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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1995 contents: Albania [non], Antarctica, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brasil, Bulgaria, Cuba, France, Germany, Hungary, Iran non, Kashmir non, Korea South, Kuwait, Niger, Nigeria, Sikkim, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, USA, Vatican, Zambia; and the propagation outlook Ready for first broadcasts on Friday August 16 to Thursday August 22 Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor1995.m3u (mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor1995.mp3 Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html Also linx to podcast services. 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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. ** ALBANIA. 11855 kHz via CRI European relay site at Cerrik, Chinese language program to all-Europe at 310degr, 07-09 UT, much overmodulated powerhouse signal of S=9+50dB, IN PEAKS UP TO 90 kHz WIDEBAND signal. Some logs of Sat August 10th in Cape Canaveral FL state, central Europe and in Japan [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 10, WOR iog via DXLD) Grayline close to St. John Newfoundland at 2357 UT: 6175even, CRI Cerrik European relay heard properly in Detroit Michigan tonight Aug 10th, CRI Spanish program music played til cut-off at 2357:15 UT sharp. S=9+10dB across Atlantic path [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 10, WOR iog via DXLD) 9570, Aug 13 at 0023, CRI English relay is reactivated at S9+10, also // 6020, which we ``need`` before Cuban relay start at 0100 on 9580. Yay, my high local line noise level is off, after a rainy day, washing off the transformers and insulators? Now I can DX below 9 MHz and hear more clearly the storm noise levels! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANDORRA [non]. Atlantic 2000 International on air now on 6070 with Radio Andorra program --- (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Lugo, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, 0807 UT Aug 10, WOR iog via DXLD) via GERMANY, q.v.; viz.: GERMANY, 6070, Atlantic 2000 International, Rohrbach, *0759, 10-08, ID "Atlantic 2000 International", French, special program about Radio Andorra, famous identification of the station: "Aqui Radio Andorra, emisora del Principado de Andorra". 25322. (Méndez) Weak signal here https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/atlantic-2000-int-with-radio-andorra.html Radio Waves International in previous hour was better https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/radio-waves-international-via-channel.html (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1145 UT, ibid.) GERMANY, Atlantic 2000 International with Radio Andorra special program. https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/atlantic-2000-int-with-radio-andorra.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 9-10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANDORRA. SMALL COUNTRY, TWO LARGE RADIO STATIONS: RADIO ANDORRA, SW & MW --- presented by Jeff White The European DX Council plans to hold their annual meeting for this year (2019) in the small country of Andorra from Friday September 6 - Sunday September 8. All who are interested to do so, are most welcome to attend, and you can find the full details on several appropriate web sites. EDXC events & scheduling http://www.edxc.org In recognition of this coming EDXC event in Andorra, we present here in Wavescan today, the second episode in a four part mini-series on the radio scene in Andorra. Audio Insert Radio Andorra theme music and identification announcement The small independent European country of Andorra, with its total area of less than 200 square miles, is the 6th smallest country in continental Europe. This small largely independent mini-country, with its own independent language, has a total population of less than 80,000 people, though it welcomes more then ten million visiting tourists each year. Geographically, Andorra is a small country of rugged mountains and narrow valleys in the high Pyrenees mountains and it is sandwiched in between France and Spain. This country is just 15 miles wide and 15 miles long, and it experiences many very low level earthquakes, though it has never been struck by a massive disastrous earthquake. The residents of Andorra pay no income tax; the country’s main income is derived from tourism; they have no standing army and no navy; and they did not fight in World War 1 nor in World War 2. Most foodstuffs are imported, and their currency is the European Euro, even though Andorra is not a member of the European Union. Their national language is Catalan, though fluency also in French, Spanish or Portuguese is quite common. English is understood, particularly in the main tourist areas. The history of ancient Andorra can be traced way back to the earliest settlements in France and the Iberian Peninsula. Due to its mountainous location, together with the French influence to the north and the Spanish influence to the south, Andorra has maintained some form of independence during the past two thousand years and more. These days the leadership of Andorra is shared by the President of France, and the Catholic Bishop of Catalonia in Spain. Andorra lies hidden, high up in the Pyrenees mountains between France and Spain; there have been two postal systems, French and Spanish; there are two school systems, French and Spanish; and for many years, there were two major radio stations, French and Spanish. These days however, there are three dozen FM stations on the air in Andorra, thus providing complete radio coverage of their entire country, though there are now no mediumwave nor shortwave stations. However, back in their earlier years, there were two important radio stations on the air in Andorra, on both mediumwave and shortwave. These stations were best known under their titles, as Radio Andorra and Sud Radio. Here now is the story of the first of these stations, Radio Andorra. It was way back in the year 1935, that a small consortium of business interests obtained a concession from the ruling authorities to establish a powerful commercial radio station in Andorra. This concession for thirty years was granted on August 19, 1935. One of the businessmen in this new venture was Jacques Tremoulet, who afterwards was very influential in establishing several other large mediumwave and shortwave stations, including Radio Africa in Tangier, Radio Antilles in Montserrat in the Caribbean, and Radio Trans Europe (Deutsche Welle) at Sines in Portugal. Construction work for this new large and powerful radio station in Andorra began in mid 1937. A strong four storey building made of granite was constructed in the main valley in Andorra, between Encamp and Las Elcaldes. This complete new building was constructed on the edge of Pena de les Anelletes overlooking the main highway running between France and Spain, and it contained the commercial offices, the on air and production studios for Radio Andorra, and some have suggested, the two original transmitters also. A lengthy Station Profile as published in the American radio journal Radio News in March 1949, states quite clearly that the two transmitters, mediumwave and shortwave, were both installed on the first floor above ground level in this four storey studio building. However, all of the available evidence suggests that the two original transmitters were installed actually in a separate building, the ornate castle like building, right from the beginning. We would suggest then, that the original plans called for the two transmitters to be installed in the studio building, but when construction was underway, then the ornate castle like building was chosen. Both transmitters, mediumwave and shortwave, were constructed by the French-Swiss transmitter company SFR, which is better known these days by some of its subsequent names, including Thomcast. The 60 kW mediumwave transmitter was designed to radiate on two channels 425 metres 704 kHz (during the day) and 274 metres 1095 kHz (at night). The 25 kW shortwave transmitter was designed for operation in any of the standard shortwave bands between 5 MHz and 15 MHz. Two mediumwave towers 400 feet tall were erected on the edge of the mountain top Lake Engolasters, high above Radio Andorra’s hillside building, and a feeder line more than half a mile long ran from the mediumwave transmitter in the building up to the twin towers on the edge of the lake. The entire project for Radio Andorra was completed in July 1939, and the first test broadcast went on the air on Sunday August 7. At that stage, several different channels around 11.8 MHz were noted on the air in Europe and in the United States. One unusual channel for a broadcast station was 8570 kHz, which was reported in England. However, due to what was described as a “wartime accident”, the station was off the air for several weeks; and in the meantime, the horrors of World War 2 began in continental Europe over the first weekend in September. The so called technical problem was corrected, and Radio Andorra returned to the air with test programming in Spanish and French in February of the following year 1940. A regular program schedule was introduced a few weeks later on April 27. However, as the events of World War 2 heated up, then the programming events at Radio Andorra began to make change. In June (1940), Radio Andorra dropped programming in the French language; shortly afterwards, the Germans attempted, unsuccessfully, to take over Radio Andorra; and the British made a subsequent and equally unsuccessful attempt to take the station over also. During the subsequent events of the war, Radio Andorra was noted at times with programming beamed to soldiers on service in North Africa, mainly morale boosting music, with very little comment or information. In May 1945, Radio Andorra made what we would call a peace time move towards postwar programming, with some of its scheduling drawn from the revived Radio Luxembourg. Then three years later, the French tried to jam the mediumwave signal from Radio Andorra; some said the jamming transmitter was in Bordeaux France, and others said it was actually Radio Monte Carlo (perhaps with Bordeaux programming). Somewhere around 1950, Radio Andorra first introduced the usage of its famous little 3½ kW shortwave transmitter which was noted over a period of time on several channels at the top end of the 49 metre band. Then in 1980, two used shortwave transmitters at 10 kW each were installed in the castle like transmitter building. However at that stage, the license for Radio Andorra was up for renewal, and amidst a lot of political wrangling, the station was closed down soon after 1900 UTC on Thursday April 2, 1981. Give six more days, and Radio Andorra was back on the air again. However on the next day, that is, on Thursday April 9, again at the same time 1900 UTC, the police arrived and ordered the station closed. That was the end. Six months later, the station engineer stated that he was still testing both transmitters, mediumwave and shortwave, twice each week; and that really was the end for Radio Andorra. More about the radio scene in Andorra next time (Adrian Peterson, IN, script for AWR Wavescan #548, Aug 25 [sic] via DXLD) ** ANGUILLA. 11775, Caribbean Beacon/University Network at 1530. Long PMS monologue (Pastor Melissa Scott). Gone on a 1600 recheck. The picture I am getting is Thursdays and Saturdays are somewhat regular for the DGS/PMS broadcasts. Sundays for sure - Fair August 8 (Rick Barton, Arizona SW Logs, Grundig Satellit 205/T.5000, RS SW-2000629 with various outdoor wires & indoor shortwire. 73 and Good Listening.......! - rb, WOR iog via DXLD) 11775, Aug 11 at 1839, PMS is on with poor signal. This corresponds to the websked for Sunday as 16-22 UT; and she was not on at earlier 1423 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA. 15476, LRA 36, Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, Base Esperanza, 1927-1940, 13-08 [Tue], Spanish, comments, female, male, Very weak. 14311. 15476, LRA 36, Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, Base Esperanza, 1906-1911, 14-08, Spanish, comments. Very weak. 15311 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1995, DXLD) UNKNOWNISTAN: 15477.1, 1925, 8/15; Per msg from Manuel Mendez (Spain), LRA36 Antarctica was on the air (monitored to 1846). No sign of a carrier on 15476, but there was a carrier on 15477.1 with a hint of audio (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time. ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ASIA [non]. RADIO FREE ASIA ANNOUNCES 23rd ANNIVERSARY QSL SEPTEMBER 2019 --- Bringing free press to closed societies, RFA’s first broadcast was in Mandarin on September 29, 1996 at 2100 UT. RFA is a private, nonprofit corporation broadcasting news and information to listeners in Asian countries where full, accurate, and timely news reports are unavailable. Acting as a substitute for indigenous free media, RFA concentrates coverage on events occurring in and/or affecting Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, North Korea, the People’s Republic of China, and Vietnam. In some Asian cultures, bamboo represents integrity, elegance, modesty and loyalty. This is RFA’s 71st QSL and is used to confirm all valid RFA reception reports from September to December 2019. The design was created by RFA’s Brian Powell (via Rich D`Angelo, NASWA, DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. Late Night Live on Australian wireless broadcast history (Saul Broudy, 14 Aug, internetradio at hcdx via DXLD) ** BANGLADESH. 4750even, Bangladesh Betar TERRIBLE BUZZ STRING distorted signal S=9+30dB powerhouse in Delhi, but buzz strings distance on 153, 254, 355, 456, 660, 761 Hz... means 20 x BUZZY strings each sideband, at 1318 UT Aug 14, Hertz distance BUZZ STRINGS visible = in total 2200 Hertz sideband BUZZ, and to be heard annoying. My observations taken in Delhi, Akatkata Tokyo Japan, Doha Qatar and at Eastern Finland in various SDR Perseus net. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz](Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 14 / 15, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1995, DXLD) ** BHUTAN. 6035, BBS, on August 14, at 1136, with pop songs; *1140, start up of FM99 relay via PBS Yunnan and at *1150, start of the jamming spur from 6045 jamming. Aug 12, BBS off about 1200; Aug 11, off at 1146* (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1995, DXLD) ** BRAZIL [and non]. Two Brazilian co-channel in rather "empty" 60 mb range, noted at 0630 UT on Aug 10, 4885.015 somewhat little stronger at S=6 in Cape Canaveral-FL (likely R Clube do Pará program ?) and same co-channel 4885.024 S=3-4 tiny signal too. ... and a lot of CODAR signal 'scratches' nearby in range 4736.0 - 4763.3, and 4885.8 - 4913.6 kHz. 9665.571 kHz on upper side flank now Brazilian station sermon heard in central Europe post, at 0708 UT on Aug 10, NOT FIX FREQUENCY, variable 15 - 20 Hertz moved around up and down [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 10, WOR iog via DXLD) 9665.421V, Aug 10 at 0630, Voz Missionária in evangelical Brazuguese is audibly wavering as I try to measure it, and it`s the OSOB, consequently also the SSOB! It had varied this much 38 minutes later when Wolfgang Büschel got it [as above] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. "Encontro DX Radio Aparecida" --- A partir del próximo sábado 10 de agosto de 2019, el programa "Encontro DX Radio Aparecida", y el SWL Brasil DX Group, otorgará un certificado de escucha, a todos los oyentes en general que reporten la escucha del programa. Puede escucharlo por ONDA CORTA: 6135, 9630, y 11855 kilociclos a las 2200 UT [de los SABADOS] EN INTERNET: http://www.a12.com/radio-am Los informes de recepción puede enviarlos a: Francisco Jacson py1pdf.rj@gmail.com Atte, (Héctor Frías Jofré, CE3001SWL-CE3FZL, Chile, Aug 9, WOR iog via DXLD) 11855.734v, Aug 13 at 2217, R. Aparecida, S4-S5 in Brazuguese talk, splitting right here at the moment, edging a bit further away from 11850.0 RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, 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 WORLD OF RADIO 1995, DXLD) 15190.1, Rádio Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte, 1420-1433, 14-08, after moths out, on air again, heard now, Portuguese, sport news, ID "Rádio Inconfidência, inconfidência.com.br". 14321(Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1995, DXLD) ** BULGARIA. SECRETLAND, Today August 8 again no signal of Brother HySTAIRical via Secretbrod: 14-1655 on 11600; 15-1655 on 6000; 16-1945 on 9400 & 20-0155 on 6055. https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/reception-of-radio-taiwan-international_9.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 8-9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) SECRETLAND, UNID, instead of R. Warra Wangeelaati via SPL Secretbrod, August 10: 1500-1530 15515 SCB 100 kW / 195 deg EaAf English, instead Afar Oromo Sat, good. Something`s always wrong at SPL Secretbrod transmitting station, today wrong program! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/unid-instead-of-rwarra-wangeelaati-via.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 9-10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) SECRETLAND, BBC in 19mb via SPL Secretbrod on August 11 1400-1500 on 15420 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Somali, good: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/bbc-in-19mb-via-spl-secretbrod-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 11-12, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA. 5900, Aug 14 at 0225, Arabish talk mixed with variety bits of music including Debussy, S9+20, 0229 I have to check something else so missed an ID or sign-off. At 0200-0230 per Aoki/NDXC, Kostinbrod carries the Dardasha 7 program of Bible Voice: not 0300-0330 as in EiBi. At 0230 I`m back to hear dead air; 0231 fade-up slowly: Brother HyStairical, so obviously it`s Secretbrod. At this hour he`s also on (at least) 7490+ WBCQ; 7570 & 7730 WRMI (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1995, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CAMBODIA [and non]. TRIAL OF CAMBODIANS WHO HAD WORKED FOR US-FUNDED RSA [sic] RESUMES By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press AP-AS-Cambodia-Press-Freedom https://hosted.ap.org/article/8c69df381bb842d28dfb8d093a766531/trial-cambodians-who-had-worked-us-funded-rsa-resumes PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- Two Cambodian journalists who had worked for U.S. government-funded Radio Free Asia were back on trial Friday on espionage charges that rights groups have characterized as a flagrant attack on press freedom. One of the journalists, Oun Chhin, said Thursday he still hoped the court would drop the case. "It has been nearly two years now, and I thought this groundless charge would be finished, and I hope the court will drop all the charges against us, so that we can exercise our rights fully to make a living, like other Cambodians," he said. Uon Chhin and Yeang Sothearin are charged with undermining national security by supplying information to a foreign state, which is punishable by up to 15 years in prison. They were arrested in November 2017 during a crackdown on the media and political opponents of Prime Minister Hun Sen's government during the run-up to the 2018 elections. The pair testified two weeks ago in Phnom Penh Municipal Court that they had covered news events for RFA after leaving its employment, but they denied any wrongdoing. Radio Free Asia closed its Phnom Penh bureau in September 2017, citing "unprecedented" government intimidation of the media. By the end of 2017, Cambodia's government had closed more than two dozen local radio stations, some of which had rebroadcast RFA's programs. The English-language newspaper The Cambodia Daily also was forced to close, muting almost all critical media inside the country. RFA is funded by an independent U.S. government agency and says its mission is "to provide accurate and timely news and information to Asian countries whose governments prohibit access to a free press." Its programs are aired by radio and television and carried online. Police initially said the two had been detained for running an unlicensed karaoke studio. But they were later accused of setting up a studio for RFA, which they deny, and were charged with espionage. Their release on bail has been conditional on monthly police station visits and confiscation of their passports, which they say makes it difficult to find jobs. Uon Chhin testified earlier that his contract with RFA had ended and he was building a karaoke studio when he was arrested, but denied allegations that it was meant for the secret use of his former employer. He said he sent video clips at the request of his former boss, and they concerned openly available news, not state secrets. Yeang Sothearin also acknowledged working on two stories after leaving RFA's employ. He said he didn't realize it would get him in legal trouble, because it was simply news already known to the public. The judge expressed skepticism at their explanation, questioning why he would send information when Radio Free Asia had already shut down its office in Cambodia. Human rights and press freedom groups have urged that the charges be dropped. "As long as Cambodia treats journalists like criminals, its reputation as a failed democracy will remain," Shawn Crispin, senior Southeast Asia representative for the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, said ahead of the last trial session (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** CHINA. 10920, Aug 9 at 1348, JBA Chinese, and 10960 JBA carrier; only other CNR1 jammers in survey up to 15 MHz are: 12870, JBA Chinese; 13550, S5-S7 Chinese with heavy flutter. CNR1 jammer survey Aug 10 at 1325+: 10920, Chinese S4-S6 11120, Chinese JBA 11170, JBA carrier 11540, Chinese S2-S3 11785, Chinese S5-S7 13550, Chinese S4-S5 None further heard up to 15 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15555, CNR1, August 10, 2019, 2337–2345 in Chinese. SIO 555. CNR1 jamming RFA on this same frequency. Loud signal, with OM and YL announcers, advertisements, music, etc. Moderate QRN (Vince Henley, Anacortes, WA, WiNRADiO G39DDCe SDR, ICOM IC-R8600, Ten-Tec RX-340, Drake R8B, SDRPLAY RSP Duo, TECSUN PL-880. Antennas: whip on PL-880 and Alpha-Delta DX-Ultra installed broadside east west at 30 feet for all others. Note: Back to normal listening configuration with this report, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) Had been visiting Wyoming CNR1 jammer survey, Aug 11 at 1340: JBA carriers on 10960, 11150, no WOOBs further up to 15 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9535, 2009-, Aug 12. Firedrake, jamming RFA from Kuwait in Mandarin. Marred also by a utility. Fair to good. Also heard on 9355 (Walt Salmaniw, Zuiderdam, Norwegian Sea, WOR iog via DXLD) 9155, Aug 13 at 1255, Chinese dialog at S5-S8, presumed CNR1 jammer; cursory check finds no more WOOB ones higher (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also ALBANIA ** CHINA. 7390. Aug 14, 2019. 2048-2056, China Radio International, Jinhua, in Hungarian. Man voice talking; 2056 ID by woman announcer; IS till 2057. Fair reception, 45433 (JRX_José Ronaldo Xavier, SWARL Callsign PR7036SWL, Cabedelo, Brazil, Receiver (s)_ Tecsun S-2000 & XHDATA D-808, Antenna (s)_ Degen DE31 Active & Longwire Antennas, WOR iog via DXLD) Jose, I'm surprised that you are able to listen CRI Hungarian in such a good quality. I'd like to congratulate! It is not only good for you but it is to those Hungarians who live in Latin-America. They hardly can hear anything Hungarian in the radio since Radio Budapest shut down shortwave. Of course it is possible to hear inland broadcasters on the internet but it is not the same as a programme edited according to the needs of compatriots living abroad. Internal broadcasters are serving the needs of an internal audience. I'm sure that Hungarians living abroad don't want to submerge into the daily political mud-dropping of Hungarian politicians. CRI's Hungarian service is very good, they talk very-well in Hungarian. The presenters finished their studies at a Chinese university's Hungarian language department, some of them spent half a year or a complete year as a student here in Hungary. And they have a native Hungarian who helps them to be more proficient in Hungarian. Hungarian is really a difficult language, of course I realise from time to time their errors but these errors aren't fundamental and it doesn't prevent the understanding. When I hear CRI's English broadcast, it is more perfect than the Hungarian. I don't know how and where the CRI staff acquired that skill (Tibor Gaal, Budapest, Hungary, ibid.) Tibor, CRI presenters, for the most part are not native Chinese, but hired guns, akin to RT’s methods. Personally, I prefer presenters be native nationals rather than just generic talking heads. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, m/m, ibid.) ** CONGO. 6115, Radio Congo, *0541, on Aug 13. Suddenly on (already in progress), in French; only slight QRM from Japan ("RN2") already here; by 0600, RN2 was improving (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) 6115, Radio Congo, Brazzaville, 1903-1910, 14-08, French, comments, extended program today. Strong QRM on 6110. 22432 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-880, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** COSTA RICA [non]. 11775, August 6 at 1730. Caribbean Beacon, reproductive health talk. 30 dBu, good. 13845, August 6 at 1943. Rev. Barbie droning on and on. 66 dBu, excellent signal. 11775, August 8 at 1320. Rev. Barbie, strange christian talk. 50 dBu, very good (Larry Will, HF DX logs from Lost River State Park, Mathias, West Virginia, August 5-8, 2019, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 6000, August 6 at 0011. RHC, scathing editorial in reaction to mass shootings in Texas and Ohio, says Trump is promoting hatred and intolerance of immigrants. Severe criticism of the National Rifle Association who they say promotes a society of violence. Excellent signal, 61 dBu, a/c hum in the audio chain. 6165, August 5 at 0000. RHC, big open carrier/dead air until at least 0105, 28 dBu. 6165, August 7 at 0135. RHC with talk in Spanish, almost non-existent modulation, strong signal, 40 dBu. 9535, August 8 at 1308. RHC, talk in Spanish, very low modulation, 46 dBu, good. 9640, August 8 at 1310. RHC, talk in Spanish, very low modulation, 40 dBu, good. 11530, August 6 at 1727. Cuban spy transmission, phonetic numbers and data bursts. Co-channel with Voice of Welat (Radyo Denge Welat). 33 dBu, good. 11760, August 6 at 1730. RHC, talk in Spanish by f-announcer, severely distorted audio, 36 dBu, very good. 11760, August 8 at 1320. RHC with talk in Spanish. 57 dBu, very good. 11930, August 5 at 2222. Wall of noise jamming against nothing, 34 dBu. 11850, August 5 at 2223. RHC, talk in Spanish by f-announcer. Low modulation, good signal, 30 dBu. 13650, August 8 at 1325. Wall of noise jamming, 41 dBu. Can't tell if Marti is underneath the jamming or not. [you mean 13605? gh] 13700, August 8 at 1322. RHC, talk in Spanish, 42 dBu, good. Parallel 13740 with about the same signal quality. 15140, August 6 at 1532. RHC, talk in Spanish. 31 dBu, good. 15140, August 6 at 1715. RHC, talk in Spanish, 27 dBu, good. 15140, August 7 at 1515. RHC, talk in Spanish, 33 dBu, good. 15140, August 8 at 1335. RHC, talk in Spanish, muffled and heavily distorted audio. 37 dBu, good. 15230, August 8 at 1335. RHC with mellow music, 33 dBu, very good (Larry Will, HF DX logs from Lost River State Park, Mathias, West Virginia, August 5-8, 2019, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Came across a Spanish MM/FF dialog on 15730 at 1501 UT that does not show at this time in any current schedule. Doing a TDOA analysis with the KiwiSDR network clearly shows it is originating in Cuba. The transmission dropped at 1511 but came back at 1518, then dropped again at 1523. Listening to the dialog, it is/was definitely RHC (Jim Barrett, Elmira, NY, 1527 Aug 12, WOR iog via DXLD) The Bejucal site technician checked / repaired something this Cuban morning of the USSR/Russian Made 50 kW unit or their 'Africa target' antenna of the 70ties, on fq 15730 kHz. On air check heard in NY on a sidelobe. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Bueschel, Aug 12, ibid.) 6100, Aug 13 at 0510, RHC English is S9+20/30 but undermodulated & distorted; 6165 is S9+10 and very undermodulated but not distorted; 6000 is S9+10, very undermodulated and suptorted; and 5040 is in Spanish instead of English. Strikeout! S9+10/20 with hum. 5025, Radio Rebelde at 0521 is also somewhat distorted. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6000, Aug 13 at 0233, RHC English is S9+10 but just barely modulated and suptorted; slightly better on the only // 6165. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1995, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. From the Isle of Music, August 18-24: This week features selections from several decades of beautiful Cuban vocal music. The broadcasts take place: 1. For Eastern Europe but audible well beyond the target area in most of the Eastern Hemisphere (including parts of East Asia and Oceania) with 100Kw, Sunday 1500-1600 UTC on SpaceLine, 9400 KHz, from Sofia, Bulgaria (1800-1900 MSK) If you don't have a shortwave radio or are out of range, you can listen live to an uplink from a listening radio in the Netherlands during the broadcast at http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/?tune=9400am 2. For the Americas and parts of Europe, Tuesday 0000-0100 UTC (New UTC) on WBCQ, 7490 KHz from Monticello, ME, USA (Monday 8-9PM EST in the US). If you don't have a shortwave or are out of range, you can listen to a live stream from the WBCQ website here (choose 7490) http://www.wbcq.com/?page_id=7 3 & 4. For Europe and sometimes beyond, Tuesday 1900-2000 UTC and Saturday 1200-1300 UTC on Channel 292, 6070 KHz from Rohrbach, Germany. If you don't have a shortwave radio or are out of range, you can listen live to an uplink from a listening radio in the Netherlands during the broadcast at http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/?tune=6070am Uncle Bill's Melting Pot, August 18 and 20: Episode 126, From Mahavishnu to Hahavishnu, features two very different artists, John McLaughlin and The Hahavishnu Orchestra. The transmissions take place: 1.Sundays 2200-2230 UTC (6:00PM -6:30PM Eastern US) on WBCQ The Planet 7490 KHz from the US to the Americas and parts of Europe If you don't have a shortwave or are out of range, you can listen to a live stream from the WBCQ website here (choose 7490) http://www.wbcq.com/?page_id=7 2. Tuesdays 2000-2030 UTC on Channel 292, 6070 KHz from Rohrbach, Germany for Europe. If you don't have a shortwave radio or are out of range, you can listen live to an uplink from a listening radio in the Netherlands during the broadcast at http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/?tune=6070am (William "Bill" Tilford, Owner/Producer, Tilford Productions, LLC, DXLD via WOR iog) ** DENMARK. 5840 kHz, WMR Randers S=7 signal in Austria at 0611 UT on Aug 9. fq 1 Hertz lesser side. Looks like speedy music from West Africa played this morning, - of my amateur - like music judgement ... - Log of Aug 9th remote SDR unit access, in Austria Europe, in 49 Meterband [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 9, WOR iog via DXLD) I will be switching off 5840 and 15805 kHz (within a few minutes) for the next couple of hours due to the risk of lightning at the transmitter site. Besides - propagation on 15 MHz seems to be very poor today. The new yagi for 15805 still beamed north, but no reception in Northern Scandinavia at the moment. Anyway - hopefully both 5840 and 15805 kHz will be back later this afternoon (Saturday afternoon UTC). Best 73s Stig Hartvig Nielsen, World Music Radio - www.wmr.radio Not posted by HCDX until 1506 UT on August 14. It must have been written 4 days earlier on Saturday August 10 (gh, DXLD) ** EGYPT. "Leider ist Radio Kairo nur zu selten auf 9570 kHz zu empfangen, aber fuer Hoerer mit einem Internetzugang gab es die Gelegenheit, in den letzten Wochen das deutschsprachige Programm um 19 UT auch im Internet livestream zu hoeren. Doch leider nahmen im Juli Tonausfaelle zu, so dass kaum mehr eine Sendung von Radio Kairo gehoert werden konnte. Seit dem 5. Juli gibt es Freitags auch kein Quizprogramm mehr. Hoererklubmitglied Ralf Urbanczyk erhielt auf seine Nachfrage in Kairo diese Antwort, die verspaetet auch sinngemaess in der Briefkastensendung vom 28 Juli bekanntgegeben wurde: Wir senden zur Zeit das Quizprogramm am Montag anstatt am Freitag. Wir wuenschen Ihnen und allen Zuhoerer gute Unterhaltung und viel Erfolg. Allerdings war Radio Kairo weder am Montag 15. noch Montag 22. Juli zu hoeren. Am 29. Juli war aber tatsaechlich die Quizsendung zu hoeren." (Bernd Seiser-D, via Prof. Dr. Hansjoerg Biener-D, 8 Aug, via BC-DX Aug 13 via DXLD) ** EUROPE. Netherlands: "FRS-Holland Dear FRS Friends, On July 31st we sent out a mail informing about a possible repeat of our July 28th broadcast. That repeat was planned for last Sunday but: a faulty 5810 transmitter made us decide to wait another week hoping the rig would be repaired in time. The current situation is that it's most likely the rig will be repaired for tomorrow. However...most likely is nót 100%! Anyway, the repeat will take place tomorrow Sunday August 11th. The time schedule will be the same as it was two weeks ago: 1652-2055 UT / 18:52-22:55 CEST. Frequencies: either 7700 only or (hopefully!) 7700 // 5810 kHz. We are eager to hear from you either via frs@frsholland.nl or of course P.O.Box 2702, 6049 ZG Herten, The Netherlands. In three weeks time - Sunday September 1st - FRS-Holland hopes to celebrate its 39th anniversary. That will also be a Sunday evening broadcast. Details will follow in the final August week. Have a good weekend! 73s, (Peter Verbruggen on behalf of the FRS crew being Jan, Roger, Mike, Dave, Brian & Bert." 10 August 2019 via Dr Hansjoerg Biener, DXLD) HOLLAND, 5809.9, FRS Holland, 1730-1802, 11-08, English, comments, pop songs, ID "Free Radio Service Holland". Very weak. 15321. (Méndez) 7700.2, FRS Holland, *1655-1803, 11-08, tuning music, English, ID "FRS Holland", comments, pop songs. Weak. 25322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Lugo, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** EUROPE. Few short tests today August Tuesday 13th on 9290 kHz starting few times at xx hours 02 minutes UT, so for example 1002 UT, etc. Reports to spaceshuttleradio@yahoo.com e-mail Best regards, (Radio Spaceshuttle, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Did it happen at 1102? Nothing heard here in eastern Finland (Mauno Ritola, 1106 UT Aug 13, ibid.) Very LAST one Night in Bangkok-Special 17th Year Celebration transmission --- Hi, Summer is nearly over. So might be time of 17th Birthday Party of R Spaceshuttle this evening. We try to start after 19 hours UTC (So 16 hours East European, 17 hours European and 18 hours British Summer Time) WILL BE THE LAST TX THIS YEAR! We are on 9290 kHz with AM mode and quite low power. Wishing that conditions are good. Reports sent to spaceshuttleradio@yahoo.com e-mail will be verified via Special e-QSL during Friday 16th August 2019. So quick reports welcome. Regards, (Dick Spacewalker, Aug 15, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17th Years of Action Birthday Party: (Thursday 15th August 2019): Hi, Radio Spaceshuttle has lived quite silent times during the year 2018 and beginning of 2019. Now we have had two test transmissions during last days and will run our 17th Birthday Party program today on 9290 kHz. So we try to start around 19 hours UT (That`s 20 hours in British Isles, 21 hours in Western Europe and 22 hours in Eastern Europe). Start will be few minutes past the hour. You can see when we are there if any conditions exist on 31 mb. Reports are very welcome to spaceshuttleradio@yahoo.com e-mail! Verifications will be sent during Friday 16th of August. So be quick! Last One Night in Bankok is our motto today! Best greetings from Radio Spaceshuttle (Dick Spacewalkeer [sic], 1647 UT Aug 15, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hearing Spaceshuttle right now from 1900 UTC -- fair to good signal, some fades, some studio/mic problems, but overall excellent and getting better as 2000 UT approaches. He gives a Finland location if I am correct? (Dan Robinson, MD, 1949 UT Aug 15, WOR iog via DXLD) Poor signal at 1848 UT on 9290.3 (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, ibid.) No joy bobbing in the North Sea off Holland. Perhaps a few snippets of audio but nothing I could be certain of by 1935 UT. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, 2011 UT, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. 6070, 0800-0900 Sat 10.8, R Atlantic 2000 International via Channel 292, Rohrbach, French ID, special programme about former R Andorra with many Spanish ID's: "Aqui Radio Andorra", celebrating its 80 years anniversary; several English old songs, Atlantic 2000 address asked for reception reports, 35243 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, my loggings from Skovlunde done during the past few days on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, wbradio yg via DXLD) See also ANDORRA [non] ** GERMANY. 9760, 2000-, Adventist World Radio, Aug 12. See my 9780 logging as well! Excellent reception of AWR African accented French programming, 'Radio Mondiale Adventiste'. Beamed to Central Africa. Not in // to standard French AWR programming 20 kHz up! GERMANY, 9780, 2000-, Adventist World Radio, Aug 12. Multilingual IDs at the TOH with excellent strength, into French programming (in standard French) to North Africa. Interesting that there's another AWR African French program just 20 kHz lower at the same time! (Walt Salmaniw, Zuiderdam, Norwegian Sea, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1995, DXLD) ** GERMANY [and non]. 15715 kHz, Adventist World Radio, via Nauen, 12/08 1354. Christian songs, talk in Chinese by male voice, instrumental music. 25542. Transmission with 75° Azimuth from Nauen to Northern China. Better with the use of a headphone. SRI LANKA: 15705, Adventist World Radio, via Trincomalee, Chubese, 12/08 1410. Female communication, instrumental music. 25542. Tx from Trincomalee to China. It seems 15705 kHz has a // program as 15715 kHz (see above) on this time (Rudolf Grimm, PY2-81502 SWL, São Bernardo SP, BRAZIL, http://dxways-br.blogspot.com YouTube Channel: GrimmSBC - Rx: KiwiSDR + Mini Whip PA0RDT Antenna, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** GREECE. 9420even kHz, Greek Radio from Avlis site, Greek flute folk music, proper signal, 10.8 kHz wideband, in music peaks up to 20 kHz wideband. S=9+30dB or -35dBm proper signal here in central Europe. 0701 UT station ID by female presenter. When checked again after 0800 UT, was off at 0810. Some logs of Sat August 10th in Cape Canaveral FL state, central Europe and in Japan [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 10, WOR iog via DXLD) ** GREECE. Voice of Greece First Prgr on 9420 kHz, August 13: 0505 & 0707 on 9420 AVL 150 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek*tx#3 * today no Arabic/Serbian nx and tx switches off at 0709 UT https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/voice-of-greece-first-prgr-on-9420-khz.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 12-13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Greece Proto First Prgr on 9420 kHz, August 14 from 0655 on 9420 AVL 150 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek*tx#3, good * today again no Arabic/Serbian news and tx switches off at 0700 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/voice-of-greece-proto-first-prgr-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 13-14, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Greece VOG with Liturgy on 9420 kHz, August 15 0630&0745 on 9420 AVL 150 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek*tx#3, good * today again no Arabic/Serbian nx and tx switches off at 0750UT https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/voice-of-greece-vog-with-liturgy-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 14-15, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREENLAND. While cruising to Greenland, I noted 2 sites with identical antennas. One is at a townsite of Nanortalik, and the other is at an abandoned US weather station at the east entrance of Prince Christian Sound (photos attached). I assume they’re for HF. The vertical, I follow, but what’s with the circular elevated horizontal array. Never seen that before, although it reminded me of a Wullenweber arrangement on a mini-scale. The photos aren’t great, unfortunately. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, WOR iog via DXLD) Hi Walt: I believe these are NDB (non-directional beacon) antennas. If they are, the one at Prins Christiansund would be "OZN" on 372 kHz. It is heard fairly often in eastern North America and Europe when propagation permits. The one at Nanortalik could be "NN" on 270 kHz. It's been reported as decommissioned and was last logged in 2010. NDBs often seem to be "abandoned in place." The circular array you mention is likely the capacitance "top hat" used to make the non-resonant system work. 73, (Andy Robins, Kalamazoo, Michigan USA, ibid.) Ensued a long thread about these NDBs; see the WOR iog (gh, DXLD) ** GUAM [and non]. I tried the KTWR DRM transmission scheduled for this morning at 1215-1245 UT, on 11580 kHz (via Trincomalee?), target South Asia. There were no SDRs in India available, so I tried SDRs in Qatar, Russia (Irkutsk), and Indonesia. I heard a Chinese-language analog station on 11580. KTWR DRM finally came on the air at 1218. Now the two stations were mixing on 11580. Best DRM results were via the Indonesia SDR. The "Guam" ID was seen, but audio was never achieved. DRM does not like interference. (Which does not bode well for DRM if it is jammed.) In the screenshot below, the Chinese carrier is in the middle, versus the DRM footprint from 11575 to 11585 (Kim Elliott, 1300 UT Aug 12, WOR iog via DXLD) It is necessary to change the frequency to another. I warned about this collision (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) Dear Kim, it is interesting to hear your observation. As an inexperienced person in digital communications (DRM too) I thought that DRM as a digital mode is well-protected against interference and jamming like what digital governmental and military communications are doing. As far as I know, this 10 kHz-wide band is a minimum which can insure the fidelity of a DRM signal. I'm thinking if KTWR were increasing bandwidth to 12 kHz or more, would it be decodable better? My theory is that the decoders have more bandwidth from which they can pick up the signal snatches and put it together for decoding, then correcting errors in their error correction mechanisms. Maybe it were better to allocate separate bands for DRM. There are enough unused space in the radio spectrum below 30 MHz. It were better than to allocate 5-10 kHz segments to amateur radio operators, for example, in the 5 MHz band while they have in the 7 MHz segment which behaves similarly in terms of propagation. Yours sincerely, (Tibor Gaal, Budapest, Hungary, WOR iog via DXLD) For everyone`s benefit, it has been my position from the beginning that DRM should never have been intermixed with analog broadcasting!!! (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUINEA. 9650even, At 0705 UT today Aug 10 I have heard the program in the 31 mb, the fq super-9650 kHz, and synonymous with the audio there is nothing to complain, a Prayer in French ("Amen ...") in excellent audio quality, I do not even know if they use the Beijing-China or French Thales / Thomcat / Ampegon shortwave units. 9 kHz wideband signal at S=9+10dB level or -69dBm strength. Um 0705 UT habe ich heute am 10. August auch das Programm im 31 mb gehoert, die fq supergenau 9650 kHz, und auch bei der Audio gibt es nix zu meckern, ein Prayer in Franzoesisch ("Amen ...") in vorzueglicher Audio Qualitaet, ich weiss gar nicht, ob die chinesische TX Schaetzchen oder franzoesische Thales/Thomcast/Ampegon units einsetzen. Bei den Afrikanern hakt es ja meist auf der Feederline zwischen Funkhaus und dem KW Sendezentrum aushaeusig, dies trifft fuer Conakry aber nicht zu. Some logs of Sat August 10th in Cape Canaveral FL state, central Europe and in Japan [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 10, WOR iog via DXLD) 9650, Radio Nationale Guinee; 2140-2203+, 8/12; Vocals with drum & thumb harp. 2200:55 M in French with “RNat” [sic] ID, into brief news bits? with thumb harp bumpers. Fair with S6 peaks; LSB helped with Arabic splash from 9655--probably R. Algerienne via France (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time. ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HUNGARY. 26060, BME = Budapesti Muszaki Egyetem = Budapest University of Technology, HVT = (Szelessavu) Hirkozles es Villamossagtan Tanszek = Department of (Broadband) Infocommunications and Electromagnetic Theory Heard at 1400 via an SDR in Leiden, Holland. Per the station, they are only running 10 watts into a 5/8 vertical monopole. Some audio on the peaks (Hans Johnson, FL, Aug 13, WORLD OF RADIO 1995, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. MEDIUM WAVE STATIONS IN THE UNION TERRITORY OF LADAKH India (UT of Ladakh) - In early August, the Union Territory of Ladakh was separated from Jammu and Kashmir. This change is an old demand of local politicians, because Ladakh is a Buddhist region and does not want to be dragged into the J&K issues. Dan Goldfarb compiled the following list of AIR stations in the newly formed territory. Unfortunately, with the recent revision of the AIR website the sub pages giving more detailed information on specific AIR stations have disappeared. So I added some information from my own files: Union Territory of Ladakh. 684 kHz Kargil (1 September 2006: 200 KW MW transmitter commissioned at Kargil.) 1053 kHz Leh (1971) 1485 kHz Dras (1 September 2006: 1 KW MW transmitters commissioned at Dras in Kargil region.) 1485 kHz Khalatse (Khaltse) 1485 kHz Nyoma (2007: As part of J&K special package for boosting border coverage, new Stations with 1 KW MW Transmitters at Nyoma in Leh region commissioned.) 1584 kHz Kargil 1584 kHz Padam (2008: As part of J&K special package for boosting border coverage, a new station with 1 KW MW Transmitter commissioned at Padum in Kargil region. With this all the 12 projects included in J&K special package Phase-1 commissioned.) 1602 kHz Diskit (2007: As part of J&K special package for boosting border coverage, new Stations with 1 KW MW Transmitters at Diskit in Leh region commissioned.) 1602 kHz Tiesuru (1 September 2006: 1 KW MW transmitters commissioned at Tiesuru.) (Dan Goldfarb/Dr Hansjoerg Biener 15 August 2019, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. AIR Mumbai is noted off air again on 7340 at 025 [sic] -0430 Urdu, 0830-1130 Urdu, 1130-1140 HS, 1230-1500 Sindhi, 1500-1600 Baluchi (Pakistan). Maybe 11940 at 1745-1945 English (E. Africa) is also off? Again antenna "problem"? Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, 0330 UT Aug 12, dx_india yg via DXLD) But today back on 7340 kHz at 0830. Jose, have you noticed, that AIR Kolkata 1134 kHz is testing after 1800? Maybe the nighttime FS starting soon? I tried to ask them, but no reply. Best regards, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, ibid.) 7340.005 kHz noted as subcontinental string instrument play, endless already from tune-in at 0808 UT on Aug 12. Used remote SDR units in Delhi and Doha Qatar. (underneath also co-channel 7340even kHz of PBS Xinjiang Kazakh service from domestic Urumqi site) 73 (wb df5sx, dx_sasia yg via DXLD) ** INDIA. AIR: Faithfully Yours --- being heard today 12 August (on 9445 at 1930 UT). Your DX Programmes list therefore needs updating as the next expected edition will be 26 August. Regards (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, Aug 12, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Done http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html ** INDIA. AIR Bhopal, 4810, AIR Jaipur, 4910 and AIR Jeypore, 5040, on air now, 1750-1805 with extended program, due to Eve of Independence Day. Vernacular comments. Weak to very weak in Friol but improving signal due to dusk here. Usual closing time of this stations, 1740 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-880, cable antenna, 8 meters, Aug 14, WOR iog via DXLD) Dear Manuel, The extended broadcasts last night by AIR was due to cricket commentary being played in West Indies. 73 (Jose Jacob, Aug 15, WOR iog via DXLD) Thank you very much for the clarification. Best 73,s (Manuel Méndez Lugo, Spain, ibid.) ** INDIA. Best wishes to all my friends in India. Have a wonderful Independence Day tomorrow! My annual monitoring of AIR stations on the eve of Independence Day; Aug 14, from 1330+ UT; intro ID in English and Hindi; National Anthem, followed by the President of India address to the nation. 4760 AIR Leh - not heard. 4760 AIR Port Blair - only an open carrier; no audio detected. 4800 AIR Hyderabad - strong CNR1, with some faint AIR audio underneath. 4810 AIR Bhopal - heard. 4835 AIR Gangtok - heard with the usual transmitter hum/buzz, but no audio. 4895 AIR Kurseong - off the air today (nor was Mongolia present). 4910 AIR Jaipur - heard. 4920 AIR Chennai - heard, but very weak underneath Tibet. 4950 AIR Radio Kashmir, Srinagar - heard with definite audio. 4970 AIR Shillong - continues to be silent. 5010 AIR Thiruvananthapuram - heard, but very weak audio. 5040 AIR Jeypore - heard. 9380 AIR, via Aligarh - off the air. 9865 AIR, via Bangalore - well heard. My edited Bangalore audio at http://bit.ly/2yZwPFq . (Ron Howard, California, USA, dx_india yg via DXLD) Hello Ron, Many thanks for your monitoring observations. By the way 9380 Aligarh was on and was heard very clearly at my location. Besides, surprise was additional transmissions noted on 9950 Delhi & 11620 Bengaluru then. Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, ibid.) ** INDIA. SPECIAL BROADCASTS FOR INDIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY India is celebrating its 73rd Independence Day on 15 August 2019. Details of special programs by All India Radio for the occasion is as follows: 14th August 2019 (Wednesday) 1330 UT (7.00 pm IST) onwards “Address to the Nation” on the eve of Independence Day in Hindi and English by Shri.Ram Nath Kovind, Honble President of India. All stations of All India Radio will relay this on MW, SW & FM (Live Streaming etc.) Look out on following Home Service SW frequencies: 4760 Leh 4760 Port Blair 4800 Hyderabad 4810 Bhopal 4835 Gangtok 4895 Kuresong 4910 Jaipur 4920 Chennai 4950 Srinagar 5010 Thiruvananthapuram 5040 Jeypore 9380 Aligarh 9865 Bangalore 15 August 2018 (Thursday) 0135-0240 UT (0705-0810 hrs IST) All India Radio will broadcast the running commentary in English and Hindi on the Flag Hoisting and Prime Minster's speech to be held at Red Fort, New Delhi between 0135-0240 UT (0705-0810 hrs IST) on 15th August, 2019 on the following SW frequencies. English: 11740 Panaji 250 kW 15030 Bengaluru 500 kW Hindi: 9380 Aligarh 250 kW 9950 New Delhi 250 kW 11620 Bengaluru 500 kW (Note : External Services in Urdu on 6140 7340 are replaced by running commentary at this time) The following External Services stands cancelled for that day: 9950: Nepali 0130-0230, News Hindi / English 0230-0300 11560, 11740: Pushtu 0215-0300, Dari 0300-0345 13695, 15030: Kannada 0215-0300 The Regional SW Stations will start using their day time frequencies about 1 hour or more earlier than usual on 15th August as follows to relay the Commentary. This may provide enhanced reception of stations than on normal days. The sign on schedule for that day is as follows with normal sign on timings in brackets. 1. Bhopal - 0130 UT (Ex 0225) 7430 2. Chennai - 0130 UT (Ex 0300) 7380 3. Hyderabad - 0130 UT (Ex 0225) 7420 4. Port Blair - 0130 UT (Ex 0315) 7390 5. Srinagar - 0130 UT (ex 0225) 6110 6. Thiruvanathapuram - 0130 UT (Ex 0230) 7290 Other frequencies operating as usual at that time but carrying the commentary is as follows: 4760 Leh 4835 Gangtok 4895 Kurseong 4910 Jaipur 5040 Jeypore 7270 Chennai Check also 13695 via Bangalore All stations of AIR will relay the running commentary. LIVE STREAMING ON AIR: https://tinyurl.com/yxcvfgsj Reception Reports to : spectrum-manager@prasarbharati.gov.in or Director (Spectrum Management & Synergy) All India Radio, Room No. 204, Akashvani Bhawan, Parliament Street New Delhi 110001, India Watch the events live on Doordarshan TV on all their channels .Try the following links: DD National: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3RhpgO2ItQ DD News: http://webcast.gov.in/ Happy Independence Day to all DX_India members! 73, (Alokesh Gupta & Jose Jacob, 0433 UT Aug 14, WOR iog via DXLD) [the same? thing had been posted earlier, Aug 9 on dx_sasia yg --- gh] Aug 15, with special Independence Day coverage. AIR, via Bangalore, on 11620, at tune in of 0124; already on in Hindi; 0159, National Anthem; long winded speech 0203 till tuned out 0245; unable to make out the language. Better reception than 15030. 15030, AIR via Bangalore; by 0140, was able to finally confirm was in English, but unreadable; frequency covered by strong CODAR QRN; at 0159 also // 11620 for National Anthem and same 0203-0245 speech; very poor (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) I guess you had celebrate a wonderful Independence Day yesterday! I had to leave at home on Aug 14th unfortunately. Here are my observations taken in Delhi, Akatkata Tokyo Japan, Doha Qatar and at Eastern Finland in various SDR Perseus net. Some observation on August 14th: Not sure which domestic AIR location ON AIR at this hour? [1318+ UT Aug 14] due of the muslim clashes in Kashmir mountain recently. 4760even AIR Leh - probably heard, strong carrier heard. 4760even AIR Port Blair - is too far away distance, my guess that carrier was not coming from Andaman sea towards Burma Ocean ??? Surprisingly S=9 in Delhi at 1320 UT on Aug 14. 4800even CHN / IND, BAD MIXTURE on equal signal level on co-channel CNR1 from Geermu, and same fq AIR Hyderabad Chennai Hindi?, S=9+20dB around 1322 UT on Aug 14. And now some observation of Thursday Aug 15, 1305-1345 UT 4810.008, AIR Bhopal - heard. Army brass music band played. S=9+35dB power house in Delhi SDR at 1305 UT. Aug 15. 4835even, INDIA, AIR Gangtok - at 1308 UT heard with the usual TERRIBLE transmitter hum/buzz. Similar annoying like V of Greece 9935 kHz some 3 years ago. 26 x buzz strings either sideband visible, noted 10 Hertz string apart. S=9+5dB in Delhi. 4895, AIR Kurseong - off the air. 4910.004, AIR Jaipur - Hindi stn ID, S=9+35dB strong, 1314 UT Aug 15. 4920.003, AIR Chennai - Hindi heard, but equal level heard also PBS Xizang Tibetan program heard, probably on other carrier on 4919.986 kHz from Lhasa Tibet site of older 50 kW units, at 13-16 UT. 4949.997, AIR Radio Kashmir, Srinagar - S=9+20dB audio, at 1319 UT. 4970, AIR Shillong - continues to be silent. Couldn`t be heard. 5009.998, AIR Thiruvananthapuram - S=9+10dB in Delhi SDR at 1320 UT. 5040.004, AIR Jeypore - heard female presenter at 1338 UT Aug 15. In background some celebration sound. 9380, AIR, via Aligarh - off the air. 9865, AIR, via Bangalore - well heard. On Aug 15 nothing heard on 6140 Bangalore nor on 9950 kHz at 1346 UT. 9380 kHz S=9+5dB sound at 1342 UT. 9620.011, AIR Sinhala program S=9+15dB at 1345 UT. 9865even, Bangalore? S=9+5dB noted subcontinental culture program S=9+5dB at 1347 UT [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz](Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 14 / 15, WOR iog via DXLD) ** INDIA. Info posted in AIR Website: Latest statistics about All India Radio as given in the Parliament recently. http://allindiaradio.gov.in/air/custom-includes/listFnR.pdf Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, Aug 14, dx_india yg via DXLD) ** INDIA. All India Radio (AIR) All Set To Launch New FM Avatar August 8, 2019 9:41 am All India Radio STAFF REPORTER https://www.sentinelassam.com/guwahati-city/all-india-radio-air-all-set-to-launch-new-fm-avatar/ GUWAHATI: All India Radio (AIR) Guwahati is ready to launch AIR FM Mahabahu with the tagline Akashbani FM Mahabahu Mahamilanar Setu. Director General, AIR Fayyaz Sheheryar will grace the occasion by formally inaugurating the FM Avatar at Sri Sri Madhavdev International Auditorium of Srimanta Sankardev Kalakshetra, Guwahati. Addressing the media, station director of All India Radio Guwahati Rajeev Baruah said, "The future of medium and shortwave service is now unpredictable. So, in order to ensure the future of All India Radio Guwahati, this initiative has been taken. The only savior for AIR at this point of time is only to digitalize and taking the FM mode of broadcasting. It'll bring a huge advantage to broadcast our service without technical problems". While asked about its broadcasting style Baruah said, "We've been offering our service from last 72 years with our motto Bahujanahitaya Bahujanasukhaya and we'll always try to keep our motto intact. Our service will be FM in AIR style, as we'll not go to imitate and follow others". Only the technical aspects will be changed without affecting our specialty". "Akashbani will again stand with the people of Assam by overcoming all the issues" said Baruah. He added that from the very beginning AIR Guwahati has been constantly focusing on Assamese language, culture and tradition and it'll remain the same. Ashim Kumar Kaji has been offered with the responsibility of broadcasting the programmes of Mahabahu. As per the demands of its listeners the earlier Apunar babe Ei Geet will start again. The other programmes to be aired include Geet Luit, Ki Naam Di Matim, Tri Dhara, Rup Sajja, Aronge Doronge etc. Seven day drama programme will also be broadcasted under the supervision of Rituparna Das. Trainers invited from Shillong and Delhi will train the announcers of AIR Guwahati for Radio Jockey. The service will be aired on 101.6 MHz of FM band and on medium wave it will be aired on 411.5 meter from 9 August onwards. Also Read: Closing ceremony of golden jubilee celebration of All India Radio Dibrugarh (via Mike Cooper, Aug 8, DXLD) What importance has an avatar to do with this as in the headline? (gh) ** INDIA [non]. ARMENIA, Reception of Trans World Radio India via CJSC Yerevan on August 14 1535-1539 9300 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg SoAs English Mon-Fri, fair/good Wrong frequency announcement: 7550 (Winter), instead of 9300 (Summer) https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/reception-of-trans-world-radio-india_14.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 13-14, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. From New Atlas: ASTRONOMERS HOPE TO SEARCH FOR RADIO WAVES BROADCAST FROM DEAD PLANETS ORBITING DEAD STARS Michael Irving 7 August 2019 In about five billion years' time, the Sun will grow into a red giant, probably swallowing the Earth and putting an end to any and all life that's still kicking then. As this material is shed off, the Sun itself will become a small, dim, white dwarf star, and the Earth will be blasted into a dead core of a planet. But according to a new study, any aliens out there might still be able to pick up radio waves from this planetary core – for up to a billion years. It's long been hypothesized that planetary cores should exist around white dwarfs, left behind after the red giants blast away their atmosphere and mantle. So far only one possible fragment is believed to have been spotted, just a few months ago around a white dwarf some 40 light-years from Earth. But generally, it hasn't been known how easily these cores would be to detect, or how we can detect them. So for the new study, researchers from the University of Warwick set out to determine how long they may be detectable for, and which white dwarfs are the best candidates to start the search. The team says that these planetary cores could be detectable through the radio waves they give off. The magnetic field of a white dwarf can actually interact with the planetary core if it's metallic enough, creating a unipolar inductor circuit. Radiation from that circuit can then be detected by radio telescopes here on Earth, in the form of radio waves. But would these cores survive long enough to be detectable at all? According to the researchers, yes. They ran models of different scenarios and found that some cores would survive for more than 100 million years, and in some cases maybe as long as a billion years. That gives us plenty of time to notice them. The researchers identified under which scenarios the cores would be most likely to survive, a finding that can give them a clue as to where to start looking. "There is a sweet spot for detecting these planetary cores: a core too close to the white dwarf would be destroyed by tidal forces, and a core too far away would not be detectable," says Dimitri Veras, lead author of the study. "Also, if the magnetic field is too strong, it would push the core into the white dwarf, destroying it. Hence, we should only look for planets around those white dwarfs with weaker magnetic fields at a separation between about 3 solar radii and the Mercury-Sun distance." With this research under their belts, the astronomers hope to begin using radio telescopes to search for planetary cores – and possibly even still-living planets – around white dwarfs. The research was published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Source: University of Warwick https://newatlas.com/radio-signals-dead-planet-white-dwarf/60933/ See also: https://www.futurity.org/planetary-cores-dead-planets-2125142/ (via SWRG via roger, WOR iog via DXLD) WTFK? ** IRAN [and non]. IRAN vs. TURKEY, VIRI IRIB PARS TODAY vs. Voice of Turkey on 9620 kHz, August 9 2023-2120 9620 SIR 500 kW / 298 deg SoEu Spanish VIRI IRIB, very good 2030-2120 9620 EMR 500 kW / 105 deg SEAs English Voice of Turkey-weak An additional on same 9620 is another station Radio Sultanate of Oman till 2200 9620 THU 100 kW / 315 deg WeEu Arabic - inactive at present https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/viri-irib-pars-today-vsvoice-of-turkey.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 9-10, WORLD OF RADIO 1995, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 13590even, VoIRIB Zahedan in Arabic, at 1402 UT on Aug 11. 0830-1430 UT scheduled in A-19 season, S=9+20dB here in EUR. Phone-in program in Arabic. 13744.965, VoIRIB Sirjan in Urdu language, 1250-1420 UT on Aug 11, S=9 in central Europe. 13765.010, VoIRIB Sirjan in Arabic, S=9+15dB here in western Europe at 1410 UT on Aug 11.[selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 11, WOR iog via DXLD) On Aug 12 at 07.48 UT noted VoIRIB Sirjan Arabic outlet, on 13744.965 kHz, previously scheduled 13640 kHz 0600-0830 UT to zone 39 SIR 500kW 198deg 0 146 ARABIC-S Observed powerhouse from Sirjan site of S=9+40dB signal heard in ME target on remote SDR in Doha Qatar ME. Phone-in program talk on Saudi Arabia matter. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 12, WOR iog via DXLD) ``VoIRIB`` used only by wb, merges ``Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran`` with ``Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting``. VIRI is the external service of IRIB; but as WRTH reminds us, is being rebranded as Pars Today, an ID seldom cited in DX logs; what do they really call themselves on the air in various languages? (gh, DXLD) 9855, 1946-, VOIRI, Aug 12. I had no idea who this was in English. First discussing Japanese/South Korean relations, then Portugal and fuel shortages, then the devaluation of the Argentinian peso by 25%. News continued until 1949 and an ID for Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, followed by schedule, including 91.5 MHz in Tehran. They also mentioned MW (and satellite, SW and the internet), but no MW frequency given. Parallel 9750 to South Africa (Sirjan 500 kW/216 deg) at fair level, but with splatter from 9745 (Walt Salmaniw, Zuiderdam, Norwegian Sea, WOR iog via DXLD) ** IRAN [non]. 15690, August 6 at 1555. Radio Farda via Lampertheim. Classic pop/jazz music from the 1940s and 1950s, performers including Ella Fitzgerald, Fats Waller "The Joint Is Jumpin'", Lillian Hardin. Announcer in Persian. "radio farda dot com" ID at 1559. Time pips and off at 1600. Very good, 15/25 dBu variable. 15690, August 7 at 1518. Radio Farda via Lampertheim. Music in Persian, "Radio Farda" IDs. 22 dBu, good. (Larry Will, HF DX logs from Lost River State Park, Mathias, West Virginia, August 5-8, 2019, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1995, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. U.K.(non), Radio Ranginkaman / Radio Rainbow NOW IS NOT via ENC-DMS Grigoriopol: 1630-1700 on 7580 unknown kW / unknown, ex 1730-1800 KCH-July 31 1630-1700 on 7535 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg, is deleted from A-19 HFCC 1730-1800 on 7580 KCH 500 kW / 116 deg, is deleted from A-19 HFCC In RMS / IBB Monitoring Radio Ranginkaman/Rainbow is under "RTC", not under "RKM" https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/radio-ranginkaman-now-is-not-via-enc.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 8-9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNKNOWN LOCATION, Weak signal of Radio Ranginkaman / Radio Rainbow, August 11 1630-1700 7580 unknown kW / unknown WeAs Persian or Tashkent/Dushanbe https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/weak-signal-of-radio-ranginkamanradio.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 11-12, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRELAND [and non]. Hi! much improved reception of RTE Radio 1 Ireland on 252 kHz LW, night and day; also improved reception of Polskie Radio from Polska on 225 khz heard with Polski song and talk at 1947 UT; Tecsun PL-660 (Jon Collins, Birmingham middle of the UK, 0231 UT Aug 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [non]. NHK World Radio Japan via MBR Issoudun on August 15: 0500-0530 on 11970 ISS 500 kW / 155 deg to SoAf English, good signal At same time 11970vKBD 250 kW / 100 deg to SoAs MOI Radio Kuwait DRM https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/nhk-world-radio-japan-via-mbr-issoudun_15.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 14-15, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KASHMIR. 4950, 0040-0050 12.8, INDIA, R Kashmir, Srinagar (tentative), Whistling tone, no audio 3433x, QRM Angola. No signal 14.8 0035, but heard 12.8 at 1605-1610 vernacular talk, music 15341 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, my loggings from Skovlunde done during the past few days on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, wbradio yg via DXLD) Correlates with Ron Howard log of carrier on 4949. see also INDIA (gh) ** KASHMIR [non]. BBC WORLD SERVICE STEPS UP SHORTWAVE BROADCASTS IN KASHMIR DURING MEDIA SHUTDOWN --- BBC Media Centre 15 August 2019 https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2019/world-service-steps-up-broadcasts-in-kashmir The BBC World Service has extended output on shortwave radio in Indian-administered Kashmir to provide reliable news and information. The Director of the BBC World Service, Jamie Angus, says: “The provision of independent and trusted news in places of conflict and tension is one of the core purposes of the World Service. "Given the shutdown of digital services and phone lines in the region, it’s right for us to try and increase the provision of news on our short wave radio services. Audiences in both India and Pakistan trust the BBC to speak with an independent voice, and we know that our reporting through several moments of crisis this year has been popular and valued by audiences who turn to us when tensions are highest.” BBC News Hindi radio output (9515* and 11995 kHz) will be extended by 30 minutes from Friday 16 August. The full one-hour news programme will be on air from 7.30pm to 8.30pm local time. [1400-1500 UT] On Monday 19 August, BBC News Urdu will launch a 15-minute daily programme, Neemroz. Broadcast at 12.30pm local time on 15310 and 13650 kHz, the programme will focus on news coming from Kashmir and the developments around the issue, and include global news roundup tailored for audiences in Kashmir. [0700-0715 UT] BBC World Service English broadcasts (11795, 9670, 9580, 7345, 6040 kHz) will be expanded, with the morning programming extended by an hour, ending at 8.30am local time; and the afternoon and evening programming starting an hour earlier, at 4.30pm local time. [-0300 UT, 1100- UT] The shutdown has left people with very few options for accessing news at this time. However, news services from the BBC continue to be available in the region - through shortwave radio transmissions in English, Urdu, Hindi, Dari and Pashto. As well as providing an important source of news to the region, the South Asian language services have brought added depth to the BBC’s coverage of the Kashmir story. The recent introduction of four new languages services for India - Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi and Telugu, following additional investment from the UK Government - has enabled the BBC to offer a wider portfolio of languages and distribution methods to a region that is geographically diverse as well as politically tense. This year’s Global Audience Measure for the BBC showed that India is now the World Service’s largest market, with a weekly audience of 50m. (via Hansjoerg Biener, DXLD; via Mike Terry, Aug 15, bdxc-news iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1995, DXLD) *HjB hears it on 9510 not 9515 (gh) ** KASHMIR [non]. BBC IN THE NEWS: https://www.dawn.com/news/1499682 (via Artie Bigley, OH, DXLD) Similar story from the Paki POV, lacking any details of BBC times and frequencies! (gh) ** KOREA NORTH. KOREA D.P.R., 13759.984, Voice of Korea Kujang in French language, male Soldiers Chorus at 1408 UT. BUT IN BACKGROUND intermodulation audio signal of KRE jamming scratching signal mixture at Kujang center. S=9+20dB strength in WeEUR, 20 kHz wideband audio block. 15244.961 kHz also French service of VoKorea Kujang, French news at 1418 UT, scheduled 1400-1457, S=9+15dB here in Europe. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 11, WOR iog via DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH [and non]. Why KOR is 'suppressing" North Korean defector protests to supposedly placate North Korea --- I sort-of randomly came across this AEI (American Enterprise Institute) article regarding North Korean defectors in South Korea (and student protesters re. KRE also) who are supposedly being "suppressed / oppressed" by the Moon government so that North Korea is not "offended" in KOR's hopes for Unification (on their terms no doubt). This might play into our own DXing experiences with listening to the myriads of SW signals aimed at KRE from KOR and other nearby nations, including the quasi-clandestine "Voice of Unification" we hear on 4450/6600 and other frequencies amongst heavy KRE noise/hash jamming. http://www.aei.org/publication/why-is-south-korea-making-life-hard-on-defectors-from-the-north/ I found this web article rather enlightening but this information presented seems to be a disturbing condition there if we all value freedom in the West (and in KOR). 73 - (Steve McGreevy -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com Aug 12, WOR iog via DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH. Hello Glenn, Those who like exploring transmitter sites on Google might like to look at the latest view of the KBS Kimje (Gimje) station. The Google satellite image has been updated in the past week or so: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@35.8208152,126.8647399,713m/data=!3m1!1e3 New features include the upgraded antenna group at the left, which is intended to cover Europe, the Mid. East, South Asia & Africa. Towards the centre are the new high band and low band arrays for the targets Japan/South America. These were completed in 2015 and 2017 respectively, when listeners were advised of degraded signals due to antenna work. ND antennas were then substituted for about 3 months each time. The North American antenna is on two towers at the right of the centre top of the image. There is also a new L-shaped open feeder arrangement. Presumably this now enables a more flexible connection between the various transmitters and antennas, hence the recent restoration of 250 kW on some transmissions. Switching to “Street View” gives a partial view around the site, but the last revision was in 2015. It’s possible to get close ups of the feeder lines, 2 small quadrant antennas, the two-stack quadrant on 4 tall masts, as well as the 4x4 curtain antenna for North America. I am guessing that the North American array is multi-band. I remember 9, 11 and 15 MHz frequencies being registered on 40 degrees back in the late 1990s. But if this antenna is only single-band, it might explain why they remain only on 15 MHz. I can’t really tell from looking at the arrangement of dipoles. The Kimje station is certainly run very efficiently. Never once in all my years of listening have I ever encountered missing transmissions, poor modulation, intermittent breaks, late starts, etc. If only the planners would get the frequencies right! By the way, has anyone had any luck in getting QSLs from the English Service lately? Since the programme revision in Sept. 2017, I have been getting very little if any mail from them, in spite of sending in monthly e-mails and reports (I have been their tech. monitor since 1998). 73 (Alan Holder, Isle of Wight, UK, Aug 12, WORLD OF RADIO 1995, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Alan, The changes from their answering mood to non-answering mood can be a result of a non-communicated internal policy changes or a leadership change on central/departmental level, or, a reorganisation of the staff in the department. In ideal case listeners` feedback is assigned to someone who is good at writing and contacting, in public relationship, or just chit-chatting. If that person is out of that post for this or that reason and the task is assigned to a non-communicative one/ones, the feedback process can be shaky or non-existent for a time or forever. It helps if you know someone whom you can ask privately for what's going on in that department level. Maybe he/she will tell something which is not communicated to the outside world. This also happened with me in the past (Tibor Gaal, Budapest, Hungary, Aug 15, WOR iog via DXLD) ** KURDISTAN [non]. FRANCE, 11530, August 6 at 1727. Voice of Welat (Radyo Denge Welat) via Issoudun. Talk in Kurdish. Co-channel with Cuban spy numbers transmission. 33 dBu, good (Larry Will, HF DX logs from Lost River State Park, Mathias, West Virginia, August 5-8, 2019, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNKNOWNISTAN: 11530, 1721, 8/15; M&W talking over Cuban #s station digi-screech; no copy in the QRN; the only station listed at this time is Denge Welat via France (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time. ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 5959.876, Radio Kuwait under threshold, poor due of daylight path Kuwait to central Europe at 0608 UT. Log of Aug 9th remote SDR unit access, in Austria Europe, in 49 Meterband [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 9, WOR iog via DXLD) 17550, Aug 9 at 2202, JBA carrier from R. Kuwait N American service in Arabic, in over-optimistic propagation expectation. Several previous chex recently has been inaudible, but when it is, by this hour the OSOB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENNG DIGEST) 15109.701 kHz much odd fq Radio Kuwait Kabd with live phone-in program in Filipino(!) language at 1125 UT, in AM mode instead, not R KWT Arabic in DRM 0945-1325 UT scheduled. S=9+10dB and surprisingly on \\ 17760even kHz frequency in 16 mb to same program. Content of phone-in: "... several laughing Filipino women ..." Some logs of Sat August 10th in Cape Canaveral FL state, central Europe and in Japan [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 10, WOR iog via DXLD) Reception of Radio Kuwait in Arabic GS & English in 19mb, August 12, KBD, 250 kW, 310 degrees to WEu:: 0500-0530 15529.8 Arabic GS, instead of English, 0530-0800 15529.8 English, as scheduled A-19. 0800-0802 15529.8 Farsi-unscheduled on 15530v https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/moi-radio-kuwait-in-arabic-gs-english.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 11-12, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Kuwait in Arabic GS, instead of English on August 15 0500-0800 15529.8 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg Arabic GS instead of English https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/radio-kuwait-in-arabic-instead-of.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 14-15, WORLD OF RADIO 1995, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KYRGYZSTAN. 4010.218, Bishkek, Radio Krasna Rechka, S=9+10dB at 1315 UT Aug 14 [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz]. My observations taken in Delhi, Akatkata Tokyo Japan, Doha Qatar and at Eastern Finland in various SDR Perseus net (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 14 / 15, WOR iog via DXLD) ** KYRGYZSTAN. 5130 kHz --- You may or may not be able to hear this one in amongst the noise but anyway it is a new one for me. Afghan Christian Radio (Radio Sadaye Zindagi) transmitting from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan in Pashto/Dari language and aimed at Afghanistan with 100 kW into a non-directional antenna. 1630 UT. Receiver located in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. (Lowe HF-150 receiver with an RF Systems MLBA-Mk1 antenna). https://www.facebook.com/cyprusdavegurr/videos/10220430377333875/ (Dave Gurr, Cyprus / https://www.facebook.com/groups/SWRLAG/ via Rus-DX Aug 11 via DXLD) ** MEXICO. 950, XECEL, R. Lobo, Celaya, Gto. JUN 24, 0513 - Regional Mexican music, announcements or possible ads, heard "Radio Lobo" ID a few times, more music. Fair at times over WWJ to very poor. Parallel to Tune In stream, but a few minutes behind. Also heard R. Reloj Cuba in there as well. I have had a few people tell me XECEL switched off their AM outlet in 2017, but I'm 99% sure about this. I wasn't even thinking at the time it was them until I heard the clear ID (Paul Snider, London ON; EladFDM-S2, Pixel Pro 1B loop, MFJ-1020C as tuner, NRC International DX Digest Aug 11 via DXLD) ** MEXICO. 990, XECL, BCN, Mexicali, apparently XECL is back on the air. Heard 8/1 0003 [presumably EDT = 0403 UT] with Spanish music and “La Rocola” slogan, 0654-0732 [1054-1132 UT] with ballades and “En Baja California ésta es Rocola.” Fighting it out with KTMS. Seems to be lower power now because they used to be the only station I could hear on 990. Apparently KTKT underneath (Glen Kippel, Yucca Valley CA, ICOM IC-R75, Terk Advantage loop, 10 x 7.5-foot shielded, unbalanced loop, IRCA DX Monitor Aug 17, published Aug 14, via DXLD) ** MEXICO. XEPRS-1090 was off this afternoon --- When I was out this afternoon I noticed XEPRS-1090 was off. I was wondering when that would happen, since they've had absolutely no revenue since they booted BCA ('mighty 10-90") in April (and not for many months before that, since BCA was not making their lease payments). Sadly, they are back on now; but it might bear scrutiny in case they go off again. 73 (Tim Hall, CA, 0316 UT Aug 13, abdx yg via DXLD) ** MEXICO. 1300, Aug 13 at 0551, ID right away at tune-in, ``Radio Mexicana, 1,300 AM`` and shortly an oración. That`s XEP in Juárez. Sounding much more like 38 kW day power than 200 watts night, per WRTH, which also calls this ``Fiesta Mexicana`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. AM DX’ing in Laramie, WY --- One thing that has surprised me since moving here 9 months ago is just how many AM’s I hear from Mexico. I kinda sorta expected to hear some, but not as many as I have. The other surprising thing is how strong they are. XEDP, XEPRS, XEABCA, XERF and XEROK are regularly pretty listenable. Sometimes stations like XEABCA, XEDP and XERG are extremely strong at night, almost as good or better then Denver and Cheyenne stations. (XERF is local like strength some nights and XEDP can often take out KNUS at sunrise and sunset (Paul Walker, Laramie WY, Aug 13, nrc-am gg via DXLD) ** MEXICO. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BEAT this week --- The IFT decided to open up a bit on the application volume of the first social filing window in the 2019 PABF, in which it admitted 169 social applications. It also gave us a breakdown of how many of them came from the IFT regional pop-up offices to assist filers in states with high indigenous populations. Overall, there were 89 social, 63 community and 17 indigenous applications. Of those, 116 were filed in Mexico City—all but two of the social applications, 26 community proposals and three for indigenous stations. One indigenous application was filed from Campeche; two community and two indigenous from Chiapas; 7 community and 3 indigenous from Michoacán; and en eye-popping 28 community and 8 indigenous applications from the Oaxaca office (along with the other two social applications). For the second PABF filing window, the IFT will set up shop in Querétaro, Guanajuato, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua, Veracruz and Tabasco. That window runs from September 30 to October 11. A second document shows the number of people in the service areas of the 10 awarded indigenous stations. XHSIAB-FM, a believed religious wolf, actually will be the largest indigenous station by population served, with more than 100,000 people expected to be benefited by its broadcasts (Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ, Aug 9, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) Grupo Siete has done it again Acording with Nicolás Lucas from "El Financiero" journal, Grupo Siete becomes the formal owner of the 1440 AM of Mexico City, after receiving it 26 years ago for its operation, as part of the commercial agreements reached then with Grupo Radio Centro and for which that broadcaster took the transmission of XHFO-FM 92.1 since 1993; but that 45 days ago he announced the return of the frequency to its owner and also that it would release other non-strategic assets. The transfer of the XEEST from Grupo Radio Centro to Grupo Siete is one of the most important movements for the entire AM band in recent years. With the frequency holding rearrangement, Grupo Siete becomes the direct owner of the XEEST-AM and the XHFO-FM of the capital, and the operator of the XEIT-AM; while Grupo Radio Centro concentrates from 12 to 10 stations: five on FM frequency and other five in AM, although three of the latter link several months without transmission. The XEEST-AM, with a concession renewed in 2016 for 20 years plus a consideration payment of 7.58 million pesos, is a “B” class station in signal transmission, which gives its holder a coverage range of 65 kilometers. In its history, this station has broadcast spoken programming, Mexican music, music in English and rock, through brands such as “Radio Estudiantes”, “Radio Éxitos” and “Radio Alegría”, but, for now, Andrés Sánchez Abbott avoided comment if with the 1440 KHz and 92.1 MHz, Grupo Siete is interested in making a combo for the news that produces the concept “XFM-92.1” or looking for regional repeaters to get better agreements with advertisers and more audience shares: “We are very active and we are defining what the 1440 will be transmitting; we are in the process of reinstalling it, because it had left the air (…) Yes we will be transmitting our contents in the future in other stations and we are defining what the 1440 will be transmitting with precision ”, according Sánchez Abbott, CEO of Grupo Siete (via f_santosp, Veracruz, Aug 11, ibid.) Radio Centro can't keep its AMs straight. Remember those relocations to the XEB and XEITE sites? GRC failed to apply for an extension to build them out and the authorizations were canceled. https://twitter.com/EnFrecuencia/status/1160307274373484546 XEEST was of so little value to Radio Centro that GRC might as well have said "Act now and you might as well just have it", particularly with the fact that GRC has only kept one of its other five AMs continuously operating in the last two-plus years (Raymie, ibid.) You can't transmit without electricity, and you can't have electricity without paying for it. The CFE has disconnected Núcleo Radio Mina, consisting of XHKM and XHMTV in Minatitlán, Veracruz, for owing more than 200,000 pesos in back payments to the power company. https://www.diariodelistmo.com/noticiasveracruz/regional-sur/41257148/cfe-suspende-servicio-a-radiodifusora-en-minatitl-on.html The stations are consequently not on air as of yesterday afternoon. This is the second sign of serious financial trouble this week for this broadcasting company. On Friday, ten former employees protested that they were not being paid and had not received their required severance pay. https://www.facebook.com/ElReporteroPorteno/posts/2064484960322125 They point the blame at the two daughters of Oscar Bravo Santos, who according to them have mismanaged the company into the ground. The station says the advertising market has dried up because of a drop in government advertising and the crime-riddled local economy. They're not the only Veracruz radio station in rough waters. The Instituto Mexicano de Seguro Social (IMSS) seized the offices of XHPG-FM in Córdoba on August 9. http://www.lasaltasmontanas.com/2019/08/el-imss-pone-sellos-en-puerta-principal.html That station owes back pay to workers and money to the IMSS. [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 15, ibid.) ** MEXICO. 6185, August 5 at 0017. XEPPM, R. Educación, Mexico City, classic "Ricky Ricardo" style music with f-vocals, good signal. Fair to good signal at 0104. 6185, August 6 at 0011. XEPPM, R. Educación, Mexico City, mellow Spanish language music, 43 dBu, good (Larry Will, HF DX logs from Lost River State Park, Mathias, West Virginia, August 5-8, 2019, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6184.997 kHz again on lower fq flank, R Educación. Mexico City Spanish music program at 2359 Aug 10, S=8 or -83dBm in Detroit remote Perseus unit [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 10, WOR iog via DXLD) ** MYANMAR. 5985, Myanmar Radio, on Aug 14, from 1131+. Live coverage (TV audio feed), in vernacular, of the football/soccer match between Myanmar (under 18) and Indonesia (ASEAN Football Federation), being held at Thong Nhat Stadium, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; preempted regular programming; fair (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** NIGER. Former shortwaver streaming live on the web --- Niger government broadcaster ORTN is now streaming live TV and its main radio service Voix du Sahel from their corporate website at http://ortn.ne Voix du Sahel formerly broadcast on shortwave, last listed as active (but irregular, on 9705v kHz) in the 2013 edition of World Radio TV Handbook (David Kernick, Interval Signals Online, 0822 Aug 10, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1995, DXLD) and before that, 5020 (gh, ibid.) Seit 0900z Programm in Französisch. https://cdnamd-hls-globecast.akamaized.net/live/ramdisk/la_voix_du_sahel/radio_hls/hdntl-_-ZXhwPTE1NjU1MTI0MTR+YWNsPSUyZmxpdmUlMmZyYW1kaXNrJTJmbGFfdm9peF9kdV9zYWhlbCUyZnJhZGlvX2hscyUyZip+aG1hYz0wOTVhNWY4NGM3YWM5YmRhY2NhN2I5MjgzNjkzNmIxMDdjNzgxY2VlZDA0ODM1N2I5YWU0MTVhNzMwZWQxZWY2/la_voix_du_sahel-mp4a_130400_qad=1.m3u8 Eingedampfte *.m3u8 wäre: https://tinyurl.com/y42lf3a2 (läuft so auch im VLC-Player) ADTS aac (Audio Data Transport Stream) mit 48 kHz und ca. 130 kbps *.m3u8 auch im 1by1 player mit bass.dll, netstream download in aac https://www.dropbox.com/s/qqij6ml888j4vz1/2019-08-10_ORTN_la_voix_du_sahel_aac.png?dl=0 (roger, germany, ibid.) ** NIGERIA. Hello, Glenn. I tuned in to Voice of Nigeria on Thursday the 08 [Aug], 2019, on 11770 kHz at 1655 UT. At the moment there was a political commentary by female and there was a clear ID at 1700 as "Voice of Nigeria." The quality of reception, despite using a longwire, was good, especially good modulation compared to previous days when I was scanning this band. Regards, (Leonardo Santiago, Venezuela, WORLD OF RADIO 1995, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7254.940 kHz, V of Nigeria Abuja noted with fluttery signal of S=8 or S=-79dBm signal strength, female interview presenter talk; at 0651 UT on Aug 10. Some logs of Sat August 10th in Cape Canaveral FL state, central Europe and in Japan [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 10, WOR iog via DXLD) 7254.9, Aug 15 at 0620, no signal from VON in Hausa; it was there 24 hours earlier, routinely non-logged (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA [non]. CLANDESTINE, FRANCE: 15285 kHz, Manara Radio International, via Issoudun, Hausa, 12/08 1645. Male announcer: ‘...Manara Radio... Manara Radio International...’, talk by 2 OM, ‘Dr. Ibrahim Lemont (?)... 1658 sign-off. 35553 (Rudolf Grimm PY2-81502 SWL, São Bernardo SP, BRAZIL, http://dxways-br.blogspot.com YouTube Channel: GrimmSBC, Rx: KiwiSDR + Mini Whip PA0RDT Antenna, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. YHWH as we speak --- YHWH is ALWAYS weak and wavery here in the Owens lake vicinity of eastern California over his broadcast periods on 7470, indicating his transmitting-location is within my "skip (over) zone" and is thusly too close for "normal" F-layer propagation, usually waning by the times this guy does his interesting broadcasts (and from what I can surmise via various KiwiSDRS, with considerable AM-power of perhaps several hundred watts - maybe in a similar vein as the former mongo KIPM was on 43m USB from an alleged deep-into and very high-altitude (>10K feet/3200m) Rocky Mountain location). Interestingly, a few evenings ago (I think local Saturday evening), I heard the presumed YHWH's carrier on 7470 wavery and weak as usual here during a walk out onto the "dry" Owens (terraformed) Lakebed to also record some ELF-VLF "natural-radio" away from the AC-hum of Keeler (whilst carrying my Sony ICF-SW7600GR with its whip), but most cool, a big meteor-scatter burst at about 0350 brought his signal briefly up at least by 20dB as a big "ping" occurred, similar to what we hear frequently on the FM band and the former analogue TV video carriers (NTSC) and also the 54.309 MHz ATSC-2 pilot-carrier frequency(!). I really HOPE YHWH broadcasts during the upcoming Perseid Meteor Shower peak about 13 August, and I will attempt to record one of his Ms "pings" if possible the next time. 73 - (Steve McGreevy -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com 2329 UT Aug 8, WOR iog via DXLD) 7470, UNITED STATES (Pirate), YHWH (in progress at tune-in) at 0520. Josiah with the usual old testament monologue. Solid S-9 at tune-in. Creepy sounding "Days of Hard Life" music at 0539, short sign-off announcement, and transmitter off at 0543 - Very Good August 8 (Rick Barton, Arizona SW Logs, Grundig Satellit 205/T.5000, RS SW-2000629 with various outdoor wires & indoor shortwire. 73 and Good Listening.......! - rb, WOR iog via DXLD) YHWH: real time alert --- 7470, UNITED STATES (Pirate), YHWH (in progress at tune-in) at 0300. Josiah with the usual monologue. Solid S-9 - Very Good S-9, August 10. 73 and Good Listening....! - Rick in Arizona, 0312 UT Aug 10, WOR iog via DXLD) Well, remember that on Aug. 8th, I had him well after 0500. I was going to scan the dial before bedtime and when I turned the receiver on, there he was, as the dial was set on 7470. I'd say anytime between sunset and 0600 is a possibility. 73 and Good Listening - ! (- rb, ibid.). YHWH: 7470, 0412, 8/10; Josiah’s voice buried in the QRN, but recognizable (Frodge-MI) 7470, 0301, 8/11; Same log as above (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time. ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7470 (checked), UNITED STATES (Pirate), YHWH (in progress at tune-in) at 0245. Josiah with the usual monologue. Caught during random dialscan with Grundig Satellit 205. - Very Good August 11 (Rick Barton, 73 and Good Listening, Sun City, Arizona, WOR iog via DXLD) Does anyone think he just repeats a bunch of recordings? Any repeating patterns thus revealing recordings, or is he "live?" I notice via a few KiwiSDRs that his audio bandwidth is peaked for voice/mid-range audio frequencies and definitely not broad for music, but way cool he does AM and not USB. Thanks Rick! (for dakine [sic] report, bro!) (Steve McGreevy, CA, Aug 11, ibid.) Heard now at 0430 UT in Laramie WY, noisy, weak, fadey signal. High side of poor signal. And he just signed off 4 minutes later (Paul Walker, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Hi Steve, Since 2013, have heard him many times with the same recordings. He comes on live at the very end of his broadcast (after the recordings), normally just after he plays the song "Days of Hard Life." My brief audio from 2013 attached. Over the years, he has been on many different frequencies, but of course for some time now he has settled on 7470, which will probably keep him out of trouble with the FCC. YHWH frequencies I have actually heard in the past, back when he often changed frequency: 3234.95 3255 5730 5770 5785 5860 5865 7125 * A very poor choice, as he came to the attention of the hams, who probably notified FCC. 7185 * 7300 7330 7470 7515 9600 9605 9730 9835 (Ron Howard, California, WOR iog via DXLD) To add to Ron’s list, there’s also daytime frequencies of 11470 and 15070, both of which I’ve heard from Masset (Walt Salmaniw, ibid.) From MAY 2018::: ** NORTH AMERICA. 15085-AM, Saturday May 5 at 2218, here`s Josiah the Station YHWH guy again, S8-S9 encountered on bandscan, as I predicted upon reactivation of 7470; he used this frequency at least twice before as last year in DXLD 17-42: ``PIRATE, 15085, 2119-, YHWH, Oct 7. OK, a daytime frequency found on a bandscan. Not as strong as during the evening, but still at fair level (S4 to S5) in the clear with the usual shtick. Checked the next day (8 October) and he was there at 2235 UT at weak levels. He signed off right at the time of my check, so it looks like a regular frequency (Walt Salmaniw, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1900, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I discovered YHWH on 15085, July 27 at 2018, and until now have seen no other reports of it (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1900, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Nicely played, Glenn - 15085 is where I logged YHWH a few times last spring. Thanks (Rich Ray, WOR iog via DXLD) Glenn is correct, of course. 15085 and not 15070. Cheers from the high seas! (Walt Salmaniw, ibid.) I did not mean this to contradict Walt about 15070; it could have been on both at one time or another (gh, ibid.) Glenn, you are most likely correct. I was counting on my memory! 73, (Walt Salmaniw, ibid.) Gents - I have logs of YHWH that date back to the fall of 2016. I checked it yesterday and there are a bunch of frequencies that he has used since fall 2016 not included in the list sent the other day. Some were "one-offs" but many were used for weeks. I can email the group if there is anyone interested in the list - he has certainly settled on 7470. For now at least. And that creepy song he plays STILL gives me the willies (Rich Ray, Aug 12, WOR iog via DXLD) Rich, Yes, we certainly are interested in your YHWH frequency list. Please post (Glenn, ibid.) Here you go - frequencies YHWH has been logged on since fall of 2016: 3235 3255 4865 4875 4920 4960 5730 5770 5785 5790 5792 5860 5865 7125 7185 7300 7330 7335 7405 7410 7425 7465 7470 7480 7485 7515 7550 7585 7605 7610 7615 7620 7630 7700 9600 9605 9730 9835 11470 11490 15070 15085 15300 15530 (Rich Ray, IL, WOR iog via DXLD) And I think I heard him once on the 13m band, but have been unable to locate that frequency (gh, DXLD) Wow! He sure has good frequency agility! The 7425 (and nearby frequencies) was/were popular with pirates in the 80s and until the International broadcasters took it all over in the 90s and 2000s (hence the popularity of 43m now). Wasn't RFPI Costa Rica once on or near 15085 too? I tried for YHWH 7470 during the Perseids near-peak and he was not heard here on 13 August (SpM -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com ibid.) RFPI was on 15050, 15045, i think (gh) THANK YOU, Ron/Rick/Walt/Rich & Glenn for all of this fascinating compilation of YHWH's past broadcasts and frequencies - also his likely playing recordings as KIPM/etc. usually did as we know from the archives of KIPM's productions online and in my CD collection. WOR/DXLD just rocks and rocks! PS - I'm planning to closely monitor 7470 on Tuesday evening here (Wed. UT of course), as the Perseids Meteor shower peaks at 0100z (13 Aug.) and I will also do considerable FM Ms recordings throughout early Wednesday morning, as the FM band here is 1/3-blank of signals here even at high-sensitivities. This place HAS been superb for FM Es and Ms since I moved here in 1997. Hardly any tropo - just a lot of aero-scatter also. So hoping YHWH does his broadcast and I can capture another Ms burst on his signal like last week during my walk with my Sony. You fellows` reports will help give me a head's up so I can attempt the recording. The Perseids radiant will not rise until about 2200 PDT but there will be some "early" ones particularly during the peak of the shower(!) Ron - cool recording! (Steve McGreevy -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com ibid.) 7470, UNITED STATES (Pirate), YHWH (in progress at tune-in) at 0300. Josiah with the usual monologue. Solid S-9 on SW-2000269, longwire, and attenuator ON! (there is a switch to keep this small radio from overloading). The oft-heard Ten Commandments lecture at 0350. 0400 Days of Hard Life, closing comments & off - Very Good August 10. 7470(checked), YHWH (in progress at tune-in) at 0245. Josiah with the usual monologue. Caught during random dialscan with Grundig Satellit 205. Still really strong after switching to indoor wire (weather issue) - Very Good August 11. 7470, YHWH (in progress at tune-in) at 0315. Josiah with the usual monologue, but way way out in the mud tonight. Signal improved around 0320. Faded out on me around 0410 - Poor/Fair on peaks August 12 (Rick Barton, Spotty listening of late - some Arizona SW Logs, Unless otherwise stated, equipment is Grundig Satellit 205/T.5000, RS SW-2000629 with various outdoor wires & indoor shortwire. 73 and Good Listening.......! - rb, WOR iog via DXLD) Rick, what do you signify by ``(checked)`` next to some frequencies and not others? (gh) [WOR] anybody hearing YHWH? 7470 at the moment. I think I can hear Josiah now, 0315, but he's way way out in the mud. Detecting a carrier with BFO engaged, but that is all. Think it's what is called "JBA" at WOR. 73 (Rick Barton, Arizona, 0330 UT Aug 12, WOR iog via DXLD) And thanks to Rick Barton, I have YHWH 7470, pretty weak most of the time but decent on fade ups, lots of noise. Now, let`s see how long after I send this email that he signs off (Paul Walker, WY, 0343 UT, HCDX via DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. 5125-USB, August 7 at 0052. Mix Radio International with music. Multiple IDs heard. 53 dBu, very good. If they were on past 0100, their signal was obliterated when WBCQ 5130 fired up at 0100 (Larry Will, HF DX logs from Lost River State Park, Mathias, West Virginia, August 5-8, 2019, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) MIX RADIO INT’L: 6160/USB, 1849-1901+, 8/12; Lite pop including Sade’s Cool Operator; RoboW ID at 1901. SIO=252+ 6100/USB, 1928, 8/13; RoboW with “MRI” into music. Poor under QRN (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time. ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) That might explain Lw`s earlier non-WBCQ log; what a coincidence (gh) UNIDENTIFIED. 6160-USB, August 8 at 0035. UnID (definitely not WBCQ). Nonstop 80s music, including "Doctor Doctor" by the Thompson Twins, "Rock the Casbah" by the Clash, Billy Idol "Dancing With Myself". 45 dBu, good. Obliterated by Cuba firing up 6165 at 0055 (Larry Will, HF DX logs from Lost River State Park, Mathias, West Virginia, August 5-8, 2019, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. FM pirates: see U S A ** NORWAY. Radio Northern Star MW --- From Facebook. Northern Star Media Services 13 hrs · The new 2 kW Medium Wave AM transmitter of Radio Northern Star on 1611 kHz is on trade test transmissions initially with 200 watts since 1345 UT today. The service may be interrupted from time to time. Reports to 1000@northernstar.no (via Terry Colgan, TX, Aug 14, DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. Electronic billboard on the NE corner of Garriott & Garland in front of the new JiffyTrip about to open in Enid (which replaced a worm-infested pecan grove; sad!), flashes ``Rush will soon be on Enid FM Radio``, and the same for ``Sean``, August 9. I can`t read it all as I am in motion, but this surely refer to the 100.9 CP translator K265FL [Fully Loony] for KGWA which is already airing their rubbish on AM 960. No, 100.9 is not on quite yet. I cannot hardly wait. This will of course also difficultize if not block reception of 100.7 from Ponca City, and 101.1 from Stillwater & Woodward. KGWA`s original FM sibling, 103.1 KOFM, has been spurring or overloading down to this area too. At the stoplight a few days later I watch the billboard longer: loads of local bizzes flashing but not KGWA by the golight; however, the billboard itself is owned by its parent, Williams Broadcasting, following the Clear Channel model! Hmmm, could they add a Part 15 transmitter to the sign? Ooooh (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. DTV: RF 36, Aug 9 at 1505 UT, from OKC, KUOK-CD briefly decodes enough to enable the PSIP ID, then breaks up. Presumably the same Univisión programming as on a subchannel of full-power RF 29 KTUZ Shawnee, which displays as 36. Hepburn tropo map shows level-1 minor tropo enhancement between here and OKC. (Enid is almost always on the margins or beyond tropo areas --- but wait for next Tuesday!). W9WI.com lists 7.33 kW, CP for 15. Anything else unusual? RF 21, KUOT OKC is *much* stronger and in solid with subchannels 1-2-3-4-5, including 3ABN, but KUOT is the PSIP ID on all of them. W9WI.com show it`s 15 kW, really KUOT-CD, without any subchannel info. NOT to be confused, as I almost did with another RF 21 listed for OKC, KTOU, 4 kW with 6 subchannels. There are also Bad signal bars on 20 and 22. In fact rabbitears.info shows KTOU-LD is now on 22 virtually and really, not 21. 20 could be KQCW-DT Muskogee, which seems to be the most-often seen from Tulsa market. Ultimately repacked, the only UHF channels unoccupied in OKC Market #50 will be 17, 20, 28, 34 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) More OK DTV at USA with KS ** PERU. Radio Cultural Amauta, 4955, still in the air on a regular schedule; this video of their 56th anniversary. HUANTA: 56 ANIVERSARIO RADIO AMAUTA AL SERVICIO DE DIOS Y LA PATRIA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BOApOzzp4s&fbclid=IwAR1HyF4J6ZENKqHt8jiYSmZrtB4F3kF64gajBB9J7vkjOh5LHZY72W7Sjx4 (Rafael Rodríguez, Colombia, via WRTH via SW Bulletin Aug 11 via DXLD) ** POLAND [and non]. Hi! much improved reception of RTE Radio 1 Ireland on 252 kHz LW, night and day; also improved reception of Polskie Radio from Polska on 225 kHz heard with Polski song and talk at 1947 UT; Tecsun PL-660 (Jon Collins, Birmingham middle of the UK, 0231 UT Aug 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** POLAND. Polish Radio - Hier spricht das Aufstaendische Warschau. Die Tage des Warschauer Aufstandes in den Sendungen des Polnischen Rundfunks. Im Rahmen unserer Sendereihe "Aus dem Archiv der Deutschen Redaktion" bringen wir heute eine Sendung aus dem Jahr 1995. In der Aufnahme von Inka Jasiczek und Aleksander Opalski geht es um das Buch des Rundfunkhistorikers Prof. Maciej Jozef Kwiatkowski mit dem Titel "Hier spricht das Aufstaendische Warschau. Die Tage des Aufstandes in den Sendungen des Polnischen Rundfunks und in deutschen Dokumenten." Inka Jasiczek erklaert, wie es zu dem Ausbruch der Erhebung kam und wie die Arbeit des Untergrundradios aussah. Aus dem Archiv: Rolle des Untergrundradios im Aufstand Am Donnerstag jaehrt sich der Ausbruch des Warschauer Aufstands zum 75. Mal. Aus diesem Anlass nun im Rahmen unserer Sendereihe "Aus dem Archiv der Deutschen Redaktion" eine Sendung aus dem Jahr 1989. (Paul Gager-AUT, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 8, BC-DX Aug 13 via DXLD) ** ROMANIA. ROMANIANS AGAIN HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE TRANSMITTER On the air of Interradio Romania, it was reported that the specialists of the RADIOCOM transmission center will restore broadcasting on several frequencies and in DRM format within a few weeks. At the end of July, broadcasts in Russian disappeared, in particular, at a frequency of 11940 kHz in analog format and in a digital standard at frequencies of 7305, 9580 kHz. “The short-wave transmitter in Tsiganeshti, which broadcasts the IRR transmissions, including those of the Russian service, is closed due to technical problems. Due to a malfunction, the digital broadcasting of the IRR programs (in the DRM format) is also disrupted. The frequencies of 7305 kHz (the first broadcast of the day - to Moscow) and 9580 kHz (third broadcast of the day, also broadcasting to the capital of the Russian Federation) do not work. Radiocom, a broadcasting service provider, said that it would unfortunately take several weeks to replace defective components. In the meantime, listen to the IRR on the second frequency, on which we broadcast our transmissions to your region, according to the frequency table on our website, ”the broadcast reported. Last August, RADIOCOM had a similar problem. For several days there were no broadcasts in DRM format. Then it was reported on the air that one of the transmitters in Tsiganeshti had broken down. The National Radiocommunication Society of Romania SA, existing under the commercial brand RADIOCOM, relays Interradio Romania using a network of 6 short-wave transmitters. From information on the company's official website, it is known that three of them are located in the transmission center in Tsiganeshti, two in Galbeni and one in Saftik. https://kolkeradio.blogspot.com/2019/08/blog-post.html (via Rus-DX Aug 11 via DXLD) ** ROMANIA. Surprisingly odd fq of RRI Galbeni at 1135 UT: 17669.973 kHz RRI Galbeni English, S=5 signal heard in Tokyo Japan remote SDR unit. TX at Tsiganeshti RadioCom center has been repaired now: Austrian DXer Paul Gager told me yesterday Aug 9th, that the German language from RRI Tschiganeschti is back on air on 7355 kHz again towards short-distance settled audience near Austrian capital Vienna / Burgenland usually daily at 1400-1457 UT. Now on Aug 10th RRI Tsiganeshchti in Russian language at 1300 heard also on both channels again ON AIR, heard at Tokyo remote Perseus SDR units on 9890 and 11940 kHz, both S=8-9 signal across northern Siberia path to Far East Russia audience. Some logs of Sat August 10th in Cape Canaveral FL state, central Europe and in Japan [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 10, WOR iog via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Far East [LW, MW, SW station list, complete?] ------------ Freq Call Network/Slogan/Brand Location Power Comments 528 BD (Beacon) Khabarovsk Khabarovskiy 528 GE (Beacon) Khabarovsk Khabarovskiy 531 Avtoradio Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Sakhalinskaya 5d 24h, confirmed active 11-2017 595 NK (Beacon) Nikolskoye Kamchatskaya 600 LT (Beacon) Chokurdakh Sakha 600 OS (Beacon) Ossora Koryak 605 BL (Beacon) Chernyskevka Primorskiy 615 XR (Beacon) Seilkhino Khabarovskiy 635 BD (Beacon) Razdol'noe Primorskiy 640 BE (Beacon) Beringovsky Chukot 678 IG (Beacon) Lensk Yakutia 525 WN (Beacon) Polyarny Yakutia [?? must be out of order] 680 QA (Beacon) Ekimchan Amurskaya 684 NV (Beacon) Zabaykalsk Irkutskaya 685 HY (Beacon) Khalatyrka Kamchatskaya 765 Radio Vostok Rossii Bikin Khabarovskiy 5 2000-1200, FM103.7 765 Radio Vostok Rossii Bogotodskoye Khabarovskiy 5 2000-1200, FM103.7 765 Radio Vostok Rossii Chegdomyn Khabarovskiy 5 2000-1200, FM103.7 765 Radio Vostok Rossii De-Kastri Khabarovskiy 5 2000-1200, FM103.7 765 Radio Vostok Rossii Khabarovsk Khabarovskiy 20 2000-1200, news & rock music, FM103.7, confirmed active 9/2018. 765 Radio Vostok Rossii Komsomolsk-na-Amur Khabarovskiy 20 2000- 1200, FM103.7 765 Radio Vostok Rossii Sovetskaya Gavan Khabarovskiy 5 2000-1200, FM103.7 765 Radio Vostok Rossii Troitskoye Khabarovskiy 5 2000-1200, FM103.7 765 Radio Vostok Rossii Vyazemsky Khabarovskiy 5 2000-1200, FM103.7 765 Radio Vostok Rossii Zimmermanovka Khabarovskiy 5 2000-1200, FM103.7 779 BQ (Beacon) Bokhan Irkutskaya 790 UX (Beacon) Anadyr Chukot 790 KB (Beacon) Anadyr Chukot 810 * Radio Rossii Primor'e-Vladivostok Razdol'noe Primorsky 150d briefly reactivated 9/2016, may operate sporadically in future 820 TK (Beacon) Tilichiki Koryak 535 BF (Beacon) Norilsk Krasnoyarsky krai 907 UB (Beacon) Ust-Bolsheretsk Kamchatskaya 920 BA (Beacon) Balagannoye Magadanskaya 942 FE (Beacon) Kukan Yakutia 965 UH (Beacon) Ust-Khayruzovo Kamchatskaya 995 TA (Beacon) Takhtayamsk Magadanskaya 5900 * Radio Rossii Primor'e-Vladivostok Razdol'noe Primorsky 150d briefly reactivated 9/2016 7245 * Radio Rossii Primor'e-Vladivostok Razdol'noe Primorsky 150d briefly reactivated 9/2016 7295 R Sakha Yakutsk Yakutia 250 2100-2400 0300-0500 0900-1300 M-F, 2200-0500 0900-1200 SaSu, Yakutian 0030-? 1200?-1300 //7345, reactivated 3-2018 7345 R Sakha Yakutsk Yakutia 100 2100-2400 0300-0500 0900-1300 M-F, 2200-0500 0900-1200 SaSu, Yakutian 0030-? 1200?-1300 //7295 7350 * Radio Rossii Primor'e-Vladivostok Razdol'noe Primorsky 150d briefly reactivated 9/2016 9895 * Radio Rossii Primor'e-Vladivostok Razdol'noe Primorsky 150d briefly reactivated 9/2016 (Pacific-Asian Log, Printed 2 July 2019, Copyright  2001-2019 by Bruce Portzer via Rus-DX Aug 11 via DXLD) ** RUSSIA [and non]. THE STATE DUMA AMENDED THE LAW ON FOREIGN OWNERSHIP OF THE MEDIA The government introduced a bill to the State Duma on amending article 19 of the law “On the Mass Media” in terms of clarifying the provisions of the law on restricting foreign ownership in the Russian media. “The amendments to the second and fourth sections of Article 19 of the Law on Mass Media proposed by the bill are brought into line with each other, the content of the first, second and fourth parts of the above article is specified. The draft law also provides for the exclusion of the vague concept of “media participant” from the first part of Article 19. In the fourth part of Article 19, for those who do not meet its requirements, restrictions are removed that exclude the possibility of exercising corporate rights to the extent not exceeding 20% of such participation, and also the right to judicial protection, ”the explanatory note to the bill says. The bill was developed by the Ministry of Communications in conjunction with Roskomnadzor and aimed at implementing the decision of the Constitutional Court ... http://onair.ru/main/enews/view_msg/NMID__74448/ (via Rus-DX Aug 11 via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. From VKontakt group Who likes to listen to medium and short waves, https://vk.com/club3877182 --------------------------------------- Lesha Popov: It seems they said that medium and long waves are no longer in Russia. Last night I caught Radio of Moscow, the wavelength is slightly more than 2000 m. The Speedol receiver is 230-1. - Andrey Molokov: Do not flatter yourself. With a probability of 99%, this was a tip from the third program of the city radio broadcast network. Frequency 120 kHz. Radio of Moscow broadcasts on the third button - Lesha Popov: Andrey, Since the third channel of the broadcasting network (in Moscow - Radio of Moscow) in Russia and the former USSR operates at a frequency of 120 kHz, these broadcasts can be listened to on the air broadcasting receiver with a long-wave band having this frequency. For example, Degen DE-1103, Tecsun PL-660, etc. At the same time, connecting to a radio network and even having a radio outlet at home is not necessary, since the main radio network emits quite strong pickups. Although the reception is not guaranteed, and the sound quality is worse than on the "three-programmer", but you do not need to pay for the radio channel, which now few people have left. (via Rus-DX Aug 11 via DXLD) This seems to be referring to the once-widespread carrier/current, wired broadcasting/rediffusion network of the Soviet era, now apparently still existing and leaking out into wireless sets (gh) ** RUSSIA. The site contains the call signs, jingles and identification announcements of radio stations of the Russian Federation, as well as other countries of the world. -------------------------------------------------- -------- http://radiolistener7.narod.ru/index.html (Al Quaglieri, https://www.facebook.com/groups/wrthgroup/ via Rus-DX Aug 11 via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Top 10 cities in Russia by the number of radio stations. FM Radio: Moscow - 51, St. Petersburg - 35, Yekaterinburg - 33, Samara - 33, Kazan - 32, Tyumen - 31, Perm - 31, Nizhny Novgorod - 30, Irkutsk - 29, Chelyabinsk - 29 (Alexey Dementiev, Saratov, Russia, https://vk.com/radiosaratov via Rus-DX Aug 11 via DXLD) ** RUSSIA [non]. “Why Are People So Anti-Russia?” [Ed. Note: A contrarian view.] BETWEEN THE LINES - ABC RN What is it about Russia that so upsets people? From all across the ideological spectrum, pundits warn that the Bear is on the prowl and that Vladimir Putin threatens democracy all across the globe. Stephen Cohen challenges what he sees as rising 'Russiaphobia', which could set the scene for war. Critics see Cohen as a Russia apologist and a stooge for President Putin, who is implicated in Syria, Ukraine and even the US election. But Cohen says this is just another example of 'Russiaphobes' pedalling hatred and misunderstanding. Will the West ever be able to work with the Kremlin? (29”) https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/betweenthelines/why-are-people-so-anti-russia/10874976 (John Figliozzi, NY, Podding Along, WOR iog via DXLD) I’ve heard Stephen Cohen numerous times and roll my eyes every time. I highly recommend a debate between Stephen Cohen (and Vladimir Posner - remember him?) and Anne Applebaum and Gary Kasparov. Cohen’s arguments were decimated by the latter two. Here’s the link from 2015: https://www.munkdebates.com/The-Debates/The-West-vs-Russia (Walt Salmaniw, ibid.) ** SAO TOME. Sao Tome aligned odd / even: 6080.028 STP VOA English, S=6 at 0545 UT, 6180even STP but VOA French outlet also. Log of Aug 9th remote SDR unit access, in Detroit MI state and in Austria Europe, in 49 Meter band [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 9, WOR iog via DXLD) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 9675, 2004-, BSKSA, Aug 12. Very good, but somewhat distorted signal in listed Turkish (I failed to identify, but listed in HFCC and EiBi. Perhaps, 'something is always wrong at BSKSA'! (Walt Salmaniw, Zuiderdam, Norwegian Sea, WOR iog via DXLD) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 11820.05, Aug 13 at 2220, soporific Qur`aning lullabyes my nap (a compliment, not a criticism), poor signal gradually improves by when I rouse at 2245. I also wonder if each cantor ad-libs the notes, or if certain words and phrases are always sung the same way? Translations of the Qur`an do exist, so would it be OK for someone to recite those musically in e.g. English? Something one never hears (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SIKKIM. And now some observation of Thursday Aug 15, 1305-1345 UT: 4835even, INDIA, AIR Gangtok - at 1308 UT heard with the usual TERRIBLE transmitter hum/buzz. Similar annoying like VoGreece 9935 kHz some 3 years ago. 26 x buzz strings either sideband visible, noted 10 Hertz string apart. S=9+5dB in Delhi (Wolfgang Bueschel, WORLD OF RADIO 1995, DXLD) see also INDIA [``The media magazine you monitor --- with your mind! WOR 1995``] ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 7490.20, 2201, 8/15; Bro. HyStairical on another everything-is-terrible tirade & broke into song. SIO=454- Is it my imagination or is B.S. on a lot less than the recent past? (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time. ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Well, no 9330 of course. This hour 22-23 summer/23-24 winter is a long-standing one for him on 7490v. And WBCQ seems also running him earlier in the afternoon, as well as after 0100 (gh, DXLD) 9395, August 6 at 1742. WRMI, "Sister Smythe" calling in with talk about pain, cysts, health problems, moaning and groaning and asking for prayers from Brother Scare, who follows. 40 dBu, good (Larry Will, HF DX logs from Lost River State Park, Mathias, West Virginia, August 5-8, 2019, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. 12030, August 5 at 2200. REE with lively Spanish pop music, announcer in English notes that they're playing the music of the band Redtone. Excellent signal and sound, 56 dBu. Parallel 11670 noted at 2228 with very good signal, 32 dBu. August 6 at 1520, music with a very good signal and sound, 32 dBu. 12030, August 6 at 1732, REE in Spanish, 39 dBu, very good. 12030, August 6 at 1925, talk in Spanish, 55 dBu, excellent signal (Larry Will, HF DX logs from Lost River State Park, Mathias, West Virginia, August 5-8, 2019, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12030, Thu Aug 15 at 2155, REE is AWOL from ME Arabic frequency before closing time; Spanish still on 11940 for S America and // stronger 9690 for N America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA [and non]. /GERMANY, 15150.005 kHz, AWR via SLBC broadcast center at Trincomalee, former DWL Voice of Germany relay until 2010 year. S=6 fair signal noted here on sidelobe in WeEUR. 1415 UT on Aug 11. AWR ministry program in Asho Chiu language according to Aoki Nagoya database. 15705even, AWR Chinese via SLBC relay at Trincomalee, S=7 fair signal here in WeEUR at 1420 UT, and at scheduled 14-15 UT also same program surprisingly on nearby \\ too on 15715even, AWR Chinese via MBR Nauen Germany at 1422 UT, S=9+20dB signal strength here in WeEUR [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 11, WOR iog via DXLD) ** SUDAN [non]. Radio Dabanga via Santa Maria di Galeria & Issoudun, August 9 1529-1557 13745 ISS 250 kW / 139 deg EaAf Darfur Arabic, good signal 1529-1557 15550 SMG 250 kW / 150 deg EaAf Darfur Arabic, poor & weak https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/radio-dabanga-via-santa-maria-di.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. SUDAN(non) [sic], Radio Tamazuj via Talata Volonondry & Issoudun, August 9 1459-1557 on 15150 MDC 250 kW / 340 deg to EaAf Juba Arabic*, weak 1459-1557 on 15400 ISS 250 kW / 139 deg to EaAf Juba Arabic*, good * at 1544 on 15150 MDC 250 kW / 340 deg to EaAf English news on Fri * at 1544 on 15400 ISS 250 kW / 139 deg to EaAf English news on Fri https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/radio-tamazuj-via-talata-volonondry.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN. 13550.063, SOH program, mentioned 'Mao Zedong' in Chinese at 1400 UT on Aug 11. S=5 here in western Europe, \\ 13640.201 kHz too at same time. No CNR1 jamming at this 14-15 UT time slot traced [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 11, WOR iog via DXLD) ** TAIWAN. Hi Glenn, Again this year, Radio Taiwan International is broadcasting its German language program directly from the Tamsui transmission site with 300 kW to Europe on several days: 11990 kHz: 1700-1800 UT 9540 kHz: 1800-1900 UT 30, 31 August; 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 20, 21, 22 September (Analogue) 1, 15 September (DRM) A test broadcast will be conducted on 16 August: ANALOGUE: 11990 kHz: 1700-1705 UT 9540 kHz: 1800-1805 UT DRM: 11990 kHz: 1715-1720 UT 9540 kHz: 1815-1820 UT Best Regards, (Alan Holder, Isle of Wight, UK, Aug 14, WORLD OF RADIO 1995, DX LISTENING DIGEST) oder: WIEDER DIE AKTION DIREKT AUS TAMSUI TAIWAN Aktion "Direkt aus Tamsui / Taipei-TWN" in 2019 year. Testsendungen am 16. August (Friday/Freitag) ANALOG Frequenz 11990 kHz (325deg) 1700-1705 UT Frequenz 9540 kHz (315deg) 1800-1805 UT DRM mode Frequenz 11990 kHz 1715-1720 UT Frequenz 9540 kHz 1815-1820 UT Offizielle Sendetermine 11990 kHz 1700-1800 UT 9540 kHz 1800-1900 UT 1. 30. August (Fri / Freitag) / analog 2. 31. August (Sat / Samstag) / analog 3. 01. September (Sun / Sonntag) / DRM mode 4. 06. September (Fri / Freitag) / analog 5. 07. September (Sat / Samstag) / analog 6. 08. September (Sun / Sonntag) / analog 7. 13. September (Fri / Freitag) / analog (moon feast / Mondfest) 8. 14. September (Sat / Samstag) / analog 9. 15. September (Sun / Sonntag) / DRM mode 10. 20. September (Fri / Freitag) / analog 11. 21. September (Sat / Samstag) / analog 12. 22. September (Sun / Sonntag) / analog (Bernd Seiser-D, via ADDX Kurier via wwdxc-germany President Mike Bethge-D; via wb df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 12) via wb WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1995, DXLD) Note all Fri/Sat/Sun (gh, ibid.) or: Test transmissions of Radio Taiwan Int RTI via Tamshui in German Fri/Sat/Sun from August 30 to September 22 as follows 1700-1705 on 11990 TSH 300 kW / 325 deg to WeEu German AM mode, 1715-1720 on 11990 TSH 300 kW / 325 deg to WeEu German DRM mode 1800-1805 on 9540 TSH 300 kW / 315 deg to WeEu German AM mode, 1815-1820 on 9540 TSH 300 kW / 315 deg to WeEu German DRM mode DRM mode will be only on Sun Sept 1/15, all other will be in AM https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/test-transmissions-of-radio-taiwan-int.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 12-13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAJIKISTAN. 4765.047, Tajik R 1 from Yangi Yul, S=9 at 1322 UT on Aug 14. My observations taken in Delhi, Akatkata Tokyo Japan, Doha Qatar and at Eastern Finland in various SDR Perseus net. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz](Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 14 / 15, WOR iog via DXLD) ** THAILAND. 9920, 1938-, Radio Thailand, Aug 12. Superb reception direct from Thailand in English, and beamed to Europe. Very impressive signal with a very simple set up on-board the HAL Zuiderdam. I'm using the XHData D808 receiver with a 20' random wire on my balcony on the 6th deck, facing NE as we sail north of the Faroe Islands towards Bergen, Norway. LSS should be about 2100 UT. Very little ship-board noise noted (Walt Salmaniw, Zuiderdam, Norwegian Sea, WOR iog via DXLD) ** THAILAND. Will this reference say anything about VOA? You bet, and whew!--- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_Dung_District ``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 (from DXLD 19-32 via WORLD OF RADIO 1995, DXLD 19-33) Site deal expires this year; so is it being renewed??? (gh, ibid.) ** TURKEY. V of Turkey, Georgian & Tatar on wrong frequencies, Aug 9 0956-1003 11750 EMR 500 kW / 120 deg N/ME Georgian, instead of 9655 & 0956-1003 11795 EMR 500 kW / 105 deg WeAs Tatar - instead of 9855 kHz 1004-1055 9655 EMR 500 kW / 072 deg CeAs Georgian, as scheduled A-19 1004-1025 9855 EMR 500 kW / 032 deg CeAs Tatar - 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-georgiantatar-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. IRAN vs. TURKEY, VIRI IRIB PARS TODAY vs. Voice of Turkey on 9620 kHz, August 9 2023-2120 9620 SIR 500 kW / 298 deg SoEu Spanish VIRI IRIB, very good 2030-2120 9620 EMR 500 kW / 105 deg SEAs English Voice of Turkey-weak Additional on same 9620 is also other station Radio Sultanate of Oman till 2200 9620 THU 100 kW / 315 deg WeEu Arabic - inactive at present https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/viri-irib-pars-today-vsvoice-of-turkey.html (Ivo Ivanov, BUlgaria, WORLD OF RADIO 1995, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Turkey in Bulgarian on strange 9650, August 10 1100-1125 9650 EMR 250 kW / 290 deg SEEu Bulgarian, instead of 7210 Something`s always wrong at V of Turkey Emirler transmitting station! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/voice-of-turkey-in-bulgarian-on-strange.html Unscheduled TRT Voice of Turkey in Spanish on shortwave, August 10 1126-1131 9650 EMR 250 kW / 290 deg SEEu Spanish - unscheduled on SW! Something`s always wrong at TRT VoTurkey Emirler transmitting station https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/unscheduled-voice-of-turkey-in-spanish.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 9-10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11675.688 kHz, TRT Emirler in Turkish, S=9 fluttery signal towards NE/ME, heard also here in CeEUR, scheduled 0600-1155 UT, noted at 0713 UT. \\ same program on 11750.008 kHz towards all-Europe S=9+15dB at 0721. 11730.023 kHz noted TRT Emirler in Azeri language (Turk language similar) at 0714 station program ID by female presenter, S=9+5dB or -69dBm strength here in CeEUR. Some logs of Sat August 10th in Cape Canaveral FL state, central Europe and in Japan [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 10, WOR iog via DXLD) TRT Voice of Turkey in Georgian on very odd 9655.7 Aug 11: 1000-1003 9655.7 500 kW / 072 deg CeAs open carrier / dead air and 1003-1055 9655.7 500 kW / 072 deg CeAs Georgian, instead of 9655.0 0600-1155 11675.0 500 kW / 150 deg WeAs Turkish - 11675.8 August 10 Something`s always wrong at TRT Voice of Turkey Emirler station! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/trt-voice-of-turkey-in-georgian-on-odd.html TRT Voice of Turkey in Bulgarian on scheduled 7210 kHz on August 11: 1056-1100 9655.7 500 kW / 072 deg CeAs Bulgarian-IS & announcement 1100-1125 7210.0 250 kW / 290 deg SEEu, instead of 9650 August 10! Something`s always wrong at TRT VoT Emirler transmitting station! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/voice-of-turkey-in-bulgarian-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 10-11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) TRT V of Turkey in Kazakh on odd frequency 11825.7, Aug 11 1330-1355 11825.7 500 kW / 072 deg CeAs Kazakh, 11825.0 on August 10 Something`s always wrong at TRT V of Turkey Emirler station!! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/voice-of-turkey-in-kazakn-on-odd-freq.html TRT Voice of Turkey in Turkish on odd frequency 13635.7, August 12 0600-1255 13635.7 500 kW / 310 deg WeEu Turkish, 13635.0 on August 11 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/voice-of-turkey-in-turkish-on-odd-freq.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 11-12, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Unscheduled TRT Voice of Turkey in Japanese on SW, Aug 12: 1124-1126 13760 500 kW / 310 deg WeEu Japanese - unscheduled on SW, 1126-1130 13760 500 kW / 310 deg WeEu Voice of Turkey IS in German, 1130-1225 13760 500 kW / 310 deg WeEu German, as scheduled in A-19. Something`s always wrong at V of Turkey Emirler transmitting station! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/unscheduled-voice-of-turkey-in-japanese.html Voice of Turkey in Russian on odd frequency 11965.7 kHz, August 12 1300-1355 11965.7 500 kW / 020 deg EaEu Russian, instead of 11965, 1330-1355 11825.7 500 kW / 072 deg CeAs Kazakh - was on August 11! Something`s always wrong at TRT VoTurkey Emirler transmitting station https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/voice-of-turkey-in-russian-on-odd-freq_12.html Unscheduled on SW Voice of Turkey in Greek on 9610 kHz, August 12 1426-1431 9610.0 500 kW / 290 deg SEEu Greek, unscheduled on SW Something`s always wrong at Voice of Turkey Emirler station!! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/unscheduled-voice-of-turkey-in-greek-on_12.html TRT Voice of Turkey in Farsi on odd frequency 9765.7 kHz, August 12 till 1500 9765.0 BJI 150 kW / 288 deg CeAs English China Radio Intl 1456-1555 9765.7 EMR 250 kW / 105 deg WeAs Farsi instead of nominal! Something`s always wrong at TRT V of Turkey Emirler station https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/voice-of-turkey-in-farsi-on-odd_12.html Voice of Turkey in Turkish on odd frequency 11675.7 kHz on August 13 0600-1157 11675.7 500 kW / 150 deg WeAs Turkish, instead of 11675.0 0600-1257 13635.0 500 kW / 310 deg WeEu Turkish - 13635.7 August 12 Something`s always wrong at V of Turkey Emirler transmitting station! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/voice-of-turkey-in-turkish-on-odd-freq_13.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 12-13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9830, Aug 13 at 2217, NO signal from Voice of Turkey, English to North America. As Ivo says, Something`s always wrong at Emirler. Maybe they got it going in time to broadcast the wrong language, German, after 2300? Did not recheck today. Propagation OK with Saudi and Spain making it well (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) V of Turkey in Turkish on wrong frequency at 1300 Aug 13: 1300-1302 13635 500 kW / 310 deg WeEu Turkish, instead of 9840 kHz, from 1303 9840 500 kW / 310 deg WeEu Turkish, as scheduled in A-19 Something`s always wrong at TRT V of Turkey Emirler station! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/voice-of-turkey-in-turkish-on-wrong.html Voice of Turkey in Italian on odd frequency 9610.7 kHz on August 13: 1400-1425 9610.7 500 kW / 290 deg SEEu Italian, instead of nominal Something`s always wrong at TRT V of T Emirler transmitting station! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/voice-of-turkey-in-italian-on-odd.html Unscheduled TRT Voice of Turkey in Bosnisn on shortwave, August 14: 0700-0755 11730 500 kW / 072 deg CeAs Azeri, as scheduled in A-19, 0756-0801 11730 500 kW / 072 deg CeAs Bosnian - unscheduled on SW! Something`s always wrong at TRT V of Turkey Emirler station https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/unscheduled-voice-of-turkey-in-bosnisn.html Unscheduled TRT Voice of Turkey in Japanese on shortwave, August 14: 1124-1126 13760 500 kW / 310 deg WeEu Japanese - unscheduled on SW, 1126-1130 13760 500 kW / 310 deg WeEu Voice of Turkey IS in German, 1130-1225 13760 500 kW / 310 deg WeEu German, as scheduled in A-19. Something`s always wrong at TRT Voice of Turkey Emirler station! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/unscheduled-trt-voice-of-turkey-in.html Voice of Turkey in Turkmen on odd frequency 11990.7 kHz on August 14 1200-1225 11990.7 500 kW / 062 deg CeAs Turkmen, instead of nominal Something`s always wrong at V of Turkey Emirler transmitting station! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/voice-of-turkey-in-turkmen-on-odd.html Voice of Turkey in Uyghur on odd frequency 15410.7 kHz on August 14 1230-1231 15410.7 500 kW / 072 deg CeAs Uyghur, instead of nominal 1231-1325 15410.0 500 kW / 072 deg CeAs Uyghur - scheduled in A-19 Something`s always wrong at TRT V of T Emirler transmitting station https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/voice-of-turkey-in-uyghur-on-odd.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 13-14, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Turkey in Turkish, odd frequency 13635.7 Aug 15 from 0558 13635.7 500 kW / 310 deg WeEu Turkish, instead of 13635.0. from 0606 13635.0 500 kW / 310 deg WeEu Turkish, instead of 13635.7! 0600-1155 11675.0 500 kW / 150 deg WeAs Turkish - 11675.7 August 14! from 0606 others nominal: 13765 Swa, 11750 Tur, 11730 Aze, 11675 Tur Something`s always wrong at V of Turkey Emirler transmitting station! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/voice-of-turkey-in-turkish-on-odd-freq_15.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 14-15, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9830, Aug 15 at 2200, VOT is on today starting correct language English with timesignal about 3 seconds slow, but VP signal vs RTTY which hasn`t stopped quite yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE. VENEDIKTOV PLANS TO LAUNCH EKHO MOSKVY RADIO IN UKRAINE. In Kiev, may appear the bureau of the Russian radio station Echo of Moscow. About this in an interview with "Strana.ua" said Alexei Venediktov, chief editor of "Echo". The opening of the Ukrainian representative office of Echo of Moscow is one of the goals of Venediktov’s visit to Kiev. According to him, the bureau will include a radio station, website and pages on social networks. "This is a bureau that will create high-quality programs in Russian that local radio stations will want to buy. To broadcast from here to Russia, about what is happening in Ukraine," Venediktov said. And he clarified that the project will be launched provided that the law on language quotas is revised. “I hope that the Echo of Moscow radio will be able to work in Ukraine. I am ready to open a bureau in Kiev, and if you like, in Odessa and Lvov. It’s actually strange to have a bureau in Israel, in Germany and in Washington, but not to have the bureau here in Ukraine. It's just nonsense. My journalists, whom I have verified, must get information and opinions of various political forces to Russia from here. It takes only 4-5 people. But for now, the law on language (we are talking about the law on quotas on The Ukrainian language on radio and TV - Ed.) forbids us to do this. In conversations with people from the new presidential team enta of Ukraine, I ask, will there be a correction of the law on the language? ", - Venediktov told Strana.ua. According to him, both Russian and Ukrainian journalists will be able to work in the Ukrainian bureau. And will probably head the Echo of Moscow bureau in Ukraine, Saken Aymurzaev, the former chief editor of Radio Vesti. "Citizenship is not important for me, a quality product is important to me. But it’s clear that I have Saken Aymurzaev (special correspondent of Echo of Moscow in Kiev. - Ed.). My proposal has already been formulated to him," Venediktov told Strana. He specified that he planned to open an Echo of Moscow bureau in Ukraine five years ago. “I had such an ambition even before 2014. Actually, all of 2013 I tried to organize an Echo of Moscow bureau here,” Venediktov added. According to the journalist, quotas are not a political issue, but a business one. ”purely commercial side interests. Can we, if there is a correction in the law on language, open a bureau here that could produce four hours a day of a product that will be broadcast here and driven to Moscow. We'll see. This is a market issue. The bureau should be self-sustaining, I will not subsidize it," said Alexei Venediktov. At the same time, he expressed hope that quotas in Ukraine could soon be revised and even canceled. "The president publicly announced that the new Council is going to consider amending the law, and inside of this law I would like to abolish quotas. I express my proposal or request, or as you wish, to my interlocutors in the Presidential Office. During this visit to Kiev and the past too," added Venediktov. Svetlana Kryukova, Anastasia Tovt / strana.ua http://onair.ru/main/enews/view_msg/NMID__74472/ (via Rus-DX Aug 11 via DXLD) ** UKRAINE. WHY IS UKRAINIAN RADIO “SILENT” ON ALMOST 60% OF THE TERRITORY OF UKRAINE? https://stv.detector.media/reformuvannya/radio/chomu_movchit_ukrainske_radio_mayzhe_na_60_teritorii_ukraini/ (via Rus-DX Aug 11 via DXLD) Leads to proposals to revive 549 kHz ** U K. BBC TO PULL ALL RADIO SERVICES FROM TUNEIN UK PLATFORM Radio Today 12 August 2019 https://radiotoday.co.uk/2019/08/bbc-to-pull-all-radio-services-from-tunein-uk-platform/ BBC radio stations will no longer be available from TuneIn in the UK via services such as Amazon Echo, Google Home speakers and smartphone apps from the end of August. The BBC and TuneIn have suddenly failed to reach a data-sharing agreement after 15 years of working together in the UK. Listeners are now required to sign in to hear BBC Radio stations online, so the BBC is unhappy that TuneIn grants access without registration, and withholds data on who is listening. Kieran Clifton, Director, BBC Distribution & Business Development explains more to RadioToday: “Our live radio streams are only coming off TuneIn on platforms where an alternative way of listening is easily available. “We want our programmes, products and services to be the best they can be. And a major way we ensure that is by using meaningful data. Data is more and more important – as it helps us to make more types of programmes we know people like, and equally importantly, identify gaps in our commissioning to ensure we’re making something for all audiences. “We also use the data collected about what you watch, listen to or read online to offer personalised programme recommendations – and make our services even more tailored to you. “When we make our programmes available via third parties, we ask that those platforms either allow you to sign into your BBC account – or provide us with meaningful data directly. Unfortunately, TuneIn doesn’t do either of these, so we couldn’t reach a data sharing agreement with them.” BBC Radio services via TuneIn on some devices, where it’s neither technically or economically practicable to demand a sign-in window, will continue for now. These include TuneIn on SONOS speakers and some older connected radios. Users in the UK listening to BBC Radio via smart devices are urged to download the specific BBC app for each device. Podcasts will remain on TuneIn, as will all live radio services outside the UK (via Mike Terry, Aug 13, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) ** U S A. Bill Block – RIP – July 19 2019 (via IRCA eGroup) With a sad heart, I have to report that Willis “Bill” Block passed away on July 19th. The Prescott Valley PD provided that information when I called their dispatcher to request a welfare check. I’ve since spoken with the Medical Examiner’s office, and they confirmed the death. Making matters more tragic, Bill’s body has not been claimed, and has been turned over to the county for cremation unless a family member steps forward. (Later on, Les found Bill’s relatives – pb) (Les Rayburn, N1LF, IRCA DX Monitor Aug 17, published Aug 14, via DXLD) ** U.S.A. 3892-LSB, August 6 at 1745. At least two southern-accented hams talking in some bizarre coded language, or are they discussing video games? "Check water level in yer boiler" 20 dBu, very good (Larry Will, HF DX logs from Lost River State Park, Mathias, West Virginia, August 5-8, 2019, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7285 [AM], August 7 at 1430. Timtron WA1HLR talking transformer wiring, excellent signal and sound, 46 dBu. Lots of typical grunting, whistling and open carrier/dead air from the other hams. Several minutes into Tim's technology instruction, someone fired up nearby or co-channel, interfering badly with the transmission. 7285, August 7 at 1522. Timtron WA1HLR talking tech with Terry. 32 dBu, good (Larry Will, HF DX logs from Lost River State Park, Mathias, West Virginia, August 5-8, 2019, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7615-USB, August 7 at 1435. "Red dragon five two" and others, "didn't get any of the message". The main operator relays the message, "it is required that we must constantly monitor our on-air conversations for opsec transgressions including ill-advised organizational names or relationships". Fair to good signals from the operators (Larry Will, HF DX logs from Lost River State Park, Mathias, West Virginia, August 5-8, 2019, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Despite the military-sounding mumbo-jumbo, it`s really paramilitary. That would be a Civil Air Patrol net I frequently encounter. Red Dragon = New Jersey. Here is a dekayear-old nationwide CAP tactical callsign list probably still correct: https://forums.radioreference.com/threads/civil-air-patrol-hf.146257/#post-1083762 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)) ** U S A. 8137-USB, Aug 13 at 1252, the yacht weather advice guy from WCY Lakeland FL, weak and also audible on weaker // 12350-USB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 8992/USB, U.S.A.F. (presumed); 0035:35*, 8/6; Alpha-numeric message, “Sky King do not answer. This is Test Kit out.” (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time. ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. UTILITY STATION --- UNID: 15016 USB Emergency Action Message Station (tentative), ??, English, 14/08 1502. Slow alphabetical characters and numbers. A very different form from a spy station, which can sometimes confuse the listener. Already heard before. I cannot guess the origin of this transmission. I lightly attribute the possibility of being a US coastal station. Can anyone help in this case? 35553 (Rudolf Grimm PY2-81502 SWL, São Bernardo SP, BRAZIL, http://dxways-br.blogspot.com YouTube Channel: GrimmSBC Rx: KiwiSDR (PY2-81502 SWL, São Bernardo) Antenna: Mini Whip PA0RDT. Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) US military more aero than marine ** U S A [and non]. Radio Free Asia: See ASIA [non]; CAMBODIA [and non] ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1993 monitoring: 9955, WRMI, Radio Miami Int’l; 2117-2132+, [Sunday] 8/7; Glenn Hauser’s World of Radio #1993 to 2128:51; included item from Don Hosmer. GH’s “standard disclaimer” cutoff by WRMI ID. 2130 into Wavescan withh Jeff White featuring Radio Andorra. SIO=3+53+ (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time. ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1994 monitoring: GERMANY, World of Radio#1994 via Hamburger Lokalradio, August 10 0630-0700 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg CeEu English Sat, very weak https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/world-of-radio1994-via-hamburger.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 9-10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, Again no sign of WoR on 9485 kHz here, just the Romanian splatter, but again you are audible on OH5AE's KiwiSDR, though a bit up and down in QSB and fighting it out with the splatter (Alan Gale, UK, 1450 UT Sat Aug 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1994 monitoring: confirmed Sat Aug 10 at 2100 on WRMI 9955, upcut about 4 seconds late, missing ``This is Glenn Hauser with World of Radio ---``; good S8-S9 Also confirmed UT Sunday Aug 11 at 0130 on WRMI 5850, very good Also confirmed UT Sunday Aug 11 at 0329 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, Wentzville MO, amid quoting Bob Biermann, interrupted for ham ID as required every dekaminute, about 20 minutes into so started early circa 0309; S9+20 readable over storm noise level. NOT confirmed by Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria: ``GERMANY UNID Music program via Hamburger Lokalradio on 7265-CUSB GOH 001 kW, August 11: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/unid-mx-px-via-hamburger-lokalradio-on.html 1030-1100 7265 / 230 deg instead of World of Radio #1994 Sunday 1100-1200 7265 / 230 deg Spanish Radio Tropicana as scheduled`` [WORLD OF RADIO 1995] Next: 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 WORLD OF RADIO 1994 monitoring: not confirmed Sunday August 11 at 2130 on WRMI since 7780 is a JBA carrier vs high noise level, but confirmed in NB by Richard Langley: ``2130 World of Radio #1994; again, last sentences cut off by transition music``. Confirmed UT Monday August 12 at 0130 on WRMI 9395, good S9+10, as always following outdated ``Son-Power Radio worldband from studios of WRMI on 5850, 7455! and 9395`` ID at 0129, and a pause. Also on poor 7780. Also confirmed UT Mon Aug 12 at 0230 on WRMI 7780, audible in HNL. Also confirmed UT Mon Aug 12 starting late after JL on Area 51 webcast at 0304:45; at 0328 check via WBCQ 5130.35, S9+10 including HNL. (also detect a JBA carrier on 6160.75: is that WBCQ, and me?) Also confirmed UT Mon Aug 12 at 0330 on WRMI 9955, VG S9+20. Also confirmed UT Tue Aug 13 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, fair S7-S9. Next: 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 to SSE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE BTW, since I last checked, WOR has been dropped without the courtesy of a notice from ACB Radio Mainstream as their programming seems to have been revamped (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1995, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7490.19, WBCQ Monticello ME; 2126-2131+, 8/14; Glenn Hauser’s World of Radio #1994 to 2129:59 music fill to 2130:03 Goddess Irina. Fair at best & best in USB (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time. ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1994 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday August 14 at 2100 on WRMI 9955, S9-S6 after IS & ID loop. By my watch & WWV, started about half a second late, but still upcut picking me up at ``---with World of Radio 19-94---``. Cannot hear simulcast on WBCQ 7490 at first, but soon confirmed L&C on webcast; and finally at 2126, enough signal S3-S5 on 7490+ direct to tell it`s about 1 second behind 9955, or 4-5 words. Of course, no WBCQ sigs to be detected circa 9330, 6160 or 5130; some weeks ago this emission was duplicated on 5130+ but probably anomalous. Also confirmed UT Thursday August 15 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, poor in storm noise but still no line noise. WORLD OF RADIO 1995 contents: Albania [non], Antarctica, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brasil, Bulgaria, Cuba, France, Germany, Hungary, Iran non, Kashmir non, Korea South, Kuwait, Niger, Nigeria, Sikkim, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, USA, Vatican, Zambia; and the propagation outlook WOR 1995 audible, downloadable by 2359 UT Thursday August 15, and ready for first SW broadcasts Friday August 16: (mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor1995.m3u (mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor1995.mp3 Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html Also linx to podcast services. [Sorry, there is some rumble in the last 10 minutes; having some problems with my recording gear] 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] [has been off for repairs since Aug 4 tfn] 1430 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany ND 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 [? missing last week] 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 6160v? to WSW 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE 0930 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW [still hiatus?] 1130 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW [still hiatus?] 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?] 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 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI RMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI: ** U S A. 5800.016, UNID carrier, - maybe coming from WRMI Exciter in Okeechobee FL state. S=4 -99dBm strength, at 2346 UT in Detroit MI. 5850even, WRMI TOM BS roarer in English, old record or poor web feeder audio quality? 2349 UT S=9+15 or -61dBm in Michigan remote SDR 5950even, WRMI tiny signal, JBA under threshold level S=4-5 or -89dBm signal at 2350 Aug 10. some music / singer traced - hard to tell any detail [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 10, WOR iog via DXLD) 9395, UT Sun Aug 11 at 0130, I remember to check WRMI for the Mason Vye show which started a week before at 0100-0200, and supposed to be fortnightly; but what would WRMI program alternate weeks interveningly? Suspected would just play back first Vye show, and indeed they do. But first as I tune in, the Radio Tirana IS, as should be heard here like five other days of week; but instead of RT programming, 0131 cut to unID rock music. Poor reception on the ATS-909 by the computer and TVs, but check again at 0142, guy is giving a Canadian postal code ending in 1A0, and a .ca address. 0159, ID for WQNA Springfield, and then the full Ontario address ending with N0N 1A0 fonetikaly; before 0200 switching to Radio Prague IS and English [WORLD OF RADIO 1995] Mason Vye had notified me earlier: ``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)`` I missed the first one, but saw him already on the WRMI sked grid with his name as the program title. Too bad this bump off Radio Tirana, but they never asked to be on WRMI anyway, and are already pre-empted on UT Thursdays for `This Is A Music Show`. Then August 9, he writes me again: ``WQNA FM is ending after 40 years in Springfield, Illinois. The Capital Area Career Center has put the station up for sale due to rising operating costs and declining student enrollment in the Radio-TV program. Until a buyer is found, WQNA will continue to operate with its volunteer staff. Regards, Mason Vye`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1995, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Monitored WRMI Sunday Evening / Monday Morning (UT) 7780 kHz Schedule --- From my recording last Sunday evening, 11-12 August UT (again, mostly weak to fair signal for the first hour or so; reception improved significantly later as evening approaches): 2015 Viva Miami (Jeff White reading James Careless's recent article "The Internet's Impact on International Radio") 2030 Reserve Military Retirement 2100 Wavescan (#546) 2130 World of Radio (#1994; again, last sentences cut off by transition music) 2200 Voice of the Report of the Week (not Bob Biermann's Your Weekend Show) 2300 Full Gospel Broadcast 2330 Shortwave Radiogram (#112) 0000 Radio Slovakia International in Slovak 0030 Radio Slovakia International in English 0100 Wavescan (#546) 0130 World of Radio (#1994) 0200 Radio Prague in English 0230 World of Radio (#1994) 0300 Sign-off (-- Richard Langley, NB, Aug 12, WOR iog via DXLD) 7570, Aug 13 at 1243, SMTV via WRMI, S9+10/20 Chinese drama, or is it Cantonese; announcement at 1249 sounds more like Vietnamese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ BCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ: ** U S A. 7490, August 5 at 2149. WBCQ with "The Remnant Ministry," one of the crazy Virginia-based "Yah Wuh" phone patch guys (not the angry, pretentious one who's on WWCR on Sunday at 1900 on 12160). Unfortunately the audio is spotty as if the internet feed is having trouble keeping up. Very surprised to hear this content also on 9330 with about the same signal strength and quality. Allan Weiner tells me that he was testing one of the lower power backup transmitters into the rhombic antenna at the classic WBCQ facility at that time (Larry Will, HF DX logs from Lost River State Park, Mathias, West Virginia, August 5-8, 2019, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5130, August 5 [UT Mon] at 0105. WBCQ with Area 51 programming, "American Debauchery" show with rock music. Fair to good signal, 38 dBu, good audio. 5130, August 7 [UT Wed] at 0100. WBCQ with very boring political talk show. Fair to good signal on 5130, parallel on 7490 with a much better signal (Larry Will, HF DX logs from Lost River State Park, Mathias, West Virginia, August 5-8, 2019, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) That time on 5130v only used to be a ham show of W5KUB? (gh) (7490), Aug 10 at 0054, I tune in WBCQ webcast toward the end of `AAAWWW` when he usually gets down to business with info about the Superstation, etc. He`s already talking about it with a caller, so I did not get it all, just: the power supply modules in the modulator keep popping off; it`s a design issue which has been there since installation. When it runs, it runs beautifully. Need spare modules; in fact, NO spare parts have been supplied tho he has been asking for them for months! This manufacturer [Continental] is not like RCA or Gates which used to be eager to help. Nobody cares any more. Also says they have ``lost the prime manufacturer of antenna`` --- what?? Ampegon? I am not sure this be relevant, but searching on Ampegon bankruptcy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transradio Ampegon took over Transradio a couple years ago. Transradio was successor to Telefunken. Allan says he is confident things will work out in the end. But could the superstation become a white elephant? Who would be left holding the bag, World`s Last Chance, or WBCQ? Call from John, the VORW, says he is hearing WBCQ on both 6160 and 9330 now. Just in time for this report, here`s John Carver`s summary: ``Tonight's show started on time on 7490. Allan and Angela in the studio. Allan is feeling used and abused this evening. A rambling dialog trying to illustrate his disgust with things. First phone call at 0015 from Freddie. Mr. Mike calls at 0026 with information of two upcoming hamfests. Allan says they're still having problems getting the antenna adjusted. Says the company has gone bankrupt and they can't get manuals, blueprints, tech information or spare parts. Said it's difficult to program the antenna for all the frequency changes without a manual. He says that there are also problems with the power modules on the new transmitter and the company is dragging its feet getting back to them with information or new parts. Allan blames the problems on everything on the antenna and transmitter being controlled by computers and not having access to programming info. The German company that bought out part of the antenna company will not honor the warranty on the antenna so the station has to pay for any assistance and at the moment they're not getting any assistance. Allan says that 7490 is running on very low power, as something in the transmitter melted about 3 this afternoon and he can't tear into it till tomorrow. Phone call at 0045. Caller says he is an engineer and is working on a new shortwave station and has been affected by the recent bankruptcy and was trying to pump Allan for information about it. He stated that the new station was still in the future and he didn't feel comfortable releasing any information about it. Reading of emails at 0057. Allan also mentioned that they had set another transmitter to broadcast on 9330 and were using it from time to time but no details on when or what. Closing prayer at 0102. Show was off the air at 0108 and 7490 went into Brother Stair in progress. John, Mid-North Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1995, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, Ampegon. I was shocked when I heard it. Allan also said that once they worked something out with the antenna people that the station would have to pay their airfare to this country and pay for their lodging while they were here (John Carver, Aug 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6159.859, much odd fq TOM BS sermon heard likely via WBCQ old tx unit. "Jesus Christ is Coming, to my house", at 2354 UT, 20% noise level on daylight path S=8 or -73dBm signal strength [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 10, WOR iog via DXLD) Super station update: https://twitter.com/allanwbcq?lang=en Allan Weiner‏ @AllanWBCQ 5h5 hours ago Allan&Angela Worldwide tonight. Live from master control in Monticello Maine. The end of nowhere beaming to somewhere. Listen. Call in. Tune in first on 3265/5130/6160/7490/9330khz. Reports and comments to wbcq@wbcq.com. Call in at 207-538-9180. It’s your free speech. Transceiver Allan Weiner ‏ @AllanWBCQ Aug 15 Testing the superstation last night. Still at it constructing. Working on the great antenna. Putting in more air conditioning. So many things to do. And wow-does the electric cost a bundle. Back on air full time soon. Classic WBCQ on 7490/5130. Always here for you. The trailer (Allan Weiner twits, via Artie Bigley, DXLD) OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHER OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW: ** U S A. 15555-USB, Aug 9 at 1357, gospel huxter is readable in English at S3-S4. WJHR, Milton FL is so rarely audible that it needs to be logged for the record. Is it sporadic on air, or sporadically propagating with its paltry incredible 250 watts, run at 1 kW PEP, per WRTH rather than the legal minimum of 50 kW for FCC-licensed SWBC stations? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15550-USB, Aug 14 at 1425, JBA gospel music, 1427 gospel huxter, piano hymn, alternating talk and hymns past 1435, as WJHR has jumped again from 15555-USB. IIRC 15550 was its original frequency when first on the air; has occasionally resumed it for no discernible reason --- in fact, counterproductive as 15555 has been clear of other broadcasters during WJHR`s 14-22 span, while 15550 is not. Notably Radio Dabanga via Vatican at 1529-1557. At 1808 still a trace of it on 15550-USB. As recently as August 9 I had WJHR on 15555-USB when it was on the air early at 1357. Also checked August 15 at 1408, JBA on 15550-USB. At 1529 I do hear Dabanga/Vatican JBA carrier but not WJHR here nor on 15555. Aoki/NDXC already shows WJHR on 15550 only, while EiBi and HFCC show 15555 only (Dabanga`s other frequency at 1529 is 13745 via France per Ivo) (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1995, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15550, WJHR, Milton FL (presumed); 1426, 8/15; English religihuxter on the attributes of God in the Bible; “If you depend on men, men will deceive you.” SIO=354, USB; back on 15550 after being on 15555 the past few years (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time. ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5830, August 6 at 0015. WTWW. Really disgusting programming, an awful hate-filled, foaming at the mouth, racist screed masquerading as evangelical christianity. 50 dBU, good (Larry Will, HF DX logs from Lost River State Park, Mathias, West Virginia, August 5-8, 2019, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1995, DX LISTENING DIGEST) SFAW, of course 9475, August 6 at 1502. WTWW with Pastor Pete Peters, very low modulation, 42 dBu, good. 9475, August 6 at 1742. WTWW with Pastor Pete Peters, very low modulation, 46 dBu, good. 9475, August 6 at 1915. WTWW with Pastor Pete Peters, very low modulation, 47 dBu, het from CRI on 9480 (Larry Will, HF DX logs from Lost River State Park, Mathias, West Virginia, August 5-8, 2019, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5829.987, WTWW English presenter in action, S=9+30dB signal noted in Detroit at 0550 UT. Log of Aug 9th remote SDR unit access,[selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 9, WOR iog via DXLD) 9475 & 5830, Aug 13 at 2211 check, WTWW-1 is AWOL from both possible frequencies. 5830, Aug 15 at 0627, WTWW-1 is off, and not heard on 9475 either; lower propagation is OK from neighbor 5935 WWCR. Circa 1630 check, 9475 is off, and not heard on 5830 either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9265, WINB Red Lion PA (presumed); 2104-2129+, 8/6; Unique Radio, “Music of Your Life” with glam & lite rock & disco tunes; UR/WINB spots @2123+ & 2127+; 2128:55 WINB ID, right into “Evergreen Bible Baptist Church broadcast”, huxtercast. S10 peaks (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time. ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. Shortwave Radiogram, 8-11 August 2019 Here is the lineup for Shortwave Radiogram, program 112, 8-11 August 2019, in MFSK modes as noted: 1:47 MFSK32: Program preview 2:57 Czech restaurant’s 50-crown fine for not clearing plate 6:34 MFSK64: Radio waves from dead planets* 10:40 How the 5 riskiest U.S. cities are preparing for floods* 15:23 This week’s images* 27:18 MFSK32: Closing announcements L'articolo Shortwave Radiogram, 8-11 August 2019 proviene da Bclnews. https://www.bclnews.it/2019/08/09/shortwave-radiogram-8-11-august-2019/ Hier ist die komplette HTML für KBC, SWRG und TIAMS: Here is the complete HTML for KBC, SWRG and TIAMS: http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/SW_Radiogram_2019-08-10.htm Ansonsten eine Schnell-Übersicht zu diesbezüglichen Aktivitäten (in den letzten 6 Jahren) hier: Otherwise, a quick overview of related activities (in the last 6 years) here: http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/radiogram.htm (für eine derartige "Archiv-Recherche" über Jahre hinweg sind Twitter, facebook & Co. völlig untauglich) (For such "archive research" over the years, Twitter, facebook & Co. are completely unfit) ===> TIAMS: ♫♥ https://youtu.be/RqnOCX6MovU (roger, WOR iog via DXLD) ** U S A. 5050, August 5 [UT Mon] at 0104. WWRB. Distorted, awful sounding horn music, into preacher with poor quality phone patch audio. Gave address of Riegelwood NC. Good signal, 42 dBu (Larry Will, HF DX logs from Lost River State Park, Mathias, West Virginia, August 5-8, 2019, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5049.988, likely WWRB station Morrison TN USA - according to fq list, S=9+25dB or -51 dBm proper signal at 2338 UT on Aug 10. Talk on Columbia Film, "Letter from America", earthcake [?] in Taiwan and China, Russian Siberia Tundra fires. Global Warming theme also. (terrible many theme mixture - for my brain).! 19 kHz wideband signal [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 10, WOR iog via DXLD) ** U S A. 6115, August 5 at 2301. WWCR with "A Voice in the Wilderness," accordion theme song, then dead air for several minutes. Wake up, Brother Joe! 55dBu, excellent signal. 12160, August 7 at 1503. WWCR, weirdo news and pretentious faux christian talk. Right wing screed lamenting "the death of common sense". Melody the god [gold?] bug joins the conversation by phone, "a little late" because of "technical issues". 55 dBu, best signal on the band at this time. 13845, August 8 at 1322. WWCR with strange paranoid talk by a mentally disturbed person. 39 dBu, poor (Larry Will, HF DX logs from Lost River State Park, Mathias, West Virginia, August 5-8, 2019, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WPSK 505 Banning --- Endless loop: "This highway advisory radio is operated by CalTran on AM 620. This is WPSK 505 Banning." * or something phonetically similar. YL announcer. Heard in Beaumont CA perhaps 10 miles away. 73 de (Joe Miller, KJ8O, 2024 UT Aug 12, ABDX yg via DXLD) Maybe, but IRCA TIS list of 2018 http://www.ircaonline.org/editor_upload/File/TIS_2018.pdf shows there are four with the correct call WPFK505 on 620 in CA, your nearest one being in Beaumont itself, at the junxion of SR 60 where it encounters I-10, east of Riverside on the way to Palm Springs: ``620 WPFK505 CA Beaumont Riverside State of California (HAR I-10 and SR 60) [reported silent] 33.932528 116.989194 04/18/25 FCC off 06/18`` If this one is really off, maybe moved to Banning in past year. The others are on other routes in Corona, and Murrieta, Riverside County; San Bernardino, San Bernardino. And there are six more 620s in other parts of S California; many reported to be silent like this one (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) There used to be 6 of them, all around the traffic hot spots in the Inland Empire. A few years ago, the Ontario Airport TIS (situated almost in the middle of these 6 stations) moved from 770 to 620, and their signal now covers almost all of the combined area these HAR stations used to cover. To make matters worse, the Ontario Airport TIS uses a lot of music (illegal for a TIS?) which makes the interference to any other nearby stations that much worse. The signs for the original 6 HAR stations are still up, but most have not been heard in many years. 73 (Tim Hall, ABDX yg via DXLD) Thanks, Tim and Glenn, I heard this loop about 15 times but was unsure if an "F" or an "S" in the call sign. Location heard was Beaumont. Can not hear any of them from home as there are some large mountains in the way. Makes me wonder if this was a test from a new location. I'll keep on radar when I go that way again. 73 de (Joe, ibid.) ** U S A. NOT AGAIN, BOISE! YOUR FAVORITE RADIO STATION ON AM DIAL? https://www.idahostatesman.com/entertainment/ent-columns-blogs/words-deeds/article233366277.html Guess what? AM is not dead yet (Kevin, Crump, TN, Redding, Aug 9, ABDX yg via DXLD) KBOI 670 ** U S A. NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO NAMES A NEW LEADER, GOLI SHEIKHOLESLAMI Image Goli Sheikholeslami, who has led Chicago Public Media, will be New York Public Radio's next chief executive. Credit Chicago Public Media By Ben Sisario * Aug 14, 2019 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/business/media/new-york-public-radio-ceo.html The last time the New York public radio station WNYC had a new boss, in 1995, Rudolph W. Giuliani was mayor, and the station had an audience of about one million listeners a month and an operating budget of $8 million. Since then, WNYC's parent organization, New York Public Radio, has grown into a public media powerhouse, with a budget of $97 million, nationally syndicated radio programs and dozens of podcasts, including hits like "2 Dope Queens" and "Trump, Inc." The organization says that it attracts 24 million people across its various broadcast and online properties. And for the first time in nearly a quarter-century, New York Public Radio has a new leader. The nonprofit group announced on Wednesday that its new chief executive would be Goli Sheikholeslami, who has led Chicago Public Media, which owns the radio station WBEZ, since 2014, and is a former executive at The Washington Post and Conde Nast. She will start her position in New York in October. When asked about her plans, Ms. Sheikholeslami said in a statement, "New York Public Radio has been a pioneer in building new platforms and connecting with listeners around the world, and there is so much more we can do, even as we continue to deepen our local coverage and focus on telling the New York story across every community." Image: Laura R. Walker stepped down as New York Public Radio's chief executive after leading the organization for 24 years. Credit Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images New York Public Radio's portfolio includes WNYC; the classical music station WQXR; New Jersey Public Radio, a group of four stations; WNYC Studios, a podcast division; and the New York news site Gothamist. Among its best known radio programs are "Radiolab" and "On the Media." Ms. Sheikholeslami succeeds Laura R. Walker, who led the organization for nearly 24 years. During that time, Ms. Walker transformed WNYC into a major power in public media but left after accusations of harassment and discrimination by hosts raised doubts about her leadership. John Hockenberry, the host of the show "The Takeaway," left the station in 2017; months later, he was accused of harassing employees and even one guest. Two other longtime hosts, Leonard Lopate and Jonathan Schwartz, were dismissed after unspecified allegations of inappropriate behavior. Both men denied any misconduct. An investigation last year, commissioned by the board of New York Public Radio and carried out by the law firm Proskauer Rose, found examples of offensive and bullying behavior at the organization but said that it was not "systemic." Ms. Walker, who earned more than $1 million a year in salary and benefits, according to New York Public Radio's most recently disclosed financial statements, announced her departure in December, telling employees in a memo, "It's no secret that this past year has been stressful for the organization." She stepped down in March. Mayo Stuntz, the chairman of New York Public Radio's board of trustees, praised the company's new leader, Ms. Sheikholeslami, for "helping some of the country's most venerable media companies create new content, reach broader audiences and identify new revenue streams -- all while staying true to their core missions." A version of this article appears in print on , Section B, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: Public Radio In New York Announces New Leader (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) 820 = WNYC [AM] Wondering about the ethnicity of her unusual surname? Persian (gh) ** U S A. 830, KFLT AZ Tucson – Call change to KDRI (July 31). 830, WFNO LA Norco – Call change to KGLA (Aug. 1). 1540, KGLA LA Gretna – Call change to WFNO (Aug. 1). (AM Switch, NRC E-DX News AUG 23, published Aug 13, via DXLD) i.e. the 830 and 1540 in Louisiana have swapped, both Spanish (gh) 830 KGLA LA Norco – Format to SS:Tropical (ex-SS:CHR); slogan to "Radio Tropical 105.7,” adds // K289AM-105.7; delete // K248BB-97.5. 1540 WFNO LA Gretna – Format to SS:CHR (ex-SS:AC); slogan to "Latino Mix 97.5." (AM Log updates, NRC E-DX News Aug 23, published Aug 13, via WORLD OF RADIO 1995, DXLD) ** U S A. [Re 19-32:] Mike Sanburn also sends along the following via Radioink.com dated 8/7/19: 'Looks like the old KFLT in Tucson AZ has become KDRI //FM. 'Haven't really spotted an official website for them yet. https://radioink.com/2019/08/05/kdri-launches-in-tucson/ KDRI Launches In Tucson, By Radio Ink – August 5 2019 Legendary radio personality Bobby Rich, Tucson TV and Radio GM Jim Arnold and Tucson business owner Fletcher McCusker have joined forces to launch a new locally owned-and-operated radio station called The DRIVE Tucson on KDRI AM and FM. The trio acquired the stations from Family Life Radio and converted it to The DRIVE with an original format of music and local, live personalities. The name of the new company is Radio Tucson with McCusker as Chairman of the Board, Rich is the President, Arnold is Partner and General Manager. Rich said, “This is a dream come true for all of us,” said Rich, a 25-year Tucson talent/PD who anchored the top-rated morning show on KMXZ since 1993, “a chance to select our own music, manage content that matters to Tucson and have fun making great radio without corporate oversight.” “KDRI-AM830 carries from the Mexican border to Phoenix,” McCusker continues, “The DRIVE 101.7-FM signal can be heard all over Tucson, so we will provide frequent road reports and local information. The music will be familiar without playing the same 40 songs over and over.” The previous format was Christian. Every Jock comes with Tucson Cred. Partnering with Bobby Rich in mornings is Hill Bailey, a Tucsonan since 1987 with gigs in Colorado and California; Middays Ken Carr, in Tucson radio and TV since 2001 as a PD and jock; Afternoons, Mike Esparza, a 30-year pro who started his career in Tucson returns after years of San Diego success as “The Mikey Show”; Nights Tyler Russell, born and raised in Tucson, started his career as an intern for Bobby Rich and later Los Angeles, Palm Springs and Laguna Beach CA (IRCA DX Monitor Aug 17, published Aug 14, via DXLD) 830, KDRI AZ, Tucson 8/7 0900 [EDT = 1300 UT] new callsign and a format flip, formerly Family Life Radio (religious programming). Checking the frequency before the hour, only distant stations heard way out in the mud until they came on at the top. Frequent IDs as “KDRI The Drive.” A lot of hit songs from the 1980s such as “Sarah” by Jefferson Starship, “Chevy Van”/Sammy Johns. Old school presenter in the style many of us grew up with back in the day. After “The Tide Is High” announcer Bobby Rich talked about the staff at the station being Tucson people, with deep Tucson roots. “We’re a new station, Day 3.” (Rick Barton, 9444 W Newport, Sun City AZ 85351, RF-2200, SW-2000629 barefoot, Terk Advantage loop, Satellit 205/T5000, IRCA DX Monitor Aug 17, published Aug 14, via DXLD) ** U S A. [930] KHJ, L.A.’s Coolest AM Radio Station, Is Basically a Background Actor in “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” Did you notice the authentic airchecks and classic DJs throughout Tarantino’s latest film? By Alison Martino - July 29, 2019 Before the digital age, there was AM radio and disc jockeys who broke the hits on stations like KHJ. In director Quentin Tarantino’s new film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, not only do the sets, wardrobe, and street transformations create an authentic setting, so does the music. We are treated to Roy Head & the Traits, the Mamas & the Papas, Neil Diamond, Deep Purple, Vanilla Fudge, and Paul Revere and the Raiders, among others. And yet Tarantino takes it a step even further. The film is an homage to Los Angeles in 1969, and features radio station KHJ, also known as Boss Radio, which created a format that changed the sound and content of pop radio in the ’60s. Tarantino and his longtime music supervisor, Mary Ramos, listened through 14 hours of original KHJ airchecks from 1969 to set the perfect tone…and the result is…well, a bit emotional. On the film’s opening night, I was lucky enough to attend a screening at Tarantino’s own New Beverly Cinema. As the enthusiastic crowd waited for the movie to start, some of those airchecks played on the loud speaker. (For those raised firmly in the era of iPods and music streaming, airchecks are breaks between songs when DJs remind you what station you’re listening to, which songs you’re about to hear, and which ones you’ve already heard.). . . https://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/khj-radio-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood/ Enjoy, (via Kevin, Crump, TN, Redding, Aug 9, ABDX yg via DXLD) That is not correct: AIRCHECK means a recording of a portion of a broadcast for whatever reason, not necessarily the announcements between tunes. Often used by DJs to show off in applying for a new job. Note the cool promo design à la an old TV test pattern. BTW, that KHJ is long gone, except possibly on FM in Samoa American. The 930 KHJ in LA now is Immaculate Heart Radio (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. Four reported "power/pattern cheaters" reported last now behaving good again. --- Last week I sent a tad "snarky" report about the following four stations very-much evidently "power/pattern cheating" with quite strong signals here by night, but now (as of 0400 on 08 August): 1170 KLOK is now inaudible again after their local sunset power-reduction, as is normal, in comparison to most of the latter-half of July and early August when they were very strong all-night and badly-creaming 1160 KSL with their (otherwise) neat-sounding South Asian/Indian programing and very upbeat announcer-tone (I like to listen to them at sunset skip here in eastern CA). Additionally, the THREE Immaculate Heart Radio (conservative/Evangelical Catholic) outlets in California I reported: 1000 KCEO Vista, CA 1050 KJPG Frazier Park/Bakersfield, CA 1200 KYAA Soquel (Santa Cruz), CA are now inaudible or near-inaudible now post-sunset once again, in comparison to quite big signals way past local evening-darkness in July and early August. This indicates they are "behaving" in an FCC-legal mode again and are not QRMing other properly-operating AM stations on the above frequencies. I DO admit I was a tad snarky about IHR, when in-fact, actually, I do appreciate some of their programs, particularly one last evening regarding violent video games (since ~ year 2000 onwards) and a prevalence for violence in certain "susceptible people" as heard at 0230, until 1050 KJPG's power-cut at 0245z - 08 August (I can receive 1050 KJPG fine by daytime here and they are in the top-10 of the most strong semi-locals here by day). As such I wish to apologise to IHR and other possible IHR listeners here at WOR/DXLD. I just felt annoyed at the IHR-affiliate alleged power-cheating going on that vastly contributes to AM band-cram here, but I guess somebody (a CE?) read my post and let them know to "behave well" once again... ;-) I also, however, remain very critical of the FCC for allowing such horrid band-cram today that, in conjunction with switching power-supplies and other AM/MW band-causing QRM devices (plus the usual ones prevalent in the 70s save for awful CRT-TVI)-- all of that creates a vast-reduction of a given station's nighttime coverage these days, compared to the pre "WARC-79 clear-channel-kill year" (noted actually beginning about late 1982 with 880 KIXI Mercer Island, WA (NSP) ruining the once very lovely and formerly wide-open 880 and 882 channels at Point Reyes Beverage DXpeditions (etc.) I once enjoyed long-ago), etc./etc.. Oh well, someday it all will dwindle down to "sane" levels once again methinks, and a new crop of DXers will enjoy what we experienced ones did back then. 73 - (Steve McGreevy -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com 0015 UT Aug 9, WOR iog via DXLD) ** U S A. Application to modify previously granted CP filed: 1090 KEMR NM Milan – Has CP for D1 1000, moving to 1080 kHz and Moriarty NM; applies to modify the CP to D1 400, still on 1080 and at Moriarty, but at different site at 35-00-32/05-54-59. [sic; longitude must be 105-54-59, which is just east of Moriarty, on I-40 east of Albuquerque, a long way from Milan next to Grants, much further to the west --- gh] 1020 KCKN NM Roswell – Granted STA extension, U4? 1000/1000. 1310 KKNS NM Corrales – Granted STA extension, parameters at variance/reduced power. (AM Switch, NRC E-DX News AUG 23, published Aug 13, via DXLD) ** U S A. 1160, Aug 9 at 0241 UT, further chex of KSL SLC, which has been unusually weak lately: now it`s sufficient, but a SAH of 156/minute = 2.6 Hz, on the R75; rather different on the DX-398, easily nulling KSL increasing QRM from music, Spanish. At 0317 the QRM is worse, Spanish music overcoming at times. Nothing from UT to compare it with, but 850 KOA Denver is also poor, when it could/should be good. I hear from people at KSL that things seem OK there, running full 50 kW from the Nautel, but they are looking into it. 1160, Aug 13 at 0540 UT, now that my local line noise is off, I can tell that KSL SLC is still running IBOC noise, peaking below KSAL around 1147 and above KFAQ about 1173. Nothing further from KSL about its weakened(?) signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1210, Aug 12 at 0625 UT, I`m still trying to reconfirm WJNL, Kingsley MI, 50 kW daytimer cheater, but still suffering from local high line noise level, especially when aimed N/S with KGYN to the west nulled as much as possible -- but I do have a clew, heavy SAH at the rate of 164/minute or 2.73 Hz, close to the rate < 3 Hz previously measured between KGYN and WJNL. 1210, Aug 13 at 0529 UT, in the meantime the noise level has cleared up after some rain --- washing off insulators/contacts on the powerline? Now with KGYN silly sports talk nulled, I hear another talkshow in English; presumably Beyond Reality Radio on WJNL. Again with a SAH of almost 3 Hz, but growing CCI from something in Spanish, talk and music. Strongly suspect the RGV station which can`t be avoided as long as I am nulling KGYN; now the SAH is 160/minute = 2.67 Hz, but seems to be between the two stations other than KGYN. At 0543 the SS breaks to plug some ``worship centers`` in Brownsville and McAllen, so that`s it: KUBR San Juan, U4 10/5 kW, studio address in McAllen (and sibling to the 890 station KVOZ) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1480, Aug 9 at 1306 UT, ``Good Morning Sunshine`` song is finishing, English named in outro, then W&M light-hearted Vietnamese chat, from KNGO Dallas, ex-KBXD, but I`ve yet to hear the new ID since it changed a few months ago. Initially atop KQAM Wichita, but skywave is dying down less than a sesquihour after sunrise, and soon losing to KQAM English talker by groundwave (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Glenn, local Borger, Texas AM to go dark https://www.borgernewsherald.com/content/local-am-radio-station-go-dark-aug-16 Local AM radio station to go dark on Aug. 16 | The Borger News-Herald http://www.borgernewsherald.com (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) Viz.: 106.7 KQTY (photo by Cynthia Reyes) By: TIM HOWSARE Editor Monday, August 12, 2019 [what an interesting name --- gh] BORGER, TX --- Most programming will move to FM 106.7 KQTY while George Grover will stay as station manager After a little over 72 years of operation, News-Talk AM 1490 KQTY will cease daily on-air operations at 10 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 16. In a Facebook post, station manager George Grover said he received a directive last week from Zia Broadcasting Company Inc. of Clovis, New Mexico, which owns the AM station. KQTY first signed on the air as KHUZ on Jan. 8, 1947. Hutchinson County and the cities of Borger, Fritch, Sanford and Stinnett will not be left without a commercial radio station, as FM 106.7 KQTY will continue operating, playing Real Country Music 24 hours a day, seven days a week with local news, sports and weather coverage, Grover said in the post. Grover said FM 106.7 KQTY is a 6,000-watt station with a 60-mile radius. Grover will continue managing the station and also continue as the morning show host from 6 to 9 a.m., and from 9 to 10 a.m. the classifieds on weekdays. [CDT = UT -5, even tho Borger should be in the UT -7 zone!] Grover also will do the play-by-play for Borger High School sports with football, boys and girls basketball, baseball and softball coverage throughout the school year. Jerry Smith's “Sunday Morning Singing” program will be heard Sundays from 6 to 10:35 a.m. playing Southern Gospel music. Steve Hoyl's Sunday morning “Retire Texas Show” will move from 9 to 9:30 a.m. on News-Talk AM 1490 KQTY to FM 106.7 KQTY from 11 to 11:30 a.m. Kix Brook's American Country Countdown will broadcast on Sundays from noon to 4 p.m. "Although we're losing the AM side of the operation, we still have FM 106.7 KQTY to do what we've been doing ever since I came to work for the station in 1986,” Grover said. Over the past few decades, AM radio stations have been closing down across the country as FM radio has taken over the airways. According to the web electronicdesign.com, only 10 to 20% of all radio listeners listen to AM, and that depends upon the locale. It may be less that 10% in some places. If stations can’t get listeners, they cannot get the advertising that keeps them alive, the blog states. Most of the listeners moved on to FM or other radio sources. These other sources include satellite and Internet radio, along with things like iPods or smartphones loaded with songs and podcasts. Satellite radio is now in most vehicles, the blog states. The Public Broadcasting System [sic] (PBS) website states that FM signals have a great advantage over AM stations. While both signals are susceptible to slight changes in amplitude, with an AM broadcast these changes result in static. With an FM broadcast, slight changes in amplitude don't matter since the audio signal is conveyed through changes in frequency, so the FM receiver can just ignore changes in amplitude. The result is no static at all (via DXLD) ** U S A. DX Tip: KQSC 1530 Colorado Springs --- Unless this is really really reallllllllly good propagation, Mountain Country KQSC didn't power down from 15 kW to 15 W. Some real deep fades but pretty strong (Paul, Laramie WY, B. Walker, Jr., 0236 UT Aug 13, nrc-am gg via DXLD) Still chugging along 4 hours later, will be on all night, I gather, then. Log KQSC while you can (Paul, 0620 UT, ibid.) I woke up at 4:30 am Mountain [MDT = 1030 UT], checked my radio and KQSC appeared to be off the air (Paul, Aug 13, ibid.) KQSC tells me it's only been running 2500 Watts for the last week as they work on the transmitter because it can`t make the full 15,000 Watts (Paul Walker, ibid.) ** U S A. 1560, Aug 13 at 0545 UT, Vietnamese talk is VG dominating the channel, as KGOW Bellaire/Houston TX must still be on STA allowing bigsig to the north rather than the Gulf of Mexico. Checking this because the night before, Paul Walker in WY tipped that KGOW was relaying VOA: ``At 11 pm each night, they carry 1 hour of programming from the Voice Of America. The first 26 minutes is in Vietnamese followed by some local spots/announcements then they run a VOA program in Japanese. The programs always begin and end with an announcement in English saying "this is the Voice of America" and mentions the language. There are some VOA references during the broadcast and I've heard English language VOA jingles in the broadcast. Paul`` Timezone??? Probably his local MDT = UT -6, but this sure is not Japanese, nor has VOA had a JJ service for decades. A single half hour at 2130 UT, as I recall, lingered a while before VOA decided there was no point in talking to a friendly country even if SWLing was a fad. A check of https://www.voanews.com clicking on ENG to get a language list, confirms Japanese is still not among them even on the web (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Tip: KGOW 1560 Houston, TX --- I just had the opportunity to listen to KGOW-1560. I tuned in just after the TOH (11:06 PM CDT), so I missed any IDs that would have been there. As Paul has reported, KGOW does indeed broadcast a program produced in Chinese [sic] by the VOA. I heard a definite “VOA” ID in Chinese around 11:29 PM CDT followed by the continuation of the program that began at the TOH. About every 3-4 minutes during the program the announcers pause for a musical “break” - a three note melody consisting of three ascending chords. Even though I’m in southeast Houston, KGOW’s signal tonight is weak and fluttering. It doesn’t sound like I thought it would based on their posted nighttime pattern. I’m using my CC SW Pocket radio tonight. It doesn’t have the AM bandwidth selection options that my CC Pocket or my CC Skywave radios do. Maybe a tighter bandwidth would have solved some of the reception problems. Hey! Just heard a good ID at 11:55 PM CDT … “This program has come to you from the Voice of America in Washington.” So, that’s a wrap!! If you need Harris County in Texas, or if you need Texas itself, this is a neat way to make sure you’ve got the right station. At night, KGOW throws most of their signal into the Gulf of México. Grab it if you can! 73 and Good DX, (Steve Ponder, N5WBI, Houston, TX, USA, Aug 14, nrc-am gg via DXLD) The legal ID is something like “you’re listening to Việt Radio 1560 AM KGOW Bellaire, Houston”; I’ve heard it a lot better here then you think I would! (Paul Walker, WY, ibid.) My mentions of time zone for KGOW was 11 pm central, as in the time zone KGOW is in. My apologies for omitting that/not making it clear. As for getting the language wrong, it’s not like the KGOW signal is great and of course it faded as the announcement is made. I thought it sounded like Japanese, but I was obviously wrong. That being said, it’s an hour of VOA programs at 11pm central. Two different 30 minute programs (Paul Walker, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Website is http://vietradio.com Partly in English. Vietnamese audio autolaunches whether you want it or not. Also has incomplete program schedule, of course not including the 11 pm hour we are concerned with. I do see a couple of other programs of potential interest, since they are illustrated by a piano quintet (piano plus string quartet), with the same major title, but a different subtitle on the second: Mon 3-3:30 pm [2000-2030 UT] (Nhac Thính Phòng [twice] --- which means CHAMBER MUSIC! [there is also a dot under a of Nhac] Thu 7-8 pm [00-01 UT Fri] Nhac Thính Phòng -- Tình Hát [Love song] (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1995, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Monitored on webcast: It`s NOT chamber music (gh) ** U S A. Dennis Gibson of Salinas CA passes on the following re KLIV-1590 San Jose CA status dated 7/22/19: It went silent on January 28. It has until January 29 2020 to return to the air or the license will expire. Almost six months later there hasn't been an application for a construction permit to move to a new site. It will be sharing towers with another station. I’ve been told that isn’t very difficult. My guess is that efforts to donate the license to the City of San Jose or Santa Clara University have been unsuccessful. Whoever the license is donated to will have to build a new studio. I don’t know if the existing studio equipment is part of the donation. In either case it isn’t cheap. What would the new licensee do for programming 24 hours a day? Operating it would be expensive but could be less if students or volunteers do it part time. A paid general manager would be needed. The power bill would be high. The other station will charge a monthly lease. Santa Clara University has an FM station but it only runs 30 watts ERP and the antenna height is below average terrain. The FCC city grade contour map shows that it doesn’t get out very far. Here’s radio-locator’s predicted coverage area. https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=KSCU&service=FM KLIV would cover a much larger area. Simulcasting is legal. I’m not optimistic that either one will accept a donation. I hope I’m wrong (IRCA DX Monitor Aug 17, published Aug 14, via DXLD) ** U S A. WPTX Radio 1690 kHz (MW X Band-DX) Maryland USA Músicas. Checado com: https://www.elasticplayer.xyz/wptx/ 0925 UT 15 Agosto 2019 https://youtu.be/vth2bYbfILk Receptor: Grundig Satellit 800 Millennium Antena: DS Antenas SWL Dipolo Assimétrica + Balun (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT, Brasil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** U S A. Advice: FCC Enforcement Bureau actions are almost entirely responsive. That is, they take action on complaints of interference from the public, so for them to take action there has to be a complaint. They apparently get lots of complaints from the "tin-hat"/ "the sky is falling" community, so they sort them for sensibility, and they do take action for the real ones. And the FCC releases show that: every week there are actions against FM pirates and LPFMs particularly. And you do see the occasional ones for broadcast stations not operating with their licensed facilities, such as the recent case regarding WAJD. But there has to be a legitimate complaint to produce an enforcement action! So if there is an AM station not reducing power or changing pattern at sunset, document it carefully, and describe how it causes interference to some other station. File that complaint using the FCC's website: https://www.fcc.gov/enforcement/orders/1846 (via Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1995, DXLD) ** U S A. UNLICENSED RADIO IS ALIVE! Heard at Waters Edge, Fleeton, VA on July 28 @ 0000utc: http://realmonitor.com/we11/190728/0000/unID-1630.wav http://realmonitor.com/we11/190728/0000/unID-1710.wav Announcing WPEX on 90.9 which appears to be a licensed FM station in Blackstone, VA, part of the Southside Radio Network. Neither 1630 nor 1710 appear to be ‘licensed’ stations. Whatever. They seemed to be having fun (Bill Whitacre, Alexandria, VA, Aug 12, nrc-am gg via WORLD OF RADIO 1995, DXLD) ** U S A. == FM == [pirates] 90.3, Ballanger Creek area in Frederick, Maryland. Nonstop 60s/70s/80s pop/rock with full quiet between songs. They seem to have updated their playlist lately as the mix seems to be trending towards more 80s music, and much less on the pre-1965 pop/rock fare. 98.1, Buckeystown area in Frederick, Maryland. The carpet cleaning business with two commercials in a loop and scratchy, buzzy audio is still there after first noted a couple of months ago. Decent signal on I-70 south of the city of Frederick (Larry Will, Mount Airy, Maryland and Mathias, West Virginia, Free Radio Weekly via WORLD OF RADIO 1995, DXLD) ** U S A. 101.1, W266BU Mt. Pleasant MI (CMU campus xmtr); 12:10-12:53+PM EDT [1610-1653 UT], 8/13; Hippity-Hop; “Mid-MI’s Heartbeat”, “101.1 The Beat, your home for hot tracks & throwbacks.” “Thanks for the love Mt. Pleasant.” “Even the Freshmen know where to find the hottest hits; right here on 101.1 The Beat.” Mainly on top. Just recently added to Radio-Locator (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 185' RW, ---- All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time. ----, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Seems like this is originating programming, so why isn`t it licensed as an -LP rather than a translator? FCC FM Query says: ``Licensee: CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY Service Designation: FX Translator Station (retransmits signal, different channel than main station) Channel/Class: 266D Frequency: 101.1 MHz Licensed`` So WHAT IS THE MAIN STATION? Some FCC entries for xltrs do specify this. Could it be a carrier current, or internet ``station`` which need not be in their records? Or must an FM translator axually translate a real FM or AM station (even if fed from faraway via satellite)? O, radio-locator sort of explains its connexion with a ``parent``: ``W266BU-FM 101.1 MHz Mount Pleasant, Michigan Central Michigan University "Modern Rock 91.5" Parent Station Format: College Parent Website: https://www.wmhw.org/ Parent Station Address: Po Box 334 Stanwood, MI 49346`` Since when does a translator ever have an -FM call suffix? Website treats them as separate stations, and Harold certainly was not hearing IDs for 91.5 on 101.1. Maybe they don`t understand at this broadcasting department what ``translator`` means. ``Broadcasting out of Moore Hall on Central Michigan University’s campus, WMHW-FM is CMU’s premium student-run radio station. Host of Mountain 91.5 and 101.1 The Beat, WMHW services all of Mid-Michigan. Central Michigan University, Moore Hall 183 Mount Pleasant, MI 48858 (989) 774-7287 stationmanagerwmhw@gmail.com FCC Public File:`` https://publicfiles.fcc.gov/admin/manage-fm-profile/wmhw-fm/issues-and-programs-lists/c55df7c8-d3b2-ff01-6a75-6cb30a102645/ but that FCC link gets a 500/005 error message (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Hi Glenn - We have been carefully watching the budget and appropriations process, and we have an important update. Congress has adjourned for the month of August. Senate action on public media funding is expected when they return in September. Timing for Senate Action With the current fiscal year ending on September 30, 2019, the Senate is likely to act quickly to approve their spending bills when they return to Washington, D.C. during the week of September 9, 2019. Then, they will have to work with the House of Representatives on compromise versions of the spending bills. Stand Ready for September While the timing of Senate action is still fluid, it’s critical that we stand ready to voice our support for federal funding for public media. Earlier this year, we achieved a historic victory in the House of Representatives with the passage of a spending package that increases federal funding for public media. We must now secure funding in the Senate spending bill and ensure it’s included in the final compromise bill that’s signed into law. How to Prepare for September To protect funding, everyone must show their support for public media by contacting their lawmakers in the coming weeks and months. In addition, we encourage you to: Recruit five friends to join the Protect My Public Media Action Network Follow the campaign on Facebook or Twitter Add the Protect My Public Media Facebook frame to your profile Increasing our network, following our live updates and showing your support strengthens our effort moving into the expected deciding events of September. We will let you know when the Senate debate begins and how you can help secure federal funding for your local public radio and television stations. Thanks for all that you do, (The Protect My Public Media Team, http://protectmypublicmedia.org August 15, DXLD) ** U S A. Area tropo August 14 at 1430-1500+ UT in the 200 km range finds best signal on RF 45 which turns out to be KSNW `3` Wichita, altho Hepburn map implies Tulsa would be more likely, if KOTV still be on 45 (my screen first defaults to remembered 6-1, then corrects to 3-1). Other Bad signals correlate with Wichita market: 31, 26, 10, 8. Also an intriguing one on RF 32: in OK and KS a bunch of translators or LDs, including an imaginary in Enid; only one full power 135 kW, KRSU Claremore, ex-35. Meanwhile I snap some photos of KSNW: Now we know why the Today Third Hour is delayed until the fourth hour, i.e. after 1500 UT: they insert syndicated Live with Kelly and Ryan. Is it really, or just has to air everywhere at 9 am local? http://www.w4uvh.net/KSNW1.jpg Also some breakups for pixyllated DTV art: http://www.w4uvh.net/KSNW2.jpg http://www.w4uvh.net/KSNW3.jpg http://www.w4uvh.net/KSNW4.jpg http://www.w4uvh.net/KSNW5.jpg You may also see edges of a window and another screen in background; tilt. You should have seen the art that got away! (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN. 17530, Aug 15 at 1334, JBA carrier and then JBA talk is the OSOB and SSOB, but what? HFCC shows only VOA Somali via SMG; nothing audible at 1407 during the break until Botswana start English at 1500, but during which VOA Grimesland might do a weekday carrier test (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZAMBIA. 5915, R. One/ZNBC1, 1513-1533, Aug 13. Has been a long time since I last checked this for long path reception (Lusaka sunset at 1558 UT), so pleased to find they are still being heard here; pop African music (instrumental); in vernacular; "One Zambia, one nation"; several spots with music along with the call of the African fish eagle. My audio at http://bit.ly/2KJco4R (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1995, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 1120, August 12 at 0630 UT, nulling KMOX, fast SAH and another station in English, sounds like local newscast, and fadeout. Maybe KCRN Limon, Colorado? Which Paul Walker says is running 50 kW at night; KMOX is quite dominant here. Would not expect the RCatholic station to be doing regular current-event news of the axual world (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 4775.369, Aug 13 at 0515, JBA carrier detectable now that the line noise is off, but storming requires indoor longwire; switch to external LW, no better except adds CODAR QRM. I would expect it to be one of the unnecessarily cozy South Americans, Radio Tarma, Perú, or Rádio Congonhas, Brasil --- but I see both of these reported separately lately on the minus side circa 4774.9 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 5899.990, signal, S=7 at 0549 UT, maybe EXCITER signal only from WRMI Okeechobee FL? Log of Aug 9th remote SDR unit access, in Detroit MI state [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 9, WOR iog via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 6160-USB, August 8 at 0035. UnID (definitely not WBCQ). Nonstop 80s music, including "Doctor Doctor" by the Thompson Twins, "Rock the Casbah" by the Clash, Billy Idol "Dancing With Myself". 45 dBu, good. Obliterated by Cuba firing up 6165 at 0055 (Larry Will, HF DX logs from Lost River State Park, Mathias, West Virginia, August 5-8, 2019, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) see NORTH AMERICA: pirate UNIDENTIFIED. 6290, 2022-, Europirate, Aug 12. Not sure who this is, but non-stop music. Never heard any IDs. A preference for C&W music. Often at good to very good strength. Continued to be heard past 2035. A long gap there, then into more C&W, but dropped the signal briefly, then carried on. Any ideas who this might be? No other Europirates heard (Walt Salmaniw, Zuiderdam, Norwegian Sea, WOR iog via DXLD) Radio Johnny Tobacco (presumed) re UK DXer: Mon Aug 12, 6290, 2010. Japanese music then country music. SINPO 55444. https://shortwavedx.blogspot.com/ Also logged as Johnny Tobacco (JT) on this forum Aug 12: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,56862.msg198634.html#msg198634 email address for e-QSL was corsnoek9422 at gmail.com 73, (Alan Pennington, WOR iog via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIEID. [HCDX] UNID Station on 6316 kHz --- Hi: This is my first message to the list. My name is Jorge and I write you down from Northern Spain (Cantabria). On 13th and 14th August I noticed on 6316 kHz a signal from an unknown station. I noticed in some recordings I made to check noise floors in two different Grid locators. In both, the signal was good enough to hear details (S2-S3). The language was French and went off both days in between 0630 and 0632 UT. French but with a strong African accent. On 13th they played reguetón music; on 14th they aired an event at live performed a week ago by DJ Arafat (Côte d'Ivoire) dead in a car accident just a couple of days before (so it was a kind of homage). Côte d'Ivoire left SW bands some years back. I tried to record sooner this morning but I heard nothing from 0550 to 0635 UT. Conditions were good enough, simply the station did not broadcast today. Any idea about this? Thank you very much! P.S. Does this list admit messages in Spanish or Portuguese? (Jorge Garzón (EA-0080) Urb. San Roque 95, casa 5 (Villasevil) 39698 Santiurde de Toranzo (ESPAÑA - SPAIN). QTH: IN83ag / 43º15' N · 03º56' WLF-MF-HF: AirSpy HF+, Panasonic RF2200, ICF-2010 / Ant: ALA1530LN, 32mLW, Mini Whip PA0RDT. | FM: RSP1A, Sony SA3-ES-EE / Ant.: Fanfare FM-2G, SK4 Yagi. Blog: http://jotagarzon.home.blog Aug 16, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) surely another Europirate (gh) UNIDENTIFIED. 7200-LSB, August 5 at 2032. Ham zoo with talk about racists and other general topical babble. "We run ol' Bob off. Where'd Bob go?" No one hardly ever uses a call sign on this frequency (Larry Will, HF DX logs from Lost River State Park, Mathias, West Virginia, August 5-8, 2019, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 9420, August 5 at 2150. Big open carrier/dead air with wide signal, perfect signal, 53 dBu (Larry Will, Mathias, West Virginia, DXLD) too big and perfect for Greece? (gh) UNIDENTIFIED. 11702-11704, Aug 11 at 1343, intermittent SSB talk sounds like English intonation, but cannot make it resolve by tuning up and down in USB or LSB. 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By Rebecca Reich Aug 6, 2019 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/06/books/review/peter-pomerantsev-this-is-not-propaganda.html THIS IS NOT PROPAGANDA Adventures in the War Against Reality By Peter Pomerantsev When it came out in 2014, Peter Pomerantsev's acclaimed "Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible" revealed a safely distant Moscow where facts were expendable and spectacle had upstaged reality. How times have changed. In "This Is Not Propaganda," the post-truth world is already at our doorstep, with Russia less an outlier than an outrider of the states that are putting disinformation to use. Pomerantsev travels the globe from Mexico City to Beijing in pursuit of new forms of media manipulation that mutate as they move across borders and ideologies. In Belgrade, he talks to Srdja Popovic, a founder of the Milosevic-era protest group Otpor and now an international guru on nonviolent resistance. Popovic advises searching for a "lowest common denominator" to unite the interests of supporters. For Otpor, that binding message had been Serbia's urgent need to join the West. But today, far-right websites like Infokrieg draw on Popovic's formula when instructing their own followers to look for "lowest-common-denominator themes: mass migration, Islamification, identity, freedom, tradition." This weaponization of identity and information also serves the aims of authoritarian states. The former Kremlin spin doctor Gleb Pavlovsky tells Pomerantsev that the collapse of Soviet power left an ideological vacuum that he filled with a new language rooted in vague emotions. To get people to vote the way you want, Pavlovsky says, "you need to build a fairy tale that will be common to all of them." Pomerantsev visits the site of one such fairy tale by following the activist Lyudmila Savchuk into the belly of the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg. There, an army of online trolls sows confusion and disinformation by posting pro-Russia articles and comments on websites worldwide. Indeed, all roads seem to lead back to Russia, including Pomerantsev's own. After nearly a decade in Moscow, he returned to London in 2010 because he "wanted to live in a world where `words have meaning,' where every fact was not dismissed with triumphant cynicism as `just P.R.' or `information war.'" But with Brexit and Donald Trump's election, the Russia he had known "seemed all around me: a radical relativism that implies truth is unknowable, the future dissolving into nasty nostalgia." Trump's promise to "make America great again" echoes Vladimir Putin's pledge to restore Russia's past greatness. Running through this insightful though distractingly underedited book are reflections on the K.G.B.'s persecution of Pomerantsev's own Soviet dissident parents and the family's eventual emigration. In London, his father, the writer Igor Pomerantsev, took up jobs at the BBC World Service and Radio Free Europe, whose shortwave signals he had caught in the Soviet Union. Pomerantsev writes wistfully of the ethos of accuracy and impartiality that these stations embodied during the Cold War. Yet even Igor began to chafe against the constraints of fact as he became "ever more enamored of the power of radio to create new worlds, blend past and present, here and there into something strange and new." Pomerantsev diagnoses our fact-distorting age with understanding and acuity, but his proposed remedies are altogether hazier. Nostalgic for the certainty of Soviet dissidents who believed there was "no middle between truth and lies," he calls for the regeneration of "freedom, rights -- all those big words that have been bled of their vitality." The final pages briefly sketch out his vision of an online culture that would empower the public to shape the flow of information, and an ethically engaged journalism that would stick to the facts. But amid the countervailing flood of disinformation surveyed, it will take more than such reveries to turn the tide. Rebecca Reich is a senior lecturer in Russian literature and culture at the University of Cambridge and the author of "State of Madness: Psychiatry, Literature, and Dissent After Stalin." THIS IS NOT PROPAGANDA Adventures in the War Against Reality By Peter Pomerantsev 236 pp. PublicAffairs. $28. A version of this article appears in print on , Page 12 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: Not Necessarily the News. (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES See also ANDORRA +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2019 IRCA/DECALCOMANIA CONVENTION The 2019 IRCA Convention will be held on September 5, 6 and 7 at the Courtyard by Marriott Seattle Southcenter, 400 Andover Park West, Tukwila WA 98188. Registration is Free*. Banquet (Claim Jumper in Tukwila) will be paid for individually by attendees. Guest room rate is $109 plus tax. Guests are encouraged to share a room and save. Phone number(s) for room reservations are 800-321-2211 or 206-575-2500. You must mention International Radio Club of America Convention to get this rate. Hotel is 2 miles east of Sea-Tac Airport. There is also an Amtrak station in Tukwila just Northeast of the hotel. Parking at hotel is free. There are many restaurants and stores nearby and inside the hotel. Other amenities include business center, pool, free Wifi, etc. Visitor’s bureau is online at http://visitseattle.org Your host for this event is Mike Sanburn: mikesanburn@hotmail.com *Non IRCA members will need to pay a convention registration fee of $25. Folks can join IRCA for $5 ($0 for renewals). Here is the reservation link your guests can use to make online reservations: https://www.marriott.com/meeting-event-hotels/group-corporate-travel/groupCorp.mi?resLinkData=International%20Radio%20Club%20of%20%20America%5Eseasc%60IRCIRCA%60109%60USD%60false%603%609/5/19%609/8/19%608/15/19&app=resvlink&stop_mobi=yes If you have questions or need help with the link, please do not hesitate to ask. We appreciate your business and look forward to a successful event. Individuals may also call toll free, 1-800-359-8233, refer to group code "IRC". A website of interest to anyone planning to attend the convention via Mike Sanburn: http://www.seattlesouthside.com (Via Mark Durenberger) There’s still time to register (free) for the IRCA Convention in Seattle. Our DX conventions of recent memory have been very useful for those interested in furthering their knowledge of tech developments in the DX world. Seattle proves the point: • Over-the-Pole reception • Cutting-edge use of phasers, loops, BOGs including antenna shoot-outs • “Life as a DXer” • "DXing in Japan" as experienced by DXers attending from Japan • Ultralights, FSLs and hot-rod portables • DX reports from antenna sites some of us only dream about Friday night and most of Saturday, it’s all part of IRCA Seattle 2019. Plan to spend some quality time with your fellow DXers, ask questions, and contribute your knowledge on these topics as well! (IRCA DX Monitor Aug 17, published Aug 14, via DXLD) MUSEA +++++ RADIO MOSCOW WARMONGERS' MONTHLY An episode has been archived here: https://shortwavearchive.com/archive/radio-moscow-warmongers-monthly-september-8-1987 and here: https://archive.org/details/radiomoscowwarmongersmonthly7.400mhz8september19870120utc (-- Richard Langley, Aug 11, WOR iog via DXLD) WORLD OF HOROLOGY +++++++++++++++++ GOES WEST Why use web-based calculators to figure out the local sunset time in Kiribati? Take a look at the view from GOES West, now that it's online: https://rammb-slider.cira.colostate.edu/?sat=goes-17&z=1&im=12&ts=1&st=0&et=0&speed=130&motion=loop&map=1&lat=0&opacity%5B0%5D=1&hidden%5B0%5D=0&pause=0&slider=-1&hide_controls=0&mouse_draw=0&follow_feature=0&follow_hide=0&s=rammb-slider&sec=full_disk&p%5B0%5D=geocolor&x=5319.6806640625&y=6848 If you're on a slow connection like mine, it can take a few minutes to load. Regards, (Chuck Albertson, Seattle, DX LISTENING DIGEST) DX-PEDITIONS See also PROPAGATION ++++++++++++ LOST RIVER STATE PARK, WV, NRQZ I was a little concerned that they installed a wifi hotspot in the cabins at Lost River State Park since the last time we were here two years ago, but thankfully there was little to no interference or noise from this gear. This is a perfect listening environment, in the mountains miles from nowhere and in the US National Radio Quiet Zone. Conditions were superior on the HF and broadcast bands. These logs are almost all from my Tecsun PL-880 with a 120 foot long wire suspended about 40 feet up between two trees. I had the R-75 with me but didn't need it except to decode some sideband music from a couple of North American pirates (The PL-880 does an excellent job decoding voice on sideband but is lousy with music.) (Larry Will, Mount Airy, Maryland, on vacation in Mathias, West Virginia, Aug 9, WOR iog via DXLD) Larry`s full report was in the WOR iog; some items extracted above for this DXLD, under: COSTA RICA, CUBA, IRAN, KURDISTAN, MEXICO, NORTH AMERICA, SOUTH CAROLINA, SPAIN, USA, UNIDENTIFIED; some of them [non]s (gh) RECEPTION FROM GREENLAND LAST NIGHT Many thanks to Mark C for guiding me in TA DX. As you may know, I'm on a cruise between Boston to Labrador, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, and return. I brought along my Gary Debock modified 808 Chinese receiver. The first night I attempted to monitor was leaving Red Bay, Labrador. Unfortunately, the temperatures were very cold, and add the wind chill, they were downright awful! I began far too early on the 9th outdoor aft deck at 2200 UT on 5 August. Immediately, all that was audible were 2 Greenlandic stations, in // on 570 and 720. The 3rd was not to be heard. I also noted Iceland on 189 at fair/good level. Nothing else was heard, and I was simply too cold to continue until darkness hit. Lesson learned! On the next night, as we sailed south from 62 deg N latitude, our veranda was well-suited, essentially facing Europe. It's also a bit better protected from the wind, so I was able to monitor longer with a reasonable amount of comfort, despite the 5 deg C temperature! Conditions were quite good with lots heard, from 2333 UT onwards. Here's a list of what was heard: 1152, Initially heard at 2333 with weak music, and I thought the frequency was 1150, but no, it's 1152. 5 time pips at the TOH, but too weak to be sure. 0030 music with a choppy signal (?SAH) 684, weak SS talk at 0006, but very strong at 0102 720, very strong at 0009, but with transmitter problems causing brief audio dropouts (I think this is continuing, as I heard the same dropouts on 95.0 FM today while anchored off Nanortalik 747, ? Canary Is with weak music at 0010, but fair/good SS at 0107 828, threshold audio only at 0014 837, very choppy SAH at about 5 cps 882, English talk poor/fair at 0017 954, fair in SS at 0112 981, Arabic weakly with chop at 0021 1044, good signal with music // to 1080 at 0113 1053, fair UK with talk at 0024 1125, SS at good level at 0028 1134, choppy signal ++ (or maybe my teeth chattering ;-) 1152, music with chop at 0032 1179, fair signal with music at 0030, but much stronger at 0114 1215, very weak at 0032 1269, very weak talk with het at 0032 1290, Latin music at fair level at 0035. Who might this be? [only USA/CAN SS 1290 in NRC AM Log 2018, are in GA, TX, unlikely. Most of the NE USA stations are news/talk; there is RI Public Radio WRPA Providence, if still on the air? Was U4 10/10 kW, but unfavorable patterns to the NE --- gh] 1296, SS music strong at 0037 1305, SS talk fair at 0037, but strong at 0041 1314, music fair/good at 00:45 1341, weak talk at 0049 1350, weak signal with low frequency het 1413, weak talk with rapid fading, but by 0116 very strong with an English vocal. 1431, weak talk in French at 0049, so possibly Djibouti 1458, weak music at 0050, but very strong by 0120. UK? 1503, very weak 1548, weak talk 590 stronger than 570, so that's all 3 Greenlandic AM transmitters. I'll have to check where they are located. I"m blown away re the strength of 720 which is always heard very well day and night here. 710: Newfoundland heard with local ads and ID at 0110 at fair/good level. 792, good reception at 0112 with English oldie, "Cupid", but then into SS. May be // to weaker 837, but not 100% certain. That's it from Greenland. Today, in port, I walked/hiked 16 km up to the top of the mountains overlooking the port, so pretty tired tonight. Did not DX, but will see how things go tomorrow night as we round the south end of Greenland, and start heading towards Iceland. 73, (Walter Salmaniw, Aug 7, IRCA iog via DXLD) Maybe 720 is a target for the west coast DXers; never know what might fade up, especially with a north facing antenna. Of course right now, it is likely propagating pretty well over nearby salt water, which might be more like ice by the time DX season really gets going. best wishes, (Nick Hall-Patch, BC, ibid.) 720, Greenland occasionally makes it here but is disadvantaged compared to co-channel RNE Canary Islands that has less land in the way especially on this end of the path. 1290 with Latin American music probably the north coastal Brazilian (actually 1290.3). Surprised that the big UK stations 693, 810, 882, 909, 1053, 1089, 1215, 1341, 1458 aren't the loudest European stations by a fair margin. That's what I had noted on an Icelandic KiwiSDR and also what a ham buddy of mine noted during a US Navy stay at Keflavik in the late '70s. Keep the logs coming, Walter (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, South Yarmouth, MA, Aug 7, ibid.) Walt: 115​2: dunno who this is as Romania and Spain are the candidates who use pips but each has 6. 747: was it parallel RNE? 1044: maybe you already know, but this should be SER. The Greenland transmitter on 590 is news to me and I don't see it in the MW List. Can you pin down a location? I'll bet you know the origins of the SS stations you reported so I won't repeat them (Chuck Hutton, [never revealing/specifying location], ibid.) Greenland has 570, 650, 720 as far as I know. I'd think 590 would be a poor choice for them with VOCM St. John's co-channel but, then again, there are Newfies on 570 and 650 so who knows? If these stations are just serving a small built up region rather than trying to reach farmers, fishermen, and truckers farther out, then co-channel and adjacent channel interference would be a minor concern. FM, internet, and satellite likely fill in the voids. Romania has 6 equal length pips and Spain has 5 equal length and the sixth of greater length. On 1152, Spain dominates here until about October when Romania competes more successfully. Spain // 684, 855, 1107 and a bunch of other blasters should be readily distinguishable in programming from Romania which would be parallel the 1179 boomer and others that I have reported often. 1044 is the loudest of the SER net stations here. 1080 // is under WTIC during half decent conditions. 837 COPE is often good here. 981 should be Algeria; this seriously pesters 980 WCAP early evenings. 1134 likely choppy due to Spanish synchros slightly spread out in frequency and not particularly well time-synchronized; a common problem. 1179 thinking Romania for that, has been beating co-channel SER most nights. A number of frequencies did not contain enough detail to shake out which particular station was involved, seeing that there could have been two or more options. Parallels are your friend. This is especially the case when identifiable music is available, much easier to suss out than when the RNE guy and the COPE guy are rattling off news in Spanish in a similar announcing style. If you can program in frequencies for quick access, set up banks for major networks such as RNE, COPE, SER, Romania Actualitatsi, etc. That will speed up the process of figuring out whether DX is the expected or something out of the ordinary (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, South Yarmouth, MA, ibid.) Walt - Where was VOCM 590 when you were listening? As the strongest Newfoundland station, they ought to have been present. As for the Spanish stations etc, I'll bet you know who they are from your PEI DXpeditions (Chuck Hutton, ibid.) Romania 1152 kHz is off overnight between 2100-0200. Unfortunately WRTH misses details about some of these high-power Romanians being off overnight (Mauno Ritola, Finland, of WRTH, Aug 8, ibid.) We’re on the east side of Greenland now. I’ll check those frequencies again. Hypothermia can be deadly while DXing with just an ULR, pen paper and a flashlight! My suspicion is that 590 was VOCM. On top of that I brought no references. 73, (Walt, Aug 8, ibid.) Thanks for giving the 7.5 inch loopstick XHDATA D-808 a great ocean-based field test, Walt! You certainly seem to be tracking down the DX -- not to mention testing out the portable's cold weather performance :-) 73, (Gary DeBock (DXing at the Rockwork cliff), Aug 8, ibid.) Thanks, Gary. As our cabin was facing the NW, I didn’t attempt to DX last night. We’re midway from Greenland and Iceland, relaxing in the forward lounge, with an expansive view of the North Atlantic. Cheers from the Zuiderdam! (Walt, Aug 9, ibid.) Most of the good references are online. Presumably you can access these since you can do email. MWLIST is one of the top references. Then there are all sorts of DXer-created webpages with DXpedition and home reports, audio clips, and links to other information. Online SDRs and broadcaster webstreams can also be useful (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, South Yarmouth, MA, ibid.) Mark Connolly wrote: [sic; not clear which of this is Mark or Pete] Surprised that the big UK stations 693, 810, 882, 909, 1053, 1089, 1215, 1341, 1458 aren't the loudest European stations by a fair margin. That's what I had noted on an Icelandic KiwiSDR and also what a ham buddy of mine noted during a US Navy stay at Keflavik in the late '70s. In a noisy hotel in Reykjavik a couple of years ago, facing the right direction, BBC Scotland 810 was the only UK station I could hear at night. In fact, it was the only station from anywhere I heard at night. Walt, thanks for your notes, and yes, it does get cold out there. We requested land-facing rooms on the last two cruises (Ft. Lauderdale to Athens and Ft. Lauderdale around South America) but they didn’t materialize. As previously noted, Newfies were all over the place to the Azores and Romanians were frequently dominating afterwards (Pete Taylor, Tacoma, WA, ibid.) Thanks, Pete, for your many cruise notes over the years. Now it's Walter's turn. It's always interesting when you can pick up some of the same stations at each end of a long cruise as well as everywhere in between, at least during darkness. Certainly sailing out of Boston or New York, major European and North African blasters would be audible around sunset pretty much as you left the dock. Like 549 Algeria that often smokes 550 on ordinary car radios anywhere near the shoreline. 549 here on Cape Cod: https://app.box.com/s/y2vpa8hq4b2dcqjwt9dyyjwe9i51j2tv As a transatlantic cruise reaches its eastern terminus, I'd suspect that major stations from NY, MA, NL, and other East Coast locales would still be playable, especially right before Euro / N. Africa dawn. On the subject of major UK signals - BBC Radio Scotland 810 does reasonably well here at times at or shortly after sunset as in this recording from January: https://app.box.com/s/awz9mnj3sbrfchl5knprd5nnedv7yn62 Overall I'd say the strongest out of the UK are 1089 TalkSport, 1215 Absolute, and 909 BBC Five Live. samples 1089: https://app.box.com/s/tsgwaod69weif9gng2ljkjtuanhoyov6 1215: https://app.box.com/s/pap53bhq0sea2qkvs0zj6zb4r9y0yx0p 909: https://app.box.com/s/7lj9tmriczoaxikp2p3x5vx075u7qs33 When these signals are good here, they should be slam-dunk 800 miles closer in Newfie and peeling the paint in Greenland and Iceland. You mentioned Romanians. 1179 is most consistent here as in this hour-plus pre-sunset reception (2000 UT) last December: https://app.box.com/s/v437je5gozdidv1g6zk3w6ix2reau95h (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, South Yarmouth, MA, Aug 10, ibid.) Finally some decent internet. Mark, it’s been atrocious for the past couple of days with very slow connections making it a non starter to use while DXING and certainly remote receiver use is out. Since leaving Greenland, our cabin has faced north. Last night it was very stormy so going outside was a no go. We’re on the north face of Iceland again today. Tonight we’re heading to Norway, leaving 4 hours early to get ahead of a large low pressure system so I expect poor weather during our 2 day crossing to Bergen. As for 810, it gets out well, as I heard it well in Victoria perhaps 10 years ago in the evening over domestic stations! Yesterday afternoon did a bandscan. Nothing on MW, RUV 2 programming on 189, and about 10 FM stations heard. Not bad for a small community of about 2000 people! 73, (Walt, Aug 11, ibid.) While along the coast of Greenland, Walt also spotted a number of LW beacon sites; a long thread discussion on the WOR iog ensued about whether they were active, searching out more photo evidence, etc. I`m not spending a lot of time re-editing this for DXLD, but recommend it on our group for those interested (gh) LOTS OF LOGS FROM THE NORWEGIAN SEA Hello, everyone! As the weather improved, and the seas calmed, I spent the evening last night first scanning the SW bands, and then moved to the MW band. We're aboard the cruise ship, the Zuiderdam, on the 6th level near the aft of the ship, on the port side. Listening set up was very basic: A Gary DeBock modified (for MW) XH Data D808, about 20' of random wire on the balcony. Conditions were very quiet on the ship, both on SW and MW for the most part. Quite surprising. I'd forgotten how enjoyable SW listening can be when there's actually content beamed your way. The bands were full of stations, compared to my mostly empty bands back home on the west coast. Brings me back to my earlier days of SWLing in the later 60s and 70s! Despite everything, the medium works! We were located about 300 km north of the Faroe Islands. Enjoy the logs. Any errors are mine alone! 73, (Walt Salmaniw, WOR iog via DXLD) Walt`s full SW report appeared in the WOR iog; some logs excerpted above in this DXLD: CHINA, GERMANY, IRAN, SAUDI ARABIA, THAILAND, UNIDENTIFIED 6290 (gh) Way cool, Walt! However, I only see SW logs in your very great list above, though. But yes, it is really sad that in local evenings here in eastern California, hardly any Euro/Asian/mid-East SW signals to hear (49/41/39m) in vast-contrast to the far-more fascinating (to me) dawn times here when the bands are filled 100X more with interesting signals and the always fascinating Korean Peninsula situation. Maybe the only exception is the winter-time sunset gray-line path reception to India and "East Turkestan" (w. China/etc.) I have attempted to nail a few evening grayline signals from Europe on 49m and 41-39m "bands" with hardly anything interesting and bad storm-static to boot! Any shipboard MW logs to offer? I found that on the one night aboard the Silja Line ferry between Helsinki and Stockholm back in September 2009 to be quite interesting (suffering from insomnia and claustrophobia in the teeny windowless berth we had -- and a bad snorer with us, too), I spent most of the night awake and on the empty top deck DXing with my SonyICF-SW7600GR barefoot -- that was totally fascinating to record reception on FM/LW and MW (did not try SW) but it was also quite cold/windy on the top stern section of the deck, and I had to "hide" behind an air-conditioning type unit to block the nasty wind, and the thing also spewed a lot of noise on LW/MW, alas. I had much more fun in Nov. 2013 aboard the 4-day Yangtze River ship westbound (upstream) by far. THANKS MATE! (Steve McGreevy, WOR iog via DXLD) Walt said he would compile MW logs separately later AUGUST 2019 ROCKWORK CLIFF DXPEDITION VIDEO Awesome ocean cliff scenery and four huge FSL antennas combine to provide a supreme DXpedition experience! This video was shot after the sunrise session on August 9th, with a gorgeous smooth ocean (it isn't always that way :-) Thanks to DXpedition partners Tom and Craig for adding to the success of a great trip! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tLpBzB1qrM 73, (Gary DeBock (back in the DU-DX dead zone of Puyallup, WA, USA), Aug 10, WOR iog via DXLD) Viz.: DXerGary Published on Aug 10, 2019 An awesome plunging cliff on the Oregon state coast near Manzanita provides enhanced Longwave and Medium Wave propagation to the South Pacific. Four large FSL (ferrite sleeve loop) antennas and modified portable radios combine with exceptional ocean scenery to provide a thrilling DXing experience (by Gary DeBock) dxnerd86 3 days ago: Must be rare to get a calm morning like that on the Oregon coast! Do you experience any problems with 'undesirables' during your early morning DX sessions? Looking forward to reading the log, no doubt it will be impressive again. Dxer22000 and I went to Cairns QLD in June; you might be interested in our videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVhguPkHv5WOYui8gOCL9cv6oSQVsKwlB BEST SOUTH PACIFIC NDB-DXING SESSION YET AT THE ROCKWORK CLIFF (8-8) Gary DeBock Aug 8 #1637 Who would have thought that a modified $40 pocket radio and a 12 inch FSL antenna could come away with 6 low powered South Pacific NDB's across the Equator, most of them at good strength? The Rockwork ocean cliff's Longwave propagation boost really went into overdrive this morning, as Tom and I enjoyed a South Pacific NDB-DXing bonanza! The Ultralight + Longwave FSL combo came away with three all-new trans-equatorial beacons-- 346-TG in Tauranga, New Zealand, 366-Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia, and 320-AI on Aitutaki in the Cook Islands -- an airport that Ruth and I visited last year in April. Besides these new beacons 238-KT from Kaitaia, NZ was received again, as well as 352-RG at Rarotonga in the Cooks, and 260-NF on Norfolk Island, Australia. Tom was recording this exceptional Longwave opening with his Perseus-SDR and miniature broadband loop, and no doubt made out like a bandit in this final session for him. Of course he already holds the west coast record for South Pacific NDB's received during a DXpedition, set right here at Rockwork 4 exactly a year ago. Rockwork Rocks! 238 KT Kaitaia, New Zealand 2 kW Weak, but showing up for the second time in this DXpedition at 1215 https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/9umsip63opzudz8mpoazzdh6vz7rdpgj 260 NF Norfolk Island, Australia 500 watts Showing up at fair to good strength with its low speed ID at 1209 https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/bycs70vdwv3dcnd8vdeq4oqy54fvsotz 320 AI Aitutaki, Cook Islands Very good strength at 1217, but having a pretty sick-sounding CW tone https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/9jh8xjqe7x3z83cq0dls9rfafwoa7xsp 346 TG Tauranga, New Zealand Good strength at 1219; at 6,852 miles (11,027 km), this is the longest range NDB I have ever received with the Ultralight + FSL combo https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/ruyyzzow5do3110zs1f8i6j94v92gwub 352 RG Rarotonga, Cook Islands Return appearance at good strength in the shadow of Hawaiian mega-beacon 353-LLD at 1212 https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/n41kkxpxh4tiaqm3pjw4sf1vpakz3nur 366 PNI Pohnpei, FSM Good strength at 1213 https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/0piccdl719vrvn044hwqueoxgk6cv4mb And also an S9 signal from the lower edge of the Medium Wave band, which seems to have tapped into the exceptional Longwave propagation: 531 More FM Alexandra, New Zealand 2 kW Female ID and Kiwi ad string at huge level at 1258; this station has turned into a Rockwork big gun in the last few years https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/8jeq2wclrzpr2tp6t2nwqmgmzkruskwz 73 and Good DX, (Gary DeBock (DXing with Tom Rothlisberger at the Rockwork 4 ocean cliff turnoff on Highway 101 near Manzanita, OR, USA) 7.5" loopstick Tecsun PL-380 + 12" Longwave FSL (Longwave loggings), IRCA iog via DXLD) This morning's Longwave signals are the loudest I have ever heard from the South Pacific and DU-land. And yes, 531 was also slamming in with huge signals. With two exceptional LW sessions, I would think that we are in for 50+ NDBs provided the French Polynesian beacons were in. MW was also pretty good this morning, but not that exceptional. That does it for me for Rockwork DXpedition 2019. Craig left yesterday and Gary has one more solo session on Friday. --73 and Good DX-- (Tom Rothlisberger, K7WV, Aug 9, ibid.) Thanks, Tom; My final session at the Rockwork 4 cliff this morning (August 9th, Friday) featured good South Pacific NDB propagation, but not the exceptional kind like we both enjoyed on Thursday. Whereas I tracked down 238-KT, 260-NF, 320-AI, 346-TG, 352-RG and 366-PNI with the Ultralight and 12" Longwave FSL on Thursday, this morning it was only 238-KT, 260-NF, 320-AI and 352-RG. Once again the enhanced Longwave propagation spilled over onto 531, with both More FM and PI sounding like locals. 558-Fiji was also on the warpath, making it difficult to track down any type of signal from 6WA. 558 was recorded throughout the session on a dedicated FSL, though, so something may still turn up. 531 also had a separate FSL, but when 702-2BL had AFL play by play at 1225 all I had on 531 was a "nuclear war" between PI and More FM. I guess we can't always have things go our way :-) Because of the exceptional Longwave NDB propagation this was one of the most thrilling Rockwork Cliff trips ever for me. Having you and Craig as DXing partners made it a lot more fun. Hopefully the same team will run wild in Poipu, Hawaii this November! 531-More FM melting down my Ultralight with an ID at 1303 on August 8th (Thursday) https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/240034ppr3l8yqeb0ak730bhj3dau7nf (Gary (back in the DU-dead zone of Puyallup) DeBock, ibid.) ROCKWORK CLIFF ULTRALIGHT DU'S FOR 8-9 (FINAL SESSION) At the risk of receiving some rotten tomatoes across the border from Victoria I decided to compile a detailed report of the final Rockwork Cliff DXing session on August 9th, mainly because there is far more time for such activities back at home. The DU's are somewhat more enhanced at the ocean cliff site, especially for blasters like 531, 558, 603, 1017 and a few others. Nick has spent some serious time at the Cliff himself, so he knows the score. This last session was a wild one featuring enhanced DU's on both Longwave and Medium Wave at the same time (1230-1300), making it tricky to choose priorities in live DXing. At my 1200 setup time there was no South Pacific NDB propagation on Longwave, but a spot check at 1230 revealed 260-NF on Australia's Norfolk Island at a fair to good level, and the Longwave NDB rush was on. A detailed search was made for trans-equatorial beacons, and although propagation wasn't quite up to Thursday's standard, the final tally wasn't bad for a hot-rodded Ultralight -- 238-KT (New Zealand), 260-NF (Norfolk Island), 320-AI (Aitutaki, Cook Islands) and 352-RG (Rarotonga, Cook Islands). 320-AI had apparently repaired its sick-sounding transmitter within a day, although its signal strength was down quite a bit from Thursday. During this Longwave search 531 kHz, 558 kHz and 1107 kHz were being recorded on dedicated Medium wave FSL's, and both 531 and 558 kHz caught some of the Longwave enhancement effect, resulting in S9 signals (and ID's) from both 531-More FM and 558-Radio Fiji One. 603-Waatea also pounded in at S9+, although that was after the live DXing switch back to MW around 1300. Biggest impression of the morning (except for the unusually smooth ocean) was the potent boost that the enhanced Longwave propagation seem to provide for both 531-PI and 531-More FM, who seemed to tap into some extra strength from 1245 to 1315. Unfortunately, with the overwhelming strength of both 531-More FM and 558-Fiji there was no chance to check for Western Australian parallels on 531 and 558 to match the ABC football game heard on 702 kHz. The Longwave NDB's provided another thrilling session, though, with multiple low power stations crossing the Equator at great range. 238 KT Kaitaia, New Zealand 2 kW Fair strength Morse code ID at 1239; longest range beacon of the session https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/or98t3rs1i2i93l841smige8koj3auz8 260 NF Norfolk Island (Australia) 500 watts Fair strength Morse code ID at 1233, starting the Longwave NDB search https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/ruqw0m124qs9rntaj1ag1hr4pd6hl5b7 320 AI Aitutaki Island (Cook Islands) Poor to fair strength Morse code ID at 1247, with CW tone note repaired within a day https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/e6hmsr8q6hblxktm0hv0cakbin0rdbu9 353 RG Rarotonga, Island (Cook Islands) Fair strength Morse code ID in Hawaii super beacon LLD splatter at 1253 https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/b50ioz9mfae1w46ghj70ubgaiwfdtw9h 531 More FM Alexandra, NZ 2 kW Female-voiced ID and Kiwi ad string at S9 level from 1257-1259, obviously with some freakish propagation https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/nsg1k0e4em59zxfb2qnaif3181mdl2l8 More FM is coming out at S9+ at 1307; "better get the party started" https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/qolvem4idtcnc13q4map1akzn4kjjay3 531 PI Auckland, NZ 5 kW Island music and "531-PI" ID (21 seconds) at huge level at 1300 https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/k4bvzhpht4dknz3rex3frvb49i046wut Drum oriented S9 Island music at 1317 https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/9u3nwv2ewe0vyjjtvl7ryenwacn1f5t9 558 Radio Fiji One Suva, Fiji 10 kW S9 island music with female ID at 1:18, and male ID at 1:24 https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/ndgtrr4ny3a4uxq704jgli88ecccpdwc 585 7RN Hobart, Australia 10 kW The Tasmanian ABC relay goes against the Kiwi trend with fair to good strength female speech // 576 at 1318 https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/tp95vt97xc8z4gkg4e3fxgz289t6159o 603 Radio Waatea Auckland, NZ 5 kW R&B music at S9 strength // 765 at 1305 https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/eed53kcqemgu9ovtz67yw899w0dx4f8v 702 Magic Auckland, NZ 10 kW Classic oldies pounding in at huge level over 2BL at 1248 https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/7pogcfk1gxad5vnlecegfzeuz7v4xsic 73 and Good DX, GaryDeBock (DXing at the Rockwork 4 ocean cliff turnout on Highway 101 near Manzanita, OR, USA on August 9th, 2019) 7.5" longwave loopstick Tecsun PL-380 Ultralight + 12" Longwave FSL (Longwave loggings) 7.5" loopstick CC Skywave and XHDATA D-808 portables + 15", 15" and 17" Airport Unfriendly FSL antennas (Medium Wave Loggings) Last day DXpedition video showing the gear (and the unusually smooth ocean) is posted at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tLpBzB1qrM (Gary DeBock, Aug 23, IRCA iog via DXLD) Re: NORTHERN NECK OF VIRGINIA DXPEDITION JULY 2019 Not the most interesting session ever at Waters Edge but beats what I can hear from home. I did something I’ve been meaning to do for quite a while and have a slightly modified page URL: http://realmonitor.com/we11/index.php It has a feature where the [green, for now] header above the loggings that tells you who/what/where/when/etc. actually follows you down the page as you scroll. It’s called a ’sticky header’ and involves a little CSS and Javascript. I basically ’stole’ it from the internet and modified. It makes it easier to keep track of date/time as you get below the first screen. I also added a few more loggings from July 28 @ 0000 UT - including South Africa on 729, Brazil on 690 and a TIS from Wallops Air Station on 760. Love those wav files! Always there just waiting to be listened to! (Bill Whitacre, Alexandria, VA, Aug 11, nrc-am gg via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See GUAM; JAPAN; KUWAIT; ROMANIA; TAIWAN ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC See USA: 1160 KSL +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See OKLAHOMA; USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ BROADCASTING CELL PHONES Various frequencies, lower band FM. While stuck in slow traffic in northern Virginia and Maryland on I-495, the Washington DC beltway, at the tail end of rush hour on August 1, I noticed at least two transmitters on channels unoccupied by local broadcasters that appeared to be broadcasting one half of people's cell phone conversations. The voices were obviously phone calls, obviously the local driver, with long pauses while presumably the person on the other side of the call spoke. I'm assuming that this is some new cheap kind of hands-free cell phone accessory, but I've never heard one of these things that used Part 15 FM. It seems certain that the buyers of these devices have no idea that anyone in range can listen in on part of their phone calls. Has anyone else heard of this type of technology? (Larry Will, Mount Airy, Maryland and Mathias, West Virginia, Free Radio Weekly via WORLD OF RADIO 1995, DXLD) SDR UPGRADE IN SRI LANKA; FINLAND In the next two weeks I hope to get a fibre optic line from the present slow connection. Then I plan to run my Perseus regularly and even the Kiwi from Piliyandala. Let`s see if I can provide a better service: Kind regards from Colombo dear Wolfy. Currently Japanese friend is staying with me for Ham DX (Victor Goonetilleke, Aug 12, DXplorer via Mauno Ritola, dx_sasia yg via DXLD) That sounds good, Victor. I also hope to get fibre in October. 73, (Mauno, Joensuu, Finland, ibid.) SORRY! YOUR SON WILL BE AN ENGINEER https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oB2Js6KRg58 (via Bruce Earle, TX, Enviado Desde Mi iPhone, Aug 11, DXLD) seems a very early Dilbert (gh) MYSTERY IN HENRICO: OLD TVS WERE PLACED ON FRONT PORCHES OF MORE THAN 50 HOMES OVERNIGHT * By MEL LEONOR Richmond Times-Dispatch More than 50 television sets were mysteriously left on the front porches of homes throughout the Hampshire neighborhood in western Henrico County, surprising residents who found them Sunday. Police Lt. Matt Pecka said Sunday that the agency responded to calls from residents who reported finding old-style, CRT TVs near their front doors. The neighborhood is near Nuckols and Shady Grove roads. Pecka said the agency believes more than one person is responsible for the deliveries, which were caught on residents' doorbell cameras. He described one video that shows a person wearing TV-shaped headgear while dropping off a TV set. One TV set was left at each of more than 50 homes, Pecka said. "They walk up to the house, placed the set neatly on the front step, turn around and walk away," he said. A similar incident was reported by Glen Allen residents last year, when more than 20 TV sets were dropped off at homes in The Villas at Grey Oaks community in the area of Westcott Landing Court. The neighborhood is northwest of Shady Grove and Pouncey Tract roads. It's not clear how the incidents may be connected. It's also unclear whether any crime was committed. Pecka said that based on the reports the agency has received, "at most it would be illegal dumping." "It's an isolated, unusual incident," he said. "While suspicious, we don't believe there's any reason for the community to be alarmed." Henrico police and the county's solid waste division helped residents dispose of the TV sets Sunday, though Pecka said there were "a couple of residents that indicated they would hold onto the TVs for now." He said the TVs that were picked up will likely be recycled. (via Mike Cooper, Aug 12. DXLD) THE ENERGY NIGHTMARE OF THE INTERNET SW broadcasting too expensive? This is an update and adaptation of an interview with Jane Anne Morris on the program “Corporations and Democracy” on KZYX radio in Mendocino, CA. She began by expressing her surprise why everybody calculates the impact on the environment of raising beef for a Hamburger while nobody seems to calculate the impact of an internet search or upload. http://tucradio.org/audio/jane_anne_morris_energy_nightmare_internet.mp3 Enjoy, (Jim Dennis, Aug 12, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ELECTROMAGNETIC BACKGROUND IN THE APARTMENT AND IN THE CITY -------------------------------------------------- ----------------- https://habr.com/en/post/228729/ It turned out that almost all consumer electronics emit electromagnetic waves. You can determine the radiation power, guided by the volume of sound and the propagation range. Although the player picks up waves at the same time from all sources, by the nature of the sound you can easily understand from which source the waves are the strongest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN4GSC36Q30 Although this method cannot measure the level of electromagnetic radiation, you can roughly estimate how strong the background is in your apartment. At home, with the technology turned off, the background is so small that the player does not fix it. But on the street it already picks up the radiation of the nearest BS mobile communications. At my friends, in a city apartment, the player captures a stable and fairly strong background, especially near the windows. But in some places in the city, the background is very strong. The player buzzes so hard that you can not hear the radiation next to the working phone! Watch the video where I drove through different streets and listened to the electromagnetic background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h93aBCehwCg But such a crack in my house since last fall. Five-story building in the city, a copper wire from the balcony to the trees, hung with ferrite. It is interesting that it was the sections of the broadcast ranges that were struck by order. Interference around the clock, but with different strengths at different times of the day. It is extremely rare to notice a complete lack of cod [sic!]. Only phasing of two antennas saves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnD3RAEWs-U (Dmitry Elagin, Saratov, Russia / “deneb-radio-dx" via Rus-DX Aug 11 via DXLD) Is this just about Russia, or anywhere? Your QRN Hey Glenn – My experience says it’s caused by loose hardware and/or dirty insulators. As you noted, when it rains, the noise level drops because something’s wet. The city should have a receiver with a directional antenna they can use to identify the poles where there are noise generators. At my former QTH, the City of Austin tightened hardware and checked insulators for ¼ mile on all the nearby lines. QRM dropped to almost nothing. I think it helped that I’m a ham radio operator. The city took my complaint seriously. The didn’t know that I’d never been on the air (and still haven’t after 41 years). Pretty certain my current noise level comes from a couple UPSs, wall warts, LED light bulbs, and probably lots of other things here in the house. 73. tc (Terry Colgan, TX, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Here it`s not the city but the private electrical company, OG&E. The guy who came out was quite accommodating, with his multiband noise-seeking radio and antenna, but I am not convinced he found the true source along the axis I DF it, which he says is in a different direxion and Suddenlink`s responsibility (gh) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ SUNSPOTS "WILL BRING DOWN TEMPERATURES FOR DECADES" SAYS REPORT CORRECTION: This article was amended on August 7 2019. The corrections are set out below. By Sean Martin PUBLISHED: 15:20, Mon, Jul 29, 2019 | UPDATED: 12:07, Fri, Aug 9, 2019 https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1159227/weather-forecast-long-range-solar-minimum-maximum-ice-agespace-weather-news NASA predicts solar minimum will be at its lowest by 2020 A DROP in temperature is being predicted over the next few decades as experts anticipate an extended period of low sunspot activity will lead to cooler climes over some parts of the Earth. Sunspots normally follow an alternating cycle of 11 years of high activity followed by 11 years of low activity – both of which are believed to impact the planet's weather in a complex and not entirely understood way. The periods are known as the solar maximum and the solar minimum and scientists - sucha s those at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research - say that usually the fewer the sunspots the colder the weather. Occasionally, for reasons which are not entirely clear, the 11 year cycle can extend for decades. Research produced by US space agency NASA indicates the Maunder Minimum corresponded with cooler temperatures across the Northern Hemisphere – though some scientists say the temperature fluctuations could have been triggered by volcanic activity. In 2006, NASA said: “From 1650 to 1710, temperatures across much of the Northern Hemisphere plunged when the Sun entered a quiet phase now called the Maunder Minimum.” Climate scientist Drew Shindell and colleagues at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies suggested this was because lower levels of ultraviolet radiation from the Sun, thanks to the sunspots, resulted in less ozone being created in the stratosphere. This decrease in ozone then affected so-called planetary waves and altered the Jet Stream bringing the colder weather and harsher winters of Arctic climes further south into Europe. Solar minimum could last until 2055 (Image: GETTY) The Maunder Minimum actually lasted between 1645 and 1715 and in that 70 year stretch, temperatures in parts of the northern hemisphere dropped by 0.2C. The figure sounds small but many scientists have warned the Earth is susceptible to even tiny fluctuations in temperature. According to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) the the average global temperature has increased by only 0.8 degrees Celsius over the past 100 years yet that has been enough to trigger claims of climate change catastrophe. And the team in Northumbria are convinced the planet is now facing a second Maunder Minimum. The researchers stated in the study published in the journal Nature (in the sub-section scientific reports): “Waves generated in inner and outer layers of the Sun indicate that the solar activity is heading in the next three decades (2019–2055) to a Modern grand minimum similar to Maunder one.” Valentina Zharkova, lead author of the research and professor in mathematics at Northumbria University, added that this will lead to a temperature drop. Prof Zharkova told Express.co.uk: “Yes, [a temperature drop] will happen. There will be a slight drop with it hitting the lowest in about 30-40 years.” How the sun looks during a solar maximum (L) and minimum (Image: NASA) The research paper admits in its conclusion that “human-induced factors were outside the scope of the current paper” and Prof Zharkova added that further down the line the drop would eventually be cancelled out and “offset by global warming” by 2050 with the average global temperature predicted to rise by 0.5C. Furthermore self-appointed science reporting watchdog Climate Feedback rubbished the claims of the Northumbria team and said it had “key flaws”. A spokesman said: “Research does not support the idea of imminent global cooling due to low solar activity. “It is not known that a "grand solar minimum" will occur, but even if it did, the temperature effect would be much smaller than human-caused warming.” It published a comment by Georg Feulner, senior scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research whio also said any impact of sunspot activity on global temperatures would eventually be offset by human-activity related warming. He added: “While regional and seasonal effects might be larger, the expected global temperature response to a future grand solar minimum similar to the Maunder Minimum is a cooling of about 0.1°C. “It should be pointed out that this cooling would occur on the background of current anthropogenic warming which is about a factor of 10 larger.” The research also found that the Sun’s magnetic field fluctuations will also cause temperatures to rise in the very distant future. The team from Northumbria University wrote: “This trend is anticipated to continue in the next six centuries that can lead to a further natural increase of the terrestrial temperature by more than 2.5°C by 2600.” CORRECTION This article was amended on August 7, 2019. It was originally headlined 'solar minimum warning: mini ice age could last until 2055 - shock warning'. In addition, the article said that the three decades of reduced solar minimum "could lead to temperatures plumetting across the globe, scientists have warned". In fact, no such warning has been given and the phrase "mini ice age" to describe what occurred during the maunder minimum of 1646 to 1715 is also inaccurate. Northern hemisphere temperatures during that period were reduced by 0.2 degrees C during a period of global cooling. The period of global cooling was not as a result of the maunder minimum. We are happy to set the record straight (via Ullmar Qvick via NORDX via SW Bulletin Aug 11 via DXLD) A FEW TP LOGGINGS FROM N. INDIANA TODAY (SATURDAY MORNING) AUG 10 Inspired by the reports from the Rockwork Cliff DXpedition, I thought I'd give a listen to the west to see if any TP stations were showing up yet on the BCB here. Woke up this morning just before local sunrise (6:48 am local time, 1048 UT). There were some fair carriers, so I started recording. Setup: Perseus SDR HDSDR 2.80 beta Superloop antenna aimed west - approx. 65 feet long and 15 feet high, embedded in a line of pine trees, terminated with a variable resistor which is at 486 ohms. A quick carrier check revealed the following carriers, none with obvious audio: 531, 549, 576, 585, 594, 603, 612, 693, 702, 756, 774, 828, 855, 1017, 1035 The signals were at the best levels shortly after I started listening, right at local sunrise. By the top of the hour, where I was hoping to hear some IDs, they had faded quite a bit, and by 10 minutes after TOH, were completely gone. When sunrise is the same time as TOH or slightly after, I'm hoping for some good IDs. After review, there were a few with faint audio: 531 kHz: Some music selection from 1053:30 to 1055. Fast drumbeat is all I heard. No possible way to ID the song. 603 kHz: Faint talking at 1053:30, followed by faint music in and out from 1054 to 1058 (only could hear bass notes, so can't even tell what type of music). Audio gone by TOH. 1017 kHz: Faint slow-paced music selection, all vocals(?); it even sounded briefly like a choir for a few seconds. 1044:30, then a fade, then back up again 1046:45-1048. Again, all I heard was mostly the low-frequency component of the audio. All were fairly free of QRM from nearby stations. All had faded way down by TOH, so nothing heard in the way of IDs or anything else. Hopefully a good indication of what's ahead this DX season! Attached is a screenshot of 1017 kHz in one of the better moments. You can see slight indications of audio on the carrier. There was also some station on 1019.9 that I tried to ID, but the audio was too weak and there was too much interference from 1020 (Mark Pettifor, Goshen, IN, 1746 Aug 10, ABDX yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1995, DXLD) Looks like a pretty impressive collection from your location this early in the season, Mark. ID's at the top of the hour in a couple of weeks might be worth investigation. best wishes, (Nick Hall-Patch, BC, Aug 10, ibid.) Hi Mark (and Nick), Thanks for your detailed TP and DU carrier investigation this morning from Indiana. <<< After review, there were a few with faint audio: 531 kHz: Some music selection from 1053:30 - 1055. Fast drumbeat is all I heard. No possible way to ID the song. >>> 531 kHz has multiple possibilities on the west coast, and previously the 10 kW station 4KZ in Queensland, Australia was the best bet, playing a varied format of classic oldies and occasional talk. The next best possibility was 531-PI, a Samoan (and other Pacific island) station playing island music. On the Kiwi-signal favoring Rockwork cliff 4KZ didn't show up nearly as much as the Australian Super Radio Network (call in talk oriented) station 2PM this week, though. 4KZ's signal seemed to have taken a nose dive. <<< 603 kHz: Faint talking @1053:30, followed by faint music in and out from 1054-1058 (only could hear bass notes, so can't even tell what type of music). Audio gone by TOH. >>> 603-Radio Waatea (a 5 kW Maori language broadcaster in Auckland, NZ playing a lot of island music) seems to have shown up for Nick quite a bit in Victoria recently, but there are also two fairly common Australian stations on the frequency. <<< 1017 kHz: Faint slow-paced music selection, all vocals(?); it even sounded briefly like a choir for a few seconds. @1044:30, then a fade, then back up again from 1046:45-1048. Again, all I heard was mostly the low-frequency component of the audio. >>> Your description very closely matches the format of 1017-A3Z in Tonga, which has a lot of island choral music around that time. The transmitter recently got an upgrade, and it has been on a 24/7 broadcasting schedule for just over a year. This past week it was a daily S9+ performer at the Rockwork cliff, and it's one of the best South Pacific signals in places like the Midwest. You almost certainly caught a trace of it with the lower frequency audio, Mark. 73, (Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA), ibid.) Thanks, Gary, for your analysis. I was thinking it was Tonga in 1017, but thought it kinda early in the year yet and was surprised to hear anything. The only Australian I have logged is 2NR from WSW [sic], on 738 kHz. (One thing I have yet to do is go back through some recordings and see if I have Tahiti on 738. That would be a treat, finding that!) If anyone would have told me 10 years ago that I could hear Tonga on the AM band from here, I would have laughed out loud. Thanks to antennas like the DKaz and the Superloop, I've heard amazing things! What a non-intuitive hobby sometimes it is - I can hear an AM station 9000 miles away, but not one that's 150 miles away. Still trying to hear all the stations in Indiana. Have a few to go yet. :^) 73, (Mark Pettifor, IN, Aug 11, ibid.) Thanks, Mark, With its antenna upgrade and the distinctive format 1017-A3Z in Tonga should be very much in play for Midwesterners with good antennas during peak conditions. This is a sample of its typical island choral music, as recorded at 1321 UTC on August 4th at the Rockwork cliff (where it is usually the strongest DU during each sunrise session) https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/kzv3pmyjnhkmyixde5vogjv85evaqxqp 73, (Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA), IRCA iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1995, DXLD) PERSEIDS - A REMINDER Hi Mike and all, The peak -- according to my RASC astronomy book (Royal Astronomical Society of Canada) - a truly excellent book, says "0100 UT" for the peak Aug 13, with a "ZHR" count of 140 (radio bursts far-outnumber the Zenith count). The radiant rises at about 2200 local times more or less and the meteor-count rises accordingly, and additionally, the direction of meteor-scatter shifts westward along with the radiant of this great shower. A near-full Moon does not help with visual sightings this year, but I urge everyone to do radio listening on the FM band if you have an open channel that has a lot of 100 kW ERP stations. Alternatively, the ATSC-2 pilot carrier on 54.309 MHz is pretty great for this, also. 73 - (Steve McGreevy -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com Aug 12, WOR iog via DXLD) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2019 Aug 12 0624 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 05 - 11 August 2019 Solar activity was very low. No Earth-directed CMEs were observed during the period. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at moderate levels on 05 Aug and at high levels from 06-11 Aug. The largest flux of the period was 26,161 pfu observed at 07/1930 UTC. Geomagnetic field activity was at quiet to G1 (Minor) storm levels over the period. The period began as a positive polarity coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS) was becoming geoeffective. Total field increased to 23 nT by 05/0855 UTC as the Bz component became variable between +11 nT/-19 nT. Solar wind speed reached a maximum of 745 km/s at 06/0750 UTC. The geomagnetic field responded with four consecutive periods of G1 (Minor) storm levels on 05 Aug followed by quiet to unsettled levels on 06 Aug. Two further enhancements in solar wind speed were observed on 08 Aug and on 09-10 Aug. The first peaked around 575 km/s while the second peaked at approximately 650 km/s. However, no significant increases in total field were observed. Quiet conditions were observed on 07 Aug with quiet to unsettled levels on 08-11 Aug. Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 12 August - 07 September 2019 Solar activity is expected to continue at very low levels for the forecast period (12 Aug-07 Sep). No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to reach high levels on12-16 Aug and again on 02-07 Sep due to recurrent CH HSS influence. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be reach unsettled levels on 12 Aug, 16 Aug, 26-28 Aug, and 06-07 Sep due to recurrent CH HSS activity. Unsettled to active levels are expected on 01-02 Sep with G1 (Minor) storming likely on 01 Sep also due to recurrent CH HSS activity. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2019 Aug 12 0625 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 2019-08-12 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2019 Aug 12 67 8 3 2019 Aug 13 67 5 2 2019 Aug 14 67 5 2 2019 Aug 15 67 5 2 2019 Aug 16 67 8 3 2019 Aug 17 67 5 2 2019 Aug 18 67 5 2 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 5 2 2019 Sep 01 67 38 5 2019 Sep 02 67 14 3 2019 Sep 03 67 5 2 2019 Sep 04 67 5 2 2019 Sep 05 67 5 2 2019 Sep 06 67 8 3 2019 Sep 07 67 8 3 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1995, DXLD) ###