DX LISTENING DIGEST 18-16, April 17, 2018
Incorporating REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING
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WORLD OF RADIO 1926 contents: Alaska and non, Argentina non,
Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Chad non, Cuba, Ethiopia, Iran
non, Kiritimati, Korea North non, Kuwait, New Zealand, Nigeria non,
Oman, Panamá and non, Perú, Philippines, South Africa, Sweden, USA,
Vietnam; and the propagation outlook
SHORTWAVE AIRINGS of WORLD OF RADIO 1926, April 17-25, 2018
Tue 2030 WRMI 9455 7780 [confirmed]
Tue 2130 WRMI 9455 7780 [confirmed]
Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [1925 replayed]
Wed 1030 WRMI 9455 [not confirmed; on air?]
Wed 2100 WRMI 9955 [confirmed]
Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v [confirmed]
Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [confirmed]
Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB [Brother Scare ran over]
Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB
Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [off until April 28]
Sat 1431 HLR 6190-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [off until April 28]
Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM
Sat 2130 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB
Sat 2300 WRMI 7780 [not last week; canceled?]
Sun 0200 WRMI 7780
Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM
Sun 1030 HLR 9485-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [off until April 29]
Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB
Mon 0130 WRMI 5850, 5950, 7780 [NEW]
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 #1927?]
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** AFGHANISTAN. Good signal of Radio Afghanistan External Service,
April 15
1530-1654 6100 YAK 100 kW / 125 deg to SoAs English/Urdu/Arabic & off
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/04/good-signal-of-radio-afghanistan.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, April 15-16, WOR iog via DXLD)
** ALASKA [and non]. 6045, April 11 at 1222, KNLS English with heavy
QRM from V. of Freedom, KOREA SOUTH, ex-5917.4v. At least one of them
playing music. This single KNLS English hour has a second frequency:
7355, April 11 at 1223, moderate Cuban jamming against no Martí ever
anymore, blocking weak carrier from presumed KNLS in English. Tnx a
lot, Arnie! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
9730, KNLS at 1600. Strong open carrier to just past the hour, then
KNLS IS and intro by M in Russian. Very strong; first heard on
analogue portable (and stock telescoping whip) while tuning up the
band to see what stood out at this hour. Excellent. Apr 14. Grundig
Satellit, RS SW-2000629, and HQ-180A with various outdoor wires. Use
of portables noted where relevant for perspective on signal strength
comments. 73 to all of you and Good Listening....! (Rick Barton,
Central AZ, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1926, DXLD)
[and non]. BROADCASTING IN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE --- 9730 kHz. This season
at a frequency of 9730 kHz from 1630 to 1700 UT broadcast at once
three radio stations in Russian - International Radio of China, "Voice
of Vietnam" and KNLS. Naturally, China "hammers" all. China is the
first to finish broadcasting, a couple of minutes Vietnam, but Alaska
can not be heard. KNLS is poorly audible on this frequency from 1500
to 1530 UT.
QSL-card to the 35th anniversary of KNLS. Konstantin Chernushenko sent
a sample of QSL, which will be released to the 35th anniversary KNLS.
Konstantin Chernushenko said that new QSL-cards KNLS devoted to the
35th anniversary of the radio station. Reports of admission are
welcome on to the address: knlsradio @ gmail.com (DK)
You can see the card here -
http://rusdx.blogspot.ru/2018/04/qsl-35-knls.html
(Dmitry Kutuzov, Ryazan, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx", via Rus-DX 15
April via WORLD OF RADIO 1926, DXLD)
Nice view of Mount Denali and a Psalm about hills (Glenn Hauser, WORLD
OF RADIO 1926, DXLD)
** ANGOLA. 4949.75, Rádio Nacional de Angola, Mulenvos, 1840-1950, 12-
04, Portuguese, songs, ID “Radio Nacional de Angola, serviço público”,
“Rádio Nacional de Angola, emitindo desde Luanda para todo o país em
onda curta, banda de 25 metros, 11955 kHz, ..., banda de 60 metros,
4950 kHz, onda média...”, at 1900 time signals, “20 horas no país,
transmite Rádio Nacional de Angola”, news. 35333 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo,
Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, Cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog
via DXLD)
11955?? That`s been off the air for decades. Time to update the
announcement text! (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ARGENTINA [non]. A18 schedule for RAE Argentina to the World via
WRMI from 1 April:
English 0100-0200 Tue-Sat 9395 NAm (also // on 9455-ed)
Japanese 0800-0900 Mon-Fri 9455 WNAm & Asia
Chinese 0900-1000 Mon-Fri 9455 WNAm & Asia
Portuguese 1200-1300 Mon-Fri 9955 LAm
German 1900-2000 Mon-Fri 9395 NAm & Eu
Italian 2000-2100 Mon-Fri 9395 NAm & Eu
Spanish 2300-0000 Mon-Fri 5950 LAm
French 2330-0000 Mon-Fri 7780 NAm & Eu (RAE on Twitter via Alan
Pennington, April BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD)
Don`t you believe it! As I have been reporting [but not on this list,
of course --- bdxc-news], some of these are incorrect! Even if they
don`t know it in Bs. As.
Portuguese has timeshifted for Miami DST to 1100-1200, also on 9455.
German was missing for a while, but eventually came back.
Italian has been failing to appear at all, but need to check again.
Spanish has been at 2200-2300 and still shown on WRMI sked and why
should it have changed? April 12 I check circa 2230 when it`s too weak
to be sure, and there is also a SAH from something else on 5950. At
2330, however, I can tell WRMI is running Fámily Radio as scheduled;
and still the SAH. Nothing but WRMI is scheduled in Aoki, EiBi and
HFCC. RAE Chinese & Japanese are difficult to confirm due to sleeping
and lack of propagation, if really on the air. Should be on 5850 in
the middle of our nights (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST; also to
bdxc-news io group)
Mauno Ritola, Finland, replied April 13: ``Nothing on either 9455 or
5850 kHz at 0820. And one more correction: 9455 kHz is on the air in
Japanese at 0850 and continues in Chinese at 0900 with RAE ID`` (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1926, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
9395, April 16 at 2039, JBA music, but by 2045 I do believe talk is in
Italian, implying that the RAE relay in that language is again
funxional via WRMI.
9455 // 9395, UT Tue April 17 at 0100, RAE opening English, extremely
informal announcer mentions 9395 only, and I think refers to another
English time as ``3 pm UTC``, on webcast? Program previews do not
include DX show, which one would expect if this were the ``Friday``
program (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1926, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 4835, April 15 at 1232, not even a JBA carrier
from Ozy Radio: that`s because, as Johno Wright informs me: ``4835 kHz
has suffered over heat issues with the power supply --- days on days
of 100 F heat cooked the power supply. Off air till 15th May or more.
So what SW station plays decent pop music? 11th April (Craig Allen via
John Wright, Australian Radio DX Club, 0253 April 14)``
Nor is there a 4835 carrier here from AIR Sikkim, but we have another
month to try to hear that. Some Indian carriers are making it such as
5010. And 5055 JBAC presumably 4KZ (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO
1926, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 9685, April 16 at 1246, English talk about immune
system, S5-S8; bet it`s RBA: yes, English segment 1245-1300 only,
otherwise Burmese stuff per HFCC; a poor substitute, or rather no
substitute, for RA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRIA. New schedule of Oesterreichischer Rundfunk-1 on shortwave,
April 11:
0530-0620 6155 MOS 300 kW / non-dir WeEu German Mon-Fri, ex 0500-0620
0530-0610 6155 MOS 300 kW / non-dir WeEu German Sat/Sun, ex 0500-0610
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/04/new-schedule-of-oesterreichischer.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, April 10-11, WOR iog via WORLD OF
RADIO 1926, DXLD)
Temporarily, while it is not possible to operate three frequencies at
once. Culprit is a failed vacuum capacitor, and it is intended to
complete the repairs within two weeks (problem is, I understand, that
the spare part has first to be ordered). (Kai Ludwig-D, A-DX ng Apr 11
via BC-DX via WORLD OF RADIO 1926, DXLD)
OE1 Programm z.Zt. um 30 min gekuerzt auf Kurzwelle 6155 kHz. Re
kaputter Vakuum-Kondensator in ORS Moosbrunn. due of defunct
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_variable_capacitor>
6155 kHz OE1 px shortened at 0530 - 0620z on air at present.
Fuer all Jene, denen fruehmorgens - eigen - etwas klassische Musik
und OE Kulturbetrieb auf Kurzwelle wichtig sind.
(...) Danke, - das ist alles logisch, NHK Radio Japan Tokyo Richtung
Europa bezahlt die Musik, und hat eindeutig Vorrang.
Ein Mini-Programm ORF muss aber aus rechtlichen Gruenden weiterhin
ueber die KW ORS Moosbrunn laufen.
Es ist richtig, dass OE DXer den Hr. Spitzbart kontaktieren.
Ich habe ihn als einen feinen Menschen bei der Wolf Harranth
Veranstaltungen in Friedrichshafen in Erinnerung.
NHK 0500-0530 UT hat immer schon 300 kW und die 926 Quadrant Antenne
geordert.
Wer hat denn dort ORS Moosbrunn mal besichtigt ? :
ist eine zweite 926 Antenne vorhanden/defekt?,
{nein, Quadrant Antennen in MOS je 1 x für 49 und 31 mb}
oder muss eine stille Reserve fuer die NHK Aussendungen belassen
werden? dass man das Sendeende von NHK Programm abwarten muss?
Die NHK Russischsendung aus Moosbrunn ist im Sommer nach Nauen
abgewandert.
Der Motor der Drehstandantenne ist defekt ?
Wolf, weisst Du die Details ?
ps. Wer den Ingenieur mal in F'hafen betreffs 6155 ORF gehoert hat,
weiss ja die Stunde OE1 als Geschenk zu wuerdigen. Siehe Meldung vom
Maerz 2013, weiter unten. gruss wolfgang df5sx
(...) das ging vorhin hinaus:
re OE1 6155 kHz zur Zeit leicht gekuerzt 0530 - 0620z
Da muss es doch einen Zusammenhang geben:
ORF Kurzwelle Ende im Maerz 2003,
Oe1 gekuerzt im Maerz 2013,
Oe1 6155 kHz, leicht gekuerzt im Maerz 2018,
0 / 10 / 15 Jahre.
Trotzdem, grosse Leistung - aus den Ersatzteiltraegern der Hardware
vor Ort - nach 15 Jahren noch mit guter bis sehr guter Qualitaet
aus-zusenden. Frag doch mal bei:
Ing. Ernst Spitzbart
Leiter ORS Kurzwellen-Sendezentrum Moosbrunn
A-2440 Moosbrunn, Austria
Tel. +43 / 02234 / 78133
Fax +43 / 02234 / 78133 - 21920
E-Mail: <office -at- ors.at>
re: OE1-International, 6155 kHz...?
Hallo, ich habe ueber das Web-Kontaktformular bei der ORS angefragt
und prompt eine Antwort von Herrn Ing. Spitzbart aus Moosbrunn
erhalten.
Es handelt sich um einen Defekt an einem Sender, der kaputte
Vakuum-Kondensator muss nachbeschafft werden.
Zu der Zeit laufen anscheinend 3 Programme parallel, OE1 steht da
hinten an. Es wird wohl noch ca. 2 Wochen so bleiben (Peter Wagner-
AUT, A-DX April 10, via BC-DX 13 April via DXLD)
und aus dem 2013 Jahresarchiv:
From: OE1WHC <harranth -at- dokufunk.org>
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: Weitere Kuerzungen in Moosbrunn
Zitat von Christoph Ratzer OE2CRM:
Die Oesterreichische Rundfunksender GmbH (ORS) hat die
Kurzwellenuebertragung von Sendungen des Oesterreichischen Rundfunks
(ORF) weiter eingeschraenkt. Eine Ausstrahlung ... die jeweils um
*09.00 Uhr lief, ist jetzt entfallen. * Richtung Pazifik, AUS/NZL.
Christoph (OE2CRM), man kann/soll das Ganze auch so sehen:
Uebermorgen, am 31.3.2013, sind es genau zehn Jahre, dass ROI
abgewickelt wurde. Es ist ein paar Leuten gelungen (Ermoeglichern),
die von kompetenter Stelle (Verhinderern) geforderte sofortige
Stilllegung von Moosbrunn um bisher ZEHN JAHRE zu verzoegern. Das
gelingt mit Mietsendungen, die die aufs Minimum reduzierten
Betriebskosten decken und jenes zwar winzige Plus erwirtschaften, das
den Abschaffern den Wind aus den Segeln nimmt.
Wir koennen nur hoffen, dass saemtliche faelligen Reparaturen durch
Kannibalisierung des Vorhandenen getaetigt werden koennen. Denn sonst
- ae - droht endgueltig das Aus.
ORF/ORS zahlen nichts mehr. Ein Mini-Programm ORF muss aber aus
rechtlichen Gruenden weiterhin ueber die KW laufen.
So erklaert sich die Salami-Taktik ... 73, Wolf OE1WHC (via A-DX
March 29, 2013) (BC-DX 13 April, 2018 via DXLD)
** AZERBAIJAN. Ictimai Radio was back on air after around 11 months
absence
0800-1400 on 9677.5*unknown tx / unknown CeAs Azeri, weak on April 11:
* with broadband FM modulation on SW; from 1100 QRM 9680 RTI+CNR-1
jammer
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/04/ictimai-radio-was-back-on-air-after.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, April 10-11, WOR iog via WORLD OF
RADIO 1926, DXLD)
** BAHRAIN. Fair to good signal of Radio Bahrain on April 13:
from 0713 on 9745 ABH 010 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic CUSB
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/04/fair-to-good-signal-of-radio-bahrain-on.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, April 12-13, WOR iog via DXLD)
** BOLIVIA. 3310, (presumed) Radio Mosoj Chaski at 0158 UT April 15
talk to 0204 off. Poor. Rx: Perseus SDR, Ant: Wellbrook ALA100 loop.
73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta, WOR iog via DXLD)
** BOLIVIA. 6025. RED PATRIA NUEVA. Abril 9. 1045-1055 UT.
Informaciones sobre la agenda presidencial, Declaraciones del
Presidente Evo Morales en contra del proceso judicial del Ex
presidente brasileño Lula da Silva, visita a escuelas, y noticias
departamentales. SINPO: 43343 (Claudio Galaz, RX: Tecsun PL 660; ANT:
Dipolo; QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD)
** BONAIRE. Estimado Sr. Hauser: Le comento que escuché a RTM Bonaire
en Mérida, Yucatán, México entre las 0125 y 0225 UT el 02 de abril UT
(2025 - 2125 domingo, hora local de verano; 2125 - 2225 domingo, hora
de Bonaire) con señal SINPO variable entre 43333 y 22222. Mi receptor
es un Radio Shack multibanda modelo 20-125 con antena telescópica. A
continuación un detalle de la escucha (en tiempo UT):
0125 - Música.
0140 - Una locutora hablando sobre las tarjetas de crédito. Música de
mariachi mexicano.
0145 - Un programa sobre "arqueología bíblica" con un locutor hablando
sobre el profeta Simeón.
0155 - Música.
0200 - Una locutora identifica la emisora, seguida por el programa "La
palabra de hoy" acerca del juicio final.
0210 - Música.
0225 - Música.
El audio está un youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-bubEUSAns
Observaciones: Moderada interferencia de Radio Reloj en 790 vía Pinar
del Río, Cuba y una estación de habla inglesa aparentemente
estadunidense. El ruido de fondo pertenece al receptor. Se escuchó
durante la recepción un moderado “burst” sin “beeps” (posiblemente
alguna señal utilitaria cercana). Atte. (Ing. Israel González Ahumada,
M.I., DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BONAIRE. ETT BESÖK PÅ TWR BONAIRE --- MARKUS WEIDNER via Google
25.3.2018. Översättning Bengt Ericson [originally German?]
Markus Weidner från Tyskland har gjort ett dagsbesök på TWR-kontoret i
Kralendijk som nu sänder med effekten 450 kW på frekvensen 800 kHz.
Detta är den starkaste MV-sändaren på den amerikanska kontinenten.
TWR-anläggningen finns på Google-kartor och med hyrbilen styrde jag
kosan från flygplatsen Flamingo International Airport mot den nordliga
utkanten av Bonair’s huvudstad Kralendijk.
Här låg alltså radiohuset/kontoret och en trevlig medarbetare visade
mig runt med studios och allt samt förklarade vägen till
sändaranläggningen. Den låg söder om flygplatsen och jag kan inte
förstå att jag inte såg masterna då för på håll syntes de 4 masterna
mycket tydligt. Jag fotograferade sändaranläggningen på avstånd för
att få helheten av anläggningen (se bild nedan). När jag sedan närmade
mig sändarbyggnaden kom en TWR medarbetare fram och ställde frågor och
jag förklarade att jag gärna ville se anläggningen. Mannen hette Jonas
och talade flytande tyska. Han var från Schweiz! Han visade runt och
berättade att man fått mycket positiva brev från lyssnare i Brasilien
och Kuba över den förbättrade signalen. Naturligtvis hade
energiräkningen ökat kraftigt, då man gick från 100 till 450 kW.
MV-sändaren med antenn- er kunde inte vara bättre belägen vid
kustremsan. Marken är fuktig och våg- utbredningen perfekt.
Stationen har ju hörts i Skandinavien och dx-rapporter har kommit. Jag
hade stor tur för normalt kommer man inte in vid spontanbesök, men ett
så trevligt mottagande jag fick är sällsynt (ARC mv-eko 9 April via
DXLD)
A visit to TWR Bonaire --- Markus Weidner via Google 25.3.2018.
Translation Bengt Ericson
Markus Weidner from Germany has made a day visit to the TWR office in
Kralendijk, which now transmits with the 450 kW power at the 800 kHz
frequency. This is the strongest MW transmitter on [sic] the American
continent. The TWR facility is on Google maps and with the rental car
I managed to drive from Flamingo International Airport to the north
outskirts of Bonaire's capital Kralendijk.
Here was the radiohouse / office and a nice employee showed me around
with studios and everything and explained the way to the transmitter.
It was south of the airport and I can not understand why I did not see
the masts, because on their way the 4 masts seemed very clear. I
photographed the transmitter at a distance to get the whole of the
facility (see picture below). When I approached the transmitter
building, a TWR employee came up and asked questions and I explained
that I would like to see the facility. The man was called Jonas and
spoke fluent German. He was from Switzerland!
He showed around and told you that you received very positive letters
from listeners in Brazil and Cuba about the improved signal. Of
course, the energy bill had risen sharply when it went from 100 to 450
kW. The antenna MW transmitter could not be better located at the
coastal strip. The ground is moist and the wavelength is perfect. The
stations have been heard in Scandinavia and DX reports have arrived. I
was lucky enough for usually, I do not come in for spontaneous visits,
but such a nice reception I received is rare (Google translation from
Swedish via gh, DXLD)
** BRAZIL. 4895, Rádio Novo Tempo - Campo Grande (Ondas Tropicais) ---
Essa emissora vem teansmitindo de forma inrregular eles dizem que essa
transmissão é principalmente para os Estados da Amazônia legal após eu
reclamar ontem via facebook tive a alegria de escutar hoje as 12:01
UTC passou um ID do site da emissora e comentários adventistas gospel.
SINPO 44444 Dia 12 Abril 2018
https://youtu.be/S1NQWjX-MPU
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. 7675 kHz, Rádio Pink Panther - Araraquara / SP Brasil
Recebida muito forte em meu QTH. Passando início de músicas de
desenhos animados e principalmente o tema da pantera cor de rosa SINPO
44333 em 12:19 UTC Dia 13 Abril 2018
https://youtu.be/JEHisUfwNi0
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 1926, DXLD)
** BRAZIL. 7800 kHz, Rádio Cachoeiras - Cachoeiras de Macacu / RJ
Brasil --- Locutores falando, SINPO 24122, Dia 16 Abril 2018, 1952 UT
https://youtu.be/5qmb8yr5VyM
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. Novas emissoras em ondas curtas do Brasil --- Mais 3
emissoras vão entrar em ondas curtas a partir de Junho 2018, chegando
agora ao total de 9 emissoras para entrar no ar.
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8470 kHz Rádio Contraste (Estado da Paraíba)
http://contrasteparaiba.blogspot.com.br/
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Frequência ?? Rádio Onda Livre Global (Estado da Paraíba)
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10240 kHz Rádio Fronteira (Estado da Paraíba)
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Demais Rádios anunciadas apartir Junho 2018:
12100 kHz Rádio Gavião (Estado de Mato Grosso)
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8005 kHz Rádio Litoral Norte (Estado do Ceará)
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6985 kHz Rádio ??? (Estado de São Paulo)
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Rádio ??? Frequência ??? (Estado de Goiás)
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Rádio ??? Frequência ??? (Estado do Rio Grande do sul)
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Rádio ??? Frequência ??? (Estado de Minas Gerais)
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Os transmissores estão sendo feitos no estado da Paraíba e 2 no estado
de São Paulo. 73 (Daniel Wyllyans, April 11, Hard-Core-DX mailing list
via WORLD OF RADIO 1926, DXLD) low power pirates; ever heard in North
America? (gh, DXLD)
** BRAZIL. 11915, Rádio Gaúcha, Porto Alegre, 2001-2022, 11-04, on air
with Portuguese talks, female and male. Interference from Arabia.
12321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, WOR iog via DXLD)
** BULGARIA. 11600, Overcomer Ministry at 1524 with Brother Stair
pontificating – Weak Apr 15 – I guess the Bulgarians have no morals
and don't care who they rent airtime to (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario,
Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-
fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD)
** CANADA. QSL card received from CFRX Toronto
6070, CFRX, Toronto, 1000 watts, snail mail QSL card received in 12
days for reception report about a transmission between 0444 and 0610
UT, 1 April. Verification signer Steve Canney, QSL Manager.
Reception reports can be sent to:
cfrbcfrxreport@gmail.com
or
CFRX
Steve Canney, VA3SC
1831 Waterdown Rd.
Burlington
Ontario Canada
L7P 5A2
Criteria to receive a CFRB/CFRX QSL card: http://cfrx.webs.com/
"Return postage is greatly appreciated and ensures a faster response.
For Canadians, include one $1 or an SASE, U.S. listeners $2 dollars,
and for international listeners, $3 in Canadian or U.S. funds
Date you heard CFRB or CFRX;
Time you heard the transmission (local or UT);
Frequency (specify CFRB 1010 or CFRX 6070 kHz);
Program material (at least 10 minutes of specific program material
heard, i.e. name of announcer, commercials heard, news items etc.);
Signal report (a general overview of how well you were hearing the
signal in your location); Mention of the type of equipment and antenna
you were using to hear the signal is helpful as well." (Manuel Méndez,
Lugo, Spain, WOR iog via DXLD)
** CANADA. RANDY HENDERSON RETIRES AS HOST OF CBC NORTHBEAT
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/randy-henderson-retires-1.4609239
(via Gerald T Pollard, NC, April 7, DXLD)
** CHAD [non]. 5960, April 14 at 0459, carrier at S9-S8, soon African
music, and announcement in *French*, which I can`t copy fully,
including, ``Vous êtes à l`ecoute de --- internationale``, ``six
heures, samedi quatorze avril``, fréquences and program summary for
the hour to follow; 0503 hilife music.
Since it starts in French rather than English, I assume this is the
one originating from Ndjamena rather than Maiduguri, whether it is
really appelling itself Ndarason rather than Dandal Kura yet. This
hour only is now registered as 250 kW, 65 degrees from ASCENSION,
something BaBcoCkian in Kanuri (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1926,
DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also NIGERIA [non]!
11830, FRANCE, Radio Ndarason (Dandal Kura International) at 1935 in
Kanuri with a man taking several phone calls – Fair April 17 (Mark
Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40
and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD)
** CHINA. 11785, CRI at 1244 in Mandarin jamming the VOA via the
Philippines in Mandarin with a man and woman with excited promos –
Fair to Good Apr 11 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or
Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA
iog via DXLD)
** CHINA [and non]. CNR-1 jammer vs SOH Xi Wang Zhi Sheng, April 12
from 0828 on 11410 unknown kW / non-dir to EaAs Chinese
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/04/strong-signal-of-cnr-1-jammer-vs-soh-xi.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, April 11-12, WOR iog via DXLD)
CNR-1 jammer vs SOH Xi Wang Zhi Sheng, April 13
0920-1000 on 12150 unknown kW / non-dir to EaAs Chinese
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/04/strong-signal-of-cnr-1-jammer-vs-soh-xi_13.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, April 12-13, WOR iog via DXLD)
CNR-1 jammer vs SOH Xi Wang Zhi Sheng, April 14
from 0930 on 12150 unknown kW / non-dir to EaAs Chinese
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/04/very-good-signal-of-cnr-1-jammer-vs-soh.html
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/04/updated-summer-18-schedule-of-ocb-radio.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, April 13-14, WOR iog via DXLD)
** CHINA [and non]. 13675, CNR1 at 1527 in Mandarin jamming RFA in
Mandarin via Tajikistan with a man with excited talk – Weak Apr 15
13690, CNR1 at 1329 // 11785 and 13830 in Mandarin jamming the VOA via
the Northern Marianas with Chinese opera music – Fair Apr 15
13830, CNR1 at 1326 // 11785 in Mandarin jamming RFA in Tibetan via
Tajikistan with Chinese opera music – Fair Apr 15 (Mark Coady, Selwyn,
Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off
centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD)
** CHINA [and non]. 11640, CNR1 at 1320 in Mandarin jamming RTI in
Mandarin with two women with excited talk then two men with excited
talk at 1322 – Very Good Apr 16
11785, CNR1 at 1323 // 11640 in Mandarin jamming the VOA in Mandarin
via the Philippines with two men with excited talk – Very Good Apr 16
11900, CNR1 at 1408 in Mandarin jamming the VOA in Mandarin via the
Philippines with a news fanfare and a man with excited talk – Fair to
Good Apr 16
13690, CNR1 at 1338 // 11640, 11785, and 13830 in Mandarin jamming the
VOA in Mandarin via the Northern Marianas with two men and a woman
with excited talk – Good Apr 16
13830, CNR1 at 1331 // 11640 and 11785 in Mandarin jamming RFA in
Tibetan via Tajikistan with a man and woman with excited talk – Good
Apr 16
13830, TAJIKISTAN, RFA at 1332 in Tibetan with a man with talk –
Barely audible under CNR1 jammer Apr 16 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario,
Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-
fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD)
** CHINA. 9675, April 13 at 1342, S6-S7 classic rock music; 1411
Russian. CRI Russian at 13-15, 500 kW, 37 degrees from SZG site for
DVR, and consequently also USward. 500 kW from Saudi Arabia is also
listed here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COLOMBIA. As to my Colombian news last week, I made fatal mistakes
by mentioning "ex-Wepa Radio" in two meanings: 1) "ex-Wepa Radio"
should be written as "ex-Wepa Salsa". 2) The "ex-Wepa Salsa" was
incorrect. They are still operating on 1580 kHz according to my
monitor today, up to 1056 UT, and Verdad Radio appeared at 1057! They
share the frequency (ARC mv-eko 9 April via DXLD)
** COLOMBIA. 5910.354V, April 11 at 0631, Alcaraván Radio is back
after absence several nights, now good S9-S7 with peppy troppy music
not suitable for the nightmiddle. No sign of the other HJDH, La Voz de
tu Conciencia, circa 6010v (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COOK ISLANDS. See DX-PEDITIONS below after the ~~~~~~~~~~
** CUBA. 6060. RHC. Abril 7. 0122-0146 UT. Información de la feria del
libro de la ciudad de Las Tunas. A las 0127, se emite una reseña
acerca del músico Gonzalo Ascencio y sus composiciones de guaguancó,
posteriormente se emite una pieza musical de su autoría. A las 0130:
se identifica la sección: ``Desde mi Habana`` acerca de un galardón
científico, informaciones sobre la colaboración medica entre Cuba-
Venezuela, Situación acerca del ex presidente brasileño Lula Da Silva,
Condena a un ataque perpetrado por Israel, Embajada de Cuba en Buenos
Aires, Actividades del Presidente Evo Morales, Llamado de ex
Presidenta chilena Bachelet a la ONU, Reunión entre Turquía y Rusia,
Solución de barras de acero en Cuba, Manifestaciones a favor de Lula
Da Silva en Brasil. Desde las 0137, informaciones deportivas. A las
0143, se emite un comentario político sobre Costa Rica. SINPO: 55444
(Claudio Galaz, RX: Tecsun PL 660; ANT: Dipolo; QTH: Ovalle, IV
Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD)
What nerve Cuba has, ``book fairs`` where there is no freedom of the
press or speech (gh, DXLD)
6165, April 11 at 0635, guess what: RHC English back on here ex-6180
after three days. Maybe Arnie got our message about all the collisions
on 6180; or maybe it`s a mistake, old habits dying hard by the
RadioCuba sloppyrators. 6180 still shows on an ``updated`` sked via
Wolfgang Büschel today. Remains // 6000, 6100, about equally
undermodulated, and 6060 more modulated. Something`s always wrong at
RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1926, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
9535, April 11 at 1102, RHC is good already, just opening `Despertar
con Cuba` with Bárbara Betancourt for the next trihour. 7340 is JBA;
6100, 6060 and 6000 are good. Nothing audible on 11 or 13 MHz bands
this early.
13740, April 11 at 1358, RHC Spanish, seems under S9+30 open carrier
prior to CRI English relay via a different transmitter. Another
transmitter with CRI on 9570 is not off quite yet. Better coordinated
today on 13740: at 1400 RHC stops and CRI opening English news in the
clear.
13700 is not off today for RHC, at 1400 starting 48 minutes of `Sonido
Cubano`, ``música cubana de todos los tiempos``, first song titled
``Amor Prohibido``. 13670, yet another RHC transmitter at 1402 still
on with S9+20 of dead air.
[and non]. 7435, April 11 at 1227, jamming against no Martí anymore,
instead blocking CRI in Chinese, eastward from Beijing site; Commies
vs Commies! Also 7355 jamming against ALASKA, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Radio Habana Cuba RHC again on B-17 frequency 6165, April 12
2000-2030 15140 BAU 100 kW / 340 deg to WNAm French as scheduled A18
0100-0700 6165*BAU 100 kW / 340 deg to WNAm English not on A18 6180
*0300-0400 6165 EMR 250 kW / 138 deg to N/ME English Voice of Turkey
*0430-0500 6165 NAU 125 kW / 085 deg to EaEu Russian Radio Japan NHK
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/04/radio-habana-cuba-in-english-again-on-b.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, April 11-12, WOR iog via DXLD)
6165, April 12 at 0428, RHC still back on old frequency, ex-6180, so
apparently a deliberate reversion, and applicable before 0500. It`s
just barely modulated, so what difference does it make? Recheck at
0615: 6165 S9/S9+10 and JBM; 6100 S8-S4 also JBM; 6060 S9/S9+10 with
sufficient mod; 6000 S9+10/20 and suff. Something`s always wrong at
RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1926, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
RHC's on again / off again A-18 schedule etc. --- As noted by GH, Cuba
is back to 6165 for the wee hours UT broadcast to North America. They
may have listened to an email I sent over the weekend complaining that
6180 was a poor choice, but if that was part of the reason for the
reversion, they did NOT listen to the second part of my email
complaining about the poor modulation / transmitter condition. They
are only a small step away from giving Radio Cairo a run for its money
with things are they are now - I hope they can get their act together.
ANYHOO, Here're my logs/observations for A-18 from Central Lower
Michigan:
RHC in English for the Americas at 0400- on 11/Apr. Only two
frequencies in English this hour and apparently the email I sent them
Monday AM (telling them 6180 was a bad frequency choice!) worked as
they are back on 6165. Unfortunately, my chastisement about their poor
audio modulation / transmitter issues wasn't acted on so quickly.
We'll see if they don't work on that too. For today though:
6000 5 4+5 4+3 Muffled but not so bad as last weekend.
6165 4 4 4 4 2 apparently back here due to lots of QRM at this
hour when they had switched to
6180. Still lousy modulation! 0410-0415 11/Apr SDRplay +SDRuno +ANC-4
+randomwire --Zichi MI
RHC in English for the Americas at 0500 on 9/Apr. BOY do they need to
overhaul their transmitters already. Modulation is getting worse and
worse, starting to give R Cairo a run for its money!:
5040: 3+4 4+4 3 much weaker than 5025 in SS
6000: 5 5 5 4+2+ VERY muffled
6060 4+4+5 4+3+ weaker, but modulation clearer than 6000, a hum
in the carrier, but that was less a problem than the mumble on 6000!
6100: 3+4+4 4 2 very weak, poor modulation, not fun.
6180: 4+4+5 4 2+ poor modulation but slightly stronger
Especially when Arnie Coro was 'phoning in' his DXers Unlimited the
audio it was impossible to understand him at all on any channel other
than 6060.
In the previous hour, RRI from Romania was stepping all OVER RHC on
6180. This is not a good choice, but frankly, given the poor audio, it
doesn't much matter! 0500-0545 9/Apr SDRplay +SDRuno +ANC-4
+randomwire --Zichi MI
-- One can never be too rich, too thin or have too many radios.
D <-- and I'm still not with stupid! --> R
kv zichi radioguy73@gmail.com (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Williamston MI,
April 12, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Just a quick check this UT morning, noted on remote SDR in Detroit
Michigan US state. 0605 UT on April 12:
6165 kHz back, S=9+20dB.
6100 kHz weakest S=6 poor
6060 S=9, but suffer by Brazilian 6029.830v interference B U Z Z
6000 kHz S=9+10dB
73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
13740, April 12 at 1358, RHC with clix, or rather intermittent carrier
dropouts, weaker than // 13700 without dropouts. At 1400, 13740 goes
to dead air, when the transition to CRI English relay is supposed to
occur; no dropouts so transmitter change apparently succeeded; but
cuts off the air at 1402:35*. *1404:25 cuts on with RHC music,
undermodulated, not CRI English! It`s `Sonido Cubano`, good show of
songs seemingly non-propagandistic respite, so I keep listening to
detect when, if ever, CRI English come up.
13740, 1431:40, smooth transition from `Sonido` to CRI English just as
`Roundtable` is starting, rather inane chat show. Transmission break
at 1432:55*-*1433:15, as I quit listening.
9570, meanwhile, the CRI English relay supposed to end at 1400, is
still going at 1408, S9-S6 and undermodulated with squeals on the
sidebands; off by 1418. Somethings` always wrong at RadioCuba.
6000, April 13 at 0059, no signal from RHC past 0100 when English is
supposed to start, as it is already underway on 6165 with `This Day in
History`. A JBA carrier on 6000, however, inexplicable unless R.
Guaíba, Brasil has come back after years to match the listing in
Aoki/NDXC.
(Meanwhile, at 0059.5 my nearest streetlite ignites with an RF noise
burst, vs orange sky at 0103 sunset tnx to huge wildfires in western
OK.)
7330, April 13 at 0105, RHC Spanish is still adjacent to jamming and
R. Martí on 7335; huge splash unless tuned in LSB (the other Martí on
7365 requires this BBC Pashto listener via AUSTRIA 7360 also to employ
LSB).
13700, April 13 at 1304, RHC Spanish not on yet, supposed to start at
1300; but 13740 is going from its earlier sign-on.
I knew it! 13700 is on by 1333 recheck, heard first around 13565
impinging on the Part 15 HIFER band, among constellation of filthy
FMish spurblobs, just like the same transmitter used to spew all over
the 19mb from 15370 in B-17, frequently but not every day. The F#
above Cmiddle tone is there too and also audible in AM on fundamental
13700. The closer spurs are best audible in FM mode, but not fully
quieted. The further ones only a trace of the blob or tone, all quite
approx. around 67 kHz intervals: 13565, 13633, 13767, 13834, 13901,
13968, 14038? 13499, 13432, 13366, 13300? Something`s always wrong at
RHC.
7330, April 14 at 0054, no signal from RHC, supposedly scheduled 21-04
UT. Nor anything on 7340, the other side of jamming and Radio Martí,
which is supposedly scheduled mornings only, 11-15 UT. But at 0455,
7340 is on with RHC Spanish, S9, undermodulated and USB necessary vs
7335 jamming and Martí; off by 0505 recheck. Something`s always wrong
at RHC.
6100, April 14 at 0504, RHC English missing from this one, still
nothing at 0514. The rest of The Cuban Five are on: best on 5040 and
6060 as usual; 6000 suptorted --- wiggle that patchcord; 6165 is S9 to
S9+20/30 with old news obviously pre-Drumpf strike on Syria (if there
is any ``breaking news`` after 0100 UT, RHC won`t get around to it
until tomorrow; or maybe not even after 1900 UT when the English hour
airs first, to be repeated seven times). Something`s always wrong at
RHC.
13700, April 14 at 1457, RHC is on but no spurs today, tsk2.
6100, Sunday April 15 at 1227, RHC with Spanish mainstream
programming, 1236 `Cuba Campesina` music with QRM here from China, but
// clear 6060 and 6000. Wolfgang Büschel`s schedule received from
Arnie claims 6100 only carries the separate `Mesa Redonda` TV
discussion show at 1100-1300 (daily, u.o.s.), in addition to live
broadcast 23-24 UT Mon-Thu on 6000 & 11950, but I have my doubts;
certainly, not today. The version sent out by the Correspondence
Department also has 6100 at 11-13 under Mesa Redonda but I thought it
was misplaced. Try it on weekdays.
13569-FM in the ISM band, April 15 at 1330, after a respite yesterday,
RHC 13700-AM transmitter is back in force today spewing a dozen FM
spurblobs all over the 22 mb, and even into the 20mb hamband, oh oh!
Along with F# tone, VG almost fully quieted circa 13633, 13569, 13502;
13767, 13833; also detectable out to 13436, 13368, 13302; 13900,
13966, 14032, 14100; i.e. averaging ~67 kHz intervals. 1336 `En
Contacto` starts. Hey, Arnie, this would be a great topic for your
show, explaining how and why these occur; yeah, right. Anyway, I
comprehend his lickety-split presentation on one of them rather than
13700-AM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 13650, CRI China (via la Habana) at 2258. M in
Japanese with opening announcements heard under powerful open carrier.
Right on the hour (2300), CRI opens with CRI theme music and M in
Portuguese. As CRI continues their opening spiel, NHK Japan could be
heard clearly underneath. Recheck had what sounded like Japanese pop
which made me wonder by then who was who. Well, no, the presenter was
speaking Portuguese (which always sounds to me like a Russian speaking
Spanish). VG Apr 15. Grundig Satellit, RS SW-2000629, and HQ-180A with
various outdoor wires. Use of portables noted where relevant for
perspective on signal strength comments. 73 to all of you and Good
Listening....! (Rick Barton, Central AZ, WOR iog via DXLD)
** CUBA. 6100, Monday April 16 at 1234, RHC Spanish // 6060 and 6000,
but CCI only on 6100 from CRI Russian. Need to keep checking 6100
between 11 and 13 whether there is any alternative `Mesa Redonda`
programming non // as alleged in some schedule version.
13700-AM, April 16 at 1343, RHC today accomplishes not 12 but 14
detectable FMish spurblobs, as always the closest ones decoding
clearly in FM mode, trailing off to the edges where nothing but a
trace of the F# tone can be heard, at approx. 67-kHz intervals: 13767,
13834, 13900 good; 13967, 14034, 14100; 13634, 13569, 13502 good;
13436, 13370, 13302 vs aero comms selcall, 13235, 13169. Something`s
always wrong at RHC. Surprised that no one else is reporting these, as
can`t be missed in ordinary bandscanning.
6140, April 17 at 0627, RHC in English, very weak, S2, new frequency?
Yes and no: it must be a leapfrog mixing product of 6060 over 6100
another 40 kHz higher; I do not recall hearing one here before.
Without embargo, it has more modulation than 6165 which is S9; because
as usual 6060 is well-modulated; and it runs S9+10/20, while 6100 is
less modulated at S9+10/20. Something`s always wrong at RHC.
13700, April 17 at 1405 check, no spur constellation across the 13.3-
14.1 MHz range, a day off, but surely will be back soon. Something`s
always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1926, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
RHC on nine frequencies in the 25mb (three of them spurious):
11670, April 17 at 2333, is S9+20 of dead air
11700, April 17 at 2333, weak S7-S9 music
11760, April 17 at 2333, VG S9+20 music
11840, April 17 at 2334, S9+10 but sup-torted, with weak 11830 & 11850
parasites
11880, April 17 at 2335, S9-S9+10 but undermodulated starting `DXers
Unlimited`, as Arnie`s voice is very rough today; about near hit by
asteroid on Sunday; and Radio Swan. Every spring he goes on and on
about RHC`s anniversary May 1 (and earlier Onda Corta Experimental
Cubana); living in the past, as The Revolution really has no future.
Better audible on // 5040 but more noisy down there.
11950, April 17 at 2336, separate Spanish `Mesa Redonda`, S9+10/20
12000, no signal despite being on the new schedules.
With all those fundamentals there ought to be some leapfrogs:
12020, April 17 at 2355 is the only one I find, JBA with same audio as
11950, but a mixture with 11880 English transmitter, 70 kHz intervals.
Something`s always wrong at RHC. Checking a few others, at 2353, 15730
in Portuguese and 15230 is off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [non]. Radio Martini, 7365, 0300 GMT, S9 Latin music and talk
(Mike Stone, Arlington Heights IL, Yaesu FT-840 with longwire, 0153 UT
April 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) So refers to April 12?
Friday, April 13, 2018 Updated summer A-18 schedule of OCB Radio Marti
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/04/updated-summer-18-schedule-of-ocb-radio.html
0000-0300 on 6030 GB 250 kW / 205 deg to Cuba Spanish
0000-0300 on 7335*GB 250 kW / 185 deg to Cuba Spanish
0000-0300 on 7365 GB 250 kW / 183 deg to Cuba Spanish
0300-0500 on 6030 GB 250 kW / 205 deg to Cuba Spanish
0300-0500 on 7335*GB 250 kW / 185 deg to Cuba Spanish
0300-0500 on 7435 GB 250 kW / 184 deg to Cuba Spanish
0500-0700 on 6030 GB 250 kW / 205 deg to Cuba Spanish
0500-0700 on 7335*GB 250 kW / 185 deg to Cuba Spanish
0500-0700 on 7365 GB 250 kW / 184 deg to Cuba Spanish
0700-1000 on 5980 GB 250 kW / 184 deg to Cuba Spanish
0700-1000 on 6030 GB 250 kW / 205 deg to Cuba Spanish
1000-1200 on 6030 GB 250 kW / 205 deg to Cuba Spanish
1000-1200 on 7335*GB 250 kW / 185 deg to Cuba Spanish
1000-1200 on 9805 GB 250 kW / 183 deg to Cuba Spanish
1200-1300 on 7335*GB 250 kW / 185 deg to Cuba Spanish
1200-1300 on 7365 GB 250 kW / 205 deg to Cuba Spanish
1200-1300 on 9805 GB 250 kW / 183 deg to Cuba Spanish
1300-1400 on 7335*GB 250 kW / 185 deg to Cuba Spanish
1300-1400 on 7365 GB 250 kW / 205 deg to Cuba Spanish
1300-1400 on 13605 GB 250 kW / 184 deg to Cuba Spanish
1400-2000 on 11930 GB 250 kW / 172 deg to Cuba Spanish
1400-2000 on 13605 GB 250 kW / 184 deg to Cuba Spanish
2000-2300 on 9565 GB 250 kW / 184 deg to Cuba Spanish
2000-2300 on 11930 GB 250 kW / 184 deg to Cuba Spanish
2300-2400 on 7335*GB 250 kW / 185 deg to Cuba Spanish
2300-2400 on 9565 GB 250 kW / 184 deg to Cuba Spanish
2300-2400 on 11930 GB 250 kW / 184 deg to Cuba Spanish
*unregistered in HFCC, co-ch Radio Romania International
0000-0156 on 7335 GAL 300 kW / 310 deg to ENAm Romanian
??????????? ?? Observer ? 3:05 PM (Bulgarian DX blog via DXLD)
** CUBA [and non]. 9490, April 14 at 0059, only jamming heard past
0100 as jamming builds up, but soon JBA carrier detectable amid from
Radio República. HFCC A-18 claims RMI has some Spanish broadcast, 150
kW, 285 degrees from Issoudun, FRANCE at 0200-0300 & 0300-0400; also
days 1 & 7 only at 0400-0500. And duplicate registrations on 7350,
where nothing is heard, after CRI English via Kashgar until <0100.
WRTH 2018 pp 512-513 shows two websites:
http://www.directorio.org
which linx in turn to this for the broadcasts in particular:
http://directorio.wildapricot.org/radiorepublica
Wild Apricot? What`s that about? It shows:
``CUBA: Onda Corta 9490 kHz
lunes a viernes 9pm-11pm
sabados y domingos 9pm-12am``
i.e. EST/EDT, so during Yanqui-mandated DST, it`s one UT hour earlier
than registered, starting at 0100 UT! And the weekend extension in UT
days should be in HFCC as 1 & 2, not 7 & 1. ABOUT:
``Radio República is an International radio station run by the Cuban
Democratic Directorate "Directorio" transmitting uncensored news and
information to the Cuban people. Radio Republica serves as a voice for
Cuba's Resistance Movement throughout the island. In addition to
providing "real" news to the Cuban people, Radio Republica is a sought
after refuge for Cuban activists seeking to record acts of repression
in progress. Radio Republica serves as a vehicle to document and
monitor the whereabouts and physical integrity of activists suffering
pursecution [sic] for their pro-democarcy [sic] activity. Radio
Republica also serves to give voice to, and help coordinate the grass
roots movement for freedom and justice throughout municipalities and
communities in the island. >Mas [sic, from August 2017:]
https://www.diariolasamericas.com/florida/radio-republica-una-voz-al-aire-la-resistencia-cubana-que-cumple-12-anos-n4130409
Radio República es una estación de radio internacional del Directorio
Democrático Cubano que transmite noticias e información sin censura al
pueblo cubano. Radio República sirve como voz para la Resistencia
Cubana por toda la Isla. Radio República constituye un santuario para
todos los activistas cubanos en la Isla que necesita [sic] documentar
los actos de represión en el momento en que ocurren. Radio República
sirve como vehículo para documentar y monitorear el destino y la
integridad física de los activistas que sufren persecución por su
lucha por el respeto a los derechos humanos. Radio República también
le brinda una tribuna y contribuye a la coordinación del movimiento
popular por la libertad y la justicia en los municipios y las
comunidades de la Isla >More [sic, link to same Spanish story]``
It`s always seemed strange to me that RR, which originally broadcast
via WRMI when it was 9955 only, altho brokered by RMI, keeps using
France now that multiple much closer 100 kW Okeechobee transmitters
are available, which ought to put a stronger signal into Cuba vs the
jamming. From over here, the 9490 signal from France varies greatly in
level and S/N ratio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EAST TURKISTAN. 5959.954, April 16 at 1228, Urumqi poor in Chinese,
soon ID mentioning Xinjiang; one-pip timesignal? about 1230:13.
Characteristic off-frequency, also sometimes making it around our
sunset, grayline (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ECUADOR. 6050. HCJB. Abril 6. 1045-1100 UTC. Mujer habla en
quechua. Luego espacio musical, indicación de hora y fecha, junto a
diversos avisos. A las 1059, se da fin al servicio. SINPO: 45343.
6050. HCJB. Abril 7. 0030-0100 UT. Servicio en waodani. Se
inicia con canticos de mantra, luego hombre predica en aquel idioma. A
las 0046, se emiten canticos estilo mantra. Desde las 0053, se inicia
un devocional. Despedida del servicio a las 0059. A las 0100, se dan
avisos en español e informaciones del poder ejecutivo. SINPO: 35343
(Claudio Galaz, RX: Tecsun PL 660; ANT: Dipolo; QTH: Ovalle, IV
Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD)
** ECUADOR [non]. Akhbar Mufriha via BaBcoCk Woofferton/Ascension,
April 14
2100-2115 on 7300 WOF 250 kW / 170 deg to NoAf Tachelhit
2115-2145 on 7300 WOF 250 kW / 170 deg to NoAf Arabic
2145-2215 on 9530 ASC 125 kW / 027 deg to WeAf Hassinya Thu-Tue
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/04/radio-akhbar-mufriha-via-babcock.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, April 14-15, WOR iog via DXLD)
** EGYPT. Radio Cairo still on the air? R Cairo on air on two channels
tonight. At 1850 UT on April 6 heard a very low (5 % only) modulated
signal on 9489.996 kHz. S=9+35dB powerhouse here in southern Germany.
Arab song group traditionell of R Cairo music of 40 years ago.
Transmission lasted still at 19 UT when German language ID and R Cairo
time schedule heard til 1900:49 UT on April 6
9490 1800 1900 28 ABS 200 325 211 Ita EGY ERU
9570 1900 2000 27,28 ABS 200 325 211 Deu EGY ERU
9605 1900 2000 29 ABS 250 5 146 Rus EGY ERU
Now from 1901 UT on Apr 6 on 9569.997 kHz German language and very odd
frequency of 9604.592 kHz Russian section on air. Both 9569.997 and
9604.592 were switched OFF exact at 2000 UT on April 6.
Now at 1949 UT Russian 9604.592 kHz is much better stronger modulated,
little scratchy sound, but on 'understandable' level. German sce on
9569.997 kHz is still under-modulated at 1951 UT on April 6. At 1934
UT still on air both,
Russian 9604.592 kHz, forget to tell tremendous signal strength of
+ S=9+45dB powerhouse and more. German sce 9569.997 kHz on little less
S=9+35dB powerful signal tonight.
R Cairo in French at 2003 UT heard a very low modulated signal on
9894.579 kHz. S=9+35dB powerhouse here in southern Germany. Flute and
drums traditional Arabic orchestra performed.
22 kHz wideband signal seen on Perseus software screen.
9895 2000 2115 27,28 ABS 200 325 211 Fra EGY ERU
9800 2115 2245 27,28 ABS 200 325 211 Eng EGY ERU
And now R Cairo's English service heard 2115 til break at 2130 UT on
9799.585 kHz exact, tremendous S=9+50dB -24dBm ! powerhouse,
overmodulated, but English content could be recognized easily so far.
At 2134 UT were back on air, long lasting newscast could be heard.
2144 UT Arabic music orchestra played in Egyptian style. 16 kHz
wideband audio, but broader 10 kHz on lower sideband, though 6 kHz on
upper side flank.
9799.585 kHz Radio Cairo at 2152:02 UT on April 6, transmitter off.
let`s wait for:
9710 2215 2330 13,15 ABS 250 241 218 Por EGY ERU
9660 2330 0045 13,15 ABS 250 241 218 Ara EGY ERU
{later}
15285 kHz 1700-1900 UT 48,53 ABZ 100 kW 160deg 146 SomAmh EGY ERU
Probably R Cairo Somali service, but only empty carrier at 1757 til
1805 UT on 15285.002 kHz request for Abu Zabaal center, S=9+5dB here
in western Europe. Heard only very, very low modulation of 1 - 2 % at
1809 UT on April 7. And also some 4 x 50 Hertz apart distance strings
visible either sideband, at 1800:40 UT.
15290 kHz 1900-2030 UT 46,47,52 ABZ 100kW 250deg 211 English EGY ERU
Yes, at 19z left Abu Zabaal 15285 kHz, moved to 15290 kHz in West
Africa azimuth to zones 46,47,52, - but tiny signal though like
exciter string seen in western Europe and at KiwiSDR unit in Brazil
too.
Adjacent RFI 15300 kHz of much, much stronger signal ... compared.
When checked end of transmission, at 2028:30 UT TX OFF, string
disappeared. Nothing on air today Saturday on 9570 nor 9605 kHz.
Re Time Signal from Cairo
``Timesignal late about 2116 (with web delay too). (gh)``
Noted a Cairo Time signal earlier at 1915:17 UT last pip of serie,
followed by their music R Cairo ID theme then. Also at 2215:22 UT last
tone pip. Followed by Newscast, female presenter.
Powerhouse Radio Cairo Abis tonight, is similar strength compared at
same 2220 UT time span like 9640 kHz CRI Kashgar in Spanish, 500 kW !
of power. 2240:15 UT Abis TX-off.
NOTHING observed yet on v9710 kHz Portuguese scheduled towards Brazil.
[selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (wb df5sx, wwdxc
BC-DX TopNews April 7) (BC-DX 13 April via DXLD)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005, Radio Nacional, Bata, *0520-0536, 13-04,
opening transmission with Spanish and African songs, at 0536 signal
became inaudible. 15321. Due to dawn every day earlier here, it is
more difficult to hear this station (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs
in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, Cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD)
5005, Radio Nacional, Bata, *0519-0524, 15-04, open transmission at
this time, extremely weak here in Lugo, only carrier detected and some
songs detected, barely aduible. 15321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain,
Logs in Lugo, WOR iog via DXLD)
** ERITREA. 7140 & 7180, April 15 circa 0300, JBA AM carriers,
INTRUDERS amid the LSB hams, from VOBME, both now sounding close to
on-frequency judging from BFO het pitches, and no DRM noise jamming
audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ETHIOPIA [and non]. 5950, April 15 at 0311, V of Tigray Revolution
with HOA music horribly mixing with Oldies (// L&C 9455) from WRMI`s
greatly expanded new frequency, both weak and still a medium SAH.
Leads me to believe that WRMI is the one slightly off-frequency, as
same SAH was being heard earlier when nothing else is scheduled on
5950 to beat with it. Could that beat be caused by WRMI running two
transmitters on 5950, by mistake? As of 1550 UT April 15, WRMI
skedgrid http://www.tinyurl.com/WRMIfqs still has blank space for XMTR
#14 between 0200 and 1100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1926, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** ETHIOPIA. 6090, Amhara State Radio, 0246-0259, April 11. Anguilla
off the air; Amhara State Radio IS till 0259; better reception later
at 0328 with HOA music/singing. My local sunset at 0238 UT and sunrise
in Ethiopia at 0317 UT (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1,
antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD)
** ETHIOPIA [non]. Again April 16 no signal of Radio Xoriyo Ogaden via
TDF Issoudun
1600-1630 on 17870 ISS 500 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Somali Mon/Fri
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/04/oromo-voice-radio-voice-of-amara-radio_16.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, April 15-16, WOR iog via DXLD)
** EUROPE. 6305 kHz Radio Merlin International (United Kingdom
received in Brazil) Locution Voice men in English and musics, SINPO
33233, Day 14 Apr. 2018 in 2315 UT
https://youtu.be/sTyseLw7UJc
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)
** FALKLAND ISLANDS [and non]. LA RADIO Y EL CONFLICTO DE MALVINAS.
Publicado el abril 1, 2014 por lagalenadelsur
https://lagalenadelsur.wordpress.com/2014/04/01/la-radio-y-el-conflicto-de-malvinas/
(via Juan Franco Crespo, April 11, 2018, DXLD) That`s Horacio Nigro`s
blog in Uruguay; with many illustrations and audio clips (gh, DXLD)
** FIJI. 990-Fiji Gold Cyclone Information --- For Kiwi transplant
Tony Ward, this is one of hundreds of DU-DX recordings made on the
ocean beach of Aitutaki in the Cook Islands. A cyclone was passing
through Fiji waters on April 10th, affecting not only Fiji but Walt's
nearby cruise ship. At 0812 UTC 990-Fiji Gold's announcer gives the
current cyclone status, along with advice that if listeners' FM signal
is knocked out by the cyclone, they should tune to the AM frequency of
990. As with almost every other DU-DX target in Aitutaki, Fiji Gold
hits a thunderous S9 level during the recording, and shows no mercy to
a weak ANZ co-channel. This MP3 was recorded on the hot-rodded (7.5"
loopstick) C.Crane Skywave SSB Ultralight alone
https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/b5may3rbr5kuuwbus18lr4hala57x1vb
(Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA), April 17, IRCA via DXLD)
Much more: DX-PEDITIONS
** GEORGIA. It takes a village to jam a broadcast
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-43730458/the-soviet-villagers-who-blocked-western-radio-broadcasts
(via Chuck Albertson, Seattle, April 12, DXLD) with audio/video; also
(via Mike Barraclough, WOR iog via DXLD)
** GERMANY. Reception of DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst on April 15:
0600-0630 on 5905 PIN 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu German AM mode
0600-0630 on 6180 PIN 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu German AM mode
1200-1230 on 5905 PIN 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu German AM mode
1200-1230 on 6180 PIN 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu German AM mode
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/04/reception-of-dwd-deutscher-wetterdienst_16.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, April 15-16, WOR iog via DXLD)
** GREECE. PIRATE RADIO, Greek Pirate on 6001/6002 kHz, April 11-12:
from 1130 on 6001 unknown transmitter, fair/good April 11
from 0830 on 6002 unknown transmitter, fair/good April 12
from 0900 on 6001 unknown transmitter, fair/good April 12
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/04/unidentified-greek-music-pirate-on.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, April 11-12, WOR iog via DXLD)
** GREECE. Griechische Volksmusik - zum orthodoxen Osterfest bringt
die Voice of Greece schoene Volkslieder.
Heard lovely Greek folk music, on both
9935.011 kHz S=9+35dB at 2240 UT on April 7, female folk music singer,
and
9420.002 kHz S=9+45dB or -27dBm.
EXCELLENT SW signals reached central Europe tonight, either from
Pacific, East Asia, Udorn Thani Thailand, Cairo Africa, Emirler Turkey
and Cuba 11760 too !!!
[selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (wb df5sx, wwdxc
BC-DX TopNews April 7) (BC-DX 13 April via DXLD)
** INDIA. April 11 - AIR Jeypore (5040) back on the air again. 1148
with subcontinent music; at 1230, the New Delhi audio feed of the news
in English and // 4920 (Tibet QRM) // 4970 // 5010, but not // 4810
(Ron Howard, California, WOR iog via DXLD)
AIR Aligarh 9380 & AIR Jeypore 5040 are now back on air after a few
days abssnce. Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute
of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, 1454 UT April 11, dx_india yg via
DXLD)
** INDIA. The A18 schedule of All India Radio is now available in
their official web site:
http://www.allindiaradio.gov.in/Profile/Radio%20Network/Pages/default.aspx
Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur
Radio, Hyderabad, India, April 14, dx_india yg via DXLD)
The morning Urdu Service of AIR is now signing on 10 minutes later
than before as follows:
0025-0430 UT 1071 6140 7340 kHz (ex 0015-0430)
Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur
Radio, Hyderabad, India, April 16, dx_india yg via DXLD)
** IRAN [non]. No signal of R. Payem e-Doost via BaBcoCk Grigoriopol:
1800-1845 on 7480 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Farsi on April 11
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/04/no-signal-of-rpayem-e-doost-via-babcock.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, April 11-12, WOR iog via WORLD OF
RADIO 1926, DXLD)
Again no signal of Radio Ranginkaman & Radio Payem e-Doost, April 13
1600-1630 7580 TAC 100 kW / 236 deg Farsi Mon/Fri Radio Ranginkaman
1800-1845 7480 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg Farsi Daily Radio Payem e-Doost
My last videos of Radio Ranginkaman & Radio Payem e-Doost on Fri March
30, 2018
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/04/again-no-signal-of-radio-ranginkaman.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, April 13-14, ibid.)
Radio Ranginkaman/Radio Rainbow via BaBcoCk Tashkent on April 16
1600-1630 7580 TAC 100 kW / 236 deg to WeAs Farsi Mon/Fri, back on
air
Again today no signal of Radio Payem e-Doost via BaBcoCk Grigoriopol
1800-1845 7480 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Farsi
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/04/radio-ranginkamanradio-rainbow-via.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, April 15-16, ibid.)
** IRELAND [non]. Re: Have you moved? Hi Rolf, Thanks for your email.
NEXUS-IBA (non profit) is still based in Italy, but we have opened new
(additional) offices and started a new partnership in Ireland since
2016. Nothing changes in our broadcasting policies & services. You can
find our schedules at:
https://www.nexus.org/member-services/radio-and-tv/schedules/
You may also read about our Irish partnership here:
https://www.nexus.org/nexus-iba-and-milano-ventures-ltd-partnership/
We've seen some confusing articles recently, as some people write
inaccurately without even bothering to double check the sources ;-)
Take care. 73s, (Alfredo Cotroneo, NEXUS-IBA, to Rolf Løvstrøm, April
12, cc to DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Eventually leads to IRRS program schedule which reconfirms WORLD OF
RADIO on streaming and 846 kHz Challenger Radio in Italy, Saturdays at
2330 and Sundays at 2100 UT. Haven`t checked lately but it used to be
truncated rather than full 29 minutes (Glenn Hauser, DXLD)
** ITALY [non]. See IRELAND [non]
** ITALY [non]. 11955 15/4 0900 AWR - Firenze IT Obiettivo Dx by
Roberto Scaglione, buono (Roberto Pavanello. Vercelli / Italia,
shortwave yg via DXLD)
This is via GERMANY; various other AWRs on 11955 are via Guam or
Austria. Evidently Roberto Scaglione has changed name of his program
from `Studio DX`, which would also apply to airings elsewhere such as
WRMI. The website linked from there http://www.studiodx.net/ appears
to exist, with AWR title logo, but is a blank page. Perhaps he got
tired of people assuming `Studio DX` might be in English? (Glenn
Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ITALY [non]. ARMENIA/GERMANY, IBC Radio via Yerevan-Gavar &
Rohrbach, April 11
1900-2000 on 5845 ERV 100 kW / 305 deg to WeEu Italian Wed, very good
1900-2000 on 6070 ROB 025 kW / non-dir to CeEu Italian Wed, fair/good
2000-2030 on 5845 ERV 100 kW / 305 deg to WeEu English Wed, very good
2000-2030 on 6070 ROB 025 kW / non-dir to CeEu English Wed, fair/good
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/04/reception-of-ibc-radio-via-yerevan.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, April 11-12, WOR iog via DXLD)
** JAPAN. 13720, April 14 at 1835, J-pop is the SSOB at S9+5, even
stronger than 13605 jamming+Martí, and weaker 13845 WWCR. It`s NHK in
Japanese at 17-19, 85 degrees from Yamata for CIRAF 14 & 16, which
means the Southern Cone. Incidentally good for Hawaii on the way at 7-
9 am local (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. NHK World Japan Network R. Japan via 5 tx sites on
April 17:
0430-0500 6165 NAU 125 kW / 085 deg EaEu Russian, very good signal
0500-0530 5975 MOS 300 kW / non-dir WeEu English, very good signal
0500-0530 9860 SMG 250 kW / 184 deg WeAf English, fair/good signal
0500-0530 11970 ISS 500 kW / 155 deg SoAf English, blocked by KWT DRM
0530-0600 11730 ISS 500 kW / 190 deg WCAf French, very good with hum*
0530-0600 13840 MDC 250 kW / 295 deg CeAf French, fair good signal
0600-0630 11975 ISS 500 kW / 140 deg NoAf Arabic, fair QRDRM 11970 KWT
* probably same damaged transmitter being used for Sunday transmission
1900-2000 13835 ISS 500 kW / 185 deg NWAf French Sun Radio Taiwan Int.
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/04/nhk-world-japan-network-rjapan-via-5.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, April 16-17, WOR iog via DXLD)
** KIRITIMATI. 846, April 13 at 0546, JBA carrier, presumed R.
Kiribati sporadically active (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1926,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
A question about the Christmas Island transmitter on 846. Are they
running it at full power, even when there is no programming? It
certainly seems that way, judging by a strong signal on 846 and lack
of programming before sunrise here on the west coast. Possibly that's
a good idea to keep the tropical rot at bay, but it must add a
substantial hit to their electricity bill. best wishes, (Nick Hall-
Patch, Victoria BC, IRCA HCDX via DXLD)
I'll see what I can find out for you, Nick. 846-Kiribati is
practically a local pest here (Gary DeBock, Cook Islands, IRCA via
DXLD)
[later:] Kia Orana, Nick, 846-Kiribati does indeed run an open carrier
overnight. On the SSB-equipped CC Skywave it has a huge carrier around
1100, but that doesn't stop Radio Veritas from showing up in its null.
(Gary, Sent from AOL Mobile Mail, April 13, ibid.)
Thanks Gary. I've seen it here after 1400 UT; it certainly can sit on
other potential DX. best wishes, (Nick Hall-Patch, BC, IRCA via WORLD
OF RADIO 1926, DXLD)
846, April 16 at 0540, JBA carrier from presumed R. Kiribati. I`ve
also heard carrier here before 1120 UT, and Pacificans confirm that
this station leaves carrier on all night now after programming which
had been ending around 0900 or 1000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO
1926, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also DX-PEDITIONS
** KIRITIMATI. ISLA KIRITIMATI, IOTA (OC-024), T32AZ de 17 al 24 de
abril de 2018 --- Kiritimati, también conocida como Christmas, es una
Isla del océano Pacífico de origen coralino que constituye el atolón
con mayor superficie de tierra firme en el mundo y que pertenece a la
República de Kiribati.
Está situada al norte del archipiélago de las Islas de la Línea o
Espóradas Ecuatoriales. La isla tiene una superficie de 642 kilómetros
cuadrados. Conforma el 70% del área total de tierra de la nación de
Kiribati, la cual está compuesta por 33 atolones. Kiritimati tiene un
perímetro de alrededor de 150 km. Partes de su laguna se secaron.
Además de la isla principal, existen también otras más pequeñas. Es el
primer lugar habitado sobre la Tierra en recibir el Año Nuevo. No
obstante, desde 2011 comparte este honor con Samoa y Tokelau, al
quedar estos dos territorios encuadrados en el mismo huso horario.
KH6QJ ESTARÁ ACTIVO NUEVAMENTE DESDE LA ISLA KIRITIMATI IOTA (OC-024)
(KIRIBATI ORIENTAL) DEL 17 AL 24 DE ABRIL DE 2018. ACTIVARÁ COMO
T32AZ. ÉL ESTARÁ OPERANDO EN LAS BANDAS DE HF DE 80, 40, 20, 15 Y
10M. INCLUIDA LA ACTIVIDAD EN EL CONCURSO WORKED ALL PROVINCES CHINA
(WAPC). PARA LA QSL A TRAVÉS DE VÍA DIRECTA A DOMICILIO
https://www.qrz.com/db/T32A
(via Conexion Digital 15 April via WORLD OF RADIO 1926, DXLD)
** KOREA NORTH [non-logs]. April 11, from 1241 to 1250, noted many S.
Korea frequencies clear of jamming; 3910, 3930, 3985, 5995, 6015, 6135
(a clear frequency, with only a UNID carrier heard), 6250, (mixing of
both Echo of Unification & Echo of Hope - Voice of Hope), 6350, etc.;
almost all with fair reception; about 1250 jamming started up again;
is not uncommon these days to find these free of jamming segments (Ron
Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire,
WOR iog via DXLD)
** KOREA NORTH. 11710, Voice of Korea, 1110 etc., Tune in to YL ballad
followed by OM in English with intro to feature on music festival.
Several typical revolutionary choruses including applause at end of
songs. Fair to good signal here, S7/8, with minimal QRM. Significant
flutters distorting audio but at a good level. Although not a rare
station, this has been elusive over the past few years here.
Conditions seem pretty good this morning (Stephen C Wood, Harwich,
Mass., Perseus SDR, 20 x 40 terminated superloop antenna,
hauula7@comcast.net, April 14, WOR iog via DXLD)
Fair signal but above the noise when I tuned in this morning (16
April) here in NB around 1040 UT on 11710 kHz. Didn't try any parallel
frequencies. Obviously a news item about Kim Jong-un giving the usual
long list of titles, chairman of this, leader of that, etc.
(-- Richard Langley, ibid.)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. UZBEKISTAN, Frequency change of Radio Free North
Korea via BaBcoCk Tashkent:
1200-1300 15630 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg NEAs Korean, good, ex 9345 from
April 5
from 1250 15630 ABS 250 kW / 061 deg WeAs dead air of R. Cairo Dari
from 1300
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/04/frequency-change-of-radio-free-north.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, April 11-12, WOR iog via WORLD OF
RADIO 1926, DXLD)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 9685, JAPAN, Nippon no kaze / il bon ue baram
(oppo v DPRK) at 1500, long monologue with W in Korean. W giving web
address with a "dot J P". Closed at ToH. F/G and choppy. Apr 14.
Grundig Satellit, RS SW-2000629, and HQ-180A with various outdoor
wires. Use of portables noted where relevant for perspective on signal
strength comments. 73 to all of you and Good Listening....! (Rick
Barton, Central AZ, WOR iog via DXLD)
** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 6600, SOUTH KOREA, Voice of the People (oppo
v. DPRK) at 1115. Female vocal music. Good over jammer at first, then
losing out to the jammer, which suddenly went off at 1130 as program
turned to M in Korean. Jammer back on at 1200. Apr 14. Grundig
Satellit, RS SW-2000629, and HQ-180A with various outdoor wires. Use
of portables noted where relevant for perspective on signal strength
comments. 73 to all of you and Good Listening....! (Rick Barton,
Central AZ, WOR iog via DXLD)
** KOREA SOUTH. 5917.4v, April 11 at 1222, no signal from Voice of
Freedom, since per Ron Howard, on April 10 it moved back to 6045.0.
6045, April 11 at 1222, at least two signals making fast SAH, music
from one of them, i.e. Voice of Freedom colliding with KNLS ALASKA,
q.v. Now will this VOF start drifting downward like 5920 did? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Re: Voice of Freedom now on 6045.0 kHz. 1 Files 534KB MP3 Voice of
Freedom, 6045.0 kHz., 1100 UTC, April 11, 2018.mp3 [att to WOR iog]
April 11 - Thanks again to Amano-san for his continuing assistance
with understanding Korean stations.
6045.0 kHz, at 1100, heard Voice of Freedom's evening (in Korea)
programs (Jeonyeog Bangsong), which are weekday programs.
Nice clear program ID of "Hanminjog tong-illo milaelo" ("Korean
people, to unity, to the future" ), per my attached brief audio clip.
6045.0 is not off frequency, nor is it drifting, as ex: 5917.4v was,
so must be a different VOF transmitter (Ron Howard, California, April
11, WOR iog via DXLD)
** KOREA SOUTH [non]. 12065, April 14 at 1839, pop song at S5-S3, yet
stronger than 12050 WEWN, 1842 YL DJ in Russian; 1852 mentions I-
phone, various gorods, cut off at 1859.5* mid-song. Make that K-pop.
HFCC shows it`s KBSWR, 1800-1900, 250 kW, 58 degrees from Woofferton
UK, since April 4 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTEING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. Reception of MOI Radio Kuwait General Service on April 11
from 0642 on 15515 KBD 250 kW / 059 deg to EaAs Arabic, very good:
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/04/reception-of-moi-radio-kuwait-general.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, April 10-11, WOR iog via DXLD)
12 April 1800 UT - R Kuwait being heard in DRM mode in English on
15540 kHz with strong signal and good signal lock. R Kuwait also being
heard in DRM on 13650 in Arabic with a weaker signal and very poor
signal lock and frequent dropouts (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, WOR iog
via WORLD OF RADIO 1926, DXLD)
Reception of MOI Radio Kuwait General Service, April 13
till 0630 on 5959.9 KBD 250 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic, good:
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/04/reception-of-moi-radio-kuwait-general_13.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, April 12-13, WOR iog via DXLD)
Reception of MOI Radio Kuwait on April 13-14
1600-1800 on 15540 KBD 250 kW / 100 deg to SoAs Urdu, strong
1000-1200 on 17760 KBD 250 kW / 084 deg to SEAs Filipino, good
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/04/reception-of-moi-radio-kuwait-on-april.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, April 13-14, WOR iog via DXLD)
[and non]. 15535-15540-15545, April 14 at 1833, R. Kuwait DRM in
English is at imaginary level, slightly increased noise above
background on band? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1926, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) See DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM abottom
15110, Radio Kuwait at 1342 in Arabic with a man with talk – Fair in
analogue transmission mode instead of DRM Apr 16 (Mark Coady, Selwyn,
Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off
centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD)
** MADAGASCAR. MWV [scheduled]:
13710 2000-2100 Arabic Central Mid.East 2 3 355
17640 2000-2100 A.English Africa 3 2 295
17640 kHz on April 12 OFF AIR.
13710 kHz Arabic S=9 signal heard here in Germany at 2005 UT, April 12
73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DXLD)
17640, April 14 at 1834, JBA carrier must be MWV APR in English here,
instead of usual booming signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MALI. Re: CRI Bamako in A-18 season. ``Really needs to be checked
if the CRI relays from Mali are still on air at all...``
Mali Relay hoere ich das ganze Jahr nicht zu, das habe ich nicht auf
dem Schirm bei den Hunderten anderen CRI / CNR Angeboten. Dem muss ich
mich aber mal widmen.
Hier anbei die selektierten Requests fuer Bamako als sortierte Datei,
by Glenn Hauser-OK-USA dxld. Jetzt um 2050 UT April 6th, NICHTS AUS
CRI relay Bamako on air.
Bamako ist ein eher 100 kW Standort, mit modernen Richtantennen nach
Sahel, Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea, Yemen, Saudi Arabien.
Ich wette, wenn ich in Qatar oder Oman zuhoere, gibt es zumindest
S 8 bis 9 Signale. Und den Banako Rundstrahler im 49 mb darf man nicht
ueberall bei der Afrikaversorgung erwarten.
Dann wird's wohl 1 - 2 Monate Wartung der chinesischen Techniker
der Sender und Antennen am Relay geben, ausser den Schiffsdiesel der
autarken Stromversorgung hat es zerrissen.
Oder der muslimische IS hat eine Handgranante in die Sender-Steuerung
geworfen, hi, hi, hi
re Wartung, wenn die chinesischen Ingenieure auf Afrikareise waren,
hat es hinterher propere Signale aus den anderen von China errichteten
Bcast Sendezentren gegeben, like z.B. Bata 5005 15190 kHz, Guinea 9650
kHz, Zanzibar Tanzania 11735 kHz, Ethiopia Gedja 8 Units, usw (wb
df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 6) (BC-DX 13 April via DXLD)
** MEXICO. 550, April 11 at 1151, ``Amanecer Ranchero de la Super-
Estación``, i.e. XEPL, Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 570, April 11 at 1126, ``BJB, música regional mexicana``,
repeated, i.e. XEBJB, Monterrey NL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 610, April 11 at 1149, different music than 650, but at
1200, XEGS Guasave, Sinaloa, joins 650 for `Noticiero Altavoz`, and
the pair are synchronized. 650 always with a bigger signal (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 650, April 11 at 1149, neat singing ID as ``Somos Grupo
Chávez``, ``y Noticiero Altavoz``, UT -6 TC, but not yet, more music.
News starts at 1200, from XETNT, Los Mochis, Sinaloa when sibling
station XEGS 610 joins in (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 700, April 15 at 1202, XEGD with full ID, still calling
itself `La Poderosa`, which 5/1 kW is not --- gotta think big, in
Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua. Most of the other lowband XEs are
fading out by now after our sunrise 1158 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 790-, April 11 at 1129, Radio Fórmula ID in passing, makes
rumbling het vs lots of CCI, primarily 790.0 KURM Rogers, Arkansas.
From SW, presumed XENT, La Paz, BCS. John Wilkins, CO, reported to NRC
IDXD, ``Tough copy and no ID but XENT has been on this off-frequency
for years``, 789.96, which was his measurement, not mine, but I do not
dispute it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
[Re 18-15:] ``A recheck of Radio Fórmula Guadalajara web site this
morning reveals that 1280 and 790 have swapped formats.
XEBON-1280 changes from ORF3 to ORF1 (and adds //FM XHBON-89.5).
XEGAJ-790 changes from ORF1 to ORF3
ORF1 = "primera cadena" news/talk
ORF3 = "tercera cadena," also known as Trión, which plays some music
http://radioformulaguadalajara.com/categorias/programacion
Both are low-power stations that are rarely if ever logged by US
DXers. According to Wikipedia, the addition of XHBON-89.5 took place
this morning!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHBON-FM
73 (Tim Hall, CA, April 9, ABDX yg via DXLD)
So the only R. Fórmula ORF1 news format on 790 is XENT BCS (gh,
DXLD)``
Trión is not the Tercera Cadena. In fact, the new XHBON has *both* as
subs. It has up to HD4. The full-time Trión stations are either full-
on Trión (León and Veracruz) or Trión with RF programming (in markets
where RF has just one station — Mazatlán, San Luis, Coatzacoalcos).
(Raymie Humbert, AZ, April 13, WTFDA Forum via DXLD)
** MEXICO. 800-, April 11 at 1130, ad for Laboratorios Camacho en
Fresno, California, 800#, presumably a medicine mill; full ID as ``800
AM, --- internacional, Radio Cañón, (street address), Ciudad Juárez,
Chihuahua, México, Grupo Siete!``. More plugs for Labs, 29:6 TC by
autoYL, music. Nice to hear XEROK as often inaudible at night; near-
local KQCV OKC nulled as much as possible, with which it makes a SAH
of 104/minute on the low side = 1.73 Hz. Not long before KQCV takes
over (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 830, April 11 at 1133, Spanish dominating from SSW, while
WCCO is JBA to zero in auroral conditions (670 WSCR Chicago is also
JBA to zero); 1134 mis-time-check thrice as 6:32 (UT -5 CDT zone), and
1135 UT as 6:33; 1137 WCCO gaining a little; 1143 I make sure the SS
is NOT from SSE which would be Louisiana. At 1146 it`s alone with ID
in passing as ``La Caliente`` which is XELN, Linares, Nuevo León. That
town is closer to due S from here than SSW; SE of Monterrey on the
railroad to Ciudad Victoria, intersecting Rio Conchos, near the
Tamaulipas state line (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. New log - XEDKT-1340 for Mexico #300! My temporary BOG
antenna (1200 ft. terminated, running along the gutter of a perfectly
straight piece of road 2/10 of a mile from my house, aimed SE/136.5
degrees which is right at Puerto Vallarta) really hauled in a nice
catch yesterday. (Dates/times UT)
1340 *MEXICO* XEDKT *Radiorama 13-40, frecuencia deportiva*,
Guadalajara, JAL. APR 9 1059 - Very distinct slow instrumental version
of Mexican anthem, which slows down even more on the last line. ID
"XEDKT 13-40, frecuencia deportiva" by male announcer. Briefly on top
of channel, but soon lost to KPYV. Monitoring their web stream, I
found that despite their slogan, the were running US rock oldies
before 6am local time. New, Jalisco #23, Mexico #300, Station #1427.
[Hall-CA]
Nice catch at about 1170 miles, and my 300th Mexican catch from the
San Diego area. Their 5 kW power certainly helps, as does that very
unusual version of the anthem. I'd had a tentative log of this one
from my backyard mini-BOG last year, and have logged them from south
Texas in the past.
Interestingly, about 20 seconds after the XEDKT ID, there seems to be
a partial trace of another station giving an "XH" call. (XEDKT has no
FM, so this would seemingly be another good catch, but I don't think
there's enough audio to pull out an ID). 73 Tim Hall, Chula Vista CA
(STILL reviewing last year's Border Inn recordings, will have a final
report in about a month), April 11, ABDX yg via DXLD)
** MEXICO. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BEAT this week ---
The second-wave migration stampede just got louder. Ahead of its
formal launch on Monday, XHESP-FM/Jalisco 91.9 signed on.
It is the third new FM in the last six days in Guadalajara — the first
new FM radio stations there since 1999 and the signing on of XHMBM-FM
105.1. These are also the first three operating HD Radio stations in
Guadalajara, up until now the largest market without them in the
country.
They are not the only ones that made it to air in the last two weeks.
There has not been any big announcement, but I have had confirmation
from local sources and in posts from people running programs on the
station. Reynosa's first second-wave migrant has hit the air: XHRKS-FM
on 103.3 MHz. In Reynosa proper, XERI "Radio Rey" will also move to
FM, though there has been no sign of that. There are also other
allotments for other localities along the Río Bravo/Grande, including
of course Río Bravo itself and Matamoros (Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ,
April 14, WTFDA Forum via DXLD)
A dense legal case that reached the highest court in the land in 2016
indicates that another ghost station was until recently still stalking
the application process.
On October 25, 1994, XHARA-FM 88.3 was put out for bidding in
Guadalajara, Jalisco. This Class A FM is the last 800 kHz allotment in
the city, but it has never been awarded.
In 2011, a potential applicant, fed up about hearing nothing, filed
for an amparo, which was conceded to the applicant so that there would
be some word.
On February 23, 2012, Cofetel gave him a ruling: no. Their denial of
the XHARA-FM application hinged on technical concerns and failure to
provide information about the proposed investment, as required in the
original call for bids. Because this information was provided, we know
the applicant, whose name is redacted in the documents from the
Supreme Court (SCJN), is José Pablo Pérez Ramírez, from the records of
the Cofetel Pleno meeting held on that date.
It turns out that in addition to XHDGM, a 2000-vintage ghost station
whose case continues to rattle around at the IFT and was denied
recently because of technical nitpicking, Pérez Ramírez pursued XHARA,
as well as XHSJN-FM 106.3 in San Juan de los Lagos, Jalisco, which is
also is 2000-vintage.
Pérez Ramírez fought the ruling from Cofetel, and with his case not
getting a response, he filed and won a second amparo.
In 2015, the XHARA-FM ghost station case went back to the regulator.
On September 11, 2015, the IFT said no, for a reason that I've covered
here before: changes to the law, namely reforms in 2006 and 2013 that
required new commercial broadcasting concessions to be awarded in
bidding processes. The old way was no longer legal. The IFT told Pérez
Ramírez that the station could not be awarded in the process specified
by the original DOF publication. Thus, the application filed in 1994
couldn't continue.
Pérez Ramírez filed for another amparo, pointing out that the ruling
from the IFT constituted a retroactive application of the law. Article
14 of the Constitution prohibits ex post facto application of laws
when they do not benefit the person. The filing argued that the
stricter post-2006 requirements could not be met by a 1994
application. This filing was denied by the district judge in
telecommunications court.
This is where I point out that there exists a specialized court
covering telecommunications, broadcasting and economic competition
(Materia Administrativa Especializada en Competencia Económica,
Radiodifusión y Telecomunicaciones), which has both district judges
and a circuit appeals panel. Telecommunications court is prevalent in
many of the legal matters that involve the IFT and the people and
companies I cover here. This is the first of what could be several
specialized courts down the road, created in order to fuse legal
structure and the expertise required in the field.
The argument from the district judge pointed to transitory articles in
the telecommunications reform and the LFTR that, interpreted together,
allowed old regulations to continue to be applied when they do not
contravene the new reforms. The IFT's ruling said they did.
The appeal, a recurso de revisión filed by Pérez Ramírez, was met with
a filing by the IFT's legal team, which asked the Supreme Court to
take on the issue as a constitutional matter. Pérez Ramírez's
representation said that the IFT's petition for the Supreme Court to
attract the matter shouldn't proceed.
The Supreme Court met on May 11, 2016, and the Second Chamber, which
handles administrative cases, admitted the petition for SCJN
attraction. Justice (Ministro) Javier Laynez Potisek wrote the opinion
agreeing with Pérez Ramírez in saying that the petition should not
proceed. Instead, however, the opinion, released on June 29, argued
that the amparo actually was in the original competency of the Supreme
Court because it dealt with a question of constitutionality.
This is getting dense. Basically, the "win" for Pérez Ramírez was in
actuality a win for the IFT, because dismissing the request for an
intervention came after the Supreme Court found that the matter at
hand was actually in its original jurisdiction.
The amparo rolled to the Supreme Court. A resolution was released in
March 2017 in that legal filing, but this time, the IFT won out. The
court ruled that the earlier interpretation in district court was
correct: the transitory articles, combined, said that applications can
continue forward in the same form only when new laws allow them to do
so, and that this was not an ex post facto law. Also, the ruling tied
into the fact that there are no real rights to a frequency confirmed
in a concession.
———
In my opinion — and I am not a lawyer, in Mexico or elsewhere — the
correct path to getting these ghost stations awarded would be to put
the frequencies in the PABF, which would trigger the process of an
auction. There appear to be technical issues with the applications
Pérez Ramírez filed. There are other issues, particularly with the
applications in Jalisco.
While XHDGM's application denial was hinged on a lack of rootedness to
Playa del Carmen, Pérez Ramírez might be too rooted in Jalisco. In
Guadalajara, he owns Promomedios, one of the city's largest radio
station owners. In fact, he's getting a Class A FM in second-wave
migration. An economic competition analysis would correctly conclude
he owns too many stations to get another.
The San Juan de los Lagos station application doesn't have that
problem, but the station being applied for does have one — 106.3, in
fact. Several of the Class I ghost stations could not be commercially
awarded today because of the establishment of the Article 90 reserved
band. Other frequencies would need to be substituted. (In some cases,
this would be fairly easy as no other stations even exist in those
localities, though there are several in Lagos, and the frequency could
be changed to the one for ghost station XHLAG-FM at 91.9 MHz.)
The Guadalajara station, being bid out, would attract significant
attention in an auction environment, as would the Playa del Carmen
stations from April 10, 2000. In fact, rounding this and other ghost
stations up would provide even more valuable frequencies for the
auction and could raise substantial sums for the federal government
(Raymie Humbert, April 16, ibid.)
President Enrique Peña Nieto has nominated economist Sóstenes Díaz
González
https://www.eleconomista.com.mx/contenidos/2018/04/17/noticia_0065.html
to replace Adriana Labardini, whose term expired in February, as one
of the IFT's seven commissioners.
Díaz González was one of five recommended nominees for the post. He
has a background in economics, with an undergraduate degree from the
UNAM; he is currently obtaining a master's from El Colegio de México.
Since 2014, he has held the post of Director General of Regulation for
Interconnection and Telecommunications Services Resales at the IFT.
Díaz González must be confirmed by the Senate before beginning his
duties on the Pleno. It is worth noting that the legislative session
ends April 30 (Raymie, April 17, ibid.)
Second-wave migration continues to roar to life on the northern
border. At least one and maybe two stations have come to air in Nuevo
Laredo.
The definitely on air station is 103.7 XHWL-FM, which migrates XEWL
1090. Right behind it is its sister, XHENU-FM (likely callsign) on
101.9 MHz, relieving XENU-AM 1550, which may or may not be on air but
whose frequency is confirmed by Grupo AS's website. Their sister,
XHNK-FM, was the first HD Radio station on the Mexican side of the
market.
In Nuevo Laredo, six frequencies were identified, enough to migrate
every AM in town, but XEFE-AM 790 did not apply for second-wave
migration. The remaining station, Radiorama (Pergom)'s XEGNK 1370,
will appear on either 96.7, 102.9, 104.5 or 105.3 MHz. One of the
other frequencies must be designated for A90 reciprocity to XHGTS-FM,
but the other two could be used for anything else, including resolving
a permit forest or as station awards (Raymie, April 17, ibid.)
I managed to track down the XENU 1550 stream. Wow - Grupo AS actually
has their own jingle! And if I am hearing correctly (or not hearing) -
it doesn't sound like they say anything about an FM frequency. This
was a TOH ID at 4 PM CDT. I don't think I hear a call letter ID
either? Attached Files
File Type: mp3 XENU 1550-1.mp3 (463.5 KB, 13 views)
http://forums.wtfda.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=21372&d=1524086507
File Type: mp3 XENU 1550-2.mp3 (687.1 KB, 11 views)
http://forums.wtfda.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=21373&d=1524086509
(Jim Thomas, Springfield, MO, Ozark Mountain DTV DXing Daredevil,
April 17, ibid.)
I heard one when I listened yesterday. It also gives the street
address for their studios, but it does not mention the FM yet.
"La Radio Que Nos Une" is almost certainly a riff on the longstanding
Radiorama slogan, "La Cadena Que Une a México".
What Is Grupo AS?
One of the key moments in the early history of Radiorama happened in
Tampico. The Sanabria family, namely Alfonso Sanabria Esparza, had
owned XETO radio (now XHETO-FM 98.5) since its establishment in 1948.
"Radio Tiempo" was one of the first stations to be represented by
Radiorama. Sanabria's son, Alfonso Sanabria Mallén, later became one
of Radiorama's three pillars, along with Adrián Pereda López and
Trigio Javier Pérez de Anda. In the late 90s, Radiorama Morelos gave
two of its stations new callsigns, which were fundamentally retained
upon migration. Today, though, neither XHJPA-FM (for Javier Pérez de
Anda) or XHASM-FM (for Alfonso Sanabria Mallén) is actually owned by
its namesake, because these stations belong to a Pergom cluster.
The Radiorama studios in Tampico at Benito Juárez 506, which are still
used by AS, are actually in the Edificio Alfonso Sanabria Esparza.
https://goo.gl/maps/JDte42dCnaK2
Grupo AS is perhaps the most defined component of Radiorama in terms
of the region it serves, but it is also the smallest. In the breakup
of the Radiorama empire of stations, these markets went in part or all
to AS: Nuevo Laredo (cluster split down the middle), Reynosa, Ciudad
Victoria, Tampico (cluster split with AS ultimately retaining 8
stations and three Pergom), San Luis Potosí, and Tantoyuca, Veracruz.
Of the ex-RR components, Grupo AS has the best remaining relationship
with Televisa Radio. It operates Ke Buena stations at Victoria and
Tampico and the Los 40 stations in Nuevo Laredo and Tampico.
It is worth noting that Mallén's son is responsible for another ex-
Radiorama component, known as Corporativo ASG in reference to its
head, Alfonso Sanabria González.
ASG, which has its headquarters in Zapopan, Jalisco, runs the ex-
Radiorama stations in Durango, Lázaro Cardenas, Manzanillo, Oaxaca,
Tehuacán, Tehuantepec, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, and Uruapan. Their website
also lists stations from the San Luis Grupo AS cluster and two of
Grupo AS's Tampico stations. 10 of its 17 stations are known as La
Poderosa with the "bomb" logo.
In February, Sanabria González was unanimously elected
https://www.mimorelia.com/unanimidad-eligen-alfonso-sanabria-presidente-la-cirt-michoacan/
to serve as the head of the Michoacán state chapter of the CIRT, where
he serves in leadership alongside a member of the Laris family (owner
of Cadena RASA), Flavio René Acevedo (Medios Radiofónicos Michoacán),
and Arturo Emilio Zorrilla Ibarra (Grupo Ultra). (Raymie, April 18,
ibid.)
Interestingly, in the 80's Pérez de Anda and Adrián Pereda came to be
known as "Los Tupamaros", given their aggressive style of taking over
radio stations --- and the name was a reference to the Uruguayan
guerilla group of that decade.
I remember meeting Sanabria at the NAB in that era. I did not
recognize the name, and asked that he "refresh my memory" as to who he
was. He responded, "I'm the silent Tupamaro" with a big grin! (David
Eduardo [Gleason], La Quinta CA, April 18, ibid.)
That just about says it all. Nowadays the guerrillas have gone their
own separate ways and created several, sometimes warring, clans
(Raymie, April 18, ibid.)
They're still pretty darn social at Insurgentes Sur, as the IFT puts
more broadcast matters on the plate.
-New authorizations for FM frequency changes in Salamanca and
Puebla? (What's going on?) Either this has to do with payment or the
selected bidders declined or didn't pay. Definitely of high interest.
-Station sales/share transfers: Radio-Televisión Digital de
Nayarit, XHQH-FM
-New social stations:
Fundación Educacional de Medios, A.C. — Atlacomulco, State of
Mexico; Cópala, Jalisco
Altamiradio Comunicaciones, A.C. — Cd. Altamirano, Guerrero
(community). A news report says 91.9 XHAC-FM. That can't be the
callsign — we already have TWO XHAC-FMs.
Cananea Alternativa, A.C. —*Cananea, Sonora (community)
Corazón de las Californias, A.C. — Cabo San Lucas, Baja California
Sur (community)
Mentes que Piensan Manos que Trabajan, A.C. —*Santa Clara del
Cobre, Municipio de Salvador Escalante, Michoacán
Organización de Radios Comunitarias de Occidente, A.C. —*Villa de
Álvarez, Colima (in the Colima City area)
Este programa es público, ajeno a cualquier partido político. Queda
prohibido el uso para fines distintos a los establecidos en el
programa [tagline] (Raymie Humbert, AZ, April 19, ibid.)
** MONGOLIA [and non]. /CHINA, Re: Mongolian Radio 3 on 4895 / 7260
7260.000 exact frequency, MR 3rd program from Ulanbataar at 0940 UT,
April 11, S=9+15dB signal noted in Okayama prefecture in Japan,
greyline between Seoul and Yokohama Chiba at present.
re > checked \\ P3 FM 100.9 MHz on web livestream
<http://onlineradiobox.com/mn/p3radio/?cs=mn.p3radio&played=1>
Compared, shortwave signal is 6 seconds ahead of p3radio LIVESTREAM in
web. At 0950 UT noted annmt of some female pupils "Mongolia in
English" program.
Puzzles me, another much weaker string 'seen' 7259.990 kHz at same
time. I guess, is CNR PBS Chinese from Urumqi relay site?
4895 kHz MR 3rd program. QRM totally of powerful OTHR in broad 4890 to
4999 kHz range at 1010 UT.
String visible on exact 4894.998 1/2 kHz at remote unit in Seoul KOR.
Scheduled in previous years:
4895 kHz 10 kW 2300-0500, 0655-1500 UT.
7260 kHz 50 kW 2300-0200, 0655-1600 UT.
[selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (wb df5sx, wwdxc
BC-DX TopNews April 11) (BC-DX 13 April via DXLD)
Re: Mongolian Radio 3 on 4895 / 7260 kHz. After CRI Urumqi 500 kW in
Portuguese left the 7260 kHz channel, heard Mongolian R P3 program
from Ulanbataar at 2310 UT on April 10th, on exact measured
7260.000 kHz, S=7-8 on remote Perseus SDR unit at New Delhi India.
checked \\ P3 FM 100.9 MHz on
<http://onlineradiobox.com/mn/p3radio/?cs=mn.p3radio&played=1>
Nothing seen / visible on 4895 kHz at this 2300-2330 UT time span
though. Is empty channel at this time span.
[selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (wb df5sx, wwdxc
BC-DX TopNews April 10) (BC-DX 13 April via DXLD)
Re: Mongolian Radio 3 on 4895 kHz. Very low modulation on 4895 kHz,
but good strong carrier. 73 Tony Magon-AUS VK2IC, April 10, via Ron
Howard-CA-USA.
7260, Mongolian Radio 3, on April 9, from 1128 to 1157 UT; same format
as noted yesterday; non-stop EZL songs ("While My Guitar Gently
Weeps," etc.); QRM from China on frequency. R. Vanuatu has not
returned yet to the air.
On April 10, at 1040+ UT, noted carrier on 4895 kHz, which was
Mongolian Radio 3rd px, as confirmed by Mauno Ritola-FIN in wrth F_B:
"Also 4895 kHz is reactivated today, also carrying the 3rd network."
First noted on this frequency recently by Jim Young-CA-USA.
(Ron Howard-CA-USA, dxld April 9) (BC-DX 13 April via DXLD)
Re: Mongolian Radio 3 on 4895 kHz.
After CRI Urumqi 500 kW in Portuguese left the 7260 channel, heard
Mongolian R P3 from Ulanbataar at 2310 UT on exact measured 7260.000
kHz, S=7-8 on remote Perseus SDR unit at New Delhi India. Checked
parallel \\ P3 FM 100.9 MHz on
http://onlineradiobox.com/mn/p3radio/?cs=mn.p3radio&played=1
Nothing seen / visible on 4895 kHz at this 2300-2330 UT time span
though. Is empty channel at this time span. 73 wolfy df5sx (Wolfgang
Büschel, April 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
7260.000 exact, MR 3rd program at 0940 UT, April 11, S=9+15dB signal
noted in Okayama prefecture in Japan, greyline between Seoul and
Yokohama Chiba at present.
re > checked parallel \\ P3 FM 100.9 MHz on
http://onlineradiobox.com/mn/p3radio/?cs=mn.p3radio&played=1
Compared, shortwave signal is 6 seconds ahead of p3radio LIVESTREAM in
web. At 0950 UT noted announcement of some female pupils "Mongolia in
English" program. Puzzles me, another much weaker string 'seen'
7259.990 kHz at same time. I guess, is CNR PBS Chinese from Urumqi
relay site?
4895 kHz MR 3, QRM totally of powerful OTHR in broad 4890 to 4999 kHz
range at 1010 UT. String visible on exact 4894.998 1/2 kHz at remote
unit in Seoul KOREA. 73 wolfy df5sx (Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
April 11 - The following from WRTH Facebook page. Thanks very much to
Mauno for monitoring Mongolia:
Mauno Ritola:
Also today both 7260 and 4895 kHz on at 0950 with P3, 4830 still
remains off.
Mauno Ritola:
... but 4895 kHz noted off today already before 1200.
Ron Howard:
4895 kHz. today with 1129* cut off. Unable to catch any audio from
their carrier here. 7260 has a much better signal.
Mauno Ritola:
Yes, it should have with 50 vs. 10 kW.
Ron Howard:
Thanks. That would explain the difference in receptions
(via Ron Howard, WOR iog via DXLD)
Mongolia on 7260 kHz Getting into Europe? Using my automated scripts
for the U. Twente SDR receiver, I recorded 7260 kHz mostly unattended
from about 0900 to 1200 UT today (13 April). No discernible audio
heard. However, I was present at the computer from about 1130 onwards
and noted a very faint carrier on the waterfall. And AMSync mode at
times was successful in acquiring the carrier at a frequency of
7259.989 kHz. The carrier was not noted much past 1203. Might check
earlier than 0900 to see if a darkness path provides better reception
in Europe (-- Richard Langley, April 13, WOR iog via DXLD)
Hi Richard, Xinjiang-Ch is on the low frequency until 1205v, Mongolia
is on 7260.000 kHz until 1500, has been operating regularly for a week
or so. Also Murun 4894.998 kHz is on the air irregularly with variable
early sign-off, but still going on today. Altai 4830 kHz continues
off. Best regards, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, ibid.)
Continued to monitor 7260 kHz using the U. Twente SDR receiver after
1200 and a carrier did become slightly stronger and remained locked at
7260.003 kHz. I think very faint audio was heard at times but nothing
distinct. Carrier was still there a few minutes after 1500 but gone by
1508 when I checked again. I'll continue to check for audibility
during the 1200-1500 time slot over the next few days as some in
Europe are reporting fair signals sometimes during this slot (--
Richard Langley, ibid.)
At my QTH (Romania) I’ve been monitoring Mongolia daily since they
came back, between 1300 and 1500 UT. Yesterday (April 12) the signal
was quite good around 1500. I like listening to their national anthem
which is played by a group of artists before signing off at 1500
(~Tudor Vedeanu, ibid.)
Reception of Mongolian Radio, Home Service-3 on April 12:
from 1410 on 7260 U-B 050 kW / non-dir to CeAs Mongolian, weak/fair
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/04/reception-of-mongolian-radio-home.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, April 12-13, WOR iog via DXLD)
** MONGOLIA. 12085, Voice of Mongolia, Ulaan Baatar, *0900-0910, 13-
04, tuning music, English, ID "Voice of Mongolia", comments, songs.
14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Lugo, WOR iog via DXLD)
** NEW ZEALAND. Radio New Zealand Pacific Extra transmission to Fiji,
April 10
1651-1750 7285 RAN 035 kW / 035 deg to Fiji English AM, ex 6115 DRM
1751-1950 9700 RAN 035 kW / 035 deg to Fiji English AM, ex 7285 DRM
1951-2050 1725 RAN 035 kW / 035 deg to Fiji English AM, ex 11690 DRM
From April 11 Radio New Zealand Pacific back to its regular schedule
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/04/radio-new-zealand-pacific-extra.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, April 10-11, WOR iog via WORLD OF
RADIO 1926, DXLD)
** NIGERIA [non]. 7415, April 12 at 0620, S8-S9+10 talk in African
language about Boku Haram. At 06-07 only, this is supposed to be R.
Ndarason International, via ASCENSION, per NDXC/Aoki (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
5960, April 16 carrier-on confidently a few seconds before *0500, via
ASCENSION, unlike April 14`s French sign-on announcement, after some
horns and percussion opening in African language, Kanuri or Hausa?
Except for trilingual greeting: ``salaam aleikum, bonjour, good
morning to you all``. Only ID I could catch was ``Radio
International`` as others have reported, without the name Ndarason
being heard, nor Dandal Kura; 0503 into a song (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WORLD OF RADIO 1926, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CHAD [non]
** NIGERIA [non]. SECRETLAND, New time & frequency of Radio Nigeria
Hausa Sce via SPL Secretbrod:
1800-1900 15110 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg WeAf Hausa Radio Na Gaskiya/Radio
of Truth
1600-1700 15115 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg WeAf Hausa registered in HFCC is
inactive.
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/04/new-time-and-frequency-of-radio-nigeria.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, April 13-14, WOR iog via WORLD OF
RADIO 1926, DXLD)
Radio Nigeria Hausa Sce/Radio Na Gaskiya/Radio of Truth, April 14
1800-1900 15110 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to WeAf Hausa Daily, fair signal
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/04/mighty-kbc-radio-mwf-radio-nigeria-via.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, April 14-15, WOR iog via WORLD OF
RADIO 1926, DXLD)
Not to be confused with anything from the central government: this is
an offshoot of Radio Biafra clandestine (gh, ibid.)
** NORTH AMERICA. Wolverine Radio, 6905, Sign off 8:41 CDT. Nonsense
music, Pirate radio station, S9 (Mike Stone, Arlington Heights IL,
Yaesu FT-840 with longwire, 0153 UT April 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6905-AM, April 14 at 0009, JBA carrier; 0052
electronic music S9+10 vs storm noise east of here, past 0107, with
long pauses of dead air. These logs say it was Cool AM Radio:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,41767.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6905-AM, April 18 at 0012, unID pirate music at S9
with ACI from 6905-LSB peskies. At 0030, I find the music on 6910-AM
instead, and the peskies are pushed up to 6920 and 6925. 6910 is off
at 0036 but some running-water and maybe digital transmission. 6905 is
back on at 0037 with snippets of songs, 0043 bird and animal calls, or
are they produced by a human? Lots more SFX mixed with music past 0056
at S9+10. Some very brief talk announcements I can`t copy, off at
0114*. Many logs here say the 6905/6910 pirate was Seven Trees Radio:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,41863.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 640, Sunday April 15 at 1200 UT, KWPN Moore, with `Sunday
Morning Magazine`, pubaffs interview about mosquitos infecting
Oklahomans with West Nile endemic but not yet Zika. Divergence from
stupid sports talk every week at this time when audience is assumed to
be minimal. Same show is on 930 WKY, diverging from stupid sports talk
in Spanish, and presumably other FM stations in cluster, probably not
synchronized in separate playouts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 740, April 15 at 1200 UT as I tune across, no signal, a
split second later, KRMG Tulsa pops on at full 50 kW day power. Day
pattern has two major lobes about 10 degrees CCW from E/W, and 25 kW
night pattern quite similar. Enid is a bit off but at 100 miles
distance still mainly covered day and night. 1200 UT is correct KRMG
FCC LSR time for April; May & July will be 1115 UT, and earliest 1100
UT during June (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OMAN. 13 April, 1720 UT tune-in. R Sultanate of Oman is
broadcasting in English (instead of scheduled Arabic) on 15140 kHz -
running a US-syndicated pop music show (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, WOR
iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1926, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15140, Radio Sultanate of Oman at 1403 with a woman with news then
“That's the news from Oman” at 1408 followed by headlines repeated
then a man and woman with promos mentioning “Oman, Oman, we are more
the just the music” at 1409 and into pop vocals at 1412 – Fair in
peaks with deep fading Apr 15 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood
TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed
dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD)
** PANAMA [non]. 9955, WRMI, April 13 at 0049, `Antena DX` with postal
address, as the only media program originating in Panamá; sked UT
Fridays 0030-0100. And luckily, NO jamming right now. BTW, home
station La Chispa Estéreo is applying for a 49mb SW frequency; I have
helped him pick out a clear spot (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO
1926, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hi Glenn, Audio of the April 7 (Saturday), program "Antena DX" -
http://goo.gl/8vp1St
Google translation:
"ANTENA DX is a radio space dedicated to exploring the exciting world
of radio, Internet, telecommunications and new technologies. ANTENA DX
is produced and conducted by Víctor Gutiérrez from the studios of LA
CHISPA ESTEREO in Panamá and also has the collaboration of specialized
correspondents from different countries of the world. In this issue
Pedro Sedano with the DX Report of the AER and Iván Alejandro
Istlahuaca with the broadcasts of Short Wave broadcasters."
- - - - Per Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/LaChispaEstereo/
La Chispa Estereo en Onda Corta con su Programa Antena Dx
Horarios y frecuencias. [WRMI, u.o.s.]
Lunes 1200 UT 5950
Jueves 0030 UT 7490 [WBCQ; own sked shows 5130 instead, UT Thu]
Jueves 0130 UT 9955 [I.E. UT FRIDAY!]
Jueves 1200 UT 5950
lachispaestereo @ hotmail.com (via Ron Howard, WOR iog via DXLD)
** PERU. I arrived in Tarma yesterday and visited Radio Tarma this
morning. My timing was perfect. Tomorrow is the 60th anniversary of
the founding of Radio Tarma. There will be a party with live music in
the street in front of the station beginning at 6 p.m. tonight (2300
UT April 16) and continuing for several hours. I'll be there. Then
tomorrow at 8 a.m. (1300 UT April 17) there will be a special program
with all the station staff, including a special mass. DXers in Europe
and the Americas should have a chance to hear the party on 4775 kHz.
For the morning program you'll have to go online.
Don Moore --- donmooredxer@yahoo.com
http://www.donmooredxer.com
LIfe is just a leap of faith.
Spread your arms and hold your breath
Always trust your cape.
- Guy Clark
(Don Moore, visiting Tarma, Peru, April 16, WORLD OF RADIO 1926, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Frequency covered by heavy CODAR interference. Nothing possible
tonight. I am very disappointed as this would be a very interesting
program to listen to and this frequency has been clear in the past
(Stephen C Wood, Harwich, Mass., Perseus SDR, 20 x 40 terminated
superloop antenna, 0023 UT April 17, NASWA yg via DXLD)
I've been trying some of the web SDRs at http://sdr.hu - tried those
in Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Bonaire, and Mexico, nothing audible,
unfortunately, even without the CODAR headaches. But, the online
stream works -- sounds like a fun party! (Richard Cuff, 0115 UT,
ibid.)
Don, Glad you could make it to Tarma this week and thanks for the
program heads-up! Tuned 4774.9 at 0034 UT with some good music and
then man announcer at 0035 and more music at 0037.5. Receiver site for
this is in the SW of England (belonging to G8JNJ using a KiwiSDR). His
antenna is a TC2M broadband antenna and usually does pretty well into
Latin America. CODAR is definitely there but the program is still
audible at about S2 to S2+ but peaking to S3 after 0040. Looking at my
recorder waveform, the signal gradually improved to a more steady S3
by tune-out. Lots of IDs for Radio Tarma by man and a female announcer
was heard at 0052. Program appeared to be mixture of Peruvian vocals
and frequent announcements. Man announcer at 0127 with ID "Radio Tarma
Internacional" at 0129. The man was heard past my log-out time at
0134. I will have a 60-minute MP3 recording (0034 to 0134 UT) and a
receiver screenshot as soon as I tune out. Please pass my
congratulations on to the station for its 60th Anniversary - quite an
accomplishment in these days of declining shortwave activity! (Bruce
Churchill, Fallbrook, CA 92028-9690, Shortwave Listener since 1952,
ibid.)
Also noted with S2-3 signal and NO CODAR from KiwiSDR site in Sweden
(top of the sdr.hu list) (Bruce Churchill, 0203 UT April 17, ibid.)
Thx for the tips - G8JNJ's site has it, as does SK3W in Sweden (no
CODAR, as you say). Also TF4M in Iceland (some CODAR), S7-S9. Carlow,
Ireland, not quite as good (alas, more CODAR), S3-S5, a bit noisier.
All of these are at the SDR.HU website. The UTwente WebSDR is also
picking it up, but the receivers mentioned above are all better
listens (Rich Cuff, 0246 UT, ibid.)
4774.9, R Tarma, OCX4E with very nice S3 signal at 0305 tune -
recorded until 0405 and SINPO remained steady at 34443 with only
light, non-obtrusive CODAR QRM. Receiver site was G8JNJ (KiwiSDR) near
Weymouth UK (about 6,150 mi GC path). Peruvian vocals by female
vocalist mixed with frequent announcements by male and female. At 0321
format changed more to the "party" mode with a male announcer,
occasionally talking to one or more other announcers with lots of
street music being heard in the background. Many mentions of "Radio
Tarma Internacional" by male announcer. This format was heard until
tuning out at 0405. The signal level and readability were noticeably
improved from my 0034 to 0134 log and recording.
I sent off an English report to the WRTH listed e-mail address of
informacion@grupomonteverde.com (and to Don Moore) which predictably
came back as non-deliverable. I then used the e-mail address given on
the station's website of http://www.radiotarma.com which was
gerenciageneral@grupomonteverde.com to send a SS report. This at
least was not bounced, so we'll see. The station web site has an
interesting history of the station and sure enough, its broadcasting
started on MW in April 1958 - the man who wrote the history is the
current Grupo Monteverde (Radio Tarma's parent company) CEO and the
founder's son (Bruce Churchill, CA, 0453 UT April 17, WOR iog via
WORLD OF RADIO 1926, DXLD)
** PERU. 5980. R. CHASKI. Abril 9. 1115-1125 UT. Programa: `El camino
de la vida`, luego espacio musical. SINPO: 35433 (Claudio Galaz, RX:
Tecsun PL 660; ANT: Dipolo; QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista
yg via DXLD)
** PHILIPPINES. 15640, R. Pilipinas, *0200, April 11. On with pop
music; in English; time check as usual was one minute late ("0-200
G.M.T.") and ID, still giving ex: "17700"; segment “From the
presidential palace Manila, Dateline Malacañang”; almost all the items
about China-Philippine relations; news from the "PBS News Center";
"Provincial Report" with regional news; 0241 "DFA Online, news and
events from different Philippine embassies and consulates around the
world," about overseas Filipino workers; mostly readable. Unable to
hear 12010 nor 17820 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1,
antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1926, DXLD)
Very good signal of Radio Pilipinas PBS, April 13
1730-1930 on 9910*PHT 250 kW / 283 deg N&ME Filipino
1730-1930 on 12120 PHT 250 kW / 283 deg N&ME Filipino
1730-1930 on 15190 PHT 250 kW / 283 deg N&ME Filipino is not on air!
*from 1745 on 9910 BGL 500 kW / 240 deg EaAf English All India Radio
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/04/very-good-signal-of-radio-pilipinas-pbs.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, April 13-14, WOR iog via DXLD)
** PHILIPPINES. Checked FEBC frequencies according to Ivo's fq list:
0900-1000 15580 BOC 100 kW 185 deg to SoEaAS Makassarese/Buginese
1000-1100 15580 BOC 100 kW 215 deg to SoEaAS Sunda/Sasak
15580.500 kHz, exact measured April 13, 09-11 UT, S=9+10db, TX OFF air
at 1058:04 UT. S=9+15dB noted remote SDR in Thai-Cambodian border area
1030-1100 12095 BOC 100 kW 293 deg to SoEaAS Tai-Lu
1100-1300 12095 BOC 100 kW 305 deg to SoEaAS Hmong/Lao/Njua/Mien
12095.500 kHz exact measured April 13, different antennas, and
switch from S=9+5dB at 10.59 UT, to S=9+10dB one minute later.
1300-1330 11825 BOC 100 kW 305 deg to CeAS Tibetan
11825.500 kHz exact measured April 13, 13 UT, S=9+10db.
1300-1400 12095 BOC 100 kW 280 deg to SoEaAS Hmong/Khmu, -- even
12095.000 kHz exact measured April 13, S=9+20dB at 1306 UT.
1200-1400 12120 BOC 100 kW 293 deg SoEaAS Rawang/Akha/Naga/Chin-Daai
12119.977 kHz exact measured April 13, S=9+20dB at 13.16 UT.
1330-1400 9465 BOC 100 kW 305 deg to CeAS Chinese-Yunnan
9465.500 kHz exact measured April 13, S=9+15dB at 1346 UT.
QRM co-channel UNID 9465.011 kHz IRIB Sirjan Iran still on air
1400-1430 11750 BOC 100 kW 305 deg to SoEaAS Lahu
11750.500 kHz exact measured April 13, 1407 UT, S=9+25db.
1400-1430 15620 BOC 100 kW 200 deg to SoEaAS Javanese
15620.002 kHz exact measured April 13, 1413 UT, S=9+5db.
1430-1500 9940 BOC 100 kW 323 deg to CeAS Uyghur
9939.982 kHz exact measured April 13, 1440 UT, S=9+20db.
1400-1600 9380 BOC 100 kW 345 deg to EaAS Chinese
9380.000 kHz exact measured April 13, 1450 UT, S=9+15dB.
1500-1530 11650 BOC 100 kW 323 deg to CeAS Russian
1530-1600 11650 BOC 100 kW 323 deg to CeAS Russian Mon-Sat
1530-1600 11650 BOC 100 kW 323 deg to CeAS Ukrainian Sun
11649.978 kHz exact measured April 13, 1507 UT, S=5 in Thailand, S=9
in Finland remote SDR.
all 10 kHz widesignals. Taken on remote SDR in eastern Thailand.
(wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 13) (BC-DX 13 April via DXLD)
** ROMANIA. Since 08-Apr-2018, the DRM transmission in Spanish from
Radio Romania International at 2100-2156 UT changed from scheduled
15670 kHz (HFCC), to new unscheduled 11650 kHz.
// 13810 kHz analog, as before.
RRI A-18 schedule:
http://ab27.bplaced.net/rri.pdf
DRM transmissions A-18 schedule:
http://ab27.bplaced.net/drm.pdf
(-- Alexander Busneag, Germany, April 12, WOR iog via DXLD)
Today, 14-Apr-2018, RRI Spanish 2100-2156 UT,
on following frequencies:
11650 kHz DRM
15670 kHz analog (ex 13810 kHz)
and DRM label on 11650 kHz is now "SNR Tiganesti E2" (ex "SNR
Tiganesti E1"). (-- Alexander Busneag, Germany, WOR iog via DXLD)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 11860, Radio Sana'a (Republic of Yemen Radio) at 2031
in Arabic with rousing Middle Eastern vocals, then a woman with talk
at 2033 – Good Apr 15
11930, BSKSA at 2034 // 11820 and 11915 in Arabic with Islamic Call to
Prayer – Fair to Good Apr 15 – While not as strong a signal as 11820
and 11915, it was a nice change listening to this on this frequency
rather than Radio Martí and a Cuban jammer (Mark Coady, Selwyn,
Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off
centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD)
** SOUTH AFRICA. 1485 Johannesburg, Radio Today
I have been holding off on this for the past few days in the hope of
finding something more definitive. These links may explain the current
situation (or perhaps not!) Time will tell.
Four nights ago (or rather, very early in the morning, sadly unlogged)
I noticed that the overnight BBCWS relay on Radio Today 1485 in
Johannesburg was off air, and it has not returned since then.
Yesterday (Saturday April 14) I noticed that Radio Today's daytime
programming was also missing, and it still is as of 0800 on Sunday
April 15. The transmitter is off air.
A Google search yesterday revealed a Facebook post dated February 4,
from a listener who remarked "They are not answering email. Suspended
the internet broadcast. Are they closing down?" And an article in a
local free newspaper dated February 24 said that Radio Today was, in
effect, broke and liquidation was a possibility:
https://rosebankkillarneygazette.co.za/226939/radio-todays-future-at-stake/
Today (April 15) the Radio Today website is saying "This account has
been suspended", although that is undated.
http://1485.org.za/cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi
Yesterday I also found a Radio Today link which said they were having
problems with their service provider, Sentech. I assumed it to be a
technical transmitter problem, but perhaps not. Regret I can't find
that link online today.
I also found that various online streaming services are unable
(yesterday and today) to stream Radio Today, giving the excuse they
"Failed to load stream due to server error or unsupported format", but
that can't be considered definitive since I never listen to streaming
services from any station and it could be something I'm doing wrong.
Perhaps someone who knows how to do it properly can check on this.
Would also be interested to hear if their satellite stream is working,
as I do not have the technology.
Whether any of these disparate observations do turn out to be
interconnected remains to be seen and monitored, the silence could of
course be due to other factors. But this morning (April 15) a local
online tech newsletter is reporting that Sentech has switched off 15
(un-named) local radio stations for non payment. That could account
for the silence on 1485kHz but, I presume, not necessarily on their
web stream or satellite.
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/broadcasting/256075-15-local-radio-stations-switched-off-because-they-owe-too-much-money.html?source=newsletter
(Bill Bingham, Jo'burg, Drake R8E, Sony ICF 2001D. WOR iog via DXLD)
1485: 1 kW at Marks Park (WRTH 2018 via DXLD)
** SOUTH AFRICA. Hellenic Radio on 1422 (for the local Greek community
in Johannesburg) has apparently been missing for a few days. It
certainly wasn't on air yesterday (April 17), and isn't there today
(April 18).
Their Facebook page has a post dated last Thursday, April 12, which
says "For technical (temporary) reasons you can only listen to us on
the internet".
Maybe a victim of Sentech's transmitter shutdown for community
stations in financial arrears, which apparently began about a week
ago? (my speculation!)
The same Facebook page has a post from a supporter appealing for
funding to keep the station afloat, donations to be sent to an account
at the S.A. Bank of Athens (Bill Bingham, Jo'burg, RSA. Drake R8E,
Sony ICF 2001D. WOR via DXLD) 1 kW de Bedfordview (WRTH 2018 via DXLD)
** SOUTH AFRICA [and non]. Weak-fair signal of Channel Africa, Apr 13
0600-0655 on 11925 MEY 250 kW / 315 deg WeAf English Mon-Fri
0400-0455 on 6060*MEY 250 kW / 019 deg EaAf English Mon-Fri, not 6040
* co-ch same 6060 BAU 100 kW / 010 deg ENAm Spanish Radio Habana Cuba
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/04/weak-to-fair-signal-of-channel-africa.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, April 12-13, WOR iog via WORLD OF
RADIO 1926, DXLD)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9330.40, WBCQ Monticello ME; 2157-2200+, 4/6;
B.S., “God is not going to save any Jews.” (What about Christian
fondlers?) SIO=353 with some distortion & bubbler burst QRM
+++ [same], 1959-2005+, 4/8; ToH WBCQ spot into B.S. screaming at his
flock, “How can you discount my words!?” (Does he also have words at
the regular price?) SIO=453 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B
+ 185' RW, ----- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time!
-----, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
SECRETLAND, New time and frequency of Brother Stair via SPL Secretbrod
1500-1655 11600 SCB 100 kW / 306 deg English The Overcomer Ministry
1800-1900 9400 SCB 100 kW / 306 deg English is wrong in BSTOM site
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, April 15-16, WOR iog via DXLD)
** SPAIN. 15520, April 14 at 1850, no signal from REE on what is
normally its best signal opposite from here, nor on 15390. 17855, the
supposed North American frequency, is VP S1, and the other 16m, 17715
is also audible as a JBA carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
ESPANHA. 15390. Abr 14, 2018. 1925-1932, Radio Exterior da Espanha,
Noblejas-E, em Espanhol. Locutores falam e comentam, ao vivo, sobre um
jogo de futebol. REE com bom sinal e modulação prejudicada pelo áudio
abafado e distorcido, devido a um problema crônico no transmissor,
provavelmente, 45543 (DXer: José Ronaldo Xavier, Local da escuta:
Cabedelo-PB, Brasil, WOR iog via DXLD)
Reception of Radio Exterior de España on 15520/17855, Apr 15
1400-1800 15520 NOB 200 kW / 110 deg N/ME Spanish Sat/Sun, very good
1400-1800 17715 NOB 200 kW / 230 deg SoAm Spanish Sat/Sun, poor/weak
1400-1800 17855 NOB 200 kW / 290 deg ENAm Spanish Sat/Sun, no signal
1400-1800 21620 NOB 200 kW / 161 deg WCAf Spanish Sat/Sun, no signal
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/04/reception-of-radio-exterior-de-espana_16.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, April 15-16, WOR iog via DXLD)
** SPAIN [non!]. The international radio of Spain does not confirm the
reports through WRN. In January, I was surprised to see this card
https://kolkeradio.blogspot.ru/2018/01/qsl-radio-exterior-de-espana.html
and sent two reports to the address of Svetlana Demidova.
Today received a response by email:
``Greetings, Dmitry! Thank you for attention. You are absolutely
right, we do not send a confirmation to KSL [sic]. Since 2015,
broadcasting in Russian Radio Exterior exists only on the Internet,
and Radio Exteryor technical services do not track and respond to
reports. Strictly speaking, this is understandable. If you allow me, I
advise you to send your report and a link to Youtube more than once,
but not to us, but to the head of the Russian broadcaster WRN, so that
he can see by ear and hear how low the quality of retransmission is to
your zone. Have a nice day and a good mood. Yours faithfully,
Broadcasting in Russian,
Yes, this last KSL, which I had left since 2015, I sent. This, I
repeat, was the last card, since 2015, and now for three years as
Radio Exterior KSL DOES NOT ORDER FOR PRINT AND DOES NOT SEND. I again
recommend that your reports be sent to that radio station, from whose
waves you receive the callsign. As I understand it, in this case, it
was the World Radio Network from Moscow. All the best, Svetlana
Demidova``
I am not particularly worried, since such a card is for 2013
http://freerutube.info/2015/08/07/qsl-radio-exterior-de-espana-ispaniya-ree-noyabr-2013-goda/
(Dmitry Elagin, Saratov, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx", via QSL World,
Rus-DX 15 April via DXLD)
** SUDAN. Reception of Radio Omdurman Sudan, April 16-17
from 2104 on 7205*ALF 100 kW / 210 deg to CeAf Arabic
from 0441 on 7205 ALF 100 kW / 210 deg to CeAf Arabic
* totally blocked by BBC WS in English & RFI in French
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/04/reception-of-radio-omdurman-sudan-april.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, April 16-17, WOR iog via DXLD)
** SWEDEN. News from the Alexander Association
Grimeton SAQ Veteran Radio Friends http://www.alexander.n.se
SAQ on Air on May 1st
World Heritage Grimeton Radio Station participates in the ERIH event
WORK it OUT – Industrial culture, on May 1 [Tuesday]and as part of the
event we plan for the first SAQ transmission since 2016.
The transmitter start-up will begin at 11.30 (0930 UT) and the
transmission will begin on 17.2 kHz CW at 12.00 (1000 UT). You can
also watch a live video stream of the event on
http://www.alexander.n.se
No QSL-cards will be given this time and no List of Reports will be
constructed but we accept shorter Listeners Report to e-mail
info@alexander.n.se
We sincerely hope that all the SAQ transmission on 17.2 kHz will go as
planned, but as always there is a reservation that the transmission is
cancelled with short notice.
//The Alexander association team @Grimeton, Sweden
The Alexander Association Grimeton SAQ Veteran Radio Friends
Radiostationen Grimeton 72 Grimeton 43298 Sweden
(via Mike Terry, April 16, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1926, DXLD)
** TAIWAN. / USA --- Voice [sic] of Hope. Dear Friend, We are so
pleased that you are able to listen to our radio in Russia. Today we
will send you the QSL card, we hope you will receive it soon. The QSL
card is attached. Thanks for your support and wish you all the best.
Joanna Xia joanna.xia @ bayvoice.net
Date of reception - 2 April 2018/0500-0600 UT / 11970 kHz
You can see the confirmation here -
http://rusdx.blogspot.ru/2018/04/blog-post_10.html
(Anatoly Klepov, Moscow, Russia, QSL World, Rus-DX 15 April via DXLD)
I managed to get scans of the future QSL card from the station of
Sound of Hope from California, USA. Reports are old, for 2015. Scans
QSL here
http://freerutube.info/2018/04/11/qsl-sound-of-hope-ssha-2015-god/
Reports are old, for 2015. Initially, reports were sent to all known
addresses associated with the domains soundofhope.org and
sohnetwork.com. No reply was received. Today reports confirmed Joanna
Xia from the address joanna.xia @ bayvoice.net. The site of the
station is located on the domain of bayvoice.net. Country - Presumably
Taiwan, Sound of Hope Station - SOH Xi Wang Zhi Sheng
(Dmitry Elagin, Saratov, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx", ibid.)
QSL with these exaggerated slogans:
``The First Chinese Public Radio Network in the U.S.
Unimpeded broadcast into China with the most powerful signal
An international radio network in over 30 cities on 4 continents.``
Has this been a hard one to QSL? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAJIKISTAN. Summer A-18 schedule from Tajikistan.
Tajik Radio 1
0000-0300 4765 DB 100 kW non-dir to CeAS Tajik
0300-0330 4765 DB 100 kW non-dir to CeAS Russian
0330-0900 4765 DB 100 kW non-dir to CeAS Tajik
0900-0930 4765 DB 100 kW non-dir to CeAS Russian
0930-1000 4765 DB 100 kW non-dir to CeAS Uzbek
1000-2000 4765 DB 100 kW non-dir to CeAS Tajik
2300-2400 4765 DB 100 kW non-dir to CeAS Tajik
Voice of Tajik
0000-0100 7245 DB 100 kW non-dir to CeAS Arabic
0100-0200 7245 DB 100 kW non-dir to CeAS English
0200-0400 7245 DB 100 kW non-dir to CeAS Tajik
0400-0600 7245 DB 100 kW non-dir to CeAS Farsi
0600-0800 7245 DB 100 kW non-dir to CeAS Dari
0800-1000 7245 DB 100 kW non-dir to CeAS Russian
1000-1100 7245 DB 100 kW non-dir to CeAS Uzbek
1100-1200 7245 DB 100 kW non-dir to CeAS Hindi
1200-1300 7245 DB 100 kW non-dir to CeAS Arabic
1300-1400 7245 DB 100 kW non-dir to CeAS English
1400-1600 7245 DB 100 kW non-dir to CeAS Tajik
1600-1800 7245 DB 100 kW non-dir to CeAS Farsi
1800-2000 7245 DB 100 kW non-dir to CeAS Dari, currently off
2000-2200 7245 DB 100 kW non-dir to CeAS Russian, currently off
2200-2300 7245 DB 100 kW non-dir to CeAS Uzbek, currently off
2300-2400 7245 DB 100 kW non-dir to CeAS Hindi, currently off
(Ivo Ivanov-BUL, hcdx via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 8)
(via BC-DX 13 April via DXLD)
** TAJIKISTAN. Adventist World Radio KSDA via Dushanbe, April 11:
1300-1330 on 12055 DB 100 kW / 118 deg to SEAs Kachin, fair to good
but announcing wrong frequency - 15140 kHz via Tashkent in A-18 HFCC
1330-1400 on 11825 DB 100 kW / 118 deg to SEAs Thai, good signal
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/04/reception-of-adventist-world-radio-ksda.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, April 10-11, WOR iog via DXLD)
** THAILAND. A card with a new topic from Radio Thailand was received
for the report of January 12, 2018. The theme of the card is Tian Nok
Kaew or Parrot Flower. The card is here
http://freerutube.info/2018/04/11/qsl-radio-thailand-tailand-yanvar-2018-goda/
(Dmitry Elagin, Saratov, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx", via Rus-DX 15
April via DXLD)
QSL Radio Thailand (program in Thai). The report was written in
English. Just too lazy to sign me a QSL card
(Rustam Vafin, Novosibirsk, Russia / https://vk.com/club3877182 ibid.)
** TURKEY. A new card was received from the Russian Voice of Turkey
service for the report of February 4, 2018. Also sent a pocket
calendar for 2018. The theme of the card is the National Poet of
Turkey. The card is here
http://freerutube.info/2018/03/06/qsl-voice-of-turkey-turtsiya-yanvar-2018-goda/
(Dmitry Elagin, Saratov, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx", via Rus-DX 15
April via DXLD)
QSL came from the Voice of Turkey for the reception on February 3 at
9410 kHz. In the picture, the national poet Mehmet Akif
(Alexander Golovihin, Togliatti, Russsia / "deneb-radio-dx", ibid.)
** UGANDA [non]. 15239.935, April 14 at 1454, S2-S3 African music,
i.e. Radio Munansi via WWRB. If it`s anything like last Saturday,
could be continuous music for hours before getting down to business
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Reception of Radio Munansi via WWRB Global 2, Apr 14
1420-2050 on 15240 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to ENAm Music/Luganda Sat/Sun
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/04/reception-of-radio-munansi-via-wwrb.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, April 14-15, WOR iog via DXLD)
Tune in/out times I assume rather than sign on/off times (gh, DXLD)
** U K. BBC MONITORING MARKS 75 YEARS AT CAVERSHAM PARK
The BBC Monitoring Service moved to Caversham Park from Wood Norton
(Worcestershire) in April 1943. To mark the anniversary I'm posting a
thread of relevant tweets at:
https://twitter.com/ChrisGreenwayUK/status/983757618614358017
(Chris Greenway, BBCM, April 16, WOR iog via DXLD)
** U K. Re: Consultation on reduction of Absolute Radio medium wave
coverage --- Published today on the Ofcom website:
"Following a public consultation, Ofcom has decided to approve
proposals from Absolute Radio to reduce by 5% the transmission
coverage of its AM national commercial licence. This statement
summarises the responses we received to the consultation and explains
our decision, and the reasons for it."
Statement and consultation responses at
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-3/absolute-radio-proposals-to-reduce-am-coverage
(Mike Barraclough, April 13, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) Viz.:
a516digital.com
13 April 2018
Ofcom has approved Absolute Radio's plans to cut Medium Wave coverage.
Bauer Media, the operator of the radio station, threatened to close
the entire Medium Wave service if Ofcom didn't approve of the change.
The plans involve cutting the number of transmitters it broadcasts
from, while digital radio would remain unaffected.
Following a public consultation, which yielded a variety of responses
for and against the move, Ofcom has agreed that the changes can take
place.
The request to broadcast regulator Ofcom made at the beginning of the
year confirmed the change would reduce Absolute's analogue footprint
from around 90 to 85% of the UK and would involve a number of Medium
Wave transmitters being turned off, or put on reduced power.
Absolute Radio's AM service from its transmitters at Brookmans Park
(serving London and the Home Counties), Droitwich (Midlands), Moorside
Edge (Northern England), Westerglen (Central Scotland) and Washford
(South West), will be put on reduced power this year.
Meanwhile, MW transmitters at Plymouth, Redmoss (Aberdeen), Hull,
Torbay, Redruth, Hoo (Kent), Greenside Scalp (Dundee), Wallasey,
Pirbright (Guildford), Chesterton Fen (Cambridge), Rodbourne Sewage
(Swindon) and Sheffield will be turned off altogether.
Article continues here, with maps of coverage areas.
https://www.a516digital.com/2018/04/absolute-radio-mw-coverage-cut-approved.html
Posted by: (Mike Terry, ibid.)
ABSOLUTE RADIO MW COVERAGE CUT APPROVED
Our trans-Atlantic beacon in western Canada will lose some zip next
season. In the article that Mike Terry references below, the link
references another link:
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0022/112918/Statement-Absolute-Radio-proposals-to-reduce-AM-coverage.pdf
which gives more technical details. The important thing for DXers
is 3dB reduction in power output from their big transmitters, the ones
most likely to make it overseas (Nick Hall-Patch, BC, IRCA via DXLD)
While I am mindful of the tenuous nature of TA propagation to Western
NA, my opinion is that propagation conditions are proportionately more
responsible for these receptions, and the small reductions in power
may not have as much impact as might be thought. If propagation
conditions are marginal to begin with, then these power reductions
could preclude reception, however under better conditions, perhaps not
so much (Russ Edmunds, WB2BJH, Blue Bell, PA, ibid.)
I think you said a mouthful Russ, at least with "propagation
conditions are marginal to begin with". Most DXers could {not} care
less about carrier strength; they want to hear an ID. 3dB is half an
S-unit, yet not small, it is half the power; the accountants will be
very happy. I suspect that it will likely significantly reduce the
number of times weak audio is reported here (and might be paralleled
with a European SDR), but probably won't reduce the few times that
Absolute Radio is banging in enough that a DXer actually hears an ID;
and yes, it has happened. best wishes, (Nick, ibid.)
Absolute is still a beacon for us on the EC. Back in the 70's it was
Germany on 1586, France on 1554 or this one. When the first two shut
down, Croatia on 1134 took their place. Now it's Absolute and Spain on
684 (Russ Edmunds, WB2BJH, Blue Bell, PA, ibid.)
** U K [non]. 5875, April 11 at 0628, African song, poor S3-S5. HFCC
shows it`s BBC French, 27 degrees from ASCENSION. 0629 horns and
African language, now converted to Hausa from same (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K. 11875, April 15 at 1824, something poor in French. It`s BBCWS,
1800-1830, 250 kW, 170 degrees from Woofferton, not much else from
Europe on band at this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 9615, PHILIPPINES (listed site Tinang [IBB]), BBCWS at
1550. News magazine interview on computers and technology. Listed as
Korean at this time, but clearly in English. However, at the
conclusion of the interview, it DID revert back to Korean. Went on
thru the ToH with typical BBC theme music. Good-Apr 15 Grundig
Satellit, RS SW-2000629, and HQ-180A with various outdoor wires. Use
of portables noted where relevant for perspective on signal strength
comments. 73 to all of you and Good Listening....! (Rick Barton,
Central AZ, WOR iog via DXLD)
** U K. Special DRM transmission of BBC World Service
On the occasion of the annual DRM General Assembly to be held in Palma
de Mallorca, Spain on April 17th and 18th, there will be a special DRM
transmission of BBC World Service content in English on 11970 kHz
between 1000–1200 GMT (12.00–14.00 local time in Palma). The
transmission will be relayed by Babcock International to large areas
of south west Europe and part of the north African coast.
[with coverage map:]
http://www.drm.org/babcock-bbc-drm-transmission-during-drm-general-assembly/
(via Mike Terry, WOR iog via DXLD) Presumably from Woofferton (gh)
** U S A. 5896.5-USB, UT Wednesday April 18 at 0008, MARS net headed
by NCS387 with much weaker contacts AFA6AG and AFA6TG. I wonder if FCC
ordered WWCR off 5890 because of this, besides their banning Brother
HyStairical with no replacement; so could it resume that frequency if
it wanted to? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. BULLETIN: K6KPH ACTIVE FOR INTERNATIONAL MARCONI DAY
MARITIME RADIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY 16 April 2018
K6KPH, the amateur station of the MRHS, will be active for
International Marconi Day (IMD) 2018 to help celebrate the birthday of
the Great Man.
IMD is organized by the Cornish Amateur Radio Club each year on the
weekend closest to Marconi's birthday of 25 April 1874. This year the
event will be held on 21 April UT.
Since K6KPH transmits from the original Marconi site that went into
service in 1914, it is a registered IMD station. The Cornish Amateur
Radio Club will issue an award to stations that contact 15 officially
registered IMD stations like K6KPH.
Date & Time - K6KPH will be in operation Saturday 21 April beginning
at 0000 UT (5:00 pm Friday 20 April PDT). Operations will continue for
several hours until our operators run out of steam. See below if you
would like to be a K6KPH operator for this event!
Frequencies - K6KPH will guard these frequencies:
3550.0
7050.0
14050.0
18097.5
Calling Procedure - Since we will have KPH on the air as well (see
below), the operators will be very busy and may not be able to call CQ
on each amateur channel. But they will be scanning all the channels.
So the best bet is to use commercial procedure when calling K6KPH:
Continue to call on your chosen frequency until the K6KPH operator
responds with DE. Then respond with your call sign.
The station can be reached by phone on +1 415-669-9646 if you want to
call in a report or arrange a special listening watch. The phone will
be answered only when the station is on the air.
Be a K6KPH Operator - If you would like to be a K6KPH operator for IMD
we would welcome your help. Bring your key and 'phones or use ours
(but be advised that some modern electronic keys may not work with the
K6KPH keying system so bugs and straight keys are encouraged). Show up
early so we can familiarize you with the K6KPH equipment and
procedures. You'll be using fixed frequency 1.5 kW commercial
transmitters 20 miles from the receive/control site so operations are
a little different from usual amateur practice! For more information
please send an email to info@radiomarine.org
KPH Will Be On The Air - KPH will be transmitting on these frequencies
and will of course be listening for calls from ships on 500 kc [/s]
and ITU channel 3 HF.
426
500
4247.0
6477.5
8642.0
12808.5
17016.8
22447.5
VY 73, MRHS, info@radiomarine.org | http://www.radiomarine.org
(via Mike Terry, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1926, DXLD)
** U S A [non]. Botswana: 6080, VoA via Moepeng Hill, "International
Edition" hosted by Lori London with political talk re the Trump /
Mueller investigations, and then talk re wine (good segué!) and then
into the DR Congo's cultural development. There was 'goose honking'
jamming during both the political item and the bit about the Congo,
but not during the wine story. Hmmmmmm .... The jamming was MOSTLY
on the USB, so LSB Sync helped, but even that didn't eliminate it
completely.
At 0357 an Editorial "reflecting the view of the US Government" about
Ukraine was aired. We believe in a non-corrupt democratically elected
government FYI. The editorial seemed to be cut off early, and at 0358
ID "This is the Voice of America, Washington DC, Signing on" and YDD.
Into VoA news at ToH and the goose honking stopped at about 30 seconds
past the ToH. Supposedly this was a switch to STP, Pinheira, but I
noticed no drastic change. The goose honking did pick up again at
about 0402 though. Bummer. So who is jamming VoA to Africa? 444+4+4,
0345-0410 11/Apr SDRplay +SDRuno +ANC-4 +rwire (Kenneth Vito Zichi,
Williamston MI, MARE Tipsheet April 13 via DXLD)
This pulse jamming has been infesting 6080 longtime; never a Martí
frequency, but I think it`s a Cuban stray, probably out of the 6030
pileup. May be related to the jamming on 5980, 50 kHz on the other
side, altho the spans do not match (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. Frequency changes of Voice of America
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/04/frequency-changes-of-voice-of-america.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, April 16-17, WOR iog via DXLD) Viz.:
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 Frequency changes of Voice of America
0300-0500 NF 5925 BOT 100 kW / 350 deg CeAf English, ex 15580
0400-0500 NF 7270 SAO 100 kW / 124 deg ZWE Shona/Ndebele M-F ex 9855
1030-1100 NF 11760 BOT 100 kW / 010 deg EaAf Somali, ex 11750
1700-1900 NF 5885 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg WeAs Pashto VOA DeewaR ex 9370
2100-2130 NF 9740 SMG 250 kW / 184 deg WCAf French Mon-Fri, ex 9885
??????????? ?? Observer ? 4:27 PM (Bulgarian DX blog via DXLD)
** U S A. VOA out of touch --- As I write this, President Trump is
announcing missile strikes against Syria. Meanwhile, the Voice of
America is running a regular hourly newscast on its English service.
No mention of the president's announcement and no live coverage. What
an embarrassment for the United States' voice to the world (Mike
Cooper, GA, 0105 UT Apr 14, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
On the other hand, KNX/1070 Newsradio in Los Angeles had continuous
coverage, from the Mattis press conference (which ended around 0224
UTC on Apr 14), for at least a solid half-hour afterward (including
brief updates from CBS; the rest was locally produced). They did
break off for a Traffic report at 0246 (-- GREG HARDISON, CA, WOR iog
via DXLD)
Considering how much of VOA news coverage has to be prepared in
advance and vetted, and the fact that when the President would come to
the microphone was in a state of flux, I can see why VOA possibly
decided to keep that hour`s newscast intact as scheduled. Taking time
to write and edit such a story is always a good thing.
Now, the question is....how long did they wait until commenting on the
story after the newscast? Did they wait until the next hour`s
newscast? (B-T-M, ibid.)
Here in European media, discussion is always equal yesterday with the
clumsy Trump's contact to prostitutes hooker discussion ahead. Mr
President will distract topic now. 73 wolfy (Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD)
By the 0200 newscast they had at least inserted mention of the
situation. Not much DETAIL, but it was the lead item.
I guess I'm less 'embarrassed' about them taking a few extra minutes
to break a story (even one as easily 'vetted' as just putting the
President on live) than I am if they tried to 'spin' the news by, for
example, choosing to try to ignore the 'storm' in Washington to make
the US look better in the eyes of foreign listeners.
Wasn't 'warts and all' the motto? Shouldn't it be? "Firstest" isn't
the only way to analyze news coverage after all! There is much to
critique about VoA and the BBG in general, but I'm not feeling the ire
here.
Here in the USA the 'easiest' way to hear VoA news is via WRMI.
Here's a log:
9395, WRMI with pop oldies, and VoA news at 0244. The lead item was of
course the attack on Syria. Wag the dog much? Nope -- not working as
the second item was about the investigations around President Trump
and the various scandals. Ad for a seminary after news, and into more
pop oldies at 0250 ('Walk Away Rene', 'Day Tripper', 'Expressway to
Your Heart', etc.) Weaker than often is the case, 4443+3 occasional
fades into the noise floor. 0240-0300 14/Apr SDRplay +SDRuno +ANC-4
+randomwire
-- One can never be too rich, too thin or have too many radios.
D<-- and I'm still not with stupid! --> R
(Kenneth Vito Zichi, Williamston MI, WOR iog via DXLD)
``(even one as easily 'vetted' as just putting the President on
live)`` --- I think putting the (this) President on live might create
more of an issue than waiting until he is done. ;-) (B-T-M, ibid.)
** U S A [and non]. 9950, April 16 at 1400, opening Vietnamese from
Washington. This hour only is IBB TINIAN; 9950 time-shared with Palau,
Taiwan and Indian sites (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7780, WRMI Radio Miami Int’l (presumed); 2045, 4/10 [Tue];
Unmistakable dulcet tones of Glenn Hauser, but too buried to copy
(Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ----- All logged
by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! -----, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1925 monitoring: unfortunately
awake Wed April 11 at 1051, I try 9455 WRMI where WOR is supposed to
be getting its first SW airing this week at 1030: straining, only
detect a JJBA carrier, and by 1058 still not enough signal to
recognize if it`s I. Nothing at all audible on any other WRMI
frequency including 9955. 31 mb is just about dead, EXCEPT: 9805,
wall-of-noise S9+10 Cuban jamming against inaudible Martí; if Cuba is
propagating, why not neighbor Okeechobee?
No change in 9455 after 1100, but now 9955 is on and JBA S1-S2 with
RAE in Portuguese. (NOT at 1200 any more, as RAE was quoted by
Communication of the British DX Club); by 1145 recheck, both 9955 and
// 9455 have built up to respectable signals, S8 on 9455. So was 9455
really on but not propagating before 1100?? But I digress; better
luck, next WORs:
Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW
Wed 2100 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 0629 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW [suspended until April 28]
Sat 1431 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW [suspended until April 28]
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 [suspended until April 29]
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 #1926?]
Tue 2130 WRMI 7780 to NE, 9455 to WNW [or #1926?]
WORLD OF RADIO 1925 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday April 11 at 2100
on WBCQ, 7490.05v, S7-S9. Should be at same time on WRMI 9955, but NOT
on the air! Has come up at 2104 with WOR in progress and not
synchronized with weaker WBCQ. Such are the risks of being the very
first program on any given transmission. NOT confirmed Wed Apr 11 at
2330 on WBCQ 9330v-CUSB, still off the air completely. Next, maybe:
Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 0629 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW [suspended until April 28]
Sat 1431 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW [suspended until April 28]
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 [suspended until April 29]
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 #1926?]
Tue 2130 WRMI 7780 to NE, 9455 to WNW [or #1926?]
WORLD OF RADIO 1925 monitoring: still NO signal from WBCQ 9330v-CUSB,
Thursday April 12 at 2330 (while 5130v and 7490v are on and well
audible). However, on and detectable at next check UT Friday April 13
at 0053 during Brother Scare --- JBA S3, and very wobbly frequency. As
I am measuring it about 9329.9 it abruptly jumps down to about
9329.65. Maybe backup transmitter finally getting this frequency back
on air after several days` silence whenever checked. Next WORs:
Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 0629 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW [suspended until April 28]
Sat 1431 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW [suspended until April 28]
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 [suspended until April 29]
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 #1926?]
Tue 2130 WRMI 7780 to NE, 9455 to WNW [or #1926?]
WORLD OF RADIO 1925 monitoring: not confirmed, Friday April 13 at 2330
on WBCQ, no signal again from 9330v-CUSB, altho it was detected poorly
~23 hours earlier. Next:
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 [suspended until April 29]
Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Mon 0400 WRMI webcast only
Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW
Tue 2030 WRMI 7780 to NE, 9455 to WNW [or #1926?]
Tue 2130 WRMI 7780 to NE, 9455 to WNW [or #1926?]
WORLD OF RADIO 1925 monitoring: not confirmed, still no signal Sat Apr
14 at 2130 on 9330 from WBCQ. Not confirmed next airing either, Sat
Apr 14 at 2300 on 7780 WRMI: instead, yet another airing of VORW! That
also blows away HRI at 2330. WRMI skedgrid still shows both of us this
hour, but I see has also added another WOR airing, UT Monday 0130 on
5850 to NW, 5950 to S, 7780 to NE. [WORLD OF RADIO 1926]
WOR still confirmed UT Sunday April 15 at 0200 on WRMI 7780, fair.
Also confirmed on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO, UT Sunday Apr 15 0329 at
India/International Waters, i.e. 13 minutes in, so started circa 0316.
Next, maybe:
Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Mon 0130 WRMI 5850 to NW, 5950 to S, 7780 to NE [NEW]
Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Mon 0400 WRMI webcast only
Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW
Tue 2030 WRMI 7780 to NE, 9455 to WNW [or #1926?]
Tue 2130 WRMI 7780 to NE, 9455 to WNW [or #1926?]
Full WOR sked on all outlets, podcast access:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
World of Radio - New Time --- Heard at 0130 UT on Monday, 16 April, on
7780 kHz here in NB with S9+30dB signal (-- Richard Langley, WOR iog
via DXLD)
From: Richard Lemke
My location: St. Albert
Province: Alberta
My Country: Canada
Hello Glenn: this was arm chair copy. I just tuned in to hear what's
new on 5850 kHz and heard your program World of Radio. I heard the ID
at the half way point of the program at 0145, then you were finished
after the propagation report then came something new, you said 73,
good listening. It jumping right at me something new but wait a
minute, you should still say the number of your program at the end
World of radio 1925, some times reception isn't good and just managed
to wait until the very end then you missed out especially when you are
hearing it on a weaker signal.
73's, Richard
Radio: JRC NRD-535 HF
Antenna: random long wires in the trees.
Home Address:
Richard Lemke,
60 Butterfield Crescent,
St. Albert, Alberta, Canada. T8N 2W7
Age: 54 years young
Location: Backyard pie corned shaped lot with trees
Broadcaster (Shortwave): WRMI FL USA
Transmitter site: Okeechobee FL. USA
Frequency in kHz: 5850 kHz
Program heard: World of Radio #1925
Time used in UTC, 0130 - 0159 UTC
Date heard in UTC: April 16 UTC 2018
(Richard Lemke, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
WORLD OF RADIO 1925 monitoring: As noted in last report, no show Sat
April 14 at 2300 on WRMI 7780, instead VORW. Ivo Ivanov points out
that VORW also aired on 7780 during the previous hour, 2200-2300, so
maybe the repeat was a mistake? {VORW is not scheduled at either hour;
instead `Walking in Power` on Sat & Sun 22-23}
WOR not confirmed Sunday April 15 after 2330 on 9330: still no signal
from WBCQ.
Confirmed UT Monday April 16 at 0130 on NEW tri-frequency broadcast
via WRMI: poor on 5950, fair on 7780, very good on 5850, as to be
expected here by respective azimuths; 7780 was VG in NB, 5850 VG in
AB. WORLD OF RADIO 1926,
Also confirmed UT Monday April 16 from 0302 on Area 51 webcast, and
poorly audible on WBCQ 5129.8 until 0331. Not confirmed UT Monday
April 16 at 0330 on WRMI 9955, since it`s a JBA carrier, but confirmed
on webcast, plus immediate repeat at 0400 still replacing ZomBiafra on
webcast only.
Confirmed Monday April 16 at 2330, good signal is back! from WBCQ
9329.7v. Also confirmed UT Tuesday April 17 at 0030 on WRMI, 7730, VG
S9+30. I hope to have 1926 ready in time, but if not, next 1925s:
Tue 2030 WRMI 7780 to NE, 9455 to WNW
Tue 2130 WRMI 7780 to NE, 9455 to WNW
Full WOR sked on all outlets, podcast access:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1926, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
WORLD OF RADIO 1925 monitoring: confirmed Tuesday April 17 at 2330 on
WBCQ, 9329.608v-CUSB, fair-good, altho 1926 was available 3.5 hours
earlier this week.
WORLD OF RADIO 1926 contents: Alaska and non, Argentina non,
Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Chad non, Cuba, Ethiopia, Iran
non, Kiritimati, Korea North non, Kuwait, New Zealand, Nigeria non,
Oman, Panamá and non, Perú, Philippines, South Africa, Sweden, USA,
Vietnam; and the propagation outlook
WORLD OF RADIO 1926 monitoring: ready in time for first SW broadcasts
Tuesday April 17 at 2030 on WRMI 7780 & 9455, poor-fair vs noise
levels, and about the same on both at 2130 repeats. I can hardly wait
for 7780 to revert to 11580 which will propagate much better on summer
days. 13 MHz band across North America would be even better. Next:
Wed 1030 WRMI 9455 to WNW [unconfirmed]
Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW
Wed 2100 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 0629 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW [suspended until April 28]
Sat 1431 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW [suspended until April 28]
Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sat 2130 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 2300 WRMI 7780 to NE [not last week; canceled?]
Sun 0200 WRMI 7780 to NE
Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sun 1030 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW [suspended until April 29]
Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Mon 0130 WRMI 5850 to NW, 5950 to S, 7780 to NE [NEW]
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 #1927?]
Tue 2130 WRMI 7780 to NE, 9455 to WNW [or #1927?]
Full WOR sked on all outlets, podcast access:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non-log]. 5010, WRMI. After conducting a low powered test
here on March 7, has not been heard again. Jeff's plans to use this
frequency by late last month must have changed? April 11, at 1230, was
only hearing AIR, with the New Delhi audio feed of the news in English
and // 4920 (Tibet QRM) // 4970 // 5040 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State
Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD)
** U S A. 9455, Wed Apr 11 at 2100, WRMI with something in German!
Could it be RAE? No, just a brief announcement in the otherwise
English FG Radio, which has another travelogue episode, about England.
At least this frequency is on the air, unlike 9955 not yet for WORLD
OF RADIO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5950, April 12 at 0618, ``I Don`t Get No – Satisfaxion``
song is playing, hardly to be expected from the Radio Dandal Kura or
Ethiopia! O, RDK is now supposed to be on 11910 via France. 0622, WRMI
ID by Bob Biermann, claiming to be on 9395 only --- what does he know?
So the Oldies service has shown up on this new frequency which is
supposed to be off the air between 0200 and 1100! It`s S6-S7 as always
weak here, aimed southward, but at this hour better than very poor
9395 & 9455 which are supposedly still Oldies. 5/6/7 MHz band is
certainly needed if overnight broadcasts from Okee are to be audible
with minimal MUFs. Will this show up on sked, or just an experiment or
error? Not yet.
5950, April 13 at 0553, again tonight, WRMI active on this
unacknowledged frequency with `Oldies`, very poor, but better than
9395 & 9455. However, at 0559, 9455 has surged up for definite ID
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1926, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
5950, April 14 at 0458, WRMI `Oldies` channel is S8-S5 while there are
no signals from // 9395 & 9455; 5950 for at least the third night now,
and still unshown on the skedgrid for WRMI-14, off the air from 0200
to 1100, so now may be filling all those hours? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
5950, April 16 at 0530, poor signal with gospel huxter in English,
presumably WRMI Oldies channel as before but during an opt-out (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
5950, April 17 at 1047 I awaken briefly so check for WRMI Oldies on
new frequency --- there it is, poorly audible, but inaudible on 9395.
So now I know it runs at least from 0300 to 1100, and probably from
0200, the 9-hour gap between previously scheduled programming upon it.
However, the April 17 edition of NDXC/Aoki shows Oldies on 5950 only
at 0230-0500 daily.
5950, April 18 at 0003, RMI during Jesus stuff from AWR in Spanish,
again with heavy SAH. It averages about 8 Hz, but varies a lot due to
one or both unstable transmitters and/or propagation. AWR mixes in
some music with talk, but I don`t hear any separate modulation from
the other carrier. What in the world is it? Iran in Tajik doesn`t
start until 0050; maybe that has been expanded. Or my other theory, a
second WRMI transmitter, of which they have several otherwise idle
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1926, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Two hours for Voice of Report of the Week to W Eu via WRMI-1
Okeechobee, April 14:
2200-2300 7780 100 kW / 044 deg English Sat, instead of rlg prgr
2300-2330 7780 100 kW / 044 deg English Sat, instead of WOR#1925
2330-2400 7780 100 kW / 044 deg English Sat instead of Hobart RI
0000-0100 7780 100 kW / 044 deg WeEu Slo/Eng Daily Radio Slovakia Int
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/04/two-hours-for-voice-of-report-of-week.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, April 14-15, WOR iog via DXLD)
** U S A. Maine, Monticello, LOGO: WBCQ - Free Speech Radio - Since
1998 - Monticello, Maine, USA
WBCQ 7490, April 12, 2339 Religious/political mixture. Talking about
global currency issues, the story of Lazarus, etc. Interestingly he is
critical of almost everyone – mainstream media but also Alex Jones. He
is against the “globalist” agenda but also is opposed to the “patriot”
movement. Now talking about “gold shills.” Super-interesting. I wish I
knew what his thesis was. — Digging deeper, I checked the WBCQ
schedule and it looks like this is “Know Your Adversary,” a program
hosted by Chris Pirnak. From perusing his website, he is opposed to
socialism, but also globalism. Definitely an interesting mix —- while
I’m not down with many of his beliefs, he makes some good points (most
notably the idea that every movement has a “confirmation bias” which
pushes people to only consider media and other thought from those who
confirm their own beliefs) His website is at:
http://knowyouradversary.com/
(James Branum, KG5JST Radio Logs April 6-13, 2018, UTC
http://blog.jmb.mx/index.php/2018/04/13/kg5jst-radio-logs-april-6-13-2018-utc/
My QTH is EM15ep in far Northwest Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, via
WOR iog via DXLD)
7490.05v, April 13 at 0107, WBCQ with Blalock the Blaster, Tourette
Syndrome gospel huxter, instead of 0000 on 9330, a change made a few
weeks ago, but still not on the program schedule, which continues to
show `Full Gospel Hour` on 9330 every night at 00-01, and 7490 off the
air after 0100 except UT Thursdays Hal Turner.
The 00-01 hour on 9330V was extended to Brother Scare who was already
on 9330V most of the days and nights. Transmitter was off this week
until weak wobbly resumption April 13 by 0053. But inaudible and/or
off again at 0601 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
[non] Weak/fair signal of HM01 Cuban Spy Numbers, April 13:
0655-0750 9330 secret tx probably BEJ 50 kW Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/04/weakfair-signal-of-hm01-cuban-spy.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, April 12-13, WOR iog via DXLD)
WBCQ 9330 noted Friday April 13, 2018, 1800-1815 UT after seemingly
off for several days. Talk by some doomsday/prepper nut for several
minutes, and then Brother Scare with commentary. Fair to good signal
on the PL-880 despite overall noisy conditions. The transmission
appears to be in AM mode; new exciter? (Larry Will, Mount Airy, MD,
WOR iog via DXLD)
9330, April 14 at 1500 and 2330 chex, no signal detectable from this
WBCQ. Wonder what happened to main transmitter, which was doing so
well last week? Larry Will reported to the WOR iog [as above]:
Evidently nothing about 9330 on `Allan Weiner Worldwide``; John
Carver`s reportage of AWWW this week, UT Sat Apr 14:
``Listening on 7490 this evening as the signal is greater than 20
over. Theme song started at 0001 after some fill music. Over the theme
Allan stated that there would be a real mailbag this evening. Allan
and Angela in studio 9 in FLA. Allan commented on Angela's tan and
said she looked like a pretzel.
Opening talk about how AM and SW are very similar except for channel
spacing, frequency range and antennas. Then talked about antennas and
stated that 5130 was back on the thousand foot rhombic. Talked very
briefly about the rotating curtain antenna that would be used on the
new super station. This mutated into a talk about radio waves which
are light waves and then talked about all the different waves until he
got to cosmic waves.
Reading of actual QSL letters began at 0031. Reading of emails began
at 0049. Allan dodged two questions about who was behind the new super
station and talked about the power consumption of the new transmitter
and said that the electric service at the station was being upgraded.
He mentioned some numbers for electrical consumption which I didn't
catch but I know the last number mentioned was over a million watts.
Program was off the air at 0100. No phone calls or politics this
evening. John, Mid-North Indiana``
9330v, April 14 at 1829, this WBCQ is still AWOL, no signal. Also
random later chex April 15 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
7490, WBCQ at 2058 with repeated IS and ID and into “Marion's Attic”
eclectic music program at 2100 with Marion Webster and his beautiful
assistant Christina – Very Good Apr 15 [Sunday]
A combination of snow, ice pellets, freezing rain, and high winds took
out my 40 meter off-center fed dipole late Saturday night. This
antenna works best for me on its designed band and above 12 MHz. The
ladder line has probably come off from the balun but it's a little too
cold, wet, and slippery to effect repairs today so I had to put up
with using my 80 meter off-center fed dipole which works best below 7
MHz and on 25 and 31 meters. When is spring finally going to arrive in
the Great White North? (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or
Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA
iog via DXLD)
Maine, Monticello, LOGO: WBCQ - Free Speech Radio - Since 1998 -
Monticello, Maine, USA --- WBCQ 7490 on April 16, 0009. SIO 454. Allan
Weiner World-wide (it turns out a rerun from Feb. 23, 2018). It was a
bizarre show, which illustrates how far Allan Weiner has gone from his
rebellious pirate radio days — today he is astonishingly a somewhat
libertarian leaning conservative who also defends a straight up neo-
fascist (Donald Trump). What follows are my notes, with some quotes
from this broadcast:
Lots of complaints about federal taxes — “Thank you Mr. President” –
referring to Trump’s tax reforms, but Weiner says it isn’t near
enough.
Weiner says he agrees with Ted Cruz on the need to abolish the IRS. He
says the US can completely fund the federal government by way of
tariffs on Chinese-made goods.
He then tells about a recent cruise in which the only news available
on the in-cabin TV was from CNN. He is upset that they are so anti-
Trump and says, “Do they have to be left-wing whackos all of the
time?”
And next… Weiner starts to move in a religious direction, saying that
“Satan is rampant… we are kicking God out of everything… the world is
going to be controlled by evil.” (on a sidenote — this is so, so far
outside the norm of Judaism today) [he is no longer a Jew --- gh]
Next Allan goes in an even weirder direction staying that if “the Lord
made me supreme ruler,” that he would get rid of CNN and PBS, and then
he said “I don’t believe in socialist media,” which launches him into
a rant about socialism more generally… but then starts using the term
“National socialist” to refer to mainstream democratic socialism,
which is a rotten underhanded dig, given that “national socialism” was
the term used by Hitler to describe the Nazi far-right movement, which
is completely antithetical to real socialist thought.
But Weiner continues and I’m trying to get it all down in my notebook,
“Bullshit, government bullshit…. what is it with you left-wing
wackos?”
Next Weiner starts talking drug policy. He says he himself has never
used dropped acid, tried heroin, cocaine or other hard drugs, but he
does enjoy a monthly puff of marijuana and occasional alcohol (why is
this relevant?) — He then goes on to say that all drugs should be
legal and taxed. He then talks about the US medical establishment’s
over-reliance on opioids (something I would agree with) and then says
that “we have really fuckered it up.”
He then mentions the date (Feb. 23, 2018) and then starts saying that
drugs should be legalized but slapped with a 50% tax! — So much for
Allan Weiner’s pro-drug liberty agenda — why should folks needing pain
medicine pay high taxes while the rich no longer pay income taxes? I
just don’t get this. Also I thought [he said] that Chinese tariffs
were enough to fund the government?
Overall, hearing this broadcast was a terribly sad experience. I have
many friends and loved ones who are conservative and I respect them
(even if I disagree with them), but Allan’s embracing Trump and his
neo-fascist agenda is something else (James Branum, Most of my
listening is done via ultralight shortwave radio receivers (my
favorite of late is my CCrane Skywave), but I also sometimes use my
Yaesu FT-817 or a standard car radio. My QTH is in EM15ep in far
Northwest Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
http://blog.jmb.mx/index.php/2018/04/17/kg5jst-radio-reception-logs-april-15-17-2018-utc/
via WOR iog via DXLD)
[non] ARMENIA, Reception of Trans World Radio India via Yerevan Apr 16
1300-1315 9330 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg SoAs English Mon-Sat, very good:
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2018/04/reception-of-trans-world-radio-india_16.html
(Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News, April 15-16, WOR iog via DXLD)
7490v, UT Tue April 17 at 0100, WBCQ with an `Allan Weiner Worldwide`
playback from when Timtron was hosting it March 2, quite differently
than AW does it. Other days at 0100 it`s usually Blalock the Blaster.
9329.608v-CUSB, April 17 at 2322, WBCQ again with good signal today.
May be a different transmitter than before; someone reported this as
AM instead of CUSB. I find there is still more modulation on USB than
LSB, but the carrier is less reduced now.
The programming is now rock music, NOT Overcomer; what happened? Not
// 7490v with Alan Sane show; similar music on 5129.817v-AM, maybe
same and not exactly synchronized. At 2330, 9330 splits away for one
more play of last week`s WOR 1925. After it at 2359, bit of music
fill, WBCQ ID and funding promo, and at 0000 April 18, resumes same
rock music as on 5129.817, still no BS on either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Re 18-15, KJES UPDATE --- Glenn, Great to hear from you.
This power project sounds like a big deal. But yet if you travel
through oil country, you will [find] many oil/gas wells that are being
powered by the natural gas that occurs. I have come access many run-
down shacks and the surprise is, once inside, you find a large or not-
so-large gas engine turning a compressor, all running off the gas
produced by the well. Some of these setups look pretty Rube-Goldberg.
But they work. My setup will be a little more complicated in that I
won't be selling any of the gas, just using it for power generation. I
have built many such power plants, most burning landfill gas. Most of
these plants sell the power back to the utility. In my case the
utility will be our backup power source.
Of course the first priority is getting the radio station up and
running. But once that happens, one must pay for the operation. A not-
so-small cost. I see this as one of the reasons so many shortwave
broadcasters fail in their effort. It will take time to develop a
profitable operation. Having our own power plant will help, in that
any time generator output exceeds demand, I will sell the excess power
back to the utility. Hopefully there will be little to sell. As far as
I know I will be the first to do this.
There have been many shortwave stations generating their own power.
But those are cases where utility power was not available or
unreliable. The power plant may, depending on rules, operate as its
own separate corporation. This may appear to be a wacky idea, But I
can assure you this is being done daily in the oil / gas and landfill
industry. Before one writes off the idea, look at the projects of this
nature I have completed. Some are going on 40 years and still
profitable (Jon Gorski, IA, April 12, WORLD OF RADIO 1926, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7505v, April 11 at 0626, very poor signal, in Chinese? WRNO
still on at 1228, now S9+30 praise music in Chinese, somewhat
distorted modulation and occasional bursts of noise or over-
modulation; 1231 YL Chinese talk. Is the entire expanded overnight
transmission in Chinese, 0300-1300? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
7505v, WRNO, on April 11, back again after a short absence yesterday;
1032, 1113, 1155 & 1257-1300*; every time I checked, found in Chinese,
so the emphasis is now clearly on the Chinese language listener, with
the extended broadcasts (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón
E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD)
7505v, April 13 at 0558 check, WRNO gospel huxter in English only, S9-
S5, so not all the extended time 0400-1300 is in Chinese.
7504.981V, Sunday April 15 at 1304, WRNO is still on but playing
English sign-off by Mr Duncan asserting it`s now 4 AM GMT! Schedule as
1-4 AM only, and good night! Not only is it not night, but resumes
huxtering in Chinese at S9+20/30, still going past 1325 but off at
1410 check. Modulation is slightly distorted (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD
OF RADIO 1926, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Louisiana, New Orleans, LOGO: WRNO Worldwide --- WRNO 7505
on April 15, 2155. SIO 352 in English — I think this is a new one for
me. Signal was very weirdly modulated and hard to understand. Here are
some of the bits and pieces I heard: “Church of Alexandria,” “China,”
“Can we look into prophecy,” “Jesus Christ, the author and finisher of
our faith.” No station ID at 2200. Still preaching at 2203 (James
Branum, Most of my listening is done via ultralight shortwave radio
receivers (my favorite of late is my CCrane Skywave), but I also
sometimes use my Yaesu FT-817 or a standard car radio. My QTH is in
EM15ep in far Northwest Oklahoma City
http://blog.jmb.mx/index.php/2018/04/17/kg5jst-radio-reception-logs-april-15-17-2018-utc/
via WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1926, DXLD)
7505, April 18 at 0018, no signal from WRNO unless the JBA carrier be
its exciter? India is not expected until 0130. WRNO is registered here
for any time between 2200 and 1600, not just 0100-1300 as recently
expanded. James Branum in OK was hearing it even a few minutes before
2200 on April 15 (unless he meant CDT instead of UT)(Glenn Hauser, OK,
WORLD OF RADIO 1926, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9475, WTWW Lebanon TN; 2050-2100+, 4/10; Permanently Planted
& Posthumously Potent Pastor Pete Peters; referred to someotherhusxter
who said that “counterfeit Christians” believe in the Devil (New
Jersey & Duke Christians?); also referred to “you women with Jezebel
spirits”. ToH WTWW spot into more PP&PPPPP. SIO=4+53 (Harold Frodge,
Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ----- All logged by my ears, on
my receiver, in real time! -----, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
5085, April 11 at 1056, WTWW is on at S9+30 of C&W music, Ted
announcement as ``from a casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, at an ungodly
hour``; why? Why not? Is gambling OK with passed-away Pastor Pete
Peters whose heirs own this thing? Also with the weak parasitic spurs
circa 5072.1 and 5097.9 {O, the National Association of Broadcasters
con is in LVNV now (gh)}
5830, April 12 at 1404, WTWW is still going with PPPP on night
frequency, but cut off at 1406*. Day frequency 9475 still has not cut
on by 1418.
9475, April 12 at 1943 check, NO signal from WTWW-1. I think the #1
transmitter needs some new parts, explaining why the #2 unit is
sometimes heard on this #1 frequency.
5085, April 13 at 0101, Ted pushing ham product, and his plus/minus
12.9 kHz spurs from WTWW-2.
12105, 9930, 9475, 5830, 5085, April 14 at 1459, WTWW is missing from
all possible frequencies; natch, including the spurs (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1926, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
9462.1 & 9487.9, Sat April 14 at 1830, JBA plus/minus 12.9 kHz spur
carriers out of 9475.0 WTWW with ham program at S9+25; still nothing
on 9930, which used to carry `Theatre Organ in the Ozarx` at this
time; signature spurs indicate the #2 transmitter for 9930 is axually
radiating on the #1 frequency, 9475.
5830 // much stronger 9475, April 16 at 2037, SFAW on BOTH day and
night frequencies of WTWW-1, a new combination. The higher one has JBA
parasite carriers on 9462.1 & 9387.9, so it`s the ``#2`` transmitter
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1926, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Listening-back this morning to my SDR overnight recording 15
April from 0000 to 0600 UT, I noted (presumed) WWRB heard on 5050 kHz
from 0000 (tune-in) with bible readings and preaching until 0101 where
(after an "Amen") the transmission is cut. Seems like the whole
programme was supplied by phone line: after "Amen" there is some
tapping sounds (typically heard whilst someone is putting their
handset down), followed by 3 beeps (typically heard when a telephone
line is disconnected). The transmitter is then cut with no IDs (Alan
Roe, Teddington, UK, WOR iog via DXLD)
Tennessee, Morrison, LOGO: International Radio Station WWRB --- WWRB
5050 on April 15, 2356. SIO 343 in English. Heard station ID and then
what sounds like some bird calls, and then some chilled out accoustic
guitar music, then the start of some kind religious show. Fading in
and out, but heard the speaker mention relays on WINB and WBCQ, and
then mention that WWRB will be down next week for major repair so “I
won’t be preaching.” After that he moves to talking about “not a
‘witch hunt’, but a ‘witches hunt'” then some ranting about how the
Clintons have mafia connections. Updated: April 17, 2018 — 5:27 am
(James Branum, Most of my listening is done via ultralight shortwave
radio receivers (my favorite of late is my CCrane Skywave), but I also
sometimes use my Yaesu FT-817 or a standard car radio. My QTH is in
EM15ep in far Northwest Oklahoma City
http://blog.jmb.mx/index.php/2018/04/17/kg5jst-radio-reception-logs-april-15-17-2018-utc/
via WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1926, DXLD)
** U S A. 6115, WWCR, TN, Nashville, Jim McCanney "Science" Hour (this
guy is a sesqui-hoot and seriously needs to consider upping his meds.
Apparently, volcanoes are caused by underground water, not magma. And
did you know Venus used to be a comet, and there are germs in the
remnants of its tail that when the Earth passes through, we have
outbreaks of new flu etc.)
Then into USA Radio News, ID at 0000 and into "Financial Survival"
paranoia at 0001. They call 3215 World Wide Country Radio when they
are airing music programming, but don't say World Wide Conspiracy
Radio for this programming? They are missing an opportunity! ;) They
yakked about inflation, the war in Syria, China's economic threats,
and all kinds of other 'scary' stuff designed to sell more gold for
DGS so you can use 'real' money to buy food when the collapse of
society happens. "Ad" break at 0021 for DGS coins, etc. 5554+4+. Now
why can't RHC sound like this? 2345-0045 as I edited the TipSheet, 12-
13/Apr SPR-4 +rw (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Williamston MI, MARE Tipsheet
April 13 via DXLD) DGS coins? This is not a Doctor Gene Scott thing
(gh)
** U S A. 540, 14.2 0300, WLIE Islip NY. Thank you for the tip, TJ! I
know WLIE-NY have been cheating from time to time, but the times I
have checked nothing have been heard. This night however, it would be
hard to miss it if you tuned to the frequency - at least at Smøla.
Audible most of the night, in periods with a super signal! This is a
station I have been dreaming of catching for a long time! On my way to
Montauk, NY from NYC few years ago I drove through Islip, listening to
WLIE hoping that I would be able to catch it one fine day! Now it
happened - with style! OJS/S (Odd-Jørgen Sagdahl, Trondheim, remote
Smøla, Norway, ARC mv-eko 9 April via DXLD)
** U S A. 1000, 14.2 2242, WIOO Carlisle PA. A country station has
been heard a number of times in January and February, and judging from
the s/off time it was WIOO-PA. It took quite a number of hours of
listening - but finally a clear ID was found. The PD was quite
excited, like me:
"Yes! You absolutely heard our station in Norway! What a great catch!
We are an “AM Daytimer.” We must sign off at local sunset to protect
another station’s rights to the frequency. In our case, the station we
protect is WMVP, Chicago. Judging from the clip, you heard us close to
local sunset sign-off time, “critical hours.” AM DXing is an
interesting hobby, I have done some of it and am also a Ham operator".
Offset at 999.9992. Two other stations as well, one is for sure WLNL-
NY, the other one very interesting! (Odd-Jørgen Sagdahl, Trondheim,
remote Smøla, Norway, ARC mv-eko 9 April via DXLD)
** U S A. 1130, April 13 at 2119 UT check, KLEY Wellington KS back to
normal for now, presumably the station with unbroken carrier talking
instead of musicking on right bearing vs heavy storm noise.
1130, April 14 at 1848 UT check, KLEY Wellington KS has resumed its
totally wacko transmission consisting of rapid constant noise bursts,
at the rate of 300/minute or 5/second, and separately, bits of
modulation as carrier cuts on and off at slower irregular intervals.
Furthermore, for the first time I find it off-frequency: at 1130.5,
drifting down steadily to 1129.8 by 1849 UT! What a piece of crap this
station is; yet sometimes it manages to funxion normally or is off air
completely. It`s licensed for 250/1 watt U3, and direxional north
semicircle. When I hear it to the SW, unseems direxional either (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. The Bell that rang is now silent. Probably the most famous
radio talk show host in America has died at the age of 72, Art Bell.
He did more 4 a.m. overnight radio than Rush Limbaugh did for daytime
radio. Art was also an amateur radio operator as well. Sunday, April
15, 2018 2:16 PM From: (Mark Sills, Dallas TX, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
I have seen several sites today carrying the announcement that Art
Bell has passed away. I am sure we all heard him while DX’ing in many
a frequency if not all of them (Shawn Axelrod VE4DX1SMA, Winnipeg MB
Canada, Remember on a Clear Day You Can Hear Forever, nrc-am gg via
DXLD)
RADIO HOST ART BELL DIES AT 72 IN PAHRUMP HOME
by Ashley Forest LAS VEGAS (KSNV) —
http://news3lv.com/news/local/radio-host-art-bell-dies-at-72-in-pahrump-home
Radio host Arthur William Bell passed away Friday.
Arthur Bell, also known as Art Bell was the original owner of Pahrump
based radio station KNYE 95.1 FM. And perhaps best known for his
conspiracy theory in the paranormal, with his radio show "Coast to
Coast" - which was syndicated across the nation.
The Nye County Sheriff's Office says Bell died at his home in Pahrump,
Nevada. Bell is scheduled for an autopsy later this week to determine
the cause of death. He was 72 (via Mike Terry, April 14, WOR iog via
WORLD OF RADIO 1926, DXLD)
That is too bad. A good friend to DXers and was quite the interviewer
for many years. My partner Bob, interviewed him back in the 90s. His
old shows are being run on the web and I wonder who was in charge of
those and if they will continue? Often I will listen to them on the
wifi radio before I fall asleep (Patrick Martin, Seaside OR, KGED QSL
Manager, IRCA HCDX via DXLD)
His old shows are also on the AIR, several major stations Saturday
Nights ``Somewhere in Time`` (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1926, DXLD)
http://www.legacy.com/news/celebrity-deaths/notable-deaths/article/art-bell-1945-2018-paranormal-themed-radio-show-host
(via Phil Bytheway, IRCA DX Monitor via DXLD) obit
** U S A. Question about network affiliates and programming --- I am
not sure if anyone on this list would know the answer, but thought I
would ask.
Are network affiliates obligated to show prime time network
programming at a different time when pre-empted by other events, such
as severe weather outbreaks?
Last night here in the Missouri and Arkansas region there were severe
thunderstorm warnings and tornado warnings going on for several hours.
The weather events kept the meteorologists on the TV broadcast all
evening, up until about 9:30 pm. This was on our CBS affiliate KOLR
Springfield. Right before 9:30 they switched to the remainder of Blue
Bloods, with a weather alert crawl on the screen. Last night all three
series on CBS were new episodes. The first two were not shown. KOLR
never said anything about the programs being shown at another time. I
sent an email to programming at KOLR programming asking if they
planned to show the programs at a different time. No reply. I
should've known better. KOLR never replies to my emails. They are the
only TV station in Springfield that ignores emails. Maybe that's the
Nexstar SOP. Just curious about the programming thing (Jim Thomas,
Springfield, Missouri, April 14, WTFDA gg via DXLD)
I can't answer the direct question as to network contractual
obligations, but in Philadelphia, because all three of the major
networks either co-own or have LMA's with other stations in the market
or have subchannels, the scheduled programming is shunted to a
secondary channel while the network's primary runs the weather (or if
some other local event is causing a pre-emption, that event). (Russ
Edmunds, PA, ibid.)
They are not obligated to rebroadcast shows that have been preempted,
and if it's only a partial preemption they may not have the legal
rights to re-air in full (since the networks don't own most of the
shows they carry, but rather license the rights to carry them for a
certain number of runs.)
The 2018 answer most stations will give is that the shows are
available for replay via the network's website, app, streaming
services or on demand. S (Scott Fybush, NY, ibid.)
You should contact them via Twitter. Hard for them to ignore you when
EVERYONE sees your question. I use twitter for all of my "complaints".
Works like a charm. wrh (William Hepburn, Ont., ibid.)
** U S A. New radio station owner driven by deep hate for iHeartRadio
Meanwhile, iHeartMedia $20 billion in debt, bankrupt
By Ken Leighton, March 29, 2018
“I believe they helped ruin the radio industry,” says La Jolla’s Marc
Paskin, a former radio station owner, about iHeartMedia, the media
group that owns billboards, promotes concerts, and owns 850 radio
stations nationwide, including seven in San Diego. . .
https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2018/mar/29/blurt-iHeart/#
(via Kevin Redding, ABDX yg via DXLD)
** U S A. ANONYMOUS DONOR LEAVES $10 MILLION TO SEATTLE RADIO STATION
KEXP --- Nicole Brodeur / Columnist --- Originally published April 16,
2018 at 8:00 am Updated April 16, 2018 at 7:40 am
DJ Cheryl Waters, left, and DJ John Richards during their first
broadcasts inside the new KEXP studios at Seattle Center in 2015.
(Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times) [caption]
It is believed to be among the largest bequests to an individual
station in public-radio history. Here’s all we know: Her name was
Suzanne. She was generous with her money. She wanted to remain
anonymous. And she loved music.
So much so, that before she died, Suzanne made the largest-ever
philanthropic gift — just under $10 million — to Seattle radio station
90.3 KEXP FM.
It is believed to be among the largest bequests to an individual
station in public-radio history, save for a $200 million donation made
to National Public Radio by Joan Kroc, the widow of McDonald’s founder
Ray Kroc. (That donation included $5 million to her local NPR station
in San Diego.)
“It’s pretty intense,” said Betsy Troutman, KEXP director of
development, who was called to Suzanne’s attorney’s office and told
the news.
As a song plays, DJ Morgan Chosnyk CQ visits with people who came to
KEXP’s new home at Seattle Center. More than 7,800 had come for the
grand opening by 5p.m. (Crowd Number is according to KEXP general
manager Ethan Raup) Sat. April 16, 2016 [caption]
[Related linx]
Do you want to be a DJ? KEXP revamping weekend lineup and looking for
on-air talent
‘Music heals’: A night of grief with KEXP deejay John Richards
‘Banned in the U.S.A.’: KEXP responds to Trump with music
“I was shocked and started crying,” Troutman said. “The thought that
she would do this is mind-blowing to me. (Suzanne) had shared with me
once or twice, kind of casually, that she had made plans for KEXP in
her estate.
“But she was young and I said, ‘Oh, that’s amazing. Thank you very
much.’ I didn’t think that it would come when I was here.”
Troutman called the gift “transformational. It changes our whole
landscape. I still get goose bumps every time I think about it.” . . .
https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/music/anonymous-donor-leaves-10-million-to-seattle-radio-station-kexp/
(via Artie Bigley, DXLD)
** U S A. NEWSCASTER CARL KASELL OF NPR'S 'MORNING EDITION' DIES AT 84
--- By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer Apr 17, 5:36 PM EDT
NEW YORK (AP) -- Newscaster Carl Kasell, a signature voice of NPR who
brought his gravitas to "Morning Edition" and later his wit to "Wait,
Wait ... Don't Tell Me!" has died. He was 84.
NPR said Kasell died Tuesday from complications from Alzheimer's
disease in Potomac, Maryland. He retired in 2014.
Kasell's radio career spanned half a century, starting as a morning DJ
and newscaster at WGBR-AM in Goldsboro, North Carolina. He spent a
decade at radio station WAVA in Arlington, Virginia, going from
morning anchor to news director.
He was a newscaster for 30 years on "Morning Edition" until 2009.
Kasell then became the official judge and scorekeeper of the
Chicago-based show "Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me!" in 1998. He left
his voice on hundreds of answering machines as part of that show's
prize. . .
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBIT_CARL_KASELL?SITE=RIPRJ&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2018-04-17-17-36-58
(via Mike Cooper, DXLD) obit
** VENEZUELA. (ed: Tore Larsson) Here is a list of Venezuelan stations
heard (and IDed) with Kiwi SDR in Bonaire and/or Santo Domingo so far:
550 YVKE Mundial, Caracas) 1010 R Aragua (Cagua)
610 R Cristal (Barquisimeto) 1020 R Alegría 1020 "la
yaracuyana", Chivacoa
620 R Fé y Alegría (Guasdualito) 1040 La Voz de Carabobo (Valencia)
630 RNV Tropical (Caracas) 1090 Deportes Unión (Caracas)
640 Unión Radio Cultural or 1130 R Ideal, Caracas "Ideal 1130
Unión Radio Deportes (Puerto AM``
La Cruz) at times 1130 R Popular (Barquisimeto)
670 R Rumbos, Caracas 1200 R Tiempo (Caracas)
710 R Capital (Caracas) 1260 BBN Caracas
750 RCR, Caracas 1290 R Puerto Cabello
780 R Coro (Coro) 1300 Deportiva 1300 AM Center
(Caracas)
790 R Venezuela (Caracas) 1320 R Apolo, Maracay
790 R Minuto, Barquisimeto 1340 R Uno (Caracas)
860 R 860 1380 Ondas del Mar, Puerto Cabello
870 Unión Radio Cultural 1390 R Fe y Alegría (Caracas)
900 R Mara Ritmo, Maracaibo 1390 R Lumen, (Maracaibo)
910 RQ910 AM Center (Caracas) 1420 Sintonía 1420 AM (Caracas)
920 Nueva Esparta 920 AM, Nueva
Esparta 1450 R María (Caracas)
960 R San Sebastián, San Cristóbal 1490 R Dinámica, Caracas
990 R Tropical 90, Caracas 1500 R 2000 "La Emisora del
Pueblo", Cumaná
(Locations in parenthesis mean that no location was mentioned in IDs I
got.) Caracas stations on the following frequencies have not been
heard during my limited monitoring time:
590 R Continente 880 RNV Musical
830 R Sensación 1590 R Deporte
(Tetsuya Hirahara via Mauno Ritola, ARC (ARC mv-eko 9 April via DXLD)
Inactive stations reported by José Elías Díaz Gómez, Cadena DX via
Henrik Klemetz:
570 R Rumbos en Villa de Cura 1050 RNV en Cabudare
580 La Voz de la Fé en Maracaibo 1070 Mundial Zulia en Maracaibo
580 RNV en Barinas 1080 R Barcelona en Barcelona
590 R Continente en Caracas 1120 R República en Maturín
660 R Anaco en Anaco 1160 R Industrial en Guarenas
660 Ondas de los Médanos en Coro 1220 R Aeropuerto en Maracaibo
690 Deportiva 690 en Barquisimeto 1250 R Latina 12-50 en Puerto Ordaz
700 R Popular en Maracaibo 1300 R Reloj en Maracaibo
730 R Universo en Barquisimeto 1310 RNV en Barcelona
740 Unión Radio en Maracaibo 1330 R Los Llanos en Calabozo
840 8-40AM en Barquisimeto 1340 R Mundial en Barinas
840 R Guarapiche en Maturín 1350 R Eclipse en el Tigrito
880 R Venezuela en Barinas 1350 R Falcón en Puerto Cumarebo
880 RNV en Caracas 1370 Unión Radio Noticias en Valle
de La Pascua
880 R Paraguaná en Punto Fijo 1380 R Revelación en Ciudad Bolívar
960 R Monagas en Maturín 1400 R Sabana en el Sombrero
980 Unión Radio Noticias, El Tigre 1440 R Orituco en Altagracia de
Orituco
1000 R Valles del Tuy
en Ocumare del Tuy 1470 R Vibración en Carúpano
1020 R Calendario en Maracaibo 1550 R Impacto en Ciudad Ojeda
1580 R Venezolana en Calabozo
(ARC SOUTH AMERICAN NEWS DESK 9/4 2018, Tore B. Vik, ARC mv-eko 9
April via DXLD) Due to the severe economic and political situation in
YV-land, many stations have been forced off the air, some due to
vandalism (gh, DXLD)
** VIETNAM [non]. Voice of Vietnam via Cuba 1975? I have a Voice of
Vietnam QSL card from 1975 confirming reception of VOV on 11760 kHz at
2119 GMT. QSL is at my website, http://www.kg4lac.com in the Vietnam
section.
I find it difficult to believe I was hearing the broadcast at 2119 GMT
directly from Vietnam. Was I hearing a VOV relay from Cuba on 11760
kHz or another location? I emailed VOV asking the question, but
haven't received a reply.
Checking my 1975 WRTH I don't see VOV using 11760 or even broadcasting
in English at 2119 GMT. However, RHC is shown to use 11760 kHz. Anyone
know? Thanks. 73, (Kraig, KG4LAC, Krist, ABDX yg via DXLD)
Kraig asked me about this earlier, and I said I couldn`t remember for
sure, but should check a 1975 WRTH. And didn`t VOV also have some
relays via USSR?
Now, I also vaguely recall that RHC was carrying a program from VOV
within its own transmissions, rather than a separate full-blown relay
(Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Correct you are, Glenn. This started happening in late '68 or early
'69, and was quite prevalent by last-quarter of '69 (-- GREG HARDISON,
CA, WOR iog via DXLD)
Yes, 20 minutes of VOV "relay" in the RHC English programs those
years. Also mentioned in the WRTH 1975 (and earlier years) under Cuba.
73, (Jari Savolainen, Finland, ibid.)
Glenn, Checked my 1975 WRTH, the earliest WRTH I own, and see the
following on page 233. "During English tr's "Voice of Vietnam" prgr's
are relayed at 21.15-21.35, 02.09-02.29, 03.25-03.45, 04.40-05.00 (on
11760 kHz), 05.00-05.20 (on 11830 kHz) and 07.39-07.59.
V. by QSL-card. Re on "Voice of Vietnam" prgr's to Box 6118, Havana".
My QSL is definitely via Cuba. I've already created a Cuba relay for
Vietnam and show the VOV 1975 QSL under Cuba. 73, (Kraig, KG4LAC, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM [non]. USA. 7315. VOV. Abril 6. 0030-0058 UT. Servicio en
español. Vía WHRI. Noticias sobre una reunión de Comisión del río
Mekong, El uso eficiente del agua, Cooperación entre Vietnam y Rusia
en materias de defensa, Reunión de análisis de informes
gubernamentales, Cooperación con Suiza para la aplicación del concepto
del Crecimiento verde y el desarrollo ecológico, Presentación del tomo
5 del diccionario checo vietnamita, Vietnam niega la existencia de
presos de conciencia, Reducción de la pobreza en Vietnam. A las 0042,
se emiten informaciones internacionales acerca de Rusia y su
intervención militar en Siria, La búsqueda de solución política entre
Irán, Turquía y Rusia sobre el asunto sirio, Permanencia de Estados
Unidos en Siria.
Desde las 0048, se habla de la aplicación de la modificación
arancelaria de los Estados Unidos y la respuesta de China. A las 0052,
se inicia el segmento: ``Destino Vietnam`` con una descripción
turística sobre la ciudad antigua de Hoi An. Luego una pieza musical y
despedida del servicio a las 0058. SINPO: 55555 (Claudio Galaz, RX:
Tecsun PL 660; ANT: Dipolo; QTH: Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista
yg via DXLD)
UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, April 11 at 1115-
1123: 774(2)-NW & WSW, 756-WSW, 702(2)-WSW, 675-WSW, 612-WSW, 603-WSW,
594(2)-WSW & NW, 585-WSW; 828-NW, 846-WSW, 882-WSW; 1098-W (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1926, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1521.0, April 13 at 0125, definite +1 kHz het upon KOKC
OKC 1520, just like old times when it was surely from the 2-megawatt
Duba, Saudi Arabia transmitter running all night. Several months ago
it stopped AN, off before sunset here, but suspect it is back, as
can`t imagine this would be anything else. ZNS 1540 Bahamas had put
spur circa 1521 but nothing to match now circa 1559. Nor any other
lower-powered TA signals in cursory check of 1575 and major channels
below 800 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 5055, April 13 at 0547, JBA carrier. Seems a bit early
for 4KZ, Australia, so maybe the Cuban leapfrog of 5025 over 5040
another 15 kHz higher; however, no reverse match audible on 5010
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. April 16, noted a very weak signal on 7155.0 kHz., at
1057, with music; 1100-1109 YL announcer; 1109-1118 OM announcer; no
meaningful details could be pulled out from this very weak reception;
ham QRM; believe this station is not a ham (Ron Howard, California, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
- - - - per WRTH Facebook today (April 16): Re: UNID 7155.0 kHz.
Mauno Ritola
Hiroyuki Okamura, can you hear this?
Hiroyuki Okamura
Weak Signal. Music Low Module.
Mauno Ritola
Thanks. Maybe it identifies at 1300?
Hiroyuki Okamura
Because it is in the ham band, there are many interference. The sound
is also weak. Which broadcasting station is this?
Mauno Ritola
If we knew, we wouldn't ask :-)
Mauno Ritola
I have a weak signal via Akitaka remote rx, no problem with hams, but
the signal is too weak.
Ron Howard - Re: UNID 7155.0 kHz.
- - - - feedback today from Jim Young (Calif.):
"Listening to this at 1257, with F voice talking No TS at TOH. F voice
continued to past 1304. I am biased, but sounds French. Not strong,
but audio far better than AIR stations on 60-M.
Could this be the old irregular 30 kW station in Madagascar? I will
stay on this while she is talking still at 1307+. F Singing music at
1311:30, and F announcer back at 1315+. Talking still at 1320, but not
sure if same announcer now....maybe M." Jim left his home to go to a
better remote site near him, but when he arrived at 1333, he found
this UNID had already left the air.
7155.0, thanks to Jim Young, Mauno Ritola and Thorsten Hallmann for
their assistance with this one. April 17, both Mauno and I noted
1328*; very weak reception; at times able to tell whether announcers
or music, but reception otherwise unusable. Mauno speculates that this
is a VOV spur, which I certainly agree with, as does Thorsten. Seems
the most logical conclusion! (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA,
Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1926,
DXLD)
Looking at WRTH VOV scheduling, this works out: 7285 at 1300-1330 in
French, 7220 at same time in Chinese: 7285 leapfrog over 7220 another
65 kHz below lands on 7155. So next time try to // it to 7285 (Glenn
Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Hallo in die Runde, today, a unid reception caught my
attention: 9637.8 1820-1900* (approx.) French talk before 1830,
possibly music-only of various styles afterwards. (Couldn't pay full
attention due to a visitor). Checked for CRI and V of Turkey French
transmissions, but they seemed not to be in //
Heute habe ich auf 9637.8 eine nicht-identifizierte Station gehört,
ca. 1820-1900, möglicherweise nur bis 1830 französisch und danach nur
Musik. Verschiedene Stilrichtungen, keine geographische Zuordnung
darüber möglich. Leider konnte ich wg. privater Ablenkungen nicht
durchgehend zuhören. Ohrenscheinlich nicht // zu 9480 CRI via Albanien
sowie Stimme der Türkei. Aber was sonst? Die Listen legten nix nahe.
73 (Thorsten, desde el noroeste de Alemania, April 16, WOR iog via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Mali, 9635 is not known to vary; Vietnam not varying that much and not
in French; Bible Voice via Nauen scheduled Sundays only 1815-1915 in
English on 9635 with a transmitter change at 1830; this was Monday
(gh, DXLD)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15641-USB, April 16 at 1351, weak colloquial Spanish 2-
way, intruders in extended 19m SWBC band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
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UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS
++++++++++++++++++++++++
ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1926:
Thanks to Will Martin, St Louis MO, for a generous check to P O Box
1684, Enid OK, 73702, to support DXLD and WOR; and also for magazine
subscriptions (gh)
TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED FUTURELY:
Thanks also to Chuck Ermatinger, for a contribution via PayPal to
woradio at yahoo.com
Great show. Keep up the good work (David Cheever, also via PayPal)
Note from Brian Scott Gamble: Hello Glenn. Thanks again for WOR. Just
wanted to drop you another donation for the cause. All the best, Scott
Gamble (via PayPal)
Hi Glenn, I always enjoy your weekly DX Digest. Thank you for all the
great DX years! (Michael Stone, Arlington Heights, IL.
WWW.PixelXaos.Com via PayPal)
Dear Glenn, my calendar says that it once again is time to wish you
Many Happy wishes on your birthday on coming Thursday, 12th of April.
Hoping, that you will continue the great work you are doing for DXers
and especially on DXLD and World of Radio too.
"Do not let the number of years you've lived remind you of how old you
are, but a golden medal of everything you have done in life. "
Would like to take this opportunity of extending Best Wishes,
enjoy the VERY SPECIAL southern German folk music and voices too
vy73 de (wolfy df5sx wwdxc germany)
Glenn, I wish you a fulfilled birthday. You are fortunate to have
eminence in the DX field and I am proud to have known you over so many
years. Keep up the excellent work. 73 Dan Goldfarb (Of mwmasts
iogroup)
Dear Glenn, On your special day, we wish you good luck. We hope this
wonderful day will fill up your heart with joy and blessings. Have a
fantastic birthday and wish you a lot of DX! Happy birthday! 73! Ivo
and Georgi (Ivanov & Bancov of Observer, Bulgaria)
From the South Pacific, a very warm Happy Birthday to you, Glenn. We
all truly appreciate all of the work you have done for the hobby all
of these years! Good health to you! Sincerely, Walter Salmaniw (on a
stormy cruise)
Life license renewal to the Number One Short Wave gurú. All the best!!
(Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica, Enviado desde mi iPhone)
Feliz Aniversário, Glenn. Muita Saúde e Paz para você. Sinceramente,
(José Ronaldo Xavier, Cabedelo-Paraíba, Brasil)
Happy Birthday!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW2NxVEgXDI
(William "Bill" Tilford, Owner/Producer
Tilford Productions, LLC
5713 N. St. Louis Av
Chicago IL 60659-4405)
Happy birthday, Mr. Hauser, from a follower who seldom has much
information to post but who highly appreciates the radio listening
information you keep sharing as widely as possible through as many
means as possible. Thank you very much! (Gerald Zimmerman, Carbondale,
IL 62901)
Happy birthday, Mr. Hauser. I sincerely hope you can keep updating us
on what's going on with radio for many years more! (Eduardo Peralta,
Argentina)
Hope you had a very special day on your birthday. Wish you all the
best of SWLing in the years to come (Ron Howard, CA)
Glenn, I am proud to have known you for so long. I hope that you
enjoyed your birthday to the full. 73 from (Colchester, England, Dan
Goldfarb)
Dear Glenn, I wish you a Happy Birthday! With great pleasure I want to
wish you much health, love, happiness and freedom in your dreams. Wish
you eternal youth, original ideas, big success in everything you do!
Be happy! Try to save you would not be happening (Anatoly Klepov,
Moscow, Russia)
Thanks so much to all for their wishes, either on this list or
privately. They mean a lot to me; I appreciate each and every one.
73!! (Glenn, April 15, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST
Happy Birthday to Glenn Hauser.
-------------------------------
Glenn Hauser (born April 12, 1945 in Berkeley, California) is an
internationally known American DXer and radio host from Enid,
Oklahoma. He produces and presents a weekly 30-minute program, World
Of Radio, heard on a number of non-commercial AM and FM stations
throughout the U.S. and worldwide on shortwave. Hauser began his
broadcasting career on Radio Canada International during the late
1970s, providing DX tips on Sunday nights, and his tips also appeared
on Radio Nederland's DX Juke Box program. He wrote for Popular
Electronics and Modern Electronics, and published Review of
International Broadcasting. (via Mike Terry,
https://www.facebook.com/groups/wrthgroup/
via Rus-DX 15 April via DXLD)
PUBLICATIONS
++++++++++++
NORTH AMERICAN SHORTWAVE ASSOCIATION, JOURNAL, post-Bill Oliver
Hi Rich, So what becomes of NASWA? Most of the print Journal was
originally in pdf, no? So it shouldn`t be too hard to keep it going in
that format, like a number of other clubs. Or individual columns can
be posted separately like ODXA. 73, (Glenn to Rich D`Angelo, April 12,
via DXLD)
Glenn, We plan to publish the April issue of The Journal sometime this
month but it will naturally be delayed from the normal schedule as
Bill's heart attack happened during publication week. We needed to
piece together everything from membership mailing list, club supplies,
printer contact information, bank account access, etc. We now have a
handle on all of those things that so moving forward should be
achievable. Rich Cuff is our temporary headquarters person using the
Winter SWL Festival post office box.
The next edition of The Journal (the one after the April edition) will
be dedicated to Bill's memory. I just don't know today whether that
will be "May" or "June" as we sort through the process of getting a
paper bulletin collated, printed and mailed. After being in one
person's hands for forty years, the change over has been an
experience.
We have had a few preliminary discussions internally about the future
of our club. I expect to continue the discussions after we get the
April Journal to the printer. Naturally continuation of the print
bulletin is being considered as well as a PDF version. Perhaps a few
modifications to our Internet presence depending upon suggestions and,
of course, volunteers capable of doing. 73, (Rich D`Angelo, PA, April
15, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
FCC DATA
https://fccdata.org/
The Internet’s most comprehensive FM/AM/TV broadcast query tool
covering the USA and Canada. FCCdata.org compiles the data from
several telecommunications administrations worldwide combined with
extensive internal research to develop a rich research tool. Click on
a link to select the nation's data you wish to access! Information
available through FCCdata.org (via Sheldon Harvey, Greenfield Park,
Quebec, April Radio HF Internet Newsletter via DXLD)
MUSEA
+++++
PHOTOGALLERY OF USSR RADIO HOOLIGANS
----------------------------------------------------
http://www.kcbdx.ru/forum/10-207-1
(Rus-DX 15 April via DXLD)
14 APRIL 1912 - RMS TITANIC
106 years ago: CQD, SOS transmitted by RMS Titanic.
A memory through stamps and postcards from my blog "La radio di carta"
https://laradiodicarta.blogspot.it/2015/04/ot-rms-titanic103-anni-dopo.html
Florenzo iz1cqn (Southgate via Mike Terry, WOR iog via DXLD)
LANGUAGE LESSONS
++++++++++++++++
EMMANUEL MACRON’S PLAN TO BOOST FRENCH-SPEAKING PUTS MEANS BEFORE
MOTIVE
https://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21739642-emmanuel-macrons-plan-boost-french-speaking-puts-means-motive-right-and-wrong
(via Gerald T Pollard, NC, April 2, DXLD)
SANCIONAR
[Re 18-15:] ``BRAZIL. TEMER SANCIONA LEI QUE FLEXIBILIZA HORÁRIO DE A
VOZ DO BRASIL - Agência Brasil --- Perhaps ``sanction`` in Portuguese
has positive meaning only, not also the opposite as in English. Says
Pres. Temer now allows any time between 22-01 UT, not just 22-23 (one
hour earlier when DST in effect) (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1925,
DXLD)``
Glenn, In Brazilian Portuguese, and in this context, the verb
sancionar means to give official assent to a new law approved by
Congress, not to sanction it. Regards, (Vince Ferme, Ottawa, ON, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Yes, it is clear from the context, but I fear that like in English it
is one of those words which can also mean exactly the opposite, and is
best avoided (gh, DXLD)
CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES
+++++++++++++++++++++++++
WHY HFCC MEETINGS?
5850, WRMI: At 0830 into AWR Wavescan with the story of the 1960 U2
spy plane take-down and a US radio station in Pakistan, and interview
re the HFCC A-18 coordination meet.
(They should take some time to explain why this can't be done by email
instead of a boon-doggle with international travel?) Apparently the
ITU website will have their SW broadcast database on line, but the
HFCC database is supposedly still more complete.
Into the Philippine DX report. 4+4+54+4+ very brief and infrequent but
very deep fades *0657-0900* 9/Apr SDRplay +SDRuno +ANC-4 +rwire
(Kenneth Vito Zichi, Williamston MI, MARE Tipsheet April 13 via DXLD)
DX-PEDITIONS
++++++++++++
[continued from 18-15]
COOK ISLANDS (AITUTAKI) ULTRALIGHT TP'S FOR 4-11... YIKES!
It was Exotic City on the Aitutaki beach this morning as 693-
Bangladesh made a return appearance at an S9 level, along with
Cambodian-sounding speech on 918 blasting Shandong around 1640. As if
that wasn't enough 1431 had an S9 program in Korean at 1430 that could
well have been Mongolia (if the Adventist Radio schedule concurs)
while 1566 had Hindu-sounding speech dominating over HLAZ's Chinese at
1655.
Unfortunately the "Blue Sky" Internet system here in the Cook Islands
is outrageously overpriced, squeezing every possible Kiwi dollar out
of any tourist desiring to communicate in any way. There is no real
competition for them here, and uploading about 4 MP3's will cost you
around 20 Kiwi dollars. Somebody in Wellington needs to investigate
the racket! 73 and Good DX, (Gary DeBock (DXing in Aitutaki, Cook
Islands), 7.5" loopstick CC Skywave SSB Ultralight +
5" Frequent Flyer FSL, IRCA via DXLD)
Gary, According to info I cobbled together for the PAL, [MONGOLIA]
1431 carries Shiokaze in Japanese & Korean 1430-1500, another
clandestine in Korean 1500-1530, Adventist World Radio in Korean 1530-
1630, BBC Korean 1630-1730, all with 500 kW. 1566 sounds like the high
powered Indian. Good stuff (Bruce Portzer, ibid.)
Hi Bruce, This was 1431-Korean at 1631 UT this morning, matching the
Mongolian relay schedule
https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/fwim89p1b3owm6tqluz3045aya1t249f
693-Bangladesh made another strong appearance with exotic music and
foreign female speech at 1625
https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/ydm0dwwhoifbwx3ftp2g7rij15as3nen
918 had female speech in an unknown language at 1647; it doesn't sound
like Shandong's Mandarin to me, but I've been wrong before :-)
https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/ml1vqzmgl35q9gfzpzlsepvvmz1l1shw
1566 had an UnID TP co-channel mixing with 3NE's English and HLAZ's
Chinese at 1642. This was probably either India or Norfolk Island, but
further review of the wacky MP3 is needed.
You and Chuck should consider a trip here-- really wild DX even with
Ultralight "Frequent Flyer" gear. The place runs on Kiwi dollars-- a
LOT of Kiwi dollars, that is (Gary, April 11, ibid.)
Cook Islands DXing Setup
For those interested in seeing the extremely humble DXing setup on the
Aitutaki beach here in the Cook Islands (7.5" loopstick CC Skywave SSB
Ultralight model, 5 inch "Frequent Flyer" FSL antenna (a TSA-friendly
type), a new 40 inch (1m) PVC base and the usual sleep-deprived DXer,
a detailed photo from yesterday morning's session has been uploaded to
https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/p0om9fb2q1yvtq2ffgj3aquyz3seal4h
(Gary DeBock (using up Kiwi dollars fast), April 12, ibid.)
Cook Islands (Aitutaki) Ultralight TP's for 4-12
Another calm-weather sunrise session provided more wild, ocean-boosted
DX (with assistance from the 5" FSL). 918 and 1566 were the priority
frequencies this morning, and both yielded results -- although maybe
not in the way I was hoping for.
918 was a real zoo at 1630 with Shandong, 4VL and a third, exotic-
sounding station bringing up the rear. Just before the 1700 TOH the
third station rose in strength, featuring an exotic-sounding female
foreign language speaker that certainly wasn't speaking Mandarin. At
the 1700 TOH there were bizarre, tinker toy sounding time pips, after
which the major pest 4VL reclaimed the frequency. On 1566 another huge
Oz pest (3NE) was at S9 around 1700, ruling out any chance of tracking
down some weak Hindu. Prior to this at 1635 I did clearly have a DU-
English co-channel along with 3NE, so if the programming checks out
it's possible that Norfolk Island is finally in the bag. 1377 and
1593-CNR1 were both at S9+ 30 dB, ruling out any action on those
frequencies. Wild! (Gary DeBock (in Aitutaki, Cook Islands), 7.5"
loopstick CC Skywave SSB Ultralight + 5" TSA-Friendly FSL antenna,
ibid.)
Subject: [IRCA] 918 kHz at 1700 UT --- Welcome to wild Aitutaki DX!
This MP3 starts off with exotic music and female speech by an UnID
station in an unusual foreign language, followed by even more bizarre
tinker-toy like time pips at the 1700 TOH (at 1:41 into the
recording). Multiple co-channels (including Shandong and two Oz pests)
make the recording pretty wild, but any ideas would be appreciated
https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/14kwjqoxuvur64g1ghq9h2kbwe90ygqo
(Gary DeBock (in Aitutaki, Cook Islands), April 12, ibid.)
630-Cook Islands Sign On Routine (1555 UT)
630-Radio Cook Islands in Rarotonga is one of the most exotic Pacific
island stations on the MW band, with a reputation of being a real
underperformer. Here in Aitutaki (about 200 km to the north) you can
even hear the Australian co-channels 4QN and 2PB in its null at night.
Here is the sign on routine for 630-RCI, recorded at 1555 UTC this
morning (April 12). In the 35 seconds before sign on you can hear the
Oz co-channels before the horns sound at 35 seconds, starting the day
off for RCI
https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/ac25a13oykoc3jmk4e9i898pb8cea0k4
73, (Gary DeBock (in Aitutaki, Cook Islands), ibid.)
A.) I would suspect Radio Cook Islands isn?t running full power
B.) isn`t it non directional? then there`s no nulls, that applies to
directional stations (Paul Walker, PA, ibid.)
I`m sure Gary meant when he nulled reception of RCI at his
antenna/receiver (gh, DXLD)
Hi Paul, A lot of these Pacific island transmitters suffer for lack of
maintenance and repair parts. The salt water environment, hot weather
and cyclone damage take their toll. 630-RCI is apparently one of the
worst for an underperforming signal-- I tried hard to hear it in Kona,
Hawaii twice last year, but came away empty both times.
By nulls, I meant the null when you direct the loopstick on a portable
radio to null out a station. Both the hot-rodded Ultralights and 5"
FSL antenna can do this very effectively here, completely nulling out
any MW station on the band. Frequently S9 signals appear in the null
of another S9 signal, such as for 630-RCI and 630-4QN at night here.
(Gary DeBock, ibid.)
Thanks for the RCI sign-on routine recording! I had to laugh when I
heard the tail end of the audio, when the announcer's voice kicks in.
Radio Cook Islands is still sounding over-modulated and bass-heavy,
just like they were *25* years ago when I visited!? Audio from their
tapes or carts were fine, but announcers` voices tended to sound
really distorted.
Anyone interested in hearing a vintage Radio Cook Islands sign-on
should check out my recording #1 from this article on the SWLing Post:
https://swling.com/blog/2015/07/radio-cook-islands-guys-1993-visit-and-recordings/
73, (Guy Atkins, Puyallup, WA, ibid.)
Oh, oh --- now you did it --- opened up the door to `memory lane!`
Here`s a cut from Radio Cook Islands from July 1980 recorded, as far
as I can recall, on a Barlow-Wadley XCR-30 [which I still have] and a
cheap little portable cassette recorder at the Orange Grove Lodge
about half way around the island from the airport:
<http://realmonitor.com/Cook_Islands_Jul1980.wav>
Out of RA news with ID mentioning both 630 and 5045 kHz. I almost
forgot all about these tapes and the article I wrote for the 1981 WRTH
about my visit. Thanks for stirring up some happy memories, Gary &
Guy! Now if I can only FIND my copy of the 1981 WRTH! (Bill Whitacre.
Alexandria, VA, ibid.)
COOK ISLANDS (AITUTAKI) ULTRALIGHT TP'S FOR 4-13
Dreams of India, Sri Lanka and Myanmar evaporated on the ocean beach
this morning as a determined collection of ANZ pests conspired to lock
up all the "exotic" frequencies on the last day of the DXpedition.
567, 576, 594, 729, 873, 882, 1071 and 1566 all had at least one
potent DU English pest, but usually two of them. To be honest I was
pretty lucky to dodge these ANZ pests to receive 918-Cambodia and 693-
Bangladesh during the DXpedition, although 1431-Mongolia was a piece
of cake. 1566-Norfolk Island was possibly logged in a DU English mix
two days ago, but I'll need to review the recording to see if the
mega-pest 3NE's co-channel wasn't 4GM.
Here in Aitutaki it was a crash course to adjust to wild, ocean
boosting propagation in the Southern Hemisphere, which brought in
long-range DX at science fiction levels. Mongolia, Bangladesh and
Cambodia were all strong enough to receive on the hot-rodded CC
Skywave SSB Ultralight alone, while the 5" FSL was used primarily to
boost signals that were already around S7 or S8. Any DXer taking one
of these hot-rodded Ultralights to an ocean-beach DU island like this
is going to make out like an absolute bandit!
73 and Good DX, (Gary DeBock (in Aitutaki, Cook Islands, almost out of
Kiwi dollars), ibid.)
AITUTAKI, COOK ISLAND ULTRALIGHT DXPEDITION
From April 8-14 I had the awesome opportunity to chase long-range
transoceanic DX on an ocean beach in Aitutaki, one of the Cook Island
group in central Polynesia (about 2000 miles south of Hawaii, in the
Southern Hemisphere). The island is famous for a gorgeous snorkeling
lagoon featuring a dazzling variety of tropical fish, but for me the
dazzling feature was no MW transmitters within 150 miles. The Cook
Islands are administered by New Zealand in a "free association"
arrangement, and as such the Maori-speaking islanders are very
friendly, and security is good.
For this trip I decided to bring along a modified (7.5 inch loopstick)
C.Crane Skywave SSB Ultralight model and a 5 inch (127mm) "Frequent
Flyer" FSL antenna-- a compact, TSA-friendly model that provides
inductively coupled DXing gain roughly equivalent to that of a 4 foot
(1.3m) air core box loop. As usual, all of this gear easily breezed
through TSA screening throughout the entire trip.
My Tamanu Beach Resort motel was located right on the lagoon on the
northwest side of the island, and as such there was an unobstructed
path to Asia, the DU islands and North America. A 150m high hill was
in between my location and the South American direction, though, and
this may have been partially responsible for the lack of signals from
that area. As usual there were some RFI issues inside our motel room,
necessitating a short walk to the lagoon beach to set up my Ultralight
gear. A photo of the 7.5 inch loopstick CC Skywave SSB model, the 5
inch Frequent Flyer FSL and a new 40 inch (1.1m) PVC base on the
Aitutaki beach is posted at
https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/1s2u2ymggo16siwcuelucph0bd226ira
It was certainly a crash course to adjust to freakishly strong
transoceanic propagation on this DU island. Concepts of chasing weak
signals went out the window immediately as the main challenge became
using the loopstick nulls to separate S9 signals during sunset skip to
New Zealand and eastern Australia. 1 kW Kiwi stations were routinely
maxing out the Ultralight's bar graph signal strength display. During
sunrise sessions the 7.5" loopstick CC Skywave alone could typically
track down even exotic Asian DX (Bangladesh, Mongolia, Cambodia) at S7
levels, while the 5" FSL simply boosted them up to S9 levels.
A skillful TP-DXer knowledgeable in Asian languages and exotic station
frequencies could have had equivalent results with only the hand-held
(modified) Ultralight alone. The best DX received during the trip were
three east Asian stations that have a reputation for being very tough
catches on the North American west coast. The distance from Aitutaki
to two of them (Bangladesh and Mongolia) is greater than that from
Grayland, Washington, but because of the ocean-boosted propagation and
favorable gray line patterns the Ultralight gear had all three of them
pounding in around 1700 UTC:
693-Bangladesh 1652 UT April 10 (mention of Bangladesh at 8 second
point; thanks to Chuck Hutton for listening)
https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/94j756mjptm1fuaij381dw2wbsqkr?
https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/94j756mjptm1fuaij381dw2wbsqkre91
918-Cambodia 1659 UT April 12 (Khmer female speech, National Anthem
with "Cuckoo Clock" time pips at 1:41; thanks to Hiroyuki Okamura for
listening)
https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/14kwjqoxuvur64g1ghq9h2kbwe90y?
https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/14kwjqoxuvur64g1ghq9h2kbwe90ygqo
1431-Mongolia 1631 UT April 11 (BBC Korean service interval signal at
46 seconds; thanks to Hiroyuki Okamura for listening)
https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/fwim89p1b3owm6tqluz3045aya1t2?
https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/fwim89p1b3owm6tqluz3045aya1t249f
(Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA), April 15, IRCA HCDX list via DXLD)
DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See also ERITREA; JAPAN; KUWAIT; NEW
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ZEALAND; ROMANIA; UK
DRM --- LESS AND LESS
Alexander Busneag, Germany, has compiled this current DRM schedule
showing DRM in use by only 5 stations on SW; truly a failing mode:
http://ab27.bplaced.net/drm.pdf
India suspended its DRM months ago for unclear reasons. HFCC also has
some `N` DRM listings for Bulgaria, China, Germany, Russia, Singapore,
most or all imaginary; not including DRM used for jamming by China,
Ethiopia (are you cool with that, Ruxandra?) (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD
OF RADIO 1926, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DAB
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
DIGITAL RADIO NEWS FROM EUROPE
By Doug Irwin, CBPE DRB AMD
France’s CSA has approved seven sites in the Hauts-de-France (the
north of France) for DAB+; Germany will remain a VHF country for the
foreseeable future; and in Norway, over-the-air radio listenership
appears to have stabilized Digital Radio News From Europe
https://www.radiomagonline.com/trends/digital-radio-news-from-europe
(via Mike Terry, WOR iog via DXLD)
``Germany will remain a VHF country for the foreseeable future``
And what is the frequency range for DAB/DAB+? 174-239 MHz. Last I
checked, VHF went from 30 to 300 MHz. Perhaps they should have said
"Germany will remain an FM country for the foreseeable future."
(-- Richard Langley, ibid.)
DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC Mentioned in R E F below
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM
+++++++++++++++++++++
Re: Anybody out there still listening to music on AM or FM radio?
I listen to music and local AM and FM programming in my car, in the
evenings, and off and on all day. I collect radios and listen to SW a
lot, too. I DX AM stations in the evening and try for interesting FM
signals during summer days. However, I am alarmed that NONE of my
music students or choir members listen to radio. Last week, a high
school age student saw my new Skywave ssb and asked if it was an
antique. I told her it was brand new and showed her how it worked, and
she was fascinated by it. She had no idea that radios like that still
existed. Then again, there are never advertisements for radios in
mainstream media - just in materials for hobbyists and senior
citizens.
Sent from my Virgin Mobile Phone (comprimario, ABDX yg via DXLD)
Interesting Concept -- Article from Inside Radio:
SHUT OFF YOUR AM STATION AND MAKE YOUR FM TRANSLATOR A PRIMARY.
I say go for it. Why not.
https://tinyurl.com/ycseskhc
(Mike Bugaj, CT, April 12, WTFDA gg via DXLD)
I still can't get over this idea of revitalizing AM by moving to FM
and switching off AM. LOL! Now they'll need to revitalize FM by
shutting down the interference-causing, extra-channel hogging IBOC.
The thinning out of the AM band in the USA will be good for DXers.
It's helped a lot up here in Canada. wrh (William Hepburn, ibid.)
Clearly the expanded band idea didn't work - in no small part because
the FCC sabotaged it by not enforcing parts of it. And we're in this
place to begin with because the FCC has consistently over the past
several decades done just about everything it can to create clutter
and interference on the AM band ( just like they've done for the past
couple of decades on FM ). Now this. Another case of a Federal
regulator being driven by the entities it is supposed to regulate
(Russ Edmunds, WB2BJH, Blue Bell, PA, ibid.)
The problem with AM is all the QRM in houses and cars these days.
It's not just dimmers anymore (Rick Shaftan, OBX NC, ibid.)
Rick is definitely correct about QRM. One of the TV receiver boxes in
my house with AT&T's U-verse, which is wireless, completely destroys
most AM frequencies, even some of the locals. It has to be unplugged
to attempt any AM DXing (Steve Indianapolis Rich, ibid.)
Which is at least partially a result of a failure of enforcement of
existing requirements. That said though, the pace of technology makes
that nearly impossible.
Bottom line, between the mess the FCC has made of AM because the
industry pushed them for that, and the failure or inability to control
electronic interference, AM isn't worth much in many parts of the
country, so this proposal will again further degrade FM. Could we be a
lot worse off absent any regulatory agency? (Russ Edmunds, ibid.)
Some tiny [trap] countries have had a basic FM spectrum dilemma for
quite some time. Case in point, Guatemala and Haiti. Yes - we consider
them countries but have you ever *superimposed* an outline of either
of those countries on top of a US map in real scale? Doing that gives
you a real perspective on their real geographic size. And then you
realize that both of those countries - Guatemala and Haiti - are
smaller than many states in the US.
And yet they each deal with in excess of 500 FM stations crammed into
the FM dial in their country. Many of them are illegal. At least
pirate radio stations are not a runaway problem in the US. But it
appears the FCC makes up for this on their own.
If you want to have fun with the superimposed country outline aspect,
try this page. And while you are at it, think about how many FM
stations you could cram into the FM dial before causing chaos. Like I
say, just for fun...
https://www.buzzfeed.com/hnigatu/19-maps-that-will-help-you-put-the-united-states-in-perspect?utm_term=.lcRBbWzW6e#.rjk3n0q0pM
(Jim Thomas, MO, ibid.)
PROPAGATION
+++++++++++
:Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts
:Issued: 2018 Apr 16 0126 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction
Center
# Product description and SWPC contact on the Web
# http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/weekly.html
#
# Weekly Highlights and Forecasts
#
Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 09 - 15 April 2018
Solar activity was at very low levels with a few isolated B-class
flares observed.
No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit.
The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at
moderate levels on 09 Apr and high levels on 10-15 Apr. The largest
flux of the period was 25,451 pfu observed at 12/2155 UTC.
Geomagnetic field activity was at quiet to active levels from 09-13
Apr due to negative polarity CH HSS effects. An isolated G1 (Minor)
storm period was observed early on 11 Apr. Quiet conditions were
observed on 14-15 Apr.
The period began with solar wind speeds at about 375 km/s, total
field (Bt) at about 3 nT, Bz weakly negative to about -3 nT and the
phi angle in a positive orientation. Early on the 9th, an SSBC from
a positive to a negative orientation occurred coupled with a CIR in
advance of a recurrent, negative polarity CH HSS. Winds speeds
gradually increased in near 580 km/s by 11/0700 UTC, Bt peaked at 9
nT on the 11th and the Bz component was variable between +9 nT to
-7nT early on 10 Apr. The period ended with wind speeds near 300
km/s coupled with a weak magnetic structure.
FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 16 APRIL - 12 MAY 2018
Solar activity is expected to be at very low levels throughout the
period.
No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit.
The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is
expected to be high levels on 16-30 Apr and 07-12 May due to
recurrent CH HSS effects. Normal to moderate levels are expected
from 01-06 May.
Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be unsettled to active
levels on 19-20 Apr and 06-10 May due to recurrent CH HSS effects.
Mostly quiet levels are expected for the remainder of the outlook
period.
:Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt
:Issued: 2018 Apr 16 0127 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 2018-04-16
#
# UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest
# Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index
2018 Apr 16 72 5 2
2018 Apr 17 72 5 2
2018 Apr 18 72 5 2
2018 Apr 19 72 12 4
2018 Apr 20 72 10 4
2018 Apr 21 72 5 2
2018 Apr 22 72 5 2
2018 Apr 23 69 5 2
2018 Apr 24 69 5 2
2018 Apr 25 69 5 2
2018 Apr 26 69 5 2
2018 Apr 27 69 5 2
2018 Apr 28 69 5 2
2018 Apr 29 69 5 2
2018 Apr 30 69 5 2
2018 May 01 69 5 2
2018 May 02 69 5 2
2018 May 03 69 5 2
2018 May 04 69 5 2
2018 May 05 69 5 2
2018 May 06 70 10 4
2018 May 07 70 15 4
2018 May 08 70 15 4
2018 May 09 70 10 4
2018 May 10 70 10 4
2018 May 11 70 5 2
2018 May 12 70 5 2
(SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1926, DXLD) ###