DX LISTENING DIGEST 19-07, February 11, 2019 Incorporating REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING edited by Glenn Hauser, http://www.worldofradio.com Items from DXLD may be reproduced and re-reproduced only if full credit be maintained at all stages and we be provided exchange copies. DXLD may not be reposted in its entirety without permission. Materials taken from Arctic or originating from Olle Alm and not having a commercial copyright are exempt from all restrictions of noncommercial, noncopyrighted reusage except for full credits For restrixions and searchable 2019 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html [also linx to previous years] NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1969 contents: Alaska, Andaman Islands, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Cuba, Eritrea non, France, Germany, Italy non, Madagascar, Malaysia, Netherlands non, Nigeria and non, Palau, Romania, South Carolina non, Sudan South non, Thailand, Turkey, USA; and the propagation outlook. SHORTWAVE AIRINGS of WORLD OF RADIO 1969, February 12-18, 2019 Mon 2330 WRMI 9955 [1968 replayed] Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 [confirmed] Tue 2030 WRMI 7780 [confirmed] Wed 0930 Unique 5045-LSB NSW Australia low-power Wed 1030 WRMI 5950 [confirmed] Wed 2200 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v [confirmed] Thu 0100 WRMI 7780 [confirmed] Fri 0930 Unique 5045-LSB NSW Australia low-power Sat 0730 HLR 6190-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1200 Unique 5045-LSB NSW Australia low-power [alt weeks, Feb 16] Sat 1230 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Sat 1531 HLR 9485-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 2030v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sat 2200 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Sun 0400v WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415][confirmed] Sun 0830 WRMI 5850 5950 7730 Sun 1130 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sun 2130 WRMI 7780 Mon 0230 WRMI 5950 9395 Mon 0400v WBCQ 5130v-AM Area 51 Mon 0430 WRMI 9955 Mon 0930 Unique 5045-LSB NSW Australia low-power Mon 2330 WRMI 9955 [or new 1969] 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 MORE PODCAST ALTERNATIVES, tnx to Keith Weston: https://blog.keithweston.com/2018/11/22/world-of-radio-podcast/ feedburner: http://feeds.feedburner.com/GlennHausersWorldOfRadio NEW via tunein.com: http://bit.ly/tuneinwor itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/glenn-hausers-world-of-radio/id1123369861 AND via Google Play Music: http://bit.ly/worldofradio OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org DAY-BY-DAY ARCHIVE OF GLENN HAUSER`S LOG REPORTS: Unedited, uncondensed, unchanged from original version, many of them too complex, minutely researched, multi-frequency, opinionated, inconsequential, off-topic, or lengthy for some log editors to manage; and also ahead of their availability in these weekly issues: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser IMPORTANT NOTICE!!!! WOR IO GROUP: Effective Feb 4, 2018, DXLD yg archive and members have been migrated to this group: https://groups.io/g/WOR [there was already an unrelated group at io named dxld!, so new name] From now on, the io group is primary, where all posts should go. One may apply for membership, subscribe via the above site. DXLD yahoogroup: remains in existence, and members are free to COPY same info to it, as backup, but no posts should go to it only. They may want to change delivery settings to no e-mail, and/or no digest. The change was necessary due to increasing outages, long delays in posts appearing, and search failures at the yg. Why wait for DXLD issues? A lot more info, not all of it appearing in DXLD later, is posted at our io group without delay. DX LISTENING DIGEST IN PDF, HTML VERSIONS Jacques Champagne in Ville-Marie, Québec, has developed programs to convert DXLD .txt into PDF and HTML versions for his own use, and now has made them available to the rest of us. Starting with 18-24, they have been posted as attachments to the WOR iog. And now also posted on our website. INTRODUXION to DXLD in HTML and PDF: http://www.worldofradio.com/DXLDformats.htm HTML and PDF versions converted by Jacques Champagne are now also posted shortly for open access [suspended; maybe later?]: http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1907.html http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1907.pdf ** ABKHAZIA. CAUCASUS --- Abkhaz radio was not heard on MW 1350 kHz from 4 to 6 and from 15 to 16 from January 8 to February 3 — Hungary, Italy and the Greek pirate are heard here (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria, Rus-DX Feb 10 via DXLD) I guess 4-6 & 15-16 refer to times, UT? (gh, DXLD) ** ALASKA [and non]. Sunday, February 10 --- KNLS cancelled 4 hours from Alaska and 4 hours from Madagascar from Feb. 1. This is due to the increase in electricity [costs?] and diesel fuel (at Madagascar its diesel is, because local electricity supply with constant interruptions). The new summer A-19 season, starting from the end of March, will also be with reduced hours. World Christian Broadcast KNLS Madagascar World Voice, Mahajanga 0200-0300 6190 MWV 100 kW / 250 deg SoAm Spanish tx#2 La Voz Alegre 0200-0300 15510 MWV 100 kW / 040 deg SoAs English tx#3 Af Pathways R 2200-2300 11790 MWV 100 kW / 325 deg NoAf Arabic tx#2 Radio Feda 2200-2300 11965 MWV 100 kW / 055 deg EaAs Chinese tx#3 Light of Life World Christian Broadcast KNLS The New Life Station, Anchor Point 1600-1700 7370 NLS 100 kW / 315 deg NEAs Russian tx#1 New Life 1600-1700 11965 NLS 100 kW / 300 deg NEAs Chinese tx#2 Light of Life 1700-1800 7370 NLS 100 kW / 315 deg NEAs Russian tx#1 New Life 1700-1800 11965 NLS 100 kW / 300 deg NEAs Chinese tx#2 Light of Life ??????????? ?? Observer ? 3:28 PM (via WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DXLD) Via Ivo Ivanov, this striking announcement. Does this mean no further English from KNLS. Extremely limited programming, if that's the case. Wondered whether electricity costs were involved when I've noted only 1 transmitter on vs 2 at many times! 73, (Walt Salmaniw, WOR iog via DXLD) I believe the transmissions listed are the ones which have been canceled; English and the others maintained (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Changing KNLS and MWV schedules --- Message from Konstantin Chernushenko: “We have a schedule change. Cut 4 hours in Alaska (the last two hours from each transmitter) and 3 [sic] hours from Madagascar (the first hour from both transmitters and the last Arabic hour)... Konstantin." (via Drove [sic] Dmitry Kutuzov, Ryazan, Russia / “deneb-radio-dx” via Rus-DX Feb 10 via WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DXLD) World Christian Broadcasting (KNLS Anchor Point, Madagascar World Voice) considers broadcasting in Korean. "We Have Seed Money Offered To Us To Begin Korean Broadcasts! The only thing that the leaders of North Korea cannot keep out of their country is a shortwave radio signal." http://www.worldchristian.org/Updates/LatestNews/updates.php (via Dr Hansjoerg Biener 11 February 2019, WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALBANIA. 6020even, As always S=9+5dB signal of 2 x 150 kW combined units at CRI Cerrik relay site in Albania Europe. For the first time some 50, 100, 150, 200 Hertz strings visible on Perseus screen (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, Rochester NY SDR, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 10, dxldyg via DXLD) circa 01/02 UT apparently ** ANDAMAN ISLANDS. 4760, AIR (Port Blair), 1436-1533 8 Feb. After a few days of JBA signal, Port Blair got enough above the noise level to catch some nice "sub-continental" tunes, Hindi chat to 1500 & into 15 minutes of AIR news //5040 (Jeypore), followed by speech with commentary & possible ad string to 1528. If there were pips at 1530, I missed them & signal was mostly unusable by 1533 (killing any chance to hear the listed 1530 English news, alas). (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA, Grundig/Eton "Executive Satellit"/6m X wire, WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANGUILLA. 11775, University Network; 1721, 2/3; Dead Dr. Gene’s Titular Winsome Sermonizer, Well-hung Sacramentarian, Wielding Sacerdotalism, Widow Scott (Thanks to Don Hosmer for the spark for this.) on nihilism (good word for religionists) S8-9 peaks (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11775, Feb 7 at 1455, PMS is S9+20 but with squeal and hum, not the clear signal someone else credited her with; at least on the air at the moment, sporadically. 11775, Feb 7 at 1858, CB/TUN/DGS/PMS is off again, having been on at previous check 1455 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6090, Caribbean Beacon at 0001 with a taped sermon by the late Dr. Gene Scott – Very Good over Radio Bandeirantes Feb 8 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD), ODXA iog via DXLD) ** ANGUILLA. 11775, Caribbean Beacon/Univ. Network at 1600. From beyond the grave, Dr. Gene Scott preaching. Pastor Melissa on 1915 recheck - Very Good Feb 3 (Rick Barton, Arizona, Grundig Satellit 205(T.5000) & 750; Hammarlund HQ-180A & HQ-200; RS SW-2000629, & ATS-909X with various outdoor wires. 73 and Good Listening ! WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11775, Caribbean Beacon/University Network at 1700, Lecture by Pastor Scott II (PMS). After 1800, short PS-II lecture, filler music, more lecture, filler music, then Pastor Scott-I (DGS). I missed my 1900 recheck but, at 2015, the station was gone. Monitored on Grundig Satellit 205, indoor shortwire - Very Good Feb 9 (Rick Barton, Arizona, 73 and Good Listening ! WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11775, Caribbean Beacon at 2000. The University Network, DGS XYL PMS with live lecture. The sked for CB seems to be Sundays and then whenever the heck they feel like it. Sundays seem to be vintage recordings (often of the late DGS), then live service for Sunday. Still there on frequent rechecks; at 2145, was Dr. Gene and not the XYL, suddenly shutting down at 2156. Monitored with Zenith Royal Trans Oceanic R-7000 its whip - Good Feb 10 (Rick Barton, Arizona, 73 and Good Listening ! WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARMENIA. 4810, Yerevan seems not operating at 1530 (Romania and Italia Kiwis, UTwente, my R75 too) when I tried to listen to Greek and Assyrian. However, fair signal at 1600 Kurdish in my shack with S9 (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, Feb 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CAUCASUS ========== During the period from December 27 to February 3, the Public Radio of Armenia at 4810 kHz during the time from 15 to 19 o'clock was not heard even once - apparently the transmissions were reduced. Only All-India Radio sounds here (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria, Rus-DX Feb 10 via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. Unique Radio website info as of Feb 6: https://www.uniqueradio.biz/ * We Transmit Monday to Fridays and alternate Saturdays from 19:00 to 22:00 hrs AEDT and sometimes overnight on 5045 KHz from Gunnedah NSW The Current Schedule for Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays is: 19:30 hrs AEDT - 0830 UT Opening and playlist 20:00 hrs AEDT - International Radio Report with Sheldon Harvey, David Asselin & Giles Letourneu as heard via CKUT 90.3 FM Montreal Canada (0900 hrs UT commence) 20:30 hrs AEDT - World of Radio with Glenn Hauser (0930 hrs UT) 21:00 hrs AEDT - Hobart Radio International with Bob Wise (1000 UT) 21:30 HRS AEDT - Sounds of your life with Aussie Tim or sounds of your life playlist (1030 hrs UT) 22.30 hrs AEDT - Close of Transmission (1130 hrs UT) * May be left on Overnight occasionally. Tuesdays & Thursdays ?19:00 hrs AEDT Upstate Radio Theatre from Quality Radio productions hosted by Jake Longwell (0800 hrs UT) 20:00 hrs AEDT Clearing the static (0900 hrs UT) (Talk about North American Media) Hosted by Jake Longwell & The Radio Kid https://clearingthestatic.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html 21:00 hrs AEDT Hobart Radio International - Bob Wise (1000 hrs UT) ?21:30 hrs AEDT Sounds of your life -- Aussie Tim (1030 hrs UT) Saturdays 16th Feb & March 2nd from 1000 to 1230 hrs UT 21:00 hrs AEDT - Sounds of your life with Aussie Tim 22:00 hrs AEDT - Hobart Radio International with Bob Wise ?22:30 hrs AEDT - International Radio Report with Sheldon Harvey, David Asselin and Giles Letourneau as heard via CKUT 90.3FM Montreal Canada 23:00 hrs AEDT - World of Radio with Glenn Hauser [1200 UT] 23:30 hrs AEDT - Close, however might occasionally be left on overnight (via gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DXLD) AEDT in NSW lasts until April 7; after that if local time be maintained, programs should become one UT hour later (Glenn Hauer, WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA [non]. DX Programmes --- Jordan’s Corner of Radio instead of IBC Italy which stopped broadcasting at the end of December can now be heard via Hobart Radio International. The times are: Saturday 1100-1130 9265 (via WINB) [not any more] Sunday 0430-0400 9955 (via WRMI) Thursday 0330-0400 5985 (via WRMI) Saturday 2330-0000 7780 (via WRMI) Monday 0330-0400 5130 (via WBCQ) (Jordan Heyburn, UKOGBANI, 5 Jan, Feb BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. 5055, Radio 4KZ, on Feb 6, at 1208, was able to ID three consecutive songs - Michael Jackson with "Rock With You," Dion with "Abraham, Martin and John," Chuck Berry with "Rock And Roll Music"; 1305 with weather ("tomorrow cloudy ... forecast for Friday"); after the weather transmitter cut off 1306*, so Al must have closed down early due to lightning in the area (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** BAHAMAS. 810, ZNS3, Freeport, Grand Bahama. 0114 February 10, 2019. Live coverage of the 20th Annual Junior Junkanoo Parade in downtown Freeport. Delayed but paralleled to streaming ZNS-TV coverage, and quite an enjoyable thing to watch, especially the Lucaya International School high school girls. Not simulcast to ZNS1 Nassau 1540 kc/s. Apparently deemed of no importance there. Seemingly, this parade has been postponed once — maybe twice — due to inclement weather from what I understood (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, FL, NRD-535, IC-R75, longwires, active loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 5580 kHz, Radio San José (250 Watts Onda Corta Bolivia) ANN Comerciales y [sic] Identicaciones en 0104 en video "Radio San José" "5580 Kilociclos" "Y Frequencia modulada". Solo salem emissiones en el día en Bolivia. FM tanbien? No encontre muchas informaciones dellos en el google. 1544 UT 05 Febrero 2019 https://youtu.be/9YIxSVMEniI RX: Yaesu FRG 8800 Antena: DS SWL DL 42 mietros + 15 mietros Coaxial + Balun (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT Brasil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** BOTSWANA. Frequency change of Voice of America via Selebi Phikwe https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/frequency-change-of-voice-of-america.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: 0300-0500 NF 11925 BOT 100 kW / 350 deg to CeAf English, ex 15580 ??????????? ?? Observer ? 4:24 PM (via DXLD) ** BOUGAINVILLE. See PAPUA NEW GUINEA ** BRAZIL. 4775v, Radio [Sora????] Congonhas; et al.: DX-PEDITIONS ** BRAZIL. 5800 kHz Rádio Casa América (Ondas curtas Amparo - Brasil) Músicas e ID "Rádio Casa 8000" 2249 UT 07 Fevereiro 2019 https://youtu.be/QLCq27_RY8s RX: Yaesu FRG 8800 Antena: DS SWL DL 42 Metros + Balun + 15 Metros Coaxial (Daniel Wyllyans Nova Xavantina MT Brasil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) pirate ** BRAZIL. 5939.690, Radio Voz Missionaria. Brasilian music heard S=6-7 at 0148 UT (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, Cape Canaveral FL remote SDR, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 10, dxldyg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 6010, Radio Inconfidência at 0010 in Portuguese with a man and woman with talk with mentions of “passion” and “Jesus” and “Nacional” - Fair with CRI via Cuba spur Feb 8 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD), ODXA iog via DXLD) 6010.016, Feb 9 at 0710, JBA carrier, probably R. Inconfidência, despite Aoki/NDXC listing as in a break 06-09 (and also listing imaginary Mexico and probably same Colombia on 6010). See also CUBA! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 6090 kHz, Radio Bandeirantes, São Paulo, Portuguese, 29/01 1742. Male communication 'Bandeirantes, programa "Radio Livre"'. TC, advertisements from São Paulo City. 35543 (RG). After 3 years, again a transmission from RB in 49m. I initially assumed that it could be some recording, retransmitted by some pirate station, but the TC was synchronized with the local time. The facts commented also coincided with events of today. I looked for a RB tx in 840, or even 9645 and 11925, without success. 840 out of the air, without return of the other shortwave frequencies (Rudolf Grimm, Sao Bernardo, SP, HCDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DXLD) 6090, Radio Bandeirantes at 0002 in Portuguese with Brasopops and a man and woman with talk – Weak but audible under Caribbean Beacon Feb 8 – Mediumwave DXers know “You can DX through talk but not through rock!” which means a program like the one on the Caribbean Beacon allows for a trained ear to pick out program details from another station on the same frequency but you usually cannot do the same when the stronger station airs pop or rock music (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD), ODXA iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DXLD) See my reporting about this issue below. Not Bandeirantes, but the closest to that would be Iran in Spanish (gh, DXLD) 6090 kHz, Rádio Livre Bandeirantes (MG Ondas Curtas 49 metros) Comentários por Ricardo Boechat: (Jornalista que morreu hoje em queda de helicóptero, da Band TV e Rádio Band News FM) https://www.nx1.com.br/noticia/ricardo-boechat-jornalista-morre-aos-66-anos-em-queda-de-helicoptero-em-sp 1740 UT 11 Fevereiro 2019 https://youtu.be/CHvIzm4us9E RX: Yaesu FRG 8800 Antena: DS SWL Dipolo Assimétrica 42 Metros + Balun + 15 Metros Coaxial (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT, Brasil, HCDX via DXLD) PIRATE in MG = Minas Gerais, not the real Bandeirantes (gh) ** BRAZIL. 16935, RÁDIO CIDADEOLDIES (TOP SOM 2.070 KM Jacaraú/ Brasil) Músicas. (Primeira vez que consigo um melhor sinal dessa emissora.) 1656 UT 08 Fevereiro 2019 https://youtu.be/sfE0X39_5oc Foi pedido para mudar o titulo do video. 16935 kHz RÁDIO CIDADEOLDIES (TOP SOM 2.070 KM Paraíba / Brasil) https://youtu.be/sfE0X39_5oc [so what was the objexionable title?] Foi pedido para editar o titulo desse vídeo: 10730 kHz Carrier Rádio Mundial de (RN) Brasil há 2.000 KM https://youtu.be/e2gN8Iadq3g 6190 kHz Rádio Livre Nacional da Amazonia (SP - Brasil) Comentários (Mesma transmissão da RNA) 2040 UT 08 Fevereiro 2019 https://youtu.be/92xOnuFn9_Y RX: Yaesu FRG 8800 Antena: DS SWL DL 42 Metros + Balun + 15 Metros Coaxial (Daniel Wyllyans Nova Xavantina MT Brasil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 6190 must be another pirate pretending (gh) ** BRAZIL. 11855.9, Radio Aparecida in Portuguese at 2346 UT February 7 with talk by man and music by Padre Marcelo Rossi. Good. Rx: Perseus SDR, Ant: Wellbrook ALA 100 loop. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, AB, WOR iog via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. [DXplorer] Old Brazilian stations --- I've been traveling through the southern part of South America and was in the Porto Alegre area of Brazil two weeks ago. The attached photo was taken in the Museu Histórico Visconde de São Leopoldo in the small city of Sao Leopoldo, not far from Porto Alegre. It's a very interesting museum about the German immigration to that area. The radio in the attached photo is interesting in that the dial markers are all Brazilian stations, most of which I recognize and once heard on SW. It's a MW/SW radio but it isn't clear which band the markers were meant to be for. Starting at the top row and working down, the stations are ... No idea who May Veija* would be. Then Jornal do Brasil, Radio Sociedade da Bahia?, Tupi of Sao Paulo, one of the Educacao stations, Tupi of Rio, Radio Nacional, Radio Clube de Pernambuco, Radio Excelsior, a Radio Club, Radio Record, Radio Farroupilha (of Porto Alegre), Radio Globo, and Radio Inconfidencia. (Don Moore --- donmooredxer@yahoo.com http://www.donmooredxer.com via SW Bulletin Feb 10 via DXLD) *It was probably R. Mayrink Veiga. If you don`t remember it, See Wikipedia (gh, DXLD) ** BULGARIA. 5900even, Brother Stair Ministry English prayer via European relay SPC-NURTS Sofia Kostinbrod Bulgaria relay site, QSL via Spaceline Ltd., Sofia Bulgaria. CEO Dimitar Todorov S=8 in FL at 0143 UT (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, Cape Canaveral FL remote SDR, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 10, dxldyg via DXLD) ** BULGARIA [and non]. Shortwave Radiogram, 8-10 February 2019 1 Files 296KB JPG 296KB Save Shortwave Radiogram this weekend is in MFSK32 and MFSK64, and a brief segment in Olivia 64-2000. If your signal is so bad that you can't hear anything, try the Olivia 64-2000 anyway, at seven minutes into the show, and you might see text printing out. For details: http://swradiogram.net/post/182655071787/shortwave-radiogram-8-10-february-2019-digital Separate from this weekend's normal broadcast, today (Friday) at 1500-1530 UT there will be special content, including some super-fast modes on WINB's DRM transmitter, 13690 kHz. This will not be the DRM proprietary text mode (I don't have access to a DRM content server), but digital text modes and images decoded from the audio decoded from WINB's DRM signal. This is a convoluted way to receive text and images, but fun when it works. Details via the URL above. Roger in Germany provides these images and "sonogram" of last week's show. The horizontal axis is time (the half hour of the broadcast), and the vertical axis is the spectrum, with the 7780 kHz carrier at the center ... (Kim Elliott, Feb 8, WOR iog via DXLD) How does Roger get such perfect images with no noise flecks? What is his setup (receiver, antenna, software)? (-- Richard Langley, ibid.) Here is the current version of the SWRG #86 sonogram with an additional zoom (logarithmic scale) in the "hum area" of ??the transmitter carrier: http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/SW_Radiogram_2019-02-09.htm#SWRG Slow Scan Radio again with all sorts of PD pictures, from a Radio Kootwijk building up to a Berlin street-organ: http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/SW_Radiogram_2019-02-09.htm#SSR_25 (roger, WOR iog via DXLD) SECRETLAND, Shortwave Radiogram #85 via SPL Secretbrod, Feb.9 1400-1430 on 9400 SCB 100 kW / 306 deg to WeEu English Sat, good: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/shortwave-radiogram85-via-spl.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA [and non]. Hello and welcome to the February edition of Listening Post. It may already seem like a long time ago, but I am going to take a look at some programmes that I heard overnight New Year’s Eve (i.e. 31 December into 1 January). Some of this was heard live, and some via an overnight recording via my SDR radio set to record a bandspread from 3850 to 9950 kHz continuously from 1800 to 0700 UT. This resulted in around 1 Terabyte of data onto my hard disk, and reviewing the data over the next few days was very rewarding, and reinforces my view that there is still plenty to hear on shortwave. Here are a few highlights. 1800-1900 UT 31 December 2018 --- One programme that I made a point of tuning in to live was Bill Tilford’s Uncle Bill’s Rockless New Years’ Eve Special, transmitted for Europe at 1800 UT 31 December on 9400 kHz via Spaceline in Bulgaria. Reception was excellent, and I very much enjoyed the programme about New Year’s traditions around the world and music to match. There was a very enjoyable mix of music from Bulgaria, Spain, Macedonia and Scotland (with “Scotland the Brave”) amongst many others. There was also a song from Estonia with an introduction that you do not hear that often: “Here’s an Estonian pancake-eating song” (!). My favourite song was a lovely African tune from South Africa. All-in-all: it was a fantastic programme, and the hour passed very quickly. I subsequently listened again to the programme via my SDR recording in order to compile a reception report, and enjoyed it as much the second time around, so I also extracted an MP3 recording of the programme. We are promised another NYE special next year: I’m already looking forward to it! (Alan Roe, Listening Post, Feb BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) From the Isle of Music, February 10-February 16, 2019: This week, our guest Erik Alejandro Rodríguez brings the Funk with the music of the sensational group Cimafunk, whose album Terapia was a Cubadisco 2018 nominee. We also listen to some of Moncada En Vivo en el Bule Bar 66, Grupo Moncada's album that won the Tropical Music category in Cubadisco 2018. The broadcasts 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 100Kw, Sunday 1500-1600 UTC on SpaceLine, 9400 KHz, from Kostinbrod, Bulgaria (1800-1900 MSK) 2. For the Americas and parts of Europe, Tuesday 0100-0200 UTC (New UTC) on WBCQ, 7490 KHz from Monticello, ME, USA (Monday 8-9PM EST in the US). 3 & 4. For Europe and sometimes beyond, Tuesday 1900-2000 UTC and Saturday 1200-1300 UTC (New CETs) on Channel 292, 6070 KHz from Rohrbach, Germany. Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot, February 10 and 12, 2019: Episode 99, International Ladies' Night, features female vocalists from the US, Cuba, Malta, Spain and Romania. The transmissions take place: 1. Sunday 2300-2330 UTC (6:00PM -6:30PM Eastern US) on WBCQ The Planet 7490 KHz from the US to the Americas and parts of Europe 2. Tuesday 2000-2030 UTC on Channel 292, 6070 KHz from Rohrbach, Germany for Europe. If current propagation conditions hold, the broadcast should reach Iceland AND Western Russia due to a long skip. 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 from 2200-2300 UTC on WBCQ 7490 Khz. (William "Bill" Tilford, Owner/Producer Tilford Productions, LLC 5713 N. St. Louis Av Chicago IL 60659-4405 email: bill@tilfordproductions.com phone: 773.267.6548 website: www.tilfordproductions.com DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. The passing of Mary McFarland - wife of 57 years to Ian McFarland https://www.cowichanvalleycitizen.com/obituaries/mary-mcfarland/ It is with regret that I pass along Ian McFarland's news of the passing of his beloved Mary - wife of 57 years. Ian, Mary, my wife Andrea, and I have been close friends for around 20 years now - and we share Ian's loss. Please keep Ian in your thoughts - his voice brought pleasure to thousands around the World through the miracle of Short-wave radio. He could use our thoughts, prayers and shared grief right now. Thanks everyone (Colin Newell - Editor and creator *of *Coffeecrew.com and DXer.ca - VA7WWV | Twitter @CoffeeCrew | Victoria - Canada, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DXLD) obit Thanks for sharing the sad news. Our deepest sympathy is with Ian and his family. Very 73 de (Anne Fanelli in Elma NY, WOR iog via DXLD) ** CANADA [and non}. 1008 Dutch not on --- Hello, Dutch station on 1008 absent 2300 UT 08-02-19. Is this permanent or just a breakdown? 1010 WINS getting through now on my omni Flag. Best wishes (Barry Davies, Carlisle UK. Lat. 55.0119N, Lon. 2.9668W, MWCircle yg via DXLD) Since January 3, 2019 Groote Nieuws Radio is off, the station was destroyed some days later. https://www.omroepflevoland.nl/nieuws/167123/zendmasten-vogelweg-zijn-opgeblazen 73 from Salzburg -- http://ratzer.at http://remotedx.wordpress.com http://a-dx.at/facebook (Christoph Ratzer, Austria, ibid.) Christoph Ratzer is correct, the masts in the Netherlands were demolished only a few days after the station stopped transmitting. Early yesterday morning I was able to hear American or Canadian voices on 1010 on my Degen DE1103's ferrite rod, but was unable to ID station (Ian Brooks, Verwood, Dorset, ibid.) Both signals on 1010, WINS and CFRB had most of the time the same strong signal level, much fun to listen on that channel the last weeks! 73 (Christoph, ibid.) I have heard CFRB before when conditions were very good and I was able to null out the Dutch station by rotating my receiver. I recall that the Toronto station was actually carrying the US "Coast to Coast AM" phone-in, so ID was only possible during commercial breaks. regards, (Ian Brooks, ibid.) Hello Ian, Ask Steve Canney, VA3SC for a QSL card, he is very friendly and confirmed my reports from CFRX and CFRB. "Reception reports for CFRB and CFRX are always welcome and a QSL card is sent out upon receiving an accurate report. Reports may be emailed too: cfrbcfrxreport@gmail.com Or mail reports to: CFRB/CFRX c/o Steve Canney 1831 Waterdown Rd., Burlington, Ontario, Canada L7P 5A2. Return postage is recommended to help me out. $2 Canadian funds, $2 U.S. funds, 2 Euros. Another route is to include an International Reply Coupon (IRC). Postal rates have gone up again here in Canada (January 2019) and it`s becoming very expensive to mail things out, specifically to international listeners." More info https://cfrx.webs.com And no problem with my name, this week someone at Radio Nacional de Paraguay [q.v.] was happy to receive my report from: Australia! Also mentioned this in their news that Christoph from Australia have heard the station! 73 from: Austria (Christoph, ibid.) ** CANADA. Canadian Maritime Weather broadcasts on Shortwave Many stations across Canada broadcast weather bulletins in USB voice. Also FAX and Navtex digital transmissions can be received daily from different parts of the West Coast, East Coast and from Nunavut in the North. Here are the stations noted lately as active with their schedules. They make great DX targets as most of them use low power. All times used are in UT Prince Rupert, BC maritime weather station VAJ --- Located in the north-west part of British Columbia, just below Alaska, VAJ broadcasts on the following schedule daily. The language used is English 2054 kHz 0050-0110 VAJ Prince Rupert Radio 2054 kHz 0115-0200 VAJ Prince Rupert Radio 2054 kHz 0650-0710 VAJ Prince Rupert Radio 2054 kHz 0715-0800 VAJ Prince Rupert Radio 2054 kHz 1250-1310 VAJ Prince Rupert Radio 2054 kHz 1315-1400 VAJ Prince Rupert Radio 2054 kHz 1850-1910 VAJ Prince Rupert Radio 2054 kHz 1915-2000 VAJ Prince Rupert Radio Les Escoumins, Quebec maritime weather station VCF --- Located in the eastern part of the province of Quebec, VCF is on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River. It broadcasts its weather bulletins in both English and French as follows: 2598 and 2749 kHz 0437-0500 VCF Les Escoumins QC 2598 and 2749 kHz 0847-0910 VCF Les Escoumins QC 2598 and 2749 kHz 0937-1000 VCF Les Escoumins QC 2598 and 2749 kHz 1407-1430 VCF Les Escoumins QC 2598 and 2749 kHz 1737-1800 VCF Les Escoumins QC 2598 and 2749 kHz 2317-2330 VCF Les Escoumins QC Placentia, Newfoundland & Labrador maritime weather station VCP --- Located in the south-eastern part of Newfoundland & Labrador VCP broadcast mostly in English with some French bulletins mixed in from time to time using the following schedule: 2598 kHz 0007-0030 VCP Placentia NL 2598 kHz 0048-0107 VCP Placentia NL 2598 kHz 0737-0805 VCP Placentia NL 2598 kHz 0837-0900 VCP Placentia NL 2598 kHz 1137-1200 VCP Placentia NL 2598 kHz 1307-1330 VCP Placentia NL 2598 kHz 1607-1630 VCP Placentia NL 2598 kHz 1637-1700 VCP Placentia NL 2598 kHz 1807-1830 VCP Placentia NL 2598 kHz 2007-2030 VCP Placentia NL 2598 kHz 2137-2200 VCP Placentia NL 2598 kHz 2207-2230 VCP Placentia NL Here at my location in Montreal I have never received the west coast station in Prince Rupert but have been hearing stations VCF and VCP quite regularly in the past couple of weeks. Port aux Basques, Newfoundland & Labrador maritime weather station VOJ Located in the south-west part of Newfoundland & Labrador, VOJ broadcasts in English and French on the following schedule: 2598 kHz 0207-0233 VOJ Port aux Basques NL 2598 kHz 0807-0833 VOJ Port aux Basques NL 2598 kHz 1207-1233 VOJ Port aux Basques NL 2598 kHz 1507-1533 VOJ Port aux Basques NL 2598 kHz 1837-1903 VOJ Port aux Basques NL 2598 kHz 2107-2133 VOJ Port aux Basques NL Goose Bay, Newfoundland & Labrador maritime weather station VOK --- Located in the north-east of Newfoundland & Labrador, VOJ broadcasts mostly in English on the following schedule: 2598 kHz 0107-0130 VOK Goose Bay NL 2598 kHz 0137-0200 VOK Goose Bay NL 2598 kHz 0137-0200 VOK Goose Bay NL 2598 kHz 0907-0930 VOK Goose Bay NL 2598 kHz 1007-1030 VOK Goose Bay NL 2598 kHz 1007-1030 VOK Goose Bay NL 2598 kHz 1107-1130 VOK Goose Bay NL 2598 kHz 1107-1130 VOK Goose Bay NL 2598 kHz 1237-1300 VOK Goose Bay NL 2598 kHz 1337-1400 VOK Goose Bay NL 2598 kHz 1437-1500 VOK Goose Bay NL 2598 kHz 1437-1500 VOK Goose Bay NL 2598 kHz 1907-1930 VOK Goose Bay NL 2598 kHz 1937-2000 VOK Goose Bay NL 2598 kHz 2037-2100 VOK Goose Bay NL 2598 kHz 2037-2100 VOK Goose Bay NL 2598 kHz 2307-2335 VOK Goose Bay NL 2598 kHz 2307-2335 VOK Goose Bay NL Sydney, Nova Scotia maritime weather station VCO --- Located on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, VCO broadcasts weather bulletins in both French and English on the following schedule: 2749 kHz 0040-0100 VCO Sydney Radio NS 2749 kHz 0740-0800 VCO Sydney Radio NS 2749 kHz 1440-1500 VCO Sydney Radio NS 2749 kHz 2010-2030 VCO Sydney Radio NS This station also has a weather fax chart broadcast on the following schedule: 4416 kHz 2200-2240 VCO Sydney Meteo Fax 4416 kHz 2331-2400 VCO Sydney Meteo Fax 6915.1 kHz 1121-1200 VCO Sydney Meteo Fax 6915.1 kHz 1741-1800 VCO Sydney Meteo Fax You can decode weather fax on your computer using FLDIGI software available for Windows, Mac, Linux. You can also use Multipsk software on Windows and there are some apps by Black Cat Systems for Iphones, Ipads, Android phones and Tablets. Halifax, Nova Scotia maritime weather station VCS --- Located on the main island [sic] of Nova Scotia, VCS broadcasts weather bulletins mainly in English but with some French bulletins also mixed in, on the following schedule: 2749 kHz 0140-0200 VCS Halifax Radio 2749 kHz 0240-0310 VCS Halifax Radio 2749 kHz 0810-0830 VCS Halifax Radio 2749 kHz 1040-1100 VCS Halifax Radio 2749 kHz 1540-1600 VCS Halifax Radio 2749 kHz 1640-1700 VCS Halifax Radio 2749 kHz 2040-2100 VCS Halifax Radio 2749 kHz 2120-2140 VCS Halifax Radio Iqaluit, Resolute, Nunavut and Inuvik, North West Territories maritime weather station VFF --- Located in Nunavut, just north of the province of Quebec, VFF usually operates from May to December on the following schedule. Three different locations are used for transmissions: r=Resolute, i=Iqaluit and in=Inuvik. All frequencies are in kilohertz 0100 0140 VFF Iqaluit Meteo Fax 3253r, 7710i, 8456in 0200 0240 VFF Iqaluit Meteo Fax 3253r, 7710i, 8456in 0600 0630 VFF Iqaluit Meteo Fax 3253i, 7710r 0600 0630 VFF Iqaluit Meteo Fax 4292in 0700 0730 VFF Iqaluit Meteo Fax 3253i, 7710r 0700 0730 VFF Iqaluit Meteo Fax 4292in 1000 1030 VFF Iqaluit Meteo Fax 3253r, 7710i, 8456in 1100 1130 VFF Iqaluit Meteo Fax 3253r, 7710i, 8456in 2100 2130 VFF Iqaluit Meteo Fax 3253i, 7710r 2100 2130 VFF Iqaluit Meteo Fax 4292in 2200 2230 VFF Iqaluit Meteo Fax 3253i, 7710r 2200 2230 VFF Iqaluit Meteo Fax 4292in 0235 0300 VFF Iqaluit Radio 0330 0340 VFF Iqaluit Radio 8416i 1240 1300 VFF Iqaluit Radio 2582r, 4363r 1240 1300 VFF Iqaluit Radio 2582r, 4363r 1410 1430 VFF Iqaluit Radio 2582i, 4363i, 6507i 1435 1500 VFF Iqaluit Radio 6218in 1530 1540 VFF Iqaluit Radio 8416i 2235 2315 VFF Iqaluit Radio 2582i, 4363i, 6507i For contact information and possible QSLs from these stations you can check out a PDF publication available here and last updated in 2011 called the Canadian Aids to Marine Navigation. Postal and email addresses are included. The pdf is available here: http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/folios/00026/docs/RAMN-Atlantic-2011-eng.pdf (Editor: Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, Quebec, The World of Utilities, Feb CIDX Messenger via DXLD) ** CHILE. 5825. R. TRIUNFAL EVANGÉLICA. Febrero 5. 2205-2220 UT. Identificación de la emisora y oración del comienzo de las transmisiones. Desde las 2212 se emite un espacio de música. SINPO: 35343 (Claudio Galaz, Receptor: TECSUN PL 660; Antena: Hilo de 50 metros; Lugar de escucha: Barraza Bajo, 4° Región, Chile, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** CHINA [and non]. 9455even, KWT RFA Tibetan language via US IBB BBG VoA / RL / RFA Kuwait relay in al-Dschahra suburb. And channel covered by 10 kHz wideband CNR1 and WHITE NOISE jamming from mainland China at 0215 UT on Febr 10. Some logs of remote SDR access in Delhi India 0200-0225 UT Feb 10 [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 10, dxldyg via DXLD) ** CHINA [and non]. 11660, CNR at 1249 in Mandarin jamming the VOA in Mandarin via Thailand with opera-like vocals and a man with brief talk and more vocals – Weak but audible Feb 10 – The feed for this probably came from CNR3 (Voice of the Music) or CNR12 (Voice of the Entertainment). (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD), ODXA iog via DXLD) Or the Sunday-evening cultural program on CNR1. Did you not check for //? (gh, DXLD) ** CHINA. 5050, Beibu Bay Radio (Nanning) 1524+ 31 Jan. In the middle of some modern Chinese pop/traditional tunes, BBR woke me up with AC/DC's "Thunderstruck. On 6 Feb. at 1508-1528, BBR had a neat program of old US C&W (Waylon Jennings, Glen Campbell among others), quick multi-language ID, singing jingle & station promo to fill in until 1530. 5970, CNR1 (jammer) 1333+ 5 Feb. Loud but v. who? Aoki/EiBi have CNR1 jamming RFA at 23-24, but nothing sked for 13-14 [TAIWAN nf -- gh] 9315, CNR1 (jammer) 1125+ 2 Feb. Big signal v. RFA (unheard) & also noted on 9180/9200 v. SoH (unheard) & some tricky echo-jamming on 9660 v. RTI (also unheard). (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA, Grundig/Eton "Executive Satellit"/6m X wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 6035, PBS Yunnan, relay of FM99, Feb 7, suddenly on at *1139:17; usual FM format, in Chinese; almost fair. BBS (Bhutan) went off the air much earlier than the FM99 sign on. 7210, PBS Yunnan, Feb 7, tuned in at 1056 to hear their distinctive IS of non-stop EZL loop of instrumental music; 1100 into programming in vernacular; doing well even with some QRM (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** CHINA. 4940, Voice of Strait, *0939-0955, Sunday, Feb 10. Suddenly on with the weekend "Focus on China" program in English already in progress; another show about Chinese New Year's; fairly readable. 5050, Beibu Bay Radio, 1000, Feb 10 (Sunday). Time pips; Beijing time in Chinese and English ("6 PM"); singing station jingle; "Hi everyone. This is Beibu Bay Radio" and "Wishes for a Happy New Year"; nice segment in English about "China's night markets." Today's English audio at http://bit.ly/2DlfA2M 7210, PBS Yunnan, Feb 10, with *1035. Suddenly on with the usual IS of non-stop EZL loop of instrumental music; mixing with Vietnam, that was doing well before the Yunnan startup (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** CHINA [non]. 6020, Feb 9 at 0025, CRI relay in English via ALBANIA seems to be discussing how to say ``Get the show on the road`` in Chinese; an idiom I assume cannot be translated literally. There is also a LAH - low audible heterodyne on 6020. What could that be? Only otherthing in EiBi is VOV-4 Vietnam. I suppose a trace could be making it along grayline, and being off-frequency certainly fits them. It`s 20 kW ND. DON`T YOU BELIEVE Brasil or Perú on 6020 still in Aoki, both gone for YEARS! If RHC were on 6100 and 6060 at this hour, a leapfrog of those could land on 6020 as I have previously heard after 0500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non]. 6020, Feb 10 at 0103, CRI English, 300 kW, 305 degrees via ALBANIA has a LAH, and CCI from some other talk. Hard to make out sounding similar but not synchronized, so wonder if CRI from another site in English? It is prime-time for such self-QRM, as per HFCC, at 01-02 CRI is also via Kashgar, East Turkistan, 100 kW, 209 degrees but supposed to be in Urdu, not English. There is such a double-English CRI broadcast at this hour on 6180, via Habana and Kashgar. 6020 does not work out as a possible leapfrog from Cuba at this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non?]. 6080, Feb 9 at 0028, two weak carriers beating from slightly different frequencies, one of them seeming Chinese. Aoki/NDXC claims two within China are simulactive: until 0100, CNR1, 100 kW, 236 degrees via Golmud 916 site; and until 0530, PBS Hulun Buir, 10 kW ND in Mongolian via Hailar. But also one other as 24h, R. Marumby, Curitiba PR, Brasil, which may not be inactive, still in WRTH 2019 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. US-China relations --- Chinese state-owned broadcaster registers with US as foreign agent under anti-propaganda law PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 06 February, 2019, 6:33pm UPDATED : Wednesday, 06 February, 2019, 10:25pm https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2185190/chinese-state-owned-broadcaster-registers-us-foreign-agent 6 Feb 2019 A Chinese state-owned news network has registered as a foreign agent with the US government after pressure from the US Department of Justice, according to official documents. CGTN America - the US division of China Global Television Network - denied that it was engaged in any "political activities" as defined by the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA), a federal law from 1938 that monitors the operation of overseas lobbyists and propagandists. China Global Television Network was, until January 2017, the name of the international operation of state-owned broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV). CGTN America said it had "elected to file this registration statement out of an abundance of caution and in the spirit of cooperation with US authorities". It identified itself as the Washington news bureau of CCTV to produce material for 24-hour broadcasts that target English-speaking audiences in more than 100 countries. CCTV disagreed with the decision by the US Department of State to characterise CGTN America's relationship with a foreign government and a foreign political party as one of interest to Washington, it said. Xi to shake up propaganda, cyber chiefs as overseas image suffers CGTN America's registration comes as Beijing and Washington seek to end a damaging trade dispute. On Friday, a Chinese delegation led by Vice-Premier Liu He concluded two days of talks in Washington, while US officials - to be led by US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer - are expected in Beijing this month. Those talks may pave the way for a meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump before a trade war truce expires on March 1. The US Department of Justice has been assessing overseas broadcasters and bringing pressure on some to comply with decades-old federal regulations on registration. Photo: Wiki CGTN America's registration took place about six months after Washington ordered it and Xinhua News Agency to acknowledge their affiliation with Beijing and disclose ownership and budgets. The Chinese foreign ministry said at the time this order was "politicising" media activities. Xinhua, one of the major official mouthpieces of the Communist Party, has not registered. Under the registration act - which was enacted to counter Nazi Germany's propaganda efforts in the US - CGTN America must update its registration filing with the US government every six months and submit copies of reports to the Justice Department for scrutiny within 48 hours of distribution. Satire and sexual moaning out as China cracks down on video apps [intriguing sidebar link] Washington's surveillance of foreign media has intensified since late 2017 when RT, the Russian state-backed English-language news outlet, was ordered by the Department of Justice to register as a foreign agent amid investigations into Russia's alleged interference in the 2016 US presidential election. While chairing a UN Security Council meeting in September, Trump accused Beijing of planning to interfere in November's congressional election because of his trade policies against China, although those accusations were not substantiated. This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as: Broadcaster registers as foreign agent in US (via Mike Cooper, WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DXLD) ** CUBA. If you want information about Cuban [MW] transmitters, start following this link: https://moladx.blogspot.com/2011/04/cuba-plan-de-reordenamiento-de-onda.html continue here: https://moladx.blogspot.com/2015/09/radiocuba-2015-transmitters-list-here.html and then here: https://moladx.blogspot.com/2016/09/radiocuba-2016-listas-de-om-y-fm-mw-and.html The data inside that lists came directly from Radiocuba source (Radiocuba is the transmitter operator in Cuba). 73! (Mauricio Molano, Salamanca, ESPAÑA - SPAIN, Feb 10, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) ** CUBA. 1070, Radio Guamá, Guane, Pinar del Río. 0143 February 7, 2019. Indeed it's still here, parallel 990 kc/s, and presumed the same source as the wildly wobbling audio, poor under Linda Ronstadt's "Heatwave" (probably WFLI). 1150, Radio Bayamo, Entroque Bueycito, Granma. 0201 February 10, 2019. Those nice Radio Bayamo chimes and ID poking through briefly. 1550, Radio Rebelde, unknown sites. 0338 February 8, 2019. Sports event, Rebelde sounders echoing thrice, so three transmitters popping through. However, no trace of the Santa Catalina Rebelde that's reportedly temporarily relaying Radio COCO (980 kc/s) after the tower it and a 1620 kc/s Rebelde was destroyed by the January 27th tornado. No trace of any Rebelde (or COCO) local daytime here, just too much local WAMA to cut through. 1620, Radio Rebelde, unknown sites. 0200 February 7, 2019. Under Rebelde (parallel 1180 et al.) with vocals. Probably a Rebelde FM feed as often it's in the mix here. However, the most dominant Rebelde (AM) signal is not nearly as strong as before, leaving WNRP, Gulf Breeze, FL dominant. This would match the report that the El Sapo tower that fed this particular Rebelde, and Radio COCO (980 kc/s, which has reportedly moved temporarily to the Rebelde at Santa Catalina on 1550 kc/s) is down after the January 27th tornado, and confirms that’s the site of the one otherwise heard strong here daytime. And no trace of COCO on 980. It's usually easy reception daytime from here (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, FL, NRD-535, IC-R75, longwires, active loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 6090, Radio Habana Cuba; 0405, 2/4; W in English reading list of phone #s & addresses; 0407+ RHC ID. SIO=2+52+; no sign of robustly bountiful Rev. Barbie or dead Dr. Gene (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Unlisted frequency I explain below (gh, DXLD) ** CUBA. 15111.4, Radio Habana Cuba (presumed); 1545, 2/4; Just hints of music; slightly drifty sig. 1942, still there & still on 15111.4; this time with definite voice. Similar at 15168.8 so probably another 15140 RHC spur combo. “Something’s always wrong in Cuba.” Spurs, tornadoes & meteor strikes. +++ 1933, 2/6; Same spur pair; distorted 15140 in French; spur also on 15025 but not 15255 (Frodge-MI) 15140, Radio Habana Cuba; 1551, 2/4; W in Spanish with baladas to ID into noticias at 1553. S30; very scratchy spurs on 15130 & 15150; // 15230 S20 & 13700 S6 +++ 15140 relatively clean & no spurs! S20 peaks (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 12300, Feb 5 at 1349, JBA second harmonic of RHC 6150; I don`t usually scan this area, but seek it since Wolfgang Bueschel recently heard it remotely with a strong signal; not today, but nearby fundamentals are very strong: 11950 S9+40 and 11760 S9+10/20. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 13634, 13767, 13833, 13900 approx., Feb 5 at 1450, FMish spurs out of 13700-AM RHC, but extremely distorted and unreadable in any mode; standard intervals of about 67 kHz above and below. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 13779.24, Feb 5 at 1453, this RHC fundamental at S9+20 has again been knocked way off-frequency from 13780.00. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 15370, Feb 5 at 2152, RHC is VP S5, JBM in Arabic? As supposed to be per EiBi until 2200, then a bihour of Spanish; so no constellation of FM spurs audible today; might have been if a regular bigsig and modulation. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 6000, UT Wed Feb 6 at 0238, RHC S9+10 but just barely modulated, enough to recognize it`s Arnie, during DXers Unlimited; the sole // 6165, S9 is only slightly louder. Arnie is unwilling or unable (or unknowledgeable?) to get RHC modulation fixed even when he himself is trying to communicate. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 15111.4, Feb 6 at 1430, JBA carrier, -28.6 kHz spur from 15140, S9+30 RHC, only one obvious today. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 6100, Feb 7 at 0606, no signal from RHC English, so apparently totally off from previous 05-07 UT sked. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12300, Feb 7 at 1239, RHC is suptorted at S7-S8, checking second harmonic right after 6150 at 1238, equally suptorted at S9+10; wiggle that patchcord! Still the same at 1304 but weakened to S4-S6 on the double; 1355 S6-S7 before off circa 1400. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9640 // 9535, Feb 7 at 1251, RHC in portunhol -- a Brazilian trying to speak Spanish, among other interviewees about solidarity issues such as the bloqueo. 9570, Feb 7 at 1301, CRI Plus English news relay is suptorted but readable, S9+20. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba. 15140, Feb 7 at 1448, no 28.6 kHz spurgalaxy audible, but close-in hash out to 3.5 kHz above and below; unlike // 15230. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 6010, CRI at 0010 // 5990 (an obvious spur) in Spanish with Asian pop vocals and a woman with talk and a “Radio Nacional de China” ID – Fair to Good Feb 8 – There was also a bit of a spur on 5970. Oh, those Cubans! Can they get anything right these days? (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD), ODXA iog via DXLD) As I have explained, the 6010 `spur` is not directly out of the 5990 transmitter but a leapfrog, or intermodulation mixing with the 6000 transmitter. That would not produce a corresponding mix on 5970, but theoretically 5980, at 10 kHz intervals, where the 6000 audio of RHC would be heard more than the 5990 audio --- unless the modulation on 6000 be suppressed, which it often is. 5970 is WEWN in Spanish, when it worx (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6060, Feb 8 at 0658* RHC English cuts off air just as I tune in; 6100, 6165 and 5040 are already off. But outlier 6000 is still on, starting to re-open English hour at 0659. By 0701 its air is dead. Presumably it too will be offcut when the sloppyrators at the other site get around to it. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 12300, Feb 8 at 1352, RHC is S8-S3 but surging up a bit, 2 x 6150 which is S9 to S9+10, both slightly distorted. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 15140, Feb 8 at 1412, RHC is S9 of dead air with SAH of about 2 Hz, no doubt OMAN. With no modulation, no spurs audible, while 15230 is nominal at S9-S7. At 1457 still S9+10 of dead air on 15140. Something`s always wrong at RHC. Unlike English, RHC Spanish is still making SW frequency announcements at certain hours, which don`t always mesh with reality --- but what do those non-SWLs know back in the studio? 11760, Feb 9 at 0000 tune-in, onesuch is in progress; missed the first part that I will try to catch again. `...13740, 11840, 9640, 5040. A partir de las 0000: 13740, 11670, 11840, 11950, 11700, 9640, 6000`` - -- but NOT the very frequency I am tuned to, 11760! 11670, 11700 and 11840 are all suptorted, plus weak 11830/11850 spurs, never announced. 11950 also on, but *not* // the others because it`s the separate `Mesa Redonda` TV soundtrack hour, // 6000 only --- something the announcer does not comprehend by mixing those two in with the others. BTW, this is UT Saturday, altho EiBi and NDXC/Aoki claim 00-01 6000 // 11950 are on air Tue-Fri only. Maybe the UT Sat shows are irregular, or confusion local vs UT days? Another frequency announcement is at 0400, but just caught it ending at 0402 on 6060 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I then resolve two mysteries others have reported! 6010, Feb 9 at 0022, two carriers, so is Colombia really reactivated along with Brasil? I barely make out some Spanish talk so the assumption would be Colombia --- but NO, it`s // 5990 CRI relay! Now, I get it: 6010 is a leapfrog mixing product of 5990 over 6000 (Cuba can make broad jumps, but LFMPs are supposedly more apt between nearby frequencies.) This is possible only between 00 and 01 when both are on the air (unless they forget to turn both of them off). The other could still be Brasil, as no other broadcaster, major or minor is known active during this hour (DON`T YOU BELIEVE Radio Mil, Mexico, still in Aoki/NDXC, which has been gone for many YEARS). To confuse matters further, RHC has some Brazilian trying to speak Spanish, i.e. Portunhol, I have also heard at other times; maybe an unusual temporary guest. 5990 is S9+20/30, and 6000 is S9+10. Since they leapfrog, the two must be at the same site, despite Aoki showing different coördinates: 5990 CRI as La Habana, and 6000 RHC as Titán-Quivicán. This is because only the CRI relays are in HFCC as registered by the ChiCom, but not specifying which of the three real sites. EiBi also reflects this. Harold Frodge also reported RHC on an unlisted frequency: ``CUBA: 6090 Radio Habana Cuba; 0405, 2/4; W in EE reading list of phone #s & addresses; 0407+ RHC ID. SIO=2+52+; no sign of robustly bountiful Rev. Barbie or dead Dr. Gene (Frodge-MI)`` 6090: so I am checking this out too: Feb 9 at 0401, no Anguilla, but fast SAH of about 15 Hz, talk and music mixing. Now I get it! 6090 is another leapfrog mixing product as confirmed by // audio: 5910 CRI relay over 6000 RHC English, another 90 kHz higher. Both must be Titán-Quivicán site here too. Leapfrogs do not make any SAH as the result is a single ``transmission``, which however could be off- frequency if either fundamental be; so what else is on 6090 now? Surely R. Amhara, ETHIOPIA. The 6090 Cuban mix could be heard anytime between 03 and 05, the 5910 CRI hours in English, Cantonese. Checked at 0407 for reverse leap on 5820 but nothing audible there. Let this be a lesson: before leaping to conclusions about something exotic or reactivated, if you hear Spanish or any RHC language on a band where Cuban transmitters also exist, consider a mixing product! Something`s always wrong at RHC --- and fun for us (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5040, Feb 9 at 0030, RHC English is open carrier/dead air except for a bit of scratchiness. Wiggle that patchcord! Something`s always wrong at RHC. 9640, Feb 9 at 0725, S9+10/20 of dead air except for some hum; also 9535 dead at S9+10. Obviously RHC transmitters left on far beyond sign-off time. I wonder if they were modulating earlier in English or Spanish. 9535 is always quite weaker than 9640 here. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 15311, 15283, 15255, 14997, 14969 approx., Feb 9 at 1351, JBA 28.6x kHz spurs barely detectable from RHC 15140. Finally someone else reports these, Harold Frodge, Midland MI: ``15111.4, Radio Habana Cuba (presumed); 1545, 2/4 . . .`` [above in chrono order] 6010, Feb 10 at 0058, weak music // 5990 CRI relay not quite off yet, i.e. the leapfrog again over 6000 which this time is an open carrier prior to 0100 English. By 0102 5990 is off, 6000 in suptorted RHC English, 6010 also off. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5999.995, RHC Quivican TITAN San Felipe in English, S=9+30dB in NY. Some audio feeder distortion feeling, scratchy at 18 kHz wide. Talk on new Mexican President government [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, Rochester NY SDR, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 10, dxldyg via DXLD) before 0116 UT apparently judging from next log in order [and non]. NOTHING heard this Sunday morning of Esperanto special 6100 kHz, NOT ON AIR Febr 10 at 0700-0730 UT time slot. Only R Rebelde Bauta technician performing in 60 mb on 5025even S=9+30dB signal at 0712 UT. Scratched jamming PULSES on few strings near 6135 kHz S=9+5dB in Massachusetts SDR. 0706 UT. USA/CUBA Scratching jamming on 5980 kHz is stronger northerly in MA SDR post. Both R Marti Greenville NC were on air in 0700-0711 UT check, S=9+35dB strength both, but 6030 kHz modulation seems with more punch. 5980 is even fq, but 6030 outlet is some 3 ... 4 Hertz less on 6029.996 kHz - "for the accuracy of purists" [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 10, dxldyg via DXLD) 6100, Feb 10 at 0655, RHC still AWOL from this frequency as has been for several nights now, so what will happen with the scheduled weekly Sunday Esperanto at 0700 on 6100? Still nothing: all RHC 49m frequencies off. If Esp`o weren`t RHC`s least important, lowest priority language, they could have put it on some other transmitter and/or frequency, as has happened before contrary to schedule. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 15140, Sun Feb 10 at 1601, RHC Esperanto starting here on unacknowledged frequency, as well as publicized 11760. Schedule announcement at 1603 still claims first broadcast is at 0800 on 6100! I seriously doubt they got 6100 back on the air just for that, but zzzz unchecked. Previous weeks it has been at 0700 on 6100, contrary to initial B-18 schedule, i.e. tacked on to end of English rotations. During announcement of frequencies, deep fade at 1600 part, but I think there was only one, i.e. not including 15140, which was added months ago, other days only Spanish // 11760. Third broadcast to be Sun 2330 on 15730, not confirmed lately. 15700, Feb 10 at 1514, CRI Plus relay in English is S9+30/40 but very suptorted; wiggle that patchcord! Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba. 15311, 15255, 14968, Feb 10 at 1521, only traces of a few of the plus/minus 26.8 kHz spur multiples from RHC 15140. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6090, RHC, 0430-0441. Heard here mixing with University Network co-channel. First time heard on this freq. // 6000 kHz. Perhaps an image since “something is always wrong at RHC” per GH. And there also sounds like a 3rd station in there as Pastor Melissa was there, an YL from RHC and music & a man in unknown language was the 3rd signal. University Network was also // 5935, their WWCR relay. Real weird situation on 2/11. It's all gone now checking back at 0504. Never could ID the 3rd station (Don Hosmer W8SWL, West Branch MI USA, Icom IC-7200 with G5RV antenna, WOR iog via DXLD) As I reported recently about the 6090 situation: Cuban mixing product (leapfrog) transmitted, not an image (which means receiver-produced, not really there), of 5910 China relay over 6000 RHC in English. China in Cantonese was probably the ``3rd station`` which you could confirm by checking // to 5910. This ends at 0500 when 5910 goes off (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** CUBA. 9965, Feb 8 at 1357 pulse jamming against nothing but a JBA carrier probably FE, rather than Radio República which left this frequency many years ago. Something`s always wrong at the DentroCuban Jamming Command. At least the J is here rather than upon 9955 WRMI. Superfluous jamming discourtesy of the incompetent DentroCuban Jamming Command, where something is always wrong: 5960, Feb 9 at 0713, pulse jamming vs nothing, maybe spur out of 5980s 6125, Feb 9 at 0404, intermittent pulse jamming stray vs Turkey deadair 12035, Feb 9 at 1355, occasional pulse jamming stray QRM to Turkey 11915-11945, Feb 9 at 1420, Heavy jamming against 11930 Martí is splattering out at least plus/minus 15 kHz, more than usual 11845, Feb 9 at 1424, residual pulse jamming still here against long- abandoned Martí frequency; and also vs 11860 which is M-F only unlike all other RM usage; DCJC had been turning off 11860 weekends, maybe forgot today Saturday, but by 1757 the only jamming is around 11930. 15700, Feb 11 at 1438, CRI Plus English relay is S9+20, overmodulated, distorted and splattering. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 2019 Philatelic Contest --- Dear friend: This year's philatelic contest is dedicated to the 500th anniversary of the foundation of Havana, the Cuban capital. This important anniversary is being celebrated this year, during all of 2019. And here's what you have to do: Just name three patrimonial sites in Havana, that appear on Cuban postage stamps. All contestants who enter his year's competition and give us the right answer will receive free Cuban stamps. Contest deadline is December 31st. Send your entry to: Radio Havana Cuba, Post Office Box 6240, Havana Cuba. Our e-mail address is radiohc@enet.cu Once again, here's the philatelic question for his year's annual contest: Name three patrimonial sites in Havana that appear on Cuban postage stamps. Rosario Lafita Fernández, Head of Correspondence Dept., Radio Havana Cuba (via Wolfgang Bueschel, DXLD) ** DENMARK. 243 kHz, Danmarks Radio, Kalundborg will continue transmissions up to 2022 according to info from Stig Hartvig Nielsen, DK. On the air daily between 0445-0505, 0700-0805, 1045-1105 and 1645-1710. Power is 50 kW (S.H. Nielsen and WRTH 10.2.2019 via Arctic Radio Club mv-eko, Feb 11, via DXLD) ** DENMARK. Stig Hartvig Nielsen reports on the WRTH Facebook group. 8 February 2019 World Music Radio on air today Saturday and tomorrow Sunday on 15805 kHz at 07-20 UT. Power is only 0.2 kW - so probably the weakest station on the 19 meter band. Not an easy DX catch. So far only six reception reports for 15805 have been received: Two from Spain and one from these countries: Greece, USA, Russia and Ukraine. Addresses for reception reports are: wmr@wmr.dk and World Music Radio, PO Box 112, DK-8960 Randers SØ, Denmark http://www.wmr.radio (via Mike Terry, WOR iog via DXLD) ** EAST TURKISTAN. 3950 & 3990, Feb 9 at 0034, JBA carriers vs QRhaM, presumed PBS Xinjiang --- checking for these after hearing the usual grayline quartet of higher carriers all correlating with same Urumqi station, 4500, 4850, 4980, 5060. 3990 & 4980 are in Uighur, part of the ChiCom brainwashing scheme. However, Aoki shows PBS Gannan also running this hour on 3990. 7205, Feb 9 at 0036, is more than a carrier, Asian wailing at S5-S8. This could also be Xinjiang in Uighur, but CRI Mongolian via Beijing site also scheduled (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3989.990, CHINA, PBS Xinjiang Urumqi, in Uyghur language, S=9+20dB, much better powerful modulated than Bishkek-KGZ. 1709 UT. 3949.994, PBS Xinjiang Urumqi, Mandarin Chinese sce, S=9+20dB at 1711 UT on Febr 11. 4500even, exact measured, PBS Xinjiang Urumqi, in Mongolian language, S=9+10dB at 1714 UT. 4979.985 CHN PBS Xinjiang Urumqi, in Uyghur language, S=9+10dB in Doha Qatar remote SDR unit. At 1722 UT on Febr 11 [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 11, dxldyg via DXLD) ** ECUADOR [non]. 3995, 0715-0720 7.2, D, HCJB, Weenermoor. German ann, hymns by mixed choir, 45444 (No English or Russian broadcasts heard at 0355-0435, while HCJB was off the air!) (Anker Petersen, Denmark, from rainy Skovlunde heard on the AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, wbradio yg via DXLD) ** ERITREA. 7140, 1730, Voice of the Broad Masses, Asmara fair in Tigrinya 24/1 BC (Brian Carr, Christchurch, Kenwood R5000, EWE, 140’ ground wire, Feb NZ DX Times via DXLD) 7140, 1819, VOBME Asmara good and clear with talkback, distinctive vocals 7/1. Now improved relations with Ethiopia, perhaps free of jamming nowadays? BCM** 7180, 1825, VOBME Asmara reactivated with news feature in local language, mention of neighbours (Sudan, Djibouti, Ethiopia) interspersed with music, good clean signal 9/1. Closed with national anthem 1932, as did the other Eritrea freq 7140 this day. BCM** (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai, Northland, North Island, New Zealand, ** Using the League’s Northland SDR, ibid.) ** ERITREA [non]. RADIO SINIT ERITREA (NEW ENTRY) E: info@radiosinit.net W: www.radiosinit.net; www.facebook.com/RadioSinit Winter Schedule 2018-2019 Arabic Days Area kHz 0530-0600 .....s. ERI 9540iss Tigrinya Days Area kHz 0500-0530 .....s. ERI 9540iss (WRTH Update Feb 4 via WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DXLD) Sinit --- first news of this one! (gh, DXLD) FRANCE, New clandestine via TDF Issoudun - Radio Sinit Eritrea https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/new-clandestine-broadcast-via-tdf.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: 0500-0600 on 9540 ISS 250 kW / 139 deg to EaAf Tigrinya/Arabic Sat ??????????? ?? Observer ? 4:26 PM (via DXLD) ** ERITREA [non]. SECRETLAND, New schedule of Dimtse Radio Erena via SPL Secretbrod 1700-1730 9720 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Daily 1730-1800 9720 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Arabic Mon/Wed/Fri 1730-1800 9720 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Tue/Thu/Sat/Sun https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/new-schedule-of-dimtse-radio-erena-via.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.10-11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. GERMANY, Reception of Voice of Oromo Liberation via MBR Nauen on Feb.6: 1700-1800 9610 NAU 100 kW / 144 deg Afan Oromo Wed, very good, BUT 1730-1800 9610 NAU 100 kW / 144 deg Amharic Wed - again not on air https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/reception-of-voice-of-oromo-liberation.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb. 6-7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. SECRETLAND, Radio Warra Wangeelaa-ti via SPL Secretbrod on Feb.9 1500-1502 on 15515 SCB 100 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Oromo Sat, good signal from 1502 on 15515 SCB 100 kW / 195 deg to EaAf open carrier/dead air& from 1520 on 15515 SCB 100 kW / 195 deg to EaAf transmitter is off air https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/reception-of-radio-warra-wangeelaa-ti.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. DRM: see abottom ** FRANCE. World Radio Day Feb 13 and RFI UNESCO World Radio Day 2019: UNESCO's annual day to celebrate radio as a medium to improve international cooperation between broadcasters is set for Wednesday, 13 Feb 2019. This year's theme is Dialogue, Tolerance and Peace. I probably wouldn't have known about this upcoming event if it wasn't for Radio France International. Since I regularly listen to Susan's Sound Kitchen podcast, she has been encouraging her listeners and club members to send in audio greetings about what the radio day means to them. On Saturday's (2/9/19) podcast she played many of the greetings. I'm not sure if other broadcasters will participate in this event, but after looking at the UNESCO website I noted that RFI is a partner. I congratulate RFI and Susan for their media support. Listening to the RFI podcast is well worth checking out. UNESCO website: http://www.diamundialradio.org RFI website: http://en.rfi.fr/features/sound-kitchen Best Regards, (Larry Zamora, Garland TX, Feb 10, WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Ironically, Susan`s Sound Kitchen is NO LONGER ON RADIO! (gh, ibid.) It seems that each year, World Radio Day is less about radio and more about ideals that might be conveyed via radio. I would not be surprised if the name changes to World Media for the Benefit of Humanity Day. Anyway, don't expect much "tolerance and peace" on the US AM dial on February 13. PS Here are the World Radio Day girl and the World Radio Day chicken transmitted on Shortwave Radiogram, 10 Feb 2019, 0815 UTC, 7730 kHz from WRMI Florida, received by Chris in New Zealand (Kim Elliott, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DXLD) with illustration Live WRD 2019 Broadcast and Event from Paris! Uniting Under Common Concerns Promoting Dialogue and Participation. On 13 February 2019, a World Radio Day event will be open to the public at UNESCO Headquarters from 11:00 to 16:00 [local time?]. Two radio stations will be broadcasting live: Radio UNESCO, a temporary radio station dedicated to World Radio Day, and Radio France International (RFI). In addition, a total of 10 “Speed Workshops” will be offered for all to gain hands-on experience in radio production (Feb CIDX Messenger via WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DXLD) WTFK?? Real radio or online? (gh, DXLD) ** GERMANY. SDXF - Sveriges DX-Förbund: special programmes on 13th and 16 February: On the World Radio Day 2019, that is to say on Wednesday 13 February, we send on two occasions a special programme over Radio Channel 292. It will also be rebroadcast on Saturday February 16th. Wednesday 13 February 2019: 0800-0900 UT 1300-1400 UT Saturday 16 February 2019: 0800-0900 UT Frequency: 7440 kHz Correct listener reports are verified. Send your report by mail to Sveriges DX-Förbund, Box 1097, 405 23 Gothenburg, Sweden or as e-mail to qsl@sdxf.se Specialprogram 13 och 16 februari På World Radio Day 2019 det vill säga onsdagen den 13 februari sänder vi vid två tillfällen ett specialprogram över Radio Channel 292. Det blir också en reprissändning lördagen den 16 februari. ONSDAG 13 FEBRUARI 2019: 0800-0900 UTC 1300-1400 UTC LÖRDAG 16 FEBRUARI 2019: 0800-0900 UTC Frekvens: 7440 kHz Korrekta lyssnarrapporter verifieras. Skicka din rapport med post till Sveriges DX-Förbund, Box 1097, 405 23 Göteborg eller som e-post till qsl@sdxf.se. http://www.sdxf.se/WP/ (via Mauno Ritola on WRTH - World Radio Tv Handbook Facebook Group, 12 Feb) (via Alan Pennington, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) there`s more --- Special program 13 and 16 February On World Radio Day 2019, that is, Wednesday, February 13, we will send a special program on Radio Channel 292 on two occasions. It will also be a broadcast on Saturday, February 16. WEDNESDAY 13 FEBRUARY 2019: 0800-0900 UTC 1300-1400 UTC SATURDAY 16 FEBRUARY 2019: 0800-0900 UTC Frequency: 7440 kHz SDXF – Sveriges DX-Förbund – Vi lyssnar på radio från hela världen Correct listener reports are verified. Send your report by mail to Sveriges DX-Förbund, Box 1097, 405 23 Gothenburg or as e-mail to qsl@sdxf.se. WIN DX MARKS! In the special program on the occasion of the World Radio Day on February 13 (replay February 16), there is a competition issue in the feature about Radio Habana Cuba. Here is the price [sic] that you can win if you answer the question correctly. [Marks = Cuban stamps, also prizes from RHC itself] http://www.sdxf.se/WP/ (via Mike Terry, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DXLD) ** GERMANY. Re: [WOR] Fw: Atlantic 2000 on the air this weekend Fairly good signal today (9 February) starting at 0900 UT on 6070 kHz via Radio Channel 292 using the U. Twente SDR receiver (recorded). Pop songs with announcements and radio news items in French and occasional English IDs (-- Richard Langley, WOR iog via DXLD) Next transmission will be tomorrow [Sun Feb 10] at 0900 on 7440 (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) ** GERMANY [non?]. Received two QSL cards from Norddeutscher Rundfunk NDR from Germany in response to two reports for receiving Christmas broadcasts on December 24, 2018. Cards were sent on January 18, 2019. On Christmas Eve, NDR broadcasts messages to sailors around the world on the “Gruss an Bord” radio program. QSL can be viewed here http://freerutube.info/2019/02/05/qsl-norddeutscher-rundfunk-ndr-germaniya-dekabr-2018-goda/ (Dmitry Elagin, Saratov, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" via QSL World, Rus-DX Feb 10 via DXLD) ** GERMANY [non]. Thursday 21 February: Annual SW broadcast of Radio Amrum (Radio Öömrang) from Amrum Island, German North Frisian Islands. Tentatively 1600-1659 UT on 15215 kHz via Issoudun in Frisian, German and English. QSLs via Media Broadcast qsl-shortwave@media-broadcast.com (Feb BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) Aimed at expats in NYC; sked info as per last and previous years (gh) ** GREENLAND. MARE (Uncle) Harold Frodge provides the following in addition to the Greenland info on page two of the printed bulletin this month: Greenland NDBs logged: 279 SI Smiutaq 298 KU Kitaa, Kook Islands A/P 314 GH Nuuk 328 HB Holsteinborg-Sismuit 341 SM Sisimuit 367 JV Jakobshavn, Rapa Ilulissat A/P; 372 OZN Prins Christian Sund 377 DA Kulusuk, Greenland 382 SF Sondre Stromfjord 386 CP Nerferit Inaat 391 MA Manitsoq (MARE Tipsheet Feb 8 via DXLD) ** GREENLAND. Radio på Grönland – ett frimärke berättar --- Christer Brunström Den 21 januari 2019 gav Grönland ut två frimärken som minde om andra världskriget och dess inverkan på grönländarnas vardag. Valören 25 kroner tar upp tidningarnas och radions betydelse för att sprida nyheter och annan information till befolkningen i den danska kolonin. Radion kom tidigt till Grönland. Redan 1926 fanns det en sändare i Godhavn som erbjöd 45 minuter per dag. Programmet bestod huvudsakligen av nyheter och information om sjöfarten i området. Under de kommande åren fick några av de större orterna små sändare. Godthaab fick sin radiostation 1926 och Julianehaab år 1931. Sändningarna var mycket begränsade och det fanns ingen riktig struktur i kolonins radioverksamhet. Vid mitten av 1930-talet dök det upp önskemål om att radion i ännu större omfattning skulle användas på att sprida information till befolkningen. År 1941 fick tidningsredaktören Vibe även ansvar för radiosändningarna. Den 5 januari 1942 kom man på allvar igång med mera omfattande nyhetssändningar. Ungefär så här inleddes den första sändningen: ”Radio Grönland, Godthaab, på 475 meter. Här kommer nu de senaste nyheterna”. Mycket få grönländare förstod ett annat språk än sitt eget men tack vare de nya programmen kunde de nu få nyheter och information på grönländska. På så sätt kom det grönländska folket närmare den övriga världen. Vid början av 1945 hade nyhetssändningarna två delar. Den första bestod av nyheter som hade sänts från London och Amerika och den andra hade nyheter från Danmark. Det var enbart de internationella nyheterna som översattes till grönländska. Det fanns dock även många grönländare som önskade att nyheter från Danmark skulle finnas tillgängliga även på det lokala språket. Frimärket är utformat av Naja Rosing-Asvid och graverat av norrmannen Martin Mörck (med ett förflutet i Sverige och för närvarande bosatt i Danmark). Rosing-Asvid har valt att visa en grupp grönländare runt en bordsradiomottagare i färd med att lyssna på de senaste krigsnyheterna från Radio Grönland. Radio Grönland sände uppenbarligen från Godthaab på 630 kHz vid början av 1940-talet. Än idag använder stationen tre frekvenser på den lägre delen av mellanvågsbandet. Som bekant stängde man av mellanvågen för ett antal år sedan men de svaga FM-sändarna nådde inte ut till fiskeflottan eller de mer avlägsna byarna varför man reaktiverade mellanvågen. [Stamp illustrated in original. Google translation, improved by gh:] Radio in Greenland - a stamp reports --- Christer Brunström On January 21, 2019, Greenland issued two stamps reminiscent of the Second World War and its impact on Greenlandic everyday life. The denomination of NOK 25 addresses the importance of the newspapers and the radio to spread news and other information to the population of the Danish colony. Radio arrived early in Greenland. Already in 1926 there was a transmitter in Godhavn which offered 45 minutes a day. The program consisted mainly of news and information about shipping in the area. In the coming years, some of the larger towns received small transmitters. Godthaab got its radio station in 1926 and Julianehaab in 1931. The broadcasts were very limited and there was no real structure in the colony's radio activities. By the mid-1930s, desires appeared that the radio would be used to an even greater extent to spread information to the population. In 1941, the newspaper editor Vibe was also responsible for the radio broadcasts. On January 5, 1942, they started seriously with more extensive news broadcasts. About the same time, the first broadcast began: “Radio Greenland, Godthaab, at 475 meters. Here comes the latest news”. Very few Greenlanders understood a language other than their own but thanks to the new programs, they could now get news and information in Greenland. In this way, the Greenlandic people came closer to the rest of the world. At the beginning of 1945, the news broadcasts had two parts. The first consisted of news that had been sent from London and America and the other had news from Denmark. It was only the international news that was translated into Greenlandic. However, there were also many Greenlanders who wanted news from Denmark to be available also in the local language. The stamp is designed by Naja Rosing-Asvid and engraved by the Norwegian Martin Mörck (with a past in Sweden and currently resident in Denmark). Rosing-Asvid has chosen to show a group of Greenlanders around a table radio receiver in the process of listening to the latest war news from Radio Greenland. Radio Greenland apparently sent from Godthaab at 630 kHz at the beginning of the 1940s. Even today, the station uses three frequencies on the lower part of the MW band. As you know, the medium-wave was shut down a number of years ago, but the weak FM transmitters did not reach the fishing fleet or the more remote villages, so they reactivated the MW (Arctic Radio Club mv-eko, Feb 11, via DXLD) ** GUATEMALA. 4055, Feb 7 at 0615, brief Spanish and English sign-off announcements from Radio Verdad/Truth, into lengthy multiverse NA until 0620 when open carrier remains on. S9+10/20 good signal now. 1232 recheck is S9+10, good with song, hymn vs lightning crashes from central/eastern Oklahoma storms, which started yesterday after a quiet winter, really impacting LW, MW and lower SW, but when close enough within 2 miles, also audible against OKC FM stations (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUINEA. Radio Guinea, Conakry --- About 0730 to 0800 seems to be a good time to hear this station on 9650 kHz. Reasonably good signal both today and last Friday with French speakers and local lively music. Nice to listen even if you do not understand what is being said (David J Morris, Lytchett Matravers, Poole, UK, Feb 11, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) ** INDIA. 4810, AIR (Mumbai) 1507-1533 31 Jan. Sneaking through the noise with "sub-continental" tunes, Hindi chat to 1530 & into the 15-minute English news segment (all // 5040, Jeypore which has a much better signal). (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA, Grundig/Eton "Executive Satellit"/6m X wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 9380, AIR seems again activated but --- heard in UK!! with marginal, fair in Twente signal, while in Greece and Italia frequency was clear, 1515 (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, Feb 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL INTERNET. Southern European Report with Stefano Valianti Many of us have differing opinions about radio on the web. One thing cannot however be denied, and this is that the crisis of shortwave (and medium wave, at least in a large part of Europe) began long before mobile phones and tablets became ubiquitous devices. If a listener's main interest is radio programmes and contents, it is unquestionable that web radio can be an asset. I was looking at three apps I use on my devices, and pondering the listening choices they provide. The first one is the Voice of America, which today, after leaving, in chronological order, the European long, short and medium wavebands, is only audible here, with variable reception quality, on some African frequencies, mainly 15580 and 4930 kHz. On the web, there's a 24-hour choice among three channels, VOA Global English, VOA Africa and VOA1-The Hits (there's an additional channel called VOA Newscasts, with the news repeated over and over again). My favorite VOA programme, Jazz America with Russ Davis, is heard at different times as follows (GMT): [table garbled?] Global Sats/Suns 1300-1400 1-The Hits Sats 0500-0700, Suns 1300-1500 Africa Sats 0700-0900, Suns 1000-1200 and 1400-1500 Another remarkable choice is given by Vatican Web Radio (by the way, this is no longer on the Google Play Store but can be downloaded from apkpure.com). Vatican Radio has been one of the fastest stations in dismantling short and medium wave services, and even leasing two of their four Roman FM frequencies to other broadcasters. On the web, you can now select among up to 12 channels, though normally 8 or 9 are active. There's a great choice of languages and programmes, and also music: just to mention a few, With You in the Night daily at 2300 on channels 1, 3, 4 and 5, and some programmes of Brazilian music on channels 1 and 4. Finally, the radio of the U.S. Armed Forces, which we enjoyed many years ago on 15430 kHz, and more recently on many MW frequencies in Germany. Now there's the AFN 360 app, audible in countries where AFN has a MW/FM outlet. This app offers the following services: the local FM streams (e.g. AFN Vicenza, AFN Stuttgart and so on), and nine music/spoken word specialized stations. Country, Fans (American sports), Freedom (alternative music), Gravity (urban and club hits), Hot AC (Contemporary Hit Radio), Joe Radio (hits from the '80s to today), Legacy (classic rock), PowerTalk (political talk radio) and The Voice (news, talk and information, with AP, ABC and Fox news). (Feb BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) WHAT ABOUT CLASSICAL!?!?! (gh) ** IRAN. UNIDENTIFIED. 9835.006, Feb 8 at 1401, S3-S6 JBA talk and music, first suspected Malaysia [q.v.] which has been reported active on reduced schedule, but more likely IRAN in Russian as also scheduled this hour only, 1320-1420 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6090.003, Poor muffled signal of IRIB Sirjan in Spanish to Latin America, S=8-9 at 0127 UT. Talk on Papa Francisco journeys. Nothing on air from Anguilla Antilles religious broadcaster this Febr 10 (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, Rochester NY SDR, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 10, dxldyg via DXLD) 5950.005, VoIRIB Sirjan, in Tajik language, backlobe signal remaining into North America. S=6-7 at 0150 UT (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, Cape Canaveral FL remote SDR, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 10, dxldyg via DXLD) What about 5950 WRMI? Totally skipping over? (gh) ** IRAN. Iranian Radio --- Tomorrow [Feb 11] marks the 40th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution and could result in special/distinctive programming. IRNA reports: Representatives of 300 foreign media from all over the world have come to Iran to portray the events of 22 Bahman and the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution to the world; a revolution that has been named by the great founder of the Islamic Republic as a 'divine gift'. According to the plan, about 6,500 news experts from various domestic and foreign media, including the reporters, photographers and cameramen, are to cover the big event with news and video. 73 (Steve Whitt, MWN Editor, Feb 10, MWCircle yg via DXLD) ** IRAN. Is there anyone who has a good knowledge of Iranian radio? Following the chimes and ID on IRIB Radio Iran (heard quite well on several medium wave frequencies), there is a very patriotic / revolutionary sounding song in Persian that is played at certain times. I hear it often at 2030 UT [local midnite]. Does anyone know the name of it? Google research came up with a mention of something called "Anjaza, Anjaza" (those words are heard in it I think) and that's what I've referred to it as in my personal logbook, but I'm not sure if that is the actual title of the song or what the relevance of it is (is it praising Ayatollah Khomeni?). Does anyone know? There is an example of it at http://www.intervalsignals.net/ on Dave Kernick's Interval Signals Online; if you click on Iran, State radio, and then VIRI Radio Iran, it is heard on that clip (Tony Rogers, Open to Discussion, Feb BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** IRAQ. See MUSEA ** IRELAND. [bdxc-news] No Station listed for 5780 kHz --- I heard American soul and jazz on 5780 kHz at 1000h UT but could not find a station listed for it. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks (Will Grocott, Stratford Upon Avon, UK, ICR8600 & ALA1530, Feb 10, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) 5780: This will be Harmony, a presumed pirate. Seems to be on air Sundays only. Very few announcements, and stating that the station is a refuge from the busy world. Always an excellent signal here. I have no details of the station (David J Morris, Lytchett Matravers, Poole, UK, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) Thanks, David. It didn’t seem to stay on air for long, but nice to find. It’s in my log. Thanks again (Will, ibid.) Hi David and Will, Just read your posts re station on 5780 kHz. Your comments are of interest to me too as I have logged a station, I thought around 5785 (so many thanks for clarifying exact frequency) IDing as ''Harmony'' but I do not have any info on the station. Log details : Harmony - 5780 kHz (I stand corrected) - 9 Dec 2018 - from 1012 UT. What I heard sounded like Victor Borga [sic] then continuous music with occasional announcements: 'Beautiful music on Harmony' Signal generally good (S/S - 4.5 at best on my receiver - Grundig Sat 3400 with random wire). Some drift and moderate static / hiss QRM. Sorry I am not very technically proficient. Regards and 73's, (Albert Ford, West Camel, Somerset, BDXC 2543, ibid.) Radio Harmony is a pirate station broadcasting from Ireland. It is on air daily with an easy listening music format, but no DJs. Email is harmonyQRZ@gmail.com 73s (Paul Watson, UK, ibid.) ** IRELAND [non]. Latest news from IRRS & EGR: new schedule on 7295 [sic] kHz Hello There from IRRS & EGR, It’s been a while since our last message. Hope you're well, and still listening to Shortwave. We would like to update you with the latest news about our radio station. Firstly, are you still interested in International Broadcasting? We were at the latest ASBU/HFCC frequency coordination meeting held in Tunis (Jan 21-25, 2019), where NEXUS-IBA promoted a very interesting round-table discussion on the “Future of Shortwave”. We gathered different opinions from International broadcasters coming from Asia/Pacific, Africa, Europe and the USA. Unfortunately, there is still no good news about DRM receivers, and some Shortwave stations are struggling to keep alive (some may close soon), due to the high cost of spare parts and ageing transmitters. No worry, IRRS, NEXUS and EGR broadcast from some of the most up-to-date facilities that include new, high-power, energy-efficient Continental transmitters from 100 to 300 kW! We expect a press-release from the HFCC soon; in the meantime, you can read more at http://mv.ie/sw Secondly, we would like to announce a series of daily broadcasts to Europe on our mainstream frequency of 7290 [sic] kHz from 19 to 20 UT (winter), i.e. 20:00-21:00 CET, featuring the best of IPAR (International Public Access Radio) and EGR (European Gospel Radio) programs. For example, tonight, starting each Monday, Feb. 4, 2019, “The Voice of Love will broadcast a selection of some of the most entertaining spiritual programs in English, designed for our international audience. More information is available here: https://bit.ly/2WE2hmZ . The Voice of Love will reply directly to all requests of reception reports during these broadcasts (each Monday during February, at 1900-2000 UT on 7295 [sic] kHz to Europe, Mid-East & N Africa). We invite you to express your support to our content producers and visit our newly renovated web site for additional information at https://www.nexus.org and http://egradio.org . Write us or contact us from our web site, and please let your friends know about our new programs. With very best 73s, Stay tuned! (Ron (on behalf of all of our staff in Milan & Dublin) -- IRRS-Shortwave /EGR / IPAR NEXUS-Int'l Broadcasting Association email: reports@nexus.org http://www.nexus.org Feb 4, WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Self-contradictory; is it 7290 or 7295, or flexible? 7290 is the one registered in HFCC at 19-20 for imaginary MILano site, presumed really Saftica, ROMANIA (gh, DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 7345, JAPAN, Shiokaze Ibaragi-Koga-Yamata: 1316z Woman in Korean with talk, 1328z light instrumental music filler, 1329z talk by W in Korean with light piano background music. 1332z W in Korean with news. Good signal this AM (Steven Wiseblood, Harlingen TX, 2/6, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Steven, Yes indeed. Wednesday's Shiokaze with a big signal without the usual heavy QRM (CNR1), nor jammed by N. Korea. So last week`s broadcast in English was just a one day anomaly (Ron Howard, California, ibid.) Ron: Wonder if this is ex-6085, if so they may have English one day a week, Thursday morning according to shortwave-info (Steven Wiseblood, Harlingen, Texas, ibid.) Yes. See: https://groups.io/g/WOR/message/106091 and related messages (-- Richard Langley, NB, ibid.) 7345, Shiokaze/Sea Breeze via Yamata, on Feb 7, at *1300+, with their normal Thursday schedule in English; segments "Today's Newsflash" and "Today's News on North Korea Issues"; extremely light CNR1 QRM and no N. Korea jamming; fairly readable. Portion of my audio today at http://bit.ly/2UFK1rA (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) 7345, JAPAN, Shiokaze/Sea Breeze (oppo) at 1330. Reported by others, first time actually heard in my shack was Feb. 2. On again today, with all the familiar piano themes, jailbreak alarm sound effect, in (sounded) Korean today. DPRK jamming effort not audible - Very Good Feb 8 (Rick Barton, Arizona, Grundig Satellit 205(T.5000) & 750; Hammarlund HQ-180A & HQ-200; RS SW-2000629, & ATS-909X with various outdoor wires. 73 and Good Listening ! WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 7295, Feb 6 at 1434, usual mix with SAH of Furusato no Kaze QRMing itself via JAPAN and TAIWAN; 1435 Japan goes off clearing Taiwan. FnK is also scheduled from 1430 on 9960 via PALAU, where there is soft YL talk at S9+10; splash from some downunderite on 9955 evitable by USB tuning. Sounds the same as on 7295, but far from synchronized (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11530, CLANDESTINE via PRIDNESTROVIE (TRANSNISTRIA), R. Denge Welat in Kurdish, 01.26.2019 1013-1023, local chant, woman talk over chant in background, brief music break, other woman chatting with man (interview), heard in usb, very good; in // http://www.denge-welat.org in streaming with some seconds of delay from broadcast in shortwaves (Gianni Serra, Roma-Italy, Equipment: JRC NRD 525 receiver; Alpha Delta DX-SWL Sloper-S antenna; RG 8 mini coaxial cable; JPS NIR 12 Noise & Interference Reducer-Dual DSP outboard audio filter; JRC NVA 319 external loudspeaker unit; Sony MDR-101 stereo headphones, DX LISTENING DIGEST) MOLDOVA, 11530even, Kurdish Radio via Bcast centers in use are different during daytime, via TDF Issoudun or Radiotelecentr (PRTC) transmitter Grigoriopol Maiac MDA [a.k.a. PRIDNESTROVYE] 11530even kHz, this Febr 5th at 0700 UT S=9+25 or -52dBm signal in remote Doha Qatar site, and also two spurious signal bundles of S=8 strength again 4main x 100 Hertz apart distance spurs seen again, 'wobbling' unstable frequencies_strings, Either side on approx. 11480 and 11580 kHz: 11480.812 kHz and 11579.180 kHz [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Denge Welat via Grigoriopol` and Issoudun, Feb.11: 0600-1500 on 11530 KCH 300 kW / 130 deg to WeAs Kurdish, very good 1500-1600 on 11530 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish, very good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/reception-of-denge-welat-via.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.10-11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 15515, 0552, Radio Kuwait with strong distorted signal in Arabic with regular references to Kuwait, putting annoying splatter on Radio Kuwait 15530! 23/1 BCM** 15530, 0457, R Kuwait opens abruptly in Arabic with very good signal but surging propagation. At 0500, time sigs then English ident with freqs announced as 963 kHz MW and 93.3 FM, anthem and then ‘Under the Umbrella of Islam’ 22/1. BCM** (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai, Northland, North Island, New Zealand, ** Using the League’s Northland SDR, ibid.) Radio Kuwait 15110 DRM --- I have now repaired my MiniWhip antenna and have GQRX and Dream working on Ubuntu 1804 on my SDR setup, which I use with my AirSpy Mini dongle and 7-year old Acer laptop. Radio Kuwait's signal giving around 20dB S/N most of the time, so decoding almost perfect, except when my shed heater switched on. I tuned in toward the end of their transmission at 1300 GMT. Gentleman speaking Arabic, couldn't understand it, but quality was good (Ian Brooks, Verwood, Dorset, 10 miles north of Bournemouth, UK, 1333 UT Feb 7, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) ** KYRGYZSTAN. OJSC "RPO RMTR" provides broadcast television and radio programs in the Kyrgyz Republic (official name). One of the most powerful transmission centers is the ROC Krasnaya Rechka, located in the Chui region of Kyrgyzstan. We offer to get acquainted with the equipment of the ROC, broadcasting time and frequencies: Type of transmitter (call sign) / Broadcast frequency, kHz / Power, kW / Hours of broadcasting (local time) / Coverage area - RV-20 (“Hoarfrost”) / 612 / 120 / 18 hours a day (from 06.00 to 24.00). "Birinchi Radio" / Territory of the Republic. - TRAM-S500 / 1467 / 500 / 4.5 hours per day (from 7.30 to 24.00). "Birinchi Radio" / The territory of the Republic, Pakistan, India, Iran, Afghanistan. - PB-716 (“Snow”) / 4010 / 100 / 18 hours per day (from 06.00 to 24.00). / The territory of the republic, partly the territory of Russia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, India, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China. - RV-1411 (“Ural”) / 4820 / 15 / 12.5 hours per day (from 06.00 to 18.30). Kyrgyz radio / The territory of the republic, partly the territory of Russia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, India, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China (Magazine “Radio” # 02/2019, Radio reception. V. Gulyaev. Broadcast news via Rus-DX Feb 10 via DXLD) - Kyrgyzstan Time UT + 6 (Rus-DX Feb 10 via DXLD) ** KYRGYZSTAN. KYRGYZ REPUBLIC, 5129.946 kHz measured on Febr 11 noted Afghan Christian Radio at 1700 UT, was Kyrgyztelekom at Krasnaya Rechka Bishkek the small limited 15 kW TX unit. Scheduled religious in Dari/Persian 15-18 UT. S=9+15dB signal on both Delhi India and in Doha Qatar remote SDR. Even some piece of modern religious pop music heard at 1710 UT. 4010.219, KGZ, Kyrgyz Radio Birinchi R, Krasnaya Rechka, Bishkek. Some male presenter on air, S=9+25dB at 1707 UT [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 11, dxldyg via DXLD) ** LAOS [non]. TAIWAN, Suab Xaa Moo Zoo, Voice of Hope via Tamshui, Feb.10: 2230-2300 on 7530 TSH 100 kW / 250 deg to SEAs Hmong, fair signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/reception-of-suab-xaa-moo-zoo-voice-of_11.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.10-11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MADAGASCAR [and non]. 5009.996, INDIA, AIR Thiruvananthapuram via Madras, Hindi at 1724 UT. and co-channel: 5009.927, probably R. Madagasikara in Malagasy via Antananarivo. S=7 signal at 1727 UT [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 11, dxldyg via DXLD) ** MADAGASCAR. 9515, Feb 5 at 2027, S4-S6 of lo-key music, seems like a repeating loop, so IS? Listed as AWR French via Talata from 2000, 125 kW at 320 degrees also USward. Off at 2028* without announcement (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MADAGASCAR. Reception of Madagascar World Voice African Pathways Radio, Feb.5 1800-1900 13670 MWV 100 kW / 310 deg WeAf English tx#3, very good 2000-2100 11965 MWV 100 kW / 295 deg CeAf English tx#3, fair/good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/reception-of-madagascar-world-voice_6.html Reception of Madagascar World Voice Radio Feda on Feb.5: 1900-2000 on 11965 MWV 100 kW / 355 deg to N/ME Arabic tx#2, very good 2000-2100 on 13710 MWV 100 kW / 355 deg to N/ME Arabic tx#2, weak/fair https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/reception-of-madagascar-world-voice_69.html Reception of Madagascar World Voice The Light of Life, Feb.5 2100-2200 on 11610 MWV 100 kW / 325 deg to WeEu Chinese tx#2, good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/reception-of-madagascar-world-voice_75.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.5-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) MADAGASCAR/ALASKA: KNLS change, cut 4 hours from Alaska and 4 hours from Madagascar from Feb.1. This is due to the increase in electricity and diesel fuel (at Madagascar its diesel is, because local electricity supply with constant interruptions). The new summer A-19 season, starting from the end of March, will also be with reduced hours. https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/knls-cancelled-4-hours-from-alaska-and.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See ALASKA ** MALAYSIA [and non]. 11665 seems back --- Just 2321 6.2.19 listened Wai on 11665 with poor signal in local Malay dialect via Jakarta kiwi SDR, S7. Nothing on 9835, VOV Indo 9840 good. Written in tablet with one finger! (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) And necessarily corrected by gh Hi Glenn, On Feb 8, checking at 1120, 1247 & 1347, noted clear frequencies for both 9835 and 11665; no hint of any station at all. In the past, I would have been hearing decent Malaysian signals on both frequencies (9835 Sarawak FM & 11665 Wai FM). So per my recent monitoring, their schedule has significantly changed during the period I normally listen (Ron Howard, California, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DXLD) 9835, Feb 9 at 1351, S8-S4 of Russian with flutter, so definitely VIRIran, not VOM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Ron, I don't think it is a schedule change, but for some reason they have difficulties in keeping the transmitters on the air. 9835 kHz has been inactive for quite a while. 11665 kHz was in operation on Thursday, but as you say not yesterday and also today off (Mauno Ritola, Finland, Sat Feb 9, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DXLD) Feb 9, checking 9835 & 11665 kHz at 1108, 1232 & 1301, with no stations heard; no trace of a carrier (Ron Howard, California, WOR iog via DXLD) Today 11665 kHz seems to be on at 0930 (Mauno Ritola, Feb 12, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Now direct my observation: 11665 even frequency with RTM Wai FM program from Kajang site, S=8-9 from poor to fair, but limited 50 kW of power only ? -74dBm strength at 1012 UT on Febr 11. Heard in Hiroshima Japan SDR remotedly. and \\ later in my installation 13 Seconds later/behind via livestream excellent audio quality https://myklik.rtm.gov.my/radio/Wai_FM?r=regional8 Nothing though on 9835 kHz which not heard at all in past half year or so? 73 wolfie df5sx (Wolfgang Bueschel, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DXLD) ** MALI. Radio Mali, Bamako, was noted on 9635 kHz at 1110 UT on 3 February with Malian kora music using a remote SDR in the Canary Islands. The signal and audio modulation was surprisingly good, better than I have heard from Mali for many years. The audio was cut at 1120 and the transmitter went off the air shortly afterwards (Dave Kenny, Feb BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) Both frequencies 5995 and 9635 had been missing for months (gh, DXLD) ** MEXICO. 810, XERI, Radio Rey, Reynosa, Tamaulipas. 1204 February 7, 2019. A very different, never previously heard and truncated orchestral version of the Mexican anthem from 1204. No ID coming out of the anthem, straight into slow Spanish romantic vocals, female announcer, completely faded by 1226. Pointing NE. Finally IDed on February 9. Signal popped up at 1200, male announcer into soft Spanish vocal, then the orchestral anthem again at 1204, immediately into "Amores" by Marissa Mur, then announcer with mention of "... más música" into Shakira's "Suerte." At 1213, male "Radio Rey, 102.9 FM" into commercials, one maybe a program promo for something clearly titled "NotiRey" then a Gobierno de México PSA for water conservation, and another "Radio Rey, 102.9 FM" mention. Listed as only 1,000 watts, and scheduled to vacate AM and migrate to FM in 2019. Get it now if you can (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, FL, NRD-535, IC-R75, longwires, active loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1300, Feb 6 at 1402, Spanish in the QRM with 7:02 TC, mention Ciudad Juárez, temp in C; surely XEP but losing out to Tulsa. ID not heard but it`s now ``Fiesta Mexicana`` per Tim Hall and WRTH. No lower XEs being heard this long after LSR, 1329. Its 38 kW day power helps. Even earlier and at night I have been hearing zilch from XEROK 800, with KQCV OKC nulled. XEROK must be back on QRP if on the air at all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 6185.007, XEPPM R Educacion from Mexico D.F. [sic], poor tiny S=5 at 0116 UT [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, Rochester NY SDR, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 10, dxldyg via DXLD) ** MEXICO. Asunto: [Radioescucha] No es DX pero... ¿cambia de piel el chayote...? Irene Levy // TELECOMUNICANDO Los medios públicos en el régimen de AMLO ?Me da un enorme gusto que el Presidente haya dado tal importancia a los medios públicos, aplaudo que haya dicho que serán medios de Estado, pero me preocupa que se vaya a intentar adoctrinar y controlar la línea editorial El Universal 28/01/2019| Nunca hemos tenido verdaderos medios públicos en México, es la realidad. Me refiero a medios que estén libres de intervención gubernamental en los nombramientos de sus directivos, en la elección de sus contenidos, la participación en sus espacios, locutores, comentaristas, presentadores, línea editorial y coyunturas, la tentación de control siempre ha estado ahí. A esto hay que sumar temas sindicales y presupuestales, complicado. Después de la conjura de la reforma a la Ley Orgánica de la Administración Pública Federal de noviembre de 2018, en la que legisladores morenistas pretendían concentrar la operación de la radiodifusión pública en la Secretaría de Gobernación, es imposible evitar la duda: cuáles son las intenciones del gobierno actual para con los medios públicos… ¿una BBC de Londres, como han dicho? La semana pasada, el presidente López Obrador anunció los nombres de quienes encabezarán los medios públicos: Jenaro Villamil fue propuesto al Senado para presidir el Sistema Público de Radiodifusión del Estado Mexicano (SPR), Armando Casas estará al frente del Canal 22, Gabriel Sosa Plata en Radio Educación, Aleida Calleja en el IMER, Lidia Camacho en la Dirección General de Televisión Educativa, Sanjuana Martínez en Notimex y José Antonio Álvarez Lima en el Canal 11. Gabriel Sosa Plata, Aleida Calleja y Jenaro Villamil, compañeros entrañables en distintas batallas y cuyo nombramiento celebro, tendrán la oportunidad de materializar —si los dejan— sus eternas demandas: libertad de expresión, equilibrio y objetividad noticiosa, derechos de las audiencias, entre otras. Pero en el discurso del Presidente resaltan algunas frases que, si no preocupan, por lo menos extrañan. Habló de la creación de un sistema de medios, no sabemos si fue un error y si se refería al ya existente SPR o si se creará otro, porque Notimex, por ejemplo, no forma parte del SPR. Dijo que este “sistema” tendría por objeto la “orientación editorial con propósito de informar con objetividad”; a mí me preocupa la idea de que desde el gobierno se oriente la línea editorial y, peor aún, que todos los medios se conviertan en uno solo; orientación y objetividad no suenan armónicos. El SPR es un organismo descentralizado no sectorizado, lo que significa que forma parte de la Administración Pública Federal, pero no depende de ninguna secretaría y por tanto cuenta con mayor autonomía de operación y decisión. Fue creado en la reforma constitucional de 2013 y sustituyó al patético OPMA, creado por Felipe Calderón en 2010 como organismo dependiente de Segob. El presidente del SPR es designado por dos terceras partes del Senado a propuesta del presidente de México; tiene un Consejo Ciudadano de nueve miembros también nombrados por las dos terceras partes del Senado, y una Junta de Gobierno integrada por el propio presidente del SPR, un representante de Segob, otro de la SEP, otro de Salud y tres consejeros. Únicamente tiene competencia en radio y televisión, y su objetivo es coordinarse con los diferentes medios públicos federales, no absorberlos. Me da un enorme gusto que el Presidente haya dado tal importancia a los medios públicos, me congratulo de algunos de los que ahí llegarán, aplaudo que haya dicho que serán medios de Estado, pero me preocupa que, desde estos medios, se vaya a intentar adoctrinar, centralizar y controlar la línea editorial. En todo caso, se deberá buscar que: 1. Ninguno de sus sitios web tenga colores, imágenes o insignias que los haga ver como parte del gobierno. 2. Sean objetivos y equilibrados en la información que presenten. 3. Participen personas que hablen a favor y, en la misma medida, en contra de las acciones del gobierno. 4. No haya cambios en los comentaristas que tengan como propósito sacar a los críticos y contratar a los condescendientes. 5. No haya culto a ninguna imagen del gobierno o de gobernantes. 6. Cada medio de comunicación tenga autonomía para definir su propia imagen, locutores, estilo, etcétera. 7. Haya total libertad de expresión y no exista censura. Si lo que se busca es fortalecer lo público de los medios y convertirlos en verdaderos medios de Estado, valdrá la pena un foro nacional abierto e incluyente en el que se discuta y defina la “política de Estado” que propone el presidente López Obrador; sería ideal que este foro lo organice el propio Jenaro Villamil quien, como vimos en la mañanera, tendrá un peso importante en este tema. Presidenta de Observatel, profesora de la Universidad Iberoamericana, miembro del Comité de Participación Ciudadana del SNA. Este artículo refleja su posición personal. Twitter @soyirenelevy (via "Carlos J. V." via Juan Franco Crespo, Spain, DXLD) ** MEXICO. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BEAT THIS WEEK --- barely including DTV/TDT Mexico Beat Exclusive: Analyzing IFT-4 — The Hottest Competition In a transparency request filed by someone else and responded to last year, the IFT released full bid history information for the entire IFT-4 auction. Every single bid that was placed—5,837 of them in all for FM—is catalogued. This is tantalizing information, and combined with information on folio numbers from IFT-4 winners (at any point) and a select few losers, 81% of those bids are associated with known bidders. (The remaining 20 percent of bids were by applicants without any winning bids.) In the first of a multi-part series, we'll be taking a look here at the auction from top to bottom: winners, losers, competition, prices, and more. The first part looks at the markets where more than 100 bids were filed. In 18 lots for 18 cities*, this condition was satisfied. In order, they were Fresnillo 100 Cuatro Ciénegas 102 Acapulco 104 Huauchinango 108 Soteapan 110 Ensenada 118 El Fuerte 119 Zacatlán 121 Sombrerete 122 Guaymas 127 Lázaro Cárdenas 161 Campeche 168 Puerto Vallarta 205 Mahahual 212 Los Cabos 224 Chetumal 276 La Paz 298 Tulum 311 Italicized cities had fewer than the maximum frequencies ultimately be awarded to a paying bidder. The bolded cities were stations where the winning applicant declined, sometimes multiple times. It's worth noting that number of bids doesn't mean expensive. Cancún, the most expensive station in the auction, isn't here. Also, many of these were multiple lots that were supposed to award two or three frequencies. Considering that, we can divide by the number of available frequencies and get an idea of "bids per frequency". The highest number for a multi-frequency lot is again Tulum at 155.5/frequency. The Zacatlán frequency was its own lot, at 121. Lázaro Cárdenas The most bids without a station awarded at all was Lázaro Cárdenas. LZC was a case where eight bidders fought for the available 90.9 and 91.7 B1 frequencies. Of the 161 bids submitted, as late as February 13, Tecnoradio placed 55 of them, more than a third, including the two initial winning bids at a combined total of 45.188 million pesos. When Tecnoradio bowed out, it left the opportunity for bidders who had previously expressed interest in winning rebounds (frequencies where the winner did not pay) to pick up some of the frequencies. The fifth-place bid was from Media FM, at 12.7 million pesos, for the 91.7 frequency; evidently, no rebound-eligible bidder signed up for 90.9. However, they declined, probably because Tecnoradio had inflated the price of the station quite a bit with its aggressive bidding activity. In third and fourth place were an applicant M0-033012 and Grupo La Voz del Viento; neither bidder signed up for rebounds. I'd like to note that there is one clue to the identity of M0-033012. Most bidders for which we only have folio numbers are not identifiable. However, when the IFT approved the participation of all the auction bidders, it came up in the meeting that M0-033012 had connections to the preponderant economic agent in broadcasting. That is Televisa. However, this is not Televisa itself. M0-033012 bid exclusively on stations in Michoacán, and I suspect it is Grupo MarMor, which through its Morelia TV operations *is* designated in the AEP. Before Tecnoradio had placed its two winning bids of 21.594 and 23.594 million pesos in the 30th round (!), the three highest bids in the 29th round were: MarMor? 16,605,000 pesos Media FM 12,700,000 pesos La Voz del Viento 12,621,000 pesos The total price for the two winners jumped from 29.305 million pesos to 45.188, a more than 50% increase, with these excessively high bids. Zacatlán Another frequency with a lot of activity but nothing to show for it was Zacatlán 93.5 A. Centrado Corporativo came out the winner but declined to pay the more than 20.6 million pesos for the frequency. This station went 21 rounds, but after the 14th round, Centrado and Tecnoradio engaged in a bidding war in which neither side ultimately would have won. The highest bid behind them was 13.425 million pesos from a person AJ-120224. Between rounds 12 and 21, these were the only three bidders. The Centrado final bid was 53% above the last bid from AJ-120224, and if they hadn't stayed in the fight against Centrado and Tecnoradio, the station probably would have gone for 5 million pesos to them. Acapulco Like LZC, Acapulco had two frequencies up (91.3 and 92.9 B1) but neither got awarded. Grupo Radio Centro (Promotora de Éxitos) won both stations but refused to pay the more than 100 million pesos. 34 of the 104 bids — again, about a third —*came from Tecnoradio, which primarily engaged with Radio Centro in a bidding war. Had they signed up to claim rebounds, we might be talking La Caliente in Acapulco, because it was Radio Informativa that had the next best bid at 45.365 million pesos. (Still a very pricey station, no doubt about it —*this would have been the fourth-most expensive station awarded after XHPVBB, XHPMAZ and XHPBCQ.) Also demonstrating late interest was Irradia Publicidad, which also placed an initial winning bid on Chetumal. Of that set, there were also multi-frequency lots (five of them) where only one station ultimately made it out alive. In order of the most bids made, they are: La Paz This was the second-busiest lot of the auction, with 298 bids placed. However, only one station ultimately resulted from each of the four three-station lots that had 150 or more bids. The three winning bids were CPS Media (91.1, now XHPLPZ-FM), Garro Radiodifusora (91.9) and Irradia Publicidad (93.5). They were very close to each other and all just north of 25 million pesos. The highest non-winning bid was from S0-022042, for 93.5, with 24.31 million pesos, and after that Más Radio Telecomunicaciones (of Aire Libre fame). Chetumal 276 bids were made on Chetumal's three frequencies: 91.3, 92.1, and 92.9. 51 of them came from Tecnoradio, primarily for the 91.3 and 92.1 frequencies. The highest bid, of 41.422 million pesos, was Empresa Turquesa, which built and signed on XHPCHQ-FM last month. The last 36 bids came from Empresa Turquesa, Promotora de Éxitos and Irradia Publicidad (which won early), plus La Mera en Playa (Rafael Aguirre) and Tecnoradio. The three winning bids each were millions of pesos larger than the last, escalating the highest bid from 24 to 42 million pesos. Irradia's winning bid alone was higher than the last by 3.3 million pesos, then GRC matched it by bidding 7.5 million more pesos than Irradia. Turquesa then put in its final bid, 3 million pesos more. No wonder GRC didn't go through with this station; that last bid alone was pricey. Los Cabos Tecnoradio placed 8 of the final 22 bids here, though the bidding history here feels more disjointed than most. TR generally lagged behind other bidders by thousands of points. Campeche No Tecnoradio was to be found here, but bidding was too expensive for Edilberto Huesca Perrotín to pursue either station he wanted. He won two of them at a combined cost of 50 million pesos, compared to 11.4 million for a duopoly at Ciudad del Carmen. Grupo Radio Digital (Sofía Valanci Penagos) would have been in line to claim a rebound if she had signed up to do so, as would have Pantalla Líquida. For the latter, this would have been by far their largest market pickup in the auction. Mediasur dropped out in the 9th round when bidding effectively went 17. El Fuerte, Sinaloa Tecnoradio in this case escalated the entire bid to exorbitant levels. There were three applicants for two frequencies. If Tecnoradio had not been involved, the following would have happened: -GPM Grupo Promomedios Culiacán would have picked up the other frequency that was unawarded, 98.5 AA. -Both parties would only have needed to pay the minimum of 33,000 pesos for their stations instead of what Luz Network (Energía Radial en Comunicación) ultimately paid, 4.2 million pesos. Tecnoradio's mere participation in this lot inflated the final price 127 times the minimum. Think about the ramifications. The federal government would have taken in less money, but they would have found winners for both stations, listeners in El Fuerte would have commercial competition (remember there had not been a local station based in town since 1985), and both winners would have gotten the stations for far less than what Luz Network ultimately had to pay to fend off both Tecnoradio and Promomedios. Stations with One Bidder A few lucky souls only needed to make one bid to win. These stations only had one bidder: Calkiní Candelaria Ocosingo (TR) Playas de Catazajá Armería El Salto Iguala (TR) Tamazula de Gordiano Cd. Hidalgo AA (TR) Compostela A (TR) Santo Domingo Tehuantepec (TR) Tamazulapam del Progreso Villa Tututepec Nicolás Bravo Guamúchil (TR) Jonuta Alto Lucero Naranjos (TR) Potrero del Llano (TR) Tunkás (both lots) It's worth noting that eight of these only had interest from Tecnoradio. When they bowed out, these stations were left without anyone to even claim a rebound. The two stations at Tunkás, in separate lots because 88.1 is AA and 93.3 is A, were also IFT-4's cheapest, at 6,000 and 5,000 pesos, respectively. There was also a three-frequency lot with only two bidders, at Guasave, Sinaloa. *Some cities had separate lots because stations of different classes were available, such as Cd. Cuauhtémoc where a B1 and an A were made available (Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ, Feb 5, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) Analyzing IFT-4: The AM Auction Compared to FM, the AM auction was a yawner, a wasteland dominated by two applicants, a few scrappy operators, and some AM buybacks from migrated stations. IFT-4 had 31 stations go to auction, though ultimately 27 concessions were awarded. (Three Tecnoradio wins, only one of which was a contested station, and one Torres Corporativo Radio win were not followed up.) In 20 cases out of the 31, only one bid was entered. That leaves 11 frequencies where bidding wars ensued. These are the following: 610 Fresnillo: Escápate al Paraíso, eventual winner without claiming Torres Corporativo Radio (owner of the previous 610), and F9-155340 all bid. Medios Digitales RMX also placed one bid early on. 610 Saltillo: Organización Radiofónica del Norte squared off against Escápate al Paraíso to pick up the station. 930 didn't even have a competing applicant, on the other hand, for Media FM. 620 Villahermosa: Grupo Multimedios Sin Reservas had to fend off Tecnoradio. 710 San Luis Potosí: Escápate al Paraíso beat out Tecnoradio. 720 Juan Aldama, Zac.: Jorge Armando García Calderón squared off against applicant E9-505254. 750 Uruapan: Media FM had to fight Tecnoradio for the frequency. (Notably given the calls, ORN never bid.) 880 Chihuahua: Escápate al Paraíso beat out Tecnoradio. 910 León: Escápate al Paraíso won, but Tecnoradio and Medios Digitales RMX (GlobalMedia) put in bids. GlobalMedia once operated for a few months in León. 1240 Morelia: Media FM beat Tecnoradio and A1-000544 for the station. 1250 Querétaro: Escápate al Paraíso and Tecnoradio again, but the latter won. 1310 was uncontested. 1030 Lagos de Moreno: Listing this one last because it's easily the most interesting. Radio Operadora Pegasso fended off applicant R5-303243 for the station. When the IFT approved R5-303243's auction participation, it noted that the company held one FM radio concession in Lagos. Additionally, we can confirm that this applicant was Radio Emisora Central — read: an AM buyback for XHLJ-FM 105.7 — because of the way the IFT assigned folio numbers. For folio numbers for individuals, the second character is a letter, and the two letters are a last and first name. For instance, Arnoldo Rodríguez Zermeño had a folio number that began with RA. For corporations, the first letter is the first letter of the name of the company, but the second character is a digit. Documents that were included with the original transparency request helped me figure out where this number comes from. It is the first digit in a company's RFC ID. An RFC, for Registro Federal de Contribuyentes, is an identifier for people and companies that do business in Mexico and need to pay taxes. One of the documents listed RFCs for various IFT-4 participants. A Note on RFCs RFCs are three-part. Three (for companies) and four (for individuals) letters come from the name of the individual or company. There are six digits and three to four more random numbers and letters. The MPM directory typically gives the RFC for radio station concessionaires, including Radio Emisora Central, whose RFC is REC-550919-KP9. I've bolded the first letter and first number to indicate how the RFC derives the first part of the folio for a company. Given the "not a new competitor" label and the RFC, it's safe to say R5-303243 is Radio Emisora Central. There were no bids from this company for any other stations in the AM or FM portions of the auction. The RFC number itself is derived from the date of birth or incorporation, so the first digit is the decade in which the company was incorporated. (A company incorporated in the fifties like R5, obviously, is unusual. This explains the prevalence of 0s and 1s.) There are some exceptional RFCs for unidentified applicants: Companies from the 70s C7-340520 bidder for various Q. Roo stations Companies from the 80s C8-221421 bidder for La Paz, BCS The RFC trick and some digging allowed me to identify one additional applicant, T8-205212, a non-new competitor seeking Mazatlán. The IFT approval document mentions them as not a new competitor despite owning no radio stations. The way the term "new competitor" is defined, that meant they owned in TV. The company also had to have been incorporated in the 1980s. All signs pointed to Televisoras Grupo Pacífico, which in Mazatlán is incorporated as Televisión del Pacífico with RFC TPA-860202-CZA. That's an 8. That's probably them (Raymie, Feb 6, ibid.) "There are very few receivers." https://www.eleconomista.com.mx/empresas/Se-ha-avanzado-poco-en-adopcion-de-radio-digital-IFT-20190206-0019.html That's the diagnosis of Alejandro Navarrete, head of the IFT's Spectrum Unit, for the slow uptake of HD Radio in the country. With receivers still confined to the middle and high-end markets, and changing listening habits and devices, HD has had a rocky road. A significant portion of the install base comes from second-wave migrants and IFT-4 HD-obligated stations. XPERI says there are stations in HD in 20 states, leaving Campeche**, Colima, Durango, Guanajuato*, Guerrero**, Hidalgo, the State of Mexico*, Morelos, Nayarit, Tabasco, Tlaxcala, and Zacatecas** without any HD stations. Two of those states have at least one second-wave migrant. In Campeche, a station has an unused HD Radio authorization (XHBCC) and five IFT-4 stations with HD obligations. XHPCHI (Centrado Corporativo) Chilpancingo is HD-obligated, if they ever build anything. Zacatecas will get its first HD stations when NTR builds its network (Raymie, Feb 6, ibid.) Another item is that we now know the frequency for Yuririapundaro 104.7, A.C. at Yuriria, Guanajuato. It's...not 104.7. It'll be 100.5. Calls are not yet known, but the concession was signed on January 31, so it should be in the RPC at some point. Meanwhile, El Economista is reporting tonight that Grupo Radio Centro is gearing up to return XHFO-FM to Grupo Siete, https://t.co/QU5X3btGvr according to sources and despite a denial by GRC. The article does not mention a specific date for the handover (Raymie, Feb 8, ibid.) Mexico City residents, get out your rabbit ears. The IFT has reportedly cleared MVS TV to operate as a broadcast station. https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/columna/mario-maldonado/cartera/graciela-marquez-se-enfrenta-las-grandes-empresas That said, it looks like they'll also remain on a subchannel of XHTDMX. The IFT also approved its 2019 Annual Work Program, which includes the following relevant deliverables with their projected completion dates: Biennial renewal of Televisa AEP status — There might be some parties out of the AEP when the IFT renews Televisa's status as preponderant. (1Q 2020) IFT-8 radio station auction — Four years of commercial allocations in the PABF and stations that were bid on without a claiming winner in IFT-4 will come here. The auction guidelines will go up for public comment this year and the formal call for bids will come out by year's end. Scheduled completion is 3Q 2020. Common Alerting Protocol comes to Mexico — After a public comment a few months ago, Mexico's adoption of the Common Alerting Protocol for emergency alerts will go to the Pleno this year. (4Q) RPC Guidelines — In a promising move that could significantly reduce lag times at the RPC, the first-ever RPC Guidelines are slated to come out in the second quarter. It will establish the portal's rules of operation. A public comment period will be opened first. (2Q) Studies — The IFT will also have one study of interest to this blog in 2019, Feasibility of Digital Radio and Multiprogramming in Mexico (1Q). (Raymie, Feb 8, ibid.) Interesting to hear XEUDS was still active in the 80s. I wonder when they pulled the plug on shortwave (Raymie, Feb 8, ibid.) Quote Originally Posted by Glen Hauser ``** MEXICO. Grupo Radio Centro ‘apaga’ Radio Red AM por mudanza de antenas --- 29/01/2019`` Entre el personal de XERED y los directivos gremiales de CDMX, la historia es otra. Opinan que el acto de apagar a una de las únicas dos estaciones AM que les queda GRC se debía al deseo de Panchito por reducir el personal de la planta. Con alrededor de 90 reporteros, redactores y periodistas, era una operación muy costosa. Y, con el nuevo gobierno, los pagos a los huachicoleros han de parar, igual que los enormes contratos a las estaciones por conceptos no bien definidos. A mi me parece que cuando y si vuelve al aire Radio Red AM, será con una estructura nueva y con menos emploeomanía y menos estrellas al aire. Noticiaristas un pocos comentaristas. A ese gobeierno no se le puede tratar de dar atole con el dedo por el riesgo de salir tachado como corrupto o peor. Panchito es un experto en caminar por la cuerda floja a tres mil metros de altura en CDMX. Y si se cae, rebota y trata de nuevo (David Eduardo Gleason, La Quinta CA, Feb 9, ibid.) Another day, another journalist death. This time, XHEMZ-FM news anchor Jesús Ramos was gunned down this morning in a hotel restaurant in Emiliano Zapata, Tabasco. https://www.telemundo.com/noticias/2019/02/09/el-periodista-jesus-ramos-es-asesinado-en-un-restaurante-de-tabasco-es-el He had hosted the news program "Nuestra Región Hoy" on the station for 20 years. The news was announced on his show by Alfredo Naranjo, who hosted the weekend edition of the newscast. State officials have begun an investigation into his murder. Ramos is the 143rd journalist to be killed in Mexico since 2000 and the second this year after people associated with drug trafficking murdered XHOLP-FM founder Rafael Murúa nearly three weeks ago. He would have turned 59 on Sunday (Raymie, Feb 9, ibid.) Into the Crystal Ball: A Look at the IFT-8 Radio Auction At least 214 FM frequencies and a smattering of AM stations. Potential first radio services for a number of localities. Tantalizing major-market frequencies. Featuring four years of FM commercial assignments and 31 stations carrying over from IFT-4, IFT-8 will have more frequencies on offer than its predecessor. (View a complete table.) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UmfcXmbiFXYTId1AzidUkiHr9U53q5yQoanxkWX6vV8/edit?usp=sharing Of those frequencies, 121 are Class A, 45 AAs and 41 B1s. There is also one Class B station — Vicente Riva Palacio (Ciudad Altamirano y Coyuca de Catalán, Gro.) — and five Class D commercial allotments, which would be historic firsts (El Mamey Gro., Acámbaro Gto., Jerécuaro Gto., Tlayonoxtle Pue. Estación Manuel (Úrsulo Galván) Tamps.) Four states have 15 or more radio stations that will be on offer. (Worth noting: the additions to the 2019 PABF have yet to be factored in.) 17 frequencies are on offer in Guerrero, 16 for San Luis Potosí, and 15 in Durango and in Oaxaca. A Second Go-Around at Baja California Sur In BCS, there are three frequencies that will be on offer in Los Cabos and will likely get separate lots. The pick of the litter is the only Class AA with a service area of both San José del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas. There is also an A for each of those cities—the SJC 89.9 station is an IFT-4 carryover. (Exact frequencies are only known for frequencies from IFT-4.) Also carrying over are two Class B1 stations for La Paz. IFT-8 also features frequencies at Ciudad Constitución, Guerrero Negro (2), Loreto; Migriño y Elías Calles; Punta Abreojos; Santa Rosalía; Todos Santos, El Pescadero y Los Cerritos; and Villa Alberto Andrés Alvarado Arámburo. All of these localities are, commercially speaking, either exclusively served by Promomedios California or would be receiving their first local radio service. Tantalizing Future One of the frequencies for IFT-8 should not go under the radar for observers: El Porvenir, Chih. (B1). The last time a station turned up here, it began broadcasting to the Juárez market, and there's no doubt this new station would be the same. Juárez has not had a new FM radio station since that time—about 25 years, the longest wait of any major city in Mexico for new FM service. The other 12 frequencies in Chihuahua include smaller localities, including some in the western region of the state where licensed FM service is fairly new. Ciudad Madera, which has had just one radio station for 55 years, is also included. Make Your Comarca No less than three frequencies with three separately defined service areas are on offer in the Comarca Lagunera. A B1 for Torreón (Gómez Palacio, Dgo.) was included in the 2018 PABF, and an A for Torreón (Gómez Palacio y Lerdo, Dgo.) made it into the 2019 PABF. Another A, for Gómez Palacio, was added in 2017. The entire state of Durango is peppered with stations. Guadalupe Victoria, Vicente Guerrero (with La Soledad and San José del Molino) and Canatlán each appear on the list of localities with 10,000 or more people and no FM radio service. Many assignments are in cities with no stations. There are also a pair of B1 stations for Victoria de Durango itself and a B1 for Santiago Papasquiaro, which has just one radio station. Guerrero Growing Grupo Radio Centro turned down the Acapulco duo of 91.3 and 92.9, which returns to be bid out in IFT-8, and there will also be a pair of B1s for Chilpancingo, 98.9 and another frequency TBD. Tlapa de Comonfort—population 46,975, the largest city in the country with no FM radio service whatsoever—gets a B1. Pacific Coast Highway Lázaro Cardenas will appear three times. Two are from the IFT-4 carryover, of 90.9 and 91.7 MHz B1. Another B1, with a defined service area of Lázaro Cárdenas y Las Guacamayas (Petacalco, Gro.), appeared in the 2018 PABF. Up the coast in Puerto Vallarta, another B1 and an AA will be made available. Sinaloa Bounty A lot of major cities still have frequencies available in Sinaloa. Two As for Culiacán, an A and AA for El Fuerte, an A for Los Mochis and two As for Mazatlán all will be made available in IFT-8. San Luis Potosí: More Unserved Localities Cárdenas (pop. 15,469) and Santa María del Río (13,099) show up in a long list of stations throughout San Luis Potosí. One station is in the capital city, and Matehuala can look forward to a B1 and an A. A class AA for Tamazunchale would mark that town's second station, ending the 30-year monopoly of XEGI/XHGI Radio Reyna. Breaking Up Some Monopolies Ciudad Mante and Ciudad Victoria show up with Class A stations. In Mante, this would be the first commercial station not to be owned by ORT. Last edited by Raymie; 02-11-2019 at 01:47 PM. Reason: correct a town name (Raymie, Feb 10, ibid.) Some broadcasting journalism is so bad that I have to drag it one month later. Today, it's El Mundo de Córdoba, which on January 19 ran an article about José and Paulina Abella being reported to authorities for illegally running a radio station. https://www.diarioelmundo.com.mx/index.php/2019/01/19/denuncian-en-pgr-a-jose-y-paulina-abella/ And it looks like this entire article is based on the fact that the community of license for XHRAF-FM isn't Córdoba, but rather Rafael Delgado. There's a lot we don't know about the social wolfpack of Veracruz. No stakeholder information is on file for the wolfpack's seven frequencies in six concessionaires, however documents from the applications for the first three stations, made available in a 2016 transparency request by a third party, suggest that Juan Manuel García Amador, Daniel Uscanga Hernández, and María de la Paz Lendechy Bello are among those for XHPAPA, XHALAM, and XHTLAC. ——— One new callsign today. Arlene Jasmine Elsie Alvarado Cuéllar will build 94.3 (A) XHCSAC-FM in Mapastepec, Chiapas. The station will almost certainly be religious. The concession was signed for by Antonio Morales Hernández, with a Tapachula mailing address. Morales Hernández was listed in a 2015 article as the organizer of a Christian fair that took place there. The mailing address in Tapachula — Calle 35 Poniente 13 C Col. 5 de Febrero — is also on the concession for 101.1 XHCSAD-FM Pijijiapan, which was awarded the same day. Mapastepec now has two unbuilt radio stations, XHCSAC and XHVHC-FM 98.3. Also added today was the concession for the Colima state network's new Manzanillo transmitter, which will be XHPBMZ-TDT 13. Last edited by Raymie; 02-12-2019 at 12:29 AM. [tagline:] Este programa es público, ajeno a cualquier partido político. Queda prohibido el uso para fines distintos a los establecidos en el programa (Raymie, Feb 11, ibid.) ** MOLDOVA [non]. From January 14, Radio Free Europe in Russian will only be available on the Internet and its transmission to the “Transnistrian dialogues” on Mondays from 19.15 to 19.45 on the MW 873 and 1494 kHz, no longer on air (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria, Rus-DX Feb 10 via DXLD) ** MYANMAR. 9590even, Thazin Radio from Pyin U Lwin in Burmese Vernacular program, S=9+10dB signal strength in Delhi India SDR. At 0220 UT on Febr 10. btw. Aoki Nagoya database show failure of tx site information, mentioned erroneous only the 5915 kHz single antenna site at MRTV Naypyidaw for all northern Myanmar entries now, 20 10 51.01 N 96 08 41.04 E instead of Pyin U Lwin site, real location some 208 kilometers northwards, which belongs to Ministry of Defence, Psychological Warfare, actual called Thazin Radio for 6030, 6165, 7345!, 9460, and 9590 kHz, at 22 00 59 N 96 32 55 E see separation of both sites/organizations on page 291 in WRTH 2019. Failure in AOKI Nagoya list appeared first in issue of Dec 15, 2018. Some logs of remote SDR access in Delhi India 0200-0225 UT Feb 10 [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 10, dxldyg via DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 5960.005 D__ this dubious hard rock music station on weekend special on air, Mighty KBC radio, hard rock, terrible audio. 'hard rock music hurts my ears'. Via MBR Nauen Germany site S=7-8 in Rochester NY. At 0136 UT hard rock of the 60ties.(Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, Rochester NY SDR, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 10, dxldyg via DXLD) ** NEW ZEALAND. 11725, RNZI at 1908 UT February 9 with weather for the country followed by Sunday Morning Insight. Tropical Cyclone report at 1958 followed by news at 2000. Very Good. Rx: Perseus SDR, Ant: Wellbrook ALA 100 loop. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, AB, WOR iog via DXLD) ** NICARAGUA. 8989/USB, Pescador Pastor (presumed); 2314-2322+, 2/4; In a 2-way; mentions of Dios & Yahweh Madre; seems a bit more excited than usual. Fair peaks (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 7255-, Feb 5 at 0725, one more day with no VON, nor on 9690-; no LAH to 9690 Spain either around 2000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Nothing noted of V of Nigeria Abuja today Febr 5 on 41 nor 31 meterband [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Quite a good signal this evening from Voice of Nigeria, Abuja, on 9690 kHz (9689.9) currently with news in English at 1700 UT. Weak but fair here with good audio. VON is scheduled on 9690 from 1800 but has been starting transmissions an hour or two earlier some days recently; it was already on the air when I tuned in at 1650 today (6 February). 73s (Dave Kenny, Caversham, AOR7030+ 25m long wire, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) This morning Febr 6th 7-9 UT no V of Nigeria signals traced in 41 mb nor in 31 mb (Wolfgang Bueschel, ibid.) 9689.918, Wednesday Feb 6 at 1732, VP carrier, no doubt VON in English as Dave Kenny, BDXC-UK has just tipped hearing today. I first heard it on Saturday, not on Sunday, not sure about Monday, but not even on Tuesday later to het Spain (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) NIGERIA / SPAIN: At 2005 UT noted stronger in western and central Europe 9689.918 kHz V of Nigeria Abuja in Hausa language S=9+20dB. But in northern Europe Finland and Moscow Russia REE Noblejas is equal level on even 9690 kHz at same time. Terrible audio mixture (Wolfgang Bueschel, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) 7255-, Feb 7 at 0602, VON is on for a change, Hausa. 9689.92 approx., Thu Feb 7 at 1727-1738+, VON in English with news about Nigeria, fair via UTwente SDR, and since it`s a weekday, no QRM yet from Spain. Apparently new transmission intends to be daily, altho missing last Sunday. Via WOR Hitlist, website https://www.von.gov.ng/ has no obvious link to a plain old SW transmission or program schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Nigeria heard on 9690 kHz this afternoon via the Tenerife SDR as follows: 1600-1615 in Arabic 1615-1630 in a vernacular, possibly Igbo or Yoruba? 1630 - Sign-on in English, announced as the start of "two and a half hours of the English service". So English should continue until 1900. It looks as though this is a revised schedule with the extra broadcast between 1600-1800 UT. Further checking needed to establish the evening schedule after 1900 - but reception is difficult with co-channel Spain at that time. At the moment (1645) the signal is weak here, much better on the Kiwi SDR in Tenerife. 73s (Dave Kenny, UK, Feb 7, bdxc-news iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DXLD) I am receiving Voice of Nigeria's DRM transmission on 15120 at the moment. s/n is about 15dB, so decoding is about 75%. Video text indicates TX is Abuja. -- (Ian Brooks, Verwood, Dorset. 10 miles north of Bournemouth, UK, 1715 UT Feb 7, bdxc-news iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DXLD) Reception has improved since 1700 GMT today and I am now getting 20dB s/n ratio and over 90% decoding success. Voice quality is very poor as bit stream is only 9.4 kHz in Mono. Using GQRX, Dream DRM, Ubuntu 18.04 Linux, Airspy Mini and RA0SMS Miniwhip at 5m above ground (-- Ian Brooks, Verwood, Dorset. 10 miles north of Bournemouth, UK. 1738 UT, ibid.) more DRM: abottom 9690 (off slightly), VoN at 1850 UT February 8 in English with talk about agriculture. Fair until REE Spain Interval Signal at 1855. Rx: Perseus SDR, Ant: Wellbrook ALA 100 loop. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, AB, WOR iog via DXLD) [and non]. NIGÉRIA e não --- 9690. 7/2/2019, 1915-1930, Voice of Nigeria, Abuja-Lugbe, em Hausa (not English this time! Change?). Notícias e comentários sobre a Nigéria em voz feminina, presumo; Fala, muitas vezez, a palavra Nigéria; 1924 Breve espaço e a locutora começa a falar sobre a Uganda. Bom sinal e interferência discreta da Radio Exterior de España, 44543 (JRX_José Ronaldo Xavier, SWARL Callsign PR7036SWL, Cabedelo-PB, Brasil (UT-3) WOR iog via DXLD) 7255-, Feb 8 8at 0653, VON is still gone, no bigsig but a JBA carrier maybe local device about 7255.75. 7255-, Feb 9 at 0718, VON S9+20 in African language about Sierra Leone. Re my previous report of it missing, Dan Sheedy, California replies: Hi Glenn, just saw your 8 Feb 0653 non-log of VoN-7255. Oddly enough, I was checking them out at 0623 8 Feb. & they were doing OK in Hausa, so apparently their "doing OK" didn't last too long. Have a safe weekend, good listening, & cheers from the beach. Dan`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7255, VoN (Ikorodu) back in Hausa with fair signal during quick checks at 0637, 0655, 0705 on 9 Feb (Dan Sheedy, Encinitas, CA, Grundig/Eton "Executive Satellit"/6m X wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7254.939 Not bad signal into North America this Febr 10 morning, V of Nigeria Abuja in French by female presenter at 0716 UT, S=8 or -78dBm strength [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 10, dxldyg via DXLD) apparently at Massachusetts SDR New broadcast of Voice of Nigeria in English, Feb.10: 1630-1800 on 9689.9 IKO 250 kW / 248 deg to WCAf English, good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/new-evening-broadcast-of-voice-of.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.10-11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9690-, Feb 10 at 1650, no signal from VON QRMing SBG from SPAIN, via UTwente SDR, so another Sunday without the new 1630- English broadcast heard most other days of week, in clear on weekdays when Spain does not start until 1900 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7255-, Feb 11 at 0720, VON is on tonight, S9+10/20. 9690-, Feb 11 at 1915, silly ballgame from SPAIN with a LAH, so VON is also on again here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA [non]. FRANCE, Radio Nigeria Kaduna via TDF Issoudun in 22mb on Feb.7: 0700-0900 on 13840 ISS 150 kW / 170 deg to WeAf Hausa, fair/good, BUT 0900-1500 on 17690 ISS 150 kW / 170 deg to WeAf Hausa, NO SIGNAL TODAY 2000-2300 on 7235 ISS 150 kW / 170 deg to WeAf Hausa, NO SIGNAL Feb.6 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/reception-of-radio-nigeria-kaduna-via.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: ** NIGERIA [non]. New time of Dandal Kura Radio Int via MBR Issoudun, Feb.6 0700-0800 13590 ISS 100 kW / 167 deg to CeAf Kanuri, very good signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/new-time-of-dandal-kura-radio-int-via.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.5-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Updated schedule of Dandal Kura Radio Int via MBR 0700-0800 on 13590 ISS 250 kW / 167 deg to CeAf Kanuri, very good 1800-1900 on 9770 ISS 100 kW / 167 deg to CeAf Kanuri, fair/good All other frequencies registered in HFCC are inactive: 0500-0600 on 5950 ISS 100 kW / 167 deg to CeAf Kanuri 0500-0600 on 7315 NAU 125 kW / 185 deg to CeAf Kanuri 0600-0700 on 7285 ISS 100 kW / 167 deg to CeAf Kanuri 0600-0700 on 7415 ISS 100 kW / 167 deg to CeAf Kanuri 0600-0700 on 9620 NAU 125 kW / 185 deg to CeAf Kanuri 0600-0700 on 11610 ISS 250 kW / 167 deg to CeAf Kanuri 0700-0800 on 11905 ISS 250 kW / 167 deg to CeAf Kanuri 1800-2000 on 7455 ISS 100 kW / 167 deg to CeAf Kanuri 1800-2000 on 11670 ISS 100 kW / 167 deg to CeAf Kanuri 2000-2100 on 7455 ISS 250 kW / 167 deg to CeAf Kanuri 2000-2100 on 11670 ISS 250 kW / 167 deg to CeAf Kanuri https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/updated-schedule-of-dandal-kura-radio.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb. 6-7, WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA [non]. 7265, CLANDESTINE [sic], Radio Koode International via Issoudun, France in Fulfulde 02.05.2019 1900-1925 flute music with some percussions in background, man talk with IDs (Radio Koode International), woman talk mention Nigeria and Koode Radio International over flute music, man reading news till 1907 (mention Congo, Burkina Faso, Kenia, Libia, Chad, Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, America, Europe), flute music with percussions, music breaks with some women and men announcements with many IDs, other men talking (mention Nigeria), man / woman announcements with IDs with brief chant and music in between, some men talk, music pause with announcement and ID at 1922, continuing talk program, heard in usb with strong signal 9+30+ of peak, qrm moderate splats, good (Gianni Serra, Roma-Italy, Equipment: JRC NRD 525 receiver; Alpha Delta DX-SWL Sloper-S antenna; RG 8 mini coaxial cable; JPS NIR 12 Noise & Interference Reducer-Dual DSP outboard audio filter; JRC NVA 319 external loudspeaker unit; Sony MDR-101 stereo headphones, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. Virginia pirate: see USA: 1710 ** NORTH AMERICA. UNIDENTIFIED. 6925-AM, Feb 7 at 1309, S4-S6 rock music with heavy beat, screaming, or is it soul? First thought is RCW, Radio Compañía Worldwide, the Chilean pirate mostly reported by Claudio Galaz in Chile. But no, it`s too late for that, way after sunrise there. Must be North American, unusual activity in the morning or possibly trans-Pacific. Still there at 1330 talk or rap? 1340 thumping. Still JBA carrier at 1456. Two more unID logs of it between 1437 and 1641: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,50802.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. John Bryant R.I.P --- The 9th of February is the 9th anniversary of John's untimely death, following a fall from a ladder at his home in Stillwater, OK. I still think of John often. He was a good friend, mentor, teacher, and first rate DXer. Rest in Peace, John. Please take a moment for some thoughts for this amazing gentleman (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, Feb 9, WOR iog via DXLD) obit Some replies: https://www.mail-archive.com/irca@hard-core-dx.com/msg89935.html (gh, OK, DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. 1170, Feb 6 at 1400 UT I notice that KFAQ Tulsa goes to CBS News --- not a network for them in NRC AM Log; I`m sure Wayne will tell us if that change has already been noted (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn et al., Addition of CBS noted 11/18/2018 by my monitoring posted to AM Switch in DX News Vol 86 Issue 6. Usually uses WW1 news overnight (Wayne Heinen, CO, Editor NRC AM Log, Feb 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1520, KOKC, OK, Oklahoma City – Applies to extend STA, U1 10000/10000, temp. tower at 35-20-01/97-30-18 (AM Switch, NRC DX News Feb 18, published Feb 10, via DXLD) Never to rebuild the original and still licensed 50/50 kW U2, covering western N America, the Pacific and beyond? (gh, OK,DXLD) ** PALAU. 10035, Feb 7 at 1245, VP signal with music. Has to be spurious from 31m SWBC band here in the aero band. First check for Cuba, of course! but no match on 9640. Then start tuning down and soon find // on 9965, good signal, 70 kHz away. Clinched with an equally weak spur on 9895, 70 kHz below 9965, all with praise music in English. 1259 `Onward Christian Soldiers` theme and 1300 chimes, into Korean. Aoki shows T8WH with WHR music before 1300 M-F, then Nippon no Kaze daily. HFCC shows HBN 9965 not the air before 1300, then Encompass brokering something in Korean. EiBi agrees about 9965 before and after 1300, but also shows PLW on 9960 at 12-13 daily with Khmer Post Radio --- really, 5 kHz adjacent from same site? I noticed nothing between 9965 and 9955 WRMI with RAE in Brazuguese before 1255 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PALAU. 9965, Feb 9 at 1345, YL in Japanese, undermodulated with some hum, i.e. Furusato no Kaze; just a trace today of +/- 70 kHz spurs on 9895 & 10035 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3260, NBC Madang, (Maus Blong Garamut - Voice of Indigenous Drums), 1125-1208*, Feb 9. DJ in Pidgin, playing pop songs (Western & Pacific Islands) up till 1201, when seemed to go to English (relay of "NBC National Radio"?) with more pop songs; cut off in mid-song. [non-log] Feb 9, noted no NBC Bougainville (Maus Blong Sankamap - Voice of the Sunrise) on 3325, but instead was able to catch the Voice of Indonesia, in Chinese, via RRI Palangkaraya, at 1105+ (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** PARAGUAY. A nice answer from ZP1 Radio Nacional del Paraguay Last week Radio Nacional del Paraguay was fine on 920. All ways to contact the station (since last year!) did not work, now I found a journalist from Radio Nacional who confirm my report and will tomorrow morning Feb 7 at 07.30 Asunción time mention my report in the news. "Hola Christopher! Sí es nuestra radio la 920 am, gracias por reportarte. Eres de Australia?“ In my reply I tell her [sic] about Salzburg, Austria, Mozart and my radio hobby, sent some infos about Salzburg in Spanish and get the answer that he will talk about my reception in the news at 07 on Radio Nacional del Paraguay 920 AM. Enclosed my recording from their stream, they talk (after 0630 in my clip) about my reception from --- Australia! But overall a very special verification for me in Austria, hope you enjoy the recording (Christoph Ratzer, Arctic Radio Club mv-eko, Feb 11, via DXLD) Here you can listen to Christoph's recording: http://www.thomasn.sverige.net/ZP1_920kHz_070219.mp3 The card shows Radio Nacional del Paraguay's new transmitter facility for the 920 kHz transmitter. The card comes from Adán Mur via TBV (Arctic Radio Club mv-eko, Feb 11, via DXLD) ** PHILIPPINES. 9925, R. Pilipinas with fair signal in Jakarta Kiwi around 1520 (now with timer!!) but no signal in Italy (i1fqh) while Romania Kiwi was busy that time! (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, Feb 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. Radio Romania International --- Received a large envelope and four new QSL cards from the Russian edition of Inter Radio Romania for reports dated October 3 and 31, November 3 and December 5, 2018. The letter was sent from Bucharest on December 14, 2018. The 2018 QSL series is dedicated to the city of Alba Iulia. QSL can be viewed here http://freerutube.info/2019/02/08/qsl-radio-romania-international-rumyniya-oktyabr-dekabr-2018-goda/ (Dmitry Elagin, Saratov, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx" via QSL World, Rus-DX Feb 10 via DXLD) DRM: see abottom ** RUSSIA. Moscow ----------- The highest TV tower built in the USSR is the famous Ostankino TV tower. The height is 540 m. The tower was built from 1960 to 1967 according to the project of engineer N.V. Nikitin (Lenin Prize, 1970), architects L.I. Batalov and D.I. Burdina. At that time it was the largest high-rise building in the world. It is distinguished by the perfection of building structures; a support ring of 3 meters thickness was used, which withstands the entire weight of the structure. According to the project, the height of the tower with the antenna and flag is about 539 m; the volume of the structure is 70000 m3, the mass (together with the foundation) is 51,400 tons, the total useful area of ??the premises is 14,850 m2. The lower cone-shaped part of the tower, to the 63 m mark, is made of ordinary concrete with rigid reinforcement, from 63 to 384 m - of stressed reinforced concrete; the upper part (above 384 m) is composed of cylindrical metal links decreasing in diameter. In the Ostankino television tower are located: a television station, radio stations for broadcasting on VHF, radio telephone communication stations with mobile objects, a radio relay station providing the transmission of television programs from Moscow in the territory of the Russian Federation and foreign countries; central altitude meteorological station and laboratory for the study of thunderstorms. Two high-speed elevators lift visitors to the three-story restaurant "The Seventh Heaven". The restaurant's annular room rotates around its axis, making a full turn in 40 minutes. At an altitude of 337 m - an observation deck. Work on the construction of the tower was awarded the USSR State Prize in 1969. August 27, 2000 in the tower there was a strong fire. The center of fire was at an altitude of 460 m. 3 floors were completely burned out, 3 people died. In November 2007, the 40th anniversary of the tower was celebrated, and in May 2008, construction and repair work began on the improvement of the territory and premises of the excursion route of the Ostankino television tower. Transmitters: 2 in VHF FM, 15 in FM, 2 digital DVB-T2 multiplexes and the transmission of 19 analogue TV channels continues. Photo1 - https://vk.com/radioreceiver?z=photo-163779953_456249387%2Fwall-163779953_20744 Photo 2 - https://vk.com/radioreceiver?z=photo-163779953_456249388%2Fwall-163779953_20744 Photo 3 - https://vk.com/radioreceiver?z=photo-163779953_456249389%2Fwall-163779953_20744 (Vadim Novoselsky, https://vk.com/radioreceiver Rus-DX Feb 10 via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Republic of Adygea ----------- In the winter season, the Adygeya State TV and Radio Company broadcasts broadcasting programs on short waves according to the following schedule: - on Mondays from 6 pm to 7 pm in the Adyghe, Arabic and Turkish languages; - on Fridays from 6 pm to 7 pm in the Adyghe language; - on Sundays from 19.00 to 20.00 in the Adyghe language All broadcasting is conducted at a frequency of 6000 kHz, the transmitter power is 100 kW, the azimuth is 188 degrees. The site of the GTRK "Adygea": http://www.adygtv.ru/programs/radio-inoveshchanie/broadcasted/ (Magazine “Radio” # 02/2019, Radio reception. V. Gulyaev. Broadcast news, Rus-DX Feb 10 via DXLD) CAUCASUS --- Adyghe Radio on Air - listened on February 4th from 6:00 to 7:00 pm in Adygei, Arabic and Turkish on 6000 kHz, but broadcast from Overcomer Ministries in English (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria, Rus-DX Feb 10 via DXLD) Good signal of GTRK Adygeya / Adygeyan Radio, Feb.11 1800-1900 on 6000 ARM 100 kW / 188 deg to CeAs Ad/Ar/Tu Mon https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/good-signal-of-gtrk-adygeya-adygeyan.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.10-11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAN MARINO [non]. 8867, [USB??] 0059, Auckland with a Gulfstream 6 registered T7-ARN with comms check 29/12. T7 is the registration block for San Marino, a small self-governing enclave surrounded by Italy. It has no international airport, relying on an Italian one nearby. I would hazard a guess that there are very few aircraft registered in San Marino, so it is nice to have one to add to my collection, probably a once in a lifetime catch (Douglas Johns, Christchurch, Feb NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 9675, SBA at 1835 UT February 6 in Arabic with very pleasant music and commentary by YL. Good. Rx: Perseus SDR, Ant: Wellbrook ALA 100 loop. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, AB, WOR iog via DXLD) ** SEYCHELLES [non]. U.K., FEBA Radio / Radio Sama via ENC-DMS Woofferton, Feb.8 0800-0830 on 15260 WOF 250 kW / 107 deg to N/ME Arabic, very good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/reception-of-feba-radio-radio-sama-via.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SLOVAKIA [non]. 9395, USA, Radio Slovakia International (via WRMI) at 0340 with an interview of an ice hockey player about preparations for an upcoming outdoor game being held against a Polish team in Slovakia then Martina Šimkovicová with “Musical Crossroads” at 0345 – Fair to Good Feb 9 – This seems to be a consistently better frequency and time than 5850 and 7780 at 0030 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD), ODXA iog via DXLD) ** SOMALIA. John Durham in the Heart of the Bay of Plenty, Tauranga has checked in with a nice email QSL from Radio Warsan in Baidoa Somalia 7750 kHz (Feb NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** SOUTH AFRICA. Broadcasts from SENTCH, Meyerton, South Africa MAY cease from end of next month (B18 period) if more airtime is not sold, reports Jeff White, reporting from HFCC A19 Conference, Tunis in today's edition of AWR Wavescan. Channel Africa, BBC, AWR etc. use SENTECH. However they have made registrations in HFCC for A19. -- Thanking you, Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, WOR iog via DXLD) ** SOUTH AFRICA. 4894.979 AFS / RSA, South Africa Radio League, via SenTec Meyerton site Monday only 1630-1730 UT Afrikaans / English, S=7 or -83dBm in Doha Qatar at 1720 UT. In English language corner heard [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 11, dxldyg via DXLD) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 5850, WRMI Radio Miami Int’l (presumed); 0420, 2/4; Blatantly Hysterical Bro. HyStairical sed that war is coming in 2002 between Israel, Iran & maybe Syria. S25 (Frodge-MI) 13845, WWCR Nashville TN (presumed); 1543, 2/4; Bringing Hatred Bro. HyStairical ragging on evil America--Obama era tirade. S7-8 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4840, Feb 7 at 1235, TOMBS, creeping takeover of more and more time on WWCR-3, now scheduled M-F 07-13 and Sat 10-13. Guess what, at tune-in he`s pushing for phonecalls as he spends an incredible amount of time doing --- but if even 1% of those give him money, it`s worth it. Last we heard about a year ago, Ralph G. Stair was out on bail following detention and sexual molestation charges. What is his legal status now?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DX LISTENING DIGEST) GERMANY, The Overcomer Ministry Brother HySTAIRical again with transmissions via Media Broadcast MBR Nauen, after 5 years of absence 1400-1600 on 6015*NAU 100 kW / 270 deg to WeEu English, good signal * co-ch weak 6015 URU 100 kW / non-dir to EaAs Kazakh PBS Xinjiang: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/brother-hystairical-tom-again-via-mbr.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.10-part 2, WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DX LISTENING DIGEST) rehabilitated? ha ** SPAIN. 9690V, Feb 6 at 0025, REE with music, but carrier is wobbling a bit --- or is it CCI? Only competitor at this hour is KBS in Vietnamese, doubtful to be heard here. 9690, Wed Feb 6 at 2318, REE English segment, blues music, then interview with musician Steve Groves (?), who has stopped over in Spain to talk with Justin Coe, more music, 2323 ``All Trumped Up``. Excellent reception S9+20/30 with no QRM or transmission problems. 2330 timesignal and into French which is M-F unlike English M/W/F. But 0101 Feb 7 recheck in Spanish, has faded to S9-S6 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. 15179.87, AWR Trincomalee (presumed) in listed Karen 01.26.2019 1451-1458* man talk, brief slow music pause, woman announcement, song, woman brief enhanced talk, slow song, woman final announcement, with brief song in between, S/off at 1458:05", heard in usb, mild qsb and qrn, fair (Gianni Serra, Roma-Italy, Equipment: JRC NRD 525 receiver; Alpha Delta DX-SWL Sloper-S antenna; RG 8 mini coaxial cable; JPS NIR 12 Noise & Interference Reducer-Dual DSP outboard audio filter; JRC NVA 319 external loudspeaker unit; Sony MDR-101 stereo headphones, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. Good to fair signal of "Eye Radio Shortwave" with opening English announcement including change of morning frequency to 7340 kHz (afternoon transmission not mentioned) today (6 February) from 0400 to 0500 UT on 7340 kHz as monitored (recorded) using the U. Twente SDR receiver. English segment (news) began at around the 23 minute mark. Good signal initially today (6 February) from 1600 on 15410 as monitored (recorded) using the U. Twente SDR receiver. Just music with frequent but incorrect English program schedule announcements. After the sign-on announcement, which gave the new morning frequency (see above), subsequent announcements throughout the hour stated: 7 a.m. - 8 a.m. (local time) on 11620 kHz and 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. on 15410 kHz, both Monday to Friday. Reception deteriorated starting around 1650 so couldn't tell if the transmission continued past 1700 UT. HFCC currently lists the transmission only until 1700 (-- Richard Langley, NB, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DXLD) Eye Radio --- On listening more closely to the English announcement during the morning broadcast, it sounds like they are announcing the new morning frequency as 7330 kHz not 7340 kHz! So, they have that wrong, too (-- Richard Langley, ibid.) FRANCE, Fair/good signal of Eye Radio via TDF Issoudun, Feb.7: 0400-0500 on 7340 ISS 250 kW / 139 deg to EaAf Juba Arabic* Mon-Fri * including other langs English/Dinka/Nuer/Shilluk/Bari/Zande/Lutoho https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/fairgood-signal-of-eye-radio-via-tdf.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb. 6-7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN. Frequency change of Radio Taiwan International via Tamshui https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/frequency-change-of-radio-taiwan.html 1200-1400 NF 5970 TSH 100 kW / 352 deg to EaAs Chinese, ex 11985 ??????????? ?? Observer ? 4:28 PM (via DXLD) So that accounts for double-Chinese QRM to WEWN (gh, DXLD) ** TAJIKISTAN. 4765.06, Tajik R., Dushanbe-Yangi Yul in Tajik 01.12/13.2019 2355-0015 man and woman talk till 0003, brief music break, woman talk, with brief local music breaks at times, local chant, same woman talk with some music breaks, local chant, man/woman talk with music breaks; heard in usb, fast qsb, moderate qrn, from 0000 qrm splats hams voices for some minutes; fair 4765.06, Tajik R., Dushanbe-Yangiyul in Tajik 01.14.2019 1850-1901 slow music, with woman/man brief announcements, man talk (no much clear), with brief local slow music pauses at times, heard in usb, fast qsb, strong qrn rustle with crackles at times; poor/almost fair 4765.07, Tajik R., Dushanbe-Yangi Yul in Tajik 01.26.2019 2321-2338 typical local chants with instrumental music, and man unclear talk (2328-2331), heard in usb, fast qsb, moderate qrn, poor/ almost fair (Gianni Serra, Roma-Italy, Equipment: JRC NRD 525 receiver; Alpha Delta DX-SWL Sloper-S antenna; RG 8 mini coaxial cable; JPS NIR 12 Noise & Interference Reducer-Dual DSP outboard audio filter; JRC NVA 319 external loudspeaker unit; Sony MDR-101 stereo headphones, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4765.061, Tajik R 1 Dushanbe, Yangi Yul still on odd fq, reserve unit S=9+15dB at 1716 UT4979.985 CHN PBS Xinjiang Urumqi, in Uyghur language, S=9+10dB in Doha Qatar remote SDR unit. At 1722 UT on Febr 11 [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 11, dxldyg via DXLD) ** THAILAND. Reception of HSK9 Radio Thailand World Service on Feb.8: 1900-2000 on 7475 UDO 250 kW / 324 deg to WeEu English, fair signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/reception-of-hsk9-radio-thailand-world.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.8-9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** THAILAND [and non]. RSF: Prosecution Over Shortwave Broadcasts To China https://www.ladailypost.com/content/rsf-prosecution-over-shortwave-broadcasts-china (Posted to WRTH Facebook Group by Dan Robinson via -- Richard Langley, WOR iog via DXLD) Viz.: Submitted by Carol A. Clark on February 4, 2019 - 8:59am RSF News: Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Thai authorities to drop all proceedings against Yung-hsin Chiang, a Taiwanese businessman based in Thailand who is facing a possible five-year jail sentence in a connection with a short-wave radio station that targeted listeners in China. Chiang, who is due to appear in court Feb. 12, was arrested at his office in Bangkok Nov. 23 on a charge of violating Thailand’s broadcasting laws and was held for two days before being released on bail. His crime is to have helped rent premises in the northern city of Chiang Mai that had been used since 2015 to operate a shortwave radio station owned by Sound of Hope (SOH), a San Francisco-based radio network that was founded by Falun Gong, a religious movement banned in China. SOH produces radio programmes that are intended to be independent of any Chinese government influence and to reflect the beliefs of Falun Gong’s members. RSF has learned that the Chinese government pressured the Thai authorities to shut down the radio station last August. The Thai authorities complied, seizing all of the station’s equipment, and then arresting Chiang, who has been banned from leaving the country pending trial and is facing up to five years in prison under Thailand’s Radio and Television Broadcasting Act, his lawyer said. According to his lawyer, the prosecution case is based on the testimony of a mysterious witness who claims to have seen a 30-metre antenna being erected. SOH insists that no such antenna was ever installed because it is not needed for shortwave broadcasting. SOH also denied any involvement in “illegal broadcasting.” “This totally unjustified arrest deals a new blow to the freedom to inform in Thailand and penalizes Chinese listeners who count on this radio station for information that circumvents censorship,” RSF’s Asia-Pacific desk said. “We call on the Thai authorities to stop abetting Beijing’s operations against opposition media outlets and to drop the charges against Chiang.” SOH’s management told RSF that its radio network is a seen as a threat in China. Its shortwave radio stations, which it began operating in 2004, broadcast uncensored daily news programming that reaches nearly all parts of China. A 2013 report by the NGO Freedom Housedocumented the pressure that China’s puts on governments in nearby Asian countries to shut down SOH radio stations. This is not the first time that the Thai government has yielded to Chinese pressure. At China’s request, the Bangkok police arrested the political cartoonist Jiang Fei in 2015. The book publisher Gui Minhai went missing in Thailand in 2015, only to resurface in a detention centre in China, where he has been held ever since. These cases highlight the influence of China’s repressive policies beyond its borders, as well as Thai complicity. Thailand is ranked 140th out of 180 countries in RSF’s 2018 World Press Freedom Index (via WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DXLD) ** TIBET [and non]. TIBET/INDIA, 4920, Xizang PBS (Lhasa)/AIR (Chennai) 1514+ 31 Jan. Nice to find usually dominant XPBS getting some competition from AIR's Hindi broadcast this morning. (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA, Grundig/Eton "Executive Satellit"/6m X wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET [non]. TAJIKISTAN, Frequency change of Voice of Tibet, Feb.5 2300-2330 NF 7495 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 7496 2330-2400 NF 7485 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 7484 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/frequency-change-of-voice-of-tibet-feb5.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.5-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) TAJIKISTAN, Frequency changes of Voice of Tibet on Feb.10: 2300-2334 NF 7499 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 7495 2334-2400 NF 7504 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 7485 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/frequency-changes-of-voice-of-tibet-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.10-11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. 9785, Feb 5 at 1429, JBA carrier, 1430 JBA timesignal, presumed VOT starting Kazakh. Checking here after finding 12035.7 preceding English was already off by 1429 today; to fathom whether I can hear the next frequency, the next time sloppyrators fail to turn off 12035V in time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5960.003, Feb 6 at 0030, music at S9+10/S8, soon recognizably Turkish as expected. Will it also be the sporadic German hour from VOT? Yes, 0034 announcement in German. Very slightly offset plus; I don`t recall this one ever being found on 5960.7 like so many other Emirlerians. The point is, the sloppyrators sometimes don`t get 5960 turned off by 2355 when English finishes, letting it run with the next language on the feed which is not supposed to be on any SW frequency. If such lapses be totally random, sooner or later it will happen on Saturday into UT Sunday and clash with The Mighty KBC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, it already has, on several occasions, including this past weekend when they didn’t pull the plug until around 0050. I wrote to Eric van Willegen at The Mighty KBC about it, and he replied: ``Yes, the VOT is not following perfectly the rules. The Germans will contact them again; hopefully it will work this time. Fingers crossed for Saturday. It's not that easy to find a clear frequency; in the past we had Radio China and Cuba suddenly on top of us. Have a great week and we see you Saturday`` (Jay Novello, Wake Forest NC, Feb 6, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DXLD) Which is exactly why, when KBC was looking for a new 49mb frequency, I strongly recommended against this one. There is more to frequency management than looking for openings in HFCC (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) TRT Voice of Turkey on very odd frequencies 11795.7 & 12035.7 kHz, Feb.6, EMR 500 kW 0930-1055 11795.7 / 105 deg to WeAs Persian, instead of nom. 11795.0 1330-1425 12035.7 / 305 deg to WeEu English, instead of nom. 12035.0 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/voice-of-turkey-on-very-odd-frequencies.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.5-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12035.7, Feb 6 at 1420, VOT English off-frequency today, only VP S5-S6, while better Turkish is close to 11815.0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) TRT Voice of Turkey in Turkish on very odd frequency 11925.7 kHz on Feb.7: 0700-0955 11925.7 EMR 500 kW / 105 deg WeAs instead of 11925.0 Feb.6 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/voice-of-turkey-in-turkish-on-very-odd.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: 6125, Voice of Turkey presumed the one at 0357 with OC with no audio noted during frequent re-checks through 0430 – Great signal but zilch in audio Feb 9 – This has happened before with their 2300 broadcast on 5960 so I guess it's just another example of a waste of bandwidth if their engineers can't connect an audio feed to their transmitters. Or is it all automated with no one to oversee the operation at this hour? (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD), ODXA iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DXLD) 6125, Feb 9 at 0404, 0412 and 0428 chex, S9-S9+10 of dead air vs some occasional pulse jamming strays. Voice of Turkey is failing to modulate English to North America! Something`s always wrong at Emirler but at least it`s not 0.7 kHz off-frequency. 12035+, Sat Feb 9 at 1353, VOT English is poor in `Letterbox` until 1401 right into `Turkish Cuisine`, S9-S5, but you would need perfect reception and a recorder to copy the recipe. Occasional stray pulse jamming QRM. 13685.704, Sat Feb 9 at 1424, VP music, gone at 1452 recheck. It`s VOT eastward in Uighur at 1330-1426 per Aoki/NDXC; neither that nor EiBi (nor HFCC of course) reveal it can be off-frequency from 13685. Might not be noticeable on weekdays with WINB non-DRM carriers covering 13685-13690 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) TRT Voice of Turkey in Persian on very odd frequency 11795.7 kHz, Feb.11: 0930-1055 11795.7 EMR 500 kW / 105 deg WeAs, instead of 11795 Feb.10 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/voice-of-turkey-in-persian-on-very-odd.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.10-11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. Answers to my questions from the Voice of Turkey: “Hello, dear Dmitry! Thank you for listening to our radio and email us! I hasten to answer your questions 1. The grid of thematic programs from the New Year has changed. Program we you send with QSL-card for the reports. 2. The rubric "Question of the month" will no longer sound on the radio, but stayed on our site. 3. We continue to send QSL cards to our radio listeners for reports. Best regards, Voice of Turkey Radio editors » (Drove [sic] Dmitry Kutuzov, Ryazan, Russia / “deneb-radio-dx” via Rus-DX Feb 10 via WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DXLD) ** TURKEY. Voice of Turkey-11730 kHz 1727 to 1830 UT (Emirler xmtr). Broadcast was in English to Asia. QSL card received in 30 days, plus a copy of broadcast schedule. English Broadcasts: "VOT B(18) Shortwave Broadcast Schedule"--28.10.2018--31.03.2019" 0400-0500 UT- 6125 kHz-Americas, Europe 0400-0500 UT- 7240 kHz-Asia, Africa 1330-1430 UT-12035 kHz-Europe 1730-1830 UT-11730 kHz-Asia 1930-2030 UT- 6050 kHz-Europe 2130-2230 UT- 9610 kHz-Asia, Australia 2300-2400 UT- 5960 kHz-Europe [& America!] More info on their web site: http://www.trtvotworld.com (Charles Gessner, WOR iog via DXLD) ** TURKEY. Voice of Turkey Broadcast Schedule B(18) Hi, I have attached a copy of the current Voice of Turkey broadcast schedule. Thus you should be able to view it, and print it if desired. I obtained this from a recent correspondence with the Voice of Turkey for a broadcast that I listened to in January and received a QSL card. The below information was extracted from the Voice Of Turkey B(18) Broadcast Schedule sent to the author. It is effective from: 28.10.2018 to 31.03.2019. This listing is by Broadcast Frequency. Transmitter Site: Emerlier [sic], Turkey All times are listed in UTC. All frequencies are listed in kilohertz (kHz). Am=Americas Af=Africa As=Asia Au=Australia Eu=Europe Ara=Arabic Aze=Azerbaijan Bul=Bulgarian Chi=Chinese Dar=Dari Eng=English Fre=French Geo=Georgian Ger=German Hau=Hausas Ita=Italian Kaz=Kazakh Mal=Malaian Pas=Pasht Per=Persian Rus=Russian Spa=Spanish Swa=Swahili Tat=Tatar Tur=Turkish Turk=Turkmen Urd=Urdu Uyg=Uyghur Uzb=Uzbek Frequency: Time: Language: Broadcast To: ================================================ 5945 1830-1930 Ger Eu 5960 2300-2400 Eng As,Eu 5965 1630-1730 Aze As 5970 2030-2130 Fre Eu 5980 1700-2200 Tur Eu 6000 0100-0300 Tur As 6050 1930-2030 Eng Eu 6070 1600-1700 Per As 6120 1700-2200 Tur As,Af 6125 0400-0500 Eng Am,Eu 6185 1500-1530 Ita Eu 7240 0400-0500 Eng As,Af 7245 1200-1230 Bul Eu 7295 1500-1600 Ara As,Af 9410 1400-1500 Rus As 9460 0300-0400 Uyg As 9495 1730-1830 Spa Eu 9595 1600-1730 Dar,Pas,Uzb As 9610 2130-2230 Eng As,Au 9620 1830-1930 Fre Af 9625 2030-2130 Fre Af 9650 0200-0300 Spa Am,Eu 9700 0400-0700 Tur As 9785 1430-1500 Kaz As 9840 1100-1200 Geo As 11660 0500-0700 Tur As 11710 0800-0900 Aze As 11730 1730-1830 Eng As 11795 0930-1100 Per As 11815 1400-1700 Tur As 11925 0700-1000 Tur As 11955 1000-1100 Ara As,Af 11965 1300-1330 Turk As 12035 1330-1430 Eng Eu 13630 1130-1200 Uzb As 13685 1330-1430 Uyg As 15235 0600-0800 Hau,Swa Af 15270 1230-1330 Ger Eu 15350 0700-1400 Tur Eu 15360 1100-1130 Tat As 15390 1300-1400 Urd As 15480 0700-1300 Tur As,Af 17530 0500-0600 Mal As 17720 1500-1600 Ara Af Website: http://www.trtvotworld.com QSL Card Address Is: ============================= TRT Turkiye'nin Sesi Radyosu P.K. 333 Yenisehir 06443 Ankara, Turkiye Received Postal Envelope Address Is: ==================================== Turkiye'nin Sesi Radyosu The Voice of Turkey P.K. 333-06443 Yenisehir-Ankara-Turkiye Email: tsr@trt.net.tr (QSL Card) Email: englishdesk@trt.net.tr (WRTH 2019) Faks:(+90 312) 463 3454 (via Charles Gessner, WOR iog via DXLD) ** TURKMENISTAN. ============== TURKMENIA. The Turkmen state telecommunications company Turkmentelecom provides, among other functions, the broadcasting of state-run broadcasting, television, etc. There are four of them in the country: "Owaz", "Char Tarapdan", "Miras" and "Watan". Programs in English (short news blocks) are broadcast as part of the broadcasting of the radio station "Owaz" (the fourth program of the Turkmen Radio). You can listen to them at http://radio360.eu/index.php/english-podcasts/82-turkmenistan on the tab "Listen now". (Magazine “Radio” # 02/2019, Radio reception. V. Gulyaev. Broadcast news, Rus-DX Feb 10 via DXLD) ** UKRAINE. According to the message on RR1, there are two radio stations Ukrainian Radio and Radio Crimea Real. Their joint programs in Russian go from Mondays to Fridays from 05.35 to 05.59 and from 10.10 to 10.40 - you can listen to them at MW 549 kHz. At other times, the SD program is heard at 873 kHz, and at 549 kHz, the signal is delayed. Some reports about other programs in Russian that were in the previous bületins are probably already outdated, for example, the broadcast from 06.03 to 06.30 is in Ukrainian (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria, Rus-DX Feb 10 via DXLD) The National Council of Ukraine on Television and Radio Broadcasting has prepared and posted on its website 70 infographic, https://www.nrada.gov.ua/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/inf_2018_.pdf illustrating its activities in the past year. These graphic materials are in addition to the report of the regulator by 2018. The report of the National Council of Ukraine on Television and Radio Broadcasting to 2018 was approved at its meeting on January 24. Within the deadlines specified by law - before February 1 - this document was submitted to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and the President of Ukraine. Source: Site of the National Council. http://proradio.org.ua/news/2019feb.php (Rus-DX Feb 10 via DXLD) ** UKRAINE. The second tallest tower built in the USSR is located in Kiev. Height is 385 meters, height above sea level is 182 meters. Built in 1973. The Kiev TV Tower is still the highest lattice structure in the world and it is unlikely that this record will be broken in the future - just today no one is building such structures anymore. In addition to the tremendous height of 385 meters for the lattice structures, the Kiev TV Tower has one more feature: not a single bolt or rivet was used in its construction! Simply, all the parts were sealed with welding seams, so no bolts were needed. Another interesting fact is connected with the erection of the television tower. The fact is that the tower was not built at all in the way we used to see - not from bottom to top, but from top to bottom, that is, the top was first created, and the following modules were already substituted for it. Thanks to this design decision, it was not necessary to use a single crane or a cargo helicopter in construction. The construction of the Kiev TV tower took 5 years - from 1968 to 1973. Upon completion of construction in Kiev, a tower appeared, whose height was 60 meters higher than the height of the EYFEL TOWER, and it weighed 3 times less than the French counterpart. The design is based on 4 inclined supports, and in the center there is an elevator shaft, which smoothly passes into the antenna. Two elevators lead upstairs - the first one stops at around 200 meters, and the second one raises to 329 meters high, but ordinary people are not allowed into the tower. During strong winds, the top of the tower may deviate a few meters from the central axis - this is normal. Transmitters: 5 radio stations in VHF FM, 14 in FM, 1 in DAB (13 stations) and 6 multiplexes in DVB-T2. Photo 1 - https://vk.com/radioreceiver?z=photo-163779953_456249339%2Fwall-163779953_20598 Photo 2 - https://vk.com/radioreceiver?z=photo-163779953_456249340%2Fwall-163779953_20598 Photo 3 - https://vk.com/radioreceiver?z=photo-163779953_456249341%2Fwall-163779953_20598 Photo 4 - https://vk.com/radioreceiver?z=photo-163779953_456249342%2Fwall-163779953_20598 (Vadim Novoselsky, https://vk.com/radioreceiver Rus-DX Feb 10 via DXLD) ** U K. Radio industry --- Is streaming killing the radio star? As more young listeners switch off, broadcasters are having to ring the changes Mark Sweney Fri 8 Feb 2019 08.05 EST Last modified on Fri 8 Feb 2019 12.36 EST Headsets hang in front of a screen displaying a Spotify logo on it. Among 15-24-year-olds, music streaming on sites such as Spotify has rapidly grown to account from about 10% of their listening time to a third. Photograph: Dado Ruvic/Reuters [caption] The music industry has endured its share of crises in the digital era – from the slow death of the CD to the rise of online piracy. Now it is the turn of radio broadcasters, who face a worrying exodus among young listeners because of streaming. At first glance, radio listening in the UK appears robust, holding steady at around 48 million adults – 88% of Britain’s adult population – listening to just over 1bn hours each week. Those figures, however, belie the fact that radio is facing a crisis over youth audiences. Since 2010, around 840,000 15 to 24-year-olds have switched off for good, according to research from Enders Analysis. And among the 6.5 million or so who do still tune in, the amount of time they spend listening has plummeted 29% between 2010 and 2018. The problem is even more acute at the BBC, with total listening hours among 15 to 24-year-olds falling 40% over the same time period... https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/feb/08/is-streaming-killing-the-radio-star (via John Hoad, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) ** U S A. DON SCHIMMEL The DXing world received some very sad news this past month. One of the legendary personalities in our world of radio, Don Schimmel, passed away. We received the following message from CIDXer Gary Donnelly Don Schimmel, Hedgesville, VA – January 5, 2019 It is with much sadness I announce the death of my SWL Elmer, neighbor and good friend, Don Schimmel, 91. Don passed away at his Hedgesville, WV house. Don served his country first in the US Navy as a communications guy, then a career at the Central Intelligence Agency where he again was a communications expert. Don served at several locations in Central and South America. Don spent his retirement years in the communications / radio area. He was a “Scanner Scum” with others from the NASWA group. He wrote for Popular Communications and also wrote a small monthly article called Radio Intrique for Dxing.com, a publication of Universal Radio. He also authored the book “Underground Frequency Guide: A Directory of Unusual, Illegal, and Covert Radio Communications”. Don got me interested in SWL and introduced me to the NASWA group where we later attended several meetings of the group, me more than me [sic]. Don gravitated to focusing on the Cuban numbers stations and until a few months before his death, he would tune them in. Don remained in good health and spirits until past his 90th birthday. He will be missed by the community and he will be missed by me (Feb CIDX Messenger via DXLD) obit ** U S A. 405 kHz, Feb 5 at 1340 UT just after sunrise, NDB HRU, which is 25 watts from Herington, Kansas, south of Junxion City on US 77 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 420 kHz, Feb 5 at 0730 UT, two JBA NDBs clashing at same pitch, very hard to unravel; no dash, not Canadian. DXinfocentre.com shows only four Americans, all 25 watts: CFY, Lake City-Evans SC; FQ, Fairmont MN; PK, Olathe-Herbb KS; TU, Tupelo-Verona MS. I`ve heard FQ before, and PK would be the closest. Classaxe.com shows additional details such as frequency offset (meaning A2 pitch?), and length in seconds of each ID sending. From that, the closet pitch matches would be CFY and PK, both 1018 USB, periods 5.7 and 5.5, which means that very slowly their overlap will be shifting. FQ is not close enough, at 1035 Hz; rules out TU at only 383 USB. All four have been logged this year. 420 kHz, Feb 6 at 0705 I manage to pick out IDs of two NDBs, each 25 watts: FQ, Fairmont MN; and PK, Olathe-Herbb KS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Windy beacon --- Glenn, 2/9, 1230 UT, Windy beacon heard on 4103 kHz in Richmond with moderate signal with some fading. W with wind dits for about 5 cycles followed by "TMP 41 B 123," meaning 41°F, battery 12.3 volts and wind varying moderate to nil. Supposed to be in the California desert. Could be in any of 3 large counties. Also hearing the A beacon on 2097.3 kHz regularly [Quartzsite AZ] 73, (Art Peterson, CA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 4724-USB // 8992-USB, Feb 9 at 0041, US military crypto alfanumeric fonetik string with usual reverb and clix between characters. EiBi calls these ``US Air Force Messages``, on six frequencies all available 24 hours, the others being 6739, 11175, 13200 and 15016. But where are they, really? And are they significant or mere exercise? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1968 monitoring: confirmed first SWBC this week, Tuesday February 5 at 2030 on WRMI 7780, S9-S5, after 2029.5 Rudy Espinal ID and a second of music intruding. Next: 0930 UT Wednesday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5950 to WNW 2200 UT Wednesday WRMI *9955 to SSE 2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ *7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE 0930 UT Friday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND 0729 UT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany to WSW 1200 UT Saturday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND [alt weeks: Feb 16] 1230 UT Saturday WRMI *9955 to SSE 1531 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany to WSW 2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM MO non-direxional 2200 UT Saturday WRMI *9955 to SSE 0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415], ND 0830 UT Sunday WRMI 5850 to NW, 5950 to WNW, 7730 to WNW 1130 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 5950 to WNW, 9395 to NNW 0400vUT Monday WBCQ *5130v Area 51 to WSW 0430 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE 0930 UT Monday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND 2330 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE * also webcast WORLD OF RADIO 1968 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday February 6 at 2200 on WRMI 9955, but opening is upcut after my first words with the program number, S9 to S9+10; and 10 seconds later on WBCQ 7490.13v, S9 to S7. Also confirmed UT Thursday Feb 7 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, poor S7-S5. Next: 0930 UT Friday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND 0729 UT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany to WSW 1200 UT Saturday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND [alt weeks: Feb 16] 1230 UT Saturday WRMI *9955 to SSE 1531 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany to WSW 2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM MO non-direxional 2200 UT Saturday WRMI *9955 to SSE 0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415], ND 0830 UT Sunday WRMI 5850 to NW, 5950 to WNW, 7730 to WNW 1130 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 5950 to WNW, 9395 to NNW 0400vUT Monday WBCQ *5130v Area 51 to WSW 0430 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE 0930 UT Monday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND 2330 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE * also webcast WORLD OF RADIO 1968 monitoring: confirmed Saturday February 9 at 1255 the 1230 on WRMI 9955, good S9. Not confirmed the 1531 Saturday via HLR 9485-CUSB, direct nor via UTwente. As Alan Gale suggested, I also checked the Italy SDR during following semihour, http://kiwisdr.briata.org:8073/ but not picked up there either. However, from England, Alan reports this week: ``Hi Glenn, HLR was audible up until 1515 UT on 9485 kHz this afternoon, but abruptly faded out here during Media Network Plus. I switched to the Colle Sofia webSDR in Italy and World of Radio was audible on there at 1530, though suffering a little splatter. Interestingly though, it then faded in here again at 1550 UT and was quite strong for the final 10 minutes. That was the first time that I've heard it here on that frequency in weeks now, so that's a good sign that propagation is improving as the days continue to lengthen. I've attached a short mp3 of it. 73, Alan.`` Next: 2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM MO non-direxional 2200 UT Saturday WRMI *9955 to SSE 0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415], ND 0830 UT Sunday WRMI 5850 to NW, 5950 to WNW, 7730 to WNW 1130 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 5950 to WNW, 9395 to NNW 0400vUT Monday WBCQ *5130v Area 51 to WSW 0430 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE 0930 UT Monday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND 2330 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE * also webcast WORLD OF RADIO 1968 monitoring: Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria says, ``GERMANY, Reception of World of Radio via HLR on 6190 CUSB on Feb.9 --- Today World of Radio previous edition 1967 instead of current 1968 0731-0800 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sat, good signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/reception-of-world-of-radio-via-hlr-on_9.html Reception of World of Radio via HLR on 9485 CUSB on Feb.9: Today again World of Radio previous edition 1967, instead of current 1968 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/reception-of-world-of-radio-via-hlr-on_71.html 1531-1600 9485 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg CeEu English Sat, fair to good`` WOR 1968 confirmed Saturday February 9 after 2200 on WRMI 9955, fair Delayed on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO. Ham radio shows still running UT Sunday Feb 10 at 0428, 0454 chex but in progress at 0517 about 19 minutes into, so WOR started circa 0458, good S9+20 and no CWQRM. I reminded HLR to get 1968 on air for final repeat, and Ivo confirmed: ``World of Radio edition 1968 via HLR on 7265 CUSB on Feb.10 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/reception-of-world-of-radio-1968-via.html 1131-1200 7265 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg CeEu English Sun, poor & weak`` Next: 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 5950 to WNW, 9395 to NNW 0400vUT Monday WBCQ *5130v Area 51 to WSW 0430 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE 0930 UT Monday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND 2330 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE * also webcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7730, WRMI (FL) at 0830. Confirming Glenn Hauser World of Radio on the air with excellent reception. no. 1868 ended at 0858 - Excellent Feb 10 [Sunday] (Rick Barton, Arizona, Grundig Satellit 205(T.5000) & 750; Hammarlund HQ-180A & HQ-200; RS SW-2000629, & ATS-909X with various outdoor wires. 73 and Good Listening ! WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1968 monitoring: confirmed Sunday February 10 at 2155 the 2130 on WRMI 7780, fair. Also confirmed UT Mon Feb 11 at 0230 on WRMI 5950, S9+20; but not even a JBA carrier on // 9395, off? (by 0352 during Slovakia mailbag, it`s S9-S9+10, and stronger than 5950). Also confirmed UT Mon Feb 11 from 0401 on Area 51 webcast. Also presumably on WBCQ 5139.48 which was a JBA carrier at 0351. Also confirmed UT Mon Feb 11 at 0430 on WRMI webcast; at 0458 check, 9955 VP at S6-S7; after 0500 this week, webcast plays World Music. Also confirmed Mon Feb 11 at 2353 the 2330 on WRMI 9955, S9-S5; by 2359 lite jamming has ramped up. Last couple words of WOR are upcut by music fill, as WRMI automation seems set up to overlap deliberately WORLD OF RADIO 1969 contents: Alaska, Andaman Islands, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Cuba, Eritrea non, France, Germany, Italy non, Madagascar, Malaysia, Netherlands non, Nigeria and non, Palau, Romania, South Carolina non, Sudan South non, Thailand, Turkey, USA; and the propagation outlook. WOR 1969 ready for first airing at 0030 UT Tuesday February 12, on WRMI 7730, VG S9+20. Next: 2030 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 0930 UT Wednesday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5950 to WNW 2200 UT Wednesday WRMI *9955 to SSE 2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ *7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE 0930 UT Friday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND 0729 UT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany to WSW 1200 UT Saturday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND [alt weeks: Feb 16] 1230 UT Saturday WRMI *9955 to SSE 1531 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany to WSW 2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM MO non-direxional 2200 UT Saturday WRMI *9955 to SSE 0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415], ND 0830 UT Sunday WRMI 5850 to NW, 5950 to WNW, 7730 to WNW 1130 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 5950 to WNW, 9395 to NNW 0400vUT Monday WBCQ *5130v Area 51 to WSW 0430 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE 0930 UT Monday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND 2330 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE * also webcast; direct linx to these and many others at: Complete WOR sked, all affiliates, satellite, webcast, AM&FM, podcast: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. I`ve continued uploading WORLD OF RADIO each week to IRRS, and asked them for current info about scheduling. Reply from Alfredo Cotroneo, Feb 6: ``Hi Glenn, As I anticipated earlier, your program is aired "unscheduled", i.e. on a random basis on our streaming radio channel IRN: Internet Radio NEXUS at: https://nexus.org/irn-player/ or: http://mp3.nexus.org/irn.mp3 and as time allows may also be picked up by our scheduling system on Shortwave, also on a random basis. Since we started our daily broadcasts on 7290 kHz (19-20 UT) and until Jan. 31, 2019, your program was scheduled each Monday, from 1900 UT. However, on Feb. 4-25, 2018, we are running 1 hr tests for the "Voice of Life" (as announced by Ron) and we had to suspend WOR. Since these are just tests, I expect that WOR will be resumed in March on Monday at 1900 UT on 7290 as long as the Monday slot remains available; otherwise we will reassess available slots at the beginning of March and let you know. If you do not hear from us, please send us a reminder early in March. 73s, Alfredo`` We were certainly not aware of the Mon 1900 on 7290 scheduling, nor have we had any reports of people hearing it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Pertinent: ROMANIA, Test transmission of The Voice of Love via IRRS RADIOCOM Saftica: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/test-transmission-of-voice-of-love-via.html 1900-2000 on 7290 SAF 100 kW / 300 deg to WeEu English every Monday in February (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgarian DX Blog via DXLD) WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ: ** U S A. 7490, WBCQ with Marion's Attic music show with the usual odd eclectic mix of stuff you won't hear elsewhere, and that 'trademarked' voice (does anyone know for sure if "Marion" is a man or woman and is s/he REALLY as old as would be implied by the voice?) this week featuring 'music box' tunes. Interesting! WBCQ ID at ToH and into Uncle Bill's Melting Pot, starting to fade and get a bit noisier. 4+4+54+4+ at first with just a titch of local noise sneaking through, but down to 43+543+ by 2300, and totally gone by 2310. 2205-2310 3/Feb SB-310 +ANC-4 +randomwire (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Williamston MI, MARE Tipsheet Feb 8 via DXLD) 7490.17v, Tue Feb 5 at 2032, WBCQ S9-S6 with mixture of blues and country music, then ``Pirate Joe Extravaganzo`` as J. P. Ferraro`s show earlifies WBCQ sign-on Tuesdays only to *2000 (from DST season even earlier *1900 despite increasing daytime absorption); 2046 ``WHVW`` singing ID for his own originating station in Hyde Park NY (Poughkeepsie address), which on 950 is only 500/57 watts U1. 5130.461, UT Fri Feb 8 at 0240, this WBCQ is obviously on, signature off-frequency, weak and just barely modulated, with what? Never-up-to-date websked shows it totally off the air between 0330 UT Wed and 0100 UT Sat. (7490), UT Sat Feb 9 circa 0105 when first checked, WBCQ webcast, Allan Weiner political rant on `Worldwide`; At 0142 talking about installing transmission line for the 500 kW, which is 9 inches in diameter, looks like a pipe, to achieve 20 MW ERP out of the pending #6 transmitter. Fuller report from John Carver: ``Tonight's show started I know not when. 7490 was nothing but noise as was 9330. Waited a bit to see if something would start. Checked 5130 and the show was in progress. Found them in the middle of political talk when I tuned in about 0105. A canned station ID is broadcast every few minutes. Discussing the State of the Union address at the moment. Harsh politics fade into the background and the talk moves to the regular working man and the problems they have making a living. Price of groceries. Price of non food items. States again to never trust banks and get rid of one's credit cards. Also touches on health care. During a break Allan announces that they're broadcasting on 7490 and 9330. No mention of 5130 and no mention of what happened to the militia program. Allan mentioned that they've started work on the new transmitter so Allan and Angela are now in Maine. Mr. Transistor Norm calls at 0135 chiding Allan for not being at the hamfest in FLA today. Allan is excited about how well the transmitter project is coming along. Some talk about fooling with the big transmission line to the transmitter. Allan said that he and Angela would be back in FLA sometime in March for awhile. He also predicted that radio will make a comeback. A dropped phone call prompts Allan to complain about getting a dozen junk phone calls a day on his cellphone. Reading of emails at 0150 interrupted by a phone call from a gentlemen asking if there was an HD shortwave radio available. Allan explained about DRM. Then into a reading of the Free Radio News. Closing prayer at 0158. Program was off the air at 0200. New program started then on 5130 and was not the militia program. Didn't catch the name of the new program but it seems to have something to do with professional wrestling. John, Mid-North Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. New Mexico cult leaders likely to spend the rest of their lives behind bars after child abuse convictions Deborah and James Green, leaders of the Nevada-based Aggressive Christianity Missionary Training Corps cult, will likely spend the rest of their lives behind bars after being convicted on child abuse charges. The cult's radio program, noted for Deborah Green's "anapestic androgynous" vocal delivery, ran from 2001 to 2014 on WBCQ (17495, 18910 and 15420 kHz). The Greens were arrested by local authorities in August 2017 and charged with "horrific crimes against children." In September 2018, Deborah Green was sentenced to 72 years in prison after being convicted of child rape, kidnapping and child abuse. James Green pleased no contest to child abuse charges and in December 2018 was sentenced to ten years in prison. References Glenn Hauser, DX Listening Digest 14-01, 1 January 2014. http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1401.txt Megan Cruz, "Local religious group in spotlight for horrific crimes against children." koat.com, 22 August 2017. https://www.koat.com/article/nm-religious-group-in-spotlight-for-horrific-crimes-against-children/12040259 Josiah Hesse, "Cops Accuse Christian Commune of Abusing and Raping Children." 23 August 2017. "The Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps is known for its militaristic brand of religion. This week, cops accused key leaders of horrific acts, including some that resulted in a child's death." https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ywwnzm/cops-accuse-christian-commune-of-smuggling-and-raping-children Corky Siemaszko, "Ex-Members Describe Military-Style Christian Sect Now Accused of Child Abuse." NBC News, 28 August 2017. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ex-members-describe-military-style-christian-sect-now-accused-child-n796131 Jackie Kent, "'Aggressive Christianity' cult leader gets 72 years in prison." krqe.com, 27 September 2018. https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/-aggressive-christianity-cult-leader-sentenced/1477766667 David Gee, "Leader of Militant 'Aggressive Christianity' Cult Gets 72 Years for Child Sex Abuse." friendlyatheist.patheos.com, 29 September 2018. https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2018/09/29/leader-of-militant-aggressive-christianity-cult-gets-72-years-for-child-sex-abuse/ "New Mexico sect co-leader faces up to 10 years in prison." Associated Press via abqjournal.com, 8 December 2018. https://www.abqjournal.com/1255359/nm-sect-co-leader-faces-up-to-10-years-in-prison.html (-- Larry Will, Feb 9, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Well, unless he`s very2 old, 4-10 years will unlikely be the rest of his life, unlike her. The complete Albuquerque Journal story: (gh) New Mexico sect co-leader faces up to 10 years in prison By Associated Press Published: Saturday, December 8th, 2018 at 2:18pm Updated: Saturday, December 8th, 2018 at 2:18pm [that was quick!] GRANTS, N.M. — A co-leader of a rural western New Mexico paramilitary religious sect is going to prison after previously pleading no contest to child abuse charges. James Green was sentenced Friday in Grants on convictions stemming from abuse of a Ugandan child brought to the United States illegally and from a 13-year-old boy’s 2014 death at the sect’s commune from a probable infectious disease. District Judge Cindy Mercer sentenced Green to 13.5 years in prison but suspended 3.5 years, and the Gallup Independent reports that Green could get out of prison in about four years with credit for time served and for good behavior in prison. Green’s wife, Deborah Green, was sentenced to 72 years in prison after being convicted of child abuse and other charges in the case. Suggested on ABQjournal [sidebar linx:] Cibola sheriff tells court about inquiry into child abuse – Aug 25, 2017 Leader of NM religious sect set to plead guilty Leader of NM religious sect set to plead guilty – Oct 20, 2018 NM sect co-leader pleads no contest to child abuse charges – Nov 10, 2018 Sect member gets suspended prison term in child abuse case – Jan 29, 2019 Copyright © 2019 Albuquerque Journal | Albuquerque, N.M. (via DXLD) All the more reason that I don't buy the argument (especially from WBCQ) of total freedom of speech. No, some people are such despicable human beings, that they don't deserve any air time. Remember WRNO and William Pearce (National Alliance) and Ernst Zundel (infamous Holocaust denier). Sorry, but whatever anyone else believes, the likes of these don't warrant any air time (Walt Salmaniw, BC, WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DXLD) Yeah, for sure - very weird. Uhhh --- I will admit right here -- that is why, with the almost sole-exception of listening to WOR, I tend to not "hang-around" on (the frequency of) so many of these "bought airtime" HF broadcasters with fringe-religious expulsions and a social-agitator mentality that does real damage to society(ties), so-called "freedom" of speech aside. Except maybe occasionally for the sheer bizarreness of it all (like the infamous KJES in new Mexico with the children chanting). I think in the far future, humanity will eventually (re) figure-out what encompasses mature freedom-of-speech, what crosses the present very fuzzy-line into psycho-ramblings -- in part due to these kinds of "things" and "happenings." The be fair, on a walk this afternoon at about 2130 UT out in the desert with my Sony ICF-SW7600GR I punched up the frequency of the VOA (African Service) outta Greenville on 15580 and along with the long-path echo I heard a rap-song that, say, as a parent hearing it would make me want to switch-off the radio as the kids and I ate dinner in the DR Congo rainforest while listening (whatever happened to the great 80s-era AfroPop?)---(A race to the bottom...) SpM -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com (Steve McGreevy, CA, ibid.) Hi Walt, We can add to your list the infamous, late Tony Alamo, who once ran his SW radio programs via Radio Africa (EQUATORIAL GUINEA), a "Christian" radio station, on 15190 kHz. He was sentenced to 175 years in prison for taking underage girls across state lines for sex. He died in prison on May 2, 2017 (Ron Howard, California, ibid.) I take a little bit of exception about the way you characterized KJES. Many years ago I visited their site in Vado, New Mexico. At the time they were having an issue with their main 50,000 watt transmitter. This particular transmitter had been built in South [sic] America and was a bit of a copy of an American transmitter design I knew quite well. I flew out from Atlanta to repair the issue. KJES was operated by a wonderful and committed Roman Catholic priest, Father Thomas. He worked in some of the worst places near the border of the United States and Mexico. He, along with a board of directors, built what is known as "The Lord's Ranch." This was a place for troubled and abandoned youth, youth that could have easily ended up in gangs or worse. The volunteers that helped and the people that supported the ministry were some of the nicest people I ever met. Father Thomas used the radio station as a teaching tool. What you call "Children Chanting" was not anything bizarre at all. In the New Testament there is something the early Christians did. They sang Psalms and Spiritual songs. That's what these youth did. They would sing psalms, say the rosary and share prayers. All the youth that participated on air (or recorded) did so voluntarily. You may disagree with how Father Thomas and The Lord's Ranch used the facility, but as I tell people that complain about programming, raise the money and build your own station, and then you can program and play any ole' thing your heart desires. Until you have all the responsibility and expense of operating one of these stations, it's hard to understand why many stations end up doing the things they do. I often worry about those that want to limit free speech. Who becomes the arbitrator? Who decides what is "appropriate" political or religious speech? There is a lot of stuff on radio, on the internet, on cable/satellite TV that I find ridiculous, offensive, and just plain "wrong." As a far as "when we (re) figure-out what encompasses mature freedom-of-speech," it will (sadly) be pretty much a George Orwell 1984 scenario. Once you let government of any persuasion get their "camel's nose in the tent," freedom of speech will go the way of the horse and buggy (Rev. Bob Biermann, of Your Weekend Show, Feb 10, ibid.) However benign you may think it to be, the chanting children on KJES were evidence of indoctrination, to put it politely, or mind-control, brain-washing to be less polite. Can immature kids ``voluntarily`` subject themselves? (gh, DXLD) Bob B., I agree with your comments 110%. Freedom of speech is the first and maybe most important amendment to our Constitution. We don't want to lose our freedom to complain about gov't the way the people of Venezuela, Cuba and other nations controlled by extreme political parties, either right or left-wing have been silenced (Don Hosmer, ibid.) Hi Bob - If there’s one thing my dad taught me while he was still on this earth (and there were many things) it’s this: Every right has a corresponding responsibility. Too much speech unfortunately is irresponsible — somehow some feel it can be or even should be untethered to the results it produces. However, absent truly criminal activity that threatens and violates the rights of others, you make an excellent point when you say that it’s dangerous to give government — any government — the task of final arbiter on what constitutes appropriate speech. So, what performs that arbitration? Do you just allow anyone to say or do whatever they damn well please as long as it’s characterized as “speech”? With respect, I submit that prevailing social mores serve this role — and perhaps more effectively that any other factor. That is not to say that those mores are unchallengeable because one can name numerous such notions that changed with challenge, which the First Amendment uniquely protects. Nonetheless, I saw nothing in Mr. McGreevy’s post that could be termed objectionable. If it’s OK for “ridiculous, offensive and just plain ‘wrong'” speech to be broadcast by certain domestic shortwave transmitters, then it has to be ok to decry it if that is your point of view. There was no hint that Mr. McGreevy was proposing government censorship or anything close to it as a response. Personally, if one is broadcasting “ridiculous, offensive and just plain ‘wrong’” speech primarily because that is the only way their broadcast activities can be financed, there’s something worrisome about that in my view. The fact that I say it does not constitute an advocacy of censorship but simply a wish that such broadcasts did not exist. It is not a fantasy to say that some of that speech is problematical inasmuch as those who, as a lifelong profession, examine criminal activity like political terrorism consider extreme right wing groups — to whom much of domestic shortwave caters — the most dangerous in that regard, both potentially and in actuality. To be concerned about that and express it is not tantamount to advocacy of censorship. It’s more speech countering speech, which is the preferred way of countering ideas one finds distasteful or potentially dangerous. Your comments regarding KJES presented me with information I previously did not have and I appreciate the value of that. That doesn’t mean I still wouldn’t find the programming there — were it still there — any less strange. But I think it’s important to point out that criticism — even withering criticism — is not tantamount to censorship or the advocacy of same. If my drawing that conclusion is not what you intended, then I apologize for misinterpreting (John Figliozzi, ibid.) WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI: ** U S A. 5850, WRMI with the end of the increasingly elderly #24 Broadspectrum Radio digital radiogram from November last year, and then into the current SW Radiogram #85 -- a repeat of the WINB show from yesterday, and in even better than the 'very good' from then! Audio ad afterward for Tecsun Radios Australia which did not appear on WINB, and then into World of Radio #1967, with items about [blank], 4+554+4+ THIS close to all 5s but for some selective fading which did no harm to copyability. 0747-0900* 3/Feb SDRplay +SDRuno +ANC-4 +FLdigi for the digi-bits, +randomwire (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Williamston MI, MARE Tipsheet Feb 8 via DXLD) Sunday 15770, WRMI Radio Miami Int’l (presumed); 1602, 2/4; Supreme Master TV with “Man as Animal”. S9 peaks with dual feeds offset by a few seconds. 1902, still with dual feeds & now in Chinese. Is Jeff not checking what he’s putting out? (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9387-9388 & 9402-9403, Feb 7 at 1255, wobbly distorted spurblobs from 9395 WRMI transmitter during TOMBS. Very unusual for any WRMI to have such a problem. Still so at 1451 recheck, at least the lower one. 9955, Feb 10 at 1527, WRMI with song in Spanish instead of The Full Gospel Hour, during weekend-only prolongation of this frequency past 1500*. But at 1529 abruptly resumes huxtergasms of Terry Blalock the Blaster. Must have been a lapse (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Good signal of Supreme Master TV SMTV via WRMI-9 Okeechobee on Feb.11: from 1425 15770 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg WeEu Eng,Fre,Spa,Port,Ara,Chi,Rus https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/good-signal-of-supreme-master-tv-via_11.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.10-11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHER: ** U S A. 9475-, Feb 5 at 2028, no signal from WTWW-1 --- oh oh, has Ted done it again, left the night frequency on allday? Evidently, as 5830 is indeed on at S9+10/20 with PPPP. But 5085, WTWW-2 is not on now. 9475- & 5830, Feb 7 at 1855, both WTWW-1 frequencies are off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5085, WTWW TN Lebanon with oldies. They have apparently been working on this transmitter again as it sounds better than it was, but there is now a strange 'artifact' above and below the signal that almost looks like IBOC (But it isn't) so if you open it up too wide there is a shrill 'hiss' in the audio. But so long as you keep the bandwidth below 8 kHz it sounds pretty pretty good. Songs included stuff from Gary Wright, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Styx (The Best of Times) and other 'deep' oldies with the occasional familiar one thrown in. Tony R also included ads for Perpetually posthumous Peter Peters (he didn't call him that) and there were also ads for a car SW radio the "Unseen Bean" coffee roasters, etc. This channel has been on air a lot more than in the past lately, and it usually makes a good showing in Michigan. 5554+4+ (THIS close to all 5s) As I put the finishing touches on the TipSheet and wanted something non-challenging on in the background. 0310-0400 8/Feb SDRplay +SDRuno +randomwire (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Williamston MI, MARE Tipsheet Feb 8 via DXLD) Screenshot also shows a little spike just above 5072, i.e. the parasitic spur I keep reporting, but the match at 5097.9 is off-screen (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) 5829.986, WTWW Lebanon TN, sermon prayer, S=9+25dB at 0140 UT. 10 kHz wideband signal! (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, Cape Canaveral FL remote SDR, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 10, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A. 7385, Feb 6 at 0333, this WHRI is off, while 7315 and 5920 are on; regarding the 7520 Russian during this hour UT Sundays only, I had assumed missing 7385 would be on as scheduled the other days of week, but it isn`t. Peter Hansen had pointed out that in the B-18 season, WHRI has not been running more than two transmitters at once, altho they allegedly have 2 x 500 kW and 1 x 100 kW in SC per WRTH. What happened to the other one? Note that ``Angels`` 1, 2, 5 and 6, are not individual transmitters but rather programming streams (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) (Cf. BC-DX #1370) About broadcast in Russian on 7520 kHz on Sundays at 0328-0358 UT. Many years already these are existing, usually on 7385 or 7520 kHz and they are compiled by Your Story Hour Ministries (in Russian the program is called "Chass Tvaevoeva Rasskazza") and they have similar Christian programs on several US & other nations transmitters in English (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, Feb 6, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 7 via DXLD) ** U S A. 9470, Feb 7 at 1253, WEWN in English poor with flutter S6- S4. This obscure transmission at 09-13 is at 335 degrees polar route to Asia. Doubt it is heard any better overthere. 5970, Feb 8 at 0657, WEWN is S9+10 of dead air; Spanish night frequency has been re-active last night or two, even with modulation. 5970, Feb 9 at 0407, WEWN Spanish is gone again. They must be having horrible problems keeping this thing on the air, and modulated. 12050, Feb 9 at 1354, WEWN is at least on the air but dead air, or JBM? at S6-S2; 1405 fully modulating Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7505.003 kHz, WRNO only much lousy S=3-4 signal into central Europe this propagation morning Febr 5th. Only on southern path across Atlantic via France into Italy posts the signal was S=4-5 a little stronger than in central Europe [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15825 & 13845, Feb 8 at 1458 & 1535, WWCRs are S9+20, way more than usual JBA signals, so rare February sporadic E opening in play, as confirmed on 6m map with MUF up to 93 MHz over eastern USA. I`ve had so little luck hearing any FM DX under such circumstances that I don`t even try. By 1714 still Es, estimated MUF 81 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9265, WINB English ID as the recording started, and into SW Radiogram #85 with the usual mix of digital text and photos, at a time that doesn't require sleep loss, but still recorded and reviewed later since I was doing the MARE fold and staple party for publishing the paper newsbulletin! ;) Stories today were about: the Winter SWL Fest; the End of high seas weather info on WWV and WWVH; MFSK64: As cold weather hits USA, Trump again casts doubt on climate change (It is 3 AM and I don't see any of this rumoured 'sun' people talk about -- it must be fake'?); Australia's heat wave knocks out power in Sydney; and the Winner of Tecsun Radios Australia decoding competition announced [not me, dangit -- it was still a fun contest! :) ] The Images of the week included a fun photo of some pigs, maybe in honour of the "Pigskin" festival coming this weekend? And the painting of the week: "Cold Winter Evening" by Suren Nersisyan. (above) Recorded but in really well in contrast to last week which didn't appear in MI at all, 4+554+4+ with near 100% decode of the digidata. 1829-1901 2/Feb SDRplay +SDRuno +ANC-4 +FLdigi for the digi-bits, +randomwire (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Williamston MI, MARE Tipsheet Feb 8 via DXLD) WINB 9265 non-reception --- Something strange happened at WINB. I was hoping to hear the 0330 Shortwave Radiogram tonight on 9265. Conditions were poor. None of the Perseus SDR remote receivers were bringing audio, but I was able to use a KiwiSDR for some fair reception from eastern N Am. However, on my own Perseus, at 0405, suddenly the signal just picked right up and became fair/good with now religious programming. What happened at 0405 UT? Sudden up in power, or change of antenna azimuth? Just interested! Too bad, as it would have been an easy copy if it happened earlier! 73, (Walt Salmaniw, BC, 0419 UT Sat Feb 9, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I have seen that happen with the WINB signal before. I attributed it to a change in transmitter power or propagation. As far as I know, there is only one antenna for 9265 kHz, a rhombic, with a fixed main lobe at 242°. But the antenna can be fed in the opposite direction, which then has a main beam at 62°. This is the beam used for the DRM transmissions or at least was initially. They might have an additional antenna now as they often have 9265 kHz and a DRM frequency on simultaneously (-- Richard Langley, NB, WOR iog via DXLD) WINB 9265 non-reception --- Hi Walt and Richard, I often wonder if the antenna switching might be to blame. If it's stuck on the reverse angle to Europe then that might explain the poor signal and when it switches back to the WSW direction that could explain the sudden signal boost. We encountered this a while ago when I was sending programs over. Richard and I had noticed this quite a few times, 73 (Tim Gaynor, Gunnedah NSW, Australia, ibid.) ** U S A. Ralph Carlson, KRSP, KDYL, KUSW https://www.serenicare.com/notices/Ralph-Carlson (Ken W. English Farnsworth Peak Transmitter Engineer, KSL-TV, 55 North 300 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84110-1160, Feb 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: Ralph Jennings Carlson September 19, 1929 ~ February 9, 2019 (age 89) Obituary Ralph Jennings Carlson was the picture of health and independence with a busy schedule and working fulltime until he passed peacefully after a fall. At age, 89, he enjoyed a sweet reunion with his wife, Catheryn, who died in 2000. Ralph was the proud father of R. Steven (Susie) Carlson, Brent Jennings (Tami) Carlson, Lloyd Carlson, Rex (Brenda) Carlson, Julie (John) Culverwell and Jana (Dewey) Kettering followed by 15 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren. He was born in 1929 to parents Arthur Jennings Carlson and Lizette Russell Carlson. He is survived by his sister Phyllis Bennion. Ralph never held back from trying or being first at something as his upbringing required ingenuity and strength. He grew up on small farm on 3300 S. and 700 E. farming and ranching. He worked alongside his parents who taught him how to work. After his father’s double leg amputation, the kids ran the farm and his mother became a Rosie Riveter to make ends meet. They ate only what they grew or raised but were generous to others during tough times. They would often sit and listen to his grandpa’s radio – which is where Ralphs’ love for radio emerged. He also loved riding his horse, King, while his dogs, Brownie and Shep, ran along side. Ralph graduated from Granite High School in 1948 and attended the University of Utah. Ralph and Catheryn and their kids owned and operated nine radio stations in Utah, Idaho, Nevada and Arizona including, KRSP – Rock 103, KUSW Short Wave, KDYL, KRJC Elko and KCYN Moab. He was supported by his long-time loyal friend and coworker, Kris Trout. Running the stations was a family affair that spanned more than 50 years with many of their kids working in radio. He and his brother, Arthur, owned A & R Meats and began the radio stations to promote their products. He was a small plane pilot and one of the first hot air balloon pilots in Utah. He flew the A & R Big Dog balloon all over to promote the company. Among his many awards, and as a pioneer in the broadcasting industry, he was inducted into the Utah Broadcasters Hall of Fame and received the Silver Medal Award from the Utah Advertising Assoc. Ralph was at his best setting up and participating in numerous Exchange Clubs around the Salt Lake Valley and attending national conferences with family in tow. He was very active in the community and held more positions that we can list here. He was active in his church callings. He and Catheryn where instrumental in getting Cub Scouts in his church and later he received Scouting’s Silver Beaver Award. He was prolific at writing poetry. Ralph was always on a course of self-improvement, had many varied experiences in life, community, church and work. He was very patriotic and served in the Army during the Korean War while based in Japan. He was honored to be part of the Honor Flight program. He has always flown a flag in his yard and recalls playing his trumpet as a child when raising the flag. Despite a knee injury during the war, he continued skiing and hiking and became quite a runner, running consistently up until a year or so ago. He ran 37 marathons and hundreds of other races. At age 72, he also climbed the highest peak in every county in Utah in preparation for climbing Mount Kilimanjaro (19,341 ft. above sea level) with his son Rex. He was proud that he taught all of his kids to ski, had a loving marriage, built his homes, built many businesses and won many races. But perhaps his greatest achievement was how lovingly he cared for and supported our mother who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease for nearly 10 years. He pushed her in a carrier during his morning runs each day so that she could breathe the fresh air and enjoy nature. He took her to church and work and to community events well into her illness. It was truly such a strong symbol of their love. He was a kind, generous and inspiring man that had boundless energy and devotion to the things that he believed in. Thanks to those of you who continued to remember our Dad in his later years. He had a sharp mind until the end and not a single chronic illness as testament of how well he took care of himself. Today, in honor of Ralph, please exercise, fly a flag or turn on a local radio station. Ralph will be remembered at a service at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 895 West 4800 South. Ralph’s funeral will be held on Wednesday, February 13, at 12:30 p.m. The funeral service will be preceded by two viewings: One on Tuesday, February 12 from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. and another one at 10 a.m. – Noon prior the funeral on Wednesday. He will be interred at Redwood Memorial Estates (via Ken English, KSL-TV, WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DXLD) ** U S A. Not that the ignorant, incompetent, corrupt, unqualified, childish, vain, pink-eyed, minority-``elected`` anti-American, acting president Drumpf deserve any more mouthpieces, but the State of the Union address would normally lead to a number of pre-emptions on radio stations. So while he`s on TV, Feb 6 at 0244, I start hunting for him. How about SW --- will any US SW station carry him, such as the vehemently pro- Trump WBCQ? NO, 7490 is off as usual at this hour; 9330 a JBA carrier, presumably still TOMBS. 5130.4+ is VP on with else, presumably the ham show. 5085, WTWW-2 is also on with something else, presumably the other ham show, but amazingly weak and even bothered by that ute on 5081 which normally it blasts away here. Nor found on any of the other private US SW frequencies audible, WHRI, WWCR, WRMI, WINB. Surely the USAGM outlets are Drumpfing, but of course VOA has no English SW broadcasts at all between 22 and 03 UT! At 0304, however, I find he is on 6030, Radio Martí, with translation. Supposed to be // 7435 but not heard there. BTW, RM is the very first station under USA International, page 499 of WRTH 2019; why? In 2018 it was the sixth. And why isn`t it in the clandestine pages, as Cuba would surely agree? At 0252 I start scanning the MW band, compared to cable TV audio, and most of the stations are running a good many seconds ahead; one must pause to allow for the too-frequent applause breaks, which could be confused with IBOC noise. I`m not digging deeply, as there would surely be more in the QRM if I tried. Most of the stations are obvious here without trying to DF or ID them: 570, 600, 700, 770, 780, 790, 820, 850, 870-D, 890-D, 1000, 1040, 1080, 1110, 1160, 1170, 1200, 1420, 1520, 1690. D means audio delayed behind cable TV on those stations. But many major stations dumped Drumpf, kept with regular format of talk, sports or music, such as WSM, WSCR, WGN, KRMG, WJR, WHB, WCCO, WHAS, KOA, KKOW, KRVN, WTAM, KMOX, KWKH, KSTP, WLAC, WCKY. Finally before the blather is over, I survey FM: nowhere except on public radio 88.1 KWOU Woodward, 91.7 KOSU OKC. Even the numerous gospel huxters aren`t with him! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. KTNN-THE VOICE OF THE NAVAHO NATION --- While spending the last several weeks enjoying the warm weather and sunny days out here in Palm Springs, I’ve been doing some AM broadcast band DX-ing at night. I came across a fascinating find content-wise on 660 KHz - KTNN “Voice of the Navajo nation.” Can be heard on-line, live streaming http://www.ktnnonline.com/ (Paul Kaltenbach, New York NY, Feb Radio HF Internet Newsletter via DXLD) ** U S A. 750, Feb 5 at 1404 UT, `Newstalk 750 KBNN and 104.3``, i.e. 5 kW ND daytimer in Lebanon MO, overcoming KMMJ. Seldom heard other than at sunrise; last logged April 25. NRC AM Log has no FM. WTFDA DB shows no 104.3 corresponding either, but per both, KMMJ Nebraska *does* have a 104.3 translator. Sure did not sound like it at the time, but the ID I heard must have been a mixture of the two. KBNN website is the least important part of http://www.myozarksonline.com/ cluster, showing little about it except a low-res logo and link to public file. The logo does say Talk, if not News-Talk, while KMMJ is religious (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 860, Feb 7 at 1412 UT, KKOW Pittsburg KS is unusually weak, and nulling that I have anotherstation playing ``Hey Jude``; 1418 ``Greatest Hits of the 60s & 70s on your smartphone --- Kono-land``, so KONO San Antonio TX, 5000/900 watts U2, still rockin`. NRC AM Log slogan reads ``70s & 80s`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1370, Feb 7 at 2259 UT, I`m seeking KGNO Dodge City KS, which at 5 kW ND ought to be audible on daytime groundwave here, but never is; surely with skywave starting up? It`s 243 km = 151 miles away. No sign of it; instead: 1370, Feb 7 at 2259 UT, ``Talk 13-70, one minute from CBS News``, But Austin ID, 2300 CBS News and signal drops, i.e. KJCE Rollingwood TX. But LSS there is not until 0015. I have been unable to hear any trace of KGNO for more than a sesquiyear, but can find NO information at FCC AM Query about it being anything other than active: nothing in correspondence file about STA for silence or reduced power, etc. Continues to be listed in NRC AM Log with no notation about it being silent. Likewise at radio- locator.com with link to website: http://www.swksradio.com/kgno-am-1370/ and Listen Live link, so I do so at 1659 UT Feb 8: Yes, IDs as KGNO 1370, DC`s first radio station, just like on website: ``1370 KGNO is Dodge City’s FIRST radio station! It was signed on in June of 1930``. And into Fox ``news``. What is going on here? See my previous report: ``1370, Sept 28 [2017] at 1859 UT, still no signal audible from KGNO Dodge City KS. Can`t believe it`s funxioning at 5 kW ND which should be making it on daytime groundwave across the Ogallala Aquifer, only 205 km = 127 miles. Is it gone, QRP, or really out of whack direxional away? (Glenn Hauser, Helena OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` This was a few days after Wayne Heinen, Denver, did report hearing it: ``1370, KGNO, KS, Dodge City – 9/24 2300 [EDT = 0300 UT 9/25] – Faded up, “AM 1370 KGNO Dodge City,” to Fox News. Haven’t heard this in quite a while (Wayne Heinen, CO, NRC DX News Nov 13 [2017], published Nov 5, via DXLD) Nor here yet; must be out of spex or out of air (gh, OK)`` Is anyone currently hearing KGNO by DX or close to DC? (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, Feb 8, 2019, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1430, Feb 7 at 1923, rock music is fading in and out, overcoming KTBZ Tulsa; suspect 50 kW KZQZ St Louis MO/IL, already skywaving. Day pattern is ENE/WSW, our way, while 5 kW night pattern is NNW/SSE with a null toward us. We are in the null of our nearest, KALV Alva, hard to hear here protecting KTBZ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1480, Feb 7 at 1405 UT, lively W&M conversation in Vietnamese, lots of laughter. Got to be KBXD Dallas, 50 kW direxional day power, which easily overcomes KQAM Wichita while skywave lingers. Its major daytime lobe aims right at us. Listed in NRC AM Log as religious/brokered, Spanish, so how much of it is in Vietnamese or otherlangs? Radio-locator claims it has no website. It`s not the only Vietnamese in The Metroplex. 1480, Feb 7 at 2230, KBXD Dallas is still in Vietnamese like in the morning, apparent infomercial for ``Forever Beaumore Cosmetix``. At least two other Metroplex Vietnamese are on 1460 and 1600; also Houston 1560 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This was last noted overnight here with "Banda Trece 14-80 AM" SS 12/29/2018 0400 UT; we’ll just call them ETH/Brokered and leave it at that going forward. 73 (Wayne Heinen, Editor AM Radio Log, Feb 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. RE: KRZD-1550 mentioned in gh log of KAPE-1550 also in MO: Hi Glenn. This still isn't on -- I drive by their tower site at Kansas Expressway and Grand St. every day on my way to work [at KSMU] and there is definitely no local signal here. As you would expect this time of year, 1550 is a mess of skywave around 7:45 am and 5 pm Central. 73, (Randy Stewart, Springfield (Battlefield) MO, Feb 4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Station is or was nothing but a continuous TIS-like barker for the nearby Branson tourist trap (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** U S A. 1580, Feb 7 at 1358 UT, with KOKB Blackwell OK to the NE nulled as much as possible, I have something else: Colorado Springs is the largest city of the state in area (well, OK, but nevermind greater Denver with all its surrounding suburbs). Missed ID but 1400 UT into USA Radio News, 1403 Chuck Swindle show. So it`s KFCS The Trumpet as the latest CO 1580 incarnation, 10 kW ND day power (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1660, Feb 10 at 1435 UT, speech affirming how global warming is happening, also referring to astronomy, big reverb as if a sermon in a church, but totally secular and rational --- until 1446 when Tom starts mentioning Jesus, soon organ music. No doubt it`s KWOD Kansas City KS, well atop lite CCI of sports talk, either Fargo or Waco. KWOD is also sports-talk but departs to get religion on Sunday mornings (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1690, WMLB, GA, Avondale Estates – Silent May 14, 2018; back on the air Jan. 25. Stations informing the FCC that they are silent: 1690, WMLB, GA, Avondale Estates – Silent Jan. 27; had been active a couple days (as above) so that potential buyer could test the signal (AM Switch, NRC DX News Feb 18, published Feb 10, via DXLD) ** U S A. 1710, VIRGINIA (pirate), WPEX, (Kenbridge-Blackstone), unknown VA site relay. 0021 February 10, 2019. Rock oldies, male WPEX 90.9 ID at 0029, and again at 0104 tune-out. Exaggerating fair at best on peaks in local noise. Thanks D. Crawford alert. Points right at VA on bearings, presumably close to the audio source (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, FL, NRD-535, IC-R75, longwires, active loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WCBE Columbus Ohio --- [90.5 public radio] https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/wcbe-general-manager-says-station-is-in-financial-crisis (via Artie Bigley, ibid., Feb 6, DXLD) In case you are interested from radioinsight Columbus board: February 14, 2019 at 5:02 pm #185531 Eric Jon Magnuson Participant: I haven’t been following this too closely, but here are a couple of still-newer stories (from over the past week)… WCBE advisory board calls for spinning off from Columbus school district https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2019/02/08/wcbe-advisory-board-calls-for-spinning-off-from.html https://www.dispatch.com/news/20190213/like-columbus-school-district-npr-wont-talk-about-debt-owed-by-radio-station-wcb (via Artie Bigley, Columbus, Feb 15, ibid.) ** UZBEKISTAN. ============ The highest TV tower in Central Asia was built in Soviet times in the Uzbek SSR. Height is 375 meters. Height above sea level 480 meters. Initially, the project of the tower was intended for Baghdad. It was ordered by Kerim Kasem according to the results of the competition. However, due to the military coup in Iraq, the tower was not built. Not implemented project received the approval of Sharaf Rashidov. Work began on the placement of the television tower in Tashkent. The TV tower was built for 6 years, starting in 1978. It was put into operation on January 15, 1985. The TV tower consists of 3 main parts connected by horizontal, hinged connections: 1. Bearing frame; 2. Three braces (supports); 3. Barrel (mine). Metal structures of the tower weighing more than 6000 tons, with equipment 16 000 tons rest on a powerful 11-meter foundation. The foundation is interconnected by flexible connections - reinforced concrete tapes, but which are installed columns and walls of technical buildings. Above the basement is the basement [sic], followed by the ground part of the stylobate and the foyer. The bearing frame of the tower consists of a lattice trunk. Lattice trunk rests on the foundation and ends at 220.4m. The whole lattice frame is divided into sections. At around 85.4m. adjacent to the lattice trunk three strut. (supports) Each support weighs 540 tons. The support struts are 3 conical supports extending to the top. The struts are interconnected by a hard disk with vertical inserts, which form a rigid structure around the cage. The struts are designed for the stability of the tower and the perception of horizontal forces, they hold and dampen the vibration of the tower. The connection of the ethmoid trunk with struts is made by means of hinged links. Inside the trellis trunk from 4.4m to 123m. there is a mine with a diameter of 8m around the mine are service areas. The main function of the TV tower is broadcasting and broadcasting. At around 220m, a dome of digital broadcasting transmitters, special communications equipment and cellular companies are located on the dome. Photo1 - https://vk.com/radioreceiver?z=photo-163779953_456249380%2Fwall-163779953_20699 Photo 2 - https://vk.com/radioreceiver?z=photo-163779953_456249381%2Fwall-163779953_20699 Photo3 - https://vk.com/radioreceiver?z=photo-163779953_456249382%2Fwall-163779953_20699 (Vadim Novoselsky, https://vk.com/radioreceiver Rus-DX Feb 10 via DXLD) ** VATICAN STATE. Both outlets around 0700 UT on Febr 5th very strong in target remote SDR unit at Doha Qatar: 11810even, Vatican Radio via Santa Maria di Galeria site, S=9+35dB 10 kHz wide signal. At 0710 UT voice of Papa Francisco performing in Abu Dhabi in Italian language. At 0715 UT speech of someone padre in Arabic language. Same program \\ 15645even Vatican Radio via Santa Maria di Galeria site, S=9+35dB strength, at 0720 UT on Febr 5. Main audio block 10 kHz, but on speech peak strings up to 28 kHz wideband transmission visible on screen [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) How do you know both were SMG site, rather than e.g. MADAGASCAR relay as I have suggested for 15645? VR publicity we saw did not specify any site. Are you just evaluating reception quality, as I did for 15645, reaching a different conclusion? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN [non]. INDIA [non], 9505, Radio Vatican (Tinang [USAGM PHILIPPINES, violating Separation of Church & State]), 1450-1515 4 Feb. Clear in Hindi to 1450, then Tamil to 1510 & finishing up in Malayalam. IS/"Laudetur Jesus Christus" before each language change. Program mostly about the Pope's visit to the UAE (& a tip of the DX beanie to Glenn for his info via the ODXA site). (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA, Grundig/Eton "Executive Satellit"/6m X wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9695, Feb 7 circa 1245, strong and steady open carrier. O, of course, it`s Greenville-B, not turned off yet after Vatican`s morning relay in Spanish curtailed to only 15 minutes from 1230; violating Separation of Church & State (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM [and non]. Radio Free Asia Vietnamese Blogger Missing Amid Abduction Reports 2019-02-05 === Truong Duy Nhat is interviewed in RFA's studios, May 31, 2016. RFA [caption] https://www.rfa.org/english/news/vietnam/missing-02052019111653.html A Radio Free Asia blogger from Vietnam is missing after he fled to Thailand to seek political asylum with a UN refugee agency, fueling fears in the exile community that he has been abducted by Vietnamese security agents. There has been no word from Truong Duy Nhat, a weekly contributor for RFA's Vietnamese Service's blog section, since Jan. 26. He last communicated with Washington-based RFA editors two days earlier over his commentary on the growing opposition movement in Venezuela and the prospects of change in Communist-ruled Vietnam. "We are extremely concerned about the safety and well-being of Truong Duy Nhat," RFA President Libby Liu said on Tuesday. "We hope to hear from him as soon as possible about his whereabouts and to be assured that he's not in any danger," she said. Nhat's disappearance has sent a chill through the Vietnamese refugee community in Thailand and prompted a call from Human Rights Watch for Thai authorities to investigate. RFA has also reported his case to the State Department and staff of several U.S. lawmakers. Exile sources said that Nhat had gone to the office of the United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees, or UNHCR, in Bangkok on Jan. 25 to apply for refugee status and they subsequently lost contact with him. Thailand-based associates of Nhat, who requested anonymity because they feared for their own safety, said that he went missing on Jan. 26 during a visit to Future Park, a huge mall on the outskirts of Bangkok. One of the sources said Nhat was "arrested" at an ice cream shop on the third floor of the mall. Thai police said they don't have Nhat in custody. "We've checked through the list of detainees, we don't see him, Truong Duy Nhat, on the list," Police Colonel Tatpong Sarawanangkoon, who is in charge of the detention section at the Immigration Detention Center in Bangkok, told RFA. The UNHCR was tightlipped, citing privacy concerns. Associate external relations officer Jennifer Harrison said: "Due to reasons of confidentiality and data protection, we are unable to comment on [or even confirm/deny the existence of] individual cases." Afraid to talk Nhat's wife, who is in Vietnam, and their Canada-based daughter are afraid to talk about his fate, exile sources said. The family believes Nhat left Vietnam for Thailand about three weeks before they heard he had gone missing, according to thevietnamese.org, an online magazine run by a group of Vietnamese activists and independent journalists. The authoritarian Vietnamese government of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc is at present holding more than 200 political prisoners, including rights advocates and bloggers deemed threats to national security, according to Nguyen Kim Binh of the California-based Vietnam Human Rights Network. The government controls the news media, censors the internet, and restricts basic freedoms of expression. Nhat himself served a two-year-imprisonment in 2014-2015 for his activism after being arrested in May 2013 and held in detention until his trial. Human Rights Watch, or HRW, said Thai authorities have to investigate the case of Nhat, noting that he had come to Bangkok for the sole reason of applying for political asylum. The U.S.-based group called for the authorities to "consult with his family until he is found." HRW said Vietnam's embassy in Bangkok may also be able to shed light on the blogger's whereabouts. "[T]he Thai authorities have an urgent obligation to seriously investigate this disappearance," Phil Robertson, HRW's Bangkok-based deputy Asia director, told RFA, noting that the group itself did not yet know what had happened to Nhat. "If it turns out that Vietnam and local Thai officials are found to be involved in his disappearance, there needs to be serious consequences for everyone responsible," he said. Surveillance, harassment Robertson accused Vietnam of "consistently engaging in hostile surveillance and harassment of Vietnamese and Montagnard [minority] who fled the country to escape political and religious persecution, and this includes activities in Bangkok." "Pursuing dissidents and demanding the Thai government shut down events about human rights and democracy in Vietnam is just part of what makes Hanoi stand out as one of the worst rights abusing regimes in ASEAN [the Association of Southeast Asian Nations]," he said. "So there is every possibility that the Vietnam Embassy may know much more about Truong Duy Nhat's mysterious disappearance than they are letting on," Robertson said. The circumstances of Nhat's disappearance in Bangkok remain murky. But California-based blogger Nguyen Van Hai, who served in the same prison with Nhat before Hai's release in 2014, and Germany-based blogger Bui Thanh Hieu said they suspect Nhat was abducted by Vietnamese security agents in Thailand. "We are looking at the possibility that he has been abducted," Hai, who writes under the name Dieu Cay, told RFA. "We know he arrived at Bangkok and went to the UN's office to apply for refugee status. If for any reason Nhat now appears in Vietnam, it must be against his will," he said. Sources say that Vietnamese exiles have inquired about Nhat's whereabouts with hospitals and various district offices in Bangkok but to no avail. An associate of Nhat's said his disappearance was also reported to Thai police late last week. Fighting in the Party Nhat is based in Da Nang city, next to Prime Minister Phuc's home province of Quang Nam where there is infighting within the Vietnamese Communist Party. He may have been privy to information that could be detrimental to the prime minister, activists said. Nhat had previously worked for a police newspaper in Da Nang, also Phuc's stronghold. Blogger Hieu said he suspected that Vietnamese military agents abducted Nhat from Bangkok on the orders of the prime minister. "I think the prime minister wanted Nhat arrested at any costs because he has information about his faction in Quang Nam province [in Da Nang]," Hieu, who writes under the name 'Wind Trader,' said on his Facebook page. This is not the first time the Vietnamese government has been accused of abducting its citizens from abroad. Last year, a German court jailed a Vietnamese man almost four years for helping his country's secret services kidnap a former oil executive from a Berlin street in 2017 and smuggle him back to Vietnam. Ex-oil executive Trinh Xuan Thanh was seeking asylum in Germany at that time and his disappearance soured bilateral relations, with the German foreign ministry accusing Vietnam of breaching international law. Thanh was subsequently tried and jailed for life on corruption charges in Vietnam. Reported by RFA's Vietnamese Service and BenarNews. Written in English by Parameswaran Ponnudurai and Matthew Pennington (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** YEMEN [non]. SAUDI ARABIA, Unscheduled transmission of Republic of Yemen Radio in Arabic on Feb.7: 0700-0900 11860 JED or RIY / unknown to N/ME, very good signal, BUT same time 11745 JED or RIY / unknown to N/ME, Al-Azm Radio-NO SIGNAL from 0900 11745 JED or RIY / unknown to N/ME, Al-Azm Radio is on air https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/unscheduled-transmission-of-repof-yemen.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb. 6-7, WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DXLD) ** ZANZIBAR. 11735, ZBC at 1805 UT February 7 in English with news. ID at 1811:45 then into Swahili with talk and music. Poor. Rx: Perseus SDR, Ant: Wellbrook ALA 100 loop. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, AB, WOR iog via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, Feb 8 at 1328-1333: 774-NW, 828-NW, 837-WSW, 882-?, 1098-W, 1188-?, 1422-NW, 1566-NW. Just after LSR at 1327 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 880, Feb 7 at 1408 UT, with KRVN nulled as much as possible, Spanish M&W chat, bits of norteña music, mentions Nuevo León, 1412 fading, 1417 back with ID mentioning 880. Loops approx. SW/NE and my first thought is XEV Chihuahua2, but IRCA Mexican Log says: XEV has finished moving to FM, but from 2017 there has been a CP for another station there, XECHEP, 5000/250 watts, Escápate al Paraiso. Unless that`s started up, the only other likely N/W Mexican this late would be XEPNK, Los Mochis, Sinaloa. Rather I suspect being faked out again by WIJR Highland IL, which per NRC AM Log is 1700/160/500 U4 from an address in Overland MO (St Louis market), as ``La Primera 880 AM, La Raza``. The only other USA SS possibilities would be WMDB in Nashville TN, rather late for that further east; and KJOZ Conroe TX but religious in the wrong direxion (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 5005 & 5020, Feb 9 at 0715, JBA carriers, likely EQUATORIAL GUINEA about to fade out, and SOLOMON ISLANDS starting to fade in (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 5055-USB, Feb 5 at 1358, weak 2-way in Spanish rather than 4KZ; various numbers but seems weather info, also verbalizing máxima, nublado, fresco, evaporación (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, This USB Spanish chatter heard almost daily here in California, mixing with Radio 4KZ, about the same time as you heard them. Hard for me to do Radio 4KZ in LSB due to QRM from 5050 kHz (China - Beibu Bay Radio). (Ron Howard, CA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6159-USB, Feb 7 at 0604, 2-way in colloquial Spanish, INTRUDERS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 9354-USB, Feb 7 at 1259, VP 2-way in Spanish? vs carrier on 9355, i.e. VOA Thailand about to start Deewa Radio to Afghanistan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 9706-USB, Feb 10 at 0657, weak 2-way in Spanish, INTRUDERS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 15196-USB, Feb 6 at 1507, VP 2-way in Spanish, INTRUDERS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 15345.069, Feb 5 at 1524, JBA carrier I have often noticed before but not measured precisely. Look it up: Nothing on 15345 ever in HFCC, EiBi and Aoki! Could it be another Cuban spur I have overlooked? It is 205.069 kHz above 15140, but not a multiple of 28.6. Maybe a spur of something else or a local device? Try for it again three sesquihours later at 1954: yes, JBAC still there but slightly shifted to 15345.053. Unless anyone else hear it, I shall conclude it`s local, inaudible beyond my radio room. (Computer produces many more stronger birdies on SW which I always easily ignore.) Remember when 15345 had two variable off-frequency stations het-clashing, Argentina and Morocco? Now both gone from SW as if they knocked each other out (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. UNKNOWNIA: 15635, 1555-1556:07*, 2/4; Instrumental music to abrupt plugpull. SIO=3+54; nothing listed in Aoki or EiBi at any time on 15635 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Probably VATICAN test for later UAE special (gh) UNIDENTIFIED. 27185, Feb 10 at 1915 on caradio, someone local is transmitting a big hum on this prime CB frequency (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1969: Here's what I consider is my yearly subscription fee. I haven't been listening as much lately, but I do read the i. o. group and hear the podcast from time to time. I hope this finds you well Glenn! (-Rodney Johnson, with a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com) TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED FUTURELY: I began listening to your programme on RCI when I was a teenager, and I am now retired. Thank you so much for a lifetime of great service to the SWL community. 73s until your next broadcast (David Rosenfeld, Toronto, with a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com) One may also contribute by MO or check in US funds on a US bank to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 Thanks to Chuck Ermatinger for a PayPal contribution Thanks to Jeff Murri for a PayPal contribution PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ WORLD OF RADIO HITLIST by Alan Roe, Updated Feb 6: http://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS updated Feb 7: http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html BLOCKED BY IO GROUPS I'm still blocked in wor - groups.io, silly service there in CA I was trans-moved from yahoogroup UK into wor by Glenn Hauser some year ago in spring 2018 or so ? Receive now in past year all 'wor' instead as poor reader-only, also from bcnews.italy, dxld, DXplorer and hardcore dx mails still but can never contribute to California newsgroup 'wor' due of Spam Blacklist proof blocking overthere in the US. > I have got this silly 'bouncing matter' mail from ""io"" California > automatic mail proof team So I contribute to Ivo, Arnie, Klingenfuss, Eibi, hcdx, bclnews and old fashioned 'dxld in Yahoo-UK ng' still working fine. And few mails also sent to be direct, as to Dave Kenny or Glenn Hauser, Ron Howard or Langley in New Brunswick Canada. btw. I'm also mail blocked especially on two mail servers in downunder Australia and New Zealand too. wolfie (Wolfgang Bueschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I`m very sorry that this unanticipated problem affects wb (and maybe any others?) but there is no going back to dxldyg-only now. Except for this, WOR iog is funxioning much better (altho Ron Howard has noted a brief and rare outage). Anyhow we manage to get wb`s input one way or another. Perhaps using a different e-mail address would succeed with the iogroups. BTW, from our point of view the DXLD yg is NOT a UK group, but I guess it appear that way in Europe (gh, DXLD) OXFORD SHORTWAVE LOG Thank you so much for this month's issue of the SWB - I always find it very informative, but have never taken the time to thank you for your efforts. I note your request for news from DXers on the mailing list. I have recently returned from the Brazilian jungle, having spent a month there working, but of course also DXing. I wrote an article about my trip which recently appeared on the Bonito Newsroom Page https://www.bonito.net/newsroom/dxpedition-to-the-jungles-of-rio-capim-northern-brazil-with-the-bonito-megaloop-fx-antenna/?lang=en but would be very happy for you to include it in next months issue of the SWB. I'm sure some on the mailing list would find it interesting. I attach a PDF of the article and so please feel free to use it as you wish. Also, I'm not sure if you're aware, but my YouTube channel 'Oxford Shortwave Log' now contains over 2,500 reception videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChtXnzopFIr6wTIA6QwIeLw and again, it's possible that your readers will find some of the content interesting. Thanks again for the SWB - long may it continue! (Clint Gouveia, SW Bulletin Feb 10 via DXLD) EEOMBR Lista AM MW Olá, tudo bem? Estou lhe escrevendo para avisar que acabou de sair a nova versão da lista EEOMBR com escutas feitas por você e outros colegas. Agradeço por ter enviado seus logs que rechearam a lista com novidades. Continue mandando seus logs para o email: rf.dx.br@gmail.com para que a lista siga crescendo. Baixe a lista EEOMBR em PDF: https://gilstelvio.wixsite.com/eeombr Grande 73, (Gil Garcia, PY2069SWL, PU2SKY, Valinhos-SP Brazil, Site: https://gilstelvio.wixsite.com/eeombr Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rf.dx.br Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Projeto de Mapeamento das Ondas Médias Estrangeiras no Brasil O projeto pretende registrar as emissoras estrangeiras de Ondas Médias escutadas no Brasil. O objetivo é criar uma lista que sirva de referência para identificar emissoras e ajudar nossas escutas. Para os mais leigos isso pode parecer estranho, pois o mais comum em Ondas Médias é escutarmos emissoras de nossa região, porém com um pouco de paciência, um bom receptor e com ajuda da propagação é possível sintonizar emissoras de OM de regiões bem distantes inclusive internacionais. Independente da região em que você more, é possível tentar fazer escutas na X-Band (faixa que vai de 1610kHz a 1710kHz) principalmente a noite, pois nessas frequências não existem emissoras brasileiras e em condições especiais é possível ouvir emissoras argentinas, uruguaias e até norte-americanas. Com um pouco de atenção as emissoras mais fraquinhas e testando posições diferentes da antena, sugiro que você também explore outras frequências de 530kHz a 1600kHz. Emissoras estrangeiras em Ondas Médias é algo mais raro, mas a graça está no desafio! Baixe a versão atualizada da lista EEOMBR: https://goo.gl/G3AJvW (via DXLD) CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES +++++++++++++++++++++++++ NASWA WINTER SWL FEST We’re just weeks away from the 32nd annual NASWA Winter SWL Fest in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania. I will be heading down to the convention (my 30th Winterfest!) with CIDX VP Mickey Delmage and members Alan Roberts and Janice Laws. We look forward to meeting up with many of our CIDX members at the event. We have actually scheduled an informal CIDX meeting on Friday evening, March 1st at 9 pm. If you are a CIDX member in attendance at the Fest, please consider stopping by to meet some of your fellow CIDXers. We’ll be happy to answer any questions about CIDX. We hope to have several of our column editors in attendance as well. CIDX is also very pleased to be hosting the 2nd annual Winterfest Trivia Contest at 8 pm on Thursday evening, February 28. Mickey Delmage and I will be the hosts and quiz masters. Last year’s King of Trivia John Figliozzi will be present to defend his crown. We had a great time last year. This year’s contest promises to be even better (HQ Report, Feb CIDX Messenger via DXLD) 2019 WINTER SWL FEST PROGRAM AND FORUMS SCHEDULE All times Eastern Standard. - Updated 31 January 2019. Thursday, 28 February 2019 1200 Registration Table and Exhibit Room Open (until 1730) Hospitality Room/Receiver Demonstrations Open (until 2400) 1300 – MONITORING FEDERAL TWO WAY COMMUNICATIONS – Matt Blaze In this year’s kickoff session, Matt explains how to build a VHF/UHF network of monitoring stations to record every federal two way transmission in various cities, deal with encryption, what you can learn from metadata — and do it all on a (relatively) small budget without getting arrested! 1430 — BROADCASTING & LANGUAGE: A SWL’s NEW PERSPECTIVE – Tracy Wood Shortwave radio has long brought us an enticing cornucopia of regional language broadcasts. We’ll examine how broadcasting services help to revive and advance “minority” languages often threatened by the larger global languages (e.g. English, French) to ultimately promote national and regional identities. Prime examples include Suomi (Norway)*, Quechua/Aymara (Bolivia), Frisian (Netherlands), Welsh (Wales) and Basque (Spain). Bring your own unique language examples to this discussion. [*Suomi is Finnish, not Norwegian --- oops! gh] 1600 — DIGGING THROUGH THE PAGES OF POP COMM – Dan Robinson Many of us subscribed to Popular Communications during the years the publication existed. Issues are preserved online — but only a deep dive through thousands of pages reveals some fascinating historical gems and oddities that are worth remembering. 1700 Dinner on Your Own 1900 Exhibit Room Re-Opens (until 2000) Registration Table Re-Opens (until 2000) 2000 – THE 2nd ANNUAL FEST TRIVIA QUIZ – Sheldon Harvey and Mickey Delmage --- How well do you know radio? AM, shortwave, utilities, transmitter sites, station names, call letters, frequencies, interval signals, radio personalities, program names, and more, we’ll have questions from all categories. This fun new session was very popular in its first iteration last year and so it returns to crown its second Winterfest Trivia Champ. The quiz is open to anyone with the courage to participate. Friday, 1 March 2019 0800 Registration Table Opens (until 1130) Exhibit Room Opens (all day) 0900 – WHAT ELSE CAN YOU LISTEN TO WITH A SCANNER? – Tom Swisher “Oh no, the local police started using encryption, my life is over, whatever shall I do?” Fret not. There’s plenty to listen to out there. You might need a bit of patience, though. . . (This is our annual “Scanner Scum” session. Ask Tom how you can become Scum, too.) 1030 – RADIO ON THE ROAD REDUX – Janice Laws Our own global trekker is up to 91 countries visited with participation in 3 global UN missions. She will play some samples of stations heard and show pictures from her travels, talking about her years in the hobby from a unique perspective–that of a “YL”. This has become a very popular session — find your seats early! 1130 Lunch on Your Own Hospitality Room and Receiver Demonstrations Open (until 1330) 1315 Registration Table Re-Opens (until 1500) 1330 – PORTABLE PASSIONS – T.J. “Skip” Arey Skip delves into the practice of playing radio from the field–park, camping, even ‘Pedestrian Mobile’. Rigs, antennas, accessories, power sources and other relevant ideas will be discussed. 1500 – RFA TODAY – Harry Scott The loss of the Tinian and Saipan transmitters to typhoons has presented Radio Free Asia with a considerable challenge in reaching its listeners. Harry will discuss. 1630 – FROM U.S. HIGH SCHOOL RADIO TO COMMERCIAL RADIO: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY OVER HALF A CENTURY!” – Allan Loudell Allan Loudell has been a DXer and avid QSL collector since 1966, and on-the-air virtually every week of his life since 1969. He first honed his on-air skills at his high school radio station and reviews why some high school stations have thrived, while others have left the airwaves. And what it’s like to run a commercial news/talk station in a medium market (such as his, WDEL AM & FM, Wilmington, DE) today? He’ll give a whirlwind tour from then to now, with a few humorous stories along the way. 1730 Dinner on Your Own Hospitality Room and Receiver Demonstrations Open (until 2400) 1900 Informal Radio Swap Meet Starts (in the Exhibit Room) 1945 — COMMUNITY RADIO IN THE AMERICAS AND BEYOND – Pete Tridish FM Community Radio stations keep popping up around the world, even as other listening technologies mature. Community stations are experimenting with new audiences, formats, and cheaper tech options in order to extend the reach of their programming. 2115 – THE ANNUAL SHORTWAVE SHINDIG – David Goren Come join our informal late night hang as David Goren and friends celebrate the short wavelengths with stories, songs, and vintage sounds There will also be a sneak preview of David’s new BBC World Service documentary on New York City’s FM pirate scene. Saturday, 2 March 2019 0800 Registration Table Opens (until 0900) Exhibit Room Opens (all day) 0900 – STATE OF THE HOBBY: THE VIEW FROM EUROPE – Risto Vähäkainu An accomplished DXer who has held prominent positions in major Finnish and European shortwave organizations and has been a frequent and welcome attendee at the Fest, Risto will discuss where our hobby sits today from a European perspective. 1000 Silent Auction Opens (location TBA) 1030 – THE ANNUAL PIRATE RADIO SESSION – George Zeller A review of Pirate Radio news during the past year and the announcement of the new class of inductees to the North American Pirate Radio Hall of Fame. Who knows? Maybe there’ll be mutiny too. 1200 Lunch on Your Own Hospitality Room and Receiver Demonstrations Open (until 2400 or later) 1330 – THE URBAN DXER – Mike Nikolich After moving into a condo on the 24th floor of a building in Chicago, long-time DXer Mike Nikolich, N9OVQ, was determined to keep his hobby alive. His presentation will focus on how Mike built a Go Box for all of his gear, including a custom rechargeable battery pack and various mobile antenna solutions for ham and SW DXing “off the grid,” including from the roof of his building. 1500 – SHORTWAVE MEMORIES – Dan Robinson/Skip Arey/David Goren By popular demand, Dan, Skip and David once again chronicle the personal memories of Fest attendees about what shortwave has meant to them throughout their lives, putting some needed focus on the human side, rather than the more commonly heard mechanical or technical aspects, of the hobby. 1630 Silent Auction Ends Exhibit Room Closes 1800 Cocktail Party 1830 Annual Banquet, including: Annual Awards Presentations In Memoriam ceremony Keynote Speaker: Paul Ladd, Senior Correspondent, World Christian Broadcasting (KNLS / MWV Madagascar) Topic: Why Shortwave Still Matters 2100 The Raffle – You know how this works. A wide selection of prizes will be awarded 2400 The Midnight Ride of Pancho Villa (?) – If one were to know…each year at Winterfest, at the stroke of Midnight, a mysterious radio broadcast is heard echoing through the rooms and hallways of the Winterfest hotel. What will Pancho and his hosts of guests have in store for listeners this year? (Feb CIDX Messenger via DXLD) An updated final, final schedule version is now on swlfest website (Figliozzi, WOR iog via DXLD) DX-PEDITIONS ++++++++++++ DXPEDITION TO RIO CAPIM, NORTHERN BRAZIL WITH THE BONITO MEGALOOP FX ANTENNA Hi there, I returned from my 4th trip to the very beautiful, if rather rugged Rio Capim area of Northern Brazil, just before Christmas. As usual, this was a business trip, but of course I always take the opportunity to DX when I’m travelling. Spending yet another month out in the jungle pre-sented the usual problems with heat, tropical bugs and at this time of year, much precipitation, particularly in the afternoons and evenings. There are also problems with the dreaded local QRM. Even in the remotest of locations, if humans are present and using electricity, there is noise. At my temporary, tropical QTH, the lighting systems in particular generated a huge amount of noise. In the evenings, the noise floor on my SDRPlay RSP DUO with a longwire would be terribly high – sometimes around - 95 dBs. This was totally unworkable of course with a standard telescopic an-tenna, or indeed, with any type of wire extension. On this trip however, I had a very effective weapon in my armoury to deal with local QRM; the Bonito MegaLoop FX antenna. I have previously tested this antenna at my QTH in the UK and on my travels last year to Dublin, Ireland and Nantes in France. It proved very effective in delivering DX in noisy environments, particularly when coupled to the Bonito GI300 Galvanic Isolator. I was therefore rather excited to take this antenna back to the tropics. The beauty of my SDRPlay RSP DUO/ Bonito MegaLoop FX set up is two-fold: superb selectivity and sensitivity and complete portability. The RSP DUO is powered by my laptop – which is great because that gives me at about three hours listening away from noisy mains supplies. The MegaLoop FX can also be USB powered – and in fact will run on a cheap USB power brick for many, many hours. The loop itself is a flexible cable, rather than a rigid aluminium affair such as the Wellbrook ALA1530. Travelling to Rio Capim involves a flight from London Heathrow to Lisbon, Portugal and then a connection to Belém, Northern Brazil. Everything was easily packed into my backpack and checked- in luggage and I had no problems at all at airport security. I took the 5 metre cable with me to Brazil and managed to hang it from a welding screen at one point, in a quiet location on the edge of the jungle. Eventually, I fashioned a simple wooden ‘cross’ for the cable to effectively create a 4 sided quadrilateral shape which is basically the geometry of a typical ‘kite’. This worked very well in-deed and allowed for portable operation in and around the jungle. As expected, the performance of the MegaLoop FX antenna, coupled to the SDRPlay RSP DUO was very impressive and for the duration of my stay in the jungle, I spent most of my time DXing with this set-up. I always take a portable radio and this trip was no different. I packed my XHDATA D-808, which I consider to be one of the very best portable radios currently on the mar-ket. What a shame then that it developed an audio fault and rendered basically useless. This then left me to focus 100% on my portable SDR set-up. It did not fail to deliver. I spent many evenings scanning the HF bands for tropical band signals and as usual, copied many stations that I can hear in the UK, but of course with much stronger and clearer signals. For example, Rádio Clube do Pará [4885] was literally booming into Rio Capim day and night with a huge signal of S9 +10. Other stations that are much more difficult to hear in the UK were also copied with very nice signals and these included Radio Tarma Peru, Emisoras Pio XII Bolivia, Rádio Educação Rural Brazil and Radio Cultural Amauta Peru, amongst many others. More impressively, I copied some signals that are just about impossible to hear in the UK these days and in fact my reception was excellent confirmation that they are still on-air. These included the never-heard-in-Europe (to my knowledge) Radio Sora de Congonhas Brazil and the very rarely heard Radio Huanta 2000 Peru, Radio Alvorada de Londrina Brazil, Radio Difusora do Amazonas Brazil and Radio 9 de Julho Brazil. Perhaps most impressive was the performance on Longwave. Catching transatlantic signals on medium wave can be difficult and usually only possible with any regularity using sophisticated equipment. Longwave catches are even rarer. Whilst in Brazil, I managed to copy weak signals from BBC Radio 4 on 198 kHz, Radio Algérie Chaîne 3, on 252 kHz and actually quite good signals from Medi 1 in Morocco on 171 kHz and RTL Luxembourg on 234 kHz. This level of performance surprised me. My listening environment, although remote, was certainly not optimal – there was nearly always some electrical noise present. However, by locating the MegaLoop FX outside (and carefully taping up the partially open window to stop millions of tropical bugs getting into my room!) I managed to copy these transatlantic signals on longwave. Simply a brilliant experience all round. In conclusion, if you’re looking for a truly portable, high-performance DXing set up that can ea-sily be taken on trips abroad etc., right now, the MegaLoop FX is the best possible antenna choice. With performance rivalling the Wellbrook loops, but small enough to fit into a backpack, this an-tenna is a no-brainer for hard-core DXers and casual listeners who want to maximise signal-to-noise and their listening pleasure. If you go over to my YouTube channel Oxford Shortwave Log, you will find over 50 reception videos from this trip, many of which feature MegaLoop FX antenna. Please also check out the links below which feature a selection of the many catches I made on shortwave and the catches on longwave I mentioned. I wish you all the best of DX for 2019! LINKS TO RECEPTION [AUDIO]VIDEOS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3gpP7O6TNo Radio Tarma 4774.9 kHz, Peru https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FejhEsVIpo4 Radio Cultural Amauta 4955 kHz Huanta, Peru https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCEO5n65szg Emisoras Pio XII 5952.46 kHz, Bolivia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f90uzA2R3ZQ Radio 9 de Julho 9818.65 kHz, Sao Paolo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4k2ATMybIU Radio Sora de Congonhas 4774.75 kHz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cRnsrb_XPU Radio Mosoj Chaski 3310 kHz, Bolivia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YILW30XYPzc Radio Huanta 2000 Peru 4747.32 kHz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgbD68WoU84 Radio Alvorada de Londrina 4862.27 kHz (Shortwave Bulletin Feb 10 via DXLD) At last, a chance to hear whether the Congonhas station axually utter ``Sora`` as part of its name? I have long maintained that it`s a long-perpetuated mistake for the word one would expect, ``Difusora``. But the 3:34 clip is of horrible quality, a bit better in the last minute, but nowhere is anything resembling an ID to be heard. One can tell it`s Portuguese and there is a continuous LAH, no doubt from the Peruvian on almost the same frequency, a het often audible here between the two, if not much else. WRTH 2019 does not include the word ``Sora`` or Difusora in its listing. Link to website as radiocongonhas.com.br/ does not connect. How about www. plus same? Not either. By Google search we also get www.radiocongonhas.com.br/ which starts: ``Criada sob a inspiração de Dom Oscar de Oliveira a Rádio Congonhas vem, ao longo de sua existência, fomentando a fraternidade, a justiça, a cultura, o lazer ..`` but which does not connect. ``Translate this page`` does! from cache? ``Radio Congonhas The Bom Jesus station The History of Radio Congonhas Created under the inspiration of Don Oscar de Oliveira, Radio Congonhas has been promoting, throughout its existence, fraternity, justice, culture, leisure and social transformations. Speaking intelligence and heart is open to all segments of the community. Because it is the living history of the city, it faces challenges, rescues injustices, encourages cultural, sports and union activities. It denounces, always aiming to promote the formation of the political and social conscience of our people. Growing and modernizing the station began its activities on 11/19/1961, operating with 1KW, of power in Medium Wave. On 06/20/2007 it was authorized to operate, also, in Onda Tropical with 1KW. With socially responsible action endowed with actions that promote citizenship, the valorization of the human being and the incentive to cultural production in the different social strata, Radio Congonhas was, through Law 483 of 08/10/1970, declared as a Public Utility entity Municipal and on 07/19/1974 transformed into Radio Foundation diffuser of Congonhas. On 13/11/1987 it was authorized by the Ministry of Communications to operate with 5KW Medium Wave transmitters. As of 06/01/2000 it started operating with 10KW, becoming, unquestionably, one of the forces of the mining radio [refers to state of Minas Gerais]. AM 1020Khz Tropical Waves 4775 Weekly schedule . . .`` radio congonhas ao vivo --- search also leads to several aggregators allegedly providing its AM/FM audio. Not sure I will take the time and try to get one of those to work, but anyone claiming there is Sora in the name should prove it by monitoring online if necessary (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) LANGUAGE LESSONS ++++++++++++++++ Hi Glenn - At "Now On The Radio DX" website, Hiroyuki has kindly explained the usage of "SA" and "ID" (Feb 9). Ron https://radio.chobi.net/DX/bbs/?res:640#3746 "Since it was talked about in DXLD, I will explain. >> SA? Maybe means station announcement? as distinct from ID? (gh) "SA" is the official announcement of the station name. "Station Announcement" "ID" also includes "SA", but it expresses "Station Jingle", "announcer's voice", "program name" and "language", such as' confirmation method' that can be confirmed with that station. "Identification" As an example: SA: "KOCHIRAWA N-H-K DESU" in Japanese by female announcer ID: News Theme Music and SJ(station jingle) at 1857 UT Since it was a term we used on a daily basis for about 50 years ago, we still use it even now. Did not it just divide the same meaning as "ID" in detail? "ID" is also used on a daily basis." (via Ron Howard, WOR iog via DXLD) WORLD OF HOROLOGY see also FRANCE; GERMANY +++++++++++++++++ International Radio Day-February 13, 2019 Greetings Mr. Hauser: My birthday just happens to be on the worlds international day of radio. It is great. If you would mention that for the week of Valentine's WOR, then that's the bomb. P.S. Thank you for my honorable mention during the 1961 episode of WOR. Best of DX and 73's (David Medrick, Feb 4, WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DX LISTENING DIGEST) MUSEA +++++ Voice of Peace from Baghdad A recording of the Voice of Peace from Baghdad, dubbed "Baghdad Betty" by the American troops in Saudi Arabia during Operation Desert Shield has been archived here: https://shortwavearchive.com/archive/voice-of-peace-from-baghdad-december-29-1990 and here: https://archive.org/details/VoiceOfPeace11.860MHz29December19902140UTC (-- Richard Langley, Feb 10, WOR iog via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See MEXICO ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DAB See UKRAINE ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC/HD See MEXICO; USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See also BULGARIA; IRELAND; KUWAIT; ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ NIGERIA; TURKEY; USA: WBCQ, WINB [bdxc-news] DRM reception this evening. Now that storm Erik has blown itself out here in Southern England, I have re-erected my Miniwhip antenna and had a quick scan for DRM transmissions. (The antenna bracket is fixed with 2 M4 bolts with wing-nuts, so I take it down when high winds are forecast). 1730-1740: Radio Romania International in French on 9870 "SNR Tiganesti E1" 20.69kb/s AAC+ stereo 15dB s/n Decoding 95%: Speech and Romanian music. 1745-1752: Voice of Nigeria in English on 15110 "Voice of Nigeria transmitting station in Abuja" 9.10kb/s AAC Mono 21dB s/n Decoding almost 100%: Interview re election problems in Nigeria 1752-1800: Radio France International in French on 3965 "Diffusion experimentale DRM par TDF depuis Issoudun" 14.56% AAC Mono 10-14dB s/n. Decoding around 60%: Political comment re Brexit. Since my last attempts at decoding DRM in the summer, I have placed a transmission-line transformer at the shed end of the coax downlead. This is about 8-10 turns of thin speaker twin flex around a one-inch ferrite suppression ring. It doesn't seem to make much difference on AM reception, but has improved DRM decoding due to slightly lower noise floor. I'm also now using GQRX in Linux instead of SDR# in Windows 10. Perhaps this makes less demands on my old laptop. Regards, (Ian Brooks, Verwood, Dorset, 10 miles north of Bournemouth, UK, Feb 11, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ Why do so many SWBC transmissions have such crappy and variable audio qualities? Oh yeah, and another thing regarding the 15580 VOA today as I heard on my early-afternoon desert-stroll: way too HIGH modulation-level almost to the point of mild distortion -- the kind of too-high modulation levels that is terrible with selective-fading distortion, just like 5935 WWCR often had with Gene Scott and daughter [sic] until a bit ago. Most of us know that broadcasters such as RHC and R. Cairo have chronically bad modulation problems at times; it seems that compared to the high-quality modulation (and generally consistent) standards of (especially European) medium-wave broadcast transmitters, just WHY is HF so plagued with really kooky sounding audio on so many stations - like: 11780, RNA Brazil had some funky-funk slight distortion on them. Just a bit lower, RHC 11760 Cuba had a fuzziness to their Spanish lang. audio and "crud" on siblances as though it were being sent via a slightly off-tuned AM link - the kind of sound a cheap cassette recorder made on all of those early DX recordings I made in the 70s, ya know - sorta like that. Either too low or too-high modulation levels, so it either drops away to inaudibility on fades or distorts horribly on all selective-fading (like in my complaint about the VOA just above). Impossible to understand weather SSB transmissions from the various USCG transmissions (this actually for quite a long time now). Just WHY do these and other audio problems plague SW broadcast audio? Just band-scan at any time and note the extremely variable audio Qs -- don't ANY of their engineers actually TUNE INTO their transmissions to monitor their audio quality, as any self-respecting pirate would(?). Were just way too many of 'em brought up on crappy mobile/cell-phone audio? 8 kbps RealAudio anyone? ;-) (Stephen P. McGreevy, -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com -- all of my DXing is done real-time with traditional (non-SDR) receivers --, Feb 10, WOR iog via DXLD) Hi Steve, I often wonder the same thing, so just maybe, the attitude is 'near enough is good enough'! Quite a lot of the time, a sub-standard studio-to-transmitter link is being used or the bandwidth is ridiculously narrow or it can also be an 'out of phase' issue. Even maybe it could just be really bad equipment being used! It's a bad standard really, 73 (Tim Gaynor, Gunnedah NSW, Australia, ibid.) Or nobody is checking the feed level inputs too. 73 (Tim Gaynor, ibid.) Sunday, February 10, 2019 1:48 PM There are three issues that cause the audio problems you hear on shortwave today. First (and most critical), there is an increasing shortage of engineers that work on high powered shortwave equipment. This problem is also becoming extremely prevalent in regular broadcasting (AM, FM) as well and is getting worse with each passing year. It is now a critical problem with Shortwave, as fewer people ever learn the technology involved. Talk to a shortwave broadcaster, many are in panic mode as their engineers are often in their 60s and 70s. There is no one in their 30s, 40s, or 50s waiting in the wing. Second, major western governments are pulling back on shortwave or shutting down completely. The cost of replacement parts is through the roof and tubes (which many of these units use) are becoming extremely expensive, and in many cases even hard to find. The cost of a new shortwave transmitter has become prohibitively expensive for most operations. As costs continue to rise, and revenues stay flat (or decline) maintenance is often deferred. As far as why many European medium wave stations probably sound better is twofold; first many of these transmitters are solid state, something rarely seen in HF broadcasting. Solid state generally have fewer repair, maintenance, and replacement part issues. Third, much of the source material (the programming you hear) comes from third party vendors who buy the time. Often those programs are not well produced and they are technical garbage. Once ruined, you can't make it sound better. Rule #1. When recording a program, get a decent computer and recording program. Get a decent audio interface and a somewhat professional microphone. Be sure you do NOT cut corners with using unbalanced consumer microphones. Even if the final product has to be an mp3, do your master recording and editing in WAVE. Editing in mp3 reduces the quality with each mix-down. Be sure your levels are consistent. Those levels need to be not too low, and never overdriven. In addition, many programs often come via a digital stream, so there are already built in audio quality issues. People forget, a compressed digital file, sent on a compressed digital stream run through any additional digital processing just keeps sounding worse. The engineers know it, but you can't argue with the one writing the check for the air-time. One last consideration, we need to remember that International Shortwave has a VERY restricted audio bandwidth. Audio is limited from about 50 to 4500 cps. Most medium wave stations are 50 to near 10,000 cps. Between budget cuts and a critical shortage of overworked engineers, it's a problem that will get worse and worse. I predict, in a matter of a few years, many private (and even government) shortwave stations will have extended off-air periods due to equipment failure, and having to wait days for the few remaining engineers to do the repair. The only places that are training engineers to really work on this equipment are China and a few potentially "rouge" [sic] nations. The United States, Australia, the UK and Europe are all addicted to their smart devices and streaming and don't care as much about radio broadcasting, particularly shortwave (Rev. Bob Biermann, of Your Weekend Show, Feb 10, ibid.) Remember when the VOA relay stations at Tangier, Colombo and in the Philippines rebroadcast programs for local Government stations and were transmitted “out-of-tune”? The audio pitch was off so that the local programs, especially music, sounded horrible. I assume that all that had similar microwave multiplex links that someone needed to adjust but no one cared enough to do it. This went on for years in each case! (Bob LaRose, Feb 10, WOR iog via DXLD) The Zenith H500 Super Trans-Oceanic Portable Radio Jeff Tranter produced this video that looks at a classic radio, the Zenith H500 Super Trans-Oceanic Portable. He briefly covers the history of this radio and the Trans-Oceanic series. He looks at the radio's features, the front panel controls, and take a look inside. He discusses the restoration of this particular radio, and gives a demonstration of it operating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X8_y-5d42s He provides a few references to where you can learn more about the H500 and other Zenith Trans-Oceanic radios. Check out a webpage featuring the radios at https://antiqueradio.org/transoceanics.htm (YouTube Video of the Month, Feb CIDX Messenger via DXLD) Worldwide network of SDR receivers - a reminder I've seen passing reference to the https://sdr.hu/map resource; an ever-growing network of nearly 400 receivers, featuring online control. For those of us who can't hear a thing due to local interference, this system provides a welcome distraction. Today I've been listening to medium was as experienced in Hawaii and South Korea (note jamming of Pyongyang on 882 kHz). Highly recommended! (Martin Peters, Feb 10, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) RADIO PRESENCE Martin, The worldwide SDR’s are a boon to those of us who can hear very few NDB’s beyond around 20 miles away from home. Have you tried this website for general listening? http://radio.garden/live/toulouse/radiopresence The green dots on this Google Earth represent a radio station anywhere in the world. Click on any one of the dots and you will immediately listen to that station with very good sound. Regards, 72, Brian, G0NSL, BDXC 1262, ibid.) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ Magnetic north pole leaves Canada, on fast new path Telegram from AFP/Omni 5.2.2019 via Bo Nensén The position of the Earth's magnetic North Pole -- used in navigation systems such as smartphones - is moving far faster than it had, sending scientists scrambling to put out a new model this week. The magnetic North is the point at which the planet's magnetic field points vertically down. The World Magnetic Model is critical to sea and military navigation - as well as our ubiquitous smart- phones. It normally is updated every five years but the schedule has been pushed forward one year "due to unplanned variations in the Arctic region," according to a statement from the US National Centers for Environmental Information. The discovery of magnetic north in northern Canada dates back to 1831. The wandering point, which long jiggled above Canada and barely moved, is now moving 55 kilometers (34 miles) a year, scientists said. The Earth's magnetic field is generated mainly by movement of the liquid iron that makes up most of the Earth's core, 3,000 kilometers (2864 miles) below the surface. That movement is what makes the magnetic poles shift, but the cause of the recent acceleration remains a mystery. So scientists at the American NOAA and Britain's BGS have had to update their model ahead of the late 2019 scheduled deadline. "It's a very slow movement, but it's very real, and over several decades it can be several degrees," said Arnaud Chulliat, geophysicist at the University of Colorado Boulder and NOAA. It does not matter much in the most populated areas, but "near the magnetic pole, the change is faster". The model makes it possible to correct the direction indicated by the compass to find the geographic north, which is fixed. Magnetic North has, over the centuries, moved more or less unpredictably into the archipelagos of northern Canada. Since the end of the 19th century, it has been heading toward Siberia. Since the 1990s, the movement has accelerated, across the Arctic Ocean, from about 15 km/year to 50-55 km/year currently (via Arctic Radio Club mv-eko, Feb 11, via DXLD) N3KL solar data If you use the N3KL solar data web site http://www.n3kl.org/sun/noaa.html you will have noticed that it has been "stuck" on 30th November 2018 since that date (I think due to NOAA moving the source data). I discovered today that the N3KL site is now displaying current data again. If you don't use it, it's worth a look because (in my opinion) it provides a good quick view of the important solar data all on one screen and is therefore easier to use (but less detailed) than the NOAA alternative. The best NOAA screen I have found is https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/space-weather-enthusiasts 73 (/Andrew Brade, UK, MWCircle via DXLD) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2019 Feb 11 0402 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # Product description and SWPC contact on the Web # https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/content/subscription-services # # Weekly Highlights and Forecasts # Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 04 - 10 February 2019 Solar activity was at very low levels. There were no numbered sunspot regions. No Earth-directed CMEs were observed in available coronagraph imagery. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit ranged from moderate to high levels with a peak flux of 8,980 pfu observed on 04 Feb. High levels were observed on 04 Feb as a result of elevated solar wind speeds. Flux levels then ranged from moderate to high levels through 07 Feb under a mostly background solar wind regime, and remained at moderate to high levels through 10 Feb while under weak CH HSS influences. Geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to active levels. Unsettled periods were observed late in the day on 04 Feb into the first period of 05 Feb as solar wind speeds decreased from around 500 km/s to around 400 km/s under weakening effects from a negative polarity CH HSS. Unsettled conditions were again observed on 06 Feb as a result of minor solar wind enhancements. A SSBC on 08 Feb, and marginally elevated solar wind speeds, resulted in active levels the last period of the day. Unsettled levels were observed early on 09 Feb with the onset of an additional negative polarity CH HSS. Quiet to unsettled levels were observed on 10 Feb with ongoing CH HSS influences. Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 11 February - 09 March 2019 Solar activity is expected to be predominantly at very low levels throughout the forecast period. However, low levels are possible with the return of old Region 2733 (N05, Lo=261) on 12 Feb. This region was very active while transiting the visible disk, and produced a C5 flare at 30/0611 UTC near the west limb, in addition to several other weaker B and C-class flares. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at moderate to high levels. High levels are expected on 11-12 Feb and 21 Feb-09 Mar. Moderate levels are expected 13-20 Feb. All elevated levels of electron flux are anticipated due to influence from multiple, recurrent CH HSSs. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be mostly unsetted 11-12 Feb as a result of a recurrent, negative polarity CH HSS. G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storming can be expected with a recurrent, positive polarity CH HSS on 19-21 Feb, and also with a recurrent, negative polarity CH HSS on 27-2 Mar. Mostly quiet to unsettled conditions are anticipated with another weaker, recurrent, negative polarity CH HSS on 07-09 Mar. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2019 Feb 11 0402 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # Product description and SWPC contact on the Web # https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/content/subscription-services # # 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table # Issued 2019-02-11 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2019 Feb 11 70 5 2 2019 Feb 12 71 8 3 2019 Feb 13 72 8 3 2019 Feb 14 72 5 2 2019 Feb 15 72 5 2 2019 Feb 16 72 5 2 2019 Feb 17 72 5 2 2019 Feb 18 72 5 2 2019 Feb 19 72 12 4 2019 Feb 20 72 20 5 2019 Feb 21 72 12 4 2019 Feb 22 72 8 3 2019 Feb 23 72 5 2 2019 Feb 24 72 5 2 2019 Feb 25 72 5 2 2019 Feb 26 71 5 2 2019 Feb 27 71 12 4 2019 Feb 28 71 15 5 2019 Mar 01 71 15 5 2019 Mar 02 71 10 4 2019 Mar 03 71 5 2 2019 Mar 04 71 5 2 2019 Mar 05 71 8 3 2019 Mar 06 71 5 2 2019 Mar 07 71 8 3 2019 Mar 08 71 10 4 2019 Mar 09 71 8 3 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1969, DXLD) ###