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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1973 contents: Alaska, Australia, Brasil, Canada, Chad non, Congo, Cuba, Japan, Korea South, Madagascar, Mali, Northern Mariana Islands, Philippines, Romania, South Africa, Spain, USA; World of Horology; and the propagation outlook SHORTWAVE AIRINGS of WORLD OF RADIO 1973, March 12-18, 2019 Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 [confirmed] Tue 0900 Unique 5045-LSB NSW Australia low-power [2 episodes -1000] Tue 2030 WRMI 7780 [confirmed] Wed 0930 Unique 5045-LSB NSW Australia low-power Wed 1030 WRMI 5950 [confirmed] Wed 2100 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v [confirmed] Thu 0000 WRMI 7730 [confirmed] Thu 0100 WRMI 7780 [confirmed] Fri 0930 Unique 5045-LSB NSW Australia low-power Sat 0730 HLR 6190-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [confirmed] Sat 1200 Unique 5045-LSB NSW Australia low-power [alt weeks, Mar 16-30] Sat 1130 WRMI 9955 Sat 1531 HLR 9485-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sat 2100 WRMI 9955 Sun 0030 WRMI 7730 [confirmed] Sun 0300v WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315][confirmed] Sun 0830 WRMI 5850 5950 7730 Sun 1130 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [confirmed] Sun 2130 WRMI 7780 [confirmed] Mon 0230 WRMI 5950 [canceled] 9395 [confirmed] Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v-AM Area 51 [confirmed on webcast] Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 [confirmed on webcast] Mon 0930 Unique 5045-LSB NSW Australia low-power Mon 1900 IRRS 7290-Romania Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 [or new 1974?] Tue 0100 WRMI 7780 [or new 1974?] Tue 0900 Unique 5045-LSB NSW Australia low-power [2 episodes -1000] 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. ** AFGHANISTAN [non]. NUMBERS STATION, S06s Russian Lady & Radio Free Afghanistan in 25mb, March 6: 0840-0846 12140 unknown secret tx site to Eu CUSB S06s Russian Lady same time 12140 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg WeAs Dari Radio Free Afghanistan: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/s06s-russian-lady-radio-free_6.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News March 5-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALASKA [and non]. Maurice Hall, founder of World Christian Broadcasting, dies at 99 The Christian Chronicle By Erik Tryggestad Franklin, Tenn.-based World Christian Broadcasting reports: Maurice Hall, whose idea and vision led to the founding of World Christian Broadcasting, died March 8 at his home in California, three days after his 99th birthday. “It was his dreams during World War II that made World Christian Broadcasting possible,” said president and CEO Andy Baker. A native of Tennessee Colony, Texas, Hall served in the U.S. Army and was involved in setting up and shipping shortwave radio equipment for President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s use at Yalta in 1945. He came up with the idea of transmitting Gospel messages all over the world via shortwave radio. Hall’s dream became a reality in 1983, when station KNLS in Anchor Point, AK, signed on the air. The station has been broadcasting since, and now, World Christian Broadcasting also operates Madagascar World Voice. The two stations blanket the globe with Gospel messages and information in several languages. In addition to his work with World Christian Broadcasting, Hall served as a minister to several churches and missionary to the Philippines, Vietnam, and elsewhere. Hall’s survivors include his sons, James and Ron. His wife, Marie, and their son, Bill, preceded him in death. See more information on Hall’s legacy here: http://www.worldchristian.org/WhoWeAre/History/history.php (via Mike Terry, March 10, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1973, DXLD) 9710, KNLS, site unknown. Not in AOKI, HFCC, or WRTH for this frequency. Heard at 1018, 29/1, with an English religious talk, then an ID and contact details at 1020, followed by a song. Also plenty of noise and fading (Dennis Allen, Milperra NSW (Icom R75, Realistic DX-160, Longwires), March Australian DX News via DXLD) Surely Anchor Point? -cs (Craig Seager, ed., ibid.) New frequency (gh) Re: "... There are many hours a day when MWV is not on the air at all. That would make too much sense. But WCB has never engaged in relays one way or the other with other broadcasters, likewise KNLS. (Glenn Hauser-OK-USA, dxld / odxa Febr 28)" I seemed to remember, that KNLS did provide airtime to another broadcaster. And indeed: My files say that Radio Free Asia used the facility from its beginning until 1999. Unfortunately, I did not note the source. I even have a hint to a schedule: Sommer 1998 Die Station strahlt seit einiger Zeit auch Sendungen für den US-amerikanischen Auslandsdienst Radio Free Asia aus, derzeit 21.00-24.00 Uhr auf 9650 kHz. Empfangsberichte auf diese Sendungen werden aber nicht bestätigt. (Dr Hansjoerg Biener, 6 March 2019, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALGERIA. I believe the three masts referenced by Wolfgang Bueschel in DXLD 19-10 are for the LW transmitter at Ouargla (Chuck Albertson, Seattle, Wash., DX LISTENING DIGEST) inactive on 198 kHz (WRTH 2019) ** ALGERIA. A-19 of new 300 kW Bechar site if it get on air this season, time order, all identical: with azimuth and antenna type: 37SE,38SW,46E,47NW BEC 300 131 146 310319 261019 ALG TDA (gh) 7335 0200 0300 6145 0300 0400 6100 0400 0500 6100 0500 0600 11760 0600 0700 11900 0600 0700 11900 0700 0800 17635 0800 0900 17635 0900 1000 15185 1000 1100 15185 1100 1200 15185 1200 1300 17485 1300 1400 17485 1400 1500 17485 1500 1600 15730 1600 1700 15730 1700 1800 13585 1800 1900 13585 1900 2000 9850 2000 2100 9850 2100 2200 7285 2200 2300 7285 2300 2400 (via Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 27, BC-DX 7 Mar via DXLD) ** ANGUILLA. 11775, University Network; 1559-1602+, 3/3; Reservation info over knee-slapper gospel tune into Decidedly Deceased & Gone Dead Dr. Gene...being unusually mellow. SIO=444 with transmitter? hum +++ 2036, 3/3; Prominently Mammaried Pastor Melissa waxing nostalgic about Dead Dr. Gene. S30 with whistle QRM (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time. ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. Re: [IRCA] 1548 carrier --- 4QD isn't that frequent a visitor here, Todd, but they were heard here this morning with audio, among the 1550 kHz splash. They are about 10 Hertz high from 1548.000 kHz, and some people can hear the difference in the BFO pitch, especially if you tune say to a 200 Hz beat note, then check a channel that is dead on frequency for comparison. best wishes, (Nick Hall-Patch, Victoria BC, IRCA at HCDX via DXLD) ** BHUTAN. 6035, BBS, on March 6, from 1111 to 1140. Mostly playing pop songs; several segments with no audio (just the DJ being inattentive to the music?); *1140, the usual sudden start up of PBS Yunnan, with FM99 relay. BBS, on March 4, noted cut off at 1134* and at *1140, the usual sudden start up of PBS Yunnan, with FM99 relay (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) 6035, BBS, on March 9, heard with modulation problems; 1116, pop song with regular audio level; 1119, lost audio till sudden, briefly heard announcer at 1134, but modulation quickly lost again; the whole time decent level carrier noted; recently being heard through strong, pulsating QRN; *1140, the usual sudden start up of PBS Yunnan, with FM99 relay (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 3310, Radio Mosoj Chaski, Cotapachi, 0140-0155, 10-03, nice program of Bolivian songs, flute, Quechua, comments. 25332 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** BOUGAINVILLE [and non]. I just recorded a nice sign-off of NBC 3325 via a sharp-sounding lady announcer in English mentioning "NBC" and then carrier cut at 1201. VOI was definitely the station underneath, but this morning was easily 6 to 10 dB weaker than the NBC signal. Checking via the R-1000 and 20m wire just before the 1201 UT NBC signal-cut, I could hear maybe a 10 Hz SAH between the NBC and VOI. Thanks to Ron Howard and a few others for their fine tips in this. The NBC 3325 signal was also a bit stronger than the DPRK-KCBS just below on 3320 (which is not // 2850 at this time). I will report on the DPRK reception this morning as time progress toward sunrise (on another topic entry). RX used was a Benmar Navigator 555A and its rotatable loopstick. (Partially nulling out 3320 DPRK left the 3325 NBC station quite listenable and without the 5 kHz het. Location: at home in Keeler, CA - northern Mojave Desert - 11 March 2019. 73 - (Steve McGreevy, WOR iog via DXLD) Hi Steve, We both picked a great day to check NBC Bougainville (3325) reception. Excellent propagation today, as there were a number of different stations heard with signals well above the norm. Highlights of NBC reception: 0912-0920: With pop Pacific Islands music. 0933-1000: With English segment of the "National Radio" audio feed. 1000-1010: With NBC news and weather, in English. 1010-1020: "Regional News," in Pidgin. 1026: Pop song "Another Day In Paradise," but not sung be Phil Collins 1031-1045: Two women chatting about "International Women's Day," in Pidgin ("Without women, there would be no human beings on the face of this planet") 1102-1110: "Regional News," in English. My audio at http://bit.ly/2F4h7fM BTW - NBC Madang (3260) noted 1056-1102, with no audio, just a good level carrier; an unusual situation for them (Ron Howard, California, ibid.) Re: [WOR] Papua New Guinea: 3325 NBC Bougainville, Buka (and non) Hiya Ron, and nice to hear back from you there in the lovely land of those wind-bent Monterey Cyprus trees --- that also made a fab. windbreak for the various facilities along the road to and from the Point Reyes Lighthouse (I love those trees!) - Pt. Reyes was the home of the former 10-watt "pet" NDB of mine - 292 "R" that sent a 10-sec dash synched with the fog horn for sound/distance calculations - oh how 5 seconds per mile can save a life. Yes, I thought prop. this morning on 90m was wonderful, also up to 6600 where I parked to hear the always bizarre Korean situation, you might have seen my earlier report - my DXing of 4KZ and the NBC stations (when I can awaken by 1100 UT) was really stimulated by your reports, esp. the cool 90mb stuff-hi! Hearing it so fine this morning on my wonderful DFing receiver was a real joy like the "old days" - a recently restored Benmar Navigator 555A that has extraordinary sensitivity and selectivity - wonderful audio, low-battery draw/DFing is awesome - hi! With warmer mornings comes my desire to return to pre-dawn DXing - once wonderful in Marin County from LWBC up to my fave bands of 120m to 60m. I really like your box photo of yourself and Jim Young there at Asilomar. I know a fellow now back in Monterey, and my best friend here who also moved out this way with me loves Monterey, the best of all the coastal cities in CA today, and the parents of my Icelandic host has just returned from a trip there, very delighted -- I said I grew-up 150 km north. Your coastal DXing reminded me of the 80s when I would get tired of AM DXing and would pop up to 120 and 90 meters to hear hoards of Indonesian and PNG stations, Brisbane 4920, later the NT 2.3 MHz sigs. The shorter of the Bevs I rolled out at North Beach scored the Indonesians and PNG stations as well as it did the DUs on MW. If I was just at the beach for a day, I'd walk up and down playing Radio Tahiti with their 40% modulation on 15170! So much stronger than behind the hills in San Rafael, so I would hike up in a high spot pre-dawn and DX the 120-90mb stuff and some 60m stuff out PNG way, etc. Occasionally scoring 850 KHLO or 830 KIKI-Hawaii as a topper. And so your great 3325 (etc. reporting from my badly-missed coast has me desiring to get your way, Ron -- hard to go long places now for me, amazingly, considering the 30 states/5 prov/terr/21 nations of DXing in --- now a home-boy in California again, as one must come full circle someday. Now I'm having a gas with HF loopstick DXing with the Benmar 555A and it uses far less current than the PLL radios by far - I could actually get a bearing on the lovely 3325 station on Bougainville - it nulled most deeply about 280 deg. azimuth, and the 3320 Korean could be nulled way down to reveal the PNG and VOI sigs marvelously this morning - I agree, the bad 10-12 Hz rumble het between the two was annoying and obviously QRMing their primary coverage areas (until ~1200 - hi!) I would think. Besides the ability to actually DF (esp. low-skip angle) skywaves(!) the ability to DFlocate somewhat all of the weird CODAR sweepers and the motorboat-buzzsaw OTH-B radar (this morning it was parked on about 4500 or so - wide and just below the 4458 Korean-jammer-mess (V. of Unification) - both were nullable and the Koreans dropped down at 310 deg or so and the OTHB-buzzer from 280 deg (westward I would assume) - toward PNG or northern Oz or aboard a ship out in the Carolinas, etc. With HIGH sensitivity and only sips the 3 x 9v batteries I installed in // because those are way lighter in weight than 6 "D" cells for sure. The loopstick reception is free of the low-level hash on the wire antennas and I also see the loopstick is shielded on three of its sides and any remaining birdies can be sharply nulled. (Time to get a Wellbrook loop). I would be super happy just to have the Benmar 555A with me in Hawaii next time (Gary are you up to it?). LW sensitivity is excellent and many of the big NDBs are easy copy and can be sharply DFed. Good to put this gem back into service, and its circuitry is very straightforward and fixable/easy alignment if one is up to that pain. I find that known high-angle skip signals have sloppier nulls due to polarization fading effects, but the long-distance, low-skip angle stuff really does have quite deep nulls, if not full as is easier on MF-LF. The null on the buzzsaw-motorboat OTHB thing that has been plaguing HF for a long time I always thought was likely from eastern China or Russia but its clear bearing/null was most distinctly 280 deg. Since I`m on the OTHB topic, my XXYL but still close friend Gail West and I took about 4 or 5 visits to both the Christmas Valley, Oregon transmit site, and 1 to the Modoc County, CA receive site - so really a pulsed-bistatic array and slightly pattern steerable on the xmit. end. The Oregon site had three arrays - W/NW/N I have this 1990 photo of it here: http://www.auroralchorus.com/ndb/christmas_valley_oregon_oth-b-radar_site_sept_1990_mcgreevy.jpg As soon as it was completed in late 1990 "they" had already declared it a "white elephant" primarily due to advances in HF-OTHb radar tech. that it could be all put on big trucks "now" one person told me (or ships?). To make my coming pre-dawn DXing even more interesting I'm going to note the bearings of the buzz-saw radars (the one that sounds like 50 PS) like the one I did on this morning. Ron, do you do all of your fine DXing in your car, next to the handsome-fence/trees and its 100 ft. wire? (Or does it go to your home?) Sometimes I marvel in the capability of the most basic DXing setups and your Eton E1 sounds like a hot radio! I did a minimalist DXped. for a week in Hawaii in November 2010 -- in a tent by the surf for a week -- exactly like in those "DXing dreams" -- rain-patter-on tent-tarp recordings and singing-hetrodynes to boot -- hi! Just the AN-100 loop and my Sony 7600GR, and a spool of wire maybe 35 ft. long. Enough to be VERY happy for a week and very Flight-Safe/UltraLight for me). I did this same thing in Iceland Dec. 2016 but dumbly forgot the loop and the Christmas LED light buzz in Reykjavik and Hrisey were true jammers everywhere! That's where "take a walk to the nearest beach" came in handy! The mobile phone communications tech. gave me funny looks when I walked by him, returning back to town from a shore-side DX spot near his tower-facility. That is why I highly admire yours and Gary DeBock's achievements of late on MW and lower SW. I love mobile DXpeditions where I just park my unit in a safe and neat place (preferably remote and unseen) and roll out a wire or two and clip it to the radio's whip and have at it (or like in November I rolled out a couple of 700 ft. wires loop-couple to the couple of portables I bring and really caught some fine MW TPs, comparable to Point Reyes (and no NPS Rangers to frown at your telltale wire...). I truly love either "roughing-it" DXing or the big-Yuppie/Tourist null-the-noise windowside DXing modes employed in China with remarkable results - 42 floors up high over west Shanghai, and the bare-loopstick is sensitive beyond imagining - a band filled with NDBs! This proves that concrete high-rise DXing is FINE for loopstick reception, if the noise-lights and crap is shut off as I had to always do. It's hard being a DXing-tourist. I Dxed northern Irish MW pirates on the Bus Erie/CIE tours bus (and in Dublin full of FM pirates in '96 - that on a double-decker bus and a train - I have a radio Dublin recording when they were on 6910 and 1188 May 92, so global travel makes me just hipper to PEOPLE and -- to heck with politics. In the end, sometimes it is fun to do a simple camping set-up (in a desert hidey-hole fine for whistler listening but the phone --- well, no bars and stylin' --- and I can thereby take a "vacation-holiday" from the complexities of home in my wee desert dive/bipolar town, har! Pax... Warm Regards Ron and the group too, (Steve McGreevy -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com -- all of my DXing is done real-time with traditional (non-SDR) receivers / (not really) and I think remote-KiWiSDR DXing is like MAGIC... DXpeditioning now can be DXcocooning and one does not have to call up a DXing friend for reception reports. :-D (I typed that all that instead of usually deleting that string...), March 11, WOR iog via DXLD) Oh hey Ron(!) - wow, your 3325 reception IS INDEED coastal-armchair versus my fainter but still satisfying reception. I recorded them from 1155 to 1201 carrier cut. If you desire a synched recoding, I can easily combine them using WavePad on my iMac here. If you would like to set-up this - on the NBC 3325 (which would be a fine comparison between coast and from behind the Great Granite Wall, lemme know! A fine recording - like 10+dB stronger than mine -- I can hear the VOI rumble in there too. Is NBC usually stronger? Thanks and cheers! Referencing this 5 min recording Ron made: On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 11:10 AM, Ron Howard wrote: http://bit.ly/2F4h7fM (Steve McGreevy, -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com -- all of my DXing is done real-time with anything -- even a 1N34a and a fence, ibid.) And finally Ron - forgot to ask you this - in your findings and DXing the PNGers, are just NBCs 3260 and 3325 the only ones going, say, between 1000-1100 UT -- Seems they are both signing-off before their indicated 1400 UT time in the 2018 WRTH (time to order 2019 now!). I found a 1980-era DX-40-to-cassette-recording of NBC-PNG 4980 - remember them?! Also one of FEN-Japan 3910. Later on in the month I want to venture out away from town here - up on the wonderful decomposed granite and above the early morning inversion-layer chill of the OV floor here - up into mile-high geology of the classic Mojave high-desert and roll-out a terminated HF Bev. to DU where I did my Asian TP DX wires - I find about 300 feet optimum for 90-60 mb DX. I did this at Lava Tree SP in Hawaii (late at night under cover, employing the lava columns as a wire support but carefully of course), and the (full-band!) SA 60mb DX was fab! That's it for the day - I will do another 3320 KRE/3325 PNG check - earlier toward 1100 if I can get-up (-s- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com -- all of my DXing is done whilst I daydream of far-away places, WOR iog via DXLD) Hi Steve, Thanks for sharing your many SW adventures with us! Interesting. Sorry to report that PNG is for some time now indeed down to just two stations (NBC Bougainville - 3325 and NBC Madang - 3260). Long gone are the days of Radio Fly (I miss them!), Wantok Radio Light and the various other NBC sites. Although WRL did recently attempt a reactivation, but sadly only lasted a very brief time. From time-to-time there are reports that the PNG government wants to re-establish their wide SW network of stations, but afraid I'm a doubting Thomas. Will believe it when it happens. Where is the money coming from to really fund this much needed project? Events in Bougainville have clearly shown the need to provide info to their people in remote locations, via SW, regarding the upcoming vote for independence. Indeed, all my SWL is done while sitting in my car at Asilomar State Beach (near Monterey). Too much RFI around my home, plus I get some enhancement of SW reception by being next to the ocean. On the other side of the fence from where I park, is a golf course, so no RFI from there and also very low noise level. Actually I do consider myself a SWL, as with my two hour marathon Bougainville reception today, I do enjoy SW programming. Even via BBS (Bhutan), I enjoy their shows, even if it is not the run-of-the-mill station. Hope I have gotten around to answering most of your questions. Thanks again for checking out Bougainville! (Ron Howard, ibid.) ** BRAZIL. Hi Glenn, Am hearing an UNID station on 3375 kHz. Noted a definite carrier on March 3, when checking at 1043 & 1109 UT. On March 4, again found clear carrier (too weak for any audio), at 1019 & 1052 UT, but was clearly off the air at 1113 UT. So going off the air about 1110 UT? Almost daily I check the 90m band for any new activity, when I recently noted this carrier (weak signal). Any possibility is Radio Municipal, from São Gabriel da Cachoeira? Do not believe it is reactivated Papua New Guinea. Appreciate any help with this! (Ron Howard, California, WOR iog via DXLD) Ron, That locality is in Amazonas, extreme NW corner of Brasil near Colombia & Venezuela, so if any could be propagating that late, it`s the one. Appears to have been active or somewhat active (Glenn, ibid.) Thanks, Glenn, for your feedback. Also thanks to Daniel Wyllyans, who just replied (March 4, at 1814 UT) to an inquiry I emailed to him: "Yes is Radio Municipal state Amazonas is ON from City São Gabriel da Cachoeira in 3375 kHz 90 Meters band report reception for danielnx18 @ gmail.com 73 and good DXing for you." Thanks to both of you! (Ron Howard, ibid.) ** BRAZIL. Samba Enredo - Imperio Serrano - Bum Bum Paticundum Prugurundum (irgend etwas mit "Carnival"......) "... Radio Clube do Para erschien fuenf Jahre nach der Eroeffnung des ersten brasilianischen Radios, Radio Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro, das 1923 gegruendet wurde. Das Datum der ersten Ausstrahlung von Radio Clube war der 22. April 1928. Die Veranstaltung wurde mit einem Cocktail gefeiert in grossartigem Stil, denn es wurde als eine fuer die Zeit beispiellose Veranstaltung betrachtet. An der Spitze dieses grossen Unternehmens standen die Pioniere Roberto Camelier, Eriberto Pio und Edgar Proenca..." "Heute, mit 80 Jahren Taetigkeit, ist Radio Clube do Para ein moderner Radiosender, der auf das neue Profil von Radios abgestimmt ist und sich auf Journalismus, Sport, Service und Unterhaltung konzentriert. Die Station befindet sich seit 1986 in den Haenden der Familie Barbalho. 1993 wurde sie in das Brasil Amazonia de Comunicacao Network-System im 3. Stock des RBA-Gebaeudes integriert. Mit einem Superkraftsender von 20 kW erreicht der Club im Durchschnitt die gesamte kontinentale Dimension von Para. In der tropischen Welle erreicht der Legal Amazon. Darueber hinaus empfaengt Radio auch Briefe von Hoerern aus verschiedenen Laendern, die ueber das Internet Radio hoeren...." (via Roger Thauer-D, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 3, BC-DX 7 Mar via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 4905, Radio Relogio, Sao Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro, 0655-0710, 10-03, religious songs. Extremely weak, barely audible. 15311. 10000, Time Signal Station Observatorio Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, 1636-1640, 09-03, time signals, female voice announcements: “Observatorio Nacional, 16 horas, 36 minutos, 20 segundos”. 23422 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) Therefore the log time in UT should have been 1936-1940 (gh, DXLD) ** BRAZIL. Shack! logs on 4-3-19, Typical R75 + 16Vinv system 9664.6v, R Voz Missionaria is asking for reports. I have heard an English gospel program with soul and relative musics styles at 2300 on 4-3 which ended at 2334 and IS reel at 2320 with an ID noticed as AVM radio https://www.dropbox.com/s/2vwuuibzt041t42/Viz%20misionaria%20.wav?dl=0 This recording was 6.3.19 at 2320 from Hungarian Kiwi with much lower noise! (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, WORLD OF RADIO 1973, DXLD) Calls itself redundantly in English ``RVM Radio``, with P O Box address (gh, DXLD) The address sounds like: RVM Radio, PO Box 2004, zipcode 88340-970, Camboriu, Santa Catarina, Brazil. I recall they had English announcements (address) for couple of years already. 73, (Jari Savolainen, Finland, HCDX via DXLD) zipcodes are USA only (gh) ** BRAZIL. Chácara das antenas AM e SW Ondas Curtas da Rádio Marumby https://youtu.be/8zd1S7fO7Qs (via Daniel Wyllyans, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 1 minute of woman singing with transmitting antenna in background (gh) ** BRAZIL. 11780, R Nac. Amazonia at 2230, very lively South American music - Excellent Mar 5 (Rick Barton, Arizona SW Logs, Grundig Satellit 205(T.5000) & 750; Hammarlund HQ-180A & HQ-200; RS SW-2000629, with various outdoor wire antennas. 73 and Good Listening! WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) THE REMAINING BRAZILIAN ITEMS ARE ALL PIRATES, ARRANGED BY FREQUENCY ** BRAZIL. 5200 kHz, Radioamadores Indígenas (Parque Indígena do Xingu Mato Grosso), 1044 UT 06 Março 2019 https://youtu.be/CSdS-MUNgM8 RX: Yaesu FRG 8800, Antena: DS SWL DL 42 Metros Dipolo Assimétrica + 15 Metros Coaxial + Balun (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT, Brasil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Unlicensed? Not official hams? (gh) ** BRAZIL. 5970 kHz, Rádio Poderoza (Ondas Curtas) Música. Me falaram que prova[ve]lmente ela é do estado de SP mesmo. 1241 UT 09 Março 2019 https://youtu.be/iFff3Iu1HiY RX: Degen DE 1103, Antena: Telescópica (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT, Brasil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Pirate ** BRAZIL. 7536 kHz, Rádio Fronteira (PB Ondas Curtas) Música. 30 Watts, 2224 UT 22 Fevereiro 2019, 4 Mini Encontro DX de Mato Grosso https://youtu.be/8O41g4s-pOY RX: Yaesu FRG 8800, Antena: DS SWL DL 42 Metros + 15 Metros Coaxial + Balun (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT, Brasil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Pirate ** BRAZIL. 7595 kHz, Rádio Fronteira (PB Ondas Curtas) Músicas sinal bom. Rádio no estilo Gospel 30 Watts. 2217 UT 05 Março 2019 https://youtu.be/raH2fjKwqao RX: Yaesu FRG 8800, Antena: DS SWL DL Dipolo Assimétrica 42 Metros + 19 metros Coaxial + Balun (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT, Brasil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) pirate ** BRAZIL. 7648 kHz, Free Radio Raio Trator (MG Ondas Curtas) Música 08 Março 2019 em 1747 UT https://youtu.be/APZG0NLC9OI RX: Yaesu FRG 8800, Antena: DS SWL DL (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT, Brasil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Pirate ** BRAZIL. 8005 kHz (Carrier), Rádio Litoral Norte OC 2131 UT 15 Fevereiro 2019. RX: Yaesu FRG 8800 Antena: DS SWL DL (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT Brasil, March 6 https://youtu.be/6sfeufowQUc Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) pirate ** BRAZIL. 9300 kHz, Rádio Pig Rock (SP Ondas Curtas de 31 metros) Música Dence, 1749 UT 09 Março 2019 https://youtu.be/ilcSBaXSwuc RX: Degen DE 1103, Antena: Telescópica (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT, Brasil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) pirate Recebido E-QSL da Rádio Pig Rock, 9300 kHz Ondas Curtas confirmando a escuta de 23 Fevereiro 2019 as 1200 UT. Recebido E-QSL por whats app: +5516997894019 E-mail Rádio Pig Rock: SBC radiofaixa@bol.com.br https://dxbrazilsw.blogspot.com/2019/03/qsl-radio-pig-rock-9300-khz-ondas.html?m=0 (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT Brasil, RX: Yaesu FRG 8800 Antena: DS SWL DL, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) pirate ** BRAZIL. RECEPTION IN SÃO BERNARDO SP, BRAZIL March 6, 2019 (Time in UTC) Rx: KiwiSDR (São Bernardo SP) + PA0RDT Mini Whip Antenna PIRATE --- 9605 kHz, Unid Brazilian pirate station, PP, 06/03 1620. Relay FM Diário, Ribeirão Preto SP, ann and ads from Ribeirão Preto. Id: 'FM Diário, Ribeirão Preto'. 35543). Live tx with this FM Station, checked on streaming. Pirate stations in Brazil generally have two characteristics that are contrary to the principles of pirates in other countries: it does not have its own identity in its programming retransmitting schedules in real time from other official stations (or reproducing old parts of known programs), and also some assume the risk of transmitting in official bands in the midst of other legalized stations known. Here it should not be confused with the appearance of some well-known pirates renting program spaces in known international transmitting plants. *************************** (RG) - Rudolf Grimm São Bernardo SP, BRAZIL http://dxways-br.blogspot.com YouTube Channel: GrimmSBC *************************** (Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 16000 kHz, Rádio Cachoeiras (RJ Ondas curtas) Música sinal baixo mas audível. 1739 UT 05 Março 2019 https://youtu.be/ssp5Hdk4bOQ RX: Yaesu FRG 8800, Antena: DS SWL DL Dipolo Assimétrica 42 Metros + 19 Metros Coaxial + Balun (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT Brasil Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) pirate ** CANADA. All NAV Canada Aeronautical Beacons being decommissioned NAV Canada, the country's provider of air traffic control, is in the process of decommissioning all aeronautical beacons (NDB) that operate in the longwave and lower mediumwave band as well as very high frequency omnidirectional rangefinders (VOR) and, where necessary, replacing them with RNAV runway approach systems for airplanes equipped with GNSS equipment. This decommissioning is expected to take seven years. The following will be decommissioned as of April 25, 2019 at 0901 UT: Deer Lake (DF) NDB Port Hawkesbury (PD) NDB Bonaventure (YBV) NDB Bromont (ZBM) NDB Chute-Des-Passes (DG) NDB Salluit (YZG) NDB Smiths Falls (YSH) NDB Campbellford (YCF) VOR Hearst (HF) NDB Hornepayne (YHN) NDB Pelee Island (PT) NDB St-Bruno-De-Guiges (YBM) NDB Ignace (ZUC) NDB Lansdowne House (YLH) NDB Ogoki Post (YOG) NDB Sachigo Lake (ZPB) NDB Aklavik (YKD) NDB Déline (WJ) NDB Lac La Biche (YLB) NDB Tulita (ZFN) NDB Williams Lake (WL) NDB. Yellek (ZYB) serving North Bay, ON was already decommissioned last year. YPQ NDB 12 km east of Peterborough, ON airport is still operating on 379 as of this post. The notice from NAV Canada is available at: https://www.navcanada.ca/EN/products-and-services/Service%20Project%20Announcements/Notice%20of%20Change-2019-Phase%201%20NMP-EN.pdf It's another kick in the pants for longwave and utility DXers (Mark Coady, Ont., March 7, ODXA iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1973, DXLD) When I worked for Nav Canada in the 1990s (and Transport Canada before that), I visited a couple of those locations in Northern Ontario. (Harold Sellers, BC, ibid.) I forwarded the above to William Hepburn, proprietor of http://dxinfocentre.com/ndb.htm (gh) Hi Glenn, Thanks for the note. It's not quite true. Not all of the Canadian NDBs will be decommissioned. A small subset will be retained as part of a terrestrial backup network - mainly in remote areas. I've attached a list of the beacons that will survive beyond 2026. Keep in mind that private beacons (letter/number & number/letter) may remain on the air at the discretion of their operators. The elimination of navaids is not unexpected. They have been made obsolete by GPS. It's not all doom and gloom. An emptier LW band will make DXing more challenging - but there will always be some targets out there to be had. RT-284 Rankin Inlet, NU is even planned to get a power boost from 500 up to 2000 watts. P.S. - Here is a link to the aeronautical study : http://www.navcanada.ca/EN/products-and-services/Aeronautical%20Studies/AeronauticalStudyNAVAIDModernization.pdf P.S.#2 - I haven't gotten around to making notes of the April decommissionings on my website yet - but will today. Cheers, (Bill Hepburn, March 14, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: LIST OF FEDERAL CANADIAN NDBs TO BE RETAINED BEYOND 2026 BRITISH COLUMBIA YZA-236 ASHCROFT YJQ-325 BELLA BELLA YBL-203 CAMPBELL RIVER YDL-200 DEASE LAKE XJ-326 FORT ST. JOHN ZKI-203 KITIMAT PR-218 PRINCE RUPERT DC-326 PRINCETON XT-332 TERRACE ALBERTA YOD-398 COLD LAKE EB-256 EDMONTON YLL-241 LLOYDMINSTER YQF-320 RED DEER SASKATCHEWAN YSF-287 STONY RAPIDS MANITOBA UDE-269 DELTA FO-250 FLIN FLON YGX-212 GILLAM YIV-300 ISLAND LAKE ONTARIO YAT-260 ATTAWAPISKAT YTL-328 BIG TROUT LAKE YER-334 FORT SEVERN YPO-401 PEAWANUCK YTA-409 PEMBROKE YPQ-379 PETERBOROUGH YPL-382 PICKLE LAKE YTR-215 QUINTE WEST ZZR-317 QUINTE WEST ZSJ-258 SANDY LAKE YXL-346 SIOUX LOOKOUT QUEBEC MT-209 CHIBOUGAMAU YKQ-351 FORT RUPERT YIK-225 IVUJIVIK YAS-221 KANGIRSUK GW-371 KUUJJUARAPIK BX-220 L. DE BLANC SABLON YPX-338 PUVIRNITUQ RJ-378 ROBERVAL YRC-213 SAGUENAY YBG-356 SAGUENAY YRQ-205 THREE RIVERS NEW BRUNSWICK ZST-397 SAINT JOHN NOVA SCOTIA YZX-266 GREENWOOD GF-341 GREENWOOD PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND NONE NEWFOUNDLAND NONE LABRADOR CA-281 CARTWRIGHT YR-257 GOOSE BAY YMH-250 MARY’S HARBOUR YDP-247 NAIN YUKON DA-214 DAWSON MA-365 MAYO YOC-284 OLD CROW NORTHWEST TERRITORIES EV-254 INUVIK VQ-326 NORMAN WELLS YPC-276 PAULATUK HI-361 ULUKHAKTOK ZF-356 YELLOWKNIFE NUNAVUT LT-305 ALERT YEK-329 ARVIAT BK-224 BAKER LAKE CB-245 CAMBRIDGE BAY YTE-332 CAPE DORSET YCY-256 CLYDE RIVER YCO-372 COPPERMINE YZS-362 CORAL HARBOUR YEU-205 EUREKA YFY-204 IQALUIT UX-378 HALL BEACH YXP-218 PANGNIRTUNG YIO-214 POND INLET YJI-237 QIKIQTARJUAQ RT-284 RANKIN INLET YUT-335 REPULSE BAY RB-350 RESOLUTE YYH-290 SPENCE BAY (via Bill Hepburn, DXLD) ** CANADA [and non]. Canada / USA: NDB Photo Gallery upgrades made... Hi Glenn and the WOR group: I have just spent the past day vastly upgrading/re-scanning about 25 photos in my NDB Photo Gallery, as well as additional Omega Radio Navigation System station "D" North Dakota photos from my September 1993 visit there; Loran-C Middletown, Calif.; a couple more of 1980s-era NDBs added; etc. The (longtime) NDB Gallery page on my website is here: http://www.auroralchorus.com/ndb/ndbgllry.htm Just a heads-up to those whom have not visited that page in a while. 73 - (Steve McGreevy, March 8, WOR iog via DXLD) By the way, "Nav Canada" stylized as "NAV Canada" is pronounced "nav Canada" not N-A-V Canada and is just short for Navigation Canada. And another by the way: I and my students introduced GPS to Transport Canada (later Nav Canada) back in the mid-1990s. We carried out a number of research projects with them and for them including: -- a GPS survey of Halifax international airport -- the assessment of helicopter approaches to the Hibernia oil platform using differential GPS -- surveys of the runways at small airports on the coast of Labrador -- development of the algorithm for correcting for the tropospheric propagation delay of GPS signals (now used in almost all GPS receivers) (-- Richard Langley, UNB, WOR iog via DXLD) I've enjoyed visiting a few of these and their wonderful, familiar idents and "DAIDS" for many long decades! KUDOS gents for this really good/valuable info. I will print-out and put into my NDB log book. We will also see some of the larger (US) FAA NDBs go off-air in the coming years, but indeed it will open possibilities for some long-haul DX coming from TP/TA locations. For instance, China has a lot of 'em and is not so willing to replace them with GPS. One of the biggies I miss today is the honker 367 HA Hao Atoll that was A1A and 5 kW - even under the worst Pacific DX conditions, HA still would be a "pest" almost. I've updated some more Canadian NDB pics (all 1990s era) at: http://www.auroralchorus.com/ndb/ndbgllry.htm Some of them pictured are the small, privately-owned number/letter beacons running low-power but fine challenges to catch. The background in the pics - one pic has two Prairie Cathedrals in the background (those also are a threatened species!). A few long-timers are not on the "axe list" nor do I see them on the "retain list" either (such as 224 DN Dauphin, MB - a pic of that beacon is also on my NDB visit page... Big thanks for all of this fine info. compilation Glenn/Richard/Bill/and all! (Steve McGreevy, -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com ibid.) ** CANADA. Normally on 690 kHz, I hear CBKF1 Gravelbourg, Sask or KGGF Coffeyville, KS but a few weeks ago I had some good copy on CBU for several minutes. This was recorded on Fri February 22, 2019 at 6:21 am Mountain/5:21 am Pacific using a 25 foot long by 10 foot tall Wellbrook ALA100lM loop connected to an Icom IC746pro with audio fed directly out of the headphone jack to a digital recorder. Audio link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CT4nW2I_kW7TQar2Wz82U82VCe3HEMOa/view?usp=sharing A CBC engineer who`d know things tells me CBU is now running 20 kW into 2 towers instead of its previously licensed 50 kW/4 towers (Paul Walker, Laramie WY, nrc-am gg via DXLD) ** CANADA. CFARS (Canadian Forces Affiliate Radio system) This is a service sponsored by National Defence Headquarters in which military installations, military units/clubs and volunteer licensed Canadian Amateur Radio stations and operators participate and contribute to the aim of providing auxiliary communications on a local, national and international basis as an adjunct to existing military unit/club amateur radio communications. The communications are done in multiple modes including USB voice and some digital modes that may be either encrypted or in the clear. Most of the frequencies used have fixed schedules with some nets resembling amateur radio nets with traffic between stations and are divided into these frequencies: Alpha 6878 kHz Bravo 15386 kHz [in SWBC band!] Charlie 14960 kHz Delta 15463 kHz [in SWBC band!] Echo 14446 kHz Foxtrot 21971 kHz Golf 20986 kHz Hotel 28715 kHz Juliet 13454 kHz Kilo 16449 kHz Lima 20277 kHz Mike 13954 kHz Whiskey 6922 kHz Xray 6662 kHz Yankee 4152 kHz Zulu 4223 kHz (Gilles Letourneau, The World of Utilities, March CIDX Messenger via DXLD) ** CANADA. Canforces Aeronautical Communications System (MACS) Here are some of the reported frequencies for Canadian Forces HF communications: Edmonton, Alberta - Trenton, Ontario – St-John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador: 3047 3092 4703 5717 6706 6745 8989 9007(Primary Contact) 11232(Primary Contact) 11265 11271 13257 15031 17994 18012 23250 kHz, all in USB Many of these frequencies are outdated on many of the online resources but one that I have seen some logging on as recently as 6 months ago is 11232 kHz USB (Gilles Letourneau, The World of Utilities, March CIDX Messenger via DXLD) ** CANADA. Unusual signals from Quebec Province In the 1960s a service called Radio Alma (operating from Alma, Quebec, Canada) was introduced to help in radio communications from forest workers and remote locations where regular phone service was impossible. It included a transceiver that would connect to Bell services via relay stations that would make phone patch services in the 5 MHz HF frequency range. It had several frequencies where stations would have the possibility to contact friends and family. Today this service is discontinued partly due to the satellite phone services that are now available for remote locations. There are still some of these Alma radios that are used and possibly some ham radio gear that might even be used without license in the 5 MHz spectrum of radio communications. Where to listen? Most of the communications I have received in the past year have been within this range: 5180 to 5400 kHz Communications are in USB and most of the traffic is fishermen, hunters and sportsmen that have rented cabins in generally remote areas of the province. What you may hear could range from possible emergency situations to getting some food and necessities, or just regular chats with family members to simply pass along some news. Most of the communications received here will be in French but there is some English from time to time, but with no fixed schedules. Communications can be received almost any time of the day but usually the end of the afternoon and early evening seem to be the most active traffic periods. If you receive any signals in this frequency range note that there is also a 60 Meter amateur band divided into several channels in this same range. Make sure you’re not listening to hams. Usually the amateur radio stations will ID with their call signs. Stations that are not amateurs will usually not use any call signs or identifications, except sometimes mentioning their location (Gilles Letourneau, The World of Utilities, March CIDX Messenger via DXLD) ** CHAD [non]. R. Ndarason International via ENC-DMS Ascension Feb.28 0500-0700 5960 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg to WeAf Kanuri, weak/fair signal BUT no signal of Radio Ndarason Int via ENC-DMS Ascension, Woofferton: 1800-2100 12050 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg to WeAf nothing on Feb.27/Feb.28 0700-0800 13810 WOF 250 kW / 165 deg to WeAf nothing Feb.28 & March 1 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/radio-ndarason-international-via-enc.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News Feb.27-28, Mar 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Ndarason International via ENC-DMS Ascension and Woofferton https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/radio-ndarason-international-via-enc_4.html 0500-0700 5960 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg Kanuri, unchanged & co-ch QRM til 0625 5959.8 KBD 250 kW / non-dir N/ME Arabic Gen.Sce - R. Kuwait 1900-2100 12050 WOF 250 kW / 152 deg Kanuri, ex ASC 250 kW/065 deg 0700-0800 13810 WOF 250 kW / 165 deg Kanuri, cancelled from Feb.26 1800-1900 12050 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg Kanuri, cancelled from Feb.26 ??????????? ?? Observer ? 3:51 PM (via WORLD OF RADIO 1973, DXLD) 12050, March 9 at 1938, song in language? Not Spanish! Yes, WEWN is AWOL again, clearing frequency for R. Ndarason International. 1941 announcement and ID in French, then song in French; 1954 into presumed Kanuri, mentions Nigéria, Cameroun, Tchad, Boko Haram, terrorisme; S9 with deep fades to S6; more music, 1959 ID and talk mixed in French and Kanuri. This 19-21 transmission via ASCENSION was reported by Ivo Ivanov as missing Feb 27-28, but heard again March 5. Note: since its western language is French, not English, this RNI certainly pertains to Chad, apparently originating in Ndjamena, rather than Nigeria (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1973, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Ndarason Int`l via ENC-DMS Woofferton, March 5 1900-2100 12050 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg to WeAf French, fair/good signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/radio-ndarason-international-via-enc_5.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News March 4-5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) R Ndarason International via ENC-DMS Ascension Mar 6 0500-0700 5960.0 ASC 250 kW / 065 deg to WeAf Kanuri, fair, co-ch QRM till 0631 5959.8 KBD 250 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic GS Radio Kuwait! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/radio-ndarason-international-via-enc_6.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News March 5-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Ndarason International via ENC-DMS Ascension, March 11: 0557&0604 5960*ASC 250 kW / 065 deg to WeAf French/English, very good 0629&0631 5960*ASC 250 kW / 065 deg to WeAf French/Kanuri, very good: *till 0631 5959.8 KBD 250 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic GS Radio Kuwait! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/radio-ndarason-international-via-enc_11.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News March 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 5890, Friredrake China (Shortwave 49 meters band) Musics cultural China 2049 UT 08 Mar. 2019 https://youtu.be/01jbEvValFs RX: Degen DE 1103, Antena: Telescopic Antena (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT Brazil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) with video in front of a streambed ** CHINA. 6970, March 7 at 1330, CNR1 at S7-S9, // 6125; here no doubt to jam Sound of Hope; certainly not a Cuban relay as someone presumed. Nothing heard on 6970 at earlier check 2305 UT March 6 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 11660, CNR at 1324 // 9660 and 11640 (under RTI) in Mandarin jamming the VOA in Mandarin via the Philippines with a man and woman with gentle talk and patriotic vocals and a number of promos from 1327 to 1+1 time pips at 1330 – Very Good Mar 9 – The feed the Chinese authorities hijacked for this one could have been a number of cultural outlets like CNR3 (The Voice of the Music), CNR9 (The Voice of the Literary), or CNR12 (The Voice of the Entertainment). (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Drake SPR-4, Kenwood TS440S, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD), ODXA iog via DXLD) ** CHINA [non]. See MALI! Many observations of CRI relays resumed ** CHINA [non]. 13890, Sound of Hope Taiwan in Chinese without jamming on 18/2 from 0800 // 11410, 14920, 16100 etc (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF2001D,Folded Marconi antenna), March Australian DX News via DXLD) Or were they all CNR1 jammers and no SOH audible? (gh) ** CHINA. 6035, PBS Yunnan, relay of FM99, March 5, suddenly on at *1140; BBS (Bhutan) already off the air. 6145 // 9780, Qinghai ("Qinghai News Comprehensive Broadcasting"), on March 6, at 1122; clearly //. 7210, PBS Yunnan, *1036, on March 4. Suddenly on with their distinctive IS of non-stop EZL loop of instrumental music; before 1036, was hearing SOH (Taiwan) and VOV (Vietnam). After 1036, three stations here were just too much to listen to (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** CHINA. Re: DXLD 19-10: ``VIETNAM [non]. 7305, V of Vietnam via WRMI, 1250, SINPO-32222, woman talking in VT?, time pips and ID at 1300. 23-FEB-2019 (Karl Racenis, DXpedition in Brighton MI, Sony SW-55 with a NASA P-30 antenna, MARE Tipsheet via DXLD) ??? I don`t know what to make of this: WRMI does not relay VOV; 7305 is not a WRMI (or WHRI) frequency. HFCC and Aoki show the only 7305 at this time is CNR1 via Shijiazhuan site, 37 degrees USward (gh, DXLD)`` Glenn, March 8, checking 7305, here on the coast of California, at 1154, 1209 and 1245; all times heard with very strong signal from CNR1 (// 6125, also good); no trace of any other station (Ron Howard, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CONGO. 6115, Radio Congo, *0540, March 5. Surprisingly good reception (probably best ever?), due to extremely unusual propagation that greatly favored the Congo, instead of the normal domination by Japan ("RN2:), which was today only heard far underneath; all with announcers (no music at all, as is normal for this time period); 0550 had Japan starting to get slightly stronger, so greater QRM. My audio http://bit.ly/2VKsG1t (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1973, DXLD) ** CONGO DR. 6210.2, Radio Kahuzi, Bukavu, 1715-1758*, 08-03, English, religious comments and songs, at 1730 Swahili, comments. 15321. 09-03 no signal here at this time (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** CUBA [and non]. 1620, Radio Rebelde, Cuba; 0003-0007+, 3/5; SS speech excerpt into M&W in Spanish with news; mucho en Estados Unidos (They must be really loving the vindictive rhetoric from the Democrats) // 5025; o/u “16-20 the Zone”, KOZN Bellvue NE. Spanish also on 530, but not Rebelde. +++ 0637, 3/5; Cubano music; barely on top; // 5025 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time. ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 1170 [sic, must mean 11700], RFI, Issoudun. French to CAf at 0620, fair on 12/2 due to co-channel interference from RHC, Quivican in Spanish that should have closed down at 0600 (John Adams, Port Douglas, Far North Queensland (Sangean ATS-909X, 7 Metre Reel Antenna), March Australian DX News via DXLD) SAW@RHC ** CUBA. 9570, CRI (via la Habana relay) at 1300. News by M in English, but way down in the barrel, in spite of strong AM carrier. Then I recalled this is via Cuban relay. "There is always something wrong" HI HI - Fair Mar 5 (Rick Barton, Arizona SW Logs, Grundig Satellit 205(T.5000) & 750; Hammarlund HQ-180A & HQ-200; RS SW-2000629, with various outdoor wire antennas. 73 and Good Listening....! WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 5040, March 6 at 0123, RHC Kriyol is S9+30 but distorted. 5040 at 0650 recheck, S9+20 suppressed and very distorted English, Something`s always wrong at RHC. Other English at 0650: 6100 S9+40 and suptorted with hum; 6165 = 6000 undermodulated but sufficient; 6060 VG S9+30. 6000, March 7 at 0648, RHC English but undercurrent talk in Spanish, probably also RHC. Not QRM or overload crossmod, but same transmitter. Not the case on 6100, 6165 with English only; while 6060 is off already. Can`t compare to Rebelde since 5025 is also off. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba/RHC. 15370, March 7 at 2046, RHC is in English and just barely modulated. This Bauta frequency is supposed to be in French starting at 2030; 15140 is also in English where it is supposed to be, but overmodulated/distorted at S9+10. Anyhow, no spurs audible from either. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 15370, March 7 at 2206, RHC by now is in proper Spanish, S9+5 but JBM, yet the SSOB if not the OSOB. Something`s always wrong at RHC. [and non]. 6060, March 8 at 0523, RHC in Spanish instead of supposed-to-be-English after 0500, only S9+10 so not the usual bigsig; and suffering a SAH from Qur`an, underneath as the Fribbath is underway overthere. That`s Algeria via FRANCE at 04-06, only the first hour supposed to be Qur`anic per Aoki, the second Network 1 in French & Arabic. Something`s always wrong at RHC. How about the other RHC English frequencies? *None* of them are any good now: 6100 S9+10, 6000 S9 but both undermodulated; 6165 very poor S8 with ACI from stronger 6170 VOA Hausa via ASCENSION! Somethings are always wrong at RHC. 5040, March 8 at 0622, the final RHC hour here is also in English, S9+20/30 but overmodulated/distorted. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 6100, RHC at 0645. W in English revealed after I turned the AF gain way way up. There seemed to be just an open carrier with a lot of hum, but, no, they are broadcasting, but with audio way below the level of the carrier. Heh heh, "There is always something wrong - ". Off at 0702 - S-9 carrier Mar 8 (Rick Barton, Arizona SW Logs, Grundig Satellit 205(T.5000) & 750; HQ-200 RS SW-2000629, & ATS-909X with various outdoor wires. 73 and Good Listening....! WOR iog via DXLD) ** CUBA. 13728.283V, March 8 at 1426, JBA carrier blob wobbling, and a match on 13671.715V, spurs out of 13700-AM RHC, i.e. plus & minus 28.28+ kHz as also measured previously. There could also be second-orders at plus/minus 56.56 kHz, the upper clashing with WINB DRM noise 13755-13760, but its lower component cannot be detected circa 13643 in the clear. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 15700, March 8 at 1432, China Plus relay in English is S9+30 and suptorted. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba. 15230, March 8 at 1433, RHC is S9+10 of dead air, maybe a trace of modulation, while 15140 is too-loud & clear. By 1538 recheck, 15230 is modulating but distorting and crackling, about like 15140 during `Sonido Cubano`, tsk2, ruining an otherwise worthwhile music show. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 6000, March 9 at 0339, RHC English is S7-S9 but just barely modulated; // 6165 also S7-S9 with undermodulation more or less sufficient. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. 7435 // 7355, March 9 at 0332, Radio Martí VG on both Greenvilles with only a trace of jamming underneath, in novelty song about a muñequita y ratón conversing. Rather it`s a children`s song interrupted for conversation on that subject. How does this undermine the Commies? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Unscheduled frequency of Radio Habana Cuba in 31mb on March 9 0600-0700 on 9535 BEJ 100 kW / 230 deg to CeAm English, weak signal till 0600 on 9535 BEJ 100 kW / 230 deg to CeAm Spanish as scheduled https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/unscheduled-frequency-of-radio-habana.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News March 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 9065, Unidentified Station at 0800 with open carrier. My imagination? I thought a cupla times I could hear a Spanish female with 5 digit number groups, but with modulation way way down. Beginning just before the hour. (This is normally a numbers station this hour in the "Hybrid Mode zero one" format. But, "there is always something wrong....". S-7 signal Mar 9 (Rick Barton, Arizona SW Logs, Grundig Satellit 205(T.5000) & 750; HQ-200 RS SW-2000629, & ATS-909X with various outdoor wires. 73 and Good Listening....! WOR iog via DXLD) ** CUBA. 5025, March 10 at 0706, R. Rebelde is S9+30 but overmodulated/distorted. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6100, Sunday March 10 at 0710, RHC S9+20 in undermodoulated Esperanto, only frequency still running. 0700 should have been the DST timing, instead of 0800 as they have kept announcing all winter. Now that EDT has just started, will they stay at 0700 UT? 15140, Sunday March 10 at 1501, RHC Esperanto is just starting, now one UT hour earlier for this emission, and suptorted; then I check // 11760 and find it`s already running about a minute ahead of 15140, so separate playouts, an anomaly not noted previously. Could not stay with it to copy sign-on schedule announcement, but will be a miraklo if they get everything right (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1973, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11760, Sunday March 10 at 1350, RHC medical show is just starting, after pre-emption last week, so Arnie`s `En Contacto` DX show just missed was also probably back at 1335-1350, both shifted one UT hour earlier since as a running dog of Yanqui imperialism, Cuba adopted EDT same time as the gusanos in Miami, shifting all(?) Spanish programming an hour earlier. The other times for E.C. on various frequencies should now be Sunday 2245? and UT Monday 0140. As for English, we expect the first airing to be at 19-20 instead of 20-21 UT, still on 15140; big question is what happen to the ``Africa`` service which after a lot of confusion when DST went off last November, finally settled into 22-23 (usually) on 9720. Will it go back to 23 UT, and/or change frequency yet? Next airing at 00-01 on 5040 normally shifts an hour earlier to 23-24 whether or not the other frequency start matching it (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1973, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 15700, March 10 at 1443, China Plus relay in English is still here, and still defective: this time S9+30 and suptorted. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba. CHINA [non]. 15700, March 11 at 1447, China Plus relay via CUBA is S9+40 but suptorted; wiggle that patchcord! 6180, March 12 at 0143, another such relay is also suptorted. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [summary of RHC DST changes as of March 10:] English: 15140 at 19 with DXUL at ToH Sunday; 9720 at 21 ex 22; 5040 at 23 ex 00, also DXUL TOH; only 6000 on air after 0600 UT Mon. Esperanto: Sun 1500 not synch on 11760 & 15140; 2230 15730 suptorted (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1973, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15140, RHC at 1900 with a man with ID and program highlights then brief news to 1903 and into Arne Coro's “DXers Unlimited” - Fair to Good with fading Mar 10 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Drake SPR-4, Kenwood TS440S, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD), ODXA iog via DXLD) The point is: English moved an hour forward, and DXUL moved to near top of hour, at least this week (gh, DXLD) [and non]. 15140, March 10 at 1901, RHC`s first English of the day has shifted one hour earlier as expected, and any frequency change will have to wait a month. More surprisingly, `DXers Unlimited` is already starting at hourtop instead of about :09 past as originally scheduled. No news today? 9720, March 10 at 2113, the second English hour has also shifted 60 minutes earlier to 21-22 instead of 22-23; nominally for Africa, but bigsig back thisaway and also has stayed on same frequency. This makes a lot more sense than 22- or 23- UT if Africa really be the target; now only by East Africa Time is it after local midnite. 2113 program is already mailbag, presumably following DXUL circa 2101. At 2132 Spanish music not // weaker 9640 & 9535 in Spanish service. Original B18 sked when both of the Bejucals started at 22, had 9640 as only 50 kW at 110 degrees, and 9535 as 100 kW at 230 degrees; yet 9640 is always much stronger than 9535 here. Last November, Wolfgang Bueschel had this detailed info about 9720 quoting Ivo Ivanov`s style: ``2200-2300 9720 BAU 100 kW 130 degrees SoAf English, new time slot, antenna Bauta #3, HRS4/4/0.8, 160 degrees minus 30 degree slewed, wb`` 21-22 on that schedule for 9720 had French and Portuguese; unknown yet what became of them, shoved up to 20-21? Or swapped with 22-23? 9720 is gone at 2246 check. Something`s always wrong at RHC. Arnie`s other DX program, `En Contacto` just started at 2245 Sunday March 10, ending by 2259, earlied an hour, on 5040, 9535, 9640, 11760, 11840 at least, and something on 15370. Has RHC`s website Spanish program schedule been updated? http://www.radiohc.cu/interesantes/programacion Of course not! Subtract one UT hour for correct times of all programs. Something`s always wrong at RHC. (And BTW it includes overnight when SW is supposed to be silent, with another repeat of En Contacto Monday at 0735, meaning 0635.) 15730, Sun Mar 10 at 2246 confirmed in Esperanto, S9+10 and suptorted, also an hour earlier, from 2230 ex-2330. 6165, March 11 at 0621, RHC is OFF, clearing frequency for NHK Arabic via FRANCE; RHC English also missing from 6100, 6060 and 5040 --- only 6000 is still on but suptorted modulation spikes, unusable. Something`s always wrong at RHC. So during DST of EDT, is RHC attempting to keep English going until 0700 or not? It`s still starting by 0100 as checked March 12 at 0140 on 6000 & 6165. Or could they have moved that up to start at 0000? 15140, March 11 at 1822, RHC Arabic has also been advanced one hour, the announcer sounding like he is choking, suptorted to boot (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1973, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 11980, (CHINA-non), CRI via Habana 2 × 5990, 2340z English roundtable conversation with representatives from the US and China discussing trade relations to 0000z, chime IS, ID by M in Chinese, into opening announcements by woman in Spanish 0001z, into news by woman, Good, but a bit distorted, typical of RHC audio (Steve Wiseblood, RGV TX 3/10-11, WOR iog via DXLD) ** CUBA. A real mess of intermodulations from - probably Quivican site - ? But puzzled me up tonight, at 0445 UT on March 11. Signals heard in remote SDR in MA-US state east coast. Powerhouses 6000 QUI English and 6100 BAU Spanish from RHC, why ? mixed up intermodulation from two different sites? Unwanted mixture signals heard, like a herd of mice? Noted 5889.981 kHz, strong 5899.991 (of RHC 6100 px, unclean audio mix), 5989.986 (RHC Spanish), 6199.981 (RHC English 6000), strong 6200.003 (RHC Spanish). [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 11, dxldyg via DXLD) ** CUBA. Arnie Coro's (CO2KK) show, DXers Unlimited which broadcasts twice a week from Radio Havana Cuba for many years, is now a podcast, and can be found here: http://www.radiohc.cu/en/audios (Paul Dobosz, MARE Tipsheet 8 March via DXLD) Along with other programs; but for DXUL I am only seeing three linx to the 2/19 edition. Or so it seemed, as the lettering was overlapping, self-QRMing. Reloading at reduced size, it`s three shows dated 26/2, 20/2 and 12/2, the first one timing 8:30. What about the March ones? (gh, DXLD) ** CUBA. RHC website has an `interesting` program schedule for Spanish only: http://www.radiohc.cu/interesantes/programacion All the times are now wrong, since DST started shoving all programs one real UT hour earlier than shown. Includes overnight when not supposed to be on SW but presumably continues on FM and webcasts, with an additional airing of `En Contacto` Sunday night at 0735, i.e. 0635 UT Monday Frequency schedule has not been updated either: http://www.radiohc.cu/interesantes/frecuencias (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DENMARK. World Music Radio (WMR) is back on 5840 kHz (100 W) transmitting from Randers, Denmark. It has been off the air due to a transmitter fault, but now hopefully again running 24/7. I have switched 15805 kHz (200 W) off at 1830 UT. I have some problems with the two transmitters at the same site. Good reception of WMR on 15805 kHz at times in Southern Europe today and also audible in Eastern North America for some hours this afternoon, and noted in Brazil until 18 UT. However - still less than ten reception reports received for 15805 kHz. Best 73s (Stig Hartvig Nielsen, www.wmr.radio, 1856 UT Sunday March 10, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** DENMARK. 15805, World Music Radio, Randers, 1115-1130, 10-03, pop songs in English, Latin America songs, ID “WMR, World Music Radio”. 23322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** EAST TURKISTAN. 19410 harmonic, China Radio International. In Chinese (2nd harmonic of 9705) on 18/2 at 1530 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF2001D,Folded Marconi antenna), March Australian DX News via DXLD) Kashgar, 308 degrees this hour only (gh, DXLD) ** ECUADOR. 6050, HCJB, Pichincha, *0925-0933, 10-03, music, anthem, Quechua, comments. Extremely weak due to daylight in Spain at this hour. 15311 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** EGYPT. 9590-, March 6 at 1959, S7-S8 of something undermodulated, and slightly on the low side. Only listed is Cairo in Russian, 125 kW at 5 degrees, 1900-2000. I was tuning around for something similar to the unID open carrier I was getting on 9625 until 1957* but this is unlike (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005, RNGE, R. Bata, March 5, at 0514, yet again with audio nicely above threshold level; in Spanish; mostly pop African music/singing (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) 5005, Radio Nacional de Guinea Ecuatorial, Bata, *0541-0601, 10-03, open with Spanish songs. Signal deteriorated very soon today and at 0601 barely audible. 15321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** ERITREA. 7140, Voice of Broad Masses, Asmara, 1740-1746, 09-03, East African songs. 34433. (Méndez) 7180, Voice of Broad Masses, Asmara, 1743-1747, 09-03, vernacular, comments. 33433 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) But much stronger both (different) Asmara Eritrea outlets in 40 meterband: 7140.020, Tigre lang men`s talk, S=9+15dB or -63dBm at 0417 UT in Doha Qatar. 7180.019, Horn of African drum music, VoBM in Eritrea, Amharic?, also S=9+15dB or -63dBm at 0419 UT in Doha Qatar. Some log of Doha Qatar in 0400-0429 UT time slot this ME morning: [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 11, dxldyg via DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA. All ETHiopians on air - all nearly even frequency ! not strong in Doha Qatar SDR, S=8 or -81dBm typical weakish on same level on all channels: 5950, 6030, 6090, 6110 kHz. 0415 UT. Some log of Doha Qatar in 0400-0429 UT time slot this ME morning: [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 11, dxldyg via DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. GERMANY, Reception of Radio Xoriyo Ogaden via MBR Nauen on March 9: 1600-1630 11970 ISS 500 kW / 130 deg to EaAf Somali Tue/Sat, very good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/reception-of-radio-xoriyo-ogaden-via_9.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News March 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. 9790, RFI via Issoudun, France in French to CAf at s/on 0400. These signals come via the long path across Central America and the South Pacific. They are rarely heard here in summer but are a daily occurrence in late autumn through to early spring. So, it was interesting to monitor these signals so early this time of year in summer. 27/2 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, VIC (Yaesu FTDX 3000, Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Kenwood R5000, Tecsun PL-680, Horizontal Sky Loop, Double Bazooka antennas for 80, 40 and 20 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), March Australian DX News via DXLD) ** FRANCE. 19050 Harmonic, Denge Welat/V of Homeland via Issoudun (2nd harmonic of 9525) in Kurdish on 16/2 at 1909 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF2001D,Folded Marconi antenna), March Australian DX News via DXLD) More likely to hear harmonix around 19 MHz than fundamentals (gh) ** GERMANY. Mediumwave [sic] transmitter Donebach gone Sprengung Sendetürme Donebach --- Rund 50 Jahre prägten die beiden Langwellensender in Donebach das Bild der Region. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R97VVkG1Oik (via Peter Kruse, DXLD) Impressive 5-minute professional video by Media Broadcast of demolition of the 2-tower LW site at Donebach which was for 153 kHz DLF. Dramatic music, drone video, multiple angles of towers falling. All the guywires were broken simultaneously. So the towers collapsed more or less downward rather than sidewise, depending on the angle (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Just to make sure: Donebach was longwave (153 kHz), and the demolition took place one year ago, with the first anniversary prompting people to talk about it again. Next project could be the demolition of the Wilsdruff mast. It has just been authorized, in spite of a preservation order, because all attempts to find a new owner (like the municipality, as is the case at Königs Wusterhausen) failed. For what this is about, see a video of a visit in 1992 (these gardens are still there, or at least were a few years ago...) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXuvNfTxrJs ...and another one from a farewell visit in 1993, this time indeed also in the room with the 1953 vintage transmitter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgP5wZtHlG0 Wer kein Deutsch versteht will finally understand what is being said from 6:36, and let me make it a quiz who is talking here. Those with a broader interest in broadcasting may also want to note the sticker as evidence that this OBV is a former sound vehicle of Deutscher Fernsehfunk. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC0hYfEmkV8 (Kai Ludwig, WOR iog via DXLD) ** GERMANY. Slow Scan Radio #029 storyboard / sonogram. Von heute: https://www.dropbox.com/s/uv3sv06m2kyt1zk/2019-03-09_SSR029_ch292.png?dl=0 from today, not tomorrow ;-) (roger, germany, March 9, WOR iog via DXLD) ** GERMANY [and non]. AUSTRIA/GERMANY, Radio DARC via Moosbrunn & Rohrbach, March 10: 1000-1100 on 6070 MOS 100 kW / non-dir to CeEu German Sun, very good 1000-1100 on 7440 ROB 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu German Sun, poor/weak https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/reception-of-radio-darc-via-moosbrunn_10.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News March 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. UAE, DW will reduced broadcasts in Dari/Pashto from March 15: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/deutsche-welle-will-reduced-broadcasts.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News March 5-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. Reception of KTWR Trans World Radio Asia on March 9: 1230-1300 9910 TWR 100 kW / 290 deg to SoAs English Sat, good signal 1317-1345 7510 TWR 100 kW / 320 deg to EaAs English Sat, good signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/reception-of-ktwr-trans-world-radio_9.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News March 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. 4055, TGAV Radio Verdad, Spsnish ID with frequency, etc. into English "Spiritual Songs" introduced by Spanish-accented OM with R Verdad address into "Going Down Memory Lane" US produced show of 'down south gospel music’ with OM & YL hosts airing songs like Do Lord, Oh Do Lord, Remember Me, Jesus Loves Me (played on a saw!) & other real toe-tapper tunes! 0559 s/off announcements in English, Spanish, Portuguese and others with address, etc. into Guatemala Nat’l Anthem sung by children. Modulation ended at 0613 but carrier continued to 0618. 3+4+444. Somewhat poor modulation 0459-0613* 2/Mar (Ken Zichi, Williamston MI, SDRplay + SDRuno + ANC-4 + FLDigi for digital bits + randomwire, MARE Tipsheet 8 March via DXLD) 4055, March 10 at 0705, harmonious hymnody, S9/+10, as TGAV Radio Verdad must be on very late, an hour past usual sign-off. Are they or am I confused by imminent imposition of DST? Not me; my watch stays on 24-hour UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 11560, AIR (Bengaluru) at 1311 signing on in Dari with brief OC and subcontinental vocals and a man with opening announcements at 1314 then brief subcontinental instrumentals at 1315 and a woman with apparent news to 1325 and female subcontinental vocals – Very Good Mar 7 – AIR has this frequency registered from 1300 to 1600 with the HFCC in multiple languages but in practice they are in Dari to 1415 and Pashto to 1530. They are listed in English from 1530 to 1545 but rarely go beyond a minute or so of English (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Drake SPR-4, Kenwood TS440S, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD), ODXA iog via DXLD) ** INDIA [non]. 9910, Thu March 7 at 1313, TWR closing unknown S Asian language and off 1314*. But wait, I still hear the TWR music-box IS on a much weaker signal. EiBi shows at 1245-1315 the language is KBO, BOTH from GUAM and ARMENIA, but it must really be either-or. Aoki shows KTWR Guam until 1314, then TWR India via Yerevan-Gavar, Armenia from 1315 in MAI. WRTH shows the full names of languages are Kokborok and Maithili. This applies to M-F only. I can easily believe that I was hearing Guam at first, then Armenia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 7289.92, Pro 1 RRI Nabire, 0809-0838*, on March 5. Not sure, but might have been a phone in show; just talking in Bahasa Indonesia (no music); cut off in mid-sentence (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** INDONESIA. I had Voice of Indonesia during my early morning (1836 UT) on 3325 kHz. Heard with a commentary about 'Trump' and 'North Korea' and a variety of music tunes including pop and some Indonesian folk, many ID'S 'Voice of Indonesia'. At 1850 UT an ID and said 3325 in Indonesian. At 1906, heard talking about Indonesian award for the ASEAN games, was about all I could understand but kept repeating, they had won some award at the 'ASEAN Games'. Seems to be a magazine style program with two tracks of a variety of songs and music in between and mentioned 'Kommentar' many times (Commentary I think). Reception was good and well over any noise on the frequency, say around an S9 mostly, using a Sony ICF 2010 and 30 metre inverted V antenna. Heard at Gunnedah NSW Australia (Tim Gaynor, March 9 about UT March 8, WOR iog via DXLD) I was knob-twiddling my Benmar Navigator 555A between the North Koreans on 2850 and 3320 (not // again) at 1340 UT, I noted a weakish station just above the Korean on 3325 with a woman speaking in English (I could hear a few words here and there - accented to PNG I'd guess) and slight splash from KCBS-3320 much stronger. 09 [sic, really 10] March 2019. First time noted the PNG station has been noted here in Keeler, but I had not ever checked for this one - on the 555A's loopstick and the 3325 signal vaguely nulls toward about 240 - 250 deg. azimuth. I should try for the other PNG stations, just like Ron Howard hears frequently...(!) 73 - (Steve McGreevy, 1352 UT March 10, WOR iog via DXLD) Most definitely them with light music and female announce in English. Using the Benmar Navigator 555A, I put a bit of a loopstick null on the 3320 Korean and the PNG station is clearing-up and is stronger at 1355 UT. -- (N6NKS - 1358 UT, ibid.) Actually the Voice of Indonesia in English at this time. Weak here in Alberta at 1355 UT. 73 (Mick Delmage, 1359 UT ibid.) At 1403 UT on the (tent.) PNG 3325 station I hear a male-announcer now in a local language (not English). Best heard with the 3320 North Korean loopstick-nulled (or minimized) via the Benmar 555A, with a fair signal on peaks. OK, so it's Indonesia - thanks! I don't DX that part of the world much on 90m, so I didn't know what is there to be heard! (Steve, -- 1411 UT, ibid.) 1453 UT: English pop songs and male announcer. I took my Benmar Navigator 555A out of the radio room and out into the middle of the yard - a tad improvement - I swear I hear alternating English and another language and mainly English-language pop songs - still fair on brief peaks - stronger than the (now weakening) DPRK station on 3320 now at 1454. The 3325 signal is rapidly weakening by 1503 - female announcer. I'd never be able to tell whether it was PNG or Indonesian except I think PNG would have the English. Why are these sharing the same 3325 frequency? Which one on is on-air? 73 - (Steve -- N6NKS 1506, ibid.) I see in DXLD that Ron Howard says it is "VOI via RRI Palangkaraya" which stays on after the PNG (Bougainville) station goes off. OK so the VOI must be the one I heard past fade-out time this local post-sunrise (very faint now at 1515). Again I ask: why the two co-channel 3325 stations? (This co-channel QRM frequency is like the Lhasa/Chennai 4920 mixture - seemingly unnecessary). (Steve, ibid.) These are some of too many instances of stations/frequency managers/government regulators failing to see the Big Picture, which is patently obvious to us from afar (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) Hi Steve, NBC Bougainville (3325) normally cuts off daily sometime before 1200 UT, while NBC Madang (3260) normally cuts off shortly after 1200. Regarding the Pidgin/Tok Pisin langauge: Is often hard to tell, especially if poor reception conditions, if the PNG stations are really using Pidgin/Tok Pisin or just English, as Pidgin/Tok Pisin uses many words in English. So I find I have to listen for a while before I'm sure which is being used. The most common language heard on the PNG SW stations is definitely Pidgin/Tok Pisin. Voice of Indonesia (3325) is usually heard with poor reception during the English segment (1300-1400), but an hour or so later the reception is normally very much improved. When listening to VOI after 1200, I always find them in the clear, as NBC has gone off the air. Best heard in USB, due to Korea on 3320. Please keep listening to these stations, as it is great to see more reports of them. BTW - A reminder that Bougainville has an extremely important vote coming up in October (referendum for independence) and NBC Bougainville often now has many segments of political speeches and the like, that will surely continue right up to the vote (Ron Howard, California, ibid.) Hi Ron, yes I've had Indonesia here till well after 1900, usually in Indonesian. I get it at quite strong signal here in Gunnedah Northern NSW. 73 (Tim Gaynor, Gunnedah NSW, Australia, ibid.) ** INTERNATIONAL INTERNET. RADIO GARDEN Listen to what’s going on in the rest of the world: The green dots on this Google Earth represent a radio station somewhere in the world. Click on any one & you will immediately listen to that station with very good sound. Dublin, halfway up Ireland's east coast, has Irish pub music. Any of you who are multi-lingual will certainly enjoy this. http://radio.garden/live/toulouse/radiopresence (via Tom Root, MARE Tipsheet 8 March via DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL WATERS. Some Stormy Seas for Competitive Sailors Using HF Amateur Radio --- ARRL 03/04/2019 http://www.arrl.org/news/some-stormy-seas-for-competitive-sailors-using-hf-amateur-radio The sorts of rules regulating the degree of outside assistance allowed in ham radio contesting also apply in other endeavors. An Estonian skipper was recently penalized in the Golden Globe Race (GGR) after seeking “weather routing” — the best route according to wind and weather conditions — via ham radio. Te apparent third-place skipper Uku Randmaa, ES1UKU, escaped disqualification from the round-the-world race, however, getting a 72-hour penalty instead. As of March 4, he had 630 miles to go. He'll serve most of his time penalty after he finishes the race. A recording of the conversation was provided to race headquarters on February 19. In it, Randmaa asks, “I’m heading 90°. Can I be sure that I can take the wind, if I’m sailing east?” The other station, VP8LP, advises him to move northwest and later tells Randmaa, “The more north you go, the quicker you get out of the wind hole.” Race rules say, “Entrants are free to speak to media, family, friends, and sponsors by radio at any time during the event, but must not be given any form of weather routing. Competitors may communicate freely (by radio or by hailing) with other competitors, or other mariners on vessels at sea, requesting or giving any verbal information/advice whatsoever, even if this is considered weather routing.” The approximately 30,000-mile GGR solo circumnavigation starts and ends in Les Sables-d’Olonne, France. It has four rendezvous gates along the way. “This is a retro race with skippers restricted to using a sextant, paper charts, and wind-up chronometers, just as Sir Robin Knox-Johnston used in the first Sunday Times Golden Globe Race 50 years ago,” Race Chairman Don McIntyre explained to My Sailing magazine. Skippers can only communicate by marine and/or amateur SSB HF radios and on an Amateur Radio net. Meanwhile, according to a January report, some GGR sailors have been operating on Amateur Radio frequencies using phony call signs and have been asked to stop operating. One of them, second-place skipper Mark Slats — who was reported to have been using PI3MS — said on January 15 he was considering getting out of competitive sailing, citing safety concerns, after being banned from the ham radio net for being unlicensed. The GGR 2018 – 2019 winner, Jean Luc Van Den Heede, who finished on January 29, had been using J6LJV, and that call sign appears under his name on QRZ.com, although authorities in St. Lucia are reported to have said they have no record of his license. A January 15 announcement on the Golden Globe Race Facebook page said, “GGR requires all entrants to have a licensed marine HF SSB radio… and the entrant to have a Marine Radio Operator’s license only. GGR does monitor all strong weather with winds over 40 knots, and, if appropriate, provides both forecasting and routing information to assist the entrant to sail safely.” (via Mike Terry, WOR iog via DXLD) ** IRAN. 6340, Confirmed here on 18/2 at 1935 with mixing product in Italian & English (6340-6190 Italian =150= 6190-6040 in English) (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF2001D,Folded Marconi antenna), March Australian DX News via DXLD) i.e. leapfrog mixing product (gh) ** IRAN. Unscheduled broadcast of VIRI IRIB PARS TODAY on 9510, Mar 10 1023-1223 9510*ZAH 500 kW / non-dir WeAs French/Hausa, unscheduled & 1223-1320 9510*ZAH 500 kW / non-dir WeAs Pashto as scheduled in B-18 * co-ch 9510 SAF 100 kW / 300 deg WeEu English Sun IRRS SW EGR/UNR https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/unscheduled-program-of-viri-irib-pars.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News March 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. Radio Ranginkaman via ENC-DMS via Grigoriopol, March 8 1730-1800 on 7560 KCH 300 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Farsi, good signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/radio-ranginkaman-via-enc-dms-via_8.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News March 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY. GIOVANNI SERGI Hi Glenn, While I wasn't very close to him, I know you've been relaying Giovanni Sergi's DX tips and news occasionally in WOR and thought you might want to know about his passing last March 4. The sad news has been announced by the Italian section of Radio Cairo on their FB page "Programma Italiano D'Oltremare". The say Giovanni was to celebrate his 68th birthday next month. A special edition of "Amici di Radio Cairo" will remember him tomorrow, March 12, during the 1800 UT Italian broadcast on 9540 kHz or in streaming on http://www.maspero.eg He had an important role in the history of local DX clubs and fanzines in Italy. Giovanni Sergi, responsabile del Gruppo Ascolto Radio dello Stretto di Messina, è deceduto il 4 marzo. Avrebbe compiuto 68 anni in aprile. Scompare con lui una lunga e bella pagina del radioascolto italiano. Unanime il cordoglio di chi lo ha conosciuto e apprezzato. I tratti caratterizzanti la sua personalità erano: la serietà con cui praticava l’hobby del radioascolto e l’umiltà con cui coltivava rapporti, anche collaborativi, con i tanti appassionati che condividevano con lui il radioascolto. Giovanni Sergi è una figura che rimarrà per chi ha fatto del radioascolto la sua passione ed ha scelto di conoscere la vita delle stazioni internazionali che, in diversi casi, Giovanni aveva avuto la fortuna di visitare. Partecipando con viva commozione e umano cordoglio a tale incommensurabile perdita, il programma italiano di oltremare di Radio Cairo dedicherà a lui la puntata di "Amici di Radio Cairo", in onda domani martedì 12 marzo alle 20:00 ora locale sulla frequenza dei 9540 kHz pari a onde corte di 31 metri, e in streaming su www.maspero.eg Sinceramente dispiaciuti per la triste circostanza, porgiamo le nostre condoglianze a tutta la sua famiglia. Regards and 73 (Andy Lawendel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) obit Giovanni Sergi was offering DX DVDs for sale in DXLD 18-47 (gh) ** JAPAN. UNIDENTIFIED. 5006, with an interesting development here; starting on March 7, at 1236, noted a strong carrier; heard daily through today (March 9); also heard by Jim Young (Calif.); became aware of this while checking for Nepal (5005); on March 8, Hiroyuki Komatsubara (Japan), was also hearing an open carrier on 5006, as well as on 8006; so he made an observation that I had missed, mainly that 5006 // 8006, years ago were the two frequencies broadcasting CW from Japan (low powered JG2XA, with the HF-Doppler [HFD] Project), but that station has been silent for a long time now. So yes, it was Hiroyuki who first noted that 8006 also had an open carrier, which I subsequently also heard. So who is broadcasting these new, daily open carriers? (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) Hi Glenn, Please see https://radio.chobi.net/DX/bbs/?res:3861#3861 The following is some of the info provided there. This will have a negative impact on future reception of Nepal (5005 kHz). (Ron Howard, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1973, DXLD) Viz.: "March 10, 2019, I got a reply by e-mail. It resumed operation according to it: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mr. Komatsubara, My name is Hosokawa of the University of Electro - Communications. I was in charge of sending shortwave till last year. After Mr. Tomizawa retired from retirement age, I am taking over the transmission / reception system. Thank you for informing us that we could receive two transmitted waves. Current We started trial operation with the aim of resuming stationary observation at both frequencies. Currently continuous carrier transmission is carried out only for carrier waves. Stations soon I am planning to add a sign [assume CW - Ron], so I think that it will be easy to distinguish. Still, Because it is under pilot operation, there is a possibility of intermittence irregularly, consent. Please check back. Since we plan to continue ionosphere research using radio waves in the future, We would be pleased if you could attract interest. Also, if you have any questions or concerns. I hope we can contact you. Hosokawa (via Ron Howard, WORLD OF RADIO 1973, DXLD) see UNID 5002 ** JAPAN. 6055, Radio Nikkei, Chiba-Nagara, 0810-0816, 10-03, Japanese, comments. Extremely weak. 15311 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) Unusual time: grayline shortpath or maybe longpath? (gh) ** JAPAN [and non]. 11815.0, March 8 at 1435, wild jazz from R. Japan in Japanese service; S7-S8 with a heavy het from weaker Turkey off- frequency 11815.7, but almost eliminated by ANF button on R75 (Automatic Notch Filter), better by LSB-only tuning. 1500 ``NHK Warudo`` ID and 3+1 resounding timesignal, // 9750 which had no such QRM. Then 11815 off clearing for Qur`an from VOT; see Turkey (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6105, March 9 at 0337, NHK Warudo, Japanese opera with percussion, S9+20. This 02-04 UT transmission via FRANCE for all the Japanese in Central America also puts a VG signal into N America, where NHK has abandoned hundreds of millions of English-speakers; but contains lots of interesting ongaku (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. Japan's largest broadcaster NHK to start simultaneous online streaming -- KYODO NEWS KYODO NEWS - 14 hours ago - 17:22 | All, Japan The Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday approved a bill to revise the broadcast law to allow public broadcaster NHK to start simultaneous online streaming of its television programs. "We would like to meet public demand for watching (NHK) programs on their smartphones," said communications minister Masatoshi Ishida. The bill is expected to be enacted in the current Diet session and NHK aims to start the service in fiscal 2019, ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. Under the current law, NHK's simultaneous streaming is limited to disaster and live sports coverage, as expansion of the national broadcaster's services could have an impact on private TV networks. People installing a TV receiver capable of getting NHK programs are obliged to sign a subscription contract with the broadcaster under the law. Those who contracted with NHK, formally called Japan Broadcasting Corp., will be able to watch online programs without extra fees. NHK plans to maintain the cost of subscription in October when Japan's consumption tax is raised to 10 percent from the current 8 percent and reduce it in October 2020 by 2.5 percent of its subscription contract income. The bill makes it mandatory for NHK to disclose the costs for online distribution to strengthen its disclosure policy, while it gives authority to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications to oversee the distribution operations. The bill also stipulates measures to improve corporate governance as requested by a government panel which gave the green light to simultaneous streaming (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [and non]. Interesting news about V of People, using the Seoul KSDR, VOP has been found on 3915 (jammed) 3930 (jammed) 4450(Z7 jammed) 4885, 5593 (S7 mixing product?) 6440/6450 (S7 clear) 6520 (jammed) 6600 (jammed) 9910 (jammed tested today) at 2200+. Most signals have a very wide bandwidth that exceeds 25 kHz. Around S9+20 at least. V of Hope 3985 S40- 6250 (with QRM from JRN teletype) -6350 (S3) (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, https://www.facebook.com/zachliang https://del.icio.us/gr_greek1/ZAK (all pages) DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH (and SOUTH). KCBS and ROK-jammers I arose early this morning [Sunday March 10] and went out to the radio room to band-scan with my newly refurbished Benmar 555A DFing receiver I purchased in February via eBay. What a wonderful receiver - selective and very sensitive via its big top-mounted loopstick (uses a 3-conductor 1/4-inch plug and it can be pulled off the unit). I stopped by 972 to check for the HLCA (ROK) het - quite strong at 1205 but too much 970 splatter. I then switched the Benmar to the "Marine Band" at about 1208, and I noted KCBS (DPRK) 2850 fair // 3320. The 3320 signal is clearer and a bit stronger; 2850 is somewhat distorted (similar audio-distortion to Rebelde Cuba 5025 presently, also). I can actually put a nice loopstick null on the 2850 and 3320 signals (about 310-320 deg. azimuth). Scanning upwards, the ROK/DPRK jammer on 4558 is there along with bits of audio - strident male speaking not // 2850 or 3320, and that signal mixture is also nullable, as are a bunch of CODAR signals around 4.4 MHz - one of them nulls about 250 deg. azimuth or so, sharply. On a try at 1230 UT I could not hear anything sounding-like the DPRK on 6100 due to strong Chinese signal on 6105. 6400 nothing whatsoever. Now at 1328* UT I hear (CRI?) somebody strong in Russian on 6100. 73 - (Steve McGreevy -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com, WOR iog via DXLD) *I meant 1228 UT (not 1328 - that darn PDT thing now...) in my report above. Now, DPRK/KCBS 3320 is def. NOT // 2850 - I sure thought they were the same about 30 minutes ago! 4558 is not // the other two signals at 1235. -- At 1300 UT KCBS-2850 suddenly switched programming from a woman singing operatic-style/easy-listening style to a strident male ranting, now // 3320 again. Both signals are quite strong now, as are the jammers/strident-speaking (male) audio on 4558 and also 6600. Further band-scanning 75m at 1310 - 1318 UT via the Benmar Navigator 555A and also my R-1000 in the radio-room: Korean-talk/buzz-jammers noted on 3910, 3930, and 3985 (the latter not // 4558). Korean-in-the-clear on 3945. All quite strong. N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com -- all of my DXing is done real-time with traditional (non-SDR) receivers-- The male-voice audio on 4558 is definitely // 6600 but the buzz-jammers differ! The ROK audio (I assume the Voice of Reunification?) is less strident-sounding than the DPRK stuff! -- (N6NKS, 1418, ibid.) After making a recording (and a report here) re NBC Bougainville PNG s/off at 1201 UT, I went back out to the radio room and dialed around using the Benmar Navigator 555A loopstick antenna and also my R-1000 (20m wire to the southwest) and Drake SSR-1 (to a short 5m wire inside the radio room): Voice of Reunification (KOR) male announcer in Korean on 3930 // 4558 // 6600 - all three frequencies are jammed by buzz jamming assumed coming from the DPRK. 3945 has two stations mixing - the stronger is playing pop-music and Korean talk and I think a weak jammer is in the mix also. 3985 has Korean talk and a buzz-jammer not // any of the other frequencies. All are quite strong between S9 and 20-over. *** The "infamously annoying motorboat" OTH-B buzzer is quite strong around 4500 +/- AND HAS A SHARP NULL at bearings 280/100 deg. azimuth. (via the Benmar's DFing loopstick). Assuming it is coming from the Pacific, this puts it on a bearing toward mid-PNG or Australia's Arnhem Land/Darwin, NT. Is anyone aware of such an installation in northern Australia? 73 for the mo - (Steve McGreevy, 1215 - 1240 UT, 11 March 2019, WOR iog via DXLD) Oh yes, and 2850 KCBS-DPRK (decent audio this morning) was not // 3320 that also has quite decent-sounding audio Q this morning as well. Lately, KCBS has been following RHC's example of distorted-audio on both of these signals, on certain days. Both modestly strong as usual (Steve McGreevy - follow-up at 1251z, ibid.) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 6085, Thursday March 7 at 1300, Sea Breeze earnest YL opening weekly English, alarm SFX, S7 and too weak to copy; from Yamata, JAPAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 7440, JAPAN, Shiokaze/Sea Breeze at 1630, open & W in Japanese - Fair/Good Mar 9 Barton-AZ 9690, TAIWAN, (Japanese v DPRK oppo via ROC relay) Furusato no kaze at 1600, mix of talk and music. Choral singing to sudden close at BoH - Good Mar 9 (Rick Barton, Arizona SW Logs, Grundig Satellit 205(T.5000) & 750; HQ-200 RS SW-2000629, & ATS-909X with various outdoor wires. 73 and Good Listening....! WOR iog via DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH. By 1400 UT the big ROK signal HLCA 972 had some audio (male in Korean) in the 970 splatter via my DX-200 and Tecsun AN-200 loop - HLCA was stronger than yesterday morning but nothing like last November's superb TP condx! SpM -- N6NKS (Steve McGreevy, CA, March 11, WOR iog via DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH. Recibida QSL especial B18 de KBS World Radio Ciao a tutti gli amici del gruppo! Ecco i dati relativi alla conferma QSL ricevuta all'inizio di marzo dall'emittente pubblica sud-coreana: KBS World Radio - 9740 kHz - 29-30/12/2018 1800 UT con cartolina QSL speciale, un modulo rapporto d'ascolto e un adesivo in 64 giorni. Rapporto d'ascolto inviato all'indirizzo spanish[at]kbs.co.kr La cartolina è visionabile al seguente URL: https://acquamarina.blogspot.com 73 da (Nino Marabello, QTH: Treviso, Italia, 10 Mar, playdx yg via DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH. 5995, Echo of Hope - Voice of Hope (VOH), March 5, at 0659. Still checking here for any sign of Mali, but clearly VOH, along with N. Korea jamming (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) Re: [WOR] Echo of Hope - VOH with English language lesson --- March 6 - Again heard VOH (4885) with very readable English language lesson; 1245+. So is this now on daily for about 15 minutes? My audio at http://bit.ly/2C7mMjA (Ron Howard, California, WOR iog via DXLD) March 7, again heard VOH (4885) with English language program, but today 0952-0957 UT; tuned in to program already in progress (0945-0957?). At 0957, chimes and ID for "VOH." Seems VOH is running a three hour program loop, with the same shows being heard every three hours. My audio today: https://app.box.com/s/j0bfgm7kaye4x41upjfjlfb0jkak47yn (Ron Howard, California, WOR iog via DXLD) 4885, Echo of Hope - VOH, 1238, March 8. Finally heard the start of the 20 minute English language lesson here. Program is "Easy English," in English and Korean. One of the announcers today was "happy Isaac" (on line I note his "Isaac Communication Center" [ICC]). My four minute audio today - http://bit.ly/2NNVzXu Website - http://home.ebs.co.kr/easye/main ICC productions on Youtube: "EBS Radio Tour - Easy-Fun English" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-IQhdIel-I "Hello from EBS radio" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw-ZDsGoT9c (Ron Howard, California, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1973, DXLD) 4885, Echo of Hope - VOH, with latest program schedule, given in Korean/English/Japanese at https://radio.chobi.net/DX/bbs/?res:3859 Voice of Freedom, 5920, on March 9, checking the Jeonyeog Bangsong (evening program at Korean time [weekend]), at 1000; heard the start of the "Bodo gwangjang" ("News plaza") program (thanks very much to both Amano [Japan] and Chulus [Korea] for their naming the various VOF programs); N. Korea jamming as usual, but still not too bad a reception. My audio at http://bit.ly/2XKIqDb (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH [and non]. Good Afternoon all, At 1700 UT I heard a KBS Radio ID on 6250 kHz above the jammer from the DPRK. Is this a normal occurrence for KBS programming on 6250? Noted using my personal Perseus SDR on a 700 metre beverage antenna at remote QTH in Finland Loc KP21rh. Best Regards, (Jordan Heyburn, UKOGBANI, March 5, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) Here`s all that is supposed to be around 6250 per Aoki/NDXC: 6250 0655-0100 KOR ECHO OF HOPE-VOH Kor Seoul 1-7 6250 0400-0600 KRE Echo of Unification Kor Pyongyang 1-7 6250 1200-1400 KRE Echo of Unification Kor Pyongyang 1-7 6250 2200-2400 KRE Echo of Unification Kor Pyongyang 1-7 6250 0625-0002 KRE North Korean Jamming Noi Kujang 1-7 6251 0000-2400 J Slot Machine QPS Ichihara 1-7 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH [and non]. KBS WORLD RADIO, A-19: 3955 2000 2100 28NW WOF 250 114 0 100 Deu G ENC 5920 0000 2400 44 HWA 10 0 0 935 Kor KOR KBS 5950 2000 2100 36-38W,46-47NW ISS 250 182 0 156 Fra F TDF 5975 0700 0200 33,34,44,45 HWA 100 0 0 935 Kor KOR KBS 6015 0400 2400 44N HWA 100 0 0 100 Kor KOR KBS 6020 0000 2400 44 HWA 10 0 0 935 Kor KOR KBS 6055 1500 1530 32E,33W KIM 250 305 0 146 Kor KOR KBS 6065 1100 1400 42E,43,44 KIM 250 290 0 101 Kor KOR KBS 6095 1000 1100 42-44 KIM 100 81 -15 216 Jpn KOR KBS 6095 1130 1230 29SE,30S,39,40 KIM 250 290 0 101 Zho KOR KBS 6095 1230 1330 29SE,30S,39,40 KIM 250 290 0 101 Eng KOR KBS 6100 0000 2400 44 HWA 10 0 0 935 Kor KOR KBS 6135 0000 2400 44 HWA 10 0 0 935 Kor KOR KBS 6145 1900 2000 27SE,37E WOF 250 172 0 551 Fra G ENC 6145 2000 2100 37S DHA 250 285 -15 146 Ara UAE ADM 6145 2000 2100 37S DHA 250 285 -15 146 Ara UAE ENC 6150 0700 0800 33,44 KIM 250 304 0 216 Kor KOR KBS 6150 1600 1700 30-33 KIM 250 304 0 216 Kor KOR KBS 6155 0800 1000 44,45 KIM 100 0 0 935 Jpn KOR KBS 6170 2100 2200 42-44 KIM 250 285 0 216 Kor KOR KBS 6170 2200 0100 42-44 KIM 250 285 0 216 Kor KOR KBS 7215 1300 1400 34SW,44N KIM 100 0 0 935 Rus KOR KBS 7215 1400 1600 41 KIM 250 264 0 101 Eng KOR KBS 7215 2300 2400 43,44 KIM 250 290 0 101 Zho KOR KBS 7235 1300 1400 34SW,44N KIM 100 0 0 935 Rus KOR KBS 7235 1400 1500 34SW,44N KIM 100 0 0 935 Rus KOR KBS 7240 2300 0200 44,45 KIM 250 0 0 935 Kor KOR KBS 7250 0700 1200 45 KIM 100 81 0 216 Kor KOR KBS 7255 1600 1700 39,40 KIM 250 285 0 216 Kor KOR KBS 7275 0700 0900 44,45 KIM 250 0 0 935 Jpn KOR KBS 7275 0900 1100 44,45 KIM 250 0 0 935 Kor KOR KBS 7275 1100 1300 44,45 KIM 250 0 0 935 Kor KOR KBS 7275 1300 1600 44,45 KIM 250 0 0 935 Zho KOR KBS 7275 1600 1800 28-39N,42-44NW KIM 250 305 0 206 Kor KOR KBS 7275 1800 2300 28-39N,42-44NW KIM 250 305 0 206 Eng KOR KBS 7275 2200 2400 42,43,44W KIM 250 275 0 146 Kor KOR KBS 7275 2300 2400 44S,49E KIM 100 225 0 156 Vie KOR KBS 7305 1400 1500 44S,49E KIM 100 205 0 156 Vie KOR KBS 9465 1600 1800 41N KIM 100 264 0 156 Eng KOR KBS 9515 1500 1700 28,29 KIM 250 285 0 216 Eng KOR KBS 9515 1700 1900 28,29 KIM 250 285 0 216 Kor KOR KBS 9525 2200 2400 43S,44S KIM 250 225 0 156 Kor KOR KBS 9570 0700 0900 44S,49,50,54N KIM 100 205 0 156 Eng KOR KBS 9570 0900 1100 44S,49,50,54N KIM 100 205 0 156 Kor KOR KBS 9570 1200 1300 44S,49,50,54N KIM 100 205 0 156 Ind KOR KBS 9570 1300 1400 44S,49,50,54N KIM 100 205 0 156 Eng KOR KBS 9570 1400 1500 44S,49,50,54N KIM 100 205 0 156 Ind KOR KBS 9580 0000 0200 45 KIM 250 81 -15 216 Jpn KOR KBS 9580 0200 0300 45 KIM 250 81 -15 216 Eng KOR KBS 9580 0300 0400 45 KIM 250 81 0 216 Eng KOR KBS 9580 2200 0300 42-44 KIM 250 285 0 216 Kor KOR KBS 9605 0100 0200 12,14,16 HRI 250 167 15 218 Spa USA FCC 9605 0100 0200 12,14 HRI 250 167 15 218 Spa USA ENC 9630 1800 2100 41 KIM 250 264 0 101 Eng KOR KBS 9640 0700 1100 29-33,44 KIM 250 319 0 216 Kor KOR KBS 9640 1400 1500 43SE,44S,49 KIM 100 225 0 156 Eng KOR KBS 9640 1500 1600 43SE,44S,49 KIM 100 225 0 156 Vie KOR KBS 9640 1600 1700 43SE,44S,49 KIM 100 225 0 156 Eng KOR KBS 9640 2100 2300 44S,49E,50 KIM 250 205 0 156 Kor KOR KBS 9645 1300 1400 30N,31N,32N KIM 100 304 0 216 Rus KOR KBS 9665 1500 1700 32 KIM 250 318 0 216 Kor KOR KBS 9690 0000 0200 43SE,44S,49 KIM 100 225 0 156 Vie KOR KBS 9690 0200 0300 43SE,44S,49 KIM 100 225 0 156 Eng KOR KBS 9705 1700 1900 29-30S,39,40 KIM 250 290 0 156 Kor KOR KBS 9740 1500 1800 39E,40 KIM 250 290 0 216 Kor KOR KBS 9740 1800 1900 39E,40 KIM 250 290 0 216 Spa KOR KBS 9750 2100 2400 32,33 KIM 250 304 0 216 Kor KOR KBS 9755 0000 0100 44,49,50 KIM 250 225 0 156 Kor KOR KBS 9755 2100 2400 44,49,50 KIM 250 225 0 156 Kor KOR KBS 9770 0800 1030 44S,49,50 KIM 100 225 0 156 Eng KOR KBS 9770 1030 1130 44S,49,50 KIM 100 225 0 156 Vie KOR KBS 9770 1130 1500 44S,49,50 KIM 100 225 0 156 Zho KOR KBS 9785 1400 1700 41 KIM 250 264 0 101 Eng KOR KBS 9785 1800 2100 41 KIM 250 264 0 101 Eng KOR KBS 9785 2300 2400 42,43,44W KIM 250 275 0 146 Kor KOR KBS 9805 0900 1100 45 KIM 100 81 -15 216 Jpn KOR KBS 9805 1300 1400 30-33W,40NE KIM 100 304 0 216 Rus KOR KBS 9805 1600 1700 44S,49,50,54 KIM 100 205 5 156 Ind KOR KBS 9805 2200 2300 44S,49,50,54 KIM 100 205 0 156 Ind KOR KBS 9805 2300 2400 44S,49,50,54 KIM 100 205 0 156 Zho KOR KBS 9810 1300 1330 43 KIM 250 270 0 216 Kor KOR KBS 9820 1800 1900 29N,29SE WOF 250 66 -12 611 Rus G ENC 9860 0700 0800 28 WOF 250 102 -12 618 Kor G ENC 9870 2200 2300 43N,44N KIM 250 290 0 216 Kor KOR KBS 9880 1400 1700 41 KIM 250 264 0 101 Eng KOR KBS 11715 2100 2400 30-32 KIM 250 305 0 216 Eng KOR KBS 11725 0100 0400 45 KIM 250 81 0 216 Eng KOR KBS 11725 1000 1200 14,45 KIM 250 96 0 216 Eng KOR KBS 11785 0000 0100 42,43,44W KIM 250 290 0 216 Eng KOR KBS 11795 1000 1200 45 KIM 250 81 0 216 Spa KOR KBS 11810 0000 0200 45 KIM 250 81 0 216 Spa KOR KBS 11810 0200 0300 45 KIM 250 81 0 216 Jpn KOR KBS 11810 0300 0400 45 KIM 250 81 0 216 Kor KOR KBS 11810 1300 1400 30N,31N,32N KIM 100 304 0 216 Rus KOR KBS 11810 2200 2400 28-32,38-44 KIM 250 304 0 216 Eng KOR KBS 11810 2300 2400 45 KIM 250 81 0 216 Kor KOR KBS 11850 1100 1200 32,42,43 KIM 250 290 0 216 Eng KOR KBS 11870 0100 0200 44S,49E KIM 100 205 0 156 Vie KOR KBS 11895 0000 0100 44N KIM 250 290 0 156 Eng KOR KBS 12065 1800 1900 29N,29SE WOF 250 66 -12 611 Rus G ENC 13670 0700 1100 43,44NW KIM 100 279 0 216 Eng KOR KBS 13670 1330 1500 41,43SE,44,49 KIM 100 249 0 216 Eng KOR KBS 13705 2200 2300 30-33 KIM 250 305 0 216 Eng KOR KBS 15155 2000 2400 43,44 KIM 100 250 0 216 Eng KOR KBS 15160 0700 1100 39E,40 KIM 250 290 0 216 Kor KOR KBS 15160 2200 2400 6 KIM 100 50 10 216 Eng KOR KBS 15210 0700 1100 29SE,30S,39,40 KIM 250 305 0 216 Eng KOR KBS 15575 0000 0300 01,02,06 KIM 250 40 0 216 Spa KOR KBS 15575 1300 1400 01,02,06 KIM 250 40 0 216 Eng KOR KBS 15575 1400 1500 01,02,06 KIM 250 40 0 216 Kor KOR KBS 15575 1600 2200 39E,40 KIM 250 290 0 216 Eng KOR KBS 15575 2200 2400 6,2 KIM 100 40 0 216 Eng KOR KBS 15575 2300 2400 45 KIM 100 0 0 935 Eng KOR KBS (KBS A-19 in hfcc database Febr 27 via BC-DX 7 Mar via DXLD) ** KUWAIT. Reception of MOI Radio Kuwait in 19mb, March 5 0500-0800 15529.7 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu English, very good & 0500-0900 15515.0 KBD 250 kW / 059 deg to EaAs Arabic Gen.Sce, fair https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/reception-of-moi-radio-kuwait-in-19mb.html MOI Radio Kuwait on very odd frequency in 16mb, March 5 1000-1200 17759.7 KBD 250 kW / 084 deg to SEAs Filipino, good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/moi-radio-kuwait-on-very-odd-frequency.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News March 4-5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Reception of MOI Radio Kuwait on very odd frequency Mar 10 1000-1200 17759.8 KBD 250 kW / 084 deg Filipino good but distorted https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/moi-radio-kuwait-on-very-odd-frequency_10.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News March 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5959.876, R Kuwait in Arabic from Kabd site. Talk by two woman. At 0411 UT, some program like radioplay, S=9+45dB powerhouse of -35dBm. 5860even, R Farda Persian program, phone in by male listener, powerhouse of S=9+35dB -40dBm powerhouse from IBB BBG relay Kuwait al-Dschahra suburb, US IBB BBG VoA / RL / RFA Kuwait relay site is n o t at Kabd location, rather 43 kilometers distance apart northerly at al-Dschahra suburb, 29 30 45.59 N 47 40 17.84 E QSL via report sent to: Some log of Doha Qatar in 0400-0429 UT time slot this ME morning: [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 11, dxldyg via DXLD) ** LATVIA [and non]. 1602, Radio Center will be on the air March 1st from Riga, Latvia on the old frequency of 1485 kHz with a special program for NRB (National Religious Broadcasters) convention attendees. Then they will move to the new frequency. The new transmitter is mentioned as powerful as they intend to reach every Russian community in Eastern Europe. Radio Center is moving from Moscow to Riga, but studios will still remain in Moscow. When 1602 kHz is on the air is not known (Andrey Nekrasov, Moscow via WRTH fb group 27.2.2019 via ARC mv-eko 11 mars via DXLD) ** LIBERIA, 6050, ELWA Radio, Monrovia, March 5, from 0703+. pop African music/singing; certainly seemed to be in English, with African accent, but unreadable for me. First time I have heard them on this frequency; thanks very much to Dave Valko, for his alert that he was hearing them with unusually good reception on March 3 - "English sign off announcements at 2229 UT, then played the instrumental Liberian national anthem, this much stronger than in the past." Have indeed listened to his surprisingly clear audio (very nice, Dave!!). Am very pleased to have finally heard this myself (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) 6050, ELWA Radio, Monrovia, 0630-0655, 10-03, English, religious comments and songs. 34433 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** MACEDONIA NORTH. 2430 Harmonic, Macedonian Radio Home Sce (3rd harmonic of MW 810). On 15/2 from 1900 in Bulgarian (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF2001D,Folded Marconi antenna), March Australian DX News via DXLD) ** MADAGASCAR. 6180, March 9 at 0336, Spanish from La Voz Alegre as MWV is scheduled this hour only; no sign of Portuguese from RNA; nor anything else. Presumably if reactivated on 6180, RNA would be closing around local midnight now, 0300 UT; while CRI Mandarin via CUBA is also there until 0300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MADAGASCAR. SEE ALASKA OBIT [WORLD OF RADIO 1973] ** MADEIRA. 1530, Posto Emissor do Funchal, Poiso, 0630-0647, 10-03, Spanish and Portuguese songs, Portuguese, advertisements and comments. Very weak. 13221 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** MALI. 15125, CRI Bamako relay 1750-1757*, Swahili broadcast featuring Chinese language lesson till 1756 when music began. 1757 OM’s IDs & transmission ended. Good on 3/3. Fair on // 13645. Glad to see this site re-activated (Don Hosmer, from the lost city of Damon, north of West Branch MI, ICOM IC-7200, CommRadio Cr-1a &/or XHData D-808 + G5RV dipoles & W6LVP loop, MARE Tipsheet 8 March via DXLD) Back on the air; I was Second-Hand Charlie as John Figliozzi in New York was the first to report RTVM's reactivation on 5995 kHz with decent modulation. I heard it today (3/4) from 2234 UT tune-in to 2337 when the carrier dropped. Dan Robinson in DC reports that the web stream continued past 0000, when the 49-meter channel previously signed off. Presumably RTVM's 31-meter channel (9635 kHz) will reappear too, but I'm safely in bed then (0800 UTC sign-on). The signal level here in Kalamazoo was amazing, as was the modulation. Hopefully it holds up for a while (Andy Robins, MI, MARE Tipsheet 8 March via DXLD) 5995, 2235-2340 4.3, R Mali, Kati, Bamako - reactivated after six months silence! French reports about Mali, Afropop, 43433, QRM transmitter noise 5995, 2030-2040 7.3, R Mali, Kati, Bamako, vernacular talk, Afropop, 32432, best in USB due to Romanian QRM from 5990 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, latest loggings on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, Wbradio yg via DXLD) Re: Mali 5995 at 2215 --- Audio fixed!! have heard their unmodulated open carrier. For months (Chris, Lobdell, MA, 5 March 1258 UT, NASWA iog via DXLD) But lately had not even been a carrier (gh) [and non-log]. 5995, ORTM, March 5, checking 0558-0605, no signal here; later heard Korea. On 9635, at 0840, on March 5, possibly Mali(?); very tentative; very weak (not the signal strength I was expecting to hear if them) (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) 5995: Nothing heard on automated overnight (5 March) recording using U. Twente SDR receiver from 0545 past 0700 UT (-- Richard Langley, NB, WOR iog via DXLD) Nothing heard at 2210 today, March 5. Meanwhile ELWA - 6050 has a fair signal with US religious programming (Stephen C Wood, E. Dennis, MA, Perseus SDR, 30 x 15 terminated superloop antenna, ibid.) (presumed): 13685, China Radio Int’l; 1515-1532+, 3/5; English interview with a visiting professor discussing world dominance; Prof said, “I still believe Communism is evil.” BoH “Good Morning Beijing” spot into English biz news. SIO=252+ fady; // 15700 via Cuba which was S30 but muffled. No listed //s via China were audible. 13685 is a former CRI/Mali freq; Mali site reportedly back on the air (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time. ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. UNKNOWNIA: 11640, China Radio Int’l; 1945-1958:06*, *1958:24-2001+, 3/5; Portuguese/Chinese lesson to 1956 ID by M in PP to brief music fill; DA 1956:33-1958:06*; OC back on at 1958:24 into English with ID at 2000:04, SIO=2+53-. OC drop implies a transmitter change. 11640 was previously listed from Mali for both the PP & EE segments. Sig strength/quality for the EE segment definitely not as good as for the PP segment. Nothing detectable on 13630 before or after 2000 which was previously listed from Mali. One of these may be from Mali, but probably not both. Listed English //s via China; 9600 & 9440 poor if them, 5985, 7295 & 7415 not audible; via Albania 5960 poor if them, 7285 SIO=3+33 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time. ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5995: And nothing noted again this morning (6 March) using the U. Twente SDR receiver between 0600 and 0800 UT (-- Richard Langley, WOR iog via DXLD) 5995, March 6 at 2305, no signal from ORTM. AFAIK no one has heard anything from ORTM or the CRI relays since they came back on March 2-4, right? 5995, March 7 at 2214, S6-S7 very poor music, but must be ORTM reactivated again after a few more days AWOL. Richard Langley says it went off at 2230* instead of nominal previous schedule to 2400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) My automated daily recordings of 5995 kHz starting at 0600 and 1800 UT using the U. Twente SDR receiver are showing nothing. I'll add 11640 and 13630 kHz for 2000 to 2130 UT to see if anything pops up (-- Richard Langley, 1847 UT March 7, WOR iog via DXLD) Using the U. Twente SDR receiver, I see a weak carrier at 5994.997 kHz at 1932 UT and some faint voice and earlier there was faint African-sounding music. Signal is being clobbered by strong signals to either side so it's hard to make out (-- Richard Langley, 1935 UT March 7, ibid.) 5995: Better signal via Canary Islands' SDR at 1935. Unknown language with a lot of French in it. ID as "Radio Mali" at 2000. Program in French at 2000. Does anyone know of a webstream for Radio Mali? There are two radio streams on their website but these seem to be for the National Radio 1st and 2nd Channel (Hans Johnson, FL, 2000 UT March 7, WOR iog via DXLD) A follow up to my comments on Glenn's log question. Heard "Radio Mali" ID at 2000 UT just now. A little easier to understand now that "blabbermouth" on 6000 kHz signed off. But still significant QRM from RRI on 5990 kHz. I should go home to see how 5995 kHz is making it to the east coast of NA (-- Richard Langley, NB, 2004 UT, ibid.) But nothing on 11640 or 13630 kHz for CRI in English (-- Richard Langley, 2006 UT, ibid.) 5995, Radio Mali, Bamako, 1945-2004 , 07-03, French, comments, the weather in Bamako, more comments, some comments in vernacular, at 2000 ID "Radio Mali", "Radio Mali, ORTM", "Bamako" and more comments in French, mentioned "Bamako" and "Conakry". Slight QRM on 5990. Clear and strong signal, transmitter problems fixed. 43443 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, WOR iog via DXLD) Glen[n], days 5 and 6 without reception here. I also realized that there was no sign on 11640 CRI via Bamako. Now at 2045 without a signal in 5995, but Manuel Méndez heard it today between 1945-2004. 73 (Jorge Freitas, My Blog: https://dxlogfreitas.blogspot.com/ Local time -3 UT, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12°14´S 38°58´W - Brasil, Tecsun PL-310ET, Antenna Delta Loop 8,5 meters-, ibid.) Recorded 5995 kHz from home here in NB this afternoon/evening starting around 2130 UT. Will check how long they were audible and report back later (— Richard Langley, 0018 UT March 8, ibid.) Off at 2230 UT [Mar 7] with what might have been a string instrument IS for a few seconds. No announcement (-- Richard Langley, 0351 UT Mar 8, ibid.) 5995, Radio Mali, Bamako, checked this morning, 08-03, at 0600, 0630, 0700, 0720, 0800, and no trace of this station at this time. No signal also on 9635 at 0800, 0830, 0900 and 0915. Seems to be on air irregularly only in the late evening (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, WOR iog via DXLD) Ditto from my overnight recording using the U. Twente SDR receiver. (-- Richard Langley, March 8 1245 UT, ibid.) Noted this afternoon (8 March) with a weakish signal at 2000 UT in English using the U. Twente SD receiver. Presumably Bamako transmitter. There was a signal before 2000 too. Probably CRI in Portuguese. Nothing on 11640 kHz at the same time (-- Richard Langley, WOR iog via DXLD) WTFK? Replying to a post titled 13630 (gh) Not on this evening (8 March) either? Not detected here in NB. (-- Richard Langley, 2156 UT, WOR iog via DXLD) No, not on the evening of March 8. I have been checking between 1930 and 2110 and nothing on 5995. Best 73,s (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, WOR iog via DXLD) CHINA ou MALI? Bamako-MLI ou Kashgar-CHN? 13630. 8/3/2019, 1946-1956, Radio Internacional da China, Bamako-MLI, em Português. Locutor e locutora apresentam Aula de Chinês; 1955 ID e sked em português, em locução masculina; 1957 IS. Recepção ótima, 45554. 13630. 8/3/2019, 2000-2010, China Radio International, Bamako-MLI, em Inglês. ID e segue-se o noticiário em locução feminina. Recepção satisfatória, 35433. 11640 kHz, not air, and 13630k Hz, on air, all this time (JRX_José Ronaldo Xavier, SWARL Callsign PR7036SWL, Receptor (es): Degen DE1103 & Tecsun S-2000, Cabedelo-PB, Brasil (UTC-3), WORiog via DXLD) 13630, CRI (via Bamako relay) at 2120, monologue with woman in English, sorta sounded like a VoA broadcast at tunein. Sudden close at 2130 - Fair/Good Mar 8 (Rick Barton, Arizona SW Logs, Grundig Satellit 205(T.5000) & 750; HQ-200 RS SW-2000629, & ATS-909X with various outdoor wires. 73 and Good Listening....! WOR iog via DXLD) And nothing today, 9 of March in the morning. Checked between 0600 and 0815. We will see if this back to the air of Radio Mali is not a matter of a few days, like Radio Malabo, 6250, July 2017, only three days on air with good signal and then silence forever (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, WOR iog via DXLD) Today March 9, CRI via two transmitters in Bamako from 1300 French 13685 & 17880 from 1400 English 13685 & 17630 (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, 1415 UT, WOR iog via DXLD) ** MALI. 5995, Radio Mali, Bamako, 1945-2004, 07-03, French, comments, the weather in Bamako, more comments, some comments in vernacular, at 2000 ID "Radio Mali", "Radio Mali, ORTM", "Bamako" and more French comments, mentioned "Bamako" and "Conakry". Slight QRM on 5990. 43443. (Méndez) Also *1801-1910, 09-03, vernacular comments, African songs, at 1850 news in English, male, news about Mali and other African countries, mentioned "Mali", "Bamako", "West Africa", other comments in English "Here in Mali ...", male and female, at 1903 more comments in English, at 1904 “The summary of the African and other news”, “Radio Mali, news in English next Saturday at the same time”, 1906 identification in French and Vernacular comments. Also 2050-2110, 09-03, French, comments, ID. At 2100 “Radio Mali, Bamako”, news and comments. 34433. (Méndez) 9635, Radio Mali, Bamako, 1630-1801*, 09-03, Vernacular, comments, mentioned “Bamako”, African songs. Between 1730-1801 strong QRM from IBRA Radio on the same frequency. 33433. (Méndez) Also, *0945-1130, 10-03, initiating transmission at about 0945 with vernacular comments, 0957 African songs, at 1002 mentioned "Mali", more vernacular comments, at 1030 French comments. Transmission cut off abruptly at 1035, but returns at 1120. Good and clear signal. 44444. No early transmission on 5995 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1973, DXLD) [and non]. 13685, March 9 at 1512, CRI English is JBA but same as on 15700 via Cuba; so Bamako relay is funxioning today (Earlier circa 1340 had JBA carrier on 13685.7, Turkey off-frequency in Uighur) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALI. Reception of China Radio International via Bamako, March 8 1400-1557 on 13685 BKO 100 kW / 111 deg to SoAf English, fair/good 1400-1557 on 17630 BKO 100 kW / 085 deg to CeAf English, not on air 1600-1657 on 15125 BKO 100 kW / 085 deg to CEAf Arabic, not on air 1600-1657 on 17880 BKO 100 kW / 020 deg to NEAf Arabic, poor/weak 1700-1757 on 13645 BKO 100 kW / 111 deg to CEAf Swahili, not on air 1700-1757 on 15125 BKO 100 kW / 111 deg to CEAf Swahili, fair/good 1800-1827 on 11640 BKO 100 kW / 085 deg to WCAf Hausa, not on air 1800-1827 on 13645 BKO 100 kW / 111 deg to WeAf Hausa, good signal 1830-1927 on 11640 BKO 100 kW / 085 deg to CeAf Arabic, not on air 1830-1927 on 13685 BKO 100 kW / 020 deg to NEAf Arabic, very good 1930-1957 on 11640 BKO 100 kW / 111 deg to SoAf Portuguese, not on air 1930-1957 on 13630 BKO 100 kW / 111 deg to SoAf Portuguese, v poor/JBA 2000-2127 on 11640 BKO 100 kW / 111 deg to CEAf English, not on air 2000-2127 on 13630 BKO 100 kW / 111 deg to CEAf English, very poor/JBA 2130-2227 on 11975 BKO 100 kW / 020 deg to WeAf French, fair/good 2130-2227 on 13630 BKO 100 kW / 111 deg to CEAf French, not on air 2230-2357 on 11975 BKO 100 kW / 020 deg to NEAf Chinese, very weak 2230-2357 on 15505 BKO 100 kW / 085 deg to CeAf Chinese, not on air Line 1(tx#1): 1400 on 13685; 1600 on 17880; 1700 on 15125; 1800 on 13645; 1830 on 13685; 1930 on 13630; 2000 on 13630; 2130 on 11975; 2230 on 11975 Line 2(tx#2): 1400 on 13685; 1600 on 15125; 1700 on 13645; 1800 on 11640; 1830 on 11640; 1930 on 11640; 2000 on 11640; 2130 on 13630; 2230 on 15505 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/reception-of-china-radio-international.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News March 8, WORLD OF RADIO 1973, DXLD) RTC technicians seemingly refurbished Bamako relay site now after 15 years in usage, and both countries MLI and CHN signed a new relay site contract for coming 10 or 15 years issue to come in A-19 from 31 March 2019? Noted some SDR remote installations in Doha Qatar, Greece, Italy at 1435 UT: 17630 S=8-9 in Doha Qatar, S=9 in Italy and Greece. 13685 S=7-8 in Doha Qatar, Greece, Italy. But nearby IBB Botswana channel from southerly Africa on 13630 kHz was little stronger on pure S=9 signal at same time slot. 73 wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, March 9, dxldyg via DXLD) wb, what is your source about the new contract, or are you just speculating? (gh, DXLD) Do you mean a new relay contract or really a new site, too? Thanks, (Mauno Ritola, dxldyg via DXLD) "Seemingly" of course means that this is a description of presumed arrangements. I have never seen any details about the Chinese engagement in Mali. The question about the site is in fact a very interesting one. First there is the shortwave-only station at Kati: https://binged.it/2u2i3v5 Then there is the MW/FM/TV station between Bamako and Kati which has also shortwave antennas, essentially the same set of bearings as at Kati: https://binged.it/2u23rLW These antennas are of a design that appears to be connected with a use of US-made transmitters. And now take a look at this: https://www.swcountry.be/mli.html Anything else remains plain speculation (including the question whether the alleged three transmitters from 1996 have now been refurbished or perhaps completely replaced; all the previous equipment appears to have been decommissioned already years ago, leaving only 2 x CRI plus 9635/5995 ORTM), but at least it is obvious that the history of the Bamako shortwave operations is a bit more complicated and interesting. By the way, any memories how the Radio Beijing relays sounded when they began in 1987? Was it the same 200...3400 Hz crap with lots of nonlinear distortion as still heard via Switzerland, Russia and France during the nineties? (Kai Ludwig, March 11, WOR iog via DXLD) Here's an old (2009) news item about 3 SW transmitters installed by China. Header says 150 kW but text says 2 x 100 kW for CRI and 1 x 50 kW for Radio Mali. But who knows. I get an impression these are near Bamako (some 10 km) on the Kati Road. Nearby there is also radio center called Point G - I guess for TV etc. operation. The text says the two shortwave transmitters are leased to China for 10 years (2007-2017). http://malijet.com/a_la_une_du_mali/14052-installation_de_trois_metteurs_ondes_courtes_de_150_kw_le_mali_e.html 73, (Jari Savolainen, Finland, ibid.) Very good signal in Arabic at 1600 on 15125 & 17880 (Ivo Ivanov, March 9, ibid.) 9635, Radio Mali, Bamako, (presumed), 1503-1531, 09-03, non stop African songs. Clear signal. 34433 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, WOR iog via DXLD) Fair to good signal and good modulation of ORTM Radio Mali on March 9: 1640&1725 9635 BKO 050 kW / non-dir WeAf Bambara, not French or Arabic from 1730 9635 WOF 250 kW / 140 deg CEAf Tigre FEBA Radio Sama co-ch https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/fair-to-good-signal-and-good-modulation.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News March 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) China Radio International via 2 txs in Bamako, March 9: 1300-1357 on 13685*BKO 100 kW / 111 deg to WeAf French, good signal 1300-1357 on 17880 BKO 100 kW / 111 deg to WeAf French, fair signal 1400-1557 on 13685*BKO 100 kW / 111 deg to SoAf English, weak signal 1400-1557 on 17630 BKO 100 kW / 085 deg to CeAf English, good signal *1330-1425 13685.7 EMR 500 kW / 072 deg to CeAs Uyghur VOTurkey QRM! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/china-radio-international-via-2-txs-in.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News March 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CHINA (non). China R Int`l in Arabic being heard on 15125 and 17880 kHz 9 March at 1640 UT - presumed via Mali. Fair signal with some deep fades - stronger on 17880 (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, WOR iog via DXLD) Also heard here in central Alberta. 17880 Excellent until abrupt off at 1655 March 9. 15125 fair to off at 1657 plus UT (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, AB, ibid.) Good signal in Swahili at 1700 on both 13645 & 15125 (Ivo Ivanov, March 9, WOR iog via DXLD) Clear "Radio Mali" ID at 1704 UT while monitoring/recording using the U. Twente SDR receiver. Programming might be in Bambara. Definitely not in French and doesn't sound like classical Arabic (-- Richard Langley, ibid.) 9635: Good signal here at 1700, but language is not French or Arabic, probably Bambara (Ivo Ivanov, 1709 Mar 9, ibid.) So, with two CRI frequencies and the Radio Mali frequency on at the same time, it seems that all three Bamako transmitters are now operational (-- Richard Langley, ibid.) Occasionally a few words of French, such as numbers, noted during the current extensive monologue (-- Richard Langley, 1728 UT Mar 9, ibid.) These are phone numbers (Jean-Michel Aubier, France, ibid.) Battle now (since 1730 UT) between Mali and IBRA Radio on the same frequency (-- Richard Langley, 1736, ibid.) Woofferton, Arabic -1900 Mali might have switched to 5995 kHz around 1800. Only one station now on 9635 kHz, presumably IBRA Radio continuing. Only weak carrier and occasional very weak audio on 5995 kHz detected using the U. Twente SDR receiver (-- Richard Langley, 1806 UT, ibid.) Yes, closed at 1801 on 9635 and open on 5995. Here in Friol fair signal now at 1816, African songs and comments in vernacular, QRM on 5990 and 6000. On 9635, between 1730 and 1801, strong QRM from IBRA Radio, but for moments Mali more strong than IBRA here in Friol (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, 1821 UT, ibid.) English from Radio Mali ORTM also confirmed here from 1850-1906 UTC on 5995. I last heard the English news from Mali back in 2008 when it was broadcast on Saturdays at 1920 UT on 5995, but over the past 10 years the SW modulation from Bamako has been so poor that its been impossible to confirm it again - until today! Very pleased to have Mali back on SW and a nice surprise to catch their elusive weekly English broadcast again. 73s (Dave (listening online via Kiwi SDR in Tenerife) Kenny, UK, WOR iog via DXLD) As well as the CRI relay station in Bamako (thanks to Alan Roe for the message earlier) Radio Mali's SW transmitter has also been repaired and is back on the air today, with good audio modulation for the first time in years. Radio Mali's daytime frequency 9635 was confirmed from tune-in earlier this afternoon until 1800 UT when they switched to their evening frequency 5995 kHz. From 1850 to 1906 they carried the weekly news magazine in English. The SW schedule as per WRTH is: 9635 khz 0800-1800 UTC 5995 kHz 0555-0800 and 1800-2400 73s (Dave (listening online via Kiwi SDR in Tenerife) Kenny, 1912 March 9, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) Mali also noted on 5995 from 1920 tune from KiwiSDR in W. Iceland (TF1VHF) - very nice signal but needed USB to clear QRM from 5990. After 1930 QRM got heavier from both 5990 and 6000. The 5990 station had splash 10 kHz wide making Mali a challenge. Program in vernacular at 1920 with two men conversing then into Malian music at 1923 to 1930. At 1930 switched to French program with man announcer "Ici Bamako" and into a feature program (news or commentary?) with several men and a woman talking and what sounded like remote reports (French). SINPO 32443 (Bruce Churchill, 1944 UT, WOR iog via DXLD) Me too! ;-) Using the U. Twente SDR receiver but QRM was quite severe from 5990 and 6000 kHz. Reception here in NB at 2100 was pretty good. Not sure 5995 kHz will propagate that well around 1900 but might try next Saturday to see how good reception of the English segment might be (-- Richard Langley, NB, 2127 UT March 9, ibid.) R Mali 5995 noted at 2145 from KiwiSDR in Perth (VK6MSC) in the clear but weak SINPO 25332. 8,650-mile+ path length with gray line at Perth. (Bruce Churchill, ibid.) Got it here on the west coast of Florida. Very nice signal on a barefoot Panasonic RF-B65. Guinea on 9650 is coming in like a local. Africans in the late afternoon... brings back some great memories (sigh) :) (John in Sarasota Figliozzi, 2212 UT March 9, WOR iog via DXLD) Yes I agree 100% re old memories. Mali very good here at 2206z tune in today - OM in Arabic(?) with news(?) until 2220z then fast drums into very high pitched YL singing with guitar music. 2230z back to an excited OM with mentions of Mali. Solid S9 here but thunderstorms on the way so dealing with distant lightning crashes - time to unplug things (Rich Near Chicago Ray, Watkins Johnson HF-1000 and Wellbrook 330s loop at 30', ibid.) [non] Here strong signal from Echo of Hope and N Korean jamming on 5995, no chance for Radio Mali (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, 2243 UT, ibid.) Yes John, huge signal here in Alberta at 2257. I agree; those afternoon Africans brings back some great memories. 73 (Mick Delmage, ibid.) But more like on 60 metres, Ghana 4915, etc. (gh, ibid.) Back from Winterfest where the buzz is the return of Mali to shortwave. Here is what I heard this weekend. 5995, Radio Nationale du Mali at 2257 UT March 9 in French with conversations over the phone. Almost like a contest. Great west African music and IDs heard throughout. Transmission abruptly ended at 2358:58. Excellent (Delmage, AB) 9635, Radio Nationale du Mali at 1746 UT March 9 in lang? with talk and music. Poor (Delmage, AB) 15125, China Radio International at 1702 UT March 9 in (presumed) Swahili. Fair. 13645 I believe to be in // but was getting clobbered by Radio Kuwait DRM hash. (Delmage, AB) 17780 [sic: must be 17880], MALI China Radio International at 1654 UT March 9 with talk between a man and a women in Arabic. Excellent signal // 15125 kHz at a fair level. 17780 had an abrupt off at 1655. Rx: Perseus SDR. Ant: Wellbrook ALA100 loop. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta, WOR iog via DXLD) Hi Mick, I want to catch this one and assumed it was not audible mid-day here in eastern Calif, but I see your 2257 UT logging rated "excellent" - sunset at 2257z 09 March was at PEI and Anguilla to Buenos Aires or so (via an old DOS program "Geochron 6.0" on the world map setting). So a big portion of Mali 5995 is a daylight path to Alberta! Wow, they must be packing a lot of ERP toward your area and I suspect I out to be able to receive it here in the desert, also(?) tnx for that tip. Quoting Mick: "5995 MALI Radio Nationale du Mali at 2257 UT March 9 in French (snip) Transmission abruptly ended at 2358:58. Excellent (Delmage, AB)" -- (Steve McGreevy, N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com -- all of my DXing is a very non-common and a most-odd pursuit done only by night owl types, WOR iog via DXLD) 5995. 9/3/2019, 1922-2015, Radio Mali, Bamaco, em Francês. Locução masculina seguida de música local: Cantora interpreta uma canção; 1930 Locutor fala noticias, presumivelmente; 1936 Conversa com um político maliano: falam em constituição e assembleia nacional, 1939 Locução feminina conversando, também, com o cidadão; 1950 Terminam as notícias e comentários e música; 1955 Notícias e comentários; 2010 Uma música; 2014 Noticias desde Bamaco. Recepção variou de muito pobre (25322) e, a partir das 1945 UT em diante, melhorou sensivelmente a recepção, 35433. 13630. 9/3/2019, 2020-2037, China Radio International, Bamaco, em Inglês. Locutor e locutora falam sob fundo musical ao violão; 2030 Outras falas. Ótima recepção, 45554. Escuta paralela por 11640 kHz (hoje está on-air!), Bamaco-MLI, 45554. 13630. 9/3/2019, 2202-2212, Radio Chine Internationale, Bamaco, em Francês. Conversação entre a locutora e um cidadão, tudo com fundo musical; 2208 Uma canção chinesa. Recepção com bom sinal e modulação satisfatória, 45433 (JRX_José Ronaldo Xavier, SWARL Callsign PR7036SWL, Receptor (es): Degen DE110 & Tecsun S-2000, Cabedelo-PB, Brasil, WOR iog via DXLD) Radio Mali, Bamako, initiating transmission today on 9635 at about 0945 with vernacular comments, 0957 African songs, at 1002 mentioned "Mali", more vernacular comments. Good and clear signal. 44444. No early transmission on 5995 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, March 10, WOR iog via DXLD) Radio Mali was mentioned several times in the AWR Italian language DX programme on 9610 this morning. My Italian is non-existent. Perhaps we have a member who heard the programme and can update us (David J Morris, Sunday March 10, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) Hi, David, you listened to my program right on AWR Europe, it was the news of the reactivation, nothing new compared to what we have written here (Roberto Scaglione, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Continued to monitor/record Radio Mali at home last night (9 March). Stayed on the air until 0000 UT, then off abruptly. Don't think there was any closing ID, etc. A bit hard to tell as there was strong QRM splash from CRI via Havana on 5990 kHz (-- Richard Langley, NB, WOR iog via DXLD) Radio Mali, Bamako, initiating transmission today on 9635 at about 0945 with vernacular comments, 0957 African songs, at 1002 mentioned "Mali", more vernacular comments. Good and clear signal. 44444. No early transmission on 5995 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, March 10, WOR iog via DXLD) At 1030 in French, but suddenly off at 1035. 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, ibid.) Yes, transmission cut off abruptly at 1035. Signal returns, after several attempts, at about 1120, vernacular comments and African songs. 73,s (Manuel Méndez, ibid.) [and non]. 11640, MALI, CRI at 2044 // 7285 (Good via Albania) with “Alight on Literature” with a man and a woman talking about a book that compares Chinese history with Shakespeare's writings and into “Chinese Studio” language lesson at 2055 – Good Mar 10 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Drake SPR-4, Kenwood TS440S, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD), ODXA iog via DXLD) Re: [WOR] Radio Mali on 5995 now with news and comments in English --- Can someone get a good recording of this English segment and make available to everyone? Thanks (Dan Robinson, March 10, WOR iog via DXLD) I should be able to get that done but can you tell me when is the English broadcast and on which freq? (Rich Ray, ibid.) Not sure -- from reports, looks like somewhere in the 1800-1950 range (Dan, ibid.) Reading back in the thread, Dan, it might be a Saturday only broadcast for English. Here is the original post by Manuel ... 73 (Mick Delmage, ibid.) OK - thx gents - I will try to get a nice recording this coming weekend. Stay tuned, (Rich Ray, ibid.) [by Sat Mar 16, 5995 was missing around 1900; and on Sun Mar 17, 9635 was found to stay on past 1900 --- gh] 5995 very clear here 2235z tune in till 2359z then adjacent channel interference March 10 (Rich Ray, ibid.) My recording of the English segment using the U. Twente SDR receiver last Saturday is quite poor due to the heavy QRM. I can catch a few words now and then (especially when the women are speaking) but that's about all. Will try to record it from my home QTH next Saturday, hoping that 5995 kHz will propagate at least at a minimal level to NB that early and, if it does, that adjacent QRM will not be too bad. (-- Richard Langley, ibid.) Today switched from 9635 to 5995 at 1859. Better signal on 9635, 5995 with a lot of interference now, 1904 UT, on 5990 and 6000 kHz. Vernacular comments, ID in French: "La Radio Nationale" (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, March 10, WOR iog via DXLD) Again, Manuel can you get a recording of any English ID's or segments for us and post here? Thanks (Dan Robinson, ibid.) Sorry, I have not recorded the yesterday English program. Best 73,s (Manuel, ibid.) Will be looking for them. Too bad they don't bring back the 25 meter frequency. It used to be heard on the west coast in our late local mornings at armchair level (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria. BC, ibid.) 11960v (gh, DXLD) 11975, (CHINA-non) CRI relay Bamako; 2155z French announcements by woman, playing excerpts from an interview with M in French. 2215z Chinese/French language lesson. Fair-Good (Steve Wiseblood, RGV TX, 3/10, WOR iog via DXLD) 13630, CRI (via Bamako relay) at 2200. More Mali! Talk program with M, W, in French. Unknown if talk program is inane (like much of the English programming). Pop male vocal at the quarter hour, open carrier at 2228 and off - Good Mar 10 (Rick Barton, Arizona SW Logs, Grundig Satellit 205(T.5000) & 750; HQ-200 RS SW-2000629, & ATS-909X with various outdoor wires. 73 and Good Listening....! WOR iog via DXLD) China Radio International via 2 txs in Bamako on March 10 1300-1357 on 13685 BKO 100 kW / 111 deg to WeAf French, fair/good 1300-1357 on 17880 BKO 100 kW / 111 deg to WeAf French, good signal 1400-1557 on 13685 BKO 100 kW / 111 deg to SoAf English, very weak 1400-1557 on 17630 BKO 100 kW / 085 deg to CeAf English, good signal From 1445 no signal on 13685/17630 and from 1600 on 15125/17880 kHz! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/china-radio-international-via-2-txs-in_10.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News March 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) In April 2018, when the last transmissions from Bamako ended "Ying Lian" replied: "the Bamako relay station had suspended to work because the contract between our station and Mali had expired, it will take some times to renew the contract." But there was also definitely need for maintenance, because just a couple of transmissions were on the air for at least two years before that (Mauno Ritola, WOR iog via DXLD) Re: [WOR] CRI Back on 13630 kHz --- Is the weak signal I hear (I think it's in English) with "soft" modulation levels now at 2122 UT / 11 March(?). This is on my bedroom DX-394 on an antenna far better suited for LF-MF DXing. I will go out back in my field and try on my SW7600GR next. Out in the back field in the cold wind I could hear it a tad better - an English interview with a lady - sounds like CRI I think; deep, sporadic QSB and only a few words audible on signal peaks. But it also sounds-like a VOA/BBG/IBB relay, or whateverthey are today. Tnx for the cool Mali stories, fellows! (Steve McGreevy -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com -- all of my DXing is done real-time sometime during the day or night when I am not sleeping but it's more fun from an airliner, WOR iog via DXLD) Stronger now at 2221 and in French or African-French flavored accent. Could this be an IBB relay, formerly rented by CRI too? A true in-Timbuctu situation --- once peaceful but not long ago I read about al of the relic-smuggling OUT of Mali, away from rebel groups, in-order to save and preserve rare Islamic scrolls. Truly desert exotica; few places exist NOT on Google Earth photos/Panoramio-before (SpM -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com -- all of my DXing is done real- time with audio-amplifiers DXing 1.7 kHz tweeks, WOR iog via DXLD) ** MALI. CRI relay A-19, time sorted, all BKO 100 kW 7295 0800 0900 46E 0 925 310319 271019 Hau MLI CRI RTC 13685 1300 1400 53 111 206 310319 271019 Fra MLI CRI RTC 17880 1300 1400 53 111 216 310319 271019 Fra MLI CRI RTC 13685 1400 1500 53 111 206 310319 271019 Eng MLI CRI RTC 17630 1400 1500 47E,48 85 206 310319 271019 Eng MLI CRI RTC 13685 1500 1600 53 111 206 310319 271019 Eng MLI CRI RTC 17630 1500 1600 47E,48 85 206 310319 271019 Eng MLI CRI RTC 15125 1600 1700 47E,48NW 85 206 310319 271019 Ara MLI CRI RTC 17880 1600 1700 37 20 216 310319 271019 Ara MLI CRI RTC 13645 1700 1800 48SW,53NW 111 206 310319 271019 Swa MLI CRI RTC 15125 1700 1800 48SW,53NW 111 216 310319 271019 Swa MLI CRI RTC 11640 1800 1830 46E 85 206 310319 271019 Hau MLI CRI RTC 13645 1800 1830 46E 111 206 310319 271019 Hau MLI CRI RTC 11640 1830 1930 47E,48NW 85 206 310319 271019 Ara MLI CRI RTC 13685 1830 1930 37 20 216 310319 271019 Ara MLI CRI RTC 11640 1930 2000 53NW 111 216 310319 271019 Por MLI CRI RTC 13630 1930 2000 53NW 111 206 310319 271019 Por MLI CRI RTC 11640 2000 2100 53 111 216 310319 271019 Eng MLI CRI RTC 13630 2000 2100 53 111 206 310319 271019 Eng MLI CRI RTC 11640 2100 2130 53 111 216 310319 271019 Eng MLI CRI RTC 13630 2100 2130 53 111 206 310319 271019 Eng MLI CRI RTC 11975 2130 2230 37 20 216 310319 271019 Fra MLI CRI RTC 13630 2130 2230 53 111 216 310319 271019 Fra MLI CRI RTC 11975 2230 2300 37 20 216 310319 271019 Chn MLI CRI RTC 15505 2230 2300 47E,48 85 206 310319 271019 Chn MLI CRI RTC 7295 2300 2400 46 0 925 310319 271019 Chn MLI CRI RTC 11975 2300 2400 37 20 216 310319 271019 Chn MLI CRI RTC (HFCC.org A-19 season via BC-DX 7 Mar via DXLD) ** MEXICO. 1630, XEUT Mexicali, BCN recorded in pseudo-stereo - amazing swirly fading --- A few evenings ago I made a really fascinating pseudo-stereo recording of 1630 XEUT Mexicali (The University of Baja California/UaBC) The reception was made Sunday evening (PST) at about 1802 PST/0202 UT 03 March. The rockin' tune was the first track of their Sunday evening heavy-metal/head-banger music show. The reception was via two near-identical receivers: A Sangean ATS-818CS on the right channel, and a RadioShack DX-390 on the left channel - the latter broadside to the NW/SE and the former oriented 90-degrees left in azimuth (i.e. orthogonally oriented loopsticks). The headphone jack audio of both receivers was patched to a patch-box allowing for stereo patching of the L+R audio from each radio to my Zoom H2 recorder. What a cool swirl between the receivers! It makes the rock tune even more neat-sounding, revealing some kind of polarization-fading. It was near the end of evening dusk in Keeler, California (eastern CA). The file is here: https://archive.org/details/HawaiiMediumwaveDxpeditionNovember2010/1630_XEUT_BCN_Mexico_recin_stereo_orthogonal_loopstick_rcvrs_03Mar2019-02z_Inyo_SPMcGreevy-short-v2.mp3 Can anyone tell me and the group why XEUT changed its location and/or city of license a couple of years ago (TJ to Mexicali)? I once located their Tijuana transmitter site quite near UaBC - I could see their radial-mat and the single mast via Google Earth Pro. I also located both the 1700 XEPE (and former calls) TJ-area sites back a bit ago, as well. XEUT is my favorite expanded-band station by far! 73 - (Steve McGreevy -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com March 5, WOR iog via DXLD) Audibly and quite visably on waveform there is regular fading up and down: is this a result of beating between your two sources, or a subaudible heterodyne from another station? (gh, DXLD) 1630, XEUT, re McGreevy --- It is still in Tijuana: 32 32 02N 116 58 06W according to MW masts listing. Thanks for the correction. 73, (Mauno Ritola, March 11, WOR iog via DXLD Hello Mauno! Thank you - I had felt that XEUT 1630 was still in Tijuana by DF bearings, but Mexicali is close enough to Tijuana that the bearing difference from here (~300 km north) and skywave variabilities mean I was not certain. Secondly, Mexicali already has a powerful UaBC 100 kW FM station (104.1) that actually would suit Tijuana more then the "weakish" and slightly "mellow" modulation-leveled 1630 transmitter, except the FM-dial in TJ is overcrowded. 1630 XEUT is, by far, my favorite expanded-band station for their wonderful mixture of music and the lack of "commercials." A salt-water path up the southern California coastline north-by-northwestward ensures their daytime signal is very good in that region - but strictly along the "California Bight" coastline. BTW, your unceasing work in sleuthing-out info./updates for the munificent WRTH is a real gift to us radio enthusiasts! Great thanks, too, for reaffirming XEUT is indeed still in Tijuana. 73 - (Steve McGreevy, Keeler CA, - N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com WOR iog via DXLD) ** MEXICO. 6185, Radio Educación, Ciudad de México, 0450-0602*, 10-03, classic music, Latin American songs, ID at 0500 “Seis emisoras, una solación [sic] vocación, 1060 AM, Ciudad de México, 107.9 FM, Señal Kukulkán, 104.3 FM, Señal Cultural Sonora, 95.3 FM, Señal Cultural Michoacán, 96.5 FM, Ciudad de México y 6185 onda corta, Señal Internacional, para todo el mundo, seis emisoras, un sólo espíritu”, classic music, at 0532 ID “1060 AM, Radio Educación...”, at 0534 program “Decisiones de la Corte”, “Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación, salvaguarda de tus derechos”, 0544 guitar music, songs, at 0701 anthem and close. 25322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) Nominal 0600* should continue until April 7 DST start in CDMX, then -0500*. But when does it sign on? Continue to detect JBA carrier here in the afternoons but not around sunrise (gh, OK, DXLD) however: 6184.995 kHz MEXican R Educacion now again on lower sideband, S=8-9 or -78dBm noted in MA-US state SDR. low modulation, two locutores on air. Surprisingly heard the Mexican National Anthem at 0459:20 till 0501:30 UT, when a female announcer started full station identification and government announcement matter. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 11, dxldyg via DXLD) ** MEXICO. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BEAT this week --- including DTV/TDT The modified 2019 PABF hit the printers at the DOF overnight, and we have some intriguing items to dig through. http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5551828&fecha=05/03/2019 TDT The original PABF included no commercial television stations, but the modifications have added 50 of them. These include four new low-V assignments for Guadalupe Victoria-Francisco I. Madero, Durango; Zinapécuaro, Mich.; and Perote and Santiago Tuxtla, Veracruz. Also added to the table were 11 new social assignments, including stations for Mexico City, Guadalajara, Hidalgo del Parral (a noncommercial TV desert), Nuevo Laredo, and Puebla, and a low-V for Paracho, Michoacán. Three new public TDTs were added, for Monterrey, Ciudad Victoria and Reynosa, but none are low-V. FM In what is essentially the last call for new stations that could be incorporated into the IFT-8 radio auction, the IFT added 16 more commercial FMs: BCS: Bahía Asunción AA, Bahía Tortugas AA, Loreto B1 Camp.: Constitución AA, Narciso Mendoza AA Coah.: Parras de la Fuente B1 Jal.: Huejuquilla el Alto A, Pueblo Careyes A Mich.: Morelia A Nay.: Tepic AA Oax.: Puerto Escondido B1 (additional) Q. Roo: Cancún B1 (x2) Zac.: Chalchihuites A, Tlaltenango A, Zacatecas-Guadalupe AA 29 social allotments were also added across the country, bringing this PABF's total haul of them to 50. Gargadon will appreciate that a Class AA was sought for Ciudad del Carmen. Among the largest available cities added were Cancún AA; San Luis Potosí A; Campeche AA; San José del Cabo A; Tampico A; and Mérida A. Public FM additions were Las Margaritas, Chiapas; Torreón; Apatzingán; Coatzacoalcos; and Mazatlán. The first is AA, the others are A. AM There were also new added AMs, five commercial (also for IFT-8) and six social. Other Items -International coordination still kept the IFT from incorporating six assignments for towns in Sonora, Chihuahua and Coahuila into the PABF proper, though the IFT is still working to add them. Hermosillo, however, won't get the social A that someone applied for, because there's no room left in town. The FCC did, however, clear 10 of the 11 border TV stations sought. The exception was Nogales, where there were competing public and commercial allotment proposals. The IFT rejected the former and made the frequency available commercial, stating specifically that the applicant was the Sonoran state government and that this request was now unnecessary as a result of Telemax's common concession conversion for its public concession transmitters. As a result of the common concession, the state government need only apply for a new shadow, not a new concession, to serve Nogales. -In Mexico City, the IFT said that the digital TV station to be made available should be social, not public, because there is just one planned social frequency yet there are five public stations in the city (Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ, March 5, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) First on the Mexico Beat: The Rest of the IFT-4 Bidders I filed three transparency requests in late January and early February. One was to Radio Tamaulipas and has still not been answered, but I plan on writing about them soon. Two were to the IFT. One asked for information on the non-renewal of various radio stations which turned out to be mostly concessions that have lapsed. The other asked for a full list of IFT-4 and IFT-6 bidders by folio number. (IFT-6 was a yawner, though it can now be confirmed Akustik Media was the bidder that came away with nothing.) You may recall in my IFT-4 analysis series that I had identified bidders representing about 81 percent of total bids in the auction. We now know all the bidders by name. Interesting People AM-433331 Manuel Augusto Abreu Arribalza bid on Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche. Abreu Arribalza is the father of Rocío Abreu, who currently is a senator from the PVEM and previously had been a federal deputy. CE-551311 María Elvira del Coral Castillo Zepeda, CF-135441 Francisco Guillermo Cañedo Castillo, and CJ-435342 Jaime Cañedo Castillo all show up in this list too. If you've read me long enough, you should immediately know what they bid for just from the family name: stations in Puebla. That's right, it's Cinco Radio. CM-515050 is Martín Antonio Cobos Villalobos, who showed up in the bidding for Tulum. At the time, he was the secretary general of the municipality of Tulum, resigning a few months later citing personal reasons. Sliding in was DM-054003 Marco Antonio Delgado Merchán. This name may not sound familiar to most, but it rang an instant bell. Delgado Merchán bid on Tequisquiapan, Querétaro, and also owns Radio Procultura, A.C., which last year was greenlit for a social station on a pre-LFTR application (XHTQS-FM 89.9). GJ-010313 Jorge Luis García de León Morales and GL-435435 Luis Felipe García de León Morales made a push for stations in Baja California Sur. Again, the last name is instantly identifiable: this is Radio Grupo García de León, one of the largest broadcasters in southern Sonora. LH-243451 Humberto López Lena Cruz made two early bids on 88.5 Huajuapan de León, but he would eventually pull out. That station wound up in a bidding war with La Puerta de la Mixteca, victorious, versus Comunicaciones Estratégicas Gruballh. (Despite the funky name, I can't find anything.) MF-501253 Francisco Antonio Muñoz Muñoz sniffed around Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua (B1). He owns XHFAMA-FM in Cd. Camargo. MJ-245105 Jorge Orlando Morales Mendoza made unsuccessful single bids each for Playa del Carmen and Puerto Morelos. While he obviously didn't pursue them much at all, there would have been some unusual questions if he had won. That's because Morales Mendoza, an engineer by trade from Yucatán, died five months later at the age of 75. RJ-031353 Jorge Sergio Ramírez Hernández is on the books as a concessionaire already, for XHWZ-FM in San Luis Potosí. He placed three bids on 91.3 Amatepec, Mex., which otherwise was a two-way bidding war between Radiodifusoras Capital and winner Guillermina Casique Vences. CA-412154 José Antonio Ceja Macías, who aspired to build in Nueva Italia, Michoacán, is a licensed ham operator XE2YWH. Aspiring Companies C8-221421 Cabo Mil, S.A. de C.V., hoped to expand its footprint in Baja California Sur and bid on La Paz. B0-212501 BM Producciones, S.A. de C.V. was one of several bidders that made a play for Guachochi, Chihuahua. The name and area in question confirm this is Grupo BM Radio, which certainly would have loved to increase its statewide footprint in the mountains. C1-452303 Constructora e Inmobiliaria Roalma, S.A. de C.V. has a track record in repairing concrete and real estate, but the Los Mochis-based company wanted into radio as well, bidding in Navolato and Mazatlán. They were the second-place bidder in Navolato, edged out by Luz Network by just nine points in the final round. C7-340520 Corporadio Gape de Tamaulipas, S.A. de C.V. was not dissuaded by the fact that their home state was not up for bid anywhere this time around. They bid on Cancún and especially on Chetumal. E0-044225 Editorial Alegra, S.A. de C.V., publisher of the Factor newspaper in Coahuila's coal region, bid on the Cuatro Ciénegas station. M0-033012 is, as reported, from the MarMor family. It's Morelia Stereo, S.A. de C.V., which is not a concessionaire but is the business name for XHMRL-FM. (It's also what I suspected as I did my research.) It bid on, as you might remember, stations in Michoacán. M0-325145 Mexicanos y Americanos Sistemas de Comunicación, S.A. de C.V. is perhaps the most active bidder only unmasked now. It placed 64 bids with Playa del Carmen and Tulum being the primary targets. M0-414521 Max Cable, S.A. de C.V. sniffed around Mazatlán, Guaymas and Ensenada. Turns out it's Uniradio, another regional radio player we're only learning now participated. M9-240014 Multimundo, S.A. de C.V. bid on Cadereyta de Montes, Querétaro, hoping to grow a bit in its home state. This would have been the first geographic expansion for Multimundo in quite some time, probably since they sold stations to Imagen. R1-044502 Republicable, S.A. de C.V. bid on stations in Quintana Roo. It's part of Media Group. R1-431004 Radio-Televisión Digital de Nayarit, S.A. de C.V., the same people that won in IFT-6, were outgunned in the Compostela AA and Puerto Vallarta bids. In Compostela, they were the second-place finisher behind Multimedios, benefiting from being a new competitor and promising HD but ultimately getting edged out in the financial component. (If only they opted for Compostela A...) R1-551305 Radio Acir Cancún, S. de R.L. de C.V. participated. That is...self-explanatory. This appears to have been the only ACIR vehicle to make it to the bidding process. R9-301501 Radio Comunicación Gamar, S.A. de C.V. contended for the station in Mazatlán but pulled out after a bidding war ensued between Televisa, Radio Centro, and Multimedios. Another recognizable name from IFT-6, this is Grupo Garza Limón. Their foundation has a pending permit request for Mazatlán which could result in an FM social wolf. T1-114522 Trevimich Radio, S.A. de C.V. bid on Lázaro Cárdenas and Pátzcuaro, Michoacán. This is Grupo TRENU/TREMOR (the TRE comes from the Treviño family). (Raymie, March 5, ibid.) Quote Originally Posted by Raymie View Post CA-412154 José Antonio Ceja Macías, who aspired to build in Nueva Italia, Michoacán, is a licensed ham operator XE2YWH. I thought that callsign was familiar: Call Date Time Frequency QSL Sent QSL Rcvd Name City, State Notes Country XE2YWH 2007-01-07 04:30:00 7.048RTTY Loreto, Zac. XE XE2YWH 2009-05-31 23:37:00 7.045CW Y Loreto, Zac. XE The "Y" under the second QSO means I have his QSL card -- somewhere... (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, http://www.w9wi.com March 5, ibid.) Two new callsigns, one station on air. Radio Actitud San Felipe, A.C. is to serve San Felipe, Guanajuato, on XHSCBN-FM 107.3 (notably, a Class A in a state of many recent Ds). They are not yet on air, but the other station we have is. It's XHSIAC-FM 97.5, owned by the Indigenous Community of Xalitla, Guerrero. Radio Xalitla is an ex-91.3 pirate (Raymie, March 5, ibid.) An apparent transfer of operational control is already having an effect on one Cuernavaca radio station. Friday, March 1, was the final day for XHTIX-FM's Informe 100.1 hosted by Leopoldo Nieto Aranda, according to a local news site. https://www.facebook.com/Sombrerazos/posts/1711923348908341?__tn__=-R The report cites the transfer of operational control from concessionaire Manuel Mejido Tejón, his wife and four children http://ucsweb.ift.org.mx/tarifasrpc/upload/files/estructuraaccionaria/25573_6963_180606000522.pdf to companies run by Víctor Aureliano Mercado Salgado. Mercado Salgado is the current Morelos state secretary of mobility and transportation. One of Mejido Tejón's daughters, Luisa Fernanda Mejido Hernández, is also leaving her post as the station's general manager. That job will go to one of Mercado Salgado's longtime friends, Ing. Oscar Morales Ruíz. Morales currently serves as the head of the CIRT Advisory Board, and more importantly, he's the 99.9% owner and Director General of Grupo Mundo Comunicaciones (XHJMG-FM). As a result, the XHJMG news department is taking over the production of news for XHTIX (Raymie, March 6, ibid.) NRM Comunicaciones has shuttered its Ajusco FM plant, including the dismantling of the large self-supported tower on site (noticed first by RadarDX). https://goo.gl/maps/kP5uqQvFh5A2 The Coverage Viewer says XEOYE-FM and XHSON-FM have been relocated to Chiquihuite. That leaves just IMER and Radio UNAM in the Ajusco area. The NRM facility was a fairly recent build, and I'm kind of surprised. There must have been some major problem that prompted NRM to leave (Raymie, March 6, ibid.) As part of a lightning blitz of dedications, https://www.uaeh.edu.mx/noticias/4659/ XHPECW-FM 102.1 Actopan Hgo. formally entered program service on Tuesday as the fifth radio station for the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo. Broadcasting from the Escuela Superior de Actopan, XHPECW is the fourth new station for the university in the last few years. All that's left in terms of radio is a pending application from 2009 for a station in Tulancingo, and of course the IFT just greenlit a TV station for the university (Raymie, March 7, ibid.) The IFT met again on February 20, and they took on more broadcasting matters, including that 2019 PABF modification covered a few days ago. Say Yes to the MVS MVS has been greenlit to go on the air as a broadcast service on channel 2. In a 5-2 vote (with Estavillo and Cuevas voting no), the agency has greenlit what will be Mexico's first low-V television station. The callsign and other details are still unknown, but MVS has achieved what it had sought for a very long time: broadcasting to the nation's capital on its own station. More Radio Stations The six-station Saltillo permit forest, after a couple of false starts, was finally approved. It looks like only one applicant is coming out of it, Alas para las Palabras, A.C., which was the predicted winning applicant in my analysis of this forest last year. Durango's radio dreams are coming to life. The state government has won the public stations at Victoria de Durango and Santiago Papasquiaro that were applied for on April 27, 2018. Another station that was not listed in my filings was also cleared, for Ciudad Lerdo, which will cover the Durango side of the Comarca Lagunera. The filing at Lerdo was missed because of an error in documentation I received from the IFT saying that there was a filing by the Chihuahua state government for a station at Lerdo, Chihuahua. This makes a lot more sense, as I was wondering how the state government completely forgot about the Durango portion of the Comarca Lagunera. In the 2015 intercensus survey, 495,597 people—more than one in four inhabitants of Durango—lived in the municipalities of Gómez Palacio and Lerdo. There has never been a public radio station broadcasting from the Durango side, and this may not be the last if the UJED television station at Gómez Palacio filed for in 2017 and a planned UJED radio station there come to fruition. Two in three residents of the state will be served by one of these three transmitters. In Papasquiaro, this will be the second radio service in the entire town, which to date has only had one radio station, commercial XESRD/XHSRD. The Durango state government did once hold a permit for a station at Nuevo Ideal that never came to fruition. More Concession Renewals Another 10 radio concessions were renewed by the IFT, including XHEHB, XHETA, XHHT, and XHJAQ. Miners No, Transformation Yes The IFT also took action on several social station applications. One of them is a mining industry case that had caused serious hesitation before. Centro de Estudios Técnicos Laguna del Rey, A.C. sought to build community stations at Laguna del Rey, Coahuila, and Cuencamé, Durango. The IFT denied the applications, likely because of the fact that management was setting them up. Voz de Transformación, A.C. received various social concessions for FM. These come from the 2018 PABF. I have record of applications from Voz for 5 localities: San Felipe, BC La Paz, BCS Chilpancingo, Gro. Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, Gro. Lázaro Cárdenas, Mich. A community station was granted to Comunicación para el Desarrollo Social de la Comunidad de Pedernales, A.C. at Pedernales, Michoacán, and Un Sonido de Esperanza, A.C. received an indigenous station. The town is not listed on the agenda, but the only application under an AC by that name is for San Felipe de la Pen~a in the municipality of San Juan Bautista Tuxtepec, Oaxaca. Last edited by Raymie; 03-07-2019 at 08:18 PM (Raymie, March 7, ibid.) Our Origen story just got a whole lot more interesting. On March 1, Origen announced it would go on the air in Guadalajara, on 1510 AM and 91.9 HD2. https://www.facebook.com/origenradioytv/videos/357911378386801/\ While the HD2 has no authorization, it pales in importance compared to the 1510. That's XEPBGR-AM, the first new AM station for Guadalajara since 1995, owned by Radio de Ayuda, A.C. It's also the first station to go on air or announce programming of the 11 stations in what I call the PSR social wolfpack. Wait, what? The PSR social wolfpack!? It's an unholy marriage of topics only I seem to cover! The PSR Social Wolfpack? Yes! As part of my continued research into new social stations, I discovered this three-headed social wolfpack run by principals associated with a Guadalajara-based company called Partes y Servicios para Radiodifusión. http://www.psradio.mx/ Notably, one of the owners is associated with the ownership of multiple stations in Texas. For more information on PSR, see my two-part series, "Social Frequencies, Social Wolf" — Part I, http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?9113-The-Mexico-Beat&p=45981#post45981 Part II. http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?9113-The-Mexico-Beat&p=46947#post46947 Frecuencias Sociales, A.C. 90.1 XHTUJ Tuxpan, Jal. 91.5 XHTOJ Tomatlán, Jal. 97.5 XHPVT Puerto Vallarta (Class AA) Fundación Educacional de Medios, A.C. 95.7 XHCOP Cópala, Jal. 95.9 XHATF Atlacomulco de Fabela, Mex. 100.5 XHIMA Colima Radio de Ayuda, A.C. 1510 XEPBGR-AM Guadalajara 620 XEPBSD-AM Soledad Diez Gutiérrez, SLP 93.1 XHPBJR-FM San Juan del Río, Qro. 103.1 XHPBPE-FM Pedro Escobedo, Qro. (Class D) 104.9 XHPBNM-FM Nochistlán de Mejía, Zac. ——— Today was also a day for new callsign assignments, as the IFT put up six different spectrum concessions. All the radio stations are Class A: XHIZM-FM 88.9 Izúcar de Matamoros, Pue. (18°36'19.74", -98°27'35.34") — Fundación General Francisco Hernández Domínguez, A.C. XHPEDW-FM 92.3 Valle de Tacupeto (Mpio. de Sahuaripa), Son. (28°47'49", -109°09'54") — Apoyamos tu Superación, A.C. XHFE-TDT 10 Cuernavaca — Patronato para el Fomento de la Educación, S.C. (With a callsign like that, you'd think this was an old-line TV Azteca station!) Three stations belong to the new Fundación de la Radio Cultural, social wolf for Radio Medios de Monclova, and are all in Coahuila: XHPEDM-FM 92.5 Cuatro Ciénegas (26°59'09", -102°04'00") XHPEEI-FM 97.1 Ciudad Acuña (29°19'27", -100°55'54") XHPEEN-FM 102.3 Sabinas (27°50'54", -101°07'12") EDIT Monday: The IFT also added XHPEEC-FM 95.7 A Cihuatlán Jal. (19°14'18", -104°33'47" - Fomento Cultural Cihuatlán) Last edited by Raymie; 03-11-2019 at 01:47 PM (Raymie, March 8, ibid.) Meep meep! That's the sound of a radio station whose press I missed because I didn't know the name. XHSCAN-FM 107.9 Cabo San Lucas, the second community station for Baja California Sur, will be known as Radio Chureya. (For the uninitiated, myself included, "chureya" is the local term for "roadrunner".) https://marlinrojo.com/2018/12/11/radio-chureya-fm/ In December, the station got the support of 18 different community groups and two educational institutions (it's also an AMARC member) with a promised February or March sign-on. https://www.tribunadeloscabos.com.mx/opera-en-csl-radio-comunitario-chureya/ Also on the air is XHSCAP-FM 107.7 Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz Oax., Soley Radio, with its unique focus on the disabled community (Raymie, March 10, ibid.) Which localities in Mexico don't receive FM radio service from any station? That was the objective of a 2018 IFT study that resulted in a list running 1,187 pages, http://www.ift.org.mx/sites/default/files/contenidogeneral/espectro-radioelectrico/Anexo_VI_Localidades_sin_servicio_de_FM.pdf with 56,933 localities with populations ranging from the single digits to the tens of thousands. The survey found 44 of those localities had more than 10,000 people. Note that these are localities, not entire municipalities. 20,000 People or More Tlapa de Comonfort Gro. (46,975) Ocosingo Chis. (41,878) San Fernando Tamps. (29,665) Teloloapan Gro. (23,549) San Rafael, Tlalmanalco, Mex. (20,873) An effort has been or will soon be made to provide FM service in each of these localities. The largest is Tlapa de Comonfort, which currently has one station, XEZV 800 AM (which turned 40 this week, the dean of the INPI radio system). Tlapa will get an FM opportunity in IFT-8, when a Class B1 goes up. Ocosingo, I should note, is one of several localities we'll encounter where there's a caveat — there are stations, but they don't have concessions. Ocosingo has religious pirates that fill the FM void here. 92.9 A here was bid out in IFT-4 but only met with a bid from Tecnoradio, still enough to incur a rollover for the allotment into IFT-8. San Fernando's on this list because of the expiration of XHSFT-FM's concession. We'll have to see how that one turns out. XHSFT is the only station in San Fernando on either band. Teloloapan, Guerrero, did almost get its commercial radio opportunity. That opportunity came in the ghost stations of 2000, when XHLOL-FM 106.1 was assigned. That can't be a commercial frequency now. San Rafael is nestled up against the mountain range including Iztaccíhuatl, which blocks it from Puebla, and it's too far for the Mexico City stations. XHCHAL in Chalco, which is a fairly recent station, does seem to cover parts of this locality, but potentially not all of it. 11,000-20,000 People Yajalón Chis. (16622) Guadalupe Victoria Dgo. (16506) Magdalena Jal. (16214) Vicente Guerrero Dgo. (15982) Cárdenas SLP (15469) Juan Aldama Zac. (15431) Calkiní Camp. (14934) Yahualica Jal. (13655) Cotija de la Paz Mich. (13560) Miguel Auza Zac. (13551) Etzatlán Jal.* (13513) Ascensión Chih. (13456) Filomeno Mata Ver. (13304) Santa María del Río SLP (13099) Valparaíso Zac. (12919) Charcas SLP (12748) Temascalcingo Mex. (12698) El Fuerte Sin.* (12566) San Salvador Huixcolotla Pue. (12148) Ojuelos de Jalisco Jal. (11881) Dzitbalché, Calkiní, Camp. (11686) Tierra Colorada, Juan R. Escudero, Gro. (11540) Canatlán Dgo. (11495) The list of localities here (and including the 10,000-11,000 list) includes a lot of San Luis Potosí. SLP has six cities of 10,000 or more without FM service. Two of these localities have since received FM stations: Etzatlán (XHSCAJ) and El Fuerte (XHPFRT). Another is slated to (Calkiní, which has two separate localities on this list totaling 26,620 residents, with XHPCAL). Juan Aldama, Zacatecas, has an AM station now; Miguel Auza was actually given a ghost in 2000 (XHMAZ-FM 102.1). Some of these places will also be on offer in IFT-8. 10,000-11,000 People Simojovel de Allende Chis. (10762) Chichihualco Gro. (10690) Nueva Palestina, Ocosingo, Chis. (10588) El Naranjo SLP (10562) Arteaga Mich. (10537) San Mateo Tlaixpan Pue. (10513) Ajijic, Chapala, Jal. (10509) Villa de Reyes SLP (10383) Chiautla de Tapia Pue. (10320) Nahuatzen Mich. (10283) Akil Yuc. (10176) Cd. Tula Tamps. (10043) The listing of Ajijic also goes to an expired concession case, because only a few years ago the IFT authorized shadows of XEAD-FM and XETIA-FM to be built there. Chichihualco is near Chilpancingo, but the area is so mountainous it can't receive any stations there—including, ironically, XHCHH-FM/Gro. which was put out for bid as a Chichihualco station. Tula has XETUT 1280 AM, but when all you have is a Radio Tamaulipas repeater, do you really have anything at all? Last edited by Raymie; 03-10-2019 at 09:47 PM (Raymie, March 10, ibid.) On Tuesday, a group of disgruntled journalists took advantage of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's visit to Manzanillo, Colima, to deliver him a letter https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1325462750948295&set=a.179080908919824&type=3 asking for federal agencies to review the actions of several radio stations in and near Colima. But the claims these parties make do not rest on solid ground. The radio stations aren't all mentioned by name, but they are in the Tecomán-Armería area primarily, with some having studios and broadcast facilities in the city of Colima. Now, let's make this clear. Mexico never had a main studio rule of any kind. One station that has taken advantage of this to serve a larger market, and one of the objects of the writers' ire, is XHCMM-FM Coalcomán Mich., which allegedly has been broadcasting heavy criticisms of federal and state legislators because XHCMM has received less advertising money with the arrival of a new state legislature. This mountaintop station also covers Colima and is currently being operated by Luna Medios as a Colima market station. There are also concerns, unfounded ones at that, about expired concessions. Only one claim of theirs merits investigation: if a station had additional unauthorized shadows or repeaters, those would be illegal facilities. But XHCMM could use its existing facilities at Cerro El Mono, originate its programs in Colima (which it seems to do, giving a Colima studio address), and be completely in the right. The letter-writers claim that radio stations must primarily broadcast to their primary communities of service. That is simply not true. There is no restriction of the sort. In fact, XHECO and XHTY-FM/Colima do the same thing! Several stations broadcast from facilities dozens of kilometers away. XHMZI-FM is a Monclova market station with a transmitter in the Región Carbonífera. The Expreso simulcasts in Guaymas and Navojoa seem to have all programming originated from studios in Hermosillo. Last edited by Raymie; 03-11-2019 at 01:46 PM. Reason: sp Este programa es público, ajeno a cualquier partido político. Queda prohibido el uso para fines distintos a los establecidos en el programa [tagline] (Raymie, March 11, ibid..) ** MONGOLIA [non]. Re: ``4895 MONGOLIA (pres) at 1513 UTC February 23 with talk between man and woman. Big Signal (Delmage, AB)`` Whenever they happen to operate on 4895 kHz, they close at 1500, so this must have been AIR Kurseong. 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, WOR iog via DXLD) ** NEPAL [non-log]. 5005, Radio Nepal. As of March 5, on most days I check here with no results from 1050+; not heard since my last reception of assume their carrier on Feb 3 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** NIGERIA. 9690, Voice of Nigeria at 1840 with an interview between an African-accented man and woman about Nigerian economics especially trade – Fair with fading Mar 8 – Spain's REE doesn't use this frequency until 1900 so check out Voice of Nigeria from 1630 to 1900 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Drake SPR-4, Kenwood TS440S, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD), ODXA iog via DXLD) VON, 15120 DRM has been missing on Mar 7 and 8. Had been *1600 past 1800 (Hans Johnson, FL, of WINB DRM, March 9, WOR iog via DXLD) ** NIGERIA [non]. 13840, Manara R., Issoudun [FRANCE] Nothing heard at the scheduled 0700 s/on, but a weak signal began to appear around 0735 with interviews and talks. IDing at 0743 as “Manara Radio International”, then into West African pop songs on native instruments. Closing ID at 0758, mad Afro solo music on a native wind instrument, then off at 0800. The station has a Facebook presence at https://www.facebook.com/ManaraRadio/ Some lists are reporting this as R. Nigeria Kaduna, but this has now changed! Feb 25, 26 and 28 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, VIC (Yaesu FTDX 3000, Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Kenwood R5000, Tecsun PL-680, Horizontal Sky Loop, Double Bazooka antennas for 80, 40 and 20 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), March Australian DX News via DXLD) FRANCE, Dandal Kura Radio Int & Manara Radio Int via Issoudun, March 5 Dandal Kura Radio International 0700-0800 on 13590 ISS 250 kW / 167 deg to CeAf Kanuri Manara Radio International https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/dandal-kura-radio-int-manara-radio-int.html Dandal Kura Radio International via MBR Issoudun, March 5 1800-1900 on 9770 ISS 100 kW / 167 deg to CeAf Kanuri, fair/good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/reception-of-dandal-kura-radio.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News March 4-5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dandal Kura Radio Int & Manara Radio Int, March 11 Dandal Kura Radio International via TDF Issoudun 0700-0800 on 13590 ISS 250 kW / 167 deg to CeAf Kanuri, weak/fair Manara Radio International via MBR Issoudun 0700-0800 on 13840 ISS 150 kW / 170 deg to WeAf Hausa, fair/good: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/dandal-kura-radio-international-manara.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News March 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS [non?]. KOREA NORTH [non]. 9985, March 7 at 1553, no signal from Radio Free Asia in Korean via Saipan, or anywhere; while 9965 has a VG signal from Palau. Bill Harms in Maryland, who speaks Korean, had noticed RFA Korean reactivated on a frequency fallow since Saipan & Tinian sites were destroyed by typhoon last fall. After some prodding, RFA HQ sent him a QSL with SAIPAN checked for 9985, which he had heard Feb 23 at 1530, and also Feb 27 at 2100-2130. But not on any other frequencies. The temporary? reactivation of this service on SW was apparently prompted by the Kim/Trump ``summit`` in Hanoi. 9985 was previously scheduled as Tinian at 15-19 & 21-22. Notwithstanding the QSL, a copy of which Bill sent me, I still have my doubts that Saipan has been repaired enough to get back on the air. USAGM was attempting to get permission to use Tinang, Philippines after the typhoon; it had been forbidden to do so in any language (while VOA Korean et al. was OK). The cagey QSL card also has xmtr boxes available to be checked labeled ``Other`` and ``Asia``. If they were using Tinang, Philippines, they are probably not going to admit it, pace Duterte. Does anyone have any hard info about whether the NMI sites Saipan or Tinian are back in service at all? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1973, DX LISTENING DIGEST) FYI --- Real or -un-real ? Saipan first repaired transmitter/antennas set after typhoon on air again ? Possibilities: see RMS monitoring log, real or un-real ? condensed (SAI) only, sorted by hour/min/sec 2019-03-06 02:41:16 email: RMS Log BEIJ 190306 024116.zip [numerous auto captures are all labeled SAI] Mandarin 17660 03-07 UT 9790 15-16 UT 9455 16-17 UT 9860 17-20 UT 9410 20-21 UT 9455 20-21 UT 2019-03-04 12:06:49 upload: RMS Log SEOU 190304 120649.zip Korean 11570 14-15 UT 9590 15-17 UT 9985 15-17 UT 9985 17-19 UT 9985 21-22 UT and LAOtian too 11-12 UT requested 13685 kHz b u t N O T on air March 9. (Seoul, Tokyo, Moscow monitoring) 2019-03-09 11:04:06 capture: AM 13685 (SAI) RFA LAO 73 wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Is Saipan really back on with RFA? Hi Bill, Tnx for your reports on this. Since RFA is cagey about sites (other? Asia?), and since I have had no other reports about Saipan being in service again, I still have my doubts. What do you think? Are those broadcasts continuing post-summit? (Glenn to Bill Harms, March 6, via DXLD) Hi Glenn, I am listening to RFA in Korean 9985 from an SDR in Seoul with a good signal. (See the screen shot.) There is no signal on their alt frequency of 5885. They were talking about the missile site activity that we have been hearing about in the news. Now they are talking about a British human rights group addressing women's rights in North Korea. The signal is strong enough to be from Saipan, or anywhere else in the West Pacific, East Asia area. Hope this helps (Bill Harms, March 8, WORLD OF RADIO 1973, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Meanwhile, March Australian DX News has several reports alleging that RFA Saipan is back on, all by Rob Wagner, Victoria [below] (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9455, RFA, Agignan Point. The first of the Saipan is now up and running again after major repairs and reconstruction from the recent cyclone. Mandarin to EAs at 2030, a good signal at first but deteriorated by 2055, with the usual Firedrake jamming, 22/2. 9985 RFA, Agingan Point. This transmitter now back online after repairs, with s/on in Korean at 2100, very good signal at first and no jamming heard. However, by 2145, the signal became pretty scratchy, which is typical of this band at this time of day here. S/off at 2200. 22/2. 17660 RFA, Agignan Point. Mandarin to EAs at 0610. Back up on air after the recent cyclone. Fair signal but heavy CNR jamming dominated until s/off 0700. 23/2 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, VIC (Yaesu FTDX 3000, Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Kenwood R5000, Tecsun PL-680, Horizontal Sky Loop, Double Bazooka antennas for 80, 40 and 20 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), March Australian DX News via DXLD) How do you KNOW these are Saipan rather than substitute site(s)? ( RFA cannot be trusted to verify accurate info about their own clandestine broadcasts. We need someone(s) to perform direxion-finding on these, such as TDOA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1973, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9985, Radio Free Asia, via Tinian, Korean, 07/03 1835. Female communication, typical instrumental music. 25542). Tx with 329º Az from Tinian Isl. to North/South Korea (Rudolf Grimm, São Bernardo SP, BRAZIL, http://dxways-br.blogspot.com YouTube Channel: GrimmSBC, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Now it`s Tinian! How does he KNOW it is Tinian and not Saipan; or anywhere else? DFing from afar could hardly distinguish between Saipan & Tinian neighbors, but no one is even doing that (gh, DXLD) 11570.040, March 10 at 1448, VOA Korean is off-frequency, soon playing a song in English; off by 1500 recheck. HFCC, EiBi and Aoki/NDXC all list 11570 as PHT Tinang site but at 1200-1400 only, nowhere later. Saipan is more likely to be off-frequency. So at this hour is it really NMI? 9985.036, March 10 at 1502, Korean at S9, off-frequency, presumably RFA. Once again, Saipan more likely than Tinang to be askew, altho Thailand is capable of that too. This was not on before 1500. As for previous doubts that 9985 was really reactivated Saipan, Wolfgang Bueschel forwarded a bunch of IBB auto-monitoring captures labeled SAI for that, so apparently is, if we are willing to take their word for it. Maybe one transmitter was not so destroyed after all, retaining and resuming signature capability of offfrequenciness (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1973, DX LISTENING DIGEST) USA(non), Radio Free Asia via Dushanbe & unknown tx, March 11 Radio Free Asia via tx Dushanbe, replacing IBB TIN Tinian 1000-1100 on 9690 DB 250 kW / 110 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1500-1600 on 5885 DB 200 kW / 060 deg to CeAs Tibetan 1600-1600 on 5885 DB 200 kW / 125 deg to CeAs Uyghur Radio Free Asia via unknown tx, replacing IBB TIN Tinian 1500-1900 on 9985 unknown kW / unknown to EaAs Korean 2100-2200 on 9985 unknown kW / unknown to EaAs Korean https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/radio-free-asia-via-dushanbe-unknown-tx.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News March 11, WORLD OF RADIO 1973, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn: For what it is worth, RFA Saipan as discussed on WoR 1973, I attended this year`s SWL Winterfest where there was a forum hosted by Harry Scott of RFA. He showed photos of the damage at Saipan and Tinian and also talked about how they where able to get one transmitter back on the air in Saipan at present only for Korean broadcasts. The antenna towers remained standing there so it was a matter of rehanging the curtain array. Tinian, well that is another story! So one never knows. It is like Mali, now back on and heard so well here with nice clean audio I am beginning to wonder if in fact these transmissions are from Mali. Just my thoughts. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, AB, WORLD OF RADIO 1974, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS. RFA Korean requests < in A-19 [northern] summer season; complete? SAIPAN & TINIAN registrations if possible: 7370 1600 1700 43,44 SAI 100 300 30 218 1234567 Cmn USA IBB IBB 9355 1900 2100 43,44 SAI 100 325 -15 218 1234567 Cmn USA IBB IBB 11945 2100 2200 44NE SAI 100 325 -15 218 1234567 Kor USA IBB IBB < 12140 1230 1330 49E SAI 100 270 0 218 1234567 Khm USA IBB IBB 12140 1330 1400 49W SAI 100 270 0 218 1234567 Mya USA IBB IBB 13690 1300 1400 43,44 SAI 100 310 -30 218 1234567 Cmn USA IBB IBB 13740 2230 2330 49E SAI 100 270 0 218 1234567 Khm USA IBB IBB 13790 0300 0400 43,44 SAI 100 300 30 218 1234567 Cmn USA IBB IBB 13790 0600 0700 43,44 SAI 100 300 30 218 1234567 Cmn USA IBB IBB 15555 2300 2400 43,44 SAI 100 310 -30 218 1234567 Cmn USA IBB IBB 17690 0300 0500 42-44 SAI 100 310 -30 218 1234567 Cmn USA IBB IBB 17845 0030 0130 49W SAI 100 270 0 218 1234567 Mya USA IBB IBB 5850 1500 1700 44NE TIN 250 329 24 226 1234567 Kor USA IBB IBB < 6080 2000 2100 43,44 TIN 250 304 24 216 1234567 Cmn USA IBB IBB 6085 1230 1300 32,44 TIN 250 321 8 216 7-Sat Man MHL VAT VAT 7530 1230 1430 49W TIN 250 280 0 216 1234567 Mya USA IBB IBB 7530 1430 1500 49E TIN 250 280 0 216 1234567 Khm USA IBB IBB 7540 1500 1700 44NE TIN 250 329 16 216 1234567 Kor USA IBB IBB < 9540 2100 2200 44NE TIN 250 329 16 216 1234567 Kor USA IBB IBB < 9700 1230 1330 49E TIN 250 278 8 226 1234567 Khm USA IBB IBB 9990 1700 1900 44NE TIN 250 319 24 216 1234567 Kor USA IBB IBB < 11805 1230 1430 49W TIN 250 279 -16 216 1234567 Mya USA IBB IBB 11985 1500 1700 44NE TIN 250 325 -8 226 1234567 Kor USA IBB IBB < 11985 1700 1900 44NE TIN 250 333 0 226 1234567 Kor USA IBB IBB < 11985 2100 2200 44NE TIN 250 329 16 216 1234567 Kor USA IBB IBB < 12140 1430 1500 49E TIN 250 279 -16 216 1234567 Khm USA IBB IBB 13575 1400 1500 44S TIN 250 287 -8 226 35 Zho USA IBB IBB 13720 1500 1600 42,43 TIN 250 295 0 216 1357 Bod USA IBB IBB 13755 1400 1500 44S TIN 250 287 -8 226 246 Zho USA IBB IBB 13790 1500 1600 42,43 TIN 250 295 0 216 246 Bod USA IBB IBB 13795 1400 1500 44S TIN 250 287 -8 226 17 Zho USA IBB IBB 15195 1100 1200 49E TIN 250 279 -16 216 1234567 Lao USA IBB IBB 15275 2230 2330 49E TIN 250 279 -16 226 1234567 Khm USA IBB IBB 15700 0030 0130 49W TIN 250 280 0 216 1234567 Mya USA IBB IBB 17635 0100 0200 42,43 TIN 250 295 0 216 35 Bod USA IBB IBB 17665 0100 0200 42,43 TIN 250 295 0 216 7 Bod USA IBB IBB 17685 0100 0200 42,43 TIN 250 295 0 216 246 Bod USA IBB IBB 17700 0100 0200 42,43 TIN 250 295 0 216 1 Bod USA IBB IBB 17830 0030 0130 49W TIN 250 287 -8 226 1234567 Mya USA IBB IBB 21455 1000 1100 42,43 TIN 250 295 0 226 3 Bod USA IBB IBB 21465 1000 1100 42,43 TIN 250 295 0 226 2 Bod USA IBB IBB 21475 1000 1100 42,43 TIN 250 295 0 226 1 Bod USA IBB IBB 21505 0400 0500 43,44 TIN 250 309 -24 226 1234567 Cmn USA IBB IBB 21505 1000 1100 42,43 TIN 250 295 0 226 7 Bod USA IBB IBB 21520 1000 1100 42,43 TIN 250 295 0 226 4 Bod USA IBB IBB 21540 1000 1100 42,43 TIN 250 295 0 226 6 Bod USA IBB IBB 21565 1000 1100 42,43 TIN 250 295 0 226 5 Bod USA IBB IBB (IBB FCC/Vatican Radio A-19 requests, Febr 27 via BCDX 7 Mar via DXLD) But I guess, RFA Korean program service n o t via new WBCQ Monticello ME border Ampegon SW unit on New Brunswick Canadian border bcast center of powerhouse 500 kW at 347 degrees azimuth to ITU zones 44 and 45? 9330 0800 0900 44,45 BCQ 500 347 216 daily 310319 271019 Kor BCQ FCC 9330 1100 1200 44,45 BCQ 500 347 216 daily 310319 271019 Kor BCQ FCC (Wolfgang Bueschel, ibid.) Surely not! (gh) ** OKLAHOMA. 1170, Sunday March 10 at 2114 UT, KFAQ Tulsa with pillow commercial during `Our American Stories`, the show I ran across on KXEL and hoped to be non-political and non-religious. KFAQ sked shows three relief airings each weekend, different or same episodes? https://www.1170kfaq.com/show-lineup Sat at 15 UT, Sun at 10 & 21 UT for two hours each. On website I see they carry/link to KOTV News on [virtual] 6, and radio-locator says Griffin is the licensee; I had not realized KFAQ is jointly owned with KOTV & KWTV (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. Out of hundreds(?) of USA MW DX logs in Scandinavia reported this fortnight, only these two from OK: 1210 27.2 0900 KGYN Guymon OK med "The Big Talker 12-10 KGYN". SW/B = Stefan Wikander, Söråker i stugan på Bjännmyrmon med 2x430 meter staggared beveragearray och flagarray 1210 25.2 0700 KGYN Guymon OK. AIH97 [dx-pedition] 1550 27.2 0656 KYAL Sapulpa OK kallade sig “Sports Animal 97.1”. Tack SW som först observerade denna och tipsade mig. TJ (ARC mv-eko 11 mars via DXLD) TJ frequently credited but who is it? ** OKLAHOMA. 101.5-WBFM, March 5 at 1942 UT, I notice Spanish cutting off and on the air regularly. At first seemed it might have been due to Vance aircraft scatter, but no. Later I monitor it closely: It`s the new full FM station, KOCD in Okeene, which is a satellite of an LPFM in OKC, as first reported in DXLD 19-06, KWDW-LP, 93.9, Radio Salvación. I monitor continuously 2300-2313 UT March 5, and after a partial ToH ID as Okeene, it`s absolutely regular: on for 7 seconds, off for 25 seconds. The cut-offs are abrupt, while the cut-ons are a gradual fadeup lasting a second or two. This is still going on the next day March 6 at 1527 check. Is no one paying attention? Makes it rather frustrating to follow the programming, mostly praise music. Perhaps someone familiar with FM transmitters can explain this peculiar behaviour? 101.5-WBFM, March 7 at 1442 UT, KOCD Okeene is *still* cutting on for 7 seconds, OFF for 25 seconds, over and over for at least the third day in a row --- probably much longer before I first noticed March 5. 101.5-WBFM, March 9 at 1726 UT, KOCD Okeene is *still* cutting on the air for 7 seconds, off for 25 seconds, interrupting praise music in Spanish, i.e. 22% funxional. Back at KWDW-LP HQ at the church in SW OKC, they either have no clue about this or don`t care. Hey, 22% is better than nothing and I`m sure all listeners enjoy what musicbits they can hear (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. RF 27, March 6 at 1540 UT, one of my two outside antennas fails to decode KFOR, OKC; must be due to DX QRM as Hepburn tropo map shows level-1 minor enhancement in a small blob between here and Tulsa. Tulsa does have a 27, per W9WI.com as a CP for the 3ABN satellator, K40KC-D, i.e. in process of QSY after which it will certainly get a K27## callsign, but it`s only 2 kW. More likely the culprit is KFTA-TV, 600 kW in Fort Smith AR. But I am not seeing any other signs of DTVDX, such as Bad signals on open channels (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN [and non]. R Sultanate Oman/Nation Station Oman FM 90.4 Mar 5 from 1359 on 15140 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu English, good signal, from 1419 on 15140 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu NO SIGNAL, TX IS OFF. At same time 15140 BAU 100 kW / 160 deg to SoAm Spanish RHC is here!! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/radio-sultanate-of-omannation-station_5.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News March 4-5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15140, Radio Sultanate of Oman at 1404 with a woman with the end of the news then a fanfare and more news to 1407 and another fanfare and a mention of “The nation's station” and into pop vocals – Poor under RHC Mar 9 - Radio Sultanate of Oman registers their frequencies with the HFCC (High Frequency Coordination Conference) but not RHC who show no respect for their fellow broadcasters whether they be from countries that are friendly to them or not (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Drake SPR-4, Kenwood TS440S, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD), ODXA iog via DXLD) ** PHILIPPINES. An item of amusement, FEBC 15450 kHz INTERFERING WITH FEBC! Today I listened to FEBC in one of the languages of Tibet at 0930-1000z on 15450 kHz. Quite good signal but QRM sometimes strong. I found out the facts: Freq Station Start End Days Language Pwr Az Country Site Remarks 15450 FEBC RADIO 09:30 10:00 1234567 Zhuang (Northern) 100 330 PHL Iba OFF_AIR 15450 FEBC RADIO 09:30 10:00 1234567 Minangkabau 100 245 PHL Bocaue Beaming 330 and 245 degrees respectively does not eliminate the risk of interference! I have informed Mr Peter Tong of the FEBC Hongkong office about the situation. I got a new excellent antenna, 100 m long running NE-SW. Very good for East Asia. But I have fallen in the dark and broken both ankles so I am a bit handicapped for a while. Still I can write without difficulty (Ullmar Qvick, Sweden, SW Bulletin March 10 via WORLD OF RADIO 1973, DXLD) ** ROMANIA. Hi All, A good signal from IRRS on 7290 kHz this evening for their 1900-2000 UT broadcast; the programme appears to be 'International Public Access Radio', with two US males chatting and the odd phone caller. 73 for now, (Alan Gale, England, 1939 UT Tuesday March 5, WOR iog via DXLD) ** ROMANIA. [Continuing from last issue when an RRI Galbeni transmitter was off-frequency at numerous spots; eventually repaired:] Galbeni DRM mode Fr at 2100 UT, En 2130 UT, on 6028.8 kHz exact S=9+35dB here in GER, HOL, etc. and AM mode 7375exact kHz S=9+10 dB too. 21-22 UT. 73 wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, March 3, dxldyg via DXLD) Galbeni 5988.790 kHz exact S=9+40dB here in GER, HOL, etc. and 7375 kHz S=9+45 dB too. 19-21 UT. 73 wb (Bueschel, Mar 3, ibid.) RRI Galbeni 'DRM mode' English at 2350 UT, on 5978.77 kHz S=9+35dB here in GER, HOL, etc. and AM mode 7220exact kHz S=9+10 dB too. 23-2356 UT. RRI Galbeni both in AM mode Spanish at 0010 UT, on 5978.772 kHz exact S=9+35dB here in GER, HOL, etc. and AM mode 7325exact kHz S=9+5 dB too. 0000-0056 UT. 73 wb (Bueschel, UT Mar 4, ibid.) RRI Galbeni 'DRM mode' English at 0650 UT March 4, on 9768.77 kHz S=9+35dB here in GER, HOL, etc. RRI Galbeni both in AM mode Arabic language, requested to NoWeAfrica, Maghreb/Sahel target, 9610 kHz at 0750 UT, on 9608.013 kHz exact S=9+35dB here in GER, HOL, etc. and AM mode 11660exact kHz S=9+20 dB too. 0730-0756 UT. Latter ended at 0756 UT with 1000 Hertz tone technical check, about 20seconds on air. 73 wb (Bueschel, ibid.) RRI Galbeni both in AM mode Romanian language, requested to Western Europe target, 11780 kHz at 1100 UT S=9+30dB in GER, HOL, etc. and AM mode odd fq 15251.864 kHz kHz, S=9+40 dB signal strength too. 1100-1156 UT. 73 wb (Bueschel, ibid.) RRI Galbeni 15456.821 kHz switched back to even 15460 kHz approx. 1304 UT .... <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< One of the two US Continental transmitters at RadioCom site Bacau Galbeni in eastern Romania wandered frequency downwards on March 3 and 4, til 1256 UT March 4: RRI Galbeni in English language, requested to Western Europe target 17800 kHz at 1200 UT S=9+5dB in Doha Qatar in AM mode, and odd fq 15456.821 kHz S=8-9 backlobe in Doha Qatar, S=9+25 dB signal strength too in Blackpool-UK site. 1200-1256 UT. But RRI English also via RadioCom Tsiganeshti site on 11825 and 21490 kHz even outlets, S=9+10dB in Qatar, but 11825 kHz channel has terrible audio mix of co-channel with AWR / via SLBC Trincomalee outlet in Korean language at 12-13 UT. ex-15456.821 kHz at 1200-1256 UT March 3 Arabic to NE/ME/NoAF and WeAF 15460 1300 1330 37 GAL 300 245 Ara ROU RRO back on 15460 kHz even fq on March 4th Also Arabic via RRI Tsiganeshti site on 13630 kHz S=9+30dB, and 17810 kHz S=7-8 in Doha Qatar. And also 5th transmission on air, RRI Romanian service on 9880 kHz via old 1956year bcast center Saftica 100 kW Continental transmitter, 1300-1356 UT S=9+30dB here in western Europe. RRI Chinese via Tsiganeshti at 1330-1356 UT March 4, 9610 kHz S=9+5dB in Qatar, S=8-9 in Hiroshima southern Japan and 11825 kHz S=9+15dB in Qatar and Japan too. 73 wb 5980 0000 0100 12NE GAL 300 280 Spa ROU RRO 5978.772 kHz 9610 0600 0630 27SE GAL 300 285 Fra ROU RRO 9608.013 kHz 9770 0630 0700 27N GAL 90 300 Eng ROU RRO 9768.777 kHz 9770 0700 0730 28NW TIG 300 307 Deu ROU RRO 9768.777 kHz 15380 0900 1000 38E GAL 300 175 Ron ROU RRO 15376.777 kHz 15260 1000 1100 27SE GAL 300 285 Ron ROU RRO 15256.800 kHz 15255 1100 1200 27SE GAL 300 285 Fra ROU RRO 15251.864 kHz 15460 1200 1300 27N GAL 90 307 Eng ROU RRO 15456.821 kHz GAL ! HFCC entry 15460kHz is faulty TIG marked 90 kW. [so DRM? gh] 15460 1300 1330 37 GAL 300 245 Ara ROU RRO back on even 15460 kHz fq March 4th around 1304 UT 5990 1800 2100 27SE GAL 300 285 Ron ROU RRO 5988.790 kHz 6030 2100 2130 27SE GAL 90 285 Fra ROU RRO 6028.777 kHz 6030 2130 2200 27N GAL 90 300 Eng ROU RRO 6028.777 kHz 5980 2300 2400 27N GAL 300 285 Eng ROU RRO 5978.772 kHz 90kW DRM mode transmission (Bueschel, ibid.) 14-16 Romanian on odd 11972.5, instead of 11975 (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, 1407 UT Mar 4, WOR iog via DXLD) ** ROMANIA. Very odd frequencies R. Romania Int via Galbeni, March 4-5 0000-0056 5979v 300 kW / 280 deg SoAm Spanish, instead of 5980 0100-0156 6129v 300 kW / 310 deg ENAm English, instead of 6130 0200-0256 6129v 300 kW / 310 deg ENAm French, instead of 6130 0300-0356 6154v 300 kW / 310 deg CeAm Spanish, instead of 6155 0400-0456 6019v 300 kW / 320 deg WNAm English, instead of 6020 0500-0556 6144v 300 kW / 285 deg WeEu Romanian, instead of 6145 0600-0656 9608v 090 kW / 285 deg WeEu French DRM, instead of 9610 0630-0656 9768v 090 kW / 300 deg WeEu English DRM, instead of 9770 0730-0756 9608v 300 kW / 245 deg NoAf Arabic, instead of 9610 0800-0856 15427v 300 kW / 110 deg WeAs Romanian Sun, instead of 15430 0900-0956 15377v 300 kW / 175 deg EaAf Romanian Sun, instead of 15380 1000-1056 15257v 300 kW / 285 deg WeEu Romanian Sun, instead of 15260 1100-1156 15252v 300 kW / 285 deg WeEu French, instead of 15255 1200-1256 15457v 300 kW / 300 deg WeEu English, instead of 15460 1300-1326 *15457v 300 kW / 245 deg NoAf Arabic, instead of 15460 1400-1556 *11972v 300 kW / 290 deg WeEu Romanian, instead of 11975 1630-1656 9608v 300 kW / 245 deg NoAf Arabic, instead of 9610 1700-1756 9808v 300 kW / 140 deg N/ME Romanian, instead of 9810 1800-2056 5989v 300 kW / 285 deg WeEu Romanian, instead of 5990 2100-2126 6029v 090 kW / 285 deg WeEu French DRM, instead of 6030 2130-2156 6029v 090 kW / 300 deg WeEu English DRM, instead of 6030 2300-2356 5979v 300 kW / 285 deg WeEu English, instead of 5980 *in different days & at some time switches on nominal frequencies respectively! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/very-odd-frequencies-of-radio-romania_5.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News March 4-5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [gh listed all the off-frequencies above, which are approximate, with no further details, for WORLD OF RADIO 1973] Correction thanks Alex, switched the wrong text line (wrongly to TIG German) 9610 kHz at 0750 UT, on 9608.013 kHz exact, S=9+35dB here in GER, HOL, etc. and AM mode 11660exact kHz S=9+20 dB too. 0730-0756 UT. Arabic to NoWeAF, WeAF/Sahel/Maghreb 9610 0730 0800 37 GAL 300 245 Ara ROU RRO 9608.013 kHz Exiting these days in Romania during monitoring log, as GH always says 'something wrong often on RadioCom Galbeni Romania site ...' hi Some tx breaks when listened at 1419:30 UT. 11972.532 kHz was powerful on air S=9+35dB in western Europe. and 9810 kHz even fq kHz. When checked at 1430 UT was back on even 11975 kHz S=9+35dB also. see table below - change at 0730 UT Arabic also ... 73 (Bueschel, Mar 4, dxldyg) RRI Galbeni in Arabic language, to Maghreb, NoWeAF, WeAF, WeSahel target, 11975 kHz at 1650 UT S=7-8 sidelobe only, logged in western Europe, and odd fq 9608.021 S=9+30dB side in Holland, 1630-1656 UT. At 1656:30 UT move to odd fq 9807.981 kHz Romanian language sce at 1700-1756 UT S=9+45dB powerhouse then. And AM mode Galbeni 7370 kHz even, also S=9+45dB powerful Romanian sce. And at 1700 UT also nearby Balkan/ITA/UKR sce: 5955even Italian sce via older Saftica site, 100 kW, S=9+30dB signal noted in GER and HOL. And RRI French sce via Tsiganesti to western Europe / NoWeAF on 7325 kHz in AM mode S=9+45dB, and 9870 kHz in DRM mode at S=9+35dB. 73 wb RRI Galbeni in Romanian language, to Europe target, 1800-2056 UT. 7375 kHz at 1800 UT S=9+50dB POWERHOUSE in GER/HOL, and odd fq 5988.768 kHz S=9+45dB on SDR side in Holland. And at 1800 UT also nearby Balkan/ITA/UKR sce: 5955even Ukrainian sce via older Saftica site via #812 revolving antenna type, 100 kW lowered to 75 kW, S=9+25dB signal noted in GER and HOL. And RRI English sce via Tsiganesti to western Europe target on 5935 kHz in AM mode S=9+35dB, and 7350 kHz lowered 90 kW instead of 300 in DRM mode at S=9+50dB POWERHOUSE. 73 wb 5980 2300 2400 27N GAL 300 285 Eng ROU RRO 5978.772 kHz DRM til 2356:30 DRM mode, from 2357:07 AM mode. 5978.769 kHz 5980 0000 0100 12NE GAL 300 280 Spa ROU RRO 5978.772 kHz Mar 4 5978.769 kHz Mar 5 (Wolfgang Bueschel, UT Mar 5, dxldyg via DXLD) 6130 0100 0200 8 GAL 300 310 Eng ROU RRO 6128.739 kHz 6130 0200 0300 4,8 GAL 300 310 Fra ROU RRO 6128.739 kHz 6155 0300 0400 10 GAL 300 310 Spa ROU RRO 6153.734 kHz suffer QRM by co-ch Channel Africa MEY AFS 6154.991 kHz Mo-Fr 6020 0400 0500 6 GAL 300 320 Eng ROU RRO 6018.739 kHz 6145 0500 0600 27SE GAL 300 285 Ron ROU RRO 6143.740, 0556:27 TX off. 7220 0500 0600 27SE GAL 300 285 Ron ROU RRO DRM mode March 5 9610 0600 0630 27SE GAL 300 285 Fra ROU RRO 9608.013 kHz DRM mode 9608.146 March 5 1st try at 0558:47 UT 9770 0630 0700 27N GAL 90 300 Eng ROU RRO 9768.777 DRM mode DRM mode 9768.183 March 5 9610 0730 0800 37 GAL 300 245 Ara ROU RRO 9608.013 kHz 0726:57 TX switch on air 9608.239 March 5 73 wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, 0739 March 5, ibid.) Today March 6 all odd frequencies of RRI via Galabeni are on nominal (Ivo Ivanov, 0731 March 6, WOR iog via DXLD) Was the last odd fq outlet in March 3 to 5 period: 9610 0730-0800 37 GAL 300 245 Ara ROU RRO 0726:57 TX switch on air 9608.239 kHz on March 5 !!!! But not odd frequency anymore at 1100 UT Tue March 5. Problem solved so far. 73 wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, 0928 March 6, dxldyg via DXLD) ** ROMANIA. Re: R Romania Int QSLs not available: Alan, Thanks for the interesting news. Based on their broadcast schedule, I didn't think these guys would ever have a budget issue to overcome. I guess eventually these things catch up with everyone in some fashion. However, now that they are reducing costs I would expect them to possibly curtail some transmissions in the near future, maybe even dropping a language or two along the way. I wonder if they will introduce a PDF attachment QSL similar to Media Broadcast? 73, (Rich D`Angelo, March 4, NASWA iog via DXLD) Hi Rich, I have a recollection of a few years ago of a similar situation at RRI when they were unable to send out QSLs due to budget issues. However, after a couple of months or so they then started sending out the QSLs. Hopefully this is just a similar temporary restraint (Alan Roe, ibid.) ** RUSSIA. Good signal of GTRK Adygeya/Adygeyan Radio, March 8 1800-1900 on 6000 ARM 100 kW / 188 deg to CeAs Adygeyan Fri https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/good-signal-of-gtrk-adygeyaadygeyan.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News March 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Good signal of GTRK Adygeya/Adygeyan Radio, March 11 1800-1900 on 6000 ARM 100 kW / 188 deg to CeAs Ad/Ar/Tu Mon https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/good-signal-of-gtrk-adygeyaadygeyan_1.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News March 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAIPAN. See NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS! ** SINGAPORE. 15620-DRM, BBCWS via Kranji. News & interviews 0812, SNR to 24.0 dB, so very robust, 23/2 (Craig Seager, VK2HBT, Bathurst NSW (Perseus SDR, JRC NRD-545, Airspy HF+, DX Engineering Preamp, Wellbrook feeder isolator, Icom IC-746, Loop Skywire, Home-made Loop with LZ1AQ amplifier, Wellbrook ALA1530-LNPro, March Australian DX News via DXLD) ** SOMALIA [non?]. 7750.4, Presumed Warsan Radio. From Somalia or Kenya in vernaculars (rather in Somali) on 17/2 at 1925 with song, talk, at 1935 sermon, close/down at 1942 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF2001D,Folded Marconi antenna), March Australian DX News via DXLD) ** SOUTH AFRICA. Tribute to Meyerton --- Hi Glenn, Here is my blog page dedicated to the Meyerton Transmitting Station in QSLs. http://qsl.philcobill.com/blog/?p=6996 Hope you enjoy it (Bill Harms, Maryland, March 9, WORLD OF RADIO 1973, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Very nice with many QSLs from Radio RSA, Channel Africa and stations relayed. Also has many more QSLs on his blog (gh) ** SOUTH AMERICA. Estimados amigos! A partir de las 22 horas UT hasta las 1000 estaremos en 6945 kHz. Mañana también estaremos en el aire a la misma hora. Será la última transmisión por un tiempito. 73' de Jorge rpi@radiopirana.com Dear Friends, We have changed the frecuency to 6945kHz starting at around 22 UT until 1000. Tomorrow we repeat the same sched. Tomorrow will be the last transmission for a while. 73' Jorge. rpi@radiopirana.com -- Porfavor siempre responder a: rpi@radiopirana.com 2124 UT March 10, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) A frequency avoided in NAm with ute bonker circa 6942-6943 (gh, DXLD) 6945 kHz, Radio Piraña Internacional (Onda Curta) Musica 0234 UT 10 Marzo 2019, Mejor aqui en 6945.2 https://youtu.be/hWRNZ0zr3H0 RX: Yaesu FRG 8800. Antena: DS SWL DL Dipolo Assimetrica 42 Mietros + Balun + 15 Mietros Coaxial (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT, Brasil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** SOUTH AMERICA. #105 / RECEPTION IN SÃO BERNARDO SP, BRAZIL March 11, 2019 (Time in UTC) Rx: KiwiSDR (São Bernardo SP) + PA0RDT Mini Whip Antenna PIRATE STATION: 6945 kHz UNID: Radio Piraña International, from South America, SS, 11/03 2245. South American songs, ID: 'Radio Piraña Interational', in SS and in EE language. Male communication from the studio. ID in EE on 2320. 35443 (Rudolf Grimm, São Bernardo SP, BRAZIL, http://dxways-br.blogspot.com YouTube Channel: GrimmSBC, HCDX via DXLD) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9330, WBCQ Monticello ME (presumed); 2032, 3/3; Besmerching Sanity Bro. Stair broke into song; “He touched me”... perhaps he was confused & meant, “I touched her”. S10 peaks, // 9395 via WRMI(p), SIO=353- (Frodge-MI) 9395, WRMI Radio Miami Int’l (presumed); 1554-1603+, 3/6; Sounding more gravelly than usual, Bro HyStairical said that I should come to the tabernacle “where the ark is being built.” (Do South Carolina building codes allow this?) B.S said he needs a “more simpler” e-dress than lasttime@overcomerministry.org (How about BS@BS.org? OR! --- He could go for a new domain name for the relighuxters, .hxr) 1559:29 shifted to a less gravelly sounding B.S. No ToH ID break. SIO=453 13845, WWCR, Nashville TN (presumed); 1905, 3/7; Olde Gravel-Voice Bro. HyStairical, usurping time from Pastor Melissa & Dead Dr. Gene. SIO=352+ (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time. ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. 9690 REE, Noblejas. Sundays only service in the Sefardí language to NAm between 2230 and 2300, with a good signal. // freqs include 12030 to ME (fair signal), 11685 to WAf (weak signal), and 11940 to SAm (also weak). This program is offered each week to support Jewish and Sephardic culture and community in Spain. The Sefardí language (Sephardi Hebrew) comes in various forms across the globe with contact languages such as Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese and Greek. The version spoken on this program has, naturally enough) strong Spanish influences. 17/2 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, VIC (Yaesu FTDX 3000, Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Kenwood R5000, Tecsun PL-680, Horizontal Sky Loop, Double Bazooka antennas for 80, 40 and 20 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), March Australian DX News via DXLD) 9690, March 8 at 2135, REE playing harpsichord music, unusual, soon YL announcement in Castilian that this is ``special programming`` because of a strike (huelga) for International Women`s Day; more variety of music fill, partly classical, flamenco, etc., never any IDs of the music, but REE IDs and repeated ``special`` announcements. 2200 timesignal and right into ``Firebird``. So it`s special in the sense that they are just playing records instead of producing usual programming. This is // 11940, but there is different music fill on 12030, and the fourth frequency, 11685, is missing. So perhaps a female on strike was responsible for that transmitter, the others safely under male control? 2259 recheck, now ``Ode to Joy`` with Spanish lyrix; 2300 still huelga announcement, so presumably no English today either, as I tune out. The REE music hour at 2200 had much better signal than 7490v WBCQ when I was tempted to listen to `Behaviour Night`. But 9690 back to normal by next day, Sat March 9 at 1738 check via UTwente, the males` stupid ballgames, with heavy ACI from both sides: 9685 CRI Kashgar, East Turkistan in Hausa; 9695 CRI Kashi in Mandarin, per EiBi (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1973, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9690, REE at 2300 in Spanish with time pips and a woman mentioning “programma classical” [sic] and classical instrumentals to a man with a “Radio Exterior de Espana” ID at 2303 and into folk vocals with Spanish guitar accompaniment - Very Good Mar 8 – The English program, listed as Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 2300, was missing today. I haven't been listening on Fridays so I have no idea if its missing is a mistake, a change in schedule, or how it's been all along (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Drake SPR-4, Kenwood TS440S, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD), ODXA iog via DXLD) Strike for Int`l Women`s Day (gh) 12030, Monday March 11 at 1824, REE is really in Russian, mentioning Madrid, then playing a song in Spanish; 1829 Spanish ID, PSA by MinEx that Spaniards abroad need to register about something by 30 March, and Spanish show `Europa Abierta` about Brexit. At beginning of B18 season, after schedule shuffle, there was some controversy whether REE was really in Russian. WRTH now shows this M-F at 1800-1830 on 12030 to ME and IndOc, and 11685 for WAf/Atlantic, i.e. nowhere to be finding very many Russians --- because Noblejas simply has no azimuth toward Moskva? 11685 however is vacant, as are the other two to Americas, 9690 & 11940 which do not come up until 1900 on weekdays. There are a bunch of scattered once-a-week Russian REE broadcasts via WRN Moscow on 738 kHz, each at a different time of day (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN. 7205, Sudan Radio, Al Aitahab, 0520-0534, 10-03, Arabic comments. QRM on 7210. 32332. (Méndez) 9505, Sudan Radio, Al Aitahab, 1646-1750, 09-03, French, comments, English, news and comments, ID “Voice of Africa”. 34433 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) Good signal of Voice of Africa Sudan Radio, March 9 1715-1800 on 9505 ALF 100 kW / 210 deg to CeAf English 1800-1900 on 9505 ALF 100 kW / 210 deg to CeAf Hausa https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/good-signal-of-voice-of-africa-sudan.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News March 9-10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. UK, 9635. 6/3/2019, 1836-1848, IBRA-Radio Sama, Woofferton, Sudan Service (Sudanês e outras línguas). Locução masculina em pregação religiosa, presumivelmente; Uma longa canção. Ótima recepção via Woofferton, 45554 (JRX_José Ronaldo Xavier, SWARL Callsign PR7036SWL, Receptor (es): Degen DE1103 & Tecsun S-2000, Cabedelo-PB, Brasil, WOR iog via DXLD) ** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. Eye Radio --- Yesterday afternoon's (8 March) broadcast on 15410 kHz from 1600 to 1700 UT was a music-only program with incorrect/old frequency announcements in English. Perhaps this is a fill-in program when the regular program is unavailable for some reason (--Richard Langley, NB, March 9, WOR iog via DXLD) ** TAIWAN. 15320, R. Taiwan International, Paochung. Here with the English Service and a dreadful selection of folk music at 0330-0340 on 21/2 (Dennis Allen, Milperra NSW (Icom R75, Realistic DX-160, Longwires), March Australian DX News via DXLD) ? Please describe how it was dreadful? The selexion method or the music itself? (gh, DXLD) ** TAIWAN. 15740, SOH Xi Wang Zhi Sheng, Taiwan. Very good reception of Chinese reports at 0535, 11/2, with what sounded like VOA ID jingles continuous in the background! (Dennis Allen, Milperra NSW (Icom R75, Realistic DX-160, Longwires), March Australian DX News via DXLD) ** TAIWAN [and non]. 11640, RTI at 1320 in Mandarin with a man and woman with an apparent radio drama – Very Good over CNR jammer Mar 9 – The jammer was // a number of other known frequencies and was quite weak under this one. You can never be quite sure until you rule out all possibilities (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Drake SPR-4, Kenwood TS440S, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 and 80 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD), ODXA iog via DXLD) ** TIBET [non]. TAJIKISTAN, Frequency change of Voice of Tibet on March 8: 1300-1305 NF 9896 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 9895 1305-1335 NF 9900 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 9899 1335-1400 NF 9884 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 9900 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/frequency-change-of-voice-of-tibet-in.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News March 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) TAJIKISTAN, Frequency changes of Voice of Tibet Mar 9: 2300-2305 NF 7494 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 7495 2305-2330 NF 7486 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 7495 2330-2335 NF 7492 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 7499 2335-2400 NF 7496 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 7499 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/frequency-changes-of-voice-of-tibet.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News March 9-10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) TAJIKISTAN, Frequency changes of Voice of Tibet on March 11 1230-1235 NF 9895*DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 11601 1235-1300 NF 9895*DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 11605 1300-1305 NF 9896 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 9895 *CNR1 jammer 11600 unknown kW / non-dir to EaAs Chinese + digital https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/frequency-changes-of-voice-of-tibet-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News March 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. UTILITY, UNID tent. Turkish Defence Forces Radio, March 11 from 0800 on 5900 USB mode Turkish, weak to fair signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/unidentified-tentturkish-defence-forces.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News March 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. TRT Voice of Turkey in Persian on very odd frequency 11795.7 kHz, March 5: 0930-1055 11795.7 EMR 500 kW / 105 deg Persian, instead of 11795 Mar 4 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/voice-of-turkey-in-persian-on-very-odd.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News March 4-5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) TURQUIA, 6000. 6/3/2019, 0118-0125, Voice of Turkey, Emirler, em Turco. Músicas turcas; Locução masculina. Recepção varia entre satisfatória a pobre, 35433 a 35422 (JRX_José Ronaldo Xavier, SWARL Callsign PR7036SWL, Receptor (es): Degen DE1103 & Tecsun S-2000, Cabedelo-PB, Brasil, WOR iog via DXLD) Way Off Frequency Again --- Noted in Spanish on an off-frequency of 9495.693 kHz at 1745 UT today (7 March) using the U. Twente SDR receiver. Signal quite strong and audio seemed fine. Again or Still? Also noted: German on 5945.706 kHz at 1830 but French on 9620.006 kHz at the same time (-- Richard Langley, March 7, WOR iog via DXLD) 11815.7, March 8 at 1502, VOT Turkish with Qur`an, Fribbath vespers, in the clear after stronger NHK closed 11815.0 (see JAPAN). I wonder if it`s live from the brand-new super-mosque which just opened yesterday in Istanbul: https://www.dailysabah.com/istanbul/2019/03/07/first-ever-prayer-held-at-turkeys-largest-mosque-in-istanbul A report I saw said each minaret is dedicated to some war or another (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) TRT Voice of Turkey in Spanish on very odd frequency 9495.7, March 9 1730-1825 9495.7 EMR 250 kW / 290 deg SoEu Spanish, instead of 9495 March 8 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/voice-of-turkey-in-spanish-on-very-odd.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News March 9-10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) TRT Voice of Turkey English on very odd frequency 12035.7, March 10 1330-1420 12035.7 EMR 500 kW / 305 deg WeEu English, instead of 12035 March 9 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/voice-of-turkey-in-english-on-very-odd.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News March 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7240.004, Voice of Turkey, Emirler in English, "Weekly Announces" program read by woman at 0421 on March 11. Talk on Kashmir clashes, PAK/IND border remained after British empire collapsed in 1948 year. S=9+40dB or -36dBm powerhouse at 0422 UT. But accompanied by BUZZ strings tone on 100/200/300 Hertz visible. Some log of Doha Qatar in 0400-0429 UT time slot this ME morning [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 11, dxldyg via DXLD) 12035.7, March 11 at 1423, it`s a skewed-frequency day for VOT English, VP; 1424 can barely perceive the IS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. BBC boss: There is no `paying twice' issue with BritBox The broadcaster has unveiled plans, with ITV, for a streaming subscription service. Press Association Last updated: 7 March 2019 - 12.30pm http://tv.bt.com/tv/tv-news/bbc-boss-there-is-no-paying-twice-issue-with-britbox-11364343417234 BBC boss Tony Hall has dismissed complaints that viewers will have to pay twice for its shows with the launch of BritBox. The broadcaster has unveiled plans, with ITV, for a streaming subscription service for its shows after they have aired on iPlayer. Some have questioned why they should pay again for BBC hits, having already been charged the -L-154.50 licence fee. But speaking at a media and telecoms conference, the corporation's director-general said: "I don't see the point... about paying twice. BBC Director-General Tony Hall BBC director-general Tony Hall (Yui Mok/PA) [caption] "You are paying once, we hope for a much longer window and more content than ever before, on-demand whenever you want it and a more personalised service (on iPlayer). "And then, as you have done with DVDs or with paid channels in the past, you have to pay a little extra for that. I think people understand that model." He said the licence fee is sustainable despite the broadcaster getting into streaming, "as long we can show people we are giving real value". He warned that the BBC's digital services will be "the only ones" a significant proportion of its audiences use in as little as five years. Lord Hall said it was time to ask whether all the regulation in which public service broadcasters operate in is "still necessary". He called on regulators to keep "pace" with changes to the TV landscape, as new competitors such as Disney, Apple, Comcast and WarnerMedia come "flooding in", to join the likes of Netflix and Amazon. If public service broadcasting is to "thrive", the regulation "needs to change and adapt," he said. "The landscape in which we operate has changed beyond all recognition over the past decade. But our regulation has stayed largely the same.... "We need to look afresh at regulation, and ask whether all the historic interventions that have built up over the decades are still necessary.... "It can't be right that... the same programme can be regulated in half a dozen different ways in the UK, depending on who's hosting it. "And all this needs to happen at pace." The broadcaster will have to go through regulatory hurdles to launch BritBox, while iPlayer is also going through a public interest test. Lord Hall said: "I'm after a level playing field... We have to move at speed." His comments come after ITV's boss, Carolyn McCall, said British broadcasters must be able to compete on "equal terms" with global giants such as Netflix. Public service broadcasters are regulated by Ofcom and face strict rules on everything from regional production quotas to the watershed. A set of rules on competition, prominence, advertising, taxation, content regulation and production quotas are applied to UK companies but barely any for the global giants. Lord Hall said it was estimated that Netflix spent as much as 13 billion dollars on movies and shows last year, while Amazon has a content spend of around five billion dollars. "They're reportedly setting aside one billion dollars for five series of Lord Of The Rings. Disney has a 100 million dollar budget for a single series of Star Wars," he said. "The BBC's TV content spend taken altogether is around -L-1.5 billion across a whole year." But he boasted that the BBC's Bodyguard finale reached 17 million viewers in one month while "our data suggests (Netflix drama) The Crown reached seven million users in the UK in 17 months". With audiences moving away from linear television to streaming and catch-up services, he added: "It might be five years away, it might be 10, but soon our digital services will be the only ones some of our audiences use." Shows currently remain on iPlayer for around 30 days but the BBC wants that extended for at least a year. BritBox is designed as "a long-term home" for many shows after they are no longer available on BBC iPlayer and ITV Hub. Lord Hall was speaking at the Media And Telecoms 2019 & Beyond Conference, taking place in London (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) Have I not already seen ads for Britbox on American TV? Joint venture with commercial rival Channel 4 (gh, DXLD) ** U K. Test transmission of ENC-DMS via Woofferton, March 9: till 0915 on 9485 WOF 300 kW / 126 deg to EaAf, very good signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/test-transmission-of-enc-dms-via.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News March 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. 17780, BBC, Ascension. S/on 0700 in Hausa with breezy chat, phone-ins and music selections. Extra frequency for the Nigerian election on this day, Feb 23. A fair to weak signal here, including an 8-second transmission interruption at 0712 and another 5-sec interruption at 0713. Fade/out around 0745. And again on 25/2 at 0715, so perhaps a permanent time slot now? However, this service is now reportedly via Dhabayya, UAE as of 26/2. I checked on 28/2 and no reception from this changed transmitter site into my location (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, VIC (Yaesu FTDX 3000, Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Kenwood R5000, Tecsun PL-680, Horizontal Sky Loop, Double Bazooka antennas for 80, 40 and 20 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), March Australian DX News via DXLD) ** U S A. 4020-USB, March 5 at 1335, net discussing whether a new frequency will be necessary come DST. Hush-hush, no kHz mentioned, only secret designators such as R71 or R73. After all, The Enemy might overhear! A new frequency matrix came out in January, which one of them has not received. How I`d love to see that; what level of classification is upon it? Only abbr`d calls such as 5PL, 5PQ, 5DT; poor signals. Presumably Air Force MARS. My last 4020 log had calls starting with 7: ``4020-USB, March 30 [2018] at 1241, MARS net, contact between 7DP and 7DT, then AFA7DT formal ``closedown, out``. Hard to search out any recent info on AFA7DT QTH`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. VOA DRM --- Casually mentioned in an Asia Radio Today piece is that "Voice of America is going to launch a DRM shortwave service in the next few months." Read more at: http://www.asiaradiotoday.com/news/car-industry-has-strongly-supported-drm-introduction-india-abudbs2019 © Radioinfo.com.au https://twitter.com/kaedotcom/status/1104469415637209088 Presumably this will be from Greenville. Ruxandra Obreja, the Chair of the DRM Consortium, also said "Radio is a cockroach ... you cannot kill it" (Kim Andrew Elliott @kaedotcom 2223 UT Mar 9, WOR iog via DXLD) Well, actually, @SWWINB is the first @drmdigitalradio from the USA. But VOA will presumably be the first to use all 10 kHz of the DRM bandwidth for program audio (Hans Johnson? misplaced credit) Does this mean I'm going to come to regret getting rid of that DRM radio a year ago? :) (John Figliozzi, ibid.) And the next sentence in this article: "Cyprus and Oman are also using short wave DRM for transmissions." It's an apparent waste of time to further discuss the claims made therein (Kai Ludwig, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1973, DXLD) Which we all(?) know they are certainly not (gh) ** U S A. South Florida --- More firings at TV and Radio Marti over controversial George Soros report By Nora Gamez Torres March 01, 2019 02:26 PM TV Marti studio in Doral. Nora Gamez Torres el Nuevo Herald [caption] Four additional staffers at Radio and TV Marti have been fired over a controversial report broadcast last year that referred to Jewish philanthropist George Soros as "anti-Semitic" -- bringing to eight the number of dismissals at the station so far following a months-long internal investigation by the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB), which oversees the Marti stations, as well as the Martinoticias digital site. The report, aired by Isabel Cuervo for the Antena Live program, raises conspiracy theories about Soros, who is identified as a "left-wing billionaire of Hungarian-Jewish origin" and a "nonpracticing Jew of flexible morals." The broadcast, which aired in three separate segments, included an interview that was posted on YouTube by RT.com that Cuervo used with no attribution to the source and another one passed off as her own interview with an alleged expert. Cuervo and former News Editor Wilfredo Cancio were dismissed immediately after then Senator Jeff Flake and Senator Bob Menendez demanded an investigation. The Marti report, broadcast last May, made headlines at the end of October when a blog on Cuban issues raised questions about the broadcast just days after Soros received a bomb threat. John Lansing, director of the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which oversees Radio and TV Marti, issued a statement Wednesday saying that the three-part report should have never aired. The report, he said, was "a blatantly anti-Semitic video segment about George Soros that was deeply offensive and wholly inconsistent with our professional standards and ethics. OCB should have never aired it." "A comprehensive human resources investigation of the incident is now complete. One employee and three contractors have been terminated to date, and the agency has initiated the standard disciplinary process for four additional OCB employees," said Lansing. On Wednesday, Cuervo, her editor Vivian Martinez, producer Janet Lomba and journalist Armando de Armas were notified that they would be dismissed, according to a Marti employee who asked for anonymity in order to speak freely. Lomba produced the program Levantate Cuba in which Cuervo regularly promoted her Antena Live reports. De Armas wrote an article about a Judicial Watch lawsuit related to Soros that served as the basis for Cuervo's report. The USAGM did not immediately confirm the number of dismissals or answer questions about the investigation. Tomas Regalado, director of Radio and TV Marti, did not respond to several el Nuevo Herald phone calls seeking comment. Cancio was previously fired, along with three other Marti contract workers: the host of Levantate Cuba, Maite Hernandez, another producer of that program, Ibetty Perez, and editor Jose Montoya, who took part in the production of the Soros report. They were dismissed before the conclusion of the investigation. George Soros, a billionaire Democratic fund-raiser, has long been villainized in certain right-wing circles. Now conspiracy theories about him have gone mainstream, to nearly every corner of the Republican Party. In an interview with el Nuevo Herald, Hernandez and Perez said they had been fired unfairly because they had no decision-making power over the Cuervo segment in the Levantate Cuba program. According to the identical letters sent to them by the Chaise Management Group, the contracting agency, which were obtained by el Nuevo Herald, the decision to dismiss them was a recommendation of the OCB. The agency argues that they both violated "the trust and the credibility" of their work. The letter adds that the OCB informed the agency, after a "meticulous investigation," that they had "contributed to the story in three parts," which was aired by Cuervo. "What the letter says is false, I did not participate in the reporting," Perez said in the interview and in a statement sent by attorney Gadiel Espinoza, who is representing both Perez and Hernandez. Perez said that her responsibilities with the program -- contacting and coordinating with guests and other logistics -- required that she be out of the studio for extended periods. She also said she does not remember being in the studio when Cuervo promoted the report. Hernandez, meanwhile, said that Cuervo sent her the questions about the report the host should ask her in the show. Both questioned why the presenters and producers of Antena Live, the show that originally broadcast Cuervo's story, had not been investigated and that they were dismissed before the investigation was completed. In his statement, Lansing also said that he had appointed an independent panel that would audit the entire contents of the Marti stations and the Martinoticias site, media outlets funded by federal money approved by Congress with a mission to transmit truthful information to Cuba as a way to break through government censorship. In addition to dismissals tied to the Soros report, about another dozen Marti workers have been laid off by Regalado, which he has attributed to budget cuts. Regalado was named director of the Marti outlets last June and has made substantial changes since then. Contracts with agencies that represented independent journalists in Cuba were canceled and several people who worked for the digital site also were dismissed. Martinoticias now mainly publishes wire stories. Meanwhile, a series of new television and radio programs have been launched, hosted by dissidents in Cuba and Miami as well as members of organizations that represent the so-called "historic exile" community. The cuts, the investigation into the Soros report and the announced audit of Marti's overall content has generated much angst among employees. "The environment that has been created by the upper hierarchy of the Agency for Global Media is repressive," said an employee who asked not to be identified for fear of reprisals. "People write with fear. Adjectives are no longer used. " A bomb was found in a mailbox at the suburban New York compound of George Soros, the liberal billionaire philanthropist who has been the target of right-wing conspiracy theorists on October 22, 2018. Agents safely detonated the device. Follow Nora Gamez Torres on Twitter: @ngameztorres (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO MONITORING: 9955, WRMI, 1233, SINPO-34233, “World of Radio” program #1967 with Glenn Hauser commenting about cherishing any classical music on SW because there is so little of it. 3-FEB (Karl Racenis, Owosso MI, Icom R-9000, JPS ANC-4 & Datong AD-270, Yaesu FT-1000MP & Micro G5RV, MARE Tipsheet 8 March via DXLD) 3 Feb was Sunday; must have been 2 Feb Sat 7730, WRMI, Okeechobee FL. World of Radio DX program at 0830 (Sun only) until the station s/off 0900, good signal, 17/2 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, VIC (Yaesu FTDX 3000, Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Kenwood R5000, Tecsun PL-680, Horizontal Sky Loop, Double Bazooka antennas for 80, 40 and 20 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), March Australian DX News via DXLD) WoR 1971 via IRRS/Romania --- Fairly-good-strength signal on 7290 kHz this afternoon (4 March) at 1900 UT using the U. Twente SDR receiver. Best in LSB to avoid QRM from strong CRI signal in English on 7295 kHz (-- Richard Langley, WOR iog via DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1972 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday March 6 at 2200 on WRMI 9955, S7-S8; and 4 seconds later on WBCQ 7490.17, S9+10. (Both change to 2100 as of next week due to imposition of DST.) Also confirmed UT Thursday March 7 at 0000 on WRMI 7730, VG but some fades around the middle, and played complete to 0029 unlike last two weeks. Also confirmed UT Thursday March 7 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, poor-fair. Next: 0930 UT Fri Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND 0729 UT Sat HLR 6190-CUSB Germany to WSW 1200 UT Sat Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND [alt weeks: March 16/30] 1230 UT Sat WRMI *9955 to SSE 1531 UT Sat HLR 9485-CUSB Germany to WSW 2030vUT Sat WA0RCR 1860-AM MO non-direxional 2200 UT Sat WRMI *9955 to SSE 0030 UT Sun WRMI 7730 to WNW 0400vUT Sun WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415], ND 0830 UT Sun WRMI 5850 to NW, 5950 to WNW, 7730 to WNW 1130 UT Sun HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW 2130 UT Sun WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Mon WRMI 5950 to WNW, 9395 to NNW 0300vUT Mon WBCQ *5130v Area 51 to WSW [ex-0400v] 0330 UT Mon WRMI *9955 to SSE [ex-0430] 0930 UT Mon Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND 1900 UT Mon IRRS/NEXUS-IBA/IPAR 7290 Romania 0900 UT Tue Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND [-1000 two episodes] [NEW] * also webcast WORLD OF RADIO 1972 monitoring: confirmed by Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria: ``GERMANY, Reception of World of Radio via HLR on 6190 CUSB, March 9 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/reception-of-world-of-radio-via-hlr-on_9.html 0730-0800 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg CeEu English Sat, good signal`` Confirmed in awake OK, Sat Mar 9 at 1252, the 1230 on WRMI 9955, good, no jamming (from next week: 1130). Also confirmed Sat Mar 9 at 1548 the 1531 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 9485-CUSB, not direct nor via UTwente SDR but audible more or less readable on Italian Kiwi SDR. But Alan Gale, England, reports: ``Hi Glenn, Well, after sitting here listening to nothing but band noise on 9485 kHz for most of the afternoon, would you believe that the signal suddenly appeared, and at a good strength at 1557 UT, just in time to hear your closing announcement followed by the HLR closing message. Oh well, hopefully IRRS will still be on 7290 at 1800 UT on Monday and I'll have another chance to catch it on there. Alan`` Make that 1900. GERMANY, Reception of World of Radio via HLR on 9485 CUSB, March 9 1530-1600 9485 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sat, good signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/reception-of-world-of-radio-via-hlr-on_93.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News March 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Next: 2030vUT Sat WA0RCR 1860-AM MO non-direxional 2200 UT Sat WRMI *9955 to SSE 0030 UT Sun WRMI 7730 to WNW 0400vUT Sun WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415], ND 0830 UT Sun WRMI 5850 to NW, 5950 to WNW, 7730 to WNW 1130 UT Sun HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW 2130 UT Sun WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Mon WRMI 5950 to WNW, 9395 to NNW 0300vUT Mon WBCQ *5130v Area 51 to WSW [ex-0400v] 0330 UT Mon WRMI *9955 to SSE [ex-0430] 0930 UT Mon Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND 1900 UT Mon IRRS/NEXUS-IBA/IPAR 7290 Romania 0900 UT Tue Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND [-1000 two episodes] [NEW] * also webcast WORLD OF RADIO 1972 monitoring: NO WRMI, Saturday March 9 at 2209 tune-in 9955, rather fluttery JBA carrier: see UNIDENTIFIED. 9395 WRMI is on OK at S8. But as I listen, WRMI with WOR cuts 9955 on at *2211, S6-S8; unknown if a momentary break or no start at all until now; recheck at 2229, still on as WOR has just ended. Confirmed newish airing UT Sunday March 10 at 0030 on WRMI 7730, VG S9+20, after a few notes of unneeded intrusive music between the WRMI ID and start of WOR, as happens too often by this automation. Also confirmed UT Sunday March 10 at 0430 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO, S9+20 as I comment on ``irrational DST`` about 6 minutes into so started circa 0424 (and due to CDT, nominal start from next week will be 0315 UT!) Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, confirms: ``GERMANY, Reception of World of Radio via HLR on 7265 CUSB, March 10 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/reception-of-world-of-radio-via-hlr-on_10.html ``1130-1200 7265 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg CeEu English Sun, fair signal`` Next: 2130 UT Sun WRMI 7780 to NE 0130 UT Mon WRMI 5950 to WNW, 9395 to NNW [probably; or 0230??] 0230 UT Mon WRMI 7780 [NEW; unconfirmed] 0300vUT Mon WBCQ *5130v Area 51 to WSW [ex-0400v] 0330 UT Mon WRMI *9955 to SSE [ex-0430] 0930 UT Mon Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND 1900 UT Mon IRRS/NEXUS-IBA/IPAR 7290 Romania 0030 UT Tue WRMI 7730 to WNW [or new 1973?] 0100 UT Tue WRMI 7780 to NE [NEW; unconfirmed] 0900 UT Tue Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND [-1000 two episodes] [NEW] * also webcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) GERMANY, Reception of World of Radio via HLR on 7265 CUSB, March 10 1130-1200 7265 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sun, fair signal: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/reception-of-world-of-radio-via-hlr-on_10.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News March 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1972 monitoring: confirmed Sunday March 10 at 2130 on WRMI 7780, very poor. Also confirmed UT Monday March 11 after 0130 on WRMI 5950 & 9395, both unusually S9+10 but 5950 always softer-sounding; ex-0230 at the time occupied by R. Tirana the other six days of week. (And R. Tirana resumed UT Tue March 12 during this semihour.) WOR also confirmed UT Monday March 11 at NEW time 0230 on WRMI 7780, very poor. (And BTW, WRN makes clear and confirmed that their N American service by satellite and webcast stays at same 0230 UT despite our DST, not changing until Europe does at monthend.) Confirmed UT Monday March 11 starting at 0300 on Area 51 webcast, and at 0318 check on WBCQ 5130.409, poor Confirmed UT Monday March 11 at 0330 on WRMI webcast, as always following ``Hallelujah`` song filler cut off at 0330, while 9955 was a JBA carrier a few minutes earlier. Not confirmed Monday March 11 at 2230 on WRMI 9955, when WOR would have appeared ex-2330 except it was gone already last week; instead we hear music fill 2229 past 2230 and still at 2255. 5045-LSB, Unique Radio, NSW has started airing the newest and the previous WOR episode back to back at 0900-1000 Tuesdays (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1973, DXLD) WORLD OF RADIO 1973 contents: Alaska, Australia, Brasil, Canada, Chad non, Congo, Cuba, Japan, Korea South, Madagascar, Mali, Northern Mariana Islands, Philippines, Romania, South Africa, Spain, USA; World of Horology; and the propagation outlook WOR 1973 finished just in time (loaded into System D server with 20 seconds to spare!) for first airing UT Tuesday March 12 on WRMI 7730, very good; and NEW immediate repeat Tue at 0100 on WRMI 7780, S9+10/20, better than usual on their NE antenna. Next: 0900 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 5045-LSB NSW [2 editions to 1000] 2030 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 0930 UT Wednesday Unique Radio 5045-LSB NSW 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5950 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v 0000 UT Thursday WRMI 7730 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 0930 UT Friday Unique Radio 5045-LSB NSW 0729 UT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany 1130 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 1200 UT Saturday Unique Radio 5045-LSB NSW [March 16/30, alt weeks] 1531 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 2100 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7730 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315] 0830 UT Sunday WRMI 5850 5950 7730 1130 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 0130 UT Monday WRMI 5950, 9395 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 [NEW] 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 0930 UT Monday Unique Radio 5045-LSB NSW 1900 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania 0900 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 5045-LSB NSW [2 editions] Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcast access: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ: ** U S A. 7490.17v, UT Fri Mar 8 at 0103, WBCQ playing back an old `Allan Weiner Worldwide` during an Available Time Slot http://wbcq.com/schedule/index.php?fn=sked&freq=7490 --- and there was another(?) one three hours earlier sometime after 2200 as I tuned by March 7 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5130.48v, UT Fri March 8 at 0109, this WBCQ is on, S9+10, two guys conversing giving multiple platforms, mentioning Liberty Radio, time for the Intel Report (subsexion?), 0113 pause to fulfill a listener`s birthday music request from Kalkaska; refers to ``lower 49`` maybe implying this originate in Alaska? No, Kalkaska is a small town and county in northern Michigan near Traverse City. Probably the revived militia show, secretly shortwaving: Still *nothing* displayed on the 5130 schedule http://wbcq.com/schedule/index.php?fn=sked&freq=5130 between 0330 UT Wed and 0100 UT Sat. 3264.9, March 8 at 0115, this WBCQ can be detected as JBA carrier, apparently always on but never usable here; and NO info about program content: http://wbcq.com/schedule/index.php?fn=sked&freq=3265 Others have indicated it relayed Pirate Joe`s WHVW; or the AM side of WBCQ, WXME; or Timtron`s LP in Skowhegan ME, WXNZ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) (7490v), UT Sat March 9 at 0103, WBCQ webcast opening `Allan Weiner Worldwide`, but soon seems to be an oldie, as he refers to ``my girlfriend Angela``; 0151 recheck, familiar talk about the Super- station with its 9-inch diameter transmission line; also says *none* of the other 500 kW SW transmitters in the world are really running at full power (but WBCQ`s will??). John H Carver Jr was also trying to hear this on the radio: ``Can't copy 7490 this evening. No signal that I can find on 9330. 5130 has the militia so am listening on 3265 with a very poor signal. Tonight's show is a repeat of an earlier show that I already reported on. So with a very poor signal and the fact that it's a repeat I end this report. John, Mid-North Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI: ** U S A. 5850, VORW [via WRMI], 0132, SINPO-44343, “Voice Of the Report of the Week” playing pop oldies & pleading for listeners to write in with music requests and contributions. Apparently he did not get enough because he cut short the program leaving dead air for the last 15 minutes of his “program.” 3-MAR (Karl Racenis, Owosso MI, Icom R-9000, JPS ANC-4 & Datong AD-270, Yaesu FT-1000MP & Micro G5RV, MARE Tipsheet 8 March via DXLD) 5850, WRMI with the increasingly long in the tooth BSR/objector church bit from November 'crash starting' at s/on (will there ever be a new one?) with voice & quickly into digi-text & photos repeat. Afro-beat vocals at 0758 & ID for WRMI by Bob Zanotti at ToH, into SW Radiogram #89 with the usual mix of text & images with stories about: recycling glass fragments & commentary about 'OneWeb global internet' from 900 satellites in low-Earth orbit, as well as images, including sunrise at Old Town Alexandria CA, Daffodils near Holbeach UK: 5850A.jpg 5850B.jpg [illustrated] At 0828 faded into 'ez' guitar music (nice stuff!) & ad at BoH for Tecsun Radios Australia & ID by Ian McFarland. Then "World of Radio" #1971 with items about a TV documentary about Tony Alamo & 15215 special broadcast from R. Öömrang which appeared to be a repeat of previous Frisian language conversation to commemorate the 21/Feb celebration/bonfire on Amrum Island in the North of Germany. This is an annual thing apparently. V Nigeria increased broadcasts & Sentech's Meyerton transmitter site close-down at the end of B-18 were discussed by GH. BBC to move to Madagascar & Channel Africa is planned for "Internet Only" (because that worked so well for Sweden, R Netherlands & RCI, right?). He also mentions the HF beacons "A" & "W" as noted in last TipSheet & mention of "This is a Music Show" on WRMI, Thursdays 01-02 5850. Starting to fade a bit during WoR then Bob Zanotti ID at ToH which as usual was cut short by transmitter plug-pull. 44+4+4+4 *0747-0900* 3/Mar [Sunday] (Ken Zichi, Williamston MI, SDRplay + SDRuno + ANC-4 + FLDigi for digital bits + randomwire, MARE Tipsheet 8 March via DXLD) WRMI schedule has been partially updated for DST, effective March 10: http://www.tinyurl.com/WRMIfqs The frequency grid shows 9955 ending at 1400 UT instead of 1500, except on Sat & Sun when `Full Gospel Hour` huxtergasms are appended. Other 9955 hours are: 1100-1400, 2100-0400, but also 1000-1100 Sundays only. See also UNIDENTIFIED 9955 below. Argentina and Albania English relays have moved an hour earlier to 0100-0200 instead of 0200-0300; RAE is UT Tue-Sat, and Tirana UT Tue- Sun, on 9395 & 5950, so we assume filling the gap on UT Mon will still be WORLD OF RADIO at 0130 instead of 0230; while other non-9955 airings should stay at same UT. But some additional changes have been made concerning WORLD OF RADIO: NEW UT Mon 0230 on 7780; Still UT Tuesday 0030 on 7730 but then NEW 0100 Tue on 7780; Tue at 2030 & 2130 on 7780 & 5950; Wed & Thu at 2100 on 7780 & 5950; The last two sets of four WOR airings have previously been disproven, except for Tue 2030 on 5950, as otherstuff such as RAE relays in German have continued running instead at 2100. But it`s time to reunconfirm them, just in case (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1973, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7780 WRMI: From my recording last Sunday evening, 10-11 March UT: 2015 Viva Miami (in English and Spanish, acknowledging listeners' reports, including one of mine; repeat) 2030 Reserve Military Retirement 2100 Wavescan (program number skipped over on audio; presumably #524) 2130 World of Radio (#1972) 2200 Bob Biermann's Your Weekend Show (back in this slot replacing Oldies; mostly a secular message this week) 2300 Full Gospel Broadcast 2330 Shortwave Radiogram (#90) 0000 Radio Slovakia International in Slovak 0030 Radio Slovakia International in English 0100 Wavescan (program number skipped over on audio; presumably #524) 0130 Through the Cross Ministry with Pastor Chuck 0200 Radio Prague in English (-- Richard Langley, NB, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHER: ** U S A. 7505.035, March 5 at 1350, WRNO is still on with music, Chinese announcement, S9+10/20 and slightly suptorted. Frequency accuracy is improved but still far from spot-on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 17775, March 5 at 2232, JBA carrier and the OSOB; apparently KVOH on extended schedule despite pitiful propagation. March 6 at 1525, no signal nor any whatsoever on 16m --- NSOB --- no signals on band. 17775, Thu March 7 at 2208, JBA carrier, the Only Signal On Band, must be KVOH running later than scheduled, but total loss as far as we are concerned. Another look at skedgrid revised 1 Feb. shows closings: 2005* M/W/F, 2200* Tue/Thu, 2100* Sat, and never on Sunday. 17775, Monday March 11 at 1450, JBA carrier, presumably KVOH now starting an hour earlier at 1400 UT to stay on from 7 am PDT, but still a JBA carrier at 1819 check. At 0319 UT March 12, KVOH websked still claims to start at 1500 UT and shows target Cuba as 5 hours behind instead of 4 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) KVOH: A-19 request entry in HFCC database: 17775 13-24 UT VOH 100 kW 100deg to ITU zones 10-12 Antenna type #805 9975 00-07 UT VOH 100 kW 100deg to ITU zones 10-12 Antenna type #805 #805 LPH 18/36.5/32.2/16.7/1.4/13.2/200 Horizontal log-periodic antenna Designation: LPH N / L / h1 / hN / l1 / lN / Z, where N : number of elements L : distance between the centres of the shortest and the longest element (m) h1 : height of the shortest element (m) hN : height of the longest element (m) l1 : half-length of the shortest element (m) lN : half-length of the longest element (m) Z : impedance of the antenna internal feeder line (). Horizontal log-periodic array Log-periodic dipole arrays are tapered linear arrays of dipole elements of varying lengths that operate over a wide frequency range. Wide band operation is achieved by different groups of elements radiating at different frequencies. The spacing between the elements is proportional to their length and the system is fed using a transmission line. As the frequency ratio varies, the elements that are at or near resonance, couple energy from the transmission line. The resulting radiation pattern is directional and has a broadly constant radiation characteristic over the full operating frequency range (ITU shortwave antenna type table via BC-DX 7 Mar via DXLD) ** U S A. 9265 DRM, WINB, Unique Radio at 1135-1200* with good reception here in Naples, Florida. Short recording made using USB port on Gospell GR-216 [attached]. WINB is airing Unique Radio 1100-1200 UT Wed/Thu/Fri on 9265 kHz (Hans Johnson, March 6, WOR iog via DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. Why are the Smart-Scott-Couple only on the CB and gone from WWCR (I think?) ex. 13385 longtime and 25m and good ole loud 5935 WWCR. Why gone? back into submission al la Family Radio? (SpM;-) -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com -- all of my DXing is done real-time but never as a ham these days cuz CW is a lost art..., WOR iog via DXLD) Gone from WWCR? Sked just revised March 11 for DST shows University Network daily 00-12 UT On 5935; daily 19-24 on 13845, Sundays adding 13-14 & 17-19. Yes, used to be 100% on these two, but still plenty. Never on 25m from WWCR; only 11775 Antigua sometimes http://www.wwcr.com/program-guides/WWCR_Program_Guide.pdf (Glenn, ibid.) Oops I meant ex-13845 (I recall) for Gene Scott - would you believe I used to listen to him for novelty while way out remote desert hiking in the mid-90s out in N remote-Nevada (Burning Man (non) where no cell-fone signal dares to venture even now. Fine and strong Dr. Scott was from Skid Row, via WWCR yes, it was 13845. I met a guy on the local van-bus in '05 telling me how he lived 6 months a year up in the Sierra - just him and a back-pack and radio(!) and then 6 months in the literal grit/grime/and soot near Olympic Blvd. in LA that would daily collect on his window-sill! Gads - China Syndrome 2.0. Being an ex-Marin County person too loving of Redwood Trees and Doug Firs, ..can you please tell me the way back to San Jose, whowhoawhoawowo. Half the AM BCB dial there is jammed full and with IBOC hash galore on every station nearly. So he loves to get away and listen to his radio in the mountains as I loved to do at summer camp (BSA - near Lake Spaulding/I-80/CA-20) DX was way cool - I really marveled, in 1974, at the selective-fading on Bay Area stations, esp. my favorite 610 KFRC top-40 but sounding far cooler in the mountains. That is why I argued gently in Garth Mullin's show "The End of the Dial" (CBC) that analogue-radio, and SW too, is here for a good long time longer despite the digital-creep (good and bad). Someday it will be only clicks on a primitive headphone or the probing of a Galena crystal, but not yet. Some think SETI is moot because EM radiating intentionally off-planet they think/conjecture, ceases after maybe 200 years (if humans here an example of "them") it all goes to optical-modes/unknown realms and so "EM" leakage ceases to exist in merely 500 years from radio's invention (or they toast themselves!) and it then ceases. Thoughts are turning toward potential ET laser-emission/narrow-band, polarized-light detection... (!) 73 and all for reading these musings and stories I hope provide some fun here... (-S- -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com -- all of my DXing is done after 1972 when I discovered 640 KFI and Charlie Fox's "Far Out Files" (I got KFI once in June 1979 from Taxco, GRO, Mexico on a 5-transistor radio somewhat peaked for the low-end just fine, over a Latin with low-het... ssspppmmm, WOR iog via DXLD) ** U S A. It would appear KCRN is finally IDing with the correct call letters, and not KLIM [Limon CO 1120]. Only took them 4 months. I heard the KCRN calls at TOH on Wednesday morning. That being said, KCRN seems to be plagued with tech issues. I’ve heard them 2 days in a row with no audio at sign on. I caught them another day signing on early. One day I had them sign on with audio, lose it later in the day and have a dead carrier for a while then go completely off the air (Paul B Walker, Jr, Laramie WY, March 7, HCDX via DXLD) ** U S A. 1480, March 6 at 0119 UT, Vietnamese still in the mix, at times atop, from KBXD Dallas. Is it 100% VV or at least SE Asian? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WDTW, ALT 106.7, Detroit flips from alternative to Classic Rock WLLZ, 'The New 106.7 Detroit's Wheels’! The station currently uses the call letters WLLZ fictitiously, as it does not currently use the callsign officially. The “real” FCC licensed WLLZ is an 93.5 MHz FM in Ocean Isle Beach NC. So some of what you hear on domestic broadcast radio ain’t quite the truth! The transmitter resides atop Cadillac Tower in Downtown Detroit. See: https://radioinsight.com/headlines/174875/alt-106-7-detroit-starts-stunting/ (Sparky Blue Fox, Southgate MI, MARE Tipsheet 8 March via DXLD ** U S A. We almost missed the passing of a radio great on February 16 -- as just reminded by Robert Conrad on WCLV`s Weekend Radio, which will be doing a tribute later: Ken Nordine, Chicago creator of 'word jazz' who had a voice that 'could give you the chills,' dies at 98 Ken Nordine looking at the computer screen inside the third-floor studio inside his North Side home in 2012. (John Lee/Chicago Tribune)[caption] by Rick Kogan Chicago Tribune Before you read the words written below about the life and times and accomplishments of a man named Ken Nordine, who died Saturday at his North Side home at the age of 98, it would be a good idea for you to listen to whatever you can find at www.wordjazz.com. What you will discover is the one-and-only voice of Ken Nordine, one of the few people in the history of radio to use the medium to its fullest potential, rather than as a forum for blather, confrontation, inanities and noisy nonsense. He made a kind of vocal music as the voice of thousands of commercials and as the force behind a new art form he created and called “word jazz.” [more]... https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-ken-nordine-dead-0217-story.html (via gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1973, DXLD) Another version: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES 02/17/2019, 08:04pm Ken Nordine dies at 98; radio announcer & influential “Word Jazz” artist Ken Nordine had a recording studio in his Edgewater home. | Sun-Times photo, Robert A. Davis By Maureen O'Donnell Ken Nordine had a voice that launched 1,000 radio shows, commercials, movie trailers and spoken-word records. The Edgewater resident, who died Saturday, was 98. Mr. Nordine’s voice was a dulcet earworm that burrowed into the subconscious during more than 40 years of performing “Word Jazz,’’ a midnight show on WBEZ that showcased his hep-cat persona, stream-of-consciousness wordplay and psychedelic sound effects, such as a slowed-down clock or dripping water. On Twitter, musician Dale Henry Geist said his delivery “was like a panther stalking your mind.” Actor Harry Shearer, the voice of many “Simpsons” characters, tweeted he was “a great radio wordsmith.” Ken Nordine. | Facebook photo The Grammy-nominated Mr. Nordine worked with musicians David Bowie, Jerry Garcia and Tom Waits; “Muppets” creator Jim Henson; and avant-garde multimedia artist Laurie Anderson. He recorded four “Word Jazz” albums, his son said. One spoken-word production, “Credit Card Blues,” combined a beatnik feel with the blues. In 1959, he appeared on NBC-TV with Fred Astaire, who danced to a “Word Jazz” piece by Mr. Nordine. He was the voice of the Chicago International Film Festival and “Cold Steel on Ice” ads for the Chicago Blackhawks. “There is no voice, except maybe Orson Welles, like him,” said film festival founder Michael Kutza. People likened Mr. Nordine to “the voice of God,” he said. He could be heard on commercials for Amana Appliances, the American Dairy Association, Baker’s Square, Champion Spark Plugs, First Chicago Bank, Gallo Wine, Harvey’s Bristol Dry Sherry, Magnavox and Taster’s Choice. He also did announcing for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In the 1970s, he created a Levi’s commercial that asked how human beings would wear jeans if they’d evolved differently: “Would he put Levi’s herringbone on his fins, Levi’s stripes on his wings?” “Word Jazz” artist Ken Nordine won a “Chicago Heroes” award in 2001 from the Chicago chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences. | Photo By Bob Black/Sun-Times Anderson said he’d been an “absolutely huge influence” since she first heard him when she was about 15. He was recounting a tale “that had a bass line in the background and jazz drums,” she said. “I just thought … that is the greatest way to tell stories.” “It changed my life,” said Anderson, who was in Chicago over the weekend to appear at the Pitchfork Midwinter fest. As an adult, she said she thought, “I’m just going to call him up and see if I can meet him.” It turned out, “He was like a Swedish uncle,” said Anderson, who is of Swedish heritage. “It was eerie. He was so familiar. He had a nose like my uncles.” She and her husband, musician Lou Reed, enjoyed dining out with Mr. Nordine and his wife Beryl Vaughan Nordine, who did voices on the “Lone Ranger” radio show and played Penny on radio’s “Sky King.” “Ken and Beryl loved food, and so did Lou,” she said, “and we would have these wonderful meals.” One of his favorite restaurants was La Scarola, Kutza said. In the mid-1990s, Mr. Nordine and Anderson appeared together in a “Word Jazz” program in London. And about two years ago, they worked together on a “Mr. and Mrs. God” show at the San Francisco Jazz Center. He connected via Skype, and “Ken’s face appeared huge on the screen, and he just fielded all these amazing questions. People wanted to ask him about the meaning of life.” His intonation and tones were so unique that “companies would come to him to create [their] commercial, based on his style with ‘Word Jazz,'” his son said. Ken Nordine voiced “spine-tinglers for the thriller lovers” on “Faces in the Window,” a 1950s-era WNBC radio show. In 2007, David Bowie invited him to appear at the “High Line” festival the rock legend organized in New York. “He worked with David; David’s been over to the house,” said Mr. Nordine’s son. In the 1990s, he performed with the Grateful Dead. In 1992, he collaborated with Garcia and Chicago harmonica maestro Howard Levy on the recording “Devout Catalyst.” In 1979, he received a settlement for work on the movie “The Exorcist.” Mr. Nordine had filed a lawsuit, saying he wasn’t properly compensated for his sound effects. Ken Nordine | Sun-Times archive Born in Cherokee, Iowa, he grew up near Wrigley Field, where he used to park cars for a nickel during games, his son said. He attended Lane Tech High School and the University of Chicago. His mother Theresia Danielson Nordine was a sculptor. Mr. Nordine, who had a stroke about 18 months ago, died at his home near Kenmore and Glenlake, where he had a third-floor recording studio. A stretch of street outside was renamed “Ken Nordine Way.” He was an innovator and early adopter of new technology, Kutza said. In his film festival spots, “He was a one-man band,” Kutza said. “He did the visuals on his computer. He did the music. He did the voice. The man was magic.” His wife Beryl died in 2016. Mr. Nordine is also survived by his sons Kevin and Kris; sister Karen Bothwell; nine grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. His family is considering a gathering to honor him in the future, his son said (via Glenn Hauser, March 9, WORLD OF RADIO 1973, DXLD) ** U S A. Collaborating with local TV --- Local TV is still the most trusted source of news. So how do you collaborate with a station? “The idea that you would collaborate with your competitor when you’re fighting for ratings is anathema to broadcasters.” But it may be a key part of how local news remains sustainable. By Christine Schmidt @newsbyschmidt Feb. 20, 2019, 1:57 p.m. A squeezed industry, the constant threat of layoffs, a shrinking audience — local news is a tough place to be right now. But sometimes, when everything else feels like it’s falling, teaming up can stretch limited resources a little farther. Collaborations, many argue, will soon be core to the work of local newsrooms — partnering to dig through datasets, sharing resources on specific issues, and amplifying a topic to bring it more attention. [sidebar linx:] Local TV is still the most trusted source of news. So how do you collaborate with a station? How News 12 is working with ProPublica’s Documenting Hate database to track local hate crimes How Your Voice Ohio worked with Youngstown’s WFMJ to highlight solutions in the opioid crisis How Mississippi Today and WLBT balance data and broadcast needs while co-investigating stories It’s not unusual at this point to hear about collaborations involving public radio stations, daily newspapers, nonprofit newsrooms, and digital news site. But where do local TV news stations — frequently the single most popular source of news in a city — fit in? . .. . http://www.niemanlab.org/2019/02/local-tv-is-still-the-most-trusted-source-of-news-so-how-do-you-collaborate-with-a-station/ (via Indiana Radio Watch via John Carver, DXLD) ** U S A. Showing Your Support for PUBLIC MEDIA Dear Glenn, Over the next two weeks, the President is expected to send his annual budget request, a nonbinding document outlining the Administration's funding priorities, to Congress. The President's budget is the official start of the congressional funding process, which ultimately determines federal funding levels for public media. You can learn more about the federal funding process and how you can effect its outcome on our blog. Read Our Blog https://protectmypublicmedia.org/blog/2019/03/06/public-media-federal-funding-process/ We will be monitoring the release of the President's budget and will report back on its implications for public media funding. Keep an eye on your inbox for further messages from us. We'll let you know how you can raise your voice if funding for public media is threatened. As always, thank you for your support! Sincerely, (The Protect My Public Media Team, March 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Podcast on pirate radio and US Attorney's Office Files For Injunction Against Alleged Worcester FM Pirate... Glenn, You may like listening to this: Podcast #183 - Can Congress Stop Pirate Radio? - Radio Survivor The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed the “Preventing Illegal Radio Abuse Through Enforcement Act,” but does it actually have a chance at putting a dent in unlicensed broadcasting? We review the provisions of the the bill – called the PIRATE Act for short – and wonder if an uptick in the war on pirates … https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2019/03/05/podcast-183-can-congress-stop-pirate-radio/ US Attorney's Office Files For Injunction Against Alleged Worcester ... All Access Music Group-16 hours ago https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/184574/u-s-attorney-s-office-files-for-injunction-against (via Artie Bigley, OH, March 6, DXLD) INJUNCTION SOUGHT TO PROHIBIT ILLEGAL RADIO STATION FROM BROADCASTING IN WORCESTER -- BOSTON, March 5, 2019 — The United States filed a civil action to prevent an unlicensed radio station from operating in Worcester. https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-356445A1.pdf (via DXLD) FCC Takes a New Tack in Combatting [sic] Unlicensed Radio Broadcasting --- ARRL 03/07/2019 http://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-takes-a-new-tack-in-combatting-unlicensed-radio-broadcasting In what may be a first in the effort to crack down on unlicensed broadcasters, the United States has filed a civil action to stop a church-related pirate radio station from operating in Worcester, Massachusetts. The Massachusetts US Attorney's Office is seeking an injunction to shut down the station, operating on 97.1 MHz. “This groundbreaking step, for an injunction to stop a pirate radio operator’s illegal activities, is part of our continued efforts to combat illegal broadcasting,” FCC Enforcement Bureau Chief Rosemary Harold said this week. “As we work with our law enforcement colleagues to use every tool in our toolbox to combat pirate radio, I welcome the Justice Department's renewed use of its Section 401(a) injunction authority. Along with fines, equipment seizures, and warnings, this action underlines our continued interest in combatting this serious problem.” The FCC already has fined operator Vasco Oburoni and Christian Praise International Church $15,000 for repeated violations of its rules against unlicensed operation. The complaint recounts that Oburoni and the church first began operating an unlicensed station in Worcester on 102.3 MHz. After issuing multiple warnings, the FCC levied the $15,000 penalty, and Oburoni agreed to a payment plan. But later, he began broadcasting again, this time on 97.1 MHz. At least one licensed broadcaster has complained to the FCC, citing interference concerns (via Mike Terry, WOR iog via DXLD) PIRATE Act would stiffen penalties on illegally operated radio stations https://tinyurl.com/y43ukpwv Go to the profile of GovTrack.us Mar 8 Rep. Paul Tonko (D-NY20) What should be the fine for radio stations that operate without an FCC license, even though they usually serve underserved or minority communities? Context From the stations that play top-40 hits like Ariana Grande to your local college’s radio channel, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is supposed to grant licenses and approve all U.S. radio stations. However, some people set up their own stations outside the official system, known as “pirate radio.” These stations usually broadcast things that mainstream radio ---whether music or talk radio --- won’t. This article gives examples including Caribbean music that can’t get airtime on mainstream radio and call-in sessions where undocumented immigrants can speak with immigration attorneys. Under President Trump`s pick to lead the FCC, Ajit Pai, the commission has taken a much harsher stance towards pirate radio, moving to shut down hundreds of such stations. Here’s a full list, which includes 95 in Florida, 65 in New York, and 64 in New Jersey. The FCC’s concern is that by broadcasting at the same spectrums as existing approved radio stations, the pirate radio stations can interfere with potential emergency broadcasts. Stations broadcasting at a certain frequency can create interference in the authorized audio signals being broadcasted at equal or similar frequencies. What the bill does The Preventing Illegal Radio Abuse Through Enforcement (PIRATE) Act would dramatically increase the financial penalties for operating pirate radio. The maximum fine per day would surge from $19,639 currently to $100,000. The maximum total fine would surge from $147,290 to a full $2 million. It was introduced on January 16 as bill number H.R. 583, by Rep. Paul Tonko (D-NY20). What supporters say Supporters argue the bill is necessary for public safety, especially during times of emergency. “Protecting our public airwaves is critical for preserving community safety, whether for first responders or for working parents who don’t want to expose their children to uncontrolled hate and obscenity,” Rep. Tonko said in a press release. “Whether a frequency is being used in emergencies to coordinate community response and save lives or by parents who just want to tune their car radios with their kids in the car, our communities are better served when broadcasting is governed by the rule of law.” What opponents say. . . https://govtrackinsider.com/pirate-act-would-stiffen-penalties-on-illegally-operated-radio-stations-6f098e88048e 73 – (via Bill, KK4XO/WPC4SC/WPE4FSJ, DXLD) ** VIETNAM [and non]. 9670, Radio Ða´p Lo?`i So^ng Nu´i [sic, as copied from pdf] – Paochung [TAIWAN]. This is the Vietnam Democracy Radio station based in San Jose, CA, in Vietnamese, noted at 1245 until s/off 1259. A fair signal and accompanied by the usual Vietnamese Gov’t siren jamming. The station has a web presence: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/radiodlsn/ and Website: http://radiodlsn.com/ My YouTube video of the last few minutes of the transmission is at: https://youtu.be/OVQMduevwcY 18/2 (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, Mount Evelyn, VIC (Yaesu FTDX 3000, Kenwood TS2000, Yaesu FRG100, Kenwood R5000, Tecsun PL-680, Horizontal Sky Loop, Double Bazooka antennas for 80, 40 and 20 metres, Par EF-SWL End Fed antenna, BHI NEIM1031 Digital Noise Eliminating Module, MFJ-1026 Noise Cancelling Module, ATU), March Australian DX News via DXLD) ** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. ALGERIA, 1550, Radio Nacional de la República Arabe Saharaui, Rabuni, 2155-2205, 09-03, Arabic songs and comments. 23322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** ZAMBIA. Heard Voice of Hope with many Gospel and Christian music programs and local announcer giving local time in 'Central Africa' between 1815 UT to sign off at 1900 (Their local time around 9PM at sign off). They also announced they were looking for donations for their 'Voice of Hope station in Israel' being the only Christian voice from the Middle East [sic]. 4965 pushing around an S5 but clear and 6065 a bit stronger in modulation and an S8 or 9 but with lots of co channel interference from Asia, which was S9+30 over and I think North Korea on 6070 (S9+30 over) as usual, causing problems for 6065. Best on narrow bandwidth. At 1900 they signed off 6065 but ran a test tone on 4965 till 1902. Maybe tweaking something possibly? Heard on a Sony ICF 2010 and 30 metre inverted V antenna about 10 metres above a metal roof (Tim Gaynor, NSW, March 9 presumably about UT March 8, WOR iog via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, March 9 at 0413- 0422 on R75 with E-W longwire tuning at 9 kHz steps, 1 kHz below TA frequencies listening for 1 kHz hets: 531*, 549*, 558, 576, 585, 603, 612, 621(2), 639, 666(2), 684, 693*(2), 729, 738, 747, 756, 774(2), 783, 801, 837, 855*, 873, 882, 909, 936, 954, 999, 1026, 1044, 1053, 1089, 1116, 1152*, 1161, 1179, 1206, 1215, 1224, 1296, 1305(2), 1314 (2), 1413, 1422, 1521, 1539, 1575. *=stronger ones; (2) = at least two carriers beating. One of my larger harvests. A few more were probably blotted by IBOC noise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Re: [WOR] 2 MHz MW harmonix --- Glenn, no luck with 2940+ yet, although it’s at a very good level tonight - with an evangelist preacher going on and on, and piano music background, plus occasional music segments. If they’d ID it would likely be easy copy, but they haven’t in the time I’ve been checking. Tnx for the recalled ID on 2960. That one is in again this evening, but far weaker than 2940+ (Jay Novello, Wake Forest NC, 0142 UT March 5, WOR iog via DXLD) 2940 is in here tonight, 0215 UT, but pretty weak and suffering from severe static. Apparent OM with excited talks in possible Spanish. Only brief openings of audio over the noise (Stephen C Wood, E. Dennis, MA, Perseus SDR, 30 x 15 terminated superloop antenna, hauula7@comcast.net UT March 5, WOR iog via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 3445-AM, March 10 at 0027, VP carrier, pirate? Nothing reported here at HF Underground, and I can`t figure out any local AM/SW mixture (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 5002-5003, March 11 at 0625, some uteblob is far too close for comfort to WWV; can even hear some of it with LSB tuning. Hope this is only an anomaly (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1973, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 5009.91: [Edited Message Follows] What is this station, heard with French and other language program between 1800 and 1900 UT on 10 March? Mentions of "Centre Afrique....." and "Republique Democratique du Congo...." among others. Would normally think Madgascar, but does not sound localized enough and can't find any Madagascar sked matching this time period (Dan Robinson, WOR iog via DXLD) According to WRTH, Madagascar is on until 1900. It stopped at 1907 on 5009.93 kHz (Mauno Ritola, ibid.) Abrupt carrier off at 1907 UT (Dan Robinson, timestamped earlier at 1859 UT March 10; computer clock off? --gh, ibid.) Yes, thanks -- we measured as 5009.91 via Kerala SDR (Dan, 1910 UT, ibid.) ?? replying to what? Referring to which station? (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 6175-USB, March 7 at 0646, 2-way in unknown language, INTRUDERS; no sign of any AM broadcaster on this or adjacent frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Caríssimos, É conhecida a procedência do sinal do beacon PRN11, sinal recebido aqui em São Bernardo SP por 7380.89? Também se é da Marinha, de plataforma petrolífera, ou... e o referido local, se é conhecido. PRN = Paranaguá ????? Data: 05.03.2019 – 1622 UT. Rx: KiwiSDR (São Bernardo SP) + Antena MiniWhip PA0RDT. 73, (Rudolf Grimm, São Bernardo SP GG66rg, radioescutas yg via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 9625, March 6 at 1945, open carrier at S9+10, the second SSOB, only after blaster 9475 WTWW. 1952 & 1956 brief hi-pitched tones on and off; 1957* carrier off. First of all, we can rule out the imaginary HFCC registration for VOR Moskva at 1600-2000! What else? In HFCC, Eibi and Aoki, nothing before 2000, but NHK Yamata is supposed to start at 2000; and Turkey in French at 2030 --- but normally Emirler runs unscheduled frequencies after rather than before {not always per some later reports}. So 9625 could be a test-only frequency for anystation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 9955, Saturday March 9 at 2209, fluttery JBA carrier, as WRMI is OFF until *2210 joining WOR in progress. What could this othersig be? EiBi appears to list every single WRMI program on 9955 separately, but as of 1555 UT March 10, still showing obsolete EST scheduling; aside from permanent changes/updates, everything should now be one real UT hour earlier on this frequency. It was last updated March 5. And shows absolutely no other station on 9955. http://eibispace.de/dx/freq-b18.txt Ditto Aoki/NDXC, unusually not updated since March 8: http://www1.m2.mediacat.ne.jp/binews/ut/userlist1.txt But HFCC has a B-18 registration at 18-22 for HBN = T8WH PALAU due west in Mandarin/English --- would that really be Radio Free Asia? Not on their known schedule, nor VOA`s. And no part of China is due west from Palau, rather Mindanao and Malaya! Maybe it`s a jammer against nothing, and running overtime to boot. Fortunately, when active, WRMI easily overcomes it here. But with WOR now earlied to 2100 Wed & Sat, this could become a CCI problem (Glenn Hauser, OK, March 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1973: Thanks to Anne Fanelli, Elma NY, for a check in US funds on a US bank to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED FUTURELY: Thanks to Steve McGreevy, CA for a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com Thanks to Chuck Ermatinger for another contribution via PayPal Thanks to Mike Cooper, GA for a generous check in US funds on a US bank to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 Thanks to Gerald T. Pollard, NC, for a generous quarterly seasonal cheque to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ NEW ZEALAND DX TIMES I have long kept past copies of the digital DX Times on my computer. I had the full set from when they were first sent digitally by Mark Nicholls back in about 2001. I recently deleted them all because I have undertaken a project to scan as many back copies of the DX Times as possible, storing them on the League’s Google Drive. It has been an interesting exercise. I have now completed 1998-2000 and 1972 (November and December) - 1979. It has been amusing to see what I was hearing back then and to realise how many years it has been since I first started doing columns for the DX Times. This is history, or as David Ricquish would rather it be called - heritage, and I think it is important. There are articles on aerials, solar conditions and much, much more. One or two, over time I will reproduce, as they are still relevant today. It makes for fascinating reading. I will gradually add to the list of magazines on the web as I get them from the Bryan Clark collection. If you are interested in seeing what is there, go to https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B_rrbyZ5F30WWHBHVjBGbjhoa1U?usp=sharing If you right click on a magazine you have the option of downloading it. I hope you enjoy reading through some of the old magazines we have there (Stu Forsyth, March 2019 NZ DX Times via DXLD) MUSEA +++++ Harold Frodge: Kidhood memories from the middle: Jean Shepherd & Long John Nebel on WOR John R for Randy’s Record Shop on WLAC Dick Biondi on WLS Cousin Brucie on WABC Larry Glick on WBZ SWAN (CIA Cuban propaganda station off Honduras) WLAP & WVLK dueling Top 40s in Lexington KY Wolf Man Jack on XERF with 500 kW Bob & Ray on NBC Monitor on WLW Fibber McGee & Molly, My Friend Irma, Henry Aldrich, The Great Gildersleeve, The Life of Riley, Duffy’s Tavern, The Shadow, Boston Blackie, Big John & Sparky, Lorenzo Jones & His Wife Belle, Stella Dallas, Mr. Keen Tracer of Lost Persons, Super Man, Lum & Abner, Inner Sanctum, Buster Brown, Amos & Andy, Beulah, Burns & Allen, Can You Top This, Dragnet, Our Miss Brooks, Helen Trent, etc. Winning a record player on WFTM 1240 Maysville KY (I wrote “King Size Coca-Cola” the most times on a postcard.) The World Tomorrow with Garner Ted Armstrong Waite Hoyt on WKRC calling Cincinnati Reds away games by reading a ticker tape. White’s Radio Log in Radio TV Experimenter (MARE Tipsheet 8 March via DXLD) WORLD OF HOROLOGY +++++++++++++++++ Damned time change, now all my radio listening is out of whack for the next few weeks -- and as soon as I get a handle on it, it will change again when Europe shifts to summer time. mc (Mike Cooper, DXLD) For the past 15 years I have thought it really dumb that the "standard time" period only is 4 months in duration now. I guess it could be called "ST shrink" how it has grown so brief. Just when I get used to the nice wintertime UT conversions, it gets messed up again... ;-) (Steve -- McGreevy, N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com WOR iog via DXLD) Perhaps the use of the term "saving" comes from the idea that you saving the daylight to use it in the evening rather than "spending" it in the morning; like saving your money in a bank to use it later rather than spending it right away. ;-) Anyway, a couple of recent articles on DST for everyone to read while mulling over Glenn's comment: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a18011/in-defense-of-daylight-saving-time/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/03/05/the-5-reasons-to-keep-daylight-saving-time-have-no-science-to-back-them-up/ (-- Richard Langley, UT -3, WOR iog via DXLD) Springing forward to daylight saving [sic] time is obsolete, confusing and unhealthy, critics say - The Washington Post Saturday, March 9, 2019 8:39 PM https://www.washingtonpost.com/pb/science/2019/03/08/springing-forward-daylight-saving-time-is-obsolete-confusing-unhealthy-critics-say/ The annual time change is under legislative challenge in states and in Congress. A cyclist passes a street near the village of Pflaumdorf, in southern Germany, at sunset on Feb. 28. (Christof Stache/AFP/Getty Images) By Joel Achenbach Reporter covering science and politics March 8 at 4:39 PM This weekend, Americans will once again navigate their complex relationship with the chronically confusing and arguably misnamed daylight saving time. In most of the United States, the clocks spring forward early Sunday when 2 a.m. suddenly becomes 3 a.m. People are advised to avoid scheduling anything important for 2:30 a.m. Sunday, since, by law, such a moment does not exist. But the law may change. The national policy of switching from standard time to daylight saving time and back again is under legislative challenge from coast to coast. Multiple initiatives in Congress and in statehouses would terminate our current system of time toggling -- a system that started a century ago and has been controversial ever since. It's not really daylight saving time that's drawing fire: It's standard time. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Wednesday reintroduced a bill to make daylight saving time a year-round reality across the country, with no more biannual time changes. Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.) introduced matching legislation in the House. The moves come in the wake of a vote in the Florida legislature last year to adopt daylight saving time year-round. If the Sunshine Protection Act became law, it would essentially end daylight saving time by making it the new, permanent, immutable standard time. (Just to be clear: Astronomically, nothing is new under the sun. The sun will remain a star, radiating light, and Earth will continue to orbit the sun while spinning on an axis. The amount of sunshine will remain the same.) There are two issues here. One is whether changing the clock is inherently a bad idea, because of sleep disruption, negative health effects and the general confusion generated by a jumpy time system. The other issue is whether we need to favor the evening over the morning when trying to distribute our sunlight -- not just during spring and summer and early fall but throughout the year. Researchers have published a variety of studies that question the wisdom of changing the clock. A 2016 study found evidence that the switch back to standard time in the fall is associated with a spike in diagnoses of depression, for example. A study published in Europe in 2018 found a "modest" increase in heart attacks after the clocks change, with the effect more pronounced during the springtime shift. Certainly the time change can disrupt our sleep cycles, particularly in the spring, research shows. Rubio and other advocates for year-round DST say it promotes public safety. A 2015 report published in the Review of Economics and Statistics found that extra daylight in the evening after the switch to DST led to a drop in crime that was not offset by increased crime during the darker morning hours. "[R]obbery rates didn't increase in the morning, even though those hours were darker -- apparently, criminals aren't early risers," researchers Jennifer Doleac and Nicholas Sanders wrote in a Brookings Institution article. "Studies have shown many benefits of a year-round Daylight Saving Time, which is why Florida's legislature overwhelmingly voted to make it permanent last year. Reflecting the will of the State of Florida, I'm proud to reintroduce this bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent nationally," Rubio said in a statement. California voters overwhelmingly approved a similar proposition in November. State Assembly member Kansen Chu (D), who represents San Jose and other communities in the heart of Silicon Valley, has introduced year-round DST legislation that is making its way through two committees. Chu said he became interested in the time change issue when he heard about health risks associated with moving the clocks forward and back. He predicts his bill will easily pass both houses of the state legislature, but he believes Congress needs to lead the way to ensure that state action won't run afoul of federal law. "I guess it's all depending on how fast the people on Capitol Hill can move on this issue. I know they have a lot of more important headaches," Chu told The Washington Post. Business interests have long supported the later daylight, he said. For example, the golf industry and the barbecue industry have been big promoters. There's one massive objection to the idea of year-round DST: The already dark, cold mornings of fall and winter under standard time would become even darker and colder, and potentially dangerous for kids walking to the bus stop or to school. "National PTA is opposed to daylight saving time during the winter months because of the safety factor," said Heidi May Wilson, spokeswoman for the National Parent Teacher Association. Daylight saving time was first implemented by Germany during World War I and was soon adopted in the United States. But it was always controversial, particularly among farmers, who liked early morning daylight in the summer. It became a cultural conflict between agrarian and metropolitan interests, said Michael Downing, an English professor at Tufts University and author of "Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time." DST was implemented haphazardly for decades, until Congress passed the Uniform Time Act in 1966 to bring some order to the system. Some states and territories opted out, however. Arizona, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands are among the places that still reject DST. Congress has extended the duration of DST twice, and it now covers two-thirds of the year. Since 2007, DST has begun on the second Sunday in March and ended on the first Sunday in November. Critics say DST is an artifact of a different era. One of the purported virtues of the switch has been that it saves energy. But there's no evidence that, in the modern world, shoving daylight into the evening hours saves significant amounts of energy, said Matthew Kotchen, a Yale professor of economics who co-wrote a study on energy usage in Indiana before and after the state adopted DST. Lighting is far more efficient now, he said. Moreover, when the sun remains in the sky into the "evening" hours, homes remain warmer and people are more likely to keep their air conditioners running. Heating and cooling are much bigger factors than lighting when it comes to energy consumption, he said. "There may be a lot of reasons why we want daylight saving time and why we don't, but the only thing I can say for sure is that daylight saving time should not be part of the Energy Policy Act," Kotchen said. A stylebook note: It's not "daylight savings time." That's imprecise speech. Also, while we're at it: Daylight saving time does not really save daylight. It should be called daylight shifting time. [!!!! someone got my message --- gh] "There continues to be the mythic idea that we are saving something by turning our clocks forward and backward," Downing said. "It's such a preposterous idea that we can gain or lose an hour by simply sticking our finger in the face of our clocks." (via Mike Cooper, EST/EDT, WORLD OF RADIO 1973, DXLD) B.C. might say goodbye to changing clocks, says premier --- B.C. considering joining three western U.S. states pursuing a similar proposal --- Laura Sciarpelletti · CBC News · Posted: Mar 08, 2019 3:11 PM PT | Last Updated: March 9 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-might-say-goodbye-to-changing-clocks-says-premier-1.5049234 B.C. is considering following Washington, Oregon and California as those states pursue daylight time year round. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Changing clocks could be a thing of the past in B.C. as the province muses joining Washington, Oregon and California, which have proposed eliminating seasonal time changes. Legislators from the three U.S. states recently proposed bills that would end the one-hour time changes from standard time to daylight time in spring, then back again in fall, sticking to one time setting year-round. B.C. Premier John Horgan says he recently sent a letter to the three governors, requesting they share information on the proposed change. He says if B.C. is to either keep permanent daylight time or permanent Pacific standard time, it must be done in all four jurisdictions. "We have too many economic ties ... too many social and cultural ties to have one jurisdiction or two being out of sync with the others," Horgan told reporters in Victoria on March 7. Horgan had previously said B.C. wouldn't lose the time change, citing those same ties. His comments Friday come just as British Columbians are preparing to set their clocks one hour ahead Sunday, March 10. [sidebar linx] The Peace River Regional District and the town of Creston do not move their clocks forward in spring. B.C. may feel pressure to stop clock changes after California moves to establish year-round daylight time Why leave the clock alone? Washington state Democratic Senator Sam Hunt recently signed onto supporting the state's bill in favour of year-round daylight time. He says it's been a topic of conversation in Washington state for years. "We saw in studies there are more suicides around the time change. There's disruption of life," Hunt told Early Edition host Stephen Quinn. The Gastown steam clock in downtown Vancouver on March 8, 2019. On March 10, we spring forward into daylight time. In three U.S. states just south of us — there is a push to spring forward and stay there. (Valerie Gamache/CBC) [caption] Several studies have found springing ahead comes with a slew of negative consequences, including decreased productivity and a spike in traffic accidents. A 2014 study out of the University of Colorado found a 25-per-cent increase in the risk of heart attack the Monday after the start of daylight time. It also noted a corresponding decrease in the risk of heart attack at the end of daylight time in the fall. Hunt says the change would promote ease of movement between states and avoid schedule confusion in the travel, shipping and entertainment industries. An act of Congress B.C. can make the change without any involvement with the federal government, unlike U.S. states. If the legislation put forward by Washington, California and Oregon passes in each state and becomes law, it will take an act of U.S. Congress for the states to move to full year-round daylight time. Hunt says if every state passes their bills, all western states should request federal approval together. "I think it would create some problems if California were in one time zone and Oregon and Washington were in another time zone. And maybe British Columbia could join us to do it all at once," said Hunt. How you protect your heart (and health) heading into Daylight Saving Time [sidebar link] The change would take at least two years to go into effect. "Whatever we do, there'll be change involved, and it'll take some getting used to." Currently, Saskatchewan is the only Canadian province without seasonal time changes. Listen to the interview with Senator Sam Hunt here: The Early Edition Should B.C. say goodbye to daylight saving time? 00:00 05:17 On March 10, we spring forward into daylight saving time. Some people have a hard time adjusting to the one hour time difference. In fact, in some U.S. states - just to the south - there is a push to spring forward and stay there. 5:17 (via Gerald T Pollard, NC, DXLD) CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES +++++++++++++++++++++++++ WINTER SWL FESTIVAL 32 Welcome to the March 2019 edition of the CIDX Messenger. The 32nd annual NASWA Winter SWL Festival is now in the books. Over 100 radio enthusiasts assembled in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, February 28th through March 2nd to participate in this year’s event. In addition to the excellent schedule of forums presented over the weekend, there were many special events held, including the 2nd Annual Winter SWL Festival Trivia Contest, hosted by CIDX, David Goren’s annual Shortwave Shindig, the ever-popular silent auction, and the annual Saturday evening banquet with keynote speaker Paul Ladd, Senior Correspondent, World Christian Broadcasting (KNLS / MWV Madagascar), as well as the awarding of the incredible collection of raffle prizes. The 32nd annual NASWA Winter SWL Festival is history. CIDX was well represented at this year’s event with CIDX President Sheldon Harvey and Vice President Mickey Delmage in attendance. In addition several column editors were also present, namely John Fisher (Ham Radio Muse and News), Chris Lobdell (Free Radio Scene), John Figliozzi (Podding Along) and, via Skype, Gilles Letourneau (The World of Utilities). On Thursday evening, CIDX hosted the 2nd annual Winter SWL Festival Trivia Contest. Last year’s King of Trivia, John Figliozzi, was unable to defend his title. After almost three hours of competition, the new King of Trivia this year is Tracy Wood, K7UO, of Maryland. Second place went to CIDX member Ross Comeau of Andover, Massachusetts. Here’s their photo celebrating their performance with a special “Shortwave” beer, supplied by Mickey Delmage. Congratulations to both Tracy and Ross. Hopefully Tracy will be back to defend his title next year. Speaking of next year, the dates have already been announced for the 33rd annual NASWA Winter SWL Festival. It will once again be a three-day event, February 27 through 29, 2020. Details will appear on the webpage http://www.swlfest.com as they become available. In addition to all the wonderful forums that were presented throughout the weekend, CIDX held an informal CIDX club meeting in the exhibition hall on Friday evening. Several CIDX members participated and we were able to hook up with our “World of Utilities” editor Gilles Letourneau in Montreal, via Skype. We were also able to link up with Gilles’ Official SWL Channel on YouTube on Friday afternoon to give his viewers an on-line look at what Winterfest is all about. Our thanks go out to John Figliozzi, Richard Cuff and their team of organizers for staging another great Winterfest. Their hard work and dedication is well appreciated by all. We’re already looking forward to next year. Be sure to look for photos from this year’s Winterfest scattered throughout this month’s Messenger (March CIDX Messenger via DXLD) Update on the Conference Preparatory Meeting for WRC-19 Bryan Rawlings, VE3QN, RAC Special Advisor, is once again in Geneva, Switzerland attending the latest Preparatory Meetings for the 2019 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-19). He will be tweeting comments on Amateur Radio issues from the meeting using the hashtag #RACatITU. You can also follow him via @ractweets. Bryan provided the following preliminary report from Geneva: World Radiocommunication Conferences (WRC) play out over a four- or five-year period. The current cycle is working toward the WRC-19 Conference which will take place in October and November of 2019. The agenda for a WRC is set at the conclusion of the previous Conference. Accordingly, the agenda items for the WRC-19 conference were chosen in late 2015 as WRC-15 wound up. This was immediately followed by a Conference Preparatory Meeting (CPM) which set out in general terms how the agenda items were to be studied in the four years leading up to the 2019 Conference. The second and much-larger CPM meeting – known as CPM19-2 – is taking place now in Geneva to put the final touches on the documentation and options which, it is hoped, will guide the delegates in determining what changes to make to the international radio regulations so as to satisfy the agenda items. CPM19-2 brings some 1,419 registered delegates to two weeks of deliberations at the Geneva International Conference Centre and the adjacent International Telecommunication Union buildings. The delegates comprise representatives of the ITU’s member states – the 193 members of the United Nations – as well as representatives from many of the ITU’s “sector” members which includes, notably, the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU). Bryan Rawlings, VE3QN, is attending as a member of the thirty-strong Canadian delegation and has particular responsibilities for the several agenda items which may have an impact on the international frequency allocations to the Amateur Radio Service. Bryan is also participating when possible in the efforts of the IARU. The agenda items which the Amateur representatives to CPM19-2 are watching closely include a proposal to create an international allocation for the 6 metre band in ITU Region 1 (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) similar to what has existed for decades in the other two ITU Regions. There are agenda items for new allocations for 5G mobile radio, for expansion of wireless access points and higher powers in 5 GHz, and an item to propose frequencies for high-power wireless charging systems for electric vehicles. Any of these could come to the detriment of existing Amateur Radio allocations. The collective body of work arising from CPM19-2 will form a kind of “briefing book” for the delegates to the Conference. It is worth noting that the Conference decisions will be made exclusively by the designated representatives of the member states who often are not those who have worked on the agenda items over the previous four or five years. In addition, their decisions, following a practice used since the 1990s, will be taken by consensus and not by majority vote. This is the high bar the delegates to the current CPM19-2 try to keep in mind as they craft the alternative “methods” for each agenda item. The World Radiocommunication Conference of 2019 will convene on October 28 and will take place – exceptionally – at the International Conference Centre in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt instead of in Geneva as in the past. It will conclude on November 22. Stay tuned to the RAC website and to the pages of The Canadian Amateur magazine as we count down to WRC-19. Bryan Rawlings, VE3QN, WRC Special Advisor (Via Radio Amateurs of Canada, March CIDX Messenger via DXLD) This is all focused on ham radio, but how about all the other aspects of radio communication, such as broadcasting that WRC-19 should be dealing with??? (gh, DXLD) DX-PEDITIONS ++++++++++++ Grayland 19 - Feb. 18-23, 2019 Thanks to a last-minute ‘flash sale’ from Alaska Airlines I made my 19th trip to Grayland, Washington a couple of weeks ago. Propagation conditions were not great but following the motto “everything’s better at the beach” I persevered. You can see and hear what I heard on this webpage: http://realmonitor.com/am_logs_grayland19.php I’m still going through the wav files but there’s enough on the webpage to give a flavor of what things were like. Antenna was the usual 160’ DKAZ at 287 deg. literally ‘on the beach’ and in the puddles that collect during winter months on the back-beach. I’m sure my splashing around provided entertainment to the large number of razor clammers on the beach. Highlight so far is DWXI, the Delta Broadcasting System, on 1314 kHz, a new Philippine station for me from Grayland: http://realmonitor.com/grayland19/190220/1500/philippines-1314.wav Enjoy and good DX to everyone (Bill Whitacre, Alexandria, VA, March 5, nrc-am gg via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See MEXICO; OKLAHOMA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC See USA; UNIDENTIFIED +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See CUBA; MALI; NIGERIA; ROMANIA; ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SINGAPORE; USA: VOA, WINB RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ TWR SDRs TWR Trans World Radio har satt opp en rekke SDR mottakere, vel verdt å tune! Ser ut som alle radioene står i støyfrie omgivelser. Du finner dem samlet ved å søke: https://sdr.hu/?q=twr Manzini, Swaziland: http://kiwi.twrafrica.org:8073/ Key West, FL: http://keywest.twrmon.net:8073/ Raleigh, NC: http://raleigh.twrmon.net:8073/ Bonaire: http://bonaire.twrmon.net:8073/ Santo Domingo, Dom.Rep.: http://dr.twrmon.net:8073/ Boa Vista, Brasil: http://boavista.twrmon.net:8073/ (Svenn Martinsen via DX-LISTENERS' CLUB via SW Bulletin March 10 via DXLD) The Loop on Ground Antenna Antennas made from conductors installed flush with the ground are not a new idea. The Beverage antenna is an example of an antenna that is typically installed within a few feet of the ground, but as a special case, it can also be installed directly on the surface — an arrangement called a "Beverage on Ground" or "BoG." The Beverage antenna is not the only antenna type that can be installed close to the ground. Other more conventional antennas can be installed on the ground in order to obtain specific performance characteristics. Such installations can be used effectively for the reception of HF skywave signals at all arrival angles. When a horizontal antenna is installed on (or very near) the surface, its primary response is vertically-polarized, rather than horizontally, because the ground reflection cancels essentially all of the horizontally-polarized wave response. The elevation-planplane [sic] response becomes nearly uniform from the horizon to directly overhead. While a dipole antenna mounted on the ground is perhaps the simplest such design, other shapes can be used effectively for reception. In particular, the loop antenna can be a very space-efficient ground-mounted antenna for reception on the low-bands. The proximity of the wire to the ground makes such an antenna very lossy, rendering it rather useless for transmission. For reception, however, a lossy antenna can be a serious asset, and the pattern and directivity very helpful, especially at longer wavelengths. Read the full story here: http://www.kk5jy.net/LoG/?fbclid=IwAR2VxGSU5RLBNjJDYjRrfshSQIXxj_nPb-nJclYzRBh17gSdO-QCc1JDaG0 (Thomas Nilsson, SW Bulletin March 10 via DXLD) VINTAGE SW RADIOS Hi, Stephen! I recall now that Pennsylvania DXer Jack Linonis also had an HQ-180 in his high school. The most beloved receiver here is my 1932 Hammarlund HQ-120X, but, these days, I feel that my "workhorse" sets should be the ones with the most available and affordable tubes (such as 1960s mini-tubes - 6BE6 et al). (Rick Barton, WOR iog via DXLD) Hello Rick - yeah, I love to restore old tube radios and I have a fully functioning like new-almost 1932 Stewart-Warner table radio. My neighbor (from SF, CA) gave me the unit and I went through all of it down to entire chassis removal and all tubes and control-cleaning, particularly the pre-sets tuned by adjusting trimmers working with a small indictor for each one. It has wonderful, rich analogue audio as they all did back then when AM sounded so good. SW too. If you need the tubes for your Collins R-390A, there is a great Massachusetts based tube supplier (via eBay and also the web). where I have purchased ALL my tubes from - mini to Octal, etc. (if they have been they are tested better than 90% of new output / gain). You maybe know of them already. Thanks for your logs. I enjoy them and they work for those of us lacking the time to do so as we all are so mired in this most wonderfully huge pie called RADIO and so, being un-common folk frequently looked-upon as enigmas, spies, or worse, it's good to jibe with other DXers here - Glenn's group here is my only "club" I am in -- by my own neglect but vast preference rather than distain of anything other - a fine compendium of DXing and radio-knowledge - your logs and others similar, etc., and DXpedition/travel DXing is utterly fascinating for me to get back into SW DXing more, again. Cheers Rick! Steve :-0 (SpM ;-) -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com -- all of my DXing is done real-time but never as a ham these days cuz CW is a lost art, WOR iog via DXLD) New Radiwow R-108 --- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly The Chinese-made Radiwow R-108 is a very compact AM-FM-LW-SW-AIR portable which has recently become available to North American purchasers via eBay, where it is currently offered at various prices (the lowest being $49.98, including free shipping) in listings such as https://www.ebay.com/itm/RADIWOW-R-108-Radio-Digital-AM-FM-Portable-Stereo-LW-SW-AIR-Band-LCD-fm-Receiver/173793532305?hash=item2876e6d991:g:esMAAOSw1YRcZTng Since it is obviously an Ultralight-sized radio and a DSP-enhanced design with multiple selectivity options, four of the R-108 models were purchased for performance tests, technical investigation, quality control checks and comparison with similar models. The Radiwow R-108 is manufactured by the same company that builds the XHDATA D-808, so the styling is very similar, with dark grey cabinets, orange colored power controls and company logos, and lithium-ion rechargeable batteries. And like with the D-808, you will search the owner's manual in vain for any type of manufacturer's warranty. This Chinese company certainly draws a lot of "inspiration" (to use a very generous term) from the C.Crane Skywave model (manufactured in the same Chinese city, Shenzhen, at the Redsun factories). Whereas the company's reverse engineers started their D-808 model with wholesale design appropriation of the Skywave SSB's technical innovations, the new R-108 matches the CC Skywave exactly in height, length and width, as well as in the location of the company logo, speaker, wrist strap, display, keypad, power control, tuning knob and volume control. As a crowning touch, the company's reverse engineers ensured that the R-108's screened-on tuning and volume control legends match those of the CC Skywave exactly. Since only one of the R-108 test models has arrived here so far, I haven't yet done a full technical disassembly, although to its credit the R-108 does have good shielding of the DSP chip, avoiding the irritating digital whine which occurs in recent (post 2012) Tecsun PL-310ET and PL-380 models when the display is grasped. The R-108 also seems to correct the internal heterodyne generation issues of the Tecsun Si4734 DSP chip models (PL-310ET, PL-380 etc.), although my first R-108 test model does suffer from a new digital issue -- intermittent, nasty oscillations at the extreme high end of the AM band (1650-1700 kHz). Whether this a congenital issue or not will be determined when the remaining three R-108 models arrive, but previous reviews of this model have mentioned uneven quality control. The AM band performance does seem to be competitive with the Tecsun PL-380 model as far as sensitivity, DSP selectivity and digital functions, although the audio amp will max out more quickly on a weak signal. The multiple DSP options are quite good at this price point, especially when combined with the correction of the Tecsun PL-380's internal heterodyne issues. The AM antenna connections on the RF circuit board are highly accessible for enhanced loopstick transplant projects (see photos below), so assuming that the intermittent oscillations on the extreme high end of the AM band are limited to this one R-108 model, the R-108 could prove to be a real value winner as a "Supercharging" platform. More performance details and technical reports will be given when the other three R-108 test models arrive here, but so far, the model does appear to have good potential for AM-DXing, both as a stock and modified model. Detailed photos are posted at the following links: RF Circuit Board https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/456oocxphu0uytkz8i9trfdhb06750i3 Cabinet Disassembly (Digital and RF Circuit Boards) https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/xxhqja4031uo16j1rma41xk0t84ujm0p Lithium-ion Rechargeable Battery https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/zn97mtiathscw54qn5i8tdfs4jesem8d CC Skywave SSB and R-108... the identical sized Shenzhen "siblings" https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/jvenlc0mg6a8lqktld6ouyna3fjzbhaw 73 and Good DX, (Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA), March 5, nrc-am gg via DXLD) CHINESE TRANSMITTERS DIASPORA re: > the contract between our station and Mali had expired, (...) The new Bamako site was erected in new China antenna design in 2003-late 2004/spring 2005 year, till came into service in July 2005 and was reported in DXpress then. I've some CRI Bamako entries in my archive then. And also visible first in G.E. images of this 2004/2005 year. So seemingly there was a 15 years contract, came into effect between August 2003 and last til 2018, when CRI forced to stop their Africa/NE broadcast service there, and DXers told that to the world last year. > cloned SW and MW units worldwide (...), At this era 2003 - 2005 the Beijing transmitter firm Beijing BBEF Science & Technology Co., Ltd erected a lot of 50 kW units. The website also presents the 50 kW variant TBH 422, 100 kW (in Albania renamed to 'SW100F'), 150 kW type manufacture called TBH 522 (in Albania renamed to 'SW100A'), cloned SW and MW units worldwide, by Beijing BBEF Electronics Group Co. Ltd., like totally new Bauta-CUB site refurbished by 6 x 100 kW and erected a total new antenna field there, Cerrik-Albania refurbished in TX and antennas, have got 6 x 150 kW, and an antenna combined switch net to put 2 TXs together at 300kW of power. Cerrik have got some additional SW curtain arrays in latest 2003-2004year Made in China design, (like seen on RTC Nanning central China site too). Cerrik / Shijak Albania from archive in 2004/2005: {reality is not simple, Cerrik broadcast center - refurbished 6 x BBEF Beijing transmitter - Beijing BBEF Science & Technology Co., Ltd. formerly known as the Beijing Broadcast Equipment Factory -, using big budget in 2004 year - uses same TX equipment, but 2x150 kW units combined to 300 kW, at 8 row curtain arrays. But RT Shijak uses a single 100 kW at easy dipole curtains, wb.} And R Tirana Shijak site have got 2 x 100 kW SW txs too as a gift. ....on the inauguration of the Chinese made SW tx at Shijak Albania on 28 Nov 2004. {and Tirana TXs were defunct, due of incompetence by the Albanian technicians and dull main power delivery some 10 years later in 2016 ... or so...} from the archive of 2012 ref Hargeysa [8 BBEF technician erected in Dec 2012]: Sale of the new Radio Hargeisa transmitter was negotiated by a Chinese export firm, PDF Co. Ltd, of Guangong, China, and it is responsible for the installation. Some have supposed it would be, like other SW installations in Africa, a Chinese-made transmitter manufactured by Beijing BBEF Electronics Group Co. Ltd. (prior to 2000year, known as the Beijing Broadcast Equipment Factory) This may well be so, although the BBEF website lists its overseas projects in places like Ethiopia, Cuba, North Korea 12 TXs?, etc., and says nothing about supplying transmitter equipment for installation in Somaliland. I have merely suggested it MIGHT instead, be a Croatian-made RIZ transmitter, since there is a track record of another Chinese electronics broker in Hong Kong installing a RIZ SW transmitter for the government of Myanmar. [source not credited, but assume these two grafs not written by wb as they are not in Bueschelese --- gh] In November 2004 Swedish DXer Olle Alm wrote me on this matter: > Most likely the basic PSM - Pulse Step Modulation patents elapsed some years ago, so now everybody is using this technology. The Chinese transmitters (SW100F and SW150A) at Shijak and Cerrik, respectively, which are based on the Continental 420C model (500 kW), are using PSM, and RIZ have been marketing PSM transmitters since at least 1999. Chinese txs are also erected at Dole Zanzibar island Tanzania. from archive March 2010, re Myanmar new equipment: > has meanwhile found this page on the website of Hong Kong-based Broadcast Technology Limited, referring to a project installing a mediumwave antenna and AM transmitter for Myanmar National Radio (MRTV) with BBEF (Beijing Broadcast Equipment Factory). It says the transmitter is 400 kW, and the project was completed in March 2010. China TX clones, also on mediumwave, 600 kW Harris > University dissertation dated Dec 2010 about the modulation system of a new ZF-600A transmitter, which is a Chinese-built clone of Harris technology. The acknowledgements and English abstract link it to Station 602 at Ji'an 73 wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, March 12, dxldyg via DXLD) AM Stereo Someone asked if there are any stations still in AM $tereo? (gh) Not sure how up to date this web site is- http://meduci.com/stations.html Last I knew a station near me in CT was stereo, but I haven't checked recently, and no longer have a C-Quam receiver. Possibly a SONY HD receiver can do C-Quam, I don't know (FARMERIK, March 5, ABDX yg via DXLD) Don’t forget one of the biggest ones promoting it and proud, WION in Ionia, MI. They feed their online stream directly from a Carver tuner. They are on Facebook. Wasn’t there a station in North Carolina or something that was also pretty glad to be doing it. I think it was “Beach” something. Been a little bit since I heard about that one but he was also absolutely all for it and promoted it. If KEVA were still on the air you bet it would be stereo. I have the equipment to prove it J (Michael n Wyo Richard, ibid.) Watch Jack White Help Mix A New Raconteurs Song From His Tesla Using An FM Transmitter And Walkie Talkie --- Peter Helman 2 days ago https://www.stereogum.com/2035100/jack-white-new-raconteurs-song-preview-mix/video/?amp=1 (via Terry Krueger, DXLD) Use of RF feeder equipment I Repeat — AM Radio Is Dead March 7, 2019 (By Robert Lee) https://radioink.com/2019/03/07/i-repeat-am-radio-is-dead/ “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” And, “I’m not afraid to wait; I just don’t want to wait for something that will never happen.” So, walk over to your mirror, look yourself square in the face, and say it out loud, with force and conviction: “AM radio is dead.” It doesn’t matter that Albert Einstein or Ben Franklin didn’t utter the first quote. Or, who the “Anonymous” is that came up with the second one. But, those of us in the radio industry must all absorb that third assertion – “AM radio is dead” – believe it, and move on. Don’t look back. Look meaningfully forward. Why bring up this discussion, again? Because the other day I was reading an opinion piece about AM Radio, and the best the writer could do, to no purposeful end, was bring up the failed efforts and lost opportunities on the part of the FCC to help save AM radio. Everything the author wished for is the past — left undone — and, now, too late. Whether through neglect or consumers just wanting to move on to the newest “shiny object,” AM radio is, technically, a dodo bird. There is no ‘revitalization in death. “Cross-service” FM translators do not repair the mortally wounded AM band; they underscore its evident obsolescence and demise. To consumers, FM translators are not “secondary services”; they are FM stations. FM. Clearly not distracting, degraded, static-y AM. Now, as the FCC undertakes its important Quadrennial Review, I would again implore Chairman Pai and the Commissioners to walk away from the past, lay AM radio to rest, and move all the AM stations to an all-digital, expanded FM band in the television channels’ 5 and 6 spectrum. And, in addition, implement a “date certain” plan, sooner rather than later, to move the incumbent FM band, at 88 to 108 MHz, to all-digital. We already required the move, years ago, of broadcast TV from analog to digital. There is no rational reason for not mandating the same of broadcast radio. In fact, digital broadcast television is already evolving to its next, forward-looking advancement: ATSC 3.0. But we’re still vainly rendering life support to AM radio. And please, do not, again, anybody, bring up WPVI-TV in Philadelphia to argue that it’s too late, that there are already full-power digital stations assigned to the Channel 6 spectrum that simply cannot be moved. Or that the TV “repack” has irreversibly locked in place the full-power television stations allocated to the Channels 5 and 6 bandwidth. The same FCC computer software that came up with the new digital TV channel assignments can take another whack at moving all of the relatively small number of channels on 5 and 6 to other channels. In the broadcast television realm, digital transmission is so spectrum-efficient there are many, many examples of stations in close geographic proximity to each other that are on first-adjacent channels. For example, in the Austin, Texas, television market, to my south, the full-power (not Class A) NBC and PBS stations are first-adjacent to each other on digital channels 21 and 22, respectively. Likewise, the ABC and CBS — full-power, non-Class A — affiliates are first-adjacent to each other on channels 33 and 34. In the big TV market to the north of me, Dallas-Fort Worth, there are a half-dozen examples of full-power stations first-adjacent to each other! Every single full-power and Class A TV station now sited in the Channels 5 and 6 spectrum can be “packed” on another frequency. And, according to the FCC rules, secondary television services — TV translator and low-power facilities — can even be forced off the air if that’s what it takes to find allocations for full-power and Class A television stations. Please, Chairman Pai and Commissioners, let us once and for all face up to the reality of AM radio’s future…that there is none. Move AM stations into the 21st century and onto all-digital FM channels, and stop all the insane and hopeless non-revitalization nonsense. AM radio is dead. Robert Lee is the owner of QXZ MediaWorks in Waco, Texas, and can be reached by e-mail at contactus@qxz.media (via Kevin Redding, Crump, ABDX yg via DXLD) The Secret Life of Machines – The Radio The Secret Life of Machines is an educational television series presented by Tim Hunkin and Rex Garrod, in which the two explain the inner workings and history of common household and office machinery. This episode is all about our favourite machine --- the radio! Three separate groupings of the broadcast were produced and originally shown between 1988 and 1993 on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom, with the production subsequently airing on The Learning Channel and the Discovery Channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2roG4jIjvEk (YouTube Video of the Month, March CIDX Messenger via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ Practical Application of VLF Sferics Reception Signals from Distant Lightning Could Help Secure Electric Substations Side channel signals and bolts of lightning from distant storms could one day help prevent hackers from sabotaging electric power substations and other critical infrastructure, a new study suggests. https://www.news.gatech.edu/2019/02/26/signals-distant-lightning-could-help-secure-electric-substations (via Benn Kobb, March 11, WOR iog via DXLD) Viz.: Signals from Distant Lightning Could Help Secure Electric Substations By John Toon | February 26, 2019 • Atlanta, GA Securing electric substations - 2 Georgia Tech researchers Tohid Shekari, Raheem Beyah, Morris Cohen, and Lukas Graber hold an antenna and home-built recording equipment for the VLF radio receiver, known as AWESOME, which is capable of detecting lightning radio bursts from around the world. (Image: Christopher Moore, Georgia Tech) Download Image MORE PHOTOS Side channel signals and bolts of lightning from distant storms could one day help prevent hackers from sabotaging electric power substations and other critical infrastructure, a new study suggests. By analyzing electromagnetic signals emitted by substation components using an independent monitoring system, security personnel could tell if switches and transformers were being tampered with in remote equipment. Background lightning signals from thousands of miles away would authenticate those signals, preventing malicious actors from injecting fake monitoring information into the system. The research, done by engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has been tested at substations with two different electric utilities, and by extensive modeling and simulation. Known as radio frequency-based distributed intrusion detection system (RFDIDS), the technique was described February 26 at the 2019 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) in San Diego. “We should be able to remotely detect any attack that is modifying the magnetic field around substation components,” said Raheem Beyah, Motorola Foundation Professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and co-founder of Fortiphyd Logic, Inc. “We are using a physical phenomenon to determine whether a certain action at a substation has occurred or not.” Opening substation breakers to cause a blackout is one potential power grid attack, and in December 2015, that technique was used to shut off power to 230,000 persons in the Ukraine. Attackers opened breakers in 30 substations and hacked into monitoring systems to convince power grid operators that the grid was operating normally. Topping that off, they also attacked call centers to prevent customers from telling operators what was happening. “The electric power grid is difficult to secure because it is so massive,” Beyah said. “It provides an electrical connection from a generating station to the appliances in your home. Because of this electrical connection, there are many places where a hacker could potentially insert an attack. That’s why we need an independent way to know what’s happening on grid systems.” That independent approach would use an antenna located in or near a substation to detect the unique radio-frequency “side channel” signatures produced by the equipment. The monitoring would be independent of systems now used to monitor and control the grid. “Without trusting anything at all on the grid, we can use an RF receiver to determine if an impulse occurred in the shape of an ‘open’ operation,” Beyah said. “The system operates at 60 Hertz, and there are few other systems that operate there, so we can be sure of what we’re monitoring.” However, hackers might be able to figure out how to insert fake signals to hide their attacks. That’s where the lightning emissions known as “sferics” come in. “When a lightning flash hits the ground, it forms an electrical path miles tall, potentially carrying hundreds of thousands of amps of current, so that makes for a really powerful antenna radiating energy,” said Morris Cohen, an associate professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Each flash creates signals in the very low frequency (VLF) band, which can reflect from the upper atmosphere to travel long distances. “Signals from lightning can zigzag back and forth and make it all the way around the world,” Cohen noted. “Lightning from South America, for example, is easily detectable in Atlanta. We’ve even seen lightning echo multiple times around the world.” Security staff remotely monitoring substations would be able compare the lightning behind the 60 Hz substation signals to lightning data from other sources, such as one of the 70,000 or so other substations in the United States or a global lightning database. That would authenticate the information. Since lightning occurs more than three million times every day on average, there is plenty of opportunity to authenticate, he noted. “Even if you could synthesize the RF receiver’s data feed digitally, generating something realistic would be difficult because the shape of the pulse from lightning detected by our receivers varies as a function of the distance from the lightning, the time of day, latitude and more,” Cohen said. “It would take a lot of real-time computation and knowledge of sophisticated physics to synthesize the lightning signals.” Working with two different electric utilities, the researchers – including graduate research assistant Tohid Shekari – analyzed the RF signals produced when breakers were turned off for substation maintenance. They also used computer simulations to study a potential attack against the systems. “The signal from a lightning stroke is very distinct – it is short, around a millisecond, and covers a huge frequency range,” Cohen added. “The only other process on Earth that is known to generate something similar is a nuclear explosion. The emissions from the power grid are very different and none of it looks like a pulse from lightning, so it is easy enough to separate the signals.” The researchers have filed a provisional patent on RFDIDS, and hope to further refine the security strategy, which independent of equipment manufacturer. Beyah believes there could be applications beyond the power industry for remote monitoring of other RF-emitting devices. The system could tell transit operators if a train were present, for example. “The power grid is our most critical piece of infrastructure,” Beyah notes. “Nothing else matters if you don’t have electrical power.” In addition to those already mentioned, the research team also included recent master’s degree graduate Christian Bayens and assistant professor Lukas Graber, both from Georgia Tech. CITATION: Tohid Shekari, et al., “RFDIDS: Radio Frequency-based Distributed Intrusion Detection System for the Power Grid,” (2019 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium). Research News Georgia Institute of Technology 177 North Avenue Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0181 USA (via DXLD) Very interesting article, Benn! This is very definitely smack-dab in the professional field I work in - 60 Hz monitoring and ELF-VLF phenomena/magnetosphere, etc. - OK, so I listen to sferics and tweeks and try to escape the big bad "hum" of the grid, hi! (I build ELF detectors for contact-voltage detection, also). Funny comments aside, it is hard to easily grasp the main point (and the article cloaks rather mundane stuff into a more "mysterious" thus "technical" article, IMO) but there are **a lot** of consumer devices that are injecting all kinds of crud into the grid to make it unstable and to really "trash" it with spike-noise/hash/etc. The once more pure-looking (on an O-scope) poly-phase (180 Hz) and single-phase (60 Hz) sine-waves - for us in NA and other 60 Hz places and of course 50 Hz everywhere else, used to look way cleaner compared to today. The biggest gripes I hear from EEs are all of the switching-supplies doing the havoc. Large-synchronous motors constantly firing-on from refrigeration and cooling units adds to the mess, too. Yeah some "hacker-attack" and something "fake" injected - data, security, or whatever (oh, are not those words so fashionable today?!) and even all of the usual crud on the grid (of course) is distinctly different from an impulse EMP source - even those long-distance "tweeking sferics" (they sound like "pings" on an audio-band-receiver) that have come from very distant lightning sources, over water and over fully nighttime-paths particularly. Big switches thrown when the grid is switched someplace sound like a "thunk" in my audio-receivers followed by a change in the "hum" characteristics is often noted too! Brush motor-noise (a "whining" sound) from somebody drilling or sawing something will be heard all over the local grid, in my experiences too -- mainly when the things wind-up to full RPM. A really fine website for lightning location is: http://www.wwlln.net - I love how they superimpose the blue lightning-stroke data over the satellite-loops. You can see how BAD the QRN must be in the local evenings in the Amazon Basin and the DPR Congo region, also! Thanks for this article, Benn! This gives me too many ideas to write here easily. Oh yeah also: even "pure" spike (EMP) "sferics" can be "faked." Truly! It isn't heard to make a gizmo that can send out singular noise-spikes. That's almost fundamental radio transmitting (the youngsters today know very little about spark-gaps-hi! They don't get it if it is not square-wave/PCM). SpM 73 - Steve McGreevy -- N6NKS - http://www.auroralchorus.com via DXLD) This is the lightning-location display I use for OK and vicinity: http://en.blitzortung.org/live_lightning_maps.php?map=31 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radioactive particles from huge solar storm found in Greenland Discovery raises questions about emergency plans in place for severe space weather --- Ian Sample Science editor @iansample Mon 11 Mar 2019 15.00 EDT Last modified on Mon 11 Mar 2019 16.54 EDT Prominence eruptions from the sun often cause solar storms Coronal mass ejections from the sun often cause solar storms. Photograph: NASA/GSFC/SDO/Rex Features [caption] Traces of an enormous solar storm that battered the atmosphere and showered Earth in radioactive particles more than 2,500 years ago have been discovered under the Greenland ice sheet. Scientists studying ice nearly half a kilometre beneath the surface found a band of radioactive elements unleashed by a storm that struck the planet in 660BC. It was at least 10 times more powerful than any recorded by instruments set up to detect such events in the past 70 years, and as strong as the most intense known solar storm, which hit Earth in AD775. Raimund Muscheler, a professor of quaternary sciences at Lund University in Sweden, said: “What our research shows is that the observational record over the past 70 years does not give us a complete picture of what the sun can do.” . . . [more] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/mar/11/radioactive-particles-from-huge-solar-storm-found-in-greenland (via Chuck Albertson, Seattle, March 12, DXLD) This explains that nasty HF fade-out back in the day. Couldn't hear anything for a week, and my receiver was never the same after it (Chuck Albertson, DXLD) Surely you jest? Well before your time (gh) GEOMAGNETIC INDICES – Compiled by: Phil Bytheway Email: DXM.EiC@gmail.com Geomagnetic Summary February 1 2019 through February 28 2019 Tabulated from WWV on-line status daily (K @ 0000 UTC). Flux A K Space Wx 1 72 17 4 minor, G1 2 71 17 3 no storms 3 71 11 3 no storms 4 71 7 3 no storms 5 71 5 1 no storms 6 70 10 3 no storms 7 70 4 1 no storms 8 71 8 4 no storms 9 70 10 1 no storms 10 70 6 1 no storms 11 70 9 3 no storms 12 70 6 3 no storms 13 70 13 2 no storms 14 71 10 1 no storms 15 71 4 0 no storms 16 71 3 0 no storms 17 70 4 2 no storms 18 70 6 1 no storms 19 70 3 1 no storms 20 71 3 no storms 21 71 11 3 no storms 22 71 4 1 no storms 23 71 2 0 no storms 24 71 2 0 no storms 25 70 2 1 no storms 26 71 2 1 no storms 27 71 10 4 no storms 28 70 26 3 minor, G1 Gx – Geomagnetic Storm Level Rx – Radio Blackouts Level Sx – Solar Radiation Storm Level (IRCA DX Monitor March 9, published March 6, via DXLD) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2019 Mar 11 0238 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 March 2019 Solar activity reached low levels. Region 2734 (N09, Lo=60, class/area Cao/20 on 07 Mar) produced the strongest flare of the period, a C1 at 08/0319 UTC followed by a secondary X-ray enhancement to C1, which peaked shortly after. Two separate CME signatures, a western directed CME first seen in LASCO C2 at 08/0428 UTC and an eastern directed CME first seen in LASCO C2 at 08/0438 UTC, were associated with the C1 flare activity. No other Earth-directed CMEs were observed in available coronagraph imagery. The region produced two other weaker B class flares during the period. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit reached high levels throughout the highlight period due to influence from a negative polarity CH HSS prior to the period combined with influence from a second negative polarity CH HSS on 06 and 07 Mar. Geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to unsettled conditions. Intermittent increases to unsettled periods occurred on 04 Mar, and 06-08 Mar due to slight enhancements in the solar wind environment and CH HSS effects. Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 11 March - 06 April 2019 Solar activity is expected to be at very low to low levels throughout the outlook period. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to range from normal to very high levels. Very high levels are expected on 29/30 Mar; high levels are expected on 11 Mar, 14-19 Mar, 27-28 Mar, and 31 Mar - 06 Apr; moderate levels are expected on 12/13 Mar and 20-22 Mar; mostly normal levels are expected 23-26 Mar. All elevated levels of electron flux are anticipated due to influence from multiple, recurrent CH HSSs. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to range from quiet to G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm levels. G1 conditions are expected 11 Mar due to possible glancing blows from the 8 Mar CMEs. Active conditions are expected 12 Mar - 15 Mar due to waning CME activity followed by HSS effects from a negative polarity CH. Unsettled to quiet conditions are expected 16-17 Mar as CH effects wane. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2019 Mar 11 0238 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 2019-03-11 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2019 Mar 11 71 30 5 2019 Mar 12 71 18 4 2019 Mar 13 70 18 4 2019 Mar 14 69 15 4 2019 Mar 15 69 12 4 2019 Mar 16 69 8 3 2019 Mar 17 69 5 2 2019 Mar 18 69 5 2 2019 Mar 19 69 5 2 2019 Mar 20 69 10 3 2019 Mar 21 69 5 2 2019 Mar 22 69 5 2 2019 Mar 23 69 5 2 2019 Mar 24 69 5 2 2019 Mar 25 69 5 2 2019 Mar 26 69 12 4 2019 Mar 27 69 30 5 2019 Mar 28 69 28 5 2019 Mar 29 70 14 4 2019 Mar 30 71 8 3 2019 Mar 31 71 5 2 2019 Apr 01 71 5 2 2019 Apr 02 71 8 3 2019 Apr 03 71 8 3 2019 Apr 04 71 5 2 2019 Apr 05 71 5 2 2019 Apr 06 71 5 2 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1973, DXLD) ###