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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1980 contents: Antarctica, Bougainville, Brasil, China, Cuba non, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Guinea, Indonesia, Iran, Korea North non, Kurdistan non, Kuwait, Madagascar, Mali, Mongolia non, Myanmar, Nigeria non, Northern Mariana Islands, Papua New Guinea, Russia, Switzerland, Tajikistan, USA, Venezuela non; Hitlist and DX/SWL/Media programs; and the propagation outlook WORLD OF RADIO SCHEDULE: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.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. ** ALASKA [and non]. 9580, April 27 at 1421, VP S4-S5 rock music, presumed KNLS as now scheduled for English this hour on what will always be for us the #1 Radio Australia frequency before it self-destructed. Recall that right after that, as I suggested, WRMI registered 9580 at 0900-2100, thus ``reserving`` it but never implemented, much less an RA/ABC relay whether the Aussies liked it or not. 7395, May 1 at 1301, KNLS IS and Chinese IDs, S3-S5 from 100 kW at 300 degrees oppositeward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALASKA. HAARP QSL CARDS --- Hello Folk, This letter sent me by Miss Amanda Dawn Christie, to inform me of the status of the responses to the reception reports of the listening of the HAARP Event, 2019 ***************************** My apologies for the delayed response. When I returned home to Montreal from Alaska I was in the midst of final exams, critiques, and grading. I am almost finished now. I actually just met with my designer this morning about the designs of the QSL cards. We are making custom QSL cards for this event, so please do be patient. He is going to get me a draft by May 10, then we will likely go back and forth making changes until May 24, I hope to have them printed by early June so I can mail them out to people in June. I am meeting with my project manager tomorrow morning, and we will be creating our strategy for how to manage the reception reports (there were a lot) --- communicating with people, organizing the data, recordings, audio, images, video, the website, etc., and making a spread sheet with everyone’s information (name, contact info, mailing address, etc.), so that we can make sure not to miss anyone when send out the QSL cards. So you were not forgotten; I just had not yet designed the cards (I want to make a special design), and I am a full time professor and it was the end of the semester. Classes are finished now, and I just have one class left to finish grading. Then all of my attention will be back 100% on this project. QSL cards are currently being designed and should go in the mail in early June. Best, Amanda Dawn Christie -------------------------------- (via Héctor Frías Jofré, CE3001SWL, Chile, April 30, WOR iog via DXLD) Good luck. For her earlier Spectres broadcasts, she never QSLed me, even after a follow-up. Excuses2. I am not saying QSLs are required, but when you overtly offer them --- (gh, DXLD) ** ANGUILLA. 11775, Caribbean Beacon (re-checked) at 2100. Archival tapes of Doc Scott in monologue, short acoustic guitar break and contact ##, then more of the Doc. Very strong signal, but the audio started cutting out after 2130. Thinking it was a problem with the big Grundig, I tuned in on another radio, but same thing. Gone after 2200 - Very Good (sans loose audio connection) Apr 28 (Rick Barton, AZ, WOR iog via DXLD) 6090, Caribbean Beacon at 0330. PM Scott monologue, with a lot of loose audio cable issues. Reconciled with WWCR on 5935, the problem not heard there, so this is a C.B. issue. After 0400, DGS, with another of his James Clavell novel-like communions, with the cup finally being lifted at 25 minutes past the hour - Very Good (sans audio issue) May 1 (Rick Barton, AZ, Hammarlund HQ-180A, Grundig Satellit 205(T.5000), RS SW-2000629, ATS-909X with various outdoor wires. 73 and Good Listening....! -rb, WOR iog via DXLD) ** ANTARCTICA. 15476, LRA36, Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, Base Esperanza, 1805-1823, 23-04 [Tue], non stop songs. Extremely weak, barely audible and only on USB (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol and Lugo, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) 15475.971, May 2 at 1405, JBA carrier, no doubt LRA36 on signature off-frequency, mostly oceanic path from Esperanza to Enid, so still active on Thursdays; and Tuesdays altho I could not detect it on April 30. Later today May 2 at 1820 also heard in Germany by Harald Kuhl, ``almost readable, with talk program`` on ``15476`` USB plus carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DX LISTENING DIGEST) LRA36 15476 kHz carrier & USB Antarctica almost readable today. At 1820 UT with talk program. Still weak. vy73 (Harald QTH Goettingen, Kuhl, WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. AUSTRÁLIA, 6230-BLS, Estação Meteorológica VMW, Wiluna, Austr. Ocidental, 1802-..., 21/4. Avisos meteorológicos; 35332. 6506-BLS, Estação Meteorológica VMC, Charleville, QLD, 2135-..., 13/4. Avisos meteorológicos; 25342. 8113-BLS, Estação Meteorológica VMW, Wiluna, Austr. Ocidental, 0946-..., 17/4. Avisos meteorológicos; 14341, QRM adj. de sinal de ponto a ponto. 8176-BLS, Estação Meteorológica VMC, Charleville, QLD, 0947-..., 17/4. Avisos meteor.; 24341, QRM adj. de sinal de ponto a ponto. 8176 idem, 1803-...,21/4. Avisos meteor.; 15341. 12362-BLS, Estação Meteorológica VMW, Wiluna, Austr. Ocidental, 0945-..., 17/4. Avisos meteor.; 25342 (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal obs. 13-22 April 2019, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. Reception of Reach Beyond Australia RBA in 19/25mb on April 26: 1115-1130 15575 KNX 100 kW / 310 deg CeAs English Mon-Wed/Fri, good & 1200-1230 11875 KNX 100 kW / 310 deg SoAs English Daily, good signal: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/04/reception-of-reach-beyond-australia-rba_26.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News April 25-26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11905, Reach Beyond, Kununurra. Extended use of this frequency, Nagamese 1130 (on a Monday), with opening announcements and hymn. This obscure language is described by Dr Google as “a pidgin/creole arising out of Assamese, Hindi, English and various Naga languages. 29/4 (Craig Seager, VK2HBT, Bathurst NSW (Perseus SDR, JRC NRD-545, Airspy HF+, DX Engineering Preamp, Wellbrook feeder isolator, Icom IC-756 Pro, Loop Skywire, Home-made Loop with LZ1AQ amplifier, Wellbrook ALA1530-LNPro), May Australian DX News via DXLD) A paper QSL card from Reach Beyond Australia HCJB [sic] for a report dated March 29, 2019 was received. By default, the station confirms the reports with an electronic card, but if you need a copy on paper, you need to report this in the report. The date the envelope was sent is April 2, 2019. The theme of the card is Ringneck Parrot, the Australian parrot. http://freerutube.info/2019/04/27/qsl-reach-beyond-australia-hcjb-avstraliya-mart-2019-goda/ (Dmitry Elagin, Saratov, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx", QSL World, Rus-DX 28 April via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA [non]. Re: [WOR] Upcoming from Unique Radio broadcasts to North America via WINB --- Hi Glenn, yes, 'Sounds of your life' on all these. Best regards (Tim Gaynor, April 30, WOR iog via DXLD) ** BANGLADESH. 4750, Bangladesh Betar, on April 29, still carrying only the External Service, preempting their Home Service. Is the HS ever coming back again, or will the External Service be here permanently now? Are they following the example of RRI Palangkaraya (3325), which seems to have permanently dropped their local Pro 1 programming in favor of the Voice of Indonesia? VOI has been via Palangkaraya since about June of last year. At 1228, with the BB IS, mixing with stronger CNR1 also on frequency; 1230 into English till 1300, when the BB test tone started again (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** BHUTAN. 6035, BBS, 1149*, on April 30. At *1139, the usual sudden start up of PBS Yunnan, with FM99 relay, which mostly covered up BBS, but was still able to hear BBS underneath till BBS cut off. As Glenn has reported, National Unity Radio has again moved back to 6045 and with it heavy N. Korea jamming. 6035 has what seems to be a jamming spur from 6045, making reception of both BBS and FM99 more difficult (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** BONAIRE. PJB RTM (TWR) Bonaire en 800 KHz, escuchada en la ciudad de Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico entre las 0245 y 0315 UT el 29 de abril UT 2019 (2145-2215 domingo, hora local de verano; 2245-2315 domingo, hora de Bonaire) con un receptor, un Radio Sony ICF-C4154 con antena interna. Interferencia ocasional de Radio Rey (XERI) en 810 de Reynosa, Tamaulipas. “Mujeres de esperanza” https://www.rtmuruguay.org/mujeres-de-esperanza y “la verdad en un tubo de ensayo” https://www.rtmuruguay.org/proyectos/la-verdad-en-el-tubo-de-ensayo seguido de música y luego al parecer el programa “Los grandes temas”. Señal bastante variable. https://youtu.be/HeHv1z4SZZU Atte: (Ing. Israel González Ahumada, M.I., April 29, DX LISTENING DIGEST) PJB RTM (TWR) Bonaire en 800 KHz, escuchada en la ciudad de Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico entre las 0115 y 0300 UT el 02 de mayo UT 2019 (2015-2200 01 de mayo, hora local de verano; 2115-2300, hora de Bonaire) con un receptor es un Radio Sony ICF-C4154 con antena interna. Con un programa especial para recaudación de donativos, música cristiana, citas bíblicas y mensajes de los oyentes. Se explicó que anteriormente la estación operaba a 500 kW, pero luego se bajó a 100 KW, actualmente opera hasta 440 KW, siempre por 800 KHz. Al inicio de la grabación dicen haber recibido reportes de señal desde Yucatán (¿mi reporte?) y aunque se pidió comunicarse por “Wassap” lamentablemente no tengo ese servicio en teléfono celular. Se mencionó su sitio en Facebook y su página https://www.twr360.org Señal bastante variable desde 44444 hasta 22222 o pérdida, drástica caída de señal a las 0300 UT (¿caída de potencia de transmisión?). [pattern change from Cuba to Caribbean --- gh] En el video solo pongo extractos de la grabación completa que dura casi 105 minutos. https://youtu.be/ccYIKxgSwKM Atte: (Ing. Israel González Ahumada, M.I., Yucatán, May 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOUGAINVILLE [and non]. 3325, NBC Bougainville (Maus Blong Sankamap - Voice of the Sunrise), on April 27, with better than normal reception; 1008-1025 (first listening session); animated political speech in Pidgin with some sentences in English ("Bougainville and Papua New Guinea are members of a wider community. Members of all global society," "economy of Bougainville," etc.); 1118-1154* (second session); discussion in English about women's issues in Bougainville ("We need to do better," "Learn from other countries," etc.); 1130, DJ in Pidgin with pop Pacific Islands songs; suddenly cut off. April 28 (Sunday), at 1011, with the usual religious (Christian) programs; mostly songs in English; re-checked at 1103, found them already off the air (so a very early cut off time today!); 1103+, VOI carrier again heard with no audio at all (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DXLD) See also INDONESIA [and non] [non-logs]. 3325, NBC Bougainville, 1027+, on April 29, found NBC off the air. Later heard the VOI carrier, with yet another day of no audio. April 30, from 0934+, again no NBC Bougainville on the air today (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DXLD) [and non]. Hi Glenn, May 2 - Yet another day that NBC Bougainville has been off the air during random checking 0902 till 1210. What was interesting today was the fact that the Voice of Indonesia carrier was also off the air. So 3325 had no station at all there today; completely clear frequency. We can only hope that maybe Palangkaraya is working today to correct the long standing problem of no audio? (Ron Howard, California, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DXLD) ** BRAZIL [and non]. As we get further into spring, Southern Hemisphere DX becomes more prevalent. Two Brazilians have been semi-regular here lately. These are R. Itatiaia (Belo Horizonte) on 610 and R. Uirapuru (Fortaleza) on 760. Audio clips from last night (25 APR / 8 p.m. EDT = 26 APR / 0000 UTC): 610 with "Itatiaia" ID (over WGIR-NH) https://app.box.com/s/a800wfmbbjwthr5xwcr5hgi9i7ljwhlu 760 with "A Voz do Brasil" program mention, dominant https://app.box.com/s/0jd9pz69mwxwdkntngvzbxuurx2y1128 These have been more reliable than the farther-south Rio and Sao Paulo stations such as 700, 840, 860, 1000, 1040, 1100, 1220, and 1220. Other Fortaleza, Natal, etc. stations from NE Brazil should have a reasonable chance if 760 is "inbooming." Southern Africa may also be in play around local sunset during these conditions. Longer Northern Hemisphere daylight can combine with auroral action to make southerly routes less bothered by interference. On the West Coast, Down Under / South Pacific DX at dawn acts like East Coast reception of Africa and South America at sunset. Salt water is your friend in both situations, ditto for directional antennas (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, South Yarmouth, MA nrc-am gg via DXLD) I also use the lightning map before going out to a beach site to AM DX. Many times I just check the weather maps. The fronts move from West to East and after a few days without rain I will go out to DX. As the rain will be long gone most days. I have been TV and AM DXing for many years now. My AM mobile set-up can be seen here, http://www.flickr.com/photos/38062429@N04 page 2. To read reports along with clips and screenshots go to WTFDA Forums. For Europe and Africa DX I head for Sandy Neck Beach in Barnstable. This being on the North side of the cape and also the upper parking lot on a hill to enhance DX. For South Africa, Argentina, and Brazil I head to a local beach 4 miles from our home. It's called Menauhant Beach in East Falmouth and on the South side of the cape. No telephone wires for 800 ft. and gives me a low noise floor. The 6ft. X 12ft. mini-loop I point at 130 degrees and the left lobe brings in South Africa and the other side lobe sucks up Brazil. The beauty of the loop on the truck being it's easy to point in any direction and sometimes move the truck (ant.) while recording. Take care, (Roy Barstow - East Falmouth - MA. USA, April 27, IRCA iog via DXLD) Watching the weather on TV several days in advance of a beach DXpedition is always a good idea. With maps now available via smartphone apps, you can check right from a site at DXpedition time. If the closest storms are 200 miles over land or 600 miles over salt water, you're probably OK to go. I have not done DXpeditions for several years because of a number of factors but I do expect to do one this spring and possibly one or two in late summer / autumn. Besides the beach sites Roy has mentioned, others listed below are ones producing good results. Some are more "tuned up" for Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Others are mostly for auroral action into southern Africa, South America, and the Caribbean. The ones I've used having the overall best balance of DX quality have been the Orleans, MA sites. As recently noted by parallel listening by Roy at a beach site and me at home, shoreline signal improvement (versus roughly 15 miles inland) looks like about 20 dB on real long haul (Persian Gulf area or southern Africa, >6000 miles) and about 10 dB on closer-in (~3000 miles) stuff such as UK and Spain. My home site is only about 3 miles from the shore heading south towards Venezuela, Colombia, Puerto Rico, etc. so the drop off versus the beach only looks like about 5-6 dB that way. Longer paths south (e.g. Argentina) are still going to get a bigger kick, maybe 10 dB, at the beach versus at the house. When incoming angle is very low, the signal acts pretty much like groundwave. Looking at some of the V-Soft and Radiolocator listenings of a non-directional 1 kW station such as 1340 WMID NJ or 1300 WJDA MA over water versus over land give a good idea of how much boost the shore site is giving you. 15 dB on the low end of the dial to 25 dB on the upper end is not unusual. I use the following antenna for car DXpeditions: https://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/loop/car_roof_loop.htm Like Roy, I have been known to move the vehicle during a given session to orient the antenna in different directions. South Orleans, Cape Cod, MA, USA (GC= 41.7346 N / 69.991 W) (= 41° 44.08' N / 69° 59.46' W) (Town Landing / beach, off Route 28, 0.3 km N of Tar Kiln Road) Orleans, Cape Cod, MA, USA (GC= 41.7538 N / 69.9692 W) (= 41° 45.23' N / 69° 58.15' W) (Town Landing at east end of Portanimicut Road) Orleans, Cape Cod, MA, USA (GC= 41.8072 N / 69.9537 W) (= 41° 48.43' N / 69° 57.22' W) (41:48:26N, 69:57:13W) FN51at (beach area: northeast end of Tonset Road, near Weeset Road) map http://chowdanet.com/markc/pictures/orleans_dxsite1.gif qth https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8072,-69.9537,16z https://www.google.com/maps/@41.807368,-69.9540089,3a,60y,84.05h,88.73t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxArYRfgruEXpnUtpN6miJg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en Orleans, Cape Cod, MA, USA (GC= 41.787 N / 69.936 W) (Nauset Beach) Eastham, Cape Cod, MA, USA (GC= 41.8181 N / 69.962 W) (= 41° 49.09' N / 69° 57.72' W) (41:49:05N, 69:57:43W) FN51at (Fort Hill Park) see http://takeadaytrip.com/great-places/massachusetts/cape-cod-national-seashore-fort-hill qth https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8181,-69.962,16z Eastham, Cape Cod, MA, USA (GC= 41.843 N / 69.946 W) (Coast Guard Beach) Eastham, Cape Cod, MA, USA (GC= 41.857 N / 69.950 W) (Nauset Light Beach) Chatham, Cape Cod, MA, USA (GC= 41.672 N / 69.949 W) (Chatham Lighthouse: Main St. between Water St. & Bearses' Lane) Harwich, Cape Cod, MA, USA (GC= 41.668 N / 70.039 W) (= 41° 40.08' N / 70° 2.34' W) (Red River Beach) West Dennis, Cape Cod, MA, USA (GC = 41.650 N / 70.176 W) (= 41° 39.0' N / 70° 10.6' W) West Dennis (Davis) Beach South Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA, USA (GC= 41.645 N / 70.198 W) (= 41° 38.7' N / 70° 11.9' W) (Bass River Beach, ) (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, South Yarmouth, MA, April 28, ibid.) It is interesting to move the truck (ant.) as one station will go out and another station may come in and moving back to the starting point will help with a possible identification. That one morning at Sandy Neck Beach in Barnstable when I had carriers on Japan frequencies was very helpful. As the ant. went from say 20 degrees to around 350 degrees the signal was somewhat stronger. Maybe also moving away from Spain as they are the major player on a North facing beach. Now I recently counted the number of Iran stations received at beach sites as 35 picked up. Now looking at a map I see that India not to far from Iran and yet no Indian stations received. Should I still point my antenna toward Iran or maybe over the pole? Also would it come in better for any season of the year? Take care, (Old Roy, April 29, ibid.) ** BRAZIL. 4885, Radiodifusora Acreana, Rio Branco, 0526-0615, 30-04, Brazilian songs. Interference from Radio Clube do Pará on the same frequency. Checked with its online program and matches, the same musical program online and the one that I heard on 4885. Unusual on air at this time. 21421. (Méndez) 4885, Radio Cube do Pará, Belém, 0526-0615. 30-04, Portuguese, comments, ID “Radio Clube do Pará”, “Sistema Publico de Comunicação”. Interference from Radiodifusora Acreana on the same frequency. 21421 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 6135a, 0535, Radio Aparecida strong in Portuguese with prayer, soft vocals on measured 6134.897 on 11/4. Possibly // 11855.72 very poor (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai, Northland, North Island, New Zealand, WinRadio G33DDC & AOR7030+ with EWEs, to North, Central & South America, May NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. Re: BOLIVIA: 6135 Radio Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, SS, 29/04 2242. News bulletin, on the advs break, the ID: 'Radio Santa Cruz...'. 35443 (RGrimm) At 0008 UT April 30, nix mehr Bolivien - schon Sendeschluß ?, dagegen auf der Lower Seite: 6134.867 kHz Radio Aparecida, S=4-5 oder -94dBm sehr dünn. und \\ zeitverzögert https://onlineradiobox.com/br/aparecida/?cs=br.aparecida&played=1 73 wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11780, RNA. 1420-1431+ 21 April. Special Easter broadcast with phone calls & genial Portuguese chatting; a few RNA IDs & generic "Nacional" mentions in the mix (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA, Executive Satellit/6m X wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11815, R. Brasil Central, Goiânia GO, 1213-1231, 17/4. Nocitiário; 35443, porém, com áudio muito fraco, assim arruinando um sinal razoável e boas condições de propagação. Estou convencido de que esta prática é deliberada; por dúvida, menciono "áudio fraco", embora creia que se trata mesmo de modulação reduzida, para poupar componentes e, quiçá, testar a audiência; assim, se esta não se manifestar, está aberto o caminho para o abandono puro e simples da OC, pelo menos, em 11815, já que em 4985 o áudio costuma ser razoável (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal obs. 13-22 April 2019, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Newscast; 35443, however with very weak audio, thus ruining a reasonable signal with good conditions. I am convinced that this practice is deliberate; I mention "weak audio", although I believe that modulation has been reduced, to save components and, perhaps, test the audience; so if it does not manifest itself, the path is open for the pure and simple abandonment of SW, at least 11815, since on 4985 the audio is usually reasonable (translation by gh for WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC. Re: [dxld] Central African Republic on 6030, really? Here is the new website to take a look at. We are still on the radio! https://www.facebook.com/Radio-Water-for-Good-613133432229186/ (JIM HOCKING, Founder, Fondateur. c: 574.527.8920 I o: 574.635.1401 I skype: indianajim waterforgood.org April 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Photo of a road billboard says 6030 mornings, 3390 evenings (gh, DXLD) ** CHAD [non]. U.K. Radio Ndarason International via ENC-DMS Woofferton, April 26: [see also USA: WEWN] 1900-2100 12050 WOF 250 kW / 152 deg to WeAf Kanuri, very good signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/04/radio-ndrason-international-via-enc-dms.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News April 26-27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12050, ENGLAND, Radio Ndarason International at 1956 in Kanuri with African stringed and percussion instrumentals and occasional male spoken vocals to brief OC at 1959 and brief stringed instrumentals and a man with talk and into possible news at 2000 and a telephone interview between three men at 2002 then lively African vocals from 2005 – Fair to Good May 1 – Sked for this one is daily from 1900 to 2100. It's nice to hear something other than WEWN on this frequency who are scheduled from 1400 to 2400 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Drake SPR-4 or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 meter off centre-fed dipole (OCFD) or Alpha Delta DX-LB inverted vee dipole, ODXA iog via DXLD) ** CHINA [and non]. 9470, CNR 1 jamming VOA, April 24, 2019, 1450–1500 in Chinese on same frequency. SIO 443. OM and YL announcers in Mandarin with a discussion. Heavy QRN, slight echo and flutter on signal. Pop Chinese music. Off air at 1500 (Vince Henley, Anacortes, WA, U. S. A. Equipment in use: WiNRADiO G39DDCe SDR, ICOM IC-R8600, Ten-Tec RX-340, Drake R8B, SDRPLAY RSP Duo, TECSUN PL-880. Antennas: whip on PL-880 and Alpha-Delta DX-Ultra installed broadside east west at 30 feet for all others, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) 15165, CNR1 at 1329 in Mandarin jamming the VOA in Mandarin via Thailand with a woman with excited promos then a man and woman with excited news coverage from 1331 – Fair mixing with VOA Apr 26 15165, THAILAND, VOA at 1329 in Mandarin with an interview between a woman and a man – Fair mixing with CNR jammer Apr 26 15250, CNR at 1212 // 11785 and 11825 in Mandarin jamming the VOA in Mandarin via the Philippines with a woman with light talk and Asian instrumentals and children's choruses – Weak Apr 26 – The feed could have come from CNR3 (The Voice of the Music) or CNR12 (The Voice of the Entertainment). There are a total 17 CNR programs for the Chinese authorities to choose from.(Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Drake SPR-4 or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 meter off centre-fed dipole (OCFD) or Alpha Delta DX-LB inverted vee dipole, ODXA iog via DXLD) 9965, Unidentified "Firedragon" station at 1745. Crash-boom-bang! Heard on ATS-909X, 9' vertical, where R Free Asia (via Germany relay site) should be. Language lesson (Korean/English) after 1750 - Good Apr 26 (Rick Barton, Recent Arizona SW Logs, 73 and Good Listening....! -rb, WOR iog via DXLD) 11500, CNR1 at 1156 // 11640 in Mandarin jamming the Sound of Hope in Mandarin via Taiwan with a man interviewing a man and a woman with a correspondent report then the man with talk over light instrumentals at 1158 and continuing with the instrumentals to excited promos at 1159 and off at 1200 – Very Good Apr 30 Coady-ON 11640, CNR1 at 1156 // 11500 in Mandarin jamming RTI in Mandarin via Taiwan with a man interviewing a man and a woman with a correspondent report then the man with talk over light instrumentals at 1158 and continuing with the instrumentals to excited promos at 1159 running well past 1200 – Good Apr 30 Coady-ON 11785, CNR at 1202 // 11640 in Mandarin jamming the VOA in Mandarin via the Philippines with an anthem and light Asian instrumentals with a child and a woman with talk and a children's chorus – Very Good Apr 30 Coady-ON – With this being a children's program the feed used for this jammer must have been changed from CNR1 (News) to CNR9 (The Voice of the Literary) or CNR12 (Voice of the Entertainment). 11785, PHILIPPINES, VOA at 1204 in Mandarin with a woman interviewing a man in studio with a mention of “China” in English – Fair under CNR jammer Apr 30 Coady-ON 11825, CNR at 1205 // 11785 in Mandarin jamming the VOA in Mandarin via the Philippines with a man with talk over light Asian instrumentals – Good Apr 30 – With this being a children's program the feed used for this jammer must have been changed from CNR1 (News) to CNR9 (The Voice of the Literary) or CNR12 (Voice of the Entertainment) 11825, PHILIPPINES, VOA at 1205 // 11785 in Mandarin with a woman interviewing a man in studio – Fair under CNR jammer Apr 30 Coady-ON 13835, CNR at 1219 // 11640, 11785, and 11825 in Mandarin jamming RFA in Tibetan via Tajikistan with a woman with gentle talk over light Asian instrumentals – Good Apr 30 - This being a children's program the feed used for this jammer must have been changed from CNR1 (News) to CNR9 (The Voice of the Literary) or CNR12 (Voice of the Entertainment). (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Drake SPR-4 or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 meter off centre-fed dipole (OCFD) or Alpha Delta DX-LB inverted vee dipole, ODXA iog via DXLD) CNR-1 vs Sound of Hope Xi Wang Zhi Sheng in 25mb on May 2: from 0630 on 11580 unknown kW / non-dir to EaAs Chinese, very good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/cnr-1-vs-sound-of-hope-xi-wang-zhi.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 4940, Voice of Strait, *0940-0955, April 27 (Saturday). Suddenly on with the weekend only "Focus On China" show, in English; already in progress; sound track from documentary about Chinese history (Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of a unified China); 0951 program ID and music till into Chinese at 0955; fairly readable; this was a repeat show that had been heard several times in the last month. Not // to VOS on 4900. 5285-USB, VC01 (Chinese Military numbers station), on April 27, at 1234. Numbers in Chinese; fair reception; recently heard here on most days. 6125, CNR1, on April 28, at 1211. The opening ceremony of horticultural Expo 2019; held in Beijing; theme this year is “Live Green, Live Better”; opening speech in English by someone from the International Association of Horticultural Producers (AIPH), along with Chinese comments/translation. My audio at http://bit.ly/2ZFTm67 6185, China Huayi Broadcast Co. (CHBC) (presumed), 1000, April 27. Recently heard much stronger than in the past; time pips; in Chinese; before 1000, seemed to be sports program. This is not often reported. 6185, China Huayi Broadcast Co. (CHBC) (presumed), 1053, April 29. Recently with greatly improved reception; do not recall them ever being so strong in the past. In Chinese; pop song till ToH, when time pips. Also well heard April 30 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DXLD) ** CHINA. 6125, CNR1, on April 28, at 1211. The opening ceremony of horticultural Expo 2019; held in Beijing; theme this year is “Live Green, Live Better”; opening speech in English by someone from the International Association of Horticultural Producers (AIPH), along with Chinese comments/translation. My audio at http://bit.ly/2ZFTm67 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DXLD) Hi Glenn, Spectacular hour+ video of the opening ceremony that I heard yesterday - http://bit.ly/2J40P9o On the video, at 16:37, it corresponds to my recording. Was especially intrigued from 57:00+ on the video. An amazing presentation (Ron Howard, ibid.) ** CONGO. 6115, Radio Congo, Brazaville, 0530-0545, 27-04, French, news, news, comments. 15321. Also 1740-1832*, 27-04, French, comments, African and Afropop songs, ID “Radio Congo”, news, “Le Congo, les congolaises...”. 24322. Also *0530-0550, 28-04, open with Afropop songs, French, comments. 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol and Lugo, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** CONGO DR. 6210.2, Radio Kahuzi, Bukavu, 1735-1802*, 27-04, vernacular comments and religious songs. Extremely weak, barely audible. 15311 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol and Lugo, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1981, DXLD) ** CUBA. Classical Music on AM? Yes; in Cuba at least. Nulling out WAFC, Clewiston, FL, on the south shore of Lake Okeechobee, good reception of CMBF, Radio Musical de Cuba, on 590 kHz this afternoon here in Naples, FL (on holiday) using bareback PL-880 at around 2100 UT for “Tardes de Concierto.” Nice (— Richard Langley, WOR iog via DXLD) Checking this out on the Key West kiwi sdr. Radio Musical Nacional. Nice 5db over S9 signal, and fairly wide too for a chance at quality audio (Bill Mead, ibid.) When in Sarasota, I listen to this one regularly. It’s low-fi, but it is Cuba (John Figliozzi, ibid.) ** CUBA. 1220, Radio Caribe, La Fe, Isla de la Juventud 1001 April 19, 2019. Salsa vocals, lady at 1030 "Esta es CMBY, Radio Caribe. Desde Nueva Gerona, Isla de la Juventud, Cuba." Signal has never been on par with the previous transmitter (Terry Krueger, Clearwater, FL, IC-R75, NRD-535, ICF-7600GR, longwires, active MW loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 5900, April 26 at 0537, JBA carrier, presumably RHC leapfrog of 6100 over 6000, reconfirming from same site; 6100 is S9+20 but JBM; 6000 is S9-S7 and also JBM. 6165 is S9-S8 and undermodulated. Only 6060 is any good, S9+20 and plenty mod. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 6000 & 6100, April 26 at 1207, RHC active on both but neither second harmonic propagating. 6100 also has CCI from CRI Russian, Commies vs Commies. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 13739.240, April 27 at 1342, RHC knocked itself off-frequency again, VG. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 5900, April 28 at 0537, JBA carrier, presumed this late not Bulgaria but the RHC leapfrog mixing product of 6100 over 6000. Surveying the intentional English frequencies with blues music: 6165, JBM at S9/+10 6100, undermodulated at S9+30 6060, good modulation, S9+20/30 6000, undermodulated at S9+10/20, a bit louder than 6165 5040, good like 6060. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 12000, April 28 at 1319, RHC is S5-S6, axually better than fundamental 6000 deeper in the noise level, during `Amigos de Cuba`, not a mere mailbag as the name implies, including full addresses of faithful correspondents for penpal purposes, like someone in Ecuador. If you are a ``friend of a really FREE Cuba``, do not apply. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 15230, April 30 at 1415, RHC is just barely modulated here at S9 during `Sonido Cubano`, while 15140 is sufficient at S9+10. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 6000, May 1 at 0505, RHC English is suptorted; 6060 is good S9+20; 6100 OC/DA at S9+30; 6165 JBM at S9. Recheck at 0608: 5040 & 6000 off, 6060 good, 6100 & 6165 undermodulated. Something`s always wrong at RHC. Also strangely enough, no jamming audible at 0608 on 5980, but surely will be back before 0700 RM. 13739.240, May 1 at 1352, RHC auto-knocked way off-frequency again today at S9+30. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 15140, May 2 at 1823, RHC in dead air instead of Arabic. Hope the announcer did not choke! Something is always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENIG DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 11860, Saturday April 27 at 1950, surprised to hear Radio Martí as since this frequency was added, it had always been Mon -Fri only --- strange scheduling perhaps required by some budget limitation? Altho Cuban jammers formerly kept on here even weekends, not now, and in the clear unlike 11930 & 13605. So with RTVM expanding usage, like also on 5980, now it makes sense for dentro-Cuban over- jamming super-vigilance. Latest HFCC still has GB 11860 at 1400-2200 M-F only. 11860 recheck April 27 at 2248, now much weaker Spanish --- o, not // RM, but now the RHC spur out of // 11850, scheduled to start at 2100, so a one-hour overlap is likely (and Cuba jamming itself when they catch on). 11860, Sunday April 28 at 1517, RM on again, seems atop jamming about like 11930. BTW, in his April NASWA Journal column, discussing the proposed FY 2020 USAGM budget, Kim Elliott says, ``It looks like OCB and USAGM are satisfied with the progress of access to new media in Cuba, strongly hinting that the Greenville shortwave site may no longer be needed`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DX LISTENING DIGEST) USA/ROMANIA Terrible co-channel. Around 0135 UT noted terrible mixture signals of both station program on 5980even S=9+40dB in Rochester NY, S=9+50dB POWERHOUSE in Cape Canaveral FL SDR unit, probably origin from Greenville NC US foreign sce site. Machine gun like - locutora in SPANISH language "Voz de America" report from Nicaragua direct, and underneath new RRI Galbeni ROMania requested service, latter left original 9790 kHz channel last week in favor of 5980 kHz, \\ 7420 kHz both 300 kW service from Romania Europe [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 29, WOR iog via DXLD) 5980, UT Mon Apr 29 at 0245 check, nothing but Cuban jamming noise on the new frequency for TV Martí soundtrack, at 22-03 UT but not scheduled on weekends. However, during the previous hour at 0135, via remotes in NY & FL, Wolfgang Bueschel was getting a ``terrible mixture`` of VOA news in Spanish vs RRI in Romanian, which had inadvisably shifted from 9790 to 5980 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5980, checked at 0053 UT April 30: this is not VOA in Spanish [as Wolfgang Bueschel assumed?], but TV Marti, per numerous IDs after an interview about the elexions in Spain. Possibly they mentioned Voz de America at some point. Heavy jamming, but TVM on top. Not hearing any RRI in the mix at first, but detectable at 0111, Romanian // 7420 in the clear, both scheduled 0000-0200. RRI QSY to 5980 was blindsided by OCB`s abrupt decision to put TVM audio on SW. TVM also plugged again the secure website to access it; could not copy but seems to end in .info. So far I have not found a reference to that on the insecure site martinoticias.com or http://www.radiotelevisionmarti.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 11860, Saturday April 27 at 1950, surprised to hear Radio Martí as since this frequency was added, it had always been Mon -Fri only --- strange scheduling perhaps required by some budget limitation? Altho Cuban jammers formerly kept on here even weekends, not now, and in the clear unlike 11930 & 13605. So with RTVM expanding usage, like also on 5980, now it makes sense for dentro-Cuban over- jamming super-vigilance. Latest HFCC still has GB 11860 at 1400-2200 M-F only. 11860 recheck April 27 at 2248, now much weaker Spanish --- o, not // RM, but now the RHC spur out of // 11850, scheduled to start at 2100, so a one-hour overlap is likely (and Cuba jamming itself when they catch on). 11860, Sunday April 28 at 1517, RM on again, seems atop jamming about like 11930. BTW, in his April NASWA Journal column, discussing the proposed FY 2020 USAGM budget, Kim Elliott says, ``It looks like OCB and USAGM are satisfied with the progress of access to new media in Cuba, strongly hinting that the Greenville shortwave site may no longer be needed`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5980, UT Mon Apr 29 at 0245 check, nothing but Cuban jamming noise on the new frequency for TV Martí soundtrack, at 22-03 UT but not scheduled on weekends. However, during the previous hour at 0135, via remotes in NY & FL, Wolfgang Bueschel was getting a ``terrible mixture`` of VOA news in Spanish vs RRI in Romanian, which had inadvisably shifted from 9790 to 5980 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ROMANIA/USA, 5980 kHz checked again at 0020-0030 UT on April 30: terrible mixture of both co-channel in MI, FL, NY, NJ at S=9+30dB level, Voz de America Greenville NC-USA Spanish, and RRI Galbeni Romania, but in central Europe, and at Blackpool England SDR rather POWERHOUSE S=9+55db ... +60dBm signal at 00.23 UT. Is Bill Whitacre IBB RMS reading this newsgroup? 73 wolfie df5sx wwdxc (Wolfgang Bueschel, WOR iog via DXLD) 5980, checked at 0053 UT April 30: this is not VOA in Spanish, but TV Marti, per numerous IDs after an interview about the elexions in Spain. Possibly they mentioned Voz de America at some point. Heavy jamming, but TVM on top. Not hearing any RRI in the mix at first, but detectable at 0111, // 7420 in the clear. TVM also plugged again the secure website to access it, could not copy but seems to end in .info So far I have not found a reference to that on the insecure site martinoticias.com or http://www.radiotelevisionmarti.com (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Thanks Glenn for this complicated pseudo-private Marti/TV Marti / Cuban emigrants Miami radio politics, i.e. 9490 kHz night service back the Atlantic via TDF ISS Republica a.s.o. hfcc.org of April 26 has still only the lonely 07-11 UT US morning request of USA IBB organization 5980 0700 1000 11 GB 250 184 24 216 1234567 310319 261019 D 8750 Spa USA IBB IBB 16017 so, the Romanian RadioCom frequency manager was misled by the database entries of US_IBB / FCC. Often times something wrong in TrumP's empire. It will not be difficult to find another free 3-channel slot in the 49 meterband range for the Romanians and to bow to the Trump / Greenville local power. The band is so unspeakably empty in this time. 73 wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, WOR iog via DXLD) Very good signal of OCB Radio Marti in 41mb, May 2 from 0528 on 7335 GB 250 kW / 225 deg to Cuba Spanish, including announcement for Televisión Martí on shortwave 2200-2400 on 5980 GB 250 kW / 183 deg to Cuba Sp Mo-Fr 0000-0300 on 5980 GB 250 kW / 183 deg to Cuba Sp Tu-Sa https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/very-good-signal-of-ocb-radio-marti-in.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DENMARK. 15805, World Music Radio, Randers, 1520-1535, 27-04, pop songs, ID “World Music Radio”. 25322. Also 0816-0827, 28-04, pop songs in English, ID in Spanish “Están escuchando World Music Radio, WRM...” [sic]. 35433 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol and Lugo, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DXLD) ** ECUADOR. 6050, HCJB, La Voz de los Andes, Pichincha, 0340-0500*, 28-04, religious songs in Spanish, between 0400 to 0458 strong QRM from ALGERIA on the same frequency, at 0459 anthem, time signals and close. 22432 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol and Lugo, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) UT Sunday. Does not extend that late on (any?) other nights (gh, DXLD) ** EGYPT. Radio Cairo, instead of Mystery Egyptian Music Station, April 28 0905-0908 on 9550 unknown tx / unknown to ????, weak to fair signal: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/04/radio-cairo-instead-of-mystery-egyptian.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News April 27-28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Well, now there`s a clue! Maybe is really in Egypt (gh, DXLD) Mystery Egyptian Music Station on 9550 kHz, April 30 0813-0815 on 9550 unknown tx / unknown to ????, test tone & 0815-0820 on 9550 unknown tx / unknown to ????, good signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/reception-of-mystery-egyptian-music.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News April 29-30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005, Radio Nacional, Bata, *0520-0605, 24-04, open with songs, at 0530, Spanish, program “Panorama Nacional”, at “Boletin Informativo. 15321. Also *0504-0535, 28-04, open with Afrop and African songs. Clear signal, but at about 0530 the signal deteriorated and became inaudible. 15321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol and Lugo, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) 5005, Radio Nacional, Bata, *0504 , 28-04. weak, but clear signal (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** ERITREA. Asmara back on two outlets in \\ on April 26 7140.021 and 7180.021 kHz on April 26, both S=9+10dB signal noted in remote SDR at Doha Qatar at 1603 UT. VoBM Tigre and at 1607 UT in Amharic language [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 26, WOR iog via DXLD) Normally not //. WRTH says program 2 on 7180 is multilingual including some Amharic. IIRC previously 1 was on 7180 and 2 on 7140 (gh, DXLD) ** ERITREA [non]. FRANCE. UNIDentified clandestine via MBR Issoudun is on air April 27, probably additional program of Radio Sinit Eritrea 1700-1730 on 15390 ISS 100 kW / 123 deg to EaAf Arabic Sat April 27 1700-1730 on 15390 ISS 100 kW / 123 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Mon Apr.29 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/04/unidentified-station-via-mbr-issoudun.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News April 27-28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNID, tentative Radio Sinit Eritrea via MBR Issoudun, April 29: 1700-1730 15390 ISS 100 kW / 123 deg to EaAf Arabic Mon/Sat, fair/good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/unidentified-tent-radio-sinit-eritrea.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News April 29-30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FINLAND. Tiedoksi, jos joku on kiinnostunut Ylen tekniikan historiasta: Ylen entinen tekninen johtaja Jorma K. Laiho on julkaissut uraansa keskittyvät muistelmansa: https://www.bod.fi/kirjakauppa/40-vuotta-yleisradioinsinoeoerinae-jorma-k-laiho-9789528009146 73 (Mika Makelainen, Finland, April 26, HCDX via DXLD) gtranslation: Memories by Jorma Laiho For information, if someone is interested in YLE's technology history: Yle Former Technical Director Jorma K. Laiho has published his career focus on their memoirs: https://www.bod.fi/kirjakauppa/40-vuotta-yleisradioinsinoeoerinae-jorma-k-laiho-9789528009146 73 (What, ibid.) ** FRANCE. Alameda Bible Fellowship via TDF Issoudun/RMI broker on April 26: 1700-1730 on 13660 ISS 500 kW / 135 deg to EaAf English Mon/Wed/Fri, good signal and not same 13660 ISS 500 kW / 135 deg to EaAf in HFCC Sun/Tue/Thu clandestine! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/04/alameda-bible-fellowship-via-tdf.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News April 25-26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Ivo, are you saying one or the other is in error about days of week of a 3-per-week transmission; or that besides ABF there is axually something else that is clandestine on air the other days? What languages are heard on any of those? (gh, DXLD) {later: apparently error of days, nothing except M/W/F} ** FRANCE. 19050 harmonic, Denge Welat, Issoudun. Always with harmonix, as was on 28/3 at 0510 // 9525. Pse see 9525, 23060. 23060 harmonic, Denge Welat. // 11530 on 26/3 at 1535 with program in Kurdish (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF2001D, Folded Marconi ant), May Australian DX News via WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DXLD) ** GERMANY. Updated summer A-19 schedule via Kall on 3985 kHz effective from May 1 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/updated-summer-a19-schedule-via-kall-on.html Updated summer A-19 schedule via Kall on 6005 kHz effective from May 1 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/updated-summer-19-schedule-via-kall-on.html Updated summer A-19 schedule via Kall on 6085/7310 effective May 1: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/updated-summer-19-schedule-via-kall-on_2.html Updated summer A-19 schedule of Shortwave Radio for Europe from May 1 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/updated-summer-19-schedule-of-shortwave.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. From May 1 no signal of Brother HySTAIRical via Nauen 1400-1600 on 6015 NAU 125 kW / 115 deg to N/ME English MBR broker. https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/from-may-1-no-signal-of-brother.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. Extended transmission of Voice of Greece Liturgy on 9420 kHz, April 26 [Friday] 0700-0900 9420 AVL 150 kW / 323 deg WeEu Greek tx#3 & off air at 0910 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/04/extended-transmission-of-voice-of_26.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News April 25-26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 7725 kHz UNID non stop mx. Pirate??? 1852 UT, Perseus SDR - Beverage - Remote QTH Finland loc KP21RH. Best Regards, (Jordan Heyburn, UKOGBANI, bdxc-news iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DXLD) Greek pirate Zeppelin Radio has often used 7725 or 7726 kHz in the past (see logs in AAW in Communication)? If you have a recording, email for eQSL was zeppelinradiosw@yahoo.com 73, (Alan Pennington, ibid.) 7725, Zeppelin Radio, Greece (Pirate). ID in Greek on 20/4 at 1640-1710 with old evergreen rock, pop music hits. Tiny signal due to the big radio blackout in this week (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF2001D, Folded Marconi ant), May Australian DX News via WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DXLD) ** GUINEA. GUINÉ-Conacri, 9650, R. Guinée, Sonfonia, 2131-2142, 17/4. Francês; rubrica acerca do consumidor; 43442, QRM adjacente. 9650 idem, 1112-1210, 22/4. Francês. Rubrica sobre as gentes da Guiné e os seus idiomas, repetindo-se frequentemente "La Guinée est une Famille", A Guiné é uma Família, música pop', noticiário, às 1200; 45444 (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal obs. 13-22 April 2019, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9650, R. Guinee, Conakry showing up early today at 1830 tune-in with strong signal. OM DJ in French with African pops. SINPO - 35433 (John Figliozzi, Halfmoon, NY, ICOM IC7300, Alpha Delta DX Sloper, April 29, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DXLD) In monitoring this afternoon’s reception, it’s obvious that Conakry is having some technical problems with either its transmitting or control room equipment. Lots of audio dropouts. Could we be headed for another long absence — perhaps permanent — of Radio Guinee from the shortwaves? (Figliozzi, 2014 UT, ibid.) Or they could just be shaking out the kinks before getting fully up to speed; Don't be so down about it, John! I know the 'experts' all want to cry about the death of SW, and how social media is so much better, but with the events of late in Sri Lanka where the government turned off social media and people had to turn to radio for news maybe the folly of such an attitude will sink in more. Radio is 'old fashioned' and 'for old geezers' until it is the only thing that makes it through and then the young whippersnappers are asking us old goats how to turn on and tune an old radio! :) 73 //Ken -- (Kenneth V Zichi, radioguy73@gmail.com, Is it time to cook yet? WOR iog via DXLD) No Guinea on 9650 today --- At least I can’t hear it or see any sign of it on the 7300’s scope. Following on to yesterday’s observation of transmitter trouble (John Figliozzi, Halfmoon NY, 2218 April 30, WOR iog via DXLD) Yes, John, nothing here in central Alberta today and as you yesterday noted them with transmitter/studio issues cutting on/off. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park AB, 2305 UT Apr 30, ibid.) [and non]. GUINEA/SAUDI ARABIA, Radio Guinée and BSKSA [sic] General Service on 9650 kHz, April 30: from 0720 9650 CON 050 kW / non-dir WeAf French Radio Guinée good & from 0856 9650 RIY 100 kW / non-dir N/ME BSKSA General Svc fair-good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/radio-guinee-and-bsksa-general-service.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News April 29-30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUINEA. 9650, Radio Guinea, Conakry, out of air at opening time today, 01-05, checked between 0600-0800 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DXLD) They're back on today (May 1st): 9650, Radio Guinée at 2056 in French with lively African hi-life vocals and a man with brief talk with a mention of “Guinée” at 2058 and more lively African hi-life vocals – Fair May 1 (Mark Coady-ON, odxa iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1890, DXLD) Radio Guinee into central Alberta at 2058 UT on 9650 kHz May 1st. Signal seems stable today. Good news. Nice west African music and ID in French. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park AB, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DXLD) Good here in Naples, FL, too, at about 2135 UT (— Richard Langley, ibid.) No signal of Radio Guinee on 9650. Only traces of digital noise from 9655 on the Haparanda kiwi sdr (Ivan Lebedevsky, Europe, 2229 UT May 1, ibid.) Not sure what time you were listening but they went off at 2221. Very Good signal here in central Alberta Canada. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, AB, WORLD OF RADIO 1980, ibid.) Time was 2230 UT (Ivan Lebedevsky, Europe, ibid.) With my busy life I did not get started DXing today until later this afternoon but I have been amply rewarded for being patient. As well as a lot of AWR transmissions there was some good DX to be had from Africa. Guinea's Radio Guinée was reported by John Figliozzi on the ODXA's groups.io site to have been experiencing some transmitter trouble on April 29th and was reported as having been off the air on April 30th. Well, their engineers obviously did some yeoman work as I logged them this afternoon with fair to good signals. I just love their mix of African hi-life vocals. It's what shortwave radio is all about – informing you about the news, the people, and the cultures from around the world that you never get from mainstream North American media. 9650, Radio Guinée at 2056 in French with lively African hi-life vocals and a man with brief talk with a mention of “Guinée” at 2058 and more lively African hi-life vocals and a man with brief talk with a mention of “Guinée” over lively African hi-life vocals at 2104 – Fair to Good May 1 – I absolutely love African hi-life music. In fact, I have loved all forms of African music for the forty years of my involvement in this great hobby. It's one of my favourite music genres. I just wish more African countries would invest in serving their people by returning to the shortwave bands. They can't be properly serving their people with mediumwave and FM transmitters and as for satellite and internet radio, as Scotty on the Enterprise would say, “Laddie, it's not going to happen!” (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Drake SPR-4 or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 meter off centre-fed dipole (OCFD) or Alpha Delta DX-LB inverted vee dipole, ODXA iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DXLD) ** HONDURAS. AT 815 FM RADIO STATIONS AND 260 AM STATIONS Can You Say "Enough is Enough"?? --- Jim Thomas I learned very recently, though two years late, the government licensing office CONATEL Honduras made a bold statement in May 2017, by passing a bill that slammed the door on any new broadcast licenses. NOT just on FM, but FM, AM, and even TV! Holy cow! Just to keep things in perspective, Honduras geographically in comparison, is smaller than the state of Kansas. I became aware of this decision three days ago. In early 2017 and up until early summer, I was deeply involved in entering the Honduras FM stations in the WTFDA FM database. Erika Speers, one of the attorneys and legal document managers with CONATEL, was communicating with me two and three times per week via email, sending me PDF documents as I requested them. Not once did she mention this decision to me. Possibly she wasn't allowed to. Seeing how it had been two years since the FM radio stations from Honduras were entered into the FM database, I figured I was overdue in checking for updates. I started checking for any FM activity for Honduras a couple weeks ago and kept noticing the LATEST FM actions or license approvals were in 2017. There isn't anything newer. I started digging through the CONATEL/SITAE website, looking at the PDF files available for download. I was trying to see if I could learn anything about NEW licenses. This past Saturday, BOOM! There it was. I found it. It was the document that had been published in the La Gaceta, the legal paper in Tegucigalpa. I downloaded the document and sent it to Raymie Humbert and Jonathan Hamilton, WTFDA members who are both fluent in Spanish. I asked them to go to page three, to the lower right column, read that particular information, and then give me their take on the matter. This is what Raymie said, "Nice catch. Seems like they suspended all awards except repeaters saying they had too many applicants for remaining frequencies and in TV the market was very fragmented preventing the creation of serious economies of scale." And this is what Jon's take was on the information- "Hi Jim, Article 1 orders the suspension of granting new FM permits and licenses, effective on the start date of the resolution, in broadcast areas 1-9. Article 2 deals with allowing the continued use of previously allocated frequencies, granted they do not cause interference. LPFMs are not allowed to use repeaters. Article 3 of the resolution says it will go into effect on the day it is published in La Gaceta (12 May, 2017). That's my take, anyways. Hope this helps! - Jon" In the words of Paul Harvey, "And now you know the rest of the story. Good day!" (May WTFDA VHF-UHF Digest via DXLD) ** INDIA. Here's the updated list of AIR MW DRM stations : http://allindiaradio.gov.in/Oppurtunities/Tenders/Documents/DRM%20update%20for%20AIR%20website%2016042019.pdf And here's AIR DRM SW frequencies for A19: http://allindiaradio.gov.in/Oppurtunities/Tenders/Documents/DRM%20Transmission%20in%20Short%20Wave%20A-18%2012042018.pdf Regards, (Alokesh Gupta, April 26, dx_india yg via DXLD) ** INDIA [non]. 9300, TWR-India (Yerevan). 1417-1433 16 April. Poor-fair in Hindi with hymns/inspirational chat, ID in English/Hindi with Post Box contact info at BOH (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA, Executive Satellit/6m X wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA [and non]. 3325, April 26 at 1157, dead air at S3-S5 -- then I detect a trace of modulation. Ron Howard has been observing dead air from VOI Palangkaraya for most of April, so the other could be a trace of co-channel NBC Bougainville. There is also a JBA carrier on 3260, Madang PNG? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re: KOREA NORTH & SOUTH & non: Hi Steven, Question about "1250"? Your posting: "At 1250z, I noted medium strength 3325 VOI and PNG (Bougainville) mixing, later VOI (so. Borneo) alone with open-carrier again by 1330z re-check." On April 26, I was also listening to 3325 and noted NBC Bougainville cut off at 1202* UT (about their normal closing down time), which was during the news in English. After 1202+, did indeed hear yet another day of the decent level carrier of the Voice of Indonesia, with no audio at all. At 1157 heard "NBC Bougainville" ID, with SW frequency given (Ron Howard, California, ibid.) Hi Ron, thanks for the head's up - I was listening sporadically between 1145 to past 1400 UT to the 3325 mixture than the VOI OC, as we have noted about 1201 to 1202 UT the PNG station from Bougainville switches-off and leaves the open-carrier of the VOI going after 1201 or 1202 UT seemingly daily now. I condensed my report earlier, and the time is not accurate for the mix of VOI and PNG before 1202 UT but not going on after (as it looked like I said). I wonder how long the 3325 VOI is going to be running dead-air(?) - it goes to fade-out past 1430 UT. DF's at 280 deg. azimuth so likely the very same south Borneo transmitter. I'm sure they are trying to jam PNG Bougainville before 1202, and it's also odd that when the 3325 VOI began their OC in early April, the "W34D" 3326 beacon went off. I keep listening to 3325 first thing I can get up before 1200UT. OK hope that clarifies... tnx Ron - Steve -- [Edited Message Follows] [Reason: time fix] I just checked 3325 at 1005z - 27 April and I hear audio from presumed PNG Bougainville and a low het from presumed VOI way under (OC?). 3320 KRE is in also with strident talking in Korean. Both frequencies not as strong as toward dawn (SR at about 1330 now). DFs at 280 deg. - Benmar Nav. 555A loop stick. Steve N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com ibid.) Steve, Wish I could DF on SW, but my globe shows Palangkaraya is approx. 298 azimuth from you, and Bougainville 263, neither 280 but a compromise halfway between them? (Glenn, ibid.) The DF null on the Benmar Navigator 555A is a bit "sloppy" on HF - even long-skip, and I presume low angle, so the null bearings are "averages" based on where the thing shows the least meter movement, hi! 280 seems to null both of the 3325 VOI/PNG mixture but 20 degrees accuracy on that unit for HF DFing is about as good as it can get on skip. Furthermore in thinking about it, according to text in the "Low Band Propagation" section of the book "Low Band DXing" (ARRL - 1987) (that I have here), HF propagation follows the MUF path and sometimes gets "crooked" and is not always perfectly along the great circle path. Hmmm. I have another Pacific Rim report following on another posting - 73 Glenn (- Steve -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com ibid.) I wonder how long the 3325 VOI is going to be running dead-air(?) - it goes to fade-out past 1430 UT. DF's at 280 deg. azimuth so likely the very same south Borneo transmitter. I'm sure they are trying to jam PNG Bougainville before 1202, and it's also odd that when the 3325 VOI began their OC in early April, the "W34D" 3326 beacon went off. I keep listening to 3325 first thing I can get up before 1200 UT. OK hope that clarifies... tnx, Ron - (Steve McGreevy, WOR iog via DXLD) That`s quite a stretch to suggest one 3325 station is deliberately jamming the other. Rather incompetent frequency management on both sides going back many, many years. Of course originally there were lots of PNGs and lots of Indos on 90m, so it may have seemed necessary to double up on some frequencies. 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** INDONESIA [and non]. PAPUA NEW GUINEA (tentative): 3325, NBC Bougainville, Kieta, Unid, 29/04 2129. An extremely weak signal. The carrier appears good on the screen, but an intense and long fading. In 20 minutes, just one incursion for a male voice, and later a music. 15221. Power: 10 kW, Distance: 16545 km, signal received via Atlantic Ocean direction. (tentative): 3325, RRI Palangka Raya, Palangkaraya, Unid, 29/04 2155. By the end of the NBC PNG transmission, a slightly better signal appeared, which as a tentative may be assumed to be RRI Parangka Raya (Indonesia). Both stations have been heard before here in São Bernardo SP, Brazil. With a headphone, it was understood to be a male voice presenting as if it were a news bulletin. According to WRTH, at this time is a retransmission of Voice of Indonesia. 15431. Distance: 15.667 km, station tx power: 10 kW (Rudolf Grimm PY2-81502 SWL, São Bernardo SP, BRAZIL, Rx: KiwiSDR, Ant.: PA0RDT Mini Whip, http://dxways-br.blogspot.com YouTube Channel: GrimmSBC, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) [non-log]. Voice of Indonesia, via RRI Palangkaraya (3325). Interesting news story that the decision has been made to move the capital away from Jakarta. In part it was reported http://bit.ly/2GT4i9e --- "While a new location has not yet been chosen, state media have identified Palangkaraya, which sits on the part of Borneo belonging to Indonesia, as one of the frontrunners, according to the BBC. Palangkaraya is geographically close to the middle of the island chain and was the favored capital location of Sukarno, the nation’s first president." (Ron Howard, Calif., April 29, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DXLD) Now we know how Palangkaraya of all RRI stations got the honor of transmitting nothing from VOI Jakarta! Perhaps the new capital city will also be a sham? Empty buildings, noting but façades? There is precedent for locating a country`s capital in some compromise central location, e.g. Australia, Brasil; or states, like Oklahoma, North and South Dakota. But if remote inland Palangkaraya become the capital, that would require a lot of risky air travel (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Hi Ron, hi Thomas, checked PNG and INS around 1056 to 1106 UT on April 30, in various SDR' units in Japan, Hiroshima, Nagoya, Tokyo and others. Best - ' just noisy ' recording made at 1106 UT in Nagoya-Toki City. My ears are not the best anymore, but I guess is PNG Pidgin language presenter? PNG, 3259.994 kHz Radio Madang heard at 1056-1105 UT on April 30, S=7 -81dBm fluttery, thunderstorm scratch QRM, TX-off at 1202 UT Listen recording taken of Nagoya-Toki City SDR unit. also KRE nearby on 3219.891 much odd fq, S=9 from Pyongyang KRE. INDONESIA? likely 3325even kHz carrier only, no audio, S=7 or -84dBm strength, next door Pyongyang BS 3320even kHz S=9+30dB signal strength at 1136 UT on April 30. 7325even kHz totally covered by powerhouse CRI Jinhua in Japanese, S=9+40dB extreme strength [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 30, WOR iog via DXLD) 7325: about PNG: Wantok Radio Light V of Indonesia bad frequency. VoI has been noted on 4750 yesterday 1/5 at 2130 with ID and again today 2/5 at 1815 via the Jakarta SDR only with signal S10 or -69 to -63db today it was mixed with Bangladesh (English program as logged in Vietnam.) Sample audio today with 3320 [sic] still noticed https://www.dropbox.com/s/oivtktwidz81zvi/VoI%20via%20Jakarta%20KSDR%2020190502-183218Z-4750am.wav?dl=1 There were further checks in Australia and Vietnam yesterday without success. In Vietnam today only Bangladesh has been heard. I think that the frequency selection is rather wrong and shows more isolation than before (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DXLD) Clip has ID in German still claiming to be on 3325. 4750 would presumably be the Makassar RRI transmitter reactivated to replace 3325; why don`t they pick one without co-channel?? (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 7289.92, RRI, Nabire. Pleased to finally hear this signal come up out of the mud at 0904 with Qur’an prayers, and then a long song. Other laid-back songs by the same female singer continued until 0930 when Indonesian announcements. Music programming and occasional announcements continued. The signal deteriorated after 0930, but then came up again around 0945 and was OK until 1000 when CNR 1 signed on, creating a strong het and severe QRM. Nabire was still going when it faded out around 1030. 2/4 (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, May Australian DX News via WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL WATERS. Nice Vintage Photos of Radio Caroline in its Offshore Days --- The potted history here doesn't break any new ground but the photos are great: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6963351/Remarkable-photos-life-scenes-Radio-Caroline.html 73, (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan USA, May 1, WOR iog via DXLD) ** IRAN. 9900, VoIRI, Zahedan. The Arabic “Al-Quds TV” relay of satellite Palestinian (pro-Hamas) programming 0230-0530 beamed to the ME. Fair signal and NF (ex 7380). This service can also be heard // on 7410 kHz via the Sirjan, also an NF for A19 (ex 7370). 11/4 (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, May Australian DX News via DXLD) You listened to the entire three hours? (gh) 13695, VoIRI, Sirjan. Hebrew to ME at 0420-0440, NF, a big carrier but barely audible audio quality. Runs // 13740 which is also an NF from the same transmitter site but slightly better audio there, 31/3 (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, May Australian DX News via DXLD) 11660, April 27 at 0243, YL talking, eventually recognized as Spanish on fluttery S9/+10 signal; S Asian music, 0247 mixed with sounders uttering times and SW frequencies of several VRII SS broadcasts, and some on satellite, off at 0250:34*. This one is three hours long from 2350, 500 kW, 328 degrees from Sirjan for parts of CIRAFs 7, 10 and 11, i.e. crossing N America from the tip of Greenland to New Orleans, close to Mexico City. A mostly night path starting to propagate summerlish. HFCC shows Spanish also on 7230 at 2350-0120, and 9550 at 0020-0320: strange, offset times. Also has Spanish to Spain mornings and evenings (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. Reception of VIRI IRIB PARS TODAY in 22mb and 32mb, May 1 0830-1427 on 13590 ZAH 500 kW / 289 deg to NEAf Arabic, very good 1430-1727 on 9280 ZAH 500 kW / 289 deg to NEAf Arabic, very good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/reception-of-viri-irib-pars-today-in.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 1, WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DX LISTENING DIGEST) So IRIB is now on some further OOB frequencies, as in HFCC A-19: 12160 0320 0420 38E,39W IRB Ara Sirjan 29N27 055E41 295 500 1234567 31-Mar-2019 27-Oct-2019 SSS-FFF-3A104 12180 0320 0420 30,31 IRB Rus Sirjan 29N27 055E41 18 500 1234567 31-Mar-2019 27-Oct-2019 RUSSIAN-8A306 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY. Operazioni II1BBC - 74o Anniversario della Liberazione Le operazioni della stazione con nominativo speciale II1BBC si sono svolte nei giorni 11, 16, 17, 18 aprile dalle ore 17,00 alle 19,00 con l'attivazione della Stazione Radio con invio messaggi speciali del Colonnello Stevens agli orari (ore italiane [UT +2]) 17.30 e 18.30 in SSB solo sui 40 metri (7100-7200 kHz) con 5 trasmissioni in ogni orario su stessa frequenza - single way mentre negli orari liberi con QSO two way in SSB, CW, PSK31 in 80, 40, 30, 20, 10 metri. Personalmente mi sono sintonizzato ogni giorno del time table ma ho avuto successo soltanto il giorno 18 aprile quando ho deciso di chiedere aiuto al cluster https://dxwatch.com [1] per seguire gli spostamenti della stazione. Questa decisione è stata dettata dal fatto che la propagazione sui 40 m, durante lo svolgimento delle operazioni, è stata pessima e, per giunta, accompagnata da un rumore atmosferico prossimo a S 9. Sulla frequenza di 7138 kHz, alle 1537 UT ho potuto ascoltare alcuni classici messaggi speciali che Radio Londra attraverso la voce del colonnello Stevens inviava ai partigiani italiani. In precedenza, alle 1526 UT, ho collegato in telegrafia la stazione speciale II1BBC con l'operatore Stefano. Allegato alla mail il diploma di partecipazione in formato ..pdf che ho ricevuto. Aspetto per il collegamento in telegrafia la QSL speciale. Buoni ascolti a tutti. 73 de (Giovanni Lorenzi -- ITALIAN AMATEUR RADIO STATION I T 9 T Z Z, ESCLUSIVAMENTE IN TELEGRAFIA [sic]. bclnews.it yg via DXLD) ** JAPAN. 9595, Radio Nikkei 1. 1610-1637+ 21 April. Surprised to find RN1 running at least 3 different "IS-like" instrumental tunes with "kochiwara Radio Nikkei.." between selections followed at 1635 by full opening ID (3 SW frequencies). Not sked here (except for emergencies) since Oct. 2018, so what's up? (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA, Executive Satellit/6m X wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. 4628.5, V28 ("The Parrot"), on April 28, going off at 1009*, after YL reading numbers in Korean; poor reception. Thanks very much to Hiroyuki Komatsubara, for keeping up-to-date with all these number stations, at his "Now On The Radio DX" website (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 6045, National Unity Radio (Dushanbe-Yangiyul). 1254-1458* 15, 16, 19 April. Surprised to find this with a good signal & Korean chat/pop, closing with piano theme. Signal strength is equal to Shiokaze-6070 (via Yamata), so I wonder if this is 'really' from TJK (perhaps the Dushanbe antenna has a major lobe aimed at Moonlight Beach?) 6070, Shiokaze (Yamata). 1303-1311+ 16 April. Shiokaze in the clear for a few minutes then instead of the usual NK roaring jammer, regular KCBS (//2850, 3920, 3959) programming was used to mess things up until 1311 when KCBS went off & the roaring began (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA, Executive Satellit/6m X wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH & SOUTH [and non]. [KRE = North; KOR = South] [Edited Message Follows] [Reason: addn'l station report added:] At 1250z, I noted medium strength 3325 VOI and PNG (Bougainville) mixing, later VOI (so. Borneo) alone with open-carrier again by 1330z re-check. Both DF about 280 deg. azimuth on the 555A's loopstick. After listening to The Voice of Unification from KOR and the mixtures of roaring KRE Jammers - the KOR audio being // on 4450 - 6520 - 6600 (and others I did not check) with music. 6600 has the best audio-to-jammer ratio here in the California desert, frequently. 4450 was missing the fascinating-sounding stepped-tone jammer and was just a big roar this morning by local-dawn (1300z). At 1345z, 6070 is quite clear (R. Shiokaze) in Korean - but I do detect slight jamming - likely a low-powered (or little ERP this direction to CA) jammer under making for a higher noise floor under the RS audio than if clean of jamming (SSR-1). At 1400 UT (maybe 45 minutes post sunrise) all of the KCBS and KPBS outlets went simulcast with a woman stridently ranting harshly in Korean (North style). 2850 // 3320 // 6400 (etc.) 6400 has been back on since about the past 10 days or so. Just a bit of listening today, Friday, 26 April 2019, Keeler, California, Benmar Nav. 555A / Drake SSR-1. 73 - (Steve McGreevy, -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com April 26, WOR iog via DXLD) See INDONESIA [and non]. Pacific Rim station reception by frequency - 27 April - 1315z on [Edited Message Follows] I awoke at dawn and went out to check on some of my usual frequency checks: 3320 KRE - music operatic singing in North Korean. 1305z. Stronger than not // 2850. Both fading out at near-sunrise now locally. 3325: earlier at 1005z, there was presumably PNG Bougainville with island-accented talk and maybe a VOI Borneo carrier, but much weaker rumble-hetting PNG. At 1320z an open-carrier from presumed VOI is much stronger now (local-dawn/sunrise). 4450: Voice of the People (KOR) heavily (KRE) jammed, amazingly its parallels on 6 MHz - 6600 and 6520 are nearly clear of KRE jamming save for weak jammers way under - 6600 much stronger than 6520. 4450 mess nulls about roughly 310 deg. azimuth. 1315z (Benmar Nav. 555A and its DFing loopstick) 6400 KRE - KPBS with Korean talk in strident fashion and music interludes - mildly distorted audio quality - the weakest of my 6 MHz signal-checks - 1310 - 1330z. On 6400 since about the past 10 days or so now. 6055 Radio Nikkei-1 good audio - JJ talk and pop music tunes. Clear. 1335z (KORs 6600/6520 stronger) (Back to bed until 1640 UT) 73 - (Steve McGreevy - northern Mojave Desert so very green and full of flowers -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com, WOR iog via DXLD) Voice of the People jamming report Up early before sunrise local here in the desert (29 April), between 1310 to 1345z I checked 6600 (// 6520 and 4450, etc.) and the fierce buzz-hash jamming is back on both 6600 and 6520 Voice of the People (clandestine KOR) aimed at North Korea (KRE) - on 27 and 28 April the jamming was very minimal on both 6 MHz frequencies of the V of P but is now back as usual. I note a fair/good station (Taiwan?) on 6045 in Korean with beep-jamming from presumed KRE - this at 1330z (I don't think it is very effective jamming!). 4450 KRE jamming on the Voice of the People from South Korea is only buzz/hash jamming this morning (29 April - 1315-1345z monitoring time - the fascinating stepped-tone (or het) jammer is gone leaving only the noise jammers, bummer!) 6400 KRE (KCBS) fair but not as good as Nikkei-1 6055 or 6350/6520/6600 etc.. I'd say 6400 KRE has quite low ERP these days toward the WCNA (~10 kW like) and is ~10 dB weaker here (average) in the Owens Valley than Radio Nikkei-1 6055 overall, lately. Later on a desert walk with my SW7600GR I enjoyed my sand-dune stroll rocking out to North Korean pop tunes (!) on 9665 (KCBS) at about 1630-1715z. Better than the local FM stations. 73 - (Steve McGreevy, Benmar Nav. 555A and Drake SSR-1 (at home in Keeler) -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com April 28, WOR iog via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 6045, April 29 at 1203, good signal in Korean S9/+10, with lite beep jamming underaudible. I can`t believe this be from TAJIKISTAN site as in Aoki/NDXC for National Unity Radio clandestine at 1200-1458. EiBi also claims TJK but at 1100-1300. Not in HFCC at all. Rather something de E Asia/W Pacific. Steve McGreevy suggests Taiwan. Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach CA logged it several times in April with same too-good-for-Tajikistan observation. Ivo Ivanov assumes TJK, having replaced 7235 in mid-April. Also relevant, this from Ron Howard earlier: ``BHUTAN. 6035, BBS, 1114-1120*, on April 5. Pop songs till transmitter off. The good news is that the recent jamming spur heard here from 6045, has ended, as National Unity Radio has moved away from 6045, taking the N. Korea jamming with them`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DX LISTENING DIGEST) KOREA NORTH and [non]. 6045, National Unity Radio (Dushanbe-Yangiyul). 1254-1458* 15, 16, 19 April. Surprised to find this with a good signal & KR chat/pop, closing with piano theme..signal strength is equal to Shiokaze-6070 (via Yamata), so I wonder if this is 'really' from TJK (perhaps the Dushanbe antenna has a major lobe aimed at Moonlight Beach?) (Dan Sheedy, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6045, ?---?, National Unity R. (presumed the one returning here), 1230. M, W in Korean. Jammed. Heard with SW-2000629, window frame antenna. Jammer surely was DPRK. I DO understand other DXers comment about "too good for Tajikistan" reception as, I have heard at other times, stations listed as being via Tajikistan that sounded more like "Greenville" at my QTH - Very Good Apr 30 6070, JAPAN, Shiokaze/Sea Breeze at 1300. Open with W in Japanese. Usual music and electronic sounds. For a few days, have not been hearing the next broadcast 1405-1435 on 6090 - Very Good Apr 29 (Rick Barton, Arizona SW Logs, Hammarlund HQ-180A, Grundig Satellit 205(T.5000), RS SW-2000629, ATS-909X with various outdoor wires. Use of portables noted where relevant for perspective on signal strength comments. 73 and Good Listening....! -rb, WOR iog via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. UZBEKISTAN, Two clandestine broadcasts in 25mb via RRTM Telecom Tashkent, April 29 Radio Free North Korea 1200-1300 on 11520 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg to NEAs Korean, very good North Korea Reform Radio 1430-1530 on 11570 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg to NEAs Korean, very good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/two-clandestine-broadcasts-in-25mb-via.html Two clandestine stations in 41mb via RRTM Telecom Tashkent, April 29 Voice of Wilderness 1330-1530 on 7625 TAC 100 kW / 070 deg to NEAs Korean, fair/good Voice of Martyrs 1530-1600 on 7530 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg to NEAs Korean, fair/good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/two-clandestine-stations-in-41mb-via.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News April 29-30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. Reception of KBS World Radio in English on April 30: 1800-2100 on 9785 KIM 250 kW / 264 deg to SoAs English, fair/good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/reception-of-kbs-world-radio-in-english.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News April 29-30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH [non]. Republic of Korea / Russia --- Received a QSL card from Russian service KBS World Radio for receiving - 02.24.2019, 1730-1800 UT at the frequency of 738 kHz. Card with the theme - "Persons who are bored all their lives. "They continue to confirm with old cards for last year. The report was sent by e-mail: russian @ kbs.co.kr (Dmitry Kutuzov, Ryazan, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx", QSL World, Rus-DX 28 April via DXLD) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 9525, Denge Welat/Voice of Homeland. 26/3; 23/04 confirmed with almost 3 hours program in Turkish (not in Kurdish) between 0402 and 0645 (from 0603 on 11530) (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF2001D, Folded Marconi ant), May Australian DX News via WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DXLD) Harmonix: see FRANCE Denge Welat via Grigoriopol & Issoudun, April 29: 0600-1500 on 11530 KCH 300 kW / 130 deg to WeAs Kurdish, fair/good 1500-2100 on 11530 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish, very good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/reception-of-denge-welat-via.html Denge Welat via Issoudun & Grigoriopol, April 30: 0230-0500 on 9525 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish, very good 0500-0600 on 11530 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish, very good 0600-1600 on 11530 KCH 300 kW / 130 deg to WeAs Kurdish, fair/good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/reception-of-denge-welat-via-issoudun.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News April 29-30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 15529.72, R. Kuwait, Sulaibiyah. English service to Eu at 0505 with Islamic preaching, fair signal and off-frequency, 1/4 (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, May Australian DX News via DXLD) [same:] 0600 news in English. Good clean signal. Finished with weather for Kuwait City 0605 then pop music. Didn't catch ID clearly, might have said Kuwait FM? (pretty sure this is a confirmed log though!). 24/4 (Steven Zollo, Emerald VIC (Icom IC-7300 + random wire or PK active loop, Tecsun PL-680 + whip), ibid.) Measured exactly same? (gh) Very good signal of MOI Radio Kuwait on wrong frequency in 19mb on April 30 0500-0900 on 15540 KBD 250 kW / 059 deg to EaAs Arabic General Sce, instead of 15515 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/moi-radio-kuwait-on-wrong-frequency-in.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News April 29-30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Kuwait in English on two freqs in // in 19mb: 0500-0800 on 15529.8 as scheduled & // on 15515.0, instead of GS in Arabic. Kuwait in Farsi on 15515 after 0800 UT, instead of Arabic GS. 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, May 1, WOR iog via DXLD) MOI Radio Kuwait in English on two frequencies in // in 19mb, May 1 0500-0800 on 15529.8 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu English, as scheduled A-19 0500-0900 on 15515.0 KBD 250 kW / 059 deg to EaAs English, instead Arabic GS https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/moi-radio-kuwait-in-english-on-two.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 1, WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DXLD) MOI Radio Kuwait on 15540 kHz AM and DRM, April 25: 1600-1800 on 15540.0 KBD 250 kW / 100 deg to SoAs Urdu in AM 1800-2100 on 15539.8 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu English DRM https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/04/moi-radio-kuwait-on-15540-khz-am-and.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News April 25, DX LISTENINIG DIGEST) ** KYRGYZSTAN. KYRGYZ REPUBLIC - République kirghize - República Kirguisa --- Radio Krasnaya Rechka Bishkek via Kyrgyztelekom, traced today May 1st: 4010.219, Birinchi Radio Krasnaya Rechka Bishkek at 1647 UT, S=7-8 signal, traced in Hiroshima, Gifu city, Japan, as well as in Moscow. And from same broadcast center, some 15 kW unit - of three - of TWR ties: Afghan Christian Radio noted surprisingly on lower side band odd frequency of 5130 kHz channel, now today on 5129.940 kHz, S=7 heard in remote Tokyo SDR unit. This is the Bishkek TX unit previously used on 4819.9 kHz on lower side [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 1, WOR iog via DXLD) ** MADAGASCAR. 13670, World Christian Broadcasting at 1800 program on AIDS prevention. I note here that Madagascar has fallen way off in recent weeks from what it has been (often near armchair). This may the best I have heard them in a few weeks. There have been days where I hear a station of that is presumed them, but not enough to ID - Good Apr 26 (Rick Barton, Recent Arizona SW Logs, Hammarlund HQ-180A, Grundig Satellit 205(T.5000), RS SW-2000629, ATS-909X with various outdoor wires. 73 and Good Listening....! -rb, WOR iog via DXLD) Agreed on the reception fall-off of this one (gh, OK, DXLD) 13710, May 1 at 2056, OM solo hymn in English about ``Faithfulness`` then announcement in Chinese! This is supposed to be the Radio Feda = Arabic hour of MWV; not the first time WCB has upmixed their languages. Chinese supposed to follow from 2100 on 11610: so was that one in Arabic? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALAYSIA. RTM Wai FM Malaysia --- Unit Pengukuran dan Kualiti RTM Kajang sent a photo of the future QSL card from RTM Wai FM from Malaysia for a report dated April 8, 2019. Card without a number with the old theme in the image. http://freerutube.info/2019/04/23/e-qsl-rtm-wai-fm-malajziya-aprel-2019-goda/ (Dmitry Elagin, Saratov, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx", QSL World, Rus-DX 28 April via DXLD) Weak signal of RTM Wai/Limbang FM on April 30: 1330&1345 on 11665 KAJ 100 kW / 093 deg to SEAs Malaysian from 1350 on 11665 KAJ 100 kW / 093 deg to SEAs NO SIGNAL https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/weak-signal-of-rtm-wailimbang-fm-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News April 29-30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALI. 5995, Radio Mali, Bamako, *1800-2030, 27-04, open with ID “Vous écoutez l`Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision du Mali, émettant de Bamako...”, “La Radio Nationale du Mali”, “ORTM, la passion du service publique”, vernacular comments, African songs, French, comments, news. No English news at about 1900 today Saturday, and also no English Saturday 20-04 at the same time. 34433. Also *0535-0759*, 28-04, open with African songs, at 0600 vernacular comments. 34433. 9635, Radio Mali, Bamako, *0801-1033, 28-04, vernacular comments, at 0900 French, “Le Journal, la première édition de ce dimanche”, news, at 0930 vernacular comments and African songs, at 1000 French, Catholic religious program, 1021, ID and other comments in French. 34433 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol and Lugo, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) 5995 and 9635, Radio Mali, Bamako, out of air yesterday 30-04 and today, 01-05 on 5995, morning transmission 0600-0800, and on 9635 at opening time, 0800 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, WOR iog via DXLD) Online service also missing (both programmes). Stream active but no audio. (anon., May 1, noticiasdx yg via DXLD) 9635, Radio Mali, Bamako, 1735-1800*, 01-05, vernacular comments, mentioned “Bamako”, African songs, at 1759 tuning music, ID in French “Vous ecoutez l`Office de Radiddiffusion Television du Mali emettant de Bamako...” and close at 1800. 44444. 5995, Radio Mali, Bamako, *1801-1905, 01-05, open with vernacular comments, African songs, ID “Vous écoutez la Radio Nationale du Mali”. 34433 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DXLD) ** MALI. 13630, May 1 at 2057, Chinese lesson in English, S6-S8; must be Bamako CRI relay as scheduled at 2000-2100, plus anomalally another 30 minutes of English until 2130 starting French. Lack of reports lately of any of these relays but I have not been seeking them, just ran across this. Sporadically active? // for this is 11640: not heard there aside big Cuban numbers signal on 11635 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Estimado Sr. Hauser: Le escribo para enviarle algunas escuchas, Saludos. [830] XEITE, Radio Quiéreme, Ciudad de México, México captada en la ciudad de Mérida, Yucatán el 12 de abril de 2019 a las 0425 UT (11 de abril 1145, hora local de verano) en un radio Radio Sony ICF-C414. https://youtu.be/aEV7bDJljLc [810] XERI, Radio Rey, Reynosa, Tamaulipas, México captada en la ciudad de Mérida, Yucatán el 01 de mayo de 2019 a las 0440 UT (30 de abril 1140, hora local de verano) en un radio Radio Sony ICF-C414. https://youtu.be/EPypfB1ppQY Atte: (Ing. Israel González Ahumada, M.I. May 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Estimado Sr. Hauser: Le envío el mensaje que me llego por facebook en respuesta a mi video: "Muchas gracias, nos da gusto que la señal del 810 AM llegue hasta Mérida Yucatán, saludos"" Atte.: (Ing. Israel González Ahumada, M.I., DXLD) ** MEXICO. El sitio en Facebook de XECTL, “SQCS Radio Chetumal” me contestó: “Le agradecemos con todo cariño el que nos hayan escuchado desde Mérida con esa gran afición DX y amor a la Radio, ya que la Radio es Cultura, a nombre de todo el equipo que conforma Radio Chetumal 860 AM y el Sistema Quintanarroense de Comunicación Social, le mandamos un fuerte abrazo y saludo! Muchas gracias, nos da gusto que la señal del 810 AM llegue hasta Mérida Yucatán, saludos." Atte: (Ing. Israel González Ahumada, M.I., April 29, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 650, April 25 at 1155, 10 minutes after Enid sunrise, Mexican music and Spanish, fast SAH, presumed the usual SRS dominator XETNT, Los Mochis, Sinaloa. Faded by 1200. However, next morning, see below: On April 26 pre-sunrise I tune the lowband for Mexicans still propagating: 540, April 26 at 1126, potosina ads, i.e. XEWA SLP (I was also hearing it after 0500 NA with ``Los Cuarenta`` slogan.). Nulling this at 1126, I have another Mexican, no doubt XETX Chihuahua which typically dominates a bit later. 550, April 26 at 1127, Mexican music loops WSW, which would be XEPL, Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, the only N/W Mexican, dominating for now before KFRM overtakes. 650, April 26 at 1128, NO signals at all on 650, nor any XE on 610, sibling station to XETNT, XEGS Guasave, Sinaloa. Strange, and wondering if these too are giving up on MW. Both are supposed to be 24h per 2018 IRCA Mexican Log. 710, April 26 at 1136, ``primera edición`` of newscast from BM Radio, i.e. XEDP, Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua; not off-frequency this time. 1151 news of marijuana bust in Delicias, citing grams, then mentions Oclajoma! 800, April 26 at 1128, ad for Laboratorios Camacho from Los Ángeles, i.e. one of the major advertisers on XEROK Juárez; with KQCV OKC easily nulled. But a few minutes later XEROK has vanished, and is normally inaudible at night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 540, April 29 at 1129 UT, Mexican NA from WSW, different version choral with band and heavy drumming, and an odd time for it too, perhaps its sign-on. 1130 no ID but immediate prayer to Jehová, YL solo hymn? to mi ciudad, finally 1135 full ID for XETX, La Ranchera de Paquimé, street address in Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, also FM 90.5, Grupo BM Radio, another informal slogan preceded by ``La Mera Mera ---`` 570, April 29 at 1102 UT, choral multiverse NA from SSW, until 1105 fades for ID but Monterrey mentioned, i.e. XEBJB. 580, April 29 at 1100 UT, M&W newscast including F and C weather for the frontera, Piedras Negras; holding its own against opposite WIBW Topeka, making 63/minute SAH = 1.05 Hz. Obviously ``XEMU``, new legal call of which is XELRDA standing for La Ranchera Del Aire. 610, April 29 at 1104 UT, Coahuila mentioned, Grupo M(?) Radio. I would assume XEBX Sabinas, but it`s thought to have moved to FM 105.9 with 610 deleted from WRTH 2019. http://www.radioxebx.com/ is merely under construxion as ``La Primera`` on 105.9 AND 610. There has been a CP for another Coahuilan on 610, XESORN in Saltillo to replace XESAC which is definitely gone. Must monitor 610 again closely (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 650, April 29 at 1100 UT, no signal yet, but recheck 1108, now Mexican music from southwest and 1111 `Buenos Días, Yarderos`, well-known wakeup show from XETNT, Radio 65 altho neither call nor slogan heard today. DJ mixes in plugs for local mercados in Los Mochis, Sinaloa; 1137 greeting listeners by name still in BDY show. Still no sign of sibling station XEGS Guasave, altho more QRM on 610 from KCSP, and Coahuila earlier. At ToH 1200 the two used to join for newscast, too late now. So XETNT is definitely still on AM. Replying April 26 to my previous non-log, Raymie Humbert in AZ on the WTFDA Forum: ``XETNT should never have stayed on past a year; it was not the Mochis station with a continuity obligation. (That would be 540 XEHS-AM, on the air for the benefit of 27,552 people.) On the other hand, XEGS is continuity obligated. More than 21,000 people depend on it for their only radio service. Most continuity obligation stations are on low frequencies. There's still the chance, of course, someone wants to run a social AM radio station and assumes the continuity obligation. That's happening with XEEJ Puerto Vallarta, which will soon yield to a new station XECSBK on 650. Other frequencies that are part of continuity obligations are being advertised the same way.`` 710, April 29 at 1113 UT, gravelly Low-German preacher, his home on XEDP Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, not off-frequency today; by 1138 back to Spanish with regional weather, 5:39 TC, plugs its whatsapp link, details of a fatal DUI --- conduciendo borracho? traffic accident. 780v, April 29 at 1116 UT, semi-local KSPI Stillwater music carefully nulled, for Spanish producing low audible heterodyne (but not as bad as 740 KRMG torn up by XEQN Torreón), mentions Monclova, ads, something on carretera 30 which runs roughly between Monclova and Torreón, and CCI from another XE, 1118 fade-out. So it`s XEWGR in Monclova. 820, April 29 at 1141 UT, slow SAH against WBAP nulled for ``Canal 800-20, ABC Radio`` IDs between guitar songs, again at 1143 by when it`s dominating WBAP, i.e. XEABCA, Mexicali BCN. No storm noise on band this morning, the lightning having migrated from KS last night to the dayside in MO; also a storm around Yuma, but not bothering this station. ** MEXICO. 570, May 2 at 1105, dominant signal is Spanish from the south, religious program, YL with American accent mentions ``Bible church``, OM with not, plugging a bunch of meetings/revivals? with specific home addresses in San Antonio TX, Salinas, El Centro and several other places in California, from one evening to the next from April 26? to May 5. By 1122 predicating with frequent keyword ``restauración`` à la previous owner of KVOH. Wondered if KLIF had gone the way of KEXB, flipped to partial Spanish gospel huxtering, but think it better-just-be XEBJB Monterrey NL, which despite a ``regional mexicana`` music format is a.k.a., ``Nueva Vida`` which of course connotes religion, at least at this daypart. Raymie Humbert recently compiled a list of stations with religious concessions, but not including XEBJB; in Monterrey on AM, only 1140 XEMR; see DXLD 19-16. 590, May 2 at 1119, music and ads, 590 frequently plugged, finally ``Sabrosita`` slogan heard, which = XEPH, 25/10 kW in México CDMX, rather than something closer like XEFD in Tamaulipas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1310, XETIA Radio Vital, Guadalajara, Jalisco 1100 April 19, 2019. Tune in to beginning of choral full version of anthem until 1105, then male "XETIA Radio Vital... mil watts..." Rapidly lost to WYND, DeLand with preacher. So, this one hasn't migrated to FM -- yet. (Terry Krueger, Clearwater, FL, IC-R75, NRD-535, ICF-7600GR, longwires, active MW loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. Mighty 1090 San Diego Completely Shuts Down [sic] https://radioinsight.com/headlines/176043/mighty-1090-san-diego-off-the-air (via Dennis Gibson, CA, April 29, ABDX yg via DXLD) AM Radio is on the ropes. They have almost no listeners any longer. FM is probably kind of sick with all the people listening on their phones. Free music and news is going by the wayside (Kevin, Crump, TN, Redding, ibid.) And 1090 hasn`t been shut off (Paul B Walker, WY, ibid.) viz.: The article reflects the end of the streaming of previous on air programming. The article does not say 1090 has been shut off. 73 (John Johnson, Mesa AZ, via Walker, ibid.) They're still running "ultra 104.9" KPAV-FM [sic] from the Rio Grande Valley as I type this. So far nobody is willing to pay even half of what BCA was paying to lease XEPRS. It's widely expected that most of the surviving local talent from XEPRS (3 shows) will try to get jobs on low-rated KWFN-97.3, although they would prefer to be on a high-powered station like XEPRS. Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone (Tim Hall, CA, April 29, ibid.) I wish they would shut down, even if it was for a few days (Martin Foltz, Mission Viejo CA, ibid.) I wouldn't be surprised if that happened at some point, simply because the costs would have to become prohibitive after a while, especially with no added revenue. All those RGV advertisers on "ultra 104.9" sure aren't going to pay extra to have their ads play in San Diego. Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone (Tim Hall, ibid.) ** MEXICO [non]. DX La Radio mexicana en EEUU... Radiodifusión Radiodifusores mexicanos cruzan la frontera en la reconquista silenciosa de Texas y California Radio Centro, Radiorama y otros radiodifusores han conseguido operar estaciones en California y Arizona y ahora Multimedios quiere expandirse por Texas con la compra de cuatro estaciones, pactada el 25 de marzo pasado que la FCC de Estados Unidos avalará o rechazará. Nicolás Lucas 23 de abril de 2019, El Economista clip_image002 Foto EE: Especial Radiodifusores mexicanos que son escasamente conocidos más allá de donde transmiten en México, han cruzado la frontera norte para operar canales de televisión o radio, e incluso lo hicieron antes de que compraran frecuencias para crear nuevas estaciones en el territorio nacional con las subastas IFT-4 e IFT-6 de espectro para radio y TV dirigidas por el Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT). El caso más conocido de un radiodifusor mexicano en Estados Unidos es el de Grupo Radio Centro por la operación de la KXOS-FM 93.9 de Los Ángeles, porque esa información es reportada trimestralmente a la Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (BMV). Pero más allá existen las historias del Grupo Multimedia LLC and Deportes y Musica Comunicaciones LLC, que en 2018 lograron que la Comisión Federal de Comunicaciones de los Estados Unidos les permitiera como extranjeros operar estaciones en Phoenix y Bakersfield, California, el segundo caso de este tipo que se dio en la historia de la radiodifusión de aquel país y el primero en la era Donald Trump. Los dueños de esas compañías prometieron regresar al aire a la 99.5 FM de Phoenix y asegurar las transmisiones de la 105.7 de Bakersfield, y en principio con una inversión de 125,000 dólares de cinco millones de dólares como estimado total. Aparte se conocen los casos de la 104.9 KJAV-FM de McAllen, operada por Bi-Media Licensee LLC y con la familia Bichara de Monterrey como principales accionistas. Otro caso es el del empresario Jaime Juaristi Santos que participa con un paquete accionario en la 107.9 KCKO de Río Rico, Arizona; mientras que del lado mexicano es operador de televisión en Nogales, Sonora. En tanto, la 1060 KXPL de El Paso es operada por New Radio System, con participación del grupo mexicano Radiorama. Ahora, el Grupo Multimedios Estrellas de Oro quiere reescribir y crecer su historia en la radiodifusión de Estados Unidos, con la compra en marzo de 2019 de un paquete de cuatro estaciones de radio que dan cobertura en el sur de Texas y con una primera inversión de aproximadamente seis millones de dólares. El Grupo Multimedios ya contaba con oficinas en Houston y con un canal afiliado de televisión antes de que al sur del Río Bravo comprara el canal 28 de Ciudad Juárez con la licitación IFT-6 de espectro para televisión del IFT. Multimedios pagó en total 647.5 millones de pesos en noviembre de 2017 por seis canales de televisión en la CDMX, Ciudad Juárez, Puebla, Durango, Guadalajara y Monclova. Para crecer en Texas, el Grupo Multimedios creó a la compañía Leading Media Group Corp (LMG) bajo las leyes del estado de Delaware para comprar al grupo MBM Radio la 102.1 FM y la 710 AM de McAllen-Brownsville, más la 100.5 y la 106.1 de Laredo. LMG es propiedad en 82.73% por Francisco Antonio González y el 16.77% pertenece a Nora Patricia Albuerne de González. clip_image004Foto EE: Especial Multimedios confía en que la Comisión Federal de Comunicaciones de Estados Unidos avale la compraventa de las señales a MBM Radio con base en el argumento de que se promoverá la inversión extranjera directa y se mantendrán los puestos de trabajo en esas estaciones, y también cita al caso de Grupo Multimedia LLC and Deportes y Musica Comunicaciones LLC, con participación accionaria de mayoría mexicana, que pudieron comprar estaciones en California, según el documento en el que Leading Media Group solicita a la FCC la autorización. El regulador estadounidense también evaluará el tema de la doble ciudadanía. “La operación permitirá a LMG servir al interés de las audiencias en el sur de Texas, al traer experiencia en transmisión y un flujo de recursos para actualizaciones tecnológicas y de programación que mejoren las estaciones (…) La petición anticipa la promesa de mejor calidad de programación y mejoras para el talento, más cooperación económica y mediática en los mercados locales donde operan las estaciones”. “En resumen, la concesión a esta petición permitirá una inversión extranjera beneficiosa en la radiodifusión de los Estados Unidos (…) Multimedios Estrella de oro solicita respetuosamente que la FCC conceda y emita una resolución de declaratoria que permita a Multimedios adquirir el 100% de la propiedad indirecta de las estaciones mencionadas a través de Leading Media Group”. La petición de Multimedios puede ahora presionar el ambiente en la radiodifusión estadounidense para que se permita a los extranjeros comprar más del 25% permitido hoy de una frecuencia de radio o televisión, pues la FCC ha argumentado que revisará caso por caso para permitir o rechazar compras de hasta el 100% de una emisora, mientras en México se define el ingreso de los grupos religiosos a los medios electrónicos y todo en el marco de la ratificación del T-MEC. “La expansión de Multimedios obedece a capturar una audiencia a ambos lados de la frontera. Si no lo hacen ellos, lo podrían hacer sus competidores en Estados Unidos”, dijo Jorge Bravo, analista en Digital Policy & Law. “No es sencillo exportar franquicias o formatos a otros países porque la radio siempre es local y hay modismos y formas de hacer radio en cada territorio. Pero si han logrado exportar conceptos, habla de un agotamiento de esos mismos formatos en otros mercados y, por lo tanto, son una oportunidad”. (via Carlos J. V., April 26, radioescucha, via Juan Franco Crespo, Spain, DXLD) I immediately found the original article thanks to a typo in it unlikely to appear anywhere else, 7th line from bottom, ``dije Jorge Bravo`` which I already changed to the grammatically correct ``dijo``: https://www.eleconomista.com.mx/empresas/Radiodifusores-mexicanos-cruzan-la-frontera-en-la-reconquista-silenciosa-de-Texas-y-California-20190423-0059.html There you may also see the illustrations amid all the advertising, and some embedded linx. Another hit on it came here, still in Spanish, but without illustrations: https://digitalpolicylaw.com/radiodifusores-mexicanos-cruzan-la-frontera-en-la-reconquista-silenciosa-de-texas-y-california/ (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BEAT this week --- A lot of radio news today... We've talked about La Radio del Sureste Mexicano, the 103.9 pirate of Paraíso, Tabasco, but there's a new turn: it was shuttered and seized by federal authorities today. https://www.facebook.com/ruben.leonflores.56/posts/489185171822070 The investigation is federal and is in the Environmental Crimes Unit of the FGR, but not much else is known. One of the principals of La Radio del Sureste Mexicano has a pending application for a social FM station at Paraíso, Tabasco, from the 2018 PABF, and is the only applicant for the allocation. In Jalisco, it has been confirmed by a Televisa Radio employee that Los 40 will be the format of XHPTOJ-FM 91.1 Puerto Vallarta. https://www.facebook.com/groups/540008366094148/permalink/2169242763170692/ This was kind of a foregone conclusion given Ke Buena already being on air with another operator, but now we know for sure. And the most curious news of the week has come out of Michoacán, where 1240 AM Morelia has gone back to the past. For just under two years, it's been part of the Acustik Michoacán/Media Group Radio operation, but it split off and is now back to what 1240 was before migration: Radio Ranchito, simulcasting XHRPA-FM 102.5. https://www.facebook.com/RadioRanchitoFM/posts/1136505226530394?__tn__=-R While it last appeared in Media Group Radio promotion on April 14, it seems that its exit was already being hinted at on the 9th when the station went live and promoted it was "coming soon" on FM to Lázaro Cárdenas, Zamora, Uruapan and Morelia. https://www.facebook.com/mediagroupradio/videos/281103802807875/ (Don't ask me how they're doing that any time soon.) (Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ, April 26, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) A follow-up to the news from Morelia last week... Today I asked Media Group for comment and was directed to the first block of the Canal 6 morning newscast for today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XduIH-2wwGc At about 6:15 in, after greeting the listeners to the radio simulcast, host Laura Yadira Marín asks listeners for a "bit of patience", explaining that yesterday, her colleague was angry because "they have this campaign against us, and we know who's running it. Us Mexicans, unfortunately, are very prone to blaming everyone when things go wrong—except ourselves. As such, we completely recognize that there are people that have not had things go well or like they thought at this outlet or in other media, and they'll say, "well, that outlet was on its way out anyway". ... We're here, you're watching us, listening to us. We're not going to disappear. In fact, in the near future, you'll be hearing us on FM, and in Lázaro Cárdenas and Zamora, in the coming weeks. We have to build the stations. I guarantee that, in the coming weeks, you'll be hearing us on FM in Morelia. Meanwhile, you used to listen to us [Marín and Rafael Cortes] on 1240 AM and the question is, "But why 1240?" Well, 1240 AM is property of Media Group Radio —*authorized by the IFT and owned by this company. Media Group has a strategic alliance with Radio Ranchito, which had it for 40-some years and they're on 102.5 FM now, but in a strategic alliance." I'd like to point up that at no time did I say that Media Group Radio was folding, though I have accurately reported the programming and the promises Media Group is making on FM stations. I am not aware at this time of any applications, either in the pipeline or awarded, that would allow Media Group to get on FM in most of the markets. There are no pending social FM stations for Lázaro Cárdenas or Morelia, markets in which it would need to lease a station to get on the FM dial. In Zamora, I highly doubt Radio María will give up XHJAC-FM to Media Group. Uruapan's XHPEDZ-FM is a bit more of a mystery right now; it has technical parameters authorized. It is worth noting that IFT-8 will include allotments for all of these cities. Two of them are going to be IFT-4 carryovers which were actually won by Media Group but not followed through on. Media FM won 91.7 Lázaro Cárdenas on a Tecnoradio rebound but opted not to pay for the station. Exclusive reporting earlier this year http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?9113-The-Mexico-Beat&p=47294#post47294 revealed that LZC was one of the epicenters of Tecnoradio bid inflation, including two final round bids that were 50 percent higher than the bids from Morelia Stereo (Grupo MarMor) and Media FM. Media FM also placed the high bid on 96.5 AA Zamora; while Tecnoradio bid on this station (which was in a separate lot from the 98.1 A that is today's XHPZAM-FM), the primary competition for the frequency was Rodrigo Rodríguez Reyes. Those bidders pushed the final cost to 19.1 million pesos, compared to TV Rey de Occidente's 98.1 win for 2.9 million. Unlike IFT-4, IFT-8 is slated to include a commercial A for Morelia, added in the 2019 PABF expansion, and there are two As for the Uruapan area (Raymie, April 29, ibid.) The final nail was driven in the Mighty 1090 coffin this afternoon, 19 days after the Bichara family removed BCA programming from their XEPRS 1090. At 2pm today, the stream was turned off at the orders of upper management. https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/sports-talk-radio-mighty-1090-off-the-air-employees-told-to-pack-up The shutdown occurred in the middle of a program. https://sportsradiopd.com/the-mighty-1090-ceases-operations/ The employees have been instructed to return for a meeting at 11am tomorrow, with boxes. https://radioinsight.com/headlines/176043/mighty-1090-san-diego-off-the-air/ BCA's closure marked the end of an era; for the first time in decades, no Tijuana AM radio station broadcasts in English. Edit: Uh, I forgot a word. Last edited by Raymie; 04-30-2019 at 01:23 AM (Raymie, April 29, ibid.) You mean "Tijuana AM station" don't you? XHRM and XHTZ are both CHR stations in English, one Hip Hop and the other more pop (David Eduardo, ibid.) Yyyup. *facepalm* While I'm here, the RPC did slip a new document past us today, an AM surrender authorization for XEBC-AM in Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco. In the surrender letter to the IFT, dated March 11, Arnoldo Rodríguez Zermeño said the costs of operating the AM station were high http://rpc.ift.org.mx/rpc/pdfs/43457_190429104824_7032.pdf and only growing due to the difficulty of finding replacement parts. XEBC is the 14th station among the 83 Combos of '94 to surrender its AM frequency. Ciudad Guzmán is left with one AM station, XEMEX 950. That station broadcasts with 5,000 watts on 950 and also is a Combo of '94 as XHMEX-FM 104.9 (Raymie, April 30, ibid.) The XEBC surrender mentioned above is the 14th such surrender in the last 22 months. As the Combos of '94 have come up for renewal, some owners have opted to just give up the AM ghost. The first such case was XEVU, which on June 1, 2017, formally communicated to the IFT its desire to surrender the 720 AM frequency it had broadcast on for 40 years. There were 83 combos initially awarded by the SCT in 1994, in the final month of the presidency of Carlos Salinas de Gortari. XEVU's surrender was actually the first time a combo had given up the AM. Since then, stations from Hermosillo to Cancún have followed suit. In addition to the 14 combos that have been surrendered, Glenn Hauser in 2018 said 7 more stations were silent. These are XEHLL, XEOPE, XECHH, XECHG, XEZN, XEBQ, and XELI. In the case of XELI, it is worth noting the concession has expired, though XHLI-FM/Gro. is still on the air. Another station is believed to have permanently gone silent. When XEZS gave up the AM 18 months ago http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?9113-The-Mexico-Beat&p=44758#post44758 — the first indication that AM surrenders of combos were a thing — it was reported to have been the final AM radio station transmitting in Coatzacoalcos. That is not quite the case, but if XECSV-AM 1000, another combo, went silent, that is also noteworthy (Raymie, April 30, ibid.) Federal holiday? No matter, still news! XHPSJL-FM 96.1 San Juan de los Lagos Jal. went under the radar and snuck on the air in mid-April. "San Juan FM" https://www.facebook.com/becerrolocutor/posts/813329675720456 is the first ZER station to go on the air from the auction. The ZER site also has added it. http://grupozer.net/radios.php?estacion=33 The Class A station has an ERP of 1.5 kW according to the CPCREL, though they claim to have 3. The studios are at Fray Antonio Segovia 9, according to the station ID. https://goo.gl/maps/N7UimDdRJPuGej1XA ZER also has yet to build these IFT-4 stations: XHPTAM-FM 88.9 Tamazula de Gordiano Jal. XHPLPM-FM 96.1 La Piedad Mich. XHPARC-FM 101.7 Armería Col. (Raymie, May 1, ibid.) XHIU-FM in Oaxaca is now being operated by Radiorama ASG, with no change in format. A Televisa Oaxaca report from yesterday https://twitter.com/TelevisaOaxaca/status/1123569084979994625 mentions that while the format will remain unchanged, XHIU-XEIU will likely pick up the afternoon newscast that its new sister stations carry, according to Jaqueline Gaytán Valencia, the director general of the cluster. Meanwhile, in Jalisco, the course of the state network seems to be a bit cloudy these days, https://www.reporteindigo.com/reporte/c7-jalisco-direccion-en-duda-designacion-alfaro-tavares-cuestionamientos-perfil-organizaciones-medios/ and the problems go to Governor Enrique Alfaro's appointment to head the Sistema Jalisciense de Radio y Televisión. Alejandro Tavares López, according to the Jalisco branch of AMEDI, "has no interest, understanding, or knowledge of what it means or implies to offer a public broadcasting service". He'd previously been director of Guadalajara's Máxima FM (Raymie, May 2, ibid.) Two more IFT meeting agendas dropped today: X Ordinaria - April 3 Multiprogramming: XHAP, XHSLA, XHBM, XHCV New stations: Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, Culiacán, Sin. (TDT) Transfers: XHPL-FM to Radioblogs, S.A. de C.V. Concession renewals: Telemisión, S.A. de C.V., 2 stations (which would be XHTX and XHAUC), and 6 other radio and TV stations (two from the Universidad de Guadalajara) XI Ordinaria - April 10 Multiprogramming: XHURT, XHZ, XHBN, XHHES Forest clear: Mérida (2017 PABF) I have listings for La Visión de Dios, A.C. (locality of Chichi Suárez); Radio Tonatiuh, A.C.; and Arte y Cultura por Solidaridad, A.C. La Visión de Dios would have priority over the other 2, but if it is disqualified as being religious, the other two applicants will come down to who filed first. They each have one radio station concession. New station: Alejandro Sánchez Torres, San Miguel de Allende, Gto. (AM) Technical changes: XHNAV-FM 94.7 Navojoa Son. and 7 other radio stations [tagline:] Este programa es público, ajeno a cualquier partido político. Queda prohibido el uso para fines distintos a los establecidos en el programa (Raymie, May 2, ibid.) ** MEXICO. 6185, Radio Educación, Ciudad de México, 0457-0525*, 30-04, classic music, at 0502 anthem and identification, more music and at 0507 Radio France International news in Spanish: “Una de la mañana en París, noticias de Radio Francia Internacional”. 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** MONGOLIA [non]. Voice of Mongolia in English heard at a new time 0930-1000 UT daily, via Shortwave Service, Kall, on 6005 kHz. Fair signal here this morning. This appears to replace the broadcast which had been at 1200 since the start of the A19 schedules. (the 1200-1230 slot has been replaced by DP07 Seewetter) New schedules effective from 1 May 2019 are now online on the Shortwave Service web site http://www.shortwaveservice.com/index.php/de/aktuelles Click on link for each "sendeplan" to see the schedule for each frequency. 73 (Dave Kenny, England, bdxc-news iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DXLD) ** MYANMAR. 5915, 0145-0150 25.4, Myanma R, Naypyidaw (presumed) vernacular talk, 25232. Best 73, (Anker Petersen, my latest loggings from Skovlunde on the AOR AR7030Plus with 28 metres of longwire, Denmark, wbradio yg via DXLD) Not to be confused with Zambia 5915 if it still run 24 hours (gh) ** MYANMAR. BURMA, 5985, R. Myanmar. 1254-1307+ 19 April. Clear today with "Learning English with BBC-Burmese" to 1300, then segued Burmese pop. Tnx Ron Howard for the tip (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA, Executive Satellit/6m X wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Reception of Myanmar Radio in English on April 25: 1530-1700 on 5985 YAN 025 kW / 176 deg to SEAs English, fair https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/04/reception-of-myanmar-radio-in-english.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News April 25, DX LISTENINIG DIGEST) 5985, Myanmar Radio, on May 1 (Wednesday). Random listening 1120-1333. Highlights: 1120 - Just missed their start up (normally starting closer to 1130); noted // 9730 (which normally signs off about 1130, but that was not confirmed today). 1130 - The usual station's song ("kilohertz ... kilohertz ... kilohertz ...Radio") and indigenous theme music. My audio at http://bit.ly/2ZNSjRv 1320 - "Learning English with BBC, Burmese"; fairly readable. Frankly this series of language lessons is boring! Formerly Myanmar carried "Say It In English" series about the light hearted misadventures of "Tom," that made for some enjoyable listening, but not so with the BBC series. My BBC audio at http://bit.ly/2LhvXow . (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DXLD) ** NEW ZEALAND. 5945, RNZI at 1101 with a man with “RNZ News” and into a woman “Hymns for a Sunday Morning” at 1105 - Weak but audible to Fair with fading Apr 28 – The best signal we in Eastern North America can expect is on Saturdays and Sundays when RNZI stays with their Pacific beam to 1258. Mondays through Fridays they have a weak signal at best until they change to a Papua New Guinea/Solomon Islands feed at 0958 whereupon we completely lose them. I certainly wish they would use a 41 meter band frequency like they used to do in past spring/summer seasons. 11725, RNZI at 2145 with an in studio interview between a woman and a man, then the woman interviewing another man at 2154 about a cricket match between Australia and New Zealand at 2154 re-check and into pop vocals – Very Poor at first rising to Poor to Fair by 2157 Apr 28 – If it weren't for the Kiwi accents I would not have logged this one at 2145 but this shows how hard it is to listen to RNZI in Eastern North America these days. My persistence with this logging should be an example to others - especially newcomers to the hobby - that you have to be patient (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Drake SPR-4 or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 meter off centre-fed dipole (OCFD) or Alpha Delta DX-LB inverted vee dipole, ODXA iog via DXLD) Maybe a bit late for you, but there is no struggle to hear RNZI at 05-07 UT on 9700, usually inbooming (gh, OK) o, yeah? 9700, May 1 at 0500, RNZI timesignal just after opening this frequency is JBA! Instead of usual SSOB. Yet K-index at 06 is only 2, no storms (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. Voice of Nigeria on 15120v DRM mode on April 25 1600-1630 on 15119.9 AJA 250 kW / 007 deg to NoAf Igbo & 1630-1900 on 15119.9 AJA 250 kW / 007 deg to NoAf English https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/04/reception-of-voice-of-nigeria-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News April 25, DX LISTENINIG DIGEST) ** NIGERIA [non]. FRANCE, From May 1 no signal of Manara Radio Int via TDF Issoudun [but it came back later] 0700-0800 on 13840 ISS 150 kW / 170 deg to WeAf Hausa via WRMI broker. My last 2 videos of Manara Radio Int via TDF Issoudun April 10 & 17: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/from-may-1-no-signal-of-manara-radio.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 2, WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DXLD) ** NIGERIA [non]. Koode Radio International via MBR Issoudun April 29 1900-1930 9810 ISS 100 kW / 175 deg to WCAf Nigerian Fulfulde, good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/reception-of-koode-radio-international.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News April 29-30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6925-AM, April 27 at 2232, soft music, later rock, only one brief announcement uncopied, off abruptly at 2304* without a word. S8 to S9+5. Several logs here say it was Wave Radio: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,53420.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS. One transmitter returned to service at SAIPAN and the rest of the transmitters expected to return to service during the course of the next few months [as of late Feb]. The return to service was much faster than the original schedule of at least 12 months from last October when the typhoon hit the islands (Harry Scott of Radio Free Asia at Winter SWL Festival, via Listener`s Notebook, April NASWA Journal, retyped by gh for WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DX LISTENING DIGEST) There is a transmitter up on IBB TINIAN too. I think it happened just last week, so things are starting to return to normal, but I guess we`re still months away from that (AJ Janitschek, DC, RFA, March 25, Listener`s Notebook, April NASWA Journal, retyped by gh for WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 930, April 29 at 1145-1148 UT, WKY in a promotional loop with slight variations, slogans by YL such as ``La casa de deportes en Oklahoma City`` (or would that be ``caza``?) also plugging ESPN, Oklahoma City Thunder, call letters always in English, mixed with SFX, yelling (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 101.5, April 27 at 2320 UT, KOCD Okeene OK is OFF again, the satellite of Radio Salvación, 93.9 KWDW-LP OKC. Not even cutting on for 7 seconds at a time. It had been on OK for a few weeks. 101.5, April 28 at 1513 recheck, Spanish back, weaker than KOCD should be and fading, with commercials and iHeart mentions, so obviously the 100 kW in Liberal KS (almost OK panhandle), KSMM, breaking for weather capsule en inglés; 101 punto 5 ID in Spanish, can`t copy slogan but WTFDA lists as ``La Mexicana`` (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. Level-2 tropo enhancement blob around Enid as far as Tulsa on Hepburn map, April 26 at 1410+ UT correlates with what I am seeing, decodes on RF 20, 19-1 KQCW-HD, and RF 28, 44-1 Ion, plus many more Bad signals on most lower UHF channels still funxioning. And some on hi-VHF. Also, RF 24, 25-1, megawatt KOKH OKC FOX is not decoding, pointing to CCI from the 600-watt KTUL extra channel in Tulsa. BTW, KOKH 25-3 has not been Weather Nation for many months, despite W9WI.com. However, OKC`s 7.2 kW on RF 42, KBZC-LD, manages to decode just fine. NOT in Enid, just the city of license, unfathomably (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. DTV RF 13, April 30 at 1424 UT, all four OETA channels are displaying the neat `Technical Difficulties` TP illustrating a wrench, screwdriver and hammer amid the old-style circles, and tiny ID lettering at the bottom --- both OTA and the two available via cable. Here is a shot of it made last year: http://www.w4uvh.net/OETAtechpat2018.jpg Erratically audio-only comes on and sometimes video, before back to TP, ruining reception of programming until 1500 UT, then apparently back in business. A small but perhaps severe storm was moving thru OKC, maybe turning OETA`s satellite dish for PBS into a rain gauge! (In Enid circa 0900 UT we had the same severe storm dumping two inches of rain into ours; and flood watches continue. And a tornado warning issued at 1616 UT for the Carney-Cushing OK area, just NE of OKC. At 1636 another warning for Osage County; fortunately away from Enid and not moving thisaway. But NWS interrupting OETA programming.) The other OKC stations remained OK, except RF 16, KOCM ``46`` Norman, black screen and silence until recovery of Daystar gospel-huxtering at 1437 UT (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. FCC TV News: Ardmore 20 K20OH From K24IW, 15kw/289m, 34-01-58/96-48-01. Ardmore 22 K22JQ Requests power increase to 15kw/289m, 34-01-58/96-48-01 Ardmore 26 K26PA From K19II, 15kw/289m, 34-01-58/96-48-01. Claremore 32 KRSU-TV Application for new post-repack backup; 123kw/214m; granted. Lawton 14 K45LN From 45, 15kw/83m. McAlester 14 K40NG From 40, 15kw/92m. Norman 16 KOCM Moved from 46, 27kw/416m, 35-33-37/97-29-08. Oklahoma City 18 KOPX-TV [still RF 50, ``62``] Granted STA to transition late. Tower crew delayed by weather on previous project; equipment arrived a month late; further weather delays have happened. Transition should be complete by June 21st. Oklahoma City 21 KUOT-CD Moved from ch. 19, returning to air Apr. 4th. Oklahoma City 31 KOHC-CD Moved from 45, 15kw/71m. [not seen yet -- gh] Ponca City 22 K23LJ From 23, 13.5kw/539m, 36-35-42/97-34-39. Tulsa 15 KXAP-LD Requests STA for this channel, 15kw/54m. Station was ordered off its displacement facility on ch. 14 due to land-mobile interference. Granted. Requests permanent permission for ch. 15. (via Doug Smith, May WTFDA VHF-UHF Digest via DXLD) ** OMAN. 9620, Radio Sultanate of Oman, Muscat, 1408-1420, 24-04, open at about 1408 with pop songs in English, song in Spanish, ID "Radio Sultanate of Oman, FM" "Your Nation Station across the country". Most days out of air at this hour and only heard India. Slight QRM from All India Radio on the same frequency. 33433 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol and Lugo, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) 9620, Radio Sultanate of Oman, Muscat, *1400-1415, 28-04, English, ID “Radio Sultanate of Oman, news, the main points..., news in detail..., the main points again”, at 1408 pop songs in English. 34433 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Reinante, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) Of course, does not make it to NAm, while 15140 used to somewhat before Cublocked (gh, DXLD) [and non]. Reception of Radio Sultanate of Oman RSO in 31mb, April 28: 1400-1457 on 9620 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu English, very good from 1457 on 9620 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu Arabic, very good Co-ch of All India Radio, PARS TODAY VIRI IRIB and Voice of Turkey till 1500 on 9620 ALG 250 kW / 282 deg to WeAs Sindhi 1500-1600 on 9620 ALG 250 kW / 282 deg to WeAs Baluchi 1615-1730 on 9620 ALG 250 kW / 282 deg to WeAs Farsi 1730-1945 on 9620 ALG 250 kW / 282 deg to N/ME Arabic 1945-2030 on 9620 ALG 250 kW / 282 deg to NWAf French 2023-2120 on 9620 SIR 500 kW / 298 deg to SoEu Spanish 2030-2125 on 9620 EMR 500 kW / 105 deg to SEAs English https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/04/reception-of-radio-sultanate-of-oman_29.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News April 28-29, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9620, Radio Sultanate of Oman at 2131 in Arabic with Middle Eastern male vocals and a man with brief talk at 2136 with a mention of “Oman” then brief Middle Eastern instrumentals and the man with talk over instrumentals – Fair to Good May 1 – Well, until RHC drops 15140 and stops killing reception of Oman's English program, we can still log them even though it's in Arabic (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Drake SPR-4 or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 meter off centre-fed dipole (OCFD) or Alpha Delta DX-LB inverted vee dipole, ODXA iog via DXLD) Radio Sultanate of Oman in Arabic 0610 & 0715 very strong on 13600 kHz, probably with wrong azimuth 315 deg to WeEu, not 220 deg to EaAf. Oman on 13600 is not on air after 0800. 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, May 1, WOR iog via DXLD) Radio Sultanate of Oman is probably with wrong azimuth, May 1 0610&0714 on 13600 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu Arabic, very strong, instead A-19 13600 THU 100 kW / 220 deg to EaAf Arabic as scheduled: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/radio-sultanate-of-oman-is-probably.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Sultanate of Oman is on air as scheduled A-19 on May 2: from 0710 on 13600 THU 100 kW / 220 deg to EaAf Arabic-weak, instead wrong May 1 13600 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu Arabic May 1, strong from 1400 on 9620 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu English, co-ch AIR & from 1457 on 9620 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu Arabic + co-ch AIR!! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/radio-sultanate-of-oman-is-on-air-as.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3260, NBC Madang, (Maus Blong Garamut - Voice of Indigenous Drums), 1156-1207*, on April 27. Pop songs (John Denver singing "Country Roads," etc.) till suddenly cut off mid-song; as with NBC Bougainville today, well above normal reception. April 28, noted Madang with 1204* cut off, after religious (Christian) songs in English (song "You Raise Me Up," etc.). 7325, Wantok Radio Light (presumed), on April 28, at 0955. Heard only a carrier, far below threshold level; this was pre-QRM from China. Must still be very low power! (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DXLD) more 7325 at INDONESIA [and non] 7325, 0952, Wantok Radio Light reactivated 8/4 but only weak signal. Hymns including ‘How Great Thou Art’. Totally obliterated at 0955. Very weak carrier trace noted 1930 9/4 but unsure if this is them. Not heard since (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai, Northland, North Island, New Zealand, remote SDR, May NZ DX Times via DXLD) 3260, NBC Madang, (Maus Blong Garamut - Voice of Indigenous Drums), 1143-1210*, April 29 (Monday). In Pidgin; playing pop songs; 1201, the usual PNG bird call before the start of the news in English (unreadable); suddenly cut off, which varies on a daily basis, so not on a timer as it was years ago. On the weekend there is no 1200 news (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DXLD) ** PHILIPPINES [and non]. Reception of FEBC/Radio Teos in Ukrainian on April 28 from 1531 on 9920*BOC 100 kW / 323 deg to CeAs Ukrainian Sun, good * co-ch same 9920 Maoli 1 kW / non-dir to EaAs Chinese Sound of Hope Wrong frequency announcement 1900-2000 MST on 11650, instead of 9920 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/04/reception-of-febcradio-teos-in_29.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News April 28-29, DX LISTENING DIGEST) MST? What`s that? Surely not Moscow Standard Time! (gh, DXLD) ** ROMANIA. (Changes at this time 2100-2156 between DRM and SW transmission on 11650 kHz) 11650. Apr 24, 2019. 2117-2130, Radio Romania International, Tsiganeshti, em Espanhol. Social theme by male announcer; 2122 Romanian sacred music by chorus; "Vale la pena visitar Romania". Boa recepção nesta tarde. Good reception in SW (former DRM), 45444. Now, DRM on 13810 kHz at this time! 11850. Apr 24, 2019. 2044-2056, Radio Romania International, Tsiganechti-ROU, in English. Man and woman announcers present news about Romanian economy; 2051 A short song and female talks; 2056 ID and sked in English and goodbye; IS. Very good reception, 45544 (JRX_Jose Ronaldo Xavier, SWARL Callsign PR7036SWL, Receiver (s): ICOM IC-R6 & Tecsun S-2000, Antenna: Longwire, Cabedelo, Brazil (UTC-3), WOR IOG via DXLD) ** ROMANIA. I don't recall seeing this mentioned before - R Romania Int's Romanian service at 0000-0200 UT (including the classical music hour of Radio Concert Season 0100-0200) observed on 28 April on new 5980 (ex 9790) and 7420. (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, WOR iog via DXLD) And co-channel for RRI 0000-0200 on new 5980 from TV Marti Tue-Sat (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) And of course heavy jamming as we discussed (gh) Frequency changes of Radio Romania International in AM/DRM https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/04/frequency-changes-of-radio-romania_27.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News April 26-27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Another frequency change of Radio Romania International 0000-0156 NF 5980*GAL 300 kW / 310 deg to ENAm Romanian, ex 9790 * ch-ch same 5980 GB 250 kW / 183 deg to Cuba Sp Tu-Sa TV Marti NOTE: 5980 RRI & 5980 TV Marti are unregistered in HFCC Database! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/04/another-frequency-change-of-radio.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News April 27-28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5980, RRI Galbeni, Romanian still on this 49mb channel, S=9+20dB in Rochester NY / MI at 0005 UT on May 1st. S=9+55dB powerhouse in northern Holland, S=9+45dB in Blackpool England. 73 wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, WOR iog via DXLD) See also CUBA [and non] ** RUSSIA. Russia deploys Murmansk jammer system at Baltic base By BBC Monitoring Russia is deploying the Murmansk-BN electronic warfare system to Kaliningrad Region, the website of pro-government Russian newspaper Izvestia reported on 26 April. The system is capable of jamming military communications networks at ranges up to 5,000 km (in exception conditions, 8,000 km), the report said. The first Murmansk systems were deployed in Kaliningrad, with the Baltic Fleet's 841st Separate Electronic Warfare Centre, at the end of last year, the report said. Murmansk-BN is a short-wave shore-based electronic warfare system capable of electronic intelligence gathering (ELINT) missions, as well as intercepting and jamming signals in all shortwave bands, the report said. CREDIT: Izvestia website, Moscow, in Russian 0001 gmt 26 Apr 19 (BBC Monitoring via Mike Cooper, Apr 27, WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Pause WRN broadcasting at 738 kHz. World Radio Network. 738 kHz. Announcement on the air: “From May 1, 2019, the broadcasting of the radio channel by the World Radio Network at the 738 kHz medium-wave frequency will be temporarily suspended for editorial-independent reasons. We will make every effort to return to the air of Moscow and the Moscow region in the near future. Our partners will continue to broadcast programs of the World Radio Network via satellite and on the Internet. Details you will find on the site wrn.ru » (Vasily Gulyaev, Astrakhan, Russia / “deneb-radio-dx” & “open_dx” via Rus-DX 28 April via DXLD) “The news of our channel is the World Radio Network. Unfortunately, from May 1, we will have to temporarily suspend the broadcasting of our broadcasts at a medium wave frequency of 738 kHz. The reason is the consolidation of state structures in our country; therefore, the transmitting center on which our technical facilities are located has lost its independence and entered into a larger structure. And in the process of consolidation, as usual, an inspection was carried out. This check revealed that, in addition to the main facilities, there are technical means of third-party organizations, including ours, at the radio center. And if these funds of third-party organizations for more than two decades did not prevent the transmitting center from successfully operating according to its basic purpose, now they have sharply prevented the new owner. Thus, from May 1, all broadcasting from Kurkino stops. To date, these are just the two remaining transmitters. At a frequency of 612 kHz, this is the “Narodnoe Radio” and “Radonezh” and at a frequency of 738 kHz, the World Radio Network. As for us, the World Radio Network, we are doing everything possible to find a new place to accommodate our facilities and resume broadcasting on medium wave 738 kHz.” (Quote from the program "Radiopanorama" for lovers of long-range radio. The author and presenter - Vadim Alekseyev. 04/27/2019 via Rus-DX 28 April via WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DXLD) WRN Moscow Kurkino 738 kHz off air {for ever?}. Re: WRN World Radio Network 738 kHz. Nachricht KOLOMCHANIN, 29. April 2019 Aus Gruenden, die ausserhalb des Einflussbereichs von KBS World Radio liegen, wird die Uebertragung bei 738 kHz ab dem 1. Mai gestoppt [sic]. Entschuldigung fuer die Unannehmlichkeiten. Wir bemuehen uns, die Sendung auf dieser Frequenz so schnell wie moeglich wieder aufzunehmen. Re: WRN World Radio Network 738 kHz. Nachricht Sergey65, 29. April 2019 Und wie werden die WRNs bei 738 kHz weitergesendet? Ausserdem ist Kurkino in der Region Moskau vertreten. Stellende Sendezentrale MW? Die Sendung des Volksradios 612 kHz stoppt ebenfalls in Kurkino. Es kann festgestellt werden, dass in der Region Moskau der LW / MW / KW-Rundfunk ab dem 1. Mai vollstaendig stirbt. Die ganze Epoche geht ab ... :( Nachricht Sergey65, 29. April 2019 Woertlich vor zehn Jahren vom Rundfunkzentrum Kurkino ausgestrahlt: 612 kHz Narodnoe Radio 20 kW; 693 kHz Deutsche Welle 10 kW; 738 kHz "World Radio Network" 5 kW; 810 kHz Voice of America 20 kW 1044 kHz Radio Liberty 20 kW; 1134 kHz Radio Teos 20 kW; 1260 kHz "BBC" 10 kW; 1503 kHz Center Radio 20 kW. Bis 2006 strahlte auch das Echo des Moskauer Radiosenders FM 91.2 MHz von hier aus. Auf dem Antennenfeld hat die Kurkino-Kampagne laengst ein Auge geworfen. Schon sehr leckeres Land fuer Entwickler, direkt vor der Moskauer Ringstrasse. Nun, KBS schreibt genau ueber die zeitweilige Aussetzung des Rundfunks. Ich weiss nicht warum, aber anscheinend gibt es einen Grund dafuer. Und ja, es waere schoen, eine halbe Stunde auf UKW-Frequenz auszugehen ... Vadim Aleksejev selbst aeusserte sich zu der voruebergehenden Suspendierung aufgrund des Eigentuemerwechsels des Funkzentrums Kurkino und zu der Suche nach Moeglichkeiten, die Sendung im letzten Radio Panorama wiederherzustellen. Nur hier fuerchte ich, dass wir leider nichts dauerhafter als temporaer haben. Zeit im FM wird ihnen kaum jemand geben. [non] Ich denke, die einzige Option ist, von Litauen aus 1386 kHz zu senden. Hier ist der Zeitplan von 1386 kHz von Wieszczintos, Litauen (UTC-Zeit): Radio Baltic Waves International 16.30-17.00 Radio Polen, polnisch 17.00-17.30 Radio Polen, russisch 17.30-18.00 NHK World Japan, russisch 18.00-19.00 Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, russisch 19.00-19.30 Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, Weissrussisch 19.30-03.00 Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, russisch 03.00-03.30 Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, Weissrussisch 03.30-04.00 NHK World Japan, russisch 04.00-05.00 Radio Polen, Weissrussisch 120 Meter Mast ohne Richtungswechsel (Rundstrahlung ist gemeint). Tagsueber gibt es eine grosse Pause, aber nur tagsueber gibt es praktisch keinen Empfang. Ich habe irgendwo gelesen, dass der neue 1386-kHz-Sender nur mit der halben berechneten Leistung arbeitet. In Moskau ist die Hoerbarkeit zufriedenstellend, jedoch mit haeufigem Nachlassen. 738 kHz 5 kW Kurkino District {????? ???????} Moscow {??????} 55 degr 52' 53"N, 37 degr 23' 30"E World Radio Network (WRN) {????????? ?????????} 24h Relays programmes of various international broadcasters. Antenna height: 55 metres.. Ab dem 1. Mai 2019 werden Sendungen auf MW 738 kHz fuer Moskau und die Region Moskau aus Gruenden, die ausserhalb der redaktionellen Kontrolle liegen, voruebergehend eingestellt. Wir werden alles in unserer Macht Stehende tun, um so schnell wie moeglich zu unserer Rundfunkfrequenz zurueckzukehren. Die von unseren Partnern organisierten Uebertragungen ueber Satellit und Internet werden unveraendert fortgesetzt. Weitere Informationen finden Sie unter "Wo und wie Sie uns zuhoeren koennen." Server Status: Server is currently up and public. Stream Status: Stream is up at 64 kbps with 7 of 32 listeners (7 unique) Listener Peak: 32 Stream Title: WRN Russkij Content Type: audio/mpeg Stream Genre: my own Stream URL: (via Roger Thauer-D, A-DX ng May 1) Re: WRN Moscow Kurkino 738 kHz off air. Am 01.05.2019 um 00:21 schrieb Roger: [Zitat aus einem russischen Forum] Die Sendung des Volksradios 612 kHz stoppt ebenfalls in Kurkino. Es kann festgestellt werden, dass in der Region Moskau der LW / MW / KW-Rundfunk ab dem 1. Mai vollstaendig stirbt. Die ganze Epoche geht ab ... :( Hier der Empfang im Grossraum Moskau heute Vormittag: Gluecklicherweise gibt es noch die NDB-Stationen. Man koennte sonst vielleicht meinen: "Antenne kaputt". (Roger Thauer-D, A-DX ng May 1) (all via BC-DX 2 May via DXLD) See also KOREA SOUTH [non] ** SAUDI ARABIA. 17660, R. Saudi Intl. French on 20/4 at *1359-1458* with strange echo sounds – it is well known also as in A18, B18 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF2001D, Folded Marconi ant), May Australian DX News via DXLD) 17705, SBA at 1226 in Arabic with Middle Eastern male vocals and a man with talk – Fair at best Apr 26 – Besides the Islamic Call to Prayer from Saudi Arabia on 17895 and RFI via Madagascar on 17660 this band wasn't worth scanning this morning. And the 13 meter band (21450 to 21850) had zilch in the way of signals. I have seen reports that we are beyond solar minimum and things should start to slowly get better. We can only hope those reports are correct! (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Drake SPR-4 or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 meter off centre-fed dipole (OCFD) or Alpha Delta DX-LB inverted vee dipole, ODXA iog via DXLD) 9675.033, April 27 at 2001, VP talk S5-S7, OOFSOB but clearly off-frequency. It`s SRI in Turkish at 1800-2100, 500 kW, 340 degrees from Riyadh, also USward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15435, April 29 at 1822, weak Arabic talk and pop music. Presumably SBA program 1 extended, as all references show its span is only 1500-1800, General program (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15205.057, April 29 at 1823, VP talk, ME song, also presumed SBA always off-frequency here, and also on past nominal 1545-1757 span per Aoki/NDXC, 1600-1800 per EiBi and HFCC; 500 kW, 320 degrees USward beyond Eurotarget; WRTH lists as Qur`an program. The next day, I am having second thots --- were these really heard at 1722 and 1723 UT, wrong times entered due to DST confusion? Must recheck today. 15205+ and 15435, April 30 at 1738, both SRI transmitters detectable, and both go off at 1757*. So my report yesterday must have had wrong times an hour plus making me think they were running later! 17615.067, April 30 at 1416, JBA carrier from always off-frequency SBA is nevertheless the SSOB, nothing else audible but an ever weaker one on 17780 from BBC Ascension. Nothing audible from the other Riyadhs on 17705 & 17895 which supposedly run until 1500 and are aimed USward unlike 17615 at 190 degrees! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SCOTLAND [non]. Encore - Classical Music on shortwave - broadcast Sunday afternoon in Europe & USA Encore - Classical Music this weekend is being broadcast as usual by Channel 292 (Europe) on 6070 kHz at 1500 UT Sunday 28th April. Back on the air after ten days of maintenance. And by WBCQ on 7490 kHz at 0000-0100 UT Monday 29th April. There is a repeat on 6070 kHz on Friday at 1900 UT. The show this week will start with a fanfare on medieval bladder pipes followed by some Holst and an organ sonata by Bach. We have two lyrical and romantic contemporary pieces from Thomas Adès, also some Telemann and Mozart. Amongst much else - Leonard Bernstein conducts Charles Ives and the programme finishes with some early Russian polyphony. As usual - reception reports and requests for music to play in future programmes will be very welcome. Regular Broadcast times are: 1500–1600 UT Sunday, and repeated 1900-2000 UT Friday on 6070 kHz (Channel 292 Germany). 0000–0100 UT Monday on 7490 (WBCQ – Maine). (Brice Avery - Encore - Radio Tumbril - http://www.tumbril.co.uk April 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH AFRICA. Chris Maroleng's sacking causes further strife at South African broadcaster SABC By Crystal Orderson, in Cape Town Posted on Thursday, 25 April 2019 14:39 https://www.theafricareport.com/12255/chris-marolengs-sacking-causes-further-strife-at-south-african-broadcaster-sabc/ Protests at SABC back in 2016, targeting Zuma acolyte Hlaudi Motsoeneng. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings [caption] South Africa's public broadcaster, the SABC, is once again facing turmoil following the sudden removal of COO Chris Maroleng and concerns over an urgent cash bailout. Several SABC staffers told The Africa Report that they won't be paid this month. The broadcaster needs billions of rand to pay salaries and other outstanding payments to production companies. * The SABC is Africa's largest broadcaster with several news and radio outlets broadcasting in several languages. * The SABC's mission statement says it aims to be a "high-performing, financially viable, digitised, national public broadcaster that provides compelling informative, educational and entertaining content via all platforms". But to do this money is needed. Communications minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams indicated that her department is in discussion with the Treasury for a financial bailout for the ailing broadcaster. * Responding to a written parliamentary question from the Freedom Front Plus party, Ndabeni-Abrahams said: "While government recognises that the SABC requires urgent financial assistance, a final decision on the type of assistance as well as the exact amount has, however, not been reached." * The SABC says it needs R6.8bn ($468m) to stay afloat, with management telling parliament it is facing, "insolvency if nothing [is] done about its financial situation". * SABC staffers told The Africa Report that the government has "no choice" but to bail out the SABC, as it is "too big to fail". How did Africa's largest broadcaster get here? The SABC is reeling from years of poor financial management and corruption within. Under the management of close Zuma ally Hlaudi Motsoeneng there were some serious irregularities, including a deal with Multichoice for which Motsoening got a R11m bonus, and high salaries to several senior staffers. * The SABC has asked the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) to recover millions of dollars from Motsoeneng. He has denied any wrongdoing. Last year the SABC introduced cost-cutting measures including the announcement that it was going to retrench hundreds of workers. This was later abandoned after some pressure from unions. * A senior staffer tells The Africa Report retrenchments are going to be inevitable "as there is a lot of dead wood in the organisation". Maroleng gets the chop Last week, in vintage Ramaphosa style, the President appointed eight new board members to fill the vacancies on the Board with immediate effect. Then, on Tuesday, the newly appointed board announced that its COO, Chris Maroleng (who also goes by Chris Maroleni)'s contract had been terminated with immediate effect following an internal disciplinary hearing. Maroleng was appointed in January 2018 to sort out the mess post-Motsoeneng. * Speaking to SABC radio, Maroleng says he will be seeking legal advice to clear his name. "Certainly, I will be taking legal advice to decide what the next steps are, but it was a harsh decision and I will appeal it as it does not warrant dismissal." * "It's very important that we set the record straight. I acted in the interest of the SABC at all times and perhaps I might have acted in poor judgement with some issues but I will appeal the decision," he said. Charges against Maroleng include: * Approving a monthly acting allowance of just over R15,000 for an employee, despite a written human-resources decision to the contrary. * Two charges relating to protecting a former acting group executive against disciplinary action. In scenes worthy of a corporate soap opera, SABC insiders told The Africa Report that the new SABC board was introduced to staffers on Tuesday and that Maroleng was part of this meeting, unaware that he was facing the axe. * A few hours later Maroleng was on several local radio stations talking about the shock termination. Bongumusa Makhathini, the chairman of the SABC board, told 702 that the board's decision "was the outcome of an independent disciplinary process which came out with these findings and recommendations". Bottom line: The Board is now one member short and far from sorting out SABC's financial problems (via Mike Cooper, April 30, DXLD) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 6115, April 30 at 2208, WWCR is S9 but JBM, presumably TOMBS during this hour M-F, too weak to make a match to 9330+ WBCQ. MORE: See USA WWCR, WBCQ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN [and non]. National election results in REE Noblejas live coverage, noted at 1820 UT April 28 --- Polling stations closed at 1800 UT in Spain mainland, but still open till 1900 UT on Canaries islands in Atlantic Ocean. UT-1hr. REE Noblejas live coverage on air, checked at 1800 to 1820 UT: 9690even towards North America, S=8-9 signal on central Europe, as well as also in NAm in NY, NJ, MI and FL on east coast US. But suffered a little bit by co-channel 9689.918 kHz V of Nigeria Abuja in English. 11670.005, REE to South Africa, Guinea etc. S=7 in Germany, S=5-6 sidelobe signal in NY, NJ, MI and FL on east coast US. 11940even, towards Brazil, ARG, CHL, PRG etc. S=8-9 sidelobe signal in NY, NJ, MI and FL on east coast US. 12030even, towards all Africa, East, Central etc. S=9 backlobe signal in NY, NJ, MI and FL on east coast US [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 28, WOR iog via DXLD) 9690, REE at 2200 with time pips and a man with ID of “Radio Exterior de Espana” and Alison Hughes with “English language service” then stringed instrumentals to 2201 and Justin Coe talking about the results of the national elections with sound bytes about the possibility of forming a coalition government - Very Good May 1 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Drake SPR-4 or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 40 meter off centre-fed dipole (OCFD) or Alpha Delta DX-LB inverted vee dipole, ODXA iog via DXLD) ** SUDAN. 7205, Sudan Radio, Al Aitahab, 1604-1630*, 27-04, Arabic, comments, male, female, East African songs. 25322. Also 0435-0450, 28-04, Arabic comments and East African songs. 25332. 9505, Voice of Africa, Al Aitahab, 1645-1728 , 27-04, French, ID “La Voix de L’Afrique”, news, comments, East African songs, at 1715 English, “Voice of Africa”, news and comments. QRM on 9500. 42432 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol and Lugo, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. FRANCE, Very good signal of Eye Radio via TDF Issoudun on April 29 1600&1616 15410 ISS 250 kW / 139 deg EaAf Juba Arabic/English Mon-Fri https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/very-good-signal-of-eye-radio-via-tdf.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News April 29-30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) MADAGASCAR [non], From May 1 Eye Radio via MGB S.A. leave shortwave: 0400-0500 on 7340 SMG 250 kW / 150 deg to EaAf Juba Arabic* Mon-Fri 1600-1700 on 15410 ISS 250 kW / 139 deg to EaAf Juba Arabic* Mon-Fri * including other langs English/Dinka/Nuer/Shilluk/Bari/Zande/Lutoho My last 2 videos in Juba Arabic & English via TDF Issoudun, April 29 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/from-may-1-eye-radio-via-mgb-sa-leave.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN & SUDAN SOUTH [nons]. Reception of FPU Radio Tamazuj and Radio Dabanga on May 1 Radio Tamazuj 1459-1528 on 15150 MDC 250 kW / 340 deg to EaAf Juba Arabic, very good 1459-1528 on 15400 ISS 250 kW / 139 deg to EaAf Juba Arabic, fair/good Radio Dabanga 1528-1557 on 13745 ISS 250 kW / 139 deg to EaAf Juba Arabic, very good 1528-1557 on 15550 SMG 250 kW / 150 deg to EaAf Juba Arabic, fair/good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/reception-of-fpu-radio-tamazuj-and.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SURINAME. 4990, Radio Apintie, Paramaribo, 0506-0520, 28-04, pop songs. Very weak. 15311 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol and Lugo, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** SWAZILAND. eSWATINI, 11820, TWR. *1527+ 17 April. IS/ID loop (still from "Swaziland"), orchestral bridge into Arabic opening announcements & hymn (Dan Sheedy, Moonlight Beach, CA, Executive Satellit/6m X wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) long path? ** SWAZILAND [and non]. 9500, COLLISION!! R. Romania Int’l, Galbeni in Romanian to SEu,1700-1900, good signal and NF for A19. PLUS TWR Africa, Manzini in Amharic to EAf, 1700-1800, fair signal and NF for A19. Checks on KiwiSDRs in Greece and Qatar also confirmed the problem, showing equal levels of mutual QRM between these two stations. Hopefully, a change coming soon from one of these! 5/4 (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, May Australian DX News via DXLD) ** SWITZERLAND. Switzerland to fully adopt DAB+ and turn off FM World DAB News 2 May 2019 "Switzerland is set to become the second country to turn off the FM band and fully adopt DAB+ technology after Norway. As the country's radio industry continues its path to digitisation, the date for the switchover is due to be announced on 29 August 2019." More about this here: https://www.lalettre.pro/Suisse-on-s-approche-de-la-fin-de-la-FM_a19351.html (Not all FM transmitters have yet been switched off in Norway - Mike) (via Mike Terry, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DXLD) ** TAIWAN. 11100, SOH, Xi Wang Zhi Sheng, Miaoli. Tentative as no ID heard, 1148 music then announcers with music in background. 1153 // 11150 kHz, 1156 // and ~ 1 second behind 11580 kHz. 14/4 (Steven Zollo, Emerald VIC (Icom IC-7300 + random wire or PK active loop, Tecsun PL-680 + whip), May Australian DX News via DXLD) or CNR1 jam ** TAIWAN. CLANDESTINAS, 6370, R. Som de Esperança Int'l, FORMOSA, 1804-1814, 20/4. Mandarim; emissão dirigida à China continental, texto; 25331. 7730, R. Som de Esperança Int'l, FORMOSA, 2107-2117, 15/4. Mandarim; música; 35331 (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal obs. 13-22 April 2019, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I = 5 so no QRM whatsoever, and thus no jamming. How did you make sure you were not instead hearing ChiCom jamming only, also in Mandarin? (gh, DXLD) TAIWAN: 12210 kHz, SOH Xi Wang Zhi Sheng, Miaoli, Chinese, 18/04 2320. Male and female communication. Instrumental music. 35443 (Rudolf Grimm PY2-81502 SWL, São Bernardo SP, BRAZIL, http://dxways-br.blogspot.com YouTube Channel: GrimmSBC HCDX via DXLD) What is your basis for choosing SOH over CNR1 jamming of it?? (gh, ibid.) Hi Glenn, the principal basis is the comparison with another SOH transmissions on the same time. 73, (Rudolf Grimm, ibid.) Hi Rudolf, I am sorry to keep bringing this up, but it is because there is a large risk of misidentifying Chinese jamming as SOH, especially by those who do not understand Chinese (including me!). So when you make such a conclusion, it would be helpful if you explain in the first place what frequency you compared it to, and how you can be sure whether that too was not a jammer instead of SOH. It is true that not all SOH frequencies are jammed, but especially out-of-band, the SOH powers are so low and the jammers are full-power making them far more likely to be heard, unless they are ruled out by e.g. not matching a known CNR1 frequency which is not being used for jamming {or of course, copying a definite SOH ID in Chinese}. 73, (Glenn to Rudolf, ibid.) Re 12210 SOH: Hi Glenn, Thank you for your comment! SOH always is a big mystery to all. 73, (Rudolf Grimm, SP, DXLD) ** TAJIKISTAN. See USA [and non]; TIBET [non] ** TIBET. CHINA, Weak/fair signal of PBS Xizang Holy Tibet, May 2 0700-0800 on 9580 LHA 100 kW / 290 deg to EaAs English: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/weakfair-signal-of-pbs-xizang-holy.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET [non]. TAJIKISTAN, Frequency changes of Voice of Tibet on April 28 1242-1307 NF 9894 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 9876 1307-1312 NF 9884 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 9886 1312-1332 NF 9876 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 9894 1330-1400 NF 9834 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 9884 1332-1400 NF 9889 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 9886 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/04/frequency-changes-of-voice-of-tibet-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News April 28-29, DX LISTENING DIGEST) TAJIKISTAN, Frequency change of Voice of Tibet on April 29: 1330-1337 NF 9826 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 9834 1337-1400 on 9834 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan no change https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/frequency-change-of-voice-of-tibet-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News April 29-30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. Voice of Turkey on very odd freqs 5945.7 & 9635.7 April 25 1830-1925 5945.7 EMR 500 kW / 310 deg to WeEu English, instead of 5945 1930-2025 9635.7 EMR 500 kW / 300 deg to WeEu French, instead of 9635 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/04/voice-of-turkey-on-very-odd-freqs-59457.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News April 25, DX LISTENINIG DIGEST) 9830, April 26 at 2220 check, VOT English is on today, fair. And so is erroneous German at 2313 check, still only fair. 9830, April 27 at 2230, VOT English to N America is AWOL again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Turkey on very odd freqs 11795.7 & 9655.7 kHz on April 29 0830-0955 11795.7 EMR 500 kW / 105 deg WeAs Persian, instead of 11795 1000-1055 9655.7 EMR 500 kW / 072 deg CeAs Georgian, instead of 9655 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/voice-of-turkey-on-very-odd-freqs.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News April 29-30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9830, April 29 at 2247, VOT English to North America has been on, but successfully all the way from *2200? Now it`s sign-off time with ``news pre-recorded`` disclaimer; S8/S9+10, and right into IS loop. And no German extra after 2300. 9830, April 30 at 2206, NO signal from VOT English to North America yet again. Wake up, sloppyrators at Emirler! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9830.007, Only S=8-9 signal at 2316 UT May 1st, TRT German program in progress. Though TRT English scheduled 2200-2257 UT. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 1 via BC-DX 2 May via DXLD) ** UKRAINE. On April 18, the radio station "UA: Ukrainian Radio" resumed broadcasting from a transmitter in the village of Luch of the Nikolaev region at a frequency of 549 kHz. Recall - the broadcasting of the radio station at this frequency was absent for a month due to the underfunding of NSTU (Source: Portal "Terrestrial TV and Radio Broadcasting in Ukraine"). http://proradio.org.ua/news/2019apr.php (via Rus-DX 28 April via DXLD) ** U K [non]. Studio 52 reminder --- Hi All, The UK is a bit too close to hear the 2 hour broadcast on 15620.0 kHz this evening by Studio 52, but a listen on various North American webSDRs shows that it's propagating over there okay, so if you're in North America or a bit further afield and had forgotten about this special broadcast you might want to check it out. It should be on air from 1800 to 2000 UT (Alan Gale, 1806 UT Sat Apr 27, WOR iog via DXLD) https://studio52radiogroup.jimdo.com/ "We are a network of small hobby-radiostations in the Netherlands and Germany. We send our program from the netherlands via our stream and sometimes via a shortwave- transmitter. On shortwave via Nauen / Germany will run the following transmissions: - on the 27th April 2019 from 18 to 20 UT on 15620 kHz with 125 kW for amerika/eastcoast`` O=3-4 via KIWI-SDR in New Jersey (roger, germany, ibid.) Tnx also to roger for the reminder, but not a bit of it here in deep North America. Who cares about reaching the Great Center? Propagation remains pitiful with solar flux at 67 (Glenn, OK, 1826 UT, ibid.) Reception isn't good here in Central Florida, sadly. Extremely weak signal on 15620 kHz on my Tecsun PL-660 with a random wire antenna, at some points the signal is lost completely in fades (John Jurasek, ibid.) Very weak signal at 1800 on 15620 April 27 without video (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, ibid.) ? you mean without audio? (gh) With regard to the currently small SSN and the big North America, the selected frequency (in this time slot) seems to me too high. A prediction for 16 MHz / 1900z shows a field strength wedge only for the US East Coast. My reference values ??may be inaccurate, but these plots usually indicate tendencies. https://www.dropbox.com/s/uncx3i2g8xcpi6e/2019-04-27_1900z_Nauen_16MHz_omni.png?dl=0 (roger, germany, ibid.) Seems to show a ``finger`` into the OK area from the east (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. Passings: JOE FELA, GLENN COOPER We are sad to report the passing of two longtime NRC members: Glenn Cooper of Hingham, MA and Joe Fela of Plainfield NJ. “It is great sadness that I am informing the NRC of the recent passing of long time NRC member Glenn Cooper of Hingham, MA. No details are known. His last DX News magazine was returned to NRC HQ marked ‘Deceased.’” (Wayne Heinen NRC HQ) “Glenn will always be in my memories from the good ol' days of NRC Convention scavenger hunts, especially the Connecticut convention in which he retrieved a roadkill and stored it in the trunk of his car on a hot summer day until final scoring at the end of the hunt. We also planted a fake bumper sticker for a competing team to find and turn in only to be rejected before we presented our catch to win the hunt. Glenn represented the best in team spirit and was fun to have on my scavenger hunt teams over the years.” – Bruce Conti, via NRC Facebook page (NRC DX News May 6, published April 29 via DXLD) “Sorry to report that longtime AM/FM DXer Joe Fela passed away in late March. A memorial Mass was scheduled for Saturday, April 13 at 2 p.m. at St. Bernard's Church, Plainfield NJ. Joe hosted a lot of get-togethers, mostly in the 80s and he will be missed.” (Paul Mount via NRC’s Facebook Page) RIP Joe Fela I just read about this in DX News. Joe Fela passed away at the age of 76. He lived in South Plainfield, NJ. He was a WTFDAer for many many years and didn't leave the club until IBOC killed the FM band there and he just gave up and quit. Joe and I were always in contact. He'd call me when midwest tropo was up and sometimes I'd call him when I noticed Es. This was before the internet, if you can imagine. I drove down to his house in South Plainfield a few times when he hosted local get togethers. He DXed with a McIntosh MR78, which was the only tuner around that could cut through all the NYC/Philly FM garbage where he lived. I always wanted one. He introduced me to antenna phasing and I loved to play with his Bolin phase box and imagine what it would do at my house.?? He came up here to my home once or twice and I always saw him at NRC conventions when the club hosted them here in town. He genuinely was a nice guy. Joe was crazy about pinball machines. He was sort of a "pinball wizard". Even back in the 80s he had plenty of pinball machines in his house. When I found machines at flea markets I'd send him photos of them. He would tell me that he already had them. Pinball took the place of FM DXing. He also did some AM radio DXing, but pinballs were his real love. I found a bit of information about Joe in pinball forums. Rather than post it here, I'll put it in the VUD next month. I'm in a bit of a shock right now (Mike Bugaj, Enfield, CT, WTFDA gg via DXLD) I didn’t know Joe personally but do remember seeing his amazing loggings with the MR78 way back when I first started DXing. RIP, Joe. (Bill Nollman, Farmington, CT, ibid.) Joe was a great guy. I became friends with Joe through Steve West. Joe would always tip me off when something “juicy” was coming in on FM and vice versa. I visited his home as well and after seeing his DX setup I immediately bought an Andy Bolin phase box and another antenna. Joe was always cordial and liked to show off his pinball machines. I will miss Joe (Dan Oetting, Elkton MD, Sent from my iPhone, WTFDA gg via DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. U.S. Broadcaster Under Scrutiny for Disseminating Autocratic Propaganda --- A Western voice tilted toward post-Soviet authoritarian leader in Central Asia, say diplomats and the network https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/u-s-broadcaster-under-scrutiny-for-disseminating-propaganda-11556184602?mod=itp_wsj&ru=yahoo Tajikistan's capital, Dushanbe, where U.S.-owned and -funded Radio Ozodi tilted toward the president and his family, diplomats and the network's parent say. Photo: Yegor Aleyev/TASS/Zuma Press [caption] Jessica Donati April 25, 2019 5:30 a.m. ET WASHINGTON -- Federal officials are scrutinizing the U.S. government's Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty news service, established to promote democratic values abroad, after complaints it has distributed foreign propaganda favorable to authoritarian regimes in Central Asia, according to the network, its employees and an internal State Department memo. State Department officials sent a six-page memo to the leaders of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty earlier this year criticizing a pro-government stance by the service's Tajikistan network and urging them to intervene following repeated complaints by U.S. diplomats, network employees and academics specializing in Central Asia. They said the network was providing programming favorable to Tajikistan's president, Emomali Rahmon, his government and family. The State Department officials also noted that they had asked the State Department Office of Inspector General to investigate several contracts between the Tajikistan network, called Radio Ozodi, and a broadcast company controlled by a relative of Mr. Rahmon for evidence of corruption and fraud. The contracts were intended to deliver U.S.-backed programming to a wider audience. Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty said it too had asked the State Department Office of Inspector General to investigate. Its officials acknowledged the complaints in a statement published online after The Wall Street Journal approached the agency with questions about them. "Earlier this month, RFE/RL asked the State Department's Office of the Inspector General to investigate," it said in the statement in late March. "Corrective action will follow any investigation by the OIG, as warranted." The statement said the Tajikistan service had "failed to live up to RFE/RL standards." The Office of Inspector General, which doesn't confirm or deny whether it is conducting investigations, declined to comment. A State Department spokesman declined to discuss the details of the memo reviewed by the Journal. The official said the State Department had raised concerns with Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. Representatives of Mr. Rahmon, who has ruled Tajikistan since 1992 and has been criticized in the U.S. and internationally for nepotism and for stifling dissent and religious freedom, didn't respond to requests for comment about the coverage and other issues. Radio Free Europe, founded in 1950 to broadcast to Eastern Europe, and Radio Liberty, founded in 1953 to broadcast to the Soviet Union in Russian, both of them to combat Soviet propaganda, merged in 1976. Use of the network's broadcasts to support authoritarian regimes would run counter to the network's mission statement, which says it is designed to "promote democratic values" in places where independent journalism is banned. Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmon meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow last week. Photo: Alexander Nemenov/Press Pool [caption] The network is overseen by the U.S. Agency for Global Media, or USAGM, an independent agency formerly known as the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which also controls Voice of America and other outlets and is monitored by the State Department. In the wake of the complaints and continuing investigation, two high-level officials of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, its regional director for Central Asia and its Tajikistan service director, have resigned, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty said. Indicating the depth of concern, a group of academics who specialize in Central Asia wrote in a letter published in March on the Open Democracy website: "Radio Ozodi, once the most credible source of news and information in the country, has become a mouthpiece for the deeply corrupt authoritarian government of Tajikistan's President, Emomali Rahmon." The academics and U.S. diplomats said the network's leaders haven't recognized the extent of the problem and the potential damage to U.S. credibility in the region. "I don't think it should be swept under the rug," said Edward Lemon, a fellow at the Daniel Morgan Graduate School of National Security in Washington, D.C., who was among scholars who signed the published letter. "We want to raise public awareness." Among coverage criticized as questionable, most of which was carried in Tajik, an article on the Tajikistan service's website in December reported that youth in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe increasingly were asking their barbers to style their hair like that of Mr. Rahmon's oldest son, Rustam Emomali, his political heir, who is the city's mayor. It quoted a student explaining that many consider the son "a model of a young and successful leader and they are trying to imitate him in everything." Share Your Thoughts What is the role today of civilian broadcast services begun during the Cold War? Do today's geopolitical environment or media technologies make their job different or more difficult? Join the discussion below. Another report, in January, cited a survey by the police force that found that 81% of the population in Tajikistan approved of the force, which has been criticized for its treatment of dissidents and detainees. The article since has been removed, although archived copies remain. The Tajikistan news service also carried a report earlier this year stating that frequently blocked social-media sites, a major vehicle for the views of banned opposition groups in the country, cause divorce and family problems, according to academics. Meanwhile, complaints of broadcasting pro-government propaganda like those against the Tajikistan news service have also been leveled in recent years against the network's news service for nearby Kazakhstan, prompting an internal review by Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty in 2017. Network officials said the complaints alleged that the Kazakhstan service had shifted to a pro-nationalist, pro-government stance several years ago, but the review found insufficient evidence to support the claims. The State Department memo on the Tajikistan service, written by officials of the department's Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, said relationships between members of the Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty staff and Tajik government officials may have allowed the network to fall under government influence for several years. "There are serious concerns about RFE/RL's credibility in Central Asia, particularly the Tajik language service," the memo said. "The outlet's known [U.S. government] affiliation has undermined USG regional messaging and credibility with foreign audiences and governments." The memo said the contracts, with a local entity, Radio Imruz, covering a period from August 2016 to July 2019, had been reported by the State Department to the Office of Inspector General because the local entity is owned by President Rahmon's brother-in-law, Hasan Asadullozoda. People wave Tajik flags during a 2013 rally in Dushanbe supporting Mr. Rahmon. Photo: Agence France-Presse/Getty Images [caption] USAGM officials said the contracts were awarded after a competitive-bidding process. U.S. government records list the value of contracts at about $140,000. Mr. Asadullozoda didn't respond to a request for comment. Daisy Sindelar, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty's acting president, confirmed that State Department officials had shared the memo with her, but she said in an interview that the memo wasn't an official complaint and that some claims were impossible to verify because they were unsourced. A USAGM spokeswoman said when asked about the document: "To our knowledge, there is no official report from the Department of State about RFE/RL's Tajik service." Ms. Sindelar confirmed some of the memo's assertions, including that the Tajikistan service's director, Sojida Dhakfarova, who stepped down this month, was formerly married to a onetime senior Tajik government official, Saimukhtor Bekov, head of investigations in Tajikistan's antinarcotics agency. Mr. Bekov was arrested in 2015 by the Tajik government on bribery-related charges, according to media reports and the memo. Radio Ozodi didn't carry news of his arrest when it happened, even though it was widely covered in local media, according to the memo. The broadcasting service reported the arrest 11 days later, omitting Mr. Bekov's name, the memo said, an assertion confirmed by Ms. Sindelar. Mr. Bekov was later found guilty and sentenced to a prison term. Ms. Dhakfarova didn't respond to a request for comment, and Mr. Bekov couldn't be reached (via Mike Cooper, WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DXLD) ** U S A. Updated summer A-19 schedule of OCB Radio Marti: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/04/updated-summer-19-schedule-of-ocb-radio.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News April 25, DX LISTENINIG DIGEST) viz.: 0000-0300 on 5980#GB 250 kW / 183 deg to Cuba Spanish Tue-Sat 0000-0300 on 6030 GB 250 kW / 205 deg to Cuba Spanish 0000-0300 on 7335 GB 250 kW / 225 deg to Cuba Spanish 0000-0300 on 7365 GB 250 kW / 184 deg to Cuba Spanish 0300-0500 on 6030 GB 250 kW / 205 deg to Cuba Spanish 0300-0500 on 7335 GB 250 kW / 225 deg to Cuba Spanish 0300-0500 on 7435 GB 250 kW / 184 deg to Cuba Spanish 0500-0700 on 6030 GB 250 kW / 205 deg to Cuba Spanish 0500-0700 on 7335 GB 250 kW / 225 deg to Cuba Spanish 0500-0700 on 7365 GB 250 kW / 184 deg to Cuba Spanish 0700-1000 on 5980 GB 250 kW / 184 deg to Cuba Spanish 0700-1000 on 6030 GB 250 kW / 205 deg to Cuba Spanish 1000-1200 on 6030 GB 250 kW / 205 deg to Cuba Spanish 1000-1200 on 7335 GB 250 kW / 184 deg to Cuba Spanish 1000-1200 on 9805 GB 250 kW / 183 deg to Cuba Spanish 1200-1300 on 7335 GB 250 kW / 184 deg to Cuba Spanish 1200-1300 on 7365 GB 250 kW / 205 deg to Cuba Spanish 1200-1300 on 9805 GB 250 kW / 183 deg to Cuba Spanish 1300-1400 on 7335 GB 250 kW / 184 deg to Cuba Spanish 1300-1400 on 7365 GB 250 kW / 205 deg to Cuba Spanish 1300-1400 on 13605 GB 250 kW / 184 deg to Cuba Spanish 1400-2000 on 11860 GB 250 kW / 183 deg to Cuba Spanish Mon-Fri* 1400-2000 on 11930 GB 250 kW / 172 deg to Cuba Spanish 1400-2000 on 13605 GB 250 kW / 184 deg to Cuba Spanish 2000-2200 on 9565 GB 250 kW / 184 deg to Cuba Spanish 2000-2200 on 11860 GB 250 kW / 183 deg to Cuba Spanish Mon-Fri* 2000-2200 on 11930 GB 250 kW / 184 deg to Cuba Spanish 2200-2300 on 5980#GB 250 kW / 183 deg to Cuba Spanish Mon-Fri 2200-2300 on 9565 GB 250 kW / 184 deg to Cuba Spanish 2200-2300 on 11930 GB 250 kW / 184 deg to Cuba Spanish 2300-2400 on 5980#GB 250 kW / 183 deg to Cuba Spanish Mon-Fri 2300-2400 on 7335 GB 250 kW / 205 deg to Cuba Spanish 2300-2400 on 9565 GB 250 kW / 184 deg to Cuba Spanish 2300-2400 on 11930 GB 250 kW / 184 deg to Cuba Spanish #TV Marti, not parallel on other frequencies of R. Marti * 11860 expanded to daily as monitored by gh! ??????????? ?? Observer ? 3:50 PM (via DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1979 monitoring: confirmed first American SW broadcast, Friday April 26 at 2200 on WRMI 9955, good, not upcut at start, but final number ``1979`` overlapped by fill music. Also confirmed UT Saturday April 27 at 0130 on WRMI 7780, fair. Thomas Völkner advises that Hamburger Lokalradio is off air this weekend for maintenance. Next: 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 [some canceled?] 1030 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany [off this week] 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 0130 UT Monday WRMI 9395 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 0930 UT Monday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW 1815 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 0800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW [2 editions] 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 WORLD OF RADIO 1979 monitoring: confirmed Saturday April 27 at 2100 on WRMI 9955, fair. Also confirmed UT Sunday April 28 at 0030 on WRMI 7730, very good. Also confirmed UT Sunday April 28 at 0339 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO, S9+20 vs plenty of storm crashes, about 10 minutes into, so started circa 0329. Next: 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 0130 UT Monday WRMI 9395 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 0930 UT Monday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW 1815 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 0800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW [2 editions] 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 WORLD OF RADIO 1979 monitoring: confirmed Sunday April 28 at 2130 on WRMI 7780, JBA. Also confirmed UT Monday April 29 at 0130 on WRMI 9395, good S9+10 Also confirmed UT Monday April 29 at 0230 on WRMI 7780, fair Also confirmed UT Monday April 29 from 0300 on Area 51 webcast, and this week also modulating on WBCQ 5130.42, but VP in storm noise from Kansas. Also confirmed UT Monday April 29 at 0330 on WRMI 9955, very poor. Next: 1815 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 0800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW [2 editions] 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 WORLD OF RADIO 1979 monitoring: confirmed UT Tue Apr 30 at 0114 the 0100 on WRMI 7780, fair. Next: 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 WORLD OF RADIO 1979 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday May 1 from 2100 on WRMI 9955 S8/S9+10, also on WBCQ 7490.15v, JBA S3-S5. Also confirmed UT Thursday May 2 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, fair. WORLD OF RADIO 1980 contents: Antarctica, Bougainville, Brasil, China, Cuba non, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Guinea, Indonesia, Iran, Korea North non, Kurdistan non, Kuwait, Madagascar, Mali, Mongolia non, Myanmar, Nigeria non, Northern Mariana Islands, Papua New Guinea, Russia, Switzerland, Tajikistan, USA, Venezuela non; Hitlist and DX/SWL/Media programs; and the propagation outlook WOR 1980 uploaded at 2318 UT Thu May 2 ready for listening. Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html Also linx to podcast services. SW broadcasts should be: 0930 UT Friday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW ND 2200 UT Friday WRMI 9955 [NEW] to SSE 0130 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE 0629 UT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany to WSW 1000 UT Saturday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW [May 11, alt weeks] ND 1130 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 to SSE 1431 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany to WSW 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM ND 2100 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 to SSE 0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7730 to WNW 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315] ND 0830 UT Sunday WRMI 5850 5950 7730 [some canceled?], NW/WNW/WNW 1030 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 0130 UT Monday WRMI 9395 to NNW 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE 0930 UT Monday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW ND 1815 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania ND 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 0800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW [2 editions] ND 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 to SSE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE [it appears we will now be running on a Friday-to-Thursday cycle, so freshest new airings are on weekends] Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI: ** U S A: 5850, WRMI, FL, Okeechobee, IS in progress as my recording started, and into SW Radiogram #96 with the usual mix of digital text and photos on an analog SW signal, this week including stories about: KNL Networks worldwide shortwave mesh network, an MFSK64 story about a Pocket sized VLF antenna and some Japanese text. This week's images included one with a 'cuteness quotient' well off the scale: A baby goat kisses a dog at One tulip stands above the rest the Pet Expo 2019 in Bucharest. at the Tulip Fields at Burnside Farms in Nokesville, Virginia As usual an ad for Tecsun Australia at BoH and ID, and into WOR #1978. GH provided news about Antarctica; mention of the same 'mesh network' covered in SW Radiogram; and Sudan's broadcasting in light of recent political issues there. Weaker than usual: 44544 0754-0900* recorded as I slept, occasionally fading in far better (as the photos above show!) 21/Apr SDRplay +SDRuno +ANC-4 +FLDigi for digi-bits +randomwire (Kenneth Vito Zichi, MARE Tipsheet April 26 via DXLD) SWRG#97 via 15770 kHz [WRMI]. Sonogram: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5jv9vmrluhtwt26/2019-04-26_SWRG97_15770kHz.png?dl=0 RSID-settings: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mg6o2ssrinlbon0/2019-04-26_FLDIGI_RSID_settings_roger.png?dl=0 (roger, germany, April 27, WOR iog via DXLD) 15770, April 26 at 1329, a few seconds of beepery as the new Friday 1300 time for Kim`s `SW Radiogram` is concluding on WRMI, music fill, vintage WNYW-style ID, and 1330 intro Alameda Bible Fellowship for synthetic English Bible readings, Jeremiah 34; seems they are stuck on this book, mentioned elsewhen? 15770 has been extended an hour earlier before 1400 overturning to SMTV (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) TIAMS011 new: 9395 kHz / 0130z / Thursday-UTC via SWRG-fb-group: Scan Smith 2 Std. [hours ago] "....Frequency + Time Change for "This Is A Music Show", begins tonight! 9395 kHz 0130 UT THURSDAY = Wed. evenings in the Americas (930 pm ET/630 pm PT). 5850 kHz will continue at the regular time (0100 UT Thurs) for the next two weeks during the transition...." https://tinyurl.com/y39fpp9r 5850 kHz/315° ===> 9395 kHz/355° https://www.dropbox.com/s/bw3mfmhf8w3h84z/2019-05-01_WRMI_SWRG_TIAMS_azi.png?dl=0 last TIAMS010: http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/SW_Radiogram_2019-04-27.htm#TIAMS 95% music / 5% digital data (playlist & show-cover) (roger thauer, germany, May 1, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DXLD) WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ: ** U S A. 7490.17v, UT Sat April 27 at 0004, WBCQ, Allan Weiner from Deland of Fla opening what he has just renamed from today, ``Allan And Angela Worldwide`` in honour of his co-host wife (who rarely says much), and tells Larry Will to change it on the website: not yet; so now it`s AAAWWW. Soon says the 500 kW Superstation is getting close to on-air testing (like it was two weeks ago). AAAWWW also on 9330+v instead of TOMBS; something else on 5130+v; and no signal a tall on 3265-v. Have not heard yet from John Carver for the rest of the story this week (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) AAAWWW UT Sat April 27 on WBCQ: John Carver heard it all: ``Tonight's show started more or less on time on 7490. Allan and Angela in the studio in FLA. Allan states that he's not feeling well. Also announces that from this evening on his show would be known as Allan & Angela Worldwide and instructed Larry to change the name on the program schedule. First phone call at 0006 from Dave in Indiana. A very drunk phone call. A much calmer Allan tackles recent political problems yet again. Phone call at 0015 with a reception report and comments on the political talk. The longer he talked the more wound up Allan got, to the point that he announced that he'd seen demons before and figured out how to drive them away with electromagnetic frequencies and that the last time he tried that, one of his transmitters caught on fire and was destroyed. He also trucked out his old rap about knowing that the FBI, CIA etc. monitored his program and he appealed to the Secret Service to be more vigilant in their watch of Trump as he was sure that someone would attempt to kill him. Phone call at 0042 from Dave in Indiana again. Reading of emails at 0049. Phone call at 0051 from Canada with a question about the previous email that Allan read. Dave in Indiana on the phone again at 0053 and still drunk. In response to an email, Allan announced that the superstation would begin testing on 9330 this coming week. Possibly on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday and to check his tweets for further information. Next email took him to task for ruining shortwave with his political ranting and raving. Allan said he was sorry the listener felt that way and that he was free to turn the knob on his radio to something else but it was a free speech station, his transmitter and his program and he would speak whatever was on his mind. Then he said he would try to have more radio talk on next week`s show. Quick prayer at 0100. Show off the air at 0104 followed by music. 7490 was off the air at 0109. John`` 9330.17 approx., May 1 at 1552, WBCQ is JBA, sounds like Brother Scare same as on 9395 WRMI, but never synchronized. Allan Weiner twitted circa 12 UT May 1: ``@AllanWBCQ 4h4 hours ago --- Testing the 500KW free speech flamethrower this week. RF being made today. Check 9330khz. All systems go. Exciting stuff this real radio stuff. One transmitter to billions of receivers. In real time. By real people. Direct to you from WBCQ.`` But obviously not yet. When on, it should be better than JBA and closer to 9330.000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Testing the 500 KW free speech flamethrower this week. RF being made today. Check 9330 khz. All systems go. Exciting stuff this real radio stuff. One transmitter to billions of receivers. In real time. By real people. Direct to you from WBCQ. Info: Allan Weiner? @AllanWBCQ 5/1/19 (via Dino Bloise, FRecuencia Al Día - FL, May 1, WOR iog via DXLD) Unlikely first tests will be full bore 500 kW. Old transmitter has been consistently off-frequency plus 0.1 to 0.2 kHz. Surely the new one will not be (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1980, ibid.) Either they’re not doing it now or much of the signal is flying over me here in eastern NY. Barely audible on 9330 with someone screaming something I wouldn’t want to hear anyway. :) (John Figliozzi, Halfmoon, NY, 1417 UT May 1, ibid.) What I'm hearing out west here is JBA on 9330.107 kHz at 1645. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta, ibid) In Michigan I'm hearing a fairly clear Brother Stair (he sounds young in this recording!) at about S 7-9 signal level (I'd call it a '4' in SIO) on 9330.07 ish per my calibrated SDR. (So unless WWV is wrong ....) And yes, he's screaming quite a bit, but he's no Blalock! ;) If this is the test, I'm not impressed. But then 'today' is a rather broad range of when this test might happen! 73 //Ken (Ken Zichi, 1724 UT, ibid.) WBCQ Testing 9330 kHz --- at 1738 I make them to be 9330.074, not much audio (Don Moman VE6JY, AB, ibid.) Here in Naples, FL, at about 2135 UT on 1 May, peak signal strength of USA stations: 9265 kHz: 33 dBmu [WINB PA] 9330 kHz: 28 dBmu [WBCQ ME] 9350 kHz: 45 dBmu {WWCR TN] (— Richard Langley, ibid.) And at 2300 a WBCQ ID and into 'What a Friend we have in Jesus' with 'moaning' and mumbling in the background which is characteristic of the "good" brother S. 9330.12 ish and MUCH stronger/better modulation. SINPO 4+4+54+4 here in Williamston MI. Seems unlikely to be the new transmitter but I suppose stranger things have been known to happen. 73 (//Ken Zichi, ibid.) At Pirate Joe`s. Good radio by good people. That’s what we have at WBCQ. Catch his show on 3265 kHz from 3pm to 7pm Eastern M-F. Superstation testing continues. Some HV issues. Simple fix. Testing today. Check 9330khz. Amazing equipment the CEC transmitter. [caption:] Pirate Joe at the control (Allan Weiner @AllanWBCQ 43m43 minutes ago, twit circa 15 UT May 2, via gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DXLD) 9330.17v, May 2 at 0036, WBCQ is S9+20 with TOMBS about Planet X, but doubt it`s the new 500 kW transmitter which AW said would start testing with RF May 1, so we have been checking it all day. I expect initially they will not be running it full-bore, but also expect it would not be off-frequency like the old transmitter. Random chex later May 2 still find no sign of powerful new transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re: [WOR] WBCQ Testing 9330 kHz [?] Brother star and peaking at +20 in central Ohio with ID, 0303 UT, 500 kW?? (Bill Amann Jr, May 2, WOR iog via DXLD) OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHER: ** U S A. 9475 & 5830, April 26 at 2331, neither WTWW-1 frequency is on the air. 9475 & 5830, April 27 at 2000, both WTWW-1 frequencies are still/again off, even during ham radio diversion from racist SFAW. Also neither audible at 1600 April 28 check: transmitter breakdown rather than mixup? 9475, April 30 at 1738, NO signal from WTWW-1 day frequency, and yes, once again, Ted has failed to QSY from night frequency 5830 where it`s managing S6-S8 over a fully insolated one-megameter path. And 9475 still off at 1944: See also 9470 WEWN report (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9265V, UT Sat April 27 at 0240, beepery from Kim`s `Shortwave Radiogram` via WINB, and yes, this transmitter is still wobbling. I wonder if that degrade SWRG decode? Maybe not if BFO not engaged (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 11610, April 27 at 0245, call-in about Luther on the Catholic Radio Network, S9/+20. Did he repent on deathbed? It`s WEWN`s new English frequency overnight I had not noticed before, since ex- 11520 was easily overlooked. This one fades to JBA carrier by 0252. EWTN website still shows B-18 sked of 11520, et al.! : http://ewtn.org/radio/freq.htm So check HFCC A-19 registrations, which may be excessive beyond usage: English 00-09 11610, 09-13 9470, 19-24 15610 Spanish 00-14 5970, 14-24 12050 BTW, CNR westward from Beijing is also on 11610 at 23-13. Not ``Bejing`` as WEWN spells its 335-degree target on 9470. 9470, April 29 at 1941, surprised to find something here, Christian call-in in English, S8-S9, but tuning LSB totally separable from much stronger 9475 WTWW-1 at S9+20. 1947 EWTN ID in passing, guest a know-it-all about Catholic theology. 9470 is of course WEWN English frequency registered for 09-13 UT only, 335 degrees toward ``Bejing``. After a 6-hour break, English supposed to resume at 1900, 85 degrees for Africa on 15610 --- but nothing on 15610 now. Recheck 2251, 9470 is still on with call-in past 2300. So is this nevertheless deliberate, 9470 propagating much better around here anyway than 15610? Or a mistake, failure to retune transmitter after previous emission? Normally, two US SW stations would never be authorized simultaneously only 5 kHz apart! We shall soon find out if this recur from 1900 UT April 30 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DX LISTENING DIGEST) New Frequency for EWTN? Noted earlier --- they've been a 'DX catch' of late for their English broadcasts, with 19 metres being rather sketchy in this low end of the solar cycle. This is a frequency they've been known to use at other times, so with luck this is a planned change rather than a 'whoops.' 9470 (nf?), WEWN with OM talx re "Father Elijah" books, and Michael O'Brien (Referred to him in the third person so it wasn't an interview with the author; don't know who the guy was!) Mention of 'Ave Maria Radio' at 2136 and then into a bit from the "American Freedom Law Center" which has been targeted as a 'hate group' by the "ultra left wing Southern Poverty Law Center" (sic) and which has filed a lawsuit against Michigan because of the new Attorney General's agreeing with the SPLC's designation. /(OK, then ....)/ EWTN publishing ad and into ID as EWTN and talx re stocks and the economy. This is a good move as the 19 metre channel was rarely heard of late, Even this was fading in and out. Modulation was rather 'subdued' but widening the bandwidth helped. I DID have to do so 'asymmetrically' though to avoid splatter from 9475 WTWW. The ability to 'tweak' bandwidths on an SDR is a cool feature! 454+43+ on average, down to 241+ and up to 4+54+ at rare times, but mostly fair to good.2120-2140 29/Apr, SDRplay +SDRuno +randomwire (Ken Zichi, April 30, WOR iog via DXLD) 9470, April 30 at 1944, NO signal from WEWN English unlike yesterday, when 9470 was running 19-24 UT instead of correct 15610 which is indeed back on today altho JBA, and still at 2212 check. So 9470 on April 29 must have been a mistake, or possibly a test. Ironically, today there would have been no ACI from 9475 WTWW since it`s again stuck on night frequency 5830 in daytime. [and non]. 12050, what about the other transmitter for Radio Católica Mundial = WEWN Spanish? April 30 at 1945, an S3-S5 signal with call-in YL host, but *not* in Spanish, must be Kanuri from Radio Ndarason International, which thinx it`s a good idea to share any frequency with a 250/500 kW transmitter anywhere else, but lux out today with WEWN evidently off. Originally, RNI was all via Ascension but now HFCC A-19 shows 19-21 is via Woofferton UK, while 18-19 (if really active? not in Aoki/NDXC) remains Ascension. Furthermore it shows WEWN 12050 as only 100 kW, which I could certainly believe from its underpowering signal when audible. By 2212 a JBA carrier on 12050 presumably now RCM. 500 kW transmitters downgraded to 100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7505v, April 29 at 1256, WRNO VG S9+20 in Christian Chinese, presumably about to close at 1300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15825 & 13845, April 29 around 1320, both these WWCRs are getting a sporadic-E boost altho not imbooming yet, rather than JBA over too-close 1-megameter path. Correlates nicely with an OK/TN contact on 10m shown by DX Maps - but not into VHF yet. 5890, April 30 at 0604, WWCR open carrier at S9+10/20, and also 3215 at S9+20/30 with some hum; while the other two are modulating on 4840 and 5935. Another Tuesday when this happens reliably, altho I can`t be sure it does not also happen certain other days of week. WHY? 5890, it`s Wednesday May 1 but WWCR is still out of order like Tuesday: at 0503, open carrier/dead air at S5-S8 about equal level to modulated 5935. 3215 is S9+20 with TOMBS at 0504, despite WWCR`s own pdf program schedule still dated April 1 showing this at 0300-0500 only Tue-Sat, then off the rest of the night. TOMBS is still running on 3215 at 0610 check, when 5890 is still OC/DA. 4840 which was modulating earlier, is now S9+10 of OC/DA despite scheduling as TOMBS all-night 0600-1200 weekdays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 890, April 26 at 1133 UT, with KTLR OKC nulled, ``Escúchenos, la nueva radio cristiana``, i.e. KVOZ; searching on that slogan leads to two of my own logs in 2011 & 2012, so it`s hardly new! NRC AM Log shows CoL as Del Mar Hills, with address in McAllen, so a suburb of that? NO. Del Mar Hills is not to be found even in the large-scale Rand McNally road atlas. Radio-locator shows it`s Laredo: https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=KVOZ&service=AM&h=D (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re 890 KVOZ Del Mar Hills TX --- FCC's CDBS: http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/sta_det.pl?Facility_id=6429 (Wayne Heinen, nrc-am gg via DXLD) Which still does not reveal we are really talking about Laredo market, not even a zipcode clue beyond McAllen studio (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. 1170, KLOK, San Jose possibly pattern-cheating. For years 1170 KLOK San Jose (as heard here in the desert) abruptly "disappeared" when they used to switch to nighttime pattern at their local sunset. I would lose their fascinating-sounding south Asian format that would fade-in for some before they dropped out at sunset. Lately (for the past few months) however, I regularly hear KLOK now under 1160 KSL's upper IBOC hash-carrier on a random-wire antenna but also (on a loopstick facing San Jose) on top and sounding fine on my home-made TRF receiver (TA7642-based) with large loop-stick (and in a wine bottle box) tuned to 1170 now at 0845-0855z strong, with them very armchair - 28 April 2019. Looking at their daytime vs. nighttime pattern, the daytime lobe would put a good signal here to the east. Dunno if they are dropping power at sunset tho (Steve McGreevy, -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com - WOR iog via DXLD) ** U S A. NOTE: All logs appended [BELC] were made at the Belleair Causeway Boat Ramp county park parking lot with the R-75 and MW loop. One raccoon encounter, which fortunately the dog kept at bay, given my fear of that particular varmint (raccoons, not the dog). 630, KENTUCKY, WLAP, Lexington, 0959, April 18, 2019. "News, talk, weather... home of the Kentucky Derby... WLAP, Lexington" into net news until 1003, then quick headlines insert via WKYT-TV, "News Radio 630, WLAP" ID and weather at 1004. Very good. Side note: I recall passing WKYT-TV's beautiful Colonial-style brick and white columns building and antenna in the rolling grass hills site on Winchester Road often when conducting training for a few weeks in Winchester. October of 1998 I think. [BELC] 1500, FLORIDA, WPSO, New Port Richey. A non-log pre-sunrise. They have definitely ceased their years-long violation of operating 24/7 instead of their licensed D1. This after "someone" locally grew tired of this and filed an online complaint with the FCC in January, they who issued this: https://www.fcc.gov/document/akma-broadcast-network-inc-licensee-station-wpso-am-new-port Noted local early afternoon the same day at the house with the usual Greek programming. Thanks suppressed source for supplying the FCC link. [BELC] (Terry Krueger, Clearwater, FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also FM 101.9 log below ** U S A. 96.3 MHz, FLORIDA, WPCQ-LP, Clearwater, 1525, April 21, 2019. Uh oh, here we go again. Noting the audio on this Pinellas County municipal government licensed is just a staccato half-second or so blips of audio on what's normally a roughly 10 minute loop of safety tips and PSAs. Recall that in November, 2018 and after many weeks of just an open carrier, I emailed my County Commissioner, who in turn forwarded it to the appropriate one(s) at the facility located at US-19 and Drew Street. A few days later, the problem was fixed. Another email to my Commissioner was sent this day, and on April 23, I received a call from one of the County techs that everything was rebooted and running properly. Confirmed that just right after the call. 101.9 MHz, FLORIDA, W270DH (WPSO translator), New Port Richey, 1642, April 18, 2019. Didn't realize -- or forgot -- that they have a translator. And surprised I can hear it weakly at the house, about 20 miles away. It's at the maximum allotted 250 watts and coming from the same site as the 1500 kc/s WPSO antenna. Greek programming. Since a translator can continue to operate all night even when a D1 AMer simulcast source must sign off, all the more reason WPSO had no excuse to violate overnights (see 1500 kHz entry). 103.9 MHz, FLORIDA, W280DW, (WSMR, Sarasota simulcast translator), Tampa (USF campus), 1540 April 22, 2019. Checking to see if the never-used GE Superadio III still works (it does), stumbled upon this forgotten one. All classical music format, fairly decent signal and reminiscent of Radio Musical Nacional save for English occasional announcers. This block, a Frédéric François Chopin cover band (no original members), lady with WSMR ID and 89.1 MHz frequency, along with HD2 on WUSF 89.7 MHz, and this translator. **************************************** Florida Low Power Radio Stations: https://sites.google.com/site/floridadxn/florida-low-power-radio-stations **************************************** (Terry Krueger, Clearwater, FL, IC-R75, NRD-535, ICF-7600GR, longwires, active MW loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. The Lo-Fi Voices That Speak for America "Even in decline, AM radio matters more than you might think. A photo and audio tour of the hosts driving the conversation." https://www.politico.com/interactives/2019/magazine-am-radio-still-matters/ (via Kim Elliott, Apr 28, WOR iog via DXLD) A photo tour of interesting AM stations. https://www.politico.com/interactives/2019/magazine-am-radio-still-matters/ (via Benn Kobb, DXLD) Lots of still photos and audio clips of each - don`t sound lo-fi to me: WOLB 1010 Baltimore MD [black/urban] KTNN 660 St Michaels AZ [Navajo] KRVN 880 Lexington NE [rural] KYYS 1250 Kansas City KS [Spanish] WGIR 610 Manchester NH [moderate political talk] KJEF 1290 Lake Charles LA [Cajun] (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** UZBEKISTAN. Very good signal of Radio Menschen&Geschichten April 28 1700-1800 7595 TAC 100 kW / 301 deg to CeEu German last Sun AM mode & 1830-1930 7595 TAC 100 kW / 301 deg to CeEu German DRM, BUT NO SIGNAL https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/04/very-good-signal-of-radio-menschen.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News April 28-29, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN. Special broadcast of Vatican Radio Armenian Liturgy on April 26 [Fri]: 0830-0950 15595 SMG 250 kW / 098 deg CeAs Armenian, very good signal 0830-0950 17590 SMG 250 kW / 084 deg CeAs Armenian, very good signal 1130-1200 15595 SMG 250 kW / 100 deg N/ME English Fri - as scheduled 1130-1200 17590 SMG 250 kW / 112 deg N/ME English Fri - as scheduled https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/04/special-broadcast-of-vatican-radio.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News April 25-26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Special broadcast of Vatican Radio Ukrainian Liturgy on April 27: 0755&0855 9645 SMG 250 kW / 060 deg EaEu Ukrainian, very good signal 0755&0855 11930 SMG 250 kW / 062 deg EaEu Ukrainian, very good signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/04/special-broadcast-of-vatican-radio_27.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News April 26-27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VENEZUELA [non]. Where Is SW? Is VOA or Marti covering this? https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/30/media/venezuela-cnn-bbc/index.html (— Richard Langley, WOR iog via DXLD) Radio Marti is offering continuous coverage from my understanding, I've been listening on 9565 kHz and all I've been hearing are reports on Venezuela (John Jurasek, FL, 2333 UT April 30, WORLD OF RADIO 1980, ibid.) Yes, Radio Marti has continuous coverage with frequent telephone interviews. Fairly good signal on 6030 kHz here in Naples, FL, at 0200 UT with jamming well in the background for the most part (— Richard Langley, 0212 UT may 1, ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, April 26 at 1138: 702, 837-WSW with two beating, 1098, 774 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, April 29 at 1121- 1128 UT, before LSR of 1141 here:: 774, 756-WSW, 747, 702-WSW(2), 675 -WSW, 657-WSW, 612-WSW, 846-WSW, 882-WSW(2), 1035-WSW, 1098-W. The ones without a DF I could not be sure of maybe both WSW and NW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. I can hear a transmission on 3465 kHz (LSB) at the moment (1948 UT 29/4). Records by a French vocalist. 73s. Nick. Buxton. Rank. UK. Sent from Samsung Mobile on O2, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) Good enough signal to be enjoyable listening - Isle of Luing west Scotland. (2004 UT) (Brice Avery, ibid.) Good signal also here in the south of England at 2130 tune-in with jazz followed what sounds like a conversation in Italian(?). It doesn't sound like a broadcast station during the talking, could it be some sort of communications channel? 3465 LSB. 73s (Dave Kenny, Caversham, AOR7030+ 25m long wire. 2141 UT, ibid.) The area just below the 80 metre amateur band has been a free for all for many, many years. Some are legitimate military users or "fish phones", but there's also plenty of unauthorised usage. The fact that it's lower, not upper, sideband suggests that it's not an authorised user (almost all professional and military SSB traffic is USB - it's only amateurs, CBers and "outbanders" who use LSB). This isn't anything like a broadcast feeder, it's just someone fooling around (probably to the annoyance of both legit users, and fellow pirates who just want to chat). Apparently, the informal calling channel is 3470 kHz. Better known is the legendary Echo Charlie Net, a sort of pirate amateur band around 6.6 MHz with 6670 kHz LSB as the calling channel. It's been in use since the 1970's and probably longer, originally using war surplus radios like 19 and 62 sets. Most modern amateur radios will transmit there with only a simple mod such as changing a link, clipping a diode and / or some unusual button presses. There are many other places where such outband activity takes place, usually close to amateur bands. Another good place to listen is 27555 kHz, the calling channel for worldwide (illegal) CB operations (Mark Palmer, ibid., WORLD OF RADIO 1981) UNIDENTIFIED. 11712.3 approx., May 2 at 1412, SSB talk, but cannot get it to resolve by tuning USB or LSB back and forth. Could be third harmonic of a ham around 3904, where nothing is heard, lower band not propagating in the daytime (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1980: Thanks to Ron Howard for a check in US funds on a US bank to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702; along with a map showing Asilomar State Beach, part of Pacific Grove, on the Monterey Peninsula; letter with a Liberty Ship stamp TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED FUTURELY: Here`s a bit to help out DXLD World HQ --- thanks for keeping DXLD in the forefront of reliable DX info. Cheers from (kinda close to) the beach (Dan Sheedy, Encinitas CA with a generous check to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702) Hey Glenn - hang in there, you top DXer with your gift to the WORld with WOR/DXLD, honestly. In Peace and keep the DX faith, SpM (Steve McGreevy, CA, with a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com) Dear Mr Hauser, Enclosed is a contribution towards the work you put into DXLD and World of Radio each week. Both the digest and radio program/podcast are loked forward to each week. Thank you for continig to produce these alable resources! Sincerely (Roert W Gruska, Glendale NY, with PMO to Box 1684, Enid OK 73702) I've enjoyed listening to World of Radio for many years. I get the podcast these days. Keep up the good work! (Scott Walker, New Cumberland PA, with a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com) Thanks to Joe Caberlin (pronounced KAYBURLYNN), VE1EJ, Port Colborne, Ont., (ex-Chester NS) for a ``small donation toward your shortwave news``, to Glenn Hauser, PO Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 USA (with three commemorative stamps on an aeronautical theme, but no denominations --- is Canada Post doing ``forever`` postage too?) I've been enjoying World Of Radio for many years, off and on, and now have the podcast. Thanks, from (Flor Lynch in Ireland with a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS updated May 5 http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html "Student Short Film: "Shortwave"" YouTube https://youtu.be/jK2iKtjrYOU Nice short video! 73 de (Horacio A Nigro, CX3BZ, April 28, WOR iog via DXLD) 3:24, from 2017y (gh) LANGUAGE LESSONS ++++++++++++++++ SMART VOICE TRANSLATOR MARE Jack Amelar passes along a web link about a Multi-Language Portable "Smart Voice Translator": https://tinyurl.com/translator-device He adds "When these get sophisticated enough where you can plug in the audio from a radio and get an instant English audio translation, I'm in." (MARE Tipsheet April 26 via DXLD) BEGINNER'S CLASSROOM FOR May 2019 === Station Identification One of the most important audio “clips” for which a radio listener waits is the station identification. This is the best measure for correctly logging a station heard on MW, SW, FM, Amateur and other services. In this month’s classroom, we will look at rules and practices in Canada and the United States for broadcasting a proper and/or known station ID in various parts of the radio spectrum. Mediumwave and FM Stations I found it very difficult to find the exact rules for proper station IDs in Canada. After consulting with the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) as well as other Canadian Government services, I cannot seem to find any specific rules on identification of an FM or MW radio station. My understanding is that once an hour an FM or MW station must broadcast their call letters, frequency and transmitter location, but there is no clear evidence of this in any documents I’ve searched. In the United States, the rules have relaxed a bit from the old days of having to have an ID every half hour within two minutes of that time. Now the ruling states as follows from the FCC (Federal Communications Commission): “A legal identification must be run once per hour of broadcasting.” Usually, this proper ID must be run as close as possible to the top of the hour during a programming break. The FCC states that a legal station identification must include the call letters of the station and the city of license, and must be announced in that order. Station jingles and “cute” IDs such as “classical 103 FM” or “today’s hottest hits 1080” are not valid identifications. Shortwave Stations The way a SW broadcaster identifies on shortwave it technically up to the station itself. Almost all USA shortwave broadcasters use their call letters as identification, and give a voice ID at the top of the hour. The VOA and its subsidiaries also broadcast an ID at least once or twice per hour. In Canada, the two remaining SW outlets are actually simulcasts of a domestic station: CFVP on 6030 kHz from Calgary is actually CKMX 1060 kHz MW and CFRX on 6070 kHz from Toronto is actually CFRB 1010 MW. These two stations have their own separate SW Identification once per hour [has anyone really heard them lately? Please record --gh]. Time Signal Stations WWV, WWVH and WWVB operate as time signal stations in the United States. Usually, all three stations identify themselves by call sign every minute, and identify by call sign and location once every hour or half-hour. [Re WWV and WWVH -- not exactly. They do not ID every minute. You just have to know that time announcements by the female voice are WWVH and the male is WWV. Both have full IDs twice an hour, before and after the bottom and top of hours. No voice IDs on WWVB, or any? -- gh] In Canada, CHU identifies itself every minute, first in English then in French on the even minutes, and first in French then in English on the odd minutes. Amateur Radio In Canada a ham radio operator must identify his/her station by transmitting the call sign assigned to that station. This rule comes from the Standards for the Operation of Radio Stations in the Amateur Radio Service. It is also common courtesy to ID one’s station at the beginning and end of each major transmission, and when contacting a station or calling “CQ” (a general call for anyone to respond). In the United States the rules include identifying your station by giving your call sign at least once every 10 minutes during a contact and when the contact is concluded. The purpose of identification here is to state the source of the radio signal. This includes giving notice if one’s transmission is mobile, or is in another call sign prefix area. For example, when I was WA3MRF in Pennsylvania, if I were operating a transmitter in New Jersey I would state my calls as WA3MRF/2 (or portable 2). There are also rules for aeronautical and marine communications in most countries. You can check out Internet websites for proper station ID in your country or region. I hope you are all having a wonderful spring (or autumn if you are located in the Southern Hemisphere! Until next month, 73, keep smiling and keep listening, (J O E Robinson, Beginner`s Classroom, May ODXA Listening In via DXLD) MUSEA +++++ National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting to Expand Hours during Hamvention --- ARRL 05/01/2019 http://www.arrl.org/news/national-voice-of-america-museum-of-broadcasting-to-expand-hours-during-hamvention The National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting, located at the site of the former Voice of America Bethany Relay Station in West Chester, Ohio (between Dayton and Cincinnati, off the I-75 Tylersville Road exit), will expand its hours during Hamvention 2019 weekend. The WC8VOA station will be open. The museum includes a comprehensive collection of Drake Amateur Radio gear. Extended hours for Hamvention attendees will be Thursday and Friday, May 16 and 17, 4 – 9 PM; Saturday, May 18, 1 – 9 PM, and Sunday, May 19, 1 – 5 PM [EDT = UT -4] More information is on the VOA Museum website at http://www.voamuseum.org/ The Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting is located about 25 miles north of downtown Cincinnati, in West Chester, Ohio. Originally the complex occupied a one square mile area on a high ridge between Cincinnati and Dayton. Today the transmitters are silent but the iconic art deco building is being restored and houses a museum (via Mike Terry, WOR iog via DXLD) CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES +++++++++++++++++++++++++ DXer meet up in Tokyo One of the great things about radio is making friends around the world. As I travel extensively, I make it a priority to meet up with local radio enthusiasts. Tokyo was the latest destination where I met with two very enthusiastic DXers, Satoshi Miyauchi and Fumiaki Minematsu. A third, Hiroyuki Okamura had to bow out due a family illness. One feels rejuvenated after a visit to Akihabara, Tokyo’s radio mecca, followed by appies and beer at a local Japanese restaurant. Both fellas plan on attending this year’s IRCA convention in Seattle. Both are very dedicated MW DXers with impressive results to ECNA from both Hokkaido and Honshu. Thank you to you both! Arigato! (Walt Salmaniw, April 27, IRCA iog via DXLD) 2019 IRCA Convention The 2019 IRCA Convention will be held on September 5, 6, and 7 at the Courtyard by Marriott Seattle Southcenter, 400 Andover Park West, Tukwila WA 98188. Registration is free to IRCA members, $25 to non-members. Banquet (TBA) will be paid for individually by attendees. Guest room rate is $109 plus tax. Guests are encouraged to share a room and save. Phone number(s) for room reservations are 800-321-2211 or 206-575-2500. You must mention International Radio Club of America Convention to get this rate. Hotel is 2 miles east of Sea-Tac Airport. There is also an Amtrak station in Tukwila just Northeast of the hotel. Parking at hotel is free. There are many restaurants and stores nearby and inside the hotel. Other amenities include business center, pool, free Wifi, etc.... Visitor’s bureau is online at visitseattle.org. Your host for this event is Mike Sanburn: mikesanburn@hotmail.com Current schedule (tentative) [PDT = UT -7] Thu Sept 5 4:00 p.m. Registration in lobby (Mike Sanburn, Phil Bytheway) 6:00 p.m. Dinner on your own (possible group meals at Outback) Fri Sept 6 9:00 a.m. Meeting room opens 10:00 a.m. Depart for station tours TBA Lunch Break 5:00 p.m. Dinner break 7:00 p.m. Over the Pole DXing, What a Difference a Year Makes (Nick Hall-Patch) DXing from Japan (Satoshi Miyauchi) Rockwork’s Greatest Hits (Tom Rothlisberger) A Loop Flat on Its Back (Mark Durenberger) Life as a DXer/Group (Phil Bytheway) 11:00 p.m. Meeting room closes Sat Sept 7 8:30 a.m. John Johnson’s radio views Innovative Ferrite Antennas (Gary DeBock) Phasing Phun (Nick Hall-Patch, Bill Whitacre) Phasing BOGs (Neil Kazaross) Small Loops and Phixed Phasers (D. Aichelman or Nick Hall-Patch) Phasing Units with Backyard Antennas (Nick Hall-Patch) Vertical vs. ALA1530 Phasing and Performance (Guy Atkins?) TBA Lunch Break 4:00 p.m. IRCA Business Meeting (Bruce Portzer) 4:45 p.m. Group picture in lobby 5:00 p.m. Depart for banquet – speaker TBA 8:00 p.m. Auction in the meeting room 11:00 p.m. Meeting room closes Sun Sept 8 No events planned, random gatherings with folks waiting to leave (NRC DX News May 6, published April 29 via DXLD) DX-PEDITIONS ++++++++++++ Having fun on the high seas Walter Salmaniw 4:05am #474 Another chapter in DXing from a cruise ship. As I write this, the ship is heaving with high winds and 6 meter seas. On this cruise, my wife and I purposely chose a cabin on deck 1, the closest to the water, to avoid some of the motion we experienced last year in the Pacific. The down side is that we have no balcony, and only a window, not very large to boot. I chose to bring my Perseus SDR on this cruise, fed by thin coax from a 1 meter diameter loop ALA 100 attached to the window via rubber suction cups. I can say that MW reception is very decent with this method. SW, however, remains quite poor. We are cruising from Tokyo, to Hokkaido, and now on to Kodiak AK, and finally down to Vancouver, BC. Thinking that Japan would be wall to wall in AM stations, I was surprised to find this not the case. As we approached Hokkaido, there were only 4 stations on the band during the day in both ports we visited. The rest of the band was pretty absent of signals. Plenty more, though in Yokohoma and along the east coast of Honshu. I'm pleased with the low noise floor measuring - 130 dB, and just a little worse at the top end of the X-band around -125 to - 120 dB. This was similar to my results with an Elad FDM S2 last year. Attached is an mp3 file of NHK2 sign on, in this case 1125 JOIZ Muroran at 2100 UT. We all know the beautiful sign off, but I haven't heard the sign on before. Unfortunately, no local ID heard, just a generic NHK ID. Today, one day out from Hokkaido, and the band was totally empty until nightfall, and even now, signals are weak. 73, from the North Pacific! (Walt Salmaniw, 0405 UT May 2, IRCA iog via DXLD) Daytime DX at Hong Kong's Dream Ocean Cliff Site Gary DeBock Apr 27 #403 Long distance radio communication was extremely important in the 20th century, and Hong Kong's British government needed to choose the optimal site for the territory's Shortwave communication antennas-- both for military and civilian purposes. After an extensive search and detailed analysis they made their final choice-- Cape D'Aguilar, an awesome plunging cliff at the Southeast tip of Hong Kong island. By fortunate coincidence, my long term Hong Kong Chinese friend King Mo Sham (VR2GH, who was also the Best Man at our wedding in 1990) works at Hong Kong Telecom, and is very familiar with this entire area. It is semi-restricted because of security-related antennas at the site, but King Mo made sure that I was able to get the ocean cliff setup site offering the best daytime DX reception from both Taiwan and the Philippines. This required a one hour hike in the subtropical heat around midday, but every step was well worth it. Cape D'Aguilar is a plunging ocean side cliff in the same league as Oregon's Rockwork, although it has a somewhat curved shape like Oregon's Cape Perpetua, resulting in enhanced transoceanic DX from both the east (Taiwan) and the south (Philippines). No doubt this would be the ideal Hong Kong site for enhanced transoceanic DX from North America -- if only it had better access, so that antennas didn't need to be carried in with a back pack. Hong Kong's 518 kHz NAVTEX antenna is located on Cape D'Aguilar (see photo), but at a location far enough away so that RFI from that source isn't a serious problem on most MW frequencies.. Anyway, after the one hour hike with VR2GH and his family on April 6th I was able to deploy my 7.5 inch loopstick CC Skywave SSB Ultralight right on the plunging slope of awesome Cape D'Aguilar, with a sweeping view of distant offshore islands in the South China Sea. Only a few days earlier I had thoroughly investigated low band daytime DX on the salt water beach of Macau (60 miles west) with the same modified Ultralight, so I did have a benchmark reference list of Asian stations to work with. But on the very first frequency of 531 kHz (which had no signals in Macau but a mix of BCC Taiwan and an UnID here), it became pretty obvious that the 20th Century British administrators had made the perfect antenna site choice! 549 also had two stations mixing, neither of which had shown up in Macau. Highlights were 12 Taiwan stations received from 531 to 810 kHz in bright daylight, with the solid rock cliff blocking enough of local 675-RTHK (6) to allow fair reception of Taiwan's Cheng Sheng BC on the same frequency. The Taiwan Fishery parallels 738-BEL2 and 1143-BEL3 were both at front end-crunching levels at over 390 miles (632 km) despite the bright sunlight. My wife and our friends thoughtfully left me at the site for a full hour as they enjoyed the Cape's other attractions-- more than enough time to track down multiple Taiwan and Philippine stations over hundreds of salt water miles well before sunset! 531 "I Go 531" (BCC) + UnID Taipei, Taiwan 10 kW Strong TOH routine at 0800 UTC with female Mandarin mention of "Taipei" at 16 seconds and "I Go" ID at 25 seconds; UnID station underneath (possibly DZBR in the Philippines, which dominated in the evenings) https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/r78bqvi1iqiibrs6eu75ziylomf2bu5n 540 CNR1 + DZWT Baguio City, Philippines 10 kW Wild S9 mix at 0754 UTC with a DZWT ID at 9 seconds, pestered by CNR1 in Mandarin Chinese from a presumed Danzhou, Hainan location (received in Macao, without a trace of DZWT) https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/kt8r8aeoobpkcshgsb88sqnwuyipddi2 549 CNR5 + UnID Putian, China 1200 kW This mix of two Chinese stations at 0803 UTC almost certainly includes the mega-blaster directed at Taiwan in a female-spoken dialect, but the other male speaker in apparent Mandarin is a mystery (Zhengzhou would seem to be out of daytime DX range) https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/eqcne7yrac1ovms9hrlphomnt7jb78hd 567 RTHK (3) Golden Hill, Hong Kong 20 kW The local pest was featuring sports play-by-play in English at 0804 UTC https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/a3nnmji9f5yduxhrxz7ourdpmeg9gy1c 585 Southeast BC Fuzhou, China 200 kW Another Taiwan-directed propaganda blaster, it was all alone at a fair level at 0805 UTC with female Mandarin (typically spoken in a soft, soothing voice) https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/iqi3nczbk8jucyljf87d1hvbr19vdlqo 594 Fu Hsing BC + UnID Taipei, Taiwan 10 kW The S9 female Chinese station at 0807 UTC is obviously Fu Hsing (the Mainland stations are well out of daytime DX range), but the male speaker underneath is likely DZBB in Quezon City https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/9dmzar3h2typo4m8ifuf41xygagnyx6u 603 DZVV Vigan, Philippines 5 KW Ideally positioned at the northern tip of Luzon, this "Bombo Radio" station was pounding in to the cliff at an S9 level all alone at 0809 (thanks to Jari S. for ID assistance) https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/30bgv6q67vn44bar7iz29k01id0t7krx 612 Zhuhai Diantai + UnID Zhuhai, China (Power Unknown) This mainland Mandarin-format station across the border from Macau wasn't nearly as strong through the solid rock cliff in SE Hong Kong at 0810 UTC, which allowed a fair level Philippine station to slide in as a co-channel (DWSP?) https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/7k9hbpikvmv20cz4plxoo3sgxszq93w9 621 RTHK (Mandarin) Golden Hill, Hong Kong 20 kW Another HK local with female Mandarin speech at 0812 https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/o8vlc2oprnkilsokbkdzpu4643ecot5w 630 Taiwan BC Sungling, Taiwan 10 kW Presumed the one with non-news format (in non-Mandarin dialect) and more southerly location at 0815 UTC; some minor noise (NAVTEX-related?) on the frequency https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/0x2xncc1v25vze7mix96wioxapepdcky 639 UnID's This frequency was marginal because of apparent NAVTEX-related noise, but as far as I can tell there are two weak stations in the recording at 0817-- one female Chinese and one male non-Chinese. 639-DZRL was received on this frequency in Macau (without the noise) https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/mnp37veny0j68s92k580t8uznmklg0uk 648 Guangzhou, China + UnID 50 kW Strong Mandarin music over a weak UnID (BCC Taiwan?) and NAVTEX noise at 0818 UTC https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/s6zs2k0u6ginorwgyqxgei2hafcczbdh 657 Cheng Sheng BC (2) Taichung, Taiwan 20 kW Strong S9 signal all alone with male-female conversation in Taiwanese at 0821 https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/0w74sghm2uyj7oyt3yecklcqke8dl3la 675 RTHK (6) + Cheng Sheng BC Peng Chau, Hong Kong 10 kW/ Peikang, Taiwan 5 kW The solid rock ocean cliff blocks enough signal of the local Mandarin pest to allow the 5 kW Taiwan station to sneak in at a fair level underneath with Taiwanese at 0825 -- pretty amazing https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/w5xeg2ajhimo3uyl5feeuiogyejm30m7 693 Han Sheng BC Tainan, Taiwan 10 kW All alone with male-voice Chinese opera at a good level over minor NAVTEX noise at 0827 https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/qliditfuais7vetllslgoirtw5zuv6zk 711 V.O. Kuanghua + UnID Hsinfeng, Taiwan 250 kW Another wild mix with the Mainland-directed propaganda blaster dominant with Chinese male conversation over an UnID Philippine station playing "We Are the Champions" at 0828 UTC https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/7mgl5zjf53gfy274wl228jn5ms8fmcqy 720 BCC (N) Taichung, Taiwan 10 kW Presumed the one (primarily because of strong Taiwan propagation) with female Mandarin conversation over some NAVTEX noise at 0830 UTC https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/68sg5h1hq91reszi05mt9t11piot9w10 738 BEL2 Penghu, Taiwan 100 kW Definitely the unforgettable signal of the entire session at 0845 UTC. Chinese female vocal music at an overwhelming level on 738 kHz (for the first 50 seconds) and then the 1143-BEL3 parallel (starting at 51 seconds, after the short pause). S9+ strength over 390 miles in bright daylight! https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/73t1nkfw91uc13pc2vd2cw69kki91g6g 747 CNR1 + UnID Shanwei, China 10 kW S9 level Chinese female speech on CNR1 // 756 was dominant over another female Chinese station (Heyuan, Guangdong?) at 0839 UTC https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/4z87mlrnj8b3jw12t85gw1bnq8lholbl 756 CNR1 + UnID's Guangzhou, China 50 kW This was probably the wackiest mix recorded in Hong Kong. At 0841 the CNR1 Mandarin-speaking lady // 747 is mixing with at least two other Chinese stations, neither of which seem to be in parallel (although only CNR1 is listed for China on this frequency). One is almost certainly the 20 kW Shengli zhi Sheng in Taiwan, but the other must be a poorly synchronized Guangdong CNR1 relay https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/k7l85rbtz7xmwsk5olbdw3vypkdg2gr2 774 UnID-Taiwan + UnID Another interesting mix at 0843 UTC, made more challenging by some NAVTEX noise accompaniment. One of the stations is almost certainly one of the 20 kW transmitters from Taiwan (my guess is the female conversation, in an apparent Chinese dialect), while the male vocalist may also be from Taiwan, since the Mainland stations would seem to be out of daytime DX range https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/wx4myuteuw223d3mkplje3whreq1r5ql 783 RTHK (5) Golden Hill, Hong Kong 20 kW Cantonese-speaking female on this local pest at 0844, with some weak music underneath (apparently part of the program, and not a co-channel) https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/4l7loxnmzojif2ays5j9d29jw00vgsvf 801 V.O. Kuanghua Hsinfeng, Taiwan 250 kW Another Mainland-directed propaganda blaster all alone with some type of radio drama in a Chinese dialect (apparently not Mandarin) at 0845 UTC https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/t9d3402tiizs06cf9edjx4mxou37h8ez 810 Kuo Sheng BC Changhua, Taiwan 10 kW All alone with female speech in a Chinese dialect (apparently not Mandarin) at 0847 UTC https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/gm2cwf4uwe23ah94vxgfqxgnsnex049c 73 and Good DX, Gary DeBock (DXing at Cape D'Aguilar ocean cliff on Hong Kong island on April 6, 2019) All receptions made with a stand-alone 7.5 inch loopstick C.Crane Skywave SSB Ultralight Alan Davies (on Facebook's DXing Info) says the 549 UnID under CNR5 is probably VoV from near Hanoi in Vietnamese, which would make sense because no other Mainland Chinese station seems to be within daytime DX range of Hong Kong (Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA), April 27, IRCA iog via DXLD) (Sort of) Long Range DXing in Hong Kong Gary DeBock 4:53am #475 Prior to our April trip multiple warnings had been received from Japan, Australia and New Zealand that Hong Kong was a very tough DXing environment, and that long range expectations should be modest at best. Upon arrival in the ultra-crowded environment I was getting a crash course in RFI noise, restricted private beaches and the almost total lack of privacy and security at public beaches around sunrise or sunset. Medium wave DXing as a hobby didn't seem to exist in Hong Kong, and despite the numerous eBay sellers offering Ultralight radios, a very thorough search couldn't turn up any such radios for sale in local stores. A huge collection of Mainland Chinese and Hong Kong pests plastered the entire band from top to bottom, to the extent that I hadn't even been able to track down a single station from either Japan or Korea for the first five days. After five days (out of seven) my results were limited to Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Kampuchea and Bangladesh. Setting up the 5" FSL around sunrise or sunset would have been a great idea, except that there was no accessible public beach offering decent security or privacy for the idea -- and the other Hong Kong venues seemed saturated with tall buildings and RFI. It was a Catch 22 situation that seemed to rule out any gain antenna setup, which in turn would probably rule out any long range results. No wonder why the vast majority of visiting hobbyists write the place off for serious DXing! There was still one wacky idea that could be tried, however. I had brought along a 7.5 inch loopstick C.Crane Skywave SSB model as my main receiver, and by desperate experimentation I had discovered that if I stuck the entire radio outside of the jail-like security window of our 12th story apartment in a downtown high rise building I could somehow escape all of the RFI emanating from the entire building. I had absolutely no idea which DXing direction was optimized by this wild maneuver, and even after sticking the Ultralight out of the window the radio was still surrounded by apartment buildings on all four sides (see photo). But since two DXing friends in Japan (Hiroyuki Okamura and Satoshi Miyauchi) had courteously supplied me with a list of big gun Middle East, African and European MW stations that they typically can receive in Japan around sunrise with decent gain antennas on favorable ocean beaches, what did I have to lose by going after them with a 7.5 inch loopstick in the downtown Hong Kong concrete jungle? Hiroyuki-san and Satoshi-san's list included such exotic fare as 702-BBC (Oman), 720-BBC (Cyprus), 917-Nigeria, 936-Iran, 990-Radio Sawa (Cyprus), 999-TWR (Moldova), 1134-Kuwait, 1233-Monte Carlo, 1413-Vesti FM (Moldova), 1413-BBC (Oman), 1431-Radio Sawa (Djibouti), 1449-Iran and 1548-TWR (Moldova). It's probably safe to say that no other 7.5 inch loopstick in radio history was ever been drafted into such a wildly optimistic long range DXing adventure. As I stuck the souped-up Ultralight outside the window at 6 AM local time (2200 UT) on April 6th I gave a try for anything on 702, 1413 or 1530 kHz (which was one of my own wildly optimistic additions, VOA in Sao Tome). 702 was plastered by China and a Filipino, and 1530 was ruined by another Filipino with horrible audio. But 1413 had something relatively weak in a Slavic language, which didn't sound Asian at all. After recording the station and posting it on Real DX the language was identified by Mauno and Dmitry as Russian, which matched the language format of Vesti FM in Grigoriopol. Moldova (at 4,869 miles/ 7,835 km). There was some confusion because I still didn't know that a morning session in Hong Kong at 0600 local time on April 7th was actually 2200 UT on April 6th UT, but wow, what a shocker! After this confirmation that a souped-up Ultralight could indeed be competitive in the Hong Kong concrete jungle for receiving Eastern European DX around sunrise, I went for broke the next early morning, tracking down decent signals from 1413-BBC in Pashto from Oman at 1828 UT, 1431-Radio Sawa in Arabic from Djibouti (East Africa) at 2143 UT, and a somewhat weaker signal from 1548-TWR in Bulgarian from Moldova just after sign on at 1900 UT. Time was running out for the Hong Kong trip, however, and despite great eagerness to go after more wacky and wild DX like this all the gear needed to be packed away for the return trip shortly thereafter. I guess the moral of the story is that no matter how hopeless your DXing situation seems, never hesitate to push your luck for all it is worth -- your radio just might pull off some shocking receptions against the odds. All receptions made by a stand-alone 7.5" loopstick C.Crane Skywave SSB Ultralight 1413 BBC A'Seela, Oman (800 kW) BBC foreign service program in Pashto featuring a male/ female format with strong interval music from 8 seconds to 23 seconds: (thanks to C.K. Raman for the language and station identification) https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/a3z0gtbvmyd434lrjjck24akzvsx3knl 1413 Vesti FM Grigoriopol. Moldova (500 kW) Russian language at a modest level at 2205 on 4-6 (thanks to Mauno and Dmitry for the language and station identification) https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/38vm67oda2jysgwlbyn03ra0etnrakv9 1431 Radio Sawa Djibouti (600 kW) Female in fairly strong Arabic at 2143 on 4-7 with "Radio Sawa" ID at 5 seconds (thanks to Chuck and Bill W. for the language and station identification) https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/tuke49dichs8erpycbb9mivkr9dx45fo 1548 TWR Grigoriopol, Moldova (500 kW) Presumed Bulgarian at a modest level at 1903 on 4-7 after apparent sign on at 1900 UTC (thanks to Jari S. and Mauno for station information) https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/6vbkqauxw6l3bsa0t9fha5ewk8t0v4jy 73 and Good DX, (Gary DeBock (DXing in Hong Kong April 2-8, IRCA iog via DXLD) Travelling Munich and Croatia Hi Glenn, Am presently travelling from Munich down to Croatia. Heard Radio Eule in Munich on 1500, repeat 1500 kHz, not 1503. Runs 10 watts from the museum. No AM stations in Croatia. Will fly back to Sydney from Munich via Doha in a couple of days. No sign of Voice of Hope [Israel] on 1287 while travelling down the Adriatic Coast. 73 (Tony Magon, On the way to Ljubljana today, April 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV see also OKLAHOMA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DTV PIXILLATED ART FROM THE HAUSER COLLEXION I am amassing a growing collexion of DTV breakup images from my Sanyo screen, often producing startling/beautiful art. Each one is unique and can never be replicated. This happens when stations are on the verge, only partially decoding and/or when the frame freezes during a channel change, capturing parts of two different stations. I have not kept track of the stations, times or circumstances involved, altho IIRC this latest one involved KDCD 31 Derby KS, which fortunately froze long enough for grabbing a camera: http://www.w4uvh.net/HauserDTVPixArt1.jpg Eventually I plan to organize a gallery of these ARTifacts (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) You may be on to something, Glenn. This could be displayed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. I like it a hell of a lot more than a Jackson Pollock abstract (Kevin Redding, Crump, TN, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Nothing like digital TV screwing up to produce artwork that the pointillists could envy. :D (Clara Listensprechen, ibid.) From Cordcutters News regarding ATSC 3.0 On the NAB show floor, AirwazTV had several demos of the tuner in action. There was an Nvidia Shield running showing a live ATSC 3.0 broadcast using the tuner and even a TiVo DVR recording ATSC 3.0 broadcasts. Right now, the cost is over $800 for the full developer kit, but a retail version will reportedly be a lot less expensive. Sinclair has promised that they will seed the markets they launch ATSC 3.0 in this year with a “cheap” ATSC 3.0 tuner. Some sources have said they expect the tuners to get down to below $50, but for now, mass production on a consumer tuner has not started (via May WTFDA VHF-UHF Digest via DXLD) Expect Next Gen TV in Top 40 Television Markets This Year April 18, 2019 – nocable.org by Megan Southard Consumers can expect to watch broadcast TV with a stunning 4K HDR picture and highquality audio for free with an antenna in top television markets this year. According to an announcement from president and CEO Gordon H. Smith at the National Association of Broadcasters meeting this week, ATSC 3.0 is cleared to launch. The upgraded TV signal travels through obstacles better than ever before, so homeowners can expect better reception with less-powerful antennas. The technology upgrade also supports receiving TV signals on handheld devices and in moving cars, personalization of ads, and interactive capabilities like x-ray, but stations will decide whether to flip the switch on these optional features. What is the timeline? The 40 largest TV markets will deploy the new broadcast standard beginning this year and complete the rollout to tens of millions of viewers by the end of 2020. Extensive testing has already taken place in Phoenix, Dallas, Baltimore, Raleigh, East Lansing, and Santa Barbara. Specific stations are identified in 19 markets, but since the transition is voluntary, the remaining markets haven’t identified which stations will take the lead. Why is this a big deal? The new standard brings broadband functionality to broadcast TV, which gives audiences the best features available in entertainment all on free over-the-air TV. A popular selling point is the hyper-local lifesaving alert functions that give first responders more options to keep viewers informed in an emergency. The connection also enables custom weather alerts and updates on active news stories. Broadcasters look forward to the advertising capabilities afforded by the new standard. How will I know if my station offers it? Subject to final approval and licensing, these high population markets have identified specific stations. Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX Houston, TX San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA Phoenix, AZ Seattle-Tacoma, WA Detroit, MI Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne, FL Portland, OR Pittsburgh, PA | Raleigh-Durham, NC Baltimore, MD Nashville, TN Salt Lake City, UT San Antonio, TX Kansas City, KS-MO Columbus, OH West Palm Beach-Ft. Pierce, FL Las Vegas, NV Austin, TX Remain patient The new broadcast standard for over-the-air TV is part of the country’s shift toward better, faster connectivity. Much like 5G technology is expected to revolutionize wireless connections, broadcasters are excited for this innovative technology to modernize over-the-air TV. Although televisions and handheld devices that take advantage of the new signal are not yet widely available, expect to see product announcements later this year. CES 2020 will likely feature a whole host of newly enabled televisions and devices capable of handling the signals, but don’t be in a rush to upgrade. The FCC requires all stations to broadcast in both formats for years after the new technology is available. By the time the new broadcast standard is mandatory, you might want a completely different setup than the one you have today (via May WTFDA VHF-UHF Digest via DXLD) REPACKING INCENTIVE AUXION RESULTS The FCC has now released the losing bids in the incentive auction. This means we now know which stations tried to sell their spectrum but were not bought out. There is way too much information to print here, but it’s possible to note a few markets. I suppose the starting point would be New York. As we already know, WNBC-4 sold their spectrum and “moved in” with co-owned WNJU-47. Other stations we know sold were WXTV-41, WZME-43, WRNN-48, WNJN-50, and WTBY-54. Seven further stations tried to sell but were not purchased: WWOR-9, WLIW-21, WPXN-31, WEDW-49, WLNY-55, WFTY-67, and WFUT-68. The remaining stations did not participate in the auction. Looking at Milwaukee, three stations sold – WCGV-24, WVCY-30, and WMVT-36. Five stations tried to sell but weren’t purchased: WMKE-CD 8, WISN-12, WWRS-52, WPXE-55, and WIWN-68. WIWN tried to sell physical channel 5; they changed their mind when the bid dropped to $9.3 million. Here in Nashville, eight stations tried to sell; none were bought. Stations were allowed to change their proposed disposition – one Nashville station decided to switch from selling altogether to moving to VHF-High. It didn’t help; they still didn’t sell. I checked two more markets. In Youngstown, Ohio, three of the four stations tried to sell but only WKBN-27 succeeded. In Boise, Idaho, no station attempted to sell. WTCN & WWHB in Florida have a unique reason for temporary silence. The stations have been repacked (to channels 17 & 33 respectively) and are installing a new shared antenna. They hired a helicopter to lift the new antenna into place. The President’s Mar-a-Lago resort (and frequent retreat) is located near the tower. On the date scheduled for the antenna lift… the President was in town… and the Secret Service grounded civilian aircraft in the area. The stations have rescheduled the lift. Unfortunately, they were unable to do so for a date before April 12th, the end of repack Phase 2. They will need to temporarily leave the air until the new antenna can be installed. You won’t find W43BR in the FCC Database. The station has been operating under a series of six-month STAs since 1997. It’s owned by the local radio station WRPQ, and transmits from a tower near the Devils Head Resort east of Baraboo (adjacent to the tower of FM powerhouse WOLX 94.9). [Wisconsin] (Doug Smith, May WTFDA VHF-UHF Digest via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC HD See also USA: Fela; 1170 KLOK ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ALL DIGITAL MW RADIO PROPOSAL Wow -- the Internet has been exploding! There has been much discussion on Facebook, Radioworld.com and a plethora of other places about the proposal to the FCC from Texas based Bryan Broadcasting Corp. in March to initiate a proceeding to authorize the “MA3 all-digital mode of HD radio” for any interested AM radio station. Here is their 'op-ed' explaining why they are asking: https://tinyurl.com/op-ed-whyMA3 The FCC has accepted that proposal, and is now soliciting comments. Make YOUR voice heard. Don't BPM about this on Facebook or your blog, send your comments to the FCC! Don't talk about the 'hobby' -- that won't change anyone's mind who can make decisions. They have already decided hobbyists don't matter. Instead, talk about the technical side of why this will or will not work and explain YOUR qualifications to make that technical judgment! (Do you have a First Class FCC commercial license? Are you a trained RF engineer, Do you have 40+ years experience in broadcasting, etc.) [> Do you have a First Class FCC commercial license?... The FCC stopped issuing broadcast engineering licenses years ago. You no longer need a FCC First Class license to be a broadcast engineer. The proper question to ask: Do you have SBE certification? Bruce Conti. *B.A.Conti Photography* www.baconti.com www.bamlog.com mwdxyg] Submit your comments here: https://preview.tinyurl.com/FCC-AM3-comments More detail can be had from the Radioworld announcement: https://tinyurl.com/rw-overview-AM3 Make your voice heard. (Thanks to Paul Dobosz and Tom Doerr for passing along web links for this!) And yes, this will be part of my next paper bulletin column complete with screen shots of what the MA3 broadcasts actually 'look' like in a 'real world' spectrum as opposed to just theory, and why the 'at the option of each individual station as to when or whether to change' is ultimately going to be the 'kiss of death' for this despite the fact that it is being sold as the 'panacea' of the plan. (Anyone care to analogize to AM Stereo standards with me?) MY compromise solution? Create a sub-band. anyone who wants to switch can switch, but they all move to one end of the band. (1450-1700?) That means some stations that are already there will need to move if they don't want to flip to IBOC. Maybe get iBiquity to pay for the associated moving costs for those stations? -kvz What are YOUR ideas? Please appreciate that 'leave it the same as always' is likely not going to be a compelling argument as everyone has been talking about the 'death of AM' for so long now that it has reached the status of 'big lie' and it is assumed change needs to happen -- and that change has nothing to do with programming or reducing band noise by revisiting FCC certifications since those lobbies are too powerful! Ideas? If you are OK with it, I'll incorporate your ideas into the column too! But remember the deadline! The FCC is accepting statements opposing or supporting the Bryan Broadcasting petition through May 11. Refer to RM No. 11836 and the “Petition for Rulemaking to Allow the MA3 All-Digital Mode of HD Radio for AM Stations.” Your comments don't need to be long, but they should be specific and backed by facts! ----------oooooooooxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxooooooooo---------- MARE Tom Doerr passes along word of yet another broadcaster (WRNJ from Hackettstown, New Jersey) that has thrown its two cents into this debate by suggesting a 'final solution' to the "AM Problem". In this case, it too is opining 'digital' is the answer, but rather than the proprietary, but actually deployed IBOC, they are proposing something that not only there is no radio currently on the market capable of receiving, but which is similarly unproven in the 'real world.' The 'good' news is that it won't destroy AM further except by de-populating the band. It proposes both a new band (45-50 MHz) and a new modulation scheme: DRM+. I'm not holding my breath waiting for this one! See (MARE Tipsheet April 26 via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM+ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Finally, a Solution to the AM “Problem” I don’t think so. https://www.radioworld.com/columns-and-views/guest-commentaries/drm-solution-am-problem (Dennis Gibson, Sent from my iPad, April 29, ABDX yg via DXLD) viz.: Home › Columns and Views› Guest Commentaries Finally, a Solution to the AM “Problem” That is, if “they” are really looking for a solution Larry Todd · Apr 25, 2019 The author is vice president of WRNJ Radio in Hackettstown, N.J. WRNJ, Hackettstown, N.J., will be filing a petition with the FCC requesting they explore moving AM band stations to the near-vacant 45 to 50 MHz VHF band. The AM band is no longer capable of providing a quality service to its communities for several reasons. Noise, skip, overly expensive antenna systems, varying hours of operation, and directional patterns to name just a few immediate issues. And lack of listeners! WRNJ suggests the FCC consider the digital transmission DRM+ system, along with a simple vertical only, non-gain antenna. The VHF 1 band is ideal for local/regional coverage. Exactly the local service that was expected during the early days of AM would return. [Overcoming DAB+ SFN Challenges] The two-way radio licensees of the 45-50 MHz band have all but fled the band for either trunked or cell service. This ended the expense and maintenance of low band FM mobile radios for the many users. Also, Motorola and Kenwood, it is reported, no longer manufacture low-band equipment. A scanner covering 45 to 50 MHz at a tower with reception from New York City to Philadelphia can go days before hearing a single carrier. International regulations for ITU Regions Two and Three already call for broadcasting between 47 and 50 MHz. As previously mentioned, the band is ideal for local/regional coverage and can provide Americans with the latest technology from their local stations. It would be wise for broadcasters to familiarize themselves with all the capabilities of the DRM+ modulation scheme; it’s far from just an audio transport. Many countries in (ITU Regions Two and Three) are already embracing the DRM+ standard, which is so far superior to anything we’re presently using the USA. Why should we wait any longer? THE CASE FOR DRM+ In July 2008, the Broadcast Maximization Committee published the results of their study on AM and proffered the concept of converting the Channels 5 and 6 to digital AM’s, LPFM, NCE’s et.al. (See http://www.broadmax.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/proposal.pdf) That was 12 years ago and nothing has been done about it. With this proposal, we would avoid AM noise, nighttime interference, adjacent channel issues and eliminate the awful fidelity issues. There is occasional skip on the proposed band. Adjacent TV channel 2 survived it for 50 plus years. Skip is infrequent and probably won’t have the deleterious effects experienced with analog. There is skip on the AM band every night! Additionally, DRM+ channel efficiency is more compact than present channel spacing. Spectrum efficiency vastly exceeds anything we’re using today. The implications of that efficiency are evident. Far more information can be packed into DRM+ in much less space. A basic explanation of DRM+ can be found here. A more technical explanation can be found at this location. Note in the video that 1 kW ERP of DRM+ equals the same coverage as a 5 kW conventional installation. An efficient system lowers the electric bill. The proposed vertical antenna of unity gain reduces tower loading and or rent. OVERCOMING DRM+ OBSTACLES There are no receivers! Right. However, the current state of the art in chipsets is such that most new receivers could be capable of decoding both DRM+ and HD Radio systems. In light of this, we propose a transition period of years for this to come to fruition. American broadcasting has spent tens of millions on moving TV facilities, and the market responded to the shifts in frequency and modulation schemes. The AM band, too, was extended and radio manufacturers responded. Simply stated, if not now, when? The AM band is beyond practical (economical) use at this juncture. The transmission systems are onerous, to say the least. We have to live within the bounds of physics, and that, simply put, eliminates today’s AM band as it is currently structured. Japan will soon be amongst the nations that terminate AM radio — at the request of AM operators! Italy is converting to DRM+, too. We propose that AM operators simulcast the new and old band until the market dictates the AM shutdown of dual facilities. We propose the system be local and that any who might wish to stay with AM be free to stay there. Also, with this migration, we expect the AM band may again have a chance for wide area service from those who can increase power and coverage upon spectrum availability resulting from the migration to DRM+ VHF. The FM band would be relieved of the congestion it’s now experiencing from translators. We would hope that the ownership remain local and avoid the dereliction of local community service that came with ownership-consolidation. Is there any better time to start this than now? I can’t think of one real negative, can you? We look forward to your input if and when the FCC moves forward with the petition for rulemaking (via DXLD) Isn't that the system that was tried in Canada and died due to lack of interest? I don't know if any of the stations that were experimenting with it are still using it, but I do know that a number of them asked the CRTC to revoke their licenses for it since they gave up on it, just as AM IBOC was given up on by most of the stations that experimented with it in the US. 73, (Kit W5KAT, CO, ABDX yg via DXLD) No, that was DAB+ (gh) I would be for it if they stayed analog FM at 20 kHz wide (Kevin Redding, Crump, TN, ibid.) Some laughable bits in there. The part about skip being rare is one. It might have been during or close to solar maximum but I heard Wilkes-Barre and OKC pager systems almost every day, during Summer from Fortville, Indiana, in the 80's. Wasn't one of the reasons that the FCC moved FM from that region to its present location because of frequent Es and F2 openings? -- 73 (Dave in Indy (Noblesville) Hascall, April 30, IRCA iog via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See INDIA; KUWAIT; NIGERIA; ROMANIA; ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ UZBEKISTAN DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DAB See SWITZERLAND ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ NO-KNOB CARADIO TUNING Harold Frodge: "I just discovered a very DXer unfriendly feature of my new car radio. There is no knob tuning. You can punch in a freq, punch a preselected frequency, or "browse" up or down for strong signals. Don't these people know what's important?!" I asked him, "Isn't there a 'punch once and move up / down 10 kHz' button?" Harold confirmed there isn't on his radio, to which all I can add is "Horrors! That ISN'T very "DXer friendly". These guys need to understand how we expect radios to work!" -kvz :) (Ken Zichi, ed., MARE Tipsheet April 26 via DXLD) Subject: [SWL] Just spent a pleasant afternoon listening to RHC Hi All, Except for Glenn's posts I've seen almost no activity on this list for a very long time. So I thought I'd throw my two-cents worth in and re-introduce myself. First, if there are any who don't know me (probably everybody ;) I'm a long time SWL (since the early 1950's) who has had literally hundreds of radios and thousands of SWL hours under my belt. But I've slacked off a lot in recent years for other pursuits such as chasing NDB's (longwave beacons), music and so forth. I've been gravitating back towards SWLing though and this afternoon I had a very nice time listening to RHC on 11760. I've always loved that Cuban music. It's always an easy target here. One thing I've noticed is the large decline of shortwave stations to listen to, not just because of the low sunspot count either. That just means that one has to pay more attention and do some deep digging into the noise. But this isn't unique to the shortwave bands. A huge number of NDB's (longwave Aero Beacons) has gone 'dark' in recent years and it's happening at an ever greater rate. Chasing them has been my number one DX hobby for several years. One person I've really missed from this list is Duane Fischer, a long time friend (now an SK), though I really don't miss his 'frogs'. If you want a real challenge, look for my 10M beacon 0n 28.290 MHz. Normally on the air 24/7 with a mighty 20 Watts measured at the antenna. I only turn it off if I'm actively chasing NDB's as it overloads the active whip I use for that part of the hobby. -- 73 From "The Beaconeer's Lair" Specializing in DXing NDBs (Longwave Beacons) (Phil, KO6BB, Atchley, http://www.qsl.net/ko6bb/ KO6BB/B beacon, ~20W on 28.290 MHz, Ringo Vertical HF/LF RADIOS: HOMEBREW: 7 Tube+Rect 1v3 Regen RX for LF (built 2015) Icom: IC-7200 Xceiver, DSP IF & filters (~2015). Kenwood: TS-450SAT Xceiver, cascaded 250/125Hz Inrad filters. 10M Beacon: 2 x Realistic HTX-100's on 28.290MHz SDR: Softrock Ensemble II LF (built from a kit 2017). Portables: Grundig G5 and Realistic DX-360. ACC: HOMEBREW LF-MF Pre-Amp, 8Hz Audio Filter. HOMEBREW 4 Port Antenna Multicoupler, Feeds 4 RX's. ANTENNAS: 88 foot Long Ladder-line fed dipole, 35 feet AGL for MW/SW Active Mini-Whip, 36 Feet AGL for LF/MW/SW. 37 foot "Low Noise Vertical", 11 feet AGL for LF/MW/SW. Cushcraft AR-10 Ringo Vertical, 14 feet AGL for 10M beacon Merced, Central California, 37, 18, 37N 120, 30, 6W CM97rh. May 3, swl at qth.net via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ LIGHTNING MAP WEBSITES [see also thread at BRAZIL [and non]] There are numerous lightning map websites out there. Most provide near-real-time display of where strikes have been detected. Some, especially those linked from TV/radio weather pages, are set up for a small geographical area. Others can evaluate all the way around the globe. Two questions: (1) Who is using which sites and why are those preferred? (2) Quite important to those of us who DX SDR files after the fact, do any sites have look-back features to let us see what was going on with lightning activity hours, days, or even months ago? (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, South Yarmouth, MA nrc-am gg via DXLD) Hi Mark, I have this one bookmarked on my PC at home - http://en.blitzortung.org/live_dynamic_maps3.php?map=30 It allows you to display both realtime and historical strikes. The only drawback I've found is that when it opens it shows Europe, so you have to do a little dragging to show the US. However, they have a new "Vector Map" that allows you to save / bookmark the coordinates you want - http://map.blitzortung.org/#4.98/41.88/-70.61 There is also an android app under the same name "blitzortung" that is decent, but that's only realtime (Bob Philpot / KB1ZIW, Lowell, MA, ibid.) I use the same http://en.blitzortung.org/live_lightning_maps.php site, the link as listed in the mapping section of BAMLog. Select 'Historical Maps' under 'Historical Data' at the top of the webpage to obtain single images or up to 48-hour loops from dates as far back as November 2015. p.s. When I go to the website via the aforementioned link, it opens with a world map. -- (Bruce Conti, B.A.Conti Photography www.baconti.com ¡BAMLog! www.bamlog.com ibid.) http://lightningmaps.org gets my vote. You can zoom in to precise locations. I was using it just last night when we had a localised storm (Paul who?, ibid.) The lightning map that I use and the reason I like it. With this map you can turn on sound and see it and also it will have sunset/sunrise on the map. The map will get very active here in Arizona starting in July. http://en.blitzortung.org/live_lightning_maps.php?map=30 (Bill Block, Prescott Valley, AZ, ibid.) I've been using this one for a little while now. I would call it "near real time": https://www.lightningmaps.org/ They have an archive feature that is in "beta", which I can't seem to get to because when I try to click on the settings, it goes away. (Probably because I'm using not the latest version of Firefox...) (Mark Pettifor, Goshen, IN, ibid.) Thanks to all for the feedback. The 'blitzortung' site does exactly what I need. I was listening to a capture file made on 24 APR at 8 p.m. EDT (= UTC 25 APR at 0000). The static crashes were enough to blow your headphones off. Though the sky had been clear here for at least several hours, the map for that time (via the site's historical data option) showed a band of thunderstorms about 400 miles / 640 km east of here. http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/pictures1/lightning_20190425_0000z.jpg Water path and in the main beam of the antenna .. question solved. It reminds me of when I was at West Dennis (MA) beach at noon on a hazy but fully sunny summer day. Car radio was getting demolished by static that sounded as though the lightning was right next door. It turned out that the storm was just off Cape Hatteras, NC, about 500 miles to the south-southwest. Again, an all water route, an "RF bowling alley." In Cappahayden, Newfoundland the DXpedition group was picking up quite a bit of static at night on a Beverage aimed at Brazil. The Europe Beverage was mostly quiet. That static was coming over 3000 miles from the northern coast of Brazil. Again, no land in the way and right in the main beam of the antenna. The static propagating over that long path had a different sound to it, more like white noise with fewer distinct crackles (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, South Yarmouth, MA, ibid.) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2019 Apr 29 0213 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 22 - 28 April 2019 Solar activity was very low throughout the reporting period. No spotted regions were observed on the solar disk. No Earth-directed CMEs were observed in available coronagraph imagery. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at moderate levels on 22-23 Apr and decreased to normal levels for the remainder of the reporting period. Geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to unsettled. A solar sector boundary crossing was observed late on 23 Apr which caused several periods of unsettled early into 24 Apr. No other significant signatures were observed in the solar wind data. Quiet conditions were observed for the remainder of the reporting period. Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 29 April - 25 May 2019 Solar activity is expected to be at very low levels over 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 high levels. High levels are expected on 02-12 May; moderate levels are expected on 29 Apr-01 Mar and 13-23 May. The remainder of the outlook period is expected to be at normal levels. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to range from quiet to active levels. Active levels are expected on 01-02 May and 07 May; unsettled levels are expected on 30 Apr, 03 May, 05-06 May, 08-10 May and 19 May. The remainder of the outlook period is expected to be at quiet levels. All enhancements in geomagnetic activity are due to the anticipation of multiple, recurrent CH HSSs. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2019 Apr 22 0049 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 2019-04-22 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2019 Apr 22 69 5 2 2019 Apr 23 69 8 3 2019 Apr 24 69 8 3 2019 Apr 25 69 8 3 2019 Apr 26 69 5 2 2019 Apr 27 69 12 4 2019 Apr 28 69 8 3 2019 Apr 29 69 5 2 2019 Apr 30 69 10 3 2019 May 01 69 14 4 2019 May 02 69 12 4 2019 May 03 72 8 3 2019 May 04 76 5 2 2019 May 05 76 10 3 2019 May 06 77 12 3 2019 May 07 78 14 4 2019 May 08 78 8 3 2019 May 09 78 8 3 2019 May 10 78 8 3 2019 May 11 78 5 2 2019 May 12 78 5 2 2019 May 13 78 5 2 2019 May 14 78 5 2 2019 May 15 78 5 2 2019 May 16 78 5 2 2019 May 17 76 5 2 2019 May 18 72 5 2 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1980, DXLD) ###