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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1861 CONTENTS: *DX and station news about: Alaska, Angola, Anguilla, Australia, Biafra non, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Cuba, Ethiopia, Germany non, India, Laos, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Solomon Islands, Ukraine, USA, Vatican SHORTWAVE AIRINGS of WORLD OF RADIO 1861, January 20-27, 2017 Thu 1230 WRMI 9955 6855 [confirmed] Thu 2130 WRMI 11580 [confirmed] Fri 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed] Fri 2230 WRMI 5950 6855 11580 [all confirmed; NEW] Sat 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed] Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1531 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [confirmed in Italy] Sat 2030v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sat 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed] Sun 0410v WA0RCR 1860-AM [confirmed] Sun 1130 HLR 9485-CUSB Mon 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed] Mon 0400v WBCQ 5130v-AM Area 51 Mon 0430 WRMI 9955 Tue 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 6855 Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 Tue 2300 WRMI 9955 Wed 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB Wed 1000 WRMI 5850 6855 Wed 1415 WRMI 9955 6855 Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v Thu 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS: Tnx to Dr Harald Gabler and the Rhein-Main Radio Club. http://www.rmrc.de/index.php/rmrc-audio-plattform/podcast/glenn-hauser-wor ALTERNATIVE PODCASTS, tnx Stephen Cooper: http://shortwave.am/wor.xml ANOTHER PODCAST ALTERNATIVE, tnx to Keith Weston: http://feeds.feedburner.com/GlennHausersWorldOfRadio NOW tnx to Keith Weston, also Podcasts via iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/glenn-hausers-world-of-radio/id1123369861 AND via Google Play Music: http://bit.ly/worldofradio OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org DAY-BY-DAY ARCHIVE OF GLENN HAUSER`S LOG REPORTS: Unedited, uncondensed, unchanged from original version, many of them too complex, minutely researched, multi-frequency, opinionated, inconsequential, off-topic, or lengthy for some log editors to manage; and also ahead of their availability in these weekly issues: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser NOTE: I have *resolved* to make DXLD leaner, more selective, as I seriously need to reduce my workload, much of which has been merely editing gobs of material into presentable form. This makes it even more important to be a member of the DXLD yg for additional material which may not make it into weekly 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. 6100, Radio Afghanistan, Jan 14 1526 - Tried for this station just about every day, but no chance here due to KCBS on same frequency. KCBS is in AM + LSB, and usually at good to very good levels. Afghanistan stood no chance (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Below starts the first of many logs by Walt Salmaniw from his latest DX-pedition. For details on that see DX-PEDITIONS far below ~~~~~~~~ ** ALASKA [and non]. 850, Nome, KICY, Jan 7, 1134 - I recorded 850 overnight to see what I could hear. Using a NW BOG. Quite an amazing assortment. What really amazed me was how the ionosphere would change propagation. At this time, KICY was coming in very well in Russian, giving an email address and postal address in St. Petersburg, Russia. Before, and within about a minute, it swung over to KHHO, Tacoma WA; almost 180 degree difference with overnight Fox Sports Radio feed (FS1). Disappointing that they gave no legal IDs, apart from earlier in the evening. At other times, I also heard KOA from Denver (earlier in the evening). Overall, a fascinating exercise! 850, Nome, 50 kW, KICY, Jan 7, 1650 - Very good reception with inspirational music, then ID after the TOH. A good Alaskan morning. 'Going to the Rock' at 1703 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALASKA. 890, Homer, 10 kW, KBBI, Jan 7, 1458 - Dead air at S9+40. Cochannel CJDC Dawson Creek audible with C&W music and ID just before TOH. Crash start into NPR's Weekend Edition. No local IDs for KBBI (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALASKA. 1170, North Pole, KJNP, Jan 7, 0623 - One of my favourite local Alaskan stations, with 'moccasin telegraph' For example, 'your favourite wife' to her trapper husband, etc. Great reception at times, but occasionally fading down to be replaced by lower 48 station(s) (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALASKA. 2450, Kodiak USCG, HF DRM tests, Jan 10 0410 - 100% copy. No audio, but 3 'chapters' decoded. First shows multiple pages, including contact information and broadcast schedule. All starts from 1600 UT with schedule starting on 31 Oct. Present schedule from 9 Jan on 2450, changes to 6850 on the 11th, then 5200 on the 13th, then 8000 on the 16th, and back to 2450 on the 18th, etc. Schedule finishes at 1600 on the 27 Feb on 12100. The other two 'buttons' are not supported by DReaM software: USCG AIS Data, and Binary File Pool. Both give error message as follows: 'No data service or data service not supported'. Data bit rate is 11.50 kbps, and SNR is 21.6 dB, so very strong, as one would expect into Masset. S9 + 10 to 15 signal. Other chapters include: Marine Safety Information Bulletin, Kodiak Airport Weather, Cordova Mudhole Weather, NOAA buoy Portlock Bank, Weather Maps, Google Top Stories, ESPN Sports. On the Kodiak weather, I get an Error code: 'expected NML Code 0x02, go 0x03. Nonetheless, I can still decipher the weather. Same errors for the next two. Weather maps only have a list of 4: Alaska Current Weather Map, Alaska NOAA 24-HR Surface Forecast, Alaska NOAA 48-HR Wind and Wave Forecast, and Alaska NOAA Daily Sea Ice Concentration Analysis. No maps themselves. The news features come in very well, including one: 'Yahoo isn't really going away (at least not yet) - The Verge. The ESPN Sports, however gives the same error message. Interesting, but I would have preferred some audio as well! Still going at 0427 tune-out. 5200, COMMSTA Kodiak, USCG DRM tests, Jan 14, 0134 - Perfect reception of this frequency, which is ideal with the relatively short range night time path. SNR 24.5 dB, so perfect reception! 5200, Kodiak COMMSTA USCG DRM test, Jan 15, 0124 - Crash start at 0124. I just happened to be looking at 5110 when I saw an extremely powerful DRM signal on the Perseus waterfall. Interesting, as the schedule indicates they are using 5200 until 1600 on the 16th, when a switch to 8000 is planned. Not sure whether this is 24/7 or not. 100% copy, of course (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALASKA [and non]. 7355, Jan 12 at 1303, RNZI news in English and 1306 about a Bougainville separatist group, first mixed with religious music making 4 Hz SAH, and 1306 talk in Chinese. About equal levels adding up to S9 to S9+10. I`m not the first to notice this clash, which seriously appears to be by KNLS, which is supposed to stop 7355 at 1300*, just in time for *RNZI. It does have Chinese scheduled at 1300 on both transmitters, 9655 designated Channel 61, and 9680 as Channel 6 on this undated schedule: http://www.knls.org/broadcasting-front.html Meanwhile, 7355 is designated channel 51 --- what`s this channel business? Meaningless to anylistener, probably in-house terminology, and mixing up 51 with 61 might account for punching in the wrong frequency for the 1300 broadcast! The KNLS Chinese page, http://www.smzg.org/home/ however, claims the 1300 broadcast is on 9655 and 9920, which appear to have been the A-15 frequencies. By 1404 recheck, RNZI is clear on 7355 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9615, Anchor Point, 100 kW/270 deg, KNLS, Jan 7, 1429 - DX tips for beginners until 1430, on how to eliminate/reduce noise sources, then ID (New Life Station) and into inspirational music. Good level, on an otherwise very poor morning. 2nd transmitter on, at 9655 (100 kW/300 deg) in Mandarin at stronger levels by comparison. Very good. 9615, Anchor Point, 100 kW/270 deg, KNLS, Jan 8, 1409 - Excellent reception this morning. A huge change from yesterday's mediocre conditions. About the city of Cleveland and Museum of Rock and Roll. Into True stories from the Bible in special English at 1411. 9615, ALASKA (NON), Anchor Point, KNLS, Jan 14, 1445 - No sign of KNLS's 2nd transmitter this morning. Supposed to be on in English (and usually booms into Masset, and heard a number of times this visit) between 1400 and 1500. The other transmitter on 9655 is SIO 5-5-5 at this time, in Mandarin. Next day, Jan 15th, still not there, but neither is 9655. Instead, I'm quite certain that the Mandarin language transmitter is today (the 15th) on 7355 with the same 5-5-5 signal. No chance at all if RNZI is there cochannel! Yes it is! I can just make it out on my SW/NE directed ALA 100 antenna. The other 3: NW Beverage, SW DKAZ, and N Beverage don't make them out. Poor frequency management on KNLS's part. 9655, Anchor Point, 100 kW/300 deg, KNLS, Jan 11, 1442 - Mandarin programming with English lessons, 'My mother knitted an afghan and entered it into the Tennessee state fair and one [sic]'. Emphasizing the word fair and various meanings. Excellent reception as is the English hour on 9615 (100 kW/270 deg). Interviewed a marine colonel, Terry White, at 1445. Into a Christian music program at 1447. 9680, Anchor Point, 100 kW/300 deg, KNLS, Jan 12, 1507 - Looking at my Perseus waterfall, I saw two incredibly strong signals. Both, as it turns out, are from KNLS. 9680 is in Russian, and 9655 is in Mandarin. This day in history noted, then into a modern vocal in English (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALBANIA. Log Radio Tirana, Albanian language, North America service on Jan 14, at 0046-0056 UT 7474.975, North America service daily 0000-0059 UT, noted tonight at 0046 UT only heard on remote units in Doha Qatar Middle East at S=9+15dB signal level, also in Netherlands and Belgium remote units at fair S=8 signals, BUT NIL - NOTHING heard on that channel in North American SDR installations in NJ MA, and MI states near NJ, NY and Detroit. Shijak broadcast center antenna only propagates to Europe and Near East / Middle East target at this hour. Audio signal is not clean, remain some buzzy signal, like still 17 x 100 Hertz distance apart audio peaks visible. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I could not hear 7390 on the 13th, but it was audible today the 14th, at poor strength, around S3 to 4 [for the 08-10 UT in Albanian]. I also checked 7465 at 2030 on the 13th and the German service was just audible with a signal peaking to about S2 in local noise. This and English need to be checked again as propagation is very poor, and probably the reason for such a low strength signal. But if their output is only 50 kW then weak signals will occur in conditions like this. 73 from (Noel Green, NW England, Jan 14, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I'm always shocked, that the 7475 kHz signal in Doha Middle East is much much better than in Western Europe, GB/IRL and east coast North America. The antenna in use at Shijak has a favour azimuth, towards the 111 degrees azimuth path of 3430 km distance. {111 + 180 degrees- forward, says minus 20 degrees sidelobe of 310 degree mainlobe towards North America} 73 wolfie (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) Wolfie, there were reports that their antennas were being vandalised by locals, so maybe they use what antenna is available these days. With a beamed antenna and good propagation, 50 kW should reach Stateside, so why the signal is so good in the Middle East but not over the pond --- who knows. I've noticed that Greece has been doing badly on 9 MHz to N America with either 100 or 170 kW, and this will be because they are using a frequency that's too high for this season --- but at least it gets there, but Shijak doesn't. Drita doesn't seem to want to make any comment about anything, so without information we can only guess. 73 from (Noel Green, ibid.) Attn. Drejtorit te Programeve RTSH, Z. Rezar Aga Cc: Bashkepunetoreve monitorues te Radio Tiranes ne EU, USA. HFCC Secretariat Pershendetje, Sot, me kerkese te z. Astrit Ibro, do te pergatis plan- perdorimin e Vales se Mesme, 1395 KHz r/st. Fllake-Durres, per qellimet e Radio Tiranes, ne Gjuhet: Italisht, Fregjisht, Gjermanisht e Shqip Bashkatdhetaret. Kjo kerkese erdhi pas nderprerjes me 1 Janar 2017 te transmetimeve te Fllakes ne 1395 KHz per TWR-Vjena (Trans World Radio - Radio Fetare Protestante) kliente e rregullt qe nga vitet 1989-1990. Mbulimi ne valet e Mesme eshte rajonal, vala hapesinore max deri ne 250km ne vije ajrore. Prandaj keto transmetime ne vale te mesme mund te kryhen additional, ne paralel me valet e shkurtra te Shijakut, mqs. valet e shkurtra perdoren per degjime ne distanca te largeta: brenda nje kontinenti e ujrat perreth, si dhe nga kontinenti ne kontinent (sky wave - vala hapesinore). Gjuhet Greqisht, Serbisht e Turqisht kryhen prej vitesh vetem ... ne vale te Mesme. (Inxh. Drita Cico, Pergj. e Qendres se Kontrollit qe nga viti 1981 Menaxhere e Valeve te Shkurtra te Radio Tiranes qe nga viti 2005, cc to DXLD) I think I see something about broadcasting Italian and French on 1395??? A very good suggestion, whoever it comes from, if I'm correct. 1395 is a good signal here, and should be in Germany too. But co-channel stations have appeared since TWR stopped using the frequency at night - my guess is they are from the Netherlands (Noel Green, ibid.) [Google translation of above:] Attn. ART Program Director, Mr. Rezar Aga Cc: Collaborators monitoring of Radio Tirana in EU, USA. HFCC Secretariat Hello, Today, at the request of Mr. Astrit Ibro, prepare plans that use Vales Middle 1395 KHz r / st. Fllake-Durres, for the purposes of Radio Tirana, Languages: Italian, French, German and Chinese compatriots. This request came after January 1, 2017 termination of transmissions Fllakes on 1395 KHz Vienna for TWR (Trans World Radio - Radio Religion Protestant) regular customers since years 1989-1990. Coverage in the Middle valet regional spatial wave max up to 250 km as the crow flies. Therefore these medium-wave transmissions can be carried out additional, parallel with shorter waves Shijak, MQS. Short waves are used to hearing over long distances: within a continent of surrounding waters, and from continent to continent (sky wave - wave space) Languages Greek, Serbian and Turkish performed for years, only on medium wave. (Eng. Drita Cico, Ans. The Control Centre since 1981 Manager shortwave radio to Radio Tirana since 2005) (via gh, DXLD) ** ALBANIA [and non]. RADIOMINNEN: ALBANSKA "RADIO ARBËRIA" I NORRKÖPING Den fantastiska DX-boken läser jag bit för bit, i måndags presenterade jag den också för medlemmar i Norrköpings Radioklubb. När jag läser om pionjärsändningar på 1920-talet och diverse fadäser, kommer jag osökt att tänka på min egen insats med rundradiosändningar. 1998 satte min fru Samka och hennes kompis Teuta igång med närradiosändningar på albanska en gång i veckan under namnet "Radio Arbëria" på 89.0 mHz. Jag var i hög grad engagerad från början som programproducent med de båda damerna som hallåor. Men då Teuta flyttade till Stockholm ville inte Samka fortsätta längre. Då övertog jag ansvaret med unge Getoar Abrashi, son till min svåger och svägerska som tekniker och Arjeta, Sebi, Bukurije, Fatmir och Nderim vid mikrofonen. Vi gjorde planeringen varje fredag på stadsbiblioteket, sändningarna gick lördag eftermiddag, och Geti som bodde vägg i vägg med mig fick audiokassetterna med den musik jag gjort i ordning för programmen. Det var lite primitivt, men nu hade albanerna i Norrköping med omnejd lokala program på sitt eget språk. Den albanska föreningen sponsrade oss så länge det gick. Jag satt i regel hemma i bostaden och följde programmen med viss kontakt med studioungdomarna via telefon. Fadäser ja. Nyhetsuppläsningarna var inte alltid väl förberedda, och en gång stakade sig unga Arjeta gång på gång. När hon till sist tragglat sig igenom nyheterna och trodde att mikrofonen var bortkopplad utbrast hon ett innerligt "å, fy faan." Det hördes förstås perfekt. En gång hade teamet gett sig ut och badat och de lyckads glömma att det var dags för sändning. Trogne och pålitlige Geti (Getoar) satt vid manöverbordet och fick presentera lite musik i väntan på de försumliga. De kom efter nära en halvtimme, skamsna och ångerfulla. Jag behövde inte ta i så hårt, de fattade ändå. Men i regel var det god disciplin och gott humör. Jag var allergisk mot den ylande typ av sång som börjat utbreda sig i Kosova och som kallas tallava, främst bland romska musiker men sen också albanska. Det var sträng tillsägelse till teamet att inte spela annat än ordentlig albansk musik. Så hade jag förberett en kassett med sångerskan Merita Halili. Men jag hade ställt in fel på bandet. Det märkte jag genast då sången började, och omedelbart ringde det i telefonen. Det var Sebi som sa: "Men Ullmar, hon sjunger ju på turkiska! Vad ska vi göra?" - Det är lugnt, sa jag, du kan väl säga några ord. Och när Merita sjungit färdigt annonserade Sebi elegant: "Kära lyssnare, ni har ju hört vår berömda sångerska Merita Halili sjunga en sång på turkiska!" En gång hade jag förberett en liten tävling. Det var en text som lästes upp där det gällde för lyssnarna att notera och översätta några "svalbanska" ord. Texten började: "Nexhat stack ut hunden (hundën = näsan) genom fönstret." - Där nere på gården kom en svensk granne gående och ropade till Nexhat: "Hur är läget nu i Kosova?" varpå Nexhat svarade: "Det är bättre nu, när luften (luftën= kriget) har tagit slut." ---- Och så gick det på. Första uppläsningen gick bra, men andra gången brast det för Sebi när hon höll på och läste. Hon blev så full i skratt att hon måste avbryta. Men då hade redan vinnaren hört av sig, full poäng fick han för de tio orden i tävlingen. Men år 2002 var pengarna definitivt slut. Vi måste upphöra med sändningarna. Teamet har skingrats, men ibland har vi kontakt. Och vi var alla överens om att det var något unikt vi sysslat med. Särskilt unikt för den svensk som var albansk programproducent.... Men jag hade ju redan tidigare varit världens förmodligen förste och ende icke-alban som jobbat som hemspråkslärare I albanska. De flesta av eleverna har jag kontakt med på Facebook idag. Och en f.d. elev, Aferdita, som är avdelningschef i Karlskrona kommun numera, skrev nyligen till mig: "Du lever inte bara i våra minnen utan i våra hjärtan...." (ULLMAR QVICK i januari 2017 via Svensk DX-Historia, SW Bulletin Jan 15 via DXLD) [Google translation:] RADIO MEMORIES: Albanian "RADIO Arberia" In NORRKÖPING The stunning DX book I read bit by bit, on Monday, I introduced also for members of Norrköping Radio Club. When I read about pioneering broadcasts in the 1920s and various gaffes, I will springs to mind my own contribution to broadcasting. 1998 Samka put my wife and her friend Teuta started with community radio broadcasts in Albanian once a week during name "Radio Arberia" on 89.0 MHz. I was greatly involved from the beginning as a program producer with the two ladies as announcers. But then Teuta moved to Stockholm Samka did not want to continue anymore. When I took over the responsibility of young Getoar Abrashi, My son-in-law as a technician and Arjeta, Sebi, Bukurije, Fatmir and Nderim at the microphone. We did planning every Friday at the city library, the broadcasts was Saturday afternoon, and Geti who lived next door to I got audio cassettes with the music I made the order for the programs. It was a bit primitive, but now the Albanians in Norrköping and vicinity local programs in their own language. the Albanian Association sponsored us as long as possible. I was usually at home in the house and followed the program with some contact with the young studio by phone. Gaffes yes. News Reading Arna was not always well prepared, and once stumbled young Arjeta repeatedly. When she Finally tragglat through the news and thought the microphone was unplugged she exclaimed a heartfelt "Oh, fy FAAN." The heard understood perfectly. Once the team had gone out and taken a bath and lyckads forget that it was time for broadcast. Faithful and trustworthy Geti (Getoar) sat at the control desk and got to present some music while waiting for the defaulter. They came after nearly half an hour, ashamed and remorseful. I did not take in as much, they took anyway. But usually it was good discipline and good humor. I was allergic to the howling type of song that started to propagate in Kosova and called tallava, mainly among Roma musician but then also Albanian. There was strict reprimand to the team not to play other than proper Albanian music. So I had prepared a tape with singer Merita Halili. But I had set the wrong tape. I noticed that as soon as the singing began, and immediately rang the phone. It was Sebi said, "But Ullmar, she sings in Turkish What should we do? "- It's okay, I said, you can say a few words. And when Merita finished singing advertised Sebi elegant: "Dear listeners, you have heard our famous singer Merita Halili sing a song in Turkish!" Once I had prepared a little competition. It was a text that was read out where it came for listeners to record and translate some "svalbanska" word. The text began: "Nexhat sticking out dog (dog = nose) through the window." - Down on yard came a Swedish neighbor walking and shouting at Nexhat: "What is the situation now in Kosovo?" Nexhat then replied: "It is better now, when the air (air = war) has run out." ---- And so it went on. First reading went well, but the second time it burst of Sebi when she was reading. She was so full of laughter that she must stop. But when the winner had already been in touch, full credit he received for the ten words in the contest. But in 2002 the money was definitely over. We must stop the broadcasts. The team has been dispersed, but sometimes we have Contact. And we all agreed that it was something unique, we worked with. Especially unique to the Swedish were Albanian program producer .... But I had already been probably the world's first and only non- Albanians who worked as a language teacher in Albanian. Most of the students I have contact with on Facebook today. And a former student, Aferdita, who is head of department in Karlskrona Municipality now, recently wrote to me: "You do not live only in our memories, but in our hearts ...." (ULLMAR Qvick in January 2017 via the Swedish DX History via SW Bulletin Jan 15 via DXLD) ** ANGOLA. [Re 17-02:] Hi Bill, Jan 13, listening 0232-0406, on 4949.73, to Angola with very respectable audio level; wide variety of music (tango, ballads, pop, etc.); 0300-0303 & 0400-0403, with time pips and brief news with several sound bites; good number of clear IDs; heard with QRN. Certainly a very good day of entertaining music. My audio at http://goo.gl/BvZ9CT (Ron Howard, Calif., dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4949.72, Jan 16 at 0406, good modulation on S9 signal, Portuguese time check for 5:06, ID in passing as Rádio Nacional de Angola (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, With Angola it seems to be a matter of chance whether they are there or not. Definitely temporarily off air on Jan 15, but I'm not sure about Jan 16 and 17. Was anyone hearing them at these times, so I know it wasn't a propagation problem? Angola is never heard well in Jo'burg. 4949.7, Angola, Rádio Nacional, Mulenvos. Jan 15, 2017 Sunday. 1908- 1913. Off air with no carrier when I tuned in at 1908, but suddenly came on with a crash start at 1910. Portuguese talk by OM, soon joined by YL. Fair. Jo'burg sunset 1705. 4949.7, Angola. Rádio Nacional, Mulenvos. Jan 16, 2017 Monday. 1920- 1925. Nothing heard, no carrier found. Jo'burg sunset 1705. 4949.7, Angola. Rádio Nacional, Mulenvos. Jan 17, 2017 Tuesday. 0435- 0438. Nothing heard, no carrier found. Not sure if they've been off the whole night. Jo'burg sunrise 0331 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA. Drake R8E, Sony ICF2001D. dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Bill & Glenn, Jan 17, clearly no Angola on the air at 0135, nor through subsequent checking till 0300. Not any trace of a carrier. (Ron Howard, California, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DXLD) 4949.7, Angola. Rádio Nacional, Mulenvos. Jan 17, 2017 Tuesday. 1832- 1835. Nothing heard, no carrier. Jo'burg sunset 1705. 4949.7, Angola. Rádio Nacional, Mulenvos. Jan 18, 2017 Wednesday. 0006-0022. Nothing heard, no carrier. Jo'burg sunrise 0332. 4949.7, Angola. Rádio Nacional, Mulenvos. Jan 18, 2017 Wednesday. 0445-0450. Nothing heard, no carrier. Jo'burg sunrise 0332 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA. Drake R8E, Sony ICF2001D. dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4949.74, R. Nacional de Angola. Bill Bingham (RSA) and I have recently reported their absence. At 0146, through subsequent checking till 0503, on Jan 18, found them still silent, with no hint of a carrier. Update from Bill - Angola back on the air, at 1745, on Jan 18. Good news! (Ron Howard, Calif., dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4949.727, S=5-6 or -90dBm on threshold signal level here in southern Germany, around 1933 UT on Jan 18. 73 wolfie (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DX LISTENING DIGESET) ** ANGUILLA. 6090, Jan 12 at 0040 check, University Network is still silent. Ditto day frequency 11775 Jan 12 at 1522, 1849 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DX LISTENING DIGEST) And still all missing thru Jan 21 (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11775, University Network; 1606, 14-Jan; Still missing. Different huxter on usually // 13845 via WWCR; no Dead Dr. Gene or Rev. Barbi & Bro. HyStairical cutting back! The end must be near! Repent ye listloggers (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW + 125' bow-tie, ----- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! -----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) {6090 back on UT Jan 22} ** ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA. Re: ``1160, Caribbean Radio Lighthouse “soon 10,000 Watts” (Jan Edh, ARC via DXWW-II, IRCA DX Monitor Jan 7 via DXLD) WRTH 2017 already has it at 10 kW (gh)`` In an unsuccessful attempt to find out since when Caribbean Radio Lighthouse 1160 kHz http://www.radiolighthouse.org/ has been broadcasting with 10 kW, I found a video of the station at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9c2Zgjrhog This video is a presentation of the Caribbean Radio Lighthouse for supporters and potential donors of the station. According to youtube the video was uploaded on 1. December 2015. The interesting point for me was that already in this video they say that they are broadcasting with 10 kW (Dr Hansjoerg Biener 18 January 2017, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 1611, UnID, Jan 7, 1648 - Noticed a notch in the secondry display on the Perseus. Three carriers are present: 1610.897, 1611.000, and 1611.023. None beyond a very subtle muddle of audio. Virtually no DU reception today. 1629, AUSTRALIA, UnID, Jan 6, 1459 - A mishmash of carriers here, with weak audio heard. At least 7 carriers noted on 1628.913, 1628.951, 1628.984, 1628.987, 1628.989, 1629.000 (seems to be gone when rechecked at 1517), 1629.027, and 1629.035. One almost sounded like machine generated, so I wonder about the possibility of a Japanese Traffic Information network that's shown in PAL. 1656, Bundaberg, Queensland, 0.4 kW, 4UCB, Vision Network, Jan 9, 1521 - I'm thinking this is the station sometimes coming in at fair level. Presumptive, as it does not sound like the Voice of the Australian Chinese, which I've often heard here, nor the Greek or Arabic stations listed. Multiple carriers seen, though on 1656.023, 1656.002, 1655.997 and very weak 1655.994. Sometimes fading up to almost good level. 1656, Melbourne, 0.4 kW, Rythmos AM, Jan 13, 1630 - Quite good reception with ads to 1630 and into Greek music. Presumed it's them, as there are no other stations that would fit. Probably the best heard on this DXpedition. A very good morning. 1701, Brisbane, 0.1 kW, Radio Brisvaani, Jan 6, 1505 - Three almost equal carriers noted on 1701.023, 1701.066, and 1701.092, but with Hindi music dominating. Nothing terribly strong on this modest Asiatic/DU mix this morning (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 2325, Tennant Creek, 50 kW/ND, ABC Northern Territorial Service, Jan 6, 1415 - Just caught them with temperatures. Hot! Adelaide at 41 degrees. Meningococcal outbreak in Queensland, and noted a worldwide shortage of the vaccine. Very good reception. ABC Local Radio ID at 1423. // 2485 Katherine equally strong, while 4835 Alice Springs (which was a fraction of a second behind) just slightly less strong. They'll be missed! At 1426, speculation of Costco coming to Darwin (hopes have been dashed). 2325, Tennant Creek, 50 kW/ND, ABC Northern Territorial Service, Jan 15, 1356 - Excellent reception, except for some static crashes (as Ron Howard also noted yesterday!). Program, 'From the Archives', but audio feed lost about 1358, so switched to 2485 (Katherine, NT) which continued at slightly stronger level, and 4835 (Alice Springs, NT) also very strong, but marred by OTH radar, right in the 60 mb tropical band (I guess the Chinese military doesn't care about such things). Switched back to 2325, and now with filler music, but regained the feed about 1402 or so. No top of hour news or ABC ID noted. I'll definitely miss the SW demise of ABC/RA at the end of the month! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 9580, Radio Australia at 1352 with male folk vocals and a man with the end of `Conversations` at 1356 giving web info, then rock instrumentals to program promo at 1359 and OC from 1400 through 1403 until news was joined in progress. Good Jan 12. This one is often lost in local noise often until 1300 and // frequencies of 12065 and 12085 have not been heard here for a while. Of course, this is all a moot point, I guess, as they will be gone from shortwave in twelve days time. Catch them while you still can (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Drake SPR4 Receiver, Drake TR7, Kenwood TS440S, and YouKits TJ5A Transceivers, AEA AT-300 and MFJ-941E Manual Tuners, LDG Z-100 Plus Auto Tuner, 40 meter and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA yg via DXLD) 9580, Jan 13 at 1338, no bigsig from RA as usual, and at first feared it off, but still there at very poor level, suffering from 9570 CRI/Cuba splash. MUF must be depressed, and no signals making it on 12085, 12065 (while 12050 WEWN is even JBA). By 1407, 9580 music has improved to S9-S5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, I've noticed in recent weeks that the RA signal on 9580 is actually better at my QTH around 1500 than it is at 1300 or 1400. Still in weakly at 1600 before daytime fadeout. Also better earlier at 1200 but deteriorates as sunrise approaches. Rather strange, not noted before. Sunrise MUF drop due to low sunspot activity? (Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas, Jan 14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) My theory would be that it`s the last hop, which gets a boost for a while, when the sun rises somewhat west of our meridians. Before then the MUF has fallen to its lowest before local sunrise; and afterwards our daylight absorption is as usual too much for it (tho sometimes it has remained audible by 1800). (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** AUSTRALIA. From: Reception Advice Date: January 12, 2017 at 7:35:06 PM EST To: Reception Advice Subject: ABC Short Wave Radio Services Thank you for your inquiry into the forthcoming closure of ABC short wave radio services. The ABC will end its shortwave transmission service in the Northern Territory and to international audiences from 31 January 2017. The move is in line with the national broadcaster’s commitment to dispense with outdated technology and to expand its digital content offerings including DAB+ digital radio, online and mobile services, together with FM services for international audiences. The majority of ABC audiences in the Northern Territory currently access ABC services via AM and FM and through on line ABC radio and digital radio services. There are many ways for people in remote locations to access information on emergencies such as cyclones. Firstly, those that are at home or in a fixed location have access to all of the ABC’s radio and TV networks via the VAST satellite service, which is free once the small dish and receiver are purchased and installed. For those on the move there are regular hourly broadcasts on shortwave radio from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology who provide very detailed weather reports on cyclones and other storm emergencies. Furthermore using the same technology as shortwave on the High Frequency (HF) radio bands is the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) radio service and several private and commercial HF two way radio networks. In fact the RFDS and the other HF networks provide far more benefit to remote people as the communications is two way and hence emergency messages can be broadcast in both directions thus alerting authorities to any individuals or groups than may need assistance in an emergency. Please see the attached Media Release regarding ABC Short Wave radio services http://about.abc.net.au/press-releases/shortwave-radio/ Kind Regards ABC ABC Reception Advice Communications Networks P 1300 13 9994 E reception.advice@abc.net.au http://abc.net.au/corp/enter/img/brandsignature.jpg (via Charles Harlich, Jan 12, DXLD) 'IT'S ESSENTIAL': OUTBACK WORKERS FIGHT ABC DECISION TO DITCH SHORTWAVE RADIO --- The Guardian - 15 hours ago It said the move was “in line with the national broadcaster's commitment to dispense with outdated technology and to expand its digital content offerings”. For some people living and working in the outback, shortwave is the only way they can listen to ... https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jan/18/its-essential-outback-workers-fight-abc-decision-to-ditch-shortwave-radio (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) Viz.: For some living and working in Australia’s outback, shortwave radio is the only way they can listen to the ABC – and their main daily contact with the rest of the world. But the ABC will end the service in two weeks A cattle and sheep property in the Australian outback. ‘You can imagine how isolating that would be without having access to the outside world via radio during the day,’ says Tracey Hayes. Photograph: Dan Peled/AAP [caption] Helen Davidson in Darwin, Tuesday 17 January 2017 19.06 EST Last modified on Tuesday 17 January 2017 21.06 EST “People that live out in contracting camps or mustering stock camps or outstations, and even a lot of the people who live in the bush on cattle stations, spend probably 100% of their waking hours out on the land and have very minimal contact with other human beings,” says Tracey Hayes, the chief executive of the Northern Territory Cattlemen’s Association. “You can imagine how isolating that would be without having access to the outside world via radio during the day while you’re out in the workplace. But I don’t think they took that into consideration.” Jaws drop at ABC as Michelle Guthrie defends Radio National cuts Amanda Meade [caption] Hayes is referring to a recent announcement by the ABC that, at the end of January, it would terminate its shortwave radio service, which broadcasts to the NT, Papua New Guinea and some parts of the Pacific region. It said the move was “in line with the national broadcaster’s commitment to dispense with outdated technology and to expand its digital content offerings”. For some people living and working in the outback, shortwave is the only way they can listen to the ABC. AM and FM bands don’t have the geographic reach across the sparsely populated territory and online streaming and Vast satellite radio is largely only available at home, close to the required infrastructure. But as essential as the service’s supporters say it is, they are few in number. And so the ABC decided in early December it would reinvest the $1.2m into bringing digital radio to Darwin and Hobart. It’s essential, to keep feeling mentally stimulated and feeling like you’re in touch with the world Tracey Hayes [caption] Hayes has spent her life on cattle stations. She suggests the ABC decision-makers on the east coast have little understanding of the isolation of outback living and how big a role the ABC can play in people’s mental and emotional wellbeing. “It’s essential, to keep feeling mentally stimulated and feeling like you’re in touch with the world and the rest of the community, to listen to our national broadcaster,” she says, and accuses the ABC of “loftiness” in dismissing their reliance on shortwave. Michael Mason, the ABC’s director of radio, said in December the broadcaster would service the “limited audience” of shortwave radio “through modern technology” instead. Hayes says that technology is of little help to people who aren’t in an office or home, and she questions the fairness of the ABC sacrificing their only remote mobile service in order to give city- dwellers yet another way of tuning in. “When I live in Darwin I enjoy listening to the radio via the broadcast app, I can hear it in my car, we don’t really need another one,” she says. “I’d certainly like to see the provision of resources go to people to people who are already disadvantaged.” She says the ABC has demonstrated “complete disregard” for people who live in the bush, who are of equal importance to people who live in urban areas. “It shows a loftiness that is disappointing,” she says. “Taxpayers are funding those decision-makers and I think they’ve got some explaining to do.” The ABC has largely dismissed the backlash, with the managing director, Michelle Guthrie, claiming just a handful of complaints had been made and many of them were from ham radio enthusiasts. [sic] It has also dismissed claims that the shut-off could endanger lives. ABC local radio is the official national emergency broadcaster and all Australians are instructed to tune in during events such as bushfires, floods and cyclones. Ranger services told the ABC’s Country Hour they relied on it during long remote trips, rather than secondhand reports over HF radio. But the ABC has sought to reassure people emergency alerts and weather updates can still be heard, via the Bureau of Meteorology and the rural flying doctors service’s HF broadcasts. It’s also urged people to tune into VHF radio, primarily used by mariners. “It’s not just about picking up the weather, it’s about picking up a lot more than that,” says Jay Mohr-Bell, a cattle station manager 100km southwest of Katherine. “They’re discounting the value of everything else that’s being picked up – even just a bit of local news. You listen to a show like the Country Hour and it’s info you wouldn’t get anywhere else.” Mohr-Bell claims he and others in the Katherine region approached the ABC a few years ago about moving local radio to the AM band so they could pick it up more often. He says the ABC refused at the time, specifically citing the shortwave service as a reason it was unnecessary. “It just goes to show it’s a decision that was made and they don’t care about the consequences and it’s done and dusted,” he says. You should be left in no doubt that the ABC has failed to adequately or properly assess the needs of Territorians Malarndirri McCarthy and Warren Snowdon [caption] Both Mohr-Bell and Hayes say they learned of the proposed scrapping via media reports, and there was no community consultation. “That in itself in this day and age shows a complete disregards and a level of arrogance that is not acceptable from a government-funded broadcaster,” Hayes says. NT Labor senator Malarndirri McCarthy and MP Warren Snowdon have spent much of the summer lobbying against the decision. McCarthy and the acting shadow communications minister, Mark Dreyfus, are expected to meet with Guthrie on Wednesday. McCarthy told Guardian Australia she felt the ABC had made a “massive error” in not seeking to find out who would be affected. “This is about short notice, and notice given at a period of the year when we know everyone is concentrating on Christmas and New Year and that’s unfair. Secondly they haven’t done their homework and given respect to the people of the Northern Territory by asking for information.” McCarthy and Snowdon wrote directly to Guthrie, who offered a response to what Guthrie called their “personal concerns”. In turn they replied that Guthrie had “clearly misunderstood” their role as representatives of constituents, and accused the ABC of having “no real idea of who will be affected and what alternative arrangements are available” for those losing the shortwave service. 'She doesn't get what we do': has ABC boss Michelle Guthrie got the insiders on her side? “You should be left in no doubt that the ABC has failed to adequately or properly assess the needs of Territorians who see shortwave as their only option.” Mohr notes there are lower level ABC staff, including rural reporters, who understand the importance of the service, but there’s nothing they can do. It’s the final nail in the coffin for him. “Once they shut this down for us out here, we’ve got no relevance with the ABC. We won’t be continuing to support them at all.” The ABC did not respond to questions. (via WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DXLD) END TO ABC'S HF SHORTWAVE RADIO SERVICE TO LEAVE REMOTE TRAVELLERS VULNERABLE, SAYS TOURIST OPERATOR === ABC Online - 9 hours ago Mick Hutton from Beadell Tours, who regularly travels through the western deserts with tourists, said there was no other service available to replace the shortwave. "The ABC broadcast over that HF radio is about our only connection during daylight ... http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-18/abc-shortwave-cuts-tourists-operator-pacific-island/8191374 (via Bruce MacGibbon, Artie Bigley, DXLD) Viz.: End to ABC's HF shortwave radio service to leave remote travellers vulnerable says tourist operator --- ABC Rural By Carl Curtain Photo: A shortwave radio supplier estimates more than 5,000 people regularly listen to ABC HF broadcasts. (ABC Rural: Carl Curtain) An Australian outback tour operator says remote travellers depend on the ABC's HF shortwave radio service for news, weather and general information. [link] Media player: "Space" to play, "M" to mute, "left" and "right" to seek. Audio: Mick Hutton and Garry Cratt speak about the ABC's shortwave service. (ABC News) The ABC has been heavily criticised by Northern Territory residents since it announced in December it would save $1.9 million by cutting the transmission. ABC Radio is currently broadcast throughout remote parts of Australia, as well as to international audiences in the Pacific islands. Mick Hutton from Beadell Tours, who regularly travels through the western deserts with tourists, said there was no other service available to replace the shortwave. "The ABC broadcast over that HF radio is about our only connection during daylight hours with what's going on in the world," he said. "That's about the only news, reliable weather forecasts, including your emergency warnings for bushfires and cyclones. "That's all you've got - there isn't anything else because there's no mobile phone service." Mr Hutton said once the service ends, travellers would need to use a satellite phone to source news. "There won't be any avenue for an emergency service broadcast and that's probably the most worrying," he said. "There are all sorts of things that can be done notifying people but it's exceptionally difficult if the people you're trying to notify don't have the equipment to be notified on." 'At least 5,000' people tuning into ABC's shortwave radio services A shortwave radio supplier estimates 5,000 people regularly use a shortwave in Australia and the Pacific to listen to ABC Radio. Photo: A cartoon from 'Friends of the ABC' regarding the decision to end the shortwave radio service. (Supplied: Philip Somerville) [cowboy on horseback with wobbly satellite dish balanced on horse head] Garry Cratt from Tecsun Radio Australia [sic] said the ABC should continue to provide people with basic information, especially those who cannot otherwise access other services. "I think it's fair to say there would be several thousand in the Pacific that would be listening to Radio Australia on a daily basis," he said. "Of course there are all those people in yachts and they're in an itinerant listening group, and then the stockmen as well. "I'd say there is at least 5,000." Mr Cratt took exception to the ABC's assertion that the shortwave radio is now 100-years-old and outdated. He said his business recently shipped 500 radios to the Solomon Islands to be distributed to outlying villages. "The Solomon Islands do have a fairly unreliable domestic shortwave service themselves but most people listen to Radio Australia," he said. "A lot of the places that do receive Radio Australia, there is no power for a start, so they're relying on batteries and solar panels. "The people that are listening, that will be affected, are those people who are maybe still back in the last century but that's not their fault." ABC Rural has contacted the ABC for comment. The ABC's decision to end Radio Australia's shortwave service has raised questions about who will fill the void. In a previous statement, the ABC said "the move is in line with the national broadcaster's commitment to dispense with outdated technology and to expand its digital content offerings including DAB+ digital radio, online and mobile services, together with FM services for international audiences. "The majority of ABC audiences in the Northern Territory currently access ABC services via AM and FM and all ABC radio and digital radio services are available on the VAST satellite service." Earlier on Wednesday, NT Labor Senator Malarndirri McCarthy posted on social media that she was meeting the ABC's managing director Michelle Guthrie to discuss the shortwave. "We listen to ABC, now you listen to Territorians," she tweeted. The end of shortwave transmission services is scheduled for January 31 (via WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DXLD) It looks like its 100% sure ABC will leave SW --- UPDATE FOR WOR!!! (Artie Bigley, DXLD) Viz.: Story image for shortwave radio from The Guardian ABC UNMOVED BY PLEAS TO SAVE SHORTWAVE RADIO SERVICE FOR REMOTE AREAS The Guardian-1 hour ago https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jan/19/abc-unmoved-by-pleas-to-save-shortwave-radio-service-for-remote-areas Exclusive: Federal MPs meet with managing director Michelle Guthrie to protest the decision to shut the service Michelle Guthrie, managing director of the ABC Michelle Guthrie met with MPs on Wednesday but the decision to close down the radio service that covers remote and Pacific regions remains. Photograph: Paul Miller/AAP [captions] Helen Davidson in Darwin Wednesday 18 January 2017 14.00 EST Last modified on Wednesday 18 January 2017 14.02 EST Comments 36 The ABC has remained steadfast in its decision to scrap the shortwave radio service, despite pleadings from federal Labor politicians in a meeting with the managing director, Michelle Guthrie. Federal senator and cabinet minister Nigel Scullion has joined the calls for ABC to reverse its “city-centric” decision and maintain the service. Shortly before Christmas the ABC announced it would cease transmitting through the shortwave radio service across the Northern Territory, Papua New Guinea, and parts of the Pacific, where people often can’t pick up AM or FM stations. 'It's essential': outback workers fight ABC decision to ditch shortwave radio The decision came as a shock to many, particularly outback residents and workers, who claimed there was no consultation carried out and no consideration of the technological and emotional impact it would have on people for whom shortwave was their only connection to the outside world. NT Labor senator Malarndirri McCarthy and Northern Territory MP Warren Snowdon have vocally lobbied against the decision over the past few weeks. On Wednesday McCarthy and the acting shadow communications minister, Mark Dreyfus, met with Guthrie, and McCarthy told Guardian Australia there was no change in the ABC’s plans. “It was certainly a good meeting in terms of being able to thrash out the concerns of the people of the Northern Territory and stakeholders, but in terms of the outcome, it certainly wasn’t a positive outcome,” she said. “The ABC has disappointingly continued to forget about the people of the Northern Territory and those concerns. “They’re still going ahead with the decision to remove the shortwave at the end of the month due to contractual issues. Michelle Guthrie is keen to come to the Northern Territory but clearly not until after the removal of shortwave.” McCarthy would not detail what the “contractual issues” were, and referred questions to the ABC, but said: “the board has made the decision based on that, in terms of their financial situation”. The ABC has been contacted with questions. McCarthy said it was apparent Guthrie had not received appropriate community consultation. “What I pointed out was that it was incredibly disappointing that the ABC hadn’t followed due process, and had failed to alert the people of the NT in a responsible and fair manner.” The ABC has said listeners will be able to receive the local broadcast through other technologies such as AM/FM radio, online streaming, and satellite TV. However a number of remote workers and residents have said that doesn’t help when they are on the move all day, something McCarthy said she didn’t think those in the ABC meeting realised. “For people who live on cattle stations, for truckies, for fishermen and women who have to work on the sea, there was really no deep comprehension of the serious and profound impact this will have,” she said. The Country Liberal senator for the Northern Territory, Nigel Scullion, said he was “deeply concerned” about the decision, which he said the ABC made by itself with no input from the Coalition government. 'She doesn't get what we do': has ABC boss Michelle Guthrie got the insiders on her side? “I have written to the ABC’s board asking it to reconsider its decision and have spoken to senior management in strong terms to express my concerns about the lack of consultation undertaken by the ABC in the NT before making this decision, and the implications it has for Territorians in emergency situations,” he told Guardian Australia. Advertisement Scullion said he shared concerns expressed about the “serious implications for the safety and emotional wellbeing of people living and working in remote parts of the territory” if the service was scrapped at the end of the month. “There is still time for the Sydney-based city-centric ABC to reverse this decision that was made without proper regard for the impact on remote Territorians.” McCarthy welcomed Scullion’s support, and called for him to urge cabinet to specifically reinvest in the shortwave service. The ABC has not responded to repeated requests for comment, but pointed Guardian Australia back to its original media release (via WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DXLD) The frequencies to be silenced are: NT Service: 4835 24h; 2485 & 2325 at 0830-2130; 5025 & 4910 at 2130-0830. Radio Australia: 17840, 15415, 15240 at 21-09; 9580, 12065, 12085 at 09-21 (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BAHRAIN. 9745, Abu Hayan, 10 kW/ND, Radio Bahrain, Jan 14, 0038 - Distinctive with their USB + Carrier mode in Arabic at fair level, but battling it out against PBS Nei Menggu in Hohhot, China with listed 50 kW/36 deg beam in Mongolian. Exotic sounding in itself (the PBS was at very good level, resulting in some splatter. Mongolian is definitely very distinct, and nothing at all like Chinese!). Rechecking at 0100, I could no longer hear anything, so either off, or propagation doesn't favour (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BIAFRA [non]. SECRETLAND(non), Brother Stair, instead of Radio Biafra via SPL Secretbrod, Jan 6 1859&1958 on 15325 SCB 100 kW / 195 deg to WeAf English, instead of Radio Biafra http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/01/brother-stair-instead-of-radio-biafra.html Brother HySTAIRical TOM via SPL Secretbrod on Jan 7 from 1500 15325 SCB 100 kW / 195 deg WeAf R.Biafra, dead air and off! 1600-1700 15325 SCB 100 kW / 195 deg WeAf English Brother HySTAIRical from 1800 15325 SCB 100 kW / 195 deg WeAf R.Biafra, dead air and off! http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/01/brother-hystairical-tom-via-spl_2.html Reception of Brother HySTAIRical via SPL Secretbrod, Jan 8 1500-1655 9465 SCB 050 kW / 030 deg EaEu English M-F (Sat/Sun*) 1500-2000 15325 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg WeAf English, not 1400-2000 1805-0200 9465 SCB 100 kW / 306 deg ENAm English, not 1700-0200 1800-2000 9700#SCB 050 kW / 306 deg WeEu English, as scheduled #1940-2000 9700 SMG 250 kW / 114 deg N/ME Rosary Sun Vatican Radio *Sat/Sun via same transmitter are broadcast IRRS R. Warra Wangeelaa and R. Santec 1500-1530 15515 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg EaAf Oromo Sat R Warra Wangeelaa 1500-1530 15190 SCB 050 kW / 090 deg SoAs English/German Sun R Santec http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/01/reception-of-brother-hystairical-via.html Day after day with different schedule on 15325 kHz, Jan 9 1500-1600 15325 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg WeAf English Radio Biafra London 1600-1800 15325 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg WeAf English Brother HySTAIRical 1800-2000 15325 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg WeAf English Radio Biafra London http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/01/day-after-day-with-different-schedule.html Updated schedule of Brother HySTAIRical via SPL Secretbrod 0800-1255 13600^SCB 100 kW / 126 deg N/ME English, no signal Jan 8-12* 1300-1655 11700^SCB 100 kW / 306 deg WeEu English, no signal Jan 8-12* 1500-1655 9465^SCB 050 kW / 030 deg EaEu English Mon-Fri 1600-1800 15325 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg WeAf English, not 1400-2000 1805-0200 9465^SCB 100 kW / 306 deg ENAm English, not 1700-0200 1800-2000 9700 SCB 050 kW / 306 deg WeEu English ^ unregistered frequencies in HFCC Database, except 13600 1000-2400 UT * mentioned in "updated" schedule of BS TOM, but inactive at present! http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/01/updated-schedule-of-brother-hystairical.html SECRETLAND, Radio Biafra & Brother Stair via SPL Secretbrod on Jan 13 1500-1601 15325 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg WeAf English Radio Biafra London 1602-1800 15325 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg WeAf English Brother HySTAIRical 1800-2000 15325 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg WeAf English Radio Biafra London http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/01/radio-biafra-brother-stair-via-spl.html 73 (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 5952.450, Siglo Veinte, 5 kW/ND, Emisora Pio XII, Jan 14, 0122 - Quite good reception in Spanish. Some splatter from 5950 (Very strong VOIRI Iran in listed Tajik with 500 kW at 65 deg beam to central Asia, but coming my way with ease!). 5952.4, Siglo Veinte, 5 kW/ND, Emisoras Pio XII, Jan 15, 0109 - I thought yesterday's reception was extraordinary, but today is even stronger. With a non-existent noise floor, an S9 signal sounds absolutely armchair. Several mentions of Pio XII. Very good all around. Measured on 5952.445 kHz tonight (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. UNIDentified, 5950.005 kHz S=9+10dB heard in Alberta Canada remote SDR installation. Spanish service? RMI Okeechobee FL? Spanish, or opposti-Castro "Radio República" from Europe relay? Noted 0218 to 0226 UT on Jan 14, S=9+10dB signal, listen to recording. Played movie "River Kwai March" played and Bolivia mentioned at 0229 UT, Emisoras Pio XII ID heard and sharp sudden off at 0229:50 UT on Jan 14. DBS-18 list of Anker Petersen DSWCI mentioned still 5952.5 kHz much higher in frequency. R Pío XII, Siglo XX, Llallagua, Potosi, Bolivia. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) This clip only has some talk in presumed Aymara, including some Spanish words, so it was really on 5950.0? RP XII Since heard on usual split channel frequency 5952.4+. It would be very strange if it jumped once to on-channel 5950.0. Precise 5950.005 he reported later as IRAN; see UNIDENTIFIED [non]. Perhaps there was confusing frequency readout from remote receiver? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) 5952.453, Jan 15 at 0203, Radio Pio Doce with conversation in Spanish, S9. Wolfgang Büschel a previous night was hearing something Spanish on 5950, not 5952+, and wondered if RPXII had moved, but not tonight. There is also a JBA carrier on 5950.0, not WRMI which now goes off at 0100. 5952+ already off at 0236 recheck (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5952.448, Heard at 0118 UT on Jan 17, S=7 or -88dBm signal strength on remote SDR unit in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Widely reported as Radio Pio Doce - two clear station ID's heard at 0130:15 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5952.45, Radio Pio Doce, at 0228, on Jan 17, start of the usual sign off format (whistling “Colonel Bogey March,” IDs and chimes); 0230*; mostly fair in USB (Ron Howard, Calif., dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5952.447, Emisoras Pio XII, 0028 UT on Jan 18, S=5-6 -96dBm poor, in remote unit at Edmonton Alberta CANADA, but S=7 in Madrid Spain Europe (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) ** BOLIVIA. 6025. RED PATRIA NUEVA. Enero 15. 0410-0426 UT. Música andina. A las 0418 se identifica la emisora y luego música contemporánea bailable. Salida del aire a las 0426. SINPO: 45434 con QRM de otras emisoras, especialmente Rumania Internacional, servicio en inglés en 6020 y Martí en 6030 (Claudio Galaz Toledo, RX: TECSUN PL-660, ANT: Hilo de 40 metros, QTH: Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 6134.82, R. Santa Cruz, 0204, Jan 17. Start of the usual "Santa Cruz" song, which ended at 0207; dead air (open carrier) still going at 0211 (Ron Howard, Calif., dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOUGAINVILLE. 3325, NBC Bougainville, 1134-1202*, Jan 17. DJ in Pidgin/Tok Pisin played EZL pop songs in English; 1201 start of the NBC news in English; suddenly off. So today they did not use their formal sign off format, but went back to business as usual. RRI Palangkaraya not propagating, so no QRM (Ron Howard, Calif., dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 5939.832, Rádio Voz Missionária, Camboriú SC, S=9+10dB noted in Alberta Canada, at 0217 UT on Jan 14. Female singer, rather popular Brazilian music played, not religious? 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL [and non]. 6010, usual bad mixture signal of both Brazilian and Colombian low powers. At 0410 UT on Jan 16: 6009.859 kHz S=5-6 weaker signal, and 6010.023 kHz S=7 signal strength. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 16, 2017, BC-DX 17 Jan via DXLD) So which was which? ** BRAZIL [and non]. 6090.003, Gedja [ETHIOPIA] well in Qatar, weak and tiny at Madrid and Edmonton, much stronger always at this hour 6089.960 kHz R Bandeirantes S=8 in Alberta Canada (Wolfgang Büschel, Checked between 07 and 08 UT via SDR remote units in Qatar, Spain and Alberta, Canada, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6089.959, Rádio Bandeirantes heard at 0212 UT on Jan 14 in Alberta Canada remote SDR post, S=9+5dB. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL [and non]. 9664.915, Jan 16 at 0615, Voz Missionária measured here, also with CCI from another weak carrier slightly offset from it (presumably P`yongyang, closer to 9665.0). What catches my attention is that with 1-kHz step tuning on R75, I hear exactly the same pitch het from the next ZY up, Rádio Canção Nova, 9674.915, then measured separately (at least they are within 2 Hz of the same offset). 9674.895 approx., Jan 13 at 2237, JBA talk probably in Portuguese, from R. Canção Nova, Cachoeira Paulista SP, recently reactivated and so missed any listing in the WRTH 2017 even as double-daggered for inactive or single-daggered for irregular (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. CRISE NA SUPER RADIO TUPI RIO DE JANEIRO [I refuse to fix up his unpunxuated post, run-on sentences, no caps, many accents missing, etc. – gh] colegas radio escuta fiquei sabendo hoje por uma página organizada por funcionários e radialistas da super radio tupi do rj no facebook de nome volta tupi a super radio tupi do rio de janeiro atravessa uma crise sem precedentes funcionarios radialistas jornalistas estao a 6 meses sem receber salários hoje a tarde no Centro dom rio de janeiro no ministério público jornalistas radialistas funcionários em geral da emissora farão um grande protesto manifestação A emissora está a uma semana fora do ar sem programação normal sem radialista comunicador a emissora mantém apenas músicas contínuas no ar com pequenos intervalos comerciais A super radio tupi do rio de janeiro e uma emissora bem conhecida dos que praticam escutas em AM pois seu forte sinal chega a lugares bem distante do brasil durante as noites nos 1280 kHz Quem puder curtir a página volta tupi no facebook seria vem bacana As vezes gostava de escutar a noite aqui em porto alegre as jornadas esportivas da tupi o apolinho e o humor da turma da maremansa e as notícias do sentinelas da tupi Uma pena que tudo isto esteja acontecendo ("paulo roberto peres michelon michelon", Porto Alegre rs, Rádio escuta, Rádio amador pu3 ppm, 12 jan, radioescutas yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DXLD) Paulo, obrigado. Algum colega do Rio (ou com recepção da Tupi durante o dia) pode confirmar que a programação está alterada? De cabeça, lembro que a Tupi e seu grupo proprietário estavam passando por mudanças. A Tupi tinha estúdios na Glória, agora não mais. O Jornal do Comércio tinha intenção de se desfazer do prédio dos Diários Associados, projetado por Niemeyer (Huelbe Garcia, ibid.) Olá, amigos dexistas, após ler o e-mail do amigo Paulo Roberto procurei a Tupi do Rio na internet e pude confirmar a situação descrita: apenas músicas (com destaque para o forró, o que me surpreendeu, já que a emissora e do Rio, terra do samba) e alguns poucos anúncios comerciais e vinhetas cantadas. Nem o prefixo eles estão exibindo. Será que, 37 anos depois da pioneira da televisão cair, o seu último resquício vivo deixará de existir? Vamos acompanhar os próximos capítulos dessa história para ver. 73's a todos, (Ian José Silva, PS8023SWL, Fronteiras - Piauí - Brasil, radioescutas yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DXLD) Ainda Rádio Tupi, mais CBN e Globo --- Oi pessoal, Ainda no assunto da greve e crise dá Tipo do Rio: Neste link é confirmada a venda da Tupi para um dos sócios, que já possui emissoras em SP. É quase certo que vai mudar de nome fazer parte de uma nova rede. http://portal.comunique-se.com.br/super-radio-tupi-e-vendida-e-deve-mudar-de-nome/ A CBN e a Globo também passam por problemas. A CBN de BH foi fechada. Em paralelo, vários nomes tradicionais da CBN e Globo foram dispensados nos últimos meses. http://www.srzd.com/brasil/apresentador-reporter-se-desentendem/ (Huelbe Garcia, Jan 16, radioescutas yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DXLD) I summarized this in English on WOR: this is an important story regarding one of Brasil`s major and historic MW stations, 100 kW on (almost) clear-channel 1280 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Watch "Visita ao centro de transmissão da Rádio Inconfidência --- Danilo Nonato nos traz um vídeo interessante sobre o parque transmissor da Inconfidência OM e OC https://youtu.be/uGwSZDwmh28 (Huelbe Garcia, 18 Jan, radioescutas yg via DXLD) ** BULGARIA. SECRETLAND, Brother HySTAIRical via SPL Secretbrod Jan 7 from 1500 15325 SCB 100 kW / 195 deg WeAf R.Biafra, dead air and off! 1600-1700 15325 SCB 100 kW / 195 deg WeAf English Brother HySTAIRical from 1800 15325 SCB 100 kW / 195 deg WeAf R.Biafra, dead air and off! http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/01/brother-hystairical-tom-via-spl_2.html Reception of Brother HySTAIRical via SPL Secretbrod, Jan 8 1500-1655 9465 SCB 050 kW / 030 deg EaEu English Mon-Fri (Sat/Sun*) 1500-2000 15325 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg WeAf English, not 1400-2000 1805-0200 9465 SCB 100 kW / 306 deg ENAm English, not 1700-0200 1800-2000 9700#SCB 050 kW / 306 deg WeEu English, as scheduled #1940-2000 9700 SMG 250 kW / 114 deg N/ME Rosary Sun Vatican Radio *Sat/Sun via same transmitter are broadcast IRRS R. Warra Wangeelaa and R. Santec 1500-1530 on 15515 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Oromo Sat Radio Warra Wangeelaa 1500-1530 on 15190 SCB 050 kW / 090 deg to SoAs English/German Sun Radio Santec http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/01/reception-of-brother-hystairical-via.html Day after day with different schedule on 15325 kHz, Jan 9 1500-1600 15325 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg WeAf English Radio Biafra London 1600-1800 15325 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg WeAf English Brother HySTAIRical 1800-2000 15325 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg WeAf English Radio Biafra London http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/01/day-after-day-with-different-schedule.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA. But yesterday Jan 13 was test of Brother HySTAIRical TOM: till 1401 on 9400 probably via Secretbrod. Videos later today (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See SOUTH CAROLINA ** BULGARIA. Re: IRRS via Secretbrod on new 9880, ex 9510, ``IRRS via Secretbrod, Jan 8, 1030-1300 on new or wrong frequency 9880, instead of 9510`` Right now they're again on 9510. So this was a one-off (Kai Ludwig, 1101 UT Jan 15, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See ITALY [non] Yes, today again on 9510, instead of 9880, Jan.8 (Ivo, ibid.) ** CANADA [and non]. 540, Jan 12 at 1320 UT, discussion of drought and floods due to climate change in Saskatchewan, from CBK in well, or XETX La Ranchera de Paquimé, Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, frequent canned IDs, mutually nullable without anything from the country in between (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. Official Updates from the CRTC --- CALL CHANGES --- New stations authorized: 580, CP, AB, Edmonton – Granted CP for U4? 10000/10000; assigned call letters CHBA (AM Switch, NRC DX News Jan 23 [published Jan 15] via DXLD) ** CANADA. CANADIAN RADIO NEWS – Dan Sys E-mail: sysdan@gmail.com Mid November 2016 through Mid January 2017 CALL LETTER DATA 580 AB Edmonton new Will become CHBA. 1350 ON Brampton new Will become CFKA. NEW STATIONS GRANTED 580 AB Edmonton Commercial. 10,000 watts fulltime. South Asian. 1811258 Alberta Limited. [that number is its corporate ``name`` -- gh] [WORLD OF RADIO 1861] 600 BC Vancouver Commercial. 10,000 watts fulltime. South Asian. Sher- E-Punjab Radio. AM TO FM CONVERSIONS GRANTED 880 MB Brandon CKLQ Move to 91.5 with 100,000 watts. 880 will remain on the air as an AM nested repeater. (Although no call letter change shows yet for CKLQ-880 Brandon, the new FM, of which CKLQ will soon be the Repeater, has been assigned the call letters CKIL-FM. Which probably means that the Canadian equivalent of the Top of the Hour Legal ID on 880 will be “CKIL-FM 91.5 Brandon” once the CKLQ AM license is cancelled after three months of simulcasting, and 880 is simply a repeater transmitter listed on the CKIL-FM License – Jon Pearkins). [WORLD OF RADIO 1861] 1260 NL Port Aux Basques CFGN Move to 96.7 with 1,240 watts. TECHNICAL CHANGES GRANTED 1350 ON Brampton CFKA-cp Decrease night time power from 45 to 40 watts (daytime power will remain 1,000 watts). Relocate transmitter. 1430 ON Toronto CHKT Modify facilities to a six tower DA-1 operation using the present 50,000 watt night pattern during the day and night. EXTENSIONS TO CP'S GRANTED 600 QC Montreal new-cp TTP Media has until June 30 2017 to get this new News-Talk station on the air. 960 ON Mississauga CKNT-cp Elliot Kerr has until November 30 2017 to get this new News-Talk station on the air (IRCA DX MOnitor Jan 21, published Jan 17, excerpts via WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DXLD) ** CANADA. 610, Whitehorse YT, 1 kW, CKRW, Jan 13 1407 - I have to thank Paul Walker in Galena AK for reminding me of the one remaining MW station in Whitehorse. Heard finally with local and YT weather. Mentions of 'the Territory'. Faded after about a minute back to the usual CHNL Kamloops (and a Spanish speaker probably KRTA Medford OR). Listened again at 1439 and gave a CKRW ID, and into sports. Good level, all alone virtually at that time. 'On the Rush' at 1442, and ad for Yukon Yamaha, 'toys for all seasons, on the Alaska Highway'. One question is where is CKYL Peace River AB? I thought they should be a relatively easy catch, but so far unheard on this trip. 610, Whitehorse YT, 1 kW, CKRW, Jan 14 1604 - Quite the difference from yesterday AM, when 610 yielded a number of stations, and seemed to change every minute. This morning, tuned in at the end of the newscast, and the frequency is owned by Whitehorse! Excellent reception. ID'd as, '96.1, The Rush' and into modern vocals. Interesting that AM gets short shrift here. Wonder whether there are any plans to give up on MW, like the CBC did in both Whitehorse and Yellowknife. Great reception for 1 kW. Minimal cochannel interference. After I typed this, just briefly at 1610, CHNL came up to dominate for about 1 minute or less, then faded down again (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 680, Jan 12 at 1324 UT, treacherous traffic report about Winnipeg area from CJOB, Chevrolet dealer sponsor. Good for a while rather than St Joe or San Antonio, just after hearing 540 CBK and before hearing 750 CKJH; see separate logs. CJOB is 50/50 kW U4, both day and night patterns going N/NNE, little or nothing to the south, yeah, sure (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 750, Jan 12 at 1330 UT, nulling KOAL UT, I get another station in English, obviously Canadian referring to km, highway 345(?), provincial news, Battleford, Prince Albert, high temperature minus 26, yourtownnews.ca which in turn is connected to CK750, as CKJH in Melfort, Sask. is branded, linking to http://www.ck750/com and plug a pizza party. One YL seems to be doing all the announcing, news and commercials. Need USB tuning to avoid 740 KRMG splash. CKJH day pattern is ND; night pattern mostly to the north, 25/25 kW U4 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Simultaneously: 750, CKJH, Melfort, SASKATCHEWAN, Jan/12/17, 0758 EST [1258 UT] English, VG, Strong Signal S8 -- Good Conditions to the West. 540 Regina bombing in too! Instrumental music at 0758-0800 EST. Female DJ with severe weather report for COLD. Into news with Saskatchewan and Melfort local items at 0800. News Over at 0902 [sic, must mean 0802 EST]. Local Melfort Ad and into Melfort Weather at 0802 EST. RELOG 25 kW. RECEIVER ELAD FDM-S2 SDR, ANTENNA WELLBROOK ALA-1530LNP Imperium Loop. AM LOG TOTALS are now 1,996 Stations. 73 ROB VA3SW (Robert S. Ross, London, Ontario CANADA, IRCA via DXLD) ** CANADA. 910, Drumheller AB, 50 kW, CKDQ, Jan 7, 1704 - Excellent reception with a Ukrainian Christmas carol (what caught my attention!), and Christmas wishes to those following the Julian calendar, and best wishes to a particular lady by the DJ, and an attempt to give a Christmas greeting in Ukrainian. Not very successful at that! Then back to C&W music (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 1340, Vanderhoof, BC, 1 kW, CIVH, Jan 8, 1714 - 'Valley Country' ID and 'Justin Bieber free zone (!)' Excellent level. Just faded up over another Canadian station which were talking about tax policies of past Mulroney governments. 3 other BC MW stations listed. Another Valley Country ID at 1717 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. New Radio One season on CBC CAMPUS --- CBC`s award-winning podcast series Campus is now on the radio! The stories you`ll hear are universal, filled with situations we all grapple with and moments we can all relate to. It's a show that's not afraid to delve into the big issues, too --- drugs, race, gender, mental health, and everything in between. You can hear Campus on Fridays at 11:30 a.m., 3:30 p.m. NT. UNDER THE INFLUENCE --- Under the Influence is back and for the first episode of the year, Terry O`Reilly will explore the crazy world of trademarks. The key to success in marketing is to stand out from the crowd, and one of the best ways to do that is with trademarks. Brands try to create logos, slogans or design features that they can protect legally, giving them unique marketing tools. You`ll hear about a lawsuit between Disney and a music performer over a mouse trademark, find out how companies trademark sounds, hear about a ring announcer who earned over $400 million from trademarking a single sentence, and how shock-rocker Marilyn Manson saved his career by trademarking his name. That`s all on Under the Influence, Saturday at 11:30 a.m., 12 noon NT [local in each timezone] (Via Dan Say, Jan 8, alt.radio.networks.cbc via Mike Cooper, Jan 14, WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DXLD) see also http://www.cbc.ca/radio/pdfs/RadioOne_Fall2016.pdf (actuallly titled WINTER 2017 ) or the fuller (includes CBCOvernight with the soon-to-be-defunct Radio Australia listings) at http://www.cbc.ca/radio/pdfs/Radio-One-Overnight.pdf (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ? Why should RA listings become defunct? CBC relays do not depend on SW (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** CANADA. 3330-CUSB, Jan 12 at 0710, CHU timesignals confirmed, but inaudible on 7850 --- has been having some transmitter interruptions, but in the nightmiddle, 7850 could still be on and not propagating. 7850-CUSB, Jan 12 at 1309, now 7850 is in at S9+, but nothing audible on their third frequency, 14670-CUSB, which like 7850 at night, could still be on but not propagating even in the daytime. 3330 is also still audible at S4 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3330, CHU at 2101 with time pips and bilingual time announcements, Fair Jan 12. This had been missing for a while and the NRC (National Research Council) admitted that they had transmitter troubles. Nice to see it back on the air as a lot of people use their service (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Drake SPR4 Receiver, Drake TR7, Kenwood TS440S, and YouKits TJ5A Transceivers, AEA AT-300 and MFJ-941E Manual Tuners, LDG Z-100 Plus Auto Tuner, 40 meter and 80 meter off centre- fed dipoles, ODXA yg via DXLD) ** CANADA. 6030, CFVP, Calgary at 2121 with Toyota ad, 2122 ID “Calgary’s All New Funny 10 60 AM”, back to a comedy show. - Fair, Jan. 18 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, BC. CommRadio CR-1a and 50 ft wire feeding Sony AN-1 active antenna, Editor of World English Survey and Target Listening, available at the Ontario DX Association Facebook and Yahoo groups, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHILE. 5825. R. TRIUNFAL EVANGELICA. Enero 11. 2312-2359 UTC. Se escucha una predicación acerca de los Hijos de Dios y los elegidos. A las 2328 comienza un espacio de música. SINPO: 35422 con mucho fading. Aunque desde las 2315 en adelante su SINPO: 55444, con sobremodulación. A las 2324, SINPO: 55434. A las 2333, SINPO: 55555. Luego de las 2346, SINPO: 45322 con mucho desvanecimiento y ruido atmosférico. Además la emisora manda un mensaje en su página de Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/radiotriunfal/posts/365828410450197 solicitando que los informes de recepción sean enviados a: radiotriunfal@gmail.com (Claudio Galaz, RX: TECSUN PL-660, ANT: Hilo de 40 metros, QTH: Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DXLD) ** CHINA [and non]. 693, CHINA unID, Jan 13, 1600 - Chinese language speaker, at good level with FM frequencies being announced. I wonder abut Shaanxi Weixing guangbo. 200 kW listed in Xianyang. I'll need to double check (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I would have expected 300 kW Tokyo on 693, but I suppose 100 kW Shaanxi if it was indeed Chinese. You seem to have some very far inland stations, so it would make sense (Chris Kadlec, sometimes Seoul, Korea South, IRCA via DXLD) Isn't NHK2 usually closed by 1600? 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, ibid.) NHK2 seems to have been regularly signing off at 1540 UT this season, with the music box ending by 1545. Unfortunately, no NHK2 made it down here on 13 January. Best wishes, (Nick Hall-Patch, Victoria BC, ibid.) Whoops. Thanks for the catch on that. I mentioned that exact same thing on his 729 catch about NHK 2 being off the air by that hour but replied to this one first where I hadn't paid attention to the times. NHK 2 turns off every night at 1545 (Chris Kadlec, ibid.) Hi Chris. Does NHK give any *local* IDs? (Bill Whitacre, DC, ibid.) Bill: Check the Japan section in the front of the PAL. Catching NHK2 local IDs is fun and productive and will amaze your friends and Mom. (Chuck Hutton, ibid.) ** CHINA. 972, unID, Jan 8, 1720 - A Chinese speaker totally dominating the channel. HLCA was not even audible for a time, before coming back to about equal strength. PAL lists 3 stations, but one is only 1 kW, the other (Harbin) is supposed to be off at 1500, while the 3rd 100 kW station has no programming details (Henan RGD, Zhengzhou). Interesting! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) This is Henan Economic Radio, 100 kW, more so if you were hearing it in echoes (Chris Kadlec, Korea South, IRCA via DXLD) ** CHINA. 1035, Multiple transmitter sites, CNR 1, Jan 9, 1615 - I count 47 CNR 1 sites on my PAL. Clearly they don't sync very well, as I'm hearing a growl, and clearly out-of-sync transmitters. Also a 1 kHz tone. Not sure where that comes from. Otherwise good reception. Low powers listed. Mostly 10 kW senders, although several others at 1, 25 and 50 kW. 1206, Yanji, Jilin, 200 kW, Yanbian RGD, Jan 13, 0659 - Almost good reception at 0656 tune-in on measured 1205.963. Frequency measures properly for Yanbian RGD, but I'm not so sure of the language and it's still daylight in China. So if not Yanbian, then who? Rechecked at 0709 and yes, it is Asian, so likely Korean. 1323, CRI x 2, Jan 15, 1555 - An interesting mix of two Chinese speakers. They each fade up and dominate. The Russian speaker is very easily heard and ID'd and finished their broadcast at 1555, but then the other CRI, which sounded like they were giving Chinese language lessons, then ID'd in an oriental language (not English) with mentions of CRI. The Russian language transmitter is in Shuanghyashan, Heilongjiang with 200 kW/beamed northeast, while the other CRI is from Huadian, Jilin with 600 kW/aimed almost due south, in Korean. After 1600, in the clear in Mandarin, I think. Interesting, that the transmitter left the air at 1601:55! Many thanks to Chris Kadlec in Seoul for providing information regarding this frequency. PAL is a little unclear about this. I know that my copy had the Korean CRI broadcast ending at 1400. Incorrect of course! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) That's 1323 CRI Russian from Shuangyashan, Heilongjiang at 200 kW aiming northeast and CRI Korean from Huadian, Jilin at 600 kW aiming almost due south. The latter has Chinese lessons for Korean speakers usually right up until they both sign off at 1 am (1600 UT) when all the local CRIs turn off. If you listen to my radio project under the 1323 frequency, you'll actually hear the specific Chinese lesson that you're talking about. They had been working on Chinese vs. Korean numbers almost every time I tuned in. 1323 Huadian is one of the strongest stations in Seoul, and that includes local signals as well. The Russian one can be heard behind it most of the time if you really listen closely. I once had it totally alone a few minutes before sign-on when the Korean one was off but wasn't able to get to my DX spot quickly enough to get a recording of it like that. But I do have decent recordings of it otherwise (Chris Kadlec, Seoul AM Radio Listening Guide, Jan 16, http://www.beaglebass.com/dx/seoul/ IRCA via DXLD) ** CHINA. 1566, Longjing, Jilin, 25 Kw, Yanbian RGD, Jan 9, 1513 - For a while, presumably this station was equal or even over the usual super powerful HLAZ. Measured on 1566.039, while HLAZ was on 1566.002, and another carrier seen on 1565.994. A strong Chinese morning (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hmm, sometimes on my 1566 HLAZ JBA carrier logs, I do have signs of a second carrier beating (Glennn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. It can be argued that Chinese MW domestic stations make no effort to protect stations in neighbouring countries. On the other hand there are hundreds of Chinese stations which have arrays. These arrays will not only focus the target city in a more concentrated beam but they will (in my opinion) protect from other Chinese stations. I have therefore backtracked. In the case of each Chinese array I am now entering details on co-channel Chinese stations which need protection. Finally I will investigate possibly as a holding measure inserting two new columns. I have yet to decide which alternative coordinate format best suits access to GeoHack. I will discuss this with my webmaster. The aim will be for live links via these coordinates (in one cell rather than the current two) which would bring up the relevant "page" under GeoHack in a new tab or window. GeoHack basically collects many map views. Opening up GeoHack links would remove the need for the current 5 columns with Y, LR and N in them. You could have instant views from the various maps via the GeoHack portal. It would involve a huge amount of work to fully implement but the result will add a big improvement to http://mwmasts.com I look forward to comments or contact on either this platform or mwmasts.com (Dan Goldfarb, Jan 16, mwmasts yg via DXLD) ** CHINA. Today’s edition of The Reporters on BBC World News TV was devoted to one of the worst polluted Chinese cities- Shizhuajang. To me, that’s one of CRI’s 500 kW transmitter sites (Derek Lynch, Ireland, Jan 15, DX LISTENING DIGEST) It`s SW of Beijing, halfway to Lingshi, per WRTH slick map. Look at HFCC B-16 shows 6020 in evening European languages; Russian on 37 degree beam also USward: 10-12 7290, 13-14 7255, 14-15 7435, among many others including some multi-hour CNR transmissions (gh, DXLD) ** CHINA. 3354, UNIDENTIFIED, Jan 6, 1441 - A bizarre intruder noted hear at fair/good reception. Seems machine generated, in an oriental language. Sounds like 'standby'. Perhaps some sort of numbers station. I recorded a segment for analysis (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Walt - You heard CHINA VC01 - Chinese Robot nighttime frequency; Chinese Military numbers station. By way of comparison to what you heard, here is my audio of a VC01 broadcast: https://app.box.com/files/0/s/VC01/1/f_54414150985 (Ron Howard, California, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 4750, Hailar, 10 kW/ND, CNR 1, Jan 15, 0552 - I'm quite surprised to already be hearing China at this early hour. It's at least two hours before LSS in the extreme North-East of China, the location of this CNR transmitter. I measure LSS at about 0830 UT, so almost 3 hours! Good reception, beside minimal CODAR interference (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 4940, Voice of Strait, 1507, Jan 14 (Saturday). English program "Focus on China"; long item about winter fishing festival in NE China; a break to play pop song ("Faded - Where Are You Now"); IDs "You are now listening to Focus on China, in Voice of Strait Broadcast Station"; fair (Ron Howard, Calif., dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. UNIDENTIFIED, 5978.985, strong carrier, QRM hit heavily to 5980 kHz even fq, of US Cuban service of Radio Martí from Greenville NC, S=8-9 signal at 1143 UT on Jan 14. Some log taken in Brisbane Australia, on Jan 14 at 1100-1200 UT [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX 17 Jan via DXLD) Gannan, China, as Ron Howard and I have been reporting, ex-5970 (gh) 5979, Gannan PBS (ex: 5970). It has been about six weeks now since this station went to this new frequency; would seem rather a long time to just be an error in entering the frequency. So really a permanent change? Time will tell. Jan 15, noted 1331-1339, in Chinese with variety of music (traditional Chinese, pop, EZL music, etc.); poor; best in USB now to get away from 5975 QRM (Ron Howard, Calif., dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 6230, CNR1 jamming, 1231, Jan 17. There was a time in the past when the PRC jammed almost all of Sound of Hope programs, on a continual basis, but that is no longer the case. Now it almost seems rare for them to bother to jam SOH. I daily check this frequency and it is indeed very rare to hear SOH jammed here, as it was today, with a very strong signal. Of course also blocking VMW (Australia Weather West) also on frequency here. Jan 18, back to normal, with no jamming of SOH (Ron Howard, Calif., dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 9230, Jan 13 at 1342, JBA carrier. Aoki shows this is a *jammed Sound of Hope frequency from Taiwan. Others in the vicinity at various lengthy possible hours are 9100, 9155, 9180, 9200, 9255, 9280 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 9750, Huhhot, 50 kW/36 deg, PBS Nei Menggu, Jan 14, 0101 - Nothing across the TOH. Perhaps Inner Mongolia is on a 1/2 hour time zone difference. At 0102:20, march music after some dead air. Don't recognize the tune. Is their a provincial anthem? Some dead air, then some talk, and then what sounds like a speech. Likely from a central official, as some of it is in Mandarin, then presumably a translation into Mongolian (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. TAIWAN / CHINA mainland jamming: 15320, V of Taiwan's Hakka language is not disturbed by China mainland jamming from 0430 UT onwards. Sharp at 0430 UT Firedrake music jamming stopped. In 0400-0430 UT the V of Taiwan Cantonese service is scheduled according Aoki Nagoya database, marked with * asterix like purpose of jamming. But next door on 15340 kHz RFA Chinese service is subject of CHINA mainland CNR1 jamming, broadband 16 kHz wide jammer outlet noted at 0431 UT on Jan 16. And on 15560 kHz a very strong carrier parked at 0434 UT already, requested for hurt VoA Tibetan service from IBB BBG Udorn Thani Ban Dung relay in 05-06 UT time slot [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 16, 2017, BC-DX 17 Jan via DXLD) ** COLOMBIA. 5910.030, well ahead of co-ch RRI Tsiganeshti 5910.0, Colombian Alcaraván Radio played nice Latin American music, at 0215 UT, S=8-9 signal. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA [and non]. 6010, usual bad mixture signal of both Brazilian and Colombian low powers. At 0410 UT on Jan 16, 6009.859 kHz S=5-6 weaker signal, and 6010.023 kHz S=7 signal strength. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 16, 2017, BC-DX 17 Jan via DXLD) So which is which? ** CONGO. 6115 kHz propagation at morning grayline path from Congo to remote Madrid Spain unit, at 0545 UT Jan 15, French language service, talk by male and female, S=8-9 in peaks, when switched OFF the AGC slider. W African music at 0546 UT, followed later by Libreville mentioned. Nothing of Nigeria on 7255 kHz range. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6115 kHz propagation at morning grayline path from Congo to remote Madrid Spain unit, at 0545 UT Jan 15, French language service, talk by male and female, S=8-9 in peaks, when switched OFF the AGC slider. W African music at 0546 UT, followed later by Libreville mentioned. Nothing of Nigeria on 7255 kHz range. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COSTA RICA. 2859.82, Jan 18 at 0049, JBA carrier on the signature off-frequency of R. San Carlos, Ciudad Quesada, 2 x 1430v as previously identified (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. I think we have a new station or a change on 770 in Cuba. On Jan 7 the BCB Logger carried the following report from Mark, a DXer in Indiana: ``Jan 07 23:08 770 Cuba presumed. Blasting in like a local. ID something like “Radio Arbenita”; no “Rebelde” heard. but “de la revolucion” heard several times. -- Mark in IN (74.118.118.170)`` For the last few days, with 780 WBBM's IBOC off, I've been putting time in on 770 to the west and southwest. Aside from logging CHQR Calgary as new, and hearing a Mexican anthem one evening at 2012-2015 EST, I am hearing a station that sounds vaguely Cuban. Interestingly, I have not heard anything //Rebelde 670/710/5025 (my three Rebelde beacons). But I had a Cuban anthem last night leading up to 0000 EST. So there is a Cuban on 770, and it doesn't appear to be Rebelde. MWLIST lists just one station in Cuba on 770, and that's Rebelde in Victoria de las Tunas. Rebelde has been the easiest latin to get here until now. But it has been all but absent the last few days, and whatever has replaced it doesn't seem quite as strong, though we're talking marginal difference here and it could be conditions. I've put assorted clips on WTFDA Forums. You have to scroll down to one of my follow-up posts to three clips of the Mexican from when I heard that anthem, and then further down there's three clips of the Cuban I heard prior to midnight (my local time) last night (Saul Chernos, Burnt River ON, Jan 16, NRC-AM via DXLD) A link to the audio clips, with some discussion and input as well: http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?11159 (Saul Chernos, IRCA via DXLD) He finally concluded it was Radio Artemisa, as I was about to suggest based on the original approx. ID and WRTH listing (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) 770 Cuba Update: Have been hearing Rebelde fading in and out and mixing with various stations, including another possible Cuban (presumed to be Artemisa but no definitive ID pending a review of one section of recording that might have contained something). So I am convinced Rebelde is still on. Usually it's the top dog from the south, when WABC can be forced into submission. I'd say RCN Colombia and the two Cubans are now about equal, and I heard Mexico a few nights ago with an anthem and possible sign-off at 2012-2015. The only other Cuban of note tonight is getting a definitive bit of Rebelde on 1140. Until now the only Cuban I've had on 1140 has been Surco. I have three known transmitters to choose from on 1140, so it goes in my log as Synchro. Conditions decidedly south tonight after logging KKOB NM on 770 before its local sunset (Saul Chernos, Burnt River ON, Jan 18, IRCA via DXLD) ? NM is not south of ON (gh) [770:] We heard both Rebelde and Artemisa within an hour of each other at LBI in November (Russ Edmunds, 15 mi NW Phila, Grid FN20id, NRC-AM via DXLD) LBI = Long Beach Island, NJ, DX-pedition site. It`s about halfway between Toms River and Atlantic City, off exit 63 of the Garden State Parkway. Nearest town: Ships Bottom. Participants rarely spell it out, just ``LBI`` --- so not to be confused with Long Branch Island, NJ, much closer to NYC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) To clarify: I am the Mark in IN that logged the initial report on the BCB logger. Someone had noted that several "Artemisas" had been heard, so I rechecked the recording, and sure enough, it was "Radio Artemisa" (Mark Pettifor, Goshen, IN, Jan 18, IRCA via DXLD) ** CUBA. Re: ``1140, Radio Maybeque, La Salud, Mayabeque. At 0013 UT on January 1, 2017. Under Musical Nacional with vocals, \\ clear and better 1450 kHz. Terry Krueger, FL, Jan 4, DX LISTENING DIGEST`` CUBA, 1140 Radio Mayabeque, la Salud, Mayabeque 22 52 37.78 N 82 25 44.04 W ``1150, Radio Bayamo, Pilon, Granma. At 1115 UT on January 1, 2017. Cuban ballads and tropical vocals, 0140 UT young female DJ ID. Co- channel Fox Sport Radio, probably WJEM Valdosta, and WJBO.`` Freq 1150 or 1160 kHz? CUBA Pilon, Granma 1160 kHz 10 kW {WRTH 2017 1 kW instead} 19 54 00.75 N 77 21 40.21 W CUBA Radio Bayamo, Bueycito, Granma. 1150 kHz 10 kW {WRTH 2017} 20 17 33.44 N 76 46 33.01 W ``1450 Radio Maybeque, Santa Cruz del Norte, Mayabeque. At 1130 UT on December 31, 2016. In passing with canned station theme with male ID`` R Maybeque, Santa Cruz del Norte, La Sierrita Mayabeque, 1450 kHz 1 kW 23 08 48.41 N 81 56 55.93 W (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 5025, Radio Rebelde from Bauta site, some fast dance music played at 0750-0805 UT, Rumba etc. S=9+30dB or -41dBm powerful in Edmonton, great signal, great rhythmic Latin music (Wolfgang Büschel, Checked between 07 and 08 UT Jan 13 via SDR remote units in Qatar, Spain and Alberta, Canada, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15230, Jan 13 at 2304, RHC news sounder and Portuguese, S9+20 but quite undermodulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) At 0130-0235 UT on Jan 14, their various radio programes on shortwave noted in remote SDR units in MA NJ, MI eastern United States, as well as via remote unit in Edmonton Alberta Canada. 4765 kHz R Progreso Bejucal lower 50 kW unit, was not on air in 0129 to 0136 UT on Jan 14, when checked first. But then at 0138 UT was on air, S=9+20dB or -51dBm. But heavily disturbed by CODAR 'witch, witch' sound on 4731 to 4838 kHz wide range. 5025 kHz S=9+20dB or -56dBm signal of Radio Rebelde, Bauta, 6.8 kHz bandwidth. 0132-0134 UT sports news, Deporte Internacional. 5040 kHz S=9+20dB or -56dBm signal of RHC Bauta, in FRENCH language at 0135 UT, scheduled Creole at 0100 UT, and French language program from 0130-0200 UT. 6.4 kHz bandwidth. 6000 RHC English via Titan site at San Felipe Quivican, music from La Habana night club at 0150 UT on Jan 14. S=9+20dB or -56dBm signal, also at 0313 UT. Cuba`s largest culture event mentioned. Announcement: Berkeley event "Fidel is Fidel", Cuban Revolution university to be held in Berkeley California soon. 6060 RHC Spanish service, distorted scratchy modulation, S=9+35dB powerhouse at 0158-0159 UT. and at 0312 UT. 6165 rather weaker signal on this channel, low modulation, S=7 -86dBm level in MA / NJ / MI. S=9+15dB in Alberta Canada at 0315 UT on Jan 14. US Air Force bomber bombs Syrian civilians in the terrorist- partisan war. 9535 RHC Spanish, bad nearly nil propagation on 'short' distance Cuba to Michigan or Massachusetts in mid-winter propagation. S=6 on threshold at 0201 UT. 11670 poor S=6-7 in MA / NJ US east coast, Presenter mentioned Raul Castro. Nothing on higher frequency transmissions like 11760, 11840, 11950, 13 and 15 MHz. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5040, Sat Jan 14 at 0704, OCDA from RHC, just a bit runover until cutoff at 0704.6*. 24 hours later will it carry Esperanto again? 15370, Sunday Jan 15 at 2232, RHC Spanish with music, instead of scheduled Esperanto. On Jan 1, Esperanto fan Claudio Galaz in Chile was hearing the artificial language one hour earlier, and I meant to check then today, but missed it. Anyhow it`s no longer at 2230 on 15370. While I`m at it, survey the other RHC frequencies 2232-2235: // Spanish on 13740, 11840, 11760, 9710, 9535, 5040. VP carrier on 6060 from algo. NOT on: 17730, 15230; and strangely missing, English on 11880. 11435.0, Jan 15 at 2251, RHC English is here!! I happen to be spinning the dial way out of band or would have missed it. Obviously another mixup, putting RHC on a well-known spy-numbers frequency, also obviously sharing same transmitter, as RHC must be a subsidiary of Cuban Intelligence. EiBi shows the only transmission for that is: ``11435 1554-1650 CUB Cuban Spy Numbers S Am`` --- tho spy frequencies often run open carriers for much additional time. 11435 RHC will be memorialized as an alternate frequency to 11880 in the DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS roster, just at 16180 has been at another hour. 11435 is S9+30 but somewhat suptorted modulation. Programming is the `World of Stamps` show, saying that next edition in two weeks (alternate-Sunday scheduling) will start reading essays from listeners in some contest. [WORLD OF RADIO 1861] 6000, Jan 16 at 0412, RHC English is S9+20 but suptorted; 0414 `DXers Unlimited` starts with Arnie reading press obit for Pat Dyer (one thing Arnie & I can agree on: WA5IYX was a superb VHF DXer and sporadic-E researcher). // 6165 at S9+25 is better but also undermodulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15370. RHC. Enero 15. 2135-2207 UT. No hay indicios de portadora o audio, al igual que en la mañana en 17730. Al parecer corte de luz en el lugar de transmisión o mala propagación por la hora. Aunque desde las 2150 se escucha una portadora sin audio hasta las 2158 que se escucha la cortina final del programa en Esperanto nombrando a los responsables de la emisión. A las 22 con cortina y lectura de frecuencias en español para pasar a un espacio musical con boleros. SINPO: 55555. RX: TECSUN PL-660, ANT: Hilo de 40 metros, QTH: Ovalle, Chile (Claudio Galaz T., condiglista yg via DXLD) 6060, RHC at 0137 // 6000 and 6165 with `Scientific and Medical Report`` with two women on health care issues - Good Jan 17. All loggings are in English unless otherwise stated (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Drake SPR4 Receiver, Drake TR7, Kenwood TS440S, and YouKits TJ5A Transceivers, AEA AT-300 and MFJ-941E Manual Tuners, LDG Z-100 Plus Auto Tuner, 40 meter and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA yg via DXLD) 6060 supposed to be in Spanish until 0500, but this happens from time to time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Reception of Cuban Spy Numbers HM01 in 9 MHz, Jan 18: 0658-0749 9330 secret / hidden tx ?Bejucal? Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri 0758-0849 9065 secret / hidden tx ?Bejucal? Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri 0858-0949 9240 secret / hidden tx ?Bejucal? Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri 0958-1049 9155 secret / hidden tx ?Bejucal? Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/01/reception-of-cuban-spy-numbers-hm01-in.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. WPLG Cuba News Bureau https://radioinsight.com/community/topic/wplg-miami-to-have-a-news-bureau-in-cuba/ (via Artie Bigley, OH, DXLD) ** CYPRUS [non]. 6855 // 11580, Monday January 16 at 2202, WRMIs with narration about London, later mentions Wordsworth --- sounds like the stuff FG Radio purveys, and so it is by 2210 ID and plug their website, but no Famagusta Gazette news now about Cyprus or anywhere, so a new time for that on the frequencies WRMI is not providing a full program schedule for (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. Suche nach HCJB 6050v - nichts zu hoeren - (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 16, 2017, BC-DX 17 Jan via DXLD) Hallo OM Wolfgang, wir schalten jetzt schon um 0230 UT ab. Hier kann man den Sendeplan online aufrufen. See 6050 kHz schedule on web access PDF file, in Kichwa / Quechua, Chapalaa, Shuar, Cofan, and Waorani languages. 0203 [means 0230] UT Himno Nacional del Ecuador. National Anthem play. 0233 - 0925 UT OFF AIR. 0925 Himno Nacional en Kichwa. 1100 Himno Nacional del Ecuador. National Anthem play {Mon-Fri only} 1400-2100 UT OFF AIR. "Die Andenstimme" (Horst Rosiak, Quito, Ecuador, A-DX ng Jan 16, 2017 via BC-DX 17 Jan via WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DXLD) ** EL SALVADOR. I was just scanning through some updates from the ITU and found some new stuff on El Salvador TV. Apparently the three Low VHFs (2-4-6) all have 5 synchro transmitters spread across the country rather than just one. I was wondering before why the ERP for the San Salvador site was listed as only 15.8 kW. 5 x 15.8 kW = a total of 79 kW. So on your next Latin TV Es - if you see multiple transmitters on the spectrum it could be El Salvador, besides the usual suspect Guatemala. I've updated my VHF-TV list: http://dxinfocentre.com/tv-cam.htm#SLV (Bill Hepburn, Jan 18, WTFDA gg via DXLD) ** ERITREA [non]. SECRETLAND, BaBcoCk Dimtse Radio Erena via SPL Secretbrod on Jan 5 1700-1730 on 11965 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Mon-Fri 1730-1800 on 11965 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Arabic Mon-Fri 1700-1800 on 11965 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Sat/Sun http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/01/babcock-dimtse-radio-erena-via-spl.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA. Hi Glenn, Jan 12, my local sunrise was at 1520 UT, while sunset at Addis Ababa was at 1523 UT, for nice grayline reception. At 1437, in vernacular and also playing repetitive HOA music/singing; 1559-1604 almost all just dead air (open carrier); poor; best in USB; frequency drifting a lot as usual (7236.2v-7236.4v). My audio of today's HOA music at http://goo.gl/Dt4Hxv (Ron Howard, California, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Log 0525-0552 UT on remote SDR units in Doha Qatar and Spain: Nothing heard around 7235v ... 7236.642 kHz. All others from ETH on air, all S=7 signal average, only 5950 kHz is stronger at S=8-9 level. Seemingly Gedja antenna favours the azimuth out signal towards Doha Qatar on that channel. At this hour grayline is across Istanbul - Athens, nightline across Monaco Riviera - Algiers. 6109.999, Radio Fana, Oromo program, HoA music, S=7 at 0525 UT in Doha Qatar. 6090even, right Radio Amhara in Amharic language, S=7 at 0531 UT Jan 13, guitar string instrument like music program. 6029.997, Radio Oromiya in Afar, S=7 at 0534 UT on Jan 13, people singer chorus, and followed by HoA string instrument music at 0536 UT. 5949.999, V of Tigre Revolution program at 0541 UT on Jan 13, little stronger than the others S=8 to mainly S=9 (Wolfgang Büschel, Jan 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 6090.003, Gedja well in Qatar, weak and tiny at Madrid and Edmonton, much stronger always at this hour 6089.960, R Bandeirantes, S=8 in Alberta Canada (Wolfgang Büschel, Checked between 07 and 08 UT Jan 13 via SDR remote units in Qatar, Spain and Alberta, Canada, DX LISTENING DIGEST) /TURKEY. Nothing heard of Gedja Radio Ethiopia transmission around 7235v ... 7236.642 kHz at 0425 and 0525 UT Jan 15. Adjacent on 7240.005 kHz - at 0431 UT heard Voice of Turkey English service, tremendous S=9+50dB or -22dBm POWERHOUSE in Middle East target. All others from ETHIOPIA on air, all S=8-9 signal average, heard on Doha Qatar Middle East remote channel. Only 5950 and 6110 kHz are stronger at S=9+15dB level. Seemingly Gedja antenna favours the azimuth out signal towards Doha Qatar on these channels. At this hour grayline is across Georgia, Damascus, Jerusalem, Gaza Palestine strip, nightline across Istanbul, Athens, Benghazi, Libya. 6110.004, Radio Fana, Oromo program HoA music, S=9+15dB strong at 0445 UT and 0516 UT on Jan 15 in Doha Qatar. Two women talk. Co-channel AIR Srinagar 6110.019 kHz odd fq, according to DSWCI DBS: INDIA, Radio Kashmir, Srinagar at 0225-1115 UT English / Hindi / Urdu / Kashmiri / Sanskrit. At New Delhi remote SDR noted AIR Srinagar 6110.019 kHz as S=9+15dB strong at 0450 UT on Jan 15. 6090.003, Radio Amhara in Amharic, S=8-9 at 0442 UT and 0517 UT on Jan 15, young children`s cry heard in Kindergarden ? Children`s chorus heard at 0447 UT on Jan 15. In Madrid Spain remote unit also Rádio Bandeirantes Brazil heard on lower side on 6089.959 kHz at 0506 UT on Jan 15. Similar strength like Voz Missionária sermon prayer on 5939.787 kHz at 0510 UT, at same time likely according to time in DBS #18 database, Brazilian Rádio Transmundial (RTM), Santa Maria RS, at 0513 UT on exact 5964.966 kHz. 6029.999, Radio Oromiya in Oromo, S=8-9 at 0438 and 0518 UT on Jan 15, talk interview few people also young girl. 5950.000, V of Tigre Revolution program at 0433 and 0520 UT on Jan 15, HoA music, S=9+15dB strong [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, log 0410 to 0525 UT on Jan 15 in remote SDR receiver at Doha Qatar, and confirmed in Delhi India and Madrid Spain posts, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 15, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6090,00 even. Jan 16 at 0422, Amhara Radio, Geja, in Amharic language. Man and woman announcers talks, With a fast musical space between the talk. Fair to poor signal and modulation, but a few better than my Degen DE1103. Free of interference by other station at this time. DXer: (José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX). Location: Cabedelo-PB, Brazil. RX (s): Degen DE1103 & Twente WebSDR. Antenna: Own external home-made. Hard-Core-DX mailing list viia WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DXLD) But it was three hours later when I had signs of another carrier, maybe Kaduna reactivated (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. Reception of Radio Xoriyo Ogaden via MBR Nauen [sic], Jan 7 1600-1630 on 11970 ISS 500 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Somali Tue/Sat http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/01/reception-of-radio-xoriyo-ogaden-via.html GERMANY, Voice of Oromo Liberation via MBR Nauen, Jan 11 1700-1730 on 11810 NAU 100 kW / 139 deg to EaAf Afar Oromo Wed/Fri/Sun 1730-1800 on 11810 NAU 100 kW / 139 deg to EaAf Amharic Wed http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/01/voice-of-oromo-liberation-via-mbr-nauen_12.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. 5810, EWTN is totally covered in Europe by a military Stanag signal of S=9+10dB around 0810 UT. Rattle one's saber - we say in German. re STANAG - Like NATO's Rasmussen and Stoltenberg Militarism and sanctions these days, now Uncle Sam's 3000 troops and weapons reached Bremerhaven harbour and now at Poland target past week, -- Militarism in Poland ... and the German troops are again in Lithuania there. Echoes of new Cold War still survives to reach our ears. MUCH ANNOYING (Wolfgang Büschel, Checked between 07 and 08 UT Jan 13 via SDR remote units in Qatar, Spain and Alberta, Canada, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. RFI DIFFUSE EN INTÉGRALITÉ LA COUPE D’AFRIQUE DES NATIONS DE FOOTBALL 2017 AU GABON SUR SON ANTENNE AFRIQUE ET À PARIS (89FM). Du samedi 14 janvier au dimanche 5 février 2017. Publié le 09-01-2017 http://www.rfi.fr/com/20170109-rfi-diffuse-integralite-coupe-afrique-nations-football-2017-gabon-son-antenne-afrique-p RFI propose un dispositif exceptionnel à l’occasion de la 31ème édition de la CAN et diffuse tous les matchs en intégralité et en direct sur son antenne Afrique ainsi qu’à Paris (89 FM), et partout dans le monde sur http://rfi.fr http://afriquefoot.rfi.fr et ses applications. RFI mobilise correspondants et envoyés spéciaux au Gabon pour faire vivre la compétition à ses auditeurs au cœur des stades. Aux côtés des émissions «Radio Foot Internationale» et «Mondial Sports», l’antenne s’enrichit de rendez-vous spéciaux: la chronique quotidienne de Joseph-Antoine Bell et les journaux de la CAN. Afrique Foot, le site de RFI dédié au football africain, ainsi que les rédactions en anglais et en portugais proposent également une couverture spéciale. ----------------- LA CAN EN INTÉGRALITÉ ET EN DIRECT SUR RFI Les matchs en direct des stades Les matchs sont diffusés en direct sur l’antenne Afrique, ainsi qu’à Paris sur 89FM, et commentés par les journalistes du service des sports depuis les stades de Franceville, Libreville, Oyem et Port- Gentil. Les auditeurs du monde entier peuvent également suivre la compétition en écoutant RFI sur les sites rfi.fr, afriquefoot.rfi.fr et les applications mobiles de la radio. Joseph-Antoine Bell, ancien gardien de but de l’équipe du Cameroun et champion d’Afrique, est le consultant de RFI depuis 1998. Sa chronique quotidienne et ses interventions en direct pendant les rencontres offrent aux auditeurs les analyses d’une grande figure du football africain. Les programmes spéciaux - les heures mentionnées sont en heure de Paris, diffusion Paris 89 FM - «Les journaux de la CAN» : tous les jours, 5 minutes pour tout savoir sur l’actualité de la compétition. Du lundi au dimanche à 4h50, 5h50, 6h50, 7h50 et 8h50. «La chronique quotidienne de Joseph-Antoine Bell» : un rendez-vous de 5 minutes, une intervention narrative ou prospective selon son humeur. A 13h50. «Radio Foot Internationale»: émissions spéciales à 16h10 et à 22h10, réalisées en direct de Libreville les 16, 17, 18, 19 et 23 janvier, d’Oyem le 20 janvier et de Port-Gentil les 24 et 25 janvier. «Mondial sports»: le magazine hebdomadaire du service des sports, les dimanches à 22h10. Dans les journaux d'information, on retrouvera des interviews de joueurs, d’entraineurs et des reportages sur la compétition. Les rédactions en anglais et en portugais couvrent également cette édition de la CAN: reportages et interventions dans les journaux. Sur le site AFRIQUE FOOT http://afriquefoot.rfi.fr Les envoyés spéciaux de la rédaction d’Afrique Foot, le site de RFI dédié au football africain, sont au Gabon pour faire vivre au plus près les matchs et proposent quotidiennement des chroniques, des reportages, des interviews, des portraits, des vidéos et des diaporamas sonores. Les internautes du monde entier peuvent suivre et commenter en ligne les temps forts des matchs à travers des « Liveblogs » et des résumés de matchs. Les internautes peuvent poser toutes leurs questions sur les réseaux sociaux. Les réponses seront apportées en direct à l’antenne par les envoyés spéciaux durant les 30 minutes d’avant-match depuis les stades gabonais. Une centaine de fiches et seize portraits vidéo présentent toutes les équipes, les entraineurs et les principaux joueurs. Tous les matchs de la CAN 2017 (à suivre en direct dans la rubrique «Écouter» ou «À l’écoute»), les journaux de la CAN, la chronique de Joseph-Antoine Bell, Mondial Sports ainsi que les émissions quotidiennes de Radio Foot Internationale sont (ré) écoutables sur Afrique Foot. LISTE DES MATCHS RETRANSMIS PAR RFI (la prise d’antenne démarre une demi-heure avant le coup d’envoi) - les heures mentionnées sont en heure de Paris - [UT +1 !!!] Samedi 14 janvier 17h : Gabon – Guinée Bissau 20h : Burkina Faso – Cameroun Dimanche 15 janvier 17h : Algérie – Zimbabwe 20h : Tunisie – Sénégal Lundi 16 janvier 17h : Côte d’Ivoire – Togo 20h : RD Congo – Maroc Mardi 17 janvier 17h : Ghana – Ouganda 20h : Mali – Égypte Mercredi 18 janvier 17h : Gabon – Burkina Faso 20h : Cameroun – Guinée Bissau Jeudi 19 janvier 17h : Algérie – Tunisie 20h : Sénégal – Zimbabwe Vendredi 20 janvier 17h : Côte d’Ivoire – RD Congo 20h : Maroc – Togo Samedi 21 janvier 17h : Ghana – Mali 20h : Égypte - Ouganda Dimanche 22 janvier 20h : Cameroun – Gabon 20h : Guinée Bissau – Burkina Faso Lundi 23 janvier 20h : Sénégal – Algérie 20h : Zimbabwe – Tunisie Mardi 24 janvier 20h : Maroc – Côte d’Ivoire 20h : Togo – RD Congo Mercredi 25 janvier 20h : Égypte – Ghana 20h : Ouganda – Mali Samedi 28 janvier QUARTS DE FINALE à 17h et 20h Dimanche 29 janvier QUARTS DE FINALE à 17h et 20h Mercredi 1er février 1ère DEMI-FINALE à 20h Jeudi 2 février 2nde DEMI-FINALE à 20h Samedi 4 février PETITE FINALE à 20h Dimanche 5 février FINALE à 20h http://www.rfi.fr/com/20170109-rfi-diffuse-integralite-coupe-afrique-nations-football-2017-gabon-son-antenne-afrique-p (via Dr Hansjoerg Biener 15 January 2017 DXLD) SHORTWAVE (Ondes Courtes) is never mentioned in the above release, yet probably will also apply to some RFI SW broadcasts; who cares? Note that they have given in to the English word ``football``. These silly ballgames are so important that RFI becomes ``Radio Foot Internationale``. Also ``matchs`` is a misguided attempt to use an English term (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** GERMANY. Germany-183 (always in French!) was the most reliable here for over 10 years. But, in the last year or so, their signal has seriously declined. Does anyone know why? (Marc DeLorenzo, MA, Jan 17, IRCA via DXLD) Hi Marc, About the 183 frequency, I know that a couple of years ago, the top one of their four towers collapsed so they have to re-arrange the antenna array. Based on this article (in German, use a translator) http://www.saar-nostalgie.de/Europe1Unfall.htm the power has also been lowered to 1000 Kw along with a new tower arrangement. Same result here with a signal decline since then (Sylvain Naud, Québec, ibid.) But since 2015 they should have the same 2 x 750 kW Transradio system as on 234 kHz in Luxembourg, so it should be 1500 kW, if both are in use all the time. http://www.saar-nostalgie.de/EuropeNo1.htm (Mauno Ritola, Finland, Jan 18, ibid.) Thanks, Mauno, for that updated info. Both MWLIST & WRTH 2016 are still listing 2000 kW though. Maybe the WRTH 2017, which I'm waiting for my copy to arrive, has the updated information? Backing up Marc on his observation, I also feel that since those changes, the overall reception of 183 Europe1 has declined on this side of the pond (Sylvain Naud, QC, ibid.) 1500 kW on 183 kHz (WRTH 2017 via gh, DXLD) ** GERMANY. Reception of Hamburger Lokalradio on 6190 kHz, Jan 14: Switzerland In Sound 0700-0730 on 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sat CUSB World of Radio #1860 0730-0800 on 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sat CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio 0800-1100 on 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu German Sat CUSB http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/01/reception-of-hamburger-lokalradio-on.html Reception of Hamburger Lokalradio on 9485 kHz, Jan 15: Media Network Plus [NOT Sat as in original] 1100-1130 on 9485 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sun CUSB World of Radio#1860 1130-1200 on 9485 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sun CUSB http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/01/reception-of-hamburger-lokalradio-on_15.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. Jamming of Channel 292 --- I noticed Channel 292 has posted a message on its website complaining about jamming of its broadcasts on 6070 kHz. It claims to be "wilfully jammed" by the transmitters of Shortwave Service in Kall. I find this puzzling. Why would Shortwave Service wanted to jam Channel 292? Why is Channel 292 so sure the jamming is coming from Kall? Has anyone heard this jamming or know any more about this? 73s (Paul Watson, Jan 15, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** GERMANY [non]. Re: Shortwaveservice Testtransmissions coming up A 'non-disclosure agreement'? Please, if you are trying to broadcast, you WANT people to know you're on the air and from where and with how much power so we can FIND you. Isn't the POINT of broadcasting to get listeners? Why hold the cards so close to your vest? If anyone thinks there is some sort of 'state secret' here, you're clearly not understanding what broadcasting is supposed to do! 73 //Ken Z -- (Kenneth V Zichi radioguy73@gmail.com Is it time to cook yet? Jan 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I don`t like this either, but possibly it`s to avoid bias/influencing test reception reports if people know where it`s really coming from. (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) I think the relevant information was given already: frequency, time and target-area. This should be at least enough to know where to tune in and when. The power was also stated (100 kW). Personally I think for normal listening stating the transmission site is completely useless. “Why hold the cards so close to your vest?” It’s not my choice to do so, the provider asked not to reveal it. Posted by: ("Christian Milling", dxldyg via DXLD) Hi All, Just a quick reminder for anyone who has forgotten the Shortwave Service have a broadcast (I assume in German) from the ADDX at 1900 GMT on 6145 kHz this evening: January 14, 2017 1900-2000 UTC 6145 kHz Noratus 305 (Europe) ADDX (Alan Gale, UK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Despite being beamed to SE Asia and Australia, this morning's test transmission provided a fair signal in Europe as noted using the U. Twente SDR receiver. Recorded automatically with my scripts. Guesses as to transmission sites? How about "Secretbrod"? Ivo might be able to confirm (-- Richard Langley Sat Jan 14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I.e. 12-13 UT on 9900; see below (gh) I missed to hear today's tests on 9900 kHz. Secretbrod no antennas for coverage to SEAs (Ivo Ivanov, B`lgariya, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Upcoming test broadcasts of Shortwaveservice via unknown transmitter: Jan 21-22: 1200-1300 9900 unknown transmitter* to EaEu Music and announcements 1200-1300 9900 unknown transmitter* to EaEu Music and announcements Jan 28-29: 1500-1600 6015 unknown transmitter* to WeEu Music and announcements 1500-1600 6015 unknown transmitter* to WeEu Music and announcements * most likely to be via Secretbrod: to EaEu 030 deg and to WeEu 306 degrees http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/01/upcoming-test-broadcasts-of.html (Ivo Ivanov, Jan 13, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DXLD) No, the Shortwaveservice broadcast next two weekends are not from Bulgaria. The test tomorrow will be same time same frequency but another transmitter location. Posted by: (Christian Milling, Jan 14, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DXLD) Test broadcast of Shortwaveservice via unknown tx on Jan.15 - videos Open carrier/test tone at 1118 & 1126 UT. Good signal, but not via Secretbrod http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/01/upcoming-test-broadcasts-of.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, dxldyg via DXLD) Also recorded today's (Sunday's) test transmission using the Twente receiver. Somewhat better signal strength today compared to yesterday from ostensibly a different unknown transmitter site (-- Richard Langley, NB, 1343 UT Jan 15, ibid.) ** GERMANY [non]. UNKNOWN - Saftica ROMANIA or Grigoriopol MOLDOVA [probably wb. guess] Shortwaveservice Testtransmissions coming up: Hi folks, we are performing the three following weekends some 100 kW test broadcasts as following: Sat 14. Jan 2017 1200-1300 UT 9900 kHz SoEa Asia / Australia Sun 15. Jan 2017 1200-1300 UT 9900 kHz SoEa Asia / Australia Sat 21. Jan 2017 1200-1300 UT 9900 kHz Western Russia / CIS Sun 22. Jan 2017 1200-1300 UT 9900 kHz Western Russia / CIS {B-16 wooden request entry of R PAK Islamabad Rawat, never realized yet} Sat 28. Jan 2017 1500-1600 UT 6015 kHz Europe Sun 29. Jan 2017 1500-1600 UT 6015 kHz Europe {B-16 QRM co-channel Urumqi CHINA} Thanks for tuning in. Best regards, (Christian Milling-D, Jan 11, via BC-DX 17 Jan via DXLD) On January 14 - 12-13 UT - 9900 kHz exact fq - former USSR unit?, carrier on air already at 1155 UT when tuned-in. Doha Qatar signal- level S=4-5 or -95dBm only, same strength like remote Perseus unit of SP5DDF in Poland. 1155 UT S=9 -74dBm in Delhi, underneath local India noise audio. 1159:59 start of Carillon pause signal from Shortwaveservice brokery played. 1212 UT S=6 -82dBm in Brisbane Australien. 1215 UT nothing heard on Spain or Japan remote posts. On Jan 15th heard again test broadcast towards South Asia on 9900 kHz exact fq, switch on at 1149:05 UT. Carillon interval signal at 1159:36 UT. SW Service announcement at 1200:04 UT. 10.2 kHz wideband signal. Program feed end at 1259:24 UT, 1x Chimes pause signal played. TX off at 1259:40 UT on Jan 15 (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews BC-DX 17 Jan via DXLD) >>“Why hold the cards so close to your vest?” >It’s not my choice to do so, the provider asked not to reveal it. I get that and the criticism isn't aimed at people providing the information, but it begs the question, WHY was that request made? The answer I am forced to conclude is that the 'provider', has no clue what they are really doing. If you are trying to attract an audience, you need to tell potential listeners when and where to find you! More detail makes that easier. And Glenn, I see what you're saying, but I can't figure out how this would create 'bias' as frankly, most stations now have monitors and don't rely on 'random' reception reports any more, and with the plethora of on-line accessible radios, even monitors aren't really needed any more! This strikes me as some outmoded thinking creeping into things. I can't be the only one who recalls how R Moscow used to treat its transmitter sites as a 'state secret' out of paranoia or whatever reason they used back in the day. This is the same sort of silliness from what I can tell! The whole 'it's a secret and I'll tell you this little bit but have to kill you if I provide details' is just silliness. ME? I prefer the scientific method where you DISCLOSE your results, AND your methodology with the intent that someone else can 're-do' your experiment and validate your results. If you won't tell me HOW you made a conclusion, why should I believe the conclusion you suggest? Ditto for information. If you 'can't disclose' details, what exactly are the people who provided the information REALLY trying to do? Too much gamesmanship, if you ask me. -- One can never be too rich, too thin or have too many radios. D<-- and I'm still not with stupid! -->R kv zichi (Kenneth Vito Zichi, MI, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. Frequency changes of Deutsche Welle from Jan 11: 1330-1400 NF 9580*DHA 250 kW / 045 deg WeAs Dari, ex 15215 NAU 1330-1400 on 15215 TRM 250 kW / 335 deg WeAs Dari, addit. from Feb 1 1400-1430 NF 9580*DHA 250 kW / 045 deg WeAs Pashto, ex 15215 NAU 1400-1430 on 15215 TRM 250 kW / 335 deg WeAs Pashto, addit. from Feb 1 1800-1900 NF 9600 ISS 500 kW / 170 deg WeAf Hausa, ex 11700 * co-ch same 9580 SHP 100 kW / 070 deg EPac English Radio Australia http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/01/frequency-changes-of-deutsche-welle.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #986 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, January 15, 2017 via DXLD) Could it be that this revived use of Trincomalee by Deutsche Welle has this time been booked through Media Broadcast? Like the 9900 kHz test that just took place? (Kai Ludwig, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY EAST [and non]. Radio Volga --- One does not need to understand the German narration to enjoy the little known footage: http://www.rbb-online.de/theodor/archiv/20161204_1832_theodor/radio_wolga.html (Reminder: This was the station the Soviet/Russian forces operated from 1945 til 1994 from Potsdam, using postal office transmitters first at Königs Wusterhausen, then at Burg.) Posted by: (Kai Ludwig, Jan 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFSZfflmA9w (via Leo Barmaleo, Moldova, ibid.) [and non]. Sounds, as far as one can tell from this digital garbage, like original studio tape. Would be of interest if more can be obtained. That's, by the way, one of their early broadcasts in German. The later ones, in 1993...1994, had a less elaborate presentation. Oh, and what's this: The Krasne LW/MW/SW site in 1992 (when post- Soviet TV still shot 16 mm film?!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMZX6JEOh9E Wired radio headend at Krasnoyarsk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9DEfFGfzoU "Orbita"-type teleport shown after 5:54, still with the original antenna steering console (these systems had been designed to work with Molniya satellites and their, well, Molniya orbits): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTV7qHMZoq8 Reactivation of Yakutsk shortwave transmitters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuKV87Zm06s And we got a reception report from Japan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erhzVRE7K5I Must check out this Youtube channel further... (Kai Ludwig, Germany, ibid.) [later:] Done: Tavrichanka station featured from 6:20, Razdolnoye from 7:25... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIiZH_lrtWk And the old Tesla mediumwave transmitter distracting when DVB-T2 is the topic (by the way, what's a Scopus and which source refers the abbr. RVA to...): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsK2ZZRDk94 Posted by: (Kai Ludwig, Jan 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. Voice of Greece on 9420 kHz and 9935 kHz on Jan 11/12 1645-0735 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek tx#3 and off 1645-0705 on 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Greek tx#1 and off http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/01/voice-of-greece-on-9420-khz-and-9935.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9420, Voice of Greece at 2041 in Greek tuned into a Greek male version of ``When the Saints Go Marching In`` and a man with talk, then New Orleans blue music with the man with talk overtop at 2044 --- Good Jan 17. Strange programming from Greece, for sure (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Drake SPR4 Receiver, Drake TR7, Kenwood TS440S, and YouKits TJ5A Transceivers, AEA AT-300 and MFJ-941E Manual Tuners, LDG Z-100 Plus Auto Tuner, 40 meter and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA yg via DXLD) ** GUAM. 9910, UNID Digital, Jan 13, 1418 - I've listed a DRM test between Jan 9th and 13th from Guam, as I recall to South Asia with 90 kW and 290 degree beam. What I see here is a carrier on 9910.6, and a DRM-like signal of 4 kHz in width only. I suspect that I could decode something as it's easy to hear. Not strong, but of course, my DRM would not decode only 4 kHz width. So if not Guam, then who might this be? (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. 4055, UT Sun Jan 15 at 0212 tune-in to dead air, but shortly some really old band music, from a cylinder? TGAV, Radio Verdad is S9+20 which is doing very well for less than a kilowatt. Apparently opening at 0214 `Antena DX` show con Víctor Gutiérrez, presumably still in reruns, mentions part of his schedule, including Saturday 5 pm somewhere; on Radio Cultural; on Radio Verdad; at 1200 UT or 7 am on 9955. First feature is about NHK World Radio Japón, with clip of its IS and sign-on at 0400 on 6195 when that was via Bonaire (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4055, Chiquimula, 1 kW/ND, Radio Verdad, Jan 15, 0600 - Sign off announcements in multi-languages. Last was in English (by the owner, I'm sure) and it was most difficult to understand (a bit muffled, and with a Latin accent. Immediately followed by the Guatemalan National Anthem sung by a choir. Good reception. A good Latin American evening. Surprised to hear that they're still signing off at 0606 (in English, with postal address: Radio Truth, Box 5; etc. Finally quit signing off at 0616:10! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUINEA. 9650, R. Guinea, Jan 08, 0712-0728, 33332-34333, French, Local music and afro pop, ID at 0712 and 0722. 9650, R. Guinea, Jan 17 0719-0728, 35322-35333, French, Afro pop, ID at 0723 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HAWAII. 830, Honolulu, 10 kW, KHVH, Jan 12 1623 - Good reception with traffic issues in Honolulu. TC earlier for 6:21 AM. Faded replaced mostly with KSDP, Sand Point AK. Another ID at 1625. Newsradio KHVH. 940, Waipahu, 10 kW, KKNE, Jan 11, 1403 - Finally, a decent signal from Hawaii and my all-time favourite Hawaiian, with Hawaiian music. A pleasant change from the abrasive talk radio (ESPN on KFIG Fresno). Heard only on the ALA 100 aimed NE/SW, and surprisingly not on the SW aimed DKAZ. At 1453, however, it's the DKAZ which is pulling in KKNE with ID, and 'All Hawaiian, all of the time'. Good reception, but faded within a minute or two and now co-channel by the sports station. Then again KKNE totally dominates by 1457. I love the ionosphere!!! KFIG returned for the TOH and mentioned a legal ID, given as KFIG Fresno CA. Also strong when they fade in. 940, Waipahu, Oahu, 10 kW, KKNE, Jan 12, 1611 - This is the best opening to Hawaii so far on my trip by far. Perhaps KKTN [sic: means KTKN nearby Ketchikan AK, 5/1 kW] has not yet gone to day power on 930, but it's not a big issue. Minimal splatter. Very strong. I've noted a number of other Hawaiians during a quick band sweep, as well (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ICELAND [and non]. I’ve been going over all of my AM-band DX recordings (LW/MW) made during my 11-day business and pleasure trip. By the way I return to Iceland later this Spring 2017 to do more work for a new Reykjavik tech firm I now work for (geo-physical/aurora/magnetosphere research). Firstly, the RUV 666 kHz Reykjavik test station with 1 kW as received up on Hrisey in north Iceland at about 0445 UT 14 December has a nearly exact 4 Hz beat/SAH with SER Barcelona, Spain (not Portugal as I said in my note a few weeks ago). So if rock or pop music is heard and a 4 Hz beat with Barcelona is heard, it is likely Reykjavik. From recordings 3 days apart the 4 Hz beat is steady, so it looks like the amazing and truly sophisticated SCADA unit embedded into the old Bauer transmitter is rock steady! I supplied Benni (one of the fellows involved in the RUV test and whom I met in Reykjavik at The Pearl/Perlan, on 15 December) with an ID file in case he liked it and wished to have some sort of ID for the station. I made the 30 second ID track whimsical and it also has three “666” IDs in 1020 Hz Morse Code (just like a BCB DX test), so it will be heard pretty good if DX skywave, someplace, hopefully. I’m also going to supply him with much more music or else my Reykjavik friend Kristjan will that I mailed to him on a USB drive last week - hi! Kinda fun to “assist” this station. The RUV seemingly has mixed feelings about converting to MW from the two LW transmitters on 189 and 207 kHz. Benni felt that it would take several (up to) 100 kW MW transmitters to have similar and steady coverage as even the 189 kHz transmitter can do presently, as the LW transmitter(s) have big groundwave coverage throughout the volcanic (low ground conductivity!) terrain island-wide. So the study of the remarkably quite excellent signal coverage of 666 kHz Reykjavik goes on for a while more - as said last note, it’ll go on at least into this Summer, so DX it while the long nights exist this winter. On a decent car radio (Mitsubishi Montego) tuned to 670 (it is a USA- market vehicle we drove all over) we rocked out to 666 kHz Reykjavik well past Bifrost on the Hwy 1 Ring Road heading toward Hrisey (over 100 km distant from Reykjavik). Returning, although the station immediately blanked-out as we entered the long road-tunnel under Hvalfjordur (fjord) north of Hofsvik, perhaps about 200 meters before we re-emerged outside, the 666 station did a strange picket-fencing type fade-up but stronger each burst until blasting in again upon exiting the tunnel. I demonstrated this interesting e-field effect with my friend Kristjan. I say that the 1 kW signal coverage of RUV’s 666 kHz is superb, anyway, judging on the car radio [later:] Hi Glenn, My stupid little Chinese recorder is way too audio- sensitive and so this recording is somewhat distorted but entertaining no-less of the RUV 666 kHz test station from Vatnsendi, Reykjavik, Iceland as heard on a car receiver tuned to 670 kHz driving near Bifrost, Iceland on the Hwy. 1 Ring Road returning back to Reykjavik on Wed. 14 Dec. 2016. Good Doors tune. Sorry for the distortion, but I was not aware of the over-sensitivity of the recorder until returning home here, alas (Steve McGreevy - N6NKS, http://www.auroralchorus.com Natural VLF Radio and Travel, Jan 15, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also DX-PEDITIONS for his logs from elsewhere while in Iceland ** INDIA. All India Radio Home Service Frequency Schedule I'm still sorting the post I received during my Christmas vacation. With the B2016 schedule of All India Radio's External Services I received a seperate flyer from the Directorate General with schedules of their domestic services valid 30 October 2016 to 26 March 2017. The flyer is sorted: - digital transmissions (pure and simulcast) on MW - analogue services on MW, SW and FM seperated by North Zone, East Zone, North East Zone, West Zone, South Zone - satellite services - Vividh Bharati Service on MW, SW and FM - special FM services (like F.M. Classical Music Channel) - National Channel service on MW and SW - FM services (FM Rainbow Channel, FM Gold Channel) - special service for Indian forces on 666 kHz and - Urdu services on MW and SW I'm not specialized in India DXing but it may be of interest to others. I haven't ordered it. 73, Posted by: (Manfred R. Reiff, Jan 12, dxldyg via DXLD) Viz.: Domestic services of All India Radio via shortwave - valid 30 Oct 2016 to 29 Mar 2017 Domestic shortwave services from All India Radio according to their actual domestic services schedule: ALL TIMES GIVEN ARE IN INDIAN STANDARD TIME (= UTC + 5½ HOURS)!!!!! North Zone: Jaipur 0555-0930 4910, 1200-1500 7325, 1700-2310 4910 Leh 0700-0940 4760, 1230-1500 6000, 1730-2230 4760 please note that Port Blair in the South Zone also uses 4760 Lucknow 0553-1000 4880, 1228-1530 7440, 1743-2310 4880 Srinagar 0555-0740 4950, 0755-1030 6110, 1200-1645 6110, 1700-2310 4950 East Zone: Jeypore 0555-1005 5040, 1230-1505 6040, 1700-2310 5040 Kurseong 0625-0930 4895, 1150-1600 7230, 1700-2230 4895 North East Zone: Aizawl 0558-0930 5050, 1230-1530 7295, 1700-2200 5050 Gangtok 0630-1030 4835, 1600-2130 4835 West Zone: Bhopal 0555-0745 4810, 0755-1015 7430, 1230-1500 7430, 1700-2300 4810 South Zone: Chennai 0545-0815 4920, 0830-1000 7380, 1140-1500 7380, 1730-2310 4920 Hyderabad 0550-0745 4800, 0845-0930 7390, 1230-1500 7390, 1700-2314 4800 Port Blair 0530-0830 4760, 0845-0930 7420, 1140-1500 7420, 1600-2230 4760 please note that Leh in the North Zone also uses 4760 Thiruvananthapuram 0550-0745 5010, 0800-1000 7290, 1200-1530 7290, 1750-2310 5010 Vividh Bjarati operates on SW as follows: 0555-1005 9865, 0630-1005 9380, 1430-1730 6100, 9380 & 9865, 1815-2310 9865 National Channel on SW: 1850-0610 9380 I hope I wrote down all schedules correctly. 73, Manfred. Posted by ("Manfred R. Reiff", Jan 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Jose Jacob of the National Institute of Amateur Radio in Hyderabad, India informed me that AIR Lucknow is off air. The station isn't listed in the WRTH 2017. Jose gave me a link where we can find the actual situation: http://qsl.net/vu2jos/sw/loc.htm According to that list, AIR Lucknow is off air since 1 April 2016. In addition Jeypore seems to be off air daytime (1230-1505 IST) on 6040 kHz. AIR Aizawl, AIR Srinagar and AIR Thiruvananthapuram seem to operate irregularly. The airtime given on qsl.net differ from those I took from the official schedules. I can't verify the AIR schedules given yesterday. I took them from the official AIR flyer valid 30 October 2016 to 26 March 2017. 73, Manfred - Posted by: (Manfred R. Reiff, Jan 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 4760, AIR, Jan 14, 1505 - A pretty good 60 meter band this morning. Now with AIR Port Blair back, I'm not sure who this is coming in at fair level with Indian music. Either them or AIR Leh. Just above the nominal frequency at 4760.003 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 4810, Bhopal, 50 kW/ND, AIR Mumbai, Jan 10, 0135 - Poor to fair in English when first tuned in at 0130. News service. Marred terribly by a utility noise source on USB and CODAR below, so I chose the latter. Seemed to be done by 0135. Indian music at 0137. I don't see English listed at this time, so a tentative logging (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. Hi Glenn, [Re AIR Kurseong, 17-02:] Jan 11, heard no signal on 4895, nor 4896, at 1349, but was on the air (4895) at 1411. On Jan 12, no signal at 1508, on neither 4895 nor 4896. Having problems over there? (Ron Howard, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 4894.9, AIR Kurseong, 1531, Jan 14. Seemed to be on low side of their normal 4895.0; New Delhi audio feed of the news in English // 4760 AIR Port Blair (ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS). // 4910 AIR Jaipur. // 4920 AIR Chennai, almost fair with QRM (TIBET - PBS Xizang). 4950 AIR Radio Kashmir, Srinagar (presumed) - only an open carrier; never reached the level of any audio. // 4970 AIR Shillong. // 5010 AIR Thiruvananthapuram. // 5040 AIR Jeypore. // 5050 AIR Aizawl, QRM from Guangxi Beibu Bay Radio (CHINA). // 9380 AIR Aligarh. 5050, AIR Aizawl, 1230, Jan 14. Amazing propagation that completely blocked out Guangxi Beibu Bay Radio (CHINA) which normally dominates this frequency; also a rare day with strong signal from Aizawl; news in English; mostly readable. Daily I check here, but have never heard anything like today's reception. Audio from today at http://goo.gl/ry8d9E China did indeed fade up here later. 1612-1630*; after China signed off, subcontinent music program "produced by AIR Shillong," in English; ID “This came to you from the North Eastern Service of All India Radio broadcasting from Shillong"; local Aizawl ID and frequency at sign off (Ron Howard, Calif., dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA [and non]. 4920, Chennai (Madras), 50 kW, ND, AIR Chennai, Jan 9, 0118 - Good reception except for cochannel Chinese. English noted with typical Indian accent. Excellent modulation. Very clean. 4920, Chennai, 50 kW/ND, AIR Chennai, Jan 15, 0120 - AIR is dominating and very strong. However, cochannel PBS Xizang is about half the strength and mars reception. Very rapid delivery from Chennai, with Tamil listed. Take away PBS, and it would be armchair! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA [and non]. 7505, Delhi 100 kW/65 deg, AIR, Jan 10, 0215 - Listed as in Nepali. Very loud het against WRNO. Within a second, went from high side to low side, both audibly and visually on the waterfall. Measuring now (WRNO, that is) at 7504.87, but increasing, so almost a horizontal line on the waterfall! Delhi is 4 Hz on high side. Within 1 minute, pretty much on frequency. Makes things very hard to follow. WRNO is only a little stronger than AIR. At 0220:30, it's as if someone with a screwdriver adjusted something, as the frequency again shifted slowly over about 5 seconds to the low side of 7505. Most unusual! The waterfall is exactly parallel to the previous slow rise in frequency. Some sort of fault! By 0242, AIR dominates. Apart from the wobbly het, I'm no longer hearing any audio from WRNO. Another fault? AIR transmitter cut at 0300:20 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7505, AIR (presumed) via New Delhi (Kingsway), 0215-0220, Jan 17. Tuned in here expecting to hear WRNO, but surprised to hear definite subcontinent music/singing; announcer, probably in scheduled Nepali, but unable to confirm; no hint of WRNO. This was possible due to my local sunset at 0117 UT and New Delhi sunrise at 0145 UT (Ron Howard, Calif., dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 3325, Palangkaraya, 10 kW/ND, RRI Palangkaraya, Jan 6, 1433 - Excellent, virtually armchair copy with very enjoyable local music. Stringed music with a male vocal accompanying. Very exotic sounding! Measuring very close to nominal frequency, on 3324.998 kHz (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3325, Pro 1 RRI Palangkaraya, 1402, Jan 14. Local news in Bahasa Indonesia; unusually strong signal, but QRN (static) sounded more like summertime QRN (heavy); 1416 ending news with the normally played patriotic song ("Bagimu Negeri"); very unique propagation today strongly favoring RRI & AIR stations (Ron Howard, Calif., dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 3345, Ternate, 10 kW/ND, RRI Ternate, Jan 6 1436 - Much weaker than RRI Palangkaraya, but still a decent signal, with very clean modulation. EZL female vocal. Definitely off frequency, on low side at measured 3344.867 kHz (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3344.85, RRI Ternate, 1505*, Jan 14. Off with the usual "Pulau Ambon" (Island of Ambon)/"Love Ambon"; better than average reception (Ron Howard, Calif., dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. V of Indonesia Cimanggis on 9524.940 kHz at S=8 strength in Doha Qatar Japanese service at 1206 UT on Jan 14. And V of Indonesia Cimanggis 9524.939 kHz S=9+5dB in New Delhi Japanese service at 1224 UT on Jan 15 (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews BC-DX 17 Jan via DXLD) ** IRAN. 7420, Jan 18 at 0054, Iranian NA, greeting in Arabic, as in typical sign-on/Qur`an procedure of VIRI, VP at S7-S8. Trouble is, scheduled here is Spanish starting at 0020. Maybe crossed feeds at Sirjan, as Tajik is scheduled from 0050 on 7360? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. CLANDESTINE, 7480, R. Payam-e Doost, Jan 17 *1800-1810, 35433, Farsi, 1800 s/on with opening music, ID, Opening announce, Talk (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY [non]. SECRETLAND, IRRS EGR, UNRadio & others via SPL Secretbrod on Jan 15 1030-1300 9510 SCB 050 kW / 306 deg WeEu English Sun, instead of previous week 9880 SCB 050 kW / 306 deg WeEu English Sunday on Jan 8 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/01/irrs-egr-unradio-via-spl-secretbrod-on.html SECRETLAND, Radio Santec, The Word was back on air via SPL Secretbrod, Jan 15 1500-1530 on 15190 SCB 100 kW / 090 deg to SoAs Eng/Ger Sun The Cosmic Wave, strong http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/01/irrs-radio-santec-word-was-back-on-air.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. 1179, Osaka, 50 kW, MBS, Mainichi Hoso, JOOR, Jan 8, 1708 - I'm quite certain this is Osaka just booming in with fill music (Dr Zhivago at 1709:45). PAL states they are off the air on Sundays from 1700 to 1948). Perhaps this is what's meant by that! A major dawn enhancement this morning. By far the strongest I've heard since my arrival on the 5th. Cochannels are weakly heard, likely China (Hubei RGD) 1287, HBC, Hokkaido Hoso, Sapporo, 50 kW, JOHR, Jan 8, 1737 - Very strong signal with rock n' roll music. PAL lists them off on Sundays 1730 to 1900, but still on, although went from one song directly into another (Japanese female vocal). Perhaps they mean local Sundays, as I presume it is Monday local in Japan now. A presumed log, as no ID heard. 1386, 4 x 10 kW, NHK2, Jan 7, 1441 - Lengthy sign-off at 1440 tune in. Seems Japan has returned to pretty good levels this morning, compared to yesterday. Cochannel, weakly, is audible. Not sure who, yet (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Should that be 1540 sign-off, as per discussioin of NHK2 elsewhere? See CHINA (gh, DXLD) ** JAPAN. 1575, Misawa, 600 Watts, AFN, Jan 9, 1711 - Nice ID for AFN, and back into music. Significant splatter from lower side. No, it's not 1570, but a HUGE signal from HLAZ on 1566! Local ads at 1715. Gave two PSAs for local community agencies, giving phone numbers of 226- 4128 and 226-7273. I'm presuming it's Misawa. Very strong at 1720 recheck. Jingle for 'serving America's best' at 1730. Three carriers noted. The main one, presumably Misawa is on 1575.001, and there are two others on 1574.988 and 1575.037. Still audible at 1913 recheck (and 1566 HLAZ still booming in!). At 1815, ad for Misawa auto center. Occasional deep fades, but often returns with surprising strength. At 1900, marred by HLAZ changing beams resulting in a significant splatter and inability for Sync to function properly. Gave up at 1912, with strength still there! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. 1663.5, Maritime reports, Jan 13, 1634 - Weakly heard until 1635 with Japanese, presumably marine related forecasts. I've heard them before, but always night to pick up these flea powered transmitters. I notice that Osaka is listed at 50 w, but not on at this time. No powers listed for the other possible stations: Nagoya Harbor Radar or Tokyo Martis (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [non]. 5006, Tokyo-Chofu, 0.2 kW/ND, JG2XA, Jan 14, 1431 - Noticed no sign of this station during my stay in Masset. I may have overlooked it, but I would expect fairly easy reception during this time of the year (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [non]. 11800, SOUTH AFRICA, Meyerton, 250 kW/328 deg, Radio Japan, Jan 11, 1804 - Very good reception with one of the few English broadcasts from NHK. Another station I miss! 11925, PALAU, Medorn 100 kW/270 deg, Radio Japan, Jan 8, 1414 - Fair to good reception, except for a transmitter buzz noted in English. Listed parallel 11685 not audible from Tashkent (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. 819, Pyongyang, 500 kW, KCBS, Jan 7 1551 - Actually, for a change, very enjoyable EZL music by a female vocalist. Confirmed // to SW 2850. Very good level, besides mild splatter from 820. No sign of any jamming. Also measures on exact frequency. 819, Pyongyang, 500 kW, KCBS (Joson Jung-ang Pangsong), Jan 10 1704 - Superb reception with nice clean audio and a rather enjoyable Korean chorus. Minor splatter from 820. Korea (and China) both came in very well this morning (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. 6100, Kanggye, 250 kW/ND, KCBS, Jan 7, 1521 - USB is reduced on this transmission. LSB + C. Usual strident constipated rendition by YL announcer. Quickly puts me to sleep! Good reception (while looking for Afghanistan, but no sign of a second transmitter). On measured 6100.000 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. BELGIUM (non), Additional broadcasts of Living Water Ministry Broadcasting: 1500-1600 9650*unknown probably PUG NEAs Korean Tue/Wed/Thu, ex Wed# * co-ch 9650 CON 050 kW / non-dir WeAf French Radio Guinea Conakry # probably from Jan 3 & from same date at new time 1500-1558, ex 1530- 1630. http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/01/additional-broadcasts-of-living-water.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5935, JAPAN, Yamata, 300 kW/280 deg, Shiokaze (Sea Breeze), Jan 7, 1405 - Carrier on at 1404:20, and into Japanese programming. Excellent level on this otherwise poor morning, propagationally. 5935, JAPAN, Yamata, 300 kW/290 deg, Shiokaze (Sea-Breeze), Jan 11, 1435 - Armchair copy in Japanese during their sign-off process. Carrier off at 1435 revealing a buzz type jammer, which itself left the air just before 1438, leaving Lhasa in the clear (100 kW/85 deg) with listed PBS Xizang at good level. 6110, JAPAN, Yamata, 300 kW/280 deg, Shiokaze (Sea Breeze), Jan 12 [Thu], 1600 - Supposed to be in English, but it's not this morning. Bubble jamming is about as loud as I've ever heard here. Normally absent, or just barely audible. Today, very noticeable in the background. I think this is the special program that Ron Howard mentioned recently. Some nice music, etc., noted. Not the usual format at all. Continued past the BOH, rather than the normal repeat of same program. Rechecking at 1655 reveals very loud jamming, stronger than Shiokaze itself. North Korean operators are asleep at the desk. Jamming still going on against no one at 1711 recheck. And still there at 1855!!! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. 1566, Jeju, 250 kW, FEBC, HLAZ, Jan 9, 1929 - Trumpet IS and into 30 min Korean program. PAL lists TWR. Same trumpet at the end of the program. At 2000, gave call-sign in presumed Korean phonetically, and continued with religious programming. Exceptionally strong this morning! Major fade down by 2030, however. Barely audible by 2100 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Note times! 2000 UT = local noon! (gh, DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH. 5857.5, Seoul, 3 kW/ND, HLL, Seoul Meteorological Radio, Jan 6 0630 - Fair reception, as I was preparing to set up for this weekend's first VOA Radiogram program. I've never heard it before. A bit too weak to make out any content. After end of transmission, the carrier remains on. Seems to be in USB + C mode. I've never seen this one reported, nor have I ever hear it before. Another transmission started at 0700. Rechecked at 1418 and in progress in Korean at excellent level. Into English at 1419 UT. On recheck at 1430, now in possible Japanese (I recognized some words I've heard on Japanese coastal stations) (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Walt - Heard here in Calif. on a daily basis, but usually only report it about once a year. At my location the audio is slightly distorted. Here is an audio of one on my clearer receptions http://goo.gl/jOfBWw (Ron Howard, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. 9100, Jan 12 at 1407, JBA carrier with flutter. Presumably Echo of Hope on new frequency since Jan 1 per Aoki, heard by Ron Howard yesterday // 4885 around 1400 altho initial schedule was 1755-2400 only; also watch out for Sound of Hope, Taiwan and/or ChiCom jamming which may also appear on 9100. I`ll have to start/end my 9 MHz bandscans on 9100 now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 7350, From Grigoriopol, Maiac, Pridnestrovie noted new morning frequency of Radyoya Denge Kurdistane heard at 0523 UT on Jan 15. S=9+45dB -32dBm tremendous signal. 10.8 kHz bandwidth, excellent audio signal [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, log 0410 to 0525 UT on Jan 15 in remote SDR receiver at Doha Qatar, and confirmed in Delhi India and Madrid Spain posts, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 15, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11600, Jan 16 at 1457, Denge Kurdistane good at S9+10 with music. At *1500 sharp another carrier cuts on, making a SAH for a few seconds, then music stops and initial transmitter goes off. Dead air until music comes up again on succeeding transmitter at 1502:20, still S9+10 but sounds slightly weaker. EiBi and Aoki both show a 1500 transition on 11600 from Moldova to Bulgaria (EiBi still calls it ``Denge Mesopotamia``.) But the last we heard from Ivo was that Bulgaria site is no longer involved, instead France (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CLANDESTINE, 11600, V. of Kurdistan, Jan 17 0729-0739, 35332, Kurdish, Talk and news, Theme music at 0730 and 0731 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KYRGYZSTAN. SW: 4010.23, 0240-0245 16.1, KGZ, Birinchi R, Krasnaya Rechka. Kyrgyz conversation, 45333 // just a carrier on 4819.91 without audio AP-DNK (Anker Petersen, Denmark, loggings made in Skovlunde on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, wbradio yg via DXLD) ** KYRGYZSTAN. Transmission of the Christian Center "Voice of Life" (better known as Sedaye Zindagi), were awarded with the 2nd to January 6th 2017 at a frequency of 5130. Start 1448 UT and end transmission of about 1755 UT (changes daily). Broadcasting in languages, Pashto and Dari likely that adopted mainly in Afghanistan. With 1448 UT sound, the so-called "test tones", and 1455 UT with several songs (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria, RusDX Jan 15 via DXLD) ** LAOS. 6130, Vientiane, 50 kW/ND, Lao National Radio, Jan 15, 1415 - I happened to listen again to a WORLD OF RADIO episode from the Fall, and heard Ron Howard's reception of Laos, being a tough catch. Gone are the days of easy, armchair copy. Still a terrible copy with awful adjacent splatter: worst is the North Korean jamming of the Voice of Freedom on 6135 which easily bleeds down to 6130 in all of its 'glory'. Almost as bad is CNR 1 splatter from 6125. Remove those, and the copy would be fine, as I can easily see the signal, and hear snippets of speech. Using synchronous detection helps, when it locks. Trouble is that it doesn't lock for very long (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Noted in past weeks on the lower sideband, exact 6129.975 kHz measured on Jan 16 at 1225 (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6129.97, Lao National R., Vientiane, Jan 17 1159-1209, 33433-32432, Laotian, Ethnic music and news, Theme music at 1159, Seven gongs at 1200 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MADAGASCAR. 9495, Mahajanga, 100 kW/355 deg, MWV New Life Station, Jan 11, 1919 - Very good reception in Russian, especially using my over the Pole 500' mini-Beverage. 9570, Mahajanga, 100 kW/355 deg, MWV New Life Station, Jan 11, 1815 - Russian at good level. No hint of their 2nd transmitter on 17640 which should be in English at this hour. At 1828 gave the postal address for KNLS in St Petersburg, then email address .ru, and then a phone number to contact them. Again repeated contact details and schedule at 1847. Also web address, which I'm sure was www.KNLS.ru. At 1849, back into inspirational music (in English). Sign-off announcements at 1855, but this time also gave the Anchor Point address. Left the air at 1856. 11945, Mahajanga, 100 kW/355 deg, MWV Radio Feda, Jan 11, 1921 - Superb reception, once again using my 500' mini-Beverage aimed due North. Arabic music. Appears that both transmitters are therefore now operational. Returned to check the mp3 file. Completed the broadcast at 1946:45 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) You mean 1956:45? (gh) ** MALAYSIA. 9835, Sarawak FM, via Kajang, 1537, Jan 12. Chief Minister of Sarawak (Tan Sri Adenan Satem) passed away yesterday; there will be seven days of mourning and flags will be at half-mast, for this popular leader. Heard mostly non-stop reciting from the Qur'an, with brief IDs; noted a recital by a woman, which is extremely rare, so I knew something very unique was going on; certainly these recitals are in honor of the late leader; still heard at 1629, with good reception. No other Malaysian stations were heard today, which has been the case recently; no Asyik FM (6050) and no Wai FM (11665) (Ron Howard, Calif., dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, Thanks very much to Rob Wagner, who posted this to Facebook WRTH - "Thanks Ron. None of the usual FM music programming noted at 2030 to past 2100. Just Qur'an recitations and no IDs either. Jan 12." Appreciate the feedback! (Ron Howard, Calif., dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9835, Sarawak FM, via Kajang, 1212, Jan 14. Continuing with mostly Qur'an recitals in honor of the late Chief Minister of Sarawak; 1300 & 1400 breaks for 10 minutes of news in vernacular; still on at last check at 1548, still with Qur'an recitals. Still no other Malaysian stations were heard today, which has been the case recently; no Asyik FM (6050) and no Wai FM (11665) (Ron Howard, Calif., dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALI. L'Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision du Mali runs a small website at http://ortm.ml/ http://ortm.ml/direct-radios/ is meant to give access to two programmes. Unfortunately, while researching the site, none of the links worked. The replay function http://ortm.ml/replay-radio/ connected with soundcoud worked. On the other hand the TV stream at http://ortm.ml/direct-ortm/ worked and gave access to a match of the Africa Cup 2017. Those who need the general line up of the championship and a better audio on the French commentary will find it at http://www.rfi.fr/com/20170109-rfi-diffuse-integralite-coupe-afrique-nations-football-2017-gabon-son-antenne-afrique-p (Dr Hansjoerg Biener, 18 January 2017, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MARSHALL ISLANDS [and non]. 1098, Majuro, 25 kW [sic, nominal, but temp on reduced power --- gh], V7AB, Jan 10 0541 - Surprisingly good reception, besides 1100 splatter, presumably from KFAX San Francisco (which itself is marred by IBOC splatter from 1090 kHz. Syncs easily with my Auto Sync on the Perseus making listening enjoyable. EZL music when checked again at 0553. Noticed that Tonga on 1017 was also coming in pretty well. At 0600 seemed to be carrying Radio Australia news. Seems like stations are starting to fade in; 1188 JOKP is coming in really well. Again besides the splatter, perfectly listenable. Located in Hokkaido, so stands to reason it would be first to fade in. 1098 is very nice at 0620 with islands music. Love it! Booming in at 0643! Armchair. I'm picturing Colin [Newell, visiting] in Hawaii enjoying them right now on his lanai! 1098, Majuro, 25 kW, V7AB, Jan 12 0712 - Great reception except for terrible splatter from a very powerful IBOC station on 1090 (S9+40 signal). Take them away, and it would be near armchair copy. Did fade to nothing for about 30 seconds, then back again. 'Lean on me' at 0715. 1098, Majuro, 25 kW, V7AB, Radio Marshalls, Jan 13 0701 - ID for BBCWS news. Often at very good levels besides minor splatter. BBC news ID at 0706, then back to local programming in presumed Marshallese. Lower modulation, so I can't make out what is being said. Music is better modulated, and back to islands type music at 0707:15. At 0713 recheck, VERY strong S9 + 10 dominating the channel, and splatter is not too bad. Still that lovely south seas music! Continues to improve with S9 + 20 signal at times at 0737 UT. Very nice!!! I recorded overnight. At 0800, I'm pretty sure that the news is from ABC for the first minute, and then over to the BBC? Overnight, the signals were best until about 0900, and then began to fade, but not completely. At 1117 sounded like a hymn, or possible anthem? Could not hear any further programming after 1118, so might have left the air (to dead air) from that point (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. Oklahoma TP DX 1/14/17: While unreadable, the signal from V7AB on 1098 kHz was the best so far this season. The carrier was first heard at 0629 GMT (Majuro sunrise was 0636). It was stronger by 0637. There was barely audible talk at 0649 fading in and out. Man talking at 0716, sounding like a Pacific island language at 0720. Unable to hear a clear audible signal because of severe to extreme QRM from WTAM-1100. I also hear a het on 972 at 1219, still audible at 1349. Also, there was a sudden, but brief, barely audible trace on 1566 at local sunrise (1341). Thus far the ice storm hasn't affected my power. With the temperature remaining at around -1 C there is light icing on the all surfaces. My generator is ready to go just in case of an outage (Richard Allen, near Perry OK USA, Skywave & FSL, Sent from my iPad, IRCA via DXLD) ** MEXICO. "La Hora Nacional"... or not! --- I'm down to my last 9 recordings from last year's Border Inn DXpedition [NV/UT], all of which are from 2 wires aimed roughly at western Mexico. Right now I'm reviewing 2 recordings made around the half-hour mark of the Mexican national hour, when some states such as Chihuahua and Coahuila offer a "state hour" that stations may choose to air. What a mess! So far I can hardly find 2 stations in parallel. I've found only 3 or 4 stations running the original "La Hora Nacional". I can tell it's the same "episode" (featuring a musical group from Sinaloa called Banda Limón) but the stations are so far out of synch with each other (minutes?!) that if I weren't listening intently to a multi-channel recording I'd have no idea they were running the same program. La Hora [sic-MEDIA Hora!] de Chihuahua was even worse. So far I've found 4 stations running that program, and they're so far out of synch with each other (if they're even running the same "episode" ) that I can't find any common audio across the 4 stations on a 4-minute recording! Adding to the confusion, there are at least two other programs that run during this hour: 1, The "Suprema Corte" program. I'm not sure why the Supreme Court needs its own show, but they've got one (and the stations run tons of promos for it throughout the week). I haven't listened enough to get the general subject matter yet. 2, "La Hora Musical" . This program, which I've found on 3 stations so far, appears to be another totally different program from "La Hora Nacional," featuring much older music (at least on this occasion, which was Mon morning Oct 3 UT). I don't know if it's a government- produced program like the others, but it sounds like it. These stations were not as badly out of synch; I at least heard the same song on all 3. There appeared to be at least one or two other programs running, for which I haven't found multiple stations yet, which seemed to conform to the more traditional format of "La Hora Nacional" (mini- documentaries and historical anecdotes). Not sure what those are yet. I would imagine that folks who DX regularly (Glenn H, Kaz, etc.) have a much firmer grasp of what is going on with all of this. I'm rushing to get back up to speed after being pretty inactive from 2004-2015, when I was working at my last totally-insane job. (I told them it felt like the fire alarm was ringing the whole 11 years I worked there!) 73 (Tim Hall, CA, Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone, Jan 15, ABDX via DXLD) Not really, but the more variety, the better. UT Jan 16 I wasn`t hearing much of interest around 0430 UT (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1570, Jan 12 at 1347, XERF plug for `Antena Radio Segunda Edición`, which I guess is later in the day, noon? en 107.9 y 1220, from IMER, referring to the XEB DF MW frequency and maybe that`s now its own FM, also on ``estaciones en el interior de la república``, (Ciudad Acuña seeming like that from the metropolis? Even tho it`s right on the border, with the DF much more ``interior``). Good signal now but hardly a border blaster any more, and USA is no help allowing lots of low-power CCI. Still claims and listed as 100 kW, but Jerry Kiefer, ex-KBXD, tells me: ``HI Glenn, Mike Van Hooser in Dallas showed me a Mexican government web page where they were listed as 30 kW/Radio Poderosa. Evidently been that way for a few years`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BEAT THIS WEEK --- [including DTV] While the XHTRO-FM callsign and social community concession were approved last month, La Perla de la Mixteca in Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, is not a new station. It had been operating as a pirate on 96.5 (500 watts) for years, and it's now on 94.1, the frequency where its concession took it. Unfortunately, there has also been some scary news out of this station this week, namely that one of its personalities received a death threat. Abigail Soraya Arias Cruz, who hosts the Despierta Tlaxiaco morning program, received a threatening phone call at noon on Tuesday. Her work has criticized the former municipal administration in Tlaxiaco which ended in 2016 when the mayor successfully ran for the state congress (Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ, Jan 15, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) Some odds and ends about the state networks... Radio y Televisión de Guerrero has this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE-hnQYjvjA that summarizes all the investments and changes in recent years over there, including the new XHZTA-FM, digitalization of XHACG and the replacement of the AM transmitter in Chilpancingo, plus renovation of their studios. They also mention—get this—their mobile unit had been embargoed by the state government because the agency was behind on paying its taxes! In Quintana Roo, I've found a reference to the new SQCS stations, one of them at least being on RF channel 34. http://www.pedrocanche.com/2016/12/26/15823/ I suspect that's Chetumal. Another article (erroneously) says it would be 34 in Chetumal but 4 in Felipe Carrillo Puerto (XHFCQ, you might recall, survived the permit discontinuity of the other transmitters) — SQCS's own media indicate they launched using 4.1 in all areas. A university network also has news. We have a callsign and frequency for that Wixárika-speaking U de G station in San Andrés Cohamiata, Jalisco: 89.7 XHPBUG-FM. http://www.udg.mx/es/noticia/udeg-recibe-titulo-de-concesion-para-estacion-de-radio-wixarika (That callsign just BUGs me! I think the PB might stand for Proyecto Bilingüe.) 130 watts ERP for this station, described as the first public use station whose programming will be almost entirely indigenous. ——— Meanwhile, IFT-4 (the radio auction) plods along with a milestone: CONSTANCIAS DE PARTICIPACIÓN will be issued to 167 suitors http://www.ift.org.mx/comunicacion-y-medios/comunicados-ift/es/resuelve-pleno-del-ift-otorgar-constancias-para-participar-en-el-proceso-de-licitacion-de-257 giving them the green light to continue on in the bidding process. Notably, of the 167... -142 are New Competitors in one or more of their desired lots -17 had potential economic competition risks and were given certain conditions -128 committed to launching HD Radio with their stations which provides them a point bonus in this process -50 are people and 117 are corporations, including 5 consortiums Last edited by Raymie; 01-15-2017 at 05:04 PM (Raymie, ibid.) Just a fact. This is the ID for Canal 5 subchannels. Click image for larger version. Name: jGT3RNm.jpg Views: 32 Size: 78.8 KB ID: 19957 [fuzzy photo shows XHCOC-TDT-1 Cd del Carmen Campeche --- gh] ID stuck there since yesterday (Gargadon, Ciudad del Carmen, Jan 15, ibid.) It's --- awkward-looking. "XHCDC-TDT-1"? Really? (Raymie, ibid.) Yep, and that was the best photo I could take (Gargadon, Jan 16, ibid.) [and non] This story concerns Mexico so I'm mentioning it here, but it's best talked about elsewhere... It appears as if XHAS-TDT will be stripped of its Telemundo affiliation as NBC seeks to set up a new Telemundo affiliate in the San Diego area, using the resources of its owned-and-operated KNSD. The move is not unlike the January 1 migration of NBC from WHDH to the new NBC Boston, which was built from the bones of New England Cable News. There's a good discussion over at TVNewsTalk if any of you are interested in reading my thoughts. https://forums.tvnewstalk.net/index.php?threads/nbc-launching-new-telemundo-san-diego-o-o.15855/ (Raymie, Jan 17, ibid.) About one-fourth of IFT-4's frequencies went deserted. Due to a lack of demand, 43 of the 191 FMs (in 33 towns) and 25 of the 66 AM stations (in 19 cities) did not meet with any bidders, according to the head of the Radioelectric Spectrum Unit, Alejandro Navarrete. http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/cartera/economia/2017/01/18/cirt-tras-frecuencias-de-radio-en-am-y-fm Most of these are in small towns. What did happen, however, despite all the organization's attacks on IFT-4, is that some members of the CIRT got in on the bidding. 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 http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?9113-OPMA-is-changing | Download Mexican FM Station Coordinates v2 http://jmp.sh/vtvvPsN | View my HD Radio in Mexico map https://tinyurl.com/hdmexico (Raymie, Jan 19, ibid.) ** MONGOLIA. 4830, Altay, 10 kW/ND, Mongolian Radio 2, Jan 9, 0114 - Good reception with Mongolian talk by OM. S9 level. A good polar evening it seems! The other Mongolian on 4895 (if it is them), is much weaker (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MYANMAR. 5985, BURMA, Phin Oo Lwin, Yangon, 25 kW/176 deg, Myanma Radio, Jan 12, 1515 - Good reception, and would be very good if not for CRI in Japanese from Xian on 5980. Best in USB mode. Lovely Burmese music. Into English at 1530, but near impossible to follow the velvety heavily accented YL announcer. Into NHK English at 1540. I think the program is called, 'Ways Around the World'. Much easier to follow their accents! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Walt - Often heard on Thursdays and Fridays, "Friends Around the World"; website https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/radio/listener/ Thanks again for all the good info! (Ron Howard, Calif., dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 6145, EAST GERMANY, The Mighty KBC at 0033 playing a Neil Young song – Weak Jan 15 – They normally have a powerful signal but this is the weakest I have ever heard them. Glenn Hauser heard them a lot better starting at 0107. I should have tried later, as well (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Drake SPR4 Receiver, Drake TR7, Kenwood TS440S, and YouKits TJ5A Transceivers, AEA AT-300 and MFJ-941E Manual Tuners, LDG Z-100 Plus Auto Tuner, 40 meter and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA yg via DXLD) 6145, Jan 15 at 0107, The Mighty KBC with rock music, good at S9+10 via GERMANY; 0122, Pete`s ham news headlines for a minute or sesqui; ~0130 Kim`s beeps. During the hour Jan & Dean and Patty Duke were heard. ``The Mighty KBC`` ID to 0200* immediate cutoff, well-timed. Whew, nothing about farts when I tuned by (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6145, GERMANY, Nauen, 125 kW/300 deg, The Mighty KBC, Jan 15, 0132 - Here's what I decoded from them at 0130: Shortwave propagation lately has not been kind to our MFSK32 images, so this weekend let's try ASCII art instead ... ________ __ ____ __ __ __ __ ____ ______ /_ __/ /_ ___ / |/ (eh)___ _/ /_ / /___ __ / //_// __ )/ ____/ / / / __ \/ _ \ / /|_/ / / __ `/ __ \/ __/ / / / / ,< / __ / / / /tt %Ì __/ / / / / / /_/ / / / / /_/ /_/ / / /| |/ /_/ / /___ /_/ /_/ /_/\___/ /_/ /_/_/\__, /_/ /_/\__/\__, / /_/ |_/_____/\____/ .........................../__ __/........xe___/............. ........ Please report decode to themightykbc@gmail.com Generally poor to fair copy only into Masset tonight. Cochannel someone else, but I can hear Uncle Eric's distinctive voice, despite (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Copied as was, rather garbled, also originally? (gh, DXLD) ** NEW ZEALAND. 7285, Rangitaiki, 25 kW/35 deg, RNZI, Jan 6, 1619 - One of the rare DRM transmissions anymore. Despite strong signal with 20.6 dB, I'm still receiving a choppy decode. May be my computer being overburdened, or perhaps the signal being too variable. Talk about a vast ice sheet which is threatening to break off of the Antarctic ice shelf (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7355 QRM: see ALASKA [and non] [WORLD OF RADIO 1861] 7355, Jan 13 at 1338, RNZI in clear today, no CCI from KNLS, which must have radiated elsewhere, or propped out. [and non] 17675, Jan 13 at 2305, RNZI is VP at S3 = QRN level, on its summer-only early-afternoon frequency, now scheduled at 2259-0258 daily in AM only, preceded and succeeded by 15720. For comparison, 17840 Australia is slightly stronger, S5-S4 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 6090. Jan 13 at 0421, Radio Nigeria Kaduna, Kaduna, in Hausa. Man and woman annnouncers talks. Very poor transmission, 35432 (sometimes 35431). (José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX). Location: Brazil Hard- Core-DX mailing list, via DXLD) Sure you heard Nigeria ID? Station n o t heard since Sept 1st. Rather ETHIOPIA, 6090 even, Radio Amhara in Amharic from Gedja site at this hour (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) I think you're right, Wolfgang. I'll make new logs on 6090. Greetings, Note: My reference to this log was: kHz Station Location kW Schedule 6090v FRCN Radio Nigeria Kaduna Kaduna, Kaduna State 50 0400-2305 Channel 1 in Hausa British DX Club in Africa on Mediumwave and Shortwave-January 2017 edition, Pages 19-20 (JRX, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) But I was hearing two stations, one off-frequency, three hours later when Ethiopia should not be audible. Worth checking further whether Kaduna has come back (Glenn Hauser, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: ``UNIDENTIFIED. 6090-v, Jan 11 at 0717, in the absence of Anguilla, two JBA carriers beating slightly on the low side. One of them is constantly varying about 6 Hz from the other, so I don`t get a steady tone with BFO. Ethiopia is supposedly in a break from 06 to 09 (and too far into the dayside), leaving R. Bandeirantes, Brasil, and R. Kaduna, Nigeria if active? Aoki shows no Chinese or other Asians now, and never mind the imaginary Chilean (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` Hi Glenn. The frequency 6090 may be better investigated! Today, before 0400 UT, I tuned Amhara Radio, see: ``6090. Jan 15 at 0352, Amhara State Radio, Geja, in Amharic. Local song; 0400 Woman annnouncer talks, ID; 0401 Man talks News, presumably; 0409 Woman talks; 0425 local songs. Amhara Radio relay Geja (or Gedja), today, with a fair signal and very poor modulation, 35332 (sometimes, 35331).`` Regards, (Jota Xavier, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 7254.91, V. of Nigeria, Jan 08 0656-0702, 35433-35333, French, Drums IS, ID at 0658, Opening announce, News. 7254.92, V. of Nigeria, Jan 17 0711-0719, 35333, French, Talk, Theme music at 0713 and 0714 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD- 525+RD-9830, ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7254.923 kHz, V of Nigeria, English, S=6-7 at 1848 UT Jan 18, co- channel QRM 7255 even, CRI Russian, S=9+15dB (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) ** NIGERIA [non]. CLANDESTINE, 7415, Dandal Kura, Jan 08 0640-0650, 35443 Kanuri, Talk, ID at 0646. 7415, Dandal Kura, Jan 09 0627-0637, 35443, Kanuri, Talk, ID at 0629 and 0630 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6949.580-AM, Unidentified, Jan 15 at 0108, pirate rock music at weak S8 vs QRN, listened for a dekaminute without any announcements. No logs of this on hfunderground, but a trihour earlier there was a station in FM on 6950 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 5792, USA [sic], formerly YHWH Pirate, Jan 10 0402 - Good reception on my SW DKAZ antenna with the usual Yahweh shtick. Modulation is not very good. Sounds like amateur radio equipment with modulation being a bit too high. Not a pleasant listen (despite the content). 5792, The former YHWH, Jan 12 0349 - Making a rather regular appearance. Tonight, much better than last night, and best heard on my SW DKAZ, so maybe located in the South Pacific (lol). Usual Yahweh shtick (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yahweh station, ex-YHWH; 5792/AM, 0209-0218+, 16-Jan; “Yahweh” this & “Yahweh” that. Copiable peaks just above QRN; SSB helps (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW + 125' bow-tie, ----- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! -----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5792, Jan 16 at 0409, S6 JBA signal, trace of YHWH talk, must be Mr Elliott on his favorite frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5792.0-AM, religious pirate (formerly "Radio Station YHWH"), on Jan 18, at 0210, surprised to find a mostly readable signal here; normally rather poor reception most days, on this his favorite frequency recently; later at 0256 was unreadable (Ron Howard, Calif., dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORWAY. Here's is an interesting news feature from this week's New Scientist on DAB in Norway https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23331083-200-goodbye-fm/ Best wishes, (Martin John Reynolds, Jan 12, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) NORWAY'S TRANSITION FROM FM ON PRI'S THE WORLD I chanced upon Public Radio International's "PRI The World" programme on CBG Gander (CBC R1 Newfoundland) 1400 kHz this morning with good enough reception to stay tuned. One of the stories (at 0615 UT) was on Norway starting to phase out FM with the switching off of FM transmitters in the Nordland region this week. The item was mainly an interview with Ole Jorgen Torvmark, head of Digitalradio Norge, with little mention of any opposition to the transition to DAB. But the PRI website gives a more balanced report (from Agence France- Presse), including that a Dagbladet newspaper poll in December showed 66% of Norwegians were against closing FM with only 17% in favour, especially as only a third of cars on Norwegian roads are equiped to receive DAB. Full report, including the 4-minute report at: http://www.pri.org/stories/2017-01-11/norway-begins-transition-away-fm-radio (Alan Pennington, Longton, Lancashire, Sony 7600GR, home-made MW loop, Jan 12, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) The article says that Norway will be stopping FM broadcasts, which is not true, as many local radio licences have been extended until 2022 though they represent a small share of the market, and makes a claim about the number of radios that will need to be replaced or upgraded based on a figure which is two years out of date. As to DAB radios, 74% of Norwegian households now have them. Radio's daily reach in Norway is only 69%, the UK's weekly reach is 89%. So the vast majority of households who listen to the radio and don't solely use the internet for doing so will have them. They listen for an average of 89 minutes per day, UK weekly listening hours are 21.5 per listener, 19.5 per head. http://medienorge.uib.no/english/?cat=statistikk&medium=radio&queryID=351 medianorway was established in 1994 by the Ministry of Cultural and Church Affairs as an information centre focusing on the Norwegian media sector. The objective was to compile Norwegian media statistics into one archive, ensuring access to updated information about diffe... The only radio station in Norway until 1982 was NRK 1. Every country's media market is different, as is its topography, which in radio terms can be significant. Switzerland is the other country which has decided to phase out FM by 2024. The mountainous terrain is a factor in this. Switzerland | Country Information | WorldDAB The WorldDAB Forum is an international non-government organisation whose objective it is to coordinate the implementation of all Eureka- 147-based... https://www.worlddab.org/country-information/switzerland Here is an article from a UK company specialising in the Scandinavian media market. The problem seems to be the cost of converting non DAB car radios. The facts: The Norwegian FM switch-off Norway: You have read about it, but all the reports seem to be saying something slightly different. What are the facts – really. We have put them together for yo... http://www.radioassistant.com/2017/01/the-facts-the-norwegian-fm-switch-off/ Posted by: (Mike Barraclough, BDXC_UK yg via DXLD) Even my average 13 year old maths/statistic student would, and did when I taught them, realise that, unlike Evind Egbert, that the views of a tiny number of people commenting on clickbait newspaper articles are not in any way representative of listeners as a whole, same goes for comments on social media. The population of Norway is 5.2 million. Note how he happens to choose one particular op-ed piece that Doug Irwin himself is not convinced about and can't translate Posted by: (Barraclough, dxldyg, via DXLD) NORWAY BECOMES FIRST COUNTRY TO START SWITCHING OFF FM RADIO By HENRIK PRYSER LIBELLJAN. 11, 2017 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/world/europe/norway-fm-radio.html Photo --- The Norwegian radio host Geir Schau, right, and a well-known radio listener in the country, Berith Olderskog, left, joined to symbolically shut down the northern part of Norway's FM radio network in favor of digital radio at a ceremony on Wednesday in Bodo. Credit Jan Morten Bjornbakk/European Pressphoto Agency [caption] OSLO -- Norway opened a chapter in telecommunications history on Wednesday, becoming the first country to cease FM radio broadcasting. The switch, to digital broadcasting, is intended to save money, but critics are worried about the effect on drivers and listeners of small radio stations. The move to "radio digitization" was decided by Parliament in 2011, and a timetable was announced in 2015. At 11:11 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 11 -- a time chosen because it was easy to remember, according to the national broadcaster, NRK -- nationwide radio channels began stopping FM broadcasts, switching to a system known as digital audio broadcasting that proponents say offers a wider range of broadcasting options and greater sound quality. The change is occurring county by county, starting with Nordland, in the north of Norway. Oslo, the capital, will turn off FM broadcasting in September, and the process will be completed nationwide by Dec. 13. Norway's Culture Ministry estimated that it would save 180 million kroner a year, or about $25 million. FM broadcasting originated in the United States in the 1930s and arrived in Norway in the 1950s. Other countries have considered dropping FM broadcasting, including Britain, Switzerland and Denmark, but no decision has been made; Sweden considered the switch but abandoned the idea. Some Norwegians, like Benjamin Stage Storm, a hospital doctor living in Bodo, in Nordland, said the change was no big deal for him and his family. "We don't listen much to radio, and in the car we have an SD card reader," which lets users play prerecorded music stored on tiny digital cards, he said in a phone interview, "so we listen to music on that, almost old-time mix tapes." He added: "We do listen to radio shows, but we get them from podcasts or off the SD cards." Dr. Stage Storm said, however, that the government and NRK were spending a "vast amount of resources on shutting down a functional system and at the same time pushing lots of people into scrapping their otherwise well-working radios." The change is good news for radio sellers, however. Camilla Tully, a spokeswoman for the retail chain Clas Ohlson, said the demand for digital radios had grown steadily since Parliament's vote in 2011. "The sale of DAB radios exploded before Christmas, and the sales tripled over the last couple of months," she said in a phone interview. "Before Christmas, we were sold out of several models. These days the demand is particularly high in Nordland, both for DAB radio and DAB adapters for car stereos." Oyvind Vasaasen, an official at NRK who is overseeing the change, said that Norway had been an "early mover" in digital radio, introducing internet radio broadcasting as far back as 1995. Given the size of the country -- with its mountains and fjords -- and its small population, it is particularly expensive to offer both FM and digital audio broadcasting, he said. "The costs of maintaining an upgraded FM system would in the long run affect the quality of programs we can offer the listeners," he said. "Digitizing the radio media is part of the modernization of Norway." Aage Sveum, a radio collector, expressed fears that the change would put drivers at risk. "What is the purpose of having a mandatory emergency alert system if no one has radios in their cars anymore?" he asked. Nils Sodal, a spokesman for the Norwegian Automobile Federation, echoed that concern, noting that about two million cars in Norway still did not have digital radios. He said the association did not oppose the switch, but was worried that many motorists would not switch to the digital radios. A new car radio costs about 2,000 kroner, or about $232. Thor Magnar Thorsen, the vice president of the Association of Local Radio Stations in Norway, told the newspaper Dagbladet last year that the change might come "at the expense of smaller radio stations." Stephen Lax, a senior lecturer in communication technology at the University of Leeds in England, said he was not certain that Norway's switch would portend a trend. "Norway has a small and relatively affluent population that can be convinced into making the transition, in spite of the costs for the consumers," he said. "Norway's switch could prove a symbolic moment in the history of radio broadcasting, but not a significant one, in the sense that it's not going to start a snowball rolling." He added: "Closing down the FM is not even on the horizon for the United States, where FM will be around for a long, long time." In addition, he said, digital audio broadcasting is mostly used in Europe, whereas many Americans who use digital radio have opted for HD radio, which broadcasts a digital signal over traditional radio frequencies. Marko Ala-Fossi, an adjunct professor at the School of Communication, Media and Theater at the University of Tampere in Finland, added a cautionary note. "Norway is now conducting a massive experiment with the future of radio on a national scale with no guarantee of success," he said. "You can lose older listeners without any prospect of recruiting younger listeners." Switching to digital broadcasting "might speed up a process where radio can become socially irrelevant, at a time where other medias are growing and converging," Mr. Ala-Fossi said. But, he added, the country would find it hard to retreat from its decision, as it had become "a matter of national prestige." Follow Henrik Pryser Libell on Twitter @hlibell. A version of this article appears in print on January 12, 2017, on Page A8 of the New York edition with the headline: In First, Norway Starts to Shut Off FM Radio. (via Mike Cooper, DXLD; via Bernhard Jatzeck VA6BMJ @ DO33FL; via Rodney Johnson, dxldyg via DXLD) How Well Is the FM Switch-Off Going So Far in Nordland? In social media, criticism was intense for the days leading up to the shutdown and “for the last few days and it was no less yesterday” according to the same article. “Many people write that they feel compelled to spend money on new DAB radios, others write that they will henceforth only listen to local radio, while others believe that one does not need more channels.” Full story here: http://www.radiomagonline.com/around-the-world/0020/how-well-is-the-fm-switchoff-going-so-far-in-nordland/38529 (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) Please tell me how DAB is any better than FM in covering difficult terrain, ``deep fjords and high mountains``. DAB operates on even higher frequencies than the 87-108 MHz FM band, roughly twice that in what used to be the high-VHF analog TV band, does it not? That means even more limited to line-of-sight. Guess what, for broad coverage of terrain, ``bending`` over and past obstacles, nothing beats MF or even LF! And with digital, it`s all-or-nothing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST 17-02 via WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DXLD 17-03) ** OKLAHOMA. Official Updates from the FCC: Extensions of STAs granted: 930, WKY, Oklahoma City – Granted STA extension, U1 5000/510 as in CP (AM Switch, NRC DX News Jan 23 [published Jan 15] via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 90.1, January 14 at 1400 UT, KUCO-FM, our classical station, not with its own `Performance Oklahoma` produxion, but with WCPE IDs during their classical service by satellite, which KUCO normally carries only overnight, 0500-1200 UT. Maybe threat of icestorms, etc., disrupted the switchover. At 1430 UT, however, interrupted and PerfOkla joined in progress, presumably when someone got to the studio (or remote control) to get it back on track. WCPE runs full IDs for its NC stations around hourtops, but not KUCO, which fire at odd times during the hours. So if you DX ``WCPE`` on 90.1, it could really be KUCO, if not their own repeater station in Bath NC, WZPE. It seems that WCPE has relays in only ten states around the country, but many more could benefit from its free classical music 24/7 service. http://theclassicalstation.org/partners.shtml (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PALAU. 9960.028v, Wed Jan 18 at 1435, Furusato no Kaze, via T8WH, is off-frequency, in fact more like 9960.07 when I start tracking it, first noted as ACI to WORLD OF RADIO on 9955 WRMI. T8WH is stronger at S9+20, even tho it`s 100 kW at 345 degrees. Is steadily drifting downward and fortunately stops at 9960.00 a few minutes later. Looks like they need to warm it up for a while before 1430; but please don`t. Aoki shows this semihour is the only broadcast anywhen, anywhence on 9960 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5025, R. QUILLABAMBA, Enero 17, 0110-0124 UT. Análisis noticioso con respecto a la corrupción de autoridades y funcionarios públicos, junto a llamados telefónicos. SINPO: 55555 (Claudio Galaz, RX: TECSUN PL-660, ANT: Hilo de 40 metros, QTH: Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** PERU [and non]. 5980, Urubamba, Cusco, Radio Chaski, Jan 9, 0102 - Thought I'd follow Glenn Hauser's lead and check sign-off times. Today (UT Monday), transmitter cut suddenly at 0104:30. Very weak into Masset, and had to contend with relatively strong 5979 PBS Gannan from Hezuo, with listed 15 kW/ND. Sounds Chinese, and not Tibetan (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) My closest timing was one night earlier, until 0104:20* on Jan 8 (gh) 5980. R. CHASKI. Enero 12. 0059- UT. Música, ID de la emisora: ``Red Radio Integridad``, avisos de la emisora, luego ID larga de ``Red Radio Integridad, desde Lima, Perú en 700 AM``. A las 0103, pequeño devocional hasta cerca de las 0104 cuando sale del aire. SINPO: 53453 con marcado QRM de otra emisora sin identificar en la misma frecuencia que al pasar la hora se va intensificando. Sin embargo, a la salida del aire de Chaski, se escucha una emisora en lenguaje chino o derivado con SINPO: 35333. 5980, R. CHASKI. Enero 14. 0100-0105 UT. Avisos de la emisora, más ID y hora local. Luego a las 0104 comienza: ``Su minuto en la biblia``. A las 0105, salida del aire. SINPO: 53453 con QRM de una emisora china, la que permanece en el aire después del corte de R. Chaski. 5980. R. CHASKI. Enero 14. 2320-2331, Música de himnos protestantes, luego una ID de ``Red Radio Integridad`` y saludos de la emisora. Desde las 2326, nuevamente un espacio musical hasta las 2331. SINPO: 45444, sin heterodino en la frecuencia como se escuchaba hace unos días (Claudio Galaz, RX: TECSUN PL-660, ANT: Hilo de 40 metros, QTH: Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) 5980, Jan 15 at 0103, JBA carrier from R. Chaski, until autocutoff at 0105:06*, slippage 46 seconds later than last catch a week ago, Jan 8 until 0104:20*, so averaging 6.57 seconds later per, right on the mark (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5980. R. CHASKI. Enero 17. 2320-2330 UT. Música de himnos protestantes. SINPO: 43444 con heterodino que se intensifica al avanzar la hora (Claudio Galaz, RX: TECSUN PL-660, ANT: Hilo de 40 metros, QTH: Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) 5980, Jan 18 at 0105, R. Chaski is JBA with some modulation until autocutoff at 0105:25.5*, which is 19.5 seconds later than last check 3 nights ago, 0105:06* Jan 15, i.e. slippage averaging 6.5 seconds later per. Claudio Galaz continues to monitor this from Chile, where he can tell the IDs are for the network it relays, Red Radio Integridad (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES [and non]. 1098, Cagayan de Oro, 5 kW, DXCL, Sonshine Radio, Jan 9, 1624 - I'm suspecting Sonshine Radio here. Took me a while to figure out, but there's a huge carrier, and several cochannels, all fairly weak. Of course, it must be the OC for V7AB. So a tentative logging only. Style is Filipino. Multiple stations, however, making it difficult to figure things out. I see carriers on 1098.001 (the main OC), 1097.987, 1097.992, 1097.995, and 1097.997 in addition (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. Frequency changes of Radio Veritas Asia from Jan 8: 1400-1427 NF 11840 PUG 250 kW / 300 deg to SoAs Bengali, ex 11825 1430-1457 on 15330 SMG 250 kW / 089 deg to SoAs Urdu not on 11840 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/01/frequency-changes-of-radio-veritas-asia.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PUERTO RICO. Official Updates from the FCC: Applications for extensions of STAs received: 940, WIPR, PR, San Juan – Applies to extend STA, U1 10000/2500 from WKAQ-580 tower (AM Switch, NRC DX News Jan 23 [published Jan 15] via DXLD) NRC AM Log Update: 1660, WGIT, Canóvanas – Format to SS:REL (ex- SS:NWS/TLK); slogan to “Faro de Santidad” (NRC DX News Jan 23 [published Jan 15] via DXLD) ** ROMANIA. 5955, Tsiganeshti, 75 kW/30 deg, Radio Romania International, Jan 8, 1809 - A much better morning, with some really difficult stations audible. For instance RRI in Ukrainian is heard at fair level, on the due North 500' Beverage. Only 75 kW listed. Must be coming over the Polar region to reach me. Impressive, especially since it's well over 1 hour post my LSR. At 2000, 6030 is heard at equal strength (poor to fair) with Ukrainian again with 100 kW at 30 degrees. Noon, my local time. No sign of 5955 cochannel listed (but more recent schedules do not show 5955, so must be elsewhere, or on a single frequency). [and non] 5960, Galbeni, 300 kW/310 deg, Radio Romania International, Jan 8, 0104 - Good reception, if it wasn't for China (PBS Xinjiang with either 50 or 100 kW and off frequency at 5959.923 causing an unpleasant hum). I was able to get RRI by using my 500' direct N mini- Beverage instead of my other antennae. My 750' NW BOG could only hear China at very strong level). Parallel listed 7325 is at threshold level only (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5960, UT Sun Jan 15 at 0237, nice Romanian folk music, French announcement with Romanian accent, S9+10; 0245 on to a talk program about the histoire of Georgie and its relations with Roumanie. This folk music segment is not on Alan Roe`s Music on SW schedule, but he does have the classical music on the RRI Romanian service, 5910 as heard at 0245 UT Sun, S9+10 but talking over something symphonic. Another carrier is detectable underneath making slight SAH, presumably HJDH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7350, Tsiganeshti, 90 or 300 kW/307 degrees, Radio Romania International, Jan 14, 1841 - Listed in English by DRM to Europe. I can clearly see the DRM signal, but a bit too weak to decode anything. Cochannel on 7350 is CRI, which may be disrupting the decode capability of DReaM software. Best heard over the Pole via my 500' mini Beverage (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Voronezhskaya oblast. -- Radio Comintern. The frequency of 6210 kHz. The station did not declare themselves in the air. Loud signal received on January 8 2017. Aria from the opera in Italian with 1620 UT, including the song "Sorrento". With 1630 UT war songs - "Soldiers in the campaign" and others. At 1922 UT chorus of Jews from Giuseppe Verdi (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria, RusDX Jan 15 via DXLD) Weak signal of Local Radio Voronezh on Jan 13 1410 & 1458 on 6209.8 VOR 001 kW / non-dir to EaEu Russian http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/01/weak-signal-of-local-radio-voronezh-on.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. 7345, Yakutsk, 100 kW/300 or 310 deg, NVK Radio Sakha, Jan 6, 2353 - Good to very good reception. Initially in presumed Yakut. A very unusual indigenous language. Presumed them, and // to 7295 (250 kW listed), which was much weaker. Still some time before LSS. After a few minutes of Russian commercials with several mentions of 'Respublika Sakha', etc., back into Yakutian. A nice local vocal at 2355. Rechecked at 0114, and going strong with very good reception with local Yakutian music. Back again at 0420 and 7295 has faded down to poor level, while 7345 remains at fair/good level with about S5 signal strength (not an issue with zero noise floor). Interview in presumed Yakutian. Fading rapidly towards 0500, possibly due to lowering of MUF tonight. Fade up almost at 0500. IS and time pips, then dead air. Carrier off by 0502. 7345, Yakutsk, 100 kW/310 deg, NVK, Yakutsk, Jan 8, 0026 - Superb reception on an otherwise dreary early evening. Not much propagating, besides China everywhere, it seems! Yakutian story. Ads at BOH in Russian with phone numbers. 0031 into, 'This day in history' in Russian. Parallel 7295 is again weaker. 0053, 'Reklyama na Radyo Sakha' (Advertisements on Radio Sakha) which seem to be primarily in Russian. At 0100 UT, IS and ID with time check for 10:00 AM, then into a seniors program, aimed for people over 60 (announced in Russian), but switched back to Yakutian. From my monitoring, the majority of the programming in in that language, with just the occasional Russian. 7345, Yakutsk, 100 kW/300 deg, NVK, Sakha, Jan 9, 0300 - Just after 0300, quick IS with Jew's harp, and ID in Russian and quickly into Yakutian. Very good reception. Mentioned that the following program was for listeners over 12 years of age! Right at 0400, conditions really faded down. Time check for 13:00 in Yakutia. Virtually gone by 0410, so either a major disturbance occurred, or the MUF just crashed! 7345, Yakutsk, 100 kW/310 deg, NVK, Radio Sakha, Jan 15, 0343 - Very good reception, as is the case every local evening. Probably the strongest signal on 41 meters. I noticed on the weekend much more Russian language programming, vs mainly Yakutian programming during the week. Happens to be in Yakut now, with a story by a YL. Dog barking in the background (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7345 // 7295, Radio Sakha, via Yakutsk, at 0349, on Jan 18, with sound of horses neighing, sound of galloping horses and some Jew's harp (khomus) music; usual ID at 0350, followed by series of ads (Ron Howard, Calif., dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Utilities broadcasting === Echoes of the Cold War still survives to reach our ears, especially since the real geopolitical situation is such that it looks like we, at full speed, heading on a new round. And while Guy Ritchie film about spies in the present, we will talk about the legacy of the past - the mysterious numbers station, which are widely known only to a narrow circle of amateur radio operators [sic]. This caste lovers dying hobby, a very popular before the turn of the century, and discovers the mysterious shortwave numbers station on the air today. At a certain time these spy channels are silent, however, at the appointed hour for someone, they play a certain melody, wheezing Morse code or metallic voice dictating the numbers or slova. Udivitelno, but in the coming era of prosperity of mobile gadgets and ubiquitous Internet, shortwave transmitters were like and remained cheap, affordable, and most importantly completely anonymous means of communication. Location is extremely difficult to determine, the codes are always applied, in addition, have yet to catch transmission moment: some months may remain silent and go on the air only 20 minutes late at night. The fact that the numbers station is really a weapon of spies and intelligence of many countries, not tricks radiohuliganov, says a lot. Firstly, these stations broadcast almost the entire world, that is, they are not ordinary household "priborchiki" and powerful radio, obviously designed with the most advanced technologies. Secondly, stability: some stations for many years, and they are broadcast with a certain frequency. Thirdly, especially ardent conspiracy theorists, listen to them day and night, catching snatches of "official" phrases, other information, as well as taped by location. Expeditions to, as a rule, do not give - often spiked with conspiracy in the military part of the fence, at least - in a remote wasteland with the radio tower with no signs of life around. If you decide to hear the sounds of the radio spyware, and already spotted on the balcony of an old radio, it will help you navigate the scheme, developed by a group ENIGMA 2000 - those same enthusiasts, conspiracy theorists: First, the transfer can play melody (optional), then by letter - language code transmission (the E - English; G - German; S - Slavic languages ??group, the V-Asian or other, M Morse code, X "noise" sounds of different frequencies), the number of the group, then the name (optional). The number of groups united by some radio stations, apparently they work in the same "organization". Poslushat can: UVB-76 (S28) - the most famous Russian numbers station has call MDZHB (Michael-Dmitri Zhenya, Boris), located somewhere near Pskov. Until 2010, she worked regularly, but now reports encryption almost every day. The Pip (S30) - Russian-speaking Noise Maker, reports and letters tsiferki sometimes dictates the weather forecast for tomorrow. Esters are not stable. Russian Man (S06) - dictates encrypt voice Levitan Lincolnshire Poacher (E03) - station of MI6, in the beginning of the program played a few bars of a song of the same name, after 2008 ceased broadcasting, although it may just be it's too tricky schedule and no one can catch it. Swedish Rhapsody (G02) - at the beginning of transmission was playing "Swedish Rhapsody", known for its sinister female voice. Listen to all this beauty and to feel true-spy can be like using receivers (especially old gramophones), and via the Internet by going to the site Wide-band WebSDR. Moreover, the station will not even need to look, fumbling slider - it is all signed and distributed code names, so choose "green" range - and welcome to the unknown. There is a Russian-language site dedicated numbers station Priyom.org - everything is veiled atmosphere of mystery and elitism, but all the information is in the public domain. Also it is known, and the above- mentioned group ENIGMA 2000, however, they position themselves as a 100% closed community ("VKontakte" group. International radioveschanie-! Via RusDX Jan 15 via DXLD) ** SAINT HELENA. Lennart Weirell: Some links about some blog posts on SWLing Post about St. Helena and Radio St. Helena: http://swling.com/blog/2017/01/st-helena-is-ready-to-welcome-the-world/ http://swling.com/blog/2017/01/richards-1998-st-helena-day-qsl-card/ http://swling.com/blog/2017/01/lennart-reflects-on-radio-st-helena-day-history/ (SW Bulletin Jan 15 via DXLD) ** SEYCHELLES [non]. U.K.(non), Reception of FEBA Radio in English via BaBcoCk Trincomalee, Jan 2: 1415-1430 on 9775 TRM 125 kW / 345 deg to SoAs Mon only, ex 1345-1400 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/01/reception-of-feba-radio-in-english-via.html Reception of FEBA Radio in English via BaBcoCk Trincomalee, Jan 16 1415-1430 on 9775*TRM 125 kW / 345 deg SoAs English Mon strong signal * co-ch weak 9775 BEI 150 kW / 270 deg EaAs Chinese China Nat.Radio-2 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/01/reception-of-feba-radio-in-english-via_16.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SIKKIM [and non]. 4835, INDIA, Gangtok, 10 kW/ND, AIR Gangtok, Jan 15, 0114 - A tough copy. Tonight looks like the best evening here for 60 meters since my arrival on the 5th (and my last evening). Mongolia and Tajikistan both coming in very nicely. Sikkim a lot more difficult with WWCR splatter from 4840 kHz, and a weak signal. Distinctive south Asian music, though (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5020, SIBC, Jan 08 0748-0802, 35333, Pidgin, Music and talk and SIBC news, ID at 0758, IS at 0800. 5020, SIBC, Jan 17 0754-0811, 35333-45433, Pidgin, Talk and SIBC news, IS and ID at 0800 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD- 9830, ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5020 [non-log]. Am no longer hearing any extended broadcasts here (as of Jan 18), as I had noted late last year; have been checking many days about 1230, but this year seems no extended programming past 1200. 9545, SIBC, Jan 18, at 0438; DJ in Pijin playing pop songs and asking a series of questions; "What is 60% of 300?"; read out list of people who answered correctly; 0500 ABC news (RA: // 15240 [good] // 15415 [poor] // 17840 [very good]); SIBC suddenly off at 0501*, with RA continuing. Maybe after this month, this will be the only place to hear ABC news on SW? (Ron Howard, Calif., dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. SECRETLAND, Brother HySTAIRical TOM via SPL Secretbrod on Jan 2 1500-1650 on 9465 SCB 050 kW / 030 deg to EaEu English Mon-Fri http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/01/brother-hystairical-tom-via-spl.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Brother HySTAIRical TOM via SPL Secretbrod on Jan 5 1805-0200 on 9465 SCB 100 kW / 306 deg to ENAm English 1800-2000 on 9700 SCB 050 kW / 306 deg to WeEu English http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/01/brother-hystairical-tom-via-spl_12.html Brother Stair, instead of Radio Biafra via SPL Secretbrod, Jan 6 1859&1958 on 15325 SCB 100 kW / 195 deg to WeAf English, instead of Radio Biafra http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/01/brother-stair-instead-of-radio-biafra.html Updated schedule of Brother HySTAIRical via SPL Secretbrod 0800-1255 13600^SCB 100 kW / 126 deg N/ME English, no signal Jan 8-12* 1300-1655 11700^SCB 100 kW / 306 deg WeEu English, no signal Jan 8-12* 1500-1655 9465^SCB 050 kW / 030 deg EaEu English Mon-Fri 1600-1800 15325 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg WeAf English, not 1400-2000 1805-0200 9465^SCB 100 kW / 306 deg ENAm English, not 1700-0200 1800-2000 9700 SCB 050 kW / 306 deg WeEu English ^ unregistered frequencies in HFCC Database, except 13600 1000-2400 UT * mentioned in "updated" schedule of BS TOM, but are inactive at present! http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/01/updated-schedule-of-brother-hystairical.html SECRETLAND, SPL Brother HySTAIRical TOM vs Missionswerk Friedensstimme Sat Jan 14 1500-0200 9465*SCB 100 kW/306 deg ENAm Eng SPL Bro Stair TOM, live 1600-1630 9465 NAU 250 kW/060 deg EEu Rus Missionswerk Friedensstimme * unregistered in HFCC, previous week 9465 was 1500-1655 Mon-Fri & 1805-0200 Daily! http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/01/spl-brother-hystairical-tom-vs.html SECRETLAND, New schedule of Brother Stair on 9465/9700 via SPL Secretbrod [BULGARIA] 1458-0200 9465 SCB*100 kW / 306 deg ENAm English M-F, ex 1458-1655 1545-0200 9465 SCB*100 kW / 306 deg ENAm English Sat/Sun ex 1805-0200 1802-2001 9700#SCB 100 kW / 306 deg WeEu English Daily, ex 1800-2001 #1940-2000 on 9700 SMG 250 kW / 114 deg to N/ME Latin/Rosary Sun Vatican Radio *Sat/Sun via same transmitter are broadcast R. Warra Wangeelaa, PAB and R. Santec 1500-1530 15515 SCB 100 kW / 195 deg EaAf Oromo Sat Radio Warra Wangeelaa 1430-1445 15205 SCB 100 kW / 090 deg SoAs English Sun Pan American Broad. 1500-1530 15190 SCB 100 kW / 090 deg SoAs English/German Sun Radio Santec http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/01/updated-schedule-of-brother-stair-on.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. Spanische Hobbykollegen berichten in MWLIST von folgenden Schliessungen zum 31 Dec. 2016: Closed for ever. 567 kHz RNE Radio 5 Malaga/Marbella, Marbella (Elviria) 855 kHz RNE Radio Nacional Andalucia, Marbella (Elviria) (Guenter Lorenz-D, DL3GLF, fmlist via A-DX ng Jan 14 via BC-DX 17 Jan via DXLD) ** SUDAN. 7205.001, Sudan Radio Omdurman, S=9+20dB at 0545 UT on Jan 13, but only LOW MODULATION. To be heard anything of their transmission on the remote SDR in Doha Qatar, I switched OFF the AGC automatic option, and used the volume slider by hand. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. SATELLITES — Television. 97.0 W, Galaxy 19, 12.146-V/2200 Msps, South Sudan TV. This is one of 10 streams on this transponder. They had a diplomatic affairs programme in English up to ToH then had ads for the South Sudan airline and a local school. Into news in Arabic at 1800. English & Arabic crawl on bottom of screen throughout. [Inline image 3] 53% & steady QPSK/MPEG2 480i SD. The 'Service ID' (essentially a 'channel number') was 814. 1745-1810 UT 7/Jan (Kenneth Vito Zichi, MI2, MARE Tipsheet 13 Jan via DXLD) ** SWEDEN. SAQ Grimeton Christmas Eve transmission summary report View this email in your browser http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=521e9c51318e4c7f70e1e6b56&id=e32e0ef826&e=a135588730 News from the Alexander Association Grimeton SAQ Veteran Radio Friends http://www.alexander.n.se SUCCESSFUL SAQ GRIMETON CHRISTMAS TRANSMISSION On Christmas morning December 24, 2016 the traditional transmission with the old Alexanderson alternator SAQ at World Heritage Grimeton Radio Station, Sweden took place at 0800 UT on 17.2 kHz CW. Unfortunately, our web site got overloaded and could not broadcast any live video this time. The transmission has been reported by over 400 listeners, a new record! We would like to thank all listeners for their efforts and feedback. The summary report with all listeners can be viewed and downloaded here. http://alexander.n.se/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/SUMMARY-REPORT-ON-SAQ-TRANSMISSION-CHRISTMAS-2016-12-24-1.pdf Explore our listeners on our interactive map. 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After resending report to RTI for special broadcast from Tamsui, today received Special QSL. You can see at my blog https://dxadam.blogspot.com/2017/01/radio-taiwan-international-special-qsl.html Best wishes (Adam, Poland, Grzenia, Jan 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hello Adam, I received special QSLs for RTI`s test transmissions on July 22 and August 26, 2016 on 11665 kHz after an email reminder on December 17, 2016 and "regular" QSLs for reports from December 16 and 17, 2016 on Monday. 73, (Manfred Reiff, Jan 12, ibid.) ** TAJIKISTAN. 4765.00, Tajik R., Jan 09 1206-1216, 35343, Tajik, Talk, ID at 1207 and 1213 and 1216. 4765, Tajik R., Jan 17 1338-1348, 35443, Tajik, Talk and tajik music, ID at 1345 and 1348 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD- 9830, ANT, 130m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4765, Dushanbe, Yangi Yul, 100 kW, ND, Tajik Radio 1, Jan 8, 0112 - Good reception today with local programming in presumed Tajik, with central Asian sounding music. Measuring on 4765.000. 4765, Dushanbe, Yangi-Yul, 100 kW/ND, Tajik Radio 1, Jan 9, 0108 - Powerful, but somewhat undermodulated signal tonight with central Asian music (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAJIKISTAN. 4790, BBC Uzbek, 1316, Jan 14. Mixing badly with the jamming by CNR1 (// 6125); schedule 1300-1330 (Ron Howard, Calif., dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** THAILAND. 13745, Ban Dung, Udon, 250 kW/6 deg, Radio Thailand, Jan 12, 0000 - Superb reception in Masset (as was last night) with quite a fanfare opening the program. Opens with Thai news. English language, of course. Brought to you by Thai Airlines. No longer give the transmitter call sign, as they once did (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9390, Jan 12 at 1409, HSK9 with English broadcast, poor S3-S5, 1415 music. Needs LSB tuning to avoid WRMI 9395. As I`ve said time and again, the 1230 and/or 1400 English broadcasts would be much better for North America than the inaudible evening ones, if the RTG would aim a clear frequency our way, or better yet, insist on using Greenville in exchange for IBB continuing to use Udorn (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Conditions have to be beyond horrible, the worst all year for me to NOT be able to hear Radio Thailand's 13745 khz broadcast to North America at 0000 UT. When conditions are good, the 13745 signal is rock solid and when they are excellent, 13745 is like a traditional local AM signal would be. I can even hear Radio Thailand's 9390 khz 1900 UT broadcast to Europe, but it takes pretty good conditions for that to be listenable. I sometimes wonder if, when conditions are bad, am I the only one listening/able to hear 13745??!! Radio Thailand 13745 --- This is the 0000 UT January 14th broadcast in English to North America. The male voice introduces the service then the station song/interval tune plays. A voice introduces the news, a quick sponsor mention, then the anchors introduce themselves and begin reading the news. News stories include His Majesty The King concerned with those suffering from flood conditions, a story from Chinese State Media about the government being blocked form certain islands (I think that was the story?). Bangkok Airlines ad then plays, they are a regular sponsor. Time check of 7:02 AM then given and National news headlines are read. There's a story on Joint Command Center for Peace and Order Around The Grand Palace removing cooking tents after the 100th day of His Majesty's passing. Global news starts at just before 0013 UT with headlines including Chinese State Media warning that blocking it from islands it has built in contested waters would lead to a devastating confrontation. Other global news headlines included Indonesian police have released 8 men who were deported from Singapore for possessing Islamic State material. From UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has returned to South Korea and hinted he would possibly run for President. Several promos and mentions during the events about things going on in Thailand. I enjoy hearing world news from a different point of view. Just after 0057 UT, the anchors come back on to close out the broadcast and invite folks to tune in again and listen for hourly updates. An announcement then plays voiced by a male talking about 10 islands nations working together for trade and economic reasons, the SE Asia region. There's a bit of dead air before what sounds like a traditional Thai song plays. The carrier drops at 0059:30 UT and is off for about 30 seconds before coming back for the Thai language service. I love the Bells and music that play leading into the Thai language service. However, a vocieover incorrectly identifies the service as being the English language service. SINPO Rating: 55455. Only the ever slighest bit of fading and noise at times, but hardly there. Here's the full hour long english broadcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQDBnHs20HU Here I am standing in front of the radio station I work for: http://imgur.com/a/swzGt Here I am standing ON the very very frozen (about 3 feet thick) Yukon River: http://imgur.com/a/6s1N3 This is my listening post: http://imgur.com/a/R1N3T My radio sits on that chair after I brush off the snow. My longwires run in 2 different directions along the ground, now hidden by snow. Listening with a Tecsun PL880, 225 foot longwire, DXEngineering HF Preamp and EmTech Zm2 Antenna tuner in Galena, Alaska. My location is a village of 500 people in the central part of the state, 300 miles west of Fairbanks, 300 miles east of Nome and 350 miles Northwest of Anchorage (Paul Walker, ptsw yg via DXLD) ** TIBET [non]. UNIDENTIFIED station (suspected to be Radio Free Asia?) - Logged by me on 9508 kHz from 1351-1400 s-off January 13. Language sounded like it was Tibetan but could have been Burmese. However, by the sound of the short music prior to s-off leans towards the former rather than the latter. SINPO was 54344 prior to the BBC signing on at 1359 on 9510 (Hindi From Thailand). I have not found anything in HFCC so does anyone have any ideas? Regards, (Brian Powell, (Base QTH – Southern suburbs of Sydney, Australia. Base setup Winradio G305e w/ Buddipole. Mobile setup Baofeng GT3TP), dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Tibet, which you will never find in HFCC. Ivo reported 9508 among their latest frequency changes. Search latest DXLDs on frequency, or DXLD yg. Tajikistan site (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** TONGA. 1017, Tongatapu, 10 kW, A3Z, Tongan Broadcating Commission, Jan 10, 0647 - PAL lists the name as, 'Call of the Friendly Islands, Radio 1'. Wonder whether they still use this wonderful name? It's needed in today's world. In any case very nice reception at tune in. A little undermodulated compared to 1098 Majuro, but carrier seems every bit as strong! 1017, Tongatapu, 10 kW, A3Z, Tongan BC Commission, Jan 13, 0647 - When tuned in at 0643 UT, almost armchair copy. What a treat, but short lived. Fades to almost nothing, and then improves again to decent levels. Modulation seemed better tonight. Superior reception to 1098 so far. Heard best by far on the SW DKAZ (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. 12035.026, Jan 18 at 1420, VOT with music, quick headlines in English, sign-off announcement is cut off before it finishes, at 1424.7* in typical lack of coördination between studio and site. Also typically off to the high side like other TRT frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. Online streams of TRT Voice of Turkey, schedule already researched by Alexander Busneag in December About ten days ago, I started to research the online streams of the Voice of Turkey. In reply to Glenn Hauser's forwarding my info about the project, a German listener informed me that he compiled the schedule in December already. The schedule of four online streams of the Voice of Turkey is available at http://ab27.bplaced.net/trt.pdf Alexander Busneag tells me in a second e-mail, that until now he has only been a reader of the DXLD and not a contributor, and asks me to forward the information about the file. Listeners in German, English and many other languages will see parallel broadcasts of the regular short wave services. Moreover there are additional time slots in Bulgarian, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish and other languages that listeners might also find convenient. So, his effort should be rewarded by downloading the file. My own effort, has not been in vain either. Beside hearing most of the short wave outlets of the Voice of Turkey and getting an insight into the general style of programming, I also found RTA Kabul and ZBC on nearby frequencies (Dr Hansjoerg Biener, 16 January 2017, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: ----- Weitergeleitete Message ----- Gesendet: 10:51 Montag, 16.Januar 2017 Betreff: Sendeplan TRT "Stimme der Türkei" Sehr geehrter Herr Dr. Hansjörg Biener, unter http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt habe ich gelesen, dass Sie einen vollständigen Sendeplan der Livestreams der "Stimme der Türkei" suchen. Ich habe einen derartigen Sendeplan kürzlich selbst erstellt und unter http://ab27.bplaced.net/trt.pdf veröffentlicht. Ich hoffe, Ihnen damit weitergeholfen zu haben und verbleibe mit freundlichen Grüßen, Alexander Busneag (via Biener, DXLD) Hi Glenn, I checked the V of Turkey's programme today at 1330, but Letterbox was not aired today. I last heard it on 7 January, so it Looks like the new two-weekly cycle will next have it aired on 21 January. (I also heard it unusually on Wednesday 4 Jan, so I'll check also this coming Wednesday to confirm (or not) that the 4 Jan airing was an anomaly). (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, Sat Jan 14, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Later confirmed to be alt Weds, then repeated Sats (gh) ** TURKEY. TSR Turkish stream Frequency Start Stop Language Beam Power UT UT deg kW 6000 0100 0300 Turkish 72 500 9700 0400 0700 Turkish 310 500 11660 0500 0700 Turkish 138 250 11925 0700 1000 Turkish 105 500 15480 0700 1300 Turkish 150 500 15350 0700 1400 Turkish 310 500 11815 1400 1700 Turkish 310 250 5980 1700 2200 Turkish 310 500 6120 1700 2200 Turkish 150 500 TRT VOT West TRT VOT East TRT VOT World 0000 Arabic Chinese German 0030 Urdu Chinese German 0100 Urdu Azeri Portuguese 0130 Dari Azeri Portuguese 0200 Pashto southern Turkmen Spanish \\ 9410 9650 0230 Uzbek Arabic Kazakh Spanish \\ 9410 9650 0300 Uyghur \\ 9460 Kyrgyz Malay (Indonesian) 0330 Uyghur \\ 9460 Uzbek Malay (Indonesian) 0400 Georgian Tatar English \\ 6080 7240 0430 Georgian Uyghur English \\ 6080 7240 0500 Russian Uyghur French 0530 Russian Dari French 0600 Bosnian Pashto southern Farsi 0630 French Uzbek Arabic Farsi 0700 French Azeri Uyghur 0730 Tatar Azeri Uyghur 0800 Serbian Azeri \\ 11710 Macedonian 0830 Croatian Azeri \\ 11710 Armenian 0900 Greek Bosnian Romanian 0930 Greek Farsi \\ 11795 Kyrgyz 1000 Arabic \\ 11955 Farsi \\ 11795 Hungarian 1030 Arabic \\ 11955 Farsi \\ 11795 Japanese 1100 Georgian \\ 9840 Tatar \\ 15360 Japanese 1130 Georgian \\ 9840 Uzbek \\ 13655 Azeri 1200 Bulgarian \\ 7245 Chinese \\ 15420 Azeri 1230 Romanian Chinese \\ 15420 German \\ 15270 1300 Urdu \\ 15390 Turkmen \\ 11965 German \\ 15270 1330 Urdu \\ 15390 Uyghur \\ 13685 English \\ 12035 1400 Russian \\ 9410 Uyghur \\ 13685 English \\ 12035 1430 Russian \\ 9410 Albanian Kazakh \\ 9785 1500 Italian \\ 6185 Albanian Arabic \\ 7295 17720 1530 Serbian Armenian Arabic \\ 7295 17720 1600 Croatian Dari \\ 9595 Farsi \\ 6070 1630 Azeri \\ 5965 Pashto so \\ 9595 Farsi \\ 6070 1700 Azeri \\ 5965 Uzbek \\ 9595 Bulgarian 1730 Tatar English \\ 11730 Spanish \\ 9495 1800 Hausa English \\ 11730 Spanish \\ 9495 1830 Hausa French \\ 9620 German \\ 5945 1900 Arabic French \\ 9620 German \\ 5945 1930 Arabic Russian English \\ 6050 2000 Portuguese Russian English \\ 6050 2030 Portuguese Swahili French \\ 5970 9625 2100 Spanish Swahili French \\ 5970 9625 2130 Spanish Arabic English \\ 9610 2200 Bulgarian Arabic English \\ 9610 2230 Greek Macedonian Italian 2300 Greek Russian English \\ 5960 2330 Arabic Russian English \\ 5960 Pashto southern = Kandahar Pashto. Malay (Indonesian) = macro language Malay / Indonesian (BC-DX 17 Jan via DXLD) ** UGANDA [non]. 15240, Sat Jan 14 at 1916 check, VP carrier, presumed all we are getting today from WWRB with Radio Munansi. 15240, Sun Jan 15 at 1909, very poor S4 signal, presumably all we are getting from R. Munansi via WWRB today. Equivalent to 15825 neighbor WWCR (which however a few hours earlier was getting a sporadic E boost) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE. Members, I can at least attach a good degree of reliability in this news since the source is the Ukrainian News Agency. MEDIUM WAVE UKRAINIAN RADIO TO COVER ALL OCCUPIED TERRITORIES http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/396300.html The National Radio and TV Council (NRTC) of Ukraine on January 12 issued a permit to broadcast using radio frequency of 873 kHz on the territory of the Anti-Terrorist operation (ATO) in the town of Chasiv Yar in the Donetsk region, the NRTC press service said. "During the daytime Ukrainian radio with the power of 50 kW will be broadcast to the following territories: Kostiantynivka, Kramatorsk, Dymytriv, Artemivsk, Lysychansk and most of the occupied territories, including the city of Donetsk, Horlivka, Makiyivka, Torets, Shakhtarsk, Torez, Yenakiyeve, Debaltseve, Brianka, Alchevsk. At night the signal coverage will be much better - it will cover all the occupied regions of Donetsk and Luhansk regions," the press service quoted the National Council member Serhiy Kostynsky as saying. He also said that Broadcasting, Radio Communications & Television Concern (BRT) is changing the antenna design which will be transmitting a signal. The issue with the transmitter is being resolved. According to rough estimates, it will be technically possible to launch the broadcasting within three months. Thus, the inhabitants of the occupied territories and controlled territories will be able to listen to news programs of the "Ukrainian Radio," as well as programs developed in partnership with the "Voice of Donbas" and "Radio Liberty", which are adapted for the residents of the occupied areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions (via WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DXLD) I asked Vlad Tytariv [sic] to help me locate where the broadcasts will come from. The answer he gave is that the tower at Chasiv Yar (at 48 35 24N 37 51 51E) currently used for mobile / cellphone signals is likely to be reconfigured to carry the 50 kW signal on 873 kHz. With a 3 month timetable to make the change it will be interesting to keep this under review. 73 and 88 (Dan Goldfarb, Jan 15, mwmasts yg via DXLD) we had this a decade ago, like former 810 kHz location UKR_Dniepropetrovsk 873 kHz 10 kW 48 25'46.29"N 35 08'30.76"E so now move to Chasiv Yar as an easy vertical MW antenna. Thanks, Dan, I've got always error when did like to open this website. seen also nearby Chasiv Yar (at 48 35 24 N 37 51 51 E ) http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-H3cBklKMFDU/V498y9HTTkI/AAAAAAAAJV0/N9_5zRp5NfIoK4AM3BqRDL5cFRkwIuSMgCJkC/s544-k-no/ May you can put also an easy MW antenna at top of the Moshee. Is the Donetsk region now a Russian-Nationals speaking and Muslim national canton - see above link of city Konstantinovka, integrated and recognized in UKR parliament / federate state? (states like in Switzerland parliament?) Or is that Donetsk a separate political entity, border control, as sovereign state? (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) ** UKRAINE [non]. 7730, USA, Okeechobee FL, 100 kW/285 deg, Radio Ukraine International, Jan 11, 2332 - Checking the listed frequency of 11580, but that sender was in Spanish, so, by chance, checked 7730, and sure enough, very well heard here in Masset. News until 2335 and into Ukrainian Perspective program. A better frequency for us in the west, as 25 m is often above the MUF in the winter (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. BBC Soomaali oo soo saartay App cusub oo laga heli karo maqal iyo qoraal . . . http://www.bbc.com/somali/war-38574202 (reached after a BBCWS PR in English about this via gh, DXLD) Viz.: BBC SOMALI RADIO AND TEXT VIA NEW APP The World Service is keen to connect with audiences on the devices and platforms most relevant to them, and the launch of the BBC Somali App will help us reach Somali communities living all over the world. Simon Kendal, Business Development Director Date: 13.01.2017 Last updated: 13.01.2017 at 16.19 http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2017/bbc-somali-app (via "Hansjoerg Biener", DXLD) ** U S A. THE REMAINS OF SHORTWAVE RADIO STATION WOO Thursday, January 12, 2017 3:07 PM Historic AT&T high seas radio station to be demolished WorkBoat (blog) - 51 minutes ago The remains of shortwave radio station WOO — for decades the Atlantic coast hub of American Telephone & Telegraph's high seas radio service — will likely be demolished . . . https://www.workboat.com/news/coastal-inland-waterways/historic-att-high-seas-radio-station-demolished/ (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) ** U S A. 5403.5-USB, Jan 13 at 2253, QSO from one ham with rough modulation on a ``60m`` discrete frequency, about freezing rain, complaining about how his university employer says people should report to work, but not if the weather is too bad, so which is it? CYA. Call sounds like WB9BZZ, but the B`s could have been D`s lacking any fonetix, and no combination works in ARRL lookup. His contact, however, W0DMT leads to RUSHING, KEITH L, W0DMT, GRANDVIEW, MO 64030. The 9er should be over in Illinois or Wisconsin. 5371.5-USB, Jan 13 at 2257, another ``60m`` QSO is here, but not pursued, and no phone axion on any of the other discrete channels (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 25910/FM, WQGY434, Eldorado TX (Dallas xmtr?), KLDE 104.9 FM studio relay; 1659-1702, 8-Jan; “…1st Baptist Church of Eldorado on 104-9 KLDE Eldorado & 105-3 San Angelo”, into live church service. Well on top for 2 minutes, then dove into the QRN (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' & 60' RW + 125' bow-tie, ----- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! ----- WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 25910/FM, WQGY434, Eldorado TX (Dallas transmitter), KLDE 104.9 FM studio relay; 1555-1601+, 16-Jan; “TSN News” to ToH “Barry Kilgore KLDE Weather” into oldies. VGood peaks but in/out; nothing on previously // 25990 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW + 125' bow-tie, ----- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! -----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. The KOVR-TV Sacramento CA studio relay on 26110 kHz has not been heard here in over a year. A check of the FCC database shows that license as “cancelled”. Bummer KLDE Eldorado TX relay continues to be heard erratically on 25910 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW + 125' bow-tie, ----- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! -----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Den Hinweis auf einen derartige Kalender brachte man nun auch (endlich) im gestrigen VOA-radiogram: The hint to such a calendar came now (finally) in yesterday's VOA-radiogram: http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/VoA_Radiogram_2017-01-14.htm#calendar2017 Viz.: VOA Marks 75th Anniversary in 2017 A special URL for information about the VOA 75th anniversary, http://voa75.com has been established, although for now it lands on the VOA Public Relations web page. On that page is a link to a downloadable VOA 75th anniversary calendar in pdf format. https://docs.voanews.eu/en-US-INSIDE/2017/01/03/561d9621-e45c-4ef5-93c2-b49f658c826c.pdf 28 pages; theme: CELEBRATING DIASPORA COMMUNITIES IN THE US --- lots of lovely photography of festivals, parades, native costumes (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DX LISTENING DIGEST) A short video about VOA's 75th anniversary, requesting your ideas, memories, and photos, is here: http://www.insidevoa.com/a/3672147.html You could also provide any interesting audio of VOA that you might have. Sending Pic:247x101C; Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com And visit http://voaradiogram.net Twitter: @VOARadiogram Thanks to colleagues at the Edward R. Murrow shortwave transmitting station in North Carolina. I'm Kim Elliott. Please join us for the next VOA Radiogram. This is VOA, the Voice of America (via roger, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A. Glenn: I listened to the WOR broadcast at 2130 UT on 11580 KHz, Thursday, 1/12/2016. It was an audible signal into central New Jersey. But there were numerous fade outs (approx. 6). The fade outs were extreme but only lasted a few seconds. Best (Charlie Harlich, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Tnx for checking one WRMI broadcast I missed (gh) [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1860 monitoring: not confirmed UT Saturday January 14 at 0030 on WBCQ 9330v-CUSB, no signal (7490 is fair, 5130 not on yet). Maybe on but not propagating. 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, 6855 to WNW Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 to NW 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, 6855 to WNW Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Thu 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1860 monitoring: confirmed on HLR 7265-CUSB, Germany, via UTwente SDR, Sat Jan 14 at 1550, gaining on the CCI vs CRI Hindi, while at first check 1540, nothing of myself to be heard. Ends at 1601, precisely when CRI Russian cuts on much stronger. WOR 1860 not confirmed, but JBA carrier detectable from WBCQ 9330v-CUSB, Sat Jan 14 at 2330. Confirmed UT Sun Jan 15 at 0431 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO, S9+30 spelling beaglebass.com, therefore 17 minutes into playback, starting about 0414. Next: 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, 6855 to WNW Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 to NW 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, 6855 to WNW Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Thu 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW BTW, Jeff White tells me WRMI will resume emitting WOR on Fridays, at new time of 2230 UT on 11580 // 6855 // 5950 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Just a quick note to say that World of Radio coming through with fair/usable reception on 9485 kHz via Hamburger Lokalradio using the Goehren transmitter. Heard from tune-in at 1145 UT on Sunday 15 January (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, I’ve been listening to your ‘World of Radio’ on Sunday 15 January 2017 at 1150 GMT on 9485 kHz, I’m able to give you a SINPO code rating of 23222. I was using a JRC NRD525 receiver with a Wellbrook ala1530 loop antenna. Please will you e-QSL? Thank you. Yet, another day of poor conditions! Thanks for a great programme, Glenn, Happy New Year. I look forward to hearing from you soon. Regards (Patrick Travers, Location: Sheffield, South Yorkshire, GB, WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Patrick, I really appreciate your report that WOR is audible on 9485. However, I do not have an e-QSL design and do not issue QSLs specifically for World of Radio, a program. Instead, I wish listeners would send reports for QSL to the individual stations doing the transmitting, in this case Hamburger Lokalradio. One station which does have a WOR QSL design is WRMI, available of course only for hearing it on that station and sent to WRMI. Altho I have no reason to doubt you, it is also customary to provide some specific program details when requesting a QSL. Best wishes, (Glenn Hauser to Patrick, via DXLD) However, before I retire, I imagine I might offer a special WORLD OF RADIO QSL, myself (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dear Glenn, How are you? I hope always well in the new year 2017. Here is my audio report of World Of Radio 1860 on SW for B16 period. Hamburgher Lokal Radio, Goehren 9485 kHz - January 15, 2017, 1154- 1155 UT in English, SINPO 15532. My listener details are: Nino Marabello, Treviso, Italy, Receiver: TECSUN PL-365; Antenna: indoor aerial long wire 9 mt. I have heard one minute of program World Of Radio 1860 by Glenn Hauser and then only noise of a bad propagation. I have attached an audio report 326 kB in MP3 format. Thank you in advance. 73 (from Treviso, Italy, N. Marabello, http://acquamarina.blogspot.com WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1860 monitoring: confirmed UT Monday Jan 16 at 0402 on Area 51 via WBCQ 5129.82-AM, but poor and mostly unreadable. Rechecking for the closing, JBA until 0429:24, and on to H.R.I. WOR 1860 also barely confirmed UT Mon Jan 16 at 0430 on WRMI 9955, JBA but theme music recognizable, and 0444 a familiar but unreadable voice. (No // 6855 available now since that`s // 5985 with `Blues Radio International`, UT Mondays 0430). Next: Tue 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 to SSE, 6855 to WNW Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE Tue 2300 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 to NW Wed 1415.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE, 6855 to WNW Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Thu 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1860 monitoring: confirmed UT Tue Jan 17 at 0030 on WBCQ 9330v-CUSB, very poor; also on WRMI 7730, S9+20. As often, slept thru Tue 1200 on 9955; also missed Tue 2130 as I was at Enid`s only cinema to see ``Hidden Figures`` (UTC wasn`t a term in use in 1962, was it?). But confirmed Tue Jan 17 at 2300 on WRMI 9955, audible despite the heavy jamming --- tnx a lot, Arnie! Also confirmed UT Wed Jan 18 at 0045 the 0030 on WBCQ 9330.0v-CUSB, fair at S8-S6: maybe post-solstice evening propagation is uppicking. Next: Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 to NW Wed 1415.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE, 6855 to WNW Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Thu 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW WORLD OF RADIO 1860 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday January 18 at 1415.5 on WRMI 9955, S9 with no jamming, and also on much weaker // 6855. Also confirmed Wed Jan 18 at 2200 on WBCQ 7490, good; recheck at 2228 for the closing, last bit of propagation is cut off before 2229 for music, even tho WOR is under 29:00 minutes. Not confirmed UT Thu Jan 19 at 0030 on WBCQ 9330v-CUSB, but the JBA carrier there is probably it; meanwhile neighbor 9265 WINB is S9. WORLD OF RADIO 1861 monitoring: confirmed first SW broadcast Thursday 1230 January 19 at 1241 on WRMI 9955, S9+20 and no jamming, // much weaker S8 6855. By 1255 a bit of jamming is audible on 9955 which has weakened to only S9+10; tnx a lot, Arnie! There`s nothing to jam at 1300, just Prague in English. Next: Thu 2130 WRMI 11580 to NE Fri 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Fri 2230 WRMI 11580 to NE, 6855 to WNW, 5950 to S [NEW] 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, 6855 to WNW Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 to NW 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, 6855 to WNW Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Thu 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Deleted frequencies via WRMI Okeechobee effective Jan 1 Brother HySTAIRical, major cuts 2100-2200 on 11580 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English tx#01 0100-0300 on 5985 YFR 100 kW / 222 deg to MEXI English tx#02 0600-0700 on 5985 YFR 100 kW / 222 deg to MEXI English tx#02 2100-2200 on 5985 YFR 100 kW / 222 deg to MEXI English tx#02 0200-1200 on 11530 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to CeAm English tx#04 1200-2200 on 17790 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to CeAm English tx#04 2200-2400 on 11530 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to CeAm English tx#04 0000-2400 on 6855 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to WNAm English tx#05 1000-1400 on 21675 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg to NCAf English tx#07 0000-1300 on 5765 YFR 100 kW / 355 deg to ENAm English tx#08 0000-2400 on 5015 YFR 100 kW / 222 deg to MEXI English tx#09 1400-2100 on 13695 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English tx#11 2200-2300 on 13695 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English tx#11 0900-1000 on 5850 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English tx#12 1400-2300 on 11565 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English tx#12 0600-0700 on 7730 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to MEXI English tx#13 1400-2300 on 15440 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to MEXI English tx#13 0100-1100 on 5950 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg to Cuba English tx#14 1200-1300 on 5950 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg to Cuba English tx#14 1300-2000 on 9495 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg to Cuba English tx#14 [9455!] 2000-2200 on 5950 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg to Cuba English tx#14 [more cuts]: Radio Slovakia Int. 2100-2130 on 13695 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English tx#11 Various WRMI programs 2130-2200 on 13695 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English tx#11 Additional transmissions: Radio Slovakia Int. 2100-2130 on 11580 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English tx#01 Brother HySTAIRical [not correct --gh:] 2300-2400 on 11580 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English tx#01 Various WRMI programs 0000-2400 on 6855 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to WNAm various tx#05 0900-1000 on 5850 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English tx#12 0600-0700 on 7730 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to MEXI various tx#13 2130-2200 on 11580 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English tx#01 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/01/cancelled-frequencies-via-wrmi.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6855, Jan 12 at 0030, English relay // much stronger 5850, R. Slovakia International as now on WRMI schedule, also allegedly // 11580 but too weak to tell (as is 9955 at this hour). 6855 // 5850 // 7730, Thu Jan 12 at 0705, WRMI with interview in English about Marshall Islands, soon Keith Perron introducing something from RNZ, so this is still a PCJ Radio International Hour on Thursday, despite the WRMI sked grid at http://www.tinyurl.com/WRMIfqs showing it on UT Fridays! On 5850 & 7730. 6855, UT Fri Jan 13 at 0120 guy talking about how there was no such people as Palestinians before 1947, while the Jews in Israel go way back further than that (so on with settlements, push `em out). Circa 0150 recheck, `Your Weekend Show` mentioned in passing, which is scheduled this hour on 11580, now duplicated on this audible and propagable frequency. It`s from the so-called TruNews network which already occupies 9395 fulltime, but I don`t know if also on there at this hour. Anyhow, Thursday evening is hardly weekend unless you`re, Allah-forbid, Moslem, or a physician; or a legislator. 5850 // 6855 // 7730, Friday January 13 at 0727 check, WRMI with World Music on all three of them, rather than Media Network Plus, which continues to appear UT Thursday at 07-08, not Friday as on schedule. It also shows 06-07 UT on 5850 and 7730 at least with blank spaces except for Friday 0600-0630. 6855, Fri Jan 13 at 2229, WRMI wrapping up `Frecuencia al Día`, and found // weaker 5950 and stronger 11580, in extended variety programming block. 2230 all go to World Music for a semihour; after ``WNYW``-style ID at 2259, 11580 splits off for a new `Viva Miami`, Jeff y Thaïs White in Spanish discussing their pre-Xmas trip to Portugal; while 6855 and 5950 continue more World Music, including appropriately, the fado in rotation. 9955, Fri Jan 13 at 2230 with wall-of-noise jamming, presumably still against WRMI`s Radio Libertad prepeat which is not revealed on the schedule, but the Commies certainly know about it. At 2300 something in English vs slightly less jamming, which would be Media Network Plus as scheduled. 7780, Jan 13 at 2243, WRMI is on with Overcomer. The sked grid as of January 9 now shows it`s XMTR 9, 22-12 UT at 151 degrees, while 15770, which used to be the same transmitter at 12-22, is now XMTR 3, 44 degrees, at 12-22, all TOM except variety programming at 21-22. As of UT Jan 14, here`s in text form what the graphic transmission skedgrid shows for 6855, and comparing it to same Systems on other frequencies, which should be // during each block: 0000-0030 H AWR = 5950 0030-0100 F Slovakia = 11580, 5850 0100-0200 D variety = 11580 0200-0230 D Ukraine = 11580 0230-0300 H Prague = 11580 0300-0400 L Taiwan Spanish = 5985 0400-0430 K Japan Spanish = 5985 0430-0500 F variety = 5985 0500-0600 B variety = 9955 0600-0700 D variety [really mostly music // 5850 7730] {not B} 0700-0800 D variety = 5850 7730 0800-1000 B [?? no // shown but maybe still = 5850 7730?] 1000-1100 F variety = 5850 1100-1200 H AWR = 5950 1200-1500 B variety = 9955 1500-2000 B [World Music???, as 9955 is back to TOM, but not 6855?] 2000-2100 D variety = 11580 2100-2200 D variety = 15770 2200-2300 D variety = 11580, 5950 2300-2330 H AWR = 5850 2330-2400 H Prague = 5850 If anyone note anything different or can fill in any unknown parts on 6855, please let us know. 5850 // 7730 // 6855, Sat Jan 14 at 0706 check, all three WRMIs again duplicative, with gospel huxter. `Sounding the Alarm` is scheduled. BTW, in my previous report compiling the 6855 schedule, the 06-07 UT hour should have been attributed to System D, not B. I hope there were no further errors. 11580, Sat Jan 14 at 2210, the `Your Weekend Show` low-key guy rambling about his concerns, much stronger than // 6855. 7780 is already on with TOM. 9955 with a different gospel huxter about Abraham. 6855, Jan 15 at 0229, WRMI with Radio Ukraine International closing, no ID at 0230, immediately into Radio Prague relay, both in English. Originally and supposedly still on 11580, but inaudible there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11580, Okeechobee FL, 100 kW/44 deg, WRMI, Radiopan, Jan 14 [Sat] 2300 - Music after old fashioned ID at 2300, and into music. At 2315 music faded out, and Russian faded in. A Russian radio hobby program, discussing Radio Baltica and Life 68. Not sure who the latter was/is. Good reception, but starting to lose the MUF, I think. A weekly program, it appears. At 2330, went into a special program about the demise of DSWCI. Fair to good reception. At 0000 went into Radio Slovakia International, which IS on the schedule (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Updated schedule of WRMI Okeechobee on freq. 6855 kHz tx#5 as follows 0000-0030 on 6855 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to WNAm Spanish AWR Cuba 0030-0100 on 6855 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to WNAm English R.Slovakia Int 0100-0200 on 6855 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to WNAm Various WRMI programs 0200-0230 on 6855 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to WNAm English R.Ukraine Int 0230-0300 on 6855 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to WNAm English Radio Prague 0300-0400 on 6855 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to WNAm Spanish R.Taiwan Int 0400-0430 on 6855 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to WNAm Spanish R.Japan NHK 0430-1100 on 6855 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to WNAm Various WRMI programs 1100-1200 on 6855 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to WNAm Spa/Eng AWR Cuba/DX px 1200-2300 on 6855 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to WNAm Various WRMI programs 2300-2330 on 6855 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to WNAm Spanish AWR Cuba 2330-2400 on 6855 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to WNAm English Radio Prague http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/01/changes-of-wrmi-tx9-on-7780-khz-and-tx5.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #986 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, January 15, 2017 via DXLD) A Problem with DigiDX? Yesterday (15 January), Stephen Cooper's DigiDX program via WRMI on 11580 kHz at 2030 UT was a repeat of last week's episode 44. No advance notice of this. Hope this doesn't signal its discontinuation and that Stephen is just on holidays or is temporarily under the weather or there was a mix-up at the WRMI studio (Richard Langley, NB, Jan 16, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) WRMI 11580 kHz Monitored Sunday Evening Schedule --- From a several hour recording of 11580, 15-16 Jan, I noted the following (all UT): 2015 The Holy Gospel 2030 DigiDX 2100 Radio Slovakia International (English) 2130 Walking in Power 2200 Main Street Church of Christ 2300 ?? (Propagation deteriorated from quite good to essentially non- existent over a 10-minute period starting around 2300) 2330 ?? Nothing heard. Presumably DigiDX repeat 0000 ?? Nothing heard 0030 Radio Slovakia International (English) repeat; snippets heard 0100 ?? Snippets sounded like Italian There are some differences with respect to current published schedule. Correction: Propagation deteriorates due to lowering MUF over a 5- minute period not over 10 minutes; i.e., it happens quite quickly and then 11580 kHz is essentially useless after that (-- Richard Langley, Jan 18, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) As I have been reporting, part of the time, 11580 is now duplicated on 6855, which you may hear better, and perhaps 11580 well enough to tell whether matching. 20-21, 22-23, 0030-0300 (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) 6855, Jan 15 at 0807, I`m unfortunately awake past 0800 so check what WRMI is doing: World Music here; 7730 Brother Scare; 5850 a different gospel huxter from a Church of Christ. (Before 0800 the three would be // with whatever.) 6855, UT Mon Jan 16, however, at 0623, WRMI World Music here but NOT the same W.M. as on 7730 // 5850. 6855, Jan 16 at 1505, hard to hear this WRMI in full daytime, but straining, I am getting Zorba the Greek, so indeed is playing World Music fill --- and all day until 2000? as nothing else specified, and Brother Hystairical is no longer paying for this transmitter. 15770, Jan 16 at 1505 & 1536 chex, no signal from this WRMIBS, normally detectable, as are 15825 WWCR and 15610 WEWN. Probably an anomaly rather than another cutback. 6855 // 11580, Mon Jan 16 at 2215 following new time for FG Radio quarter-hour (see CYPRUS), WRMI parallels these with World Music, starting with a song about Bahamians, 2227 the oft-heard polka, 2229.5 the WNYW-style ID, 2230 `Christian New Age Radio on Shortwave with Rev. Frederick Moe, the second installment`. I ran across the first one months ago so must be far from a weekly show, and I still wonder whether this be the same Fred Moe we used to hear from as an SWL. Anyhow a respite from screaming gospel huxters. 6855, Jan 17 at 0639, WRMI with World Music, but again a separate playout from the World Musix on 5850 // 7730. 11580, Jan 17 at 1420, WRMI during usual World Music hour, with ``Proud to be a Bahamian``, 1425 a song about Bahia. 11580, Tue Jan 17 at 2312, this WRMI is playing the `Triumphal March from Aïda`, great, maybe within World Music? Haven`t noticed it before. 6855 has a third program, presumably AWR Spanish to Cuba as should also be on 5850, not checked; while 9955 is World of Radioing vs the jamming --- because 9955 also carries clandestine Radio Libertad during the previous AND following hours. I see on the Programming page its exec producer is now IDed: ``Radio Libertad Productor Ejecutivo: Ing. Pedro Peñaranda`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Tonight's episode of Broad Spectrum Radio on WBCQ 7490. Airing momentarily (18:30 CST, 0030 UT) on 7490 AM. Show notes: 1st half - political and activist commentary, including: * 2 short commentary op-ed pieces by Mumia Abu-Jamal (from PrisonRadio.org) * a short piece about the Womens March on Washington * Commentary by host (James Branum) about the possible commutation of Chelsea Manning by President Obama * David Rovics song - "A song for Chelsea Manning" * Fundraising pitch for BroadSpectrumradio.com including the call to download the BSR app from the google play store (which raises funds for future shortwave airtime purchases) - https://play.google.com/store/search?q=KG5jst 2nd half - Episode #31 of Mennonite Radio Audio files links coming shortly; here's the audio download: https://archive.org/details/BSRMagazine20170112 (James Matthew Branum, 0029 UT Jan 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) WBCQ, ALLAN WEINER WORLDWIDE --- Couldn't tell from your logs if you were able to listen to the last AWWW or not [UT Sat Jan 14, 0100- on 7490, 5130]. I was able to copy part of it before I lost the station. Big news was that Allan and Dr. Becker are going to a hotel on inauguration day [Fri Jan 20] and will be broadcasting comments at odd times throughout the day on 7490 and 9330. Bigger news was that operations manager Robert Ellis lost his 1890s farmhouse to fire in the middle of last week. All animals on the farm survived and Robert had minor burns. He lost everything, including his wallet in the fire. For the next week or two any donations made to the station will be given to Robert to give him a hand up. That's about all I was able to copy and have no details on the inauguration crap. After some more snow and ice tonight we're to have a couple of days of rain and seven days above freezing (John H Carver, Jr., Mid-North Indiana, Jan 15, WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7490, Sat Jan 14 at 2204, European Music Radio, 40th anniversary special is airing as publicized on WBCQ, on an hour early today. Good at S9+10 to start on the R75. Seems to be nothing but rock! When I think of ``European Music`` it`s the great classical composers, shux. Recheck on the BSR-1 caradio at 2244, break to acknowledge listeners in Venezuela, Alan Roe, Lou Johnson, Bavaria. Is this live? I would not think so. No BBC QRM audible now, but weakening and fading. Sign- off by 2259 presumably by Tom Taylor, but in a fade, name sounded like Ted something (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9930, Jan 12 at 1903, dead air from WTWW-2; I stick with it and finally comes to life at 1907 re-opening `Dave Ramsey` show. So they leave the news hole holey --- an improvement over three hours of dead air, or worse, dead air except for commercials, both of which have happened. 9930, Sat Jan 14 at *1859, WTWW-2 cuts on air with pop music in progress. I was getting worried whether the organ show would be another no-show. Distorted canned ID, ``Wichita Lineman``. 1903 ID again and late start to `Theater Organ of the Ozarx`. Pity the modulation distortion, plus hum to mar the music. Also with parasitic spurs about 9917 and 9943. Organist Bob Heil thinx it`s nighttime, and I don`t think he means in Europe. Also ends 3 minutes late at 1933, ID and into `Amateur Radio Newsline`. Toward the end I also checked the webcast, not so distorted: http://wtww.us/pages/listen-live/transmitter-2-html-5.php but one could tell that some of the original recordings were not studio quality; in fact with audience noises in the background as if in a café. 5085, UT Sun Jan 15 at 0209, WTWW-2 in TOOTO again, S9+30 with talk in the background, also with spurs circa 5072, 5097. Ends at 0234 with a bit of applause, ID and again into Amateur Radio Newsline #2046. 5830, Jan 15 at 0208, WTWW-1 still not on here, nor audible on 9475, but there is a blob of algo circa 9473. 5830, Jan 17 at 0642, no signal from WTWW-1, which means I should check day frequency 9475: yes! There it is, still on the air but barely audible at S3-S4, tsk2. Yet another SNAFU by the inattentive controller of the transmitters (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9265, Jan 16 at 0419, WINB is still on. Yes, on UT Mondays only, the last program on the schedule starts at 0400, `Worship at Home`, with end time never specified (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9275, Bethel PA, 250 or 125 kW/53 deg, WMLK, Assemblies of Yahweh, Jan 10, 2010 - Initially a fair level but improved to good/very good by sign off at 2200. Especially good after 2130. Mentioned Elder Jacob at 2150 (the end of the sermon), and into organ music until 2157. Then ID for WMLK and 9475 frequency 17 to 22 and 04 to 09 UTC. Then gave postal address, and repeated the incorrect frequency (presumably an old recording). Back to filler music until carrier off at 2200 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. 7505, INDIA, Delhi 100 kW/65 deg, AIR, Jan 10, 0215 - Listed as in Nepali. Very loud het against WRNO. Within a second, went from high side to low side, both audibly and visually on the waterfall. Measuring now (WRNO, that is) at 7504.87, but increasing, so almost a horizontal line on the waterfall! Delhi is 4 Hz on high side. Within 1 minute, pretty much on frequency. Makes things very hard to follow. WRNO is only a little stronger than AIR. At 0220:30, it's as if someone with a screwdriver adjusted something, as the frequency again shifted slowly over about 5 seconds to the low side of 7505. Most unusual! The waterfall is exactly parallel to the previous slow rise in frequency. Some sort of fault! By 0242, AIR dominates. Apart from the wobbly het, I'm no longer hearing any audio from WRNO. Another fault? AIR transmitter cut at 0300:20 (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non-log]. 7505v, WRNO. See INDIA [WORLD OF RADIO 1861] BTW, 7505v, Jan 16 at 0420, WRNO is off despite normal run to 0500* (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5810, Jan 18 at 0633, WEWN Spanish is off; but 11520 English is on with a JBA carrier. 12050, Jan 18 at 1438, corresponding day frequency of WEWN Spanish is on as usual, with humbuzz, splatter out to 12035/12115. At least we`re fortunate that 5810 does not act like that, so is it really a different transmitter? This season only two frequencies ever at a time instead of three. WRTH reminds us that they (originally) had 3 x 500 kW, plus 1 x 500 kW backup (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 750, Jan 12 at 1328 UT, `America`s Morning News` show going into commercial break, loops NW/SE, ad for attending NASCAR in Vegas, fading and separable from Canadian [q.v.], back in at 1335 UT. I think this must be KOAL Price UT, 10/6.8 kW U2, likely on ND day pattern since at night it`s cardioid nulling east. And KOAL is news/talk with lots of networks, but NRC AM Log does not show it as a TRN affiliate; AMN website does not provide any affiliate list: http://www.talkradionetwork.com/shows/americas-morning-news/ Not daytimer KMMJ NE this early, nor KSEO Durant OK, another daytimer I have never heard from across this state. But soon, WNDZ Indiana (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 750, Jan 12 at 1353 UT, Ukrainian with heavy American accent, mention www.oldtownschool.org which is a folk music school in Chicago, so certainly WNDZ Portage IN. I had already heard Utah and Saskatchewan on 750, much further west. Maybe some CCI in Spanish now, El Paso or Grand Island (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 750, Jan 12 at 1429 UT, after Howard Kurtz, Fox mention, ``Newstalk 750`` ID and calls sounded like KGNU, but only fit is KBNN Lebanon MO, 5 kW daytimer, after hearing other 750s: KOAL, CKJH, WNDZ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Your comment, 17-02: ``Interesting, except Bill appears to have ignored the fact that the KKOB night pattern has a deep null from 40 to 110 degrees, minimum at 67.5 degrees, to protect WABC!`` WRONG! Does not compute! The vertical angle toward Santa Fe is well above the horizontal plane, as is shown in the diagram Mr. Bill (whose last name I don't see) supplied. At that angle there is a minor lobe, just as he shows, which is because the pattern is a hemisphere, not just a horizontal plane. The distance to NY is very great, so the horizontal plane or angles just barely above it are pertinent. In fact, a two tower pattern with different height towers such as the KKOB one, can actually have a vertical null at a high angle in the same azimuth as the maximum lobe in the horizontal plane, or vice- versa. I've designed at least two just like that when the allocation circumstances called for it (Ben Dawson, Hatfield-Dawson, WA, Jan 16, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. KFUO 850 cheating? Following Mark's inspirational email yesterday about how fun it is to AM DX, I was doing the Class A shuffle on my CCrane Skywave this morning at about 4:50 AM [1050 UT] and heard a strong Gregorian chant tune followed by "A mighty fortress is our God" on KOA's normal spot at 850. I didn't get an ID, but it had to be the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod's flagship station KFUO out of St. Louis. Wonder if they were testing, 'cuz they're supposed to be 5KW daytime only Class B. Anyone else hear them on a regular basis? Best regards, (Paul W0AD Staupe, Eden Prairie MN, Jan 17, MDXC yg via DXLD) That is unusual Paul. I would say that it would be WWJC Duluth. They've forgotten to sign off a couple of times this year (Todd Skaine, MN, ibid.) 2016-2017 NRC AM Log has 850 Duluth MN as WQRM, 50 kW D1, 14 kW CH, REL format (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. Official Updates from the FCC, Applications for extensions of STAs received: 1010, KXEN, MO, St. Louis – Applies to extend STA, U5 50000/125, night operations from temporary vertical antenna at KDNL(TV) studios at 38-38-09/90-11-45 (AM Switch, NRC DX News Jan 23 [published Jan 15] via DXLD) ** U S A. Re: ``1130 KWKH LA Shreveport – 12/27 2049 [EST = 0149 UT 12/28] – Sports talk in English on steady and dominant S9+20 signal, presumed KWKH, 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 (GH-OK)`` Has STA for 12.5 kW ND at night – DY (Dave Yocis, Domestic DX Digest, NRC DX News Jan 23 [published Jan 15] via DXLD) ** U S A. 1150, KHRO, TX, El Paso – 1/8 1200 [EST = 1700 UT] – Change in format from “Fox AM 1150 Oldies” (oldies music) to “The Bridge: Catholic Radio for the Borderland” and begin Catholic broadcasting in English and Spanish 24/7. Station will also be affiliated with the ESNE network, a small network of Spanish-speaking religious stations (From Robert Vance in Texas, Domestic DX Digest, NRC DX News Jan 23 [published Jan 15] via DXLD) ** U S A. 1200, Jan 12 at 1343 UT, romantic Spanish music from NE/SW overcoming WOAI, 1358 UT Chicago ad, ``Univisión América, 1,200, una emisora Uforia, WRTO, y ####, Evanston``, back to music. Not sure what the unlisted co-station is, maybe FM. Anyhow, they have not yet flipped to sports network as had been reported: ``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)`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The "####, Evanston" is WOJO-HD3. (105.1 FM) == (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1260, Jan 12 at 1359 UT, norteña music past hourtop, 1402 fade for ID, maybe ``La Tremenda``. None such; I`ll have to settle for likely La Reina, which is KDLF Boone IA, 5000/33 watts for Des Moines market (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. EXPERIMENTAL AUTHORITY: 1330, WINT, OH, Willoughby – Granted experimental authority to broadcast with prototype equipment to produce Zennick surface waves with minimal or no skywave; intent is to replicate the current U1 125/11 watt STA authorization but with up to 5 kW of input power (AM Switch, NRC DX News Jan 23 [published Jan 15] via DXLD) ** U S A. 1370, NORTH CAROLINA, WTAB, Tabor City. 1025 January 15, 2017. Nice unidentified female rendition of "Unchained Melody" followed by all Country vocals. A frequent night power violator (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1400, FLORIDA, WZHR, Zephyrhills. 1201 January 14, 2017. Beautiful rendition of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" by the equally beautiful Nikki Yanofsky, into "Our Day Will Come" by Ruby & the Romantics. Parallel 1340 WTAN. NOStalgia is filler when nothing brokered or junk is scheduled, and not always parallel even when (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. [Re 17-02, Radiovisión Cristiana off air from 1330 ECUADOR, but still on US frequencies:] Don't forget WWCL, Lehigh Acres, FL on 1440, sadly (Terry Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Stations informing the FCC that they are silent: 1490, KFKB, WA, Forks – Silent Dec. 10; legal dispute with site owner (AM Switch, NRC DX News Jan 23 [published Jan 15] via DXLD) So as previously reported, KFKB programming moved to an HD of 96.7 FM, including WORLD OF RADIO (gh) ** U S A. Official Updates from the FCC - Extensions of STAs granted: 1560, KGOW, TX, Bellaire – Granted STA extension, U3 15000/15000 from night site (AM Switch, NRC DX News Jan 23 [published Jan 15] via DXLD) ** U S A. 1600, TEXAS, KRVA Cockrell Hill. 1048 January 15, 2017. Nonstop Vietnamese pop/ballads, no ID heard across the hour and obviously night [day] power cheating. Presumed the one, and presume still "Radio Saigon" but no worthy website, much less working stream found. Completely clobbering anything else normally on the channel (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1610, Westport WA, WQEL572, Jan 10, 1641 - ID clearly heard, at least the 572 part. Licensed in 3 places under this call in WA, but most likely Westport, Grays Harbor WA. Licensed to WA Dept of Parks and Recreation. Marine weather (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1620, Jan 13 at 2302 UT, ``News-talk 1620, now on FM 92.3`` non-ID, also mentions Fox. The only such format around here on 1620 is WTAW College Station TX. But NRC AM Log shows no FM // for it. So how about WNRP Pensacola FL (CoL Gulf Breeze)? No FM for it either in Log. Yes, WTFDA FM Database, which now allows searching on // column, quickly clinches it: ``W222BR // WNRP-1620 92.3 PENSACOLA FL 0.25 kW 30-25-59 87-13-09 NEWSRADIO 1620 TALK/SPORTS CP from Pollard, AL`` --- While the closest 92.3 to WTAW is a translator for KRZI-1660 Waco with ESPN (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1630, WRDW Augusta GA noted with new sports format from ESPN. Heard 13/1 at 0700 UT. Best wishes (Barry :-) Carlisle UK, Davies, Lat. 55.0119N, Lon. 02.9672W, MWCircle yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DXLD) Previously news talk and sports, but not from ESPN, per NRC AM Log (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1650, Astoria, WPZQ660, OR Department of Transportation, Jan 8, 1541 - Good reception with frequent mentions of Oregon coast including Astoria with marine weather. By 1545 faded down, and replaced by highway information, which is likely from WA DOT. An interesting 'bycatch'! After 1600, noted a true TIS station sometimes at pretty decent levels, but then faded down with KFOX, Torrance CA in Korean dominating. A fascinating channel. At 1630, I counted 9 carriers, which I'm certain are TIS stations on the west coast. 1649.972, .977, .980, .983, .986, .988, .995, .997 and 1650.010. Whew! The TIS I'm hearing refers to building evacuation, etc. Then, 'You are listening to' ?. May be Coos Bay, OR. 'Thanks for listening. You are listening to....'. 1650, Vashon WA, WQHK904, Jan 9, 1440 - Once again, coming in well this morning. 'Thanks for listening' 'Remember 1650 is the place to go'. Earlier I heard '904' which corresponds with this TIS, which is located in King County, WA. Vashon Park District. My TIS lists 3 transmitters for this callsign, including one on a water tank on Vashon Island. Not sure whether this is the same TIS I heard yesterday or not (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 2520, Jan 12 at 1312, talk at S9, but still unreadable, much stronger than harmonic on 2960, while 2520 is presumably 1260 x 2 from WOCO Oconto WI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 2960, Jan 12 at 0722 UT, S4 signal with trace of music, presumed the currently active harmonic of 1480, WERM, Mobile AL. 2960, Jan 12 at 1310, still VP carrier at S4 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. RADIO STATION IS OFFICIAL SPOKESPERSON FOR A LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY I have a bazar [sic] story for you: there is a sheriff's office here in Colorado that is investigating a murder in southwest Colorado (C o n e j o s C o u n t y S h e r i f f ' s D e p a r t m e n t) but the county is so small, the sheriff's office doesn't have a media spokesperson, so instead its media spokesperson is actually KZBR-FM, the Zebra. This is the only sheriff's office or police department in the state (according to Denver TV Stations) that uses a radio station to make & release press releases and act as a media representative. TV Stations in Pueblo & Denver as well as the AP are all having a very hard time getting information because of this set-up. Has anyone here on ABDX ever heard of a situation where a commercial radio station is the official spokesperson for a law enforcement office? I haven't (--- Paul, Denver, Armani, Jan 16, ABDX via DXLD) 25 kW, 97.1, La Jara (gh) ** UZBEKISTAN [and non]. 7510, Tashkent, 100 kW/76 deg, Voice of Martyrs, Jan 6, 1531 - No IS noted before start at 1530, in presumed Korean. Lots of noise on frequency. Not sure whether that's jamming or something else. At start, sounded like they gave an ID or email address, as it was repeated twice. Fair overall. 7510, Tashkent, 100 kW/76 deg, Voice of Martyrs, Jan 8, 1530 - Much better reception this morning, with same format. Crash start. No IS, into same presumed ID with phonetics (May be V..O..M). Fair to good this morning, in presumed Korean, beamed to Korea. Likely jammed, as I'm hearing a noise tone on same channel. Nothing noted this morning from TWR on 7505, also from Tashkent. Heard on other mornings. Frequency measured on 7509.983 today. 7510, Tashkent, 100 kW/76 deg, Voice of Martyrs, Jan 12, 1531 - Especially well heard with identical crash start at 1530. Marred by machine sounding jamming (presumptive of the noise source). Modulation could be a bit stronger (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VANUATU. 7260, Port Vila, 10 kW/ND, Radio Vanuatu, Jan 8, 0651 - Just above threshold on measured 7259.950 kHz. Sounds like music, but really too weak to be heard. Not sure whether it'll improve overnight or not, but I'll leave the recorder going just in case. Rechecked at 1358 and very nice reception! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non] MONGOLIA. Noted weak signal on 7259.9975 kHz at 1305 UT Jan 16. But likely MNR 2 Mongolian Radio Ulanbataar domestic service (Wolfgang Büschel, BC-DX via DXLD) ** VATICAN. 9644.69. Jan 15 at 1103, Radio Vaticana, Santa Maria di Galeria, in Italian. Pope Francis and the Angelus; Words and prayer; Papal Blessing "Urbi et Orbi" and applause from Saint Peter´s Square; 1115 Ends, ID, IS and sign-off at 1116 (not 1130). Broadcasting with fair signal and modulation by Twente WebSDR (DXer: José Ronaldo Xavier, Brazil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Unusual for SMG to be off-frequency; so you could get that accurate a reading via UTwente? (gh, DXLD) ** VIETNAM. Changes of Voice of Vietnam in 2000-2200 UT slot, Jan 15: 2000-2028 on 7280 SON 100 kW / 320 deg to WeEu German, not Russian 2000-2028 on 9730 SON 100 kW / 320 deg to WeEu German, not Russian 2030-2058 on 7280 SON 100 kW / 320 deg to WeEu French, not English 2030-2058 on 9730 SON 100 kW / 320 deg to WeEu French, not English 2130-2158 on 7280 SON 100 kW / 320 deg to WeEu English, additional 2130-2158 on 9730 SON 100 kW / 320 deg to WeEu English, additional http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/01/changes-of-voice-of-vietnam-in-2000.html (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DXLD) ** VIETNAM [and non]. 729, Dong Hoi, 200 kW, Da Tieng noi Viet Nam (VoV 2), Jan 13 1559 - Pretty certain this is who I heard around 1550 UT. In the clear and fairly strong with a language I strongly suspect is Vietnamese. Gradually faded and cochannels JOCK (Nagoya 50 kW with NHK 1 programming) and less commonly Pyongyang Bangsong in North Korea (Samo with 50 kW and // 3250) was also heard. But according to PAL, they state that N Korea is no longer on this frequency. Unfortunately SW // was off the air from 1500 on 5925. Rechecking around 1605, there's an English lesson here. That might help with the ID. Program seemed to have finished at 1614 leaving dead air. Yes, that has to be them, as I note in PAL that, 'English lessons have been noted at 1600 UT'. Should be quit certain, then! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, 729 Pyongyang has gone off the air. If it was there, that's unique. I'm not hearing it right now at all, only a sports game from Japan. And if it were to turn back on, the Hwaseong jammer would turn back on at the same time. English lessons are NHK 2 (educational) typically, which turns off early. There are no such language lessons on NHK 1 (news/talk and classical) and at the hour you were listening, they're on air with Radio Midnight, certainly not educational programming (Chris Kadlec, Seoul, IRCA via DXLD) ** ZAMBIA. 5915, Lusaka, 100 kW/ND, Zambia NBC Radio 1, Jan 7, 1636 - Good reception this morning with African singing and drums. A grayline path from my location to South Africa, on this very long path! Thanks to Ron Howard for pointing out this possibility! Language is listed as Luvale. No sign of CRI in Hindi, which was heard yesterday morning. 5915, Lusaka, 100 kW/ND, Zambia NBC Radio 1, Jan 15, 0323 - 01881 phone number given for a phone-in program. Decent S5 to S6 signal, but, of course, sounds like a lot more due to absence of noise here. Some English words, but mostly in vernacular language. SW skeds lists Chichewa as the language for Saturday, but oops, it's local Sunday, so should be Bemba. 'Radio One' and 'NBC' heard. 'Zambia' as well. Into African 'hi life' music at 0328. Good reception. Africa, in general, is a very difficult target for us off the north coast of western North America. I'm fortunate to hear anything on 49 meters or below from Africa with any kind of strength. Normally, all I ever hear is pretty much threshold at best (like Angola). Transmitter cut in mid-sentence at 0345:40, with some fading of signal. I notice LSR coming through that part of the world around now (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 972, VIETNAM (TENTATIVE), Quang Ngai, 10 Kw, Dai Tieng noi Viet Nam, Jan 8, 1651 - A highly tentative log. Language sounds very much Vietnamese to me. Cochannel to usually dominant HLCA, but sometimes rivaling in strength. Another possibility is Indonesia. I see a 50 kW RRI Programa 1 in Surakarta listed. I'm now leaning to this as the most likely. I'll be interested in hearing the TOH! Also suffering from major splatter from 980 CKNW presumably just before the TOH (as usual!!!). Whoever was on 972 faded down mostly by 1700. Darn! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search January 12, UT: Nothing on low or mid-band, but just: 1098-W at 1317, presumably V7AB Marshall Islands carrier still on 1566-NW at 1320, stronger carrier, presumably HLAZ, FEBC Jeju Island, Korea South (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See 1566 below too UNIDENTIFIED [and non]. 1188, Jan 14, 1634 - An interesting channel. Not Chinese so who? Checked PAL for possibilities. Sounding very South Asian, so I wonder about CRI from Xuanwei listed in Hindi with 300 kW from Xuanwei. I could hope for India direct from Mumbai with 50 kW. Note the SW frequency is not correct! PAL lists // 10330. Not used for a long time. Definite Indian music noted at 1642 cochannel with more usual JOKP from Kitami, Hokkaido, but the Hindi sounding station is dominating! Unfortunately, by 1700 it was all JOKP, with only a weak cochannel, so nothing noted at the TOH. Someone faded up by 1701, but does not sound Hindi. Of course, CRI Hindi should have ended at 1657. I didn't think the format fitted CRI, though. Addendum: I will seek some guidance here. On listening to the clip again, I no longer think this is 'Hindi sounding', but rather more a play or opera (sleep deprivation this morning!!), so I'm suspecting that it's only FEBC in Seoul (HLKX) (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) This would be Voice of America in Incheon if it were indeed Korean, though Korean and Hindi (CRI) are drastically different sounding. Again, a clip would solve this in a hurry (Chris Kadlec, IRCA via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 1296, Jan 9, 1639 - Wonder who is responsible for a very loud 1 kHz tone. I can hear some weak talk in the background, but ruined by the tone. Something may come up at 1700, I'm thinking. I'm actually hearing the same tones on 1368, 1584, and several other channels. Nope, same tone continues after 1700. Curious. I wonder if it's from NHK 1, as it's still quite strong well after 1700, and channels appear to coincide with NHK1 frequencies. Some, like 594, however, had no tone. Hmm. At 1915, I'm seeing 1512 with same tone. No NHK 1 there, just NHK2. The mystery continues (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1566, Jan 14 at 1345, I tune in too late for the beam switch from HLAZ, FEBC Jeju, Korea South, but still get a hefty JBA carrier looping NW, and even detectable still at 1357. It must have been even stronger before 1345. I bet my neighbor Richard N Allen near Perry OK had it much better? ``There was a sudden, but brief, barely audible trace on 1566 at local sunrise (1341),`` he reports to IRCA for January 14. A complete 9-kHz bandscan after 1345 found nothing else, not even 1098 Marshalls which RNA had best yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1650, “SAC”?? 12/30 2120 [EST = 0220 UT 12/31] – AM beacon with CW ID at 400 Hz with the carrier at 1650. Heard easily with Harris RF-590, which has 1 Hz tuning and display along with an HP 3581C selective voltmeter as an audio filter. Best reception was with a loop antenna oriented N-S. Although there were interfering broadcast stations on this frequency, the selective voltmeter could pull the CW signal out of this interference with its 10 Hz bandwidth filter (John Reed, Shawnee, OK, NRD-525, Brigantina + AR7030; Homebrew tuned ferrite loops, Clifton Labs active whip, phaser, Domestic DX Digest, NRC DX News Jan 23 [published Jan 15] via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 2749-USB, Jan 12 at 0719 UT, fragments sound like man in French on the Canadian Coast Guard frequency, but the website shows no broadcasts until 0740 from the Nova Scotia-area stations. Is it also used for 2-way communications? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 3210-USB, Jan 18, heard 1253-1256*. Daily I check for the return of the low powered Australian; a first for me today was to hear Russian; thanks very much to Mauno Ritola, for listening to my audio clip and confirming - "yes, it is Russian, sounds like they are swearing quite a bit, maybe about the one that got away ;-) "; as always, I very much appreciate his assistance! (Ron Howard, Calif., dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 4870-, Jan 15 at 0755, JBA carrier, typical offset of Wamena, RRI. Could it be propagating already? Yes, I figure the approx. sunset there circa 0830, since it`s in the UT+9 zone, easternmost Papua and almost on the Equator. Wamena is not among the Indonesian cities at gaisma.com, but it does show Jaya Pura SS at 0854. WRTH and Aoki have sign-on at *0800. Only other 4870 broadcaster is AIR, clearly way too early for that and not even scheduled to be on at this hour (never mind the imaginary LV del Upano, Ecuador, which survives only in Aoki) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 4940.0, Jan 16 at 0407, open carrier of dead air at S9+. Thought it might be YHWH but he`s active on 5792. A VOA São Tomé frequency but scheduled only briefly at 2030-2100. VOA is audible now on 4930 Botswana in English, S9+10, and a weaker 4960 carrier from algo, where VOA STP is also scheduled. They have 5 x 100 kW SW transmitters at Pinheira. Let us dismiss the long-gone 4940 Perú and Venezuela stations which remain in Aoki; altho WRTH 2017 still has R. San Antonio, Perú as irregular. DSWCI Tropical Bands Monitor does not show any activity from either LA, any month in 2016y; on 4940, only VOA STP, and V of Strait, China, where it`s noon (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED [non]. 5950.0, at 0142 Jan 17 with announcer and some music, but too weak to get any details as to an identification; best in LSB to get away from Bolivia; reception never improved (Ron Howard, Calif., dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Ron, my log from Masset on January 14th at 0122 had 5950 very strong, from VOIRI Iran in Tajik, so perhaps that's your unID. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5950.005, VoIRIB Sirjan, Tajik scheduled 0050-0220 UT, TX Sirjan switched on air already at 0047 UT, 0053 UT played National Anthem of Iran with chorus. S=9+5dB in Madrid Spain, S=9+5dB in remote unit at Eastern Thailand near Cambodian border. 73 wolfie (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) This precise frequency is the same as previously thought to be, q.v., Bolivia, Radio Pio XII (gh) UNIDENTIFIED. 7670, UNKNOWN, Glenn Hauser's unid, Jan 8, 1453 - Checked Glenn's recent unid on this frequency and nothing noted today, at this time from Masset (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 12000, Jan 17 at 1425, open carrier with some fades, so not internal; off at 1433 recheck. HFCC has nothing at all registered on this MHz, so I suppose a lure for testing or upwarming. IBB does that to avoid colliding with another of its own transmitters in a DCI/crash start situation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1861: Thanks to William T Hassig, Mt Prospect IL, for a check in the mail to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED FUTURELY, one a week: 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) Enjoy listening on WBCQ [9330] at 0030 UT 12/30/16 from Winterhaven, CA on Grundig Sat750 (John Anderson, with a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com Tnx to Robert Waybright for a PayPal contribution to woradio at yahoo.com Thanks to Ron Howard for a check to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 Always enjoy listening to you Glenn (Robert May, with a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ WTFDA FM STATION DATABASE UPGRADES It took months and a few failed attempts, but the FM Database has been upgraded thanks to a Python programmer (and very nice guy) in Ohio. Users are now able to sort on both the Country field and on the parallel (//) field. Since the database now includes stations from 14 countries (and much of Central America yet to come), we really needed the upgrade. Users can now select a country by using a pull down menu on the search screen. No longer will users find US states mixed with Canadian provinces or Mexican states in their search results. With the // field now searchable, users can output a list of all translators of KAWZ, for instance, or enter the name of an AM station and find its FM translators. Over the months we have been incorporating the contents of Emisoras de FM into the database with newer, updated information. Our efforts will continue over the winter. So, if you haven’t been there, wander over to the FM Database at http://db.wtfda.org and check it out. Also check the help page at http://www.wtfda.info for more information on how to use it. It’s not hard at all, even for the most inexperienced computer users. (Jan WTFDA VHF-UHF Digest via DXLD) RADIO PHILATELY +++++++++++++++ Radio Stamps Collexion at Auxion From [IRCA] member Neil Carleton: It`s been my experience over the years, writing and broadcasting [on HCJB DX Partyline] about radio on stamps, that many radio amateurs and SW / MW /FM enthusiasts also have philatelic interests. My radio stamps collection started in 1980 after I chanced upon Radio Sweden while exploring the shortwave bands with my new FRG-7. Part of the program that evening was about radio stations that were featured on postage stamps. Over the next 36 years my collection expanded to cover 32 radio topics on stamps. Precursors - Patron Saint - Inventors and Pioneers - Magnetic Field and Ionosphere - TimeZones - Radio Telegraphy - Morse Code - Radios - Headphones - Speakers - Microphones - Tubes and Circuits - Listening to Radio - Radio Stations and Broadcasting Services - Radio Studios - Radio at Sea - Radio in the Air - Radio in the Arctic and Antarctic - Fixed Radio Links - Mobile Radio - Radio and Meteorology - Radio at War - INTERPOL - Radio and Medicine - Longitude Determination by Radio - Amateur Radio - Radio Exhibitions - The Radio Revolution - Radio Conferences, Events, Organizations - Radio Trade Union Congresses - EKKO stamps - Radio Towers, Waves, Symbols - Radio Direction Finding Radio was also a special interest during my classroom career. http://www.canadianteachermagazine.com/archives/ctm_focus_on_schools/fall06_around_the_world.shtml Alas, some health challenges have prompted a downsizing here at home. Last Friday I delivered my radio stamp collections to Sparks Auctions in Ottawa. An illustrated description can be found at http://www.ircaonline.org/Radio Stamps For Sale January 12 2017.doc ---(via Lynn Hollerman, Lafayette, LA JAN 16 IRCA via WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DXLD) Great illustrations just looking thru the catalogue! (gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DXLD) Thanks for sharing. I remember fondly Neil's radio stamps segments from the 80s or 90s. Great pictures. If I was a philatelist I'd be very interested (Walt Salmaniw, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES +++++++++++++++++++++++++ ANNUAL SEATTLE AREA DX GET-TOGETHER I'll be holding my annual DX get together on Saturday February 18 at 2 pm [PST = 22 UT]. Consider yourself invited, and be prepared to talk about AM, shortwave, or TV-FM DX with like-minded persons. Bring radio stuff for show-and-tell if you'd like. It will be held at my house: 6546 19th Avenue NE in Seattle, 206-522-2521. Potluck snack food (liquid or solid) is welcome. See you there! Bruce Portzer 2017 CONVENTION The 2017 IRCA Convention will be in Reno NV on August 17-19 2017, hosted by Mike Sanburn. If you are interested in helping Mike, contact him at mikesanburn@hotmail.com (IRCA DX Monitor Jan 21, published Jan 17, via DXLD) NRC doesn`t have any 2017 convention host yet, but no talk of a joint one this year (gh, DXLD) DX-PEDITIONS ++++++++++++ ICELANDIC DX RECORDINGS REVIEW Hello again Glenn, Since returning from Iceland on 19 December 2016 (where I stayed in a nice suburb of Reykjavik 10 minutes walk from the seashore), and also up on Hrisey (“Tree Island”) in the north of Iceland (admist Eyjafjordur), I’ve been going over all of my AM-band DX recordings (LW/MW) made during my 11-day business and pleasure trip. By the way I return to Iceland later this Spring 2017 to do more work for a new Reykjavik tech firm I now work for (geo- physical/aurora/magnetosphere research). [anything to do with the Chinese station being built in Iceland?? gh] A fascinating picture of MW DX in Iceland during my stay there is emerging from my recordings, now being compiled and uploaded to a couple of my albums on Internet Archives (please see my website for details). [About MW/LW in Iceland itself: see ICELAND] GREENLAND: the 650 Greenland (Qeqertarsuaq, in western Greenland) signal in Reykjavik is the best, being on average about 3 to 6 dB better than both 570 and 720 parallels. If Iceland follows Greenland’s lead in establishing MW broadcast stations, this is a nice trend against more MW closures we’ve seen in Europe. I guess my recordings of 162 Allouis, France were my last I’ll ever make (from Hrisey, north Iceland). Will LW be devoid of broadcasting by 2025? One morning the 710 kHz R. Rebelde transmitter complex in Cuba came in with audio, hetting the 711 kHz Europeans. That was on a local “DXpedition” walk to the shoreline near Reyk. at about 10.45 local time 17 December (to escape bad X-mas LED light buzz/hash-noise in town) when I caught a good recording of choir music on 650 I first thought to be Caribbean-sounding, but sounded rather exotic, and later noted it was Greenland in my WRTH. Surprisingly, compared to the signal-strengths of US graveyarders 1230 to 1490 as heard in Hawaii on past Expeditions there, they all are by far much weaker in Iceland, and this must be due to a long passage through the side of the auroral-oval tangentially, resulting in considerable attenuation compared to signals from the south (Ireland, Britain, mainland Europe and north Africa). For instance 1341 Lisnagarvy N. Ireland is regularly hetted every morning by 1340 graveyarders in North America (and South?), but only having my Sony ICF-SW7600GR barefoot (next time I bring my Tecsun loop!) I could barely hear audio from most anything from NA save for 1210 VOAR St. John’s, Nfld. which came in strong enough some mornings to Iceland that the audio (relig. programming) was fair. As such, a lot of the time I just recorded carriers heterodyning and fading, and SAHs. I sure love the 1449 kHz UK/Euro mixture and the 1450 North America GY mixture heterodyne syndrome in Iceland, also. Seems I spent hours listening to/DXing that mixture. Same for 1600/1602 kHz. All right, I’ll send this summary and proceed to complete my listen and review of my LW/MW DX recordings from Iceland! 73 Glenn and kindest thanks again, Stephen McGreevy Dear Glenn, Further recording reviews: As I love the Spanish language and prefer DXing Mexican AM stations here in the northern Mojave Desert, while in Iceland I did a lot of band-scanning, especially for Spain and other Spanish language signals (Cuba's Radio Rebelde 710 complex came in fine one morning in Reykjavik, surprisingly). As for Spain herself, RNE Sevilla 684 was the big kahuna followed by the RNE synchros on 855. Even a few 1602 Spaniards came in nicely with a lot of QSB into Iceland, often hetted by 1600 NAs as the long nights progressed. The UK-signal winner in Iceland was by far 810 BBC Radio Scotland which I really enjoyed hours of while in Iceland all over at night. 1341 N. Ireland (Lisnagarvey) was strong nightly with a 1340 NA graveyarder-hets as morning progressed. 882 Wales OK, weird echo on 909 R. 5 Live, 1548 London solid but QSB a lot and hetted by 1550 NAs later in the a.m. 1215 Absolute Radio UK always has bizarre selective-fading and an identical pumping/slow-hetrodyne from one of their not-quite synched transmitters, as also heard back in Sept. 2009 in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Vaatna, Finland! At one point I recorded 1215 Absolute Radio develop a cool "echo" of maybe 200 mS from another unsynched xmtr. (Kinda like 981 in China!!!) A really cool station to study propagation on in Iceland! Uhh what else; on the expanded band only 1620 had weak carriers and maybe faint 1660s, but compared to 1230 and the other graveyard channels they were very weak. That's it for now - g-nite from here - (Steve McGreevy - N6NKS, http://www.auroralchorus.com Natural VLF Radio and Travel, Jan 15, DX LISTENING DIGEST) DX-PEDITION TO MASSET, BC 5 – 15 JANUARY, 2017 I just returned from another adventure at my cottage on Haida Gwaii near Masset, on the north end of the islands. As you may very well know, it’s a spectacular archipelago, about 100 km off shore from the north coast of British Columbia, and about 75 km south of the Alasakan panhandle. It’s rural, of course, and exceptionally quiet electrically. We do have power, which causes some noise, especially on LW. No internet, yet, however. Closest neighbours are about 100 m on one side and a bit more on the other side, but these can be seasonal, or very lightly used. No plasma TVs and the like! On this time around, I was able to do some serious DXing, and have many gigabytes of Perseus SDR wav files to prove it. I have my set up down pat, and I can be up and running in a very short period of time. The first antenna to go up is a general reference antenna, the ALA 100. I have it as a large diameter loop near the ocean (we have about 4 acres on the water facing north, looking at Alaska across Dixon Entrance). The loop is in the trees, facing NE/SW and is about 25’ high and about 20’ across, and is double looped. My second antenna up is always the BOG = Beverage on Ground, about 750’ aimed to the W/NW to Asia, and a good compromise to Australia. This antenna is always my favourite and consistently is the best performer, and the last to stop yielding signals in the morning. The third antenna is the DKAZ, which I constructed a couple of years ago. It’s directed to the SW. I’d say it was 75% as good as my BOG, with an advantage of being very directional. Many times I’d have different stations on the same frequency heard on different wires. The DKAZ was a good performer when we had some DU activity, although it doesn’t quite have the “oomph” compared to the BOG. Finally, I have a permanent, about 450’ (to 500’ if I extend into the water) mini-Beverage, aimed due north. With so little activity over the pole, it wasn’t used too often, although occasionally it was useful. Note that both the BOG and Beverage were amplified using a DX Engineering RPA-1 HF-Preamplifier located at the feedline access at the antenna wire base. All antennae were fed to the shack (located in my garage, in a small insulated and heated room) via coax cabling. The BOG was fed into a mil surplus 16 output multicoupler (with no resultant losses), while the others were fed via passive Mini-Circuit 2:1 and 4:1 splitters. I listened primarily between 1355 UT and as long as signals permitted: Usually around 1800 or later. Not much during the day, due to family commitments. In the evening, I attempted to check on conditions, and also edited mp3 files of captures and unknowns. By 0700 UT, I’d check for TP activity, either Pacific Islands (1017 and 1098) or via Japan, especially Hokkaido. I’d then capture some sleep before being “gently awoken” by my alarm clock to do things again. How did things turn out? Well, conditions were highly variable. Nothing from Europe, unfortunately, this time around. To the Pacific, there were some days that were relatively poor, and others that were absolutely excellent, whether to China, or to Japan, or to Korea. We had a little DU activity, but not much at all. I had access to 3 receivers: 2 Perseus SDRs, with one dedicated to the MESTOR timer program. MESTOR worked flawlessly. I had a routine of timed TOH and BOH recordings overnight, on most nights. In person, I DX’d live with the other Perseus. If conditions warranted, I was able to, at the press of a button, activate MESTOR to record the entire MW spectrum ongoing, until I cancelled it. Very handy!!! Finally, I have an AOR 7030+ which served for parallel frequency searches, and often just to park on an interesting frequency to monitor or tape. For instance, I really enjoyed the armchair copy of RRI Palangkaraya on 3325 during local mornings, and the NVK Radio Sakha from Yakutsk, Russia on 7345 (and 7295) in our local evenings. Two laptops were used with the main Dell laptop (W7) running both Perseii, and a 2nd screen, while the older Dell XP was hooked up to the audio output of the AOR for sound recordings, as well as DX Atlas on its 2nd screen. All in all, pretty high tech! Each time I travel to Masset, the joy of DXing returns immediately. It’s like rolling back the clock to the times of little or no RF noise. Many times I’d be enjoying armchair copy, only to realize that the signal was only S7 or S9. In the city, that’s a so-so signal, especially if the noise floor is at S5! One day, I’d like to get internet service (not possible at the moment). Wouldn’t a remote Perseus SDR be just grand! So, onto my loggings. Please, if you have any comments or corrections to be made, please do so! (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Walt`s complete report in MW & SW frequency order appeared in the DXLD yg. Most but not all logs have been reworked here for DXLD above (gh) LANGUAGE LESSONS ++++++++++++++++ CHINA'S ZHOU YOUGUANG, FATHER OF PINYIN WRITING SYSTEM, DIES AGED 111 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38621697 14 January 2017 From the section Asia Chinese linguist Zhou Youguang, who created the writing system that turns Chinese characters into words using letters from the Roman alphabet, has died aged 111. Mr Zhou and a Communist party committee spent three years developing the Pinyin system in the 1950s. It changed the way the language was taught and helped raise literacy rates. Mr Zhou, who was born in 1906 during the Qing Dynasty, later became a fierce critic of China's communist rulers. He died in Beijing on Saturday a day after his birthday, Chinese media reported. [linx to other stories?] The man who helped 'simplify' Chinese When Chinese children forget how to write The words that ruled the Chinese internet in 2016 As a young man Mr Zhou spent time in the US and worked as a Wall Street banker. He returned to China after the communist victory in 1949 and was put in charge of creating a new writing system using the Roman alphabet. "We spent three years developing Pinyin. People made fun of us, joking that it had taken us a long time to deal with just 26 letters," he told the BBC in 2012. Before Pinyin was developed, 85% of Chinese people could not read; now almost all can. Pinyin has since become the most commonly used system globally, although some Chinese communities - particularly in Hong Kong and Taiwan - continue to use alternatives. It is also widely used to type Chinese characters on computers and smartphones, leading some to fear it could end up replacing Chinese characters altogether. Image caption: The TV show Character Hero was part of a campaign to stop people forgetting Chinese characters The achievement protected Mr Zhou from some of the persecution that took place under former leader Mao Zedong. However, he was later sent to the countryside for re-education during Mao's Cultural Revolution. What was China's Cultural Revolution? In his later years he became strongly critical of the Chinese authorities and wrote a number of books, most of which were banned. In a 2011 interview with NPR he said he hoped he would live long enough to see the Chinese authorities admit that the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989 had been a mistake. He said ordinary people no longer believed in the Communist Party, and that the vast majority of Chinese intellectuals were in favour of democracy (via Gerald T Pollard, DXLD) THE LINGUISTIC LABYRINTH OF ARABIC NEWS By BEN HUBBARDJAN. 14, 2017 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/14/opinion/sunday/learning-to-speak-al-jazeera.html Photo [caption] A set for Al Jazeera newscasts in Doha, Qatar. The various Arab television news channels offer drastically different narratives of the same events. Credit Faisal Al-Tamimi/Agence France- Presse – Getty Images BEIRUT, Lebanon -- As the Syrian government took back eastern Aleppo from the rebels in December, the story you heard in the Arab world about what was happening largely depended on where you got your news. On some channels, it was a heroic tale of the Syrian Army's "cleansing" the area of "armed groups" or "terrorists" before leading a process of "reconciliation." On others, the "regime" had routed "the revolutionaries" and planned to carry out "ethnic cleansing" against "the Syrian people." Such drastically different narratives of the same event are prominent features of the media landscape in the Arab world, a reality that I have had to learn to navigate during a decade living and working here as a journalist. There are hundreds of 24-hour news channels, from giants like Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya, which reflect Qatari and Saudi views, respectively, to newer arrivals like Al Mayadeen, which holds a pro- Iranian line, along with many other national channels. Even militant groups like Hezbollah and Hamas have networks that broadcast news, talk shows and rousing music videos of militants crawling through forests and launching rockets. Far from being independent brokers of information, these channels have powerful backers who deploy them to bolster their agendas and undermine their foes. What that means for the viewer, and for the student of Arabic, is having to decipher a complex code of politically charged vocabulary whose usage can swiftly betray someone's political views. Who are the "martyrs" in Syria, for example? The government soldiers killed by the rebels, or the rebels killed by the government? Who is "the resistance"? Hezbollah and other groups committed to the destruction of Israel, or militias fighting for the exiled government in Yemen? I first stepped into this linguistic labyrinth while studying Arabic in Cairo in 2004. The Iraq war was raging and news reports were a large part of the lessons; 9 a.m. classes sometimes started with images of bleeding civilians being rushed to the hospital or of smoldering remains from a bomb attack. After class, I retreated to a coffee shop to memorize vocabulary lists full of terms like "pre- emptive strike," "booby-trapped car" and "the Zionist entity." I learned that "a suicide attack" and "a martyrdom operation" were the same thing, but from different points of view. And I was exposed to the richness of the Arabic lexicon in words like "ashlaa," meaning "body parts," as in those found scattered in the street after a bombing. After a string of gruesome reports, I once asked our teacher if we could work on some culture stories. Surely some channel had covered a new theater production or a team of Egyptian firemen rescuing a pharaonic-looking cat from a tree. "We don't really have that here," she said. Now, as a journalist, I don't just have to understand these barbed terms, but properly deploy them based on whom I am talking to. There have been mishaps. Once, after militants in Gaza fired a volley of rockets at Israel, I called a spokesman for the Islamic Jihad group to ask who was "responsible" for the attack. "The Zionist occupation and its crimes against the Palestinian people," he said, and hung up. The polarization of the media has increased as violence has spread across the region, exacerbated by the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran. But such a complicated web of conflicts can make it hard for any channel to stay consistent. In the Syrian conflict, for example, channels aligned with Iran portray "the legitimate government" as at war with foreign-backed "gunmen" or "terrorists" seeking to topple the state. But when covering Yemen, those same channels cheer the gunmen who have taken over the capital, referring to them as "popular committees." The channels aligned with Saudi Arabia tell opposite stories in both places. For them, the Syrian conflict is a "revolution" in which the "opposition" is fighting a "regime" that has lost "legitimacy." The rebels in Yemen, on the other hand, are "militias" fighting against "the popular resistance," which seeks to restore the ousted government. But for all their interest in "legitimacy" in Yemen, those same Saudi-backed channels had little use for it in Egypt in 2013, when they cheered the coup against President Mohamed Morsi, who was democratically elected. That didn't matter, since he hailed from the Muslim Brotherhood, a "terrorist organization." And it is there that they part ways with Al Jazeera, which calls Mr. Morsi's ouster a "coup" against the state's "legitimacy." Sadly missing in all of this media crossfire is any criticism of one's own side or any sympathy for the normal people who may have been killed by it. "There is a great deal of hypocrisy, there is a great deal of propaganda, and everyone abuses language," said Hisham Melhem, a Washington-based columnist for Al Arabiya. The American news media, too, can be polarized, he said, and flipping between Fox News and MSNBC can give starkly different impressions of the same issue. But the differences are far greater in the Middle East. "In the Arab world it is not nuanced," he said. "It is in your face." While the Arab news channels did not create this polarization, they increase it, said Elias Muhanna, an assistant professor of comparative literature at Brown University who writes about Middle Eastern politics, history and culture. "It is not to say that it is not there, but these channels whip it up in a big way," he said. "People turn on the TV every day and this polarizing language seeps into the way they think about things." I now know that you have to be careful what you call a "regime" and that in the aftermath of an attack, you don't ask how many people died; you ask about the number of "martyrs," unless you're taking about the enemy. And I keep learning. During a recent trip to Yemen, I asked a rebel fighter what his group called it when they had stormed out of the mountains and pushed the government into exile. Saudi Arabia had called it a coup d'état. "We call it `the revolution,'" he said, smiling. Ben Hubbard is a Middle East correspondent for The Times. A version of this news analysis appears in print on January 15, 2017, on Page SR3 of the New York edition with the headline: Learning to Speak Al Jazeera (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) WORLD OF HOROLOGY +++++++++++++++++ What kind of clock is it? I've been running an old Radio Shack atomic travel alarm for 14 1/2 years (bought it on clearance for $10) and while the backlight and alarm functions have died, the time sync works great. I have to put in new batteries, two AAA if memory serves, every few years. I always use top quality alkaline as battery leakage is no fun. I also have two other atomic clocks, one large one I bought in 2008 and a watch I bought used in 2015. WWVB seems to keep working for them despite the new modulation. That said, as I don't trust any man-made anything, I also have two manually-set clocks near my radios. Both bought used at hamfests for maybe $5 each and can display 24hr time. Call me old-fashioned if you like; I take it as a complement! [sic] 73, (Mark N3IRJ, SWL at qth.net via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DAB See also AUSTRALIA; NORWAY ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ FM VERSUS DAB I live in a ground floor flat. I have been able to put a Discone antenna up on the roof. The upstairs flat has just been occupied by new neighbours and something up there has been interfering with my reception of Dee FM on 106.3 MHz from Chester. The whole channel is flattened with white noise for relatively short periods. Now I have connected the antenna to a DAB radio. Reception of Dee on DAB on 10D 215.072 MHz is very solid with no interference. The coverage maps indicate that FM and DAB should be received at a similar strength. So maybe a DAB signal is more robust. Best wishes, (Martin Reynolds, Nantwich, Cheshire, UK, Pure Evoke-3 with rooftop Discone antenna, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) So how about calling the interference investigation service. Nip this in the bud now before it gets worse. Regards, (Gareth, Sent using BlackBerry® from Orange, ibid.) See my comment about DAB under NORWAY (gh) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC See MARSHALL ISLANDS; USA WBBM; PAT DYER +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See ALASKA; GUAM; NEW ZEALAND; ROMANIA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC, DAB, DRM +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Interesting Article from Radio World (with my editorial comments) (Paul Dobosz, MARE Tipsheet via DXLD) GLOBALLY-COMPATIBLE DIGITAL RADIO CHIP LAUNCHED FOR AUTOMOTIVE NXP has released what they call the world's first one-chip solution for global digital radio reception, designed for automotive. The fingertip-sized chip, the SAF4000, is capable of reception of all global broadcast standards, including analog FM and AM as well as DAB+, Digital Radio Mondiale, and HD Radio. The chip is software-defined, allowing car manufacturers to cover regional broadcast requirements via a firmware update, rather than producing different hardware for different countries. It might also mean that, where countries introduce new broadcast standards, a car radio could be upgradeable at the dealership rather than being retro- fitted with additional adaptors. The company says that car radios used to require a large printed circuit-board with six different chips. The NXP SAF4000 incorporates all global standards in just one board, delivering power and space savings. The chip will receive DAB and DAB+ transmissions (in use in Europe and Australia); HD Radio (in North America) and DRM broadcasts (available most widely in India). In Q3 2016, 86% of new cars sold in the UK came with DAB+ installed as standard. Around a third in Australia are sold with DAB+. Over 200 US vehicle models incorporate HD Radio. NXP radio designs have been used in 500 million car radio receivers in the last ten years, and their hardware is in 19 out of the top 20 receivers made for auto manufacturers. My Editorial Comment: While at Delphi, We worked with NXP on developing the DSP based predecessor for this chip. More specifically, Delphi wrote the first firmware and influenced the hardware that enabled a 5 core DSP radio baseband processor. Separately, I came up with a scheme that re-used the RF and baseband portion of the chipset to create a low earth orbit satellite subscriber unit for the Orbcomm constellation. It chopped the price point from $500 to under $100 while improving performance over the more traditional design approach. I don't know if this chip will find its way into high end communications receivers but it should wind up in a lot of consumer goods. For those unfamiliar with NXP ... They were originally Philips semiconductor. Over the years they have made several acquisitions including Signetics, and most recently a merger with Freescale (formerly Motorola) semiconductor (MARE Tipsheet 13 Jan via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See also MEXICO ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ U S A DTV DEVELOPMENTS "KTLM-x” in Harlingen, Texas is a DTV Replacement Translator. From a legal standpoint, it's an additional transmitter for full-power station KTLM (channel 40) Rio Grande City. A third transmitter exists, on channel 43 at McAllen. From an engineering standpoint, the Harlingen and McAllen transmitters are translators. All three transmitters are authorized under the same license and thus, all three share the KTLM call letters. WHDH-7 Boston has gone independent. The NBC affiliation has shifted to low-power station WBTS-LD, RF channel 46. Somehow this station has received permission to use virtual channel 8. WBTS will also carry Telemundo (on 8.2); Cozi TV (on 8.3); and TeleXitos. (on 8.4.) All three are relayed from existing Telemundo affiliate & NBC-owned station WNEU, Merrimack, New Hampshire. Going the other direction, WNEU will carry the WBTS NBC programming on 60.2. Finally, to provide a better signal in the overall Boston area, NBC is leasing space on WMFP, Lawrence (channel 62). The programming on WBTS and WNEU will air in 1080i format, but on WMFP it will air in 720p on subchannel 60.5. Yes, 60.5, not 62. It joins WMFP's 62.1 (Sonlife Broadcasting); 62.3 (The Works); and 62.4. (Comet TV) There is no 62.2. Let's just say if you see NBC programming on an unexpected channel, it's probably from Boston (grin). I suppose readers may wonder what effect the upcoming major political changes in Washington will have on broadcasting. My guess is “not much”. I think the political changes will, in the FCC, be far more dramatic for common carriers (telephone companies, especially wireless). The spectrum auction is a bipartisan project. The Trump administration certainly won't kill it and I doubt they'll make any changes. There's a project to remove the prohibition on common ownership of a TV station and a daily newspaper in the same market: I suspect the turnover will ensure this succeeds. I doubt DXers will notice. The FCC consists of five Commissioners. No more than three may be members of the same party. In practice this generally means three are members of the President's party and two of the other party. The terms of Commissioners Jessica Rosenworcel (Democrat) and Ajit Pai (Republican) have expired. (they're allowed to serve up to 18 months after expiration if replacements haven't been appointed. For Rosenworcel that period will expire before you read this. Pai could have another year.) I expect Rosenworcel will be replaced by a Republican. I haven't heard any names (Doug Smith, Jan WTFDA VHF-UHF Digest via DXLD) FCC’S STAGE 3 FORWARD AUCTION CLOSES AFTER SINGLE ROUND; STAGE 4 TO START NEXT WEEK Written by Diana Goovaerts for WirelessWeek [Dec 1, 2016] Source: https://www.wirelessweek.com/news/2016/12/fccs-stage-3-forward-auction-closes-after-single-round-stage-4-start-next-week Are we really surprised? Stage 3 of the FCC’s forward auction closed after a single round on Monday, propelling the proceedings toward an expected Stage 4 reverse auction start date next week. According to the FCC’s Incentive Auction Dashboard, Stage 3 forward auction proceeds totaled just $19.7 billion against a clearing cost of $40.3 billion. BTIG's Walter Piecyk noted the figure represented an 8.6 percent drop from the Stage 2 proceed total. “The relatively quick completion of the third stage of the forward auction comes as no surprise given pre-auction indications from potential purchasers and the current state of the mobile industry in the United States,” Dan Hays of PwC Strategy& Principal said. “Despite strong commitments to date from buyers in the forward auction, top- line proceeds may struggle to make it north of $20 billion as operators' capital spending priorities have seemingly shifted away from spectrum at this time." The proceedings will now move on to a Stage 4 reverse auction, with an expected (but not yet confirmed) clearing target of 84 MHz, down from 108 MHz in Stage 3. Analysts, including Hays, said they expect the drop to come with a corresponding dip in the clearing cost. But while just how much of a dip there will be is anyone’s guess, it won’t be determined by broadcasters. As explained earlier on Monday by FCC Incentive Auction Task Force Senior Advisor Charles Meisch, the clearing cost is determined by two “separate but related” factors: the number of station licenses the Commission needs to buy and the price the Commission needs to pay to purchase those stations. Each time the spectrum clearing target drops, Meisch explained, the Commission needs to buy fewer licenses because it gains more UHF channel space in the TV band in which to repack stations as they drop out of bidding. And the smaller the number of licenses the FCC is required to buy, the lower the Commission can drive prices paid to an individual reverse auction bidders. More on how those two factors function can be found here. But the important thing to note is that twice as many UHF channels will become available between Stages 3 and 4 as were freed up between Stages 1 and 2, when there was a 37 percent drop in the clearing cost. In his Monday afternoon note, Piecyk speculated this could result in a price drop that brings the clearing price down below $25 billion. "We think it is therefore reasonable to expect the Stage 4 reverse auction bids to surpass the 37 percent drop experienced in Stage 2, resulting in less than $25 billion of provisional winning bids and an auction bogey of ~$26 billion or lower when factoring in clearing costs and fees," Piecyk wrote. "If the Stage 4 reverse auction bogey drops to $26 billion, it would be within reach of forward bidders to end the auction. Bids would simply have to rise $2.1 billion (11 percent) to trigger the extended round and $6.5 billion (33 percent) to end the auction. If that is still too high, it would be on to Stage 5, which we estimate could deliver a $20 billion auction bogey. In that scenario, the amount of spectrum sourced to wireless operators would only be 60 MHz, and the auction would still have a shot at a Q1 close." The FCC said it is planning to release a public notice containing details about the Stage 4 proceedings on Friday, and said it expects bidding in the reverse auction to begin on Tuesday, Dec. 13. Piecyk forecasted a Stage 4 forward auction could close by the end of January, with a potential Stage 5 forward auction wrapping up by mid- March (via Jan WTFDA VHF-UHF Digest via DXLD) Who cares now what day of week something happened? Gives us the dates! (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ CommRadio CR-1A Discontinued Universal Radio is showing that the CommRadio CR-1A has been discontinued and refers everyone to the CTX-10 HF transceiver which has not been type accepted by the FCC, yet. I have an e-mail in to CommRadio for clarification on the availability of the CTX-10 but have not heard back (Mark Coady, Jan 12, ODXA yg via DXLD) NEW SDRPLAY 2 RECEIVER TESTED WITH 3 SOFTWARES Nice new SDR receiver 1 kHz - 2 GHz --- Nuovo SDRplay 2 provato su strada con tre software. A dicembre ho acquistato il nuovo ricevitore, da 1 kHz a 2 GHz, SDRplay 2 Pro, la versione in scatola di metallo. Si tratta del fratello... https://playdxblog.blogspot.it/2017/01/nuovo-sdrplay-2-provato-su-strada-con.html Ciao (Giampiero Bernardini, Italia, dxldyg via DXLD) LEAKING DURACELLS, POLARITY REVERSING Something odd happened tonight. I found my Super Radio II dead. So I figured the batteries were dead. I went to check them and found something odd. Two of the six batteries had reversed polarity! In my over 50 years in electronics I have never found that. The batteries are good Duracell. Has this happened to anyone else? With electronics I guess anything is possible. Two batteries were at about 1V, two were nearly dead and the two that reversed polarity were at about 1/2V. Fortunately the radio is fine. I replaced the batteries. This may be more common, but I have never seen it (Patrick Martin, Seaside OR, Jan 14, IRCA via DXLD) Patrick, The only time I have ever seen anything like that was in Kenwood rechargeable handie talkie batteries from the late 70's / early 80's. Never with a non rechargeable battery (Stephen Hawkins, NG0G, ibid.) Anecdotal vague memory here: yes, I believe I've seen this also with alkalines in series. Is it possible that you might have mixed in older Duracells with fresh ones, Patrick? If one cell in a series discharges down to zero volts faster than the others, likely due to starting at a lower initial voltage, apparently it is possible for good cells on either side to mildly reverse charge the dead cell. But I've not seen anything authoritative stating that's the case, so call it an urban myth for now. best wishes, (Nick Hall- Patch, BC, ibid.) Agreed. I had a Lowe HF-150 Europa ruined by leaking Duracells (Craig Barnes, Wheat Ridge, CO, ibid.) Thanks for the replies. These were not leaking, but that switch in polarity really had me going. Maybe I should switch to Ray-O-Vac's or Energizers. I think I bought the Duracells are Home Depot (Patrick Martin, Seaside OR, ibid.) I've had a lot of Duracells leak lately as well -- not sure what's up with them. Like Russ says, we loyal Duracell users should maybe try other brands to be safe. I had a Sony ICF-7600GR basically ruined by leaky/bloating batteries (Randy Stewart, Arts Producer, KSMU, 901 S. National, Springfield MO 65897, ibid.) FRG-7 YAHOOGROUP MOVED January 2017, Dear (Petra's) FRG-7 group members. It is with great sorrow that we pass on to the group that Petra Henderson is no longer with us. Several members of this group and others have tried to contact her for well over six months and no one has heard from her in nearly a year. Therefore we have lost all ability to make any changes to this group, its setting, its files or membership controls. We have several moderators on this forum but unfortunately Petra was VERY CONTROLLING AND WOULD NOT let anyone else assist her in ownership control of the group. I discussed this with her nearly ten years ago and just decided I did not need anything more on my plate than I already had at the time, so I let it go. I'm sure many of you are familiar with our groups as my web page http://www.foxtango.org brought you here to Petra's group. At Fox Tango we have nearly 27 Yaesu Specific equipment related groups, each group has two or three owners to prevent just a situation as we have here and more moderators than you can shake a stick at. We have been running those groups for well over 10 years now with little or no problems what so ever along with a Facebook page (we are not here to discuss this right now.) Having no contact with Petra, a few years ago I decided to change the Fox Tango (FRG-7) links to a New Yahoo Groups Page where we had more control over incoming membership. This is the link: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/yaesu_frg-7/conversations/messages A decision has been made to close this group and we will be moving this group to this new page. While this group is showing over 1,000 members on the list, I'm sure many will not mover over to the new group or they are just no longer active (some no longer owning an FRG-7) or lost interest in the receiver. This is just life ~~ !!! I do not expect everyone to make the shift. Again, we will not be taking new members on this group. Please sign into the new group if you are interested and we will do what we can to get you settled in as quickly as possible. This announcement will continue to be repeated and I will also try and move over any and all files as I find the time to do so. I'm sorry for any inconvenience this may bring to you at this time but with Petra's passing we have lost all control functions on this forum and find no other way to maintain this group. Sincerely. (Carol L. Maher, http://www.foxtango.org & FRG-7 Group Moderators, Jan 15, 2017, via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ NEW MEDIUMWAVE PROPAGATION PROJECT If you're interested in radio propagation and how geomagnetic indices effect what you hear on mediumwave, there's a project you should know about. Graphs of the last 60 days of the daily average of the 2MeV electron flux, A-index, K-index, Dst and solar wind plus a numerical index of Nick Hall-Patch's daily Victoria, BC TP and DU reception quality can be found here: http://tivodxer.com/jpgraph_example_multigraph1.php Not only are pertinent geomagnetic indices shown on the same page for the same period for your comparison, but we've added actual reception data to the graph. Our hope is that this will allow us to find some new correlations between reception and what the sun is doing, as well as validate or refute some existing theories. Involved in this project are Nick Hall-Patch as chief scientific consultant and contributor of the reception index, Mauno Ritola as sanity check and contribitor of the 2MeV electron flux, and Bill Whitacre as curator and 'scraper' of data. In the works is a way to let you select a date range and get back results. We're also interested in your observations that confirm or refute 'common widsom' about propagation (Bill Whitacre, Alexandria, VA, Jan 14, NRC-AM via DXLD) I think that the Topband list (160m ham) members could also offer useful input to the study. Nick Hall-Patch "reads the mail" on that list and occasionally contributes. East Coast observations can be mined out of various sources (Facebook, Yahoogroups, NRC e-list / bulletin, IRCA e-list / bulletin, etc.). Look for regular contributions from DXers in Atlantic Canada and the New England states: the areas where TA's and deeper Latin Americans are most likely to be observed. Going back 60 days gets you into the timeframe of several DXpeditions that occurred in November. These include NL, PEI, ME, MA, NJ, and PA Those reports should provide a lot of data points to augment all the West Coast stuff (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, South Yarmouth, MA, IRCA via DXLD) Thanks for the input, Mark. At this point in the proceedings, rather than bursts of loggings of overseas MW DX at random times, what is really needed is signal strength data that is recorded regularly, at the same time, every day, and unfortunately, that is pretty thin on the ground. The daily loggings that I have been doing for the past couple of years are the nearest that we could come up with, as at least there is an attempt at noting every DX station heard, as well as peak signal strengths for each. Even these loggings have a certain anecdotal aspect to them, depending on how carefully I go through my files each day, but I believe they give a good general idea of daily conditions. We have cobbled together a metric that approximates total signal strength of all DX noted for each day, which are the numbers seen on Bill's charts. Arbitrary, but it's done the same way, every day. An eye is being kept on the frequent reports that have been accompanying mine in the IRCA list, but If you, or anybody else, knows of regular recording of signal strengths from MW DX stations that is occurring elsewhere, please let one of us know. With a constant stream of such data, we think we get an idea of "good days", "OK days" and "bad days" of DX conditions. Whether that can be correlated in any way with the constant stream of data that is available from the providers of geomagnetic indices; well, that remains to be seen. The charts are updated regularly and available at http://tivodxer.com/jpgraph_example_multigraph1.php so anyone can try their hand at finding patterns in the information provided. Bill is working at providing archival displays going back further than 60 days ago as well. Of course, if patterns are found, then we will still have no more than a working hypothesis at best, and, at that point, it will be really useful to look at all those more random loggings that are being reported, to see how well they match up with that working hypothesis. Even though the random observations are unlikely to help much now, they could be very useful further down the road. For this project, it continues to be important that those observations continue to be reported to the lists. They are being saved, just not really usable right now. In effect, we're trying to follow the scientific method: make consistent observations (and note when we don't), generate a hypothesis, if possible, using these charts, and then hope that people keep challenging any hypothesis with fresh observations that will either help confirm it, modify it, or throw it out. (for example, if we'd already rashly formed a grand Theory of Everything based on the execrable conditions of the last few weeks as observed in western Canada, we would have been immediately shot down by Walt Salmaniw's recent loggings from Haida Gwaii) Best wishes, (Nick Hall-Patch, IRCA via DXLD) I think this is, for me, déjà vu all over again (apologies to the late Yogi Berra). This is very similar to a project that the late Page Taylor and I attempted back in the 1970's. We did manage some very rough (and also quite expected) correlations between the A & K indices and receptions of TA's in ECNA. But in part because of insufficient data of the breadth we really needed (i. e. several others doing the same thing regularly at the same time), we never did anything with the data we had accumulated, and it is long gone. My caution is that even with enough active participants, the moment to moment variations in the ionosphere and also on the ground may make it impossible to come to any scientifically acceptable conclusions (Russ Edmunds, 15 mi NW Phila, Grid FN20id, ibid.) PATRICK J DYER, WA0IYX, PROPAGATION RESEARCHER, S K Glenn, Pat passed away and it was announced here a couple of hours ago (Artie Bigley, OH, Jan 12, WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Pat Dyer, San Antonio, TX, VHF sporadic E propagation expert DXer, has died. I too was in San Antonio for a while and used to be in contact with him. Artie Bigley, another ex-neighbor, refers us to this: (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [Reverse chronological order, new posts still flying]: http://dxworld.com/tvfmlog.html Jan12 22:49 I just made a donation to Pat's website provider to keep his homepage active for a year - KA3JAW FN20jq (216.164.251.79) Jan12 22:48 Thanks Jim-F for checking on Pat and doing what a great friend does. May he rest in peace - amfmtvvdtvbrla. EM40 (107.77.165.12) Jan12 22:47 About six months ago Pat told me he was considering building a remote site in Eastern Medina county... Artie in Ohio (66.213.29.73) Jan12 22:46 Thanks for checking on Pat and doing what a great friend does. May he rest in peace - amfmtvvdtvbrla. EM40 (107.77.165.12) Jan12 22:38 Yes, I was also so worried about my friend Pat I was thinking about calling the SAPD and asking them to do a welfare check on him last night. THANK YOU JIM-F FOR CHECKING! Artie in Ohio (66.213.29.73) Jan12 22:38 I know one of his goals pre-death was to build a remote site away from SA city limits. Wonder if Jim can try to do that as a goal? There's so much IBOC in town, that a remote base in Boerne or somewhere even further would be nice. Kind of like those WebSDRs but for VHF. > Yakima CN96 (97.90.81.162) Jan12 22:37 Yes, I was also so worried about my friend Pat I was thinking about calling the SAPD and asking them to do a, welfare check last night. THANK YOU FOR CHECKING! Artie in Ohio (66.213.29.73) Jan12 22:36 21:01-am I too was lucky enough to share a 2 am tropo event back in June 2012 to the east coast of FL. (Cape Canaveral) area. A fun night. I will miss him. Mike-La (97.80.65.110) Jan12 22:11 Jim-F, I think I speak for all of us, when I say we appreciate your going beyond the call of duty, getting all the information on Pat./cdEL96 (172.56.27.117) Jan12 22:01 The information that is on his website is very important not just for DXERS only but it can help the scientific research into E-Skip - amfmtvdtvbrla. EM40 (107.77.165.12) Jan12 21:52 This is so sad. He not only would send email, but links and such to his accomplishments. Prayers for his family./cdEL96 (172.56.27.117) Jan12 21:36 His first Es log was WAIQ-2 in AL...quite short at 740 mi, logged 8/1959. > Yakima CN96 (97.90.81.162) Jan12 21:32 de N8UUP Bill ENi82 http://www.qsl.net/w/wa5iyx/bio.htm (68.42.119.65) Jan12 21:22 Ditto what KA3JAW said - his huge collection of DXing materials, receivers, videos, and miscellaneous should be placed in an archive with WTFDA, or with someone like Jim or Artie. > Yakima CN96 (97.90.81.162) Jan12 21:18 [2032] Nah, just wanted to get another new FM station for the log! How many stations did he have in his log - 3000 ish? Still an amazing number. > Yakima CN96 (97.90.81.162) Jan12 21:16 His VHF propagation knowledge was immense. Taught a lot of us good lessons on the DX hobby. And he taught us that summer's not the only time to receive excellent Es, with that ch 13 MUF opening he had in February 1977. > Yakima CN96 (97.90.81.162) Jan12 21:14 The ultimate DXer is gone. Pat will be missed by everyone on this log. But I'm sure he's logging loads of stuff up in heaven with Jeff Kadet. RIP my friend. > Yakima CN96 (97.90.81.162) Jan12 21:08 I ALSO HOPE SOMEONE CAN KEEP HIS WEBSITE UP!! PLEASE!!! Artie in OHIO (66.213.29.73) Jan12 21:06 This is sad and depressing news. Pat was an good friend and an AM-FM TV GOD! I LOCATED HIM again about six years ago. (66.213.29.73) Jan12 21:02 My oldest brother died of a sudden MI in 2011. I outlived the age he was last week. MI is very scary N8NU (172.56.10.86) Jan12 21:01 My friend Pat is gone. :-( I will be so lonely not seeing his posts here keeping me company when I DX late into the early morning hours. amfmtvdtvbrla. EM40 (107.77.165.12) Jan12 21:00 I had talked to him in person during the 1985 WTFDA convention in N'awlins. I'm on his right in the convention photo. NU (172.56.10.86) Jan12 20:59 N8NU: You beat me to it. He had a wealth of knowledge - some probably understood only by him - but it needs to be kept alive ... Mike (216.75.233.210) Jan12 20:58 Bad news and (unfortunately) kinda expected. Makes you think of your own mortality too ... Mike (216.75.233.210) Jan12 20:57 Somebody has to mirror all of that history he has on the net before his server accounts lapse N8NU (172.56.10.86) Jan12 20:56 I am so heartbroken to hear that Pat has died. I learned so much about DXing from him. - amdmtvdtvbrla. EM40 (107.77.165.12) Jan12 20:50 I just hope Pat had an active 'Will' to have all his DX materials saved with the WTFDA - KA3JAW FN20jq (216.164.251.79) Jan12 20:47 I also lived in San Antonio in the 60s and 70s and talked to him in the early 70s. The last email I have from him is from Dec 7 and I came here to check on him yesterday. Artie in Ohio (66.213.29.73) Jan12 20:44 Don't know of anyone as knowledgable about VHF propagation as Pat was. He will be missed. Condolences to family and friends -de Jeff VA3NN (24.235.36.95) Jan12 20:44 You guys are very welcome. I was so hoping I'd be reporting that I got to meet Pat in person today. The neighbor told me Pat's mother had been living with him when she died and that he had no children or other close relatives. The neighbor made me smile when she said that Pat would sometimes come by her house to tell them that one of their devices was causing interference. She thought he was talking on CB. :-) - Jim-F SATX (12.27.152.137) Jan12 20:42 Awful. Half of The World's knowledge of abnormal VHF propagation has been lost! 73 WA5IYX de N8NU :( (209.64.115.10) Jan12 20:38 Thanks for checking for us, Jim. 73 de Eric B, Carleton, MI (73.18.15.152) Jan12 20:32 Ouch! That really hurts. My thoughts are with his family and everyone in the DX community. He's the second one off this board in the past couple of years. He's now with K1MOD. 73 de Eric B, Carleton, MI (73.18.15.152) Jan12 20:31 Very sad.....Pat was a great DXer with exceptional knowledge who was always willing to share it and help others interested in it de AC7XP (184.176.142.74) Jan12 20:18 Thank you for the tragic and very sad news, Jim...I hope the DX community will recognize all that he did for it over the years. Sending prayers to his family and friends. :( :( Jack, EM10, Austin TX (107.77.66.76) Jan12 20:16 Wow. He will be missed by all of us here. - de Jon in FN03 (216.121.182.130) Jan12 20:14 Really not the news we wanted to hear; thoughts to Pat and his family and friends. Jim, thank you for being a good DX Neighbour! Saul. (142.114.219.131) Jan12 19:55 I have no words, only prayers - Steve K3PHL FN20 (69.139.78.88) Jan12 19:50 wow... :( (69.136.135.71) Jan12 19:50 Jim-F: Thank you so much for the welfare check on Pat and posting updates - KA3JAW FN20jq (216.164.251.79) Jan12 19:37 Very sad news. Just learned that Pat died of a heart attack on Dec. 17. :( :( Was able to go by his house at lunchtime. Neighbor was outside & she told me he was found a couple of days later when another neighbor who kept up with him saw mail & package not picked up. He was in bed with his laptop & apparently just posted here. Other neighbor wasn't home & she's going to text me his no. later. :_( - Jim-F SATX (12.27.152.137) Jan12 19:27 Also, mailbox being cleared suggests to me that things are OK, that he's attending to something in life. For what that's worth. I feel somewhat better, anyway. 73 de Eric B, Carleton, MI (73.18.15.152) Jan12 19:23 Bexar County M.E. site shows a Meryle Dyer passed away on 1/3/17, mentions son Jeffrey. Perhaps he or family knows him as Pat when actual name is Jeffrey or vice-versa ..N8NU (172.56.10.86) Jan12 18:00 There was no car in Pat's driveway or on the street. Trash & recycle bins are stacked neatly in front of the garage door. Doesn't look like things are neglected. Going to talk to neighbors on both sides before deciding if it's wise to look into the back yard - will be very careful about that. - Jim-F SATX (12.27.152.137) Jan12 17:40 [16:42] Then tell cops...they call it a welfare check ... Mike (73.252.142.49) Jan12 17:32 I check in and see this what's going on with Pat. Not good! Thoughts and prayers for Pat. I'll keep checking back to see if anyone has made contact with him. Tim EM86 (166.137.248.31) Jan12 17:19 [04:08] Pat's mother passed away 2½ years ago at age 95, there's no children mentioned for Pat in her obituary - Finndx http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sanantonio/obituary.aspx?pid=171392228 (88.113.108.212) Jan12 16:42 Jim F et al: Really hope all OK with Pat. Truly appreciate DXers who look out for one-another. Knocking on doors and talking to neighbours a great idea. OTOH, looking thru windows and going into backyards could send wrong signal to neighbours, police, etc. Saul ON (142.114.219.131) Jan12 15:25 Ice storm predicted here for tomorrow/Saturday. Hope the wx man is wrong - de JimT/MO EM37 (69.71.4.159) Jan12 13:23 Jim-F: Was his car in the driveway or street - KA3JAW FN20jq (216.164.251.79) Jan12 04:08 He has family right? This just seems really odd. En35 (174.53.128.29) Jan12 03:47 Couldn't see through windows, but there seemed to be a dim light inside. Also, everything looked in order outside & mailbox was clear. I should be able to get a good look in the back yard before it's dark tomorrow. Also, meant to say antennas - there are four on the roof. - Jim-F SATX (72.177.237.141) Jan12 03:40 Re: Pat WA5IYX - I posted on the 6 meter page in case anyone there knows anything de N8UUP Bill EN82 (68.42.119.65) Jan12 03:24 He always seems to keep weird hours, so I'm not surprised BUT still a bit worried. Look through windows and check back yard if you can. Ask neighbors about him too ... Mike (216.75.233.210) Jan12 03:15 Just arrived at Pat's a little while ago (nice antenna on roof). Knocked several times, but no answer. Since it's after 9 p.m. here, I think I'll come by again right after work tomorrow & try talking to neighbors & checking the back yard. - Jim-F SATX (107.77.72.129) Jan11 23:51 Will pray for Pat that all is well with him-John Corning NY (8.37.237.245) Jan11 23:50 I have been incredibly busy but I've been replying at least! And had 25 mins of Es to boot on Monday. > cn (97.90.81.162) Jan11 23:49 Last reply from him was about 11AM CT on 12/17/16. Needed to "secure some things in the yard before it (cold front from Abilene) gets here" > Yakima CN96 (97.90.81.162) Jan11 23:48 Prayers for WA5IYX/Pat! He's one of the veterans of this logger. You'd think he would tell us what's going on. > Yakima CN96 (97.90.81.162) Jan11 23:27 Ditto on Pat, not the same w/o him here - Bryce K4NBF (107.212.207.185) Jan11 22:46 Mine are too de Art ka5dwi/7 AZ (24.116.60.65) Jan11 22:38 Pat's silence is indeed deafening and worrying; fingers crossed... BR in AZ (206.207.159.2) Jan11 22:31 I hope all is well with Pat too...definitely not like him to have not posted anything here in almost a month..Jack, EM10, Austin TX (107.77.66.76) Jan11 22:04 He never gets that busy, unless he's updating his 1981 Es log ... Mike (216.75.233.210) Jan11 21:53 Let us know with what you find if anything. If he is there tell him we are all concerned. My hope is he just got busy with something. En35 (174.53.128.29) Jan11 21:53 I'm kind of worried about Pat too. I hope all is well with him. de Eric B, Carleton, MI (73.18.15.152) Jan11 21:45 Jim - Do a search of his backyard - KA3JAW FN20jq (216.164.251.79) Jan11 21:43 I have a meeting after work & will go by Pat's house afterward. Praying for him, too. - Jim-F SATX (72.177.237.141) Jan11 21:25 pat (66.213.29.73) Jan11 20:16 [19:10] I hope he is OK and doing well cd. - amfmtvdtvbrla. EM40 (107.77.165.12) Jan11 19:11 [19:10 amfm] Oh yeah that's right!/cd (172.56.26.49) Jan11 19:11 Retro time! Two 1993 clips and God willing, two more by the weekend/cdEL96:--> https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCsTCS0a-JvDH0wUh9iHKPHQ (172.56.26.49) Jan11 19:10 I just prayed for Pat. I wish him well./cdEL96 (172.56.26.49) Jan11 19:10 [04:51] Pat posted a while back that he needed work done on his antennas and it involved getting up and taking his towers down -amfmtvdtvbrla. EM40 (107.77.165.7) Jan11 17:47 Re: Pat - unless Bob sees something more recent, last comments/posts by Pat WA5IYX were Dec. 17th! Someone should definitely check on him. - de JimT/MO EM37 (69.71.4.159) Jan11 15:17 [01:31] It is Bob. Would be great if someone could do a welfare check. de N5NIQ EM18 (24.255.129.61) Jan11 12:08 Would it be reasonable to knock on the door? Saul ON (142.114.219.131) Jan11 04:51 Mike: I've been thinking about doing that and will drive by there tomorrow. Thanks. - Jim-F SATX (72.177.237.141) Jan11 02:02 [01:06] Jim: You might want to drive by his house and see if you can observe anything ... Mike (216.75.233.210) Jan11 01:31 Pat has been on this site for almost 20 years and in that time has probably never been absent more than a week at a time. It's very concerning! Bob-Nj Fn20 (73.215.50.184) Jan11 01:06 I still haven't heard back from him :-( - Jim-F SATX (72.177.237.141) Jan11 00:00 Anybody heard from Pat? En35 (174.53.128.29) (via gh, DXLD) MY LAST Email from him on John Glenn was on December 7th: ``Well, to put things in any proper historical context they had to mention Gagarin. (Though the USSR didn't announce that flight until it was over!) I was home sick that Apr 1961 day (with what turned out to be yet another strep throat) when I learned of it on the NBC 5-min TV news (near noon) with Ray Scherer. To me it just seemed like another (now- expected, but still depressing) space first for the USSR in their long string of such since the Oct 4, 1957 Sputnik launch. (That one had come as so much of a shock to me that I can recall where I was standing when I heard the news of it on the radio.) The US in 1961 could only manage the two sub-orbital Mercury flights in May and Jul. In Aug 1961 (just a week before the Berlin Wall was erected) the USSR launched Titov on a 17-orbit mission - more than six months before Glenn had his 3-orbit flight. Even after Glenn's flight and our three subsequent Mercury missions, they pulled off other firsts like two manned capsules in orbit at the same time (Aug 1962), first woman in orbit (Jun 1963), etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Soviet_manned_space_missions List of Soviet manned space missions - Wikipedia This is a list of the manned space missions conducted by the Soviet space programme. These missions belong to the Vostok, Voskhod, and Soyuz space programs. IMHO, the US manned space program didn't come near to catching up with the USSR's until 1965 when Ed White's space walk on Gemini III occurred within just 3 months after their March one by Leonov. Then came the rest of the Gemini series thru Nov 1966. WA5IYX`` (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) [ICDX-TVFM] Re: sad news: Pat Dyer, WA5IYX SK Extremely sad to report the passing of DX great Pat Dyer. I have read Pat's reports since 1973 in the VUD. REST IN PEACE, SILENT KEY, Pat Dyer --- My condolences, (Steven Wiseblood, Sent from my LG Mobile, ABDX via DXLD) Circa 1985, I first read Pat Dyer's low VHF DX reports from selected 1979 to 1982 WTFDA VUDs. Pat was set up to monitor TV and low VHF communications during the peak of solar cycle 21, and these reports are documented in various VUDs. He finished a BS physics degree in 1971 at the University of Texas, and subsequently took up an appointment doing Es propagation research at the Office of Telecommunications in Boulder, Colorado. [1] Unfortunately because of long-term ill health, his science career was cut short. Pat continued most of his Es, F2, and TEP research from home. [2] Some of his Es observations were included in a paper co- written by Emil Pocok, W3EP. He was both a prominent TV/FM DXer, and a major contributor to VHF DX research. Regards, Todd 1. http://www.qsl.net/w/wa5iyx/bio.htm 2. http://www.qsl.net/w/wa5iyx/ (ABDX via DXLD) His QTH was in San Antonio. I believe he was only 66 but had reportedly been in declining health for several years. Check out the VUDs from 1973-1978 and his fantastic logs of Sporadic-E both on FM and analog TV. 73s de Steve (Steven Wiseblood, AB5GP, Sent from my LG Mobile, ibid.) Hi all, Pat should be considered the Father of Sporadic E. He was very instrumental in identifying the "Diurnal" patterns with this propagation phenomenon. When I started my research on Es (mathematics- based with PropNET.org) in 2005, Pat would always get a copy of my first draft hen I started to do multi-year analyses. I always respected his reviews and feedback. If anyone wants to understand Es more, you have to visit his website. He maintained some absolute meticulous records. I wish I had done the same. Pat's family appeared to be only VHF/UHF propagation research. His family in VHF/UHF/WeakSignal are going to miss him. I am going to get hold of some of the VHF groups around here and see if we can't honor him by giving his last name to a VHF propagation phenomena. 73 (Art Jackson KA5DWI/7 Near Prescott Arizona, ABDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DXLD) Has anyone looked into preserving his website? As a beginning (started in 2016) FM DXer, I found reading his stuff inspirational and very informative. It would be a nice way to honor his memory and contributions to the hobby. 73, (Mark Clark, ibid.) Pat Dyer, WA5IYX Obituary Some members of the ARRL are trying to put together a tribute to Pat Dyer, WA5IYX. They are in urgent need of a couple of items, and I’m hoping that someone in the WTFDA can help out. 1.) A copy of an obituary that provides details of Pat’s passing. 2.) A photograph of good quality. Recent photo preferred but a vintage photo would be acceptable as well. 73, (Les Rayburn, N1LF, 121 Mayfair Park, Maylene, AL, EM63nf, Jan 16, WTFDA gg via DXLD) I put in a call to the daily newspaper, the San Antonio Express-News news department, this afternoon to find out if an obituary for Patrick J. Dyer had been published in December. The woman I spoke with said she wasn't finding ANYTHING that had been published by the paper or the funeral homes in San Antonio. She said that is really odd. She said she is going to contact the Bexar County Coroner's office and see if she can find out what happened and why there isn't a public record available. She said she realized since I am not part of Pat's family, the Coroner's office probably wouldn't give me the information I am looking for. She asked me to describe his background in the amateur radio community to her, and after hearing his about his accomplishments and level of interest, thought that someone should give him a proper memorial. She took my cell phone number and my email address and said she would let me know something as soon as she has information. Pat Dyer's radio website is still up, but is just his radio activity that he would post.... http://www.qsl.net/wa5iyx/ Stay tuned (Jim Thomas, Springfield, Missouri, ibid.) He lived with his mother. His mother died some months back so he lived in the house alone. I understood he had no living family members. That could explain things (Mike Bugaj, Enfield, CT, ibid.) The woman with the newspaper (Mary Heidbrink, Obit. editor) has already gathered information on Patrick, but it ISN'T an obituary. She has emailed some information to me. Not sure how to handle this. She said the Bexar County Coroner's office would release information at a person's request, but it is a major holiday today so their office is closed (Jim Thomas, ibid.) FYI, for what its worth, Pat put up a copy of his birth certificate on his radio website: http://www.qsl.net/wa5iyx/images/pjdyer-BirthCert.jpg Pat's 2013 driver's license: http://www.qsl.net/wa5iyx/images/pjdyer-DPS-ID.jpg Go figure! :-) (Jim Thomas, WTFDA via DXLD) That's so he could run for president! (Mike Glass, Sent from my iPad, ibid.) I was distressed to learn of Pat Dyer's passing. He is the person responsible for hooking me up with WTFDA in the first place. In 1987 I was working in Nicaragua and by happenstance I encountered strong Sporadic E propagation from there to Mexico and Ecuador on the FM BC band. I thought somebody might be interested in this, and knowing of Pat's reputation within the ham radio community, I asked him who I should inform and he put me in touch with WTFDA. Another radio giant passes on. 73, (Fred Laun (K3ZO), Temple Hills, MD, ibid.) Hello, A formal request has been placed today with the Bexar County Medical Examiner's Office in San Antonio TX for a public copy of Patrick Joseph Dyer's Certificate of Death, which includes a basic toxicology report. This is available free via email, from the Medical Examiner's office. The paper report mailed is $35.00. Additionally it was learned today from Mary Heidbrink, obituary editor for the San Antonio Express-News daily newspaper, there wasn't an official obituary released by the funeral home taking care of Pat's services. The Medical Examiner's office is supposed to identify in their report which funeral home handled those services. Pat's remaining family members are distant nieces and nephews that were not close to Pat. Pat basically lived alone after his mother, Amy Cecilia Dyer passed away at 94 on May 21, 2014. The home Pat lived at in San Antonio at 5315 Silvertip Drive was his mother's property and Pat inherited it upon her passing. If and when I receive information from the Bexar County Medical Examiner's Office, I will be more than happy to forward that information to Les or anyone else that needs it. I have also been able to save some of Pat's pictures of when he was really young, but it has been difficult finding anything that would be a recent photo with him in it. FYI (Jim Thomas, Springfield, Missouri, ibid.) Pat Dyer, WA5IYX Memorial on WTFDA Site One area where I think the WTFDA could arrange a fitting tribute for Pat might be to “capture” his existing web site, along with all the propagation data therein, and give it a permanent home on the WTFDA web site. Currently the site remains up, but without the bill being paid, it could go down at anytime. The title of the page could be renamed in his honor. This would give future hobbyists and scientists access to the data that he literally spent a lifetime gathering. I have to think Pat would have wanted that. Don’t know who is in charge of the WTFDA web resources, but I’ll be happy to help with the effort. http://www.qsl.net/w/wa5iyx/ 73, (Les Rayburn, N1LF, Maylene, AL, Jan 18, ibid.) We have to make sure to capture the media files as well. Some things like recordings of 35 + 43 MHz pagers may be the only recordings in existence of these old "skip beacons" (Bill Hepburn, Ont., ibid.) As far as I know, the only good way to do this would be to FTP to his site and download everything, but for that you need a userid and password. You can't just copy a bunch of files and hope for the links to work. There is plenty of space at wtfda.org for his stuff. If someone can duplicate the files and structure his site could be uploaded. I wouldn't know how to do it without FTPing, though. Perhaps someone else does (Mike B, Enfield, CT, ibid.) I just posted a request with the website managers of QSL.net, to inquire about the steps to preserve Pat's webpages with their organization. I don't know if they can help but I thought it wouldn't hurt to ask. All of their web administrators are volunteers and the website is supported by Paypal donations & credit card payments. It might take awhile to get a reply (Jim Thomas, Springfield, Missouri, ibid.) This might be the answer? Software that does it for you - https://www.httrack.com/ (Jim Thomas, ibid.) One thing to keep in mind, too, is that with most browsers (such as FireFox) you can “Save Page As...” and are given the option to save as a simple html page (i.e., just save the page source code) and then load all of the images, etc., from the original link locations, *OR* save the complete web page, which creates a folder and saves all of the images, etc., in that folder, redirecting all of the original links to links in that folder. There are limits to that, of course, but it can be a help in terms of saving a site pages, in general (~Kaimbridge~, Jan 18, ibid.) The owner of qsl.net is Scott Neader, KA9FOX. A direct approach to Scott may yield a quicker answer. 73, (Fred Laun, K3ZO, Temple Hills, MD, ibid.) Yes. I received a direct reply from him and he said he would let me know something soon (Jim Thomas, Springfield, Missouri, ibid.) I think Pat had a YouTube channel with quite a bit of TV DX dating back to the 80s too. It has been a while since I checked his site so I don't know the details. He will be missed. 73, (Mark Clark N3IRJ, ibid.) NOBODY consistently logged so much VHF/UHF DX for as long a time as pat, and, In doing so, helped a lot of other DXers know when and how to pursue DX. I met Pat at the 1985 WTFDA convention in New Orleans. He gladly answered questions, but did not brag. He also has shared a lot of useful information with us. He is already missed. I would like to suggest that WTFDA should get an amateur club license to preserve the WA5IYX call sign. Comparing Sporadic-E skip to skip on the AM and shortwave bands is like comparing apples and oranges. [taglines] Comparing tropo to skip is like comparing apples and bacon cheeseburgers (Robert Grant, Jan 13, WTFDA gg via DXLD) An interesting idea. With our Latin American friends abandoning the VHF-lo band I've been wondering if a handful of amateur SSTV stations on 6 meters could make e-skip fun again. I have no experience with SSTV but am considering getting my own amateur license. Does anyone already DX these? (Ryan Grabow, ibid.) Does anyone have a *recent* photo that includes Pat in it? I have scoured his photo archives on his ham radio website and found various pics of him from earlier years (including his 2013 Texas Photo ID card), but nothing recent - like attending a dx convention or similar. There is an effort to put together a memorial for him, both from ARRL and the WTFDA (Jim Thomas, Springfield, MO, ibid.) Jan19 16:48 If you catch this week's broadcast of Glenn Hauser's 'World of Radio', Glenn gives a brief biography of Pat Dyer near the close of the program - de JimT/MO EM37 (69.71.4.159) (via Artie) 600 / 630 METERS EXPERIMENTAL HAMMING = 472 kHz The coordinator of ARRL's WD2XSH 600-meter Experimental Group, Fritz Raab, W1FR, said in his latest quarterly report that 630 meters is becoming quite active, with both Amateur Radio and Part 5 Experimental stations taking advantage of the band, which is still not available in the US. "Band activity has been very high, and there are often more WSPR stations -- more than 110 stations -- on 472 kHz than on 80 or 160 meters!" Raab said. WSPR, which stands for "Weak Signal Propagation Reporter," is software designed for transmitting and receiving low- power transmissions to test propagation paths on MF and HF. "In a sense, 630 meters has become a mainstream ham band, in spite of not being authorized in the US," Raab said. To boost activity, a second annual Midwinter 630-Meter Operating Activity Night will take place on February 4-5. Details will be announced. Raab also said in his report that MF propagation appears to be improving as the solar cycle declines. "The paths to VK and JA have remained good," Raab said. "This was not the case last year, so perhaps it is an effect of the coming solar minimum. Many reports have been received for WSPR transmissions with relatively moderate power. There have been a number of polar and high-latitude openings to LA2XPA from North America. Many long-time operators say that they have never seen anything like that. There have also been a number of openings from the US west coast deep into Europe." (Tom Root, MARE Tipsheet 13 Jan via DXLD) What do you mean, ``not available``? So hams on 472 are pirates? No, the licenses have to be in the -X experimental category. Hams are notoriously imprecise in their ``meter`` conversions. Using the 300/ conversion factor, 472 kHz works out to 635.6 meters. The more precise 299.79/ factor leads to 635.15 m. ``600m`` would really be 476 kHz or so (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) THE SPOTLESS SUN; SUNSPOTS VANISH, SPACE WEATHER CONTINUES This from "Sky and Telescope" regarding our spotless Sun: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/the-spotless-sun/ And, another: https://www.sott.net/article/339435-Sunspots-vanish-space-weather-continues (QST de W1AW, Propagation Forecast Bulletin 2 ARLP002, From Tad Cook, K7RA, Seattle, WA January 13, 2017, To all radio amateurs, via DXLD) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2017 Jan 16 0341 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 09 - 15 January 2017 Solar activity was mostly at very low levels with low levels observed on 12 January due to an isolated C3 flare observed at 12/1618 UTC from Region 2625 (N03, L=254, class/area Cso/050 on 14 January). An associated coronal mass ejection (CME) was observed off the east limb in coronagraph imagery beginning at 12/1624 UTC, but was determined not to have a geoeffective component. No Earth-directed CMEs were observed. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit reached high levels throughout the period. The largest flux of the period was 42,125 pfu observed at 09/1805 UTC. Geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to active levels over the period. Solar wind speed began the period near 700 km/s with total field near 5 nT under the influence of a negative polarity coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS). By 10 January, solar wind speed was in decline, reaching nominal levels late on 12 January. Total field was variable between 1-7 nT for the rest of the period. The geomagnetic field responded with quiet to active levels on 09 January, quiet to unsettled levels on 10-12 January and quiet levels on 13-15 January. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 16 JANUARY-11 FEBRUARY 2017 Solar activity is expected to be very low with a chance for C-class flares on 16-26 January as Regions 2625 and 2626 (N09, L=244, class/area Hax/140 on 15 January) rotate across the visible disk. Very low levels are expected from 27 January through 11 February. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at normal to moderate levels with high levels likely on 16, 18-27 January and again on 01-11 February due to CH HSS influence. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at unsettled to active levels on 17-24 and 27 January-07 February with G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm levels likely on 18-19 January and 03 February due to recurrent CH HSS effects :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2017 Jan 16 0342 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 2017-01-16 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2017 Jan 16 77 5 2 2017 Jan 17 77 8 3 2017 Jan 18 77 25 5 2017 Jan 19 78 20 5 2017 Jan 20 80 18 4 2017 Jan 21 80 18 4 2017 Jan 22 80 18 4 2017 Jan 23 80 12 4 2017 Jan 24 80 8 3 2017 Jan 25 80 5 2 2017 Jan 26 78 5 2 2017 Jan 27 77 12 4 2017 Jan 28 77 15 4 2017 Jan 29 77 7 3 2017 Jan 30 77 10 3 2017 Jan 31 77 12 4 2017 Feb 01 77 16 4 2017 Feb 02 76 18 4 2017 Feb 03 75 20 5 2017 Feb 04 75 16 4 2017 Feb 05 75 12 4 2017 Feb 06 75 10 3 2017 Feb 07 75 8 3 2017 Feb 08 75 5 2 2017 Feb 09 76 5 2 2017 Feb 10 77 5 2 2017 Feb 11 77 5 2 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1861, DXLD) GLENN`S PROPAGATION OUTLOOK FOR MEDIA NETWORK PLUS AS OF JAN 19, 2017 [and a two-week break for CNY, to resume first week in Feb] Keith, From IPS in Australia, the Global HF Propagation Forecast thru January 21; normal at low latitudes, normal to fair at middle latitudes, and fair at high latitudes. From Spaceweather South Africa thru January 21, magnetic conditions unsettled to active, shortwave fadeouts unlikely, MUF unstable From Met Office UK, thru January 22, Solar activity very low. Geomagnetic field quiet to unsettled. F K Janda in Prague predicts the Geomagnetic field will be: quiet to active on January 20, 22, 27, 30, February 3 - 4, 6, 8 active to disturbed on January 21, 28, February 1 - 2, 7 quiet to unsettled on January 23, 29, 31, February 5 mostly quiet on January 24 - 25 quiet on January 26 From SWPC in Boulder, Geomagnetic field unsettled to active levels until January 24 and from January 27 to February 7, with G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm levels likely February 3 due to recurrent CH HSS effects with A and K indices peaking at 20 and 5. Lowest A`s and K`s of 5 and 2 on January 25 and 26. Solar flux peaking at 80 January 20- 25, down to 75 February 3. William Hepburn`s VHF-UHF DX maps show extreme tropospheric ducting across the Gulf of Mexico January 21 and 22. Off che coast of Chile January 20-24. Around Namibia, South Africa, to Madagascar January 22- 24. And off Myanmar the morning of January 21 (via DXLD) TIPS FOR RATIONAL LIVING ++++++++++++++++++++++++ “GOD WANTS YOU TO BE RICH" --- IDEAS - CBC Radio One Why do millions of Christians in the United States believe that their faith, financial status and health are all intertwined? That's the question that Paul Kennedy explores with Kate Bowler, author of Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel. They turn to the early 20th century beginnings of this uniquely made-in-America brand of theology, where it was first preached in pentecostal tent revivals. Now it's being preached from mega-churches across the country. For many, it is a key to a richer and fuller life. For its critics, it's hucksterism at its worst. (55”) http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/god-wants-you-to-be-rich-1.3795920 (John Figliozzi, Podding Along #82 via DXLD) ###