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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1994 contents: Australia, Canada, Cook Islands, Congo DR, Cuba, Denmark, Germany, International Waters non, Iran non, Ireland/Italy nons, Kashmir, Laos, Latvia, Mexico, Myanmar, Netherlands non, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Oklahoma, Panama non, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, USA; and the propagation outlook Ready for first broadcasts on Friday August 9: 2200 UT Friday WRMI 9955 [confirmed] 0130 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 [confirmed] 0629vUT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany 1000 UT Saturday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW [Aug 17? alt. weeks] 1430 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany [confirmed] 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 2100 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 [confirmed] 0130 UT Sunday WRMI 5850 [confirmed] 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315] [confirmed] 1030 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany [not confirmed] 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 [confirmed] 0130 UT Monday WRMI 9395 7780 [confirmed] 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 [confirmed] 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 [confirmed from 0305] 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [confirmed] 0930 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW [off for repairs] 1130 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW [off for repairs] 1816 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 [confirmed] 0800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW [2 editions][off?] 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor1994.m3u (mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor1994.mp3 Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html Also linx to podcast services. WOR 1995 should follow a similar schedule to the above from Aug 16 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 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 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. Fair signal, R Afghanistan External Service August 6 from 1602 6100 YAK 100 kW / 125 deg SoAs Urdu, from 1616 UT-NO SIGNAL https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/fair-signal-of-radio-afghanistan.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 6-7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALBANIA. China Radio International via Cerrik ND on August 6: 0900-0957 on 7285 CER 150 kW / non-dir to SEEu Romanian, very good 0900-0957 on 9440 CER 150 kW / non-dir to SEEu Romanian, very good 1100-1157 on 7220 CER 150 kW / non-dir to SEEu Bulgarian-very good 1200-1257 on 7345 CER 150 kW / non-dir to SEEu Serbian-weak signal Albanian broadcast center at Cerrik is out of service 0000-0400 UT for the following transmissions of China Radio International/CRI: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/china-radio-international-via-cerrik-nd.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 5-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANGUILLA. Pastor Melissa’s posted Anguilla sked, 7/29: https://www.pastormelissascott.com/shortwave-schedule.html 6090: 9PM-12M Mon, 9PM-1AM Tue, 8PM-12M Thu, 3AM-6AM Fri 11775: 12N-6PM Sun, 6AM-9AM Wed, 8AM-12N Thu, 1PM-4PM Sat (via Harold Frodge, MARE Tipsheet Aug 2 via DXLD) Any indication of the time zone for these – not to mention whether or not there is any semblance of veracity to the promised sked ;) ? I'm going to venture a guess that it is likely ELT since at 1235 Thursday UT I heard Dead Dr Gene's dulcet tones on 11775 (kvz, MARE Tipsheet Aug 2 via DXLD) I seriously doubt she know what ELT be. Why not PDT where she reside? Or maybe AST in Anguilla which currently coincides with EDT. No, when I finally look at it myself, below, clearly labeled C.U.T (gh) [and non]. 11775, Thu Aug 8 at 1351, so-called Caribbean Beacon is on with so-called Pastor Melissa Scott, on so-called University Network. ``Scheduling`` has appeared to be random, scattershot on this and night frequency 6090, but her website does present a schedule, much less than the 24/7 in the good ole DGS era: https://www.pastormelissascott.com/shortwave-schedule.html and this particular log does fit into it; I have added 24-hour UT to her confusing am & pm, for which days of week are also confusing: ``Radio Broadcast Schedule --- Join Pastor Melissa Scott via the Shortwave Broadcast from the Caribbean Beacon. Caribbean Beacon, Anguilla, BWI --- Coordinated Universal Time Sunday 4pm to 10pm Daytime 11.775MHz 16-22 Tuesday 1am to 4am Nighttime 6.090MHz 01-04 Wednesday 1am to 5am Nighttime 6.090MHz 01-05 Wednesday 10am to 1pm Daytime 11.775MHz 10-13 Thursday Noon to 4pm Daytime 11.775MHz 12-16 Friday Midnight to 4am Nighttime 6.090MHz 00-04 Friday 7am to 10am Nighttime 6.090MHz 07-10 Saturday 5pm to 8pm Daytime 11.775MHz 17-20 WWCR Nashville, TN --- Coordinated Universal Time Monday thru Saturday 8pm to Midnight Daytime 13.845MHz 20-24 Sunday 6pm to Midnight Daytime 13.845MHz 18-24 Daily Midnight to 11am Nighttime 5.935MHz 00-11 Pastor Scott's Program Broadcast on Intermountain Public Radio MOUNTAIN TIME. . . [a bunch of FM stations in Wyoming, Idaho]`` BTW, this is not on the Hitlist, altho several other major American gospel huxters can be reached. While searching for her, I came across this unsolicited testimonial for the Hitlist from Gilles Letourneau: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0tQFZ0rFC4 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. Hi, Unique Radio, 5045 and 3210 kHz, Gunnedah NSW, will be off air due to several technical issues. Faults in the antenna and also a fault in the DC power supply to the transmitter have made it necessary to go off air for a while. These will be fixed as time permits and also will let you know when coming back on air. [non] WINB broadcasts as per usual as are the podcasts. https://www.uniqueradio.biz Best regards (Tim Gaynor, Unique Radio, Gunnedah NSW, Australia. 0055 UT August 4, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. 9610, August 7 at 1302, South Asian song W&M duet at S3-S5, but I bet it`s a gospel huxter trying to ingratiate itself with victims: Yes, HFCC shows RBA Kununurra, in Tamil this semihour daily, but don`t you believe it`s that simple. EiBi shows 5 different languages, depending. First half on Wednesdays is in MALalayam (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. AIB RESPONDS TO AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENTARY MEDIA FREEDOM ENQUIRY The Association for International Broadcasting has responded to the Australian parliamentary enquiry into law enforcement & intelligence powers on media freedom. Working with Doughty Street Chambers, the AIB has highlighted issues surrounding Australia’s legislation and the way it has been framed to potentially prevent or restrict journalists from covering stories of significant public interest. Following the raids on the ABC and on journalists working for NewsCorp publications and associated international outcry, the Australian Parliament has convened this inquiry. Submissions will be accepted up until 6 August 2019. “The raids on the ABC and on journalists in Australia marked a low point in media freedom in the country,” comments Simon Spanswick, AIB chief executive. “We are glad that this inquiry has been established. It is time for legislators in Australia to recognise that restrictions on journalists working in the country must not be continued or increased. Australia has a vital role to place in the Indo-Pacific region in promoting rule of law and media freedom.” Read the submission here. 14 pp https://aib.org.uk/Media-Freedom/AIB-submission-PJCIS-260719.pdf (AIB Media Industry Briefing | August 2019 via DXLD) ** BANGLADESH. 4750, Bangladesh Betar, Aug 8, with transmitter problems; at 1235, heard a hum (no English audio) and at 1325, still only hum (no Nepali audio); of course CNR1 was also there. First time I have heard this BB anomaly (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** BOUGAINVILLE. 3325, NBC Bougainville (Maus Blong Sankamap - Voice of the Sunrise), 1156-1159*, August 2. DJ with pop songs; in Pidgin; cut off mid-song; after 1159, was only hearing the VOI carrier (no audio at all today) 3325, NBC Bougainville, 1119-1203*, on Aug 6. Pop songs (Steve Winwood - "Higher Love," etc.); in Pidgin; suddenly off; no VOI QRM (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. Observações OCurta 25Jul-05Ago. (Efectuadas na costa sudoeste). BRASIL 4775, R. Congonhas, Congonhas MG, 2133-2143, 01/8. Missa; 35342. 4875, R. Roraima, Boa Vista RR, 2142-2152, 25/7. Conversa, canções; 35343. 4925, R. Educação Rural, Tefé AM, 2144-2154, 25/7. Notícias regionais; 35332. 5035, R. Educação Rural, Coari AM, 2149-2159,25/7. Canções; 35332 4985, R. Brasil Central, Goiânia GO, 2123-2133, 29/7. Prgr. musical Brasil Sertanejo, anúncios de programação; 35343. 6010, R. Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte MG, 2119-2133, 27/7. Informações, conversa, noticiário de f/ball; 25331. 6080, R. Marumby, Curitiba PR, 2140-2150, 25/7. Propag. religl, canções; 34342. // 9515 SINPO 35343. 6135, R. Aparecida, Aparecida SP, 0855-0925, 31/7. Prgr. musical A Boa Música está no Ar, rubrica Momento Agro; 35342, em perda. 9515, R. Marumby, Curitiba PR, 2125-2145, 03/8. Canções de propag. relig.; 25331. Melhor sinal, em 04/8, pelas 2110. 9550.1, R. Boa Vontade, Pt.º Alegre RS, 2113-2124, 27/7. Propag. relig. adoçada com música; 23441, QRM adjacente, mas sinal em ascensão. 9630.1, R. Aparecida, Aparecida SP, 2125-2135, 29/7. Missa; 34443, QRM adjacente; // 6135 (bloqueada por est. não identif.), 11855.7. 9630.4 idem, 0850-0930, 31/7. Prgr. musical A Boa Música está no Ar, rubrica Momento Agro, propag. relig.; 35433. 9665. R. Voz Missionária, Camboriú SC, 2106-2116, 04/8. Canções; 45433. 9665.1, idem, 1834-1847, 25/7. Propag. relig.; 24332, QRM adjacente. 9665.1, idem, 1411-1444, 28/7. Propag. relig., seguida de prgr. dirigido às crianças, canções, indicação das freqs., noticiário; 35433. 9665.1, idem, 0950-1220, 01/8. Canções, ..., noticiário em curso, pelas 1105, ID cantado, canções; 25432. 9665.1, idem, 1853-1912, 01/8. Prgr. noticioso O Brasil e o Mundo, propag. relig., canções; 35342. 9818.4, R. 9 de Julho, São Paulo SP, 2116-2126, 01/8. Noticiário de futebol 24342, QRM adjacente. 9818.4, idem, 0930-0954, 05/8. Canções, texto; 15341, QRM adj., pelas 1000. 11815, R. Brasil Central, Goiânia GO, 1100-1220, 28/7. Prgr. de música folclórica Goiás Caboclo, anúncio cantado das freqs., texto; 25432. Áudio fraco. 11815, idem, 1503-1526, 04/8. Música pop'; 25442. Áudio fraco. 11815, idem, 0935-1210, 05/8. Canções, noticiários, às 1000, 1100, 1200; 25442. Áudio fraco. 11855.8, R. Aparecida, Aparecida SP, 1829-1843, 25/7. Anúncios comerciais, canções; 34343, QRM adjacente. 11855.8, idem, 1412-1426, 26/7. Prgr. musical A Boa Música está no Ar; 15341. 11895.1, R. Boa Vontade, Pt.º Alegre RS, 1742-1754, 30/7. Propag. relig.; 15341. 11895.2, idem, 2140-2150, 03/8. Canções, texto; 15341. // 9550,1 sob forte QRM adjacente. Bons DX e 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of PORTUGAL, August 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 15190, Radio Inconfidência heard at 1510 on 7/30/19. a conversation between a man and woman in Portuguese. Mostly poor (Bob Brossell, Pewaukee, WI. Equipment: JRC NRD-545 (Godar DXR-1000 antenna); KENWOOD R-2000 (Grove flex wire); DRAKE DSR-2 (longwire); ETON E1; SONY ICF SW77, NASWA Flashsheet Aug 4 via DXLD) I am not sure what this was, but Inconfidência has been off the air for some time (Mark Taylor, Ed., ibid.) I am not so sure it be totally inactive. If really in Portuguese, or even Brazuguese, what else could it be? However, besides Inconfidência possibly 24 hours, Aoki also shows at 1500-1530: ``15190 1500-1530 BUL IRRS R.Santec/Cosmic Wav Eng Kostinbrod( 1`` But I don`t think that is currently active and anyhow the log was on a Tuesday. EiBi also has Inconf 24h but on 15190.1, and not IRRS. HFCC has neither on 15190, only Philippines at 1730-1930. The other BH frequency, 6010 has just been reported by Carlos; both seem to be running quite low power (gh, DXLD) ** BULGARIA. See SOUTH CAROLINA [non] ** CANADA. CHU: See WORLD OF HOROLOGY ** CANADA. Pretty quiet at the CRTC this month, but they did deny the request from Radio Humsafar to move the transmitter site for their proposed ethnic station in Brampton on 1350, as the proposal shifted the signal more into the Mississauga market, and reduced it in Brampton. They’ve also given Stingray the OK to move CHCM Marystown from 740 AM to the FM band. By my count there at 18 AM signals left in NL and Stingray has 9 of them, so will be interesting to see if they move more (Nigel Pimblett, AB, Aug CIDX Messenger via DXLD) ** CANADA. 1610, Aug 2 at 0133, YL mixing English with S Asian language, no doubt CHHA, Toronto, Voces Latinas, in two languages which are anything but Latin. Four-year-old program grid still comes up on website http://chha1610am.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/PostCard-CHHA-1610AM-2016.jpg claiming Portuguese occupies the M-F 9-10 pm ET hour, but I`ll bet it`s Punjabi shifted from the 10-11 pm EDT hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA [and non]. 6070-, Aug 7 at 1954 while my noise level has abated, I again try for the JBA NAFTA midday carriers on 49m, and there they are: CFRX, as well as 5950 WRMI and 6185 XEPPM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. Glenn, Old “The SWL Digest" recordings. Have you heard these three old "SWL Digest" recordings posted on the web? Found these three recordings after reading the RW article that mentions some of these old RCI “SWL Digest" program recordings are available online: https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/the-internets-impact-on-international-radio The Internet’s Impact on International Radio - Radio World A QSL card sent to SW listeners confirming their reception of “The Two Bobs” on Swiss Radio International. Credit: Bob Zanotti. The western bloc’s advocates were led by the BBC World Service, and included Voice of America, Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe, Radio Canada International and a host of influential European broadcasters. http://www.radioworld.com In its Cold War heyday, Radio Canada International was one of the world’s most listened-to international shortwave broadcasters. Popular programs like “The SWL Digest” made RCI announcer/producer Ian McFarland into a bona fide shortwave star. (Even today, airchecks of the SWL Digest are being shared online.) They were broadcast from RCI’s Atlantic Ocean transmission farm in Sackville, New Brunswick. https://swling.com/blog/tag/ian-mcfarland/ https://shortwavearchive.com/archive/tag/Ian+McFarland https://player.fm/series/the-shortwave-radio-audio-archive-1304817/radio-canada-internationals-final-episode-of-dx-digest (via Artie Bigley, OH, Aug 2, DXLD) ** CANADA. The annual CIDX Vernon Ikeda Memorial Summer Barbecue & webcast August 17: See CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES ** CHINA [non]. HOW DISSIDENTS ARE USING SHORTWAVE RADIO TO BROADCAST NEWS INTO CHINA A riot policeman gestures as they retreat back to Kwun tong police station in Hong Kong, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019. [caption] By Patrick Tucker Technology Editor August 5, 2019 Pro-democracy forces are locked in a cat-and-mouse game with the Chinese government, playing out on the airwaves, the internet and across the globe. For more than four months, Hong Kong has been in the grips of a civil crisis. Protestors have taken to the streets to challenge the Hong Kong government’s growing acquiescence to Beijing while Chinese government forces and their allies have used militias to attack protestors and electronic tools to disrupt their communications. But media censorship means that few mainland Chinese know what’s going on. A Silicon Valley-based organization has found a way to get information into China and out to Chinese speakers around the world: shortwave radio. “Shortwave broadcast is kinda like a grey area,” said Sean Lin, one of the co-founders of the Sound of Hope radio network. “There’s no law that says you cannot do it. It depends on if governments want to keep [a particular radio station] going or shut it down based on Beiging’s [sic] pressure,” . . . https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2019/08/how-dissidents-are-using-shortwave-radio-broadcast-news-china/158950/ (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) Lots of background on SOH. See also TAIWAN ** CHINA. Old recordings - update --- I am going through my audio CD's; most are commercial CDs that were purchased, some are old time radio shows in MP3 format, and have a few that I recorded from the airwaves but never labeled by CDs for the their content. While going through them, one has a "firedrake jammer" (term used by ARRL about 10 years ago to describe Chinese instrumental music often heard on shortwave). To my surprise, while playing in Windows Media Player, the artist's name and song title appeared, showing "Please" by Him Hyun Joong. I may not have spelled the name correctly as the image was very small, but nevertheless, I was surprised to see this music even had a title. OK, back to regular DXing. 73 de Joe -- *** Avoid internet congestion, real radio uses airwaves. *** (Joe Miller, KJ8O, Desert Hot Springs, CA, Locator DM13sw, Aug 1, abdx yg via DXLD) ** CHINA. 15970, 0720, CNR 1 jammer over Sound of Hope. Chinese talk // 14430, 344, 17/07 21695, 1000, CNR 1 Jammer over VO America, ID, SIIO 141 19/07 (Franck Baste St Bonnet de Rochefort, France, Aug BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** CHINA. CNR-1 Jamming vs. SOH Xi Wang Zhi Sheng in 19mb August 1: till 1100 on 15775 unknown kW / unknown to EaAs Chinese, good signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/cnr-1-jamming-vs-soh-xi-wang-zhi-sheng.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Local line noise level up to S9+20 has been unrelenting, worst between 3 and 9 MHz, so what little DX there might be on the summer tropical bands is blotted; ergo I amuse myself by surveying once again, CNR1 jammers above 9 MHz; never the same assortment from one day to the next, or even one hour to the next, thanks, presumably to the unpredictability of Sound of Hope frequency selexions among its known scores of choices, keeping the Jamming Department at CNR on their toes. August 2 at 1245 I start hearing CNR1 talk in Chinese, u.o.s., at a wide variety of levels: 9230, S7-S8 10160, S6-S3 10920, S4-S6 11100, S5-S7 11120, S3-S5 11430, JBA music? else? 11460, S2-S3 11540, S4 11580, S4-S5 vs CCI target 11640, S4-S6 vs CCI target 11785, S5-S6 11825, S6-S8 vs CCI target 12190, S3; now at 1256 with music from CNR1 12880, S2-S3 13070, S3-S5 13150, JBA carrier 13550, S3-S4 13890, timesignal to 1300* Then no others found up to 16 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. CNR-1 Jamming vs. SOH Xi Wang Zhi Sheng in 25mb on Aug 3: 0800-0900 on 11775 unknown kW / unknown to EaAs Chinese, good signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/cnr-1-jamming-vs-soh-xi-wang-zhi-sheng_3.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 11460, CNR 1 at 1130. Music, M in Chinese. Most likely, this broadcast in a jamming operation against Sound Of Hope via Taiwan also here in either Cantonese or Mandarin. Isn't censorship wonderful - Good August 3 (Rick Barton, Arizona SW Logs, Unless otherwise stated, equipment is Grundig Satellit 205/T.5000, RS SW-2000629, with various outdoor wires & indoor shortwire. Use of portables noted where relevant for perspective on signal strength comments. 73 and Good Listening....! - rb, WOR iog via DXLD) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammer survey, August 3 at 1438+: 10820 10920, S4-S5 11170 11460, S4-S7 12550, S1-S2 13270, JBA carrier 13550 13870, S3 14850, S2-S3 CNR1 WOOB jammer survey, August 4 at 1325: 9255, 11100 and 11120 JBA carriers; 11440, 11460 audibly in Chinese. None further found 12-15 MHz. CNR1 jamming survey, August 6 at 1339+: JBA carriers or Chinese talk JBA on 10960, 11100, 11150, 11170, 11440, 11460. None found higher or lower despite local HNL being off, CNR1 jammer survey, Aug 7 from 1346: 10160 Chinese JBA; 10960 JBA carrier; 11120 Chinese JBA; no more WOOBs up to 15 MHz on a poor propagation morning (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Hi Wolfie, Thanks again for your help with identification of my UNID on 7262.0 (spurs of PBS Nei Menggu on 7262, 7266, etc.) August 2, the PBS Nei Menggu transmitter on 7270 continues to still have the buzzing sound, as you first noted on July 24. Attached is a brief audio recording from today (Ron Howard, California, via DXLD) ** CHINA. 7345-USB, V26, 1223, on August 2. Numbers given in Chinese; mixing very badly with CNR1 on same frequency (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** CHINA. 6035, FM99 relay via PBS Yunnan, *1140, August 4. As usual, suddenly started with program already in progress; no N. Korea jamming spur yet and no hint of any BBS (Bhutan) signal. 6125, CNR1, 1213+, August 4. A rare day with live sports coverage of the China vs Turkey match between the women's volleyball teams, being held in Ningbo (once I visited this city, while I was in Shanghai, as it is not far away); with today's win over Turkey, China now has a spot for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. 6230 // 6280, CNR1 jamming of Sound of Hope, at 1245, August 4. Is not often that China bothers to jam SOH on these frequencies. 7210, PBS Yunnan, 1051, August 4. The usual pre-1100 IS (long musical loop); mixing with SOH; whereas VOV has not been heard here for a while (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** CONGO. 6115, Radio Congo, start up time (already in progress) at *0540, Aug 6. Strong QRN (static); no QRM from Japan today; very respectable summertime reception. My audio at http://bit.ly/33dTv2q But on Aug 5, Congo was not broadcasting (checked 0530-0600); even with considerable daylight in Japan (sunset not till 0940 UT), clearly heard "RN2" playing mostly non-stop pop songs, with ID at 0600 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** CONGO DR. Radio CANDIP: See CUBA ** COOK ISLANDS. 630 kHz last day Aug 5 Radio Cook Island news Aug 3 at 11:12 PM From Radio Cook Islands Facebook site Radio Cook Islands last day of broadcast on AM 630 will be 5th of August. ”It’s the end of an era- the AM 630 kHz radio mast which has graced the Matavera skyline for decades will soon be brought down. CIIC's Tamarii Tutangata confirms that a contract for the dismantling was signed today and Raro Welding has been awarded the job. According to Raro Welding’s Esben Torget, work will commence on Tuesday 6th August 2019. Radio Cook Islands has been announcing for listeners on Rarotonga to switch their radios to the FM frequency of 101 MHz since June 2019. Unfortunately, the FM stations in the Southern Group are not working so they will have no radio at all apart from the individual radio stations on some islands. The FM stations in the Northern Group will continue to operate as per normal. (Each island has different frequencies, and each island knows their frequency) The official last day of operation for AM 630 kHz will be Monday 5th August 2019. The last major events to be broadcast live on AM 630 kHz will be the Celebration of the 54th Constitution Day on Sunday 4th August at 6.30pm, followed by the prize-giving and closing ceremony of the Te Maeva Nui celebrations on Monday 5th August from 10am” (via Chris Rogers, Australia, WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 12000, Aug 4 at 1323, RHC is S7 on second harmonic of 6000, S9+10, but higher one is less noisy during `Sonido Cubano` music. Altho I`m always interested in harmonix, as long as they don`t QRM anything, there are still something wrong at RHC. 15140, Aug 4 at 1337, and again at 1437 check, RHC is extremely suptorted here but OK tho weaker on 15230. Wiggle that patchcord! Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 15140, RHC at 1940 with Cuban salsa music and a man with brief talk at 1943 then more salsa vocals and into The Police's “I'll Be Watching You” at 1947 (What's that song got to do with Cuba?) – Fair signal with fading but badly muffled audio Aug 4 – Isn't it about time people in charge at RHC ask Arnie Coro to look at the transmitters again, have him properly train replacements, and ensure they actually do their job? After all, there's always something wrong at RHC (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S, Drake SPR-4, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 80 and 40 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD) and an Alpha Delta DX-LB inverted vee dipole, ODXA iog via DXLD) Not sure AC has that capability or responsibility (gh) ** CUBA. 9580, August 5 at 0135, CRI relay is S9+20/30 but undermodulated. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba. 9570 Albania relay is still OFF (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 9640, UT Monday August 5 at 0136, RHC `En Contacto` is starting, undermodulated but sufficient, also on 11760. Arnie opens with info that the average sunspot number in July was only 0.9. Recheck at 0145, Pepe Bueno in Spain is concluding his monthly DX report on behalf of AER, giving the schedule of Radio CANDIP, Congo DR on 5066! Don`t you believe it. This station has been inactive for at least two years. He is probably relying on ``A-19`` schedule info in the June issue of El Dial-E: ``CONGO DEM.REP. Radio CANDIP Bunia: • 0300-0700 5066vBUN 001 kW / non-dir COD French • 1300-1900 5066vBUN 001 kW / non-dir COD French 5066v=5066,4`` Followed there immediately by another imaginary station long-gone: ``DJIBOUTI Radio Djibouti: • 0300-2200 4780 DBT 050 kW / non-dir EaAf French/Arabic/Afar`` ``B-18 schedules of African Stations`` also from AER were quoted in Rus-DX of 20 January 2019, not only these but obviously(???) deleted stations: Chad 6165, Malabo 6250, Hargeisa 7120, Uganda 4976 and 4750! Last real log of CANDIP we had was from ****2017****, DXLD 17-14: ``CONGO DR. Also R. Candip better than before on 5066.4 till just after 2000, and also stronger than usual (Thorsten Hallmann, Germany, March 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` I try not to critique fellow DX program presenters despite hearing erroneous info, but just can`t let this one pass. Some of them I deliberately do not listen to, so can avoid such conflicts. But: something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 5025, Aug 7 at 1952 UT, line noise level has abated, and I detect the JBA carrier from Radio Rebelde, but strangely there are also audible pips at the rate of 40 per minute superimposed. An artifact around here, or transmitted that way? Something`s frequently wrong at RadioCuba. 6100, Aug 7 at 0611, RHC English is S9+20 of JB modulation, better than 6000 which is off; while 6165 is S9 and barely audible vs high noise level. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 15230, Aug 7 at 1354, RHC is S9+10 but suptorted, while // 15140 is OK. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DENMARK. DINAMARCA, 5840, World Music R, Randers, 2120-..., 28/7. Música e canções; 25342. 15805, World Music R, Randers, 0936-0946, 04/8. Música e canções; 15341. Primeira vez que a estação é captada nesta frequência. Bons DX e 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of PORTUGAL, August 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) World Music Radio --- Stig Hartvig Nielsen writes on Facebook: For the past few weeks World Music Radio has been broadcasting on 15805 kHz with 200 W every Saturday and Sunday at 07-20 UT beamed north from Randers, Denmark, in other words towards Northern Scandinavia, Western North America and Japan. Signal strength has been excellent in Northern Scandinavia and the signal has also been audible in Japan (from around local sunset in Japan) and Western North America (Alberta and British Colombia). Unfortunately not one single reception report has been received from DX’ers in Japan - and only two from Western Canada. And the interest among DXers in Northern Scandinavia has also been very limited. So – weather permitting – the direction of the 3 element yagi used on 15805 kHz will be changed to due south within the next few days – most likely this coming week. That means that this weekend – August 3-4 2019 – will be the last chance of having very good chances of picking up WMR on 15805 kHz in Japan and Western North America. There is a slight change of broadcasting hours this weekend: The transmitter on 15805 will be on the air continuously from Saturday morning August 3 at 07 UT - until Sunday afternoon August 4 at 16 UT (The coming weeks the sign off time on Sunday will be back to 20 UT). Reception reports are welcome at wmr@wmr.dk and by snail mail to World Music Radio, PO Box 112, DK-8960 Randers SØ, Denmark. Best 73s, Stig Hartvig Nielsen, World Music Radio – www.wmr.radio (via Mike Terry, England, Aug 2, WOR iog via DXLD) ** DJIBOUTI. 1431 kHz, 2030 VOA relay, Dorale, DJI. "South Sudan in Focus" in English; peaking over Smooth R at times; co-channel "bubbling" noise also audible; VOA programmmes now here 1530-0330, ex-Radio Sawa. 322, 23/07 (Tony Rogers, remote receiver Grimsby,(Aug BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) The Radio Sawa relay on station in Djibouti. Instead, Voice of America Qatar, the following schedule has been observed: Times/UTC Days Language 1530-1600 Daily Eng 1600-1700 Daily English 1700-1800 Daily Somali 1800-1830 Daily English 1830-2030 Daily French 2030-2100 Mon-Fri English 2030-2100 Sat/Sun French 2100-2130 Mon-Fri French 2100-2130 Sat/Sun English 2130-0330 English (Tony Rogers, Aug BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) 1431 kHz ** EGYPT. 9720, 2308, R Cairo (Tentative) Poor in Portuguese to South America. Presume it is this as other stations on the frequency are RFA and China with a Jammer. 1/7 (Stu Forsyth, Mangawhai, Northland, North Island, New Zealand, WinRadio G33DDC connected to a 5m EWE, Aug NZ DX Times via DXLD) Need confirmed evidence that Cairo`s LAm services still exist. So I tune in at 2300 Aug 12 via UTwente and all I hear on 9720 is a strong `East is Red` anthem and several CNR1 IDs (gh) ** ERITREA [non]. Reception of Radio Sinit Eritrea RSE via MBR Nauen on August 3 0500-0600 11660 ISS 250 kW / 123 deg Tigrinya/Arabic Sat, very good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/reception-of-radio-sinit-eritrea-rse.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ERITREA [non]. SECRETLAND, Dimtse Radio Erena in 31mb via SPL Secretbrod, August 2 1700-1800 9720 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Tigrinya/Arabic Fri, good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/dimtse-radio-erena-in-31mb-via-spl.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. PIRATAS 3904.9, R. Technische Man (?)_HOL, 2120-..., 03/8. Música pop'; 35343; possível ID via imprensa DX. 5140, Charleston R Int'l_QTH?, 2116-..., 27/7. Música e canções d'outro tempo; 35332. 4071, Não identif._HOL (?), 2101-2110*, 04/8. Música pop', fecho abrupto; 35343. 5780, R. Harmony_IRL, 1837..., 25/7. Inglês; canções; 35332. 5780, idem, 0945-..., 01/8. Canções; 25342. 5780, idem (?), 1120-..., 05/8. Canções; 15331. 5800.1, Não identif., 1837-..., 03/8. Música pop', texto; 35242. 5809.8, Free R Service_HOL, 2101-..., 28/7. Inglês; música pop'; 35443. // 7700,2. 5830, R. Aristona_HOL, 2145-..., 31/7. Música pop', canções holandesas; 35332. ID via imprensa DX. 6209.9, Não identif., 2119-..., 04/8. Música pop'; 25331. 6270, Kennemer R.-1_HOL, 1839-..., 03/8. Inglês; música pop', anúncio do end.º de correio electr.º; 35242. 6272, R. Black Bandit_HOL, 2123-..., 03/8. Música holandesa e pop'; 35343. ID como "R.Abu Dabi". 6284.9, R. Technische Man_HOL, 2215-..., 26/7. Música pop'; 35343. ID via imprensa DX. 6284.9, R. Focus Int'l_G, 1903-..., 02/8. Música pop'; 15341. ID via imprensa DX. 6284.9, R. Focus Int'l (?)_G, 2146-..., 03/8. Inglês; texto, música pop'; 25331. 6285, Kennemer R.-1_HOL, 1816-..., 26/7. Inglês; música pop', texto; 35332. 6287, R. Black Bandit_HOL. 2058-..., 28/7. Holandês/inglês; música pop', "c&w", ref. a relat. de recepção; 35343. Ignoro o ID dado, mas, como referido mais adiante, a voz chega, por si. 6295,. R. Joey_HOL, 1920-..., 27/7. Hoandês/inglês; música pop', texto; 35332, em ascensão. 6295, R. Joey_HOL, 1830-..., 03/8. Música pop'; 35241. ID via imprensa DX. 6299.9, R.Vloedgolf (Onda Gigante)_HOL, 2125-2130*, 03/8. Música pop', ID em inglês, como R.Tidalwave; 45343. 6300, Não identif._GRC (?), 1826-..., 31/7. Música grega; 25341. Ainda em operação, às 2040. 6305, R. Black Bandit_HOL, 2057-2110*, 27/7. Holandês/inglês; música e canções holandesas; 35433. ID dado como "R.Johnny Tobacco, mas a voz é inconfundível, pelo que opto por indicar sempre o ID que creio ser o original. 6305, R. Merlin (?)_G, 2129-..., 01/8. Canções; 25342. Possível ID via imprensa DX. 6305, Não identif.; 2140-..., 02/8. Canções ucranianas; 02/8. 35343. 6319.9, Não idenif._HOL, 1833-1838*, 31/7. Holandês/inglês; música e canções, ref. a relat. de recepção; 35343. 6320, Não identif., 2111-..., 28/7. Música pop'; 25342. 6320, R. Sovereign_IRL, 2135-..., 30/7. Música pop'; 25342. ID via imprensa DX. 6320, R. Sovereign (?)_IRL, 1839-..., 31/7. Música pop'; 25331. Possível ID via imprensa DX. 6320, R. Sovereign (?)_IRL, 2132-..., 01/8. Canções; 25331. Possível ID via imprensa DX. 6334, R. Joey_HOL, 2148-2149*, 03/8. Música pop', fecho c/ hino nac. holandês; 35343. 6875.1, R. Europe_I, 1835-..., 03/8. Música; 15341. ID via imprensa DX. 6935, R. TRX, QTH?, 2128-..., 03/8. Música pop'; 25342; normalmente, com sinal muito melhor. 6935, idem, 1908-..., 04/8. Música; 35433. 7700.2, Free R Service_HOL, 2105-..., 28/7. Cf. // 5809,8 supra. 35443. 7725, R. Zepelim, Atenas_GRC, 2132-..., 03/8. Música pop'; 25342. 12255, Reflections Europe_IRL, 1905-..., 04/8. Inglês; prgrs. de propag. relig.; 35443. // 6295 muito fraco e sob forte QRN. Bons DX e 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of PORTUGAL, August 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Carlos also reports a huge number of pirates in the X-band and above 1700 kHz (gh, DXLD) ** FINLAND. Reception of Scandinavian Weekend Radio in 25mb on Aug 3: from 0859 on 11689.9 VIR 0.1 kW / non-dir Finnish, weak signal from 1008 on 11689.9 VIR 0.1 kW / non-dir Finnish, fair signal from 1200 on 11689.9 VIR 0.1 kW / non-dir Finnish NOT on 11720 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/reception-of-scandinavian-weekend-radio.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6170, 2135-2145, Friday 02.8, Scandinavian Weekend R, Virrat, Finnish ann, Finnish pop songs 35444. This station faded out here around midnight, but was heard back 03.8 0410-0415 with Finnish pop songs, 33333 11689.87, 1055-1105, Sat 03.8, Scandinavian Weekend R, Virrat, Finnish conversation and song, 1100 English ID and talk from Washington, 25343 11689.87, 1350-1355, Sat 03.8, Scandinavian Weekend Radio, Virrat, Finnish ann, pop music - Scheduled on SWR website 3 AUG on 11720! 35243 // 6170 (25232) (Anker Petersen, Denmark, what I heard recently in Skovlunde on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, wbradio yg via DXLD) ** FRANCE [and non]. FRENCH RADIO, 60 YEARS AGO --- The overwhelming majority of us link, obviously, the 1439/1440 kHz frequency of the medium wave band to the Fabulous 208, that is the English Service of Radio Luxembourg. But in 1959 the 208 wavelength was also used for a second French service until 7 p.m., when the programme in English started. Luxembourg II was on 1439 and 6090 kHz and on FM 88.9 - the main Radio-Luxembourg being on 232 and 15350 kHz. Luxembourg II had many music programmes - requests daily at 0700, Parade Hit Sundays at 1630, Musiques sur les routes Thursdays at 1600. The news was at 0714 and 1755. Apart from the great périphériques, France was surrounded by minor French language stations. We start with a radio country that no longer exists, fascinating and romanticized Tangier. This international city had been integrated with Morocco in 1956, but state monopoly on radio and TV was established only by a royal decree of 1959, after which international Tangier stations disappeared from the airwaves. So 1959 was the last year on air for Radio-Africa (a.k.a. Radio Africa Maghreb) on 935 kHz and Radio Tanger on 1232 and 6110 kHz, among other stations. Radio-Africa had news at 2100, 2130, 2200 and 2225, and much orchestral music. On Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2145 there was Allo l'Europe, ici l'Afrique, on Mondays at 2135 Martini-Club, which brings to mind smoky pubs and strong drinks, same time on Wednesdays Jazz-Horizon. 2230 was often time for religious broadcasts to bring the day to an end. From the north of Africa also broadcast a station which was actually the fifth programme of French national radio until Algeria became independent from France three years later, in 1962: Radio Alger. Broadcasting from 0700 to 2300 on 980, 1142 and 11835 kHz, Radio Alger's schedule was full of sports and music during the day, classical music, theatre, shows and concerts in the evening. The first newscast of the day was at 0630 and the last at 2245 (to be continued) (Southern European Report with Stefano Valianti, Aug BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** GERMANY. PAUL NEWMAN'S 'RADIO SHACK' RETURNS TODAY! VIDEO: SEE OUR TRANSMITTERS IN KALL Today, Saturday August 3: 14:00 and Sunday, August 4: 12:00 hrs [cet] This weekend we welcome back our old radio friend and former colleague: Paul Newman (UK). Paul was Radio Mi Amigo International's first English DJ/PD, where - as early as late 2014, still under Captain Kord he did some groundbreaking work for the station. His weekly 'Radio Shack' show was one of the most popular DX shows on Shortwave, and helped build the station's success. Since 2016 Paul's great voice is heard on Britain's DAB station 'Solar Radio' and he is also a team member of Tony Prince's 'United DJs'. But old love never dies, in this case Paul's love for that typical Shortwave AM sound and the 'Free Radio' format of the legendary offshore stations that only Radio Mi Amigo can offer. We are delighted and couldn't be happier to announce the return of Paul Newman's Radio Shack DX show, this weekend! (For those who can't wait: see Paul in action in the video below...) His weekly 'Radio Shack' show was one of the most popular DX shows on Shortwave, and helped build the station's success. Since 2016 Paul's great voice is heard on Britain's DAB station 'Solar Radio' and he is also a team member of Tony Prince's 'United DJs'. But old love never dies, in this case Paul's love for that typical Shortwave AM sound and the 'Free Radio' format of the legendary offshore stations that only Radio Mi Amigo can offer. We are delighted and couldn't be happier to announce the return of Paul Newman's Radio Shack DX show, this weekend! (For those who can't wait: see Paul in action in the video below...) ...more exciting news: logo_rmai_1pt2 and logo_sws_1pt2 'renew vows: ''Let's keep this thing going..! See our band new 30 minute video, the tour at our transmitter site in Kall-Krekel, Germany: Click: Sendezentrum Kall, Eifel, Germany https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_e2dCZqOpk&feature=youtu.be [``! This video is unavailable.`` --- gh] To celebrate the long awaited return of Paul Newman to Radio Mi Amigo this weekend, AND to honour our extended partnership with Shortwave Service, this is the perfect moment to premiere the unique video that we shot in the Sendezentrum during our first visit to Kall. Paul and Burkhard will take you on a tour to finally show you exactly where those nostalgic, fading AM radio signals originate from... Last month we paid a long overdue visit to our transmitter friends from Shortwave Service in Kall; a happy reunion that resulted in great new plans for the future. Good news for our shortwave listeners: you will be able to enjoy Radio Mi Amigo International on shortwave for many years to come! We also looked back at a very successful co-operation of 4 years, during which we managed to maintain an incredible 99.9% up-time for both the shortwave- and the online streaming services. All this time we proved to be professional partners, relying on each other in good times and in those bad times, after we lost our 'captain' Kord. But from the very start it was always clear that Radio Mi Amigo International and the Sendezentrum in Kall were 'a match made in heaven': vintage radio sounds best on vintage transmitters! As we still found ourselves in a very happy 'marriage', there, in that breathtaking Eifel landscape, we 'renewed our vows': 'Let's keep this thing going' remains our shared motto, so we decided to do just that (via Manuel Mendez, Aug 3, WOR iog via DXLD) ** GERMANY. New Shortwave Radio for Europe is on air now from 0900 on 6160, very weak here in BUL. In A-19 schedule this frequency starting from 1600 UT -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, 1007 UT Aug 3, WOR iog via DXLD) Interesting video for Kall-Krekel transmitting station https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/interesting-video-for-kall-krekel.html Very weak signal, New Shortwave Radio for Europe Aug 3: from 0959 6160 WIS 001 kW / non-dir English-unscheduled transmission 1600-2200 6160 WIS 001 kW / non-dir English new schedule from May 17 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/very-weak-signal-of-new-shortwave-radio.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. DAB+ mode, DAB+ Thema - in der FAZ, die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung druckt heute eine Replik des Praesidenten der Bayrischen Landeszentrale fuer neue Medien Siegfried Schneider zur Entscheidung des Niedersaechsischen Landtags, DAB+ nicht mehr zu foerdern. Schneider argumentiert mit den Ergebnissen von Umfragen, der Ermittlung von sogenannten Reichweiten und gesicherter Versorgung in Katastrophenfaellen - zumindest im Vergleich mit Internet und Mobilfunk. Schneider plaediert fuer eine Entscheidung ueber die verschiedenen technischen Loesungen durch den Markt: Siegfried Schneider, 'Die Mischung macht es' FAZ Nr. 174, 30. Juli 2019 S. 13 (Klaus Spielvogel-D, A-DX ng July 30 via BC-DX 7 Aug via DXLD) ** GUAM. Yes, checked the KTWR_drm test on Wed Aug 7th on 11995 kHz from 1227 UT onwards, noted S=9+15dB signals, 10 kHz wide digital data block visible both, at Akitakata Hiroshima Japan, at Gifu river valley Nagara Japan Perseus net SDR's, and also via KiwiSDR net at Hebei China, and at Nanning China SDR's at S=9. Sorry, but didn't decode DRM data today at all, because I deleted all these DRM software on my PC some 8 years ago ... (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 7, via BC-DX 7 Aug via DXLD) ** GUINEA. GUINÉ-Conacri, 9650, R. Guinée, Sonfonia, 1505-1527, 04/8. Francês; entrevista sobre o sistema local de educação; 55444. 9650 idem, 2112-2123, 04/8. Francês; necrologia; 33432, QRM adjacente. Em suma, havendo condições para receber o sinal diurno, é preferível que durante a noite, mercê das flutuações e eventual QRM. 9650 idem, 1105-1155, 05/8. Francês/líng. local; anúncios de progr., canções, chamadas de ouvintes; 45444.Bons DX e 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of PORTUGAL, August 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Fair/good signal of Radio Guinée Conakry in 31mb, August 5 from 1030 on 9650 CON 050 kW / non-dir to WeAf unknown African lang Today ARS on 9650 RIY 100 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic GS not on air https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/fairgood-signal-of-radio-guinee-conakry.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 5-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HAWAII. WWVH: See WORLD OF HOROLOGY ** INTERNATIONAL WATERS [and non], Here’s news about an interesting upcoming contest [sic]. https://illw.net/ The ILLW is the major event which takes place in August. The International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend came into being in 1998 as the Scottish Northern Lights Award run by the Ayr Amateur Radio Group. The history of this event can be found elsewhere on this site. The ILLW takes place on the 3rd full weekend in August each year and attracts over 500 lighthouse entries located in over 40 countries. It is one of the most popular international amateur radio events in existence probably because there are very few rules and it is not the usual contest type event. It is also free and there are no prizes for contacting large numbers of other stations. There is little doubt that the month of August has become "Lighthouse Month" due largely to the popularity and growth of the ILLW. The 2019 event will run from 0001 UTC 17th August to 2400 UTC 18th August 2019 (48 hours). Having grown up in both Connecticut and Rhodes shores, I could hear all the different lighthouse foghorns on many an evening. Who knows, I might work one of the lighthouses I grew up near (Aug CIDX Messenger via WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DXLD) ** IRAN. 1575 kHz, 2125, Buzzing, likely Iranian jamming. Very effective jamming when checked on Qatar SDR, except R Farda, its target, is no longer here! (# Qatar) ~~~ 21/07 (Tony Rogers, Aug BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** IRAN [non]. No signal of Radio Ranginkaman via Grigoriopol, Aug 1: 1730-1800 7580 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg Persian, as scheduled in A-19 1630-1700 7535 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg Persian, new addition from Aug.1 My last video of R.Ranginkaman via ENC-DMS Grigoriopol 7580 July 26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YreuOZpA0pg&feature=youtu.be (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The weak signal raises the question if it still comes from Grigoriopol or perhaps from somewhere else, further east, now. Modulation was clean with, apparently, no Optimod-AM with shortwave preset in the signal path, which still would fit to Pridnestrovye... (Kai Ludwig? lost credit) Radio Ranginkaman --- Probably now 1630-1700 but still on 7580, without changing frequency to 7535 which remains empty. Signal here is a bit too weak to really make out if the transmission that started at 1630, after the carrier was already on at 1625, is them or something else (Kai Ludwig, Aug 4, WOR iog via DXLD) Confirmed on August 4, 1630 UT on 7580, weak signal, ex 1730 on same frequency (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) Radio Ranginkaman Rainbow at new time via ENC-DMS Grigoriopol, Aug 4 1630-1700 on 7580 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Persian, weak, ex 1730-1800 on same https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/radio-ranginkaman-rainbow-at-new-time.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 4-5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Weak signal of R. Ranginkaman, Persian, at new time via ENC-DMS Grigoriopol, Aug. 5: 1630-1700 7580 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg, instead of registered 7535! 1730-1800 7580 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg, A19 on air until Wed July 31 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/weak-signal-of-radio-ranginkaman-via.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 5-6, WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DXLD) ** IRELAND. IRELAND CAN`T QUIT LONGWAVE 252 Glenn, https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2019/08/04/ireland-cant-quit-longwave/ (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) ** IRELAND [non]. 7290, August 5 at *1814, ITALY [non], IRRS via ROMANIA via UTWente SDR, cuts on blasting signal but with heavy selective fading distortion, during tail end of a promo for http://www.radiocurious.org --- what`s that? Unclear if fully broadcast on IRRS, whose program schedule is out of date, extremely generic and not even showing 7290: https://www.nexus.org/member-services/radio-and-tv/schedules/monday-program-schedule/ IRRS never acknowledges any location but ``Milano``, even in HFCC, but believed to be Saftica, Romania, still in use altho one of the Tsiganeshti transmitters has been missing and Saftica might fill in for it. {WRTH however confirms via Romania.} That website leads to: ``Radio Curious: Long Form Interviews About Life and Ideas -- Welcome to the 28th year of Radio Curious, now proudly part of the Library of Congress, and broadcast weekly on approximately 85 radio stations. Here you will find over 700 half hour interviews on a curiously wide array of topics concerning life and ideas. These programs are a gift to you from Radio Curious host and producer Barry Vogel. He started Radio Curious in 1991, to expand the work he began in 1974 as an Attorney, Counselor and Mediator in Ukiah, California, the Mendocino County seat, located about 110 miles north of San Francisco, California. THIS WEEK’S INTERVIEW: My guest in this program is Wesley Swearingen. Agents at the Federal Bureau of Investigation have a history of illegal break-ins to homes and offices and conducting wiretaps without a search warrant. In the years when J. Edgar Hoover was the Director of the F.B.I., these warrantless break-ins came to be known as “black-bag jobs”. This archive edition of Radio Curious is a December 1995 interview with Wesley Swearingen a former F.B.I. agent, who in 1995 wrote “FBI Secrets: An Agent’s Expose.” [sic] All programs are free for anyone to enjoy, download, copy, share or rebroadcast as you wish. . . (via gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DXLD) ** ITALY. ITÁLIA, 10000* Associação dos Amigos da ITALCABLE, Massarosa, 0940-..., 04/8. Italiano; sinais horários e informações horárias intercaladas por espaços musicais; 25342. *) sinal em AM, mas com banda lateral inferior suprimida. Bons DX e 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of PORTUGAL, August 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) That is to say, USB plus carrier (gh) ** JAPAN. 6055, R. Nikkei, Nagara. Network 1 domestic programming: Unusual propagation at 0427 with female voice in Japanese appearing out of nowhere to be a good signal briefly, then disappearing within minutes on 5/7 (John Adams, Port Douglas, Far North Queensland (Sangean ATS-909X, 7 Metre Reel Antenna) Aug Australian DX News via DXLD) That would be 2:27 pm local, winter trans-equatorial phenom? (gh) ** KASHMIR [and non]. Due to yesterday's developments in Jammu & Kashmir (Being divided into 2 Union Territories, viz. Ladakh and Jammu & Kashmir, etc.), the name of stations there may change from Radio Kashmir to All India Radio ??? When I checked Srinagar station this morning they are still identifying as Radio Kashmir only. Keep watch on those stations for any changes in ID. Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, Aug 6, dx_india yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DXLD) i.e. 4950, and day frequency 6110 (gh, ibid.) ** KASHMIR [and non]. India --- Members, A change which is very new and may not have caught your attention will need to be recognised in my spreadsheets. With effect from today both Leh and Kargil are no longer in Jammu & Kashmir. They now are within the Union Territory of Ladakh. This will mean a small change in WRTH. I have made the changes on the Active spreadsheet. If any member knows of other towns within Ladakh which have or had mediumwave stations please let me know. 73 and 88 Dan Members, Following lots of enquiries I am pleased to confirm that the following stations are now shown under the State / Union Territory title of Ladakh. Diskit 1602, Drass 1485, Kargil 684, Kargil 1584, Khalatse 1485, Leh 1053, Nyoma 1485, Padam 1584, and Tiesuru 1602 kHz. Remaining in Jammu & Kashmir are: Jammu 990 / 999, Kupwara 1350, Naushera 1089, and Srinagar 1116 and 1224 kHz. 73 and 88 (Dan Goldlfarb, UK, 05 Aug, mwmasts iog via DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH. 4885, Echo of Hope - VOH, 1341, Aug 6. Language lesson ("Easy English") in English and Korean; very readable; another day with native speaker of English (Isaac); same program must have been broadcast two hours earlier (1141). My clear audio at http://bit.ly/33dORBu (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) 4885, Echo of Hope - VOH, 1340, Aug 8. Language lesson ("Easy English") in English and Korean; very readable; announcers "perky, perky Jenny" and "happy Isaac." I was wrong, this program was no broadcast at 1140 nor 1240, so a new schedule for this podcast (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** KUWAIT. 1548 kHz, 1202, R Sawa relay. This is now the stream for listeners in "Mashreq" countries, so presumably beaming north-west; worth checking for better reception in the UK (see below); Arabic music, ID's in Arabic, 444 20/07 (Tony Rogers, remote receiver Kuwait, Aug BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) 1548, 2005, R Sawa relay, KWT. Checked on this Grimsby UK-based SDR and heard with occasional good peaks in mix, news items, phone-in in Arabic, music etc; also matched against reception on Kuwait SDR, SIO 312, 23/07 (Tony Rogers, ibid.) 1593 kHz, 1205, R Sawa relay, Stream for listeners in Iraq; news & reports in Arabic, not // 1548 which was carrying the Mashreq stream. Note that this freq was silent when checked on 22/07 but reappeared by 24/07, 444 20/07 (Tony Rogers, remote receiver Kuwait, Aug BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** KUWAIT. MOI Radio Kuwait in English on two AM frequencies, Aug 1 0500-0800 11969.8 250 kW / 100 deg SoAs English AM, instead of DRM 0500-0800 15529.8 250 kW / 310 deg WeEu English AM - as scheduled: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/radio-kuwait-in-english-on-two.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15109.713 kHz, R KWT Kabd in Arabic S=9+40dB into western Europe at 1235 UT. 73 wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, Aug 4, WOR iog via DXLD) Reception of MOI Radio Kuwait in English in 19mb, August 6 0500-0800 on 15529.8 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu English, weak/fair https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/reception-of-moi-radio-kuwait-in.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 5-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LAOS. 6130, Lao National Radio, 1401, Aug 6. No longer on their recently heard abbreviated schedule, but seems back to their former full programming; fairly sure was in English (matching their schedule); 1407, break for some indigenous singing; strong adjacent QRM; much of the time was unusable; at 1434, unable to confirm in French, but definitely broadcasting (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADI 1994, DXLD) ** LATVIA. Radio Center has started broadcasting from Latvia on 1602 kHz. Heard today in Kangasala, Finland at 1750-1805 UT, first in Russian and ID in English at 1805. Frequency was 1602.10, drifting a little. Station web site http://www.radiocenter.net confirms the move to 1602 (Jorma Mäntylä DXing.info 28 July) ex 1485 kHz (Aug BDXC-UK Communication via WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DXLD) Tsentr is a Christian station expelled from Moskva now trying to be heard back there via Latvia (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DXLD) 1602 kHz. Russian Christian Radio Center. So, Radio Center is on the AIR 24/7 from Riga, Latvia, but we’re still working hard to improve our signal in Moscow & St. Pete at the night time! Hope, we’ll switch to full power on our transmitter soon! Thanks for listening! Andrey Nekrasov / https://www.facebook.com/groups/wrthgroup/ (via Rus-DX 4 Aug via WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DXLD) 1485, Radio Merkurs, Riga is now quiet as the transmitter was hit by a lightning on July 7th (Raimonds Kreibergs, Radio Merkurs & Mauno Ritola, ARC 20.7.2019, mv-eko 5 August via DXLD) 1602 kHz, Radio Tsentr (Center), Riga has now started transmissions in Russian and Ukrainian from a 400 W transmitter located at the same place as Radio Merkurs, i.e. in the southwestern outskirts of Riga not far from Jurmala. See also log in this issue (Raimonds Kreibergs & Mauno Ritola, ARC 22.7.2019, mv-eko 5 August via DXLD) 1602, 23.7 2035, R Center, Riga, ”Russian Christian Radio Center” med rysk musik. Ny frekvens för denna stn. (1602.145) TN)Thomas Nilsson, Sweden, ARC mv-eko 5 August via DXLD) 1602, 25.7 1930, R Center, Riga med religiösa program på ryska LSD (Lars Skoglund, ibid.) 1602, 28.7 1805, R Center, Riga. Hörs fint nu här på ryska. 1602.15. (JM [?], ibid.) ** LIBERIA. 6050, ELWA, Monrovia. Afro music during English programme to WAf at 0702, poor LP signal on 8/7 (John Adams, Port Douglas, Far North Queensland (Sangean ATS-909X, 7 Metre Reel Antenna) Aug Australian DX News via DXLD) And I just can`t get it via short (gh) ** MADAGASCAR. MWV 13670: See OKLAHOMA [and non] 88.3 K202BY ** MALAYSIA. MALÁSIA, 11665, Wai FM via RTM, Kajangue, 0943-0959, 04/8. Líng. local; texto, música; 25431 (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 570, XEOA, La Mexicana, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, 1058 August 6, 2019. Mexi-tune concluding, then man "¡La Mexicana!" into unabridged choral anthem 1100-1105 followed by lady with calls and slogan, quickly overtaken by KLIF. This is the unidentified I've been chasing for almost two weeks and the first time it's appeared since then, July 24 (Terry L. Krueger, Niceville, FL (except for road logs where noted) IC-R75 with active loop, ICF-7600GR portable, All times/dates GMT, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. XEJMN, La Voz de los Cuatro Pueblos, 750 kHz. Interesting document about the station: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZV6JPY6Iec&feature=youtu.be (Mauno Ritola, NORDX via Thomas Nilsson, ARC mv-eko 5 August via DXLD) AVOID RABBITHOLE: REFUSE TO WATCH ANY YOUTUBE BEYOND THE ONE LINKED --- IGNORE ALL ONLINE ADVERTISING (gh, just for example, this one) ** MEXICO. Mexicali Heard back on last night. 990, XECL, Mexicali BC, 8/2/19 9:45 PM PDT [0445 UT Aug 3] heard with Spanish versions of US Pop songs, Rockola 9-90 slogans and heard a call sign ID. Mixing with KTMS Santa Barbara (Martin Foltz, Mission Viejo CA, ABDX yg via DXLD) ** MEXICO [and non]. XEPRS-1090 update --- Of the 4 best-known local hosts/shows from the old "Mighty 10-90", 3 have found new homes as of today. Morning show "Ben and Woods" moved to KWFN-97.3. Long-time occasional evening host John "Coach" Kintera moved to Noon-3 on KWFN-97.3. As of today, midday hosts Darren Smith (and producer Marty Caswell) take over the same (Noon-3 [PDT = 19-22 UT) slot on KLSD-1360, displacing former Chargers center Nick Hardwick (transitioning to football coverage) and his partner whose name escapes me (moving to 3-6pm "loose cannons" show). This leaves only the "Scott and BR" after noon drive show without a new home. "BR" (Billy Ray Smith) is battling a sudden onset of memory loss, and is unlikely to work again. Scott Kaplan, who had been saying he would form a new company to lease XEPRS by August, has not made an announcement yet. As of today, he would have no surviving staffers from the old station, except for maybe some interns and production assistants who had been producing some weekend shows on XEPRS. Posts on Twitter have announced that the equipment from the old BCA "Mighty 10-90" studios is up for sale. 73 (Tim Hall, CA, Aug 6, ABDX yg via DXLD) ** MEXICO. MEXICAN STATIONS WITH EXPIRED LICENSES From a Mexican radio Facebook group, here is a list of stations whose license have recently expired. This is useful in more than one way: - Under the IFT (government agency which took over radio license management from the SCT in 2013), any station whose license lapses for even one day must re-apply, and if approved, *will be granted new call letters* (this has already happened a few times, as with the 630 and 1080 in Jalisco). Looks like we might see quite a few changes in Ciudad Juarez? - We can discern some cases where stations appear to have *finished migrating to FM* and turned in their AM licenses. Still (reportedly) on the air at this time: XHLI 94.7 / XELI 1580 - Chilpancingo, Guerrero (Máxima FM) XHKD 103.1 - Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila (Digital 103.1) XHRCG 105.1 - Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila (La Banda De La 105.1 FM) XHH 100.7 - Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua (Mágica Digital) XEZOL 860 - Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua (860 Radio Noticias) XEFV 1000 - Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua (La Rancherita) XEWR 1110 - Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua (Radio Cristo Rey) XEF 1420 - Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua (Activa 1420) XEJPV 1560 - Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua (Radio Deportiva) XHHO 97.7 - Ciudad Obregón, Sonora (Máxima FM)* XHEMI 105.7 - Cosoleacaque, Veracruz (La Poderosa) XHENZ 92.9 - Culiacán, Sinaloa (Los 40) XHWT 97.7 - Culiacán, Sinaloa (W97.7) XHBP 90.3 - Gómez Palacio, Durango (Radio Recuerdo) XHTJ 94.7 - Gómez Palacio, Durango (@FM - Arroba FM) XHGZ 99.5 - Gómez Palacio, Durango (La Lupe) XHDN 101.1 - Gómez Palacio, Durango (La Dinámica) XHVK 106.7 - Gómez Palacio, Durango (Vida Romántica) XEAD 1150 - Guadalajara, Jalisco (Radio Metrópoli) XETIA 97.9 - Guadalajara, Jalisco (Fórmula Melódica) XEAD 101.9 - Guadalajara, Jalisco (La Buena Onda) XHEDL 89.7 - Hermosillo, Sonora (Activa 89.7) XHEPB 93.1 - Hermosillo, Sonora (Latino 93.1) XHVS 96.3 / XEVS 1110 - Hermosillo, Sonora (Máxima FM) - NOTE: I have heard that the license for XEVS-1110 has been turned in XHIRG 102.7 - Irapuato, Guanajuato (La Campirana) XHOV 97.3 - Ixhuatlancillo, Veracruz (La Picosa) XHZPC 103.7 - Jojutla, Morelos (Quiéreme) XHOI 92.3 - León, Guanajuato (Blu FM) XHECS 96.1 - Manzanillo, Colima (La Mejor FM) XHST 94.7 - Mazatlán, Sinaloa (Ke Buena) XHQQ 93.3 - Monterrey, Nuevo León (Banda 93.3) XEMN 600 - Monterrey, Nuevo León (La Regiomontana) XEH 1420 - Monterrey, Nuevo León (La H) XHI 100.9 - Morelia, Michoacán (Máxima FM) XHNVS 93.7 - Navojoa, Sonora (Radio Universidad) XHAB 98.7 - Santa Ana, Sonora (La Raza) XHTAK 103.5 - Tapachula, Chiapas (Éxtasis Digital) XHUE 99.3 - Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas (La Bestia Grupera) XHOT 97.7 - Xalapa, Veracruz (La Máquina) XHWA 98.5 - Xalapa, Veracruz (Exa FM) XHJA 102.5 - Xalapa, Veracruz (La Neta) Off the air: XEDA 1290 - Ciudad de México (Radio 13) XENET 1320 - Ciudad de México (Radio Monitor) XEDJ 1450 - Magdalena de Kino, Sonora (Radio Clave) XHHHI 99.3 - Parral, Chihuahua (@FM - Arroba FM) XHEAT 102.5 - Parral, Chihuahua (Hits FM) XHSFT 103.7 / XESFT 780 - San Fernando, Tamaulipas (La Poderosa) (Tim Hall, CA, Aug 1, ABDX yg via DXLD) ** MEXICO. Mexico AM coverage maps --- The following URL shows coverage maps as of December 2016 for Mexican AM stations. It is published by the INE, which is the agency overseeing Mexico's elections. https://tinyurl.com/Mexico-AM-maps-2016 This reflects the AM stations that were believed to be on the air in 2016. I believe several of these stations have subsequently left AM. Admittedly the maps look pretty odd. 73 (Tim Hall, ABDX yg via DXLD) ** MEXICO. MEXICAN FM MIGRATION UPDATE (DXN, DWWW-II) [sic] The following additional 27 stations have informed me via Facebook message in July 2019 that they have finished migrating to FM and turned off their AMs. 780 XEWGR-COAH 850 XEZI-MICH 860 XEAL-COL 920 XECQ-SIN 950 XEACA-GUER 950 XEZE-NAY 960 XETAP-CHIA 960 XEROO-QROO 970 XEVT-TAB 1010 XEWS-SIN 1020 XEPIC-NAY 1050 XEZUM-GUER 1070 XEGY-PUEB 1140 XEXF-GJTO 1170 XEUVA-AGUA 1170 XEIB-SON 1190 XEPP-VER 1270 XERRT-TAMA 1300 XEKW-MICH 1330 XEMAC-COL 1330 XEEV-PUEB 1340 XEOS-SON 1400 XEKJ-GUER 1400 XEI-MICH 1430 XELL-VER 1520 XEVO-VER 1590 XEBZ-CHIH The following 3 stations have confirmed in July 2019 that their AM stations are still active: 640 XETAM-TAMA 920 XEZAR-PUEB 1000 XEMYL-YUC As always, there is no guarantee that every station employee answered correctly, but of the 200+ responses I have received so far, only a few have been questionable. In the list of stations above, I think only XEWGR has been logged by DXers fairly recently. 73 (Tim Hall, CA, ABDX yg via DXLD) ** MEXICO. Mexican stations shut down by IFT for non-payment of license renewal --- I just started hearing about this yesterday. A bunch of stations have let their licenses expire (or failed to pay the renewal fees), including several AMs in Ciudad Juarez which might be considered "pests" to a lot of us DXers in the west. If these stations were still off the air at my next Border Inn trip in October, it could really open up a few channels... https://www.eleconomista.com.mx/empresas/IFT-apaga-17-estaciones-de-radio-AMFM-con-foco-en-Ciudad-Juarez-y-Gomez-Palacio-20190802-0031.html Can anyone living near these stations confirm that they have gone off the air? (Tim Hall, Aug 2, ABDX yg via DXLD) ** MEXICO. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BEAT this week --- including DTV = TDT Round and round the format carousel goes, and boy, was it spinning wildly this week. In addition to XFM, here's a snapshot of everything that's gone on this week: El Heraldo finds its first affiliate XHRRT-FM Tampico became the first affiliate station for Heraldo Radio, flipping yesterday. Grupo AS may have intentions of flipping another station, too: Salvador García Soto apparently announced on his afternoon newscast that XHENU-FM Nuevo Laredo will join the network. La Lupe in Nuevo Laredo XHGNK-FM had one more surprise in store after signing on: it's now being run by Multimedios Radio as La Lupe, bringing the wildly successful grupera classic hits format to the two Laredos. It's the first time Multimedios has run two stations in this city since it sold XHTLN to Grupo Imagen in 2006. Less Máxima in Querétaro XHNAQ-FM Querétaro flipped from Capital Máxima after just seven months to romantic as "La Romántica". It remains directly operated by Capital Media. ISA Medios is coming to Hermosillo Local STIRTT head Pepe Victorin confirmed the news yesterday. ISA Medios will take over XHESON and XHVSS https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10220985295521385&id=1211580034 — though not immediately as they have to build out new studio and office space — and apparently bring Los 40 and Ke Buena to the city for the first time. (Yes, really, these formats had not been heard in Hermosillo before!) This will bring ISA to six stations, with duopolies in each of Obregón, Nogales and now Hermosillo, all stations that a year ago were in the Larsa fold. This just looks more and more humiliating by the day for Larsa. ——— A radio resurrection act is on its way in Tabasco. Where 30 years ago the SRCI shut down a radio station (the only such closure of a full-service station in the network's history), and where the municipality has tried for over a decade to put one on the air and seen robberies and abandoned equipment, the SRCI will return. Nacajuca, Tabasco will get a new SRCI FM station in cooperation with the municipality of Nacajuca in February 2020, it was announced today. http://www.xeva.com.mx/nota.cfm?id=72025&t=nueva-estacion-de-radio-indigena-en-tabasco-iniciara-transmisiones-en-2020&tw=1 The station will feature programs in Yokot'an (Chontal), Chol and Zoque Ayapaneco—with just five remaining speakers. The municipality is donating equipment for a Class AA (6 kW ERP) station. It is unclear if the municipal application for a radio station, filed on April 18, 2008, was granted. Last edited by Raymie; 08-02-2019 at 05:06 PM. (Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ, Aug 2, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) Amparo 218/2016 It’s Long, Confusing, and...Probably Means Nothing Not so long ago, I reported about a mysterious meeting between IFT commissioners and representatives of Grupo Siete on June 13 regarding the migration of the company’s two FM radio stations in Ciudad Juárez. I was a bit bemused by the idea because the IFT had already found that there were no available frequencies in the area for commercial radio stations to be migrated. They had found this in 2016 when the agency prepared to make available the second-wave migration process. I was a little bit confused as to how this request was even being taken seriously by the agency. It had been a little while since migration had been approved. What I didn’t know, however, was that there was good reason. The Pleno had to hear Grupo Siete out. On December 21, 2016, four days before Christmas, the Grupo Siete concessionaire in Ciudad Juárez, Emisiones Radiofónicas, S.A. de C.V., filed for an amparo against the IFT in telecommunications court. On June 1, 2018, the judge ruled in Grupo Siete’s favor. Within two weeks, both parties appealed the ruling (and Grupo Siete dropped challenges to portions of the LFTR). On May 27, 2019, the appeals court let the decision in district court stand in part. It might look like a resounding victory for Grupo Siete. But a deeper dive into the court rulings at play reveals that they might have won a battle, but more likely than not, they will lose the war. The court ruling consists of two parts: the initial ruling in district court and the appeal judge’s verdict that narrowed its scope. The final scope focuses on a question that ultimately is narrow. How We Got Here Grupo Siete filed unprompted applications to move XEROK and XEWG to the FM band on August 11, 2016 and did not receive a response. This was three full months before the IFT second-wave migration accord, which completely excluded Ciudad Juárez, was published in the DOF, on November 24. Grupo Siete filed its amparo on December 21, 2016, by way of Emisiones Radiofónicas, S.A. de C.V., the concessionaire of its two stations in Juárez. Two months later, on January 24, 2017, the Director General of Broadcast Concessions (DGCR) denied the applications by Grupo Siete, stating that since Juárez was not included in the second-wave migration program (because, as has been mentioned before here, Article 90 reciprocity required the reservation of the two frequencies between 88 and 106 MHz that were found to be usable), the applications could not be admitted. Grupo Siete then was successful on some very technical grounds. The company alleged that the DGCR was not competent to deny the applications that were filed, pursuant to Article 34 of the IFT’s internal statute, which lays out the competencies of the Directorate General of Broadcasting Concessions. Section XIII of Article 34 read as follows (it has since been modified to remove the portion referring to permits): ``Tramitar las solicitudes para el cambio de bandas de frecuencias del espectro radioeléctrico de concesionarios y permisionarios en materia de radiodifusión y, previa opinión de la Unidad de Competencia Económica y de la Unidad de Espectro Radioeléctrico, someterlas a consideración del Pleno;`` Grupo Siete argued that the failure to get opinions from the Economic Competition and Spectrum Units and then submit the whole thing to the Pleno for approval was an overstepping of the DGCR’s boundaries, and that the Pleno has the exclusive and nondelegable right, as set forth in the LFTR, to provide final rulings on frequency changes and reallocations (Article 15 Section XV defines this as an IFT competency; Article 17 says that these powers exclusively belong to the Pleno). The court ruled this was correct. Cutting Through the Mumbo-Jumbo We’ve gotten very deep into legal speak, so let’s pull out for a second. Grupo Siete successfully challenged that the DGCR was not within its right to deny on its own the applications filed by Grupo Siete, given that the IFT’s statute and the LFTR provide the exclusive right to approve or deny applications for frequency changes to the IFT Pleno. As such, the Pleno is responsible for approving or denying the applications. This led to the June 13 meeting, which lasted more than an hour and featured the presence of all seven IFT commissioners; the heads of the Legal, Spectrum, and Concessions and Services Units; and the head of the Spectrum and Technical Studies department (IEET) of the UER. Six days later, on June 19, the Pleno approved a document on the court’s order in the case, which has not yet been made available. The amparo number was being divulged for the first time, and it was my research into that number that prompted me to realize that the reason for the meeting was because of the aforementioned court case. In 2017, I realized that it was in my interest to take a cursory look at any document the IFT approved on an amparo. This came after the award of XHMRT-FM in Tampico to Martha Morales Reséndiz, in which the aspiring concessionaire successfully challenged an IFT determination that there was no room for a social radio station to be awarded in Tampico. I was caught by surprise until XHMRT showed up in the RPC! Since then, a second station has been awarded on amparo—XHNEZ-FM Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl. Nothing seems to prevent the Pleno from denying the applications based on the reasoning that would have been cited by the DGCR in denying them. It’s just that the DGCR was not in its right to deny the applications because any and all applications for frequency changes must receive a final approval or denial from the Pleno, per the LFTR (Raymie, Aug 2, ibid.) Yesterday, the expired concessions story hit El Economista, https://www.eleconomista.com.mx/empresas/IFT-apaga-17-estaciones-de-radio-AMFM-con-foco-en-Ciudad-Juarez-y-Gomez-Palacio-20190802-0031.html and it did so with a thud that may have registered on the Richter scale. MegaRadio issued a press release outright denying the report, https://netnoticias.mx/juarez/desmiente-grupo-megaradio-apagon-de-emisoras/ and the IFT actually took the highly unusual action of pulling the letter that listed the expired stations from the list. (Said stations continue to appear in the RPC as expired, though.) You can access it here. https://jmp.sh/UCfhoqO There are a lot of questions to be asked here, and the IFT's action just raises more of them. This is obviously a real letter that was sent last month, but...what the heck is wrong here? Not only did MegaRadio call the information into question, Guillermo Corvera Caraza warned that it needed more verification before publishing. ——— The format carousel has more entrants on it. One of them is Morelia's XHORE-FM, adding to a mounting series of changes at Capital Media stations. Its English classic hits format is going away. https://www.facebook.com/capitalfm973/photos/a.757538170974684/2409348009127017/?type=3&theater Rumors point to a flip to Capital Máxima. Meanwhile, there's a new logo for Pirata FM, starting in Toluca, and...the guy who created the format is none too pleased with the new direction. https://twitter.com/CoachLuisRobert/status/1157665405927940096 Despite the ISA changes in Hermosillo, Los 40 Hermosillo 88.9 (already launched...promoting itself as a Larsa station. (That's probably going to change, but...) It was joined by Ke Buena on 101.1 XHVSS. That wasn't the biggest surprise at Larsa, as yesterday La Más Chingona debuted in Guaymas on social wolf XHGYM-FM 103.7 https://www.facebook.com/509370982582132/videos/702643900201192/ — which had been silent for six months. What are they thinking!? The scattershot strategy of using social stations like this makes no sense. Radiovisa must really love Grupo Larsa Comunicaciones. This also brings the two Organiden stations under common management and even the same format (Raymie, Aug 3, ibid.) The format carousel also spun recently in Córdoba, Veracruz, where XHAG flipped from Stereo Joya to FM Globo. But that might not be all that's brewing at this radio station. Over the weekend, someone commented that XHAG was "no longer part of Grupo Radio Digital". Their station IDs that have been rolled out mention a new operator, "Radio Comunicación de las Altas Montañas". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOdlK_BbzTg Searching the name brings up exactly one result, from Efirma, a database of electronic signatures in which some obscure company names known to be doing business with the IFT are found. Radio Comunicación de las Altas Montañas, S.A. de C.V., is listed with the RFC RCA190620DG7. That means it was just incorporated on June 20 of this year. This is a very new company and, given its presence in Efirma, there may very well be an application pending to sell XHAG-FM outright to them (Raymie, Aug 5, ibid.) There's a little less Garza Limón in the air after the company decided to surrender the concessions it had won for a pair of stations. XHRCDU-TDT Cuencamé Dgo., an IFT-6 station, and permit forest clear XHPEAC-FM 102.7 Tepic Nay., were surrendered to the IFT on June 6. No specific reason was provided in the surrender letters. Garza Limón continues to hold XHRCSP-TDT, its IFT-6 station for Santiago Papasquiaro, and XHFGL-TDT 7, to serve Victoria de Durango as a social station. [tagline:] Este programa es público, ajeno a cualquier partido político. Queda prohibido el uso para fines distintos a los establecidos en el programa (Raymie, Aug 8, ibid.) ** MEXICO. 6185, XEPPM, R. Educación, México City. Still being heard but only weakly on 22/7 at f/in 0450. It is surprising the distance this transmitter (currently using around 1 kW) can travel, especially now that we have passed the mid-winter period. Low sunspots are good for some things! S/off was quite a bit later on this day with the carrier finally switched off at 0520. When listening in USB and beating against the receiver’s BFO carrier there appeared to be some micro wobbles in the frequency. I wonder if this is frequency instability at the transmitter or some type of deep-rooted instability in the PL-680 circuitry (Rob Wagner at Wombat State Forest, Central Victoria DX-pedidtion (Tecsun PL-680 and random wire 45 m long, Aug Australian DX News via DXLD) México: 6185, XEPPM, Radio Educación with old recordings (sounded like acoustically recorded 78s, cylinders and/or Edison Diamond Discs) with some neat old tunes. YL ID and mention of both Radio Educación and “Cultura Mêxico” at 0242 and then back to more old tunes. Neat stuff! 4+454+4 with my local noise sneaking in despite the pretty decent signal quality, 0235-0315 31/Jul, SPR-4 +ANC-4 +randomwire (Ken Zichi, Williamston MI, MARE Tipsheet Aug 2 via DXLD) 6185, R. Educacion, on Aug 8, with anomaly? Programming audio ended at 0503; then dead air till what sounded like an anthem (0504-0506); has been a long time since I heard their anthem at the end of their broadcasting day (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** MYANMAR. 5985, Myanmar Radio, 1300-1310, August 2. It's Friday, so time for another two consecutive five minute programs of "Learning English with BBC, Burmese"; fairly readable; first show was about a 99 year old Australian swimmer who set a world record in his age group; second show about Aristotle, logic and reason. Timing of these shows does vary a bit. 5985, Myanmar Radio, 1300-1310, Aug 7 (Wednesday). Two programs together of "Learning English with BBC, Burmese." So is this language lesson only on Wed. & Fri.? (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DXLD) ** MYANMAR [non]. PHILIPPINES/THAILAND, New VOA Rohingya Language Program checked on August 2nd on remote SDR unit in New Delhi India: 9310even kHz carrier from IBB BBG US relay in northeastern Thailand already on air at 1127 UT. At 1129:15 program start with VoA relay site ID and followed by "Yankee Doodle" melody til 1130, S=9+35dB or -47dBm proper signal in northern India, next to Burmese - Bangladesh-Muslim border area. At 1130-1133 nothing heard on 3rd channel of 9980 kHz / Udorn Thani. \\ Rohingya/English 11570even kHz channel on 25 meterband from IBB BBG US relay site on the Philippines at Tinang location. S=9+5dB or -77dBm fluttery signal also at Delhi India remote post. At 1138 UT check UT heard the VoA program came late on channel of 9980 / Udorn Thani Thailand relay broadcast center outlet. S=9+20dB or -55dBm, but channel suffered by some annoying BUZZ audio tone of UTE nearby ? - at least heard in India remote SDR, some 120, 240, and 410 Hertz apart distance BUZZ strings visible on upper sideband. 73 wb [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 2, WOR iog via DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 9925, UT Sun August 4 at 0028, The Mighty KBC is VG this week via Germany, S9+20, with a plug from ``A proud supporter``, http://hfradioreview.com/ --- but could not find a link on the KBC website; finally searched it out for exact spelling. Lots of stuff there but ham-oriented. Heard the same announcement once or twice more during following hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. CONGESTION IN HENDERSON --- Radio New Zealand engineers Steve White has confirmed usage of the two transmission masts at Henderson in West Auckland as follows: Southern Mast Northern Mast 153 metres height - 7 services: 122 metres height - 8 services: 531 - 531PI 603 - Radio Waatea 756 - RNZ National 702 - Magic Talk 882 - Southern Star 810 – BBC – Auckland Radio Trust 990 - Radio Apna 936 – Chinese Voice Radio - World TV 1179 - Radio Ake 1080 - Newstalk ZB 1332 - Radio Sport 1251 - Radio Rhema 1476 - Radio Racing 1386 - Radio Tarana 1593 - Radio Samoa Dan Goldfarb, creator of the MW Masts database and io Group, and a League member received this confirmation from Steve White and says the northern mast at Henderson is the most heavily used AM mast in the world (via Paul Rawdon, August NZ DX Times via DXLD) [I was able to practically confirm the above distribution of transmitters to masts during scheduled antenna maintenance on both masts at Henderson in July which provided a few bonus DX opportunities. Bryan Clark, ed.] Astounding to read in last month’s column about World TV re-purchasing 1566 for Horokiwi (Wellington, Ed), they allowed a licence that was valid till 2031 (from memory) to lapse through lack of fee payment, then a year or so later buy it again at auction for close on $27,000, valid till 2031 at an annual fee of $150! What a way to run a business (Theo Donnelly via Stu Forsyth, ibid.) ** NICARAGUA. NICARÁGUA. 8989BLS, El Pescador Predicador, QTH?, 2222-..., 27/7. Propag. relig.; 15341, QRM ocasional, de sinal igualmente em BLS. Bons DX e 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of PORTUGAL, August 7, WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DXLD) [also Harold Frodge report from last week --- WORLD OF RADIO 1994] ** NIGERIA. 11770, VoN Abuja; good at 1722z in English with commentary and announcements by man. 1725z ID, brief xylophone? IS then woman in English with commentary and promo for program "West Africa Today" (Steve Wiseblood, RGV TX, 8/4, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DXLD) 11769.904 kHz; Yes, thanks, Steven, noted VoNigeria Abuja in English when checked 1845-1858 UT on August 4th. At 1857 UT heard station announcement with times by female presenter in English. S=9+25dB or -51dBm proper signal tonight here in central Europe SDR unit. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Bueschel, ibid.) 11769.9, Aug 7 at 2008, S6-S7 of undermod talk from Voice of Nigeria, yet one of the better signals now on 25m (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7254.95, VON, on Aug 8, tuned in at 0552, to hear pop African music; 0557, start of their IS; programming at 0600. My audio (one minute pop African music and one of IS) at http://bit.ly/2YNbfOI (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) Voice of Nigeria is continuing to use 11770 (11769.9) for its evening broadcasts but after a few days in late June/early July has reverted to its regular frequency 7255 kHz for its morning broadcasts between 0600-1100. The evening transmission 1600-2100 remains on 11770, including English at 1630-1900 which provides fair reception here (Dave Kenny, Aug BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) The schedule for the evening broadcast currently on 11770v (ex 9690v) is as follows: 1600-1630 Arabic/Igbo; 1630-1900 English; 1900-1930 French or Fulfulde; 1930-2000 Fulfulde; 2000-2100 Hausa (Aug BDXC-UK Communication via WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. 7470, 0420, HOBBY PIRATE YHWH anti-Christian rants, theme song, very weak. Announcer mentioned he’s been heard in Europe and Australia (perhaps more likely an Aussie listening on a North American SDR?) Closed 0429 10/7 after says “standby” several times. Irregular transmissions and best chance for our reception is when YHWH runs past 0500 (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai, Northland, North Island, New Zealand, Using the League’s Northland SDR, Aug NZ DX Times via DXLD) I think this one be a bit more than a hobby (gh) 7470, UNITED STATES (Pirate), YHWH (in progress at tune-in) at 0330. Josiah with the usual monologue. Solid S-9 at tune-in, then the station suddenly dropped out and never came back up - Very Good S-9 August 4 (Rick Barton, Arizona SW Logs, Unless otherwise stated, equipment is Grundig Satellit 205/T.5000, RS SW-2000629, with various outdoor wires & indoor shortwire. Use of portables noted where relevant for perspective on signal strength comments. 73 and Good Listening....! - rb, WOR iog via DXLD) Off for a few days, YHWH back --- 7470, UNITED STATES (Pirate), YHWH (in progress at tune-in) at 0330. Josiah with the usual monologue. Solid S-9 - Very Good August 4. 73 and Good Listening....! (- Rick in Arizona Barton, WOR iog via DXLD) Hi all, I quipped once that I might be a jinx for YHWH. When I report the station as S-9 or over, the station seems to drop out shortly after I transmit the into to the DXing community. I had always hoped the DXers didn`t think I made the whole thing up, as the station would be gone by the time they tune in. This happened again. The station suddenly dropped out seconds after I sent the "heads up" out. I have been waiting for it to come back up, but it has been around fifteen minutes now and nothing. 73 from Arizona (-RB, 0400 UT, ibid.) ** NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS. 13690.049, August 2 at 1304, sorethumbly off-frequency carrier while surveying CNR1 jammers before the hour, now back to measure it in Chinese talk; from VOA this hour only via SAIPAN, typical inaccuracy (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORWAY. From RNS FB page. Northern Star Media Services July 19 at 10:53 AM · Today at 1152 UT the brand new Medium Wave transmitter of Radio Northern Star hit the air and broadcast first an open carrier to be followed by music at 1220. Modulation much improved! Thanks Øystein Ask! The first song broadcast was "Things we said today" by The Beatles. The transmitter is capable of 2 kW and programmed for 1611 kHz, but can change frequency quite easily. We have also acquired another filter enabling us to broadcast in the lower part of The AM band. Our aim is to be up and running regular schedule on 1611 again by September 1st. Until then there will be several tests. Presently 1611 is off air as adjustments to antenna are necessary. 5895 and the web channels plus wifi are on air as usual. More updates as they happen! Reports to 1000 at northernstar.no Somehow, I missed this post. 73 and good health. signature_1357407061 (via Terry Colgan, Aug 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1 DEAD, 1 INJURED AFTER INCIDENT AT KRMG AM TRANSMITTER SITE --- By: Ben Morgan Published: August 4, 2019 6:55 PM Updated: August 5, 2019 3:36 PM https://www.krmg.com/news/local/dead-critical-condition-after-incident-krmg-sand-springs-transmitter-site/95HVjg1jXEWpEzjUKGmDEM/ SAND SPRINGS, Okla. - Tulsa County deputies say they were called to the KRMG AM Transmitter Site around 10 o’clock Sunday morning. They say when they arrived they found two individuals who had appeared to have been electrocuted. One of the individuals died in the incident the other has been taken to a nearby hospital in critical condition. Deputies say tools found on scene would indicate the two were trying to steal copper from the transmitter site. Deputies arrested Angie West on Sunday, who they say is the girlfriend of the man who died. West told deputies she drove the two men to the site in an attempt to steal copper. Deputies said West could face a murder charge for her involvement in the matter. Cox Media Group Tulsa Market Vice President Cathy Gunther has released this statement: “Early this morning two individuals broke into the KRMG AM transmitter site. It appears they attempted to access a building through a conduit and were electrocuted. One of the individuals is deceased and one was transported to the hospital. From the tools and materials found at the site, it appears that they were attempting to steal copper. The safety of our community is of utmost importance – please do not enter any transmitter site, for any reason, as the area is extremely dangerous. -Cathy” Deputies arrested Angie West on Sunday, who they say is the girlfriend of the man who died. West told deputies she drove the two men to the site in an attempt to steal copper. Deputies say she fell asleep in the car and drove away the next morning thinking the two men may have ran away from authorities in the area (via Richard Gedye, MWCircle yg via DXLD) ONE DEAD, ONE IN CRITICAL CONDITION IN SUSPECTED COPPER THEFT AT RADIO STATION’S TRANSMITTER SITE https://kfor.com/2019/08/05/woman-arrested-in-connection-to-deadly-attempted-copper-theft-at-radio-tower/ Posted 3:34 pm, August 4, 2019, by K. Butcher SAND SPRINGS, Okla. – One person is dead and another is in critical condition following what officials suspect may have been a copper theft at a radio station’s transmitter site in northeast Oklahoma. At around 10 a.m. Sunday, authorities with the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office were called to the KRMG AM transmitter site in Sand Springs. According to KRMG, officials found two people who appeared to have been electrocuted. One person died and the other was taken to the hospital in critical condition. KRMG reports deputies found tools at the scene that “would indicate the two were trying to steal copper from the transmitter site.” CMG Tulsa Market Vice President Cathy Gunther released a statement following the incident. “Early this morning two individuals broke into the KRMG AM transmitter site. It appears they attempted to access a building through a conduit and were electrocuted. One of the individuals is deceased and one was transported to the hospital. From the tools and materials found at the site, it appears that they were attempting to steal copper. The safety of our community is of utmost importance – please do not enter any transmitter site, for any reason, as the area is extremely dangerous.” (via gh, DXLD) No video yet on website, but there was on the KFOR noon news August 5. This happened on Aug 4, not 5 as I missaid on WOR (gh) 740, KRMG Tulsa was off the air for a while; unfortunately I missed it, but here`s why: No video yet on website, but there was on the KFOR noon news. Other OKC and Tulsa TV stations probably covered this (gh) WOMAN ARRESTED IN CONNECTION TO DEADLY ATTEMPTED COPPER THEFT AT RADIO TOWER --- Angie West [portrait = mugshot] SAND SPRINGS, Okla. – A woman was arrested in connection to a suspected copper theft at a radio station’s transmitter site in northeast Oklahoma that left one person dead and another in critical condition. Just before 10 a.m. Sunday, authorities with the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office were called to the KRMG AM transmitter site in Sand Springs. According to the Tulsa World, an engineer checked on an interrupted signal and found one man dead with wire pliers in his hand and another man severely burned, convulsing on the ground. KRMG reports the injured man was taken to the hospital in critical condition. Officials have not yet identified the man who died. The Tulsa World reports 37-year-old Angie West was arrested in connection to the incident. She reportedly told deputies she had taken the men to the area to take copper around midnight. She says she fell asleep in the car and when she woke up, she left. West was arrested and booked into the Tulsa County jail on a complaint of first-degree murder (via Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1650, Aug 2 at 0131 UT, 479-area code ad, and non-ID as ``Life 98-7``, i.e. the puny translator in Fort Smith AR, of KFSW which is really in Sallisaw OK. In QRM also a mention of ``The River Valley``, which seems extremely generic applicable to anywhere, but is a known monicker for eastern Iowa, i.e. KCNZ Cedar Falls (BTW, what a coincidence that WCNZ is on the next frequency 1660, in Marco Island FL, presumably unrelated with widely divergent formats) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. Via Benn Kobb and Mike Cooper, we had advance notice of this event: ``U.S. Nationwide Emergency Test Today --- In the United States, the next Nationwide Test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) is scheduled for today, Aug 7 2019, at 2:20 p.m. ET. All radio and TV stations must participate. The test will not be transmitted via Wireless Emergency Alerts (mobile phones). Moreover, the test will not be distributed via the Internet so stations will have to get the originating signals directly by radio from assigned sources. These tests tend to expose audio impairments and transmission glitches, which is why the government keeps scheduling them. Some stations 'forward' (rebroadcast) the tests immediately, some delay it and some don't do anything at all, though required by law. Stations must report their readiness and test results via three FCC forms. The equipment required to create, obtain and forward EAS alerts is complex and requires periodic, expensive upgrades. Few manufacturers produce these devices. Among non-profit community stations, there is a desire to open-source these products, which would require approval of FCC and FEMA and, apparently, issuance of cryptographic keys to device makers. This is only a test and no action is required of the radio and TV audience. However, the FCC has stated: "Members of the public and interested stakeholder organizations that are in a position to observe test results in their communities can provide useful feedback on the nationwide test, including any problems observed or any complications in the delivery of the EAS message during the nationwide test by reporting their observations to the Public Safety Support Center at https://www.fcc.gov/general/public-safety-support-center "`` I set an alarum a few minutes prior to 1820 UT, but I have just started lunch. I do grab the PL-880 for some quick chex, and indeed the EAS tones start at 1820 on KOSU 91.7, then switching to AM, also on KGWA 960, VVKigriega 930, KTOK 1000; and KOKP 1020 --- only the last one has noisy background, but announcement is still readable. And it`s all over by 1822. How can we do any significant evaluation in such a short time, especially while lunching? O, yeah, record the entire AM/FM/TV/cable spectrum and sort it out later. Not me; did anyone, unofficially? (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 88.1, Aug 4 at 1339 UT, caught the tail of a KGOU Manager`s Minute via KWOU Woodward about some KROU upgrade. To website for text, and while we are at it, a couple previous ones: https://www.kgou.org/programs/managers-minute ``NEW OKLAHOMA CITY TRANSMITTER IMPROVES SOUND By Dick Pryor • Jul 29, 2019 KGOU --- This is the Manager’s Minute. We’re pleased to announce installation is complete on the new KROU transmitter, located on the Spencer/Oklahoma City tower that we lease from our friends at KFOR Television. We did this thanks to grant funding from the Anne & Henry Zarrow Foundation and gifts to Karen’s Legacy Fund, in honor of former KGOU general manager Karen Holp. People who listen to KGOU on 105.7 will notice improved audio quality and a more reliable signal. The old transmitter, which served us since 1992, is now a backup. KGOU's "Worldwide Transmitter" By Dick Pryor • Jul 14, 2019 --- This is the Manager’s Minute. KGOU broadcasts from five full power transmitters and four translators, but we also serve listeners through our “worldwide transmitter”: http://www.kgou.org On our website, you can find news stories and resources, community events, streaming audio, weather, the program schedule and information about our programs. You can donate online, and also find staff bios, station history, awards, and job opportunities. A New Look and a New Sound • May 6, 2019 Manager's Minute Listen 0:59 === KGOU has a new look; Morning Edition has a new sound This is the Manager’s Minute. Consistency is one of the most important attributes of a successful organization. As broadcasters, we know our listeners expect us to be consistently good and reliable, but also willing to innovate and change. This week NPR’s Morning Edition has a new sound. It’s a fresh take on the traditional Morning Edition theme - warm, engaging, energetic and modern. The new theme music was inspired by the work of BJ Leiderman and is designed to be as engaging and ear-catching as possible to reflect Morning Edition's dynamic mix of engaging, informative and often surprising stories about today's world. Also, we’ve freshened KGOU’s brand image. Our previous logo served us well for 15 years, but now KGOU has a new look that you'll be seeing online, on social media, in our newsletters and in our business and promotional materials. Designed by KGOU listener J.D. Reeves, our new logo is clean, bold and smart, with a distinctive shape and the hint of a retro feel. We think it communicates strength, stability and creativity. And, of course, it reminds everyone KGOU is still Your NPR Source. Take a look online and email manager@kgou.org to let us know what our new KGOU logo says to you. Until next time, with the Manager’s Minute, I’m Dick Pryor.`` Well, I miss the old Morning Edition sound. As for KROU, it`s still licensed for only 1.6 kW ERP, and impossible in Enid next to local 105.5 translator, not to mention stronger Alva on 105.7; however, we do get KROU on caradio not too far east or south from Enid, which remains a larger OKcity with no local public radio signal, unlike many smaller towns with translators or satellites of KCCU, KGOU or KUCO. After expressing some interest in serving 50K Enid, when I greeted him as new GM, he later said it was not going to happen. So we are stuck with KOSU only at non-local strength, iffy to receive inside buildings In last report as I was lamenting KROU/KGOU`s lack of reception in Enid, you may wonder how then I was quoting it on KWOU: the cited 88.1 KWOU relay of KGOU via Woodward is extremely marginal, sometimes audible with a little morning tropo, often barely; or blocked by KMSI Moore; and/or rapid choppy peaks in Doppler fading reflected via Vance airplane scatter, which are always buzzing over Enid especially in morning flight training (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DXLD) I have been discussing KROU`s new 105.7 transmitter from Spencer/OKC with KGOU+ CE Patrick Roberts, Aug 9: I`m glad you got a new transmitter for KROU; no doubt it was needed, not that it will do us any good in Enid with that translator on 105.5, not to mention Alva on 105.7. But KROU ERP remains only 1.6 kW, right? As per FCC. Is that the legal limit for this facility, or how high could you go if cost did not matter? I just had another look at the panel photo of the new transmitter: https://www.kgou.org/post/new-oklahoma-city-transmitter-improves-sound TPO 30 watts??? That would be the exciter? What is the full TPO? Must be under 1 kW for an ERP of only 1.6 kW --- so hard to imagine (for me not in the business) how the new transmitter of a few hundred watts cost as much as it did, even at a bargain? ``Hi Glenn. The unit with 30w on the display is the exciter, on top. The transmitter is 4600w. Our antenna is effectively a 1 bay (level), four-sided panel at 640 ft. 1600 watts effective radiated power. The new transmitter system is capable of 5000 watts. Thanks. Patrick Roberts`` Patrick, Thanks for explaining. I did not realize that the ERP could be less than the transmitter power -- negative gain apparently with that kind of antenna. Glenn ``No problem. Karen [Holp, former GM] and I bought the panel to give the most consistent coverage we could, squeezing all we could out of the “new site” when we moved to [KFOR tower, virtual channel] 4 $$$$$. It really did clean it up. We used to have a 3-bay to this baby panel at the [KAUT virtual channel] 43 tower. It was producing a messy signal, side-mounted on that tower. Yeah... 4.6 in and 1.6 out. At our power level erp-wise, strangely, a “1 bay” lit up is the best option. There’s NO nulls under it in the first several miles like the gain antennas produce. No need for null fill because there are no nulls from multiple bays. No tower shadowing because this beast custom-wraps around the massive 4 tower. At 640 ft, there’s not much more terrain shadowing vs. 300 on the 43 tower which had a ton of it. KFOR was going to charge the same anyway. I took the height :) Negative gain systems are an odd thing in a way, but they are a bit of a legal ability to push the envelop as much as we could. It did extend the reach as a byproduct of raising height too. You know how it goes in pub radio. We get one chance to do it right. Thanks! Patrick Roberts`` (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 88.3 WBFM, Aug 9 at 1730 UT, `Thru the Bible`` is starting, today`s reading from the whole thing being Jeremiah 13-16; starts off about men wearing girdles, then skirts and heels! Hee, hee; non-robotic voice keeps a straight face?? Don`t listen to whole thing but retune at 1746 just as wrapping up this segment with Family Radio ID. So our local satellator K202BY is finally back on the air. I first noticed it yesterday, but then and now could have been the non-translator gospel huxter from Wichita with some tropo, and in fact this one has some fades as I drive around. But now I`ve got the FR ID out of California. (BTW, 92.1 KAMG-LP is still silent.) [and non] Fortunately my BST-1 caradio RF feeder on 88.3 still overcomes K202BY when I turn it on at 1818 UT --- as the memory scan soon lands on 13670 for another gospel huxter in English (TWBD), this time all the way from Madagascar World Voice. Aside from the programming, I still think it`s neat to hear this, mobile in faraway Enid. Almost exactly 15.8 megameters, or 9.818 kilomiles statute, 8.532 nautical distant. It has to traverse the whole of the African landmass before exiting from Morocco into the Atlantic. Later in the hour has faded down considerably. We may soon know whether in B-19 HFCC, they reascend to the 17 MHz band. The B19 HFCC/ASBU Coordination Conference will be held from 26 to 30 August 2019 in Argentina (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 92.1 WBFM, Aug 6 at 2232 UT while futilooking for a sporadic E opening (later learn that Rob Ross in ON was getting OK), I notice that KAMG-LP Enid is finally off after having run dead air for about 3 months after one day of pretend-programming; what a waste, just to try to block my DX. Well, I hope it`s gone for good (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PALESTINE [non]. HISTORY: Al-Quds Palestinian Arab Radio This semi-clandestine station was active from Syria for at least two decades after 1988. The main frequency was 702 from quite a powerful transmitter. In the early years it was also active on shortwave: initially 4320, 7460 and 15050, and then on 5990 and 5910. Does anyone remember hearing it? At its height it was on the air for 11 hours a day. I've written up the history of the station at https://radioatlanticodelsur.blogspot.com/2019/07/al-quds-palestinian-arab-radio-intifada.html (Chris Greenway, Aug 6, WOR iog via DXLD) It would be interesting to know exactly when it stopped broadcasting, as I have not been able to confirm a date for that. A reminder of a Media Network report (with recordings of the station) from Jan 1988: http://jonathanmarks.libsyn.com/mn29011988-aspidistra-lebanon (Chris Greenway, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) ** PANAMA [non]. 9955, Wed August 7 at 1306, DX program in Spanish via WRMI, and sure sounds like Manolo de la Rosa, who retired from RHC two or three years ago, soon outro as part 3 of a talk about the Titanic, but no name given. Would he be mortified to be broadcast now by the gusana station? The show is `Antena DX`, host Víctor Gutiérrez then listing its sked on WRMI and WBCQ frequencies without saying which stations, and I think omitting the very broadcast I am listening to, if they were cited in time order. On next at 1311 to the AER DX report, featuring African stations in Congo DR and Guinea Ecuatorial, once again including R. CANDIP as if it still exist on 5066, and RNGE Malabo as if it still exist on 6250. He always laboriously spells out P and E-mail addresses of each station, most of which are in English. Also DWD on 5905, 6180. Once again he is not named in the outro, so I won`t either (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3260, NBC Madang, 1204-1211* on Aug 6; in English; cut off in mid-sentence (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** PERU [and non]. WHAT’S UP VAUGHAN 1470? 1470, 0545, Following Tony King’s post to DX Dialog on 16/7 that Vaughan Radio was missing, I checked freq on 17/7 and found relay of Lima FM station Radio Felicidad 88.9 FM on measured frequency of 1469.9995. Format is popular Latin vocals, regular since. Pretty certain this is the same transmitter as previously carried Vaughan Radio. At this stage it is unclear whether Vaughan Radio’s 24-hour English format on 1470 has completely gone, or just part of the overnight schedule. Second SS station on 1469.994 w/SS talk – suspect XEAI Formula (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai, Northland, North Island, New Zealand, WinRadio G33DDC, AOR7030+ and EWEs to North, Central & South America, Aug NZ DX Times via DXLD) 1470, 0500, PERU, x Capital x Vaughan daily, SS pop vocals. 25/7 (Tony King, August NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** PERU. 4767.6 [sic], Radio Huanta 2000, Huanta, 0004-0015, 03-08, comments. Extremely weak, barely audible. 15311. (Méndez) [had been on 4747v ---- is that a typo???? Would also het Cuba 4765.0 after 0030 --- gh] 4774.9, Radio Tarma, Tarma, 2235-2254, 02-08, Spanish, comments, Peruvian songs. 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** PHILIPPINES. 315 pages book on Radio Veritas Asia, Tamil / 315 பக்கங்கள் கொண்ட ஒரு பெருந்தொகுப்பு வேரித்தாஸ் வானொலிக்கு In recent years there is no book published in this much of pages. 315 pages book on Radio Veritas Asia, Tamil Section were edited by me and it will be released on 11 August 2019, here in Chennai. Invite enclosed. I personally invite you all for the grand function (Jaisakthivel, India, Aug 8, dxldyg via DXLD) Illustration indicates the book itself is in Tamil; only? (gh) ** POLAND. An interesting log from Paul Gager (see MW Logbook) mentions news in English and German is carried on Polish Radio, 225 kHz, Monday - Friday around 0702, 0802 and 0902 UT. Confirmed by Tony Rogers at 0902 on 26 July, lasting just 30 seconds, in English, followed by German. Paul says it’s a summer-only broadcast (Tony Rogers, Aug BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) 225 kHz, 0702, PR1, Solec Kujawski. Two minute news bulletin in English, then two minutes in German. This is a Polish Radio summer broadcast heard Monday-Friday around 0702, 0802 and 0902 UT; bell at Noon local time and 3 minutes live from the "unknowm soldier tomb"(?) in Warsaw(?), with trumpet and soldier sounds, 444 16/07 (Paul Gager, Austria, Aug BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) 225, 0904, PR1, Solec Kujawski. News in English, just 30 secs of news today, then into German; thanks Paul Gager (PG) for the tip! 444, 26/07 TR#* (Tony Rogers, remote receiver Gotland, Sweden, ibid.) 225, 1642, Vatican Radio via PR1, Solec Kujawski. Polish religious program heard daily at 1640-1655 UT (Aug BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** ROMANIA. The song “Imagine” sung by John Lennon was heard in the night time musical programme of Radio Romania Actualitatsi on 4th July 2019 at 0145 hours on no less than sixteen (!) medium wave frequencies as follows: 531, 558, 567, 603, 711, 720, 855, 909, 945, 1179, 1332, 1404, 1422, 1458, 1530 & 1593 (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, Aug BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) imagine that ** ROMANIA. Welcome to Listening Post for August 2019. This month I present a short survey of programming over a one hour period at 2200-2300 UT of the 25, 31 and 41 metre bands on 17 July [Wed]. Thank goodness for Radio Romania International on 7310 kHz for its varied one-hour English programme from 2200 UT. The hour started, as always, with the news followed by a report on the first woman to be elected as President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. After a sports report there was news of the latest RRI contest “Iaşi - Historical Capital of Romania”. Details of the contest, which closes at the end of August, can also be found at https://www.rri.ro/en_gb/iasi_historical_capital_of_romania-2601239 Society Today was next with a fascinating report on the unofficial – that is: corrupt – practice of “rewarding” health-care professionals for their health-care, which originated during the communist era. After a brief feature Visit Romania, today about Agapia Monastery, now a living museum. At 2230 was their regular 10-minute programme Music Highlights covering classical music. This was followed by the regular DX Mailbag, and then Happening in Romania with a talk about problems caused by influxes of refugees and immigrants into a country, generally and specifically the Romany community in Romania. The transmission ended with their language-learning show Romanian Without Tears. As always, a very varied, interesting and enjoyable transmission from RRI. I plan to have the full RRI programme schedule for you next month. 73 and good DX and SWL until next time, (Listening Post with Alan Roe, Aug BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** ROMANIA. 08/03/2019 Hello! https://www.rri.ro/de_de/wichtig_rri_sendebetrieb_teilweise_gestort-2602256 There are technical difficulties with one of our shortwave transmitters in Tsiganeshti near Bucharest. The DRM transmission at certain times could be affected. Some of our programs are therefore temporarily transmitted by our transmitter in Saftica. According to the national "Company Radiocom" will take the replacement of the defective devices several weeks. During this time, we ask you to use the second frequency available on our website to listen to RRI's broadcasts. The following frequencies of the German service are affected: For the midday broadcast the frequency is 7355 kHz. For the evening broadcast the frequency 6090 kHz. You can dodge [?sic] at 9600 kHz at noon and 9570 kHz in the evening. 73s paul (via Gager Paul, Austria, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 2 via Wolfgang Bueschel, Aug 3, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DXLD) Radio Romania International replace partly Tsiganeshti by Saftica transmitter units. One of three transmitters of Romanian 300 kW broadcast center at Tsiganeshti is out of service at present. RadioCom offers now as substitute service via 100 kW Saftica. (old center of 1956 year, which used also as clandestine station transmitter for Comintern "Radio Espana Indepedente" and "Portugal Livre" radio program mouthpiece of communist parties of Spain and Portugal towards their home dictatorship countries and to foreign (immigrant) workers in West Europe, in 1956 til approx 1978.) Saftica uses mainly two newer revolving antennas, of log-periodic horizontal characteristics, seen on Google Earth or Google Maps images. RRI English - nothing news of July 2019, older Tsiganeshti items of 2017 / 2018 https://www.rri.ro/en_gb/technical_revision_at_the_tiganesti_transmitters-2591115 RRI French https://www.rri.ro/fr_fr/attention_un_emetteur_de_tiganesti_ne_fonctionne_pas-2602246 Chers amis, un des émetteurs en ondes courtes de Tiganesti, près de Bucarest, qui diffuse les programmes de RRI, est en panne. A cause de ce dysfonctionnement, la transmission numérique en DRM est aussi perturbée. Plusieurs émissions sont donc transmises temporairement en OC depuis l'émetteur de Saftica. Selon notre fournisseur de services de transmission, Radiocom, les réparations s'étaleront, malheureusement, sur plusieurs semaines. Entre temps, nous vous invitons à suivre les émissions de RRI sur la 2e fréquence ayant la même destination, conformément à la liste que vous trouverez sur notre site. Les fréquences qui ne fonctionnent pas en ce moment sont : - 7.375 kHz à destination de Montréal entre 1h et 2h TU - 15.340 kHz à destination de l'Afrique Centrale entre 5h et 5h30 TU - 15.130 kHz à destination d'Alger entre 10h et 11h TU RRI Romanian https://www.rri.ro/ro_ro/anunt_emitator_defect-2602283 RRI Spanish https://www.rri.ro/es_es/anuncio-2602264 ¡Queridos amigos!, uno de los transmisores de onda corta ubicado en Ţigăneşti cerca de Bucarest, que emite los programas de RRI, tiene problemas técnicos. Debido al mal funcionamiento, la transmisión digital (estándar DRM) de los programas de RRI también se ha visto afectada. Algunas de las transmisiones afectadas se transmiten provisionalmente por el emisor de onda corta desde Săftica, cerca de la capital. Radiocom, el proveedor de servicios de transmisión, ha anunciado que, lamentablemente, tomará varias semanas hasta que se reemplacen los componentes defectuosos. Durante este periodo, podrán escuchar los programas de RRI en la segunda frecuencia que emitimos en onda corta, según la tabla de frecuencias publicada en nuestra página web. Las siguientes frecuencias se han visto afectadas: UTC limba frecvenţa (kHz) ţinta 00.00 – 01.00 engleză 7,375 New York 01.00 – 02.00 franceză 7,375 Montreal 02.00 – 03.00 español 7,375 Méjico 03.00 – 04.00 engleză 7,375 Los Angeles 04.00 – 04.30 chineză 15,220 Beijing 04.30 – 05.00 rusă 7,305 Moscova 05.00 – 05.30 franceză 15,340 Africa Centrală 06.30 – 07.00 arabă 9,740 Alger 09.00 – 10.00 (duminica) română 15,130 Alger 10.00 – 11.00 franceză 15,130 Alger 11.00 – 12.00 engleză 15,130 Londra 12.00 – 12.30 arabă 15,130 Alger 12.30 – 13.00 chineză 15,160 Beijing 13.00 – 14.00 rusă 11,940 Novosibirsk 14.00 – 15.00 germană 7,355 Berlin 15.00 – 15.30 rusă 9,580 Moscova 15.30 – 16.00 arabă 11,830 Alger 16.00 – 17.00 (luni-sâmbătă) română 9,590 Israel 16.00 – 17.00 (duminica) ebraică 9,590 Israel 17.00 – 18.00 engleză 9,760 Londra 18.00 – 19.00 germană 6,090 Berlin 19.00 – 20.00 español 11,850 Madrid 20.30 – 21.00 engleză 11,850 New York 21.00 – 22.00 español 11,650 Buenos Aires 22.00 – 23.00 engleză 7,325 Tokyo 23.00 – 24.00 español 9,700 Buenos Aires (via Wolfgang Bueschel, WOR iog via DXLD) [translation from German, lacking anything in English:] 08/03/2019 Hello! https://www.rri.ro/de_de/wichtig_rri_sendebetrieb_teilweise_gestort-2602256 There are technical difficulties with one of our shortwave transmitters in Tsiganeshti near Bucharest. The DRM transmission at certain times could be affected. Some of our programs are therefore temporarily transmitted by our transmitter in Saftica. According to the national "Company Radiocom" will take the replacement of the defective devices several weeks. During this time, we ask you to use the second frequency available on our website to listen to RRI's broadcasts. The following frequencies of the German service are affected: For the midday broadcast the frequency is 7355 kHz. For the evening broadcast the frequency 6090 kHz. You can dodge [?sic] at 9600 kHz at noon and 9570 kHz in the evening. 73s paul (via Gager Paul, Austria, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 2 via Wolfgang Bueschel, Aug 3, WOR iog via DXLD) Radio Romania International replace partly Tsiganeshti by Saftica transmitter units. One of three transmitters of Romanian 300 kW broadcast center at Tsiganeshti is out of service at present. RadioCom offers now as substitute service via 100 kW Saftica. (old center of 1956 year, which used also as clandestine station transmitter for Comintern "Radio Espana Indepedente" and "Portugal Livre" radio program mouthpiece of communist parties of Spain and Portugal towards their home dictatorship countries and to foreign (immigrant) workers in West Europe, in 1956 til approx 1978.) Saftica uses mainly two newer revolving antennas, of log-periodic horizontal characteristics, seen on Google Earth or Google Maps images (via Wolfgang Bueschel, WOR iog via DXLD) RRI Bucharest Arabic sce at 0630 UT only heard via two units at RadioCom Galbeni site at 140degr azimuth to NE/ME on 9770 and 11980 kHz both were properly on air, but both 247degr azi channels of Tsiganeshti 9740 and 11970 kHz were OFF AIR at 0640 UT August 4th. 73 wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, ibid.) RRI Bucharest SUNDAY ONLY service "Curierul Romanes" at 07-08 UT were on air on all four channels, but 9540.000 kHz noted only here in Europe with tremendous S=9+45dB powerhouse, - but NOT in Qatar ME SDR installation, so seemingly 9540 kHz came from Saftica substitute RadioCom site with revolving log-periodic horizontal antenna in use? Tsiganeshti 11789.984 kHz S=9+5dB in Qatar ME, S=9+35dB signal here in EUR. Galbeni RadioCom outlets 13750 kHz S=9+10 in Qatar ME, S=9+15dB in EUR. 15200 kHz S=9+5dB in Qatar ME, but latter surprisingly S=9+55dB powerhouse here in CeEUR (Bueschel, ibid.) No signal on 15130: 0900 in Romanian, 1000 in French, 1100 in English (Ivo, 1111 UT, ibid.) Why, in the first place, is there any need for such cover? There is not a single moment throughout the day at which more than two Tsiganeshti transmitters are on air simultaneously with RRI programming. This detailed schedule shows only "T1" and "T2" from the start: http://ab27.bplaced.net/rri.pdf Now you could speculate that the third transmitter is not operational: But in this case no IRRS transmissions after 1200 could originate from Romania without dropping an RRI transmission. Now you could speculate that IRRS has absolute priority on this transmitter: But in this case it would still be available as aux outside the very limited IRRS slots. One year ago there was a similar situation of one Tsiganeshti transmitter allegedly being faulty. Back then monitoring around the time of the weekend noon transmissions of IRRS brought definite evidence of the Saftica transmitter used both for RRI on Tsiganeshti frequencies and, with priority, for 9510 kHz transmissions of IRRS. Is there evidence of the site usage for the evening transmissions of IRRS (under own label on 7290 and of Radio Warra Wangeelaa on 15515)? I remember some row about this topic but no real reasons being given for either theory. I fear that, due to time constraints, I have nothing further to add at this point. Just wanted to point out that something does not add up here and, I'm sorry to say, apparently alternative facts about Romanian shortwave operations are being offered (further remarks about "Secretbrod" are unnecessary anyway). And one wild speculation: The same happened exactly a year ago, so I would not be surprised if just some kind of maintenance takes place and needs to be camouflaged as a fault, whatever the motivation may be. By the way, RRI is proud of having broadcast in Russian already since 1975, resisting an urge to not put these broadcasts on shortwave but only deliver them for transmission to Vsesoyznoye Radio, within the "Golosa Drusey" ("voices of the friends") scheme. Apparently "Golosa Drusey" was not limited to these rebroadcasts, as this excerpt of videotape from 1978 shows, with a very nice appearance of East German radio personality Peter Niedziella in the concert studio of Ostankino TV centre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COGc4Klbvio (Kai Ludwig, Aug 4, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DXLD) [non] Radio Warra Wangeelaati 1500 on 15515 Sat is via Secretbrod https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/radio-warra-wangeelaa-ti-via-spl.html (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, WOR iog via DXLD) 9609.999 approx. RRI Arabic S=9+10dB in Doha Qatar at 1210 UT. 11699.984 odd fq; as S=9+25 dB stronger in NE/ME. 13750even kHz RRI Arabic towards 247deg WeAfrica, NoWeAfrica Sahara/Sahel, S=7 sidelobe in Qatar ME, S=9+20dB in WeEUR. 15130 OFF AIR today. 9490even, RRI Romanian afternoon sce to Western Europe via 100 kW Saftica RadioCom broadcast center, noted at 1230 UT, S=9+40dB powerful clean audio signal of 11.4 kHz wideband block visible. 13845even kHz RRI Chinese sce at 67degr azimuth, S=9+20 sidelobe signal into central Europe, but weak and tiny in Doha Qatar SDR unit, at 1232 UT on August 4th. 15160 OFF AIR today. Also off air 11940 kHz at 1300 in Russian (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) at 1430 UT: 5910even RRI Mac-Romanian/Aromanian lang via 100kW Saftica site, S=9+20dB in CeEUR SDR. 7355 TIG RRI German 14-15 UT OFF AIR. <<<<<<<<<<<< 9600even TIG RRI German 14-15 UT S=9+40dB powerhouse excellent signal. 9490even GAL RRI Romanian afternoon sce to Western Europe via RadioCom broadcast center Galbeni, noted at 1439 UT S=9+50dB POWERHOUSE!!!! 285degr azimuth powerful clean audio signal of 11.4 kHz wideband block visible. 11950even GAL RRI Romanian afternoon sce to Western Europe via RadioCom broadcast center Galbeni, noted at 14.40 UT S=9+40dB POWERHOUSE !!!! 285degr azimuth powerful clean audio signal. at 1500 UT: 5910even RRI Ukrainian lang at 30degr azimuth via 100kW Saftica site, S=9 in CeEUR SDR. 7360even TIG RRI Russian at 1507 UT S=9 sidelobe signal in WeEUR. 37degr azimuth to Russia. The Russia target antennas at Galbeni RadioCom site have been scrapped some 14 years ago in 2005-2006 year, when the US Continental transmitters erected at Galbeni site. 9580 TIG RRI Russian 15.09 UT OFF AIR. <<<<<<<<<<<< at 1530 UT: 5910even RRI Serbian lang at 270degr azimuth via 100kW Saftica site, S=9+25dB in CeEUR SDR. 9810even GAL RRI Arabic at 1531 UT S=9+35dB backlobe signal in WeEUR. 140degr azimuth to NE/ME. 11899.984 GAL RRI Arabic at 1534 UT S=9+20dB backlobe signal in WeEUR. 140degr azimuth to NE/ME. 11830 TIG RRI Arabic 1539 UT OFF AIR, to 247deg WeAF/NoWeAF <<<< 13660even TIG RRI Arabic to 247deg WeAF/NoWeAF at 1542 UT, S=9+5dB in CeEUR. 73 wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, ibid.) ** RUSSIA. Radonezh in Moscow will not return to medium waves Radio "Radonezh" forever left the middle waves in Moscow and Moscow region. This was reported to me by an employee of the station that I met today at the Radio House on Pyatnitskaya. “For us, this is a tragedy. Many in Moscow and Moscow region listened to us on medium waves,” she said, answering my question about the station’s possible return to medium waves. At the end of April, it became known that the broadcasting from Kurkino (Moscow region) would cease on May 1. This radio center gave life to three stations at once on medium waves: Narodnoe Radio and the Radonezh radio station broadcasting at a frequency of 612 kHz and the World Radio Network (WRN Russia) at a frequency of 738 kHz. https://kolkeradio.blogspot.com/2019/07/blog-post_31.html (via Rus-DX 4 Aug via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. FAS MAY FINE VGTRK FOR ADVERTISING “TONGUE TWISTER” ON THE RADIO FAS Russia may fine OOO Profi-Communications and VGTRK in the amount of 100 to 500 thousand rubles. for a "tongue twister" instead of advertising, reported on the website of the service. The Office has already issued instructions for the elimination of offenses. An advertisement for the residential complex was broadcast on Vesti FM radio station in December 2018. So, the audio clip began with the phrase: “What should I give my family for the New Year if you already gave it everything? Give her a promenade, and a park, and stunning views from the windows. <...> Call 688 ...! ”, And then within a few seconds information was announced about the project declaration and the name of the developer. However, due to the fact that the pronunciation speed was too high, the department considered this a violation of the Law on Advertising. “A tongue twister in advertising on the radio is the same as a small print in advertising on TV,” said Andrei Kashevarov, deputy head of the FAS Russia. The FAS handed over all the necessary materials to initiate a case of an administrative violation of the advertiser LLC Profi-Communications and the advertising distributor of VGTRK. Earlier, the agency discovered an "unacceptable" alcohol advertisement in the Perekrestok and Alphabet of Taste stores. Adindex.ru https://www.radioportal.ru/news/mediapravo/fas-mozhet-oshtrafovat-vgtrk-za-reklamu-skorogovorkoy-na-radio (via Rus-DX 4 Aug via DXLD) Also a bane in Unitedstatesian and Mexican broadcasting, but never heard them called tongue-twisters, in English; or anything? (gh) ** RUSSIA. Have sent an email to Sputnik News asking them if they could possibly open up a station broadcasting on shortwave in various languages of the world which the Voice of Russia did. Da svee da nee ya, (Jon Collins, Birmingham, UK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. The hopper is closing. --- Factories will be built at the Radio Center in Novosemeykino. How will this affect the environment and local people? July 30, 2019, Author: Maxim Fedorov Last summer, they wanted to restore the Radio Center bunker and open a museum there. For a year, the authorities committed semantic reckoning: they will not save the radio center. Production buildings for factories will be built here, and a school next door. The decision has already been agreed in the government, although no one knows what enterprises want to go to the site ... More details - http://drugoigorod.ru/zachem-texnopark/ https://vk.com/dxing (via Rus-DX 4 Aug via DXLD) The receiver and the landscape - a great combination of pleasant and useful! (? Rus-DX editor comment?) ** SAMOA. Samoan state radio, 2AP, which has been broadcasting on the AM Band for six decades, has reached a milestone by operating on the FM frequency for the first time. Through aid from the Australian Pacific Media Assistance Scheme, or PACMAS, 2AP has also been building a new AM transmitter. The Minister of Communication, Afamasaga Rico Tupa’i, said the new AM mast and the FM Band will both be officially opened and launched by the prime minister at the end of [August]. “Government information gets out in terms of what people need to know and how our people can benefit from it. It’s just another station that whatever transmission and broadcast we get out of here it will be the same thing on AM and the same thing on FM - same information. “So, no additions in terms of staff and a few additions in terms of equipment.” Afamasaga Rico Tupa’i says 2AP will boost its power to reach out more audience in the neighbouring American Samoa, Tokelau, and Niue (RNZ Pacific 10Jul19 via August NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** SAUDI ARABIA. ARS two txs are off air today, August 5 from 0900 9650*RIY 100 kW / non-dir Arabic BSKSA General Service & from 0900 11860 JED or RIY / unknown Arabic Republic of Yemen Radio *respectively 9650 CON 050 kW / non-dir to WeAf French Radio Guinée-good signal -- from 1300 UT, 11860 is on air, but 9650 not -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, WOR iog via DXLD) In America we do not understand ``respectively`` in this sense, or abbr`d resp. It normally means to us listing two or more separate series of items as being in the same order matching. I notice various Europeans non-native speakers of English use this expression. What word in German, Bulgarian, etc., are they translating? (gh, DXLD) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 9545, 0410, SIBC Honiara reactivated, good with advts and station promo for “SIBC, Voice of the Nation, on air and on-line” 16/7. Closed just before 0500. Regular since, including 2257 on 16/7 when fair (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai, Northland, North Island, New Zealand, WinRadio G33DDC, AOR7030+ and EWEs to North, Central & South America, Aug NZ DX Times via DXLD) why not just call them ads? ** SOMALIA. 7750, 1710, Warsan R, Somalia (presumed). Local songs (USB mode) 232, 12/07 (Franck Baste, St Bonnet de Rochefort, France, Aug BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. SECRETLAND, No signal of Brother Stair TOM via SPL Secretbrod [BULGARIA] 1400-1655 on 11600 SCB 100 kW / 306 deg to WeEu English on August 6 1500-1655 on 6000 SCB 050 kW / 030 deg to EaEu English on August 6 1600-1945 on 9400 SCB 100 kW / 126 deg to N/ME English on August 6 2000-0200 on 6055 SCB 050 kW / 306 deg to ENAm English on August 6 0230-0400 on 5900 SCB 050 kW / 306 deg to ENAm English, pls check! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/no-signal-of-brother-stair-tom-via-spl.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 6-7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) SECRETLAND, BS TOM is again on air via Secretbrod, August 7: 1400-1655 on 11600 SCB 100 kW / 306 deg to WeEu English, very good 1500-1655 on 6000 SCB 050 kW / 030 deg to EaEu English, weak/fair 1600-1945 on 9400 SCB 100 kW / 126 deg to N/ME English, very good 2000-0200 on 6055 SCB 050 kW / 306 deg to ENAm English, pls check 0230-0400 on 5900 SCB 050 kW / 306 deg to ENAm English, pls check https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/brother-stair-tom-is-again-on-air-via.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. Welcome to Listening Post for August 2019. This month I present a short survey of programming over a one hour period from 2200 to 2300 UT of the 25, 31 and 41 metre bands on 17 July. The only decent reception in the 25mb was on 11940 kHz, with Radio Exterior [de] España’s English language service starting at 2200 UT and Justin Coe fading-in mid-sentence talking about an upcoming concert in Madrid's Noches del Botánico summer concert series by Melody Gardot and José James. Justin Coe then introduced the songs to be played for the remaining 27 minutes of the broadcast (four from her debut album "Worrisome Heart," and three from her 2017 live album "Melody Gardot: Live in Europe"). It was pleasant late night jazz music, which I enjoyed very much. I did note that the final song (“Somewhere Over the Rainbow”) was cut short after just a few seconds, however checking the REE English podcast page at http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/audios/emision-en-ingles/ I see that the podcast (dated as 18 July) actually ran for just over 34 minutes, so we can get to hear the song in full. Interestingly, the next listed podcast (dated 23 July) runs for 43 minutes. I didn’t listen to the shortwave broadcast on 22 July, but I presume that the last 13 minutes or so were not aired. As all podcasts run slightly longer than the 30 minutes broadcast time, it looks as if the shortwave airing is almost an afterthought, and that the podcast is the primary aim of the production (Listening Post with Alan Roe, Aug BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) 9690, August 2 at 0040, REE North American frequency still AWOL, while 11940 for S America is still well audible. If one transmitter be out of order, there are still two more which could be used weekday evenings for us, after they are finished with the Eastern Hemisphere at 2200 ---- but that would make too much sense (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) REE Back on 9690 kHz -- again --- Listening now at 2015 UT on 6 August with a good signal and good audio here in NB. // 11670 kHz barely audible; 11940 kHz only slightly better; 12030 kHz also a bit weak. So, all four frequencies on this afternoon (-- Richard Langley, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DXLD) 9690 kHz still on today (7 August) at 2040 UT (let's hope it stays that way for awhile) with nice Cuban music (-- Richard Langley, NB, WOR iog via DXLD) ** SVALBARD. Norway, 1485, NRK Longyearbyen, Svalbard is now discussed within NRK board what to do with the MW transmitter. It was built in 1978 and gives a good coverage of the island. Shall it be upgraded, shall it be run until it stops or shall we scrap it now? Spares are very difficult to get. FM transmitter can´t cover the whole island. Gunnar Garfors from NRK informs that a decision will be taken this fall (Svalbardsposten in an answer to Ydun’s Medium Wave Info 9.7.2019, ARC mv-eko 5 August via DXLD) ** SWEDEN. VLF 17.2 kHz, 0839, SAQ, Grimeton, Sweden. Alexanderson Day broadcast. First detected carrier followed a few seconds later by several V’s. Several longer carrier bursts until first ID "VVV VVV VVV DE SAQ SAQ SAQ" at 0842. Good signal, static crashes, but not as much QRM from Russian RDL on 18.1 kHz as previous years. CW message continued with a few interruptions/pauses until message began at 0900. End of message at 0908. Descending power-down tone at 0910. 454, 30/06 17.2, 1141, SAQ, Grimeton, Sweden. Afternoon transmission. First bursts of carrier heard followed by ID strings before message began at 1200. Several changes were audible but I suspect it was the sun shining on the 555 oscillator chip on the home brew receiver (I never did get round to putting it in a case with a lid!) and warming it up, slightly altering the receiver tuning. End of CW message 1207, power-down tone 1209. 454, 30/06 (Nick Rank, Buxton, Derbyshire, Aug BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** SWEDEN. Gunnar's web site www.500khz.se soon be on air on 261 kHz. The page adds that “short experimental tests occur occasionally”. The Kinna 1512 tests ended in June 2019 (Nick Rank 23 July, (Aug BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) Something missing, spotty pdf copying ** SWITZERLAND. R.I.P : Bob Thomann Some very sad news via the internet via Bob Zanotti. https://switzerlandinsound.com/the-two-bobs/ Regards, (Dave Zantow N9EWO, Janesville, WI USA http://n9ewo.angelfire.com/ Aug 5, WOR iog via DXLD) Dear Friends and Broadcasting Colleagues, Our old friend and colleague, Bob Thomann HB9GX, passed away peacefully on Saturday afternoon 3 August local time. He would have been 91 in September. [....] https://swling.com/blog/2019/08/swiss-shortwave-merry-go-round-founder-bob-thomann-hb9gx-is-silent-key/ (also via Artie Bigley, DXLD) Also received a longer obituary directly from Bob Zanotti --- BOB THOMANN HB9GX SILENT KEY Dear Friends and Broadcasting Colleagues, Bob Thomann's son, Ralph, called me this morning with the sad news that my our old friend and colleague, Bob Thomann HB9GX, passed away peacefully on Saturday afternoon 3 August local time. He would have been 91 in September. Bob had been in poor health for several years. In the last few years we had only brief telephone contact by proxy, since he could no longer speak. Bob lived alone in his home near Bern, but was supported by a visiting nurse service and by family. I hadn't had personal contact with Bob for several years. He didn't want company. We used to get on ham radio from time to time for a rag-chew, but he even gave that up some time ago. Bob Thomann was the founder of the Swiss Shortwave Merry-Go-Round on SBC/Swiss Radio International back in the 50's. He and I were teamed up in 1970, when I joined SRI. We co-presented the technical mailbag show, which became know as "The Two Bobs" for 24 years between 1970 and the show's ending in June 1994. Bob never missed a show, even when we had to do a telephone hookup when he was hospitalized back in the 80's. This is the end of "The Two Bobs" Era and an era in shortwave broadcasting in general. But I'm happy to say that the show lives on at http://www.switzerlandinsound.com where it has its own section. All that survived from the "Merry-Go-Round" is there, including new material we produced especially for the website. And this will remain as a memorial to Bob Thomann and his contribution to shortwave broadcasting as long as I'm still around. Bob Thomann was my friend, colleague and fellow ham operator for many years. I will always fondly remember those golden days we shared together. Long live those memories. 73, (Bob Zanotti, Switzerland, WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN. 9590, RTI in Russian. SIO 555, July 20, 2019, 1442–1448. Excellent signal. Announcers in Russian. Program of native singing. Sounds like North American Indian or Inuit. Great music, worth listening. (Vince Henley, Anacortes, WA, Mini-DXpedition in the high desert of Southwest Wyoming, USA near the city of Rock Springs. Equipment in use for this event: ICOM IC-R8600, SDRPLAY RSP Duo. Antenna is a Wellbrook ALA1530LN Pro antenna at about 12 feet high with a Hy-Gain AR-500 rotator for all logs in this report. Monitoring position was 41° 32’ 25.42” N, 109° 06’ 34.43” W. Elevation was 6635’MSL. This is a very low RF noise site, NASWA Flashsheet Aug 4 via DXLD) ** TAIWAN. 14370, SOH, 1245-1300, 7/28/2019. Sound of Hope in Cantonese. OM and YL in animated commentary interspersed with musical and song selections. SINFO 45434 at sign off (Bob Dodt, VA. Equipment: ICOM-750, Buddi-Pole vertical, NASWA Flashsheet Aug 4 via DXLD) On what basis do you ID this as SOH instead of CNR1 jammer? (gh) CLANDESTINAS --- 7729.9, R. Som de Esperança Int'l, Formosa, 2115-..., 28/7. Emissão em mandarim dirigida à China continental; texto; 25342. Bons DX e 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, SW coast of PORTUGAL, August 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Standard inquiry; altho offfrequenciness favours SOH not CNR1 (gh) 6230, Sound of Hope, at 1300, on Aug 6 and listening in LSB to get away from Australia weather station in USB. The usual OM & YL with "Xiwang zhi sheng guoji guangbo diantai" (Sound of Hope international broadcast station) ID (thanks again to Amano-san's assistance); surprised to have some very light QRM from Australia, as some of their faint audio showed up in LSB (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) see also CHINA non ** THAILAND. HSK9 Radio Thailand World Service in 31mb on August 6: 1800-1900 on 9920 UDO 250 kW / 313 deg to WeEu Thai, fair/good & 1900-2000 on 9920 UDO 250 kW / 321 deg to WeEu English-very good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/hsk9-radio-thailand-world-service-in.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 6-7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** THAILAND. 13745, VoA Deewa R., Ban Dung. Pashto to Afghanistan 0145, fair signal with some multi-path echo, 28/7 (Rob Wagner, Vic., Aug Australian DX News via DXLD) Ban Dung? That`s an Indonesian city; or is there another one? This publication never includes COUNTRY --- we are supposed to know where every transmitter site be. HFCC shows this one is really UDO = Udorn, Thailand. But WRTH page 495 mentions them both --- maybe Ban Dung is a more precise location than Udon Thani, or a different geographical entity such as a province? No, Ban Dung is a *district within* Udon Thani province. So ``Udorn`` is just generality like ``Greenville``. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_Dung_District Will this reference say anything about VOA? You bet, and whew!--- ``Economy[edit] --- The district is the site of a Voice of America (VOA) relay station, built in 1994. The Voice of America will give the station to Thailand, but will be allowed to operate it under a 25-year renewable lease expiring in 2019. Each of the station's seven shortwave transmitters is capable of broadcasting 500 kilowatts of power, covering 40 percent of the earth's surface. One of the transmitters will be dedicated for use by Radio Thailand. It will have sufficient power to reach the Middle East and the West Coast of the United States, both areas with large expatriate Thai communities.[5] The VOA installation has been suspected of being a CIA black site used to interrogate alleged terrorists.[6][7] That suspicion has been supplanted by a BBC report that the Udon Royal Air Force Base was the home of a CIA black site, known to insiders as "Cat's Eye", but better known as "Detention Site Green",[8] used to interrogate Abu Zubaydah, a 31-year-old Saudi-born Palestinian, believed to be one of Osama Bin Laden's top lieutenants. In December 2014 the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) published an executive summary of a secret 6,000 page report on CIA techniques. The report alleges that at least eight Thai senior officials knew of the secret site. The site was closed in December 2002.[9] Thailand has denied the existence of the site while the US government has neither confirmed or denied its existence.`` Footnotes include hotlinx to sources: ^ "New station in Thailand to boost VOA". UPI. 1994-06-02. Retrieved 27 April 2018. ^ Crispin, Shawn W (2008-01-25). "US and Thailand: Allies in Torture". Asia Times. Archived from the original on 2014-11-10. Retrieved 2014-11-10. ^ "Suspicion over Thai 'black ops' site". Sydney Morning Herald. 2005-11-05. Retrieved 27 April 2018. ^ "Time to come clean on secret CIA prison" (Opinion). Bangkok Post. 27 May 2018. Retrieved 27 May 2018. ^ "CIA director Gina Haspel's Thailand torture ties". BBC News. 2018-05-04. Retrieved 15 May 2018. (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** TIBET. Holy Tibet in English confirmed back on SW on 28 July at 1600-1700 on 4905, 4920, 6110, 6200, 7255, 7385 via an SDR in Shandong, China (Dave Kenny, Aug BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) Wolfgang Bueschel reported 4820 back on air on 28th July, so maybe the maintenance break is over? (The latest Domestic Broadcasting Survey notes maintenance break in May, not July). (ed. Alan Pennington, ibid.) ** TURKEY. Welcome to Listening Post for August 2019. This month I present a short survey of programming over a one hour period from 2200 to 2300 UT of the 25, 31 and 41 metre bands on 17 July. The only transmission of note in the 31mb was the Voice of Turkey signing-on at 2200 on 9830 with fair-to-good reception, although audio quality was a little scratchy with a hum noticeable between speech, and with quality further deteriorating throughout the broadcast until there were eventually several breaks in transmission in the latter half of the programme from 2230. Following the news was the programme Turkey’s Tourist Attractions, today featuring the city of Ephesus followed by pleasant Turkish song. This was followed by Weekly Analysis with an in-depth talk about the Fetullah Terrorist Organisation (FETO), and its threat globally and specifically to Turkey. Interesting, but slightly difficult to follow due to the audio problems. The programme ended with, as usual, a nice selection of lively Turkish songs (Listening Post with Alan Roe, Aug BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) 9515.65, V Turkey English OM news including items re US Congress and mention about cloning on ‘foreign media’ show. Then OM talx re Turkish history, etc. and into Turkish music at 0326. Abruptly cut out at 0336, back at 0337 and cut out again at 0338 and back at 0339. Apparently they are having issues! 444+3+3+, 0310-0340 1/Aug, SDRplay +SDRuno, +rmwire (Ken Zichi, Williamston MI, MARE Tipsheet Aug 2 via DXLD) No signal of TRT Voice of Turkey in 0400-0630 slot Aug 3 on all frequencies 0400-0600 Turkish on 6040, 11980; 0400-0500 Malaysian on 21680 0500-0630 Hausa/Swahili on 13765; 0600-0630 Turkish on 11675.7, 11750 & 13635. From 0630 Voice of Turkey in Turkish on very odd frequency 11675.7: 0855-1055 11675.7 EMR 500 kW / 150 deg WeAs, instead of nominal 1057-1157 11675.0 EMR 500 kW / 150 deg WeAs - was 11675.7 earlier Something`s always wrong at TRT VOT Emirler transmitting station! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/no-signal-of-trt-voice-of-turkey-in.html Voice of Turkey in Uzbek on wrong frequency 9855 kHz, August 3: 1030-1038 9855 EMR 500 kW / 032 deg to CeAs Uzbek, instead of 13650, 1039-1055 13650 EMR 500 kW / 062 deg to CeAs Uzbek, as scheduled A-19 Something`s always wrong at V of Turkey Emirler transmitting station https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/voice-of-turkey-in-uzbek-on-wrong.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Turkey missing on shortwave, August 3 --- No signal this morning 0500-0600 Turkish on 6040, 11980 and Hausa on 13765 -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, WOR iog via DXLD) Also no signal from 0600 UT, August 3 Turkish on 11675, 11750, 13635 Swahili on 13765 Something`s always wrong at TRT Voice of Turkey, Emirler transmitting station is completely off today (Ivo, 0621 UT, ibid.) from 0630 in Swahili on 13765 and in Turkish 11675.8 & 13635 are on air, 11750 missing (Ivo, 0637 UT, ibid.) from 0640 all frequencies are on air (Ivo, 0643, ibid.) Something's always wrong at TRT Voice of Turkey Emirler transmitting station! At 2115 Aug 3 only this single service via SW ON AIR: 9620.021 kHz Emirler TRT in English towards South Asia. 2030-2130 UT 39-41,49,54,55,58-60 EMR 500 105 Eng TUR TRT S=9+35dB signal strength in Delhi India remote SDR. S=9+25dB in Doha Qatar remote SDR. 2122, Turkish typical string instrument folk music. 2126, end of English service, and followed at 2126:35, announcement TRT in ITALIAN language. TX switch OFF at 2131:20 UT (Wolfgang Bueschel, WOR iog via DXLD) TRT VOT with strong signal. 2156 English on 9830 (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) TRT Emirler on air again on August 4th, 05-06 UT slot: 6040.004 kHz, TRT Emirler Turkish program little disturbed audio, noted S=9+5dB in CeEUR, despite azimuth is 138degr towards NE/ME, S=9+10dB strong monitored at remote SDR in Doha Qatar at 0537 UT. 11980.004 kHz S=9+45dB powerhouse (310 degr azi) in WeEUR, S=9+10dB in Doha Qatar ME. 13765.023 kHz towards West Africa at 210degr in Hausa language, despite S=9+20dB properly heard in WeEUR too. Til 0655 UT. TRT Emirler on air again on August 4th, 06-07 UT slot all three Turkish services have clear audio at this hour 11675.006 kHz TRT Emirler Turkish program, noted S=9+30dB in CeEUR, S=9+10dB strong monitored at remote SDR in Doha Qatar ME at 0611 UT. 11750.009 kHz TRT Emirler Turkish program, noted S=9+10dB in CeEUR, S=9+20dB strong monitored at remote SDR in Doha Qatar ME at 0615 UT. 13635.698 kHz much ODD FREQUENCY of TRT Emirler Turkish program, noted S=9+55dB or -24dBm POWERHOUSE here in CeEUR, S=9+10dB strong monitored at remote SDR in Doha Qatar ME at 0615 UT. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 4, WOR iog via DXLD) TRT Voice of Turkey on odd frequency 11675.7 kHz, August 5 0600-1157 11675.7 500 kW / 150 deg WeAs Turkish instead of nominal 0600-1257 13635.0 500 kW / 310 deg WeEu Turkish, 13635.7 on August 4 Something`s always wrong at V of Turkey Emirler transmitting station! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/voice-of-turkey-in-turkish-on-odd_5.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 4-5, DX LISTENING DIGEST) TRT Voice of Turkey in Bulgarian on wrong freq. on Aug 5 1100-1103 9655 EMR 500 kW / 072 deg CeAs Bulgarian, instead of 7210 & 1105-1125 7210 EMR 250 kW / 290 deg SEEu Bulgarian, as scheduled A-19 Something`s always wrong at V. of Turkey Emirler transmitting station https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/voice-of-turkey-in-bulgarian-on-wrong.html TRT Voice of Turkey in Russian on odd frequency 11965.7 kHz, August 5 1300-1355 11965.7 EMR 500 kW / 020 deg EaEu Russian, 11965.0 August 4 Something`s always wrong at TRT VOT Emirler transmitting station!! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/voice-of-turkey-in-russian-on-odd-freq.html Voice of Turkey in Italian on wrong frequency 11965.7 kHz on August 6 1356-1402 11965.7 EMR 500 kW / 020 deg EaEu Italian, instead of 9610 1404-1425 9610.0 EMR 500 kW / 290 deg SEEu Italian, as scheduled A19 Something`s always wrong at TRT Voice of Turkey Emirler station!! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/voice-of-turkey-in-italian-on-wrong.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 5-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Unscheduled on SW Voice of Turkey in Greek on 9610, Aug 6: 1426-1431 9610.0 EMR 500 kW / 290 deg SEEu Greek, unscheduled on SW Something`s always wrong at V of Turkey Emirler transmitting station! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/unscheduled-voice-of-turkey-in-greek-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 6-7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) V of Turkey in Azeri on odd frequency 9505.7 on August 7: 1530-1625 9505.7 EMR 500 kW / 105 deg WeAs Azeri, instead of 9505.0 Something`s always wrong at TRTurkey Emirler transmitting station!! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/voice-of-turkey-in-azeri-on-odd.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9830, Aug 8 at 2330, oh2, something is on here, poor S6-S8 --- listening closely, jup, it`s in German for another Voice of Turkey overrun instead of turning off NLT 2300 after English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE. UKRAINE PLANS GLOBAL RUSSIAN-LANGUAGE TV CHANNEL According to the deputy head of the president's office in Ukraine, the country will launch a global Russian-language TV channel to "strengthen the state's positions in the information struggle." "We have developed a plan to launch a Ukrainian Russian-language TV channel to cover the Russian-speaking population in the whole world," Kyrylo Tymoshenko said. He added that the team of President Volodymyr Zelensky wants it to be a state-run TV channel. "However, we are negotiating with private TV channels to transfer their rights to use their best content," Tymoshenko said. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova was dismissive of the plans. "How could one arrive at this idea: Allocating money to 'broadcast' to the Russian-speaking audience across the world when the Russian language is only permitted in your country for private conversations and religious ceremonies. The madness of what is happening is so great that this story more resembles some biblical fable that the modern-day situation," she wrote on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/maria.zakharova.167/posts/10220185949588638 [in Russian +738+ comments] (AIB Media Industry Briefing | August 2019 via DXLD) ** U A E. Reception of FEBA Radio via ENC-DMS Al-Dhabayya August 1: 1600-1630 on 11655.2 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Afar, very good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/reception-of-feba-radio-via-enc-dms-al.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [and non]. 12005, Aug 4 at 1757, VP signal in SW Asian language, 1800 time pips a few sex late, and more. Aoki shows first it`s Radio Farda at 1300-1800 via Woofferton; but then BBC in French via ASCENSION - I did not note any site or language switch, it was so poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [and non]. CLASSICAL MUSIC RADIO - UK & BEYOND By David Harris davidharris@bdxc.org.uk The recent launch in the UK of classical music DAB station Scala Radio indicates that the market for classical music may be bigger than was previously thought. Classical music has been with us since the very birth of broadcasting in the early 1920s. If we look at copies of the British listings magazine, Radio Times --- now available online at https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk we see that classical music was a big part of early programme schedules. The entry for Monday 30 September 1923 has a Morning Concert from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm, a Symphony Concert from 7:30 to 9:10 pm and a violin soloist from 9:45 to 10:30 pm. Moving through into the 1930s, we find some radio drama but classical music concerts and recitals still form a big part of most days' programming. During the Second World War there were two national BBC stations, BBC Home Service (now BBC Radio 4) and Forces (which became the BBC Light Programme and then BBC Radio 2). The Home Service played a lot of classical music during the war years and the Forces programme featured some classical concerts. After the Second World War was over, the BBC reorganised its radio services into Home, Light and a new classical music and cultural station, the BBC Third Programme, which was launched on 29 September 1946. In retrospect this seems a very brave move at a time when Britain was struggling to rebuild itself after six years of total war. Rationing was widespread and people faced many more years of austerity. On the front page of Radio Times, 27 September 1946, Sir William Haley, Director General of the BBC, spoke of the need for the new station with no “fixed points” e.g. regular news bulletins, who could “devote time to the full and frequent performance of great works in their entirety”. The Third Programme also featured opera and serious plays. (Ed: I can wholeheartedly recommend the book The Envy of the World, Fifty Years of the Third Programme and Radio Three, by Humphrey Carpenter, W&N, 1997, 448 pages). The creation of the Third Programme did not mean the end of classical music on the Home Service or the Light Programme. Whilst the Third Programme fulfilled its remit of playing classical works in full, the other stations continue to broadcast shorter pieces of classical music. It is only when we get to the mid-1950s does the Light Programme focus more on “light entertainment” such as comedy and soap operas. In 1956 classical music was given a real boost in the UK when FM broadcasting started. It took a long time for the FM network to be rolled out and for stereo transmissions to begin. This was due to part of the FM band being used by police and utility companies. In 1967 BBC radio rebranded with the creation of the new pop station, Radio One. The Light Programme became Radio Two, Third Programme was renamed Radio Three and the Home Service became Radio Four. As we moved into the 1970s, Radio Two played “light” music and Radio Four became a spoken word station. Classical music became associated with Radio Three and its small, mainly well educated, elite audience. In 1992, Radio Three’s monopoly of classical music was broken with the launch of Classic FM, the first commercial classical music station and one of the first national commercial stations. Classic FM was an instant success and had proved to be very popular with a 10% reach / 3% share in 2019 compared with Radio Three’s modest 4% reach/1.2% share (RAJAR). Classic FM is also available on all TV platforms which must be a big selling point as many people now have soundbars or surround sound speakers to make up for the poor sound quality of big screen TVs. The growth of DAB from the early 2000’s provided a platform for new station formats, but no one chose to compete with Global’s Classic FM until April 2019 when Bauer launched Scala Radio on DAB, online and Sky channel 0216. It took Classic FM quite a long time to get onto Freeview and this is a route Scala needs to follow if it is to grow its audience. The relatively poor quality of DAB radios and DAB sound and the lack of DAB tuners that one could connect to a hi-fi system do not encourage classical music lovers to embrace this new station. The situation in the USA seems much worse with https://radio-locator.com listing only 188 classical music stations (out of 15,000) with most appearing to be low power college radio stations. The most listened-to classical stations in the USA are in big cities: WETA in Washington, DC; WRTI in Philadelphia (this station also plays some jazz) and WFMT Chicago. Ed [Chrissy Brand?]: My go-to classical music stations in the USA are probably WCRB 99.5 in Boston and KDFC in San Francisco. Check out the Jason Thomas programme Baroque by the Bay on Sundays at http://www.kdfc.com NPR stations across the USA also offer some classical music. I used to greatly enjoy WBACH in Maine, which began in 1991 but sadly closed in 2017, due to the 2011 bankruptcy of Nassau Broadcasting Partners. In France, state broadcaster France Musique plays an eclectic mix of classical music, jazz, chanson and other genres. This station is regularly heard at my location on the Hants/Sussex border on the south coast of England, which is only 100 miles from France. Across Ireland, RTE station Lyric FM (98-99 MHz) plays classical music. This station is occasionally heard in the UK. In Belgium classical music is played by Radio Klara (Flanders) and Network 3 (Wallonia). In the Netherlands NPO 4 is the classical music network. In Denmark, Programme 2 plays the classics but only from 1700 to 0500. In Spain RNE 2 is an FM only classical music network. (WRTH 2019) The strength of classical music is its vast repertoire which has developed over hundreds of years. Every single piece of classical music can be performed and reinterpreted by new generations of musicians and conductors. For too long classical music was seen as an elite form of music. Classic FM has been a great success by presenting classical music in bite-sized chunks which make it more accessible to the lay listener. With an ageing population and a moribund popular music scene, all broadcasters need to start looking at classical music and its potential to attract a wider audience. Ed: I would contest the point that the popular music scene is moribund, although you could think that is the case when listening to the lack of variety on local and national UK FM music stations. For instance, anyone who tuned into the Glastonbury Festival coverage would have seen and heard a sample of the huge range of popular musical genres. There are now more than ever before; trance to indie, drum and bass to nu-jazz. These and many more genres are reflected on free radio stations, internet stations and people's playlists on streaming music services such as Apple Music and Spotify. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_popular_music_genres for a list of the hundreds of global musical genres, many more of which should surely be reflected and covered on radio stations (Aug BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** U S A. RIP WILLIS "BILL" BLOCK --- It has been reported now via the IRCA MW DX club the passing of longtime DXer Bill Block of Prescott Valley, Arizona. Block was more known by people in IRCA, as his logs appeared in the IRCA's DX Monitor. Bill grew up in the Portland area and started off as a Mediumwave band DXer, but later moved into Shortwave. Sometime after that, he returned to Mediumwave to stay, and was a very frequent loggings contributor to the DX Monitor. I had the pleasure of meeting him once at an all-Arizona DXers luncheon, set up by Arizona DXers Bob Coomler and Skip Dabelstein. I found him to be a very likable guy in person. We kept in touch via Facebook, where he was a frequent commenter on my social media page. We shared a common love of Arizona's plants and wildlife, and he posted many of his own pictures taken during his morning walks in Prescott Valley. Bill's logs will surely be missed on each new issue of the Monitor. RIP Bill (- Rick in Sun City, Arizona, Barton, Aug 8, WOR iog via DXLD) Sudden loss of contact with Bill led to a lengthy thread in the IRCA iog, considerable detective work led by Les Rayburn, AL, to find out what had happened to him; and reminders that all of us ageing DXers should make arrangements for immediate and clear notification to the DX world when we go, and plan for disposition of our DX effects (gh) Bill Block Details --- Bill’s sister-in-law, Kathy Block was able to get more details from Prescott City PD than I managed in my welfare check request. It appears that Bill passed from a sudden cardiac event while driving his car. The car crashed through a chain link fence, and came to rest on the side of the road. The Toyota was totaled but there was very little visible trauma. Officers had the keys to Bill’s home, and made entry without problem — checking for a loved one to notify and to ensure that no pets needed care. They found the home with brand new wall-to-wall carpeting freshly installed, and furniture still stacked for its installation. Bill appeared to be living his life as he always had…fully and with expectations for the future. Kathy also passed along the following sentiment which I have to echo: "I’m glad to know that Bill had more than just a unique hobby — he also had a supportive network of long-time friends.” This is more than just a unique hobby, it really is a group of like-minded people who care about each other. We’re all fortunate to have found not only the magic of radio, but the greater magic of friendship. 73, (Les Rayburn, N1LF, 121 Mayfair Park, Maylene, AL 35114 EM63nf, Aug 9, IRCA iog via DXLD) obit ** U S A. 2097.3, August 2 at 0620 UT, CW beacon A every ten seconds, audible despite storm noise level worse than line noise at this frequency; from anywhere *but* Quartzsite AZ. Again audible same August 3 at 0353 check. Have not been able to hear the W weather beacon around 4102+ kHz, however (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 18120-USB, Aug 2 at 1842, at least one hamsig on this band, tnx to sporadic E, ragchew QSO but can`t hear his contact. Talking about activity in AM on 7293, mainly by old-timers dying off and using antique equipment, including him with a 1953 xtal-controlled unit; finally ID at cambio sounds like W7YM, without fonetix. If so, it`s Henry G. Laughlin in Lewistown MT. 18140-USB, then I hear another, Aug 2 at 1844, saying temp is a hot 33C = 89F despite his 5,200-foot elevation in north central part of state implying it`s AZ where Phœnixians escape their heat. Contact unheard but called Steve, HP9SAM as in Panamá; own call sounds like KW6J/7; if so, he is from Corona del Mar, CA, Brian C. Stapleton. Then I check DXmap for Es MUF patches, and find a 17 MHz one above Flagstaff, but none midway between us (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. A TOUR OF WWV, FORT COLLINS, COLORADO YouTube Video of the Month https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJewUiP0Ueo&t=348s Aaron S. Cathcart, Ham Radio operator N0WAR, and member of the Northern Colorado Amateur Radio Club filmed this tour of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, radio station WWV in Fort Collins, Colorado. I’ve always believed that this station should adopt the slogan “All time…all the time” (Aug CIDX Messenger via DXLD) QSL: WWV 25 MHz, Full Data (less time: go figure) featuring Fort Collins Colorado building and the old antenna structure in Washington, DC in 16 days for e-mail report and audio file from v/s Matthew Deutch, Engineer-in-Charge (Mick Delmage, AB, Aug CIDX Messenger via DXLD) Geographical Coordinates of WWV Fort Collins, Colorado: 40°40'46" N, 105°02'32" W National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) radio station WWV broadcasts time and frequency information 24 hours per day, 7 days per week to millions of listeners worldwide. The broadcast information includes time announcements, standard time intervals, standard frequencies, UT1 time corrections, a BCD time code, geophysical alerts and marine storm warnings. The transmissions can be found on 2.5, 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 MHz (ibid.) MUCH MORE about WWV: See WORLD OF HOROLOGY below ** U S A [and non]. Following the announcement in early 2018 about proposed cuts to Radio Sawa (cf MW Report, April 2018), two of the four streams that operated on mediumwave have now been discontinued, whilst another has been revamped: 990 kHz Cyprus - Stream for Egypt and the Levant: discontinued 1431 kHz Djibouti - Stream for Sudan and Yemen: discontinued; now relays VOA 1548 kHz Kuwait - Previous stream for Iraq and the Gulf: remains on air but now with a Stream for the "Mashreq" countries 1593 kHz Kuwait - Stream for Iraq The Radio Sawa website at http://www.radiosawa.com now only has two audio streams that can be accessed. One for Iraq and another for the "Mashreq" countries (Jordan, Palestsine, Lebanon, Israel and Syria). The USAGM website has an announcement about the new stream, although it refers to the target as the "Eastern Mediterranean", but the intended area is still the same! It would appear then that 1548 kHz is now beaming north-west towards its target area from the transmitter in Kuwait, perhaps offering a DX opportunity for reception in the British Isles, albeit on a frequency that still has four local stations in the UK and TWR from Grigoriopol in the evening. The "new" stream appears to cover an area that was previously by the transmitter on 990 kHz from Cyprus. (Tony Rogers) See also Djibouti and Cyprus (Aug BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** U S A [non]. USAGM: see also THAILAND! ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1993 monitoring: confirmed first SWBC, Friday August 2 at 2200 on WRMI 9955, fair S8-S9. Also confirmed, UT Sat Aug 3 at 0130 on WRMI 7780, JBA in local HNL, without which it should have been sufficient. Next: 0629vUT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany 1000 UT Saturday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW [Aug 3 & 17; alt. weeks] 1430 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 2100 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 0130 UT Sunday WRMI 5850 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315] 1030 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 0130 UT Monday WRMI 9395 7780 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 6160v? 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 0930 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW 1130 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW 1816 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 0800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 3210-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) GERMANY, World of Radio#1993 via Hamburger Lokalradio on August 3 0630-0700 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sat, weak/fair: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/world-of-radio1993-via-hamburger.html WORLD OF RADIO 1993 monitoring: Not confirmed Sat August 3 before 1500 on HLR GERMANY, 9485-CUSB via UTwente SDR: as usual, nothing except huge splash from 9490 Romania. But Alan Gale, England reports at 1454: ``Hi Glenn, No luck hearing World of Radio on 9485 kHz here again today, but I decided to check out a few webSDRs and see if I could find it. Most just showed the loud signal on 9490 with the exception of this one in Finland, I could hear you on there at 1450 UT, not great, but definitely recognisable: http://sdr.vy.fi/ The SDRs to the south, even the ones in Germany, seem to be dominated by the Romanian station, but thankfully this one at least picks up something. Alan`` And at 1504: ``Hi Glenn, Thought I'd check out a few more of the Scandinavian webSDRs; this one is run by OH5AE and has you readable, a short mp3 is attached. Still lots of splatter, but much better. At least we know where the signal is going to now: http://oh5ae.dyndns.org:8073/ Alan`` [WORLD OF RADIO 1994] WOR 1993 confirmed here Sat Aug 3 at 2100 on WRMI 9955, which was on a few minutes earlier with IS/ID loop, but WOR joined only slightly late, just in time to hear me say in intro ``1993``; fair. Also confirmed UT Sun Aug 4 at 0130 on WRMI 5850, VG S9+10/20. Also confirmed UT Sun Aug 4 at 0340 on WA0RCR, Wentzville MO, 1860-AM, as I am quoting Bob Biermann, about 23 minutes into, so started circa 0317; good S9+10 including noise level. Next: 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 0130 UT Monday WRMI 9395 7780 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 6160v? 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 0930 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW* 1130 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW* 1816 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania* 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 0800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW [2 editions]* 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 *NOTE: IRRS might be missing due to transmitter shortage in Romania; and Aussie Tim Gaynor tells us August 4: ``Unique Radio off air till further notice due to technical issues --- Hi, Unique Radio 5045 and 3210 kHz, Gunnedah NSW, will be off air due to several technical issues. Faults in the antenna and also a fault in the DC power supply to the transmitter have made it necessary to go off air for a while. These will be fixed as time permits and also will let you know when coming back on air. WINB broadcasts as per usual and podcasts.also continue. https://www.uniqueradio.biz Best regards, Tim Gaynor, Unique Radio, Gunnedah NSW, Australia`` WORLD OF RADIO 1993 monitoring: not confirmed but presumed still there, Sunday August 4 at 2130 on WRMI 7780, JBA carrier vs HNL totaling S9+10 (gh) Confirmed from monitoring here in NB. Full report on Sunday/Monday monitoring of 7780 kHz to be sent later (-- Richard Langley, WOR iog via DXLD) Confirmed UT Monday August 5 at 0130 on WRMI 9955, VG S9+20 following 0129 ID for ``Son-Power Radio from studios of WRMI on 5850, 7455 [abandoned years ago], 9395``. While // 7780 is S9+10 in high noise level. Also confirmed UT Monday August 5 at 0258 just in time, the 0230 on WRMI 7780, very poor. Also confirmed UT Monday August 5 at 0259 on Area 51 webcast, already in progress during first item about Andorra [non] so started about 3 minutes early. WBCQ 5130.3v JBA at 0327 check when HRI has already started; no trace vs HNL now nor earlier this evening of 6160v, unlike last week. Also confirmed UT Monday August 5 at 0330 on WRMI 9955, VG S9+10/20, following some scary music fill at 0328 and soothing music at 0329. Next: 1816 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania* 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 0800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW [2 editions]* 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 *NOTE: IRRS might be missing due to transmitter shortage in Romania; and Aussie Tim Gaynor told us August 4 that Unique Radio is off TFN for repairs. WORLD OF RADIO 1993 monitoring: confirmed Monday August 5 from 1816.5 on IRRS, 7290-AM, still active via ROMANIA, presumed Saftica site altho never specified by NEXUS-IBA IRRS IPAR. It had just cut on at *1814 (see IRELAND [non]), 1815 theme ``Triumphal March from Aïda`` by Verdi, until WOR start. Blasting signal via UTwente SDR, but some deep selective fading distortion. This surely puts our best WOR signal across Europe. Also confirmed UT Tue Aug 6 at 0123 the 0100 on WRMI 7780, poor in HNL. Next: 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 WORLD OF RADIO 1993 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday August 7 at 2100 on WRMI 9955, which was on NLT 2055 with IS & ID loop, but joining WOR a few sex late, ``---with World of Radio 1993---``. Earlier thought WBCQ would also be audible, but now the line noise is blasting again, reducing it to a JBA carrier, but WOR confirmed L&C on the 7490.18v webcast. Also confirmed UT Thursday August 8 at 0119 check the 0100 on WRMI 7780, fair S9+10 without HNL. Next WOR 1994 should be finished by the end of UT August 8, ready for webcasting, and from August 9 broadcasting (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1994 contents: Australia, Canada, Cook Islands, Congo DR, Cuba, Denmark, Germany, International Waters non, Iran non, Ireland/Italy nons, Kashmir, Laos, Latvia, Mexico, Myanmar, Netherlands non, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Oklahoma, Panama non, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, USA; and the propagation outlook The shortwave broadcasts should be: 2200 UT Friday WRMI 9955 to SSE 0130 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE 0629vUT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany to WSW 1000 UT Saturday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW [Aug 17? alt. weeks] ND 1430 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany to WSW 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM ND 2100 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 to SSE 0130 UT Sunday WRMI 5850 to NW 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315] ND 1030 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 0130 UT Monday WRMI 9395 to NNW, 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW, 6160v? to WSW 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE 0930 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW [hiatus?] ND 1130 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW [hiatus?] ND 1816 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania ND 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 0800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW [2 editions; hiatus?] ND 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 to SSE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html WORLD OF RADIO 1994 monitoring: ready for download early UT Friday August 9; and confirmed first SWBC Fri Aug 9 at 2200 on WRMI 9955, fair S9-S4 with perfect timing starting on the dot with no upcut or overlap; local high line noise level still blasting below 9 MHz, disaudiblizing whatever be on e.g. 7780, but not affecting 9955. Sounds like me under the HNL on 7780 UT Sat Aug 10 at 0130 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ BCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ: ** U S A. 9930 [sic], 0349, USA, WBCQ very strong and clear with country music (From info in DX Dialog). Rated variously at 100, 200, or 500 kW? 23/6 (Ken Baird, Wainuiomata, NZ, NZRDXL SDR Russell, Northland, Aug NZ DX Times via DXLD) In log list proper order for 9930, but surely 9330, altho WTWW could have been active on 9930, altho unlikely at this hour. T8WH Palau ``HBN`` is also registered on 9930 at this hour (gh, DXLD) 6159.9, WBCQ, ME, Monticello, Johnny Lightening comedy show with sophomoric fake ads, and similar off-color parody bits, music etc. and mention of ‘free speech’ doesn’t really exist on the Internet. Also mentioned RHC on 6165 causing issues for some listeners, but not mentioning what was on 6155! Actually there was one pretty funny ‘ad’ for ‘reality canceling headphones’ that will prevent you from hearing things that conflict with any preconceived, prejudiced and partisan views. :o 3+4443+ -- would have been worse if Cuba were actually modulating on 6165 but as it is, this was pretty un-QRMed from them, but there was some sort of digital signal on 6155 that forced using USB sync. No idea what it might be. 0220-0235 29/Jul, SDRplay +SDRuno +randomwire (Ken Zichi, Pt Hope MI2, MARE Tipsheet Aug 2 via DXLD) 9320-9340, August 2 at 0042, wideband weak whine centered about 9330, making me wonder if it`s something leaking out of WBCQ-6 Superstation, which has been off the air for further antenna work. On AWWW last week, AW said it would not resume until late August, but a twit from him August 1 via Artie Bigley said it would be ``soon``. Meanwhile via Ivo Ivanov, different frequencies for the World`s Last Chance Arabic service have been registered with HFCC, effective Aug 5? at 75 degrees: 12120 at 2000-0857, and 15705 at 0900-1157; the rest of the day in English on 9330. Apparently someone is not aware that 12120 is occupied by continuous RTTY at least in the daytime. That should be a fun collision should it ever eventuate. 6160v, Aug 2 at 0050, still nothing from new WBCQ frequency via ``classic`` transmitter ex-9330v. Maybe will be running only on weekends? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1993, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7490.1v, August 3 at 0000, music unseems William Tell Overture as I try to hear Angela And Allan Weiner WorldWide on WBCQ, but buried in local hi line noise level. By 0004 I`m on the webcast, now with W.T.O. but sounds slightly different and runs late until 0005, when it`s The TimTron hosting instead of A&AW. Says now quadricasting on 3265, 5130, 6160 and 7490 (but if I can`t get 7490, forget the rest!). He doesn`t have AW`s proper theme music so he found another W.T.O. performance on YT. People are wondering about Superstation 9330? It`s not 100% complete yet, even tho it was on the air for a while. Transmitter is water-cooled, but additional air conditioning is needed to be upgraded. Antenna system is not 100% complete either; and not sure how properly it funxion: so shut down until these questions be answered. [WORLD OF RADIO 1994] Sounds like he opens a beer -- no, he says it`s cold H2O as doctor forbids him any alcohol. On the mend from Lyme disease, tapering off meds. Glad to be on new 49mb frequency, and reminisces how, long ago, he and other hams in Massachusetts wanted to play music so did it there instead of 40m. 0013 music break with a Leon Russell song. 0021 two belches; imitates how SSB sounds off-tuned plus and minus, as he prefers AM mode. Is going to tweak the 6160v transmitter for better power. ``Nifty`` 6160 is better than 5130 until band ``goes long`` when 5130 still holds up over shorter distances. 0032 another W.T.O. version, jazzed up! Ha. 0038 another song break, ``Ring of Fire`` by Social Distortion. [0042 do I feel a quick earthquake tremor in Enid?? {not per USGS}] Another song until 0047 outroed as ``See My Way``. 0049 talking about Tesla coils, belch. 0050 a cough and 7490 webcast stops! Must be delicate connexion there; at first suspected problem at my end. 0053 I think to try the Area 51 webcast and it is still running with TTT playing yet another version of W.T.O, from a video he says is worth seeing. 0056 talking about feeding and adopting a stray chat [sic]; belch, and SFX, woman talking briefly presumably Mrs. Tron. Over without an outro or goodbye at 0100. Said he kept computer off so no e-mail; and no phone calls either. John Carver also monitored the hour on an axual radio: ``Tonight's show started a bit late this evening on 7490 with TimTron as the host. He says they are broadcasting on 3265, 5130, 6160 and 7490. He repeats what Allan previously said about the cooling problems with the new transmitter and the continuing antenna work. He also states that his Lyme disease seems to be on the run and he is feeling better and they are cutting his medication back some. Then into some music. Some talk about 49 meters and why he prefers AM for ham work. He also said that in general 6160 was doing better than 5130 at getting out to people. Evidently he hasn't listened to it from my QTH. Then more music. Some more talk about 6160. He must really like it. Some talk about Tesla coils and how he modified one to play music. Then he played a recording of two Tesla coils playing the William Tell Overture. Program was off the air at 0100. Some dead air for a bit on 7490 then into Brother Stair. A minute or two after that music started and we had both music and Brother Stair at the same time. John Mid-North Indiana``. 6160v, Aug 3 at 0131, I manage to detect a JBA carrier from this WBCQ on the air after nothing for several weekdays, vs local HNL (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7490.1v, UT Sun Aug 4 at 0023, WBCQ unreadable vs noise level; also detectable on 6160.1v, but not on 5130.4v vs even higher NL, so suspect Area 51 is missing unless it`s now Area 61 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7490, The Overcomer Ministry (via WBCQ) at 2053 with Brother Stair preaching and pontificating – Good with fading Aug 4 [Sunday] – This is still not listed on WBCQ's website. Has Allan Weiner received enough grief for supporting Brother Stair that he's afraid to list his extra transmissions on his website? He really should be ashamed for supporting him (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S, Drake SPR-4, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 80 and 40 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD) and an Alpha Delta DX-LB inverted vee dipole, ODXA iog via DXLD) WBCQs: As of 2300, 5130 was working. No signal on 6160 or 3265 that I could detect. As of 2303 there was no signal on 5130. Signal came back at 2308. Seems like it's going to be one of those evenings (John H. Carver, Jr., Mid-North Indiana, 2312 UT Sun Aug 4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7490.177, Aug 7 at 1955, JBA carrier while my line noise is off, so WBCQ must be on this early already on a Wednesday, prior to `Financial Survival` at 2000. Unlike August 5, no sign of an early test from WRNO 7505 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) q.v. below ** U S A. ALLAN WEINER ROTARY TALK IN MAINE Glenn, https://thecounty.me/2019/08/06/news/broadcaster-briefs-rotary/ (Artie Bigley, DXLD) Broadcaster briefs Rotary Kathy Miller, Special to the Star-Herald • August 6, 2019 MARS HILL, Maine — The Mars Hill Rotary Club met at 6:30 a.m. on Tuesday, July 31, for their regular weekly meeting at the Northern Light Continuing Care facility in Mars Hill. The program speaker was Al Weiner, who has been in the broadcasting business for 50 years. He spoke about his start in the radio industry and his move to Maine, where he attended Ricker College in Houlton. He brought a farm in Monticello and build his first radio station there. He comically added that he built his first antenna with junk and it actually worked. He leases time with Kixx FM, WXMe and 98.2 Talk radio. He has the only AM/FM shortwave station in the United States (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) That`s the whole story, complete with errors (gh) WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI RMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI: ** U S A. 9395, WRMI FL Okeechobee, ”This is a Music Show” featuring the “music” of Ras G (who apparently just died, and who frankly, I’ve not heard of before) which can best be described as ‘bad/strange electronic-type music’. Figures, I finally remember to look for this, and they’re playing this sort of stuff! ANYhoo – the host did provide a list of what he played and a photo of the ‘artist’ in a brief 4-5 minute digital bit starting at 0220: [illustrated] Into Radio Slovakia International at BoH, English news and features. Started out 4+4+4+4+4+ but by end of monitoring down to 4443+3+; 0145-0250 1/Aug, SDRplay +SDRuno +FLDigi for the digital modes +randomwire (Ken Zichi, MI, MARE Tipsheet Aug 2 via DXLD) New program on WRMI --- I host a music-oriented program on student and community radio stations WQNA Springfield, IL and WTND-LP Macomb, IL and plan to simulcast an hour on WRMI’s 9395 kHz signal beginning Saturday, August 3rd at 2100 ET (0100 UT Sunday) and again in a fortnight on August 17th. My program originates from Alvinston, Ontario, Canada and features a mixture of popular music with emphasis on Canadian artists. North American satellite TVRO listeners may remember me from the defunct W0KIE network. Regards, (Mason Vye, Aug 2, WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Missed the first one, but already on WRMI skedgrid with only his name as title. What would WRMI air alternate weeks? Maybe just repeat it (gh, ibid.) Yes, they do; and WQNA is for sale: see next DXLD 5850, WRMI at 0013Z with instrumental Middle Eastern music. If this is program filler, it's quite nice. No sign of Radio Slovakia, oddly. SIO 545 (Carlie Forsythe, Madison isthmus WI, Aug 4, ODXA iog via DXLD) 9395, UT Sun Aug 4 at 0008, S9+20 YL in French on WRMI, quelle? O, it`s RFPI as now sked this hour, allegedly also on 5950, both emitting System G. It`s rather puzzling how some European broadcasters would rather relay via WRMI to N America in non-English, e.g. also Italians (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WRMI 7780: From my recording last Sunday evening, 4-5 August UT (again, mostly weak to fair signal for the first hour or so; reception improved significantly later as evening approaches): 2015 Upward Look Forum (not Viva Miami) 2030 Reserve Military Retirement 2100 Wavescan (Special program on Radio Andorra's 80th anniversary) 2130 World of Radio (#1993; last sentence or two again cut by transition music) 2200 Voice of the Report of the Week (not Bob Biermann's Your Weekend Show) 2300 Full Gospel Broadcast (tape bleed-through echoes on screams as usual) 2330 Shortwave Radiogram (#111) 0000 Radio Slovakia International in Slovak 0030 Radio Slovakia International in English 0100 Wavescan (Special program on Radio Andorra's 80th anniversary) 0130 World of Radio (#1993) 0200 Radio Prague in English 0230 World of Radio (#1993) 0300 Transmitter off (cutting off last bit of address announcement) (-- Richard Langley, NB, WOR iog via DXLD) OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHER OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW: ** U S A. 9475, August 2 at 1835, no signal from WTWW-1, nor on night frequency 5830, but could be on below noise level. Let alone 5085 WTWW-2. 31m propagation is OK with audibles: 9395 TOMBS via WRMI; 9265 JBA WINB carrier. 5830, Aug 7 at 0607, WTWW-1 is S9+10 of dead air; if it were modulating, it would still be under-. 9475, Aug 7 at 2005, no signal from WTWW-1 day frequency either, nor a trace on 5830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 17775, Aug 6 at 2111, KVOH is still on with S9 music, but with BFO, carrier seems to be cutting off & on very rapidly; on AM it sounds like a crackle. Also sounds different depending on whether R75 AGC is off, slow or fast, latter being default (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. Here`s a great example of how regular bandscanning can pay off: Despite my local high line noise level (which OG&E blames on Suddenlink sharing the same poles, waiting for Suddenlink to remedy), Aug 5 at 1906 I`m running thru the 7 MHz band with BFO for any signal traces, even at a daypart when nothing would be expected even without the noise --- and there *is* a JBA carrier on 7505, which has got to be WRNO, far outside its nominal schedule, 01-04 UT sometimes, and even outside its registered availability between 22 and 16! Fades up a bit with music, gospel, but cuts off abruptly at 1913*, a test? Back on at *1917:55 with open carrier; At 1925:45 the gospel music suddenly surges at S9+10, but that is because my HNL has unexpectedly cut off temporarily. At 1927, 7505 is gone again. Recheck at 2141, S9+10 HNL is back on and no WRNO. While the HNL is off I quickly scan the 49mb, at 1925 and find JBA carriers just where expected at midday from the NAFTA daytime trio: 6185 XEPPM, 6070- CFRX, and 5950 WRMI! (but no 6160v WBCQ) Furthermore there is a propagation disturbance in progress, making most of the SW bands almost dead, even above the noise level boundary worse below 9 MHz: only decent signals circa 1924 being 12160 and 13845 WWCRs; with 9475 WTWW very poor. WWV reported at 1800: ``Solar flux 67 and estimated planetary A-index 4. The estimated planetary K-index at 1800 UTC on 05 August was 5. Space weather for the past 24 hours has been minor. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G1 level occurred.`` Quick check next day Aug 6 at 1837 finds the HNL buzzing of S9 to S9+10 on most frequencies below 8.8 MHz, with a few gaps (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9470, WEWN, English Catholic Mass supposedly with John Paul giving the Homily, but they either 'voiced over' his part with an English Preacher or he speaks a LOT better English than I think he does! They even translated Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa! [would that be: ``I`m guilty, I`m guilty, I`m really guilty``?? -gh] Didn't have the same ring to my ear! All the hymns were in English too. 4+4+54+4+ with a titch of my local QRM sneaking through during brief slight fades keeping it from being perfect. Kickin` signal though unlike most WEWN English channels lately -- as good as their Spanish choices. 1205-1230 26/Jul, SDRplay +SDRuno +ANC-4 +randomwire (Ken Zichi, Williamston MI, MARE Tipsheet Aug 2 via DXLD) ** U S A. 13845, WWCR, dude ranting about how the people coming across the border illegally are part of the deep state conspiracy to bring diseases like Ebola and the Bubonic Plague and trenchfoot and Lyme disease (and probably hemorrhoids and halitosis!) in order to allow the ‘Satanic deep state’ officials to declare medical martial law to allow the UN troops to take over. Apparently vaccines don’t work and they just change DNA by introducing aborted baby cells into our systems because all vaccines have them. He is also pushing ‘super silver’ snake oil to help get rid of the pig parasites and Ebola. 4+4+4+4+4+, 1240-1250 1/Aug, SDRplay +SDRuno +rwire (Ken Zichi, Williamston MI, MARE Tipsheet Aug 2 via DXLD) My2, who could that be? WWCR-3 sked: for 12-14 UT Mon-Fri including this Thursday updated August 1: The Power Hour (Live) with Daniel Brigman (gh, DXLD) 6115, WWCR at 0005Z with a man in English with an anti-Muslim pseudo-scholarly diatribe, lots of information taken out of context, the usual hateful rubbish. Get outta my headphones, I don't want to hear you. SIO 555. :( (Carlie Forsythe, Madison isthmus WI, Aug 4, ODXA iog via DXLD) ** U S A. 720, GEORGIA, WVCC, Hogansville, 1115 August 5, 2019. Syndicated Hugh Hewitt Show political spew, national spots, FOX News top of hour. Fair, day only I guess to mostly protect Chicago. As the sunrise is past, this one bubbles down to almost oblivion at this receiving location, despite power. 1230, ALABAMA, WKWL, Florala, 1515 August 8, 2019. Logged from Niceville, FL: Fleetwood Mac, Earth Wind & Fire, Billy Joel, Bon Jovi. "If you like the Classics, we've got you covered, WKWL." Off the air August 6, 2019, while in downtown Florala. In fact, the transmitting tower was spotted downtown. Just the Pensacola, FL EWTN Catholic talk WDWR signal audible on the portable at a picnic bench in Florala City Park on Lake Jackson, across from the Gitty Up-N-Go. 1240, ALABAMA, WEBJ, Brewton, 2338 August 6, 2019. Local ads with 251 Area Code, back to syndicated Dr. Larry Elder talk show. Poor. 1289.974 +/- ALABAMA, WOPP, Opp, 1235 August 5, 2019. Logging from Niceville, FL and fair signal at best, male announcer with live read ad for a business in the LeMar Plaza, long list of local listeners date of birth greetings, SRN News top of hour, then local news sponsored by CCB Community Bank. Measured here, but very slightly varies, mostly up. Another low het/growl potential at least for those in the extreme SE USA. Then, logging while in Florala, Alabama the next morning, noted with a mix of Classic Country and MOR Oldies (heavier on the latter). On a portable radio, the inaccurate transmitting position wasn't detectable. 1400, ALABAMA, WJLD, Fairfield, 1110 August 7, 2019. Black guy host (the Gary Richardson Morning Show) with local listeners calling in on current events, a spot for the Richardson Law Group. The station is owned by Richardson Broadcasting Corp. See a pattern here? Spot for Birmingham's 4th Avenue Jazz Fest. 1490, MISSISSIPPI, WHOC, Philadelphia, 0013 August 7, 2019. Briefly up with ad for local business "... in downtown Philadelphia." Overtaken by WANG. 1490, MISSISSIPPI, WANG, Biloxi, 0014 August 14, 2019. Ad for something "... on Highway 90, Beach Boulevard" then male liner "More Classic Country on 103.5, The Possum." 1539.996 +/-, MISSOURI, KBOA, Kennett, 0328 August 3, 2019. Satellite-fed Adult Standards/MOR Oldies (Roberta Flack, Looking Glass, Barbra Streisand, Firefall). Frequent liners after every couple of songs mentioning "1540 AM and 98.7 FM" and a "W" something call letters for the FM, usually inserted after mostly national ads. CBS News top of hours. Finally nailed it with a local farming equipment ad touting service area for SE Missouri and the corners of Tennessee and Arkansas. Kennett is in that little SE lip, almost an Arkansas wannabee. The FM simulcast is WGCQ-FM Hayti (seriously), MO. Transmitter is drifting fairly rapidly a few Hz both sides of nominal center, between about 1539.992 to 1540.004, the best giveaway for any lucky threshold signal loggers. It's 1000 watts day, a mere 3 watts nights and 530 watts critical hours. We'll assume they're illegally running 1000 or 530 watts for this and subsequent logs, as in: still there and off-channel August 6 at 1045 with the Captain & Tennille. 1600, LOUISIANA, KLEB, Golden Meadows, 0232 August 3, 2019. Very good, with almost indecipherable Cajun English-accented lady jock between Zydeco vocals, accordion instrumentals and old regional Rhythm & Blues vocals. "Ragin' Cajun" slogan still used as often heard within frequent 'proper' English station promos. Presumed WAOS, Austell, GA near local level pest with Mexi-tunes format Spanish when beamed away, obviously not on 67 watts night power. KLEB made a very occasional, though always a rather weak appearance, at my old Clearwater, FL location. 1650, FLORIDA, (HAR), WQYZ314, FDoT, I-10 at Mile Marker 45, Holt. Audible August 3, 2019 on I-10 westbound from Mile Marker 51. Compu-woman with similar if not the exact same generic long loop with multiple call signs, as used on the I-10 at Exit 70 Mossy Point FDoT 1650 kc/s transmitter. 1650, FLORIDA, (HAR), WPLW619, FDoT, I-110 at Fairfield Drive, Pensacola. Fake log. Listed active in the FCC dB but silent on mid-day drive past August 3, 2019. 1650, FLORIDA, (HAR), WQYZ315, FDoT, I-10 Exit 70, Mossy Head. Excellent August 6, 2019 with the usual long generic loop by compu-woman while exiting US-90 to SR-285. 1690, FLORIDA, (HAR), WPLW619, FDoT, I-10 at 191C, East Milton. Fake log. Listed active in the FCC dB but silent on mid-day drive past August 3, 2019. 102.3 MHz, ALABAMA, WAMI, Opp, 1523 August 6, 2019. Local level in downtown Florala, Alabama. "Shoppers Line" where the redneck lady reads for-sale items submitted from listeners, concluding with "... fourteen baby guineas at $2 each, and baby goats at $75 each." Then into brief "Livestock News" by redneck man followed by "WAMI, Opp-Andalusia, Alabama" by man at 1604. Then lady stating "The great gospel music is here on WAMI. Open your bibles to Hebrews 12: 1-2, but to pay particular attention to 1..." Then she stumbled and said she forgot to bookmark Hebrews. Long pause until she located the page and began reading. 103.9 MHz, FLORIDA, WWEO-LP, DeFuniak Springs. Fake log. No trace of this on the west side or in downtown DeFuniak. Just local to semi-local Rush Limbaugh and FOX News. Missed the ID but local weather for Dothan, AL and "the Wiregrass Region," spots for Dothan, so presumed WDBT, Ft. Rucker, AL. 107.9 MHz, FLORIDA, WYHJ-LP, Gulf Breeze. Fair-good level with Christian evangelical monologue by man while just north of downtown Pensacola on August 3, 2019. Decent range for a mere 28 watts. **************************************** Florida Low Power Radio Stations: https://sites.google.com/site/floridadxn/florida-low-power-radio-stations **************************************** (Terry L. Krueger, Niceville, FL (except for road logs where noted) IC-R75 with active loop, ICF-7600GR portable, All times/dates GMT, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 780, KKOH, NV, Reno, 7/29 at 0815 [EDT = 1215 UT], Good ID by man over a the jumble. Note to DXers: ID's usually drop the second "K", so it sounds like they are IDing as just "KOH" - (Rick Barton, Arizona MW Logs. Times/Dates in Eastern [EDT]. My tube gear shack is largely retired for the hot summer. Unless otherwise stated, equipment is Grundig Satellit 205/T.5000 RS SW-2000629, Panasonic RF-2200 - stock or with Terk Advantage loop. 73 and Good Listening.....! - rb, WOR iog via DXLD) ** U S A. 830, August 5 at 0149 UT on E-W longwire, no WCCO, but a station playing novelty tune, but modulation keeps cutting out, for variable intervals such as on for 22 seconds, off for 5, on for 24, off for 8, etc., etc. 0156 UT, ``Happy Trails to You``, barbershop performance, maybe for a sign-off? No, then ``Fish Heads``, but this is not Dr. Demento; Of course fades out around hourtop; 0202 UT another novelty song with cutouts. On the DX-398 it`s hard to DF, best audible with a slow SAH circa 1 Hz in WCCO null which is ESE/WNW, but seems to peak a bit CCW from there, i.e. close to E-W. I don`t see how this could be anything but WUMY Memphis TN (address in Southaven MS suburb), which last year`s NRC AM Log shows as: a 3 kW daytimer, but CP for U1 8 kW day, 2 WATTS night, classic hits format in $tereo; and of course this is way after sunset which in August is officially 0045 UT. Also FCC AM Query no longer shows any such CP, just daytimer license to GMF-Christian Media I LLC [sic] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Rather: [Re my 830 log presumed WUMY:] NEW TUCSON RADIO VENTURE TARGETS OLDER 'LOST AUDIENCE' By Cathalena E. Burch Arizona Daily Star Aug 5, 2019 Updated 1 hr ago Tucson radio will welcome a new station today that features some familiar voices. This morning, 101.7-FM and 830-AM will go live as KDRI The Drive, a Tucson-focused music and entertainment station targeting listeners between the ages of 45 to 64. Owners Fletcher McCusker, Bobby Rich and Jim Arnold say those are the listeners that have long been neglected not only in Tucson but nationwide by corporate-owned radio that focuses on the 25-to-40 segment. “We kind of view them as a lost audience,” said longtime Tucson business titan and community activist McCusker, the only one among the trio who doesn’t have an extensive radio or broadcast background. McCusker’s only foray into radio was a short stint at KWFM — he was the underground rock station’s first hire — when he was 19 in the late 1960s. The trio closed last week on the $650,000 purchase of the radio frequencies that had been home to Christian broadcaster Family Life. The Drive will play a mix of music from the 1960s through the ’80s and beyond that they say will appeal to an audience that identifies as baby boomers, Rich said. “It’s not classic rock. It’s not golden oldies. But it’s going to be unique, programmed by Bobby Rich,” McCusker said. “His library right now is 3,000 songs, so you could literally go weeks without hearing the same songs.” When pressed for a clearer definition of the format, Rich would only say that he planned to “present on The Drive something that (listeners) will be comfortable with and familiar with and will give them something that they want, which is information and entertainment.” On Thursday, Tucson Radio began playing nonstop novelty songs, including “Camp Granada” and “Purple People Eater” under the name “The Worm.” On Monday morning, it switches gears as The Drive with Rich and Hill Bailey, most recently of KHYT 107.5-FM, in the morning driver’s seat. . . https://tucson.com/business/new-tucson-radio-venture-targets-older-lost-audience/article_145d434b-1c14-5789-beb0-90722a014d86.html (via Radio World NewsBytes, excerpts of much longer story) Glenn: That will explain what you heard on 830 kHz, via your E/W wire (-- via GREG HARDISON, CA, August 5, WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Which I had assumed to be WUMY Memphis, ruling out Tucson due to its religious format, but now replaced. FCC AM Query already has 830 as KDRI, 50/1 kW, Direxional night only, ex-KFLT really since 7/31. It had been KFLT more than 33 years. Monthly Local Sunset Times: August 7:15 [0215 UT] September 6:30 [0130 UT] Sunrise times MST: August 5:45 [1245 UT] September 6:00 [1300 UT] FCC pattern maps are Not Found! But NRC Pattern Book VIII of 2013 shows it tight toward the SSE, no good here. I try for KDRI again Aug 6 at 0210 UT before LSS, but hear only a bigsig from a WCCO SBG on 830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Quick MW bandscan at SSS Aug 2 at 0140 UT finds live anti-Democratic ranting from acting president Drumpf at a rally in Cincinnati on at least: 840 WHAS Louisville, 890 WLS Chicago, 600 presumed WMT Iowa, and on 760 a station with ``Amen`` interjexions, so KCCV, a Kansas City Bott rather than WJR Detroit? KCCV is supposed to cut from 6000 to 200 watts at night, after 0115 UT in August, and normally we hear only WJR. Loads of major AM stations demean themselves by spewing far-right hateshows all day, but the above are worst of the worst. Note, NOT heard on WLW Cincinnati (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Dyster kyrkogård för sändarutrustning i Roswell NM Photos John Lyles, Radios du monde via Santiago San Gil G, Cadena DX fb. Översättning Christer Brunström Nedan den dystra kyrkogården för radiostationen KCKN i Roswell, New Mexico. Sändarbyggnaden har tömts och resterna av sändarna har lämnats vind för våg utanför. Den 11 juni 2018 ledde en storm till att sändaren fattade eld och byggnaden skadades svårt i den häftiga branden. KCKN bad FCC om tillstånd att använda en reservsändare. FCC gav sitt medgivande men brandmyndigheterna förbjöd verksamheten så länge de elektriska installationerna inte hade godkänts. KCKN förblev tyst tills nödvändiga säkerhetskontroller hade utförts. Stationen ägs numera av Radio Visión Cristiana och KCKN sänder klassisk country music och religiösa program på spanska på 1020 kHz med en effekt av 50 kW. [google translaton:] [illustrated, a row of disused rack panels outside] GLOOMY CEMETERY FOR TRANSMITTER EQUIPMENT IN ROSWELL NM Photos John Lyles, Radios du monde via Santiago San Gil G, Cadena DX fb. Translation Christer Brunström The gloomy cemetery for the KCKN radio station in Roswell, New Mexico. The transmitter building has been emptied and the remnants of the transmitters have been left wind to wave outside. On June 11, 2018, a storm caused the transmitter to catch fire and the building was severely damaged in the fiery fire. KCKN asked the FCC for permission to use a spare transmitter. The FCC gave its consent, but the fire authorities banned the operation as long as the electrical installations had not been approved. KCKN remained silent until the necessary security checks had been carried out. The station is now owned by Radio Visión Cristiana and KCKN broadcasts classical country music and religious programs in Spanish at 1020 kHz with a power of 50 kW (via ARC mv-eko 5 August via DXLD) 1020 kHz off frequency? I don`t know who it is; I haven`t been AM DXing for a few months, but I've got a low rumbling noise on 1020, sounds like someones off frequency. Can anyone smarter then me with a more sophisticated radio tell who it is? (Paul Walker, Laramie WY, 0441 UT Aug 7, HCDX via DXLD) Upper sideband or lower sideband? How many Hz off nominal? Paraguay is 1020.094 and has been heard in MA. The 'mwoffset' list may help once you get something close to a measurement: http://www.myradiobase.de/mediumwave/mwoffset.txt (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, South Yarmouth, MA, ibid.) When put my radio into CW mode and I tune left the whine disappears at 1019.57 and when I tune right it disappears at 1020.24 (Paul, ibid.) Something running about 100 Hz low? Los Angeles is dominant here, but is more or less on channel. best wishes, (Nick Hall-Patch, BC, ibid.) Yes, something like 1019.893 kHz. Looks like being stronger on Texas rx's, but no proper audio anywhere. Best regards, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, 1030 UT Aug 7, ibid.) Here's a long recording at 1058-1101 UT. Can anyone recognize the station? (Mauno, IRCA iog via DXLD) Thank you, Rudolf, Fredrik and Frank. So KCKN Roswell NM it must be. (Mauno, ibid.) barely rumbles against near-local KOKP here (gh) ** U S A. 1120, UNID. 8/3 0500 Eastern [0900 UT], have tried in vain over the last couple of days to ID a new station that has been covering KANN with EWTN Catholic religious programming. Suspecting it's maybe KCRN (Limon, Colorado), that intended to raise power to 50,000 Watts. Using my MW loops, the station does null in a direction that would indicate it is coming from the northeast relative to me, which is consistent with a Limon CO origin (Rick Barton, Arizona MW Logs. Times/Dates in Eastern [EDT]. My tube gear shack is largely retired for the hot summer. Unless otherwise stated, equipment is Grundig Satellit 205/T.5000 RS SW-2000629, Panasonic RF-2200 - stock or with Terk Advantage loop. 73 and Good Listening.......! - rb, WOR iog via DXLD) Re Ddx tip: 1120 KCRN Limon/Denver, CO --- For the second or 3rd night in a row, this 50 kW daytimer didn`t sign off at sunset. Peeling the paint off here in SE Wyoming (Paul Walker, Laramie, 0840 UT Aug 6, ABDX yg via DXLD) Paul, I had been hearing them here in Arizona for a number of days, but never caught a legal ID. I had strongly suspected it was them. Finally, I DID catch them with a legal ID as I was going to sleep last night on a nightstand radio. They completely blanket the channel here. No hint of the usual KANN, and certainly nothing from KMOX with them on like that. KANN (Roy Utah) used to dominate here with a strong S-9 signal nightly, but KCRN buries them. Regards from the Sonoran desert (~ Rick in Arizona Barton, 0642 UT Aug 7, ABDX yg via DXLD) KCRN 1120 is running the full 50 gallons again tonight; and as usual the last few nights, they go dead air around 11 pm to 12 midnight [06-07 UT]. But, if the past few nights are any indication, the audio will reappear around 1-2 am [07-08 UT]. Catholic Radio Network HQ is fully aware of the issue now; they were notified Wednesday morning. A friend in Boise reported a full quieting signal there Tuesday night from KCRN (Paul in Laramie, WY, B. Walker, Jr., 0619 UT Aug 8, HCDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DXLD) ** U S A. 1160, 7.1 [January] 0900, KCTO Cleveland MO med La Mega 1160 och La Mera Mera. Dominerade långa stunder (Stefan Wikander, Söråker i stugan på Bjännmyrmon med 2x430 meter staggared beveragearray och flagarray, ARC mv-eko 5 August via DXLD) [and non]. 1160, August 3 at 0612 UT, KSL Salt Lake City is unusually weak; normally the dominant night signal, as to be expected for a 50/50 kW U1 = non-direxional clear channel station at only ~800 miles. Now it`s bothered by SAH and some station with Mexican music. If Unitedstatesian, besides two weak Floridians, per year-old NRC AM Log (new one soon to be published), that could only be KCTO Cleveland MO, 230 watts at night direxional. WRTH shows only a single possible Mexican, 10 kW XEQIN, San Quintín BCN. IRCA Mexican Log says night power unknown, and four other 1160s have evidently defected to FM. Getting back to KSL, suspect it is ailing, running low power. Another check Aug 4 at 0520 UT, music unlikely KSL, but a SAH at 168/minute = 2.8 Hz probably caused by KSL against the otherstation. KSL is somewhat northerly; attenuated aurorally? Possibly, but similar latitude altho closer 850 KOA Denver seems normal (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1190, August 3 at 0611 UT, Catholic talk is dominating with some fades, as usual at night. KDMR Kansas City with EWTN is supposed to be 500 watts direxional at night, but I suspect may be on 5000 watt day power, and/or: KDMR night pattern has a notch at 205 degrees, but we are somewhat beyond that, close to due SW = 225; FCC pattern map shows major broad lobe centered about 260 degrees https://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/1641134-124452.pdf WWJD? Keep Doting on Maria Regina! (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1210, August 3 at 0355 UT, heavy SAH typical of KGYN vs WJNL as previously measured, this time about 168/minute, or 2.8 Hz; national commercial, but then ``94.5 WJNL`` ID and back to Jim Bohannon show live. So 50 kW daytimer in Kingsley MI, Traverse City market is still cheating as first noted here a sesquimonth ago. 94.5 would be their FM affiliate in Mackinaw City (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1260, KTRC, NM, Santa Fe, 7/31, 0040 [EDT = 0440 UT], heard on SW 2000629, Terk loop. Thom Hartmann radio program. The only station left I can copy regularly with this particular talk format (Rick Barton, Arizona MW Logs. Times/Dates in Eastern [EDT]. My tube gear shack is largely retired for the hot summer. Unless otherwise stated, equipment is Grundig Satellit 205/T.5000 RS SW-2000629, Panasonic RF-2200 - stock or with Terk Advantage loop. 73 and Good Listening.......! - rb, WOR iog via DXLD) i.e. Liberal, shudder! (gh) 1260, KBSZ, AZ, Apache Junction, 7/23, 1700 [EDT = 2100 UT]. Live local announcer, first time heard today ("Len Novin"), promos for another live announcer for tomorrow morning show. Barton-AZ 1260, KBSZ, 7/24 at 1415 Eastern [1815 UT], monitored early this morning. Sounded like live and local host (Jerry Walter-?), with classic rock tunes. Rechecked it at 1415-1435 [1815-1835 UT], station was off the air and covered by a harmonic [sic] from another local on 1360. Turning volume way up, I could just barely make out the station under that harmonic. Something's always wrong out there at Apache Junction. Recheck after noon local (1500 [19 UT]) had afternoon host and station loud and clear again (Rick Barton, Arizona MW Logs. Times/Dates in Eastern [EDT]. My tube gear shack is largely retired for the hot summer. Unless otherwise stated, equipment is Grundig Satellit 205/T.5000 RS SW-2000629, Panasonic RF-2200 - stock or with Terk Advantage loop. 73 and Good Listening.......! - rb, WOR iog via DXLD) See also 1340 ** U S A. DX Tip: KKNS 1310 Corrales, NM --- They may be on full power, not sure. But this station listed as regional Mexican formatted, is running what sounds like the same one classical song over and over and over again all night with a slightly hispanic accented male saying "1310 AM KKNS Corrales, New Mexico" every few minutes (Paul Walker, Laramie, WY, 0611 UT Aug 6, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 1310, KKNS NM: This one is in once again with classical music, with what sounds like the same song over and over again and a slightly hispanic accented male saying "1310 AM KKNS Corrales, New Mexico" every few minutes. Just had several seconds of dead air before the ID and music started again so this is one short loop of tunes. KFKA 1310 Greeley buried underneath (Paul Walker, Laramie WY [much closer to KFKA], 0225 UT Aug 7, NRC AM gg via WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DXLD) Life is good :) --- Good evening, Thanks to Paul Walker and Bob Coomler, I have been parked on 1310 for at least the past half hour, and there were several times when I heard classical music, once with a flute, another time with a piano. At 9:09 PDT (10:09 MDT) [0409 UT] I heard a very clear ID "This is KKNS Corrales New Mexico" and then back to more music. I am not used to listening to classical music on AM, but it sure sounded like Johann Sebastian Bach for a few minutes afterwards. Very happy to add this to my log. Here's hoping some more DXers can add it to their logs. Vy 73 de Joe -- *** Avoid internet congestion, real radio uses airwaves. *** (Joe Miller, KJ8O, Desert Hot Springs, CA, Locator DM13sw, 0843 UT Aug 7, ABDX yg via DXLD) And what’s interesting is KKNS wasn’t on air even a month ago when Scott Fybush was in ABQ. SO I wonder if this is just to keep the license warm after being silent a year or testing some new tech facilities. The first night I logged them on Monday was the first day in 3 months I`ve done any AM DXing (Paul Walker, WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DXLD) ** U S A. 1330, KGAK, NM, Gallup, 8/3 at 2130 [EDT = 0130 UT 8/4]. Man in Navajo talking about a local rodeo, with "calf roping" and "bull riding" interspersed between Navajo words. Very Good, but with long deep fades at times. Sometimes this station dominates and is what some other DXers call a "pest", then is not heard for weeks (Rick Barton, Arizona MW Logs. Times/Dates in Eastern [EDT]. My tube gear shack is largely retired for the hot summer. Unless otherwise stated, equipment is Grundig Satellit 205/T.5000 RS SW-2000629, Panasonic RF-2200 - stock or with Terk Advantage loop. 73 and Good Listening.......! - rb, WOR iog via DXLD) ** U S A. 1340, KIKO, AZ, Apache Junction, 8/3. 1200 [EDT = 1600 UT]. It seems that the issues with "1340 The Bull" have been resolved. Checking the frequency off and on over the past several days and giving a good listen today at 1200 Eastern (9 local). Modulation level seems to be up now with the carrier. String of country hits and some local spots. I had been saying that something's always wrong out at Apache Junction but 1340 "The Bull" and 1260 "The Rattler" (also out at AJ) seem to be on track at the moment (Rick Barton, Arizona MW Logs. Times/Dates in Eastern [EDT]. My tube gear shack is largely retired for the hot summer. Unless otherwise stated, equipment is Grundig Satellit 205/T.5000 RS SW-2000629, Panasonic RF-2200 - stock or with Terk Advantage loop. 73 and Good Listening.......! - rb, WOR iog via DXLD) ** U S A. 1510 KSFN with kpig programming --- Heard last night: 1510. KSFN, CA, Piedmont, 8/3/19, 9:18-10:05 PM PDT [0418-0505 UT Aug 4] running kpig programming, mostly Bluegrass music. Even heard and ID with pig snorting. Weak and at 10:00 heard KSPA ID. They were running OC I think. Not new but last time I heard them they were in Mandarin. Read on the Internet that they are now playing kpig programming, temporary (KPIG is 107.5 FM) (Martin Foltz, Mission Viejo CA, Aug 4, ABDX yg via DXLD) ** VENEZUELA. (ed: Tore Larsson) José Elías reports from Venezuela: ”It has been quite a while since I last made an appearance on Cadena DX but I am now back with far from good news about the AM radio situation in the State of Anzoátegui. Radio Centro 610 in Cantaura was the only remaining AM station in the state but it has now been silent for quite some time. This means that at this point in time there are no active AM stations in the State of Anzoátegui - they have all closed. In the State of Sucre it appears that Radio Cumaná 680 in the city of Cumaná has disappeared for good. It has been silent for a long time. Ondas Porteñas 640, one of my favourite stations, remains silent despite a message that they would be reactivated shortly. Hopefully that happens but so far nothing.” (José Elías via Santiago San Gil G, Cadena DX fb 7.7.2019, translation Christer Brunström. SOUTH AMERICAN NEWS DESK 5/8 2019, ed. Tore B. Vik, NO-1850 MYSEN, Norway, ARC mv-eko 5 August via DXLD) ** VIETNAM. 8812-USB, Ho Chi Minh Radio - Vietnam Coast Station, on Aug 6, *1240-1242* in Vietnamese and *1242-1244* in English; starts with "Weather information for South China coastal waters issued by the Hong Kong Observatory at 7:30PM, August 6," etc. Thanks very much to Wei Wei (China), for his assistance. My audio at http://bit.ly/2OJUDrl 8812-USB, assume a VISHIPEL coastal station (site?); *1314-1320*, on Aug 8. This segment only in Vietnamese; sounded like many mentions of "Hong Kong"; my local sunrise was at 1319 UT (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** ZAMBIA. 5915, ZNBC/Radio One. Continuing to be erratic due to power outages; on Aug 6, not broadcasting at all, during checks at 0332, 0402 & 0502. Aug 5, checking 0355 & 0431, found no signal, but at 0500 check, they were on the air (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 880, Aug 6 at 0613 UT, hymns are being heard underneath JimBo from KRVN Nebraska. First thought would be KHAC, Tse Bonito NM, the make-the-Navajos-Christian station next to Window Rock AZ, but the music is on DSB, not USB only as KHAC transmits. Is KLRG Sheridan AR active or not? Was REL, could be on 220 W night power. It was silent as of 5/2018 per NRC AM Log published last August. See another discussion of this situation in DXLD 19-06. At 0630 I hear a jingle reminding me of REE Spain? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 4949.0, at 1248, August 4. First time I have noticed a definite carrier here; as usual, was also hearing the carrier on 4950, of assume AIR Radio Kashmir, Srinagar, which I often hear, but with no audio (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I suggest it could have been the Srinagar 4950 transmitter modulating a 1 kHz tone, which could seem like a separate carrier; but in DSB it would also appear on 4951; did you check the upper side? (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) see also KASHMIR: Anker Petersen`s log UNIDENTIFIED. 5909.5-USB, Aug 2 at 0048, 2-way JBA in English, American military style, vs HNL; one callsign maybe ``Countdown`` and rief digiburst. Lots of autologs in the UDXF iog, including ``5909.5 is one of the freqs of the US COTHEN network`` meaning Cellular Over-The-Horizon Enforcement Network, first reported in 2010y. What is that all about? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 10365-USB, Aug 8 at 1354, 2-way in colloquial Spanish, very poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 12025, Aug 2 at 0029, S6-S8 of very distorted modulation on very rough unstable carrier, not improved by FM tuning. Seems to be mainly music, like a spur or badly mistuned transmitter, but NOT matching biggest 25m signals of RHC, REE, or RNA. Maybe Cairo attempting to resume Latin American service? But imaginarily scheduled on 9 MHz band now. Another possibility: Reach Beyond Australia is the only thing sked on 12025 at 0030-0100 in Burmese, partly Rohingya; or jamming? (So would the Rohingya be less persecuted in Myanmar if they were Christians?) Recheck on another receiver at 0116, not heard, so could also be something local (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1994: Here's a little bit to keep you going. Thanks for everything you've done/are doing for the hobby! (Richard Terry Colgan, TX, with a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com) TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED FUTURELY: Note from Alberto Silva: Las Heras, Concepcion, Chile ``quote WOR Is the best program`` with a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com One may also contribute by MO or check in US$ on a US bank to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 I hope all's well with you. I'm happy to see that WOR is still going strong. 73, (Bob Zanotti, Switzerland) Re: Glenn Hauser logs August 2-3, 2019 OB!! Super Job! Thank you very much! (Steve Foisey, Stratford, CT 06614, ptsw yg via DXLD) Re: WOR iogroup application --- Whoa. Hi Glenn! I was extremely happy to learn about the group, as I have avoided yahoo for 10+ years. It is listed right there in DXLD itself. The best way I can describe my reason for joining is that I enjoy getting solid info from you and the other hard-core people out there. Where else would I find out about the ups and downs of HF broadcasting?! You can see more about me at longwire.com - but the best credibility I have would be from back when I was interviewed by Jonathan Marks for Media Network, around 1985. I started the "Shortwave Listening" discussion group on Fidonet, a dialup-based bulletin board system that predates the Internet as we know it (Larry DiGioia N8KU, Aug 5) Unsolicited testimonial for the Hitlist from Gilles Letourneau: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0tQFZ0rFC4 AVOID RABBITHOLE: REFUSE TO WATCH ANY YOUTUBE BEYOND THIS ONE LINKED (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ ACCESS TO A-19 SW SCHEDULES via: http://www.worldofradio.com UK DXER PIRATES If you are looking for links to free radio and other DX websites, why not check out the UKDXer's Shortwave Pirates website? In addition to links to many free radio blogs and forums, there's links to other DX blogs, clubs, SDRs and frequency guides. It can be found at: http://www.freewebs.com/ukdxer/apps/links (Paul Watson, Wiltshire, (Aug BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) PRYIOM.ORG http://priyom.org Priyom.org is an international group of radio enthusiasts who came together during 2010 when activity from the station known as "UVB-76" increased. The mystery of this station inspired us to seek out other similarly mysterious stations, and thus into the bizarre world of shortwave radio's infamous number stations. Greatly inspired by the work of other online groups, Priyom has been developed to easily bring both the current and historical information about number stations into one comprehensive site, and to make the recording, listening and analysis of shortwave radio, number stations, and all related on-air enigmas accessible to all who are interested (via PLF Radio, Lyon, France via OfficialSWL Channel on YouTube, Aug Radio HF Internet Newsletter via DXLD) NUMBERS STATIONS RESEARCH AND INFORMATION CENTER https://www.numbers-stations.com/ This project is dedicated to the research, monitoring, information gathering, and publishing about numbers stations, military stations, and other shortwave radio phenomena. We specialize in both Russian and US military, intelligence, and radio history. We believe that information about military and intelligence activity on the radio waves must be freely available. Our goal is to research, gather, publish, and popularize the shortwave radio and numbers stations worldwide. The Numbers Stations Research and Information Center team works at many places across the world and regularly follows and analyses the events in the shortwave radio spectrum and beyond (via Terry Cook, Missoula, Montana via OfficialSWLChannel on YouTube via Aug Radio HF Internet Newsletter via DXLD) ALTERNATIVE TO https://alternativeto.net/ AlternativeTo is a free service that helps you find better alternatives to the products you love and hate. We have one mission: helping you find the right software for your computer, mobile phone or tablet. Our main focus is to give you alternatives to software you already know and want to replace. Based on our users’ recommendations we list great alternatives to the applications you want to replace. By joining the site you can participate in the process of making these recommendations better, so please join in! (via Sheldon Harvey, Greenfield Park, Quebec, THE FUN & SERVICES ZONE, Aug Radio HF Internet Newsletter via DXLD) NA-QSL-liste Norge Revidert utgave av NA-QSL lista for Norge finner du på https://dxlc.wordpress.com/ (Tore B Vik, ARC mv-eko 5 August via DXLD) Lançamento de livro sobre o rádio em ondas curtas -- Salve, dexistas! A Editora Universitária Leopoldianum acaba de lançar o livro "O RÁDIO INTERNACIONAL: DAS ONDAS CURTAS À INTERNET", de autoria de Valter Aguiar, jornalista, tradutor e radioescuta há mais de 30 anos. Em 226 páginas, o autor conta a história do rádio em ondas curtas, desde a invenção do rádio, passando pelo desenvolvimento das ondas curtas e sua importância na Segunda Guerra Mundial e na Guerra Fria. A atuação de inúmeras emissoras internacionais, desde as maiores até as mais desconhecidas, é detalhada no livro, com destaque para os serviços em língua portuguesa. A obra encerra com a migração para os meios digitais e uma reflexão sobre o futuro do rádio internacional. "O Rádio Internacional: das Ondas Curtas à Internet" já pode ser encontrado à venda no site da Editora Leopoldianum para entrega em todo o território brasileiro, neste link: Acompanhe nossa página no Facebook para informações sobre eventos e outros canais de distribuição em breve: https://www.facebook.com/oradiointernacional/ 73s, (Valter Aguiar, Aug 7, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Notice that Valter treats the word rádio always as masculine, with article ``o``, never ``a``. One might think there would be a gender distinxion between the apparatus and the radio medium in general; but my Langenscheidt Portuguese dixionary shows it only as masculine. In Spanish, however, my Random House Latin American Spanish dixionary does make a distinxion: el radio means radium or radius; la radio just means radio without further explanation. There are other examples of divergence between Portuguese and Spanish as to words` gender (Guilherme/Guillermo Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) LANGUAGE LESSONS the gender of RADIO: See above ++++++++++++++++ ``Respectively`` --- see SA`UDI ARABIA WORLD OF HOROLOGY +++++++++++++++++ TIME SIGNAL STATIONS Editor: Gilles Letourneau Montreal, Quebec E-mail: officialshortwaveradio@gmail.com Aside from broadcast stations and amateur radio communications, the HF radio spectrum is predominantly occupied by utility stations. They can be either voice transmissions or any of a variety of digital modes used for HF communications. This column will feature tips on what you can hear, frequencies and bands to receive them, what you’ll need to receive them, the modes of transmission they use, publications and web resources to help identify them and guidance on equipment and software that is available to decode them. Welcome to the August edition of the column. It has been a hot July in Montreal. Summer is here and so is the summer propagation of signals. Mid-day has been very quiet but early morning, late afternoons and evenings have been interesting times to listen. Thanks to my new W6LVP loop antenna I’ve been enjoying some better listening opportunities with lower noise and stronger signals on the HF bands. I had almost totally lost reception from CHU 3330 kHz here in Montreal, but the loop has made this signal strong, with it being received almost 24 hours at my location, roughly 165 Km (102 Miles) away. WHAT ARE TIME SIGNAL STATIONS AND WHY DO THEY EXIST? A time signal is a visible, audible, mechanical, or electronic signal used as a reference to determine the time of day. Accurate knowledge of time of day is essential for navigation. Although ships carried the most accurate marine chronometers available, they did not keep perfect time. Time signal stations offer the ability to receive accurate time signals over radio waves. You might think that accurate time is now available over the Internet or even with GPS signals, but receiving online is not always possible depending on where you are. GPS signals are sometimes difficult to receive in some areas, requiring special equipment. Many fields of science and technology use Shortwave portable receivers to see if the clocks are accurate. Having very precise time is essential for science, astronomy and many other fields of work and exploration. Shortwave radios are inexpensive and more often than not at least one time signal frequency will be coming in on the HF bands. These utility stations are also helpful in maintaining the accurate frequency of radios. Many use the atomic clocks to confirm frequency stability and accuracy. It’s a great way to DX countries that might not have International Shortwave broadcasts. Their low power makes them more difficult to receive, increasing the challenge for Dxers who like to chase exotic or hard to receive stations on the HF spectrum. Stations, Time and Frequencies Canada --- CHU is a radio station near Ottawa, Ontario that broadcasts time of day information much like WWV. CHU transmits on shortwave using AM compatible single-sideband full carrier modulation. Between 31 and 39 seconds (inclusive) past the minute, CHU transmits a computer readable timecode. This timecode includes time of day UTC, day of year (1-366), Gregorian year, leap second warning, DUT (the difference between UTC and UT1, which is an astronomical timescale. The difference is an integral number of tenths of a second between -.9 and +.9. If the difference exceeds .7, they schedule a leap second), and a Canadian daylight time indicator. CHU operates on the following Shortwave Frequencies 24 hours a day continuously, except during possible maintenance periods. The CHU transmitter is located near Barrhaven, Ontario, 15 km southwest of Ottawa's central business district. 3330 kHz 3 KW power 7850 kHz 10 KW power 14670 kHz 3 KW power More Information can be found at the following website from the National Research Council. https://nrc.canada.ca/en/certifications-evaluations-standards/canadas-official-time/nrc-short-wave-stationbroadcasts-chu Time stations are also interesting for testing propagation from one area to another. They also make great DX targets as they are low power. CHU is great for DXing Canada on Shortwave UNITED STATES OF AMERICA National Institute of Standards and Technology radio station WWV broadcasts time and frequency information 24 hours per day, 7 days per week to millions of listeners worldwide. WWV is located near Fort Collins, Colorado, about 100 kilometers north of Denver. The broadcast information includes time announcements, standard time intervals, standard frequencies, UT1 time corrections, a BCD time code, and geophysical alerts. Solar Activity conditions can be heard at the 18th minute of each hour. The station is widely received around the world and is often received at least on one of its main frequencies as follows: 2500 kHz with 2.5 KW power, 5000 kHz with 10 KW, 10000 kHz with 10 KW, 15000 kHz with 10 KW, 20000 kHz with 2.5 KW and 25000 kHz with 2.5 KW power --- this last frequency is experimental; this means it can be removed at any time. Reception reports are welcome and can be sent by e-mail to: wwv@nist.gov Or by Postal mail to: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Radio Station WWV, 2000 E. County Rd. 58, Fort Collins, CO 80524 The WWV antennas are half-wave verticals that radiate omnidirectional patterns. There are antennas at the station site for each frequency. Each antenna is connected to a single transmitter using a rigid coaxial line, and the site is designed so that no two coaxial lines cross. Each antenna is mounted on a tower that is approximately one half-wavelength tall. The tallest tower, for 2.5 MHz, is about 60 m tall. The shortest tower, for 20 MHz, is about 7.5 m tall. The top half of each antenna is a quarter-wavelength radiating element. The bottom half of each antenna consists of nine quarter-wavelength wires that connect to the center of the tower and slope downwards to the ground at a 45 degree angle. This sloping skirt functions as the lower half of the radiating system and also guys the antenna. The signals broadcast by WWV use double sideband amplitude modulation. The modulation level is 50 percent for the steady tones, 50 percent for the BCD time code, 100 percent for the second pulses and the minute and hour markers, and 75 percent for the voice announcements. Time Voice announcements are made by a male voice; sometimes you can hear a female voice while listening to the signal and that is coming from WWVH in Hawaii. HAWAII, PACIFIC WWVH is also operated by the NIST and is located on the Island of Kauai, Hawaii and is operating on the following frequencies: 2500 kHz with 5 KW, 5000, 10000 and 15000 all are 10 KW power, the information broadcast is the same as WWV and the announcements are done by a Female voice. From 2000 to 2007, NIST installed new antennas encased in fiberglass rather than traditional steel supports, to resist corrosion from the salty ocean air. The fiberglass design will reduce maintenance and repair costs. The new design also enables the flexible, lightweight antennas to be easily lowered to the ground for maintenance, reducing safety hazards to staff. The improved antennas should reduce signal downtime for WWVH users. The 5 MHz antenna system consists of half-wave phased array vertical antennas. The 2.5, 10 and 15 MHz antennas are base-fed vertical monopoles that radiate omnidirectional patterns. Each frequency also has a vertical monopole standby antenna connected to the standby transmitters, if the primary system fails. The signals broadcast by WWVH use double sideband amplitude modulation. The modulation level is 50 percent for the steady tones, 50 percent for the BCD time code, 100 percent for the second pulses and the minute and hour markers, and 75 percent for the voice announcements. Both WWV and WWVH are great to test the propagation conditions and to determine what frequencies might be the best at a specific time of day. If you own an “Atomic Clock” as it is often referred to, it synchronizes its time with another NIST Station out in Colorado. WWVB is the time signal station that is in the longwave band at 60 kHz at a power of 70 KW ERP. NIST radio station WWVB is located on the same site as NIST HF radio station WWV near Fort Collins, Colorado. The WWVB broadcasts are used by millions of people throughout North America to synchronize consumer electronic products like wall clocks, clock radios and wristwatches. In addition, WWVB may be used in other consumer timekeeping applications, such as appliances, cameras, and irrigation controllers, as well as in high level applications such as accurate time synchronization. It covers a big chunk of North America but in the east coast it’s difficult to have it set a clock automatically, I own a Weather Station from La Crosse Technologies. It should set the clock with WWVB’s signal. The problem is that it doesn’t work well indoors due to high noise levels. Next Month we look at time stations from South America, Europe and Asia (Aug CIDX Messenger via DXLD) Welcome to the August 2019 column. On this month’s cover, and in the YouTube video of the month in the HQ Report column, we feature time signal station WWV in Fort Collins, Colorado. This month we’ll feature the station here in the Technical Topics column. Some of this information is supplied by the Northern Colorado Amateur Radio Club. Radio Station WWV NIST radio station WWV broadcasts time and frequency information 24 hours per day, 7 days per week to millions of listeners worldwide. WWV is located near Fort Collins, Colorado, about 100 kilometers north of Denver. The broadcast information includes time announcements, standard time intervals, standard frequencies, UT1 time corrections, a BCD time code, and geophysical alerts. Notice: Beginning April 19, 2019, Radio Stations WWV and WWVH will be announcing upcoming and current Military Auxiliary Radio System (MARS) and U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) exercises. Founded in 1925, MARS is an organization established by DoD that trains volunteer Amateur Radio operators to provide contingency high-frequency (HF) radio communications assistance in times of natural disasters and other urgent situations. MARS volunteers also assist DoD by providing humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, and morale and welfare communications. The MARS exercises will take place several times per year, on a regional and nationwide basis. The WWV and WWVH announcements will provide information to Amateur Radio participants regarding the purpose, dates, times and locations of the exercises and other information. WWV will air MARS announcements on the 10th minute of each hour, and WWVH will use the 50th minute. The announcements will air for about two weeks, prior to and during each exercise. For more information about MARS, see: http://www.usarmymars.org/home/history-of-mars and https://www.mars.af.mil/ MARS exercise participants are directed to http://www.dodmars.org Broadcast Frequencies --- WWV operates in the high frequency (HF) portion of the radio spectrum. The station radiates 10 000 W on 5 MHz, 10 MHz, and 15 MHz; and 2500 W on 2.5 MHz and 20 MHz. Each frequency is broadcast from a separate transmitter. Although each frequency carries the same information, multiple frequencies are used because the quality of HF reception depends on many factors such as location, time of year, time of day, the frequency being used, and atmospheric and ionospheric propagation conditions. The variety of frequencies makes it likely that at least one frequency will be usable at all times. Antennas --- The WWV antennas are half-wave vertical antennas that radiate omnidirectional patterns. There are antennas at the station site for each frequency. Each antenna is connected to a single transmitter using a rigid coaxial line, and the site is designed so that no two coaxial lines cross. Each antenna is mounted on a tower that is approximately one half-wavelength tall. The tallest tower, for 2.5 MHz, is about 60 m tall. The shortest tower, for 20 MHz, is about 7.5 m tall. The top half of each antenna is a quarter-wavelength radiating element. The bottom half of each antenna consists of nine quarter-wavelength wires that connect to the center of the tower and slope downwards to the ground at a 45 degree angle. This sloping skirt functions as the lower half of the radiating system and also guys the antenna. WWV Antenna Coordinates MHz Latitude Longitude 2.5 40° 40' 55.2" N 105° 02' 31.3" W 5 40° 40' 42.1" N 105° 02' 24.9" W 10 40° 40' 47.8" N 105° 02' 25.1" W 15 40° 40' 45.0" N 105° 02' 24.5" W 20 40° 40' 53.1" N 105° 02' 28.5" W Modulation --- The signals broadcast by WWV use double sideband amplitude modulation. The modulation level is 50 percent for the steady tones, 50 percent for the BCD time code, 100 percent for the second pulses and the minute and hour markers, and 75 percent for the voice announcements. Experimental 25 MHz WWV Broadcast --- WWV has resumed broadcasting on 25 MHz on an experimental basis. The broadcast consists of the normal WWV signal heard on all other WWV frequencies, at the same level of accuracy. Current 25 MHz Broadcast Specifications Schedule: typically continuous. As an experimental broadcast, the 25 MHz signal may be interrupted or suspended without notice. Radiated Power: 2.5 kW - Antenna: half-wave vertical dipole. Listener comments and reception reports may be emailed to: wwv@nist.gov or via postal mail to: National Institute of Standards and Technology Radio Station WWV, 2000 E. County Rd. 58, Fort Collins, CO 80524 For information on radio station WWVB – Fort Collins, Colorado, visit https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/radio-stations/wwvb For information on radio station WWVH - Kokole Point, Hawaii, visit https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/radio-stations/wwvh History of Radio Station WWV WWV has a long and storied history that dates back to the very beginning of radio broadcasting. The call letters WWV were assigned to NIST (then called the National Bureau of Standards) in October 1919. Although the call letters WWV are now synonymous with the broadcasting of time signals, it is unknown why those particular call letters were chosen or assigned. Testing of the station began from Washington, D.C. in May 1920, with the broadcast of Friday evening music concerts that lasted from 8:30 to 11 p.m. The 50 W transmissions used a wavelength of 500 m (about 600 kHz, or near the low end of today's commercial AM broadcast band), and could be heard out to about 40 kilometers. A news release dated May 28, 1920 hinted at the significance of this event: This means that music can be performed at any place, radiated into the air by means of an ordinary radio set, and received at any other place even though hundreds of miles away. The music received can be made as loud as desired by suitable operation of the receiving apparatus. Such concerts are sometimes sent out by the radio laboratory of the Bureau of Standards in connection with trials of experimental apparatus. This music can be heard by anyone in the states near the District of Columbia having a simple amateur receiving outfit. The pleasant evenings which have been experienced by persons at a number of such receiving stations suggest interesting possibilities of the future. Interesting possibilities, indeed! Keep in mind that KDKA of Pittsburgh, generally acknowledged as the first commercial broadcast station, did not go on the air until November 2, 1920. On December 15, 1920 the station began assisting the Department of Agriculture in the distribution of market news to farm bureaus and agricultural organizations. A 2 kW spark transmitter was used to broadcast 500 word reports, called the Daily Market Marketgram, on 750 kHz. The operating radius was about 300 kilometers out of Washington. These broadcasts continued until April 15, 1921. By December 1922, it was decided that the station's purpose would be the transmission of standard frequency signals. The first tests were conducted on January 29th and 30th of 1923, and included the broadcast of frequencies from 200 to 545 kHz. By May of 1923, WWV was broadcasting frequencies from 75 to 2000 kHz on a weekly schedule. The accuracy of the transmitted frequency was quoted as being "better than three-tenths of one per cent." The output power of the station was 1 kW. There were numerous changes in both the broadcast schedule, format, and frequency of WWV throughout the 1920's. In January 1931, the station was moved from Washington to the nearby city of College Park, Maryland. A 150 W transmitter operating at 5 MHz was initially used, but the power was increased back to 1 kW by the following year. A new device, the quartz oscillator, made it possible to dramatically improve the output frequency of WWV. Quartz oscillators were first used at WWV in 1927, and by 1932 allowed the transmitted frequency to be controlled to less than 2 parts in 107 [10 to the seventh power --- gh]. The station moved again in December 1932, this time to a 10 hectare (25 acre) Department of Agriculture site near Beltsville, Maryland. By April of 1933, the station was broadcasting 30 kW on 5 MHz, and 10 and 15 MHz broadcasts (20 kW output power) were added in 1935. The 5 MHz frequency was chosen for several reasons, including "its wide coverage, its relative freedom from previously assigned stations, and its convenient integral relation with most frequency standards." The 10 and 15 MHz frequencies were chosen as harmonics, or multiples of 5 MHz. WWV continues to use all of these frequencies today, as well as another harmonic (20 MHz), and a sub-harmonic (2.5 MHz). The Beltsville area was the home of WWV until December 1966 (although the location name for the broadcast was changed to Greenbelt, Maryland in 1961). During the years in Beltsville, many interesting developments took place. A fire destroyed the station in November 1940, but the standard frequency equipment was salvaged and the station returned to the air just 5 days later using an adjacent building. An act of Congress in July 1941 provided $230,000 for construction of a new station, which was built 5 kilometers south of the former site and went on the air in January 1943. The 2.5 MHz broadcasts began in February 1944, and are still used as a convenient way to reach the population nearest the radio station. Transmission on 20, 25, 30, and 35 MHz began in December 1946. The 30 and 35 MHz broadcasts were discontinued in January 1953 and the 25 MHz broadcast was stopped in 1977. With the exception of an almost 2-year interruption (1977-78), the 20 MHz broadcasts have continued to this day. Much of the current broadcast format also took shape during the Beltsville years. The 440 Hz tone (A above middle C) was added to the broadcast in August 1936, at the request of several music organizations. The second pulses were added in June 1937, and the geophysical alert messages began in July 1957. And as quartz oscillator technology improved, so did the frequency control of the broadcast. The transmitted frequency was routinely kept within 2 parts in 1010 [10 to the tenth] of the national standard by 1958. WWV's most well known feature, the announcement of time, also began during the Beltsville years. A standard time announcement in telegraphic code was added in October 1945, and voice announcements of time began on January 1, 1950. The original voice announcements were at 5-minute intervals. It is interesting to note that WWV continued to broadcast local time at the transmitter site until 1967. In 1966, the decision was made to move WWV to its current location, near Fort Collins, Colorado. The LF station WWVB went on the air in July 1963 near Fort Collins, and it was decided that WWV would share the same 158 hectare (390 acre) site. The new site was about 80 kilometers from the Boulder laboratories where the national standards of time and frequency were kept. The proximity to Boulder and the use of atomic oscillators at the transmitter site would make it possible to control the transmitted frequency to within 2 parts in 10-11, a factor of ten improvement. Today, the station's frequency is controlled to within 1 part in 10-13. At 0000 UTC on December 1, 1966 the Greenbelt, Maryland broadcast was turned off and the new transmitter at Fort Collins was turned on. In April 1967 the station began broadcasting Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) instead of local time, and began its current format of using Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) in December 1968. The time announcements were made every minute, instead of every 5 minutes, beginning in July 1971. Many new features and programming changes have been added to the WWV broadcast over the past few decades, and the current station schedule is described on this web site. The National Institute of Standards and Technology Radio Station WWV will celebrate the 100-year anniversary of its call letters on October 1, 2019. WWV is not only one of the world’s oldest continuously operating radio stations, but also one of the oldest scientific and technical services provided by the United States government. Please join us in celebrating this historic occasion. Information on the Special Events Station visit: http://wwv100.com [captions:] A Panoramic view from atop the WWV building A Panoramic view of the WWV transmitters and equipment (Aug CIDX Messenger via DXLD) CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES See also OKLAHOMA: HFCC B-19 ARGENTINA +++++++++++++++++++++++++ THE ANNUAL CIDX VERNON IKEDA MEMORIAL SUMMER BARBECUE, Sat Aug 17 is almost here. Details of the event can be found below. We have a few additional confirmations from out-of-town CIDXers who will be joining us this year in addition to CIDX VP Mickey Delmage from Sherwood Park, Alberta; and Eric Cottrell, John Fisher and Brian Penney from Massachusetts. Mike Brooker from Toronto, Ontario and Brent Dalgleish from Brockville, Ontario will also be here. Combine those people with the usual gang from here in Montreal and it will be a great afternoon, and early evening of radio, conversation, and food! If you are planning on attending, please remember to RSVP to Sheldon Harvey as soon as possible so that we can determine the exact number expected so that the food requirements can be worked out. All we need now is for the weather to cooperate. Don’t forget that if you can’t join us in person, you can participate virtually by joining in on the live YouTube stream originating from the barbecue, courtesy of CIDX World of Utilities editor Gilles Letourneau. His live broadcasts from the barbecue the last two summers have been an incredibly popular addition to the event. Here are all the details. Have a great summer. CIDX ANNUAL VERNON IKEDA MEMORIAL SUMMER BARBEQUE Saturday, August 17th 2019 - 1 pm Eastern (1700 UT) LOCATION: 79 Kipps Street, Greenfield Park, QC Google Map: http://goo.gl/maps/1UvxP We are pleased to announce the 2019 CIDX Annual Vernon Ikeda Memorial Summer Barbecue. Sausages & hamburgers will be served. Please bring your own beverages. Any food contributions (snacks, desserts, etc) will also be appreciated. Please confirm your attendance by telephone, 450-462-1459, or by e-mail to Sheldon Harvey at ve2shw@yahoo.com All CIDX members and radio friends are welcome to attend. Once again this year, CIDXer and YouTuber Gilles Letourneau will have a special live YouTube broadcast from the Barbecue. Check out the live YouTube broadcast from the barbecue at 4 PM eastern; 2000 UT at https://www.youtube.com/OfficialSWLchannel/ We’ll also have Skype open for the day. Look for “Sheldon Harvey” on Skype, make him one of your contacts and call in to the barbecue during the day to participate in the fun (Aug CIDX Messenger via WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DXLD) DX-PEDITIONS ++++++++++++ COCOA BEACH FLORIDA BANDSCAN, 1330-1430 UTC August 1 2019 Receiver: Tecsun PL-880 Summary: Excellent conditions on FM. Tropo enhancement started at around 1400 with a lot of low power translators coming in. Fair conditions on the AM band. On shortwave, there was heavy local AC interference on the lower bands. Generally crappy conditions. WWV 10000 fair signal, WWV 15000 weak signal. The number at the end of these logs is the dBu meter reading from the PL-880. 88.3 WPOZ Orlando CCM 47 88.9 WQCS Fort Pierce classical 22 89.1 Unid classical 12 89.3 WPIO Titusville rlg 30 89.5 WFIT Melbourne npr 27 89.7 WRRJ Cocoa Beach reggae, marijuana music 53 89.9 WUCF Orlando jazz 53 90.3 WEJF Palm Bay rlg talk 38 90.7 WFME Orlando npr 29 91.1 WHYZ Palm Coast preaching 12 91.5 WMIE Cocoa rlg talk 33 91.9 WYFO Lakeland ccm 17 92.3 WWKA Orlando country 47 92.7 W226CF Melbourne (WMMB) talk 11 92.9 WZAY-LP Rockledge rlg apologetics 3 93.1 W226CF Melbourne (WSCF) talk 8 93.5 WRDJ-LP Merritt Island rlg apologetics 14 93.7 WGYL Vero Beach AC 22 94.1 WLLD Lakeland "definitely wild 94-1" commercials 16 94.5 WCFB Daytona Beach Urban 34 94.7 W234BI Cocoa (WWBC) rlg talk 39 95.1 WFKS Melbourne top-40 36 95.3 WPYO Maitland top-40 24 95.5 WCPL-LP Merritt Island CCM 15 95.7 WHOG Ormond-by-the-Sea "95-7 the hog" classic rock 9 95.9 WROK Sebastian classic rock 26 96.1 Unid (possibly W241BP Kissimmee) talk, commercials 2 96.5 WDBO Orlando talk 42 97.1 WOSN Indian River Shores AC 29 97.3 Unid top-40 6 97.5 WPCV Winter Haven redneck music 24 97.9 W250BH Melbourne (WPOZ) christian talk 19 98.1 WNUE Deltona Spanish tropical music 27 98.3 Unid rap music 12 98.5 W253AG Cocoa (WSCF) CCM 16 98.5 WSBH Satellite Beach Classic hits 16 98.9 WMMO Orlando "Orlando's classic hits" 33 99.3 WLRQ Cocoa AC 64 99.7 WJKD Vero Beach Adult hits 34 99.9 W260CL Cocoa apologetics 37 100.3 WRUM Orlando tropical 41 100.7 W264AS Melbourne (WWBC) apologetics 29 101.1 WJRR Cocoa Beach rock 42 101.5 W268CB Melbourne reggae//WRRJ 89.7 18 101.7 WCZR Vero Beach pop culture talk 25 101.9 WQMP Daytona Beach "Orlando's new alternative" 20 102.3 W272BA Cocoa Beach (WMIE) preaching, low-fi audio 40 102.5 WHPT Sarasota pop culture talk 17 102.7 WHKR Rockledge redneck music 40 103.1 WOTW Windermere redneck music 15 103.3 WZDF-LP Merritt Island CCM 16 103.5 WFUS Gulfport commercials mentioning Tampa Bay, "US 103-5" 10 103.7 WQOL Vero Beach classic hits 34 104.1 WTKS Cocoa Beach talk 43 104.5 WFLM White City urban contemporary 13 104.7 W284AV Daytona Beach (WROD) nonstop commercials 3 105.1 WOMX Orlando AC 42 105.5 W288CJ Oviedo (WORL) ads for Infinity Falls at Sea World 10 105.9 WOCL Deland classic hits 32 106.3 WCIF Melbourne apologetics "Hope 106 point 3" 38 106.7 WXXL Taveres top-40 21 107.1 WAOA Melbourne top-40 50 107.3 Unid rock 9 107.7 WMGF Mount Dora ac 29 107.9 W300BQ Vero Beach (WZTA) ads for Infinity Falls at Sea World 10 540 WFLF Pine Hills talk 35 560 WQAM Miami 12 poor 580 WDBO Orlando sports 31 600 WBOB Jacksonville talk 12 fair 610 WIOD Miami talk 10 fair 660 WORL Altamonte Springs talk 20 670 WWFE Miami spanish talk 29 690 WOKV Jacksonville sports 19 710 WAQI Miami spanish talk 13 poor 740 WYGM Orlando "fm 96-9 the game" sports 37 760 WEFL Tequesta spanish sports 16 810 WRSO Orlando spanish talk 31 820 Unid oldies 23 very good [Perhaps WWBA which recently switched to classic country? They put a big signal on the gulf side of the state and the panhandle. It is 50 kW during the day from the Tampa Bay Area. Harry S. Atlanta, GA] 840 WPGS Mims classic rock 26 920 WDMC Melbourne religious talk 39 950 WTLN Orlando religious talk 27 960 WSVU North Palm Beach oldies 17 970 WFLA Tampa talk 16 990 WDYZ Orlando spanish religious 24 1010 WHFS Seffner financial talk 21 1030 WONQ Oviedo tropical music 27 very good 1060 WIXC Titusville spanish music 35 1080 WHOO Winter Park apologetics 23 1140 WURB Orlando spanish 19 1160 WRLZ Saint Cloud spanish talk 18 1190 WAMT Pine Castle Sky Lake apologetics 19 1230 WSBB New Smyrna Beach nostalgia 11 poor 1240 WMMB Melbourne political talk 30 1250 WTMA Charleston SC talk poor 1270 WIWA Eatonville talk 10 1300 WKQK Cocoa Beach blues music 41 1350 WMMV Cocoa talk 37 1510 WWBC Cocoa apologetics, anti-alcohol screed 36 1560 WLZR Melbourne sports, endless commercials 25 1580 WNTF Bithlo mellow spanish music 11 1680 WOKB Winter Garden Political talk 8 poor 7490 WWCR Nashville TN Financial Survival program 27 9395 WRMI Okeechobee FL very weak, unintelligible 8 9535 Radio Habana Cuba lively spanish music 29 9640 Radio Habana Cuba lively spanish music //9535 low modulation 27 11775 University Network Rev Barbie 41 11860 Radio Marti spanish talk 51 11930 Radio Marti spanish talk //11860 55 12050 WEWN spanish talk 44 13605 Radio Habana Cuba lively spanish music //9535 50 [NO, Marti] 13700 Radio Habana Cuba mellow music 13 13845 WWCR Brother Scare 34 15140 Radio Habana Cuba music 15 poor 15180 Radio Liberty Woofferton talk in Uzbek 9 variable signal 15230 Radio Habana Cuba music 15 poor 15440 AWR Moosbrunn Talk in unid language 4 poor 15825 WWCR Nashville TN preaching 29 (Larry Will, Mount Airy, Maryland radio@zappahead.net Aug 2, WOR iog via DXLD) NORTHERN NECK OF VIRGINIA DXPEDITION JULY 2019 I had the opportunity to visit one of my regular DXpedition destinations - Waters Edge - near Fleeton, VA from July 23-28. Conditions weren’t great - lightning noise was high throughout and the Northern Neck of Virginia is not Cape Cod or Maine and certainly not Newfoundland. There were a few Brazilians, Ecuador, Benin, etc. Nothing new and nothing in great numbers but I still had fun away from home. If you’re interested you can see/hear what I heard on this webpage: http://realmonitor.com/am_logs_we11.php (Bill Whitacre, Alexandria, VA, Aug 7, NRC-AM gg via DXLD) LATIN AMERICAN OFFSETS Software defined radios provide the ability to ‘see’ multiple stations on a frequency and precisely measure their frequencies. Thanks to DXers worldwide sharing their reading of frequency offsets, this precise information is a helpful aid to other DXers. MWLIST.ORG has an OFFSETS section where a lot of this information is consolidated, and I also find the loggings of Scandinavian DXers Thomas Nilsson, Jan Edh and Lars Simm, as published by Arctic Radio Club most helpful to my hobby. Here is some information – nominal frequency, date, and measured frequency - gleaned from their MV Eko magazine in recent months. BC [nominal, date, call, name, location, exact kHz, contributor init.] 570 5.4 L.. R Argentina Buenos Aires on 570.029. AN 700 26.3 HCRS2 Radio Sucre Guayaquil on 699.991. JE 870 12.4 HCNY2 Radio Cristal Guayaquil on 869.972. JE 920 7.4 ZP1 Radio Nacional Asunción on 919.927. JE 1010 2.4 CX24 Radio 1010 AM Montevideo on 1009.987. JE 1190 13.4 OAX7B Radio Tawantinsuyo, Cusco on 1190.062. Sim 1250 13.4 OAX4L Radio Cora, Lima on 1249.982. Sim 1270 12.4 HJAR La Cariñosa Cartagena on 1270.029. JE 1270 12.4 HCUM2 Radio Universal Guayaquil on 1270.094. JE 1270 12.4 HCUM2 Radio Universal Guayaquil on 1270.093. TN 1280 7.4 HJLR Caracol Radio, Pasto on 1279.996. TN 1350 5.4 HJHL Bésame Radio Ibague on 1350.004. TN 1360 25.3 OCU4I Radio Bienestar Lima on 1360.008. TN 1370 21.4 HJKI Radio Mundial Bogotá on 1370.049. TN 1380 8.4 HJMM Cadena Radial Vida Valledupár on 1379.992. JE 1400 25.3 HJKM Emisora Mariana Bogotá on 1400.002. TN 1400 2.4 CX140 Radio Zorilla de San Martín Tacuarembó on 1399.989. JE 1400 6.4 CX140 Radio Zorrilla de San Martín Tacuarembó on 1399.987.AN 1410 25.3 HJDU Emisora Cultural Antioquia on 1409.998. TN 1420 12.4 HJBH Radio Magdalena Santa Marta on 1419.981. JE 1430 25.3 OCU2U Radio Visión, Jaén with La Voz de Salvacion program on 1430.017. TN 1440 21.4 HJNZ Colmundo Radio Medellín on 1439.991 TN 1440 5.4 HJNZ Colmundo Medellín on 1439.991. TN 1440 5.4 HJGM Antena 2 with Colmundo on 1440.003. TN 1440 7.4 OAX4K Radio Imperial 2, Lima on 1440.012. Sim 1440 2.4 CX144 Radio Rivera Rivera on 1439.972. JE 1470 21.3 OAU6E Radio Victoria, Arequipa on 1469.951. Sim 1470 14.4 OAU6E Radio Victoria Arequipa on 1469.951 TN 1470 17.4 OAU6E Radio Victoria Arequipa 1469.951. JE 1470 18.4 OAU6E Radio Victoria, Arequipa on 1469.951. Sim 1470 12.4 HCLD2 Ecos de Naranjito Naranjito on 1469.993. JE 1490 23.3 OAX5N Radio Nazca, Nazca on 1490.015. Sim 1490 31.3 OAX5N Radio Nazca, Nazca on 1490.016. TN 1510 25.3 HJA22 La Voz de San Luis, San Luis de Gaceno 1509.985. Sim 1510 5.4 HCBD1 Radio Monumental Quito on 1509.993. TN 1510 5.4 HCIO2 Naval Guayaquil on 1509.997) Per Karel Honzik via RealDX: “They have their own program between 5:30 and 20:00 local time and the time station relay overnight, although they do not mention it in their website program schedule”. TN 1510 20.3 OCX4J Radio Tarma, Tarma on 1509.930. Sim 1510 13.4 OCX4J Radio Tarma, Tarma on 1509.933. TBV 1510 21.4 HJD24 La Voz de la Unión, La Unión on 1509.993. TN 1510 13.4 OCX6Q Radio Alegría, Arequipa on 1509.998 TBV 1510 31.3 OCX6Q Radio Alegria, Arequipa on 1509.991. Sim 1520 2.4 LRI253 Radio Belgrano Suardi, on 1509.985. JE 1540 23.3 OBX4N Radio Corporación, Cerro de Pasco on 1540.110. Sim 1540 25.3 2330 OBX4N Radio Corporación, Cerro de Pasco on 1540.111 JE (August NZ DX Times via DXLD) SDR-filer från södra Sydamerika --- Henrik Klemetz Jag har gått igenom ett antal filer som jag fått från den amerikanske DX-aren Don Moore efter avslutad rundresa i södra Sydamerika. De är uppdelade landvis. Jag har även tagit med en del "vanliga" stationer när de t ex har en annorlunda annonsering. Som syns av materialet är det i Chile man hittar de flesta splittarna. Frekvensackuratessen är annars förvånansvärt stor i Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay och Bolivia. Bolivianerna loggades 24-25 april i Humahuaca i nordvästra Argentina. Chile-stationerna plockades framförallt från en lyssnarsajt i närheten av Neuquén i sydvästra Argentina. Brassarna (PR, SC, RS) och Paraguay loggades en månad senare i delstaten Misiones i nordöstra Argentina när Don befann sig på ett ganska störningsfritt ställe som kallas Colonia Finlandesa, Finska kolonin. (Det finns en svensk koloni i samma område, i närheten av staden Oberá). Beträffande Dons utrustning finns en utförlig beskrivning på https://swling.com/blog/tag/don-moore SDR FILES FROM SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA --- HENRIK KLEMETZ I have gone through a number of files I received from American DXer Don Moore after completing a tour in southern South America. They are divided by country. I have also included some "regular" stations when, for example, they have different advertising. As can be seen from the material, most splits are found in Chile. Frequency accuracy is otherwise surprisingly great in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia. The Bolivians were logged April 24-25 in Humahuaca in northwestern Argentina. Chile stations were mainly picked from a listening site near Neuquén in southwestern Argentina. The Brazilians (PR, SC, RS) and Paraguay were logged a month later in the state of Misiones in northeastern Argentina when Don was in a rather disturbing place called Colonia Finlandesa, the Finnish colony. (There is a Swedish colony in the same area, near the town of Oberá). As for Don's equipment, a detailed description is available at https://swling.com/blog/tag/don-moore Bolivia, Chile 600 599.907 Santiago. Chi R Vida Nueva 630 629.967 Valparaíso, Chi Stela Maris rlg 640 Tarija, Bol R ACLO ID: ”Radioaclotarija” in one word 1180 1180.89 Santiago. Chi R Portales 1210 1209.830 Valparaíso, Chi R Valparaíso 1220 La Paz, Bol R Splendid in Aymara 1250 1250.005 Valdivia, Chi R Pilmaiquén 1280 Cochabamba, Bol R Cristiana Comunidad del Sur rlg 1300 1299.607 Santiago, Chi R Conexiones rlg 1300 La Paz, Bol R Sol Poder de Dios rlg 1330 Santiago. Chi Romance new slogan? 1340 1340.333 Chillán, Chi R La Discusión 1340 Valparaíso, Chi La Colo Colo //1490, 1549.650 1380 El Alto, Bol La Voz del Espíritu Santo rlg, Sp & Aymara 1450 1450.033 Curicó, Chi R Tropical Latina large FM net 1470 1470.354 San Antonio, Chi R Sargento Aldea 1480 Santa Cruz, Bol R Bendita Trinidad local ID 1480 1479.884 Tomé, Chi R La Amistad 1490 Valparaíso, Chi La Colo Colo //1340, 1549.650 1500 1500.022 Los Andes, Chi R Trasandina 1510 1510.017 Rancagua, Chi R Poder Pentecostal 1530 1530.033 Quillota, Chi R Nexo 1550 1549.650 Valparaíso, Chi La Colo Colo //1340, 1490 1570 1570.295v Rancagua?, Chi No ID heard rlg 1580 El Alto, Bol R El Fuego del Espiritu Santo 1600 1599.804 Santiago, Chi R Nuevo Tiempo 1600 1600.800 Tent. Bol R Fuente del Manantial rlg Brasilien 540 ZYK322 Santo Angelo, RS R Sepé Tiaraju AM 580 580.014 ZYJ299 Säo Gabriel, RS R Tchê 660 ZYK319 Vacaria, RS R Canção Nova 1020 1019.988 ZYK202 Porto Alegre, RS R Eldorado 1110 ZYK306 Sobradinho, RS R Sobradinho 1210 ZYJ325 Curitiba, PR A Super R de Curitiba (+SW) 1240 ZYK251 Ibirubá, RS R Ibirubá 1240 1240.019 ZYJ280 Matelândia, PR R Materlândia (2 kW) 1290 1289.982 ZYK331 Espumoso, RS R Planetário 1320 1320.139 ZYK266 Panambi, RS ”AM1320” R Sulbrasileira 1350 ZYK205 Três Passos, RS R Difusora 1360 1359.995 ZYK281 Lucena, RS R Navegantes 1370 1370.005 ZYJ782 Säo Miguel de Oeste, SC R Peperi AM 1410 1409.983 ZYK246 Garibaldi, RS R Garibaldi 1430 ZYJ200 Curitiba, PR R Evangelizar 1460 ZYJ308 Ampere, PR R Ampere 1460 1461.25v ZYJ280 Bagé, RS R Cultura (hrd all over Arg; listed as inactive on 1460 and 1590 in WRTH) 1470 1470.705 Ibaiti, PR (tent) R Educadora 1500 ZYK225 Canguaçu, RS R Liberdade 1540 ZYJ803 Capinzal, SC R Capinzal ”39 anos no ar” 1550 1549.962 ZYK375 Soledade, RS R Soledade 1570 ZYJ341 Nova Aurora, PR ”Clube AM, a emissora do povo” 1580 1579.930 ZYK237 Encantado, RS R Encantado 1590 ZYJ823 Joinville, SC R Clube 1600 ZYK779 Säo Paulo, SP R Nove de Julho (Rede Aparecida) Argentina 530 Buenos Aires R AM 530 ”somos radio” radioam530.com 540 Buenos Aires R Pasión AM, ”pasion por la música” info@am540.com.ar 550 549.996 Neuquén La Primera 560 560.003 La Quiaca ”Nacional La Quiaca” s/off 0300 600 599.990 Neuquén LU5 R Neuquén 630 630.006 San Salvador LW 8 R San Salvador 750 750.004 Córdoba R Nacional, Córdoba 840 840.015 Salta R Salta 900 Corrientes LT7 R Provincia de Corrientes 910 Buenos Aires R La Red AM910 ”la radio líder en transmisiones deportivas” 980 General Pico ”AM9-80, R. 37” Provincia de La Pampa 1150 1150.009 Resistencia LT9 1290 1289.983 Guaymallén R Murialdo 1400 1399.995 Neuquén AM Cumbre 1400 1420 Buenos Aires Two programs: AM Mil 14-20 ”somos radio”, R con vos //88.9 www.la1420.com.ar www.radioconvos.com.ar 1470 1470.110 Junin AM14-70 1490 José C. Paz, BA R Ciudad de Caá Catí 1490 Córdoba Vida AM 1710 1709.820 La Matanza ”AM1710, Selva” Paraguay, Uruguay 570 Pedro J Cabellero, Py R Amambay 0955, 1 kW 570 Ayolas, Py R San Roque González de Santa Cruz s/on 1100, radiosanroque570@gmail.com 590 San Pedro, Py R Ycuámandiyyú 660 Concepción, Py R Regional AM 680 Asunción, Py ”Cáritas, Univ. Católica, 680 AM” 700 Pilar, Py R Carlos Antionio López QRM Gaúcha ZH 800 Asunción, Py La R Unión R 800 810 Montevideo. Uy ”El Espectador la 1a. R, vuelve a estar la 1a. R” 860 859.995 Caacupé, Py La V de la Cordillera 1020 1019.988 Asunción, Py R Ñandutí 1050 Montevideo, Uy ”RNU R Pública, R Uruguay” 1080 Asunción, Py R Monumental (red satelital) 1300 1299.969 Asunción, Py R Fe y Alegría 1370 1369.850 San Javier, Uy R Regional San Javier 1480 1479.985 Nemby, Py R América/R Iglesia ID:ar sällan. Insp pgm med José Holowaty 1480 Rivera, Uy ”Internacional AM Mil 4-80, una R como la gente” (ARC mv-eko 5 August via DXLD) Don Moore har även en delad Google Drive Folder där han lagt ut exempel på ”on the road” SDR inspelningar. Kolla denna länk: https://drive.google.com/open?id=17XXTi0w5hzzNmC60kjm6WiNTXEnvNloX [introduxion ``Read This first`` on Don`s site:] SDR RECORDINGS MADE IN PERU, ECUADOR, AND COLOMBIA The files were all recorded using HDSDR and can be played back in HDSDR or any similar SDR software. Recordings of the MW band are always 1250 kHz wide and include the X-band … except that I did type in the center frequency wrong once in Loja and cut off the top. Recordings of longwave and shortwave are always 400 kHz wide. The exception is a few 2 MHz wide files made at one location with the SDRPlay. I have prefixed the file names so that they indicate the band, country, and location DXed from. Equipment Receivers: Afedri SDR-Net (main) and SDRPlay RSP1 (backup). Unless otherwise noted the receiver used was the Afedri. Primary Antenna: For the primary antenna I have a Wellbrook amplifier unit plus three lengths of wire - one of 18 meters and two of 9 meters. I can combine the wire to get different lengths depending on available space. Usually I throw the wire over an available tree limb and configure it in a delta with the Wellbrook unit in the bottom middle. I have also configured the wire in a rectangle, a trapezoid, and a right-angle triangle. Generally, the Delta seems to work best and is the easiest. In Peru (which is 220V), I powered the Wellbrook off a pack of 8 AA batteries. In Ecuador I used the 110V adapter. I compared the adapter with batteries and there is absolutely no difference in noise. Secondary Antenna: PA0RDT mini-whip for use where the Wellbrook isn’t practical. This is powered off 8 AA batteries. Lead-in: I have one 50 foot (15 meter) and one 11 foot (3.3 meters) lengths of 75 ohm coax. The shorter length is for the PA0RDT in confined locations (like trying to DX on a hotel roof). Locations Locations ranked: In terms of the quality of reception (due to noise levels, antenna used, etc) I would rank the locations this way: Sauce, Lamas, Manizales, Loja, Tarapoto, Maichil, Molinopampa, Cuenca. So if you just want to grab a couple files to check then take those from Sauce and Lamas. But the other locations will obviously have DX from other locations. And there was good DX at all the locations … some were just better than others. (Hacienda) Maichil, Peru: I found this on AirBnb. It is west of Cajamarca, about halfway between Chilete and San Pablo. DXing was with the Afedri and the PA0RDT antenna in a tree about 15 meters behind my room. The Wellbrook wire loop wasn’t practical here as they had cows grazing everywhere! Also, there was a strong noise source that came on late afternoon and didn’t disappear until later in the evening. That made sunset and early evening DX impossible. Paste these coordinates into Google Maps, satellite view, and you can see the building I was in (the one on the left): -7.171416, -78.821908 Their Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Mi-Hacienda-Maichil-156334664425321/ Lamas, Peru: Lamas is about 20 km northwest of Tarapoto. I stayed at the Hospedaje Mishky Wasi, which just outside town to the west. The antenna was 27 meters of wire in a Delta pointed north/south. Exact location: https://www.google.com.ec/maps/place/6°25'00.9"S+76°31'51.6"W Molinopampa, Peru: This is a very small town about 22 km east of Chachapoyas. I stayed at Beto’s Hotel on the plaza. I just came here one night to do some historical investigations and left most of my gear in Chachapoyas. DXing was down from the third floor balcony using the SDRPlay connected to a NuVision Windows 10 tablet with the PA0RDT hung over the spouting. The location was somewhat noisy and the SDRPlay is definitely inferior to the Afedri, but the recordings are full of DX. There were no local stations so no problems with overloading, a common problem with the SDRPlay. Exact location: https://www.google.com.ec/maps/place/Bettos+Restaurant/@-6.2086074,-77.6691187,18z/ Sauce, Peru: This small town is along a lake about 25 km southeast of Tarapoto. I stayed at the Posada de Sauce, which is on the west side of the lake. The Posada is totally solar powered, which made it a very quiet location. The antenna was 27 meters of wire in a Delta. On the first night (Nov 30 to Dec 01) it was configured East/West and then turned to North/South for the second night (Dec 01 to 02). Exact location: https://www.google.com.ec/maps/@-6.7002328,-76.2243816,18.47z Tarapoto: Tarapoto is the major city of San Martin department. I stayed at the Mitu Wasi Ecohospedaje in a neighborhood 1.5 kilometers south of city center. The lodging consist of a long narrow tree-filled compound with about seven or eight tiny cabanas. I was fortunate to be given the rear-most cabana in the compound where there was plenty of room to erect my Wellbrook wire loop next to and behind my cabana. The first night (Nov 25-26) I had a 27 meter delta with a north/south orientation. The next night (Nov 26-27) I re-erected the antenna for more of a northwest/southeast orientation, which required I put the wire in a rectangle shape. On the third night (Nov 27-28) I added my final nine meters to get 36 meters, but this required pulling out the two bottom corners to make a sort of balanced trapezoid. I stayed two more nights but there were severe T-storms both evenings, so no DXing. Noise levels were low and reception surprisingly good. As I had very little line noise coming in on my laptop I made numerous overnight recordings. Exact Location: (It might appear that there is lots of antenna room further east, but the compound has a rear-wall and there are houses just behind it.) -6.501084, -76.363857 Loja, Ecuador: This is a major city in southern Ecuador. I had an AirBnB at a rural house just south of the city. It was a reasonably quiet location but I had a lot of problems with overloading by Loja’s two MW stations (especially on LW). The antenna was 36 meters of wire in a Delta oriented East/West. It was on the south side of the house, which may have blocked signals somewhat from the north. Paste these coordinates into Google Maps, satellite view, and you can see the house I was at: -4.044224, -79.208131 Cuenca, Ecuador. Not DX quality recordings. I’m staying in downtown Cuenca where real DX is not possible. However I did take the laptop, Afedri, and the PA0RDT antenna to the rooftop terrace and make two top-of-hour recordings. These just have local stations and stronger ones on other frequencies. Manizales, Colombia: This is one of the larger cities in Colombia’s coffee region and in the general area where my http://www.pateplumaradio.com/blog/colombiadx/colombia2016log.html logs were made. The DX location was a short distance to the NW of Manizales at the Mauro Hilton Hostel http://www.maurohilton.com/ no connection to the other Hilton. The location was very good except that as it was built into a steep mountainside (typical of the region) erecting the Wellbrook loop was difficult. For the first two nights (UTC March 14 to 1200 March 16) I had the delta running across the hillside in a roughly north/south direction. Because the mountain side was to the east, signals from that directions seemed to be attenuated. However for about 3.5 hours on the second night (2245 - 0215) I say in that gazebo you see in the picture and threw the PA0RDT into a nearby tree. That gave some very different reception. For the final night, I turned the delta to an east/west configuration so that it was actually running down the 45 degree side of the mountain. That made some interesting differences in reception such as X-Band stations to the north came in much better. 5.090763, -75.551964 Contribute If you have any observations, station lists, or loggings you have made from these recordings please send them to me and I will include them here. I already have a very nice list of longwave beacons that Andy Robins has found on the LW recordings (via ARC mv-eko 5 August via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See GUAM; KUWAIT; ROMANIA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DAB See GERMANY; UK ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See also MEXICO; OKLAHOMA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL TV COVERAGE SHRINX COMPARED TO ANALOG Yesterday, we, on the WTFDA DX BB, had a discussion about analog vs digital TV so, I thought I'd try a little experiment... Analog WUVM-LP 4z Atlanta is 312 miles from here and is running 2.5 KW. With the Icom R-7000 receiver I'm able to hear enough of it to determine that it is SS with Azteca America programming. I was also getting a little bit of video on the Sanyo DP19241 TV. Plenty enough to make a positive ID on this one. Meanwhile, I checked all of the regular 'benchmark' DTV channels from Atlanta and not a single one of them came anywhere near decoding on the Zenith DTT-901 converter box, even though, some of them are running 400 TIMES AS MUCH POWER (abt 26 db) as WUVM-LP. Analog vs DTV. 73, (Ed NN2E, KY, Aug 7, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) DTV sure is fun --- staring at hours of yellow bars that never decode at the same time I get hours of IDable material from an analog (Crazy Monkey, Akron OH, ibid.) I'm still waiting for a decode of WGBH RF5, 80 miles away. It's been a week since they switched from 19. All I want to see is a couple of seconds of video. Is that too much to ask? I think so (Mike Bugaj, Enfield, CT, -72° 30' W/41° 59' N FN31RX, Online since 1999 and still going at mikesdx.com Archives: The Original Mike's TV/FM Page with Tuner Mods and Lots of Old Stuff, ibid.) You're right, Andrew; it was much more interesting watching weak signal programming than a 1/3 scale signal bar. Mike, Eventually WGBH will decode and, from that point forward, it'll be like you've stepped on a wad of gum in a hot parking lot. I had this experience with WHDF. Waited a looong time for it to decode and now I just can't scrape that thing off of my shoe. I see its signal nearly everywhere I aim the antenna. 73, (Ed NN2E, ibid.) I believe it was the great Jeff Kadet who told me years ago that dxing digital television is like having the squelch stuck on eight (out of ten). I can't wait for ATSC 3.0 to be rolled out near me. (W1BSM, Fairfield CT, ibid.) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ BURT WOLF --- TRAVELS & TRADITIONS is an excellent program, available here only once a week on OETA, Sundays at 2100-2128 UT. It`s not just a travelogue but deals with a different subject each week. In current Season 18, two of particular relevance here: Short Guide To Cell Phone Safety Description: Burt takes a quick look at the history of communication from the cavemen to the alphorn, to the telephone and finally the cellphone. He traces how the cellphone has changed his work and family life as he travels around the world. He also tracks down a series of stories in the United States and Europe that suggests that the cellphone may not be as safe as most of us thought. He meets with experts in England, Italy, France and the United States to find out how we can deal with the problems that are emerging. And finally, Burt follows an Apple developer's conference where they are working on apps to limit your use of their own products. [HD][CC] Broadcast In: English --- and Travel & The Danger Of RF Radiation both of which you may click & play on his website: http://www.burtwolf.com/ (Glenn Hauser, OK, August 4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) U.S. NATIONWIDE EMERGENCY TEST TODAY In the United States, the next Nationwide Test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) is scheduled for today, Aug 7 2019, at 2:20 p.m. ET. [1820 UT] [see OKLAHOMA] TWO-METER HAM BAND THREATENED On several 2-meter nests, talk of the proposed 2-meter ham band changes has come up. Could this eventually affect us in North America? Let’s hope not and keep an eye on things. The article below is from a French ham’s perspective. 2m amateur radio band endangered? Geoffrey F4FXL June 13, 2019 Ham Radio A friend brought this news to my attention today. If all this makes its way up the ITU World Radio Conference and gets adopted, it is more likely that amateur radio will be kicked out of the 144-146 MHz segment as a primary service. Let’s try to get to the bottom of this. At the end of the Southgate article there is a link to the CEPT website where we can download documents for the upcoming CEPT meeting. The document of interest is called PTA (19)090 (direct link to the document) and consists of a zip file. The zip file contains a PDF document explaining that there is a legit need for non-safety aeronautical applications such as data links for border control, fire surveillance, etc. There is lots of blah-blah about not having frequencies clearly identified for that purpose. Among other bands, the document simply proposes to re-allocate 144-146 on primary basis to aeronautical services for such needs (see page 5 note a) a) that the band 144-146 MHz is allocated to the Amateur and Amateur-Satellite on a primary basis in all Regions and may be considered for possible new allocations to the aeronautical mobile service on a primary basis; Yep, primary basis! They intend to kick amateur radio out of the 144-146 MHz band, worldwide! This means hams worldwide would be forced to cease any emissions as soon as the primary service is getting on air. No more repeaters, APRS, SSB, you name it… Since aircrafts can have a very large coverage radius when flying high-altitude, cohabitation will be impossible. There is also a second set of documents from a few French ham radio organizations where we actually learn that this proposal is driven by Thalès Group, a manufacturer of unmanned aircrafts. IMHO there is no need to panic for now, as this topic will be first discussed at the European level CEPT and from this point on will be moved to global discussion at the next World Radio Conference. The CEPT meeting will be held from June 17th to 21st in Prague, Czech Republic, so stay tuned. Edit: While I was commuting back home I thought, “Why the heck target the 2m amateur band?” I came to the following conclusion… simply because it is already coordinated worldwide. Other bands have different services depending on ITU region or country. 144-146 MHz is allocated to amateur worldwide so this would save lots of hassle and discussion with dozens of different radio services… Edit 2: I see some rants about ARRL doing nothing. Actually, the ARRL can’t do anything for now besides monitoring the issue. This is something being discussed at European level and might be submitted, or not, to the next World Radio Conference. This is currently a European thing and I hope that European amateur organizations will be able to stop the proposal before it hits the World Radio Conference agenda! THE BACKBONE OF VHF AMATEUR RADIO MAY BE UNDER THREAT  by: Jenny List July 1, 2019 A story that has been on the burner for a few weeks concerns a proposal that will be advanced to the ITU World Radiocommunication Conference 2023. It originates with French spectrum regulators and is reported to be at the behest of the Paris-based multinational defence contractor Thalès. The sting in its tail is the proposed relegation of amateur radio to secondary status of the widely used two-meter band (144 MHz) to permit its usage by aircraft. The machinations of global spectrum regulation politics do not often provide stories for Hackaday readers, but this one should be of concern beyond the narrow bounds of amateur radio. Most parts of the radio spectrum are shared between more than one user, and there is usually a primary occupant and a secondary one whose usage is dependent upon not interfering with other users. If you’ve used 435 MHz radio modems, you will have encountered this. That’s a band shared with both radio amateurs and others including government users. While some countries have wider band limits, the two-meter band between 144 MHz and 146 MHz is allocated with primary status to radio amateurs worldwide, and it is this status that is placed under threat. The latest ARRL news is that there has been little opposition at the pan-European regulator CEPT level, which appears to be causing concern among the amateur radio community. Why should this bother you? If you are a radio amateur, it should be a grave concern that a band which has provided the “glue” for so many vital services over many decades might come under threat, and if you are not a radio amateur, it should concern you that a commercial defence contractor in one country can so easily set in motion the degradation of a globally open resource governed by international treaties penned in your grandparents’ time. Amateur radio is a different regulatory being from the licence-free spectrum that we now depend upon for so many things, but the principle of it being a free resource to all its users remains the same. If you have an interest in retaining the spectrum you use wherever on the dial it may lie, we suggest you support your national amateur radio organization in opposing this measure (via Aug CIDX Messenger via DXLD) STUDIES SHOW RAPID DECLINE IN RADIO LISTENING GLOBALLY By Bobby Owsinski for Hyperbot.com Broadcast radio is still one of the most used sources of media and a top vehicle for music discovery, but it won't maintain this top spot for long if the current trend holds, according to two major listenership studies. It had to happen sooner or later. Despite the hopeful numbers thrown around by the radio industry, it appears that digital infotainment consumption is catching up with radio in the one place that it thought it was safe – the automobile. A new study by Strategy Analytics has found that usage is in “fast decline” across the U.S., Europe, and China. The study found that new car buyers are sending mixed signals regarding whether a radio is even necessary in a new vehicle. This comes on the back of streaming media showing “a remarkable surge in usage and interest,” in regards to media played on portable devices in the car. That study dovetails with a one from New York University that provides a grim outlook for radio over the next 10 years. The report finds that traditional radio has failed to engage with Generation Z (people born after 1995) and its influence and relevance will continue to decline unless it reinvents itself. The report found that Gen-Z is projected to account for 40% of the consumer market by 2020, and they have shown little interest in traditional media like radio, having grown up in a demand-consumption society. It also found that there’s been a massive drop-off in radio being used as a music discovery tool, with the most significant decline coming from teens aged 13 and up. Among 12-24-year-olds who find music discovery important, AM/FM radio (50%) becomes even less influential, trailing YouTube (80%), Spotify (59%), and Pandora (53%). The writing seems to be on the wall here. Young people are voting against radio with their non-consumption and the situation will only grow worse as they grow older. And who can blame them? Being used to an on-demand world makes linear entertainment feel old and frustrating. Having to wade through 6 and 7 minute commercial blocks is enough to have anyone, regardless of the age group, turn to something more user friendly (via Aug CIDX Messenger via DXLD) Re: [WOR] The Internet’s Impact on International Radio From the story: “The power requirements of shortwave transmitters pumping out 50, 250, or 500 kW is substantial, and the infrastructure — the large antennas, feedlines, transmitters, power supplies — all require regular maintenance from expert technicians.” That's only the half of it. There is an increasingly critical shortage of engineers that even understand Shortwave broadcasting. Most young people studying electronics today are not learning about the tube technology still in place at virtually all high powered HF operations. Many young people want the IT jobs that pay well, and are in no ways as physically demanding as maintaining a shortwave, or even an AM or FM broadcast facility. Maintaining a shortwave facility is extremely labor intensive, and very demanding. Most of today's electronic "technicians" work in a 5, 12, or 24 volt DC world, and would be very intimidated with 12,000 volt 25 AMP power supplies. Yes, there are a tiny amount of solid state HF units, but they are horrifically expensive, and few and far between. Outside of a few "deep pocket" operations, I don't see that changing any time soon, if ever. As I look around the International shortwave community, most of the people I know in Engineering are in their 60s, 70s, with just a few in their 50s. That does not bode well for keeping these facilities on the air going forward. I agree that there is still a "need" for HF communications, but the vast majority of the people in the western world no longer own any HF receivers, or even know what they are. For that matter, people under 35 don't even know what AM radio is, and increasingly don't know that much about FM radio. They do know Spotify, Pandora, and ITunes. Like it or not, I can understand why many international broadcasters have shuttered their facilities. The combination of declining audience and skyrocketing costs, coupled with a vanishing pool of engineers, is a deadly combination for the future of sustainable HF service in the United States, Canada, The UK, Western Europe, and even Australia. It's hard for governments to allocate millions of dollars to provide radio service for the entertainment of what is increasingly becoming hobbyist in the Western World. I fully understand that Shortwave can broadcast to the world without barriers, and would be extremely useful in a time of crisis. However, if your prospective audience does not own a radio, or even knows what it is, then who would you really reach? I fully believe that the Chinese will use it to increase their message to the third world nations that lack a robust Internet structure. They will also dominate the airwaves for what few listeners remain in the Western World (Bob Biermann, Aug 6, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DXLD) CHINESE, CHEAP, MAGNETEIC LOOP ANTENNA MARE Jack Amelar also mentions an item about a 'cheap' (US$43) Chinese made Magnetic Loop Antenna that has me tempted .... See https://tinyurl.com/magaloop and if YOU get one, be sure to report how it works for the MARE TipSheet! Gary Vance likes his much more expensive US built loop and he, Don Moore and Bill Carney swear by the Dutch built mini-whip (especially for LW!) so inquiring minds want to know how this compares! (kvz, MARE Tipsheet Aug 2 via DXLD) AFEDRI SDR IN PATRESHKO, BULGARIA OUT OF SERVICE UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/afedri-sdr-in-patreshko-bulgaria-is-out.html More information on the shortwave listening hobby, please visit to http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com QTH-1: Patreshko, Bulgaria Receiver: Afedri SDR Software: SDR-Console v2.3(using remote connection) Antennas: various Inverted V and beverage antennas. QTH-2: Sofia OK2, Bulgaria Receiver: Sony ICF-2001D Antenna: 30 m. long wire Sunday, August 4, 2019 Afedri SDR in Patreshko, Bulgaria is out of service until further notice due to several technical issues. Faults in the antenna system & also a fault in the DC power supply to the SDR, have made it necessary to go out for a while. These will be fixed as time permits and also will let you know when coming back. (Georgi & Ivo, Bulgaria) Публикувано от Observer в 3:35 PM (via DXLD) NYSE ANTENNAS SPARK HIGH-SPEED TRADER BACKLASH Setup expected to give the exchange’s affiliated network provider exclusive access, and traders fear having to pay hefty fees for use The NYSE data center in Mahwah, N.J. Photo: Google Earth By Alexander Osipovich Aug. 8, 2019 9:48 am ET https://www.wsj.com/articles/nyse-antennas-spark-high-speed-trader-backlash-11565272102 The New York Stock Exchange is under fire over a pair of antennas designed to shave two millionths of a second off the time it takes for high-frequency traders to access its computer systems. Some of the most vocal opponents are high-frequency traders. Last month, electronic-trading giant Virtu Financial Inc. VIRT -15.71% blasted the NYSE’s plan to add the new equipment to the roof of its data center in Mahwah, N.J. Virtu said in a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission that the initiative is unfair because trading firms will have to pay hefty fees to access the antennas. Raise the Roof New antennas on top of the New York Stock Exchange's data center could speed up a network affiliated with the NYSE and hurt competing networks. Other firms' networks use antennas connected to the building by more than 1,000 feet of fiber-optic cable. Location of antennas at NYSE data center Used by NYSE Used by other firms Cable Site of new roof antennas credit: Google Earth Source: Virtu Financial The reason: The NYSE is expected to give its own affiliated network provider, called SFTI, exclusive access to the rooftop antennas, Virtu said. That means there wouldn’t be any cheaper providers that can offer the same superfast access. If trading firms want to keep up, they would have to use SFTI and pay its fees. “The NYSE is just looking for ways to use its monopolistic advantage to charge premium prices,” Virtu Chief Executive Officer Douglas Cifu said in an interview. Representatives of the NYSE and the SEC declined to comment. The NYSE is a unit of Intercontinental Exchange Inc., or ICE. The spat is the latest twist in the ultrafast trading arms race. High-frequency traders make money through rapid-fire trading of stocks, futures and other assets. They must relentlessly adopt the fastest technology, or risk losing out. If a firm doesn’t use the quickest available network, for instance, it will be preyed upon by competitors that can act on market-moving information a split-second faster. A technician working on the roof of the New York Stock Exchange's data center in Mahwah, N.J., in June. The two white, dish-shaped antennas near him were recently added. Photo: Uncredited Over the years, the industry has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on technology like cross-country microwave networks. Even some high-frequency traders say the race is wasteful and offers little benefit to ordinary investors. But it benefits exchanges like the NYSE and Nasdaq Inc., which charge traders for fast access to their systems. Electronic-trading firms and Wall Street banks say stock exchanges have ratcheted up such fees in recent years. “What the exchanges have done is create a race condition to get to their quotes as quickly as possible and sell access to them to the highest bidder,” said Sal Arnuk, a partner at brokerage Themis Trading. Exchanges say their fees are reasonable. Nasdaq declined to comment. At the heart of the fight is a pair of white, dish-like antennas atop the NYSE’s data center off New Jersey’s Route 17. A person familiar with the matter said the antennas were installed two or three months ago and shared photographs of them with The Wall Street Journal, although it couldn’t be learned whether the antennas have been activated. Share Your Thoughts Should exchanges be adding equipment to give high-frequency traders faster access? Why or why not? Join the conversation below. The idea of the rooftop antennas is to send signals from the Mahwah data center to another set of antennas mounted on a nearby, 160-foot pole, replacing a span of fiber-optic cable, NYSE representatives told local officials while they were seeking approval for the additions earlier this year. That speeds up the network, because signals travel through air faster than through cable. “The whole point of doing the wireless links is to reduce the [reliance] on fiber and make the data delivery faster, as fast as it can be,” Sanjam Kaur, an ICE engineer, said in a March 20 meeting of the Mahwah Board of Adjustment, a zoning body. More Markets News More Exchanges Add ‘Speed Bumps,’ Defying High-Frequency Traders Ms. Kaur didn’t respond to requests for comment. A spokeswoman for the Mahwah local government declined to comment. From that 160-foot pole, which stands just in front of the data center, signals move on through SFTI’s wireless network linking U.S. stock exchanges. The antennas give a tiny improvement of about two-millionths of a second, according to Virtu. That is significant because it threatens a rival network run by McKay Brothers, a firm that builds communications infrastructure for high-frequency traders. To stay competitive, McKay would need to replace over 1,000 feet of cable connecting its network to the data center with a wireless link—which would require having its own roof antenna. But McKay says the NYSE is denying rooftop access to rival firms even though there is room for many antennas. “McKay believes that reserving roof access for a single provider has absolutely no technical justification,” said Bob Meade, the firm’s co-founder. “It is simply a way to gain an advantage for a service that would otherwise be subject to competition.” (via David Cole, LA, Aug 8, DXLD) Altho high-frequency (= short-wave) radio has been involved in some other stories about this subject, in double-entendre, it seems this one does not (gh, DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ RARE AND EXTREME MUF INTO THE NOAA WEATHER RADIO BAND This information is two weeks old, but I have not seen it mentioned anywhere other than on the WTFDA Facebook website. I feel this rare sporadic-E event needs to be seen by a wider audience due to the fact that we are at rock bottom of Solar Cycle 24, and transitioning into phase 25. On Saturday, July 20 between 1419-1506 local ET [1819-1906 UT], William Hepburn from (Grimsby, Ontario, Canada) had over forty-five minutes of extreme Es up to the VHF-Hi Weather Radio band at 162 MHz! This gave him eight new log entries with distances ranging from 839 to 1,253 miles. 1. 1419 162.500 WWG-54 AR Yellville 839 2. 1426 162.525 WXK-87 OK Clinton 1,158 3. 1435 162.425 WNG-555 KS Meade 1,168 4. 1441 162.525 WNG-534 KS Belvidere 1,094 5. 1444 162.450 WXN-81 KS Ulysses 1,214 6. 1456 162.500 WWH-22 KS Beaumont 971 7. 1459 162.500 KPS-511 KS Great Bend 1,053 8. 1506 162.525 KWN-60 CO Lamar 1,253 I like to log at least one 162 MHz WX-BC via Es before the Es season ends this month. Regards, (Mike Schaffer, KA3JAW, Easton, PA, FN20jq, GACTVDX, Aug 3, WTFDA Forum via WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DXLD) I was getting FM-band Es from Ontario a bit later that day (gh, OK) SOLAR CYCLE NUMBER 25 HAS BEGUN! Arnie Coro of Radio Havana Cuba writes on Facebook: The solar spot of 8 July was a solar event of great importance because it lasted long enough to receive a numerical designation: Ar2744. Those who keep the records will probably mark this active region as the first official solar spot of the solar cycle 25. How do we know that this solar spot belongs to the solar cycle 25? Its magnetic polarity tells us. Solar cycles are always mixed in their limits. At this moment we are experiencing the end of the decline of the solar cycle 24. Sunspot Ar2744 shows that we are simultaneously experiencing the first movements of solar cycle 25 (Propagation Report With James Welsh, Aug BDXC-UK Communication via WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DXLD) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2019 Aug 05 0339 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 July - 04 August 2019 Solar activity was very low under a spotless solar disk. Other activity included a filament eruption observed in SDO/AIA 304 imagery beginning at 04/1640 UTC in the NW quadrant. Analysis is on-going for any potential coronal mass ejections (CMEs) as coronagraph imagery becomes available. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was normal levels during the period. Geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to unsettled levels. Solar wind parameters indicated the arrival of a co-rotating interaction region (CIR) preceding a negative polarity coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS) beginning midday on 30 Jul. Total field increased to 11 nT by 30/2024 UTC while solar wind speed increased to a maximum of 596 km/s at 01/0503 UTC. The geomagnetic field responded with quiet to unsettled periods on 30 Jul-01 Aug. Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 05 August - 31 August 2019 Solar activity is expected to continue at very low levels for the forecast period (05-31 Aug). No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to reach moderate levels on 05 Aug and 18 Aug. High levels are expected on 06-17 Aug due to CH HSS influence. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be reach unsettled to active levels on 05-08, 10-11, 17-18, 26-28, and 31 Aug with G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm levels likely on 05-06 Aug due to recurrent CH HSS effects. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2019 Aug 05 0339 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 2019-08-05 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2019 Aug 05 67 25 5 2019 Aug 06 67 25 5 2019 Aug 07 67 15 4 2019 Aug 08 67 8 3 2019 Aug 09 67 5 2 2019 Aug 10 67 8 3 2019 Aug 11 67 8 3 2019 Aug 12 67 5 2 2019 Aug 13 67 5 2 2019 Aug 14 67 5 2 2019 Aug 15 67 5 2 2019 Aug 16 67 5 2 2019 Aug 17 67 8 3 2019 Aug 18 67 8 3 2019 Aug 19 67 5 2 2019 Aug 20 67 5 2 2019 Aug 21 67 5 2 2019 Aug 22 67 5 2 2019 Aug 23 67 5 2 2019 Aug 24 67 5 2 2019 Aug 25 67 5 2 2019 Aug 26 67 8 3 2019 Aug 27 67 8 3 2019 Aug 28 67 8 3 2019 Aug 29 67 5 2 2019 Aug 30 67 5 2 2019 Aug 31 67 12 4 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1994, DXLD) ###