DX LISTENING DIGEST 19-19, May 8, 2019 Incorporating REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING edited by Glenn Hauser, http://www.worldofradio.com Items from DXLD may be reproduced and re-reproduced only if full credit be maintained at all stages and we be provided exchange copies. DXLD may not be reposted in its entirety without permission. Materials taken from Arctic or originating from Olle Alm and not having a commercial copyright are exempt from all restrictions of noncommercial, noncopyrighted reusage except for full credits For restrixions and searchable 2019 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html [also linx to previous years] NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1981 contents: Antarctica, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brasil, Canada, China, Congo DR, Cuba and non, Europe, France, Germany, Indonesia, Iran, Kuwait, Mali, Netherlands non, Nigeria non, Romania, Sikkim, Turkey, USA, Vietnam, unidentified; and the propagation outlook. SW airings should be: 0930 UT Friday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW 2200 UT Friday WRMI 9955 [confirmed] 0130 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 [confirmed] 0629 UT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany 1000 UT Saturday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW [May 11, alt weeks] 1130 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 1431 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany [confirmed] 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 2100 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 [confirmed] 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315] 1030 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 [confirmed] 0130 UT Monday WRMI 9395 [confirmed] 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 [confirmed] 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 [confirmed] 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [confirmed] 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 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. ** AFGHANISTAN. Reception of Radio Afghanistan External Service in 49mb on May 3 1530-1700 6100 YAK 100 kW / 125 deg English/Urdu/Arabic, fair/good 1700-1730 6100 YAK 100 kW / 125 deg Russian-weak, co-ch TWR Africa https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/reception-of-radio-afghanistan-external.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 3-4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AFGHANISTAN. Radio Afghanistan, Kabul - 6100 kHz - May 5 - 1630 UT - Arabic, ID and news (SIO: 242). Rx: Icom IC-756 pro III + SDR Perseus, Ant: Vertical + Dipole. 73's (Franck Baste (St Bonnet de Rochefort, France), F4LKC, WOR iog via DXLD) ** ANTARCTICA. No data QSL from LRA 36, Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel --- 1 Files 337KB PDF QSL LRA 36 2019.pdf 337KB Save LRA 36, Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, Base Esperanza, 15476 kHz, received e-mail "QSL", confirming my reception report sent 21th March 2019, but without data. Reply in about 45 days. Here is the text of the email and the attached card: "Estimado Señor: MANUEL MÉNDEZ - LUGO, ESPAÑA Nos dirigimos a usted para mostrarle nuestro más sentido agradecimiento por su atención y tiempo que ha dedicado a la escucha de nuestra Emisora Radial “LRA 36 Arcángel San Gabriel”, disculpándonos por la demora en la confirmación de recepción, enviándole postal adjunta. Desde el Continente Blanco “ANTÁRTIDA ARGENTINA” le damos un cordial saludo. Atte: Jefe de Base Esperanza/Director de LRA 36: TC Gustavo QUIROGA Conductora del programa “Compartiendo Esperanza”: Karina MUÑOZ Co-conductoras: Sabrina ALANIS y Beatriz COSTILLA Encargado de la Emisora LRA 36 / Operador Técnico: José CALPANCHAY" (via Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1981, DXLD) Hello Manuel, I received the same one today and I didn’t understand why the back of the QSL was in the name of Angelo Pierezza for a reception to 14 April 2017? (Nicolas (from France), May 6, ibid.) Well, it`s a nice design, anyway. Also illustrated on the reverse is a partial-data QSL from 2+ years ago to someone in Italy, as they are not too careful about copying the e-QSL. BTW, the attachment would not open on the DXLD yg but no problem on the WOR iog (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** ARGENTINA. E-Mails and Station Lists --- Recently while searching for information on a station, I came up with a link to a PDF of station information for Tierra del Fuego province. With a little sleuthing and Google searching, I was able to find similar PDFs for all of Argentina. The lists were compiled by the national election council and include at least one e-mail address for every MW, FM, and TV station in each province, as well as phone numbers and street names/numbers. I downloaded them all and placed them in a zip file (Argentina_MW_Station_Lists.zip) which you can get from my shared Google folder. You'll also find folders of SDR recordings that I've made here in Bariloche, Neuquen, and Humahuaca (just south of Bolivia) and also from my travels last year: https://drive.google.com/open?id=17XXTi0w5hzzNmC60kjm6WiNTXEnvNloX Here is the original link that I found, but not all provinces use the same naming format. https://www.argentina.gob.ar/sites/default/files/tierra_del_fuego.pdf Don Moore --- donmooredxer@yahoo.com http://www.donmooredxer.com Life is just a leap of faith. Spread your arms and hold your breath. Always trust your cape. - Guy Clark (Don Moore, May 2, MWCircle yg via DXLD) ** ARMENIA. Reception of Adventist World Radio AWR via CJSC Yerevan on May 5 [Sunday] 1600-1630 9490 ERV 250 kW / 125 deg SoAs English Wavescan#523, vy good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/reception-of-adventist-world-radio-awr.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 4-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARMENIA. Armenia Radio Day - May 7 Public Radio of Armenia Official website May 7 is Radio Day, an invention that changed the world, in general, and the world of communication, in particular. It is celebrated in a number of post-Soviet countries, including Armenia. On August 27, 1926 the “Soviet Armenia” newspaper informed: “The construction of the radio station in Yerevan has been completed. The station will start operating in five days.” The Voice of Yerevan was first heard on air in September, 1926. On April 6, 1927 the first radio schedule consisting of news and concerts was printed in the press. The Day of Radio was first observed in Moscow on May 7, 1945. From that time on May 7 has been marked in Armenia as Radio Day. http://www.armradio.am/en/12479 (via Mike Terry, May 7, WOR iog via DXLD) See also RUSSIA ** AUSTRALIA [non]. Unique Radio via WINB red Lion PN USA to North America --- Aussie Tim 'Sounds of your life' produced at Unique Radio Gunnedah NSW Australia via WINB 9265: Tue 2100 to 2130 UT (5 PM EDT) Wed 0130 to 0200 UT (Tuesday 9:30 PM EDT) Fri 1800 to 1900 UT (2 PM EDT) Sat 1730 to 1800 UT (1:30 PM EDT) Information available via : https://www.uniqueradio.biz Wishing you all good listening. Best regards (Aussie Tim, May 7, WOR iog via DXLD) see also USA: WINB USA, 9265, Unique Radio via WINB, Red Lion, 1730, 04-05, English, ID "WINB, Red Lion...", Unique Radio "Sounds of your Life". 25422 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) Also heard well off their beam in Michigan today, 4+4544 with my 'local' QRM only causing slight issues (Kenneth Vito Zichi, ibid.) ** BANGLADESH. 4750, Bangladesh Betar, on May 3, tuned in at 1209, to only hear CNR1; 1226 start of the BB test tone; 1228, test tone ended and start of BB IS; 1230, into English, till 1300 test tone again. This is still the BB External Service and no trace of VOI/Makassar (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1981, DXLD) Reception of Bangladesh Betar in 60mb on May 3: 1745-1900 on 4750 SHV 100 kW / non-dir to SoAs English, fair 1915-2000 on 4750 SHV 100 kW / non-dir to SoAs Bangla, fair https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/reception-of-bangladesh-betar-in-60mb.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 3-4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELARUS [non]. USA / LITHUANIA ============ * From the announcement on the website of the Belarusian editorial board of Radio Liberty (Google’s translation into Russian and my correction :-): [and then translated back into English? Oh oh --- gh] “On April 30, 2019, at the mid-wave frequency of 1386 kHz, our signal will last sound. Radio Liberty, after almost 65 years of daily broadcasting, finally leaves the radio waves. The radio ends, but the spoken word and music remain in Freedom's arsenal. From radio waves, we switch to other channels of audio transmission. We will continue to be listened to on the global Internet - and in streaming broadcasting, and on podcast platforms - as well as via satellite. " Source: https://www.svaboda.org/p/7152.html As of 0300 UT, on May 1, at the frequency of 1386 kHz, there was a farewell transfer of the Belarusian edition (repeat of the previous day’s program). (Vasily Gulyaev, Astrakhan, Russia / “deneb-radio-dx” & “open_dx” via Rus-DX 5 May via DXLD) The Belarus service Radio Liberty stops broadcasting to Belarus on medium waves. Today is the last day of medium wave broadcasting at a frequency of 1386 KHz. It was conducted for 65 years. Radio Liberty does not stop working in Belarus, broadcasting will also be preserved. It will be conducted on the Internet. Also, the radio station programs will be available on podcast platforms. Satellite broadcasting will remain. Source: reform.by “From May 1, the radio Liberty radio program schedule is changing on medium waves. Now listen to us daily at 1386 kHz from 21:00 until midnight Moscow time and around the clock - on the Internet and via Asiasat 7 and Eutelsat Hot Bird 13B satellites.” Source: https://www.svoboda.org/a/29912140.html. (Vasily Gulyaev, Astrakhan, Russia / “deneb-radio-dx” & “open_dx” via Rus-DX 5 May via DXLD) It`s not clear why this is happening. 1386 kHz is the 75 kW Radio Baltic Waves in Lithuania which has been carrying RFE in Belarussian and Krasnyrussian (gh, DXLD) ** BHUTAN. 6035, BBS, on May 3, tuned in at 1309 and surprised to hear an announcer underneath the usual FM99 (PBS Yunnan). Yes, BBS with a greatly extended schedule today; able to ID at 1317, with clearly heard unique indigenous music and cut off at 1317*; as usual bothered by jamming spur of 6045 (National Unity Radio). Only wish I had tuned in earlier (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) Hi Glenn, May 4 - An unusually good day for BBS (6035), especially considering the usual FM99 (PBS Yunnan) and the N. Korea jamming spur QRM; second day with much longer than normal broadcast; 1114-1300*. Highlights: 1114-1200: In English; mostly pop songs (Led Zeppelin with "Stairway To Heaven," etc.), except announcers 1120-1138 and with *1139 start up of FM99 (PBS Yunnan) and at *1145 start up of N. Korea jamming spur. 1230-1247: Clearly in vernacular with interview. 1247-1300*: Unique indigenous music/chanting/singing. Still a challenge to hear BBS, but here is my four minute audio (two of Led Zeppelin and two of indigenous music/chanting/singing) at http://bit.ly/2H1s4Qa (Ron Howard, California, WOR iog via DXLD) Hi Glenn, May 5 (Sunday) - BBS (6035) again heard (1038-1242*) with third day of extended schedule; unusual propagation, as this was probably the earliest that I have been able to hear BBS. Highlights: 1038-1100: Pop songs. The N. Korean jamming spur was already on the air here, causing heavy QRM, which was on during all of my listening today. 1100-1110: News in English (unreadable). 1110-1200: DJ in English playing pop songs (Eagles with "Take It Easy," etc.) and giving phone number to request songs. The usual segment 1120-1134 with announcers; the normal *1139 sudden start up of FM99, via PBS Yunnan. 1200-1216: Monologue in vernacular. 1216-1220: Unique indigenous stringed instrument music. 1220-1242*: The usual Sunday karaoke type program with children calling in and singing over the phone with no music; suddenly cut off. After BBS closed down, only FM99 and jamming heard here. My brief audio at https://app.box.com/s/02lyasd35j23bbd1g7l8x53obsw75fiq Hi Glenn, May 6 - After three days of extended BBS schedule on 6035 kHz., today back to a more normal cut off time; 1142, pop western songs (Ray Charles, etc.), but with serious transmitter problems, with audio quickly cutting off and on repeatedly; after 1150 not heard again, leaving just FM99 and strong jamming spur (Ron Howard, California, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1981, DXLD) ** BIAFRA. National War Museum Umuahia On May 3, 20194:24 am In News, Travel & Tourism by Urowayino Warami Comments https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/05/national-war-museum-umuahia/ The Nigerian Civil War was a watershed in the history of the country. It is an experience that many agreed should not be resorted to as a means of conflict resolution. During the war, deadly weapons were fabricated and used to prosecute the war. Today, there is a museum established in Umuahia in 1985, that has a collection of objects of traditional and modern warfare. [INS: :INS] The museum's location was chosen because it was where the bunker housing the famous shortwave radio, The Voice of Biafra, was transmitted from. Voice of Biafra was the mouth-piece for Biafra during the war. The National War Museum has the highest collection of the Nigerian civil war weapons that are no longer in use. The weapons are from both the Nigerian military and the defunct Republic of Biafra. The place has become a tourist site that attracts hundreds of people daily. They come from within and outside the country to see the war artifacts on display. To some, it is to relive the period of the war through items on display, while to others, it is for study purposes. There are yet others who come simply out of curiosity (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** BIAFRA. The dream of Biafra lives on in underground Nigerian radio broadcasts Every evening as 5 o’clock approaches, the clogged, perpetually dusty streets of this industrial city in southeastern Nigeria begin to empty. Groups of men just off work go inside, shut their doors and tune their radios to 102.1 FM. Then an anthem begins to play, and a voice says “Kedu” --­ “how are you” in the Igbo language --­ to welcome listeners to the daily broadcast of Radio Biafra. For the next 90 minutes, hosts and various guests proselytize for the revival of an old dream: the creation of an independent state called Biafra. The broadcasts, conducted live from an undisclosed location in Nigeria, are illegal, and the group behind them ­ the Indigenous People of Biafra, or IPOB ­ has been classified by the government as a terrorist organization since 2017. Its leaders say they eschew violence and want a peaceful settlement of the issue through a national referendum. Full article at https://www.latimes.com/world/africa/la-fg-nigeria-war-legacy-20190430-story.html (via BernieS via FRW May 4 via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 3310, Radio Mosoj Chaski, Cotapachi, 0015-0023, 05-05, Quechua, comments. 25222. (Méndez) 5952.4, Radio Pio XII, Siglo XX, Llallagua (presumed), 0017-0024, 05-05, comments, only audible on LSB. Extremely weak, barely audible (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** BONAIRE. Estimado Sr. Hauser: Me llegó la respuesta por facebook de RTM: "Hola, hermano. Le vamos a enviar el QSL electrónico a su correo. Muchas bendiciones por estar en sintonía anoche y por compartir el video de su recepción. Muchas bendiciones". Por lo visto ese radio despertador me dará muchas horas de diversión escuchando estaciones. Saludos. Atte.: (Ing. Israel González Ahumada, M.I., May 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4885, Radiodifusora Acreana, Rio Branco, 0515-0612, 05-05, Brazilian songs, some songs in Spanish, ID “Radiodifusora Acreana...”, “Difusora AM a sua radio”. Checked and matches with its online schedule. Radio Clube do Pará out or inaudible today. 15311 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1981, DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 9664.51, R. Voz Missionaria, Camboriu in Portuguese, 04.15.2019 1926-1934 woman unclear talk, slow song, man unclear talk and announcements; better in LSB with inter filter, QRM moderate splats (strong at times), moderate QRN and QSB, very poor/barely audible/no audio at times; in // https://radiosaovivo.net/voz-missionaria/ 9664.46, R. Voz Missionaria, Camboriu in Portuguese, 04.26.2019 1934-1948 man lively religious sermon, woman excited religious talk (no much clear) over slow music (till 1939), religious pop song (Vitoria, vitoria....aleluia), woman religious sermon, heard in usb, ceaseless fast deep qsb, qrn severe rustle, from 1943 heard in lsb with notch and inter filters to nullify qrm strong het, poor; in // https://radiosaovivo.net/voz-missionaria/ (Gianni Serra - Roma-Italy, Equipment: JRC NRD 525 receiver; Alpha Delta DX-SWL Sloper-S antenna; RG 8 mini coaxial cable; JPS NIR 12 Noise & Interference Reducer-Dual DSP outboard audio filter; JRC NVA 319 external loudspeaker unit; Yaesu YH-77 STA stereo headphones; Oregon Scientific RM912 radio controlled clock; All times in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time); date in month/day format, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA. UTILITY, Reception of LZW Varna Radio in 80mb on May 3: 0704&0708 on 3740 USB mode English/Bulgarian, fair/good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/reception-of-lzw-varna-radio-in-80mb-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 2-3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. SW Utilities and Spooks and Hamiture types: 6754/USB, Trenton Military with Aviation "Weather" and Terminal "Forecast" Reports but 'no report received' was the report for each location! T/C and ID at 0251 but they announced the time as 0250 and again at 0256 but announcing 0255. 4544+4, 0245-0257 1/May, SDRplay +SDRuno +ANC-4 +rwire (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Williamston MI, MARE Tipsheet May 3 via DXLD) 15034-USB, May 5 at 1324, Trenton Military with ``no report received`` over and over from Winnipeg, Calgary, Cold Lake, Edmonton; and at 1325 NRR from Comox, Victoria, Vancouver, Abbotsford. The automaton doesn`t seem to care, but drones on endlessly. One suspects the problem is at Trenton, not all these other air terminals. 15034-USB, May 6 at 1419, CHR Trenton Military, nothing but ``no report received`` from Ottawa, Toronto, Bagotville --- and Trenton! over and over (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1981, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR ** CHINA. 16300, 0815, CNR 1, Jamming of Sound of Hope // 16160 16100 353 20/04 (Franck Baste, St Bonnet de Rochefort, France, IC-756proIII, SDR Perseus /ALA1530, 2x10m Dipole, May BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) 11460, May 5 at 1330, S2-S3 but clear Western classical music, obviously CNR1 jammer and // another on 11785. Aoki/NDXC shows 11460 one of countless Sound of Hope, Miaoli, Taiwan frequencies with *jamming. My quick survey of WOOB areas from 10 to 15 MHz finds no others now. 11440, May 7 at 1417, CNR1 jammer at S9-S7, // 11460 about the same. The other day this was on 11460 only. Aoki/NDXC shows both as *jammed SOH Maoli frequencies available 20 hours a day. 11580, May 7 at 1419, CNR1 jamming at S4-S6, weaker than 11440 & 11460. Same situation as those. 12190, May 7 at 1422, CNR1 jamming // the others, S9/S9+10. Ditto. 12880, May 7 at 1422, CNR1 jamming, S6-S9. Ditto. 13270, May 7 at 1423, Gander Radio weak on USB but also a carrier, so I try LSB, and there is another very weak CNR1 jammer. Yes, it`s another listed *jammed SOH Miaoi frequency. Someone, somewhere will be reporting some of these as Sound of Hope, fooled by the Chicom, rather than their jammers. In no case was any sign of SOH audible here, rather CNR1 probably blotting very low power transmitters in Taiwan or Thailand, if any. No other WOOB CNR1 jammers found between 10.9 and 18 MHz, but this: 15110, May 7 at 1426, CNR1 jammer S9/S9+10, atop VOA Chinese via Philippines this hour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1981, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 6185, China Huayi Broadcast Co. (CHBC) (presumed), on May 2, tuned into open carrier at 0928; at 0930, start of program in Chinese; up till 1000, seemed to be some sports reporting, as sound of the crowd heard in the background; some pop songs. Decent signal. My audio http://bit.ly/2vFA7M1 Have sent off a reception report to Jonathan Short (Qiao Xiaoli), asking for confirmation, but am not sure if he is still active? The last I knew he was living in Changshu (Jiangsu Province) (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** CONGO. 6115, Radio Congo (presumed), on May 3, suddenly on at *0533; in French, with very little "RN2" (Japan) QRM; rather a brief opening, as signal went downhill and Japan's came up (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** CONGO DR. 6210v, - [no specific date], 1745, Radio Kahuzi is regularly heard here but always very weak. The radiated program is similar from day to day with sermons, hymn singing and finally sign off with an instrumental tune. Closedown varies from 1755 to 1805. When they returned on the air, the QRG was 6210.187 but the last weeks they have been steady on 6210.192. The signal strength rarely exceeds QSA 2 but there are seldom any QRM (Stig Adolfsson, Vallentuna, Sweden, SW Bulletin May 6 via WORLD OF RADIO 1981, DXLD) ** CUBA. For the last 2 weeks I've been monitoring 9330. And twice now I've been awakened by a carrier coming up in the middle of the night. And I thought, oh boy, I was just hearing testing 9330 the SUPER STATION! Nope. I get disappointed when I hear the Golden Tones. Uno Ocho Cuatro Dos. The damn Cuban number station comes on. I'm hoping Allan will hurry up and turn that thing on and blow Havana completely out of the Caribbean. I told Allan about this and all I can get from him is one word, soon (Mark Sills, Dallas TX, May 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Cuban numbers have been on 9330 probably longer than WBCQ, on limited schedule of 0700 UT not every night (gh, DXLD) ** CUBA. 9790, May 4 at 0331, CRI English relay is S9+20/10 but just barely modulated. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba. 6000, May 5 at 0557, RHC English is S9+20 but suptorted, unlike 6060, 6100, 6165 all better modulation, with produxion credits, plugging Sunday programs, and reopening Saturday show a bit before 0600. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 11880, May 6 at 1418, CRI English conversation about education, with good modulation -- it can be done! Something`s not wrong at RadioCuba. ** CUBA [and non]. Hi, Every morning at 0659 Radio Marti tells listeners to (re-)tune to 5980, 6030 or 7335 kHz. And precisely at that moment 7335 goes off. Usually it comes back after a minute or two, carrier+ modulation, then sometimes modulation goes off for a few seconds (or minutes). Something's always wrong at Radio Marti. 73, (Rémy Friess, France, 0758 May 3, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1981, DXLD) USA, Extended broadcast of OCB Radio Marti in 41mb on May 3: after 0700 on 7335 GB 250 kW / 225 deg to Cuba Spanish, weak Additional 3 hours on 7335 kHz 0700-1000 (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) Probably makes antenna change then (gh, ibid.) or not?: Additional three hours of OCB Radio TV Marti on 7335 kHz, May 3 0000-0700 on 7335 GB 250 kW / 225 deg to Cuba Spanish, as scheduled 0700-1000 on 7335 GB 250 kW / 225 deg to Cuba Spanish, addit, weak: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/additional-three-hours-of-ocb-radio-tv.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 2-3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11860, Sat May 4 at 1754, Radio Martí reconfirmed now active weekends too on this frequency; atop jamming about same as 11930 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5980, UT Sun May 5 at 0004, no signal from TV Martí, and no jamming either, so this new 22-03 UT broadcast remains M-F/Tue-Sat only. There is however a JBA carrier, presumably RRI Romanian, which also moved here, in clear at least on UT Sun & Mon (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENINIG DIGEST) See also ROMANIA ** DENMARK. 5840, World Music Radio, Randers, 2045-2057, 04-05, Andean flute music, Brazilian songs, pop songs in English, ID “World Music Radio”. 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) World Music Radio (WMR) is usually broadcasting on 15805 kHz every Saturday and Sunday. This weekend however - no transmission today Saturday. So Sunday only. Meanwhile there is a problem with the audio feed for the 5840 kHz transmitter. Hopefully this will be brought back to normal tonight. Best 73s, (Stig Hartvig Nielsen, World Music Radio - www.wmr.radio, May 4, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via WORLD OF RADIO 1981, DXLD) ** ECUADOR. 6050, HCJB, Pichincha, 0345-0500*, 05-05, religious songs in Spanish, at 0400 time signals and religious comments in Spanish. Between 0500 and 0458 strong QRM from Algeria, “Koran Radio Algeria” on the same frequency, at 0459 anthem and close. Without interference SINPO: 34433, with interference: 31431 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** EGYPT. Cancelled freqs of Radio Cairo in HFCC Database: 1600-1700 on 15450 ABZ 100 kW / 160 deg to ECAf Afar 1700-1730 on 15285 ABZ 100 kW / 160 deg to ECAf Somali 1730-1900 on 15285 ABZ 100 kW / 160 deg to ECAf Amharic 1900-2030 on 15290 ABZ 100 kW / 250 deg to WeAf English Updated A-19 schedule of Radio Cairo, but the station is not on the air since the beginning of the summer season: 1500-1600 on 9705 ABS 125 kW / 315 deg to EaEu Albanian 1700-1900 on 9800 ABS 125 kW / 005 deg to N/ME Turkish 1800-1900 on 9490 ABS 125 kW / 325 deg to WeEu Italian 1900-2000 on 9570 ABS 125 kW / 325 deg to WeEu German 1900-2000 on 9665 ABS 125 kW / 005 deg to EaEu Russian 2000-2115 on 9895 ABS 125 kW / 325 deg to WeEu French 2115-2245 on 9900 ABS 125 kW / 325 deg to WeEu English 2215-2330 on 9720 ABS 100 kW / 252 deg to SoAm Portuguese 2330-0045 on 9660 ABS 100 kW / 252 deg to SoAm Arabic 0045-0200 on 9665 ABS 100 kW / 252 deg to SoAm Spanish https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/cancelled-frequencies-of-radio-cairo-in.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 4-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005, Radio Nacional, Bata, *0522-0555, 05-05, Non stop Afropop and Spanish songs. At 0555 signal deteriorated and became inaudible. 15311 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** ERITREA [non]. Reception of Radio Sinit Eritrea via MBR Issoudun on May 4 0500-0600 11660 ISS 250 kW / 123 deg EaAf Tigrinya/Arabic Sat, vy good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/reception-of-radio-sinit-eritrea-via.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 3-4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDentified via MBR Issoudun NOT Radio Sinit Eritrea May 6 1700-1730 15390 ISS 100 kW / 123 deg EaAf Arabic Mon/Sat, vgood signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/unidentified-via-mbr-issoudun-not-radio.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 6-7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. 5139.99, PIRATE (EUROPE) Charleston R. International in English, 04.13.2019 0738-0749, usual medley of retro songs, with man dj brief talk at times (go ahead, London!) ID, heard in Lsb, mild qsb and qrn rustle in increasing, good / fair (Gianni Serra - Roma-Italy, Equipment: JRC NRD 525 receiver; Alpha Delta DX-SWL Sloper-S antenna; RG 8 mini coaxial cable; JPS NIR 12 Noise & Interference Reducer-Dual DSP outboard audio filter; JRC NVA 319 external loudspeaker unit; Yaesu YH-77 STA stereo headphones; Oregon Scientific RM912 radio controlled clock; All times in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time); date in month/day format, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Charleston Radio International is heard most days on 5140 kHz, scheduled 1700-2200 UT according to their Facebook page (21 April). “Playing Original 78 rpm records of the 1920`s 30`s 40`s.. Charleston, Tango, Foxtrot, Swing, Rhumba, Samba, Mambo, Cha cha cha.” Switches to the next free frequency if 5140 is busy (e.g. 5135, 5145, 5150) but return to 5140 when free. The contact email is charlestonradiointernational@yahoo.com (Station Facebook page via May BDXC-UK Communication via WORLD OF RADIO 1981, DXLD) ** FINLAND. A-19 frequency changes of Scandinavian Weekend Radio: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/summer-19-frequency-changes-of.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 2-3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** 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) Please check 13660, Sunday at 1700-1730 --- is ABF on then and what language? Or is anything else on, and what is it? (Glenn Hauser, May 5, WOR iog via DXLD) No transmission whatsoever on at 1720, except extremely faint signal traces, so faint that a plain exciter, left on this frequency, could be the source. So who said that some clannie would come on air in this slot? Has it been attempted to sell airtime to someone, but finally without success? And who said it would be programming in Kirundi (which, of course, could well be)? (Kai Ludwig, ibid.) Glenn, correct days for Alameda FB are Mon, Wed, Fri 1700-1730 on 13660 ISS, but in HFCC are registered Tue, Thu, Sat. Rather in HFCC is registered Sun/Tue/Thu but on air is Mon/Wed/Fri 17-1730 on 13660. All other days no signal (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) Reception of Alameda Bible Fellowship via TDF Issoudun, May 3 1700-1730 13660 ISS 500 kW / 135 deg EaAf English Mon/Wed/Fri, good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/eception-of-alameda-bible-fellowship.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 3-4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Reception, Alameda Bible Fellowship via TDF Issoudun May 6 1700-1730 13660 ISS 500 kW / 135 deg EaAf English Mon/Wed/Fri, vy good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/reception-of-alameda-bible-fellowship.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 6-7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. DE: Shortwave Radio new schedule : News May 1st 2019: Our current broadcasting times have been changed as follows: 3975 kHz: 16:00 to 22:00 UTC 6160 kHz: 16:00 to 22:00 UTC In case you are missing our morning or afternoon transmissions on 3975 and 6160 kHz, please send an email and complain about it. Propagation conditions prevent us to be audible in UK and Eire during daytime. If you are listening somewhere else, we might change schedule again. Your feedback is welcome. Remember, eQSL’s will only send out, if there is a donation to the project via our website. http://shortwaveradio.de/ (via Dr Hansjoerg Biener, May 5, WORLD OF RADIO 1981, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM [and non]. Reception of FEBC/FEBA Radio via KTWR Trans World Radio Asia on May 6 1315-1345 11580 TRM 200 kW / 290 deg SoAs Telugu/English Mon, weak + jammer same time 11580 unknown kW / unknown EaAs digital jamming vs Sound of Hope https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/febcfeba-radio-via-ktwr-trans-world.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) TRM is SRI LANKA; did you mean TWR site? (gh, DXLD) ** GUATEMALA. 4055, UT Sunday May 5 at 0544, TGAV is off already rather than usual ~0610v* except earlier circa 0400 UT Mondays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUINEA. Not much heard of interest doing this rather tough week of propagation this far north. 9650, Radio Guinee at 2058 UT May 1 with west African music and announcements and ID's in French. Good (noted slight co-channel interference from Pyongyang VoK at 2110 but soon faded as sunrise in North Korea advanced.) Very nice IS (or Imaging for newscast) at 2200. Abrupt off at 2221. Also noted poor to just barely audible past 2330 UT on May 4th. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, Alberta, Rx: Perseus SDR, Ant: Wellbrook ALA 100 loop, WOR iog via DXLD) ** INDIA. Emergency broadcasts by AIR tonight --- AIR stations from Andhra Pradesh and Odisha noted with emergency broadcast due to cyclone Fani at 1800 UT (11:30 pm IST) just now. They will broadcast continuously tonight with emergency messages, Songs, drama etc. (instead of signing off at around 1740 UT/11:10 pm IST) 927 Vishakhapatnam 100 kW 945 Sambalpur 100 kW 972 Cuttack 300 kW 1206 Bhawanipatna 200 kW 1467 Jeypore, 100 kW 1485 Soro 1 kW 1584 Keonjhar 1 kW 5040? Jeypore Plus FM stations in Odisha? Cyclone Fani is expected to hit Oidhs Coast tomorrow forenoon http://www.cwcvsk.gov.in/cw.html?fbclid=IwAR36gmat5r6xMs6LxA_EuH7IwL9BMkR2EnTbNvr_eDxdsk0GJIi5cpVzMyE Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, Mobile: +91 94416 96043, www.qsl.net/vu2jos 1837 UT May 2, dx_india yg via DXLD) Happy to note that the high power MW stations of AIR in Odisha / Andhra Pradesh States which were broadcasting continuously last night with emergency messages etc. withstood the cyclone, as they are heard on air as follows now: 927 Visakapatnam, 945 Sambalpur, 972 Cuttack, 1206 Bhawanipatna, 1467 5040 Jeypore Some of these stations may be on air tonight also continuously. Awaiting news on FM stations and low power MW stations there. Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, 1520 UT May 3, ibid.) ** INDIA [and non]. Special program Dawn Chorus on AIR tomorrow morning All India Radio in collaboration with RTE Radio 1, Ireland will broadcast “Dawn Chorus” , a special live program where birds from 3 continents (Africa, Asia & Europe) will sing together! This year broadcasters from India, Finland, Lithuania, Slovenia, Northern Ireland, Poland, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Israel, Cyprus, Italy, Portugal, Wales, Scotland and Kenya are scheduled. The schedule is as follows: IST Sunday 5 May 2019 4.30 to 11.30 am UT Saturday 4 May 2019 2300 to Sunday 5 May 2019 0600 Delhi 666 kHz, 102.6 MHz Plus other selected stations of AIR on MW/SW/FM External Services : 2300-0045 : Bengaluru 7550 DRM, 9445 https://www.rte.ie/radio1/mooney/ Live stream : http://www.airworldservice.org/english Reception Reports may be sent to : mooney@rte.ie (No reply received by me last year). Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, 0702 UT May 4, dx_india yg via DXLD) too bad that the rest of us missed it (gh) ** INDONESIA. V of Indonesia: bad frequency (total text revision ) VoI has been noted via Jakarta KSDR only with signal S10 or -69 to -63db on ....4750 kHz! On 1/5 at 2130 with ID in the clear with English program. On 2/5, 1815 UT German program, mixed with Bangladesh English program (as logged next via Vietnam KSDR in the clear without any QRM from VoI). Sample audio of 2/5 with '3325 kHz' still noticed from Jak KSDR https://www.dropbox.com/s/oivtktwidz81zvi/VoI%20via%20Jakarta%20KSDR%2020190502-183218Z-4750am.wav?dl=1 that shows that the station is QRMed inside the country! There were further checks in Australia and Vietnam on 1.5 without success. (NEW) May 2, at 2115 was QRMed by CNR as heard in SW Australia KSDR. The worst frequency to use. Will they change that again? (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, WORLD OF RADIO 1981, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Ron, I was able to arise before sunrise (02 May) and checked 3325 first thing at 1330 on my Benmar Nav. 555A, and just a wavery dead-air (OC) from VOI (conditions were not very good and a lot of TP attenuation on 3 MHz then, esp. 3320 KRE). The 3325 VOI transmitter has been OCing since the beginning of April. Just why this is ongoing is odd! Do you know if the VOI has an alternative frequency than 3325 for their 1300z EE program? 3325 is a bust now (Steve McGreevy, CA, WOR iog via DXLD) On a follow-up on 04 May at 1323z (just a bit ago), the 3325 VOI via RRI Palangkaraya (on south Borneo Isl.) has a fine carrier-level on peaks at sunrise today (far stronger than 3320 KRE), but just dead-air again on my Benmar Nav 555A. Careful nulling and watching for minimal meter-readings/signals indicate a DF bearing of ~290 deg. azimuth, so it must be them. Days and days of 10 kW blasting into nothingness and no modulation! Good they have cheap electricity. ;-) (or else they are doing a signal phase-shift ionosphere study of HF prop.) 73 - (Steve McGreevy, ibid.) 3325, Voice of Indonesia, via RRI Palangkaraya, on May 3, at 1204 & 1320, had a carrier (no audio); back here after being absent yesterday. [non-log] 4750 (4749.943, thanks to Mauno), checking for VOI/Makassar being reported here, but not heard during May 3, checking 1209+ (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) VoI In'sia update 3/5 --- 1928 also on 3325 (Palankaraya) with S10 low audio! in Jak SDR (NEW) together with 4750 (Makasar) mixed with Bangladesh (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, 1834 UT May 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Note discrepancy in times (gh) [and non]. 4750, 1925-1935 3.5, BGD, Bangladesh Betar, Shavar, Bengali talk with short musical interludes, 35333. But when listening to Kiwi SDR in Jakarta on 4750, it was heavily disturbed by the Voice of Indonesia in German // much weaker 3325, which was the only SW frequency announced! VOI on 4750 was NOT heard by seven other Kiwi SDR receivers in the area. Best 73, (Anker Petersen, Denmark, my latest loggings heard on the AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, wbradio yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1981, DXLD) Sun 5.5: 3325 is off while 4750 is 'working' at 2135. Signal is not heard outside Indonesia that time as tested in Viet or some Aussie SDRs (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Here in California, I checked a good number of times today (May 6), on 4750, but was only able to hear CNR1 (no trace of another signal). Later of course had additional signal from Bangladesh Betar about 1226 (test tone - then English). I have yet to catch VOI on 4750, but will keep trying (Ron Howard, ibid.) 3325, Voice of Indonesia, via RRI Palangkaraya, on May 6, suddenly on at *1058. Amazed to actually hear some audio; at first unable to make out the language, but by 1105, clearly in stilted Chinese; mostly poor to very poor reception; only rarely able to determine the language; 1218, decent audio with Japanese, but again only briefly heard at a useable level; 1259, went to English, with the news (item about the start of Ramadan, etc.); overall unusable, but definitely with audio today, the first time in quite a while. This improvement due to Ramadan? The bad news here is that through May 6, NBC Bougainville has been silent now for a while (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1981, DXLD) ** IRAN. Additional frequencies of PARS TODAY VIRI IRIB from May 6 to June 5 due to the Muslim holiday Ramadan 2130-2300 on 7280 SIR 500 kW / 060 deg to CeAs Tajik 2200-0030 on 9730 SIR 500 kW / 198 deg to N/ME Arabic 2323-0020 on 13805 SIR 500 kW / 304 deg to N/ME Kurdish 0030-0130 on 6065 SIR 500 kW / 295 deg to N/ME Turkish Alt. freqs 1930-2300 on 7315 & 2300-0320 on 7410 Turkish https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/additional-frequencies-of-pars-today.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 4-6, WORLD OF RADIO 1981, DXLD) ** IRELAND. "RTE 252 kHz" via Short Wave Radiogram # 98 zur Thematik: http://savertelongwaveradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Manchester-St-Pats-Day.png (via roger, May 4, WOR iog via DXLD) Photo of a 252-support sign (gh) ** ISRAEL. QSLs: Voice of Hope, 1287 kHz (MW), 50 kW from She’ar Yashuv, Israel. F/D card for series of e-mail reports to VOH HQ in CA. USA. Reception reports were nightly afterdusk receptions while cruising north from Haifa, Israel up to Athens, Greece for 5 days. VOH was interested in any QRMing stations as I cruised NW. V/S Ray Robinson (Don Hosmer, MARE Tipsheet May 3 via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH. Is anyone hearing the Voice of Korea in English on 11710 between 1000 and 1100? At my location in Ontario, I haven't been able to even detect a hint of a carrier for several months now until they come on in French at 1100. According to Dan Ferguson's SW Skeds spreadsheets the beam for both broadcasts is Latin America (Mark Coady, Selwyn, ON, May 3, ODXA IOG via DXLD) Morning Mark and the group, While not between 1000 and 1100Z, I was able to receive the Voice of Korea this morning on 11710 kHz at 1130 in Hamilton, Ont. SINPO 25532. Would have been nearly impossible to identify, if I wasn’t already very familiar with their programming style. I was actually surprised to hear them once again, although a pretty weak signal, they were there all the same (John Gillespie, Hamilton, ON, ibid.) That's in French from 1100 to 1200 and I hear them every day there. At 1200 they change to KCBS in Korean (Mark Coady, ibid.) Arnulf Piontek`s authoritative A-19 sked for 10-11 English shows 11710 & 15180 at 28 degrees for C&SAm; 11735 & 13650 at 238 degrees for SE Asia. May well be one of their temporarily suspended broadcasts (gh, DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH. 5920, Voice of Freedom, 1010, on May 2. Start of program in Korean after the news; 1015 into another program; as usual was jammed by N. Korea, but VOF's signal was cutting through the QRM fairly well. My six minute audio at http://bit.ly/2DHt4He (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** KUWAIT. 15529.7, Radio Kuwait, Sulaibiyah, *0500-0630, 04-05, English, ID, religious Islamic program, 0530 ID “This is Radio Kuwait...”, education program, 0600 news, pop songs in English. 45444 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) I am listening to Radio Kuwait in English at 1940 UT using DRM on 15110 kHz instead of the usual 15540 kHz. 15110 is used for the Arabic service to Europe earlier in the day. It may be a one-off but reception is much better on this slightly lower frequency. 73's (Kevin Ryan, UK, May 6, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) MOI R Kuwait English on two frequencies in // in 19mb May 7 0500-0800 on 15529.8 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu English, as scheduled A-19 0500-0800 on 15515.0 KBD 250 kW / 059 deg to EaAs English, instead of Arabic GS 0800-0900 on 15515.0 KBD 250 kW / 059 deg to EaAs Persian, instead of Arabic GS https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/moi-radio-kuwait-in-english-on-two_7.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 6-7, WORLD OF RADIO 1981, DXLD) ** KYRGYZSTAN. Birinchi Radio (translated means “First Radio”) relays BBC World Service in English on 4010 kHz & MW 612 as follows: BBC Sport News 1000-1004 Sat & Sun; 1005-1009 Mon-Fri; BBC News at 1500-1506 Sat & Sun, 1600-1606 Mon-Fri. Radio Sedaye Zindagi operating by Pamir Ministries via Bishkek on 5130 kHz was confirmed on 01 April at *1550-1757* and on 12 April at *1445-1755*. Three quarters of their programs are in Dari & quarter are in Pashto. They are on the air only Mon-Fri and only in first half of the month. The official name is Sedaye Zindagi (=Sound of Life) but in Farsi “sedaye” means “voice”). (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria, Sony ICF2001D & VEF201, Ant Folded Marconi 16m, May BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** LIBERIA. 6050, ELWA, Monrovia, 0613-0630, 05-05, English, religious comments. 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** MALI. 5995, Radio Mali, Bamako, *0553-0806*, 05-05, open with African song, ID “ORTM, la passion du service public”, tuning music, anthem, tuning music, 0559 id. “Vous ecoutez L’Office de Radiodiffusion Television du Mali, emettant de Bamako...”, African songs and vernacular comments, at 0800 tuning music, ID, vernacular comments and close at 0806. 34433. (Méndez) 9635, Radio Mali, Bamako, *0806-0835, 05-05, open at 0806, when closed on 5995. vernacular comments, ID “Radio Mali”, “Bamako”. 45444 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** MALI. China Radio International via Bamako, May 3 2000-2127 on 11640 BKO 100 kW / 111 deg to SoAf English 2000-2127 on 13630 BKO 100 kW / 111 deg to SoAf English 2130-2227 on 11975 BKO 100 kW / 020 deg to WeAf French 2130-2227 on 13630 BKO 100 kW / 111 deg to SoAf French BUT from 2140 UT no signal on both 11975 & 13630 kHz https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/reception-of-china-radio-international.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 3-4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11640, May 3 at 2107, CRI English relay VP but detectable // much stronger 13630. 11640 is scheduled 1800-2130 in Hausa, Arabic, Portuguese and finally English. 11640 & 13630, May 4 at 2103, no signals from CRI English relay, unlike the past few days one and or both audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11640, CRI at 1923 in Arabic with that service's version of “Chinese Studio” Chinese language lesson and a man with closing announcements at 1926 and off at 1928 only to come back on for their Portuguese service at 1930 – Fair May 5 – A sure fire way of logging Mali these days especially considering Radiodiffusion-Télévision Malienne on 5995 is a difficult catch under the best of conditions and // 9635 has been reported to be suffering from transmitter problems (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) Checked that CRI Bamako Africa relay site 2000-2130 UT, both 111 degrees towards central Africa, Sahara Sahel, North East Africa target. Noted tonight with strong signal on sidelobe here in central Europe: Both exact even frequency, refurbished alignment work in past months by Chinese technicians was successful. 11640 kHz S=9 or -75dBm at 2025 UT 13630 kHz S=8-9 or -82dBm at 2030 UT 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Bueschel, May 5, WOR iog via DXLD) May 5, no signal of CRI via Bamako from 1300 to 2000 on all frequencies; from 2000 in English good signal on 11640 & 13630 (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, ibid.) Checked that CRI Bamako Africa relay site 2210-2225 UT, French sce, French-Chinese Mandarin lesson hour. 111 degrees towards central Africa, Sahara Sahel, North East Africa target on 13630 kHz, and 020 degrees towards W Africa on 11975 kHz. Noted tonight with strong signal on sidelobe here in central Europe: Both exact even frequency, refurbished alignment work in past months by Chinese technicians was successful. 11975 kHz S=9+25dB or -44dBm at 2220 UT 13630 kHz S=9+5dB or -73dBm at 2224 UT 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Bueschel, ibid.) Next freqs at 2230 are 11975 & 15505 in Chinese. At 2230 Chinese very good on 11975, weak/fair on 15505. at 2300 Chinese 7295 fair/good, 11975 very good; and correxion for 2230-2300 on 11975 & 15505 in Chinese: is China National Radio-1, not China Radio International (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) CRI with reduced schedule via Bamako relay 2000-2400 in English/French/Chinese, all other are off https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/cri-with-redeced-schedule-via-bamako.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 6, WORLD OF RADIO 1981, DXLD) In CRI schedule is no difference in CRI and CNR Chinese item at 2230 UT / 2300 UT http://www1.s2.starcat.ne.jp/ndxc/cn/cria19.htm 2300-2357 Cambodian 11990nnn, 9765nnn, 684dof Cantonese 15100bei, 11945kun, 9460kun, 7325kun, 6140kun Chinese 11975bko, 11900bei, 9865uru, 7295bko Did you check also the two remainings ?, at this time slot ?: On UT May 6th: I checked Bamako MLI 7295 11975, Urumqi 9865 and Beijing 11900 kHz, they all had very same program {I guess CRI Chinese}, but much separate to CNR1 DIFFERENT Chinese program at 2300-2359 which heard on 6080 Golmud, 9845 11710 11720 11750, and 12045 kHz which were CNR1 different. 73 wolfie (Bueschel, WOR iog via DXLD) ** MEXICO. Awake briefly after 1100 UT May 3, checked for pre-sunrise Mexicans on lowband MW, but nothing to be heard unlike yesterday on 570 & 590, and many more on April 29, 26. How drastically conditions may change (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 6185, May 4 at 2114, VP S5 signal, JBM at best. Must be XEPPM, which apparently leaves at least carrier on all day. This early, little else detectable on 49m besides 6070, 5830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BEAT this week --- including DTV = TDT Another community radio station owner has been killed. https://newsweekespanol.com/2019/05/asesinan-fundador-radio-comunitaria-estereo-cafetal-loxicha-oaxaca/ Telésforo Santiago Enríquez was the head of Estéreo Cafetal, a 98.7 station serving San Agustín Loxicha, Oaxaca. He was ambushed in his vehicle while driving in town today and murdered (Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ, May 3, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) TV Azteca called it quits for its local operation in Baja California Sur, which it had just set up 18 months ago. https://www.diarioelindependiente.mx/2019/05/cierran-filial-de-tv-azteca-en-baja-california-sur The April 30 closure came out of the blue to workers, who won't get much in severance because they were hired through an outsourcing company. The move reduces TV Azteca's presence in BCS to a correspondent for its national news programs and engineering personnel for its transmitters and means 17 people are out of work. (Another six had already left TV Azteca to join TV Mar.) (Raymie, May 4, ibid.) Este programa es público, ajeno a cualquier partido político. Queda prohibido el uso para fines distintos a los establecidos en el programa. Radio Centro's been put on notice after S&P on Friday put the company on negative credit watch. https://www.eleconomista.com.mx/mercados/SP-coloca-la-nota-de-Radio-Centro-en-revision-especial-negativa-y-amaga-con-bajar-esa-calificacion-20190503-0079.html The ratings agency took notice after GRC said it wants several of its financial covenants to be forgiven and says it is waiting for GRC's noteholders meeting on May 13. GRC has additionally advised in the last week of three different delays in the release of information, as the external auditor is still in the process of reviewing its annual report for 2018, its first quarter 2019 results, and its revised fourth quarter 2018 results. That's not all: while rumblings of a sale of KXOS had already surfaced last month, for the first time today they made the Mexican media as they were mentioned in Darío Celis's column for El Financiero https://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/opinion/dario-celis/da-pena-la-cofece (looks like he moved over from Imagen, by the way). Celis reports that GRC is trying to sell the LA station for about 30 million dollars, though he does not name a buyer. ——— Work resumes today on the Multimedios-Telsusa Puebla transmitter site after months of permitting delays and, according to Ing. Guillermo Franco, a bit of a side adventure. The municipal government required Multimedios to furnish another part of the municipality—not even the transmitter site—with a drinking water supply. No wonder that site, and the stations to be built on it, have been so heavily delayed! ——— The Televisa multiprogramming mystery is solved: all eight authorizations were for relocating Foro TV to the Las Estrellas transmitter. The four in the April 3 meeting were mentioned as such, and XHZ lit up Foro TV today. Also from April 3, the concession renewals included XHJTF and XHMZA (radio), XHIJ and XHILA (television), and XHUGL and XHUGO (radio). XHUGO on 107.9 will be grandfathered—there was no available frequency for the Class A station. (However, a reciprocal A90 frequency is available.) Last edited by Raymie; 05-06-2019 at 06:30 PM. Este programa es público, ajeno a cualquier partido político. Queda prohibido el uso para fines distintos a los establecidos en el programa (Raymie, May 6, ibid.) ** MEXICO. Television reaches 6.4 million Mexican spectators children per day http://www.notimex.gob.mx/ntxnotaLibre/697761/television-reaches-64-million-mexican-spectators-children-per-day (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. Re: [WOR] KBC 5960 kHz ====> 9925 kHz, Sunday May 5th 0000-0200 UT --- Barely hearing sign on at 0000 5/05 on 9925 kHz. Hopefully signal will improve as show progresses (Don Hosmer, W Branch MI USA, WOR iog via DXLD) 9925, UT Sunday May 5 at 0004, JBA carrier from presumed Mighty Farty KBC back on reactivated summer frequency via GERMANY, instead of 5960 which is vacant. That probably would have still propagated better, but confronted storm noise level. Maybe something on 7 MHz band would be better in the `shoulder-season` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1981, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9925, EAST GERMANY, The Mighty KBC (Nauen) at 0000 with opening music and a man with ID of “Rocking over the ocean and all over Europe we are the Mighty KBC” then general silliness and into DJ Dave Mason with oldies music and KBC Imports ads – Good signal at first but lower level audio than with 5960 and pretty well lost by 0020 re-check May 5 – New frequency ex-5960. They need to do some work with the audio to bring it up to the level we have been experiencing over the past couple of months. And perhaps a 41 meter band frequency would be a better choice for North America than 9925. Just look at the success Romania has with 41 meter band frequencies. And amateur radio operators have noticed that the 40 meter amateur band often out performs the 20 meter band during this period of solar minimum. So, Mighty KBC, get with the program. You used to use 7375 at one time with great results. Perhaps Romania might leave you some space on 41 meters (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 1981, DXLD) ** NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR [and non]. CANADA [and non]. Gander, Newfoundland, Canada --- VFG Station 3485, 6604, 10051 and 13270 kHz at hour +20 +50 minutes (example 0020, 0050 UT, 0120, 0150 UT…) New York should be back in August 2019 filling the +00 +30 time slots. Many volmets are on specific time schedules that could have some dead air time in between transmissions, for example Gander Canada station will have some dead air time in the time periods where New York radio Volmet used to broadcast. That service is now off the air. According to some online information, New York should return to shortwave in August 2019. [not? See USA] Gander Newfoundland VFG Volmet Antenna Towers https://youtu.be/E3s7f5VRmqE (The World of Utilities, Editor: Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, Quebec E-mail: officialshortwaveradio@gmail.com May CIDX Messenger via DXLD) ** NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR. Radio station rakes in revenue from ads it never aired --- Patrick Butler and Marie Isabelle Rochon · CBC News A francophone community radio station in Labrador City pocketed thousands of advertising dollars — for years — without going to air. Radio communautaire du Labrador, CJRM, more commonly known as Rafale FM, hasn't produced any local programming since 2015, according to several sources. Ad agencies, their clients and federal departments are now on the hunt for answers. Between 2009 and 2012, the federal and provincial governments invested more than $600,000 to create Rafale FM, a provincial francophone radio network with transmitters in Labrador City, St. John's and Mainland, N.L., on Newfoundland's west coast. But technical problems and exhausted volunteers have left the radio station unable to operate since July, according to Gaël Corbineau, Rafale FM's managing director. "We let a situation drag on that wasn't normal," said Corbineau, also the managing director of the Francophone Federation of Newfoundland and Labrador. However, sources contacted by Radio-Canada in Labrador City indicate no programming has been produced at the radio station's studios since at least 2015. Lise Boucher, who lives in Labrador City, regularly checks 97.3 FM to see if Rafale FM is on the air. "I have an old truck that flips through the stations and stops automatically. There's never anything, ever," she said. Rafale FM's CRTC broadcast licence stipulates all its programming must originate in Labrador City. The transmitter situated in St. John's can only be used "to broadcast, in its entirety, the programming of CJRM FM Labrador City." Numerous federal government departments and agencies revealed to Radio-Canada they have paid Rafale FM for advertising over the past four years. Walmart and Ford also purchased air time, through the marketing agency Mindshare. The federal government confirmed that Montreal-based communications firm Cossette has purchased at least $10,000 of advertising for Ottawa since 2015. The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency also verified that between 2016 and 2018 it purchased $3,363.75 in advertising directly from Rafale FM (via May CIDX Messenger via DXLD) ** NEW ZEALAND. 5945, RNZI at 1043 with a female torch ballad then a woman with an interview on a United Nations report on indigenous peoples and a female New Zealand indigenous peoples' activist at 1046 – Fair May 5 – Saturdays and Sundays are just about the only time to hear this one in Eastern North America as they stay with the Pacific beam to 1258 and their signal around 1100 improves considerably whereas on Mondays through Fridays they switch to a Solomon Islands / Papua New Guinea beam at 0958 and are usually lost to us. Even before 0958 their signal is really weak (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) ** NIGERIA [non]. Two clandestine transmissions to Nigeria 22mb May 4 Dandal Kura Radio International 0700-0800 13590 NAU 125 kW / 185 deg to CeAf Kanuri, very good signal Manara Radio International is again on air, but was missing May 1-3: 0700-0800 13840 ISS 150 kW / 170 deg to WeAf Hausa, fair/good signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/two-clandestine-transmissions-to.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Two clandestines to Nigeria in 22mb on May 7 Dandal Kura Radio International 0700-0800 on 13590 NAU 125 kW / 185 deg to CeAf Kanuri, very good Manara Radio International 0700-0800 on 13840 ISS 150 kW / 170 deg to WeAf Hausa, fair/good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/two-clandestine-transmissions-to_7.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 6-7, WORLD OF RADIO 1981, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. RF 17, May 4 at 1416 UT, K17JN-D, Enid`s only local TV signal, the 3ABN satellator, is on air at Good+ signal level, but black screen and silence on all six subchannels, rather than only three of them. Boo, hoo. Hepburn tropo map for 1500 May 4 shows a level-3 blob between Enid and OKC, but nothing unusual beyond traces of Bad signals on low-power channels 21 and 42. RF 17, May 5 at 1615 UT, K17JN-D, Enid DTV 3ABN satellator is OFF the air, all six subchannels; sometime, unlogged May 4 I noticed it was back after dead-air black-screens but plenty signal on May 3. {still off, May 13} Now slight tropo enhancement brings Bad signals on RF 42 and RF 18. 42 is surely KBZC-LD OKC, but 18? Could be repack CP channel for KOPX ``62`` OKC but it`s still going on RF 50, both in W9WI.com as 200 kW. There are 5 RF 18 translators elsewhere in OK, none likely here (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN [and non]. Very good signal of Radio Sultanate of Oman May 5: from 1400 on 9620 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu, NO SIGNAL, ONLY AIR 1430&1500 on 9620 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu Eng/Ara + co-ch AIR! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/very-good-signal-of-radio-sultanate-of.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 4-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Sultanate of Oman in Arabic, instead of English, May 6: 1400-1415 on 9620 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu, NO SIGNAL, ONLY AIR from 1415 on 9620 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu Arabic, not English! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/radio-sultanate-of-oman-in-arabic.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Sultanate of Oman probably with wrong azimuth on May 7 0400-1001 on 13600 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu Arabic - very good, instead of A-19 13600 THU 100 kW / 220 deg to EaAf Arabic as scheduled https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/radio-sultanate-of-oman-again-probably.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 6-7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. 12119.97, FEBC R., Bocaue, in Akha and Chin Daai as listed, 05.01.2019 1230-1253 man talking till 1240, other man announcer, man song with guitar music till 1243, man talk over IS till 1245 into program in Chin Daai, with brief local chant with percussions, woman brief talk and vocal chant, man talk; better in ssb, ceaseless fast qsb, moderate qrn, fair/almost good (Gianni Serra - Roma-Italy, Equipment: JRC NRD 525 receiver; Alpha Delta DX-SWL Sloper-S antenna; RG 8 mini coaxial cable; JPS NIR 12 Noise & Interference Reducer-Dual DSP outboard audio filter; JRC NVA 319 external loudspeaker unit; Yaesu YH-77 STA stereo headphones; Oregon Scientific RM912 radio controlled clock; All times in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time); date in month/day format, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. 5980, RRI at 0103 // 7420 in Romanian with a mix of folk and pop vocals and a brief radio drama with male and female and child actors then more folk and pop vocals and a man and woman with talk – Poor to Fair in peaks and fluttery at times under Radio Marti May 4 – I was originally hoping it would be Peru's Radio Chaski which is listed here at this time and Dan Ferguson's latest SW Skeds spreadsheet does not show Romania on this frequency but they were definitely // 7420 and Radio Marti was definitely // 7365. The question now is was this a change in schedule or a mistake on the part of RRI or is Dan Ferguson's latest SW Skeds spreadsheet in error? (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) We`ve already reported that RRI made a last-minute change from 9790 to 5980, unaware that OCB was also expanding there. They should be aware by now?? And so should Dan (gh, DXLD) RRI Spanish 0200-0257 UT noted on 6080 kHz (ex 6040) S=9+50dB in western Europe, 300 kW Tsiganeshti 307degr, \\ 7375 kHz. 73 wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, 0206 UT May 5, WOR iog via DXLD) Another frequency change of Radio Romania International 0200-0256 NF 6080 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to CeAm Spanish, ex 6040 Parallel freq 7375 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to CeAm Spanish unchanged https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/another-frequency-change-of-radio.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 4-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. The World Service for the Russian Orthodox Broadcasting Radio Radonezh ceases medium wave (AM) 612 kHz broadcasting in Moscow from 24:00 on April 30, 2019. This was reported by the Director General of Radio Radonezh, Yevgeny Nikiforov, due to the dismantling of all powerful broadcasting in Russia, which includes the long-wave, short-wave and mid-wave range. "It is a pity to part with the audience with which we have been together for almost 30 years on these Easter days. After all, "Radonezh" - the first independent radio station in Russia, aired also on Easter days in 1990. Thank God not so bad. We will stay on the Moscow air on the frequency of UHF-FM 72.92 MHz, Where we broadcast around the clock. However, for this you need to purchase receivers with an extended range in any electrical goods store or at the Radonezh stand at Orthodox fairs. You can also listen to us in excellent quality on your phones in every corner of Moscow and cities around the world by downloading the free Radio application Radonezh "." Radonezh "will also continue to broadcast on medium wave 684 kHz in St. Petersburg from 19.00 to 22.00 daily. At this difficult time, we ask for prayers and the help of all to whom the patristic heritage is dear, to which we have remained faithful throughout our existence. HELP: https://radonezh.ru/help Let us live! Christ is risen! https://radonezh.ru/2019/04/30/radio-radonezh-prekrashchaet-veshchanie-na-srednih-volnah-v-moskve (via Rus-DX 5 May via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Radio Day in Russia - May 7 Radio Day Communications Workers' Day (as it is officially known in Russia) or Radio and Television Day, as it is known in Bulgaria) is a commemoration of the development of radio in Russia. It takes place on 7 May, the day in 1895 on which Alexander Popov successfully demonstrated his invention. In 1895, Popov gave the first public demonstration of radio as a tool before the Russian Physical and Chemical Society in St. Petersburg, using Sir Oliver Lodge's coherer as a lightning detector. Popov has been put forward in the old Soviet Union and Eastern Europe as an "inventor of radio" (although historians note it may be more due to Cold War era politics than historical evidence). In contrast the Western world recognizes Guglielmo Marconi as the first to develop a viable system based on radio (Herzian) waves. Radio Day was first observed in the Soviet Union in 1945, on the 50th anniversary of Popov's experiment, and some four decades after his death. Radio Day is officially marked in Russia and Bulgaria. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Day (via Mike Terry, WOR iog via DXLD) See also ARMENIA ** RUSSIA. History - Popov demonstrates radio receiver, May 7, 1895 EDN BY Suzanne Deffree May 07, 2019 In Saint Petersburg, Russian physicist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrated the Popov lightning detector, a primitive radio receiver, to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society on May 7, 1895. In the early 1890s, Popov began conducting experiments along the lines of Heinrich Hertz's research. In 1894, he built the first radio receiver, which contained a coherer. He further refined the design as a lightning detector. A paper on his work was published in December 1895, but he did not apply for a patent for his invention. In March 1896, Popov transmitted radio waves between buildings in St Petersburg. In 1898, he realized ship-to-shore communication over a distance of 6 miles, and then over 30 miles a year later. In 1900, a radio station was established under Popov's instructions on Hogland Island (Suursaari) in the Baltic Sea to provide two-way communication by wireless telegraphy between the Russian naval base and the crew of the battleship General-Admiral Apraksin. In some parts of the former Soviet Union, May 7 is celebrated as Radio Day as Popov has generally been recognized in Eastern Europe as the "inventor of radio," in contrast to the West's recognition of Marconi and Tesla. Popov's work on the emission and reception of signals by means of electromagnetic oscillations built upon Nikola Tesla's accomplishments demonstrated in 1893. Guglielmo Marconi received a patent for radio in 1896, but his device is widely thought to be based on various earlier techniques of other researchers, including Tesla, and resembled instruments demonstrated by others, including Popov. The three inventors are among a small group of scientists and engineers who had a hand in the invention of radio. https://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4413552/Popov-demonstrates-radio-receiver--May-7--1895 (via Mike Terry, WOR iog via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. May 7, Russia celebrates the holiday - Radio Day. Happy holiday to you, newsletter readers! From the Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR dated May 4, 1945: To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the invention of the radio by the Russian scientist A. S. Popov, who was executed on May 7, 1945, the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR decided: taking into account the crucial role of radio in the cultural and political life of the population and for the defense of the country and technology in the field of radio and the promotion of radio amateur among the general population, to establish on May 7 the annual Radio Day. (Rus-DX 5 May via DXLD) ! Wait a minute! He was executed on May 7, 1945?? Axually he died in 1906, non-executed. Perhaps a machine-translation gremlin, or it was the celebration which was ``executed`` as in implemented (gh, DXLD) May 7 in Russia - Radio Day. ------------------------------------------ On May 7 (April 25, old style) of 1895, the Russian physicist Alexander Popov at a meeting of the Physicochemical Society demonstrated wireless remote recording of electromagnetic oscillations from a lightning discharge to an elementary receiver assembled by him. For the first time this date was solemnly celebrated in the USSR in 1925, and since 1945 the holiday is celebrated annually. - Postage stamp of the USSR, 1989 in the picture of N. Sysoev https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_radio#/media/File:1989_CPA_6117.jpg - Postage stamp of the USSR, 1958 https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_radio#/media/File:1958_CPA_2155.jpg - Pavel Grigorievich Mikhailov (1947 - 2010). The teacher and mentor of many lovers of long-distance reception. On the radio station "Voice of Russia", led the famous "Club DX". On this program more than one generation of aethers have grown. Also, Pavel G. led the author's headings in the magazine "Radio" and in the "General newspaper", and on the "Voice" sounded his musical program "Thaw". A man of exceptional modesty, sociable and infinitely loving his work. https://m.vk.com/wall135031077_2621 (Ruslan Slavutsky, Moskovskaya oblast, Russia) http://onair.ru/main/enews/view_msg/NMID__73278/ (via Rus-DX 5 May via DXLD) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 11745, Al Azm Radio, Jeddah, in Arabic 05.01.2019 1021-1032 man talk, slow music pause, same man talk only, then interviewing other men (mentioning Arabia, Libya); heard better in ssb with Nir 12, ceaseless moderate deep qsb, severe qrn rustle, poor / almost fair with Nir 12. 15225.01, R. Saudi, Riyadh in Arabic 04.20.2019 1552-1612 man talking till 1600, other man announcement with ID then reading news in brief with many music breaks till 1601:40", music pause, man announcements, other man ID and announcements with Arab music pause, woman announcements with Arab music, other woman talk introducing Radio comedy with some men talking and music pauses; lite qsb with qrn (moderate at times), good/fair at times; in // 15435 (shifted to 15434.98 at about 1557) very good. 21504.98, R. Saudi, Riyadh in Arabic 04.11.2019 1214-1230, Arab chant, woman brief announcement with music, radio play with sounds and music breaks at times (till 1219), man / woman announcements over lively pop music, local vocal chants, man talk, local chant, heard in Lsb, lite qrn in increasing, very good /good; in // 17705 almost good over co-channel All India Radio (p) in Chinese. 11859.96, Rep. of Yemen R., Jeddah in Arabic 04.28.2019 0603-0622, man enhanced announcement over slow music, very long Arab humdrum chant with instrumental music till 0620, s/on only for some seconds, then another humdrum choral chant; moderate deep qsb with qrn rustle in increasing from 0614, almost good / fair at times (Gianni Serra - Roma-Italy, Equipment: JRC NRD 525 receiver; Alpha Delta DX-SWL Sloper-S antenna; RG 8 mini coaxial cable; JPS NIR 12 Noise & Interference Reducer-Dual DSP outboard audio filter; JRC NVA 319 external loudspeaker unit; Yaesu YH-77 STA stereo headphones; Oregon Scientific RM912 radio controlled clock; All times in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time); date in month/day format, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SIKKIM. 4835 - [no specific date] 1630, AIR Gangtok has often been heard during the last months. I have checked them regularly to figure out whether they have local programs but so far no luck in that respect. They always call “Akhashvani Delhi” and close at 1700 after a short “pip”. During the last weeks the QRG has been covered by an open carrier. Gangtok is constantly 1 Hz above nominal frequency (Stig Adolfsson, Vallentuna, Sweden, SW Bulletin May 6 via WORLD OF RADIO 1981, DXLD) ** SINGAPORE. 11795, May 6 at 1417, poor S3-S5 with declamatory speech, then less hyper talk, language? Scheduled as BBC Hindi at 1400-1430, northwestward from Kranji (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN [and non]. 11670, May 4 at 2105, REE poorly audible on its weakest frequency due to azimuth, but no RHC clash yet which could be starting at 2100? No, one RHC schedule shows not until *2300 for Rio de Janeiro. That is when REE closes 11670 at 2300* M-F; however they usually stay on for several more minutes of IS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN. Target: CHINA: Sound of Hope, 9180 kHz - May 4 1655 UT - Chinese talk, clear ID at 1700: "Xiwang zhi sheng guoji guangbo diantai", // 9540 kHz (SIO: 242). Rx: Icom IC-756 pro III + SDR Perseus. Ant: Vertical + Loop ALA 1530. 73's (Franck Baste (St Bonnet de Rochefort, France), F4LKC, WOR iog via DXLD) ** TAIWAN. 9465, May 7 at 1313, pop songs in Japanese (``arigato``), S6-S8, 1320 into Korean talk with sombre music background, 1325 only instro-music until 1328* without further utterances. HFCC shows this is something from Encompass ``CHN`` = PRC! via Taiwan, 300 kW at 2 degrees. Aoki/NDXC shows what it really is: ``9465 1300-1329 TWN Nippon no Kaze"il bon ue Kor Paochung 1-7`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET [non]. [WOR] log 1237 to 1400 UT on May 5th, remote SDR's in Moscow Russia, Delhi India, Nagoya Gifu and Tokyo Japan: TAJIKISTAN Frequency of Voice of Tibet Dushanbe Yangi Yul 1230-1241 NF9886 DB 100 kW 131 deg to CeAS Tibetan At 1237 UT on May 5: S=9+10dB -71dBm in Moscow Russia, S=9+30dB -41dBm in New Delhi India, S=9+10dB -71dBm in Nagoya Gifu, or Tokyo Japan, 15 kHz wideband audio block. 1241-1306 NF9894 DB 100 kW 131 deg to CeAS Tibetan At 12.51 UT CNR1 China mainland jamming start on 9895 kHz. But jamming last only til exact 1300 UT sharp, TX switch OFF. 1306-1313 NF9884 DB 100 kW 131 deg to CeAS Tibetan 9880 kHz Adjacent QRM of CRI Burmese program from Kunming 500kW. 1313-1330 NF9876 DB 100 kW 131 deg to CeAS Tibetan 1330-1338 NF9826 DB 100 kW 131 deg to CeAS Tibetan 1332-1359 NF9889 DB 100 kW 131 deg to CeAS Tibetan Adjacent bad fq selection, due of RRI Bucharest Russian sce via Tsiganeshti site on 9890 kHz at 1300-1357 UT, heavy 1000 Hertz heterodyne audio tone QRM. 1338-1400 NF9834 DB 100 kW 131 deg to CeAS Tibetan [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 5, WOR iogvia DXLD) TAJIKISTAN, Frequency change of Voice of Tibet, May 6 1242-1307 NF 9876 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 9894 1307-1312 NF 9886 DB 100 kW / 131 deg to CeAs Tibetan, ex 9884 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/frequency-change-of-voice-of-tibet-in.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TRISTAN DA CUNHA. Ultra-Rare Tristan da Cunha QSL: The Art of the Hunter-Killer QSL Pursuit, by Dan Robinson --- The QSL from Tristan da Cunha showed up around March 19th with a six day auction window, by a seller in France who also listed a number of other older QSLs. For a description, the seller wrote: “QSL card from radio station ZOE the broadcasting service of Tristan da Cunha 1973. A very rare and sought after QSL. Seldom seen on Ebay. . .” Read the full story here: https://swling.com/blog/2019/04/ultra-rare-tristan-da-cunha-qsl-the-art-of-the-hunter-killer-qsl-pursuit/ The bid ended up to a mere US $145 after 28 bids! (SW Bulletin May 6 via DXLD) ** TURKEY [and non]. FM and AM in Istanbul Some notes on reception in Istanbul, which I visited last week: FM: A total of 78 strong local signals were heard - all of the TRT and commercial outlets listed in WRTH 2019, plus many others. I was told that many or all of the stations are moving to the new and very tall (and very visible) transmission tower in the Asian half of the city. The only foreign station on FM is CRI Turk FM, on 87.5. Some Turkish TV channels relay their audio track on FM. One of these is TRT World (TRT's international English-language TV service) which has its audio on 106.8. A niche station is Radyo Trafik, which specialises in airing calls from drivers reporting traffic jams. Still going on FM (94.1 in Istanbul) is Turkish Police Radio, which older DXers may remember from past decades as a shortwave station (6340 and 7370). Mediumwave: The only stations audible in the daytime are from abroad: 549 (Ukraine), 558 (Romania), 720 (Romania), 729 (Greece), 909 (Romania) 1332 (Romania), 1413 (Moldova - relaying Russia's Vesti FM). Longwave: 153 Romania has a strong signal. The only other LW station audible during the day is 225 Poland, with noticeably better reception than in southern England, though its transmitter site is closer to London than to Istanbul, and the signal path from Poland to the UK is quite an easy one (across the North German Plain, the Low Countries and the North Sea). I see from its Wikipedia page that the Polish 225 transmitter has a directional aerial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solec_Kujawski_radio_transmitter (Chris Greenway, May 6, WOR iog via DXLD) ``The only foreign station on FM is CRI Turk FM, on 87.5.`` Thank you, that's a quite interesting observation. ``I see from its Wikipedia page that the Polish 225 transmitter has a directional aerial`` Indeed, to compensate its location pretty far in the west of Poland. These former military exercise grounds were the only new site they could find after all attempts to revive the Konstantynów transmitter had been defeated and they could only regret that a planned aux antenna there had never been built, considering the Raszyn transmitter as enough back-up. By the way, any memories how 227 kHz sounded after 13 Dec 1981? There are hints that the regular microwave feed had been replaced by some military communications gear and the otherwise nice, warm modulation went "toxic". Btw2, it is a bit difficult to find, so the complete recording of the TVP newscast on 20 Dec 1981 could be of interest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPt74tmpjL0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVVjaYbVipw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CdEw2kNWOY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhQeL1z4mhU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VZTpszcjAU That certain captain Karol Nowakowski, who obviously was completely unexperienced as TV announcer, probably had a more pronounced role in the events back then (details are too difficult to make out from machine translation). And the long piece about aid from GDR in part 2 reminded me of the parcels for poor Polish families we had to bring to school, a move widely considered as mere propaganda stunt. And another story: Sender Freies Berlin tried to catch also video*) of Jaruzelski speaking in his office or wherever (it was not in a TV studio, as a photo shows). They managed to get a DX reception, but it was so unstable that no VTR machine could be locked to it. So they had to make do by pointing a camera at a monitor. Allegedly the result went into international news exchanges, so it could be more widely known. *) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yUKFzYEFSg I also saw what you tweeted about longwave in general: 234 kHz is in Luxembourg itself. The connection to Germany is only such that BCE, the engineering division of RTL in Luxembourg, is now contracted by Lagardère to operate the 183 kHz transmitter at Felsberg. In fact BCE saved this outlet, for now, by rigorously shutting down the crazy transmitter palace and replacing it by new equipment in a small shack. And there is one more country where longwave broadcasting still exists, unless everyone missed its closure: Mongolia. Does anyone know why they still stick to the old channel spacing, everywhere else replaced in 1989 by multiples of nine. This must have caused nice 2 kHz whistles in wide areas when the longwave transmitters in countries around were still active (Kai Ludwig, Germany, ibid.) Thanks, Kai. On Poland, as I have reported before (though I cannot remember if that included DXLD) BBC Monitoring had a small Cold War outstation within British army HQ in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin to receive terrestrial TV and FM from Poland. The particular interest was in provincial broadcasts (Chris Greenway, ibid.) ** TURKEY. TRT Voice of Turkey on very odd 9505.7 and 11615.7 May 2 1530-1625 9505.7 EMR 500 kW / 105 deg WeAs Azeri, instead of 9505 1930-2025 11615.7 EMR 500 kW / 262 deg NWAf French, instead of 11615: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/trt-voice-of-turkey-on-very-odd-95057.html TRT Voice of Turkey on very odd 13765.7/11795.7/9655.7 kHz on May 3 0500-0655 13765.7 EMR 500 kW / 210 deg CEAf Hau/Swa, instead of 13765 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/trt-voice-of-turkey-on-very-odd.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 2-3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9515, Voice of Turkey at 0300 with time pips and a man with opening announcements – Extremely Weak - a completely useless signal May 4 – The Voice of Turkey can deliver every language they broadcast in to North America with half-decent signals – even English beamed to other continents - but they cannot broadcast in English reliably to North America! What is their problem? Do they not care about their English speaking audience here? With RHC occupying // 6165 this is the only frequency available. This is a complete waste of bandwidth as well as their money! (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 1981, DXLD) ---- not that bad: 9515.007V, May 4 at 0320, VOT English YL talking about Ottoman Empire history, undermodulated and muffled, soon into music, S9+10/20 and with flutter. Frequency is also wobbling slightly, Doppler effect? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) TRT Voice of Turkey on odd frequencies 9655.7 & 11825.7 kHz, May 5 1000-1055 9655.7 EMR 500 kW / 072 deg CeAs Georgian, instead of 9655 1330-1355 11825.7 EMR 500 kW / 072 deg CeAs Kazakh, instead of 11825: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/trt-voice-of-turkey-on-odd-frequencies.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 4-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Turkey very odd frequencies 11795.7/9855.7, May 6: 0830-0955 11795.7 EMR 500 kW / 105 deg WeAs Farsi, instead of 11795.0 1000-1025 9855.7 EMR 500 kW / 032 deg CeAs Tatar, instead of 9855.0 1000-1055 9655.0 EMR 500 kW / 072 deg CeAs Georgian, 9655.7 on May 5 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/voice-of-turkey-on-very-odd-frequencies.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) TRT Emirler services noted 1930-2000 on May 6: TRT 5960 and 9460, odd 1 to 4 Hertz on upper sideband. 9635.004, French from 1930 UT, but \\ 11615.019, French came later on air, approx. 1938 UT. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 6 / 7, WOR iog via DXLD) 9830, May 6 at 2227, VOT English to NAm is on today but very poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Turkey in Turkish/Georgian, odd freqs 13635.7 & 9655.7 May 7: 0600-0955 on 13635.7 EMR 500 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Turkish, instead of 13635.0 on May 6 1000-1255 on 13635.0 EMR 500 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Turkish, early today was 13635.7 kHz 1000-1055 on 9655.7 EMR 500 kW / 072 deg to CeAs Georgian, instead 9885.7 Tatar May 6 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/voice-of-turkey-on-very-odd-freqs_7.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 6-7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) TRT Emirler services noted 10-11 UT on May 7: 9655.692, TRT Georgian 1000-1100, S=8-9 in Moscow Russia remote SDR. 9855.006, TRT Tatar 1000-1030, S=7-8 in Doha Qatar 11675.006, TRT Turkish music, S=9+10dB noted in Doha Qatar. 13635.006, TRT Turkish mx, S=9+10dB in Moscow and Finland remotes. 13650.009, TRT Uzbekish, 1030-1100, S=9 in Doha Qatar, service came later on air, switch from 9855 to 13650 took some time. 9840.004, TRT Turkish 1300-1555, S=9+10dB in Moscow Russia at 1430, heavy 232 Hertz BUZZ QRM heterodyne tone of co-channel V of Vietnam Indonesian from Son Tay 9839.772 kHz 9540.005, TRT Arabic, at 1450 UT, S=8 sidelobe towards western Europe 17770.009, TRT Arabic to NoWeAF, West Africa, Sahel. 1400-1455 UT [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 6 / 7, WOR iog via DXLD) ** U A E. 9410.10, BBC (shifted on this frequency) Al Dhabbiya in Arabic 04.07.2019 0444-0500* man talk, music pause, other man and woman talk, music pause and continuing man talk with ID (BBC), other man announcer at 0458, brief music pause, woman/man brief announcements and s/off about 20 seconds to 0500; better in usb, ceaseless deep and fast qsb, severe qrn rustle, poor/almost fair at times; from 0500 BBC via Madagascar in English on 9410.01 kHz, with BBC news till 0506, then continuing with men talking program (heard till 0509, with same condition as above ); poor; 6180.10, IBRA R, Al Dhabbiya in listed Somali (p) 04.06.2019 1746-1800 slow chant, man talk (mostly unclear) till about 1757, woman brief talk, music till 1800, better in usb with Nir 12 when talking, fast qsb and strong qrn rustle, almost fair/poor; from 1757 qrm strong s/on of BBC (via Bulgaria) on 6180 kHz, then with its program in Somali from 1800 with woman talk and ID (Gianni Serra - Roma-Italy, Equipment: JRC NRD 525 receiver; Alpha Delta DX-SWL Sloper-S antenna; RG 8 mini coaxial cable; JPS NIR 12 Noise & Interference Reducer-Dual DSP outboard audio filter; JRC NVA 319 external loudspeaker unit; Yaesu YH-77 STA stereo headphones; Oregon Scientific RM912 radio controlled clock; All times in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time); date in month/day format, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. Richard Kelly mentioned a short video which talks about the current state of DAB in the UK. It's on Techmoan's You Tube channel and talks about why digital radio sounds so bad in the UK, 25 years since the first DAB broadcasts. "Why DAB sounds so BAD - the UK’s digital radio shambles." Techmoan's accompanying website covers video reviews along with new and vintage equipment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27w3quNTP84 www.techmoan.com (Chrissy Brand, Webwatch, May BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** U K [non]. BBCWS relays: see KYRGYZSTAN; UAE ** U S A. New York Radio VOLMET coming back? See NEWFOUNDLAND The source saying returning in August is dxinfocentre.com --- but Mike Cooper suspects that refers to August of last year, 2018, when it did not. Since then he has seen no NOTAMs that NYR has not been decommissioned (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1981, DXLD) ** U S A. Yosemite Sam 'spook' --- Listening to my tape of Hobart Radio International from last night, a question comes to mind. SOMEWHERE I saw reference to the 'Yosemite Sam' spook transmission that implied it was STILL being heard. Really? Seems unlikely to me. Has anyone heard it lately? I thought it was 'long gone' and only briefly on the air at that. Thanks for whatever definitive info you can provide! (//Ken Zichi, May 5, WOR iog via DXLD) Altho there have been occasional historical mentions of it, or pirates including a bit of that voice, the original YS activity was in Feb-March *2005*. E.g. in DXLD 5-041: http://www.worldofradio.com/dxld5041.txt (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) That was the time frame I was thinking too -- I was going to say 'for over a decade' .... Has it been heard more recently? Again, seems unlikely, and the reference implying it was ongoing made me do a 'double take'! 73 (//Ken Zichi, ibid.) Re: [WOR] Yosemite Sam 'spook' FYI - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosemite_Sam_(shortwave) (Ron Howard, May 5, WOR iog via DXLD) ** U S A. Scout Jamboree Gearing Up for Significant Amateur Radio Presence --- Eham.net May 2, 2019 Amateur Radio will be a part of this summer's 24th World Scout Jamboree in West Virginia, the first World Jamboree held in North America since 1983. The Jamboree has chosen the theme "Unlock a New World." Thousands of Scouts and Scout leaders from some 200 countries are expected to attend. The Jamboree's Amateur Radio Exhibit will use the call sign NA1WJ https://www.k2bsa.net/world-jamboree-na1wj/ -- North America's 1st World Jamboree. It will be on the air during the event, July 22 until August 2, at the Summit Bechtel Reserve, hosted by Canada, Mexico, and the US. Amateur Radio testing is expected to begin as early as July 14. Operating frequencies will be posted in real time via Facebook https://k2bsa.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=56ce1526bb2372707f5868e21&id=2040fbdc79&e=f04efd1977 and Twitter https://k2bsa.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=56ce1526bb2372707f5868e21&id=9518437486&e=f04efd1977 or via an NA1WJ email group . "The goals of the Amateur Radio station at the World Scout Jamboree are to introduce Amateur Radio to Scouts and Scout leaders through hands-on participation in two-way communication with other stations across the globe. This activity will also serve as the Amateur Radio voice of the Jamboree," the World Scout Jamboree Amateur Radio Exhibit Operational Vision document http://k2bsa.wstearns.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/WSJ-Amateur-Radio-Vision-V1.pdf states. Other facets of Amateur Radio at the Jamboree will include Amateur Radio direction finding (ARDF), Amateur Radio satellite contacts, and a scheduled Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact with an ISS crew member. "We also expect to launch one or two balloons with Amateur Radio payloads and track them as they cross the Atlantic," the vision document continues. Organizers are encouraging radio amateurs around the globe to get on the air during the World Jamboree to help NA1WJ demonstrate Amateur Radio for Jamboree visitors. The 2019 World Scout Jamboree operation at the Summit Bechtel Scout Reserve will take advantage of lessons learned by the K2BSA Amateur Radio operation during the 2013 and 2017 USA National Jamborees. It will also take advantage of the existing infrastructure, which includes three VHF/UHF repeaters installed by Icom America, as well as the utility poles for installing antennas. K2BSA ham gear stored in West Virginia includes antennas, rotators, and cables. Evening operation from NA1WJ will involve at least two operators using the buddy system. VHF/UHF repeaters will offer full coverage of the Jamboree area via handheld transceivers, facilitating networking as well as emergency communication. The exhibit will include an Amateur Radio station with the special event call sign W8J. The demonstration station will include multiple operating positions offering a variety of modes. These include six stations with 100 W HF transceivers, computer logging software, and large screen computer displays; two VHF/UHF stations for demonstrations and repeater monitoring, and two satellite communication systems. The antenna farm will include two HF directional antennas, three HF dipoles, three HF vertical antennas, VHF/UHF verticals and satellite antennas with azimuth and elevation control, a trailer-based crank-up tower, a five-band Yagi, a 40-meter rotatable dipole, and a 6-meter Yagi. Each station will be able to accommodate four participants at a time, plus one control operator. The goal is to give each participant up to about 10 minutes of operating time. The K2BSA Amateur Radio Association will host a "Radio Scouting" booth at Dayton Hamvention http://www.hamvention.org (Booth 2205 in Building 2). Source: The ARRL Letter https://www.eham.net/articles/43056 (via Mike Terry, WOR iog via DXLD) ** U S A [non]. 9740, May 3 at 2103, ``VOA Afrique`` ID in passing during French news, fair; wonder which site? It`s Woofferton UK, 2100 -2130 M-F, 250 kW at 158 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1979 monitoring: missed checking Friday May 3 at 2200 on WRMI 9955, but presumably replayed. Confirmed UT Saturday May 4 at 0130 on WRMI 7780, fair. Due to an uploading delay by gh, 1979 continued rather than 1980 for these two times. Manuel Mendez reports: ``GERMANY, 6190, Hamburger LokalRadio, Goehren, *0600-0700, 04-05, ID “Hamburger LokalRadio”, English, “Media Network Plus” and at 0630 Glenn Hauser’s program “World of Radio”. 25322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD)`` Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria observes: ``GERMANY, Reception of World of Radio via HLR on 6190 CUSB, May 4: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/reception-of-world-of-radio-via-hlr-on.html 0631-0700 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg CeEu English Sat, weak signal`` WORLD OF RADIO 1980 monitoring: woke up at 1159 UT Sat May 4, one minute too late to confirm that 1980 had been broadcast as scheduled at 1130. As usual WOR cannot be confirmed Saturday May 4 at 1431 on HLR 9485- CUSB; via UTwente no signal, just super-splash from 9490. Anyway, HLR probably is repeating 1979 instead of 1980 this weekend. Two of our UT Sunday times on WRMI have been replaced by ``tests`` of Hobart Radio International, according to Jordan Heyburn, UKOGBANI, who has a segment on HRI: Sunday 0030 & 0830 on 7730. Otherwise, WOR: 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM ND 2100 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 to SSE 0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7730 to WNW [canceled?] 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 WORLD OF RADIO 1980 monitoring: confirmed Saturday May 4 at 2100 on WRMI 9955: *2059 just in time with partial IS & ID loop, but upcut opening of WOR after my first ten words; fair S8-S9. Also confirmed on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, UT Sunday May 5 at 0329 about 17 minutes into so started circa 0312; S9+10 vs S9+20 staticrashes. Next: 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 WORLD OF RADIO 1980 monitoring: confirmed UT Monday May 6 at 0130 on WRMI 9395, S9+10. Also confirmed UT Mon May 6 at 0230 on WRMI 7780, S9 vs storm crashes about same level. Also confirmed UT Mon May 6 at 0305 on Area 51 via WBCQ 5130.4v, JBA sounds like me vs storm crashes while on indoor longwire and computer off. Also confirmed UT Mon May 6 at 0330 on WRMI 9955, fair but noisy. Was S9+10 when checked earlier at 0306 with rock music from Prague. Also confirmed by Franck Baste (St Bonnet de Rochefort, France) F4LKC: ``ROMANIA: IRRS Shortwave - 7290 kHz - [Monday] May 6 - 1815 UT - World of Radio 1980 (SIO: 444). Rx: Icom IC-756 pro III + SDR Perseus, Ant: Vertical + Dipole`` Also confirmed UT Tue May 7 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, fair. Next: 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 to SSE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE WORLD OF RADIO 1981 contents: Antarctica, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brasil, Canada, China, Congo DR, Cuba and non, Europe, France, Germany, Indonesia, Iran, Kuwait, Mali, Netherlands non, Nigeria non, Romania, Sikkim, Turkey, USA, Vietnam, unidentified; and the propagation outlook. SW airings should be: 0930 UT Friday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW 2200 UT Friday WRMI 9955 0130 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 0629 UT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany 1000 UT Saturday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW [May 11, alt weeks] 1130 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 1431 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 2100 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315] 1030 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany 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 [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) Reviewed all current WOR times on WRMI, frequency by frequency (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1981, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ: ** U S A. [Edited Message Follows] Tweeted three hours ago today, 3 May: "Allan Weiner @AllanWBCQ Powering up the worlds superstation. Tested at 50KW yesterday. Bringing the monster up slowly. Antenna good. Transmission line good. All systems go for more power today. Monitor 9330 kHz." (via -- Richard Langley, WOR iog via DXLD) For what it's worth (May 03) at 1650 UT, hearing a strong dead carrier on 7490 KHz (Dave Zantow, N9EWO, ibid.) Hi Allan, (May 03) I’m hearing a STRONG dead carrier on 7490 Khz at 1650 UT today. Assuming this is the new transmitter in testing ? Regards, (Dave Zantow N9EWO, Janesville, WI, cc to WOR iog via DXLD) Hi Dave, Yes, you are the first to report testing of the new transmitter. Running 135 KW today. Thanks, Allan & Angela (via Dave, DXLD) And 9330.2 at 0845 UT, May 4, but JBA (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) 9330.111 kHz, I've my doubts, that a new Continental TX unit is much odd fq, heard at 1650 UT in Detroit Michigan, S=7 signal, TOM Brother Stair roarer program, also TOM nearby 9395 kHz WRMI also. 73 wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, ibid.) WBCQ Testing 9330 kHz ---- Allan has confirmed via Twitter that they are currently testing on 7490 kHz with a power level of 135 kW. https://twitter.com/AllanWBCQ/status/1124378071790956544 https://twitter.com/AllanWBCQ/status/1124378338640920576 (Ethan Best, KC9YDN, 1823 UT May 3, ibid.) Weak audio heard on 7490 kHz here in Naples, FL, this afternoon (3 May) just before 2000 UT. Clear WBCQ IDs. Propagation down to southern Florida likely not the best at this time of the afternoon but beaming to Africa anyway as per Allan's tweet. CHU on 7850 kHz also fairly weak. But WINB on 9265 kHz and WWCR on 9350 kHz quite strong. Only a very weak carrier on 7490 kHz noted at this time with the U. Twente SDR receiver (-- Richard Langley, WOR iog via DXLD) at 2115 UT noted 7490.130 Charleston dance music, and 9330.116 ... . 115 kHz, wandered S=8-9 in Cape Canaveral FL, S=6-7 in MA, S=9+10dB in Detroit MI, S=7 in Rochester NY. 73 wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, May 3, ibid.) Well, I am looking there now, and see them on 7490.113 at about S9-S9+10 so ..... also rather unlikely to be the 'new' transmitter. 9330.120 is about S8-S9. Both have Brother Stair. I'm curious to see how the 'new' one works, but I imagine there are more than a few 'bugs' to work out! 73 (//Ken Z from central lower Michigan 2244 UT, May 3, WOR iog via DXLD) Stronger signal now on 7490 kHz at about 2135 UT (— Richard Langley, 2258 UT, ibid.) 7490.123v, Friday May 3 at 2119, WBCQ with `Behaviour Night` ancient music recordings, but too weak in noise level to enjoy. Earlier today the 500 kW transmitter was reported testing with open carrier only on 7490 --- I`ve yet to see anyone confirming its exact frequency which should be much closer to 7490.000. Unfortunately, we cannot expect any of our favorite programs to become audible as Superstation time will primarily be for the funders, the flat-earth ``Worlds Last Chance`` ministry. 7490+, UT Saturday May 4 after 0000, William Tell Overture but AAAWWW hosted this week instead by Pirate Joe Ferraro, from his own studio at WHVW in NY. Not long before AW calls in from some hamfest in New Hampshire, and he`s on the horn until 0034 as I keep listening for the latest info on the 500 kW project, summarizing: Initial on-air testing has been on 7490 with open carrier only, not 9330 as he had publicized earlier. PJ`s own show `Shortwave Saturday Night` *may* be on the 500 kW, on its regular schedule 7490 UT Sunday 0100-0400, at the usual azimuth of 245 degrees as on the old antenna. The 500, transmitter #6, is all water-cooled, including tubes, coils, vacuum capacitors costing $25K each. The whole thing is very complex and all computer-controlled. Modulation is 95% efficient. Power level is being brought up slowly; was 135 kW with brief tests to 400 kW. WLC programming normal sked should begin later this month mainly on 9330. A new frequency in the ``5-6 MHz band`` will be available at night. (Nonesuch yet in HFCC, http://hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=A19&broadc=BCQ but shows hour-by-hour languages and azimuths planned? for 9330 and still lists the imaginary 15420) [WORLD OF RADIO 1981] Part of the time I listen on 9330.13v, but as it fades down, back to 7490.12v. At 0034 JP resumes with totally unrelated ``stream of consciousness`` musings about cars and Detroit, and at 0055 recheck something about US Grant. Here`s John Carver`s version: ``Tonight's show started early on 7490. Pirate Joe is the host this evening while Allan and Angela are at NearFest. Killing time with mild political talk while waiting for Allan to call in. Difficult to copy Allan over Pirate Joe's phone patch. Lot of static this evening. Allan announced that they have been testing the new transmitter the last two days and are planning to take it to full power tomorrow. Possibly will be broadcasting tomorrow's 7490 programs over the new transmitter. Most of the program this evening is devoted to political talk and WHVW items with little about WBCQ. It was announced that a Go Fund Me page had been started for WHVW. Show was off the air at 0100. John, Mid-North Indiana`` AW`s latest twit circa 12 UT May 4: ``More power today for the worlds superstation. Hopefully to 500kw. Testing on 7490khz. Later this week on 9330khz. One megawatt average load for 500kw out at average modulation. Wow. All for you the special shortwave listeners. Support us. The last free speech radio voice. Ground.`` Ground refers to his shot of some grounding cables by some posts, supporting the feedline? After WWCR is finished with 7490 at 1500, May 4 at 1540 check, I do have an open carrier on 7490.002, which must be WBCQ-6, but it`s only S2-S3, certainly not Super. Of course if this were put on 11, 13 or 15 MHz in the daytime it would propagate much better, but no plans for that. Could really be 7490.000 within my margin of error (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1981, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3264.920 kHz odd fq WBCQ Testing S=9+5dB heard in remote SDR at NJ-US state. At 0953 UT on May 4th. Hard-Rock_MX-Roarer 'noise'. Nearby 3215even kHz WWCR sermon English, S=9+30dB at 0956 UT. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Bueschel, WOR iog via DXLD) Tweeted by Allan Weiner about an hour ago today (4 May): "Allan Weiner @AllanWBCQ More power today for the worlds superstation. Hopefully to 500kw. Testing on 7490khz. Later this week on 9330khz. One megawatt average load for 500kw out at average modulation. Wow. All for you the special shortwave listeners. Support us. The last free speech radio voice. Ground." (via -- Richard Langley, WOR iog via DXLD) WBCQ checked in 1550 to 1602 UT time range this May 4th. 7490 exact even fq test, only carrier, no audio S=7 or -93dBm in Edmonton Alberta, Canada. S=7-8 or -86dBm in Detroit MI. S=6 or -89dBm in Rochester NY. S=8 or -79dBm in Hanson, MA. Nothing heard in Cape Canaveral Florida. 9330.085 kHz TOM BS roarer sermon, at 1602 UT, S=5-6 in Rochester NY. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Bueschel, WOR iog via DXLD) 7490.00, May 4 at 1752, 2057, no trace of WBCQ-6 super-station test, unlike earlier at 1540 when I did have a weak open carrier. Meanwhile, 9330 remains always off-frequency from old transmitter with TOMBS, such as at 1752; 2058 measured on 9330.04 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WBCQ checked in 2310 to 2325 UT time range this May 4th. 7490 NOT ON AIR. 3264.933 kHz, hard / pop mx heard S=6 or -89dBm in Rochester NY. S=8-9 or -70dBm in Hanson, MA. Nothing heard in Cape Canaveral Florida. 9330.080 kHz TOM BS roarer sermon, at 2320 UT, S=2-3 or -111dBm in Rochester NY, - skip zone - . S=7 or -88dBm in Hanson, MA. S=9+10dB or -71dBm in Cape Canaveral Florida. 73 wb df5sx WBCQ checked in 0124 to 0140 UT time range this May 5th. 3264.927 kHz, phone-in / talk program, thunderstorm scratch noise S=8 or -79dBm in Rochester NY. S=9+15dB or -64dBm in Hanson, MA. NIL in Cape Canaveral Florida, and in Edmonton Alberta CAN. 7490.120 kHz, slow speed talk, D. Eisenhower leadership mentioned S=5-6 or -92dBm in Rochester NY. S=5 or -93dBm in Hanson, MA. S=9+20dB or -56dBm in Cape Canaveral Florida. S=9+15dB or -63dBm in Edmonton Alberta CAN. 9330.149 kHz 0132 UT, Pres Trump?, grandfather was born in Germany, family history discussion interview. NIL in Rochester NY, - skip zone - . NIL in Hanson, MA. S=9+10dB or -71dBm in Cape Canaveral Florida. S=9+15dB or -61dBm in Edmonton Alberta CAN. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Bueschel, WOR iog via DXLD) 7490.12, UT Sun May 5 at 0151, WBCQ with J. P. Ferraro`s `Shortwave Saturday Night`, averaging S9 discussing the Vietnam war. NOT on #6 but obviously still via old off-frequency transmitter. Earlier at 0004, some other show ``live`` as of ``April 3``, while 9330.1 and 5130+ were JBA carriers only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WBCQ checked at 1645 UT this May 5th. 3264.(939) kHz, OFF air. 7490.(120) kHz, OFF air. 9330.064 kHz, tiny signal, TOM ? BS. S=4 or -98dBm in Cape Canaveral Florida. NIL in Rochester NY, NIL in Hanson, MA, NIL in Edmonton Alberta CAN. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Bueschel, WOR iog via DXLD) 9330+, May 6 at 1755, JBA carrier off-frequency, and 7490 no signal; no signs of WBCQ-6, 500 kW transmitter testing now or at any other random chex today. As of 1608 UT May 7, AW`s last twit was two days ago: ``Allan Weiner? @AllanWBCQ May 5 --- Burning the kilowatts here. Still testing. More this week for the nations superstation. Still much to do. Classic WBCQ on air 7490/5130 kHz tonight with great programming. Please listen and support us. Nice day here in beautiful northern Maine. Fresh air. Blue skies. Any. Moving``. Among the great programming was another classical music hour, `Encore` from Radio Tumbril, 0000-0100 UT Monday May 6 on WBCQ 7490v, but I apologize for listening to mono webcast since I was busy at the computer. https://www.tumbril.co.uk/ Website has sizing problem. You need to shrink it in order to see some linx, such as the Valve at lower left corner which I finally see for the first time today. And click here for playlist at lower right corner. I could not reach the current one during the programme, but as of 5/7 I do see the 5/5/19 one. All of this rather slow-loading. Lots of good reaxion at https://www.tumbril.co.uk/coments-page (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Allan Weiner @AllanWBCQ 3h3 hours ago --- Testing on 9330khz. Full 500kw with audio. All working perfect. Transmitter is a work of art. Antenna is built like a fine watch. This is a most beautiful shortwave station. To speak His word to the world. All under freedom of speech. Communists beware. Your days are numbered (twit circa 2230 UT May 7) But at 0140 UT May 8, NO big signal here (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1981, DXLD) WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI: ** U S A. 5850, WRMI, FL, Okechobee with IS in progress as my recording started, and into SW Radiogram #97 with the usual mix of digital text and photos on an analog SW signal, this week including stories about: Solar panels for high altitude UAVs, Wireless Power Transfer and RFI potential, "BIRDS-3" cubesats delivered to the ISS, (which will operate on 435.375 MHz; has anyone heard one of these guys?) and this week`s images which included: The European Stone Stacking An 'egg nebula' created by a dying Championship in Scotland star shedding layers. This type of nebula exists for only a few thousand years Then as usual an ad for Tecsun Australia at BoH and ID, and into WOR #1979. GH provided news about KNLS Alaska, and Radio El Mundo Argentina reported closed down by Disney which now owns it, and the IRCA convention in September among many other radio-related stories. In well, 4+554+4+ 0755-0900* recorded as I slept, 28/Apr SDRplay +SDRuno +FLDigi for digi-bits +rwire --Zichi MI2 (Ken Zichi, Port Hope MI, MARE Tipsheet May 3 via DXLD) 7570 AM, Supreme Master TV via WRMI FL, 1234 May 2, 455, English. Promoting Ching’s book on Global Warming. World weather interlude music since you would need to watch the YouTube channel to see the world temperatures, as well as the creepy robot announcers. suprememastertv.com (Jack Amelar, Lowell MI, Kenwood R-1000, Long wire antenna, MARE Tipsheet May 3 via DXLD) 9955, Tue May 7 at 1310, WRMI gospel huxter in English lamenting that there are ``1600 religions, all of them against Jesus Christ``; furthermore he is fighting Cuban pulse jamming, always a risk if you broadcast on this frequency shared with Cuban exile programming. Scheduled at 1300-1330 Tuesday is `Gospel of the Kingdom`, and there is NO Cuban programming any other day of week during this slot, altho there are two DX programs in Spanish, on Wed & Thu (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHER: ** U S A. 9475 & 5830, May 3 at 2104, both WTWW-1 day and night frequencies are OFF. 5830, May 4 at 1750, WTWW-1 is S9 on night frequency, but JBM? 9475 is off; at 1836 still JBM 5830 when ham show should be on. By 2102, 5830 has resumed PPPP on SFA, still not on day frequency 9475. 5085, May 4 at 2330-2400 approx., WTWW-2 with `Theater Organ in the Ozarx` confined about to nominal slot; toward the end heard some of it on stereo webcast, which was running about 5 seconds *ahead* of SW. 9475 & 5830, May 7 at 1313, both WTWW-1 frequencies are AWOL, tsk2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENINIG DIGEST) ** U S A. 9980-DRM, 1015, WINB, The Overcomer Ministry [remote:] #Sardinia 15dB 19/04 (Kevin Ryan, Reading, Berkshire, May BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) 9265, Unique Radio via WINB, Red Lion, 1730-1800, 04-05, English, ID "WINB, Red Lion...", Unique Radio "Sounds of your Life". 25422 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) 9265V, Saturday May 4 at 1730, WINB presumably with Unique Radio from Australia, Tim Gaynor`s `Sounds of Your Life`, on new schedule, but very poor and wobbly signal. [see also AUSTRALIA] OTOH, until 1729 I had local-quality excellent reception from 12160 WWCR with `The Talking Machine Show` of ancient cylinder music. Only an occasional slight selective fade tipped that this was SW. However, much of the time 12160 is not in solid, too close/too high (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15825 & 13845, May 5 at 1322, WWCR gospel huxters are S9+10 with sporadic E boost; by 1424, 15825 down to JBA. But by 1605, DX map shows estimated Es MUF of 106 MHz with 6m contacts across the country (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 12050, May 7 at 1421, WEWN Spanish with distorted modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Travel Logs --- As Uncle Harold gallivants out west, he checks in with some logs of note. If your 'summer' includes travel, don't be shy about including a log or three from your temporary location too! We're always interested in 'good stuff'! 660, KTNN, Window Rock AZ; 10:58AM...4:15PM MDT, 4/28; "The Voice of the Navajo Nation, AM 6-60 & FM 101.5 KTNN Window Rock, Tohachi"; C&W + occasional oldy; Wanda witih calendar & PSAs in Dine' & English; ads in Dine' & English. Dine' chants typically at ToH & about H:20; chants last 4-8 minutes & occasionally contain oldies lyrics. There was a several mile long fade zone a few miles south of Cortez CO. The sig was vgood from Cortez to about 20 mi. south of Moab UT, then deteriorated rapidly. I've heard KTNN twice in MI (Harold Frodge, NM/CO/UT, MARE Tipsheet May 3 via DXLD) 770, KKOB, Albuquerque NM: 8:27 AM MDT, 4/26; "FM 94.5 & AM 7-70 News Radio KKOB", "New Mexico's 50,000 watt flame thrower". Bob Clark Show with commentary & calls ragging on the Santa Fe mayor who recently announced that Santa Fe would accept "assylum [sic] seekers". Apparently the citizenry of Santa Fe expressed their opinions about that to him. He shortly retracted the invitation saying, "because Santa Fe isn't a transportation hub." (I-25 runs through Santa Fe giving easy access to Colorado Springs and Denver.) He also added that he would be glad to take donations so that the assylum seekers can be accommodated in Albuquerque and Las Cruces (aka, not in our backyard). One astute caller described the whole thing as "bovine excreta". Another caller came up with a gem about the thought processes of "professional politicians"; "We can all avoid hangovers if we all stay drunk." (Harold Frodge, NM, MARE Tipsheet May 3 via DXLD) ** U S A. 1130, May 4 at 2055 UT, KLEY Wellington KS is off the air again; first noted absent May 3 circa 2345 UT, much pre-sunset. Before then had not noticed any transmission problems (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. AM DX From Laramie, WY: KYET-AM 1170 Kingman, AZ with ONE WATT! I'm 630 miles from their location and have heard them before, right at sunset when they were running the 6 kW Non Directional daytime power. Engineer Matt Krick even issued me a QSL. So my log at 5:45 am Mountain [1145 UT] today, Tuesday May 7th isn't new, but after hearing Leen Greenwood's "I.O.U", I immediately pulled up the KYET webstream that's linked at radio-locator.com and heard a match. I sent a message to the engineer, Matt and he verified the song I heard was in fact from their station. what he also verified through checking the transmitter remote control was that KYET was in fact running its night power, ONE WATT!! That's 630 miles away! There would be some who doubt what the station was really running, but when I have no reason to doubt what station tells me and I haven't noticed behavior that would suggest others, I believe what I am told. If KYET stayed on day power, I'd hear it way more often then I do. As it is, I've heard it twice, today and once a few months ago (Paul Walker, Laramie WY, Icom IC746 Pro and 25 foot long by 10 foot tall Wellbrook ALA100LN loop, nrc-am gg via DXLD) ** VIETNAM. 7155, VOV, on May 6, tuned in to hear French, just as the audio ended at 1327, with transmitter off at 1329; didn't have time to check // 7285; strong signal today; better than I have ever heard them here (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1981, DXLD) It`s a leapfrog mixing product of 7285 over VOV 7220 another 65 kHz beyond, during the span 1100-1330 when both are on air from same site (gh, ibid.) 9839.773 kHz much odd fq of V of Vietnam Son Tay in Indonesian language noted at 1303 UT on May 5th, S=6-7 or -91dBm sidelobe signal in Gifu Japan remote SDR. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 5, WOR iog via DXLD) ** VIRGIN ISLANDS (AMERICAN). WDHP Frederiksted 1620 kHz - May 3 0405 UT - ID by YL: "103.5 The Reef" (SIO: 232). Rx: Icom IC-756 pro III + SDR Perseus. Ant: Vertical + Loop ALA 1530. 73's (Franck Baste (St Bonnet de Rochefort, France), F4LKC, WOR iog via DXLD) ** ZAMBIA. 5915, R. One/ZNBC1, on May 3, tuned in at 0252, to find their African fish eagle IS; in vernacular; 0345-0400, with religious sermon and religious music; into the news; 0405, rooster crowing and African drums, which by this time was heard with fair reception; started going downhill by 0455. Any day that I can make out any portion of their commercial announcements in English, is a day I'm pleased with their reception. At 0459 - "Yes, go ahead caller," "Hello doctor, I need your help," "Yes madam," "Doctor, my ten year old son always catches colds and flu from school," which was a commercial for soap that "fights germs and viruses"; into the "One Nation. One Zambia" news in English (item with parliament speech, etc.). My audio of ad at http://bit.ly/2vCnjWR (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) 5915, Zambia NBC, Radio 1, Lusaka, 0403-0515, 05-05, vernacular comments, African songs, at 0457 commercial advertisements in English, at 0500 ID “Seven O’clock, “Public Service of Zambia Broadcasting Corporation, the news”, news in English. 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 9490, May 6 at 0504, S7-S8 of open carrier, or JBM? Nothing sked now but both Nauen & Issoudun are registered until 0500: RMI Spanish via France to Cuba, i.e. R. República; and NHK Japanese via Germany to ME --- more likely the latter not turned off yet, as I think RR is not currently really running that late (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 13660, Sunday May 5 at 1700-1710, no signal via UTwente SDR, altho HFCC has something brokered by RMI via ISS, FRANCE on days 1/3/5 = Sun/Tue/Thu. Ivo Ivanov assumes it`s clandestine. But presumably a mistake, as Jeff White says Alameda Bible Fellowship is running at 1700-1730 M/W/F (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1981, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See FRANCE UNIDENTIFIED. not Radio Sinit Eritrea [q.v.] via MBR Issoudun, May 4 1700-1730 on 15390 ISS 100 kW / 123 deg to EaAf Arabic Sat/Mon, good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/05/unidentified-not-radio-sinit-eritrea.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News May 4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 15571.2-USB, May 5 at 1320, VP 2-way in Spanish as I am making pro-forma check for 15575 KBS so-called North American service: not a trace of it; while CRI East Turkistan is poorly audible on 15590 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1981: 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 ++++++++++++ Fine Tuning Proceedings Articles Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s several members of the Fine Tuning group of DXers compiled collections of articles, written by DX experts, and published them in a series of books, known as “Proceedings”. There were articles on receivers, antennas, propagation, peripheral equipment and other topics. These books have been difficult to obtain. DXers tend to keep them in their libraries. Now these articles are available as PDF documents, freely downloadable from the Ontario DX Association IO Group. Look under Files. The articles are grouped into five folders: Receivers, Antennas, Propagation, Peripheral Equipment and Features. Spread the word, so others can benefit from the knowledge and expertise of the writers of these excellent articles (Harold Sellers, May 5, WOR iog via DXLD) DX-PEDITIONS ++++++++++++ Thanks for the high seas DXing report and NHK2 sign on MP3 for 1125-JOIZ, Walt. These creative DXing reports from overseas travel locations are always very interesting, and your report from the Alaska-bound cruise ship brought back memories of attempted DXing on the deck of a bouncing Navy destroyer in the Sea of Japan in 1980, complete with shipboard radar RFI, violent typhoons and Russian "Bear" bombers attempting practice bombing runs on the Navy carrier we were escorting (while being closely surrounded by carrier-based F-14's, right on their sides and tails). The Japanese MW-DX wasn't very good then, either (Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA, IRCA iog via DXLD) Glad to hear that, Gary. I was starting to wonder about my set up. On board ship, at 0330 UT (1:30 pm shipboard time), all of the bands are absolutely dead with the occasional HF very weak carrier. Just awful! 73, (Walt Salmaniw, May 2, IRCA iog via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASING --- IBOC ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ [and non] More on the 'Digital or Not' daisy pulling contest from Radioworld. I'm having a hard time keeping up, but thanks to MARE Tom Doerr for passing these along! Check these articles out, and share YOUR thoughts too: Pro all-digital: https://tinyurl.com/all-digital-am-good Anti-all digital: https://tinyurl.com/ho-hum-all-digital-will-fail And one that is harder to characterize: https://tinyurl.com/treat-all-am-the-same (MARE Tipsheet May 3 via DXLD) Someone's going to take the spectrum, because it is mostly dead, so it may as well be broadcasters. Sadly, the industry (in the US) can't seem to manage the two bands they have now (the 3rd "band", SW, having long been abandoned by anything vaguely commercial). I'd love to see an "Apex II" but I don't see the industry following through. Better off spending resources salvaging MW, IMHO. Mr Downs, someone who actually tries to make a living using AM radio, makes the point that ``if we broadcasters don’t step up, there won’t be any listeners either.'' It's time. He's right on all counts - there is no way the FCC will lift a finger to help clean up the spectrum and the "you get a translator and you get a translator and you get a translator" plan has been ... maybe not a total failure, but not a huge help either. If stations want to follow in WWFD's MA3 footsteps, they should be allowed to. Because if they aren't allowed to, the only thing left on the MW band will be religious stations and Talking House transmitters used by hobbyists to put music into their tube radios (-- Peter Laws | N5UWY | plaws plaws net | Travel by Train! IRCA iog via DXLD) The example of IBOC on both AM and FM, resulting in the need to purchase a different receiver to hear the digital signal coupled with the nature of digital (no weak signals, it's there or it's not) is indicative that this approach is doomed to failure. AM's programming has deteriorated to the point where the lack of attractive programming won't provide any incentive for making such a purchase, and thus the market simply won't be there. The audience for AM has long since moved to other bands or other offerings. If getting an audience back for AM is even possible, it would have to start with better programming. Better programming usually costs more, and the budget isn't there without an audience. As much as I hate to say it, to me that looks a lot like a like a death spiral (Russ Edmunds WB2BJH, Blue Bell, PA, Grid FN20id, ibid.) With regret, I have to concur with Russ Edmunds. The push for an “All Digital AM” band is a Hail Mary, driven my manufactures in an attempt to grab one last bite of the apple from station owners before AM signs off for good. As hobbyists, we need to start to think about how best to leverage the opportunities that the transition will provide. I admit that I completely failed to do that with TV DXing. 73, (Les Rayburn, N1LF, 121 Mayfair Park, Maylene, AL 35114 EM63nf, ibid.) The TV transition was such chaos that I marvel that many of our number have managed to figure it out. I'm still glad I DX only MW, LW & FM! (Russ Edmunds WB2BJH, Blue Bell, PA. Grid FN20id, ibid.) The stations you will hear in the future will be self-sustaining. Their audiences will support them directly. Examples: NPR, K-Love, Relevant Radio, ethnic or religious stations - or - direct marketing advertisers like investment or medical cure hawkers that wish to have a station and can support it by direct contributions. Without mass audiences, the advertiser support business model simply doesn’t work. A harbinger to the future is shortwave. Got $100? You are on the air! It is all Internet to anyone under 40. Internet beats the interference problems, too. I know. I have a Internet audio equipped car (Karl Zuk N2KZ with Ship / Radar endorsement! ibid.) I would add some further conjecture: Do you think it's possible that perhaps US-based SW might undergo a "revival" of sorts? Perhaps someday other countries will be DXing the US for regional, low-power DX stations, with "exotic" programming, as we used to do on the tropical bands. Content would be what AM used to be 40 or 50 years ago - local and varied, with some great local personalities, etc. Perhaps here in the modern West everyone is online, but what about the rest of the world? What would it cost to put, say, a 500 W or 1 kW transmitter on the air in the SW bands? (Esp. if a bunch of AM transmitter equipment would start being sold off at fire sale prices.) (Mark Pettifor, Goshen, IN, ibid.) No. You can’t license anything on shortwave under 50KW in the US and you can’t explicitly target the US (Paul B Walker, Jr., May 6, ibid.) Is there any possibility of that ever changing? (Mark Pettifor, ibid.) Easy to pontificate, Paul, but that’s simply not true. 15555 out of Florida has been running a kW or less on USB for years. All they have to say is that they PLAN to use 50 kW. Then we have a healthy pirate community which provides lots of alternative low power fun on SW. The feds don’t seem to be very interested in taking them off the air. 73, (Walt (near Kodiak, AK) Salmaniw, ibid.) It’s the law, or it was -- WJHR is licensed: for 50 kW, but who knows what they’re using into their directional antenna (Walker, ibid.) 1 kW or less, Paul. De facto rather than de jure is what I’m saying (Walt, ibid.) Well, what they’re doing may not be legal. Just because they’re doing it doesn’t mean it’s legal or they should do It not should the fcc accept it or change the rules [sic] (Walker, ibid.) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DAB See UK ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See INDIA; KUWAIT; USA: WINB ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See MEXICO; OKLAHOMA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ VCRs Here's a funny fact that may surprise some people. In 2015, the last year VCR's were made after a 40 year run, most American households still had at least one working one in their possession. As for me, I still have an old VCR/DVD combo I've had for over 15 years. I still use it sparingly to play old media (W1BSM, Fairfield CT, April 3, 2019, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) I have both a VCR and a DVD recorder. I bought the latter in 2005, and learned the cold hard truth, that not everything can be transferred from VCR to DVD. This includes not only wild TV DX (especially Es), but also still images (something I originally transferred from one VCR to another --- almost all being DX), and also even video games, of which I used a Radio Shack gadget that could send video game animation to VCR. I sent the combo VCR/DVD recorder to the maker, along with a copy of a VHS with e-skip. The unit was sent back, and I was told that they couldn't transfer either --- that the data couldn't keep up. I have a classic Sharp VCR made around 1990, that IMO does *excellent* work in reproducing e-skip. cd (Chris Dunne, Pembroke Pines FL, ibid.) I am still committed to the VCR era. If anyone has one not needed, in hifi, good condition with remote, to donate to keep WORLD OF RADIO going, please contact (gh) Demystifying Radiofrequencies and Health Risks On this page : ? Description of Radiofrequencies https://www.quebec.ca/en/health/advice-and-prevention/health-and-environment/demystifying-radiofrequencies/#c3939 ? Findings of Scientific Research on the Perceived Health Risks of Exposure to Radiofrequency Fields https://www.quebec.ca/en/health/advice-and-prevention/health-and-environment/demystifying-radiofrequencies/#c3940 ? Demystifying "Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity" https://www.quebec.ca/en/health/advice-and-prevention/health-and-environment/demystifying-radiofrequencies/#c3944 ? Radiofrequency Regulations https://www.quebec.ca/en/health/advice-and-prevention/health-and-environment/demystifying-radiofrequencies/#c3945 (Technical Topics, May CIDX Messenger via DXLD) Those are axually all on the same page (gh) To: Short-Wave radio Listening Yes, this list has been quite inactive for a long time. Nice post of your SWL history. Mine starts in 1968 when I was introduced to shortwave by a cousin. He saw a shortwave radio at home and not only explained what those extra bands meant, he taught me how to make a long wire antenna. Many radios and antennas have come and gone since then. I stand now at the threshold of my retirement ready to enjoy my pastime with a lot of time in my hands. I still report my band scans to our local swl group and try to get new recruits into the hobby. Another enjoyment is restoring and collecting boatanchor receivers. Quite a few of those enjoy an active life in my shack. Years ago I corresponded with Duane Fisher. A great person, ham radio operator and magician. Best 73s (Guido Santacana KP4FAR San Juan, PR-US Icom R71A with Nardo RAM board JRC NRD 525 Grundig S750 Sony ICF 2010 Sangean ATS909X Sangean ATS803A Antennas - two 50ft long wires 40M bazooka dipole MFJ1024 active ant. Sent from my iPhone, 3 May, swl at mailman.qth.net via DXLD) History - Frank Conrad This from the Free Radio Forum, posted by m0lsx on May 4. I spotted this on Today in Science History. The father of our hobby was born. Frank Conrad was born on 4 May 1874. Frank was an American electrical engineer whose interest in radiotelephony led to the establishment of the first commercial radio station. Conrad worked for Westinghouse as assistant chief engineer at its East Pittsburgh Works and acquired over 200 patents in his lifetime. As an amateur, having built a transmitting station on the second floor of the garage behind his home in Wilkinsburg, PA, when he substituted a phonograph for his microphone, he discovered a large audience of listeners who had built their own crystal radio sets and who, upon hearing the music, wrote or phoned requests for more music and news. When he became swamped with these requests, he decided to broadcast regular, scheduled programs to satisfy his listeners. He coined the term "broadcast." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Conrad (via Mike Terry, WOR iog via DXLD) I believe the term ``broadcast`` existed long before in the sense of sowing of seeds in the field (gh, DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ Pacific Radio Brownout --- Spaceweather.com Returning sunspot AR2740 (see below) erupted during the late hours of May 4th, producing a C2-class solar flare at 2243 UT. Extreme ultraviolet radiation briefly ionized the top of Earth's dayside atmosphere, producing a brownout of shortwave radio signals over the Pacific Ocean. Frequencies affected were mainly below 10 MHz. View the brownout map for more information. http://spaceweather.com/images2019/04may19/brownout.png (via Mike Terry, May 5, WOR iog via DXLD) Interesting to read. I’m in the North Pacific for the last week and my Perseus SDR fed by a 1 m diameter loop is utterly dead on the SW bands. I can weakly hear WWV/WWVH on 10 MHz, but nothing else. MW has similarly been dead with 850 Nome weak last night. Right now (2355 UR), we are SW of Dutch Harbor. I can’t be sure that I don’t have a fault somewhere, though. I’ll know when we arrive in Ketchikan in a few days! 73, (Walt Salmaniw, May 5, WOR iog via DXLD) Hi Walt, Yes the DX on low-HF has been very weak too at this southerly location. (I really rarely DX MW from the overcrowded CA desert-dial (horrible!) these days except for some XEs, plus I don't like the yucky funked-up audio on US AM stations now (on talk ones mainly - a strange echo or phasey reverb on the mid-range AFs - very noticeable on female voices... - gads even KNPR 88.9 Las Vegas has adopted this crummy sound that is absent in recordings three years ago and earlier (go figure...) Alas, AM has become such a log-jammed band I have largely quit AM DX (particularly 10 kHz channels) save for a few audible east Asians, until I travel far, far away; but then I only want to DX the 9 kHz spaced ones. Very hard to tell what propagation is doing on the almost every-channel graveyard AM band. Wonder when it'll dump out and the band will go the way as everywhere else (then pirates can take over.) ;-) I have no locals within 100 km, so fine for crystal radio DXing (!), but I did note the substantial attenuation on the low bands of HF also - on 03 May I only had weak sigs from east Asia at Dawn - like 20+ dB below normal from such sigs as 3325 VOI/PNG; 3320 KRE, 2850 KRE - all really weak, and the same for this morning. NO TP hets at all here either. I should have gone out early (pre-dawn) and listened to ELF for whistlers, but sleep is important now. Nothing on ELF-VLF (whistlers/etc.) by noon PDT though. Are you heading back to Massett? Is that a Wollenweber (circular) antenna system to the east of that town? What for? DoC? Looks great for top-level DXing and for observing Trans Polar MF/HF stuff. In September 1995 the MW band in Fairbanks, AK was DEAD all day/night until day three when the K dropped to level 2 and the band opened-up great to the south and Hawaiians came in well plus a lot of Oceania/NZ sigs too. This effect was way less down by Skilak Lake AK (Kenai Penn.) and 540 W. Samoa dominated! 73 (Steve McGreevy, CA, WOR iog via DXLD) Stephen, thanks for your insight into propagation or lack thereof! As for Masset, there indeed is still a Wullenweber array there, just a few km from my DX cottage. It’s a Canadian Forces signals intelligence station, now automated from Ottawa. When I was stationed there in the 70s and early 80s, we had 300 servicemen stationed there, including some 20 USN personnel. Good times! 73, (Walt Salmaniw, ibid.) Hi Walt, Wow - a pretty fascinating kind of work to do! There was a USN Wullenweber array at Skaggs Island about 20 km NE of where I grew-up as a budding DXer in San Rafael, CA - it was south-west of Napa in the bay flats - wonderful ground conductivity! No doubt for the surveillance HF and comms too. I'll ask no more... ;-) But, woah(!) was I fascinated to see that circle of antennas off to the north as we drove CA-37 eastward and back. My father knew what it was, but I had to find out more as I learned more about advanced HFDF antenna arrays (phasing and positional). That biggie sunspot is on the Sun's equator (or close) indicative of a spot from the still completing Cycle 24; cool, it erupted to give us some interesting DX (or non?) - earlier today (05 May) at about 1800z, I noted short skip on HF, like within 100 km on 40m - just out on a wild-wildflower 4WD drive dense with desert flower species of maybe 30 kinds (the best year ever in 23 years here!) It has turned to a "desert jungle" as I joked to Kath. Also, the air was filled with migrating hoards of Painted Lady butterflies - Kathy and I clocked them at about average of 10 to 15 km/h, heading north-west in flocks, although they stopped to feed, their route trended north-west. Returning toward Darwin, CA toward 2100 I heard some skip signals on 27185 (CB-19). Es? Mag. storm spawned Es is exceptional sometimes. Yes, if your Masset cottage is by that E/W strand, then I see how it is likely south-aimed if I recall your postings (such as your DX of 1575 Iranian jammers, etc.) Dream DX for me. I am contemplating a big compilation of Oceania MW and SW DX - only 10% of my HI DX audio is on the DX archive pages I have. Tahiti 738/15170; [Fiji?] /558/810, etc. etc. I have some rare (from) Hawaii MW recordings from the 80s and early 90s, but being that so many of these Pacific gems are gone now, the archival-recordings are precious to the world's DXers, and I was wondering if you have a collection available online? Maybe I missed something there. Then onto recordings of Australian NDB DX with TWEB weather-audio made from Point Reyes. I also want to synch-up (to compare in stereo) recordings of "double-M M" Consol (somewhere near Sakhalin Island, Russia, I think) on 340 kHz made from Puna, Hawaii (Dr. Wood's place) and also Point Reyes in Summer '85. Fun stuff to hear now that I am the mode to convert cassettes to MP3 and edit them with WavePad. Your work is admirable, Walt. Best (Steve -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com ibid.) Steve, I wish I was as organized as you, but alas, nothing on the net with my old recordings. Mine go back to the early 1970s on cassette, and I have started the long process of digitizing the cassettes, and later the minidiscs. On Colin Newell's website DXer.ca, there used to be a lot of my really good TP DX, but they were taken down long, long ago. The Wullenweber array is the identical classic USN design (the Masset one, I refer to). Hence the USN personnel that were there until the early 90s, before automation. I did get a tour, once only, inside the facility, but at that time, I wasn't as much into radio, so don't recall exactly what I saw (it was all a need to know, anyway). Lots of things were covered up, etc. Never did go in again, although it's really easy to see everything from the outside, as there's a nice 9 hole golf course surrounding it, so one gets a very good view of the site while playing the 9 holes. I usually click a picture or two, as well. The Pacific Coastal flight never overflies the site, although at times, one gets a nice aerial view of the antenna. Google Earth also shows it very well. Just to the west of the Wullenweber is another antenna of sorts aimed W/NW strung on telephone poles. I had a look at those in January when I was there. Not sure what they were for. There is something to the south as well (across the road). There's a big NO Trespassing sign on the roadway/path in. Again, not sure what's over there. Interesting story. When first posted there, I owned a Collins R390A that went belly up. Thank goodness for the techs who worked at the site. They had it up and running in no time. The Collins were not ever used in Masset. Mostly, we used Racal receivers (the RA 17 was the equivalent of the R390A). Another beautiful piece of British engineering. Very smooth tuning! Not sure what was used after that. I do own a multicoupler from Masset, though. A lovely 32 output, 1 input device. Imagine running 32 receivers simultaneously!!! As far as where I am located, it's pretty much exactly 1/2 way between the town of Masset and Tow Hill, the prominence east along the north coast of Graham Island on Haida Gwaii, and about 5 km or so from CFS Masset Wullenweber array. I can attest for the remarkable reception available at times from that site. 73, (Walt, ibid.) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2019 May 06 0135 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 29 April - 05 May 2019 Solar activity was at very low to low levels. New Region 2740 (N08, L=307, class/area Dho/280 on 05 May) produced a pair of C-class flares, the largest a C2/Sf observed at 04/2243 UTC. No Earth-directed CMEs were observed in available coronograph imagery. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at normal levels on 29 Apr - 01 May and reached high levels on 02-05 May. The maximum electron flux was 6,160 pfu observed at 03/1930 UTC. Geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to active levels through the period. Quiet levels were observed on 29-30 Apr under a nominal solar wind regime. Late on 01 May through midday on 02 May, unsettled to active levels were observed under an enhanced solar wind environment due to influence from a negative polarity CH HSS. During this time frame, wind speeds peaked at near 565 km/s, total field reached 11 nT, while the Bz component reached a maximum southward extent of -10 nT. On 03-04 May, field conditions were at quiet to unsettled levels as negative polarity CH HSS influence continued. By 05 May, quiet conditions were observed under waning CH HSS influence. Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 06 May - 01 June 2019 Solar activity is expected to be at very low levels, with low levels likely through 20 May due to activity from Region 2740 and the return of old Region 2739 (N06, L=266). Very low conditions are anticipated after 20 May. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at moderate to high levels on 06-12 May, and again on 29 May - 01 Jun, due to CH HSS influence. Normal to moderate levels are expected on 13-28 May. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to range from quiet to active levels. Unsettled to active conditions are expected on 06-07 May and again on 28-31 May. Both enhancements in geomagnetic activity are due to recurrent, negativity polarity CH HSSs. The remainder of the outlook period is expected to be at quiet levels. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2019 May 06 0135 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 2019-05-06 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2019 May 06 76 12 4 2019 May 07 76 14 4 2019 May 08 76 8 3 2019 May 09 76 8 3 2019 May 10 76 8 3 2019 May 11 76 5 2 2019 May 12 76 5 2 2019 May 13 76 5 2 2019 May 14 76 5 2 2019 May 15 76 5 2 2019 May 16 76 5 2 2019 May 17 76 5 2 2019 May 18 72 5 2 2019 May 19 72 5 2 2019 May 20 72 8 3 2019 May 21 68 5 2 2019 May 22 68 5 2 2019 May 23 67 5 2 2019 May 24 67 5 2 2019 May 25 67 5 2 2019 May 26 67 5 2 2019 May 27 69 5 2 2019 May 28 68 10 3 2019 May 29 69 12 4 2019 May 30 70 8 3 2019 May 31 72 10 3 2019 Jun 01 75 5 2 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1981, DXLD) ###