DX LISTENING DIGEST 17-43, October 24, 2017
Incorporating REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING
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WORLD OF RADIO 1901 contents: Barbados, Bermuda, Bolivia, Cuba, Egypt,
Eritrea, France, Germany non, Greece, Guatemala, Indonesia,
International Vacuum & Internet, Isle of Man, Malaysia, Myanmar,
Newfoundland, Nigeria, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Perú, Romania,
Somaliland non, Spain, Sudan, USA, Vatican, pirate weekend, and the
propagation outlook
SHORTWAVE AIRINGS of WORLD OF RADIO 1901, October 24-31, 2017
Tue 2130 WRMI 9455; [confirmed] 15770 [off the air, post-Irma]
Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [not confirmed; off?]
Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 [confirmed] 9455
Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 [confirmed]
Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v [confirmed]
Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed]
Thu 2230 WRMI 5850 [confirmed, but first several minutes dead air]
Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed]
Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed]
Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio
Sat 1431 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [confirmed]
Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM
Sat 2130 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB
Sat 2300 WRMI 11580
Sun 0200 WRMI 11580
Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM
Sun 1130 HLR 9485-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [presumably ex-1030]
Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB
Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v-AM Area 51
Mon 0330 WRMI 9955
Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB
Tue 0030 WRMI 7730
Tue 2030 WRMI 9455 11580
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** ALASKA [non]. Hi! tuning around at O230, came across KNLS Alaska on
9660, female presenter playing pop music, etc.; full station ident at
O249 by male, ``This is KNLS, Anchor Point, Alaska, broadcasting for
the whole of Asia. SINPO 55545, thought it was the VOA! Tecsun PL-660m
telescopic whip antenna. 73 (Jon Collins, Birmingham, located in the
middle of the UK, Oct 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Jon, I assume you meant 9600. That transmission of KNLS is really via
their Madagascar station (Glenn to Jon, ibid.)
Maybe that's why it was so strong! Can sleep easy now, hihi (Jon,
ibid.)
** ALGERIA. Work on the curtain arrays at the Bechar are complete.
There are two SW curtain arrays on site (3 masts). Each curtain array
is a simple 1 x 2 horizontal caged dipole (like a lazy H) with screen
reflector. The directed azimuth appears to be 131 degrees (Ian, Oct
19, shortwavesites yg via DXLD)
** ALGERIA [non]. FRANCE, B-17 changes of TDA Télédiffusion d'Algerie
via TDF Issoudun:
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-changes-of-tda.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, October 23, B-17 frequency changes,
dxldyg via DXLD) Viz.:
Tuesday, October 24, 2017: B-17 changes [all ISS 500 kW]
0400-0458 NF 6060 / 160 deg to CEAf Arabic Holy Quran px, ex 5865 B-16
0500-0558 NF 6105 / 198 deg to NWAf Arabic Holy Quran px, ex 5865 B-16
0500-0513 NF 6060 / 160 deg to CEAf French news bulletin, ex 7295 B-16
0513-0558 NF 6060 / 160 deg to CEAf Arabic Nat. Chaine 1, ex 7295 B-16
0600-0613 NF 6105 / 198 deg to NWAf French news bulletin, ex 5865 B-16
0613-0651 NF 6105 / 198 deg to NWAf Arabic Holy Quran px, ex 5865 B-16
0651-0658 NF 6105 / 198 deg to NWAf Arabic Holy Quran px, ex 5865 B-16
[6060 likely to collide with HFCC boycotter RHC, so how could TDA
possibly know about it? Maybe Arnie will move it later? --- gh]
1800-1858 NF 7375 / 155 deg to CEAf Arabic Holy Quran px, x 11660 B-16
1900-1958 NF 7315 / 200 deg to NWAf Arabic Holy Quran px, ex 9635 B-16
1900-1913 NF 7375 / 155 deg to CEAf French news bulletin, ex 9810 B-16
1913-1958 NF 7375 / 155 deg to CEAf Arabic Nat. Chaine 1, ex 9810 B-16
2000-2013 NF 5905 / 194 deg to NWAf French news bulletin, ex 9710 B-16
2013-2058 NF 5905 / 194 deg to NWAf Arabic Nat. Chaine 1, ex 9710 B-16
2000-2058 NF 5940 / 160 deg to CEAf Arabic Holy Quran px, ex 9810 B-16
2100-2158 NF 5905 / 194 deg to NWAf Arabic Holy Quran px, ex 9710 B-16
2100-2113 NF 5940 / 160 deg to CEAf French news bulletin, ex 6155 B-16
2113-2158 NF 5940 / 160 deg to CEAf Arabic Nat. Chaine 1, ex 6155 B-16
2200-2213 NF 5905 / 194 deg to NWAf French news bulletin, ex 7335 B-16
2213-2258 NF 5905 / 194 deg to NWAf Arabic Holy Quran px, ex 7335 B-16
(??????????? ?? Observer ? 2:55 PM via DXLD)
** ANTARCTICA. 15476, LRA36, Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, Base
Esperanza, 1955-2015, 24-10, songs, comments. Extremely weak, only
audible on USB (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Lugo, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** ARGENTINA. Desde hace meses RADIO MADRE (AM 530 kHz), la estación
de Amplitud Modulada operada [por la] Asociación Madres de Plaza de
Mayo, se encuentra “fuera del aire por reformas edilicias y técnicas”,
según informa la propia emisora a través de su página de Facebook.
Esta emisora comenzó sus transmisiones el 16 de Noviembre de 2005,
identificándose como “AM 530 La Voz de las Madres”. Tiempo después,
obtuvo su reconocimiento oficial a través del Decreto Nº 721/07 de
fecha 12 de Junio de 2007, mediante el cual se autorizó a la emisora a
operar en la citada frecuencia de 530 kHz, con Categoría V, es decir,
con una potencia diurna de 1 kW, y de 0.25 kW de potencia nocturna. El
mismo Decreto establece que la estación deberá conservar como objetivo
comunicacional “la promoción y defensa de los Derechos Humanos”.
Según su Directora General, la Sra. Hebe de Bonafini, "La Voz de las
Madres es la radio que un grupo de mujeres lograron construir tras el
ansiado anhelo de poder comunicar su trabajo, darlo a conocer y ser
conocidas por todos...". A partir del mes de Marzo de 2013, la
estación pasó a llamarse "Radio Madre".
Vale señalar que en los últimos años la emisora no era recepcionada de
forma eficiente debido a una serie de problemas técnicos, cuyos
parámetros oficiales aún no han sido resueltos por la Autoridad de
Aplicación en cumplimiento del Decreto de Autorización.
A consecuencia de ello, la emisora dejó de operar en AM desde hace
meses, y por el momento, solo se puede acceder a su información a
través de su Página de Facebook.
Radio Madre opera desde unos modernos estudios localizados sobre la
calle Pte. Luis Sáenz Peña 210 de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires.
Teléfono: (11) 4382-9327. Email: <radio@madres.org>, y Página Web:
<www.radiomadre.org> - la cual al presente está también inactiva -
(Argentina en AM y FM via Conexion Digital 22 Oct via DXLD)
** BARBADOS. TEP Broadcasting FM na cidade de São Paulo
Amigos, ontem a noite tivemos uma ótima abertura de propagação
transequatorial na cidade de São Paulo, eu postei alguns videos no
youtube das poucas frequencias que foi possivel devido ao dial
congestionado
Life FM - 97.5 Mhz - Barbados - Caribe - Parte 1
Emissora recebida na zona oeste da cidade de São Paulo, bairro do
Butantã dia 20/10/2017 entre 22:45 e 23:45 horário de Brasilia (verão)
ou entre 0045 e 0145 UT, usado na escuta um radio Sony XDR-F1HD e
antena yagi 6 elementos há 5 metros do solo
https://youtu.be/A8Rn7016bgQ
Life FM - 97.5 Mhz - Barbados - Caribe - Parte 2
https://youtu.be/aeY2SIG-fcQ
Life FM - 97.5 Mhz - Barbados - Caribe - Parte 3
https://youtu.be/Hkz2gRxNSAw
BBS FM - 90.7 Mhz - Barbados - Caribe - Parte 1
https://youtu.be/zDhl-mnrCIA
BBS FM - 90.7 Mhz - Barbados - Caribe - Parte 2 (Identificação da
Emissora)
https://youtu.be/WAhkKgeBv-M
BBS FM - 90.7 Mhz - Barbados - Caribe - Parte 3
https://youtu.be/3bMrDbs5HqQ
73´s (Fran Jr, São Paulo SP, Oct 21, Sony XDR-F1HD, Antena Yagi 6
elementos, radioescutas yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DXLD)
** BELARUS. Re 17-42: >>> At the moment, there is still a tower AM-353
(353 m high), it emitted at a frequency of 171 kHz "Radio-1".
Apparently, it will soon fall <<<
Yesterday at 9:38 am (this video has been posted):
https://vk.com/wall-1501374_2291
(Kai Ludwig, Oct 22, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BERMUDA. 1280 | VSB2, Hamilton, OCT 5, 2300 - Phone number 1-800-
888-7077, "BBN on WYFQ-FM Wadesboro" (NC, network flagship station)
mention, upbeat march-style hymn segment, man "This is BBN, we're the
Bible Broadcasting Network."; good, over WJYE-ME, others. {A}
[Connelly*Y-MA]
(Report from Mark Connelly, WA1ION
Times / dates = UTC / 2017
e-mail = "MarkWA1ION@aol.com"
[Connelly*Y-MA] = South Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA, USA (GC=
41.6931 N / 70.1912 W) (= 41 41.59' N / 70 11.47' W) (grid FN41vq)
Receiver: Microtelecom Perseus
See http://microtelecom.it/perseus/
Antenna 1: Cardioid-pattern SuperLoop: 10m vert. by 11m horiz. (peak
165 deg., null 345 deg.)
Antenna 2: Cardioid-pattern SuperLoop: 9m vert. by 20m horiz. (peak 90
deg., null 270 deg.)
See http://www.bamlog.com/superloop.htm for similar antenna type.
NOTE: {A} in entry indicates that audio can be accessed from link on
the following page:
http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/doc1/audio_2017.htm
NRC-AM gg via WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DXLD) Only Bermuda MW station
remaining? (gh, DXLD)
** BOLIVIA. 5935.0, Oct 23 at 2334, trace of modulation, presumed R.
Yura on its recent new frequency where normally I get a JBA carrier at
best --- and this is on the PL-880 and shortwire. Yet when I have
fired up the NRD and longerwire at 2352, it`s back to JBAC. Oct 24 at
2336 check, JBAC once again. As I`ve said before, our only possible
window is just before WWCR blox 5935 from *2358 --- but in B-17 it`s
registered to start as early as *2200! Unclear whether they will
axually move it that early as own B-17 sked has not yet been posted
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.:
5935 2200 1200 36-38,46-48,57 WCR 100 85 0 902
1234567 291017 041117 D Eng USA WCR FCC 1464
5935 2200 1200 36-38,46-48,57 WCR 100 85 0 902
1234567 120318 250318 D Eng USA WCR FCC 1465
5935 2200 1300 36-38,46-48,57 WCR 100 85 0 902
1234567 051117 110318 D Eng USA WCR FCC 1466
(HFCC via DXLD)
** BOLIVIA. Radio Pio Doce. Tune-in at 2344 10/16/17z on 5952.5.
Thanks to Glenn Hauser, et al. for the tips on this station. Spirited
announcements/discussion-sounded like they were having a nice time.
Hum accompanying audio. Commercial or PSA at 2351. 33543 sigs. ToH ID
and announcements at 0000. Many mentions of Bolivia. Rx: ICF-2010 and
active 4’ whip 15 feet up in a tree (Steve Zimmerman, about 50 mi N.
of Milwaukee in state forest, camping logs while enjoying a buzz-and-
crud free HF, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. BRASIL 12-18 Oct SW coast HF obs.
4774.9, R. Congonhas, Cononhas MG, 2138-2148, 12/10, indicação das
freqs. e ID do posto, noticiário; 35332.
4805, R. Dif.ª do Amazonas, Manaus AM, 2124-..., 13/10, texto; 25332,
modulação muito fraca.
4845, R. Cultura do Amazonas, Manaus AM, 2137.2147, 12/10, relato de
jogo de futebol; 35332, modulação débil.
4875.2, R. Roraima, Boa Vista RR, 2126-2138, 13/10, texto, anúncios de
vária ordem, incl. comercial, informações; 34332, QRM adj., de
teletipo.
4875.3, idem, 2217-..., 15/10, noticiário regional, canções; 34342,
QRM adj., de teletipo.
4885, R. Dif.ª Acreana (p), Rio Branco AC, 2217-..., 15/10, canções;
32341, QRM do R. Club do Pará.
4894.9, R. Novo Tempo, Cap.º Grande MS, 2041-2052, 17/10, prgr. de
propag. relig.; 35332.
4905, Nova R. Relógio, Rio de Jan.º RJ, 2034-2045, 16/10, texto: 15331
4985, R. Brasil Central, Goiânia GO, 2125-2145, 12/10, prgr. musical
Brasil Sertanejo; 45444.
5035, R. Aparecida, Aparecida SP, 2134-2144, 12/10, prgr. Com A Mãe
Aparecida; 35332. Melhor sinal em 16/10, pelas 2030.
5035, R. Educação Rural, Coari AM, 2043-2102, 17/10, canções, texto;
35321.
5939.8, R. Voz Missionária, Camboriú SC, 2201-2213, 12/10, prgr.
musical; 45433. // 9665.8 com SINPO 55444.
6010, R. Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte MG, 2203-2215, 12/10, canções;
33431, QRM da CHINA // 15180 com SINPO 25332.
6010, idem, 2101-2112, 17/10, noticiário nacional A Voz do Brasil;
25332.
6040.7, R. B2 [sic], Curitiba PR, 2214-2224, 12/10, prgr. musical;
45433.
6059.8, SRDA, Curitiba PR, 2103-2114, 17/10, noticiário nacional A Voz
do Brasil; 35343.
6059.9, idem, 2124-2134, 14/10, prgr. de propag. relig. Voz da
Libertação; 24331, QRM adj.; // 9564.9.
6080, R. Marumby, Curitiba PR, 2101-2112, 16/10, noticiário nacional A
Voz do Brasil; 35343. Sinal ausente em // 9515.
6160, R. Boa Vontade, Pt.º Alegre RS, 2152-2200*, 12/10, propag.
relig.; 35332.
9515, R. Marumby, Curitiba PR, 2142-2153, 13/10, canções; 35343.
9550, R. Boa Vontade, Pt.º Alegre RS, 2111-2121, 14/10, Música
Legionária, propag. relig.; 34342, QRM adjacente. // 11895.1 e 6160.
9564.9, SRDA, Curitiba PR, 2040-2049, 14/10, propag. relig.; 33441,
QRM dos EUA e do sinal de empastelamento cubano; // 6059.9.
9630, R. Aparecida, Aparecida SP, 2143-2152, 13/10, prgr. No Ritmo da
Música; 35343, modulação fraca.
9630, idem, 1043-desvan. total 1110, 18/10, texto; 15331.
9665.8, R. Voz Missionária, Camboriú SC, 1047-desvan. total 1120,
18/10, canções e propag. relig.; 25331.
9665.9, idem, 0952-desvan. total 0930, 14/10, canções, texto; 25332.
9674.9, R. Canção Nova, Cachoeira Paulista SP, 2107-2117, 14/10,
recitação do terço; 33442, QRM adjacente.
9725.4, R. Evangelizar, Curitiba PR, 2146-2158, 13/10, prgr. de
propag. relig. Crescendo na Fé, indicação das freqs. e o noticiário
nacional A Voz do Brasil, às 22h; 35433.
9819.1, R. 9 de Julho, São Paulo SP, 2040-2052, 16/10, notícias
relig., incl. o Momento Pastoral; 35443.
9819.1, idem, 1045-desvan. total 1105, 18/10, texto; 15331.
11735, R. Transmundial, St.ª M.ª RS, 1832-1845, 12/10, propag. relig.;
44443, QRM da TZA, sinal com SINPO 44444, QRM do B.
11815, R. Brasil Central, Goiânia GO, 2043-2058, 16/10, canções e,
pelas 22h, o noticiário nacional A Voz do Brasil; 33442, QRM
adjacente.
11815, idem, 1207-1355, 17/10, canções, ..., futebol (prgr. Parada dos
Desportos?); 15341, sinal bloqueado pela CHINA, às 1355. Pelas 1330, o
sinal teve SINPO 25432.
11855, R. Aparecida, Aparecida SP, 1209-1229, 17/10, texto, anúncios
comerciais; 15341.
11895.1, R. Boa Vontade, Pt.º Alegre RS, 2109-2120, 14/10, Música
Legionária, emitido no âmbito de prgr. de propag. relig.; 35443. //
9550, 6160.
11934.9, R. Evangelizar, Curitiba PR, 2154-2207, 13/10, indicação das
freqs., seguindo-se-lhe o noticiário nacional A Voz do Brasil, às 22h;
33442, QRM adjacente.
15190, R. Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte MG, 2202-2217, 13/10,
noticiário nacional A Voz do Brasil, às 22h; 35443.
15190, idem, 1400-1714, 17/10, conversa, canções, ..., noticiários,
etc.; 25342, em ascensão. Good DX & 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW Coast of
Portugal, Oct 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) His complete ZY report this
time, not excerpts (gh)
** BRAZIL. Brazil, R. Aparecida, 5035 kHz, 2240-2302. I’ve been
hearing a het [carrier] here in the evenings for several weeks. This
is the first time I’ve gotten any usable audio. Pop vocals and male
and female announcers, some IDs, lots of mentions of São Paulo. At
TOH, time beeps were a minute late. Parallel to 9630 and 11855. Fair
signal initially, eventually fading to poor; good modulation, lots of
splatter from Cuba on 5040 (Art Delibert, Maryland, 10/22/17, JRC NRD-
93, Pennant antenna with DX Engineering pre-amp, Hard-Core-DX mailing
list via DXLD)
** BRAZIL. 9564.912, ZYE727 SRDA Super [Rádio] Deus é Amor, Curitiba
PR, BrasPort male prayer, poor religious, S=4 at 0049 UT on Oct 19.
9629.976, ZYE954 Rádio Aparecida, Aparecida SP, weak S=3-4, in
BrasPortuguese, talk at 0053 UT on Oct 19.
9665.753, ZYE890 "Rádio Voz Missionária", Camboriú SC, strongest 31mb
Brazilian in remote MI-US stn, at 0055 UT, S=7 fluttery.
9725.390, ex-RB2,[Rádio R-B Dois] -, ZYJ200, Rádio Evangelizar,
Curitiba PR, in BrasPortuguese language, poor tiny at S=5 signal at
0058 UT on Oct 19 [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz]
(wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 19) (Wolfgang Büschel, Morning log
UTC Oct 19th, at 0000-0100 UT in remote installations in MI- and NY-
USA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BULGARIA [and non]. Shortwave Radiogram, 21-22 October --- this
weekend experiments with a character set that allows Cyrillic text (in
this case, Russian) to be transmitted as quickly as Latin characters
(e.g. English); The show will all be in MFSK32, thus 120wpm for both
English and Russian. Details and schedule:
http://swradiogram.net/post/166607032867/shortwave-radiogram-21-22-october-2017-faster
(Kim Elliott, dxldyg via DXLD)
Am 20.10.2017 um 17:09 schrieb Shortwave Radiogram:
> This weekend Shortwave Radiogram will be all MFSK32, but we will
experiment with the ISO-8859-5 character set. In our usual UTF-8
character set, when we transmit Cyrillic text, e.g. Russian, the speed
of the printout is reduced by half. With the ISO-8859-5 character set,
Cyrillic prints out at the same speed (120 wpm using MFSK32) as
English.
1:31 Program preview
3:21 US worried about independent media in Hungary*
10:51 Excerpt of Russian text from Deutsche Welle
13:55 New amateur radio station at BBC Broadcasting House*
19:23 QST review of new Icom IC-R8600 receiver*
21:34 DW.com feature on best mountain photos*
24:45 DW.com feature on autumn leaves*
Experiment succeeded, Cyrillic text now as fast as a rabbit:
http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/SW_Radiogram_2017-10-21.htm#fonts
Here the variant with a FLDIGI-GUI ?? ??????? ?????:
http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/SW_Radiogram_2017-10-21.htm#ISO-8859-5
(roger, germany, ibid.)
** CANADA. CFRX: See NEWFOUNDLAND [non]
** CHILE. 5825. R. TRIUNFAL EVANGELICA. OCT 18. 2218-2228 UT. Música
de coros protestantes y avisos de la emisora. SINPO: 35422. Audio:
https://archive.org/details/5825KHz.R.TIRUNFALEVANGELICA.20171018At2228UT
(Claudio Galaz; RX: TECSUN PL 660; ANT: Hilo de 40 metros de largo;
QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD)
As usual the log is extensive. I am amazed that 5825 R Triunfal
Evangélica is so difficult to hear outside Chile. I were lucky to
catch this rare station some months ago with very weak signal.
Otherwise it is nearly impossible to find any new stations on the SW
band (Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, ed., SW Bulletin Oct 22 via DXLD)
** CHINA. EAST JAMMERSTAN: 9745, Crash & Bang Music Jammer; 2046,
10/18; Presume against listed Radio Free Asia in Chinese via Kuwait.
Weak (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ----- All
logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! -----, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
9745, Firedrake at 2048 with percussion and woodwinds instrumentals
jamming RFA in Mandarin via Kuwait – Good Oct 19 (Mark Coady, Selwyn,
Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off
centre-fed dipoles, ODXA yg via DXLD)
9745, Firedragon jamming loop, 1940, 10/20/17. Chinese traditional
music jamming loop rather than usual CNR 1 jammer. Fair–good (Mark
Taylor, Madison, Wisconsin. Equipment: Perseus, SDRPlay; Eton E1,
Grundig Satellit 800, Tecsun PL 880, and various other portables; 42
meters dipole, 100’ long wire, Mini whip, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD)
21495, 20/10 1008, R. Free Asia, MRA-Tinian Island CNR1
Jammer/Firedrake, Px Tb, 31421
21695, 20/10 1009, Voice of America, PHL-Tinang CNR1 Jammer/Firedrake
Px M, 32422. 73 da (N. Marabello, QTH Treviso, Italia, RX: SONY ICF-
SW7600G, Ant.: esterna VHF orizzontale 100 , bclnews.it yg via DXLD)
It was nice to have a few hours to play radio this morning. I spent
most of my time on 49 meters which yielded good reception past 1400. I
operated a newly acquired Yaesu FT-1000mp Mk5 which has an outstanding
GC receiver. Logs were as follows:
CNR (6) presumed - 6165 - 1250, checked up on a log by GH a few days
ago, easy listening music with breaks, OM in Mandarin (presumed). I
don`t think this is Burma as noted in other logs. RNZI splatters a
little when it signed on at 1259 but still easily copied.
R Taiwan Int`l - 6105 - 1324, OM/YL in Mandarin (presumed), Firedrake
jammer also audible, but at much lower signal level, playing non-stop
music. 73's for now, (Chris, KC5IIE, Krug, Tulsa, OK, FT-1000mp MK5,
40m loop, Oct 21, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
11440, Oct 21 at 2354, JBA carrier with flutter, presumably CNR1
jammer against mini-power Sound of Hope nuisance frequency as in EiBi
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
9745. Sun, Oct 22 at 2022-2040, China National Radio 1. A strong
firedragon - a treble audio by violins, flutes and drums, blocking
all RFA transmission at this time, 45544 (DXer: José Ronaldo Xavier,
Cabedelo-PB, Brazil, RX (s): Tecsun S-2000, Antenna: Longwire, Hard-
Core-DX mailing list via DXLD)
15570, Oct 23 at 2355, Chinese talk and music, fair S5-S7;
NDXC/Aoki shows RFA Chinese at 23-24 via Tinian, which Must Be
*Jammed. (At 0000 15570 is ceded to CNR-11 Tibetan service from Baoji-
Sifangshan 724 site, per NDXC) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [non]. Don`t understand Chinese but been listening to the
Communist Party leader speaking on CRI, 0200 UT on 6020 kHz, excellent
reception either in LSB or USB but stronger in LSB, still speaking at
0300 UT. Very long CP conference but better than listening to Trump
(hi hi) (Jon Collins, Birmingham UK, Tecsun PL-660, whip ant, Oct 18,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
via ALBANIA to North America. Wonder if started before 0200 until when
English normally runs. Reported to have been 3+ hours long (gh)
** COLOMBIA. This 0540 UT morning: 5910.356, Alcaravan S=7 or -83dBm
0602 UT Nice Latin American dance music program heard. \\ CLM? but
much less on 6010.033 kHz. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW
15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 22, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CONGO. 6115, R. Congo, Brazzaville, 1828-1846, 12/10, francês, fim
do noticiário das 18h, ao que se seguiu rubrica de propag. relig.;
45343. Good DX & 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW Coast of Portugal, Oct 21,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
6115, Radio Congo, Brazzaville, 1735-1747*, 22-10, French, comments,
female and male. At 1747 transmission cut off abruptly. 14321 (Manuel
Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo and Reinante, Tecsun S-8800, cable
antena, 8 metros, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 1320, Radio Artemisa, San Cristóbal, Artemisa. 1059 October
21, 2017. Male and female news from 1100, ID. Poor in loads of co-
channel.
1450, Radio Mayabeque, Santa Cruz del Norte, Mayabeque. 1109 October
21, 2017. Telco audio lady with local events for this Saturday.
1550, Radio Progreso. 1057 October 22, 2017. Idling on 1550 while
grabbing a third cigar, a stew of a couple Rebelde transmitters and
WRHC, then bubbling up, female "Radio Progreso, la onda de la alegría"
squeaks through. So, one of the presumably low power sites at La
Palma, Pinar del Río, or Sagua la Grande, Villa Clara (Terry Krueger,
All times/dates GMT, Clearwater FL, IC-R75, NRD-535, short longwires,
active loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6060.003, RHC Bauta Spanish as S=9+10dB at 0015 UT, BUT MUCH
HUM BUZZY noisy signal, 2 x 60 Hertz distance peaks apart visible at
both sides, - as well additional Brazilian on 6059.834 kHz [selected
SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX
TopNews Oct 19) (Wolfgang Büschel, Morning log UTC Oct 19th, at 0000-
0100 UT in remote installations in MI- and NY-USA, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6840, Oct 21 at 0019, no signal from RHC; checking out tip
from Chris Smolinski, Maryland at 2347 Oct 20: ``RHC throwing out a
decent spur on 6840 kHz, parallel to 5040 with their EE programming. I
wonder if Arnie will QSL this? :)`` I replied:
``Chris, That would be 11880 minus 5040, the only two English
frequencies at 23-24, after which 11880 goes off, and so would 6840.
Unheard by the time I checked. Glenn``
I vaguely thought 6840 had been reported before but can`t find any
such logs in my archives. Possible only at 22-24 while both 11880 and
5040 are on air, the second hour in English (and presumably English
moved up to the first hour on 11880 once Arnie gets around to B-17
changes sometime in early November; while 5040 moves English to 00-
01). (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
6840, Oct 21 at 2350, no signal from RHC difference mixing product as
heard by Chris Smolinski yesterday. Transmitters causing it, 11880 and
minus 5040 in English are still on and strong. Note in my last report,
first reference mis-stated 11880 as 11840, which is a Spanish
frequency. Now it`s much weaker than 11880; 11760 is VG; 11670 at 2353
is dead air. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba.
It so happens that Wolfgang Büschel was checking for 6840 at exactly
the same time: ``CUBA intermodulation from Bauta site: nothing heard
on 6840 kHz tonight 2350 UT on Oct 21, neither in Michigan, nor in
Edmonton Alberta SDR units. 11880 kHz though was powerhouse signal
from Bauta``. So sometimes 6840 happens, sometimes not.
5040, Oct 21 at 0058, RHC dead air, maybe just between languages.
6000, Oct 21 at 0551, this RHC English frequency is off, still on
5040, 6060, 6100, and still gone from 6145 too. Something`s always
wrong at RHC.
6100, Oct 22 at 0457, despite ACI from 6105 Japan via France, RHC
English is already on early, wrapping up hour, // 6000, but 6060 is
not on yet. 6145 & 6165 are still gone.
15370, Sunday Oct 22 at 1349, missed hearing `En Contacto` but outro
credit roll includes guión by Arnaldo Coro, which means he`s writing
script for whole show, and his voice occupies much of it along with
the YL co-host. No longer Manolo de la Rosa for many months, altho
weekly promo e-mails for show from Spain claim he`s still doing it.
Anyone know what happened? Is he OK and merely retired/jubilated?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.:
``EN CONTACTO DE RADIO HABANA CUBA
Emisión nº 43 del 22 de Octubre 2017
Programa diexista “En Contacto” emitido por Radio Habana Cuba todos
los domingos, dedicado a los oyentes de las ondas cortas, Diexistas y
Radioaficionados del mundo, con Manolo de la Rosa.
Página Web de RHC:
http://www.radiohc.cu/ `` (noticiasdx yg via DXLD)
13740, Oct 22 at 1402 still no signal from CRI relay; 1404-1405* open
carrier, on and off a few more times, finally stays on and starts
undermodulating English at 1407. Something`s always wrong at
RadioCuba. We miss the opening news propaganda from CRI (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 9565, Oct 23 at 0611, the Beepers are back. These appear only
on jammed Radio Martí frequencies, but always at hours far beyond when
RM is on them. Normally we only hear residual pulse noise jamming, but
occasionally strings of beeps appear when monitored with BFO. There
are a variety of pitches, indicating a set of slightly offset
frequencies, as in CW. This time most are strings of dah-dit, as if
sending N over and over, but periodically some much longer strings of
continuous beeps. Here`s what they sound like now as I am on 9565.000-
USB with no changes in my tuning, but used Cyberlink Audio Editor to
boost signal and reduce noise:
http://www.w4uvh.net/9565beepjam.mp3
Originally I could also hear a slight het from the off-frequency minus
Brazilian. I conjexure that the DentroCuban Jamming Command operators
are having a bit of fun, perhaps axually ``talking`` to each other.
AFAIK, no one else has reported on these, least of all Arnie Coro.
I have previously caught Beepers on e.g. 11930. March 16, 2015, I
posted this recording from 11930:
http://www.w4uvh.net/11930beepjam.rm
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX WORLD OF RADIO 1901, LISTENING DIGEST)
** ECUADOR. 6050, Oct 18 at 0611, very poor signal, but sounds like
Spanish intonation, i.e. HCJB on extended schedule, rather than ELWA
Liberia, which opens at 0526 in English, and which I never hear. Horst
Rosiak of HCJB, via Wolfgang Büschel indicated that HCJB`s control
system was failing to turn off the transmitter at the usual 0233*.
Meanwhile HCJB has been heard well as far as Bryan Clark`s New
Zealand, as late as 0800 so staying on all-night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. Winter B-17 changes of Radio Cairo from Oct 29
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-changes-of-radio-cairo-from.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, October 23, B-17 frequency changes,
dxldyg via DXLD) Viz.:
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Winter B-17 changes of Radio Cairo from Oct 29
0045-0200 NF 9420 ABS 250 kW / 241 deg SoAm Spanish, ex 12005 B-16
0400-0600 NF 9480 ABS 250 kW / 166 deg CEAf Swahili, ex 15230 B-16
1300-1600 on 15535 ABS 250 kW / 241 deg WeAf Arabic, cancelled in B-17
1330-1530 on 13750 ABS 250 kW / 061 deg WeAs Farsi, cancelled in B-17
1400-1600 NF 12045 ABS 250 kW / 061 deg WeAs Pashto, ex 15400 B-16
1500-1600 NF 9575 ABS 250 kW / 325 deg WeEu Albanian, ex 9515 B-16
1500-1600 on 11790 ABS 250 kW / 061 deg CeAs Uzbek, cancelled in B-17
1600-1800 on 11800 ABS 150 kW / 185 deg CSAf English, cancelled B-17
1600-1800 on 13820 ABZ 250 kW / 090 deg SoAs Urdu, cancelled in B-17
1845-2000 on 15710 ABZ 250 kW / 245 deg WeAf Fulfulde, cancelled B-17
2100-2300 on 13580 ABS 250 kW / 241 deg WeAf French, cancelled in B-17
(??????????? ?? Observer ? via DXLD)
Note 9420 will collide with Greece, but has this Cairo service really
been on air via 12005 either? {I don`t hear it there.} (gh, DXLD)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005, Radio Nacional, Bata, 0502-0525, 21-10,
carrier and for moments some songs detected. Extremely weak. Also
0500-0519, 22-10, carrier and songs. Extremely weak (Manuel Méndez,
Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo and Reinante, Tecsun S-8800, cable antena, 8
metros, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ERITREA. 7181.556, Oct 22 at 0505, JBA carrier, surely VOBME, which
in the last few DXLDs has been reported on .553, .555, .561. Nothing
now circa 7140 from the other VOBME (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO
1901, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ERITREA [non]. Hi Glenn. Not a station I have ever previously heard
of so I have no idea where it is from. I had a station loud and clear
here this evening, 18th October, on 11965 at 1712 UT. I believe it to
have been Dimtse Radio Erena which airs on this frequency 1700-1730,
via Sofia-Kostinbrod (Bulgaria) in the Tigrinya language. It seems,
from shortwave.am, that the target is West and Central Africa but I
have no idea where D.R.E is based. The SINO rating at 1712 was 5555
but I have just checked back at 1745 and it is now not as good. I
believe VoIRI also uses this frequency 1720-1820 in Swahili via
Kamalabad which could explain the worsening of the reception. Regards,
(Dave Harries, Bristol, England, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Dave, WRTH says R Erena is based in Paris, also some programming
produced in Goeppingen, Germany. The target is certainly Eritrea, not
W & C Af.
Iran`s Kamalabad site is (or has been) totally off the air, despite
numerous listings in HFCC and NDXC. Did you really hear something else
also on 11965? (Glenn to Dave, via DXLD)
** ETHIOPIA [non]. Reception of Voice of Amara via MBR Issoudun Oct 22
1600-1658 15360 ISS 250 kW / 120 deg EAf Amharic Sun good to very weak
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/reception-of-voice-of-amara-via-mbr_24.html
Reception of Voice of Amara via MBR Issoudun on Oct 23:
1700-1800 15360 ISS 250 kW / 120 deg EAf Amharic Mon/Wed/Sat fair/weak
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/reception-of-voice-of-amara-via-mbr_73.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, October 16-23, dxldyg via DXLD)
** FIJI. 558, Radio Fiji One English ID --- Still going through the
file review for the August Rockwork 4 DXpedition, and still coming up
with a few surprises. Most TP-DXers know that 558-Radio Fiji One is
the native language program in Fiji, while 990-Radio Fiji Gold is the
English program (which Theo recently assured me is being heard very
well in NZ, despite the fact that it apparently never showed up for us
on the Oregon cliff).
With the rejuvenated 558-Radio Fiji One pounding in on most days with
potent-level island music it was already a great improvement over past
DXpeditions, but while reviewing the August 8th recording I was able
to come up with a Radio Fiji One English ID for the first time in 9
years of TP-DXing (at a near S9 level to boot) at 1315 UTC on that
exceptional morning, at the 27 second point
https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/2m8y5m0aixae080rj3uvfqivecbz7gni
This was the first English that I have ever heard on RF1 (after about
18 receptions), so it was quite a surprise. 73 and Good DX,
(Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA), Oct 21, IRCA via DXLD)
** FIJI. 990, 21.10, 1040, FBC Gold FM, Naulu. This was an expected,
but still very welcome guest! Ole (OF) noticed already before 0900 UT
that there was something on 990 that he thought could be Fiji. Since
this was our last full day in Kongsfjord, we had work to do at Mt.
Loran to take down the 1000-meter antenna there. When we were back two
hours later it was no doubt: This was Gold FM. At this time with a
nice "Saturday Night Party Time with ... on Gold FM – only Classic
Hits". Friendly reply from their PD Monday morning, which includes:
“The station’s AM transmission was only intended to cover interior
parts of Fiji and maritime islands as the country is made up of a
number of scattered places. With confirmation from you, we are now
able to establish that Gold’s AM Frequency is accessible (although
weak) in other parts of the world” (Odd-Jørgen Sagdahl, Trondheim,
Norway, remote Kongsfjord, Arctic Radio Club mv-eko Oct 23 via DXLD)
** FRANCE. B-17 changes of Radio France International:
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-changes-of-radio-france.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, October 23, B-17 frequency changes,
dxldyg via DXLD) Viz.:
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
B-17 changes of Radio France International
0430-0500 on 9665 MDC 250 kW / 300 deg EaAf Swahili, ex ISS B-16
0530-0600 on 11790 MDC 250 kW / 310 deg EaAf Swahili, ex ISS B-16
0600-0700 NF 9735 ISS 500 kW / 170 deg WCAf English, ex 9675 B-16
[WORLD OF RADIO 1901]
1200-1230 NF 17815 ISS 500 kW / 198 deg WeAf Mandingo M-F ex 21620 B16
1700-1730 NF 15300 ISS 500 kW / 155 deg SoAf Port till Feb 24 ex 17685
1700-1730 on 17685 ISS 500 kW / 155 deg SoAf Portug. from Feb 25
1700-1800 NF 13685 ISS 500 kW / 165 deg NWAf French, ex 17620 B-16
1800-1900 NF 15300 ISS 500 kW / 155 deg CeAf French, ex 17850 B-16
1900-1933 NF 13660 ISS 500 kW / 155 deg SoAf Portug, ex 15360 B-16
1900-2000 NF 9635 ISS 500 kW / 175 deg WCAf French, ex 11995 B-16
2000-2030 NF 9825 ISS 500 kW / 170 deg WCAf Hausa, ex 9540 B-16
(??????????? ?? Observer ? 2:54 PM via DXLD)
** FRANCE. RFI Paris / TDF Issoudun relays B-17, 29-10-17 bis 25-03-18
daily, u.o.s. Entire season, u.o.s.
3965 0100 0057 27 1 0 Fra RFI TDF DRM
3995 2200 2300 27,28 100 260 Deu MBR MBR X.19
5905 2000 2100 46N,46SW 500 194 Aao TDA TDF
5905 2100 2200 46N,46SW 500 194 Aao TDA TDF
5905 2200 2300 46N,46SW 500 194 Aao TDA TDF
5925 0600 0700 37W,46W 500 204 -2402 Fra RFI TDF 17-A
5940 2000 2100 46E,47N,47SW 500 160 Aao TDA TDF
5940 2100 2200 46E,47N,47SW 500 160 Aao TDA TDF
5950 2000 2100 37-38,46-47 250 180 Fra KBS TDF 60
5960 0300 0500 10,11 500 290 Jpn NHK NHK
5970 1300 1600 27E,28 100 21 7 Mul MBR MBR A.307
6060 0400 0500 46E,47N,47SW 500 160 Aao TDA TDF
6060 0500 0600 46E,47N,47SW 500 160 Aao TDA TDF
6105 0500 0600 46N,46SW 500 198 Aao TDA TDF
6105 0600 0700 46N,46SW 500 198 Aao TDA TDF
6140 1300 1400 28 100 60 7 Mul MBR MBR X.euger
6165 0600 0630 37-39 500 140 Ara NHK NHK
6175 0900 1200 27-28SW,37NE 100 153 Fra RFI TDF DRM-Tes
6175 0900 1200 27SW,37NW 100 267 Fra RFI TDF DRM-Tes
6175 1200 1500 27,37NW 150 0 Mul RFI TDF DRM-Tes
7205 2000 2100 37-38W,46-47 500 198 Fra RFI TDF 49
7205 2100 2200 28,37-38,46-47 500 198 Fra RFI TDF 52
7220 0600 0630 46S 250 200 Fra AWR AWR x104
7220 1700 1800 18-19,28-30,39-40 500 55 Rus RFI TDF 55 R
7240 0500 0600 46S,47N,47SW,52NW 100 170 Mul RMI TDF NIG-Ten
7295 0500 0559 46E,47N,47SW 500 160 2502- Aao TDA TDF D
7295 0600 0630 46-47SW,52NW 500 170 -2402 Hau RFI TDF 2-A
7315 1900 2000 46N,46SW 500 200 Aao TDA TDF
7375 1800 1900 46E,47N,47SW 500 155 Aao TDA TDF
7375 1900 2000 46E,47N,47SW 500 155 Aao TDA TDF
7390 0400 0500 38-39,47-48,52NE 500 130 Fra RFI TDF 12
7390 0500 0600 28SW,37-38,46-47 500 160 Fra RFI TDF 14
7390 0600 0700 37S,38W,46,47SW 500 185 Fra RFI TDF 18
9490 0000 0100 11 150 285 Spa RMI TDF
9490 0100 0200 11 150 285 Spa RMI TDF
9490 0200 0400 11 150 285 Spa RMI TDF 101
9490 0400 0500 11 150 285 17 Spa RMI TDF 102
9610 1900 2000 46W 100 207 Eng RMI TDF
9620 0600 0630 37-39 500 140 Ara NHK NHK
9635 1900 2000 28,37-38,46-47,52 500 175 Fra RFI TDF 47
9670 0530 0559 47SE,48S,52E,53W 500 144 2502- Swa RFI TDF 10-D
9680 1900 2000 37,46 500 185 1 Fra RFI TDF R
9735 0600 0700 37S,38W,46,47SW 500 170 Eng RFI TDF 54
9770 0500 0530 52,57 500 155 Eng NHK NHK
9785 1800 1900 46,47W 500 170 Hau DWL DWL
9790 0400 0500 38-39,47-48,52-53 500 140 Fra RFI TDF 13
9790 0500 0600 28,37-38,46-48 500 150 Fra RFI TDF 15
9790 0600 0700 37W,46W 500 204 2502- Fra RFI TDF 17-B
9790 0700 0800 37W,46W 500 204 Fra RFI TDF 25
9790 1900 2000 37S,38W,46,47SW 500 195 Fra RFI TDF 45
9790 2000 2100 28SW,37-38,46-47 500 188 Fra RFI TDF 51
9790 2100 2200 28SW,37-38,46-47 500 188 Fra RFI TDF 53
9800 1700 1759 18-19,28-30,39-40 500 55 2502- Rus RFI TDF D . R
9800 1830 1900 46S,47SE 500 170 Hau MBR MBR A.316
9805 0600 0630 46-47SW,52NW 500 170 Hau RFI TDF 1
9810 1800 1900 46-47,52-53NW 500 200 Fra RFI TDF 40
9825 2000 2030 46-47SW,52NW 500 170 Hau RFI TDF 6
9850 1930 2000 46SE 250 165 Ibo AWR AWR x112
11670 1500 1600 48NW 100 125 347 Mul MBR MBR X.eaer
11700 0400 0459 38-39,47-48,52NE 500 137 2502- Fra RFI TDF D
11700 0500 0600 28,37-38,46-48NW 500 160 Fra RFI TDF 16
11700 0600 0659 38,46-48NW,52 500 150 2502- Fra RFI TDF D
11700 0700 0800 37S,38W,46,47SW 500 190 Fra RFI TDF 24
11730 0530 0600 46,47 500 190 Fra NHK NHK
11765 1800 1900 46-47,52-53NW 500 160 Fra RFI TDF 42
11780 1600 1700 41,42S,43SW 150 82 Mul RFI TDF DRM-Tes
11795 1900 2000 46-47,47SW,52NW 100 169 Mul RMI TDF
11880 0700 0730 46S 250 170 Fra AWR AWR x104
11885 1800 1859 37,46 500 185 1 Fra RFI TDF R-D
11945 1700 1900 52,57 500 155 Jpn NHK NHK
11970 1600 1630 47E,48 500 130 37 Mul MBR MBR A.318
11975 0600 0630 37-39 500 140 Ara NHK NHK
11995 0600 0630 28,37-38S,46-47 500 170 2502- Hau RFI TDF 2-B
11995 1800 1900 46-47,52-53NW 500 175 Fra RFI TDF 41
11995 1900 2000 38,46-48,52-53,57 500 153 Fra RFI TDF 46
11995 2000 2100 28,37-38S,46-47 500 165 Fra RFI TDF AC Tent
11995 2100 2200 28,37-38S,46-47 500 165 Fra RFI TDF AC Tent
12015 0600 0630 46S 250 162 Fra AWR AWR x104
13660 1800 1900 48SW 250 140 Mul MBR MBR X.Ugand
13660 1900 1930 52NW,52S,53W,57N 500 155 Por RFI TDF 8
13685 0700 0730 46-47SW,52NW 500 170 Hau RFI TDF 3
13685 1700 1800 37-38S,46-47,52 500 165 Fra RFI TDF 35
13695 0500 0559 37-38S,46-48,52 500 155 2502- Fra RFI TDF D
13695 0600 0700 38,46-48,52 500 150 Fra RFI TDF 19
13695 0700 0800 37S,38W,46,47SW 500 185 Fra RFI TDF 23
13695 0800 0900 37W,46W 500 204 Fra RFI TDF 27
13725 1430 1500 40 500 90 Fas NHK NHK
13740 0730 0830 46SE,47W 150 170 Hau RMI TDF Alterna
13740 1700 1800 37S,38W,46,47SW 500 185 Fra RFI TDF 37
13740 1800 1859 46,47,52-53NW 500 160 2502- Fra RFI TDF D
13740 1900 2000 37-38,46-48,52 500 155 -2402 Fra RFI TDF 48-A
15130 1900 2100 46-48,52,53 500 152 Jpn NHK NHK
15180 1700 1800 48SW,58NW 100 144 7 Kin MBR MBR X.Rwand
15195 1425 1630 46,47W 500 170 7 Hau DWL DWL dw.com/
15200 1300 1400 46,47W 500 165 Hau DWL DWL Alterna
15215 1600 1700 4,8,9 500 300 4 Mul MBR MBR A.nusae
15290 0800 1000 46,47 500 190 Jpn NHK NHK
15300 0600 0700 38,46S,47,48NW,52 500 153 Fra RFI TDF 20
15300 0700 0800 46S,47SW,52 500 165 Fra RFI TDF 22
15300 0800 0900 28,36-38,46-47,52 500 185 Fra RFI TDF 28
15300 0900 0959 37S,38W,46,47SW 500 195 Fra RFI TDF Tentat
15300 1200 1259 37S,38W,46,47SW 500 195 2502- Fra RFI TDF D
15300 1600 1700 37S,38W,46,47SW 500 204 Fra RFI TDF Tentat
15300 1700 1730 52NW,52S,53W,57N 500 155 -2402 Por RFI TDF 7-A
15300 1800 1900 46-47,52-53NW 500 155 Fra RFI TDF 43
15300 1900 2000 46-48W,52,53W 500 155 2502- Fra RFI TDF 48-B
15315 0700 0730 28,37-38,46-47 500 170 Hau RFI TDF 4
15360 1700 1730 48E 250 120 17 Mul MBR MBR X.somal
15360 1900 1929 52NW,52S,53W,57N 500 155 2502- Por RFI TDF D
15425 1700 1800 48SW 250 140 Mul MBR MBR X.Ugand
15440 0730 0830 46SE,47W 150 170 Hau RMI TDF
15450 1730 1800 48 100 125 Orm RMI TDF RMI
15455 0800 0830 46W 500 198 Man RFI TDF 56
17485 1400 1430 41 250 83 1 Mul MBR MBR B.B11
17510 1400 1430 41 250 83 7 Mul MBR MBR A.B11
17510 1430 1515 41 250 83 7 Mul MBR MBR A.B11
17540 1430 1445 41 250 90 1 Mul MBR MBR B.339
17570 1630 1700 48 250 122 Som AWR AWR x114
17580 1500 1600 48NW 100 125 347 -301117 Mul MBR MBR
X.eaer
17580 1500 1600 48NW 100 125 347 011217- Mul MBR MBR
A.eaer
17580 1700 1730 48E 150 120 23456 Mul MBR MBR X.somal
17605 1600 1700 48SW,58NW 100 144 7 Kin MBR MBR X.Rwand
17615 1600 1700 46-47SW,52NW 500 171 Hau RFI TDF 5
17620 0800 0859 37S,38W,46,47SW 500 185 2502- Fra RFI TDF D
17620 1200 1300 46,47SW 500 201 Fra RFI TDF 32
17620 1700 1759 28,37-38,46-48,52 500 165 Fra RFI TDF D
17630 1600 1630 47E,48 500 130 37 Mul MBR MBR X.318
17630 1700 1800 38E,39S,48 100 125 14 Mul MBR MBR X.336
17660 1200 1300 37S,38W,46,47SW 500 185 Fra RFI TDF 33
17685 1700 1730 52NW,52S,53W,57N 500 155 2502- Por RFI TDF 7-B
17765 1600 1700 46SE,47W 150 170 Hau RMI TDF
17800 1300 1400 46,47W 500 170 Hau DWL DWL
17815 1200 1230 46W 500 198 Man RFI TDF 57
17815 1630 1700 48SW 250 140 Mul MBR MBR X.Ugand
17840 1425 1630 46,47W 500 172 7 Hau DWL DWL dw.com/
17850 0600 0659 28,37,38W,46,47 500 185 2502- Fra RFI TDF D
17850 0700 0800 28,37-38,46-57 500 155 Fra RFI TDF 21
17850 0800 0900 28,37-38,46-57 500 160 Fra RFI TDF 29
17850 1700 1800 28,37-38,46-52 500 150 Fra RFI TDF 38
17850 1800 1859 46-47,52-53NW 500 185 2502- Fra RFI TDF D
17870 1700 1800 48SW,52NE,53NE 100 140 7 Mul MBR MBR X.BuCAf
21580 0700 0759 37-38,47,52-57 500 155 2502- Fra RFI TDF D
21580 0800 0900 37-38S,46-52 500 155 Fra RFI TDF 30
21580 1200 1300 39,46-48,52-57 500 155 Fra RFI TDF 34
21580 1700 1759 38,46-48,52-53 500 150 2502- Fra RFI TDF D
21580 1800 1859 46-47,52-53NW 500 200 2502- Fra RFI TDF D
21650 1330 1430 37S,38W,46,47SW 500 271 Mul RFI TDF
21690 1500 1600 47-48,52E,53W 500 145 Swa RFI TDF 11
21690 1700 1759 28,37-38,46-52N 500 162 2502- Fra RFI TDF D
(hfcc B-17 RFI/TDF registration entries, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 8
via DXLD) No idea what most of the items in the last column mean (gh)
** GERMANY. 6165, Oct 22 at 0458, very poor talk and music, 0459 seems
English, timesignal to 0500 and off*. Always checking in case RHC show
up here again by mistake, and would rather hear Chad reactivated, but
0430-0500 is NHK Russian via Nauen (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. Looking at the DW B-17 schedule in the HFCC
listings, I see that the lone hour in English at 1600 is missing,
presumably cancelled. I don't see any French, either. Swahili has been
cut to only one hour (down from three in A-17). If so, this will be
the end of six decades of DW English on SW (Stephen Luce, Houston,
Texas, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
When does A17/B17 end/begin this year? 28/29 October? Today's DW
English broadcast 16-17 UT noted on the five frequencies using the U.
Twente SDR receiver:
9670 kHz MEY S9+10dB
15290 kHz ISS S9+20dB
15315 kHz ISS S9+10dB
17800 kHz DHA S9
21780 kHz ASC S7-S9
(-- Richard Langley, NB, Oct 18, WORLD OF RADIO 1901, ibid.)
It`s always the early hours of the last Sunday in October, so 29. Of
course, some stations make their changes a bit earlier or a bit later.
(Glenn Hauser, ibid.)
B-17 changes of Deutsche Welle from Oct 29
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-changes-of-deutsche-welle.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, October 23, B-17 frequency changes,
dxldyg via DXLD) Viz.:
0300-0400 on 6045 MEY 250 kW / 019 deg EaAf Swahili cancelled in B-17
0300-0400 on 7260 MEY 100 kW / 015 deg EaAf Swahili cancelled in B-17
0630-0700 NF 7220 SAO 100 kW / 000 deg WeAf Hausa, ex 9830 B-16
0630-0700 NF 9830 NAU 250 kW / 185 deg WeAf Hausa, ex 11800 B-16
0630-0700 NF 15200 MEY 250 kW / 330 deg WeAf Hausa, ex 15530 B-16
1300-1400 NF 17840 ASC 250 kW / 055 deg WeAf Hausa, ex 21780 B-16
1330-1400 NF 9720 DHA 250 kW / 045 deg WeAs Dari, ex 9580 B-16
1330-1400 NF 15430 TRM 250 kW / 335 deg WeAs Dari, ex 11620 B-16
1400-1430 NF 9720 DHA 250 kW / 045 deg WeAs Pashto, ex 9580 B-16
1400-1430 NF 15430 TRM 250 kW / 335 deg WeAs Pashto, ex 11620 B-16
1425-1630 NF 15195 ISS 500 kW / 170 deg WeAf Hausa Sat Bundesliga, ex
15355 B-16
1425-1630 NF 17840 ISS 500 kW / 172 deg WeAf Hausa Sat Bundesliga, ex
17570 B-16
1500-1600 on 15275 MEY 250 kW / 005 deg EaAf Swahili cancelled in B-17
1500-1600 on 17710 DHA 250 kW / 215 deg CeAf Swahili cancelled in B-17
1600-1700 NF 15275 TRM 250 kW / 270 deg EaAf Amharic, ex ISS B-16
1600-1700 NF 17800 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg EaAf Amharic, ex NAU B-16
1600-1700 on 9820 MEY 250 kW / 007 deg EaAf English cancelled in B-17
1600-1700 on 15290 ISS 500 kW / 135 deg EaAf English cancelled in B-17
1600-1700 on 15315 ISS 500 kW / 165 deg WeAf English cancelled in B-17
1600-1700 on 17690 ISS 500 kW / 172 deg WeAf English cancelled in B-17
1600-1700 on 17710 DHA 250 kW / 215 deg EaAf English cancelled in B-17
1700-1800 on 15275 ISS 500 kW / 170 deg NWAf French, cancelled in B-17
1700-1800 on 15560 ISS 500 kW / 185 deg NWAf French, cancelled in B-17
1700-1800 on 17800 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg NWAf French, cancelled in B-17
1800-1900 NF 9785 ISS 500 kW / 170 deg WeAf Hausa, ex 9600 B-16
1800-1900 NF 15200 MEY 250 kW / 330 deg WeAf Hausa, ex 15275 B-16
(??????????? ?? Observer ? 3:12 via DXLD)
** GERMANY. [Continued from Sept 17:] Re: NPR Berlin --- Now finally
on air since Monday 11 AM, at least they say so. Looks like arranged
in a hurry, they still operate under the "Brillant 2663 GmbH" shelf
company name.
An interview with one of the licence holders:
https://kcrwberlin.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/John-Kornblum-%C3%BCber-den-neuen-Radiosender-KCRW-%E2%80%9EAuf-keinen-Fall-ein-Anti-Trump-Sender%E2%80%9C-Medien-Tagesspiegel.pdf
He says that NPR is under financial pressure and no longer able to
fund a radio station at Berlin, what will differ very much is the
music, aiming at a completely different audience than ten or even five
years ago, they are aiming at these "new Berliners", will "make it
better than the BBC which has no content from Berlin and only relays
its World Service, the same goes for Radio France Internationale, but
we will be a Berlin station".
By the way:
https://kcrwberlin.com/2017/10/tomorrow-at-800-a-m-on-the-world
right now announces "Inside the German film dubbing industry -- A
behind-the-scenes look at dubbing foreign TV shows and movies in
Germany."
Will probably not talk about what could still be seen here in 2008,
when the Kirch bankruptcy had already killed it:
https://goo.gl/maps/YSBfaWdyXi52
Now remains there only K13 Kinomischung, a company that first operated
at the K13 studio at Nalepastraße [as in Radio Berlin Internaitonal,
DDR], too small for what they do now.
This studio compound was once known as Jofa. For decades it was shared
by the DEFA movie company and TV for dubbing but also for production
in the large studio halls which, it seems, were all gone already 15
years ago. Here's at least a photo from the entrance of this forgotten
media venue ca. 1980, impossible to find because it is completely
mislabelled:
http://senderfotos-bb.de/bilder/nalepastr05.jpg
(Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. Reception of Voice of Greece on Oct 17
0652&0655 on 9420 AVL 170 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Arabic/Serbian tx#3
0652&0655 on 9935 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Arabic/Serbian tx#1
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/reception-of-voice-of-greece-on-oct17.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, October 16-23, dxldyg via DXLD)
9420, Oct 22 at 0503, lovely Orthodox singing, for Sunday morning
service from ERT, violating Separation of Church and State, S9+10/20.
I doze off to it but still going at last rouse 0604 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See EGYPT, 9420 collision?
** GUATEMALA. Of course, Wayne Ralph Borthwick is here with us, but it
was I who did put our transmission on air with all our normal audio.
However, Ralph Borthwick has been doing several adjustments in order
to improve our signal. I have always been very careful about our audio
level, as it makes a big difference.
We used face from one to two lightning strikes per year, and had many
difficulties to get spear transistors. But, ever since Wyne Ralph
Borthwick transformed our antenna and ground systems, we have never
gotten any more lightnings. Our previous antenna, used to do a good
job on transmission also, but had not enough protection against
lightnings.
I have some television transmissions also, through YouTube. If you
want to watch my television, you just enter YouTube and write "radio
verdad tv" on the browser. Mine is a very sane and instructive
television.
I am planning to start transmissions with Transworld Radio Truth very
soon also, and you will be able to tune Radio Verdad with a high power
in the whole world at anytime. May God be with you and keep tune (Dr.
Édgar Amílcar Madrid, General Manager, Oct 16, cc of replies to
reports from David Frost, Binghamton NY, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
4055, 0357 18 OCT - RADIO VERDAD (GUATEMALA). SINPO=15111. ? language
(couldn’t discern), male announcer. QSB=slow-to-moderate rate. rarely
discernible modulation on noisy carrier mostly below the noise floor
with rare peaks to mixing with, or just above it (was able to zero
beat carrier in SSB mode). sf72.2, a9, k1, geomag: very quiet. 1kw,
Omni , bearing 170 . Sangean ATS505 w/MFJ-1020C active antenna and
MFJ-901B tuner used to preselect ~75 feet of rain gutter running
north/south. Transmitting from Chiquimula, Lat: 14 48'N, Long:
089 32'W, Distance: 3449km. Received in Plymouth, MN, United States.
Local time: 2257. 73s (Rodney Johnson, http://swldx.tumblr.com/
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hear Radio Truth on 4055 without an antenna
RADIO VERDAD TRANSMUNDIAL
Friday, October 20, 2017 4:56 PM
From: "Édgar Madrid" <radioverdad5@yahoo.com>
Por favor revise en su radio de onda corta si logra captar nuestra
señal de Radio Verdad Transmundial en 4055 kHz. En este momento
estamos transmitiendo en vía e prueba hacia muchos países del mundo y
Estados Unidos. Incluye América del Sur, El Caribe, Japón, norte de
México y muchos lugares más. Todavía no están incluidos todos los
países. Nos urgen sus reportes. Pruebe sintonizarnos también SIN
ANTENA. Sus reportes serán muy valiosos (Dr. Édgar Amílcar Madrid,
Radio Verdad Transmundial, 1656 UT October 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Here we go again: Dr Madrid thinx R Verdad is somehow reaching many
countries of the world on 4055 without the use of SW transmitters or
even receiving antennas. He has never explained exactly how this is
supposed to happen, beyond saying that he does not understand the
process himself. To confirm this you will have to hear it in full
daytime or when the path from Guatemala is mostly in daytime. He will
no doubt receive reports which *could* have been direct on SW, or by
plants, or by web listeners (Glenn Hauser, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO
1901, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Of course if you don`t hear it, the
``test`` would not be running at that exact time (gh)
Hi Glenn, It isn't happening for me. Nothing heard on 4055 with an
antenna, and even less without one. According to EiBi, Radio Verdad
should be on air now, even on a Saturday. According to a handy little
app (Day & Night Map) on my Android phone, it is now daylight all the
way from Guatemala to Johannesburg; mid afternoon here, early morning
there. Must admit, I wouldn't expect to hear them on 4055 at this time
of day, so I'm not surprised!
4055, Radio Verdad, Chiquimula (Aoki). Oct 21, 2017, Saturday. 1135-
1145. Nothing heard. Jo'burg sunset 1617 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg
RSA. Drake R8E, Sony ICF2001D. dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Hopefully, he didn't pay an awful lot for this 'service' (Rodney
Johnson, MN, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
4055, Radio Verdad, Chiquimula, 0457-0520, 21-10, English, comments
and religious songs. Very weak, best on LSB. 15321 (Manuel Méndez,
Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo and Reinante, Tecsun S-8800, cable antena, 8
metros, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
In another reply to the Jakarta guy who listens via US web receiver,
Dr Madrid says, ``Sorry, in Guatemala we do not have any postal mail
any longer; so, I am sending our QSL Card on a virtual manner``
I haven`t followed the Guatemala postal situation closely, but a
cursory websearch doesn`t find anything about it being closed down. If
so, there would be no need to issue any more stamps! Linn`s has this
contact info via:
https://www.linns.com/insights/postal-administrations-of-the-world.html#
``Guatemala — Servicio Filatélico, Central Post Office, Box 3000,
Guatemala City, Guatemala, Central America. Phone: 502 238-3493 or 502
232-6101 ext. 128. Fax: 502 232-6516. Deals with individual orders for
mint and CTO stamps, FDCs and special postmarks. SODA with minimum
balance of $10. Orders shipped postage extra. CBC, PC, IMO, IBD
accepted``.
Perhaps the Servicio Filatélico is still operating to sell out old
stock? What do active philatelists have to say about Guatemala? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUINEA. Radio Guinée, Tune-in on 9650 at 2230 10/16/17z. M in local
language reading or improvising aloud while being accompanied by a
musical backdrop consisting of a stringed instrument sounding like a
lute. A very pleasant and interesting listen; continued listening for
almost an hour until carrier abruptly dropping at 2328. Signals:
45545. Rx: ICF-2010 and active 4’ whip 15 feet up in a tree (Steve
Zimmerman, about 50 mi N. of Milwaukee in state forest, camping logs
while enjoying a buzz-and-crud free HF, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** INDIA. 7380.040, Oct 19 at 0158, JBA carrier with flutter, presumed
AIR Sindhi service, per NDXC, 0100-0200, 100 kW, 282 degrees from
Delhi (Kingsway). 7375 Romania was not a problem, but just before
blasted away by WHRI 7835 from *0200 (while at 0300-0930+1130, 7380 is
occupied by Air Chennai in Hindi). (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
7555.75v, AIR via Delhi-Kingsway, 1206, Oct 24. Carrier already on;
AIR IS 1213-1215; scheduled to be in Tibetan; very distorted audio
(Ron Howard, San Francisco, at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100'
long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
7550, All India Radio; 2215, 10/16; 2W in English reading reception
reports & gave AIR sked. SIO=3+33 with roar QRM that USB minimizes; //
9445 with strong hiss QRM (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B +
185' RW, ----- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! --
---, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
That would confirm mailbag `Faithfully Yours` on a third Monday (Glenn
Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
9690, Oct 21 at 1426, no signal from AIR GOS sesquihour in English.
Some other Asian signals are making it. Not the first time a no-show
here from 1330, so I wonder if really on the air?
9690, Oct 22 at 1330, very poor talk, presumed AIR GOS on, and barely
propagating today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA [non]. 9410, TWR-India, via Yerevan, 1259, Oct 24. IS; intro
ID with frequencies in English; religious preaching in English; weak
(Ron Howard, San Francisco, at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100'
long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 3325, RRI Palangkaraya. Oct 24, checking at 1141 & 1217
found no signal at all; 1248 had carrier and some audio; started very
late today.
9524.94, VOI, ex: 9525.94, at 1215, on Oct 22, in Japanese. So a
change of transmitters (Ron Howard, San Francisco, at Ocean Beach, CA,
Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Reception of Voice of Indonesia on "new" 9525 kHz Oct 22
1300-1400 NF 9525vJAK 250 kW / 010 deg to EaAs English, good ex 9526v
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/reception-of-voice-of-indonesia-on-new.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, October 16-23, dxldyg via DXLD)
9524.936, Oct 22 at 1327, very poor signal, trace of talk, allegedly
English hour from VOI, shifted once again back to 1-kHz-lower off-
frequency after a spell just below 9526; so two different
transmitters? If not, how to explain these? Atsunori Ishida says
``9525`` resumed Oct 21 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
At 1830 UT on Sunday Oct 22 strong S=9+20dB reception here in Germany,
difficult pronunciation of the presenter in German language, not
easily to understand though ..., letterbox "Hallo, wie geht es Ihnen"
or "Wir danken Ihnen sehr", answers listeners letter program.
Technicalwise the feeder and transmitter audio quality of V og
Indonesia foreign service is very good these days.
9524.938 kHz. THANKS, the technicians in Cimanggis have the third
transmitter {ex-9680 kHz} cannibalized, and set the remaining two
transmitters in very good condition (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via
WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Thanks. I’ve been wondering why I couldn’t hear Indonesia’s usual het
on 9525.94. This evening, 9525 was dominated by the CRI Russian
service, which put a very nice signal into my area, near Washington,
DC. (300 kW beamed pretty much right at us.) CRI went off at 2057, and
I was able to detect a weak het on 9524.94, which went off at 2102. I
assume this was RRI (Art Delibert, JRC NRD-93, Pennant antenna with DX
Engineering pre-amp, HCDX via DXLD)
** INTERNATIONAL INTERNET. Hi! there's a company in the UK named
worldofradio limited (Jon Collins, Birmingham UK, Oct 18, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
And something in China notified me they were worldofradio with some
other domain. BEWARE: OUR only true WORLD OF RADIO domains are .com
and .org (Glenn Hauser)
** INTERNATIONAL. SWLDXBulgaria News, October 23 Winter B-17 frequency
changes (publications 10821-10860)
[several entries below have been followed in full for this DXLD. For
this entry only it`s as-is; I have not reworked it to DXLD standards
for proper country and [non] filing --- gh]
ARMENIA(non) Winter B-17 change of Trans World Radio via Yerevan
from Oct.30:
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-change-of-trans-world-radio_24.html
EGYPT Winter B-17 changes of Radio Cairo from Oct.29
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-changes-of-radio-cairo-from.html
FRANCE(non) Winter B-17 changes of Radio France International:
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-changes-of-radio-france.html
FRANCE(non) Winter B-17 changes of TDA Telediffusion d'Algerie via
TDF Issoudun:
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-changes-of-tda.html
FRANCE(non) Winter B-17 changes of Radio Taiwan International via
TDF Issoudun:
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-changes-of-radio-taiwan.html
GERMANY(non) Winter B-17 changes of Deutsche Welle from Oct.29
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-changes-of-deutsche-welle.html
GERMANY(non) Winter B-17 change of The Mighty KBC Radio via MBR
Nauen:
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-change-of-mighty-kbc-radio.html
GERMANY(non) Winter B-17 changes of Gospel For Asia via MBR Nauen
from Oct.29
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-changes-of-gospel-for-asia.html
GERMANY(non) Winter B-17 changes of Radio Japan NHK World via MBR
Nauen
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-change-of-radio-japan-nhk.html
GERMANY(non) Winter B-17 unidentified transmission via MBR Issoudun:
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-unidentified-transmission.html
GERMANY(non) Winter B-17 change of Pan American Broadcasting via MBR
Nauen
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-change-of-pan-american.html
GERMANY(non) Winter B-17 frequency changes of BVBroadcasting via MBR
transmitters
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-frequency-changes-of.html
GERMANY(non) Winter B-17 change of Radio Al-Mukhtar via MBR Issoudun
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-change-of-radio-al-mukhtar.html
GERMANY(non) Winter B-17 change of Missionswerk Friedensstimme via
MBR Nauen
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-change-of-missionswerk.html
GERMANY(non) Winter B-17 of Radio Publique Africaine via MBR Talata-
Volonondry
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-of-radio-publique-africaine.html
GUAM Winter B-17 frequency changes of KTWR Trans World Radio Asia
from Oct.29
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-frequency-changes-of-ktwr.html
INDIA Winter B-17 frequency changes of All India Radio from Oct.29
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-frequency-changes-of-all.html
IRAN Winter B-17 frequency changes of PARS TODAY VIRI IRIB from
Oct.29
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-frequency-changes-of-pars.html
JAPAN Winter B-17 change of Radio Japan NHK World via Yamata from
Oct.29
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-change-of-radio-japan-nhk_24.html
KUWAIT Winter B-17 changes of Radio Kuwait from Oct.29
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-changes-of-radio-kuwait.html
NEW ZEALAND B-17 frequency changes of Radio New Zealand
International
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-frequency-changes-of-radio.html
PHILIPPINES Winter B-17 changes of Radio Veritas Asia from Oct.29
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-changes-of-radio-veritas.html
ROMANIA Winter B-17 changes of Radio Romania International from
Oct.29
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-frequency-changes-of-radio_24.html
U.K.(non) Winter B-17 frequency changes of BBC from Oct.29
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-frequency-changes-of-bbc.html
U.K.(non) Winter B-17 changes of FEBA Radio via BaBcoCk Tashkent and
Woofferton
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-changes-of-feba-radio-via.html
U.K.(non) Winter B-17 changes of Radio Japan NHK World via BaBcoCk
Tashkent
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-changes-of-radio-japan-nhk.html
U.K.(non) Winter B-17 changes of TWR Africa via BaBcoCk Al-Dhabayya
from Oct.29
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-changes-of-twr-africa-via.html
U.K.(non) Winter B-17 change of Voice of America via BaBcoCk
Ascension
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-change-of-voice-of-america.html
U.K.(non) Winter B-17 changes of Radio Dandal Kura International
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-changes-of-radio-dandal.html
U.K.(non) Winter B-17 change of Radio Ashna via BaBcoCk Woofferton
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-change-of-radio-ashna-via.html
U.K.(non) Winter B-17 changes of Voice of the People of Somaliland:
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-changes-of-voice-of-people.html
U.K.(non) Winter B-17 unidentified broadcast via BaBaCok Woofferton:
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-unidentified-broadcast-via.html
U.K.(non) Winter B-17 change of Radio Taiwan International via
BaBcoCk Al-Dhabayya
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-change-of-radio-taiwan.html
U.K.(non) Winter B-17 change of Radio Free Asia via BaBcoCk Al-
Dhabayya
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-change-of-radio-free-asia.html
U.K.(non) Winter B-17 of Nippon no Kaze via BaBcoCk Tamshui & Palau
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-of-nippon-no-kaze-via.html
U.K.(non) Winter B-17 of Furusato no Kaze via BaBcoCk Tamshui &
Palau
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-of-furusato-no-kaze-via.html
USA Winter B-17 changes of WCB KNLS The New Life Station from Oct.29
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b17-changes-of-wcb-knls-new-life.html
USA Winter B-17 changes of World Harvest Radio International WHRI
Angel 1/2
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-changes-of-world-harvest.html
USA(non) Winter B-17 frequency changes of Adventist World Radio KSDA:
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-frequency-changes-of_24.html
VATICAN(non) Winter B-17 changes of Vatican Radio from Oct.29
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-changes-of-vatican-radio_24.html
-- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via DXLD)
** INTERNATIONAL INTERNET & VACUUM. WRN Website Update
Glenn: The World Radio Network website has been updated. Now it is
part of Babcock Media:
http://babcock.media/world-radio-network/
While it seems to lack some of the detail of the previous website at
least it’s functional. I was having a few problems hearing the streams
on an Apple operating system but now I have some hope these bugs will
be removed.
Also, one of the featured partners is Israel public radio, Kan Radio,
providing news in English. News appears to be updated after 8 PM local
Israeli time. The male announcer was the former IBA news reader.
http://www.kan.org.il/Radio/item.aspx?pid=11499
Thanks (Charles Harlich, Oct 22, WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
After several clix we can reach the North America schedule:
http://babcock.media/world-radio-network/schedules/Schedule-English-North-America.pdf
(Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. Radio Italia Nuove frequenze --- Caro/a amico/a, le nostre
programmazioni giornaliere vengono trasmesse in onde corte secondo la
seguente tabella (applicabile dal 29.10.2017).
Programma Orario UTC Orario Tehran Destinazione Frequenza
1920-1950 23:50 - 00:20 Italia SW: 7305KHz, 41m SW: 6135KHz, 49m
0920-1020 13:50 - 14:50 Tehran FM: 99.5MHz Italiano
(Registrato)
0620-0720 10:50 - 11:50
Solo Eutelsat3B, Hotbird13E, sito Internet e app per smartphone
0920-1020 13:50 - 14:50
1150-1250 16:20 - 17:20
1920-1950 23:50 - 00:20
Ti salutiamo con amicizia dall'Iran e rimaniamo in attesa di ricevere
i tuoi rapporti d'ascolto sia via internet che per posta cartacea.
Ali Azizmohammadi radioitaliairib@gmail.com (via Roberto Scaglione,
Sicilia, shortwave yg via DXLD) So why not give it in Italy time too?
** IRAN [non]. Radio Ranginkaman/Rainbow via BaBcoCk Grigoriopol on
Oct 23:
1600-1630 7575 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Persian Mon/Fri, good &
1600-1630 7580 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Persian Mon/Fri, Oct 30
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/radio-ranginkamanrainbow-via-babcock_24.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, October 16-23, dxldyg via DXLD)
** ISLE OF MAN. This weekend - 28 and 29 October Caroline North will
broadcast from the MV Ross Revenge online and via Manx Radio on 1368
khz. These broadcasts are planned to take place monthly throughout the
year.
Incidentally, the Foxdale 1368 transmitter was off air earlier this
month undergoing essential maintenance. Posted by: (Mike Terry, Oct
23, BDXC-UK yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DXLD)
** ISRAEL. See INTERNATIONAL INTERNET & VACUUM: WRN above
** ITALY. Please be advised that after many weeks of absence, MRI will
be back on the air tomorrow, Sunday, 22 October 2017, as follows:
1345-1545 UT on 7700 kHz (USB mode). Reception reports with audio
clips (mp3-file) are welcome. Our E-mail: marconiradiointernational
(at) gmail.com
Last but not least, we need your help! If you are a DX blogger, or
use social networks, please post an announcement on your own blog
and/or Facebook or send out a tweet the day before the broadcast. You
can also forward this message to a friend. We hope to hear from a lot
of shortwave listeners about our transmissions. Best 73's (Marconi
Radio International (MRI), Oct 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. Pyongyang FM Pangsong & Voice of Korea Livestream from
North Korea
Hello! There is a new livestream available for Pyongyang FM Pangsong
(?? FM ??) in Korean and Voice of Korea (VoK) in Russian:
http://guzei.com/online_radio/listen.php?online_radio_id=17829
The broadcasts in Russian are not according to VoK's shortwave
schedule as they are aired at the following hours Moscow Time:
00.30, 03.30, 06.30, 09.30, 12.30, 15.30, 18.30, 21.30; at all other
times Pyongyang FM Pangsong is heard
There is another independent livestream available on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVLUz_1Juks
The latter is powered by the DPRK Solidarity Group in Russia:
https://vk.com/dprk_solidarity_group
All these new activities are no doubt the fruition of the new landline
internet link between North Korea and Russia (both countries share a
common border in the far Northeast of Korea):
http://www.38north.org/2017/10/mwilliams100117
In North Korea itself there is a state-of-the-art optical fibre cable
intranet available which is rapidly expanding. During my last stay in
North Korea (May/June 2016) I pointed out that it would be favourable
for the North Koreans to have another link to the WorldWideWeb through
Russia in order to gain more reliable access to the WWW (hitherto the
one and only connection has been the Sinuiju/Dandong link, PR of
China).
So now it bears fruit! :-) Vy 73s + best wishes, (Arnulf Piontek,
Berlin, Germany, Oct 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH. 5920, Oct 23 at 1320, romantic song, 1322 M&W in
Korean with some SAH. Must be Voice of Freedom on one of its
alternative frequencies. No jamming audible here, but at 1347 noise
jamming only on 6135, the original and sometimes VOF channel. It`s a
10 kW ND transmitter at Hwaseong. Aoki tries to keep up with the
changes, but hasn`t got to this one yet: says the active dates for
5920 in different timespans were:
``0300-0800 Jun 1-6, 20-Aug 9
0900-1500 Sep 7-Oct 18
1600-2000 Oct 23`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH. Voice of Freedom - recently changing
frequencies:
6045 (ex: 5920), Oct 19-22; during all these days had jamming from N.
Korea (leaving ex: 5920 free of any jamming).
5920 (ex: 6045), Oct 23 & 24; VOF free of any jamming here; 0932+;
jamming still up on 6045 (Ron Howard, San Francisco, at Ocean Beach,
CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. Winter B-17 changes of Radio Kuwait from Oct 29
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-changes-of-radio-kuwait.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, October 23, B-17 frequency changes,
dxldyg via DXLD) Viz.:
0500-0800 on 11970 KBD 250 kW / 100 deg to SoAs English DRM, new addit
1000-1200 NF 17760 KBD 250 kW / 084 deg to SEAs Filipino, ex 21580
0945-1325 NF 15110 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Arabic General Service
DRM, ex 21540 AM
(??????????? ?? Observer ? 3:34 PM, via DXLD)
The 0500-0800 English broadcast on AM was dropped several years ago,
while the other at 1800-2100 continued; really coming back? (gh, DXLD)
** LIBERIA. 6050. Wed, Oct 18 at 0548-0615, ELWA Radio, Monrovia-LBR*,
in English. African songs; 0558 Other song; 0600 Man talks, ID and a
hymn by choral; Man talks, says Good Morning and makes a preaching; A
song; 0612 Woman makes a preaching. Station has a fair to poor
transmission, 35333 to 35332. Is it really ELWA, with only 1 kW on the
transmitter? Distance from Cabedelo-PB = 3053 km (53 km more than
Conakri, Guinea). (*) 2:48 AM in Cabedelo & 5:48 AM in Monrovia. I'll
make other attempts! (DXer: Jose Ronaldo Xavier, Cabedelo-PB, Brazil,
Degen DE1103, Antenna: Longwire, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD)
Well, you are closer than most to ELWA, right across the Atlantic
narrows. HCJB has been running all night on same frequency but would
not be in English (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
6050, ELWA Radio, Monrovia, *0530-0650, 22-10, religious songs and
comments in English. 15321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo
and Reinante, Tecsun S-8800, cable antena, 8 metros, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
6050. Mon, Oct 23 at 0648-0717, ELWA Radio, Monrovia, in English. Man
talks, preaching; 0700 Songs till 0715: African rhythms, all by
choral, with enthusiasm; 0715 Woman announcer talks and says Liberia.
No Spanish, no Quechua, all program in English language, with a very
poor signal and modulation, 25322. ELWA transmitter 1 kW impossible to
head in Cabedelo: Has the power been increased? Note: Log on October
18, it's similar to October 23: Help will be welcome! (DXer: José
Ronaldo Xavier, Location: Cabedelo-PB, Brazil, RX (s): Degen DE1103 &
Tecsun S-2000, Antenna: Longwire, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD)
** LIBYA. Both remaining Libyan mediumwave transmitters can be
monitored remotely by web SDRs based in southern Europe, with
reception ranging from poor to good during the hours of local
darkness. Libya National Radio (Benghazi) on 675 kHz is the easier
catch, typically identifying on-air as "Idha'at Libiya al-Wataniya"
and announcing the local 89.3 FM frequency (and occasionally the MW
frequency). They have a Facebook page at
http://tinyurl.com/benghaziradio
and a clip can be heard via the Interval Signals Online website at
http://tinyurl.com/isobenghazi
Libya National Radio (Tripoli) on 1053 kHz is somewhat harder to hear
with adequate reception due to sometimes strong co-channel QRM. No
programming has been observed to be in parallel with Benghazi. LNR
Tripoli has a Facebook page at
http://tinyurl.com/tripoliradio
This state-run broadcaster's TV channel has a website at
http://ltv.ly
(David Kernick, Interval Signals Online, Oct 22, dxldyg via WORLD OF
RADIO 1901, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MALAYSIA [non-log]. Oct 18 noted both Sarawak FM (9835) and
Wai FM (11665) off the air; rather rare for them both to be off. So
today Malaysia with no SW presence. So another country that has
really gone downhill with their SW service!
Hard to believe some years ago we were enjoying:
5965 - Klasik Nasional FM/Radio Klasik
6050 - Asik FM & Suara Islam/Voice of Islam
7295 - Traxx FM and
6174.4, 6175.0 and 15295 - Voice of Malaysia, back in 2011
(Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long
wire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MALI. RTV du Mali. Tune-in on 5995 at 2226 10/16/17z. Afro-pops and
low modulation, but as had been mentioned here on DXLD by others, the
modulation has improved noticeably. Listenable quality with good sigs:
45533. Rx: ICF-2010 and active 4’ whip 15 feet up in a tree (Steve
Zimmerman, about 50 mi N. of Milwaukee in state forest, camping logs
while enjoying a buzz-and-crud free HF, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
9635, R. Mali, Kati, 1050-1225, 18/10, líng. local, texto; 35343,
modulação quase a zero. Good DX & 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW Coast of
Portugal, Oct 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 630, XEPBGJ, Jalisco Radio, Guadalajara, Jal. OCT 6, 1103 -
End of Mexican anthem, group of 3 ascending notes then another group
of 3 notes on a vibraphone, into ID by a woman as "Jalisco Radio" and
then a call that didn't sound like XEJB. I originally thought it
sounded like it ended in "FB" leading to the assumption it was XEFB.
But after listening to the web stream for XEJB, it appears they are
now using a different 6-letter call. The full ID sounds like "Jalisco
Radio, XEPBKJ, seis ciento trienta, AM, transmitir diez mil wats
potencia..." [sic], followed by an address in Guadalajara.
However, according to a Wikipedia article, the call sign actually
changed to "XEPBGL" earlier this year. Still trying to sort out what
the call actually is, new information came to light on this station.
The actual call sign of the station on 630 in Guadalajara that was
formally [sic] XEJB is now XEPBGJ. I finally found an official
document from their version of the FCC that lists this call sign. This
is backed up by hearing those calls on the webstream. So this is my
final answer (Brett Saylor, W3SWL, State College PA; Perseus SDR, 16 x
36-ft south-facing corner-fed BBL with Wellbrook FLG-100 amp and
remote vactrol termination, NRC IDXD via DXLD)
** MEXICO. 1030 UNID, Oct/20/17, 0659-0705 EDT [1059-1105 UT],
SPANISH, FAIR-GOOD. Decent signal at 0659 EDT with Mexican anthem with
vocals till 0700 EDT [1100 UT]. Then right into a second anthem or
march tune played on MARIMBAS from 0700 to 0702 EDT. Female with talk
at 0702-0705 [EDT] in Spanish but signal deteriorated by 0702 so no
useful info from the talk. Gone by 0705 when WNVR-Vernon Hills, IL
took over in Polish.
The key to IDing this one is the second instrumental ANTHEM played on
the MARIMBAS!! Anyone heard this before?? Don't think it is XEQR Radio
Centro which I've logged before?? (Rob Ross, Ont., IRCA via DXLD)
One would expect marimbas from SE Mexico near Guatemala. In that case
there is one very good candidate, and a backup, per the IRCA Log, if
either remain on AM:
XEVFS, Las Margaritas, Chiapas, 10 kW daytimer, La Voz de la Frontera
Sur, 1200-2400, Spanish plus several native languages; or maybe:
XETEKA, Juchitán, Oaxaca, 500 watts, Radio Teka 1200-0200. The listed
times probably do not take into account one hour earlier by DST in
vigor a few days more (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Mexican FM migration --- I've been researching the
migration of Mexican AM stations to FM, visiting web sites, listening
to live streams and chatting with as many stations as possible on
Facebook. All info gathered is being immediately shared with Neil
Kazaross for the next edition of the IRCA Mexican Log.
Here is a summary of what I have found so far:
953 total Mexican stations in my original AM database (including some
silent stations and trying not to double-count any stations that have
changed from one AM frequency to another over the years).
379 (39.8%) are known or strongly believed to be off AM
185 (19.4%) are suspected to have left AM
44 ( 4.6%) are suspected to still be active on AM
345 (36.2%) are known or strongly believed to still be active on AM.
At this point it looks like I have reached out to as many stations as
possible via Facebook. I'm going to keep listening to the web streams
of the "suspected`` stations, hoping to catch a full ID that will
decisively state whether the AM is still on.
With close to 60% of all Mexican AMs possibly off the air, it is
starting to open up some channels substantially. For example, I
believe the only station left on 930 is the 5 kW indigenous station in
Oaxaca that I recently logged from the Border Inn. 73 (Tim Hall, Oct
19, ABDX via DXLD)
** MEXICO. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BEAT this week --- [including DTV]
On October 4, the IFT unanimously shut the door on a station
application from Shuta Yoma, A.C., which wanted to operate three FM
radio stations in Oaxaca.
Denials of new stations at the Pleno are rare; most station
applications that die do so before reaching the commissioners. In
fact, I can only recall two in the entire time this blog has been
running.
The first was the TV station sought by the Universidad de Occidente in
Culiacán. The reason at that time was federal preference: the SPR
wanted the station, and since federal agencies take priority over all
other applicants for broadcast stations, the IFT had no choice but to
award the station to the SPR and tell the U de O to apply for another
station next year.
The second was the Shuta Yoma application. At the time, I noted that
Shuta Yoma's denial was likely due to its ties to a newly reregistered
state political party, the PSD (Partido Social Demócrata). The IFT
meeting transcript confirms this, noting that Shuta Yoma was been tied
to a political party when it applied for the station nearly two years
ago.
A provision of Article 41 of the Constitution says that political
parties cannot individually buy airtime on broadcast stations, either
directly or through third parties. This is the linchpin of the current
political advertising model in Mexico, in which all political party
advertising is approved by the National Electoral Institute and doled
out in proportion to parties' vote shares. (The INE could be said to
be the third regulator pertinent to broadcasters, after the IFT and
RTC.)
In his presentation on these concession requests to the Pleno, Rafael
Eslava Herrada, Head of the UCS (Concessions and Services Unit), told
the commissioners, "I believe that if we were to award a concession to
this association, which is now a political party, we would be
flagrantly violating the constitutional provisions relating to
elections."
http://www.ift.org.mx/sites/default/files/conocenos/pleno/sesiones/ordinaria/xl-ordinaria-del-pleno-4-de-octubre-de-2017/estenografica40aord041017.pdf
———
When Imagen TV built in Tepic, Nayarit, they did so using yet another
public broadcaster's tower. In a first so far, this tower is owned by
the state government.
20 kW XHCTNY/22
http://rpc.ift.org.mx/rpc/pdfs/93892_170906175857_5880.pdf
has the same coordinates as XHTPG/24 (Tele 10), which is on Cerro Loma
Batea, Tepic's tower farm. The authorization and RPC entry appeared
last month but were missed until now due to a lower folio number.
The SPR and IPN do not yet have facilities here, though both hold
concessions for their own transmitters in Tepic. (The IPN transmitter
will be on VHF; the SPR transmitter, awarded in 2015, will be on UHF.)
Technical information is still missing for La Paz, a critical link
given that they need to be up and running in BCS, and Chilpancingo
(which has not had any technical info despite having an RPC entry for
over a year!), where I suspect the delay has to do with Imagen winning
a radio station in IFT-4. (The two will probably share a tower.)
(Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ, Oct 23, WTFDA Forum via DXLD)
On October 4, 2016, I mused that, with the surprise VC change that
emerged that day, Azteca Trece might soon be "Azteca Uno". Tonight, on
October 24, 2017, Azteca Trece has begun cycling Azteca Uno in and out
of its bug. More to come --- eventually.
———
There won't be any more to come from the concessions for two TV
stations in western Mexico, as they have officially been terminated.
This is not a shock to anyone who follows XHK, but it is head
scratching for those wondering about XHENB in Ensenada. Failure to
transition to digital is the likely cause though no document has been
placed in XHENB's RPC file.
XHENB continues broadcasting (if at least on cable). However, their
Facebook Live presence makes it clear that this station is still a
very analog shop
https://www.facebook.com/canal29/videos/10155857772329044/
(go to 1 hour, 23 minutes, ironically for an IFT PSA). (It also
apparently is on Izzi channel 89, not 29 — a sure sign of a cable
station.) I have contacted the station to ask for comment.
Also terminated were two radio stations: XHIXH-FM and XHSTX-FM, the
two least powerful transmitters in the Radiomás state network of
Veracruz. They appear on Facebook (and in promo materials as recently
as September 8) but not in the header of their website. There is no
termination document for either station, though they show as
terminated in the RPC.
XHSTX attempted to serve Santiago Tuxtla at just 167 watts. XHIXH
served Ixhuatlán de Madero at 400 watts. Both of the TVMÁS
transmitters in these areas were not transitioned to digital.
Ixhuatlán de Madero has 54,000 inhabitants and now has no broadcasting
services of its own. Last edited by Raymie; 10-25-2017 at 02:31 AM.
(Raymie, originally Oct 24, ibid.)
There were a bunch of news stories today that merit attention.
We start at the Supreme Court, where Televisión Azteca
http://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/nacional/scjn-ampara-a-tv-azteca-contra-multa-del-ift.html
has partially won a ruling that says the (US) $266,000 fine the IFT
levied upon them 18 months ago, 1% of total earnings, was too large
and out of proportion with the violation.
This case was discussed here when the IFT announced the original fine.
It involves pre-transition digital facilities for XHLLO-TDT, which
were being provisionally operated at 3.314 kW instead of the licensed
8.74. This doesn't make much of a difference in metropolitan Saltillo
or in the station's signal contour, but it did make a difference to
the regulator.
They were joined in filing a case with another company that had
received an identical type of fine. Televisión Internacional, S.A. de
C.V., is not a broadcasting company, however; it is the trade name of
Cablevisión Monterrey, which until recently was a joint venture
between Multimedios and Televisa. The cable company was fined for
failing to put Once Niños in its packages.
The ruling from the Second Chamber was unanimous. However, the Supreme
Court did uphold the ability to fine based on earnings, so expect the
percentage to be revised at some point.
———
The second item also came from a branch of government, this time in
the Senate, which approved a watering down of the audience rights
provisions of the LFTR that had been previously approved but awaited a
challenge in the Supreme Court. The SCJN took up the very important
"tarifa cero" case involving América Móvil and phone interconnection
rates instead in August, so this case was put back on the shelf.
The reform passed 72-13 with three abstentions over the opposition of
the important expert organizations in this realm (AMEDI, Article 19,
etc.)
———
There was also a curious news story out of XHTIX-FM Cuernavaca, where
one on-air talent has lost his job after uploading a video to his
personal Facebook page slamming the governor of Morelos.
César Mejía, who had a four-hour Sunday shift, was told not to report
to work because the video had bothered the state government. The
station says that they dismissed Mejía for becoming part of an
"unfounded" campaign (Raymie, Oct 26, ibid.)
** MONGOLIA. 1431 kHz: The new Radio Sea Breeze broadcasting from
Choibalsan, Mongolia to North Korea was heard in Kangasala, Finland,
on October 23 2017 at 1700-1800Z. Very strong signal over Ukraine on
the same frequency. Programme heard was English language lesson in
Korean, station ID at 1730 Z. I have uploaded the ID on my web-site:
http://www.kaapeli.fi/~jmantyla/MP3/Choib1431.mp3
(Jorma Mantyla, Kangasala, Finland, Icom IC-R8500 + 650 m Beverage
60o, mwdx yg via DXLD)
Sounds like new BBC Korean relay, not Sea Breeze, which I don`t think
would do English language lessons. I can`t make out an ID for either
on the clip, but the beat with beeps sounder is like BBC. Supposedly
at 1630-1730 UT in deference to North Koren timezone. So the reported
time for that is wrong? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MONGOLIA. 4895, Mongolian Radio 1, 1143, Oct 18. Only hearing a
carrier with no audio, whereas Hiroyuki Komatsubara
http://radio.chobi.net/DX/bbs/?res:2535#2637
reported:
``-1220- [Oct 18]
4895kHz MONGOLIA ??, strong carrier but no-modulation ?
-1237-
4895 kHz MONGOLIA MNB relay of "Radio 1", //
http://www.mnb.mn/live/radio1
Is Radio 2 obsolete?
http://www.mnb.mn/live/radio1
http://www.mnb.mn/live/radio2
The program table has the same contents``
(Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long
wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MONGOLIA. MONGÓLIA, 12035, Voz da Mongólia, Khonkhor, 1001-1059*,
18/10, prgr. em mandarim, texto, alguma música; ID musical, às 1030,
prgr. em japonês, texto, música; 25332, sinal em perda acelerada. Good
DX & 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW Coast of Portugal, Oct 21, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) By texto he means talk (gh)
** MYANMAR. 5985, Myanmar Radio. Wednesday (Oct 18), the further
antics of "Tom," on the "Say It In English" program; 1231-1244. My
audio at
http://goo.gl/pnna8L
(Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long
wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hi all, Not much to report this week except Myanmar being a daily
visitor. Most days at tune in around 1500 UT with very nice signals
most days. Too bad most days their modulation is over-driven:
5985, Myanmar Radio at 1515 UT October 18 with unique Burmese songs to
1528 with announcements in Burmese followed by signature tune at 1530
and sign on announcements for the English program and frequencies
given. News always follows with headlines. Very Good. Heard every day
this week with various reception and modulation. Today, October 22 the
modulation was pretty good though reception was not the strongest of
the week. 73 (Mick Delmage, Rx Perseus SDR, Ant: Wellbrook ALA 100,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Well, after reporting yesterday how well I was receiving Myanma Radio
on 5985 from past 1500 UT, Radio New Zealand decides to switch to 5980
during that time giving Myanmar all sorts of problems this morning
October 23rd. With B17 schedules due to take effect on October 28th we
will see if RNZI stays on 5980 kHz. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park,
Alberta, Oct 23, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hi Mike, Thanks for this interesting report. Glad to find someone
else regularly tuning into 5985.
Fortunately for me today, it did not affect my Monday (1216-1229),
reception of Myanmar Radio. Was enjoying this week`s amusing dialogue
by "Tom," on the "Say It In English" program. Today he was talking on
the phone to his aunt Jennifer in Australia, who will soon be flying
to London, so he gets all her flight info; later talks to his boss
"Mr. Harris" about getting time off to pick up his aunt at the
airport; at 1230 usual singing station ID in vernacular with three
"kilohertz" mentioned. Very readable.
Re: RNZ - Glenn already predicted in DXLD 17-41: ". . . recent HFCC
registrations for new 5980, at 1300-1645 . . . We can only assume
these were wooden alternatives but which still might go into effect at
any time . . ." (Ron Howard, San Francisco, ibid.)
There are no requests from Myanmar on ITU / HFCC season databases
R NZi Rangitaiki from Oct 1 resp. Oct 8 onwards.
5980 1300-1645 to zones 61S,62,63W RAN 50kW 35degr ant148 011017-
291017 Eng NZL RNZ
5980 1300-1645 to zones 51,56,64S,65S RAN 50kW 325degr ant148 081017-
291017 Eng NZL RNZ
but B-17 requests on either 5950, 5995, 9700, or test fq 7355 kHz
instead. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.)
In fact NZ going from 5980 to 7355; see NEW ZEALAND (gh, DXLD)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. Starting 16th year of free radio action! Test on
Wednesday morning 25th Oct 2017 starting around 6... 6:30 UT on 31 mb
9290 (or 9270 kHz) AM-mode+ few picture txs SSTV with scottie1-mode.
Reports most welcome. Please tune in and try fq from 6 to about midday
12 UT. Good luck. All correct reception reports would be sent to e-
mail addresses spaceshuttleradio@yahoo.com or
radiospaceshuttle@hotmail.com for email-QSLs or to P. O. Box 2702 for
printed ones! Best regards, (Dick Spacewalker, Radio Spaceshuttle,
P.O.Box 2702, NL-6049 ZG Herten, The Netherlands, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. GERMANY, B-17 change of The Mighty KBC Radio via
MBR Nauen:
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-change-of-mighty-kbc-radio.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, October 23, B-17 frequency changes,
dxldyg via DXLD) Viz.:
0000-0200 NF 5960 NAU 125 kW / 300 deg ENAm English Sun, ex 6145 B-16
(??????????? ?? Observer via DXLD) IOW, NO change from A-17 (gh, DXLD)
** NEWFOUNDLAND. Re: CKZN-6160 --- It seems an official decision has
finally been made:
"Audience Services (CBC) Oct 20, 13:15 EDT
Hello Richard, Our apologies for the delay. We no longer offer
shortwave, and it is not something we plan to bring back in the
future. Should this change, we will let you know. Best, Yumi Hayashi,
Communications Officer"
(-- Richard Langley, 1719 UT Oct 20, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hold on! This guy "Yumi Hayashi" may be talking about RCI not CKZN.
I'll try to get clarification (-- Richard Langley, 1816 UT Oct 20,
ibid.)
A follow-up. It is clear that CBC Audience Relations doesn't have a
clue about the separate CKZN SW operation. I'm not sure I have the
stamina to clue them in.
"Hello Richard, We have confirmed with our transmission team that all
shortwave signals are now obsolete. We will file a request with an
engineer regarding your follow-up, as we are not experts in this field
at Audience Relations. If CKZN was a shortwave signal, then it is no
longer serviced. All the best, Ms. Yumi Hayashi, Communications
Officer"
(-- Richard Langley, 1855 UT Oct 20, ibid., WORLD OF RADIO 1901)
Shortwave signals are obsolete? What technological paradigm does the
CBC operate in? CHU is still operating, isn't it? (Stephen Michael
Kellat, KC8BFI, ibid.)
The 'compartmentalization', or should I say ignorance, of an
organization's own 'product line' boggles the mind. Regards, (Vince,
Ottawa. Ferme, ibid.)
There is really no need to clue anyone in on something that is mere
history now.
Ottawa had ordered St. John's to turn off the transmitter. Recently
St. John's called Ottawa to find out what's up and was told that the
transmitter is off for good. Ottawa had not even bothered to tell St.
John's prior to being asked. The wording given to the communications
department just reflects this approach.
[non] Now you may ask what will become of 6070 kHz [CFRX], in light
of the plans to clear off the streetside part of the transmitter site
at Clarkson, where the old transmitter building, replaced in 1981,
has already been demolished, as can be seen at
https://binged.it/2ihGnq1
They now plan, as reported in last week's DXLD, to put new mediumwave
transmitters further back on the grounds, immediately at the four mast
main antenna. Where operating a separate shortwave transmission
antenna will perhaps not be feasible at all. On a facility of Bell
Media, a company I would not expect to be radio enthusiasts. I think
it had been already reported that the shortwave outlet is a mere
labour of love of the engineers, thus some prolonged breaks in recent
years, because they could repair it only when they had no real tasks
to fulfill (Kai Ludwig, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 5980, Oct 23 at 1328, RNZP has finally done it, moved
from 6170; 5980 had been registered with HFCC a month ago, but stayed
on 6170 after 1259. 6170 is now vacant, but remains unclear why such a
change is necessary; perhaps getting a head start on B-17, when 6170
may well have QRM from North Korea? But NZ may not stay on 49m all
summer.
Programming now is narration by some guy with music. Stronger than
weak adjacents on 5975 & 5985, and no 5980 CCI. However, deliberately
picking a frequency which is jammed at any hour is risky as Cuba isn`t
too careful to turn off jammers beyond Radio Martí hours. At least any
residual jamming here will be mostly into Cuban daytime. Sked at
http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/listen
has now been amended to show 5980 at 1259-1650 Sun-Fri and 1259-1758
on Sat. Rest of it looks about same as before, tho not checked hour by
hour. Now added to it is the B-17 sked, from Oct 29, and indeed 5980
is gone again, so only very temporary; and lots of other changes:
``29 Oct 2017-24 Mar 2018
UTC kHz Target Days
0000-0458 15720 Pacific Daily
0459-0758 11725 Pacific Daily
0759-1058 9765 Pacific Daily
1059-1258 11610 Solomon Islands PNG Daily
1259-1650 7355 Pacific Daily
1651-1750 5975 (DRM) Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga Sun-Fri
1651-1758 7355 Pacific Sat
1751-1950 11690 (DRM) Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga Daily
1759-1958 11725 Pacific Sat
1951-2050 13840 (DRM) Pacific Sun-Fri
1959-2058 13840 Pacific Sat
2051-2359 15720 Pacific Daily``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NICARAGUA. NICARÁGUA, 8989-BLS, El Pescador Predicador, QTH?, 2141-
..., 13/10, texto, certamente propag. relig.; 15341. Good DX & 73,
(Carlos Gonçalves, SW Coast of Portugal, Oct 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. NIGÉRIA, 6089.9, R. Nigeria, Kaduna, 2105-2116, 17/10,
líng. local, noticiário; 45433. Good DX & 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW
Coast of Portugal, Oct 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
6089.917, Oct 18 at 0609, JBA carrier, presumed the reactivated FRCN
Kaduna, which Wolfgang Büschel reported until 0610 fade Oct 10
wandering slightly around 6089.914. Had been off the air for 13
months. (Now a bit late for Amhara, Ethiopia, which is also reported
to be much closer to 6090 within 1 to 2.5 Hz below). Anguilla, of
course, is still off. (At 0618, WWV reported K index of 2, no storms
past or future) (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
[and non]. 6089.906, 2110 [= 21 October?], UNID, 2110 mixing with
6090.0, YL vocals accompanied by flute like instrument; definite
similarity to African High-Life music. Strong signal on 6090 and
distortion on the station of interest made a solid ID impossible
during this session. Thanks Valko tip (Chuck Rippel, Chesapeake VA, SW
Bulletin Oct 22 via DXLD)
6089.913, Oct 10, 0525, Heard between 0525 and 0550 UT here in
southern Germany: listen to my recording of 0548 UT Oct 10. Distorted
audio though. Send PURE WAV file format, not artificially distorted by
transform to mp3 or ogg.audio format. Should be African Kaduna radio
program. Frequency wandered from 6089.915 kHz at 0525 UT S=6 or -86dBm
on diverse Perseus units, to 6089.913 kHz at 0550 UT (73 wolfie df5sx
via SW Bulletin Oct 22 via DXLD)
6090, Definitely 2 signals there. One on 6090 and the other I make to
be 6089.915. The latter has fast paced vocals by a YL accompanied by a
flute-like device. 6090 definitely dominates, here anyway (Rippel, VA,
ibid.)
6089.915 kHz Kaduna? heard at 0609 and at 0628 UT this morning. Once
again heard DISTORTED audio modulation signal, most probably from FRCN
Kaduna this Oct 22 morning. Played a little bit by Perseus options,
like switch off-AGC, set and played also to SAM, USB, LSB mode etc.
etc. But could not record any better sounded broadband audio signal
here in southern Germany central Europe.
Ethiopian Amhara was visible on peak 6089.997 kHz, but signal was
already morning fade-out much easterly of GRAYline. [selected SDR
options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc
BC-DX TopNews Oct 22 via WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6950-LSB, Oct 20 at 2336, some kind of dramatic
speech with continuous music bed, little change in pitch, but making
it hard to tune accurately; movie soundtrack? These logs are headed
KIPM, but SSTV later IDed it as Pee Wee.
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,38115.0.html
Brian D in NY logged what I was hearing as ``KIPM Relay 6950 LSB S5 in
NY, 2332: Alan Maxwell announcing "9 Audio Signals From Outer Space"
episode`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6935-USB, Oct 23 at 2205, pirate music with very
repetitive beat, almost disco; 2210 announcement over music, unseems
ID. Still going past 2220 at S7-S9. Earlier than I usually patrol the
band, but good thing I did since no pirates were logged in later hours
by anyone this date, than Cool AM [sic] on 6935-USB per:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,38173.0.html
Gone by my next check at 2353 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. Most SW pirates are filed here, probably from USA,
but understandably not forthcoming about their locations, so possibly
in an adjacent country. However, see also USA for the 1710 kHz pirate
whose location is obvious; and various FCC axions against pirates,
mostly FM, are also filed toward end of USA sexion (gh, DXLD)
** NORWAY. RADIO NORTHERN STAR
Glenn, Thought this info might be interesting for DXLD readers:
This past weekend I was doing some SDR listening to Europirates and
came across Radio Northern Star, on 5895 kHz. A reception report, sent
via their Facebook page, brought a very quick and fully comprehensive
response as follows. The sender, Svenn Martinsen, said the station is
indeed licensed and not a pirate, saying: "We have very good relations
with Norwegian Media Authorities. Much in Norway radio-wide is focused
on DAB+broadcasting. We have the AM field entirely to ourselves. We
hope to create a large international station. In November 2013 LLE-3
5895 was heard [in] Murray Harbour North, Prince Edward Island, Canada
by a dxexpedition there and a tentative in Victoria, BC shortly after.
Also same year in December at KD2OM, Victor NY, USA. We already have
done a special dx transmission for the Swedish DX-Alliansen. Would be
fun to do a transmission aimed at NA!"
Thanks so much for your reception report and your note on Messenger.
It is entirely correct! We hereby verify your reception report of LLE-
3 Radio Northern Star 5895 kHz October 21st, 2017, at 1800 UT.
We were broadcasting with a converted Yaesu FT-950 50 Watts USB
remotely controlled transmitter capable of 100 watts. This is
connected to an inverted «V» antenna. The transmitting system is
designed and constructed by LA7CFA Øystein Ask, our Chief Engineer,
and the streaming one by Olav Hardang of Hardang Data.
On Radio Northern Star we run an Adult Contemporary Standards and
Variety format with a special section on Gospel Music and Ministries
one hour daily plus weekend mornings.
We are a licensed AM station and we copy the web radio station there.
We also have a new station that is currently testing. It is called The
Ferry and may be found at
http://www.theferry.cc
It runs Beautiful Music with some variations in the weekends.
We broadcast from the site of the former NRK AM broadcasting stations
for Bergen that closed 1966 and 1978, they had the callsigns LLE and
LKB on 1115 (1 kW) and 890 kHz (10 kW) respectively.
Foreningen Bergen Kringkaster has a long-term lease on the site, and
run a club station on 1314 kHz there with a 1kW transmitter and the
callsign LLE-2.
On our 1611 frequency we have been heard in the Shetland Islands,
England, Ireland, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Austria, The
Czech Republic, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland.
The listening record on 1611 at this moment is held by a listener in
Kongsfjord, Norway, 1574 km from our tx-QTH Grensedalen 59, Erdal, in
Askøy Municipality, Northwest of Bergen, the capital of Western
Norway.
The frequency of 1611.0 is now a Norwegian broadcasting frequency as
the spectrum was formerly used by LGQ/LGB for its LGF(1609.5/1611.5)
transmissions from Bore and later Vigrestad. As you may know, 1611.0
was also used by Vatican Radio. We hope unlicensed transmissions on
this channel will move away, although we recognize the skills and
talents of many such operators, and wish them well. We are in favour
of “The X-band” being used for small-scale legal broadcasting.
On our 5895 frequency we have been heard in 22 countries on
transmissions from both Sala, Sweden and at LKB LLE: New Zealand,
Japan, Russia, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Austria,
Italy, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, Egypt, England, Spain, France,
Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and
Finland.
Most reports indicate good signal strength and many of our listeners
point out they like our format very much!
Radio Northern Star has simple studio facilities in the town of
Straume, situated West of Bergen, Norway’s second largest and booming
city on the Norwegian Mid-Western coast.
This is a great place to be for an international radio station. The
municipalities here, such as Øygarden (”The Islands”), Fjell (”The
Rock”), Sund (”The Sound”) and Askøy (“Ash(tree) Island”) are often
called ”Region Vest”, have about 50,000 citizens combined and form
with Austevoll and the Sunnhordland municipalities to the South as
well as with Meland and the other Nordhordland municipalities to the
North a great region for innovation, development and growth.
The entire county of Hordaland, has beautiful nature varying from
flat, windy areas at the seafront, to wooden areas and higher
mountains inland.
Bergen, our large neighbour, has 278,000 citizens. On the map, you
will find the city on about 60 degrees N and 5 degrees E. We are
connected to Bergen by means of the large Sotra bridge. Bergen is well
known for musicians and composers like Ole Bull, Edvard Grieg and
Harald Sæverud, the spring music festival Festspillene, but also for
many attractions like the Fløibanen Funicular and the old King Hall of
Håkonshallen. International ferry routes and the famous coast steamer
route Hurtigruten starts there, and many cruise ships visit Bergen in
the summer months.
To the Northwest we face the North Atlantic Ocean, and to the West the
equally open, and often rough North Sea. On the horizon large tankers
are going to the Stura and Mongstad oil terminals. Through
Hjeltefjorden and Korsfjorden a lot of interesting ship traffic is
passing each day. Right off the shore are also many fish farms.
Øygarden has 3 large industrial plants, Kollsnes, Stura and
Naturgassparken. Further south at Ågotnes is CCB, Coast Center Base,
having frequent visits by oil drilling rigs and supply vessels. Across
the fjord is the Hanøytangen wharf. In this area is also a lot of oil
and gas-related business. Ågotnes was also the home of the large 136
metres antenna mast of the Decca longwave chain that our project had
hoped to take over some years ago as we saw it as a great opportunity
for AM transmissions. (Unfortunately, we lost that battle to the
bureaucrats!)
Quite often, the helicopter flights of CHC and Bristow pass over us to
and from the North Sea oil fields. Bergen Airport at Flesland has much
air traffic and many routes going to and from Norwegian, Scandinavian,
European and North American destinations, flown by Norwegian, SAS and
many others. A lot of international flights towards and from North
America are passing us daily.
From some higher locations in our area we are on clear days able to
see the Troll oil and gas fields about 60 km offshore. In the South
the snow-covered mountains of Kvinnherad may be seen, and to the north
of Gulen, in Southern Sogn. To the East we can see the lights from
Bergen at night, and in the daytime we can see the glacier Folgefonna
in Hardanger, the highest mountain of the Bergen area, the Gulfjellet,
plus nearer mountains with the Rogaland Radio(Coast radio station) VHF
mast at Rundemanen, plus Ulriken with the Norkring DAB+ and TV mast,
carrying the NRK National networks, two national commercial radio
stations, our national commercial television channel TV2(with its main
center and studios in Bergen)as well as the regional programs of NRK
Hordaland(radio) and Vestlandsrevyen(TV). Also many local radio
channels, some still using the FM band are broadcasting to our area.
Please follow
http://northernstar.cc/pdf/radio_northernstar_presentation.pdf
https://www.facebook.com/radionorthernstar/
and
https://www.facebook.com/groups/bergenkringkaster/
for more pictures and information.
Please publish your reception and our information on as many boards
and lists as possible! Further signal reports are welcomed. We're on
the air to provide good radio-so thank you for your kind comments.
Keep tuned to your no.1 entertainment! Many thanks for your interest
in Bergen Kringkaster and Radio Northern Star!
73s and Good DX!
Svenn Martinsen
Chief Editor/Broadcasting Coordinator
Radio Northern Star/Northern Lights VFG 24/7
"Adult Contemporary Standards"
Classic Melodic Pop and Rock from both sides of the Atlantic
Ministry Programming@Voice of the Free Gospel
http://www.northernstar.cc
AM 1611 AM 5895
http://radio.garden/live/bergen/radio-northern-star/
Also TuneIn, Streema, vtuner, etc,
http://www.wifiradio-frontier.com
(WiFI), and two Android apps.
The Ferry(Test transmissions)
"Beautiful Music"
Your Beautiful Music Connection
http://www.theferry.cc
http://radio.garden/live/bergen/the-ferry/
Radiopresten
http://www.northernstar.cc/radiopresten.pdf
Northern Star Media Services AS
Org.nr.: 912204278
Bergen Kringkaster
LKB LLE 1314 AM 5895 FM 103,8
LA1ASK 3702+ 3725 kHz
Foreningen Bergen Kringkaster
Org.nr.: 993809055
http://www.bergenkringkaster.no
Box 100
N5331 RONG
NORWAY
+4756324985
+4795067890
Transmitter List:
LLE-2 1314 kHz Hercules 1 kW(at the moment 300 watts) License 1 kW
LLE-4 1611 kHz Skanti TRP-8250 HF 250 Watts 250/70 watts License 1 kW
LLE-3 5895 kHz Yaesu FT-950 modified 100/25 watts License 1 kW
LLE-FM/LKBN 103.8 MHz Omnidirectional
—
LLE-5 630 kHz Skanti Marinetta TRP1 10 watts License 1 kW
In addition several MW and SW transmitters from 20 kW down left on
site not in operational order.
An amateur station is also regularly in use on the site with various
antennas and the call sign LA1ASK, on 3702+-/3725 kHz etc.
Antenna List:
LLE-2 1314 kHz Comrod/Tjøstheim
LLE-4 1611 kHz Inverted V
LLE-3 5895 kHz Inverted V
LLE-FM/LKBN 103.8 MHz Omnidirectional
—
LLE-5 Undecided
(via Dan Robinson, Oct 23, WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DXLD)
** OKLAHOMA. NDB ``RG``, 350 kHz: See PUBLICATIONS
** OKLAHOMA. BSR Program - focus on Puerto Rico, plus 2 announcements
of events in Enid
Hi Glenn and the DXLD group, I thought you might be interested in this
program, which will air on KTLR 890 am in Oklahoma at 11 am CDT on
Friday [1600 UT October 20]
http://broadspectrumradio.com/2017/10/20/bsr-oklahoma-magazine-show-ep-208-october-20-2017-puerto-rico-peace-fest-oklahoma-mennonite-relief-sale-enid-ham-fest/
The first 1/3 gives announcements of 2 events in Enid (Oklahoma
Mennonite Relief Sale and Enid Ham fest) and 1 event in OKC (Oklahoma
Peace Festival), with the second 2/3 focusing on Puerto Rico and a
project i'm doing to send portable AM/FM/Shortwave radios to some
contacts I have in Puerto Rico.
Also, I've embedded some CW/morse code in this broadcast, in the
background of the Enid Ham Fest announcement, as a test to see if
folks can decode it with voice being the primary audio thing going on.
In future shows, I plan to experiment with some digital modes as well,
as theoretically any digital mode designed to deal with noise should
also be able to handle a voice talking in the foreground.
Lastly. I'm still working on getting funds together to start shortwave
broadcasts again, but I'm hoping to do at least an hour special in
November, probably on WBCQ but maybe another station. I'll let you
know as soon anything is booked. Thanks, (James Branum, Oct 21, dxldyg
via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [non]. 1120, as late as 1320 UT Oct 22, KMOX in solid with
local temp 70 already, no sign of 10 kW daytimer, KETU Catoosa, which
is entitled to start 7 kW Critical Hours at 1230 UT in October (1300
UT in November); at 1323 UT, SAH against KMOX starts, maybe this if
not TX.
KETU pattern is major lobe south, minor lobe north, nulls toward St
Louis and Portland
https://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/1553082-121213.pdf
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1230, Oct 22 at 1316 UT, steady open carrier/dead air
atop the graveyard jumble, no doubt my semi-local on groundwave, WBBZ
Ponca City, failing to modulate (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 9534.00-USB, Oct 23 at 0619, very surprised to hear
VOLMET, soon IDed at 0620 as Trenton Military; also some other talk
QRM. This has got to be some kind of image, // loud and clear 6754-
USB, which is 2780 kHz below. 9534 is next to a weak Algeria/France on
9535. Aha! 2780 is where I get the second harmonic of my strongest
local, 1390 KCRC a few miles away. Lately 2780 has not been very
strong, but it is now, and the modulation is always distorted. Perhaps
there is an anomaly with my longwire antenna connexion to the R75, or
KCRC is more out of whack than usual. KCRC customarily shows up at
other +1390 additions to strong AM SW frequencies like WRMI from 7 MHz
in the low 9 MHz band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 91.7, Oct 21 at 1711 UT, KOSU RDS just says: _CRAZY__ /
_SMART__ / _RADIO__ --- certainly a unique slogan, for easy meteor
scatter IDs, often uttered too. Refers to split personality as a
mostly-talk ``smart`` public radio station daytime, vs various
``crazy`` never-classical indie music nighttime, the latter supposedly
financially listener-supporting the former (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 94.3 FM, Oct 18 at 2018 UT tune-in, find that
local KLGB-LP is off, then cuts on with rock praise music in English,
cuts off and on and off; while off at 2021 UT, I hear a talking gospel
huxter, with airplane scatter surges, `Money Wise` call-in advice with
a Christian angle, presumably Bott`s 100 kW KVCW Kingman KS. Other
Enid LP, KVBN 99.9 from the same tower as KLGB, continues
uninterrupted with country gospel in English, auto timecheck at 2019
UT as ``3:18``. Recheck at 0058 UT Oct 19, KLGB still/again off. (BTW,
another Okie on 99.9, K260CR, is in Sapulpa, not Sapula as in WTFDA FM
Database)
94.3, Oct 21 at 1710 UT check, KLGB-LP Enid is off again, uncovering
presumed marginal Kansan full-power (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) And remains mostly(?) off
** OKLAHOMA. RF 27 DTV, Oct 22 at 1502 UT, KFOR-TV instead of `Meet
the Press` shows static ID slide; 1505 UT joins MTP, but inaudible due
to rapid clicking sound. This is the case both via the ether, and via
Suddenlink cable. 1507 UT, channel ``4`` desperately cuts to a replay
of own local interview show `Flashpoint` which just ran hitchless at
1430-1500 UT, initial guest being awl tycoon and Drumpf psychophant
Harold Hamm, who blew off Enid when he got too big a billionaire. By
1530 has rejoined NBC with video and audio. MSNBC no longer repeats
entire MTPs at convenient 18 UT, but instead inconvenient 22 UT.
Maybe related to storms last night. All four major TV stations were in
wall-to-wall weather coverage for most of prime time, blowing away
silly footballgames or to their secondary channels. A minor tornado
hit the River Wind Casino in Norman. But KFOR was not having any
transmission problems then (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. NEW PNG MINISTER LOOKS TO REINTRODUCE SHORTWAVE
AND MEDIUMWAVE --- Papua New Guinea Today October 19
Basil Thanks PM O'Neill for Ministry, outlines way forward. [excerpt:]
"In Communications, the Minister intends to review the National
Broadcasting Commission and provincial radio stations with a view to
re-introduce shortwave and medium wave frequencies to improve radio
access in remote rural areas as in the early 1980s."
http://news.pngfacts.com/2017/10/basil-thanks-pm-oneill-for-ministry.html
(Mike Barraclough, UK, Oct 20, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DXLD)
** PARAGUAY. Members, I am pleased to report that Adán Mur has
confirmed my initial observation. The new site for Radio Nacional on
920 kHz is at the northern edge of Chaco-í. Visible on Google Earth
images from 04 March 2016 a new monopole stands at 25 10 41.46S, 57 37
03.31W or -25.178087, -57.617623. The online spreadsheet has been
marked. 73 and 88 (Dan Goldfarb, Oct 21, mwmasts yg via DXLD)
** PERU. 4774.9, R. Tarma, Tarma, 2215-2225, 15/10, canções índias;
35343.
4955, R. Cultural Amauta, Huanta, 2223-2234, 15/10, quíchua e
castelhano, texto, propag. relig.; 35333.
5980, R. Chaski, Cuzco, 2226-2236, 15/10, castelhano, texto; 24331,
QRM adjacente. Good DX & 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW Coast of Portugal,
Oct 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, Oct 23 at 2331, JBA carrier from R. Chaski. Often it`s
a struggle to hear on the bigrigs, but this time I am quickly checking
on the porch with the PL-880 and shortwire around the eaves, and it`s
easy, until autocutoff at 2333:02*: That is 75 seconds later than last
catch Oct 12 until 2331:47*, averaging 6.82 seconds slippage per
noctem. My fun will be dashed in B-17 as Romania plans to block 5980
at 2300-2400 in English. No doubt some will be glad to see this
pursuit suspended (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) Viz.:
5980 2300 2400 27N GAL 300 285 0 206 1234567 291017 250318 D Eng ROU
RRO ROU 11069 (HFCC B-17 via WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DXLD)
** PHILIPPINES. 12120. Thu, Oct 19 at 1915-1925, Radio Pilipinas,
Tinang, in English. A long interview between announcers and a man, in
English, but sometimes in Filipino language; 1926 ID and a rap song by
female singer; 1930 man talks, ID, frequencies and PO Box and next The
National Anthem. Station with good signal and modulation, 45444 (DXer:
José Ronaldo Xavier, Cabedelo-PB, Brazil, Tecsun S-2000, Longwire,
HCDX via DXLD)
** PUERTO RICO. Re: Without power, Puerto Rico turns to radio for
information --- Glenn, I sent this article to Bill Hale in the NRC and
what he has to say:
Not entirely correct . . . From FCC data, and reported to NRC:
WKAQ-580 San Juan, PR
STA: U1 10.0 kW/4.5 kW [Licensed for: U3 10.0 kW/10.0 kW]
“In late September, Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, significantly
disrupting all communications, including WIPR(AM). The Station was one
of the few AM stations that has been able to remain on the air. On
September 27, 2017 the Station requested and received aural
authorization from Jerome Manarchuck to increase its power to 10 kW
daytime and 4.5 kW nighttime. The oral authorization is set to expire
on October 6, 2017.
Good cause is shown to allow daytime power to remain at 10 kW. The
station is bringing vital news, weather, emergency information
(including hurricane restoration and relief efforts) to thousands of
listeners across Puerto Rico. Additionally, the Station submits that,
as the EAS LP1 of San Juan and FEMA entry point for emergency
communications in Puerto Rico, the public interest strongly supports
continued temporary operation at 10 kW so that its signal can be
expanded west to reach listeners. We will continue to coordinate with
PRCPB as WIPR(AM) and the Station restores its operating status.” (via
Artie Bigley, Oct 18, DXLD)
WIPR on 940. Originally public radio, but in NRC AM Log now shown as
24 hours with Westwood One, slogan ``Ventas 940`` and with IBOC (gh)
** PUERTO RICO. FCC Hurricane Maria Update Per FCC, as of October 19:
44 AM stations are confirmed operational:
WPAB-550, WKAQ-580, WEXS-610, WUNO-630, WAPA-680, WA2XPA-680, WKJB-
710, WIAC-740, WI2XAC-740, WKVM-810, WXEW-840, WPRP-910, WIPR-940,
WPRA-990, WLEY-1080, WSOL-1090, WVJP-1110, WOIZ-1130, WQII-1140, WBQN-
1160, WLEO-1170, WBMJ-1190, WGDL-1200, WNIK-1230, WALO-1240, WJIT-
1250, WISO-1260, WI2XSO-1260, WI3XSO-1260, WCMN-1280, WTIL-1300, WSKN-
1320, WENA-1330, WOLA-1380, WIDA-1400, WUKQ-1420, WNEL-1430, WCPR-
1450, WKUM-1470, WMDD-1480, WDEP-1490, WMNT-1500, WKFE-1550, WPPC-1570
while 29 stations are suspected to be out of service: WYEL-600, WORA-
760, WABA-850, WQBS-870, WYKO-880, WFAB-890, WYAC-930, WDNO-960, WOQI-
1020, WOSO-1030, WNVI-1040, WCGB-1060, WMIA-1070, WMSW-1120, WHOY-
1210, WEGA-1350, WIVV-1370, WISA-1390, WRSS-1410, WLRP-1460, WRRE-
1460, WBSG-1510, WRSJ 1520, WUPR-1530, WIBS-1540, WBYM-1560, WVOZ-
1580, WCMA-1600, WGIT-1660 (Arctic Radio Club mv-eko Oct 23 via DXLD)
** PUERTO RICO [and non]. Stations informing FCC that they are silent:
630 WUNO PR San Juan – Silent Sept. 20; flooding from Hurricane Maria
760 WORA PR Mayagüez – Silent Sept. 20; lost studio and generator to
Hurricane Maria.
1100 WCGA GA Woodbine – Silent Sept. 11; Hurricane Irma damage.
1140 WQII PR San Juan – Added to silent list, presumably due to
Hurricane Maria.
1230 WNIK PR Arecibo – Added to silent list, presumably due to
Hurricane Maria.
1400 WZAZ FL Jacksonville – Silent Aug. 20; financial difficulties.
1420 WUKQ PR Ponce – Silent Sept. 20; Hurricane Maria.
1430 WNEL PR Caguas – Silent Sept. 20; lost tower and power to
Hurricane Maria.
1480 KNTB WA Lakewood – Silent Oct. 8; antenna vandalism.
1490 WVGB SC Beaufort – Silent Sept. 11; Hurricane Irma damage.
1540 WDCD NY Albany – Will go silent Oct. 16; financial difficulties.
(AM Switch, NRC DX News Oct 30, published Oct 21, via DXLD
** PUERTO RICO. Two stations could be permanent casualties. [DTV]
Sistema TV (WMTJ San Juan + WQTO Ponce), owned by the Sistema
Universitario Ana G. Méndez, will be dark until further notice. The
university system has suspended all non-academic operations, and
apparently Sistema TV also suffered storm damage. Many are treating
this as the station being gone for good, including the on-air hosts of
Sistema TV's own news programming. The cessation of non-academic
operations also has led to the suspension of the university's athletic
programs for the 2017-18 school year.
President José F. Méndez Méndez said in a statement:
"It is a difficult decision, but as an educational institution, at
this time our priority is to guarantee the continuity of our teaching
and educational services so that each student can complete the
academic term in our schools. All of our efforts are directed at
making it possible for students to receive the best education and the
best service in order to achieve their professional goals."
The university system took on the PBS affiliation when WIPR-WIPM,
which is owned by the government of Puerto Rico, left PBS in 2011.
Sistema TV had been operating since 1985 (Raymie Humbert, AZ, Oct 21,
WTFDA Forum via DXLD)
Update 2:
59 TV stations have now been issued a Special Temporary Authority to
remain offline (GACTVDX, Easton PA, Oct 22, ibid.) See VI US
Puerto Rico continues to struggle a month after Hurricane Maria
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/10/puerto-rico-continues-struggle-month-hurricane-maria-171020145900954.html
(Click on the image to play the video) (GACTVDX, Oct 23, ibid.)
** ROMANIA. 13740, Oct 19 at 1340, Chuck Berry song outroed at 1342 by
YL in Russian, what?? RRI as IDed in passing at 1346 after sounders.
This hour is 300 kW, 52 degrees from Tsiganeshti, yet one of few
decent signals on band over here.
7325-7330-7335, Oct 24 at 0554, DRM noise, i.e. RRI amid its
English/German hour for western Europe, but also bleeding on USward
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
R. ROMANIA INTERNATIONAL LISTENER'S DAY
Dear listener, On 5th November, Radio Romania International will be
broadcasting its annual “Listener’s Day” programme in which we ask
you, the listeners, what you think of the hot topics of the day. And
this year’s topic is: “Fake news and trust in the media”.
What’s your experience of fake news in your country? What, in your
opinion, is the greatest danger posed by fake news in today’s society?
Do you associate fake news more with social media, or is it also to be
found in traditional media? Has the rise of fake news affected your
trust in traditional news sources? And if so, what can be done about
it?
Send us your views and experiences by replying to this email. Better
still, send us your reply as an audio file and we will try to include
it in the programme. This is your day, so it’s your voice that should
be heard! Looking forward to hearing from you! Elena Enache and
Cristina Mateescu, the hosts of the “Listener’s Day” programme (via
Kraig KG4LAC, Krist, VA, Oct 19, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DXLD)
** ROMANIA. EUROPEAN PRESS UNIONS CALL UPON PARLIAMENT TO DEPOLITICIZE
PUBLIC RADIO, WITHDRAW BILL AMENDING AGERPRES LAW
17 Oct 2017, 17:06 English
European press unions request Romania's Parliament and Government
depoliticize the public radio service, withdraw the bill amending the
functioning law of AGERPRES National News Agency, initiated by the
current Minister of Culture, Lucian Romascanu, to unlock negotiations
regarding the Collective Labour Contract in culture and mass-media
area and for the Culture Ministry to give up its intention to divide
this sector.
According to a release of the Romanian Trade Union of Journalists
MediaSind (SRJ MediaSind), representatives of the UNI Europa Media,
Entertainment & Arts debated within the General Assembly, that took
place between 14-16 October, in Brussels, a series of issues in the
area, such as the politicization of public service media, social
dialogue, media pluralism, work conditions, the fair pay of employees
and the fake news phenomenon. . .
https://www.agerpres.ro/english/2017/10/17/european-press-unions-call-upon-parliament-to-depoliticize-public-radio-withdraw-bill-amending-agerpres-law-17-06-56
(via Mike Cooper, DXLD)
** RUSSIA. According to Nikolai Kudryaev of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, on
October 20, Autoradio broadcast in the medium-wave band at 531 kHz was
discontinued. Recall that the radio broadcast programs of the radio
station was conducted for nearly 20 years (since 1998) through a
transmitter with a power of 5 kW from 1600 to 1300 UT.
https://vk.com/club59176345?w=wall-59176345_11365
(via Rus-DX Oct 22 via DXLD)
** RUSSIA. 7345, Radio Sakha, via Yakutsk, 0945-1001, Oct 23. Mostly
chatting in vernacular; 0951 usual format of commercial announcements
and promos (believe in Russian); 1000 only time pips (very unusual not
to have their distinctive IS of Jew's harp); much better than usual.
My audio clip at
http://goo.gl/4o5oZ9
Their // 7295 continues to be off the air (Ron Howard, San Francisco,
at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [and non]. RUSSIA'S FAVORED OUTLET IS AN ONLINE NEWS GIANT.
YouTube Helped.
Robert Kyncl, left, a YouTube executive, helped RT celebrate reaching
one billion views on the video service in 2013. [caption]
By DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI and NICHOLAS CONFESSORE October 23, 2017
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/23/technology/youtube-russia-rt.html
SAN FRANCISCO -- When the state-backed Russian news channel RT became
the first news organization to surpass one billion views on YouTube in
2013, it marked the achievement with a retrospective of its most
popular videos and a special guest -- one of the Google-owned site's
senior executives.
Robert Kyncl, a YouTube vice president who has since become its chief
business officer, joined an RT anchor in a studio, where he praised RT
for bonding with viewers by providing "authentic" content instead of
"agendas or propaganda."
But now, as investigators in Washington examine the scope and reach of
Russian interference in United States politics, the once-cozy
relationship between RT and YouTube is drawing closer scrutiny.
YouTube -- the world's most-visited video site, owned by one of the
most powerful and influential corporations in America -- played a
crucial role in helping build and expand RT, an organization that the
American intelligence community has described as the Kremlin's
"principal international propaganda outlet" and a key player in
Russia's information warfare operations around the world.
While Kremlin-aligned agents secretly built fake Facebook groups to
foment political division and deployed hordes of Twitter bots to stoke
criticism of Hillary Clinton, RT worked out in the open, bolstered by
one of the largest online audiences of any news organization in the
world and a prominent presence on YouTube's search results.
As the presidential election heated up in the spring of 2016, RT
consistently featured negative stories about Mrs. Clinton, according
to United States intelligence officials. That included claims of
corruption at her family foundation and ties to Islamic extremism,
frequent coverage of emails stolen by Russian operatives from Mrs.
Clinton's campaign chairman, and accusations that she was in poor
physical and mental health.
[Video: US media accused of burying concerns over Clinton health Watch
on YouTube.] Video by RT
"More than half of American adults say they watch YouTube, and younger
viewers are moving to YouTube at staggering numbers," said Senator
Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia and vice chairman of the Senate
Intelligence Committee, which is investigating Russia's exploitation
of social media platforms based in the United States. "YouTube is a
target-rich environment for any disinformation campaign -- Russian or
otherwise -- that represents a long-term, next-generation challenge."
Much like the Russian-controlled pages on Facebook, RT's YouTube
videos comply with YouTube's community guidelines, which cover things
like nudity, copyright violations and promoting violence against a
group based on race or religion. But not propaganda.
YouTube carries "a wide variety of news channels" that represent "an
array of viewpoints across the political spectrum," said a spokesman
for the company, Chris Dale.
Senator Mark Warner, right, and Senator Amy Klobuchar, Democrat of
Minnesota, discussed online political ads and foreign interference in
elections in Washington last week. Al Drago for The New York Times
[caption]
RT's reach on YouTube -- 2.2 million subscribers, just slightly behind
CNN -- stemmed from a long and mutually beneficial relationship
between the news channel and the video site, according to current and
former RT employees and technology industry analysts.
YouTube had the vast audience and global reach that RT needed as it
set out to become a worldwide alternative news source with influence
and viewers beyond Russia's own borders. RT has YouTube channels in a
number of foreign languages including Arabic, Spanish, German, French
and Chinese.
"RT management did view YouTube as hugely important to spreading
content," said Liz Wahl, a former correspondent in the United States
for RT who quit on the air in 2014 over concerns that the network was
whitewashing the Russian annexation of Crimea. "Traditional television
ratings weren't important because the aim was to get the messaging out
through various digital and social platforms."
The Russian channel was among the first news organizations to
recognize YouTube's power and developed content intended to perform
well on the platform. RT uploads videos frequently, sprinkling in
buzzy viral videos of disasters -- plane crashes, tsunamis, a meteor
strike – to earn likes and longer watch times, which YouTube's
algorithm rewards with better placement among search results and
recommendations.
[Video: Japan Earthquake: Helicopter aerial view video of giant
tsunami waves Watch on YouTube.] Video by RT
The viral videos, which were often borrowed from other sources, help
to build up RT's subscribers, and they became part of the Kremlin's
audience for more political content.
"People come for the click-bait material," said Bret Schafer, an
official at the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a bipartisan
initiative of the German Marshall Fund, the Washington-based public
policy research group. "And they eventually land on videos that the
Kremlin wants them to see."
While much of RT's traffic stems from nonpolitical videos, the
channel's political and foreign affairs content ranks highly in many
YouTube searches. Searches on topics on which the Kremlin is typically
eager to promote its point of view -- American intervention in Syria,
the Ukrainian civil war or the rise of Germany's far-right AfD party -
- will often turn up an RT video as one of the top results.
[Video: 'Clinton & ISIS funded by same money' - Assange interview
w/John Pilger (Courtesy Darthmouth Films) Watch on YouTube.]
Video by RT
YouTube also provided RT with the kind of perks it reserved for big
publishers, including custom backgrounds for its channel in the early
days and a "check mark" that designated RT as a verified news source.
Until recently, RT was also among a select group of news organizations
included in Google's "preferred" news lineup, granting them access to
guaranteed revenue from premium advertisers. Those advertisers, in
effect, subsidized Russia's international propaganda arm.
Google dropped RT from the preferred lineup last month. Andrea
Faville, a Google spokeswoman, said the decision was unrelated to the
congressional inquiry, and that RT had been dropped as part of a
"standard algorithmic update." But Google also noted that it was not
placing any other limits on RT: The channel could still sell regular
ads on its videos and the status downgrade only applied in the United
States. Google later clarified that RT was downgraded in other
markets, but it would not say which ones.
Kirill Karnovich-Valua, RT's deputy editor in chief, said the
organization had not been informed of Google's decision and it was
puzzled about why it was dropped despite being "one of the most
watched YouTube channels in the world."
"This speaks to the unprecedented political pressure increasingly
applied to all RT partners and relationships in a concerted effort to
push our channel out of the U.S. market entirely, and by any means
possible," Mr. Karnovich-Valua wrote in an email.
Last month, RT said the Justice Department had demanded that a private
company affiliated with RT America register as a "foreign agent" -- a
term that dates back to a law originally enacted in 1938 to deter Nazi
propaganda. On Thursday, after the deadline set by American officials
had passed, an RT spokeswoman said that the news organization was
"doing everything possible for RT to avoid having to register."
Registration could impose voluminous disclosure requirements on RT, a
particular burden for a media organization producing frequent content.
Russia's president, Vladimir V. Putin, responded in more forceful
terms: Should the United States impose restrictions on Russian media,
Mr. Putin said last week, Russian would act "symmetrically and quite
swiftly."
RT's use of other technology platforms is also under investigation.
Last month, officials at Twitter told a Senate Intelligence Committee
that three RT accounts targeting an American audience -- with a
combined following of roughly six million users -- had spent $274,100
to promote tweets in 2016.
But none of RT's social media activities or its presence in cable and
satellite TV lineups has delivered the impact of its YouTube channel.
RT launched its YouTube page in March 2007, roughly four months after
Google paid $1.65 billion for the fledgling video site. At the time,
YouTube was better known for pirated content and videos of cute
animals than news programming, but RT caught on quickly.
The Russian channel recruited talent from within the burgeoning world
of YouTube-born media stars, people who had already shown a knack for
creating viral or popular video content.
One RT contributor, the British blogger Graham Phillips, built a large
following on YouTube with videos from Ukraine's civil war, many of
them critical of Ukraine's central government. RT often featured Mr.
Phillips and at one point employed him as a part-time freelancer
before he was arrested and deported by Ukrainian authorities. His
personal YouTube channel has earned more than 60 million views.
Lori Harfenist, a contributor to RT, said that a segment about Hillary
Clinton being part of an anti-Semitic conspiracy had been meant as
satire. [caption]
Another RT contributor, Lori Harfenist, began her career on public-
access television in New York City, and eventually moved her self-
produced show, "The Resident," to YouTube. Ms. Harfenist was one of
the platform's first revenue-sharing partners, according to a
biography on Ms. Harfenist's personal website.
Ms. Harfenist was eventually recruited by RT, which began featuring
her on segments with titles like "America is a Hypocrite." During the
presidential campaign, RT's Twitter account promoted a video from her
that claimed the existence of an anti-Semitic conspiracy involving
Hillary Clinton, Google and the Illuminati. (She later claimed the
segment was meant as satire.) Ms. Harfenist did not respond to emails
and Facebook messages seeking comment.
Today, RT ranks among the top news channels on YouTube for views,
subscribers and "engagement" such as comments or likes. The most-
watched clips on RT are not political or anti-establishment videos,
they are snackable content. A clip of a homeless man with a gifted
voice for radio is the most popular video on RT, viewed 40 million
times since it was uploaded six years ago.
[Video: 'Golden Voice' homeless man finds job, home after viral video
success Watch on YouTube.] Video by RT
Mr. Karnovich-Valua said RT's primary aim is to provide an alternative
point of view on current events so its audience can get a full picture
of world events. "Where relevant, RT does present a Russian
perspective on current events, but we don't promote the Russian point
of view, we explain it alongside with presenting others," he said.
Some lawmakers, including Mr. Warner, have called for tighter
regulation and disclosure requirements for political advertising on
social media platforms. Yet RT's embrace of YouTube shows how
difficult it could be to limit foreign influence.
"It's not a secret. It's not rocket science, but they're just doing it
much better," said Christoph Burseg, who runs VeeScore.com, an
analytics and strategic consultancy that tracks YouTube use. "Unless
YouTube decides to manually step in, they will continue to be very
present. RT isn't doing anything wrong, they're just riding the
algorithms."
Follow Daisuke Wakabayashi on Twitter @daiwaka Follow Nicholas
Confessore on Twitter @nickconfessore (via Mike Cooper, DXLD)
** RUSSIA. HISTORY OF DX AND RADIO. ====================
The data is published as the material is received.
Free radio of the 90s in Russia.
The topic of radio piracy is constantly discussed in various forums on
the Internet. In addition, certain articles are replicated. In which,
to put it mildly, there are inaccuracies.
For example, it is claimed that in the former USSR there were no
commercial or pirate radio stations. And, they say, in the 60's all
the broadcasting was carried out only on the State TV and Radio.
One gets the impression that those who approve such authors are poorly
acquainted with Soviet / Russian radio piracy. Most likely, they do
not know anything about it at all, because they did not even engage in
DX-ing. And all such articles serve only to raise interest in this
topic on their Internet resources.
So, music on medium waves on a frequency of about 1600 kHz (wavelength
slightly less than 200 meters), has been massively twisted since the
early 60's! To do this, use a lamp set-top box to a tube household
radio. It was enough to play the plates and with a normal antenna the
signal was received by day for several kilometers by a direct wave. At
night, the range increased to several hundred kilometers using
reflection from the ionosphere.
Transmitting attachments, usually, were lamp [tubes] "three point"
autogenerators on one lamp connected to an anode of an output lamp of
the amplifier of low frequency (now speak - sound frequency). Only a
few details are needed for such a device!
The modulation was anodic-screen. But, unfortunately, we can not say
that it was purely amplitude. Since there were parasitic frequency
modulation in such simple devices. Nevertheless, in the 60-80 years in
some regions of the country there were dozens of stations conducting
communications between themselves and transmitting music on behalf of
their friends.
As for short waves (SW), the first station at the turn of the 1980s-
1990s was Radio without Borders Int (RWBI). She broadcasted at 76
meters. Almost simultaneously with her appeared "Green Music Radio"
(3020 kHz - 99 meters).
At the end of August 1993, the "Southern Hobby Radio" (SHR), which
broadcasted 76 meters, appeared on the air.
In 1994, there was a pirated "Russkoe Radio" (RR). It broadcast at 76
and 48 meters (as you know, these are two pirate ranges in the low-
frequency spectrum of the SW band). Later, the last two stations
merged into the "Broadcasting Corporation of the South of Russia" and
conducted synchronously transmissions on different SW waves, as well
as on VHF.
All four of the above stations were received through ex-USSR territory
and in Eastern Europe, and some in Western. The programs included not
only music, but also thematic programs, answers to questions from
listeners.
At the same time, a political station was broadcasting from the Moscow
region - Radio Samorodinka, where the operator Lev Stepanovich
Shishkin was the operator. This station with a power of only 10 watts
(the output was a lamp 6P13S) was included in the annual international
guide to radio stations on the SW. Was accepted on the territory of
the European part of Russia and Eastern Europe.
However, this station is best attributed to a group of political semi-
legal stations ...
To the group of illegal political free radio broadcasters can be
attributed to the medium-wave radio station Radio Nadezhda. In the
late 90's, she broadcast a fairly long time from the city of Livny
Orel. Its transfer was difficult to distinguish from a "legitimate"
state or private radio station.
Since the late 80s of the last century, the USSR / Russia has actively
developed radio piracy on VHF. In some cities, the radio pirate
counted 50-60 stations!
Good quality of transmitted music was one of the main advantages of FM
transmitters (Frequency Modulation - FM). Some free VHF broadcasters
had transmitter power of several hundred watts and stereo mode.
On the basis of the foregoing, we can firmly state that in the USSR /
Russia free broadcasting, or so-called. "radio piracy" existed!
And today there are pirate SW stations all over the world. The most
popular range is 48 meters (6200-6300 kHz). Broadcast, as a rule, on
the night from Saturday to Sunday. Who lives in the western part of
the former USSR can still try at night to listen to the range of 76
meters (3900-3950 kHz). Unfortunately, this range is subject to
interference in the summer ...
In addition, bulletins continue to be issued and there are mailings on
free radio broadcasting. The motto of all radioopyates [sic]:
Fight for free radio! - FFFR! (Fight for free radio!)
http://free.radiodx.ru/page-14.xml
(via Rus-DX Oct 22 via DXLD)
** SAIPAN. 11850.039, Oct 23 at 1402, weak M&W in tonal Asian
language, Cambodian? No, must be Vietnamese as scheduled from RFA at
1400-1500, 100 kW, 270 degrees from Agignan Point. Note, the previous
hour on 11850 is also Vietnamese, but from Radio Veritas Asia via
Palauig-Zambales, Philippines, no doubt on a different precise
frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. Re: ```The original log from Michael Ford (below)
includes Saudi Arabia as the country, so probably the frequency is a
typo for 15435 kHz:
``15345 1658 R. Neda, Saudi Arabia. AA comm, prayers, 1658 back to GoS
444 22/09 MLF``
"The Middle East & Caucasus on Mediumwave & Shortwave" file on the
club website lists Radio Neda / Call of Islam scheduled 1500-1655
daily on 15225 and 15435.
http://bdxc.org.uk/mideast.pdf
(Alan Pennington, ibid.)```
I don't think this Call of Islam relay via General programme has
existed for many years and even then IIRC it was on all Gen. Prgr.
frequencies, not just these two. Please ask Michael, with what
frequency he compared this "1658 back to GoS". At least in my April
files I hear normal Radio Riyadh programming on both frequencies. 73,
(Mauno Ritola, Finland, Oct 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. Document from Hans Johnson discussing where two
additional mystery Saudi Arabia transmissions might be emanating from.
If readers can assist with solving the mystery please message us.
419 KB pacificfmdx Oct 19
[see original for illustrations, proper display of frequency table,
via:]
http://www.w4uvh.net/SaudiTx.pdf
THE NUMBERS DON'T ADD UP – A LOOK AT SAUDI SHORTWAVE BROADCASTING
by Hans Johnson [i]
Objectives: I am curious about what Saudi Arabia is broadcasting and
from where. This is an attempt to try and figure that out through
monitoring as well as primary and secondary sources.
What does Saudi Arabia broadcast? Saudi Broadcasting Corporation (SBC)
transmits both a General and Quran program in Arabic for much of the
day. The SBC also carries a number of foreign language services.
The Ministry of Culture and Information (MOCI) broadcasts a program
for the Saudi military, Determination Radio (Huna Al-Azm), in Arabic,
which started in September, 2017. [11745]
The Yemeni government in exile is on shortwave in Arabic. It is
misnamed Radio Sana'a, a city the government no longer controls. A
press report stated that the programs are produced in Aden. It added
that they are carried on Badr 4 [satellite] and 11860 kHz since
November 2015. A look at the list of programmers on Badr 4 shows a
listing for SBC with “Yemen Radio” as one of the sub-channels.[ii]
The Saudis support the Yemeni government in exile. There are severe
power shortages in Yemen, including Aden, so broadcasting from there
with high power would be difficult. [iii]
Whoever is carrying the programs has transmitter capacity and the
funds to put it on. The pattern of frequency management is similar to
Determination with a single frequency for the entire schedule. If the
Saudis are willing to carry them on satellite, then why not the
shortwave as well. I believe that these broadcasts are from Saudi
Arabia.
Where does Saudi Arabia broadcast from? Saudi Arabia operates two
known shortwave broadcast sites. They are: Riyadh Four x 500 kW
Ampegon plus HRS 4/4/0.5[iv] This site is run by the SBC.
Jeddah Four x 250 kW Continental at Al Khumra.[v] Curtain antennas.
This site is run by the MOCI.[vi] So nominally they have eight high-
powered transmitters.
Doing the Math: Please note that many of the Saudi HFCC listings are
wooden. Neither Determination nor Yemen are registered. The WRTH and
shortwavesites.com have done a good job of looking at the HFCC
schedule and then monitoring to derive an actual schedule. I then
monitored these schedules to verify they were accurate. I also checked
through the HFCC listings to see if there had been any changes. I then
amended the schedule, for instance, 17570 kHz at 1100 UTC is a new,
additional channel for the Quran service.
The hours of 1300 to 1500 UTC are critical because Saudi Arabia would
be operating ten transmitters during this time. They operate nine
before and after these times. Either way, the Saudis are short at
least one transmitter.
UT Deter Yemen Quran Quran Quran Quran Gen Gen SBC SBC SBC SBC
Total
11 11745 11860 11935 17570 17615 - 15490 17805 15120 21670 9
12 11745 11860 15380 17625 17895 - 17705 21505 7240 13775 - - 9
13 11745 11860 15380 17615 17625 17895 17705 21505 7240 13775 - - 10
14 11745 11860 17615 17895 - - 17705 21505 7240 9695 13775
17660 10
15 11745 11860 13710 17615 - - 15225 15435 7240 9695 17660 -
9
16 11745 11860 13710 15205 17560 - 15225 15435 7240 9885 - - 9
There is one transmitter that has a terrible buzz or hum. I have heard
it on either a Quran or a General service frequency [15380, and ??]
Checking Our Work: The numbers don't add up. Let's see if I have made
a mistake. We have at least eight transmitters installed, no one is
disputing that. There is no reason to think that any of SBC's
programs, General, Quran, and foreign languages are coming from
anywhere but the known facilities. Nor is there any need to as they
only have eight of these services on at a time.
To make my numbers work, the Saudis have to employ the buzzy
transmitter, but they have enough emitters. It is hard to figure out
which site is really being used for what service though. Most of the
HFCC listings are for Riyadh, but there are at best only half the
transmitters there so it should be about 50-50.
What are the possibilities:
1- I made an error in monitoring or counting. It is possible and
anyone checking my work will quickly know if that is the case. It will
be embarrassing for me, but it would solve the mystery if they only
have eight emitters on the air even counting Determination and Radio
Sana'a.
2- I have made an error in attributing a service to the wrong country
or site. Determination Radio is not registered with the HFCC, but has
tweeted that it is via Al-Khumra and Riyadh. It is a Saudi service and
there is no reason to believe it is coming from anywhere but Saudi
Arabia. But perhaps Determination is coming from a military facility
even though it is an MOCI station and in spite of the tweet.
Radio Sana'a is not registered with the HFCC and no one has admitted
that it is via Saudi Arabia. We have some pretty good circumstantial
evidence, but that's it. If it is not coming from Saudi Arabia and
Determination is from a military facility then we have eight
broadcasts for eight transmitters.
3- There are transmitters and/or facilities we don't know about. We
need two transmitters at an existing facility or a facility with two
transmitters that we don't know about.
Ampegon told me that the installation at Riyadh was a replacement with
the older transmitters being taken out of service. Al Khumra is
described as an entirely new station at the existing site.
The Saudis have HFCC registrations for two 50 kW transmitters at
Jeddah. Now this could be a typo for 250 kW, a mistake, or just an old
listing that has not been updated. Harris did put in some 50 kW at
Jeddah, but they would be decades old. But if this was true that would
give them six transmitters at Jeddah for a total of ten.
Did a Chinese company put in some additional transmitters? Sino-Sky
and BBEF were subcontractors on Continental's project at Al-Khumra,
but they say they only did antenna work and related systems. Did BBEF,
which makes transmitters, do some additional work at Al Khumra? [vii]
Then we have these photos from First Gulf Company, the local partner.
They appear to be both from Al-Khumra [viii]:
Notice that the monitor displays six transmitters, TX1, TX2, etc to
TX6. If you read the labels on the left the top one is TX6 and
antennas go from A1-6 with a dummy load, but notice that TX 3 and 4
don't have the same pipe running out of the top. I spoke with
Continental about this and they say they installed four transmitters,
but hoped to get future sales, hence the monitor showing six
transmitters. They suggested I ask the Saudis if I thought there were
more than four transmitters there. [ix]
Did the Saudis put in some other transmitters at Jeddah after the
Continental installation? Or were they already there and then
integrated? If there are six transmitters at Jeddah then every service
will fit.
I believe that the the SBC and MOCI are operating a total of 10
transmitters. I find six transmitters at Al-Khumra in Jeddah to be the
likeliest explanation. I do not think they are 30 year old
transmitters put in by Harris, but are of more recent vintage. I could
only speculate as to who made them, who put them in or when, or what
their power is.
i I have built upon the work of many here. The WRTH,
shortwavesites.com, Ampegon, Continental, Top Shortwave News, and the
Shortwave Sites Yahoo Group were all very useful.
ii See
http://www.flysat.com/badr.php
and look at 12182H. See
http://www.almashhad-alyemeni.com/news109046.html
iii See
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security-aden/power-cuts-violence-fuel-yemen-separatists-dreamsidUSKCN0Z01QC
iv Per Ampegon, these transmitters replaced the existing Thomson
units. New antennas were installed using the existing towers.
http://ampegon.com/news/?id=27
First Gulf is the local company.
v
http://www.contelec.com/pr/2010/6-28-10_saudi_arabia.pdf
Al-Khumra is a suburb of Jeddah. The transmitters are Continental.
First Gulf is the local company.
vi See
http://www.fgcltd.com/wp-content/themes/fgc_ertekaz/images/CORPORATE-PROFILE-4-office.pdf
See page 26 for who controls a particular site. Who runs what site may
offer clues as to which site carries which service.
Determination Radio, in my view, is more likely to be from the Al-
Khumra MOCI site rather than the SBC Riyadh site.
Government entities do fight over sites, see
https://radioatlanticodelsur.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/
for the BBC and UK Ministry of Defence fighting over a site.
vii
http://www.sino-sky.com.cn/en/html/2014/abroad_0415/101.html
Sino-sky says that this relates to their work at Al-Khumra in which
they were the subcontractors, emails from Sino-sky October 9 and 10,
2017.
viii
http://www.fgcltd.com/broadcasting/our-services/radio-transmission-mw-sw/
ix Phone conversation with Calvin Carter of Continental, October 6,
2017 (via shortwavesites yg via DXLD)
Checked BSKSA Riyadh and Jeddah on Tue Oct 17, SW on air as follows,
most of the transmission end 2-3 minutes earlier, or start after mb/fq
change some 5-10 minutes later.
According to Ludo Maes archive, 4 x 250 kW US-Continental of 2011y new
at Jeddah site, Al Gwizain, "Al Kurnayash" site, 75, 135, 255 degrees,
and 315 degrees, 4 curtain antennas.
[formerly old Jeddah site at km29 Bahrah Badawi, with 50 kW Harris
transmitters of the 70ties? era, ceased and dismantled in Nov 2010 to
March 2011y according to G.E. images];
9 x 500 kW and 3 x 100 kW at Riyadh, in 2016 replaced [by] 4 x 500 kW
from Ampegon Turgi SUI [maybe also more replaced by BBEF Beijing too?]
9714.918 BSKSA HQ program at 0300 UT (-1000 UT) to Arab peninsula,
non-directional quadrant / or crossdipole antenna type.
11745.000 A-Azm military radio stn from JED?,
towards Yemen border area. 0700-1700 UT.
11860.013 / 11860.012 Yemen Radio (exile) program from Aden? bcast
house?, via Jeddah broadcast center site, at curtain
135degr. 24hrs, - I guess - from Jeddah during daytime,
Riyadh nighttime.
15170.057 BSKSA HQ program 0300-0600 UT.
17895.000 BSKSA HQ program 0300-0800 UT, lot of breaks at 0637-0640
15284.971 BSKSA Swahili program to EaAfrica at 190degr azimuth, 04-07
15380.017 BSKSA HQ program 0600-1200 UT.
17630.000 BSKSA JED? 1st Gen Ar program 0600-0900 UT.
17639.983 BSKSA 1st Gen Ar program 0600-0900 UT.
13720.000 BSKSA JED? Somali program from approx 0730-0900 UT on air.
11860.000 Yemen Radio (exile) program from Aden? bcast house?, there
was a transmission break in 0855-0900 UT slot, replaced at
0859:53 UT [by] the poor exciter signal from odd fq unit
x.012 kHz by even 11860.000 kHz unit from Jeddah site?
24hrs
11745.0005 A-Azm military radio stn decreased signal, towards Yemen
border area. 0700-1700 UT. At 0857 UT A-Azm service moved
from Jeddah to Riyadh broadcast center ?, much decreased
signal in remote SDR unit at Doha Qatar observed at 0906 UT.
Signal break at 0855-0859 UT. Though much stronger signal on
remotes in Greece and Italy.
11934.988 BSKSA HQ program 0900-1200 QRM CRI Ru Shijiazhuang #723 site
15120.000 BSKSA Bengali service program 0900-1200 UT.
15490.040 BSKSA 1st General Arabic program 0900-1200 UT. Powerhouse in
Europe. TOTALLY DISTORTED BUZZ HUM audio signal. On SDR
screen seen some peaks on 15462 to 15510 kHz wideband. 120
Hertz distance apart 28 x peaks seen on each sideband. And
5x main peak strongest strings visible either sideband too
17570.000 BSKSA HQ program 0900-1200 UT. co-ch CRI Urumqi in English,
and CRI Hungarian, Czech from Urumqi site!
17615.020 BSKSA HQ program 0900-1200 UT.
17805.068 BSKSA 1st General Arabic program 0900-1200 UT.
21670.021 BSKSA Indonesian service program 0900-1200 UT.
7240.000 BSKSA Persian service program 1200-1800 UT.
13774.987 BSKSA Urdu service program 1200-1500 UT.
15379.969 BSKSA HQ program 1200-1400 UT. Powerhouse in Europe.
TOTALLY DISTORTED BUZZ HUM audio signal, assymetric signal
peaks on upper sideband stronger. On SDR screen seen some
peaks on 15372 to 15387 kHz wideband. 120 Hertz distance
apart 28 x peaks seen on each sideband.
17625.000 BSKSA HQ program 1200-1400 UT.
17705.000 BSKSA 1st General Arabic program 1200-1500 UT.
17895.020 BSKSA HQ program 1200-1500 UT.
21505.023 BSKSA 1st General Arabic program 1200-1500 UT.
17615.000 BSKSA HQ program 1250-1600 UT.
9695.037 BSKSA Pashto service program 1400-1600 UT.
17660.000 BSKSA French service program 1400-1600 UT.
9885 - non log -, nothing on air 15-18 UT, Turkmen language.
13710.015 BSKSA HQ program 1500-1800 UT.
15225.016 BSKSA 1st Canal of Islam Arabic program 1500-1700 UT.
15434.986 BSKSA 1st Canal of Islam Arabic program 1500-1700 UT.
9885.038 BSKSA Uzbek, Tajik service on air 16-18 UT.
15205.012 BSKSA HQ program 1545-1800 UT. Powerhouse in Europe. TOTALLY
DISTORTED BUZZ HUM audio signal, assymetric signal peaks on
upper sideband stronger. On SDR screen seen some peaks on
15200 to 15210 kHz wideband. 120 Hertz distance apart 28 x
peaks seen on each sideband.
17560.000 BSKSA HQ program 1600-1800 UT.
15225.016 BSKSA 1st General Arabic program 1700-1800 UT.
15434.986 BSKSA 1st General Arabic program 1700-1800 UT.
9555.000 BSKSA 1st General Arabic program 1800-2300 UT.
9675.011 BSKSA Turkish program, 1800-2100 UT.
9870.000 BSKSA 1st General Arabic program 1800-2300 UT.
11820.043 BSKSA HQ program 1800-2300 UT.
11914.988 BSKSA HQ program 1800-2300 UT.
11930.000 BSKSA HQ program 1800-2300 UT on Oct 17.
[selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang
Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 14 / 17, BC-DX 18 Oct via
DXLD)
Briefly; we have a situation where there are 8 new SW transmitters now
operating between 2 SW sites in the country, namely: Riyadh with 4 new
500 kW Ampegons and the new SW site of Al Khumra that replaced the old
Jeddah SW site. Al Khumra has 4 new 250 kW Continentals, but there
appears to be, from monitoring observations, an additional one or two
transmissions from one or two of these sites, if you account for
Determination Radio & Yemen rebroadcasts - which are not listed in
HFCC records.
Hans, Wolfy & all interested, Noted something interesting whilst
monitoring Saudi Arabia on 15380 kHz which is supposedly from Riyadh
with 500 kW. Noted a sudden jump in signal strength at 0626 UT, not
just maybe an antenna change, but observed on SDR wallfall as a sudden
& seamless transmitter switch as there was no break in transmission or
dual transmitters on same frequency for short duration.
The transmitter swap went from 15380.06 to 15380.01 kHz & noted change
in received signals strengths from poor to fair/good. Surely a
transmitter swap at same site.
Does anyone know if the Ampegons sound different to the Continentals
in use in Saudi Arabia & if any difference in bandwidths on SW
between the units used?
I note that Wolfy made some detailed observations re carrier
frequencies, but don't know if these have been compiled with any
possible resultant conclusions re matching to transmitters or sites
(if even possible with modern transmitters). 73s (Ian, SWsites yg via
DXLD)
More on Saudi Arabia investigations
Following on from Hans` excellent work:- Some observations of the
Saudi International Radio SW transmissions in regard to the Riyadh &
new Jeddah site.
The majority of transmissions 'monitored' so far have a nice tight
bandwidth (BW) of around 9.7 to 9.8 kHz typically. This is in contrast
to several other SW TX sites where bandwidths can extend beyond 20
kHz, e.g. CRI Cërrik at 0810 UT on 13710 or some other transmissions
from Issoudon, Moosbrunn or Kunming which exceed 10 kHz BW.
The measurement of bandwidths requires a powerful signal & without
strong adjacent frequencies in use, with limited Kiwi SDRs in region,
the choice of SDR's in target azimuths (areas) can be limited, so I
haven't got accurate BW figures for some freqs & times. Monitoring NOT
performed between 1200 & 2000 UT so far.
One cannot rely on taking exact measurements of carrier frequencies to
identify particular transmitters (for this country) as I have noted
some frequencies for certain transmission periods jump around a little
from day to day & on one occasion during the same transmission period.
The change of frequencies can be due to technicians frequently fine
tuning the txers carrier freq or txer swaps, etc.
If one was to use both the WRTH 2017 & HFCC records, it does appear
that the larger & higher powered Riyadh site is used for the majority
of SW transmissions.
One freq that Wolfy mentioned likely to be radiated from a fountain
type antenna is 9715 for the ME area. Two of these ND antennas are
found at the Riyadh site, which has a very large number of antennas,
but two ND fountain HF antennas.
As mentioned previously, 4 x 500 kWs at Riyadh & 4 x 250 kW at Jeddah
(Al Khumra) site. Determining txers used from power doesn't seem
possible, power difference is only 3 dB & other factors such as
antenna used/gain & target azimuths vs SDRs rxer setups makes that too
difficult to resolve difference between the sites via that method.
Question: Does the WRTH team receive transmission schedules direct
from Saudi Radio Int? (or in recent times) I suspect not. Just
wondering if they cooperate with enquiries other than ignoring
reception reports re QSL requests, etc.?
There is one particular txer that has a buzz. Wolfy identified these
frequencies & suggests a older txer at Riyadh. But could it be a
faulty new txer? Anyone know how long this 120 Hz buzz txer has had
this fault for?
``15490.040, BSKSA 1st General Arabic program 0900-1200 UT. Powerhouse
in Europe. TOTALLY DISTORTED BUZZ HUM audio signal. On SDR screen seen
some peaks on 15462 to 15510 kHz wideband. 120 Hertz distance apart 28
x peaks seen on each sideband. And 5x main peak strongest strings
visible either sideband too. ONE OF THE - 9x - OLD Thomcast
transmitters of the 1989-1992ties ... !
http://www.swcountry.be/ars.html
15379.969, BSKSA HQ program 1200-1400 UT. Powerhouse in Europe.
TOTALLY DISTORTED BUZZ HUM audio signal, assymetric signal peaks on
upper sideband stronger. On SDR screen seen some peaks on 15372 to
15387 kHz wideband. 120 Hertz distance apart 28 x peaks seen on each
sideband. ONE OF THE - 9x - OLD Thomcast transmitters of the 1989-
1992ties ... !
15205.012, BSKSA HQ program 1545-1800 UT. Powerhouse in Europe.
TOTALLY DISTORTED BUZZ HUM audio signal, assymetric signal peaks on
upper sideband stronger. On SDR screen seen some peaks on 15200 to
15210 kHz wideband. 120 Hertz distance apart 28 x peaks seen on each
sideband. ONE OF THE - 9x - OLD Thomcast transmitters of the 1989-
1992ties ... !``
At the present time I couldn't be sure which transmission is emanating
from where, except to say that I suspect the majority are from Riyadh
(new & perhaps some older txers rather than speculated new BBEF clones
of Continentals at new Jeddah site - one can't be certain, except when
it comes to usage of old txers, these are likely to be from Riyadh as
Wolfy and I agree upon).
Azimuths of the curtain arrays could be looked at further at both
sites for the transmissions & target areas, that said; I see in HFCC
records that both sites have curtains capable of slewing. Given that
the HFCC records contain many wooden entries & perhaps many old(?) &
given that HFCC still uses same code for the new Jeddah site as old,
I'm unsure if the new curtain antennas at the new Al Khumra (Jeddah)
site also use slewing? Anyone know? I've no reason to doubt that
anything has changed at Riyadh in regards to slewing.
The Yemeni transmission on 11860 kHz at 1142 UT was measured to be
around 9.8 kHz in B/W, so it fits in with the collective of new Saudi
SW transmitters.
One thing I'm not sure about in regard to tight bandwidths from the
transmitters is if the bandwidths are in these cases controlled in
full or part by audio compression processing prior to the audio feed
to the txer of these Continentals & Ampegon txers? Perhaps someone in
the group can enlighten me.
I can't get a strong enough signal on 11745 kHz from anywhere is get
an accurate measurement of BW for the transmitter used for
Determination Radio. Perhaps one of you have achieve this from a
nearby Perseus SW remote radio or from another dxer?
I'm sure Hans & others (including myself) would welcome further
comments, measurements & observations. The above is just my 2 cents
worth of observations & comments (Ian, NSW, Oct 23, shortwavesites yg
via DXLD)
** SOMALIA. FREELANCE VOA CAMERAMAN KILLED IN MOGADISHU
Freelance Somali cameraman Ali Nur Siad, 31, was killed in a deadly
attack in Mogadishu on October 17, 2017, while on assignment for Voice
of America. The blast was the deadliest terror attack in Somlia’s
history, killing more than 300.
Siad worked with VOA Somali reporter Abdulkadir Mohamed Abdulle, who
was among those wounded in the attack. Mr. Abdulle suffered a broken
hand, burns on much of his body, and shrapnel wounds to his head and
neck and is receiving medical care in Turkey.
The two journalists had just returned from the Central Prison where
they interviewed the Somali Justice Minister about an education
program for prisoners. Preparing to ingest the video at an office they
were using at the Somali Red Crescent Society, Abdulkadir realized he
left the laptop charger in his car. He went outside to get the
charger. That’s when the bomb went off. Ali Nur was killed inside the
Somali Red Crescent Society.
Ali Nur Siad was born in Jamame town in Lower Jubba region. He took
camera training at a media institute in Mogadishu. His brothers Bakar
Hassan Ali and Abdulkadir Nur Siad said he loved being a cameraman and
was always showing his videos to journalists in Mogadishu to get their
advice. In 2004, he started work as a freelance cameraman. Over the
last year, he began working more regularly with VOA reporter
Abdulkadir Mohamed Abdulle.
Ali Nur Siad is survived by his pregnant wife Naimo Nur Gedi, and two
children, ages 4 and 1.
https://www.bbg.gov/threats-to-press/ali-nur-siad/
Last modified: October 18, 2017 (via Dr Hansjoerg Biener, DXLD)
** SOMALILAND. SOMALIA. Radio Hargeisa (presumed). Tune-in at 1345
10/17/17z, with spoken-word program; must have been long path. Music
passage at 1357, then off at 1401. Poor-to-fair sigs. QRHam from CW
station in Columbus, OH. Rx: ICF-2010 and active 4’ whip 15 feet up in
a tree (Steve Zimmerman, about 50 mi N. of Milwaukee in state forest,
camping logs while enjoying a buzz-and-crud free HF, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Hi! Don't wish to start a thirdworldwar but oppose the comments by the
listener in Bulgaria complaining about ham QRM on 7120 and calls it an
intruder. It`s the station from Somaliland who's the intruder! May I
please point out to him and others that this bc station should not be
using the ITU-allocated 7.0 MHz 40-meter amateur-ham radio band. If
you don't believe me, contact the ITU, especially the listener in
Bulgaria. 73 (Jon Collins, Birmingham, located in the middle of the
UK, Oct 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
I haven`t found the Bulgarian report, altho he might as well be
replying to Steve, but who did not call hams intruders on their own
band. I`m sure we all know this (Glenn Hauser, DXLD)
** SOMALILAND [non]. Voice of the People of Somaliland via BaBaCok
Talata, Oct 22
1900-1930 on 7325 MDC 250 kW / 355 deg to EaAf Somali, fair, QRM 7320
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/voice-of-people-of-somaliland-via_24.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, October 16-23, dxldyg via DXLD)
B-17 changes of Voice of the People of Somaliland from Oct 29:
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/winter-b-17-changes-of-voice-of-people.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, October 23, B-17 frequency changes,
dxldyg via DXLD) Viz.:
1500-1530 on 11945 MDC 250 kW / 350 deg to EaAf Somali, additional px
1900-1930 NF 9600 MDC 250 kW / 355 deg to EaAf Somali, ex 7325 A-17
(??????????? ?? Observer ? 3:50 PM via WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DXLD)
** SOUTH AFRICA. 576, South Africa -- new one! When reviewing my
Perseus capture of 20 OCT at 2300 UT I noted what seemed to be English
talk on 576. Most of the time the channel has RNE Spain // Canary
Islands synchros, always in Spanish, so I was intrigued. I uploaded
the file to
https://app.box.com/s/wihr8af3wu8d8njc01ynjumq3u2t4v8e
and posted a link on RealDX for assistance. Right away Bruce Conti
recognized EWTN theme music at the top of the hour. His comments
included:
"Radio Veritas? Definite EWTN music at the beginning of the clip.
Per the online 576 R. Veritas program schedule
http://www.radioveritas.co.za/index.php/programmes
EWTN 19:30-03:00 UTC."
I replied: Thanks Bruce. That would be a new one here. Propagation
from eastern Brazil was good (760 at least) so, by extension on a not-
too-different bearing, lower Africa should also have been in play.
Here in the New England states this is likely a better South Africa
opportunity than 828. That one is in there some evenings but is
battered by slop from WCRN. 576 is not too badly slopped since
adjacent 570 (WMCA / Reloj) and 580 (WKAQ / WTAG) are mostly talk
(Mark Connelly, WA1ION, South Yarmouth, MA, Perseus receiver;
cardioid-pattern SuperLoop: 9m vert. by 20m horiz. (peak 90 deg., null
270 deg.), nrc-am gg via DXLD)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. U.S.A.: 3185, WWRB Manchester TN (presumed);
0239-0248+, 10/16; Bro. HyStairical, the Overfondler waxing about the
coming day of the Lord; “Women shall be ravaged.” S20 peaks, not in
10/15 Aoki (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, -----
All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! -----, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) O, why wait? (gh, DXLD)
7780, WRMI Radio Miami Int’l (presumed); 2137, 10/14; Bro. HyStairical
ran a call from a B.S. toadie who said that if the U.S. Supreme Court
approves “homosexual marriage” in all 50 states, that would increase
natural disasters. SIO=3+53
+++ [same] 2205-2215+, 10/16; B.S. said he was back on WLAC (1510
Nashville; B.S. sed that WLAC has been a gospel station as long as he
can remember. Apparently B.S. didn’t listen to John R, Moms Mabley or
Pigmeat Markham.
http://www.redwaveradio.com/11_e81459a4763d388c_1.htm
shows B.S. at 10:30 PM, but current WLAC sked does not show B.S. at
any time.) (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, -----
All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! -----, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 17855, Sunday Oct 22 at 1352, REE big open carrier already,
1355 earworm IS. By 1356, // 17715 is still off, but 15520 is good,
and 21620 JBA carrier. By 1716 during silly ballgame, 17715 is also on
for four out of four (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Nuevas frecuencias de Radio Exterior de España a partir del 29 de
octubre.
http://www.rtve.es/radio/20171019/cambio-hora-cambio-frecuencias/1629194.shtml
"Con motivo del cambio horario de invierno, desde el próximo 29 de
octubre, Radio Exterior de España cambia sus frecuencias de emisión en
Onda Corta.
De lunes a viernes, entre las 19 y 23 horas, tiempo universal
coordinado, Radio Exterior de España ofrecerá sus emisiones:
En 11685 kilohercios para África Occidental y el Atlántico Sur.
En 15390 kilohercios para América del Sur y el Océano Pacífico.
En 9690 kilohercios para América del Norte y Groenlandia.
en 15500 kilohercios para el Océano Índico, Oriente Medio y Gran Sol.
Los fines de semana, para África Occidental y el Atlántico Sur, entre
las 15 y las 19 horas, tiempo universal coordinado,
en 17755 kilohercios; y entre las 19 y las 23 horas en 11.685
kilohercios.
Los sábados y domingos, entre las 15 y las 23 horas,
en 15390 kilohercios para América del Sur y el Océanos Pacífico;
en 9690 kilohercios para América del Norte y Groenlandia;
en 15500 kilohercios para el Océano Índico, Oriente Medio y Gran Sol.
Son los cambios de frecuencia de las emisiones de Onda Corta de Radio
Exterior de España que entrarán en vigor a partir del próximo 30 de
octubre con motivo del cambio horario al de invierno.
Radio Exterior de España se puede seguir a través de la radio
satelital en todos los puntos del planeta las 24 horas del día
ininterrumpidamente:
SES Astra 1M: frecuencia 11.626,5 MHz. Polarización vertical.
Hispasat 30W-5: frecuencia 12.015 Mhz. Polarización vertical.
Asiasat 5: frecuencia 3.960 Mhz. Polarización horizontal.
Eutelsat 5 West A: frecuencia 3.727 Mhz. Polarización circular.
Intelsat Galaxy 23: frecuencia 4.191,35 Mhz. Polarización vertical.
Radio Exterior de España se oye en Internet, en streaming o en los
podcast de toda su programación.
Existen además aplicaciones móviles (poner enlace para app de Apple o
Android) para aplicaciones móviles, como teléfonos y tabletas. Y desde
cualquier municipio y provincia de España se puede disfrutar, a través
de la televisión, de Radio Exterior de España por TDT." (via Manuel
Méndez, Lugo, España, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DXLD)
Ultimamente, ha habido fallas en la transmision de REE por onda corta,
por lo que decidi escuchar esa radio mediante el satelite, pero no
figura en su web los datos completos para recepcionarlo. y son los
siguientes:
Satelite hispasat, 30 grados oeste (haz de cobertura sur de Estados
Unidos, hasta sur de Argentina), frecuencia de bajada: 12052,
polarizacion: vertical, velocidad en simbolos: 27500, fec (correccion
de errores hacia adelante): 3/4
En archivo adjunto, se envia fotos de la configuracion en un receptor
generico satelital, [Se han eliminado los trozos de este mensaje que
no contenían texto] ("leonardo nicolas emmanuel reiman", 24 Oct,
noticiasdx yg via DXLD)
** SUDAN. 7206.004, Oct 22 at 0507, JBA carrier, presumably Omdurman
which periodically jumps 1 kHz above nominal 7205; but I rarely hear
any modulation from it (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
This 1 kHz offset is used by Omdurman technicians often as jamming
whistle noise action against target stn programs Radio Dabanga and
Radio Tamazuj from Dutch FPU/PNW NGO organization on 7315, 9600,
13800, 15540, 15550 kHz around 0330-0600 or 15-16 UT. See page 516 in
WRTH 2017. And forget switch back the deviation to exact xx0.000 /
xx5.000 frequency. wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 22 dxldyg via WORLD OF
RADIO 1901, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
7205.0, Oct 24 at 0555, very poor carrier from presumed Omdurman,
after having been on 7206.0, 47 hours earlier. Wolfgang Büschel has
this explanation: [as above] (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1901,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TIBET [non]. 15528, Oct 23 at 1327, JBA carrier, surely V. of Tibet
via TAJIKISTAN on signature split frequency: NDXC/Aoki almost has it
as of today:
`15527*VOICE OF TIBET 1236-1305 1234567 Tibetan 131 Dushanbe-Yangiyul
15528*VOICE OF TIBET 1346-1400 1234567 Tibetan 131 Dushanbe-Yangiyul`
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 9830, Oct 23 at 2201, VOT opening English, cautioning that
the 23 and 04 UT broadcasts are recorded playbacks (even the ``news``
becomes ``olds``). Huh?? Those are the winter timings. They must have
been uttering the wrong hours on this announcement all summer! Is it
canned, or even worse, read every day from script by clueless
announcer? In a few days it will be correct again, once this broadcast
has made its usual shift to start at 23 but on 5960 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKS & CAICOS. [Re 17-42:] Cool, Nick! [as DXed in NJ] Hope Radio
(ZHPE) was licensed last year, June 21, 2016. I've entered it in the
FM database. It`s only 500 watts. License document says broadcast
radius is 6.39 miles (Jim Thomas, Springfield, MO, Oct 22, WTFDA Forum
via DXLD)
** UKRAINE. Several times I listened to the radio "Mayak Odessa" at
765 kHz and always spoke Ukrainian, and the songs were mostly in
Russian. At the time of Charles de Gaulle in France and after that
there was a law how much of the song will be in French and how many in
other languages. Similar is now in Ukraine. September 29 at 1540 UT
listened to the grammar program, discussed how the word "train" is
pronounced in Ukrainian and Russian (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria,
via Rus-DX Oct 22 via DXLD)
** U K. More on BBC Monitoring Caversham Park closure --- An article
from the local news website, Get Reading, on the future of Caversham
Park, including some photos.
http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/property/bbc-building-caversham-park-reading-13787386#ICID=FB-Read-main
(Ian Kelly, Tilehurst, Reading, Oct 22, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD)
COUNCIL BOSSES PROMISE HISTORIC BBC BUILDING WILL BE PRESERVED AFTER
SALE
Councillor Tony Page gave assurances any developers would have to
adhere to a host of rules over preserving the Grade II listed building
Hugh Fort 05:00, 21 OCT 2017
Take a look around Caversham Park as BBC put the building up for sale
View gallery
The historic building where the news first broke of the end of the
Second World War will be protected once the BBC leave, it has been
confirmed. Reading Borough Council has confirmed it is in talks with
the BBC over the future of the Caversham Park site, which was put up
for sale in June.
At a meeting on Tuesday, October 17, Councillor Tony Page, the
authority’s lead member for strategic environment, planning and
transport was due to answer a question from Cllr Bet Tickner about the
future of the Grade II listed building.
However, due to a controversial 11-and-a-half minute answer to another
question - which has caused a row between councillors - time to answer
questions ran out.
Listed status
The council has provided the answer Cllr Page would have given, which
confirms the listed building on the site has a lot of protection.
He said: "Representatives of the BBC have been in discussion with
officers of the council in relation to the future use and development
of the Caversham Park Site, when it is vacated. "I also understand the
BBC is currently in the process of marketing the site. Councillors
will be aware that Caversham Park House is a listed building. The
whole of the extensive grounds that make up the site is a listed
historic park and garden. Historic England is therefore likely to play
a significant role in determining the future use and development of
the site."
He said most of the site is in the council's Local Plan as a "major
landscape feature". He also revealed a council’s policy states
"planning permission will not be granted for any development that
would detract from the character or appearance of areas designated as
a major landscape feature".
He added: "This is therefore an extremely important and sensitive
site. Officers will work positively with the owners and any
prospective developers to ensure an appropriate reuse of Caversham
Park House, and any limited compatible development, in accordance with
the draft policy in the emerging Local Plan (a council document which
is due to go to public consultation next month)."
The building was originally used by the BBC to tap into foreign
broadcasts during the Second World War. It was set up in 1943 and
staff would transcribe and summarise 240 foreign broadcasts a day into
a document then delivered to London. One of the reasons the site was
chosen was that it was less likely to be bombed as it wasn’t in
London.
The building dates back to the Norman Conquest, and has been
demolished and rebuilt many times. It was also used to imprison King
Charles I during the Civil War. More recently it was used to host the
Antiques Roadshow (via BDXC-UK yg via DXLD)
** U K. Additional UNKNOWN broadcast via BaBaCok Woofferton, Oct 22
1830-1900 7385 WOF 300 kW / 114 deg to N/ME Arabic Sun, good signal
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/additional-unknown-broadcast-via.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, October 16-23, dxldyg via DXLD)
** U K. BDXC visit to Woofferton photos --- Many thanks to Dave Porter
and Glyn Jones for showing around 20 members around the Woofferton
shortwave transmitter site near Ludlow last Friday. There’s a
selection of photos of the visit on the British DX Club Facebook page
at:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/BDXCUK/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1105444759592508
(This is a public page, so should be available to view even if you
don’t have a Facebook account). A most enjoyable visit to a most
impressive site! 73 (Alan, Sent from Mail for Windows 10, Pennington,
Oct 18, BDXC-UK y via DXLD) 21 photos, will run as slide-show in full-
screen mode, but then you can`t see the captions (gh)
Thanks for the report. It was interesting the link that showed the
inside of a HF radio station. I seen ones from afar but never the
inside of one. As always a great and informative job, Glenn. Thanks
(John Spicer, ptsw yg via DXLD)
17870, Oct 23 at 1428-1430+, S9-S7 signal in Arabish? No, it`s Kurdish
from VOA at 1400-1500, 300 kW, 75 degrees from Woofferton. ?? That
azimuth is wrong, missing all of Iran to the north of it. And that
includes a +5 degree slew. Kurdistan should range from 90 to 95
degrees. Is that the best they can do, no more suitable azimuth?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
re Woofferton: they had more antenna bearing choices at Rampisham
though ...
in B-17 at 102 degrees: 15600 1400-1500 39N,40W WOF 250 102degrees 0
618 291017 240318 Kur G IBB
+ / - 30 degrees azimuth signal on a 300 kW unit in 4000 kilometers
distance is common. 73 wolfie (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [and non]. Looking at the B-17 schedule in the HFCC listings, a
quick glance at the BBCWS B-17 schedule doesn't seem to show any
significant cuts, other than the already implemented reductions to
East/SE Asia (Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. MARLIN FIELD
Hi Glenn, Sad to report a senior DXer has passed away - Marlin Field.
He was especially into religious stations and also QSLing. Was active
with NASWA for many years.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/hillsdale/obituary.aspx?n=marvin-alva-field&pid=186802934
(Ron Howard, San Francisco, Oct 23, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) obit, viz:
Marvin [sic] Alva Field, 1925 - 2017 Obituary Condolences
Marvin [sic] Alva Field Obituary
Marlin Alva Field, 92, of Hillsdale, went to be with his Lord on
September 28, 2017. He was born in Callao Missouri to Homer and
Flossie (Canada) Field on September 9, 1925.
Marlin devoted his career to education. At the age of 21, Marlin
assumed the teaching duties at the one-room school he had attended.
Marlin later received a bachelor's degree from Northeast Missouri
State College, where he graduated first in his class. On February 13,
1949, while both were students, Marlin and Lois Wendt married. Marlin
received a master's degree in political science from the University of
Missouri.
From 1956 to 1973, Marlin taught political science at Lake Michigan
College, where he became chair of his department and president of the
teacher's union. In 1974, Marlin received a Master's degree in Library
Science from Western Michigan University and began librarian duties at
Waldron Public Schools. Marlin was the librarian at Hillsdale Davis
Middle School from 1976 until retiring in 1986.
Marlin wrote four books tracing his and his wife's genealogy. He also
wrote his autobiography.
Marlin was a short-wave radio enthusiast. At various times, the North
American Shortwave Association recognized Marlin as the top "DXer" in
the United States, having heard and verified broadcasts from the most
countries (over 200).
Marlin enjoyed serving on the Hillsdale County Board of Canvassers and
the Hillsdale Housing Commission.
Marlin is predeceased by a sister, Doris Stackhouse. Marlin is
survived by Lois, his beloved wife of 68 years; by his sister
Catherine Llewellyn of Macon Missouri; by his children Marla (Jay)
Hutchinson of St. Joseph, Michigan, Gary (Dolly) Field of Williamston,
Michigan, and Kenneth (Rafaela) Field of Spokane, Washington; and by 7
grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services for Marlin Field will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, October 1,
2017, at the VanHorn-Eagle Funeral Home in Hillsdale with Dr. Thomas
Burke officiating. Interment will take place at Riverview Cemetery in
St. Joseph, MI. Visitation from 6-8 p.m. Saturday, September 30 at the
funeral home
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made in Marlin's
memory to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital or Ronald McDonald
House. For online condolences, please visit www.eaglefuneralhomes.com.
Published in The Hillsdale Daily News on Sept. 29, 2017 (via DXLD)
I am sorry to hear of this gentleman's death. I had never heard of
him, but he must have been in a class of SW listeners that is pretty
elite. RIP, Mr. Field. Regards, (George, NJ3H, Stein, Redmond, Oregon
USA, ibid.)
Another long-time NASWA club member, Marlin Field, passed away.
Recently, Bill Oliver got a letter from Marlin Field’s son Gary
telling us that Marlin died on September 28 at the age of 92. Marlin
had been a member of the club for over fifty years with his new member
information appearing in the November 1965 issue of Frendx.
Marlin was an enthusiastic QSL collector with a special interest in
religious broadcasters. He was a big contributor to the club over the
years, having, unfortunately, slowed down in recent years. However,
his avid interest in shortwave listening was infectious. Marlin
maintained his interest in shortwave related matters by writing
several feature articles for our Shortwave Center column.
Marlin was an educator by trade starting in a one room schoolhouse.
Marlin taught political science at Lake Michigan College, where he
became chair of the department and president of the teacher’s union.
Later Marlin received a Master’s degree in Library Science from
Western Michigan University and began librarian duties at the Waldron
Public Schools. Marlin was the librarian at Hillsdale Davis Middle
School from 1976 until retiring in 1986. Staying active in the
community after retirement, Marlin enjoyed serving on the Hillsdale
County Board of Canvassers and the Hillsdale Housing Commission. Rest
in peace, Marlin! (Rich D`Angelo, NASWA yg via DXLD)
** U S A. 2097.3. “A” beacon in Quartzsite, AZ. Tune-in at 0228
10/16/17z. Widely-varying signal strength on this one; some IDs were
of good strength (S3). Only monitored it until about 0235. Rx: ICF-
2010 and 100’ random wire (Steve Zimmerman, about 50 mi N. of
Milwaukee in state forest, camping logs while enjoying a buzz-and-crud
free HF, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 13565, Oct 21 at 1428, traces of CW vs CODAR pulses to S9;
by 1429 faded up slightly, enough to confirm it`s K6FRC over and over
in HIFER beacon ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. Program heard: World of Radio, #1899. Time in UT:
1030-1059. Date in UT: heard October 18 2017.
Details: Reception report. Reception quality using SINPO Code, 5850
kHz, 1045, 1046 (45443), (55443). ID heard at 1044, and 1059 closing,
1059, 5850 kHz, October 18. Radio: JRC NRD-535 HF. Antenna: random
long wires in the trees. Address: (Richard Lemke, 60 Butterfield
Crescent, St. Albert, Alberta, Canada. T8N 2W7. Location: Backyard
corner pie shaped lot with trees; DX LISTENING DIGEST)
WORLD OF RADIO 1899 monitoring: protracted internet outage at
Okeechobee prevented new WOR 1900 from airing immediately, so 1899
playbacks continued: WOR 1899 confirmed Wednesday October 18 at 1030
on WRMI 5850, good, while // 9455 JBA. Also confirmed Wed Oct 18 after
1315 on WRMI 9955, good.
7490.05, WBCQ Monticello ME; 2126-2134+, 10/18; End of Glenn Hauser’s
World of Radio #1900 to 2128:58 Champ’s Tequila; 2130:03 Goddess Irena
with WBCQ spot & pushing her music, into Irena’s versions of pop
oldies. SIO=4+53 with muddled audio at times (Harold Frodge, Midland
MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ----- All logged by my ears, on my
receiver, in real time! -----, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
WORLD OF RADIO 1900 confirmed Wed Oct 18 at 2100 on WBCQ 7490, fair.
Also confirmed Wed Oct 18 at 2330 on WBCQ 9330.280v-CUSB, poor-fair.
Internet restored to WRMI sometime Oct 18, so #1900 from Oct 19 should
now be airing, next:
Thu 2230 WRMI 5850 to NW [NEW]
Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW
Sat 1431 HLR 7265-CUSB to WSW
Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sat 2130 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 2300 WRMI 11580 to NE
Sun 0200 WRMI 11580 to NE
Sun 0315v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sun 1030 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW
Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW
Tue 2030 WRMI 11580 to NE, 9455 to WNW [or maybe 1901 by then]
Full schedule on all affiliates:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
Download and podcasting linx:
http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
WORLD OF RADIO 1900 monitoring: NOT confirmed at newly scheduled time
of 2230 UT Thursday October 19 on WRMI 5850. Instead, like last week,
`Yeshua` show played instead, altho it is scheduled at this hour only
on Fridays. A mixup in programming of System H vs posted schedule.
Jeff White assures me that from now on WOR will be showing at this
time on Thursdays. It should be good across North America on the 315
antenna, and improving into the winter with earlier sunsets. WOR 1900
confirmed Thu Oct 19 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9330.196v-CUSB, fair. Next:
Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 0629v HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW
Sat 1431 HLR 7265-CUSB to WSW
Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sat 2130 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 2300 WRMI 11580 to NE
Sun 0200 WRMI 11580 to NE
Sun 0315v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sun 1030v HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW
Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW
Tue 2030 WRMI 11580 to NE, 9455 to WNW
WORLD OF RADIO 1900 monitoring: confirmed Friday October 20 at 2334,
the 2330 on WBCQ 9330.264v-CUSB, poor-fair. Also confirmed Saturday
October 21 at 1440, the 1431 on HLR, 7265-CUSB, via UTwente SDR: well
audible atop East Turkistan for a change! But some deep fades;
improves toward 1455. ``Hamburger Lokalradio`` ID inserted immediately
at end while mixing with ChiCom timesignal, and off.
[BTW, preceded by `Media Network Plus`, but it`s hard for me to get
going by 1400 UT on Saturdays: that may be our best/only chance to
hear it (including my extended propagation outlook); various ``MNP``
hours on WRMI, AFAIK, axually contain other PCJ programs. New MN+
episodes are not even audible via the pcjmedia.com website; Keith told
me it`s currently only available on smartphones via some app.] Next:
Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sat 2130 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 2300 WRMI 11580 to NE
Sun 0200 WRMI 11580 to NE
Sun 0315v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sun 1030v HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW
Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW
Tue 2030 WRMI 11580 to NE, 9455 to WNW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
GERMANY, 6190, Hamburger LokalRadio, Goehren, *0600-0700, 21-10,
English program, ID “Hamburger LokalRadio”, comments, at 0630 Glenn
Hauser’s program “World of Radio”. 25332 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain,
Logs in Lugo and Reinante, Tecsun S-8800, cable antena, 8 metros,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hi Glenn, I've been stuck indoors with the Man Flu today, so can
confirm that World of Radio 1900 did come through okay here from 1430
to 1500 UT via HLR today. 73 (Alan Gale, UK, Oct 21, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
WRN ran old WOR --- Just listened to Saturday 1730 UT airing of WOR on
WRN stream. They ran WOR 1834, with news at the end about the closure
of AES stores. mc (Mike Cooper, 1804 UT Sat Oct 21, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) From more than 3 years ago!
Instead of latest 1900, which I just rechecked, was uploaded
successfully on Tuesday. Please get 1900 on for the further broadcasts
(Glenn to WRN Master Control, via DXLD)
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Hi Glenn, Apologies for this mistake, I have uploaded the latest file
1900 for further playouts. Kind regards, Nick
MCR Operations | Master Control Room
Babcock International Group PLC
Wyvil Court | Wyvil Road | Vauxhall | London | SW8 2TG
Tel: +44207 344 5959 | mailto:Ops.MCR@babcockinternational.com
http://www.babcockinternational.com (via DXLD)
WORLD OF RADIO 1900 monitoring: confirmed Saturday October 21 at 2130
on WBCQ, 9330.3v-CUSB, fair. Missed checking what should have been the
first airing this week on WRMI, Sat Oct 21 at 2300 on 11580. The next
airing, UT Sun Oct 22 at 0200 on 11580 was: JBA carrier. Confirmed UT
Sun Oct 22 at 0326 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO, with Antarctica item, so
just started late about 0324; good signal despite storm noise level
here. Next:
Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW
Tue 2030 WRMI 11580 to NE, 9455 to WNW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Congratulations reaching milestone #1900 World of Radio. Hello
Glen[n]: Heard World of Radio #1900, October 21 UT 2017, Yes, I did
hear it but with lots of aurora noise on the signal. 11580 kHz
[propagation] is closing down more early this autumn season. After
0200 UT the signal is gone and can't hear any of the programs missed
like Radio Prague. 9395 kHz is suffering from some kind of water sound
and that signal is somewhat diminished. 7730 kHz is the only frequency
making it out to this part of the country.
Broadcaster (Shortwave): WRMI FL USA
Transmitter site: Okeechobee FL. USA
Frequency in kHz: 11580 kHz
Program heard: World of Radio, #1900
Time in UT: 2300-2329
Date in UT: heard October 21 2017
Details: Reception report
Reception quality using SINPO Code,
11580 kHz, 2300, 2310 (45443),
11580 kHz, 2319, 2329 (45333),
October 21 UT 2017
Best regards, (Richard Lemke, Radio: JRC NRD-535 HF, Antenna: random
long wires in the trees. Location: Backyard corner shaped lot with
trees. Age: 54 years young, St Albert AB, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1490, KFKB, WA, Forks – Granted STA with U1 250/250 from a
temporary 31-m longwire at 47-57-15/124-22-51; has lost lease for the
licensed site (AM Switch, NRC DX News Oct 30, published Oct 21, via
DXLD
KFKB is a WORLD OF RADIO affiliate; had been off the air from 1490 but
continued KFKB programming on the HD3 of related KBDB 96.7 FM. WOR
scheduled Sundays 4 am PT = 1100/1200 UT (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
Later: WOR and gh are still featured on the KFKB website, but NOT on
the program schedule which has something else Sundays 3-6 am. I
inquired and got no reply. I don`t ask much of WOR affiliates, but I
do expect the courtesy of notifying me of any time changes or
cancellation. So I am removing KFKB from my roster (Glenn Hauser)
WORLD OF RADIO 1900 monitoring: confirmed Sunday October 22 at 2330 on
WBCQ, 9330.06v-CUSB, fair. Also confirmed UT Monday Oct 23 from 0301
on Area 51 webcast (and WBCQ 5130.35 confirmed on air during HRI at
0334, poor). Also confirmed UT Mon Oct 23 at 0334 on WRMI webcast,
while 9955 is a JBA carrier equal to the JBA jamming. Next:
Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW
Tue 2030 WRMI 11580 to NE, 9455 to WNW
WORLD OF RADIO 1900 monitoring: confirmed Monday October 23 at 2330 on
WBCQ 9330.2v-CUSB, fair. By 2358 I refine it to 9330.20v-CUSB, S9+20
to S7. Also confirmed UT Tuesday October 24 at 0030 on WRMI, 7730, VG
S9+20/30. Also confirmed Tue Oct 24 at 2030 on WRMI 9455 and 11580,
both good.
WORLD OF RADIO 1901 contents: Barbados, Bermuda, Bolivia, Cuba, Egypt,
Eritrea, France, Germany non, Greece, Guatemala, Indonesia,
International Vacuum & Internet, Isle of Man, Malaysia, Myanmar,
Newfoundland, Nigeria, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Perú, Romania,
Somaliland non, Spain, Sudan, USA, Vatican, pirate weekend, and the
propagation outlook
WORLD OF RADIO 1901 monitoring: first SW broadcast confirmed less than
a semihour after completed, Tuesday October 24 at 2130 on WRMI, 9455,
good. NOT confirmed Tue Oct 24 at 2330 on WBCQ, no signal at all on
9330: must be off; 7490 is still booming, as are other US signals from
9350 to 9455. Next:
Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 to NW, 9455 to WNW
Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW
Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Thu 2230 WRMI 5850 to NW [NEW]
Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW
Sat 1431 HLR 7265-CUSB to WSW
Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sat 2130 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 2300 WRMI 11580 to NE
Sun 0200 WRMI 11580 to NE
Sun 0315v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sun 1030 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW [or 1130? with DST off]
Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW
Tue 2030 WRMI 11580 to NE, 9455 to WNW
Full schedule on all affiliates:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
Download and podcasting linx:
http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7489.952, WBCQ with 2 x 6.5 kHz wideband signal at 0036 UT
in MI-US remote installation, wandered downwards in fq unstable down
to 7489.942 kHz! [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz]
(wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 19) (Wolfgang Büschel, Morning log
UTC Oct 19th, at 0000-0100 UT in remote installations in MI- and NY-
USA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
7490.041v, Oct 20 at 0157, WBCQ music and carrier is wobbling
slightly, unusual for this one. ID and cut to Brother Scare JIP at
0200, when carrier seems to become more stable.
7490, UT Sat Oct 21 at 0001, WBCQ starting `Allan Weiner Worldwide`.
He says they are trimulcasting on 7490, 5130, 3265 with 50,000 watts
on each, eating up the $$ to the Maine power company which has been
sold off to something in Spain. He sees all the meters spinning, but I
cannot hear 3265! unlike previous tests on 3250 which had good
signals. 5130.35 is very poor and unusable either. At 0104 already
interrupted by a call from Fred, who reports 3265 is 40 over 9, close-
in at his New England(?) location.
Slogan ``Free Speech is Alive on 32-65``. I try again at 0047 on the
other receiver: now I do detect 3265 but only a JBA carrier, really 50
kW?? Propagation may be degraded. 5130 still VP, and 7490 S9+25 fading
to S9. Around 0100 musing that Ramsey may move to 3265, but AW would
prefer to get some network show lasting 3 hours on it. At 0105, says
Dr Becker is trying to get Alex Jones on 3265! where he can say
absolutely anything; AW suggests that WWCR imposes some restrixions on
Free Speech.
At 0108, 5130+ is still on rather than cutting off at 0100. 7490 is
starting to fade down but still the best and only WBCQ frequency for
us, axually more like 7489.97. AW endorses Jeff White and George
McClintock as good guys. Discussing programming sources, Terry Blalock
of Full Gospel Hour is the only one on WBCQ still coming on cassette
tapes, but WBCQ has all modes of playback available, even wire
recorders (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Tonight's AWWW
Show started right on time this evening. Over the opening theme Allan
stated that they were broadcasting on 3265, 5130 and 7490 and going
broke subsidizing the electric payments for the whole county. Angela
was back in the studio as co-host. The newly ground crystal was picked
up yesterday afternoon and installed this afternoon. Crystal was a bit
off and required retuning of the transmitter.
Talk of Allan's college days in Maine and his first Maine radio
station that he built in his wife's college dorm room. An AM station
whose signal bled out all over the town of Houlton. The local AM
station was very upset about this as was the college so Allan
proceeded to build an FM station in the attic over the student union
and this station also bled out all over the town upsetting the local
AM station again and also the college. The college prevailed upon
Allan to build a legal radio station for the college which he did.
Then the college asked him if he could build them a TV station and he
did, finding a ton of black and white TV equipment from a station in
Maine going out of business. Station was put on the local cable system
in Houlton. Then he started teaching two courses at the college while
still a student there.
Reading of emails started at 0119 with station news from Robert. Tom
Taylor's European Music Radio will be on Saturday evenings at five-
thirty on 7490. Antenna DX and Just Right will be moving to 7490 on
Wednesday evenings at five and five-thirty. The times on the two
programs moving to 7490 from 5130 on Wednesday evenings might have the
times swapped. Lots of good reception reports for 3265. Show was off
the air at 0138 (John Carver, Mid-North Indiana, UT Oct 21, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
7490, Sat Oct 21 at 2130, WBCQ is on early with monthly European Music
Radio, a semi-hour of rock music not otherwise available? Evidently on
third Saturdays only.
3264.836-AM, Oct 21 at 2339, JBA carrier in storm noise, presumably
WBCQ`s new frequency. While I`m at it, precisely the others:
5130.360-AM, also very poor; 7490.003-AM at S9+20; at 2346, 9330.310v-
CUSB, Blalock the Blaster during his additional hour from cassette.
It so happens that a few minutes later, Wolfgang Büschel was checking
these via SDR in Edmonton, different results as they do vary a bit:
``7489.953 at 0002 UT on Oct 22. S=9+25dB.
around 0000-0002 UT noticed an empty carrier on v3264.9 kHz, but only
few seconds on air.
5130.366 only tiny S=5-6 signal at 0012 UT.
9330.264v-CUSB noticed on 9330.301 kHz at 0024 UT on Oct 22. S=4-5 -
99dBm tiny in Edmonton Alberta``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. From the Isle of Music & Uncle Bill's Melting Pot,
Oct 29-Nov 4
From the Isle of Music, October 29-November 4:
This week, our guest is the extraordinary percussionist, bandleader,
composer and educator Ruy López-Nussa, whose DVD Repercusiones was
nominated in the Espectáculo Musical Audiovisual (Live Musical
Performance) category of Cubadisco 2017. If you are a fan of Jazz,
percussion or both, you will love this episode.
Four opportunities to listen on shortwave:
1. For Eastern Europe but audible well beyond the target area in most
of the Eastern Hemisphere (including parts of East Asia and Oceania)
with 100 kW, Sunday 1500-1600 UT on SpaceLine, 9400, from Kostinbrod,
Bulgaria (1800-1900 MSK)
2. For the Americas and parts of Europe, Tuesday 0000-0100 UT on WBCQ,
7490 from Monticello, ME, USA (Monday 8-9 PM EDT in the US)
3 & 4. For Europe and sometimes beyond, Tuesday 1900-2000 UT and
Saturday 1200-1300 UT on Channel 292, 6070 from Rohrbach, Germany.
Polka Party!
Episode 34 of Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot will be a New Ulm, Minnesota-
style Polka Party. New Ulm was the epicenter of a distinct Polka sound
that swings. If you think you don’t like Polkas, this might make you a
convert. Sunday, October 29 at 2200-2230 UT (6-6:30 pm EDT US) on WBCQ
7490, for the Americas and parts of Europe.
Thanks for all you do for radio! (William "Bill" Tilford,
Owner/Producer, Tilford Productions, LLC, Oct 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5985, Oct 21 at 0546, what`s this with rock tune? Soon
announcement by Paul Walker with a 9- zip code, so must be his old
show while still in Alaska getting an unpublicized playback on WRMI;
then emits Leader of the Pack and La Bamba. As usual, this frequency
is poor, only S5, weaker than the WWCR mixing product on 5980! I see
that KIYU by now has removed him from the staff roster:
http://www.kiyu.com/staff.html
but is he really the ``Mike Walker`` doing an oldies show Fridays?
5985 is WRMI-2 at 222 degrees, now scheduled with unspecified, except
UT Mondays, System H programming at 0500-0600*. I believe Brother
Scare has also been heard during this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
5985, UT Sunday Oct 22 at 0500, Qur`an, nicely sung --- what`s this,
Algeria? NO, WRMI! Part of the World Music rotation, instead of
Brother Scare or Paul Walker during this extended hour until 0600; as
made clear by segué at 0503 to hilife music, 0505 that German beer-
hall(?) song.
There is an understation, which is really in Arabic, CRI via Albania
from 0500, but it sure won`t be Qur`aning. Back at 0458, it was only a
gospel huxter in English on WRMI.
7730, Monday October 23 at 0626, WRMI is S9+30 with World Music fill,
during an hour occupied Tue-Sat by Argentine relay. It`s the latin
jazz tune with sax solos, really neat and one I never tire of hearing;
followed by a rendition of Ave Maria for contrast (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Just got the daily PowerHour newsletter and there's a notice
in there asking people to call WWCR and ask them to carry the entire
three hours of the PowerHour and then listing the phone number for
WWCR. Makes one wonder why the last two hours got dropped in the first
place and also wonder if there are problems with WRMI (John Carver,
IN, Oct 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Not that I really care about TPH, but AFAIK, WWCR *is* still carrying
the entire 3 hours on 13845; 7490 kept only the first hour. It could
be that TPH has been paying for one frequency, and the other one was a
bonus as long as time could not be sold to something else. Of course,
13845 has a considerable skip zone, not even reaching OK very well
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Been a lot of years and I didn't make notes. PowerHour was on World
Harvest Radio. They left, unknown whether they were asked to leave or
not but there was speculation that the station decided to dump them
and they ended up on WWCR. I honestly can't remember the frequencies
used at the time. All I can remember is that one year WWCR picked
12160 for their daytime summer frequency that year. They had used it
in the past and it had worked well all day for them. That year 12160
didn't work well at all in the mornings and the outcry was so loud
from the PowerHour listeners that WWCR came up with 7490 instead for
the mornings. Worked reasonably well but the listeners on the West
coast still complained that they couldn't hear it so WWCR came up with
13845 in addition to 7490. I can only speculate that since Joyce died,
revenues are off and they couldn't afford the radio bill and that WRMI
was cheaper than WWCR but listeners are complaining that they can't
receive the WRMI signals as well as they did 7490. Although, if that
is what happened, I can't see where calls from listeners to WWCR would
solve anything as there would still be the problem of paying the bill.
I always liked Joyce Riley but I must confess that I've only listened
to the program just a few times since she died and only twice since
the hurricane and the WRMI outage. There are however a lot of
interesting things in the archives. Not everything on the show was
political and there is a lot of good information on other subjects
(John Carver, mid-north Indiana, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. I`ve had a quick look thru today`s Oct 25 edition
of HFCC for B-17, searching on RMI, whether there are any significant
changes coming up. These frequencies continue, about the same as
before altho their spans may be adjusted slightly:
5850, 5950, 5985, 7570, 7730, 7780, 9395, 9455, 9955, 11530, 11580,
11825, 15770, 21525.
Here`s one new entry: 9840 at 06-08 on 87 degrees to Africa.
9840 has been associated with WHRI which still has it at 12-24.
9580 is still in the file, at 09-21, 285 degrees to CIRAF 10. This was
added for A-17 but never used. It happened after Radio Australia self-
destructed, and I urged Jeff to consider relaying RA whether they
liked it or not! To keep it on SW for the benefit of North American
listeners but also into the Pacific. At least this may discourage
other stations from usurping the frequency, in case RA really come
back (which is increasingly unlikely).
RMI is also registered for a number of transmissions via Issoudun,
France toward Africa, not all of them current or known:
7240 at 05-06, multilingual
9610 at 19-20, English
11795 at 19-20, multilingual
13740 at 0730-0830, Hausa
15440 at 0730-0830, Hausa
15450 at 1730-1800, Oromo
17765 at 1600-1700, Hausa
And of course for Radio República in Spanish:
9490 at 00-01, 01-02, 02-04, Sat/Sun 04-05
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5810 & 11520, Oct 20 at 0051, WEWN remains totally off the
air from both Spanish and English night frequencies. Still missing
from 5810 at 1129 October 20. What`s wrong?
15610, Oct 18 at 1829, NO signal from WEWN English, must be off; 12050
Spanish is S9+20. Recheck at 2003, still no 15610.
15610, 12050, Oct 19 at 1355, WEWN missing not only from day
frequencies, but also from night frequencies 5810, 11520. Recheck at
1636, still no 15610 or 12050.
12050, Oct 20 at 2342, this is the only WEWN frequency on, in Spanish;
nothing on 15610 or 11520 English, nor 5810 Spanish yet.
5810, Oct 21 at 0052, now Spanish is on here, VG with some hum, but no
English on 11520. Another check at 0552, still no 11520.
5810, Oct 22 at 1348, WEWN Spanish, and 15610 algo presumed English
with both transmitters active. Per EiBi, the QSY time for Spanish to
12050 is 1400, and for English from 11520 to 15610 not until 1500.
After 1400, 12050 is indeed on. At 1716, 12050 is VG, and 15610 VP, as
usual without some sporadic-E boost, rare at this yearpart even as low
as this band (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 3185, Oct 21 at 0538, no signal from WWRBS --- I bet they
are stuck on day frequency: Yes, 9370 is still on, very poor S3 but I
can tell it`s Brother Scare. Wake up, Dave! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17775, Oct 18 at 1825, KVOH remains weak S8-S9, and no spurs
detectable; much weaker than Spain 17715 S9+10 and 17855 S9+20; and
even Madagascar 17640 S9+10/20.
17775, Oct 19 at 1636 check, KVOH back to bigsig S9+20, still no spurs
beyond splash 17770-17780; keep it up! Carrier wobbles slightly and
somewhat overmodulated distorted.
17775, Oct 20 at 1653, KVOH blasting in at S9+20/30 but without any
perceptible spurs or broadband noise field as it was suffering from
one week ago.
17775.023, Oct 23 at 1426, KVOH is S9+20, off-frequency and wobbling
slightly, but still no spurs or noise field (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD
OF RADIO 1901, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15555-USB, Oct 18 at 2004, WJHR is on but JBA (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9475, WTWW Lebanon TN (presumed); 2115, 10/13; Permanently
Passed & Perpetually Pretentious Pastor Pete Peters with this Piece of
Pointless Puffery; “A sacrifice is not a sacrifice unless something is
sacrificed.” (I couldn’t have Pointlessly Purveyed that better
myself.) SIO=454- (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185'
RW, ----- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! -----,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
5072, 5085 & 5098, UT Thu Oct 19 at *0206, as I tune in, WTWW-2 and
its spurs blast on the air amid a ham radio discussion without Ted
about digital modes. No telling whether a brief or lengthy
interruption/late sign-on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
W T W W --- What on Earth has happened to 9930? I've tried at 1
Central Time for several months and I no longer find them there. I
emailed them several times no response. I emailed Bob Heil. He tried
to cover up the fact that they're not there. Well! Must just be
conditions. But you can always tune me in on Saturday night at 8 p.m.
but no one will admit to something being wrong over there. Do you have
a clue, have Radio Havana Cuba engineers taking over their
transmitter? (Mark Sills, TX, Oct 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
AFAIK, WTWW-2 has been AWOL from 9930 for several weeks, altho the
same transmitter does appear some evenings on 5085, such as UT Sundays
at 0100 for Bob Heil`s `Theater Organ in the Ozarx` --- but not always
then, either. Typically Tedly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9265even, WINB tiny exciter signal only, S=3-4 at 0045 UT on
Oct 19 [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (wb df5sx,
wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 19) (Wolfgang Büschel, Morning log UTC Oct
19th, at 0000-0100 UT in remote installations in MI- and NY-USA,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Portland news and talk radio station KPAM-AM is being sold
Updated on October 24, 2017 at 9:48 PM Posted on October 24, 2017 at
11:26 AM
The Portland news and talk radio station KPAM-AM (860) is in the
process of being sold. (KPAM)
By Kristi Turnquist kturnquist@oregonian.com The Oregonian/OregonLive
More changes are coming to the Portland-area media world. Both KPAM-AM
(860) and "Sunny 1550" (KKOV-AM) are in the process of being sold. A
call to Pamplin Media Group asking about the changes was transferred
to a recording, which announced that after nearly 18 years, both KPAM
and Sunny 1550 "are in the process of a sale."
The stations will, the recording says, spend the next three to six
months on a "farewell tour," celebrating and reminiscing, as they are
"going out with a bang."
Recently, employees of KPAM posted on social media that they had been
informed that the station was being sold, and would become a
Vietnamese language station.
Mark Dornfeld, KPAM traffic reporter, for example, posted on Twitter,
announcing that KPAM was being sold, and "new ownership isn't keeping
the staff."
Dornfeld also wrote that the three to six months estimate before
listeners hear a format change is due to time needed for the Federal
Communications Commission to approve the sale.
Regarding the changes coming to KPAM, reporter K.C. Cowan wrote in an
email that she is "really sad the station is being sold," and that she
"enjoyed working with everyone there. They were some of the most
dedicated news people I've ever worked with, and I'll miss them."
KPAM bills itself as "News Talk 860," and features an all-news and
talk format, which includes local shows and syndicated programs such
as "The Clark Howard Show."
The slogan for Sunny 1550 is "America's best music," and the playlist
features vintage tunes such as Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are,"
"The Girl is Mine" by Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney, and Glen
Campbell's "By the Time I Get to Phoenix."
We've reached out to KPAM for more information about the sale and the
new format, and this post will be updated when we have more details.
The Pamplin Media Group, owned by Robert B. Pamplin, Jr., also
operates the Portland Tribune, along with several suburban community
newspapers in the metro area.
If your organization is looking to up your traffic/breaking news
game, it's your lucky day! I am now available to handle that. DM me!
-- Mark Dornfeld (@PDXTrafficNow) October 24, 2017
Station sold and new ownership isn't keeping the staff.
-- Mark Dornfeld (@PDXTrafficNow) October 24, 2017
Not sure. They're moving the operation to another location.
Probably will be all pre-recorded.
-- Mark Dornfeld (@PDXTrafficNow) October 24, 2017
Not yet. F.C.C. still has to approve it so the estimate is 3-6
months.
-- Mark Dornfeld (@PDXTrafficNow) October 24, 2017
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(via Artie Bigley, DXLD)
** U S A. 920, Oct 20 at 1105 UT, end townhall.com news, KVEL weather,
atop the CCI at the moment, from Vernal UT. 5/1 kW U2, main night lobe
aims NE, with a very minor sidelobe sorta thisaway (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1030, 16.10 0130, KCTA, Corpus Christi TX. Very nice signal
with close down ceremony, but continued anyway for half an hour more
(Odd-Jørgen Sagdahl, Trondheim, Norway, 1000 meters at 305 degrees at
the old Loran C site in Berlevåg, Arctic Radio Club mv-eko Oct 23 via
DXLD) cf my recent reports (gh)
** U S A. 1040, Oct 20 at 1108 UT, M&W talk in Vietnamese, with WHO
nulled, making 28/minute SAH = 0.47 Hz. Still audible at 1122 UT.
Figure it`s most likely the Dallas station, which is now KGGR, but its
schedule shows nothing but English, not only now but anywhen:
http://www.kggram.com/schedule/
``Monday – Friday
Start Finish Program
Sign On 8:45 AM Great Gospel Music``
Only other possibility, and with ethnic format, is WPBS Conyers GA,
which is 50 kW ND daytimer; 5.5 kW CH, NRC AM Log listed as ``Atlanta
Radio Korea``. Ditto radio-locator.com but outdated entry for WPBS
1040 showing website http://atlantaradiokorea.com/ now goes directly
to WQXI 790! So maybe the 1040 station has now converted to other
languages, as this certainly was not Korean!
Atlanta sunrise today is 1147 UT, and official October FCC sunrise is
1145 UT (November: 1215 UT). So what is it doing on air already at
1108? CH would also require it to keep down to 5.5 kW for two hours
after sunrise. There is no info about a PSRA for this in NRC AM Log or
FCC Correspondence.
Altho not carrying it, tunein.com offers a clue for 1040 as ``Spice
Radio``. But that`s old news. Here`s the clincher, from Wikipedia:
``In early 2008, it changed formats to "Spice Radio Atlanta"
broadcasting with Desi/Hindi music and talk.
By mid-2009, the station was simulcasting with 1080 WFTD's "Atlanta
Radio Korea" programming. The Korean programming of "Atlanta Radio
Korea" was then heard exclusively on WPBS and dropped from WFTD which
then started carrying Spanish language programming.
When Atlanta Radio Korea, owners of WPBS, purchased WQXI from Entercom
and flipped it to from [sic] its simulcast of WSTR on December 15,
Vietsong Media, owners of WFTD, purchased WPBS and has flipped the
format to Vietnamese radio, as of January 1, 2017`` (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1330, Oct 20 at 1115 UT, ad for something in Kermit TX, and
KCKM singing ID, then C&W music, dominating even the second-order KCRC
Enid spur het, and KNSS Wichita. 12/1 kW U2, and October sunrise is
not until 1300 UT (November: 1315 UT). I must conclude Monahans is
operating illegally with 12 kW ND day pattern; night pattern has a
null toward Wichita and Enid. There is nothing about a PSRA in the NRC
AM Log nor to be found in the FCC Correspondence file (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1479.958, ALABAMA, WERM, Mobile. 0951 October 22, 2017.
Sergio Méndez "Never Gonna Let You Go" into The Jackson 5 "The Love
You Save" then Frankie Valli, no ID over the top of hour, Fleetwood
Mac "Silver Springs" live rendition, finally at 1009, male canned
"Great music on your local station, WABF, go online at... WABF 1480."
They pretend to be WABF, which is still the assigned calls for the
sister station on 1220 kc/s (per the FCC dB), and WABF apparently
pretends to be WERM (not audible with XEB blocking the channel). One
website of sorts is wabf1220.net.
Read the Wiki separate entries for WERM and WABF for the convoluted
story on these two. Apparently the problems continue, with this off-
frequency and drifting very slightly from this center measurement
(Terry Krueger, All times/dates GMT, Clearwater FL, IC-R75, NRD-535,
short longwires, active loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1490, KFKB, WA, Forks – Granted STA with U1 250/250 from a
temporary 31-m longwire at 47-57-15/124-22-51; has lost lease for the
licensed site (AM Switch, NRC DX News Oct 30, published Oct 21, via
DXLD) So is it really on the 1490 air now? Inquiry not answered (gh)
** U S A. 1520, Oct 22 at 1311 UT, KYND Cypress TX is still playing
the 73-second loop trying to get someone to lease the station; axually
atop weakened KOKC now. Please, someone call Bill Turner at 281-373-
1520 and get some more pertinent programming upon it (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Glenn, KYND is still running the promo loop, looking for someone to
lease the station. Previous programmer moved to KLVL 1480 (Stephen
Luce, Houston, Texas, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1540, Oct 19 at 1312 UT, surf forecast, KGBC ID and song.
This 2.5 kW transmitting from Galveston Island really gets out; easily
separable from YL talker, presumably Ingraham on KXEL. Just after I
had checked 1520 for KYND, but too far gone under KOKC to tell whether
still running the promo loop (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1560, KGOW, TX, Bellaire – Format to Vietnamese (ex-SPT);
drops nets (Wayne Heinen, AM Log Update, NRC DX News Oct 30, published
Oct 21, via WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DXLD) See my logs last week
Hello, IRCA reports: 1560 KGOW Bellaire, TX was sports, now ethnic.
Website still shows sports but domain up for sale. Best wishes (Barry
:-) Davies, Carlisle UK, Oct 24, MWCircle yg via DXLD)
** U S A. Per a phone conversation I had a couple years ago with GM
Chuck Yates, the info for the 10 kW day power and the 2.1 kW CH power
lines up with what's listed in the NRC Log, and in addition, KLNG also
has a 332 watt PSSA, which they normally run up to 2 hours after LSS,
then they sign off (although, as I type this, KLNG is already off, so
who knows WHAT criteria they use as to what days they implement the
PSSA and what days they don't). I live about 5 miles due west of
KLNG's stick, and it's doubtful that 1.32 watts would even make it
THIS far after 0600 CLT. My hunch is that if you heard them that well
in Enid at 0716 CLT, they were already running at least the 2.1, if
not the full 10. I'm copying this to Wayne Heinen so that he can stick
the 332 watt PSSA into his database for next year's logboook. 73,
(Rick Dau, South Omaha, Nebraska, 0059 UT Oct 26, ABDX via DXLD)
** U S A. 1589.942 approx., Oct 22 at 1307 UT, sermon in English; low
het = about 60 Hz hum often audible against 1590.00 stations. I
previously traced this on June 12 to KMOZ, 1000/85 watts U1 in Rolla
MO, a Bott station, when it was on 1589.90 in the middle of the night
at 0500 UT. Since then I don`t find a single other report of KMOZ on
the IRCA or NRC lists (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1710 kHz, Oct 20 at 1137 UT, screaming gospel huxter in
Spanish (I think; can hardly understand a single word), mixed with
other loud voices from apparent pentecostal service. Steady S9 signal
but undermodulated {so they compensate by screaming?}. I am hearing
this only on the R75 with E/W longwire, so no DFing; on the DX-398
tried first, I was only getting some pulsing whine, apparently from
some local device. (At 1143 UT I note that 1680 KRJO with West Monroe
ad is still in well.)
1710 still past 1140 UT, crowd responses, keeps going past 1200 UT
with no pause or ID. I have been looking for this tnx to Terry
Krueger`s log from Florida:
``1710 LOUISIANA (PIRATE) Radio Retén lo que Tienes, Bâton Rouge. 1014
October 12, 2017. Screaming Spanish male preacher and audience
response, parallel live stream. https://www.radioretenloquetienes.com
Thanks D. Crawford for the tip. Decent signal. Also in well around the
same time on October 14. How long will this one last? (Terry Krueger,
Clearwater FL, WORLD OF RADIO 1900, DX LISTENING DIGEST)``
Current true BR SR/SS times are 1210 UT/2328 UT. Website blatantly
claims to be on 1710 AM and also 107.7 FM: Guess what, WTFDA FM
Database shows no legal 107.7 anywhere in Louisiana. Address as:
``Iglesia La Nueva Jerusalen, Radio Reten lo que Tiene, Ministerio,
Ciudad de la Verdad Monte de Santidad, 8290 A Siegen Lane, Baton Rouge
70810 L.A. [sic] Tel 225-394-3748, 787-909-6199``
``Tiene`` -- sic; are we being familiar or not? Program schedule is
rather strange, showing mornings only on: Martes y Jueves 7 a 12 am
(but this is Viernes).
The slogan derives from Revelation III:10, in one translation, ``I am
coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your
crown``. Crown? As in skull? I don`t wear any other one.
1710 kHz, Oct 22 at 1205 UT, JBA talk, 1207 UT music, vs storm noise
level from LA/TX, no doubt still Radio Retén lo que Tienes, Bâton
Rouge pirate, as heard much better Oct 20. JBA carrier still audible
at 1304 UT.
This thing is obviously more than a 10-watt talking house transmitter
as it gets out to at least 910 km/565 miles to Enid; or 856/532 to
Terry Krueger in Clearwater FL; thus I am surprised that since
publicized on World of Radio 1900, and in DXLD yg, and my own previous
log, I have seen NO other reports of it, at least in the ABDX, IRCA
and NRC lists (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
1710.024, LOUISIANA, (PIRATE), Radio Retén lo que Tienes, Bâton Rouge.
0915 October 21, 2017. Nearly local level with primitive Spanish live
(presumably pre-recorded) gospel chanting inside the church with lots
of room echo, Spanish preacher briefly from 0939, back to singing.
Parallel station website stream. Weak het when tossed into LSB, coming
from just below 1710.00, maybe the possibly affiliated NY-area pirata
(Terry Krueger, All times/dates GMT, Clearwater FL, IC-R75, NRD-535,
short longwires, active loop, WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
1710.02, Oct 24 at 0614 UT, Spanish preaching, presumed Radio Retén lo
que Tienes, Bâton Rouge, Louisiane pirate. So far only other DXer of
this known is Terry Krueger in Florida who put it on ``1710.024, at
0915 GMT October 21, 2017 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
The way that Radio Retén lo que Tienes's schedule is written, that's 7
am to midnight, not 7 to noon. (Also, that is one mouthful of a name!)
One of the Baton Rouge guys has heard the FM before and actually asked
for an ID of it.
http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?11256-Spanish-unID-on-03-21-17
That AM, though, is getting out thanks to its funky frequency! (Raymie
Humbert, Phœnix AZ, Oct 21, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) Viz.:
Spanish unID on 03/21/17 --- Can anyone who knows Spanish take a
listen to this clip of 107.7 FM. I recorded what sounds like an ID.
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kmrb8f9507q381i/Spanish%20unID%20107.7.wav?dl=0
(amfmtvdtvbrla, southeastern Louisiana, WTFDA Forum via DXLD)
"107.7 FM - 1710 AM - www.radioretenloquetienes.com - Radio Retén Lo
Que Tienes". The church sponsoring this is Iglesia La Nueva Jerusalén
—*8290-A Siegen Lane, Baton Rouge 70810. That's a small shopping strip
with a panadería and Mexican restaurant in it. Yarrrrr! The name is a
quote from Revelation 3:11 that in English is rendered "Hold on to
what you have" (Raymie Humbert, AZ, ibid.)
** U S A. Re: FUTURE OF AM RADIO --- Sorry this reply is late in
arriving, but I was out of town for a few days, and am just now
getting around to writing something.
"Around some of the larger metro areas, the land the xmtr site
occupies is worth more than the station."
That was another point that Chris made during our tour.
And Kit, I KNEW there was an example out there somewhere of a 50 kW
blowtorch simulcasting on a puny 250 watt translator, but I just
couldn't put my finger on who it was. Thank you for pointing out that
it was KOA, in your very own backyard. And I find it silly that KOA is
doing this, as 250 watts comes nowhere close to covering Denver, even
if you were to put that translator in the heart of downtown. On a day
when trop conditions are abounding on the FM dial, the effectiveness
of that translator will be negated on the outer edges of the Denver
metro area.
I'm going to throw out a hypothetical situation of what a 50,000 watt
AM station SHOULD do if they ever decide to turn off the AM and go
completely over to FM. Say, for instance, that WBBM does exactly that.
The current simulcast of WBBM, on 105.9, is 4100 watts. While that may
sound sufficient, keep in mind that Chicago, its suburbs, and its
reach into northwest Indiana covers a HUGE amount of square [sic]
acreage.
There's where WBBM-FM would be well-served to be broadcasting its
current AM format on a signal of at least 25,000 watts, if not 100,000
(that's the current limit on FM in the U.S., right? Someone correct me
if I'm wrong on that) to make sure that everything from Rockford to
Morris to Joliet to Hammond to Michigan City and farther in towards
the lake would get adequately covered. After all, those driving in
towards Chicago are probably going to want to know a good distance out
from the suburbs what the traffic is like on the Ike, the Ryan, the
Tri-State Tollway, etc. so they can plan accordingly. A big FM signal
would help immensely with that.
Mark Durenberger, Scott Fybush, and others, I'd welcome your thoughts
and input on what Kit and I have touched on in our posts so far. 73,
(Rick Dau, South Omaha, Nebraska, Oct 17, ABDX via DXLD)
WCFS 105.9 is a full class B signal, the maximum allowed in that part
of the country. Yes, it's 4100 watts and not 50,000 watts effective
radiated power, but that's because FM stations are "height-derated" -
if the antenna height exceeds the maximum for the class (152
meters/500 feet for class B), the power is adjusted downward to create
a service contour that's no larger than it would be at the class-
maximum height.
Which is to say that from its perch atop the Sears Tower, WCFS covers
as much as any FM station in Chicago can legally cover. In FM, height
matters as much as power.
(There are some exceptions - higher ERP, regardless of height, helps
with building penetration, and when you have tropo ducting going on,
lower ERP at higher height usually doesn't show up as well at the far
end of the duct as higher ERP/lower height does.)
WCFS has a licensed auxiliary site at the old WXRT studio building on
the North Side; from there, it's licensed for 25.1 kW at 147.6 meters,
which actually produces somewhat smaller coverage than the main Sears
Tower facility with 4.1 kW/482 m. s (Scott Fybush, Rochester NY,
ibid.)
I grew up in Chicago, and I am still amazed when I drive back there
from Minnesota. None of the big building FM signals can even come
close to matching the (Day or Night) coverage of WSCR, WGN, WBBM, WLS,
WMVP, or even WIND [560]. I can pick them up easily in Madison and get
valuable traffic info (better than phone apps) as I decide which
routes to take into the city. There was a time when a less crowded FM
band permitted comparable coverage to that of the big AMs, but that's
just not the case now. The big signal AMs win, hands down. 73, (Mike
Gorniak, Braham, MN, ibid.)
Nothing is going to help AM radio when the formats are deplorable.
Talk, sports, religion, foreign language, etc. do not attract the same
levels of loyalty and fanaticism that AM enjoyed in the 60's and early
70's. You put garbage on AM, people won't listen. You put the same
garbage on FM, people still won't listen. AM (and FM)'s are format
related, not signal related (R. Bruce Carter, TX, Oct 18, ibid.)
AM is dead (Rick Shaftan, Atlantic Media and Research, OBX NC, ibid.)
Radio station program director and air talent here. A lot of my career
has been in AM radio, but for no specific or set out reason, just the
way it worked. AM Radio is NOT dead, far from it. BUT, those stations
who just shove crap programming out of the transmitter are hanging by
a thread. I've worked for some AM stations that are still thriving.
KEYZ 660 and KNLV 1060. Stations who have maintained their heritage,
localism and give the listeners what they want will continue to do
just fine.
KNEM 1240 Nevada, MO is an example. This 500 watt full time AM in a
town of 8000 people does high school football. I listened to a recent
recording of one of the games with the action called by owner Mike
Harbit. There were AT LEAST 3 dozen sponsors. They had to take
commercial breaks just to "burn off" some spots.
Mike told me in an email that, as an owner, he is very very pleased
with the revenue. KNEM/KNMO have live, local jocks around 12 hours a
day weekdays (Paul B Walker, Jr., Warren PA, ibid.)
AM REVITALIZATION, STILL NOT GETTING THE MAIN IDEA
http://www.radioworld.com/columns-and-views/0004/am-revitalization-still-not-getting-the-main-idea/340604
(via "Dennis Gibson" wb6tnb, Sent from my iPad, ibid.)
Radio - not just AM - still doesn't get it. Better receivers will not
solve the pathetic format problem. Crap on AM, crap on FM - the best
sounding radios receiving the strongest signal - and people still
won't listen to crap. Radio keeps asking the wrong question like
"should we go all digital" or "should we get an FM translator". The
right question is: "Why do music players exist on phones?". They get
that question answered the right way, it will rescue AM - and FM. The
way things are going, the future of AM is a dial filled with brokered
programming that nobody listens to. And FM is not far behind as we re-
make FM in the image of AM (R. Bruce Carter, TX, Oct 19, ABDX via
DXLD)
Agreed, Bruce. Also if I read the article correctly, the claim is made
that 10 kHz bandwidth will even make fidelity-limited HD AM’s sound
better. In what universe? I’m all for better bandwidth (there’s no
good reason why consumer equipment can’t sound as good as an air
monitor in a control room.) However, I still won’t listen to
uninspiring programming even with clean audio.
And, by the way, 10 kHz audio would only emphasize the weaknesses of
most AM stations: excessive loudness, compression, etc.
I’m for it, but only as part of a larger strategy — better
programming, stringent noise reduction requirements for electronic
devices, weeding out stations that exist just as repeaters for
satellite-delivered national programming.
I don’t hold out hope for those items, though, so AM will die a
horrible death, with translators cluttering up the FM band with the
same programming listeners reject on AM, reducing FM’s viability in
the process.
Frankly, with multiple station ownership the way it is today, the best
AM formats could switch to FM now, eliminating duplicate formats of FM
facilities (Rick Lewis, ibid.)
I sure don't get how the word "revitalization" fits in the FCC's
warped ideas of dealing with AM. Moving from AM to FM does NOTHING to
revitalize AM. Look at it this way --- if you own a run-down property
that needs to be fixed up (or "revitalized") and instead of doing
anything to actually fix it up, you simply move next door, the bottom
line is that while you might have improved your situation by getting a
more desirable and valuable property, you have done absolutely nothing
to "revitalize" the old property except but to leave it behind. Is
that really a solution to the problem of the old property?
Back in the 80s or 90s I read an article that dealt with what was
appropriately called "the AM-ization of the FM band." The main focus
was how the FCC had allowed the AM band to become so overcrowded by
jamming in so many extra allocations through the use of directional
antennas until the band was cluttered to the point of being hardly
usable in many areas. And then the FCC made things worse by breaking
down the clear channels to jam even more stations in. Then the FCC
started to jam more stations into the FM band in much the same way
they did with AM.
To make things worse, now we are seeing every market getting jammed by
translators that are being licensed too close to each other, and too
close to full power stations, all in the name of somehow saving, or
"revitalizing" AM. I don't see how trashing the FM band is going to
save AM, but that seems to be the only plan the FCC can come up with.
One of the biggest reasons AM ended up in so much trouble was one bad
decision after another by the FCC. It seems that everything the FCC
ever did regarding AM hurt it. They limited the bandwidth, limited
protection by breaking down the clear channels, and totally ruined AM
stereo by failing to choose one standard. And while the audience was
moving from AM to FM, the FCC decided to extend the AM band to allow
more AM stations. Brilliant. 73, (Kit, W5KAT, CO, ibid.)
The phrase that I used a couple months ago when discussing this
subject with fellow DXing hobbyists in Milwaukee after the tour at
Entercomm is the same one I'll use here now. It's not revitalization
at all --- rather, it's a systematic, methodical dismantling. 73,
(Rick Dau, South Omaha, Nebraska EN21af, Oct 19, ibid.)
And they are trying to acquire WBBM but CBS is already trying [to]
degrade their "elite" status (Todd Skaine, ibid.)
That is simply NOT correct (Powell NNNN E Way III, SC, ibid.)
Please allow me to jump in and put in my 2 cent's worth. After a
while, the AMs with big expensive directional arrays will whine - oh
please, most of our listeners are now listening to our translator.
Please let us turn the AM off and dismantle the array. Uncle Charlie
will say, OK. That will reduce interference for the remaining AMs.
Then the AM that did that will whine - wait a minute, that 250 watt
translator just doesn't cover the population our big expensive and now
gone array did. We simply must have more power to serve our people.
Can you see where this is leading? When that happens, the AMization of
the FM band will be complete (Bob Smoak, Bamberg, SC, ibid.)
I've been having some interesting conversations with my AM consultant
friends in the week or so since the WBBM app was filed. It's a little
more complicated than "nothing will change," and not in the ways you
might think.
First, it's important to know that not all "50,000 watt" AM facilities
are created equal. The FCC has minimum standards (for now) about how
efficiently a MW antenna system must be for a "class A" facility like
WBBM. You put 50 kW out of the transmitter and you have to produce at
least a certain field strength at a certain distance.
But --- there is no MAXIMUM efficiency. If you're KFBK using a
Franklin-type antenna that is extremely efficient, your 50 kW out of
the transmitter will produce a higher field strength at a given
distance than a more typical 190-degree antenna would.
If KFBK were to replace its Franklins with conventional series-fed
towers, it would remain a "50 kW" station (FCC rules allow no more
than that for a class A AM) but would produce less field strength at
any given distance.
(There is a rulemaking proceeding that would let AM stations use less
efficient antennas if they're willing to pay the power bills to feed
them more input power. The FCC hasn't yet acted on those.)
In WBBM's case, it's going to a *more* efficient antenna than what it
currently uses. All else being equal, the FCC would let it put 50 kW
into that more efficient antenna (there's no maximum efficiency,
right?) --- but all else is not equal, because other AM stations now
have signals that edge up right against WBBM's current protected
signal contours. Make WBBM bigger and you create new interference,
which you can't do. Hence the reduced input power by day and (less so)
at night - it keeps WBBM's contours right about where they now are.
So nothing changes and everything's groovy, right? Not hardly, because
MW transmission has lots of real-world variables. Just because WBBM's
distant signal at the point where it can't overlap WJAG stays the same
does NOT mean things stay unchanged closer in.
In dense urban areas, every millivolt of signal matters these days to
overcome the ever-rising noise floor. In the real world, lots of
things can knock down a signal. I'm writing this from the west side of
Manhattan, which is RF hell. The AMs across the Hudson in the
Meadowlands (WOR and WABC) come in just fine here. The ones in the
Bronx (WCBS and WFAN) that have to cross the city to get here are
sometimes unlistenable. Even if a contour map says they should deliver
a healthy 20 or 25 mV/m here, in the real world --- they just don't.
Same thing happens in Chicago. WLS has *always* been lousy downtown.
Its site in Tinley Park is too far south and the conductivity into the
Loop stinks. WGN and WBBM have always been the best downtown. The WSCR
site just a few miles away isn't quite as close, and thus isn't going
to be quite as good downtown for WBBM. It won't be *awful*, and most
listeners there are probably on the 105.9 FM signal or streaming
anyway; but it *will* change somewhat.
It's in the middle distances that things will change least. If you're
in a suburb 20 miles out and you get a usable 8 mV/m from WBBM now,
you'll get pretty much the same after the move.
And then you get into skywave reception, where the move to a taller
antenna will once again create some changes. The taller antenna
changes the vertical radiation pattern and skywave takeoff angles,
which means there will be new areas where skywave and groundwave
cancel each other out (and conversely, some areas that now get
cancellation and will get cleaner signals after the move.)
So to summarize: WBBM will still be a very good signal. It retains its
class A status and protection from incoming interference, and it will
put out roughly the same field strength it now has. But the change in
location and antenna height will have effects, more prominently
downtown and then in the cancellation zone 60+ miles out, much less so
in the suburbs in between and for distant skywave listeners. s (Scott
Fybush, NY, ibid.)
Scott, that's an excellent analysis. Thank you for taking the time to
write and post it. 73, (Mike Gorniak, MN, ibid.)
You're most welcome! (I wrote it on my phone during a boring
conference session --- my thumb is sore now!) I welcome any questions;
this stuff has taken me decades to learn and I'm still learning!
(Fybush, iibd.)
** U S A. SALT LAKE CITY TO LOSE CLASSICAL AS BYU CONSOLIDATES
OPERATIONS - RadioInsight
By Lance Venta on October 23, 2017 2 Comments
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/120513/salt-lake-city-lose-classical-byu-consolidates-operations/
Brigham Young University is consolidating its local and national
broadcast operations which will lead to the end of its Classical music
programming on 89.1 KBYU-FM Provo/Salt Lake City on June 30, 2018.
On that date “Classical 89” will begin simulcasting the
Talk/Sports programming of “BYU Radio” currently heard on SiriusXM
channel 143. BYU Radio carries LDS Church oriented talk shows and
programming connected to BYU’s sports teams. The station and its
network of translators throughout Utah are the only terrestrial
Classical voices in the state, although University of Utah’s 90.1
KUER-HD3 carries the Classical24 network for HD Radio listeners.
At the same time KBYU-TV will drop its PBS affiliation and switch
to the national BYUtv programming service, while the university shuts
down its Spanish language BYUtv International carried on cable and
satellite in Latin American countries.
BYU Broadcasting today announced plans to consolidate its
television operations, BYUtv, KBYU Channel Eleven and BYUtv
International, into one, nationwide television network. Similarly, BYU
Broadcasting said it plans to consolidate its radio operations,
BYUradio (on SiriusXM Satellite Radio) and KBYU-FM/Classical 89, into
a single radio network. The changes will take effect on June 30, 2018,
at which time BYU Broadcasting will center all its resources and
attention on two closely-correlated, multiplatform products, BYUtv and
BYUradio.
In the Utah market, KBYU Eleven is currently available in HD
across all platforms, including over-the-air, and on cable and
satellite, while BYUtv is only available in HD on some of these
platforms. Beginning in June, BYUtv will enjoy full HD availability on
all platforms across Utah through KBYU’s broadcasting license. With
this change, KBYU Eleven will no longer be a member station of the
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
“KBYU Eleven has long been a proud member station of PBS. But as
such, our schedule has been duplicative of KUED, the PBS member
station at the University of Utah,” said Michael Dunn, managing
director of BYU Broadcasting. “By consolidating our services, we will
be able to focus all our attention on creating and offering new
original programming for both Utah and our growing nationwide
audiences on BYUtv. We have valued our relationship with KUED and
appreciate that PBS fare will continue to be enjoyed across Utah
through KUED. We look forward to continued collaboration with KUED and
other PBS member stations on original content opportunities in the
future.”
In a similar fashion, Classical 89, heard over-the-air in Utah at
89.1 and 89.5 on the FM dial, will become BYUradio, which up to this
point has been available on SiriusXM Satellite Radio, on the Internet
and through various digital platforms. BYUradio will continue to offer
its current mixed format of live locally-hosted talk, public affairs,
educational and classical music programming.
Going forward, BYU Broadcasting will also continue to invest in
and expand its Spanish-language content for audiences throughout Latin
America as well as domestically in the United States. BYUtv
International, which had limited distribution across Latin America,
will discontinue over-the-air, satellite and cable broadcasts. This
will enable BYU Broadcasting to further invest in international
content available over its state-of-the-art streaming services offered
at BYUtv.com.
These changes will allow BYU Broadcasting to streamline and
utilize all employees and internal resource services for two media
portals instead of five. This change will not require a reduction in
force.
“BYU Broadcasting will continue to emphasize original, values-
oriented, family content on BYUtv and BYUradio,” said Dunn. “This
consolidation of services will allow our organization to focus,
simplify and unify the future of our media portals. At the same time,
we will also be able to offer the Utah market comprehensive HD access
to these major investments in content, including more than 500 hours
annually of live HD collegiate sports programming.”
BYUtv’s original programming, including Studio C, Granite Flats,
Random Acts, American Ride and Story Trek as well as original music
specials, feature films, docudramas and sports programming, has
garnered 77 Emmy Awards over the last six years. At the same time,
BYUradio has continued to grow its nationwide audience on satellite
radio by offering more than 3,000 hours of original content each year,
including unprecedented growth in podcasts. BYUtv is the only national
network originating from Utah and creates more original entertainment
and live sports content than any other channel in Utah. Likewise,
BYUradio is the only Utah-based radio service available nationwide on
SiriusXM.
In addition to BYU Broadcasting’s offerings on traditional
television and radio platforms, such as over-the-air, cable and
satellite delivery, BYU Broadcasting has been a pioneer in digital
delivery of its content. BYUtv was the first television network in the
United States to stream all of its content live and unencrypted over
the Internet. Today, BYUtv content is available live and on-demand on
multiple digital platforms, including over the Internet, Apple TV,
Roku, Amazon Fire, Chromecast, Xbox One, Windows Media and digital
apps for iOS and Android. BYUradio is also available as a streaming
audio channel on the Dish Network as well as www.tunein.com. BYUradio
podcasts can be heard on iTunes, Stitcher, Tunein and Google Play.
2 Comments
Mark October 23, 2017, 12:50 pm
Don’t blame NPR for this one, haters. (Meanwhile, KCPW could get a lot
of goodwill and even some better ratings by flipping from NPR-less
news-talk to classical–and not have to rejoin NPR.)
Eric Jon Magnuson October 23, 2017, 5:40 pm
Per
http://upr.org/post/byu-drop-pbs-classical-music-pursue-national-strategy
Logan-based Utah Public Radio (or, at least, its primary station,
KUSU) may be carrying WFMT’s satellite format on its HD-2 subchannel.
(via Artie Bigley, Oct 23, DXLD)
** U S A. FCC SAYS ALABAMA MAN MUST PAY
“No harm” is no excuse, agency says
October 19, 2017 By Randy J. Stine
http://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/0002/fcc-says-alabama-man-must-pay/340624
The FCC isn’t happy with Michael Dudley.
According to the commission, he had admitted operating a radio station
without proper authorization from his home in northern Alabama in
2016. It said he defended his actions then by saying the broadcast on
103.9 MHz was not interfering with any other station but that he still
promptly shut down his pirate operation and, in fact, according to the
FCC account, he voluntarily mailed his transmitting equipment to the
FCC’s Atlanta field office in a show of contrition.
However, several months later, field agents responded to another
complaint about an unauthorized station at 107.9 MHz emanating from
his residence in Guntersville. On that recurrence, the FCC says,
Dudley’s response was different.
“Mr. Dudley admitted that he was operating another unauthorized
station and refused to turn it off. Agents visited Mr. Dudley’s
residence on July 18, 2016, and confirmed that an unauthorized station
was being operated at that residence. No one responded when the agents
knocked on the door, but Mr. Dudley contacted one of the agents later
that day and admitted again that he was operating a station without a
license,” according to a FCC order released this week.
The Enforcement Bureau issued a Notice of Apparent Liability against
Dudley in October 2016 and proposed a forfeiture of $15,000. Dudley
responded to the NAL, the FCC said, but refused to pay: “Although he
does not deny operating the station, Mr. Dudley makes a number of
arguments as to why the NAL should be cancelled and the forfeiture
reduced or rescinded. Specifically, Mr. Dudley argues that he had
ceased operating the station, that the station had not caused
interference and so had not harmed anyone, and that he is unable to
pay the forfeiture,” the FCC wrote.
Now the commission has upheld the forfeiture of $15,000 and dismissed
his reason for not paying. The FCC was unpersuaded by his argument and
said it based its decision at least partly on the fact that he had
resumed broadcasting just months after shutting down the first
attempt. “That he changed transmitting frequencies only shows that he
intended to evade commission detection,” the staff wrote.
The commission’s enforcement arm has renewed efforts against radio
piracy since Chairman Ajit Pai was elevated to chairman; and recently
it began including property owners and landlords of expected pirates
to its enforcement policy.
Dudley now has 30 days to pay the forfeiture or the case could be
referred to the U.S. Department of Justice for enforcement of the
forfeiture, according to the FCC order. It becomes hard to track how
many such cases are pursued further; a common complaint among
broadcasters worried about illegal operators is that pursuit to
conviction of alleged illegal broadcasters either is rare or happens
out of sight (via Artie Bigley, OH, DXLD)
** U S A. FCC ELIMINATES MAIN STUDIO RULE - RadioInsight
The FCC has voted 3-2 along party lines to eliminate the Main Studio
Rule at today’s Open Meeting of FCC Commissioners. Stations will still
be required to maintain local or toll-free phone numbers and public
file materials that isn’t online accessible for the communities they
serve, but will no longer be required to have a studio in or near the
station’s city-of-license. The Main Studio Rule was adopted in the
Communications Act of 1934 which established the FCC requiring
stations to have a studio in its city of license and was modified in
the 1970s to allow the studio to be within 25 miles. FCC Chairman Ajit
Pai had previously stated that the rule was outdated because in the
digital age the community has access and can engage with stations via
social media or email without having a physical studio nearby and that
maintaining a physical address is an expense better put to other uses,
like adding more local programming. In theory a group owner can now
consolidate all programming into a handful of studio . . .
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/120527/fcc-eliminates-main-studio-rule/
THE RADIO STATION OF THE FUTURE…. TODAY!
By Lance Venta on October 24, 2017 1 Comment
https://radioinsight.com/blogs/lance/120536/radio-station-future-today/
As was long expected, the FCC voted today to eliminate the Main Studio
Rule that has been in place since the formation of the agency in 1934.
But what will that mean in the short term? Probably not a lot. Early
on expect to see some networks like Relevant Radio or Bott Radio
Network that has programming originate at a handful of locations but
dozens of stations or companies that have clusters in adjacent markets
such as Beasley’s three New Jersey operations or companies that have
stations in both Baltimore and Washington DC could be consolidated
into one building.
In the long term be prepared for a much leaner broadcast facility.
From talking to engineers who have been preparing for such a move
there isn’t much in the way of a consensus on what will happen next.
Some of the larger groups may have main studio hubs, a practice that
has begun with facilities such as Cumulus’ Nash Campus where all of
its national Country programming originates or how EMF’s “K-Love” has
already eliminated their local studios through waivers. However, non-
commercial networks and syndicated content are one thing, commercial
operators will still need local offices/facilities to generate
revenue.
One option could be a a regional hub & spoke system where one larger
facility produces content for nearby markets. And that is something
that companies like iHeartMedia are already doing so nothing would
really change there. The only difference could be that instead of
having a large studio facility for their unmanned stations, now an
operator could build a smaller facility with one or two studios that
can be interchanged for whichever station has local programming to
originate out of it during a given daypart and the necessary sales and
promotions office space. With technology as it is, there could even be
a growth in programming originating from home studios.
While this is a major change and of course there will be job losses as
there is anytime a group operator has the ability to cut costs, this
will not be as big of a change in the long term as some fear. Stations
still need people to create content and that content has to come from
somewhere. Even at groups like Cumulus, iHeart, or Townsquare stations
rely on local talent and programming to serve their audiences. That
will not completely go away today, tomorrow, or next year. What radio
will look like 5-10 years from now will be different than what it is
today just like today’s radio is different than 2007 and than was
different from 1997 and that was different from 1987 and so forth. The
media landscape is continually changing and this is just another step
in that direction (via Artie Bigley, DXLD)
The Switch - The inside track on Washington politics.
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THE FCC JUST ENDED A DECADES-OLD RULE DESIGNED TO KEEP TV AND RADIO
UNDER LOCAL CONTROL
https://www.washingtonpost.com/pb/news/the-switch/wp/2017/10/24/the-fcc-just-ended-a-decades-old-rule-designed-to-keep-tv-and-radio-under-local-control/
Federal regulators have voted to eliminate a longstanding rule
covering radio and television stations, in a move that could
ultimately reshape America's media landscape.
The regulation, which was first adopted almost 80 years ago, requires
broadcasters to have a physical studio in or near the areas where they
have a license to transmit TV or radio signals. Known as the "main
studio rule," the regulation ensured that residents of a community
could have a say in their local broadcast station's operations.
Tuesday's vote by the Federal Communications Commission lifts that
requirement. With the rise of social media, the agency said, consumers
now have other ways to get in touch with their local broadcasters.
"Additionally, technology allows broadcast stations to produce local
news even without a nearby studio," said FCC Chairman Ajit Pai.
But that same technological capability could prompt large media titans
to take over small, local TV and radio stations, turning them into
megaphones blasting content developed for a national audience rather
than a local one, according to critics.
"At a time when broadcast conglomerates like Sinclair are gobbling up
more stations," the consumer advocacy group Free Press said in a
regulatory filing on the matter in July, "the Commission's proposal
would allow these conglomerates to move even more resources away from
struggling communities and further centralize broadcasting facilities
and staff in wealthier metropolitan areas."
Sinclair, the right-wing broadcaster, is currently trying to buy up
Tribune Media in a $3.9 billion deal. The consolidation of the media
industry has become a political flashpoint amid wider concerns about
fake news and the polarization of news consumption. Even some
conservatives have opposed the merger, on the grounds that it could
limit the number of voices on the airwaves.
"Anyone who understands how these big media companies operate can see
the danger," Christopher Ruddy, the chief executive of Newsmax, a
conservative media company that asked the FCC to reject the Sinclair
deal, wrote in a recent Post op-ed. "By owning local stations, the New
York-based media networks could dictate local news coverage. With the
planned elimination of the local studio rule, they will have a green
light to do so."
Supporters of the FCC decision to eliminate the main studio rule,
including the National Association of Broadcasters, argue that the
main studio rule imposes unreasonable costs on station owners and that
the savings from no longer operating a physical studio could be
funneled into creating more local TV and radio programming.
"[The] record shows that costs associated with main studio rule have
stopped broadcasters from launching new stations in small towns,"
tweeted Matthew Berry, Pai's chief of staff (via Mike Cooper, DXLD)
** VATICAN. Vatican Radio B17 in English via SMG site only [there
could be more from relays]
7365 2000 2030 46SE,47W 100 184 -6 386 1234567 Eng VAT VAT
9660 2000 2030 46 250 210 0 151 1234567 Eng VAT VAT
9700 1715 1730 38E,39NW 100 114 -16 386 1234567 Eng VAT VAT
11935 0730 0745 38E,39NW 100 115 -15 616 234567 Eng VAT VAT
15595 1130 1200 38E,39NW 250 118 0 216 6 Eng VAT VAT
17590 1130 1200 38E,39NW 250 112 14 616 6 Eng VAT VAT
13765 1630 1700 47-48,52-53 250 150 0 218 1234567 EngTir VAT VAT
(excerpt from HFCC schedule in DXLD 17-42, WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DXLD)
** VIETNAM. VIETNAME, 9635.9, R. Voz do Vietname, Son Tay, 1002-
desvan. total 1155, 14/10, vietnamita, canções, texto, entrevistas,
música ligeira; 35343. Good DX & 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW Coast of
Portugal, Oct 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIRGIN ISLANDS U S. Update: 1, TV Stations: Fifty-nine TV stations
have been issued a Special Temporary Authority to be offline (GACTVDX,
Easton PA, Oct 23, WTFDA Forum via DXLD)
? were there every that many? See PUERTO RICO, same figure, confusion
about area referred to; and may include translators (gh, DXLD)
Update 2: AM 1000 WVWI owned by Ackley Caribbean Enterprises, INC in
Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands remains off-the-air
due to coastal storm surge flooding.
The tower/antenna remains standing with its guy wires intact on the
east side of the studio building. The transmitter was 5 kW during the
day, 1 kW during the night.
WVWI property is south of the Addelita Cancryn Junior High School on
Veterans Drive between the towns of Altona and Frenchtown. Eighty
yards southwest of the tower is a capsized inter-islands fast
passenger ferry. The boat port side is submerged near the south-side
end of the Enkai Sushi Bar on the pier. The north-side of the bar
complex was obliterated.
Click image for larger version. Name: wvwi_am_tower_maria.jpg Views:
4 Size: 25.3 KB ID: 21087 (GACTVDX, Oct 25, ibid.)
Update 3: AM 970 WSTX owned by Caledonia Communications Corporation in
Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands remains off-the-air due
to coastal storm surge flooding. The tower/antenna remains standing
with its guy wires intact on the southeast side of the obliterated
studio building. The transmitter was 5 kW during the day, 1 kW during
the night. WSTX property is located three-quarters of a mile northeast
from the town of Christiansted. The obliterated Studio sits 30 yards
from the shoreline along the western end of Beauregard Bay (GACTVDX,
Oct 25, ibid.)
** YEMEN [non]. Here in North America, we are ~320+deg from Jeddah so
if this [0900-1800 on 11860 unknown tx / unknown to N/ME Arabic] was
250 kW and bi-directional it would make sense we get a strong signal
from it! This is the first I have heard of these new Transmitters and
Antennas! Thanks, Wolfie! 73s (--Rodney Johnson, MN, replying to early
September posts, Oct 18, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
re ``(and US 4 x 250 kW Tx Continentals)`` --- B u t this was my
fault: these 4 x curtain arrays on new Jeddah site of Dec 2011 / Jan
2012 are Made in China BBEF / Beijing firm, N O T TCI California
design! Sorry. ARS_new Jeddah BBEF firm made in China but-not-TCI!!!!!
antennas 135 / 315degr +/-30 degr slew. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
[see SAUDI ARABIA] In case it is of interest what programming goes out
on 11860 kHz:
http://de.kingofsat.net/tp.php?tp=1709
On a recent spot check, both of these audio tracks carried the TV
program audio. Which is consistent with some mentions of apparent TV
audio being transmitted on 11860 kHz.
What's remarkable here is that there is another "Yemen TV" and "Yemen
Radio" on Eutelsat capacities, like Hotbird, where the Italian
uplinker iKOMG happens to put them on 11.296 GHz H in one mux with
Kurdish programs, including Radio Denge Kurdistane. Same corner logo,
but different programming.
So it seems that the Eutelsat programming is the Sana`a station, in
2015 cut off by Arabsat. Thus that other "Yemen" programming on Badr 4
must come from the Saudi-supported side. Could be from Aden, could be
from SBC facilities at Riyadh. An analysis of program contents would
be the next step here.
Remarkable are also reports about this Badr 4 / 11860 kHz programming
being presented with announcements like "this is Sana`a". Which,
obviously, was not correct. Which I would not consider a mere matter
of making a point of being the legitimate broadcaster but as an
attempt to fool people (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 22, shortwavesites yg
via DXLD)
11860, Oct 23 at 1423, Arabic discussion from Republic of Yemen Radio,
good S9+10 to S8, via SAUDI ARABIA?
Hans Johnson has published a research paper about SA SW, via the
shortwavesites yg, indicating that they are known to have 4
transmitters near Riyadh and 4 near Jeddah, but at certain hours like
this, 10 frequencies are in use, so how to explain that? See
http://www.w4uvh.net/SaudiTX.pdf
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) As above under SAUDI ARABIA
** ZAMBIA. ZÂMBIA, 4965, Voz da Esperança, Rancho Makeni, 1819-1830,
12/10, inglês, canções; 35343. Good DX & 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, SW
Coast of Portugal, Oct 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Re: ``Transatlantic carrier search, OCT 9 0035-0038 - As
DX'ers further east are reporting a good opening: 783-east (likely
Mauritania), 756-seems southeast? (maybe 100 kW Nigeria, more like
east), rest Europish: 1044-east/northeast, 1053-northeast (2 carriers
beating), 1215-northeast. [Hauser-OK]``
1044 likely Spain, 1053 two carriers beating likely UK and Libya
(Bruce Conti, NH, ed., NRC IDXD via DXLD)
UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA carrier search: 783, Oct 20 at 0053,
presumably Mauritania. Audible only on the R75 with E-W longwire.
Checked lower band on 9 kHz steps offset 1 kHz with BFO but only this
heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 2182-USB, 0040 10/17/17z. Caught tail-end of what
sounded like a marine weather advisory. Weak-to-fair sigs. In English;
sounded like possibly a British accent. May have been an automated
announcement. Rx: ICF-2010 and active 4’ whip 15 feet up in a tree
(Steve Zimmerman, about 50 mi N. of Milwaukee in state forest, camping
logs while enjoying a buzz-and-crud free HF, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
I would dearly like to know which stations are still ever active on
2182 kHz, once the prime marine calling frequency. I never hear
anything on it (gh, DXLD)
UNIDENTIFIED. 5290. Thu, Oct 19 at 0302-0315, UNID Station, in
Spanish. A song; man announcer talks in Spanish; woman talks and more
songs. Very poor transmission, 25332 (DXer: José Ronaldo Xavier,
Cabedelo-PB, Brazil, Tecsun S-2000, Longwire, HCDX via DXLD)
Very strange. Cannot be a MW harmonic. Does the S-2000 suffer from 2 x
IF images? That could explain it: From 6190 MWV in Spanish at that
hour, 2 x 450 kHz higher. Next time, listen for a match (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
OK Glenn, I'll try. Thanks, (Jota Xavier, ibid.)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6071.0, Oct 20 at 0546, CFRX 6070 has a het exactly 1
kHz up; strange, never noted elsewhen (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6165, Oct 20 at 1129 music, very poor with flutter, 1130
no timesignal but announcement. It`s either Thazin Radio, Myin U Lwin,
Myanmar, 50 kW, 356 degrees at 0930-1430 in Burmese per NDXC/Aoki; or
CNR6, at 1100-1605 in Chinese, 100 kW, 163 degrees from Beijing 491
site. VOV-4 Vietnam also uses 6165 but supposedly not at this hour. I
am hearing only one station. No timesignal on the half hour might rule
out Myanmar if they do one on their hourtop. WRTH says CNR6 is Voice
of Shenzhou, or ``Shenzhou Easy Radio``. Are they both really on air
at 1130? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6185, Oct 18 at 2012, JBA carrier, which I continue to
assume most likely is coming from XEPPM, barely making it in daytime,
and maybe not modulating this early but transmitting.
However, NDXC/Aoki shows a couple of Europeans possibly with remnants
this early: 1900-2000 RTI German, 250 kW, 114 degrees via UK; and
2000-2100, CRI Arabic, 150 kW, 193 degrees via Albania; neither at a
good azimuth for us (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
How about B-17 HFCC for 6185? Still missing is the real station XEPPM,
but the others to watch out for:
0400-0430 AWR Turkish via Austria
1500-1530 TRT Italian
1700-1720 VR Belarusian, 1740-1800 Ukrainian
2000-2200 CRI Arabic via Albania
2300-2400 CRI Mongolian via Xi`an
Also, laughable imaginary wooden listings for RRI Manokwari, 1 kW in
English! at 0100-0500 & 0700-1000. So at these daytimish hours,
nothing but XEPPM could be on there: 1530-1700, 1720-1740, 1800-2000,
2200-2300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6905-LSB, Oct 21 at 0050, 2-way in Spanish, stronger S8
station says he`s near San Antonio and also mentioning El Paso, so
apparently Tejanos rather than Mejicanos. Can`t hear his contact at
all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS
++++++++++++++++++++++++
ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1901:
I would like to make a contribution in honor of your 1900th World of
Radio, and also to the memory of Michael Ketter. Regards, Lw (Larry
Will, MD, via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com)
TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED FUTURELY:
Glenn, A small donation long overdue. Thank you for many hours of good
broadcasts. 73, (Joe Caberlin, Chester NS, VE1EJ ex-VE3ABG, with a
contribution to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 72702)
PUBLICATIONS
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NDB DATABASE
Hi Glenn, You recently mentioned that you were not able to locate any
info on 350 RG in Oklahoma City. There is a great database for NDB
stations found at:
http://www.classaxe.com/dx/ndb/rna
It's based entirely upon loggings, and there are three sections: RNA
(North America), REU (Europe), and RWW (rest of the world). RNA does
not have a power level for RG, but I looked at its antenna on Google
Earth via ourairports.com, and it is a t-top Marconi wire antenna
with hefty end insulators, suggesting somewhat more power than a 25-
watter. It is a reliable nighttime signal here. Hope you find the info
useful. 73, (Steve Zimmerman, Milwaukee, WI, Oct 20, DX LISTEING
DIGEST)
This RG listed as 'Gally' Oklahoma City --- what`s Gally? Never heard
of it. RG call obviously derives from Will RoGers World Airport. Click
on that and you get a map of OK showing NDB calls and frequencies (gh)
KEIN SENDER UND FREQUENZEN 2018
>Und wenn dann statt Werbung und Promotion durch den Verlag nur
mangelndes Interesse und Lieblosigkeit für das Produkt hinzukommt, ist
doch klar, wo das endet.>
So ist es. Die Aussage des vth Verlags einem Hobbyfreund gegenüber
"Sowohl wegen dem Schwund der AM-Sender“ hätte man das Buch
eingestellt - da sieht man wie weltfremd dieser Verlag gearbeitet hat,
der keine Ahnung vom In-halt des eigenen Jahrbuchs hat und dieses
großartige Buch seit vielen Jahren in keiner Weise wirklich
unterstützt hat. Die Entscheidung der Einstellung ist schon vor Wochen
gefallen.
Gerade "normale" Kurzwellenhörer hatten mit dem Jahrbuch eine kompakte
Informationsquelle für *alle* Frequenzen, egal ob Kurz- Mittel oder
Langwelle, ob Sat oder Internetradio. Zusätzlich zu den 480 Seiten mit
allen Infos der Län-der über 120 Seiten mit "Background" zum gesamten
Hobby Fernhören. Besser ging es nicht, es gab weltweit (!) kein
vergleichbares Produkt für Fernhörer. Nur wenn der Verlag das Buch
weder bewirbt noch unterstützt war das Ende absehbar. Sehr, sehr
schade!
Letzte Exemplare des 2017er Jahrbuchs kann man über den ADDX Verlag
bestellen - damit unterstützt man das Re-daktionsteam (und nicht den
vth Verlag!) direkt.
http://www.addx-verlag.de/bestellung.php
(73 Christoph Ratzer via A-DX via SW Bulletin Oct 22 via DXLD) i.e.:
NO STATION AND FREQUENCIES 2018 [rather rough Google translation]
> And if instead of advertising and promotion by the publishing house
only lack of interest and lovelessness for the product is added, it is
clear, however, where this ends>
That's the way it is. The statement of the vth publishing house
opposite a hobby friend "Both because of the fading of the AM
transmitters" one would have set the book - since one sees how world-
wide this publisher has worked, who has no idea of ??the content of
the own yearbook and this great book since many years in no way really
supported the decision of the attitude has fallen already weeks ago.
Just "normal" shortwave listeners had with the Jahrbuch a compact
information source for * all * frequencies, no matter whether short-
medium or long wave, whether sat or Internetradio. In addition to the
480 pages with all the information of the countries over 120 pages
with "Background" to the entire hobby. It could not be better, there
was no comparable product for the world wide (!). Only when the
publisher neither advertised nor supported the end was foreseeable.
That's really a pity!
Last copies of the 2017 yearbook can be ordered via the ADDX Verlag -
thus the redaktionsteamam (and not the vth Verlag!) Directly.
http://www.addx-verlag.de/bestellung.php
73 (via Christoph Ratzer via A-DX via SW Bulletin via DXLD)
RADIO PHILATELY See GUATEMALA
+++++++++++++++
LANGUAGE LESSONS
++++++++++++++++++
ENGLISH IN A POST-BREXIT EUROPEAN UNION
MARKO MODIANO
World Englishes, 2017 0883-2919 doi: 10.1111/weng.12264
ABSTRACT:
This article speculates about the possible effects of the Brexit
process on the status and functions of English in the European Union
(EU). One issue here is whether Brexit will result in the weakening of
the status of English within the Union, or whether this process will,
ironically, strengthen the power of English as the principal working
language of the EU, as well as the primary L2 among Europeans.
One possibility here is that the exit of Britain from the Union will
clear the sociolinguistic space for the emergence of an authentic
European English, used by members of the EU as a ‘second language’ or
(even) a quasi-Outer Circle English, serving the needs of the European
Union as the common link language for administration and cooperation
between member states.
. . .we must now take seriously the question of whether or not English
will continue to be a working language of the EU once the UK has
finalized the Article 50 processes. According to the Lisbon Treaty,
any member state which petitions to secede from the Union must
initiate the process by activating Article 50. This substantiates when
the negotiation period begins, which must then be completed within 24
months. Although Britain has only just started the process, reports
from across Europe indicate that some member states are already
positioning themselves to take advantage of the withdrawal of the UK.
In France and elsewhere, for example, some want to believe that, with
the British gone, English will no longer be an official EU language. .
. . [15 pages]
http://www.hig.se/download/18.6f6e4efc15e55de770a2e66f/1505934900939/WRH-WENG-Embargoed+until+00.01+hrs+EST+20+September+2017+%282%29.pdf
(via ARC mv-eko Oct 23 via DXLD)
WORLD OF HOROLOGY
+++++++++++++++++
NEXT GLOBAL HF WEEKEND: NOVEMBER 3-5, 2017
----------------------------------------------------------------
Posted on October 16, 2017 by Admin
It’s still a couple weeks away, so be sure to mark the next Global HF
Pirate Weekend on your calendar. The idea behind the Global HF
Weekends are to promote friendship through radio around the world. The
hope is that listeners will be able to hear different stations and for
broadcasters to reach distant locations. Anyone may participate. I’ve
already heard from a few stations who plan to broadcast and I’ve been
in contact with a number of listeners.
The last one, which occurred during the first weekend of April,
resulted in some success with intercontinental broadcasting. Four
North American pirates all operated around 0600 UT between 6920 and
6950 kHz and were heard in New Zealand. A South American station ran
24/7 tests on 6930 kHz across Global HF Weekend and was reported in
Germany, Maryland and Pennsylvania, and South America with only 10
watts. One Dutch station was logged in Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, New
Jersey, Massachusetts, Michigan, Kentucky, New York, Maryland, and
Virginia. Other stations were active specifically for the weekend, but
just for a local or regional audience.
We’ll see how many stations show up during the next weekend. It seems
unlikely that stations will be using 13 meters this time and much more
likely that stations will be trying the 6900-kHz range and possibly 31
and 25 meters. November 3-5, 2017: Maybe 15010-15090 kHz, probably
6200-6400 kHz and 6800-6990 kHz.
Of course, these were general frequency ranges used by pirates during
prior Global HF Pirate weekends. Some stations will surely operate on
frequencies and times outside of these ranges. In fact, the way
conditions have been lately, frequencies at or below 15 MHz seem like
they will be more effective for intercontinental broadcasting. These
will be updated on the Hobby Broadcasting blog
http://hobbybroadcasting.blogspot.com/
as it happens and also check the loggings on HF Underground
https://www.hfunderground.com/
(??????? ???????, ????????? ??????? [Vasiliy Lazarov, Samarskaya
Oblast], / “deneb-radio-dx" via Rus-DX Oct 22 via WORLD OF RADIO 1901,
DXLD)
DX-PEDITIONS
++++++++++++
KONG 35
For those of you who are interested in the KONG 35 reports, take a
look at Bjarne Mjelde's website. Those reports cover mostly MW but
very interesting to follow reception at a very northern location. You
can find reports from Day 1 to day 9 here:
http://arcticdx.blogspot.se/2017/10/
(via SW Bulletin Oct 22 via DXLD)
2017 PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND DXPEDITION
The 2017 Prince Edward Island DXpedition at Listening Waters is set to
begin on Saturday, October 28. Participants at various times during
the week include Jean Burnell, Bruce Conti, Bill Nollman, Walt
Salmaniw, Niel Wolfish, and host Brent Taylor. I plan on installing
two or three Beverage antennas, Brent will have a terminated broadband
loop, and new this year - Bill will erect an FM beam antenna to
capture terabytes of RF spectrum while I'll try some live DXing for
RDS and/or HD displays on the Sangean HDT-1X. At the same time, Nick
Hall-Patch will be DXpeditioning in Japan. Will the Canadian Maritimes
be received in Japan at the same time as Japan is received in PEI?
We're hoping that the geomagnetic activity takes a break for a
transpacific/transpolar opening. If not, then we'll aim for Africa and
Latin America. Initial reports will be posted on the 2017 Listening
Waters website at
http://www.bamlog.com/2017pedx.htm
-- Bruce Conti, B.A.Conti Photography www.baconti.com
¡BAMLog! www.bamlog.com
(Cape-DX via Mark Connelly, MA, NRC-AM gg via DXLD)
CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES
+++++++++++++++++++++++++
WorldDAB General Assembly 2017
Organised by WorldDAB Event
Date: 7th - 8th November 2017
Location: Paris, France
Types: Conference, Exhibition
Event outline: Please note the member only session will this year take
place earlier than in previous years.
Tuesday 7 November
11:00-12:30 WorldDAB General Assembly (member only session)
12:30-14:00 Lunch and registration
14:00-15:15 Session 1 - DAB in Europe
15:15-15:45 Coffee
15:45-17:00 Session 2 - DAB in France
19:00-23:00 Networking drinks and gala dinner
Wednesday 8 November
09:00-10:15 Session 3 - DSO and getting the listener to follow
10:15-10:45 Coffee
10:45-11:50 Session 4 - the evolving business case for broadcast
digital radio
11:50-12:10 Session 5 - DAB+ for data: hybrid and connected
12:10-13:10 Lunch
13:10-14:10 Session 6 - The consumer's journey on DAB
14:10-15:00 Session 7 - A look further into the future with DAB+
15:00 Networking drinks
WorldDAB General Assembly 2017, Paris, France | Events | WorldDAB
https://www.worlddab.org/events/detail/479
(via Mike Terry, Oct 24, dxldyg via DXLD)
DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DAB see CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES above
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ and NORWAY
DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC See PUERTO RICO; USA: AM future
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See FRANCE; KUWAIT; NEW ZEALAND; ROMANIA
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV [and non] See also MEXICO; OKLAHOMA;
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ PUERTO RICO; VIRGIN ISLANDS US
TV DX STORY FROM 1974
Curtis Sadowski <curtis_sadowski@hotmail.com>: Oct 23 06:29AM
A link posted by Jurgen in Germany over on the Skywaves list:
[X]Toronto Star article June 1974
<https://www.flickr.com/photos/85723566@N03/37410330722/sizes/h/?ytcheck=1&new_session=1>
One Saturday morning in June, 1974, I was tuning around the dials,
ready to settle in on some glorious cartoon enjoyment, when I noticed
that a DX opening was taking place....a strong opening, with signals
all the way up to Channel 6. And on Channel 6, a simple test pattern
featuring a little palm tree and the word, "Cuba". CUBA!! CUBA!!!!!!
Mom!! Dad!! Cuba's coming in on the TV! That was certainly my most
exciting catch so far. A whole new country. A few weeks later, this
article appeared in the Toronto Star. I've kept this in a scrap book
ever since. The article mentions veteran DXer Tony Ward. Years later,
I had the pleasure of making friends with Tony at an ANARC
(Association of North American Radio Clubs) convention. I don't think
anyone can articulate the magic of this wonderful hobby as well as
Tony!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/85723566@N03/37410330722/
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4495/37410330722_36a483a8d1_b.jpg
(Curtis Sadowski, IL, Oct 23, WTFDA gg via DXLD)
I also saw Jurgen post this on the Skywaves email list. The rest of
the story is that the article was originally posted on our TV and FM
DXing group on Facebook by WTFDA member Rich McVicar, and if you look
at the Flickr post you'll see that it came from Rich. After that
article was posted, comments came in from both Mark Lewis and Tony
Ward who are still around but no longer DXing. This article was then
picked up and reposted on Skywaves and other places. I also recopied
the entire thing and hope to get it in the next VUD.
What impresses me is that it shows the WTFDA at its peak with over 300
members. There were 5 BOD members. Since then two of them have left
without even saying good-bye, Digital TV has arrived and killed the
hobby for more than a few people and all those IBOC signals and AM
translators have put a huge dent in my DXing effort and those of
plenty of DXers in suburban and urban areas, leaving FM DXing in the
hands of a few DXers in rural areas of the midwest and south and the
membership down around 185 or so. It's still nice to read about how it
used to be back in the day (Mike Bugaj, Oct 23, ibid.)
DXing in the 2010’s and beyond: Travel with your SDR! It’s saved the
hobby for me. Listening to the entire Rochester, NY FM market right
now (recorded this weekend) while I work at home in CT (Bill Nollman,
ibid.)
Hi Mike, Things are tough all over, the end of the analog era has
knocked back the number of DX'ers in Oceania and Europe, judging by
the posts from those regions. At least here we aren't facing the end
of FM, which is in the cards for parts of Europe. Still, the situation
isn't exactly enhanced by our band getting shoe-horned with stations
on every available channel. Even out here in the sticks I'm losing
open channels, and quite honestly, the area I'm in has few enough
people to justify most of the new arrivals. Some of the frequency
choices given by the FCC make no sense. The FM relay on 106.5 that
just went on for WJKR in Rantoul is the first adjacent for a station
less than twenty miles from them. I'm surprised that the station
manager for WGCY 106.3 isn't screaming bloody murder to the FCC about
it. If the Feds do as well repacking the TV band, I expect further
erosion in DX'er numbers (Curtis Sadowski, ibid.)
RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM
+++++++++++++++++++++
DOWNLOAD THE ARRL REVIEW OF THE ICOM IC-R8600
https://swling.com/blog/2017/10/download-the-arrl-review-of-the-icom-ic-r8600/
Many thanks to SWLing Post con-tributor, Dave Zantow (N9EWO), who
notes that the recent ARRL review of the Icom IC-R8600 is available as
a free download via Icom America.
http://icomamerica.com/en/products/amateur/receivers/r8600/Icom-R8600-QST-product-Review.pdf
Note that Dave continuously updates his own review of the IC-R8600 as
well.
http://webpages.charter.net/n9ewo2/icr8600.html
Thanks for the tip, Dave!
(From SWLing Post via SW Bulletin Oct 22 via DXLD)
ETÓN E1
Hi Glenn, This summer, my Etón E1, which has been my steady, almost
daily working receiver, passed its ten year anniversary! Ten years of
providing me with wonderful SW listening. Couldn't ask for a better
set to take to the beach every day and enjoy the world via SW. With
only a 30m long wire for an antenna, it does an amazing job (Ron
Howard, San Francisco, Oct 24, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
PROPAGATION
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:Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts
:Issued: 2017 Oct 23 0514 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
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# Weekly Highlights and Forecasts
#
Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 16 - 22 October 2017
Solar activity was at very low levels with the exception of 20 Oct
when an M1 flare was observed on the southeastern limb. The M1 flare
occurred at 20/2328 UTC from Region 2685 (S09, L=131, class/area
Hax/070 on 22 Oct) with an associated Type II (344 km/s) radio sweep
and a coronal mass ejection (CME) off the east limb first observed
at 21/0012 UTC in SOHO/LASCO C2 imagery. By the time Region 2685
rotated fully into view, it was a simple alpha spot group and has
been quiet since the M-class event. No Earth-directed CMEs were
observed during the period.
No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit.
The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit reached
moderate levels on 20 and 22 Oct with high levels on 16, 19 and 21
Oct. Very high levels were observed on 17-18 Oct. The largest flux
of the period was 56,839 pfu observed at 17/1535 UTC.
Geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to active levels. The
period began under the weakening influence of a polar connected,
positive polarity coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS). Solar
wind speed declined from approximately 550 km/s early in the period
to near 350 km/s by late on 18 Oct. Total field was at 5 nT and
below during this timeframe. The geomagnetic field responded with
quiet to unsettled levels on 16 Oct and quiet levels on 17-18 Oct.
By 19 Oct, a weak connection with the positive polarity polar CH was
observed resulting in a brief increase of solar wind speed to near
470 km/s and total field at 10 nT. Solar wind speed again decreased
to nominal levels by early on 21 Oct. The geomagnetic field
responded with quiet to unsettled levels on 19 Oct and quiet to
active levels on 20 Oct. A solar sector boundary crossing into a
negative sector was observed at 21/0730 UTC followed by a weak
enhancement from a negative polarity CH HSS. Solar wind speed
increased to near 490 km/s late on 21 Oct with total field
increasing to near 10 nT. By late on 22 Oct, solar wind parameters
had once again decreased to nominal levels. The geomagnetic field
responded with quiet to unsettled levels on 21-22 Oct.
FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 23 OCTOBER-18 NOVEMBER 2017
Solar activity is expected to be at very low to low levels with a
slight chance for M-class flares (R1-Minor) on 23-06 Nov due to
potential flare activity from Region 2685 and the return of old
Region 2683 (N13, L=111) to the visible disk. From 07-18 Nov, only
very low levels are expected.
No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit.
The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is
likely to be at high levels on 25-26 Oct, 28 Oct-01 Nov, 08-10 Nov,
12 Nov, 15 Nov and 17 Nov with very high levels on 27 Oct, 11 Nov
and13-14 Nov due to CH HSS influence.
Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be unsettled to active
levels on 24-29 Oct, 01-02 Nov, 07-11 Nov and 15-17 Nov with G1
(Minor) storm levels likely on 24-26 Oct, 07-11 Nov and G2
(Moderate) levels likely on 25-26 Oct and 09-10 Nov due to recurrent
CH HSS effects.
:Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt
:Issued: 2017 Oct 16 0358 UTC
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Center
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# 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table
# Issued 2017-10-16
#
# UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest
# Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index
2017 Oct 16 70 18 4
2017 Oct 17 70 10 3
2017 Oct 18 70 12 4
2017 Oct 19 72 12 4
2017 Oct 20 72 8 3
2017 Oct 21 72 8 3
2017 Oct 22 72 8 3
2017 Oct 23 72 5 2
2017 Oct 24 72 35 5
2017 Oct 25 72 45 6
2017 Oct 26 72 15 4
2017 Oct 27 72 15 4
2017 Oct 28 72 10 3
2017 Oct 29 72 8 3
2017 Oct 30 72 5 2
2017 Oct 31 72 5 2
2017 Nov 01 72 8 3
2017 Nov 02 72 10 3
2017 Nov 03 70 5 2
2017 Nov 04 70 5 2
2017 Nov 05 70 5 2
2017 Nov 06 70 5 2
2017 Nov 07 70 28 5
2017 Nov 08 70 30 5
2017 Nov 09 70 40 5
2017 Nov 10 70 28 6
2017 Nov 11 70 26 5
(SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DXLD);
GLENN`S PROPAGATION OUTLOOK FOR MEDIA NETWORK PLUS AS OF OCT 26, 2017
From Spaceweather Services Australia, the global HF propagation
forecast thru October 28: normal at low latitude bands, normal to fair
at middle and high latitudes.
From Spaceweatehr South Africa thru October 28, magnetic conditions
unsettled to active, shortwave fadeouts unlikely, MUF unstable.
From Met Office UK, solar activity very low. Geomagnetic activity
after minor storms on October 26 subsiding to quiet to unsettled on
the 28th and 29th.
From F K Janda in Prague, the Geomagnetic field will be:
quiet to active on October 27, November 7, 9 - 12
quiet to unsettled on October 28 - 29, November 1 - 6, 13 - 15
quiet on October 30 - 31, November (19)
active to disturbed on November 8
From the Space Environment Predixion Center, China, the planetary A-
index predicted down to 4 on November 3, up to 30 on November 7 and
down to 4 again by November 19. 10.7 centimeter solar flux peaking at
93 on October 30 and 31, dropping to 75 by November 11.
From SWPC in Colorado, however, solar flux steady, no higher than 72
or 70 thru November 11. Geomagnetic field unsettled to active thru Oct
29, November 1-2, 7-1 and 15-17 with G1 minor storm levels likely on
Oct 26 and November 7 to 11; G2 moderate storms likely November 9 and
10 with A and k indices reaching 40 and 5. Lowest A`s and K`s of 5 and
2 to 10 and 3 from October 28 to November 6.
Trans-equatorial FM DX is happening. Barbados was heard in São Paulo,
Brasil the evening of October 20. However, North America is out of
range (via DXLD)
TIPS FOR IRRATIONAL LIVING
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101 THINGS TO FEAR THIS HALLOWEEN
Alien abduction, alternative facts, Adam Sandler movies, anything
ending in “oscopy,” ANTIFA, the Antichrist (told ‘ya!), assault
rifles, amorous yaks, Alzheimer’s, Bubonic Plague, Betsy DeVos, bump
stocks, big hairy gorillas, burning crosses, bacon shortages, cobras
under your bed, cannibals, crocodiles, celebrity gropers, climate
change denial, censorship, creeping vulgarity, the dark web, Daylight
Savings Time, dingoes in your closet, the death of democracy, ebola,
Equifax, French people, faux news, feral hogs, Facebook, the Golem,
ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties and things that go
bump in the night, grizzly bears, gerrymandering, Godzilla, hooligans,
hate speech, hurricane “Lucifer,” hotel room 666, the heartbreak of
psoriasis, identity theft, idiots, irresponsible pet owners, “It,”
Judge Roy Moore, jargon, King tides, Kim Jong Un, killer klowns, the
Kushners, lunatics with chain saws, mesothelioma, man-eating wombats,
Secretary and Mrs. Munchkin. mutant hillbilly chupacabras, Mitch
McConnell, “Mr. Stinky,” neo-Nazis. the NRA, Nosferatu, okra, the
Oklahoma Legislature, pirates, politicians, President Pence,
plutocracy, premature burial, quicksand, rats, asteroids, rats’
asteroids, rabid weasels, reckless infantile tweets, reverse
mortgages, Russky hackerbots, sinkholes, static cling, Scott Pruitt,
spontaneous human combustion. skunk apes, Steve Bannon, scorpions in
your cowboy boots, Sen. “Flies Upside Down,” teacher shortages, Ted
Cruz, trigger-happy cops, trickle-down economics, Trump-induced
apoplexy, unfettered greed and hypocrisy, Vladimir Putin, vaccine
haters, warthogs, World War III, Wells Fargo, whiny millennials and
zombie government apocalypse (Court Atchinson, Letter to the Editor,
Enid Eagle Oct 26 via DXLD) ###