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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1953 contents: Alaska, Australia, Brazil, China, France non, Germany and non, Iran, Israel non, Japan non, Korea South non, Madagascar, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria non, Oklahoma, Papua New Guinea, Romania, Somaliland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, USA; Silk Road Project; propagation outlook SHORTWAVE AIRINGS of WORLD OF RADIO 1953, October 23-29, 2018 Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 [confirmed] Tue 0100 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Tue 2030 WRMI 7780 [confirmed] Wed 1030 WRMI 5950 [confirmed] Wed 2100 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v [confirmed] Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1231 Unique 9265 via WINB Sat 1431 HLR 9485-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1600 WRN 5950 via WRMI [unconfirmed] Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sun 0300v WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315-] Sun 1130 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [ex-1030] Sun 2130 WRMI 7780 9955 Mon 0130 WRN 5950 via WRMI [or 0230?] Mon 0300v Area 51 5130v-AM via WBCQ Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS: Tnx to Dr Harald Gabler and the Rhein-Main Radio Club. http://www.rmrc.de/index.php/rmrc-audio-plattform/podcast/glenn-hauser-wor ALTERNATIVE PODCASTS, tnx Stephen Cooper: http://shortwave.am/wor.xml ANOTHER PODCAST ALTERNATIVE, tnx to Keith Weston: http://feeds.feedburner.com/GlennHausersWorldOfRadio NOW tnx to Keith Weston, also Podcasts via iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/glenn-hausers-world-of-radio/id1123369861 AND via Google Play Music: http://bit.ly/worldofradio OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org DAY-BY-DAY ARCHIVE OF GLENN HAUSER`S LOG REPORTS: Unedited, uncondensed, unchanged from original version, many of them too complex, minutely researched, multi-frequency, opinionated, inconsequential, off-topic, or lengthy for some log editors to manage; and also ahead of their availability in these weekly issues: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser IMPORTANT NOTICE!!!! 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Starting with 18-24, they have been posted as attachments to the WOR iog. He says it takes about an hour to do this, once each issue is published. Merci, Jacques! (gh) Thanks also to Jacques for assisting with formatting of .txt original ** ALASKA. KNLS B-18 in English: 08-09 7370 10-11 7370 12-13 7320 7355 14-15 7320 (HFCC via WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALBANIA [and non]. [NORDX] UQ, radion och Albanien --- En albansk dokumentär med svensk textning har idag lagts ut på Youtube. Det är den andra av tre albanska filmer som behandlar mitt liv och hur dx-lyssning gav ett intresse för albanska språket och kulturen. En liknande koppling finns ju med Latinamerika i minst tre fall, men Albanien är litet, så min verksamhet har gjort mig till kändis där nere. Visst är radiohobbyn fantastisk! https://youtu.be/KIgXo8QI8K0 (Ullmar Qvick via NORDX, via SW Bulletin Oct 21 via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. Local sunrise is now corresponding to 1200 UT top of hour. During these times, when all the right circumstances prevail, we can sometimes catch the majestic fanfare at the top of the hour from the ABC outlets down under, from the Midwest. All the planets lined up this morning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItOnHL5ZoZE 702 kHz, 2BL, ABC Radio Sydney, Australia MW DX Heard in Michigan at sunrise. The timing of the grayline enhancement worked out perfectly this morning to capture ABC Radio's fanfare on 702 kHz at 1200 UT top of hour (8 am EST [sic] local time here). Heard from West Michigan on the Perseus SDR and phased BOG array roughly pointing towards the southwest (Tim Tromp, Oct 17, IRCA at HCDX via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. Radio 4KZ, 0914, Oct 17. Fairly early reception here with Dionne Warwick - "Walk On By". 5055, Radio 4KZ, 0910, Oct 18. Another day of decent reception; Buffalo Springfield - "Stop Children What's That Sound"; 1002, news, sports (scores of Australian cricket being played at Abu Dhabi, etc.) & weather (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) What happened to Radio 4KZ today? I was listening to the bit of audio I could hear from 4KZ this morning (U.S. Eastern time) when the signal suddenly disappeared. I was a little too taken aback to record the exact time, but it was about 1151 UT. A check of Solomon Islands BC on 5020 kHz showed that their signal remained very good. So what happened at 4KZ? Hope everyone and everything is OK (Art Delibert, North Bethesda, Maryland, USA, Drake R8B, SAL-12 antenna, Oct 19, HCDX via DXLD) Art, Per numerous reports in DX Listening Digest, it`s normal. 4KZ is turned off by a clock timer, which slips a few seconds earlier every day, if you keep track of it. 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) True! Saves AL going back to work to switch it off, and up early to switch it On! Regards (Johno Wright, NSW, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. Australia's international voice needs rebuilding, claims report "Australia's international broadcasting service is a wasting and wasted asset," according to a strategy paper published by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute [ASPI]. As Radio Australia heads towards its 80th anniversary in 2019 and Australia's international TV services approaches a quarter of century of operations, the Australian government is consulting on the country's soft power in the Asia-Pacific region. The paper from ASPI, authored by Graeme Dobell, Geoff Heriot and Jemima Garrett, laments the lack of a strong voice from Australia in a region where other powers are exerting considerable influence but where news and current affairs is in short supply. The authors lament the way that the ABC has been used as a political football with the Corporation's international services often suffering as a result. More here. https://aib.org.uk/14159-2/ (Oct AIB via DXLD) Viz.: Proposal for new Australian International Broadcasting Corporation Oct 19, 2018 The paper from ASPI, authored by Graeme Dobell, Geoff Heriot and Jemima Garrett, laments the lack of a strong voice from Australia in a region where other powers are exerting considerable influence but where news and current affairs is in short supply. The authors lament the way that the ABC has been used as a political football with the Corporation’s international services often suffering as a result. The report calls for the establishment of the Australian International Broadcasting Corporation [AIBC], a ring-fenced organisation that doesn’t compete with ABC domestic services for funding. It claims that current legislation allows for the establishment of a subsidiary organisation by the ABC exists, making this new international corporation relatively easy to set up. It says that the AIBC should have its own chair and board and separate budget. Alongside the deputy chair and the managing director of the ABC, the head of the Special Broadcasting Corporation [sic] should also sit on the board. It’s going to be interesting to see how this proposal is received by the Australian government, and what other responses are submitted to the consultation (Oct AIB Media Industry Briefing via WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DXLD) Call for new Australian international broadcaster Radioinfo 18 October, 2018 Three Asia-Pacific media specialists have proposed a new publicly funded Australian International Broadcasting Corporation at a Panel Forum hosted by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) in Canberra on 16 October. The Forum launched the new ASPI special report ‘Hard news and free media as the sharp edge of Australian soft power’ by the three former ABC journalists Graeme Dobell, Geoff Heriot and Jemima Garrett (pictured) which also forms a submission to the current Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade Soft Power Review. They argue that international broadcasting including an independent news service is regarded as a key aspect of soft power diplomacy and that Australia has been neglecting this area. They see the ABC as having conflicting purposes in the Charter in an era of funding shortages with the need to provide comprehensive services to domestic audiences as well as international obligations. As a result, the report proposes that this new Australian International Broadcasting Corporation (AIBC) would be established as a separate fully funded independent public broadcaster that would have a independent board including the deputy chair and Managing Director of the ABC and Head of the SBS. Freelance journalist and specialist Pacific communications consultant Jemima Garrett said that the AIBC would need $64 million in additional government funding per year. Garrett said that there are now 10 Pacific island countries which have no radio service, “radio is the main form of media for debate for public policy”. She said that without the radio service the countries of the Pacific cannot come together to debate policy issues because there is no one media forum. Garrett said “We need to hear the voices of the region and also the culture”. Read more at: https://www.radioinfo.com.au/news/call-new-australian-international-broadcaster © Radioinfo.com.au (via Mike Terry, Oct 19, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DXLD) Hmmm, what could they call it? How about ---- RADIO AUSTRALIA? (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. Guthrie, ABC prepare for legal stoush [fight, brawl, disagreement] By Australian Associated Press --- Published: 12:38 EDT, 18 October 2018 | Updated: 12:38 EDT, 18 October 2018 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-6291673/Guthrie-ABC-prepare-legal-stoush.html The ABC is facing legal action from former managing director Michelle Guthrie after she was sacked from the top job last month. Ms Guthrie began legal proceedings over her dismissal by filing papers with the Fair Work Commission ombudsman on Monday. She has lodged a general protections application and is being represented by Kate Eastman SC and Johnson Winter & Slattery lawyer Ruveni Kelleher, a spokesman confirmed on Thursday. The action comes despite Ms Guthrie's contract with the ABC stating she could be sacked without cause. The former media lawyer and Google and Foxtel executive was shown the door on September 24, with the ABC board saying her ongoing leadership was not in the broadcaster's best interests. At the time, Ms Guthrie - who has halfway through her five year contract - said she was considering her legal options. "I am devastated by the board's decision to terminate my employment despite no claim of wrongdoing on my part," she said in a statement. "While my contract permits the board to terminate my appointment without cause and with immediate effect, I believe there is no justification for the board to trigger that termination clause." The ABC also confirmed Ms Guthrie's Fair Work Commission proceedings on Thursday. "Details of the complaint are not a matter of public record," a spokeswoman for the broadcaster said. Former ABC chair Justin Milne was forced to quit three days after Ms Guthrie was fired. That came after it was revealed Ms Guthrie had told the ABC board Mr Milne requested she sack two journalists because the federal government didn't like their reporting. Mr Milne later confirmed to a communications department inquiry he had spoken with Ms Guthrie via email about the termination of chief economics correspondent Emma Alberici over the accuracy of two of her stories. He also spoke with Ms Guthrie by phone about what to do with ABC political editor Andrew Probyn, again regarding story accuracy. But the former chairman said his comments were not directives. Ms Guthrie saw things differently, telling the inquiry the email about Ms Alberici was a directive and the call about Mr Probyn involved "significant pressure" to fire him (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. Reach Beyond Australia, B-18: http://hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=B18&broadc=HCA Note the penultimate entry, 7190! in the worldwide 40m hamband! (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [INTRUDER ALERT] Reach Beyond in B-18 on hamband QRG 7190 kHz. Not amused (Pekka Kemppinen-FINLAND, OH2BLU, Intruder Alert Oct 17 via BC-DX Oct 20 via DXLD) B-18 schedule, Oct 28 2018 to March 30, 2019 7190 kHz 1500-1535 UT to zones 44,45 KNX 100kW 335deg slew15deg ant#216 daily Korean HCA to Korea; also English 1515-1530 UT Fris only. 73 wolfie df5sx (Bueschel, ibid.) The KNX transmitter site is Kununurra, Western Australia. The responsible administration is Australia. First TX housing at G.C. location 15 47 54.45 S 128 41 07.88 E New - second - TX location with few (7 ?) curtain antennas and TX house at 15 48 44.19 S 128 40 00.56 E But also seldom seen reflector antenna, a cubical quad antenna and a steerable antenna with a parabolic reflective curtain which can cover 180 degrees almost due west to due east. The steerable antenna dipole rolls taken originally from HCJB site in Quito Pifo Ecuador in December 2007, at westerly Kununurra G.C. location at 15 48 49.86 S 128 39 47.95 E 73, Dave K1ZZ (IARU Amateur Radio Intruder Alert Oct 17, ibid.) Re: [INTRUDER ALERT] Reach Beyond B-18 / 7190 kHz. Beyond Reach has six International broadcasting licences located at Kununurra, northern Australia. All these licences are from frequencies in the 12 MHz broadcasting band. [sic; no such limitation --- gh] The issue of operation on 7190 kHz would therefore be un-licensed operation. So actual reports on transmissions would be necessary to force the regulator to act. (73 PeterY-AUS VK3MV, Oct 19, ibid.) Peter, that in interesting in as much as they also list frequencies in the 9 and 15 MHz bands. See attached (Dave K1ZZ, Oct 19, ibid.) Hi all, as soon as they start transmissions and the signal is detectable in Switzerland, I will inform Swiss OFCOM for an international complaint. 73, (Peter, HB9CET, USKA Oct 19, ibid.) Reach Beyond B-18 / 7190 kHz, just send them an email explaining the situation concerning 7190 kHz: HCJB always has been very friendly and cooperative concerning amateur radio. Australian Communications and Media Authority seemingly does not know about international band plans. vy73 (Harald DL1ABJ (Oct 19, ibid., WORLD OF RADIO 1953) Yes Harald and friends, they are cooking their own soup against better knowledge page 42 their files containing the ITU-regulations (hi)! (Juergen Wagner-D, S=7 fluttery, at 2214 UT. 9664.826, Probably ZYE890 Rádio Voz Missionária, Camboriú SC BrasPort poor S=6-7 at 2219 UT Oct 15. Log 31, 25, 22, and 19 mb 2100-2230 UT, Oct 15 [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. A Rádio Serra do Roncador [9925] ganhou vários slogans, QSL e fotos chamadas. Obrigado a: Ian José Silva (Foto chamada) Glauber Gledison (Qsl) DJ Fernando da BR 163 (Foto chamada) Veja as fotos [i.a.] no link: https://dxbrazilsw.blogspot.com/2018/09/lista-emissoras-livres-ondas-curtas-do.html?m=1 (Daniel Wyllyans, Oct 16, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) pirate ** BRAZIL [non]. 11830even BRA? Probably? ZYE441 R Daqui Goiânia GO, S=3 under threshold. or an vagabunding UNID spur signal? 11840even CUBA RHC Quivicán San Felipe TITAN txion center signal, Spanish "Amigos de Onda Corta" [sic] program at 2140, also letterbox at 2147 UT. S=9+15dB signal, played Peruvian Andes flute mx. Log 31, 25, 22, and 19 mb 2100-2230 UT, Oct 15 [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I don`t think R Daqui is active here. All I ever hear is the -10 kHz spur out of RHC 11840. Hear if you can detect // audio. 11840 is the only RHC frequency I ever hear with this particular defect, plus and minus exactly 10 kHz parasites (Glenn Hauser, WOR iog via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 6010 kHz, BRASIL: R. Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte MG, 17/10 1655. Mx internacional, “Conexão Inconfidência”. Boletim de nx. 35553. Excelente sinal da Radio Inconfidência! Sinal firme (Rudolf Grimm, São Bernardo SP, BRASIL, http://dxways-br.blogspot.com radioescutas yg via DXLD) Minas Gerais: 15190. Out 7, 2018. 1643-1700, Radio Inconfidência, Contagem-MG. Programa musical com o melhor da Música Popular Brasileira (MPB) apresentado por locutor; Locução feminina: ID e anúncios da emissora; Locução masculina e os Call signs das emissoras da Rede Inconfidência de Radio; Chamada para o programa "Roda de Samba" a partir das 1700 na apresentação de Cristiano Batista. Recepção com bom sinal e modulação satisfatória nesta tarde, 45433. 15190. Out 13, 2018. 0955-1005, Radio Inconfidência, Contagem-MG. Anúncios de programação; ID; 1000 Horário Eleitoral para Presidente. Emissora com recepção de bom sinal e modulação satisfatória, 45433. 15190. Out 14, 2018. 1527-1535, Radio Inconfidência, Contagem-MG. Locutor apresenta o programa "Universo Fantástico"; ID e jingle da emissora; Anúncios de programação. Recepção com bom sinal e modulação satisfatória, 45433 (José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX) - PR7036SWL, Cabedelo-Paraiba, Brasil. Degen DE1103 & Sony ICF-SW100, Oct 15, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** BULGARIA. Date: October 7, 2018. Adventist World Radio (AWR) Wavescan on Sundays via Bulgaria: And usually the reception of AWR Wavescan (Sundays) on 11950 (250 kW) via SPC-NURTS Sofia Kostinbrod, Bulgaria at my place during 1600-1630 UT is not so good with noisy reception. But on last Sunday, i.e. October 7th, I found surprisingly good signal on that frequency. Here is the audio recorded around 1615: https://app.box.com/s/m93bjnsqh04pi6ii8mfc081jcplrm7ay But on October 14th nothing was audible on 11950 kHz as mentioned earlier. One can check my posts on radio on my blog http://www.gkcalling.blogspot.com 73s (Gautam Kumar Sharma (GK), Abhayapuri(Assam), (India), RX Used: Grundig Yacht Boy 400 (unless mentioned otherwise) ANT: Cu wire 78' length, 30' height with co-ax lead-in Geographical Location of Reception Place (Abhayapuri): Longitude: 26º18´20´´North (approx) Latitude: 90º37´50´´East (approx) DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA. 11600, The Overcomer Ministry at 1627 with Brother Stair asking for people to call him and into his usual format of preaching, pontificating, and railing against the Catholic Church and the Pope – Very Good Oct 19 – Bulgarian Telecommunications Company EAD, through its subsidiary Nurts Bulgaria, owns and operates this station. But, Bulgarian Telecommunications Company EAD, itself, is a subsidiary of Viva Telecom (Luxembourg) S.A. So, I guess no one in the EU has any morals left as they let this letch continue to expound his message of hate for true Christians (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. Some Thoughts on Pre-70s CKLW Radio --- The author intimates that CKLW's array was partially parasitic or perhaps so at night only. All five towers are driven. This is a driven array. Five transmission lines go to five towers at varying power and phase angle. https://paulkarlmoeller.wordpress.com/2017/07/30/some-thoughts-on-pre-70s-cklw-radio/ (via Lorraine Kulbacka, MI, MARE Tipsheet Oct 19 via DXLD) ** CANADA [and non]. 3308, USA, MARS (Military Amateur Radio Service) [sic] in USB at 0003 with AFA5CW net control working a number of other stations with voice and 1200/300/150 baud PACTOR – Good Oct 17 – MARS is operated by licensed American amateur radio operators and use the call signs assigned to them by the U.S. Military but use their own amateur radio equipment. Canada has a similar service – CFARS (Canadian Forces Affiliate Radio Service). For more information check the associated websites for MARS https://www.mars.af.mil/ [Military Auxiliary Radio System] and CFARS. http://cfarsoperations.ca/ New members to MARS and CFARS are always welcome (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) ** CHAD [non]. 12050. Out 7, 2018. 1905-1915, Radio Ndarason International, Ascensão-G, em Kanuri. Locução masculina em fundo musical; 1908 Locuções masculina e feminina apresentam notícias, presumivelmente; Discurso em voz masculina com manifestação da assistência através de aplausos. Excelente recepção da Ndarason neste início de noite, aquí em Cabedelo, 55555.(José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX) - PR7036SWL, Cabedelo-Paraiba, Brasil. Degen DE1103 & Sony ICF-SW100, Oct 15, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) CLANDESTINA, 12050. Out 20, 2018. 2031-2048, Radio Ndarason Internationale, Ascensão-G [sic] (2263 km), em Francês. Locutor e locutora apresentam as notícias em "Le Journal", com um longo espaço dedicado às atrocidades do Boko Haram; Jornal conta com a participação de repórteres externos; ID por algumas vezes durante a escuta; 2045 Final do Jornal, ID e retorna, às 2046, com a programação em língua kanuri. Emissão com ótima recepção em Cabedelo, 45554 (José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX) - PR7036SWL, Cabedelo-PB, Brasil, Receptor (es): Degen DE1103 & Tecsun S-2000, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 9900even, Seemingly Chinese spoken jammer px heard from Kashgar western China relay site, AGAINST underneath 9900even TWN R TWN Chinese, S=7-8 in NJ/NY remote SDR unit, 2220 UT, but S=9+25dB in Europe, like SDR at Belgium, Italy, Germany. Log 31, 25, 22, and 19 mb 2100-2230 UT, Oct 15 [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9745, FIREDRAKE at 1948 with the usual cacaphony of percussion, string, and woodwind instrumentals jamming RFA in Mandarin via Kuwait – Fair to Good Oct 16. 6075, CNR1 at 2253 in Mandarin jamming RTI in Mandarin with a man and woman with excited talk and a number of promos with music bridges to 5+1 time pips at 2300 – Poor to Fair in peaks Oct 18. 11640, CNR1 at 1134 // 11785 in Mandarin jamming RTI in Mandarin with a man and woman with excited news reporting and high spirited promos – Fair Oct 19 11785, CNR1 at 1136 // 11640 in Mandarin jamming the VOA in Mandarin via the Philippines with a man and woman with excited news reporting and high spirited promos – Very Good Oct 19 11785, PHILIPPINES, VOA at 1138 in Mandarin with a man and woman in an interview – Poor under CNR1 jammer Oct 19 11825, PHILIPPINES, VOA at 1138 in Mandarin with a man and woman in an interview – Fair over CNR1 jammer Oct 19 11825, CHINA, CNR1 at 1134 // 11640 and 11785 in Mandarin jamming the VOA in Mandarin via the Philippines with a man and woman with excited news reporting and high spirited promos – Poor under or mixing with the VOA Oct 19. 11985, CNR1 at 1241 // 11640 and 11785 in Mandarin jamming RTI in Mandarin with a man and woman with excited news reporting and high spirited promos to 5+1 time pips at 1300 and off – Poor Oct 19 – Dan Ferguson's SW Skeds files list RTI in Mandarin at this time with an asterisk and only reported by the Aoki list. So, if it is not using this frequency and time combination then they've got the Chinese authorities wasting power and bandwidth by having this jammer on at this time. Can the joke be on the Chinese? 12045, CNR1 at 1154 // 11640 with a man and woman with excited news reporting and an interview of a man at 1156 then a number of promos from 1158 to 5+1 time pips at 1200 and off as per sked – Poor Oct 19 – This is a legitimate frequency that the Chinese authorities use to get their feeds to jam western broadcasters. It's nice to have one of these on the air to // with those western broadcasters to truly verify that the Chinese are indeed using CNR programming as jammers. 9900, CNR1 at 2342 // 11750 in Mandarin jamming RTI in Mandarin with a man and woman with excited news reporting with sound bytes – Fair Oct 20 11750, CNR1 at 2325 in Mandarin with several spoken and sung promos and a man and woman with excited news reporting at 2327 with sound bytes – Very Good Oct 20 – A legitimate frequency used by this one that the Chinese authorities hijack as jamming fodder. 11745, Firedrake at 1814 with the usual cacaphony of string, woodwind, and percussion instrumentals jamming RFA in Mandarin via the Northern Marianas – Good Oct 21 13680, CNR1 at 1541 in Mandarin jamming RFA in Mandarin via Tajikistan with a man and woman with excited news – Fair mixing with Voice of Hope Oct 21 13680, ZAMBIA, The Voice of Hope Africa at 1542 with male and female preachers – Poor to Fair mixing with CNR1 jammer Oct 21 15430, CHINA, CNR3 (Voice of the Music) probably the one at 1553 in Mandarin jamming RFA in Mandarin via the Northern Marianas with soprano vocals and classical Chinese instrumentals then male pop vocals at 1558 and off at 1600 – Fair mixing with RFA Oct 21 15430, NORTHERN MARIANAS, RFA tentatively at 1553 in Mandarin with a man and woman with gentle talk lost to CNR3 jammer by 1558 and off at 1600 – Fair mixing with CNR3 Oct 21. 11640, CNR1 at 1146 jamming RTI in Mandarin with a man with excited talk and a number of promos – Fair Oct 22 Coady-ON 11785, PHILIPPINES, VOA at 1155 in Mandarin with a woman with gentle talk and soft female pop vocals at 1157 – Poor mixing with CNR jammer Oct 22 11785, CHINA, CNR1 at 1158 // 11640 in Mandarin jamming the VOA in Mandarin via the Philippines with a man with excited talk and promos to 5+1 time pips at 1200 – Poor with VOA Oct 22 (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]. 13665, ALBANIA, CRI at 1207 // 11980 (via Kunming, China) with a man and two women with “Take Away Chinese” language lesson discussing terms used in describing weather and outdoor conditions – Fair to Good Oct 19 – The signal strengths of this one and 11980 (S5 vs. S3) might make one feel that using overseas relays is counterproductive but later in the day CRI's signals from Albania certainly outweigh those direct from China. In my case, most of the transmitters that CRI and CNR use are at a heading of 350° (close to due north) from me. Signals that follow transpolar propagation with a hop located within the auroral zone (donut hole) are often not attenuated (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. Voice of Strait, 4940, Voice of Strait, Oct 17, tuned in at 0947, to find only a carrier at a decent level, but no audio. During my recent monitoring here, always heard the sudden start of the transmitter with audio, about *0940, with programming already in progress and then at 0955 went to being // with 4900 (which also started about *0940 with different programming also in progress), with the Strait Fishery Meteorology (Channel fishery weather). Today a completely different format and timing on 4940! At 0953, had 4940 with their IS; believe in all my years of listening to VOS, this is probably the first time I have heard it; at 0955 ID in Chinese followed by Western classical orchestra music till ToH time pips. 4900, also noted at 0947 with just a carrier (no audio at all), till they started different programming (not IS) about 0953. So today 4940 had a late start with actual IS/ID and at 0955 not // to 4900. A one day anomaly or something new? Will be interesting to hear what happens here in the future. My audio at http://goo.gl/3pKSNb 4940, Voice of Strait. On Oct 18, back to normal format and timing, after yesterday's anomaly; audio suddenly on at *0940, with program in progress. 4900, started at *0943, with pop song (not // to 4940). From 0955 to 1000, both frequencies // with the Strait Fishery Meteorology report (Channel fishery weather); 1000+ not in //. 6035, PBS Yunnan, relay of FM99, 1003-1030, Oct 20. Heard again here, after being absent since Sept 24; in Chinese and usual FM format; many pop songs; about 1015 started to note some faint BBS/Bhutan QRM; by the time I tuned out, BBS was improving and mixing badly with PBS Yunnan; rechecked at 1057, and surprised to find a completely clear frequency (no Bhutan, no Yunnan), so a very early closing down time for both stations. Tomorrow I will need to also check 7210 for a possible PBS Yunnan return there (should sign on before 1000 UT, with their distinctive easy listening musical IS loop). Was wonderful to hear BBS in the clear since Sept 24, but seems that will no longer be the case. This frequency and 7210, needs more monitoring now. On the one hand I'm very pleased to have Yunnan back here again, but on the other hand I will certainly miss the clear BBS/Bhutan reception! After all these years of conflict on 6035 kHz, why has one of them not moved to a clear frequency? (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DXLD) 4940, Voice of Strait, 0944-0955, Oct 21 (Sunday). The weekend only edition of "Focus On China," with the audio feed from a CCTV9 documentary ("Along the Silk Road"); 0955 into Chinese. Seems China has reorganized some of the former CCTV sites. Now am unable to access the CCTV9 documentaries that I could just a few weeks ago. Now am directed to China Global Television Network, or CGTN, which is China's new international media organization - https://www.cgtn.com/ 6035, PBS Yunnan, relay of FM99, 1209-1221+, Oct 21. In Chinese; usual FM format; BBS/Bhutan not on the air at this time today (BBS off about 1122); Yunnan not on the air here earlier (0955 and 1129+), so don't know just when Yunnan started. Clearly Yunnan has not established a firm schedule yet. [non-log] 7210, PBS Yunnan, on Oct 21, checking for their sign on IS at 0955+, but clearly no Yunnan, just the normal mixing of Sound of Hope (Taiwan), which was slightly stronger than VOV1 (Vietnam); checked again 1223 and still no Yunnan, just SOH & VOV1 again mixing (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DXLD) ** CUBA. 13817.4-13822.6 and 13601.9-13607.5 kHz, UNIDENTIFIED scratching noise signals, S=7-8. ``{CUBA. 13630 & 13770 kHz approx., on Oct 15 at 1348 UT, FM spurs out of RHC 13700-AM, barely detectable with tell-tale F# tone but no readable modulation; even less so around 13773, 13763, 13637, 13623, 13555 kHz, so the main peaks are plus and minus 70 kHz, but now also elsewhere in between. Need to tighten them up! Something's always wrong at RHC ... (Glenn Hauser-OK-USA, dxld Oct 15) }`` Log 31, 25, 22, and 19 mb 2100-2230 UT, Oct 15 [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Wolfy, by this item you seem to be implying that the signals you heard are related to the FM spurs I sometimes get out of the RHC 13700 AM transmitter but only before 1500. No, these are two Radio Marti frequencies, where at least residual pulse jamming often continues whether RM is on them or not (and 13820 will not replace 13605 until B-18.) 73, (Glenn Hauser, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 11914.990, BSKSA Riyadh, HQ prayer \\ 11820 kHz, poor S=5 strength, noted at 2143 UT, but suffer by adjacent 11920.7 to 11939.6 kHz strong Cuban scratching sound jamming on US BBG Radio Marti channel 11925 kHz [sic: it`s 11930 --- gh], at 2145 UT on Oct 15, S=9+10dB broadband block. 12000even CUBA, RHC Bauta in Spanish, letterbox program, mentioned listener in Peru and Mexico, (!) 38 kHz wideband signal, S=9+25dB signal strength at 2147 UT in NJ/NY US states. Log 31, 25, 22, and 19 mb 2100-2230 UT, Oct 15 [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also BRAZIL [non]. 11830 ** CUBA [and non]. 9965, Oct 19 at 1418, heavy pulse jamming against weaker talk, certainly not in Spanish --- listed in NDXC/Aoki is Lester Sumrall Teaching via T8WH PALAU. Something`s always wrong at the DentroCuban Jamming Command! --- tsk2, nothing to jam on 9955 after WRMI closes at 1400 (except Sat), so might as well jam this! Without it, T8WH from far Palau used to have a generally better signal here than WRMI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 5040even, RHC Bauta in Spanish(!) language, full Latin America schedule read an given at 0500 UT. S=9+5dB signal. 6165even, RHC Bauta English sce, at 0510 UT on Oct 21, comment on ISR occupation of Palestine, S=9+20dB in MI and NY. \\ 6100.0 kHz weak S=7-8 signal(?), \\ 6060.003 kHz Bauta too, latter muffled distorted audio. and \\ 6000even RHC Quivican San Felipe 'TITAN' site transmission, 0518 UT fine audio quality today, powerful S=9+30dB or -52dBm strength. Log Oct 21 at 0420 to 0530 UT, on remote units in Doha Qatar, Belgium, Hungary and NY and MI US states. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 13740, Oct 22, less than two minutes of overlap today between RHC Spanish music and CRI English news, 1400-1401:50, adding up to S9+30/40. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR [non]. 7300, ENGLAND, Radio Akhbar Mufriha (HCJB) at 2117 in Arabic with woman singing an Arabic version of “Silent Night” and into a man with talk with music bridges of instrumental versions of “Silent Night” – Fair to Good with fading Oct 18 – Hallowe'en isn't even here, yet! Christmas music before the end of October? What's up with that? (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) ** EGYPT. 9895, Radio Cairo at 2100 in listed French with a woman with talk and a Middle Eastern music bridge then the woman and a man in conversation at 2101 – Great signal but indiscernable audio Oct 19 – I hate to have to say this but, since they refuse to correct their audio problems between their studios and their transmitters, why don't they do everyone a favour and stop wasting bandwidth airing a program no one can understand and just give up broadcasting anything? (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) No clothes ** ERITREA. 7140.020, V of Broad Masses. Dimtse, Asmara, HoA music on the air. No Jamming. S=9+5dB in Qatar. Remained after peace talks ETH - ERI recently. 0430 UT. Log Oct 21 at 0420 to 0530 UT, on remote units in Doha Qatar, Belgium, Hungary and NY and MI US states [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. Sonnet Radio Europe on C292 Friday Hi All, The Channel 292 schedule is now showing that there will be a broadcast from a station called 'Sonnet Radio Europe' from 2000 to 2200 UT on Friday 18th of October [sic; Fri = 19 Oct]. I found the station's website, and this says that any listener filling out their online eQSL report form will be entered into a draw to win a Tecsun PL-310 receiver: https://www.sonnetradio.co.uk/ This will be on straight after enjoyable 'Jazz from Poland' programme (Alan Gale, England, Tue Oct 16, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. Universe Radio on 7440 via Channel292 Shortwave Broadcast Schedule 4th of November 2018, Live on 7440 kHz To celebrate 6 years of on-line radio we will do a live combination of on-line and shortwave radio. In a 7 hour special we will bring back the sounds of the 70's, 80's and 90's to the airwaves with of course a touch of modern music. We will be transmitting through 7440, the new Channel292 Frequency. Thank you Rainer for setting it up again! Times are in CET [UT +1]: [Sunday] 11.00-12.00 Hello Europe with Michiel Bouwmeester 12.00-14.00 Record Attic with Maurice van Ginderen 14.00-16.00 Full Throttle with Olaf Kerkhof 16.00-18.00 Panic Show Back in Time with M. Bouwmeester & Bennito Mol -------------------------------------------------------- source: http://www.universeradio.nl/index.php/shortwave/ (via Harald Kuhl, Germany, Oct 16, bdxc-news iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DXLD) ** GERMANY. Sendeplan SWS Kall Eifel Germany. B-18 on 3985 kHz 80mb Alle Zeiten in MEZ. All times in CET = UTC +1 hr Montag-Freitag 1700-1730 Radio Tirana (franzoesisch) 1730-1757 RSI (franzoesisch) 1757-1800 Nordschleswiger 1800-1900 Schweizer Radio "Echo der Zeit" 1900-2000 Radio Mi Amigo International 2000-2027 RSI (deutsch) 2027-2030 Nordschleswiger 2030-2057 RSI (franzoesisch) 2100-2127 RSI (englisch) 2130-2200 Radio Tirana (englisch) 2200-2230 Schweizer Radio "Das war der Tag" 2230-2300 Radio Tirana (italienisch) 2300 Sendeschluss Samstag 1700-1730 Radio Tirana (franzoesisch) 1730-1757 RSI (franzoesisch) 1800-1900 Schweizer Radio "Echo der Zeit" 1900-2000 RCI (franzoesisch) 2000-2027 RSI (deutsch) 2030-2057 RSI (franzoesisch) 2100-2127 RSI (englisch) 2130-2200 Radio Tirana (englisch) 2200 Sendeschluss Sonntag 1700-1730 Radio Tirana (franzoesisch) 1730-1757 RSI (franzoesisch) 1800-1900 Schweizer Radio "Echo der Zeit" 1900-2000 RCI (englisch) 2000-2027 RSI (deutsch) 2030-2057 RSI (franzoesisch) 2100-2127 RSI (englisch) 2130 Sendeschluss B-18 on 6005 kHz 49mb Alle Zeiten in MEZ. All times in CET = UTC +1hr. Montag-Freitag 0900-1000 RAE Argentinien (Wiederholung vom Vortag) 1000-1200 Radio Belarus (deutsch) 1200-1227 RSI (deutsch) 1227-1230 Nordschleswiger 1230-1300 Schweizer Radio SRF "Rendez-Vous" 1300-1327 RSI (englisch) 1330-1357 RSI (franzoesisch) 1400-1430 VOM (englisch) 1430-1500 Radio Tirana (englisch) 1500-1527 RSI (deutsch) 1527-1530 Nordschleswiger 1530-1557 RSI (franzoesisch) 1600-1627 RSI (spanisch) 1630-1657 RSI (englisch) 1700-1730 Polski Radio (deutsch) 1730-1757 RSI (englisch) 1757-1800 Nordschleswiger 1800-1900 Schweizer Radio SRF "Echo der Zeit" 1900 Sendeschluss Samstag 0900-1000 RCI (franzoesisch) 1000-1200 Radio Belarus (deutsch) 1200-1227 RSI (deutsch) 1230-1300 Music non stop 1300-1327 RSI (englisch) 1330-1357 RSI (franzoesisch) 1400-1430 VOM (englisch) 1430-1500 Radio Tirana (englisch) 1500-1527 RSI (deutsch) 1530-1557 RSI (franzoesisch) 1600-1627 RSI (spanisch) 1630-1657 RSI (englisch) 1700-1730 Polski Radio (deutsch) 1730-1757 RSI (englisch) 1800-1900 Schweizer Radio SRF "Echo der Zeit" 1900 Sendeschluss Sonntag 0900-1000 RCI (englisch) 1000-1200 Radio Belarus (deutsch) 1200-1227 RSI (deutsch) 1230-1300 IBC (englisch) 1300-1327 RSI (englisch) 1330-1357 RSI (franzoesisch) 1400-1500 Radio Amathusia (niederlaendisch, Dutch) 1500-1527 RSI (deutsch) 1530-1557 RSI (franzoesisch) 1600-1627 RSI (spanisch) 1630-1657 RSI (englisch) 1700-1730 Polski Radio (deutsch) 1730-1757 RSI (englisch) 1757-1800 Nordschleswiger 1800-1900 Schweizer Radio SRF "Echo der Zeit" 1900 Sendeschluss (Christian Milling-D, via A-DX ng Aug 16 [sic] via BC-DX Oct 20 via DXLD) ** GERMANY. PRESS RELEASES --- Deutsche Welle names Erkan Arikan as the new head of the Turkish department The 49-year-old Arikan is leaving his position at WDR to move to Germany's international broadcaster. He currently oversees the Turkish-language offerings of the international and intercultural radio program Cosmo, formerly Funkhaus Europa. Arikan also held this position from 2003 to 2008 before moving to a position as senior editor and moderator at ARD-aktuell in Hamburg. He worked as a reporter for NDR aktuell and for WDR Lokalzeit in Düsseldorf starting in 2013 before returning to manage the Turkish editorial team at Cosmo in 2016. Gerda Meuer, DW’s Director of Programming: “Erkan Arikan is a seasoned journalist, a passionate reporter and a longtime chief editor. He is a proven expert in Turkish issues and is a doer with an innovative mind. He is the right man at the right time for DW. Much of his focus will be on the development of our new Turkish channel.” Erkan Arikan: “During a period of rapid political change in Turkey, I am looking forward to taking up this journalistically engaging and challenging position at DW. Taking into account the currently strained relationship between Germany and Turkey, it will be a to launch a Turkish-language video channel with the goal of building bridges between the two countries.” Arikan came to Berlin as the son of Turkish guest workers, where he studied law and journalism at the Free University. Arikan interned at the TV news channel n-tv where he later worked as an editor and moderator until 2003. Arikan has both German and Turkish citizenship. He is married and is the father of two daughters. DW currently offers comprehensive online news and information in Turkish with an editorial portfolio that includes an extensive social media presence. Individual articles are also distributed through partner portals. Fearing reactive measures by Turkish authorities, potential new partners are increasingly rejecting cooperation with independent Western news providers. This makes DW's in-house efforts to strengthen its own platforms – along with the further expansion of social media channels – increasingly important. Date 16.10.2018 Author Christoph Jumpelt Permalink https://p.dw.com/p/36dAf (via Dr Hansjoerg Biener, Oct 20, DXLD) ** GERMANY [non]. Despite their best efforts to do away with SW, reducing to only 5 strategic Afro/Asian languages, not including English or German, DW English is back on SW! see USA: WRN via WRMI (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. 9760, EAST GERMANY, AWR (Nauen), at 2010 NOT // 9780 in French with a woman with talk to 2017 and a woman with a “Radio Mondiale Adventiste” ID and brief instrumentals and a man with talk – Fair in peaks with fading Oct 21 – This was a different program than that found on 9780 as this was beamed to Central Africa. 9780, EAST GERMANY, AWR (Nauen), at 2025 NOT // 9760 in French with a choral hymn and a man with closing announcements with a “Radio Mondiale Adventiste” ID at 2027 followed by light instrumentals and off at 2030 – Fair in peaks with fading Oct 21 – This was a different program than that found on 9760 as this was beamed to North Africa. Yes, the same broadcaster can have two different programs in the same language at the same time but I wonder what the difference was as both were for Africa (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) HFCC shows both 9760 and 9780 are via Nauen, but differ: 9760 250 kW at 186 degrees; 9780 100 kW at 210 degrees. AND there is a third AWR transmission during the same 2000-2030 semihour betwixt, on 9770, which is 250 kW, 188 degrees from ISSoudun in the `Mos` language (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. 4055, Radio Verdad at 0232 with full ID and address in Spanish over xylophone music, followed by “Star Spangled Banner” sung in English, followed by “America the Beautiful” and then other familiar orchestral tunes, didn’t hear any announcements during occasional checks up to 0302. What program is this? - Good, Oct. 20 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, listening in my car parked near Kalamalka Lake. CommRadio CR-1a and Sony AN-1 active antenna on car roof, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Truth thus excels all US SW stations in playing Our National Anthem(s) --- only WINB desecrates the SSB as voice-over-ID produxion music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HAWAII. 15000, WWVH at 2247 with female time announcements at 45 seconds after each minute and Pacific ocean forecast – Weak under WWV Oct 17 – Back in the heyday of shortwave radio – the 70s and 80s - this was a beacon for South Pacific shortwave propagation conditions but just about all of those stations that reception of this one was a beacon for cease to exist and, if Donald Trump gets his way, this station and the Boulder, Colorado-based WWV will also cease to exist (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) ** INDIA. Allahabad to be now known as Prayagraj, UP cabinet approves renaming city --- The decision was taken by the Uttar Pradesh cabinet presided over by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/161018/allahabad-to-be-known-as-prayagraj-up-cabinet-approves-renaming-city.html AIR Allahabad operates on 1026 kHz (20 kW) & 100.3 MHz (10 kW). Hope that they will change identifications soon! Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Story nowhere explains *why* --- probably because it is so obviously to do away with an Islamic connexion --- God is great? (gh, DXLD) ** INDIA. 9865, All India Radio (Vividh Bharati) in Hindi at 1615 UT Oct 20 with local Indian music and talk. Sign off at 1740:30. Good Excellent on Oct 21 at 1620 tune in. A daily appearance with my morning coffee. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta, Rx: Perseus SDR, Ant: Wellbrook ALA100 loop, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. Results of a monitoring project on the Urdu Service of All India Radio (September and October 2018) The Urdu Service of All India Radio (ID „Ye All India Radio (ki Urdu Service) he“) started broadcasting on AM on 15 May 1965. In 2013, it was the first AIR channel to go online alongside Hindi FM Gold. Although the service was started as an external service, there is a large Urdu speaking population in North India too. It is said, that the online/DTH/mobile presence lead to an increase of listening in India itself. The Urdu Service has the following online schedule: 0025-1930 h UTC (0555-0100 h IST) At https://qsl.net/vu2jos/, Jose Jacobs gives this schedule for the Urdu external service on medium and short wave: Morning Service 0025-0430 h UTC (0555-1000 h IST) 0025-0430 h UTC: 702 kHz (Jalandhar) 6140 kHz (Aligarh) 7340 kHz (Mumbai) 7520 kHz (Khampur) 0025-0100 h: 1071 kHz (Rajkot) 0200-0430 h: 1071 kHz (Rajkot) 0630-0815 h [!]: 1071 kHz (Rajkot) Special Service during Haj season 0530-0600 h UTC: 11670 kHz (Bengaluru) 15210 kHz (Panaji) Afternoon Service 0830-1130 h UTC (1400-1700 h IST) 0830-1130 h: 702 kHz (Jalandhar) 7250 kHz (Kingsway) 7340 kHz (Mumbai) 9620 kHz (Aligarh) 9940 kHz (Kingsway) 11560 kHz (Khampur) 0830-1230 h [!]: 1071 kHz (Rajkot) 0830-1430 h [!]: 7520 kHz (Khampur) Night Service 1430-1930 h UTC (2000-0100 h IST) 1430-1930 h: 702 kHz (Jalandhar) 7520 kHz (Khampur) 1600-1930 h: 1071 kHz (Rajkot) Because there is a constant reference to “medium wave”, “short wave” and “kHz”, it is highly probable that the service is carried on AM frequencies whenever they are available. (I remember from earlier years that I always had 7520 kHz in parallel to the online stream. Unfortunately, I never heard this frequency when checked during this monitoring period.) The Urdu stream is completely separate from all the other online streams. In contrast to the other online streams, the Urdu Service does not take any central news in English or Hindi, even less any other Indian language. It did not participate in joint programmes monitored on several occasions on other streams nor did it join in the running commentaries of the Cricket Asia Cup (15–28 September 2018). In sharp contrast to most other online streams, where speakers at times used English words, terms and phrases in their regular speech, the Urdu Service followed an Urdu only policy. The only English heard during weeks of the monitoring was on 8 October, a repeat broadcast of a function on the occasion of the first External Services Day, 1 October 2018. News, commentary and many, if not most programmes are preceded and followed by the announcement of the different platforms (“medium wave”, “short wave”, “FM”, “DTH”, “internet”) the Urdu Service is carried on. There are talks/lectures of the learned, music features and radio plays (not as many as in other online streams). Although I tried to establish a general line-up of the programmes by listening in on as many days as possible, there will certainly be differences from week day to week day. Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary on 2 October may or may have not produced some additional schedule changes in the scheduled programming. On some other language streams the Durga Puja was an important event too. It seems that the music programmes are exclusively devoted to traditional/classical/religious music, to older film music or popular recent tracks respectively. South Asian music follows a tonal system different from Western music. Much of the traditional music sounds very foreign to (my) European ears. Older film music is characterised by especially high pitched female voices, laughter, copy of Western (Italian, Spanish) tunes (e. g. „che sera“) and rhythms (cha-cha and other Latin rhythms). Some more recent film tracks are more rock-oriented. On the other hand, some music might not be film music at all. For the non-speaker of Urdu, the situation becomes even more difficult when it comes to the spoken programmes. The newscasts may offer familiar names of persons or places. The news are announced as something like “K’habaron”, but I think I also heard “Samachar”, which is familiar from many other language streams at http://allindiaradio.gov.in/Default.aspx. The Urdu Service carries the following newscasts: Morning Service 0025-0430 h UTC (0555-1000 h IST) -0045-0055 h (0615 h IST) -0400-0403 h (0930 h IST) Afternoon Service 0830-1130 h UTC (1400-1700 h IST) -0832-0837 h (1402 h IST) -1120-1130 h (1650 h IST) Night Service 1430-1930 h UTC (2000-0100 h IST) -1430-1440 h (2000 h IST) -1615-1625 h (2145 h IST) -1730-1740 h (2300 h IST) -1925-1930 h (0055 h IST) Given the fact, that no other news programmes are scheduled, the times look very odd. At first glance, it seems more listener friendly to schedule news on the full or half hour every hour or every second hour. However, if you correlate the news times with the beginning and end of the three main AM broadcast blocks of the day, the scheduling makes some sense. A final note on the news: http://www.newsonair.com/News-Schedules.aspx lists three centrally prepared newscasts at 0850-0905, 1350-1400 and 2115-2125 h IST (0320-0335, 0820-0830, 1546-1555 h UTC, actually 1600 h? to be discussed when reporting on Radio Kashmir). These Urdu newscasts are not taken by the Urdu Service, but (possibly produced and) broadcast by Radio Kashmir. The broadcast day starts at about 0023 with the familiar Interval Signal of All India Radio and traditional/religious music. It precedes and follows the 0045-0055 (0615 IST) News in Urdu until 0200 h UTC It is only with the rising day that the music style becomes more modern. The next newscast is at 0400-0403 (0930 IST). The first hours of the day also feature some spoken segments, but I was unable to establish a reliable schedule. It is easier to describe the final hours of the broadcast day. 1600-1615 h: film music 1615-1625 h: news in Urdu (2145 IST) 1625-1630 h: Aaj ki Baat (commentary) 1630-1700 h: different mainly talk programmes, also radio drama 1700-1730 h: old music 1730-1740 h: news in Urdu (2300 IST) 1740-1800 h: film music 1800-1900 h: traditional music 1900-1925 h: film music 1925-1930 h: news in Urdu (0055 IST) 1930 h: Ye Hind and close down (Dr Hansjoerg Biener, 17 October 2018, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dear Dr. Hansjoerg, Many thanks for the interesting report on AIR Urdu Service. Here are some addl. info from my side. It may be mentioned that the Urdu Service is beamed to Pakistan. It is a 24 hour service considering all the different platforms. It does not carry English/Hindi/Urdu News / Cricket Commentary etc. of the Home Service as it is the External service. Additionally the Urdu Service is carried on FM from AIR Amritsar on 103.6 MHz from Sept 24, 2018. 7520 is currently off due to tx problems. The Special Service during Haj season 0530-0600 h UTC: 11670 kHz (Bengaluru) 15210 kHz (Panaji)is a separate service (not in parallel to the main Urdu Service) Yours sincerely, Jose Jacob (via HjB, ibid.) India (4950 kHz) - R. Kashmir Srinagar continues to sign on at about 0120 h UTC. The station was noted in Europe on 21 October 2018 on short wave and with a time delay with the same programme online at http://allindiaradio.gov.in/Default.aspx (Vande Mataram, frequencies, religious/traditional music). (Dr Hansjoerg Biener 21 October 2018) See also KASHMIR India (5040 kHz) - The streaming portal at http://allindiaradio.gov.in/Default.aspx offers a rich bouquet of online streams in different languages. This includes an online stream in Odiya provided by AIR Cuttack (Odisha). Monitoring at the beginning and the end of the broadcast day shows that this stream is not in parallel with the short wave frequency of AIR Jeypore (Odisha). According to Jose Jacobs at https://qsl.net/vu2jos/ AIR Jeypore has the following schedule on short wave, UT: 0025-0436 h: 5040 kHz (50 kW) 0700-0915 h: 5040 kHz (50 kW) 1130-1741 h: 5040 kHz (50 kW) Listeners may not be confused when hearing the same segments on short wave and with a delay online. This happens when both AIR Jeypore and AIR Cuttack hook up to the Delhi newsfeed. The most obvious example is the programme line up before the close down on 5040 kHz. AIR Jeypore relays the Delhi English news at 1730 h as does the online stream. This is followed by the Delhi Hindi news at 1735 h and the sign off at about 1741 h. Except for the segment 1730-1735 h the content of the Odia stream is completely different. I became aware of the difference on 31 December 2017: AIR Jeypore had an extended programme which closed exactly at 1830 h UTC/midnight IST, the beginning of the new year. In sharp contrast the Odiya stream had just non stop music until 2400 h IST and only after that started celebrating (Dr Hansjoerg Biener 21 October 2018, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. In my ongoing monitoring project on the AIR web streams at http://allindiaradio.gov.in/Default.aspx I also tried to establish whether the AIR short wave service in Gujarati is in parallel with the web stream originating at Akashvani Ahmedabad-Vadodara (ID sounding like „Akashvani Ahmdabad-Badodra kendra“). Several attempts on the Utrecht webSDR http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ failed. Finally, I tried the kiwiSDRs http://newdelhi.twrmon.net:8073/ and http://midskiwi.ddns.net:8073/ On 22 October, I had some luck with the receiver in Qatar. I will now close this file and offer the following results. According to Jose Jacob’s site https://qsl.net/vu2jos/ the AIR overseas service in Gujarati has the following schedule to East Africa: 0415-0430 h UTC: 15185 kHz-DRM (Bengaluru) 1515-1600 h UTC: 13695 kHz (Bengaluru) 15175 kHz (Panaji) As noted before, 13695 kHz is on the air at 1515 h, while I am quite certain that 15175 kHz is not. From my listening from Utrecht, I thought that 13695 kHz was not modulated. Listening from Qatar, I noted the transmission as barely modulated. I think I heard a test tone before 1515 h. After 1515 h there were some traces of lively Indian music. At 1520 h a newscast started. Nonetheless, this little piece of information allows some conclusions. The 1515 h-broadcast is not in parallel with the Gujarati web stream. This would have made little sense anyway because the Gujarati online stream carries the 1515 h „Samachar Sandhya“ in Hindi and the 1530 h English „News at Nine“. The 0415 h-DRM-broadcast looks perfectly fit for a newscast and a commentary. This leads to the question where the news come from. According to http://www.newsonair.com/News-Schedules.aspx there are three centrally prepared Gujarati newscasts: 0745-0755, 1320-1330 and 1950-2000 h IST (0215, 0750 and 1420 h UTC). These Delhi newscasts are carried on the Gujarati online stream. Two may be used in a time delayed manner for the overseas service (Dr Hansjoerg Biener, 22 October 2018, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. Voice of Indonesia --- I just caught the top of hour announcements at 1400 UT today on 3325 kHz for the ending of the English transmission of The International Service of VoI. Mentioned the correct frequency and sounded like a well produced segment. Very nice audio this morning and into I believe to be the Indonesian program of VoI (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta, Perseus with Wellbrook ALA100 loop, Oct 17, WOR iog via DXLD) Hi Mick, Oct 17 - Over here in California, the Voice of Indonesia, via RRI Palangkaraya (3325 kHz.) was semi-readable today at 1318 UT, with "Today's Commentary" about US/Saudi Arabia relations, then into "Today in History." BTW - Haven't found a day when VOI is running their former "Exotic Indonesia" programs. Glenn and I always enjoyed them, which normally were a joint production of VOI-Jakarta and RRI Banjarmasin (South Kalimantan). Entertaining shows. Here is some audio from a May 21, 2013 show - https://app.box.com/s/9etr1tff3e0ecq6xk5rl Gone, but not forgotten! (Ron Howard, CA, ibid.) Thanks Ron, Great stuff. I have been going over hundreds of hours of tapes I made throughout my shortwave listening adventures and have come across some amazing recordings that I had forgot about including VoI. I will be digitizing theses tapes and getting them on a public site for others to enjoy. I must say that being this far north when conditions are unsettled they can be really bad but when things are good they are really good. Conditions getting better this week. 3325, Voice of Indonesia, I just caught the top of hour announcements at 1400 UT Oct 17 for the ending of the English transmission of The International Service of VoI. Mentioned the correct frequency (3325 kHz) and sounded like a well-produced segment. Very nice audio this morning and into I believe to be the Indonesian program of VoI. Very Good. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta, Rx: Perseus SDR, Ant: Wellbrook ALA100 loop, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3325, Voice of Indonesia, via RRI Palangkaraya, briefly checking at 1224 & 1234, on Oct 21. Another day with no Jakarta audio feed, but just the Palangkaraya carrier. 3325, Voice of Indonesia, via RRI Palangkaraya, briefly checking at 1222 & 1245, on Oct 22. Another day with no Jakarta audio feed, but just the Palangkaraya carrier. A waste of electricity! (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) Here's a few logs of interest I`ve made over the past few days: 10/20: RRI Palangkaraya/Bougainville - 3325 (1228-1303), actually receiving a little audio (this has been a tough catch for me lately), seems best at Sunrise, can`t copy enough content to tell which station it is but I`m leaning towards RRI (R Madang has also been difficult, I may experiment with a longwire to see if I can hear improvement over my loop) (Chris Krug, Tulsa OK, 22 Oct, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Chris, Thanks for your logs! NBC Bougainville (3325) wouldn't have been on as late as 1228+. Per my frequent observations, NBC cuts off normally sometime before 1200. Is safe to say you must have heard the Voice of Indonesia, via RRI Palangkaraya (3325), changing from Japanese (1200-1300), over to English (1300-1400). BTW - NBC Madang (3260) normally cuts off between 1200-1215 (Ron Howard, California, ibid.) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. Satellite TV: 127°W 3.920-V/28059 Msps. Galaxy 13 NASA TV with two streams: PR101 with a show about global warming (below left) and PR103 with a detailed explanation of the Souyez [sic] crash and severe weather observed from space (above right). 60% and steady. Both in 720p HD. QPSK/MPEG2 encoded 2000-2030 12/Oct (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Port Hope MI2, WOR iog via DXLD) ** IRAN. IRIB/VOIRI, B-18 English: 1520-1630 5965 at 95 degrees 1920-2020 6040 at 313 degrees 1920-2020 11880 at 211 degrees (HFCC via WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DXLD) ** IRAN [and non]. 7410.005, IRIB Sirjan Arabic and co-channel another Riyadh ARS like spoken Arabic program as jamming. 20 kHz broadband audio block. Powerhouse S=9+45dB or -34dBm at 0444 UT. Log Oct 21 at 0420 to 0530 UT, on remote units in Doha Qatar, Belgium, Hungary and NY and MI US states [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ISRAEL. 1287 kHz, QSL Voice of Hope Middle East in English. Voice of Hope Middle East 1287 kHz sendet fast ausschliesslich in Arabisch und nur einmal in der Woche in Englisch. Und zwar freitags um 1900z das Programm "A Song in the Night". Das hatte ich am 21.09. ueber einen KiwiSDR in Griechenland gehoert und einen Bericht an die Adresse gesandt. Heute kam eine QSL mit allen Details aus den USA bei mir an (v/s: Ray Robinson). Der Sender steht in She'ar Yashuv in Israel, hat eine Leistung von 50 kW und seine Koordinaten sind 33 12 54.95 N 35 38 40.67 E (Hans-Friedrich Dumrese-D, A-DX ng Oct 20, via BC-DX Oct 20 via DXLD) ** ITALY [non]. UZBEKISTAN, 7329.9, IBC, Italian Broadcasting Corporation via Tashkent, 100 kW, 1903-1911, 17-10, Italian, program "Panorama Onde Corte", "Italian Short Wave Panorama", short wave news in Italian. 45444. // 6070 kHz via Rohrbach with SINPO 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Lugo, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** JAPAN. Hello! Received (~1 month) QSL card from “NHK-2 Akita” / JOUB (774 kHz). report sent via form on site: http://nhk.or.jp/akita/contact/… 73! (Ivan Zelenyi (Nizhnevartovsk, Russia), Receiver: Degen DE1103, Antenna: indoor, Selfmade loop SW antenne, D=0,77 metres. https://twitter.com/ivan_z_nv Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** JAPAN [non]. 6105, FRANCE. NHK World Radio Japan, 10/20, 0347-0359, in Japanese, the usual singing competition, some better than average coroners this time. Announcer finishes up with an embellished flair; first time I heard the end of the show, which concludes with a simple beep, then only dead air. Fair to good with moderate QRN and fading (Ronald Sives, Easton, Pa. Equipment: Eton Field Radio; Princeton Sky Wire, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** JAPAN [non]. NHK World Radio Japan, B-18 English, 30 minutes each: 0500 6155-Austria, 7490-France, 9860-Vatican 1100 11825-Singapore 1400 5865 & 6165 & 9560=all Uzbekistan [some alternates?], 11925-Palau (HFCC B-18 via WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DXLD) Plus now also via WRN via WRMI 5950: see U S A (gh) ** KASHMIR. English programmes at Radio Kashmir Srinagar Radio Kashmir Srinagar broadcasts mainly in Kashmiri and Urdu, but also in Sanskrit, English and Hindi. According to Jose Jacob’s web site Radio Kashmir Srinagar has the following short wave schedule: s00.30/w01.00-02.15 h UT: 4950 kHz (50 kW) (in October later sign on around 01.20 h, as discussed earlier) 02.25-05.01 h: 6110 kHz (50 kW) (online stream with programme preview until 05.05 h, so this needs to be locally compared with the actual short wave transmission too) 05.01-06.00 h: 6110 kHz (50 kW) Sundays only 06.00-11.15 h: 6110 kHz (50 kW) 11.20-17.43 h: 4950 kHz (50 kW) The English newscasts are fed from All India Radio Delhi: 02.45-03.00 h: 6110 kHz Morning News 06.30-06.35 h: 6110 kHz News 07.30-07.35 h: 6110 kHz News 08.30-08.45 h: 6110 kHz Midday News 12.30-12.35 h: 4950 kHz News 15.30-15.45 h: 4950 kHz News at Nine 17.30-17.35 h: 4950 kHz News The content is the same as in the newscasts in Hindi and other languages prepared by the centre. Apart from the news, Radio Kashmir Srinagar has several weekly programmes in English. 07.35-08.20: Sunday request show with moderated English-language hit music 10.00-10.30: non-daily, moderated music programmes with English-language hit music The Sunday request show (sundayrequestshow@gmail.com) is very lively and gives the impression of a live broadcast. This was not the case with the other music program at least once, because an identical programme was broadcast on 16 and 18 October. Both broadcasts also convey ideas of the kind "problems are there to be overcome.". In addition, English words and phrases appear in many programme. Sometimes there are so many that one could get the content of the programme together in a reception report. Three examples from different time slots. 7 October conversation: “husband”, “violence”, “physical” / “mental harassment”, “imprisonment for life”. Obviously, the programme was about violence against women. Involuntarily, one wonders whether domestic violence is so foreign to the local culture that it requires a description by English loan words. 13 October conversation (young female and adult male and female voices): “support”, “consensus”, “duties”. Apparently, the value of the family was held up despite typical parent-child conflicts. The keyword “domestic violence” in frequent public service announcements for a counselling hotline against domestic violence was not used here. 18 October conversation between two women: “persona”, “personality”, influence of parents, grandparents etc. (English and local vocabulary used), “learn to accept who your are”, “self concept”. You may put it together yourself. So, even if you do not get the chance of hearing an English news programme, you might nonetheless be able to gather the content of another programme (Dr Hansjoerg Biener, 22 October 2018, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also INDIA ** KOREA NORTH. Re: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 10-20 --- Beware of the subliminal sub-carriers on the 657 Organ music -- You will be saluting the great one as your brain is rinsed of all reason --- and depending on how you vote come mid-terms will determine the amount of "conversion" that has taken place (R. Colin Newell, BC, IRCA via DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH. Echo of Hope observed signing-off at 0100 UT (instead of 2400 as listed in EiBi & AOKI) on 3985, 4885 and 5995 kHz today 19 October (Alan Roe (on holiday in S. Korea), WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) It was updated in Aoki in July: http://radio.chobi.net/DX/bbs/?res:740#3376 73, (Mauno Ritola, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) Thanks, Mauno. Whilst travelling I'm using the Skywav s Schedules app (for Android) for convenience which uses the Aoki data. It is now apparent that when updating the scheduled database via the app, it is not pulling down the latest AOKI data. 73 (Alan., ibid.) If you want the most accurate data (but still far from perfect), DO NOT rely on SW schedule aggregators, but go directly to the current websites of Aoki/NDXC, updated almost every day with some notable gaps such as Cuba yet retaining long-gone LA stations; EiBi, frequently updated; and HFCC, almost daily but the latter replete with wooden imaginary info (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 11629.762, Oct 16 at 1450, Arabic, Qur`an from R. Kuwait, typical off-frequenciness (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15110, R. Kuwait, Sulaibiyah, Árabe, 17/10 1315. Comentário por OM/YL. Música orquestrada. 34543. Tx com 310º Az, para a Europa. Leve QRM da Voice of America, via Udon Thani, tx em chinês (Rudolf Grimm, São Bernardo SP, BRASIL, http://dxways-br.blogspot.com radioescutas yg via DXLD) Not DRM? Supposed to be and I have heard the same collision when Kuwait was in DRM. But RG does not mention any DRM (gh, DXLD) ** KYRGYZSTAN. 4010.091, Kyrgyz Radio Birinchi, Bishkek, S=9+25dB at 0026 UT. Some log in 0015 til 0045 UT time slot, taken in Delhi India and Moscow Russia remote SDR's, Oct 19 [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LAOS. Laos National Radio (LNR), English 1432 UT, 6130 kHz (50kW, Vientiane). Not very clear audio & not so strong signal, co-channel QRM & side band splatter was there with fading. Heard the station ID in English around 1432 & followed by frequency announcements, & news, etc.. Heard the closing announcements, etc. around 1500. The audio was difficult to copy most of the time due to fading & quality of the signal. Here is the link to audio recorded around 1432: https://app.box.com/s/93zfnxtrsejowfegf1kt5hjuxfkeigwr One can check my posts on radio on my blog http://www.gkcalling.blogspot.com 73s (Gautam Kumar Sharma (GK), Abhayapuri(Assam), (India), RX Used: Grundig Yacht Boy 400 (unless mentioned otherwise) ANT: Cu wire 78' length, 30' height with co-ax lead-in Geographical Location of Reception Place (Abhayapuri): Longitude: 26º18´20´´North (approx) Latitude: 90º37´50´´East (approx) Date: October 14, 2018, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LATVIA [and non]. 1602: A new station will soon start from Riga. It is Radio Center, Moscow that has received a licence for 10 kW. They will have the studio in Moscow and the transmissions will be 24/7 in Russian. Tests have already been made in cooperation with Radio Merkurs and the power of 2 kW on 1485 kHz. The test signals have been wellheard in Moscow during the dark time, Regular broadcasting from Riga is planned later this year, on Christmas may be. Test was monitored on October 18th between 1900-1950 UT on 1485 kHz when Radio Merkurs stopped its normal program and relayed KXET Portland OR 1130 kHz Slavic Family Radio. Next test on 1485 kHz on October 24th will be from Radio Tsentr feed in Moscow. Same time as on October 18th. BE checked the reception at different remote receivers and best reception was from Ivalo and Umeå. Reception in Moscow-Nakhabino was weak, but no interference. The other receivers available in the Moscow area had lot of local interference. The transmitter of higher power and tuned antenna system for 1602 kHz will increase the signal. Reception reports to: rcrc@radiocenter.net (Andrey Nekrasov, Mauno Ritola and Bengt Ericson 17.10.2018, ARC mv-eko Oct 22 via DXLD) So is this for all those Russians in Riga? If so, why does reception quality in Moscow matter? Or is it rather to get a MW signal back to Moscow, where this non-government station has no frequency among the handful left in Russia? How about FM? Has it been banned? I am not about to eyeball-search for a R Tsentr entry in the 11-page FM Frequency list for Russia in WRTH 2018 (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** LIBERIA. LIBÉRIA, 6050. Out 6, 2018. 0758-0810, ELWA Radio, Monrovia, em Inglês. Uma música cristã por coral de vozes; Locução feminina e outra música; 0805 Locução masculina. Recepção muito pobre nesta manhã, 25422 (José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX) - PR7036SWL, Cabedelo-Paraiba, Brasil. Degen DE1103 & Sony ICF-SW100, Oct 15, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** MADAGASCAR. 11790, Radio Feda at 2240 middle eastern music, man and woman (Arabic), closing out a little before the top of the hour, I've taken to listening often, as, tho I am not an Arabic speaker, I like the music here. Copied on 909X, 9' vertical - Very Good Oct 16 (Rich Barton, Arizona SW Logs, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) MWV B-18 English per HFCC: 02-03 & 03-04 15510 at 40 degrees = KNLS program to India, China 04-05 11825, 295 degrees, African Pathways 18-19 13670, 310 degrees, African Pathways 20-21 11965, 295 degrees, African Pathways So deep North Americans may no longer hear the last one or two broadcasts easily in our afternoons on 17640; but aimed USward maybe still some reception on the lower bands (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DX LSTENING DIGEST) ** MADAGASCAR. 17660, RFI at 1222 in French with a man with talk then a music bridge at 1223 and an interview between a man and an African-accented woman from Senegal – Good Oct 19 – The heading for this one is close to due east at 80° vs. 55° for // 15300 (Issoudun, France). I wonder if being at close to right angles to any polar auroral zone accounts for less signal attenuation or is it a combination of that and the fact that the signal from Madagascar is coming straight back at me? (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) ** MEXICO. Aire Libre 105.3 FM llega a la ciudad de México -- 19/10/2018 Tras haber alcanzado los retos creativos, técnicos y económicos que aseguran su próximo lanzamiento como la nueva radio de la Ciudad de México, Aire Libre 105.3 es una realidad y se integra en la banda de Frecuencia Modulada. Resultado de imagen para Ciudad de México, Aire Libre 105.3 [caption] En un comunicado, la radiodifusora explicó que esto fue posible gracias a la estrategia conceptual y de innovación desarrollada por José Luis Fernández Prieto, creador de Imagen, Radioactivo y Pulsar, tres de los conceptos de radio más exitosos, y Rodrigo González Calvillo, cofundador y consejero de CIE. Comentó que pretende transformar la radio con un nuevo lenguaje abierto e incluyente en el que los creadores, artistas, periodistas y comunicadores participarán en una plataforma de vanguardia para alzar la voz, en el marco de un contexto social que exige cambios y discusión pública. “Aire Libre revitalizará tanto la identidad de quienes habitan la Ciudad de México, como el diálogo con las mejores expresiones culturales y artísticas del mundo”, afirmó. Para ello, dijo, la nueva estación radiofónica suma la valiosa colaboración de dos creativos de experiencia probada en la radio y el entretenimiento, como José Álvarez y Martín Delgado, quienes en estos años han desarrollado diferentes proyectos con visión de futuro. “Aire Libre dará a conocer próximamente los detalles de su planteamiento conceptual. Mientras tanto, nos mantenemos en periodo de pruebas en la 105.3 FM y airelibre.fm”, señaló. Ver más en: https://www.20minutos.com.mx/noticia/432915/0/aire-libre-1053-fm-llega-a-la-radio-capitalina/#xtor=AD-1&xts=513356 (via GRA blog via DXLD) ** MEXICO. Inaugura gobernador de Zacatecas tres estaciones de radio 08/10/2018 https://gruporadioescuchaargentino.wordpress.com/2018/10/08/inaugura-gobernador-de-zacatecas-tres-estaciones-de-radio/ Al inaugurar tres estaciones de radio concesionadas a JFJ Comunicaciones y cuyas frecuencias estarán principalmente dirigidas al público de Juan Aldama, Sombrerete y Río Grande, el Gobernador Alejandro Tello reiteró su compromiso absoluto con la libertad de expresión, por lo que celebró el nacimiento de nuevas voces en el espectro radiofónico local. Resultado de imagen para mapa de zacatecas [caption] El titular del Ejecutivo acompañó a Filemón García Ayala, presidente de JFJ, y su plantilla laboral, a la puesta en marcha de las estaciones: La Bonita del Norte de Sombrerete en el 90.7 de Frecuencia Modulada (FM); La Bonita del Norte de Río Grande en el 92.7 de Frecuencia Modulada (FM); y La Bonita del Norte de Juan Aldama, en el 720 de Amplitud Modulada (AM), las cuales tendrán cobertura hasta Durango. Filemón García, presidente del Consejo de Administración de la empresa de radiodifusión, agradeció al Gobernador Tello por el respaldo en el inicio de una iniciativa que busca cubrir musical, informativa y culturalmente el noroeste de Zacatecas. Explicó que JFJ es una empresa modular que desde la capital producirá programación musical y esparcimiento comprometido con una sociedad mejor. Además, se está en proceso de contratación de empresas informativas serias para ofrecer a las zacatecanas y los zacatecanos noticias confiables y consistentes. Para su puesta en marcha, la empresa JFJ ganó una licitación de la radiofrecuencia ante el Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT) y se impulsó con inversión privada. Al mes de septiembre, el IFT tiene registradas 48 concesiones de telecomunicaciones en Zacatecas https://www.elsoldezacatecas.com.mx/finanzas/inauguran-tres-estaciones-de-radio-en-zacatecas-2026226.html (via GRA blog via DXLD) ** MEXICO. EXA FM estrenó nueva frecuencia de transmisión 24/09/2018 https://gruporadioescuchaargentino.wordpress.com/2018/09/24/exa-fm-estreno-nueva-frecuencia-de-transmision/ La cadena de radio EXA-FM cambió su frecuencia a 104.1, debido a que las leyes de telecomunicaciones se modificaron, informó Armando Bueno, representante de MVS Radio Ensenada. Resultado de imagen para radio EXA-FM [caption] Destacó en rueda de prensa que a la fecha los radioescuchas han aceptado el cambio y creció el porcentaje de personas que gustan escuchar la estación. “Lo que buscan las autoridades en todo el cuadrante de la frecuencia modulada, es dejar identificadas en los extremos las emisoras de carácter gubernamental. Esta situación no aplica en toda la república porque hay ciudades como Tijuana, Guadalajara y Ciudad de México, que se complica mucho el cambio por cuestiones técnicas y en materia legal, para no chocar con otras”, expresó. Puntualizó que Ensenada tiene frecuencia libre y pocas estaciones, por ello el cambio favoreció (via GRA blog via DXLD) ** MEXICO. LOS40 llega a Puebla en el 98.7 de FM --- 24/09/2018 https://gruporadioescuchaargentino.wordpress.com/2018/09/24/los40-llega-a-puebla-en-el-98-7-de-fm/ El 98.7 de frecuencia modulada (FM) en Puebla evoluciona y trae un concepto probado a nivel internacional en 13 países de Europa y Centroamérica, además de México, que se ha convertido en la cadena de radio juvenil más grande del mundo: LOS40. Resultado de imagen para los 40 principales en puebla [caption] En entrevista para Tribuna Noticias, la directora ejecutiva Tribuna Comunicación, Ana Patricia Montero Rosano, comentó que en esta nueva etapa el 98.7 FM contará con contenidos diversos, éxitos y novedades del pop, además de las mejores promociones y la organización de los eventos más concurridos a nivel nacional. Se mantendrá y fortalecerá la retroalimentación digital con las audiencias, dijo Ana Patricia Montero, lo que permitirá un mayor impacto, con una visión renovada del entretenimiento digital respaldado por el concepto radiovisual, con 12 tótems en diferentes centros comerciales con pantallas en las que la radio podrá verse. El crecimiento, en este aspecto, llegará a 40 tótems en centros comerciales y otros puntos estratégicos del estado, ofreciendo así la oportunidad a los anunciantes de compartir publicidad exterior, además de la que se presenta en la radio convencional, explicó la directora ejecutiva de Tribuna Comunicación. Además de los cinco locutores de 98.7 FM, Deborah Montesinos, Pau “Chinos”, Gil de la Rosa, Eddie Fernández y Ravelo, en la parrilla de LOS40 Puebla estarán incluidos los dos programas nacionales más exitosos de la cadena: “Ya Párate” y “La Corneta”. El primero cuenta con la participación de Facundo, Bazooka, Iñaki, El Niño con Barba y Alexita Garza, y se transmite de lunes a viernes, desde este lunes 17 de septiembre, de 9:00 a 11:00 horas, mientras que el segundo es conducido por Eduardo Videgaray y José Ramón San Cristóbal “El Estaca” y podrás escucharlo de lunes a viernes de 13:00 a 15:00 horas (via GRA blog via DXLD) ** MEXICO [and non]. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BEAT this week including DTV=TDT Telsusa's network dreams are taking a more concrete step on Thursday when XHTVL/XHTOE, XHDY, and XHGK all move to virtual channel 13. For XHTVL, this is the first channel change in history for what had been channel 9 for 38 years. XHGK had been channel 4 in the modern era, though it was on 10 when it was assigned to Comitán. XHTOE (ex-12) and XHDY (ex-5) had already moved in 2016, though don't tell XHDY's news that — it's still called Noticinco (Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ, Oct 14, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) Ahhh I remember XHTVL-9 that night in March 2013. Came in strong enough to overpower XERV-9 [Reynosa] (which wasn't easily done). Good times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgAoVJ5vWDw (mike p, South Louisiana, TVDXing since 7/27/09, ibid.) The time has come to say your goodbyes to another AM radio station. XEBL-AM 710 in Culiacán presented the IFT with its goodbye on August 21 to remain on FM only. http://rpc.ift.org.mx/rpc/pdfs/34516_180919173159_3865.pdf The surrender is noteworthy as XEBL was the first radio station to operate in the state (Raymie, Oct 17, ibid.) For the first time since 2015, Mexicans could turn on their radio and hear Carmen Aristegui in the morning. Her Grupo Radio Centro show launched today, with three stations carrying it to start: XERC-FM, XHVOZ and XHMF. More than 30 local stations have expressed interest in taking the show. https://twitter.com/jaguirreoficial/status/1052319023587885056 (Raymie, Oct 17, ibid.) I want to take a bit of a deep dive tonight into a regulatory aspect of concessions. The telecommunications reform of 2013 and the LFTR introduced a new type of concession, the concesión única. This is a unified concession for telecommunications services. It allows the holder to provide any telecommunications or broadcasting service that is technically feasible, anywhere in Mexico, with the equipment it has. In broadcasting, this impact is limited by the fact that a holder must have a separate frequency concession to actually broadcast, and the geographic nature of broadcasting itself. But in telecommunications, this was large. Previously, a company might have concessions to operate a public telecommunications network, or a certain type of service in a determined geographic area. Now, they don't have to get new concessions or authorizations to expand their services — allowing for increased competition in telecom. With the concesión única, these concession titles are eventually consolidated into the new concession. This example is TV Zac, a cable company that also won FM stations in IFT-4. http://rpc.ift.org.mx/rpc/pdfs/93708_180313005919_8921.pdf Its unified concession covers its broadcasting and telecommunications services. Now, spectrum or frequency concessions remain separate. These authorize the holder to use certain frequencies, such as for wireless communications, private radio communications systems, and all broadcast stations (Raymie, Oct 18, ibid.) The IFT tackled a bunch of broadcasting items on October 3. New Stations Only three new stations. One goes to Grupo Radioasta, A.C., at Ensenada, Baja California — it is a community station and, according to them, will transmit on 107.9 MHz. https://www.facebook.com/gruporadioasta.mx/posts/1121893957974338 Two women will also be entering Chiapas radio with social concessions. Arlene Jasmine Elsie Alvarado Cuellar will bring Mapastepec its second new station this year, while Pijijiapan will get a station owned by Keren Victoria Morales Ruíz. There are no search hits for the first person, and the second has a YouTube account liking mostly Christian music videos. I have gotten the hunch that most of these stations owned by actual people in Chiapas, or filed for by actual people, are gonna be religious. A six-station permit forest in an unidentified locality was not brought to a vote. Forests of six stations include Saltillo, already before the IFT once but uncleared, and León. Neither was the denial of a permit application. Multiprogramming After years and years in the capital without IFT authorization, Radio Fórmula finally has it for its two Mexico City stations. The four second-wave migrants also were cleared for HD subchannels. Multimedios also has approval for the subs on XHMTCH-TDT Juárez. Station Sales Two share changes in station concessionaires were approved. One, by Radio Transmisora del Pacífico (a Radio Fórmula subsidiary), is a snoozer. The other, for Súper Sonido en Frecuencia Modulada, confirms that XHJE was actually sold. Additionally, the IFT approved those last two repacks, of TV Azteca stations, and fined two Televisa-adjacent stations for failure to meet reporting requirements of the stations in the AEP. There were also a few pirates whacked down. One, 1600 kHz in Morelia, was operated by Abdiel López Rivera, who has appeared in the Mexico Beat before having previously applied for a Morelia radio station. Last edited by Raymie; 10-19-2018 at 01:21 AM. Reason: Radioasta is community (Raymie, originally Oct 18, ibid.) In a move that should attract some interest and raise some questions, it looks like Televisa's Nu9ve network is getting the 9.1s it couldn't get while on subchannels. On October 21, the Nu9ve subchannel in Campeche is slated to take channel 9.1. On the 25th, XHCUI's Nu9ve sub in Culiacán will do the same. Here's how Televisa stations advise viewers of VC changes. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20181019/ea3583d743c48ad602951c20f9edf985.jpg A similar advisory is used when stations repack. XHTPZ evidently did so yesterday: (Edit: all of Televisa Tampico repacked, XHD 15, XHTPZ 16, XHGO 17) [illustration:] http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?9113-OPMA-is-changing&p=46881#post46881 Stations at risk of a VC move are CORTV Oaxaca (if XHBO moves) XHUJED Durango XHSLS San Luis Potosí XHY Mérida XHCVP Coatzacoalcos** (likely moved to 13) Last edited by Raymie; 10-19-2018 at 04:48 PM (Raymie, Oct 19, ibid.) It looks like XHMTCH will carry the same subchannels as K26KJ-D, including one that's not operated by Multimedios. The resolution authorizing XHMTCH's subchannels includes mention that one is operated by Unidad Corporativa de Televisión, S.A. de C.V. A search of the name turns up all sorts of documents related to Canal 28, a social station, of which Unidad Corporativa de Televisión is the commercial arm. For instance, it takes in contracts for advertising with the local and state government. http://diario.mx/Estado/2018-04-24_7800f582/goza-canal-28-contratos-millonarios-gracias-a-panistas/ It also could soon get some land on Cerro Coronel in Chihuahua, though there have been some delays at the municipal level because of changes in administration and confused officials. http://elpuntero.com.mx/n/85053 XHABC-TDT is the lone television station in Chihuahua Capital not transmitting from a mountain. Canal 28 has been seen in Juárez since last year on the third subchannel of K26KJ-D. With this authorization, K26KJ-D and XHMTCH will be able to offer identical services (Raymie, Oct 19, ibid.) Two of this year's new community stations are approaching the air. Part of the tower is up https://www.facebook.com/radioscomunitariasdemexico/photos/a.1095490263822782/1982363191802147/?type=3&permPage=1 for XHSCBS-FM 98.9 Enlace Taranda in Tarandacuao, Guanajuato, while XHSCBP-FM 91.9 Cd. Altamirano, Guerrero, has its two-bay antenna on their tower. https://www.facebook.com/pedrozajaimes/videos/10217261425905248/ Indeed, Altamiradio looks very close to signing on (Raymie, Oct 21, ibid.) So I finally was able to get the document clearing the Hermosillo permit forest, and the mystery of Organiden deepens. Organiden, A.C. is listed as being associated with two commercial radio stations and one social one (XHGYM, duh). That's not Larsa. That's Radiovisa, which of course built XHGYM and which I would have guessed to build XHHER. So how did XHHER wind up a Larsa wolf? I have a bit of a theory. What are the most populous municipalities where Larsa doesn't operate in Sonora? They are San Luis Río Colorado (monopolized by OIR), Guaymas and Caborca. Who operates only in Guaymas and Caborca? Radiovisa. Additionally, Radiovisa and Larsa share Radiorama heritage. Larsa doesn't own any of its own stations. Radiovisa *does* own XHGYS-FM outright, but not XHIB-FM (the concessionaires are all from the Pérez family). They are still both represented by Radiorama nationally. I wonder if there's some sort of informal non-compete [tagline] Este programa es público, ajeno a cualquier partido político. Queda prohibido el uso para fines distintos a los establecidos en el programa (Raymie, Oct 22, ibid.) ** MONGOLIA. 4895, Mongolian Radio, 0835+, on Oct 17. Heard definite carrier (never any audio) thru last check of 1036, but gone by 1044. Hiroyuki Komatsubara reported much better details today, via his "Now On The Radio" website: ``-0828- 4895 UNID carrier, no modulation ??, (4830 No signal) 7260 MONGOLIA -0837- Thanks to kiwiSDR in Irkutsk/RUSSIA !! 4895. Maybe this is MONGOLIA station, but not // with 7260. Radio 1 relay ?? Language ?? -0845- That kiwiSRD has become not found... -0858- backed.. This is Mongolian language. Pips at -0900- : http://radio.chobi.net/bbs/img/8504.mp3 -0925- 4895 MONGOLIA, Youtube : https://youtu.be/HPtbU8ezhHI -1022- 164 kHz, 4895, MONGOLIA, They may be parallel.. -1043- 164 // 209 // 227 kHz MONGOLIA Radio 1 4895 No signal (MONGOLIA), off air (s/off ?) around -1044-`` Similar format on Oct 15, as I heard a carrier (unable to detect any audio) 0904+, on 4895; still on at 1044, but gone by 1058. So would seem 4895 has its own schedule, different from 7260 and probably a relay of Radio 1 and not // 7260, which is Radio 3. [non-log]. 4895, Mongolian Radio 1. Oct 18, checking from 0936+, but no carrier at all today. Needs more monitoring here (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) EMPTY channel 4895 kHz (MNG not) 0015 and 0028 UT on Oct 19. Some log in 0015 til 0045 UT time slot, taken in Delhi India and Moscow Russia remote SDR's, Oct 19 [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS. Happy Station memorabilia and recordings on Offshore Echo's [sic], Chris Edwards, Offshore Echo's mailing list, October 18: SMILES ACROSS THE MILES - HAPPY STATION As well as listening to the offshore radio stations, many radio enthusiasts explored the shortwave bands. One popular shortwave programme was Radio Netherlands` Happy Station, aired every Sunday. During the 1970's and early 80's, my late father kept up a correspondence with Happy Station, and its then presenter Tom Meyer, visiting the station on a couple of occasions. A selection of postcards and QSL cards represent what was probably a golden period of shortwave listening. The complete collection can be seen at http://www.offshoreechos.com There are 18 pages of QSL cards and other memorabilia as well as recordings of the 5.1.61 and 18.1.70 Happy Stations broadcasts and of the interval signal and sign on (via Mike Barraclough, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. Germany, Eastern: 5960, The Mighty KBC with Dave Mason Oldies including Guess Who, “Don’t Give Me No Hand Me Down World”, Three Dog Night, “Old Fashioned Love Song” etc. Lots of good stuff! Ads for T-shirts and mention of how to give contributions to KBC, etc. Into Uncle Eric’s Giant Juke Box with some rather more obscure (but still pretty good) oldies, as well as the usual allotments of silly (some off-colour) jokes. The best one this weekend? “I gave my wife a glue stick instead of her lipstick. She still isn’t talking to me.” The digital minute had an item about Ford dropping all sedans other than the Mustang after the 2019 model year, and a photo of a Fiesta: 4+554+4+ just a titch of selective fading. *0000-0135 14/Oct [Sunday], SDRplay +randomwire +FLDigi for the digital bits (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Port Hope MI2, WOR iog via DXLD) ** NEW ZEALAND. 7425, RNZI at 1044 with pop and folk vocals and a male DJ mentioning a female artist is Maori then more music and talk to frequency closing announcement at 1057 then brief IS and off at 1058 – Fair Oct 22 – Current sked of 7425 from 0559 to 1058 beamed to the Pacific and from 1059 to 1258 beamed to the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea changes frequencies as of next Sunday (Oct 28th) to 9765 from 0559 to 1058 and 9700 from 1059 to 1258. Both the A18 and B18 broadcast season schedules are posted to their website and will be there for the next week when the information for the A18 broadcast season will be taken down (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) Detailed A-18 and B-18 schedules: https://www.radionz.co.nz/international/listen Notably in the 13-17 approx. period, HFCC shows 7390 or alt. 5950, ex-5980 in A-18 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 9690, Voice of Nigeria at 1905 UT Oct 21 with English ID and news items by a very heavily accented announcer. Transmitter went off at 1912:15 until sporadic return at 1920:30. (Does not someone have an old copper kobo to put in the fuse box?). By 1925 became stable again. Drum interval signal at 1929 then into language? Good Signal improving steadily by 1950 but intermittent transmitter outs 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta, Rx: Perseus SDR, Ant: Wellbrook ALA100 loop, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA [non]. 11580, Oct 16 at 1449, strumming & singing at S9+10, 1458 music stops, bits of Qur`an bookending lively YL talk, cut to WRMI canned ID too late, not enough time to finish it before cutoff the air at precisely 1500:00*. So Radio Nigeria, Kaduna is still running on this transmission, despite World Music fill at this time on Oct 14, evidently defaulting due to LOS from Kaduna. Is it a satellite feed, or what? Existing, or set up especially to reach Okeechobee? Search shows it available here, untried, among the usual other aggregators: http://tunein.com/radio/FRCN-Kaduna-Hausa-Service-s214977 11580, Oct 17 at 1430, Hausa at S7-S9, so still going now. Aside from the transmission grid, nothing found about the Kaduna relay on the WRMI programming page nor WRMI on disgraced FB. No luck finding own website, but searching leads to: https://www.facebook.com/RadioNigeriaKaduna/ but stalled since 2014y. That in turn leads to http://www.radionigeriakaduna.net/ --- but this domain is now For Sale! Trying the pattern of Ibadan in WRTH I find this also leads nowhere: http://radionigeriakaduna.org.ng Per WRTH 2018 page 306: 11580 must be Channel 1 in Hausa only, since they have a separate Channel 2 in Hausa and several other minority languages including English on MW 1107 only, and not on SW unlike 1 which had been on 6090. Wikipedia stub claims English on 4770, which I hardly remember. Also there are two FM channels, one all-English, the other all-Hausa. Well, at least the Hausans have this, while VOA has been disgraced, as Dan Robinson refers us to: https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/how-governors-5000-gift-swept-away-15-voa-hausa-staff.html 11580, Friday Oct 19 at 1351, Qur`an with reverb, S9+10, i.e. Radio Nigeria, Kaduna, FRCN still relayed via WRMI; violating Separation of Mosque and State, as the federal government thus endorses Islam. Take that, Animists; take that, Christians! 11580, Oct 22 at 1356 check, Radio Nigeria, Kaduna is VG S9+20 thisaway with African music, so how is it in target? Note that WRMI`s other African beam on 21525 is almost 10 MHz higher. There has to be a huge propagational differential (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11580, USA, Radio Nigeria Kaduna (via WRMI) at 1137 in Hausa with a man with talk and brief male Middle Eastern vocals and a woman with talk at 1138 and more brief male Middle Eastern vocals and a man with talk at 1139 and a man with a “Radio Nigeria Kaduna” ID at 1140 and into African tribal rhythms – Very Good Oct 22 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) ** NIGERIA [non]. 11830, FRANCE, Dandal Kura Radio International at 1913 in Kanuri with a man with talk and another man with simple one or two word answers or comments then an African-accented man with talk at 1916 – Fair to Good Oct 19 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) See also CHAD [non] ** NORTH AMERICA [and non]. Easiest North American stations to hear from Europe? Hi guys, A quick question for the experienced DX-ers in the UK. What are the top 5 easiest North American stations to hear from say the UK or Ireland? Ones that are strongest or on a clear frequency. What frequencies would be a good place for a novice to start listening? Ones like CJYQ in Newfoundland on 930 kHz spring to mind but what about the others? (John, EI7GL, Ireland, Oct 16, MWCircle yg via DXLD) My personal 5 from my location in South Wales would be :- 590 CAN VOCM - Good signal most nights and throughout the night. 1010 CAN CFRB / USA WINS - Both can come in very strongly sometimes together. Only problem with this one is the Dutch station on 1008 1130 USA WBBR - Usually strong - Be careful there are lots of British voices on Bloomberg Radio 1520 USA WWKB - Probably my strongest US station/. Regular - sports/ 1540 CAN CHIN - Almost a daily visitor at good strength. Portuguese and other languages at times as well as English. All the best (Simon Beaven, ibid.) I can tell you the ones that I have been able to receive on the internal ferrite rod of my Degen DE1130 receiver. Although this is obviously not as satisfactory as an outside directional antenna or something like a Wellbrook loop, it shows that Trans-atlantic DX is possible with basic equipment. Within the last few weeks I have received New York City stations, WBBR 1130, WFAN 660, I have also received US station on 770, which I think was most likely WABC. Another recently received was VOCM on 590 from St Johns Newfoundland and a Toronto station on 1010. I forget its callsign, but it IDs as "1010 Newstalk" and overnight carries a US syndicated program called "Coast-to-Coast AM". It's also worth listening to X-band, 1610-1710 kHz as I have heard stations from Mississippi [1640] and Illinois [1690] there. About an hour before sunrise is a good time to listen, although some of the ones I've heard were around 0200-0300 our time. The path between us and America has to be in darkness. Regards, (Ian Brooks, ibid.) Not very different from my location at Lista in Southwest Norway. My Top 5: 590 VOCM 740 CHCM 750 CBGY 1130 WBBR 1390 WEGP Hard to pick only 5 stations though... :-) 73s (Arild Skalmeraas, Norway, ibid.) To some extent it depends where you are in the UK. For example here in East Yorkshire, 770 WABC is very rarely heard because of BBC Radio Leeds on 774. WFAN on 660 is quite rare here too. Equally in the X-band, the Mississippi station WTNI is fairly common on 1640, whilst the only Illinois X-bander WVON is very scarce indeed! Here, in order of most common down, is: 1520, WWKB Buffalo - often the last NA station audible here when all others have faded away - Sport 1130, WBBR New York - Business 1010, WINS NY / CFRB Toronto (depends on propagation which one you hear) (News) After these, there are a lot to choose from: 590 VOCM (Music) 710 WOR (News) 730 CKAC (French traffic) 930 CFBC (Music) 950 CKNB (Music) 970 WZAN (Sport) 1200 WXKS (Talk) 1330 WRCA (Business) 1390 WEGP (Religion) 1400 CBG (Variety) 1430 WENE (Sport) 1440 WRED (Sport; clear 9 kHz channel) 1470 WLAM (Music; not as often now as it once was) 1480 WSAR (Talk) 1500 WFED (US Government [sic]; not as often now as it once was) 1600 WUNR (Spanish music) Besides these, Transatlantic reception of stations from outside North America is very often possible, such as: 710 Radio Rebelde 760 Rádio Uirapuru 1180 Radio Rebelde 1190 Radio Cordillera 1350 Radio Buenos Aires (if your antenna is pointing that way and you have no local UK QRM) 1400 Harbour Light 1620 Radio Rebelde 1660 WGIT 73 (/Andrew Brade, ibid.) I should have mentioned that my location is 12 miles north of Bournemouth and the clear channels here may be different depending on which are used by your local stations. The Buffalo station on 1520, which Andrew mentioned, was the first US station I ever received back in the 1960s with a long-wire antenna. UK & European stations usually closed down at night then, which made life easier. 1510 is a clear frequency here and up to about 18 months ago WMEX from Boston was my most frequent performer. It lost its transmitter site due to high rental and has only recently returned to the air. I haven't heard it yet, so perhaps it's on lower power. Regards, (Ian Brooks, Verwood, Dorset, ibid.) Thanks to everyone who replied to the original question about the easiest North American stations to hear. I have collated a list of the responses below and it should be a good starting point for any beginners. 590 VOCM (Music) / Good signal most nights and throughout the night. 660 WFAN 710 WOR (News) 730 CKAC (French traffic) 740 CHCM 750 CBGY 930 CFBC (Music) 950 CKNB (Music) 970 WZAN (Sport) 1010 CAN CFRB / USA WINS - Both can come in very strongly sometimes together. (depends on propagation which one you hear). Only problem with this one is the Dutch station on 1008 1130 USA WBBR - Usually strong - Be careful there are lots of British voices on Bloomberg Radio 1200 WXKS (Talk) 1330 WRCA (Business) 1390 WEGP (Religion) 1400 CBG (Variety) 1430 WENE (Sport) 1440 WRED (Sport; clear 9 kHz channel) 1470 WLAM (Music; not as often now as it once was) 1480 WSAR (Talk) 1500 WFED (US Government; not as often now as it once was) 1510 WMEX 1520 USA WWKB - Probably my strongest US station/. Regular - sports/ 1540 CAN CHIN - Almost a daily visitor at good strength. Portuguese and other languages at times as well as English. 1560 WFEM 1600 WUNR (Spanish music) "About an hour before sunrise is a good time to listen, although some of the ones I've heard were around 0200-0300 our time. The path between us and America has to be in darkness." (John, ibid.) I too thank everyone for this, it will give me, as a returnee to the hobby after many years and movements around the world, a great starting point for tuning about on my new SDRplay. It will be interesting to see what i might hear down in the Alicante region of Spain. Regards (Mark Carlton, 73 de EA5/G0EBB, ibid.) ** NORTH AMERICA. UNID, 6940-USB, Oct 21 at 2314 rock music at S6-S7 vs local increased noise level with spikes to S9, stops by 2315. Many other extremely detailed logs here, until 2315* but no IDs! https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,47144.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS. The IBB SW relay stations in Saipan and Tinian were destroyed by Cat 5 Super Typhoon Yutu! Already discussed in the WOR iog, and next DXLD (gh) ** OKLAHOMA. 1230, Oct 17 at 2017 UT on caradio, I check out semi- local (in the daytime) WBBZ Ponca City, as there have been reports of name/format changes. ``Ponca City`s variety station, Sunny one-oh- four-point-seven [104.7]`` is the only ID here on AM 1230. So I check 104.7 and hear CCI between two stations, one of them country, NEITHER matching 1230 as I A/B. (Likeliest other is KVCY Fort Scott KS, 16/16 kW, 201 miles in SE Kansas). At home on the PL-880, I do get local PC ads on 104.7 at 2036 UT, and then at 2038 UT: ``The new one-oh-four-seven The Bull`` and country music. So we have the incredible situation of the real 104.7 (KQSN, not a translator) and another, fake 104.7 identifying as such on 1230! This was reported in NRC DX News Oct 1 in Wayne Heinen`a AM Log update: ``1230, WBBZ, Ponca City – Format to TLK/AC (ex-NWS/TLK/SPT); slogan to “Sunny 1230,” networks to C/Ok/Oa/P`` Here`s the website: http://www.poncapost.com/wbbz-schedule The homepage link labeled ``Sunny 1230`` goes to this!: https://www.poncapost.com/sunny-104-7 ``Sunny 104.7 is the region’s only Adult Contemporary radio station targeting 25-54 year old adults with a mix of Today’s Hits and Yesterday’s Favorites! Station Distinctives Locally Unique: A blend of artists like Pink, John Mayer, Rod Stewart, Katy Perry, Aerosmith, Adele, Elton John, and Carrie Underwood. Local Information: Sunny features local news updates from 7am – 6pm weekday, plus 24/7 Dan Holiday Weather from the Oklahoma Storm Watch Weather Center, and live coverage of Ponca City High School Sports. Local, award winning talent: Lyman James, most recently with Clear Channel/iHeart Media and a veteran of larger markets like Wichita (KFDI and KKRD), Kansas City (KQRC), Charlotte NC (WLYT) and Sacramento (KGBY), now makes his home here in the heartland and hits the airwaves live every weekday morning in Ponca City. Lyman has earned many industry awards both on-air and production work. Locally developed programming. Other local FM’s turn to LA and Denver for satellite fed music and air personalities for up to 21 hours per day. All Sunny 104.7 music programming originates here locally, designed specifically for the tastes of adults across North Central Oklaoma [sic]. Multiple local platforms: In addition to our broadcasts at 104.7, Sterling Broadcasting also operates Ponca City’s legendary 1230 WBBZ, and owns PoncaPost.com, a local community news and information portal with over 24,000 followers, plus several other digital assets to provide maximum impact for our advertisers.`` Yet also prominently displayed is a Listen Live link for 104.7 The Bull! but does not seem to have its own page or schedule. https://www.poncapost.com/wp-content/plugins/srr-listenlive/images/listen.png which leads to: https://streamdb9web.securenetsystems.net/v5/KQSN I suppose ``The Bull`` be a recent rebranding of 25/25 kW KQSN. But the old branding lives on via sibling station 1230 WBBZ, which otherwise has lost its own original identity, a legacy dating back to *1928. Wikipedia says: ``On September 12, 2018, WBBZ changed their format from classic hits to adult contemporary, branded as "Sunny 1230" (format moved from sister station KQSN 104.7 FM Ponca City, which switched to country).`` To add to the confusion, WBBZ (AM) is unrelated to WBBZ-TV in Williamsville NY, DTV RF channel 7, originally analog 67 (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. Had a nice log of KQQB-1520, Stockdale, TX (near San Antonio), 2.5 KW, daytimer only, maybe a little before their sunrise. They may have been cheating a little. What surprises me is that KOKC-1520, Oklahoma City, OK (50 KW) is never all that strong here. They beam west too. They should be killing me. I hear Spanish on that channel, in and out. I assume to be Mexican. Maybe that's the problem there (Bill, desertbilly, AZ, Oct 18, ABDX yg via DXLD) KOKC is and has been 10 kW non directional full time since the Moore tornado in summer 2015 destroyed the tower site. That`s 10 kW full time instead of being a 3 tower 50 kW night Signal (Paul Walker, PA, ibid.) Thanks, Paul. That little bit of info has solved a big mystery for me! I combed through the FCC records for this. I see an STA (actually multiple STAs on file) for the 10 KW change dating back to 2015. Looks like they re-file every six months. I wonder if they will ever rebuild? Maybe not. Just a pet peeve with the FCC and their record keeping - In KOKC's case, they have archived all of the STAs so they don't show up as "C" or current. So it disappears off of many site's radar, like radio-locator, etc., never showing what the current status is. Thanks again for the tip (Bill, SW Arizona, ibid.) Radio locator doesn’t show STAs; the site doesn’t pull in that data. Sometimes it shows in fccinfo.com but not always (Walker, ibid.) Last year the 1520 station outside Houston [KYND] was running almost the same message as Stockdale, with different phone numbers. I heard the Stockdale station at home and both stations from the Border Inn. 73 (Tim Hall, Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone, ibid.) ** OKLAHOMA. Bill Hepburn`s tropo maps for 1200 & 1500 UT Oct 20 show a level 5 = strong blob centered around Ft Smith AR, lesser rings out to marginal by Enid, but this fits exactly for the DTV DX I am getting starting at 1420 UT: First of all, it`s clear that RF 42, KBZC-LD ``Enid`` --- transmitter in OKC, hasn`t moved to channel 9 yet. Without tropo I cannot normally see it at all here in its Community of License (a farce). Seven disposable channels are provided, as incompletely IDed by bugs; the PSIP on all of them is the same: KBZC-LD. 1, football; 2, CBN ``News`` in LR; 3, Buzzr bug in LR; 4, kidvid, E/I circle in UR; 5, QVC in LR; 6, QVC2 in LL. 7, some other shopping grafix. Same thing again 24 hours later at 1437 Oct 21 --- except 42-1 is black and silent! Back on Oct 20, some Tulsa market channels are decoding, ho hum: 28, 20. Two OKC channels are BAD because of DX interference; RF 25 KWTV TEST from OKC is also running weekends, with DX QRM; see USA (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3260, NBC Madang (Maus Blong Garamut), 1130-1208*, Oct 21. Sunday preaching in Pidgin, with religious songs, except 1206 started religious show in English, with religious song in English, till suddenly off in mid-song (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. WANTOK RADIO LIGHT: Mail from the station: "Dear Manual [sic], the transmitter is off now due to a problem. It may be back on next month after repairs. God Bless, Billy Yasi" (via Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Oct 19, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. La Hora Japonesa en el Perú --- I am glad to inform you that I have just completed "La Hora Japonesa en el Peru", a 302 page book in Spanish on the history of radio programs for Japanese immigrants and their family in Peru. Japanese emigration to Peru began in 1899 and now their descendents amount to about 100,000. The most famous program was La Hora Radial Japonesa on Radio Inca del Peru. Other important stations include Radio Lima, Radio Agricultura, Radio La Voz de Oriente and Radio San Isidro. Shortwavers familiar to DXers such as Radio America, Radio Del Pacifico, Radio Victoria, Radio Cora, Radio Santa Rosa and Radio Libertad de Trujillo also carried the Japan Hour program. For more information and download, please visit: http://radiophj.web.fc2.com/peru.html (Tetsuya Hirahara, ARC mv-eko Oct 22 via DXLD) ** PHILIPPINES. 12120, Radyo Pilipinas at 1745 UT Oct 21 in Filipino with usual news items and pop music. Fair with CODAR and RTTY mix. 15190, Radyo Pilipinas at 1818 UT Oct 21 in Filipino with Showbiz news program and pop music. Full English and Filipino IDs at 1844. Very Good but started to fade at 1855. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta, Rx: Perseus SDR, Ant: Wellbrook ALA100 loop, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) FILIPINAS. 15190. Out 21, 2018. 1750-1830, Radyo Pilipinas, Tinang (17205 km), em Tagalog. Músicas românticas; 1757 Locução feminina e notícias; 1759 Uma canção filipina; 1807 Locução masculina: ID; Noticias esportivas em voz feminina; 1828 Mais música. Emissora chegando muito forte, nesta tarde, por aqui, 55555. Nota: Ela bloqueia, totalmente, a emissão da Radio Inconfidência, neste horário! (José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX) - PR7036SWL, Cabedelo-PB, Brasil, Receptor (es): Degen DE1103 & Tecsun S-2000, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES [and non]. Myanmar priest bids adieu to Manila radio service --- Father Paulinus Myat Kyaing maintains program on interfaith dialogue but says dioceses should adapt to faster online environment --- Mark Saludes, Manila, Philippines, October 13, 2018 https://international.la-croix.com/news/myanmar-priest-bids-adieu-to-manila-radio-service/8621 Father Paulinus Myat Kyaing of Myanmar serves as the coordinator of Radio Veritas Asia's local language service in his home country. (Photo by Mark Saludes/ucanews.com) Father Paulinus Myat Kyaing signed off from his daily radio show on the church-run Radio Veritas Asia network in Manila for the last time on June 30. He was about to head home to Myanmar with mixed feelings after working in the Philippines for more than five years. "An era has ended," he said, "but a wider world of opportunities to transmit the Good News and serve the church has opened and challenged us to do better." Father Paulinus visited the Philippines for the first time in June 2013 and was appointed coordinator of the radio network's Myanmar-language service. He was a seminary dean for two years before his superiors instructed him to go to Manila. The priest said he was afraid when he started working for the radio. "I feared I might not be able to do the job well," he said. When he was ordained as a priest in May 2010, he did not expect to be given "a painstaking, eight-hour, office-based job." He also never considered that he would be sent outside his home country. "I wanted to stay on the periphery of Myanmar and perform pastoral work," said the priest. For a year after his ordination, Father Paulinus was assigned to serve as an assistant parish priest at St. Michael's Church in the Archdiocese of Yangon. In 2011, he was sent to a minor seminary "to take care of young people who want to take the path of an ordained man." His mission in the Philippines did not come easy, but he said it prepared him to face the bigger tasks that await him as a priest. During his early days in Manila, Father Paulinus had to adapt to a new environment and a totally different culture. He spent most of his time understanding the nature of broadcast media. He also had to master the other local languages of Myanmar, aside from learning English. The priest's tasks included translating church news from various sources into Myanmar's local languages before transmitting it via shortwave radio. "Every day I learned new stuff," he said. "But the most important thing that this job taught me is the value of collaboration and dialogue." His work required him to interact with people of various nationalities and with organizations both within and outside the church. This "spirit of collaboration" was very much alive during the visit of Pope Francis to Myanmar last November. Father Paulinus was assigned to lead a team to cover the pope's visit for the Radio Veritas Asia network. "We were at the center of the coverage for the whole company. All the other language services used our materials to broadcast to their own countries," the priest recalled. He said his team was able to deliver such stories because of the collaboration with other services. The priest said the work is not limited to the studio or editing room. "It involves everything and everyone, especially our listeners," he said. In his five years of working at the network, Father Paulinus said he saw the significance of giving listeners room to express their thoughts. He has since received thousands of letters from listeners in Myanmar. Most of their stories were about the people's struggle and faith. There were also letters of thanks from those whose lives have been changed as a result of the programs. "I think people in the media should always consider not only being broadcast or heard but also listening to your listeners," said Father Paulinus. He worked with Radio Veritas Asia when the church media network was about to enter a new venture and join the world of new technology. In October 2015, the network decided to migrate from short-wave broadcasting to online broadcasting as part of its self-reinventing as it adjusted to technological advances. The new medium presented a challenge to Father Paulinus and his colleagues but the changes were real, he said. "We studied the nature of the new medium. We have to adapt to a more fast-paced environment online," he said. The priest said the new media platform enabled him "to reach a wider audience, serve a larger flock and connect to global Asians." In August, Father Paulinus finally went home to continue his work as a local coordinator for Radio Veritas Asia's Myanmar-language service. He continues to produce a weekly program on interfaith dialogue and justice and peace, which he records in Myanmar and sends to the Radio Veritas Asia headquarters in Manila, not through the radio but online (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** ROMANIA [and non]. I don't know what happened tonight Oct 15 to the RRI Galbeni English transmission outlet from Romania on 9760 kHz at 310degr requested. Checked in NJ, NY-USA states, on remote SDR units in Belgium and Italy... Signal was much weaker (!), than S=9+30dB powerhouses of Voice of Greece Avlis 9420.004 kHz, and 9830.021 kHz out of TRT Emirler Turkey at 2200 to 2220 UT. Even the Ascension relays of BBC 12095, 9410 kHz, 9530 kHz Akhbar Mufrika, BSKSA Riyadh diverse on 11820.045, 11914.990, 9555even, and 9870.010 kHz, and some CRI Kashgar outlets from western China in Portuguese, Spanish, as well as Kashgar jamming against TWN on 9900 kHz also, were much, much louder in power. ps. recently during summer 2018 they repaired some gear in Tsiganeshti and Galbeni shortwave sites. 9760even, RRI Galbeni in English, poor S=6 signal, compared to S=9+30dB powerhouses of Voice of Greece Avlis 9420.004 kHz, or 9830.021 kHz out of TRT Emirler Turkey at 2200 to 2220 UT. Log 31, 25, 22, and 19 mb 2100-2230 UT, Oct 15 [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11950, Oct 16 at 1444, YL with chorus music like S Asian rap has me going at S8-S4 until 1447 announcement in Romanian and RRI ID. Tipoff is the frequent word pronounced ``she`` which means ``and``, and a sprinkling of familiar Romance-language words similar to Italian or Spanish. Also similar signal on 11910 in German, as both are scheduled (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6170, RRI at 2044 // 11850 and 13650 with “Radio Romania International Encyclopedia” with a woman reporting on the history of road widening and increasing municipal services in Bucharest which dates from the late 19th century – Good Oct 21 – 11850 and 13650 are beamed to Eastern North America while 6170 is beamed to Western Europe. As noted before with Spain's REE, if RRI is on the air, there is a good chance I will hear them. I've even heard their 2200 transmission to Japan in // with the frequencies for Western Europe. There must be a pipeline of sorts between Bucharest and my QTH as there is with Madrid (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) [and non]. 13740, Oct 21 at 1344, YL in Russian is QRMing unusually weak RHC with Arnie talking about threats to WWV and WWVH (tripping over all those ``uves``). It`s RRI as scheduled this hour, 300 kW, 52 degrees via Tsiganeshti. Commies vs ex-Commies! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. RRI B-18 ENGLISH, all one UT hour later: Europe W 0630-0700 7345, 9770-DRM 1200-1300 11825, 15460 1800-1900 5935, 7350-DRM 2130-2200 7375, 6030-DRM 2300-2400 5980, 7220 Africa SE 1200-1300 17800, 21490 N America E 2130-2200 6170, 7310 0100-0200 6130, 7325 N America W 0400-0500 6020, 7410 Japan 2300-2400 7325, 9620 India + Australia 0630-0700 15450, 17780 India 0400-0500 11790, 9820-DRM (via Richard Lemke, Alberta, WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [non]. Radio Tsentr: see LATVIA ** RWANDA. Tribunal de Ruanda mantiene suspensión de emisora por ofensas --- 15/10/2018 https://gruporadioescuchaargentino.wordpress.com/2018/10/15/tribunal-de-ruanda-mantiene-suspension-de-emisora-por-ofensas/ Un tribunal de Ruanda anunció el pasado 12/10 que mantendrá la suspensión por tres años contra la radioemisora Amazing Grace FM por considerar que esta difundió ”declaraciones odiosas contra las mujeres”. Resultado de imagen para Amazing Grace FM [caption] La instancia judicial intermedia de Nyarugenge rechazó dos recursos de la estación contra dos instituciones reguladoras del sector que propusieron el cierre de sus transmisiones, la Comisión de Prensa (CPR) y la Rwanda Utility Regulatory Authority. Los jueces del Tribunal estimaron que los recursos contra ambos órganos estatales carecían de fundamento, debido a la ausencia de pruebas procedentes de terceras partes. El propietario de Amazing Grace, el pastor Gregory Ryan Schoff, demandó a la RMC por suspender ésta en mayo a la radioemisora, basada en que transmitió el 29 de enero una predicación del pastor Nicholas Niyibikora que describía a las féminas de ‘peligrosas criaturas del diablo, que van contra los planes del Señor’. Schoff, un evangelista estadounidense, aseguró desconocer el pasado del orador religioso y expresó su oposición contraria a que se denigre a las mujeres (Prensa Latina [Cuba] via GRA blog via DXLD) ** SAAR. GERMANY, 1422 / 1179 kHz DLF / SR Heusweiler transmitter for sale. 2 x 200 kW zu 400 kW koppelbar. see PDF description: Heusweiler Moin, die VEBEG versteigert die Mittelwellensendeanlage Heusweiler. Das Teil ist fast neu: Baujahr 2007/08 (!). Der erfolgreiche Bieter muss allerdings beruecksichtigen: "Abbau, Abtransport und Saeuberung des Standplatzes sind vom Kaeufer in Abstimmung mit der Abgabe-Dienststelle vorzunehmen." Aber im Ernst, der Ausschreibung beigefuegt ist eine umfangreiche PDF-Datei mit technischen Angaben und vielen Abbildungen, die dem Mittelwellenfreund sicher eine Freude machen. Reinschauen lohnt sich :-) (Stephan Wick-D, A-DX ng Oct 18 via BC-DX Oct 20 via DXLD) SR - Heusweiler - MW-Sendersprengung bringt Zuschauerrekord. Aus dem "SR Newsletter": Sendersprengung bringt Zuschauerrekord fuer den "aktuellen bericht" Das Ende der Sendemasten des alten Mittelwellensenders in Heusweiler hat dem "aktuellen bericht" am 21. September eine Allzeit-Rekord- Einschaltquote beschert: Im Schnitt sahen rund 150.000 Zuschauerinnen und Zuschauer die komplette Sendung, in der der Abschied von den geschichtstraechtigen Sendemasten durch eine spektakulaere Sprengung im Mittelpunkt stand. Dies entspricht einem durchschnittlichen Marktanteil von 40 Prozent, was den hoechsten je gemessenen Wert fuer den "aktuellen bericht" im SR Fernsehen bedeutet. Im Moment der Sprengung um 19.30 Uhr lag der Wert sogar bei 50,5 Prozent, das heisst: jedes zweite laufende Fernsehgeraet im Saarland war auf den "aktuellen bericht" im SR Fernsehen geschaltet. Auch ueber Facebook war die Nachfrage gross. Das Video der Sprengung wurde seit Freitag rund 33.000 Mal aufgerufen. Mehr: (SR via Bernhard Weiskopf-D, A-DX ng Oct 2 via BC-DX Oct 20 via DXLD) Der SR Beitrag aus Heusweiler ist abrufbar bei Viele Hoererklubmitglieder konnten ja die Sendeanlage waehrend eines SWLCS DX Camps besichtigen (Bernd Seiser-D, HKO Oct 19 via BC-DX Oct 20 via DXLD) HKO?? == HoererKlub Ottenau; siehe TAIWAN ** SAMOA AMERICAN. Re: KVZK American Samoa: So, what's the deal?? A thread from July 2017, probably reproduced in DXLD, has a new addition: http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?11450-KVZK-American-Samoa-So-what-s-the-deal&p=46871#post46871 Bump! This screenshot I took this morning from KVZK-2's [ahem!] Livestream. Locally it should be around 9pm, so why a test pattern at that time, who knows? Anyway, this cements above the claim of RF channel 5 DTV for KVZK-2, FWIW. cd Attached Thumbnails Click image for larger version. Name: A0510D4C-34ED-4B62-BD55-CF2176601A0B.jpg Views: 19 Size: 36.3 KB ID: 21761 (Chris Dunne, Pembroke Pines FL, Oct 15, 2018 via DXLD) Superimposed on the color bars and gray scale it says: KVZK Pago Pago American Samoa 76.31 Mhz [sic] ATSC Multiplex (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAO TOME. 1530 VOA Sao Tome monster-loud --- 1530 VOA Sao Tome sign-off 6 p.m. EDT / 2200 UTC, 18 OCT: well over WVBF MA. https://app.box.com/s/6vomrdtyaidnqfcogudf6sm0qm3ikw1s (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, South Yarmouth, MA, USA, nrc-am gg via DXLD) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 11820.045, BSKSA [sic], Riyadh, HQ prayer in progress, S=8 at 2134 UT and accompanied symmetrical spur signals on 11816.220 and 11828.874 kHz peaks visible. Log 31, 25, 22, and 19 mb 2100-2230 UT, Oct 15 [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I was also hearing the 11816+ one around same time Oct 24, but could not pin it down, unlogged. Seemed like SSB which would not resolve (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CUBA 11915 ** SOMALILAND. 7120, Radio Hargeysa not on air anymore, at present Oct 21 0425 UT. Log Oct 21 at 0420 to 0530 UT, on remote units in Doha Qatar, Belgium, Hungary and NY and MI US states. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 21, WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Nominal sked in WRTH 2018 was: 0330-05, 09-14, 15-19; was easily heard in NAm around *0330, and sometimes by long-path to W & C NAm in the 13-14 UT period when there is some English (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH AFRICA. CHANNEL AFRICA B-18 English, Mon-Fri only: 03-04 6155 03-05 3345 05-12 7230 06-07 11925 15-16 7260 17-18 15235 i.e. not much change (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 5850, WRMI with Brother Stair rebroadcasting someone who sounded a bit like he was channeling Art Bell talking with a conspiracy dude* about “Planet x” that is bearing down on us for a collision sometime early next year, and going on about the government buying ammunition and dry foods to prepare for it. BS interrupted it twice to say he’s still on despite the storms and God is keeping him safe from these storms. At 0238 into BS talking about the last times, etc. WRMI ID at ToH. (*The dude was someone by the name of Mark Hazelwood who apparently wrote a book about the 2003 ‘close pass’ of Planet X that was supposed to herald the end of the world by causing the globe to stop spinning, etc. Clearly I missed something because I don’t know how any of this applies to today, 15 years later after all that stuff didn’t happen...) 4+4+4+4+4 with just a titch of local QRM at the bottom of fades, 0255-0345 15/Oct SDRplay +randomwire (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Williamston MI, WOR iog via DXLD) See also BULGARIA 13845, WWCR Nashville TN (presumed); 1617, 10/17; Bro. HyStairical on a roll interrupted himself, “We are living in the time when it may happen.” (“it”?) SIO=3+54. Has WWCR replaced Robustly Bountiful Rev. Barbie with B.S.? Has University Network run out of cash? (I have a suggestion for R.B. for her presentations at the church & her late night TV show. The cash would roll in!) (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, Drake R8B + 185’ RW, MARE Tipsheet Oct 19 via DXLD) In case one care, WWCR program sked dated Oct 1, now has Overcomer: 13845 at 14-19 M-F 3215 at 03-0430 Tu-Sa (or -0500? blank field) While University Network remains: 5935 at 00-12 daily 13845 at 19-24 M-F, 12-24 Sat, 13-14 and 17-24 Sun All should shift one UT hour later November 4, and there could be additional changes (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WHAT IS SCARE`S LEGAL SITUATION? Are charges still pending against him? Awaiting sentencing? Or is it all over if he keep his hands off teens` breasts, etc. (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. Radio Exterior de España amplia su horario de transmisiones a partir del 28 de octubre Según la página web de Radio Exterior de España, a partir del 28 de octubre, además de cambiar las frecuencias para el horario de invierno, ampliará su programación, pasando a emitir de lunes a viernes desde la 1600 a la 0100 UT, y los sabados y domingos lo hará desde las 1500 a las 2300 UT. http://www.rtve.es/radio/20181019/radio-exterior-espana-amplia-emisiones-onda-corta/1821780.shtml "Radio Exterior de España, el canal internacional de RNE, emitirá ocho horas diarias de lunes a domingo en Onda Corta a partir del próximo 28 de octubre. Supone un incremento de cuatro horas en la transmisión que se realizaba anteriormente de lunes a viernes. Con este aumento, Radio Exterior de España inicia una nueva etapa que refuerza su programación con nuevos espacios de producción propia que van a potenciar la tarea de servicio público y fomentar y divulgar la cultura y el idioma español, en definitiva, contribuye a colocar España en el horizonte global de la época en la que vivimos. “En clave turismo”, “A golpe de bit”, “Sin género de duda”, “Dicho con música” y “Tiempo flamenco” se incorporan a una programación consolidada con espacios como “Españoles en la mar”, “Marca España”, “Punto de enlace”, “Mundo solidario”, "Artesfera", "Europa abierta", "América hoy", "África hoy" o "Asia hoy". Programas a los que se suma el emblemático “Un idioma sin fronteras” que, una vez recuperado para la programación, continuará con su misión de llevar el español a cualquier rincón del mundo. Desde el punto de vista técnico, Radio Exterior de España emitirá su programación de lunes a viernes, para África Occidental y Atlántico sur, Oriente Medio, Índico y Gran Sol, desde las 16 horas hasta las 24 horas UTC (Tiempo Universal Coordinado), es decir, de 17 a 01 hora oficial española. Las frecuencias de emisión: - África Occidental y Atlántico sur, 11685 Khz., banda de 25 metros. - Oriente Medio, Índico y Gran Sol, 12030 Khz, banda de 25 metros. Hacia América del norte y sur, Radio Exterior de España transmitirá en onda corta, de lunes a viernes, de 19 a 03 horas UTC, es decir, de 20 a 04 hora oficial española. Las frecuencias de emisión: - América del sur, 11940 Khz, banda de 25 metros. - América del norte y Groenlandia, 9690 Khz, banda de 31 metros. Los sábados y domingos, el Canal Internacional de RNE transmitirá su señal de 15 a 23 horas UTC, es decir, de 16 a 24 hora oficial española. Las frecuencias de emisión y las zonas de cobertura son las siguientes: - África Occidental y Atlántico sur, 11685 Khz, banda de 25 metros. - América del sur, 11.940 Khz, banda de 11940 metros. - América del norte y Groenlandia, 9690 Khz, banda de 31metros. - Oriente Medio, Índico y Gran Sol, 12030 Khz, banda de 25 metros. Además de las ocho horas diarias de transmisión por onda corta, Radio Exterior de España emite su programación ininterrumpida de 24 horas a través de internet, TDT, aplicaciones móviles y satélite: - Ses Astras 1M: frecuencia 11626.5 MHz. Polarización vertical. - Hispasat 1E: frecuencia 12052 Mhz. Polarización vertical. - Asiasat 5: frecuencia 3700 Mhz. Polarización vertical. - Eutelsat 5 West A: frecuencia 3727 Mhz. Polarización circular derecha. - Intelsat Galaxy-23: frecuencia 4191.35 Mhz. Polarización vertical. Los cambios de programación y frecuencias son efectivos desde el 28 de octubre de 2018 hasta el 31 de marzo de 2019." (via Manuel Mendez, Oct 19, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DXLD) Hola, reporto que la informacion brindada aqui para bajar del satelite las señales de todas las radios que forman parte de rne, ree, y otras 19 radios (entre ellas radio francia internacional) es: satelite hispasat: transponder: 12052; polaridad: VERTICAL: este dato es importante: VELOCIDAD EN SIMBOLOS: 27500FEC: 3/4 o automatico ("leonardo nicolas emmanuel reiman", Saludos desde salta, Argentina, noticiasdx yg via DXLD) Very interesting! I wonder if the existing foreign language programmes that are currently only heard online will continue, and if so at the same times. If so, that could mean that at least some of the 30 minutes English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Arabic could get an airing on Shortwave. These programmes are currently broadcast twice each in a block from, I think, 0000-0500 CEST (2200-0300 UT) Tuesday to Saturday. Hopefully this announcement does *not* mean that the foreign language programmes are being cancelled (Alan Roe, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Translation: According to the website of Radio Exterior de España, as of Oct 28, in addition to changing the frequencies for winter time season, will expand its programming, going to broadcast from Monday to Friday from 1600 to 0100 UT, and on Saturdays and Sundays will do it from 1500 to 2300 UT. [times contradicted below] "Radio Exterior de Espana, the international channel of RNE, will broadcast eight hours a day from Monday to Sunday at Onda Corta starting on October 28, 2018. It represents a four-hour increase in the transmission that was previously made from Monday to Friday. With this increase, Radio Exterior of Spain begins a new stage that reinforces its programming with new spaces of its own production that will enhance the task of public service and promote and disseminate Spanish culture and language, in short, it contributes to place Spain in the global horizon of the time in which we live. "En clave turismo", "A golpe de bit", "Without a doubt", "Said with music" and "Tiempo flamenco" are incorporated into a consolidated program with spaces such as "Espanoles en la mar", "Marca Espana", "Punto de enlace", "Mundo solidario", "Artesfera", "Open Europe", "America today", "Africa today" or "Asia today". Programs to which is added the emblematic "A language without borders" that, once recovered for programming, will continue with its mission to take Spanish to any corner of the world. From a technical point of view, Radio Exterior de Espana will broadcast its programming from Monday to Friday, for West Africa and the South Atlantic, the Middle East, the Indian Ocean and Gran Sol, from 4 pm to 24 hours UT (Coordinated Universal Time), say, from 17 to 01 official Spanish time. The emission frequencies: - West Africa and South Atlantic, 11685 kHz., 25 mb. - Middle East, Indian Ocean and Gran Sol, 12030 kHz, 25 mb. [Gran Sol seems to apply to Spain`s islands in the Mediterranean, perhaps extension of the mainland`s Costa del Sol; also Canarias in the Atlantic, right? Exact meaning is not easily searched; keeps leading to hotels --- gh] Towards North and South America, Radio Exterior de Espana will broadcast short-wave, from Monday to Friday, from 1900 to 0300 UT, that is, from 2000 to 0400, the official Spanish time. The emission frequencies: - South America, 11940 kHz, 25 mb. - North America and Greenland, 9690 kHz, 31 mb. On Saturdays and Sundays, the RNE International Channel will transmit its signal from 15 to 23 hours UT, that is, from 16 to 24 official Spanish hours. The emission frequencies and the coverage areas are the following: - West Africa and South Atlantic, 11685 kHz, 25 mb. - South America, 11940 kHz, 25 mb. - North America and Greenland, 9690 kHz, 31 mb. - Middle East, Indian Ocean and Gran Sol, 12030 kHz, 25 mb. In addition to eight hours per day of shortwave transmission, Radio Exterior de Espana broadcasts its 24-hour uninterrupted programming through the Internet, DTT, mobile applications and satellite: - Ses Astras 1M: frequency 11626.5 MHz Vertical polarization. - Hispasat 1E: frequency 12052 MHz Vertical polarization. - Asiasat 5: frequency 3700 MHz Vertical polarization. - Eutelsat 5 West A: frequency 3727 MHz Right circular polarization - Intelsat Galaxy-23: frequency 4191.35 MHz Vertical polarization. The changes in programming and frequencies are effective from October 28, 2018 to March 31, 2019" (REE/RNE, via Manuel Mendez, Lugo-ESP; via google translator Oct 19 via BC-DX Oct 20 via WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DXLD) ** SVALBARD. Rundfunk auf Spitzbergen --- OM Gunthart berichtet mit Foto auf unserer A-DX Facebookseite http://a-dx.at/facebook Der einzige auf Spitzbergen verbliebene Rundfunksender befindet in Longyearbyen, dem Verwaltungszentrum der Inselgruppe. Mit lediglich 1 kW strahlt hier der norwegische Rundfunk sein Regionalprogramm NRK Troms auf 1485 kHz aus. https://radio.nrk.no/serie/distriktsprogram-troms/ Er war in knapp 60 km Entfernung, am Nordenskjöld-Gletscher (unweit der aufgegebenen russischen Bergbausiedlung Pyramiden) noch gut zu empfangen. Karte mit dem Verbreitungsgebiet: https://radio.no/dekning/ Anders als es das WRTH 2018 verzeichnet, gibt es auf Spitzbergen keine weiteren Sender - weder auf UKW noch DAB+. Auch die russischen Bergbausiedlungen auf der Inselgruppe betreiben keinen Sender (mehr). Rundfunkpro-gramme empfangen sie heute ausschließlich über das Internet. 73 (Christoph Ratzer via A-DX via SW Bulletin Oct 21 via DXLD) ** SWAZILAND [and non]. 9585, Oct 16 at 1458, African language, weak with fast SAH just starting from an understation, past 1500+. HFCC explains it: at 1455-1525 is TWR Manzini, 100 kW, 64 degrees in Malgache/French, and from 1500, CRI in Japanese, 500 kW, 73 degrees from Xi`an (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWAZILAND [and non]. No shortwave schedules, A-18 or B-18 are to be found on the website http://www.twrafrica.org --- but here`s one: (gh) SWAZILAND{eSwatini}/BENIN/MOLDOVA {Pridnestrovie}/UAE TRANS WORLD RADIO - MANZINI, SWAZILAND BROADCAST SCHEDULE B2018 28th October 2018 - 30th March 2019 TIME/UTC DAY LANGUAGE MB FREQ PWR ANT AZI Target Zone SMTWTFS 0300-0330 1234567 Shona 90 3240 50 6 3 Zimbabwe 0330-0345 1234567 Ndau 90 3240 50 6 3 Zimbabwe 0430-0500 23456 English 90 3200 50 9 233 South Africa 0430-0500 23456 English 60 4775 50 4 233 Southern Africa 0500-0700 1234567 English 60 4775 50 4 233 Southern Africa 0500-0700 1234567 English 49 6120 50 9 233 Southern Africa 1420-1435 123456 Lomwe/Port 31 9585 100 11 5 N Mozambique 1420-1450 7 Makua (WoH) 31 9585 100 11 5 N Mozambique 1420-1455 1234567 English 41 7300 50 6 3 Zimbabwe 1455-1525 1234567 Shona 41 7300 50 6 3 Zimbabwe 1525-1555 23456 Shona 41 7300 50 6 3 Zimbabwe 1455-1525 23456 Malagasy 31 9585 100 3 64 Madagascar 1455-1525 1 7 French 31 9585 100 3 64 Madagascar 1500-1530 1234567 Somali 25 11780 100 10C 30 Kenya/Somali 1500-1545 1 Somali 25 11780 100 10C 30 Kenya/Somali 1557-1627 23456 KiRundi 19 15105 100 10A 13 Burundi 1630-1645 3 Shangaan 60 4760 50 6 3 S Mozambique 1630-1645 7 Portuguese 60 4760 50 6 3 S Mozambique 1630-1645 1 3 Oromo 25 11660 100 10B 13 Ethiopia 1630-1645 2 Amharic 25 11660 100 10B 13 Ethiopia 1630-1700 45 Oromo 25 11660 100 10B 13 Ethiopia 1630-1645 67 Kambaata 25 11660 100 10B 13 Ethiopia 1645-1700 1 Oromo 25 11660 100 10B 13 Ethiopia 1645-1700 23 Oromo/Borana 25 11660 100 10B 13 Ethiopia 1645-1700 67 Hadiya 25 11660 100 10B 13 Ethiopia 1700-1730 1234567 Amharic 25 11660 100 10B 13 Ethiopia 1730-1800 1 Amharic 25 11660 100 10B 13 Ethiopia 1730-1800 234567 Oromo 25 11660 100 10B 13 Ethiopia 1700-1730 1234567 Yao 41 7300 100 11 5 Malawi/North Moz 1800-2015 1234567 English MW 1170 100 MW ND Southern Africa 2015-2115 1234567 Zulu MW 1170 100 MW ND Southern Africa 2115-2200 1234567 Shona MW 1170 100 MW ND Southern Africa 1745-1800 1 Swahili 31 9475 100 11 5 East Africa 1745-1815 23456 Swahili(Neno)31 9475 100 11 5 East Africa 1745-1800 7 Turkana 31 9475 100 11 5 East Africa 1800-1815 7 Swahili 31 9475 100 11 5 East Africa 1802-1832 23456 English 31 9500 100 10B 13 East Africa 1832-1847 23456 Juba Arabic 31 9500 100 10B 13 East Africa 1834-1849 1 Swahili 31 9500 100 10B 13 East Africa 1820-1850 23456 Umbunbu[sic] 49 6130 100 1 312 Angola TTB Umbundu 1850-1905 123456 Umbundu 49 6130 100 1 312 Angola Yeva Ondaka 1850-1905 7 Chokwe 49 6130 100 1 312 Angola 1905-1920 1 KiKongo 49 6130 100 1 312 Angola 1905-1920 23 Portuguese 49 6130 100 1 312 Angola 1905-1920 4 Luchazi 49 6130 100 1 312 Angola 1905-1920 5 Luvale 49 6130 100 1 312 Angola 1905-1920 6 Fiote 49 6130 100 1 312 Angola 1905-1920 7 Umbundu 49 6130 100 1 312 Angola Yeva Ondaka 1920-1935 1 Kuanyama 49 6130 100 1 312 Angola 1920-1950 23456 Portuguese 49 6130 100 1 312 Angola TTB 1920-2005 7 Portuguese 49 6130 100 1 312 Angola 1950-2005 23456 Kimbundu 49 6130 100 1 312 Angola 1935-2005 1 Portuguese 49 6130 100 1 312 Angola 1905-1935 1234567 Lingala 31 9940 100 10A 343 D R Congo 1935-1950 1 7 French 31 9940 100 10A 343 D R Congo 1935-2005 23456 Lingala 31 9940 100 10A 343 D R Congo TTB Explanation: DAY is the day of the broadcast = 1 is Monday etc. & 7 is Sunday [THIS IS CONTRADICTED BY SMTWTFS = 1234567 IN COLUMN HEADERS! -- GH] FREQ is the frequency in kiloHertz MB is the metreband PWR is the power of the transmitter in kilowatts AZI is the direction of the antenna Local times are: Kenya UTC+3hrs Ethiopia UTC+3 Somalia UTC+3 Tanzania UTC+3 Sudan UTC+2 Mozambique UTC+2 Angola UTC+1 Zimbabwe UTC+2 DRCongo UTC+1 Notes: The Evening Zimbabwe block changes from the 49mb back to 41mb on 7300 Morning English - frequency change is at 0500 UTC from 3200 to 6120 The Southern Moz block changes to the 60mb on 4760 kHz The evening Ethiopia block changes from 9500 kHz to 11660 kHz. The evening Northern Moz block changes to the 31mb on 9585 kHz The Somali broadcast starts on TWR Swaziland. [NOTE: TWR GETS ITS OWN BENIN MW FREQUENCY WRONG! SHOULD BE 1566 -- A clearish split can make it across N. America just after sign-on -- gh] TRANS WORLD RADIO Other TWR Africa SW Broadcasts BROADCAST SCHEDULE B2018 28th October 2018 - 30th March 2019 TIME/UTC DAY LANGUAGE MB FREQ Reception Area TX Station SMTWTFS [SIC] MW Benin 0320-0330 2345 English MW 1556 Nigeria/Ghana W. Africa 0330-0430 2345 Hausa MW 1556 Nigeria/Ghana W. Africa 0345-0430 1 7 Hausa MW 1556 Nigeria/Ghana W. Africa 0430-0500 7 English MW 1556 Nigeria/Ghana W. Africa 0500-0530 7 Twi/Ewe MW 1556 Nigeria/Ghana W. Africa 0430-0500 23456 Igbo MW 1556 Nigeria/Ghana W. Africa 0430-0500 7 English MW 1556 Nigeria/Ghana W. Africa 0500-0530 23456 Twi MW 1556 Nigeria/Ghana W. Africa 0500-0515 7 Twi MW 1556 Nigeria/Ghana W. Africa 0515-0530 7 Ewe MW 1556 Nigeria/Ghana W. Africa 0530-0545 23456 English MW 1556 Nigeria/Ghana W. Africa 1730-1745 1234567 Fongbe MW 1556 Benin/Nigeria W. Africa 1745-1825 1234567 English MW 1556 Nigeria/Ghana W. Africa 1825-1855 1234567 Yoruba MW 1556 Nigeria W. Africa 1855-1910 1234567 Hausa/Kanuri MW 1556 Nigeria/Ghana W. Africa 1910-1925 1234567 Fulfulde/Kanuri MW 1556 Nigeria/Ghana W. Africa 1925-1940 1234567 Various MW 1556 Nigeria/Ghana W. Africa 1940-2010 1234567 Fon/Fulfulde MW 1556 Nigeria/Ghana W. Africa 2010-2040 1234567 Various MW 1556 Benin/Nigeria W. Africa 2040-2215 1234567 French MW 1556 Benin/Togo W. Africa TIME/UTC DAY LANGUAGE MB FREQ AZI Reception Area TX Stn SMTWTFS 0330-0345 12 6 Amharic 41 7245 165 Ethiopia DHA 0330-0345 3 Oromo 41 7245 165 Ethiopia DHA 0330-0345 45 Sidamo 41 7245 165 Ethiopia DHA 1300-1315 1 567 Afar 16 17680 250 Ethiopia DHA 1800-1830 1 Kunama 41 7245 157 Eritrea KCH 1800-1830 7 Tigre 41 7245 157 Eritrea KCH 1800-1815 2345 Tigrinya 41 7245 157 Eritrea KCH 1815-1845 23456 Tigrinya 41 7245 157 Eritrea KCH 1830-1845 7 Tigrinya 41 7245 157 Eritrea KCH Local times are: Kenya UTC+3hrs Ethiopia UTC+3 Eritrea UTC+3 Chad UTC+1 Somalia UTC+3 Tanzania UTC+3 Nigeria UTC+1 Sudan UTC+2 Ghana UTC+0 Liberia UTC+0 Cameroon UTC+1 Note: Sunday Tigrinya 30 minutes shorter - sign-off now at 1830 hrs. DHA = Al Dhabbaya UAE KCH = Radiotelecentr (PRTC) transmitter Grigoriopol Maiac, Moldova (Lorraine Starvropolous / TWR Africa. Oct 9, via Gayle Van Horn W4GVH USA via Wolfgang Bueschel, DXLD) Laboriously reformatted by gh, lining up columns, etc. for DXLD. A much more compact, less detailed schedule concerning SW from Manzini and Yerevan only, is at http://hfcc.org/data/schedbyfmo.php?seas=B18&fmor=TWR (gh, DXLD) ** SWEDEN. Peace Party & SAQ Transmission on October 24 A roaring machine, morse code and Irish folk music – celebrate the UN Day of October 24 at the World Heritage Site Grimeton! Man’s quest for contacts and faster relationships between each other is tireless. A proof of this are the many attempts made to put a telegraph cable on the bottom of the Atlantic before the seemingly impossible project was finally landed – the connection between Europe and America was established, from Ireland to Newfoundland, and opened for telegram traffic in August 1866 . We celebrate this great event in international relations by sending out a peace message to the world with the long-wave transmitter SAQ and then a concert in the Irish folk spirit with the Varberg band Green Hill. Evening program 18.00 The world heritage opens 18.30 (1630 UT) all visitors are greeted welcome and the long wave transmitter SAQ is started 19.00 (1700 UT) a peace message is sent out* 19.15 (ca) concert with Green Hill Free entrance. Arrive in time as there are limited amount of seats. Welcome! The transmission is on 17.2 kHz CW. You can also watch a live video stream of the transmission 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. *The world heritage site Grimeton is a living cultural heritage. All transmissions with the long-wave transmitter SAQ are therefore preliminary and may be cancelled with short notice (via Mike Terry, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DXLD) ** SWEDEN. Radio Nord Revival announced today that they will be back on the air October 26 and 27 alternating between 5995 and 6035, maximum power 500 watts as well as 91.8 FM from Waxholm Fortress on the island of Waxholm in the Stockholm archipelago. Test transmission early this week. Full details on their blog. http://radionordrevival.blogspot.com/ (Mike Barraclough, Oct 21, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DXLD) Radio Nord Revival this weekend --- List friends, Radio Nord Revival, the tribute station to the former Swedish offshore station in the 1960's, is scheduled to be onair the upcoming weekend. Transmissions will be made from Kastellet in Waxholm (in Stockholm alchipelago) on October 26th and 27th. Licensed frequencies are 5995 and 6035 kHz, and they will alternative between these two. Power 500 Watts. Also on FM 91.8 MHz for local audience with 60 Watts of power (Per Eriksson via A-DX via SW Bulletin Oct 21 via DXLD) Not ``full`` No times given (gh) ** TAIWAN. 6280, Sound of Hope, 1150, Oct 17. From 1150 to 1200, mixing badly with slightly stronger jamming of CNR1 programming, which ended just after their ToH time pips, leaving SOH in clear, with ID in Chinese at 1200 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** TAIWAN. 5170-USB. Out 17, 2018. 0228-0240, Central Weather Bureau, Tainan-Qigu-TWN (16814 km). Escuta-se um áudio com cerca de oito bips cadenciados, por bloco, sendo sete deles rápidos e o oitavo um pouquinho prolongado e, um espaço com cerca de cinco segundos entre cada bloco, que se repetem de maneira continuada. Recepção de satisfatória para pobre (José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX) - PR7036SWL, Cabedelo-Paraiba, Brasil, Receptor (es): Degen DE1103, WOR iog via DXLD) How did you identify it? (gh, DXLD) ** TAIWAN. Radio Taiwan International, new B-18 season frequency. RTI's daily English language broadcast to Southern China and South Asia, from 1600-1700 UT on 9405 kHz via Paochung, will soon be changed. Starting on November 1, 2018, the new frequency for Southern China and South Asia target will be: via Paochung 6180 kHz from 1600-1700 UT (via Paul Gager-AUT, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 18 via BC-DX Oct 20 via WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DXLD) ** TAIWAN. RTI-HKO Info 2018-11 --- Liebe Mitglieder des RTI Hoererklubs Ottenau, heute wird im RTI Briefkasten die geplante Kuerzung der RTI Sendung von 60 auf 30 Minuten bekanntgegeben. Bitte sendet Eure Argumente an RTI, damit wir Hoerer bald wieder die bisherigen 60 Minuten zurueckbekommen. Interesseante Webcam vom Strassenverkehr in Taiwan gibt es bei: (Bernd Seiser-D, HKO Oct 19, BC-DX Oct 20 via DXLD) ** TAJIKISTAN. 4765.000, Tajik Radio Dushanbe Yangi-Yul S=9+15dB at 0020 and 0037 UT. Local TJK folk mx / singer / CeAsian drums Some log in 0015 til 0045 UT time slot, taken in Delhi India and Moscow Russia remote SDR's, Oct 19 [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7245even, Tajik R from Dushanbe Yangi Yul site, S=9 at 0434 UT local central Asia mx played, drums, flute etc. Log Oct 21 at 0420 to 0530 UT, on remote units in Doha Qatar, Belgium, Hungary and NY and MI US states. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** THAILAND. 5875, Radio Thailand, at 1145, Oct 15. Chimes IS and ID; another day with English program, but not as strong as yesterday; so is not an anomaly (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DXLD) R. Thailand in English being heard with good signal on 15590 from 0120 UT tune-in. ID "This is Radio Thailand FM88". Scheduled in Thai at this time. After the usual scheduled R Thailand news in English at 0200UT, the transmission continued in English at 0230 and past 0300 when I had to leave it (presumed until 0330 sign-off (Alan Roe at Haeundae Beach, Busan, S. Korea, with Tecsun PL360 and reel antenna], Oct 18, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DX LISTENING DIGEST) English broadcasts from HSK9 have been caught at unscheduled times/frequencies: by Alan Roe at 0120 on 15590, supposed to be an hour in Thai between Englishes to North America; by Ron Howard at 1145 on 5875. (Are these still being heard?) I check the HFCC B-18 sked as of Oct 14 and do not find any such changes, but some other ones for the alleged complete English: 7475 at 1900-2000 & 2030-2045 to Europe (ex-9390) 9940 at 1230-1300 & 1400-1430 to SE Asia/Australia (ex-9390) 13745 at 0000-0100 & 0230-0300 to North America (ex-15590 as usual) 17640 at 0530-0600 to Europe (no change) I don`t find any plain old SW schedule at http://www.hsk9.org and hardly anything in English (Glenn Hauser, Oct 20, WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, I checked again the following day, and found that R Thailand was back to its scheduled Thai and English programming. Must have been a one-day only anomaly (Alan Roe, ibid.) Hi Glenn & Alan, Radio Thailand on 5875 kHz, in English: First noted Oct 14, from 1136-1144* & *1145-1159* Oct 15, at 1145, chimes & ID. Oct 17, at 1146+, English programming. Not checked again thru Oct 21. (Ron Howard, California, Oct 22, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Instead of Japanese and German at 1130-1200, with a beam change break at 1144 between them? (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) 5875, Radio Thailand. On Oct 22, after being motivated by Glenn's inquiry, I observed the following, along with OTH radar QRM: 1101-1114, in Bahasa Indonesia. 1114-1115, in English (ID & IS). 1115-1129*, in Chinese (Mandarin). *1131-1144* & *1145-1159*, in English. BTW - 9940, on Oct 22, had no signal 1230+; no Radio Thailand heard (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DXLD) yet 9390, Oct 22 at 1244, R. Thailand amid news in English about clashes in Kaduna, poor with flutter, ACI de TOMBS 9395. HSK9 is rarely listenable here, but it might be if they would only aim this way instead of SE! But this frequency is about to be deleted in B-18. English broadcasts from HSK9 have been caught at unscheduled times/frequencies: by Alan Roe at 0120 on 15590, supposed to be an hour in Thai between Englishes to North America, but back to Thai the next day; by Ron Howard at 1130-1200 on 5875, English instead of Japanese and German, and with a transmission break at 1144, beam change? This was Oct 14, 15 and 17, so not an anomaly. I check the HFCC B-18 sked as of Oct 14 and do not find any such changes, but some other ones for the alleged complete English: 7475 at 1900-2000 & 2030-2045 to Europe (ex-9390) 9940 at 1230-1300 & 1400-1430 to SE Asia/Australia (ex-9390) 13745 at 0000-0100 & 0230-0300 to North America (ex-15590 as usual) 17640 at 0530-0600 to Europe (no change) I don`t find any plain old SW schedule at http://www.hsk9.org and hardly anything in English (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1130 back to German by Oct 26, says Ron (gh) ** TIBET. 4820even, CHINA, PBS tx Lhasa Tibet in Mandarin, b u t suffers by some BUZZY audio tone strings as fence, some 100 Hertz apart each other distance, is defunct at least 26 strings visible on either sideband seen. Some log in 0015 til 0045 UT time slot, taken in Delhi India and Moscow Russia remote SDR's, Oct 19 [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. On October 7th Of 2018: Voice Of Turkey English was absent on 15520 kHz on its normal frequency during several random airchecks from 1630 UT onwards. But around 1632 while scanning the 25mb I found its signal with good strength on 11765 with news read by a male presenter. Here is the link to the audio recorded: https://app.box.com/s/jh26hl891e3owl56t0wiattxj1u7hc0n And surprisingly later while again airchecking around 1650 perhaps I couldn't find its signal there. Special Note: On October 10th also & past several days, I did monitor both 15520 & 11765 from 1630 onwards from time to time and I couldn't hear any signal of VOT-English during 1630-1720. Let`s check further. One can check radio posts on my blog http://www.gkcalling.blogspot.com 73s (Gautam Kumar Sharma (GK), Abhayapuri(Assam), (India), RX Used: Grundig Yacht Boy 400 (unless mentioned otherwise) ANT: Cu wire 78' length, 30' height with co-ax lead-in Geographical Location of Reception Place (Abhayapuri): Longitude: 26º18´20´´North (approx) Latitude: 90º37´50´´East (approx) Date: October 14, 2018, DX LISTENING DIGEST) VOT B-18 English, one hour later than A-18: 1330 12035 1730 11730 1930 6050 2130 9610 2300 5960 0400 7240, 6125-NAm (HFCC via gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DXLD) ** UKRAINE. Broadcasters mis-spelling Kiev, says Foreign Ministry Ukraine's Foreign Ministry has launched a campaign to get news organisations to spell the name of the country's capital - well, correctly. There has long been a debate about how to spell the capital's name - and other cities - in English. The accepted norm in the West is Kiev, but Ukrainians are keen that everyone adopts Kyiv (the AIB's spell-checker still thinks the new spelling is wrong!). In an open letter snappily titled "Official guidance on the correct spelling and usage of Ukrainian place names" posted on the Foreign Ministry's website, https://mfa.gov.ua/en/page/open/id/5418 it "politely requests all countries and organisations to review and where necessary, amend their usage of outdated, Soviet-era place names when referring to Ukraine." Broadcasters, you have been warned! (Oct AIB Media Industry Briefing via DXLD) ** U A E. 15215.126, Oct 19 at 1347, fluttery JBA carrier stix out sorethumbly in BFO 1-kHz step tuning bandscan. Aoki/NDXC shows it`s DW via Al-Dhabbiya, 1330-1430 in Dari & Pashto. Typical shoddiness from this site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) & see next item ** U K [and non]. Re: Babcock’s Media Services to be sold --- Done: https://www.encompass.tv/encompass-completes-acquisition-babcocks-media-services/ The slim web presentation for their new offer: https://www.encompass.tv/radio-distribution/ At least for now the old WRN/Babcock infrastructure is apparently still active: I just noted how at 1359 UT Deutsche Welle on 15215 kHz (via Emirates Media) was interrupted for about ten seconds by the infamous loop that is subject of the pop song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxquuedkKaM for no reason, there was no break in program audio that could have triggered a silence detection (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 20, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) ** U S A. 13565, Oct 16 at 1422, K6FRC CW beacon from Patterson, California is JBA. The most often audible one, and over time only a few others ever heard on this band altho quite a lot are supposedly active (sporadically?) in the LWCA roster: http://lwca.org/sitepage/part15/index.htm (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Re 18-42: [WOR] VOA Hausa scandal, developing For those who do not observe https://twitter.com/kaedotcom ... https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/how-governors-5000-gift-swept-away-15-voa-hausa-staff.html See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_envelope_journalism ``Brown envelope journalism (BEJ) is a practice whereby monetary inducement is given to journalists to make them write a positive story or kill a negative story.[1] The name is derived from cash inducements hidden in brown envelopes and given to journalists during press briefings. While the true extent of BEJ practices worldwide is unknown, research literature has been concentrated in the South East and Asia and Eastern Europe regions, as well as Latin American and African regions in recent years. In 2010, the African Communication Research journal has received around 40 submissions of research articles centered around 10 Subsaharan African countries. . .`` (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 16, WOR iog via DXLD) Viz.: How governor’s ‘$5000 gift’ swept away 15 VOA Hausa staff By Nuruddeen M. Abdallah (Abuja) & Habibu Umar Aminu (Katsina) | Published Date Oct 13, 2018 23:54 PM When the delegation of Katsina State Governor Aminu Masari sauntered into the Hausa section of the Voice of America (VOA) in Washington DC on January 9, 2018, none of the over 15 staff he met had a premonition that the governor’s visit was pregnant with so much trouble that may lead to their unceremonious sack. The interview was conducted and the governor’s entourage was taken round the expansive office of the America’s foreign broadcasting agency. As the governor entered his car, one of the Katsina State senior officials on the entourage handed down “a brown envelope” containing $5000 to one of the VOA staff that walked them their car. Governor Masari’s spokesperson Mr Abdu Labaran, however, denied that his principal had given any money to the VOA staff during the visit. But multiple sources told, Daily Trust on Sunday that the ‘North-West governor’ referred to by the VOA was the Katsina governor. The governor’s “gift” was subsequently shared to all the Hausa Service staff on duty at that time. And everyone went back to work. Some of the beneficiaries of the gift include Sahabu Imam Aliyu, Jummai Ali, Ladan Ayawa, Ibrahim Jarmai, Ibrahim Alfa Ahmed, among others. There was no any sign of trouble over the governor’s ‘gift’ until when the head of the Hausa Service who was on leave in Nigeria at that time returned and decided to be a whistleblower. Mr Leo Keyen wrote a petition to the VOA management over the governor’s “improper payment” to his colleagues. The federal law in the United States prohibit VOA journalists from taking any money in excess of $20 in their line of duty. An investigation was subsequently launched over the “gift.” On October 2, the VOA announced that it has fired or proposed to terminate 15 staff of its Hausa language service following an investigation that found the individuals had accepted improper payments from a foreign official in West Africa. Director of VOA, Amanda Bennett, informed the American-funded radio station staff of the move in an agency-wide email. “It is therefore with a very heavy heart that I must tell you that we have terminated or (in accordance with all applicable Federal laws and regulations) proposed to terminate 15 members of the Hausa Service,” she wrote. The director said the action was taken after simultaneous investigations by VOA staff and the Office of the Inspector General into “allegations of improper conduct by members of the service, which involved accepting improper payments from an official in the coverage area.” The Hausa service of the VOA reaches some 20 million people weekly, principally in Nigeria but also in Niger, Ghana, Chad and Cameroon. The 15 staff involved, including Mr Keyen (who is not suspected on personally accepting a payment), were met at the front door of VOA headquarters on a fortnight ago, and they were stripped of their building passes and handed letters notifying them of the action. Reports said the investigation produced no evidence that any programming was affected by the alleged payments. Mr Keyen, according to Daily Trust on Sunday findings, got into trouble for allegedly getting involved into “sundry illegal financial activities.” Some of his “offenses” include padding of the rent fee of the Abuja office, illegal deductions of salaries of part-time staff, payments of ghost stringers, among others. It was learnt further that investigators from the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) were in Nigeria to unravel the padding of the office rent. They also spoke to so many part-time staff who were engaged by Mr Keyen and forced them to send him some huge part of their monthly pay. Some of the staff were even flown to the Washington DC by VOA to testify before investigators over the matter. Another source told Daily Trust on Sunday that in the past, some VOA journalists were fired for “using office telephones for personal calls.” Bennett, however, said in her email that “a separate investigation has been launched to determine if any coverage by VOA was improperly influenced. If any such influence is discovered, we will deal with it promptly and transparently.” She added that, “If any other instances of improper payments are discovered in any service anywhere in VOA, we are committed to investigating them thoroughly and dealing with them promptly as well.” ‘Receiving ‘gifts’ from news makers not allowed’ The Africa Division director Negussie Mengesha said VOA staffers “clearly understand that that is not allowed.” With this development, the service is left with only 11 permanent government employees and contractors to produce 16 hours of radio and 30 minutes of television every week. The African director said the agency intends to maintain its current programming schedule with the help of an extensive network of part-time contributors in Africa. The VOA announced that a former Hausa Service chief, Fred Cooper, will return to run the service until a permanent chief is selected. The terminated employees will be replaced quickly and that the new staff will receive rigorous training in journalism ethics, Mengesha said. It was clear that some of the employees cannot be replaced under federal regulations until a lengthy termination process is completed. Bennett said “every person in this building knows the federal laws and the standards of ethical journalism. People will see [from Tuesday’s firings] that we take these things very very seriously. Everyone will see what we expect of them.” Brown envelope syndrome The act of collecting money from government officials or private individuals in Nigeria during news coverage is very common even though it is not legal. Sources familiar with the issue said that almost all “government officials from Nigeria that visit VOA drop some money after the encounter. That is the tradition. That doesn’t mean that it was solicited by the journalists. The fact is officials give money, and the journalists collect it,” the source who declined being named said. Masari didn’t give money to VOA staff – Aide Senior Special Assistant to Gov. Masari, Mr Labaran vehemently denied that his principal gave the gift that swept away the 15 staff. “As far as we are concerned, it was not Governor Masari, because none of those involved mentioned that Governor Masari gave them money, that is my position. “It couldn’t have been Governor Masari because it was a confession from them. They said a governor from North-West, so it could be any of the seven governors from the North-West. This is my position. Nobody mentioned Masari for sure,” Mr Labaran insisted. The governor’s spokesperson, however confirmed that Masari had been to the United States recently. “The governor has been to the US a couple of times to the best of my knowledge. But I cannot recall any incident of that nature. Unless somebody comes out among them and say it was Masari who gave the money, otherwise the position is clear it was not him,” he said. (via Dan Robinson, Kai Ludwig, DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. 1860/AM, WA0RCR, Wentzville MO; 0258-0325+, 10/14 [UT Sun]; Tune-in to Houston Amsat Net with several SSTVs & brief commentary between; 0306:40 ARRL Audio News; 0317:25 Glenn Hauser’s World of Radio #1951 after intro by WA0RCR. “WA0RCR Wentzville MO” & “Gateway 160 Radio News Letter” spots scattered throughout. S8 peaks with fades to QRN level & audio occasionally messy (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, Drake R8B + 185’ RW, MARE Tipsheet Oct 19 via DXLD) WORLD OF RADIO 1952 monitoring: confirmed Tuesday October 16 at 2055 check the 2030 on WRMI 7780 --- JBA but sounds like me. Also confirmed Wednesday October 17 at 1038 check the 1030 on WRMI 5950, poor. Next: 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 to SSE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0629 UT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany to WSW 1231 UT Saturday WINB 9265V via Unique Radio to WSW 1431 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany to WSW [ex-6190] 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM non-direxional 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM non-direxional [nominal 0315-] 1030 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW [ex-9485] 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE, 9955 to SSE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE WORLD OF RADIO 1952 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday Oct 17 at 2100 on 7490 WBCQ and 9955 WRMI, both poor and close to synchrony. Next: 0629 UT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany to WSW 1231 UT Saturday WINB 9265V via Unique Radio to WSW 1431 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany to WSW [ex-6190] 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM non-direxional 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM non-direxional [nominal 0315-] 1030 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW [ex-9485] 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE, 9955 to SSE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE WORLD OF RADIO 1952 monitoring: confirmed Saturday October 20 at 1256 check the 1231 on Unique Radio via WINB 9265 - S9+10 with fades to S5, and hardly any carrier wobble at the moment, but usual lofi audio. Not confirmed at 1431- on HLR 9485-CUSB via UTwente SDR --- nothing at all audible here except splash from 9490 CRI, not as bad as last week, but Alan Gale, from further NW England reports: ``9485 good again today --- Hi Glenn, Good reception here again on 9485 kHz from HLR today, World of Radio 1952 came through perfectly, with nothing more than a few shallow fades. Definitely a big improvement over 6 MHz, that's for sure! Alan`` Confirmed UT Sunday Oct 21 at 0328 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO, S6 about CFVP which is 4 minutes into show so started circa 0324. Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, reports: ``7265, Hamburger LokalRadio, Göhren, 1015-1100, 21-10, English, “Media Network Plus”, at 1031 Glenn Hauser’s program “World of Radio”. Very weak, best on USB. 15321`` And also earlier: ``6190, Hamburger LokalRadio, Göhren, *0600-0700, 20-10, English, “Media Network Plus”, at 0630 Glenn Hauser’s program “World of Radio”. 25322. (Méndez)`` Next: 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE, 9955 to SSE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE WORLD OF RADIO 1952 monitoring: confirmed Sunday October 21 at 2130 on WRMI 9955 and 7780, about equally fair-poor. The UT Monday 0130 broadcast on WRMI 5850 & 7780 was canceled a few weeks ago, but we are back at that time UT Monday October 22 on 5950, since WRMI has started relaying WRN during long hours, including this time for WOR; axually started on 5950 at 0130:33. Also confirmed circa 0300 UT Mon Oct 22 on Area 51 webcast, and on WBCQ 5129.8 at 0308 check. Also confirmed at 0358 check the 0330 on WRMI 9955, good signal. WORLD OF RADIO 1953 contents: Alaska, Australia, Brazil, China, France non, Germany and non, Iran, Israel non, Japan non, Korea South non, Madagascar, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria non, Oklahoma, Papua New Guinea, Romania, Somaliland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, USA; Silk Road Project; propagation outlook WOR 1953 includes complete new B-18 English schedules for: Alaska, Iran, Japan, Madagascar, Romania, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey. WOR 1953 ready for first airings UT Tuesday October 23: confirmed at 0030 on WRMI 7730, VG S9+20; and immediate repeat at 0100 on WRMI 9955, starting S9-S8, fading down by 0110 to S1-S5, but no jamming? And JBA by 0115. Next: 2130 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5950 to WNW 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 to SSE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0629 UT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany to WSW 1231 UT Saturday WINB 9265V via Unique Radio to WSW 1431 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany to WSW 1600 UT Saturday WRN 5950 via WRMI to WNW [unconfirmed] 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM non-direxional 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM non-direxional [nominal 0315-] 1130 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW [ex-1030] 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE, 9955 to SSE 0130 UT Monday WRN 5950 via WRMI to WNW [or 0230?] 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Summarized pending non-DST changes in WOR times (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DXLD) WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI: ** U S A. 5850, WRMI with s/on and into BSR Radiogram #21 also supposedly for the ‘beginning of October 2019’ (sic) but this a different show than the last two weeks, with an audio introduction with news and audio covering the life and canonization of Oscar Romero, the martyred Archbishop of El Salvador and then in the second half hour, digital text and photos including: [illustration] (The Church apparently believes saints may need eyeglasses!) Then at 0800 into SW Radiogram #69 with the usual digital text and photos including stories about: Progress towards geostationary amateur radio satellite; an MFSK128 encoded story about Voyager 2 near edge of solar system; ^ an MFSK64 encoded story ^ about an International panel issues climate change warning; New font might improve your memory; and Images and painting of the week which were rather cool this time including an aurora behind a bridge in Alberta: [illos] and a futuristic illustration from a Soviet engineering magazine Technika Molodezhi (Above) and finally the painting this week was a slick still life by Carol Stewart. At 0830 into ANOTHER replay of the Business Growth Radio from 24/Sept (and others) mentioning the trip to Fed Ex and how to get your business from the 80% to the 15%. Again, off abruptly mid sentence at the ToH. 454+4+4+ *0656-0900* 8/Oct SDRplay +SDRuno +randomwire +FLDigi for digital bits (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Williamston MI, WOR iog via DXLD) 9395, Oct 18 at 1641, random check of WRMI on caradio finds dead air, while 9330 WBCQ continues BSing. Same situation Oct 19 at 1422, silence of TOMBS on 9395, non-BS preacher measured on 9330.169 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Heiligsprechung Oscar Romeros / BSR#21 / SWRG#70 - Ankündigung https://www.domradio.de/themen/papst-franziskus/2018-10-10/eine-ermutigung-fuer-die-kleinen-adveniat-zur-heiligsprechung-oscar-romeros https://tinyurl.com/y9u9ph5s "...DOMRADIO.DE: Romero war Erzbischof von San Salvador und galt als "Bischof der Armen": Offen kritisierte er Ende der 70er-Jahre die Gewalt und die Ungleichheit in seiner Heimat El Salvador – damit machte er sich die Mächtigen des Landes zum Feind: Am 24. März 1980 wurde er am Altar erschossen, während er die heilige Messe feierte...." "..DOMRADIO.DE: Romero was Archbishop of San Salvador and was considered a "Bishop of the poor": he openly criticized the violence and inequality in his native El Salvador at the end of the 1970s - with which he made the powerful of the country an enemy: On March 24, 1980, he was shot dead at the altar while celebrating Holy Mass. http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/SW_Radiogram_2018-10-13.htm#BSR_21 ".....BSR Radiogram #21 for 1st tx in October 2019 (<===="2018") a production of James M. Branum, KG5JST and BroadSpectrumRadio.com In this episode, we are celebrating the canonization of Oscar Romero, the martyred Archbishop of El Salvador, killed by US-backed forces in 1980....." "........Here is the lineup for Shortwave Radiogram, program 70, 19-22 October 2018, in MFSK modes as noted: 1:36 MFSK32: Program preview 2:47 Alexanderson Alternator transmission on 24 October* 7:13 MFSK 128: Cell phone use in North Korea involves bribes* 11:07 MFSK64: Plans for liquid hydrogen filling stations* 16:02 Images of the week* 27:34 MFSK32: Closing announcements........." http://www.arrl.org/news/saq-alexanderson-alternator-transmission-to-celebrate-un-day\ See also: http://alexander.n.se/ Image: Towers at the Grimeton, Sweden, site of the Alexanderson Alternator. From http://www.pa3hcm.nl/?p=1232... [sic] SWRG#70 - sonogram: https://www.dropbox.com/s/b0wr8gcr91oz63i/2018-10-19_SWRG70.png?dl=0 (roger, germany, wor iog via DXLD) ** U S A. 5950, Sunday October 21 at 0600 after WRMI ID, switch to World Radio Network! ID and into Deutsche Welle in English, the weekly `World Link`, starting with the #metoo movement. It`s S7-S9 and noisy, much inferior to 9395 Oldies at S9+20. Skedgrid now shows System E on 5950 at 0500-0800, but no further info about what E entails! Could there be more WRN stations to follow, and/or also as now shown in bright green from 1500 to 0300? So far I have heard these stations on WRMI 5950 matching the WRN English to North America schedule at http://babcock.media/world-radio-network/schedules/Schedule-English-North-America.pdf 0600 Oct 21, Deutsche Welle as I already reported; 2330 Oct 21, Israel Radio (or whatever they call it now), (misprint as 0030), 2350 Netanyahu, Mnuchen clips, 2356 Hebrew? song 0000 Oct 22, Radio Prague starting 0030 Oct 22, Radio Slovakia, 0056 QSL info 0100 Oct 22, Radio Guangdong, 0116 re investments there (weekly Mon) 0130 Oct 22, WORLD OF RADIO! (weekly Monday) 0200 Oct 22, KBS World Radio, as song spans 0230, inviting requests 0308 Oct 22, WRN not sked: sounds like Oldies music fill, not // 9395 0433 Oct 22, WRN not sked; gospel huxter in Spanish 0500 Oct 22, RFI, S9+20, altho at 0538 with news about Israel, Nigeria, 0540 Radio France International ID 1515 Oct 22, 5950 is a JBA carrier after probably resuming WRN 1500- 2200 Oct 22, S9-S7 poor, about Berlin at 2213, so assumed DW, but Poland sked this hour with DW previous hour 2300 Oct 22, NHK World Radio Japan, 2315 from news to Easy Japanese 0030 Oct 23, RSI, at 0048 about Slovakia IF the entire System E Green time is now WRN, here is all that may be heard, if possible in daytime, confirmable probably only by monitoring, UT [shifting one UT hour later as of Oct 28 or Nov 4?]: 05:00 Radio France International 06:00 Deutsche Welle from Germany 07:00 Polish Radio 08:00 15:00 Radio France International 16:00 Radio New Zealand International: Korero Pacifica (Mon-Fri) Glenn Hauser’s World of Radio (Sat) PCJ - Media Network Plus (Sun) 16:15 Vatican Radio World News live 16:30 Radio Prague (Mon-Fri) Radio Guangdong : Guangdong Today (Sat) Copenhagen Calling from Banns Radio International (Sun) 17:00 Israel Radio live news at 8 18:00 Polish Radio 19:00 Radio Slovakia International 19:30 Radio Telefis Eireann from Ireland (Mon-Fri) Copenhagen Calling from Banns Radio International (Sat) This Way Out (Sun) 20:00 KBS World Radio from Seoul, Korea 21:00 Deutsche Welle from Germany 22:00 Polish Radio 23:00 NHK World Radio Japan 23:30 Israel Radio 00:00 Radio Prague 00:30 Radio Slovakia 01:00 Radio New Zealand International: Korero Pacifica (Tue-Sat) Radio New Zealand International: Dateline Pacific (Sun) Radio Guangdong: Guangdong Today (Mon) 01:15 Vatican Radio World News (Tue - Sat) 01:30 NHK World Radio Japan (Tue-Sat) PCJ Asia Focus (Sun) Glenn Hauser’s World of Radio (Mon) 02:00 KBS World Radio from Seoul, Korea 03:00 Note that this gives Unitedstatesians an opportunity to hear difficult or impossible stations such as: France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Poland. Thanks, Jeff! (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DX LISTENING DIGEST) It appears since October 21, XMTR 5 at 285 degrees has been plugged in to WRN feed for long hours, instead of previously scheduled programming still showing on the grids (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. From my recording of WRMI 7780 last Sunday evening, 21-22 October UT: 2015 Viva Miami (in Spanish talking about the trip to Bratislava for the HFCC meeting; repeat) 2030 Reserve Military Retirement (mostly music as the host had a bad week with a migraine and under the influence of pain killers; repeat of last week's show) 2100 Wavescan (#504) 2130 World of Radio (#1952) 2200 Your Weekend Show (Bob Biermann will be talking about some of the stations he's on in the next few shows; this week an extensive interview with Ray Robinson about Voice of Hope - Africa and other stations) 2300 Full Gospel Broadcast (program name used this week in introduction; preceded by an ad for Tecsun Australia) 2330 Shortwave Radiogram (#70) 0000 Radio Slovakia International in Slovak 0030 Radio Slovakia International in English 0100 Wavescan (#504) 0130 No audio! Transmitter/playout problem? [for 30 minutes? gh] (-- Richard Langley, Oct 23, WOR iog via DXLD) WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ: ** U S A. Tonight's AWWW --- [0000 UT Oct 20 on WBCQ] Show started on time this evening on 5130. 7490 was unlistenable. Tom and Robert in the studio again. Show opened with music. Chicago with Does Anyone Know What Time It Is. Tom's explanation of why he choose that song to open with was interrupted by a phone call from someone wanting to put a new show on the air. Phone call lasted till 0041. Phone call at 0042 from Ramsey. Kracker called at 0055 and was on till the end of the show. Show was off the air at 0100 (John H Carver, Jr, Mid-North Indiana, Oct 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. From the Isle of Music, October 21-27: Our special guest this week is Samuel Formell, leader of the legendary Los Van Van, whose new album Legado won a Special Prize in Cubadisco 2018. The transmissions take place: 1. For Eastern Europe but audible well beyond the target area in most of the Eastern Hemisphere (including parts of East Asia and Oceania) with 100 kW, Sunday 1500-1600 UT on SpaceLine, 9400, from Kostinbrod, Bulgaria (1800-1900 MSK) 2. For the Americas and parts of Europe, Tuesday 0000-0100 UT on WBCQ, 7490 from Monticello, ME, USA (Monday 8-9 PM EDT in the US). This has been audible in parts of NW, Central and Southern Europe with an excellent skip to Italy recently. 3 & 4. For Europe and sometimes beyond, Tuesday 1900-2000 UT and Saturday 1200-1300 on Channel 292, 6070 from Rohrbach, Germany. Also recommended: Jetzt geht’s los! (Here We Go!), an excellent program of early German Jazz produced by Radio Ohne Nahmen, comes on right before FTIOM on Tuesdays from 1800 to 1900 UT on Channel 292. Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot, October 21 and 23 Instant replay: Episode 84 will feature some different types of recent music from the United States. The transmissions take place: 1. Sundays 2200-2230 UT (6:00-6:30 PM Eastern US) on WBCQ The Planet 7490 from the US to the Americas and parts of Europe 2. Tuesdays 2000-2030 UT on Channel 292, 6070 from Rohrbach, Germany for Europe. If current propagation conditions hold, the broadcast should reach from Iceland to Western Russia, Scandinavia down to North Africa and the Middle East, AND a long bounce to parts of New Zealand. Also recommended: Marion’s Attic, a unique program produced and hosted by Marion Webster featuring early 20th Century records, Edison cylinders etc played on the original equipment, comes on immediately before UBMP on Sundays at 2100-2200 UT on WBCQ 7490 (William "Bill" Tilford, Owner/Producer, Tilford Productions, LLC, Oct 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WINB WINB WINB WINB WINB WINB WINB WINB WINB WINB WINB WINB WINB WINB: ** U S A. Your Weekend Show on WINB DRM Stream --- Hi All, I often try to receive the WINB DRM transmissions on 15670 kHz during the afternoons here in the UK, and occasionally this is successful, though often with dropouts (though amazingly I did manage about 70% of the special Wavescan tests on Monday), but this afternoon (Tuesday 16th) I was surprised to hear what sounded like Bob Biermann at 1520 UT, and later got an ID saying that it was indeed Bob's 'Your Weekend Show'. I couldn't find any mention of his being on this station, not even on his website, so maybe this was the first time? Interestingly, his website does say that the show is now being carried on the Voice of Hope, but no mention of WINB: ``"Your Weekend Show" is now heard on "Voice of Hope" radio broadcasting from Zambia in Africa. The program can be heard at 1600 UTC on Saturdays, on both of their 100 kW transmitters - 9680 kHz to Central and Southern Africa (6 pm Central Africa Time, 7 pm East Africa Time), and 13680 kHz to West Africa (5 pm in Nigeria and Benin, 4 pm elsewhere)``. (Alan Gale, NW England, Oct 16, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DXLD) “I couldn't find any mention of his being on this station, not even on his website, so maybe this was the first time?” I think I heard him mention the WINB DRM tests at some point in last weekend’s show on WRMI. I’ll check my recording tomorrow to confirm. (— Richard Langley, ibid.) Bob has just joined the WOR iog, so he could tell us all about it (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) I might have misremembered on which show he announced that he'd be on WINB DRM. It seems it was actually three weekends ago that I first heard about it. A clip from that show is attached. He didn't give a time or day, though, just saying that he'd be on sometime that weekend. I guess WINB is continuing to carry episodes of the show, perhaps repeated on different days of the week. Do we have a schedule of the DRM transmissions? (-- Richard Langley, Oct 17, ibid.) Hi Richard, Thank you for that recording much appreciated. I haven't yet found any sort of schedule for the DRM service, just the odd post about times for programmes like Wavescan or IBC. Wavescan was shown as being on Mondays and Fridays 1630 to 1700 UT, but I heard it again briefly this afternoon, and would tell you at what time if my shack cat wasn't sleeping on the piece of paper I wrote it on! :-) The signal was really good today, over 20db SNR, but the audio cut out completely, and the Dream software showed the 'I/O Output' was having some sort of problem. Shortly after that the signal went off completely and well before 1700, so some sort of technical issue or something being re-booted by the look of things. I'll try and compile a list of the programmes and the times that I hear them, but the signal often drops out at crucial moments and it isn't always easy to tell one bible programme from the other if you miss the intro. Thanks again and 73, (Alan Gale, Oct 18, ibid.) A few people have noticed "Your Weekend Show" airing on WINB during their DRM testing. A few weeks ago they sent me an email asking me if I would let them run it for about a month during their periods of DRM operation. I said yes. To be honest I did not remember getting a reply on when it would air, which is why I did not added it to the website. I'm glad to know it is airing, and am wondering how the program sounds in DRM (Bob Biermann, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Bob, Conditions weren't so great here at the time so a lot of dropouts, but I have uploaded what I could to my Dropbox page in a .mp3 format, and the link below will allow you to download it and hear what the good bits sounded like. I am in the UK, so when it is good it's not bad at all considering the distance, because even the AM signals from WINB are a struggle to hear much of the time. It would be great to hear WRMI or WWCR try some DRM tests, their signals are usually much stronger here: (Alan Gale, ibid.) Subject: Re: [WOR] WINB DRM --- OK -- frequency? Is this on 9265? I've also seen reference to a 19 metre channel. I also note they're using 64 QAM for the MSC. 16 QAM would make it decode ever so much more reliably 'in the real world'. How do we get that message across to the stations? Nigeria is the only one I've seen use 16 QAM and they have been pretty absent of late! Thanks (//Ken Zichi, Oct 19, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I am not sure which post you are replying to, since you do not quote any of it, but WINB DRM is on 15665-15670-15675 - I was just hearing their noise in a bandscan this morning. Nominal sked is 11-17 UT M-F only. Originally they were talking about DRM tests also on their 9265 frequency when not otherwise in use. I`ve yet to see any definite reports of that (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) 9265V, Sat Oct 20 at 1300, Unique Radio via WINB, back to `Sounds of Your Life` nostalgia music with Tim Gaynor immediately following his relay of World of Radio. First of the all-upbeat tunes is a version of ``Smoke Gets in your Eyes``; 1315 ``Hitchin` a Ride ---``. By 1327 I notice that the carrier is again very wobbly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHER: ** U S A. 7505v, Oct 17 at 0512, WRNO poor in English, not Chinese. Ron Howard has also noticed Chinese missing at various times, but the nominal schedule for that language has never been clear, if there were one. In case of no Chinese at all any more, that would be noteworthy. We need to recheck in the hour before 1300*. Website now shows nothing about Chinese, and no program schedule at all, just publicity for three main English ministries, headed by owner Mawire: http://www.wrnoworldwide.com/ Aoki/NDXC shows daily Chinese segments `Grace for Today` at 03-05, 08 -10, 11-13, and something else in Chinese at 10-11. Altho there is no link from the homepage, this still exists without any specific scheduling info: http://www.wrnoworldwide.com/grace-for-today/ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, Oct 17 - At 0839 noted WRNO in English, but at 0908 heard the intro in English and Chinese, to the program "Grace for Today," which followed in Chinese. WRNO very erratic with their scheduling! (Ron Howard, California, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7505, Oct 18 at 0457, WRNO with distorted modulation, soul music, S9+10; 0458 outro ID as ``The Haven, Fridays at 8-9 [AM or PM??], Saturdays 10-11 AM`` when WRNO is never on the air! Anyhow this sure isn`t Chinese. `The Haven` is shown multiple hours on this undated and outdated schedule which I searched out altho it has no link from the WRNO homepage: http://www.wrnoworldwide.com/schedule-wrno-app/ 7505, Oct 19 at 0644, WRNO still distorted modulation, but now in Chinese, S9+10 fading to S6. Ron Howard says he still hears Chinese at times from WRNO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, Oct 18, WRNO (7505v), heard in Chinese at 0909 & 1010. Oct 19, WRNO, heard at 1121, with program "A Time To Dream," with Lisa Worley interview about the book "Life Is Like a Box of Chocolates: You Never Know What You're Gonna Get." http://atimetodream.org/ Earlier had been in Chinese (Ron Howard, California, WOR iog via DXLD) 7505v, WRNO, heard at 1001, on Oct 21. Again with another program of "A Time To Dream," in English; fair; no audio problems, as Glenn recently noted (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) 7505v, WRNO, 1033, Oct 22. In Chinese, with good audio; at 1226+, multi-language IDs and contact info for "The Haven"; program in English (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** U S A. 12160, WWCR, 10/20, 1655-1730. begins with old time gospel music; at the top of the hour the "Talking Machine Show" is a 30 minute long show that features very old records being played on a very old record player. Some of these recordings dated back to 1900. Good signal, therefore using the term arm chair copy is somewhat apropo[s] (Ronald Sives, Easton, Pa. Equipment: Eton Field Radio; Princeton Sky Wire, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) See also SOUTH CAROLINA [non] WWCR still hasn`t put up their B-18 transmitter schedule but in HFCC registrations I see an unusual new frequency: 7390 at 1400-1800 (Glenn Hauser, Oct 22, WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5970, Oct 22 at 0539, NO signal from WEWN Spanish, whilst English on much higher 11520 is on and propagating very poorly. 5830 WTWW is also AWOL, while 5935 WWCR is VG (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15555.025, exact measured first peak visible of USB mode signal of WJHR Radio International from Milton FL-USA. Religious program content sound strange for European ears, like "...your body, ... your pain ... gone to the devil ..." Male pastor sermon, in speedy machine gun spoken format. S=9+10dB in NJ-US SDR unit, at 2106 UT on Oct 15. Log 31, 25, 22, and 19 mb 2100-2230 UT, Oct 15 [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5049.98, WWRB (presumed) with ”Challenge” from a Jacksonville FL church in English with preacher talking about being born again, etc. Programme close down at ToH and saying “May God bless you and yours ‘real good’.” Dead air for a few seconds at 0201 and into a different Bible bumper, Jim Roland of a Baptist Church in TN. 4+554+4 odd ‘whistle’ at about 1600 Hz (Upper and Lower sidebands) which could be notched, but also whenever there was a pause in modulation, they were throwing ‘spurs’ from 5035 to 5065 kHz which made an unholy mess on the band. They essentially created their own ‘noise bubble’ from 5030 to 5070 (see above). 0150-0203 14/Oct SDRplay +randomwire (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Port Hope MI2, WOR iog via DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. Navajo KTNN-660 off again at least part of the night. 1015z (03:15 local)[Oct 18]. Relogged Punjab chanting KGSV-660, Oildale, CA (6 KW). New log: Canadian CFFR-660 Calgary, AB (50 KW). Though a powerhouse at 50 kW, CFFR's pattern is all north. They put very little signal in this direction (Bill, RADIO-TIMETRAVELLER https://radio-timetraveller.blogspot.com ABDX yg via DXLD) But where is he (and who is he?) Lots of useful info at his website (including link to WOR) and this vague reference: ``A sizable chunk of the year is spent in a small town in southwestern Arizona in the desert along the California border.`` As for CFFR, like so many Canadians, I would not be at all surprised if it is not *really* running direxional all-north (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. WLW PEP Station to Test New Studio Shelter https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/wlw-pep-station-to-test-new-studio-shelter Sent from my iPad (via Dennis Gibson, Oct 22, IRCA via DXLD) viz.: Randy J. Stine in 1 hour Photo: Manny Centeno Tour scheduled for Wednesday for Cincinnati area station The Federal Emergency Management Agency expects to reveal new studio capabilities at WLW(AM) in Cincinnati on Wednesday [Ocr 24] during a first of its kind broadcast from a shelter at the transmitter site of the National Public Warning System (NWPS) Primary Entry Point (PEP) radio station. The iHeartMedia radio station is one of 77 PEP radio stations across the country and the second to have added modernized emergency studio facilities. Enhanced studio capabilities were completed at WJR(AM) in Detroit earlier this year, according to Manny Centeno, FEMA’s NPWS program manager. The upgrades include increased sheltering capabilities, expanded broadcast capacity, and sustainable power generation for all types of hazardous events. [Read: Sens. Schatz and Thune Introduce READI Act to Improve EAS] https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/sens-schatz-and-thune-introduce-readi-act-to-improve-eas PEP stations are designed and hardened to withstand various natural disasters and man-made events to ensure continuity of operations. FEMA began an effort to upgrade PEP facilities in 2015 after Congress passed the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System Modernization Act. “This is really a critical development. For many years FEMA and the FCC has supported radio broadcast and been adding resiliency to the system. Things like generators, fuel to last for 60 days and other protections. Now we are expanding the survivability of these stations to include an all hazards platform, which means chemical, biological, radiological air protection and protection from electromagnetic pulse,” Centeno says. FEMA is including studios within standalone modules to insure that PEP radio stations are capable of broadcasting during and after emergencies when other communication sources may be down, Centeno says. “We always say that radio is the backbone of emergency information to the public. It’s a tested and proven method to reach the masses during disasters. Our intent is to protect radio so it can continue to serve the public as well as it has in the past,” Centeno adds. In all, FEMA is modernizing 33 of the NWPS PEP stations to include better studio capabilities with human survivability capabilities, he says. The studio shelters are all the same size and design. The all metal studio shelters – think of it as a Coke can that seals completely, Centeno says — have filtered air systems to insure safety during a possible airborne chemical disaster. “The modules are uniform size (8 feet x 20 feet) and transportable. We can easily move them around the country by train, plane, flatbed and boat,” he said. “The studio modules contain a studio with audio mixing capabilities and processing, transmitter and associated equipment for monitoring.” The studio shelter even includes a rest area for station operators and an “incinerator toilet” along with food and water for several weeks, according to Centeno. Satellite and fiber optic communications systems are employed as well. A ribbon cutting, tour and on-air demonstration of the new WLW studio shelter is planned for 11:00 a.m. EDT time on Wednesday. The station’s transmitter site is located at 710 Tylersville Road in Mason, Ohio. WLW is a Class A clear-channel station operating with 50,000 watts. “The exercise on Wednesday will be the first time we have operated the shelter system live. We will be doing demonstrations and some tests to simulate an emergency broadcast,” Centeno says. Centeno also commends iHeartMedia and Cumulus, owner of WJR in Detroit, for their efforts in completing the modernization projects and insuring that their stations are in a position to respond promptly during emergencies (via DXLD) ** U S A. WSB dead air [750 Atlanta] As of 10 PM [EDT] over 30 minutes of dead air ("Powell E. Way III" w4opw, 0212 UT Oct 21, Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android, ABDX yg via DXLD) The FM side is going strong though ("Ira Elbert New III", GA, Sent from my iPhone 0214 UT Oct 21, abdx yg via DXLD) I guess he means separately programmed 98.5; WTFDA search does not show any paltry FM translator // 750; what`s with that? (gh,DXLD) ** U S A. Blockerade USA-stationer ---- Kollade gamla Ekon, och fann att du undrade kring WTIC [1080 Hartford CT] blockering. Så jag kollade och det stämmer, de vill skydda sig från "online attacks". Du kanske redan löst det, men om inte så är det lätt fixat. Dra igång en VPN klient och ställ in servern på USA. Sen funkar det, alla (ja, de flesta) tror du kommer från USA. Webbläsare som Opera har inbyggd VPN, men det finns en massa andra varianter också. Vad gäller VPN finns det massor med lösningar. De flesta kräver dock installering av programtillägg. De flesta kostar pengar, vissa som Tin-nelbear är gratis. Googla och ni ska finna. En första VPN-start kan vara det här på PC För Alla: https://pcforalla.idg.se/2.1054/1.678233/allt-om-vpn Det enklaste sättet att få VPN är med webbläsaren Opera. Så hämta denna norska webbläsare, som är både snabb, bäst och fylld med en massa inbyggda finesser som reklamblockerare och gratis VPN. Finns för alla plattformar. Operas VPN slår man till-från efter behov och sinnesstämning (se bild). När du slår på den kan du också välja vilken del av världen du vill låtsas vara i. Fungerar ofta, som kring WTIC, men inte för typ Netflix, som verkar ha effektivare geoblockering kring sitt zonindelade material (Hermod Pedersen, SW Bulletin Oct 21 via DXLD) Win10 har en inbyggd VPN. Läs här hur du konfugurerar den https://pcforalla.idg.se/2.1054/1.698922/stall-in-windows-inbyggda-vpn (Thomas Nilsson, ibid.) Blocked United States Stations ---- Checked Old Ekon, and found that you were wondering about WTIC [1080 Hartford CT] blocking. So I checked and that's right, they want to protect themselves from "online attacks". You may have already solved it, but if not, it's easy fix. Start a VPN client and set up the server on the United States. Then it works, everyone (yes, most) think you're from the United States. Browsers like Opera have built-in VPN, but there are a lot of other variants as well. With regard to VPN, there are lots of solutions. However, most require installation of program extensions. Most cost money, some like Tin-nelbear are free. Googla and you will find. A first VPN start can be this on PC For All: https://pcforalla.idg.se/2.1054/1.678233/allt-om-vpn The easiest way to get VPN is with the Opera browser. So download this Norwegian browser, which is both fast, best and filled with a lot of built-in features like commercial bellows and free VPN. Available for all platforms. The VPN of the Opera is turned on-off as needed and mood (see picture). When you turn it on, you can also choose which part of the world you want to pretend to be. Works often, like around WTIC, but not for Netflix, which seems to have more efficient geo blocking around its zoned content (Hermod Pedersen, SW Bulletin Oct 21 via Google translate for DXLD) Win10 has a built-in VPN. Learn how to configure it https://pcforalla.idg.se/2.1054/1.698922/stall-in-windows-inbyggda-vpn (Thomas Nilsson, ibid.) Google seems to do a much better job with Swedish than some other Western languages; maybe because of similar syntax to English (gh) ** U S A. 1590 kHz KDAV TX Lubbock Assumed, Need help here. The entire time was getting IDs for KNNK 100.5 Hereford TX. Never an ID for KDAV, 0525-0545 UT. Thanks for the help on KDAV. 73 (Art Jackson KA5DWI/7, Near Prescott AZ. Oct 19, ABDX yg via DXLD) I'll check my Border Inn recordings and see what I've got for KDAV. It wouldn't surprise me if KDAV is simulcasting something. HPRN seems to be having money problems. Their web site is just a single page with a list of their stations, and some of their other stations have suddenly started simulcasting, making me suspect they've laid off a lot of people. Specifically: KZZN-1490 is now announcing that they are simulcasting KVRP-1400 (but I have yet to find KVRP on my recordings). KVOP-1090 is now announcing that they are simulcasting KICA-980 (but I have yet to hear KICA from the Border Inn, and a DXer in Clovis told me this morning that KICA, which has been silent since the previous owner's bankruptcy in 2015, has not actually returned to the air yet). I'd have to suspect that HPRN expanded too fast and over-extended their finances. KDAV was an awesome oldies station before HPRN bought them and changed the format. 73 (Tim Hall, CA, Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone, ibid.) P.S. hprnetwork.com confirms KNNK-FM is an HPRN station. And I made a mistake - KZZN-1490 is //KREW-1400, not KVRP (Tim Hall Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone, ibid.) KNNK has been an HPRN Station for about 7 years. It was the first station that HPRN really expanded with beyond their original 4 (Paul Walker, ibid.) ** U S A. FCC Chairman Pai flies to Florida today, where 14 radio stations remain dark --- Radio News Tom Taylor October 19, 2018 Pánama City is still flattened, and it may be unprecedented for an owner like Powell to state, just days after the storm, that it doesn’t intend to re-build any of its stations there. (We have yet to hear about the fate of Powell’s announced sale of CHR “Hot 107.9” WPFM to EMF parent K-Love.) The Powell stations are among the ten full-power FMs still reporting to the Commission as “out of service.” Two Florida AMs are also down, and the recovery is exceedingly slow for everybody. Chairman Ajit Pai’s comments on today’s inspection tour will be telling. His main target’s expected to be the wireless companies, but their problems are the same ones facing the radio broadcasters – no electric power, and a battered infrastructure. Meanwhile a coalition of public interest groups is pressing Chairman Pai to put the same spotlight on recovery efforts in Puerto Rico as in Florida. At least things are better now in Georgia and Alabama, from the destructive October 10 visit by Hurricane Michael. The FCC just deactivated its Disaster Information Reporting System for those two states. But 21 counties in Florida, including Bay, Gulf, Gadsden and Washington, are still very much the focus of D.I.R.S. If you want to do a good deed for the industry, the Broadcasters Foundation of America is accepting donations for broadcasters suffering due to Hurricane Michael and Hurricane Florence. Broadcasters Foundation of America https://broadcastersfoundation.org/hurricanerelief/ (via Mike Terry, Oct 19, WOR iog via DXLD) ** U S A. Pirate Radio --- The FCC’s busting more pirates in smaller markets. Radio News Tom Taylor Now October 18, 2018 True, the Dallas office issues two Notices of Unlicensed Operation for an 87.9 in Houston, run out of New Beginnings Fellowship Church. But agents from Dallas also found a pirate FM at 93.5 up in the smallish [sic] Texas Panhandle town of Amarillo. (That one was also operated out of a church, the Iglesia Bautista Renovacion Ministerio Internacional.) The spectrum cops from Dallas also detected a 95.9 in Port Arthur, Texas. And out in California, agents from the L.A. office ventured up to Oxnard to respond to a complaint about a 99.1 operating from a business. (It was a business run by Maria Gonzalez, who gets the NOUO.) So while the traditional pirate radio hotbeds in South Florida, the New York City area and Boston get attention, there seem to be more complaints and more investigations in smaller markets. If the “PIRATE Act” that passed the House ever makes it through the Senate and is signed into law, the FCC would be required to make twice-yearly sweeps of the five most active areas for pirates. But it seems illegal FMs may simply be popping up in less-likely places. The equipment’s cheap and you might not get caught. Though one pirate in Miami got nabbed doing something novel – operating a pirate station out of a parked RV. (Sure keeps the costs down.)(via Mike Terry, Oct 18, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DXLD) ** U S A. Country Roads - Reflecting on a (lengthy) resume Dallas County News --- Arvid Huisman - huismaniowa@gmail.com Thursday --- Oct 18, 2018 at 12:01 AM Back in 2007 - 11 years ago this month - when I went to work for The Salvation Army after nearly 40 years in the radio and newspaper industries I was surprised by how previous job experiences had prepared me for my new job. I was hired by The Salvation Army as development and communication director for central Iowa. Every year, if we're paying attention to what we're doing, we gain experience that can be helpful years later. I worked in radio for the first nine years of my career. It was fun but I began to see a less than glorious future, at least for me and my career plans. So what did I take from the radio business? First of all, I can read clocks quickly! Seriously, when you're gabbing away on live radio you don't have time to stare at the clock and figure out where the big hand is where the little hand is. You have, at most, two seconds to observe and report. I just tried it on the analog clock in my office ? less than a second. That skill and a dollar may get you a senior coffee at McDonald's. Radio forces you to be persnickety about time. When the news is supposed to start at 7:00 a.m. it should start at 7:00:00 a.m. - not 7:00:05 or 7:00:10. One of my duties as the sign-on guy was to calibrate the clocks in both studios with the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) WWV shortwave radio station in Fort Collins, Colorado. Fifty years later and retired I reset our clocks for daylight time or standard time using the NIST radio signal. That's what I mean about being persnickety. Another skill learned in radio: I can talk for five minutes without saying much. My first radio boss told me that when he entered the business in 1941 he was given an audition in which he was handed a jar of jelly and ordered to ad lib a 60-second commercial. He obviously passed and spent the rest of his career in radio. The ability to ad lib and sound relatively intelligent has come in handy. I'm the Doctor of Verbosity. Radio helped kill butterflies - the bad kind. Overconfidence is dangerous so a few butterflies in the stomach can be a good thing. However, I am usually not overwhelmed by mic fright or stage fright. Nor am I easily intimidated by poohbahs. Years after my radio experience I found myself and a few colleagues seated at a table in the Governor's office dealing with the governor and several of his subordinates on a matter urgent to Iowa's newspaper industry. I smiled as I remembered a blistering rebuke by a prominent (and drunk) lawyer for something she thought she heard on my radio talk show. After that tirade I am not intimidated easily by anyone, including a sober governor. Early in my career I had never considered a sales job. After two high school proms I didn't think I could handle any more rejection. On a number of occasions, however, folks stopped by the station to purchase commercials when the sales staff was on the street so I assisted them. I had a lot to learn about sales but I got my first taste of the profession "filling in" at the radio station. I admire people who begin an occupation and stick to it for 30 or 40 years. When I finally determined that the newspaper industry offered me the potential of stability, decent compensation and growth opportunities I thought perhaps I had wasted the first nine years of my career. To the contrary, the things I learned during those nine years in radio were beneficial in subsequent years. Then, when I left the newspaper industry, I found that those decades of newspaper experience were valuable to a career in non-profit development. If you are at a point in your career where you feel a new direction might be beneficial, make a list of all the things you have learned in your current and previous jobs and consider how those skills might transfer to another trade or profession. Give yourself credit where credit is due. Meanwhile, I've been retired for nearly five years and still haven't decided what I really want to do when I grow up (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** U S A. Bill Hepburn`s tropo maps for 1200 & 1500 UT Oct 20 show a level 5 = strong blob centered around Ft Smith AR, lesser rings out to marginal by Enid, but this fits exactly for the DTV DX I am getting at 1426: RF 18: KFSM-DT 5-1 with CBS; 5-2 KXNW-DT (34 bug); 5-3 Antenna TV, after 1500 with `Wildlife Docs`. RF 18 finally starts breaking up by 1515 UT. See also OKLAHOMA. Two OKC channels are BAD because of DX interference: RF 27, no KFOR-TV, surely due to KFTA-TV, 600 kW, Ft Smith AR RF 15, no KOPX-TV, surely due to KHOG-TV, 180 kW, Fayetteville AR RF 25, the KWTV TEST with color bars, gray scale and bouncing pings is now running also on weekends, seen both Sat Oct 20 and Sun Oct 21, altho first at 1430 UT Oct 21 it is not decoding, then starts to overcome DX QRM with mixed pixels. Only other OKs on 25 are low-power CDs or translators. Most likely this is from the real RF channel of 130 kW KXNW ``34`` Eureka Springs AR, which is also on RF 18 of KFSM as 5-2 (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN. 15565, Vatican Radio at 1635 Oct 21 with heavily accented African English news for Africa. Young People of Africa program at 1650 to sign off of the African Service of Vatican Radio at 1657. Interval Signal to 1700, then into French. Excellent. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta, Rx: Perseus SDR, Ant: Wellbrook ALA100 loop, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** YEMEN [non]. 11860. Out 2, 2018. 0330-03401, Radio Sana´a, Jeddah-ARS, em Árabe. Locutor em conversação com uma autoridade iemenita, suponho. Recepção com bom sinal e modulação satisfatória, raras, neste início de madrugada entre nós, 45433 (José Ronaldo Xavier (JRX) - PR7036SWL, Cabedelo-Paraiba, Brasil. Degen DE1103 & Sony ICF-SW100, Oct 15, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. TWR Silk Road Project --- As far as I can see TWR have not revealed their planned transmitter location. They are claiming the transmitter will be 200 kW and they are planning to be operational Spring 2019, though the date depends on their fund-raising efforts raising $593000. That looks like considerable capital investment and not just a case of renting an existing transmitter with an air time agreement. They talk about installing and commissioning a new transmitter, but no mention of antennas or local studios. As for coverage they suggest it will 60 million people in 10 countries. Here is a proposed coverage map [invisible attachment]. The centre point falls in the most South-Eastern corner of Kazakhstan, which suggests the transmitter is likely planned for Almaty area. However more like is Krasnaya Rechka just east of Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan. That site is just 5 km south of the border between Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan and already has more than 10 radio masts. Map implies omnidirectional antenna configuration. One omni-directional mast is clearly visible on google maps with a radial earth mat extending out up to 200 m from the base of the mast, clearly a high power MW installation. 73s (Steve Whitt, MWN editor, Oct 20, MWCircle yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, Oct 18 at 1227-1242 UT: 774(2)-NW>WSW; 576, 585, 594-NW, 612, 657-WSW, 693-NW, 702(2)-WSW, 738, 747-NW, 756-WSW, 828-WSW, 837, 864, 882(2), 936(2), 945-WSW, 1026-WSW, 1044, 1052-NW, 1098-W, 1134, 1242(2), 1287, 1314-WSW, 1485, 1494-WSW, 1503-WSW, 1521-WSW, 1548-NW, 1566-NW. The very weakest ones I did not get a DF on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Oct 21 at 0330- 0340 UT, all on the DX-398 with DF roughly NE (nevermind SW): 531, 549, 558, 585, 621, 693(2), 702, 837, 846, 855(2), 873, 882(2), 909, 946, 963=despite local 960 splash, 999, 1017, 1026, 1044(2), 1053(2), 1089, 1098(2), 1107, 1134, 1152, 1161, 1215, 1224, 1296+ (nothing known significantly off+plus), 1314, 1341, 1413, 1422, 1458, 1485, 1503, 1521, 1548, 1575. Then on the adjacent NRD-545 with ALA-330S antenna E-W, I check out some of the better prospects, employing PBT, narrow bandwidth, and manage to pull a little bit of audios: 1044, Oct 21 at 0353, talk sounds Spanish: there are two SER stations in SPAIN, but only 10 and 5 kW; presumably the 300 kW Moroccan is still inactive. In fact I am getting two carriers beating, as in MW Offsets about 8 Hz apart: 1043.9951 SER (Valladolid) [range: 1043.9946-] 24h 2016-10-04 1044.0028 SER (San Sebastián/Monte Igueldo)[1044.0017-] 24h 2017-03-27 1215, Oct 21 at 0400 talk, surely Absolute Radio, UK synchros, originally 14 of them, adding up to 560 kW per WRTH 2018 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, Oct 22 from 1228 UT, this time for a change on the R75 with E-W longwire instead of DX -398, so I can`t check direxions: 531, 585, 594*, 612, 657(2), 702, 711, 747*, 756, 774*, 819(2), 828, 837, 855, 873, 882, 945, 972*, 1008, 1017, 1035, 1044, 1062, 1098, 1143, 1179, 1197 but none higher; now it`s 1236 as the lower ones are weakening but I still have 891(2), 945(2). *means stronger ones; (2) means at least two carriers beating. LSR today: 1245 UT (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. "Talking House" on 1610 kHz --- Hi all, I am new to the group, so hello! For the past two evenings I've been hearing an odd transmission at 1610 kHz at my parents' house in Congleton, Cheshire. It consists of a looped announcement with poor modulation giving information on how to set up a "Talking House" AM transmitter interspersed with what sounds like a short burst of Come As You Are by rock band Nirvana. The announcement refers to the website www.talkinghouse.com which describes a Part 15 low-power AM transmitter for use on 1610 kHz in the US. The signal isn't around in the daytime, which makes me think it isn't someone messing around locally. Has anyone else heard this transmission? Best regards (Andy King, 1210 UT Oct 22, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) It is someone messing about. I know exactly who it is and if you join the Skywaves forum you'll find out as well (Stuart Heathcock, ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED. There are two SS pirates that I sometimes hear in Wyomissing, one on 1710 and the other on 87.9. I found them both this past spring. 1710 AM Mostly music. They have an ID, but I don't do SS and its said too fast for me to sound it out. They were on at 1130 EDT on 13 October with bouncy SS music. 1710 is nominal -- 1709 or 1708 is more accurate, but there is no defined carrier just a broad-banded blob on the IF waterfall. Looks more like an FM signal. If someone wants an image of the waterfall, let me know. 87.9 FM, I have not heard it since mid-September. It was mostly music. In the past, the signal was very directional--extending only a few miles north of the city center, but many miles to the south, down US222 (Hunsicker, near Reading, Pennsylvania) (Ron Hunsicker, 1238 Cleveland Avenue, Wyomissing, PA 19610-2102, 610-478-0371, ronhunsi at ptd dot net, Free Radio Weekly via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. Mistero DRM su 90 metri: sulla frequenza dei 3262 kHz arriva un segnale digitale non meglio identificato con la scritta DRM Service A, ma nessun audio né altra identificazione. Lo segnala Giovanni Carboni da Pisa, che invia anche uno screenshot (sopra) del 17 ottobre alle 1822 UT. Pubblicato da (Giampiero Bernardini a ottobre 17, 2018 playdx blog via DXLD) Kevin Ryan via Groups.Io kirjoitti 14.10.2018 klo 22:23: ``If I had to guess I would pick North Korea. They have experimented with DRM in the past and reportedly used it as a feeder to their transmitters. Best Regards, Kevin Ryan, bdxc`` That's rather late after sunrise for North Korea on such a low frequency. Best regards, (Mauno Ritola, ibid.) Original report was at 0150 UT (gh, DXLD) Hi all, It seems we can at least pin point it towards Asia for sure. As quoted from Alan Gale on a separate thread if this helps out. I wonder if it is possible that CNR is doing a test or information being fed through it? "Hi Jordan, No luck with them so far, though the signals have improved greatly in recent weeks, so maybe a better chance of hearing them now. The signal is coming in quite well at the moment here (1200 UT), but just with some religious programme. I posted details of your reception of the mystery signal on 3260 to the DRMRX forum, and one of the members in China was receiving it at very good strength, though wasn't able to get any decode or ID from it, so it may be encrypted. The idea of it being from your chums in North Korea may well be a good one I think (perhaps you could have a word with them)! :-)" [Gale] Best Regards, (Jordan Heyburn, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) Re 3260 {drm} matter: some STANAG digital data block transmissions heard at 0040 UT, more blocks visible in Moscow Russia SDR unit though, on: 2393, 2425, 2562, 3386 kHz, 3249.7-3252.3 kHz S=9 in Russia. Some log in 0015 til 0045 UT time slot, taken in Delhi India and Moscow Russia remote SDR's, Oct 19 [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) So maybe not DRM at all? But not 3260 (gh) UNIDENTIFIED. 6195, Oct 17 at 0601, strong carrier, off 0602 before I have a chance to read the S-meter. Nothing scheduled, but probably WHRI with a transmitter test before the 09-10 NHK relay in Portuguese & Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ No new financial support has been received for a few weeks now. It could have been by money order or checque in US funds on a US bank to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702; or, not necessarily in US funds, via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ IRCA Slogan's List Update (October 2018) Folks, I have just created an updated IRCA Slogan's List. This completely revised Slogans List includes radio slogans from the US and Canada (over 4500). The 2018 IRCA Slogans List is posted on the IRCA website for all to download. The link is: http://www.ircaonline.org/editor_upload/File/IRCA%20Slogans-Introduction.pdf For those preferring a hard copy, one can be ordered from the IRCA. Prices: IRCA/NRC members – $9.50 (US), $11.00 (Canada) $12.50 (México), $14.00 (rest of the world). Non-IRCA/NRC members – add $2.00. To order from the IRCA, send the correct amount (in US funds payable to Phil Bytheway) to: IRCA, 9705 MARY NW, SEATTLE WA 98117-2334. Or, order through PayPal to email: phil_tekno@yahoo.com (Phil Bytheway). Please state club affiliation when ordering. Feel free to pass this on to any other eGroups that might be interested (Phil Bytheway, Oct 16, nrc-am gg via DXLD) WRTH 2019 New title information: Specification: Format: 229 x 146 mm Extent: 672 pages (including 64 pages in full colour) Paper: 60gsm cartridge for run of book; 100 gsm glossy art for colour section Pub date: 6 December 2018 ISBN: 978-1-9998300-1-4 This is the 73rd edition of World Radio TV Handbook and this great directory continues to offer the most comprehensive guide to broadcasting on the planet. With the help of our international network of contributors we again provide the most up-to-date information on mediumwave, shortwave and FM broadcasts and broadcasters available in any publication. “The WRTH remains the undisputed leader in terms of global broadcast radio information. It is the essential accessory for every radio enthusiast, radio professional and anyone interested in radio worldwide” – Radiouser, UK “First time readers, both myself and brother, were amazed at the wealth of knowledge and information in the WRTH” – Chris Harwood, USA WRTH 2019 will have: Articles on topics of great interest to professionals, listeners and dxers alike including articles on HF Curtain Arrays, Broadcasting for Peace in the Lake Chad region, the new MW transmitter installed by TWR Bonaire, and V7AB Radio Marshall Island, as well as our regular Digital Update. Reviews of the latest receivers and equipment including Winradio’s Excalibur Sigma, Reuter’s RDR51 ‘Pocket’, Icom’s IC-R30, Airspy HF+ Maps fully updated showing global SW transmitter sites * Features – Colour pages giving articles, radio reviews, propagation predictions, and colour maps * National Radio – The world’s national radio services, and the broadcasters, listed by country. * International Radio – Full broadcaster details and the winter SW frequencies as supplied by the broadcasters together with an expanded Clandestine section. * Frequency Lists MW frequency lists by region; international and domestic SW broadcasts by frequency; international broadcasts in English, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish by UTC; DRM broadcasts * Television – Details of terrestrial broadcasters arranged alphabetically by country. * Reference – International and Domestic SW Transmitter sites, Standard Time and Frequency Transmissions, DX Club information, Internet resources and other essential information. (via ARC mv-eko Oct 22 via DXLD) AZIMUTHAL GREAT CIRCLE MAP GENERATOR I sometimes refer to the beam or the antenna heading in my loggings. This is because I use a great circle map centered on my location to better understand signal propagation. It is also handy to have such a map when using directional antennas. One of the best sites to generate these maps is hosted by Tom Epperley, NS6T. It is completely free and it's possible to customize your own maps with as much or as little detail as needed. Click on his call sign to go to his website. https://ns6t.net/azimuth/azimuth.html (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles, ODXA iog via DXLD) LANGUAGE LESSONS Kyiv vs Kiev: see UKRAINE ++++++++++++++++ DX-PEDITIONS ++++++++++++ KONG37 If you are interested in the state of art DX, please take a look at the interesting web-site ArcticDX and the ongoing KONG37 expedition: http://arcticdx.blogspot.com/ Really excellent DX like Tonga and other pacific stations have already been heard (SW Bulletin Oct 21 via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DAB See SVALBARD ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See BHUTAN; INDIA; KUWAIT; ROMANIA; USA: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ WINB; UNIDENTIFIED 3260; PUBS: WRTH DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See MEXICO; OKLAHOMA; SAMOA AMERICAN; USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ VE1ZZ For those of us in medium wave DX who also like to know about what hams refer to as Topband or 160m (1800-2000 kHz), you may want to read of the passing of a true giant in the hobby, Jack VE1ZZ of Nova Scotia. http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/topband/2018-10/msg00105.html The write-up by Jeff K1ZM, a published author and one of the East Coast's other big guns, is well worth a read. Jack's set-up, like those of last century's W1BB in MA and W6AM in CA, was a coastal superstation that could hear a pin drop in a mud hut on the other side of the planet. The K1ZM write-up goes into some of the antenna and equipment choices and d-i-y skills that, along with the salt water proximity, made VE1ZZ among the biggest signals on the band even in far-off deserts and jungles (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, South Yarmouth, MA, Oct 22, nrc-am gg via DXLD) Obit MONTREAL`S RADIO DOCTOR PRACTISES DYING TRADE OF REPAIRING ELECTRONICS Joseph Hovsepian says he is part of the last generation that knows how to repair electronics --- Craig Desson · CBC News · Posted: Oct 18, 2018 5:15 PM ET | Last Updated: October 19 Joseph Hovsepian immigrated to Canada from Greece in 1960. (Craig Desson/CBC) [caption] Joseph Hovsepian has been repairing? radios for so long that he claims that he can sometimes smell the problem. "When I pick up a radio, I turn it on or I plug it in and the way it smells, the way it sounds or doesn't sound, the way it crackles and fades away, all these things are recorded in my brain and I know exactly how to start and how to fix it," he said. Since 1960, Hovsepian has been fixing radios, turntables and other electronic gadgets from his Parc Ave. repair shop. The 79-year-old sees himself as part of the last generation of people trained in the art of repair. "We have lost the ability to touch things, fix things, repair them and feel good for doing it," he said. . . https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/meet-montreal-s-radio-doctor-the-man-who-practises-the-dying-trade-of-repairing-electronics-1.4866324 (via Kevin Redding, Crump, ABDX yg via DXLD) with 2:34 audio Thanks, Glenn. Yes, I got several messages about this piece. His shop is really special. It's like walking into the past. He has a fair number of elderly clients who live in the neighbourhood. It's in a sector of Montreal with a large ethnic population. Many older eastern Europeans, as well as very close to the Hassidic community. Many clients come in with very old radios that they have sentimental attachment to. Joseph is able, for the most part, to keep their old radios up and running for them. I swear that some of the stock in the store has been there for 40 years or more! He has always carried a pretty good selection of shortwave radios. I have to admit that I haven't been there for some time, so I'm not sure what he may currently be carrying in the way of specific models. Thanks for passing the story along (Sheldon Harvey, Greenfield Park, Quebec, DX LISTENING DIGEST) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ WHAT, NO LONG-HAUL CARIBBEAN TO BRAZIL TRANS-EQUATORIAL FMDX REPORTED? Uma questão: Já estamos em meados de outubro e até aqui não ouvimos ou lemos nenhuma informação sobre as estações de FM caribenhas neste ano. Não estão chegando, ou o interesse nessa intenção já se esgotou em anos anteriores? Normalmente começa-se a ouvi-las a partir de meados de setembro!!!! Aqui na minha região, é impraticável buscar ouvi-las, pela saturação de frequências ocupadas, principalmente de emissoras piratas. 73, (Rudolf Grimm, Oct 17, radioescutas yg via DXLD) NO replies seen. I also wonder if such DXers migrated to other media, such as the disgraced FB, without so much as an ``até logo`` to their yg colleagues. Another peak of TE comes around February (gh, DXLD) SRS DX to the west coast from IL, the greatest show on earth [axually, the DX path is FROM the west coast, TO Illinois --- gh] I've always felt that Oct. is about the best month to DX and things haven't disappointed recently. I've learned to wait for stuff a few hundred miles west to fade and allow stuff near the west coast to come in. Of course recording with the Perseus is magical, and the DKAZ still seems to be a stunning antenna. New this morning, 750 KXTG OR with local lumber yard ad. 980 KFWB CA with ranchera and finally "La Mera Mera". New audio from Australia as 3RN 621 and 5AN 891 finally managed to push some DU accented/inflected audio past local adjacent slop machines. 610 had religious music coming thru KONA WA and it seemed the same as I could dredge up thru the QRM on 920 (usually KVEL UT). Are all Family Radio stations //? (Hoping for KEAR; no sign of needed BC) New over the past couple days. 580 KIDO ID, 590 KQNT WA, 590 KGLE MT (nice ID today). Audio on 1674 from Australia clearly not English. PAL lists Melbourne as only thing I could possibly get. 980 CKNW BC also new. Fun stuff, 840 KMPH CA IDed and bothered in LSB by 837 4RK which was logged again by //. 600 KOGO CA. 1020 KTNQ CA good. 870 KLSQ NV loud! 570 KVI WA. etc., etc. 73 KAZ Barrington IL EN52we (Neil Kazaross, Oct 20, ABDX yg and IRCA at HCDX) When you say "I've learned to wait for stuff a few hundred miles west to fade and allow stuff near the west coast to come in" do you mean after your local sunrise, as the daylight makes them fade? (Mark Pettifor, Goshen IN en71ao, Oct 21, ibid.) Yes, Mark, the closer western stuff is typically fading somewhat by my LSR or slightly after or even a bit prior. Things didn't seem as good this morning for domestics and the far west faded earlier, although big gun Aussies hung in there to at least 1220 with 612 and 594 being rather nice as can copy some words she was saying. 702 and 738 were in a bit prior and 1548 noted in slop and I expect I can pull some audio out of the many carriers in. On peaks about 1205 I caught some talking in slop from Tonga on 1017. Hopefully I can find 5 dB more from it and make a nice recording. All this noted while DXing live in my DX truck (nice 22F this morning) while recording parked about 40-50 ft east of my house. I run a 100 ft extension cord to power the FLG100LN. My sometimes finicky laptop cost me 1200 ID's but DX is usually better after that now, due to pest fading, and many mornings stations run local stuff at this time, and/or when they come out of hourly nx there's wx and local ads and if not an ID I can still tell what I have. Ideally I'd like to start recording this time of the year about 1157-8 as stations have often ended their talk and sports programs and are into ads, some local, some national. As an example yesterday 1157-8 KXTG 750 had a local lumber yard coming thru CJKH. Milwaukee and Vancouver mentions and the address in Portland matches so no doubt. This faded and them semi-local WNDZ came on a few secs after 1200 killing the channel for DX except for CJKH. 73 KAZ (Neil Kazaross, Oct 21, IRCA & ABDX yg via DXLD) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2018 Oct 22 0041 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 15 - 21 October 2018 Solar activity was very low this period under a spotless solar disk. No Earth-directed CMEs were observed during the summary period. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit reached high levels on 16-20 Oct and was at moderate levels on 15 and 21 Oct. Geomagnetic field activity reached unsettled levels on 15 Oct due to waning, negative polarity CH HSS influence. The geomagnetic field was quiet throughout the remainder of the period. Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 22 October-17 November 2018 Solar activity is expected to be very low throughout the outlook period. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to reach high levels on 22-25 Oct, 04-09 and 12-16 Nov with moderate flux levels expected throughout the remainder of the period. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to reach G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm levels on 03-04 Nov with active levels expected on 29 Oct and 05-06 Nov due to the influence of recurrent CH HSSs. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2018 Oct 22 0041 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 2018-10-22 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2018 Oct 22 70 6 2 2018 Oct 23 69 5 2 2018 Oct 24 69 12 3 2018 Oct 25 68 8 3 2018 Oct 26 68 8 3 2018 Oct 27 68 5 2 2018 Oct 28 68 8 3 2018 Oct 29 68 12 4 2018 Oct 30 68 5 2 2018 Oct 31 68 5 2 2018 Nov 01 68 5 2 2018 Nov 02 68 5 2 2018 Nov 03 68 22 5 2018 Nov 04 68 20 5 2018 Nov 05 68 15 4 2018 Nov 06 70 15 4 2018 Nov 07 70 8 3 2018 Nov 08 70 5 2 2018 Nov 09 70 12 3 2018 Nov 10 70 8 3 2018 Nov 11 70 10 3 2018 Nov 12 70 5 2 2018 Nov 13 70 5 2 2018 Nov 14 70 5 2 2018 Nov 15 70 5 2 2018 Nov 16 70 5 2 2018 Nov 17 70 5 2 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1953, DXLD) ###