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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1999 contents: Antarctica, Bahamas, Bougainville, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, China, Cuba, Germany, Guam, Hungary non, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea North non, México, Mongolia, Myanmar, Netherlands non, Oklahoma, Romania, USA; and the propagation outlook Ready by 0035 UT September 13 for broadcasts Friday September 13 to Thursday September 19 Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor1999.m3u (mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor1999.mp3 Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html Also linx to podcast services. 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September 18] ** ALBANIA. 13665, Sept 7 at 1229, discussion in English, soon mixed with Chinese, a dead giveaway, and 1230 `Takeaway Chinese` show. It`s CRI as scheduled 1100-1300 in English via Cërrik. Not much else on band except Cuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANGUILLA. 11775, Sept 5 at 1401, PMS on and strong enough to tell her modulation is squealing, like WWCR-1, WEWN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA. 15476, LRA 36, Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, Base Esperanza, missing Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, 8, 9 and 10-09, but Wednesday, 11-09 on air again (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1999, DXLD) LRA-36 --- coming in at fair level via http://tangar.utvarp.com:8073/ U.S. oldies rock & roll, a change from the usual Argentine music. Hearing it now at 2000 UT (Dan Robinson, Sept 11, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1999, DXLD) ** ARGENTINA [non]. Frequency change of RAE via WRMI effective September 3: 2200-2300 9395 100 kW / 355 deg ENAm German Mon-Fri tx#6, new freq 2200-2300 7780 100 kW / 044 deg WeEu German Mon-Fri tx#1-cancelled 2200-2300 7780 100 kW / 044 deg WeEu English Mon-Fri APS Radio-new https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/frequency-change-of-rae-in-german-via.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 9-10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. AUSTRÁLIA, 6230, Estação Meteorológica VMW, Wiluna, Austr. Ocidental, 1842-..., 30/8. Avisos meteorológicos; 25341. Melhor sinal, em 31/8, pelas 2100. 6507, Estação Meteorológica VMC, Charleville, Queensland, 2042-..., 08/9. Avisos meteorológicos; 25341. 8113, Estação Meteorológica VMW, Wiluna, Austr. Ocidental, 1842-..., 30/8. Avisos meteorológicos (conteúdo confirmado via // 6230); 15341. 8176, Estação Meteorológica VMC, Charleville, Queensland, 2045-..., 08/9. Avisos meteorológicos (conteúdo confirmado via // 6507); 15331. 12362, Estação Meteorológica VMW, Wiluna, Austr. Ocidental, 0937-..., 08/9. Avisos meteorológicos (?); 15341. 12365, Estação Meteorológica VMC, Charleville, Queensland, 0939-..., 08/9. Avisos meteorológicos (?); 15341 (Carlos L R de Assunção Gonçalves, Obs. OCurta 30 Agosto-9 Setembro, (Efectuadas na costa sudoeste), Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Surely all USB altho not noted ** BAHAMAS. 810, ZNS noted with religious programming at 2200 to 2245, messages regarding the storm .. "am I my brother`s Keeper", into religious music. Was off the air for several days. 8 September (Bob Wilkner, South Florida, NASWA iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1999, DXLD) Freeport, G Bahama ** BAHAMAS. While looking up CAYMAN info at dxinfocentre.com I search for Bahamabeacons, and find only three listed. All appear to be away from Hurricane Dorian path so may still be operating, FYI: 526, ZLS, Stella Maris, [Long Island], 500 watts 376, ZIN, Matthew Town, Great Inagua, 400 watts 281, ZSJ, Cockburn Town, San Salvador, 2000 watts (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1999, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 4750even, S=9+25dB but unclean audio modulation sound. Checked AIR outlets at 15-16 UT Sept 12 on remote SDRs in Delhi, Qatar, Athens, Germany, Akitakata Japan. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Bueschel, WOR iog via DXLD) ** BHUTAN. 6035, BBS, 1112-1131*, Sept 6. Pop songs after the news in English; 1120, into an interview in English (unreadable) till suddenly cut off (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 3310, Radio Mosoj Chaski – Cochabamba (Presumed), 0950, 9/8/19 [Sept 8] in Quechua. Woman talking, then what sounded like a call in by a man and back to the same woman. Poor in noisy conditions (Mark Taylor, Madison, Wisconsin, Perseus, Elad FDM-S2, Airspy HF+& HF+ Discovery, Tecsun PL 880, and various other portables; 42 meters dipole, 100’ long wire, W6LVP loop, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** BOUGAINVILLE. PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3325, NBC Bougainville, 1145, 9/2/19 in Tok Pidgin. Man with religious talk, program of Western pop music with man announcer, later woman announcer with U.S. pop music. Another in our group, Carlie, heard an ID a bit later. Poor (Taylor – Lake Farm Park Mini DXpedition, WI) From Mark Taylor: Bill Dvorak, Carlie Forsythe and I (occasionally joined by others) have been doing a mini DXpedition on Memorial Day, 4th of July, and Labor Day at Lake Farm Park near Madison, Wisconsin, for 3 years. Lake Farm is a reasonably electrically quiet park located on a peninsula between 2 lakes and surrounded by marsh. This year’s Labor Day was a very disappointing outing with a solar flare still influencing the ionosphere. Essentially NBC Bougainville was the only decent catch, although a nice one. Very few signals were heard at all. North American signals were increased and booming in, with little or nothing heard outside North America. Fun socializing with Bill and Carlie, but poor reception (Mark Taylor, Lake Farm County Park near Madison, WI, 1030–1330, 9/2/19 (Labor Day) with Carlie Forsythe and Bill Dvorak. Equipment: Airspy HF+ Discovery, 3 meter W6LVP “experimenter” loop, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) 3325, NBC Bougainville, on Sept 10, with major anomaly. During a time when they should have been broadcasting (around 1130), they were clearly off the air for quite awhile, but did hear them later, *running several hours past their normal cut off time* (1200). Today heard 1158-1430+; "NBC News," 1203-1209 and "NBC News Roundup," 1301-1307, both in English; no news at 1400; played mostly variety of pop songs (Diana Ross & Lionel Richie - "Endless Love," etc.); after 1209, relay of programs in English from Port Moresby, with numerous IDs for "This is NBC"; no Voice of Indonesia QRM. Has been about three years since I last heard a "NBC News Roundup" segment! (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1999, DXLD) [and non]. Sept 11 - A second day with a greatly extended NBC Bougainville broadcast on 3325 kHz, so perhaps a new schedule? Unlike yesterday's reception free from Voice of Indonesia QRM, today with significant VOI audio, making a mess of this frequency; both stations mostly unusable; checking 1217-1302; again with "NBC News Roundup" at 1302. This change is not totally unexpected. It will be recalled that this November will see the important referendum vote to be taken to determine the possible independence of Bougainville. We can expect this station to be a key means of disseminating information about the election. SW is especially alive at election time! (Ron Howard, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1999, DXLD) Hi Ron, and group, I have tried a few days in a row around 1130 UTCish and tho there is a signal(s) on 3325 kHz the static crashes just make it hard to listen to so far. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sherwood Park, AB, Sept 11, ibid.) I truly suspect that the VOI is engaging in some kind of quasi-jamming operation of Bougainville's transmissions on 3325. I noted the VOI with just an open-carrier or very low modulation (inaudible here) on 08 September around 1240 UT during a check of the Korean Peninsula signals following Typhoon Lingling, and the 3325 OC signal did DF toward around 280-290 degrees azimuth via my Benmar Navigator 555A's DFing shielded loopstick. The presumed VOI OC on 3325 was about the same strength as the North Korean just below on 3320, on that particular morning/time. I can only think Indonesia wishes to cause QRM to Bougainville for political reasons, hence the OC and co-channel QRM too. It has been a long time myself that I have heard PNG-Bougainville with decent audio (March 2019) but I don't get-up very often that early (before 1200 UT). Thank you very much Ron (and others too) for the 3325 observations! 73 (Steve McGreevy -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com ibid.) Hi Steve, With all due respect, I must disagree with you. The mutual use of 3325 kHz by both Voice of Indonesia (prior to June 13, 2018, was formerly the local programming of Pro 1 RRI Palangkaraya) and NBC Bougainville, has had a long tradition, going back many years. Yes, VOI often is heard with just a carrier on random days and occasionally does have audio, but this has been going on for some time now. Is it deliberate? Yes, it is their frequency! VOI seems to have a problem keeping the modulation at a constant level for more than a day at a time. We can all agree it would be wonderful if one of the stations moved to a clear frequency, but if past history is any indication, they will daily be here, just as they have been for such a long time. Is there any reason to believe Indonesia has any interest in whether Bougainville becomes independent? BTW - It should be pointed out that the upcoming vote for independence is not binding! That is to say the Papua New Guinea government will decide if they become independent, no matter what the vote is. Guess the government in Port Moresby wants to see how strongly the people feel about it. Appreciate any additional comments. Thanks (Ron Howard, California, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1999, DXLD) Hi Ron, OK and no problem - I didn't think I was correct and figured maybe it was an assumption. Unlike you I have not been listening to 3325 until the past year or so (having a lot of other radio interests out of SW DXing keeping me occupied here). My newish re-interest in 90 and 120 mb listening since late 2018 is due to my obtaining and repairing the very sensitive Benmar DFing receiver that works fab. down on 90 and 120m (etc.) with far less noise pick-up compared to galvanic (wire) antennas. Secondly, I don't much pay particular attention to that region`s politics (nor ours, frankly). Thanks for the correction! I do believe (like you and others) that it would be good for one of them to move a scant 5 kHz away from the other in-order to afford QRM free coverage, but we all sometimes see that HF (and MF) frequency planning is very unintelligent in many places. Lastly here, does anyone in NA or Asia know the full reason for the VOI's technical problems on 3325 and why the now over 5 months of OCing or extremely low-modulation levels. Surely they are aware(?) or is that another assumption of mine, hi! Thanks and 73. Indeed I need to emphasize how much I DO really appreciate more-experienced SWL/SWDXers like yourself, Ron, and to Glenn and others in all of this -- technical and politics, too --I needed to really state that here - that is how I learn, too. In the past, there have been long spells I have not been SWLing much in-lieu of ELF-VLF stuff, etc. Ron, your expertise in SW happenings and the DX from the Pacific Rim are very much appreciated, too. Big thanks all! (Steve McGreevy, N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com ibid.) A very nice PNG signal into Sherwood Park this morning on 3325 kHz. Tune in at 1235 UT with political chat. News started at 1301:30. 73 (Mick Delmage, Sept 12, WOR iog via DXLD) Hi Mick, Same here in Calif. on Sept 12, with the third day of NBC Bougainville's new extended schedule. Heard 1209-1252, with long winded chat, just as you did, but I was not positive of the language (accented English?); yes, also noted the "NBC News Roundup" at 1301, but not readable. Because yesterday's VOI had audio, I suspected that today they wouldn't and that turned out to be the case, no VOI QRM at all heard today, so probably just a VOI carrier, but unheard underneath the decent NBC signal (Ron Howard, ibid.) Yes, Ron, for sure English. I will post a short clip later today. Still coming in here but stating to lose them as the sun has been up for a while. Just local song here at 1403. 73 (Mick, ibid.) ** BRAZIL. Minha rádio vai voltar!!! I have 2 denunciators of my radio and still the burnt transistor.😭😭😭 But we'll be back on air anyway. Because my radio preaches the holy God of Israel. And also play some flash back and romantic music. I'm going to send video to my friend Nelson Barbudo the great great deputy of Mato Grosso. Not even that we close New Xavantina but radio my air back in short waves of 6200 kHz (Daniel Wyllyans owner) Estou com 2 denuciantes da minha rádio e ainda o transistor queimado.😭😭😭 Más nós vamos voltar ao ar de qualquer maneira. Porquê minha rádio prega o Deus santo de Israel. E toca também uns flash back e música romântica. Vou mandar vídeo ao meu amigo Nelson Barbudo o grande excelentíssimo maior deputado de Mato Grosso. Nem que nós fechamos Nova Xavantina más a rádio minha volta ao ar em ondas curtas de 6200 kHz (Daniel Wyllyans proprietário) GO BACK TO THE AIR GO YES GO BACK SOME FRIEND DEXISTS BRINGING PROBLEMS (Daniel Wyllyans, Nova Xavantina MT, Brasil, Sept 6, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) It seems he has a pirate station, but other DXers have been giving him grief about it (gh) ** BRAZIL. 4875.02, R Roraima, Boa Vista, in Portuguese 09.04.2019 2246-2310 man /woman talk (no much clear Braz. accent), some music breaks, brief announcements over music, announcements, talk, women chorus jingle (clear ID on streaming only) lively ballad and slow song; better in ssb, fast qsb, strong qrn statics, poor/almost fair; in // http://www.radiororaima.com.br in streaming many seconds of delay. 4885.02, R. Clube do Para, Belem, in Portuguese 09.06.2019 0402-0414 men and women local political talk program, brief music break and man brief announcement at 0410, continuing talk program; better in usb, ceaseless moderate fast qsb, moderate qrn, almost good (Gianni Serra - Roma-Italy, Equipment: JRC NRD 525 receiver; Alpha Delta DX-SWL Sloper-S antenna; RG 8 mini coaxial cable; JPS NIR 12 Noise & Interference Reducer-Dual DSP outboard audio filter; JRC NVA 319 external loudspeaker unit; Yaesu YH-77 STA stereo headphones; Oregon Scientific RM912 radio controlled clock; All times in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time); date in month/day format, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4885.026, likely R Clube do Para, tiny weak signal at 0623 UT. Noted on remote SDR at Florida US state from 0615-0651 UT [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 9, WOR iog via DXLD) Noted on remote SDR at Florida US state from 0615-0651 UT: 4885.026, BRA likely R Clube do Para, tiny weak signal at 0623 UT. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 9 via DXLD) Under such circumstances, how do you know this is Pará instead of the other ZY on 4885, Rdif. Acreana? Pará is supposedly 24h per WRTH while Acreana is not? (Glenn Hauser, WOR iog via DXLD) Hello Glenn, Brazilian, 4885 is only a guess, was mostly the stronger station in the past and also on longer durations, the other is hardly heard on the various remote installations 73 wolfie (Wolfgang Bueschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4885 kHz co-channel PUZZLE check on Sept 10 at 0926 UT: unfortunately READING PRECISION --- 'KIWI SDR receiver' is a very, very inaccurate treasure, even with strong ZOOM-in, very inaccurate - the reading accuracy - for my eyes. There is a very, very big difference between the accuracy of a top PERSEUS receiver and the lame duck KIWI SDR sets - nice toy anyway. At 09.26 UT checked locally on KiwiSDRnet at Sao Paulo location {thanks Rudolf} see screenshot, three programs on air, 2 x BRA, 1 x KOR Noted EoH VoH Seoul KOR on 4885.003 1/2 kHz, reading solidified cross-checked in Hiroshima Akitakata Japan SDR 0943 UT. S=9+35dB powerhouse signal read in Japan set. NO JAMMING from D.P.R. Korea on this channel today. Noted the stronger Brazilian one, near 4885.010 kHz. and a thiny string Brazilian radio too, on 4885.025 kHz. 73 wolfie (Wolfgang Bueschel, Sept 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 5939.688, Tiny S=5 Radio Voz Missionaria at 06.34 UT. Noted on remote SDR at Florida US state from 0615-0651 UT [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 9, WOR iog via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 9818.4, R. 9 de Julho, São Paulo SP, 2053-2104, 01/9. Prgr. Latino-América no Ar, anúncios de programação, Liturgia; 34432, QRM adjacente. 9818.4, idem, 2121-..., 03/9. Noticiário de futebol (!) no prgr. Desporto 9; 35443. 9818.4, idem, 0933-0958, 08/9. Propag. relig.; 25342. QRM adj., da CHN 9820, às 1000 (Carlos L R de Assunção Gonçalves, Obs. OCurta 30 Agosto-9 Setembro, (Efectuadas na costa sudoeste), Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Many others in his full report, WOR iog 9818.4, Radio 9 de Julho, Sao Paulo, 2015-2026, 10-09, Portuguese, religious songs. 34433 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. Hello All, Just on a lark, I set my short wave receiver, which is using an outside directional antenna pointed due south, to 11780 kHz, starting about 1830 UT. At first I heard nothing. Then All of a sudden at 1852 I started hearing Radio Nacional da Amazonia, with a signal 35333. There is a female announcer speaking, and occasional musical selections. Now she is doing birthday greetings (1922 UT). Kinda wish I understood Portuguese. I wonder if 1852 UT was their sign on time for 11780 kHz. I don't remember reading that they had a sign on time for 11780 kHz. I do remember reading, on their Google Translated web page, that they operate from 0500 BRST to 0000 BRST. As I remember Brasilia Brazil is three hours behind UT. 73 de (Chuck W3ON Gessner, 1924 UT Sept 9, WOR iog via DXLD) ** CANADA. 341 kHz, Sept 7 at 0603 UT, dash and YYU, 500 watts from Kapuskasing, Ontario, no trouble overriding my local on 341, EI. Per http://www.dxinfocentre.com/ndb.htm this is ``TO BE DECOMMISSIONED 2019-10-10`` The same red warning is appended to several others I have extracted: 206 XBE Bearskin Lake ON 25 208 YSK Sanikiluaq NU 500 230 VG Vermilion AB 1000 230 YD Smithers BC 500 235 CN Cochrane ON 100 241 YGT Igloolik NU 500 257 YXR Earlton ON 205 260 YSQ Atlin BC 1000 266 YFH Fort Hope ON 200 269 ZW Teslin YT 1000 305 YQ Churchill MB 500 323 UWP Argentia NL 550 343 YGO Gods Lake Narrows MB 200 344 YOP Rainbow Lake AB 500 368 YJF Fort Liarrd NT 500 373 ZFM Fort McPherson NT 40 380 YUB Tuktoyaktuk NT 2000 391 TK Smithers - Telkwa BC 100 These are the only ones indicated with a specific date. A number of others still in the list are already labeled Decommissioned (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1999, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 413 kHz, Sept 6 at 0547 UT, ND beacon YHD and dash, which is 250 watts from Dryden, Ontario. I was tuned to 412-USB. 346 kHz, Sept 6 at 0615 UT, ND beacon YXL and dash, 500 watts from Sioux Lookout, Ontario; I was tuned to 347-USB. Dozing off, there have been more below. Glad to hear that not all the Y-stations have been decommissioned yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. Keep PDT in BC? See WORLD OF HOROLOGY ** CAYMAN ISLANDS. 415 kHz, Sept 6 at 0546, my NDB search downward is off to a good start with CBC, which is 600 watts from Cayman BraC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1999, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHAD [non]. U.K. Additional broadcast of R.Ndarason Int via ENC-DMS on Sept.5 1800-1900 9775 WOF 300 kW / 152 deg to WeAf Kanuri, very good signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/additional-broadcast-of-radio-ndarason.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 5-6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Updated A-19 of Radio Ndarason International via ENC-DMS Ascension & Woofferton https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/frequency-changes-of-bbc-in-french-bbc.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Ndarason International via ENC-DMS Ascension on September 11 0500-0600 5960.0 ASC 250 kW / 055 deg WeAf Kanuri, weak/fair + co-ch same time 5959.8 KBD 250 kW / non-dir N/ME Arabic Gen.Sce R Kuwait: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/radio-ndarason-international-via-enc_11.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHILE. 3495, RCW, 85 meters, test. RADIO COMPAÑÍA WORLDWIDE. Sept 9, 2019. 2300-2315 UT. IDs and Chilean and Latin Music. SINPO: 45343 (Claudio Galaz, Receptor: TECSUN PL 600; Antenna: T2FD; QTH: Ovalle, Chile, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via WORLD OF RADIO 1999, DXLD) ** CHINA. 10960, 11070, 11150, Sept 6 at 1355, JBA carriers, all three on *jammed SOH frequencies per Aoki/NDXC. VP propagation today but these can hardly be coincidental (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 4940, Voice of Strait, 1430-1455, Sept 7 (Saturday). The weekend only show in English ("Focus on China") with program "China Stories"; in depth interviews with people living in China; today a young European woman tells of her experiences and impressions of China; ID: "Fresh, dynamic, professional, profound, explore Chinese culture . . . You are now listening to Focus on China"; 1455, into Chinese programs. 7270, PBS Nei Menggu, 1124, Sept 6. Transmitter has been fixed; in vernacular; // 6040, which as of Sept 9, is still blocked around 1300-1400 by the strong jamming from N. Korea, that was used against Shiokaze, but they have moved to 6070 now and N. Korea is slow to note the change (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** CONGO. 6115, Radio Congo, *0530, Sept 9. At 0531 & 0540 brief spots with xylophone music (first time I have heard this); in French; poor, but there was no QRM from Japan (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) 6115, Radio Congo, Brazzaville, 1807-1824* , 10-09, French, news, comments. 14321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** CONGO DR. 6210.2, Radio Kahuzi, Bukavu, 1740-1753*, 10-09, vernacular comments. Extremely weak today. 15311 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** CUBA. 11980 kHz strong harmonic S=9 of fundamental 5990 kHz --- CRI Spanish service of Cuban radio relay at QUIVICAN San Felipe Titan broadcast center site. 5990even kHz at S=9+30dB in Detroit-MI state. 0053 UT on Sept 6th, economia report "China Hoy". [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 6. WOR iog via DXLD) ** CUBA. 11876 & 11884, Sept 11 at 1359, weak spurblobs out of 11880 very strong dead air prior to China Plus relay, which continues until undermodulation finally comes up at 1404, missing most of CRI `news`. But the spurs were tweaked away at 1401. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15143.05, 15146.1, 15133.9, 15130.8 approx., Sept 11 at 2045, weak spurs out of RHC 15140 open but unusually strong and crackling carrier at S9+25. Should also be one at 15136.95 but not noted. 15140 is supposed to quit at 2030 after French. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1999, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6000, Sept 12 at 0553, RHC English is S9+20 but just barely modulated. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. 7365even, USA, IBB BBG Radio Marti program in Spanish, unbelievable 26 kHz wide overmodulated-splatter signal, tremendous S=9+50dB level signal this night into Florida. \\ same program on 7334.996 kHz compared at smaller bandwidth of 9 kHz at S=9+20dB level on same remote SDR. Noted on remote SDR at Florida US state from 0615-0651 UT [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 9, WOR iog via DXLD) ** CUBA [non]. From the Isle of Music, September 15-21: This week we focus on Cuba's urban music with special guests from Zona Franca. 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, September 15 and 17: Episode 130, A Different Kind of Country, presents Country music you will like even if you hate Country music. Trust Uncle Bill on this one. 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, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DENMARK. DINAMARCA, 5840, World Music R, Randers, 2237-2247, 31/8. Música e canções, ID em várias línguas; 25331. 15805, World Music R, Randers, 1416-1436, 07/9. Música e canções, ID em várias línguas; 35443 (!). (Carlos L R de Assunção Gonçalves, Obs. OCurta 30 Agosto-9 Setembro, (Efectuadas na costa sudoeste), Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Weak to fair signal of World Music Radio, September 7 from 1000 on 15805 RND 0.2 kW /non-dir to WeEu English Sat/Sun: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/weak-to-fair-signal-of-world-music.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Weak to fair signal of World Music Radio, September 8 from 0850 on 15805 RND 0.2 kW /non-dir to WeEu English Sat/Sun: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/weak-to-fair-signal-of-world-music_8.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 7-8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EAST TURKISTAN. CNR is back on 4980 --- Just tesing [sic: testing or teasing?] CNR on 4980 back with S8 or -76dbm with adverts (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, 2058 UT Sept 6, WOR iog via DXLD) That would be Xinjiang PBS domestic service; other three languages may also be back on 60+ metres: 5060, 4850, 4500 (gh, DXLD) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005, Radio Nacional de Guinea Ecuatorial, Bata, *0508-0545, 11-09, open with songs of Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias, “Una Noche Loca”, “Noche y Día”, “Bailamos”, at 0520 male, Spanish “Son las 6 y 20 minutos”, “Buenos días, vamos con la actualidad”, program “Panorama Nacional”. 15321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** ERITREA [non]. GERMANY, Reception of Radio Sinit Eritrea RSE via MBR Nauen on September 7: 0500-0600 11660 ISS 250 kW / 123 deg EaAf Tigrinya/Arabic Sat, fair to good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/reception-of-radio-sinit-eritrea-via.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 6-7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ERITREA [non]. Voice of Eritrean Lowlands via MBR Issoudun, September 7 1700-1730 15390 ISS 100 kW / 123 deg to EaAf Arabic Sat, weak signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/voice-of-eritrean-lowlands-via-mbr_7.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. FRS Holland will be on air next Sunday September 8 --- repeating the 29th Anniversary program, on 5810 kHz between 1700 to 2100 UT, 1900 to 2300 CEST. Here the mail from the Station: "Unfortunately we haven't been very lucky with our evening broadcasts this Summer. Next Sunday there will be a repeat of our 39th Anniversary broadcast from last Sunday on 5810 kHz between 19-23 CEST. Keep on writing and supporting Free Radio on short wave! 73s Peter Verbruggen" (via Manuel Mendez, Sept 6, WOR iog via DXLD) ** FRANCE. Additional frequencies of TDF in HFCC (For new organization), updated: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/additional-frequencies-of-tdf-in-hfcc.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 9-10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) So what will it be?? (gh) ** GERMANY. Reception of DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst on Sept 11 0600-0630 on 5905 PIN 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu German AM mode, fair 0600-0630 on 6180 PIN 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu German AM mode, good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/reception-of-dwd-deutscher-wetterdienst_11.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY, World of Radio#1998 via Hamburger Lokalradio, September 8 1031-1100 7265 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sun, weak signal Very low frequency for this time 09-12 UT, probably is needed change 0600-0900 7265 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu various Sat, ex now 6190 0900-1200 9485 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu various Sat, ex now 6190 1200-1500 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu various Sat, ex now 9485 0900-1200 9485 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu various Sun, ex now 7265 That way there will be no QRM from Radio Romania Int 12-15 UT on 9490 1200-1300 9490 SAF 100 kW / 300 deg to WeEu Romanian R.Romania Inter 1300-1500 9490 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Romanian R.Romania Inter https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/world-of-radio1998-via-hamburger_8.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 7-8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. 11955, Sept 6 at 2205, nice hallelujah harmonies, 2217 Indonesian talk at S8 to S9+10. KSDA scheduled this hour daily. 12040, Sept 6 at 2218, slightly weaker SE Asian talk; must be Sundanese as scheduled from KSDA this semihour on days 2467 per Aoki/NDXC, as this is UT Friday = day 6; otherwise English on 135. I remain impressed by how well KSDA serves deep North America during its broadcasts supposedly aimed at SE Asia, both 100 kW at 255 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX WORLD OF RADIO 1999, LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. KTWR DRM broadcast schedule changes --- Based on comments received from listeners, KTWR has made following changes in its DRM broadcast schedule: Effective 12th Sept, 2019 - 11995 kHz 1026-1056 UT Thursday broadcast to Japan/SK will be changed to 9900 kHz 1215-1245 UT on Thursday. Effective 15th Sept, 2019 - 11580 kHz 1215-1245 UT Monday broadcast to South Asia will be changed to 15200 kHz 1026-1056 UT on Sunday. 11995 kHz 1026-1056 UT Wednesday broadcast to China will be unchanged. 11995 kHz 1025-1056 UT Tuesday broadcast to Australia will remain suspended. (Via Mika Sabin) ---- (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, Sept 6, dx_sasia yg via DXLD) ** GUATEMALA. 4055, Radio Verdad, Chiquimula, 0550-0606*, 08-09, English, religious comments, ID In various languages, “Esta es la Estación Evangélica Radio Verdad, Apartado 5, Chiquimula, Guatemala, Centroamérica...”, anthem and close. Best on LSB. 15321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** HUNGARY [and non]. RADIO FREE EUROPE IS POISED TO RETURN TO A LESS FREE HUNGARY Hi Glen[n] – I thought this might be of interest: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/06/world/europe/radio-free-europe-hungary-orban.html - Regards, (Bill near Columbia, SC, KK4XO // WPE4FSJ // WPC4SC, Harrison, DXLD) viz.: The Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty headquarters in Prague. Congressional approval for the service’s return to Hungary may come this month. Credit Alexey Vitvitsky/Sputnik, via Associated Press By Benjamin Novak Sept. 6, 2019 BUDAPEST, Hungary — During the Cold War, the United States beamed its own radio service to Eastern Europeans starved for any information that did not slavishly adhere to the line of their authoritarian leaders. In Hungary, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it rolled up that service, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, in 1993, considering the collapse of Communism to be mission accomplished. So it is likely to be taken as something of an affront to the current government under Prime Minister Viktor Orban that the United States may relaunch the pro-democracy news agency. The move by the United States Agency for Global Media, an independent federal agency, reflects Hungary’s drift away from a free and open government, and is a blow to President Trump’s outreach to the country’s far-right prime minister. The service’s relaunch in Hungary still awaits a greenlight from Congress, but that may come this month. “We’ve done our homework, and we know this has broad backing, and we’re preparing to move forward,” said the agency’s chief, John Lansing. He said that the service’s initial budget could run up to $750,000, and that a bureau would be established in Hungary. He expects a soft launch of the service in May 2020, with a hard launch one year from now. Radio Free Europe’s mission is to bring independent news, albeit with its own pro-Western tinge, to places “where a free press is banned or not fully established.” Its return to Hungary could be perceived as a rebuke of Trump administration policy toward Mr. Orban. Since returning to power in 2010, Mr. Orban has meticulously crafted what he calls an “illiberal” state, using his power to unilaterally overhaul Hungary’s Constitution, change the country’s election laws to favor his party and undermine the independence of the judiciary. Today, Mr. Orban’s allies control the public media and most of the country’s private news media, creating a centralized pro-government echo chamber for hate speech, ethnic identity politics and conspiracy theories, harping on anti-Semitic tropes and extremist rhetoric to bolster his party’s base. At the same time, Mr. Trump has cultivated Mr. Orban as an ally. The two leaders met in May, when the Hungarian prime minister was invited to meet with the president in the Oval Office. “Viktor Orban has done a tremendous job in so many different ways,” Mr. Trump said of Mr. Orban, whose government has come under intense criticism in recent years for its authoritarian turn and increasingly close relations with the Kremlin and China. David Cornstein, the American ambassador to Budapest, sought to blunt the effect of Radio Free Europe’s return to Hungary. Mr. Cornstein, a retired jewelry merchant from New York and personal friend of Mr. Trump, sought assurances from the agency that its service would not focus on negative stories about the Hungarian government, or investigative journalism, and that it would not undermine his efforts as ambassador, according to United States officials. The officials who described the meeting asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to speak on the matter. The United States International Broadcasting Act prohibits American government officials, including Mr. Cornstein, from interfering in Radio Free Europe’s reporting. Image: President Trump with Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary in the Oval Office in May. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times “It’s literally illegal for the U.S. government to interfere in our editorial independence,” Mr. Lansing said. Asked for comment, Mr. Cornstein said: “In general we do not comment on private discussions. That said, I remain as committed today as I was when I made clear during my Senate confirmation hearing, that as ambassador I am committed to promoting American and democratic values, including the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press.” Since Mr. Orban’s return to power, Hungary has plummeted in the World Press Freedom Index, an annual ranking of countries’ press freedom by the group Reporters Without Borders. Allies of the government have control of most newspapers, television stations and radio stations, and are increasing their online presence. At the same time, Mr. Orban has steadily undermined the workings of many of the country’s other democratic institutions. Elections are held on a playing field tilted in the government’s favor. Civil society organizations are labeled public enemies and find their work stifled by legal obstacles. And courts are stacked with longtime associates of the prime minister who are careful not to act against his interests. Yet Hungary is not alone in a troubled neighborhood that includes Bulgaria and Romania, despite all three being members of the European Union and NATO. The three rank among the most corrupt countries in the European Union, according to Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index. And even before the decision to return to Hungary, Radio Free Europe reopened its services in Bulgaria and Romania this year, having closed them in 2004 and 2008, respectively. Hungary, unlike Romania and Bulgaria, remains the only European Union member to be downgraded to “partly-free” by Freedom House, an American democracy watchdog organization. Peter Kreko, the director of Political Capital, a Budapest-based think tank and consultancy, said Mr. Orban had modeled Hungary’s centralized media structure on the example set by a much larger neighbor to the east, Russia. Hungary’s pro-government media is adopting many of the Kremlin narratives found on Sputnik News and RT. They offer a steady doomsday narrative of the decline of the West as a result of mass migration, multiculturalism and ultraliberalism. ‘‘Orban has already mentioned Russia several times as a model state,’’ Mr. Kreko said. ‘‘Orban’s policies in education, media and toward the NGOs are obviously inspired by Putin.” And as the Kremlin has done, allies of Mr. Orban are taking the model abroad, investing in the media in countries such as Britain, Romania, Slovenia and North Macedonia. This year, the House Appropriations Committee encouraged the restart of Radio Free Europe’s service in Central and Eastern Europe to counter the Kremlin narrative and combat corruption. Bipartisan legislation introduced in the House in May called on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to bolster efforts in Hungary against corruption and Russian influence, and to strengthen the independent news media and civic groups. “There is a growing understanding on both sides of the aisle now that there are challenges to democracy and the rule of law in countries like Hungary and Poland,” said Dalibor Rohac, a research fellow with the American Enterprise Institute. For some, the moves have not come too soon. In 2012, Charles Gati, a senior research professor at Johns Hopkins University, co-wrote an opinion piece calling for the return of Radio Free Europe to Hungary. Mr. Gati — who was 22 when he left Hungary in 1956 after the Soviets crushed a rebellion against their occupation — welcomed the return of Radio Free Europe to Bulgaria and Romania this year. As for Hungary, he said, “It is high time for us to do this.” A version of this article appears in print on Sept. 7, 2019, Section A, Page 7 of the New York edition with the headline: Radio Free Europe Is Set to Be Revived in Hungary. (via WORLD OF RADIO 1999, DXLD) Hungary / Radio Free Europe --- Pending Congressional approval possibly this month, RFE looks set to resume Hungarian broadcasts according to report originally in NY Times. This item from the Budapest Business Journal which also cites original NYT report. Also notes resumption of RFE services for Bulgaria and Romania. https://bbj.hu/politics/radio-free-europe-gears-for-relaunch-in-hungary_170911 (via Matt Francis, Sept 11, WOR iog via DXLD) Viz.: During the Cold War, Radio Free Europe - whose motto is “Free Media in Unfree Societies” - was broadcast to Soviet satellite countries. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, it wound up the service in Hungary in 1993, considering the collapse of communism to be mission accomplished, recalls a report in The New York Times (NYT) dated September 6. The article comments that the move to relaunch the service by the U.S. Agency for Global Media, an independent federal agency, reflects Hungary’s drift away from a free and open government under Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, adding that it may also be seen as a blow to U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to forge a closer relationship with the government of Hungary. The service’s relaunch in Hungary still awaits approval by the U.S. Congress, but that may come this month, the paper adds. “We’ve done our homework, and we know this has broad backing, and we’re preparing to move forward,” the agency’s chief, John Lansing, is cited as saying. He adds that the service’s initial budget could run up to USD 750,000, and that a bureau would be established in Hungary. He expects a soft launch of the service in May 2020, with a hard launch one year from now. The NYT notes that Orbán’s allies control the public media and most of the country’s private news media. Earlier this summer, a report prepared for the European Commission found that the Central European Press and Media Foundation (Közép-Európai Sajtó és Média Alapítvány - KESMA), the centralized pro-government media conglomerate established by the governing Fidesz party in November 2018, endangers press freedom and plurality in Hungary. Diplomatic concerns David B. Cornstein, the U.S. ambassador to Budapest, has reportedly sought assurances from Radio Free Europe that its service would not focus on negative stories about the Hungarian government, or investigative journalism, and that it would not undermine his efforts as ambassador, according to American officials cited by the NYT. At the same time, the paper stresses that the U.S. International Broadcasting Act prohibits American government officials, including Cornstein, from interfering in Radio Free Europe’s reporting. “It’s literally illegal for the U.S. government to interfere in our editorial independence,” Lansing is cited as saying. The NYT notes that since Orbán’s return to power in 2010, Hungary has plummeted in the World Press Freedom Index, the annual ranking of countries’ press freedom by the group Reporters Without Borders. In 2015, Hungary ranked 65th out of 180 countries on the index, falling from 23rd on a list of 173 countries when the present regime came to power in 2010. In the latest 2019 ranking, Hungary has plunged further to 87th out of 180. At the same time, the article notes that Hungary is not alone in the region, noting that Radio Free Europe has already relaunched in Bulgaria and Romania this year, despite all three countries being members of the European Union and NATO. It notes that the three countries rank among the most corrupt in the EU, according to Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index The article also notes that Hungary, unlike Romania and Bulgaria, remains the only EU member to be downgraded to “partly free” by Freedom House, an American democracy watchdog organization. Russian influence Péter Krekó, director of Political Capital, a Budapest-based think tank and consultancy, is quoted by the NYT as saying that Orbán has modeled Hungary’s centralized media structure on the example set by Russia. He accuses Hungary’s pro-government media of adopting many of the Kremlin narratives found on Sputnik News and RT. “Orban has already mentioned Russia several times as a model state,” Krekó observes. “Orban’s policies in education, media and toward NGOs are obviously inspired by Putin.” This year, the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations encouraged the restart of Radio Free Europe’s service in Central and Eastern Europe “to counter the Kremlin narrative and combat corruption,” recalls the NYT. Bipartisan legislation introduced in the House in May called on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to bolster efforts in Hungary against corruption and Russian influence, and to strengthen the independent news media and civic groups. “There is a growing understanding on both sides of the aisle now that there are challenges to democracy and the rule of law in countries like Hungary and Poland,” Dalibor Rohac, a research fellow with the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, is cited as saying in the NYT report (via WORLD OF RADIO 1999, DXLD) ** INDIA. On Sept 6, Jose posted a summary of the AIR transmitter shutdowns, in jpg format which cannot be copied into text, so I summarize further: Aligarh 2, Bengaluru 1, Kurseong 1, Mumbai 1, New Delhi 6!, Panaji 1, Port Blair 1, Shillong 1 --- which add up to only 14. Then I find same on his website which he might have linked to: https://qsl.net/vu2jos/new.htm and he keeps this well up to date: https://qsl.net/vu2jos/sw/loc.htm (Glenn Hauser, WOR iog via DXLD) Jose, Thanks for this new information in clear chart form. We in the SWL world are devastated, though this was predicted (Dan Robinson, dx_india via DXLD) List of All India Radio shortwave transmitters de-commissioned: On 30 July 2019 1. HPT Khampur, Delhi - D-11 (250 kW), D-12(250 kW), D-14 (250 kW), D-15 (250 kW), D-16 (250 kW) 2. Aligarh - A-3 (250 kW), A-4 (250 kW) 3. Gorakhpur (50 kW) 4. Jammu (50 kW) 5. Lucknow (50 kW) 6. Shimla (50 kW) 7. Panaji - P-2 (250 kW) 8. Mumbai (50 kW) 9. Guwahati - G-2 (50 kW), G-3 (50 kW) 10. Imphal (50 kW) 11. Itanagar (50 kW) 12. Kohima (50 kW) 13. Kurseong (50 kW) 14. Kolkata (50 kW) 15. Ranchi (50 kW) On 23rd Aug, 2019 1. HPT Khampur, Delhi - D-13 (250 kW) 2. SPT Bangalore - BL-4 (500 kW) 3. HPT Malad, Mumbai (100 kW) 4. Port Blair (10 kW) 5. Shillong (50 kW) ---- (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, Sept 6, dx_india yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1999, DXLD) That makes the 21 in the first batch July, then 5 more in August. HPT = high power transmitter; SPT = superpower (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) So if I'm reading the chart correctly, 14 AIR SW transmitters have been shut down, while nine remain for the foreign service? (Stephen Luce, Houston, Texas, WOR iog via DXLD) Sad to see more of these once wonderful 60mb AIR stations leave the air! I really enjoyed several of them toward dawn when I was living in Hawaii on and off between 1986 to 1990 (and returned for a few in-depth DXpeditions in 1991 and 2010). My favorite in Hawaii back then was Bombay/Mumbai on 4840 pre-dawn and past HI sunrise - excellent signals and music! Over the years, also, these 60m signals come in quite well at WCNA / California interior at sunset and evening-dusk (best around the northern hemisphere winter solstice) via a grayline path that passes over the North Pacific, and are often easier to hear than toward dawn in western North America. One thing for sure: people in the more remote regions of India sans internet and/or mobile phone coverage will miss and be out of a lot of "contact" with these stations leaving the air. 73 - (Steve McGreevy -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com ibid.) ** INDIA. XLS15kB AIRSWPresentFinal-xls.xls I put the jpg file over a character recognition and I could convert it into a .xls file. Maybe it is easier to work with it for some of us. I try to send it here. Hello! It is for kind information that 15 AIR stations are still operating on SW, although many others were discontinued last month. The detailed list of currently active stations of AIR on SW is attached. Details of SW transmitters of All India Radio which are on air as on 6 Sept 2019 (VU2JOS) Location State/UT kW Tx Remarks kHz 1 Aizawl Mizoram 50 1 Off air 5050, 7295 2 Aligarh Uttar Pradesh 250 2 Used for External Services & Vividh Bharati 9380 etc. 3 Bengaluru Karnataka 500 5 Used for External Services & Vividh Bharati 9865 etc. 4 Bhopal Madhya Pradesh 50 1 4810.743 5 Chennai Tamilnadu 100 1 Used for External Services & FM Gold 7270 6 50 1 4920, 7380 7 Gangtok Sikkim 10 1 4835.6085 8 Hyderabad Telangana 50 1 4800, 7420 9 Jaipur Rajasthan 50 1 4910, 7325 10 Jeypore Odisha 50 1 5040 11 Leh Ladakh 10 1 4760, 6000 12 New Delhi Delhi 250 1 Used for External Services (DRJVI enabled) SW 13 100 2 Used for External Services (DRM enabled) SW 14 Panaji Goa 250 1 Used for External Services 12025 etc. 15 Srinagar Jammu & Kashmir 50 1 Radio Kashmir 4950.611 16 Thiruvanthapuram Kerala 50 1 5010.729 Total 22 Please see detailed schedules in: https://qsl.net/vu2jos/sw/freq.htm CDX India) (via Tibor Gaal, Hungary, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1999, DXLD) Tnx, but this resulted in some typos, like frequencies, like DRJVI for DRM, some corrected (gh) ** INDIA. AIR External changes - latest changes --- Due to shutting down of AIR Mumbai SW 100 kW transmitter, the following Services of AIR External Services are deleted. UT kHz Language 0025-0430 7340 Urdu 0830-1130 7340 Urdu 1230-1500 7340 Sindhi 1500-1600 7340 Baluchi 1745-1945 11935 English (E. Africa) Latest schedule is in: https://qsl.net/vu2jos/es/time.htm Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, Sept 6, dx_india yg via DXLD) ** INDIA. Cricket commentary has returned to All India Radio; we will have first ever DRM coverage: Shashi Vempati on partnership with BCCI http://www.radioandmusic.com/biz/radio/private-fm-stations/190910-cricket-commentary-has-returned-all-india Excerpts : 1) For the first time, commentary of the home matches on Digital Terrestrial Radio (DRM) as well going beyond traditional Medium Wave and FM. 2) Prasar Bharati will also be holding a Road show near some of the venues ahead of the matches to create greater awareness about DRM Digital Radio ------ (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, Sept 10, dx_india yg via DXLD) ** INDIA [and non]. re https://qsl.net/vu2jos/sw/freq.htm Checked AIR outlets at 15-16 UT Sept 12 on remote SDRs in Delhi, Qatar, Athens, Germany, Akitakata Japan. 4760even, {yes, yes, I know recent discussion about whether AIR from Ladakh or Pt. Blair discussion} S=9+10dB in Delhi, likely Ladakh? who knows? 4799.9985, AIR Hyderabad S=9+10dB, QRM CNR1 Geermu ahead 4800 4810.008, AIR Bhopal at 1522 UT, S=9+20dB 4835even, AIR Gangtok, weak and tiny S=5-6, at 1523 UT. 4910.003, AIR Jaipur, S=9+35dB strong carrier, very low modulation though. 4920 - two outlet strings visible on this channel 18 Hertz apart: 4919.982, and 4920.000 kHz equal signal power level, S=9+15dB of AIR Chennai, CHINA Lhasa Tibet, 1524 UT. 4949.996, AIR Srinagar Kashmir, S=9+15dB at 1527 UT. 5010v, AIR Thiruv. NOT ON AIR. 5040.004, AIR Jeypore, S=9+5dB, 1537 UT. 6140even, AIR Bangalore S=9+10dB at 1539 UT. 9380.005, AIR Aligarh, Hindi, poor S=6 local groundwave at 1541 UT 9620.014, AIR Aligarh, S=8 groundwave locally, low modulation 9865.002, AIR Bangalore, S=9+10dB in Delhi, 1545 UT. 9950even, AIR Bangalore, Swahili, S=6-7 poor signal in Delhi 1546 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Bueschel, WOR iog via DXLD) ** INDIA. ALL INDIA RADIO IN JAPANESE, SPANISH AND GERMAN The head bar at http://airworldservice.org also offers a pull down menu of „languages“. Originally, it lists the different language services of the External Services Division in alphabetical order. But now you can find three new languages at the end: http://airworldservice.org/japanese/ http://airworldservice.org/spanish/ http://airworldservice.org/german/ Unfortunately, the new sections do not have much content yet. They feature the episodes of the Prime Minister’s Mann ki Baat of 28 July and 25 August. In the German section the audio of the 28 July broadcast is in English, but the broadcast of 25 August is presented in a German version (audio and text). (Dr Hansjoerg Biener, 7 September 2019, WORLD OF RADIO 1999, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also OMAN [non] ** INDONESIA. 3325, Voice of Indonesia, via RRI Palangkaraya, on Sept 9, was a very special day here. Not only was there audio, which is rather rare, but heard a song I had not heard on SW for several years. I last reported hearing it back on Sept 6, 2017. Today, 1400-1409, with news and commentary in Bahasa Indonesia; followed by the distinctive patriotic song "Garuda Pancasila" (aka: "Mars Pancasila"), which was composed by Sudharnoto, with lyrics about the loyalty of all Indonesian people to Pancasila as the only ideology or philosophy of the Indonesian nation. Am very pleased with today's reception! My recording of "Garuda Pancasila" today at http://bit.ly/2kqHi9c Clear version at Youtube of the same song at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBNIsIo8OLQ (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1999, DXLD) ** IRAN. See WORLD OF HOROLOGY ** IRELAND. RTÉ - WORKS TO MAINTAIN LONGWAVE RADIO SERVICE BEGIN TODAY --- Fine Gael By Hildegarde Naughton TD 4th September 2019 https://www.finegael.ie/works-to-maintain-longwave-radio-service-begin-today-naughton/ Works have begun today to help ensure the continuance of RTÉ’s longwave radio service for a minimum of two years, a Fine Gael TD has said. Deputy Hildegarde Naughton, Chair of the Oireachtas Communications Committee, said: “I have received confirmation from the national broadcaster that works have begun today on elements of the transmission equipment which will help ensure the continuance of the longwave service for a minimum of a further two years. “The maintenance of long wave radio for the Irish diaspora has been a significant concern to the Committee. “Earlier this year, RTÉ committed to maintaining the service following engagement with the Committee and I am pleased that listeners abroad can now be assured that service will continue for a minimum of two years.” Deputy Naughton continued: “While other long term alternative solutions continue to be explored, RTÉ has to undertake significant remedial works on elements of the transmission equipment, mainly the antenna/mast. “Given the height of the mast this work has to happen now in advance of the winter. To facilitate this essential maintenance, and to ensure the safety of those undertaking the work, service was suspended for a time today and will be suspended again tomorrow, Thursday, from 9.30am until 4.30pm. “This initial outage is to facilitate the preparatory work for a subsequent, more extensive and essential body of work to maintain this service. “This larger body of maintenance work will be carried out between Tuesday 10th September and Thursday 17th October. “During both of these times, RTÉ Radio 1 will not be available via LW, however listeners will be advised of the various alternatives available such as listening via apps and television while the usual service is off air.” Deputy Naughton concluded: “I welcome the efforts being made to continue this service, which serves as an invaluable link between the diaspora and home. “However I intend to work with the committee to explore other longer term alternative solutions to ensure this service continues in the long term (via Mike Terry, Sept 6, WOR iog via DXLD) RTÉ is on air on 252 at tune in 1603 UT with news in - presumed - the Irish language. Returned to English at about 1606. Possible weather delay ???? (Noel R. Green in NW England, Sept 6, WOR iog via DXLD) [non] The All Ireland Football Final Replay will take place Saturday September 14. RTÉ Radio from time to broadcasts on the Shortwave aimed at the Irish Diaspora in Africa, coverage of the match will be available as follows: from 1700 on 15320 ASC; DHA; MDC or WOF to SoAf English Saturday September 14 --- Please check, this broadcast has not in fact been on shortwave in 2017 & 2018 1300-1700 15320 MEY 250 kW / 007 deg SoAf English, 11 videos in 2016 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/all-ireland-football-final-replay-will.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 9-10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RTÉ special shortwave broadcast on Saturday The All Ireland Football Final replay will take place at 6.00 pm local time (UTC +1) on Saturday September 14th in Dublin. RTÉ from time to broadcasts on the Shortwave bands aimed at the Irish Diaspora. Mainly in Africa, coverage of the match will be available on shortwave on 15320 kHz. https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2019/0814/1068748-how-to-watch-the-all-ireland-final-worldwide/ (Mike Terry, Sept 10, WOR iog via DXLD) What location will the broadcast be transmitted from? (John Dusek, WOR iog via DXLD) Still updated as of ``15 Aug``, and among many many platforms makes NO mention of any SW, but does include LW 252 which is supposed to be down for weeks of ``maintenance`` (gh, Sept 12, DXLD) PS. It has just been pointed out to me that this broadcast has not in fact been on shortwave for some years despite being listed by RTÉ . I am attempting to contact RTÉ for clarification (Mike Terry, Sept 10, WOR iog via DXLD) So was that removed in the meantime as result of Mike`s inquiry to them? But it does include LW 252 kHz which has been widely publicized as in an extended off-air hiatus for ``maintenance`` (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) RTÉ 252 LW is off air today 11th Sept. so I assume the work on the mast has started. At around 0900 UT today there was no trace of Algeria (Tipaza) on this same frequency, but at 1410 there is a signal audible at about S7 with songs (Noel R Green, NW England, ibid.) Updated / Wednesday, 11 Sep 2019 10:43 No mention now of the shortwave special. https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2019/0911/1075235-how-to-watch-the-all-ireland-final-worldwide/ (Mike Terry, ibid.) "Campaigner Enda O’Kane, who used to work for RTÉ and its transmission network pointed out that RTÉ 252 LW is unlistenable in the south and south-east of England because of interference from Radio Algeria beside it [sic] on the dial. “Just a tiny bit further down the LW dial is a frequency that is unused and would bring a much clearer, interference-free signal of RTÉ radio to London and beyond." See this update on maintenance work: http://www.theirishworld.com/reprieve-for-rte-longwave/ (via Mike Terry, Sept 12, WOR iog via DXLD) WHAT A CONCEPT INTERPRETATION / LIE: Alone negotiations with the ITU Geneva, for the request with the UN tech authority, the negotiations with the Telecommunications authorities into the channel owner states need several years time. This is not a speedy action on LW and MW areas. In addition there is the change of the transmitter's performance data and the complicated adaptation of the antenna, which leads to at least costs in the million euro range. You could even try to dodge the next adjacent channel 261 kHz (formerly Bulgaria, Germany, Russland, Kazakhstan request owner). The other channels, 243, 234, 225, 218, 198 kHz are all in use in Europe, and 207 kHz channel usage would suffer of BBC 198 kHz channel adjacent; and will not be realized, because the mast would have to be cost-effectively extended in tall length Who should pay for that, - even the RTE radio organization? --- But by then, most RTE listeners in the longwave area have long since gone from life expectancy to Internet reception and satellite reception. --- On the other hand, I already see the need for the perfect RTE reception, already because of the looming BREXIT soon. > ... RTÉ 252 LW is unlistenable in the south and south-east of England. === I guess only in winter season on the night hours ? 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Bueschel, WOR iog via DXLD) Hi Wolfie, and Glenn --- Re your mail concerning RTE - so which station / country was 261 kHz allocated? I have a copy of "Wireless World" Guide to Broadcasting stations 6th edition, and dated correct to July 6th 1951 which would include the 'Copenhagen Plan' of 1948 - i.e. the post WW2 allocation of frequencies. This list shows stations allocated and operating, as well as other stations operating on a frequency not allocated to them. Frequency 263 [as it was then until the later re-adjustment of channels to 2 kHz lower] was allocated to Moscow II, 150 kW and shown as a daytime only service. Also on 263 is Berlin, USSR Zone with 70 kW but not officially allocated to that frequency. As far as I can remember, the Russian forces utilised 263 - later 261 - until they left Germany. I can't recall any other station using it since then. And Putin has no longer any interest in Long Waves. There were many stations operating on frequencies not allocated to them on LW & MW including Radio Luxembourg on 233 kHz 150 kW, Munich II 547 (American Forces), Stuttgart 100 kW (US Zone) and also Potsdam 20 kW (USSR Zone]. Seville 635, Madrid 683 and Corunna on 701 and Istanbul on 702 to name but a few of them. Do you recall when Europe number one started on LW - they made several tests to try to find a suitable frequency, and one I clearly remember was on top of Kalundborg on 243 kHz. They finally settled for where they are now on a non allocated channel of 183 kHz - I wonder who authorized that? The ITU? Obviously their antenna was working at the top end of the band as well as lower end, and their transmitter(s) could be adjusted in frequency too. As I wrote above - all transmitters on the LW band were adjusted 2 kHz lower [e.g. Droitwitch from 200 to 198 kHz) so would a move of 9 kHz be so difficult to achieve? All this said - I don't think RTE will be making the move. They want to close it down, so if it cannot be heard clearly in the south of England because of QRM, listeners will find some other way to hear RTE broadcasts. If I remember correctly, RTE tried to get a slot on one of the DAB channels, but OFCOM refused even though they've allowed RTE TV to use TV sites in Northern Ireland! I hope that both of you are keeping well. Best 73 from (Noel Green, NW England, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [and non]. Radio Nikkei-1 has co-channel interference at 1440z (09 September) - KTWR Guam? 6055 Radio Nikkei-1 is currently playing classical piano music, noted between 1430 to past 1445 (09 Sept.) but is suffering co-channel QRM from a unID station that sounds like it is Russian language, but hard to tell. The interfering signal is creating an approx. 5 Hz SAH and is maybe 10 dB weaker, more or less. R. Nikkei-1 is quite strong as usual here. Is this possibly KTWR Guam as reported in DXLD 19-34 and 19-35? - (the latter indicating they should actually be on noted 5905 as copied below: Follow-up of the 6055 situation between 1450 to 1500z: 6055 R. Nikkei-1 went into playing two good Elton John tracks before their sign-off at 1459 after mentioning the two stations in Japanese "JO..." (and the frequencies of both). The co-channel UnID went off at about 1457 leaving R-Nikkei in-the-clear the last 2 minutes of their broadcast. After 1500, 6055 remained empty. 73, (Steve McGreevy, Rx.: Drake SSR-1 and a ~6m wire inside the radio room. -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com Sept 9, WOR iog via DXLD) ** KASHMIR. It seems, AIR Port Blair is still working on 4760 kHz. In this video (05.09.19) OM comments, music, YL at the end, and transmitter switch off at 2:18 (1700 UT). https://youtu.be/GWduuPUXNQE 73, (Eduard Korsakov, Moskva, Sept 6, Wor iog via DXLD) Based on this unreadable clip, how can you assume it is Port Blair instead of Leh? Maybe this is how: altho Aoki lists nothing on 4760, EiBi shows Port Blair, not Leh; and until 1700* weekdays, 1730* weekends. WRTH 2019 had Leh only until 1630*. TWR Swaziland not after 1625* per EiBi (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) I know, it's AIR for sure - AIR UNID 4760 kHz https://youtu.be/5uH_sni7JS4 Leh had another kind of music and signed off at 1630 UT, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWduuPUXNQE&t=990s while this station sign off was exactly at 1700, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWduuPUXNQE&t=1020s 73! (Eduard, ibid.) Dear Glenn & Eduard, I have contacted the Station Engineer of AIR Leh just now. He confirmed that they are signing off at 1700 UT nowadays (i.e. 1030 pm IST). In winter they sign off at 1630 UT. Last night at around 1300-1430 UTC I checked 4760 and got their programs clearly (but weak). Earlier they used to be blocked by AIR Port Blair at my location. Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, Hyderabad, India, Sept 7, WOR iog via DXLD) Thank you very much for the information. I haven't heard Leh for a while, possibly, they reactivated recently. 73, (Eduard, ibid.) Recording of Radio Kashmir, Leh news (of today) is available in: http://newsonair.nic.in/writereaddata/Bulletins_Audio/Regional/2019/Sep/Regional-Leh-Ladakhi-0905-20199793530.mp3 Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India Sept 7, dx_india yg via DXLD) ** KIRITIMATI. 846 kHz, Sept 6 at 0538 during TA carrier search, q.v., also one here slightly stronger and steadier which I know is far more likely to be TP, i.e. R. Kiribati already ~an hour after LSS in the UT+14 = UT-10 zone (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5980 // 6070, Shiokaze/Sea Breeze. It was back on Aug 29 (almost two weeks ago) that this station changed from former 5920 & 6040, to the current frequencies. On Sept 11, interesting to note that the N. Korea jamming is still very strong on 6040, checking at 1305; as well as hearing some bleeding over from N. Korea jamming of 6045. The 5920 frequency is now the regular frequency of the Voice of Freedom, which is always jammed by N. Korea, so unable to tell if there is a second jamming there or not. N. Korea is especially slow this time around to note the change! The new 5980 // 6070, are both nice clear frequencies for Shiokaze (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1999, DXLD) Ron, Are you able to receive the KBS Hanminjok Bangsong 1 on 6015 kHz and the situation in that station's jamming? (Tibor Gaal, Hungary, ibid.) Hi Tibor, Almost daily I monitor some of the S. Korean SW stations. Normally they are jammed. Once or twice, every few months, I do find brief periods with no jamming (random times). This is true for the Voice of the People and Echo of Hope - VOH frequencies (except VOH on 4885 & 9100, which are not jammed). Also the jamming of 6135 is normally on all the time, even though there is no station there now to jam. It is a left-over from years ago, when Voice of Freedom was on 6135, but of course VOF left that frequency years ago. N. Korea for some reason never turned off the jamming there, but instead has other jamming transmitters now for VOF (5920 kHz). KBS is normally jammed on 6015, rendering it unusable. My Aug 29 reception, with clear reception for over an hour, was extremely rare! Very unusual to find them not jammed for such a long period. Daily since then, KBS has been jammed as usual (Ron Howard, ibid.) [``via kHz, MHz and Giga-nticHz, WORLD OF RADIO 1999 ---``] ** KOREA NORTH (KRE) and SOUTH (KOR): Post Typhoon Lingling SWBC/Jammer situation (08 Sept.) (and-non) After reading on the BBCWS app. about Typhoon Lingling’s pummeling the Korean Peninsula on 06-07 September, I was curious about the status of the KRE/KOR broadcasting and jamming situation, so I awoke early at first-light (~1235z) on 08 September and I noted the following: KRE - 2850: KCBS Pyongyang fair signal with operatic music then talk in Korean - 1240 - fairly deep null noted at about 315 deg. azimuth via my Benmar Navigator 555A’s DFing loopstick. 3320: KCBS with talk in Korean (strident ranting) fair but a bit weaker than and not // to 2850 - 1242. 6400: fair // 3320 and weaker than the jammers on 6250/6350 and 6600. The “buzz” multiplex-data mil-utility station was not covering the frequency yet as noted later-on at about 1600z. 9665: KCBS fair to good strength at 1616 on a walk out of town but with the presumed CRI QRM creating an approx. 4 Hz SAH under them. KOR: 4450: The usual strong and very strange-sounding jamming mixture of hash/buzz and strange stepping-tones completely covering the KOR stations audio (Voice of the People) at 1305. Partial null at about 315 deg. azimuth on my Benmar Nav. 555A’s DFing loopstick. 6250; 6350; and 6600 (the latter presumed // 4450) sounded the same as usual post-sunrise with hash-jamming via KRE and all quite strong. (In other words, I noted no outages - all sounded the same as usual) OTHER: 3325: Presumed VOI open-carrier STILL ongoing (since April!) - noted at 1240z and same strength as 3320 KRE - a shallow loopstick DF-null was at about 290 deg. azimuth MW: 972, HLCA KOR had a few fade-ups with some audio in Korean (male talking) and a 2 kHz het., but badly splattered by the 970 domestics at about 1310. 1566, HLAZ Cheju Do Isl. KOR - FEBC with rapid and deep QSB with bad slop from 1560 XEJPV Cd. Juarez, CHIH playing Mariachi Music well atop KNZR Bakersfield. During a brief fade-down of XEJPV, 1566 HLAZ faded-up briefly to S4 with a woman talking in Japanese (on their toward-Japan pattern) at 1315-1320z. Nice to hear the MW TP DX in this morning, indicating that the Asian TP DX season has begun and should continue to improve into October and beyond (remote desert Beverage DXpeditions coming!). 73 - (Steve McGreevy, Rxs. employed: Drake SSR-1 and 6m wire. Benmar Navigator 555A and its sensitive DFing lipstick for the below 5 MHz receptions. DX-200 and a Tecsun AN-200 loop for the MW receptions. -- N6NKS - www.auroralchorus.com Sept 9, WOR iog via DXLD) ** KUWAIT [and non]. 11745. Sep 3, 2019. 1815-1840, Radio Free Asia, Kuwait, in Mandarin. Man and woman announcers talking; A nice conversation between them and laughs in certain moments; 1826 instrumental song; 1830 Woman and man announcers talk. Poor reception, with fair signal and moderate interference by China National Radio 1, jammer-Firedrake, disturbing RFA transmission at this time, 33422 (JRX_Jose Ronaldo Xavier, SWARL Callsign PR7036SWL, Receiver (s)_ Sony ICF-SW7600GR, Antenna (s)_ Active Degen DE31, Cabedelo, Brazil (UTC-3), WOR iog via DXLD) ** KUWAIT. UNIDentified transmission in DRM on 15105v, September 6: from 0805 on 15104.8 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu, probably R.Kuwait But in summer A19 schedule of Radio Kuwait DRM transmission is later 0945-1330 on 15109.8 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Arabic GS DRM mode -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, dxld yg via DXLD) Nothing heard at 0930 UT on 15105 kHz, KUWAIT, but now at 0945 UT RK on scheduled DRM mode on 15110 kHz, S=9+20dB strong enough in western Europe to decode the digital data, but I disposed / removed of all Dream decoding software some 8 years ago. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Bueschel, WOR iog via DXLD) -57 dbm or S9+10 here right now (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, 1028 UT Sept 6, WOR iog via DXLD) UNIDentified transmission in DRM on 15105v, September 6: from 0805 on 15104.8 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu, probably R.Kuwait But in summer A19 schedule of Radio Kuwait DRM transmission is later 0945-1330 on 15109.8 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Arabic GS DRM mode https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/unidentified-transmission-in-drm-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Bumping on 15110 this time with Tagalog program right now at 1115+ with great signal of S10 and very good audio. After news, ID with email info and phones with program from a local station with music and phone ins. The second song is Filipino. 15109.650, 1325 program in Arabic with discussions; signal is S20 or -52 mean level. Sudden s/off 1326 (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, Sept 7, WOR iog via DXLD) And from 1200 General Sce in Arabic on 15109.7 AM mode, instead of DRM Very good signal, over weak China Radio International in Chinese on nominal 15110 MOI Radio Kuwait on 15110v kHz in AM, instead of DRM mode on Sept 7: 0945-1000 on 15109.7 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Persian, instead of Arabic DRM 1000-1200 on 15109.7 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Filipino, instead of Arabic DRM 1200-1325 on 15109.7*KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Arabic GS in AM, instead of DRM 1055-1325 on 9749.8 KBD 250 kW / 286 deg to NEAf Arabic GS in AM is parallel A19 *12-13UTC on 15110.0 URU 500 kW / 270 deg to WeAs Chinese China Radio Int. co-ch! Something`s always wrong at MOI Radio Kuwait Kabd Sulaibiyah transmitting station https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xu7ZHTF378&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhAPWWGb4ZY&feature=youtu.be Публикувано от Observer в 4:11 P (Ivo Ivanov, via DXLD) MOI Radio Kuwait on 15110v in AM, instead of DRM mode on September 7: 0945-1000 on 15109.7 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Persian, instead of Arabic DRM 1000-1200 on 15109.7 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Filipino, instead of Arabic DRM 1200-1325 on 15109.7*KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu Arabic GS in AM, instead of DRM 1055-1325 on 9749.8 KBD 250 kW / 286 deg to NEAf Arabic GS in AM is parallel A19 *12-13 UT on 15110.0 URU 500 kW / 270 deg to WeAs Chinese China Radio Int. co-ch! Something`s always wrong at MOI Radio Kuwait Kabd Sulaibiyah transmitting station https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/moi-radio-kuwait-on-15110vkhz-in-am.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) MOI Radio Kuwait General Service in 31mb, September 9 1055-1330 on 9749.8*KBD 250 kW / 286 deg to NEAf Arabic, good *QRM co-ch on 9750.0 YAM 300 kW / 290 deg to EaAs Japanese NHK https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/moi-radio-kuwait-general-service-in.html Reception of MOI Radio Kuwait in 19mb on September 10: 0500-0800 on 15529.8 KBD 250 kW / 310 deg to WeEu English, good https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/reception-of-moi-radio-kuwait-in-19mb.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 9-10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALAYSIA. MALÁSIA, 11665 Wai FM via RTM, Kajangue, 0944-desvan. total 1025, 08/9. Canções, texto, música pop'; 25332 (Carlos L R de Assunção Gonçalves, Obs. OCurta 30 Agosto-9 Setembro, (Efectuadas na costa sudoeste), Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALI. 9635, Radio Mali, Bamako, 1750-1803*, 07-09, Vernacular comments, tuning music, id. “Vous ecoutez L’Office de Radiodifusion Television du Mali emettant de Bamako...”. 34433. (Méndez) 5995, Radio Mali, Bamako, 1848-1906, 07-09, program in English of Saturday, news and comments about Mali and Bamako, male, female, “Dear listeners of Radio Mali”, songs, at 1903 “Good bye”, end of English program, African songs and Vernacular comments. 35433. Both Out of air for the last two days (10 and 11-09). (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) Also noted on my automated recording using the U. Twente SDR receiver with a poor to fair signal. Have to listen very carefully to understand the heavily accented English from both the male (strong French accent) and female (strong African accent) speakers (Richard Langley, NB, WOR iog via DXLD) ** MEXICO. Unfortunately awake before 1200 UT Sept 6, I check lowband for the usual SRS stations: 540, 550, 610, 650, 700, 710, 740. 550 and 700 are playing different NA versions at hourtop; 650 concluding `Buenos Dias, Yarderos` just before 1200, i.e. XETNT Los Mochis, Sinaloa, and then always weaker 610, XEGS Guasave joins // for news. 700, Sept 6 at 1205, ``La Poderosa de Parral, 90.3``, i.e. XEGD, Chihuahua where 5/1 kW can be hyped as ``powerful``. 740, making horrible LAH on minus side of KRMG which soon takes over. We know this one is XEQN Torreón, Coahuila. Enid sunrise today: 1207 UT. Also around 1205 Sept 6, tried 870 for XETAR, but dominated by Spanish gospel huxter from south, presumably KFJZ Fort Worth, but in new NRC AM Log it is still shown as ETHnic: Hindi, and other sources say BizTalk Radio (in English)! Could this really be Mexican? No, new IRCA Log shows only two others in Oaxaca, Guerrero, not religious and very unlikely (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 800, Sept 7 at 1210, Spanish virtually zero-beat with KQCV OKC, which I null as much as possible; discussing border issues at Juárez; 1211 mentions ``Calibre``, keyword for XEROK, contraxion for ``Canal Libre``, as if it were still a ``clear channel``; 1211 rooster crows (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 860, XEMO, Tijuana, BC AUG 8, 1157 - Long prayer, then ID at 1200:30 by female voice: "XEMO La Poderosa Ocho Sesenta - música de recuerdo..." and then gave address in Marques de León, and "diez mil wats poderosa en San Diego y Tijuana," as well as website lapoderosa860.com (which is not functional); a "programa pagado" followed but was unable to determine the subject or product being purveyed. Fair signal and not much interference around sunrise here. 860, XEZOL Cd. Juárez, Chih. SEP 4, 1201 - National anthem, followed by a prayer, I think; ID at 1205 giving call letters and address, of which I only heard "Edificio Mega Radio" and not much else. Heard a few other times lately at this time but always a tough copy and always under the more distant XEMO (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge CO; Drake R8, 4-foot box loop. 73 and Good DX! NRC IDXD Sept 8 via DXLD) ** MEXICO. 870, Sept 7 as I try to ID the SS from the South as KFJZ Fort Worth [see U S A], by 1202 I am also hearing the choral Mexican NA from the SW, which has to be XETAR; 1204, multilingual XETAR IDs; 1208 fades up ``XETAR, Su voz en la Sierra Tarahumara``, but I`ve heard it much better before at SRS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) More XETAR above 800 entry ** MEXICO. 1050, Sept 12 at 0602, XEG Monterrey with super-hype voice actor full Spanish ID claiming 100,000 watts ``en efectivo``, the strongest station in Mexico or the US. Effective? meaning in a certain direxion, but less transmitter power? That term is usually applied to FM where ERP is almost always much greater than transmitter power, taking into account antenna gain. Still plenty of QRM, and XEG has not been the ``border-blaster`` dominant 1050 signal at night for a long time, so I question their claim. And it`s supposedly ND day and night. IRCA Mexican Log shows nothing but 100/100 kW and it`s also $tereo with no FM (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1999, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. RAYMIE`S MEXICO BEAT this week Sept 6-12 including DTV=TDT The closure of ESPN Deportes Radio yesterday had an immediate impact for its two Mexico-based affiliates. In Tijuana-San Diego, the network affiliate was XESS 620. The station, though, did not air the network full-time. Some of its broadcast day was local programming for the Tecate area as "PSN Radio Tecate"; presumably, given its pedigree, Jaime Bonilla thought it politically necessary and important to have an outlet there. PSN has been leasing XEXX 1420 from Audiorama (though it had been mostly a simulcast of XESDD), and that will be the new (and first) station in San Diego for TUDN Radio programs; apparently it had also been running the ESPN Deportes lineup including the shows XESS did not carry. TUDN picked up a number of new outlets from the network's closure. The other ESPN Deportes affiliate was fairly new to the network, the HD2 sub of XHEOQ and XHO in Reynosa and Matamoros. (Of course, this sub lacks the requisite authorization.) As Univision owns a station in the Valley with TUDN Radio, NotiGAPE opted to sign up with a new network that began operations today: Unanimo Deportes Radio, which is based in Miami at WMYM, a former affiliate of ESPN's offering. The network is employing some of the laid-off talent from ESPN Deportes Radio, which was headquartered in Coral Gables. (You can read more, in English, here.) https://radioink.com/2019/09/09/adios-deportes-hola-unanimo/ The website has not been updated but the HD2 stream has Unanimo programming. The network has not published a full affiliate list, either. ——— Three Pleno meetings have gone up in the last week, and the IFT tackled a variety of broadcasting matters. Here are the more interesting: • Grupo Andrade now owns the stations it acquired from Imagen. On August 28, the IFT approved the concession transfers for XHDL and XHAV to GA Radiocomunicaciones, S.A. de C.V., which was incorporated four days before the public announcement of the acquisition. • Teleritmo, the grupera music video network, is almost gone. On 10 of the 11 Multimedios stations that carried it—all except Monterrey—it's being replaced with CV Shopping, Televisa's shopping channel. Multimedios will probably make some money, but the service is now duplicated in Mexico City and Guadalajara. Speaking of Multimedios, the MVS TV authorization has been reissued for XHMTPU, and maybe the rest of its subchannels as well. (We'll see if Puebla gets CV Shopping too.) • There appears to be a new resolution in one of Mexican radio's longest legal battles: the XHDGM saga. I'm waiting to get more information on the contents of this one before I release a special on it. Having read the court ruling, I believe the IFT is being obligated to allow José Pérez Ramírez to cure the two technical deficiencies in his application (and to ignore the whole "rooted in your locality" part). • XHOH has been approved for a power boost and class change, but the title of the resolution mentions 107.7 MHz. This should be an Article 90 clear to 99.7, per documentation I obtained earlier in the year. I want to see a meeting transcript before I explain more. • XHHLL-FM, which was approved for HD Radio broadcasts on March 29, has also been approved for a subchannel, as yet unknown. This is the only market where Imagen owns a station but doesn't have an Imagen Radio presence, as XHHLL has been a grupera station since 1993. (The other Imagen grupera station, XHDE in Saltillo, is now part of the company's lone radio duopoly.) (Raymie Humbert, Phœnix AZ, Sept 9, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) It's been an unusually busy day in the *new* department. We got new station call letters in Imagen Televisión. The UMCA virtual channel list updates added our first expansions to this list in a while: XHCTSH (36), which will be in Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, and XHCTRV on RF 26 for Ríoverde. The second transmitter overlaps with a shadow of XHCTSL, whose statutory coverage area includes Ríoverde, so I'm not sure if there will actually be both. It is clear that activity is increasing quite a bit around building out this television network. There are two new sign-ons in radio. One is on test, XHPINO-FM 102.5 in Pinos, Zacatecas. Despite its 4 watts ERP (HAAT of 635 meters), it's being received in San Luis Potosí. It is the first of six TV Zac stations known to be testing. This will be an HD-obligated station, as is XHPSEN-FM 96.9 Ensenada, Los 40 now on the air. There's also a new TV station that is apparently up and running. And we've been waiting a while for this one: it is the last of the Zacatecas 4-pack approved all the way back in July 2015. XHZAE-TDT 30 (VC 8) is TeleZer, the social wolf of Grupo Radiofónico ZER. The 4-pack included social wolves XHZAE, XHFZC and XHZAC as well as XHZHZ, the state's TV station. [tagline:] Este programa es público, ajeno a cualquier partido político. Queda prohibido el uso para fines distintos a los establecidos en el programa (Raymie, Sept 9, ibid.) Yes, only two posts this week! (gh) ** MONGOLIA. The Mongolian Radio is 85 years old. On September 1, 2019, Mongolian Radio turned 85 years old. Official broadcasting in this country began at 11:00 on September 1, 1934. The audience was addressed by the Prime Minister Paljidiyn Ghenden. In his speech, he spoke about the “big” role that the radio is called to play, both as a means of communication and as a reliable informant and conductor of culture among the population. The 85th anniversary of the start of broadcasting of Mongolian Radio was dedicated to the holding of the international forums Trends in the Development of Public Radio and Broadcasting in the Digital Age. The conferences were attended by the heads of radio stations from Russia (Radio Buryatia and Radio Kalmykia), China, Turkey and Japan. https://kolkeradio.blogspot.com/ (Rus DX 8 Sept via DXLD) ** MONGOLIA. 4895, Mongolian Radio 3 (presumed), on Sept 8, noted 1110, with decent level carrier, but no audio detected. The only good thing about AIR Kurseong no longer being here, is that Mongolia is now in the clear. Signal is much stronger than the AIR signal ever was; still on at last check at 1210 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1999, DXLD) Re Ron, 4895: Yes, seems to be on every now and then. It carries first programme as given on: 7260 kHz {Ulan Bataar site} is on the air fairly regularly carrying 3rd prgr between 2300-0500 & 0700-1500 UT. 4895 kHz has been on the air occasionally since the beginning of 2019 during local daytime, but carrying now 1st prgr. instead, starting at 2300 UT unlike longwave frequencies at 2200 UT. 4830 kHz {Altay site} has been off the air completely lately. Today it [4895] signed off at 1350 UT. Again nothing on 4830 kHz. Let's see, if it is gone forever (Mauno Ritola-FIN, direct via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 8, BC-DX 8 Sept via WORLD OF RADIO 1999, DXLD) ** MYANMAR. 5985, Myanmar Radio, 1245-1255, Sept 6 (Friday). The usual two consecutive shows of "Learning English with BBC, Burmese"; not very readable (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** MYANMAR. 7110, Thazin Radio (presumed), 1354-1425, Sept 7. It was back in 2012-2013 that "Thazin Radio, Pyin Oo Lwin" was regularly heard on this frequency; fairly confident the language heard today was Burmese; played easy-listening pop songs. So is this ex: 6165 kHz? Today I didn't start listening till fairly late, so this needs some earlier monitoring to find out just what is happening here. Of course Myanmar should not be here at all, as it is in the ham band. My audio (with announcer, followed by music), at http://bit.ly/2lJvOO0 My local sunrise was at 1343 UT (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1999, DXLD) Nothing there today between 1300-1350. At 1300 6165 kHz had two stations, but at 1350 only China remaining. Is Vietnam active any more? (Mauno Ritola, Sept 8, ibid.) Thanks, Mauno. Yes, seems to have been a one day only anomaly. Will still check 7110 from time to time. Sept 8, not heard. Can only hear a strong China on 6165 (Ron Howard, ibid.) ** NETHERLANDS. HOLLAND, Frequency change of Brazilian Radio Onda ASBL in 49mb from September 1: 0000-2400 NF 6060 MRT 001 kW / non-dir to WeEu Portuguese, but inactive, ex 6030 (Публикувано от Observer в 9:34 PM via DXLD) That obscure site really is in Netherlands, and if ever activated would be the only non-pirate SW there. DXLD 19-13: ``Onda ASBL? What in the world is that? Where is MRT? I find it only in the HFCC site list as: MRT Margraten HOL 50N48 005E48 So like so many Germans, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland --- Holland also has a licensed lowpower private SW station --- but on the air 24 hours, or at all? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` And much more in DXLD 19-14, including based in Belgium: http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1914.txt (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 5960, EAST GERMANY, The Mighty KBC (Nauen) abruptly on late after a hint of a carrier at 2359 then nothing until oldies music and DJ Dave Mason at 0008 – Good Sept 8 – The second week in a row they were late coming on. Are the boys at Nauen asleep on the job? (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S, Drake SPR-4, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 80 and 40 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD) and an Alpha Delta DX-LB inverted vee dipole, ODXA iog via WORLD OF RADIO 1999, DXLD) ** NIGERIA. 11770, Voice of Nigeria at 1736 with African hi-life female vocals and an African-accented woman with talk at 1738 about media misconceptions about Nigeria and into more hi-life vocals at 1740 – Good signal but slightly muffled audio on the spoken word Sept 7 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, Ontario, Kenwood TS440S, Drake SPR-4, or Ten-Tec Argonaut II and 80 and 40 meter off centre-fed dipoles (OCFD) and an Alpha Delta DX-LB inverted vee dipole, ODXA iog via DXLD) 7254.940, Voice of Nigeria from Abuja, weak and tiny S=5 or -90dBm at 0651 UT on Sept 9. noted on remote SDR at Florida US state from 0615 to 0651 UT: [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 9, WOR iog via DXLD) Hi Wolfie, Was listening to VON earlier (Sept 9), with very good signal (0600-0610*), till suddenly cut off the air. Listened for five minutes more, but didn't return to the air. My audio at http://bit.ly/2lIaOY7 (Ron Howard, California, WOR iog via DXLD) 11769.903, Sept 9 at 2033, VON one of better 25mb signals at this time, S9-S7 but very undermodulated, can`t tell the language but presumably not English. Must also check here when 7254.9 be missing for the 0600 broadcast, as Ivo Ivanov found it on instead, ``Voice of Nigeria on wrong 11770v, instead of 7255v kHz, September 10 from 0600 Hausa, from 0700 Fulfulde and upcoming from 0800 English`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Nigeria on wrong 11770v kHz, instead of 7255v kHz, September 10 from 0600 Hausa, from 0700 Fulfulde and upcoming from 0800 English - 73! (Ivo Ivanov, WOR iog via DXLD) Voice of Nigeria on "evening" 11770v this morning, September 10: 0600-0740 11769.9 AJA 250 kW / 248 deg WCAf Hau/Ful instead of 7254.9 from 0740 11769.9 AJA 250 kW / 248 deg WCAf and on 7254.9 NO SIGNAL https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/voice-of-nigeria-on-evening-11770vkhz.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 9-10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 7470-AM, YHWH (religious pirate) on Sept 7, with unusual conditions; very much up and down reception. 0247: Fairly readable; 0255: faint audio (unreadable); 0305: carrier only (no audio). 0333: Very readable; 0338: faint audio (unreadable); 0342: only a carrier (no audio). 0358: Faint audio (unreadable); 0414: fairly readable; 0422: only a carrier (no audio) (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. 930, Sept 10 at 0028 UT, WKY OKC in English! With the demise of ESPN-D[eportes], what to do with this legacy station? Sports talk in English! In fact, at 0047 UT plugs sibling station WWLS The Sports Animal (98.1) which is also on KWPN 640 Moore, but not // at the moment. At 0201 UT I find that 930 is // 640 but running 7 seconds behind it. And again at 0620 UT when both are on ESPN Radio (English). What a great variety Radio License Holding CBC, LLC are providing! BTW, these two stations are not part of any other AM cluster in OKC, according to FCC Licensee info. Oh, yeah? At 1459 UT Sept 10, I monitor the ToH breaks on all three stations. 640 and 930 are not // but 930 is // 98.1, if not synched. At 1502 UT legal ID on 98.1 starts with WWLS, then a bunch of mostly AM affiliates all over OK, to which WKY has been added at the end; as part of Cumulus. And the same multi-station ID comes around 27 seconds later on 930. But FCC AM Query shows Cumulus is *not* the licensee of any AM station in OK. How about FM? Allegedly, ONLY ONE: 107.3 KOMS Poteau! What is going on here? Well, RLH CBC LLC must be a subsidiary of Cumulus, but why? Try to reach the former on Wikipedia and you are redirected to Cumulus without explanation. Could CBC stand for the obvious? On FM, the following in OK are licensed to Radio License Holding CBC LLC, per FCC FM Query: WWLS-FM 98.1 The Village [NW OKC suburb where I used to live], KYIS 98.9 OKC, KATT 100.5 OKC, KKWD 104.9 Bethany. Except for 104.9 which I could not hear anyway, the other three FM would get knocked off the air simultaneously via storms. WKY used to run some commercials and PubAffs shows in English; so now will they insert anything in Spanish? When ESPN-D appeared, WKY dismissed their ``La Indomable`` Spanish DJ staff. From Nov. 2014: http://www.w4uvh.net/WKY930AM-ad.jpg Former ESPN-D affiliates everywhere must be trying to find something to replace it; will English or Spanish prevail? See my recent report of 1650 KSVE El Paso TX (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WORLD OF RADIO 1999, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1520, KOKC, OK, Oklahoma City – Applies to extend STA, U1 10000/10000 at 35-20-01/97-30-18 (AM Switch, NRC DX News Sept 17, published Sept 10, via WORLD OF RADIO 1999, DXLD) KOKC are in no hurry to replace the tower blown down by tornado years ago, and restore licensed U2 50/50 kW, which used to put a good signal into the Pacific and over much of western North America. You might not know it`s not really U2 50/50 kW since references such as the NRC AM Log do not deal with STAs. Even here near in Enid, KOKC can suffer considerable QRM at night (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** OKLAHOMA. DX Tip: KXTD 1530 Tulsa --- This 5 kW daytimer licensed to Wagoner, OK appears to be on the air early. According to the FCC, sunrise sign on for KXTD should be 7 am central time. It's 6:30 am central and I'm already hearing them, match to stream and heard a line on 1530 that mentioned Oklahoma (Paul Walker, Laramie, WY, 1134 UT Sept 7, nrc-am gg et al., via DXLD) Maybe a psra? None listed in NRC AM Log, but this info is iffy to extract from FCC (gh) ** OKLAHOMA. 1580, Sept 6 at 1659 UT check, KOKB Blackwell is still OFF. You`d never know it from http://tripleplaysportsradio.com 1580, Sept 9 at 1757 UT, I notice that KOKB Blackwell is back on the air; might have resumed Sept 8 before I noticed. Had been off since at least Sept 3 (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1640, KZLS, Enid, 0956 September 1, 2019. Red Eye Radio replay (local Sunday morning), male canned "KZLS... 16-40 The Eagle... dot com." WTNI Biloxi co-channel.(Terry Krueger, Times/dates GMT, Niceville, FL, IC-R75, ICF-7600GR, active loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) How did it get to be called KZLS? Apparently spun off from sibling KXLS 95.7 ex-99.7 (gh, Enid, ibid.) ** OKLAHOMA. 89.7 [sic], Radio Calvario, Oklahoma City OK; 4:05 PM CDT [2105 UT], 9/4; SS religion, including Creation Moment; RC ID by a VYL (Harold Frodge, visiting OKC, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Harold, is this really on 89.7 now instead of 87.9? Or a typo? Both of us heard it on 87.9 in 2018: ``OKLAHOMA. -- LPFM, 87.9, Yukon OK (OK City 'burb); 6:60-7:22 PM CDT 9/25 [2360-2422 UT Sept 26]; relay of LPFM 93.9 KWDW OK City; EZL Spanish religious music; "Escúchenos 93.9 FM, Radio Calvallos(?)" spot for "Livres [sic] de verdad". VGood at I-40 & Garth Brooks Blvd (Yukon is the hometown of Garth Brooks) (Harold Frodge, From Uncle Harold's Trip out west, MARE Tipsheet via DXLD) Welcome to Oklahoma --- It`s Radio Calvario, on 87.9 really a pirate, not legal LPFM, but interesting that same programming now be on legal 100-watt LP KWDW 93.9. See my detailed 87.9 report of last April 7 in DXLD 18-15 (gh, DXLD) OKLAHOMA. 87.9 MHz FM, April 7 at 1809 UT, I find myself in Del City, SE suburb of OKC, as I start an FM bandscan, already an OOB signal here in Spanish --- gospel huxter, shortly mentions Pacific Garden Mission, Chicago, i.e. those who bring us `Desencadenados` = `Unshackled`, are participating in piracy. Also heard programming from them later. 1815 UT ID as Radio Calvario en Oclajoma City, with a frequency I missed but presumably this. Despite proximity of full-power local nearby on 88.1, this has no problem elbowing it aside, but as I drive south, by SE 134th St., it`s starting to lose out. Later thru central and NW OKC I am still hearing it altho not solid; obviously beyond Part 15. {so might be DXable with a strong Es opening, but I`ve never heard a trace of it by GW or tropo into Enid, 100+ km away.} Mentions Calvary Baptist Church in SW OKC, and website radiobautistacalvario.com Add https://www, a ``secure connexion`` and very slow loading, but finally does. This page does not mention an FM frequency for Radio Calvario, just webcast. But their FB is blatant about 87.9 FM: https://es-la.facebook.com/radiocalvariookc/ ``Radio Calvario transmitió en vivo. 28 de marzo a las 17:34 Escuche en estos momentos el servicio en VIVO de la Iglesia Bautista el Calvario en Oklahoma City Predicando el Pastor Santiago Merlo 87.9 Fm en OKC escuchenos por internet TuneIn Radio http://tunein.com/radio/radio-calvario-s264900/ https://www.radiobautistacalvario.com/ Ver más This must be it with a map leading to SW 50 and Pennsylvania in OKC: http://iglesiabautistaelcalvario.com/direccioacutenes-y-contacto.html I vaguely recall having traced this a few years ago in another visit to OKC, but can`t find it in my records. Maybe it was another Spanish Christian pirate and/or under another name. The WTFDA FM Database lists only the two legal 87.9s in the USA; no pirates, but there are lots more besides this one. Harold Frodge hears several them around his are of Midland, Michigan. FM DXers, especially when there is a sporadic E opening, should pay special attention to 87.9 (and 87.7 or 87.75 TV 6 analog audio) QHJC? WWJD? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1925, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Ever since the FM band filled up with translators and LPFMs, the pirates have no place to go and 87.9 is a logical frequency. I now have two of them on 87.9 locally, one Spanish pirate in the Springfield [MA] area and another English religious one somewhere else around here. I'd expect more of them (Mike Bugaj, Enfield CT, WTFDA gg via DXLD)`` By Sept 16, Harold replies that it was really still on 87.9 (gh) ** OKLAHOMA. 88.3, as of Sept 10, I have been meaning to note that the Family Radio satellator in Enid, K202BY, has been totally off the air again for about a week. Not just dead air! A little less QRM for my SW caradio feeder set on 88.3; and with it off, 88.3 open again for KOSR Stillwater, if not DX (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. RF 7 DTV, Sept 7 around 0415-0440 UT, KOCO ``5`` is on the verge, continually breaking up during the Jimmy Kimmel show and a bit of Nightline. One of my TV antennas has trouble getting a sufficient signal from our `local` ABC affiliate. So I have a fest snapping still after still of pixillated DTV breakup art, 67 of them; to be winnowed down to the best of the best with the most variety for my gallery. QRX (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. RF 36 DTV, Sept 7 at 1352 UT, some tropo from Tulsa area judging from maps and Bad signals, but this one decodes as: DTV 17-1 TBN HD. That is not helpful, but as W9WI.com confirms, this is the new repacked channel for 1000 kW, KDOR-TV in Bartlesville, ex-17; so it will not interfere any more with Enid`s K17JN-D, whatever its masquerade. PSIP lineup: 17-1, TBN HD 17-2, Hilsong [sic, gotta delete a letter to get it down to 7] 17-3, COMBO 17-4, Enlace 17-5, TBN SD W9WI.com disagrees on a couple: 17-3 JUCE; 17-5 Salsa. As with some multi-casters, it could be certain subchannels are timeshared, so the other names might apply elsewhen? It still seems strange that 36 will soon be the top of the UHF TV band. Bring back 83! (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN. Radio Sultanate of Oman was back on shortwave, September 1: from 1920 UT on 9620 kHz THU 100 kW 315 deg to WeEUR Arabic, good signal (Ivo Ivanov-BUL, hcdx via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 1) Auf deren Webseite keinerlei Frequenzangaben: einfach nur: "Kurzwelle", "Thumrait" und "100 kW" (ganz unten, letzte Zeile unterhalb MW-QRGs; last line below) funktionierende HLS-Streams: #EXTINF:-1,9620 kHz Radio Oman, Arabic #EXTINF:-1, Radio Oman, English (laeuft im 1by1 player mit der bass.dll beide Streams 48 kbps / 22 kHz / MP3 ) auf dem englischen Programm aktuell: Auch wies man auf "lokale Gebetszeiten" hin, basierend auf den "Ortszeiten", also selbst innerhalb Omans different. [later] Der Vollstaendigkeit halber alle 5 funktionierenden Streams: #EXTINF:-1,Oman Radio - General Public #EXTINF:-1,Oman Radio English FM (al'iidhaeat al'iinjlizia) #EXTINF:-1,Oman Radio FM (al'iidhaeat aleama) #EXTINF:-1,Oman Radio Quran FM ('iidhaeat alquran alkarim eamman) #EXTINF:-1,Oman Radio Youth FM (iidhaeat barnamaj alshabab) Seltsamer Weise macht es (bei mir hier) der VLC-Player NICHT. Dafuer keine Probleme, wie gesagt, mit dem 1by1 -Player. Auch "Empfang" mit dem FFMPEG internen "ffplay", welches sogar eine Spektrumsanzeige der dekodierten Toene mitbringt. Das sieht dann so aus: (Start einer vorbereiteten *.bat) Funktionieren diese Stream bei jemanden im VLC ?, oder unter Linux? (Roger Thauer-D, A-DX newsgroup Sept 2 via BC-DX 8 Sept via DXLD) Radio Sultanate of Oman again with English, September 6: 1400-1500 on 9620 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu English, good signal from 1500 on 9620 THU 100 kW / 315 deg to WeEu Arabic, good signal. https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/radio-sultanate-of-oman-again-with.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non]. 9620, Sept 7 at 1443, since I have the OH5AE SDR in Finland up to check WOR, also try for RSO English hour as reported recently reactivated. Instead, S Asian talk with some hum, squeal and distortion, and no trace of Oman. 1445 ID in passing as All India Radio, as scheduled 250 kW from Aligarh in Sindhi at 1230-1500, among other transmissions on 9620 --- not a good spot for RSO anyway (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. noted on remote SDR at Brisbane, Queensland, Australia: 12069.969, FEBC from Iba site, Chinese program at S=7-8, at 0008 UT on Sept 9, endless sermon by female. [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 9, WOR iog via DXLD) ** ROMANIA. The 'big news' this week is what is going on in Romania. Various sources have reported they are not long for the SW world, and the Tsiganeshti transmitter has been AWOL quite a bit, making things seem dicey, but further reports are that while there are 'higher ups' who want to ditch SW so they can save a bit of coin, and 'replace' those services with "The Internet". (I had a boss many moons ago when computers were first making their appearance in the workplace who was known to say in frustration 'Can't you just do the DOS or something?' -- I feel like 'use the internet' is today's clueless boss's version of 'do the DOS'!) ANYHOO -- while it appears the early reports were overstated, I'm sure this will keep coming up as money doesn't grow on trees even in Romania, and despite the fact they are one of the last remaining 'old school' European broadcasters left. They have lots of good stuff so here's the two-phase plan to help. 1) Listen to them. No really, not just to get a QSL or for 5 minutes to say "I heard it" but really listen. They have lots of good stuff from Classical and Romanian pop music to cooking shows to culture and travel features to a "Listener letterbox" programme where you might hear a familiar name or three on occasion. If you miss DW and the BBC this isn't quite the same, but it is ALMOST as good, and they cover Romanian news you don't hear about here! And 2) Tell them you're listening and that you appreciate their programming. Be specific. Do you like the music? Say that, and say why and what else you'd like to hear. Do you like the travel show? Tell them that, and ask a question about Transylvania or Bucharest or whatever. Engage them with something more than 'you were five by nine; next'. Don't know where to find them? Their English sked for A-19 was in the April/May Great Lakes Monitor and there are logs below of some of their 'actually heard' channels. Don't let this one 'get away' -- there have been too many. Prove the 'experts' wrong with a hundred or so reports and comments from listeners in Michigan alone, they will have a hard time saying 'nobody listens to SW in North America'! We can't do this 'by ourselves' but if NOBODY steps up, it won't happen! (Kenneth Vito Zichi, MARE Tipsheet Sept 6 via WORLD OF RADIO 1999, DXLD) I often encounter RRI English at 2030 on 13650; if not // 11850 (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1999, DXLD) Re: [WOR] Radio Romania International to stay on --- Hi Stephen, yes, that's for sure. I'm thinking maybe reductions of frequencies (transmitters). Time will tell, Regards (Tim Gaynor, NSW, Sept 6, WOR iog via DXLD) Interradio Romania (Radio Romania International) Stays Shortwave --- The management of Interradio Romania does not plan to refuse short-wave broadcasting in order to save the budget. This was written to me by the Russian editorial staff, answering my question about the possible closure of short-wave broadcasting. “The Board of Directors of the Romanian Radio did not approve the proposal to close the broadcasting of short-wave IRR. This was one of the suggestions made by management in view of cost reduction. At the moment, our broadcasting is not threatened with termination, even negotiations were held on new frequencies for the winter of 2019-2020. This is not the first such attempt to switch to Internet broadcasting and we hope that in our work there will be changes only for the better.” At the end of August, some media reported on the possible refusal of Interradio Romania to broadcast on short waves. The proposal was made by the General Director of SRR ("Romanian Public Radio") Georgică Severin https://kolkeradio.blogspot.com/ (Rus DX 8 Sept via WORLD OF RADIO 1999, DXLD) ** ROMANIA. Reception of IRRS EGR/UNR via RADIOCOM Saftica Sept 7 1815-1915 7290 SAF 100 kW / 300 deg English*Sat/Sun, good signal *1845-1915 7290 SAF 100 kW / 300 deg Sat old Waveschan#533 May 12 https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/reception-of-irrs-egrunr-via-radiocom_8.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 7-8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Far East ------------ DRM on 12025 kHz - Does anyone have a contact with the authorities, if this is from Komsomolsk-na-Amure? Is it just a test or regular transmissions coming? Thanks, (Mauno Ritola, Finland / “open_dx” via Rus DX 8 Sept via DXLD) We can only speculate --- Object: RS-1, Elizovo, Kamchatka Territory AFU: antenna type SGD-4 / 4RA, SGD-4 / 8RA, azimuth = 25-30 degrees. Transmitter: -Purga (FSUE RTRS) -Serenade (PJSC RIMR) Project stages The first (2017): selection of SW frequencies field tests -Testing radio direction in AM mode Second (2018-2019): -Design - Getting RICH -Manufacture, purchase of equipment -MR, NDP, DRM testing FWIW, slide 14 of https://docplayer.ru/57744107-Teleradioveshchanie-i-svyaz-na-severnyh-territoriyah-blizhayshie-i-perspektivnye-proekty-glavnyy-inzhener-filiala-rtrs-dalnevostochnyy-rc-sergeev-a (Leo Barmaleo / “open_dx”, ibid.) I wonder who this broadcast is intended for. How to take it? However, do not consider it an advertisement, but there are already receivers in their own case, capable of receiving digital broadcasts in DRM format at short wavelengths. This is Tecsun Q-3061. Here is a description: http://www.novosibdx.info/receivers/tecsunq3061a.html Of course, it is quite expensive. But this is so far the only model of its kind. (Igor Yaremenko, Novosibirsk, Russia / “open_dx”, ibid.) I wrote to the Far Eastern RC by email with this question, but the contact is there, doesn’t seem to have permission from the management to disclose information - more until the tests go. Therefore, the name of the contact will be called only under duress, and in words I will convey, what he said the following: “... test broadcasting is currently being carried out on PJSC from KnaA from the territory of existing radio center. Test broadcasting is conducted to determine coverage areas ... " And it’s good, they’ve done well that they didn’t steal the existing SW base !!! (Dmitry Mezin, Kazan, Russia / “open_dx”, ibid.) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 11820.04, BSKSA Holy Quran, Riyadh, in Arabic 08.21.2019 1848-1905 man long vocal dull chant only till 1859:54", man announcements ID, then talk by same man and other men; moderate qsb and qrn at times very good, strong audio and signal (S.9+30+); // 11914.99 very good/good; // 7425 ceaseless moderate qsb w/ qrn rustle, fair /almost good; re-checked at 1901 poor / very poor under qrm strong splats by China R. Int. on 7435 in Hungarian (Gianni Serra - Roma-Italy, Equipment: JRC NRD 525 receiver; Alpha Delta DX-SWL Sloper-S antenna; RG 8 mini coaxial cable; JPS NIR 12 Noise & Interference Reducer-Dual DSP outboard audio filter; JRC NVA 319 external loudspeaker unit; Yaesu YH-77 STA stereo headphones; Oregon Scientific RM912 radio controlled clock; All times in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time); date in month/day format, DX LISTENING DIGEST) SABC in Indonesian 21670 --- After very long time I am now successful to log SABC in Indo. Signal is very poor S7 over S5 local noise with signal that rarely exceeds that -90dbm and with peaks of very short time of less than 15 seconds. Semi religious and psychology program at 0950 with Qur`an preaching at 0956. SINPO 35232. The only station on the band (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, Sept 8, WOR iog via DXLD) Correct name is Radio Saudi International in Indonesian, part of BSKSA (Broadcasting Service of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) RSI again 21670 Indo service today --- R Saudi Internasional, at 0940z today 10/9 and then using various kiwi’s : Thessaloniki at this time with max to S3 Kerala K-SDR: S9 -74 dbm Doha S7 over S6 noise -96dbm Sri Lanka S7 -86 dbm vs S5 -96 dB m local noise Jakarta = no signal! (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, https://www.facebook.com/zachliang WOR iog via DXLD) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 9545, SIBC, 0426-0459*, Sept 7. pop songs (Heart - "These Dreams," etc.). Finally strong enough to ID a song; the usual cut off time; still mostly unreadable, but daily is slowly improving (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** SPAIN. I recorded the very strong signal from REE on 9690 kHz yesterday (6/7 September) between about 2030 and 0205 UT s/off. I didn't check the other three frequencies on this occasion. 9690 kHz always provides the strongest signal (was peaking at 55 dBµ on the PL-880). Excellent reception apart from the very brief occasional selective fading distortion. In addition to Spanish, there were the usual English, French, and Portuguese half-hours on Friday at 2200, 2230, and 2300, respectively. The English Language Service featured an interview with Spanish singer Jorge Dinarés about his new album "Sé Que Estás Ahí" (I Know You Are There). So, still just Justin Coe with just a music program. The format of the Portuguese broadcast was similar -- just music with commentary. However, the French broadcast ("Émission Française") had a news magazine program (including what is going on in Catalonia) and then a music program. And it was mentioned that the broadcast was for Samedi, 7 Septembre (it would indeed be Saturday, local time, in Madrid but not UT). (-- Richard Langley, NB, WOR iog via DXLD) ** SRI LANKA. 15430, Sept 12 at 1328, bit of S Asian song, dead air, 1330 resumes YL announcement and hymn. Aoki shows AWR via Trincomalee in Bengali until 1330, nothing afterwards. But EiBi has it: 1330-1400 daily in KHS language, i.e. ``Khasi / Kahasi: India-Meghalaya, Assam (0.8m) [kha]`` --- so how many of the 800K speakers are really listening to this, and of them, how many are converting to 7D Adventism?? Believe it or not, this transpolar is the strongest signal on band, S4-S7, much more than US or Cuban signals on 15825, 15230, 15140, 15115 DRM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN. 7205, Sudan Radio, Al Aitahab, 1610-1633, 10-09, Arabic, comments. Very weak. 15321. (Méndez) 9505, Voice of Africa, Al Aitahab, 1707-1733, 10-09, French, comments, ID “La Voix de L’Afrique”, at 1715 English, ID “This is the Voice of Africa, from Sudan Radio”, news and comments. QRM on 9500. 32432 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) ** SUDAN SOUTH. CHINA PROMISES TO MODERNISE SOUTH SUDAN TV AND RADIO Text of report in English by South Sudan state-owned SSBC TV (formerly SSTV) on 6 September [Presenter] South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC) launched the construction of new studios and offices within its premises on Friday [6 September]. The project which is funded by the Chinese government through China Aid that is aimed at strengthening ties and improving the country's infrastructure is expected to be completed in two years time. The Minister of Information, Communication and Postal Services, Michael Makuei Lueth, alongside the senior staff of the ministry and SSBC, unveiled the foundation stone at the groundbreaking ceremony. In his address at the construction site, Makuei thanked China for supporting South Sudan and developing her infrastructure. [Michael Makuei] China has ever been with us. It has ever been standing with the people of South Sudan in all the difficulties in which we passed through. Today, China came in for this very important project and as I said earlier, this is not the only project but there are so many other projects as enumerated by Comrade Andruga (South Sudanese ambassador to China). The Chinese have been standing with us ever since, before and after the peace and their commitment is clear and understood by the people of South Sudan. With this project now, they are adding more, to all the efforts, all the projects, all the donations they were providing to South Sudan. [Presenter] On his part, the Chinese Ambassador to South Sudan, Hua Ning said construction of SSBC studios is part of the Chinese policy of people-to-people cooperation in Africa. [Hua Ning] Media cooperation exchange is one of the most important parts of a people-to-people exchange program. [Presenter] Meanwhile, South Sudan's Ambassador to China, John Andruga Duku, hailed the historic relations between the two countries and described them as mutually beneficial and genuine. [John Andruga] You see that the relationship between South Sudan and China develops in three strategic areas: Political cooperation, economic cooperation, and cultural exchange. [Presenter] The Managing Director of SSBC, James Magok Chilim, said the construction of the studios would improve the technical application of broadcast service on the airwave. [James Magok] After completion, we believe that we shall be well technically and they would be the first modern studios for TV broadcast in the Republic of South Sudan. The completion of these studios will help us meet the requirements and deadline of digital migration. This is one of the greatest projects supported by the People's Republic of China in South Sudan alongside other major projects. [Presenter] The Chairman of SSBC's Board of Directors, Professor William Hai Zaza said this project puts the country in the right track of global digital migration by the year 2020. [William Hai Zaza] They have shown us good friendship as was stated by the engineer and because we have seen the timeframe of digital migration although the time has been extended to 2020. We are already in the third quarter of 2019. [Presenter] The project according to Contractor Ling Jang, who spoke in Chinese, will include radio and television studios and recording halls, satellite signal reception system, live broadcast system, shortwave signal transmitter and recreational facilities to transform the image of SSBC and improve broadcast of programming, including cooperation with Chinese media in cultural exchange areas. CREDIT: South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC) TV in English 1700 gmt 6 Sep 19 (BBC Monitoring, Sep 7, via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** SWAZILAND. 6025, TWR Africa, 1437-1453, Sept 9. Program in English ("Living Word for Africa"); via long path; fairly readable. My audio: http://bit.ly/2lGOSww (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** TAJIKISTAN. 4765even, yes, real Yangi Yul Tjk R1 is back on even fq, S=9. Checked AIR outlets at 15-16 UT Sept 12 on remote SDRs in Delhi, Qatar, Athens, Germany, Akitakata Japan. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Bueschel, WOR iog via DXLD) ** TURKEY. Voice of Turkey - QSL-card (5945 kHz / 18.30 UTC / 17-07-2019); QSL Theme: Mosaic Museum of the Ancient City of Zeugma (Gaziantep). The USA returned to Turkey the 12th fragment of the antique gypsy mosaic. Once again, the English editorial board of VOT is a cut above its Russian-language broadcast colleagues. At the same time (September 4), envelopes came from both services, both were sent on August 8 (with an interval of one minute - according to the stamps), with the only difference being that the British confirmed the acceptance [reception] report of July 17, and the Russians of June 11. In June (one day, on the 11th day), two reports were sent to both editions. A confirmation was received from the British exactly one month later - on July 10th. It turns out that the reaction rate to sending QSL in the Russian and English VOT services differs exactly two times (in favor of the second, of course). (Konstantin Barsenkov, St. Petersburg, Russia / “deneb-radio-dx”, QSL World, Rus DX 8 Sept via DXLD) 9830, Sept 6 at 2206 and 2249 chex, no signal from VOT English to N America; must be off, as Spain is propagating 9690 very well. Something`s always wrong at TRT Emirler. 9830, Sept 7 at 2222, VOT on today unlike yesterday, but VP with flutter, music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Unscheduled Voice of Turkey in Bosnian on 11730 Sept 10: 0700-0756 11730 500 kW / 072 deg CeAs Azeri, as scheduled HFCC A-19 0756-0806 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/2019/09/unscheduled-voice-of-turkey-in-bosnian.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 9-10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. Frequency changes of BBC in French & BBC in English / World Service 0600-0630 12030 SAO 100 kW / 088 deg French, ex 7305 ASC from Sept.2 2200-2300 7445*SLA 250 kW / 105 deg English, x 6115 SLA from Aug.28 *to avoid 6115 WCR 100 kW / 046 deg English WWCR-1 traditional freq (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 293 kHz, Sept 7 at 0601 UT, ND beacon FBY, which is 25 watts from Fairbury, Nebraska, logged a few times before. ATM I notice that my line noise level abates below 300 kHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. STATEMENT FROM THE USAGM BOARD CHAIRMAN REGARDING CEO LANSING --- September 5, 2019 After four years serving as the first Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Director of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), John F. Lansing will be leaving USAGM -- an independent federal agency providing accurate, objective, and professional news and information worldwide -- at the end of this month to start the next chapter of his career as the President and CEO of National Public Radio (NPR). John joined USAGM at a pivotal time in the history of U.S. international media. He provided the vision and collaborative spirit needed to drive growth and innovation during some of the most trying times for global press freedom. The Board is very grateful for, and deeply impressed by, the results achieved during his tenure, including: USAGM's dramatic audience increase to 345 million people weekly and the high level of trust they have in USAGM's programming; Shift to a digital-first content creation and enhancements to the agency's internet freedom efforts, resulting in notable online audience growth; Advancement of a global language-based content strategy, rather than a country-based strategy, to reach key audiences and diaspora communities in Russian with Current Time, Persian with VOA 365, and in the coming months, Mandarin; Establishment of the International Coordinating Committee (ICC), made up of USAGM's five network heads and the CEO, to break apart silos [sic] and work collaboratively as force multiplier; and Honoring brave journalists by dedicating a memorial wall to the fallen and launching the USAGM Employee Association to support slain and injured journalists and their families. John has put USAGM on solid footing to advance our mission to inform, engage, and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy. Our networks' game-changing news and information programming, shared across one of the widest media distribution portfolios in the world, resonates with policy makers, stakeholders, other media outlets, and most important, our audience. It is the Board's top priority to find the best individual to run USAGM upon John's departure, and we will update you on next steps. In the meantime, I would like to say how much I have enjoyed working with John and how I value his vision, commitment, and enthusiasm. I know that my colleagues on the Board and across USAGM share that sentiment. We offer heartfelt thanks to John for his transformative leadership and wish him all the best. The United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) is an independent federal agency, supervising all U.S. government-supported, civilian international media, whose mission is to inform, engage and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy. USAGM networks include the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Office of Cuba Broadcasting (Radio and TV Marti), Radio Free Asia, and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks (Alhurra TV and Radio Sawa). USAGM programming has a measured audience of 345 million in more than 100 countries and in 61 languages. Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook View our videos on YouTube USAGM | 330 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington DC 20237 | 202.203.4400 (USAGM PR via Hansjoerg Biener, WORLD OF RADIO 1999, DXLD) USAGM BOARD RECOGNIZES LANSING'S LEADERSHIP AND DEDICATION September 12, 2019 CEO John F. Lansing at his last USAGM Board meeting [caption] WASHINGTON - The Board of Governors of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) met on September 11, 2019, at the agency's Washington, D.C., headquarters to review key programming initiatives and distribution strategies. Board Chairman Kenneth Weinstein called for a moment of silence in tribute to the lives forever lost and changed on September 11, 2001, and the sacrifices made by the men and women serving the country since then. The Board also bid farewell to Chief Executive Officer and Director John F. Lansing, who will depart the agency at the end of September to take over as CEO of National Public Radio (NPR). In his last report to the Board, CEO Lansing provided an overview of recent successes, initiatives and challenges the USAGM networks have faced in recent months. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) President Jamie Fly gave an overview of Current Time's unmatched coverage of protests in Moscow, but also detailed some of the harassment faced by RFE/RL journalists in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and elsewhere. Bay Fang, Radio Free Asia (RFA)'s Executive Editor, provided a glimpse into a three-part Mandarin-language series on the Hong Kong protests. For many audiences in mainland China, this series is the only source of accurate information about the history of Hong Kong and the objectives of the protestors. VOA Director Amanda Bennett presented a unique and powerful documentary series, with perspectives from the U.S. and from Africa, marking the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first slaves in the United States. In conjunction with the series, VOA hosted a live and internationally-broadcast town hall in partnership with Norfolk State University on August 22nd. CEO Lansing announced the promotion of Nasserie Carew as USAGM's first Chief Global Communications Officer for the agency. In this new role, Ms. Carew will take the lead in working with the five networks to coordinate external communications on issues affecting both the networks and the agency as a whole. The CEO also introduced USAGM's new Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Director of Information Technology, James "J.R." Reeves, who manages all IT policy and day-to-day IT operations for the Agency. As the meeting was the final of CEO Lansing's tenure, the Board offered heartfelt thanks for his bold vision and transformational leadership. Chairman Weinstein noted that CEO Lansing "joined at a pivotal time in the history of U.S. international media, and he has provided the vision and collaborative spirit needed to drive growth and innovation during some of the most trying times for global press freedom." "You have been a brilliant and inspirational leader, and you have brought in an 'A-team,'" said Governor Ambassador Ryan Crocker. "It is a vastly different organization, and vastly better today, than when I first sat at this table six years ago. As much as we will miss you, we will continue to benefit from all that you've done." "It was clear from the beginning," said Governor Kempner, "that you had a great vision--not just for this organization, but also a vision for how to get the best out of people." "The first CEO is a very tough job, and we all agree you could not have done a better job as the first CEO of this agency," said Governor Jeff Shell. "You've set a model that future CEOs will hope to fill." He added, "It is fitting that your final Board meeting is on 9/11, because this is a job of serving your country. You've done amazing job for your country, you've transformed this place in the last four years." "I want to mention the work you did helping and supporting the people here," Governor Ambassador Karen Kornbluh remarked. "Part of being a great leader and manager is supporting the people around you, and it has been wonderful to watch, how everyone's been able to be the best they can be thanks to your leadership." Governor Leon Aron echoed his fellow Governors and offered his condolences to the Agency and congratulations to CEO Lansing for a job well done. "It's clear in the year I've been able to participate in this team that your dedication to fulfilling USAGM's mission and setting high standards for the quality of work has brought benefit to the Agency and the networks," said Jennifer Hall Godfrey, Chief of Staff for the Office of the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. Much of the above transformation and modernization is detailed in the agency's new Impact Report Card. "The Board still retains the authority to select and name a CEO, including an interim CEO until a Senate-confirmed CEO is in place," Chairman Weinstein added. "We are deliberating on that now and will work closely with the Interim CEO for the next Board meeting." "Serving at this agency has been the honor of my career," CEO Lansing reflected in his remarks. "The team we've put together here really is the best team I've ever had, because it's mission-driven. I would dedicate my remarks to our journalists in the field--telling the truth goes as deep as putting their lives on the line and to them I say 'thank you.'" A recording of the meeting is available at usagm.gov. (USAGM PR via Hansjoerg Biener, WORLD OF RADIO 1999, DXLD) ** U S A. 7335, Sept 6 at 2247, Radio Martí VG signal as usual, and barely audible under jamming on 9565, 11930. Meant to check earlier in day whether any Grimesland NC frequencies were blown off by edges of Hurricane Dorian, but all OK now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1998 monitoring: confirmed first SWBC, Friday Sept 6 at 2200 on WRMI 9955, no upcut, S9-S5; by 2227 weakening to S8-S5 and traces of Cuban pulse jamming beginning to appear. Also confirmed UT Sat Sept 7 at 0130 on WRMI 7780, poor vs HLNL. Next: 0629vUT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany to WSW 1000 UT Saturday Unique Radio 3210 or 5045-USB NSW [alt weeks, Sept 14 & 28] ND 1430 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany to WSW 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM ND 2100 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 to SSE 0130 UT Sunday WRMI 5850 to NW 0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315] ND 1030 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 0130 UT Monday WRMI 9395 to NNW, 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 6160v? to WSW 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE 0930 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210 or 5045-USB NSW ND 1130 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210 or 5045-USB NSW ND 1816 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania ND 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 0800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 3210 or 5045-USB NSW [2 episodes] ND 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 to SSE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE WORLD OF RADIO 1998 monitoring: Ivo Ivanov reports from Bulgaria: ``GERMANY, World of Radio#1998 via Hamburger Lokalradio, September 7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV7g9ByRgS4&feature=youtu.be https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/world-of-radio1998-via-hamburger.html 0630-0700 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg CeEu English Sat, fair to good`` Barely confirmed audible on 9485-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio, via OH5AE SDR, Sat Sept 7 at 1445, vs heavy splash from 9490 Romania. Before that undetectable on UTwente SDR. Alan Gale reports: ``Hi Glenn, I'm hearing World of Radio here in north west England again today, not very strong but it's definitely there on 9485 kHz and even came up a bit towards the middle part but then faded out completely after around 1450 UT. I tried it on my SDRplay today and found that a USB bandwidth of around 1.5 kHz worked best, but with the splatter it wasn't easy to understand too much of what was being said, especially with some fading on the signal as well. As you can see from the waterfall display, a LSB signal would have no trouble at all, it's just the upper sideband that is suffering, and even a double sideband AM signal would probably fare better as you could at least tune lower or use your IF shift to remove some of the splatter. Alan.`` Also confirmed, Sat Sept 7 at 2100 on WRMI 9955 after IS & ID loop, S9-S7 and fluttery, upcut at ``---with World of Radio 1998``. NOT confirmed UT Sunday Sept 8 at 0130 on WRMI 5850, which had been our only WRMI frequency across North America; instead music, and soon VORW mailbag. WRMI sked has been revised to show 5850 // 5010 during this hour but still claims WOR on both now; while VORW was already scheduled this hour on UT Fridays; a mistake, John, or a change? I do confirm that much weaker 5010 is now // 5850. And not // to any of the others WRMIs. Confirmed UT Sunday Sept 8 at 0347 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, Wentzville MO, about 12 minutes into so started late around 0335; good S9+20 but considerable storm crashes, from eastern NM into the OK panhandle. Next: 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 0930 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210 or 5045-USB NSW ND 1130 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210 or 5045-USB NSW ND 1816 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania ND 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 0800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 3210 or 5045-USB NSW [2 episodes] ND 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 to SSE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE WORLD OF RADIO 1998 monitoring: Ivo Ivanov, Observer in Bulgaria reports: ``GERMANY, World of Radio#1998 via Hamburger Lokalradio, September 8 1031-1100 7265 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sun, weak signal https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/world-of-radio1998-via-hamburger_8.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR8koOrLQyA&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ld2Kgip9Bw&feature=youtu.be Very low frequency for this time slot 09-12, probably needed change: 0600-0900 7265 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg CeEu various Sat, ex now 6190 0900-1200 9485 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg CeEu various Sat, ex now 6190 1200-1500 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg CeEu various Sat, ex now 9485 0900-1200 9485 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg CeEu various Sun, ex now 7265 That way there will be no QRM from R. Romania Int 1200-1500 on 9490 1200-1300 9490 SAF 100 kW / 300 deg WeEu Romanian R.Romania Inter 1300-1500 9490 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg WeEu Romanian R.Romania Inter`` [WORLD OF RADIO 1999] I agree with his recommendations and have forwarded them to HLR. WOR confirmed Sunday September 8 at 2149, the 2130 on WRMI 7780, fair vs noise level. Also confirmed UT Monday September 9 at 0130 on WRMI 7780, poor vs HNL, // S9+10 on 9395. Also confirmed UT Monday September 9 at 0243, the 0230 on WRMI 7780, poor. Also confirmed UT Monday September 9 starting at 0301 on Area 51 webcast; and JBA at 0328 check on WBCQ 5130.35v. Also confirmed UT Monday September 9 at 0330 on WRMI 9955, VP S5 signal faded way down by now. Regarding the UT Sun 0130 on 5850 overtaken by VORW, Jeff White has agreed to add WOR to UT Sat 0130 on 5850 to the NW for the foreseeable future. Unless there be further changes, this may also be // 5010 to the south, and already simulscheduled on 7780 to NE. [WOR 1999] Next: 1816 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania ND 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 0800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 3210- or 5045-USB NSW [2 episodes] ND 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 to SSE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE WORLD OF RADIO 1998 monitoring: confirmed UT Tuesday Sept 10 at 0100 on WRMI, 7780, fair in noise level. Next: 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 to SSE 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE WORLD OF RADIO 1998 monitoring: Not confirmed Wednesday Sept 11 at 2100 on WRMI 9955; does not cut on until *2059:43 with one iteration of IS & ID, and then, and then, something in French! Mentions paix, instead of WOR. Yes it`s a new time for Radio For Peace International, as clearly IDed at 2109, altho the websked still shows WOR as of 1512 UT Sept 12; and the RFPI times only as Friday 2000-2100 15770; UT Sun 0000-0100 5950 9395. So goes another of our longtime spots on WRMI [WORLD OF RADIO 1999] Confirmed Wed Sept 11 after 2100 on WBCQ webcast while 7490.2v is a JBA carrier. Also confirmed UT Thu Sept 12 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, JBA in HNL. Next WOR 1999 should be ready by early Friday Sept 13 (if not delayed by storms), for first broadcasts at 2200 on 9955, UT Sat new time 0130 on 5010 & 5850, and also 7780 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISITENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1999 contents: Antarctica, Bahamas, Bougainville, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, China, Cuba, Germany, Guam, Hungary non, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea North non, México, Mongolia, Myanmar, Netherlands non, Oklahoma, Romania, USA; and the propagation outlook. WOR 1999 is available as of 0035 UT Friday September 13 (mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor1999.m3u (mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor1999.mp3 Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html Also linx to podcast services. The shortwave broadcasts should be: 2200 UT Friday WRMI 9955 to SSE 0130 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE, and NEW 5850 to NW, 5010 to S 0629vUT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany to WSW 1030 UT Saturday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW [alt, Sept 14, 28] ND 1430 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany to WSW 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM ND 2100 UT Saturday WRMI 9955 to SSE 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 0930 UT Monday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW ND 1130 UT Monday Unique Radio 3210-USB NSW ND 1816 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania to WNW 0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE 0800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW [2 episodes] ND 2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [canceled?] 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ BCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ WBCQ: ** U S A. 7490.188, WBCQ S=9+30dB signal noted on remote SDR at Detroit MI state, 0043 UT on Sept 6, 13 kHz wide music audio block. Surprisingly same music program on WRMI 9395 kHz at 0046 UT. 9330.219 kHz poor WBCQ S=5-6 signal, sent hurricane data coordinates, rain, wind reports too. 0048 UT Sept 6 [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 6. WOR iog via DXLD) [and non]. The Fredericton, NB, area has gotten off lightly from Hurricane Dorian. Some rain, heavy at times, but the wind only gusted to just over 50 kph. However, elsewhere in NB there are 60,000 NB Power customers without power at 11 p.m. ADT on 7 September. The WBCQ transmitter site in Maine should also have been well outside the impact area. But I can't hear anything on 3265, 5130, 6160, 7490, or 9330 kHz at 0215 UT. Could be they are not on the air or I'm just not getting enough groundwave or shower signal in the shadow zone. I usually can pick up 3265 kHz with no problem when it's on. But WWRB on 5050 kHz (beamed this way) with a boring sermon is strong while WTWW with pop music on 5085 kHz (beamed to the south) is a bit weak. WTWW on 5830 kHz is stronger (beamed this way) with religious programming.(-- Richard Langley, NB, WOR iog via DXLD) 9330.190v, Sept 6 at 1400, WBCQ JBA talk in measured tones of NOAA robot rather than Brother HyStairical; 1401 fades up a bit, definitely NOAA Weather Radio, but can`t catch any local mentions, let alone ID or WBCQ ID. Dorian is currently over the OBX of NC (and we hope DXer Rick Shaftan is evacuated or doing OK). Far enough from Grimesland not to cause VOA problems? Check for missing Martí or Bambara frequencies. 9330.13v, Friday Sept 6 at 2151, WBCQ is on here at S8 with hard rock music instead of NOAA Weather Radio relay. Must be gearing up for AAAWWW. At 2222 the modulation is cutting off and on. 7490.21v, Friday Sept 6 at 2153, `Behaviour Night` music, but too much noise here to enjoy Sir Scratchy and his ancient tunes. (7490), UT Sat Sept 7 from 0000, WBCQ webcast of `Allan and Angela Weiner WorldWide`, since I am busy editing on computer, don`t even try to hear it on SW. Ramsey calls in almost immediately, and I keep listening since there is hardly any politix this week, just about the SuperStation and technology, such as railing against computer dependence --- keep it out of our transmitters! But first at 2359 Sept 6, I notice that previous program wrapping up, radiosermontime.org thinx he will be on WINB 9625 [sic] tomorrow, and also on WWRB 5050. Clunk, hangs up phone. That weblink does not work. First, AW makes it clear that he does *not* want to be stuffed post-mortem, note that Angela! Even if it`s legal in strange Canada. 6160 has been retubed by TimTron, at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars; and blew 800-amp fuses. Lack of equipment support: Ampegon that went bankrupt are dicks. Continental people are dickish. One guy formerly with Ampegon, RF engineer named Norbert is now here working on the antenna. Antenna tuning unit is in the tubular sexion. 50 and 100 ohms have to be matched for different frequencies. The ATU has four caps which cost $18K each. Two coils are ganged together by a chain, which broke. A special 8-mm chain, hard to replace, but Angela located one which was shipped in from NC, arrived today. It`s like a bicycle chain, and lubricated like one. AW went up 40 feet to install it, and now that is working. Tonight`s show is ``quinta-casting`` on 3265, 5130, 6160, 7490, 9330=backup not SS. At 0055 looks thru the new issue of Free Radio Weekly, just published, mentions pirates logged and frequencies, but no dates, times or credit; including YHWH by me which he thinx is religious --- hee hee, yeah, anti-Christ, as I often denominate it but not this time. Then to e-mail. Confirms that 9330 has been relaying NOAA Weather Radio, from FL, SC, NC, and would do that again if needed. Thinx that Our Father is responsible for steering Dorian away from US mainland. Prayer until 0104, then plugs 6160 available 24/7 at $35 an hour; or would like to lease it out full-time. 5130 is a ``loss-leader`` subsidized partially by Larry Will and AW, now offering a fall pirate special at $10/hour for a minimum of two hours --- avoid getting busted with a 10-megadollar fine. Some time also available on 7490, but not 9330 or 3265; finally ends at 0107. {Legislation he thinx will pass calls for 10 million dollar fines; currently *only* typically 10 thousand --- gh} Here`s John Carver`s version: ``Tonight's show started on time on 7490. Allan and Angela in the studio. Opening talk concerned a statement about wanting to stuff Allan when he died. Allan said no. First phone call at 0005 from Ramsey, pointing out to Allan that Roy Rogers had Trigger stuffed when he died. Discussion about having people stuffed and then one on preserving people's heads after they died. There has been some support from the old Ampegon company starting to trickle through. They've sent an engineer from Germany who has been helping them adjust the antenna. A chain that is used during the antenna change broke. Angela found a man in North Carolina who could duplicate the chain. Was shipped out before the hurricane and Allan and John had to go forty feet above ground to install the chain. They had to modify the antenna adjustment plate for the new chain to work but it's working properly now. Long discussion about how poorly digital and computerized things work and how Allan wishes they would be built the old way. Reading of emails at 0054 beginning with the Free Radio Weekly. Closing prayer at 0101. It was announced that they have a special on airtime on 5130. Two hour minimum time slot at ten dollars per hour. Program was off the air at 0106 and then into Brother Stair. Despite the signal reports this evening I had a poor signal or no signal on the frequencies I tried. John, Mid-North Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1999, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WBCQ Super Station Update Problems and more problems - Sept 9th -- Glenn, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4G7cdqC98M (via Artie Bigley, Sept 9, DXLD) I don`t see any attribution, but this is obviously Gilles Letourneau summarizing the situation at the SuperStation; not much new info beyond what we have already covered, but he does say the Egyptian guy behind World`s Last Chance is not satisfied that the signals have not been reaching the Mideast. Audio only with a still of the antenna (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) An anonymous correspondent refers us to this 8-minute audiovideo from World`s Last Chance, concluding that it is anti-American. The image of The Beast is already here and it is: the USA, in the form of the bison. It somehow manages to make the Gregorian calendar, the international dateline and the Catholic church the enemies, and the next step will be the US forcing the rest of the world to worship on Sunday! This nonsense is what WBCQ has in store for us, and it`s hard to fathom how the Jesus-pious Allan Weiner can tolerate, yea, embrace it: https://www.worldslastchance.com/view-video/2849/image-of-the-beast-is-here.html (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1999, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Glenn, WBCQ UPDATE --- Allan Weiner‏ @AllanWBCQ 6h6 hours ago Worlds Superstation back on the air soon. Testing on 9330 and 12120. Classic WBCQ on 7490 at noon. This ain’t easy. Keeping the free speech radio going. Not cheap. We do it for the freedom of speech. Getting folks on the air broadcasting. While we can. Enjoy. One horsepower (via Artie Bigley, Sept 10, DXLD) ``7490 at noon`` --- so apparently 1600 UT is when they are turning that on with Brother Scare, never shown on the program schedule. WWCR occupies 7490 until 1500. As for S-S, no show that day or anyday following week (gh, DXLD) Since AW keeps twitting that the WBCQ SuperStation (I call SS, not to be confused with Spanish; make that S-S?) will be back on the air shortly testing its latest frequency assignments, 12120, 15705 and 17735, I keep random checking, but nothing heard yet, nor on 9330: Sept 10 at 2058; Sept 11 at 1658; Sept 12 at 1544. Latest twits of Sept 11 and 10 provide good looks at Allan, and Angela: https://twitter.com/AllanWBCQ Meanwhile, check out this audiovideo from World`s Last Chance, the bison-beastly anti-American nonsense in store for us: https://www.worldslastchance.com/view-video/2849/image-of-the-beast-is-here.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1999, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI RMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI WRMI: ** U S A. Fw: [A-DX] Log: 5800 kHz / WRMI / UTC: 06:02 / SINPO: 24232 / Dat: 31.08.2019 27 27 03.12 N 80 56 18.27 W zoom-in at dimmly at BING maps Antenna ITU type #805, log-periodic horizontal LPH 18/36.5/32.2/16.7/1.4/13.2/200 Horizontal log-periodic antenna vy73 wolfie re WRMI 5800 / 5950 kHz Vergleich, TX 14 + log-per antenna stammen wohl erst von Jeff White in der 'nach-WYFR' Zeit. Bei WRMI Okeechobee FL ist ja vieles auch eine Frage der Richtung. 5950 kHz => 285 degr TX #5 Richtung SoWeUSA / Mexico) 5800 / 5010 kHz => 181 degr TX #14 towards Caribbean, zones 10-12. sehr dunkle images bieten Google und Bing maps 27 27 03.12 N 80 56 18.27 W zoom-in at dimmly at BING maps antenna ITU type #805, log-periodic horizontal LPH 18/36.5/32.2/16.7/1.4/13.2/200 Horizontal log-periodic antenna Designation: LPH N / L / h1 / hN / l1 / lN / Z, where N : number of elements. L : distance between the centres of the shortest and the longest element (m). h1 : height of the shortest element (m). hN : height of the longest element (m). l1 : half-length of the shortest element (m). lN : half-length of the longest element (m). Z : impedance of the antenna internal feeder line (). WRMI Radio Miami International, NW 240th St, Okeechobee, FL 34972 # # # (viel Raum fuer Spekulation um die korrekte Richtung bzw. die Staerke irgendwelcher "Nebenkeulen" - hier in Europa. ) => 181 degr wuerden dann hier: dem XMTR 14 entsprechen. (Roger Thauer-D, A-DX Aug 30) Hallo Roger Re 181 Grad LPH Antenne ganz hinten am Horizont zeigt das Streetview image https://goo.gl/maps/ZkAPGz4r8mYpdJZs5 73 (wolfgang Aug 31, ibid.) 1 File245.3kB WRMI_TXno14_log-periodic horizontal_ITUno805type-request14023_A19.jpg guess more puzzle stones of WRMI likely TX#14 WRMI schedule of 14 x transmitters is unfortunately of July 13 ! 2019. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nEVwCMB9RSKowLzLXamyayVpCzjmPAw_SB1r3YOdzQc/edit?pref=2&pli=1#gid=0 (Wolfgang Bueschel, Sept 10, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Reception of WRMI tx#14 on test frequency in 49mb, Sept.7 from 0450 on 5800 RMI 100 kW / 181 deg to CARI Spanish, weak: https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/reception-of-wrmi-tx14-on-test.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 6-7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) VP, I can`t recognize as Spanish, and then music (gh, DXLD) 5800.013, WRMI new TX#14 and log-periodic horizontal antenna, English religious chorus, at 0628 UT, S=9 local FL groundwave. Frequency much unstable hopping some 4-5 Hertz up and down. Not on air \\ 5010 kHz. Noted on remote SDR at Florida US state from 0615-0651 UT [selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz] (Wolfgang Bueschel, df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Sept 9, WOR iog via DXLD) How do you know this is #14 with LPH. Not on schedules. Has WRMI confirmed this, as from Okeechobee? 14 is the only xmtr sked on 181 antenna at other times on 5010, 22-02 & 11-12/1230. When on, does 5010 also hop around unstably? (Glenn Hauser, WOR iog via DXLD) WRMI 5010 and 5800 have the same data, ADDITIONALLY to the other 13 transmitters, azimuths, see HFCC.com database of Sept 3: New request entry #14023 has CIRAF zones 10-12, power, azimuth 181, antenna type ITU #805; all these and the fq oddity of +13 Hertz reveal a total new unit. all other WRMI outlets are strict even frequency. BUT ask Jeff in Florida, he is always nice in his mailing. That will help us all! 73 wolfie (Wolfgang Bueschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WRMI: Hello Glenn, The VORW Broadcast on 5010 kHz // 5850 kHz is now scheduled from 0100 to 0200 UT Friday, Sunday and Monday (Thursday, Saturday and Sunday local time). For now it's just for the month of September so that weekend slot will probably free back up at the end of the month. No matter what, the longstanding broadcast on 5850 kHz FRI 0100-0200 UT will remain past September. All the best, (John (VORW Radio Int'l), Sept 8, WOR iog via DXLD) Monitored WRMI Sunday Evening / Monday Morning (UTC) 7780 kHz Schedule --- From my recording last Sunday evening, 8-9 September UTC (again, mostly weak to fair signal for the first hour or so; reception improved somewhat later as evening approaches): 2015 Viva Miami (Jeff White reading James Careless's recent article "The Internet's Impact on International Radio"; repeat) 2030 Reserve Military Retirement (special hurricane all-music show) 2100 Wavescan (#549; last week's) 2130 World of Radio (#1998; again, last sentences cut off by transition music) 2200 Voice of the Report of the Week (special broadcast for Bahamas) 2300 Full Gospel Broadcast 2330 Shortwave Radiogram (#116) 0000 Radio Slovakia International in Slovak 0030 Radio Slovakia International in English 0100 Wavescan (#550; this week's) 0130 World of Radio (#1998) 0200 Radio Prague International in English 0230 World of Radio (#1998; last sentence cut off by WRMI ID) 0300 Sign-off (-- Richard Langley, WOR iog via DXLD) OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHER OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW OTHERSW: ** U S A. 5085, Sat Sept 7 at 2330 and later, WTWW-2 sig is not very big, but as also on L&C webcast, just hamstuff, no Theatre Organ in the Ozarx. Now the website says: ``Listen to Bob Heil's Organ Music On WTWW Airs Saturdays 8 pm on 5085!`` But is that very old or very new info? If CDT that would be 0100 UT Sunday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9475 & 5830, Sept 9 at 2035, WTWW-1 is off now and most of the time rather than on with SFAW PPPP (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15825 & 13845, Sept 9 at 1451, WWCRs hitting S9+30 rather than JBA carriers, demonstrating that HF sporadic E is still in play; ham Es map at 1526 shows only one Es spot over Georgia with 82 MHz MUF; and no contacts on 28 MHz. But at 1625 there is a 32 MHz MUF about halfway between Nashville and here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5890, Sept 11 at 0546, WWCR back to its old trix, running S9+40 of dead air, far outside its scheduled hours; while the others: 5935, S9+30 of DGS; 4840, S9+30 of Paul Joseph somebody; 3215, S9+10/20 presumably TOMBS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Reception of World Harvest R International Angel 2 Sept 12 till 0600 9825 HRI 250 kW / 047 deg WeEu English, fair to good signal Wrong frequency announcement: 9830 kHz(B-18), instead of 9825 kHz(A-19), and wrong announcement for next broadcast on 7315 kHz, WHRI not on air at 0600 UT https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/world-harvest-radio-international-angel.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 11-12, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 830, WFNO, Norco, LA – now has calls KGLA in a callsign swap with the co-owned 1540 station licensed to Gretna, LA, both close to New Orleans. In the New Orleans area, the Mississippi flows west to east, rather than the north-south flow over most of its length. It is the Mississippi which generally demarks the boundary for W to the east and K to the west. Norco (now with a “K” prefix) is on the river bank which might be thought of as requiring a W prefix, while Gretna is on the opposite side. Yet Norco is actually west of Gretna! 950, WTLN, Orlando, FL – this religious talk station has used the WTLN callsign since 1998. On 6th August it changed to WDYZ, swapping with the 990 station in the same city, then thirteen days later it changed to WORL. It now carries a conservative talk format “The Answer”. WORL was once (in 1987) on 1270 – see below. WORL was previously on 660 kHz and this station is now assigned the WDYZ call. The religious talk format and callsign formerly on 950 is now WTLN 990. All of the above results from the sale of ex-WORL 660 by Salem to JVC Broadcasting. 1270, WRLZ, Orlando, FL – has done a call-sign swap with sister station 1160, WIWA. Both stations were Radio Luz “La Estación del Pueblo” – their format is now English-language religion with the slogan “The Shepherd” (Sept MW News via DXLD) ** U S A. 860, Sept 12 at 1224-1226 UT, KKOW Pittsburg KS is still playing a polka every morning, with English lyrix, outro as ``--- Be My Sweetheart``. Segment also greets birthdayers, in this case the DJ himself who will take his day off tomorrow (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 870, Sept 7 at 1151 UT I`m up again hoping to ID the Spanish gospel huxtering from the south which seems like it has to be KFJZ Fort Worth, contrary to format listings. There he is; but at 1157, a bit of hymn, no ID and sudden switch to another program, ``Renuevas ---`` algo, with a YL pushing something for $29 which seems to be secular. Phone number frequently edited in with another OM voice, 1-888-366-2340. Reverse phone number uplooking is no fun unless you are prepared to pay unknown websites. Fading down some, meanwhile mostly separable XETAR fading up from 1202 past 1205; see MEXICO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 880, TENNESSEE, WMDB, Nashville, 1056 September 3, 2019. Mexi-tunes, all with heavy accordion backing, "Ranchera 8-80" slogan often. Never inserts legal ID top of hours heard, and obviously not on 2 watts night power at this time (Terry Krueger, Times/dates GMT, Niceville, FL, IC-R75, ICF-7600GR, active loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Re: [nrc-am] 1439.72 WKLV Blackstone, VA --- Here's the audio clip: https://app.box.com/s/yb9g0vbpty0ha0ll50bc0rbqur82si0y ID starts 11 sec. in. Receiver on lower sideband for this (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, South Yarmouth, MA, Sept 3, ABDX yg via DXLD) ** U S A. 1490, Sept 10 at 0625 UT, ``The Entertainer`` by Joplin on piano is just ending as some signal is briefly atop the graveyard jungle/jumble, then ``The Fabulous 1490, KDMO`` YL ID, seems to loop NE/SW before fade. That`s Carthage MO, near Joplin, ENE. Could Scott`s tunes be thematic for Joplinites? Still NOStalgia format. Previously logged here Sept 7, 2017 at 1240 UT. BTW, not to be confused with KDMO, the airport ID in Sedalia MO beyond, which runs beacon DMO on 281 kHz as reported by Harold Frodge, MI. Nor with Sedalia`s 1490 station, KDRO! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. 1539.903, TEXAS, KGBC, 0918 August 28, 2019. Very poor, with Mexi-tunes on peaks, and confirmed it's KGBC per D. Crawford who had it a few days earlier and since on 1539.903. And not to be confused with the still off-channel and variable KBOA Kennett MO on 1539.996-1540.005, this check on the low side with "Too Much, Too Little, Too Late" by Denice Williams & Johnny Mathis (Terry Krueger, Times/dates GMT, Niceville, FL, IC-R75, ICF-7600GR, active loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Luce says KGBC is Spanish religion now (gh) 1539.95 approx., Sept 8 at 0602 UT, LAH against 1540.0 stations such as KXEL. I`ve been noticing this for some time. On MW with all the QRM, it`s harder to measure to three decimal places. In the past this has been KGBC Galveston TX. DF seems to fit, and apparently it is off-minus still or again, as Terry Krueger, now moved to Niceville FL in the Panhandle, has just reported to DXLD: [above] Per 2019/2020 NRC AM Log, which does not deal with offfrequenciness, latest KGBC format is Tejano, U4 2500/250 watts. Beware, so is KEDA San Antonio, Tejano, which I guess refer only to music style. However, música is feminine, so why isn`t it called ``tejana``; machismo [where the ch is not pronounced k!]? Also, is it possible for a station outside Texas to be Tejano? Or e.g. if it play the same style of music from OK, would it be ``Oclajomano``? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re the three 1540s in Texas, after my report of KGBC Galveston off-frequency-minus, Stephen Luce, Houston replies: ``Glenn, KGBC is no longer running the Tejano format, having switched to Spanish language religion a few months ago. During critical hours I have heard KEDA underneath KGBC, so it might be them. "Tejano" refers to Texas Hispanics (particularly south Texas) whose families have lived in the state for many generations. The Tejano music style enjoyed its peak popularity in the 1990's, but has fizzled since then, with little new product being released. There have been attempts to revive it on radio, but the listener demographics skew too old, which is why the format failed on KGBC (not to mention the poor 1540 AM signal in the broader Houston market.) Also, has anyone confirmed what co-channel KZMP in Dallas-Fort Worth is now running following the demise of ESPN Deportes Radio?`` To which Mauno Ritola, Finland, replies: ``Stephen, they have been heard relaying KXYZ 1320, but apparently not all the time? Seems to carry ranchera, just checked, attached. KZMP 1540.mp3`` ID on that is ``La Ranchera 103.7`` --- but in the WTFDA FM DB, not a single Texan of the dozen on 103.7 is Spanish, let alone ranchera, and the local one for The Metroplex would surely be KVIL, still shown as alternative rock. Or were they saying 106.7?? Hard to distinguish in off-air-recording. YES! WTFDA DB already has it: ``KZZA 106.7 MUENSTER TX 75.0 75.0 620.0 620.0 33-26-13 97-29-05 Spanish 548E Title & Artist La Ranchera La Authentica [sic] Musica Mexicana 106.7 FM Rock [sic] RANCHERA LA RANCHERA 106.7 //KZMP 1540`` One might expect Muenster to be speaking German rather than Spanish; a town of 1.5 kilopersons, it`s way out west of Gainesville on the way to Wichita Falls (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1999, O-DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1650 kHz, Sept 6 at 1212 UT, rustic Mexmx and ``1650-AM, cerca de su rancho`` slogans; loops WSW which is just right to minimize 1640-KZLS, and my line noise from N/S. Must be KSVE El Paso TX, 8500/850 watts, new format after defunct ESPN-D (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1650, KSVE, El Paso, TX was ESPN Deportes Radio Network, Spanish sports, now Entravision Radio La Suavecita, old slogan: “ESPN Deportes 1650”, new: “Radio La Suavecita” (IRCA DX Monitor Sept 14, 2019, published Sept 10, via DXLD) Neat, call already matches! ** U S A. Re: ``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.)`` Reported it many times, first I find is the below. Maybe he's not an NRC member? ``1680 LOUISIANA KRJO, Monroe. 0755 August 16, 2018. "Get Down On It" by Kool & the Gang, male "More music... 99.7 MyFM" at 0757, real legal ID at 0801. Slight WOKB co-channel`` (Terry Krueger, FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Maybe it wasn`t picked up by AM Switch to make it `official`? (Glenn to Terry via DXLD) Log would have been reproduced in the NRC bulletin (Terry, ibid.) I send my logs to MWC but it seems they don`t pay much attention to them --- ``U S A. 1680, Oct 11 [2016!] at 0112 UT, ``One great song after another, only on 99.7 – MyFM``. I copied it as 93.7, but translator listed wagging this dog of KRJO Monroe LA, is on 99.7 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` Hello Glenn. Thank you for your message, which picks up on one I posted on the MWC Yahoo Group on 21st August. I am copying this message to MWC Yahoo Group for their information. In fact the change of KRJO was reported in my column the July 2016 MW News where it was written: 1680 KRJO Monroe, LA Classic Hits Adult Contemporary // 99.7 FM K259CU Monroe I can see the report by Terry Kreuger on page 12 of DXN 85-20. I can also see that your report in DXLD was in DXLD 1641. I base my North American News actions on the reported changes in AM Switch and IRCA's Broadcasting Information summaries, along with Dan Sys' Canadian Radio News. I try to keep track on format and slogan changes and (as far as I could tell) the KRJO change had not been so reported, but I can see that in the 2017 NRC AM Logbook KRJO is listed with the My 99.7FM slogan. So it seems that I made a mistake. I apologise profusely. And no, I'm not an NRC member. 73 (/Andrew Brade, MWC, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Andrew - Thanks for the clarification! It’s likely difficult to keep up with all the sources. Sometimes it is for me, for certain. Keep reporting your reception results. Regards, (Terry K., ibid.) ** U S A. I am writing to urge you to support robust federal funding for public broadcasting in the Senate Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies appropriations bill. Our community depends on public media for local information, researched-based children’s educational content, emergency communications, the news, vital insights in culture, history, music; and professional development and workforce training for teachers, veterans, and other job seekers. The federal investment, which amounts to about $1.35 per American and .01 percent of the U.S. budget, makes these services possible. Studies show that there is no replacement for federal funding. I urge you to support the following funding levels: - $495 million in FY 2022 for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which supports the local public service work of my community’s public television and radio stations; - $30 million in FY 2020 for the Ready To Learn program, which provides funding for highly-researched children’s educational content that has been proven to close the achievement gap; - And $20 million in FY 2020 for public media’s interconnection infrastructure program, which serves as the backbone of our nation’s emergency alert system, maintains the connection between our local public broadcasting stations and other stations throughout the country, and maximizes the programming and services available to our community. Without federal funding, local stations could be forced to go off-air or to cut essential programming and services Americans count on. Cutting funding could lead to the loss of emergency notifications and AMBER alerts; broadcast services; cutting-edge educational noncommercial children’s content; local public affairs and news programming; innovative classroom resources; rich, local culture and music genres; and professional development and workforce training for teachers, caregivers, veterans, and other job seekers. These essential services are too valuable to lose. As a constituent who highly values the programming and services of my local stations, I strongly urge you to support full funding for public media in the FY 2020 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies appropriations bill (Form letter sent to US Senators prompted by Protect My Public Media; via DXLD) Why your action is important --- Dear Glenn, Thank you for urging your Senators to support robust public media funding in the Senate Fiscal Year 2020 House Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (Labor-HHS-Ed) appropriations bill. In the coming weeks, we expect congressional action on public media funding. Next week, a small group of Senators will meet to decide the initial federal funding amount for public media as part of their bill. Your outreach will remind your Senators that your stations need federal funding – which amounts to about $1.35 per American – to provide noncommercial programming and services that aren’t available anywhere else. For a full recap on congressional action on federal funding for public media, visit our blog. http://bit.ly/2ZvVHUE You can further support our effort to educate lawmakers on the local value of public media by asking your family and friends to join the Protect My Public Media Action Network. https://protectmypublicmedia.org/spread-the-word/ Every voice counts and you can help add more to our campaign. With your help, we have made significant progress toward our goal of securing public media funding, but we’re not finished, yet. If we continue to work together, we can protect our local stations. Thank for your help, (The Protect My Public Media Team, Sept 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. NPR NEWS CHIEF'S CRITICISM OF RACE COVERAGE SPARKS INTERNAL BACKLASH https://www.wsj.com/articles/npr-news-chiefs-criticism-of-race-coverage-sparks-internal-backlash-11567800095 Top news executive Nancy Barnes said publicly that NPR's coverage of race relations is `more lacking than we realized' Dozens of NPR's 569 newsroom and programming staffers cosigned an email sent to NPR's top news executive saying she failed to recognize the strides they have made in covering racism. Photo: Charles Dharapak / Associated Press By Benjamin Mullin The Wall Street Journal Sept. 6, 2019 4:01 pm ET National Public Radio's news chief is facing an internal backlash over public remarks she made criticizing the network's coverage of race relations. Nancy Barnes, NPR's senior vice president for news, said last week at an industry conference that the network's coverage of race is "more lacking than we realized," according to a report in the nonprofit news service Current. She also lamented a lack of "disciplined, direct coverage of race relations and the culture wars." Ms. Barnes said the network was looking into establishing a beat for that topic. In response, about 85 of NPR's 569 newsroom and programming staffers cosigned an email sent Thursday to Ms. Barnes, who was named NPR's top news executive last year, saying she failed to recognize the strides they have made in covering racism, anti-Semitism and hate-driven violence. "These words travel and not only are they hurtful, they further marginalize people of color in an organization with historic problems of under-representing and/or dismissing the voices, creativity and work of non-white journalists," they wrote in the email, according to a copy reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. "Robust coverage of the issues you want to expand has been alive and well." NPR covers race from a variety of angles on multiple shows and platforms. The network's Code Switch team focuses on race and identity, and race relations are frequently discussed on shows such as "It's Been A Minute" and "Alt.Latino." In a statement, Ms. Barnes apologized for her remarks, saying she regrets that she "didn't speak to what we're already doing and have done in the past" during her remarks at the conference. "In my remarks at a recent public radio conference, I shared some thoughts on how we will tackle critical issues, including race and racism," wrote Ms. Barnes, who most recently served as executive editor of the Houston Chronicle. "What I intended to convey was that I was looking for more resources to augment this important work on a daily basis." The NPR employees asked Ms. Barnes, who is white, to address their concerns in an all-staff town hall meeting. They also called for more diversity in NPR's leadership ranks. In a reply, Ms. Barnes said she was out of the office but would set up a meeting upon her return. "Thank you for sharing your concerns with me; I want you to know that I take them seriously," Ms. Barnes said. Some NPR programming dedicated to diversity-related themes has been curtailed in recent years. "Tell Me More," which was hosted by "All Things Considered" host Michel Martin, was shut down in 2014. NPR's former ombudsman, Edward Schumacher-Matos, wrote in an article at the time that the decision drew backlash from many of the network's listeners. NPR receives a small amount of revenue from the government-funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting, but its largest source of funding is the dues and fees paid to NPR by its many member stations. This week, NPR announced that media veteran John Lansing would succeed Jarl Mohn as the network's chief executive (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) See above ** U S A. “DABL – A NEW LIFESTYLE NETWORK” LAUNCHES TODAY CBS Corporation Sep 09 2019 https://www.cbscorporation.com/dabl-a-new-lifestyle-network-launches-today/ New Digital Network Includes Popular Shows from the Libraries of Household Names Including Martha Stewart, Emeril Lagasse and Cesar Millan SANTA MONICA, Calif. – Sept. 9, 2019 – Dabl, a new multiplatform, advertiser-supported lifestyle network from CBS Television Distribution, launches today and is now available to viewers. Dabl (dab·ble) airs on the digital spectrum of television stations nationwide, including the CBS Television Stations group in many major markets. The network is cleared in over 80% of the country, including all of the top 25 markets. For a complete list of where to watch, go to http://www.dabl.com “We’re thrilled to bring to life a new, free network where viewers can indulge 24/7 in lifestyle content from iconic personalities like Martha Stewart and Emeril Lagasse,” said Steve LoCascio, Chief Operating and Financial Officer of CBS Global Distribution Group. Dabl is the first channel at CBS that is 100% built and operated in the cloud, delivered from the CBS media operations platform that leverages automation and cloud-enabled technology. Dabl’s initial lineup features “The Martha Stewart Show” and “Martha Stewart Living” airing weekdays and weekends respectively, along with “The Essence of Emeril” running every day of the week. These marquee shows are paired with informative, feel-good programming hosted by well-known personalities on topics such as home renovation, DIY and pets. Shows include: Monday-Friday Programs “Cityline” Host Tracy Moore brings her energy and enthusiasm along with her charismatic personality and flair for style to this long-running daytime show for women. She and a team of experts share the latest in home decor, food, entertaining, fashion, health and beauty, engaging, entertaining and informing viewers with topical, daily stories and tips. “Doctor & the Diva” Singer, businesswoman and restaurateur Kimberley Locke and board-certified physician Dr. Steve Salvatore cover the hottest topics and speak honestly about the issues you care about. From celebrity interviews to vital health news to food, fashion, fitness and fun, it’s the best parts of every talk show all in one. “The Essence of Emeril” Add some spice to your kitchen with “The Essence of Emeril.” Emeril Lagasse’s on the set with classic style, bringing Cajun and Creole cuisine from the bayou to the big time with how-to tips and recipes for every occasion, from Sunday brunch to holiday meals to cooking with kids. “The Martha Stewart Show” Martha Stewart, the woman who does everything more beautifully, welcomes newsmakers and celebrities for a daily hour of chat and her trademark how-to tips for cooking, decorating, home projects, crafts, gardening and more. “Sell This House” Host Tanya Memme and designer Roger Hazard travel the country helping homeowners reinvent homes that have been on the market too long. After a hidden camera walk-through with prospective buyers sharing their likes and dislikes, Hazard transforms the home and stages it for another open house. The prospective buyers are brought back to have another look and perhaps make offers on the property. Weekend Programs “Cesar 911” Dog behaviorist Cesar Millan answers emergency calls from communities terrorized by unruly canines. Beckoned by the relatives, friends, neighbors or co-workers of someone whose four-legged menace has turned lives upside down, Cesar starts off with a briefing session, then evaluates both the pets and the owners through impromptu visits. After rehabilitation programs are set up, Cesar uses surveillance cameras to track progress and ensure a lasting solution. The final test comes when all parties gather together in the community: owners equipped with the knowledge and tools Cesar has provided, and dogs ready to prove they did learn new tricks. “Everyday Baking” Chef and baker John Barricelli features easy and delicious recipes for cookies, cakes, pies, tarts, and more. With a focus on the techniques and finishing skills needed to produce beautiful, bakery-quality results for friends and family, John provides an easy-to-understand resource for all baking-related how-to information. “Everyday Food” “Everyday Food” offers quick, easy and practical solutions to the challenges of everyday cooking and includes easy-to-make recipes along with smart tips and kitchen techniques. Hosts John Barricelli, Sarah Carey, Emma Feigenbaum, Anna Last, Allie Lewis, Margot Olshan, and Lucinda Scala Quinn feature recipes designed to take 30 minutes or less to prepare, that can be made in multiple size portions and that use widely available supermarket ingredients. “Find & Design” Many treasures can be found at flea markets and garage sales. Host Jennifer Farrell and the designers help people discover and use these items when making over a room of their house. “Flip This House” Tensions often run high as real estate investors in Charleston, S.C., New Haven, Conn., San Antonio, Los Angeles and Atlanta buy homes, renovate them in record time and then try to sell them for a profit. “Flipping Boston” Following the housing market crash, time is the enemy as flippers race to renovate before prices fall even further. Real estate partners Peter Souhleris and Dave Seymour gamble on a strategy to give them an edge in a tough market: they design high-end, and they flip fast. There’s never a dull moment when Peter’s attention to detail gets in the way of Dave’s need for speed, but the end result shows this duo is at the top of their game. “Flipping San Diego” When the real estate market crashed, Southern California took the hit hard, with home prices dropping and investors running scared. Nevertheless, San Diego real estate investors Chief Denney and Chris Bedgood are buying, rehabbing and selling homes like nobody’s business. They know to make money they have to move faster, work harder and be better than anybody else in town, and with $250,000 invested in each project, there’s no room for error. These two high-octane flippers are determined to renovate San Diego’s neighborhoods by turning abandoned, bat-infested, moldy houses into SoCal dream homes. “In the Kitchen with David” QVC’s resident foodie and best-selling cookbook author shares his enthusiasm for food, fun and everything a home cook needs to create great meals and memories. Join program host (and QVC’s resident foodie) David Venable as he whips up his favorite recipes, cooks with culinary greats and helps you build a better kitchen with innovative appliances, kitchenware and cookbooks. Whether you’re a beginner cook or a seasoned chef, it’s time to get comfortable in the kitchen. It’s one big celebration of great cooking, delicious food and shopping. Come join in the fun! “Martha Stewart Living” Martha Stewart Living teaches the viewer tips on cooking, home-keeping, gardening, crafts and a whole lot more. You will always learn something new, and remember… it’s a good thing! “Pet Project” Join hosts Kevin Frank and Daisy the Boston terrier as they hit the pavement, make a few hydrant stops and let their imaginations take off, all in search of interesting stories about extraordinary animals and the people who love and care for them. “Pick a Puppy” Puppies: they’re cute. They’re precocious. But which one will fit your lifestyle and needs? Come along with host Beverley Mahood on a family’s search for the ideal canine companion as they visit various breeders, owners and animal shelters in an attempt to find the perfect fit. As family members grapple with these heart-tugging choices, they soon discover as much about themselves as the breeds they’re exploring. “San Diego Zoo” Weekly series that explores all types of wild animals and their habitats. For Dabl’s full hour-by-hour schedule, visit http://www.dabl.com About Dabl Dabl (dab·ble) is CBS Television Distribution’s multiplatform, advertiser-supported lifestyle network that will launch on the digital spectrum of television stations nationwide on Sept. 9. Anchored by the CBS Television Stations group, Dabl is cleared in 80% of the country, including all of the top 25 markets. Dabl will feature informative, project-based, feel-good content for viewers to indulge their passions for cooking, home renovation and design, DIY, pets, travel and talk. The network will showcase programming from the libraries of popular, world-renowned lifestyle experts including Martha Stewart and Emeril Lagasse. Dabl is the first channel at CBS that is 100% built and operated in the cloud, delivered from the CBS media operations platform that leverages automation and cloud-enabled technology. For more information and where to watch, go to www.dabl.com. About CBS Television Distribution CBS Television Distribution is the preeminent company in television syndication. CTD produces or distributes 10 first-run series, including the long-running, critically acclaimed hits JUDGE JUDY, DR. PHIL, ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT, WHEEL OF FORTUNE, JEOPARDY!, INSIDE EDITION and RACHAEL RAY, and holds the largest distributed television library at 70,000 hours. CTD’s popular off-network product includes the “CSI,” NCIS and “Star Trek” franchises, as well as classic series such as “Everybody Loves Raymond” and “Frasier.” In addition, CTD handles the domestic television distribution of CBS Television Studios, CBS News and Showtime. The division also handles national barter advertising sales for Debmar-Mercury’s and Fox’s first-run syndicated programming, and operates Dabl, the new multiplatform, advertiser-supported lifestyle network (http://www.dabl.com). CTD is a unit of CBS Corp. For more information, go to http://www.cbstvd.com (via gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1999, DXLD) Affiliate list: https://www.dabl.com/locations includes in OKC: KFOR 4.4 --- the *NBC* station! Yes, there it is adding another subchannel DABL to the previous 3. Looks like in many markets Dabl is not necessarily on the mainstream CBS channel. In Tulsa it`s on the LeSEA station, KWHB, 16.2. From these two examples, it`s clear the list mixes up physical and display channels. KFOR physical is 27, display 4; while KWHB is physical 16, display 47. On Sept 16 looking at the full day`s program schedule, the only one accessible, I see absolutely nothing of interest. Yet another waste of DTV spectrum (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN. Vatican Radio relay visit of Pope Francis in Maputo/Mozambique on Sept.6 from 0830 17635 SMG 250 kW / 165 deg Portuguese SpecialMass weak/fair https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/vatican-radio-relay-visit-of-pope.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** YEMEN. Re: ``NIGERIA. 11769.903, Sept 9 at 2033, VON one of better 25mb signals at this time, S9-S7 but very undermodulated, can`t tell the language but presumably not English. (gh)`` At 2020z on Tuesday Sep 10 the language sounds like Arabic to me and the music sounds more Middle Eastern. At 2029 I twice heard a definite mention of "Nigeria". Mention of "Abuja" at 2036. Another mention of "Nigeria" at 2039. FWIW, the HFCC shows Yemen (site ALH, 100 kw HQ 1/0.3) but nothing from Nigeria. Given the signal is better than the Saudi broadcasts aimed our way with 500 kw, I'm guessing the HFCC is wrong. I don't know if Nigeria supports one side or the other in the Yemeni civil war but perhaps Yemen reserved a frequency and has arranged for the Nigerians to provide the broadcast. Off at 2059z (J Lenamon, Waco, Texas, WOR iog via DXLD) re Yemen site ALH Al Hiswah now ? - Fairy tale from 1001 Nights ... YEMEN Radio txs at Aden Al Hiswah were destroyed in recent fighting. Sept 2003. The WRTHs show 5970, 6005, 6135, 7190 and 11770 kHz being used. All at 100 kW. Last heard on 6005 {then from Sana'a site}, dom6135 and 7190 kHz by Christoph Ratzer-AUT, Bob Hill-USA, Patrick Robic-AUT, Carlos Goncalves-POR, Vlad Titarev-UKR and Rumen Pankov-BUL in 2006. In the 2000-2010 decade heard Sana'a mostly on 9780.v kHz. Domestic 6135 kHz heard by Ron Howard-CA-USA, Bruce Churchill-CA-USA, Dave Kenny-UK, and Ivo in Bulgaria and many others too, in Dec 2013 and June 2014. Inactive since Dec 2014. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< YEMEN All MW & SW transmitters are reported inactive except San'a 711 kHz 0900-1700 UT and 837 kHz 1700-0900 UT (WRTH A-15 Update June 25, 2015) In 2015 the Saudi invasion of Yemen took place, to support Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi. President Hadi, who was deposed by Houthi rebels in 2014 and subsequently fled to Saudi Arabia in March 2015, recently returned to the southern city of Aden to reportedly supervise an offensive against rebels. YEM_ALH_Al-Hiswah_SW site_ITU 12 50 N 45 02 E Shortwave site masts are northerly of the tx hall building, at 12 49 43.39 N 44 54 09.54 E and 12 49 34.39 N 44 54 27.03 E 12 49 36.66 N 44 54 51.40 E a lot of UNID baseplates at 12 49 32.38 N 44 54 17.12 E Aden bombed in civil war North vv South Yemen: former 5970, 6005, 7190, and 11770 kHz site. 100 kW (wb, wwdxc BC-DX Feb 15, 2007) When visiting Yemen a few years ago, I learned that although Al Hiswa is still the location near Aden of a MW outlet, the SW txs there were bombed and destroyed by the North Yemeni Air Force during the War of Unification. Since then the Yemeni SW outlets are ONLY at Sana'a (Maarten Van Delft-HOL, dswci DXW Sept 7, 2005) read on page 18 under NIGERIA: WRTH2019IntRadioSuppl2_A19Schedules.pdf 11769.903 likely Hausa language at 20-21 UT hour, former 9690, left due of REE now there. 73 wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, WOR iog via DXLD) Re: "Domestic 6135 kHz heard by Ron Howard-CA-USA, Bruce Churchill-CA-USA, Dave Kenny-UK, and Ivo in Bulgaria an many others too, in Dec 2013 and June 2014. Inactive since Dec 2014." Yes, it was receivable in 2013-2014 on 6135 kHz. Yemen had a powerful signal on the Israeli SDR located in Central Israel on that frequency in the evening but I were not able to hear Yemen on mediumwave. After 2014 it simply disappeared from that frequency (Tibor Gaal, Budapest, Hungary, Sept 11, ibid.) ** YEMEN. RADIO BECOMES NEW BATTLEFIELD IN YEMEN: Jerusalem Post Interesting story from the Jerusalem Post on the media landscape in Yemen, including Saudi-backed broadcasts on shortwave. https://m.jpost.com/Middle-East/Radio-becomes-new-battlefield-in-Yemen-war-601371 (via Matt Francis, Australia, Sept 12, WOR iog via DXLD) Altho dated Sept 12, this appears to be same story we had weeks ago (gh) There is Hayat FM on 104.7 MHz in Amman. Is this a mixup? (Mauno Ritola, ibid.) Later discussion: probably not, common name (gh) ** ZAMBIA. 5915, R. One/ZNBC1, 0417-0501, Sept 9. In vernacular with phone conversations; 0459, the often heard commercial announcement ("Yes, go ahead caller," "Hello doctor, I need your help," "Yes madam," "Doctor, my ten year old son always catches colds and flu from school," which was a commercial for soap that "fights germs and viruses"); given just before the start of the news in English. Same day, at 1459, via long path, noted mixing badly with CRI (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, antenna: 100' long wire, WOR iog via DXLD) ** ZANZIBAR. TANZANIA, 6015, Zanzibar Broadcasting Corporation, Dole, 0400-0450, 11-09, Swahili, comments. 35433. (Méndez) 11735, Zanzibar Broadcasting Corporation, Dole, 1801-1806, 10-09, English, news. Very weak. 14311 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, Tecsun S-8800, cable antenna, 8 meters, WOR iog via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search: I hear a 1 kHz het on 1000 KTOK OKC, so it`s time to resume hunting. Some editors think this is a waste, insignificant, but I know I am really getting all these signals from multiple countries, even if any audio for a ``definite ID`` is unlikely here in deep North America. Usual method: on R75, 9-kHz steps tuning USB 1 kHz below each channel to detect tell-tale hets of 1000 Hz. This is at 0255-0304 UT Sept 6: 531, 621, 684, 711, 774-, 837, 954, 999, 1098, 1107, 1503, 1566, 1575. 621 stands out strongest, probably Canary Islands. 774 is on the minus side, maybe something local. Often pilot 999 is most likely COPE, Madrid, Spain, by proximity and power 50 kW. Another search at 0538-0544 Sept 6: 549, 567, 621, 711, 747, 774(2), 837, 954, 999, 1107 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also KIRITIMATI UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, Sept 7 at 1153: 747, 774, 828 all from the NW, the Big Three from NHK Japan; no others noted as I am also DXing 10-kHz channels (Glenn Hauser, OK,, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. What station on 927 kHz? What station is it on 927 kHz that is playing the same "interval" signal for hours? On Sep 9 heard between 1750-2040 UT with same tune all time, nothing else (/Hermod Pedersen, Sept 10, MWC yg via DXLD) Hello Hermod, Was it an “Interval signal” or never ending music ? If it was the latter, it was probably one of the Chinese stations. They are use to put “night time filler music” on air. 73, (Guido Schotmans, Belgium, ibid.) Thanks, Guido, guess you`re right. Not much of an interval signal, more of an endless tune. Chinese would fit, they do this on shortwave, which I have noticed earlier. Sent from my mobile (Hermod, ibid.) Italian commercial private/pirate testing on a unassigned (for Italy) block. Northern area. 73 (Andrea Lawendel, Italy, ibid.) Unless a pirate, WRTH shows only 6 stations in Eurafrica/ME; Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Greece, Iran, Turkey --- and 300 watts future-planned from World Music Radio, for København, Denmark (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1349.740, no het on 1350 last local mid-eve a couple of checks, or at my local 2:30 a.m. CT local check. Or at 5:45 a.m. check August 28, 2019. But there about 6 a.m. [11 UT], consistent with when it appeared a couple days ago. Points E/W. Suspect someone daytime or at least powering up to day power. WFNS Blackshear GA with ESPN automated spew mostly dominates in the wee hours here and on-channel (Terry Krueger, Times/dates GMT, Niceville, FL, IC-R75, ICF-7600GR, active loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1439.650, 1136 August 28, 2019. Surely not the same as Bill Whitacre's 1439.771 WKLV Blackstone VA confirmation, as this was logged at 1136 (way too late for VA here). And, it's closer to 1439.65, and loops roughly E/W. Impossible shortly thereafter due to WLWI Montgomery dominating. Zero audio from it (Terry Krueger, Times/dates GMT, Niceville, FL, IC-R75, ICF-7600GR, active loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 5994.5, 1840-1940 UT Sept 6. 2019 Pardinho, Brazil SDR - nonstop music mostly classical, no IDs or breaks. In comparing to the SDR Twente Receiver in the Netherlands I hear only Mali (presumed) in French on 5995; and on the Highland, NY SDR nothing was heard on 5995. No matches found in Dan Ferguson's swskeds data. Went off the air at 1959 without any announcement. Mali (presumed) in French now heard on 5995. BTW, the "Highland, NY" SDR is actually Highland Falls, NY (- Bruce (NY, USA). WOR iog via DXLD) Sept 7, 2019. Possibly the same station noted at 1605-1625 UT, today on about 5994.5. Soft music without any breaks. Again using the Pardinho, Brazil SDR. Not heard on the Twente Netherlands SDR or the Northland Radio, New Zealand SDR. Frequency today actually 5994.95 kHz. On the air now (- Bruce (NY, USA) 1628 Sept 7, ibid.) What are you using to measure the frequency? (Bob Biermann, FL, ibid.) Hi Bob, On the SDRs I tune in using both USB and LSB until I get the best fidelity, sometimes inputting the frequency manually if the +/- buttons don't quite get the best frequency (- Bruce, ibid.) Yes, but with any frequency measuring you need to deal with pinpointing with BFO the carrier, rather than where it sounds best. Was the earlier report of 5994.5 perhaps a mistake, dropping a digit? (gh, DXLD) Honestly, I have to wonder how accurate the frequency readout really is on an SDR unit. I know, for example, at WRMI their frequency generators are PTS (Program Test Sources) units that cost thousands of dollars each, and even have an additional extremely accurate time base to keep all the units in sync. Using some pretty advanced frequency counters the true frequency deviation is just a few cycles off. I can’t imagine that an SDR unit would have such an accurate time base for measurement (Bob Biermann, ibid.) Grayline at 2115 UT: eastern: Cheju Isl, Seoul, Pyongyang western: midst between Azores and Newfoundland/Nova Scotia Canada KOREA REP / MALI Tonight Sept 8 at 2110 UT noted 1 - both in Europe and NE remote SDR's 5995even kHz RTVM Bamako, Mali S=9 at 21.10 UT, and 5995.031 kHz Echo of Hope, Hwaseong, Korea South, S=8 at 21.15 UT. 2 - both in Hiroshima and Tokyo Japan remote SDR's nothing heard from even fq Bamako Mali Africa. 5995.031 kHz Echo of Hope, Hwaseong, Korea South, S=9+35dB powerhouse in Japan, at 21.20 UT. 73 wb (Wolfgang Bueschel, ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED. INTRUDERS UNIDentified in 31mb on September 11 till 0616 on 9635 USB probably in Turkish, fair https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/09/unidentified-intruders-in-31mb-on.html (Ivo Ivanov, SWLDXBulgaria News September 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 12125-USB, 13519-USB, 13788-USB, Sept 8 at 1315 within a minute on bandscan, weak 2-ways in Spanish all here, the last being INTRUDERS into the SWBC band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. [Originally neat typo: UNIFRNYIGIRF]. 12573-USB, Sept 10 at 1338, 2-way in colloquial Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1999: Sorry this was a bit long, I know you have plenty to do! I am just about to listen to World of Radio later this evening or in the morning. I listen online from your website stream. Most products talk to me and read the screen for me. Take care, be safe and thank you for your valuable contribution to shortwave radio. With Best Regards and Wishes, (Glynn Langston, EI1CN and WA5TAQ, Aug 22, with a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com) TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED FUTURELY: Glenn, an early contribution on the occasion of WOR #2000. Thanks for all you do for the hobby (Marie and Jay Novello, Wake Forest NC, with a generous contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com) You'll find a PayPal amount coming to you today from CIDX. While Mickey Delmage was here in Montreal for the Barbecue, we discussed making a few CIDX donations. This donation to you for the all the work you're doing for radio hobbyists around the world. You continue to give your time, effort and dedication to everything you do for so many people around the world. This amount is a small token of our appreciation. Keep up the great work. Thank you for your continued support of CIDX and congratulations on your upcoming milestone broadcast of World of Radio (Sheldon Harvey) FLASHBACK 50 Years Ago – September 6, 1969 issue of “DX Monitor” --- New members included Glenn Hauser (IRCA DX Monitor Sept 14, 2019, published Sept 10, via DXLD) CHUTZPAH DEPARTMENT FROM INDIA, [SIC] Dear sir,Good day, I am listin world verious radio station.so you also send me your radio station all printed matterials,calendar ,latest quiz details your radio station, view cards .your all staff photo with name,you please dont forget to send me verious countries postage stamps for my collection for my philatelly hobby. This much.Thanking you. Your listner. MR.SK.AFZAL HUSAIN HUSAINMANZIL, [address withheld], spam via gh, DXLD) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ LIST OF AM STEREO RADIO STATIONS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AM_stereo_radio_stations?fbclid=IwAR2HIXVKJV_Hk27Ck9NWKS-8jFRfCsu0OsUEAK0n-OyrwZs_quHPFtLxha4 Feel free to make corrections (Kevin Redding, Crump, TN, Sept 4, ABDX yg via DXLD) LIVRO - "O RÁDIO INTERNACIONAL: DAS ONDAS CURTAS À INTERNET" Salve, dexistas! Gostaria de agradecer a todos pelo apoio das últimas semanas e informar abaixo os canais de venda online do livro "O Rádio Internacional: das Ondas Curtas à Internet" (atualizado): Para remessa no território brasileiro: - Editora Leopoldianum: (pagamento por boleto). - Livraria Loyola: https://www.livrarialoyola.com.br/produto/o-radio-internacional-das-ondas-curtas-a-internet-585334 (pagamento por boleto ou cartão). Para remessa para outros países, entre em contato com o autor, Valter Aguiar, por email (valteraguiar@cmg.com.br). Aproveite para curtir a página do livro no Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oradiointernacional. Obrigado! 73s, (Valter Aguiar, Sept 9, radioescutas yg via DXLD) LANGUAGE LESSONS ++++++++++++++++ OUR EDITORIAL CONVENTIONS & STANDARDS In order to reduce clutter and redundancy, as editor I am constantly deleting ``UTC`` and ``kHz`` after numbers which are obviously times or frequencies, but I am not making the situation worse by inserting a notice every time I do it. It would be appreciated if correspondents would avoid this wastage in the first place, after perhaps once making clear that all times are indeed UT (the C being unnecessary too!), and frequencies kHz, u.o.s. Another bad habit to break is attaching UTC and kHz to numbers without a break between them. Also as a convention, no colons or dots in UT times, but yes when local times are cited and specified. Avoid month/day confusion by never citing dates in numbers only! Dates and times should be adjacent to each other, rather than burying the date somewhere else below. As in my personal logs` examples, it`s best to provide info in this order: Country, frequency, time and date, and then details. Always putting the frequency up front will make it less likely to be omitted. Your coöperation will be very much appreciated but I do not threaten to delete info which does not comply (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF HOROLOGY +++++++++++++++++ {IRAN IRDT} called 'Iran Daylight Time' or IRDT. 2019 Fri, March 22, 00:00 LT til Sun, Sept 22, 00:00 LT Daylight Saving Time transitions. The dates of DST transitions in Iran are based on the Solar Hijri calendar, the official calendar of Iran, which is in turn based on the March equinox (Nowruz) as determined by astronomical calculation at the meridian for Iran Standard Time (52.5 degr E or UTC+3.5h). This results in the unusual situation wherein the dates of DST transitions don't fall on the same weekday each year as they do in most other countries. DST starts in Iran at 24:00 on 1 Farvardin, which corresponds to either 20 or 21 March in the Gregorian calendar, depending on the precise timing of the equinox. (This is equivalent to 00:00 on 2 Farvardin, either 21 or 22 March.) Clocks move forward at that time to 01:00 on 2 Farvardin (21 or 22 March). This spring change takes place at the end of the day of Nowruz, which is the Iranian New Year's Day and the most important festival in Iranian culture. DST likewise ends in Iran at 24:00 on 30 Shahrivar, which corresponds to either 20 or 21 September. (Equivalently, at 00:00 on 31 Shahrivar, either 21 or 22 September). Clocks move backward to 23:00 on 30 Shahrivar (20 or 21 September). (BC-DX 8 Sept via DXLD) 93% OF BRITISH COLUMBIANS WANT TO SCRAP CHANGING CLOCKS FOR DAYLIGHT TIME, SURVEY SAYS https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/daylight-time-bc-survey-1.5277374 Desire to stop twice-yearly time change was 'consistent' across province, premier says CBC News·Posted: Sep 10, 2019 9:19 AM PT | Last Updated: September 11 A clock is pictured at Queen Elizabeth Park in Vancouver on Tuesday. The B.C. government launched its online survey asking for feedback about daylight time earlier this year. (Ben Nelms/CBC) More than 93 per cent of British Columbians who responded to a government survey want to do away with changing their clocks twice a year and make daylight time permanent, the province says. A statement Tuesday said the desire for time to be left alone was consistent throughout B.C., with more than 90 per cent of respondents in each of the province's regions throwing support behind the idea. "The people of British Columbia have spoken and their collective voice has come through loudly and clearly," Premier John Horgan wrote in the statement Tuesday. The province launched its online survey asking for feedback about daylight time earlier this year. Most areas of B.C. currently "spring forward" into daylight time in March then "fall back" to standard time in November. If daylight time is kept year-round, meaning no clock changes, sunrise would be later in the winter in B.C. That means it could stay dark until as late as 9 a.m. PT in Vancouver or 9:30 a.m. in northern communities like Prince George. "That extra hour [of light] in the evening, would really make a difference," said Bob Dieno, co-founder of Stop the Time Change in B.C. "When it's dark out, people hibernate and when it's light out, people do things." Dieno has been advocating against the time change for years and said he's happy about the survey response. "It really sends a strong message to the government that we want this stopped," he said. "Let's hope that Premier Horgan does what he says he'll do and puts an end to this." The Vancouver skyline is pictured on May 13, 2016. If daylight time is kept year-round, meaning no clock changes, sunrise would be later in the winter in B.C. (GP Mendoza/CBC) More than 223,000 residents responded to the survey — nearly 12 times the amount of responses the government got for its public consultations on the regulation of cannabis. Three-quarters said health concerns were the driving reasons behind their support for scrapping the clock change. More than half noted the benefits of extra daylight during their evening commutes in winter, while 39 per cent mentioned other safety concerns in their responses. Daylight time consultation clocks record response West Coast alignment Horgan has previously said B.C. would stick to its time-changing ways because the province needs to keep with time in neighbouring jurisdictions. More than half of respondents agreed, saying it was "important" or "very important" that B.C. be aligned with its neighbours when it comes to keeping time. In Alberta, proposed legislation that would have ended daylight time in the province won overwhelming public support in 2017. However, the Alberta legislature shot down the idea this week after an all-party committee said the impact on business would be too onerous. B.C. may feel pressure to stop clock changes after California moves to establish year-round daylight time Saskatchewan has never practised daylight time, having rejected the idea when it first took hold more than 50 years ago. If British Columbia moves to permanent daylight time, as respondents want to do, it means the province won't "fall" back in November while most of the country still will. It would mean B.C. and its neighbour to the east, Alberta, would be on the same time for four months, until Alberta springs forward to return to standard [sic!] time in March. It also means B.C. would only be two hours behind Ontario over the winter, rather than the usual three hours for the rest of the year. Sunset sky above YVR airport in Vancouver. If British Columbia moves to permanent daylight time, as respondents want to do, it means the province won't 'fall' back in November while most of the country still will. (Mike Hillman/CBC) Legislators from the three U.S. states aligned with B.C. — Washington, Oregon and California — proposed bills this year that would end the one-hour time changes from standard time to daylight time in spring, then back again in fall, instead sticking to one time setting year-round. Horgan said in March he sent a letter to the three governors of those states, requesting they share information on the proposed change. Daylight saving [sic thruout] time not going anywhere, author says More than two dozen other U.S. states are considering measures to avoid the twice-yearly clock change. Federal law in the U.S. allows states to opt into standard time permanently — which Hawaii and Arizona have done — but opting out is prohibited and requires congressional action. Horgan said the results of the survey will be incorporated as B.C. moves toward its decision. "This engagement has done exactly as we hoped it would in providing clarity about a preferred direction. The insights generated will be relied upon as we make a final decision about how to move forward," the premier wrote. With files from The Associated Press (via Gerald T Pollard, NC, DXLD) Trouble is they want to stay on advanced, not standard time! (gh) MUSEA +++++ "VOICE OF AMERICA: THE LONG REACH OF SHORTWAVE" - EXHIBITION IN LOS ANGELES Shortwave radio frequencies can actually travel much farther than can higher-frequency waves, which have a max distance of about 40 miles. So during WWII, when the government wanted to broadcast federally-produced programs - what became known as Voice of America - they built some of the largest shortwave radio stations ever made. VOA continued and expanded through the Cold War, growing to a global network broadcast from five powerful shortwave transmitting plants in the USA, and boosted by more than a dozen transmission and relay stations overseas. The facility called VOA Site B is the last of the old Voice of America radio transmission plants in the USA. The others were, essentially, abandoned in place, left as monuments to the power of radio. The story of those buildings and the onetime propaganda network they served is the subject of an exhibition at the always fascinating Center for Land Use Interpretation. When: Through Oct 27 Where: The Center for Land Use Interpretation, 9331 Venice Blvd, Culver City 90232 Tickets: Free. Click http://clui.org/section/voice-america-long-reach-shortwave for more information (via Mike Terry, Sept 10, WOR iog via DXLD) Tnx for the reminder; this was already covered in DXLD 19-31 (gh) Seems to be an interesting "exhibit" but I am really loathe to drive down into the insanity of "Down Below" from my location 150 miles north. Where did "they" get the "40 miles maximum" for "higher frequencies?" Even most FM stations have greater coverage - must be talking about Wi-Fi. Obviously a non-DXer type wrote the intro. I recall long ago when I was invited to do a 20-minute presentation about ELF-VLF "Natural radio" for the Museum of Jurassic Technology (MJT) in Culver City along with Dr. Inan Umran of Stanford VLF Star Labs (At the Masonic Temple Auditorium in January 1999), that the CLUI had an exhibition just next-door to the MJT about VORs! They had lots of photos of various VHF Omnirange Radio-Navaids taken in many places, so I explained how they sounded and what they did more in-detail than what they (at the CLUI) actually were aware of. As such, we DXers/radio-nuts can teach non-radio types a lot, if they're interested. Thanks for the posting, Mike (Steve McGreevy, Keeler, WOR iog via DXLD) 100 YEARS OF RADIO IN GERMANY https://100jahrerundfunk.de/english/ 100 Years of Radio from Koenigs Wusterhausen On December 22nd 1920, something remarkable happened in Koenigs Wusterhausen. For months, engineers have attempted to transmit speech and music using an arc converter in Senderhaus 1 of the Funkerberg (the Koenigs Wusterhausen radio tower). On that Wednesday, they finally succeeded – at 2pm in the afternoon, the radio transmitter went online. “Hello, hello, this is Koenigs Wusterhausen on Wave 2700” – those were the first words of the first radio broadcast from Germany. That broadcast is considered the dawn of radio in Germany. A hundred years later, remarkable events are taking place at the Funkerberg again. 100 years of broadcasting are celebrated for the duration of the year. A hundred years of broadcast can be experienced in the Sender- und Funktechnikmuseum (museum of radio and broadcasting technology). The museum‘s own radio station, welle370, demonstrates medium wave broadcasting on a monthly basis. And each month, the Funkerberg hosts a unique radio-themed event. http://100jahrerundfunk.de/hoehepunkte/ Much has changed in the last 100 years in radio broadcasting. But the fundamentals have remained the same: the transmission of speech and music for the listener. Everything else is left to the imagination of the audience – to this day, that is the magic of radio broadcasting. “Radio from the birthplace of broadcasting” – with this motto, we are inviting stations from around the world to broadcast from the cradle of radio transmission. For this purpose,we will provide a small studio setup, to allow radio program production and transmission to the home studio via internet at any time. Recording can be done with a small amount of studio guests in the room showing the 250.000 watt medium wave transmitter, or with an audience of up to 120 people in the historic “Kultursaal” hall. The history of radio broadcasting is a history of communication. The Museum für Kommunikation Berlin (Berlin museum of communication) is honoring our theme of “100 years of broadcasting” with a special exhibition: The Museum for Communication Berlin will open the exhibition ‘100 years of radio broadcasting’ in September 2020. The exhibition looks at the receivers (and under their hood), presents creators, significant locations of radio history and the radio content that people have been listening to since 1920. It documents a democratic medium and the fractures and disruption that it experienced and survived. The visitors are asked to participate: what does radio mean for you? In September 2021 the exhibition will be shown at the Museum for Communication Frankfurt. 73s (paul gager, vienna, bdxc-news iog via DXLD) DX-PEDITIONS ++++++++++++ The closest I got to piquing my wife's interest in the hobby (twice actually) BOTH happened during our travels. We were having breakfast around a campfire while in the woods one AM and I had Radio Australia on as I made pancakes. She asked 'where is that coming from?'. I said "Radio Australia comes from Australia." with as much patience as I could muster. She said "I mean where is the transmitter?" I said "Australia." She then said something that will live in infamy. "No really, radio waves can't go ALL the way around the world, can they? There must be a 'relay' or something, right?" She actually listened while I told her about multi hop propagation and that yes, radio waves not only go all the way around the world, sometimes you'll get echoes from 'multipath' when the signal takes both the short and long 'great circle' paths to get to you, or even more rarely 'double path' reception when the wave goes past you and then comes around a second time. I had explained some of that before, but I think she finally 'got it' that time because SHE had asked the question! The second time was while driving in Texas. We went through Silver Springs, and I did a quick MW scan. The radio stopped at KSST -- Silver Springs Texas -- with their local 'noon news'. The announcer was a sesqui-hoot! He WHISTLED his Ses! Yes, and he said the station call letters and location a LOT. "K-SSSSSS-SSSSSS-T SSSSSSSilver SSSSSSSprings Texassssssssss. Ssssssssserving Sssssssilver SSSSSSSprings and sssssssssurrounding areassssssss with all the local newsssssssss." I'm not making this up. I almost had to pull over we were all laughing so much, but to this day, I remember one of the news items! An 85 year old woman died when the truck she was changing the oil on fell off the jack and crushed her. Sad, but really -- an 85 year old woman was changing the oil in her pickup? Respect! And not something you're going to hear about on CNN or Fox News -- unless they wanted to comment about her political bumper sticker! I wonder if the S-whistler is still around? He sounded like he was 100 years old then and this was back in the 1990s! Even if your story isn't as 'memorable' as those, share. It's what makes MARE a great club! (Kenneth Vito Zichi, Michigan Area Radio Enthusiasts Tipsheet Sept 6 via DXLD) AT HOME VS. DX-PEDITION Confess to being of mixed feelings about the whole idea of DXpeditions when it comes to MW reception. While I can understand the allure of packing up the car, and driving to the beach, cliff side, or hideaway—stringing up some antennas and recording for hours or a weekend to hear new and exotic stations—it isn’t really how I think about the hobby. For me, part of the challenge (and fun) of the hobby has always been trying to see what you could hear from your house. Your location—not some idea spot. I travel a lot for work—and while it’s fun to scan the dial while in another part of the country—it doesn’t really feel like DXing to me. I’m not even sure I’m comfortable with the idea of driving a few miles away from my house to some RF quiet field and recording with an SDR and a laptop. Sure it beats the frustration of trying to fight the noise at home—but who decides on how far is considered “fair”? Granted it’s a hobby—and to each their own. But I’m more interested in seeing what I can hear in my own backyard. Anyone else troubled by this? It just seems like most of the hobby centers around DXpeditions and remote monitoring these days. 73, (Les Rayburn, N1LF, 121 Mayfair Park, Maylene, AL 35114, EM63nf, nrc-am gg via DXLD) Between SDRs, recordings that are listened to later, global tuners and DXpeditions, the hobby is turning into a station count rather than listening. If I didn't HEAR it, it doesn't count. Most DXers have more stations logged than me, but I have heard more than quite a few of those same people, because I actually listened (Mike D Hawkins, Sept 9, IRCA iog via DXLD) I fell somewhat the same, but it is more about packing, unpacking and setup of equipment for a short period of time. I definitely DX more from home. When I lived in sunny, warm and dry Arizona, I thought nothing of going up to the top of 8000' Mingus Mtn, just a 1/2 hour away. It is a magical place similar to the coast, where the noise fades away and signals are 20-30db stronger. But even there, I didn't view it as 'home' DX and kept a separate folder for it's recordings. And in fact, that is what I do when I go to the coast, back to AZ or somewhere new, I keep the recordings in separate folders. We went to Kauai in 2012 and I still listen to the files on occasion, reminding me of what it would be like to fulltime live/DX there. BTW, did I see that you have a Winradio G33 radio in your collection? If so, a new HDSDR DLL is being tested right now, that offers full span coverage like the Winradio software including scheduled recordings. Regards, (Dave Aichelman, N7NZH, Grants Pass, Oregon, ibid.) For those of you that have never lived or visited a coastal area, there is no substitute for capturing a radio station the breadth of an ocean away. Plus - if you are ever so slightly landlocked away from salt water (13 km in my case) there is no substitute for the raw thrill of a medium wave dial swamped with stations 4 to 11 thousand miles away. Additionally, if you are, like me, foundering in an urban environment where at any moment a neighbour is going to plug into a dime-store wall-wart and completely eliminate your chance of DXing or cancel out the signal grabbing power of your FLAG, Pennant, Long-wire, random-wire, etc -- you, too, will appreciate the aspect of "getting away from it all..." radio listening. Variety is the spice of life -- and so to is "DXing from an alternate location..." My vote: DX from where ever it pleases you. -- (Colin Newell - Editor and creator Coffeecrew.com and DXer.ca - Ham Radio VA7WWV | Twitter @CoffeeCrew | Victoria - B.C. Canada Drake R8 - Flags - VACTROL's - Phasers, ibid.) Most people who do DXpeditions at any distance from their home keep separate logs ( and most formalized DXpeditions keep logs for each trip ) and don't count receptions there with their home DX, so I don't see that as an issue. An annual or semiannual regular DXpedition to some place with good reception ( be it a mountain or a coast ) has been part of the hobby for some time. Purists in the hobby decried the practice of tape recording DX while one slept as some sort of major sin back in the 1950's. Speaking for the one regular DXpedition in which I participate, whatever counts we maintain do not include counting hets or only visible carriers. Many others do the same if they maintain any counts at all. So some of the elements discussed previously in this thread are more perceptions of what happens than reality. I can only DX from home on MW/LW using a Sony 2010 with its inboard antenna because I can't put up an antenna outdoors easily and when I tried the result was increased noise and intermod. So, unlike my previous locations in Northern NJ where I could regularly hear TA's in season, I can't here. That's the attraction of doing a DXpedition to the shore. The better part of that is doing so with a group of fellow DX'ers. But bottom line, this is a hobby, and to each their own (Russ Edmunds, WB2BJH, Blue Bell, PA Grid FN20id, ibid.) Egggssssactly! *Personally* recorded reception (by any means) is of no interest to me because my interest is in hearing the signals from far away (or sending them -- and having them received -- if I'm doing amateur stuff). With the exception of baseball, I really don't care what the content of the communication is! And a lot of what's on AM today is ... objectionable. But if you like listening to the content of the communications - GO FOR IT! :-D -- (Peter Laws | N5UWY | plaws plaws net | Travel by Train! ibid.) As a working person with 5 or more years left in my career, I have found that recording spectrum is pointless because at some point you need time to analyze the data -- And my evenings are pre-reserved for chilling out with my wife after dinner with a glass of wine - and watching a bit of Netflix or listening to some music. Hades will freeze over before I huddle over a computer and listen to TOH announcements on the entire spectrum. That said, each to their own. :-) 73 -- (Colin Newell - Editor and creator Coffeecrew.com and DXer.ca - Ham Radio VA7WWV | Twitter @CoffeeCrew | Victoria - B.C. Canada -- Colin Newell - Victoria B.C. Canada Drake R8 - Flags - VACTROL's - Phasers, ibid.) +1 - To each their own. I, for one, enjoy going to different locations and seeing what can be heard while experimenting with antenna designs. Recording the entire spectrum is not pointless, since one can move quickly through the recording if one knows what they are listening for. Even before I retired and was working, I found that it was energizing to record and review files from the Perseus. Will I ever go through all of the recordings....no, but I can DX at my leisure when the mood strikes me and not be bound to having to drag my sorry butt out of bed at 4 am to try to listen to a Latin American station in real time. Different strokes, for different folks...;-) As others have said, it is only a hobby, not a life philosophy (John Fisher, Ont., ibid.) When I was working full time, the appearance of the SDR-IQ around 2006 and Perseus in 2009 were actually "what the doctor ordered." Prior to that, as October went into November and sunset was way before I left the office, I was leaving a lot of DX on the plate. In rush hour traffic the strong heterodynes on the car radio around 6 p.m. local informed me that two hours earlier I would have been enjoying a TA DX feeding frenzy with far less domestic interference. Even when I got home I wanted dinner with the family, not immediately to run off and be a recluse in the radio room. So the ability to shift a killer 3-5 p.m. EST / 2000-2200 UTC opening to a time later that day or week when I could take a break, sit down, and seriously analyze the DX was a godsend. Same applied to Euro-dawn openings which could be after midnight local. To listen to those live would mean sleep deprivation and reduced efficiency the next work day. Coffee and loud music are great but can't fix everything, as I know well from working second shift and third shift back in the '80s. I'm retired now but still the best conditions can still land during cooking, eating, and family dinner clean up times. 4 to 7 p.m. local is when a lot of the DX action occurs around this part of the country. A person who lives alone might have a little more latitude. Out west I suppose that some can get their best DX in by getting up early and hitting the dials as the sun is coming up, sometimes before departing on the morning commute. My DX is more what I consider a research project of what can be heard, not some kind of contest or ego-booster. I have not attempted to count stations, states, provinces, or countries heard / verified for many years. In the research project paradigm, the use of tools such as spectrum recording is entirely common sense. My intention is to report stuff so that others may have a chance to hear it, whether they are DXing live or not, at home or not. In many cases I have posted audio just as many others also do: something helpful that wasn't part of the hobby 50+ years ago when you had to wait for a paper bulletin. My last 3 or so years logs have been entirely at home. I'm not as big on driving around at night as I used to be. That doesn't mean that I won't go out to not-too-distant beach sites occasionally in the future. Meanwhile here on the Cape, Roy Barstow is out there doing much of the from-car-at-beach listening that I used to do several years ago. Once in a while I'll do some intelligence gathering on remote SDR's to give me clues to stations that have a chance to be heard here at home or at nearby sites. I also like to find out how well my local stations travel (as I did on a trip to Ireland in 1977). Those remote SDR "logs" don't count for anything of course but are just interesting information that sometimes can help solve unIDs just as reading DX tips or posting audio on RealDX for help or listening to station webstreams can be useful. My reports always contain the geographic coordinates and location description where receptions are made. There's no way I'm going to go on an SDR in Holland and claim I heard the DX at home. It has to be coming from an antenna, not a web hook-up. Within reason DX can be what you want it to be, just don't try to confuse others about where you are and how you're doing it (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, South Yarmouth, MA, ibid.) One of the more appealing aspects to this hobby is how it can be tailored to the needs, time and interests of the individual DXer. DXpeditioning is something I have recently revisited. When I was a kid, my family would travel to Greensboro, NC to visit my grandparents. My Grandpa was always willing to let me borrow his little 5 tube Emerson AM radio, which I would position in a covered area with electricity in the back yard where I would DX away. I later received a Grundig Music Boy which accompanied me when our family took vacations to Florida. I suppose those could be considered de facto DXpeditions. Lately I have discovered the magic of TP DXing from Grayland, Hawaii, Rockwork and Kalaloch. What continues to appeal to me is the diversity of stations I receive that are generally not listenable in Colorado. I relish reading the reports of oceanside DXpeditions. The recent reports coming from Japan add a new perspective. I find the reports to be full of possibilities. I am not a contester, nor do I personally worry too much about totals. Those that do, more power to them. I am thankfully retired, but I understand the interest in numerically rating performance. I view that as a carryover from present or former professional life. It's all good. Having fun is the key to me! Whist I expound, kudos to those who organized a great IRCA convention!! The convention was full of great folks, great presentations and two interesting radio station tours. I now have added DX Atlas and HamCap software to my to do list this week. Along with looking at antipode DXing! Thanks Nick! 73 and Best of DX to All, (Craig Barnes, Wheat Ridge, CO, Elad FDM-S2, W and E KAZ, North Superloop, ALA 1530ln, Vactrol, Newell/Misek Phaser, ibid.) I am not big on DXpeditions for myself either. Used to go on them back in the 70s, but if possible I would rather DX from home. But again it is up to the person. We used to have that 35 mile rule, that a DXer could not count a station if heard over 35 miles from your home. I used to hear that back in the 60s/70s. Of course today with so much QRM, many DXers have to out on DXpeditions to hear anything. The first traveling DXer I knew was Richard Wood. He lived in Hawaii, but also lived in the ME. He DXed from all of his locations. I must admit editing the DXWW-West column, his tips were very interesting, like living in Saudi Arabia he was logging 1 KW Indians! Of course that isn't far. He always seem to put of miles on beverages. Had a 4,000 foot one in HI where we was hearing low power Brazilians too. Exotic DX is always fun, but for me I like hearing it from home. I have heard plenty of it through the years too. hi. 73, (Patrick Martin, Seaside OR, ibid.) I use Perseus while in Newfoundland for one week in November. I keep separate records for those receptions, from the receptions at home. I suppose I've heard in the vicinity of 2000 stations from there and about 2500 from home. It will take me the rest of my life to go through all the Perseus files. I QSL my receptions from home, but not from Newfoundland. In practice, I'm reluctant to make many recordings at home, it just adds to the impossibility of getting through them all. Just going through one top of the hour five minute recording might take me a month because I try to be very thorough. My slow approach is not very helpful to any DXers looking for hot tips, unfortunately. Maybe it's a long-term strategy, for when I live in some retirement location, unable to hoist an antenna or travel anywhere, I can still listen to fresh files! The only person I'm competing with is myself. Though it's kind of cool to report that I've heard about 40 stations from India! (Jim Renfrew, Clarendon NY, IRCA iog via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See GUAM; INDIA; KUWAIT; RUSSIA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ [SRI LANKA] DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DAB See IRELAND ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See MEXICO; OKLAHOMA; USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ [ShortwaveRadios] SWL/MW DXing Antennas: Some interesting reviews: https://www.eham.net/reviews/products/88 73 (Jordan Dobrikin, ve7jjd, SW Bulletin 8 Sept via DXLD) A.S. POPOV E GUGLIELMO MARCONI Ciao a tutti. Nel mettere a posto il mio album di QSL radioamatoriali ho ritrovato la cartolina relativa a un QSO con un radioamatore russo datata ottobre 1989. Allora era ancora in vita l'Unione Sovietica e l'attività radioamatoriale era controllata dallo Stato. Non era la prima volta che ricevevo la cartolina allegata con l'immagine del fisico russo Popov con la scritta che lo celebrava come inventore della radio e non mi scandalizzavo come alcuni colleghi radioamatori. Mi sono chiesto se permane ancora questa idea tra i radioamatori russi, ormai decontaminati dall'indottrinamento ideologico. Sono convinto che anche loro si siano persuasi che il vero inventore della radio, riconosciuto internazionalmente, sia Guglielmo Marconi. Navigando in rete, alla ricerca di notizie sui vari diplomi istituiti in memoria di Marconi, ho visitato un sito di un'associazione radiantistica russa che indicava la sezione ARI di Bologna come referente autorevole a rilasciare il diploma "Guglielmo Marconi". Concludo sottolineando l'apporto dato dagli altri scienziati che permise a Marconi di giungere a realizzare un sistema radiante degno di essere chiamato RADIO. Penso che su questo concetto nessuno abbia da obiettare. 73 de (Giovanni Lorenzi, ITALIAN AMATEUR RADIO STATION I T 9 T Z Z, ESCLUSIVAMENTE IN TELEGRAFIA, Sept 11, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) INNOVATIVE FERRITE ANTENNA ARTICLE For the benefit of those who cannot attend the IRCA convention in Seattle, an 8-page article has been written detailing the recent innovations in ferrite antennas, including the latest "supercharged" travel portables and the airport-friendly FSL models demonstrating superior performance on exotic overseas ocean beaches. The article details the four types of antennas offering four levels of ferrite antenna gain, and also four different types of DXing sites offering enhanced propagation for superior results with ferrite antennas. This is the same outline as the speech that will be given at the convention on Saturday, although the article contains additional photos and links https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/kp487ahn3wm3dd7rkb6thvddyt7wixgb For those who can attend the convention on Saturday there will be a chance for "hands-on" daytime DXing with these ferrite antennas in the afternoon (weather permitting), including the 17" diameter Monster FSL (the world's largest, heaviest and costliest :-) Hope to see you there! (Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA), Sept 6, nrc-am gg via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ GEOMAGNETIC INDICES Geomagnetic Summary August 2019 Via Phil Bytheway [IRCA] – Tabulated from online status daily (K = 0000 UTC). Flux A K Space Weather 1 67 8 1 no storms 2 67 4 1 no storms 3 66 3 0 no storms 4 67 4 2 no storms 5 68 35 4 minor, G1 6 68 12 3 no storms 7 68 6 2 no storms 8 69 7 1 no storms 9 67 6 3 no storms 10 67 8 2 no storms 11 68 6 2 no storms 12 67 5 2 no storms 13 67 7 2 no storms 14 67 4 1 no storms 15 67 4 2 no storms 16 68 5 1 no storms 17 68 4 1 no storms 18 68 6 1 no storms 19 68 4 1 no storms 20 67 4 1 no storms 21 67 4 0 no storms 22 66 6 2 no storms 23 67 4 1 no storms 24 66 4 0 no storms 25 66 4 2 no storms 26 67 6 2 no storms 27 66 10 2 no storms 28 66 5 1 no storms 29 66 3 1 no storms 30 67 10 3 no storms 31 66 38 4 moderate, G2 S1 67 45 5 moderate, G2 S2 69 21 3 minor, G1 Sx – Solar Radiation Storm Level / Gx – Geomagnetic Storm Level / Rx – Radio Blackouts Level. (NRC DX News Sept 17, published Sept 10, via DXLD) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2019 Sep 09 0301 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 02 - 08 September 2019 Solar activity was at very low levels. Region 2748 (N14, L=205, class/area Hsx/020 on 02 Sep) was quiet and stable and decayed to plage on 03 Sep. No Earth-directed CMEs were observed. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at very high levels on 02-04 Sep and high levels on 05-08 Sep. Electron flux reached a maximum of 87,900 pfu at 04/1835 UTC. Geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to G1 (minor) storm levels on 02 Sep due to effects from a large, recurrent, positive polarity CH HSS. From 03-06 Sep, quiet to active levels were observed as HSS effects continued. Quiet to unsettled levels were observed from 07-08 Sep. Wind speeds began the period near 750 km/s, but slowly decayed to end the period near 400 km/s. Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 09 September - 05 October 2019 Solar activity is expected to be at very low levels. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at high levels from 09-13 Sep, and again from 27 Sep - 06 Oct due to HSS effects. Normal to moderate levels are expected on 14-26 Sep. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at mostly quiet levels on 09-26 Sep. Isolated unsettled periods are possible on 23, 26 and 30 Sep, and 01-03 Oct. G1 (minor) to G2 (moderate) geomagnetic storm levels are likely on 27-29 Sep due to positive polarity CH HSS effects. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2019 Sep 09 0301 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 2019-09-09 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2019 Sep 09 68 5 2 2019 Sep 10 68 5 2 2019 Sep 11 68 5 2 2019 Sep 12 68 5 2 2019 Sep 13 68 5 2 2019 Sep 14 68 5 2 2019 Sep 15 68 5 2 2019 Sep 16 68 5 2 2019 Sep 17 68 5 2 2019 Sep 18 68 5 2 2019 Sep 19 68 5 2 2019 Sep 20 68 5 2 2019 Sep 21 68 5 2 2019 Sep 22 68 5 2 2019 Sep 23 69 8 3 2019 Sep 24 69 5 2 2019 Sep 25 69 5 2 2019 Sep 26 69 10 3 2019 Sep 27 69 35 6 2019 Sep 28 69 45 6 2019 Sep 29 69 20 5 2019 Sep 30 69 10 4 2019 Oct 01 69 8 3 2019 Oct 02 69 10 4 2019 Oct 03 69 8 3 2019 Oct 04 69 5 2 2019 Oct 05 69 5 2 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1999, DXLD) ###