dunes formed (CNN) [caption] Yes, astronomers have discovered dark sand dunes on Mars that resemble Morse code. But no, they don't think little green men are trying to tell us something. The images of the dark dunes were snapped in February by a high- resolution camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. So just what are they? A report from the red planet, or just a weird little topographical anomaly? Definitely the latter, NASA explains. Spacecraft captures unique images of Jupiter 00:56 The dunes have formed in a depressed area that's probably an old asteroid impact crater. The circular depression has had a weird effect on both the amount of sand available to form dunes and the way the winds carve up the dunes, NASA said. So instead of the long, flowing lines of dunes we're used to seeing on our planet, the winds on this part of Mars swirled in such a way to create distinct dots and dashes of dunes. Why does this happen there? Scientists don't know. "This process is not well understood at present and is one motivation (to study) this area," NASA said in a press release. So, if you were to convert the dune's dots and dashes to the written word, just what does it say? Planetary scientist Veronica Bray translated it for Gizmodo.com: NEE NED ZB 6TNN DEIBEDH SIEFI EBEEE SSIEI ESEE SEEE !! Well, if the Martians are trying to speak to us, they really need to work on their sentence structure (via Terry Krueger, FL, DXLD) Too many E`s, I`s, S`s and H`s, all made up of single dots to be significant. It could also mean that Samuel F. B. was a Martian (gh, DXLD) ** IRAN. [Re 16-26:] ``A "Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran" (a.k.a. Pars Today) in Russian long gone from 702 kHz to broadcast 1920-2020 UT, or just today June 19, 2016 they do not broadcast? Now is the time to 702 kHz Iran but also in Persian. June 20, 2016 at 702 kHz and can not hear the "Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran" in Russian. At this time, the transfer of the Persian. It can be concluded that the broadcast in Russian on MW (702 KHz) they no longer have. http://dxing.ru/forum.html?func=view&catid=20&id=35030#35043 via RusDX June 26 via DXLD)`` Iran. More recently passed the message that "Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran" went to the frequency 702 kHz. This information was inaccurate. Sergey Smolin July 6 in group "deneb-radio-dx" said: in the south of the Dnepropetrovsk region, Ukraine I took station on 702 kHz, SINPO 54444, Receiver: Sangean ATS 803A (RusDX July 10 via DXLD) ** IRAN [non]. Good signal of R. Ranginkaman via BaBcoCk Grigoriopol July 8 1600-1630 7575 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg WeAs Farsi Mon/Fri Radio Rainbow: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/07/good-signal-of-radio-ranginkaman-via.html Good signal of Sedoye Bahar via BaBcoCk Grigoriopol on July 8: 1730-1800 7495 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg WeAs Farsi Thu/Fri Voice of Spring http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/07/good-signal-of-sedoye-bahar-via-babcock.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRELAND NORTHERN [non]. Special transmission of Radio Northern Ireland, July 9 – see ARMENIA ** ISRAEL. Re Voice of Hope: >>> We have been assigned to an existing transmitter site in the Upper Galilee region. [...] 1287 used to be 100 kW at Ramle for Galei Tzahal, the IDF station which was also on SW; really exactly same transmitter revived?? <<< According to these descriptions: No. The former 1287 kHz transmitter was apparently a few kilometres southeast of Tel Aviv, at least not in northern Israel. Perhaps it no longer exists at all, it had probably a specific reason that they abandoned 1287 years before they abandoned mediumwave altogether (Kai Ludwig, Germany, July 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Northern MW location in Upper Galilee region is She'ar-Yeshuv (Northern) 882 and 1458 kHz. 33 12'57.39"N 35 38'39.75"E https://binged.it/29BubKj 3.5 kms south of Lebanon-Israel border. Is not a problem to change 1287 ITU registration from Ramlah to She'ar-Yeshuv. Some MW masts are still seen on the northern site Akko 32 54'42.10"N 35 06'59.38"E https://binged.it/29BuDII ISR Akko 738 ex927 1206 1575 kHz, 55 kilometers west of Upper Galilee region. Old 1287 kHz MW Ramlah MW location was 159 kilometers southwards of Upper Galilee region, in central Israel, not far from other Galei Tzahal Yavne transmitter site. 73 wb (via Mauno Ritola, Finland, mwmasts yg via DXLD) > Northern MW location in Upper Galilee region > is She'ar-Yeshuv (Northern) 882 and 1458 kHz. > 33 12'57.39"N 35 38'39.75"E > > https://binged.it/29BubKj https://goo.gl/maps/Fz637PCBgh92 More nice views, with even the base insulator of the antenna visible, further on the street. Looks pretty new, with the shiny building proudly carrying the Bezeq logo. Indeed the frequency lists in WRTH 2003 suggest that this transmitter did not exist yet at this point. > Some MW masts are still seen on the northern site Akko > 32 54'42.10"N 35 06'59.38"E > > https://binged.it/29BuDII > > ISR Akko 738 ex927 1206 1575 kHz > 55 kilometers west of Upper Galilee region. And already outside it, so to be considered only if the reference to Upper Galilee was loose. By the way, the 10 kW on 738 kHz is a measly replacement for a 1200 kW facility they had to give up due to concerns of electromagnetic radiation if I recall correctly, thus losing most of the mediumwave coverage of Arabic-language radio. And even this 10 kW aux appears to have been established only after 738 was completely off for years. > Old 1287 kHz MW Ramlah MW location was 159 kilometers southwards of Upper Galilee region, in central Israel, not far from other Galei Tzahal Yavne transmitter site. Yavne is of course a Bezeq facility, too, the one with also the shortwave transmitters that may or may not be still in operational condition now, three years after the last official transmissions. The story seems to be such that first the 1287 kHz transmitter has been closed, at some point between 2003 and 2010. Then only after a break a Yavne service started instead, not on 1287 but on 945 kHz instead (why??), and apparently continued until Galei Zahal abandoned mediumwave altogether. > Some MW masts are still seen on the northern site Akko > 32 54'42.10"N 35 06'59.38"E It's interesting that two apparent shortwave LP's are there as well: https://goo.gl/maps/NbNd8dmDGjH2 http://www.panoramio.com/photo/95159984 Also to be seen there this, tsk: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/131072517 They must have brought it in by ship. To my knowledge it is not even theoretically, in the sense of usable tracks, possible for a train to reach Israel anymore (Kai Ludwig, July 10, dxldyg via DXLD) Members, A warm thank you for the work of Wolfgang, Kai, and Mauno. I have now removed the reference to Ramlah in the Inactive or Closed spreadsheet. Now the closed station on 1278 kHz shows as being previously used from She'ar-Yeshuv (Northern). 73 and 88 Dan (Goldfarb, July 12, mwmasts yg via DXLD) Well, it's 1287 kHz, and I always saw it listed as "Tel Aviv". Its exact location and the story behind its closure, years before Galei Zahal abandoned mediumwave altogether, are a story to be told by experts of Israelian broadcasting. The She'ar Yashuv facility (that's a location just three kilometres away from the tripoint Israel / Lebanon / Golan Heights) appears to be hardly older than ten years. It did not appear in earlier frequency lists, and it certainly looks new: https://goo.gl/maps/Fz637PCBgh92 It remains to be seen if really this 2 x 10 kW facility at a comparatively remote location will be expanded to house also an additional 100 kW. Perhaps the reference to Upper Galilee was a bit loose and the Akko mediumwave facility is in mind instead. But, as said, this remains to be seen. By the way, are any photos or just details about the exact location of the former 945/6280/11530 kHz facility of Voice of Hope known? The QSL cards they sent out back then were absolutely generic (Kai Ludwig, ibid.) Kai, ich habe noch mal 'Butter bei die Fische' getan, und aus dem Archiv einige BBC_Monitoring, Numero Uno, Cumbre_DX items heraus kopiert, von der Errichtung in 1979, dann die Kriegskämpfe um 1995/1996/2000years, bis zur Wiedererrichtung nach dem SW-Brand in 1999, dann der Rückzug der Israel Armee am '20 May 2000' Jahr auch noch. Die Koordinaten habe ich noch mal präzisiert / angereichert. Der vormalige Standort der 1200 kW KOL Bezeq Anlage etc. etc. VoHope, das kurze Gastspiel in 1996 bis Winter-97 in Tiblisi-Georgien durch George Jacobs als Ausweiche, danach in W97 notgedrungen nach DTK Juelich ausgewichen bis man wieder einen SW Sender durch Ludo Maes in 1999 geliefert bekam... mlg (Wolfgang, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ISRAEL [non?]. DIVING TO THE VOICE OF PEACE SHIPWRECK The Voice of Peace was an offshore radio station formed by Abie Nathan which started broadcasts on 19 May 1973 off the Israeli coast. During its 20 years the station broadcast music and Abie preached for peace in the Middle East and raised money for this cause. The ship was deliberately wrecked in 1993. On 21 May this year the Israel Wreck Exploration Team dived and found the wreck of the Voice of Peace ship lying on a muddy bank between Tel Aviv and Ashdod approximately 100m below sea level and surprisingly standing on her stern. A video of this dive has been posted to YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTKFC8J4CyU (July BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** ITALY. Weekly broadcast of Marconi Radio International, July 13: 1830-1930 on 15070 unknown secret tx site to Eu various langs USB 2000-2100 on 7700 unknown secret tx site to Eu various langs USB 2130-2230 on 7700 unknown secret tx site to Eu various langs USB Videos will be uploaded today July 13 if it propagation is good. http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/07/weekly-broadcast-of-marconi-radio_13.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY [and non]. RADIO STAR INTERNATIONAL - JULY 2016 SCHEDULE Thank you very much for the great feedback that we had from the first broadcast on shortwaves of RADIO STAR INTERNATIONAL on 6070 Khz past July 1st at 20:00 (8.00 PM UTC). From this Friday, July 8th, we will have a weekly broadcast, but this time at 21:00 UTC (9:00 PM UTC) due the strong interferences that last time we had from Vatican Radio from 20.40 UTC (Arab programs from Vatican transmitter on the same frequency). It is also active a 24/7 streaming with the reply of weekly program and some music , here Radio Star International Website or through our facebook group here https://www.facebook.com/groups/129309598258/?ref=ts&fref=ts Radio Star also broadcasts 24/7 the best music without any commercial, on digital terrestrial in North Italy, Lombardy and Emilia Romagna, on channels 678/271, the international program is in simulcast. This is the schedule of next broadcasts. RADIO STAR INTERNATIONAL - CHANNEL 292 transmitter in Germany http://www.channel292.de Friday July 8th - 21:00 UTC - Station ID multilanguage - "Italia in onda " in italian - Music - Contacts - "Ciao Mondo" in italian , QSL reports and messages from listeners - in italian - Music - Station ID multilanguage, contacts and end. Friday July 15th - 21:00 UTC - Station ID multilanguage - "Italia in onda " in italian - Music - Contacts - "Ciao Mondo" in italian , QSL reports and messages from listeners - in italian - Requested music - Station ID multilanguage, contacts and end. Friday July 22nd - 21:00 UTC - Station ID multilanguage - "Italia in onda " in italian - Music - Contacts - "Ciao Mondo" in italian , QSL reports and messages from listeners - in italian - "Un angolo di paradiso" documentary and interviews - in italian - Station ID multilanguage, contacts and end. Friday July 29th - 21:00 UTC - Station ID multilanguage - "Italia in onda " in italian - Music - Contacts - "Ciao Mondo" in italian , QSL reports and messages from listeners - in italian - "Radiorama on air " in italian - Station ID multilanguage, contacts and end. Any reception report, comment or feedback is really appreciated. Max - Radio Star International (via Roberto Scaglione, Sicily, July 7, shortwave yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DXLD) ** ITALY. Marconi Radio International was observed signing-on 7700 kHz (usb) at 2130 UT on 9 July 2016. Interval signal interspersed with IDs in Italian and English, then music and introductory announcements in Italian, English, Japanese, German. Reception was fair via Twente remote receiver in Netherlands. A recording of this will appear on Interval Signals Online (intervalsignals.net) in due course (David Kernick, Interval Signals Online, July 10, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Marconi Radio International - Broadcast Schedule of 13 July 2016 --- Just a short reminder of our regular weekly broadcasts on Wednesdays. Marconi Radio International will once again be on air today 13 July 2016, as follows: 1830-1930 UT on 15070 kHz (USB mode), 2000-2100 UT and 2130-2230 UT on 7700 kHz (USB Mode). (direct and via Manuel Méndez, Spain, dxldyg via DXLD) Very low power; anyone ever hear this in North America? (gh, DXLD) ** JAPAN. 3945, July 7 at 1134 music not // 6115 talk. 3945 is S9+10 with song and almost on-frequency approx. 3945.015. Checking 3945 just in case for VANUATU [q.v.], but this must be R. Nikkei 2, which on weekdays runs until 1400, while // 6115 goes off at 1000, leaving that frequency to Voice of Strait, China. Comparing 3945 to Nikkei 1 on 3925, with classical music, tho meter reading is equivalent S9+10, 3945 has significantly more fading, why? Nikkei is not listed in HFCC, to check their alleged powers and azimuths; however, WRTH shows JOZ 3925 is 50 kW, while JOZ5 3945 is only 10 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [non]. 11680, July 7 at 0316, Japanese, fair with deep fades. It`s NHK via GERMANY at 03-05, 250 kW at 140 degrees, so close to directly off the back here. Same is on 5910, 500 kW, 290 degrees from FRANCE, which I often pause upon during a wide variety of music with VG signal here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. 6135, July 7 at 1122, noise jamming, no doubt vs Voice of Freedom, Korea South, which cannot be heard here under it. 3985, July 7 at 1133, noise jamming much like on 6135, this time against Echo of Hope (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. Voice of Korea European service probably from 1330 on new or wrong 15180, instead of 15245 empty channel at 1415 and 1615 UT. 15180 is scheduled till 1320 to Americas. Videos later today -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, July 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) D.P.R., Voice of Korea on new or wrong 15180, instead of 15245 July 13 1330-1820 on 15180*KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg WeEu Eng/Fr/Eng/Fr/Korean INSTEAD OF 15245 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg WeEu, empty 1415/1615/1815 UT from 1830 on 15245 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg WeEu French instead of English * plus co-ch 15180 SMG 250 kW / 146 deg EaAf English VOA South Sudan in Focus 1630-1700 * plus co-ch 15180 WOF 300 kW / 170 deg NoAf French BBC 1800-1830 UT. videos: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/07/voice-of-korea-on-new-or-wrong-15180.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) KOREA D.P.R. checked VoKorea Kujang schedule between 1930 and 2005 UT July 13 in Tokyo Japan remote SDR unit. 15244.974 kHz at 1935 UT, Spanish sce, S=8 13759.983 kHz at 1946 UT, Spanish sce, S=8 12015.000 kHz at 1952 UT, German sce, S=9+5dB in Tokyo ! 11909.992 kHz at 1954 UT, English sce, S=9 11635.000 kHz at 1956 UT. English sce, S=9 9875.000 kHz at 1958 UT, English sce, S=8-9 9425.001 kHz at 2000 UT, German sce, S=7 7210.000 kHz at 2005 UT, English sce, S=9+15dB in Tokyo 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) 1930-2027 7210 KUJ 200 kW / 271 deg to SoAF English 1930-2027 9425 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEUR German 1930-2027 9875 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to NE/ME English 1930-2027 11635 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to NE/ME English 1930-2027 11910 KUJ 200 kW / 271 deg to SoAF English 1930-2027 12015 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEUR German 1930-2027 13760 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEUR Spanish 1930-2027 15245 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEUR Spanish FYI, meine gestrigen mess-technischen Daten. At 1105 UT July 14 on 15179.975 kHz exact measured in Tokyo Japan. 1030-1127 15180 KUJ 200 kW 28 deg to CeSoAM English mlg (Wolfgang, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. Sea Breeze via 1431 kHz, MONGOLIA: q.v. ** KOREA NORTH [non]. UZBEKISTAN, Voice of Martyrs on 7525/7505 kHz via RED Telecom, July 5: 1530-1535 NF 7525 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg Korean, instead of 7505 A-16 1535-1700 on 7505 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg Korean/English, as scheduled http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/07/uzbekistannon-voice-of-martyrs-on.html http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/07/dx-re-mix-news-956.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #956 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, July 11, 2016, via DXLD) Or just a Juche jamming-evading jump? (gh) ** LIBYA. 674.9935, HQ prayer performed at 0434 UT on July 12, powerful S=9+30dB signal strength logged on Zakynthos GRC island. Nothing heard of 1053.016 kHz LBY Tripoli capital program (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 12, BC-DX 13 July via DXLD) ** MADAGASCAR. 5010.806, Radio Madagasikara, R Nasionaly Malagasy, center frequency, as usual unstable transmitter hopping 25 Hertz up and down, at 1746 UT on July 9, S=8 signal. Noted on remote SDR unit of Graham D. Bell, Simonstown, South Africa Rep. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 9, BC-DX 13 July via DXLD) ** MEXICO. 650, July 7 at 1106 UT, Sinaloa ads, including mariscos frescos at Mariscos del Navigante; from XETNT Los Mochis. I`m finally up early enough in the summer for XE sunrise skip: Enid LSR today is 1121 UT, inching later since earliest 1113 UT a month ago. Besides 5 other XE logs within a few minutes of this time, some other familiar signals were passed across, such as 550, 710. Not much storm noise now, but there is lightning as close as southwest Missouri into southeast Kansas. I consult this lighting-locator site with a map of TX also covering all of OK and parts of other adjacent states: http://en.blitzortung.org/live_lightning_maps.php?map=31 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 780, July 7 at 1102 UT, after choral NA, ID or sign-on from San Fernando, Tamaulipas, on FM 102.7. I guess they really said 103.7, as listed for XESFT. No KSPI OK carrier yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 830, July 7 at 1109 UT, 105.7 ID from La Caliente, which leads to XELN, Linares, Nuevo León. WRTH and IRCA show 5/0.25 kW; Cantú 3/0.25 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 900, July 7 at 1055 UT, choral NA, 1057 XEOK ID mentioning Guadalupe, Nuevo León, near Monterrey station. It`s usually this, not XEW in further DF we hear any more (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 940, July 7 at 1101 UT, ad for Laboratorios Mayo sales event coming up in Pachuca, Hidalgo; 1102 choral NA; 1104 ID as ``24 horas, desde México, XEQ-AM, 50 mil watts, La Ke Buena`` and into ``El Morning Show de la Ke Buena``. Yes, the title in English. No audible het so using on-frequency transmitter, and big dominant signal, unlike other major DF stations (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1090, July 7 at 1113 UT, dramatized history with music about Oaxaca, loops SSW. Both strongly suggest it`s XEAU, Milenio Radio in Monterrey NL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BEAT this week --- Re 16-27: Seis nuevas estaciones de radio para el sur de Chihuahua The lists from IFT-4 were published last year; they're here. http://www.ift.org.mx/sites/default/files/industria/espectro-radioelectrico/radiodifusion/2016/4/convocatoriaift-4_1.pdf It's 191 FMs and 66 AMs. The new AMs are kind of a surprise in any regard. Many of them are on frequencies formerly used for other services, namely migrated stations. I suspect there'll be a few stations that want to get back on AM. These would be new FMs for Guachochi — their first. By 2020 they'll have a Cadena Tres transmitter too (Raymie Humbert, Phoenix AZ, July 7, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) The 66 AMs are at the bottom, pdf pages 7-9. As original is a photocopy, will not copy properly into text. Strangely enough, all are specified as ND = no direccional. Many of them are 1 kW, give or take, and only three are more than 10 kW: 770 in Zacatecas, 25 kW 1030 in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, 20 kW 1240 in Morela, Michoacán, 25 kW (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Finally, some news about Expresión Cultural Agualilla. The station is actually called Expresión Cultural and will be moving from its current frequency of 97.9 MHz, according to an item from RadioNotas. http://radionotas.com/apoyo-para-la-radio-de-aguililla-michoacan/ This is the first item I can find about this pre-existing community station. Again, we won't get full details until the concessions are put up in the RPC and online, though we may get concessionaire names for the four vanilla social FMs as soon as the IFT meeting agenda is put online (Raymie Humbert, Mexico Beat, July 9, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) The headlines from the CIRT and its supporters are ludicrous. On Friday, we got this treat of a story, titled "'It was an error to give the IFT autonomy': Javier Lozano". http://enfoquenoticias.com.mx/noticias/fue-un-error-dar-autonom-al-ift-javier-lozano Lozano is a PAN senator from Puebla. There's a full interview, but you get the gist. What a sad headline. I'm of the opinion that the CIRT misses the good old days, when the radio and television regulators bent to the will of the broadcasters. You know what we got from that? Bland competition, bland station formats, high barriers to entry, and in television, a crippling monopoly and duopoly that means Mexican broadcast television is behind the curve from a regional perspective. Once upon a time, station concessions were renewed in bulk as a favor by the SCT. Hundreds of stations had concessions in 1969, renewed in 1989, again in 2004, all to expire in July 2016. The error, Sen. Lozano, is that there wasn't autonomy back then to save yourselves from the mess you face now (Raymie, July 11, ibid.) Reported here first, and happened today. 52MX is now subchannel x.4 on four Multimedios stations (12.6 on XHSAW in Monterrey). Click image for larger version. Name: 2wmf5m8.jpg Views: 12 Size: 143.9 KB ID: 19177 (Mc.Art from the Mexico forum) This scoop was among the biggest in my two-year history and attracted considerable interest on Twitter. I never saw it coming, but then I saw the meeting notes and there it was. However, I've got bigger news in the first ground-up national commercial TV network to be built in Mexico in three decades. The Callsigns and Locations of 8 of Cadena Tres's First 20 Transmitters Last week, I received a curious heads up from Trip Ericson at the FCC. The IFT had sent along seven new stations for international coordination approval, all Cadena Tres and all bearing six-letter callsigns starting with XHCT. He asked me to hold publication of the items until an official source had emerged. Today, the RPC added the Campeche transmitter, so I believe now is an appropriate time to break the news of the other seven. (The seven stations in the coordination zone and 12 additional transmitters are not in the RPC at this time.) Transmitters in RED appeared in the RPC on July 12. Those in BLUE appeared on July 13. ——— Baja California Mexicali: XHCTME-TDT (RF 17) Tijuana: XHCTTI-TDT (RF 33) Campeche San Francisco de Campeche + Champotón: XHCTCA-TDT (RF 20) Chihuahua Chihuahua Capital: XHCTCH-TDT (RF 29) Cd. Juarez: XHCTCJ-TDT (RF 31) Ciudad de México Ciudad de México: XHCTMX-TDT (RF 29) Coahuila Saltillo: XHCTSA-TDT (RF 26) Guerrero Acapulco: XHCTAC-TDT (RF 21) Chilpancingo: XHCTCP-TDT (RF 25) Hidalgo Ixmiquilpan-Pachuca-Tula-Tamazunchale SLP-San Juan del Río Qro: XHCTIX-TDT (RF 16) Jalisco Guadalajara: XHCTGD-TDT (RF 28) Michoacán Morelia: XHCTMO-TDT (RF 34) Nuevo León Monterrey: XHCTMY-TDT (RF 22) Oaxaca Oaxaca de Juárez: XHCTOX-TDT (RF 16) Puebla Puebla-Tlaxcala-Huamantla-Apizaco: XHCTPU-TDT (RF 21) Quintana Roo Cancún: XHCTCN-TDT (RF 22) Sonora Hermosillo: XHCTHE-TDT (RF 28) Tabasco Villahermosa: XHCTVL-TDT (RF 36) Tamaulipas Ciudad Victoria: XHCTVI-TDT (RF 20) Tampico: XHCTTA-TDT (RF 25) Zacatecas Zacatecas-Jerez-Guadalupe: XHCTZA-TDT (RF 27) ——— Specific technical information is not available from the RPC for Campeche (the same documents as the other C3 listings), and the new stations are not in the FCC Query (I did not receive information beyond the calls). Broadcasts could begin as soon as next month, though there have not been any reports of installation activity for C3 anywhere in Mexico. Last edited by Raymie; 07-13-2016 at 02:53 PM. Reason: new xmtrs (Raymie, originally July 11, ibid.) Laws I Hate: Article 113 of the Federal Law on Transparency and Access to Public Governmental Information I thought I might learn something when it came time for the two-year review of Televisa partners' infrastructure as required by preponderancy regulations. Instead, I learned how much I hate these words: ``Artículo 113. Se considera información confidencial: I. La que contiene datos personales concernientes a una persona física identificada o identificable; II. Los secretos bancario, fiduciario, industrial, comercial, fiscal, bursátil y postal, cuya titularidad corresponda a particulares, sujetos de derecho internacional o a sujetos obligados cuando no involucren el ejercicio de recursos públicos, y III. Aquella que presenten los particulares a los sujetos obligados, siempre que tengan el derecho a ello, de conformidad con lo dispuesto por las leyes o los tratados internacionales. La información confidencial no estará sujeta a temporalidad alguna y sólo podrán tener acceso a ella los titulares de la misma, sus representantes y los Servidores Públicos facultados para ello.`` You see, the problem is that the IFT considers the technical information contained in these filings to be a "banking, fiduciary, industrial, commercial, fiscal, stock market or postal secret, whose rights are held by private parties". So I learned almost nothing from what should have been a gold mine of filings. Televisa sent a filing down that was 1,580 pages for crying out loud! Almost all of them were redacted. This is about all I learned. You might recall I'd heard of two XHDY shadows on analog channel 6: one at Cerro Huitepec, San Cristóbal (channel 5 was on Cerro Pig), and one in Tuxtla Gutiérrez. Well, it turns out that C. Huitepec was 6+ and Tuxtla was 6z (not like it's useful now). I also learned of shadow XHDY (analog 10) Comitán and XHTOE (channel 13) Palenque. All now seem to be operating in digital. [DTV] XHDY-28/10 Comitán is kind of interesting because there actually used to be a full-power station on that channel and in that city. http://rpc.ift.org.mx/rpc/pdfs/090252648002a0cf.pdf In March 1993, the concessionaire was authorized to move the station to channel 4 Tapachula. That year, the station, XHGK, was sold to Tele-Emisoras del Sureste; it's now a sister to XHDY and XHTOE (Raymie, July 13, ibid.) 21 Down, How Many to Go? And Who's Out in the Cold? A Recap of Cadena Tres News Between the information I received from Trip Ericson and the 14 stations in the RPC, we now know 21 stations http://www.revistapantalla.com/telenet/?id_nota=17546 approved with callsigns for Cadena Tres. In June, Revista Pantalla reported that Imagen told the IFT it would be ready to build 20 stations of the 123 it has been awarded. Now that we have an idea of what the first 20 (or 21) might look like, let's take a look at (as of now) the surprising omissions in C3's network. Missing States There are several federal entities missing completely in the roster of 21 or with spillover coverage from transmitters in other states: Baja California Sur, Chiapas, Colima, Durango, Guanajuato, Estado de México, Morelos, Nayarit, San Luis Potosí, Querétaro, Veracruz, Yucatán all will have to wait. Missing Cities and Metropolitan Areas The largest service area missing is also going to be one of the most challenging to construct. Celaya-Querétaro-Morelia, with 6.25 million people, effectively begs for a very high power transmitter on Cerro Culiacán, as I have mentioned time and time again. Now, some of that is served by the Morelia transmitter, but Celaya and Querétaro are not. 4.6 million people could receive the proposed Xalapa-Veracruz transmitter, but it's missing too. Just under 3.5 million people would benefit from a transmitter in Toluca, but Toluca hasn't shown up yet, either. Cuernavaca is within reach of two transmitters: one at Iguala or Taxco, and the other in Cuernavaca. These are some of the larger service ares with 2.6 and 1.96 million people, respectively. Just under 2.1 million people would be in the range of the proposed León-Silao transmitter, and León also figures in the Aguascalientes- León transmitter which would serve some 3.6 million people. Remember, there is duplication in these figures. Other omissions that are probably high priorities: San Luis Potosí- Ríoverde (1.86 million people); Mérida (1.57 million people); Coatzacoalcos plus (2.01 million people); Comarca Lagunera (1.48 million people); Huasteca of Veracruz and Hidalgo (1.59 million people); San Andrés Tuxtla (1.62 million people); Reynosa-Matamoros; Nuevo Laredo (Raymie, July 13, ibid.) In other news... SMRTV is still at risk of losing its concession http://www.respuesta.com.mx/index.php/home/estado/35990-sistema-michoacano-sigue-en-peligro-de-perder-la-concesion.html as the state network of Michoacán struggles against the fluctuating value of the US dollar in its bid to digitize and looks for a rent-to- buy scheme to get two transmitters on air (Raymie, July 13, ibid.) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. Another reminder of the PCJ Radio 2-hour special from the RN archives, for July 17-18 via WRMI (WORLD OF RADIO 1834) ** NEW ZEALAND. I guess it is all about money - or the lack of it! Thomson transmitter from 1989 / 1990. The reason why this transmitter was off the air several months ago was a lack of money to buy a very expensive output valve. The 27-year-old transmitter has had quite a few problems over the years, including being struck by lightning once. It certainly is going to be a strange business, broadcasting at times in DRM and at others in AM. Personally I don't see the point of using DRM, given that RNZI is also available on satellite now, but I suppose RNZI has invested quite a lot in DRM and has to justify its use. I don't know how many Pacific stations use the DRM for news relays, having said that. The current right-wing NZ Government does not like RNZ, saying RNZ has a leftist bias and consequently has not increased funding for the last 8 years it has been in office. I guess RNZI has had budgets frozen too and there is no point asking for funds for a replacement transmitter. The DRM transmitter was bought when the left Labour Government was still in power. Web on line in the Pacific is expensive as it is delivered to most places by satellite, not undersea cables. Interesting times are ahead! (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews June 24 / 30, BC-DX 7 July via DXLD) Tho credited only to wb himself, the above piece was obviously written by someone else (gh, DXLD) ** NEW ZEALAND. 9700, National Radio Service, this broadcaster is having an identity crisis: they are Radio New Zealand International (RNZI), but ID as the National Service (NS). Hint: an international shortwave broadcast should be no more than twenty minutes long – first a complete station ID, a little national news, important international news, weather, any relevant commentary, and last an ID at the end of the broadcast. I was tuned in from 0947 to 1034 but I don’t think I heard any RNZI IDs. If RNZI would cut back to twenty minute broadcasts it could save a lot of funds. The SINF0 was 2,5,4,3,2. The overall merit of the signal was reduced because it was so weak (not the norm), a Racal 6790 and my inside 42’ Windom antenna. 6/15 (John Davis, Our listening post is located northeast of Columbus, Ohio in the USA, NASWA Flashsheet July 10 via DXLD) What a contrary view. While it would be nice if RNZI were financed to produce its own ES programmes as you require --- not even 30 minutes? --- they could do far worse than relay what is still a first-rate domestic service which happens to be in a language we understand, and does not waste time and effort dumbing-down for a foreign audience (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA [non]. Re: Radio Niger Delta Voice of Peace on 11980, instead of 11985 at 1900UT, July 6 And again, today -- 7 July -- on 11980 kHz. So not a fluke? But why the shift? Website http://www.radionigerdeltavop.com/ still says 11985 kHz. Website appears to be served from the U.K. But interestingly, www.radionigerdeltavop.com --> 91.103.217.25 but then 91.103.217.25 --> carnation.dataflame.com, an Internet service based in California but likely operating worldwide. Lots of info here: http://www.tcpiputils.com/browse/ip-address/91.103.217.25 Clearly the server is not physically located in Nigeria (Richard Langley, NB, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also FRANCE FRANCE, R. Niger Delta Voice of Peace via TDF again on 11980, July 8 1900-1958 11980 ISS 250 kW/170 deg WAf English/Hausa instead of 11985 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/07/radio-niger-delta-voice-of-peace-via.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9515 kHz Radio Niger Delta via TDF Issoudun heard also this morning from 0500 UT onwards, once again same signal strength like RTA Algiers relay via ISS on 9535 kHz. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 9, dxldyg via DXLD) 12050, CLANDESTINE (Nigeria.) Dandal Kura – Ascension, 2021-2106, Jul 9. Conversations in listed Kanuri language with some vocals. Several IDs at 2059 by a man and woman followed by apparent news at 2100. I thought these guys were supposed to close at 2100? Poor to fair signal (Rich D’Angelo, [or] Rich D'Angelo, 2216 Burkey Drive, Wyomissing, PA 19610, U.S.A. Equipment: Ten-Tec RX-340, Drake R-8B, Eton E1, Eton E5, Alpha Delta DX Sloper, RF Systems Mini-Windom, Datong FL3, JPS ANC-4, NASWA Flashsheet July 10 via DXLD) What about WEWN on 12050? Maybe one of their unexplained AWOLs (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) FRANCE, Reception of Radio Niger Delta Voice of Peace via TDF, July 11 1900-2000 11980 ISS 250 kW / 170 deg WeAf English, instead of 11985 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/07/reception-of-radio-niger-delta-voice-of_12.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #956 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, July 11, 2016, via DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6924.32-AM, July 11 at 0106, rock music, jam session at S5, vs noise peaks of S8, and weakening. This thread http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,29008.0.html says it`s Captain Morgan Shortwave, which I may not have logged before (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. UNIDENTIFIED. 6935.0-USB, July 11 at 0113 songs at S7, but apparently stops at 0118. No logs of this on HF Underground or Free Radio Café (Glenn Hauser, OK< DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 396, July 13 at 0243, beacon CQB with repeating ID in MCW. I got zero-beat on 397 kHz, but listed as 396 at Tilghman, Chandler OK, in http://www.classaxe.com/dx/ndb/rna/signal_list I kept tuning to lower MF after not hearing any `Night of Nights` signals closer to 500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1580, UT Monday July 11 at 0053 UT, strong dominant signal with DJ in long introduxion of Tony Bennett, loops NE/SW, so surely semi-local KOKB Blackwell --- but it`s part of Triple-Play Sports Radio, and not // the sportstalk on 1020 KOKP Perry, Autozone ad. 1580 finally plays ``Rags to Riches`` and I immediately find it`s // and synchro with the third station of the group, 105.1, KOSB, 6 kW in Perry, where I continue listening. 0056 UT outro as ``The Stillwater Jukebox with Tom Dorado --- hits of the 50s and 60s for Ponca City, Blackwell and Enid``. Recheck 1580 at 0058 UT, and now it`s gone tho the sun is still shining and official FCC sunset in July is not until 0145 UT, when it has to cut from 1000 to 49 watts. For me it might as well be daytime-only. The DJ show keeps playing overtime on 105.1, so Tom can squeeze in, ``just under the wire`` one last request for Jack in Enid, ``Peppermint Twist``; 0102 closing till next Sunday at 6:00 (23 UT), and inviting phone requests on the sportsline in the meantime. 105.1 then gradually fades up sportstalk in progress rebecoming // 1020. I find nothing on the website http://tripleplaysportsradio.com/ about anything other than sports programming, nor any search results on Tom Dorado (dor-AH-doh). Maybe there is something on their FB I will not inspect: https://www.facebook.com/TriplePlaySportsRadioOSU/ These two hours per week may be the only departure/aberration, but without getting a DX ID, existing format listings not taking this into account will be incomplete and misleading. The three stations most of the time are simulcast, but are capable of splitting if there are two or three different stupid ballgames to broadcast (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 7275-USB, July 8 at 0221, the contrarian USB, not LSB net on 40m is going again with KJ5GG, which ARRL lookup shows is HENSON, RONALD G, WEATHERFORD, OK 73096. He has to take a break and turns it over to a couple other weakers whose calls also without fonetix I don`t copy correctly enough to find any listed. Does this net have a name and a specific schedule? It does all sound rather informal (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN. 15140, July 11 at 0016, S4 signal with Qur`an; by 0033 it`s gone, but on 11650 instead, so QSY in the interim by Radio (not Royal) Sultanate of Oman, frequencies it is not supposed to be on at this time and/or in this season. 11650 still going at 0120, Arabic talk and music bits, S7 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3260, NBC Madang, 1204-1208*, July 8. NBC news in English till 1206; promo for NBC; suddenly off; poor 3260, NBC Madang, 1206*, July 11. Went off the air suddenly in mid- news in English; close to being readable At 1158 July 12, there was no NBC Madang on 3260. 3260, NBC Madang, 1212-1217*, July 13. Back on the air after being silent yesterday; pop Pacific Islands music; suddenly off; poor. [non-log] 7324.95, Wantok Radio Light. Checked at 0902, July 13 to only find a clear frequency; has been off the air for a while now (Ron Howard, Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1 with Par Electronics EF-SWL antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also BOUGAINVILLE ** PERU. 5980, July 9 at 0104, very poor carrier from R. Chaski, with traces of talk modulation until autocutoff at 0104:18*, which is 39 seconds later than last log six nights before, July 3 until 0103:39, or slippage averaging 6.5 seconds later per. 5980, July 11 at 0103, JBA carrier from R. Chaski, until auto-cutoff at 0104:31.5*, which is 13.5 seconds later than last catch two nights before, July 9 until 0104:18* or averaging 6.75 seconds later per (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. 6000, 1800, Adygeyan R, Music, announcements, anthem, talk, song, vernacular, SIO 422, 10/06 (Arthur Miller, Llandrindod Wells, Powys, Wales, JRC NRD 525, NRD 545, G5RV 40m long wire, July BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** RUSSIA [and non]. 7295, July 7 at 1155, S7 signal but very poor in noise level, presumed Radio Sakha, Yakutsk. A stronger S9 signal is on its // 7345, with talk and music, but not enough 7295 to make a match. Besides, at 1158, 7345 sounds like Chinese, and at 1200, 5+1 timesignal. That`s merely one of countless CNR1 frequencies from Beijing. (Thazin Radio, Myanmar is also listed on 7345 until 1330.) I`m listening again at 1259, when 7295 is still audible and much weaker than 7345, but 7295 cuts off at 1300:22*, the new normal weekday closing time for Radio Sakha, altho Ron Howard heard it extended later past 1317 July 6 for coverage of some children`s games, including English at 1248-1310! The games last until July 17, closing ceremony July 16. He`s found that R. Sakha recently reversed 7295 and 7345 powers if not azimuths, making the lower one better to North America and without the QRM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thanks to Ron Howard for alerting me to 7295. Lately, I've recorded 7295 from 0900 UT. Last night, 7 July, reception was non-existent earlier, but after 1100ish UT, reception was almost very good. Ron mentioned local IDs around :10 to the hour, and sure enough, at 1151, there was a nice Sakha jingle, which sounded a lot like "Stay Calm Sakha"! I'm sure it wasn't that, but sounded like it to me. Again primarily in local language, although between :10 to and the TOH, lots of Russian, mainly with ads, including local ads. Great organ IS reminiscent of Soviet stations. Time pips and announcement for 21 chas, or 21:00 local (at 1200 UT), So UTC + 9 local time. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Excellent, Walt! Am very happy you finally had some good reception. You are the resident Russian expert, so I naturally wanted your input and comments about their programming/language. Yes, every day after the :10 to the hour ID they always have a series of ads. Nice to have a daily format that is consistent and yes, I also enjoy their IS at the ToH too. Very distinctive :) Thanks again for your great observations! Best regards, Ron (Howard, July 8 via Walt Salmaniw, dxldyg via DXLD) And again quite good to 1300, today 8 July 2016 on 7295. IS then, but off before any ID and I could hear the transmitter cut at :20 seconds past the TOH. 73, (Walt, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7295, Radio Sakha, via Yakutsk, on July 10 special coverage from the Children of Asia Sports Games preempted regular programming; 0949-1040 with coverage of the games by local announcer with strong background sounds of the crowd and also loudspeaker announcements; 1040-1110 had no sports coverage, but talked about the games and interviews with some kids; no breaks at ToH for the normal IS and time pips, but had non-stop coverage; almost fair with summertime QRN (static). Muffled background loudspeaker announcements possibly bilingual? This Sunday noted 1200*, after usual IS and time pips; yesterday noted they were off the air by 1220, when I checked. So the normal weekend schedule is 1200*, with weekdays 1300* (Ron Howard, Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1 with Par Electronics EF-SWL antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7295, July 11 at 1259, I`m listening to the JBA carrier, presumed R. Sakha, Yakutsk, but it stays on past 1300, 1301, finally off at 1301:49.5*. 7295, July 12 at 1200, R. Sakha is more than a JBA carrier an hour before sign-off, S8-S6 with woman speaking (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SARAWAK [and non]. MALAYSIA’S PM AGREES TO TALKS REGARDING SARAWAK Hi Glenn, Read an interesting article titled "Malaysia’s PM Agrees to Technical Talks on Autonomy for Sarawak." Analyzes the relationship between Sarawak and the federal government and impact of the recently held elections. Full story at http://goo.gl/UfJixJ In part, the story says: "The 'Sarawak for Sarawakians' movement has been trying to push for the state to secede from Malaysia. The movement's founder, Peter John Jaban, believes that the 72-year-old chief minister [Sarawak Chief Minister Adenan Satem] can bring the state closer to autonomy. “We have faith in him,”, Peter, a human rights campaigner and deejay for Radio Free Sarawak, a sister organization of U.K.-based investigative outlet The Sarawak Report, told BenarNews." Indeed, one of the few times I ever heard English over Radio Free Sarawak, was a closing announcement that was made by Peter John Jaban. My audio at https://goo.gl/3ZA3D4 - "Like the man says, all good things must come to an end, till then, this is Peter John Jaban, Michael Teo and the rest of the team, says good night, sweet dreams and sleep tight." (Ron Howard, California, July 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 9714.982, as usual Saudi Arabian radio HQ, very odd frequency non-directional domestic service to Saudi Arabian peninsula target, at 0447 UT on July 9, S=9+30dB in Doha Qatar remote SDR unit. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 9, dxldyg via DXLD) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5020, SIBC, on July 7 with special extended broadcast to celebrate their 38 anniversary of independence; 1203 (after a long National Anthem), continued on with non-stop Pacific Islands music and songs, except for occasional announcements sending out congratulations to the good people of Solomon Islands and to the government; never any station IDs, so not sure if just an extension of special SIBC programming or a special relay of Wantok FM; commercial announcements from Solomon Islands Airlines and a IT service who "wish to convey to the government and people of our beloved nation, Solomon Islands, a happy 38 anniversary of independence . . . God bless the Solomon Islands"; still being heard at tune out of 1318. My local sunrise was at 1256 UT. Attached is my audio of one of the songs they played today. [non-log]. SIBC - Voice of the Nation was off the air on both 5020 and 9545, at 1115, on July 11. Too much partying during their July 7 Independence Day celebration? Also confirmed not broadcasting today by Hiroyuki Komatsubara and John Wilkins (Ron Howard, Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1 with Par Electronics EF-SWL antenna, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5020, July 11 around 1145, no signal from SIBC (nor on day frequency 9545). Ron Howard agrees not heard at 1115 today (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I was listening for SIBC around 0815 UT July 11th and didn't detect so much as carrier on 9545 and 5020. And if either one is on, even in the shittiest conditions, I can usually get some trace of audio (Paul Walker, AK, ptsw yg via DXLD) 5020 should sign on at 0500 UT. Even in the cruddiest [sic] of conditions, I can at least get some kind of audio from them. And if 9545 is on late, I can't definitely hear them. For the second night in a row at 0805 UT, there is NO sign of either signal whatsoever from rural east Jesus nowheresville Central Alaska (Paul Walker, July 12, ptsw yg via DXLD) [non-log]. SIBC - Voice of the Nation still off the air on both 5020 and 9545, at 1028 and 1059, on July 13. What happened? They were doing so well on July 7 Independence Day (Ron Howard, Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1 with Par Electronics EF-SWL antenna, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOMALIA. See UNIDENTIFIED 7750! (WORLD OF RADIO 1834) ** SOUTH AFRICA. Article: HLAUDI STRIKES AGAIN - SABC http://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2016/07/10/Hlaudi-strikes-again%C2%A0SABC-caught-in-R167m-Zuma-TV-deal1 (via Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, July 10, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH AFRICA [and non]. 3320, July 12 at 0139, Radio Sonder Grense is S9+10, much stronger than usual, Afrikaans speech. There is always some signal from this in our evenings. I check 4949.7 whether Angola is also enhanced, but it`s not, maybe S6 like the noise level, but no modulation to be heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 7780, July 11 at 0027 as I tune across WRMI, Brother HyStairical is replaying for the n-th time his blast against yours truly, the one from early May about Napoleon. 0030 interrupts self for something slightly more recent about Pentecost coming up, which Americans imagined was already on May 15, 2016. // other WRMIs of course like 6855 and 7570, but not // 7490 WBCQ, completely different subject (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Brother Scare vs Glenn --- Good evening Glenn, I'm not sure you have heard, but you received special mention by Brother Scare on his program this evening starting at approx. 0150 UT on 7490 kHz. [emoji] Was excellent comedic relief! Good DX and best wishes, (Jeramy K5CPU, 0200 UT July 14, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Jeramy, Was it the old one mentioning WBCQ on 3250, and Napoleon ruling Michigan, or something else? (Glenn to Jeramy, via DXLD0 I think there was mention of Napoleon in there so it must have been an old one. New to me. I enjoyed it. Thanks, (Jeramy, ibid.) ** SRI LANKA. 11905, July 9 at 0115:19, SLBC 2+1 mis-timesignal on S1 signal. 11905, July 12 at 0114:48.5, the S2 SLBC prélude starts playing on the carrier which has just come on; Instead of a 2 + 1 mis-timesignal, I only hear 1 + 1 ending at 0115:17.5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. FRANCE, 11730, Eye Radio in Arabic - but also phone-in journalist report in ENGLISH{!} - in between - about Sudan matter, at 0433 UT on July 9. Ludo's BRB brokered confidential target broadcast, I guess - also from TDF Issoudun site -, similar equal signals at same time noted of RFI Swahili sce on 11790 kHz, RFI Paris French 11700 kHz, and also Kurdistan Radio on 11600 kHz, all via Issoudun (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DX LISTENING DIGEST) With South Sudan being in the news the past few days, I tuned into the Eye Radio SW broadcast at 16:00 UTC on 17730 kHz via Issoudun using the U. Twente SDR receiver. Fair to good reception but, unfortunately, no English segment today. This SW broadcast is not parallel to their live Web streaming on http://www.eyeradio.org/wp-content/themes/eyeradio-master/inc/musesradioplayer/player.html The live stream included a 15-minute English news bulletin starting a minute or two after 1600 UT (Richard Langley, NB, July 12, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DX LISTENING DIGEST) "Will archive the recording later." Sorry, I had completely forgotten my promise to do that until I tuned into Eye Radio yesterday, which jogged my memory. It is now archived here: https://archive.org/details/EyeRadio17.730MHz7June20161600UTC and here: http://shortwavearchive.com/archive/eye-radio-june-7-2016 (Richard Langley, July 13, ibid.) ** SWEDEN. Hörby MW 1179 kHz on the air again --- Hörby Mellanvåg on 1179 kHz will be on air again from 28 August to 10 Sept 2016. More at: http://veteranljuddagen.se/veteranljuddagen%202016.html (ARC web site via July BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** SWITZERLAND. CIMA DI DENTRO ("MONTE CENERI") TRANSMITTER TO BE DEMOLISHED On Monday the demolition of the 558 kHz Cima di Dentro transmitter will start. The 220 metres main mast is supposed to be destroyed on July 18. http://www.rsi.ch/play/tv/popupvideoplayer?id=7704806#/t=3.462 Frequency lists showed 558 kHz always as "Monte Ceneri", but this is another site 6 km away that replaced the old one from 1931 in 1979. The Monte Ceneri tower is not affected by the clearing of the new site. It's a situation identical to Sottens where the 1931 vintage tower has been preserved but the new one, built at some distance from the old one only in 1989, been detonated in 2014 (the TV report includes footage of this). Some photos: http://www.giangrandi.ch/electronics/broadcast/ceneri.html The SRG/RSI TV report includes a close-up that makes it clear that the original ABB tube transmitter remained in use here til the end, too. So no solid-state mediumwave transmitters have been installed in Switzerland anymore. What SRG/RSI does not bother to mention (if I did not overlook it) is that 558 kHz had been reactivated in April 2011 for Voice of Russia, when they were in Moscow not foreseeing yet that soon afterwards the money for their legacy AM radio services would be cut, making it inavoidable to abandon 558 kHz again at yearend 2012. Thus it was in fact Voice of Russia who kissed professional mediumwave broadcasting in Switzerland good-bye. And with their use of 693 kHz they reserved the right to do the same at Berlin exactly one year later (Kai Ludwig, Germany, July 10, mwmasts yg via DXLD) ** SYRIA. I confirm that Syria is still alive on 783 kHz. The station was heard here in the South of Italy on 9 July at 2300 UT with station identification announcement. The signal was good with Syria dominant over co-channel COPE Miramar from Spain (Antonello Napolitano, Taranto, Italy, July 10, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Syria - 13 July 2016 0220-0230 h, 783 kHz: Checking for Syria at the Twente web receiver, I found a dominant Spanish station with another programme in the background. It was clearly not in parallel with http://live.rtv.gov.sy/RDimshq.aspx?live=1 but seemed to be in „parallel“ (time delay) with http://live.rtv.gov.sy/RShabab.aspx?live=1 (Dr Hansjoerg Biener 13 July 2016) Hi, Excuse me, but do you really mean a Spanish station? Or is just a typing error. Best 73s (Ydun Ritz, Denmark, via Biener, DXLD) Dear Ydun, thank you for your enquiry, because it may help avoiding confusion. There were two stations present: the Spanish, or if you prefer, Katalan station http://www.cope.es/menu/emisoras/barcelona/barcelona and a music programme which was not Radio Damascus which had religious chanting at the time, but was very much like Voice of the People, as checked against their webstreams. Kind regards, Hj. (Biener, ibid.) Maybe it was Call of Islam from Saudi? At that time it wouldn't be wonder if the Koran recitation would coincide (Mauno Ritola, ibid.) ** TAIWAN. 9410, Fu Hsing BS (presumed). Nice surprise to find they seem to have fixed their transmitter! Noted at 1225 and subsequent checking, July 13; in Chinese. Did not have a signal on 9774. For several months now had found 9410 to off the air more than it was on; transmitter only on for a very brief time before going off. Today seemed like back to a normal operations without interruptions! A reminder that for a long time now 9410 has been free of CNR5 QRM (Ron Howard, Pacific Grove, CA, Etón E1 with Par Electronics EF-SWL antenna, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN. Radio Taiwan International will have special broadcasts: 1600-1610 11665 TSH 300 kW / 325 deg WeEu German AM mode July 22 [what about 1610-1620? Off the air? Takes 10 minutes to switch? -- gh] 1620-1630 11665 TSH 300 kW / 325 deg WeEu German DRM mode July 22 1600-1700 11665 TSH 300 kW / 325 deg WeEu German AM mode Aug.26-28 1600-1700 11665 TSH 300 kW / 325 deg WeEu German AM mode Sep.2-4 1000-1100 11665 TSH 300 kW / 325 deg WeEu German AM mode Oct.1-3,8,9 1000-1100 11665 TSH 300 kW / 325 deg to WeEu German DRM mode Oct.10 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/07/radio-taiwan-international-will-have.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** THAILAND. 15564.97, July 11 at 0017, S2 talk with Doppler flutter, and/or two carriers offset, as befits a jammed IBB Chinese hour via Udorn. And very similar single signal on 15590 which we know is HSK9`s so-called North American service (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY [and non]. 6040, co-channel V of Turkey Emirler in Turkish, 6040.016 kHz and [Rádio RB2, BRAZIL] 6040.766 kHz S=6 in Germany at 0552 UT on July 12 (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11980.034, odd fq of Emirler, Turkish music morning service, S=6 poor at 0425 UT on July 9. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 9, dxldyg via DXLD) ** UGANDA [non]. 15239.780, Sat July 9 at 1823 check, WWRB is still clandestining with presumed Radio Munansi, speaker in Luganda(?) at S9 but some fading. I challenge anyone in Uganda to pick this up (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE. Mass media ========== POROSHENKO HAS SIGNED THE LAW ON QUOTAS ON UKRAINIAN SONGS ON THE RADIO. President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has signed a law requiring radio stations to broadcast on the air at least 35% of Ukrainian products. It is reported by the press service of the President. The relevant law Verkhovna Rada adopted on June 16, after a long debate, and low performers votes. It provides that radio companies are obliged to provide a share of songs in the official language of not less than 35% of the total playing time for songs in a day, and in time intervals from 7.00 to 14.00, from 15.00 to 22.00. The quota is introduced gradually: in the first year after the law came into force quota should be 25%, the second year - 30%, from the third year - 35%. The right to a reduced quota of 25% of broadcasters have received, in which at least 60% of songs licensed sounds on EU languages. It is also envisaged that at least 60% of the daily volume of conducting programs (news, morning program) must be carried out in the Ukrainian language. This quota is also introduced gradually: 50% in the first year of the law, 55% - in the second year, and from the third - 60%. The law will come into force four months after publication. Recall, according to the current law "On Television and Radio", protect the interests of the national TV and radio, and the norm is guaranteed that in the total broadcast each broadcasting at least 50 percent should be the national audiovisual product or musical works of Ukrainian authors or performers. This norm is now complemented by the introduction of 35% quota for the songs in the Ukrainian language. culture.lb.ua (OnAir.ru) (via RusDX July 10 via DXLD) ** U K. An interview with me on Radio Berkshire on 6 July: CHRIS GREENWAY DISCUSSES BBC MONITORING (7:27) Chris Greenway on the Anne Diamond show on BBC Radio Berkshire, discussing BBC Monitoring. BBC Radio Berkshire 6th July 2016 1242bst Anne Diamond https://audioboom.com/boos/4788206-chris-greenway-discusses-bbc-monitoring A feature on BBC Monitoring's history (not written by me): Caversham Park: End of an era for BBC listening station - BBC News After 75 years in Berkshire, BBC Monitoring is moving from Caversham Park to London. Here is the story of the stately home at the centre of internation... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-36712152 (Chris Greenway, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) Chris, You say the HF antennas have been taken down some time ago at Caversham and also at the nearby location, so do BBCM not even try to monitor SW broadcasts any more? Do you still have your own dedicated remote HF receivers in different parts of the world like east Africa, central Asia? Or bring up other web SDRs if and when needed? I guess you will be moving to London - 73, (Glenn Hauser, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, BBCM still monitors a number of radio stations, both at Caversham and at its many overseas offices. But the great majority of them are received using satellite or online feeds, along with local FM signals (and perhaps MF in a vanishing number of cases) where we have a suitably located office. Most of the radio stations we listen to are domestic services. But even in the case of international broadcasters, most have been available on satellite and/or online for some years. At Caversham, we have retained a residual HF and MF capability using Icom R8500 receivers and non-directional active antennas. The antennas at Caversham I referred to in that interview were large traditional ones known as quadrant aerials (omni-directional). They were dismantled in the 1980s. Our receiving station at Crowsley Park, near Caversham, retained a very full set of rhombics and Beverages until they were all taken down two years ago. For the record, here are the aerials listed by bearing, moving clockwise from due North: 37R (meaning a rhombic pointing at 37 degrees), 40B (meaning a Beverage pointing at 40 degrees), 57R, 60R, 60B, 77R, 80B, 90R, 100B, 120B, 125R, 140B, 163B, 170R, 180B, 190R, 200B, 230B, 250B, 289B, 340B. Although the aerials were taken down in 2014, you can still see many of them (in particular the tall masts used for the rhombics) on Google Earth imagery and work out which is which using the bearings given above. Note for example the rhombics pointing at 37, 57 and 77 degrees, which were mainly used for SW reception from the USSR. There were once also two sets of curtain arrays, both on bearings of 109/289. (Two sets, for space diversity reception.) 289 is the bearing from here for eastern North America (Greenville is 285 and Sackville is 289), and the curtains were built for picking up VOA/RCI and feeding the audio to Woofferton or elsewhere to be relayed. The curtains could also be operated in reverse mode, i.e. 109 degrees, which was ideal for much of Europe and the Middle East. You can still see one of the curtains on Google Earth. The curtains had massive gain and excellent front-to-back characteristics (Chris Greenway, ibid.) ** U K [and non]. FIRST BBC ‘NEWSBOT’ BRINGS MORE UZBEK CONTENT TO TELEGRAM PRESS RELEASE 7 July 2016. In an innovative approach to reaching audiences in Uzbekistan, BBC Uzbek has activated an automated account – bot – on one of its messaging apps. The BBC Uzbek ‘newsbot’ – the BBC’s first – is now available on Telegram. The use of the ‘newsbot’ on the free cloud-based mobile and desktop messaging app means that Uzbek-speaking users now have better access to content from bbcuzbek.com which is blocked by Uzbekistan’s authorities. The BBC ‘newsbot’ on Telegram will bring subscribers daily news updates from bbcuzbek.com. It also will allow them to request more content from the website. Mobile Editor, BBC World Service, Trushar Barot, said: “This is the first time the BBC has experimented with a ‘newsbot’, following on from our industry-leading work on chat apps which began in 2014. Chatbots are a fast-developing technology inside social and messaging platforms, and we know they provide us with new opportunities to reach global audiences with our news, while giving them more power to get the content they most want.” The BBC Uzbek digital content is widely shared by users in Uzbekistan, Central Asia, Russia and Afghanistan. The service’s Facebook and Odnoklassniki (Russian social network) pages have a combined 430,000 followers, while its YouTube channel – with around 10,000 subscribers – has had almost eight million views since its launch. BBC Central Asian Editor Hamid Ismailov added: “While our stories are already widely shared on Telegram and WhatsApp, we hope with the launch of this ‘newsbot’ on Telegram, the availability of our news content in a tightly controlled media environment of Uzbekistan – as indeed anywhere in Central Asia and elsewhere - will further expand. It also helps to showcase our content, offering a better user experience.” To subscribe to the BBC Uzbek channel and bot on Telegram, go to @bbcuzbek and @BBCUzbekBot within the app on devices supporting Telegram. BBC Uzbek is part of BBC World Service. Ends// For more information please contact: BBC World Service Group Communications - Lala Najafova lala.najafova@bbc.co.uk Notes to editors: BBC World Service delivers news content around the world, on radio, TV and digital, reaching a weekly audience of 246 million. As part of BBC World Service, BBC Learning English teaches English to global audiences. The BBC World Service Group operates around the world in 30 languages, on radio, TV and digital. The BBC attracts a weekly global news audience of 320 million people to its international news services including BBC World Service, BBC World News television channel and bbc.com/news. ---------------------------- http://www.bbc.co.uk This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this (BBC PR via DXLD) How absolutely absurd to attach the ``confidential`` footer to a PRESS RELEASE!! Here we have the future/present of non-SW broadcasting (gh) ** U K. BBC BEGINS INTERNATIONAL ROLLOUT OF BBC IPLAYER RADIO APP http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2016/bbc-iplayer-radio-app We hope that the app will be a destination on mobile homescreens for audiences around the world who want to explore the breadth of BBC radio James Montgomery, Digital Development Director, BBC News and Current Affairs Date: 07.07.2016 Last updated: 07.07.2016 at 15.24 Category: BBC iPlayer; World Service The BBC has today launched an international BBC iPlayer Radio app in the Republic of Ireland, the first stage of its global roll-out. Available in the UK since 2012, the free BBC iPlayer Radio app will transform access to BBC Radio programmes internationally, making it easier for audiences around the world to listen to a variety of BBC radio stations, including BBC World Service English, on their devices wherever they are. BBC World Service in English, which has a global audience of 66m, will automatically display on a touchscreen dial when users outside the UK open the app for the first time. Users can simply spin the dial to access more BBC Radio stations and discover more world-class content which includes news, music, drama, comedy. As well as access to live radio programmes from the World Service and radio stations across the UK, users around the world with the app can: Catch up or listen again to their favourite BBC Radio programmes Download podcasts to enjoy anywhere, even when offline Browse and listen to carefully curated BBC Radio highlights and collections View daily schedules and categories quickly and easily Discover audio and video clips, including many live performances See what tracks are playing on air as well as track lists for on- demand programmes Wake up to and doze off to BBC Radio with a built-in alarm clock and night mode James Montgomery, Digital Development Director, BBC News and Current Affairs, says: “The new international BBC iPlayer Radio app makes it easier for audiences around the world to discover and enjoy the richness of our output - both live radio and to downloaded content. “We hope that the app will be a destination on mobile homescreens for audiences around the world who want to explore the breadth of BBC radio, from news and current affairs to drama, comedy and music. This launch also comes at a time when the UK is at the centre of a huge news story which the BBC is helping to explain to audiences worldwide.” Mary Hockaday, Controller BBC World Service English, says: “We have a valued audience of 66 million globally for the English BBC World Service. I’m thrilled the new BBC iPlayer Radio app offers another way for listeners around the world to find and enjoy our programmes, and take them with them wherever they go. With this app, we hope to give new audiences the chance to unlock a wealth of World Service content, as they explore what the BBC iPlayer Radio has got to offer.” Currently BBC World Service English is available on analogue/DAB Radio, online, and through its partner stations around the world whilst other BBC Radio stations can be accessed outside the UK via the BBC website www.bbc.co.uk/radio The BBC iPlayer Radio app is available today in Ireland for iOS, Android and Amazon devices and it will gradually roll out to other parts of the world. The BBC iPlayer Radio app is freely available to download from the Apple App Store, Google Play and Amazon Store. At launch, the BBC iPlayer Radio app supports iOS running 7.1 and above, Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and above and Amazon Kindle Fire 2012 and above. Find a list of stations available on the BBC iPlayer Radio app internationally here The BBC iPlayer Radio app has been downloaded over 10 million times in the UK since launch in 2012. FS (via Hansjoerg Biener, July 7, DXLD) THE BBC IPLAYER RADIO APP IS GOING GLOBAL Digital Spy By Conor Allison 7 July 2016 http://www.digitalspy.com/tech/news/a800528/the-bbc-iplayer-radio-app-is-going-global/ The World at One, for everyone. Whether you're an ex-patriate missing out on BBC 5 live's Test Match Special, or you just miss waking up to Nick Grimshaw on the airwaves, it turns out you could be in luck. The BBC has announced it will make all of its radio services available to listeners outside the UK via the iPlayer Radio app. Ireland will be the first country to take advantage of the rollout, with the broadcaster stating this is the initial stage in a global expansion. James Montgomery, Digital Development Director, BBC News and Current Affairs, said: "We hope that the app will be a destination on mobile home screens for audiences around the world who want to explore the breadth of BBC radio, from news and current affairs to drama, comedy and music. "This launch also comes at a time when the UK is at the centre of a huge news story which the BBC is helping to explain to audiences worldwide." It doesn't appear as if the Beeb is planning any globalisation for its iPlayer video streaming app just yet. One medium at a time, though, we'll get there. Posted by: (Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U K. BBC 'HAS SHED 2,000 JOBS AND AXED ONE IN 10 SENIOR MANAGERS' http://home.bt.com/news/uk-news/bbc-has-shed-2000-jobs-and-axed-one-in-10-senior-managers-11364073046472 The BBC has cut more than 2,000 employees over the past 10 years and axed one in 10 senior managers since last year, the broadcaster's annual report will say. Press Association Last updated: 12 July 2016, 00:20 BST The BBC has cut more than 2,000 employees over the past 10 years and axed one in 10 senior managers since last year, the broadcaster's annual report will say. The corporation reduced senior manager numbers to 356 from 401 last year and 640 in 2009. The reduction of more than 2000 employees over the course of the current 10-year Royal Charter period, which is set to run until December 31, has saved more than -L-150 million a year, the report will say when it is published tomorrow. The senior manager pay bill has been cut by -L-5 million for a 40% reduction since 2009 to ensure a "lean and simple" BBC. Director-General Lord Tony Hall previously told MPs there had been an -L-8 million reduction in talent pay when he appeared before the Culture, Media and Sport Committee. Some 6% of the BBC's controllable spend was spent on running the organisation, leaving 94% for content and delivery, the annual document will say. Lord Hall is expected to hail popular shows such as The Night Manager, War And Peace and The Great British Bake Off as showing the BBC at its strongest when he launches the report. A BBC source said:"Programmes like the Night Manager and War And Peace have shown the BBC at its creative best over the past year and by cutting senior managers and back office costs we've been able to focus more of our money on the things which really matter to the public. "There are still tough financial challenges ahead, so the search for savings is not over, but the progress we've made will help us create a BBC fit for the digital age which continues to act as a creative beacon to the world." The report is also expected to address BBC Three's move online, as well as the expanded reach of the World Service, the micro:bit launch to schoolchildren and 6 Music's emergence as the most listened-to digital-only station, as well as the corporation's vision for the next 11-year Charter and expectation to deliver annual savings of -L-700 million per year by 2016/17 (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) A rather different angle on this --- BBC PAYBILL RISES DESPITE COST-CUTTING PLANS The Guardian 12 July 2016 Corporation managed to cut its headcount by just 54 last year, annual report reveals The salary bill for the BBC’s top executives and staff grew last year with the corporation managing to get rid of just 54 staff despite ramping up its cost-cutting plans. The amount paid to the BBC’s executive board, which includes director general Tony Hall and BBC Worldwide chief Tim Davie, grew slightly from £3.6m to £3.7m, even as the corporation seeks hundreds of millions in cuts over the next charter period. The executive wage bill rise was mainly due to a £224,000 bonus payout for Davie, despite the commercial arm of the BBC reporting a fall in headline profits from £139m to £134m. Tony Hall will outline measures undertaken following damning report into BBC culture ‘atmosphere of fear’ Stripping out the impact of the sell-off of almost half of BBC America, to Walking Dead and Breaking Bad maker and broadcaster AMC, BBC Worldwide said profits rose 4% which in turn justified Davie’s bonus payout. The BBC’s annual report shows that full time equivalent staff numbers fell by just 54, from 18,974 to 18,920, in the year to the end of March. The BBC said that during the year it cut 278 posts as part of its Delivering Quality First cost savings plans, but that “due to the timing of the changes this is not fully reflected in the average numbers”. The report shows that total employee remuneration rose from £1.16bn to £1.2bn last year. When BBC Worldwide and other commercial businesses are included total staff numbers fell slightly to 20,916, while the overall salary bill rose marginally to £1.3bn. The BBC said it had kept its promise to cut senior management headcount with numbers dropping from 401 to 356 last year. The corporation paid out a total of £26m in severance pay last year to 448 staff, with £4.8m of that going to 40 senior managers. More here: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jul/12/bbc-paybill-rises-despite-cost-cutting-plans (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U K [non]. 9835.0, July 12 at 0119, JBA carrier brings to mind Malaysia, which is registered 24 hours, but is anything else more likely now? Yes, HFCC shows BBC Hindi via UAE at 0100-0130, but the Bengali half-hour which follows switches to the Thailand relay (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) So is Malaysia really off then? ** U K [non]. Wimbledon'16: Serena Williams USA vs Angelique Kerber GER, July 9 1300-1600 15420 MEY 250 kW / 032 deg EaAf English via BBC WService 1300-1600 17830 ASC 250 kW / 085 deg CEAf English via BBC WService http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/07/wimbledon-2016-on-shortwave-serena.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Nothing more boring than a silly ball game you can`t even see, but if they`re going to shortwave it, why not advance publicity? (gh, DXLD) ** U K. Test transmission with BaBcoCk music on July 9 1300-1400 on 17800 Woofferton, good to strong signal: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/07/test-transmission-with-babcock-music-on.html Test transmission with BaBcoCk music, July 13 1300-1400 on 17800 Woofferton, good to strong signal http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/07/test-transmission-with-babcock-music.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 6993.0, July 10 at 0007, two very weak carriers a few Hz apart, making double-pitch het with BFO. Any evening I can hear at least one of these, discussed in DXLD 16-16 as WH2XWF, ASTRA (experimental class Traveling Ionospheric Disturbance Stations), 164 watts ERP from four or five different sites in Florida: Hawthorne, Inverness, Homosassa and/or Keystone, Cross City. And as of April, ``less than one-year license expires July 1, 2016. You may be able to find this on the FCC website by callsign or File number 0388-EX-PL- 2015`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. BBG NAMES FIRST DIRECTOR OF INTERNET FREEDOM PROGRAM OFFICE JULY 8, 2016 https://www.bbg.gov/blog/2016/07/08/bbg-names-first-director-of-new-internet-freedom-program-office/ Dr. Nnake Nweke [allegedly with portrait] WASHINGTON - The Broadcasting Board of Governors today named engineer and attorney Dr. Nnake Nweke as the first-ever Director of its newly created Office of Internet Freedom. "I am thrilled that Dr. Nweke is stepping into this new and critical role," said BBG CEO and Director John F. Lansing. "He brings a wealth of technology, engineering and cybersecurity experience from both the public and the private sectors, and I'm confident that his outstanding leadership will help further strengthen our efforts to counter censorship of BBG-funded, affiliated, or supported content, and other credible, independent news and information." As Director of the new Office of Internet Freedom, Dr. Nweke will serve as the principal advisor to the BBG Board, the CEO, and BBG's five networks - the Voice of America, Office of Cuba Broadcasting, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks - on technological and innovative efforts to circumvent Internet censorship around the globe. In this role, Dr. Nweke will lead the development of the BBG's strategies on combating Internet censorship and will study its impact on BBG programming. Dr. Nweke's accomplished career includes more than 15 years of experience in information and communications technology, cybersecurity, Internet policy, engineering systems and technology policy. Most recently, he served as a branch chief in the Office of Engineering and Technology at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Earlier, he worked as a senior engineer in the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau of the FCC's Cybersecurity and Communications Reliability Division, as well as a senior staff member of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, a Technical Specialist/Patent Agent for a Washington, D.C. law firm, and a research engineer at the National Security Agency. In January 2015, Dr. Nweke founded the Science and Technology Policy Center for Development. The organization's mission is to advance knowledge and assist in the development and implementation of robust, comprehensive science and technology policies that achieve sustained economic growth in developing nations, particularly in Africa. Dr. Nweke has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Maryland School of Law. He has earned a series of professional honors, including the Meritorious Award from the FCC's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau in recognition of his outstanding contributions to enhance the security of the United States' communications network infrastructure. The creation of the Office of Internet Freedom solidifies BBG as a leader in this increasingly important area. Internet Freedom is an interagency effort that seeks to overcome attempts to interfere with, monitor, censor and prevent people overseas from using the Internet as an open platform on which to communicate, innovate, learn, organize and express themselves. Dr. Nweke's tenure as Director is scheduled to commence on July 25 (BBG PR via Hansjoerg Biener, WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DXLD) ** U S A. VOICE OF AMERICA MARKS 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF ITS 'CHARTER' WASHINGTON D.C., July 12, 2016 -- This week marks a major milestone for the Voice of America -- the 40th anniversary of the VOA Charter. On July 12, 1976, President Gerald Ford signed the Charter into law, institutionalizing what long had been the Voice of America's standard for journalistic excellence. "The VOA Charter has never been more important than it is today," said VOA Director Amanda Bennett. "The world needs a reliable and authoritative source of news and information, which is what the VOA Charter intends us to be. It also states that we are to represent all Americans, not just a single aspect of American society. We are tasked with telling the truth and to tell it from all sides. That's free press; that's fair press. That's the Voice of America." VOA Charter The long-range interests of the United States are served by communicating directly with the peoples of the world by radio. To be effective, the Voice of America must win the attention and respect of listeners. These principles will therefore govern Voice of America (VOA) broadcasts: VOA will serve as a consistently reliable and authoritative source of news. VOA news will be accurate, objective, and comprehensive. VOA will represent America, not any single segment of American society, and will therefore present a balanced and comprehensive projection of significant American thought and institutions. VOA will present the policies of the United States clearly and effectively, and will also present responsible discussions and opinion on these policies. Gerald R. Ford President of the United States of America Signed July 12, 1976 Public Law 94-350 Since its creation at the beginning of World War II, the Voice of America has told its audiences the truth. Through that conflict, the Cold War, and the fight against global terrorism and the struggle for freedom around the globe today, VOA has been an example to the world by upholding the principles of a free press (VOA PR July 12 via DXLD) ** U S A. 7425, July 8 at 0220, S5 mixture of audio from 7305 Vatican Radio music during Spanish service, and 7365 Radio Martí talk, from two adjacent Greenville transmitters, for the record, still producing this leapfrog mixing product (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. VOA Radiogram, 9-10 July 2016: Pasta in Olivia 32-1000 Here is the lineup for VOA Radiogram, program 171, 9-10 July 2016, all in MFSK32 centered on 1500 Hz except where noted: 1:36 Program preview 2:51 Saturn’s moon Titan might support life* 7:47 New Horizons space probe extends its mission* 13:01 Lightning rod may have saved Maryland’s State House* 18:42 Olivia 32-1000/2000 Hz: Pasta is good for you 26:29 MFSK32/1500 Hz: Closing announcements* * with image Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com VOA Radiogram transmission schedule (all days and times UT): Sat 0930-1000 5745 kHz Sat 1600-1630 17580 kHz Sun 0230-0300 5745 kHz Sun 1930-2000 15670 kHz All via the Edward R. Murrow transmitting station in North Carolina. If you want to see images posted by listeners during, or shortly after, the weekend broadcasts, visit https://twitter.com/voaradiogram I retweet the images submitted by VOA Radiogram listeners. You do not need to be a Twitter registered user to read the tweets. If you do register, you can send your own MFSK32 images, screen captures of text, etc. Please include @VOARadiogram in your tweet, and follow @VOARadiogram. . . . http://voaradiogram.net/post/147100664532/voa-radiogram-9-10-july-2016-pasta-in-olivia (Kim Andrew Elliott, July 9, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. IBB Washington DC A-16 schedule from June 21, also WRTH supplement and other various sources. Cancelled all transmissions of Radio Liberty shortwave in the following languages: Avari, Belarussian, Kabardian, Russian, and Russian Caucasus Echo on June 26, 2016. BBG RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY (RFE/RL) (Gov) Avar ? / Adyghe / Chechen 0400-0420 daily Cau 7270lam, 9520bib 1600-1620 daily Cau 11780bib, 11815lam Tajik 1400-1600 daily TJK 7475udo, 15450wof 1600-1700 daily TJK 7475erv, 11910lam Turkmen 1400-1500 daily TKM 9740kwt, 15255wof 1500-1600 daily TKM 9740kwt, 15255wof Uzbek 1400-1500 daily UZB 13630udo, 15180lam 1600-1700 daily UZB 9390udo, 11790bib BBG VOICE OF AMERICA (VOA) (Gov) Amharic 1600-1630 mtwtf.. EaAF 1431dji 1630-1700 mtwtf.. EaAF 6040bot, 15580bot 1800-1900 daily EaAF 12040kwt, 12080wof, 12140udo, 13860wof, 15630wof Bambara 2130-2200 mtwtf.. WeAF 9490asc, 11900smg, 13670gr , 15120gr Bengali 1600-1700 daily SoAS 1575bak Burmese 0000-0030 daily SoEaAS 1575bak, 6040udo, 7440udo, 12110pht 0130-0230 daily SoEaAS 7305udo, 15110pht, 17780pht 1200-1230 daily SoEaAS 11965pht, 15565pht, 17680pht 1430-1500 daily SoEaAS 1575bak 1430-1530 daily SoEaAS 11965udo 1430-1630 daily SoEaAS 5885pht, 9370pht 1530-1600 daily SoEaAS 1575bak 2330-2400 daily SoEaAS 6040udo, 7440udo, 12110pht Cantonese 1300-1400 daily SoEaAS 7470udo 1400-1500 daily SoEaAS 7365pht Chinese 0000-0100 daily EaAS 9880pht, 15385pht, 15565udo, 17560pht 0900-1100 daily EaAS 11785udo, 13755udo, 17485udo, 21695pht 0900-1300 daily EaAS 11825pht 1100-1200 daily EaAS 9845pht, 11785pht 1100-1300 daily EaAS 6110udo, 15250pht 1200-1300 daily EaAS 11785udo 1300-1400 daily EaAS 11785pht, 13690sai, 15590udo 1300-1500 daily EaAS 6110pht 1400-1500 daily EaAS 9440pht, 11785pht, 15590pht 2200-2300 daily EaAS 5970udo, 9845pht English 0030-0100 daily SoEaAS 1575bak 0230-0300 ......s NoAM 5745gr 0300-0430 daily AF 1530sao 0300-0600 daily SoAF 4930bot 0300-0400 daily AF 6080bot 0300-0700 daily AF 909bot, 15580bot 0400-0500 daily AF 4960sao 0400-0700 daily AF 6080sao 0600-0700 daily AF 1530sao 0930-1000 .....s. NoAM 5745gr 1100-1200 .....ss SoEaAS 1575bak 1400-1500 daily AF 15580sao 1400-1600 daily AF 6080bot 1400-1700 daily SoAF 4930bot 1500-1600 daily AF 17530bot 1500-1900 daily AF 15580bot 1600-1630 .....s. EUR 17580gr 1600-1630 daily AF 6080sao 1600-1700 daily AF 909bot, 1530sao 1630-1700 .....ss AF 6080bot 1630-1700 mtwtf.. SDN 11985mey, 13750dha, 15180smg 1700-1730 daily AF 6080mey, 15580bot, 17530gr 1700-1800 daily AF 13590smg 1730-1830 daily AF 6080sao, 17530gr 1800-1830 .....ss AF 4930bot 1800-1900 .....ss AF 909bot 1830-2000 daily AF 6080bot 1830-2100 daily SoAF 4930bot 1900-2100 daily AF 909bot 1900-2200 daily AF 15580bot 1930-2000 ......s EUR 15670gr 2000-2200 daily AF 1530sao 2030-2100 .....ss AF 4940sao 2000-2200 daily AF 6195bot 2230-2400 ....fs. SoEaAS 1575bak French 0530-0600 mtwtf.. AF 1530sao, 9885sao 0530-0630 mtwtf.. AF 4960sao, 6180sao, 13830bot 0600-0630 mtwtf.. AF 9885gr 1100-1130 .....s. AF 12030sao, 15715gr, 17740smg, 17850bot 1830-1900 daily AF 9885smg 1830-1930 daily AF 17530sao 1830-2000 daily AF 1530sao 1900-2030 mtwtf.. AF 9490kwt 1930-2030 daily AF 17530gr 2000-2030 daily AF 6070sao, 11900sao, 15730gr 2030-2100 ......s AF 9490sao, 15730gr 2030-2100 .....ss AF 11900kwt, 15185bot 2100-2130 mtwtf.. AF 1530sao, 5980bot, 9490kwt, 9885smg, 11900sao Hausa 0500-0530 daily AF 1530sao, 4960sao, 6035asc, 11750smg 0700-0730 daily AF 4960sao, 12070sao, 17700bot 1500-1530 daily AF 11750sao, 13700sao, 17700smg 1530-1600 mtwtf.. AF 11750sao, 13700sao, 17700smg 2030-2100 .....s. AF 7325smg, 9490sao, 15730gr 2030-2100 mtwtf.. AF 4940sao, 7325smg, 9490sao, 11955smg 2030-2100 mtwtfs. AF 6035sao Khmer 1330-1430 daily SoEaAS 1575bak, 11695pht 2200-2230 daily SoEaAS 1575bak, 5915pht, 9320pht Kinyarwanda / Kirundi 0330-0430 daily EaAF 7325sao, 9685sao, 9815bot 0430-0530 mtwtf.. EaAF 7325sao, 9815bot, 11905sao 1400-1500 .....ss EaAF 15460bot, 15675sao, 17530sao 1600-1630 mtwtf.. EaAF 13630bot, 15460sao 1600-1630 .....ss EaAF 13630bot, 15180sao 1600-1630 .....s. EaAF 11835mey, 15460sao, 17530sao 1600-1630 ......s EaAF 15460sao, 17530sao 1830-1900 mtwtf.. EaAF 11835smg, 13630dha 1930-2000 mtwtf.. EaAF 9470sao, 11835sao, 12140bot Korean 1200-1300 daily EaAS 9490tin 1200-1500 daily EaAS 1188seo, 7460pht, 11990pht 1300-1500 daily EaAS 12110tin 1900-2100 daily EaAS 5875udo, 7365udo, 7485pht Kurdish 0500-0600 daily ME delete 1400-1500 daily ME 15600bot, 17870wof 1700-1800 daily ME 7485udo, 9390bib, 11760bib 1900-2000 daily ME 6170bib, 7225bib, 9850lam additional Lao 1230-1300 daily SoEaAS 1575bak Oromo 1730-1800 mtwtf.. EaAF 12040sao, 12080sao, 12140mey, 13860udo, 15630wof Portuguese 1630-1700 ....f.. AF 11995mey, 13630sao, 15120gr , 15480asc, 17655smg, 17700gr 1700-1730 ....f.. AF 17700gr 1700-1800 daily AF 1530sao, 13630bot, 17655smg 1800-1830 mtwtf.. AF 13630bot, 17655sao Somali 0330-0400 daily EaAF 11750smg, 13680kwt, 15620udo 1030-1100 daily EaAF 11750bot, 13680bot, 15620sao 1300-1400 daily EaAF 15620bot, 17530smg 1600-1630 .....ss EaAF 1431dji 1600-1700 daily EaAF 15620bot 1600-1800 daily EaAF 12055smg 1700-1800 daily EaAF 15620kwt Swahili 1630-1700 daily EaAF 15265kwt, 15460sao, 17530sao Tibetan 0000-0100 daily EaAS 7250kwt, 9855kwt 0000-0100 UDO varying 13630tue 13640mon 13670wed 13690thur 13760sat 13805fri 13810sun 0300-0400 daily EaAS 15130udo, 17735pht 0300-0400 daily EaAS 21xxxpht PHT varying 21600mon 21610tue 21620wed 21630thur 21640fri 21650sat 21660sun 0400-0500 daily EaAS 15150kwt, 17735udo 0400-0500 daily EaAS 21xxxpht PHT varying 21610mon 21620tue 21630wed 21640thur 21650fri 21660sat 21600sun 0500-0600 daily EaAS 15155kwt, 15265udo PHT varying 21620mon 21630tue 21640wed 21650thur 21660fri 21600sat 21610sun 1400-1500 daily EaAS 9920udo, 17580lam UDO varying 17485mon 17760tue 17485wed 17760thur 17485fri 17760sat 17760sun 1600-1700 daily EaAS 7565pht, 9565udo, 12110pht Tu,Th,Sa,Su only. 15505bib Mo,We,Fr only. Tigrinya 1900-1930 mtwtf.. EaAF 12040lam, 12080dha, 12140bot, 13860dha, 15630wof Vietnamese 1300-1330 daily SoEaAS 1575bak BBG AFIA DARFUR RADIO (Gov) Arabic to Sudan 0300-0330 daily SDN 5925smg, 9470sao, 9815kwt 1800-1830 daily SDN 9645wof, 11615wof, 15620smg 1900-1930 daily SDN 9470sao, 9775smg, 11615sao BBG Deewa Radio Pashto 0100-0300 11700 LAM 100 kW 92 deg to WeAS 0100-0130 12035 LAM 100 kW 92 deg to WeAS 0100-0400 daily AFG, PAK 621kho 0100-0400 15205 UDO 250 kW 304 deg to WeAS 0130-0400 12035 KWT 250 kW 78 deg to WeAS 0300-0400 11700 KWT 250 kW 78 deg to WeAS 1300-1900 daily AFG, PAK 621kho 1300-1700 15650 LAM 100 kW 92 deg to WeAS 1300-1400 13590 UDO 250 kW 300 deg to WeAS 1300-1500 12035 UDO 250 kW 300 deg to WeAS 1300-1700 9310 UDO 250 kW 300 deg to WeAS 1400-1700 13590 KWT 250 kW 78 deg to WeAS 1500-1700 12150 UDO 250 kW 300 deg to WeAS 1700-1900 12150 LAM 100 kW 92 deg to WeAS 1700-1900 9335 KWT 250 kW 78 deg to WeAS 1700-1900 9310 UDO 250 kW 300 deg to WeAS 1700-1900 7540 UDO 250 kW 300 deg to WeAS BBG RADIO FARDA (Gov) Farsi 0000-2400 daily IRN 1575dha 0000-0200 daily IRN 5865lam 0200-0630 daily IRN 5865kwt 0230-0400 daily IRN 13860udo 0230-0530 daily IRN 15690udo 0400-0930 daily IRN 13860lam 0530-1600 daily IRN 15690bib 0630-1030 daily IRN 11925kwt 0630-0730 daily IRN 17880udo 0730-1530 daily IRN 17880bib 1030-1200 daily IRN 12005kwt 1200-1400 daily IRN 7435kwt 1200-1800 daily IRN 12005wof 1500-2400 daily IRN 5865kwt {much reduced schedule, wb.} BBG RADIO FREE AFGHANISTAN {VoA Ashna Radio} (Gov) Dari 0100-0130 daily AFG 1296kab, 13730udo, 15090udo 0200-0230 daily AFG 1296kab, 13730udo, 15090udo 0300-0330 daily AFG 1296kab, 15090kwt, 17690udo 0430-0530 daily AFG 1296kab, 15090kwt, 17690udo 0630-0730 daily AFG 1296kab, 15090kwt, 17690udo 0830-0930 daily AFG 1296kab, 15090kwt, 17690udo 1030-1130 daily AFG 1296kab, 15090kwt, 17690udo 1230-1330 daily AFG 1296kab, 15090kwt, 17690udo 1400-1430 daily AFG 1296kab, 15090kwt, 17690kwt 1500-1630 daily AFG 1296kab, 7495kwt, 11540udo, 13730kwt Pashto 0030-0100 daily AFG 1296kab, 13730udo, 15090udo 0130-0200 daily AFG 1296kab, 13730udo, 15090udo 0230-0300 daily AFG 1296kab, 15090kwt, 17690udo 0330-0430 daily AFG 1296kab, 15090kwt, 17690udo 0530-0630 daily AFG 1296kab, 15090kwt, 17690udo 0730-0830 daily AFG 1296kab, 15090kwt, 17690udo 0930-1030 daily AFG 1296kab, 15090kwt, 17690udo 1130-1230 daily AFG 1296kab, 15090kwt, 17690udo 1330-1400 daily AFG 1296kab, 15090kwt, 17690kwt 1430-1500 daily AFG 1296kab, 7495kwt, 13730kwt, 17690kwt 1630-1730 daily AFG 1296kab, 7495udo, 11540udo, 13730kwt BBG VOA STUDIO 7 (Gov) English 1720-1740 .....ss ZWE 909bot, 4930bot, 6065bot, 15460sao 1730-1800 mtwt... ZWE 909bot, 4930bot, 6065bot, 15460sao English/Ndebele/Shona 1800-1830 ....f.. ZWE 909bot, 4930bot, 6065bot, 15460sao 1830-1900 mtwtf.. ZWE 909bot, 6065bot, 15460sao Ndebele 1730-1800 ....f.. ZWE 909bot, 4930bot, 6065bot, 15460sao 1740-1800 .....ss ZWE 909bot, 4930bot, 6065bot, 15460sao 1800-1830 mtwt... ZWE 909bot, 4930bot, 6065bot, 15460sao Shona 1700-1720 .....ss ZWE 909bot, 4930bot, 6065bot, 15460sao 1700-1730 mtwtf.. ZWE 909bot, 4930bot, 6065bot, 15460sao BBG RADIO MARTI (Gov) Spanish 0000-0300 daily CUB 6030gr, 7365gr 0000-2400 daily CUB 1180mth 0300-0500 .twtfss CUB 7335gr 0300-0900 .twtfss CUB 6030gr 0500-0700 .twtfss CUB 7365gr 0700-0900 .twtfss CUB 5980gr 0900-1000 daily CUB 5980gr 0900-1200 daily CUB 6030gr 1000-1300 daily CUB 9805gr 1200-1400 daily CUB 7405gr 1300-2000 daily CUB 13605gr 1400-2400 daily CUB 11930gr 2000-2400 daily CUB 9565gr BBG VOA RADIO AAP KI DUNYAA (Gov) Urdu 1400-0200 daily SoAS 972dsb BBG RADIO MASHAAL (Gov) Pashto 0400-1300 daily AFG,PAK 621kho, 12130kwt 0400-0700 daily AFG,PAK 15360dha 0400-0500 daily AFG,PAK 15760udo 0500-1300 daily AFG,PAK 15760kwt 0700-1000 daily AFG,PAK 15360kwt 1000-1300 daily AFG,PAK 15360udo BBG RADIO SAWA (Gov) Arabic 0000-0100 mt.tfss ME,NoAF 990cgr 0000-2400 daily IRQ 1593kwt 0000-2400 daily ARS,YEM 1548kwt 0100-2200 daily ME,NoAF 990cgr 1645-0400 daily NoAF 1431dji 2200-2400 m.wtfss ME,NoAF 990cgr (via Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews June 21 / July 1, BC-DX 7 July via DXLD) Format above obviously that of the WRTH, with lower-case sites attached to frequencies, and days of week style, but target abbrs. are Wolfgang Büschel style, and presumably he has made some other amendments, but hard to sort out which is which (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** U S A [non]. A-16 RFA Daily Broadcast Frequencies. ARMENIA/KOREA Rep of/KUWAIT/LITHUANIA/MARIANA ISL_{Saipan/Tinian}/ MONGOLIA/TAIWAN/TAJIKISTAN/THAILAND/UAE --- All times in UTC. Burmese (4 hours daily) 0030-0130 12115KWT 15700TIN 17785SAI 1230-1330 7530TIN 11805TIN 13820UAE 1330-1400 7530TIN 11805TIN 12140SAI 1400-1430 7530TIN 11805TIN 1630-1730 9940ERV Cantonese (2 hours daily) all via Tinian Isl, variable change every week. 1400-1500 13640Sa 13740Tu/Th 13755Mo/We/Fr 13820Su 2200-2300 15260Mo 15270Tu 15280We 15290Th 15300Fr 15375Sa 15390Su Khmer (2 hours daily) 1230-1330 12140SAI 2230-2330 13740SAI Korean (5 hours daily) 1500-1700 1188SEO 5830TIN 7455TIN 11850TIN 1700-1800 1188SEO 9975TIN 11985TIN 1800-1900 1188SEO 9975TIN 11830TIN 2100-2200 7460MNG 9700TIN 11945SAI Lao (2 hours daily) 0000-0100 15690TIN 1100-1200 15195TIN Mandarin (12 hours daily) 0300-0400 13790SAI 15700TIN 17520SAI 17665TIN 0400-0500 13790SAI 15615TIN 17520SAI 21505TIN 0500-0600 13790SAI 15615TIN 17520SAI 21690TIN 0600-0700 13790SAI 15615TIN 17520SAI 17810TIN 1500-1600 9455SAI 13675TJK 15430SAI 1600-1700 9840SAI 11610TIN 13675TJK 13810SAI 1700-1800 9355SAI 9965SAI 1800-1900 9355SAI 9965SAI 11560SAI 1900-2000 1098KOU-TWN 9355SAI 9745KWT 2000-2100 1098KOU-TWN 6025TIN 9355SAI 9745KWT 2100-2200 1098KOU-TWN 7435TIN 9685KWT 2300-2400 9440KWT 11785TIN 15570TIN Tibetan (10 hours daily) TIN and KWT frequency hopping, variable change every week, variable operation day of the week change very often. 0100-0200 9680KWT 11780KWT 9885TJK 17730MNG TIN:17635Tu/Th 17665Sa 17685Mo/We/Fr 17700Su 0200-0300 9885TJK 11745KWT 11780KWT 17730MNG TIN:21550Mo 21560Tu 21575We 21585Th 21595Fr 21610Sa 21620Su 0600-0700 15720TJK 21550TIN 21690UAE KWT:17635 Mo,We,Fr only, 17750 Tu,Th,Sa,Su only. 1000-1100 13800KWT 15330TIN TIN:21465Mo 21455Tu 21525We 21505Th 21495Fr 21485Sa 21475Su 1100-1200 7470MNG 13830TJK 15265UAE KWT:18930Mo 18980Tu 18990We 19000Th 18980Fr 18990Sa 19010Su 1200-1300 7470MNG 11540TIN 13830TJK 15265TJK KWT:18980Mo 18990Tu 19000We 18980Th 18990Fr 19000Sa 18930Su 1300-1400 7470MNG 11540KWT 13830TJK 15275TJK KWT:18930Mo 18980Tu 18990We 19000Th 18980Fr 18990Sa 19010Su 1500-1600 9355TJK 11870UAE TIN:13745 Tu,Th,Sa,Su only, 13790 Mo,We,Fr only. 2200-2300 7505TJK 9370KWT KWT:11830Mo 11870Tu 11965We 11995Th 12035Fr 12040Sa 12125Su 2300-0000 6075KWT 9555UAE 9875TJK Uyghur (2 hours daily) 0100-0200 9350TJK 9400SIT 9780KWT 11640UAE 11945KWT 1600-1700 9355TJK 9555UAE 9975TIN 11560TIN Vietnamese (2 hours daily) 2330-0030 9940SAI deleted: 1503FAO-TWN 1400-1430 1503FAO-TWN 1400-1500 9950TIN 12045SAI (via wb, July 1, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, BC-DX 7 July via DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1833 monitoring: confirmed Thursday July 7 at 2100 on WRMI 13695, very good (stayed tuned for `Blues Radio International` at 2130). Also confirmed Thu July 7 at 2330 on WBCQ 9330v-CUSB, JBA. Next: Fri 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE Fri 2130.5 WRMI 13695 to NW Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB to SW Sat 1430 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 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW 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 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE 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. WORLD OF RADIO 1833 monitoring: confirmed Friday July 8 at 2130 on WRMI 15770, very poor; 2130.5 on WRMI 13695, very good. Also confirmed Fri July 8 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9329.8-CUSB, poor. Oddly, I was hearing QRM on 9329-LSB, from 4 or 5 beeps in a row repeating during the WBCQ IS and ID, but that quit before 2330. Next: Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB to SW Sat 1430 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 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW 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 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE 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 1833 monitoring: confirmed Saturday July 9 at 2250 on the 2230 broadcast via WBCQ, 9329.897-CUSB, fair S8. Also confirmed UT Sunday July 10 at 0340 check on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, but too much storm noise to copy or figure out the start time. Next: Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW 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 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE 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 1833 monitoring: confirmed Sunday July 10 at 2350 check, the 2330 broadcast on WBCQ, 9329.838-CUSB. Also confirmed UT Monday July 11 at 0030 on WRMI, 7729.99, VG S9+25. Also confirmed UT Monday July 11 after 0330 on WRMI 9955, S9+10-20. However, the 0300 UT Monday July 11 broadcast on Area 51 must have started late at 0304:39 and turned out to be last week`s WOR 1832, since it ended at 0333:37.5 on WBCQ 5129.901-AM, S9+20. Next 1833s: Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE 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 1833 monitoring: confirmed Monday July 11 after 2330 on WBCQ 9330.0, very poor. Next: Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE 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 1833 monitoring: NOT confirmed Tuesday July 12 at 2130 on WRMI 15770, since it`s off the air (as are most other WRMI frequencies: separate log). Also NOT confirmed Tuesday July 12 at 2330 on WBCQ 9330v-CUSB, since it`s inaudible and presumably off the air altho 7489.9-AM is OK with music. Next, we hope: Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1833 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday July 13 at 1315.5 on WRMI 9955, fair. Also confirmed Wed July 13 at 2100 on WBCQ webcast, following interjexion after the canned ID: ``ha ha ha ha``. Then checked 7489.9-AM and could only get a JBA carrier. WORLD OF RADIO 1834 ready for first airings Thursday July 14: Thu 1130 WRMI 9955 to SSE 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 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB to SW Sat 1430 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 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW 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 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE 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. 7780, July 8 at 0218, as I start my 7 MHz bandscan downward, NO signal from this WRMI #3 BS, so a little less toxic algae from Okeechobee, hi. I check all the others and find WRMI, mostly BS, still transmitting on 5015, 5765, 5850, 5950, 5985, 6855, 7570, 7730, 9395, 9955, 11530, 11580. That accounts for all 13 transmitters, as only one, #7 is not scheduled to be on air at night, just 21675 for Radio Africa in daytime (which is barely audible any more with abysmal solar flux). 7780, July 9 at 0106 check, this WRMIBS is back on the air, missing last night; but I don`t check if any of the other dozen frequencies be off instead. 21675, 17790, 15770, 15440, 13695, 11825, 11580, 11565, 9955, 9395, July 12 at 2131 check after not hearing 15770 with WOR, found all these WRMI frequencies silent --- but 6855 is still detectable with BS; 5950 and 5015 could also be on but not propagating yet. What`s wrong at WRMI? And if it is a power failure, how come at least one transmitter is still going? Next check at 2333 finds: OFF: 11825, 11580, 9955, 9395, 7780, 7730, 7570, 5950, 5850, 5745, 5015; ON: 6855, and 11530 has some weak Chinese, presumably WRMI. 9955 jamming is still grinding away, against nothing. Next2 check at 0224 UT July 13: OFF: 11580, 11530, 9955, 9395, 7780, 5985, 5765, 5015. ON: 7730, 7570, 6855, 5950. 9395, 9955, 11530, 11580, July 13 at 0539 check, now at least these WRMI frequencies are back on the air, all of which were off during previous check as in last report. I also find the WRMI homepage http://wrmi.net has a new look --- top illustration includes a radio tuned to 17550 which is not a WRMI frequency. Apparently a work in progress since instead of illustrations on the programming page there only appear .png and .jpg linx! Going on to the schedule pages finds those the same as before (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7489.87-AM, July 9 from 0112, I`m listening to Allan Weiner Worldwide on WBCQ (first hour 0000-0100 I was listening to webcast; at 0020 he mentioned that they are `trimulcasting` also on 5130, 3250 and he has been working on a Navy TBM transmitter from 1973, for backup; at 0054 that the antenna for 7490 is a log periodic beam). 7490v reception is good, except just as I re-tune in at 0112:12 it cuts off the air, shortly back on at 0113:56 as Allan mentions ``gremlins`` and suggests retuning to 5130, which I already had, but 5129.9-AM was poor in storm noise. Timed the delay via cosmikdebris server tonight at 17 seconds behind 7490. Never could hear even a carrier on 3250. Going thru e-mail shortly before 0130, Allan has some WBCQ program notes: Chris --- has changed title of `Understanding Your Adversary` to `Know Your Adversary`, Thursdays at 8-9 pm ET on 7490 (= UT Fridays 00-01). I haven`t caught it yet nor apparently has Allan heard it. Where is Chris coming from? Also, `Prison Guy Robert`s Dead Frog Radio` is midnight Saturday nights into Sundays = UT Sundays 0400-0500 on 7490. At 0133, mail from Dave Zantow in Wisconsin that WRNO from 7505 is splattering on WBCQ; Allan asks me to notify them about that, and so I have, rather to tech advisor Jon Gorski. (I am not having that splatter problem here, but presumably WRNO azimuth is still 20 degrees, which makes Wisconsin a prime target.) By now, WRNO signal has faded down greatly here, and by 0140, 7490 WBCQ is also fading down, as Allan says he has not yet decided what to program on 3250. Benedixion and wrapping up, 0145 back to BS (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DX LISTENING DIGEST) More below about WRNO situation 9329.897-CUSB, Saturday July 9 at 2301, WBCQ starting playback of last night`s `Allan Weiner Worldwide`, so it`s filling in for something else missing? Maybe originally, but now AWWW is on the 9330 schedule. After 0000 UT Sunday July 10, I`ve switched from the R-75 to the NRD- 545 and remeasure this at 0005 during Blalock the Tourette blaster: 9329.78. (7489.9-AM), UT Sunday July 10 at 0355, `Open Your Eyes [,] People`, YL gospel huxter on worldwide ego-trip before the imminent apocalypse. I could hear WBCQ on SW, but more convenient now on webcast prior to new show `Dead Frog Radio` Allan has been publicizing for 04-05 UT Sundays. Starts with parody of kids Pledging Allegiance to kill all the other kids in the world; `Dead Puppies` song; some homosexual songs including `God Hates Fags`. DJ says, ``I sing in a prison a cappella group``, and more frenetic off-the-wall stuff, call-ins. It`s considerably raunchier than `Weekend Radio` I heard just before it on WCLV, KUCO (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7489.90, July 12 at 0131, WBCQ, S9+40 with a ``WINS, New York`` ID and some classic rock still at 0143; what`s this, instead of usual Brother Scare after 0100? Before 0100 I was listening to WBCQ webcast for `From the Isle of Music`. Bill acknowledged our help in publicizing his show as he was closing. 5129.91-AM, July 13 at 0227, WBCQ is on, presumably the W5KUB show, Amateur Radio Roundtable still running since 0100 UT Wed with call- ins, poor signal. No competition now from 5085 WTWW with QSO show, since it`s now off. Was it on earlier tonight? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Hi Glenn, I have been helping Larry Thom, chief engineer of WRNO. Larry has an Elcor transmitter similar to mine. He has been off the air for some time due to transmitter problems as well as health problems. Larry and I have been in touch and working out the problems with the transmitter. We just got WRNO back on the air minutes ago. I set up my test equipment to monitor the signal and have been able to talk Larry in as he adjusted his audio processor. WRNO never sounded better. The frequency is 7505 KC. The Elcor is being driven by a Collins T-368 which is doing a fine job for a 60 year old transmitter. Check out 7505 KC see what you think (Jon Gorski, KJES, 0024 UT July 7, via WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Jon, received after WOR 1833 was completed. And I don`t hear it at 0113 UT. Will it be back on later tonight? The `new` WRNO certainly never reached its potential with only 3 hours a day, off-frequency and at times awful modulation (Glenn to Jon, 0116 UT July 7 via DXLD) Glenn, we just got it back tonight. And are still tuning and testing. But it will get better. Larry has been at it all day, so not sure he will be back tonight. His regular transmitter operator is off. When the regular operator returns, he will need to be trained on the T-368 driver. I helped Larry fine tune the audio processor, so some improvement there. Still have a frequency drift problem that he will get solved. Baby steps at first. But it will come together. Larry is lucky to be able to work in the heat of the transmitter shack. He just got out of the hospital after surgery for kidney stones. He says it takes a while to get back to full strength. Also trouble with rain in the T-368. Not a cloud for three states around when he loaded the T- 368 transmitter on his pickup truck. But as soon as he started loading, a little black cloud opened up on him and hung around pouring an inch of rain on him and the T-368. Took all day to dry it out and get it operating again. Some days ya just can't get a break. Larry's doing his best; wish him luck (Jon Gorski, KJES, 0150 UT July 7, ibid.) It's just the daily life of a transmitter engineer slaving over a hot transmitter. Larry Thom, WRNO chief engineer, says he will have to teach his transmitter op. the new stuff. He still has some fine "tweaking to do" but he will get it right (Jon Gorski, KJES, 0350 UT July 7, ibid.) So the next night from before 0000 UT, I have the R75 with BFO set to 7504-USB. Cuts on at *0100 and I file this to the DXLD yg at 0115: WRNO is back on the air from *0100 UT July 8, 7505v. Frequency is varying considerably as they are tweaking it, like 7505.130, 7505.390, 7504.990 in the next few minutes. Every time I try to measure it, it`s jumping or VFOing. ID from Fort Worth, Texas studio, gospel music. Jon Gorski is helping them get back on the air and tells me they started testing last night. More details to follow (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I resume monitoring on the NRD-545 at 0149 UT July 8: 7505.19 is S9+40 with good modulation. Contact info is being given, including wrnoradio@mailup.net --- also they have an app: WRNO. Asking for reports; they want to know who is listening from which countries. `Haven` also mentioned, program name or part of one? By 0158 it`s closer to 7505.25; canned ID at 0200 mentioning from transmitter site in New Orleans, Louisiana; 0201 starting `Maranatha Radio` preaching and I tune out until another check at 0239 when it`s about 7505.026. Following our tip, Wolfgang Büschel replies, ``USA 7505.014 Noted WRNO with station ID at 0251 UT on July 8 on remote SDR unit in Edmonton Alberta. Stable frequency so far, no wandering noted. 2 x 15 kHz broad wide signal, nice audio. Talk by two woman, "what you are reading...", Mrs. Rose-Mary co-presenter, talk on Goodness of God. S=9+35dB signal`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, July 8 (UT) - Thanks to your alert, tuned in WRNO at 0321, on about 7505.0 and heard the start of the "Dr. Dennis" (Sempebwa) program "The Gathering"; fair, with QRN (summertime static). Had some correspondence with Larry Thom back in 2010, but after that my emails to him bounced back, so I assumed incorrectly that he had left the station. Good to know he is still there. Glenn, suspect you heard Mike & Lorie Randle with "The Haven." (Ron Howard, California, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7505vv, July 9 at 0116, WRNO is on again, S9+35, shoutout during `The Haven` to Matthew Oglethorpe in Louisiana (Shreveport, I believe, so how is intrastate propagation?) and the frequency won`t hold still for me to measure it, as high as 7505.22, but at 0119 on 7504.93; considerably weakening at 0134, on 7505.11 as the skip is lengthening? Reads only S9+15, gospel rock; 0137 quoting Robert Mawire (the current owner). Meanwhile, Dave Zantow in Wisconsin had e-mailed Allan Weiner on 7490, complaining that WRNO was splattering on WBCQ (altho not a problem here: see separate WBCQ log) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, I suggested that The chief engineer of WRNO operate the T-368 driver transmitter into a dummy load for a hour or two before sign on. The transmitter settled down to 7505.000 KC after a good warm up. The driver (T368) could be controlled by a low cost time switch programmed to turn on an hour or two before sign on. At sign-on, the pre-warmed and now stable driver is switched to the Elcor transmitter. An easy, low-cost way to solve the frequency drift problem. Not the highest tech. way to do it, but it works (Jon Gorski, KJES, 0456 UT July 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Allan (Cc to Glenn), Just FYI in regards to the WBCQ 7490 reception (and the bad WRNO splatter). Here is an audio file and screen capture (via my Icom IC-7300 transceiver) that shows how bad the splatter was from WRNO on 7505 tonight. As bad as I have ever heard it, MP3 recording as you were reading my email. Of course they have been off the air until just recently. Nasty, nasty. If you want to know more about the new Icom IC-7300 standalone SDR set, please see my review I just posted my web page: http://webpages.charter.net/n9ewo2/ic7300.html Regards, (David Zantow N9EWO, Janesville, WI, 0203 UT July 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dave, I was listening to AWWW on web during the first hour, and on SW during the rest, 7490-, and also checking WRNO 7505v. I did not have any splatter from them, altho their frequency was continually varying above and below 7505. Listening on AM it sounded OK. I assume they are still on a 20 degree azimuth, which makes Wisconsin a prime target, more so than here, altho that is no excuse. Both signals were weakening by 0145. I am forwarding this to Jon Gorski, who I am sure will be helping get that tuned up (Glenn to Dave, via DXLD) OK, Glenn, This continuing problem is not new for WRNO here, has been an issue in the past. Many Thanks, (Dave Zantow, ibid.) Glenn, I have been monitoring for Larry (WRNO Chief) all night. The frequency did wander some. But his operator did a good job of chasing it. At sign-off, the frequency was 7505.026 KC, not bad for an old free running VFO. Things will get better. A new frequency source is planned. I also was watching with a spectrum analyzer and find the total bandwidth to be about 12 KC. There may some stuff showing up beyond but that too will be taken care of. Larry will get it dialed in right (Jon Gorski, KJES, ibid.) Glenn, I just listened to the audio file you sent me [Dave`s] of WBCQ. I could hear some lightning static (lots of thunder storms in the area). But other than the usual summer static on 40 meters, I cannot hear any splatter from WRNO; the spectrum display on my analyzer confirms this. I will be monitoring and should any problems be noted, I will discuss it with Larry Thom, WRNO chief. He will be on top of it. After all we have to be good neighbors with our shortwave brothers (Jon Gorski, KJES, ibid.) I have now added that screen capture “spectrum scope” photo that clearly shows the WRNO splattering (40 kHz total) onto my just posted Icom IC-7300 radio review. It’s located near the the bottom of it’s web page. http://webpages.charter.net/n9ewo2/ic7300.html I have not investigated if they are creating other gremlins or spurs across the 41 meter band? I just don’t know at this point. Regards, (Dave Zantow N9EWO, Janesville, WI my radio equipment news page : http://webpages.charter.net/n9ewo2/news.html DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7505v, July 11 at 0110 and 0342 chex, WRNO is off again tonight. 7505.00, July 12 at 0109, WRNO is off again tonight --- but recheck at 0128, now it`s on at S9+45, presumably the `Haven` show discussing a murder, somewhat undermodulated. Dave Zantow in the boresight of WRNO, Janesville WI tells me he is still getting so much splatter that it QRMs 7490 WBCQ. I could hear splatter down to 7495, but enough of WBCQ 7490 at S9+40 to hold its own here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, WRNO is on tonight (as you have probably noticed), and they are still splattering here. So no change from last Friday. I don’t notice them with any other gremlins across the band, thank goodness (a.k.a. spurs). If WBCQ is strong enough, I don’t notice it as much , BUT when they get weaker mid evening as it is this time of year on 7490 here, then it makes for difficult listening. Yeah, It’s not as bad as Cuba’s distorted broadcasts of late, now that I listened to THAT more (wow: what is worse than that). But again as I look at my spectrum scope on my Icom IC-7300 again tonight, I can still see (and hear) 20 kHz of bandwidth being used on either side of the carrier (as it modulated fully). Just a tad too wide wouldn't you say?? I guess it could be worse (with Brazil’s spurs of late). Regards, (Dave Zantow N9EWO, 0156 UT July 12, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dave, Yes, I was checking it a while ago. They came on late. Plenty strong, S9+45 but to the ear not wide enough bandwidth to impinge on WBCQ here, maybe down to 7495. I wonder what`s on WBCQ -- heard a WINS New York ID at 0131 and some classic rock, instead of BS, S9 +40 (Glenn, OK, to Dave, via DXLD) Be sure and use a very wide bandwidth when listening for any WRNO splatter. Say 9.90 kHz on the NRD-545. Guess I will just give up trying to push this any further; hopefully it does not get any worse? Regards, (Dave Zantow, ibid.) 7504.991, WRNO late ON AIR this European morning, 0400-0418 UT July 12, but was OFF air when checked again at 0419 UT. S=9+15dB more than fair signal across the Atlantic. But likely the transmitter was not stable, wandered 2-3 Hertz upwards (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 12, dxldyg via DXLD) Yes, Wolfy, I also noted the drifting frequency which at times moved rather quickly. Random checking 0126-0240, found between 7505.25 down to 7504.98 (Ron Howard, July 12, dxldyg via DXLD) [and non]. USA - WRNO was heard on 13 July 2016 using the Twente web receiver http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ 0059 sign on, music. 0103 station identification. "Good News" with Robert Mawire: advert for a book via amazon.com, 60 minute monologue (from the perspective of a German theologian: far-fetched ideas) on The Time Line of the Bible (starting with definitions e. g. "7" from the seven day rhythm established with creation, "40" test period, "26" numerical value of Jahwe), advert for Mawire's book. 0204 station identification. Signal strength was weak throughout the hour. Note: There was no interference from AIR Nepali. Jose Jacob http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos/160621 gives this schedule: 0130-0230 Nepali 7505(Ki) 9800(P) 11715(Kh) Nepal but AIR Nepali was not heard on any of these frequencies when checked at 0130, 0145 and 0200 h UT (Dr Hansjoerg Biener, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dear Jose, maybe an irregularity: at least http://allindiaradio.gov.in/Services/External/Documents/5658d0d27c96472ba6cd5d4c322081b3LanguageServicesofExternalServicesDivision.pdf still lists this transmission? Best regards, Mauno AIR Nepali Service is heard by me often on 7505 9800 11715 at 0130- 0230. Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, July 13, dx_india yg via DXLD) 7504.96, July 13 at 0226, WRNO is on and fairly stable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 12105, July 7 at 2010, WTWW-3 is open carrier/dead air instead of Bibling, and still so at 2128. 9930 is off instead of Dave Ramsey Show. 9475 is abnormally weak with SFAW at S5-S8. Not checked again until 0208 UT July 8, and now 12105 is off; 5830 is on with ponderous Bible story about Moses, and crosstalk slightly lower level; sounds like same speaker with different feed, maybe same story considerably offset. Rather like tape print-thru; remember that, from extra-thin mylar on reels-to-reel? 12105, July 8 at 2040, WTWW-3 is S9 but dead air, instead of Bibling; 9930 is off instead of Dave Ramsey. 9475 on with SFAW at S9+10. Next check July 9 at 0105, 12105 is off, 9475 is S9+25. 12105, July 9 at 1824, WTWW-3 is on with preaching in English; while 9475, WTWW-1 is QSOing, and 9930, WTWW-2 if off. Recheck at 0028 UT July 10, 12104.98 is Bibling in Russian, only S3, and doubtless a lot less than that in Russia if anyone is 1) awake, 2) tuning SW, and 3) axually wants to be evangelized by American Protestants (?) 12105-, July 11 at 0013 check, WTWW-3 this time is in Spanish Bibling at S9. 12104.98, July 12 at 0114, WTWW-3 is S9+30 and this hour tonight is in --- wait for it --- Yoruba, where in Nigeria it`s 2+ am. 12105, July 12 at 1713 check, WTWW-3 is S9 with Russian, for a change. You never know any more which hour will be in which language. Next check at 1956-2003+, S9+5 with dead air. Meanwhile, 9930, WTWW-2 is off instead of Dave Ramsey, but 9475, WTWW-1 is usual SFAW at S9+25. Next2 check at 0223 July 13, 12105 is off, so is 5085, no QSO show or already over? 5830 is nominal. 12105, July 13 at 1852 check, WTWW-3 is S9+10 open carrier, dead air; 9930 is off instead of Dave Ramsey Show; 9475 is nominal with SFAW (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15555-USB, July 12 at 1958, screaming gospel huxter John Hill on his own dedicated posthumous glorified ham station, WJHR. Haven`t heard it lately and was wondering if off or just poor propagation for this underpowered outlet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 11870 & 5810, July 10 at 0023, NO signals from WEWN Spanish, both supposed to start at 0000. Should have checked 11520 for English, probably off too. No severe weather around Irondale/Vandiver/Birmingham tonight, so it`s something else. At 0355 [not 0455 typo in original report], 5810 is anyway on with Spanish. 11520, July 11 at 0021, WEWN English is off, and so are the two Spanish frequencies like last night, 11870 and 5810, all supposed to start at 0000. Nor still on day frequencies either. At 0345 UT July 11, all three are now on. Note: last night it was at 0355, not typo 0455, that I found 5810 back on. 5810, 11520, 11870, July 12 at 0110, all three WEWN frequencies are on and strong; 11870 at S9+30 brings with it the screeching sounds in the sidebands. Did not check an hour earlier whether they were AWOL again then like previous dates (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5050, July 12 at 0116, WWRB is on again this Monday night/UT Tuesday, gospel huxter about the apocalypse, S9+30 but lo-fi modulation on the program feed, and some cutting out (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Updated shortwave schedule of WINB Red Lion from July 10: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/07/updated-shortwave-schedule-of-winb-red.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Updated shortwave schedule of WINB Red Lion from July 10: 1130-1200 on 9265 INB 050 kW / 242 deg to CeAm English Sun 1200-2000 on 9265 INB 050 kW / 242 deg to CeAm English Sat/Sun 1700-1900*on 9265 INB 050 kW / 242 deg to CeAm English Mon-Fri# 1900-1945 on 9265 INB 050 kW / 242 deg to CeAm English Mon-Fri 1945-2000 on 9265 INB 050 kW / 242 deg to CeAm Eng/Spa Mon-Thu 1945-2000 on 9265 INB 050 kW / 242 deg to CeAm English Fri 2000-2230 on 9265 INB 050 kW / 242 deg to CeAm English Daily 2230-2300 on 9265 INB 050 kW / 242 deg to CeAm Spanish Mon 2230-2300 on 9265 INB 050 kW / 242 deg to CeAm English Tue-Sun 2300-2400 on 9265 INB 050 kW / 242 deg to CeAm English Daily 0000-0230 on 9265 INB 050 kW / 242 deg to CeAm English Daily 0230-0300 on 9265 INB 050 kW / 242 deg to CeAm English Sat-Thu# 0300-0400 on 9265 INB 050 kW / 242 deg to CeAm English Sat/Mon# * Brother HySTAIRical, ex 1600-1900; # changes http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/07/updated-shortwave-schedule-of-winb-red.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #956 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, July 11, 2016, via DXLD) Atlantic 2000 on the air from the USA --- Sunday 10th of July from 0300 to 0400 UT (Saturday 9th - 23:00 to 24:00 at New York) on 9265 kHz via WINB in the USA with 50 kW. Streaming at the same time at: http://www.winb.com Reports to: atlantic2000international@gmail.com Good listening ! -- Visit our website : http://radioatlantic2000.free.fr (via Manuel Méndez, Spain, July 9, dxldyg via DXLD) One-off? Did not see this notice in time (gh) ** U S A. 570, July 7 at 1045 UT, Fox Sports Radio, hype, hype, hype. Loops NE/SW, and easily heard with KLIF DFW nulled, not very strong itself. Presumed KWML Las Cruces NM, 5000/155 watts U1; and confirmed at 1059 UT ID after local weather. So is it on day power? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 740, July 7 at 1052 UT, KTRH Houston TX with headlines, IDs in passing, over KRMG Tulsa and making a 64/minute = 1.07 Hz SAH; also heavy QRM from the off-frequency Mexican. KTRH is 50/50 kW U4, and both day and night patterns are supposed to throw virtually nothing toward Oklahoma. But I can only get some KRMG by nulling KTRH. By 1107 UT, KRMG is atop, but KTRH and its SAH still audible. Official FCC July sunrises are: Tulsa 1115 UT; Houston 1130 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. My new QSL --- Hello Friedhelm, I hope you are well in these turbulent times hi! This one has been outstanding since January 2016. With the help of Max von Arnhem the verie then came in about an hour. USA KRCM Shenandoah, TX 1380 epost (After f/up TNX MvA) 7 months v/s Pastor Ruben Villarreal ( rubenv75@gmail.com ) Best wishes (Barry :-) Davies, Carlisle UK, July 13, MWCircle yg via DXLD) Did he admit, or did you enquire, that KRCM is running 22 kW day power and pattern at night instead of 43 watts? Continues to be the dominant 1380 signal here at night. 73, (Glenn Hauser, OK, ibid.) No. Best wishes (Barry :-) Carlisle UK, Davies, ibid.) I am fairly convinced they run day power on purpose, and they would be foolish to make a point of it. For my part, I didn't ask, and there was no mention of power in the reply I got (Bjarne Mjelde, http://arcticdx.blogspot.com ibid.) 1380, TEXAS, KRCM, Shenandoah. 1020 July 10, 2016. With my local WWMI briefly off, this one in good when pointing ENE with Spanish preacher, Houston PO Box for sending him bling, other local church mentions, Spanish gospel vocals from 1030 (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, NRD- 535, IC-R75, ICF-7600GR, HQ-180A, roof dipole, active loop, All times/dates GMT, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1460, July 8 at 0232 UT, Spanish looping NE/SW talk sounds like sports. The only good fit is: KBZO Lubbock TX with ESPN Deportes, 1000/243 watts U1. Atop at first, it soon fades (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1680 KRJO drops classic hits --- This item from DX- midAMerica: 1680 KRJO*LA Monroe switches to Hot AC in // with 99.7 FM K259CU Monroe. New website http://997myfm.com/ Tosses Cl hits. Best wishes (Barry :-) Davies, Carlisle UK, July 15, MWCircle yg via DXLD) ** U S A. CBS RADIO FILES FOR IPO AS PARENT PLANS TO JETTISON BUSINESS Bloomberg July 8, 2016 CBS Radio Inc., a division of CBS Corp., filed for an initial public offering as one of the nation’s oldest broadcasters prepares to leave the shrinking AM/FM radio business. CBS Radio posted a net loss of $136.5 million on revenue of $1.2 billion last year, after writing down the value of licenses. See full article here: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-08/cbs-radio-files-for-ipo-after-broadcaster-fails-to-find-a-buyer (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DXLD) I just noticed something I missed a couple of days ago when skimming the emails. The article about CBS selling off its radio network used the phrase: "prepares to leave the shrinking AM/FM radio business" .... Shrinking? 93% of people use 'over-the-air' radio in the US. Not 'streaming' on line, but actually tuning a device that uses the electromagnetic spectrum. That is more than those who watch TV, or use a PC or "smartphone". Put another way, 265 million Americans over the age of six listen to the radio each week and broken down by age (because we all 'know' kids don't use radio any more), * Millennials (those born between 1980 and 1996): 92% reached weekly by radio * Generation X (those born between 1965 and 1979): 95% reached weekly by radio * Boomers (those born between 1950 and 1964): 94% reached weekly by radio These are 'real numbers' from Gallup, not speculation, and while there is a difference between 92% and 95% is that 'significant' or just a glitch? NONE of the articles I've seen lately (From the Wall Street Journal, Radio magazine, and MANY MANY others!) decrying the diminishing percentage of 'millennials' in the radio audience acknowledge this is largely due to the fact there are FEWER millennials in the POPULATION than there are of other generations. Go look at the 'age trends' in the US Population statistics. There are now MORE people over the age of 60 than ever before. Doesn't it stand to reason there would also be more people in the audience over the age of 60, given that fact? One of these days people who write for the media or who make business decisions will learn about math and statistics. I'm not holding my breath waiting for that day though. 73 //kvz – (Kenneth V Zichi, Is it time to cook yet? dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DXLD) [non]. Kenneth, There is a trend in our consumer society that stations are trying to broadcast to those who have a significant purchasing- power. According to Hungarian advertisement agency views, the pick- pocketable consumers are 18-49 years old. It doesn't mean that older or younger than that don't listen radio. It simply means that advertisements are made for them called as targeting. Since advertisements are targeting those 18-49 year-olds, the stations are concentrating to reach that (and unfortunately only that) consumer groups. These advertisements generate the income from which the commercial stations are operating. Here in Europe there are publicly-funded public broadcasters which broadcast for differentiated groups of people; that's why they get public funds from the states' budget. These public broadcasters have bigger influence than NPR in the U.S. (at least I think). But, they are also affected by this crazyness. Once in Hungary they also tried to do the same but audience turned against them. I share you a funny story. Marketing companies called our landline phone number in Magyarlak in order to advertise this or that. They became really-really annoying at the end. They called us for long. Once I picked up the phone and when the marketing lady asked me "how old are you?" I changed my voice to sound very old: "oooh, dear, my dear lady, I am 78 year-old, my wife is 77. Very beautiful age this, isn't, dear?" She answered: "Yes, yes sir, yes. I wish you a very beautiful and shining life". Then she said goodbye fast and never called that phone number again. I never shared with her that I'm single, not married and I want such a lady who calls me from time to time advertising this or that. I cannot imagine my life without her!!! (Tibor Gaal, Budapest, Hungary, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Tibor is of course correct about the 'attitude' of marketers, but still, the age group they are after listens to radio in HUGE numbers no matter how you slice it. It is just that older citizens ALSO listen to radio in even larger numbers. (Take a look again at the figures in my previous email broken down by age.) So I ask you, what is 'right'? 1) Ignoring a large market and decrying that 'young people just don't listen as much as older folks' ignoring that this is only true because there are MORE older folks; or 2) recognizing 'there are now MORE older people, who generally don't have young kids at home any more, and thus have more disposable income, and maybe we should stop trying to chase an increasingly dwindling segment of the population and start going after those aging boomers who suddenly have money again!'? Even using the logic of 'who spends money' there is no reason to keep after the 18-35 year old crowd *only* any more! This attitude started in the 1960s with the baby boomers because there were just so MANY of us, but nobody seems willing to re-evaluate the 'logic' behind the assumption today. Of course this all begs the question of why people are only valued as 'consumers' rather than as citizens but hey, that is REALLY getting off topic! :) The POINT however remains: "The death of Radio" crowd speak loudly and keep saying 'nobody listens to radio any more' but they justify their attitude through faulty logic and biased statistical analysis. We need to stop 'passing this along' without critical thought or comment! If you repeat something often enough people start to believe it, so we need to STOP repeating the canards, and start repeating real data instead! If stations worked on making better programming, they would be far better off than if they continue to chase after what the 'experts' say they should do! A radio programme without an audience is not exactly a NEW phenomenon after all, and it has always been a recipe for disaster. Make better programming and the money will take care of itself in my experience! Now, go and listen to the radio, and report what you're hearing! :) -- (Kenneth V Zichi, MI, Is it time to cook yet? dxldyg via DXLD) One of the things that the public may not be aware of is the cost of doing business. Radio providers in the USA must pay rather large fees to broadcast "silly ball games", baseball, football (USA), basketball, etc. Not to mention the cost of physically consuming electricity for a 10 kW, or 50 kW radio station/broadcasting studio. In fact the Bloomberg article that was linked is but a tip of the bankruptcy iceberg. The USA largest radio statiion owner, iHeart Media (850+ stations AM/FM), is in fact having trouble paying its bills. $20 Billion US on loan, with dirt-cheap financing post 2008 recession. Bloomberg has looked at this company, too, and found disturbing trends of revenue vs. profit. Both CBS and iHM are spending much more than they earn, and have "devalued" the worth of their stations. This paper devaluation affects the fiat currency bottom-line, and both show losses on paper. Yet both claimed to be profitable in 2014 --- before the devaluation. Pehaps it`s not the end-user metrics that should be studied, but the corporate financial metrics. The latter fits the Bloomberg articles I've read over the past few years "to a T". regards (Paul S. in CT FN31nl, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) “IS RADIO IN CRISIS?” Dated July 6, 2016 Interesting article on the C. Crane Blog https://news.ccrane.com There was a great article recently in the WSJ, “Public Radio’s Existential Crisis” by Ellen Gamerman, which brings up a topic we are struggling with as well. In her article, she talks exclusively about NPR, but we don’t see this discussion as limited to only NPR. What is the future of radio and is it in crisis? The “old guard” of radio talk show hosts are in the best of circumstances aging and retiring, and in the worst, dying. With hosts that boast some of the largest on-air audiences around, there doesn’t seem to be much succession planning on how to recover or replace the lost talent (interestingly enough, radio is not the only industry impacted by this dilemma; it is being experienced in small businesses, trades, medical fields, education and more). Enter podcasters. Ms. Gamerman’s article states “With both its start [stars?] and audience aging, NPR is struggling to adapt to the digital age: ‘The most innovative people are doing podcasts’” By the end of the decade, NPR projects that younger listeners under age 44 will make up only around 30% of the overall audience for its member stations, compared with about 60% in 1985. Currently more than 80% of podcast listeners are under age 55, according to recent data released by Edison Research and Triton Digital. Here’s where it gets confusing, though: NPR itself is already the nation’s top podcast publisher with a monthly audience of 7.2 million listeners, according to podcast analytics firm Podtrac. In the past year, it has doubled the revenue it gets from corporate sponsorship for podcasts. Despite the growth of digital, Americans ages 13 and over spend more than half their total listening time on AM/FM radio and 2% of their listening time on podcasts, according to Edison. NPR’s weekly broadcast radio audience now averages 26 million. A recent report from Radio and Internet News proves interesting as well. AM/FM clearly has the widest reach — a notable and much-hammered metric in the radio industry. AM/FM’s monthly U.S. audience is 240- million. Compare that to Spotify’s global 100-million, and Pandora’s mostly-U.S. 80-million, and you see why broadcasters sometimes feel they don’t get enough respect (call-back to Rodney Dangerfield). On the other hand, U.S. radio is a $17-billion business, larger than the combined valuations of Spotify and Pandora. Radio’s reach is a cleanly brag-worthy metric, while time spent listening (TSL) has more nuance. With radio’s reach being so significant in comparison to everyone else and the battle of “platform” and “format” wars still being fought, we believe radio is here to stay for now, but when the popular long- standing talent leaves and no one that connects with that audience or is able to create a new audience in the slot takes their place, advertisers leave, listeners leave and ultimately radio suffers (enter podcasts?). We love to hear from you. Do you think radio is in crisis? Are you switching to podcasts or some hybrid in between? (via Fred Kincaid, Spring Lake MI, MARE Tipsheet July 9 via DXLD) ** U S A. AFTER NEARLY 50 YEARS, BLUEGRASS COULD DISAPPEAR FROM WASHINGTON'S AIRWAVES - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/after-nearly-50-years-bluegrass-could-disappear-from-washingtons-airwaves/2016/07/08/d0bccf74-448e-11e6-88d0-6adee48be8bc_print.html (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) WAMU ** U S A. NYSBA: 76 PIRATE STATIONS IN NEW YORK, NORTHERN N.J. Radio World July 12, 2016 http://www.radioworld.com/article/nybsa-76-pirates-stations-in-new-york-northern-nj/279213 A number of pirate stations are operating throughout New York City and Northern New Jersey, according to a recent engineering survey that was recently unveiled by the New York State Broadcasters Association. According to the survey, 76 stations are currently operating without an FCC license in four primary locations. There are 19 unauthorized stations in the Bronx, N.Y.; 29 in Brooklyn, N.Y.; 13 in Newark, N.J.; and 15 in Paterson, N.J. Brooklyn saw a 58% increase in the number of pirate stations compared to a similar survey conducted in 2015. The survey does observe that it has likely underestimated the number of pirate stations in the area, and that the total number could be more than 100. “Like our previous studies, the new survey provides compelling evidence that the FCC needs to address this problem,” said David Donovan, president of the NYSBA. “Last summer, the entire New York Congressional delegation asked the FCC to fix the problem. While the FCC has published an Enforcement Advisory, it needs to devote the manpower and resources to increase its enforcement efforts. Moreover, Congressional action will be important to assist the FCC in these efforts.” The potential harms associated with pirate stations include: interference to Broadcast Emergency Alert Services; interference to FAA frequencies; and failure to comply with RF radiation rules of licensed broadcast stations. The survey was conducted by engineering firm Meintel, Sgrignoli and Wallace. Posted by: (Mike Terry, July 13, dxldyg via DXLD) A detailed study has been released documenting the large community of pirate stations in the New York City metropolitan area. Quite an amazing read with many pictures of transmitter sites and data sheets of their findings. Here is a link to the study: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/82565753/Pirate%202016%20study%20final%20pdf.pdf (Karl Zuk N2KZ, July 14, WTFDA gg via DXLD) This report is fascinating in a number of aspects based on my initial reading of the overview. A couple of things jumped out: 1) Stations heard but which didn't ID at or near the TOH were considered pirates. Given what we know about ID practices, this study could have actually overestimated the number of pirates by adding in some out of market stations which didn't ID 'on time'. 2) A truck with an antenna on a 30' mast would be very noticeable - one wonders how that was viewed in some neighborhoods. 3) Adding Paterson, NJ is a plus. Adding Elizabeth NJ would be another plus as that's actually closer to and equally or more problematic. Reading the 'guts' of the report will prove interesting, I'm sure (Russ Edmunds, Blue Bell PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia), July 14, ibid.) 103 pages! Page 28 onwards being appendices. Skimming thru it, one sexion explains why their figures are likely to be *under*-estimates. Tables show which frequencies are involved and how they interfere with licensed stations, but I see no interest in actually naming the pirates! or even describing their formats. But Appendix E, from pdf page 54 to the end, presents numerous photos of the antennas and buildings they are on, exact coördinates and street addresses; so, get busy, FCC! (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. RIP LOU JOSEPHS --- Jonathan Marks wrote this: Very sad to learn that my colleague and friend, Lou Josephs, has passed away much too soon. He died after a short illness at 6:13 am Sunday July 10th 2016 at a house on Merritt Island, Florida close to his beloved Cape Canaveral. He was 65. My condolences to his life-long partner Susan Koonin who was by his side. There will be funeral in Washington DC on Wednesday July 13th. Jim Cutler and Vasily Strelnikov sent their thoughts and best wishes when they knew he was ill. I delved into this Media Network archive to pick some of the contributions which stick in my memory - but it is a fraction of what Lou contributed behind the scenes. Lou was one of the first Media Network listeners in the 1980's to step forward and help us develop the programme into a serious media magazine on Radio Netherlands. He made hundreds of contributions to the programme over a period of 15 years, including this great portrait of commercial international broadcaster WNYW, New York. That documentary is one of the most popular editions in the current archive. I think you'll agree that was Lou at his finest. Some of the other recollections about WNYW are also still online. From Radio Specialist to Internet Expert I first got to know Lou when he worked as a programme director at music station WROR in Boston. He was using very advanced audience research methods to understand the music mix that his audience wanted - and it made the station a market leader in an era when FM stations had big breakfast talent (Joe and Andy I seem to recall). Lou was always ahead of the game, got out of radio when automation took over, and then moved to Washington DC to work for one of the first US Internet companies. But he never lost his interest in broadcasting - championing on-line listening. As others have pointed out, the Media Network programme in 1992 was actually a remake of a profile Lou originally made in 1985. As a kid living in New York, Lou got a Saturday job working at WNYW, Radio New York Worldwide and (thankfully) made some unique off the air studio recordings, Space Lou's first love was space - he was an authority on all the missions and found ways to follow launches from the early days. He was delighted at the success of the NASA Juno Jupiter mission and was hoping to witness the SpaceX launch this week. Lou's second love was radio and in my Skype conversations with him over the last few days, I've been reminiscing about how his predictions about digital AM, on-line audio and satellite television were spot on. I know of few other people who were so well read on the global media, yet willing to share their knowledge and expertise with friends and colleagues around the world. And he competed with our Australian propagation specialist Mike Bird knowing his California wines like no other. Lou was not on Facebook or other social media platforms. But over the last few days, I did manage to pass on greetings from those who reacted to an earlier post on FB. Susan says those thoughts made him so happy. So long, Lou, and thanks for your being a great friend to many people around the world. Other tributes from former MN contributors: Many best wishes came in over the last few days, all of which were read to him by Susan. This included: Victor Goonetilleke in Sri Lanka writes: I enjoyed the clever jingles he made but also the many contributions to Media Network on changes to digital radio. I was happy to meet him in Washington DC after an SWLFEST and Lou helped me fulfill a teenage DX dream as I listened to VOA and JFKs final rites in 1963; To visit the Eternal Flame at Arlington National Cemetery. Lou took me there and then gave me a fantastic tour of DC. We always remember great friends like that with great affection. It is friends like Lou who make the hobby (?) of DXing, SWLing so fine; the highlight is not only in the signals that come through sitting alone in your shack. Take care Lou and all the very best, my friend. Tom Sundstrom in New Jersey: I am very sorry to hear of Lou's illness and I hope he recovers quickly. Lou and I often exchanged phone calls and notes while we were both associated with MN. The MN work was fun and interesting. I can't believe so many years have intervened. Space interests me too; the JUNO precision orbit insertion was bloody amazing! Richard Cuff: I remember Lou joining us for an SWL Fest in Pennsylvania in the mid-2000s, where he presented a great retrospective on WRUL / WNYW, the commercial shortwave station with its heyday in the 1960s. And, of course, I remember him very well from Media Network. Lou, hope you get well soon! John Figliozzi: Lou, I too recall with great fondness the presentation you gave at the Winter SWL Fest now several years ago about WNYW -- Radio New York Worldwide. It was one of the first shortwave stations I tuned in on my then brand new Heathkit GR-54 receiver. I listened to the station regularly and it was great to experience such a thorough history and background of the station that only you were able to provide. It was clear that we shared a love for that broadcaster. It was great to meet you then and to link a face with a voice that I heard regularly on Radio Netherlands' Media Network. I am sorry to hear of your health issues and hope that this small message of support can help in some tiny but significant and ultimately successful way. Godspeed. http://criticaldistance.blogspot.nl/2016/07/lou-josephs-media-visionary-and-great.html (There are some memorable recordings with Jonathan's blog, highly recommended especially to those who remember back over the decades - Mike) Posted by: Mike Terry, July 12, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DXLD) obit ** UZBEKISTAN. Tashkent Volmet was logged with fair reception on 8819 kHz USB from 2355 UT on 07072016. The lady voice mentioning "Samarkand, Bukhara," in Russian (Shaikh Jawahar, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 9 July 2016, via WRTH Facebook via RusDX 10 July via DXLD) ** VANUATU. 7259.962, July 7 at 1138, JBA carrier, presumed R. Vanuatu on precise off-frequency, still transmitting altho allegedly ceasing programming circa 1015 as a cost-saving measure. At 1202, however, I am getting a double het around 7260 with BFO, so what else? Maybe Mongolia. It`s still almost two hours before Urumqi sunset at 1354 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. ALGERIA, 1550, Radio Nacional República Arabe Saharaui, Rabuni, 1927-2006, 09-07, man with speech in Spanish and other translated into Arabic: "Saharaui, Frente Polisario", "Los presos políticos saharauis en cárceles de Marruecos", "El conflicto del Sáhara Occidental". 23322 (Manuel Méndez, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun PL-880, Sangena ATS-909X, Sony ICF SW7600G, Cable antenna, 8 meters and Degen 31MS active loop antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** YEMEN [non]. Reception of Republic of Yemen Radio, July 13 from 0630 on 11860 JED 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic from 1030 on 11860 unknown tx / unknown to N/ME Arabic from 1855 on 11860 JED 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/07/reception-of-republic-of-yemen-radio.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11860. July 13, 2016. 2030-2042, Radio Sana´a, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in Arabic. OM talks; 2031 Open carrier, no modulation; 2032 returns normal program; YL talks, by phone, with a man; 2037 YL/OM talks, ID, a song (revolutionary music?); YL talks, Arabic song. Fair signal and poor modulation, 35432. (DXer: José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX), Cabedelo-PB, Brazil, Degen DE1103+Tecsun S-2000, Antenna: Portable Telescopic, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** ZAMBIA. 5914.991, odd frequency, one of the very seldom heard ZNBC Radio 1 program here in central Europe, is a long path across the African continent. But - noted on remote SDR unit of Graham D. Bell, Simonstown, South Africa Rep. At 1735 UT on July 9 endless talk by female presenter, tiring tedious boring program [language??]. S=9+5 dB signal in nearby RSA remote. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 9, BC- DX 13 July via DXLD) ** ZANZIBAR. TANZANIA, Reception of Zanzibar Broadcasting Corporation ZBC, July 10 [Sunday], 1800-1809 11735 DOL 050 kW / non-dir CeAf English, good signal http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/07/reception-of-zanzibar-broadcasting.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Blgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZIMBABWE [non]. VOA's special programme to Zimbabwe is actually audible with English news reports on 6065 kHz. Signal at 1738 UT is S9 without QRM from neighboring Channel 292 which is actually off-air. Inverted-V beam: 165 /345 73, Manfred Posted by: ("Manfred R. Reiff", July 7, dxldyg via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 1521.0, July 8 at 0227 and still at 0236, 1 kHz het is audible on hi side of Herman Cain on KOKC 1520.0 OKC, which I always confidently assume is the 2-megawatter in Duba, SAUDI ARABIA which operates only at the night, and serves as a Trans-Atlantic beacon as far as deep North America; so a new DX season is underway, hi hi (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6921.50-USB, July 11 at 0107, informal net in English with QRM from 6924.32-AM pirate, Captain Morgan Shortwave. Too bad they are not on LSB. At 0112 mentions ``85-5``, possibly referring to 6985.5? At first wondered if MARS, but 0115 stronger station at S7, full of expletives. This one says ``come back`` in CBer style, while an earlier one said ``over`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED [non]. 7750-USB UNID African --- Hello Glenn, please the results of observations on 7750 USB kHz with tiny signal of (most likely) some African or beamed to Africa station in vernacular with talks, comments and folk songs - heard on: 26 June 2016 at 1958 UT; 29 June at 0348; 05 July with close down at 1756; 06 July at 1705. Best wishes from (Rumen Pankov, Sofia Bulgaria, July 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST via dxldyg 1734 UT July 8, WORLD OF RADIO 1834) There is someone broadcasting on 7750 kHz in USB at 1820 but signal strength here in Germany is S5 or -96 dBm just a bit above noise level, unintelligible to identify the language used. Signal strength via Twente S5 or -97 dBm. Heard here with Inverted-V at 145 /325 , signal via Inverted-V at 180 /360 is nearly at the same level as the 145 antenna. Unintelligible via Barcelona, via Palermo, Sicilia, via Arosa, No. Italy and southern Hessia, Germany remote receivers. 73, (Manfred Reiff, Germany, 1840 UT July 8, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I monitored this channel on Saturday 9th and listening again just now: On Saturday from 1757 to 1920 it was equally weak all the time, best on WebSDRs in Poland, now on Monday I didn't catch anything until 1924 and at 1926 the signal got significantly stronger. My favourite SDR in Poland is defunct at the moment, now receiver "Odenwald" seems to be the best choice. On Saturday, there was long talk in unid language and vocal+flute- dominated music. Now it sounds a bit like HoA during short music bridges - but not 100% sure. Taking also into account Ivo's list of reception times, I would rate the north-eastern part of Africa as most likely. I'll stick to that for a while. 73 (Thorsten Hallman, July 11, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I wonder if it`s Puntland, which has not been reported on 13800 for quite a while (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) Hi Thorsten, similar results here. On Saturday 9th was listening past 1800 UT and Sunday 10th until 1700. Me too got impression that the language and music was from HOA area. I may have heard couple of mentions of "Somaliiya", but not sure. 73, (Jari in Finland Savolainen, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I think I caught "Sudan", "Nile Delta" and "Nigeria" just after 1800. South Sudan celebrates (? - doubt if so many are in the mood) 5 years of independence just now and internal conflicts are increasing, reports say. Maybe there's a possible context. Much better today compared to Saturday, but somewhat declining, maybe some thunderstorms affect reception also (Thorsten Hallmann, Germany, ibid.) Although not the former frequency, is it possible this is a re- emergence of the former (and short-lived) Radio Puntland? Just a thought (Bruce Churchill, CA, ibid.) At 1830 English jingle "BBC World Service" ! followed by some local music of not clearly HoA character. 73 (Thorsten Hallmann, Germany, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Unfortunately, local thunderstorms disturb reception of this mysterious station. Here in Remscheid as well as via Twente Univ. the station was intelligible on 7750 kHz in USB (used bandwidth: 3.5 kHz) with talks by OM and YL and some pieces of music. Signal strength varied between -95 dBm and -80 dBm. Due to the very high noise level, it could sound like any language and any music style. Hard to confirm or to refute any suggestion. I do not have enough experience with audio cleaning software to edit the cut. I also tried remote receivers in Spain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Slovakia. In Bratislava signal was severely disturbed by local noise but definitely a station on that frequency. The other receivers - nothing audible. When I I resumed listening to 7750 kHz at 1940 UT the station was gone (sign off?). 73, (Manfred Reiff, 1944 UT, ibid.) Yes I guess also Puntland. Cusb 7749.996 kHz measured carrier + usb mode, tiny poor S=5 or -92dBm signal in Madrid, Spain; Genua Italy, and Switzerland remote units, at 1920 UT July 11. Listen attached recording, best from 01min 28sec onwards (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DXLD) Today not as good as yesterday, but the BBC-Jingle I caught yesterday at 1830 points to Somalia also, as BBC Somali ends at that time. I didn't recognize this jingle today. 73 (Thorsten Hallmann, Germany, 1847 UT July 12, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This station on 7750 noted at 1813 on 7/12 with Fair signal in CUSB from remote site in E. Finland – very much sounds like a Horn of Africa language – could be Somali, Afar, etc. Program was easy to copy except when a co-channel ute of some type periodically activated for seconds at a time. Also noted from the Brisbane Perseus at about the same level as E. Finland at 1845. Programming seemed mostly male ancrs w/ commentary, remote reports, etc. (Bruce Churchill, CA, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DXLD) Hi Bruce, apparently you missed my message an hour ago stating about the language: ``Relays BBC Somali between 1800-1830. Poor to fair signal here in Finland`` (Mauno Ritola, ibid.) Mauno, Yes, our e-mails crossed I think, J. thanks for the confirmation. Normally I could not tell the difference between Somali, Afar, Tigrinya or other NE African dialects, J. But it did sound a lot like what I have heard before from Somalia. Most of the low powered Somali stations have operated in the 6.9-7.0 MHz range in the past. R. Galkayo in Puntland and Radio Shabele in Somalia were a couple of examples. Never heard Galcayo but I do have a verie from R. Shabele. (Bruce Churchill, ibid.) Perhaps this is a pirate station and we will never know who operates it (Tibor Gaal, Hungary, WORLD OF RADIO 1834, ibid.) Yesterday on July 11 observation in Mediterranean and Iberic peninsula remote SDR posts, showed two different programs disturbed each other on co-channel 7750v kHz. So, - two parties of Somalia civil radio war are fighting each other on air? 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DXLD) Yepp, for a while I also had that impression. At times, there was a carrier (CUSB), but not all the time, I believe. Tonight, signal was worse on various WebSDRs. Also no BBC jingle noted at 1830. But maybe I was just distracted at that moment. I think it didn't sign on before 1800, instead of 1724/26 yesterday and was off by 1930. 73 (Thorsten Hallmann, Germany, ibid.) There is a carrier all the time, but it is extremely weak, so the modulation is something between clean USB and AM/U. Carrier measured as 7749.996 kHz. I think I heard weak audio already before 1700, before the carrier became visible. Bruce, checking for // 9720 kHz helped me to ID the language :-) 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, 1550 UT July 13, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I.e. 9720, 1800-1830 only, BBC Somali daily via SOUTH AFRICA (gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DXLD) If these guys are relaying BBC Somali Service, one must presume that it is a government-sponsored bcst (Somali Republic, Somaliland or Puntland) – not likely a militant-controlled (Al Shabab or Al Qaeda) station would be relaying BBC programming (Bruce Churchill, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Mauno, OK, noted as early as 1725 from Brisbane this morning – quite a bit weaker than E. Finland yesterday, but still readable (Bruce Churchill, July 13, ibid.) 7750 went off at 1931 UT – (Tudor Vedeanu, Romania, July 13, ibid.) After closing date for this issue, identified as: Warsan Radio, Baydhabo, Somalia. Details next DXLD, and already in the yg (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 9115-USB, July 13 at 0246, 2-way with ``cambios``, but the rest of it doesn`t seem to be regular Spanish. Maybe Tagalog or some Iberian dialect? Serious conversation rather than messing around with whistling, swearing, as often heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. EGYPT, station with Egyptian music again on air July 8 0920-0925 9400 unknown transmitter site, poor and weak signal today http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/07/unidentified-station-with-egyptian_8.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDentified. Station with Egyptian music again on air on July 13: 0900-0920 9400 unknown transmitter site, very poor today, QRM WRMI 9395 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/07/unidentified-station-with-egyptian_13.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. EGYPT [sic]. UNIDentified station with Egyptian music again on air, July 12 0900-0920 on 9550 unknown transmitter site, poor to good signal today http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/07/unidentified-station-with-egyptian_12.html -- 73! Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, Web: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/ dxldyg via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 11994.98, July 10 at 0026, weak W&M conversation sounds like French; a little stronger at 0051, S3, and definitely in French. So what`s it? ``Chine`` mentioned at one point, possibly CRI? But they don`t have French on sked this hour, any frequency. In fact, nothing in any language scheduled in HFCC, Aoki or EiBi; however, 11995 is an RFI frequency at 18-22 UT. Not the first time something unaccounted for on 11995 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Nothing heard following dates UNIDENTIFIED. 13561.95-CW, July 10 at 0029, bipper at the rate of 104/minute is heard again, as well as several unlogged times since my previous report (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Where did this schmuck come from all the sudden? I have been around for 20 years and bam - this guy is posting posts about his previous posts. I mean, come on. If I have something incorrect, I hope someone corrects me. It could be the difference in getting or not getting a QSL card from a station. Cheers (Chris, Columbus, Ohio, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Your contributions always welcome to support this non-commercial service, website and broadcast, by check or MO in US funds on a US bank to World of Radio, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702; or via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to woradio at yahoo.com (WORLD OF RADIO 1834) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ AM Radio Log 37th Edition Hi all, The NRC is now taking orders for the 37th edition of the AM Radio Log. The log will ship to the USA via Priority Mail; Canada and overseas shipping is still Global Priority Mail. Prices are as follows: USA NRC & IRCA Members - $26.95 Non-Members - $30.95 Canada US $36.25 Overseas US $41.75 Paypal orders accepted at http://www.nrcdxas.org Check or Money order USA Funds Only NRC PO Box 473251 Aurora, CO 80047-3251 Please feel free to repost to other lists 73 (Wayne Heinen, Editor AM Radio Log, July 8, NRC-AM via DXLD) Normally ships in late Aug or early Sept (gh) CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES +++++++++++++++++++++++++ FRIDAY 9 - MONDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2016: EUROPEAN DX COUNCIL CONFERENCE Hosted by the British DX Club at The Castlefield Hotel, Manchester, M3 4JR. Local organiser is Chrissy Brand editor@bdxc.org.uk See https://edxcnews.wordpress.com/category/edxc-conference-2016/ and http://www.bdxc.org.uk/manchester.html A tour of BBC Media City has been booked for the Saturday afternoon and other events, along with the conference sessions, are being planned. If you wish to book a room at the hotel please contact Ann Shannon, reservations manager and quote EDXC 2016 reference number BK57133 ann@castlefield-hotel.co.uk Tel 0161 832 7073. For other events see also the club website http://www.bdxc.org.uk & http://rsgb.org/main/news/rallies/ (July BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) WORLD OF HOROLOGY +++++++++++++++++ RISE AT 11? CHINA'S SINGLE TIME ZONE MEANS KEEPING ODD HOURS June 16, 2016 What in the World By JAVIER C. HERNANDEZ http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/06/17/world/asia/china-single-time-zone.html Some days, the sun doesn't come up until 10 a.m. or later. People eat lunch after 2 p.m., or even after 4 if they're not in a rush. The school day stretches so late that children can't get home in time to catch their favorite cartoon shows. Why are the clocks in Urumqi, China, so far out of kilter with the cycles of the sun? Because of a legacy of Mao Zedong and the Communist Party's desire for unified control. Though China is almost as wide as the continental United States, the whole country is officially in just one time zone -- Beijing time. So when it's 7 a.m. in the Forbidden City, it's also officially 7 a.m. 2,000 miles to the west in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region -- even if the stars are still out there. That can lead to headaches -- and lost sleep. "It's hard to adjust," says Gao Li, a sanitation worker in Urumqi. "I often think we must be the only people who eat dinner at midnight." So schools, airports and train stations operate at odd hours; national exams are sometimes given in the dead of night; and restaurants stay open for dinner into the wee hours. The eccentricities of the clock also tend to divide people in Xinjiang by ethnicity. The Uighurs, Turkic-speaking Muslims who consider the region their homeland, tend to set their clocks two hours earlier, to more closely match the local day. But the Han Chinese who live there, members of China's predominant ethnic group, generally follow Beijing time. The discrepancies can be a source of confusion and frustration, especially for younger people who frequently socialize across ethnic lines. Jin Xiaolong, 28, who teaches parkour, a French athletic discipline, says scheduling classes with his Uighur friends in Urumqi can be a challenge. "I used to arrive early, all alone," he said. "I'd go to a restaurant to eat, wait some more, and eventually grow impatient and start practice by myself." Now, he makes a point of clarifying to his friends: He only deals in Beijing time. Zhang Tiantian contributed research. What in the World offers you glimpses of what our journalists are observing around the globe (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See CHINA; INDIA; NEW ZEALAND; TAIWAN ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DAB See CHINA; UK ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- CDR See CHINA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC See CHINA +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See also MEXICO ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DO WE KNOW IF [ATSC] 3.0 IS ANY BETTER TO DX?! (JVL DXer, Janesville, WI, July 10, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) There just isn't a lot of equipment out there (only portions of the standard are finalized), but I will note some of the bigger changes that might make an impact: OFDM modulation, at long last. The other major digital television systems all use OFDM/COFDM modulation (ATSC 1/2 have 8VSB modulation). This makes a major difference for one potential application: single- frequency networks. SFNs are commonly used in other countries, either to group areas by region or, if you're Colombia, to plan to use just six or seven channels for television (national SFNs!). The potential uses in the US are to add repeaters on the fringes of a market to fill coverage gaps, increase signal strength and lead to geo-targeted advertising. OFDM will likely lead to better error correction which in theory could make for more DXable signals. Coincidence of an ATSC 3.0 rollout with repacking. Barring the stations that will shut off in the incentive auction, repacking means more stations covered up by locals on fewer potential channels (Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ, ibid.) We don't *know* because it's not widely deployed. But theory strongly suggests it will be better. Mostly, because of the OFDM modulation Raymie cites. This scheme is more robust. The 8VSB system we currently use has a single carrier. This carrier can have one of eight amplitude values. (hence, the "8" in "8VSB") If that carrier is interfered with or suffers from multipath ("ghosting") then you lose data. OFDM involves multiple carriers. Thousands of them. Each one transmits a small part of the total data load. You can lose a few hundred and still get enough data through to decode. While SFNs are a great idea from a technical standpoint, I don't think we're going to see them widely deployed. More than anything else, because of the cost of delivering the transport streams to the various transmitters (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, http://www.w9wi.com ibid.) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ RDS / HD FAILS I've noticed quite a few stations with very messed up RDS / HD info. Don't quite get how some of these happen, especially for long periods of time (Kool 105.6 went on for months). Also how come some HD statons show up as WWWW-FM but others are just WWWW-HD and some are just WWWW and then the ones that have their slogan! There's gotta be some kind of standard for it, right! (JVL DXer, Janesville WI, July 9, Kaito KA1103 & Insignia HD portable, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) RDS is almost completely unregulated as far as the FCC is concerned. There are a (very) few technical regulations intended to keep the RDS data signal from interfering with the program audio or other stations. There's nothing directly regulating the content. (you wouldn't get away with scrolling indecent/obscene wording or ads for meth etc.. but just about anything else is OK as far as the government is concerned) RDS originated in Europe. Outside the U.S., just about nobody uses call letters. The PS field you're looking at is intended to read out the name of the station, as the audience knows it. "BBC1", "DR3", "NRJ", "Absolute", etc... There's nothing in the RDS or HD standard that forces the field to contain a valid callsign. (That's the value of the PI field, which unfortunately is not available on consumer receivers. In order to ensure there aren't two stations in the same city with the same PI, PIs are mapped to call letters. They don't always get it right -- and this mapping is NOT required by the FCC -- but it's EXTREMELY useful.) (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, http://www.w9wi.com ibid.) Paul Dobosz: Surprising announcement today --- One of the Oldest and best known Amateur/SW retailers is closing its doors at the end of July (Paul Dobosz, MI, MARE Tipsheet July 9 via DXLD) Viz.: AMATEUR ELECTRONIC SUPPLY CLOSING AFTER 59 YEARS IN BUSINESS Amateur Electronic Supply (AES) will close its doors at the end of July after 59 years in business. No reason has been given for the decision to close the business. AES has been a premier player among Amateur Radio equipment retailers for decades, as well as a major presence at Dayton Hamvention® and other events. Various media outlets were informed of the closing in a brief e-mail message on July 6, but word of the closing has not yet appeared on the retailer’s website or Facebook page. “It’s with great sadness that I have to tell you that Amateur Electronic Supply (AES) will cease operations at the end of this month,” AES National Sales Manager Tom Pachner, W9TJP, said in an e- mail. An employee at the Milwaukee headquarters store, who did not wish to be identified, confirmed that the message was legitimate. It’s believed that the AES staff was notified before the July 4th holiday weekend. In addition to the Milwaukee store, AES operates outlets in Cleveland (Wickliffe), Las Vegas, and Orlando. Fond-du-Lac, Wisconsin, native Terry Sterman, W9DIA (SK), founded AES in 1957 when he was just 18, after getting into the radio-TV business by working in his father’s TV and electronics parts store. On January 1, 1998, ownership of AES shifted to Amateur Electronic Supply LLC, headed by Phil Majerus, a prominent Wisconsin businessman. Sterman died the following year at the age of 60, after a period of ill health. For many years, the public face of AES was its Executive Vice President Ray Grenier, K9KHW, who oversaw marketing and adverti sing for the retailer from 1964 until his retirement in 2013. Grenier nearly singlehandedly produced the famous AES catalog, as well as magazine ads. For about 20 years, he also organized the well-received AES Superfest, a promotional effort begun in 1995 that grew into a hamfest. In April, the AES Superfest hosted the 2016 ARRL Wisconsin Section Convention. Many radio amateurs reacted to the news on various online forums, expressing surprise, sadness, and dismay, and saying they would miss AES. A few reminisced about having bought their first radios from AES (MARE Tipsheet July 9 via WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DXLD) CHUCK'S RULES FOR DXPEDITION EQUIPMENT : Computer: (1) A week before the trip, force an installation of all available Windows updates. (2) Next, disable Internet access so no new updates can get downloaded nor can the Internet wreak havoc. Note that Windows updates are downloaded any old time but installed at 3AM if you let Windows do auto updates. That means turning Internet access off Tuesday night won't prevent an update from being installed Wednesday morning if the update was downloaded Monday. (3) Disable anti-virus so there is no chance of it using too much PC resources or being foolish. (4) Test operation with Perseus to make sure the updates weren't a problem. (5) Let the computer run a day so Windows can re-index files, adjust to the updates, etc. When Task Manager says all is quiet, power off the computer. (6) Don't mess with it any more. (7) Know what your battery state is for the intended usage. Battery life depends on how hard the PC works: sitting on your desk mostly idle is way different from running Perseus full time and recording. Do a test. If your battery is not up to the task: (a) for the common 19V charger input, connect a 12V and 6V battery in series and use them as a "charger". (b) buy a "power bank" lithium battery with a 19V output (assuming 19V is correct). Advantages: light, easily rechargable. Disadvantages: may generate interference. (c) if near a car, buy a cigarette lighter 19V source. Likely to generate interference. (8) If Internet access is needed, use a cellphone or cheap tablet. Don't use the Perseus computer. Never use a DXpedition as a guinea pig to test equipment. Most recent example: Jim's dead battery required using an untested cigarette lighter adapter and it generated a lot of switching noise. Another issue is interference generated by all the electronic equipment. To prevent that, I use big 2.4 inch type 31 ferrite cores on the Perseus power cable, Perseus USB cable and Perseus RF input. With 2 Perseii and 2 laptops I have no birdies in the MW band. Unfortunately, a non-filtered version of the above will yield many birdies. I won't mention the normal stuff like disk maintenance. Knock on wood, I've never had a computer issue. In addition to the Tom/Nick story and Jim's story, we had two issues at Newfoundland: (1) twice, some files were not recorded due to a reset after updates and (2) a laptop with battery issues seems to have shut down. So, even though it is a pain, I think it is worthwhile to make sure your system won't fail you on a DXpedition (Chuck Hutton, IRCA via DXLD) Better yet: do what I do - avoid PC based/powered SDR's --- That tie you to update/reboot crash cycles. Many of my analog radios have been on for decades and have never needed reboots or firmware updates. Harrumph! Now get off my cliffs. :-) (Colin Newell - CoffeeCrew.com - VA7WWV - Victoria - BC, ibid.) Never have to worry about DXpeditioning again. Make all your mistakes in the comfort of your own home, and never have to reveal them to anyone. The house nearest to the cliffs in on the market: http://www.cascadesothebysrealty.com/prop/38650-beulah-reed-rd-manzanita-or-97130-15223121 (in the "if you have to ask" category. And presently subject to offer too, Dang, Chuck, you never told us.) Best wishes, (Nick Hall-Patch, ibid.) A few comments on Chuck's rules. To step 5, I would restart the PC after it's powered down, run a few key programs, then shut it down. I've found from experience that weird things occasionally happen when a computer boots up so this is one further sanity check. There's a notorious malware named Perseus, so some anti-virus programs freak out when the see a program by that name. Norton Security Suite deleted the Perseus software twice PC without asking, telling me it had a "bad reputation". I eventually figured out how to tell Norton not to touch the Perseus folder. I can't recall any issues with leaving wi-fi turned on while recording with SDRs, although I can see Chuck's point (Bruce Portzer, ibid.) SANGEAN PR-D4W MINI-REVIEW I received my PR-D4W about 2 weeks ago and have been playing with it enough now to feel semi-qualified to give it a mini-review. I give it a 5 star rating for AM [MW] audio quality and FM sensitivity. Overall, I give it 4 stars, maybe 4.5 :) . . . https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/ABDX/conversations/topics/72447 (Phil Rafuse, 53, July 13, PEI, ABDX via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ SPORADIC E DISPARTITY BETWEEN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA CHBX-2, CITO-3, CCCI-5 ?? with Ontario weather, 1635-1640 [EDT = 2035- 2040 UT] and CTV programming --- Above all --- and good at times. Good E-skip to Ontario. No DTV so far. There may be other possibilities that I haven't researched yet? Many Ontario cities mentioned plus ads (Doug Allen, Inman, SC, July 12, WTFDA gg via DXLD) FYI, The Es International Corporate Office officially announced earlier this year they were shutting down operations in the United States and focusing all Es activity to Europe now. Any DXers or radio enthusiasts will have to import their Es activity through the Ontario operation. Just in case you didn't catch that back in April from Reuters and the BBC. Again, FYI. ; > P (Jim Thomas, Springfield, Missouri, WTFDA gg via DXLD) SPORADIC E ALL ABOUT THE JET STREAM? Not that`s it`s applicable over here, but I`ve been keeping an eye on the RSGB propagation predixions --- they seem to take it for granted that the meanderings of the jet stream determine sporadic E openings. Is it that certain? http://rsgb.org/main/blog/category/news/gb2rs/propagation-news/ 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) I don't see how. The jet stream is in the upper troposphere ~ 25,000- 45,000 feet ASL while sporadic E-skip takes place in the ionosphere in the 180,000-480,000 foot range. There's even a whole layer (the stratosphere) in between. The author is clearly confusing IONOSPHERIC WIND SHEAR that concentrates ions with tropospheric wind shear. In the leading theories, ionospheric wind shear is one of the elements contributing to localized ionic density increases that produce E-skip clouds. Besides the stratosphere, there's also the mesosphere in between tropo and iono (Bill Hepburn, Grimsby Ont., ibid.) A google search brings up a few articles on ionospheric wind shear. Just the abstract for this one is intriguing, as it brings to mind possible connections to mid-winter eskip, as well as the regular kind. I'll try reading the rest of it once I wake up. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2010GL043125/full (Rich McVicar, ibid.) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2016 Jul 11 0329 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 04 - 10 July 2016 Solar activity was at very low levels from 04-06 Jul followed by low levels for the remainder of the period. Region 2561 (S16, L=344, class/area Cro/beta on 07 Jul) produced a C5/Sn flare at 07/0756 UTC. Region 2564 (N09, L=209, class/area Dai/120 on 10 Jul) produced all further C-class activity, the largest a C8/2f at 10/0059 UTC with an associated Type II radio sweep (1435 km/s). No Earth-directed CMEs were observed. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at normal to moderate levels from 04-08 Jul and reached high levels on 09-10 Jul following several days of enhanced solar wind speeds with a sequence of coronal holes. Geomagnetic field activity was mostly quiet from 04-06 Jul with a few isolated unsettled periods under a nominal solar wind regime. Unsettled to minor storm conditions were observed on 07-08 Jul due to positive polarity CH HSS effects followed by unsettled to active conditions on 09 Jul as effects began to subside. Quiet to unsettled levels were observed on 10 Jul as CH HSS effects waned. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 11 JULY - 06 AUGUST 2016 Solar activity is expected to be very low with a chance for C-class flares and a slight chance for M-class flares through 24 Jul due to flare potential from Region 2564. Activity is expected to be very low for the remainder of the forecast period. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to reach high levels on 16-19 Jul, 22-27 Jul and 05-06 Aug following recurrent CH HSS events. Normal to moderate levels are expected otherwise. Geomagnetic field activity is likely to reach minor storm levels on 11 Jul due to positive polarity CH HSS effects. Unsettled to active conditions are expected on 12 Jul as effects continue followed by quiet to unsettled conditions on 13 Jul as effects subside. A second CH HSS is expected to bring quiet to unsettled conditions on 14-15 Jul with active periods likely on the 14th. Mostly quiet levels are expected on 16-18 Jul. Quiet to unsettled conditions are anticipated from 19-24 Jul due to effects from a series of recurrent CH HSSs. Mostly quiet conditions are expected from 25 Jul to 02 Aug with isolated unsettled periods possible from 28-30 Jul as a few small CH HSS events move past Earth. Minor storms are likely on 03-04 Aug due to recurrent, positive polarity CH HSS activity, decreasing to active conditions on 05 Aug and unsettled conditions on 06 Aug as effects subside. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2016 Jul 11 0329 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 2016-07-11 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2016 Jul 11 92 20 5 2016 Jul 12 90 12 3 2016 Jul 13 90 8 3 2016 Jul 14 90 15 3 2016 Jul 15 90 10 3 2016 Jul 16 90 5 2 2016 Jul 17 90 5 2 2016 Jul 18 90 5 2 2016 Jul 19 85 14 3 2016 Jul 20 78 12 3 2016 Jul 21 76 12 3 2016 Jul 22 77 7 2 2016 Jul 23 77 11 3 2016 Jul 24 75 10 3 2016 Jul 25 73 6 2 2016 Jul 26 74 4 2 2016 Jul 27 73 6 2 2016 Jul 28 72 7 2 2016 Jul 29 71 9 3 2016 Jul 30 72 8 3 2016 Jul 31 74 7 2 2016 Aug 01 72 4 2 2016 Aug 02 77 5 2 2016 Aug 03 83 23 5 2016 Aug 04 87 23 5 2016 Aug 05 92 14 3 2016 Aug 06 94 10 3 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1834, DXLD) THE SUNSPOTS ARE BACK Arnie Coro reports on his DXers Unlimited programme last night (Radio Havana Cuba, 6000 kHz 0332-0343 UT 13 July) that the Sunspots are back! "Yes, after twelve days without a single sunspot in sight, the Sun has revived and the all important daily solar flux figure is barely touching the 100 units mark. This upsurge in solar activity will surely be felt from now on... something already appreciated by the daily ionograms that show a much higher daytime maximum usable frequency curve. During the local evening hours we may even pick up some 20 meters band DX for the first time this summer." [...] "So expect better HF propagation conditions especially during local night time hours, and be aware of possible geomagnetic disturbances that may slightly spoil the somewhat better propagation conditions.. " Full script of last night's DXers Unlimited programme is at: http://www.radiohc.cu/en/noticias/ciencias/99736-dxers-unlimited-middle-of-the-week-edition-for-tuesday-july-12-2016 Thanks to Andrew Tett for suggesting this article from QST magazine in 2002 which may help in "Understanding Solar Indices": https://www.arrl.org/files/file/Technology/tis/info/pdf/0209038.pdf and includes this on Solar Flux: "....[Solar Flux] gives a very good indication of conditions for long- distance communication. The figure for the solar flux can vary from as low as 50 or so to as high as 300. Low values indicate that the maximum useable frequency will be low and overall conditions will not be very good, particularly on the higher HF bands. Conversely, high values generally indicate there is sufficient ionization to support long-distance communication at higher-than-normal frequencies. However, remember that it takes a few days of high values for conditions to improve. Typically values in excess of 200 will be measured during the peak of a sunspot cycle with high values of up to 300 being experienced for shorter periods." Posted by: ("Alan Pennington", July 13, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ###