DX LISTENING DIGEST 18-13, March 27, 2018 Incorporating REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING edited by Glenn Hauser, http://www.worldofradio.com Items from DXLD may be reproduced and re-reproduced only if full credit be maintained at all stages and we be provided exchange copies. DXLD may not be reposted in its entirety without permission. Materials taken from Arctic or originating from Olle Alm and not having a commercial copyright are exempt from all restrictions of noncommercial, noncopyrighted reusage except for full credits For restrixions and searchable 2018 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html [also linx to previous years] NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1923 contents: Alaska, Albania non, Antarctica, Argentina non, Bhutan, Bougainville, Brasil, Chile, China and non, Colombia, Cuba and non, Eritrea, Ethiopia, France, Germany non, India, Iran, Japan and non, Korea North non, Korea South, Kuwait, Madagascar, Nigeria non, Norway, Perú, Philippines, Sudan non, Sudan South non, Taiwan and non, Thailand, Turkey and non, USA, Vietnam; pirate weekend; and the propagation outlook SHORTWAVE AIRINGS of WORLD OF RADIO 1923, March 27-April 3, 2018 Tue 2030 WRMI 9455 7780 [1922 replayed] Tue 2130 WRMI 9455 7780 [1922 replayed] Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed] Wed 1030 WRMI 9455 Wed 2100 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v [confirmed] Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed] Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed] Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed] Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [Bulgaria confirmed] Sat 1431 HLR 6190-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [England confirmed]] Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sat 2130 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed] Sat 2300 WRMI 7780 [confirmed] Sun 0200 WRMI 7780 [confirmed] Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM [confirmed from 0332] Sun 1030 HLR 9485-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [Bulgaria confirmed] Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed] Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v-AM Area 51 Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 Tue 2030 WRMI 9455, 7780 [or #1923?] Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS: Tnx to Dr Harald Gabler and the Rhein-Main Radio Club. http://www.rmrc.de/index.php/rmrc-audio-plattform/podcast/glenn-hauser-wor ALTERNATIVE PODCASTS, tnx Stephen Cooper: http://shortwave.am/wor.xml ANOTHER PODCAST ALTERNATIVE, tnx to Keith Weston: http://feeds.feedburner.com/GlennHausersWorldOfRadio NOW tnx to Keith Weston, also Podcasts via iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/glenn-hausers-world-of-radio/id1123369861 AND via Google Play Music: http://bit.ly/worldofradio OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org DAY-BY-DAY ARCHIVE OF GLENN HAUSER`S LOG REPORTS: Unedited, uncondensed, unchanged from original version, many of them too complex, minutely researched, multi-frequency, opinionated, inconsequential, off-topic, or lengthy for some log editors to manage; and also ahead of their availability in these weekly issues: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser IMPORTANT NOTICE!!!! WOR IO GROUP: Effective Feb 4, 2018, DXLD yg archive and members have been migrated to this group: https://groups.io/g/WOR [there was already an unrelated group at io named dxld!, so new name] From now on, the io group is primary, where all posts should go. One may apply for membership, subscribe via the above site. DXLD yahoogroup: remains in existence, and members are free to COPY same info to it, as backup, but no posts should go to it only. They may want to change delivery settings to no e-mail, and/or no digest. The change was necessary due to increasing outages, long delays in posts appearing, and search failures at the yg. Why wait for DXLD issues? A lot more info, not all of it appearing in DXLD later, is posted at our io group without delay. ** ALASKA. 6045, KNLS, 1236, March 26. A vast improvement here now that A18 has started; gone now is the 1200-1400 former mess of VOA & jamming by CRN1; instead a good signal from Alaska with no QRM; in English; preaching; ID; religious songs (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DXLD) Other English at 12-13 now listed as 7355, unconfirmed yet here (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1923, ibid.) ** ALBANIA [non]. WRMI skedgrid no longer shows R. Tirana relay at 2300 on 5850; frequency not even on the air until *0000, except Fridays starting at 2230 with Yeshua show; instead Tirana at 0200-0230 Tue-Sat on 9395 (Glenn Hauser, March 27, WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9395, March 28 at 0200, NOT R. Tirana relay as now on the WRMI sked, and which I quoted on WOR 1923, but instead Radio Prague in English! 5850 at 2300 had been R. Tirana, but deleted from sked, altho I did not confirm March 27 that it was really off. If so, whither R. Tirana? See USA: WRMI for what else I was hearing around 0200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Later: Tirana at 0200 on 9395 but in Italian! ** ALGERIA [non]. FRANCE, Reception of Telediffusion d'Algerie via TDF Issoudun, March 25 2100-2159 5930 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg NWAf Arabic Holy Quran, very good: 2100-2159 9655 ISS 500 kW / 160 deg CEAf Arabic Holy Quran, very weak: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/03/reception-of-telediffusion-dalgerie-via_26.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, March 25, WOR iog via DXLD) ** ANGOLA. 4949.71 kHz, Rádio Nacional Angola, Mulenvos, Português, 22.03.18, 2359 UT. Canção angolana, time pips (hora cheia), locução feminina com o característico sotaque angolano, 35543. Distancia: 6.564 km, Tx para Angola. Rx: KiwiSDR + Antena Loop W6LVP (São Bernardo SP) 73, (Rudolf Grimm, São Bernardo SP BRAZIL GG66rg, PY2- 81502 SWL, http://dxways-br.blogspot.com radioescutas yg via DXLD) Rudolf Grimm: Assim é, quanto ao sotaque (angolano), mas note que a RNA tem locutores cujo sotaque é igual ou pràticamente igual ao nosso, por motivos óbvios, e o mesmo se passa noutros territórios de língua oficial portuguesa, com a excepção, igualmente óbvia, do Brasil. Para um brasileiro, creio que será muito difícil descobrir essas subtilezas. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, ibid.) ** ANGUILLA [and non]. 11775, March 25 at 1251, S9+20/30 open carrier/dead air with some hum, obviously Caribbean Beacon but no DGS to be heard. PMS is heard at 1306, managing to modulate, // 13845 WWCR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Pastor Melissa Scott preaching now, 1820 etc., on both 11775 & 13845. Both signals coming in at moderate strength with sporadic fades & QRM. Overall noise levels high here at this time (Stephen C Wood, Harwich, Mass., Perseus SDR, 20 x 40 terminated superloop antenna, March 25, WOR iog via DXLD) 6090, March 26 at 0054, PMS is on again, but with some humwhine (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA. LRA 36 Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, Base Esperanza, on air for the first time this year --- Station heard via SDR Kiwi Paraguay and SDR Kiwi Pardinho, São Paulo both, 15475.97 kHz. 15475.97, LRA 36, LRA36, Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, Base Esperanza, 1800-, non stop Latin American songs "Boleros", weak to very weak on both and with fading. Nothing here in Lugo at the moment, no audio, no carrier, but the best time to catch it here is about 2000-2100 UT (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, 1840 UT Thursday March 22, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DX LISTENING DIGEST) LRA 36, 15476, improving signal, carrier detected here in Lugo now at 1900 UT (Méndez, ibid.) ** ARGENTINA [non]. USA, 9955. RAE-Argentina al Mundo. Marzo 15. 1100- 1134 UT via WRMI. Servicio portugués. Noticias sobre la visita de Macri a Noruega, Habeas Corpus sobre Lula en Brasil, Lema de protesta de mujeres sobre el proyecto de aborto seguro que será discutido legislativamente el 20 de Marzo, entre otras noticias. Luego se habla sobre el cambio de mando en Chile y primeras actividades del nuevo gobierno, Gabriel García Márquez y los 50 años de “Cien años de soledad”. ID y aviso de la emisora a las 1118. Desde las 1120, especial sobre la localidad de Melo y después música folclórica. A las 1130, identificación y espacio musical folclórico. SINPO: 55454, desde las 1108 con SINPO: 55343 con ruido atmosférico marcado. Audio: https://soundcloud.com/claudio-radioham-dx/9955-khz-rae-march-15-1105-utc (Claudio Galaz, RX: Tecsun PL 660; ANT: Dipolo; QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, HCDX via DXLD) 9395, March 22 at 1937, WRMI Oldies ID, poor, weaker than // 9455. So still no RAE German relay. 9395 // stronger 9455, UT Fri Mar 23 at 0103, RAE English via WRMI is underway, lead-in about World Cup, music bed and then headlines starting with Peruvian presidential resignation. So contrary to WRMI skedgrid implication, RAE is continuing on both frequencies for rest of week. (Meanwhile VORW occupies 7780 // 5850 this UT hourday). 9395, March 23 at 2029, Bob Biermann musing, so must be `Your Weekend Show` instead of RAE in Italian --- aha, the WRMI sked grid http://www.tinyurl.com/WRMIfqs has now deleted the RAE German at 19 & Italian at 20 on 9395, showing both it and 9455 as System G `Oldies` at 18-20, and more Oldies on 9395 only at 20-22 M-F, while 9455 switches to System D at 20-22. This `YWS` is another secret opt-out from `Oldies` never shown on the schedules. Meanwhile from 2030, 9455 seeming // JBA 7780 in Italian `Studio DX`. The program grid still shows RAE German & Italian, M-F 21-23 on 11580 only, which has really been off the air since the first week of January, and not coming back until Maybe. RAE relays in Portuguese, Spanish, French, English are still on the sked and heard recently; Chinese and Japanese allegedly at 08-10 on 9455 I continue to sleep thru (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Later: German at 1900 restored, not Italian 2000 RAE Argentina in German heard Monday 26 March on 3985 kHz via Kall from 2100 to 2200 UT. Seemingly the Monday programme, as I was hearing the "Argentinischer Tango" feature (Alan Roe, March 26, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, In WOR 1923 you mentioned RAE via Kall on 3985 kHz at 2100. According to an info carried on a French DX forum, the station can also be heard via Kall from 0900 to 0930 UT in French and from 0930 to 1000 UT in Portuguese on 6005 kHz, probably Monday to Friday. PS.: I have not yet been able to hear them on 6005 yet. Greetings from Paris, France (Gilles Lesquin. March 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See GERMANY for complete Kall sked of Tirana and many other relays, in UT +2 (gh) ** ARMENIA. Voice of Armenia, 4810, 1654-1700 23 March, Male announcer animated in Yezidi; screechy violin music. Interval signal and national anthem at 1700. Female announcer transitioned to Turkish at 1702. Heavy QRM from AIR. SINPO 32333 (ED SYLVESTER, RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA, Rig: WJ-8711A; Ant: Pixel Magnetic Loop with rotor, Up 35', WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARMENIA. On March 20 at 2050 UT at the frequency of 1350 kHz at the radio transmission of "Ai-Qum" in Arabic, there were still sounds from neighboring frequencies - 1377 kHz from the TWR in Arabic and from 1395 kHz from the Voice of Velat in Kurdish, and at 1377 kHz accordingly, sounds from neighboring frequencies of 1350 and 1395 kHz sounded, and at 1395 kHz sounds were heard from neighboring frequencies 1350 and 1377 kHz (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria via Rus- DX 25 March via DXLD) Sounds? Do you mean cross-modulation in the 1350 transmitter, or interference? (gh, DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 5055, March 23 at 1231, JBA carrier presumed 4KZ; nothing on 5045 from OzyRadio, but a JBA carrier on 4835, presumably still Sikkim (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5055, 4KZ, 1313, March 25. Very poor reception; unlike Mick Delmage, who was listening at the same time today, I was unable to ID any songs, as it was just too weak. BTW - 5045 (Ozy Radio) remains silent and not heard yet on Craig's anticipated new frequency of 4835 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) 5055, 4KZ at 1325 UT March 25 with pop songs like "It's A Heartache" Bonnie Tyler, "You make me So Very Happy" by Blood Sweat and Tears, "Living Years" by Mike and The Mechanics etc. between announcements and commercials. About off at 1359:50 mid song "Always Something There To Remind Me". Fair. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta, Rx: Perseus SDR, Ant: Wellbrook ALA 100 loop antenna, WOR iog via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. 6230-USB, VMW (Australia Weather West), 1305, March 25. Gave many weather warnings; "gale warnings", "high seas warning," etc.; strong Sound of Hope (Taiwan) QRM; "End of transmission from VMW" 1311* 6676-USB, VOLMET weather, 1232-1234* on March 25. Gave visibility, weather, temperatures and dew points for Adelaide, Darwin, etc. My audio at http://goo.gl/nG4gJj (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. Reach Beyond A18 Effective from March 25 to Oct 27, 2018 By Language Download Link: https://tinyurl.com/y9pekzyx Program Schedule Download Link: https://tinyurl.com/yafoszcc Reception reports to: a18@reachbeyond.org.au ---- (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, DXLD) Complex schedule (gh) A-18 schedule of Reach Beyond Australia in English http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/03/a-18-schedule-of-reach-beyond-australia.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, March 24-25, WOR iog via DXLD) ** BAHRAIN. Fair to good signal of Radio Bahrain, March 20/22 from 0505 on 9745 ABH 010 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic CUSB from 2050 on 9745 ABH 010 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic CUSB http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/03/fair-to-good-signal-of-radio-bahrain-on. html (DX RE MIX NEWS #1065 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 24, 2018, WOR iog via DXLD) ** BELGIUM. FOXES FRUSTRATE BELGIAN BROADCASTERS By News from Elsewhere... ...as found by BBC Monitoring 20 March 2018 http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-43469596 Image copyright Mehdi Khelfat/RTBF Image caption A fox (and a black cat) spotted in the car park at RTBF in Brussels [caption] Plans to rebuild the studios of Belgium's national broadcasters could run into problems due to scores of foxes living on the site. Flemish-language VRT says that experts have counted no fewer than 58 dens in the grounds of the broadcast centre it shares with RTBF, which serves the country's French speakers. The broadcasters want to replace their brutalist concrete 1970s studio complex in the Brussels suburb of Schaarbeek; and while the fox dens in their extensive wooded grounds are common knowledge, it's come as some surprise that there are so many. It's inevitable that the planned building works will result in the destruction of at least some of these dens, with one particular area already earmarked for a temporary car park, VRT says. Before that can happen, contractors will have to seek permission from the Brussels regional government, it's reported. The four-year building project will see new studios and flats built on the land. Meanwhile, the rest of the grounds, which are currently closed to the public, will be turned into a park. Despite this upheaval, the broadcasters say that they'll do their best not to drive the foxes away, nor the other fauna on their site which includes rodents, squirrels and birds. As well as their usual diet of insects and worms, one fox was recently seen tucking into a pizza from the studio complex bins (via Jon Collins, Birmingham, middle of UK, DXLD) ** BHUTAN. Re: 6035 kHz. While it is of interest that PBS Yunnan is now on the air much longer than before [see CHINA], is bad news for Bhutan/BBS (6035) reception. Now whenever they broadcast after 1200+, looks as if they will encounter significant China QRM that was never there in the past at that time. Making BBS even more of a challenge now! (Ron Howard, March 22, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BIAFRA [non]. WRMI 9955 webcast, from 0400 UT March 26 plays the same old Zombiafra file yet again, ``broadcasting from London``, but not on SW anywhen (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 6025. RED PATRIA NUEVA. Marzo 22. 1020-1040 UT. Transmisión de la demanda marítima de La Haya realizada por Bolivia contra Chile, por salida soberna al mar. SINPO: 43443 (Claudio Galaz, RX: Tecsun PL 660; ANT: Dipolo; QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, HCDX via DXLD) ** BOUGAINVILLE [and non]. 3325, NBC Bougainville, 0819-1124, March 23. Some of the highlights of this enjoyable, better than normal reception; 0819-0856, in English (native speakers), so assume an audio feed from Port Moresby; finally at 0856 heard the "NBC Bougainville" promo and pop songs till ToH; 0900-0911 NBC national news in English; 0911-0922 "Regional News" in English; 0922-0930 DJ in Pidgin playing pop C&W songs ("Love's Gonna Live Here," etc.); 0931+ news in English; 1001 NBC news in English till 1014 "NBC Bougainville regional news" in English; at times close to being readable; light RRI Palangkaraya QRM. March 24, NBC clearly off the air today (1035 and subsequent checking till 1200); only hearing RRI Palangkaraya, which at 1035 had reciting from the Qur'an. This remains the only Indonesian on SW, as Voice of Indonesia up on 9525.95 continues to be silent through today. 3325, NBC Bougainville, 0958, March 25 (Sunday). Mostly religious preaching and a lot of religious songs, except for the NBC news 1001- 1011, in English; cut off at 1058* (an unusual time for them to go off the air!); no RRI Palangkaraya QRM noted, but after NBC left the air, was able to hear a weak RRI signal. NBC broadcasting here again after being silent yesterday. Today also had NBC Madang (3260) on the air with Sunday religious programs (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DXLD) ** BRAZIL. Resposta de escuta Rádio Cultura de Araraquara 3365 kHz Daniel Wyllyans: Olá, gostaria de parabenizar a Rádio Cultura de Araraquara por transmitir em 3365 kHz pelas ondas tropicais; sòmente essa frequência atinge aqui as florestas e locais ribeirinhos. Rádio Cultura de Araraquara 3365 kHz: Olá, Daniel. Ficamos muito gratos por você nos dar preferência. Continue ligadinho conosco, uma boa semana! https://dxbrazilsw.blogspot.com.br/2018/03/resposta-de-escuta-radio-cultura-de.html?m=1 (Daniel Wyllyans, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DXLD) I never hear a trace of 3365 in the early evenings or into the night. What are its hours? None shown in WRTH 2018 (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 5035 kHz, Rádio Educação Rural de Coari / Amazonas: Notícia sobre preso suposto traficante de Coari, depois tocando música e passando notícias ao mesmo tempo, SINPO 34333, Dia 21 Março 2018 às 0932 UT https://youtu.be/Hw4QvlmWQ-w RX: Yaesu FRG 8800; Antena: Beverage simples (DXer: Daniel Wyllyans - Sítio: Estrela do Araguaia - Nova Xavantina - Mato Grosso - Brasil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 8000 kHz, BRASIL: Rádio Casa 8000, Amparo SP. 27.03.18 1355 UT. Sequência de músicas internacionais / nacionais. Ocasionalmente a identificação da estação. 25542. Rx: KiwiSDR + Antena Loop W6LVP (São Bernardo SP, no meu shack). Segundo dados levantados, a estação opera com baixa potência. 73, (Rudolf Grimm, São Bernardo SP BRAZIL GG66rg, PY2-81502 SWL, http://dxways-br.blogspot.com radioescutas yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 8092 kHz (Testes) de Rádio Máxima - Ouro Fino / Brasil, 1720 UT, 23 Mar 2018. Passando músicas no momento com SINPO de 34333. 8092 kHz, Rádio Máxima - Ouro Fino / Brasil, Passando músicas às 2015 UT em 23 Março 2018, SINPO 34223 https://youtu.be/72JQbqdM6hw RX: Yaesu FRG 8800; Antena: Beverage simples (DXer: Daniel Wyllyans - Sítio Estrela do Araguaia - Nova Xavantina - Mato Grosso - Brasil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 5070 kHz, 8645 kHz, 8810 kHz. Nesse momento! Rádio Cidade Oldies / Paraíba - Brasil frequências, 0058 UT March 28, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) More WOOB pirates keep being reported (gh) ** BRAZIL. 11780, March 24 at 2247, peppy music from RNA, VG S9+20 so on the air here today rather than trying spur-laden 6180 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11935.00, 1910-1915 18.3, R Evangelizar, Curitiba, PR. Portuguese talk, 15231. Best 73 and Happy Easter! (Anker Petersen, Denmark, heard on the AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire in Skovlunde, WBradio yg via DXLD) Really on exact frequency? has always been way off below. Another bad logging program default? (gh, DXLD) ** BULGARIA. 9400even, BVB Radio Dardasha-7, S=9+10dB at 0304 UT, mentioned often talk on Ibrahim, via SPC-NURTS Sofia Kostinbrod Bulgaria relay. Wonder not contained in present A-18 MBR Cologne Germany FMO schedule anymore (Wolfgang Büschel, March 26 at 0245-0330 UT, taken in Doha Qatar remote SDR installation, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA [and non]. Shortwave Radiogram, 24-25 March --- Shortwave Radiogram this weekend is mostly in the usual MFSK32, but one item is in the twice-as-fast MFSK64 mode. MFSK64 is also fussier about the quality of signal it requires. We will repeat last week's experiment in which MFSK32 text and an image are transmitted simultaneously: text centered on 1500 Hz and the image on 2200 Hz. A video of last weekend's concurrent decode of text and image is here... https://twitter.com/Hal_Fi/status/975490303929982976 A very cool news-consuming app for PCs or mobile devices could be MFSK only, allowing the simultaneous decoding of text and images, one on the left, the other right, or top-bottom. This could be used on shortwave, AM, or any other radio band. Details and schedule of this weekend's Shortwave Radiogram are here: http://swradiogram.net/post/172169510747/shortwave-radiogram-24-25-march-2018-includes (Kim Elliott, VA, WOR iog via DXLD) ** BULGARIA. SECRETBROD, Summer A-18 of Radio OMN & R. Nigeria Hausa Sce via SPL Secretbrod http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/03/summer-18-of-radio-omn-rnigeria-hausa.html Summer A-18 frequency changes of BVBroadcasting via SPL Secretbrod http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/03/summer-18-frequency-changes-of.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #1065 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 24, 2018, WOR iog via DXLD) ** CANADA. 351 kHz, March 24 at 0555, YKQ and dash, ND beacon from FORT RUPERT - WASKAGANISH, Quebec. I am beginning to wonder why almost all my NDB logs randomly tuned late at night are out of the northeast quadrant from here --- not from western Canada or USA, or SE USA. E-W longwire antenna should not be especially favorable for the NE. See also USA: 329 kHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 1610 kHz, Saturday March 24 at 0605 UT, YL in Luso Portuguese, no doubt CHHA Vozes Latinas in Toronto --- but skedgrid as I recently linked has a blank block for 04-10 UT Sat & Sun; othernights it`s allegedly `All Night Music` --- does that mean all- English? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CAYMAN ISLANDS. 415 kHz, March 16 at 0555, beacon CBC from Cayman Brac; JBA, weaker than the other US & Canadian ones logged now in the 400s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Good one. Heard here when on the coast, used to be at the QTH before the QRM became impossible (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHILE. 5825. R. TRIUNFAL EVANGELICA. Marzo 20. 2200-2222 UT. Presentación de la emisora y luego espacio musical hasta las 2230, cuando comienza una predicación que dura hasta las 2255, luego espacio de música. A las 2318, se leen saludos a los auditores. SINPO: 45444 con leve saturación del audio (Claudio Galaz, RX: Tecsun PL 660; ANT: Dipolo; QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, HCDX via DXLD) Radio Triunfal Evangélica: Hola hermanos y amigos simpatizantes de nuestra RTE, les comunicamos que desde hoy hemos aumentado la potencia, a contar del lunes 26 de Marzo, nuestras transmisiones serán desde las 1900 a 2100 horas (22 a 00 UT), si logra captar la señal por los 5825 Khz banda 49 metros, nos informan o hacen llegar su reporte a radiotriunfal@gmail.com que Dios los bendiga. Fuente: https://m.facebook.com/radiotriunfal/posts/570163643350005 (via Claudio Galaz Toledo, Chile IV, Hard-Core-DX mailing list UT March 25, via WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DXLD) ** CHILE. 6925-AM. RCW. Marzo 15. 2200-2300 UT. Programa “El Punto” de Radio Sputnik Mundo. SINPO: 45343. 6925. RCW. Marzo 21. 2228-2300 UT. Música ochentera, predicciones climáticas y música variada. SINPO: 55444. 6925. RCW. Marzo 22. 2111-2148 UT. Música de los años sesentas. SINPO: 45444 (Claudio Galaz, RX: Tecsun PL 660; ANT: Dipolo; QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, HCDX via DXLD) 6250 kHz, RCW Radio Compañía Worldwide / Chile con músicas, SINPO 23222 en 0117 UT. Día 23 Marzo 2018 https://youtu.be/1IQYAo1-YwQ RX: Yaesu FRG 8800. Antena: Beverage simples (DXer: Daniel Wyllyans - Sítio Estrela do Araguaia - Nova Xavantina - Mato Grosso - Brasil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DXLD) 6925. RCW. Marzo 23. 2240-2350 UT. Programa: “El Castor Cibernético” de R. Canadá Intl, en español hasta las 2326. Luego: “La hora del lolo” con lectura de pronostico meteorológico y música de los años 60’s. SINPO: 45454 (Claudio Galaz, RX: Tecsun PL 660; ANT: Dipolo; QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, HCDX via DXLD) ** CHINA. Hi Glenn, I heard WOR 1922 this morning via Hamburger Lokalradio. In it you mentioned the new Chinese media giant Voice of China and wondered what was the difference with CRI. Actually the new VOC is comprised of CRI, CCTV and the domestic radio services. So this new propaganda machine is actually much larger than CRI. Source: an article in Le Monde dated March 22. http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2018/03/22/pekin-cree-un-super-media-d-etat-pour-porter-la-voix-de-la-chine_5274751_3234.html It will be interesting to see to what extent it will be controlled by the communist party of China. The various CRI language sections enjoyed a relative freedom regarding content of their programs. In all likelihood this will no longer be the case. Best greetings from Paris, France (Gilles Lesquin, March 24, WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Gilles, Tnx for the info. Yes, I also got some more press about Voice of China, after recording on Tuesday (Glenn to Gilles) Viz.: MEGA STATE BROADCASTER TO BE FORMED IN CHINA According to a report in the South China Morning Post, China is planning to merge its state television and radio networks into one mega broadcaster in an overhaul that, the report says, is designed to tighten the Communist Party's grip on public opinion and burnish the country's global image. China Central Television (CCTV), China National Radio (CNR) and China Radio International (CRI) will be consolidated into a new broadcaster that is to be called Voice of China - a name that is reminiscent of international broadcasters at the height of the Cold War. "Our senior editors are convening meetings to convey the news this afternoon," said a source who talked to SCMP and who requested anonymity. Another source at CCTV also confirmed the merger to the newspaper. The news follows the apparently record-breaking release of Amazing China, a 90-minute documentary that records China's achievements over the last five years, led by President Xi. The film was released a day before the opening of China's biggest annual political gatherings which endorsed the constitutional change that allows Xi to rule for as long as he likes. According to Xinhua news agency, the film had raked in over 300 million yuan (47 million US dollars) at the box office on the Chinese mainland by 16 March. More here. http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2138103/beijing-plans-merge-state-media-outlets-it-tightens (March AIB Industry Briefing, via WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DXLD) viz.: BEIJING PLANS TO MERGE STATE MEDIA OUTLETS AS IT TIGHTENS CONTROL CCTV and two radio stations will become mega broadcaster Voice of China amid propaganda push at home and abroad PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 20 March, 2018, 8:59pm UPDATED : Tuesday, 20 March, 2018, 11:08pm Comments: 7 [by] Nectar Gan nectar.gan@scmp.com http://twitter.com/Nectar_Gan Policies & Politics [link to sidebar] It’s the covert unit behind China’s growing global influence. And it’s getting bigger --- 21 Mar 2018 http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2138196/its-mysterious-department-behind-chinas-growing China is merging its state television and radio networks into one mega broadcaster in an overhaul designed to tighten the Communist Party’s grip on public opinion and burnish the country’s global image. China Central Television (CCTV), China National Radio (CNR) and China Radio International (CRI) will be consolidated into a new broadcaster called Voice of China – a nod to federally funded Voice of America in the United States and Germany’s Deutsche Welle. A department head at one of the affected stations confirmed the move to the South China Morning Post. “Our senior editors are convening meetings to convey the news this afternoon,” said the source, who requested anonymity because they were not authorised to speak publicly before the official announcement. Another source at CCTV also confirmed the merger. [link to sidebar] The Chinese reporter’s eye-roll that turned a fawning question into an unmissable TV moment http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2137052/chinese-reporters-eye-roll-turned-fawning-question A document introducing the changes began circulating on social media on Tuesday. It says the consolidated group will sit directly under the State Council, China’s cabinet, and will be led by the party’s Central Publicity Department. It also outlines changes to the propaganda unit and the Central Organisation Department – two already powerful agencies that will have even more heft after the revamp. The propaganda department will absorb the country’s top media watchdog – the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television – taking over its regulatory power on news, publications and film. In another move, the State Civil Service Bureau will be merged into the Central Organisation Department, in a bid to strengthen the party’s oversight of all government workers. [link to sidebar] Chinese culture ministry merger in the works in renewed overseas soft power push http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2136901/chinese-culture-ministry-merger-works-renewed-overseas The changes are part of a structural reform of party and state departments designed to entrench the party’s control over all levers of government and all aspects of life. According to the document, Voice of China’s main duties will be to “promote the party’s theories, principles and policies”, “coordinate and organise major propaganda coverage”, “strengthen the ability to shape public opinion”, “improve its global communication capabilities”, and “tell the China story well”. The party has strengthened its control of state media in recent years, with President Xi Jinping demanding all state media outlets show “absolute loyalty” to the party during his high-profile tour of three news organisations in 2016. Under Xi, Beijing has also grown increasingly eager to be heard in a world it sees as dominated by Western narratives that are unfair and biased against China. But its overseas propaganda push has drawn concern and triggered a backlash in some countries, including the US and Australia. [link to sidebar] Singapore artist uses Straits Times to illustrate distortions of news media http://www.scmp.com/culture/arts-entertainment/article/2133921/singapore-artist-uses-straits-times-illustrate Xi, who has repeatedly urged state media to “tell the China story well”, has pledged to build a flagship external propaganda media system capable of wielding strong influence over international affairs. “[If a country] falls behind, it will be beaten,” Xi told senior party cadres in 2015. “If it is poor, it will starve; if it loses its right to speak, it will be upbraided.” CRI currently has over 100 radio channels broadcasting outside China, covering more than 50 countries. Meanwhile CGTN, the English news channel of CCTV, has surpassed venerable British public broadcaster BBC with its Facebook fan base, amassing over 58 million likes. This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as: Merger of media will ‘tell China story well’ (SCMP via WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DXLD) I recall that Keith Perron, in a DXLDYG posting in 2014, stated that the Chinese authorities would be reevaluating the country’s international broadcasting efforts in the 2015-17 time frame. Looks like we are now seeing the results. Remains to be seen where shortwave fits into the master plan. Still a little amazed that CRI has retained some SW to NA, especially in the light of Russia axing international SW completely (Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas, WOR iog via DXLD) Today’s Australian Financial Review newspaper has a report from its Shanghai correspondent on plans to create a ‘super broadcaster’ aimed at audiences in Australia and other countries. The AFR says ‘Plans for the giant propaganda machine were unveiled as part of a wider push to sell ‘Xiplomacy’ - a term coined by China’s state-run media to sell President Xi Jinping’ vision for China to become a bigger player on the world stage. Under the plan CCTV will be merged with its main domestic and international radio broadcasters to create a ‘Voice of China’. The move will create one of the world’s largest broadcasters with 14,000 staff reporting directly to he Communist Party. It is part of a wider reorganisation of the bureaucracy announced this week to strengthen Party control. A document outlining the ministry shakeup said the consolidated CCTV, CNR and CRI would ‘strengthen international influence and to tell China’s story well.’ The move comes amid growing concern in many countries - including Australia - about China’s growing soft power influence. The Australian government is preparing to introduce new laws against ‘foreign interference’ which follows recent political controversy about Chinese influence on an Australian MP (Matt Francis (Sydney, Australia), March 23, WOR iog via DXLD) Welcome back! (gh) ** CHINA. 6035, PBS Yunnan (Voice of Shangri-la). New happenings here! During my daily monitoring had often noted a very consistent format. Either cutting off at 1200* or if running somewhat past that, they always started the same musical loop (filler music) at 1201, until they turned off the transmitter. Now am hearing a very different format. March 20 - No musical loop at 1201, but announcers, in Chinese, continued on till cut off at 1206*. March 21 - No musical loop at 1201; program format not the usual PBS format, instead many short segments, with what sounded like a number of commercial announcements; format somewhat resembled a commercial station; all in Chinese; played some songs; still on the air 1305+, long past their normal cut off time (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DXLD) PBS Yunnan --- March 22 - Again with no musical loop at 1201; again with greatly extended schedule; in Chinese; same format as reported yesterday; still on the air at my last check of 1351+. - - - - from WRTH Facebook page: Re: 6035 PBS Yunnan Mauno Ritola (March 23): At 1730 gone, so probably they signed off at 1700. Mauno Ritola (March 24): I think they were on again at 2300. I listened to them between 1000- 1030, but did NOT hear Vietnamese, just non-stop Chinese pop. Ron/others: have you managed to hear an ID? Maybe this isn't any more Voice of Shangri-La programme, but something else? I can't get the streams work Ron Howard (March 24): Mauno - 6035, PBS Yunnan has certainly completely changed their format and schedule (adding perhaps 5 hours to their broadcasting day?). I have to wonder if this is now a AM or FM relay, as the format would seem to fit that being the case. Seems much more commercially oriented, with many short segments, unlike the former format of Voice of Shangri-la. Have not heard a new (or old) ID. As recently as March 17, I was still reporting their former format, with the usual nice ID in English at 1132 ("Yunnan Radio and Television International, the Voice Shangri-la"), but since March 21, I have not heard the English ID at any time. My reception is usually poor, with constant adjacent QRM, so deciphering a new ID in Chinese would be a real challenge for me (via Ron Howard, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DXLD) ** CHINA/TAJIKISTAN. 9370even, CNR1 jamming from China mainland facilities at Kashgar, - or/and Urumqi, Dongfang, Nanchang, Qiqihar, Quanzhou? and co-channel against: 9369.983 kHz RFA Tibetan language regularly at 01-03 UT via Dushanbe Orzu TJK, 250 kW at 110deg azimuth, 0245 UT on March 26, S=9+15dB mixture heard in remote SDR at Doha Qatar Middle East site [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, March 26 at 0245-0330 UT, taken in Doha Qatar remote SDR installation, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non-logs]. 9410, CNR5, 1143, March 25. Surprised to find no station here; normally CNR5 would have fair reception and be // 5925, but not today; also not present was the rarer Taiwan station - Fu Hsing BS. Perhaps just a CNR5 anomaly today? 9410, CNR5, 1140, 1240 & 1325, March 26. Again with no station at all here. Change in schedule? This is nice, so if Taiwan (Fu Hsing BS) should again broadcast here, which they intermittently do, they will be in the clear! (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** CHINA. 6572-USB, VC01 (Chinese Military numbers station), on March 26, at 1150. Numbers in Chinese; fair (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** CHINA. 9800, March 25 at 1308, dramatic W&M dialog in English, with music, later singing, arguing; what`s this? Doesn`t seem to have religious angle, but hard to copy details. Keeps going until 1329 outro but missed title, to be continued tomorrow; and CRI ID, something about heritage. Of course, it`s that dramatic program CRI has been running so much lately, rather than a gospel huxter. Absolutely American accents and I never heard any reference to anything Chinese. In B-17, 9800 was VOA Korean via Tinang, Philippines, but now for A-18 has ceded it at 13-14 only to CRI English, 135 degrees from Kunming. PHT still takes over 9800 at 1430 with Vatican Hindi, violating Separation of Church & State (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non]. 13740, March 26 at 1405, CRI English via CUBA opening `Roundtable` with ``Happy Monday!``, big S9+40 but as usual undermodulated, ex-15700 in B-17. They always go one band lower for the summers at 14-16. 13670 dead air at S9+20, March 26 at 1406 must also be RHC not turned off yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. VG signal of CNR-1 jammer vs SOH Xi Wang Zhi Sheng, March 21 from 0930 15800 unknown kW / unknown EaAs Chinese vs Sound of Hope SOH http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/03/very-good-signal-of-cnr-1-jammer-vs-soh.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, March 21, WOR iog via DXLD) ** COLOMBIA. 5910.33, March 26 at 0049, Alcaraván Radio music, poor but clear signal. They and we are in luck for A-18 as HFCC has nothing scheduled on 5910 between 20 and 05 --- and at 05-11 it`s a JIC MIC frequency direct from Yamata, Japan, probably only an alternate wooden standby. And, except for RDR, at 21-01 on 5910, Vatican placeholder in case IRDR ever be activated. {Then my streetlight ignites at 0053 with an RF noise burst, 5 minutes after our sunset of 0048; optical switch would have been a few minutes later if the western horizon were not partly cloudy} (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Radio Havana Cuba 6165 on Mar 23, 0453, SIO 253 in English. Hard to hear, but I was able to pick out some discussions about the issue of human trafficking and prostitution in Cuba. — I’m glad to hear this being discussed as I was approached by far too many prostitutes when I was in Havana in 2016. While a lot of good is coming from tourism to Cuba, I’m afraid this is one area that may not be a positive, and it will take both vigilance and thoughtfulness to ensure that the sex trade doesn’t happen in a way that is exploitative. —- By the way, I must mention that I have learned from other travelers that prostitution is much more prevalent in tourist areas, such as the historic area that I was staying in, but that in other parts of Cuba it is almost non-existent. http://blog.jmb.mx/index.php/2018/03/23/kg5jst-radio-listening-logt-march-22-23-2018-utc/ (James Branum, KG5JST Radio Listening Log, March 22-23, 2018, UT. Unless otherwise noted, my QTH is EM15ep in the Deer Creek area of far Northwest Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA. My listening equipment is most often a Tecsun PL-310 ET, but I also sometimes use my Yaesu FT-817, my TIVDIO V-115, my Radio Shack 2000669, as well as AM/FM car radios. My favorite antenna is my MFJ-1988-T multiband backpacker antenna, but many of my receptions are with the stock antenna only or an attached random long-wire, WOR iog via DXLD) 11760, UT Monday March 26 at 0135, RHC `En Contacto` which I monitor in its 15-minute entirety. Arnie unsounds like on the telephone, better audio quality, but not studio either with some reverb and I think I hear some traffic noise underneath. This frequency soon fades down so I change to 9640, before it fades down too and I wind up on 5040. Arnie notes Daniel Wyllyans` log in Brasil of R. Educação Rural de Coari on 5035 and laments that RHC itself prevents him from hearing it adjacently. About the nominal 200 kW transmitter of R. Progreso on 890 in central Cuba: Arnie says it`s reduced to 80 kW non-direxional due to hurricane damage yet still gets DX reports from Europe; soon will be back up to 200 kW direxional with two new masts 120 meters high. After a bit by Marta, saying he`s connected by fibre-optic, final segment back to Arnie for propagation forecast and now he sounds more lo-fi telephonic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 7355 & 7375 & 7435, March 25 at 2204, jamming on all these, despite Radio Martí no longer using any of them this hour. 7435 & 7375 & 7355, March 26 at 0104, still heavy jamming all three non-Martí frequencies; while RM is really on 7335 loud and clear S9+48, and weaker 7365 but atop jamming, sounds like the RCC pope criticizing Maduro. Something`s always wrong at the DentroCuban Jamming Command. Furthermore, the 7375 jamming is now disrupting something in French, i.e. ROMANIA. At least it`s pulsing rather than full-bore. RRI is now scheduled four hours straight on 7375, 00-04 in English, French, Spanish, English. Picking a previous Radio Martí frequency is not a smart move (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 6060, March 21 at 0621, RHC English is AWOL, leaving the ZY off-frequency alone. 6000, 6100, 6165 still going, and 5040 now runs English at 0500-0600v*. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 11810, March 22 at 1354, RHC is JBA but enough to match the mod with Spanish fundamental 11840 --- so this is a third-order x10 kHz spur, in addition to progressively stronger 11820 and 11830. I don`t get one on 11870, but yes on 11860 JBA vs equally JBA Yemen non. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 15370, March 23 at 1358 check, RHC is still OK with no spur constellation. None of those have been heard since March 15 on almost daily chex, so fixed for good? Don`t count on it. Something or another is always wrong at RHC. 15120, March 23 at 0022, CRI Spanish, with warbling squeals peaking about 2.5 kHz each side; // 5990 unsquealish but undermodulated. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba. 6060, March 25 at 0607, RHC English is open carrier/dead air --- no, wait, it`s Just Barely Modulated, while 6165 is merely undermodulated, 6000 & 6100 sufficient. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 11760, Sunday March 25 at 1502, weekly RHC Esperanto is confirmed, tuned in too late to hear full schedule announcement, but ending with 07 hours on 6000, as already confirmed along with the other broadcast Sunday at 2230 on 15730. The 1500 emission was not on air the first date March 11, and not checked for on March 18 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 7335 < // 7365, March 25 at 1236, and // 9805 at 1245, R. Martí on all three with no jamming. The incompetent DentroCuban Jamming Command is still grinding away on: 7355, 7435, 5980, 11930, pulse jam on 6030. Noise on 5980 still going past 5980 vs NEW ZEALAND on new frequency, q.v. At 1302 check, RM still VG on 7335 // 7365, jamming still on 7355 // 7435. (KNLS English is supposed to be on 7355 now at 12-13, no sign of it.) At 1405, RM now on 11930 under wall-of-noise jamming, but 13605 clear with the jamming still on ex-13820. If anyCuban really has a hard time hearing Radio Martí, the first day(s) of a new season are great, as the DCJC is always behind in jamming the correct frequencies. Arnie won`t even avail themselves of what`s openly available from the boycotted HFCC. Altho the A-18 season is underway March 25, the latest HFCC schedule is still dated March 23. Extracting all the GB entries for Martí: 5980 07-10 6030 00-12 7365 00-03 7365 05-07 7365 12-14 7435 03-05 9565 20-24 9805 10-13 11930 14-20 11930 20-24 13695 13-20 Note this is NOT complete! Unlisting 7335 which I was just hearing (and was not in B-17 HFCC either). How about all the other 7 MHz frequencies they had been using evenings? We may expect even more than three transmitters at once, once the ex-Sri Lankan units be installed and operational. But I think the Cubans will still have plenty of jamming capacity, if they can just get them on the correct frequencies! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DX LISTENING DIGEST) As we enter the second day of A-18, 0601+ UT March 26, how`s the DentroCuban Jamming Command doing vs Radio Martí? Wall-of-noise against no RM: 7355, 5980 pulse jamming against no RM: 7375, 7435 NO jamming, RM in the clear: 7335, S9+20; 7365, S9+10 (RM probably also still on 6030 jammed, not checked) Another check at 1320 March 26: Jamming on 7355; and 7435 vs some innocent bystation: CRI Chinese eastward from Beijing site: Commies vs Commies! NO jamming, RM in the clear: 7335, 7365 also in the mornings At 1404 March 26: Wall of noise on 13820; RM now clear on 13605. 7335, March 26 at 2358, R. Martí now with jamming after a two-day honeymoon. March 27 at 0005+ I survey the rest: 7365, R. Martí over jamming // same as on 7335 7435, 7355, jamming vs nothing 6030, RM readable with jamming about equal level 9565, March 27 at 0016, jamming vs nothing except weak Brazilian 11930, March 27 at 0021, wall-of-noise jamming against nothing; with occasional single beeps 9955, March 27 at 0013, pulse jamming with same beeps vs gospel huxter in English on WRMI 9490, March 27 at 0017, WON jamming against NO Radio República, ever at this hour. Ditto at 0559 pulse jamming with beeps - more below Another survey, March 27 at 0603+: 7335 & 7365, WON jamming over RM 7355 & 7435, jamming vs nothing 5980, WON jamming but RM not on yet 6030, WON jamming with beeps about equal to RM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. FRANCE, A-18 new frequency of Radio República via TDF Issoudun 0200-0400 7350 ISS 150 kW / 285 deg Cuba Spanish, ex 9490 A-17/B-17: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/03/summer-18-new-frequency-of-radio.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, March 23-24, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7350 transmission still not confirmed by March 31. Jamming still on 9490, also earlier March 27 at 0017 and ~0600 chex (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EAST TURKISTAN. 5060, 4980, 4850, 4500, March 23 at 0040, equal JBA carriers on this quartet, which combination can only be the four domestic language services of PBS Xinjiang, Urumqi, along grayline. Our sunset: 0045; their sunrise: 0008. 9470, March 26 at 0110, S4-S6 discussion of Trump and American politix by American accents; could it be VOA? Of course not! It`s CRI as scheduled via Kashgar, and about two words ahead of much stronger 9580 Cuban relay (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005, March 21 at 0532, S4-S6 vs storm noise, but enough signal to make out some music from RNGE, Bata. Not unusual to get a JBA carrier sometime between 05 and 06, but trying now near a time Ron Howard was hearing modulation, and it worked. I still have a JBA carrier at 0611. Sunrise was 0525 UT, and less than two degrees from the Equator, as the name implies, SR time varies only about 22 minutes during the year (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ERITREA [non]. SECRETLAND, Fair signal of Dimtse Radio Erena via SPL Secretbrod, March 26 1700-1800 NF 9720 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg Tigrinya/Arabic, ex 11965 A-17 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/03/fair-signal-of-dimtse-radio-erena-via.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, March 26-27, WOR iog via DXLD) ** ERITREA [and non]. 7140.020, ERI, Asmara peak string visible, mixture with White Noise audio option on Ethiopian Gedja 'Made in China' SW transmitters. S=9+15dB at 0405 UT, broadband jamming noise 7131.5 to 7148 kHz. different TX in Asmara in use: 7180.0195 ERI Asmara peak string visible, mixture with White Noise audio option on Ethiopian Gedja 'Made in China' SW transmitters. S=9+15dB at 0410 UT, broadband jamming noise 7169.4 to 7186.9 kHz. Morning 0400-0440 UT log March 25, stations noted on remote SDR unit at Doha Qatar, Middle East [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 25, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Reception of VOBME 1 and VOBME 2 Dimtsi Hafash on March 26 from 0530 7140 ASM 100 kW / non-dir Tigrinya VOBME 1, weak/fair signal from 0530 7180 ASM 100 kW / non-dir Amharic VOBME 2, good, ex 7181.5 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/03/reception-of-vobme-1-vobme-2-dimtsi.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, March 26, WOR iog via DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA. 7130-7150 & 7170-7190, March 24 at 0357, S9+10 QRDRM jamming noise INTRUDERS obviously from Ethiopia against the two Eritrean frequencies, 7140+ and 7181+ but whose carriers cannot even be detected amid. Edges trail off but note these reach 20 kHz wide rather than the DRM standard of 10 kHz sharp (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. Reception of BRB Radio Xoriyo Ogaden via MBR Issoudun, March 24 1600-1630 11970 ISS 500 kW / 130 deg EaAf Somali Tue/Sat, fair signal, 1600-1630 17630 ISS 500 kW / 130 deg EaAf Somali Tue/Sat from March 31 Transmissions are jammed by Ethiopia with white noise digital jamming http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/03/reception-of-brb-radio-xoriyo-ogaden_25.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, March 24-25, WOR iog via DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. GERMANY, Reception of Voice of Oromo Liberation via MBR Nauen, March 25 1700-1730 15420 NAU 100 kW / 144 deg Afar Oromo Wed/Fri/Sun, good: Transmissions jammed by Ethiopia with strong digital white noise http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/03/reception-of-voice-of-oromo-liberation_26.html Reception of BRB Radio Voice of Amara via MBR Issoudun, March 25 1700-1800 15360 ISS 250 kW / 120 deg Amharic Mon/Wed/Sat/Sun, fair: Transmissions jammed by Ethiopia with strong digital white noise http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/03/reception-of-brb-radio-voice-of-amara_26.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, March 25, WOR iog via DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. FRANCE, Oromo Voice Radio & Radio Xoriyo Ogaden via TDF Issoudun, March 26 Oromo Voice Radio 1600-1630 17850 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg Afan Oromo Mon/Wed/Sat, fair/good Transmissions are jammed by Ethiopia with white noise digital jamming Radio Xoriyo Ogaden 1600-1630 17870 ISS 500 kW / 130 deg Somali Mon/Fri, weak to fair Transmissions are jammed by Ethiopia with white noise digital jamming http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/03/oromo-voice-radio-radio-xoriyo-ogaden.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, March 26-27, WOR iog via DXLD) ** EUROPE. The new transmission of KCR ! --- Dear friends, the KCR will be back on air this coming weekend with her fourteenth transmission. We start all 07'00 UT on Saturday 31/3 and end at 13'00 02/4 Monday. 6915 / 6920 kHz. A long marathon with such beautiful music, interesting broadcasts and much more. There will be two important events not to be missed, the “PPP Pirate Hunt 2018” and the “Global HF Weekend”. We couldn't miss. Best wishes and a Happy Easter! Jasmine: (Rus-DX 25 March via WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DXLD) ** FRANCE. FRANÇA. 17850. Mar 26, 2018. 1948-2000, Radio França Internacional, Issoudun-F, em Francês. Conversação entre vozes masculinas sobre política europeia na atualidade; 1959 Locutora fala, ID. RFI apresenta um excelente sinal nesta frequência, porém, a difusão está muito prejudicada por problema no transmissor, suponho, manifestada por um forte ruído semelhante ao "motor de aeroplano", 55243 (DXer: José Ronaldo Xavier, Local da escuta: Cabedelo-PB, Brasil, Receptor: Tecsun S-2000. Nestas escutas estou seguindo o HFCC A18 Global HF Schedule, WOR iog via DXLD) ** GERMANY. Sprengung Langwellenmasten Aholming DLF 207 kHz Aholming Bavara, final March 29, 12.00z Von: Rainer Englert Datum: Do., 22. März 2018 12:46 An: Rainer Englert, DF2NU; Wolfgang Hirler; Peter Jenus DJ8XW ; Betreff:Sprengung Langwellenmasten Aholming Hallo Wolfgang, von einem mir bekannten OM in Straubing habe ich erfahren, dass die Langwellen-Masten in Aholming am kommenden Donnerstag den 29.03.2018 um 14 Uhr gesprengt werden sollen. Damit wäre der letzte AM-Sendemast in Deutschland auf dem Müllhaufen der Geschichte gelandet ... Kannst Du diesen Termin bestätigen ? 73 Rainer Englert (DF2NU) Dorfstrasse 14 85567 Bruck-Alxing GERMANY (via Peter Jenus, all FYI via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) ** GERMANY. Summer A-18 of New Shortwave Radio for Europe from Mar 26 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/03/summer-18-of-new-shortwave-radio-for.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #1065 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 24, 2018, WOR iog via DXLD) ** GERMANY. Schedule A-18 KLL Germany all times in CEST / MESZ GMT +2 hrs <<<<<<<<<< *** SENDEPLAN A18 *** ALLE ZEITEN IN MESZ *** 6005 kHz Montag-Freitag 0900-0930 Voice Of Mongolia 0930-1000 DP07 (from 01. April 2018) 1000-1200 Radio Belarus 1200-1227 RSI deutsch 1227-1230 Nordschleswiger 1230-1300 SRF Rendez-Vous 1300-1330 RSI englisch 1330-1400 RSI französisch 1400-1430 DP07 (from 01. April 2018) 1430-1500 Radio Tirana englisch 1500-1527 RSI deutsch 1527-1530 Nordschleswiger 1530-1600 RSI französisch 1600-1630 RSI spanisch 1630-1700 RSI englisch 1700-1730 Polskie Radio deutsch 1730-1757 RSI englisch 1757-1800 Nordschleswiger 1800-1900 SRF Echo der Zeit Samstag 0900-0930 Voice Of Mongolia 0930-1000 DP07 (from 01. April 2018) 1000-1200 Radio Belarus 1200-1230 RSI deutsch 1230-1300 Musik non stop 1300-1330 RSI englisch 1330-1400 RSI französisch 1400-1430 DP07 (from 01. April 2018) 1430-1500 Radio Tirana englisch 1500-1530 RSI deutsch 1530-1600 RSI französisch 1600-1630 RSI spanisch 1630-1700 RSI englisch 1700-1730 Polskie Radio deutsch 1730-1757 RSI englisch 1757-1800 Nordschleswiger 1800-1900 SRF Echo der Zeit Sonntag 0900-0930 Voice Of Mongolia 0930-1000 DP07 (from 01. April 2018) 1000-1200 Radio Belarus 1200-1227 RSI deutsch 1230-1300 Musik non stop 1300-1330 RSI englisch 1330-1400 RSI französisch 1400-1430 DP07 (from 01. April 2018) 1430-1500 Radio Tirana englisch 1500-1527 RSI deutsch 1527-1530 Nordschleswiger 1530-1600 RSI französisch 1600-1630 RSI spanisch 1630-1700 RSI englisch 1700-1730 Polskie Radio deutsch 1730-1757 RSI englisch 1800-1900 SRF Echo der Zeit 1900-2000 Radio Amathusia 2000-2100 Holands Palet *** SENDEPLAN A18 *** ALLE ZEITEN IN MESZ *** 7310 kHz Samstag 1200-1600 Radio Mi Amigo Sonntag 1200-1600 Radio Mi Amigo *** SENDEPLAN A18 *** ALLE ZEITEN IN MESZ *** 6085 kHz Montag-Sonntag 0900-1900 Radio Mi Amigo *** SENDEPLAN A18 *** ALLE ZEITEN IN MESZ *** 3985 kHz Montag-Freitag 1700-1730 Radio Tirana französisch 1730-1800 RSI französisch 1800-1900 SRF Echo der Zeit 1900-2000 Radio Mi Amigo 2000-2027 RSI deutsch 2027-2030 Nordschleswiger 2030-2100 RSI französisch 2100-2130 RSI englisch 2130-2200 Radio Tirana deutsch 2200-2230 SRF Das war der Tag 2230-2300 Radio Tirana italienisch 2300-2400 RAE deutsch <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< PAB Pan Am Broadcasting RAD MBR internal customer name RSH MBR internal customer name: formerly request Radio - Menschen & Geschichten (Shortwaveservice.com) SBO Sagalee Bilisummaa Oromoo, Voice of Oromo Liberation. Berlin. SFZ Studio 52 SJK MBR internal customer name: Radio Itahuka in Kirundi [sic] C/E Africa Burundi-Rwanda on Sats. Please send report to Veiled in MBR schedule. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael Puetz MEDIA BROADCAST GmbH Order Management & Backoffice Erna-Scheffler-Strasse 1 51103 Cologne, Germany Please send your inquiries and reception reports to: E-Mail: E-Mail: Internet: via WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Postfach 1214 61282 Bad Homburg GERMANY E-Mail: Internet: (MBR Cologne Germany, March 25, 2018, .PDF format, via AGDX club Andreas Volk-Munich-D, extracted & reformatted by Michael Bethge wwdxc March 26, 2018, via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) FYI: the 7220 kHz AWR French entry to North Africa at 0600 UT is un- settled, wrong time stamp include given, maybe is an alternate fq from S-18 season - from September 2nd - 28 Oct 2018 to North Africa, Sahar, Sahel Zone? 73 wb 0600-0630 on 12035 ISS 250 kW / 162 deg to WeAf French AWR Eu/Af 0600-0630 on 15455 NAU 250 kW / 200 deg to WeAf French AWR Eu/Af (Ivo Ivanov, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. KTWR GUAM A18 Language UTC Days Frequency Program ------------------------------------------------- China Cantonese 1400-1430 Mon-Fri 9975 Thru the Bible Mandarin 1030-1100 Mon-Fri 12120 Thru the Bible Mandarin 1030-1100 Saturday 12120 The Word Today Mandarin 1030-1100 Saturday 12120 Hope for Today, Macedonian Call Mandarin 1315-1345 Mon-Fri 9975 Thru the Bible Mandarin 1030-1100 Sunday 12120 The Word Today, Hope for Today Mandarin 1130-1200 Sunday 9910 TLC, Macedonian Call Mandarin 1100-1200 Mon-Fri 9910 Self Confrontation, DTA Mongolian 1100-1115 Mon-Sun 9975 Son-Lift Cantonese 1115-1130 Mon-Sun 12120 Son-Lift Hakka 1130-1145 Mon-Sun 12120 Son-Lift Mandarin 1145-1200 Mon-Sun 12120 Son-Lift Nosu Yi 1200-1215 Mon-Fri 9975 Son-Lift Mandarin 1200-1215 Sun 9910 Son-Lift Mandarin 1230-1245 Mon-Fri 9900 Son-Lift Mandarin 1215-1230 Mon-Fri 9900 God Remembers Them Mandarin 1315-1345 Sunday 9975 Women of Hope Mandarin 1315-1330 Saturday 9975 The Word Today Mandarin 1315-1400 Mon-Fri 9975 Thru the Bible, A Word with You Mandarin 1345-1350 Mon-Fri 9975 A Word with You Nosu Yi 1215-1230 Mon-Sun 9975 Good News for the Yi English 1100-1130 Sunday 9910 Unlimited Grace Korea Korean 1345-1500 Mon-Fri 7510 YQFG, BR, TWR Seminary (LTS-Thu, WOH- Fri) Korean 1500-1515 Mon-Fri 7510 Light and Life Korean 1315-1345 Mon-Fri 7510 With You Korean 1345-1515 Saturday 7510 Teachers Institute, Pray school, BSB & TTT Korean 1345-1515 Sunday 7510 Sunday Service, TGT, HOD & Christian Faith English 1315-1345 Saturday 7510 Unlimited Grace Japan Japanese 1215-1245 Sunday 7500 B Japan - Friendship Radio Japanese 1130-1200 Saturday 9910 Leading the Way South East Asia English 1100-1105 Mon-Fri 11965 Reachng Your World English 1105-1120 Mon-Fri 11965 Running to Win English 1120-1135 Tues-Fri 11965 Grace Notes-Tue, SFT-Wed, BOL- Thur, HFT -Fri, RYW, RTW English 1030-1100 Sunday 11965 Heart of Harvest English 1100-1130 Sunday 11965 Unlimited Grace South Pacific English 1000-1015 Saturday 11995 Bread of Life English 1000-1025 Mon-Fri 11995 Running to Win, RYW English 1015-1045 Saturday 11995 Unlimited Grace Indonesia Madurese 1000-1030 Mon-Fri 11965 Thru the Bible Sundanese 1030-1100 Mon-Fri 11965 Thru the Bible English 1000-1030 Sunday 11965 Unlimited Grace Indonesian 1030-1100 Sunday 11965 Women of Hope Indonesian 1045-1100 Saturday 11965 News of Truth Myanmar Burmese 1200-1230 Mon-Fri 12040 Thru the Bible Burmese 1200-1230 Saturday 12040 Macedonian Call, The Word Today Burmese 1200-1245 Sunday 12040 Woman of Hope, Lifeword S'gaw Karen 1230-1300 Mon-Fri 12040 Thru the Bible S'gaw Karen 1245-1300 Sunday 12040 The Word Today Vietnam Vietnamese 1245-1315 Mon-Fri 9975 Thru the Bible Vietnamese 1245-1315 Saturday 9975 Women of Hope Vietnamese 1245-1300 Sunday 9975 The Word Today South Asia Kok Borok 1230-1300 Mon - Fri 12160 Thru the Bible Kok Borok 1245-1300 Sunday 12160 Discipleship Hour Dzongkha 1230-1245 Sat - Sun 11580 Words of Hope Assamese 1200-1230 Mon - Fri 12160 Thru the Bible English 1230-1300 Saturday 12160 Heart of Harvest Programs : YQFG = Your Quest for God DTA = Discipleship Training on the Air TLC = The Lords Challenge RYW = Reaching Your World SFT = Search for Truth BOL = Bread of Life HFT = Hope for Tomorrow WWL = Wonderful Words of Life LTS = Lets talk about something WOH = Women of Hope RTW = Running to Win DTA = Discipleship Training on the Air BSB = Bible School Basics TTT = Truth in a Test Tube TGT = The Gospel Train HOD = History of Doctrine CF = Christian Faith BR = Bible Reading Reception reports to : rphilyaw@twr.org (via Alokesh Gupta, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUINEA. GUINÉ, 9650. Mar 25, 2018. 2135-2200, Radio Guiné, Conacri, em Francês. Música local; 2139 Locutor fala e apresenta um programa musical com melodias em ritmo semelhante ao caribenho, inclusive com algumas em língua espanhola; 2144 ID-Conakri; Uma canção local; 2154 Notícias nacionais; ID. RG chegando muito bem aqui em Cabedelo, 45554 (DXer: José Ronaldo Xavier, Local da escuta: Cabedelo-PB, Brasil, Receptores: Sony SW100 & Tecsun S-2000, WOR iog via DXLD) ** INDIA. 2017-18 Annual Report of Ministry of Information & Broadcasting is available in: http://mib.gov.in/sites/default/files/Annual%20Report_2017-18%20%28English%29.pdf Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. Summer A-18 changes of All India Radio from March 25 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/03/summer-18-changes-of-all-india-radio.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, March 24-25, WOR iog via DXLD) A 18 Changes to All India Radio (Timings in UTC) External Services 0015-0430 Urdu 6140(A) ex 6145 0100-0200 Sindhi 9620(Kh) ex 5990 0230-0300 Hindi/English 9800(B) New 0700-0800 Nepali 9950(Ki) ex 9940 0830-1130 Urdu 6140(A) ex 6145 1115-1215 Tamil delete 9810(P) 1130-1140 Hindi/English 6140(A) ex 6145 HS 1215-1245 Telugu delete 9810(P) 1515-1600 Gujarati delete 15175(P) 1615-1715 Russian delete 9595(Kh) 1615-1730 Hindi delete 7505(P) 1745-1945 English 9910(B) ex 17670, delete 9950(Kh) 1945-2045 Hindi delete 9950(Kh) 2045-2230 English 13750(B) ex 11620, delete 9950(Kh) 2245-0045 English delete 9705(P) For latest updated schedules please check in the links given below: A18 External Service Time Wise: http:/qsl.net/vu2jos/es/time.htm A18 External Service Language Wise: http://qsl.net/vu2jos/es/Language.htm A18 Complete SW service in Frequency order: http://qsl.net/vu2jos/sw/freq.htm Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, Mobile: +91 94416 96043, http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DX LISTENING DIGEST) AIR External Service Latest Change 9620 0830-1130 Aligarh (ex 6145) Thanks to Alok Das Gupta for the info Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, March 25, dx_india yg via DXLD) ** INDIA. 4970, AIR Shillong, 1237, March 25. The Sunday "Country Roads" show; this week the usual YL DJ was back again, after last week's substitute OM DJ; Kenny Rogers "Lady," etc.; almost fair (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** INDIA [non]. TWR INDIA A18 STRT STOP FREQ LOC CIR PWRAZI SLEW ANT Su M Tu W Th F Sa LANGUAGE -------------------------------------------------------------------- 0045 0115 7465 GRI 41 300 98 0 2/4/0.5 M Tu W Th F HINDI 0115 0130 7465 GRI 41 300 98 0 2/4/0.5 Tu HINDI 0115 0130 7465 GRI 41 300 98 0 2/4/0.5 W DZONKHA 0115 0130 7465 GRI 41 300 98 0 2/4/0.5 M NEPALI 0115 0130 7465 GRI 41 300 98 0 2/4/0.5 Th F TIBETAN 1345 1400 12160 TAC 41 100 131 10 2/4/0.5 Su KURUKH 1345 1400 12160 TAC 41 100 131 10 2/4/0.5 M Tu W MARWARI 1345 1400 12160 TAC 41 100 131 10 2/4/0.5 Th F MAWACHI 1345 1400 12160 TAC 41 100 131 10 2/4/0.5 Sa CHODHRI 1400 1415 12160 41 100 131 10 2/4/0.5 Su GAMIT 1400 1430 12160 41 100 131 10 2/4/0.5 M Tu W Th F SINDHI 1400 1430 12160 41 100 131 10 2/4/0.5 Sa GAMIT 1415 1430 12160 41 100 131 10 2/4/0.5 Su DHODIA 1430 1445 12160 GRI 41 300 98 0 2/4/0.5 M BHILI 1430 1445 12160 GRI 41 300 98 0 2/4/0.5 Tu GUJARATI 1430 1445 12160 GRI 41 300 98 0 2/4/0.5 W Th F VASAVI 1445 1545 12160 GRI 41 300 98 0 2/4/0.5 M Tu W Th F PUNJABI 1600 1630 9610 GRI 41 300 98 0 2/4/0.5 Su M Tu W Th F Sa URDU 1245 1300 9910 ERV 41 300 100 0 8/8/1 Su SANTHALI 1245 1300 9910 ERV 41 300 100 0 8/8/1 Sa KUI 1245 1300 9910 ERV 41 300 100 0 8/8/1 M Tu MUNDARI 1245 1300 9910 ERV 41 300 100 0 8/8/1 W Th F KURUKH 1300 1315 9910 ERV 41 300 100 0 8/8/1 Su BONDO 1300 1315 9910 ERV 41 300 100 0 8/8/1 M KHARIA 1300 1315 9910 ERV 41 300 100 0 8/8/1 Tu SADRI 1300 1315 9910 ERV 41 300 100 0 8/8/1 W MAITHILI 1300 1315 9910 ERV 41 300 100 0 8/8/1 Th F MAGHAI 1300 1315 9910 ERV 41 300 100 0 8/8/1 Sa HO 1315 1330 9910 ERV 41 300 100 0 8/8/1 Su SURGUJIA 1315 1330 9910 ERV 41 300 100 0 8/8/1 Sa BENGALI 1315 1345 9910 ERV 41 300 100 0 8/8/1 M Tu W Th F MAITHILI 1330 1345 9910 ERV 41 300 100 0 8/8/1 Su BRAJBHASHA 1330 1345 9910 ERV 41 300 100 0 8/8/1 Sa BUNDELI 1345 1400 9910 ERV 41 300 100 0 8/8/1 Su Tu W Th F Sa HINDI 1345 1400 9910 ERV 41 300 100 0 8/8/1 M AWADHI 1400 1430 9910 ERV 41 300 100 0 8/8/1 Su PUNJABI 1400 1430 9910 ERV 41 300 100 0 8/8/1 M Tu W Th F BHOJPURI 1400 1430 9910 ERV 41 300 100 0 8/8/1 Sa HINDI 1430 1445 9910 ERV 41 300 100 0 8/8/1 Su MEWARI 1430 1445 9910 ERV 41 300 100 0 8/8/1 M Tu W Th F HINDI 1430 1445 9910 ERV 41 300 100 0 8/8/1 Sa HARYANVI 1300 1315 9330 ERV 41 300 100 0 4/4/1 M Tu W Th F Sa ENGLISH 1315 1330 9330 ERV 41 300 100 0 4/4/1 Su TELUGU 1315 1345 9330 ERV 41 300 100 0 4/4/1 M Tu W Th F Sa HINDI 1330 1345 9330 ERV 41 300 100 0 4/4/1 Su HINDI 1345 1400 9330 ERV 41 300 100 0 4/4/1 Su Sa KASHMIRI 1345 1400 9330 ERV 41 300 100 0 4/4/1 M Tu W Th F DOGRI 1400 1430 9330 ERV 41 300 100 0 4/4/1 Su Sa HINDI 1400 1415 9330 ERV 41 300 100 0 4/4/1 M Tu W Th F GARHWALI 1415 1435 9330 ERV 41 300 100 0 4/4/1 M Tu W Th F HINDI 1430 1445 9330 ERV 41 300 100 0 4/4/1 Sa ENGLISH 1435 1450 9330 ERV 41 300 100 0 4/4/1 M Tu W Th F ENGLISH Reception reports to : info@twr.asia OR at: http://www.twr.asia/online-qsl-form (via Alokesh Gupta, March 26, DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 3325 & 9526v: see BOUGAINVILLE [and non] ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. International Space Station --- ISS live http://iss.stormway.ru/en/ A live broadcast from the International Space Station includes internal surveys, when the crew performs official duties, as well as external surveys. Video accompanies negotiations between the crew of the station and the Mission Control Center. Broadcasting is conducted only when communicating with the Earth, during the loss of the signal a blue screen is displayed. When the space station is in the shadow area of the Earth, the outer camera can display a black screen, but sometimes you can watch exciting views of night cities or lightning. The ISS is flying at an altitude of about 400 km (250 miles) at a speed of 28,800 km / h (17,500 mph). The complete revolution around the Earth station commits in 90 minutes, that is, sunsets and sunrises can be observed every 45 minutes. https://vk.com/club3877182 In English about the ISS. International Space Station. https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/#iss http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iss-hdev-payload (Dmitry Elagin, Saratov, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx") (via Rus-DX 25 March via DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL WATERS [non]. Radio Caroline Returns to Its Roots Radio World 26 March 2018 Interesting article today by Dr. Lawrie Hallett who lectures at the University of Bedfordshire and reports on the industry for Radio World from Norwich. Good industry PR for The Lady, although purists might have comments. https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/radio-caroline-returns-to-its-roots (Mike Terry, WOR iog via DXLD) ** IRAN. Checking the full HFCC A18 schedule for IRIB, the only English broadcasts are: 9540 1520-1620 Sirjan 102 degrees 500 kW 9800 1920-2020 Sirjan 216 degrees 500 kW 9810 1920-2020 Sirjan 310 degrees 500 kW – best for us (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7410.005, IRIB Sirjan Arabic sce to Saudi Peninsula, S=9+45dB powerful broadband 7401.1 to 7419.4 kHz at 0428 UT. Morning 0400-0440 UT log March 25, stations noted on remote SDR unit at Doha Qatar, Middle East [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 25, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY. 1888.0 kHz, 2206-... 21/3, Civitavecchia R, Civitavecchia, Navig. warnings. 25342 CGS 1925.0 kHz, 2208-... 21/3, Porto Torres R, Porto Torres. Navig. warnings. 35343 CGS 2628.0 kHz, 2147-... 18/3, Augusta R, Augusta. Navig. warnings. 25342 (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, JRC NRD-545DSP, PERSEUS & DRAKE R-E; Advanced Receiver amp.; raised, 4 loop K9AY, 30 m 180º/0º mini-Bev., 80 m 300º/120º Bev., 200 m 270º/90º Bev., 270 m 145º/325º Bev., 300 m 225º/45º Beverage, radioescutas ug via DXLD) ** ITALY [non]. IBC - ITALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION http://www.ibcradio.webs.com Today on 5845 kHz with 100 kW from Gavar (Armenia) we are as every Wednesday in Italian from 19 to 20 UT and in English from 20 to 2030 UT with "Italian Shortwave Panorama" and "425 Dx News"; last 5 minutes are with "IBC DIGITAL" in MFSK32 (1500 Hz). FROM NEXT WEEK WE WILL BE AT THE SAME UTC TIME, ON 5845 KHZ AND ALSO 6070 KHZ. The broadcast from Gavar can be heard also in Middle East, Asia and Oceania. You can send your reports to ibc@europe.com. We wait also for your posts on FB and TW using #RADIOIBC Good listening! ENGLISH TO EUROPE/MIDDLE EAST/ASIA/OCEANIA WEDNESDAY 20-2030 UT 5845 kHz (also 6070 kHz from 28/3) SUNDAY 1130-12 UT 6070 kHz [Germany] TO THE AMERICAS [all WRMI frequencies, don`t you know?] TUESDAY 01-0130 UT 5950 + 7780 kHz FRIDAY 01-0130 UT 9955 kHz FRIDAY 0230-03 UT 5985 kHz SATURDAY 0030-01 UT 9395 kHz SATURDAY 0130-02 UT 5850 + 5950 + 7780 + 9455 kHz SUNDAY 0030-01 UT 7730 kHz Daily streaming on http://hr.77400.fm (user: IBC password: 123456) at 14-1430 UT in English (13-14 UT in Italian) (via Saverio Masetti on Facebook today) (via Alan Pennington, March 21, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) ARMENIA, Reception of IBC Radio via CJSC Yerevan-Gavar, March 21 1900-2000 on 5845 ERV 100 kW / 305 deg to WeEu Italian Wed, very good 2000-2030 on 5845 ERV 100 kW / 305 deg to WeEu English Wed, very good Same time and frequency from March 28, plus addit.6070 via Channel 292 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/03/reception-of-ibc-radio-via-cjsc-yerevan.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, March 21-22, WOR iog via DXLD) ** JAPAN [non]. NHK Radio Japan English, per HFCC A-18: 0500-0530 5975 ND Austria 9710 184 Vatican 9860 184 Vatican [both??] 11970 155 France 1100-1130 11695 0 Singapore [meaning north as opposed to ND?] 1400-1430 11705 270 Palau 11935 163 Uzbekistan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15130, March 22 at 2052, poor S1-S2 YL in Japanese, something new? Hadn`t noticed before but HFCC shows NHK via FRANCE has been here all B-17 season, 1900-2100, 500 kW, 152 degrees from ISSoudun. And it`s still on the A-18 schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11705, March 25 at 1412, English conversation from Radio Japan, which was going to change its name, poor via PALAU, but incomparably better here than // 11935 Tashkent. Meanwhile, more English SW broadcasts have been deleted, leaving only these for A-18, I extracted from HFCC: 0500-0530 5975 ND Austria 9710 184 Vatican [must be alternate to 9860] 9860 184 Vatican 11970 155 France 1100-1130 11695 0 Singapore [meaning north as opposed to ND?] 1400-1430 11705 270 Palau 11935 163 Uzbekistan And per Alan Roe, March 25, WOR iog: ``R Japan (now announced as "Radio Japan of the NHK World Japan Network") heard at 0500 UT on 5975 kHz confirming A-18 frequencies in line with new published sked on https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/resources/brochure/pdf/rj_frequency.pdf 0500-0530: 5975-Austria, 9860-Vatican, 11970-France 1100-1130: 11695-Singapore 1400-1430: 11705-Palau, 11935-Uzbekistan`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DX LISTENING DIGEST) NHK World R. Japan via Moosbrunn/SM di Galeria Mar 27 0500-0530 5975 MOS 300 kW / non-dir WeEu English, very good signal 0500-0530 9860 SMG 250 kW / 184 deg WeAf English, weak/fair signal 0500-0530 11970 ISS 500 kW / 155 deg SoAf English totaly blocked at same time 11970 KBD 250 kW / 100 deg SoAs English R Kuwait DRM mode http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/03/nhk-world-radio-japan-via-moosbrunsm-di.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, March 26-27, WOR iog via DXLD) 17540, March 26 at 2147, no signal from R. Japan in Portuguese via WHRI, which is still registered in A-18 HFCC as well as B-17. It used to provide quite a good signal when hardly anything else was to be heard on this band. On March 20, JRX in Brasil reported that they announced that the 2130 transmission would be terminated March 25 but one Portuguese broadcast would remain at 0900 on 6195 WHRI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hello, I noticed that the [R. Japan] Arabic section transmission on 11975 kHz from 0600 UT is having a severe QRM from the DRM transmission of Radio Kuwait on 11970 kHz. I have contacted them [which?] and they promised to work on solving that QRM problem. Best 73 (Tarek Zeidan, Cairo, Egypt, March 26, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KIRITIMATI. 846, March 21 at 0624, JBA carrier from presumed R. Kiribati. I then undertake a TA JBA MW carrier search and find a few others, but 846 is *not* a significant European frequency; per WRTH, in fact nothing more than 1 kW in Ireland, Italy (tho there are medium-powers in South Africa, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Iran). 846, March 23 at 0555, JBA carrier from presumed R. Kiribati, not Europe. See also UNIDENTIFIEDs for TA carrier search which ensued and later, TP. 846, March 25 at 0617, JBA carrier from presumed R. Kiribati (at 0618, WWV reports K index of 4, G1 storms expected). Confident that this split is not European, but I start a 9 kHz bandscan at 0619, hearing only the 531 JBA carrier before falling asleep (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, I suggest trying around their sunset as I've observed a peak then and some weakening later. Last night from about 0450-7 this was almost audible, but nothing could get past awful KOA slop that I could be sure was audio. I was often able to hold synch lock on the Perseus and the carrier was strong enough to provide some audio as I've observed some from low band DU's with even less signal. One issue here is that the last I read was that they s/off at 0907 or so, so no chance to log them at my sunrise. So the chase for a new country continues for me. 73 KAZ Barrington IL (Neil Kazaross, Perseus and DKAZ aimed due west, March 25, ABDX yg via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH. A-18 Transmission Schedule of the Voice of Korea, Pyongyang, DPR Korea valid from Sunday, 25 March Juche 107 (2018) last modified: 25 March Juche 107 (2018), Version: 1 Arabic 1530 9890 11645 Near & Middle East; North Africa 1730 9890 11645 Near & Middle East; North Africa Chinese 0330 13650 15105 Southeast Asia 0530 7220 9445 9730 Northeast China 0630 13650 15105 Southeast Asia 0830 7220 9445 Northeast China 1130 7220 9445 Northeast China 1330 11735 13650 Southeast Asia 2130 7235 9445 Northeast China 2130 9875 11635 China 2230 7235 9445 Northeast China 2230 9875 11635 China German 1630 9425 12015 Europe 1830 9425 12015 Europe 1930 9425 12015 Europe English 0430 7220 9445 9730 Northeast Asia 0430 11735 13760 15180 Central & South America 0530 13650 15105 Southeast Asia 0630 7220 9445 9730 Northeast Asia 1030 11710 15180 Central & South America 1030 11735 13650 Southeast Asia 1330 9435 11710 North America 1330 13760 15245 Western Europe 1530 9435 11710 North America 1530 13760 15245 Western Europe 1630 9890 11645 Near & Middle East; North Africa 1830 13760 15245 Western Europe 1930 7210 11910 South Africa 1930 9875 11635 Near & Middle East; North Africa 2130 13760 15245 Western Europe French 0430 13650 15105 Southeast Asia 0630 11735 13760 15180 Central & South America 1130 11710 15180 Central & South America 1130 11735 13650 Southeast Asia 1430 9435 11710 North America 1430 13760 15245 Western Europe 1630 9435 11710 North America 1630 13760 15245 Western Europe 1830 7210 11910 South Africa 1830 9875 11635 Near & Middle East; North Africa 2030 13760 15245 Western Europe Japanese 0730 621 *3250 9650 11865 Japan 0830 621 *3250 9650 11865 Japan 0930 621 *3250 6070 9650 11865 Japan 1030 621 *3250 6070 9650 11865 Japan 1130 621 *3250 6070 9650 11865 Japan 1230 621 *3250 6070 9650 11865 Japan 2130 621 *3250 9650 11865 Japan 2230 621 *3250 9650 11865 Japan 2330 621 *3250 9650 11865 Japan Korean 0330 (PBS)* *7220 *9445 *9730 Northeast China 0730 (PBS)* *7220 *9445 Northeast China 0930 (KCBS) 7220 9445 Northeast China 0930 (PBS)* *9875 *11735 Far Eastern Russia 0930 (PBS)* *13760 *15245 Europe 1030 (PBS)* *7220 *9445 Northeast China 1230 (KCBS) 11710 15180 Central & South America 1230 (KCBS) 11735 13650 Southeast Asia 1230 (PBS)* *7220 *9445 Northeast China 1330 (PBS)* *9425 *12015 Europe 1430 (KCBS) 11735 13650 Southeast Asia 1730 (KCBS) 9435 11710 North America 1730 (KCBS) 13760 15245 Western Europe 2030 (KCBS) 7210 11910 South Africa 2030 (KCBS) 9425 12015 Europe 2030 (KCBS) 9875 11635 Near & Middle East; North Africa 2330 (KCBS) 7235 9445 Northeast China 2330 (KCBS) 9875 11635 China 2330 (KCBS) 13760 15245 Western Europe Russian 0730 9875 11735 Far Eastern Russia 0730 13760 15245 Europe 0830 9875 11735 Far Eastern Russia 0830 13760 15245 Europe 1430 9425 12015 Europe 1530 9425 12015 Europe 1730 9425 12015 Europe Spanish 0330 11735 13760 15180 Central & South America 0530 11735 13760 15180 Central & South America 1930 13760 15245 Western Europe 2230 13760 15245 Western Europe All times in UT, all frequencies in kHz, subject to change at short notice. Programmes last 47 to 57 minutes. Changes to last year’s schedule are highlighted in red [in original, not much] Data based on announcements, schedules of the Voice of Korea and own monitoring. http://www.vok.rep.kp * = currently inactive KCBS = Korean Central Broadcasting Station (Choson Jungang Pangsong) PBS* = Pyongyang Broadcasting Station (Pyongyang Pangsong) remained silent since their website http://www.gnu.rep.kp appeared Please feel free to publish this schedule by mentioning the source: (Mr Arnulf Piontek, Berlin, Germany, THANK YOU! DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 5935, JAPAN (opposition), Shiokaze/Sea Breeze at 1345, W in Korean over soundbed of piano music, music bridge, then another W in Japanese. Signal mixing with DPRK jammer. VG Mar. 23 5935, unidentified North Korean jammer at 1300, with no sign of Shiokaze this morning. Have they left this frequency? I did some dial scanning was unable to detect them on a new frequency. Mar. 25 (Rick Barton, Logs from Central Arizona, Grundig Satellit, RS SW-2000629, and HQ-180A with various outdoor wires. 73 and Good Listening....! WOR iog via DXLD) Hello Glenn, I have a few logs to drop in later. Of particular interest, Shiokaze/Sea Breeze has evidently moved to 6040 from 5935. The PRC [?] was still jamming 5935 this morning. 73 (Rick in AZ Barton, March 26, WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Back to former alternate 6040 (ex: 5935), Shiokaze/Sea Breeze, via Yamata (Japan), at 1316, on March 26. In Japanese; fair-good, as the N. Korea jamming was still down on ex 5935 (along with Tibet). Also heard today by Rick Barton (thanks Rick!). Will take N. Korea a few days to note the change and start jamming 6040 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. TAIWAN, Summer A-18 frequency changes of Furusato no Kaze and Nippon no Kaze 1330-1400 9455*TSH 300 kW / 352 deg Japanese Furusato no Kaze, ex 9900 1500-1530 9685 TSH 300 kW / 002 deg Korean Nippon no Kaze, ex 9900 *bad frequency choice: till 1345UT on same frequency is Bangladesh Betar in Nepali [AND WRMI! - gh] http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/03/summer-18-frequency-changes-of-furusato.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, March 21-22, WOR iog via DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH. Voice of Freedom program on 5920v seemingly stopped 'move' on March 18 - 20. 5917.604 1/2 kHz measured on remote SDR unit at Seoul, S Korea, on March 21 at 0050 UT, S=9+15dB signal strength. Light music noted. Similar S=9 strength noted at remote Perseus units at Nagoya and Okayama, Japan. Underneath BUBBLE JAMMING signal from D.P.R. Korea (North) slightly odd frequency upwards measured on 5918.323 kHz, S=7-8dB or -82 ... - 88dBm signal noted in remote SDR unit at Seoul, Rep. of Korea (South). (wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 21) 5917.605 kHz measured on remote SDR unit at Seoul, S Korea, on March 23 at 00.40 UT, S=9+15dB signal strength. Light music noted. Similar S=9 strength noted at remote Perseus units at Nagoya and Okayama, Japan. Underneath BUBBLE JAMMING signal from D.P.R. Korea (North) slightly odd frequencies upwards measured on both 5917.597_1/2 and 5918.328 kHz, S=9 dB signal noted in remote SDR unit at Seoul, Rep. of Korea (South). (wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 23) 5917.605 kHz measured on remote SDR unit at various remote SDR posts in Hiroshima, Nagoya, Okayama, and also at Seoul SKorea, on March 24 at 2045-2055 UT, S=9+15dB signal strength. Empty carrier, no audio heard. No jamming at all on channel (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 24, dxldyg via DXLD) 5917.6, Voice of Freedom, 0957, March 25. Strong signal with the usual light jamming; still heard at my last check at 1315, again with fair reception and jamming. As Wolfie has been reporting, they finally stopped drifting downward and seem to have settled on this frequency, which still causes QRM for 5915 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) 5917.561, March 26 at 1313, music at S3-S5, Voice of Freedom on its favorite split frequency; not bad for only 10 kW non-direxional. It`s now squeezed in between Japan and China, just like it is geographically (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Freedom program on 5920v seemingly moved again on 'drift downwards' slightly on March 25 - 27. 5917.490 {ex .605} kHz measured on remote SDR unit at various remote SDR posts in Seoul-KOR, Hiroshima, Nagoya, Okayama, and also north of Tokyo site, Japan, on March 27 at 0827 UT, S=9+5dB daytime signal strength. Empty carrier, no VoF audio program on air. [WORLD OF RADIO 1923] Nearly same strength BUBBLE DITTER JAMMING signal from D.P.R. Korea (North) on odd frequency upwards measured on 5918.317 kHz main string, S=9+5 signal at 0824 UT. Visible were 15 x bubble strings in frequency range 5906 - 5937 kHz. Apart frequency distance: 1685 Hertz tone each separate (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH & NORTH. Also some signals noted in 49 mb at 0820 to 0840 UT on March 27: 5739-5810 kHz strong OTHR signal heard and visible. 5857.515, HLL8 Seoul Meteo, endless ID call spoken by female, distorted bad audio, smallband, S=9+25dB at 08.33 UT on March 27. Broadband scratching distorted jamming from Korea D.P.R. on 5995, 6003, 6015 kHz each S=9+45dB powerhouse signal. 0837 UT. 6099.997 KRE Korea D.P.R, KCBS Pyongyang classical music program, only lower sideband + carrier CLSB mode ! Violin music at 0820 UT on March 27, S=9+25dB strength in remote SDR Seoul KOR installation (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) ** KOREA SOUTH. 5995. ECHO OF HOPE. Marzo 16. 1117-1131 UT. Música pop, conversación en coreano y luego cortinas musicales para volver a una conversación. SINPO: 45444 desde las 1118, no existe jammer desde Corea del Norte // 6350 SINPO: 45433, sin jammer. Comentario: tanto el jammer como las frecuencias de V. Of Korea se encontraron silenciadas durante 25 minutos (Claudio Galaz, RX: Tecsun PL 660; ANT: Dipolo; QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, HCDX via DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH. 6015, KBS Hanminjok Bangsong 1, at 1012, March 21. Mostly in Korean; series of three nice IDs; first by native speaker of English, second in Korean and third in English by the host of the program (Kwak Young Il) - "Now you are listening to KBS, Pop's Freedom"; pop songs (100 Proof Aged In Soul "Somebody's Been Sleeping," etc.); "KBS" & "Pop's Freedom" IDs, then into "Everyday English"; "Tell your parents we miss them so," "What do you miss the most?", "My mother's home cooking," etc.; fairly readable due to the normal strong N. Korea white noise jamming not being on at this time, instead heard with a pulsating noise. Website in Korean - http://goo.gl/ihRfFe (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH [non]. USA. 9605. KBS. Marzo 15. 0140-0159 UT. Canción sobre la primavera, luego el segmento: “Coreano en drama” con la expresión: “No hay ningún problema”. A las 0145 se emite: “Al son de Corea” con una canción de temática triste, luego se habla de un instrumento parecido a un arpa que proviene de la influencia China y, a posterior, se emite una pieza instrumental. Luego, se emite una pieza contemporánea escrita para aquel instrumento. SINPO: 55555 (Claudio Galaz, RX: Tecsun PL 660; ANT: Dipolo; QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, HCDX via DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH [and non]. KBS WORLD RADIO A18 Effective 25th March 2018 Lang Time (UTC) Freq(kHz) --------------------------- Europe Korean 1 1600 1800 7275 Korean 1 1700 1900 9515 Korean 2 0700 0800 9860 Russian 1300 1400 9645 Russian 1800 1900 12065 English 3 1500 1700 9515 English 4 2200 2300 11810 English 5 2100 2130 WRN English 5 1330 1400 WRN French 1900 2000 6145 German 2000 2100 3955 Spanish 1800 1900 9740 North America Korean 2 1400 1500 15575 English 4 1300 1400 15575 Spanish 0200 0300 15575 South America Korean 2 0300 0400 11810 English 4 0200 0300 9580 Spanish 0100 0200 11810 Spanish 0100 0200 9605 Spanish 1100 1200 11795 Southeast Asia Korean 1 0900 1100 9570 Korean 2 0800 0900 9570 Chinese 1130 1230 9770 Chinese 2300 2400 9805 English 1 0800 1030 9770 English 4 1300 1400 9570 English 4 1600 1700 9640 Indonesian 1200 1300 9570 Indonesian 1400 1500 9570 Indonesian 1600 1700 9805 Indonesian 2200 2300 9805 Vietnamese 2300 2400 7275 Vietnamese 1030 1130 9770 Vietnamese 1500 1600 9640 Middle East/Africa Korean 1 1600 1800 9740 Korean 2 0900 1000 15160 Arabic 2000 2100 13585 Arabic 1700 1800 WRN French 2000 2100 5950(Issoudun) China Chinese 1130 1230 6095 Chinese 2300 2400 7215 India English 2 1400 1700 9785 Japan Japanese 0100 0200 9580 Japanese 0200 0300 11810 Moscow Russian 1730 1800 738 (AM) Russian 2000 2030 738 (AM) Russian 0500 0530 738 (AM) Russian 0800 0830 738 (AM) Russian 1030 1100 738 (AM) Russian 1330 1400 738 (AM) Russian 1530 1600 738 (AM) Jakarta Indonesian 1200 1300 102.6 (FM) Buenos Aires Spanish 1800 1855 94.7(FM)(Mon-Fri) Non Direction Korean 1 0900 1100 7275 Korean 2 1000 1100 1170 (AM) Korean 2 1100 1200 7275 Japanese 0800 0900 7275 Japanese 0800 0900 6155 Japanese 0900 1100 9805 Japanese 1100 1300 1170 (AM) Chinese 1300 1400 1170 (AM) Chinese 1300 1400 7275 Submit Reception reports at : https://world.kbs.co.kr/english/about/about_report.htm --- (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, March 25, DXLD) English: [WORLD OF RADIO 1923] ** KURDISTAN. Radio transmissions TRT Kurdi provide support to the Kurdish people Since March 5, the TRT Kurdi radio broadcasts the program "Voice Afrina" Radio channel TRT Kurdi broadcasts for Africans in Syria renders support to the Kurdish people. At that time, as in Africa in the north of Syria, the operation "Olive branch, radio TRT Kurdi, owned by Turkey TV and Radio Company TRT, provides information on the progress of the operation to residents of the region, where there is no connection with the outside world. Since March 5, the TRT Kurdi radio broadcasts the program "Voice Afrina", in which appeals are made in the Kurdish and Arabic languages to trust Turkey and not to believe slaves of the imperialist forces - terrorist organizations. The program on the waves of the radio TRT Kurdi daily sounds in a direct broadcast from 13.30 to 15.00. In addition, the re- issue starts at 20.00. AT During the programs with Africans, direct telephone connections are made and through the messages are accepted requests for the song. According to the information of radio employees, their editorial board periodically receives positive feedback, both from residents of Afrina, and from the Free Syrian army. http://www.trt.net.tr/english/kul-tura-iskusstvo/2018/03/16/pieriedachi-radio-trt-kurdi-okazyvaiut-poddierzhku-kurdskomu-narodu-931581 (Dmitry Kutuzov, Ryazan, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx") (via Rus-DX 25 March via DXLD) Is this really about Africans? Or mistranslation derived from a place called Afrina? (gh, DXLD) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 7520even, ARMENIA, ex-called Radyoya Denge Kurdistane, now "Voice of Welat (Radyo Denge Welat)" from Gavar Yerevan Armenia site, usual bad 'harsh rough coarse' audio modulation, S=9+15dB in Qatar, 0435 UT March 25. Morning 0400-0440 UT log March 25, stations noted on remote SDR unit at Doha Qatar, Middle East [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 25, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT [non?]. 7584.937, IBB BBG Kuwait US-relay scheduled, but never seen such odd frequency offset at Kuwait site before. Normally only monitored on Udorn Thani relay. I guess older Continental units flown-in from storage, former Portugal or Kavalla relay site units? 0440 UT, S=9 signal on KWT - QAT path. Morning 0400-0440 UT log March 25, stations noted on remote SDR unit at Doha Qatar, Middle East [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 25, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. Kuwait Shortwave Will Upgrade [sic] to Digital Using DRM This new project will be added to a series of vital projects that aim to keep pace with the rapid technical progress around the globe [by] DOUG IRWIN, CBPE DRB AMD MAR 14, 2018 From Radio Magazine Today KUWAIT CITY — The Kuwait Minister of Information Mohammad Al-Jabri on March 8 launched a project to update shortwave transmitters at Kabd station from analog to digital, with plans in place to use the open standard Digital Radio Mondiale, according to menafn.com. Kabd station, with the new DRM system, will allow "Kuwait's voice" to reach the entire Middle East region, Europe and Asia, the minister noted. This new project for the ministry will be added to a series of vital projects that aim to keep pace with the rapid technical progress around the globe, Al-Jabri told KUNA and the Kuwait TV (via Paul Dobosz, MARE Tipsheet 23 March, via DXLD) I went to the web site noted above. I sent an e-mail to the listed contact address, inquire@menafn.com giving my opinion about Kuwait abandoning many of their listeners with this change. They had no clue what I was talking about. -- HF] (Harold Frodge, ed., ibid.) ** KUWAIT [and non]. JAPAN (non), NHK World Radio Japan via Moosbrunn/SM di Galeria on March 27 0500-0530 5975 MOS 300 kW / non-dir WeEu English, very good 0500-0530 9860 SMG 250 kW / 184 deg WeAf English, wekk/fair 0500-0530 11970 ISS 500 kW / 155 deg SoAf English totally blocked at same time 11970 KBD 250 kW / 100 deg to SoAs English R.Kuwait DRM mode http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/03/nhk-world-radio-japan-via-moosbrunsm-di.html (Ivo Ivanov, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DXLD) Re Radio Japan, q.v. Hi Tarek, did you manage to get in touch with Radio Kuwait!? 73, (Mauno Ritola, ibid.) ** LUXEMBOURG [non]. RTL France --- Hi, RTL leaves its historic building the centre of Paris, where it had been since 1936, and moves to Neuilly-sur-Seine, where it will share studios with sister stations RTL2 and Fun Radio. The first programme from the new premises was broadcast last Sunday. New address: 56 Avenue du Charles De Gaulle, 92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine. The façade of the Paris building, a work of art created by Victor Vasarely in 1972, will be donated, so it seems, to the Vasarely museum in Aix-en-Provence. An excellent financial operation for the station, no more rent to pay for the building, no more costs to maintain the Vasarely metal blades, not to mention the healthy tax cuts under the law on corporate sponsorship. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DMwCR-VX0AM9Mg7.jpg (Rémy Friess, Germanish, March 23, MWCircle yg via DXLD) ** MADAGASCAR. 6135.0, Radio Madagasikara (presumed). Have been following with interest Glenn's UNID here, but until today (March 22) have been of no help to him due to my daily having strong N. Korea white noise jamming, which today was off the air. Tuned in at 1325 to hear very faint audio (unusable); signal slowly improved to the level that the language indeed sounded correct to be them. At 1349 station went off the air for a bit, but noted again at 1352; some commercial announcements; 1357 instrumental "Bridge Over Trouble Water"; "presumed," as I heard no specific station ID, but am very confident was them. Was wonderful to hear this again, as it has been many years since I last heard them on this frequency! My audio at http://goo.gl/vtHj44 My local sunrise was at 1408 UT, while Antananarivo sunset was at 1459 UT (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DXLD) German DXer on tour in Madagascar at 14.32 UT mail stamp. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andreas Tschauder" Sent: Monday, March 26, 2018 4:32 PM Subject: [A-DX] MDG auf 5010 und 6135 Jetzt // 99.2 6135 Stark 5010 Stark aber übermoduliert QTH: Antananarivo-Ivato, Madagaskar Nähe internationaler Flughafen, bei sonnigen 25 Grad 55+73! (Andreas Tschauder, March 26, via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) (Translated) Quotation from A-DX list: Confirming MDG on 6135 -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Re: [A-DX] MDG on 5010 and 6135 now Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 16:32:03 +0200 From: Andreas Tschauder // 99.2 6135 Strong 5010 Strong but overmodulated QTH: Antananarivo-Ivato, Madagascar Near international airport, at sunshine 25 C 55+73! (Andreas Tschauder, via Eike Bierwirth, WOR iog via DXLD) Yes, 6135 kHz noted with 1502 s/off today and North Korean jamming appeared at 1503. 5010 has a carrier with bits of audio on 5009.93 kHz still now at 1825. 73, (Mauno, March 26, ibid., WORLD OF RADIO 1923) Wolfie - Excellent! Very nice to get a first hand report directly from there. Ron (via Büschel, DXLD) ** MADAGASCAR. 17570, March 23 at 2005, S9-S8 YL in tonal African language, occasional hints of French influence; 2007 choral music, 2008 ID in passing as Radio Mondiale Adventiste. On almost dead band it really stands out along with 17640 African Pathways Radio, from the other MAD site. As in my previous log Feb 25, language listed as Moore spoken in Burkina Faso. But Aoki/NDXC labels it Mossi(Moore). HFCC A- 18 shows this only Mos language broadcast anywhere will then move to 9770, and to site from FRANCE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11790, World Christian Broadcasting at 2200. Opening on time today with M in Arabic. Male vocal music at 2212. I was unavailable yesterday (3/24) to check to see if they were on, but on 3/23 they were a no-show. (I did frequent rechecks on 3/23 between 2200 and 2300, nothing heard). Also, once last week, they came on late. Excellent Mar. 25 (Rick Barton, Logs from Central Arizona, Grundig Satellit, RS SW-2000629, and HQ-180A with various outdoor wires. 73 and Good Listening....! WOR iog via DXLD) World Christian Broadcast Madagascar World Voice Mar 24 KNLS New Life Station 1800-1900 9570 MWV 100 kW / 355 deg EaEu Russian tx#1, A-18 on same Radio Feda 1900-2000 11945 MWV 100 kW / 355 deg N/ME Arabic tx#1, A-18 on 11965 KNLS New Life Station 1900-2000 9810 MWV 100 kW / 355 deg EaEu Russian tx#2, A-18 on 9755 Radio Feda 2000-2100 11945 MWV 100 kW / 355 deg N/ME Arabic tx#1, A-18 on 13710 The Light of Life 2100-2200 11610 MWV 100 kW / 325 deg WeEu Chinese tx#1, A-18 on same 2200-2300 9490 MWV 100 kW / 055 deg EaAs Chinese tx#2, A-18 on same http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/03/world-christian-broadcast-madagascar.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, March 24-25, WOR iog via DXLD) MWV A18 Effective March 25, 2018 to Oct 28, 2018 Freq UTC UTC Language Target Area TX# Ant Azimuth Start Stop ============================== ========================== 6190 0200 0300 Spanish S.America 2 1 250 9600 0200 0300 English India 3 3 40 6190 0300 0400 Spanish N.S.America 2 1 265 15515 0300 0400 English India 3 3 40 11825 0400 0500 A.English Africa 2 1 295 17530 0400 0500 Chinese Southern China 3 3 55 9570 1800 1900 Russian E.Russia 2 3 355 17640 1800 1900 A.English Africa 3 2 310 9755 1900 2000 Russian E.Russia 2 3 355 11965 1900 2000 Arabic Central Mid.East 3 2 340 13710 2000 2100 Arabic Central Mid.East 2 3 355 17640 2000 2100 A.English Africa 3 2 295 11610 2100 2200 Chinese Europe 2 2 325 9490 2200 2300 Chinese Southern China 3 3 55 11790 2200 2300 Arabic N.Africa 2 2 325 Reports to : mwvradio@gmail.com or info@worldchristian.org (via Alokesh Gupta, WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DXLD) ** MALAYSIA. 11665, Sarawak FM (via RTM-Kajang) 1630-1721+ 22 March. Pleased to find Sarawak FM running very late on 25M // 9835 (11665 switches from Wai FM to Sarawak FM at 1600, but usually stays on only for a few minutes before pulling the plug.) (Dan Sheedy, Encinitas, CA, PL380/6m X wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALI. 9635, R. Mali, Kati, 1241-..., 22/3, portadora vazia; 35443. Inaudível em 5995, no período vespertino. Até 23/3, a situação manteve-se inalterada (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. [Re 18-12:] XEWW is in the right place at the start of 690 kHz, but the frequency has a typo: 680 kHz. XEMA was supposed to stop according to deletion from IFT list, but it seems to continue anyway. Best regards, (Mauno Ritola, WRTH, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Here's a document from the IFT (I believe Neil Kazaross sent it to me some time ago) which mentions XEMA among the list of stations that would be asked to stay on AM (I suppose his may not be a complete / final list?). 73 (Tim Hall, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: 9 pages of legalese, culminating with this list, lots of typos in the pdf conversion from optical scan; hope I have all found and fixed. And I lined up the calls and frequencies for easy reference (gh) Concesionario Permisionario Distintivo Frecuencia 1 EL SAUZII AGS JOSEFINA REYES SAHAGUN XEEY 660 2 CD CUAUHTEMOC CHIH ELISA SAUNAS ENRIQUEZ CESAR ANIBAL MORENOSALINAS FRANCO ULISES MORENOSALINAS Y BETZABE MORENOSALINAS XEPL 550 3 NUEVO CASAS GRANDES CHIH RADIO CASAS GRANDES SA XETX 540 4 RANCHO PRIMERO CHIH ARNOLDO RODRIGUEZ ZERMENO XEHB 730 5 COMITAN de DOMINGUEZ CHIS INSTITUTO MEXICANO DE LA RADIO XEMIT 540 6 TORREON COAH CADENA REGIONAL RADIO FORMULA SA DE CV XEQN 740 7 CARDONAL HGO COMISION NACIONAL PARA EL DESARROLLO DE LOS PUEBLOS INDIGENAS XECARH 1480 8 PUERTO VALLARTA JAL OPERADORA DE MEDIOS DEL PACIFICO SA DE CV XEEJ 650 9 TAMAZULA DE GORDIANO JAL RADIO SISTEMA DEL SUR, SA DE CV XEXXX 840 10 APATZINGAN MICH XEML SA XEML 770 11 LAZARO CARDENAS MICH XELCM-AM, SA DE CV XELCM 920 12 MORELIA MICH LARIS HERMANOS, SA XELQ 570 13 ZITACUARO MICH RADIO ZITACUARO SA XELX 700 14 LINARES NL LA VOZ DE LINARES, SA XELN 830 15 OJO DE AGUA NL AUDIO PUBLICIDAD SA DE CV XEDD 800 16 EL VIGIA OAX RADIO SOLUCION SA DE CV XEPX 650 17 OAXACA DE JUAREZ OAX RADIODIFUSORA XEOA-AM SA DE CV XEOA 570 18 PUERTO ESCONDIDO OAX RADIO SOLUCION, SA DE CV XEACC 870 19 XICOTEPEC DE JUAREZ PUE RADIODIFUSION DE XICOTEPEC, SA DE CV XEVJP 570 20 MATEHUALA SLP RADIO MEDIOS MATEHUALA SA DE CV XEIE 1030 21 SOLEDAD DE GRACIANO SANCHEZ SLP CADENA RADIODIFUSORA MEXICANA SA DE CV XEWA 540 22 CULIACAN SIN XECSI-AM, SA DE CV XECSI 750 23 LOS MOCHiS SIN RADIODIFUSORA XEHS, SA DE CV XEHS 540 24 CABORCA SON RADIO PALACIOS SA DE CV XEUK 570 25 SAN FERNANDO TAMPS RADIOTAURO SA DE CV XESFT 780 26 BUENA VISTA DE RIVERA ZAC RADIODIFUSORA XEMA 690 AM, SA DE CV XEMA 690 27 GUADALUPE VICTORIA ZAC RADIO ALEGRIA DE TLALTENANGO, SA DE C.V. XETGO 1100 [Each entry concludes with boilerplate Resultado del Dictamen: fill in the blanx of different call letters, and please explain what it means in Spanish as well as English? Perhaps: that areas mentioned will not have any ``local`` radio service if the station does not stay on AM] ``Después de realizado el análisis de continuidad del servicio de radiodifusión sonora en los municipios comprendidos dentro del área de servicio de la estación XETGO-AM sujeta al Acuerdo de Transición, se determinó que dicha continuidad de servicio no está garantizada por otras estaciones de radiodifusión sonora en localidades de los municipios de Monte Escobedo, Zacatecas y Mezquitic, Villa Guerrero, Chimaltitlán y San Martin de Bolanos, Jalisco.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. [Re 18-12:] A few notes: -The "northern Nuevo León" reference means the two municipalities that are part of the 33 using American DST start and end dates. In Nuevo León that is Anáhuac and Los Aldama. http://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/2018/03/09/1225302 These are municipalities generally on or very near to the border, with the notable exception of Baja California (the entire state) and Sonora (no DST statewide). -XERG is not migrating, correct (Raymie Humbert, AZ, March 23, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) ** MEXICO. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BEAT this week --- including some DTV = TDT After months of testing and no idea what the station would settle into, Monclova has yet another grupera station. High up in the Sierra La Purísima to the southwest of town, XHPCIE-FM 90.5 (nominally Cuatro Ciénegas) signed on months ago but only officially launched on Tuesday as "La Primera", Coahuila's lone IFT-4 FM station. https://twitter.com/MILTONMALACARA/status/976059444311162880 The irony in calling yourself "The First" based on your dial position? Oh yeah, that's right, XHGIK is supposed to move to 88.1 soon (Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ, March 24, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) We'd already seen signs of this in Guadalajara, and now the casting call has come to Monterrey for the new XHOK-FM, which will take Radio Disney as its format upon migration. https://tec.mx/es/noticias/monterrey/vinculacion-y-prestigio/llega-radio-disney-monterrey-buscan-voces-en-el-tec XHOK will likely take one of 96.1, 96.9, or 100.5 MHz. One of the other two will be given to XEWA/Mty. The third station allocation will probably be reserved under the principle of Article 90 reserved band reciprocity (Raymmie, Harch 25, ibid.) At migration, Puerto Peñasco (Son.)'s XEQC-AM was authorized to migrate to FM on 93.5 (XHEQC-FM). That never happened and the station ended up not renewing its concession. But 93.5 will come to life in Puerto Peñasco, and sooner than you think. XHPPO-FM will be moving to the frequency as an A90 clear, just identified. http://www.ift.org.mx/sites/default/files/conocenos/pleno/sesiones/acuerdoliga/pift140617332.pdf Elsewhere in Sonora, XHENS-FM will broadcast on 89.9 MHz instead of its current 107.1. http://www.ift.org.mx/sites/default/files/conocenos/pleno/sesiones/acuerdoliga/pift170517262canx.pdf Also just identified was XHIE, which will eventually slide to 105.5. http://www.ift.org.mx/sites/default/files/conocenos/pleno/sesiones/acuerdoliga/pift070617313canxs.pdf I believe these are the last A90 clears for now. Other commercial stations do not see their concessions expire until the 2020s. There are also a variety of noncommercial (public and social) stations that still need to be moved if they can, such as XHCGJ, XHLAYA, and XHCHZ. Last edited by Raymie; 03-26-2018 at 12:08 AM (Raymie, Mar 25, ibid.) There's a bunch of radio news to cover today: One UAM to rule them all. https://www.facebook.com/UAMRadio/photos/a.144207695645544.30308.116803641719283/1637717736294525/?type=3&theater&ifg=1 Testing has officially begun for the high-power (3 kW) transmissions from the Cuajimalpa site for XHUAM-FM (no C), which when put into full use will end the single-frequency network that had previously been UAM Radio. Finally, a name and format for XHPTCS-FM. It only took three months, but XHPTCS has unveiled its format and name. The station, which will have a pop format under the name "Pop 95.5", is using a similar logo to XHPR-FM (Veracruz Puerto). They are coming ever closer to being the first of the three IFT-4 stations in Tapachula to come on the air. Mexico City's big radio unknown. https://www.eleconomista.com.mx/empresas/La-molecula-que-creo-a-Radioactivo-volvera-a-la-CDMX-por-el-105.3-FM-20180326-0052.html What is essentially a new station also looks closer to coming to the air in Mexico City. The lone second-wave commercial migrant in the nation's capital, XHINFO-FM 105.3, has already determined its format and name, but those have not been announced. More interestingly, the Henkel family, which owns XHINFO, was approached by Acustik to be their Mexico City FM affiliate (they already signed on with XEOC 560 AM). XHINFO is especially tantalizing because their airstaff and management have hints of one of the great radio stations in Mexico City radio history: the mythical Radioactivo 98.5. Station director José Alvarez told El Economista, "We'll be on the air in two months, three at most; we'll also be on the air in the Riviera Maya and on our digital channels". Perhaps the new 105.3 will also be heard on one of the IFT-4 stations in Quintana Roo? (Raymie, March 26, ibid.) HD Radio México tweets/Facebook posts once a day. However, it has turned into a significant source of accurate information on its topic. Several stations have been identified as HD because of it, and now we know XHNLT-FM does indeed have additional subchannels (Radio Fórmula Primera Cadena and Trión, respectively). https://twitter.com/HDRadioMX/status/978753541400678400 It's likely that the other RF migrants, though maybe not XHEHF?, will be stacked with HD subs as well. Their Mexico City FMs certainly are. And none of them have the corresponding IFT authorization (Raymie, March 27, ibid.) With the IFT closed, we still get news. A bunch of radio station awards to discuss: Fundación Radiodifusoras Capital Jalisco, A.C. goes from the Pacific coast to the Gulf Coast. Its new stations will be at Cosoleacaque- Minatitlán (probably Coatzacoalcos implied), Veracruz, and in the city of Oaxaca. Fundación Cultural para la Sociedad Mexicana gets on the board in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora. Chihuahua gets its first community station by way of Radio Los Compadres, A.C., which will operate in Témoris in Guazapares Municipality. This is another station deep in the mountains of western Chihuahua. The new XHURI would be 36 rugged kilometers away; other stations are over 100 km away. This is an existing pirate on 100.7 MHz. https://www.facebook.com/798986200210119/photos/a.798989053543167.1073741828.798986200210119/977025062406231/?type=3&theater We don't know who won these: there were two mutually exclusive groups resolved at Chetumal and San Miguel de Allende (the latter one is on AM!), and a permit forest was cleared in Morelia. There were five applications in Morelia and only two were approved. Radio Educación is known to be in the mix here. Some technical changes we probably won't get for months. There were also an additional seven Televisa multiprogramming authorizations for Foro TV, for XHACZ, XHCOV, XHMEN, XHOXO, XHQCZ, XHSTC, and XHCUI (Raymie, March 27, ibid.) Raymie, do you know if XERF-1570 will ever go off the air? They received approval in the AM-FM migration in 2012 to operate XHRF-FM 103.9 in Ciudad Acuna. They are such a pest every night out west, mixing with KCVR Lodi. I'd love to have 1570 clear up so I can try for flea power nighttime DX. I've heard KBCV multiple times during good conditions, and almost had 331-watt WSCO 1570 in WI one night (NBC Sports, but no ID). I saw a 101.9 has been approved in Ensenada, it should be a decent Es target this summer if they aren't flea power (crainbebo, FM/AM/SW DXer of Yakima, WA! God Bless America!, March 28, ibid.) XERF's signal is so big it has to have a continuity obligation associated with it. That's why they are still on. The IMER will want the signal permanently and could easily win it back by putting the frequency in the PABF or similar, even if other radio stations have emerged to pick up the slack. (There is a study coming this year to reevaluate continuity obligations for all migrants that have them.) The 101.9 in Ensenada will be a Class A. I do not expect it on this season. FCSM has a lot of stations to build: Ensenada, Guasave, Zamora, Obregón, and potentially an AM at San Miguel de Allende. Ensenada's IFT-4 stations on 94.7 and 96.9 may be on by the summer, though, and there is an impending A90 clear (106.9 to 104.1) as well there (Raymie, March 28, ibid.) Raymie, Do you know of anyone who has looked at the XERF wattmeter, lately? I've seen listings for 100, 250, and 500 kW but, the last I heard it was down to 50 kW. 73, (Ed NN2E, Owner / Operator - Murphy's Law Test Site & Thunderstorm Proving Grounds, KY, March 29, ibid.) Unfortunately, no. I'd probably need to contact IMER. At least they'd probably be willing to give me an answer. ——— Meanwhile, it's arrivederci for More FM — both XHMORE and XEWV-FM are getting the same new format on Saturday https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/175244/xhmore-more-fm-98-9-tijuana-san-diego-switching-to as part of an LMA with an American company called Flip Media. It's called TJ SD, and I get that, but what is the format supposed to be anyway? (Raymie, ibid.) Re XERF ---- I am not sure what the source was, but I understand that 100 kW are being used. I can hear XERF pretty much nightly here in SE FL, with little difficulty. If nondirectional, I would doubt it's more than that. I really doubt that 50 kW would make it here without QRM by the little guys in the US, or better to say that 50 kW wouldn't be as loud as it is --- but 250 would likely be way too much of a signal here. But, I'm only going by the level I hear. I like this site for AM worldwide: http://www.mwlist.org/mwlist_quick_and_easy.php cd (Chris Dunne, Pembroke Pines FL, March 29, ibid.) The post-NARBA XERF never had 500 kW. The 250 kW RCA, in use from either the very late 50's or 1960, eventually failed in the late 80's and was replaced with a 100 kw unit. Measurements done in the Houston area seem to indicate it is using less than 100 kw now, likely to save electrical consumption. While there is a connection with the old 500 kW XER, mostly based on geography, that station was cancelled in 1941. A new station, XERF, was inaugurated in 1946. "En marzo la emisora fue reabierta, otorgándose la concesión a la Compañía Radiodifusora de Coahuila, S.A. La planta transmisora se situó en su actual ubicación, en el kilómetro 10 de la carretera Ciudad Acuña-Presa de la Amistad. Durante esta segunda etapa, la XERF aprovecha su carácter de canal libre internacional para continuar transmitiendo a 250 mil watts de potencia. Esta cobertura le permite abarcar una amplia extensión del territorio estadounidense, por lo que difunde preferentemente música country y programas de tipo religioso en inglés." IMER acquired the station in a lengthy process in 1986-1987. The old transmitter was not producing 250 kW any longer, and at the time of the change to government ownership, it was running just 15 kW. The 250 kW transmitter could not run full power as it was obsolete and no parts were available. The 50 kW auxiliary transmitter was inoperative due to neglect. A project was started in 2002 to refocus the station. As part of that, it was decided to acquire a new 100 kW transmitter, and in 2004 it was inaugurated. The 250 kW transmitter was removed as it was, by then, useless. XERF is not the same as Doc Brinkley's pre-NARBA station; one of the goals of NARBA was to shut down the most egregious of the border blasters of the 30's.[/QUOTE] (David Eduardo [Gleason], La Quinta CA, March 29, ibid.) ** MEXICO [and non]. 710, March 23 at 1217, preacher in Low German with American accent: this really stands out on the MW band vs all the Vietnamese and Spanish, and of course it`s XEDP, Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, which emits this guy every morning. I see that WRTH 2018 does not mention this distinctive aspect of La Ranchera de Cuauhtémoc. XEDP has no problem overhopping 10 kW KGNC Amarillo whose day and night patterns favor WSW to S to ESE; KGNC, KCMO and KNUS mutually protect each other. Once skywave is out, KGNC does make it to here marginally on groundwave at 380 km, better/closer than KCMO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. XEXT-980 Tepic NAYARIT is gone --- I noticed from listening to XEXT's web stream that they have recently removed 980 AM from their ID. I sent the station a Facebook message and they confirmed that the AM is now off. 73 (Tim Hall, CA, Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone, March 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thx; fewer and fewer remain from that tough estado that I've never had here in IL. 73 KAZ (Neil Kazaross, ibid.) The 2015 IRCA Log had 16 MW stations in the state; the 2018 WRTH has 7, of the 13 originally keyed numbers (gh, DXLD) ** MEXICO. 6185, Radio Educación at 0215 UT in Spanish with English tune "When a Man Loves A Woman" by Percy Sledge followed by a full ID at 0233 followed by a program of Mexican ballads. Very Good. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta, Rx: Perseus SDR, Ant: Wellbrook ALA 100 loop antenna, WOR iog via DXLD) Date missing, maybe March 20 (gh) 6185, March 21 at 0623, S8 open carrier/dead air, obviously XEPPM continuing to burn after nominal 0600*; CDMX is still on UT -6, like most of central Mexico, DSTing to UT -5 and a 0500* s/off not until April 1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MYANMAR. 5915.00, 1425-1430 18.3, Myanma R, Naypyidaw. Vernacular ann, local song, 34333 7199.83, 1415-1425 18.3, Myanma R, Yegu. Vernacular talk, 25232 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, heard on the AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire in Skovlunde, WBradio yg via DXLD) ** MYANMAR. 5985, Myanmar Radio, 1217-1229, March 26 (Monday). Today's edition of "Say It In English" was a repeat program, which was originally reported by me back in 2017: "5985, Myanmar Radio, on Sept 20, heard the start of the Wednesday edition of "Say It In English" at 1247; continuing adventures (dialogue) of "Tom," who this week was sick; some type of QRN, but still with decent reception; program only on Monday and today. My readable seven minute audio at http://goo.gl/Mzi2Mu (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)" ** NETHERLANDS [non]. Hello! I have been enjoying your updates via podcast and would like to share my latest DX catch. On 3/25 at 0145 UT I heard ‘The Mighty KBC’ Trucker Radio on 5960 kHz with a music show. I was using a Grundig Satellit 800 with longwire antenna. (After browsing their website it appears that this is a Dutch station??) Happy DXing! (Carly Dudash, Celebration, FL, Sent from my iPhone 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Carly, Thanks for your report. That confirms their new frequency, which I missed checking tonight; just changed from 6150. It`s weekly at 00-02 UT Sundays. Yes, originates in Netherlands, but transmitted from Germany (Glenn to Carly, via DXLD) Good evening Glenn, I received additional scheduling information from The Mighty KBC and thought you may be interested. Please find their reply below. Thank you! Carly Begin forwarded message: From: KBC Date: March 26, 2018 at 1:58:09 PM EDT Subject: Re: 6095AM Request Reply-To: sales@kbcradio.nl Dear Carly, Thank you for your reaction and report. It's much appreciated. We stay on 5960 till May 5th, when we move to 9925 for the summer period. Have a great week and we see you Saturday. Met vriendelijke groet / Best regards, Eric van Willegen KBC RADIO 1602AM / DAB+ Argonstraat 6 6718 WT Ede Tel. 0318 552491 http://tunein.com/embed/player/s248040/ www.kbcradio.nl www.kbcradio.eu www.facebook.com/TheMightyKbc Adverteer op KBC Radio 1602AM / DAB+: sales@kbcradio.nl Visit www.railwear.ca and order your Mighty KBC T-shirt today! (via Carly, DXLD) ** NEW ZEALAND [and non]. 5980, March 23 at 1236, Radio Martí atop jamming as a numbers station --- lottery, that is --- can dentro- cubanos really participate? 1237 on to weather forecast for the island. Am checking here in anticipation of RNZI`s A-18 move from 7390 starting at 1259. Sure hope the Cuban jammers turn off as quickly as Greenville by 1300*. Oh, A-18 shows Martí will then be stopping 5980 at 1000*, so should not be a problem. More of a problem for us will be earlying fadeouts of 50m as we get into summer. Enjoy morning reception while we can. Judging from previous season, our best window should be 0459-0658 on 11725 (and if awake, 0659-1058 on 7425). 7390, March 23 at 1325, RNZI is still good here with interview about exploding populations of crocodiles in Australia. A hunter describes how he extracts human remains after consumption by then executed crox. One more day to go on this frequency. 11725, March 25 at 0556, RNZP nice song in Spanish with guitar, S9+10/20, making it the SSOB by far; in fact the OSOB except for 11520 JBA carrier from WEWN. And BTW, hardly anything is propagating on lower 9 and 7 MHz bands either. Reactivated frequency, giving us a good two hours of reliable reception, now scheduled 0459-0658 daily. I was going to present the program lineup for that block, except NZ has one more week of DST UT+13, which means the domestic RNZ relay times, which are almost all of RNZP content, will be changing. Until then, RNZI is in its Week of Confusion. 0600 timesignal and ``RNZ News at 7``, top story being Aussie cricket scandal, yawn. 7425, new March 25 at 1234, RNZP music is S9-S6, not solid since in the 11-13 block only, this one is aimed only NNW, not NNE. 5980, March 25 at 1241, pointless Cuban wall-of-noise jamming is still running against no Martí; at 1259, RNZI comes up on its new frequency, VG but jamming audible under. 1403 recheck, RNZI still good and no jamming. 1502 recheck, RNZI faded to a JBA carrier. If it were still on 7390, it would last longer into our daytime (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5980, RNZI at 1515 UT March 25 relaying RNZ talking about a local volcano. Very Good. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta, Rx: Perseus SDR, Ant: Wellbrook ALA 100 loop antenna, WOR iog via DXLD) Greetings From Minnesota! I found RNZI on a different frequency this morning: Radio New Zealand Int. 1307 27 Mar 2018. 5980, 1304 27 MAR - RADIO NEW ZEALAND INT. SINPO = 35323. English, news anchored by male announcer. New Caledonia politics. French Polynesia elections. Pacific Islander immigration quotas in NZ. ID at 1309z “RNZI Pacific”. QSB = moderate to rapid rate. Modulation mostly well above the noise floor with occasional fades to mixing with it. Received at Plymouth, United States, 12912 KM from the transmitter at Rangitaiki. Local time: 0804. 73s (-Rodney Johnson, http://swldx.tumblr.com WOR iog via DXLD) ** NEW ZEALAND [and non]. 6224-USB, March 23 at 1240, marine weather by synth male voice, clearly enunciated but lacking human expressiveness; emphasis seems on wind speeds and direxions. EiBi shows it`s ZLM, Taupo Maritime Radio, schedule of which is 32-minute transmissions all starting at :03 or :33 past the hours, why? 0033, 0303, 0333 [overlapping?], 0433, 0703, 0803, 0903, 1233, 1503, 1533 [overlapping?], 1633, 1903, 2003, 2103, 2303. 6230-USB, March 23 at 1240, marine weather only slightly weaker than ZLM 6224, sounds like same synth male voice with similar info, presumably concerning western Australia since it`s VMW, Wiluna. In this case transmission is continuous per EiBi, 1000-2300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NICARAGUA. NICARÁGUA, 8989bls, El Pescador Predicador, 2208-..., 17/3, propaganda religiosa; 25342 (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA [and non]. BBC NEWS CELEBRATES OFFICIAL OPENING OF LAGOS BUREAU Date: 22.03.2018 Last updated: 22.03.2018 at 17.03 The BBC today officially opened its new bureau in Lagos, home to three new services in Igbo, Pidgin, and Yoruba. The bureau boasts a new state-of-the-art TV studio and two radio studios and can house up to 200 people. The BBC’s investment in Nigeria has created over 100 new jobs in Lagos and means that BBC News is now available in five languages across Nigeria (Igbo, Pidgin, Yoruba, Hausa and English). This comes as part of the biggest expansion of the BBC World Service since the 1940s. The BBC will also invest in the region further by launching a mentorship and internship scheme for the next generation of West African journalists, Jamie Angus, Director of the BBC World Service, announced at the launch event for the bureau. Jamie Angus says: “It’s wonderful to be here to open this bureau, which will be the headquarters for our operation across West Africa. It will be a beacon for our journalism and as such I am delighted to announce our mentorship and internship scheme for up-and-coming journalists. This is part of BBC’s contribution to the growth of media best practice and professionalism in Nigeria, and the fight against fake news - and we’ll benefit from the young journalists’ insight into West Africa. “The World Service delivers accurate, impartial and independent news to all countries. We spot the stories, see the patterns and make sense of your world. We promise to remain your most trusted source of news in the years to come.” The bureau is led by the BBC’s Head of West Africa, Oluwatoyosi Ogunseye. She says: “It’s a great honour to be part of this expansion and I’m so proud to be leading the teams in Nigeria. We will big on original journalism that impacts the lives of Nigerians at home and abroad. We are expanding our editorial offer to cover politics, culture, business, health, investigations, among others. “We will focus more on young people and women, ensuring that we cover Nigeria and the whole of West Africa like never before. We’ll remain true to our ideals and values of objectivity, truth and impartiality.” BBC News in Igbo, Pidgin, and Yoruba reports on stories affecting the lives of audiences across the region, and is available online and on social media. There is also a 60-second audio round-up, BBC Minute, twice daily. The BBC is also joining forces with Channels Television on Connect Africa, a new weekly half hour programme in English which will launch later this year. This will be a live current affairs show focusing on the stories behind the news, with audience interaction via social media and from a studio audience. The BBC is launching more new TV programming for Africa later this year in English, Hausa, French and Swahili, and some of the TV teams will join the Lagos bureau. This will include programmes about sports, business, and entertainment, satire, a women’s programme, a programme for 10-16 year olds, and investigative documentaries. This will offer other local independent producers the chance to be involved in co-productions and BBC commissions. The BBC’s international news currently has an audience of 36m in Nigeria, the largest of any country. Oluwatoyosi Ogunseye has over 15 years’ experience as an investigative journalist. In her new role, she manages BBC Afrique, Hausa, Igbo, Pidgin and Yoruba. She is the first-ever Nigerian recipient of the Knight International Journalism Award, and a fellow of President Barack Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative. http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2018/bbc-news-lagos-bureau 22 March 2018 (via Dr Hansjoerg Biener, DXLD) ** NIGERIA [non]. 11530, March 27 at 1923, WRMI is not on the air, contrary to a schedule we got showing that in A-18, R. Herwa International would start half an hour earlier at 1900. At *1927, WRMI does cut on with ``top of hour`` ID & IS loop at bottom of hour, but recheck at 1945 seems music fill unlike R. Herwa programming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) FRANCE, Very good signal of Radio Herwa International via TDF Issoudun, March 26 1930-2000 11625 ISS 100 kW / 170 deg Hausa/Kanuri registered 1900-1930 1930-2000 11530 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg Hausa/Kanuri blocked by Dengê Welat! http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/03/very-good-signal-of-radio-herwa.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, March 26-27, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. John Cruzan, founder of the Free Radio Net, was severely injured in a motorcycle accident recently. http://frn.net/vines/ (MARE Tipsheet 23 March, Harold Frodge, ed., via DXLD) Viz.: http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?3,6295,6295#msg-6295 (gh, DXLD) John Cruzan, Free Radio Network, seriously injured --- Captain Eddy of Radio Airplane, a.k.a. John Cruzan, was seriously injured in a motorcycle crash. http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?3,6295,6304#msg-6304 (via gh, WOR iog via DXLD) ** NORWAY. 5895.00, 1520-1530 Sat 17.3, R Northern Star, Erdal. English ann [ouncer, or ouncement??], Church music and English hymns, 1530 ID's like: "This is the Northern Star", 35444 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, heard on the AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire in Skovlunde, WBradio yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DXLD) I guess it`s still legal to broadcast on SW in Norway??? (gh, DXLD) ** NORWAY. TWO NORWEGIAN LOCAL RADIO STATIONS FINED FOR BROADCASTING ON FM --- RADIONYTT.NO By Kyrre Dahl 27 March 2018 http://www.radionytt.no/eng1806.php Radio Metro and Radio Rox, has been issued a fine of almost 7000 euros by The Norwegian Media Authority. The reason is exceptional by European standard, the two local radio stations wanted to stay on air on FM, but was not allowed. According to the Digital Switchover Plan, all national broadcasters had to switch of their FM transmitters in 2017. In the big cities this also applied to the commercial local radiostations, regardless if they wanted to stay on FM or not. Almost all local radio stations was given an extension on their FM licence, 187 local stations in all. But the Parliament decided that larger mainly commercial radio stations in and around Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim and Stavanger was to be denied an extension on FM, out of fear they would steal listeners from the national broadcasters, which are now on DAB only. In the region of Oslo, Norway`s largest city (and market), Metro- gruppen and their stations Radio Metro and Radio Rox refused to stop transmitting on FM from december 9th, the day that NRK, P4 and Radio Norge stopped their broadcasts on FM. Metro-gruppen and their CEO Svein Larsen argued that the case has not yet been investigated by ESA, the Efta Surveillance Authority, and that is was unfair that they were refused to broadcast on FM, for no other reason than to give more listeners to the national channels. They also claimed that P4 and Radio Norge has been broadcasting in some areas after they were supposed to go off air, without any action taken by the authorities. For the next week, until Dexember 16th, Radio Metro and Radio Rox continued to broadcast on FM in Oslo, a move that the Norwegian Media Authority says was illegal and the two companies have now been fined 57.000 kroner and 10.750 kroner, apprx. 7000 euros in total. The move has angered many listeners who have started a fundraising to pay for the fine. After three days more than 60 persons or organisations have given more than 10 000 kroner (1000 euros+) and there is still 27 days left of the fundraising (via Mike Terry, WOR iog via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. Hobart --- LOGO: 1420 KTJS Great Plains Country I heard what I think was KTJS 1420 on Mar 22, 1656 UT, from my car radio, parked outside the NW Oklahoma City public library (QTH EM15EO). SIO 343 in English. Country song playing that I haven’t heard in ages, “All my old flames, have new names” by ???, but I had to step into the library to pick up my son from tutoring so I couldn’t stick around to catch a station ID. When I got back all I heard was dead air on 1420. 18 minutes later, at 1712 (a few miles away, at a QTH of EM15EP), I heard a bit more music but still no positive ID. My assumption is that this is KTJS as it is the only country radio station I could find that would be likely to be heard in this area on 1420. But according to Radio-locator, this is outside of what they project as being the “fringe range.” I wish I could have confirmed this one for sure. http://blog.jmb.mx/index.php/2018/03/23/kg5jst-radio-listening-logt-march-22-23-2018-utc/ (James Branum, KG5JST Radio Listening Log, March 22-23, 2018, UT. Unless otherwise noted, my QTH is EM15ep in the Deer Creek area of far Northwest Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA. My listening equipment is most often a Tecsun PL-310 ET, but I also sometimes use my Yaesu FT-817, my TIVDIO V-115, my Radio Shack 2000669, as well as AM/FM car radios. My favorite antenna is my MFJ-1988-T multiband backpacker antenna, but many of my receptions are with the stock antenna only or an attached random long-wire, WOR iog via DXLD) No doubt it`s KTJS, the closest groundwave station, which I could barely hear daytime in Enid if it weren`t for the spur from 1390 KCRC hetting upon it. I wonder if James could hear that? (gh, DXLD) ** OMAN. 15140, Radio Sultanate of Oman; 1447-1503+, 3/20; M&W with English/Arabic lesson using theme of aches, pains, injuries, etc.; 1457 program close with peppy bumper; “We are more than just music.”; Oman Facebook & Instagram spots; 1500 continued in English with DJ chatter opening with a reggae tune. SIO=353- with QRN waves; suddenly noticeably better at 1454. Not heard previous day (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ----- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time & without the aid of a computer! -----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PALAU [and non?]. 9965, March 24 at 1419, gospel huxtress referencing Hebrews XI:5-6, mostly in slow English, S9+10/20 plus some hum. This is so strong it should be domestic site, but only 9965 station listed is T8WH, and Aoki shows the 1415-1430 Saturday-only segment is Music, 100 kW at 318 degrees, not even remotely USward. Since it`s World Harvest Radio, conceivably they could have put a WHRI SC transmitter on 9965 instead, maybe backup if Angel 5 over there be down. 9965, March 25 at 1254, big mess here, S9 signal(s) of two gospel huxters in English mixing. World Harvest Radio could be running both T8WH and WHRI? Or T8WH is getting a double-audio satellite feed from South Bend. 1259 the weaker one outros as `Christ Gospel Broadcast`, from Jeffersonville IN; while the overstation advertises World Vision (frequently done by WHR at breaks), and then T8WH ID from this one. Can`t make out whether the LeSEA understation mentions WHRI. Another possibility is that whichever transmitter(s) be involved, ID for the wrong one, i.e. everything out of South Bend so even WHRI could be radiating a T8WH ID! See my yesterday`s report of 9965 so strong it could be WHRI instead of T8WH off the side. At 1302 only one gospel huxter is audible at S9+10. At 1415, praise music, VG S9+10. I never noticed any SAH which would be the case for two separate transmitters unless precisely synchronized in frequency. 9965, Monday March 26 at 1422, nothing here, unlike Sat & Sun from T8WH and/or WHRI; despite HBN registered available daily until 1430 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3260: see BOUGAINVILLE [and non] ** PERU. 1610 kHz, Radio El Sol - Arequipa / Peru (X Band DX) A única emissora Peruana operando na X Band. Comentários por locutor na voz de homem e música tradicional Peruana. SINPO 34222 em 0953 UT Dia 23 Março 2018 https://youtu.be/ZKJDdDiFUMI RX: Yaesu FRG 8800; Antena: Beverage simples (DXer: Daniel Wyllyans - Sítio Estrela do Araguaia - Nova Xavantina - Mato Grosso - Brasil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** PERU. 5025. R. QUILLABAMBA. Marzo 22. 1100-1122 UT. Noticias sobre la renuncia del Presidente de Perú y el proceso de vacancia, junto a las posiciones de las bancadas políticas. SINPO: 45444. 5025. R. QUILLABAMBA. Marzo 24. 2314-2330 UT. Hombre habla en español acerca de la semana santa y luego música católica, además del recuerdo acerca del Domingo de Ramos. SINPO: 45444 (Claudio Galaz, RX: Tecsun PL 660; ANT: Dipolo; QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, HCDX via DXLD) ** PERU. 5980. R. CHASKI. Marzo 16. 0000- UT. Identificación como: “Red Radio Integridad”, hasta las 0001. SINPO: 44444, el QRM de R. Rumania Intl, tanto de la señal de intervalo como del comienzo del servicio en español, no es fuerte, permitiendo comprobar la salida del aire en este horario. 5980. R. CHASKI. Marzo 20. 2325-2359 UT. Identificación como: “Red Radio Integridad”. Luego espacio de música. A las 2330: “Momento decisivo” acerca del horror del pecado. A las 2359, identificación como: “Red Radio Integridad” y salida del aire. SINPO: 55444, desde las 2357 con SINPO: 45444 debido a la señal de intervalo de Radio Rumanía Intl, en la misma frecuencia. 5980. R. CHASKI. Marzo 21. 2330-2359 UT. Programa “Momento decisivo”. A las 2359, identificación como: “Red Radio Integridad” y salida del aire. SINPO: 35333 con leve saturación de audio, aunque con marcado ruido en la banda de 49 metros. 5980. R. CHASKI. Marzo 24. 2333-2359 UT. Programa “Jungla semántica” hasta las 2350, luego música. SINPO: 25322, desde las 2352 con SINPO: 35333, a las 2358 horas con SINPO: 45444, luego salida del aire (Claudio Galaz, RX: Tecsun PL 660; ANT: Dipolo; QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, HCDX via DXLD) 5980, March 26 at 2355, JBA carrier from R. Chaski, no longer blocked by Romania in DRM or AM, as it had been for the past 5 months when it was closing down at 2330. In the meantime, Claudio Galaz in Chile reported it was staying on another half hour. So I`m all set to clock the exact autocutoff time in order to make future comparisons and calculations about how the timer is slipping. For a few years prior, I had been following that at an average rate of 6.7 seconds later per noctem. There it goes! Off at 0000:34* by when it has become UT March 27. 24 hours later I`m on it again: March 27 at 2343 the JBA carrier, and this time it cuts off at 0000:32* March 28, which is 2 seconds *earlier* than last night. So something has changed. We`ll see how it goes periodically for any pattern from now on. BTW, altho no co- channel QRM, noise level went up circa 0000, apparently from 5970 WEWN, with the dirty sidebands, if not also from 5990 CRI via Cuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. FILIPINAS. 15190. Mar 23, 2018. 1907-1920, Radio Pilipinas, Tinang-PHL, em Tagalog. Conversação entre a locutora e um cidadão filipino; 1917 Locutor fala, ID. Emissora com pobre difusão nesta frequência, no dia de hoje e, também, a propagação desfavorável, 35322 (DXer: José Ronaldo Xavier, Local da escuta: Cabedelo-PB, Brasil, Receptor: Tecsun S-2000. WOR iog via DXLD) ** PHILIPPINES. PBS, R. Pilipinas A-18 from IBB schedule in HFCC: via 250 kW Tinang 1 site: 0200-0330 ``Filipino`` 12010 283 degrees 15640 270 17820 315 1730-1930 ``English`` 9910 283 12120 283 15190 283 (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hmmmm. When I listened to them March 20th on 12120 kHz at 1815 UT, they were in Tagalog with usual spattering on English words. Not heard today thru RTTY. 73 (Mick, Sherwood Park, AB, Delmage, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DXLD) Hi Glenn and Mike, Mike, you are right. Do they really intend to change the following long standing language schedule? 0200-0300 had been in English 1730-1930 had been in Filipino Needs to be monitored to confirm which is accurate. Article about the differences between Tagalog and Filipino - https://www.smartling.com/blog/tagalog-filipino/ I tend to use both without any distinction between them. Also 12010 (0200-0330) would be a change from the recent (heard March 14) 17700, which I observed to have their strongest signal and // to much weaker 15640 // 17820 (Ron Howard, CA, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES [and non]. VATICAN, Final day of Radio Veritas Asia via SM di Galeria, March 24 1430-1457 11630 SMG 250 kW / 089 deg SoAs Urdu, from March 25 9610 PUG 1500-1557 15620 SMG 250 kW / 107 deg N/ME Filipino, March 25 11675 PUG http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/03/final-day-of-radio-veritas-asia-via-sm.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, March 23-24, WOR iog via DXLD) ** PHILIPPINES. Unscheduled frequency of Voice of America via Tinang, March 26 1200-1300 9320 PHT 250 kW / 021 deg EaAs Korean, weak, instead of 7540 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/03/unscheduled-frequency-of-voa-in-korean.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, March 26, WOR iog via DXLD) see USA ** ROMANIA. 9610, March 23 at 2025, operatic solo, soon Spanish announcement mentioning ``rumano``, so obviously RRI as scheduled 20- 21 via Tsiganeshti. 5980, March 24 at 0024, I happen to hear the same music, i.e. the next RRI Spanish broadcast via Galbeni. Both of these have only one more day before the skedshuffle, or maybe zero days for 5980 depending on time of day UT March 25 they enact A-18 usage. I can hardly wait to again have a shot at Radio Chaski now until 0000v* 5975-5980-5985, March 24 at 2302, weak DRM noise still here, i.e. RRI English hour. From A-18 tomorrow, changes to 2200 on 7315 and 9760; to western Europe but about the same azimuth as to North America east. Will one be in DRM? Neither listed as such, but 5980 was supposed to be in AM too. 9760, March 25 at 2203, poor AM signal in English from RRI new A-18 frequency and time. What about the other frequency to Europe, now 7315? JBA AM carrier there, so apparently not DRM. In the B-17 season, its predecessor 5980 was also supposed to be AM, but after a few days of indecision, stuck with unscheduled DRM. This hour has two other AM frequencies, to FE, 7325 & 9620, ex-7325 & 9790 until yesterday at 23. See also CUBA 11910, March 26 at 1409, German talk, which means it can`t be DW whose SW services have contracted to these still strategic? languages only: Amharic, Hausa, Swahili, Dari, Pashto. Quoting a DW performance and strategy report, Kai Ludwig says weekly audiences even of those remaining are in the single digits (of what, total population of target countries? Adults? Those with any radios?). Anyhow, this hour is A-18 scheduled as RRI, 300 kW, 300 degrees from Tsiganeshti, which means it`s also aimed at North America beyond, propagation permitting, and it is, fair S9-S7. 9760 // 7315, March 26 at 2158, RRI IS poorly preceding English hour, both in AM, not DRM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. Reception of IRRS EGR/UN Radio via ROU RadioCom, March 18: 1030-1300 9510 SAF 100 kW / 300 deg to WeEu English Sun, fair signal, 0930-1200 9510 SAF 100 kW / 300 deg to WeEu English Sun from March 25 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/03/reception-of-irrs-egrun-radio-via-rou_18.html Reception of IRRS Radio City via ROU RadioCom on March 24 0900-1000 9510 SAF 100 kW / 300 deg to WeEu German Sat, poor & weak, 0800-0900 9510 SAF 100 kW / 300 deg to WeEu German Sat from March 31 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/03/reception-of-irrs-radio-city-via-rou_24.html (DX RE MIX NEWS #1065 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 24, 2018, WOR iog via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Good signal of GTRK Adygeya/Adygeyan Radio, March 23 1800-1900 on 6000 ARM 100 kW / 188 deg to CeAs Adygeyan Fri: Summer A-18 sked of GTRK Adygeya/Adygeyan Radio from March 25 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/03/good-signal-of-gtrk-adygeyaadygeyan_24.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, March 23-24, WOR iog via DXLD) Fair to good signal of GTRK Adygeya / Adygeyan Radio Mar 26 1800-1900 on 6000 ARM 100 kW / 188 deg to CeAs Adygeyan/Arabic/Turkish Mon http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/03/fair-to-good-signal-of-gtrk-adygeya.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, March 26-27, WOR iog via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. 7345, NVK Radio Sakha, Yakutsk, eQSL card received in 11 days for a reception report send to nvk-qsl@mail.ru Reception report sent in English and translated to Russian with google translate. "QSL to Manuel Méndez Date 13-02-2018, Time 0445 UTC, Frequency 7345 kHz Thank you for listening to NVK Radio Sakha http://nvk-online.ru/ 73's" (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, March 24, WOR iog via DXLD) [and non-log]. 7295, Radio Sakha, via Yakutsk. A change in scheduling! Now with abbreviated schedule! Recently only noted *0900-1000*; not being heard 1100+, 1200+, nor up till 0500*. Looks like this needs more monitoring to find out just what is happening here. Glad to learn that Manuel Méndez, Dave Valko and Jerry Berg all have received their eQSL from this station. Send reception reports to nvk-qsl @ mail.ru (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, March 24, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** RUSSIA [and non]. DTV - DIGITAL TELEVISION IN THE WEST OF THE NOVGOROD REGION CONTINUES TO MALFUNCTION DUE TO THE FLIGHTS OF NATO AIRCRAFT In Batetsk and Solets districts of the Novgorod region, there are again failures in the work of on-air digital television. In communities devoted to radio communications, failures are associated with visits by NATO's long-range radar detection aircraft. The branch of FSUE "Main Radio Frequency Center" in the North-West Federal Okrug "Novgorod.ru" confirmed the information on the occurrence of radio frequency interference at 3.38 GHz and reported that Roskomnadzor set a task to determine their source. Recall, for several weeks, residents of the western regions of the Novgorod region report the unstable operation of on-air digital television. The last time problems were observed two days ago, during the visit of the aircraft LX-N90448 of the long-range radar detection aircraft Boeing E-3F "Sentry". The Boeing E-3F "Sentry" aircraft are designed to more accurately determine the position of enemy aircraft and operational guidance of fighters at distant (over-horizon) distances. The basis of the AWACS complex is a powerful radar with a circular view, the antenna of which is located in the fairing, in the upper part of the fuselage. The total power of the AWACS power generators is 1 MW, the range of detection of bomber-type aircraft is 520 km, the detection range of low-flying small-scale targets is 400 km, the target detection distance above the horizon is 650 km. The distance from the patrol area in Estonia to the ground station RTRS-1 in the village of Novo Ovsino is 270 km. https://news.novgorod.ru/news/163466.html https://vk.com/club59176345 (via Rus-DX 25 March via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. ----------- DEMOLITION OF THE UNFINISHED TV TOWER IN YEKATERINBURG CAN BE SEEN ONLINE The unfinished TV tower in Yekaterinburg will be demolished on Saturday, March 24, from 9 am to 11 pm local time. The demolition process can be observed online from anywhere in the world. According to JustMedia, with the participation of the "Silver Rain" radio station, a broadcast was organized from several cameras, which can be viewed right now while the preparatory work is underway. Destroy the tower plan by making 2 directed blasts. Before the demolition in Yekaterinburg, the streets near the tower will be blocked and the underground work from the station "Area 1905" to "Botanical" is suspended. In addition, residents of nearby houses and employees of nearby organizations will be evacuated, including the Yekaterinburg Circus and the museum park "Russia is My Country". On the beginning of the demolition of residents warn the sirens. More information: http://www.cableman.ru/content/snos-nedostroennoi-telebashni-v-ekaterinburge-mozhno-budet-uvidet-onlain The construction of a television tower in Yekaterinburg in the height of 361 meters began in 1983 and lasted for several years, but in 1991 due to interruptions with financing it was frozen. Currently, the height of the unfinished tower is almost 220 meters, - this is the tallest building in Yekaterinburg. Various projects have been proposed for its use, but none of the ideas have been implemented. Instead, RTRS plans to build a new TV tower in another district of Yekaterinburg - the project has already received approval of the examination. http://www.cableman.ru/content/snos-nedostroennoi-telebashni-v-ekaterinburge-mozhno-budet-uvidet-onlain https://vk.com/club59176345 EKATERINBURG, March 24. / TASS /. The unfinished TV tower, the construction of which was stopped in the last year of the existence of the USSR, was dismantled in Yekaterinburg. As the correspondent of. Tass, a special net was mounted around the tower to prevent the scattering of fragments. The tower fell exactly along the trajectory, without deviations. Currently, a large dust cloud is observed at the site of the fall. Before the demolition of the television tower several metro stations were closed, several streets were cordoned off. residents of nearby houses were evacuated. Earlier it was reported that on Friday, March 23, three unidentified men broke through the security posts on the TV tower and climbed up. After 10 hours they went down, one of them was hospitalized with a broken leg. Several people were detained while trying to penetrate the facility. Advertisement 16 About television tower The unfinished TV tower 220 meters high is located in the center of Yekaterinburg and is one of the most famous objects of the city. It was planned that it would become the second tallest in Russia (after the Ostankino TV tower) and all city tele-radio communications will be transferred there. Construction began in 1983, actively went on until 1989, and in 1991 it was frozen due to lack of funds. Ekaterinburg TV tower. Dossier Previously, the entrance to the tower was free, extremals, paratroopers, adolescents climbed on it by internal structures and external staircases. It is known about several fatal accidents, when people broke from a height. Now the entrance to the site is prohibited and protected. During this time, the TV tower was planned to create a cultural and educational center, an observation deck, a world center of composers, an art object. In 2013, the long construction was excluded from the list of federal strategic facilities and transferred to the ownership of the Sverdlovsk region. The property fund of the region in early 2017 put up a television tower and an adjacent land plot for auction with an initial price of almost 653 million rubles. Further it became known that the privatization of the television tower was canceled. It was decided to dismantle the facility and build in its place the ice arena of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company (UMMC). http://tass.ru/obschestvo/5062198 (all via Rus-DX 25 March via DXLD) TV BETONSCHAFT MAST IN EKATERINBURG GESPRENGT. Nicht nur bei uns werden Radiomasten umgelegt. Der Mast sollte mal das zweit-höchste Gebäude der UdSSR mit 361m Höhe werden. translate into English, by Google https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWwZ2G-N7M4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0f4fylZJIs nach 7 Sekunden nach 21 Sekunden nach 26 Sekunden nach 02:50 und heute um 07z, still ruht der 'mast' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJRdQGI1t0w (Wolfgang Büschel, March 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Vladimirskaya oblast. --- In the Vladimir region, 37 unregistered radio electronic means were found, which did not have permission to use radio frequencies. In Vladimir, illegal base radio stations were found in the hotel "Zarya". All of them are confiscated. In general, this check was conducted by FSB officers in order to search for devices that interfere with emergency, dispatching, aviation services, government and military institutions. The operation to identify illegal radio stations was called "Ether" and was conducted from February to March 2018. Ilya Bevis, progorod33.ru http://onair.ru/main/enews/view_msg/NMID__68652/ (via Rus-DX 25 March via DXLD) Zarya also name of super-long MW transmitting antenna (gh, DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Moscow --- Since March 28, Radio Radonezh has stopped broadcasting at 612 kHz. It's strange, they close the Moscow frequency, but how about 20 million listeners who live in the Moscow region as well. After all, coverage of VHF broadcasting is not very large. http://www.radioscanner.ru/forum/topic30247-324.html (via Rus-DX 25 March via DXLD) ** RWANDA [non]. Re 18-12, 15240 UGANDA [non] --- Now correct on the blog PlayDX: Radio Itahuka 15420 kHz. Thanks a lot (Giampiero Bernardini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** SAIPAN. 12140.034, March 25 at 1324, S7-S5 of Khmer, which is IBB at 1230-1330 due west, plus 1330-1400 Myanmarianese. This site typically significantly off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAO TOME. 6020, March 21 at 0620, VOA French is S9 to S9+10 but barely modulated; scheduled as 0530-0630 M-F, 100 kW at 335 degrees, favorable for us. 6080, March 21 at 0621, VOA English is also undermodulated, but a bit better than 6020; also Pinheira, 0600-0700 daily, 100 kW ND (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SERBIA [and non]. BBC NEWS SERBIAN DIGITAL SERVICE GOES LIVE The BBC News Serbian (BBC News na srprskom) digital service is now live with the launch of its website, bbc.com/serbian - as well as its Twitter and Facebook feeds. Belgrade-based BBC News Serbian delivers exclusive content that contextualises world events for the region – and puts regional developments in a global perspective. Underpinned by the BBC’s global newsgathering network, the digital service uses modern storytelling techniques to produce social-media- friendly journalism and innovative video content. The service will offer its Serbian-speaking audience around the world balanced, fair and accurate news and reporting – be it politics, business, technology, lifestyle, health or culture. The insights and expertise of BBC News Serbian’s journalists will also enrich the BBC’s coverage of the region. BBC News Serbian is the last of the 12 new language services launched as part of the expansion of the BBC World Service – its biggest since the 1940s. The expansion, which is funded through a grant from the UK Government, also includes the enhancement of some existing services. The BBC News Serbian Editor, Aleksandra Nikšic, has held leading positions in international and Serbian media before joining the BBC. She says: “We will be using innovative formats to bring our users the global content that is relevant to them and that helps them make sense of the world. And we want to hear the voices of people in Serbia and the wider region, as well as Serbian-speakers around the world, to bring the Serbian story to the BBC’s international audience.” BBC News Serbian is part of the BBC World Service Europe Region which also offers content in Russian, Ukrainian and Azerbaijani. BBC World Service Europe Region Senior Editor, Artyom Liss, adds: “The launch of BBC News Serbian is a milestone for us. Supported by the entire global team of BBC News, BBC News Serbian will be an innovator in the market, offering unique content in a modern and engaging manner.” BBC News Serbian content is also available via the following popular websites: B92, Danas and Naslovi in Serbia; Kameleon in Bosnia and Herzegovina; and Vijesti in Montenegro. Ends// For more information, please contact: BBC World Service Group Communications - lala.najafova@bbc.co.uk Notes to editors: The BBC attracts a weekly global news audience of 346 million people to its international news services including BBC World Service, BBC World News television channel and bbc.com/news. BBC World Service delivers news content around the world, on radio, TV and digital, reaching a weekly audience of 269 million. As part of BBC World Service, BBC Learning English teaches English to global audiences. The BBC World Service Group operates around the world in 42 languages, on radio, TV and digital (BBCWS PR via Dr Hanshoerg Biener and gh, DXLD) ** SOMALILAND. 7119.997, SOM, Somaliland, Hargeysa Radio station, S=8- 9 signal at 0400 UT, 2 male talk program. Morning 0400-0440 UT log March 25, stations noted on remote SDR unit at Doha Qatar, Middle East [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Büschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 25, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH AFRICA. 15235, Channel Africa at 1747 UT March 23 in English with their "Africa Digest" program to sign off announcements at 1754, then an African tune to transmitter off at 1756. Excellent. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta, Rx: Perseus SDR, Ant: Wellbrook ALA 100 loop antenna, WOR iog via DXLD) ** SOUTH AFRICA. SENTECH A18 Broadcaster Start End kHz kW Azim Days Target Area Language AWR 1700 1730 9600 250 19 1234567 East Africa Swahili AWR 1730 1800 9600 250 19 1234567 East Africa Masai BBC 0400 0500 6190 100 20 1234567 East Africa English BBC 0500 0600 9645 250 7 6 East Africa Kirundi BBC 0500 0600 11945 250 5 6 East Africa Kirundi BBC 0500 0600 12095 250 19 1234567 East Africa English BBC 0530 0600 9645 250 7 7 East Africa Kirundi BBC 0530 0600 11945 250 5 7 East Africa Kirundi BBC 0600 0700 12095 100 335 1234567 West Africa English BBC 0700 0730 15490 250 340 1234567 West Africa French BBC 0700 0800 15400 250 330 1234567 West Africa English BBC 1200 1230 17765 250 340 1234567 West Africa French BBC 1330 1400 15420 250 7 6 Somalia Somali BBC 1400 1430 15310 250 328 12345 West Africa Hausa BBC 1400 1500 15420 250 32 12345 7 East Africa Somali BBC 1400 1600 15420 250 32 6 East Africa Somali BBC 1500 1600 12095 250 19 1234567 East Africa English BBC 1600 1700 9410 500 19 1234567 East Africa English BBC 1630 1700 11660 250 5 12345 East Africa Kirundi BBC 1700 1800 9410 500 20 1234567 East Africa English BBC 1800 1830 5930 250 76 1234567 Indian Oc.Isles French BBC 1800 1830 6180 100 35 1234567 Somalia Somali BBC 1800 1830 7245 500 342 1234567 West Africa French BBC 1800 1830 7265 100 30 1234567 Somalia Somali BBCW 0500 0600 3255 100 Omni 1234567 Southern Afr English BBCW 0500 0600 6190 100 15 1234567 Southern Afr English BBCW 0600 0800 6190 100 Omni 1234567 Southern Afr English BBCW 0600 0800 7445 100 15 1234567 Southern Afr English BBCW 1600 2000 3255 100 Omni 1234567 Southern Afr English BBCW 1600 2000 6190 100 15 1234567 Southern Afr English Channel Africa 0300 0600 3345 100 5 12345 Southern Afr English Channel Africa 0400 0500 6180 250 19 12345 East Africa English Channel Africa 0600 0700 11925 250 315 12345 West Africa English Channel Africa 0600 0800 7230 100 5 12345 Southern Afr English Channel Africa 0800 1200 9625 100 5 12345 Southern Afr English Channel Africa 1200 1300 9625 100 5 12345 Southern Afr Chinyanja Channel Africa 1300 1400 9625 100 5 12345 Southern Afr Shilozi Channel Africa 1400 1500 9625 100 5 12345 Southern Af Portuguese Channel Africa 1500 1600 9625 100 5 12345 Southern Af English Channel Africa 1500 1600 11880 250 5 12345 East Africa Swahili Channel Africa 1600 1700 15235 250 328 12345 West Africa French Channel Africa 1700 1800 11745 250 328 12345 West Africa English DW 0630 0700 15200 250 330 1234567 West Africa Hausa DW 1000 1100 17710 250 7 1234567 East Africa Swahili DW 1325 1530 17840 250 328 6 West Africa Hausa Sonder Grense 0000 0600 3320 100 275 1234567 N. Cape Afrikaans Sonder Grense 0600 0700 7285 100 275 1234567 N. Cape Afrikaans Sonder Grense 0700 1500 9650 100 275 1234567 N. Cape Afrikaans Sonder Grense 1500 1700 7285 100 275 1234567 N. Cape Afrikaans Sonder Grense 1700 2400 3320 100 275 1234567 N. Cape Afrikaans SARL 0800 0900 7205 100 Omni 7 Southern Afr English SARL 0800 0900 17760 250 19 7 East Africa English SARL 1630 1730 3230 100 Omni 1 Southern Afr English VOA 1400 1500 15460 500 20 67 East Africa Kirundi VOA 1530 1600 17700 500 340 12345 West Africa Hausa VOA 1630 1700 11910 100 15 12345 East Africa English VOA 1700 1730 6080 100 335 1234567 West Africa English VOA 1730 1800 11720 100 15 12345 East Africa Oromo VOA 1830 1900 11780 500 352 12345 West Africa Kirundi Monday 1….Tuesday 2….Wednesday 3....... SARL = South African Radio League (via Alokesh Gupta, [realigned by gh for] DXLD) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9330.309v-CUSB, March 26 at 1415, Brother Scare via WBCQ, always off-frequency, now has a het from 9330.0 to contend with as I expected, since TWR India via ARMENIA is now here at 1300-1450. It`s too weak to separate even by LSB tuning, and it seems there is also some residual modulation from the LSB of WBCQ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA. Brother Stair Makes The Daily Mail INSIDE THE OVERCOMER MINISTRY EXCLUSIVE: Inside the sex cult where rapper Craig Mack died - run by porn-obsessed pedophile who molested a mother AND her daughter and is known as 'Satan in the flesh' DailyMailTV has uncovered a litany of allegations against Ralph Gordon Stair, the leader of Overcomer Ministry - where Craig Mack was a member Mack, 46, a rapper who rose to fame with his 1994 hit, 'Flava In Your Ear,' died from heart failure earlier this month The church, which is alleged to be a 'sex cult' is set on 130 acres in Canadys, South Carolina, but Mack did not live on its compound Interviews with former members have revealed the 84-year-old 'prophet' was an alleged serial rapist and pedophile who infected victims with STDs One woman recalled how he instructed her friend on how to induce a miscarriage when she feared she was pregnant with his child Documents obtained exclusively by DailyMailTV show Stair was also charged with illegally moving and burying the body of a two-month-old boy By Laura Collins In Walterboro, South Carolina, For Dailymail.com Published: 14:38 EDT, 27 March 2018 | Updated: 16:04 EDT, 27 March 2018 [includes videos and documents] 409 shares 54 View comments As a prodigy of Sean 'P Diddy' Combs who signed him to his Bad Boy label along with hip hop legends like Notorious B.I.G and a young Jay Z, Craig Mack lived out the nineties in heady rapper style with an excess of everything: expenditure, partying, sex, drugs and guns. But years of hard living took its toll an the New York native who never matched the success of his 1994 platinum selling hit, 'Flava In Your Ear.' In failing health, he faced his own mortality with a growing sense that the way he was living was sinful and shallow. When he heard about Overcomer Farm and Ministry - set on 130 acres of South Carolina - he thought he'd found his sanctuary. He could not have been more wrong. Because, in a bizarre turn of events, when Mack died of heart failure last week, aged just 46, he did so having bound himself to a sordid cult on the cusp of implosion and run by a man described by one pastor as a 'dog' and one victim as 'Satan in the flesh.' Today, a DailyMailTV investigation exposes a litany of allegations leveled against Overcomer's leader, Ralph Gordon Stair. Interviews with former members and a study of court documents reaching back decades have revealed the self-styled 'Prophet,' 84-year-old Stair, to be a serial sexual assaulter, alleged rapist, and pedophile who infected his victims with STDs and instructed one girl on how to induce a miscarriage when she feared she was pregnant with his child. Rapper Craig Mack, 46, was a member of Overcomer Ministry at the time of his death earlier this month Mack (pictured with singer Pharrell) who rose to fame with his 1994 hit, 'Flava In Your Ear,' died of heart failure on March 12 [caption] Ralph Gordon Stair has been accused of running a cult at Overcomer Ministry and Farm which is set on 130 acres in Walterboro, South Carolina. Mack did not live on its compound They have painted a picture of an isolated and oppressed community, utterly dependent on Stair for the most basic provisions, and shamed and manipulated by the unscrupulous preacher addicted to pornography and accused of defrauding some members out of life savings to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars. More shocking still, records show that Stair was implicated in the suspicious death of one adult member of his congregation and charged with illegally moving and burying the body of a two-month-old boy whose death 'by violent means' he did not report. The baby was believed by many who were present at the time to have been fathered by Stair himself. Stair is currently awaiting trial on three counts of criminal sexual misconduct in the first degree, kidnapping, burglary, assault with intent to commit criminal sexual misconduct, and criminal sexual misconduct with a minor. He was arrested in December; just two months after Colleton County investigators launched a probe into Stair when YouTube footage emerged showing the preacher touching and cupping a 12-year-old girl's breasts during a worship service. Stair can be heard saying 'I'm going to touch them things until nobody else can touch them.' Investigators were also alerted to a second video in which 16-year-old Natosha Lehr accused Stair of repeatedly sexually assaulting her over a five-month period before she fled the farm - a cult compound by any other name. As the sheriff's department investigation continued it grew to include agents from the State Law Enforcement Division, FBI, and Department of Homeland Security. Incident reports viewed by DailyMailTV detail a horrifying history of alleged sexual assaults reported by at least 13 individuals and dating back to 1992. DailyMail.com has uncovered the litany of allegations leveled against Stair - who has been accused of sexually assaulting his parishioners on the compound over two decades Former members have painted Stair as an unscrupulous preacher addicted to pornography and accused of defrauding some members out of life savings to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars. He is currently on house arrest at the farm while he awaits trial Stair is currently awaiting trial on three counts of criminal sexual misconduct in the first degree, kidnapping, burglary, assault with intent to commit criminal sexual misconduct, and criminal sexual misconduct with a minor Ralph Stair mugshot One woman recalled how, in the winter of 1992, Stair called her into his office to sign some paperwork. She reported, 'R Stair pushed her back against his desk and groped her. 'He shoved his hand under her skirt and began to touch her breasts. He then pressed his legs between her legs, forcing her to spread her legs. He forcibly pulled her panties down... touched around her genitals [and] attempted to pull his own pants down.' Fearing she was about to be raped the victim managed to fight him off and flee. Another told how Stair entered her trailer and raped her more than 35 times between January 1998 and June 1999 - ejaculating on her stomach and telling her she had 'made a man of God happy.' Another told how Stair began 'constantly harassing' her for sex last spring. On one occasion she stated that he, 'touched her vaginal area over her clothes while stating, 'I know how you black girls are, thick and creamy.' She gave into Stair's demand that she perform oral sex on him as he threatened she would have to leave the property. He then 'penetrated her vaginally with his penis' and asked if he could 'put his seed in her,' but did not ejaculate. That victim's teenage daughter was also assaulted by Stair who grabbed her breast under her shirt and asked her, 'Do you miss me?' It is a phrase that sends a chill through one former cult member who claims to have suffered years of sexual assault and rape at Stair's hands. Speaking on condition of complete anonymity the woman who has since left the community recalled how that question - 'Do you miss me?' - is one she will forever associate with Stair. She said, 'He would squeeze your waist and pat your butt and come up so close and ask, "Do you miss me?" 'I never missed him. Nobody missed him. Nobody wanted that old man.' The woman, who entered Overcomer when she was around 12 years old and stayed nine years, was an incredibly naïve 16-year-old when Stair first started making advances towards her. She said: 'In the whole time we were there I went out of the farm only four times. We didn't watch TV, didn't have access to information. I was schooled on the farm so I didn't get sex-education. Documents obtained by DailyMail.com reveal Stair has been hit with numerous charges of criminal sexual conduct, kidnapping, burglary, assault and battery A County of Colleton indictment shows Stair assaulted a female victim between January and August 2001 In 2002 he was charged with unlawfully burying the body of a young boy who had come to a 'violent death' 'I remember Stair used to preach to the girls that the soldiers would come and they would rape us all. I didn't know what rape was but I knew it sounded bad and like it would hurt. 'And he would say, "I'm going to tell you sisters what can spare you all. You just stay still. You don't do nothing. You don't fight 'em. You just stay still." 'So that's what was in my head - that's how you survive, you just freeze. 'We didn't know who "the soldiers" were. Turned out it was Stair.' The first time he molested her, she recalled, he cornered her in a little storeroom they called the 'inner sanctum' when she was reaching for a can of peach punch mix. She said: 'I'd got on the chair to pull the can down from the shelf when I heard a sound, like you know the sound shoes make on concrete sometimes? I thought it somebody trying to scare me? 'So I got down from the chair and was getting reading to turn the light off and he comes in. 'He said, "I got you now," real low and mean. "I got you now." 'I froze. He started rubbing my breasts, he's rubbing down there and I'm back up against the shelves and I'm just frozen and he kissed me right here on the side of my lips and then he patted my butt and said, "That feel good?" Stair left leaving her in shock to continue about her chores. The life she recalled in the church was menial and repetitive: prayers at 7am, then breakfast, then cleaning, tending to the garden, farming and cooking. From that day on she was aware of his eyes following her and it filled her with dread. She said, 'I made sure I was never walking alone, I hid from him, literally hid if I could if I saw him coming.' But one day he caught up to her as she walked home after reading to his young daughter as she did most nights. She said,' He was standing there across my path. He'd said to me so often, "I'm going to get you." Her voice breaking with emotion she continued, 'He got me that night. It was in a vacant trailer. I was a virgin. After, he told me that if I told anybody we would both get into trouble. What appears to be a greenhouse can be seen through the trees of Overcomer Farm located in Canadys, South Carolina. One ex-parishioner said life in the church consisted of: prayers at 7am, then breakfast, then cleaning, tending to the garden, farming and cooking One woman recalled how, in the winter of 1992, Stair called her into his office to sign some paperwork. She reported, 'R Stair pushed her back against his desk and groped her. Above an old man can be seen working on the Overcomer Farm Records show that Stair was implicated in the suspicious death of one adult member of his congregation. Above one woman is seen working on the farm 'The next day he came up to me and said, "Are you hurting?" I said, "Yes. I'm stinging down there?" He said, "Did you bleed a little bit?" 'And I thought, "oh my gosh this man really is a prophet because how would he know I'm bleeding? Nobody knows that but me. I didn't know that being a virgin that would happen. 'It was so cruel, so cruel.' She was raped more than 20 times after that she said and believed for some time that she was alone in her suffering. Then one day she found her friend weeping inconsolably on her bed and she knew that her friend was also was being raped by Stair. She said, 'We came up with a nickname for him. We called him "Chaser" because he was always lurking and following us.' 'I had nightmares about that man chasing me, for years and years. Even after I was married I'd wake up in a cold sweat and my husband would hold me and tell me, "You're safe." 'I didn't tell him what had happened for maybe two years. Because they weren't dreams, they weren't what I was afraid would happen. They were nightmares about what had already happened to me.' During her time in the cult she recalled outbreaks of what she now believes to be venereal diseases as many girls broke out in painful sores on their mouths and genitals. She also recalled a friend who believed she had become pregnant by Stair. She said: 'He didn't want it. He made her get into a tub of hot Epsom Salts water - as hot as she could stand - to make her miscarry.' But by the mid to late nineties Stair's behavior at the community he founded in the early eighties, had begun to arouse suspicion in a neighboring Pastor, David Roberts, who now runs his own spiritual community in Jefferson County. The two churches would occasionally come together for social gatherings and more and more Pastor Roberts knew something was not right. No Trespassing signs are clearly displayed around the entrance of Overcomer Farm One woman alleged Stair raped her more than 20 times and believed for some time that she was alone in her suffering. But she later learned her friend was a victim and other women venereal diseases as many girls broke out in painful sores on their mouths and genitals A Donation Shelter is located just outside of the entrance to Overcomer farm. Inside of the shelter are various items and those items have been separated into different categories Eventually, one of Stair's victims confided in Roberts who, incensed, confronted Stair in a meeting of the elders and demanded that he confess before his church. Mike Rowland, a former church member and still a preacher now living in Kansas, was at that meeting. He told DailyMailTV how he was filled with rage and disbelief as Stair attempted to pass his crimes off by saying he had sinned but that God had forgiven him, claiming that wild spirits had overtaken him. He said, 'What I couldn't believe was that they were of a mind to protect Stair. I said we have to go to the outside on this, we have to take this to the authorities and they shouted me down, they shut me down. 'So I just held my peace and let them think I was going along with it all and then I went straight out of that farm to the sheriff's office and reported it. 'They told me they'd heard this sort of thing for years but there was nothing they could do unless the girls came forward.' But that meeting back in 2001 was enough to start a process of exposure that has brought Stair and the Overcomer community to where they are today. People started asking questions and investigators started looking more closely at Stair and his fellowship. They were informed that a child had been born, died, and buried on the property and that Stair had not alerted the authorities. Rowland recalled: 'Stair had been using the wife of one of the men and she got pregnant. He didn't want it.' According to documents seen by DailyMailTV the child was barely two months old when he died. Stair was charged in 2002 with the unlawful removal of the child's body and that, some time between February 1 and February 11, 1994 he, 'did unlawfully bury the body of… a person supposed to have come to a violent death, before notice to the coroner to examine the body and before inquiry was made into the manner and circumstances of the death.' Shockingly, that case was never processed in return for Stair pleading guilty to two other cases brought against him at that time. Investigators had interviewed two women who pressed rape charges for assaults that took place between 1997 and 1999 and in 2001. Stair pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of aggravated assault and battery and of taking 'indecent liberties' with the women. Stair's wife, Teresa, stood by her husband at the time publicly stating that her husband had sinned but that the women were willing participants. She has since left Stair and the farm. One member said Stair had a band of loyal followers who, if they had to, would obey him over the president, but former church member Mike Rowland said Stair was more of 'drooling old man' Stair (pictured) managed to obtain such a hold on his followers. Ex member Mike Rowland said, 'At first he seemed like a good man. He was charismatic. I thought he was a real man of God. He had the right phrases, the right promises.' Stair (pictured) managed to obtain such a hold on his followers. Ex member Mike Rowland said, 'At first he seemed like a good man. He was charismatic. I thought he was a real man of God. He had the right phrases, the right promises.' Stair (pictured right) persuaded many in his church to sign over all their wealth to him Speaking to DailyMailTV, one of those women told of her anger and dismay that, as a result he was, 'given a slap on the wrist and let go.' He was sentenced to 30 days in county jail, less time served, both sentences to run concurrent. She said: 'The people who were meant to protect us and defend us let us down. They did nothing. They let him go back to the farm and carry on.' Mike Rowland too was sickened by the outcome. He lived in the community for six years and left when Stair's crimes became public knowledge but he had long been disturbed by Stair's behavior and some of the things he witnessed while there. He recalled: 'There was the mysterious death of Brother Simon. He had gone to Nigeria on a mission and after only 30 days he came back sick. 'He had a fever. I found him one day running around the driveway in a circle about ten feet across. Something seemed wrong with his brain.' But rather than seek medical help, Stair insisted Brother Simon be left alone. According to Rowland his breathing became so labored one of the community tried to construct a makeshift oxygen mask to help him breath. Rowland said: 'After days of starvation in his sickness, Wayne passed. Stair gave the order to bury him and did so in a wooden box make from lumber in the yard. 'Stair also told the whole group not to contact Wayne's family because that would stir up questions and our community needed to just live in peace and the world would only cause us trouble.' According to Rowland, Stair was later forced to exhume Douglas's body for proper burial. Reflecting on how Stair managed to obtain such a hold on his followers Rowland said, 'At first he seemed like a good man. He was charismatic. I thought he was a real man of God. He had the right phrases, the right promises. 'He'd come up learning from the great preachers - he worked for AA Allen and observed it all.' Allen presented himself as a 'healing evangelist.' He attracted huge congregations - at one time he had a tent that housed 22,000 - and solicited millions of dollars in donations. In a similar fashion Stair persuaded many in his church to sign over all their wealth to him. Rowland said: 'He pleads poverty, asks for donations, but he's got a huge amount of money. He's got complete control over people in there - they have nothing, he threatens to throw them off the property and where will they go? 'You see him these days and he's a drooling old man whose losing his mind and whose sexual perversions that were once hid have come to the surface. But he wasn't always like that. 'He asserted control and what he built was a lawless community in which he can do whatever he pleases.' Someone like Craig Mack, Rowland said, simply wasn't to know the dark truth that Stair and, he said, some of his preachers, worked hard to conceal. He said: 'He just saw what I did at first - a farm, a place to make amends, to get away from a sinful life. 'He came with money so Stair would have smoothed his entrance and let him walk straight in which you couldn't usually do. He wasn't to know what was really going on. 'And Stair had plenty who would protect him when they should have been protecting those sisters.' One of Stair's victims agreed that hard as it may be to fathom, to Stair's dwindling loyal followers, 'He is their leader. They would obey him over President Trump if they had to.' When DailyMailTV visited Overcomer Farm, Stair looked more the 'drooling old man' of Rowland's description than a god. He has an electronic tag and cannot leave the property nor is he allowed to be in the proximity of anyone under the age of 18 and where he once invited media onto his land to dismiss allegations of wrongdoing, these days calls to the ministry go unanswered. Stair is due in Colleton County Court in Walterboro on Friday March 30. According to one of the women who suffered at his hands she will be praying that day - not for his soul or to find any forgiveness in her own. She will be praying for the justice that Stair has eluded, and his victims denied, for decades. The comments below have been moderated in advance. Sick n tired, Gold coast, Australia, about 2 hours ago Americans have been so brain washed about religion, most but not all. Think for yourselves!! samisoul, Berry, United States, about 2 hours ago How can the other preachers live with themselves after covering up the rapist. How can police let this go on for years? How can the prosecutor sleep at night making a deal with that monster. How can the judge give him a short sentence. How can the laws we have not have protected these children. thomas a hughes, Nashville, United States, about 2 hours ago As if we needed more proof that religion is the scourge of the Earth. BigGirlsDontLie, Fat City, United States, about 2 hours ago Jimeny Cricket! I just threw up a little in my mouth... Dani, London, United Kingdom, about 2 hours ago So Mack didn't live there ..... so why mention it? Small Town Gal, Small Town, United States, about 2 hours ago Every adult in this compound should be charged. They knew what was going down. BruteForce, London, United Kingdom, about 2 hours ago Notice all the men in these cults universally repulsive? Without a fake religion they would all be paying for it! God bless the feeble minded girls stupid enough to fall for it! TiffanieMcMillan, CT, United States, about 2 hours ago What did Crain Mack get himself into??? SweetMagnolia, Southernmost, United States, about 2 hours ago Somebody PLEASE pass me a bucket I can vomit in! What a disgusting story from beginning to end! Heather, Lancashire, United Kingdom, about 2 hours ago He needs expelling from the human race. I know that there are ¿men¿ out there, committing their obnoxious and foul deeds but I have to ask - do ¿men¿ like him make you feel ashamed to call yourselves ¿men¿? View all The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Add your comment Enter your comment Post comment to your Facebook Timeline What's This? Published by Associated Newspapers Ltd Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group © Associated Newspapers Ltd Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5547131/Inside-sex-cult-rapper-Craig-Mack-died-run-porn-obsessed-pedophile-Satan.html Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook (via Brock Whaley, DXLD) Even if exaggerated above story, it`s beyond me how anystation can justify keeping this creature on their air (gh, DXLD) ** SPAIN. 9690, March 21 at 2054, REE switches from Castilian to Catalan, in item about choosing presidential candidates; anchor (?) hastens to voice over the brief actuality into Castilian. 15390 BTW is still distorted. Of course, REE does not have any deliberately scheduled broadcasts in Catalan --- years ago there was a 5?-minute newscast along with Basque and Galician (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ESPANHA. 15390. Mar 23, 2018. 1935-1945, Radio Exterior da Espanha, Noblejas-E, em Espanhol. Vozes masculinas apresentam e comentam jogo de futebol, ao vivo, que iniciar-se-á dentro de poucos instantes: Alemanha x Espanha. Voz feminina, também; ID. REE com ótimo sinal e modulação prejudicada por problema no transmissor - um forte apito agudo e continuo. 15390. Mar 24, 2018. 1516-1530, Radio Exterior da Espanha, Noblejas-E, em Espanhol. Locutor entrevista uma atriz espanhola sobre uma peça de teatro em exibição em Madrid e apresenta um trecho gravado da peça em apreço; ID. REE com ótimo sinal esta tarde, sem o ruído contínuo, porém com a modulação prejudicada pelo áudio distorcido, 45533 (DXer: José Ronaldo Xavier, Local da escuta: Cabedelo-PB, Brasil, Receptor: Tecsun S-2000. WOR iog via DXLD) 9690, March 24 at 2302, REE in sign-off routine with all that satellite info, 2303 earworm IS, 2305 to dead air ---- and stays open carrier past 2341, and still past 0051 March 25, somewhat weaker. Now I am quite sure the unID OC/DA I had all night early UT March 24 on 9690 was REE failing to turn off the transmitter! Glad I caught it now, since this was the last day for 9690, resuming 17855 for North America from March 25 at 1400-2200. REE has never caught on that for an 8-hour broadcast into our daytime, they should not do it all on one frequency band. Averagely, that will mean much better reception in our mornings, worse in afternoons, probably outfading by 2200 (at least until real summer), so if they forget and also leave 17855 on all night, it will be harder to detect (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) {repair work at REE Noblejas site: the cleverness skill of the RTV technicians is much limited, wb.} (Wolfgang Büschel, March 23, BC-DX via DXLD) 17855, March 25 at 1408, JBA carrier from REE on reactivated for A-18 North American frequency, from earlied opening weekends at 1400 --- not really propagating, too high vs ex-9690 which was too low (at least India has no CCI from it now). Maybe conditions will improve during the day and during the season. Deep North Americans must listen instead to reactivated 15520, which is poor with music at S3-S5, but at 1414, fair-good S9-S8 in Spanish. It`s our best bet, on the 110- degree ME azimuth, directly opposite from 17855 at 290. At 1408 I also hear a rough carrier on 15390, which was REE`s defective transmitter for B-17, but now not supposed to start until 1800 on 161 degree beam across Africa, with 21620 instead at 14-18 weekends, and which if on, would be totally useless here. Yes, recheck at 1707 finds 17855 now in well, MUF has built up, much better than 15520. Now, will it hold up until 2200*? Sunset in Toledo (near Noblejas) is 1933 UT today. And will the carrier stay on all night like it did on 9690? [non]. 17855, March 25 at 1845, no signal from REE, which had been arriving well enough at last check 1707. Still pre-sunset at site, but MUF dropping or just off? Only significant signal on band is 17640 Madagascar WV at S7, which always enjoys the trans-equatorial advantage (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ESPANHA. 15390. Mar 26, 2018. 2013-2022, Radio Exterior da Espanha, Noblejas-E, em Espanhol. Locução masculina; 2015 Uma breve pausa musical e continua a fala. Emissora com bom sinal, um ruído contínuo e áudio bastante distorcido, 45332. 15520. Mar 26, 2018. 2022-2030, Radio Exterior da Espanha, Noblejas-E, em Espanhol. Locutor faz uma entrevista com um cidadão espanhol sobre a poluição dos oceanos e, em particular, das praias espanholas, especialmente pelas partículas plásticas; ID. Emissora com ótima difusão nesta frequência, 45554. Escuta paralela por 17855kHz, sign- off! 17715. Mar 26, 2018. 1830-1840, Radio Exterior de Espanha, Noblejas-E, em Espanhol. Time pips, ID. Locutor e locutora apresentam o noticiário em "Cinco Continentes" - notícias nacionais e internacionais. REE com excelente sinal e modulação, em Cabedelo, 55555. Nota: Em certos e raros momentos, ainda percebe-se uma leve distorsão no áudio! (DXer: José Ronaldo Xavier, Local da escuta: Cabedelo-PB, Brasil, Receptor: Tecsun S-2000. Nestas escutas estou seguindo o HFCC A18 Global HF Schedule, WOR iog via DXLD) 17855, March 26 at 2147, no signal from REE on the North American beam as 2200* approaches; presumably because of no propagation. This more than two hours after sunset at Noblejas. Staying on 9690 would have worked fine at this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. 11905, March 26 at *0114:19 carrier on from SLBC, but can`t hear any prélude or mis-timesignal nor any sound in the next two minutes; just too weak or not modulating? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non] & SUDAN SOUTH [non]. Radio Tamazuj and Radio Dabanga Radio Tamazuj (pronounced "Tamazik") and Radio Dabanga are sister stations run by Free Press Unlimited in The Netherlands and broadcasting to South Sudan and the southern states of Sudan and the Darfur region of Sudan, respectively. According to the WRTH, each has two broadcasts (morning and afternoon) every day of the week, one station following the other on the same frequencies. Although both stations broadcast primarily in Arabic, one can frequently hear English on Radio Tamazuj as English is not uncommon in South Sudan. It is, in fact, the official language of the country. The B17 schedule according to WRTH (and not agreeing with HFCC listings) is (nominal start and stop times): Radio Tamazuj 0330-0430 7315(SMG), 15550(MDC) 1430-1530 15550(ISS) 1430-1500 13800(SMG) 1500-1530 13800(MDC) Radio Dabanga 0430-0500 7315(SMG), 15550(MDC) 1530-1630 15550(SMG) 1530-1600 13800(SMG) 1600-1630 13800(MDC) I have been monitoring the afternoon broadcasts for the past couple of weeks or so using the U. Twente SDR receiver and previously reported on observations on the 15550 kHz frequency. Strangely, the afternoon broadcasts on 13800 kHz (but not on 15550 kHz) switch between the two transmitters (SMG and MDC) each half hour. What's the reason for this, I wonder? Both transmitter sites surely have enough capacity to handle a continuous one-hour transmission. As a result, you typically have one transmitter signing on with a carrier over-riding the other transmitter suppressing its audio or with periods of silence between the switch over. And sometimes I have observed there are problems with one of the transmitters coming up and so there are sometimes extended gaps between parts of the broadcasts. Although not in the target area, the U. Twente SDR receiver typically provides good reception of the 13800 kHz signals with the MDC signal usually better as SMG is rather close to Twente and beaming in the opposite direction. It will be interesting to see how things are handled with these two stations in the A18 scheduling beginning tomorrow (-- Richard Langley, March 24, WOR iog via DXLD) Yesterday's (Monday, 26 March) monitoring/recording of the afternoon broadcasts of Radio Tamazuj and Radio Dabanga: The B17 frequency of 15550 kHz continues but 13800 kHz switches to 15150 kHz. The Radio Tamazuj program is now only a half hour with a nominal start time of 1500 UT. Radio Dabanga follows with an hour-long program. Audio on the two frequencies is parallel within a couple of seconds or so. At least two transmitter sites are involved. It is not clear which transmitters are using which frequencies at which times. HFCC shows for A18 only MDC registered for use of 15150 kHz and only SMG for 15550 kHz at the broadcasts times but there are clear transmitter changes between programs on both frequencies. Perhaps those familiar with the sounds of particular transmitters and/or precise frequency measurements might help. Times below are based on deduced timings in the audio recordings. 15150 kHz: 1459:54 Transmitter on. Slight splash heard from Oman wideband signal on 15140 kHz. 1500:07 Audio begins. Radio Tamazuj. Low modulation initially; improves to normal level about 20 seconds later; good signal 1527:00 Audio ends. 1527:19 Transmitter off. 1528:48 Second transmitter on. 1529:08 Audio begins. Radio Dabanga. Weaker signal. Heavy splash from Oman. Need to switch to USB. 1626:59 Audio ends. 15550 kHz: 1459:02 Audio begins. Radio Tamazuj. Weak signal. Couldn't tell from recording when transmitter powered on and off. 1527:03 Audio ends. 1528:49 Second transmitter on. 1529:11 Audio begins. Radio Dabanga. Much better signal. 1626:59 Audio ends. And transmitter off a few seconds later. (-- Richard Langley, March 27, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) From this afternoon's (Tuesday, 27 March) broadcasts using the U. Twente SDR receiver in AMSync mode: 1500 15150.003 kHz R. Tamazuj S9+20dB 1530 15149.999 kHz R. Dabanga S8-S9 1500 15549.999 kHz R. Tamazuj S6-S7 1530 15549.999 kHz R. Dabanga S9 Frequencies close to spot on (-- Richard Langley, NB, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWAZILAND [and non]. TRANS WORLD RADIO - MANZINI, SWAZILAND Tentative BROADCAST SCHEDULE A2018, 25th March 2018 to 27th October 2018 TIME/UTC DAY LANGUAGE FREQ PWR ANT AZI Target Zone SMTWTFS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 0300-0330 1234567 Shona 3240 50 6 3 Zimbabwe 0330-0345 1234567 Ndau 3240 50 6 3 Zimbabwe 0500-0600 1 7 English 3200 50 9 233 South Africa 0430-0600 23456 English 3200 50 9 233 South Africa 0500-0700 1 7 English 4775 50 4 233 Southern Afric 0430-0700 23456 English 4775 50 4 233 Southern Afric 0601-0700 1234567 English 6120 50 4 233 Southern Afric 1400-1415 1234567 Urdu 15360 100 103 43 Pakistan 1420-1435 23456 Lomwe/Port 7315 100 11 5 N Mozambique 1420-1450 1 Makua (WoH) 7315 100 11 5 N Mozambique 1455-1525 23456 Malagasy 9585 100 3 64 Madagascar 1455-1525 1 7 French 9585 100 3 64 Madagascar 1420-1455 1234567 English 6025 50 6 3 Zimbabwe 1455-1525 1234567 Shona 6025 50 6 3 Zimbabwe 1525-1555 23456 Shona 6025 50 6 3 Zimbabwe 1557-1627 23456 KiRundi 15105 100 10B 13 Burundi 1630-1645 3 Shangaan 3200 50 6 3 S Mozambique 1630-1645 7 Portuguese 3200 50 6 3 S Mozambique 1630-1645 12 Amharic 9500 100 10B 13 Ethiopia 1630-1645 3 Oromo 9500 100 10B 13 Ethiopia 1630-1700 45 Oromo 9500 100 10B 13 Ethiopia 1630-1645 67 Kambaata 9500 100 10B 13 Ethiopia 1645-1700 234 Oromo/Borana 9500 100 10B 13 Ethiopia 1645-1700 67 Hadiya 9500 100 10B 13 Ethiopia 1645-1700 1 Oromo 9500 100 10B 13 Ethiopia 1700-1730 123456 Amharic 9500 100 10B 13 Ethiopia 1700-1715 7 Amharic 9500 100 10B 13 Ethiopia 1715-1800 7 Oromo 9500 100 10B 13 Ethiopia 1730-1800 23456 Oromo 9500 100 10B 13 Ethiopia 1730-1800 1 Amharic 9500 100 10B 13 Ethiopia 1800-2015 1234567 English 1170 100 MW ND SwaziWoHope 2015-2115 1234567 Zulu 1170 100 MW ND Swaziland 2115-2200 1234567 Shona 1170 100 MW ND Swazi In Touch 1802-1832 23456 English 9500 100 10B 13 East Africa 1832-1847 23456 Juba Arabic 9500 100 10B 13 East Africa 1834-1849 1 Swahili 9500 100 10B 13 East Africa 1802-1902 7 English 9500 100 10B 13 East Africa 1700-1730 1234567 Yawo 7300 100 11 3 Malawi/N Moz 1745-1815 23456 Swahili(Neno) 9475 100 11 5 East Africa 1745-1800 7 Turkana 9475 100 11 5 East Africa 1800-1815 7 Swahili 9475 100 11 5 East Africa 1745-1800 1 Swahili 9475 100 11 5 East Africa 1820-1850 23456 Umbunbu 6130 100 1 312 AngTTBUmbundu 1850-1905 123456 Umbundu 6130 100 1 312 AngYevaOndaka 1850-1905 7 Chokwe 6130 100 1 312 Angola 1905-1920 23 Portuguese 6130 100 1 312 Angola 1905-1920 4 Luchazi 6130 100 1 312 Angola 1905-1920 5 Luvale 6130 100 1 312 Angola 1905-1920 6 Fiote 6130 100 1 312 Angola 1905-1920 7 Umbundu 6130 100 1 312 AnYevaOndaka 1905-1920 1 KiKongo 6130 100 1 312 Angola 1920-1950 23456 Portuguese 6130 100 1 312 Angola TTB 1920-2005 7 Portuguese 6130 100 1 312 Angola 1920-1935 1 Kuanyama 6130 100 1 312 Angola 1950-2005 23456 Kimbundu 6130 100 1 312 Angola 1935-2005 1 Portuguese 6130 100 1 312 Angola 1905-1935 1234567 Lingala 9940 100 101 343 D R Congo 1935-1950 1234567 French 9940 100 101 343 D R Congo Notes: The morning Shona block to start at 0300 UT – 5 minutes later Evening Zimbabwe block changes from 7300 to 6025 kHz. Morning English – frequency change is at 0600 UT from 3200 to 6120 The Southern Moz block changes to the 3200 The evening Ethiopia block changes from 11660 to 9500 kHz. Other TWR Africa SW Broadcasts Tentative BROADCAST SCHEDULE A2018 25th March 2018 to 27th October 2018 TIME/UTC DAY LANGUAGE FREQU AZI Reception Area Station SMTWTFS ------------------------------ ------------------------------ -------- 0320-0330 23456 English 1556 Nigeria/Ghana W Af 0330-0430 23456 Hausa 1556 Nigeria/Ghana [BENIN] 0345-0430 1 7 Hausa 1556 Nigeria/Ghana 0430-0500 7 English 1556 Nigeria/Ghana 0430-0500 23456 Igbo 1556 Nigeria/Ghana 0500-0530 23456 Twi 1556 Nigeria/Ghana 0500-0515 7 Twi 1556 Nigeria/Ghana 0515-0530 7 Ewe 1556 Nigeria/Ghana 0530-0545 23456 English 1556 Nigeria/Ghana 1730-1745 1234567 Fongbe 1556 Benin/Nigeria 1745-1821 1234567 English 1556 Nigeria/Ghana 1821-1855 1234567 Yoruba 1556 Nigeria 1855-1910 1234567 Hausa/Kanuri 1556 Nigeria/Ghana 1910-1925 1234567 Fulfulde/Kanuri 1556 Nigeria/Ghana 1925-1940 1234567 Various 1556 Nigeria/Ghana 1940-2010 1234567 Fon/Fulfulde 1556 Nigeria/Ghana 2010-2025 1234567 SIM/Various 1556 Benin/Nigeria 2025-2215 1234567 French/Various 1556 Benin/Togo 0330-0345 45 Sidamo 9655 225 Ethiopia DHA 0330-0345 12 6 Amharic 9655 225 Ethiopia DHA 0330-0345 3 Oromo 9655 225 Ethiopia DHA 1300-1315 1 567 Afar 17680 250 Ethiopia DHA 1630-1700 1234567 Somali 11780 160 Kenya/Somali KCH 1800-1830 1 Kunama 9940 157 Eritrea KCH 1800-1830 7 Tigre 9940 157 Eritrea KCH 1800-1815 2345 Tigrinya 9940 157 Eritrea KCH 1815-1845 23456 Tigrinya 9940 157 Eritrea KCH Updated 14th February 2018 Notes: Morning block to Ethiopia is on 9655 kHz. The Eritrea block goes from 7245 to 9940 kHz. The Somali block changes from 15105 to 11780 kHz. 12 February 2018 jgb Reception reports to : lstavrop@twr.org --- (via Alokesh Gupta, March 23, New Delhi, DXLD) ** TAIWAN. RTI CUTS JAPANESE SERVICE IN A18 --- According to the announcement of Radio Taiwan International, their Japanese service will be cut to only 1 time 1 hour a day in A18. In B17 they broadcast 4 times 4 hours a day at 0800-0900 11605, 1100-1200 9735, 1300-1400 9735, 2200-2300 9735. Only the 1100-1200 broadcast will remain. They recommend to receive on internet http://japanese.rti.org.tw/ instead of shortwave (Takahito Akabayashi, Tokyo, Japan, March 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This morning, I didn`t hear RTI English on 7445 (1100-1200), nor did I hear RTI Chinese (1200-1300) or the CNR1 jamming. 73 (Rick in AZ Barton, March 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) TAIWAN A18 ENGLISH CUTS --- Taiwan A18 is now available at http://english.rti.org.tw/listening/?recordId=2 only broadcasts at 0300 UT on 15320 & 1600 UT on 9405. Broadcasts at 1100 on 7445 & 11600 and 1500 on 11685 not listed any more. Radio Taiwan International | Listening | Frequencies english.rti.org.tw (Peter W Hansen, March 25, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DXLD) Summer A-18 cuts of Radio Taiwan Int from March 25 Radio Taiwan Int in Japanese/Russian/French from March 25: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/03/summer-18-cuts-of-radio-taiwan.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, March 22-23, WOR iog via DXLD) More A-18 cuts of Radio Taiwan Int from March 25 Summer A-18 of Radio Taiwan Int in English from March 25: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/03/more-18-cuts-of-radio-taiwan-int-from.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, March 25, WOR iog via DXLD) ** TAIWAN [non]. 11530. Mar 25, 2018. 0020-0100, Radio Taiwan Internacional, Okeechobee-FL, em Espanhol. Aula de Chinês-Mandarim; 0025 Patricia Lyn apresenta "Uma canção, duas interpretações" - uma melodia e duas interpretações diferentes; ID, POBox e e-mail; 0035 Programa "El Cartero": Último programa de RTI em Ondas Curtas, dedicado aos ouvintes e suas correspondências; Um espaço dedicado aos ouvintes mais ativos de RTI; Despedidas de alguns dos apresentadores da Redação Espanhola de RTI; 0158 ID e final da edição. RTI com ótima difusão, hoje, por 11530 kHz, 45554 (DXer: José Ronaldo Xavier, Local da escuta: Cabedelo-PB, Brasil, Receptores: Sony SW100 & Tecsun S- 2000, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DXLD) 11530, March 27 at 0019, WRMI no longer on the air, as RTI has canceled several broadcasts including this Spanish one (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN. 6230, Sound of Hope, 1026, March 25. Recently has been doing well here; in Chinese with very long monologue that went on for hours (very unusual!); still being heard at 1313; listened in LSB, to get away from VMW (Australia Weather West) in USB. Very rare that CNR1 jams SOH here, but does happen occasionally (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** THAILAND. NBS PRD HSK9 English A-18 from IBB schedule in HFCC: 0000-0030 15590 006 degrees to ENAm 0030-0100 15590 038 to WNAm 0200-0230 15590 006 to ENAm 0530-0600 17640 324 to Europe 1230-1300 9390 132 to SE Asia/Australia 1400-1430 9390 132 to SE Asia/Australia 1900-2000 9390 321 to Europe 2030-2045 9390 321 to Europe (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET [non]. 9370, March 26 at 0108, VP S3 signal with music, about equal to noise level. HFCC shows it`s IBB in Tibetan via TAJIKISTAN at 01-03, but could also be ChiCom jamming if they have found it already. And why not? Both IBB and SAPPRFT participate in HFCC without overtly registering jammers (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET [non]. UZBEKISTAN [sic] Summer A-18 of Voice of Tibet, Mar 25 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/03/summer-18-of-voice-of-tibet-from-march.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, March 24-25, WOR iog via DXLD) It`s really TAJIKISTAN, if still from DB = Dushanbe site! These usages are subject to frequent minor or major changes. If you hear Something adjacent ending in -5 or -0 it`s probably a ChiCom jammer (gh) Viz.: Sunday, March 25, 2018 --- Summer A-18 of Voice of Tibet from March 25 UZBEKISTAN [sic] (non), Summer A-18 of Voice of Tibet, March 25 1200-1207 on 11517 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese 1207-1230 on 11507 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese 1230-1236 on 11602 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1236-1245 on 11603 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1245-1300 on 11607 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1300-1305 on 11627 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese 1307-1315 on 11632 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese 1315-1330 on 11637 DB 100 kW / 095 deg to EaAs Chinese 1300-1305 on 9897 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1305-1330 on 9898 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPhyO4WnVsU&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzKnQD8cMTE&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2exP9dzZK4&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDBiwjGLHpM&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDZEQewUn9U&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuAFyoOfuWc&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAgNuP99_ik&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpgeHVQzTbE&feature=youtu.be (??????????? ?? Observer ? 8:57 PM via DXLD) ** TURKEY. 11730, Voice of Turkey at 1748 UT March 20 in English with a readable signal through the noisy bands. Fair. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta, Rx: Perseus SDR, Ant: Wellbrook ALA 100 loop antenna, WOR iog via DXLD) 9830, March 24 at 2200 and later chex, no signal yet from VOT English to North America for A-18, in the last hours of B-17 (but it`s already March 25 in Turkey). After 2300 at the winter time I look for it on old 5960 and nothing there now either, nor on 9830. Did this broadcast get totally lost in the shuffle? Maybe they had changed time but not frequency, i.e. 2200 on 5960 which I am not sure I checked that early. Maybe by 0300 March 25 they`ll be on 9515, ex-0400 on 6125. [and non]. 9830, March 25 at 2159, VOT has made the move for English to North America, ex-5960 at 2300; last bit of IS and ID loop, timesignal ending at 2200:03, only poor S4-S5 mixed with continuous RTTY co-channel, as it has been every A-season for years; altho sometimes off by 2200 or during the hour. What is it? Quick search on 9830 at the UDXF iog gets an immediate answer: ``UNID RTTY on 9830 --- That would be NAU, Isabella [sic], Puerto Rica [sic]. NATO-75/75/850. Continuous cipher. 73 de Jim (MPJ) By Jim #69885 3/26/16``. The VOT sign-on with English schedule also seems to have been updated for A-18, including 9830 at 22-23 for Europe (and not North America?)(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9830, March 26 at *2157, VOT IS is very poorly audible for the 2200 English broadcast vs RTTY from NAU (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Additional transmissions of Voice of Turkey in A-18, from March 25: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/03/additional-transmissions-of-voice-of.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, March 21, WOR iog via DXLD) Viz.: Additional transmissions of Voice of Turkey in A-18 from March 25 0500-0555 21680 EMR 500 kW / 105 deg SEAs Bahasa Malay, B-17 on 17530 0600-0755 13765 EMR 500 kW / 210 deg CEAf Hausa/Swahili, B-17 on 15235 (??????????? ?? Observer ? 4:39 PM via DXLD) ** TURKEY. TRT will expand broadcasting in the countries of the Turkic world, the general director said. TRT Ibrahim Eren during a visit to the Baku office of the agency "Anadolu". According to him, the policy of the TRT television channel is aimed at developing relations with The Turkic and Islamic worlds. The channel intends to implement many projects that will strengthen the cultural unity between our countries, said Ehren. The general director of the TV channel noted that TRT also plans to shoot documentary and feature films about the life of scientists who arrived in Anatolia from these countries. The TRT Avaz TV channel is designed for the countries of the Turkic world. In 2018, we we will introduce a number of innovations on the air of the channel. We will broadcast programs from local studios and thus strengthen the unity in the field of culture in the region ", - said Ehren. He recalled that this year marks the 100th anniversary of the creation The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the Caucasian Islamic Army. "We will also shoot a documentary about the Azerbaijani People's Poet Ahmed Javade, we will organize a symphony concert of 12 parts, where they will sound musical works on poems of the poet. This event will be organized either in Ankara, or in Baku, or in both cities, it will be participation of the leaders of the two countries, "said Ehren. / Agency Anadolu / http://www.trt.net.tr/english/kul-tura-iskusstvo/2018/03/16/trt-rasshirit-vieshchaniie-v-stranakh-tiurkskogho-mira-931429 (via Dmitry Kutuzov, Ryazan, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx", via Rus-DX 25 March via DXLD) ** UGANDA [non]. USA, Good signal of Radio Munansi via WWRB Global 2 on March 24 1400-2000 on 15240 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to ENAm Luganda Sat/Sun http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/03/good-signal-of-radio-munansi-via-wwrb.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, March 24-25, WOR iog via DXLD) 15239.93, Saturday March 24 at 1526 I check for R. Munansi via WWRB as I am tuning UTwente for WORLD OF RADIO, and there it is, poor offset signal with hilife music. At 1721 on my own receiver I measure it at 15239.935, but here it`s always a JBA carrier. 15239.93 approx., Sunday March 25 at 1410, very poor off-frequency carrier from R. Munansi via WWRB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. 9545, March 23 at 2027, very poor talk at S4, gone at 2031 recheck. Could it be Solomon Islands? HFCC registers SIBC as 20-07 UT, but until 2030 Fridays only in both seasons is also BBC Hausa via Woofferton, extended from -2000 otherdays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. OMAN, 9440even, BBC London English via Seela-Oman relay site, noted at S=9+40dB powerhouse level, 10.6 kHz wideband audio, to make a statement: excellent shortwave signal at 0312 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, March 26 at 0245-0330 UT, taken in Doha Qatar remote SDR installation, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) A-18 frequency and other changes of BBC from March 25 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/03/summer-18-frequency-and-other-changes.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, March 21-22, WOR iog via DXLD) The BBCWS now has its A-18 schedule online at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2x9tqt6mc05vB2S37j8MWMJ/global-short-wave-frequencies Comparing the BBC schedule against the HFCC registrations I find quite a few wooden registrations as well as unused alternate frequencies. For instance the Tashkent and Dhabayya listings for South Asia between 0000 and 0300 are all wooden while A’Seela is still in use. Also note that the longtime East/Southeast Asia frequency of 9740 between 1000 and 1300 has moved to 9900, although both are listed in HFCC. Usually I make some checks of BBCWS frequencies at the beginning of the broadcast season, but the bands are pretty dead tonight—even the usual good signals are way down (Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas, 0334 UT March 25, WOR iog via DXLD) Yes, but when you click on the corresponding frequency chart with transmitter details, they are still the old January charts. Good signal here in NB for BBC WS at around 2030 UT on 9410 kHz, presumably from Woofferton (Richard Langley, ibid.) ** U S A. 335 kHz, March 24 at 0348 and again at 0553, ND beacon BV. It`s an LOM at Batesville - Almond, Arkansas, per Dxinfocentre.com --- not to be confused with 336 kHz BV in Quebec - Champlain, which presumably includes a dash [see also CANADA] 326 kHz, March 24 at 0549, ND beacon MA. Listed as Midland TX, but I was tuned to 324. Nothing closer to frequency listed. 329 kHz, March 24 at 0551, ND beacon PMV, from Plattsmouth NE. Underneath is also YHN and dash, Hornepayne, Ontario. Both relogs. 353 kHz, March 24 at 0553, ND beacon LI, from Little Rock AR, but I was tuned to 351, also audible on 352. 356 kHz, March 24 at 0555, ND beacon ODX, from Ord NE, but I am tuned to 357. CCI from another beacon on exactly same frequency and pitch makes it hard to differentiate, but could not figure out its call. Closest 356 is PTT, Pratt KS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 11176/USB, (Utility) Strategic Command at 1630. "Stockade" with lengthy alpha-numeric (EAM) messages. Said there was more at 1647 but then went off. Another at 1720. Mar. 22 (Rick Barton, Logs from Central Arizona, Grundig Satellit, RS SW-2000629, and HQ-180A with various outdoor wires. 73 and Good Listening....! WOR iog via DXLD) ** U S A. 14300-USB, March 26 at 0125, Judi, N6LSO in San Diego is running the Maritime Mobile Service Net, bigsig, virtually the OSOB and certainly the SSOB, as I can only hear one of her simplex contacts at all, a regular QSO chat, nothing to do with MMS, who invited her to another net on 40m, but she`s awaiting someham to put up her new antenna for that band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 14322.5-USB, March 22 at 2054, not enough preachers on the SWBC bands, so here`s one on 20m; sounds like a broadcast rather than a contact, quoting a verse, and praying to a Christian god. QSX? It`s definitely not a 2-way contact except perhaps in his imagination, the out-loud supplication really a performance for those overhearing. 2055 he`s closing the ``International Bible Study Net`` as K1HV via remote AB1FF. I don`t copy the calls for sure until a real contact which follows with WA6ZMN/portable 5. K1HV is Jerry in Waverly TN; AB1FF remote transmitter is in Shirley MA. Fuller details from ARRL lookups: K1HV: BULLOCK 216, JERRY A, K1HV, 101 BRIARWOOD DRIVE, PO Box: 37185, WAVERLY, TN 371853203. What`s with the 216 as part of his surname (3:16??). AB1FF: SEFRANEK, THOMAS C, AB1FF, 112 GREAT RD, SHIRLEY, MA 01464. Found the website right away, and tsk2, obviously doubters and truly informed study with objective scholars are not welcome: https://internationalbiblestudynet.weebly.com/ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. 9320, March 25 at 1253, S9+10/20 of English lesson for Koreans, obviously VOA, but NOT listed here in B-17 or A-18 HFCC schedules! Surely from Philippines or NMI site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. Re this log: ``9320, March 25 at 1253, S9+10/20 of English lesson for Koreans, obviously VOA, but NOT listed here in B-17 or A-18 HFCC schedules! Surely from Philippines or NMI site`` Wolfgang Büschel replied, evidently from IBB Monitoring: ``Tinang PHL 2018-03-25 12:04:31 capture: AM 9320 (PHT) VOA KORE AM 12080 (PHT) VOA KORE AM 9490 (TIN) VOA KORE - 1300-1500 UT, 12045 kHz instead. AM 1188 (SEO) VOA KORE 73 wb`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see PHILIPPINES also ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1922 monitoring; NOT confirmed at new time of 2100 UT Wed March 21 on WRMI 9955 since that transmitter is off the air. Not a total power failure as 9455, 9395 and 7780 are audible. Not until 2137 can I hear the 9955 carrier. BUT, WOR 1922 confirmed at same time of 2100 Wed March 21 on WBCQ, 7490.050, fair. Ahh, redundancy. Also confirmed Wed Mar 21 at 2330 on WBCQ 9330v-CUSB, fair. Next: Thu 2230.5 WRMI 5850 to NW Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sat 0729 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW Sat 1531 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sat 2130 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sat 2300 WRMI 7780 to NE Sun 0200 WRMI 7780 to NE Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sun 1030 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW [ex-1130 for DST] Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE, 9455 to WNW Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW Tue 2030 WRMI 7780 to NE, 9455 to WNW [or #1923?] Tue 2130 WRMI 7780 to NE, 9455 to WNW [or #1923?] WORLD OF RADIO 1922 monitoring: confirmed Thursday March 22 at 2230.5 on WRMI, 5850, fair and starting to lose out to daytime absorption, altho aimed NW right at us. We`ll see if it stay on the 51-meter band into summery A-18; 7570 would be preferable, abandoned along with Brother Scare. Also confirmed Thu Mar 22 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9330.3v- CUSB, fair. Next: Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sat 0729 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW Sat 1531 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sat 2130 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sat 2300 WRMI 7780 to NE Sun 0200 WRMI 7780 to NE Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sun 1030 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW [ex-1130 for DST] Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE, 9455 to WNW Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW Tue 2030 WRMI 7780 to NE, 9455 to WNW [or #1923?] Tue 2130 WRMI 7780 to NE, 9455 to WNW [or #1923?] WORLD OF RADIO 1922 monitoring: confirmed Friday March 23 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9330.273v-CUSB, good S9. Next: Sat 0729 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW Sat 1531 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sat 2130 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sat 2300 WRMI 7780 to NE Sun 0200 WRMI 7780 to NE Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sun 1030 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW [ex-1130 for DST] Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE, 9455 to WNW Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW Tue 2030 WRMI 7780 to NE, 9455 to WNW [or #1923?] Tue 2130 WRMI 7780 to NE, 9455 to WNW [or #1923?] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) GERMANY, Reception of World of Radio via HLR on 6190 CUSB, March 24 0730-0800 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sat, weak to fair 0630-0700 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sat from March 31 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/03/reception-of-world-of-radio-via-hlr-on_24.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, March 23-24, WOR iog via DXLD) WORLD OF RADIO 1922 monitoring: Not confirmed by me, Saturday March 24 from 1531 on HLR 6190v-CUSB, via UTwente SDR --- nothing but weak ChiCom signals mixing, not even a trace of the WOR theme; nor gh at some further chex; but heavy ACI from algo on 6195. From next week this will be at 1431 instead, and unconfirmed whether staying on 6190 or back up to 7265? HFCC A-18 shows the new CC QRM situation will be: 6190, NHK direct in Chinese at 290 degrees; 7265, Kashgar in Sinhala and also Baoji in Chinese. But summer conditions should attenuate the extra-European signals, while low intra-Europeans will also be subject to increasing absorption. But Alan Gale, England as usual was hearing it: ``Hi Glenn, A fair signal from World of Radio on HLR today at 1530 UT on 6190 kHz CUSB. The Chinese station was a bit stronger today and noticeable in the background, but WoR won and was fully readable in spite of the QRM. The HLR signal was barely audible at all 1500, so things had improved greatly towards the end and WoR was audible right up to the sign off at 1600. 73 for now, Alan`` Confirmed Saturday March 24 at 2130 on WBCQ 9330.2v-CUSB, fair; and Sat Mar 24 at 2300 on WRMI 7780, poor. Next: Sun 0200 WRMI 7780 to NE Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sun 1030 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW [ex-1130 for DST] Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE, 9455 to WNW Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW Tue 2030 WRMI 7780 to NE, 9455 to WNW [or #1923?] Tue 2130 WRMI 7780 to NE, 9455 to WNW [or #1923?] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn: World Of Radio aired at 1 p.m. EDT today, [Saturday] 1700 UT. I have no idea if the program will remain at 1700 UTC when Europe begins its summer time shift (Mike Cooper, Mar 24, DXLD) World Radio Network. Updated skeds show 1600 to North America (gh) WORLD OF RADIO 1922 monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday March 25 at 0200 on WRMI 7780, fair. Almost confirmed, UT Sun Mar 25 at 0343 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO. As `This Week in Amateur Radio` is starting, presumably right after WOR from 0314 or so. 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 7780 to NE, 9455 to WNW [or #1923?] Tue 2130 WRMI 7780 to NE, 9455 to WNW [or #1923?] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) GERMANY, Reception of World of Radio via HLR on 9485 CUSB, March 25 1031-1100 9485 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sun, weak to fair http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/03/reception-of-world-of-radio-via-hlr-on_25.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, March 24-25, WOR iog via DXLD) WORLD OF RADIO 1922 monitoring: I confirm on Area 51 webcast from 0302 UT Monday March 26; and very poor on WBCQ 5129.8 at 0323 check. Also confirmed on WRMI webcast at 0350 UT March 26, the Monday 0330 on 9955, which was but a JBA carrier at 0348. Next: Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW Tue 2030 WRMI 7780 to NE, 9455 to WNW [or #1923?] Tue 2130 WRMI 7780 to NE, 9455 to WNW [or #1923?] WORLD OF RADIO 1922 monitoring: confirmed at 2353 Monday March 26 the 2330 on WBCQ, 9330.30v-CUSB, S9+5. Also confirmed UT Tuesday March 27 after 0030 on WRMI, 7730, VG S9+20. Also confirmed Tue Mar 27 at 2030 & 2130 on 7780 & 9455, about equal fair levels, as WOR 1923 was not quite ready. WORLD OF RADIO 1923 contents: Alaska, Albania non, Antarctica, Argentina non, Bhutan, Bougainville, Brasil, Chile, China and non, Colombia, Cuba and non, Eritrea, Ethiopia, France, Germany non, India, Iran, Japan and non, Korea North non, Korea South, Kuwait, Madagascar, Nigeria non, Norway, Perú, Philippines, Sudan non, Sudan South non, Taiwan and non, Thailand, Turkey and non, USA, Vietnam; pirate weekend; and the propagation outlook WORLD OF RADIO 1923 monitoring: confirmed first SW broadcast, Tuesday March 27 after 2330 on WBCQ 9330.3v-CUSB, less than one sesquihour after completion, good. Next: Wed 1030 WRMI 9455 to WNW Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2100 WRMI 9955 to SSE [but not on air in time last week] Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Thu 2230.5 WRMI 5850 to NW [IS CANCELED!] Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sat 0629 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW Sat 1431 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sat 2130 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sat 2300 WRMI 7780 to NE Sun 0200 WRMI 7780 to NE Sun 0310v 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 7780 to NE, 9455 to WNW [or #1924?] Tue 2130 WRMI 7780 to NE, 9455 to WNW [or #1924?] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7490.06, WBCQ Monticello ME (presumed); 2102-2110+, 3/20 [Tuesday]; William Tell Overture intro to Allan Weiner Worldwide (Damn! I thought Jean Shepherd might be coming on.) Allan & girlfriend Angela waxing about school shootings et al. SIO=454 +++ [same] 2250, 3/20; Bro. Overfeeler talking about his end; implied he’s not as good looking as he used to be (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ----- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time & without the aid of a computer! -----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7490.041v-AM, UT Fri March 23 at 0116, like exactly one week ago, Blalock the Blaster is on WBCQ extension past nominal 0100* and still unshown on the program guide. Could be other nights too as I have not checked them all; in addition to 0000 on 9330v-CUSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Tonight's AWWW --- Show started exactly on time this evening. Trying 7490 this evening. Pirate Joe is hosting the show this evening. He opened the show by saying that he was glad he was hosting this evening as he didn't have to talk politics while hosting this show. Evidently he hasn't been listening to AWWW as of late. Short talk about the difficulty of buying the correct electrical parts in this day and age and then played a record. After the record some talk about rebuilding a Zenith Transoceanic. He gave out the email address and phone number for his studio. He hinted at the demise of radio as everyone seems to be riveted to their cellphones but wondered if they would ever tire of the cellphone and suggested that if they did it might cause a radio revival. Lots of phone calls this evening. Almost sounded like the AWWWs of old. Show was off the air at 0100 (John H Carver Jr, Mid-North Indiana, March 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7490+, UT Monday March 26 at 0102, there`s Blalock the Blaster. Still not on the WBCQ schedules, but `The Full Gospel Hour` seems to have a regular slot most nights now on 7490, whether or not he`s still on 9330 an hour earlier. As Matt_B commented on HF Underground: ``Whoa. Somebody get that man a straitjacket!! LOL`` 9330.3-CUSB, March 27 at 0007, Alex Scourby Bible pontification, and // 5129.8 WBCQ, i.e. it`s not Blalock but the Brother Scare show, also after 0000 March 28. Have been hearing Blalock on 7490 after 0100, so it`s now evident these two have swapped but probably not every night, especially weekends. No such correct info appears on the WBCQ websked. BTW, a new long story about The Overcomer Ministry appeared today at The Daily Mail (with video and documents), more lurid details than the other ones so far, tnx to Brock Whaley for finding it: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5547131/Inside-sex-cult-rapper-Craig-Mack-died-run-porn-obsessed-pedophile-Satan.html 7490, March 27 at 2340 tuneby, unknown hyper DJ on WBCQ claims to be on ``7.495``. Alan Sane is scheduled (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. SPRING SCHEDULE CHANGES - VORW RADIO INTERNATIONAL - Newsletter 9 VORW Info Fecha: 22 de marzo de 2018 11:40:42 Asunto: Spring Schedule Changes - VORW Radio International - Newsletter 9 Dear VORW Radio Listeners, Happy Spring! I hope this year of 2018 has been fine for you so far. There are many time and frequency changes with our broadcasts, please take a look at the schedules below. For your convenience, broadcast times are listed in both Eastern and UT. Thursday: 6 AM Eastern - 1000 UT - 9455 kHz to Mexico 4 PM Eastern - 2000 UT - 7780 kHz, 9455 kHz to Europe / North America 5 PM Eastern - 2100 UT - 7490 kHz to Eastern North America 6 PM Eastern - 2200 UT - 9955 kHz, 9455 kHz to South America [UT Fridays] 8 PM Eastern - 0000 UT - 7730 kHz, 9455 kHz to Western North America 8 PM Eastern - 0000 UT - 9395 kHz to Eastern North America 9 PM Eastern - 0100 UT - 5850 kHz, 7780 kHz to North America 9 PM Eastern - 0100 UT - 5950 kHz to Caribbean Sunday: 4 PM Eastern - 2000 UT - 9395 kHz to Eastern North America 5 PM Eastern - 2100 UT - 7780 kHz to Europe / North America Please send correspondence to - vorwinfo@gmail.com If you don't have a shortwave radio to listen on that's no issue at all! You can hear VORW Radio International on Tunein Radio at 1 PM Eastern every Thursday here: https://tunein.com/radio/WRMI-9955-s50329/ You can hear VORW Radio International on Tunein Radio at 6 PM Eastern every Thursday here: https://tunein.com/radio/WRMI-9955-s50329/ Latest programs may be heard on-demand via SoundCloud here: https://soundcloud.com/vorw_radio_int If you would like to obtain a shortwave radio to listen on, please check out my recommendations at: https://www.amazon.com/shop/thereportoftheweek Finally, you can get VORW-related merchandise on our Teespring store: https://teespring.com/stores/thereportoftheweek PAYPAL Donations to fund this broadcast to E-mail: repweekinterview1@gmail.com Respectfully, (John VORW Radio International via Manuel Méndez, Spain, WOR iog via DXLD) All are WRMI except 7490 WBCQ ** U S A. 9395, March 21 at 2328, M&W discussion // 9455. I`ve tuned in too late to confirm a WRMI FB notice that there is a new program at 2300-2330 M-F on 9395 (only), `Quick Study TV` with Pastor Rod Hembree, which I see has now also been added to the WRMI frequency skedgrid on 9395 (only), but not the program skedgrid. Tsk2 that so many have become so dependent on disgraced FB, even prioritizing it over own websites (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) added 9455 ** U S A. 9475, WTWW Lebanon TN (presumed); 1912, 3/20; Permanently Passed & Probably Putrid Pastor Pete Peters Pretentiously Preachifying about Peace. “If you don’t walk in faith, you walk in feelings.” (So...the faithful don’t have feelings? Can you have faith and be an Overfeeler at the same time? Lots of evangelists, prophets, priests, etc. seem to be good at feeling.) SIO=453 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ----- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time & without the aid of a computer! -----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5085, UT Wed March 21 at 0532, WTWW-2 is still on with ham talk, since QSO show started at 0100(?); 0612, still on. 0634 still on discussing code plugs. 1358 awake again, *still* on, discussing Virginia reel dance; 1722 still on with C&W music at S9 approaching midday. Off by final check 3 hours later at 2022. 5085, March 22 at 1427, once again WTWW-2 is running 60m in the daytime, but not some Tedthing, rather gospel huxter sure sounds like Passé Pastor Pete Peters, but not // certainly him on 9475 WTWW-1. At 1434 analogy with dog food. 5085, March 23 at 0548, WTWW-2 is still on but open carrier/dead air except for some hum. By 1243 is modulating C&W music; as always flanked by much weaker unmodulated spur carriers on 5072.1 and 5097.9 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 11786 approx., March 23 at 2011, during routine check for Anguilla 11775 or maybe Brasil 11780, neither of which is on now, I find an S1-S3 extremely distorted spurblob; switching to FM mode I can tell it`s speaking Spanish, somewhat readable. It`s not RHC, and at this hour the only significant SS on band is 12050, WEWN --- sure enough, I make a match with the S9+10 fundamental which itself sounds OK. Then to search the band for more such spurs, and there they are, all quite broad and hard to pinpoint, some readable in FM mode, further ones not. 12116 at S8-S9, 12189-12192 at S5-S6, 12250-12247, 12390 & 12450 JBA; downward: 11984 at S9+15 and good in FM; 11918 almost as good but some noise; by now it`s 2021: 11852 at S3, 11721 at S1, 11664 JBA. At 386 kHz below 12050, 11664 implies the average separation would be 64.3 kHz, out to the sixth order. 12450 at +400 kHz would divide out to 66.7 kHz each. But not all of them fit into this pattern. They could be fluxuating as I go along, besides being so broad each in FM. This transmitter has gone out of whack before; it may always be to some extent, but extra strong fundamental signal today exacerbates them. Clearly, WEWN has some cleaning up to do. 5970, the night Spanish frequency, is clean around 0030 March 24. I understand that two separate transmitters are used for day and night services, even tho at any one time, only one English and one Spanish are on air. And this is soon to diminish, if HFCC FCC A-18 registrations are complete, only 5 entries. WRTH reminds us they have 4 x 500 kW transmitters. They`ve been run with 250 (or 300?) for years now, but note that Spanish allegedly uses only 100, as in both A-18 and B-17. One could easily have believed 250 today, especially with the azimuths aimed away from us, yet supplying us with all those spurs. CIRAF 5970 00-14 11,15 Spanish 160 100 12050 14-24 11,15 Spanish 155 100 11520 00-09 46,47 English 85 250 9470 09-13 43,44 English 335 250 15610 19-24 46,47 English 85 250 English no longer 21 hours a day, let alone 24, but only 14. 9470 was also scheduled in B-17 but never used, so there is no reason to expect it to be active in A-18, but we shall soon hear if so. And March 24 should be the last day for morning English on 12065. 12056 & 12074 approx., March 24 at 1348, WEWN English on last day usage of 12065 per FCC/HFCC schedules, S9+20 on central and with squealing spurblobs about 9 kHz plus and minus, just like happens around 15610 when that signal is strong enough (not lately here). They have lessened by 1418 recheck. This is unacceptable, but nothing compared to what the 12050 Spanish transmitter has been doing, as in my March 23 report. Now, Ron Howard forwards this: ``Thanks to Dave Valko for this March 24 update: "Caught 12050 WEWN signing on at 1457 a little bit ago. And like yesterday, is blasting out FMing spurs all over the 25mb again. The strongest is 11981, S9+15 here. They all vary a little. They're downright horrendous when they're peaking."`` I don`t check out 12050 spurs all day until: 2250 March 24, 11985, huge spurblob S9+20, sounds good in FM mode and in fact louder and clearer than fundamental 12050-AM. Many more at intervals of about 65 kHz: 12115, just as good with Radio Católica Mundial ID in passing; 12180 weaker but still good in FM; 12245 unreadable; 12310 & 12375 detectable. Not so many on the minus side beyond 11985: 11920 fair in FM; 11855 other Catholic station R. Aparecida has a little noise QRM, maybe this; but bigsig from Madagascar 11790 has no problem with another WEWN-FM (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Acà en Bogotà tambièn noté las señales espùreas en la banda de 25 metros producidas por la WEWN, adjunto "pantallazo" de mi receptor al momento de la escucha http://www.w4uvh.net/WEWNspurs.png (Rafael Rodríguez, Colombia, March 23, condiglista yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DXLD) 12065, March 25 at 1247, weak English, pauses, choir, sure sounds like WEWN with a mass, despite this frequency being deleted from A-18 schedules. Builds up to S8 at 1303 with choral music, no spurs, but certainly still WEWN. Maybe just not caught up with A-18 changes yet? I`ve been referring to FCC/HFCC listings, but it`s about time I checked WEWN itself: http://ewtn.org/radio/freq.htm which does have lots of blanx now, with this A-18 schedule: ``English 10-13 9470 335 SE Asia 19-24 15610 85 Africa 00-10 11520 85 Africa Spanish (both Central/S America, no azimuths given) 15-24 12050 00-15 5970`` I`ve yet to hear any sign of them on 9470! And 12065 still running, as above. 5970 not heard before or after 1300. At 1501 check, neither 12050 nor 5970 on the air, but 15610 still with JBA carrier, so that English not yet deleted! 12073 approx., March 25 at 1708, spurblob cutting on and off out of the 12050 undermodulated Spanish transmitter; cursory tunearound does not find any other spurs; this one only +23 kHz away. About WEWN-FM, Ron Howard forwarded this on the WOR iog preceding my previous quote from him: ``Hi Glenn, Dave Valko wrote - "FMing spurs of 12050 WEWN throughout the 25mb. All day today [March 23], I was getting them every 87 kHz out in both directions from 12050, as low as 11528 and as high as 12487. And since the spurs are wide, they pretty much destroy the whole band. It's a potential killer and I'm sure others are going to complain about it if the spurs continue. Here's what it looked like when 12050 and the spurs went off at 2355 this evening." Dave's attached screenshot shows just how bad it was. http://www.w4uvh.net/WEWNspurs.jpg Thanks very much to Dave for passing this along.`` 12050, March 25 at 1839, JBA carrier so WEWN Spanish is off, let`s hope for repairs. Must instead be Radio Dandal Kura, target for Lake Chad area of Boko Haram influence, via Ascension, which otherwise is quite blocked here by Vandiver. Cannot hear even a carrier on 15610, so WEWN English may also be off. 5970 & 12050, March 26 at 0052, neither night nor day Spanish RCM frequency is on. But 11520, March 26 at 0119 achieves a JBA carrier, presumably WEWN English. 5970, March 26 at 1312, WEWN Spanish is on at S9; no English on 12065 or 9470. By 1407, 5970 is off and 12050 is on but dead air at S9-S6; no spurs detectable, but might appear once modulating? 1525 recheck, OK in Spanish, no spurs found (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12050, March 27 at 1404, music at S5-S8, must be WEWN Spanish, no spurs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Two different summer A-18 schedules of EWTN WEWN from Mar 25 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/03/two-different-summer-18-schedules-of.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, March 23-24, WOR iog via DXLD) Viz.: Saturday, March 24, 2018 -according to HFCC Database: WEWN-1 Global Catholic Radio 0000-0900 on 11520 EWN 250 kW / 085 deg to WeAf English 0900-1300 on 9470 EWN 250 kW / 355 deg to SEAs English 1900-2400 on 15610 EWN 250 kW / 085 deg to WeAf English WEWN-2 Radio Catolica Mundial 1400-2400 on 12050 EWN 100 kW / 155 deg to CeAm Spanish WEWN-3 Radio Catolica Mundial 0000-1400 on 5970 EWN 100 kW / 160 deg to CeAm Spanish -according to EWTN web site: WEWN-1 Global Catholic Radio 0000-1000 on 11520 EWN 250 kW / 085 deg to WeAf English 1000-1300 on 9470 EWN 250 kW / 355 deg to SEAs English 1900-2400 on 15610 EWN 250 kW / 085 deg to WeAf English WEWN-2 Radio Catolica Mundial 1500-2400 on 12050 EWN 100 kW / 155 deg to CeAm Spanish WEWN-3 Radio Catolica Mundial 0000-1500 on 5970 EWN 100 kW / 160 deg to CeAm Spanish (??????????? ?? Observer ? 4:40 PM via DXLD) ** U S A. 9265, March 23 at 2030, WINB gospel huxter in English, with big ripple on carrier, obvious with BFO, but sounds OK in AM; still a sign of a very sick transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7490, March 24 at 1419, WWCR with a gospel huxter denouncing the King James Version, apparently for not using the proper name Yahweh. What a picky, picky deity this Yahweh must be! In fact the Big Deal of the Yahwists is merely nomenclature (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Tennessee, Nashville, WWCR 3215 on Mar 25, 0350. SIO 454 in English. Anti-gay religious speaker saying he is praying for those who have been “deceived by the LGBT movement,” praying that the “love of Christ” will “invade the LGBT movement” and bring individuals to “saving knowledge of Jesus Christ,” all the while playing cheesy instrumental music in the background. So sad that this is the state of religious broadcasting from the USA. As a religious person, I’m embarassed that this kind of hate speech is being spewed out to the world. (James Branum, And unless other noted, my QTH is EM15ep in the Deer Creek area of far Northwest Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA. My listening equipment is most often a Tecsun PL-310 ET, but I also sometimes use my Yaesu FT-817, my TIVDIO V-115, my Radio Shack 2000669, as well as AM/FM car radios. My favorite antenna is my MFJ- 1988-T multiband backpacker antenna, but many of my receptions are with the stock antenna only or an attached random long-wire. http://blog.jmb.mx/index.php/2018/03/25/kg5jst-radio-listening-log-mar-23-25-2018-utc/ WOR iog via DXLD) ** U S A. 3185, UT Monday March 26 at 0131, gospel huxtress at S9+40, so I`ve finally caught an evening transmission from WWRB; after 0100 can`t be on 3215, occupied by WWCR, so Dave has chosen 3185 instead of 3195. About equal signal levels from both, but 3185 sounds louder, tnx to the emphatic know-it-all. It`s A-18, when he might have reactivated 5050, but not yet. I assume it would still be a waste of time to seek an axual program schedule on WWRB website (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. Alyx & Yeyi A18 PROGRAM TIME (UT) kHz DAYS LANG TARGET AREA ---------------------------- ----------------------------------------- Denge Welat 0230-0500 9525 mtwtfss Kurdish M East Denge Welat 0500-2100 11530 mtwtfss Kurdish M East Suab Xaa Moo Zoo 1130-1200 7530 mtwtfss Hmong Asia Que Me 1200-1230 9930 ----f-- Vietnamese Asia Living Water Ministry Broad. 1500-1600 7280 -twt--- Korean Asia Living Water Ministry Broad. 1500-1530 7280 ----f-- Korean Asia Radio Xoriyo 1600-1630 17870 m---f-- Somali Africa Oromo Voice 1600-1630 17850 m-w--s- Oromo Africa Radio V.O.Independent Oromia 1600-1630 17850 ------s Oromo Africa Voice of Amara Radio 1700-1800 15360 m-w--ss Amharic Africa Suab Xaa Moo Zoo 2230-2300 7530 mtwtfss Hmong Asia Reception reports to : info@alyx-yeyi.com Alyx & Yeyi, LLC - 5201 Blue Lagoon Drive, 8th Floor Miami, FL 33126 - U.S.A. (via Alokesh Gupta, DXLD) Alyx & Yeyi is a ``sister company`` of Broadcast Belgium, both headed by Ludo Maes. But why is it in Miami? Transmitter sites are no secret but not shown here. Beware: 11530 and 9525 both come from two different sites, depending on time (gh) ** U S A [non]. Excellent reception of AWRs Wavescan DX programme on its new A18 frequencies today at 1600 UT s/on on both 9580 via Trincomalee and 11950 via Sofia. 73s (Dave Kenny, March 25, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. A18 AWR Short Wave Broadcast Schedule. 2018-03-25 to 2018-10-27 (first and last day of transmission) AWR - All Regions SiteStartStop Language Service Area kHz kW Days TRM 0000-0030 Thai Cambod, Viet, Thai, Laos 9805 125 1234567 SDA 0000-0100 Mandarin C/N-China 17650 100 1234567 TRM 0000-0030 Burmese Myanmar 11655 125 1234567 TRM 0030-0100 Karen Myanmar, Thailand, China 11655 125 1234567 TRM 0100-0130 Min Nan Chinese NE-China 15630 125 12345 TRM 0100-0200 Mandarin S-China 11925 125 7 TRM 0100-0130 Mandarin S-China 11925 125 6 TAI 0100-0200 Vietnamese Vietnam 15445 100 7 TRM 0100-0130 Mandarin NE-China 15630 125 67 TRM 0100-0130 Min Nan Chinese S-China 11925 125 12345 TRM 0130-0200 Mandarin NE-China 15630 125 7 TRM 0130-0200 Cantonese NE-China 15630 125 123456 TRM 0130-0200 Cantonese S-China 11925 125 123456 MOS 0200-0230 Urdu Pakistan 7385 300 1234567 MOS 0230-0300 Panjabi Pakistan 7385 300 1234567 MDC 0300-0400 Malagasy Madagascar 6065 100 1234567 TRM 0300-0330 Oromo S-Ethiopia 15410 125 1234567 NAU 0300-0330 Tigrinya Eritrea 9655 250 1234567 MOS 0330-0400 Farsi Iran 6120 300 1234567 MOS 0400-0430 Turkish Turkey 6120 300 1234567 TRM 0400-0430 Amharic Ethiopia 15410 125 1234567 NAU 0400-0430 Bulgarian Bulgaria 5975 100 1234567 NAU 0430-0500 French Morocco, Algeria 6155 100 1234567 TRM 0500-0600 Arabic Egypt, Iraq, Arab Penins 17790 250 1234567 MOS 0500-0530 Hausa Nigeria 11955 300 1234567 ISS 0600-0630 French Cameroon, Ghana, Senegal 12035 250 1234567 NAU 0600-0630 French Cameroon, Ghana, Senegal 15455 250 1234567 MOS 0600-0700 Arabic Libya 11880 300 1234567 ISS 0700-0730 French Cameroon, Ghana, Senegal 11880 250 1234567 NAU 0700-0800 Arabic Morocco, Algeria 15225 100 1234567 NAU 0800-0830 Kabyle Morocco, Algeria 15225 250 1234567 MOS 0800-0830 French Morocco, Algeria 15145 300 1234567 NAU 0830-0900 Tachelhit Morocco, Algeria 15225 100 1234567 NAU 0900-1000 Italian Italy 11905 100 1 SDA 1000-1100 Mandarin C/N-China 15450 100 1234567 SDA 1000-1100 Mandarin S-China 17665 100 1234567 SDA 1030-1100 Mongolian N-China, Mongolia 15500 100 1234567 SDA 1030-1100 Ilocano Philippines 17730 100 16 SDA 1030-1100 Tagalog Philippines 17730 100 23457 SDA 1100-1130 Indonesian W-Indonesia 15500 100 1234567 SDA 1100-1200 Mandarin C/N-China 15435 100 1234567 SDA 1100-1200 Mandarin S-China 15210 100 1234567 SDA 1100-1130 Russian E-Russia 12090 100 1234567 SDA 1100-1200 Mandarin NE-China 9940 100 1234567 TRM 1130-1200 Shan Myanmar 15610 125 1234567 SDA 1130-1200 Sundanese Indonesia, Malaysia 15500 100 1357 SDA 1130-1200 Javanese Indonesia, Malaysia 15500 100 246 SDA 1200-1230 Mandarin C/N-China 12105 100 67 SDA 1200-1230 Min Nan Chinese C/N-China 12105 100 12345 TRM 1200-1300 Korean Korea 17805 125 1234567 SDA 1200-1300 Korean Korea 7465 100 1234567 TRM 1200-1230 Mon Myanmar 15610 125 1234567 SDA 1200-1230 Min Nan Chinese NE-China 9585 100 12345 SDA 1200-1230 Min Nan Chinese S-China 15170 100 12345 SDA 1200-1230 Mandarin S-China 15170 100 67 SDA 1200-1230 Mandarin NE-China 9585 100 67 SDA 1230-1300 Mandarin S-China 15170 100 6 SDA 1230-1300 Cantonese S-China 15170 100 123457 TRM 1230-1300 Meitei NE-India, Bangladesh 15430 125 146 TRM 1230-1300 Bangla NE-India, Bangladesh 15430 125 2357 SDA 1230-1300 Cantonese C/N-China 12105 100 123457 SDA 1230-1300 Mandarin NE-China 9585 100 6 SDA 1230-1300 Cantonese NE-China 9585 100 123457 SDA 1230-1300 Mandarin C/N-China 12105 100 6 MDC 1300-1400 Vietnamese Vietnam 17605 250 1234567 NAU 1300-1330 Uighur W-China 17810 250 17 TRM 1300-1330 Nepali NE-India 15430 125 1234567 TRM 1300-1330 Bangla Bangladesh 15255 125 1234567 NAU 1300-1330 Mandarin W-China 17810 250 23456 SDA 1300-1330 Khmer Cambod, Viet, Thai, Laos 11900 100 1567 SDA 1300-1330 Khmer Cambod, Viet, Thai, Laos 11900 100 234 SDA 1300-1400 Mandarin C/N-China 9475 100 1234567 DB 1300-1330 Kachin Myanmar 12055 100 1234567 TRM 1330-1400 Kokborok Bangladesh 15255 125 1234567 TAC 1330-1400 Indonesian Malaysia 9955 100 237 DB 1330-1400 Thai Cambod, Viet, Thai, Laos 11825 100 1234567 TAC 1330-1400 Assamese NE-India 9955 100 14 TRM 1330-1400 Isan Cambod, Viet, Thai, Laos 17770 125 12346 TRM 1330-1400 Lao Cambod, Viet, Thai, Laos 17770 125 57 NAU 1330-1500 Mandarin W-China 15285 250 1234567 TAC 1330-1400 Hmong Thailand 9955 100 56 SDA 1400-1430 Asho Chin Myanmar 15150 100 1234567 TRM 1400-1500 Mandarin S-China 15715 125 1234567 MOS 1400-1430 Urdu Pakistan 15440 300 1234567 MDC 1400-1500 Malagasy Madagascar 6055 100 1234567 MDC 1400-1430 Sinhalese Sri Lanka 15170 250 1234567 TRM 1430-1500 Burmese Myanmar 15215 125 1234567 MOS 1430-1500 Afar Djibouti, NE-Eth, Somalia1 7605 300 1234567 TRM 1430-1500 Karen Myanmar, Thailand, China 17720 125 1234567 TAC 1430-1500 Karen Myanmar, Thailand, China 15165 100 1234567 SOF 1500-1530 Telugu S-India 15590 250 1234567 NAU 1500-1530 Panjabi N-India 15605 125 1234567 TRM 1500-1530 Tamil S-India 9510 125 1234567 TRM 1500-1530 Mizo NE-India 15215 125 1234567 TRM 1500-1530 Nepali Nepal 9740 125 1234567 MOS 1500-1530 Turkish Turkey 11955 300 1234567 TRM 1530-1600 Marathi C-India 11950 125 1234567 TAC 1530-1600 Kannada S-India 9580 100 1234567 NAU 1530-1600 Hindi N-India 15215 250 1234567 MOS 1530-1600 Panjabi Pakistan 15165 300 1234567 SDA 1530-1630 Korean Korea 9795 100 1234567 MDC 1530-1600 Hindi C-India 17760 250 1234567 TAC 1530-1600 Oriya India-Odisha 11755 100 1234567 NAU 1530-1600 Tibetan Nepal, Tibet 15670 250 56 NAU 1530-1600 English Nepal, Tibet 15670 250 12347 TAC 1530-1600 Gujarati India-Gujarat 12025 100 1234567 MDC 1530-1600 Malayalam S-India 17605 250 1234567 TRM 1600-1630 English C-India 9580 250 1234567 NAU 1600-1630 Bulgarian Bulgaria 9830 125 1234567 SOF 1600-1630 English S-India 11950 250 1234567 TRM 1600-1630 Urdu N-India 11800 125 1234567 MOS 1600-1630 Urdu Pakistan 15165 300 1234567 TRM 1630-1700 Sindhi S-Pakistan 15360 125 1357 MOS 1630-1700 Farsi Iran 11800 300 1234567 TRM 1630-1700 Pushto N-India 15360 125 246 NAU 1630-1700 Tigrinya Eritrea 15490 250 1234567 NAU 1630-1700 Amharic Ethiopia 17720 250 1234567 ISS 1630-1700 Somali Somalia 17570 250 1234567 MDC 1700-1728 Kiswahili Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda 11790 250 1234567 MEY 1700-1730 Kiswahili Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda 9600 250 1234567 MEY 1730-1800 Masai Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda 9600 250 1234567 NAU 1730-1800 Oromo S-Ethiopia 17720 250 1234567 NAU 1730-1800 Kabyle Morocco, Algeria 15170 125 1234567 MOS 1800-1900 Arabic Libya 11955 300 1234567 TRM 1830-1900 English E-Africa 15155 250 1234567 MOS 1900-1930 Hausa Nigeria 11955 300 1234567 NAU 1900-2000 Arabic Morocco, Algeria 11800 125 1234567 MDC 1900-2000 Arabic Egypt, Iraq, Arab Penins 11680 250 1234567 NAU 1900-1930 Wolof Senegal, Gambia 11790 250 1234567 ISS 1930-2000 Ibo E-Nigeria 11885 250 1234567 NAU 1930-2000 Tachelhit Morocco, Algeria 11955 100 1234567 MOS 1930-2000 French C-Africa 15155 300 1234567 NAU 1930-2000 Fulfulde Cameroon, Ghana, Senegal 11790 250 1234567 ISS 2000-2030 Moore BFA Burkina Faso 9770 250 1234567 MOS 2000-2030 Dyula BFA, Ivory Coast, Mali 11880 300 1234567 NAU 2000-2030 French Cameroon, Niger 9565 250 1234567 NAU 2000-2030 French Morocco, Algeria 9610 100 1234567 SDA 2000-2030 Russian E-Russia 7375 100 1234567 MOS 2030-2100 French W-Africa 11880 300 1234567 ISS 2030-2100 Yoruba Nigeria 11790 250 1234567 MOS 2100-2130 English W-Africa 11880 300 1234567 SDA 2100-2200 Korean Korea 11790 100 1234567 SDA 2100-2200 Mandarin C/N-China 11750 100 1234567 SDA 2200-2230 Indonesian W-Indonesia 11955 100 1234567 SDA 2200-2230 Sundanese W-Indonesia 12040 100 2467 SDA 2200-2230 English W-Indonesia 12040 100 135 SDA 2200-2300 Mandarin NE-China 15685 100 1234567 SDA 2200-2300 Mandarin C/N-China 11890 100 1234567 SDA 2200-2300 Vietnamese Vietnam 15630 100 1234567 SDA 2230-2300 Javanese W-Indonesia 15320 100 1234567 SDA 2230-2300 Indonesian W-Indonesia 11955 100 1234567 SDA 2300-2330 Khmer Cambod, Viet, Thai, Laos 15365 100 234 SDA 2300-2330 Vietnamese Vietnam 15320 100 1234567 SDA 2300-2400 Mandarin NE-China 15625 100 1234567 SDA 2300-2400 Mandarin C/N-China 17520 100 1234567 SDA 2300-2330 Khmer Cambod, Viet, Thai, Laos 15365 100 1567 SDA 2330-2400 Lao Cambod, Viet, Thai, Laos 15365 100 57 SDA 2330-2400 Asho Chin Myanmar 15320 100 1234567 SDA 2330-2400 Thai Cambod, Viet, Thai, Laos 15365 100 12346 RMI Okeechobee, Florida relay site Azi RMI 1100-1130 Spanish (HA) Cuba 181 5950 100 1234567 RMI 0000-0030 Spanish (HA) Cuba 181 5950 100 123456 [dozens of airings of Wavescan on WRMI are NOT included in AWR`s official schedule! --- gh] Eastern Mongolia Choibalsan Relay site 1530-1630 Korean No-Korea 133 1431 500 1234567 Site: ISS = TDF Issoudun, France SDA = KSDA Agat, Guam MDC = MGLOB Talata Volonondry, Madagascar TAI = Taipei, Taiwan MEY = SenTec Meyerton, South Africa TRM = SLBC Trincomalee MOS = ORS Moosbrunn, Austria NAU = MBR Nauen Germany TAC = RRTM RED Telecom Tashkent Uzbekistan DB = Dushanbe TJK SOF = SPC-NURTS Sofia Kostinbrod, Bulgaria ERV = CJSC Yerevan Gavar, Armenia Days: 1 = Sunday 5 = Thursday 2 = Monday 6 = Friday 3 = Tuesday 7 = Saturday 4 = Wednesday Version 06 / 2018-03-23 / pub AWR Frequency Management Office Sandwiesenstr. 35 64665 Alsbach, Germany Phone: +49 6257 9440969 Email: (AWR Darmstadt, Germany, via Andreas Volk-D, AGDX Munich Bavaria Germany via Mike Bethge-D, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 23 via BC-DX, laboriously realigned by gh for DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1130, March 22 at 1703 UT check, KLEY Wellington KS still SNAFU with bits of modulated carrier cutting on and off at irregular intervals, while separate rapid regular noise pulses are also transmitted. Probably an emission which could not be accomplished if they tried to. 1130, March 26 at 2011 UT check, KLEY Wellington KS is totally off the air rather than cutting on and off every few seconds (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Later: back to the usual ** U S A. KLBB 1220 going off on March 31 After a half century on the air, Stan Turner is signing off from KLBB TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press-Mar 24, 2018 Stan Turner introduces the 1970 hit song "Vehicle" by the band The Ides of March during his "All Request and Dedication Show" from the KLBB-1220 radio studio in downtown Stillwater on the Ides of March 2018. When KLBB goes off the air at midnight March 31, Turner, whose career in broadcasting goes ... https://www.twincities.com/2018/03/24/after-a-half-century-on-the-air-stan-turner-is-signing-off-from-klbb-for-now/ (via Artie Bigley, OH, DXLD) ** U S A. CONGRESS GETS SERIOUS ABOUT PIRATES Tom Taylor Now newsletter March 21, 2018 Would pirate-radio fines of $2 million clean up the airwaves? How about a potential fine of $100,000 per day? That’s in the discussion draft bill to be discussed at tomorrow’s hearing of the House Communications and Technology Subcommittee – very tough penalties. The bill’s titled the “Preventing Illegal Radio Abuse Through Enforcement Act,” which yields the acronym “PIRATE Act.” It’s co-sponsored by New Jersey Republican Rep. Leonard Lance and New York state Democrat Paul Tonko. They’d define a “pirate” as “any person who knowingly and intentionally facilitates pirate radio broadcasting.” That could be an operator or in-cahoots property owner. The bill’s meant to sent a message to pirates, who currently face FCC sanctions running from $10,000 to $15,000. But we don’t know how often the Commission’s able to actually collect even that. The January 22 NOW carried a rare story – A South Florida man signing a consent decree, promising to stay off-air, and agreeing to pay a greatly reduced civil penalty of $2,500 over the next 36 months. That’s the only such public notice in recent memory. So how many fine-evaders are there? More here: http://TomTaylorNow.com (via Mike Terry, March 21, WOR iog via DXLD) CONGRESS MAY CONSIDER MORE STRINGENT PIRATE RADIO FINES https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/congress-may-consider-more-stringent-pirate-radio-fines Support Across the Aisles for PIRATE Act https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/support-across-the-aisles-for-pirate-act (both via Dennis Gibson, CA, March 27, Sent from my iPad, ABDX yg via DXLD) ** U S A. WKAR AM-870 programming can now be heard around the clock on WKAR FM-105.1 --- Scott Pohl / WKAR-MSU http://wkar.org/post/wkar-am-programming-expands-fm-dial WKAR-AM signed on the air in 1922. Now, 96 years later, our AM station has a companion on the FM dial besides 90.5. As of last week, you can listen to our AM programming on FM 105.1, too. Listen Listening... 4:21 WKAR's Scott Pohl reports on the new WKAR AM-870 companion signal on FM 105.1. https://cpa.ds.npr.org/wkar/audio/2018/03/180313_wkar_105.1.mp3 WKAR-AM is required by the Federal Communications Commission to broadcast only during daylight hours. That means there are winter months where the station is only on the air for nine hours a day. After signoff, AM 870 listeners would have to go elsewhere for news and talk programming. Not anymore. Our AM shows can now be heard around the clock on FM 105.1. WKAR Radio Chief Engineer Drew Henderson says it’s the result of the FCC’s AM revitalization program. "The trend of listening to AM stations is going down," he explains, "and to throw a bone to AM radio station owners...expecially ones that are daytime only, the FCC is allowing them to have small FM radio stations, which are called translators." These translators can be on the air around the clock. Henderson says the addition of this FM signal won’t change the operations of AM 870 at all. FCC rules, he continues, require these FM translators to simulcast the programming of the AM stations. The idea is to prevent the shutting down of AM stations. WKAR Radio Manager Peter Whorf is excited about bringing programs like Morning Edition, All Things Considered, the best of the BBC, This American Life, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, Hidden Brain and It’s Been A Minute to listeners on both AM 870 and FM 105.1. "On our 90.5, you can hear All Things Considered from 4 until 7," Whorf says, "105.1 picks up All Things Considered from 7 until 9 p.m. That'll be really useful for later commuters." Conversely, 90.5 carries Morning Edition from 5 to 9, and AM 870 and FM 105.1 bring you the program from 9 to 11. The AM revitalization program has spurred eight of the nine AM stations serving Lansing to obtain FM translator frequencies, but not all are yet on the air. Along with WKAR, three religious stations are already on both AM and FM now. And, news for you Detroit Tigers fans: along with a local AM affiliate, Tigers games are expected on your FM band too this season. Listeners might want to re-scan their FM radios from time to time to find all of these new signals (via Kevin Redding, TN, ABDX yg via DXLD) W233CH listed at FCC FM Query as a CP (gh) ** U S A. Your voice helped save your stations --- Glenn - You helped achieve major victories. The President signed a bill into law that fully funds public media through September 30, 2018. Thank you for telling your lawmakers that you value public media. These results prove that your voice and persistence are the most powerful tools that we have to protect public media funding. Over the entire funding cycle, from March 2017 to now, you and our network have sent 694,605 communications to Congress to protect funding. In the coming months, we’ll need your voice again. With Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 funding finished, Congress will soon start its work on FY 2019, and it will be vital to remind lawmakers that you support public media funding once more. You’ve already laid important groundwork by asking your lawmakers to sign the public media support letters. Thanks to your outreach, the House of Representatives letter had a record-breaking number of signatures and the Senate letter is on its way to attaining similar results. These are important and impactful opportunities that enable us to save public media funding. We are confident that if we continue to raise our voices during key moments in the congressional process that we can secure FY 2019 funding, too. Thank you for answering our calls to action and protecting your local stations. We couldn’t have done this without you. Sincerely, (The Protect My Public Media Team, March 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. YOUR TV STATIONS ARE MOVING AROUND Repack costs prompt Texas licensee to eliminate public DTV station By [image: Dru Sefton] Dru Sefton , Senior Editor | March 8, 2018 Central Texas College --- The licensee of KNCT-TV in Killeen, Texas, has decided to shut down the station rather than pay the up-front expenses for moving it to a new channel. The decision comes as PBS and America’s Public Television Stations are warning that more public TV stations could go dark as licensees face millions of dollars in repack costs ahead of reimbursements from the FCC. The Central Texas College Board of Trustees, licensee of KNCT, voted Feb. 27 to shut down the station rather than pay $4.4 million to move its signal from Channel 46 to Channel 18. Congress has approved reimbursement of 62 percent of repacking costs for each affected licensee. But the FCC’s timeline would have required Central Texas College to begin repacking KNCT before knowing whether its costs would be fully reimbursed. “Neither the administration nor the CTC board take this decision lightly,” Chancellor Jim Yeonopolus said. Max Rudolph, KNCT station manager, said that KNCT will “continue local programming via internet streaming and on the CTC website,” and it will still provide instructional broadcasting classes for students. Rudolph referred all questions about the station to the college. Evran Kavlak / Public Media Co. The 40 dBu service contours of KNCT, in red, and other nearby public TV stations. According to Public Media Co., a consultant to public media, KNCT provides the sole over-the-air public TV signal for 315,480 people in the Waco area. A spokesperson for Central Texas College said the station does not subscribe to Nielsen ratings. KLRU-TV in Austin, about 65 miles south, could possibly provide PBS programming to affected households, said GM Bill Stotesbery. The two stations are discussing options, he said. No date has been set for the shutdown. It will not affect KNCT-FM, a public station at the college that airs an easy listening format. According to APTS, 149 public TV stations nationwide — 42 percent of all stations — must involuntarily shift channels due to reassignments after the FCC’s broadcast spectrum auction . The stations need more than $336 million to complete repacking. Work must be finished by July 2020. APTS President Pat Butler said APTS staffers have heard of “several stations facing the prospect of going dark” because licensees are reluctant to commit to paying up front for repack expenses. Butler said APTS has “communicated this dilemma” to Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden and others on Capitol Hill. “We have reminded them that the prospect of these stations’ going dark is the opposite of holding stations harmless from the effects of the spectrum auction, as the law promised to do,” Butler said. “This is an urgent issue given the ambitious and carefully structured repacking timetable,” PBS President Paula Kerger said in a letter to the FCC earlier this year. “Many stations that had nothing to do with the incentive auction are threatened with going dark due to this circumstance far outside their control.” Legislation that would increase funds available to stations, including radio licensees affected by the repack, passed in the House Tuesday *Correction: **An earlier version of this article mistakenly said that according to FCC and Census data, KNCT’s signal covers a population of 315,480. That is the population for whom KNCT is the only over-the-air public TV signal, according to Public Media Co.* http://current.org/2018/03/repack-costs-prompt-texas-licensee-to-eliminate-pu (via Kevin Redding, TN, ABDX yg via DXLD) ** VIETNAM. Coastal radio stations operated by VISHIPEL (Vietnam Maritime Communications and Electronics LLC) to assist fishing boats, etc. Website, in English, at http://vishipel.com.vn/Index.aspx Map of their many coastal stations at http://goo.gl/rNB6om Monitoring March 24; stations giving maritime conditions in Vietnamese, with countless mentions of “kilo-mét” (Vietnamese for kilometers). Noted that many stations in the network no longer start and end with the distinctive series of tones that was always used in past years. All site are presumed to be correct. 7906-USB, Qui Phong Radio, *1035-1041*; with YL; no tones. 7906-USB, Hue Radio, *1050-1053*; with OM; no tones. 7903-USB, site? *1050-1051*; VISHIPEL uses this frequency for brief announcements, not maritime conditions. Thanks very much to David Crawford for originally pointing this frequency out to me. Is a challenge to catch this one, as they are infrequently on the air. Also heard *1205 to 1207* (site?); with YL; no tones. 7906-USB, Hon Gai Radio, *1105-1109*; with YL; no tones. 7906-USB, Phu Yen Radio, *1120-1124*; with YL; no tones. 7906-USB, Ca Mau Radio, *1135-1138*; with OM; no tones. 7906-USB, Nha Trang Radio, *1150-1155*; with YL; on with tones, but off without them. 7906-USB // 8294-USB, Hai Phong Radio, *1205-1211*; with YL; started and ended with series of tones. 7906-USB, Vung Tau Radio, *1220-1225*; with YL; no tones. Also thanks to Takahito Akabayashi (Japan) for all his wonderful past assistance with these stations! (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DXLD) This is great info; got to get back to the radio and this is the type of station I want to start receiving. Thanks, Ron; going to get the aerials back up (Mark Davies, ibid.) ** VIETNAM [non]. USA. 7315. VOV. Marzo 15. 0030-0058 UT. Visita del gobernante vietnamita a Australia y Nueva Zelanda. Noticias sobre cumbres del Triángulo de desarrollo que se realizará en Hanói, Conmemoración de soldados caídos por la defensa marítima de Vietnam, Festival Gastronómico de Hoi An. Desde las 0043, se emiten noticias internacionales especialmente sobre el reclamo de Venezuela frente a los reclamos de Estados Unidos, sobre el encuentro entre los mandatarios de Japón y Norcorea por el secuestro de japoneses y las Votaciones en Rusia. A las 0047, un especial acerca de las páginas webs de la emisora y ampliación de la visita del Presidente de Vietnam y Australia, junto a los vínculos bilaterales. Desde las 0054 se emite: “Figura Vietnamita” con la reseña de la vida de un médico dedicado a la tuberculosis. SINPO: 45444 (Claudio Galaz, RX: Tecsun PL 660; ANT: Dipolo; QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, HCDX via DXLD) ** ZAMBIA. ZÂMBIA. 5915. Mar 25, 2018. 0350-0400, Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation, Lusaka, em vernacular. Vozes de locutor e locutora, alternadamente; Música local. ZNBC com muito pobre difusão e, em alguns momentos, quase inaudível, 25322 para 25321 (DXer: José Ronaldo Xavier, Local da escuta: Cabedelo-PB, Brasil, Receptores: Sony SW100 & Tecsun S-2000, WOR iog via DXLD) A-18 of KVOH Voice of Hope Africa, all unregistered in HFCC http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/03/a-18-of-kvoh-voice-of-hope-africa-all.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, March 23-24, WOR iog via DXLD) ** ZANZIBAR. 6015, TANZANIA - ZANZIBAR. Zanzibar BC, Dole, 0415-0433. Nonstop talk in Swahili by a woman. A few bars of local music at 0430 followed by talk by a man and a woman with short musical bridges. Moderate strength signal at 0415 with occasional deep fades, declining after 0425, almost into the noise by 0433. 3/19/2018 Also heard on 3/20, 0404-0407, with talk by a man and a woman and moderate signal strength (Jim Evans, Germantown, TN. IC-R8600, IC-R75, Perseus, Various Portables, Random Wire, Wellbrook Loops, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) 11735, ZBC at 1800:35 UT March 20 with time pips and ID and time check followed by news in English. Had not heard in a few days but that could be propagation? Poor. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta, Rx: Perseus SDR, Ant: Wellbrook ALA 100 loop antenna, WOR iog via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, March 21 at 0625: 549, 774, 783, 855, 936, 1044. See also KIRITIMATI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, March 23 at 0556+: 531(2), 549, 567, 612, 693(2), 1044, 1125, 1314, 1512, 1539, 1575. Just after had 846 from Kiritimati, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, March 23 at 1159: started as usual on 774, to find it on the DX-398 from WSW, probably 3LO Melbourne rather than NW, NHK Japan. Then switch to R75 with E-W longwire, March 23 from 1202: 594, 612, 774, 828, 846*, 882, 1035, 1116, 1503. *846 was stronger, so back to DX-398 to try to DF it: seems WSW rather than W, and Kiritimati supposedly goes off around 1000. But the only 846 DUs are three eastern Aussies at 2.5/5/10 kW, and an NZer at 2 kW; fluke? 846 soon fades down. At 1213, 1098 from west, i.e. Marshalls. Enid sunrise today: 1231 UT (Glenn Hauser, oK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1550, March 24 at 0607 UT, scat song, so I wonder if it`s CBEF, SRC`s ``Ici Première`` in Windsor, Ont. NRC AM Log has one JAZZ format on 1550, but it`s daytimer WZUM in PA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 4170 kHz, en Espanol Voz de Jombre [sic] hablando, SINPO 34222, Día 23 Marzo, 2018 en 0938 UT https://youtu.be/KgXDKdt7-Qo RX: Yaesu FRG 8800 Antena: Beverage simples (DXer: Daniel Wyllyans - Sítio Estrela do Araguaia - Nova Xavantina - Mato Grosso - Brasil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Probably third harmonic of algo on 1390. In Enid it`s occupied by KCRC x 3 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. PIRATE, probably from RUS/UKR, March 21 from 1819 on 5831.5v unknown tx Ukrainian songs, good signal http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/03/unidentified-pirate-probably-from_22.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, March 21-22, WOR iog via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 6800-CW, March 21 at 0617 regular beeps seem like a second apart, timesignal? But they stop before 0618 as I am starting to time them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6905-LSB, March 23 at 2033, Spanish 2-way, good S9 signals rather than any North American pirates. One has good modulation, the slightly weaker contact, rough. Not clear from which side of border, but they are discussing SLPotosí, Huasteca, Ciudad Valle, products such as mango, caña, aluminio; QSL? So have a ham radio background (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) {in this case, in English as well as Spanish, QSL? Means ``did you copy that?``, not ``will you send me a card?`` There really ought to be separate Q-codes for these quite different meanings} UNIDENTIFIED. Unknown, Possible Pirate or maybe a rogue ham who has decided to play music? 7200 AM (but possibly SSB heard via my receiver with no SSB capabilities) on Mar 22, 0452. SIO 343 English. Random music offerings — Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance,” then “Come on baby light my fire” by The Doors then dead air. Later on at 0501 it was back to some oldies music “Listen to the music of the falling rain” then more dead air. http://blog.jmb.mx/index.php/2018/03/23/kg5jst-radio-listening-logt-march-22-23-2018-utc/ (James Branum, KG5JST Radio Listening Log, March 22-23, 2018, UT. Unless otherwise noted, my QTH is EM15ep in the Deer Creek area of far Northwest Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA. My listening equipment is most often a Tecsun PL-310 ET, but I also sometimes use my Yaesu FT-817, my TIVDIO V-115, my Radio Shack 2000669, as well as AM/FM car radios. My favorite antenna is my MFJ-1988-T multiband backpacker antenna, but many of my receptions are with the stock antenna only or an attached random long-wire, WOR iog via DXLD) 7200-LSB is a favorite hangout for naughty hams, fighting and jamming each other with music or whatever (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 9475, March 23 at 2028, algo weak S3 instead of WTWW-1; trouble is, nothing else is scheduled. Could be few-watt exciter only, as neighbor 9350 WWCR inblasts at S9+45! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 9690, March 23 at 0054, steady S9+20 open carrier; I keep a receiver on it and still going without modulation past 0234 when it`s down to S9 fading to S7. What could it be? Spain could have forgotten to turn off its transmitter after 2300? But another less favorable Eurosig, CRI/Albania on 9570, is only S5-S7 at 0100. It`s much stronger than any of the three 31mb WRMIs. A bit stronger than 9640 RHC but at 0130 CRI/Cuba 9580 is S9+30; 9475 WTWW is S9+20; 9605 Korea/WHRI is about equal to 9690. Could also be a test from Greenville. Nothing around here listed in HFCC B-17 or A-18. Reminiscent of a previous log two sesquimonths ago as in DXLD 17-52: ``UNIDENTIFIED. 9690, Dec 25 at 0041 past 0100, huge S9+35 open carrier, slight fades, in fact the SSOB, exceeding similar bigsigs from 9395 WRMI S9+30, 9455 S9+25. Seems must be intracontinental, VOA, WRMI or WHRI. At 0050, 9720 RHC is S9+25 but more fading. Surprisingly, CRI Albania 9570 is S9+25/10, while often it`s very weak, so could 9690 be European? Spain maybe left transmitter on after 2300? WRMI has used 9690 in the past too, and now plenty of spare transmitters``. 9690, March 23 at 0546, open carrier heard all evening is still going, but now peaking S4 at best. By 0600 per EiBi it could be Nigeria in Hausa, except 9690 is rarely on besides 7255- (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Later on last day of B-17: did not turn off 9690 after 2300; See SPAIN (gh) UNIDENTIFIED. 9771-USB, March 26 at 0117, 2-way INTRUDERS, very poor, can`t tell if the brief bits I hear are in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 11825.502, March 26 at 1319, JBA carrier on split frequency I have not noticed before. Prime suspect is FEBC Bocaue, PHILIPPINES, scheduled this semihour in Khams Tibetan --- OR a ChiCom jammer to het it if FEBC on 11825.0? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Radio Tamazuj Strange Co-channel Signal 1 Files 934KB MP3 [att to the WOR iog] websdr_recording_start_2018_03_23T14_23Z_13800.mp3 I have been recording Radio Tamazuj (and Radio Dabanga) using the U. Twente SDR receiver for the past couple of weeks or so. Today, in advance of the Radio Tamazuj s/on from the SMG transmitter on 13800 kHz at about 1423 UT, I heard the sound in the attached file. It could also be heard under the SMG signal (obvious quieting when the transmitter came on) before the audio began. Is it some kind of digital signal or jamming of some kind? There was no central carrier visible. I hadn't heard this before in advance of the Radio Tamazuj s/on (-- Richard Langley, NB, March 23, WOR iog via DXLD) I frequently hear similar sounds on various frequencies and assume they emanate from some local device like a cable box, etc. Glenn Perhaps. But the U. Twente SDR receiver is typically free of RFI; at least I've not noticed anything specific. The signal I heard was centred on 13800 kHz and about 10 kHz wide at most. Just thought it might be a jammer. Anyone have a recording of what jamming against Radio Tamazuj sounds like? (-- Richard Langley, ibid.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1923: I enjoy listening on 7730 at 19:30 EST Monday Feb 12 from Winterhaven, CA (John Anderson, with a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com) One may also contribute by money order or cheque in US funds on a US bank to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED FUTURELY: Thanks also to Jeff Murri, contribution via PayPal Thanks also to Chuck Ermatinger, contribution via PayPal Great show. Keep up the good work (David Cheever, via PayPal) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ UPDATED FOR A-18: DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html WORLD OF RADIO SCHEDULES http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html WORLD OF RADIO HITLIST UPDATE Hi Glenn, my latest Hitlist update. http://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm 1) UT offsets updated: Croatia (HRT), Germany (HCJB Deutsch, Hamburger Lokal R, SWS), Greece (VoG), Romania (RRI), Spain (Mi Amigo), USA (WRMI) 2) Germany - HCJB Deutsch: Programme and freq links updated 3) Germany - EMR: removed schedule link, (retained home page link whilst site remains live) 4) Korea, South - KBS: Added UT offset for programmes (previously, I'm sure that these were shown as UT; however frequency details are still in UT) Next update will be towards the end of April. Best wishes and 73 (Alan Roe, March 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) HFCC A18 The new A18 season began today and new schedules by broadcaster are available on the HFCC website at: http://www.hfcc.org/data/a18/index.phtml Many of the shortwave guides on the club’s website have already been updated to reflect the new A18 schedules also, including the DX programme guide: http://bdxc.org.uk/articles.html Thanks to Tony Rogers who regularly updates these (Alan Pennington, March 25, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) EIBI A18 NEW SCHEDULES http://eibispace.de/dx/freq-a18.txt http://eibispace.de/dx/bc-a18.txt AOKI/NDXC USERLIST A18 VERSION http://www1.m2.mediacat.ne.jp/binews/ut/userlist1.txt (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RADIO SCHEDULE IN RUSSIAN / SEASON A18 --------------------------------------------------------- The site "Voice of Free Russia". Dmitry Elagin, Saratov, Russia. http://freerutube.info/2018/03/16/raspisanie-radio-na-russkom-yazyike-sezon-a18-leto-2018/ Kursk DX Site. Konstantin Aseev, Kursk, Russia http://www.aseevka.ru/radio-po-russki/radio-po-russki.html#more-434 Frequency schedules of radio stations in Russian. / Season A18 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Novosibirsk DX Site. Igor Yaremenko, Novosibirsk, Russia. http://www.novosibdx.info/schedules.html (via Rus-DX 25 March via DXLD) @kaedotcom I am relaying news, with occasional commentary, about international broadcasting at https://twitter.com/kaedotcom or @kaedotcom (Kim Elliott, March 24, WOR iog via DXLD) Apparently, a blog such as http://www.kimandrewelliott.com is now considered just *too* passé. He did upload some new items a month ago, but they were stuff he had already twitted (gh, DXLD) MARE STAFF MEMBERS WHO RARELY GET RECOGNIZED: MARE Historian, Ira Caull Legal Consultant, Upton O’Goode DXpedition Medical Attendant, Lancelot Boyles Official Photographer, F. Stop Fitzgerald DXpedition Equipment Manager, Uneeda Alice Crappe Receiver Alignment Specialist, Kitty Wampus DXpedition Antenna Specialists, Guy Hightower & Ariel N. DeTrees CW Coach, Morris Cody DXpedition Food Consultant, Fanny Backfyre Hamfest Coordinator, Selma Junkoff DXpedition Cabin Air Quality Monitor, Carmine Dioxide Listlog Checkers, Holly Unlikely, Hugh Lyon Sack & Shirley Ujeste DXpedition Heater Attendant, Frasier Tushoff Tip Sheet Log Checkers, Candace B. True & Erin Spelling DXpedition Annex Checker, Seaton D’John Treasurer, Bill Shredder Language Consultants: African local languages, Mal Agassi & Sarah Leone Andorran, Frances DeSpain Antarctican, Marcia DePenguins Apache, Jerry Nomo Arabic, Mohammed Dunn Tolme Australian, Barbie Shrimpe & Joaquin Matilda Brazuguese, Amy Zonas British, Isaiah Oldchap Chinese, Rick Shaw & “Crash” Banger Creole, Addie Dasha Pepper Cuban, Marty Jammer Dutch, Kraken van Dyke Esperanto, Ulysses Ashell Farsi, Maya Tollah Finnish, Shawna Hotflash Flemish, Bruce L. Sprouts French, April Lynn Paris & Marcie Beaucoup Gaelic, Sharon B. Gorrah German, Alf Weidersehen & Don Kashane Glossolalia, Holly Lula Ramalamadingdong Greek, Sue Flockey Greenlandic, Frasier Assoff Hauserese, Glenda Spurblob & Jaxon SesquidekaHertz Hebrew, Schlomo Replay Hindi, Vishnu Verhere, Curry Favor & Harry Krishna Icelandic, Sam Boni Inuit, Iggy Loo Tuktoyuktuk Italian, Isabella Ringing & Thad Samoray Jamaican, Reggae Jackson Japanese, Nicky Hosai & Benny Honda Jive, Mojo Workman Korean, Kim Ping Pong Latin, Vinnie V. DiVici Malay, Sarah Wacke Navajo, Cody Talker Nepali, Monte Everett Norwegian, Telemark Ernie Fjord Portuguese, Liz Boa Quechua, Matthew Picchu Romanian, Vlad M. Paylor Russian, Warren Peace & Heywood Jabuzzov Scottish, Nessie MacHaggis Spanish, Kay Pasa & Noah Comprende Swahili, Maurice Tania [sic] Swedish, Bjorn Toulouse & Ikea Tina Turner Swiss, Ole O’Leahy Tibetan, Dolly Lama Urdu, Ollie N. Stan Welsh, Cardiffabergynifiangleseydenbighshire Jones (With homage to Click & Clack the Tappet Brothers) (MARE Tipsheet 23 March, Harold Frodge, ed., via DXLD) LANGUAGE LESSONS Tagalog vs Filipino? See PHILIPPINES; ANGOLA ++++++++++++++++ Answer to Glenn's question in DXLD 1811 >Is 88 of some numerological significance in the Thai pantheon? Yes, 88 is the very significant number in Asia – especially in China and Japan. In Chinese character “8” is “?”. As the character looks wider toward the lower end, another meaning of “8” is “getting more and more prosperous” or “enjoying more prosperity”. So “88” –double “8” is a very happy number. In Japan people celebrate their 88th birthday as “Beiju”(??)(“?” looks like “?”+”?”). In China Peking Olympic Games began 8-8 (August 8), 2008.. (Takahito Akabayashi, Tokyo, Japan, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Since we can`t display Sino-Japanese characters in plain text DXLD, I asked Takahito for a visible version, and here it is: http://www.w4uvh.net/88.jpg (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) JBA Hi Glenn, For a while I have been puzzled by your references to "JBA". What is it please? 73 (/Andrew Brade, UK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Andrew, Just barely audible. Very handy and all too frequently applicable. 73, (Glenn to /Andrew, via DXLD) Ha! I thought it was some kind of software! Thanks for the explanation. It shows I'm reading your posts! 73 (/Andrew, ibid.) WORLD OF HOROLOGY +++++++++++++++++ 3 Promo's for the "Global HF Weekend" (March 30 + 31 - April 1) Please spread or post the following link on your webpage(s)! (Here you can Listen Online/Download the Promo's) https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1u_5BP0nohkbOt_P_g-4KsY2NdDzRlrWt Best Free Radio Greets 1495202452925_Logo (Andre, CoolAM Radio Productions for Jingles- & Promo's! the Netherlands http://coolam-productions.tk DX LISTENING DIGEST) Tnx, I mentioned this at end of WORLD OF RADIO 1923, but such Produxions would rather clash with the tone of WOR (gh) see EUROPE DST Hi Glenn, I heard WOR 1922 this morning via Hamburger Lokalradio. Regarding the A18 season, you mentioned "daylight SWITCHING time". I found this strange as I had always thought DST stood for "daylight SAVING time". Is it commonly reffered to as d.. switching t... in the USA? Best greetings from Paris, France (Gilles Lesquin, March 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Gilles, I say Daylight Shifting Time, not Switching. I make quite an issue of this nomenclature, as daylight is not and cannot be ``saved``, merely shifted to a different part of the clocks. I am afraid this idea has not caught on generally in the USA (Glenn to Gilles, via DXLD) OK Glenn, thanks. I had head “switching”, due to my poor English certainly. But you can't shift daylight either. Daylight is just light, you can't switch it, shift it, save it or whatever. As DST is meant to have more hours of daylight available for human activity, “saving” seems to me to be the least inappropriate terminology. Anyway “Daylight Saving Time” is the official terminology in all English speaking countries, with the possible exception of the USA. Regards, (Gilles, ibid.) MUSEA +++++ ‘ON THE RADIO’ EXHIBIT AT SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT CELEBRATES RADIO HISTORY --- Radio Survivor By Jennifer Waits March 22, 2018 Radio fans have a major reason to visit San Francisco this year: the SFO Museum just debuted the massive “On the Radio” exhibit in Terminal 3 of the San Francisco International Airport (SFO). Until September 30, 2018, travelers can feast their eyes on 27 cases full of historical items related to radio’s past, ranging from 1920s crystal radios to 1970s novelty radios. Of particular interest to radio historians, “On the Radio,” features around 120 radios in addition to photographs, artwork from vintage radio magazine covers, advertisements, popular culture artifacts, microphones, vacuum tubes, and more. Accompanied by SFO Museum’s Assistant Curator of Exhibitions Daniel Calderon, I spent more than 90 minutes touring through the extensive exhibit; while most of the other Monday morning passersby zipped through on their way to and from flights. During my visit, a number of passengers perused the main part of the installation, reading accompanying text and chatting with friends and family members about the objects on display. Others pointed out the radio photographs and magazine covers while riding on one of the two moving walkways that bookend “On the Radio.” My tour of “On the Radio” amazed me on several levels. It’s one of the most extensive radio exhibits that I’ve ever witnessed and certainly the largest that I’ve seen in a non-radio environment. With thematic display cases, “On the Radio” also provides an incredible overview of not only radio history, but also at the wide range of radios that have been created over the years. See more of this article: http://www.radiosurvivor.com/2018/03/22/on-the-radio-exhibit-at-san-francisco-airport-celebrates-radio-history/ (via Mike Terry, March 23, WOR iog via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See ETHIOPIA; JAPAN; KUWAIT; ROMANIA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DAB See NETHERLANDS; NORWAY; RADIO EQUIPMENT ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See MEXICO; RUSSIA; USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ XH Data D-808 [re 18-11] I was very surprised to read in Communication this month on page 4 David Duckworth stating the XH Data D-808 is a rebadged C Crane CC Skywave. Owning both receivers I can state that this is simply not true. They are two very different receivers with the D-808 being larger. Other differences are the D-808 has SSB, RDS and no US WX band. The D-808 is a superior beast – and has made my Tecsuns 310/380 and CC Skywave redundant. The Digitech AR1733 appears to be a rebadged Skywave. Regards (Stuart Heathcock, March 24, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) CCRANE SKYWAVE SSB REVIEW AND SHOOT-OUT UPDATE http://www.dxer.ca/index.php/our-stuff/103-the-ccrane-skywave-ssb-absolute-first-look-part-one -- (Colin Newell, BC, HCDX, DX LISTENING DIGEST) THE END OF RADIO AS WE KNOW IT --- Radiodays Europe report Radio Today 21 March 2018 https://radiotoday.co.uk/2018/03/radio-is-dead-claims-futurist-at-radiodays/ The talking points from Radiodays Europe includes smart speakers taking over the world, the death of DAB and even the end of radio as we know it. But away from the sensational headlines, are a number of important points about the direction radio will go in the next decade. Smart Speakers – namely Alexa – is the fastest growing technology to hit our industry, and was mentioned in most sessions. Alexa is even part of the imaging on Z100 New York. Creative Director Staxx (()) has all his celebrity guests talk to Alexa asking to play Z100. Getting the command in listeners minds first will help them win the smart speaker space. Ben Hammersley (Futurist, Contributing Editor, Wired, and Principal of Hammersley Futures, UK), claimed Radio is Dead but audio is going strong. “We know from our own behaviour, let alone consumers, we’re going to buy an iPhone 12 – we’re not going to buy a DAB radio,” he said before displaying the slide above about the death of radio. Ben is the Editor-at-large of digital publication WIRED, and claims to be the inventor of the world Podcast, so we should take some notice of his predictions on trends and technology. “This is the first time in history that our tools have got twice as good in a year – we have come to terms with this” said Ben. “As we constantly move towards the future, radio itself is probably dead, but audio is not. We are living through a golden age of audio, more people are listening that ever before and the diversity of programme is better than ever. “So what should broadcasters do to take advantage of this golden age? We need to adapt legacy free technology and reinvent our processes – the world is ours for the taking!” The opening session included BBC Director of Music Bob Shennan who threw the doors wide open on the DAB debate once again. He stated that now is not the right time for a switchover, and more work must be done by the entire industry before the UK starts thinking about any DAB- only future. Advice during the many sessions ranged from the best bit rates for your podcast to which radio promotions to run on your station or network to generate the most interest. 1600 delegates from 60 contries attended. There were 130 speakers, 60 sessions and 60 exhibitors. Oh, and Midge Ure sung Vienna in the main room after a spot of lunch on day 2! The Radiodays Europe media team has been creating dozens and dozens of content around the event, along with attending press, and we’ve included a small selection below. To see the live twitter feed, see RadioTodayLive.com and visit RadiodaysEurope on Facebook (via Mike Terry, WOR iog via DXLD) RECEIVING ANTENNAS FOR THE RADIO AMATEUR new ARRL book on Receiving antennas Now Shipping --- Increase your station' s receive performance with new book Receiving Antennas for the Radio Amateur by ARRL author Eric P. Nichols, KL7AJ. Although the fundamental characteristics of antennas apply to both transmitting and receiving, the requirements and priorities of receiving antennas can be vastly different from those of transmitting antennas. Receiving Antennas for the Radio Amateur focuses entirely on active and passive receiving antennas and associated circuits. Relatively few cases exist where a radio amateur cannot benefit from a separate, well-designed receiving antenna, especially on 160 and 80 meters, and, of course, on our new allocations at 630 and 2200 meters. The active antenna holds a prominent position in this book, as it offers good receiving performance while taking up minimal space. Recent developments in RF semiconductors, especially low-noise RF operational amplifiers, have made a number of previously difficult-to- implement active antenna designs a very simple task. Receiving Antennas for Radio Amateurs is available from the ARRL Store or your ARRL Dealer. (ARRL Item no. 0789), ISBN: 978-1-62595- 078-9, $27.95 retail, special ARRL Member Price $24.95. Call 860-594-0355 or, toll-free in the US, 888-277-5289. It will soon be available for the Amazon Kindle (via Scott Blixt, March 24, MDXC yg via DXLD) Hey, do you suppose this might be applicable to those without even transmitters?? (gh, DXLD) TRY YOUR CARADIO FOR C-QUAM AM STEREO The latest issue of Radio World contained a letter to the editor encouraging AM stations that had C-QUAM AM Stereo exciters still in the rack but idle to turn them back on. The recommendation was based on the fact that many HD Radio receivers will decode AM Stereo with the L & R channels flipped. The fidelity of the AM Stereo signal is greatly improved over the normal bandwidth restricted AM signal at between 5-9 kHz instead of the crappy 3.5 kHz audio bandwidth that the NRSC mask produces. If you are one of those who has a newer vehicle with a HD capable receiver, have you tried listening to stations like WION to see if your car radio does indeed decode C-QUAM? Since all of my cars ore quite vintage (nice word for older than dirt) I don't have a radio that I can use to check it out (Paul Dobosz, MARE Tipsheet 23 March, Harold Frodge, ed., via DXLD) HALLICRAFTERS: "THE AMAZING WORLD OF SHORTWAVE LIS-TENING" 45 rpm record from 1959 VG+ condition with sleeve See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkTs9itKa74&feature=share (Tom Kamp via A-DX via SW Bulletin March 25 via DXLD) [SDR-Radio] GOOD SDR WRITE UP BY N0KK Just a primer for newbies that N0KK put together for his club newsletter. http://www.tcdxa.org/Newsletters/March2018GrayLine.pdf (Paul Newcombe via SDR-Radio via SW Bulletin March 25 via DXLD) OTH RADAR AND OTHER INTRUDERS INTO HAMBANDS From the ARRL in today's weekly newsletter: The International Amateur Radio Union Region 1 (IARU-R1) Monitoring System (IARUMS) reports that one of China's over-the-horizon radar (OTHR) installations has been causing interference in the Amateur Radio 7 MHz band. The IARUMS February newsletter reports on that intruder and others. Other Top 5 intruders include a "single-letter beacon" transmitting either the letter "K" or the letter "T" on 7039.3 kHz. The source is believed to be in the Russian Pacific, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. A Russian F1B teleprinter signal (RDL) has appeared on 7193 kHz, with an encrypted frequency-shift-keyed (50-baud) signal, originating in Kaliningrad. Authorities in Germany and Switzerland have filed official complaints. A Russian orthogonal frequency-division multiplex OFDM 60 signal has been showing up on 14.235 MHz, covering nearly 3 kilohertz. It's said to be located in Moscow. Three Russian OFDM 60 signals were active at the same time on February 13. A Russian F1B signal has been observed on 14.308 MHz, 50 baud, 500 Hz shift, also reported to be in Moscow. In the "miscellaneous or bad news" category, IARUMS Region 1 Coordinator Wolf Hadel, DK2OM, reports Spanish-speaking "fishermen" on 3560 kHz (USB), heard daily at 1600 UT or later. These signals have been heard on other 80-meter frequencies. Broadcaster Radio Hargeisa in Somaliland continues to be reported on 7.120 MHz (AM) daily. The Chinese over-the-horizon radar signal on 40 meters [Wolf Hadel, DK2OM, image] (via Paul Dobosz, MARE Tipsheet 23 March, via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ “ROGUE” SUNSPOTS SPOIL CHANCES FOR LONG-TERM SPACE WEATHER FORECASTING – Science Trends --- Interesting article, via eHam.net https://sciencetrends.com/rogue-sunspots-spoil-chances-for-long-term-space-weather-forecasting/ The number of solar spots and eruptive phenomena connected to them show cyclical variations with a mean period of 11 years. The strength of these solar cycles, however, varies considerably. We know about periods in the past, called Grand Minima, when no sunspots were observable for decades. This was also the case during the Maunder Minimum in the second half of the 17th century, which thought to be associated with the "Little Ice Age." On the other hand, we observed a period of very strong cycles, known as Modern Maximum at the end of the last century. The currently-ongoing Cycle 24 is breaking this series with an amplitude much lower than the typical values during Modern Maximum. Forecasting these long-term, cycle-to-cycle variations is the Holy Grail of solar dynamo theory, the discipline studying the origin of solar activity. In recent years, our understanding of the driving mechanisms of the solar dynamo has developed significantly, however, sadly, the new results also pointed out the limits of predicting the properties of the upcoming solar cycle (via Mike Terry, WOR iog via DXLD) Interesting indeed, Mike, and thanks for posting the link. Overall, it doesn't sound good but I did take solace in this line: "Events such as the onset of a grand minimum or an unusually strong “freak” solar cycle, such as the one that peaked in 1957, may prove to be impossible to predict more than a few years ahead – much to the chagrin of solar and space researchers." ... so there may yet be hope for a monster Cycle 25 :-)) (Steve McDonald, WEB - "The VE7SL Radio Notebook": http://qsl.net/ve7sl/ VE7SL BLOG - "Homebrewing and Operating Adventures From 2200m to Nanowaves": http://ve7sl.blogspot.ca/ WOR iog via DXLD) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2018 Mar 26 0143 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # Product description and SWPC contact on the Web # http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/weekly.html # # Weekly Highlights and Forecasts # Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 19 - 25 March 2018 Solar activity was very low. The sun was spotless and absent of significant flare activity. 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 was at high levels on 19-25 March. Geomagnetic field activity reached G1 (Minor) storm levels on 19 March and active levels on 23-25 March due to the influence of recurrent, negative polarity CH HSS effects. Quiet to unsettled conditions were observed on 20-22 March. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 26 MARCH - 21 APRIL 2018 Solar activity is expected to be at very low levels throughout the outlook period. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at high levels on 26-28, 30-31 March and 01-02, 12-21 April. Normal to moderate levels are expected for the rest of the period. Geomagnetic field activity is likely to be at G1 (Minor) storm levels on 26 March and 12 April with active periods likely on 26, 29-30 March, and 11-15, 19, 21 April due to effects from multiple, recurrent CH HSSs. Quiet to unsettled levels are expected for the remainder of the outlook period. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2018 Mar 26 0143 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # Product description and SWPC contact on the Web # http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wwire.html # # 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table # Issued 2018-03-26 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2018 Mar 26 68 18 4 2018 Mar 27 68 10 3 2018 Mar 28 68 5 2 2018 Mar 29 68 15 4 2018 Mar 30 68 12 4 2018 Mar 31 68 8 3 2018 Apr 01 68 5 2 2018 Apr 02 68 5 2 2018 Apr 03 69 5 2 2018 Apr 04 70 5 2 2018 Apr 05 70 5 2 2018 Apr 06 70 5 2 2018 Apr 07 70 5 2 2018 Apr 08 70 5 2 2018 Apr 09 70 5 2 2018 Apr 10 70 8 3 2018 Apr 11 70 15 4 2018 Apr 12 70 20 5 2018 Apr 13 70 15 4 2018 Apr 14 70 15 4 2018 Apr 15 70 15 4 2018 Apr 16 69 8 3 2018 Apr 17 68 5 2 2018 Apr 18 68 5 2 2018 Apr 19 68 15 4 2018 Apr 20 68 10 3 2018 Apr 21 68 15 4 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1923, DXLD) ###