DX LISTENING DIGEST 16-52, December 28, 2016 Incorporating REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING edited by Glenn Hauser, http://www.worldofradio.com Items from DXLD may be reproduced and re-reproduced only if full credit be maintained at all stages and we be provided exchange copies. DXLD may not be reposted in its entirety without permission. Materials taken from Arctic or originating from Olle Alm and not having a commercial copyright are exempt from all restrictions of noncommercial, noncopyrighted reusage except for full credits For restrixions and searchable 2016 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html [also linx to previous years] NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1858 CONTENTS: *DX and station news about: Armenia, Australia, Biafra non, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Egypt, Ethiopia, Europe, France, Germany, Korea North non, Libya, México, North America, Pakistan, Perú, Russia, Rwanda non, Solomon Islands, Swaziland, Sweden non, Taiwan non, Tibet non, Tinian, USA, Vatican, Vietnam SHORTWAVE AIRINGS of WORLD OF RADIO 1858, Dec 29, 2016-Jan 5, 2017 Thu 1230 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Thu 2130 WRMI 13695 [confirmed] Fri 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed] Sat 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [not confirmed] Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1531 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [not confirmed] Sat 2030v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sat 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [not confirmed] Sun 0410v WA0RCR 1860-AM [confirmed from 0424] Sun 1130 HLR 9485-CUSB Mon 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [not confirmed] Mon 0400v WBCQ 5130v-AM Area 51 [confirmed] Mon 0430 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Tue 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [not confirmed] Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 [confirmed] Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 Tue 2300 WRMI 9955 Wed 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB Wed 1415 WRMI 9955 Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v Thu 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB Note: Allan Weiner says that WOR will also be airing at variable unpredictable times during his Radio Jennifer service on expanded hours of WBCQ 5130v. Also, propagation has been so poor that one cannot always confirm the 9330 airings. 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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. Reception of Radio Afghanistan External Service Dec 22 1630-1700 6100 YAK 100 kW / 125 deg to SoAs Arabic, fair/good signal 1700-1730 6100#YAK 100 kW / 125 deg to SoAs Arabic or unknown lang. #from 1700 6100 BEI 500 kW / 318 deg to WeEu English CRI very strong http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/reception-of-radio-afghanistan-external_23.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALBANIA. 7389.976, As usual listen to enclosed recording of Radio Tirana morning Albanian service on Dec 27. Taken around 0947 UT, slight BUZZY AUDIO as always on shortwave channel, 12 x 100 Hertz either side distance apart main power B U Z Z PEAKS visible on SDR rx screen, + 50/150/250 Hertz apart too. S=7 signal on Zakynthos in Greece, S=8 in Madrid Spain, S=9+10dB in Rimini/Bologna Italy area. 1394.908 RT Fllake on mediumwave, S=6 or -82dBm signal in S=9+10dB in Rimini/Bologna Italy area, at 0952 UT Dec 27. vy 73 de (Wolfy df5sx Stuttgart Germany, Buschle, Dec 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANGOLA. 4949.8, Rádio Nacional de Angola, Mulenvos, 0450-0530, 25- 12, Portuguese, comments, ID. "Radio Nacional de Angola", at 0500 news, at 0530 Christmastime songs "Villancicos". 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Sangean ATS-909X, Tecsun PL-880, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4949.727, Angola, very weak, only string visible 0232 UT on Dec 26. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4949.74, Dec 28 at 0142 again no signal from RNA. Are others finding it to be off the air lately? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn -- The last couple of evenings (U.S. eastern time), Angola 4949.73 has been on in the early part of the evening but off when I recheck it later. I haven't made it a point to see what time they go off, or whether it's an even hour or something else that suggests it was planned. The signal strength was not very good when it was on during those two evenings (--Art Delibert, N. Bethesda, MD, Dec 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non-log]. 4949.74, R. Nacional de Angola, on Dec 28, as Glenn has already reported, they were clearly off the air at 0310 & 0344 (Ron Howard, Calif., dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) This one was still off in early evening (17xx) but back later with significantly stronger signal than in previous weeks (Thorsten Hallmann, Germany, Dec 29 but aparently referring to Dec 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4949.73 kHz, which signed off (or dropped off) early the last two nights, is running later tonight. Signal is pretty good into Maryland -- not the best I've heard in the last month, but close to readable. Heard at 0253 with pop music; time beeps at TOH, and what seems like news; ID for Rádio Nacional at 0305. Earlier in the evening the audio was barely there; I wonder if they're making adjustments as the evening goes on (Art Delibert, N. Bethesda, MD, HCDX via DXLD) For some strange reason, this message didn't show up until two days after I sent it. So the reference to "the last two nights" refers to December 26 and 27, and the reference to "tonight" refers to December 28. Sorry for the old news! (Delibert, Dec 30, HCDX via DXLD) It`s always a good idea to specify dates inside every log, whether delayed or not, needed for archiving (gh, DXLD) ** ARMENIA. Danish Shortwave Club International via NORATUS, Dec 17 2000-2100 on 6145 ERV 100 kW / 305 deg to WeEu English http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/danish-shortwave-club-international-via.html FM Kompakt via Shortwaveservice NORATUS on Dec 18 2000-2100 on 6145 ERV 100 kW / 305 deg to WeEu German http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/fm-kompakt-via-shortwaveservice-noratus.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #984 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, December 23, 2016 via DXLD) 6145, Radio Mi Amigo, Yereven/Gavar, *1859-2015, 25-12, "Radio Mi Amigo special broadcast event from Armenia on 6145 kHz...", English, pop music, comments. 44444 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol and Lugo, Sony ICF SW7600G, Tecsun PL-880, Sangean ATS-909X, Cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11690, SM Radio --- Towards Asia makes it also into Europe until 11 UT (Christian Milling, shortwaveservice, 1009 UT Dec 25, Von meinem Sony Xperia™-Smartphone gesendet, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I am listening SM Radio International on 11690 khz from Buenos Aires, Argentina with 24332. 73 (Arnaldo Slaen, 1014 UT, ibid.) In usable quality via a KIWI-WEBSDR in New Zealand (ZL1DRB) (roger, 1029 UT, ibid.) So does anyone have any comment on the program content?? Is it about ``S&M``? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12020, Dec 26 after 0100, no signal from SM Radio International, special to S America. The final repeat, 7305 at 0300 to North America, finds no signal at 0311, and a JBA carrier at 0342. Sorry, but Armenia is just not a suitable site for reaching North America under the circumstances (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 26.12.16, 0300-0400 UT, 7305 kHz, Noratus 330 degrees (North America), SM Radio International {Noratus = CJSC Yerevan Gavar Armenia site} Best regards - Christian Milling (via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 22 via DXLD) for Christian: Bad propagation from Caucasus towards North America tonight in 41 mb 7305, Quinn show noted at 0301 UT, 25$ on contest 0311 UT, little drummer boy ra ta da dam at 0313 UT, only S=9+25dB signal in Moscow Russia, and S=4-5 in northern Sweden at Haparanda. But only N I L signal in Michigan, NJ/MA east coast, N I L signal in Spain, Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Greece. In 49mb only two European 6020 CRI Albania S=6-7, and 5960 kHz NHK Issoudun S=8. Only others from the south could be heard in North America (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DX LISTENING DIGEST) SM Radio via Gavar, Armenia 0300 UT to North America pretty much a bust. Nil heard on several SDRs around North America. Barely marginal signal with deep and long fades using receivers in Sweden and the U.K. Nothing at all on SDRs in Austria, Germany, and Italy. This was the "Ron O'Quinn Show," from one of the former offshore DJs heard earlier on the Mi Amigo special broadcast. The lousy propagation of late doesn't help but Armenia just is not a good choice if you're trying to get a consistently decent signal into North America, I think. Even Nauen has a hard time some weekends. It's a pity the latter has to let their transmitters "loaf" along at a mere 125 kW (cost of electricity?). To reach people in North America who have simple portable receivers from Europe you really need something like the 500 kW senders at Issoudun, but I'm sure the cost would be prohibitive. 73, (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan USA, UT Dec 26, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7305 kHz SM Radio International, S=9+10dB in Doha Qatar at 0340 UT, bad co-channel MIXTURE with BBC Persian language sce from UAE Al Dhabbaya, latter increase to S=9+25dB at 0352 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) SM Radio International via NORATUS Dec 25, [audio-]videos: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/sm-radio-international-via-noratus-on.html R. MiAmigo International via NORATUS on Dec 25, [audio-]videos: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/radio-miamigo-international-via-noratus.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) What is NORATUS? WRTH 2017 says `Gavar, Noratus` as if it were a location, not an agency, and certainly not an acronym or initialism requiring all-caps. And address, with postal code? as ``3333 Noratus``. The transmitter operator is CJSC = Closed Joint Stock Company, which seems like a description akin to Inc., Ltd. Or LLC, rather than a corporate name itself. Noratus name looks rather Latinate, so could it be something Christian/Orthodox? No particular meaning known to Google translate. Answer: ``Noratus is a village near the town of Gavar, most famous for its cemetery, the oldest part of which includes over 800 khachkars (stone crosses), carved between the 9th-17th centuries.`` From Yerevan it is 95 km or one sesquihour away [by road?], so designating the SW site ERV is hardly accurate. And now the Armenians are publicizing their cemetery attraxion thus, without moving the SW antennas one cm, I bet. So are they really closer to Noratus than Gavar? Surely not within the cemetery, tho there is a certain kinship between crosses and antenna towers (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Upcoming broadcasts of Shortwaveservice via NORATUS: Radio Menschen & Geschichten: 1900-2000 6145 ERV 100 kW / 305 deg to WeEu English Jan 01 Radio Golden 80s Rewind: 2000-2100 6145 ERV 100 kW / 305 deg to WeEu English Jan 01 ADDX: 1900-2000 6145 ERV 100 kW / 305 deg to WeEu English Jan 14 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/upcoming-broadcasts-of-shortwaveservoce.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Dec 27-29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA [and non]. Australia and NZ migrate AM to FM radiotoday.com.au --- AM TO FM: THROWING LISTENERS UNDER THE BUS Category: Programming Published on Wednesday, 21 December 2016 06:00 I’m sure that many regional radio owners in Australia could barely hide their smiles when the prospect of converting their AM stations to FM was first raised. Moving up to a higher quality technology is one of those prospects that always looks great on paper, but, as with most things, the devil lies in the detail. As a general rule, radio station owners are pretty smart people. They know there’s a significant quality difference with FM, but then, so does virtually everybody with ears. Quality, of course, is the primary reason there’s been such a large audience migration from AM to FM over the past three decades. Those owners, out in “The Bush”, know if one of their two stations in each market were to remain AM for much longer, the advertising dollars would continue to slide to the FM side of the ledger, and eventually, they’d have to end up subsidising their heritage service. As sure as night follows day, AM stations will become more of a liability to their owners, as their aging audiences die off and the potential formats, that AMs can be profitably used for, become even more limiting. Conversely, with two FM stations in each of their solus markets, many station owners reason that they’ll at least have a fighting chance to maintain or even grow advertising revenues. Understandably, these operators really have no option; they need to be on the conversion bandwagon. From an outsider’s perspective, this could easily be interpreted as pure self-interest or greed – but it’s not. These days, regional radio stations are no longer a ‘licence to print money’. Surviving each day, out in the regions, against all comers, both analogue and digital, is akin to a bare-knuckles brawl, and, when it comes down to it, nothing but revenue will preserve regional radio jobs and help to keep “the Bank” off their backs. Like any business sector, regional radio broadcasters must take advantage of every perceived opportunity, commercial or technical, to keep their heads above water. The trouble is the proposed FM conversion process was seen, by some, as a panacea to cure many of regional radio’s ills, when, in reality, it was simply a logical migration in technology. Most station operators are technical enough to appreciate the coverage differences between AM and FM, but didn’t initially grasp the practical difficulties in entirely replicating their AM service in FM. Some may have even been expecting the conversion process to be a case of ‘turn one off, turn the other on’, with nearly identical coverage. Unfortunately, with the different frequencies involved, it doesn’t work that way. On closer examination, what some regional broadcasters are starting to find out is that if they convert their heritage AM station to FM, a significant slice of their listeners in their service area may no longer be able to hear them. While there’s no doubting that AM has significantly limited audio quality compared to FM, the AM signal is far more amenable to wide area coverage, and, we’re not just talking about vast outback areas here. For all intents and purposes, FM is limited to line of sight; it’s a characteristic of the band. That may be fine for predominantly flat service areas, but hills and valleys can seriously disrupt FM coverage. Even many coastal areas that push up close to the Great Dividing Range will find that, after conversion, FM shadow areas may need to be in-filled or listeners could be disenfranchised. It’s one thing for a station to lose listeners because of lousy programming; it’s another to knowingly cut listeners loose or throw them under the bus for expediency. After all, listeners are a rare commodity! The immediate and most likely fallout from cutting listeners off from their local commercial radio service is going to be political. Understandably, disenfranchised listeners will likely complain, and, mud will be slung by fearful politicians and others with an axe to grind. If the industry isn’t careful, all this vitriol is going to pour down in great abundance on the heads of local regional operators. Back in February, in the U.S., the FCC announced plans for an AM Revitalisation program. This was a very sensible move, and probably, the Commission’s only real option. With nearly 5,000 AM stations under its control, the FCC clearly realised that converting them all to equivalent-powered FM services was just not going to be practical. So, they set about encouraging these AM stations to acquire FM translators, allowing operators to move those translator licences back into their own service areas up to 400 kilometres away. In FCC-speak, this is known as ‘the 250-Mile Rule’. Even in competitive American markets where heritage AM stations have been waging a losing battle against comparatively- new FM services, these AMers are now being allowed to buy and move FM translators into their primary service town or city. This allows them to begin competing on a level playing field with the FMers, at least as far as audio quality goes. These AM operators are also free to acquire additional FM translators and relocate them almost anywhere within their service area to supplement their existing AM service. Despite the addition of any of these supplementary services, the heritage stations will still retain their wide area AM coverage for the benefit of their traditional listeners. Admittedly, the US scenario is a different kettle of fish from Australia, where conversion is only required on around 100 commercial AM stations at this time, but the FCC is working towards merging the quality of FM and the wide area coverage of AM to provide the best possible service for the listener. After looking at the potential coverage issues that could arise with the currently proposed AM/FM conversion process in Australia, a number of respected regional broadcasters are now starting to see a good deal of wisdom in the U.S. scheme and are asking why it can’t happen here. Certainly, I agree we need to move with the times by upgrading technology whenever possible, and, in denser regional population centres, listeners should be entitled to the quality of FM. However, where other listeners could possibly be left without any access to their local commercial radio service, I don’t believe that ACMA should be making it mandatory to surrender the AM licence, when a heritage station converts to FM, even if that conversion is at the AM’s full power equivalent. Where there is a genuine need for continuing wide area coverage, the option to retain AM coverage should be readily available to the broadcaster to allow them to provide a service to all their listeners. Maintaining AM coverage would help overcome the need for in-fills in blackspots that may be created through FM conversion. Surely, guaranteeing a better service for listeners should be what ACMA’s role in all about. I’m aware of a number of stations that have opted not to join in the current AM/FM conversion process because they assessed from the outset that, after conversion to FM, they would no longer be able to adequately cover their current licence area. Other operators, who were simply enamored with the idea of jumping from AM to FM at any cost, are now starting to find cracks in the process that may one day come back to haunt them. Those broadcasters, who opted out of the conversion process because of the ‘surrender your AM licence’ demand, were the ones who realised that although their listeners in their main population centres may not gain the benefit of programming in high quality FM, there were also many other people further out, in less populated areas, who, each day, rely on their local AM radio service for emergency warnings and local information. Without that AM service, some of those listeners may no longer have access to that information. To me, this dogmatic ‘one or the other’ bureaucratic approach is nonsense. There appears to be no justifiable reason why, in 2016, both the quality and coverage requirements can’t be mutually satisfied. A number of regions immediately come to mind where AM & FM technologies, with their separate benefits, should clearly be used to complement each other for the benefit of listeners. Mountainous areas like, Lithgow and the Hunter Valley in NSW, and Cairns in Queensland, and Portland in Victoria, and, in flat, widespread service areas like Queensland’s Longreach and Charleville, and, Kalgoorlie and Karratha in the West could all be beneficiaries of a flexible and intelligent approach to broadcast spectrum management. Sure, I generally agree that a conversion from AM to FM is a sensible approach to improve service quality for the majority of listeners in regional service areas, but in committing to this conversion, surely, in this day and age, when we have the advantages of both technologies right at our fingertips, shouldn’t we be using the advantages of each to ensure that no listener, in this great nation, will ever get left behind. About The Author: Brad SMART has been a journalist, consultant, author, broadcaster, film director and was the former owner of the Smart Radio Network throughout Queensland. Brad can be contacted on his website here (via Kevin Redding, TN, ABDX via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. 9580 // 12085 // 12065, Thu Dec 22 at 1405, Radio Australia on another Thursday opening the secret program `All in the Mind` from Radio National; this episode guest is yet another American, Steven Cole of UCLA about social genomix. This half-hour is still missing from the RA online program schedule until `Babytalk` at 1430 Thursday. 12085, Dec 24 at 1349, this RA frequency is unusually weaker than 12065, reverse of usual situation due to azimuths, a mixup? By 1402, back to normal and both much weaker than the Oklahoma service on 9580 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA [and non]. ABC CANCELS "SUNDAY NIGHTS" --- I don't know if this has been noted here before, but while listening to a recording of Radio Australia on 9580 kHz that I made on Christmas morning, John Cleary (the program host since 1988) frequently mentioned that this was the last live edition of "Sunday Nights" as broadcast on ABC Local Radio and Radio Australia. As regular listeners to Radio Australia know, "Sunday Nights" features "discussion of religion and ethics, beliefs and values as they shape the issues affecting daily life." Another reason to be disenchanted with the ABC (Richard Langley, NB, Dec 28, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Including ``The Inquisition``, call-in quiz sexion on religious topix (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DXLD) Agreed, Richard! ABC management has been filled with so many denizens of commercial broadcasting that they see only number of listeners as a metric rather than quality of listeners. There are damn few programs on radio anywhere that discuss religion, ethics, beliefs and values with the intelligence, understanding and openness that “Sunday Nights” and John Cleary have. The program never preached; it listened thoughtfully and allowed space for listeners to explore, discuss intelligently and come to greater understandings. Aw, who the hell needs THAT? Right? Count me as disenchanted, migrating toward disgusted (John Figliozzi, New/Florida, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DXLD) NEWS ASSOCIATION URGES AUSTRALIA'S ABC TO REVIEW CLOSURE OF SHORTWAVE SERVICE TO PACIFIC Source: Xinhua | 2016-12-19 18:26:04 | Editor: huaxia http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-12/19/c_135916989.htm SUVA, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- The Pacific Islands News Association (PINA) said on Monday that it is concerned with the decision of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) to shut down its shortwave radio services to the Pacific by the end of January 2017. "PINA joins the growing voices opposed to the ABC's plan to close this valuable and vital source of information to peoples and communities in the Pacific that have relied on Radio Australia for almost eight decades," the PINA's Suva-based secretariat said in a statement. For almost 80 years, Radio Australia's shortwave service has been the lifeline for many rural communities in the Pacific who rely on it for vital emergency service information. "Given the geographical landscape of the Pacific region, radio is still the most effective and efficient means of communication and source for information. The fact that most islands in the region are under resourced with regards to sustaining their broadcast stations, most of our people rely on Radio Australia and Radio New Zealand to acquire news and information, including cyclone warnings," said PINA's president Moses Stevens. Earlier this month, the ABC said the shut-down is in line with the broadcaster's commitment to expand its digital content offerings. It said Radio Australia's audiences in the Pacific will be able to listen to FM and online broadcasts, and the savings will be reinvested in FM transmitter network, increased regional content and media and journalism in the Pacific. "While PINA appreciates the Australian government's plan to redirect savings from the closure of the shortwave radio service into media and journalism in the Pacific, it is of the strong view that Australia will lose one of its strong connections with the Pacific, through Radio Australia," the PINA said, calling on the ABC to review the decision and maintain its shortwave services to the Pacific (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. ABC EXECS ANGER NT POLITICIANS (Darwin) Northern Territory News NATIONAL broadcaster ABC is treating Territorians like "second-class citizens" in its decision to scrap shortwave radio transmission across the region, according to MP Warren Snowdon. The Lingiari member released a joint statement with NT Senator Malarndirri McCarthy yesterday following a "disappointing" discussion with ABCsenior management. "Despite the concerns we raised and our request for a deferral of the decision to allow for proper consultation, ABC senior management have made it clear that they will continue with switching off shortwave at the end of January," the statement read. "We believe that the ABC must defer its premature decision to switch off shortwave services in the NT ... ABC management must stop treating Territorians in remote areas like second-class citizens." The politicians called for ABC management to visit NT. ABC Local Radio service currently can be accessed on remote communities, pastoral stations and people who otherwise work remotely and are mobile.In times of natural disaster- such as flood, cyclones or fire -- ABC is used to broadcast emergency updates (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. The ABC NT outlets at 1920 UT Dec 26, all taken on remote SDR unit at Brisbane Queensland: 2325, ABC NT Tennant Creek, S=9 or -78dBm strength. 2485, ABC NT Katherine, S=7-8 -84dBm 4835, ABC NT Alice Springs, S=9+20dB or -61dBm powerful signal. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) VL8 ** BIAFRA [non]. SECRETLAND, R Biafra London via SPL Secretbrod Dec 22 1757-2001 on 15325 SCB 100 kW / 195 deg to WeAf English, live program Wrong frequency announcement at 1857UT: 15600, instead of 15325! http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/reception-of-radio-biafra-london-via_23.html SECRETLAND, Radio Biafra London via SPL Secretbrod, Dec 23 1458-1601 on 15325 SCB 100 kW / 195 deg to WeAf English, live program http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/radio-biafra-london-via-spl-secretbrod_24.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 5952.48, UT Sun Dec 25 at 0223, Radio Pio XII leading up to a misa, S9-S7 and stronger than hetter 5950 WRMIBS at S7-S6. 0225 mentions Pio Doce, and over to a non-SS YL correspondent. Already off at 0239 recheck: I was expecting them to stay on late for an Xmas eve midnight mass. 6134.8 Radio Santa Cruz also off by now, ceding to the Apparition on 6135.2. I also scanned the 90 and 60 m bands a few times, but found nothing unusual for Xmas eve, such as reactivations or prolonged schedules of the few LA stations left. Maybe better luck on New Year`s Eve (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOTSWANA. 7460, VoA Kirundi, distorted audio feed at 0339 UT, content not understandable. S=9+20dB or -58dBm in ME (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, Dec 22, HCDX via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 4774.967, Dec 23 at 0725, JBA music vs CODAR, like last night, but this time I measure the frequency independently, which is within 3 Hz of where Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal put R. Congonhas, Minas Gerais, Dec 3 at 2218, on 4774.964, rather than R. Tarma, Perú which he had way down on 4774.910 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4864.028 UNIDentified, probably ? ZYG641 Radio Alvorada Londrina PR, poor -87dBm, can't trace any program details, just on threshold level at 0545 UT on Dec 18 (Wolfgang Büschel, BC-DX 25 Dec via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 6080.044 Brazilian at 0212 UT on Dec 26, pray/talk in BrasPort on familia, S=7 signal strength in Germany. Others: 6180.022, RNB S=9+25dB in Germany, 0205 UT 6135.198, R Aparecida S=9+10dB 6119.953, SRDA S=8, 0210 UT 6059.764, SRDA S=8 and QRM 6060 VoIRIB HQ morning Arabic prayer 6040.350, R RB2 Curitiba S=6, 0217 UT 5939.830, R Voz Missionaria, Curitiba, S=8, sermon? male voice pastor 4985.009, R Brasil C, weak tiny, 0226 UT, and accompanied by RTTY ute station QRM on two peaks 450 Hertz away 4984.575 and 4985.425 exact. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 9674.92 kHz is Brazil. I just replayed my recording and got the top of the hour (0900 UT) ID. I can hear the freqs / calls and QTH, Cachoeira Paulista, São Paulo. I can't hear the actual ID though. Hear is a link to the ID recording (Dave Valko-PA-USA, hcdx Dec 21 via BC-DX 25 Dec via DXLD) Yes, very interesting reception indeed. Appears to be a reactivated Rádio Canção Nova. This is from dswci DBS-18 Domestic Band Survey deactivated station list for 9675 kHz (last heard in August 2014): 9675, R Canção Nova, Cachoeira Paulista Aug 2014 4825, ZYG868 R. Canção Nova, Cachoeira Paulista SP 9674.925, ZYE971 R. Canção Nova, Cachoeira Paulista SP (Rich D'Angelo- PA-USA, hcdx / DXplorer via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 21 via via BC-DX 25 Dec via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 11735, Rádio Transmundial, Santa Maria, 0902-0930, 25-12, Portuguese, "Música da Terra", "Domingo na radio, uma sintonia perfeita...", Brazilian and religious songs. 34433. Also 1530-1545, 25-12, "Esta é a Rádio Transmundial, Você está ouvindo a Transmundial, transmundial.com.br, 13 horas 33 minutos". 23322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol and Lugo, Sony ICF SW7600G, Tecsun PL-880, Sangean ATS-909X, Cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11925.0, Dec 26 at 2226, enthusiastic Brazuguese talk, maybe a game, VP weak S3, so R. Bandeirantes has normalized its frequency which has been on 11925.2 for months. Next up the dial, Rádio RB2, is still split on 11934.68, S2. 11925.0 again after 0230 check Dec 27. Remains inactive on 9645 which had been even further plus frequency before it disappeared (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. CANADIAN RADIO NEWS – Dan Sys - Guest editor Jon Pearkins. EXTENSION TO CP GRANTED: 600, QC, Montreal, new-cp, TTP Media has until June 30 2017 to get this new 10,000 watts (days)/5,000 watts (nights) English language News-Talk station on the air. Will share transmitter site with TTP’s CFNV-940 (IRCA DX Monitor Dec 31, published Dec 27, via DXLD) ** CANADA. [Re 16-51, CHNX Shortwave]. Hi Glenn, sorry on the run around for the pix of the CHNX pictures. You can go back and look at some of the other ones there. You are correct on the 6130 kHz frequency. I would be working on something in the "shack" (room) and listening to the simulcast which made you think you were in Halifax, almost like streaming today, where you can listen to most any station around the world. The actual direct header is http://www.uer.ca/locations/viewgal.asp?picid=262230 Should work. It was amazing sometimes at dusk, when Europe was dark and the big boys with 500 kW or higher started rolling in on the same frequency and the little 500 watt station held its own saying, I`m over water too. Would listen to the 6005 in Montreal and the one in Ottawa, Ont. which I believe is still on and sponsored by a shortwave group?? [No Ottawan except CHU; must mean CFRX 6070 Toronto, not sponsored by, but ODXA was managing QSLs, and still? --- gh] A Navy guy (ham) in Va. has a restored Marconi like the one CHNX had and there is one for sale on line. Gates made a BC-1G MW 1 kW which my hometown radio station had and which later in life I got to fix. In the Gates catalog they made a 1 kw SW transmitter, same cabinet, modulator but with a 4-1000 tube in the final plus xtal oscillator section where you could change channels. I had a chance to buy a final deck with the 4-1000 section, but at the time b/c of other things passed. I forget how many miles I was from Sackville, N.B where Radio Canada transmitters were located, but I could most often their ground wave. They had a Northern service for the Eskimos [9625, 11720, 6065]. Most all that is gone now. [and non]. My best DX from Maine on the BC band was KFI, on 640. In the winter (best time) I would listen for a daylighter in Chicago on 1160, WJJD a country station. When they went off, KSL from Salt Lake was there or not. If Salt Lake was good I started listening around. I did hear one 1 kW from South Dakota one time. I live in a condo, so antennas are not allowed, although I could play the "stealth" antenna game, but I know the board of directors and though they are inconsistent with rule enforcement, my name would be in the "cross-hairs". I do think I will try to listen into BCC [BBC?] on the Internet but I know it will not be the same as when I would beg my dad to bring home the Zenith Transoceanic radio from his work on the weekends, so I could listen. 73's (Pete Russell, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. CRTC DECLARES BROADBAND INTERNET ACCESS A BASIC SERVICE. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/crtc-internet-essential-service-1.3906664 Any opposition I had to the elimination of SW, MW, FM, TV, DVD, landline phones, express bus routes, etc. is now mute [sic]. The internet is here to stay. :^) (Vince Ferme, Ottawa, ON, Dec 22, dxldyg via DXLD) ** CHILE. 5825, Radio Triunfal Evangélica, Talagante, 2302-2325, Dec 24, Spanish, Reactivated!!!!!! Long religious talk and songs, 24222. Info vía FB "Radioescucha en Onda Corta desde Chile (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, 2331 ut Dec 24, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DXLD) Tnx for the quick timely tip; but inaudible here (gh, DXLD) 5825 kHz, Radio Triunfal Evangélica, Talagante, Dec 24 at 2302, poor signal. 100 Watts. 24222 in Buenos Aires por Arnaldo Slaen. (Info vía FB "Radioescucha en Onda Corta desde Chile) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekmsH5SeNuY&feature=youtu.be (Dino Bloise, FL, 2352 UT, ibid.) Caption to that says it was heard in Mendoza; DX-pedition? marcosmza1962 425 79 views Published on Dec 24, 2016 Avisaron en el grupo de Facebook "Radioescucha de Onda Corta de Chile", acerca de la salida al aire de Radio Triunfal en 5825 khz transmitiendo desde Talagante, a unos 211 kms de Mendoza con una potencia de 100 W, por lo que preparé la Tecsun y su antenita de hilo para ver si lograba alguna captura. Hora UT: YT Comments: 0:00 / 1:02 Radio Triunfal 5825 KHZ con Tecsun PL-660 desde Mendoza (ARG) marcosmza1962 425 79 views Published on Dec 24, 2016 Avisaron en el grupo de Facebook "Radioescucha de Onda Corta de Chile", acerca de la salida al aire de Radio Triunfal en 5825 khz transmitiendo desde Talagante, a unos 211 kms de Mendoza con una potencia de 100 W, por lo que preparé la Tecsun y su antenita de hilo para ver si lograba alguna captura. Hora UTC: 22:25. Gracias por pasar Feliz Navidad y 73! Comments • 14 GrimmSBC9 hours ago: Muito boa recepção! Esta transmissão só ocorreu por ocasião do dia de Natal, ou continua no ar a cada dia?? marcosmza1962 7 hours ago: É uma estação que utiliza um transmissor artesanal. Eu não sei se vai continuar a emitir regularmente. 73!? Oxford Shortwave Log 1 day ago: Hi Marcos, I wasn't even aware of the existence of this station - great catch! Thanks for sharing! 73! Clint marcosmza1962 20 hours ago: Have news about it. It seems to be Radio Triunfal "Evangéica", same frequency and similar name but different target :/? (via DXLD) misspelt? Hola amigos: Avisar que está al aire en 5825. R. Triunfal Evangélica nuevamente, hasta las 00 UT. Además avisar que tienen página en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/radiotriunfal/ Y teléfono: +56 2 2815 4375 que pertenece a la ciudad de Talagante, Región Metropolitana, Chile. Atte, (Claudio Galaz, 2259 UT Dec 26, c condiglista yg via DXLD) 5825. R. TRIUNFAL EVANGELICA. Diciembre 24. Predicaciones, saludos a los auditores y música navideña. Se adjuntan audios en los horarios de: 2306 UT: https://soundcloud.com/claudio-radioham-dx/5825-r-triunfal-evangelica-2306-utc 2350 UT: https://soundcloud.com/claudio-radioham-dx/5825-r-triunfal-evangelica-2350-utc La emisora es avisada mediante el grupo: “Radioescuchas de la Onda Corta desde Chile” en Facebook. Además según el audio, se emitirá una nueva transmisión durante el día Lunes, tal como se informa en el último audio (Claudio Galaz Toledo, RX: TECSUN PL-660, ANT: Hilo de 40 metros, QTH: Barraza Bajo, comuna de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DXLD) 5825. R. TRIUNFAL EVANGELICA. Diciembre 26. 2247-2359 UT. Música y espacios de predicas entre espacios musicales. SINPO variable: 2247 UT: 45444 2258 UT: 45333 2318 UT: 55444 2340 UT: 45333 con saludos a los oyentes, aviso del número telefónico y de la página de Facebook. Luego tiende a mejorar: 45344. 2355 UT: Aviso de salida del aire. SINPO: 45344 (Galaz, ibid.) ** CHILE. 6925-AM. RCW. Diciembre 24. 0130-0141 UT. Programa “La Rosa de Tokio”. SINPO: 45232 con QRM muy presente en la frecuencia y aparte con períodos largos de desvanecimiento (Claudio Galaz Toledo, RX: TECSUN PL-660, ANT: Hilo de 40 metros, QTH: Barraza Bajo, comuna de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) 6925-AM. RCW. Diciembre 25. 0001-0041 UT. Programa espacial [sic] de navidad con audios de saludos y música del recuerdo. SINPO: 45333 con QRM muy presente en la frecuencia y aparte con periodos largos de desvanecimiento (Claudio Galaz T., RX: TECSUN PL-660, ANT: Hilo de 40 metros, QTH: Barraza Bajo, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DXLD) ** CHINA. 5979.00, *2310-2320 24.12, Gannan PBS, Tianshui, still on this new frequency, ex 5970, Tibetan talk, 25222. Best 73, (Anker Petersen, Denmark, wbradio yg via DXLD) ** CHINA. Weak/fair signal of Voice of Jinling on Dec 21: 1230-1500 on 6200 NJG 100 kW / 161 deg to EaAs Chinese http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/weakfair-signal-of-voice-of-jinling-on.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Dec 21, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 7415, Dec 25 at 1523, Firedragon jamming at S6-S9. Long time since I have caught one instead of CNR1 jamming, and if you have to jam, this is the most entertaining way to do it. Aoki shows target is RFA Chinese via Tinian at 15-21 (plus another hour via Kuwait). 7300, Dec 25 at 1524, Chinese at S9+10: this must be CNR-1 jamming, as RTI in Chinese is scheduled Sat & Sun 15-17 per Aoki. In both cases only one station is audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 530, Dec 27 at 0320, surprised to hear Spanish talk about béisbol, R. Rebelde // 1180 and a bit of an echo against // 5025. Atop music from presumed R. Enciclopedia, which is normally dominant, listed 10 kW from nearest Villa María, Ciudad de la Habana. WRTH 2017 shows two Rebeldes on 530: unknown power in Caribe, Isla de Juventud, and 1 kW in far Guantánamo. Rebelde is also atop my local Vance AFB TIS with fake call K530AM, announced at irregular intervals, among still running continuous PSA loops, including what to do when a hurricane is approaching. Oklahoma? At same time on E-W antenna, 590 is dominated by music, presumably 25 kW Radio Musical Nacional, La Julia, Mayabeque. 530, Dec 28 at 0153, soft piano version of ``Yesterday``, so R. Enciclopedia regains dominance, no sign of R. Rebelde on 530 as heard 22.5 hours ago. Original format was presenting bits of spoken knowledge as the name implies, but strangely kept the name with flip to EZL music. Do they have any informational shows or segments when we don`t hear them? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 4765, Dec 23 at 0303 tune-in, R. Progreso in dead air --- here we go; no, we don`t: music modulation resumes in a few dekaseconds (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 5025, Radio Rebelde, at 2304 surprisingly playing Frank Sinatra's versions of “My Way” and “Yesterday”, then a man and woman at 2312 with ID and apparent news highlights and into female Latin vocals at 2313 - Very Good Dec 23 – the reason I was surprised to hear these versions was because of the Mafia's and Sinatra's disdain (or outright hatred) for Fidel Castro and the revolution. Have the revolutionaries softened their stance? (Mark Coady, Ont, ODXA YRX via DXLD) 5025. R. REBELDE. Diciembre 24. 0909-0935 UT. Programa: “A esta hora” con música y llamados telefónicos con saludos, junto a solicitudes. SINPO: 55444 con algo de sobremodulación (Claudio Galaz Toledo, RX: TECSUN PL-660, ANT: Hilo de 40 metros, QTH: Barraza Bajo, comuna de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** CUBA. 6000, Dec 22 at 0258, RHC English is suptorted. 6000, Dec 24 at 0057, RHC Spanish at end of `Mesa Redonda` diversion, TV audio track, with quite suptorted modulation. Dead air for a couple minutes, then ``Ed Newman`` opening English which is equally degraded; wiggle that patchcord! Better but as usual undermodulated on // 6165. 5040, Dec 25 at 0140, RHC is S9+30 of dead air, still so at 0218. No monitoring session would be complete without some foulup by RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Reception of Radio Habana Cuba in Esperanto on Dec 25: 0700-0730 on 6100 BAU 100 kW / 310 deg to WNAm Esperanto Sun http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/reception-of-radio-habana-cuba-in.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) And/or 5040 as I have noted (gh) 17730, Dec 25 at 1452, RHC Spanish carrier is breaking up, as are to a lesser extent, 17750 and 17580. Still so on 17580 until 1459* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9820.0, Dec 28 at 0129, RHC does it again --- running a Spanish morning frequency at night, and now making a het with weaker Brasil 9819.4. RHC is // 9710, and not audible on 11840, maybe still on but not propagating. Here we are almost two months into the B-16 season, and RHC STILL hasn`t put up a new frequency schedule at http://www.radiohc.cu/interesantes/frecuencias dated Abril-Noviembre 2016 when 9820 was not on it morning or evening (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 12045, Thu Dec 22 at 0752, surprised to find local KCRC silly sports talk here from 1390 --- surely caused by another overload mix on the R75 --- it goes away if I switch from Preamp2 to 1 or no preamp. 12045 minus 1390 = 10655, but nothing there. Half- asleep, I miscalculated the plus so did not check 13435, but that is a known HM01 spy numbers frequency as Ivo Ivanov reported last June: ``0655-0750 on 13435 secret/hidden site (Bejucal) Spanish Tu/Th/Sa`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EAST TURKISTAN. 5959.918, seldom odd Chinese, PBS Xinjiang Urumqi Chinese, 80 Hertz heterodyne against RRI Galbeni French 5960 kHz S=9+20dB. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, UT Dec 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. EQA, 6049.995 tentative HCJB Quito distorted audio, poor S=6-7 at 0412 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, Dec 22, HCDX via DXLD) ** ECUADOR [non]. U.K., 7300 even, HCJB from Babcock Woofferton England relay, HCJB Radio Akhbar Mufriha, in Arabic, address given '... Mufriha.com' S=9+25dB in Germany, at 2129 UT on Dec 27. Scheduled 2115-2145 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. Reception of Radio Cairo in Hausa to WeEu, instead of German, Dec 15: 1900-2000 on 9570.3v ABS 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu Hausa, instead of German: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/egypt-reception-of-radio-cairo-in-hausa.html (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DXLD) 9325.054, Radio Cairo in Hausa language, little LOW MODULATION, at S=9+5dB strength noted at 1826 UT on Dec 20. Check on southern Germany SDR unit. Hausa language requested, but heavy DISTORTED audio quality [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 20 via BC-DX 25 Dec via WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DXLD) 9515.127v, Dec 25 at 1506, open carrier with hum, maybe just barely modulated. Keeps varying upward, then down a bit as I try to measure it. This reading is as of 1508. Scheduled on 9515 is R. Cairo Albanian service at 15-16, 200 kW, 325 degrees from Abis and also USward. Ivo Ivanov was also hearing dead air split on 9515.3 at 1103 Dec 18, assumed same source (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9900.32, Dec 26 at 2217, weak off-frequency carrier with whine, but no modulation audible. Surely it`s R. Cairo, 2115-2245 English to Europe as scheduled on 9900 per WRTH 2017; alternate frequency is 9800, nothing heard. But also seems to be an even weaker carrier on 9900 even (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005, Radio Nacional Guinea Ecuatorial, Bata, *0500-0545, 25-12, Spanish and English songs, ID. "Radio Nacional Guinea Ecuatorial", mentioned "Año Nuevo", Christmas Spanish songs "Villancicos". 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Sangean ATS-909X, Tecsun PL-880, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ERITREA [and non]. 7175, Dec 22 at 1357, S5-S7 HOA music from VOBME-2 intruder; also JBA carrier circa 7146.55 from VOBME-1, long path when I am getting 7120 SOMALILAND much better. 7175 JBA carrier still audible at 1515, 1543 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ERITREA / ETHIOPIA, 7174.988, Probably Asmara Eritrea - {jammed by Ethiopia} , S=9+30dB or -45dBm signal in remote SDR unit at Doha Qatar Middle East/Saudi peninsula at 1502z on Dec 23, and accompanied 7162 to 7188 kHz broadband data noise JAMMING, covered by Ethiopian Jamming Service from NISS security service, at Gedja Jawe site. Made in China BBEF Beijing transmitter in data mode audio sound, white noise scratching outlet. NOTHING on air of Asmara Eritrea on 7146v kHz this afternoon. Ham Radio IARU Bandwatch will NOT BE AMUSED. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, Dec 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also ETHIOPIA ** ERITREA [non]. Strong signal of Radio Voice of Adal via MBR Issoudun, Dec 21 1500-1530 on 11670 ISS 100 kW / 125 deg to EaAf Arabic Wed/Sat 1530-1600 on 11670 ISS 100 kW / 125 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Wed/Sat http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/strong-signal-of-radio-voice-of-adal.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Dec 21, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) FRANCE, Radio Al-Mukhtar & Radio Voice of Adal via TDF Issoudun, Dec 27-28 Radio Al-Mukhtar 1500-1530 on 11670 ISS 100 kW / 125 deg to EaAf Arabic Tue 1530-1600 on 11670 ISS 100 kW / 125 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Tue Radio Voice of Adal 1500-1530 on 11670 ISS 100 kW / 125 deg to EaAf Arabic Wed/Sat 1530-1600 on 11670 ISS 100 kW / 125 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Wed/Sat http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/radio-al-mukhtar-radio-voice-of-adal.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Dec 27-29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [and non]. Two broadband WHITE NOISE jamming signals seen this Dec 22 afternoon: From 1503 UT jamming start on 7138 to 7151 kHz, and 7167 to 7182 kHz wide. No Asmara Eritrea broadcast visible on air close to 7146v kHz, but visible was the other Eritrean on 7174.987 kHz, combined jamming and ERI signals S=9 in southern Germany. 7235.820 ....x.840 kHz as usual variable wandered some 20 Hertz around, S=9+10dB heavy signal heard in eastern Thailand remote unit. Voice of Democratic Alliance in Tigre language (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, some logs of remote Doha Qatar and eastern Thailand posts, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 22, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7236.325, R Ethiopia frequency, 5-10 Hertz vary hopping around S=5-6 poor in remote SDR at Doha Qatar, 0345 UT HoA music, but at 0400-0456 UT heavily QRM of adjacent 7240.005 kHz V of Turkey Emirler in English, latter S=9+30dB powerful. Other Ethiopians heard in Doha Qatar remote unit: 5949.998, Tigray Revol. S=9+5dB in Doha Qatar and remote Spain unit. 6029.9955, Oromya S=8-9 at 0347 UT Dec 22. 6090.001, R Amhara, S=8-9, HoA mx at 0434 UT Dec 22. 6109.9985, R Fana, S=9+5dB in remote Doha Qatar unit. (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, Dec 22, HCDX via DXLD) 7236.416 varying, test tones of technicians in Radio Ethiopia, 0345 UT S=6-7 signal, tone test procedure. Also 100 Hertz BUZZ tone either side. Also test tone on 7234.112 kHz at 0348 UT, S=9+10dB UNKNOWN? 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, Dec 26 dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7236.448, Dec 26 at 1438, JBA carrier, off and back on, presumably R. Ethiopia by long path. Nothing from Eritrea (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7236.875 ... x.925 very wide range of 50 Hertz apart hopping by scheduled VoDem Alliance Afar service on Tuesday from Gedja site, 1550 UT S=9+10dB signal noted on Uwe's remote SDR unit in eastern Thailand on CBG [Cambodian] border area. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Dec 27, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DXLD) 7236.89v, R. Ethiopia (presumed), 1552, Dec 27. Thanks to Glenn's tip, heard a station here with frequent drifting; best in USB; JBA (Ron Howard, Calif., dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This one is on the air regularly but a puzzle. Apparently not airing the usual External service, and often distorted or extremely low audio. Probably degraded to a pure anti-ERITREA tape broadcast relayer? (Thorsten Hallmann, Germany, Dec 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Well, at least the Arabic transmission between 1400-1500 sounded the same as before. Maybe they are just unable to produce English and French 1600-1800 for some reason and play other programming instead? BTW, have you heard 0700-0800 Somali broadcast reported by Wolfy recently? 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, ibid.) ** ETHIOPIA. 6030, Radio Oromiya (presumed), 1540, Dec 27. Nice surprise to find definite HOA music here underneath the usual CNR1; poor, but not too bad (Ron Howard, Calif., dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [and non]. Heard here in southern Germany: 6089.998 transmission end at 2101:50 UT, TX switch OFF, Radio Amhara, Addis Ababa, Gedja, ETHIOPIA. co-channel: 6089.951 Brazil, Rádio Bandeirantes, São Paulo, SP. 6090.0015 China, CNR2 Geermu #tx 916. nothing at this hour from Anguilla Caribbean (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. FRANCE, Reception of Radio Xoriyo Ogaden via TDF Issoudun on Dec 26 1600-1630 17870 ISS 500 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Somali Mon/Fri, very poor But yesterday Dec 25 no signal of other two clandestine via TDF Issoudun: Radio Voice of Independent Oromiya 1600-1630 on 17850 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Oromo Sun Radio Front for Independence of Oromo RKWO 1730-1758 on 17765 ISS 150 kW / 125 deg to EaAf Oromo Sun http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/reception-of-radio-xoriyo-ogaden-via.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. From Dec 5 no signal of clandestine R. Voice of Amhara via Alyx & Yeyi 1700-1800 on 15360 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Amharic Mon/Wed/Sat This transmission already missing in winter B-16 Alyx&Yeyi schedule. My last recordings of Radio Voice of Amhara on Saturday Dec 3, 2016: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/reception-of-living-water-ministry_29.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Dec 27-29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. SECRETLAND, IRRS Radio Warra Wangeelaati via SPL Secretbrod [BULGARIA], Dec 24 1500-1530 15515 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Oromo Sat, strong signal: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/irrs-radio-warra-wangeelaati-via-spl_24.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. At 00:12 26/12/2016, you wrote: >Nothing audible from FRSH on 7700 or 9300 from 2130 past 2200 [Dec 25]. Hi Glenn, The FRS broadcast is not till tomorrow; their website shows Sunday 26th of December, which should of course read Monday 26th: ``The Free Radio Service Holland will be broadcasting its traditional Holiday Season broadcast on Boxing Day, Monday December 26th 2016 from 0830 to 1430 UT and a full repeat from 1630 to 2230 UT. Frequencies are 7700 & 9300 kHz. We welcome your December seasonal greetings. For more info please go to FRS-Holland Seasonal broadcast Invitation. For the full schedule as well as the streaming info, please read the schedules below! `` (Alan Gale, UK, 0121 UT Dec 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Both 7700 and 9300 audible here with fair signal at 1015 tune-in. 73s (Dave Kenny, UK, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) Dear FRS friend, Season's Greetings from all of us at FRSH. Right now FRS is on 7700//9335 kHz. Due to an unknown strong carrier on top of our 9300 signal, we have been deciding to move to 9335. Transmissions will last until 1430 UT/15:30 CET but we will return with a repeat starting on 1630 UT/17:30 CET on 7700//9300 or 9335 (depends on the situation). In particular during the first part of the repeat signals could be strong on the continent depending how far the distance is between transmitter and your QTH. Give it a try and let us know!! At 1452 UT/15:52 CET streaming will start as well: http://nednl.net:8000/frsh.m3u 73s Peter V. (via Dave Kenny, 1204 UT, BDXC-UK yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DXLD) 9335 is not audible here as of 1205 UT but FRS is still on 7700 kHz. 73s (Dave, ibid.) 7700 & 9300, Dec 26 at 2216, no signals from Free Radio Service Holland, which was going to do a broadcast until 2230, not especially for North America. I read too late that they switched to 9335 to avoid some QRM, but doubt it would have been audible either. They had also mixed up the date previously as Dec 25 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNKNOWN, 7700, Free Radio Service Holland, *0857-0920, 26-12, tuning music, English, identification: "...Free Radio Service Holland", "Boxing day transmission". at 0900 time signals, more tuning music, "Welcome to the Free Radio Service transmission Boxing day for the next six hours on 7700 and 9300 kHz..." "This is FRS Holland seasonal December broadcast...", pop music, English, comments.. // 9300. 34433 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol and Lugo, Sony ICF SW7600G, Tecsun PL-880, Sangean ATS-909X, Cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. Hi, our plan is to have 2 hours transmissions on 6070 kHz Friday 23rd of December 12-14 UT Monday 26th December (Boxing Day) 14-16 UT and [Sunday] 1st January 2017 14-16 UT Yours, (Dick [Spacewalker], Radio Spaceshuttle, P.O.Box 2702, NL-6049 ZG Herten, The Netherlands, Dec 22, WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6070 = Channel 292, Germany? It`s amusing how many programs don`t like to mention the station which really broadcasts them (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DXLD) GERMANY, 6070, Radio Spaceshuttle International via Channel 292, Rohrbach, 1345-1357*, 23-12, English, comments, pop music, identification: "Radio Spaceshuttle International", "Radio Spacehshuttle International closing down, Thank you for listening...". 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo, Sony ICF SW7600G, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE [and non]. Re: Allouis 162 kHz close down --- When I look at the spectrum of France Inter on 162 kHz using the waterfall of the Twente SDR receiver, there seems to be more modulation in the upper sideband compared to the lower sideband. I don't notice this with BBC Radio 4 on 198 kHz. Is this a transmitter effect or a receiver / software effect? I should point out this doesn't happen all the time (-- Richard Langley, 2014 UT Dec 22, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re 162 kHz Allouis or not? Usual standard and time signal broadcasts would also work fine in range between 10 and 50 kW power on a different TX location in France. Look pages 668 - 669 in WRTH 2017. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) France: Important News for DX. FRANCE, End of the Long Waves 162 KHz, AM modulation. Transmitter Allouis Latitude 47.168798, longitude 2.204326 Two towers of 350 meters (each tower weighs 600 tons) Power output 2000 kW during the day and reduced to 1000 kW at night, France decided to stop its emissions in long wave AM to December 31, 2016 to 23H59. The disappearance of amplitude modulation, scheduled for the end of 2016, should enable Radio France to 13 million euros in savings. She signs the end of an era. However, the transmitter should be saved. Indeed, there is an atomic clock, giving hundreds of thousands of receivers French legal time. Allouis, will retain a vocation scientific and legal. Since 1977 the Allouis transmitter is also used for the transmission of signals from an atomic clock installed in the main building. It takes less than one second error in a million years. Time signals are issued in phase modulation. Their transmission format is similar to that of the DCF77. Time signals allow access to French legal time and synchronize clocks. Reception modules are marketed for this purpose. The financing and maintenance of the system are provided since 2004 by the French Chamber of watchmaking and Microtechnology (MFHC). These signals are widely used in key sectors of industry requiring synchronization reliability: production and distribution of electricity, air transport, rail and road as well as for the management of public lighting, the synchronization of traffic lights crossroads, etc. (Malet Bernard, France) (via Rus-DX 25 Dec via DXLD) FRANCE INTER 162, LAST CHANCE TO HEAR IT 162, France Inter, Allouis, 1757-1810, 26-12, French, comments, at 1800: "France Inter, 19 heures, le journal, bon soir...", news. 44444. 162, Allouis will close today 26th December, so, there are only a few hours to tune in for the last time (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) No, Allouis will close on Jan 1 (probably dec 31 2300 UT). Confirmation heard today at 1835 on 162 (Jean-Michel Aubier, France, Dec 26, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thank you very much. A few days to hear it. Best 73s (Manuel, ibid.) Left hand not knowing what the right one is doing? They inserted "Dec 26" announcements, as attached, for days (Kai Ludwig, Germany, ibid.) Here's an announcement recorded today (Dec 26) at 2135 UT http://jm.aubier.pagesperso-orange.fr/annonce-inter.mp3 "Bonjour. France Inter va cesser d'émettre sur les grandes ondes à partir du premier janvier 2017...." (Jean-Michel Aubier, France, Dec 26, ibid.) Thank you! This is exactly the announcement they had inserted since, at least, Dec 21, but indeed with the exception of the date. Looks like they earlier intended to run a continuous announcement loop as of today but changed their minds at short notice (Kai Ludwig, Dec 27, ibid.) At 2345 UT, all six high power LW's are on S=9+40dB or stronger signal level, noted here in central Europe, 162 183 198 216 225 252 kHz. LW 162 kHz sound like usual Inter program in progress, with a lot of funny laughing people talk. No decrease in power to 10 - 50 kW time signal stn range YET! wb (Büschel, Dec 26, ibid.) Checked 162 kHz at 0005 UT and silence. Initially surprised there was not even a carrier. But does the usual 24hr, 162 kHz still have a scheduled maintenance break Tuesdays 0005-0358 UT? So unsure if France Inter has gone (or not)? Earlier was listening to usual huge Allouis signal with some great France Inter music programming (including mention of Radio Caroline in context of "Days of Pearly Spencer" at 2007) then a George Michael tribute. 73 (Alan Pennington, AOR 7030plus, longwire, Caversham, UK, UT Dec 27, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) I'm hearing nothing on 162 kHz via the Twente receiver at a 0045-0050 UT check December 27. Two hours earlier, France Inter was booming in with normal programming. I listened past 2300 expecting a possible signoff, but I guess that came later as normal programming continued. Are they really gone or false alarm? I'm just hearing the normal LW noise floor via Twente; can't really tell if any sort of reduced carrier (for the time signal) is present (Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, nothing at 0125 UT 27Dec2016. Could they really be gone for good? I'm starting to feel like I did when all the Russian far east LW transmitters left the air. 73 (Walt Salmaniw, BC, ibid.) Isn't that the truth! I still miss hearing 153, 180 & 279 here in SoCalif. Sometimes I'd get Yuzhno-279 well enough to leave it on for background music! -- (GREG HARDISON, ibid.) Via University of Twente receiver, I listened at 0000 CET thinking that that would be the sign-off. But it kept on going. Having no idea when France Inter would actually shut down, I switched to 153 kHz for the more entertaining music from Romania, and missed the last transmission on 162 kHz (Kim Elliott, DC, ibid.) Hi Stephen & All, It went off at around 0003 UT, after the news and sports report, there was about 30 seconds of music then someone pulled the plug. I can still hear the time signal, though nothing like as strong as France Inter was. I managed to get a recording of it at least, strange to think that some of the final words on there were the English Premier League Soccer results! (Alan Gale, NW England, 0151 UT Dec 27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi All, It's back on again at 0419 GMT, and looking at Herman Boel's EMWG List, this TX has a regular maintenance break on Tuesdays, so it looks like we all get another chance to hear it go off again on December 31st: :-) ``France Inter, Allouis (2000*) - 24h except Tuesday 0005-0358`` (Alan Pennington, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) Checked just after 0400 UT 27th December and still on with a fair signal here in Playa Blanca Lanzarote. 73's (John, Sangean ATS-909X, Hoad, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) France Inter still on the air now on LW 162 (0940 UT). I also heard "Days of Pearly Spencer" yesterday on the car radio and thought what a pity that such a clear signal is going away! (Stefano Valianti, Italy, Dec 27, Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) Hi, Yes, it's the usual maintenance break. France Inter will leave the LW band but the transmitter will stay on the air because of the time signals it carries. TDF are looking for a new programme provider. There has been some talk about RMC using the transmitter in the future, but I don't know if there is any truth in that or if it is just speculation. Regards, (Rémy Friess, ibid.) France Inter still on at 1055 UT on 162 kHz. Heard music and news/chat in French. Wonder how long it will last (Gabby Simmonds, Dec 27, BDXC- UK yg via DXLD) Very strong - usual signal, Tuesday, Dec. 27 when writing at 1155 UT (Erik Koie, Copenhagen, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) This should last until January 1, according to announcements heard this morning. At the moment they are transmitting re-broadcasts of old programs. Good end-of-year celebrations at all (François f.theveneau [sic], St Vincent de Tyrosse, France, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) TSF60 on YouTube has been posting videos of France Inter 162 reception on some interesting receivers. Closedown announcement on a Piano Crystal set made by Duvivier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuQRUEwEapQ Reception on a Transtronic 1960 receiver made from a kit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avLlAcSEEgU Reception on a 1925 Radiojour crystal set https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD1zScHFh5M (Mike Barraclough, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD 162 kHz will be still be on air on 1 January! According to an article in today's Libération, the last ever broadcast of the French Shipping Forecast ("météo marine") will be on Sunday 1 January at 2004 (i.e. 1904 GMT). From the article, it seems that the météo marine has as much a place in France's culture as the Shipping Forecast does in Britain's. It has been broadcast only on 162 longwave since 2008. France Inter dit bon vent à sa météo marine http://www.liberation.fr/france/2016/12/27/france-inter-dit-bon-vent-a-sa-meteo-marine_1537654 (via Chris Greenway, Dec 28, dxldyg via DXLD) No way. The last programme was on Dec 25. I listened to it and the presenter took leave explaining it had been the last time the bulletin was broadcast. Libération writes nonsense... as usual... Regards, (Rémy, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) I don't see such a claim in this article. They just say that France Inter transmissions on 162 kHz will "cease 1 Jan 2017". The usual sloppy, ambiguous wording. Earlier France Inter announced that 162 kHz will cease "26 Dec 2016". Now we read that the sea weather report has been broadcast the last time on 25 Dec. Which makes it clear what they refer to: The date from which the service will be gone. By the way, anyone with an explanation of the reasons for this special ceasing already on Christmas Day and "26 Dec" being announced as the day after for 162 kHz, until very shortly before this deadline? >From the article, it seems that the météo marine has as much a place in France's culture as the Shipping Forecast does in Britain's. Or as much place in the clickbaiting press. Here in Germany the tearful references to the sea weather forecasts in the end made people roll their eyes and mock at them ("A new AM service?? Without a sea weather report this is complete rubbish!!"). At a certain point it really becomes ridiculous. > It has been broadcast only on 162 longwave since 2008. What was in 2008; RFI stopping the practice to still switch on 6175 kHz, otherwise abandoned already a decade earlier, for a single hour to relay this? (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thanks Remy and Kai. Le Monde got it right yesterday when it explicitly said: "Les nostalgiques auront ainsi pu écouter la toute dernière météo marine dimanche 25 décembre, juste après le bulletin d’informations de 20 h." But Libération did suggest the last "howl" would be this coming Sunday: "Le loup de mer poussera son dernier hurlement dimanche soir à 20 h 04". I suspect the Libération article was written last week, held over from publication (?because of the holidays?) and they forget to change the tense from future to past. But what use is a once-a-week weather forecast? The BBC Shipping Forecast is aired four times a day (Chris Greenway, Dec 29, dxldyg via DXLD) To be continued ** FRANCE. Radio France International on unscheduled 9675 kHz, Dec 28: 0600-0700 on 9675 ISS 500 kW / 170 deg to WCAf English as scheduled 0700-0802 on 9675 ISS 500 kW / 170 deg to WCAf french, unscheduled: Parallel freq 9790 ISS 500 kW / 204 deg to NWAf French till 0715 // frequency 11700 ISS 500 kW / 190 deg to WCAf French till 0715 NOT parallel 9790 ISS 500 kW / 204 deg to NWAf French from 0715 NOT parallel 11700 ISS 500 kW / 190 deg to WCAf French from 0715 // frequency 13695 ISS 500 kW / 204 deg to NWAf French from 0800 // frequency 15300 ISS 500 kW / 185 deg to NWAf French from 0800 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/radio-france-international-on.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Dec 27-29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. European Music Radio 40th Birthday Broadcasts, Dec 18 0800-0900 on 9475 NAU 125 kW / 230 deg to SoEu English 3rd Sun 0900-1000 on 6045 NAU 125 kW / 240 deg to CeEu English 3rd Sun 0900-1000 on 9485*GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English 3rd Sun * CUSB, other AM http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/european-music-radio-40th-birthday.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #984 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, December 23, 2016 via DXLD) ** GERMANY [and non]. ARMENIA, 6145, Radio Mi Amigo, Yereven/Gavar, *1859-2015, 25-12, "Radio Mi Amigo special broadcast event from Armenia on 6145 kHz...", English, pop music, comments. 44444 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo, Sony ICF SW7600G, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Mi Amigo with good signal into Maryland, near Washington, DC right now on 6145 kHz. Male announcer in English, with pop music, clear ID and mention of transmitting from Armenia, talk about what a wonderful medium radio is (I agree!), then into Christmas vocal at 2051, "A Few of My Favorite Things." (Art Delibert, North Bethesda, MD, Dec 25, JRC NRD-545, Horizontal pennant antenna with DX Engineering pre-amp, HCDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DXLD) 6080, Dec 26 at 0002, two very poor signals mixing, making a fast SAH, as I am checking for the Radio Mi Amigo 2-hour special to North America via Nauen. The other one is presumably R. Marumby, Brasil which I expected to be a problem, but even lacking it, there would not be enough signal from Nauen. Sorry, doldrums of solar cycle plus low winter MUFs call for a closer single-hop site, like WRMI. But thanks for trying to keep SW serving North America (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Mi Amigo special on 6080 kHz would be listenable, if not overly strong, here in southwest Michigan were it not for my atrocious local RFI level. I'm using a Tecsun PL-880 with external 25-foot "reel" wire antenna outside the house. Checking several SDRs in the eastern U.S., the reception quality is highly variable, from barely there to quite good. I'm now listening via a SDR in Sea Girt, New Jersey, that's providing an S9+ signal. The rumble is barely noticeable. Curiously, reception quality was significantly worse on a couple of U.K. SDRs. 73, (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan USA, 0055 UT Dec 26, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Mi Amigo is audible here in the UK on 6080 kHz at 0100 UT, but the propagation is a bit ropey tonight (Alan Gale, ibid.) Pretty good signal from Radio Mi Amigo on 6080 kHz between about 0000 and 0200 UT here in NB recorded using Tecsun PL-880 with 7-metre reel antenna outdoors to escape RFI generated inside the house and turned off outdoor LED rope Christmas lights, which radiate RFI along their length like an antenna! -- (Richard Langley, UT Dec 26, ibid. WORLD OF RADIO 1858) 6080. RADIO MI AMIGO. Diciembre 26. 0031-0058 UT. Se escucha música y anuncios. SINPO: 22422 con QRM variable de R. Novas de Paz que sobresale en la frecuencia. RX: TECSUN PL-660, ANT: Hilo de 40 metros QTH: Ovalle, Chile (Claudio Galaz T., condiglista yg via DXLD) ** GERMANY [and non]. Dear friends, please find included the relays of the coming two weeks via Shortwaveservice, UT and kHz. 25.12.2016 0900-1000 06045 Nauen 233 (Europa) Radio Menschen & Geschichten 1000-1100 11690 Noratus 078 (Asien) SM Radio International 1200-1300 17695 Noratus 100 (Australien) SM Radio International 1800-1900 06145 Noratus 305 (Europa) SM Radio International 1900-2100 06145 Noratus 305 (Europa) Radio Mi Amigo International 2100-2200 06005 Noratus 245 (Afrika) SM Radio International 26.12.2016 0000-0200 06080 Nauen 300 (Nordamerika) Radio Mi Amigo International 0100-0200 12020 Noratus 245 (Südamerika) SM Radio International 0300-0400 07305 Noratus 330 (Nordamerika) SM Radio International 31.12.2016 1000-1200 06005 Kall 020 (Europa) SM Radio Dessau 01.01.2017 1900-2000 06145 Noratus 305 (Europa) Radio Menschen & Geschichten 2000-2100 06145 Noratus 305 (Europa) Radio Pushka 2100-2130 06145 Noratus 305 (Europa) Golden 80s Rewind 14.01.2017 1900-2000 06145 Noratus 305 (Europa) ADDX Jubiläumsprogramm Best regards (Christian Milling, http://www.shortwaveservice.com Dec 22, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DXLD) ** GERMANY [and non]. [BDXC-UK] Frequencies: Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) on shortwave === Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) program "Gruss an Bord" on shortwave on 24 December 2016: 1900 till 2100 Uhr UT 6125 kHz Atlantic - North 11650 kHz Atlantic - South 9800 kHz Atlantic / Indian Ocean (South Africa) 9740 kHz Indian Ocean - West 9790 kHz Indian Ocean - East 6145 kHz Europe 2100 till 2300 Uhr UT 5930 kHz Atlantic - North 9830 kHz Atlantic - South 9590 kHz Atlantic / Indian Ocean (South Africa) 9765 kHz Indian Ocean - West 9650 kHz Indian Ocean - East 6145 kHz Europe contact: gruss-an-bord@ndr.de vy73 (Harald Kuhl, Nov 18, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ---------------------------------------------------------- and here is today´s [sic] press release from NDR: Presse aktuell Empfang auf Weltmeeren und in fernen Häfen: "Gruß an Bord" auch über Kurzwelle Sendungen: Sonnabend, 24. Dezember, 20.05 bis 22.00 Uhr, NDR Info und NDR 90,3 / 23.05 bis 24.00 Uhr, NDR Info Seit Weihnachten 1953 bildet die NDR Radiosendung "Gruß an Bord" eine Brücke zwischen den Seeleuten auf den Meeren und ihren Angehörigen in Deutschland: Seeleute schicken Grüße in die Heimat, ihre Familien haben die Möglichkeit, ihren Lieben auf hoher See ein frohes Fest und ein gutes, neues Jahr zu wünschen. Damit die Besatzungen die Traditionssendung auch in fernen Häfen auf den Weltmeeren empfangen können, hat der NDR eigens für Heiligabend Kurzwellen-Frequenzen angemietet. In der Zeit von 19.00 bis 21.00 Uhr UTC (20.00 bis 22.00 Uhr MEZ) sendet die Kurzwelle am 24. Dezember über folgende Frequenzen (UTC ist die Abkürzung für die koordinierte Weltzeit, die Universal Time Coordinated): FREQUENZ ZIELGEBIET 6.125 kHz Atlantik - Nord 11.650 kHz Atlantik - Süd 9.800 kHz Atlantik/ Indischer Ozean (Südafrika) 9.740 kHz Indischer Ozean - West 9.790 kHz Indischer Ozean - Ost 6.145 kHz Europa In der Zeit von 21.00 bis 23.00 Uhr UTC (22.00 bis 24.00 Uhr MEZ) am 24. Dezember über folgende Frequenzen: FREQUENZ ZIELGEBIET 5.930 kHz Atlantik - Nord 9.830 kHz Atlantik - Süd 9.590 kHz Atlantik / Indischer Ozean (Südafrika) 9.765 kHz Indischer Ozean - West 9.650 kHz Indischer Ozean - Ost 6.145 kHz Europa NDR Info und NDR 90,3 senden "Gruß an Bord" von 20.05 Uhr bis 22.00 Uhr MEZ. Anschließend folgt auf NDR Info von 22.00 Uhr bis 23.00 Uhr MEZ die Übertragung einer evangelischen Christmette aus der St. Johanniskirche in Hamburg-Altona. Von 23.05 bis 24.00 Uhr wird "Gruß an Bord" auf NDR Info, NDR Info Spezial, online und über Kurzwelle fortgesetzt. Die Grüße werden in der Hamburger Seemannsmission "Duckdalben" von den NDR Info Moderatoren Regina König und Ocke Bandixen übermittelt. Andrea-Christina Furrer und Andreas Kuhnt sind die Gastgeber im Kulturspeicher in Leer. Die Moderatoren erwarten u. a. Vertreter der Reedereien, Seemannspastoren und viele Familien. Außerdem werden sie Schiffe der Marine und deutsche Forschungsschiffe, die auf den Weltmeeren unterwegs sind, rufen. Für die musikalische Unterhaltung sorgen in Hamburg der Gitarrist Roland Cabezas, die Lars-Luis Linek- Band sowie die Sängerin Marion Welch, in Leer der Bingumer Shanty-Chor und das irische Trio Dara Mc Namara, Stephen Kavanagh und Dylan Vaughn. Bis zum 17. Dezember nimmt die Redaktion Grußwünsche per E-Mail entgegen, gruss-an-bord@ndr.de, oder per Post: Norddeutscher Rundfunk, NDR Info, Redaktion "Gruß an Bord", Rothenbaumchaussee 132 - 134, 20149 Hamburg. Diese Grüße werden am 24. Dezember von 23.05 Uhr bis Mitternacht auf NDR Info und über die extra angemietete Kurzwellenfrequenzen verlesen. NDR Info und NDR 90,3 sind über UKW, DAB+, DVB-S Radio und per Livestreaming im Internet, z. B. über die NDR Radio-App, zu empfangen. 18. November 2016 / RP Posted by: ("Dave kenny" bdxcuk yg via DXLD) Complete schedule on: https://gruporadioescuchaargentino.wordpress.com/2016/12/24/ndr-norddeutschen-rundfunk-emision-especial-de-navidad-del-programa-saludo-a-bordo/ Aquí con los detalles y mapas de las áreas de cobertura: http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/VoA_Radiogram_2016-12-17.htm#GAB_2016 Mejor frecuencia para la Argentina probablemente por Parte 1: 11650 kHz Parte 2: 9830 kHz Otro programa especial para América del Sur 26/12/2016 0100 a 0200 UT 12020 Noratus 245 SM Radio Internacional ¡Feliz Navidad, próspero año y felicidad con las condiciones en ondas cortas! (roger, alemania, ibid.) Checking at 2000 UT “Gruss an Board” is audible here with a fair signal on 6125 (Nauen) and good on 6145 (Armenia). 73s (Dave, Caversham Berks, Kenny, AOR7030+ 25m longwire, Dec 24, BDXC_UK yg via DXLD) Best frequency in Brazil: 11650 kHz via Issoudun. S 9+40 Rx: Kenwood R-1000 + Magnetic Loop Antenna AOR LA-400 (indoor) Merry Christmas! (Rudolf Grimm, São Bernardo GG66rg, BRAZIL, 2010 UT Dec 26, HCDX via DXLD) Best reception in Argentina on 11650 with 44444, SINPO 32432 on 9800 khz. 73 & Merry Christmas (Arnaldo Slaen, 2044 UT, dxldyg via DXLD) NDR Christmas program, Gruss an Bord, now being heard here in S.Eastern Massachusetts: 9800 - via Issoudun, France w/good signals. Best frequency right now 6125 - Via Nauen, Germany with poor signal. Barely readable. No signal on other frequencies 6145, 9740, 9790 & 11650 (Stephen C Wood, Harwich, Mass., 1936 UT Dec 24, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I leave it to others to say if 9740 and 11650 are on air. 9790 is a very bad choice of frequency, already in use by Issoudun for RFI. A very bad clash indeed because the very same Issoudun site is involved in this broadcast itself. 6145 is a full 12 seconds behind the others, pretty much even for IP routing. Not the best modulation with some hum present, not the strongest signal in Europe either (Kai Ludwig, Germany, ibid.) NDR Info Christmas programme "Gruss and Bord" since 1905 UT: 6145 kHz is best here in Central Europe, S9+10~S9+30 till 1955 UT co- channel interference of RRI Bucarest on 6135 kHz with broadband signal (15 kHz) causing QRM on 6145 and 6125 kHz, from 1955 UT onwards excellent reception. After a short break at 2002 signals on 6125 and 6145 kHz aren't synchronized anymore, 6125 kHz a few seconds ahead. 6125 kHz should be good too but only poor reception, S8~S9 9740 kHz no signal detected 9790 kHz Radio France Internationale in French to West and Central Africa, S7~S9 under RFI should be NDR programme sounds like on 6145 and 9800 kHz 9800 kHz audible with echo, S8~S9 11650 kHz very poor signal of NDR "Gruss an Bord", S6 73, (Manfred Reiff, Germany, ibid.) It was Tehran, not Bucharest on 6135, in French and Italian (Jean- Michel Aubier, France, ibid.) There is an error with the thirty one meter band outlet: it is not on 9740 kHz but in fact 9470 kHz although NDR's website has it as 9740 kHz (Nick Sharpe, UK, 2024 UT Dec 24, BDXC-UK yg via dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DXLD) Yes, in fact, 9470 kHz here with O = 2-3. Interchanged digits in Nauen ..? (roger, 2046 UT, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Not only the NDR website, also HFCC. And indeed they're on 9470 while there is no trace of any signal on 9740. Obviously an operational error at Nauen (Kai Ludwig, 2053 UT, ibid.) Obviously, and operator (if still one is there...?) did not notice or not realize that in fact this is the wrong frequency. At least now they brought up proper 9765 and changed the other beam to 5930 as well. Also Issoudun runs 9590 and 9830 as they are supposed to do. Religious service, with female vicar explicitly acknowledging being on shortwave. Moosbrunn on 9650? Impossible to tell from Europe, with strong Guinea on the frequency. And in Armenia they called it a day and took 6145 off, although it was supposed to stay on air until 2300. Da ist der Wurm drin ... [there is the worm in it] (Kai Ludwig, 2113 UT, ibid.) 6125 kHz best reception for the first broadcast here in New Brunswick when getting set up for the second broadcast at 2055 UT. 9800 and 11650 kHz both heard but quite weak. For the second broadcast, 5930 kHz is putting in a good signal. There is CW interference to the 9830 kHz frequency. Who could that be? Haven't checked other second broadcast frequencies yet (Richard Langley, 2113 UT, ibid.) RTTY most of the day on 9830 has been there for years, a frequency to avoid, often overlapping with V. of Turkey summers from 2200. I don`t think RTTY source has ever been identified, tho it should be easy at least to get some clues by those with RTTY capability (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) For the second broadcast as noted around 2120 UT using the Twente SDR receiver: 5930 kHz: good signal 9830 kHz: weak 9590 kHz: weak 9765 kHz: weak 9650 kHz: very weak although carrier in waterfall seemed strong 6145 kHz: nothing, not even a carrier noted and this transmission from Gavar is supposed to be for Europe! The weak signals are likely due to being in shadow zones (-- Richard Langley, NB, dxldyg via DXLD) 11650 & 9790, Dec 24 at 1907, JBA carriers on two of the publicized frequencies for NDR`s annual Xmas eve broadcast for mariners, `Gruss an Bord`. I knew it would be rather pointless to try to hear it in deep landlocked North America; nothing audible on other listed frequencies 9810, 9740 (which turned out to be on 9470 by mistake), 6145, 6125. Second bihour is on a mostly different set of frequencies; checked amid at 2204: JBA carriers on 9590, 9765; 9830 JBA but fighting a local birdie; 9650 weak signal barely modulated but later in French, likely Guinea; nothing on 5930 or 6145, the latter reported to have been turned off by Armenia before the second segment (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Fair here at 2250 on 5930 (Jim Ronda, Tulsa OK, NASWA yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DXLD) 5930, Gruss An Bord – Nauen (Norddeutscher Rundfunk), 2227-2300*, Dec 24. Annual program for German sailors at sea with German language talks, numerous mentions of Deutschland and Hamburg, greetings to sailors, brief instrumental music segments. Closed at 2256 with bells followed by “Silent Night” in English. NDR ID at 2250 followed by brief jingle before carrier terminated. Fair and only frequency heard (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 via DXLD) Special NDR Hamburg Greeting on board, Dec 24 1900-2100 6125 NAU 125 kW / 250 deg Northern Atlantic 1900-2100 6145 ERV 100 kW / 305 deg West Europe-addit 1900-2100 9740 NAU 125 kW / 130 deg Indian Ocean West [really 9470!] 1900-2100 9790 MOS 100 kW / 115 deg Indian Ocean East + RFI French 1900-2100 9800 ISS 250 kW / 156 deg Indian Ocean/SoAf 1900-2100 11650 ISS 250 kW / 195 deg Southern Atlantic 2100-2300 5930 NAU 125 kW / 250 deg Northern Atlantic 2100-2300 6145 ERV 100 kW / 305 deg West Europe-addit, off at 2101 UT 2100-2300 9590 ISS 250 kW / 156 deg Indian Ocean/SoAf 2100-2300 9650 MOS 100 kW / 115 deg Indian Ocean East 2100-2300 9765 NAU 125 kW / 130 deg Indian Ocean West 2100-2300 9830 ISS 250 kW / 195 deg Southern Atlantic http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/special-ndr-hamburg-greeting-on-board.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. 6070, Radio Spaceshuttle International via Chanel 292, Rohrbach, 1345-1357*, 23-12, English, comments, pop music, identification: "Radio Spaceshuttle International", "Radio Spacehshuttle International closing down, Thank you for listening...". 24322. Also 1535-1546, 26-12, English, comments, pop songs, ID. "Radio Spaceshuttle". 34433 (Méndez) 6070, SWEDISH DX FEDERATION, via Chanel 292, Rohrbach, 0722-0740, 26- 12, Swedish comments, music. 34433. (Méndez) 6085, Radio Mi Amigo, Kall Krekel, *0754-0830, 25-12, "Good Morning Europe, welcome to Radio Mi Amigo International, Merry Merry Christmas, stay tuned", pop songs. 34433. (Méndez) 6150, Europa 24, Dattlen, 0735-0747, 25-12, English and German songs. 34433 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol and Lugo, Sony ICF SW7600G, Tecsun PL-880, Sangean ATS-909X, Cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. DEUTSCHLANDFUNK TAKES OVER AFN FREQUENCY IN GREATER FRANKFURT AREA Perhaps this outstanding FM story is of interest also outside Germany: As of 18 Jan 2017 Deutschlandfunk will use the AFN frequency 98.7 MHz, a high power outlet that covers the whole large conurbation around Frankfurt ("Rhein-Main-Gebiet") with five millions potential listeners. In turn AFN will take over the current Deutschlandfunk frequency at Wiesbaden, 103.7 MHz. They will not use the existing Media Broadcast transmitter but set up an own one on the US forces grounds at Wiesbaden, again with an ERP of 500 watts. AFN hurried ahead in announcing this change on Dec 16, as long as we can still believe in change, by mentioning it on air and posting a notice to Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AFNWiesbaden/photos/a.140130826013192.23752.124520577574217/1739020849457507/?type=3 At this point Deutschlandradio still had not received official word. Only today they have finally been in the position to make their announcement, as posted at http://www.deutschlandradio.de/neue-ukw-frequenz-98-7-erreicht-5-millionen-hoerer.2174.de.html?dram:article_id=374972 This final success was subject of negotiations for more than ten years. Quite recently there had even been rumours that AFN could simply terminate the transmission contract for the Großer Feldberg facility and put their own small transmitter on 98.7. The commercial sector, in particular FFH group at Bad Vilbel, had claimed the 98.7 outlet as well. It is my impression that this was the main obstacle and that the break-through came when FFH was confronted with the choice to either get a good number of the small FM outlets now to be abandoned by Deutschlandfunk or to gain nothing at all, with the fat goose they were longing for being slaughtered in their face. By the way, at a later point in the new year the program names "Deutschlandradio Kultur" and "DRadio Wissen" will go away and be replaced by "Deutschlandfunk Kultur" and "Deutschlandfunk Nova", respectively. This decision has been made because Deutschlandfunk is considered the strongest radio brand of Germany and as such to be used for all offerings. The main reasons for this lies in the digital realm where Deutschlandradio (as institution that runs these programs) sees a great increase in use, especially through third party platforms where secondary program names do not matter at all. They had just issued a press release about this clear trend and success: http://www.deutschlandradio.de/ergebnisse-der-ma-2016-ip-audio-iv-veroeffentlicht.2174.de.html?dram:article_id=373421 (Kai Ludwig, Dec 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. Voice of Greece on 9420 kHz and 11645 kHz, Dec 22 0700-0859 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek*tx#3 0700-0859 on 11645 AVL 100 kW / 182 deg to NoAf Greek*tx#1 from 1900 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek tx#3 no signal on 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek tx#1 * news in Arabic and Serbian 0804-0812 UT and off at 0859 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/voice-of-greece-on-9420-khz-and-11645_23.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Greece on 9420 and 11645 kHz, Dec 28-29: 0700-0910 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek*tx#3 0700-0910 on 11645 AVL 100 kW / 182 deg to NoAf Greek*tx#1 * including news in Serbian 0804-0809 and Spanish 0904-0907 UT from 1812 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek tx#3 no signal on 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek tx#1 from 0620 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek#tx#3 no signal on 11645 AVL 100 kW / 182 deg to NoAf Greek tx#1 # including news in Serbian 0805-0809 and Spanish 0905-0907 UT http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/voice-of-greece-on-9420-and-11645-khz.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Dec 27-29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREENLAND. Hi Glenn, This 650 recording was made in Reykjavik at dawn of Greenland 650 (from western Greenland) but I didn't yet know what it was when I was making this recording. Entertaining and exotic from a different part of the world to DX - Reykjavik, Iceland! I walked out of the suburb I was staying in to get some lower noise levels, and it was a bit after 11.00 in the morning [Sat Dec 17]; barefoot Sony ICF-SW7600GR. 73 (Steve McGreevy, CA, to gh, via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Nice choral music, he thought sounded Caribbean, but I suppose Greenlandic (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** HONDURAS. 550, ABC Radio, Tegucigalpa. 1127 December 27, 2016. Faded up to decent level over the others with female "Noticas Nacionales" reference, slogan ID, three ascending chimes (A-B-C) often. Male canned "ABC Radio... en Honduras" followed by singing ABC Radio jingle at 1133, back to live read female newscaster. [and non] 550.03, UNIDENTIFIED, 1200 December 26, 2016. Fair to strong level (as local sunrise approaches) het, seemingly someone Central America from LOB reading if ignoring the opposite direction. Been here for quite awhile, offset approximate on the NRD. WAYR, ABC Radio and the apparently sole Rebelde present the same time and all on frequency -- (Terry Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 4870.34, About 0220 UT on Dec 17, I found a signal on 4870.34 kHz. I couldn't get any audio. But when I checked one of the web receivers from Greece, there was Arabic-like music. Kind of like Arabic Pop music now at 0242 UT, similar to what you'd hear on Bahrain. Got a woman then man announcers at 0242 UT but a little too weak in Greece to identify the language. Just can't get any of the audio here either. I can't believe it would be India. A bit too late at this time. I thought I had one of the Kurdish clandestines in this area in the past but my loggings database doesn't show anything. Any ideas?? (Dave Valko-PA-USA, hcdx Dec 17 via BC-DX 25 Dec via DXLD) 4870.336 kHz odd frequency, listen to enclosed Recording of remote SDR Perseus unit at New Delhi India. S=9+30dB or -44dBm in peaks. Is little audio distorted typical AIR Delhi bad quality of AIR VOICE OF KASHMIR, according Aoki Nagoya list B-16 of Dec 15, at 0230-0330 UT on air. AIR opens these tx, as warm up some 15 minutes earlier. This odd 4870v AIR unit also heard on other time in AIR Nepali service, 1330-1430 UT, see Nov 30: Checked some South East Asian outlets on eastern Thailand remote SDR unit on Nov 30 around 1320 to 1445 UT slot. Thanks Uwe ... 4870.363 odd IND AIR Nepali sce from Kingsway site(?), S=9+20dB, heard at 1352 UT, but LOW MODULATED. Backlobe into Thailand receiving post. Visible signal is 20.4 kHz (2 x 10.2) distorted audio wide ! Final string instrument theme at 0330:25 UT on Dec 17, and followed by sudden TX off, midst in play (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 17 via BC-DX 25 Dec via DXLD) ** INDIA [non-log]. 4970, AIR Shillong, on Dec 27 was off the air at 1321 & 1356, which was a good day for other Indian propagation (Ron Howard, Calif., dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA, AIR Delhi, 6165.0 kHz, 1415–1500. Surprised to find this one still delivering usable audio more than 2 hours after my local sunrise. Only other audio on the 49M band at this hour is from CFRX, Toronto.) South Asian vocals to 1430, talk in language (presumably listed Sindhi) from 1430 to 1434, then back to vocals. Recheck at 1448 showed male announcer; at 1455, South Asian music. Brief announcement at 1459. They are listed to continue after 1500 in Baluchi, with same power and azimuth; carrier continued, but audio was suddenly much lighter and barely detectable (Art Delibert, Maryland, 12/24/16, JRC NRD-545, Horizontal pennant with DX Engineering pre-amp, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Correlates with my unID (gh) It is AIR Bengaluru with 500 kW -- Thanking you, Yours sincerely, Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. AIR National Channel on very odd frequency 9381 on Dec 22 1320-0040 on 9380 ALG 250 kW / 188 deg to SoAs Hi/En, low modulation http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/air-national-channel-on-very-odd.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA [non]. 9775, FEBA, via Sri Lanka, *1400-1430*, Dec 26 (Monday). Thanks very much to Dave Valko for the reminder that they have a 15 minute segment in English, on Mondays only. Thanks also to Ivo for providing the updated winter B-16 schedule to DXLD yg: 1400-1415 on 9775 TRM 125 kW / 345 deg to SoAs Kannada Mon/Fri/Sun 1415-1430 on 9775 TRM 125 kW / 345 deg to SoAs English Mon Was able to confirm new schedule today with *1400-1415 in assume Kannada; 1415 Xmas song in English; announcer telling the story of Christmas in English; program ID "Chords of Praise"; station ID "FEBA India"; phone number 8050706385; address: "FEBA India, P.O. Box 25066, Bangalore 560025"; announced their new schedule of "Monday at 7:45 PM" (1415 UT); fairly readable even with the normal CNR2/China Business Radio QRM. My audio at http://goo.gl/OUv79E (Ron Howard, Calif., dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 3325, Pro 1 RRI Palangkaraya, 1522, Dec 27. Xmas song "Jingle Bells" in English; fair; still on at 1634. 4869.9, Pro 1 RRI Wamena, 1235-1310, Thursday, Dec 22. Checked for the Kang Guru Indonesia ("KGI") program, but clearly not on at this time. Last reported on Thursday, Nov 24 (1232-1302) by myself and by Atsunori Ishida http://rri.jpn.org/ Needs more Thursday monitoring (Ron Howard, Calif., dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. Fair/good signal of Voice of Indonesia, Dec 21 1300-1400 on 9526.1v#JAK 250 kW / 010 deg to EaAs English # QRM CNR-1 Jammer vs VOA in Mandarin Chinese on nominal 9530: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/fairgood-signal-of-voice-of-indonesia.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Dec 21, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9526.048, VOI Chinese service, at 1523 UT Dec 22, S=9+30dB in eastern Thailand remote post (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, some logs of remote Doha Qatar and eastern Thailand posts, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 22, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL INTERNET. Anyone have a collection of LIVE external services streams? Podcasts not in English I am exploring a showcase of external services streams beyond English in my 1 Radio News app. In general, these are terribly hard to find - both live streams and podcasts not in English. It could be that these services don't exist, say for example a VOA stream in Russian or BBC Hausa as a podcast on iTunes. Suggestions? I do have many of the multilingual streams in my Pro app, so what is missing are streams from big countries dedicated to a specific language or shows as podcasts beyond the popular English version. NHK has podcasts in different languages, what about others? (Steven Clift, Dec 28, Swprograms mailing list via DXLD) Steve: Some are available from the Shortwave Radio Archive. Best (Charlie Harlich, ibid.) The BBC World Service has many non-English podcasts. Canada's French Radio-Canada service too. I would think RFI, CRI, DW would; I know Spain's RNE and REE have Spanish language podcasts, and REE has some in other languages. Radio Sweden, and probably most Western European public service broadcasters are likely candidates. Australia's SBS service has a slew of offerings as well. Also Channel Africa I would think. I would think most of the VOA non-English services would make their programs available as podcasts. For a VOA example: http://www.voacambodia.com/rss.html?tab=Podcast (Richard Cuff, PA, ibid.) Consult http://www.publicradiofan.com and http://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** IRAN. 7370, VoIRIB Sirjan in Arabic S=9+45dB powerhouse. 7380, VoIRIB Zahedan in Arabic, better audio quality, S=9+40dB. 7425, Voice of Palestine, Arabic comment talk, on Palestine occupied soil by Israel. 0357 UT, audio buzzy on phone-in talk, S=9+35dB. 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, Dec 26 dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY. Please be advised that Marconi Radio International will be on the air this week-end as follows: on 24 December 2016, from 1300 to 1600 UTC on 7700 kHz USB Mode and on 25 December 2016, from 0800 to 1100 UTC on 7700 kHz (USB mode). Reception reports with audio clips (mp3-file) are welcome and confirmed by QSL verification. Some lucky listeners will ALSO receive our printed QSL card, so don't forget to include your postal address. E-mail: marconiradiointernational (at) gmail.com Last but not least, we need your help! If you are a DX blogger, or use social networks, please post an announcement on your own blog and/or Facebook or send out a tweet. You can also forward this message to a friend. This should help increase our potential audience. We hope to hear from a lot of shortwave listeners about our transmissions. Best 73's (Marconi Radio International (MRI), DX LISTENING DIGEST) Please be advised that Marconi Radio International is now on the air today Monday 26 December 2016, on 6925 AM kHz with a test transmission. We are using a power amplifier able to put out 500 watts (Power varifying [sic]). This test will end today at 1600 UT. Reception reports with audio clips (mp3-file) are welcome and confirmed by QSL verification. Some lucky listeners will ALSO receive our printed QSL card, so don't forget to include your postal address. E-mail: marconiradiointernational (at) gmail.com We hope to hear from a lot of shortwave listeners about our transmissions. Best 73's (Marconi Radio International (MRI), 1225 UT Dec 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. BELGIUM(non), Reception of Living Water Ministry Broadcasting on Dec 21 1530-1630 9650*unknown probably PUG to NEAs Korean Wed via Alyx&Yeyi * co-ch same 9650 CON 050 kW / non-dir WeAf French R. Guinea Conakry: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/reception-of-living-water-ministry_22.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Dec 21, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. Voice of Martyrs? via UZB? UZBEKISTAN 7509.981 regular on odd fq channel in past weeks now. Earlier in decade the former USSR bcasts from Tashkent Uzbekistan were always on even frequency. Voice of Martyrs in Korean language, 7510 kHz 1530-1700 UT now on odd channel: xx.981 kHz - Maybe could that be origin from Taiwan or Yangi Yul TJK transmitter instead? The others from Tashkent Uzbekistan are still on even: 5895 UZB BBC English 9600 UZB NHK Radio Japan, Hindi (Wolfgang Büschel, Dec 27, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. UZBEKISTAN, Extended broadcast of Radio Free North Korea via RED Telecom 1100-1300 on 9355 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg to NEAs Korean, ex 1200-1300 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/extended-broadcast-of-radio-free-north.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Dec 27-29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. CHINA vs. JAPAN, PBS Qinghai vs. Shiokaze Sea Breeze on Dec 22: 1300-1400 on 6145 XIN 050 kW / 270 deg to EaAs Chinese PBS Qinghai 1300-1330 on 6145 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs English Thu Shiokaze 1600-1700 on 6110 YAM 300 kW / 280 deg to NEAs English Thu Shiokaze http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/pbs-qinghai-vsshiokaze-sea-breeze-on.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH & SOUTH. Korean Peninsula AM FM SW changes AM, FM, and SW happenings in Seoul - it's a bit of a mess, all of it occurring on December 21st: KOR 684 Goyang & Hwaseong have turned off. DPK 684 Pyonggang-Cheorwon (E. of Unification) has turned off. KOR 1080 Goyang & Hwaseong have both turned off. DPK 1080 Haeju (Echo of Unification) has turned off. DPK 6250, 5905, 3970 kHz now running Voice of Unification. 5905 likely replacing 1080 Haeju as it is being heard in near-solid FM quality in the coastal suburbs. DPK 89.4 has turned on with E. of Unification [likely] in Kaesong (suburban Seoul area) DPK 97.0 has turned on with E. of Unification, unknown location likely along the east coast DPK 97.8 is still listed active with E. of Unification but has been off since 2015, transmitter in Haeju //1080 south of downtown. All Echo of Unification frequencies confirmed via the station's announcement on their website and observations in Seoul and Incheon Friday afternoon. Echo of Unification runs from 7-9, 1-3, and 9-11 pm PST (UT +9:30) across all network affiliates (Chris Kadlec, Seoul AM Radio Listening Guide, Dec 23, IRCA via DXLD) Some additional info on the Korean changes: * 97.8 is back on the air in Haeju, loud and clear. * 97.0 has a weak but steady signal in southwest Seoul. * 92.8 new Pyongyang Broadcasting affiliate is jammed on new station 92.8 Seoul. * 103.7 is still jammed in Seoul, but with the north seemingly changing their whole FM band to even numbers, unknown if it will start up again in Haeju. It seems to have been off for some time. North Korea did much the same a year ago. The whole country turned on full-power on New Year's Day as the south scrambled to set up jammers for it. But this is a major radio overhaul up there, mostly concentrated along the border and Seoul suburbs. (-Chris Kadlec, Seoul AM Radio Listening Guide, ibid.) ** KOREA SOUTH. 1566, Dec 24 at 1335, JBA carrier from NW until cut off about 1344:33* for antenna/language switch of HLAZ, FEBC Jeju Island. Back on and weaker a few seconds before 1345 for Chinese succeeding Japanese. Signal is fading more than usual; no TP carriers found elsewhere on MW band complete 9-kHz scan, not even at the low end. (I have often been filing this under unID, but with the known break in carrier time, it`s quite definite even if no audio copied) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH [non]. KBS in DRM --- Ciao a tutti gli amici del gruppo. Secondo lo schedule di http://www.drm.org la KBS dovrebbe trasmettere solo la domenica su 9670 kHz. Invece, oggi, la stazione è stata ascoltata, sempre alle 1100, sulla stessa frequenza, in un programma in lingua inglese. Non c'è stato, invece, quello della NHK in inglese alla stessa ora e a seguire quello in russo sulla stessa frequenza. Evidentemente al quartier generale del DRM hanno poche idee, ma ben confuse. Allegati lo screenshot e il file audio di opening (Giovanni Lorenzi, 1610 UT Sat Dec 24, -- ITALIAN AMATEUR RADIO STATION I T 9 T Z Z ESCLUSIVAMENTE IN TELEGRAFIA Sito web> http://www.webalice.it/it9tzz [1] QRZ.com page> http://www.qrz.com/db/it9tzz [2] bclnews.it yg via DXLD) It`s Saturday, not Sunday, in WRTH listings using the mtwtfss system rather than confusing numbers for days of week, and 9760 via Woofferton, it says, not 9670 (gh, DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH. 4557. V. THE PEOPLE. Diciembre 24. 1046-1054 UT. Mujer habla en coreano. SINPO: 42242 con interferencia marcada de ruido blanco procedente de Corea del Norte. Sin embargo, el ruido blanco se encuentra cercano a la frecuencia de 4555 y V. The People más cercana a 4558 o un poco más, ya que al ser escuchada en 4560 el ruido blanco aminora de manera considerable // 4450 poco escuchable por el ruido blanco. 6003. VOH. Diciembre 24. 1041-1046 UT. Hombre habla en coreano. Sin embargo es tapado por un ruido blanco y sonido de interferencias desde Corea del Norte. SINPO: 31341 (Claudio Galaz Toledo, RX: TECSUN PL- 660, ANT: Hilo de 40 metros, QTH: Barraza Bajo, comuna de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** KURDISTAN [non]. FRANCE, Denge Kurdistan via TDF Issoudun, Dec 22: 1500-1600 on 11600 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish 1600-1930 on 7455 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/strong-signal-of-denge-kurdistan-via.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11600, Dec 23 at 1354, triumphal music at S7-S9, 1300 IDs as Denge Kurdistane, presumably via PRIDNESTROVYE, and talk. Plenty modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7350, new Kurdistan Radio frequency ? S=9+35dB at 0353 UT, ex 7400 kHz, from Grigoriopol Maiac Pridnestrovie, - POWERHOUSE signal into Iran/Iraq. 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, Dec 26 dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. Re: Ampegon to update shortwave transmitters of Radio Kuwait in Al Kabd --- Shortwave programs of Radio Kuwait were stopped around the end of May 2015 My last 5 videos of Radio Kuwait, recorded from May 15 to May 29, 2015 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/ampegon-to-update-shortwave.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Dec 23, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) IIRC, the English trihour at 1800 disappeared several months earlier, always announced on wrong ex-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KYRGYZSTAN. KYRGYZ REPUBLIC, 4819.896 kHz, Birinchi Radio is back on 2nd transmitter unit in 60 meterband. Was OFF 4820v kHz in past weeks. 4010.222 kHz at 0227 UT on Dec 20, S=9+5 or -67dBm strength in Qatar and Calabria Italy remote units. Kyrgyz program female and male presenter. and \\ also: 4819.896 kHz, S=8 or -74dBm signal strength, latter has QRM on even 4820 kHz from PBS Xizang Chinese language, from Lhasa Tibet, western China mainland (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 20 via BC-DX 25 Dec via DXLD) ** LIBYA. on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire: 677.50, 0230-0240 24.12, Voice of Homeland, Benghazi, Arabic, muslim songs incl.: "Allah - Allah - Allah", 35333 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, wbradio yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DXLD) Libya powerhouse again back on rather even 675.002 kHz channel, S=9+45dB -28dBm in Greece at 0236 UT Dec 26. Nothing near 1053 kHz tonight. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DXLD) They keep switching between 677.5 and 675? (gh) ** MADAGASCAR. 5007.93 - R. Madagascar, Ambohidrano, 0210 Dec 22, 2016 - Tune in to very weak signal with Afro chorus music followed by string instrumental. Music continued thru 0230 with Stevie Wonder Christmas song along with what sounded like a carol in local language. Signal level rising as I listened but also drifting, 5007.98-5007.87. Despite increase in signal level I would still describe it as poor/fair at best (S5). Some type of het on 5008.41 but not a real problem. OM & YL announcements at 0231, ID in local language. Jingle Bells on woodwind instrument playing behind announcements then what seemed like a more serious om announcer in between drums. Then into a mournful a-cappella vocal, possibly religious? (Stephen Wood, Harwich, Mass., Perseus SDR, 25 x 50 terminated, 60º N/E, superloop antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) At 0330 UT Dec 22 a very tiny string visible on remote SDR in Doha Qatar on 5008.060 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, HCDX via dXLD) 5007.9vv, Dec 23 at 0210 tune-in, there`s RNM carrier again, and wobbling as I tune 5008.0 with BFO. 5012v, Dec 24 at 0226, a very distorted blob of something seems to be separate from 5015 WRMIBS but overcome by it, so is RNM around here at this moment, as nothing is heard wobbling around 5008v? But by 0305 check, now it`s 5008.1, constantly varying must be RNM with music at S6, and I no longer hear the 5012 blob. 5008.2vv, Dec 25 at 0139, wishy-wobbly carrier is already on from presumed RNM, soon slides down to 5007.8. But recheck at 0218, nothing heard around 5008. [non]. 5008v, Dec 27 at 0242, no sign of RNM, nor on the hi side of 5010. ANGOLA also absent on lo side of 4950. Both off or just awful propagation from Africa? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non-log]. 5007v, R. Madagasikara, at 1445 and subsequent checking around 5010, on Dec 27, found them off the air. Only heard AIR on 5010.0 (Ron Howard, Calif., dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) This one also untraced throughout the evening. 73 (thorsten hallmann, Germany, Dec 29, referring to Dec 28, ibid.) ** MADAGASCAR. 17640, Dec 24 at 1808, MWV with American advice on family finances and gift-giving, segment produced by AIMF for APR. Good at S9+10, the SSOB on 16m with nothing but weak 17790 WRMIBS for comparison (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WCB Madagascar World Voice only via ONE transmitter, Dec 26 1800-1900 on 9570 MWV 100 kW / 355 deg to EaEu Russian not on air 1800-1900 on 17640*MWV 100 kW / 310 deg to WeAf English, is on air 1900-2000 on 9495 MWV 100 kW / 355 deg to EaEu Russian not on air 1900-2000 on 11945+MWV 100 kW / 355 deg to N/ME Arabic , is on air 2000-2100 on 13710 MWV 100 kW / 355 deg to N/ME Arabic, not on air 2000-2100 on 17640*MWV 100 kW / 295 deg to CeAf English, is on air 2100-2200 on 11610+MWV 100 kW / 325 deg to WeEu Chinese, is on air * confirmed via SDR Twente; + videos http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/madagascar-wcb-madagascar-world-voice.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 590, XEPH, Sabrosita 590, México DF. 1106 December 26, 2016. Excellent with the usual tropical/salsa vocals, always sounds more like a Cuban station than anything Mexico. Female canned "Sabrosita 5-90" between songs, nice one to listen to (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Estimado Sr. Hauser: La frecuencia que alguien escuchó en 650 al parecer es XEVG de Mérida, Yucatán, la cual transmite la programación de Radio Fórmula y entre 11:00 pm y 01:00 am (tiempo del centro de México) el programa "Estilo de vida" de Gerardo "Jerry" Medina, Míriram Díez y Marco Antonio Silva, cuyo tema de presentación es el "Tema de mi Bella Genio" de Hugo Montenegro (antes era el "Rap de Mi Bella Genio" de Dimples D) y a la medianoche se escucha el "Himno Nacional Mexicano". Saludos. Atte.: (Ing. Israel González Ahumada, M.I., Mérida, Dec 26, WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I also forward to that someone, Terry Krueger (gh) Indeed and thanks to him, and you for passing along. Confirmed today with this information by paralleling to their 94.5 FM and 650 AM stream at http://worldradiomap.com/mx/play/xevg with the IDOJ theme at 1115 GMT. The theme happens often, but always noted at the :00 and :15 marks for certain (Terry Krueger, Dec 27, WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 650, MEXICO, XEVG, Radio Fórmula Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán. 1158 December 25, 2016. Truncated but otherwise stock choral anthem, then the "I Dream Of Jeannie" theme at 1200, faded out. IDOJ theme also noted in brief fade up December 26 at 1045. Still no ID, but via Glenn Hauser, the following response is from Israel González Ahumada in Mexico, which while the IDOJ program time may not match, surely it is the same program (is it carried on stations anywhere else?): [as above] Worth noting the IRCA Mexican Log 20th Edition again has another entry wrong, listing hours as 1200-0800 but heard well before 1200 and I suspect it's a 24h operation. Do the compilers ever read my extensive XE logs and update accordingly? No. And the confirmation it's XEVG today, December 27: listening to http://worldradiomap.com/mx/play/xevg stream of 94.5 FM and 650 AM - yes! IDOJ theme at 1115, parallel my 650 reception with the IDOJ theme poking though (Terry Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 730, Dec 24 at 0151, three canned ``[E]stereo Fiesta, 107.1 FM, 700-30 AM`` IDs by super-hype voice actor within two minutes, as XEHB Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua is now known, outdating WRTH 2017 already on this which still shows ``Ke Buena``; and IRCA Mexican Log 2015 with that plus ``Viva Villa``. Axually, this is hardly news, first reported in August *2015*, NRC IDXD by John Wilkins, CO: ``730 MEXICO XEHB Hidalgo del Parral, Chih. AUG 6 1150 - Orchestral anthem followed by FM-only ID at 1151: "Escucha Estereo Fiesta XEHB-FM Estereo Fiesta..."; also gave address on Ortiz Mena Boulevard and mentioned Grupo Radiorama; back to music after the ID. Good signal and alone on the frequency, probably already on 25 kW day power. New slogan, ex-R. Viva Villa, ex-La Ke Buena. [Wilkins-CO]`` XEHB is totally and typically dominating frequency on caradio, forget XEX or any other NAFTA country, and obviously on 50 kW day power instead of 1 kW night as listed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 770, Dec 24 at 0257 explaining what a Villancico is, 0259 ID as ``Radio Fórmula de Monterrey``, i.e. XEACH, 25/1 kW. Dominant on my N/S antenna, while KKOB is on the E/W, see USA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BEAT this week --- [including DTV] For historical purposes, more stations that were proposed and got the requisite (and easy to obtain) approval from Cofeco (now Cofece). These date to 2006 and 2007. FM unless otherwise: Asociación de Medios de Comunicación Comunitaria, A.C. - Tuxtepec, Oax. XHAMO TeveColima - Tecomán and Manzanillo, Col. (TV) Difusión Cultural Radiogrupo, A.C. - Aguascalientes, Ags. (I hear howling) Arnoldo Rodríguez Zermeño - Chihuahua, Chih. (wow that howling is pretty loud) Rodrigo Rodríguez Reyes - Hidalgo del Parral, Chih. (ouch that hurts) Comunicaciones de Calvillo, A.C. - Calvillo, Ags. Fundación Cultural para la Sociedad Mexicana - León, Gto.; Tonalá, Jal. (Guadalajara) Roberto Francisco Levy Vázquez - Colima, Col. (more howling - see XHERL-FM etc.) José de Jesús Soto Gómez - San Julián, Jal. Promociones Humanas, A.C. - Tarimoro, Gto. Vita Novis, A.C. - San Miguel de Allende, Gto. Instituto Americano Leonardo da Vinci, S.C. - Cancún, Q. Roo (this is a private school) Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana - Mexico City (TV; they also asked for radio which they now have) Some of their contemporaries made it to reality: a TV station for the UJED in Durango, most of the other ZER permit wolves, XHRCF-FM, the BCS FM network, XHGPV... There's also a proposal, dated 2007, for Canal Once repeaters in Guadalajara, Cd. Juárez, and Monterrey (three years before OPMA was created). Another calls for a boatload of FMs in Guanajuato to form a high-station-count state network. I've dug up some additional names. Rate Cultural shows up here, too, implying theirs is another long-held case, and that they sought *five* permits. These are from various years En Cultura con Ecatepec, A.C. En Cultura con Toluca, A.C. Gonzalo Contreras Servín (likely: another station for Ario, Mich.) Enlace, Cultura y Desarrollo, A.C. Radio Iztapopo, S.C. (this is from 2009 and might have slipped by. Tlalmanalco, Edomex) Radio Cultural y Educativa Color FM, A.C. Radio y Televisión Cultural de Tamaulipas, A.C. Sistema de Comunicación de Michoacán, A.C. Universidad Tecnológica del Sur, S.C. (likely: Tuxtla Gutiérrez) (Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ, Dec 24, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) Santa's elves have spent a lot of time in Google Street View these past few months, and well, they've almost seen it all. Whether it be beautiful towers best seen from across a border fence, https://www.google.com/maps/@31.3342214,-109.5581235,3a,75y,180.62h,96.43t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sb9orHI6m6oez3vf73sX00Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 fake callsigns, https://www.google.com/maps/@26.8993139,-101.4296575,3a,36.7y,182.09h,92.54t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sGrYs9qK85DfGTkF_U3XW5g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1 telltale car dealerships https://www.google.com/maps/place/Salina+Cruz,+Oaxaca,+Mexico/@16.2397599,-95.2140732,3a,61.5y,84.19h,89.9t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sVDBfzqcnfnQCV2sDM3UT5w!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DVDBfzqcnfnQCV2sDM3UT5w%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D66.68106%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x85bf951b39d4f523:0x58fcdef3f44a0df4!8m2!3d16.1842839!4d-95.2087625!6m1!1e1 or signs stating frequencies in kilocycles, https://www.google.com/maps/place/19%C2%B042'13.2%22N+101%C2%B011'10.4%22W/@19.703807,-101.1861754,3a,75y,159.18h,96.47t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sOSthemxVfNrUhqyr34XR0w!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DOSthemxVfNrUhqyr34XR0w%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D265.7159%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d19.7036667!4d-101.1862222 these elves have criss-crossed Mexico on the hunt for towers with beautiful FM bays. They've found them on top of a crumbling civil hospital https://www.google.com/maps/@22.2187871,-97.8612678,3a,75y,205.98h,134.11t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sXd-c9UQ6kNbQdRs2JSiqOg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 and multiple shopping malls, atop majestic peaks and on beefy self- supported towers. In fact, they're the reason I can bring this Christmas present to every DXer... (click to download) http://jmp.sh/vtvvPsN Since late May, I've found 240 more radio station coordinates for main stations, and 80 more for retransmitters of the various state networks. I've also included the coordinates I have for the XHNUC, XHZER and XHFL shadows (the latter being an educated guess as to location). You'll learn, for instance, that all but three transmitters in the Coahuila state network are at secondary schools — the exceptions are Parras, Torreón, and Saltillo which actually moved this year. (Finding secondary schools without Street View is easier than finding FM towers without it!) I've come to appreciate addresses in permit renewals a lot, I must say. (Except when they're impossible. Yécora, I'm looking at you.) (Raymie, Dec 25, ibid.) Thank you Raymie. ____ News: XHPTP-TDT change from Channel 41 to Channel 34. XEIMT-TDT on 22.2 back to use MPEG-2 video. (RadarDX, DF, Dec 25, ibid.) They found out what the SPR already knew. As to XHPTP, that change was expected. XHGEM probably moved back today too then (Raymie, Dec 25, ibid.) If this can help you to rich your FM coords list: XHTH: https://goo.gl/maps/4J8U17VVZiP2 XHAC, XHRAC, XHMI: https://goo.gl/maps/W98zmWxzVmB2 XHCUA: https://goo.gl/maps/fuL78hFavHw All of these were checked with IFT documents. I couldn't get any location of XHESC or XHESE in Street View. XHCAM location is right, in their ID they say "Planta transmisora en la Escénica" (Gargadon, Campeche, ibid.) Sweet. I don't need these stations so much — the migrants have IFT documentation, XHMI's in the list now and XHCUA has an address in its permit (and I'm not including migrants unless I feel the coords are off) — but it's good to know my guess on XHCAM was correct. I've learned a lot about Google Maps too, namely that when given Mexican addresses, you can't count on it to be reliable. For instance, in Piedras Negras, the Radio Zócalo plant is located on General Cepeda 109. I typed that in and got a completely different street named for the same guy. Had to get the colonia. The Edificio Alfonso Sanabria Mallén (Juárez 506) in Tampico is also hard to pin down with just search. Also, some of these locations are unexpected. Perhaps the worst is XHTPI. In early January, the decrepit old Civil Hospital had to be sealed off http://www.posta.com.mx/tamaulipas/clausuran-antiguo-hospital-civil-de-tampico so that squatters would not take residence in the structure, and after a trash fire in December 2015. I cannot fathom the difficulty in operating a radio transmitter there, or why it was placed there when the building was abandoned sometime in the early/mid-1980s. Not only have pieces of stone crumbled onto the street, but the windows were removed to prevent broken glass. But hey, at least they had the thought to scrawl in large letters in one of the stairwells, "RADIO TAMAULIPAS - NO PASE". https://youtu.be/2izATkSD7hU?t=63 (Raymie, ibid.) Well, I don't know if XHESC is in the same place as its old AM, but XHESE is now in the Centro Histórico (XESE was in Av. Carlos Sansores Pérez),the address change is on RPC. And yes, you need the Colonia. The repetition of numbers is common especially in towns with great growing of population in the last 30 years, normally from street unifications or street renamings. Only in my street there are 3 houses with the same number as mine because each one was in a little piece of the street. In 1995 the street was opened in order to join each part and make a long street. And changing the house number means changing it for ID cards, invoices and other services as phone and electricity (Gargadon, Campeche, Dec 26, ibid.) Tijuana renumbered its streets at some point in the fairly recent past. I also spotted the XHESE change and sent it off. Whenever I see a full auth like that, it goes to the DB. There's a bit of a backlog there, but they do get everything I send. When doing this, I actually turned up full auths for XHTEJ, XHCHM and XHMOM plus some state network odds and ends that are now in Jim's inbox (Raymie, Dec 26, ibid.) I enclose the following geographic coordinate for your list of fm stations coordinates. https://goo.gl/LVtJcd Stations: XHRED-FM, XHFAJ-FM, XEJP-FM, XERC-FM and XEQR-FM in Villa Alpina, Naucalpan de Juárez, Méx. (RadarDX. DF, ibid.) Villa Alpina is already on there! Actually, Jim found an error which I've corrected as well, so I've added XHCUA and one other station (XHSLR-FM). The error was clerical in nature and once fixed led to XHRCL not actually being in Hermosillo. You can download it at the same link (Raymie, Dec 26, ibid.) Radio Tamaulipas isn't broadcasting in Tampico since too many years before. I remember when the station was active, then it has a broadcasting problem and it stopped transmitting. As you can see in this Street View image the tower in the right https://www.google.com/maps/@22.2194382,-97.8606364,3a,15y,219.39h,104.98t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s-ITsQpjZ1206igGkzi7AwQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 is the tower that they used to make a microwave link with another repeater (I think with the Ciudad Mante transmitter, which is actually active) and then broadcast. If you drive today by the area, that tower isn't there anymore because it fell off the building in a partial collapse of the building. I found some information, but actually I can't find it anymore. By the way, I think they were the only broadcaster that retransmits its programming via a microwave link. By the way, talking about the Multimedios radio stations that they bought from Grupo Flores, this is the tower with the FM antennas they use to broadcast. The tower in this Google Maps Street View https://www.google.com.mx/maps/@22.251736,-97.858165,3a,15y,13.04h,103.47t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1szwTHPF4uH1U9UUPOu88d8Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 is in the corner of Av. Rosalío Bustamante and Av. Ejército Mexicano in the Tampico and Ciudad Madero border (Snoopyfan93, Tampico, Dec 26, ibid.) XHFW and XHTW are migrants and we know they're on the XHFW TV tower. I did not have any firm sources for XHON. Since the imagery is from 2009, that has to be XHON-FM! The one migrant I'm confused about is XHERP - its auth is one of the few that's completely missing. As to Radio Tamaulipas, yeah, I did find something about a collapse now. http://hoytamaulipas.net/notas/24535/Peligro-de-derrumbe-del-antiguo-Hospital-Civil-de-Tampico-causa-movilizaciones.html There are still FM bays on the site, however, and it continues to be the licensed facility for the station. At some point, though, the planned and delayed renovations to the Civil Hospital might mean the station will need a new home. The irony is that the new Civil Hospital that replaced the crumbling one is actually across the street from the XHON site. And while I'm on the subject of transmitters, I found one in Tijuana that looks nice but cannot figure out who it is. https://www.google.com/maps/@32.4843445,-117.0542562,3a,54.3y,225.91h,119.26t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1so61PMz2bBsGcYucQBHXzHQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 I kinda think XHRST but can't rule out others like XHITZ... ——— On the television side of things, interest in IFT-6 was unexpectedly high. There were 86 interested parties, http://www.ift.org.mx/comunicacion-y-medios/comunicados-ift/es/recibe-ift-86-manifestaciones-de-interes-en-el-proceso-de-licitacion-de-148-canales-de-television 72 companies (including six consortiums) and 14 people. The next phase is basically a period for the interested parties to ask questions of the IFT about the details of the IFT-6 guidelines. Like IFT-4, IFT-6 is being conducted entirely online (Raymie, ibid.) Quote Originally Posted by Raymie: ``Also, some of these locations are unexpected. Perhaps the worst is XHTPI. I cannot fathom the difficulty in operating a radio transmitter there, or why it was placed there when the building was abandoned sometime in the early/mid-1980s.`` I think that they put the transmitter there because of three reasons: 1. The first: The building is located in a high terrain area 2. The second: Maybe it had clear view to make the microwave link they used. 3. The third: The building is property of the state government. It's used by the state police as offices. The only thing I don't understand is where the transmitter was located, if the antenna was on the roof (Snoopyfan93, Tampico, ibid.) Yeah, watching some of the videos the fact that it's at a fairly high point in Tampico was brought up and it started to make sense. And of course, state networks are usually built on some sort of state property. Some are at palacios municipales. The Coahuila network is almost entirely based at various secondary schools and the other three transmitters are at state government facilities. Here's hoping Governor Cabeza de Vaca gives the network a little help. It certainly could use it. Some 672,000 people live within the Tamaulipas portion of the state's coverage area (and it covers another 66,000 in Veracruz). The state of Tamaulipas has a population of around 4.5 million, so around 15% of tamaulipecas should be getting a signal from XHTPI and aren't (Raymie, Dec 27, ibid.) Well, you have reason, in a clear day if you are at the top you can see the Bernal de Horcasitas mountain and the beach zone. It has beautiful views in clear days obviously (Snoopyfan93, ibid.) The IFT is sending 2016 out in style with yet more broadcasting news. http://www.ift.org.mx/comunicacion-y-medios/comunicados-ift/es/el-ift-aprobo-la-disposicion-tecnica-para-la-instalacion-y-operacion-de-estaciones-de-television Get ready, Ciudad Guzmán. The Universidad de Guadalajara will become the first university outside of Mexico City to build a state network on TV, and it has received VHF channel 11 in Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco to do that. This is just the fourth VHF digital station to be awarded nationwide (XHMTA, XHAMO, XHUS). This is a landmark move as no university besides the IPN and UNAM has ever had its broadcast reach extended beyond one station. And get ready, a bunch of other places. The SPR is to build seven more TV and three more FM stations, bringing the total for the TV side up to a whopping 40. Places in Hidalgo, Sonora, Sinaloa, Durango, Oaxaca, Puebla and Jalisco will get the new TV stations, while Puebla, Oaxaca and Veracruz (states, not cities) are on track for new FMs. The SPR's entry into Hidalgo and Durango is its first ever in those states. The SPR network's overlap with Canal Once will likely increase, with Durango and the Sinaloa site. Keep in mind that the SPR still hasn't built its fourth-wave transmitters, so this fifth wave adds yet more expansion. There's a new Disposición Técnica. After public comment, Disposición Técnica IFT-013-2016 has been released, covering standards for digital television stations. There were also some extensions for concessions and one permit transfer, XHZAA-FM in Oaxaca (Raymie, Dec 27, ibid.) The analog marathon is mostly run. Even the state networks that have major analog components have at least one digital transmitter. In 2016, some of the real laggards have crossed the finish line at long last. Radio y Televisión de Guerrero, which appears set to finally shed its Chilpancingo transmitter. Canal 28 Chihuahua. XHUS in Hermosillo. The QR state network was technically disqualified earlier, though it will be able to build digital transmitters soon as it finally has gotten concessions for Cancún and Chetumal and Felipe Carrillo Puerto's permit remained valid. One contestant is still out in the field. But they're in the home stretch. I am talking, of course, of the Sistema Michoacano de Radio y Televisión. And, well, this is the first time they've acknowledged digital. https://twitter.com/SMichoacano/status/813854525236789248 "16.1, Coming Soon", their first ever promotion of the VC they were assigned months ago (Raymie, Dec 28, ibid.) Raymie, what do you want to know about XHERP? I can tell you if I know it (Snoopyfan93, ibid.) Pues...dónde está su planta transmisora? (Raymie, ibid) These towers https://www.google.com.mx/maps/@22.2401831,-97.8655751,3a,30y,164.84h,111.73t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sbVnWG995yh42xPIULmUSlg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 are the broadcasting towers of XHERP along with other stations like XHS (Christian broadcasting along with W Radio programming), XHHF (Ke Buena, grupera Music station) and XHRRT (Voz FM, rock and pop Music in English). Its broadcasting site is located in Valentín Gómez Farías #407, Colonia Otomí in Tampico. As I Heard they do a link between this site and another one located across the Panuco River, sorry I can't bring you the Street View image as there's no image (Snoopyfan93, ibid.) XHS-FM is listed as being at a site across the Pánuco along federal highway 180 (around Col. Petrolera Lindavista) which was home to XES- AM. XHAR is not far off, but it's at a different site https://www.google.com/maps/place/22%C2%B011'43.0%22N+97%C2%B050'07.0%22W/@22.1957264,-97.8361217,3a,64.8y,43.5h,126.06t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sy8TLEjB9DJH7BLBrKKyaoA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d22.1952778!4d-97.8352778 with a taller tower and two FM bays in 2009. That's actually kind of interesting. XHRRT *is* at the Gómez Farías site. ——— Speaking of interesting... This document http://gaceta.diputados.gob.mx/Gaceta/63/2016/jul/Ift-20160718.pdf which apparently was sent by the IFT to the Chamber of Deputies describes in detail spectrum availability (at 800 kHz and then at 400 kHz) for San Bernardino Tlaxcalancingo, Puebla. And boy, is it a little odd. The mentions of XHBLA-FM, a callsign I have never seen in my life, as a 90.9 in Puebla, and XHEBL on 103.7. XHEHU with its correct spelling. Stations from the Wave of 2000, like XHAPI or XHXCA, reserved. Why is the IFT protecting stations assigned 15+ years ago that have never been given to concessionaires? I mean, even their CALLSIGNS are protected (ask XHERIO or XHEVAB). And remarkably, there's continuity on this problem: it started with the SCT, continued with Cofetel, and the IFT is doing nothing. Este programa es público, ajeno a cualquier partido político. Queda prohibido el uso para fines distintos a los establecidos en el programa [taglines] Read the Mexico Beat | VC-Day is October 27. Follow all the new virtual channel assignments http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?10958-Mexican-virtual-channel-assignments-after-VC-Day (Raymie, Dec 29, ibid.) ** MONGOLIA [and non]. MONGOLIA/MOROCCO/ICELAND, Asking to catch {ISLAND 0000-2400 UT, Rikisutvarpid Ras 1+2, Gufuskalar} Iceland on LW 207 kHz on Nov 27, I heard slow native songs rather in Arabic between 0035 and 0055 UT with tiny signal, maybe from {207 kHz 0000-2400 UT, SNRT Al-Idaa al-Watania Azilal Demn,} Morocco. On Dec 10 at the same time only pop songs in vernacular were but on LW 210.2 and on \\ LW 161.1 kHz (here wistling with France 162 kHz), weak signal but typical Central Asian {164 kHz 2200-1500 UT, MNG Mongolian Radio 1, Ulaanbaatar; 209 kHz 2200-1500 UT, MNG Mongolian Radio 1, Choibalsan. Dalanzadgad. Ulgii sites.} sounding songs. Again heard on Dec 19 at 0045 UT. May someone to check whether Mongolia is on these odd freqs? (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, Dec 23, via wwdxc BC-DX 25 Dec via DXLD) Longwave reception in Thailand remoted SDR station, between 1330 and 1400 UT, on Dec 16: 153 kHz ROU Antena Brasov, Sat O=1-2, fade-in 164 kHz MNG Mongolian Radio, Ulaanbaatar, O=2 \\ 227 kHz 209 kHz MNG Mongolian Radio, Choibalsan, Dalanzadgad, Ulgii; O=2-3, not \\ 164 and 227 kHz 227 kHz MNG Mongolian Radio, Altay, O=3 \\ 164 kHz (Uwe Volk, eastern Thailand, A-DX ng Dec 16 via BC-DX 25 Dec via DXLD) ** MONGOLIA. 7459.876, US RFA Korean service via Ulaanbataar Khonkhor relay, to D.P.R., 21-22 UT, noted at 2133 UT on Dec 27, S=8 in Germany (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MONGOLIA. 12035, Voice of Mongolia, Ulaan Baatar, *0859-0912, 15- 12, tuning music, English, "Welcome to the Voice of Mongolia in English", news and comments. 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol and Lugo, Sony ICF SW7600G, Tecsun PL-880, Sangean ATS-909X, Cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12035. V. MONGOLIA. Diciembre 24. 1024-1039 UT. Servicio en idioma chino con espacio musical. Luego gong de la emisora a las 1029. Comienzo del servicio en japonés a las 1030, que inicia con presentaciones musicales, una lectura por parte de los locutores y un espacio de música típica. SINPO: 45444 y luego a las 1033 con SINPO: 55444 (Claudio Galaz Toledo, RX: TECSUN PL-660, ANT: Hilo de 40 metros, QTH: Barraza Bajo, comuna de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 6145, Dec 25 at 0135, The Mighty KBC seems a bit undermodulated from Nauen, reads S9. 0150 recheck, asking for and providing fart sounds for the studio dog, SFX or real? It seems there is a good chance that any random tune-in to KBC will find Uncle Eric on his fart trip, never gets old for him. Well, it certainly is distinktive; hardly any other SW stations are even known ever to mention them, let alone air them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEWFOUNDLAND. 6160-, Dec 24 at 0241, not even a carrier from CKZN; nor have I heard any the last night or two. We know CKZU is off, so is CKZN too, or just too far into the auroral zone, and/or too high a frequency, for the depressed MUF to propagate? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6159.97, Dec 24 at 2222, JBA signal here in English, no doubt CKZN, which I had not been hearing for a few nights and wondered if they were off like CKZU. Apparently just not propagating. Philip Hiscock (in St. John's, Newfoundland, about 7 km in a straight line from the transmitter), had replied, ``Glenn, I just tuned to CKZN 6160 kHz and it is on air right now. It is just after 1400 UT on Sat 24 Dec 2016`` And Richard Langley replied Dec 24: ``Weak signal from CKZN here in New Brunswick with just the Tecsun PL-880's whip antenna indoors at 1700 UT with the NRC time signal`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. 7355, RNZI, 1333 + 1440, Dec 27, heard with QRM that sounded like stilted Chinese. Assume might be KNLS (Alaska)? Badly mixing together (Ron Howard, Calif., dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 7254.925, Dec 26 at 0655, VON playing `Wish You a Merry Xmas` song at end of Hausa hour, drumming, 0700 into French; S9+10 but muffled modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 4020, PIRATE, Wolverine Radio, 0125, 12/25/16, 0125, 12/25/16. Shifted down here after trying 6950 with little success. “Testing 1,2,3” IS, ID, 3 blues songs with Christmas themes, ID into a program of covers of and original Christmas songs with usual 3 songs and an ID. I had to pull the plug at 0209 for other things. Fair (Mark Taylor, Madison, Wisconsin. Equipment: Perseus, SDRPlay, RTL2832 V3 dongle for SDR’s; Eton e1, Grundig Satellit 800, Tecsun PL 660, and various other portables for physical radios; 40 meters dipole, 100’ long wire, Mini whip, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. 4060, PIRATE, WHYP, 2338, 12/24/16. “Brownyard Christmas” retrospective going through the history of WHYP and various Brownyard characters, Christmas antics narrated by James Brownyard. Songs such as the “Christmas polka”, parody Christmas songs, clips off the real WHYP including weather forecasts, other audio clips, bit by Ravi Brownyard, etc. 0036 “Yea yeas”, George Zeller’s “worst thing on shortwave” clip, 0037 off. Good (Mark Taylor, Madison, Wisconsin. Equipment: Perseus, SDRPlay, RTL2832 V3 dongle for SDR’s; Eton e1, Grundig Satellit 800, Tecsun PL 660, and various other portables for physical radios; 40 meters dipole, 100’ long wire, Mini whip, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. 5120, PIRATE, unIdentified, 0216, 12/23/16. Dire Straits, Eddy Money, 2130 faded down into static floor. Fair until fade/out. 0236 back with blues coming in and out. Poor. [+] 0010, 12/25/16. “Jingle Bells,” other Christmas songs. Not // WBCQ on 5130. I had a nasty buzz off and on that I suspect is my neighbor’s Christmas lights since no one else was reporting this QRM. Poor. There is not consensus about if this station might be WBCQ testing a transmitter or a pirate who partially // WBCQ programming on this frequency (Mark Taylor, Madison, Wisconsin. Equipment: Perseus, SDRPlay, RTL2832 V3 dongle for SDR’s; Eton e1, Grundig Satellit 800, Tecsun PL 660, and various other portables for physical radios; 40 meters dipole, 100’ long wire, Mini whip, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. 5150-AM, Dec 25 at 0141, pirate music at S9, about equally weak to WBCQ music on 5129.8. 5150 is the ``relay pirate` frequency. Still music audible at 0220. Nothing around 5120 now where another ``WBCQ`` was previously heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 5792.00, again Dec 22 at 0325, 0337, YHWH guy is JBA, at S9 = same level as noise (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1857, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5792.0, Dec 23 at 0307, S9 carrier vs S8 noise, but no modulation audible. No doubt it`s [Station YHWH] on one of his lately favorite frequencies. Nothing was there when tuned across before 0300. 0332 recheck, now I can make out the Yahweh guy`s voice, at S8 but less noise. 5792.0, Dec 24 at 0308, [Station YHWH] preacher can be heard at S8-S9. Checked earlier, was still not on by 0302. His favorite time and frequency lately (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 5792.01, Dec 27 at 0331, [Station YHWH] with usual assertive pro-Yahweh programming, poor. Does anyone have a handy link to FCC notice of previous bust and disposition of case, fine? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DX LISTENING DIGEST) http://transition.fcc.gov/eb/FieldNotices/2003/DOC-331583A1.html FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION 762002857500ENFORCEMENT BUREAU WESTERN REGION Los Angeles District Office 18000 Studebaker Rd., #660 Cerritos, CA 90780 December 31, 2014 Martin K. Elliott Inyokern, CA NOTICE OF UNLICENSED OPERATION Case Number: EB-FIELDWR-14-00017931 Document Number: W201532900003 On December 17 and 18, 2014, in response to a complaint of unlicensed operation on multiple H.F. frequencies, including those allocated to aeronautical stations, agents from this office confirmed by radio direction finding techniques that radio signals operating on frequencies of 6280 kHz and 11595 kHz were emanating from a residence located near Inyokern, California. A search of the property records for this location found that you are the current owner and resident. The Commission's records show that no license was issued for operation of a station on either the frequencies of 6280 kHz or 11595 kHz at this location. Radio stations must be licensed by the FCC pursuant to 47 U.S.C. § 301. You are hereby warned that operation of radio transmitting equipment without a valid radio station authorization constitutes a violation of 47 U.S.C. § 301 and could subject the operator of this illegal operation to severe penalties, including, but not limited to, substantial monetary forfeitures, in rem arrest action against the offending radio equipment, and criminal sanctions including imprisonment. (See 47 U.S.C. §§ 401, 501, 503 and 510.) UNLICENSED OPERATION OF THIS RADIO STATION MUST BE DISCONTINUED IMMEDIATELY. You have ten (10) days from the date of this notice to respond with any evidence that you have authority to operate granted by the FCC. Your response should be sent to the address in the letterhead and reference the listed case and document number. Under the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. § 552a(e)(3), we are informing you that the Commission's staff will use all relevant material information before it to determine what, if any, enforcement action is required to ensure your compliance with FCC Rules. This will include any information that you disclose in your reply. Be advised that this notice does not preclude this office from pursuing additional sanctions based upon our investigation of this incident. You may contact this office if you have any questions. Charles A. Cooper District Director Los Angeles District Office Western Region Enforcement Bureau Attachments: Excerpts from the Communications Act of 1934, As Amended Enforcement Bureau, "Inspection Fact Sheet," March 2005 (via Ron Howard, WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DXLD) 5792.0-AM, religious pirate (formerly "Radio Station YHWH"), on Dec 28, tuned into very poor reception at 0338; by 0350 had improved to fairly readable; 0403 sounded like a live portion, with "Thank you so much for tuning in. I thank you from the bottom of my heart, special thanks goes out to listener Alicia and family"; says to record this program and get it out onto social media; still going at 0510. This was the best reception I have had for quite a while now (Ron Howard, Calif., dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6924.13-AM, Dec 24 at 0231, distorted song at S6 from unID pirate, 0234 Jingle Bells version. No reports yet of anypirate UT Dec 24 at hfunderground, but 4+ hours earlier, Chris Smolinski had ``Liquid Radio 6925 AM 2215 UTC 23 Dec 2016 - Quite weak, but I can hear the thumping music``. By now it could be something completely different. Off at my recheck 0246 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORWAY. NORWEGIANS LOSING FM AND ARE NOT HAPPY Norwegians are about to lose their FM radio and they’re not happy about it. In just a matter of weeks, Norway will tune out FM radio for good and become the world's first country to switch over to digital- only transmissions. Norway's government has decided that the nation's FM airwaves will fall silent from January 11, 2017, starting in Nordland and gradually moving south. . . http://www.thelocal.no/20161221/norwegians-are-about-to-lose-their-fm-radio-and-theyre-not-happy-about-it (via Philip Bronfin, Reston VA, Dec 26, DXLD) DAB So what will become of the 87-108 MHz band, a valuable(?) slice of spectrum? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Article concludes with: ``Some local radio stations will continue to transmit on FM until 2022`` --- and, then what? (gh) ** OKLAHOMA. 530, `K530AM`, Vance AFB --- see CUBA [and non] ** OKLAHOMA. 960, Dec 24 circa 0145 UT, I`m a few blox from the KGWA transmitter site in NW Enid, looking for Xmas lighting displays, so also try to hear the plus/minus 80 kHz spurs on exactly 880 and 1040, which I have detected further at home in daytime --- no trace, vs KRVN and WHO. Will have to try for these and maybe more in full daytime near site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1300/1330/1360 and 1420/1450/1480, Dec 23 circa 1945 UT after dining at Pizza Inn across the street from 1390 KCRC transmitter and studio site in Enid, once the caradio is away from a noisy spot, I go after the perpetual spur field of KCRC. The closest pair, 1360 & 1420, are plenty loud as junior 1390s, here overriding KTJS OK and KPHN KS, which further away in Enid, can be detected as hets against the not-exactly plus/minus 30 kHz spurs from 1390. I`ve also heard much weaker hets on 1330 vs KNSS KS and 1450 KGFF/KSIW OK, and up close they are of course much stronger. Now the supreme catches: plus/minus 90 kHz JBA spurs causing hets on 1300 KAKC OK and 1480 KQAM KS/KBXD TX. But not enough another 30 kHz out to hear anyhets on 1270, 1520. Way to go, Hiram, seven frequencies for the price of one (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 89.5, Dec 24 at 0045 UT, approaching the ``Singing Xmas Trees`` animated light display near Oakwood & Oak in western Enid on a lot vacant except for a capped oil well, the Part 15 music track transmitter must be weaker than before, as I have to park closer to get a fully quiet signal on the caradio. Crawler on display says it`s ``choreographed`` by Chisholm High School, and for the first time credits the music as provided by ``Home Free``, whatever that is. The other animated light & music show further west in Enid, surrounding a house at the south-side intersexion of Pheasant Run and Club House Drive, as reported in DXLD 15-52 on 97.7, is a no-show this year. Several other cars were driving around aimlessly in the neighborhood seeking it. Plenty of silent and static Xmas lighting tho. The big fad for the first time this year is projexion of flakes, stars, etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. AN OKLAHOMA NEWSPAPER ENDORSED CLINTON. IT HASN’T BEEN FORGIVEN. ENID, Okla. — One Sunday after church, Jeff Mullin and his wife were in line at the Western Sizzlin steakhouse here when a man, fists clenched, threatened to beat the hell out of him. ... http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/26/us/oklahoma-newspaper-hillary-clinton-endorsement.html (via Kim Elliott, dxldyg; David Cole, Goodwell; Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. Enid needs KGOU! Dear Mr Pryor, Glad that you are back in public broadcasting. We were sad to see you go from OETA! I have had several discussions with Karen about the possibility of getting KGOU`s signal into Enid. I urge you to look into accomplishing this. Why do several little towns get a local relay while one of Oklahoma`s larger cities does not? {In fact, there is NO local public radio signal in Enid.} 105.7 despite the low power would be audible in Enid --- while Alva 105.7 was off, that is. And if the 105.5 translator in Enid did not exist. I suggested that it should be ordered off the air because it was blocking KROU, but Karen did not think that would fly. Driving a few miles east or south of Enid on the caradio, could get KROU once the adjacent from 105.5 diminished (and before Alva came back). It was too bad that KGOU could not acquire the 105.7 Alva license, and possibly merge that with Spencer allowing full power from there or somewhere in between serving Enid. Now I believe it is about Kingfisher on US 81 before we can reliably hear KROU instead of Alva. Yes, within Enid we can spottily get KWOU, sometimes, but it`s often a tossup whether we hear that or Moore on 88.1. Enid is envious of little far Woodward with local signals not only from KGOU but from KUCO relay, and neither a mere translator! (KUCO also needs a translator here -- Radio Kansas vies with it on 90.1) One translator licensed to Enid has been off the air for years, the one on 93.1. Maybe you could get access to that, or buy it. Probably needs new transmitter as it was really distorted before it crashed. There may be other options if you check FCC records. Yes, we have KOSU, tho not as well as before they moved out of Stillwater, but why should OU not be in the Enid market??? Of course, the programming is almost totally different. It`s just a matter of allocating resources. OU could spend a few thou on this, a smidgen out of the millions on football, etc. I suggested lobbying Pres. Boren about this. If new funds need to be raised, how about OU alumni in Enid area? (No, I am not one.) Please consider this expansion in some way for mutual benefit of KGOU, OU, and Enid listeners. Best wishes, (Glenn Hauser, Dec 23, to Dick Pryor, new KGOU GM, via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. Altho the premise of the title is debatable, one of few gems on OK commercial TV is a feature series of short reports, `Is This A Great State, Or What?`. Galen Culver has been producing three of these a week for 25 years now, some 3000 stories (that would really multiply out to 3900), celebrated Dec 25 at 1730 UT on KFOR with a half-hour special of clips. I haven`t found a link to that, but start here for individual ITAGSOW stories: http://kfor.com/?s=great+state&category=great-state (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. RF and Virtual 13, Dec 23 at 0100 UT, KETA/OETA airs `What`s the Deal` about TV towers, including de-constructing the KWTV/OETA tower which was once the world`s tallest man-made struxure (1572 feet, I think). Originally a bunch of fun short filler segments, tied together for less than half an hour, streamable in segments via http://videos.oeta.tv/show/whats-deal/ It seems the nerdy/cute gal who does it is never identified, not even in the credit roll or link (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) DTV ** OKLAHOMA [non]. Tonight's BSR Magazine Show on WBCQ Listen at 2330 UT/6:30 CST, Dec. 22, 2016 at 7490 kHz or download now via our website: http://broadspectrumradio.com/2016/12/22/bsr-magazine-show-dec-22-2016-haunakah-obama-pardons-a-response-to-allan-weiner-re-trump-and-blm-call-for-abcradio-australia-international-to-save-shortwave-service/ BSR Magazine Show for Dec. 22, 2016 Topics: - Haunakah, - Obama Pardons (and why isn't he granting more of them), - A response to Allan Weiner's remarks regarding #DonaldTrump and #BlackLivesMatter - A response to Radio Australia International's decision to kill its shortwave service. Please listen and share with a friend. And if you like what you hear, please donate at www.broadspecrumradio.com/donate so we can continue our show in 2017. Thanks and Happy Holidays! (James Matthew Branum, OK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [non]. (7490), UT Fri Dec 23 at 0030, Broad Spectrum Radio on WBCQ webcast, which I bring up since 7490 is so weak. James Branum has just publicized his topix on the DXLD yg, including rebuttal to Allan Weiner about supporting Thump and opposing Black Lives Matter. This part starts about 0039. Rough script and podcast:: http://broadspectrumradio.com/2016/12/22/bsr-magazine-show-dec-22-2016-haunakah-obama-pardons-a-response-to-allan-weiner-re-trump-and-blm-call-for-abcradio-australia-international-to-save-shortwave-service/ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN. 7259.990, RSO, Thumrait, Arabic morning service to desert zones southwesterly at Africa ITU Ciraf 48 and 53 zones, at 220 degree azimuth, see HFCC database request. Requested 04-10 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, Dec 22, HCDX via DXLD) Time? between 04 and 05 UT per adjacent log (gh, DXLD) Poor audio of Radio Sultanate of Oman on nominal 15140 Dec 21 1400-1500 on 15140 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu English, with low modulation http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/poor-audio-of-radio-sultanate-of-oman.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Dec 21, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) At 1542 UT on Dec 22 on exact 15140.000 kHz back from odd channel. S=9+25dB here in southern Germany, rather fast Arabic pop music, very modern kind of music (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, some logs of remote Doha Qatar and eastern Thailand posts, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 22, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Today on Dec 22 RSO on 15140.0 in English till 1430 UT with poor audio, from 1430 in Arabic, instead of English with good audio, videos tomorrow (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) Reception of Radio Sultanate of Oman on nom. 15140 on Dec 22: 1400-1430 15140 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu English, with poor audio from 1430 15140 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu Arabic, not English, good from 1500 15140 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu Arabic as scheduled B-16: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/reception-of-radio-sultanate-of-oman-on.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Reception of Radio Sultanate of Oman on Dec 28: 1400-1404 on 15140 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu dead air from 1404 on 15140 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu English http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/reception-of-radio-sultanate-of-oman-on_29.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Dec 27-29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 15140. December 28, 2016. 1955-2010, Radio Sultanate Oman, Thumrait, in Arabic and Radio Habana Cuba, Bauta, in Creole, till 2003 (2003: RHC ID and start program in English). It´s a collision. At 2038-2050: Collision continues, now, RHC with a few better than RSO (On 15139.70 kHz, Twente WebSDR, both stations unlistenable). DXer: (Jose Ronaldo Xavier (JRX). Location: Cabedelo-PB, Brazil (UTC-3). RX (s): Mix Tecsun S-2000 & Twente WebSDR. Antenna: Portable Telescopic. Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** PAKISTAN. Hello, My name is Kouji Hashimoto, 15730, R. Pakistan (Presumed), Dec 26 0545-0548* 35333, Pakistan music, 0548 c/off, (Ko. Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Welcome back. Have not heard from you in a long time (gh, DXLD) ** PALAU [and non]. Current Openings --- If you have a passion to help touch lives around the world for Jesus Christ, LeSEA Broadcasting could be the place for you. Find out how you can turn your career into a calling by joining the LeSEA staff family. http://lesea.com/about-us/job-opportunities/ Assistant Chief Engineer World Harvest Radio Palau Shortwave Engineer World Harvest Radio-WHRI Pineland, SC Maintenance Technician/Control Room Operator WHRI-Shortwave Radio Pineland, SC [plus several positions at domestic TV stations; the Palau job has been open for several months, and also at WHRI, a.k.a. Furman, a.k.a. Cypress Creek --- gh] (via Indiana Radio Watch Dec 22 via John Carver, IN, DXLD) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA [non-log]. 7324.95, Wantok Radio Light. Dec 27, at 1408, when a clear frequency on 7325, still no signal from WRL; has been a long time now since I last heard them (Ron Howard, Calif., dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4747. R. HUANTA 2000. Diciembre 22. 0003-0014 UT. Música serrana. SINPO: 45343. 4955. R. CULTURAL AMAUTA. Diciembre 24. 1055- UT. Saludos de navidad, por parte de una iglesia evangélica de Huanta, en idioma quechua con villancicos protestantes en español. SINPO: 55555. 5025. R. QUILLABAMBA. Diciembre 22. 0024-0034 UT. Programa de la Red dominica de medios de comunicación, perteneciente a la Iglesia Católica con tema acerca de la violación de los derechos humanos en la época del presidente Fujimori y el papel de la Iglesia Católica en el esclarecimiento. SINPO: 45444. 4747. R. HUANTA 2000. Diciembre 23. 0013-0021 UT. Noticias sobre inspecciones municipales a los puestos de venta de regalos navideños, la detención de evasores de impuestos y de algunos puestos de comida insalubres. SINPO: 45343. 5025. R. QUILLABAMBA. Diciembre 23. 0021- UT. Radioteatro: ``Mi tío Juan``. SINPO: 45444 (Claudio Galaz Toledo, RX: TECSUN PL-660, ANT: Hilo de 40 metros, QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** PERU. 5980. R. CHASKI. Diciembre 27. 2114 UT. Respuesta de la emisora: ``Gracias Amigo por su pregunta y su preocupación; nuestro transmisor sufrió daños, pero ya pronto estamos otra vez en el aire bendiciones.`` (Galaz, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DXLD) ** PHILIPPINES. Reception of Radio Veritas Asia, Dec 22 1330-1357 on 11965 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SoAs Zomi-Chin 1400-1427 on 11965 PUG 250 kW / 300 deg to SoAs Hindi 1430-1457 on 11965 PUG 250 kW / 280 deg to SoAs Telugu http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/reception-of-radio-veritas-asia-dec22.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Weak/fair signal of Comintern Radio on Dec 21 1200-1500 on 6209.8 VOR 001 kW / non-dir to EaEu Songs http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/weakfair-signal-of-comintern-radio-on.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Dec 21, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Pirate ** RUSSIA. 7345 // 7295, Radio Sakha, via Yakutsk, at 0251, on Dec 28, with good strength open carrier; at 0300, no IS and no time pips; started with "Radio Sakha" ID; light RRI QRM, signing on at 0300 (with IS before 0300); 0450 the usual time for them to give "Radio Sakha" ID, followed by series of ads (one with rooster crowing); off with IS (Jew's harp) and time pips (4+1) at 0500*; 7345 many times stronger than 7295, which after 0330 was unusable (Ron Howard, Calif., dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RWANDA [non]. 15419.97, Saturday Dec 24 at 1812, S9+10 in African language, lo fi with hum, reminds me of R. Munansi for Uganda which has been and apparently still is on very weak 15240 WWRB at same time. Still going at 1830 and at 1848 I can tell it`s not // 15240. Nothing but M&M conversation whenever I check, until 1859.4 cut to a few seconds of African choral music, and off before 1900*. Turns out what I have been hearing is Radio Itahuka`s weekly broadcast, 1800-1900, 250 kW, 315 degrees via MADAGASCAR, also good for North America far beyond, explaining the good signal, better than most on 19m. It replaced Radio Inyabutatu in November, and Kai Ludwig refers to their website http://www.radioitahuka.org which is mostly in Kinyarwanda, but one item in English, including a certain disdain for Pres. Kagame: ``President Kagame has threatened to kill other nations’ elected Presidents and in some cases, strong evidences and testimonies suggest that he did in fact kill Presidents of other countries.`` Radio Itahuka pertains to the Rwanda National Congress opposition to Kagame (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Slight difference, rather 320 degrees azimuth; ex-17870ISS: 15420 1800 1900 48SW,52NE,53NE TF 320 159 7 MDC 250 SJK SJK New customer - please send report to (probably RIY - RPRK Radio Inyabutatu, in Kinyarwanda to Ce/EaAfrica) MEDIA BROADCAST GmbH (formerly T-SYSTEMS - DTK)B-16 period 30 Oct 2016 - 25 March 2017 B-16 operational MBR schedule of December 20th, 2016. Times are in UTC (Wolfy Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5019.999, SLBC transmitter switched on at 1902:10 UT, and 11 seconds later 1902:21 UT the radio choir start, "Good Morning". S=9 or -75dBm signal, a little fluttery audio, 7 kHz wide audio signal. Weather report at 1903:54 UT. Then Talk on "Guest of Honour" from Germany. 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, Dec 26, WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5020 [non-log], on Dec 27 (and other days recently), at 1247, noted off the air, so not as often with extended broadcasting past 1200. 9545, SIBC, 0433-0448 & 0501*, Dec 28. Better than normal reception; DJ in Pijin, but commercial announcements in English (Enterprises Ltd. for general hardware and construction supplies - "Your right choice for the right quality"); playing pop Pacific Islands music; many time checks; suddenly off during the ABC news in English, which was very readable and // RA on 15240 // 15415 // 17840 (Ron Howard, Calif., dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOMALILAND. 7120, Dec 22 at 0331, no signal yet from R. Hargeisa, but on at 0338 recheck, S6-S8 talk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7119.998, Radio Hargeysa at 0358 UT Dec 22, S=9+20dB in Qatar, S=9+10dB in Madrid Spain remote (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, Dec 22, HCDX via DXLD) 7120, Dec 22 at 1356, S9-S6 carrier from R Hargeisa, unmodulated, or just-barely? QRM at 1359 from a KA5 calling CQ. Better signal now on long path than I was getting after 0330 short path. 7120 stays on until 1403:35*. Resumes circa 1500, so at 1515 recheck, JBA carrier and still at 1542 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7119.982, This Dec 23 afternoon Radio Hargeysa main power problem, o d d frequency on lower sideband away of 7120.0 at 1455z Dec 23. S=9+25dB -53dBm, Horn of Africa typical music at 1525z. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, Dec 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. 15500, Sat Dec 24 at 1511, REE music is S9+10 here, better than 15390 S6-S9, both of which are better than the so-called North American service on 9690 at S5-S8. 17755, probably the fourth transmitter, a JBA carrier at 1539 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Excellent reception of RNE on 9690 kHz today noted from 1930 UT onwards. Soft rock Christmas music with English lyrics by Whitney Houston and others. Accurate time signal at 2000 followed by King Felipe VI's Christmas Eve message (-- Richard Langley, 2027 UT Dec 24, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15390, Dec 25 at 1456, REE IS lead-in to 1500- broadcast is S9 but distorted, while 1550 is OK at S7-S9. Cleared up later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN. 7205even, R Omdurman, strong S=9+35dB carrier, but low 15% modulation today Dec 22, but better as yesterday, at 0440 UT. News item of Almania (Germany) at 0438 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, Dec 22, HCDX via DXLD) ** SWAZILAND [and non]. 3240, Dec 23 at 0321, Hallelujahs in unknown language, S9+15. It`s TWR in Shona daily at 0255-0325 per WRTH 2017 where it`s under SOUTH AFRICA [non], and followed by Ndau at 0325- 0340. I wonder why so many of their quarter-hour language services start at odd times :55, :10 or :25 past the hours? Unexpectedly loud signal, and much more so than 3345, Channel Africa in English, also reading S9+15 but must be undermodulated. To boot, 3345 runs 100 kW at 5 degrees from Meyerton, while 3240 emits only 50 kW at 3 degrees from Manzini. But Sonder Grense outdoes them both on the meter at S9+25 on 3320, 100 kW at a more favorable 275 degrees from Meyerton, all per HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [Re 16-44:] Schedule for the winter season TRANS WORLD RADIO MANZINI, SWAZILAND BROADCAST SCHEDULE, B-16 30th October 2016 - 25th March 2017 TIME/UTC DAYS LANGUAGE MB FREQ PWR ANT AZI Target 0501-0700 1234567 English 49 6120 50 4 233 Southern Africa Nothing heard this morning of TWR Manzini from 0500 UT, not in Germany nor on various East Coastline US remotes: heard only Brasil 6119.956 kHz S=6-7 of ZYE969 "Super Rádio Deus é Amor, São Paulo, SP, 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, Dec 23, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWEDEN. SAQ Grimeton 17.2 kHz 24/12/16 --- Had to listen for SAQ's Christmas Eve broadcast away from the house again due to mains-borne noise, made worse here by Christmas lights. But it was all worthwhile, the first weak carrier was detected at 0739 UT. A bit of torchlight knob-twiddling followed to peak up the signal. Aerial & RF amplifier tuned circuits and a few gain pots needed a tweak then the signal strength meter usually gives healthy kicks. SIO 344, very slight interference from Russian RDL on 18.1kHz, warbling and sending CW. I've learnt to keep the mobile phone well away from the receiver as it seems to emit a weak carrier around 14-15 kHz. The CW message started at 0800 UT, carrier power down at 0805. By now, the fingers are frozen & the flask is empty, but was rewarded with a nice pre-sunrise sky. 73's (Nick, Buxton, Rank, UK, Home-brew VLF receiver with ferrite rod aerial, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) Reception comments from listeners here: SAQ transmission on Christmas eve 24-12-2016 PA1SSB report – Vänföreningen Alexander http://alexander.n.se/SAQ-Forum/topic/saq-transmission-on-christmas-eve-24-12-2016-pa1ssb-report/#post-5466 (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** SWEDEN [non]. Swedish DX-Federation via Channel 292 at the following times and frequency: December 26th at 0700-0800 UT on 6070 kHz New Year´s day, January 1st 2017 at 1700-1800 UT on 6070 kHz January 6th 2017 at 1700-1800 UT on 6070 kHz Reception reports are to be sent preferably by e-mail to qsl@sdxf.se but can also be sent by mail to SDXF, Box 1097, SE-405 23 Göteborg. Sweden. Good Listening and A Happy Christmas! 73s (Tom Taylor, European Music Radio, Dec 23, WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SYRIA [and non]. SYRIA/TURKEY: The motor-boat type jamming was heard on Dec 10th at 0045 on MW 1062, maybe from Syria against Kurdish prgr of TSR. 73s (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, Dec 23 via Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Probably jamming originate by security organization in the Turkish/Syrian/Kurdish, / Muslim-Islamic state Iraq war zone? re 1062 kHz, TURKEY: according MW lists TRT TSR Diyarbakir music program. Nothing could be observed of TSR pxc in remote SDR unit at Doha Qatar, latter only Persian language program on air there, at S=9+30dB level ... wb. SYRIA Yes, checked at 0225 UT, motorboat / machine-gun engine 'tac- tac-tac....' JAMMING noted tonight Dec 24 at 0225 UT again, but was checked also in middle Italy at S=9+30dB level. S=9+20dB level on Hungary-Steiermark border region. S=9+10dB level north of Zurich Switzerland. Little weaker in Bavaria, but underneath some Czech singer. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN. 7729.966, SOH Sound of Hope Chinese from Taiwan, 1602 UT on Dec 22, up to S=8 signal (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, some logs of remote Doha Qatar and eastern Thailand posts, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 22, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) No jamming? (gh) ** TAIWAN [non]. Keith didn't bother to post it here, but here's his latest missive on the topic from the PCJ Radio International Facebook page: "Recent there has been a bit of chatter on various DX sites about PCJ Radio's announcement that will no longer broadcast to North America after January 1st 2017. [it was pretty explicit then --- gh] "This was something that PCJ Radio International had already mentioned 8 months ago. The twice weekly programs that go out Wednesday at 0100 GMT on 11580 and Friday at 2200 on 9955 will continue as normal as these two slots are paid for by PCJ Radio International and relayed by WRMI as they are one of our partner stations. "We will still have specials for Europe and our twice daily to East Asia will continue as normal. "Some have been asking. What are the times and frequencies for our service to East Asia. These two slots are in Mandarin and are directed to China. This information is on our Chinese website only. As this program is in Chinese we feel there is no need other than to a Chinese audience to make this information known. It also is able to give us a more accurate picture of the audience. Even with our Chinese site being blocked by the authorities PCJ's Chinese site gets over 50,000 views a week. "We are in the process of expanding PCJ's reach in China through our phone app, which is available at the Apple app store China. "Beginning in February 2017 our FM reach will be expanding. First in Cambodia where PCJ has two FM transmitters in Sangkae and Si Sophon. Two more transmitters are scheduled for Phnom Penh and Ankor. In March 2017 PCJ Radio International will be setting up it's first FM transmitter in Yangon, Myanmar. Our FM reach in the Pacific is expanding in February. Caroline Islands, Mariana Islands, Naru and Wake Islands will be joining our Pacific FM relays." (Richard Langley, Dec 26, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAJIKISTAN. Weak/fair signal of Voice of Tajik, Dec 21 1300-1400 on 7245 DB 100 kW / non-dir to CeAs English http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/weakfair-signal-of-voice-of-tajik-dec21.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Dec 21, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** THAILAND. HSK9 Radio Thailand World Service, Dec 22 1800-1900 on 9390 UDO 250 kW / 316 deg to WeEu Thai 1900-2000 on 9390 UDO 250 kW / 324 deg to WeEu English 2000-2015 on 9390 UDO 250 kW / 324 deg to WeEu German 2030-2045 on 9390 UDO 250 kW / 324 deg to WeEu English 2045-2115 on 9390 UDO 250 kW / 316 deg to WeEu Thai http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/reception-of-hsk9-radio-thailand-world_23.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) So why the -8 degree azimuth change for the Thai language? Is there a concentration of Thai farangs further south in Europe at such an angle rather than as for English and German? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET. Dear DX-friends, Here are my latest loggings from Skovlunde heard on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire: 6075.00, 2240-2255 21.12, CHINA. Xizang PBS, Lhasa, Tibet NEW FREQUENCY! Chinese talk 45344 // 4820 (45333) and 6050 (45333) AP-DNK (Anker Petersen, Denmark, wbrdio yg via DXLD) China, but probably not Lhasa, rather unknown jammer station. Xizang's Chinese service carries CNR1 at this time (2230-2300). CNR1 is also used to jam Radio Taiwan Int.'s Chinese service (new timing 2230-0030) on 6075.... 73 & Happy Holidays! (Eike Bierwirth, wbradio yg via DXLD) ** TIBET [non]. TAJIKISTAN, Frequency changes of Voice of Tibet 1200-1230 NF 11513 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 11512 1230-1300 NF 11513 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 11512 1300-1330 NF 11513 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 11507 1330-1400 on ????? DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, deleted? http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/frequency-changes-of-voice-of-tibet.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Dec 23, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) No, moved to 9508 as he reports later: (gh) Frequency changes of Voice of Tibet, Dec 23 1200-1230 NF 11513 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 11512 1230-1300 NF 11507 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 11512 1300-1330 NF 11513 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 11507 1330-1400 NF 9508 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 11507 (Bulgarian DX Blog via WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DXLD) ** TINIAN. 7195, Dec 22 at 1543, JBA carrier but much stronger than 7175 Eritrea. Must be RFA in Korean at 15-17, ex-7210. What`s IBB doing, invading the worldwide hamband? No doubt the IARU intruder- watchers are on the case (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Continued at USA [non]! ** TURKEY. 5980, Voice of Turkey presumed the one at 2227 in presumed Turkish with a man with gentle talk over Middle Eastern stringed instrumentals – Fair Dec 23 – this is not scheduled here at this hour. Radio Chaski (Peru) is scheduled here at this time in Spanish and Quechua. I wonder if they left their transmitter on by mistake after their Turkish hour ended at 2200 (Mark Coady, Ont, ODXA YRX via DXLD) ** UGANDA [non]. 15240, Sun Dec 25 at 1900, weak African music from presumed R. Munansi via WWRB, still at 2002 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE. Subject: luhanski hi!.does,anybody,out there,in,radioland,know,if,there,are,any,radiostations,especially,medi umwave,legal,or,illegal,in,the,breakaway,region,of,Ukraine,namely.'luh anskpeoplesrepublic.(lpr),pro- russian,as,i,would,love,to,verify,this,self- proclaimed,republic.as,im,sure,thousands,more,would.hi.hi! (Joncollins,birmingham,uk, Dec 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [this is how his mail arrives here; rather than fixing it up this time, thought I`d show you, and ask how this happens? Other times there have been dots rather than commas. --- gh] Jon, WRTH 2017 page 397 shows only 4 FM stations in Luhansk, on 90.8, 103.6, 102.3, 106.5, all 1 kW, lower powers if any not listed. A few more in Donetsk (Glenn to Jon, via DXLD) ** U A E. 7285.095, BBC Arabic, uses that 4th transmitter at Al Dhabbaya, which is always approx. +90 to +100v Hertz unstable odd frequency (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, Dec 22, HCDX via DXLD) ** U K [non]. Test of BBC with BaBcoCk Music on Dec 28 1130-1145 on 9900 probably Tashkent, B16 BBC scheduled 1330-1415 on 9900 TAC 100 kW / 131 deg to SEAs Burmese http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/test-of-bbc-with-babcock-music-on-dec28.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Dec 27-29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKOGBANI. BBC CUTS TO MEDIA MONITORING SERVICE THREATEN BRITAIN'S SECURITY, SAY MPS Daily Telegraph (Great Britain) Tuesday, December 20, 2016, page 14 BBC plans to cut its international media monitoring arm are the "height of folly" and will undermine Britain's intelligence gathering, MPs have warned today. The Commons defence committee says the service, originally established to monitor Second World War foreign broadcasts, is a "vital tool" which is in danger of being reduced to a "hollow shell" of its former self. BBC Monitoring was directly funded by the Government until 2013 when responsibility passed to the BBC under an agreement announced in then-chancellor George Osborne's 2010 spending review. The committee said the move had "entirely predictably" exposed the service to cuts, with about 100 jobs set to go under a BBC restructuring programme. Its 37-page report, called Open Source Stupidity, warns against the plan to move BBC Monitoring out of its Caversham Park headquarters in Berkshire, where it operates alongside its US counterpart. The report warns: "The Government uses open-source information for indicators and warnings of areas of instability and potential threats to UK security. "The decisions made concerning the funding and governance of BBC Monitoring over the past decade or so have been woefully short-sighted and catastrophically ill-thought out." Julian Lewis, the committee chairman said: "The Coalition government was warned, in the strongest possible terms, not to leave the BBC Monitoring service unprotected by ending its ring-fenced annual grant and transferring this minor financial burden to the licencefee payer." He added: "As one of our witnesses said, 'This is the height of folly'." (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** U S A. [Re 16-51:] Hi Glenn, Yes, OSE is the new FBIS! 1941-1942: Foreign Broadcast Monitoring Service 1942-1946: Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service 1946-2005: Foreign Broadcast Information Service 2005-2015: Open Source Center 2015- : Open Source Enterprise (Chris Greenway, BBCM, Dec 27, 2016, DX LISTENING DIGEST ** U S A. 2000-USB, Dec 25 at 0158, weak MARS-like net right on the edge of the 160m hamband. Two-way contacts in American English, bothered by a local birdieblob. S4 level. Someone says that five stations have major problems with malware. Many Merry Christmas greetings. Mostly abbr`d calls such as KY7 and AR2. Once a complete(?) call as AA4KY7; also AA5EF; M5A; AAA5RJ. Calls always given fonetikaly but still hard to copy at weak levels. 0206 talking about closing the net. What is this, exactly? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)) ** U S A. 3272-USB, Fri Dec 23 at 0227, weak signal from AAR7PD, NCS calling others in very formal Army MARS net, then some digibursts. A recent log of 3272-USB, Nov 18 at 0150, led me to conclude it was Air Force MARS. Maybe a mixture? Tonight there is another MARS net with AFA- calls on 3308-USB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 3878.92-AM, Dec 27 at 0247, WA1HLR, Timtron commenting on how poor propagation is now even on 75m; his contact is not on same frequency but 3880.21-AM. Shame on me for listening to hAMs with BFO on. His ham signal is better than WBCQ broadcasts often achieve (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 3916-LSB, UT Sun Dec 25 at 0129, ho-ho-ho, Santa Claus is talking to kids; strangely, I never hear him give his own callsign. Is that kosher? Otherhams are managing the contacts, and quite a queue has built up waiting to do so. KB3AYY is called, also N1LPE. Huge signal S9+40 from W3CJW; W8MGM in Michigan. CQ North Pole. Santa says about the same thing to each kiddie whose own voices are hard to hear: ho3, go to bed early, have some milk & cookies ready for me, gotta go, lots of work to do. Someone else announces that the Santa Net can be reached by FB under that two-word name; or e-mail KE5GGY@gmail.com Still going at 0232. I gather that this has been underway for about a week, but presumably no more after tonight (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 4601-USB, UT Sun Dec 25 at 0127, NCS, Triblade 31, announces it`s ``the NORAD Santa Tracking Net``! (Hijacked from Civil Air Patrol.) She and most of them emit a beep when they are ``over``. Others heard include Wildwood 23, asking for more check-ins; Triblade 19, 15. At 0134, Red Robin 8 announces the weight of Santa`s sleigh when loaded with gifts: 60,000 tons. At 0154, NORAD reports Santa is making progress toward Greenland. At 0214, 3 minutes from Labrador; Triblade 60 called or spoke. At 0235, much stronger S9+30 signal than the others have been, another YL, NCS Bluebird 30, says Santa is at Willemstad, Curacao, and will be in Caracas in about 10 seconds. It seems that Triblade 30 is the net callsign, rather than an individual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5000, Dec 23 at 0304, this is the minute when WWV announces the upcoming Leap Second; previously heard WWVH doing it at :16 past the hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7302-USB, Dec 26 at 1437, AF MARS net, several radio chex with abbr`d call as ``SLA``, fonetikaly, eventually becoming evident that full call is AFS6LA. Strange skipping the number, but if you`re informally shortening, I guess you can do it however you like. NCS is AFA6EA with a VG signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. "FAREWELL, FIREWALL." RAMIFICATIONS OF THE DEMISE OF THE BROADCASTING BOARD OF GOVERNORS ON VOA, RFE/RL, RFA, ALHURRA, RADIO SAWA, MARTÍS ... https://uscpublicdiplomacy.org/blog/farewell-firewall (by and via Kim Andrew Elliott, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re. >> And, as can be observed by watching Russia’s RT or China’s CCTV News on cable TV, propaganda can also be manifest by emphasizing some topics, while downplaying or ignoring others. << Which is exactly how German news media (I can't tell about the situation elsewhere) seriously damages its reputation at present. There has already the term "Lückenpresse" (gaps press) being coined, as satirical derivative from the "Lügenpresse" (liars) Dresden/Pegida yelling. A prominent example was how ARD TV news did not report the Freiburg murder (I understand it has been noted also outside Germany), denying that it is relevant beyond the local level. Or now the ridiculous insisting for hours on that there is no proof for the Berlin event being a terrorist attack, that it could also be, well, not an accident of course but still something else... Concerning this change we can trust and believe in: RT has already commented on it. Their unsurprising take: "Basically, in a nutshell, the United States announce now trying to do the exactly same thing that they have been accusing Russia and RT of for many, many years now." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFsxC0w0-iE (Kai Ludwig, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Kai, I've watched a primer on how Russian propaganda works, and your example is one of the hallmarks of their carefully crafted method: "whataboutism", as a way to deflect criticism away from Russia. I see it repeatedly, when I look. Merry Christmas to all! (Walt Salmaniw, BC, ibid.) Those who created and use this "whataboutism" term do themselves no favour. It shows that they care for what Moscow says, and its too obvious purpose is to likewise deflect criticism away from their clients. Indeed specific in this case, which is a rather deep personal disappointment for me. For years I had defended VOA against the widespread cliché that it is a propaganda outlet. And now this. I consider it good practice to not engage in the internal politics of other countries too much. But if the need should arise, i.e. should I see accusations of being anti-American or the like, I will put my views very specific (Kai Ludwig, Germany, ibid.) ** U S A. I'm curious about a statement in a Politico story in DXLD 16-50. Reporter Tara Palmeri says "Many U.S. outlets currently use content from VOA." I know of none. Who are they? What are they using? English, other languages? (Mike Cooper, Dec 22, DXLD) Mike, I couldn`t name them offhand, but past discussions have indicated some of the ethnic radio stations do so, a good way to get news material in their language. It`s OK as long as stations initiate the deal, not VOA (Glenn to Mike, via DXLD) Glenn: Thanks for the reply. I've always thought it would be a good idea for an ethnic station to VOA broadcasts, but I've never known one to do it. That's why I was curious for specifics. I've never heard of anyone being prosecuted for relaying VOA. Of course, these days, the quality of what little programming that remains (in English) is so poor. The African news shows that used to run an hour are now 30 minutes. The "International Edition" news shows have a few stories at the beginning, then waste time with someone talking about what's popular on social media, then more feature material. Such a far cry from the days when I could hear good international coverage and in- depth reports from Washington. mc (Mike Cooper, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5745, UT Sun Dec 25 at 0221, open carrier at S9+15 is already on from GB, warming up for the VOA Radiogram at 0230, beepage underway at 0238 check. Kim Elliott says this week features 11 images of holiday lights, rather than a lot of text: http://voaradiogram.net/post/154910690352/holiday-lights-in-mfsk32-via-shortwave There they are as captured from an earlier outsending (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Here in the two variants: enlarged animated GIF & in a map GIF: http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/VoA_Radiogram_2016-12-24.htm#VOAMAP: http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/VoA_Radiogram_2016-12-24.htm#pic-map (roger, germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) i.e. slideshow of stills --- they all look blurry to me (gh, DXLD) ** U S A [non]. [continued from TINIAN, q.v.] US _ MARIANA ISLANDS, 7195, RFA Radio Free Asia US propaganda station to North Korea D.P.R., 1500-1700z on Friday Dec 23, from Tinian Island Pacific, S=9+25dB or -53dBm signal strength heard in remote SDR post at Doha Qatar. Bill Whitacre cannot STOP the New Trump administration this out of broadcast band transmission of the Yankees 7210 kHz Mariana Island Tinian registration on ITU in 40 meter amateur radio exclusive band? (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, Dec 23, WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DXLD) [INTRUDER ALERT] Merry Christmas/BC-Station on 7,095 MHz disappeared. Dear all, Merry Christmas from Phuket. Santa Claus took the BC-Station on 7,095 MHz [sic] away, nothing heard yesterday (25.12.16) 1500 UT onwards. 73´s de (Ralph, HS0ZFL, Meissner, Dec 26, INTRUDERALERT mailing list via DXLD) I guess he meant to write 7195; or, of course it wasn`t on 7095 (gh, DLD) FYI: re 7195 kHz US Propaganda im 40m ham radio exclusive band, Koreanisch für Nord Korea 15-17z, dem Uncle Sam bei der IBB BBG in Washington D.C. admin von allen Seiten für deren Dreistigkeit ans Bein gepinkelt, na mal sehen wo der RFA Korean Tinian Marianas Sender im 41 mb wieder auftaucht. 73 wb df5sx . . .Uncle Sam at the IBB BBG in Washington D.C. Admin from all sides for whose audacity peed on the leg. See where the RFA Korean Tinian Marianas transmitter in the 41 mb again shows up. 73 wb df5sx (Google translate via DXLD) Re: [INTRUDER ALERT] 40m band Intruder, - also US propaganda station in-band. Please IARU Region 1, because we don't have in Region 3 any effective Band Watch and we don't have any effective IARU administration in Region 3 --- they ignore all correspondence and even petitions of prominent DX stations in Region 3 ahead of Bali Conference, and we ALSO do not have ANY functional national IARU member society in Australia, so please can you make direct representation on our behalf: VK5EEE 7195.0 1545 dly 11 USA - A3E - 9k Radio Free Asia S=9+ PF95GC 73 es 77 de VK5EEE Lou. The RFA 7195 kHz matter will be taken care of. Dave K1ZZ to I am pursuing the RFA matter through a back channel that has been effective in the past. 73, (Dave Sumner, K1ZZ, IARU Secretary, (Dec 23), via BC-DX 25 Dec via WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DXLD) Re: [INTRUDER ALERT] 40m band Intruder, - also US propaganda station in-band. The monthly Region 3 reports are posted at http://iaru-r3.org/iaru-region-3-monitoring-system-newsletter/ (Dave K1ZZ, ARRL, via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1857 monitoring: confirmed Thursday December 22 at 2130 on WRMI 13695, excellent. Not confirmed UT Fri Dec 23 at 0030 on WBCQ 9330v-CUSB: no signal or no propagation; 9265 WINB is but a JBA carrier. Next: Sat 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sat 0730 HLR 6190-CUSB to SW Sat 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW Sat 2030v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sat 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sun 0410v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sun 1130 HLR 9485-CUSB to SW Mon 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0400v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0430 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE Tue 2300 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1415.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Thu 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1857 monitoring: confirmed UT Saturday December 24 at 0031, fair on WBCQ 9330.112v-CUSB. Nice to get this as most days it`s been inaudible to weak, propagation? Next: Sat 0730 HLR 6190-CUSB to SW Sat 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW Sat 2030v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sat 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sun 0410v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sun 1130 HLR 9485-CUSB to SW Mon 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0400v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0430 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE Tue 2300 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1415.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Thu 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1857 monitoring: not confirmed, Sat Dec 24 at 2330 on WBCQ, no signal on 9330v-CUSB. Confirmed UT Sunday Dec 25 at 0427 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO, about 8 minutes into show so started circa 0419 (160m is extremely quiet, hardly any CW or LSB to be heard; wonder why?). Next on SW: Sun 1130 HLR 9485-CUSB to SW Mon 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0400v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0430 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE Tue 2300 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1415.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Thu 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1857 monitoring: confirmed UT Monday December 26 after 0400 on Area 51 via WBCQ 5130v-AM, very poor but identifiable; also confirmed UT Mon Dec 26 after 0430 on WRMI 9955, this time S9+10 with no jamming. Also confirmed UT Tue Dec 27 at 0030 on WBCQ 9330v-CUSB, fair. Also confirmed UT Tue Dec 27 at 0030 on WRMI 7730, good. Next: Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE Tue 2300 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1415.5 WBCQ 9955 to SSE Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Thu 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1857 monitoring: confirmed Tuesday December 27 at 2130 on WRMI 15770, good; also confirmed Tue Dec 27 at 2300 on WRMI 9955, fair and about equal level to wall-of-noise jamming left over from the 22-23 prepeat of Radio Libertad; tnx a lot, Arnie! As hoped, however, the jamming has abated by 2325 recheck. Not confirmed the UT Wed Dec 28 0030 on WBCQ 9330v-CUSB when checked at 0058, a JBA carrier, but probably with WOR; and by 0118, very poor signal from Blalock the Blaster is audible on 9329.93v-CUSB (and much weaker than 9265 WINB). Next: Wed 1415.5 WBCQ 9955 to SSE Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Thu 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1857 monitoring: confirmed Wed Dec 28 after 1415.5 on WRMI, 9955, good S9+10, no jamming. Also confirmed Wed Dec 28 at 2200 on WBCQ 7490v-AM, good. Not confirmed UT Thu Dec 29 at 0030 on WBCQ 9330, no signal audible (while 9265 WINB is a JBA carrier). Note: Allan Weiner says that WOR will also be airing at variable unpredictable times during his Radio Jennifer service on expanded hours of WBCQ 5130v. Also, propagation has been so poor that one cannot always confirm the 9330 airings. [and non] WORLD OF RADIO 1858 ready for first airings December 29: confirmed Thu 1230 on WRMI 9955, good S7, no jamming. Next: Thu 2130 WRMI 13695 to NW Fri 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sat 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sat 0730 HLR 6190-CUSB to SW Sat 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW Sat 2030v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sat 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sun 0410v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sun 1130 HLR 9485-CUSB to SW Mon 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0400v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0430 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE Tue 2300 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1415.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Thu 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7730 // 5850, Thu Dec 22 at 0733, WRMI in narration with music, apparently `How the Grinch Stole Xmas`. Is that Keith Perron? This hour continues to be unaccounted for on the schedule grid, other than `World Music` on 7730, supposedly TOM on 5850. Recheck 7730 at 0748 just as it dumps off the air, while 5850 continues with the ``rump-a-pump-pump`` carol. Quick check of all the other WRMI frequencies finds them still nominal, mostly BS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Changes of Brother HySTAIRical /TOM/ via WRMI Okeechobee tx#03: 2200-1200 on 7780 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English is not on air 1000-2200*on 15770 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English, ex 1200-2200 *vary pxs on 15770 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English 2100-2200 UTC: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/changes-of-brother-hystairical-tom-via.html (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, Dec 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7780, Dec 26 at 2230, WRMI has finally reactivated this frequency, S7- S9 with nothing but BS, much weaker than 7730, 7570 as 7780 is on the 44 degree antenna toward Europe like its counterpart 15770 which has not been missing in the daytime but off the air now. Had not been heard at all since Nov 21, nor on 15560 = 2 x 7780 which happened Nov 13. 7780 still audible but VP at 0030 & 0236 Dec 27. 15560 & 7780 & 15770, Dec 27 at 1455, no signal from WRMI, but 15440 is blasting TOM in as usual, so daytime propagation is funxional. 2130 check, 15770 is on for WOR. Dec 28 at 0120, no signal from 7780 or 15560, while 7570 & 7730 are VG. What is this about? The long-missing nite frequency 7780 as heard 24 hours earlier is gone again and would be propagating if on. Thinking over its long absence, I am now suspecting that, as had happened a few times before, the transmitter is being tuned up on its second harmonic 15560 instead of fundamental 7780. This would also explain why mostly in the daytime, corresponding fundamental frequency 15770 has remained audible. Trouble is, at night, 15 MHz band is not propagating, but I should have kept looking for it there anyway. Tonight, UT Dec 28 at 0120, not even Cuba 15230 nor Australia 15240 is detectable (and 13, 11 MHz are almost dead except for weak Brazilians, and even WRMI is JBA on two 9 MHz channels). The nominal schedule for XMTR 3 is 12-22 on 15770, 22-12 on 7780, so just after 2200 would be the best time to check whether it appear on 15560 instead of 7780. [and non]. 9955, Dec 28 at 2100, WRMI `World Music` hour remains on this hour in reality instead of BS; by 2120 Cuban jamming level is building, altho not ``needed`` until 2200 for Radio Libertad. 15770, Dec 28 at 2120, `Viva Miami` old but latest episode about the Everglades is playing again, so started at 2115, contrary to Wed sked showing Radio France International at 2115-2200 --- suspect that has been gone for some time, as it really doesn`t make sense to fill once a week with 75% of a daily 60-minute broadcast. From 2200 I`m checking out my theory that WRMI-3 on 15770 in the daytime may accidentally switch at night to 15560 second harmonic instead of scheduled fundamental 7780 which is usually AWOL: not today. 15770 resuming BS, stays on past 2203, but by 2236 recheck none of the three frequencies audible. At 2302, however, there is a JBA signal on 15770, supposedly WRMI, subject to plunging MUF after sunset. Perhaps the 15770 span has been expanded beyond 12-22, as Ivo Ivanov also reports it on already by 1000. At 2331, 15770 is gone again, at least inaudible. Nor at 0030 UT December 29 can we hear 15770, 15560 or 7780 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5129.752-AM, Dec 22 at 0739, S6-S7 VP signal with talk, WBCQ on a backup transmitter? Usual one on ``5130`` has been on the high side lately. Pirates might try to fool us by going on a real station`s frequency after-hours, but at 0743 it`s an `Allan Weiner Worldwide` playback from before Thanksgiving, talking with Tom Medlin, plugging his `Amateur Radio Roundtable` Tuesdays at 9 pm ET on 9330. Allan refers to Tom as ``the Glenn Hauser of amateur radio``! Recheck at 0758, first seems off, no, still on as JBA carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, All I can tell you is that 5130 was on the backup transmitter the last two weekends. Didn't listen during the week. The second Saturday, this past weekend, the signal sounded too good to be the backup but was lousy again the following day so assuming that propagation was exceptional the previous evening (John Carver, Mid- North Indiana, Thu Dec 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) (7490), UT Fri Dec 23 at 0100, WBCQ webcast (since 7490 is so weak), immediately following `Broad Spectrum Radio` --- see OKLAHOMA [non] -- - `Voice of the Report of the Week` (VORW) is back on SW, replacing an `Allan Weiner Worldwide` filler repeat, which still shows on the online schedule. Host reviews food and publicizes his website, but show is rather unfocused, quite a contrast to preceding BSR, mostly playing music and inviting requests. At the end, like James Branum (and me), he is talking about the demise of shortwave from Australia, and is about to give a link to protest, when time is up, cut to WBCQ ID, and 0200 into Brother HyStairical. VORW is produced by John Jurasek in Lynchburg VA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5120.02-AM, Dec 23 at 0215 on the R75, a JBA carrier here with some modulation, weaker than 5130- WBCQ. Seems like a pirate has picked a place to be noticed between WBCQ and WTWW spurs. At 0248 I`ve switched to the NRD-545 with ALA-330S E-W for a slightly better signal, vocal rock music in English, S9 vs noise level of S8. At 0254 I switch to the N-S internal random wire, and find it gives an even better S/N ratio than the Wellbrook, which is supposed to be superior in that way. Now it reads S8 vs noise level of S7, but better copy. Dense wild rock music past 0300, but 0301 canned ID for WBCQ! And the original WBCQ on 5129.84-AM is still going by 0323 with non // programming, very poor S8. (BTW, no signal on 3250v nor on 7490v which is presumably on but completely faded out, too north with K-index of 4). At 0333, 5120+ mentions ``WBCQ in 2003-2004``; 0335 takeoff on ``Jingle Bells``. I suppose that WBCQ is testing another transmitter, maybe the one which had been on 3250v. Some others have been hearing this, one assuming it is a pirate relay of WBCQ: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,31790.0.html This raises the question whether this, or the late night ``WBCQ`` IDs and programming I have been hearing on 5130 are really WBCQ, or a pirate ``relay`` which would have nothing to stop it from including real canned WBCQ IDs. Only WBCQ can confirm which is which (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5120, PIRATE (No. Am.), UnIdentified, 0216, 12/23/16. Dire Straits, Eddy Money, 2130 [sic: must mean 0230 UT --- keeping your log in EST?] faded down into static floor. Fair until fade/out. 0236 back with blues coming in and out. Poor. [+] 0010, 12/25/16. “Jingle Bells,” other Christmas songs. Not // WBCQ on 5130. I had a nasty buzz off and on that I suspect is my neighbor’s Christmas lights since no one else was reporting this QRM. Poor. There is not consensus about if this station might be WBCQ testing a transmitter or a pirate who partially // WBCQ programming on this frequency (Mark Taylor, WI, NASWA Flashsheet via WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DXLD) 5130, Radio Jennifer International (via WBCQ) at 2235 with oldies rock and pop music with some cuts being recorded before live audiences with no announcements to 2300 and a man with ID of “You`re listening to Radio Jennifer International on WBCQ, Monticello, Maine” – Very Good with fading Dec 23 (Mark Coady, Ont, ODXA YRX via DXLD) 5129.85, UT Sat Dec 24 at 0222, WBCQ is JBA, can`t tell if `Allan Weiner Worldwide` is still running, as 7490 is totally inaudible, off or propped out? No other `WBCQ` on 5120 tonight, or not yet. 7490.02-AM, Sat Dec 24 at 2207, WBCQ with unknown program, YL narration about flying, bats, witches, as if for Hallowe`en, with SFX, rockmusic, S9+30. Normal sign-on Sats is 2300, but will come on an hour or two earlier for special bookings. Lacking is any advance publicity about when this will happen or what it is! Last Sunday Dec 18 at 2133 (not 1633 as originally reported, in EST by mistake), Mark Coady in Ontario was hearing ``French Dog Radio`` on 7490, presumably also WBCQ on earlier than 2200 `Marion`s Attic`. Hear what may recur on Dec 25. 7490, Sunday December 25 at *2155, WBCQ IS & ID runup to sign-on, and 2200 `Marion`s Attic` as per schedule. Was checking around 2130 for `French Dog Radio` as heard exactly one week before by Mark Coady, Ont., presumed from WBCQ but he got no ID, so possibly a pirate/imposter. BTW, I am now wondering if it was really `Dead Frog Radio`, a known WBCQ show elsewhen, from the alleged prisoner. 5129.83-AM, UT Tue Dec 27 at 0240, JBA signal with talk, presumably WBCQ on signature off-frequency, rather than a pirate/imposter, despite nothing being scheduled here in a big gap between 0500 UT Monday and 0130 UT Thursday. 5129.84-AM, UT Wed Dec 28 at 0138, this WBCQ is on again during what is scheduled as a multi-day hiatus. A show for Labor Day 2014 is announced; host says he got a postcard for a radio drawing. It`s `Ramsey`s Roadhouse`, when it was Mondays at 7 pm ET on 7490 as also announced. Another prize was Allan Weiner`s book ``Access to the Airwaves``. So for some reason, this WBCQ frequency is getting more airtime by playing old archive shows, such as this one, which in the meantime has changed name to `Furthermore 29/54`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7490.00, Dec 28 at 0123, WBCQ host says he got a report from Nova Scotia, asks for contributions to gofundme.com/deadfrogradio and also plugs WBCQ`s own fundraiser. As scheduled 01-02 UT Wednesdays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Heard here in southern Germany: 7490.018, WBCQ Monticello, heard surprisingly S=7-8 signal of TOM, at 2135 UT, shrill female (voice) call-in by phone to TOM-young-chap-voice interview, about cancer and re-designer business (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 27, dxldyg via DXLD) During that hour on weekdays it`s `Financial Survival`, on 7490, not TOM, as you would find by checking // on other stations (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. 5830, Dec 22 at 0734, the S9+20 Dead Air Service of Scriptures for America Worldwide on WTWW-1. 5059.2, Dec 24 at 0224, second-order spur from 5085 WTWW-2 Xmas music, i.e. 2 x 12.9 = 25.8 kHz below, much weaker than first-order spur on 5072.1, with some music audible there, not usually the case. 9930, Sat Dec 24 at 1905, WTWW-2 with `Theater Organ of the Ozarx`, marred by some IADs, already playing Xmas carols, a mixture, but seem more secular than sacred. At 1932 Bob Heil refers to this being the midpoint rather than end of program, and indeed continues for another semihour this week. 2002 outro refers to Saturday night, nothing about Saturday afternoon. NO WTWW ID, and re-opening TOOTO, for another hour, another episode, or repeating? Briefly noted 5085 at 0219 UT Sunday Dec 25 the organ show successfully appears again this time. 9930, Dec 26 at 2105, 2128, WTWW-2 yet again diffusing nothing but strong dead air except for some hum, instead of Dave Ramsey; off at 2216 check. No more Xmasmx either, nor on 5085 around 0230 check Dec 27 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 12050, Dec 22 at 1407, WEWN Spanish is instead open carrier, dead air except for big hum. Same at 1514. Not rechecked until 1721, when it is Spanishing but still humming. It`s really amazing and disheartening how many SW stations, including some in the USA, cannot achieve their basic mission of transmitting and modulating clearly and reliably at the same time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) True Glenn, it's like they're doing it intentionally so they can dump short-wave altogether and move to the Internet (J K Johnson, ibid.) [and non]. 12050, Dec 23 at 1346, no signal from WEWN Spanish, but instead Chinese, i.e. CNR1 jammer against RFA Tibetan via Kuwait, this hour only. By 1403, WEWN is on but only S4 with dead air except for some hum. This is supposed to start at 1300, I think. The SW frequency schedule at http://www.ewtn.com/radio/freq.htm is dated 30 Oct 2016 to 3 March 2017, why? USA DST in 2017 does not start until Sunday, March 12. It shows a 4-hour difference between `EDT` in the left time column, and UTC on the right! So which one are we to believe? Altho WEWN is never heard on more than two frequencies at once any more, it continues to pretend to be on three. The middle column for S America/Caribbean is the imaginary one, with silent 11870 and 13830, but shows 12050 in use at 1000-1700, and 12050 is ALSO in the other Spanish column, 155 degrees for Mexico and Central America at 1300-2400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WEWN-1 Global Catholic Radio, Vandiver 0000-0900 on 11520 EWN 250 kW / 085 deg to WeAf English 0900-1300 on 11520 EWN 250 kW / 355 deg to SEAs English 1300-1500 on 15610 EWN 250 kW / 355 deg to SEAs English 1500-1900 on 15610 EWN 250 kW / 040 deg to N/ME English 1900-2400 on 15610 EWN 250 kW / 085 deg to WeAf English WEWN-3 Radio Catolica Mundial, Vandiver 0000-1400 on 5810 EWN 250 kW / 160 deg to CeAm Spanish 1400-2400 on 12050 EWN 250 kW / 155 deg to CeAm Spanish WEWN-2 Radio Catolica Mundial, Vandiver is off in B-16: 0000-0500 on 5810 EWN 250 kW / 220 deg to SoAm Spanish 0500-1300 on 7515 EWN 250 kW / 220 deg to SoAm Spanish 1300-1800 on 11550 EWN 250 kW / 220 deg to SoAm Spanish 1800-2400 on 12050 EWN 250 kW / 220 deg to SoAm Spanish -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 17775, Dec 22 at 1509, KVOH is back on after a week off, Spanish preaching, S9+20 and stable rather than wobbly, different transmitter? No, I then find this reply from Ray Robinson to my previous report: ``KVOH had an elusive fault with the 17775 kHz transmitter. Now fixed. Should be back on Thursday with full 50 kW. Ray. Sent from my HTC One max on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network`` (Glen Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 3215, UT Sun Dec 25 at 0123, WWRB is on again for the weekend, but instead of far-right politico-religious harangues, playing electronic organ music, unseems carol, in waltz time, S9+40. 0210 recheck it`s switched to 3195, now country version of `Blessèd Assurance` hymn, not really a carol. Modulation level surges up and down a bit (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9350, Sunday Dec 25 at 2135, WWCR gospel huxter with awful buzz on the modulation, worse on the sidebands. Scheduled Sundays at 21-22 is TruthHouse Ministries (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9350 even frequency. WWCR Nashville ... Genesis 25 and 22 talk ... in the name of Jesus ... Jacob Israel read of Judah ... the devil itself ... no men in heaven ... clip on the book ... lot of information in this book ... strong angel ... 12 puzzles of Israel ... glory and honour... at 2210 UT on Dec 27. S=8 signal here in southern Germany. No buzz audio tone heard tonight (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15555, USB. WJHR, Radio International, Milton FL; Dec 27 at 1625. English. Full ID at 1703, OM Bible discussion. Audio: https://clyp.it/ufuv5von (Dino Bloise, Miami [FL], USA), JRC 545 + Longwire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) And strong here in NB at about 1945 UT. But I have to ask the question: How many listeners does he have? (-- Richard Langley, ibid.) I'd imagine the amount of listeners is marginal, especially since they broadcast in USB. WJHR is just one of those stations that I skip over when I'm tuning to the VOA on 15580 or WRMI on 15770. The content doesn't appeal to me, but if they even bothered to transmit in AM mode, they'd probably have a couple listeners (likely the same type that listen to Brother Stair on SW). RW Observer (John Jurasek, ibid.) ** U S A. 7504.888, WRNO English service, at 0335 UT on Dec 22, S=8 strength in Qatar (Wolfgang Büschel, Stuttgart, Germany, Dec 22, HCDX via DXLD) ** U S A. Reception of WMLK Radio, Assemblies of Yahweh on Dec 22: 2010 & 2028 on 9275 MLK 250 kW / 053 deg to WeEu English, good http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/reception-of-wmlk-radio-assemblies-of.html Reception of WMLK Radio Assemblies of Yahweh, Dec 26: 1700-2200 on 9275 MLK 250 kW / 053 deg to WeEu English http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/reception-of-wmlk-radio-assemblies-of_26.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Good signal of WMLK Radio, Assemblies of Yahwe on Dec 28: 1700-2200 on 9275 MLK 250 kW / 053 deg to WeEu English Sun-Fri http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/good-signal-of-wmlk-radio-assemblies-of.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Dec 27-29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 770, Dec 24 at 0259 UT, after getting XEACH on the N/S antenna (see MEXICO), on the E/W antenna a full ID as ``Happy holidays from 94.5 FM and AM 770 News Radio, KKOB Albuquerque``, bong and CBS News still exists. Seems to be a slight reverb, implying I am getting not only the main 50 kW transmitter in the North Valley, supposedly protecting WABC, but also the 230-watt night-only fill-in from Santa Fe. Someone recently claimed a log of Santa Fe based on double audio, but I wonder just how much out of synch they were and are? Also, the 2016-2017 NRC AM Log does not show any FM simul for KKOB. Is 94.5 new? Nor does the WTFDA FM Database, with only two 94.5`s in NM: ``KYAT 94.5 GALLUP USA 100.0 100.0 420.0 35-36-22 108-41-26 KYAT FM COUNTRY NAVAJO FM STATION COUNTRY K233CG // KQRI 105.5 94.5 SANDIA NM USA 0.0 0.25 1240.0 35-13-00 106- 27-07 AIR ONE CHRISTIAN ROCK`` But 94.5 is now on the KKOB homepage, and of course getting top billing there as well as on the air: http://www.770kkob.com/ So NM`s #1 commercial AM station has recently had to get on FM to let a mere translator wag its dog. Apparently just acquired it from Air One/KQRI. It`s on Sandia CREST, not Sandia the town/res, which does make a big coverage difference even with 250 watts --- if there is no co-channel. Which there is. I always anticipated, while approaching ABQ from the east on I-40, emerging from Tijeras Canyon and picking up the 100-kW Gallup on 94.5 which at that elevation has a line-of-sight, unlike further down in the valley. Maybe still can get it in spots, as even some of the bigsigs atop the Crest are blocked within the canyon. But not a pretty picture. The *real* KKOB-FM was and presumably still is, on 93.3, 20 kW from the Crest, but separately programmed from 770/94.5 with CHR. Turnabout: in Gallup, 93.3 is blocked by a local gospel-huxter translator, K227CB (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 880, Dec 24 at 0256 UT, it seems that KHAC AZ is off, as I am hearing only KRVN and some weak Spanish music on USB. Then I realize I am on the N/S antenna, and switching to the E/W antenna, there`s KHAC religioning on USB side only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 880, Dec 27 at 0313 UT, Spanish giving an AC 713 phone (Houston TX), ``Aleluya Bróádcasting Nétwork``. On E-W antenna, no KRVN to speak of, but bigsig from KHAC AZ on 880-USB, none of that on LSB, only this, which has to be KJOZ Conroe TX, 10/1 kW U4, which has undergone a big change since the 2016-2017 NRC AM Log August deadline which had it as UC:NWS/TLK/SPT - YSR (in English). It also has an application for 5/1.2 kW U4 and change CoL to Baytown. Radio-Locator does have it as Radio Aleluya but still old facilities. This group has more and more AM & FM stations around Houston (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. (WBCQ related) http://www.splatterbox.us/status/make-playlist.php Momentan (wieder) aktiv: http://74.55.244.98:6950 Stream-Name: WHVW Webfeed 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHVW "WHVW (950 AM) is a radio station licensed to Hyde Park, New York that is noted for its eclectic format based on old-fashioned blues, jazz, country and Americana music...." (roger, germany, Dec 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This is Pirate Joe, J P Ferraro`s station, often used as a filler-feed on WBCQ (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** U S A. 1130, Dec 28 at 0149 UT, sports talk in English on steady and dominant S9+20 signal, presumed 50 kW KWKH Shreveport, but then fades a bit. I continue to think their pattern is out of whack, to throw so much signal this way, if not just N-D as in daytime (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Hello Andrew, This from DX-midAMerica: IL, Chicago, WRTO, 1200, will flip to the new Spanish sports network Univisión Deportes Radio in the new year (20 kW days, 4.5 kW night - BD) Best wishes (Barry :-), Carlisle UK, Davies, mwcircle yg via DXLD) Had been colliding with WOAI at night for a while, but not lately (gh) ** U S A. 1380, Dec 23 at 0326 UT tune-in, immediate ID as ``Vida 13- 80, transformamos con la palabra de dios``, carol. KRCM Shenandoah TX is totally dominating this frequency, obviously *still* running 22 kW day facility at night rather than licensed 50 watts (!). Someone in UK recently had an unID Spanish religion, probably this rather than Latin American as suspected. Here`s the KRCM day pattern showing broad coverage, except from WNW, CCW to SE: https://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/1707118-128267.pdf For me that pdf flashes and then goes blank. I think this is the same: https://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/1614981-123098.pdf They have two different applications on record involving an even lower night power, but presumably some overall advantage. Shenandoah is due north of Houston on I-45 just south of Conroe. Site is really near Prairie View, west of there, and NW of Houston, so the day pattern only covers about half the big city: https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/map-display#appid=1614981%26antsysid=123098%26call=KRCM%26freq=1380%26contour=0.5%26city=SHENANDOAH%26state=TX%26fileno=BP-20130426ABP%26.map No doubt running 440 times the legal power at night helps a lot (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1420, Dec 24 at 0249 UT tune-in, ``Information Radio 1420, KCON[?]``. Not at all sure of the call but best fuzzy match is KTOE, Mankato MN, 5/5 kW U2, ``Your Information Station`` per NRC AM Log 2016-2017. Night pattern goes NE/SW, good for us, null toward WOC IA which is what I usually get and was expecting to hear now, on its own WSW lobe. Fortunately, night signals can overcome the KCRC spur but still be hetted; see OKLAHOMA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1480, Dec 23 at 1838 UT, S Asian music is audible, mixing with KQAM Wichita with usual slow SAH produced by KBXD Dallas. Midday skywave, 6 minutes after mean noon, is funxioning over a 400-km path, with sun about as low as it can go. Yet, another 50 kW Metroplexer, KTNO, is not making it, 1440 vacant of Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1650, Dec 27 at 1326 UT, on the E-W longwire, I am trying to hear anything at all from KFSW Sallisaw OK, but main signal is sports talk, ``The Fan`` no doubt KCNZ Cedar Falls IA, 1330 UT Radio Iowa network news (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. UNIDENTIFIED. 2520, Dec 24 at 1343 UT, S7 carrier, open or just barely modulated? Suspected WOCO Oconto WI second harmonic. If I ever wake up by 1300 UT must check for it then. Still audible at S6 by 1402 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 2520, Dec 25 at 1250 UT, the S6 carrier now has some music modulation audible, 1301 announcement by YL, but vs S9+10 storm static crashes approaching from western OK/TX. Presumed WOCO, 2 x 1260, Oconto WI as per other definite logs, such as Dave Valko, PA, Dec 23 at 1205-1256. (Art Delibert in Maryland says Washington DC talk station WWRC 1260 also harmonicizes around there on 2520.) My standard remark about DXing MW harmonix: unless it cause harmful interference, do not report to the station about it, let alone seek QSL, as that may encourage them to suppress it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Note that there is also a harmonic on 2520 kHz from WWRC, AM 1260, in Washington, DC, branded "The Answer." Conservative and religious talk. Love of Jesus one minute, love of guns the next. Not sure how far beyond the DC metro area the harmonic reaches (Art Delibert, N. Bethesda, MD, Dec 25, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 2520.01, Dec 27 at 1307 UT, some talk modulation is audible, 1312 UT music. Mod level is not commensurate with steady S5 signal from presumed WOCO Oconto WI, 2 x 1260 harmonic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Migrating AM to FM: see AUSTRALIA [and non] ** U S A. Here`s what George McClintock has been up to since getting sidelined by WWCR and then WTWW: (gh) CATHOLIC RADIO STATION ON THE AIR IN NASHVILLE December 2, 2016, by Andy Telli, Tennessee Register With a tap on a computer screen, Bishop David Choby launched Nashville’s first Catholic radio station, WBOU, 100.5-FM, on Wednesday, Nov. 30. . . https://dioceseofnashville.com/news/catholic-radio-station-on-the-air-in-nashville (via George, DXLD) It`s an LP FM; no relation to ex-VOA SW station in Bound Brook NJ, WBOU; now it means ``Bridge of Understanding`` (gh) ** U S A. RADIO ICON DIANE REHM SIGNS OFF AFTER 37 YEARS: `I'VE BEEN PROUD TO BE YOUR HOST' The inside track on Washington politics. Arts and Entertainment By Caitlin Gibson December 23 https://www.washingtonpost.com/pb/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/12/23/radio-icon-diane-rehm-signs-off-after-37-years-ive-been-proud-to-be-your-host/?outputType=accessibility&nid=menu_nav_accessibilityforscreenreader Diane Rehm poses for a portrait at her home in Washington. (Photo by Matt McClain/ The Washington Post) [caption] It began the way it always has: "From WAMU in Washington, I'm Diane Rehm," she said, and then she paused, because this time was different. "I've said those words for so many years, thousands and thousands of times. I've always been so proud to say them." Over nearly 40 years on the air, Diane Rehm has hosted writers, artists, philosophers, Hollywood celebrities, foreign leaders and U.S. presidents. But on Friday, during the final airing of NPR's "The Diane Rehm Show," she spent most of her time speaking to the loyal fans who have listened to her every week for so many years. There were, of course, a few high-profile cameos: singer and songwriter Judy Collins called and sang a verse of "Amazing Grace" at Rehm's request. Isabel Wilkerson, author of "The Warmth of Other Suns," also phoned in: "Oh Diane, you're such a national treasure." Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) thanked Rehm for her "incredible service" to the country, and legendary actress Julie Andrews and her daughter gushed their love and gratitude, calling Rehm "a beacon of light in our lives." But many of the most touching sentiments were expressed by Rehm's everyday listeners, those who followed her work for decades -- the "back-of-the-car" babies, as she calls them, who first heard her voice on their parents' car radios. "I really wanted to thank you for your numerous shows through the years that have brought us closer to the day when equal rights and religious liberty for all Americans truly will become a reality," said a man who said he is gay. His voice broke as he repeated: "I just wanted to thank you." Rachel from Grand Rapids, Mich., thanked Rehm for being a role model to girls everywhere. "I just wanted to say, on behalf of all women, we just appreciate everything you've done on radio for us." Thirty-year-old Nora from Washington, D.C., said she knew many other millennials who were devoted fans of the show. "I've been listening to `The Diane Rehm Show' for as long as I can remember," she said. And Kelly from Chattanooga, Tenn., explained that her mother had been a lifelong fan of NPR; Kelly started listening herself after her mother died several years ago. "I just wanted to express that my mom left me you," Kelly told Rehm. "And what a beautiful gift." President Obama awards the 2013 National Humanities Medal to Diane Rehm during a ceremony in 2014. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) Rehm's career on the air began in 1979 when she became the host of "Kaleidoscope," a weekday arts program aimed at homemakers; five years later, she relaunched it as "The Diane Rehm Show," with the aim to tackle a broader and more ambitious range of topics. Only a few years later, she was diagnosed with spasmodic dysphonia, a disorder that causes spasms of the vocal cords and is responsible for her distinctive, strained speech. At first, the condition threatened to doom her career; instead, the petite woman with the fragile voice went on to become a Peabody Award-winning powerhouse of radio, drawing nearly 3 million listeners every week. Last year, she announced that it was time to step away from the microphone. She'd promised her boss that she would leave the show when she turned 80, she said. In an interview with The Washington Post's Karen Heller, Rehm said that she looked forward to having more freedom to devote herself to causes that mattered to her. Her husband of 54 years, John Rehm, died a slow death in 2014 after deciding that he didn't want to suffer from Parkinson's disease any longer, refusing food, water and medication. Since then, Rehm has become a vocal advocate in the right-to-die movement, and her active involvement in a controversial issue drew admonishment from NPR's leadership. After she leaves her show, that conflict will no longer stand in her way, she said. [Diane Rehm's next act: Using her famed voice to fight for the good death] "It's time for me to retire, especially on the issue of right-to-die, to be able to speak out and to speak freely," Rehm told Heller in January. John and Diane Rehm on the publication of their 2002 joint memoir, "Toward Commitment: A Dialogue About Marriage." (Lucian Perkins/The Washington Post) [caption] She will be succeeded by Joshua Johnson, whose show "1A" will air on member stations across the country. [Diane Rehm's station taps Joshua Johnson, a lesser-known radio host, as her successor] Rehm has emphasized that she isn't really leaving, not entirely -- she plans to host a new podcast, "On My Mind," which she says will likely launch in late January. But as the minutes ticked toward noon on Friday, it felt like the end of an era nonetheless. "So now comes the time to say goodbye, having been in daily touch with you pretty much for the last 37 years, and having it come to an end is difficult for me," she said. "Physically, I know I'm ready. Emotionally, I only think I'm ready, because I know it's going to be a hard adjustment: changing habits, shifting thoughts from a daily deadline, missing being with wonderful colleagues. But there comes an end to all things." She thanked her "fabulous" audience: "You are kind, you are thoughtful, you are courteous," she said. "You exemplify civil conversation, and I've been proud to be your host." Then Rehm shared some sad personal news: Her beloved little dog, Maxie -- a familiar character to Rehm's longtime listeners, and the subject of a book she wrote in 2010 -- had passed away Saturday. "He died in my arms," she said. "He was 13 and a half years old, and my apartment feels so empty without him." But in the final moments of her final show, she struck a more hopeful tone. It was on to new things, she said, and she hoped her listeners would follow her to her new podcast. "Really, it's not goodbye, it's farewell," she said as she signed off, just before the familiar theme music began to swell. "For now, I send all of you my love, and my prayerful hope for a merry Christmas, and a peaceful new year." (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** UZBEKISTAN. 7509.981, Voice of the Martyrs operates from 1530 to 1700 UT on 7510 kHz via a Tashkent transmitter. Today on low side at 1554 UT, S=9 in Germany (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, some logs of remote Doha Qatar and eastern Thailand posts, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 22, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN [Re schedule below] "3975 0630 0715 28SW 100 330 0 800 1234567 VAT VAT Mass_in" etc. I suppose there are some errors in this schedule as we know, for example, that the mass and rosary in Latin are now only broadcast on SW on Sundays and possibly on holy days (Richard Langley, NB, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Okay, like in ham radio licenses procedure also - for example I never transmit on 160, 30, or 10/11 meterband on shortwave, - never in my life, but I can do so, (...) so such ITU / HFCC {Vatican Radio technicians} meterband channel requests are often wooden selection too. Such requests are all 7_days a week, 365_days a year, to protect all special church holiday broadcast requests. Have a nice holiday and all the best of much DX in New Year 2017. 73 (wolfy df5sx wwdxc germany, ibid.) Indeed this HFCC data does not include any shortwave specials, although the first one has already been confirmed. Seems they no longer bother to update it. Online they have http://de.radiovaticana.va/epg-web#!/?cid=167#2 which, however, does not refer to possible shortwave outlets either. Earlier this page showed the Chinese special as live broadcast from "Capella Annunciation at Palazzo Pio": This is a studio chapel in the building used by Radio Vatican, shown on a QSL card issued in 2007. I assume the Latin liturgy broadcasts are being produced there (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN [and non]. Frequency changes of Vatican Radio, videos http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/frequency-changes-of-vatican-radio-from.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Dec 21, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN STATE. The very old known spurious signal of Vatican Radio was observed on 6390.2 kHz from fundamental 6185 kHz at 1650-1830 UT in early December again (Rumen Pankov-BUL, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 23, BC-DX 25 Dec via DXLD) ** VATICAN [and non]. Vatican Radio, SMG = Santa Maria di Galeria op schedule B-16, according to HFCC database. 3975 0630 0715 28SW 100 330 0 800 1234567 VAT VAT Mass_in 3975 1940 2015 28SW 100 330 0 800 1234567 VAT VAT Liturgy 3975 2140 2200 27E,28NW 100 326 0 800 1234567 VAT VAT Arabic 5885 2100 2130 37-38,46-47,52 250 205 0 618 23456 IBB IBB Fr 5885 2130 2200 46 250 205 0 618 23456 IBB IBB Bam 5940 0040 0100 41,42S,43SW 250 86 0 218 041216 040317 VAT Hindi 5940 0100 0120 41,42S,43SW 250 86 0 218 041216 040317 VAT Tamil 5940 0120 0140 41,42S,43SW 250 86 0 218 041216 040317 VAT Malayal 5940 0140 0200 41,42S,43SW 250 86 0 218 041216 040317 VAT English 6070 0630 0715 27SE,28NW 250 4 -6 386 1234567 VAT VAT Mass_in 6070 1940 2015 27,37NW 100 326 16 386 1234567 VAT VAT Liturgy 6070 2140 2200 37,38NW 100 234 -16 386 1234567 VAT VAT Arabic 6080 0300 0400 46-48,52-53,57 250 165 0 618 1234567 IBB IBB En 6185 0300 0330 29SE 100 86 16 386 1234567 VAT VAT Armenia 6185 1650 1710 29SE 250 86 16 386 1234567 VAT VAT Armenia 6185 1710 1740 19,29,30W 250 54 0 386 1234567 VAT VAT Russian 6185 1740 1800 28NE,29S 250 54 -16 386 1234567 VAT VAT Ukraini 6185 1800 1820 28NE,29NW 100 26 16 386 1234567 VAT VAT Byeloru 7250 0630 0715 27,37NW 100 326 16 386 1234567 VAT VAT Mass_in 7250 0715 0830 28E 250 60 0 218 1 VAT VAT Liturgy 7250 0745 0805 27E,28NW 250 326 16 386 234567 VAT VAT Arabic_ 7250 0845 1100 28SW 250 330 0 800 4 VAT VAT Papal_A 7250 0900 1000 28SW 100 330 0 800 1 VAT VAT Liturgy 7250 2140 2200 38N 100 146 16 386 1234567 VAT VAT Arabic 7270 0300 0330 29SE 100 86 16 386 1234567 VAT VAT Armenia 7315 0330 0400 47,48W 250 146 16 386 1234567 PNW FPU RT Apd 7315 0400 0430 47,48W 250 151 0 216 1234567 PNW FPU RT Apd 7315 0430 0600 47,48W 250 151 0 216 1234567 PNW FPU RD Apd 7360 0530 0600 46NW 100 234 -16 386 1234567 VAT VAT Portugu 7360 1650 1710 29SE 100 86 16 386 1234567 VAT VAT Armenia 7360 1710 1740 19,29,30W 100 54 0 386 1234567 VAT VAT Russian 7360 1740 1800 28NE,29S 100 54 -16 386 1234567 VAT VAT Ukraini 7410 0040 0100 41,42S,43SW 250 90 0 216 1234567 VAT VAT Hindi 7410 0100 0120 41,42S,43SW 250 90 0 216 1234567 VAT VAT Tamil 7410 0120 0140 41,42S,43SW 250 90 0 216 1234567 VAT VAT Malayal 7410 0140 0200 41,42S,43SW 250 90 0 216 1234567 VAT VAT English 9485 1730 1800 48 250 139 0 618 23456 IBB IBB Orm 9485 1930 2000 46 250 184 0 216 1234567 NHK NHK Eng 9510 0300 0330 47,48 250 146 0 618 1234567 IBB IBB Ara 9510 0330 0400 48 250 146 0 618 1234567 IBB IBB Som 9515 0040 0100 41,42S,43SW 250 86 0 218 050317 260317 VAT Hindi 9515 0040 0100 41,42S,43SW 250 86 0 218 311016 031216 VAT Hindi 9515 0100 0120 41,42S,43SW 250 86 0 218 050317 260317 VAT Tamil 9515 0100 0120 41,42S,43SW 250 86 0 218 311016 031216 VAT Tamil 9515 0120 0140 41,42S,43SW 250 86 0 218 311016 031216 VAT Malayal 9515 0120 0140 41,42S,43SW 250 86 0 218 050317 260317 VAT Malayal 9515 0140 0200 41,42S,43SW 250 86 0 218 050317 260317 VAT English 9515 0140 0200 41,42S,43SW 250 86 0 218 311016 031216 VAT English 9600 2200 2230 30SE,31S,32SW,4250 55 0 218 1234567 VAT VAT Chinese 9645 0500 0530 38E,39,40S 100 114 -16 386 1234567 VAT VAT Arabic 9645 0715 0830 28E 100 54 0 396 1 VAT VAT Liturgy 9645 0745 0805 37,38NW 100 243 0 800 234567 VAT VAT Arabic_ 9645 1050 1130 28SW 100 330 0 800 1 VAT VAT Angelus 9660 0600 0630 46 250 210 0 151 1234567 VAT VAT French_ 9660 0630 0700 46 250 210 0 151 1234567 VAT VAT English 9660 1800 1830 52NW,52SE,53W,5250 184 0 218 1234567 VAT VAT Portugu 9660 1900 1930 36SE,46NW 100 234 -16 396 7 VAT VAT Spanish 9660 1940 2000 46 250 210 0 218 1234567 VAT VAT Liturgy 9660 2000 2030 46 250 210 0 218 1234567 VAT VAT English 9660 2030 2115 46 250 210 0 218 1234567 VAT VAT French_ 9700 1630 1700 38E,39,40S 100 114 -16 386 1234567 VAT VAT Arabic 9700 1940 2015 38E,39,40S 250 114 -16 386 1234567 VAT VAT Liturgy 9700 2140 2200 38E,39,40S 250 114 -16 386 1234567 VAT VAT Arabic 9755 1800 1900 48 250 139 0 618 1234567 IBB IBB Amh 9755 1900 1930 48 250 139 0 618 23456 IBB IBB Tir 9850 0710 0845 28NE,29S 250 55 0 211 1 VAT VAT Liturgy 11625 0600 0630 46E,47W 250 184 0 616 1234567 VAT VAT French 11625 0630 0700 46E,47W 250 184 0 616 1234567 VAT VAT English 11625 1730 1800 47SE,48SW,52NE,250 148 0 216 1234567 VAT VAT English 11625 1800 1830 46NW 250 238 0 416 1234567 VAT VAT Portugu 11625 1855 1930 46SE,47SW 100 184 0 616 7 VAT VAT Spanish 11625 1940 2000 46SE,47W 250 184 0 218 1234567 VAT VAT Liturgy 11625 2000 2030 46SE,47W 250 184 0 218 1234567 VAT VAT English 11625 2030 2115 46SE,47W 250 184 0 218 1234567 VAT VAT French 11740 0710 0845 28NE,29S 250 58 0 556 1 VAT VAT Liturgy 11740 0745 0805 38N 100 130 0 556 234567 VAT VAT Arabic 11740 1050 1130 27SE,28NW 250 4 0 157 1 VAT VAT Angelus 11740 1050 1130 27S,37NW 250 310 0 556 1 VAT VAT Angelus 11850 1600 1630 52,53 250 169 0 618 1234567 IBB IBB 11935 0500 0530 38E,39,40S 100 113 15 616 1234567 VAT VAT Arabic 11935 1630 1700 38E,39,40S 100 113 15 616 1234567 VAT VAT Arabic 11935 1700 1715 38E,39,40S 250 113 15 616 1234567 VAT VAT News_Mi 11935 1715 1730 38E,39,40S 250 113 15 616 1234567 VAT VAT News_Mi 11955 1730 1800 48 250 139 0 618 23456 IBB IBB Orm 12075 1530 1600 40E,41NW 250 83 0 618 1234567 IBB IBB Prs 12075 1800 1830 47,48 250 145 0 618 1234567 IBB IBB Ara 12075 2100 2130 46E,47,52 250 184 0 618 23456 IBB IBB Fra 13750 1100 1130 46-48,52-53 250 169 0 618 7 IBB IBB Fra 13765 1600 1615 47,48,52NE,53W 250 148 0 218 7 VAT VAT Swahili 13765 1600 1630 47,48,52NE,53W 250 148 0 218 123456 VAT VAT Swahili 13765 1615 1630 48 250 135 0 218 7 VAT VAT Somali 13765 1630 1700 48 250 136 0 218 1234567 VAT VAT Etio_Er 13765 1700 1730 46SE,47S,52-53 250 168 15 616 1234567 VAT VAT French 15180 1630 1700 47,48 250 145 0 618 23456 IBB IBB En 15330 1430 1457 41 250 89 -9 616 1234567 RVA RVA Urdu 15550 0530 0600 47,48W 250 151 0 216 1234567 PNW FPU RD 15550 1500 1630 47,48W 250 151 0 216 1234567 PNW FPU RT RD 15580 2000 2100 38,46-48,52-53 250 193 0 618 1234567 IBB IBB En 15595 0630 0700 38E,39,40S 250 115 0 216 1234567 VAT VAT Mass_in 15595 0700 0715 38E,39,40S 100 107 9 616 234567 VAT VAT News_It 15595 0715 0730 38E,39,40S 100 107 9 616 234567 VAT VAT News_Fr 15595 0730 0745 38E,39,40S 100 107 9 616 234567 VAT VAT News_En 15595 0930 1050 38E,39,40S 250 107 9 616 1 VAT VAT Liturgy 15595 0930 1050 19,29,30NW 250 67 9 616 1 VAT VAT Liturgy 15595 0930 1050 29SE,39N,40W 250 89 -9 616 1 VAT VAT Liturgy 15595 0930 1050 29SE,38E,39,40W250 121 -9 616 1 VAT VAT Liturgy 15595 1050 1130 27 100 319 9 616 1 VAT VAT Angelus 15620 1500 1553 38-39 250 107 9 616 1234567 RVA RVA Filipin 15730 1830 1930 46-48,52,53 250 193 0 618 1234567 IBB IBB French 15775 1530 1600 41,42S,43SW 125 90 0 216 1234567 VAT VAT English [above and a few others were DRM, not specified! gh] 17590 0930 1050 19,29,30NW 250 44 -14 616 1 VAT VAT Liturgy 17590 0930 1050 48 250 130 0 616 1 VAT VAT Liturgy 17590 0930 1050 29,38E,39,40W 250 98 0 616 1 VAT VAT Liturgy 17590 0930 1050 29SE,39N,40W 250 72 14 616 1 VAT VAT Liturgy 17590 1130 1200 38E,39,40S 100 112 14 616 6 VAT VAT Liturgy 17590 1300 1320 38E,39,40S 100 112 14 616 1234567 VAT VAT News_It 17655 1630 1700 52,53,57 250 238 0 618 6 IBB IBB Por 17700 0700 0730 46,47W 250 184 0 618 1234567 IBB IBB Hausa 17850 1100 1130 46,47,48,52,53 250 198 3 618 7 IBB IBB Fr 17895 1600 1800 46-48,52-53,57 250 144 0 618 1234567 IBB IBB En 21550 0800 1130 47,48,52NE,53W 250 145 15 619 1234567 VAT VAT Special 21560 0800 1130 52,53W,57N 250 165 0 218 1234567 VAT VAT Special 21560 1050 1130 46SE,47W 250 185 15 218 1 VAT VAT Angelus 21560 1050 1130 46 250 223 -15 619 1 VAT VAT Angelus 21560 1050 1130 38E,39,40S 250 113 15 619 1 VAT VAT Angelus 21560 1130 1200 38E,39,40S 100 113 15 619 6 VAT VAT Liturgy 21560 1300 1320 46SE,47W 100 185 15 218 1234567 VAT VAT News_It 21570 0800 1130 46,47W 250 210 0 218 1234567 VAT VAT Special December 24 Special Vatican Radio Christmas special on shortwave 1600 UT Holy Mass in Chinese, Asia 5975 kHz 7200 kHz. Chapel of Annunciation of Palazzo Pio. 2025 UT Chrismas Eve Mass. From St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Francis presides at the Christmas Eve on the Solemnity of the Lord's Birth. Africa, comment in Portuguese 13765 kHz, French 6080 kHz, English 7275 kHz. Asia, comment in Chinese 6185 kHz. December 25 Special, 1055 UT Christmas Messagge and "Urbi et Orbi" Blessing. From the Central Loggia of St. Peter's Basilica, the Holy Father's Christmas Message and "Urbi and Orbi" Blessing. Africa, comment in Portug. 21560 kHz, French 17520 kHz, English 15570 kHz. International Sound, Europe 9645 kHz, 11740 kHz. Europe / Middle East 15595 kHz. December 26, 1050 UT Angelus, International Sound: ME, whole Africa 21560 kHz. International Sound, Europe 9645 kHz, 11740 kHz. Europe / Middle East 15595 kHz. December 28, 0845 UT General Audience. From the Paul VI Hall, the Holy Father's General Audience with the pilgrims. Central / South Europe 7250 kHz. Posted by: ("Wolfgang Bueschel", dxldyg via DXLD) Vatican Radio now on air with the Pope’s Christmas address about to start at 1100 UT. Very strong here on 15570 kHz which carries the English translation. 73s (Dave Kenny, 1052 UT, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) Nothing heard here in New Brunswick for the Pope's Christmas Message and "Urbi et Orbi" Blessing starting at about 1100 UT. Frequencies too high for this time of morning. But excellent signal on 9645 kHz for the "ambient sound" version of the broadcast via the U. Twente SDR receiver. First time I've heard the whole "show" with trumpets and bells. Usually you only get to see/hear the English "sound bite" on the news. Recorded and will try to archive later. P.S. Merry Christmas to all DXLD members (-- Richard Langley, 1157 UT Dec 25, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Archived with comments here: https://archive.org/details/RadioVaticana9.645MHz25December20161055UTC and here: https://shortwavearchive.com/archive/radio-vaticana-popes-christmas-message-and-urbi-et-orbi-blessing-december-25-2016 P.S. Note that there were no foreign language Christmas greetings this year in the pope's message; only Italian (-- Richard Langley, Dec 28, dxldyg via DXLD) The transmitters on 9645, 11740, 15595 kHz had indeed been connected to the plain feed from St. Peter's Square. As far as I noted the carriers came on straight into this feed at around 1050 and dropped out of it at 1129. On 21560 no signal could be detected from Central Europe. 15570 and 17520 had the report versions as specified, at least on 15570 starting with a canned announcement that mentioned also the shortwave relay. Enclosed two snippets from what was probably the last hurrah of this kind. The first recording is from ca. 1056. It starts with 11740 where their cranked Optimod made this racket of the signal from the open mics on St. Peter's Square, then continues with 15570 where the reporter showed impressively what you can expect from frequency announcements made by editorial offices. The other file is 11740 at 1129. When the SMG transmitter cut off it revealed a mess of NHK World via Singapore and China (Kai Ludwig, 1616 UT, ibid.) ** VATICAN. JBA carrier on 11625; JBA carrier on 7275 underneath an LSB ham; JBA algo on 6080, 6185 (could be Mexico), at 2204+ Dec 24 frequencies scheduled until 2230 for Xmas eve VR specials, each in a different language, but none good here. And that`s still before midnight in Roma. UNIDENTIFIED. 11935-11940-11945, Dec 25 at 1530, DRM noise at S9. Nothing is scheduled in DRM at this time on 11940, just wooden REE Spain in HFCC; in Aoki, VOA Radio Ashna in Dari via Kuwait, which would surely not be DRM; and EiBi has neither. One might guess Vatican Xmas special or Romania? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes!: ** VATICAN [and non]. Frequency changes of Vatican Radio from Dec 25 1430-1450 NF 9510 PUG 250 kW / 285 deg to SoAs Hindi, ex 15470 // frequency 11695 PHT 250 kW / 283 deg to SoAs Hindi 1450-1510 NF 9510 PUG 250 kW / 285 deg to SoAs Tamil, ex 15470 // frequency 11695 PHT 250 kW / 283 deg to SoAs Tamil 1510-1530 NF 9510 PUG 250 kW / 285 deg to SoAs Malayalam, ex 15470 // frequency 11695 PHT 250 kW / 283 deg to SoAs Malayalam 1530-1600 NF 9510 PUG 250 kW / 285 deg to SoAs English, ex 15470 1530-1600 NF 11940 SMG 125 kW / 090 deg to SoAs English DRM, ex 15775 // frequency 11695 PHT 250 kW / 283 deg to SoAs English http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/frequency-changes-of-vatican-radio-from.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Dec 20, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DXLD) Special broadcasts of Vatican Radio at Xmas, Dec 24-25 Dec 24: 1600-1655 on 5975 SMG 250 kW / 055 deg to EaAs Chinese 1600-1655 on 7200 SMG 250 kW / 044 deg to EaAs Chinese 2030-2230 on 6080 SMG 250 kW / 210 deg to NWAf French 2030-2230 on 6185 SMG 250 kW / 055 deg to EaAs Chinese 2030-2230 on 7275 SMG 250 kW / 145 deg to CeAf English 2030-2230 on 11625 SMG 250 kW / 238 deg to NWAf Portuguese Dec 25: 1100-1130 on 9645 SMG 100 kW / 330 deg to WeEu Italian 1100-1130 on 11740 SMG 250 kw / 004 deg to EaEu Italian 1100-1130 on 11740 SMG 250 kW / 310 deg to SoEu Italian 1100-1130 on 15570 SMG 250 kW / 145 deg to CeAf English 1100-1130 on 15595 SMG 250 kW / 067 deg to N/ME Italian 1100-1130 on 17520 SMG 250 kW / 210 deg to NWAf French 1100-1130 on 21560 SMG 250 kW / 165 deg to SoAf Portuguese http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/special-broadcasts-of-vatican-radio-at.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Vatican Radio special broadcasts at Christmas Saturday 24 December 2016 1600-1652 Mass in Chinese 5975 7200 kHz 2025-2230 Portuguese 11625 kHz Angola and Mozambique French 6080 kHz West Africa English 7275 kHz Central Africa Chinese 6185 kHz China Sunday 25 December 2016 1055-1130 Portuguese 21560 kHz Angola and Mozambique French 17520 kHz West Africa English 15570 kHz Central Africa Live audio from St.Peter’s without any comment: 9645 kHz 11740 kHz Europe, 15595 kHz Near East All from Santa Maria di Galeria. http://www.radiovaticana.va (Mauno Ritola, WRTH Facebook page via BDXC-UK yg, Dec 23, via DXLD) Vatican Radio 1600 special broadcast --- Tuning around on Perseus SDRs, 7200 is very well heard throughout south Asia at very good levels, and 5975 just a little weaker. In Europe, 5975 is marred by adjacent splatter. In Japan, both frequencies are heard at fair/good level. Here on the WCNA, nothing on 5975, and 7200 is weakly heard with the same Chinese Catholic service. Hymns, etc. 73, from Victoria, BC and Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays to all! (Walt Salmaniw, Dec 24, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6080: Transmitter already on at 2018 with other programming, probably in Spanish, that wraps up at 2020, more or less immediately followed by introduction of the live broadcast with French commentary. 7275: Noted shortly after 2020 with lively introduction in English (it is remarkable how formal, in comparison, the French commentary is), acknowledging partners/relayers, all the many Catholic radio stations etc., etc., also mentioning own distribution platforms of Radio Vatican but no shortwave; who, besides a handful of DXers, is under these circumstances supposed to use this frequency at all? Or is it another instance of left hand not knowing what the right one is doing? 6185: In Europe completely covered by CRI from Albania. 11625: Yes, there's a carrier when checked around 2025. Difficult to say if modulation, if any is being applied, should be audible in this weak reception. Meanwhile my revenge on Radio Vatican, not caring for the shortwave outlets they still operate themselves: Bringing up, to the pleasure of Mr. Viganò, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1NbTs8EKAU (Kai Ludwig, Dec 24, ibid.) Almost 2 hours of Midnite Mass originally streamed live, only 33,540 views so far, and 4 comments (gh, DXLD) Vatican Radio, Papal Audience in various languages, Dec 28 0900-1010 7250 SMG 100 kW / 330 deg to WeEu Italian/Arabic/Polish Wed http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/vatican-radio-papal-audience-in-various.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Dec 27-29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM. 7220.014, Voice of Vietnam in French, from Son Tay site, S=9 strength here in Germany, at 2124 UT on Dec 27 (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Vietnam Home Service 1 on nominal 9635, Dec 26: 0900 & 0930 on 9635.0 SON 100 kW / 145 deg SEAs Vietnamese, ex 9635.8 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/voice-of-vietnam-home-service-1-on.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DXLD) ** VIETNAM [non]. PALAU, Reception of Radio Que Me via WHRI T8WH Angel 3 on Dec 23: 1200-1230 on 9930*HBN 100 kW / 318 deg to EaAs Vietnamese Fri, good * co-ch weak 9930 unknown tx / unknown to EaAs Chinese Sound of Hope http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/reception-of-radio-que-me-via-whri-t8wh.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** YEMEN [non]. Greetings and Happy Holidaze from Nevada! The conditions here have seemed to be poor to fair over the last couple of days with the Solar Flux ranging in the mid-70s and the Geomagnetic Activity ranging from unsettled to Major Storm (21 Dec). When I woke this morning (~1400z) R. Australia was weak on 9580 kHz and Nothing was heard from Rep.Yemen Radio Sanaa on 11860. An hour later as the sun rose locally both were coming in strong. 11860, 1515 23 DEC - REP.YEMEN RADIO SANAA (YEMEN). SINPO = 45322. Arabic, music, recording of live outdoor event. QSB=rapid-to-ff rate, fluttery modulation mostly well above the noise floor with occasional fades to mixing with it for very short durations. sf74.8, a23, k4, geomag: active. 50kw?, Omni?, bearing 17 ?. Sangean ATS505 w/MFJ-1020C active antenna and MFJ-901B tuner used to preselect 75’ of 26-gauge wire loosely thrown over the roof above single story building. Received at Las Vegas, United States, 13039KM? from transmitter at Riyadh?. Local time: 0715 (Rodney Johnson, NV, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11860, Dec 27 at 1445, Republic of Yemen Radio is still very good S9+20 with some of the great triumphal music they play, presumed via SAUDI ARABIA. But one must not forget that this exists due to the horrible civil war in Yemen. Sana`a`s own SW station, whatever the government, never had a signal like this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search December 22, UT: 666-NW at 1333. Altho it loops appropriately for Japan or China, also seems a bit unstable, so may be a birdie. No others in complete bandscan, not even 1566, except: 1098-W at 1336, surely the usual V7AB Marshall Islands, probably a bihour after programming ceased, carrier staying on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search December 23, UT: At 1323, 702-WSW, 657-WSW, 612-WSW At 1326, 792-WSW At 1328, 1566-NW until cut at 1344:35*, usual time for HLAZ language/beam switch from Japan to China (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 710, 1206 December 27, 2016. Male and female live local news, but unable to copy anything local. Weather, mentioning what sounded like 57-degrees (high or low?), several clear "News Radio 710 and 101-7 FM." Not hits for that. KNUS Denver is simulcast on 101.7 but this was not parallel their stream, plus they are "News TALK 710" per website, and that temperature would be too warm. WNTM Mobile is apparently simulcast to 96.1 HD2, and unable to get a parallel to the stream by 1220 fade, though their slogan is "News RADIO 710." -- (Terry Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 3299-USB, Dec 28 at 0145, a few words sounding like a MARS net, then into digibeeps. A similar unID log occurred 10 months ago: ``3299-USB, 0210 Feb 23, W&M voices conversing, then into digital modes`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 4775, Dec 22 at 0735, weak carrier with some talk audible, vs CODAR, still JBA at 0758. Either R. Tarma, Perú, or R. Congonhas, Brasil, both of which are active. Unless 24h, the latter more likely where it`s already 5:35 am BDT. I should have precised the frequency, as Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal has reported: ``4774.964 R. Congonhas, Congonhas MG, 2218-2228, 03/12, texto; 22331, QRM do PERU, em 4774.910`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6165, Dec 22 at 1351, a S Asian song by soprano, 1355 another song with male voice. Hoping for Myanmar, but per Aoki this is a VERY congested frequency in Asia: CNR6 in Chinese from Beijing; Vietnam-4 in Dao; Thazin Radio in Burmese; and AIR in Sindhi from Delhi-Khampur site. The last seems most likely. A better signal than many others on 49m from China (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) There have been some other reports of AIR here in North America (gh) UNIDENTIFIED. UNKNOWN OTHR signal 7533 to 7553 kHz, S=9+30dB powerhouse. But seemingly some kind of jamming from mainland China, meant against RFA Uighur service from Orzu Tajikistan, scheduled 16-17 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, some logs of remote Doha Qatar and eastern Thailand posts, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 22, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. EGYPT [sic], Unidentified station with Egyptian music on Dec 26: 0930-0940 on 9550 unknown tx / unknown to UNID, poor/weak http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/unidentified-station-with-egyptian_26.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) EGYPT [sic]. Unidentified broadcast with Egyptian music twice Dec 28: till 0921 on 9400 unknown tx / unknown to UNID, poor to weak signal till 1106 on 9600*unknown tx / unknown to UNID, poor to weak signal * co-ch same 9600 URU 050 kW / 230 deg to EaAs Chinese PBS Xinjiang http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2016/12/unidentified-broadcast-with-egyptian.html 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Dec 27-29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 12024.99, Dec 24 at 1350, S7-S9 open carrier except for hi-pitched DSB tone of ~1270 Hz. Some flutter; 1358 brief break in carrier, then continues past 1407, but off at 1414 check. Nothing scheduled now on 12025, only AIR Goa at 1600-1830. I tune past here almost every morning and this is heard for first time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, sure NOT AIR PANAJI transmission, which has much different offset, when checked today Dec 25: 12024.984 kHz usual o d d fq of Goa Panaji old BBC SK 53 C3-2P PSM units of 1992, S=7-8 signal in Delhi India at 1725 UT, S=9+25dB in Doha Qatar remote SDR unit. 26 !! kHz wide signal (2 x 13 kHz) of WHISTLE WOBBLE audio kind. Bethlehem modern pop song of Christmas. btw. Nothing heard on air on \\ 7505 kHz today, also requested for Panaji 1615-1830 UT. 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. [INTRUDER ALERT] OTHR bursts, 0705z 27 12 2016, 8 pps, 14144 to 14304, 160 kHz wide, 52 second burst, S6. Chinese broadband radar - 160 kHz wide. 73 Wolf (Wolf DK2OM, via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) Russian woodpecker (Far East?) again active on 20m today... sorry no spectrum nor SDR or modern rig, can't measure things, only know how to recognise our "old friend" the Russian OTHR and the new China OTHR "fog horn". Are there recordings of the Cyprus radar and US-Australian one somewhere you can think of so we could have a listen? 73 es 77 de (VK5EEE Lou, ibid.) Hi All, OTHR bursts wide bandwidth 160 kHz 8 pps 52 seconds on 20 metres 0705 and 56 seconds to 0706 and 48 seconds slides up and the band with slight variations. 73 de (ZL1GWE, John, ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED. 15080, Dec 26 at 1448, S3-S6 AM carrier. Only All India Radio, Sound of Hope and an occasional pirate (no more Iran) dare to broadcast within the off-route aero band, but none listed on 15080. Soon carrier is replaced by OTH radar pulsing from 15068 to 15090 or so. Suspect the carrier was tuneup for the OTH radar; is that typical behavior from Russia or elsewhere? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1858: Being a part of your group makes feel like a participant to the history of Radio rather than just a simple peripheral observer to it. Your efforts are always appreciated (Anon with a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com) TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED FUTURELY, one a week: Happy Holidays Glenn: Really appreciate all that you do through the WOR site - a great source of info! 73, (Mike Beu, KD5DSQ, Austin, Texas (with a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com) Keep up the good work! (Henning Vahlbruch, Germany, with a contribution via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to woradio at yahoo.com) Thanks to William T Hassig, Mt Prospect IL, for a check in the mail to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 Happy Holidays Glenn! Your dedication to this hobby is remarkable and appreciated (Robert Lazar, with a generous contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com) Hi Glenn, just a few words to say Thanks. Thanks for all the good postings and inters issues you always post, in relation to our hobby "SWL". May the new year, bring you and yours the best of the best. Happy 2017 (Héctor NP4FW Pérez, PR) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ CITIZEN'S RADIO CALLBOOK The Citizen's Radio Callbook was published from November of 1922 to June of 1932. There are listings of early radio stations, articles on various aspects of the hobby, and lots of advertisements from the day. The early editions up to the Fall of 1924 also listed Canadian and American amateur radio call signs. My late father, Joseph Coady, first appeared in the May of 1923 isue with callsign of 3LJ. http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Citizens-Radio-Call-Book-Master-Page.htm (Marc Coady, Dec 24, ODXA yg via DXLD) CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES +++++++++++++++++++++++++ SHORTWAVE INFLUENCED AUDIO WORKS Hi Glenn: I thought you might find this of interest. I (in cahoots with NASWA) have partnered with Wave Farm, a center for the Transmission Arts (they also operate WGXC, a community radio station in the Catskill mountains [a WORLD OF RADIO affiliate]) for an open call for shortwave influenced audio works. Short Waves/Long Distance will celebrate Wave Farm’s 20th and the Winter SWL Fest’s 30th. A curated selection will be presented during the 2nd hour of the Shortwave Shindig’s live broadcast at the 2017 Fest. (Broadcast times and frequencies will be posted closer to the event.) https://wavefarm.org/calendar/xbccx5 73, (David Goren, Dec 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST) MUSEA +++++ DX-ING PRESENTATIONS If it's a bit too crummy weather-wise for DX'ing at your house, and you have a bit o' downtime this week, why not take a look at some of those DX-club tech papers you meant to check out? There's a wealth of experience and ideas behind the papers presented at recent DX conventions; audio and slides are available in THE DX CORNER at http://www.durenberger.com Happy New Year! (Mark Durenberger, MN, NRC-AM via DXLD) HISTORY - THE FIRST VOICE TRANSMISSION FROM SPACE WAS EISENHOWER WISHING PEACE ON EARTH FROM A NUCLEAR MISSILE In December 1958, the Cold War got a spark of warmth when the US broadcast a holiday message of peace and goodwill around the world— from an orbiting nuclear missile. A little more than a year after Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, was launched by the Soviet Union to kick off the space race, the US found a way to demonstrate its own technological prowess. Where Sputnik had communicated with the world by transmitted radio beeps, the US mission known as SCORE — Signal Communication by Orbiting Relay — would transmit a human voice from orbit for the first time. “Through the marvels of scientific advance, my voice is coming to you from a satellite circling in outer space,” Eisenhower said in a recording played over short wave radio. “My message is a simple one. Through this unique means, I convey to you and all mankind America’s wish for peace on earth and good will to men everywhere.” More details, audio and video here: http://qz.com/870600/the-first-voice-transmission-from-space-was-eisenhower-wishing-peace-on-earth-from-a-nuclear-missile/ (via Mike Terry, Dec 24, 2016, dxldyg via DXLD) SW? WTFK? DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See KOREA SOUTH; VATICAN ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DAB See GERMANY; NORWAY ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See MEXICO; OKLAHOMA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ THE DIGITAL PERILS OF BEING A RADIO HOBBYIST Hello All, I just saw this, and figured it would be of interest to the group (Curtis Sadowski, Dec 22, WTFDA gg via DXLD) Summary of article: Ham Radio user is dis-satisfied with software, posts negative review. Software company retaliates by bricking his system. We've seen lots of terrible responses to negative reviews and other online criticism -- most of which end with the offended party having earned plenty of new enemies and gained nothing at all in the reputation department. . . https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161220/12411836320/company-bricks-users-software-after-he-posts-negative-review.shtml (via DXLD) MMTC TO TRUMP: DECOMMISSION AM BAND - Radio Ink radioink.com The Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council has sent a letter to the new administration called “Twelve Imperatives to Close the Digital Divide and Advance Multicultural Media and Telecom Ownership and Procurement in the First 100 Days of the New Administration.” Point number 12: Create a “Glide Path” for the Short- Term Survival and Long-Term Humane Decommissioning of the AM Band in a Manner that Preserves Minority Ownership. The MMTC says the AM radio will disappear and the government should find a way to preserve AM radio’s program services. “It should seek to ensure that AM broadcasters receive fair compensation for the loss of their assets as well as assistance in transitioning their programming to other platforms.” The MMTC says it has formed the MMTC AM Glide Path Taskforce specifically for that purpose. The MMTC writes to Trump that AM has been the entry communications technology for entrepreneurs of color; even today, approximately 60% of all minority owned radio stations are AM facilities. The great majority of multilingual radio service today is found on the AM band. The FCC has enacted a series of modest engineering reforms: opening FM translator windows for AM stations, repealing the “ratchet rule,” and decreasing the community coverage requirement for AM stations lacking the capital and infrastructure to abide by the community coverage rule. The MMTC says that despite modes rule changes by the FCC, the fast- moving pace of technological development leaves AM stations, in the long term, constantly trying to catch up with their FM and new media counterparts. “Compounding the technological advances hindering AM stations is a lack of capital flowing into AM. AM listenership is on a steep decline, and AM radio stations are feeling the brunt of it. Realistically, AM may disappear in 30 years or less. Thus, it is time to start thinking about a future without AM radio. Should that happen, many AM station owners will need assistance transitioning to other platforms such as FM subchannels and online stations. We should consider the desirability of regulatory relief that may include some ownership structure rule relaxation for the limited purpose of ensuring that station sellers will find buyers, and compensation or tax incentives for turning in an AM license.” (via Kevin Redding, ABDX via DXLD) INVISIBLE PET FENCE QRM New Neighbors --- So today I was having a nice afternoon at home DXing the MW band. I took a break around 2:30 and then upon checking back at 3:30 I was perplexed by the look of the scope of the ELAD down on the low end of the AM band. When I went down in longwave this is what my normally very quiet and clean LW band looked like. I could hear what sounded like a low level chugging on those spikes. I was talking to my wife about when she said oh-oh;; I think the new neighbors have an invisible pet fence installed. Sure enough, I went over and I could see the little red and white flags all around their property and the portable was getting hit with the ringing as noted below. I was concerned but not overly concerned since it seemed like NDB's were still audible even though there were these pulses. Then as I climbed the AM dial I noticed that there were also some spikes at roughly 2-3 kHz above and below each 10 kHz frequency step between roughly 840 and 1180. Those spikes had a fairly strong ringing sound to them that roughly mimicked the chugging noise on LW. Then the MW band returned to normal. Around 1800 kHz the same spikes that you see in the LW jpg appeared again and while there was no really strong noise on them there was WBZ on almost all of them all the way up past the first [sic] harmonic (which was big...I'm 4 miles from the transmitter). The spikes drop away this time after 2100 kHz. I've notice that all 3 issues are less severe now at 6:30 local time. (Keith, Hingham MA, Dec 23, WTFDA MWDX gg via DXLD) RSGB QUESTIONS UK REGULATOR OFCOM REGARDING NEW INTERFERENCE CONTROL REGULATIONS --- RSGB 12 December 2016 http://www.arrl.org/news/rsgb-questions-uk-regulator-ofcom-regarding-new-interference-control-regulations The Electromagnetic Compatibility Committee of the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB) still has wide-ranging questions for UK telecommunications regulator Ofcom concerning new Wireless Telegraphy Act Section 54 regulations that address radio-frequency interference (RFI) from in-service equipment. RSGB said that while its latest response “largely reiterates” points it’s already made, it “still believes that a number of issues need resolution.” For starters, RSGB has asked the regulator to better define what the new regulations mean by “apparatus.” Among other questions, RSGB wants to know “what is needed to get Ofcom to enforce against serious interference to Amateur Radio.” The Society pointed out that Ofcom has acknowledged its enforcement powers with respect to undue interference, but the agency has said that compliance regulations must be in place in Section 54. RSGB allowed that there may be some cases where victims of interference may take “reasonable steps” to alleviate the problem; this may not always be possible when a radio amateur is the victim, and it asked Ofcom to clarify what is reasonable. “The re-siting of wire antennas in small gardens may be quite unrealistic, as may be the advice not to use a particular beam heading,” the RSGB said. “We should also like Ofcom to confirm that there is no obligation on amateurs to supply or pay for filtering or replacement of offending apparatus.” RSGB also said it wants answers regarding in-service equipment excluded from the new regulations. For example, RSGB noted, cables used for such applications as DSL and power line telecommunications are not included, as they do not generate electromagnetic emissions. “However, when coupled to other apparatus and charged with signals at radio frequencies, unbalanced cables will generate emissions fortuitously,” RSGB said. “One of our members has posed the question that, if the cables increase the levels of emissions emanating from modems, then they must be at fault, so why have they been excluded? Emissions from VDSL at HF and at higher frequencies are becoming a major interference concern.” RSGB also asked if Ofcom will use the new regulations to act against solar photovoltaic installations as being “improperly installed,” even when some of the apparatus is CE marked [i.e., European Union certified — Ed.] but the installation is causing severe or harmful interference nonetheless. “Even where [solar installations] are treated as collections of discrete ‘apparatus’ under [the Electromagnetic Compatibility Directive], Ofcom has simply walked away from cases saying they can do nothing as the ‘apparatus’ is CE marked,” The Society said. For its part, Ofcom has said it does not have a duty to enforce and cannot guarantee that interference will not occur. “When deciding whether to investigate or to take enforcement action, we are required to act reasonably and responsibly and maximize the use of resources and do so in a proportionate, accountable, transparent, and consistent way. We treat each case on its merits.” (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ Geomagnetic activity forecast for the period December 23 - January 18, 2017 --- Geomagnetic field will be: quiet on December 30 - 31, January 1, 8 - 11 mostly quiet on January 2, 12, 15 - 16 quiet to unsettled on January 2 - 3, 14, 29 quiet to active on January 4, 6 - 7, 13, 17 active to disturbed on January 5, 18 Amplifications of the solar wind from coronal holes are expected on December 23 - 25, January 3 - 8, 17 - 18. Remark: - Parenthesis means lower probability of activity enhancement (F. K. Janda, OK1HH, (Propagation outlook from PIG via WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DXLD) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2016 Dec 26 0416 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 19 - 25 December 2016 Solar activity was at background levels through the period. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit reached high levels throughout the reporting period with a peak flux of 29,524 pfu on 24/1830 UTC. Geomagnetic field activity was quiet levels on 19 Dec and mostly quiet levels with an isolated period of unsettled conditions on 20 Dec. Activity increased to active with an isolated period of G2 (Moderate) storm levels late on 21 Dec due to the onset of a positive polarity CH HSS increasing wind speeds from around 350 km/s to over 650 km/s. An isolated period of G1 (Minor) was observed early on 22 Dec before geomagnetic activity decreased to unsettled and activity conditions through 23 Dec. 24 Dec underwent a further decrease with quiet to unsettled conditions throughout the day despite wind speeds maintaining between 600-750 km/s. Quiet to unsettled conditions were isolated by frequent periods of active levels on 25 Dec as the influence of a positive polarity CH HSS continued to keep solar wind speeds enhanced to around 700 km/s. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 26 DEC 2016 - 21 JAN 2017 Solar activity is expected to be at very low levels throughout the outlook 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 from 26-29 Dec, 31 Dec-02 Jan, 04-13 Jan, and 18-21 Jan due to multiple CH HSS influences; normal to moderate levels are expected on 30 Dec, 03 Jan, and 14-17 Jan. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at quiet to G1 (Minor) levels on 26 Dec due to CH HSS influences. G1 (Minor) conditions are also likely on 04-05 Jan and 17-19 Jan. Active conditions are likely on 30 Dec, 06-07 Jan, and 20-21 Jan. Unsettled conditions are likely on 31 Dec, 02-03 Jan, 08 Jan, and 14 Jan. All anticipated enhancements in field activity are due to recurrent CH HSSs. Mostly quiet conditions are expected for the remainder of the outlook period. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2016 Dec 26 0416 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 2016-12-26 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2016 Dec 26 73 12 3 2016 Dec 27 73 5 2 2016 Dec 28 75 5 2 2016 Dec 29 75 5 2 2016 Dec 30 75 15 4 2016 Dec 31 75 10 3 2017 Jan 01 77 5 2 2017 Jan 02 77 8 3 2017 Jan 03 77 10 3 2017 Jan 04 77 20 5 2017 Jan 05 77 22 5 2017 Jan 06 79 16 4 2017 Jan 07 79 14 4 2017 Jan 08 79 6 3 2017 Jan 09 79 5 2 2017 Jan 10 77 5 2 2017 Jan 11 77 5 2 2017 Jan 12 77 5 2 2017 Jan 13 77 5 2 2017 Jan 14 75 10 3 2017 Jan 15 75 5 2 2017 Jan 16 75 5 2 2017 Jan 17 75 25 5 2017 Jan 18 75 20 5 2017 Jan 19 75 25 5 2017 Jan 20 73 18 4 2017 Jan 21 73 18 4 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1858, DXLD) ###