DX LISTENING DIGEST 19-34, August 22, 2019 Incorporating REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING edited by Glenn Hauser, http://www.worldofradio.com Items from DXLD may be reproduced and re-reproduced only if full credit be maintained at all stages and we be provided exchange copies. DXLD may not be reposted in its entirety without permission. Materials taken from Arctic or originating from Olle Alm and not having a commercial copyright are exempt from all restrictions of noncommercial, noncopyrighted reusage except for full credits For restrixions and searchable 2019 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html [also linx to previous years] NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1996 contents: Armenia, Ascension, Australia, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, China, Cuba, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, India, Kashmir non, Korea North, Korea South, México, Myanmar and non, North America, Oman, Solomon Islands, Taiwan and non, Ukraine, UAE, USA, Uzbekistan, Zambia; and the propagation outlook Ready for first broadcasts on Friday August 23 to Thursday August 29 Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor1996.m3u (mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor1996.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. [Ed. note: apology for lateness of this issue: I am struggling to keep up with the huge flow of info; finished ASAP! September 1] ** ABKHAZIA. "Abkhazian Radio" broadcasts in Russian from 0530 to 0540 and from 1510 to 1520 from Monday to Friday. For broadcasts, a transmitter with a power of 30 kW, a frequency of 1350 kHz, is used. There are news releases on the air, broadcast time varies. https://ftp.radio.ru/pub/2019/08/25.pdf (via Rus-DX 18 Aug via DXLD) ** ALASKA [and non]. UZBEKISTAN, BBC World Service via RRTM Telecom Tashkent, August 20 1100-1200 9580*TAC 100 kW / 131 deg to SoAs English, poor/weak/fair. *1100-1200 9580 NLS 100 kW / 300 deg to NEAs Russian tx#1 KNLS co-ch! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/bbc-world-service-via-rrtm-telecom.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 20-21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALGERIA [non]. FRANCE, Reception of TDA Telediffusion d'Algerie via TDF Issoudun, August 20 0400-0459 6050 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg CEAf Arabic Holy Quran px, good 0503-0510 6125 ISS 500 kW / 194 deg NWAf French news bulletin, fair 0503-0510 9535 ISS 500 kW / 162 deg CEAf French news bulletin, good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/reception-of-telediffusion-dalgerie-via.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 19-20, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANDORRA [non]. GERMANY, 6070, Atlantic 2000 International, Rohrbach, received QSL card about special program "Radio Andorra 80 years anniversary", 10th August at 0800 UT. The replay in ten days. Reception report sent to: atlantic2000international@gmail.com (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, WOR Iog via DXLD) Just a few bits of text with the details. Does not even mention Andorra. No illustrations (gh) ** ANGOLA. 4949.7, Radio Nacional de Angola, Mulenvos, 0450-0510, 14-08, songs, at 0500 ID “Radio Nacional de Angola”, news, Portuguese. 15321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol and Lugo, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** ANGUILLA. 6090, Aug 16 at 0159, CB is on with gospel music break; fits into the PMS schedule ``Friday Midnight to 4 am Nighttime 6.090 MHz`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA. 15476, LRA 36, Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, Base Esperanza, 1927-1940, 13-08, Spanish, comments, female, male, Very weak. 15311. Also 1905-1920, 14-08, Spanish, comments. Very weak. 15321. Also 1820-1915, 15-08, Spanish with Argentinian accent, comments, songs. Strong fading. 15311 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol and Lugo, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) Tue, Wed, Thu 15476, LRA 36, Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, Base Esperanza, 1819-1846, 15-08, females, comments, Spanish with Argentinian accent. Very weak and strong fading (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) LRA36 on air --- 15476 kHz, 1849 UT - very weak, but stronger as usual. Signal clearly visible on waterfall with some traces of audio. Best Regards, (Wojtek Zaremba, Legionowo, Central Poland, Aug 21, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** ARGENTINA [non]. [odxa] testing conditions at the new place, early August 21 at 4:21 AM Once I get past the signal-muffling barrier that is the stone walls and landscaping of this apartment block, ooooh! Not too shabby! In the course of this evening, here's what I've snagged. 9395, RAE via WRMI at 0100Z with the marvelous multilingual sign-on, English ID, and into news headlines. President Macri is blaming the opposition for the 20% drop in the value of the Argentine peso; brilliant, Mauricio, seeing as your lot are in power. Signal excellent, booming. Delightful! SIO 545 (Carlie Forsythe, WI?, Aug 21, odxa iog via DXLD) ** ASCENSION [and non]. Special DRM transmissions, 26-29 Aug The following announcement from the DRM website at drm.org: Special DRM shortwave transmissions are being planned for the special meeting of HFCC to be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 26-29 August. They will be broadcast by Encompass Digital Media Services 1600-1700 UT on 21630 kHz from Ascension Island on a bearing of 245 degrees. On each of the 4 days the content will be supplied by a different broadcaster: Monday (26 Aug) – BBC World Service English Tuesday (27 Aug) – KBS (Korean) in Spanish Wednesday (28 Aug) – NHK (Japan) in Spanish Thursday (29 Aug) – TWR (TransWorldRadio) in Spanish (Matt Francis, Sydney, Aug 21, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1996, DXLD) Special DRM transmissions aimed at South America during HFCC meeting https://www.drm.org/special-drm-transmissions-during-hfcc-meeting-in-argentina-26-29-august/ DRM digital radio‏ @drmdigitalradio Vatican News will also carry a special broadcast in DRM during the HFCC meeting from Monday 26-Thursday 29 August at 18:30 -19:00 UTC on 17535 kHz from Santa Maria di Galeria beaming to 230°. Vatican Radio will broadcast music with text in English and Spanish (via NASWA iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1996, DXLD) see also DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM With an audience of 50 people at best! When will they get it? (Chris, Lobdell, MA, NASWA iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1996, DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. 5055, Radio 4KZ, on August 17, noted cut off at 1249*, in mid song. BTW - Nothing heard on the future additional frequency of 2484/2485 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** AUSTRIA. 17570, 1745-, AWR, Aug 13. Moosbrunn must be a relatively underutilized transmitter site. Sure hope it doesn't follow Sentech's lead and call it a day! AWR programming in Maasai to E Africa at good level (Walt Salmaniw, Zuiderdam, Norwegian Sea, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 4750, Bangladesh Betar (still carrying just the external service here). Back on Aug 8, I reported their transmitter problem of no programming audio, instead just a strong hum/buzzing noise; since then I have continued to note the same during their English segment (1230-1300); hum/buzzing also reported by Wolfie, et al.; so surprised today (Aug 20) to finally hear some audio, as well as the usual hum/buzzing noise; so they still have a serious problem to fix; a late start at *1239; suddenly on with IS and into English; unreadable, but definitely their audio, along with the hum/buzzing noise; mixing with CNR1 on frequency; at 1300, the English segment ended, leaving just the hum/buzzing noise; 1313-1315, with their IS (audio breaking up rather badly), along with the hum/buzzing noise; some subcontinent music. My audio at http://bit.ly/2TOmYvJ (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1996, DXLD) 4750, Bangladesh Betar. What is happening here? Aug 21, tuned in at 1141 and heard two stations mixing together (CNR1 & UNID). Since about March of this year, BB had been coming on at 1230, with their external service (1230-1300, in English) and was no longer running the home service programs. The UNID today had good audio, unlike the recent hum/buzzing noise of BB. After listening for a bit, I assumed the UNID was in fact the home service of BB; playing subcontinent music/singing and sounded as if in Bangla. Cut off at 1219*. Then about 1233, heard the transmitter with the hum/buzzing sound and seemed like the BB external service in English; by 1252, was able to confirm in English; transmitter off at 1300 (end of hum/buzzing noise). At *1308, back on again with the hum/buzzing sound, but also heard with CW starting at the same time. Heard CW yesterday, but didn't associate it with BB, but seems it really is from BB? At 1313, the start of the BB IS (just like yesterday), with the CW ending, but the hum/buzzing noise continued. What was this CW? Clearly this needs more work! So the home service transmitter works fine (good audio), but not the one for the external service (hum/buzzing noise)? My audio of HS music (mixing with CNR1), at http://bit.ly/2ZhEk5g My audio of CW and hum/buzzing sound (mixing with CNR1), at http://bit.ly/31Pscd6 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) Or the studio feed is buzzing and not the transmitter, or the cabling in the switching board facility which sends the signal to the line leading to the transmitter (Tibor Gaal, Hungary, Aug 22, WOR iog via DXLD) [and non] Thanks very much to Tibor, for his informative feedback: "I think it is hardly possible to detect if the transmitter is ailing with this buzz or the studio audio quality is bad if the transmitter's frequency stability is the same as before and the two signals (home service then the international) are broadcast from the same transmitter. My assumption that the audio line in the studio(s), or inside the building where the studios are located, can be bad, for example, two wires are too near to each other - especially an electricity-supplying wire and an audio-carrying wire, or similar things. It can happen everywhere even inside of the building where the studios are located. In a radio the studios aren't connected directly to a far-away transmitter. First, the studio's audio signal used to run into a central switching board where the signal(s) are sent to the transmitter on one way or on another (e.g. via microwave, or a dedicated physical line - usually nowadays - optical cable). Imagine, that a national-level radio station sends 2-5 programmes simultaneously out to the transmitter, they cannot run a separate copper wire (or optical cable or whatever) from every studio to the transmitter. The studio equipment in the developing countries are mixed: they contain not only digital equipment, or, as a horror, only a computer with a digitalised library of stuff, but also old audio equipment too. And these two must work together somehow; this cooperation can also produce a parasitic (unwanted) signal. When I visited a privately owned FM radio station Klub Rádió (Budapest, 92.9 MHz) 1-2 years ago my big shock was that a studio contained only the following: headphone for the presenter and the possible guests in the studio, 1-2 microphones and their holders, a computer, a mixer, 1-2 telephones, a table before the presenter and some chairs. The old radio studio atmosphere was visible only in the following: The studio was separated with a glass wall which separated the presenter from the technical staff and they communicated either by hand-signs or via an internal intercom system. This remained from the former magic of a studio, its equipment (tape recorders, tape cutting table, cassette recorder {not only 1 size because of differently-sized audiocassettes}), very big mixers, and similar wonders). Now the computer can do the recording, the cutting of the material, storing the programs or the whole daily broadcasting in a programme library. Tibor Gaal, Budapest, Hungary" (via Ron Howard, WOR iog via DXLD) 4750, Bangladesh Betar. Aug 22, was another day with anomaly. Random checking from 1140 to 1300, found no BB signal at all; no Home Service (unlike yesterday's anomaly), but then also off the air was the usual External Service in English 1230-1300. Only CNR1 heard. At 1308, did hear BB test tone and hum/buzzing sound. 1313-1315, test tone ended and went to the BB IS, along with the hum/buzzing noise; 1315, into external service. Thinking about yesterday's reception - perhaps the problem was not the transmitter, but with the audio feeds, which assume would be different for the Home Service and External Service, that is audio produced at different locations, with different equipment? But then again, Mauno has sent me a screenshot of today's reception ("External Service started at 1315, with definite transmitter hum from side carriers"). So that would tend to indicate a transmitter problem and not a problem with the studio produced audio? Appreciate any comments or observations, as I am rather uninformed about such matters. Thanks! (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1996, DXLD) ** BOTSWANA. 15580, 1737-, VOA, Aug 13. VOA in English at good level. This site gets out very well, as I often hear it as well at my home in Victoria, BC! (Walt Salmaniw, Zuiderdam, Norwegian Sea, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 15190,1, Radio Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte, 1420-1510, 14-08, after months out, on air again, heard now, Portuguese, sport news “Primeiras Esportivas”, ID "Radio Inconfidência, inconfidencia.com.br", at 1500 ID “ondas médias 880 kHz, ondas curtas de 49 metros, 6010, ondas curtas de 15190 kHz, emissoras da Rede Inconfidência de Radio, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil”, news, Brazilian songs. 14321 at first and improving to 24322 later. Also 1630-1705, 15-08, Portuguese, comments, Brazilian songs, ID “Inconfidência”. 15411 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol and Lugo, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** BULGARIA. SECRETLAND. UNID, instead of R. Warra Wangeelaati via SPL Secretbrod, August 17: 1500-1530 on 15515 SCB 100 kW / 195 deg to EaAf Mx/English, instead Afar Oromo, good. Something`s always wrong at SPL Secretbrod transmitting station, again wrong program! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/secretlandnon-unid-instead-of-rwarra.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 16-17, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA. SECRETLAND, ``The Overcomer Ministry TOM is expanding its Shortwave outreach with 2 x 300 kW transmitters via Secretbrod, that will cover the entire world.`` [Overcomer website] It`s a fake news. Current schedule of Brother HySTAIRical: 0230-0400 5900 SCB 050 kW / 306 deg to ENAm English, not 0200-0400UT 1400-1655 11600 SCB 100 kW / 306 deg to WeEu English, not 1400-0200UT 1500-1655 6000 SCB 050 kW / 030 deg to EaEu English, not 1600-1800UT 1600-1855 9400 SCB 100 kW / 126 deg to N/ME English, ex until 1945UT 2000-0400 6055 SCB 050 kW / 306 deg to ENAm English, not 1900-0400UT https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/tom-is-expanding-its-shortwave-via-2.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 21-22, WORLD OF RADIO 1996, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Brother HySTAIRical via SPL Secretbrod, August 22 1400-1655 on 11600 SCB 100 kW / 306 deg to WeEu English, NO SIGNAL! 1500-1655 on 6000 SCB 050 kW / 030 deg to EaEu English, NO SIGNAL! 1600-1855 on 9400 SCB 100 kW / 126 deg to N/ME English, NO SIGNAL! 2000-0400 on 6055 SCB 050 kW / 306 deg to ENAm English, pls check! 0230-0400 on 5900 SCB 050 kW / 306 deg to ENAm English, pls check! And 2 x 300 kW via Secretbrod: this is impossible!!! (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, WORLD OF RADIO 1996, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 7300, CNR 1, August 17, 2019, 1526–1533 in Chinese. SIO 444. Domestic broadcast in Mandarin. OM with commentary, advertisements. Minor QRM. This is probably jamming RTI on this frequency. Time pips, music clips, etc. Can detect RTI signal underneath CNR (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, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) 9255, CNR 1 jammer, 1159, 8/17/19. Man and woman announcers alternating, fanfare, announcement, 3 time pips, off. // 9320 & 9460. All fair. 9255 & 9320 were listed as jamming Sound of Hope via Taiwan, 9460 was listed as jamming Voice of America via Philippines. 11785, Music jammer, 1241, 8/17/19. Chinese traditional music jamming loop. Listed as jamming VoA via Tinang, Philippines (unheard.) There were many CNR 1 jammers audible today; however, this was the only music jammer (Mark Taylor, Madison, Wisconsin. Perseus, Elad FDM-S2, Airspy HF+, ICOM R75, Tecsun PL 880, and various other portables; 42 meters dipole, 100’ long wire, W6LVP loop, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) 12190, Aug 17 at 1323, CNR1 jammer, one of its favorite WOOB frequencies against unheard Sound of Hope, S6-S8. 13550, Aug 17 at 1324, CNR1 jammer about the same, S6-S8. 13890, Aug 17 at 1328, CNR1 jammer JBA but enough to // 12190. 13920, Aug 17 at 1328, JBA probably also CNR1 jammer. 10920, Aug 17 at 1334, CNR1 jammer, S4-S7, only WOOB one found below the 12s and 13s. 11785, Aug 17 at 1351, a rare Firedragon music jammer, not // CNR1 mostly talk jammers like 12190, S7-S9; off at 1415 check, but still a JBA carrier. VOA Philippines in Chinese finishes at 1400, then CRI Chinese via Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN takes over and does not get jammed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9965, Firedragon jammer music station 1700. Covering what should be RFA via Germany this hour - Good August 18 (Rick Barton, Arizona SW Logs, Unless otherwise stated, equipment is Grundig Satellit 205/T.5000, RS SW-2000629, with various outdoor wires & indoor shortwire. Use of portables noted where relevant for perspective on signal strength comments. 73 and Good Listening.....! - rb, WOR iog via DXLD) CNR1 jammer survey, Aug 20 from 1355: 9215, JBA talk at 1355 9155, Chinese JBA at 1356 10920, Chinese at 1358 11170, Chinese, S5-S9 with flutter 11440, Chinese JBA 12880, open carrier with flutter, S9-S6 at 1400; jammer not turned off yet 13270, CBS Sports Radio at 1402 --- oh2, this is local overload mix between 11880 CRI bigsig via Cuba plus 1390 KCRC. It`s also a listed possible SOH/jamming frequency as well as N American VOLMET on USB CNR1 jammer survey, Aug 21 from 1335: 9230, Chinese good S9-S6 9155, // 9230 but weaker 11100, Chinese S6-S7 11785, Chinese usual bigsig jammer 12800, Chinese S8-S9 14980, JBA carrier, nothing further in the 12s, 13s, 14s (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1996, DX LISTENING DIGEST) In the 49-m Band Early Morning on the West Coast --- I'm here in Indian Wells, CA, on holiday for a couple of weeks. This morning (21 August) I recorded the 49-m band using an SDRplay RSP1 between about 1355 and 1405 UT. Many active frequencies but mostly Chinese stations noted. Here are the Chinese stations I could hear with audio: 5955: CRI in English, rather weak 5965: CRI in Korean w/sign-on just before 14:00 6075: CNR1 6105: CNR1 6110: CNR1 6125: CNR1 6145: CNR1 6155: CNR2 (presumed) 6175: CNR1 6180: CNR1 Of course, many of these CNR1 transmissions are jamming against Radio Taiwan International (6075, 6105, 6145, 6180 kHz) and possibly VOA (6110 kHz). Also noted Sea Breeze on 5920 and 6040 kHz, Nikkei 1 on 6055 kHz, NHK World in Chinese/Korean on 6190 kHz, and RNZI on 6170 kHz (-- Richard Langley, UT Aug 22, WOR iog via DXLD) Indian Wells is on I-10 between Thousand Palms and Indio, far from the coast (gh) CNR1 jammer survey Aug 22 at 1349-1359: 11120, Chinese, S3-S5 9230, Chinese, S5-S7 12190, Chinese, S5-S7 12820, Chinese, S4-S6 None higher up to 15 MHz, skipping the JBA carrier on 13150 which must be local mix of RHC 11760 + KCRC 1390 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CONGO, 6115, Radio Congo, Brazzaville, 1809-1816, 12-08, French, comments. 15321. Also *0535-0547, 13-08, French, comments. 14321. Also 1903-1959*, 14-08, French, comments. Extended program today. Strong QRM on 6110. 21321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol and Lugo, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** CONGO DR. 6210.2, Radio Kahuzi, Bukavu, 1750-1804*, 10-08, vernacular comments. Extremely weak. 15311. Also 1748-1801*, 15-08, vernacular comments, religious songs. 15311 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol and Lugo, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** CUBA. 6000, Aug 16 at 0200, RHC English is S9+10/20 but JBM / suptorted; // 6165 is undermod but sufficient if you really want to listen to it. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 15140, Aug 16 at 1557 on caradio, RHC modulation is quite suptorted! = suppressed and distorted. WTP = wiggle that patchcord. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 9570, Aug 17 at 1313, CRI Plus English relay with drama is S9+10/20 but suptorted modulation. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba. 13740, Aug 17 at 1327, this RHC is off, while 13700 remains. Something`s always wrong at RHC. 15140, Aug 17 at 1330, this RHC is off, while a JBA signal remains on 15230. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11850, Aug 18 at 0027, RHC is suptorted here, which makes the 11840 & 11860 spurs even harder to copy; much better modulation on // 11670, 11700, 11760, and 13740. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1996, DX LISTENING DIGEST) On 19 August 2019, all three Cuban station in the 5-MHz-band were audible at 0010-0120 h UT using the webSDR http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ 4765, R. Progreso, weakest of the three, but confirmed also by using http://bonaire.twrmon.net:8073 well ahead of https://icecast.teveo.icrt.cu/XjfW7qWN 5025, R. Rebelde 5040, RHC (Dr Hansjoerg Biener, 19 August 2019, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Weak signal of R. Habana Cuba & R. Rebelde in 60 mb August 21 Radio Habana Cuba on wrong language, something`s always wrong at RHC from 0503 on 5040 BAU 100 kW / 083&263 to Cuba Spanish, not English Radio Rebelde from 0506 on 5025 BAU 100 kW / non-dir to Cuba Spanish as scheduled https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/weak-signal-of-rhabana-cuba-rrebelde-in.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Weak to fair signal of Radio Habana Cuba in 60mb on Aug 22 from 0502 on 5040 BAU 100 kW / 083&263 to Cuba English - instead of from 0503 on 5040 BAU 100 kW / 083&263 to Cuba Spanish on August 21 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/weak-to-fair-signal-of-radio-habana.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 21-22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CZECHOSLOVAKIA. [WOR] "I was there in '68" Czechoslovak Radio Radio Prague By Ian Willoughby | 21 August 2019 The Czech Radio building in Prague saw the most intense violence during the Soviet-led invasion of August 21, 1968 and, as every year, hundreds of people marked the anniversary at the station on Wednesday. Among them were leading politicians – and one old lady who broadcast news of the occupation to the outside world. Jaroslav Kubera, Jiří Drahoš and the speaker of the lower house Radek Vondráček, photo: Jakub PlíhalA solemn ceremony at the Czech Radio building on Prague’s Vinohradská St. on Wednesday marked the 51st anniversary of the Soviet-led invasion of August 21, 1968. Among the politicians who addressed the crowd – several of whom saw the violence of that time with their own eyes – was Senate speaker Jaroslav Kubera. “We are here at a symbolic place in front of the building of the Radio, which played such an important role in the first days of the occupation. “When those days of ignominy and bitter disappointment led to despair, it was the people at Czechoslovak Radio that helped us to raise our heads, sit up and say a clear No to the occupation.” Also delivering a speech was the mayor of Prague, Zdeněk Hřib, who warned against the distortion and relativisation of history. Afterwards he explained why. “In the year 1968 this act of the invasion was presented as help from our Eastern brothers, but obviously it [was] something different. It was a pure invasion and an occupation after that. “So it is important to call events by their proper names. “And it is also important to do so today, because today there is a massive increase in fake news in the public space and that is something we have to deal with.” Sitting in the front row among the invited guests was Věra Homolová. Now “only 94”, she was working for the international service of Czechoslovak Radio when Russian tanks entered the country in order to crush the Prague Spring. “I was here the whole time in ’68. At 4 o’clock in the night the telephone at my flat rang and they told me, The Russians are already at the airport. I came here and the whole time I was her [sic] “Then I went to Army broadcasting and they sent me to this different transmitter. “There I translated the news they had given us into English and broadcast it in English.” Senator and failed presidential candidate Jiří Drahoš, who was 19 when the invasion occurred, also took part in the memorial ceremony. “We have to remember the people who were killed during the occupation. We have to remember also the situation one year later, when not Soviet troops but our own Czech people shot at Czech people. This is one message and we shouldn’t forget it. “And also we shouldn’t forget that democracy and freedom are not forever – we have to be careful and we have to do something for that.” https://www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/i-was-here-the-whole-time-in-68-radios-role-during-invasion-recalled-at-ceremony (With Audio Player) via Mike Terry, Aug 21, WOR iog via DXLD ** DENMARK. 5840, 1705-, World Music Radio, Aug 13. From this time, ENE of the Faroe Islands, and continuing to Bergen, Norway, and leaving Bergen, WMR was well heard only using the whip on the XHData D808 receiver. Mostly non-stop music with occasional short IDs for WMR or World Music Radio. I have not heard any further information, ads, or URL or email addresses noted (unlike Radio Northern Star on MW and 5895 kHz). No sign of 15805, so likely a weekend operation only? (Walt Salmaniw, Zuiderdam, Norwegian Sea, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005, Radio Nacional, Bata, *0520-0538, 13-08, open with African songs, Spanish, comments, at 0530 program “Panorama Nacional”, national news with correspondents. 15321. Also *0520-0533, 14-08, open with African songs. Very weak. 15311. Also *0513-0530, 15-08, open with African songs. Very weak. 15311 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol and Lugo, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** EUROPE. We are on air on 5030 kHz, testing antenna with a mix of vertical + Inverted L. (Radio 319 on Twitter 1746 UTC 21 Aug) Fair signal here, moderate fading at 1800 UTC on 5030. Moved down to 5025 at 1835 UTC. Playing songs from 1974. 73, (Alan, Caversham, UK, Pennington, AOR 7030plus, longwire, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) ** EUROPE. EUROPIRATES, 6293, 1912-, multiple, Aug 15. I did a quick bandscan looking for Europirates during our North Sea crossing between Bergen, Norway and Rotterdam, Holland. There were many! Amongst them, were as follows: 6293 strong, with a Dutch folk song. 6275 weak (and seems // to 6293), 6265 fair/good with non-descript music, 6225 very weak, 6205 very strong, and should be Laser Hot Hits, supposedly from Ireland. I'll be interested to see whether I hear them during our 3 port visits in Ireland! Also: 6200 very strong (and may be Radio Discovery), 6320 fair (and may be Radio Sovereign), 5780 good level with piano music (and may be Radio Harmony), and 5140 fair/good (and may be Charleston Radio International. Definitely, no shortage of Europirates, when, at least on the WCNA, there's not a whole lot to be heard anymore in the 42 m pirate band (Walt Salmaniw, Zuiderdam, Norwegian Sea, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. 6300 kHz Radio Abu Dhabi (Shortwave Europe) --- 6300 kHz Radio Abu Dhabi (Shortwave Europe) Music and Men voice locution 2317 UT 18 Ago. 2019. Best here in 6300.8 kHz https://youtu.be/LyuRvCwSP1w Receiver: Grundig Satellit 800 Millennium; Antena: DS Antenas SWL Dipolo Symmetrical + Balun (Daniel Wyllyans. Nova Xavantina MT. Brasil, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Yes, there is such an ID on the recording but no doubt a Europirate, nothing to do with UAE (gh) ** EUROPE. Re: [WOR] Radio Spaceshutlle International on air this evening for the last time this year --- Hearing Spaceshuttle right now from 1900 UT -- fair to good signal, some fades, some studio/mic problems, but overall excellent and getting better as 2000 approaches. He gives a Finland location if I am correct? (Dan Robinson, Aug 15, WOR iog via DXLD) Presumably 9290 I would have hoped he’d be audible here in the North Sea, but nada if that helps with location (Walt Salmaniw, m/m, 0056 UT Aug 16, ibid.) Re: [WOR] Fw: 9290 19 UTC today --- Tried listening from 1906 to 1924 UT and nothing heard using XHData D-808 with just the whip antenna. I am docked in Bergen, Norway. My loop antenna was still in the checked luggage then. 73, (Don W8SWL Hosmer, Aug 16, WOR iog via DXLD) ** FAROE ISLANDS. 531 kHz, 1707-, Kringvarp Føroya, Aug 13. I highly suspect they are running their full 10 kW, as they are extremely well heard right across the ocean north of the Faroes. Heard well for 2 days preceding and 2 days following, from leaving Iceland to leaving Norway. On the 15th, mid day in the North Sea ESE of the Faroes, not heard during the day, so I'm thinking they must have a northerly beam (Walt Salmaniw, Zuiderdam, Norwegian Sea, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1996, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. Frequency changes of R France International from Sept 1: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/frequency-changes-of-radio-france.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 19-20, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. 6070, Atlantic 2000 International, Rohrbach, *0759-0835, 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", pop songs and comments about Radio Andorra, French. 25322. (Méndez) 6070, Atlantic 2000 International, Rohrbach, *1900-1907, 11-08, tuning music, id. "Atlantic 2000 International", French, comments, pop songs. 34433. (Méndez) 6085, Radio Mi Amigo International, Kall Krekel, *0658-0710, 13-08, pop songs, at 0700 time signals, id. “Welcome to Radio Mi Amigo International, Radio Mi Amigo International, bringing back the golden era of offshore AM radio, Mi Amigo”, pop songs, English, comments. 25422 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol and Lugo, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** GREECE. Reception Voice of Greece on 9420 kHz, August 21: 0656&0708 on 9420 AVL 150 kW / 323 deg to WeEu Greek*tx#3 *only Serbian news and transmitter switches off at 0715 UT At 0708 freq. ann.: 9420/9935/11645 --- last 2 are inactive! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/reception-voice-of-greece-on-9420-khz.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREENLAND & ICELAND. Walt Salmaniw on TA cruise has been reporting on visual siting of LW beacon sites along these coasts. See the WOR iog items (WORLD OF RADIO 1996) ** HUNGARY. See BANGLADESH ** INDIA: Jabalpur 801 kHz --- On 21 August 2019, All India Radio Engineering has put out a tender for „Miscellaneous Repairs/ Renovation works of Self Radiating 200 kW MW Mast at AIR Jabalpur“. Reading through the 33 pages of the pdf http://prasarbharati.gov.in/tenders/Engineering_744893.pdf one gets the impression that „miscellaneous“ might be substituted by „extensive“. Page 20 is particularly interesting because it has a detailed plan of the structure. The final day for companies interested in taking up the project to submit their offers is 13 September 2019 (Dr Hansjoerg Biener, 21 August 2019, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. This is thinking way outside of the box but --- I wonder if All India Radio is wanting to use the Chinsurah site to broadcast to Burma? Either that or maybe even starting of broadcasts in Rohingya??? This depends on the priorities of the Indian Foreign Service. Its priorities right now will be focused primarily on Kashmiri / Pakistani issues. To this extent re-opening of 1134 kHz is a surprise. 73 and 88 (Dan Goldfarb, UK, 21 Aug, mwmasts via DXLD) ** INDIA. The Indian National Broadcasting Service (India's Public Service Broadcaster or Prasar Bharati in Hindi) made a stunning phasing out statement in early June shortwave transmitters. If the national broadcaster chooses such a path, then All India Radio, (AIR foreign broadcasting service) will have to stop all global shortwave broadcasts eighty years after the start of international broadcasting in 1939. AIR resists this step, claiming that it will limit its global reach. 46 are in operation transmitters that work both domestically and abroad. 28 of these transmitters are used only for external services. With the exception of the three transmitters that have recently been installed, all others must be turned off next six months. Overseas broadcasts from India are broadcast to 150 countries in 13 Indian dialects and 15 foreign languages. Prasar Bharati CEO Shashi Shekhar Wempati denies that stopping broadcasting on HF will affect the global reach of foreign listeners. He said: "In future, the world the AIR service will be primarily a digital service that will take advantage of medium-wave broadcasting capabilities domestically. We will also explore the possibility of hiring airtime on transmitters outside of India, where necessary. "An example is China, which has recently started buying airtime on Nepalese radio channels for its programs: it is argued that India can also follow this example soon. The following are arguments that there is no way to assess the real size of the audience who tuned in to broadcasting from India, and these programs do not generate income (do you feel the point of view of modern managers?). Until now, India was one of the largest broadcasters in both medium and short waves, as well as one of the most advanced DRM transmitters in operation, although, according to the latest data, it is now gradually decreasing the number of DRM broadcasts, and China is ahead of it. look if this promotion takes place, will show time. (For more information, see the original: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/air-may-have-to-power-off-short-wave-transmissions/article27584333.ece https://ftp.radio.ru/pub/2019/08/25.pdf (via Rus-DX 18 Aug via WORLD OF RADIO 1996, DXLD) ** INDIA. 4810, AIR, Bhopal, 1748-1915, 14-08, vernacular comments. Extended program due to West Indies cricket. 25322. (Méndez) 4910, AIR, Jaipur, 1750-1918, 14-08, vernacular comments. Extended program due to West Indies cricket. 15321. (Méndez) 5040, AIR, Jeypore, 1755-1910, 14-08, vernacular comments. Extended program due to West Indies cricket. 15321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol and Lugo, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) Notice how many of MM`s logs rate and S and/or O of 1, yet he manages to hear them (gh) ** INDIA. Indian regional SW stations --- On 19 August 2019, the following regional stations of All India Radio were weakly audible with their morning programmes (0030-0100 h UT) using the SDR http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ 4800 Hyderabad, no co-channel interference, well ahead of web streams at http://allindiaradio.gov.in/radio/live.php?channel=10 und https://onlineradiofm.in/telangana/hyderabad/all-india-air-telugu 4810 Bhopal, best reception 4910 Jaipur 4920 Chennai, well ahead of Tamil stream at http://allindiaradio.gov.in/radio/live.php?channel=9 5010 Thiruvananthapuram, Malayalam stream http://allindiaradio.gov.in/radio/live.php?channel=12 not available (Dr Hansjoerg Biener, 19 August 2019, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 3325, Voice of Indonesia, via RRI Palangkaraya, Aug 17. Was wishful thinking on my part today to think that they might have a decent audio level, seeing as it was their Independence Day, but no, just the usual carrier (totally unusable), at 1312 (no English heard, just the carrier) (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** IRELAND. "Pirate radio stations invade Dublin's airwaves" The Sunday Times August 18 2019 Illegal stations on the FM band in Dublin now outnumber licensed outfits by more than two to one — and legitimate broadcasters feel under attack --- Interesting article here: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/pirate-radio-stations-invade-dublin-s-airwaves-mjlc8rz07 (via Mike Terry, Aug 18, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) It really annoys me when someone who has got where he is using pirate radio complain about others doing the same thing. Kevin Branigan, chief executive of Radio Nova, says it is ‘outrageous’ that illegal stations are able to broadcast to users of Dublin’s Port Tunnel (Gareth Foster, ibid.) I don't think there's any connection between the 80s pirate Radio Nova and the current station called Radio Nova in Dublin. According to this interview, Kevin Branigan was a young teenager when Chris Cary's Nova was on the air. https://radiotoday.ie/2018/04/revealing-qa-with-nova-ceo-kevin-branigan/ What confuses me about the article is: if the Port Tunnel relay is just a repeater that transmits whatever it receives, why is it relaying the pirates and not Nova? I've been in the tunnel recently and can confirm Nova is not transmitting down there. I can't verify whether any pirates are on air in the tunnel (Andy King, ibid.) pirate.ie on Twitter: 2:1 pirate claim is bogus, it's 1:4 List on his full post. https://twitter.com/pirate_ie/status/1163048204629422080 (Mike Barraclough, ibid.) ** JAPAN [non]. NHK World Radio Japan via ENC-DMS Al-Dhabayya, Aug 15 1515-1600 on 11775.2 DHA 250 kW / 060 deg to SoAs Urdu, fair to good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/nhk-world-radio-japan-via-enc-dms-al_15.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 15-16, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KASHMIR. CALM OR CHAOS IN KASHMIR? CONTRASTING REPORTS EMERGE Girls with henna decorations to mark Eid al-Adha in Jammu last week. The Indian government said it eased restrictions for the festival. PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS A New York Times image showing demonstrators outside Srinagar on Friday. Ongoing news reports of civilian victims of pellet-gun injuries trickling into Srinagar's two key hospitals run counter to the government's claim of calm in the Kashmir valley. PHOTO: NYTIMES Published Aug 18, 2019, 5:00 am SGT Official govt account of normalcy in the state challenged by foreign media reports of violent protests Debarshi Dasgupta India Correspondent In New Delhi Photographs of residents making purchases ahead of Eid al-Adha. A series of videos showing India's National Security Adviser engaging in freewheeling chats with locals on the streets. Aerial footage of traffic moving along Srinagar's streets as if it were just another day. These are some examples of social media content that the Indian government has put online, aimed at conveying a sense of calm in the state of Jammu and Kashmir since the controversial decision to revoke the state's decades-old special status on Aug 5. Please subscribe or log in to continue reading the full article. https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/calm-or-chaos-in-kashmir-contrasting-reports-emerge A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Sunday Times on August 18, 2019, with the headline 'Calm or chaos in Kashmir? Contrasting reports emerge' (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** KASHMIR [non]. UK/India/Pakistan - „BBC World Service steps up shortwave broadcasts in Kashmir during media shutdown 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 shortwave radio services. [...] 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. [...] https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2019/world-service-steps-up-broadcasts-in-kashmir (15 August 2019) The new service was observed on 19 August: 0700-0729 (!): 13650 (Al-Dhabbiya UAE) // 15310 (A’Seela Oman) weakly audible using the webSDR http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ better audible using http://newdelhi.twrmon.net:8073/ There were 29 minutes of Urdu programming, although https://www.bbc.com/urdu/bbc_urdu_radio/w3cszl81 yields a 15 minute only programme. I can’t understand Urdu. So, I cannot say, whether the Urdu service had a full "half hour" programme or the Neemroz programme was broadcast twice (Dr Hansjoerg Biener, 19 August 2019, WORLD OF RADIO 1996, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [...] BBC World Service English broadcasts (11795, 9670, 9580, 7345, 6040) 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. [...]" https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2019/world-service-steps-up-broadcasts-in-kashmir The following frequencies were confirmed by actual listening: 0200-0300: 9670 (TAC 100 kW, 131°) 11795 (ERV 100 kW, 125°) heard in Europe on 20 August 1600-1700: 6040 (TAC 100 kW, 131°) 7345 (ERV 100 kW, 125°) heard in Europe on 19 August (Dr Hansjoerg Biener 20 August 2019, WORLD OF RADIO 1996, DXLD) And additional frequency 1100-1200 on 9580 TAC 100 kW / 131 deg (Ivo, ibid. WORLD OF RADIO 1996) ** KASHMIR [non]. WILL BBC ONCE AGAIN LIFT THE VEIL OF SECRECY? (Comment) The News Scroll 18 August 2019 Last Updated 10:32 am | Source: IANS https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/kashmir-will-bbc-once-again-lift-the-veil-of-secrecy-comment/1598980 It is just as well that the BBC has decided to expand its shortwave radio service in Kashmir to beat the communications blackout. This is not the first time the BBC has played this role - and for good reason. Because the supine, mainstream media in L.K. Advanis words crawls when it is asked to bend. Prime Minister, Narendra Modi had touched on the reasons for this spinelessness in his very first speech in Parliament in May, 2014. Although he did not mention the media, he traced the general obsequiousness to 1,200 years of "ghulami" or subjugation. Moghuls cannot be blamed for warts on the media's face because in their period there was no media to speak of. Yes, one great editor of a paper called Urdu Akhbar, was tied to a cannon by the British and blown to smithereens for his critical writings. The Editor, Molvi Mohammad Baqar was the son of the greatest stylist in Urdu literature, Mohammad Hussain Azad. The media, as we know it today, was a gift of the British. The imperial DNA is indelibly embedded in this media, both electronic and print, which dominates the Indian mindscape. Mark Twain had put his finger on the nerve. "There are only two forces that carry light to all corners of the globe - the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here." It is this western "ghulami", which tempers our nationalism. To wear the badge of nationalism, the formula is simple: heap hatred on Pakistan and work assiduously to have your progeny parked permanently in the US. The other day The Indian Express devoted its entire front page to an advertisement about itself. The heading was: "Is Your Opinion Yours?" "Your opinion should belong to you." The ad signs off: "The Indian Express. For the Indian Intelligent." The ad is loaded with irony. One full inside page of the newspaper, at least three to five times a week, is a straight lift from The Economist including its main editorial. Why Xi Jinping is slipping, how Putin's end is round the corner, why Maduro must quit Venezuela, how the Jewish museum in Berlin reflects the Muslim-Palestinian perspective and so on. This is in addition to countless other news items from French, British and American news agencies. How then do you explain the July 28, 2019 page one of the Indian Express asking a young lady, stepping out into the world, "Is your opinion yours?" It is a little impertinent of the newspaper to pose the question when its own opinions on foreign affairs are The Economist's, and sundry western agencies. Most newspapers are guilty on that count. The Economist is a great magazine but it represents interests of the right-wing western establishment. By having this publication saturate our media space, we expose our ruling class to a point of view which is not ours, unless we have avowedly surrendered our independence to our previous masters. What the BBC is proposing now is to expand its short wave radio to beat the blackout in what is now "undisputedly" India. Here is yet another irony. The BBC has always had credibility in a state where a balanced, fearless Indian media would have gone miles to win hearts and minds. When the senior Mirwaiz Mohammad Farooq, the present Mirwaiz's father, was assassinated in 1990, I accompanied BBC''s Satish Jacob, to cover the Mirwaiz's funeral at the Idgah. Why did Mark Tully the Bureau Chief himself not cover the most important of stories? After all, 72 men and women were killed in the violence. Since the BBC radio was the only credible media which covered Kashmir, Tully would be mobbed because he was too well known. Satish, his deputy, would turn up with his fancy recorder but he would project himself as "German radio" which the agitated Kashmiris had no interest in. I sought protection joining the funeral as Satish's sidekick. My appearances on Doordarshan were on issues unrelated to Kashmir. But the agitated processionists put two and two together and, not only did they identify me, they turned upon me with unspeakable fury. They had recognized me from my Doordarshan appearances. I had incurred their wrath because in a BBC radio interview I had pointed my finger of suspicion for the murder of Mirwaiz at various groups in the valley but not on Indian agencies. "You are a sarkari chamcha" they jeered at me. The mob multiplied in geometrical progression. Soon I had thousands, arms raised, about to assault me in unison. It was a frenzied, lynch mob. Just then a short man with light eyes, wearing a blue shirt and trouser, whipped out a revolver. He shouted above the din. "I shall finish him off." Then he waved his revolver at the howling, screaming mob. "Move back." He dragged me by the sleeves to the exit. "Now you can go, and do not be seen here." He was Feroz from the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF). This was the Front's signal that it was not anti-India. The story now has taken a much more blistering turn. The BBC''s credibility will grow astronomically unless strings are pulled at its head office in London with the following message: "Look, you have turned your face away from the Palestinian story under pressure of the Jewish lobby. Why can''t you turn your face away from this one? BBC will have to ponder. The Arab audience has been neutralized by Israeli stratagem, Saudi money and the western media. But is the BBC prepared to forgo the steady, reliable clientele in Pakistan? The only balm on the wounded Kashmiri psyche will be to shut up the screaming jingoist anchors controlling the multiple channels. Open the valley to a balanced, independent media. It may take time but it will work in the long run. Of course, I may be speaking out of turn because no one quite knows the depth of the brutality inflicted on the people. Only when the dark curtain of secrecy is lifted from the valley will we know whether the wounds are amenable to any kind of cure. (Saeed Naqvi is a senior commentator on political and diplomatic issues. The views expressed are personal. He can be reached on saeednaqvi@hotmail.com) -- naqvi/am __________________________________________________________________ Disclaimer :- This story has not been edited by Outlook staff and is auto-generated from news agency feeds (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) BBC IS INCREASING ITS SHORTWAVE RADIO SHOWS TO GET PAST THE NEWS LOCKDOWN IN INDIAN-CONTROLLED KASHMIR By Hadas Gold, CNN Business Updated 2:31 PM ET, Fri August 16, 2019 https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/16/business/bbc-kashmir-india-shortwave-radio/index.html London (CNN Business) --- As a communications blackout continues in Kashmir, the BBC is using one of the only ways to reach listeners in the Indian-controlled state: shortwave radio. The BBC is extending its Hindi radio output by 30 minutes, launching a 15-minute daily program in Urdu, and expanding its English broadcasts by an hour. All are being broadcast via shortwave signals. "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 shortwave radio services," Jamie Angus, director of the BBC World Service, said in a statement. Indian-controlled Kashmir is under a tight security lockdown and total communications blackout. The blackout has included internet and landline phones, and some television channels have been cut. The repressive measures, in place since August 5, were introduced just days before the Indian government announced that it was withdrawing Article 370 of the constitution, reclassifying Kashmir's administrative status from a state to a union territory. The move took away Kashmir's semi-autonomous special status. Pakistan, which also controls territory in the region, reacted angrily to the move by India. The two neighbors have fought three wars over Kashmir, and the region has been the focus of periodic conflict for more than 70 years. Shortwave radio bands are able travel long distances using very high frequencies, unlike traditional radio waves that need to travel in straight lines. In an interview with CNN Business, Angus said most people in the region don't normally use shortwave to listen to their programs. But due to the communications blocks, "we've got limited options," he said. "The shortwave audience has historically been in decline, but it's an important lifeline as a way to reach people," Angus said. "People value the BBC because it's independent and one step removed from the national heat around these discussions, that's why people value our reporting." Tensions between authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir and the BBC have been growing. Police in the region have asked people "not to believe fabricated and motivated news" after the BBC published a report saying security forces dispersed protesters in Srinagar, Kashmir, using gun fire and tear gas. The police said "no firing incident has taken place in Kashmir over 6 days." The BBC stood by its reporting. "We strongly refute any claims that we have misrepresented events in Kashmir," the news service said. "We are covering the situation impartially and accurately. Like other broadcasters we are currently operating under severe restrictions in Kashmir but we will continue to report what is happening," the statement continued. Sugam Pokharel contributed to this report. (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH. [WOR] North Korea using DRM? A DRM transmission from North Korea was reportedly heard on 3560 at various times yesterday and today (20 and 21 August). https://twitter.com/SWWINB/status/1163741198873432064 (Chris Greenway, Aug 21, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1996, DXLD) Since 2017: https://www.bclnews.it/2017/09/02/north-korea-drm-3560-khz (Roberto Scaglione, Sicily, ibid.) Re: [bdxc-news] North Korea using DRM? North Korea has tested DRM on 3560 in the past, reported in 2017 and back in 2012. See this report from US-based 'North Korea Tech' in June 2012: https://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/06/08/north-korea-apparently-testing-digital-radio/ Haven't seen DRM from North Korea mentioned by the DRM Consortium, who are usually keen to promote any DRM broadcasts, though. 73, (Alan Pennington, Aug 22, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) Are you sure this was DRM noise rather than just regular jamming noise? They are so similar (gh, DXLD) When they delivered new BBEF Beijing SW transmitters to Kujang broadcast center in D.P.R. Korea in 2011 / 2012, they included also DRM mode ENCODING package to the Koreans. https://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/04/25/dprk-radio-transmitters-a-national-secret/ Rarely enough does a malfunction in Kujang instead of pure AM mode happen by the technicians. 73 (wolfie df5sx, WORLD OF RADIO 1996, ibid.) ** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 6040, JAPAN, Shiokaze/Sea Breeze (Opposition/Clandestine) at 1330 with W, over DPRK's beeper jammer. Usual music, the jailbreak alarm sound effect, etc. W in Korean in long monologue - Very Good August 18 (Rick Barton, Arizona SW Logs, Unless otherwise stated, equipment is Grundig Satellit 205/T.5000, RS SW-2000629, with various outdoor wires & indoor shortwire. Use of portables noted where relevant for perspective on signal strength comments. 73 and Good Listening.....! - rb, WOR iog via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. GUAM, Reception of BRB Living Water Ministry Broadcasting on August 20 1515-1615 5905*TWR 200 kW / 320 deg NEAs Korean Tue-Fri, weak to fair * co-ch 5905 KAS 100 kW / non-dir CeAs Russian China Radio Int-good Today BRB registered new 6055 kHz for BRB Living Water Ministry Broadcasting https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/reception-of-brb-living-water-ministry.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 20-21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) What about R. Nikkei, Japan on 6055? But it`s no longer registered in HFCC. Fortunately per Aoki/NDXC, it`s off after 1500* M/T/T/F, and 1520* on Wed; 0900* on weekends (gh, DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH. CO TP Report 8/15/19 (At Last!) C B Aug 15 #1757 972, HLCA, 1118-1138, In and out, male in Korean, fair signal when in, completely gone at 1124, back in from 1138 to 1148 with mumbly speech, in and out. Yea a TP in CO!! Not so much as a het from the rest, tomorrow's another day! 73, (Craig Barnes, Wheat Ridge, CO, Elad FDM-S2, W KAZ with Newell Phaser, Aug 15, IRCA iog via DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH. 4885, Echo of Hope - VOH. Am daily hearing the "Easy English" language lesson in English and Korean; current schedule observed at 1040 and again at 1340; always very readable, as this frequency is never jammed (occasionally is bothered by OTH radar, otherwise in the clear); announcers "perky, perky Jenny" and "happy Isaac." Noted Aug 21 (Wed.), in progress at 1045, confirming their schedule (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1996, DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH and KOREA NORTH [non]. 5920, Voice of Freedom, 1253, Aug 17. Pop songs doing well till hit with Shiokaze sign on at *1300. Badly mixing together, per my audio at http://bit.ly/2P3cb1U 6045, National Unity Radio, 1233, August 16. Pop music in the clear; hit at 1235 with N. Korea jamming, but NUR doing okay. My audio at http://bit.ly/2z6yoBj (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** KURDISTAN [non]. FRANCE, Reception of Denge Welat via TDF Aug 19 0230-0500 on 9525 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish, very good 0500-0600 on 11530 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish, very good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/reception-of-denge-welat-via-tdf.html Denge Welat via Issoudun & Grigoriopol, August 19 0500-0600 on 11530 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish, very good 0600-1600 on 11530 KCH 300 kW / 130 deg to WeAs Kurdish, weak/fair https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/reception-of-denge-welat-via-issoudun.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 18-19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. Reception of MOI Radio Kuwait General Service August 18 1055-1333 9749.8 KBD 250 kW / 286 deg NEAf Arabic-good signal, co-ch same time 9750.0 YAM 300 kW / 290 deg EaAs Japanese Radio Japan NHK: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/reception-of-moi-radio-kuwait-general.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Kuwait in Arabic GS, instead of English on August 20 0445-0500 on 15529.8 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Arabic GS, unscheduled in HFCC 0500-0800 on 15529.8 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Arabic GS, instead of English: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/radio-kuwait-in-arabic-gs-instead-of.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 19-20, DX LISTENING DIGEST) MOI Radio Kuwait anomaly on 15530vkHz DRM mode, August 21 0500-0800 on 15530vKBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu DRM, instead of AM Something`s always wrong at Radio Kuwait Kabd transmitting station https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/anomalies-of-rkuwait-on-august-21.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 21-22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) MOI Radio Kuwait again in English on 15530v on August 21: 0500-0800 on 15529.8 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu English, instead of 0500-0800 on 15529.8 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Arabic GS August 20 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/moi-radio-kuwait-again-in-english-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Also today Radio Kuwait from 0500 UT on 15529.7 is in DRM, instead of AM mode (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, 0536 UT Aug 22, WOR iog via DXLD) Anomalies of R. Kuwait on Aug 21 evening & Aug 22 morning 1700-2000 17535 KBD 250 kW / 350 deg to ENAm DRM mode, instead 13650 1800-2100 15540vKBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu DRM mode - as scheduled 0500-0800 11970vKBD 250 kW / 100 deg to SoAs DRM mode - as scheduled 0500-0800 15530vKBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu DRM mode, instead of AM Something`s always wrong at R Kuwait Sulaibiyah transmitting station https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/anomalies-of-rkuwait-on-august-21.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 21-22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17535: see also VATICAN; UNIDENTIFIED ** KYRGYZSTAN. On June 1, after completion of installation and commissioning, a radio transmitter and an antenna complex consisting of three masts for broadcasting at a frequency of 612 kHz were launched in test mode. Broadcasts in the direction of the countries of Central Asia are on the following schedule: from 0000 to 1200, mainly in the Kyrgyz language, national programs (transmitter power 100 kW); from 1357 the call signs of Trans World Radio and religious music will be broadcast (transmitter power - 200 kW). The end of the tests is at 1630. After the tests are completed, broadcasting will begin in full mode. For broadcasts, the German-used TRANSRADIO transmitter https://ampegon.com/de/produkte/broadcast/ with air cooling, consisting of two 100 kW blocks and an addition bridge, is used for broadcasts. https://ftp.radio.ru/pub/2019/08/25.pdf (via Rus-DX 18 Aug via DXLD) ** MEXICO. Progress - or lack of it! Members, Just to keep you updated, I am making some progress. I have separated over 300 [MW] Mexican stations which have now been closed. The differences between columns for Active and Inactive or Closed make the job of moving such a large number of stations from one spreadsheet to another slow going. Once these stations are away from my Active spreadsheet I can complete the work on the remaining active stations. There is yet another colour now in use on my spreadsheets. It is light orange. This refers to what are essentially Phoenix operations. In these cases the same frequencies and masts will be reused. What is changing is the licence and the names of the station. For Mexico 17 stations have already alerted IFT and have registered the new names and call signs. I am still a little unsure where to put these entries. Once the new identity is in use and the stations are broadcasting they will of course go onto Active. I have temporarily placed them in Inactive or Closed. I will try to keep an eye on Mexican DX websites to see when the reactivations take place. Fortunately once Mexico is completed it will be a speedy task to have all stations on the Central America tab ready for Geo-Hack input. 73 and 88 (Dan Goldfarb, UK, 19 Aug, mwmasts iog via DXLD) ** MEXICO. XEJ-970 format moved to XEPZ-1190? Looky here. XEJ-970's web site now says "1190 AM." The 970 had recently been reported silent. http://radiomexiconoticias.com/ Lots of musical chairs among the Grupo Radio Centro right now. Mexico City AMs appear to be undergoing a major shuffle. Making it difficult to put the wraps on the 2019-2020 Mex Log. 73 (Tim Hall, Aug 19, ABDX yg via DXLD) ** MEXICO. 990, XECL, BN, Mexicali, 8/14, 2315 [EDT = 0315 UT Aug 15] Romantic ballad, familiar jingle "Rock-ola nueve noventa" (the jukebox on 990). Muchas gracias for the tip from IRCS's Glen Kippel (Yucca Valley in the Mojave Desert CA) that this old favorite of ours was back. I recall the times when this station had a lot of oldies from the 50s and 60s. They played the original versions, and Spanish language covers done by Mexican bands. Nothing like Wild Thing or The Surfin' Bird in Spanish. Had a button set for 990 in my pickup truck. (Rick Barton, Arizona MW Logs, Times/Dates in Eastern. My tube gear shack is largely retired for the hot summer. Unless otherwise stated, equipment is Grundig Satellit 205/T.5000 RS SW-2000629, Panasonic RF-2200 - stock or with Terk Advantage loop. 73 and Good Listening.....! ~ rb, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1996, DXLD) ** MEXICO. RADIOS ENFRENTAN A EVANGÉLICOS CON IFT; EL INSTITUTO SE DESLINDA DE ACTOS DE EXTORSIÓN Aplicamos la ley a quienes usan el espectro sin concesión, dice la autoridad; es nuestro derecho, responden abogados cristianos 19/08/2019 Abner Chávez El Universal https://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/radios-enfrentan-a-evangelicos-con-ift-el-instituto-se-deslinda-de-actos-de-extorsion ENGLISH: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=https://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/radios-enfrentan-a-evangelicos-con-ift-el-instituto-se-deslinda-de-actos-de-extorsion&prev=search [Looks like an important story, but this link does not work; and trying to translate the headline alone, google botches: ``RADIOS FACE EVANGELICS WITH IFT; THE INSTITUTE LIMITS HIMSELVES OF EXTORSION`` --- go back to the original Spanish website and try an English link again? Doesn`t Google know there is no such word in English as ``himselves``???] clip_image004 --- El 28 de julio pasado, este diario publicó que grupos evangélicos operan mil radios en clandestinidad a lo largo y ancho del país, al considerar que es su derecho transmitir sus creencias por ese y otros medios. Foto: Especial CIUDAD DE MÉXICO. El Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT) negó categóricamente que su personal realice o haya realizado cualquier acto de extorsión o corrupción, y aseguró que el actuar de su personal ha estado siempre en el marco de la ley. Lo anterior, al responder a las acusaciones expresadas por la Barra Nacional de Abogados Cristianos (BNAC), que señaló que pastores y líderes evangélicos que operan mil radios en la clandestinidad “viven toda una inquisición religiosa de parte de inspectores y funcionarios de ese Instituto”, como publicó Excélsior el pasado 28 de julio. En voz de Angelina Mejía Guerrero, coordinadora general de Comunicación Social, el IFT aclara que “el uso del espectro radioeléctrico sin concesión es ilegal. La Ley Federal de Telecomunicaciones y Radiodifusión (LFTyR) establece claramente en su artículo 305 que ‘las personas que presten servicios de telecomunicaciones o de radiodifusión, sin contar con concesión o autorización, o que por cualquier otro medio invadan u obstruyan las vías generales de comunicación, perderán en beneficio de la nación los bienes, instalaciones y equipos empleados en la comisión de dichas infracciones’”. En ese sentido, establece que “el Instituto tiene la obligación de sancionar, conforme a lo establecido en la LFTyR, a quienes hagan uso de este bien de la nación sin contar con la concesión o autorización necesaria”. Consultados al respecto, abogados cristianos, representados por Alfonso Farrera González, cuestionaron la base legal de la actuación del IFT, al considerar que, por obligación, ésta y todas las instituciones del gobierno mexicano tienen que aplicar la Constitución y los tratados internacionales por encima de leyes secundarias, como la LFTyR. Y hacen un llamado a que el IFT “reconozca y respete como derechos humanos el acceso a la información, libertad de expresión, libertad de culto y religión, libertad de acceso a la tecnología, el derecho a la información, libertad al libre desarrollo de la persona, así como a buscar, recibir y difundir información e ideas de toda índole por cualquier medio de expresión, libertad de difundir por cualquier medio nuestros pensamientos, ideas y creencias religiosas”. Advierten, además, “que el Art. 305 (de la LFTyR) es inconstitucional, por oponerse a los Art. 1, 6 y 7 (de la Carta Magna) e inconvencional, por contradecir los artículos 12 y 13 de la Convención Americana sobre Derechos Humanos. Por lo tanto, la acción del IFT es inquisitoria e inconstitucional”. clip_image006 clip_image008 MULTAs, ¿sí o no? En su carta aclaratoria, el IFT expone que, “de conformidad con el artículo 298, fracción E, de la LFTyR, se sanciona con multa equivalente a 6.01% y hasta 10% de los ingresos de la persona infractora, o con multa hasta por el equivalente a 82 millones de salario mínimo, a quien preste servicios de radiodifusión sin contar con concesión o autorización”, como es el caso de los operadores de las radios evangélicas clandestinas. La Barra Nacional de Abogados Cristianos responde al respecto que el Instituto se equivoca al multar a los grupos religiosos como “persona infractora”, “al darnos un trato como si fuéramos una empresa, que éstas sí prestan servicios de radiodifusión. Nosotros, los grupos religiosos, sólo lo usamos (el espectro radioeléctrico) para ejercer nuestro libre derecho de difundir nuestras ideas, creencias religiosas para nuestros radioescuchas (…). El IFT se confunde, porque la Ley de Asociaciones Religiosas y Culto Público que nos norma, claramente nos ubica como entes con fines no mercantiles, que en su artículo 8 dice: ‘Las asociaciones religiosas deberán (…) abstenerse de perseguir fines de lucro o preponderantemente económicos’. Y estos grupos (radios evangélicas clandestinas) no persiguen ningún tipo de ingreso. No tienen ningún giro mercantil. La palabra ‘presten’ se refiere a los servicios de radios comerciales y, por lo tanto, no aplica para las iglesias cristianas evangélicas, pues no prestamos, sólo usamos los medios de comunicación para el libre y pleno ejercicio de nuestros derechos humanos de la libertad de difundir nuestros pensamientos, ideas, creencias religiosas, Sin ningún fin comercial. (…) No tenemos ingresos, no cobramos nada; tampoco vendemos a nuestro Dios, no somos un giro mercantil. Ofenden nuestro honor al calificarnos como mercenarios del Evangelio, su actitud es inquisitoria, humillante, deshonrosa”. PERITOS, A DEBATE En otro asunto, la Coordinación General de Comunicación Social considera necesario señalar que el Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones no cuenta con peritos, “por lo que es falsa la afirmación de la realización de cobros por parte de peritos del IFT para evaluar las instalaciones de una estación. Negamos categóricamente que la extorsión sea el actuar del personal de este Instituto”. En respuesta, la BNAC compartió un link publicado en la página oficial del Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones, “para comprobar que sí tienen el monopolio en los peritajes. A nuestros ingenieros no los aceptan, tenemos que pagarles a los que ellos nos señalan”. Efectivamente, la página http://www.ift.org.mx/industria/registro-nacional-de-peritos muestra un listado de 39 peritos en radiodifusión, 49 en Telecomunicaciones y nueve de Telecomunicaciones y Radiodifusión. Pero como pudo comprobar Excélsior, la lista, aunque es publicada en la página oficial del IFT, se refiere a personas que no pertenecen al Instituto, aunque el aval profesional es respaldado por la institución (via Juan Franco Crespo, Spain, DXLD) ** MEXICO. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BEAT THIS WEEK --- Aug 16-22, barely including some DTV = TDT --- [picking up with a non-Raymie responder] The rise of a new radio player? Some days ago in GRC headquarters, the owners of the Infraiber company, involved in disputes over works and services contracts in the State of Mexico, would be interested in acquiring a radio station and among the options is Grupo Radio Centro, for which they apparently already submitted a formal offer for USD $ 43 millions, according to the "Bajo Reserva" column of the newspaper El Universal. Pedro Topete and Paulo Díez "reinvented themselves" as trial lawyers against key concessions, after running out of contracts for works during the current Mexican administration. The main company that would have entered into a contract with the improvised radio entrepreneurs would be Grupo Radio Centro, owned by what remains of the Aguirre family. The frequency of main interest is the XERC-FM 97.7 and although the top managers of the station would not have accepted the proposal yet, the possibility of starting to migrate content in some other frequencies is already being handled so much. Let's see how this goes by in the next weeks. Last edited by f_santosp; 08-20-2019 at 01:33 PM. Reason: Adding a comment (f_santosp, Veracruz, Aug 20, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) The Infraiber rumor is interesting, and I can see GRC as desperate, but they also categorically denied the report. https://twitter.com/PDiezG/status/1162145654644195329 ——— Capital Media continues to be a revolving door of format changes. With stations in Villahermosa and Ixtapan de la Sal flipping, more than half of the 18 stations that started the year on the air for the group have had a format change (or, in XHNAQ's case, two of them) in 2019. The Pirata network was retooled, earning unfavorable comparisons to Mix, and two stations (XHTTT and XEITE) were transferred to other operators. Just XHCMR, XHLZ/Coah., XHUX, XHCHH/Gro., XHEIM, XHJR and XHMZI have remained untouched this year. Particularly for the first three, the last remaining "Capital FM" stations, the future is questionable. Here's the infographic I put on En Frecuencia for this today: http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?9113-The-Mexico-Beat&p=48215#post48215 A few other things going on: •*Grupo Larsa makes even less sense: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10219894290258329&id=1553427700 they are now operating XEXN Ures, Sonora, as Toño. They say they'll be on FM soon (how?). This station might very well have gone extinct with an inability to pay for its concession renewal, though. • Radiorama Chiapas and Coatzacoalcos, an ORM component, is in major upheaval of the weirdest variety. The Facebook pages of the stations, being run by a Tuxtla Gutiérrez company called "Radio y Redes Marketing Digital, S.A. de C.V.", have split from the stations themselves, and almost all of them have flipped formats. We still don't have complete information, particularly for Tapachula, but in Tuxtla, only XHIO was completely spared (probably because of ASG or something). XHUE is "Radio Zoque", a Regional Mexican oldies station; XHLM is still Romántica but has not aired its programs lately; both stations in Huixtla changed branding. In Coatzacoalcos, information on XHAFA is still unavailable; XHGB is now "Estéreo Joven". • Staying in southern Veracruz, Núcleo Radio Mina had a bad week last week. Remember the journalists protesting poor conditions? Bad went to worse on Wednesday, August 14, when CFE representatives showed up to shut off the power. The company was in a 216,000-peso debt to the utility company. https://www.diariodelistmo.com/noticiasveracruz/regional-sur/41257148/cfe-suspende-servicio-a-radiodifusora-en-minatitl-on.html You can't broadcast without electricity, so they're off the air on both XHKM-FM 95.3 and XHMTV-FM 100.9/1260. (XHAYA in Guerrero disappeared for a similar reason at the end of 2018; its concession has expired.) • There's also been two brand changes in a month at XHYN-FM in Oaxaca, now known as Retro 102.9 despite still playing pop music. The station had weeks ago ceased to be Los 40 and became "Estéreo Joven", remaining in the pop format. • The Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo announced its new broadcast stations last Friday, the same day concessions were posted. They are XHPEAH-TDT 8 in Pachuca and XHPECI-FM 91.1 in Tulancingo. • The Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez formally announced that in April 2020, it will indeed sign on its 90.1 FM university station (from Práxedis G. Guerrero). Calls have not been announced. • Red Global Cultural de Televisión, A.C., beat out Instituto Michoacano de Radiodifusión, A.C., to win a new social TV station in Puebla, as determined by the IFT on June 19. • In March, XHUPC-FM officially became XHIPN-FM in Mexico City. The IPN had wanted this call change for years to improve identification of the station with the polytechnic institute. We learned this on August 8 (Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ, Aug 21, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) Quote Originally Posted by Raymie ``The Infraiber rumor is interesting, and I can see GRC as desperate, but they also categorically denied the report.`` And the price of 43 million seems almost lower than the renewal fee for a Mexico City prime FM. I'd say that value was 10 to 20 times that (David Eduardo Gleason, La Quinta CA, Aug 21, ibid.) The 20-year renewal for XERC-FM cost them 24,270,916 pesos. http://www.ift.org.mx/sites/default/files/conocenos/pleno/sesiones/acuerdoliga/pift130916484completo.pdf [tagline:] Este programa es público, ajeno a cualquier partido político. Queda prohibido el uso para fines distintos a los establecidos en el programa (Raymie, ibid.) Thanks for that data. Again, it seems unlikely that even a lower rated one of the GRC FMs would not be worth in the vicinity of around 150,000,000 to maybe 250,000,000 pesos (David Eduardo G., Aug 23, ibid.) ** MEXICO. 6185, Radio Educación, Ciudad de México, 0456-0507*, 15-08, theatre play “El Hingenioso Idalgo [sic] Don Quijote de la Mancha”, songs. 23422 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol and Lugo, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** MYANMAR. 5985, Myanmar Radio, on Aug 16, from 1131+. Fair reception of the live coverage (TV audio feed), in vernacular, of the football/soccer match between Southern Myanmar (under 21) vs Dagon (U21); played at Yamanya Stadium (Mawlamyine, Myanmar); strong sound of the crowd in the background; preempted regular programming; during the half time, played songs. My audio at http://bit.ly/2P36vEX (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) 5985, Myanmar Radio. Am hearing the two consecutive five minute shows of "Learning English with BBC, Burmese," running together from about 1300 to 1310, on Wednesday and Friday. Noted briefly on Aug 21 (Wed.), at 1302, already in progress; "Can you play football?" "Yes, I can," "How about you?" "No I don't, but I go running," etc.; usually the reception is fairly readable (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1996, DXLD) ** MYANMAR [non]. 11905, QSL from Hingna Awl Matu Radio, Rangoon, Myanmar. Nice response from the operator of the Matu language studio, located in Rangoon, for Reach Beyond Australia. Another of my “remote studio targets”. These are a lot of fun for me to hear and often provide a challenge to track down the studio contact. Often one hears an email address during a transmission, other times one can find a correspondence address on the website of the hosting organization like RBA or Adventist World Radio, Trans World Radio, FEBC/FEBA. Sometimes these guys stay incognito since their studios are located in hostile environments. Hingna Awl Matu Radio is operated by a Burmese named Aung Win, who was recruited by RBA and who, at first, didn’t see himself operating a radio studio. He writes a long, interesting story in his response to my report. Hingna Awl Matu Radio transmits Sun/Wed/Sat on 11905 via Kunnunurra at 1130-1200. Contact address is HingnaAwl @ gmail.com (Ralphus W Perry, IL, Listeners Notebook, August NASWA Journal via WORLD OF RADIO 1996, DXLD) [Via kHz, MHz and Gigantic Hz, WORLD OF RADIO 1996 ----] ** NEW ZEALAND. DRM Test on 9760 kHz? As noted here in Indian Wells this evening (22 August UT), there was a strong carrier on 9760 kHz with test tones before 0430 UT, then a straight carrier continuously except for a couple of brief pauses and then around 0500, a wideband signal appeared, presumably DRM. But from whom? RNZI? Anyone else with DRM capability use this frequency? (— Richard Langley, CA, 0522 UT Aug 22, WOR iog via DXLD) 9760, Thu Aug 22 at 0614-0615* huge S9-S6 dead air, presumably RNZI which during its Thursday maintenance period is liable to test frequencies beyond their scheduled hours. Signal level is much like the SSOB we get from RNZI on 9700 before 0600. Richard Langley, visiting California, also had unID on 9760 a bit earlier [above]: The question is whether 9700-AM was on as usual at 05-06; if so, both transmitters would have been running. Hours for 9760 are DRM only, 1936-2058 on Sunday-Friday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 15120/DRM (Mode C/16-QAM SDC and MSC) with silly sports news, a PSA about HIV, and ID just before s/off. About 2.5 minutes decoded in the 5 minutes with a s/n bouncing around 9-12 dB. At this low data rate and in 16QAM Mode C, it *almost* worked. 1849-1854* 12/Aug, SDRplay +SDRuno +DReaM +randomwire (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Port Hope MI2, MARE Tipsheet 16 Aug via DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. Re: [WOR] YHWH at it again --- You didn`t hear him as he hasn`t been on for a while - until now. Have him right now 0430 at tune-in in progress, 7470, 8/17 UT. 73 & good listening (-Rick in Arizona Barton, 0434 UT Aug 17, WOR iog via DXLD) 7470, UNITED STATES (Pirate), YHWH (in progress at tune-in) 0420. Josiah and the usual Ten Commandments monologue. Good, but at times doing deep fades with a LOT of static (on SW-2000269, longwire). That el creepo Days of Hard Life song at 0446, brief closing announcement, & off - Fair/Good & VG on peaks August 17 7470, YHWH (in progress at tune-in) at 0305. Josiah and the usual Yahweh or the highway monologues. Really outstanding reception at this writing - Excellent August 18 (Rick Barton, Arizona SW Logs, u.o.s., equipment is Grundig Satellit 205/T.5000, RS SW-2000629, with various outdoor wires & indoor shortwire, WOR iog via DXLD) Hi Rick, On Aug 18, also noted YHWH on 7470 kHz. Tuned in at 0322. Nice readable reception, about animal sacrifices. Half an hour later had gone downhill to no usable signal (only a carrier heard). (Ron Howard, California, ibid.) A pattern I'm seeing is that the station starts off "Armchair" and fades into the static by the end. Here is more of a complete report from this evening: 7470, UNITED STATES (Pirate), YHWH at 0245. I was monitoring the channel, when suddenly the station comes up just out of nowhere with "Josiah". Very strong and, going back to the back bedroom, I am able to hear him on the little Longine's Symphonette World Traveler 4 band portable with its telescopic whip. Signal went from Excellent to Good around 0300, and at 0345, he's telling us to burn the flags. Seemed to just fade into the static at 0350. (This is usually the case; the station is very strong in the beginning, and always ends sketchy at the end. Is he running the station off AAA batteries, or what). - August 19 (Rick Barton, AZ, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1996, DXLD) 7470, UNITED STATES (Pirate), YHWH at 0245. I was monitoring the channel, when suddenly the station comes up just out of nowhere with "Josiah". Very strong and, going back to the back bedroom, I am able to hear him on the little Longine's Symphonette World Traveler 4 band portable with its telescopic whip. Signal went from Excellent to Good around 0300, and at 0345, he's telling us to burn the flags. Seemed to just fade into the static at 0350. (This is usually the case, the station is very strong in the beginning, and always sketchy at the end. Is he running the station off AAA batteries, or what). - August 19 (Rick Barton, AZ, WOR iog via DXLD) Rick, When the station suddenly appeared, was Josiah already speaking, as if the program started in mid-sentence? My own theory is that he may be running the station from a remote location, and may not be physically present at the transmitter when it is on the air. He is likely using a modified ham transceiver. There were several Icom models from a few years back that could be easily modified to operate on any HF frequency by simply clipping a diode or jumper. Most modern solid state transceivers operate off of 12 volts, so they can be used in mobile installations directly, or as desktop radios with a 120-to-12 volt power supply. Your comment about “AAA batteries” may not be far off the mark. If the YHWH transmitter is running from a remote location, it would be easy to set it up to run off of battery power (perhaps using a rechargeable car battery), with a timer to power everything up at a specific time. Audio source could be a CD player or even an old-school cassette player. It would explain why the signal always seems to progressively weaken over time, and why it sometimes commences in mid-sentence. It would be easy enough to have a timer circuit that powers up the transmitter, and the audio source at the same time. This theory could be completely wrong, but having once run afoul of the FCC, perhaps Josiah wants to introduce some “plausible deniability” by using a remote transmitter that operates automatically so that he is not anywhere near it in case it gets tracked down again. Such an installation could even be equipped with solar cells to recharge the battery during the day. Kind of like the low-power desert beacons writ large (Jim Barrett, Elmira NY, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1996, DX LISTENING DIGEST) If controlled by a timer, why do the start times vary from one night to the next? Or the timer itself is not on 60 Hz AC power (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1996, ibid.) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. On Aug 19 I sent this to the engineer at TheClassicalStation.org with a copy to Brad Ferguson at KUCO: ``I usually listen for a while after midnight CDT via KUCO. For the last few nights there has been quite a problem. The announcements from WCPE are very low audio level, while the music levels are fine. This is on a mono-only radio. I have run into this problem before, and this is what I think is happening. Studio audio there must have been rewired, so that the mike is picking up in stereo but is out of phase, which means the left and right try to cancel each other out (but not quite). KUCO`s own inserted announcements are OK, so the problem is not at KUCO. Last night I confirmed this on another radio, a DX-398 which can be force-switched between mono and stereo reception of KUCO 90.1 off the air direct. Yes, listening in stereo, WCPE announcements sound OK, but if I make it mono they are suppressed. If you always listen in stereo you would not know there is a problem, but I am sure if you listen to your own signal this way you will find the same thing. And it is even being fed that way to the satellite uplink. Another problem. Long before this I was noticing a lot of background noise whenever the mike was open, like noisy fans or something in the studio -- hardly what we expect from a major world broadcaster. Some but not all announcers also need to be trained in technique of fading mike pot up and down, rather than switching it on at full bore. I hope anyway you will get the phasing fixed so we can hear what they are saying without straining or turning the volume up and down every time. Of course there is no point in having any stereo involved with the announcements. Since this has gone on for at least three nights, I am surprised if no one else has noticed and told you about it. I continue to be very appreciative of WCPE`s service, and have urged other stations in need of classical to look into it. Best wishes, Glenn Hauser, Enid OK`` (via gh, DXLD) 90.1, Aug 20 at 0625 UT, KUCO relaying TheClassicalStation, WCPE in NC, but still out-of-phase during WCPE announcement making it very low-level; I had already notified WCPE about this as in previous report, so asked again, and got this reply: ``Good Day Glenn, Yesterday our Engineering Manager instructed KUCO’s engineers to check the wiring from the satellite receiver (that receives WCPE) to their board for a possible crossover affecting our signal. We believe that this is the issue and are waiting for their confirmation. We are sorry for the delay in resolving the issue. I will write to you again after we have further discussion with KUCO. Best Regards, Gregg Cockroft, Engineer, Wake Forest, NC 27588`` 90.1, Aug 21 at 0559 UT, no more suppressed audio, so I then reply: ``Gregg, Thanks for following up on this. Last night it was back to normal on the break after Beethoven`s 7th at 1:59 am ET. So the problem was definitely at KUCO as you suggested? If so, apologies for assuming it was at WCPE. BTW, listening on headphones, I could even hear the ``subaudible`` cue tone before the ID, but KUCO did not catch it; instead we heard the WCPE etc. legal ID. I think this happens frequently anyway. What is the pitch of that tone? Glenn`` It’s a 35 Hz tone on the left channel (Dick Storck, Network Operations Manager, WCPE) No further replies yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. DTV RF 28, Aug 22 at 1437 UT, 44-1 Ion is decoding, along with 44-2 Qubo, 44-3 IonPlus, 44-4 Shop, 44-5 QVS, 44-6 HSN, i.e. the usual six channels on Ion stations like KOPX OKC. Lacking any real callsign ID, we know this one is really megawatt KTPX-TV Okmulgee for the Tulsa market; W9WI.com shows 44-3 as Ion Life instead. No, it`s now IonPlus as on KOPX, RF 18, 62-3, OKC. An hour earlier, KWOU 88.1 Woodward was way above normal level for `Stardate` so I knew there was some tropo; and good thing I made the DTV bandscan, since Hepburn`s tropo predixion maps showed no enhancement at all reaching Enid from either direxion. And his link to Mountainlake for current conditions still lands on blank maps. Only other DTV DX decoding is RF 20, KQCW-HD 19-1; but plenty of Bad signals from the OKC-aimed antenna thru the STB: 8, 10, 11, 12, 21, 22, 31, 34, 36, 45, mostly correlating with Tulsa market (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. 12120, 1731-, Radyo Pilipinas, Aug 13. Good reception into my simple XHData and short wire setup, sitting on my balcony on the 6th deck of HAL Zuiderdam, ENE of the Faroe Islands. A pleasant way to spend the early evening! That completes my 25 m band survey (Walt Salmaniw, Zuiderdam, Norwegian Sea, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES [non]. 9700, Aug 18 at 0024, S9-S6 fadey talk with that upward lilt so typical of Burmese --- or rather Kachin, which must be closely related, as this is the legacy RVA service at 0000-0027 transmitted via VATICAN since RVA quit its own shortwave; and displaying SMG`s remarkable [cap]ability to serve audiences in the ~opposite direxion, about the closest we can get --- not very! --- to a VR broadcast to North America direct. Then a suspiciously Christian-sounding hymn before off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** POLAND. Last Saturday I went to Bydgoszcz. The path there runs past the town Solec Kujawski near which there are transmitters broadcasting on the frequency 225 kHz (the first program of Polish radio). As it turned out from the railway the antennas are far away, but they are still clearly visible. Here is a photo from Wikimapia https://photos.wikimapia.org/p/00/05/10/90/17_big.jpg https://photos.wikimapia.org/p/00/05/10/90/37_big.jpg https://photos.wikimapia.org/p/00/05/10/90/55_big.jpg The height of one mast is 330 m, the second - 289 m. The antenna and equipment supplier was the French company Thomcast. Maximum power - 1000 kW. The direction of the antenna is southeast. Since 2015, a transmitter for broadcasting in DAB + format in within the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. September 4 will be 20 years since the transmitting center began its work (Sergey Alekseychik, Kutno, Poland / “open_dx” via Rus-DX 18 Aug via DXLD) ** ROMANIA. 11850, 1725-, RRI, Aug 13. Very good signal with nice Romanian music. Romania is one of the few countries, that are not totalitarian, that bother to produce worthwhile SW programming. Thank you, RRI! (Walt Salmaniw, Zuiderdam, Norwegian Sea, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Republic of Adygea --- GTRK Adygea broadcasts short-wave broadcasting programs in the summer season according to the following schedule: from 18.00 to 19.00 in Adyghe, Arabic and Turkish on Mondays; from 18.00 to 19.00 in the Adyghe language on Fridays; from 19.00 to 20.00 in the Adyghe language on Sundays. All broadcasting is carried out at a frequency of 6000 kHz, the transmitter power is 100 kW, the azimuth is 188 degrees. https://ftp.radio.ru/pub/2019/08/25.pdf (via Rus-DX 18 Aug via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. GAZPROM MEDIA AND EMG LAUNCHED THEIR RADIO STATIONS SIMULTANEOUSLY IN TWO FORMATS: ANALOG FM AND DIGITAL DRM. -------------------------------------------------- ------------- In St. Petersburg, an experiment has begun on the introduction of digital broadcasting on Comedy Radio, Autoradio and Europa Plus. It will bring new services for listeners, especially when traveling by car, electronics manufacturers are sure. The test results have not yet been impressed by media holdings, which warned of significant costs for introducing new technology across the country. The prospects for digital radio in Russia are also doubted by the Ministry of Communications. The first radio station appeared in Russia, which broadcasts simultaneously in analog and digital formats, a representative of the Russian Broadcasting Network (RTRS) told Kommersant. According to him, in July in St. Petersburg, the broadcast of the Comedy Radio of Gazprom Media Holding began simultaneously in two formats: analog FM and digital DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale). This is an experiment that will last at least until the end of the year, they say in RTRS. After installing the DRM transmitter, a digital copy of the station is added to the Comedy Radio FM signal at a frequency of 95.7 MHz, explain in RTRS. This, in particular, allows, along with the main signal, to additionally transmit “related text information, logos of radio stations and other images”. In testing RTRS, two more radio stations are participating, which also have a digital signal - Autoradio Gazprom-Media and Europa Plus of the European Media Group (EMG), the company noted. The DRM tests on radio stations are more correctly called scientific work as part of the study of this standard, says Gazprom Media Radio CEO Yuri Kostin. “It is too early to speak about the final conclusions, but while DRM is not impressive in terms of its performance, we still do not see any clear advantages for DRM over FM. Digital radio signal quality, like an HDTV, may be better in theory, but in terms of power, coverage and financial performance, the FM standard is still the best standard for radio,” he argues. EMG participates in this experiment, but it’s too early to speak about intermediate results, says EMG CEO Roman Emelyanov: “Switching to the “figure” for a country as large as Russia is a rather expensive process. It’s not a fact that the advantages of implementation, the ability of our students to use additional services will cover the significant costs that will be required to implement this project.” Market players have repeatedly stated that they do not support the introduction of any digital standard without the ability to preserve analog broadcasting, as it means a multiple increase in the number of players amid declining advertising revenue. The idea of creating a digital radio in Russia does not inspire profile officials. “I don’t think that digital terrestrial radio has any prospects in Russia,” said Alexey Volin, deputy head of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications. In his opinion, it is not worth investing in any of the existing standards, "unless, of course, it is a question of management personally making money on capital costs." However, on July 25, the State Commission on Radio Frequencies allowed the development of digital radio in Russia based on RAVIS technology (“Real-Time Audiovisual Information System”). It is being developed by a company of relatives of former Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, Kommersant wrote on August 6. DRM as a standard for digital broadcasting is a step forward in the modernization of broadcasting, and its implementation can only be welcomed, the interlocutor of Kommersant does not agree in one of the major equipment manufacturers. In his opinion, car radios are a promising market. “As you know, now only Autoradio uses the same FM frequency in all subjects of the federation, all other radio stations use different frequency ratings, and when moving from one subject to another, you have to search for a radio station manually,” the source reminds. A digital receiver is able to automatically search for a favorite radio station anywhere in Russia, and also when listening to the border of the subject, ensure continuous listening to your favorite radio station, which truckers and road travelers will appreciate. “Although the standard was developed from the beginning of the 2000s, the introduction in the world began about two to three years ago, and it takes place in all countries of the European Union, India, South Africa, and Great Britain. Therefore, Russia is here at the forefront and in a very decent company,” concludes an interlocutor of Kommersant. --- Valeria Lebedeva, Julia Tishina, Kommersant.ru https://www.radioportal.ru/news/radio/v-sankt-peterburge-testiruyut-novuyu-tehnologiyu-dlya-radiostanciy (via Rus-DX 18 Aug via DXLD) On July 18, at 1:50 p.m., the branch of the RTRS “St. Petersburg RC” began broadcasting the Comedy Radio in St. Petersburg simultaneously in two formats: analog FM and digital DRM (DRM +, Simulcast mode). A digital copy of the station was added to the FM signal at a frequency of 95.7 MHz. Additional digital channels became available. To generate and broadcast this analog-to-digital signal, one transmitter of Russian manufacture is used. The power of the analog signal is 3 kW, digital - 400 watts. A digital signal is generated with 16-QAM modulation and protection level PL1. This provides a total usable speed of the digital stream of 122.4 kbit/s and allows you to broadcast a digital copy of Comedy Radio with a bit rate of 33 kbit/s and two more radio stations in digital format. The second radio station is Autoradio with a digital stream speed of 43 kbit/s. The third radio station is Europa Plus with a bit rate of 20 kbps. Additionally, the signal transmits related textual information, logos of radio stations and other images. The DRM system uses the xHE-AAC audio data compression algorithm, the most efficient codec for modern digital broadcasting systems. Experimental broadcasting in DRM Simulcast mode is part of the research work (R&D) “Building an experimental analog-to-digital broadcasting zone DRM + / VHF FM in the range 87.5-108.0 MHz”. The contractor is a Russian system integrator, manufacturer of broadcast equipment and software developer, Digital Systems. The experiment will last at least until the end of the year. https://moscow.rtrs.ru/press/announcements/rtrs-zapustil-pervuyu-rossiyskuyu-tsifro-analogovuyu-radiostantsiyu-standarta-drm-na-fm-chastote-v-s/ (via Rus-DX 18 Aug via DXLD) On July 5, 2019, without warning, the State Commission on Radio Frequencies (SCRF) gave the domestic RAVIS standard the ranges of 65.8–74 MHz and 87.5–108 MHz for the organization of digital radio broadcasting. Now, a third has been added to the selection of two not-so-good standards. In the Russian Federation there is a special body dealing with the distribution of the available radio range between those who want to use it. The investment policy of companies and the availability of various wireless communication and broadcasting services to the population largely depend on its decisions. Since the mid-zero years, there has been a sluggish preparation for the transition to digital radio and television broadcasting. And the longer this process drags on, the more surprising is the SCRF’s strategy on this issue (if any) ... Details here - https://vk.com/tvradio47?w=wall-67314840_2047 https://vk.com/tvradio47 (via Rus-DX 18 Aug via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. HEAVY DUTY SHORTWAVE TRANSMITTERS: HISTORY DETAILS. G. Hvilivitsky -------------------------------------------- In “EIS” (No. 3, 2005), an article was published on the construction in the Soviet Union in the 1970-1980s of the last century of super-powerful broadcasting stations, including those with 1000 and 2000 kW SW transmitters - the most powerful in the world. This outstanding result was achieved in the course of large-scale work on the refinement of the existing fleet of broadcasting transmitters, carried out at the radio centers of the USSR Ministry of Communications under the guidance of the author of the article, V. G. Buryak, a talented engineer who developed original technical methods for the amplification of transmission equipment in operation, including 500 kW SW transmitters "Bob-2" (PKV-500) - up to 1000, and then up to 2000 kW. His article describes in detail the new technical solutions that he implemented, which allowed him to double and then quadruple the power of the prototype ... Full text: https://vk.com/radioreceiver?w=wall-163779953_31454%2Fall https://vk.com/radioreceiver (via Rus-DX 18 Aug via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. In the drain of the crew talks accidentally landed A321 caught amateur radio. [huhhh??? gh] Radio amateurs could decode the negotiations of the pilots of the Airbus 321 aircraft, which made an emergency landing on a corn field in the Moscow region on August 15. This was reported by TASS with reference to sources at the Flight Research Institute (LII) named after M. Gromov. “The work of the airdrome traditionally attracts the attention of aviation enthusiasts, they often listen to negotiations at the frequency of the LII control tower,” the agency’s source said. Also, the source of TASS in LII, which serves and owns the runway of the Zhukovsky airport, confirmed the authenticity of the published negotiations. Earlier on August 17, the Baza Telegram channel published a transcript of negotiations between pilots Damir Yusupov and Georgy Murzin, who managed to successfully land a plane with failed engines in a corn field. From the record it follows that the controllers of Zhukovsky warned the crew of the airliner before takeoff about "individual bird flights." The Ural Airlines plane flying from Moscow to Simferopol` shortly after takeoff made an emergency landing near the Zhukovsky airport on the morning of August 15. Onboard were 226 passengers and seven crew members. 76 people were injured. According to preliminary data, the cause of engine fire was the ingress of birds. During the landing, one of the aircraft's power plants fell off. On August 16, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree awarding the rank of Heroes of Russia to the aircraft commander and co-pilot. The remaining crew members were awarded the Order of Courage. It is reported by Rambler. Next: https://news.rambler.ru/incidents/42677139/?utm_content=rnews&utm_medium=read_more&utm_source=copylink (via Rus-DX 18 Aug via DXLD) ** SAUDI ARABIA. (Tentative) 15205, 1736-, BSKSA, Holy Quran, Aug 13. I'm thinking this is likely the Sa`udi with a very strong signal, but just an open carrier. Likely a fault at their end, which doesn't seem to be all that uncommon (Walt Salmaniw, Zuiderdam, Norwegian Sea, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17895 & 17615+ off-frequency, Aug 20 at 1432, JBA carriers are the OSOB and SSOB, matching SRI/SBA (but not 17705); not even 17775 KVOH detectable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SCOTLAND [non]. Encore - Classical Music on Shortwave - Broadcast on Sunday afternoon in Europe and USA Encore - Classical Music this weekend is being broadcast as usual by Channel 292 (Europe) on 6070 kHz at 1500 UT Sunday 18th August. And by WBCQ on 7490 kHz at 0000-0100 UT Monday 19th August There is a repeat on 6070 kHz on Friday 23rd August at 1900 UT. This week's show starts with a little something from Wagner's Parsifal, then an overture from Rossini. Then some exquisite flute music from Hindemith and a concerto by Bottesini. Next some Greek chamber music and an extract from Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers. All rounded off with some Schubert and Beethoven. Hope you can make it - and the propagation is good. Both Channel 292 and WBCQ do live streams if the reception is poor in your location. Easy to find their sites with a google search. Thank you for spreading the word about Encore - Classical Music on Shortwave. And thank you to everyone for letting us know how well/badly the signal is received where you live. (Brice Avery - Encore - Radio Tumbril, WOR iog via DXLD) ** SIKKIM. E QSL received from AIR Gangtok is attached. For E QSL and Hard copy by post of AIR Gangtok please send Reception Reports to : gangtok@prasarbharati.gov.in with kind attention to Mr. A. Saha, DDE Schedule: 4835 kHz 10 kW 0100-0500 1030-1700 UT 6085 kHz 10 kW 0630-0930 UT Also MW 1404 kHz 20 kW at above timings Now is the time to QSL AIR Gangtok if it is in your wanted list! Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4835, AIR Gangtok. On Aug 22, from 1320 to 1350. A very rare day with actual audio; not the normally heard faulty transmitter producing the usual hum/buzzing sound; announcers and music; not strong enough to get any meaningful details, but hope during the upcoming DX season to hear enough to send off for a QSL. Today my local sunrise was at 1330 UT, with Gangtok sunset at 1237 UT (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5020, SIBC, 1100-1159*, Aug 17. A day with better than normal reception; calliope and news; usual format of pop songs; ending with the usual evening devotional, ID and NA. Normally the audio here is below threshold level. 9545, SIBC, 0459*, Aug 18. Reception slowly improving before cutting off; the last 10-15 minutes is almost readable. 5020, SIBC, 1100-1159*, Aug 19. Another day with some audio; usual format; calliope and news; DJ with dedications for pop songs; ending with the usual evening devotional, given by a woman, which is unusual; ID and cut off before NA. 9545, SIBC, 0417 till cut off at 0459*, Aug 20. Finally some audio that was at times briefly readable; commercial announcements and PSAs; several clear mentions of "Solomon Islands"; asking a question and giving multiple choice answers ("answer A, B, C, D or E"); several IDs; before cut off, mentioned changing frequency. Still a challenge to hear SIBC, but day-by-day seems to be improving. My audio at http://bit.ly/2Z5u3h5 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1996, DXLD) ** SPAIN. 9690, Radio Exterior de España, Spanish YL vocal and guitar music (nice stuff!) at tune in, a couple of SS IDs and at ToH into English service. ID and talx re the controversy over Francisco Franco’s burial place, and the Spanish Supreme Court’s ruling that he couldn’t be moved, and into song ‘Zombie Franco’ and other less ‘politically’ charged Spanish music like “Violet Door” and some pretty avant-garde classical stuff. 4+554+4+, 2155-2235 14/Aug, SDRplay +SDRuno +randomwire (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Port Hope MI2, MARE Tipsheet 16 Aug via DXLD) ** SUDAN. 7205, Sudan Radio, Al Aitahab, 1602-1625, 12-08, Arabic, comments. 25322. (Méndez) 9505, Voice of Africa, Al Aitahab, 1715-1723, 14-08, English, ID “The Voice of Africa from Radio Sudan, the forum of all Africans”, “This is the ... Service of Voice of Africa”, news. Strong QRM from Romania on 9500. 32432 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol and Lugo, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. GERMANY, Voice of America South Sudan in Focus via Lampertheim, August 16 1630-1700 15180 LAM 100 kW / 132 deg English Mon-Fri, good signal: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/voa-south-sudan-in-focus-via.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 15-16, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWEDEN. Sweden testing old MW frequency --- Right now, 1515 UT, the Swedish Post- och Telegrafstyrelsen, PTS, is testing its old MW frequency on 1179. Not saying why, from where, only a test for transmitter purposes. Very strong signal here in southern Sweden, so could be from Hörby transmitter site, or Sölvesborg (Hermod Pedersen, Aug 19, mwcircle yg via DXLD) Already gone at 1523? (Mauno Ritola, Finland, 1525 UT, ibid.) MW Sweden is Veteranljuddagen --- Checking the web it is the yearly Veteranjuddagen: http://veteranljuddagen.se/1179%20khz/index.html (Hermod Pedersen, 1529 UT, ibid.) Low power broadcasts on old frequency of 1179 kHz Google translation: Hörby Radioförening will, in connection with VeteranLjuddagen, transmit on medium wave 1179 kHz. The transmitter will be up and running between 31/8 and 13/9 2019. The call signal will be: SBH Hörby Radioförening. This call signal is the same as previously used by the Hörby Broadcasting Station (ITU-R RR APP 42) http://veteranljuddagen.se/1179%20khz/index.html (via Mike Terry, Aug 19, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) ** TAIWAN [non]. SECRETLAND, Radio Taiwan Inter via SPL on August 18 1700-1730 on 5900 SCB 050 kW / 030 deg to EaEu Russian, good signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/radio-taiwan-inter-via-spl-secretbrod.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 18-19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN [and non]. NBC News NOW HOW THE EPOCH TIMES BECAME ONE OF TRUMP’S BIGGEST SUPPORTERS The Epoch Times has been paying for some of the biggest pro-Trump ads on Facebook. NBC News’ Brandy Zadrozny reports after NBC News exclusively learned that Epoch is tied to a Chinese spiritual group whose goal is to take down China’s government. Aug. 20, 2019 https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/how-the-epoch-times-became-one-of-trump-s-biggest-supporters-66596933716 TRUMP, Q-ANON AND AN IMPENDING JUDGMENT DAY: BEHIND THE FACEBOOK-FUELED RISE OF THE EPOCH TIMES Started almost two decades ago with a stated mission to “provide information to Chinese communities to help immigrants assimilate into American society,” The Epoch Times now wields one of the biggest social media followings of any news outlet.. . https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-qanon-impending-judgment-day-behind-facebook-fueled-rise-epoch-n1044121 (via gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1996, DXLD) Falun Gong, which also sponsors Sound of Hope, causing ChiCom jamming all over the SW bands, altho these stories never get into that connexion - because SW is insignificant? Epoch Times also promotes wild far-out debunked conspiracy theories --- hey, maybe the jamming is not such a bad idea after all!? (gh, ibid.) ** TURKEY. Re: [WOR] FM and AM in Istanbul. some 25 km eastward of Antalya: 891 very strong 630 weak yet intelligible Both heard this morning between 1010-1210 LT with different programming Nothing on 927 (Cheers (Leo Barmaleo, Aug 20, WOR iog via DXLD) What is local time in Turkey? WRTH says UT +3, all the time. Then why does VOT make one-hour timeshifts every spring and fall? Confirmed as UT+3 with no DST in 2019, per https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/turkey/ankara (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re: [WOR] FM and AM in Istanbul --- today at some 8:20 LT on 891 heard an ID "TRT Radyo Bir", in parallel with 630. Local Antalya programming on 891 must be filling certain time slots only (Leo Barmaleo, Moldova, visiting Turkey, Aug 21, WOR iog via DXLD) Leonid, thank you for the observations. Also Bernd Trutenau has noticed, that 1062 kHz doesn't carry TRT Kurdish any more. I have asked TRT for current info, but no reply yet. Best regards, (Mauno Ritola, ibid.) Re: [WOR] FM and AM in Istanbul As you possibly know bit means 1. Therefore this is the first program of TRT (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, Aug 22, WOR iog via DXLD) ** TURKEY. Voice of Turkey in Tatar & Georgian on wrong frequencies, August 15: 1000-1025 9655 500 kW / 072 deg CeAs Tatar, not Georgian 10-1055 UT 1000-1055 9855 500 kW / 032 deg CeAs Georgian, not Tatar 10-1025 UT Something`s always wrong at V of Turkey Emirler transmitting station! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/voice-of-turkey-in-tatar-georgian-on.html Voice of Turkey in Turkish on odd frequency 11675.7 kHz, August 16: 0600-1157 11675.7 500 kW / 150 deg WeAs Turkish, nominal August 15 0600-1257 13635.0 500 kW / 310 deg WeEu Turkish, 13635.7 August 15 Something`s always wrong at V of Turkey Emirler transmitting station https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/voice-of-turkey-in-turkish-on-odd_16.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 15-16, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Turkey in Georgian on wrong frequency August 17: 0900-0955 11750 500 kW / 120 deg to N/ME Arabic, as scheduled in A-19 0956-1014 11750 500 kW / 120 deg to N/ME Georgian, instead of 9655 1016-1055 9655 500 kW / 072 deg to CeAs Georgian, as scheduled A-19 Something`s always wrong at TRT VoT Emirler transmitting station! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/voice-of-turkey-in-georgian-on-wrong.html TRT Voice of Turkey in Tatar on wrong frequency 11795 kHz, August 17 0830-0955 11795 500 kW / 105 deg to WeAs Farsi, as scheduled in A-19 0956-1014 11795 500 kW / 105 deg to WeAs Tatar, instead of 9855 kHz, 1016-1025 9855 500 kW / 032 deg to CeAs Tatar, as scheduled in A-19 Something`s always wrong at V of Turkey Emirler transmitting station! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/voice-of-turkey-in-tatar-on-wrong.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 16-17, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Turkey in Kazakh on odd frequency 11825.7 Aug 18: 1330-1355 11825.7 500 kW / 072 deg CeAs Kazakh, instead of nominal Something`s always wrong at V of Turkey Emirler transmitting station https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/voice-of-turkey-in-kazakh-on-odd.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Unscheduled TRT Voice of Turkey in Bosnian, 11730, Aug 19 0700-0756 11730 500 kW / 072 deg CeAs Azeri-as scheduled in HFCC A19 0756-0808 11730 500 kW / 072 deg CeAs IS/Bosnian, unscheduled on SW! Something`s always wrong at TRT Voice of Turkey Emirler station!! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/unsheduled-trt-voice-of-turkey-in.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Turkey in Georgian on wrong frequency August 20 0900-0955 11750 EMR 500 kW / 120 deg N/ME Arabic, as scheduled A-19 0956-1020 11750 EMR 500 kW / 120 deg N/ME Georgian, instead of 9655 1022-1055 9655 EMR 500 kW / 072 deg CeAs Georgian as scheduled A-19. Something`s always wrong at TRT V of Turkey Emirler station https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/voice-of-turkey-in-georgian-on-wrong_20.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 20-21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9735, Voice of Turkey at 0105Z with Turkish conversation in studio; a male voice is doing much, but not all, of the talking. Signal fair to surprisingly good, especially as this is aimed at the Far East! SIO 434. 9515, Voice of Turkey at 0300Z with interval signal and IDs to time pips and English sign on, schedule and frequency information, and into news headlines. Discussing the suspension of politicians with presumed/assumed links to the PKK. Hmm. Signal fair to good, but with deep fades. SIO 333 (Carlie Forsythe, WI?, Aug 21, odxa iog via DXLD) Unscheduled Voice of Turkey in Bosnian on 11730, August 21 0700-0756 11730 500 kW / 072 deg CeAs Azeri, as scheduled HFCC A-19 0756-0812 11730 500 kW / 072 deg CeAs IS/Bosnian, unscheduled on SW Something`s always wrong at V of Turkey Emirler transmitting station! https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/unscheduled-voice-of-turkey-in-bosnian.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) V of Turkey in Russian on odd frequency 11965.7, August 21 1300-1355 11965.7 EMR 500 kW / 020 deg EaEu Russian, 11965.0 Aug 20 Something`s always wrong at TRT V of T Emirler transmitting station https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/voice-of-turkey-in-russian-on-odd-freq_21.html TRT Voice of Turkey in Azeri on odd frequency 9505.7 kHz, August 21 1530-1625 9505.7 500 kW / 105 deg to WeAs Azeri, instead of nominal. Something`s always wrong at V of Turkey Emirler transmitting station https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/voice-of-turkey-in-azeri-on-odd_21.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 21-22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Ivo: Note correct spelling Emirler; I have to keep correcting Emerler ** UGANDA. MUSEVENI TRIGGERS MASSIVE CHANGES AT UBC RADIO IN MOROTO * August 20, 2019 * Written by URN https://www.observer.ug/news/headlines/61700-museveni-triggers-massive-changes-at-ubc-radio-in-moroto UBC Top Management at UBC Radio in Moroto [caption] Numerous positive changes have befallen Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC) Radio in Moroto after one of the workers openly complained to President Yoweri Museveni about the sorry state of the station. Jehoshaphat Jones Opong, a staff at UBC Radio Moroto took advantage of the press conference organized by Museveni on the operation wealth creation programme at Morulinga State Lodge in June to expose the sorry state of affairs at the station. He told the president that the government radio was unreliable; operating only twice a month and in a very sorrow state. Commissioned by the president himself in 2015, the radio operates from a small container that can easily pass off as a backyard store or toilet. The container even became a point of online mockery for Zimbabweans when Uganda faced Zimbabwe in the recent African Cup of Nations in Egypt. The radio's compound is littered with cow dung since it shares a fence with a neighbouring kraal. UBC Radio, also known as Totore has been relying mainly on electricity - rendering it inaccessible during power outages. However, URN has learnt that the top UBC management in Kampala has taken interest in the radio, causing a number of changes. The changes started with procurement of 300 litres of diesel for the generator at the radio, just a week after Museveni's press conference. It was followed by several visits by officials from UBC in Kampala. Last week, a delegation of 12 officials led by the UBC board chairperson, James Rwehabura, UBC managing director, Watson Agaba and chief engineer, Michael Agaba visited the facility on a fact-finding mission. In her brief to the team, Anne Maria Lokwii, the station manager UBC Moroto, said that much as the radio is better placed in the area, its operations are frustrating both the listeners and the staff due to its unreliability. She also noted that most staff have suffered radiation effects since the studio sits next to the transmitter. "I have a problem with that radio, it has radiation and our staff have been suffering. Whoever stays there for four hours, you go as if you have been quarrying stones. You go when you're feeling pain in the back." Lokwii said. During his interaction, Rwehabura said the studio will be moved from its current location in Singila to the former Karamoja Development Agency area in the shortest time possible. He also promised to improve the welfare of staff and boost the radio coverage and quality for the listeners. One of the staff at the station said on condition of anonymity that remuneration has improved at the radio with salaries now paid by 28th of each month. He said the momentum and motivation for work have been renewed through engagements with top officials, whom he noted, never visited the station in the past. Comments 0 #1 citizen 2019-08-20 12:05 what does this mean "Last week, a delegation of 12 officials led by the UBC board chairperson, James Rwehabura, UBC managing director, Watson Agaba and chief engineer, Michael Agaba visited the facility on a fact-finding mission". The management of these public bodies should not be from one region please you people this is very very dangerous for the country. Plse create an environment that will prevent this country from burning. Give jobs also to pple from other regions (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** UKRAINE. The NSTU Supervisory Board recommended the board to buy a mid-wave transmitter to restore the broadcast of UR-1. And take measures for the speedy resumption of broadcasting of the First Knaal of Ukrainian Radio (Ur-1) in the MW band at a frequency of 549 kHz. This decision was made by the members of the Supervisory Board of the National Public Television and Radio Company of Ukraine (NSTU) at the last meeting on August 1, after they considered the questions: "On the situation that has arisen in connection with the termination of broadcasting of Ukrainian radio on medium waves." This is stated in the minutes of the meeting, published on the website "UA: Public Broadcasting". On June 1, 2019, the NSTU refused to order a broadcast service for the First Channel of Ukrainian Radio at a frequency of 549 kHz. The Chairman of the Board of NSTU Zurab Alasania explained that there is no problem, because the FM coverage of the public broadcaster is developing rapidly. However, the Supervisory Board of the NSTU received almost 60 appeals from citizens regarding the termination of broadcasting of Ukrainian radio on medium waves at a frequency of 549 kHz since June 2019. Secretary of the NSTU Supervisory Board Vadim Gorodskoy said at the meeting that much more appeals were received on the government hotline and to the NSTU PJSC, citizens turned to the president, the parliamentary committee, and the PPT Concern regarding the cessation of broadcasting of the medium-wave transmitter of Ukrainian radio in sec A ray of the Nikolaev region with a capacity of 500 kW, which covered most of the territory of Ukraine (in the afternoon - 60% of the territory including the occupied territories, from evening to morning - the entire territory of Ukraine)... Source: Portal "Public. Detector Media". http://proradio.org.ua/news/2019aug.php (via Rus-DX 18 Aug via WORLD OF RADIO 1996, DXLD) Ukrainian radio plans to resume medium wave broadcasting. More in Ukrainian - https://stv.detector.media/reformuvannya/radio/naglyadova_rada_nstu_doruchila_pravlinnyu_pridbati_serednokhviloviy_peredavach_dlya_vidnovlennya_translyatsii_ur1/ (Serhiy1970, Chernihiv, Ukraine / “open_dx” via Rus-DX 18 Aug via DXLD) ** U K [non]. "BBC World Service steps up shortwave broadcasts in Kashmir during media shutdown [...] BBC World Service English broadcasts (11795, 9670, 9580, 7345, 6040) 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. [...]" https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2019/world-service-steps-up-broadcasts-in-kashmir The following frequencies were confirmed by actual listening: 0200-0300: 9670 (TAC 100 kW, 131°) 11795 (ERV 100 kW, 125°) heard in Europe on 20 August 1600-1700: 6040 (TAC 100 kW, 131°) 7345 (ERV 100 kW, 125°) heard in Europe on 19 August (Dr Hansjoerg Biener, 20 August 2019, DX LISTENING DIGEST) And additional frequency 1100-1200 on 9580 TAC 100 kW / 131 deg (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) More about this at KASHMIR [non] ** U K [non]. Extended transmission of BBC in Hindi, August 20 1400-1500 on 9460 SLA 250 kW / 063 deg to SoAs Hindi, poor 1400-1500 on 9510 SNG 250 kW / 320 deg to SoAs Hindi, good 1400-1500 on 11795 SNG 250 kW / 315 deg to SoAs Hindi, good 1400-1500 on 11995 SLA 250 kW / 075 deg to SoAs Hindi, poor https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/reception-of-extended-transmission-of.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 20-21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) i.e. because of the India`s news blackout in KASHMIR, q.v. ** U K [non]. A-19 schedule of BBC Farsi till Sept.19 & from Sept.20 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/summer-sw-schedule-of-bbc-in-farsi-till.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 19-20, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 0230-0330 on 5985 DHA 250 kW / 045 deg to WeAs Farsi till Sept.19 0230-0330 on 6155 TAC 100 kW / 236 deg to WeAs Farsi till Sept.19 0230-0330 on 7360 SCB 100 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Farsi till Sept.19 0230-0330 on 7485 KCH 300 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Farsi till Sept.19 0330-0430 on 9825 SCB 100 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Farsi is unchanged 0330-0430 on 11875 SLA 250 kW / 340 deg to WeAs Farsi is unchanged 0330-0430 on 13825 TAC 100 kW / 219 deg to WeAs Farsi is unchanged 0430-0530 on 9480 DHA 250 kW / 045 deg to WeAs Farsi from Sept.20 0430-0530 on 11875 SLA 250 kW / 340 deg to WeAs Farsi from Sept.20 0430-0530 on 13825 TAC 100 kW / 236 deg to WeAs Farsi from Sept.20 1500-1600 on 5875 TAC 100 kW / 236 deg to WeAs Farsi till Sept.19 1500-1600 on 6195 SLA 250 kW / 335 deg to WeAs Farsi till Sept.19 1600-1700 on 5875 TAC 100 kW / 236 deg to WeAs Farsi from Sept.20 1600-1700 on 6195 SLA 250 kW / 335 deg to WeAs Farsi from Sept.20 (Observer via DXLD) Basically shifting one UT hour later; must be when DST end in Iran (gh) ** U S A. 332 kHz, Aug 20 at 0611 UT, beacon IC. Looked up at http://dxinfocentre.com/ndb.htm --- ``332 IC USA KS WICHITA - PICNIC 400 37 34 42 -97 27 21`` ! This is quite close, but think I have not heard it before; reactivated? 400 watts; I was axually tuned to 331. No idea what the Picnic nickname has to do with it; searching fruitless. The other beacon resource: https://www.classaxe.com/dx/ndb/rna/signal_list has a different but similar nickname, Piche, also with IC contained; 6.2 is the repetition period in seconds; 25 is the contradicted power in watts, and I would go with this, it`s so weak: ``332 IC 1044 1050 6.2 'Piche' Wichita KS EM17gn 25 NOTAMR J0463/17 NDB IC 245 KHZ WITHDRAWN 1807171411 PERM 20180830 Tony reports it is on the air AB AZ BC CA CO IA IL KS MI MN MO MT NC NE NV OH OR TN TX UT 181 1990-01-02 2019-08-06``. Still waiting for some Y-call beacons from Canada to start propagating again, if any be left (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Hi All, Was camping for a few days, and was able to hear a couple of beacons: 2097.3, "A" beacon; tune-in at 0337z 8/20/19, sounding unusually strong. Copied un-interrupted string of IDs. Being unusually strong and reliable, maybe the propagation would also favor other beacons in the desert southwest, in the 4 MHz range. 4103 (slightly minus), "Windy" beacon on 8/20/19; tune-in at 0345z. Sigs extremely variable, with sharp, short peaks, resulting in many stranded letters and numbers. It took about 30 minutes to piece together that the wind speed was low; less than 5 mph. The temp. was 91, and the battery was at 12.7 volts. Mild-to-moderate storm noise on both stations. Rx: ICF-2010 and active whip up 30 ft. in tree. GSQ: EN53df, approx. 30 mi W. of Madison, WI. 73, (Steve Zimmerman, WOR iog via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WWV SURVEY: See WORLD OF HOROLOGY 10000, Aug 23 at 0010, WWV with its announcement every hour during this minute referring to a survey to be found at http://dodmars.org --- dodmars is spelt fonetikaly, not dot betwixt. However, my browser blox it, changing to: https://sites.google.com/site/dodmarsexercises/ Not to be confused with sexercises; there is more than one survey; we non-Marsians are interested in the one linked about WWV: https://sites.google.com/site/dodmarsexercises/home/wwv-survey It would be a good idea for all SWLs to fill this in, reasserting that WWV/H are still very much useful for us (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1996, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also UNIDENTIFIED! ** U S A. 13306-USB, Aug 22 at 1359, JBA New York Radio assigning backup frequency 17946 to some flight, then selcall tones. (Are these constantly reassigned to current flights/planes, or always pertaining to only one? It would seem there could not be enough tones for the latter.) EiBi shows 13306 is shared with other ground stations on the North Atlantic route: Gander, Keflavík, Shanwick, Santa Maria = Açores (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. A very recent list of VoA languages past and present can be found at https://docs.voanews.eu/en-US-INSIDE/2019/08/01/5b24dbec-c11e-450e-b795-2a7d85cbb75e.pdf The list which already includes Rohingya gives the years when a service was established and if necessary the year when it was dropped. More details about the language services currently on the air can be found at https://www.insidevoa.com/a/voa-fact-sheets/3780820.html (Dr Hansjoerg Biener, 20 August 2019, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1994 montoring: 9955, WRMI, FL, Okeechobee with GH World of Radio #1994 reading about dearth of RF Engineers in the present day world, and the fact that radio is dying, from Bob Biermann. Also more useful news about current radio stuff for us ‘nobodies’ who still listen! ;) “Indian” sounding music to the BoH and then into AWR Wavescan, read by Jeff White, episode NWS 546 item re the Titanic. Then into a talk from someone who explained why digital is nice, but radio is the way to actually reach the world -- almost as a counterpoint to what GH was reading! Then into Japan DX report etc. 45444, 2120-2150 14/Aug SDRplay +SDRuno +randomwire (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Port Hope MI2, MARE Tipsheet 16 Aug via DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1995 monitoring: missed confirming first SW airing, Fri Aug 16 at 2200 on WRMI 9955; anyone hear it? Confirmed UT Sat August 17 at 0130 on WRMI 7780, poor in noise and I think a brief upcut, unusual on this frequency. Next: 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 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, reports: ``GERMANY, World of Radio #1995 via Hamburger Lokalradio on August 17: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MExXz76Sak&feature=youtu.be https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/world-of-radio1995-via-hamburger.html 0630-0700 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg CeEu English Sat, weak signal`` Alan Gale, Whitworth, ROCHDALE, England, writes at 1451 UT Sat Aug 17: ``Hi Glenn, At last I am hearing World of Radio on 9485 kHz via HLR here at home again today, though it's very weak and getting splattered by the Romanian station. I can confirm that it's definitely you though`` Yes, I have also been hearing me since 1431 via SDR in Finland you recommended: http://oh5ae.dyndns.org:8073/ Audible, but still heavy splash from 9490 Romania, while only the latter can be heard via UTwente SDR. Also confirmed Sat Aug 17 at 2100 on WRMI 9955, S9-S7, upcut at ``--- 1995`` after IS & ID loop which just came on a minute earlier, I think. Also confirmed UT Sun Aug 18 at 0130 on WRMI 5850, VG, after ID and a bit of ``Sandunga`` music fill overlapping. Also confirmed UT Sun Aug 18 at 0324 underway on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO: I can tell it`s me but too much storm noise S9+20/30 just south of here in OK to tell where I am in the episode. Next: 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 WORLD OF RADIO 1995 monitoring: Don W8SWL Hosmer reports Sunday Aug 18 to the WOR iog: ``I tried to ascertain if your 1030 UT program was a go this week. Using an XHData D-808 with an AOR LA-400 loop antenna on my stateroom balcony, I was able to hear bits and pieces of Hamburger Lokalradio on 7265 kHz from 1015 onwards. Unfortunately a severe storm sprung up here in Stavanger, Norway at 1025 and my gear was soaked. I had to drag it inside where it was useless inside the steel hull of a ship to hear any signals. I'll try again next Sunday from St Petersburg, Russia, when the Viking Sea docks there. 73, Don W8SWL``. Not reported by Ivo this week either. Confirmed JBA in OK, Sunday August 18 at 2130 on WRMI 7780. Also confirmed UT Monday Aug 19 at 0130 on WRMI 7780, after Rudy ID, S9-S8 with HNL; not much stronger on the meter, S9-S7 but *much* louder & clearer on 9395 which suppresses all but a bit of the HNL which diminishes above 9 MHz anyway. Also confirmed UT Mon Aug 19 at 0230 on WRMI 7780 with HNL Not confirmed UT Mon Aug 19 at 0300 on Area 51 webcast, which is down (while 7490 is running); earlier at 0230 I found WBCQ 5130.34 was JBA; and after 0300 even with NB & NR engaged could only detect a JBA carrier and maybe a trace of audio, probably me [sic]. At 0115 a strong thunderstorm with lots of lightning passed through our place in Mount Airy, and at 0127 our power failed. The UPS protecting the radios and computers actually lasted longer than the internet, which gave up the ghost at about 0135. Power was not restored here until the early morning. No damage here, but there were multiple reports of power poles snapped by the storm in the immediate area. So Area 51 was off after 0130 or so last night. Lw (Larry Will, Area 51, WORLD OF RADIO 1996, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Also confirmed UT Mon Aug 19 at 0330 on WRMI 9955, but JBA at S3-S4, unlike usually much better lately. Next: 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 WORLD OF RADIO 1995 monitoring: confirmed Monday August 19 at 1816.5 on IRRS Ireland/Italy via ROMANIA, 7290, VG via UTwente SDR; started monitoring circa 1809 to nothing but noise, ACI, but *1811 open carrier on quiets everything, almost, huge signal. 1814.5 JIP modulation, something incomplete about voting rights for ex-felons? 1815 ``Triumphal March from Aïda`` theme by Verdi for a sesquiminute, no IRRS ID or sign-on at all, then immediately into WOR. Missed checking next airing UT Tue Aug 20 at 0100 on WRMI 7780; did anyone hear it? How about Unique Radio, NSW? Website says as of 1550 UT August 21: ``NB *3210 KHz And 5045 KHz are off the air at present due to either a feed or antenna problem. There is also a power supply issue which will also need to be rectified. All faults will be rectified when time is available for repairs & funds are available. Unique Radio may also come online soon.`` [WORLD OF RADIO 1996] Next: 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 to SSE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The Global Voice --- Hi Glen[n]. Hope all is well with you. Just to let you know we have altered slightly the times of World of Radio on The Global Voice. The first airing now is on Saturday at 0600 UT with a repeat Monday at 1700 UT. It is of course also available from our programme gallery for on demand (Chrissie Cochrane, Managing Director, The Global Voice, Radio for All http://theglobalvoice.info Aug 22, WORLD OF RADIO 1996, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Chrissie, tnx for letting me know; I wish all affiliates were so diligent. While there check out their other programming (gh) WORLD OF RADIO 1995 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday August 21 at 2100 on WRMI 9955, but upcut JIP ``...with World of Radio 1995``. Who says that?? It had been on since at least 2058 tune-in with IS & ID loop, good at S9 to S9+10. Also confirmed at same time on WBCQ 7490+, JBA in hi line noise level and not synchronized with WRMI. Also confirmed UT Thursday August 22 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, fair vs HLNL. WORLD OF RADIO 1996 contents: Armenia, Ascension, Australia, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, China, Cuba, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, India, Kashmir non, Korea North, Korea South, México, Myanmar and non, North America, Oman, Solomon Islands, Taiwan and non, Ukraine, UAE, USA, Uzbekistan, Zambia; and the propagation outlook WOR 1996 ready for first broadcasts Friday August 23: [Unique Radio, NSW on hiatus pending repairs] 2200 UT Friday WRMI 9955 to SSE 0130 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE 0629vUT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany to WSW 1430 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany to WSW 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM ND 2100 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 to SSE 0130 UT Sunday WRMI 5850 to NW 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315] ND 1030 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 0130 UT Monday WRMI 9395 to NNW, 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 6160v? to WSW 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE 1816 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania ND 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 to SSE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE Full WOR schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ BCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ: ** U S A. 7490.180, Aug 16 at 0154 tune-in to S9+10/20 of dead air, then Brother Scare cuts on WBCQ. Apparently he starts at 0100 on the five nights a week when nothing else is scheduled, still nothing at: http://wbcq.com/schedule/index.php?fn=sked&freq=7490 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) AAAWWW to be on 5 frequencies tonight --- Aug 16 twit from: 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 (via Glenn Hauser, 1718 UT Aug 16, WOR iog via DXLD) [00-01+ UT Saturday] (via gh, DXLD) [WOR] 9330.00 WBCQ back on, super --- From 2030 I found bigsig back on 9330 with C&W music, long adstrings for Houlton, Woodstock, Kix FM IDs, C & F weather, etc. S9+10/20, deep selective fading distortion and some separate overmodulation distortion. 2102 has joined JBA 7490.2 for Behaviour Night. Must be warming up for quintacast of AAAWWW at 0000 (Glenn Hauser, 2205 UT Aug 16, WOR iog via DXLD) 9330.000, Aug 16 at 2030, S9+10/20 bigsig with C&W music --- the WBCQ Superstation is back! I was rather expecting this since Allan Weiner twitted earlier today that his show tonight would be on 9330 plus the other four frequencies. Must be warming up for that. Two or three tunes without a break, but with considerable selective fading distortion, and some separate modulation/peak distortion. 2037 mentions ``Classic Country`` and adstring for businesses in Woodstock (New Brunswick nearby, not NY!), about powerline construxion along I-95, Fredericton, Houlton, Aroostook Milling Co; 2042 weather in F and C, ``Kixx FM``, back to music. Kixx FM = WBCQ-FM 94.7, Monticello ME, 6/6 kW with classic country. 7490.207v, Aug 16 at 2045 I check another BCQ and to my horror discover my local high line noise is back, but fortunately cutting off and on, not yet near-continuous, but probably will be again unless we get some more rain since August 12. While noise is off I can tell 7490 is on and measure it, JBA with talk not //, presumably `Financial Survival`. Nothing audible on 6160v or 5130v this early before dark. 9330, another country music block ends at 2050, more adstring mentioning Houlton, Highway 2 exit 191, Woodstock. Makes us thankful that except when test-simulcasting the local FM, WBCQ SW frequencies are not full of commercials useless to us. Recheck at 2102, now it`s joined 7490.2 for `Behaviour Night` music, audiblizing this program for once, altho unfortunately I do not have time to keep listening to it. 2332 recheck, again with ``Kixx FM`` country music. 9330, at 2359 Aug 16, program switching briefly with what sounds like ``radioserpentine.com`` but must have been the scheduled on 7490 ``Radio FKB Sermon Time``! Then 0000 UT Sat Aug 17, cut to ``William Tell Overture``. Yes, now I can tell it`s // JBA on 7490v, 6160v and 5130v. He soon confirms 9330 is on with the full 500 kW. This week I won`t have to strain to hear it on 7490. ``Tom is kinda like the CE of the Super-station``. Kinda? Anyhow, they`ve got the SS back on air after a month, despite all the problems with it he was complaining about last week, and more this week: It runs on Winders 10. Needed to sit down when the first electric bills arrived, in 5 or 6 figures (meaning: $100K, more or less, a month?). Is replying to usual caller. Confirms 9330 is now on the same 245 degree azimuth as all the others. During the earlier test this afternoon, AW was checking various SDRs and found it was getting in well to Iceland, Europe, South Africa, Vancouver BC, etc. The rotatable antenna manufacturer, Ampegon, went bankrupt and was bought by Cesstron (sounds like?). No, it`s Cestron. found it: http://www.cestron.de/ Communication Engineering Services and Electronics [now what would that be in German and acronymed?] News Release, Berlin, 14 August 2019 CESTRON announces acquisition of strategic assets from Ampegon and AM Broadcast. . . http://www.cestron.de/News?PHPSESSID=d7f905e03b6f42ec0682119c7364e63b AW says Cestron has $300K worth of spare parts for WBCQ which he hopes to be able to get. Another problem is that WBCQ has NO documentation about the antenna. Cestron is rehiring most of the old Ampegon engineers, and hopes they will come to WBCQ by end of August and get to work [earlier info was that WBCQ would have to pay for their airfare and lodging.] The antenna will cover all bands 5.9 to 28 [sic] MHz, but each frequency must be pre-programmed into it with proper antenna tuning unit settings, etc. Need documentation on exactly how to do that correctly. It`s all servo-controlled. More air conditioning on the transmitter has been installed. AW would still prefer plate modulation. Tom replaced power supply modules. Something about ground-strapping required for lightning protexion. All this brand-new equipment should have been under warranty, but that went away with the bankruptcy, which he hears was not a ``nice`` transition. Question, what is the reflected power of the 500 kW? No more than 2 kW, and it has to be that low. Is it safe to be near the antenna? Yes, no problem since you are under the beam which is going out at an upward tilt of 10-15-20 degrees. He starts to talk about Woodstock (NY, not NB), at 0021, but of course interrupted by another caller, gets into political discussion which he often says he is trying to avoid. 0024, I recheck the other frequencies while the HLNL abates, and find that they are not synchronized, why not? approx.: 7490+ is 28 seconds ahead of 9330 6160v is 29 seconds ahead of 9330 --- well, maybe in margin of error 5130v is 2 seconds ahead of 9330 3265v is still a JBA carrier, can`t tell 0054, answering another question about music licensing and royalties like on domestic stations? NO, does not apply to US SW stations which technically are broadcasting to a foreign audience, like Mexico where WBCQs are aimed. 0100 canned auto legal ID by self interrupts, but the live AW is not finished, as just now he starts going thru e-mail. Larry Will advises of the hum on phone line worst on 9330, and AW says that is due to processing and superior low-frequency response. 0107 finally to benedixion, and concludes saying that World`s Last Chance will be on air shortly, 100% programming 9330, while plenty of time is for sale, cheap on the other ``classic`` frequencies. 0111 canned s/off announcement and 9330 turned off* immediately. But 6160v and 7490v stay on with music, seemingly //, while 5130v stays on with something else, talk. By 0130 recheck, 6160v & 7490v are now BSing, and 5130v something-elseing. If that was too much for you, here`s John Carver`s summary: ``Tonight's show started on time. This evening I'm listening on 6160 as 7490 had a very poor signal. Moved to 5130 when some hets started on 6160 and eventually moved to 9330. Allan states that they're on all five frequencies this evening including full power on the new transmitter. First phone call at 0007 from Freddie. Next call at 0016 was a prank call. Another phone call at 0022 interrupted a discussion about Woodstock. Phone call was about Trump. Back to Woodstock talk after the call. Phone call at 0053 with a question about whether or not SW stations had to pay royalties on the music they played. Reading of emails at 0101. Closing prayer at 0107 and program was off the air at 0110. No new information on the superstation this evening. Just a rehash of old information. John Mid-North Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1996, DX LISTENING DIGEST) About AMPEGON, etc., see RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM ** U S A [and non]. 7490.182v, Aug 19 at 1845 during a pause in my high line noise level, I check for anything on 40m --- and there is a JBA signal from WBCQ; presumably extended TOMBS instead of 9330 which is no longer available --- altho it really is, as long as WLC has not really started 24/7. Overcomer website is far outdated, as of June, claiming still to be on 9330 24h, and on 7490 only at 22-23 UT! Altho has also been running most nights from 0100-- until?? Evidently also BSing way before ``normal`` programming start most weekdays at 2000 with `Financial Survival`, but how early is it really starting? Also, website claims this in red: ``The Overcomer Ministry is expanding its Shortwave outreach with new 300,000 watt transmitters that will cover the entire world from Bulgaria, along with transmitters in Florida, Maine, and Tennessee…Not to mention, several AM/FM stations that cover many regions of the United States. <> to see the current RADIO LOG`` --- Really? At least TWO NEW 300 KW in Bulgaria? No one else knows about this (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1996, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Impossible: See BULGARIA 7490.2, UT Thu Aug 22 at 0058, I`m hearing Morse code on WBCQ: not CW, QRM but tones modulated on usual AM carrier. I guess contained in the Spanish program `Antena DX` at 0030-0100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. From the Isle of Music, August 25-September 7: August 25-31, our special guest Ethiel Failde presents Siempre tu voz, his tribute to Benny More that won a Special Prize in Cubadisco 2019. September 1-7, no guests, but an interesting potpourri of artists you probably have never heard if you live outside of Cuba. 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 25 and 27; September 1 and 3: Episode 127, This Just Out, is a potpourri of new releases. Episode 128, Back to Finland, presents some interesting Finnish music. 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) WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI RMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI: ** U S A. Am 26.02.2019 um 05:49 schrieb Stephen P. McGreevy: ``Some pretty good music in there and the WRMI modulation levels and audio-quality are excellent! ... If I listen via my Zoom H2's headphones, it is AMAZING how easily I can "aurally separate" some individual stations. Thanks for this tip and recording! Steve McGreevy -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com`` From yesterday on WRMI, this is my favorite song of TIAMS #025 from the "audiophile" 5850 kHz. KIWI-SDR-IQ-recording & later S-AM demodulation in STUDIO UNO: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1xmqhx3yasj14n4/TIAMS025-Tyrone_Brunson-The_Smurf.wav?dl=0 sonogram: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1tztt9036he8m5y/2019-08-15_TIAMS025-The_Smurf.png?dl=0 73&55 (roger, germany, Aug 16, WOR iog via DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. SWRG#113, TIAMS#025, KBC http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/SW_Radiogram_2019-08-17.htm#KBC http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/SW_Radiogram_2019-08-17.htm#SWRG http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/SW_Radiogram_2019-08-17.htm#TIAMS Schwerpunkt diesmal ein Vergleich des Tiefbass-Bereiches von WINB 9265 kHz und WRMI 7730 kHz, wegen eines DigitalModus: PSK125R @ 63 Hz Fazit: WINB voller Bassdurchlass bis auf Null, WRMI signifikanter Bassbegrenzung bei 40 Hz. Main focus this time a comparison of the low bass range of WINB 9265 kHz and WRMI 7730 kHz, because of a digital mode: PSK125R @ 63 Hz. Conclusion: WINB full bass through to zero, WRMI significant bass cut off at 40 Hz. Also a note for Studio1 & SDRUno, how to set the high-pass filter from 10 Hz onwards. (default is HP Filter FC of 50 Hz). http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/SW_Radiogram_2019-08-17.htm#WINB (roger, germany, Aug 18, WOR iog via DXLD) Shortwave Radiogram, 15-18 August 2019 --- Hello friends, Many thanks to Mike Agner, KA1JJZ, @MakeAgner, who has prepared two very good wikis on how to decode the modes on Shortwave Radiogram. This one deals with decoding on PCs: https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Decoding_the_SW_Radiogram_Broadcasts And this is for users of TIVAR on Android devices: https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Decoding_the_SW_Radiogram_Broadcasts_with_TIVAR As always, wikis are works in progress, so if you have suggestions for additional information, please let us know The only mishap in last weekend's Shortwave Radiogram was that the transmission scheduled for UT Saturday 0230-0300 on 9265 from WINB was 15 minutes early, thus 0215-0245. Fortunately, many of you had tuned in early (always a good idea) and were able to decode the entire show. WINB is aware of the problem, so I hope they are back on regular time this weekend. . . https://mailchi.mp/fb3943606a83/shortwave-radiogram-15-18-august-2019?e=afeae57915 (via Mike Terry, WOR iog via DXLD) ** U S A. 9955, Aug 17 at 1315, NO signal from this WRMI, which is supposed to run on Saturdays not only until 1400 but beyond. 9395 is still on with TOMBS, 7570 with music. 15770, Aug 17 at 1341, no WRMI signal here either, but possibly it`s propagation as Cuba is barely audible on 15230 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9395, UT Sun Aug 18 at 0100, WRMI with IDs for WTND-LP Macomb, and ``You`ve got The Edge, WQNA, Springfield``, both in IL, as Mason Vye in Ontario is opening his hour of nothing but rock music, presumably obscure Canadian. 0111 testimonial from an Alabama listener who sounds like he is saying ``Nathan Vay Show``. I see on the doomed WQNA schedule that `The Mason Vye Show`` is correct when only scheduled at 1 am [0600 UT] Monday. And on WTND at 7 pm Tuesday [0000 UT Wednesday]. Mason later adds WRMI IDs and is glad to be on SW. Again this week, 0130-0131 his music rudely interrupted by Radio Tirana IS and a fragment of their opening theme, before cutting back to Vye rock. Apparently the automation keeps believing it should start Albania now like most other nights, then thinx better of it. As for WQNA being doomed: https://wqnaradio.org/after-nearly-40-years-wqna-is-nearing-the-end/ And looking at the WTND schedule http://wtnd.org/schedule/ I see something else familiar: remember Tom & Darryl? ``Friday 8 PM-12 AM [UT Sat 01-05] Tom and Darryl Talk Show -Also on RFD - Radio Free Dishnuts (Call in at 309-588-4687) http://dishnuts.net/ --- Tune in to hear Technology talk, music, discussion and an occasional rant.`` WTND has a listen-live button which may funxion. Repeats Wed at 16-20 UT on WTND. I am wondering if WTND got the callsign originally to honor Tom `N` Darryl? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7780, Aug 19 at 1847, JBA carrier signifying WRMI is really on, #1 transmitter now scheduled 17-20 with TOMBS, // 9395 #6 at 10-20 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHER OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW: ** U S A. 5085, Sat Aug 17 circa 2320, I am first hearing signs of a WTWW-2 signal here; QRX for `Theater Organ in the Ozarx` at 2330 ---- NO, rock music, allegedly on request, keeps playing past 2400, also on the webcast. Maybe Ted got tired of replaying old episodes? And we know where his musical priorities really lie. That`s OK; tho I love theatre organ music especially in stereo, this timing always competed with two or three other things I want to get --- not including pirates Saturday nights this week since my high line noise level of S9+10/20 is back below 9 MHz! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15549.9/USB, WJHR, FL, Milton, Bible bumping and piano tinkling preacher, in and out of intelligibility -- peaking at -80 dBm and a -105ish noise floor with some pretty deep fades. The preacher varied between a ‘sing song’ delivery and a ‘horse race’ cadence. I COULD however, ID it as English unlike the ‘Screaming Cajun Preacher’ style delivery! They did need to work on the concept of ‘mixing’ though as when the piano was tinkling, the voice audio was so low that you couldn’t understand it at all. The S/N varied from ‘unmeasurable’ to 17 dB. NF or whoops? 35333, 2055-2115 14/Aug, SDRplay +SDRuno +randomwire (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Port Hope MI2, MARE Tipsheet 16 Aug via DXLD) 15550-USB, Aug 19 at 1431, gospel huxter, very poor, as WJHR remains here ex-15555 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. Frequency changes of WJHR Milton USB, August 20: 1400-2200 NF 15550*JHR 050 kW / 005 deg WNAm English, ex 15555-USB *1529-1557UT 15550 SMG 250 kW / 150 deg EaAf Arabic AM R. Dabanga! No signal here 14-1530UT August 20, very weak signal via SDR Twente. https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/frequency-changes-of-wjhr-milton-in-19.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 20-21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5 degrees from FL is toward E, not W North America, if it`s really true, unlike the ``50 kW`` achieving 1 kW PEP (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. (15825), Sunday August 18 after 1600, quick check of WWCR-1 webcast confirms they are still playing Latin mass during this semihour; a rather strange accent I hear, but then I am partial to classical, not church Latin (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Re 620 HAR: 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, CA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. KUOM BACK TO ITS CLASSICAL ROOTS Guyz, I happened to fire up the newly operational National NC-183D and was shocked to hear classical music on 770 KUOM just like the old days! Sounded really good with the push-pull 6V6s into the Jenson speaker. I was hoping that the classical format was back, but it turns out that it's a two hour show on Sundays from 11AM-1PM called "Rock me Amadeus" [CDT = 16-18 UT] https://www.radiok.org/features/specialty-shows/rock-me-amadeus/ Anyway, it sure is nice to hear classical music in beautiful analog tube sound from a 1955 receiver still going strong, just like me! Best regards, (Paul W0AD Staupe, Minnetonka, Aug 18, Minnesota DXC yg via DXLD) ** U S A. 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.). . . A rapid-fire salute to 93/KHJ Boss Radio in Los Angeles utilizing jingles and other production elements. https://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/khj-radio-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood/ (via DXLD) Note the cool test-pattern-like logo opening the <5 minute audio-video --- make that audio only tho it`s YT (gh) ** U S A. BROWNFIELD GRANT TO HELP REVITALIZE VACANT BROADCAST STATION -- AP-MI--Brownfield Grant-Oak Park Aug. 18, 2019 5:57 PM EDT https://hosted.ap.org/article/53d8f055c9e24471bc2bbe8b93896178/brownfield-grant-help-revitalize-vacant-broadcast-station OAK PARK, Mich. (AP) -- A grant will allow a vacant suburban Detroit building to be redeveloped as a restaurant. Michigan's Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) says Oak Park was awarded the $600,000 brownfield redevelopment grant for work on the former WWJ Broadcast Station. The state says a transformer in the basement exploded during a flood and power outage in 2014. Basement concrete was contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, also called PCBs. Water pumped outside the building also contaminated some surrounding soil. Contaminated materials in and around the 83-year-old building will be removed. The owners of two Detroit-area restaurants are planning to repurpose the building while retaining its Art Deco features. The $4 million redevelopment is expected to create 100 new jobs. EGLE grants and loans pay for environmental investigation and brownfields cleanup (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) WTFK? Now U4 50/50 kW ** U S A. KSL, UT, Salt Lake City, 8/12, 0730 [EDT = 1130 UT]. News headlines, report on new security at Salt Lake area schools. Remembering reports from other DXers about anomaly with transmission from this station, I noted that everything sounds the same here, with armchair quality local sounding reception (Rick Barton, Arizona MW Logs, Times/Dates in Eastern. My tube gear shack is largely retired for the hot summer. Unless otherwise stated, equipment is Grundig Satellit 205/T.5000 RS SW-2000629, Panasonic RF-2200 - stock or with Terk Advantage loop. 73 and Good Listening.....! ~ rb, WOR iog via DXLD) Other DXers = just me (gh, OK) KSL is still sub-par here (gh) ** U S A. At first: UNIDENTIFIED. 1180, Aug 16 at 0602 UT, Spanish looping roughly E/W, i.e. between WHAM baseball talk to the ENE and Rebelde echojammers to the SE. Seems like norteña music at first, but between tunes several times, about 0608, 0611, 0614, super-hype voice-actor intones ``99.9``; sometimes there may have been a slogan just before that, but I just cannot copy it. Only when aimed E/W on the DX-398 do I get a LAH, and with BFO comparing to 1170 and 1190, it`s clear that this station is the one slightly off-frequency plus+. Rearoused at 0637 UT, this time it sounds more like ``99.3``, so can`t rule that out. And zzz. This angle pretty well rules out Mexico, but trouble is, no likely US stations are SS on 1180 per last year`s NRC AM Log. Maybe this year`s, when it comes, will have the answer. It`s yet another that considers AM only an expendable appendage of FM, tail wagging dog. IRCA Mexican Log does not have any 1180 matches to either FM frequency. Reverse search, looking up in the WTFDA FM Database all the 99.9s in the USA in Spanish, shows none of them correlated with an ``origin`` on an 1180 station. But along the DF axis, in case there has been a format flip, we do find a station in Arkansas, KTUV 1440 Little Rock with 99.9 translators in both Rogers and Little Rock. Yet shown with non-matching formats and slogans: K260DT Little Rock, regional Mexican; and K260CS Rogers, Spanish hits, Las Americas Radio 1440. But the only AR station on 1180 is unrelated, non-SS and over by Memphis TN, WGUE, CLassic Rock format. Before checking same for 99.3, I try radio-locator.com, on WGUE, and by golly, there it is: ``WGUE-AM 1180 kHz Turrell, Arkansas "La Jefa" Station Format: Regional Mexican Website: http://www.lajefa993.com/ Station Owner: Butron Media Corporation 3654 Park Ave. Memphis, TN 38111 Phone: 901-437-5993 Fax: 901-454-1027 WGUE-AM Technical Details: Station Status Licensed Class D Digital Status Analog only Area of Coverage View Daytime Coverage Map, View Nighttime Coverage Map, View Critical Hours Coverage Map Hours of Operation Unlimited Antenna Mode Directional - 3 Patterns Daytime Power 5000 Watts Nighttime Power 26 Watts Critical Hours Power 3500 Watts Number of Towers 2 Transmitter Location 35° 08' 31" N, 90° 08' 06" W License Granted October 20 2017 License Expires June 01 2020 Last FCC Update December 01 2017 WGUE-AM also broadcasts its primary channel from these 2 transmitters W257CY 99.3 FM Memphis, TN (99 watts) K268DA 101.5 FM Memphis, TN (250 watts)`` The nighttime coverage map for 1180 shows it almost circular, the 26 watts barely reaching adjacent counties from a + site barely on the AR side of the River near West Memphis (despite the W-call): https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WGUE&service=AM&h=N Hey, how does that fare against the 500+kW from Cuba (adding up powers in WRTH, plus more unknown). Well, at least they make it to Enid! Then to WTFDA search for all the SS on 99.3 --- no, not there nor anything else likely. But since we have the call W257CY, going directly to that, voilà: ``W257CY WGUE-1180 99.3 MEMPHIS TN USA 0.099 0.099 290.0 0.0 35-09-16 89-49-20 REGIONAL MEXICAN LA JEFA 99.3`` It did not show up in the Spanish search since there is no entry in the field for language. I`m sure this must be it; everything fits except hearing it if really on legal night power. Note the FM power is, what else, also ``99` watts. So as much as we decry AM stations abandoning their identity to a paltry FM translator, even to the extent of `branding`` only on the FM frequency --- in this case it leads to an ID, while SHVA shouts of ``11-80`` would not have, since we already know it`s obviously on 1180. If all this sound vaguely familiar, it`s related to WUMY 830 sale etc., as explained in DXLD 18-44 http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1844.txt (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1210, Aug 21 at 0609 UT, YL talk, with KGYN OK nulled as much as possible, and the local line noise level abated, making 176/minute SAH of almost 3 Hz; presumed Beyond Reality Radio as on 50 kW daytimer WJNL Kingsley MI still running at night, but I still need to re-get definite ID/local ads (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. DX Mystery – Posted In: DX & Reception - https://radioinsight.com/community/topic/dx-mystery-alex-jones-on-am-1210/ DX Mystery - Alex Jones on AM 1210? - RadioInsight Community Was hoping someone out there could shed some light on this mystery DX catch… Normally here in the northeast WPHT owns the channel (1210), but tonight I heard a replay of the Alex Jones Show fading up and over WPHT, except of course when it comes time to ID the station. Normally here in the northeast WPHT owns the channel (1210), but tonight I heard a replay of the Alex Jones Show fading up and over WPHT, except of course when it comes time to ID the station. Heard from 04:25 – 04:40 Eastern Time [0825-0840 UT] today. Can`t find any affiliate info, except one station in Michigan – but their webstream audio does not match. I hardly ever catch anything on 1210 besides Philadelphia so any ideas (or even an answer) would be welcome! (Partidipant) Web stream audio can be delayed as much as 2 minutes. So when you say it did not match you need to listen to the web stream for at least 2 minutes before writing off that station as the source of the DX? (michael p, Aug 21 ibid.) Alex Jones/GCN website affiliate list does show WJNL as the only 1210, at a different time, but any station with AJ at that hour would be replay: WJNL 1210 AM TRAVERSE CITY-PETOSKEY MI 197 50,000 7:00PM-8:00PM M-F Of course except in summer, would not legally be on air with any kW, let alone 50, after 7 pm local. 197 is the market ranking. Of the 83 stations carrying him weekdays, many for one or two hours instead of the original four, I am surprised but pleased that there is only one in OK, and as far from here as possible, KBEL 1240 Idabel, which I have never heard. GCN is cool with being pirated, e.g. in the past if not present on FM in Enid, OKC; even originally around Austin TX. Does the affil list include any SW stations? Of course not! (gh) 1210, Aug 22 at 0557 UT, with KGYN OK to the west nulled as much as possible, different talkshow with YL, and ``resuming Beyond Reality Radio``, which we have previously matched to cheating 50 kW daytimer-only, WJNL Kingsley MI; however KGYN is gaining with the usual SAH of almost 3 Hz, and I can`t read the rapid multi-station ID from the WJML group just before hourtop 0600 UT bong and news, but not sure if CBS. At least the high line noise level is not affecting this MW area now, tho still roaring higher e.g. 7 MHz band. WJNL has now been doing this for at least two months. BTW, they are also the only 1210 listed affiliate of the self-confessed psychotic Alex Jones whom someone heard replayed later in the madrugada as an unID 1210. I was pleased to see he has only one affiliate in Oklahoma, as far as possible from here, Idabel, KBEL 1240, which I have never heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1260, KBSZ, AZ, Apache Junction, 8/17, 1500 [EDT = 1900 UT]. Long jam with old James Gang album cut, ID by W on the quarter. Good signal today. Nothing heard this morning from the other AJ station, KIKO (1340). Good strong signal from new station "The Rattler" 1340 [non], KIKO, AZ, Apache Junction, 8/17 1545 [EDT = 1945 UT]. AM 1340 "The Bull": Off the air all day, and still off, as I post these logs at 1950 Z. Something's always wrong out at "AJ". (Rick Barton, Arizona MW Logs, Times/Dates in Eastern. My tube gear shack is largely retired for the hot summer. Unless otherwise stated, equipment is Grundig Satellit 205/T.5000 RS SW-2000629, Panasonic RF-2200 - stock or with Terk Advantage loop. 73 and Good Listening.....! ~ rb, WOR iog via DXLD) ** U S A. DX Tip: KQSC 1530 & KRCN 1060 --- KRCN is on day power. KQSC has been repairing their main transmitter and using a lower powered 2500 Watt back up, which I think is what they're running now instead of the 15 Watts they're licensed for (Paul Walker, Laramie WY, 0353 UT Aug 17, nrc-am gg via DXLD) Die beide sind koloradisch ** U S A. (1560), UT Mon Aug 19 at 0400 I am listening to the KGOW webcast which autolaunches whether you want it or not, at http://vietradio.com --- Since KGOW is no longer tightly direxional at night into the Gulf, I could probably hear it direct, but this hour I am at the desktop. It`s time to check out the reports of KGOW relaying Voice of America in Vietnamese, and other languages? Vietnamese talk continues past hourtop and I do not hear any VOA opening, but admit to not listening closely and continuously. At 0411 I notice it`s suddenly in English, but alt with Vietnamese during a language lesson, e.g. at 0416 UT about the expression ``battle of wills``. At 0422:30 UT, ``This program has come to you from the Voice of America, Washington``; continues Viet talk presumably local origin. 0428 UT, VOA jingle but does not introduce in English name of next language; and resumes its Vietnamese (not Chinese, certainly not Japanese as some have guessed). 0457 again VOA closing announcement in English, and an adstring including ``Amarillo Home Roofing``, in Houston, and some other occasional business names in English. Finally at 0503 UT, legal ID in English, ``Vit Radio on KGOW Bellaire-Houston``. Yes, they pronounce it Vit rather than Viet: have we been mispronouncing Vietnam/ all these years?? Earlier I had visited the website, which is partly in English. Also has incomplete program schedule, of course not including the 11 pm CDT hour we are concerned with. It implies the same programming is also on 1480 in Dallas; one place showing wrong frequency 1560 for it too. That would be KNGO. 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]; and Thu 7-8 pm [00-01 UT Fri] Nhac Thính Phòng -- Tình Hát, which means LOVE SONG. At Google translate, you`d better get the diacriticals right. 1560, at 0604 UT Aug 19, I check KGOW direct, and can hear its VV mixing with something in English making a SAH of 160/minute = 2.67 Hz. Most 1560s are daytimers or well under 100 watts at night with exception of a few such as KEBC OK with 250 watts; KKAA in SD 10 kW. (1560), as per previous report, Viet Radio KGOW Bellaire-Houston TX program schedule shows Chamber Music, Mondays at 2000-2030 UT, so August 19 I go out of my way to monitor the webcast. NO, no chamber music to be heard, rather talk and then some soft songs which might be ``love songs`` as claimed for the other Chamber Music slot. Before 2030 I hear again the commercial for Amarillo Home Roofing, which exists in Houston if not Amarillo. Searching leads to their disgraced Facebook site as really Amarillo HomeS, Roofing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) KGOW is using its night site at night; easy to DF here in Houston as the day site is to the south and the night site to the west. The night site has the nine towers, but apparently now out of whack (Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas, Aug 22, WOR iog via DXLD) https://www.radiodiscussions.com/showthread.php?719314-KGOW-1560-Night-Signal (Artie Bigley, OH, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, it appears the KGOW night site might be out of whack. See the Houston board on RadioDiscussions.com for more: https://www.radiodiscussions.com/showthread.php?719314-KGOW-1560-Night-Signal&s=8e6813b3498c7e5842e92e49fc0fde95&p=6272662#post6272662 (Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas, Aug 20, ibid.) KGOW was originally running a 9!-tower direxional array. Here is the most recent item in the correspondence folder, also revealing where the call letters come from (gh) http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=87751 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION 445 TWELFTH STREET SW WASHINGTON DC 20554 MEDIA BUREAU ENGINEER: Joseph Szczesny AUDIO DIVISION TELEPHONE: (202) 418-2700 APPLICATION STATUS: (202) 418-2730 FACSIMILE: (202) 418-1410 HOME PAGE: www.fcc.gov/media/radio/audio-divsion E-MAIL: Joseph.Szczesny@fcc.gov September 12, 2018 David Gow, CEO GOW Media, LLC 5353 West Alabama, Suite 415 Houston, TX 77056 Re: GOW Media, LLC (GML) KGOW(AM), Bellaire, TX Facility Identification Number: 17389 Special Temporary Authority (STA) BESTA-20 18081 3AAG Dear Mr. Gow: This is in reference to the request filed on August 18, 2018. GML requests a further extension of the STA granted on June 28, 2016, to continue operating daytime using the licensed 15 kW nighttime site array pending the filing of the required FCC Form 302 application to update all operating parameters due to repairs made over the past two years.1 In support of the request, GML stated that all repairs were completed with exception of the replacement 50 kW daytime site transmitter (new parts on order). Requests for extension of STA will be granted only where the licensee can show that one or more of the following criteria have been met: • Restoration of licensed facilities is complete and testing is underway; • Substantial progress has been made during the most recent STA period toward restoration of licensed operation; or • No progress has been made during the most recent STA period for reasons clearly beyond the licensee's control, and the licensee has taken all possible steps to expeditiously resolve the problem. Accordingly, the request for extension of the STA IS HEREBY GRANTED, and GML may continue to operate day and night from the nighttime transmitter site using the currently licensed 15 kW nighttime site array. GML must use whatever means are necessary to protect workers and the public from exposure to radio frequency radiation in excess of the Commission's exposure guidelines. 'KGOW(AM) is licensed for DA operation on 1560 kHz with 46 kW day and 15 kW night, using different patterns at different sites. See 47 CFR § 1.1310. GML must file the application to update all operating parameters, or submit an e-mail to my attention to confirm the date the station was able to resume the separate licensed daytime site and nighttime site operations (per BL-201 1 12O5ALL with negligible changes). This authority expires on March 12, 2019. Sincerely, vJseph S,Tineer Audio Diition Media Bureau cc: Barry A. Friedman, Esq. (via email only) [Joseph Szczesny --- his signature messed up the text copying] HOWEVER our easy reception to the N and NW implies it is the DAY pattern being used at night, rather than night pattern day and night --- or maybe they just gave up and are non-direxional (gh) ** U S A. 1580, Aug 21 at 0621 UT, with nearest KOKB Blackwell OK nulled as much as possible, luck into an ID for ``KHGG-AM 1580 and 101.1 FM``. That`s 49 watts at night from Van Buren AR, alluding to some Ark team named for hogs. Probably this is the one making a reverb slight echo against KOKB, also 49 watts! when both are on Fox Sports Radio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, I too recently caught this on an online SDR in the DFW Metroplex. During a local break, I clearly heard a reference to "The Hog", so I would bet the farm on KHGG being your echo-monger. Always 73z -- (GREG HARDISON, CA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1640 WTNI [Biloxi MS] --- Yesterday I moved my antenna from its summer position (about 270 degrees) to the winter one (about 300). LA has been a dead loss from here this year although to be fair I have been away a great deal. I was rewarded with good reception today after months of very little (conditions I think rather than the antenna move working a miracle). It's probably been reported elsewhere but I noted that 1640 WTNI seems to have abandoned sport. Id noted as "This is Classic Country 103.5 The Possum". Also 1680 KRJO noted with "99.7 My FM" [Monroe LA] (Paul Crankshaw, Aug 21, MWCircle yg via DXLD) Thanks, Paul. WTNI used to simulcast 1490 WANG sport "The Champ". The change of 1490 WANG to "103.5 The Possum" and country format was reported in March in MWN. However at that time 1640 WTNI retained the sport format. Neither NRC nor IRCA have subsequently reported that 1640 WTNI has now rejoined 1490, ditching the sport format for country. Wikipedia says that this change occurred in June 2019, but I can't find independent confirmation. KRJO's slogan "99.7 My FM" appears also not to have been reported by NRC or IRCA. The format change to Adult Contemporary was noted in March 2019, although the format, slogan and repeater 99.7FM addition all date from 2016 according to RadioInsight https://radioinsight.com/headlines/107211/99-7-myfm-debuts-in-monroe/ 73 (/Andrew Brade, ibid.) Hello Andrew and Paul, 1680 KRJO noted by my addition to last year`s NRC log and in 2019/20 log. 1640 WTNI still shown as ESPN in 2019/20 NRC Log and now amended. Best wishes & 73s (Barry :-) Carlisle UK. Lat. 55.0119N, Lon. 2.9668W, Davies, ibid.) ** U S A. KCUR TO BRING CLASSICAL BACK TO KANSAS CITY WITH KWJC PURCHASE --- By Lance Venta On Aug 16, 2019 https://radioinsight.com/headlines/179715/kcur-to-bring-classical-back-to-kansas-city-with-kwjc-purchase/ 89.3 KCUR Kansas City 91.9 KWJC --- As we reported in this morning’s Station Sales report, the Curators of the University of Missouri have agreed to purchase Silent 91.9 KWJC Liberty/Kansas City MO from William Jewell College for $2 million. To be operated by University of Missouri-Kansas City, the purchase will make KWJC co-owned with Public News/Talk 89.3 KCUR-FM Kansas City. KCUR announced this morning that following the acquisition they will relaunch KWJC with a Classical music format. The move will bring a Classical station to FM in Kansas City for the first time since Entercom flipped 96.5 KXTR to Modern AC in 2000. The Classical format would move first to 1250 and later 1660 until 2012. KCUR states that the new format should launch by Spring 2020 at which time KCUR-FM will drop its three hour evening block of Classical programming. In KCUR’s story making the announcement, General Manager Nico Leone stated, “Given the strength of the performing arts community and the classical music community in town, we think it’s a huge hole, both for audiences and performing arts organizations. We see in market after market that classical music stations can be a rising tide for performing arts organizations.” The group has been raising the $5 million it needs to make the acquisition and necessary start-up costs for the new format. The station will be run separately from KCUR-FM, but share studio space and back-office functions. KCUR says it intends to hire eight or nine people for the new venture. KWJC had been leased by William Jewell College to Educational Media Foundation from 2007 until earlier this year when EMF purchased 107.9 K300CH Lees Summit to become its new home for “Air 1” in the market (via Artie Bigley, OH, WORLD OF RADIO 1996, DXLD) KWJC 91.9 LIBERTY MO 7.0/7.0 kW, 190.0m, 39-07-23, 94-23-24, Silent, 4B04, Air 1, CLASSICAL, Silent since 05/31/19 (WTFDA DB via DXLD) ** U S A. IMMACULATE HEART MEDIA ACQUIRE 9 AM STATIONS AND 1690 IN DENVER https://radioinsight.com/headlines/179681/immaculate-heart-media-acquires-nine-more-stations-in-eight-markets-from-salem/ (Artie Bigley, Aug 16, DXLD) Viz.: MORE ON IMMACULATE HEART MEDIA’S PURCHASE OF NINE STATIONS FROM SALEM By Lance Venta On Aug 16, 2019 Relevant Radio Immaculate Heart MediaThe FCC filing reveals the nine stations and four translators across eight markets included in the deal between Salem and Immaculate Heart Media. Atlanta: Business “Biz 1190” WAFS Atlanta Boston: Spanish Christian “Radio Luz” 1150 WWDJ Boston Dallas: Spanish Christian “Radio Luz 1440” KTNO University Park Denver: Business “Money Talk 1690” KDMT Arvada Houston: Business 1110 KTEK Alvin/96.1 K241CM Houston San Antonio: Conservative Talk “Freedom 1160” KRDY San Antonio St. Louis: Gospel “Praise 95.1” 1260 WSDZ Belleville IL/95.1 K236CS St. Louis and Conservative Talk “1380 The Answer” KXFN/105.3 287BY St. Louis Youngstown: “The Word” 1440 WHKZ/107.5 W298CX Youngstown Salem will retain the KTNO call letters currently on 1440 Dallas, while Immaculate Heart Media will have an option to purchase the transmitter site of 1380 KXFN St. Louis up to ten days before closing of the deal. A Time Brokerage Agreement will be agreed to allowing Immaculate Heart Media to begin programming the stations before closing. It is expected to take effect on October 1. The deal will see Salem exit St. Louis and Youngstown, while the company will continue to hold on to multiple stations in Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Denver, Houston and San Antonio. Original Report 8/15: Weeks after acquiring four AMs and three translators in Miami and Tampa from Salem Media for $8,218,875, Immaculate Heart Media has struck another deal to purchase nine more AMs and four translators in eight markets for $8,732,125. The Catholic “Relevant Radio” operator will add presently unknown stations from Salem in Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Denver, Houston, San Antonio, and St. Louis as well as “The Word” 1440 WHKZ/107.5 W298CX Youngstown OH. Following the closing of these deals, Immaculate Heart Media will have a national reach of 220,000,000 people over 163 owned or affiliated stations including 22 of the top 25 markets. This is the third acquisition Immaculate Heart Media has made from Salem this year as the company also purchased 1260 WSPZ Washington DC (now WQOF) for $750,000 in March. Relevant Radio® has entered into an agreement with Salem Media Group (NASDAQ: SALM) to purchase nine AM stations and four FM translators in eight markets. Salem Media Group has agreed to sell stations to Relevant Radio in Boston, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, St. Louis, Denver, and Youngstown for $8,732,125. This transaction, combined with purchases earlier this year of Salem stations in Washington, D.C., Miami, and Tampa, will allow Relevant Radio to expand its reach by an additional 60,000,000 persons. In total, Relevant Radio is purchasing 14 AM stations and 7 FM translators from Salem for $17,700,000. The addition of these new stations will give Relevant Radio overall coverage of 220,000,000 people in the United States over a network of 163 owned and operated and affiliate stations. “We are grateful to God and our supporters that we can reach more souls with our inspiring and life-changing programs, spreading a message of hope and peace across America,” said Rev. Francis J. Hoffman, Executive Director/CEO of Relevant Radio. “Salem has a well-earned reputation of maintaining their stations in excellent condition and we are fortunate to make this purchase at this time”, said Hoffman. With the purchase of these stations, Relevant Radio will broadcast in all top ten markets, and 22 of the top 25 markets, including New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Tom Vorpahl, Chairman of the Board of Directors, said, “It is very humbling and rewarding to experience how powerful the message of the Gospel is and can be to our listeners. We look forward to continuing our Mission of sharing the Truth and Beauty of the Church in these new markets.” Mark Jorgenson of Jorgenson Broadcast Brokerage facilitated the transaction, with Mark Denbo serving Relevant Radio as FCC counsel and Nicolet Bank of Green Bay, Wisconsin providing the financing. The Relevant Radio schedule of popular programs such as The Patrick Madrid Show, The Drew Mariani Show™, Father Simon Says™, Morning Air®, St. Joseph’s Workshop, and Family Rosary Across America®, can be heard on all Relevant Radio stations as well as online at relevantradio.com, on smart speakers, and on the Relevant Radio mobile app (via DXLD) ** VATICAN. Acc. to HFCC from today August 22 is Vatican Radio 1830-1900 on 17535 250 kW / 230 deg to SoAm Spanish, BUT from Aug 26 probably for the meeting of HFCC to be held in Buenos Aires 26-29 August (Ivo Ivanov, WOR iog via DXLD) Was Ivo`s earlier report of Kuwait DRM on 17535 over a longer span correct, or a mis-assumption? (gh, DXLD) Special DRM shortwave transmissions of Vatican Radio for the meeting of HFCC to be held in Buenos Aires Argentina Aug.26-29 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/08/special-drm-shortwave-transmissions-of.html (Ivo, ibid.) See also UNIDENTIFIED 17535 Special DRM shortwave transmissions of Vatican Radio for the meeting of HFCC to be held in Buenos Aires Argentina Aug 26-29 1830-1900 on 17535 250 kW / 230 deg to SoAm Spanish, August 26-29. (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News August 21-22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM [non]. 7315, Aug 20 at 0155, not Voice of Vietnam in English scheduled until 0200, but gospel song with guitar, and 0157 WHRI ID and promos; too early for VOV to be over, so another screwup by WHR? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIRGIN ISLANDS US [and non]. 1620 AM WDHP in the Virgin Islands https://www.radiodiscussions.com/showthread.php?719219-1620-AM-WDHP-in-the-Virgin-Islands I just wanted to mention that the last three nights I've been picking up WDHP "The Reef" in the US Virgin Islands on 1620 AM. All three days I was listening around 10 PM local time in Chicago [0300 UT]. Yesterday night it was coming in especially well. This was the farthest station I've ever received (2100 miles or so away). I'm guessing from the signal strength that they are broadcasting on their daytime power of 10 kW. I was not using anything fancy (just a portable radio which I brought to a location to block KOZN Omaha which is the dominant station where I am), and I think I was also hearing it on the Pennsylvania websdr behind a Spanish-language station. Anyhow, I thought I'd mention it since it seems like a rare catch that should be easy for others to pick up (assuming they don't decide to switch back to the correct 1 kW nighttime power or there are other changes that prevent it.) (MichaelTheZ, Aug 14, RadioDiscussions via Artie Bigley, DXLD) 1 kW on what is "almost" a short-wave frequency is fully capable of sounding nice and clear in your location. A good example was back in the 60's when early on Monday mornings there was no North American station on the air on 1370. That was in the era when most AMs signed off at midnight on Sunday for maintenance, not returning until 5 AM or 6 AM local time. But at 4 AM EST WIVV, a 1 kW station on Vieques Island, Puerto Rico, signed on. DXers as far as the west coast routinely heard the station well. In fact, how well WIVV was at sign on was an indication of the potential for DXing harder catches. I found 50 watt AFRTS-Ramey from Puerto Rico on several mornings on 780, 100% readable. 500 watt WITA in San Juan also had an early sign on, and was well heard [1140 --- I heard it too sometime --- gh]. Many others from Puerto Rico in the 250 watt to 1 kW range were heard well then, and that was because the frequencies were so clear. So I really doubt that the station in the VI is overpowered. Actually, given the economy there, I'd be more suspicious of them running lower power in the daytime; they have some of the most expensive electricity in the US there. And the island can be covered well with 1 kW (David Eduardo Gleason, SoCal, ibid.) David is right about the higher part of the AM band. In the 90s when they started using the X-band I was shocked how well KDIA from Northern California was coming into the midwest. I was DXing in the 60s but I was unaware then of all the DX I could've logged had I spent more time on the higher part of the band (radioman148, ibid.) First time I heard WDHP here in the Chicago area was back in 2002 when they first signed on 1620 kHz. Reception was tough at my location as there is a local TIS (WNWZ910, Bennsenville, IL) on 1620, but I was able to null them and the South Bend station to hear them. Later on the same year I even heard them on my car radio driving around Lincolnshire, IL. The Spanish station you were hearing on the websdr was most likely Radio Rebelde, Cuba. And, yes, when the expanded band first opened up all those California stations were quite easily heard in Chicago. It's much tougher these days (CADXer, NW Chicago suburbs, Aug 15, ibid.) South Bend is now gone from 1620, if that help, but pulling WDHP past Cuba is still quite a feat. BTW, the reason Cubans are on 1620 was to block WDHP when it carried Radio Martí or something (gh) ** ZAMBIA. 5915, R. One/ZNBC1. Regarding my recent reports of erratic reception, have received the following updated, very helpful info from Ray, on Aug 18: "Hi, Ron. My staff in Zambia tell me that the state-run broadcaster, ZNBC, has negotiated with the state-run electricity utility, ZESCO, to be exempted from load shedding. Thus, ZNBC1 on 5915 kHz should still be on air 24x7, barring any transmission equipment failure. At the Voice of Hope SW site, we are still seeing power outages from 06-10 hours daily with the threat of expansion of those hours in September, so our afternoon and evening broadcast schedule continues. Ray Robinson (Voice of Hope World Radio Network, Americas/Africa/ Middle East)" Thanks very much to Ray for this first hand info. Recently I have not found any carrier generally before 0400, but often catch the 0500 news in English. Needs more monitoring! (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Aug 18, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1996, DXLD) 5915, R. One/ZNBC1, recently seems rather erratic as to when they are broadcasting. Aug 22, noted at 0458 with the often heard commercial announcement in English; "Yes, go ahead caller," "Hello doctor, I need your help," "Yes madam," "Doctor, my ten year old son always catches colds and flu from school," was a commercial for soap that "fights germs and viruses"; into news in English (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1996, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 1161 kHz, Aug 20 at 0544 UT, quite a het upon 1160 KSL, but heard on DX-398 only, not R-75, red flag that it`s not really there. In a quick 9-kHz bandscan I also hear a signal on 774. Both of them at about the same bearing, 10/190 degrees. Guess what, these are harmonically related 2 x 387 and 3 x 387 kHz. I do have a JBA carrier on the fundamental, but surely receiver birdies and not a beacon (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA carrier search, Aug 20 at 0550 hears some on 621 and 909 kHz, maybe Canary and UK; must beware of local receiver products on 9-kHz spacing, such as 1161 and 774; also something NE/SW at 0544 on 1413 kHz, but rather too late for the superpowers in Moldova, Oman (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1560, Aug 21 at 0623 UT, English talk roughly E/W with KGOW Vietnamese from the SSE nulled as much as possible, making a SAH of 140/minute = 2.33 Hz. The only major signals at night are far away, WFME 50 kW in NYC, Family Radio; and KNZR 10 kW Bakersfield CA, news/talk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WPAD Paducah UNIDENTIFIED. 1740 kHz --- I have some kind of music on 1740, 2002 CT [0102 UT] and I am wondering if anyone else is hearing it (Kevin, Crump, TN, Redding, 0150 UT Aug 15, ABDX yg via DXLD) 2 x 870 or 3 x 580 harmonic, if not a fundamental pirate (gh) UNIDENTIFIED. Re: [HCDX] UNID Station on 6316 kHz --- Hola Jorge, welcome. Could be a pirate station relaying some African stream. Hopefully you get a recording of it; native French speakers might get more out of it. As for the list language, I suppose everyone can get the idea via machine translation, but surely the list host will comment. 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, Aug 16, HCDX via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. And RTTY clearly audible first beneath WWV on 10 MHz, then beneath both WWV and WWVH on the same frequency. What the?! :( [time after 0305 UT? as in previous log and before 0321 sending] (Carlie Forsythe, WI?, Aug 21, odxa iog via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 10002.43, Aug 23 at 0010 as I am checking out WWV`s temporary MARS announcement until tomorrow, there is RTTY QRM, measured to a zero-beat here. Carlie Forsythe in Madison WI had also noted this to the ODXA iog after 0305 UT Aug 21: ``And RTTY clearly audible first beneath WWV on 10 MHz, then beneath both WWV and WWVH on the same frequency. What the?! :( `` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 11802-USB, Aug 19 at 1240, JBA 2-way INTRUDERS in colloquial Spanish, some whistling vs nothing on 11800 or 11805 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re: [WOR] DX mystery 11820 timesignal 1500 Nothing there by 1440 today (Mauno Ritola, Aug 22, WOR iog via dXLD) Yea, nothing heard today on 11820 here, either. Apparently not a daily B/C. Language yesterday before 1500 was not one of the several I would recognize. 73, (Art Peterson, 1458 UT Aug 22, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 13615, Aug 20 at 1403, multitones remind me of the hybrid DRM from WINB normally on 15115-15120 at this hour; not heard now but audible on the latter at 1428. Even Hans Johnson of WINB (if not at WINB) says he does not know what these are; but AFAIK it`s the only DRM not occupying full 10-kHz bandwidth with noise; also applying to other WINB frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Re: ``UTILITY STATION --- Again, about this logging from 14/08: 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 (RG)`` I receive a commentary from Patrick Robic - Germany [sic] (15/08): " This is a US Air Force Frequency with various transmitter sites all over the globe. A clear ID of the site is usually only possible when they do local test counts. 73, Patrick". Thanks, Patrick!!! (Rudolf Grimm PY2-81502 SWL, São Bernardo SP, BRAZIL, HCDX via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 1830 UT, 17535 kHz DRM - is this a new frequency for Radio Kuwait in DRM? Best Regards, (Wojtek Zaremba, Legionowo, Central Poland, Aug 21, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Testing frequency VATICAN plans to use during HFCC (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. RF 8, 14, 20, 22, 28, 31, Aug 19 after 1439 UT, BAD DTV signals on the meter, could be Tulsa and/or Wichita markets, equally likely per Hepburn map showing level-2 fair tropo enhancement between here and theres (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1996: Hello Glenn, This is another gift to you for your ongoing work-of-excellence with WOR and DXLD and as reflected in the membership of DXers associated! Big thanks again and Truest Best Regards, Steve McGreevy, with a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED FUTURELY: from Geoff Wolfe - Financial contribution to DXLD via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com Hello Glenn. I am a ham operator (WA5TAQ and EI1CN in Ireland) and also an SWL listener. As I have been totally blind since shortly after birth, I use lots of audio equipment - talking computer and radios. Your program has been a regular feature of my listening for many years. Best Regards, (Glynn Langston, with a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com) Glenn, on the International Radio Report today, they were talking about and congratulating you on your two thousandth WOR show at 28:50 into the the IRR here: http://archives.ckut.ca/128/20190818.10.30-11.00.mp3 (Artie Bigley, Aug 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Sheldon Harvey et al. saying some nice things about me, tnx. On my playback timer this segment is between 20:41-22:03 into show (gh) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ NASWA Journals missing Has anyone received the August Journal? I have not by today, August 16. And have not been able to get a reply from Rich Cuff about this, or my request for a replacement copy of the July issue. Is everything OK at HQ? Maybe on vacation? 73, (Glenn Hauser, 2148 UT 16 Aug, NASWA iog via DXLD) I just spoke our publisher, Rich Cuff, earlier this evening. Unfortunately, he broke his right ankle last week and had surgery to repair the damage this morning (Friday). He hopes to be home sometime tomorrow (Saturday). Prior to this mishap, The Journal was delayed due to a combination of circumstances having a lot to do with busy work schedules. Rich plans to catch up on NASWA business during his recovery although his mobility will be severely limited for several weeks until the cast is removed and he begins physical therapy. Recovery from a broken ankle is a long recovery process. Look for the PDF version of The Journal early next week followed by the print version (hopefully) shortly thereafter. With a little luck we will be back on track next month provided a new calamity doesn't strike us. I know Rich Cuff has a big pile of messages to deal with including some from me, hi! Rich hopes to be able to begin addressing many of them beginning early next week. In the meantime, thanks for your continued patience and understanding as we muddle through this situation as best we can. 73, (Rich D`Angelo, PA, 0032 UT Aug 17, NASWA iogroup via DXLD) WORLD OF HOROLOGY see also TURKEY +++++++++++++++++ On GPS: All the time in the World Fareed Zakaria, GPS Economist Steve Hanke and Physicist Richard Conn Henry tell Fareed about their plan to put the whole world in sync by eliminating time zones... [5:55 audiovideo] Source: CNN https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2019/08/16/exp-gps-0825-hanke-henry-universal-time-zones.cnn (via gh, DXLD) It`s about time; we shortwave types already do this! (gh) WWV LISTENER SURVEY This came up in my regular Google Alert regarding WWV and NIST: http://www.arrl.org/news/department-of-defense-message-prompts-listeners-to-take-wwv-wwvh-survey This suggests strengthening a link between Defense Department needs and the role WWV/WWVH could play in meeting those needs. Such a link might come in handy during the next round of budgetary pressures on the stations (Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA USA, Aug 20, NASWA iog via DXLD) Viz.: DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE MESSAGE PROMPTS LISTENERS TO TAKE WWV/WWVH SURVEY --- 08/19/2019 Through Saturday, August 24, WWV and WWVH will transmit a US Department of Defense (DOD) message in conjunction with the COMEX 19-3 interoperability exercise in Tennessee. The broadcast also urges listeners to complete a survey on WWV/WWVH listenership and listening habits. The messages are broadcast on WWV at 10 minutes past the hour and on WWVH at 50 minutes past the hour. WWV and WWVH transmit on 2.5, 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25 MHz. In addition to asking for the name, email address, and location of those completing the “WWV/WWVH Reception Report,” the survey seeks information on which station (i.e., WWV or WWVH) was heard, the frequency, the transmitted audio quality, whether the information was relevant or useful, how often the respondent monitors WWV/WWVH broadcasts, whether the respondent uses a clock or other device that synchronizes with the low-frequency (60 kHz) WWVB time transmissions, and any other information the respondent would consider useful to hear on WWV/WWVH broadcasts. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) — part of the US Department of Commerce — is using the information gathered to determine “how often their stations are monitored and how the various timing signals and messages are used by the listeners,” Chief of US Army MARS Paul English, WD8DBY, said on the US Army MARS Facebook page. “As the saying goes, ‘every vote counts,’ and your input to this survey is being used to help demonstrate the importance of these stations.” Listeners may file multiple reception reports, and anyone may complete the survey. Earlier this year, the Defense Department began making use of the provisional time slots on WWV and WWVH to announce upcoming HF military communication exercises and to explain how the Amateur Radio community can become involved in them. Use of the time slots has corresponded with Department of Defense communication exercises (COMEX); COMEX 19-3 takes place this month. The announcements will resume during COMEX 19-4 in October. Following a proof of concept this year, DOD anticipates making use of the WWV/WWVH broadcast time slot full time, all year. Concern arose in 2018 after WWV and WWVH were included on a list of proposed cuts in the Administration’s Fiscal Year 2019 budget request for NIST (via WORLD OF RADIO 1996, DXLD) TIME SIGNAL PATTERNS UNIDENTIFIED. DX mystery 11820 timesignal 1500 --- Glenn, I wonder if you have any idea on an ID for this mystery. I was tuned this morning to 11820 kHz just before 1500Z. Hoped for an ID at TOH, but all I got were time pips and S/off. The pips were 3 + 1, 3 low + 1 high, last pip NOT extended. Does not match anything I am familiar with and I don’t find a listing for it at this time period. Nothing in Asia, as far as I know, has this pip pattern. Any ideas? Thanks. 73, (Art Peterson, CA, Aug 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Art, I have no ideas about that, but perhaps someone in the WOR io group does. 73, (Glenn Hauser, Aug 22, ibid.) IIRC someclub recently published a time signal reference, but I have not found it again (gh) [irca] HAPPY NATIONAL RADIO DAY From the National Radio Day website: "National Radio Day is a time to honor one of the most longstanding electronic media and its role in our everyday lives. Radio delivers information, news, entertainment and company to millions of Americans every hour of every day. We invite listeners, broadcasters, producers and stations to celebrate on August 20." (Stan, WA1LOU, Zepa?, Aug 21, IRCA at HCDX via DXLD) Shux, missed it (gh) LANGUAGE LESSONS ++++++++++++++++ LINGUALISM AT CHINA RADIO INTERNATIONAL, RADIO MOSCOW CHINA. [continued from 19-33:] CRI: Oh, I understand by now why their English broadcasts are going on without language glitches. At smaller languages they use Chinese staff like in the case of Hungarian language (Tibor Gaal, Hungary, WOR iog via DXLD) Some of CRI’s presenters in the English service are ethnically Chinese, but (I suspect) grew up as children in bilingual households in countries other than China. One of the male presenters on the “learn Chinese” segments on CRI speaks English with a noticeable Australian accent, while his female cohost speaks with an American accent. They both speak Mandarin fluently as well of course. True bilingual fluency typically requires learning both languages when very young. Good examples of that are the late Joe Adamov of Radio Moscow fame, who lived in the UK as a child, and Vladimir Pozner, who grew up in the US. Other CRI presenters are indeed “hired guns”, originally native to other countries (Jim Barrett, NY, ibid.) Joe had an American accent too, not British. Wikipedia explains: ``Joe Adamov, Russian: Иосиф Адамов (Yosif Adamov),[1] (7 January 1920 – 18 December 2005) was a journalist and presenter on Radio Moscow and its successor, the Voice of Russia, for over sixty years. Of Armenian descent, he was born in Batumi, Georgia [clarification needed]. As a child, he lived with his family in England and attended British schools. Later, in the 1930s, he attended a special school for American expats in Moscow where he acquired familiarity with Americans.[2] He was a graduate of Moscow State Pedagogical University.[3]. An expert English-speaker who spoke with a neutral American accent`` (gh, DXLD) THE PORTUGUESE GENDER OF RÁDIO Re: Book - O Rádio Internacional: das Ondas Curtas à Internet Dear Glenn, How are you? Thank you very much for including a note on my book in the last edition of DXLD. Concerning your question on the use of “o rádio” instead of “a rádio” in Portuguese, in fact, this is one of the many differences between the language spoken in Brazil and in Portugal. In Brazil, we speak “o rádio” in this case (meaning a transmission process); should the book be launched in Portugal, its name would be “A Rádio Internacional”, because they use the feminine there. The best explanation I could find for that was the one given by an eminent Brazilian grammarian of the Portuguese language, the late Prof. Napoleão Mendes de Almeida. In his book “Dicionário de Questões Vernáculas”, first edition, page 261, he wrote, and I translate: “Meaning a ‘set/receiver’ and a ‘radio communication process’, the word, in Brazil, is masculine: Comprei um rádio (I bought a radio) Anunciamos pelo rádio (we advertised on the radio) Os guardas se comunicam pelo rádio (the cops communicate through the radio) With the meaning of a radio broadcasting ‘station’, in Portugal and in Brazil, the word is feminine: O Distrito Federal terá a sua quinta rádio (Brasilia will have its fifth radio) Ouvi isso na Eldorado (I heard it on [Rádio] Eldorado) A Rádio Gazeta Gosto de ouvir a BBC (I like to listen to the BBC) Also when indicating ‘process’, the word is feminine in Portugal, what does not happen in Brazil, where we state: ‘Nenhum país precisa de Rádio Educativa quando o rádio já é educativo’ (no country needs an educative radio when the radio is already educative).” Personally, I do not agree with the content of this latter statement, but the grammatical question is well explained. Thanks again, and best regards, (Valter Aguiar, Brasil, Aug 22, DX LISTENING DIGEST) MUSEA +++++ WUWF RADIO EXHIBIT [illustrated] https://www.wuwf.org/gallery-88#stream/0 (Terry Krueger, Niceville, Aug 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: Gallery 88 --- RADIO'S GOLDEN AGE: THEN AND NOW The exhibit is open Monday through Friday from 9am to 4pm through October 31. [CDT = 14-21 UT in Pensacola; WUWF 88.1, 100/100 kW] You're invited to WUWF's exhibit of vintage radios, many of which were manufactured between 1930 and 1950 – the “golden age” of radio. Over the nearly seven decades that have passed since then, the demise of radio has been predicted many times as competing media platforms have evolved. Roland Phillips, exhibit curator [caption] Radio’s first challenge was television, entering its own “golden age” in the 1950s. Many said that radio could not successfully compete with television. The 1960s brought the audio cassette recorder and it was said that the ability for people to make their own recordings would put an end to both the music industry and radio. It didn’t happen. Sony introduced the Walkman in 1979. MTV hit the airwaves in the early 80s. Apple released the first iPod in 2001. Streaming on-demand music platforms grew like mushrooms in the early 2000s, followed by XM and Sirius satellite radio. Services like Rhapsody, Napster, Pandora and iTunes created new competition to terrestrial radio. Once again media observers incorrectly predicted the demise of radio. As new areas of competition for audio-based media continue to emerge, radio remains number one. According to the most recent Nielsen audience data, radio continues to reach more Americans each week than any other platform: Radio reaches 93% of adults on a weekly basis Television reaches 88% of adults Smartphones, tablets or computers reach 83% of adults Who’s listening? 95% of Millennials are reached by radio each month 97% of Gen-Xers are reached by radio each month 98% of Boomers are reached by radio each month Brad Kelly, Managing Director of Nielsen Audio observes that “audio-based news and entertainment lend themselves well to the multi-tasking reality of modern day life. At work, in the car, at the office, on the way to the store, audio is the preferred companion to Americans on the move.” Radio has a presence on multiple platforms (smartphones, smart speakers, computers and tablets), but over-the-air broadcasting remains the most accessible and reliable vehicle. And of course, as long as there are hurricanes along the Gulf Coast, there will be a need for terrestrial radio. Keeping a portable radio and a good supply of batteries should be at the top of your hurricane preparedness list! (via gh, DXLD) FUNDRAISER FOR THE NATIONAL VOICE OF AMERICA MUSEUM OF BROADCASTING Southgate August 22, 2019 Cincinnati Radio’s Mike Martini to Emcee National VOA Museum of Broadcasting’s Sept. 21 Fundraiser --- Fourth annual fundraiser aims to level first floor for patron accessibility Cincinnati radio and TV broadcast historian Mike Martini will emcee the Saturday, Sept. 21 fundraiser for the National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting in West Chester. [OHIO] The VOA museum will host “Celebrating 75 Years of VOA Bethany Station” from 5:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. at the museum at 8070 Tylersville Road in West Chester. [EDT = 2130-0230 UT] Martini is a 30-year, award-winning radio Cincinnati journalist and radio producer. He is also president and co-founder of the Media Heritage Collection at the VOA museum and a producer at WMKV-FM. An independent voice talent who has voiced spots for both public and commercial, radio and television, clients, Martini is a sought-after public speaker who speaks to dozens of community groups each year. He and Mark Magistrelli, an Emmy-winning producer and writer of documentaries, saved much of Cincinnati radio and TV’s broadcast history when they worked together for WVXU-FM in the 1990s. In 2000, the men formed the Media Heritage, Inc., a not-for-profit archive of Cincinnati broadcast history. Media Heritage’s collection includes the radio archives of the Frederic W. Ziv Company, the world’s largest syndicator of radio and television in the 1940s and 1950s. Martini is a former adjunct professor of broadcast writing at Xavier University, has written numerous magazine articles and conducted more than 130 oral history interviews. He’s the author of the book, Cincinnati Radio (Arcadia Publishing, 2011), a photographic record of the first 50 years of Cincinnati radio. “Mike is the consummate radio professional blessed with a golden voice,” said Jack Dominic, VOA museum executive director. “He’s an expert on Cincinnati radio and TV history and is highly entertaining, especially during his talks on Powel Crosley, Jr., and radio sound effects. Greater Cincinnati should be eternally grateful to him and Mark Magistrelli for giving modern-day audiences the chance to hear old-time radio classics like ‘Fibber McGee and Molly,’ ‘Burns and Allen,’ and ‘The Great Gildersleeve.’” Martini re-broadcasts many of the Golden Age of Radio’s shows weekdays at 11 a.m. on WMKV’s (89.9 FM) “Theater of the Mind.” program. He was awarded the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists “Best Producer Award” in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2014. “Celebrating 75 Years of VOA Bethany Station” will include dinner-by-the-bite, cocktails, wine and Cincinnati Liars Lager beer, along with museum tours and a friendly table-to-table Trivial Pursuit game. Funds raised from raffles and silent auction items will help make the Bethany Station museum building accessible for people of all abilities. Event sponsors include: Platinum Sponsor Dillard’s; Gold Sponsor Sebaly, Shillito & Dyer; and Silver Sponsors Emery Federal Credit Union; Larry and Sandy Brueshaber; Mr. Mechanic; Oak Tree Communications; Union Centre Boulevard Merchants Association; and Voice of America Centre. Fundraiser tickets are $125 per person and $250 per couple until September 1, then $150 per person and $300 per couple afterward. Cash bar, with two drink tickets per person provided. Dress is business casual. To purchase tickets, visit Eventbrite at http://bit.ly/2MsGITX ; email Dominic at admin@voamuseum.org or call the museum at (513) 777-0027 to become an event sponsor. http://www.southgatearc.org/news (via Mike Terry, Aug 22, WOR iog via DXLD) DX-PEDIITONS ++++++++++++ [WOR] MORE BANDSCANS FROM THE NORWEGIAN AND NORTH SEAS On a sea day sailing from Rotterdam to Cork, Ireland, so a bit of time to compile some further bandscans from our stateroom on the HAL cruise ship, the Zuiderdam. A reminder that my equipment is very basic: A small portable, the XHData D808 (modified for MW use by Gary Debock) and a few feet of random wire across our balcony. Reception has been very good overall, with noise not much of an issue. A pleasant change to scan the SW bands, and actually hear a lot of pretty decent stations. Look out, though. China seems to be virtually everywhere (similar to other places on this planet I've visited in recent years)! Any errors are my own. Comments always welcome! PS: A good MW session is still to be compiled. Sorry for the delay! 73 (Walt Salmaniw, Aug 17, WOR iog via DXLD) Walt`s complete report appeared in the WOR iog; items excerpted above in this issue, see: AUSTRIA, BOTSWANA, DENMARK, EUROPE, FAROE ISLANDS, PHILIPPINES, ROMANIA, SAUDI ARABIA DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM see also ASCENSION; INDIA; KOREA NORTH; ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ KUWAIT; NEW ZEALAND; NIGERIA; RUSSIA; VATICAN; UNIDENTIFIED 13615; UNIDENTIFIED 17535 DRM Update --- Newsletter from the DRM Consortium 21 August 2019 Dear Friends, Colleagues and Partners, The DRM for FM test and demonstration in St Petersburg is going on and the reports are that the quality of the audio is excellent, to the delight of the organisers and Consortium participants (RFmondial, Fraunhofer IIs, NXP and Gospell). The Gospell receiver has also announced a new firmware update for its DRM30 receiver and its capacity to present text in the Russian language. And KTWR on the Pacific island of Guam continues to broadcast globally in DRM. If you have any feedback, please let us know. News from India comes straight from the heart of the country, as we are publishing for the first time a DRM blog from Pune, where pure DRM is being broadcast at the moment. If you are interested in some special DRM shortwave transmissions form the middle of the Atlantic Ocean towards Argentina in Latin America, please scroll down. The Consortium is also planning its events for IBC and an updated Flickr site will give you an idea of what we have been up to in these past 18 months. Several industry articles and a blog will give you lots of facts, ideas and opinions and we hope you will write to us with your own news and contributions. More details about all these items are included here below. And please remember that you only have very little time to make your nominations for our fifth DRM Enterprise Award. Make sure you or your chosen people are on the list. Finally, please do not forget to join us on Twitter, YouTube and Flickr. And if you want to join the Consortium please contact projectoffice@drm.org. Ruxandra Obreja Chair, DRM Consortium ruxandra.obreja@drm.org (via Mike Terry, Aug 21, WOR iog via DXLD) SPECIAL DRM TRANSMISSIONS AIMED AT SOUTH AMERICA DURING HFCC MEETING https://www.drm.org/special-drm-transmissions-during-hfcc-meeting-in-argentina-26-29-august/ …. Others to follow... 1 reply 10 retweets 16 likes DRM digital radio ‏ @drmdigitalradio Vatican radio - Vatican News will also have special broadcast in DRM during the HFCC Conference - broadcast is planned Monday 26-Thursday 29 August at 1830-1900 UT on 17535 kHz from Santa Maria di Galeria beaming to 230°. 1:48 AM - 21 Aug 2019 20 Aug Special DRM Transmissions During HFCC Meeting in Argentina – 26-29 August Special DRM shortwave transmissions are being planned for the special meeting of HFCC to be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 26-29 August. They will be broadcast by Encompass Digital Media Services, Monday 26 – Thursday 29 August 1600-1700 UT on 21630 kHz from Ascension Island on a bearing of 245 degrees. On each of the 4 days the content will be supplied by a different broadcaster: Monday – BBC World Service English Tuesday – KBS (Korean) in Spanish Wednesday – NHK (Japan) in Spanish Thursday – TWR (TransWorldRadio) in Spanish Vatican Radio-Vatican News will also carry a special broadcast in DRM during the HFCC meeting from Monday 26-Thursday 29 August at 1830-1900 UT on 17535 kHz from Santa Maria di Galeria beaming to 230°. Vatican Radio will broadcast music with text in English and Spanish (via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DAB See POLAND ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See also MEXICO; OKLAHOMA; UNIDENTIFIED ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CONTROLLING MARKETS, DIGITAL vs ANALOG DXing, etc. I've been reading a recent paper (4-2019) by the NAB regarding ATSC 3.0, with reference to three subjects - the effects of propagation on a terrestrial UHF/VHF signal; the conundrum of the repack; and content protection (CP) and digital rights management (DRM). [NOTE: what DRM means in this thread, totally different from Digital Radio Mondiale!!! -gh] In the paper, the broadcasters concerns are on content protection, with regard to electronic devices that can record and/or stream OTA broadcast content for redistribution. This is mostly a network television concern. They don't want you sending the content of WXYZ or KABC half way across the country, via a wireless internet device (out of market). It also mentions that the FCC and the NAB recognize that atmospheric conditions can send a signal beyond its intended market (again, out of market). There had been implications that ATSC 3.0 receivers would have the capability to block *out of market* signals from being viewed. The NAB and the FCC agree that basic receivers should not present this problem for viewers, who have no control over atmospheric conditions (think E-skip and tropo). The NAB paper says that at this point, any electronic devices that receive OTA signals and also have an internet gateway should have CP and DRM installed in the technology. It mentions that consumers that want to receive basic OTA ATSC 3.0 signals without internet technology involved should not have to be concerned about CP and DRM giving them reception issues. Therefore, an OTA viewer (dxer) will still be able to dx DTV with basic devices. With an internet capable tuner such as an HDHomerun tuner, the days of dxing with ATSC 3.0 may be impossible, if such tuners are embedded with CP and DRM technology. They also recognized with the repack, atmospheric conditions can send signals further than their intended market. The broadcasters have to deal with that situation. Haven't DTV dxers seen the results of that already? And the repack has only begun. If you care to read the full details of this NAB report, it can be found here... https://nabpilot.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/NAB-ATSC-3.0-Guide_Final.pdf Last edited by Jim Thomas; 08-10-2019 at 10:44 AM. (Jim Thomas, Springfield, MO EM37, Ozark Mountain DTV dxing Daredevil, Aug 9, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) Jim, Thanks for the info. I hope we can keep DXing (what's left of) TV. The, "Watch us and don't you dare watch another station" thing has been going on for quite a while. Back in the heyday of C-band satellite, several network stations were available on C-band. Our local KFVS 12 Cape Girardeau, MO used to run ads telling us we'd better not watch another CBS feed, or else, blah-blah-blah. So, I filled a VHS tape full of Es and Tr recordings of CBS stations, from all over the country, and mailed it to KFVS with a note informing them it was all done OTA with an outdoor TV antenna system. I asked, "Which one do you want me to watch?" The silence was deafening... Notta peep of response from KFVS. *sarcasm on* So, auto-logging might be put out of business by ATSC 3.0? You mean, the, "throw a stick of dynamite in the water and call it, fishing" crowd will have to go back to, *gasp*, "real time" DXing?! Awwww, that's too bad. *sarcasm off*. I must admit, since I've never run an auto-logger, yet, I've logged more DTVs than anyone else on the planet, this amuses me. I'd imagine, it won't take long before a method of 'work-around' is available to defeat whatever road blocks are put in the way. 73, Ed NN2E, Owner / Operator - Murphy's Law Test Site & Thunderstorm Proving Grounds, Aug 10, Last edited by NN2E; 08-11-2019 at 08:36 AM, ibid.) Ed, I wonder what exactly did KFVS think they were going to do if someone watched an out of town CBS feed? Zap the TV or the owner for insubordination? What if someone lived somewhere like McKenzie, TN, where KFVS, WREG, and WTVF were possible/probable CBS stations with an outside antenna? That's crazy talk!! (antennanut, Aug 10, Franklin TN, ibid.) Their (KFVS) main issue was people watching another CBS station via satellite. Not that they could do anything about it other than run their obnoxious ad. I didn't like their attitude so I showed them they weren't the center of the CBS universe. 73, (Ed NN2E, ibid.) None of this is really entirely new. ATSC 1.0 contains provisions for CP, for DRM, and for geolocation. The CP and DRM provisions are already in use for ATSC 1.0 transmissions via cable. To my knowledge the geolocation provisions were never used -- but if you read the PSIP standard you'll find them. What's new with ATSC 3.0 is seamless integration of Internet delivery. An ATSC 3.0 broadcast is an Internet stream. Specifically, it's an IP multicast. If you watch, for example, CBS All Access, you're watching an IP multicast delivered through your Internet provider (ISP). In ATSC 3.0, you would normally be watching NBC Nightly News via an IP multicast delivered through the WMAQ-TV transmitter. For a couple of reasons, your receiver might switch to a multicast delivered through your ISP. Maybe you're watching on your tablet and you walk into a place where multipath takes out the OTA signal but you have wifi. Maybe WMAQ is airing a Culver's commercial in Schaumburg, but you live in Waukegan and the nearest Culver's is 15 miles away. And all that's fine, as long as the Internet-delivered programming is coming from WMAQ. What they don't want is for the Internet-delivered programming to come from KOAA in Colorado. Especially the Internet-delivered syndicated programming. Like the Ellen DeGeneris show. WMAQ pays good money for the rights to air that program, and they expect to make that money back by selling access to the viewers who watch that show in the Chicago area. If some of those viewers are watching KOAA, WMAQ isn't getting their money's worth. (neither is KOAA; an auto dealer in Colorado Springs isn't going to pay to reach an audience in Chicago!) So, one would presume some kind of technology will exist to prevent DRM-protected programming from streaming over the Internet outside the intended market. It's possible (likely) those limits will only apply to syndicated programming. (KOAA will happily allow me to watch their local newscast online) There is some risk to broadcasters in applying these limits to the OTA signal at all. Consider, for example, Kenosha, Wisconsin. It's technically in the Milwaukee market. It's also midway between Milwaukee and Chicago, and is home to an increasing number of people who commute to the latter city. With a reasonable antenna, it is possible to watch either WTMJ or WMAQ OTA. Blocking OTA reception of WMAQ might not go over very well. It is not difficult to find other "border counties" where reception of more than one market might be expected. It would be possible to apply geographic DRM only to material received over the Internet. Whether that will actually happen, who knows (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, http://www.w9wi.com ibid.) Doug, that sounds kinda familiar. "There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur, or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat, there is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to, The Outer Limits." I used to live in a, two market, TV coverage area. Halfway between NYC and Philly. I can just imagine what Hell would be raised, by the central NJ advertisers and viewers, if signals were cut off from either city. 73, (Ed NN2E, ibid.) I was thinking about the original aspect of Ed's posting this thread - analog versus digital - and how a DXer can sit for hours waiting for a signal to finally get strong enough to decode. Fast forward to the future. The NAB and electronics manufacturers decide to include CP and DRM technology in future TV receivers for ATSC 3.0 reception. So I'm sitting there for hours waiting for this signal to decode, it finally happens, and CP/DRM kicks in and no picture or audio! What? Where's my dx? My dxing habit just got a boot in the butt. Ouch. It could happen --- maybe. But according to Doug's comments, not very likely (Jim Thomas, Springfield, MO EM37, ibid.) I think you can interpret my rather lengthy post to mean that the NAB and electronics manufacturers will not apply CP or DRM to OTA reception on purpose. Hopefully they won't do it by mistake (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, ibid.) I'd imagine, it won't take long before a method of 'work-around' is available to defeat whatever road blocks are put in the way (Crazy Monkey, Akron OH, ibid.) There are already ways to run an autologger without uploading all the scan data to the internet. I have an offline autologger I run at my brother's house in Doylestown. It needs no internet connection. It merely shows the TSID and PSIP it receives for review later when I'm available. like not at work (Crazy Monkey, Akron OH, Aug 13, ibid.) And getting back to the original point of the thread - I'll take analog any day over DTV. Sure, IDing a station is easier with DTV, but I'd rather stare at a VERY snowy picture than a yellow bar that teases me (Antennanut, Franklin TN, ibid.) Something I noticed as soon as I started DXing DTVs. With analog, all-night tropo DXing was fairly common. With DTV, the time frame for tropo DX shifted towards the early morning hours say, sunrise to 9 or 10 a.m. I'm guessing this is a result of the 'all or nothing at all' characteristics of DTV. I now have to wait for tropo conditions to peak before DX will decode. With analog, the weaker (off peak) signals were still easily DX-able. There are times when all-night DTV tropo occurs but, not near as often as with analog. 73, (Ed NN2E, KY, ibid.) Got up this morning at 4 a.m. Tropo conditions are typical for a Summer morning. What I call, "150-ish mile clutter". Tuned the Zenith box to ch 35 with the antenna aimed at 52 degrees azimuth. Observed 1/3 scale signal, and I wait. Sunrise at 6:11 a.m. C.D.T. After 2 hours and 46 minutes (at 6:46 a.m.) WLWT 35/5 Cincinnati (267 mi) finally reaches decode level. Had this been an analog signal I'd have been watching this station instead of a 1/3 scale signal bar and/or a, "NO SIGNAL" message on the screen. Don't we just hate DTV DXing. :-) 73, (Ed NN2E, Aug 14, ibid.) Ed, my total DTV count of low-VHF stations received via e-skip is 12. My total analog count of low-VHF stations received via e-skip is 27. I've been DXing since 2015. I've missed a lot of logs because the DTVs will just not decode. I can sit for hours and see a yellow signal bar on low-VHF, and then it disappears leaving nothing. Low-VHF is really bad, and it's no wonder the broadcasters avoided it. I estimate if these were analog, I would have logged the following stations that I do not have in the logbook. CKPR 2, KYUS 3, WMC 5, WTSP-DRT 4, KXDA-LD 5, KZHO-LD 3, CHAU-1 3, CFTF-4 4, WRUF-LD 5. And I know there would be a lot more. One thing I've noticed is that I can see the digital static appear on the analog TV way before I can even see a yellow bar appear on the Zenith tuner. So it may be worse than we think. (Crazy Monkey, Akron OH, ibid.) I think you would have logged WVUA 6 (mapped to 23) as well (if you haven't already). WVUA has 1 of the best low VHF signals I know, sometimes its signal can really get out. Have you ever received "Franken FM" station WPGF-LD 6 / 87.7-5 before, they are out of Memphis, TN and are still in analog, I receive their audio on 87.7 a lot (Rrrrzzzz419, DXing In Colbert And Lauderdale Counties In AL, And Alcorn, Prentiss, And Tishomingo Counties In MS, Aug 15, ibid.) I've tentatively logged WPGF-LP Memphis. I heard sports talk and assumed it was them, because it's basically the only sports talk from the area I was receiving e-skip. And yes, I'd likely have WVUA and WDVZ-CD 3. I have the infamous yellow bars from both of them. (Crazy Monkey, Akron OH, ibid.) I will admit, I have to say something different here, based on my location. Sure, analog TV = more DX. But, OTOH, back pre-June 2009, my analog TV was cluttered with channels 2, 4, 5, and 6 locally; 3 for the most part was the only channel for Es unless something monstrous came along. I actually traveled to Everglades City FL a lot in '06-'07---it was the quickest place to set up outdoor DX equipment and not worry about my Miami/West Palm locals. I got some good stuff too --- anywhere from Venezuela to Omaha to Boston I think (WGBH). Because I live in a spot where I can log a dozen different countries (we can scratch Costa Rica and Mexico now), not only do I still see some analog --- but there are over a dozen DTV Es targets north to west. And --- had I known how to finagle Manual Tuning mode on my STB, I might have gotten my first DTV Es catches a year earlier (my first being WCYB 5 June 2010). From home, since '09, I have added at least 4 more countries to my logs --- all because my locals on 2 and 4 are gone now. So --- another perspective. cd (Chris Dunne, Pembroke Pines FL, Aug 16, ibid.) If 560 AM is a clear frequency in your area try to check it the next time you hear sports talk on 87.7, if it is just before sunset or just after sunrise WPGF-LP's AM simulcast WHBQ AM 560 really gets out, if they both matched you would confirm 2 stations. How do you tell what station is generating the yellow bars? You seem to be almost certain on several stations so I am guessing you have some sort of method, wither it be other stations coming in at the time or something else (Rrrrzzzz419, MS, Aug 20, ibid.) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ [WOR] Ampegon On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 09:34 PM, Glenn Hauser wrote: ``The rotatable antenna manufacturer, Ampegon, went bankrupt and was bought by Cesstron (sounds like?). No, it`s Cestron. found it: http://www.cestron.de/ Communication Engineering Services and Electronics [now what would that be in German and acronymed?] News Release, Berlin, 14 August 2019 CESTRON announces acquisition of strategic assets from Ampegon and AM Broadcast. . . http://www.cestron.de/News?PHPSESSID=d7f905e03b6f42ec0682119c7364e63b AW says Cestron has $300K worth of spare parts for WBCQ which he hopes to be able to get. Another problem is that WBCQ has NO documentation about the antenna. Cestron is rehiring most of the old Ampegon engineers, and hopes they will come to WBCQ by end of August and get to work [earlier info was that WBCQ would have to pay for their airfare and lodging.] The antenna will cover all bands 5.9 to 28 [sic] MHz, but each frequency must be pre-programmed into it with proper antenna tuning unit settings, etc. Need documentation on exactly how to do that correctly. It`s all servo-controlled. More AC on the transmitter has been installed. AW would still prefer plate modulation. Tom replaced power supply modules. Something about ground-strapping required for lightning protexion. All this brand-new equipment should have been under warranty, but that went away with the bankruptcy, which he hears was not a ``nice`` transition.``` Interesting developments--- First it would be remarkable if Weiner indeed lost the warranty also for the transmitter, because it is a Continental. So has Ampegon delivered this product from a competitor instead of own equipment? https://twitter.com/AllanWBCQ/status/1146408801794514945 [view of transmitter] Then there is this: https://ampegon.com/news/?id=106 Looks as if the scope of this deal can roughly be described as the Turgi core business. This should include the product line of shortwave transmitters, both the manufacturing of new ones (and now a picture emerges what's really behind the babble about delayed transmitter delivery from WMLK owners) and spare parts for all the equipment installed under Ampegon, Thales, Thomcast, Thomson brands in the past. And also for M2W mediumwave transmitters, for those who still have to live with one. (Not to be confused with S7HP, which as a French product is a completely different story.) A bit mysterious is the mention also of Berlin in this PR, because it is apparent that the Ampegon businesses in Germany are not included, in particular the Ludwigshafen antenna division, formerly part of Mannheim divisions of BBC, ABB, Thomcast. The same goes for what remained of former Telefunken Sendertechnik, last known as Transradio, which went bankrupt just two years ago. So much for the integration that was planned by Ampegon, with the TRAM transmitters being the only product they wanted to continue because they had, after withdrawing the ill-fated M2W, no mediumwave transmitters to offer anymore. I guess some scratching heads takes place now here and there... (Kai Ludwig, Aug 17, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1996, DXLD) FYI re AMPEGON, as discussed at WBCQ: > A bit mysterious is the mention also of Berlin in this PR, because it is apparent that the Ampegon businesses in Germany are not included, https://ampegon.com/download/pr_sale_assets_of_ampegon_ag_-_immediate_release.pdf https://ampegon.com/news/?id=110 Together, Ampegon and Ocem are strengthening their world leadership in power electronics for science and broadcast systems. Their business is complementary in terms of technology, existing know-how and an extensive list of worldwide market references. Energy Technology Srl, part of Arete & Cocchi Technology group of companies, based in Bologna, Italy, announces that it has reached agreement with the shareholders of Ampegon AG for the acquisition of its strategic assets > in Switzerland and Germany through an asset deal transaction. Ampegon and Ocem are developing and manufacturing a wide range of high energy power supplies, of both high voltage and high current types, RF amplifiers using electron tube and solid-state topologies, and shortwave radio transmitters for analogue and digital broadcasting. The companies develop both OEM components and integrated systems to meet the needs of emerging technologies and industries, especially in the fields of fusion energy, particle accelerators, high-field electromagnets, medical physics, and industrial RF. 17.07.2019 PRESSEMITTEILUNG: Acquisition of Strategic Assets of Ampegon AG by Energy Technology Srl --- Turgi - Switzerland, and Bologna - Italy, July 11th, 2019 Energy Technology Srl, part of Arete & Cocchi Technology group of companies, based in Bologna, Italy, announces that it has reached agreement with the shareholders of Ampegon AG for the acquisition of its strategic assets in Switzerland and Germany through an asset deal transaction. Through its new, wholly-owned subsidiary Ampegon Power Electronics AG, based in Baden, Energy Technology commenced business activities on July 8th, 2019. Together, Ampegon and Ocem are strengthening their world leadership in power electronics for science and broadcast systems. Their business is complementary in terms of technology, existing know-how and an extensive list of worldwide market references. Energy Technology Srl, Teil der Arete & Cocchi Technology-Unternehmensgruppe mit Sitz in Bologna (Italien), gibt bekannt, eine Einigung erzielt zu haben mit den Aktionaeren der Ampegon AG fuer den Erwerb ihrer strategischen Vermoegenswerte in der Schweiz und in Deutschland im Rahmen einer Asset-Deal-Transaktion (via Wolfgang Bueschel, WOR iog via DXLD) NATIONAL NC-183/D REVIVED W0AD update --- Guyz, The radio that hooked me as a 10 year old to the mystery of shortwave radio and eventually to the ham radio hobby was a plain jane 1948 National NC-183 that was on the desk in the bedroom I stayed at when we visited the family farmstead south of Superior every summer. I remember being amazed at the warm glow of the dials, the smell of the set heating up, listening to the sounds coming out of the speaker and the whoosh whoosh of CW being received by an envelope detector (I later discovered what the BFO was for!) I went to the public library and got a book on the Kennelly-Heaviside layer. As a 10 year old I didn't understand the math, but really liked the pictures of the radio waves bouncing off the ionosphere. So, the nostalgia bug bit two and a half years ago, and I bought a re-capped National NC-183D receiver (totally different radio from the stock NC-183) that a guy had bought from a restorer but he never could get it to work. He was so disgusted with it that he gave it away for $150 shipped. I figured that someday I would get smart enough to figure it out. Well, some of my ham buddies were talking about how great the R-388 and 51J4 series of Collins receivers were, and it got me thinking... Hey, I've got this NC-183D in the garage; it would sound really nice with the push pull 6V6s --- maybe something fixed itself in the last two years? (ha ha) Or, maybe a tube finally went bad as I had tested them all when I got it. I would get plenty of noise out of the radio, the controls all worked, but not a peep of signal. I have multiple tube sets for the R-390 (non-A) but had only two tubes that were common to both sets, a 6BA6 and a 6BE6. Since there were half a dozen 6BA6s in the National and only two 6BE6s (1st & 2nd mixers) I subbed the only 6BE6 I had in the first mixer socket..... and the radio came to life!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!! !!!!! What are the chances of that!!!! It seemed weird that a weak mixer tube would cause the radio to be completely deaf, so I took a closer look at the tube I pulled out. It was a 12BE6 --- Wow. Someone must have inadvertently substituted a first mixer tube with a 12 volt filament instead of a 6 volt filament. The 12 volt filament never heated up enough with only 6 volts applied to conduct electrons so the RF path was cut off. That's why I heard noise but no signal. So a guy who spent many hours recapping this radio probably sold it for a premium and the buyer was just like me; he assumed that the tube lineup was correct. I even tested this tube! It's amazing that this was the first and only tube I replaced, but more importantly: I' m sure there's a moral to this story, because it seems very unsurprising to me that things in life happen this way. PS. Now I get to do an alignment. Instant gratification, much more fun than my day job! 73, (Paul W0AD Staupe, Aug 15, Minnetonka, Minnesota DX Club yg via DXLD) QUESTION ABOUT 2 FM SIGNALS MIXING TO PRODUCE A HARMONIC I have noticed a fairly strong harmonic mixing product on 97.7 MHz from a translator on 99.5 W258DJ that has 0.055 kW (55 watts) and a booster on 101.3 WGGY-FM3 that has 0.250 kW (250 watts). Both of these are within 2 blocks of my house. The audio on the harmonic is predominantly that from 99.5, but you can hear the 101.3 audio in the background. The 101.3 booster came on the air about 2 months ago. The 99.5 translator has been on the air about a year. Is there any way to eliminate this harmonic at my reception location or is this due to the placement of the transmitters. The transmitter antennas are on different towers, but the towers are fairly close to each other (Bob Seaman Hazleton, PA, Aug 16, WTFDA gg via DXLD) Correction on the terminology: that is not a harmonic. It is a classic 3rd-order intermodulation product. The two signals are hitting something nonlinear (more on that in a bit), and creating a signal at Find = 2F1 - F2 = ( 2 x (99.5) ) - (1 x 101.3) = 97.7 [Yes, that`s the formula, also applying very much to SW, but it`s so much easier to compute and visualize as simply one frequency *leapfrogging* over another by the same distance! --- gh] There is probably another IMD product at 103.1 (guess why...exercise for the reader). The problem is most likely due to overload in the front end of your receiver but could be lots of places --- corroded antenna connector, etc. Anything that is behaving like a diode will do it. If you add an attenuator in the path and the signal at 97.7 goes away, the problem is in your receiver. It can probably handle the two signals OK if they are a bit weaker. If 97.7 just gets weaker, the problem is somewhere else. But I suspect it is in your receiver now that it has two very strong signals coming in. If you have a directional antenna that can reduce one of the signals. that will also work. Good luck, (Doug Grant, ibid.) 'JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE' HIT WITH $395,000 FINE OVER EMERGENCY TONES IN SKIT - Reuters --- Aug 16 at 2:30 PM Entertainment News August 15, 2019 / 6:54 PM / Updated 12 hours ago David Shepardson 3 Min Read https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fcc-alert/jimmy-kimmel-live-hit-with-395000-fine-over-emergency-tones-in-skit-idUSKCN1V5282 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Simulated wireless alert tones used in a "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" skit making fun of a presidential alert test have cost Walt Disney Co's ABC $395,000 in civil fines with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. FILE PHOTO: 90th Academy Awards - Oscars Show - Hollywood, California, U.S., 04/03/2018 - Host Jimmy Kimmel opens the show. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo AMC Networks separately on Thursday agreed to pay a $104,000 fine for using an alert tone in a February 2019 episode of the "The Walking Dead." The commission handed down smaller fines to Discovery's Animal Planet and Meruelo Radio Holdings for other violations. The use of emergency alert system or wireless emergency alert tones are barred by FCC rules "to avoid confusion when the tones are used, alert fatigue among listeners, and false activation of the system by the operative data elements contained in the alert tones," the agency said. Discovery agreed to pay a $68,000 civil penalty because during an episode of Animal Planet's "Lone Star Law" contained an actual wireless emergency alert tone. The crew was filming Texas Game Wardens following Hurricane Harvey and caught the tone of a real wireless alert received by phones during filming. Meruelo paid $67,000 for broadcasting a simulated signal in a promotion for its morning show on southern California-based radio stations KDAY and KDEY-FM. AMC, Discovery and Meruelo did not immediately comment ABC said in a statement it takes "regulatory compliance seriously and we are pleased to have resolved this issue." In its consent decree with the FCC, it admitted it did broadcast the tones "in the absence of an actual emergency" or authorized test in an Oct. 3, 2018 broadcast. The late-night comedy show used a simulated wireless emergency alert tone three times during a sketch regarding the nationwide presidential wireless emergency alert test that took place that day. ABC told the FCC the tones were improperly included in the episode because a "misunderstanding that the use of the tone was permissible." The FCC said ABC took steps to remove the portion of the episode containing the tones from its website and other online streaming sites, and decided not to rebroadcast the episode. The Federal Emergency Management Agency in October 2018 sent presidential wireless alerts to millions of mobile phones that triggered a loud tone, a special vibration and a message reading: "THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed." Government officials told reporters in 2018 President Donald Trump would not personally trigger the alert - from his phone or any other device - and emphasized that no president could "wake up one morning and attempt to send a personal message." Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and Lisa Shumaker (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) AN ONLINE RADIO MONITORING BOT INTEGRATED INTO SLACK. The "Radio Monitor" bot, which monitors the work of online radio stations around the clock, has received integration with the popular Slack corporate messenger. Now you can receive important information about the status of online streams of radio stations in a general working chat. Radio Monitor is a unique “pocket silence detector” that monitors the operation of online streams and instantly notifies the technical staff of the radio station if there is silence on the air, the server and / or stream is unavailable, the broadcast has switched to “Auto DJ”. Initially, Radio Monitor worked only in the Telegram messenger, but after blocking this messenger in Russia, the bot developers “taught” it to send notifications by e-mail as well. Radio Monitor works in the cloud, does not require the acquisition of additional iron and interference with the existing broadcast complex. You can find the bot through a search in Telegram by entering the username "RadioMonitorBot" or by sending a request by mail to the address: mail @ rmbot.ru http://onair.ru/main/enews/view_msg/NMID__74530/ (via Rus-DX 18 Aug via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2019 Aug 19 0141 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 12 - 18 August 2019 Solar activity was very low. The visible disk was spotless with no Earth-directed CMEs observed. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at high levels on 12-17 Aug with moderate levels on 18 Aug. A maximum flux of 5,340 pfu was observed at 13/1725 UTC. Geomagnetic field activity was at predominately quiet levels with isolated unsettled intervals observed midday on 16 Aug and early on 18 Aug. Solar wind parameters reflected a nominal environment through the period. Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 19 August - 14 September 2019 Solar activity is expected to continue at very low levels through the oulook period. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be normal to moderate levels on 19 - 31 Aug. Flux readings are expected to increase to moderate to high levels on 01 - 14 Sep.due to recurrent CH HSS influence. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to reach unsettled levels on 20 - 22 Aug, 26 - 28 Aug and 06 - 07 Sep due to recurrent CH HSS activity. Active to G1 (minor) storm conditions are likely on 01 - 02 Sep due to recurrent CH HSS activity. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2019 Aug 19 0141 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 2019-08-19 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2019 Aug 19 68 5 2 2019 Aug 20 68 7 3 2019 Aug 21 68 7 3 2019 Aug 22 68 6 3 2019 Aug 23 68 5 2 2019 Aug 24 68 5 2 2019 Aug 25 68 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 4 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 2019 Sep 08 67 5 2 2019 Sep 09 67 5 2 2019 Sep 10 67 5 2 2019 Sep 11 67 5 2 2019 Sep 12 68 5 2 2019 Sep 13 68 5 2 2019 Sep 14 68 5 2 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1996, DXLD) TIPS FOR RATIONAL LIVING ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Part of the second hour of `On Point` from WBUR Boston via KOSU OK, Aug 21 at 1506-1538 UT was about a subject dear to my heart, the semi-colon; which far too many writers avoid employing: https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2019/08/21/semicolon-cecelia-watson -- audio available soon (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###