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Thanks, Glenn SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1367: ** tentative Wed 2200 WBCQ 7415 Wed 2300 WBCQ 18910-CLSB or 17495-CLSB Thu 0600 WRMI 9955** Thu 1430 WRMI 7385 Thu 1500 KAIJ 9480 Fri 0630 WRMI 9955** Fri 1030 KAIJ 5755 Fri 1100 WRMI 9955** Fri 2030 WWCR1 15825 Sat 1630 WWCR3 12160 [confirmed July 14] Sat 2130 WRMI 9955 Sun 0230 WWCR3 5070 Sun 0630 WWCR1 3215 Sun 0800 WRMI 9955 Sun 1500 WRMI 7385 Mon 0300 WBCQ 9330-CLSB Mon 0415 WBCQ 7415 [time varies] Mon 0530 WRMI 9955** Mon 0930 WRMI 9955** Tue 1030 WRMI 9955** Wed 0730 WRMI 9955** WORLD OF RADIO, CONTINENT OF MEDIA, MUNDO RADIAL SCHEDULE: Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html WRN ON DEMAND: http://new.wrn.org/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=24 WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN NOW AVAILABLE: http://www.wrn.org/listeners/stations/podcast.php OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO [also CONTINENT OF MEDIA, MUNDO RADIAL] http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org ** AFGHANISTAN [and non]. No sé si el tema ya fue discutido en esta lista, pero hasta donde sé, R. Solh es formalmente una emisora clandestina que transmite para Afganistán, supuestamente operada por el ejército estadounidense como parte de sus operaciones de propaganda ("PSYOPS"). Por lo tanto no se le conoce dirección y no creo que entregue QSLs, aunque algunos han obtenido QSLs de otras transmisiones Psyops realizadas desde aviones (llamadas "Commando Solo"). La emisión de 17700 kHz supuestamente proviene de Rampisham, UK. Aparentemente hay otra emisora afgana con el mismo o similar nombre que transmite en FM pero no creo que guarde relación con ésta. Las transmsiones de esta R. Solh son una fuente inagotable de música supuestamente afgana, en parte parece pop local, que a nuestros oídos suena exótica. Muy pocas palabras salen de esa emisora. Nunca entendí dónde está la propaganda, salvo que se escuche algo especial pasando los temas al revés o algo así :-) - o que simplemente estén creando una audiencia local para el futuro. En todo caso me han capturado como oyente ocasional :-) :-) 73 (Moisés Knochen, Montevideo, Uruguay, condig list via DXLD) ** ALGERIA. TRANSATLANTIC DX: 890.967 | ALGERIA | Chaine 1, Algiers, JUL 17 0135 - male Arabic vocal, flutes, violins; fair. Noted carrier frequency per "zoomed in" spectrum display span. No problem slicing this away from adjacent 890 WBPS which was about 6 to 10 dB stronger. Receiver: RFSpace SDR-IQ === (Mark Connelly, Billerica, MA, USA (GC= 42.5332 N / 71.2205 W) (= 42 32' N / 71 13' W) (home) 24 km (15 miles) northwest of Boston Antenna: dual-feedline corner-fed terminated loop (15 m horiz. by 5 m vert., base height 1.5 m, east - west axis), NRC-AM via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. Message received from Radio Universitaria. 73s Nick --------------------------------------------- ES DE NOCHE, EL CLIMA AMAZÓNICO ENVUELVE LO QUE SOMOS, LO QUE VIVIMOS. ES LUNES 16 DE JULIO DE 2007, LA ALEGRÍA NOS LLENA POR QUE AQUELLO QUE UNA VEZ SOÑAMOS, HOY SE HACE REALIDAD. QUE TAL AMIGOS, LES ESCRIBIMOS DESDE EL CORAZÓN DE AMÉRICA LATINA, DESDE BOLIVIA, DESDE SU AMAZONÍA, DESDE UNA CIUDAD EN CRECIMIENTO, EN NUESTRO PAÍS LAS PRINCIPALES CAPITALES SON SANTA CRUZ, LA PAZ, COCHABAMBA Y SUCRE, NOSOTROS SOMOS DE PANDO UN DEPARTAMENTO ORIENTAL QUE SE ENCUENTRA EN EL NOROESTE DEL PAÍS, EN UNA ZONA AMAZÓNICA QUE COLINDA CON EL BRASIL Y EL PERÚ. LA RADIO UNIVERSITARIA TIENE UN POCO MÁS DE 4 AÑOS EN EL AIRE Y HACE COMO UN MES VENIMOS PROBANDO LA ONDA CORTA EN LOS 4730 [sic] EN BANDA ANCHA [sic] DE 60 METROS, HA SIDO MUY GRATIFICANTE RECIBIR SUS MAIL, NOS LLENA DE EMOCIÓN SABER QUE LLEGAMOS MÁS ALLÁ DE NUESTRAS FRONTERAS Y QUE PUEDEN APRECIAR EL ARTE DE LA LOCUCIÓN, EL ARTE DE LA PALABRA. LES CONTARÉ QUE NUESTRO EQUIPO ES "SUI GENERIS", PUES EN NUESTRA RADIO TODOS NOS IDENTIFICAMOS CON UN SOBRENOMBRE DE CARICATURAS O PERSONAJES DE CIENCIA FICCIÓN: EL GENIO DEXTER ES EL DIRECTOR, PEDRO PICAPIEDRA ES LOCUTOR Y TÉCNICO, HARRY POTTER ES REPORTERO Y PRODUCTOR Y LOCUTOR, MAFALDA ES LOCUTORA, PÁJARO LOCO ES LOCUTOR Y YO SOY CHARLIE BROWN LOCUTOR Y PRODUCTOR CREATIVO DE LA RADIO. PERTENECEMOS A LA UNIVERSIDAD AMAZÓNICA DE PANDO Y HACEMOS UNA PROGRAMACIÓN VARIADA QUE SE MEZCLA CON LA INFORMACIÓN CIÉNTIFICA, ANIMACIÓN, HUMOR, MUSICALIZACIÓN Y TODA LA COBERTURA A NUESTRA UNIVERSIDAD. DESDE YA LES CONTAREMOS QUE EN NUESTRO ENTORNO NADIE SE HACE RICO HACIENDO RADIO, PERO ESTA PASIÓN NOS ARRASTRA HACE MÁS DE 10 AÑOS Y NUESTRO EQUIPO EN SU MAYORÍA HA SIDO PARTÍCIPE DE LA FUNDACIÓN DE 3 RADIOEMISORAS INCLUYENDO ESTA, QUE GRACIAS A DIOS TIENEN LA ACEPTACIÓN DE LA POBLACIÓN EN GENERAL. HAY MUCHAS COSAS PARA CONTARLES, PERO ANTES QUEREMOS AGRADECERLES POR CONECTARSE CON NOSOTROS, LES ENVIAMOS NUESTRA DIRECCIÓN: RADIO UNIVERSITARIA UNIVERSIDAD AMAZÓNICA DE PANDO TELÉFONO 842 2141 COBIJA - PANDO - BOLIVIA GRACIAS AMIGOS, POR HACER QUE NUESTRO PASO POR EL FABULOSO MUNDO DE LA RADIOLOCUCIÓN SEATAN GRATIFICANTE, CON EL CARIÑO Y EL DESEO DE QUE DIOS ESTE SIEMPRE EN CADA ACTO NUESTRO, ME DESPIDO A NOMBRE DE TODOS LOS "CHICOS DE LA CAMARILLA DE ESTUDIO 97" RADIO UNIVERSITARIA: CHARLIE BROWN (E. DAVID ESQUIVEL ZAMBRANA) CREATIVO DE LA RADIO UNIVERSITARIA (via Nicolás Eramo, DXLD) ** BRAZIL. UM PASSEIO NAS BANDAS COM O SONY ICF-2010 Pessoal, Este período agora de julho, é para mim um dos melhores para recepção sem ruídos atmosféricos. Hoje de manhã aproveitei um pouco do tempo para usar o Sony ICF-2010 e uma antena super KAZ. Um casal perfeito, uma antena silenciosa, capta pouco ruído, e um receptor que dispensa comentários, a Sony acertou em cheio quando projetou este receptor. Fomos conferir em ondas médias o horário também nos 580 kHz dá Rádio Relógio, Rio de Janeiro. A voz feminina do observatório nacional é apagada pela voz do pregador que fala sem dar pausa no momento da hora certa. Antigamente quando era falado a hora, o pessoal da emissora retirava o áudio do locutor e só se ouvia a voz feminina! (Bons tempos aqueles!) Mudamos nossa freqüência para fora da onda média e fomos conferimos sinais harmônicos das emissoras de ondas médias acima de 2000 kHz. Em 2610 kHz às 1330 UT ouvimos o terceiro harmônico da Rádio Sacramento, Sacramento - MG, 870 kHz na freqüência original não consigo ouvi-la neste horário. Em 3040 kHz às 1353 ouvimos o segundo harmônico da Rádio Cultura, Cássia - MG com um sinal muito bom, na sua freqüência fundamental, 1520 é impossivel para mim ouvi-la pois temos a emissora local, Rádio Clube, Itaúna MG. Um pouco acima em 3120, às 1410 já escutamos a cidade de Leopoldina - MG através do segundo harmônico da Rádio Jornal, 1560, em 4680 escutamos também o terceiro harmônico! Já em 4710 às 1530 ouvimos o terceiro harmônico de 1570 da Rádio Socorro, Socorro - SP ID ZYK667. Na sua freqüência fundamental nunca ouvi esta emissora. Ouvir estes harmônicos é muito interessante, captamos emissoras impossíveis de serem ouvidas na freqüência fundamental. E olha que andamos muito pouco no dial, imaginem o que tem de interessante escondido nas diversas bandas do rádio (Wilson Rodrigues, Local das escutas, Zona Rural de Itatiaiuçu - MG, Receptor, Sony ICF - 2010, Antena, super KAZ (70 metros de fio + baluns), July 1, radioescutas via DXLD) Wilson, O Dexismo de harmônicos é uma das áreas mais interessantes do nosso hobby e, ao mesmo tempo, uma das mais ignoradas em nosso país. Espero me dedicar a tais tipos de escutas em um futuro não tão distante. 73 (Ivan Dias - Sorocaba/SP, Membro do DX Clube do Brasil, ibid.) Ditto! ** BRAZIL. BRASIL – A Super Rede Boa Vontade de Rádio, de Porto Alegre (RS), tem sido captada em 9550 e 11895 kHz. Em 6160 kHz, ao que tudo indica, está inativa neste momento, conforme constatação de Édison Bocorny Júnior, de Novo Hamburgo (RS). BRASIL – Por que católicos da Rádio Canção Nova, de Cachoeira Paulista (SP), e pentecostais da Rádio Filadélfia, de Foz do Iguaçu (PR), se engalfinham para serem ouvidos numa mesma freqüência, 6105 kHz, na faixa de 49 metros? Conforme já analisado em coluna anterior, as duas emissoras provocam interferências entre si em diversos horários, principalmente no Sul do Brasil. É algo que deveria ser resolvido rapidamente por uma ou outra emissora, pois são vários os canais vagos e abandonados por outras emissoras brasileiras na faixa de 49 metros. Basta apenas comunicar ao órgão competente a mudança e a sua justificativa. Édison Bocorny Júnior, de Novo Hamburgo (RS), indica várias freqüências abandonadas por outras estações brasileiras em 49 metros: 5980, 6030, 6050 e 6070 kHz. BRASIL – Ficou para o dia 23 o início das operações da Rádio Guarujá Paulista, de Guarujá (SP), com o Sistema Globo de Rádio. Nessa nova fase, a emissora da Baixada Santista terá programação produzida em seus estúdios entre 10h e 13h e das 16h às 20h, no horário oficial de Brasília [13-16 & 19-23 UT]. BRASIL - A Copa América de futebol, disputada em gramados venezuelanos e conquistada pelo Brasil, no domingo (15), serviu para que uma emissora de ondas médias ficasse conhecida além de suas fronteiras. Trata-se da Rádio Paiquerê, de Londrina (PR). A emissora paranaense enviou equipe para cobrir o evento. Com isso, algumas rádios brasileiras entraram em cadeia com ela no momento dos jogos. Foi o caso da Rádio Inconfidência, de Belo Horizonte (MG), e da Rádio Brasil Central, de Goiânia (GO). Assim, usando as freqüências de 6010 kHz da emissora mineira e 4985 e 11815 kHz da Brasil Central, a Paiquerê chegou longe. Em oito de julho, por exemplo, os profissionais da Paiquerê cobriram o jogo entre Brasil e Chile e foram ouvidos pelos canais de ondas curtas das emissoras citadas (Célio Romais, Brasil, Panorama, @tivade DX July 15 via DXLD) ** CZECHIA. MORE THAN 80 ARTISTS OFFER BIDS FOR RFE/RL MONUMENT IN PRAGUE More than 80 artists have offered bids for the planned monument at the new headquarters of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RL/RFE) in Prague, Anna Rausova from the station’s PR department told CTK today, adding that the winner of the competition will be chosen early in the autumn. The monument is to be installed at the station’s new headquarters, whose construction is underway, in May 2008. The RFE/RL is to move to the new headquarters in Prague’s neighbourhood from its current seat in the centre of Prague in August 2008. Rausova said that the station has received a total of 82 monument designs so far. The figure may yet increase as further designs continue arriving by post not only from the Czech Republic but also from the USA and other countries. The organisers must wait until they receive all designs posted before the official deadline of June 29. The moving of the US-financed RFE/RL, which has been seated in the former Czechoslovak Federal Assembly building in the upper part of Prague’s Wenceslas square since 1995, was first considered after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington on September 11, 2001. The search for a new suitable place to host the station took a long time. The new seat started to be constructed at Hagibor last October. The planned monument is to embody the RFE/RL’s basic message - freedom, freedom of speech, openness, togetherness, dignity, strength and goodwill. (Source: CTK)( July 16th, 2007 - 11:13 UTC by Andy, Media Network blog via DXLD) ** DJIBOUTI. 4780, 0341, Radio Djibouti presumed the station with ‘Horn of Africa’ music (similar to VOBME 7090) 4/7 riding over fax/tty QRM but fading by 0400. First time I’ve caught this one longpath as frequency is usually blocked by ute station in our afternoon (Bryan Clark at Mangawhai with AOR7030+ and Alpha Delta Sloper antenna and various 100 metre BOGs to the Americas, July NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** GERMANY. Re. Ismaning (BR site): Please forget my comments about a Telefunken mediumwave transmitter there. What I erroneously identified as such turned at a closer look out to be the Nautel from another angle, carrying a Telefunken plate on this side. Apparently Telefunken delivered Nautel transmitters to customers demanding solid-state units until their own TRAM series was ready. Presumably this way Nautel transmitters were also delivered to other German sites like Mühlacker (576), Berlin-Britz (855; now replaced by a 25 kW TRAM, tho the Nautel could still be around there) and Hof (684, Nautel installed in 1989 for only five years of operation, I wonder where it went to after the closure in September 1994). So apparently the only remaining mediumwave transmitters at Ismaning are this Nautel and the former AFN transmitter (1107), a Continental 317 series, still carrying a large AFRTS sticker and kept by BR as aux for 801. Probably this is the only Continental mediumwave transmitter in Germany and the surrounding countries since IBB Holzkirchen ceased mediumwave operations in 2001 (Kai Ludwig, Germany, July 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HAWAII. PUBLIC NOTICE. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION, 455 12TH STREET, S.W., WASHINGTON, D.C. 20554. News media information 202/418- 0500 Fax-On-Demand 202/418-2830 Released: July 12, 2007 Report No. 403 EXPERIMENTAL ACTIONS The Commission, by its Office of Engineering and Technology, Experimental Licensing Branch, granted the following experimental applications during the period from 5/1/07 to 6/1/07: [the only one of interest concerning HF:] WA2XXL, HAWAII, OCEANOGRAPHY, UNIVERSITY OF, 0483-EX-PL-2006. New experimental on 12100 kHz, 16046 kHz, 16200 and 27300 kHz to fulfill National Science Foundation Contract to map surface ocean currents. Mobile: Hawaiian Island Chain, HI (via DXLD) So more CODAR to swish us (gh, DXLD) ** INDIA. Re 7-083, 10330: ``Bangalore azimuth for this was 335 degrees, also favorable for NAm; I wonder what it is from Khampur (gh)`` Well. This explains it all. I kept silent hoping to see an authorized opinion on this. Vividh Bhartahi (or wasn't it Vivadh Bharati?) used to be heard here in Tiquicia with practically an S=5. We all know propagation conditions have been "at street level" lately, but not to the extreme of no signal from VB. So, I went thinking they had a transmitter failure or something alike. Seems clear, Glenn, Khampur must be using another azimuth, and at 250 kW, chances to hear them are very scarce, to say the least. 73s (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica, July 18, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Usual spelling is Vividh Bharati. WRTH translates that as Entertainment Channel, but surely Bharati refers to ``India``. Trying to get a simple translation via Hindi/English online dixionaries was a frustrating experience. Wikipedia translates as ``Multi-Indian service``. How would our Indian readers translate it? AIR itself describes it but does not translate it: http://www.allindiaradio.org/vb.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL INTERNET. US PUBLIC RADIO STATIONS CAN CONTINUE INTERNET STREAMING FOR NOW WUFT-FM, the public radio station based at the University of Florida, has resumed streaming its air signal over the Internet, but it is conditional because of proposed changes in how radio stations pay royalties. In a statement on its website, WUFT says: “WUFT, along with other public radio stations, has been part of agreements with the organization that represents the music recording industry, RIAA, and its agent for collecting royalties from radio stations, Sound Exchange. Recently, these two groups persuaded the board that oversees copyright matters to significantly increase the royalties paid for Internet presentation of music, and change how radio stations report their Internet listenership. The proposed new reporting requirements are extremely difficult for WUFT-FM and many other stations to meet. Several stations, along with representative groups, have pending litigation in the courts over these changes, and Congress is considering action. As a result, the requirements for stations streaming music over the Internet are unclear and muddled. This resulted in UF’s station temporarily suspending Internet transmission of its air signal. “However, there are ongoing negotiations between National Public Radio, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Sound Exchange, but these talks are confidential. As of Monday, July 16, WUFT was assured by NPR and Sound Exchange that stations can continue current music streaming operations for the next three months as good-faith conversations unfold. Accordingly, WUFT-FM resumed streaming, at least for the time being, and will continue so long as it is possible to do so.” (July 18th, 2007 - 7:48 UTC by Andy, Media Network blog via DXLD) Most of the stations I listen to never suspended their stream so far (gh) ** INTERNATIONAL INTERNET. INTERNET RADIO GETS A REPRIEVE http://money.cnn.com/2007/07/17/technology/internet_radio/ With deadline looming that many feared would shut down Web-based music, two sides reach for a compromise that analysts believe will benefit smaller operators --- By Jeff Cox, CNNMoney.com contributing writer July 17 2007: 2:25 PM EDT NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Black Sunday has come and gone, and Internet radio has managed to live and play for another day. July 15 had been the deadline for a new set of royalty fees to kick in that would have raised rates for some Web-based stations by 300 percent or more. Many stations said they could no longer operate under the new fee structure, and some smaller broadcasters already have shut down. But months of brinkmanship between Internet radio operators and recording industry representatives ended late last week with little more than a whimper as most stations kept running while negotiations progress toward a workable compromise. SoundExchange, the umbrella organization that collects royalty fees for the recording industry, agreed to continue negotiations on the new rates with hopes of reaching a deal that will please everyone. Industry analysts believe the dispute, thought by some to be a potential deathknell for Web broadcasting, or streaming as it is often referred, is cooling off toward a mutually beneficial conclusion. They contend the true endgame could be an effort to target only the largest broadcasters while allowing mom-and-pop operators to continue under the previous and less onerous royalty structure. "It's an interesting situation because SoundExchange has an obligation to maximize the royalties it collects and pays," said Cydney A. Tune, an entertainment and intellectual property lawyer with Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw and Pittman in San Francisco. "But it has to be careful because this is a new venue and new space. If you drive these players out of business, you're not going to be collecting any royalties." Tune said negotiations are the most likely way to end the impasse, as legislation and litigation both look to be ineffective solutions. SoundExchange spokesman Richard Addes confirmed the agency is in negotiations both with smaller operators and officials at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has an offer on the table it hopes is accepted as payment for National Public Radio stations and other nonprofit online broadcasters. He said the proposal on the table with smaller broadcasters - those with less than $1.2 million in annual revenues - would bring back the fees to the level prior to the March decision that raised them. However, large commercial webcasters like Time Warner-owned AOL and Yahoo! are unlikely to get a break. A spokesman for Time Warner, also the parent company of CNNMoney.com, said the company was disappointed in a federal judge's refusal last week to stay the royalty increase but unsure of what impact it will have. "We are talking to small webcasters and representatives of public radio to see if we can reach some kind of acceptable compromise, but everybody else is going to be bound" by the new rates, SoundExchange's Addes said. Addes was quick to brush off any talk of a moratorium on paying the new fees, as was reported in some areas over the past several days. He did note, though, that many operators were weighing their options in the face of the negotiations, and SoundExchange is not aggressively pursuing payment from operators that hadn't submitted their royalty checks. Internet radio operates under a complicated fee structure that, prior to the new rates, charged terrestrial stations .07 cents per song and Web-only stations .14 cents. The new fees raised the rates to .08 cents retroactive to 2006 and escalating to .19 cents by 2010. More significantly, the new rates applied a $500 per station monthly minimum that would sharply escalate after a certain number of plays had been reached. But with a cap proposed for the minimum and movement on the new fee structure for smaller stations, progress has been made. "We're not turning off," said Tim Westergren, CEO of Pandora.com, one of the leading Internet stations. "Obviously we're very eagerly entering a new phase of negotiations. We think something important has happened." Westergren said it was his impression that SoundExchange would not go after royalty payments until after negotiations are completed, but Addes noted that the company has no legal authority to wave off the royalty fees. Tune said operators who don't pay the royalty fees now proceed at their own peril. Should negotiations break down, those in arrears could be charged substantial late fees. The breakthrough between Internet radio and SoundExchange happened Thursday during a session set up by U.S. Rep. Edward J. Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts. Markey, according to those at the meeting, encouraged the two sides to settle the disagreement between themselves or Congress would intervene. That was enough to push both sides closer to a settlement. But Andi Sporkin, vice president for communications at National Public Radio, which would have been hit hard by the fee increases, said more work needs to be done. "NPR and CPB are confident that public radio stations can continue their music streaming operations for the next three months as good faith discussions are ongoing about the structure and amount of the ultimate fee," she said. "At this time, public radio stations will continue music webcasting without changes to their current operations." Trouble began in March when the Copyright Royalty Board, a government agency created to oversee royalty rules, instituted the new fee structure. Changing the $500 monthly minimum was seen as a critical issue in bringing the two sides to the bargaining table. SoundExchange had previously put forth a proposal on per-channel $500 monthly minimums that Internet broadcasters said would cripple their industry. SoundExchange has proposed capping the minimums at $50,000. Since many Web radio operators have dozens if not hundreds of channels, they contend such fees would prove difficult to shoulder. SoundExchange has agreed to cap the minimum per channel as long as operators agreed to provide detailed disclosure of what songs they play and refrain from a practice known as "streamripping," or turning Internet radio performances into permanent audio libraries. Record companies have become increasingly concerned about digital rights management as Internet broadcasting becomes more prevalent (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** IRELAND. IRISH CHURCH BROADCAST INTRUDERS ON 10-METRE BAND In June of last year Ireland's regulator ComReg introduced a Wireless Public Address licensing Scheme. This scheme allows religious and community organisations to be licensed to transmit services or events from their public address systems for the benefit of people in local communities. Two bands of 40 channels each 10 kHz wide between 27.6 and 27.995 MHz were allocated for this purpose. Base station ERP is 0dBW (1 watt AM) or 6dBW (4 watts FM) with a vertically polarised antenna. Many churches throughout the country are using this scheme and if licensed and operating within the terms of the licence these transmissions are legal. However, the Irish Radio Transmitters Society has been notified by the national coordinator of Intruder Watch for the German National Society DARC that transmissions of church services, which seem to be originating from Ireland, have been taking place in the 28 MHz amateur radio band. WAV files have been provided of such transmissions on 28105 kHz. IRTS would ask members to listen out on this frequency and on the lower portion of the 28 MHz band generally at appropriate times for their local areas, particularly on Sundays to see if unauthorised stations in the 10-metre band can be identified. Ground wave propagation would be fairly short at these frequencies so specific identification of stations may be possible from some reference in notices to local events. If you cannot identify the station and you have a beam antenna you could take a bearing on the station, which in conjunction with bearings taken by other stations could help identify the general area from which the transmission originates. If you hear anything worth reporting you should send a report to Thos Caffrey EI2JD the IRTS Intruder Watch coordinator at QTHR or to "thoscaffrey at hotmail dot com" with a copy to Sean Nolan EI7CD at QTHR or to "ei7cd at gofree dot indigo dot ie". The report should include date, time, frequency, possible location of the station if identified, beam heading and other relevant information. If the station is identified from an announcement of local events, details should be given. It is in our own interests to identify these stations to preserve the exclusive nature of the 28 MHz allocation. The matter has already been reported to ComReg who will act on the matter if we can provide locational information. Source: IRTS via Southgate http://www.southgatearc.org/news/july2007/church_broadcasts.htm (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** ISRAEL. Galei Zahal with music and Hebrew talk, some modulation audible this time, July 18 at 1351 on 15786.2 or so (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAMAICA. 700 has reactivated. Identification heard for the Nationwide News Network... Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies. The news network was supposed to be part of some sort of take-over for the AM stations, with future plans to go digital (Bruce Conti, NH via Coastal Roundtable, via July NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** KAZAKHSTAN. KAZAKHSTAN PLANS MAJOR INVESTMENT IN INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING The Culture and Information Ministry of Kazakhstan intends to create a ‘global multi-segment informative broadcasting network’ on the basis of the Kazakhstan Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. Culture and Information Minister of Kazakhstan Yermukhambet Yertysbayev made this public today during the regular session of the Government of Kazakhstan in Astana. The main purpose of the project is to create the largest information agency like Reuters or BBC [sic] with ‘the additional thematic channels of the international broadcasting’. Realization of the project requires about US$500 million. The Minister also announced that Kazakhstan is developing a program for the transition to digital TV and radio broadcasting, and a preliminary cost estimate of the project is US$1 billion. The Minister added that every digital TV station of Kazakhstan will get an opportunity to extend its broadcasting territory (Source: Kazinform) (July 17th, 2007 - 16:03 UTC by Andy, Media Network blog via DXLD) The Kazinform site http://www.inform.kz is an interesting one. You can chose not only between Kazakh, Russian and English versions of the texts, the site also offers the Kazakh version in both a Cyrillic and Latin script. In October 2006, Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbaev announced that he would like the Cyrillic script for Kazakh to be exchanged with a Latin one, like other Central Asian countries already did (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan). (Bernd Trutenau, Lithuania, July 18, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KAZAKHSTAN. KAZAKHSTAN ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR GLOBAL BROADCASTING NETWORK | Text of report in English by Kazakh news agency Kazinform Culture and Information Ministry of Kazakhstan intends to create a global multi-segment informative broadcasting network on the basis of the Kazakhstan television and radio broadcasting company. Culture and Information Minister of Kazakhstan Yermukhamet Yertysbayev made it public today during the regular session of the Government of Kazakhstan in Astana. The main purpose of the project is to create the largest information agency like Reuters or BBC with the additional thematic channels of the international broadcasting. Realization of the project requires about 500m US dollars. Source: Kazinform, Astana, in English 1300 gmt 17 Jul 07 (via BBCM via DXLD) ** LIBERIA [non]. 9525, Star Radio via Ascension, 0725-0730, July 18, they have indeed returned to the air after their move to new offices. Heard with interview regarding human rights, drums, "That ends todays edition of Liberia Today", into Cotton Tree News (CTN) programming. Per the Star Radio website: The Management of the independent Star Radio says it remains resolved to continue serving its listeners in the most professional manner. The Manager of Star Radio however called for financial and logistical support to help the station achieve its goals. Mr. James Morlu clarified that star radio's request for assistance should not be misconstrued. He said the station's editorial policy does not allow any interference in its broadcast activities. Mr. Morlu was speaking Monday [July 16] at the formal dedication ceremony of the station from Mamba Point to its new offices on Broad Street (Ron Howard, Monterey, CA, Etón E5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also SIERRA LEONE [non] ** MALAYSIA [and non]. 6049.63, RT Malaysia, 1122-1129 July 17. The carrier for RTM was audible since 1058, but no audio faded in until 1122. At that time, a female was noted in comments briefly. She was followed with music. At 1129, Radio Nederland on 6050 tuned up and RTM was blocked completely where previously it had been just threshold. (Chuck Bolland, Clewiston FL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Chuck, Nederland? They are not scheduled on this frequency. At 1130 HCJB is supposedly switching from Cofan to Spanish, but you were not getting any HCJB QRM before 1130? Or could HCJB be relaying RN at 1130? 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** NEW ZEALAND [non]. RNZI PACIFIC ISLAND TECHNICAL REPRESENTATIVES Are you living in Rarotonga, Apia, Nuku’alofa, Port Vila or Honiara? RNZI is looking for someone with a technical background - e.g. a ham radio operator or someone who may have worked for a teleco - to represent RNZI in these locations. Ongoing work will include monitoring RNZI DRM transmissions. Occasional work, as requested by RNZI, will include liaising with local radio stations which relay RNZI and providing technical assistance to them (e.g. antenna maintenance to maintain good quality reception to enable RNZI programme relay on local radio stations). Remuneration will based upon actual work required in each location. If this sounds likes you, please write to: The Manager, Radio New Zealand International, P O Box 123, Wellington, New Zealand or email linden.clark @ radionz.co.nz (advert in July NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** OKINAWA. Some further research about VOA Ismaning brought up the cause of VOA having to shut down its Okinawa facilities in 1977 (article VIII there): http://www.niraikanai.wwma.net/pages/archive/rev71.html Obviously no agreement on continuing the transmissions beyond this five year period could be achieved. VOA Okinawa was, besides the modest shortwave facilities, of course famous for the 1000 kW mediumwave transmitter on 1178, frequently heard also in Europe when co-channel Hörby was off. As already discussed a couple of times this was one of only four Continental 105B transmitters ever built, the others being Poro, in use as recently as in 2005 during the relocation of the facilities, Thailand (replaced by a new Harris and cannibalized for spare parts to keep the Poro unit alive) and, here modified for longwave of course, Erching near Munich (replaced by new Aholming site in 1988). See also http://www.worldofradio.com/dxld3076.txt (Kai Ludwig, Germany, July 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST) During this period Okinawa, or rather Ryukyu Islands, were politically separate from Japan, not just for radio purposes, necessitating the reversion agreement linked above (gh, DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. SAVING GRACE --- TV series set in OKC about to début: http://www.tnt.tv/series/savinggrace/ On TNT, From UT Tuesday July 24 at 0200 From zap2it.com: Premise Oklahoma City Police Detective Grace Hanadarko has an angel on her shoulder -- and boy, is she peeved about it. Since making it through devastating tragedy in her life, including the horrifying 1995 bombing by Timothy McVeigh, Grace lives life on the edge. She's brilliant in her job, but makes very bad mistakes with her men, including the torrid affair she currently is having with her married partner, Detective Ham Dewey. One night, driving far too fast after far too many drinks, Grace sideswipes a pedestrian. Crawling shakily from her car, Grace gasps out a plea for help, a cry that is answered by Earl, her tobacco-chewing "last chance angel." He promises to try to help Grace, but her hard-edged cynicism makes it difficult for her to believe Earl is real, even after she meets a death row inmate who has shared her visions of the angel. Only Rhetta Rodríguez, a criminalist with strong religious convictions, is convinced Grace has somehow stumbled into a state of, well, grace with the Man Upstairs. Long, long thread about this began last year: http://www.okctalk.com/okc-metro-area-talk/7595-okc-starring-tnts-grace.html Another detective show with supernatural overtones, starring Holly Hunter. It is revealed that the series is shot in --- where else? Vancouver; but Citians, or should I say Metronites? figure that could only do wonders for the OK city`s image. And leading to some trailers: http://youtube.com/watch?v=oNG-hpZglGU http://www.tnt.tv/dramavision/?oid=30449 Next to the latter is a music video version, which has only a brief shot of something definitely in OKC; both feature a sidetrip to the Canned Granyon. In(?)-joxe are naming some characters after OK towns starting with the `eroine, (H)anadarko; also Ada, Stillwater, Dewey, Yukon. Can`t wait for Enid!! The TNT site also has a forum going, and lots of buzz already (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. This is a follow-up to the item in DXLD 7-082 about experimental station WE2XFZ, recently licensed by the FCC for a two-year period. It`s on a Navy contract amounting to 28 megadollars, no small change. As revealed in the FCC filing on Form 442, Wayne G. Walker, PhD, is in fact CEO of Republic Aerospace Corp., HQ in Duncan, southern OK. CV of him and other team: http://www.republicaerospace.com/team.htm Home page of Republic, in which they mention they do military work: http://www.republicaerospace.com/index2.html Whether Republic is directly involved in this project is not clear, as Walker is acting as a consultant for it. Other pertinent data from Form 442, skipping over repetitive or n/a items: FCC FORM 442 - FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION APPLICATION FOR NEW OR MODIFIED RADIO STATION UNDER PART 5 OF FCC RULES - EXPERIMENTAL RADIO SERVICE (OTHER THAN BROADCAST) Approved by OMB 3060 - 0065 Expires 09/30/98 [sic; 2098y?] Applicant's Name (company): OSU-University Multispectral Laboratories, LLC File No.: 0029-EX-PL-2007 Callsign: WE2XFZ Government Contract Is this authorization to be used for fulfilling the requirement of a government contract with an agency of the United States Government? If "YES", include as an exhibit a narrative statement describing the government project, agency and contract number. Yes Manufacturer List below transmitting equipment to be installed (if experimental, so state): Manufacturer Model Number No. Of Units Experimental LPB Communications, Inc. 2.5KW AM Bcst Txt 1 No LPB Communications, Inc. 10 kW AM Bdcst Txt 1 No Energy Onix 1 kW FM TS 30S 2 No EMCEE Communications TTV 1000EGG 2 No EMCEE Communications TTU 100CQ 2 No Station ID Is the equipment listed in Item 10 capable of station identification pursuant to Section 5.115? Yes Station Location City State : Chilocco Oklahoma Latitude : North 36 56 14 Longitude : West 97 4 17 Mobile : Chilocco (KAY), OK Street (or other indication of location) : Abandoned Indian School Water Tower County : KAY Radius of Operation : 3.00 Datum: NAD 83 Is a directional antenna (other than radar) used? No Will the antenna extend more than 6 meters above the ground, or if mounted on an existing building, will it extend more than 6 meters above the building, or will the proposed antenna be mounted on an existing structure other than a building? Yes (a) Overall height above ground to tip of antenna in meters: 50.00 (b) Elevation of ground at antenna site above mean sea level in meters: 348.00 (c) Distance to nearest aircraft landing area in kilometers: 20.40 (d) List any natural formations of existing man-made structures (hills, trees, water tanks, towers, etc.) which, in the opinion of the applicant, would tend to shield the antenna from aircraft: Abandoned 120 foot water tower, trees and numerous buildings in the Chilocco Indian School community Frequencies granted in OK: 540, 830, 1680 kHz, 92.3, 99.1, 107.5 MHz, [details as previously published] City State : Flying H New Mexico Latitude : North 33 0 8 Longitude : West 105 2 54 Mobile : Flying H (OTERO), NM Street (or other indication of location) : Scotty Canyon, Felix Canyon Road County : OTERO Radius of Operation : 5.00 Datum: NAD 83 Is a directional antenna (other than radar) used? No Will the antenna extend more than 6 meters above the ground, or if mounted on an existing building, will it extend more than 6 meters above the building, or will the proposed antenna be mounted on an existing structure other than a building? Yes (a) Overall height above ground to tip of antenna in meters: 50.00 (b) Elevation of ground at antenna site above mean sea level in meters: 1503.00 (c) Distance to nearest aircraft landing area in kilometers: 8.00 (d) List any natural formations of existing man-made structures (hills, trees, water tanks, towers, etc.) which, in the opinion of the applicant, would tend to shield the antenna from aircraft: This location is in a river bed area surrounded by hills in all directions. Also, this location is actually in Chávez county. However, the FCC database does not recognize Chávez county. Roswell, NM is in Chávez county as is this remote ranch site. Frequencies granted in NM: 530, 950, 1680 kHz, 88.3, 97.7, 107.3 MHz, details as previously published The original application on another Form 442 is similar except the frequencies requested were different. Presumably, the FCC found interference problems with them; some fixed, some mobile or both: Chilocco OK: 710, 720, 820, 830, 840 1620; 89.3, 90.3, 104.9, 106.7 Flying H NM: 560, 590, 1620, 1630, 1670, 1680, 1690; 88.3, 89.3, 89.7, 92.5, 95.3 NOTE: The above frequencies, were applied for but not granted, except as noted. One of the attachments in the FCC filings is slightly more revealing: ``In anticipation of this contract award, SPAWAR Charleston has let four separate purchase order contracts to initiate test activities... These FCC licenses are necessary for work planned by the Program Executive officer - Intelligence and Information Systems (PEO IIS) directorate and the Program Manager, PSYOP divison at USSOCOM. The RF testing work will be performed under contract N65236-07-D-7878 requested under these licenses.`` The following attachment is on the letterhead of the OSU Multi- spectral Laboratory, which against mentions SHORTWAVE as well as TV: May 10, 2007 Mr. James Burtle FCC OET/ELS Washington, D.C. Re: Request for Expedited Review for 0029-EX-PL-2007 and error correction Dear Mr. Burtle On behalf of The United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), the Oklahoma State University Multi-spectral Laboratory (OSU-UML) has immediate need for review of our applications for licenses for experimental broadcasts in the commercial AM, FM, TV and SW frequency bands, which are pending with your office. USSOCOM has tasked NAVAIR Special Requirements Communications (SCR) division with the design, integration, and testing of the Special Operations Media Broadcast System B (SOMS-B) and the Flyaway Broadcast System (FABS). In turn, NAVAIR SCR has asked OSU-UML to seek licenses necessary to execute test and training activities in direct support of USSOCOM. Integration of the systems has recently been completed by NAVAIR and broadcast authorization is immediately required at the Chilocco, OK and Flying H, NM locations described in the applications listed below to support technical testing, training of military operators and the operational testing of the systems. In February, OSU-UML requested experimental licenses for the required locations, frequency ranges and emission characteristics needed for testing the AM, FM and TV systems. At that time, we anticipated the FCC experimental licenses would be issued in the May 2007 time frame, as the need for testing commencement was projected for May. Once the testing and training is actually completed, the systems will be delivered to USSOCOM for deployment in support of ongoing operations associated with Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraq Freedom (OIF), and further required operations. Recently, we have learned from Nancy Hey that our applications are unfortunately only at number 77 in the serial sequence of application review by Mr. Kennedy. Because of the operational demands of USSOCOM, we hereby request expedited priority on the following FCC applications for experimental licenses which were filed on February 20: - 0029-ex-pl-2007 - 0072-ex-pl-2007 - 0062-ex-pl-2007 In addition, subsequent to the initial filing we received additional information for the customer’s need to test in the short wave bands and on April 18 filed the required experimental license application. If the request above can be granted, we also request expedited review of that application, 0196-ex-pl-2007. Our NAVAIR government point of contact is Mr. Dave Borman, SCRD PSYOP Team Lead NAWCAD 4.5.11.3 Bldg 8185 Villa Road St. Inigoes, MD 20684- 0010 DSN: 995-8411, COM: (301) 995-8411, Fax: 301-995-8906 NMCI E- mail: david.borman @ navy.mil Please feel free to contact Mr. Borman regarding this request. Thank you very much for your consideration of this request. Kind regards, Wayne Walker, Consultant to OSU-UML PS: Please note that the figure for the “Elevation of Ground at Antenna Site” was erroneously given in feet rather than meters. The answer for Chilocco, OK should be 348 meters and for Flying H, NM should be 1504 meters A p p l i e d M a r i n e T e c h n o l o g y , I n c . [above line is the footer on the OSU UML letterhead] Dated May 16, 2007, SW again mentioned but no details: FCC Form 442 Attachment explaining test modes OSU-UML is applying for AM/FM, TV, and SW experimental licenses under the following applications: 0029-ex-pl-2007 0062- “ “ 0072- “ “ 0196- “ “ USSOCOM experimental RF testing using these FCC licenses consists of two types of Tests: 1. System Level Integration: - 1 kHz tone or licensed audio for 5-10 minutes - Remote teams are measuring mV strength at 25 miles 2. Operational Tests: - Authorized audio/video material for short periods - Remote teams are measuring fidelity and quality In both cases, operators are in constant contact with remote teams. They are also monitoring for potential interference. During all tests, any reports of interference trigger an immediate cessation of emissions by the government testing operators. These tests are conducted under CFR 47, Part 5, section 5.202 (b) (g) (h) and (k). [end of data from FCC] From all this it is pretty clear that this license has nothing to do with ``multispectral sensing``, but in fact with another PsyOp affair, mobile, aeronautical broadcasting to an invaded area within AM and FM broadcast bands; TV and SW too, but we have found no details about TV. Keep your ears on these frequencies for possible otherwise unexplained tone tests as were heard from Virginia last year on 1610, 1020, 590 kHz. It`s the same setup on MW, as before, with three frequencies, at bottom, middle and top of band, likewise on FM which of course would normally be much less noticeable at much shorter range from the remote test sites. Since 0196-ex-pl-2007 above is the application pertaining to SW, we searched on that and found it here: NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION STATUS OF NON-FEDERAL LICENSES BEING COORDINATED VIA THE IRAC http://pagebang.com/cgi/nph-proxy.cgi/111011A/http/ntiacsd.ntia.doc.gov/webcoord/status.cfm ACCEPT - Action accepted by NTIA, the applicant should receive notification from the FCC after they have completed their licensing review process. TABLE - Information or compatibility issues have been identified. The FCC will undertake discussions with appropriate parties to resolve the issues. INCOMP and RTNINC - The application is still within the NTIA 9 day review cycle. REJECT - Action has been withdrawn by the FCC at this point. FCC File # | Serial # | Decision | Date In | Last Action | Freq | Call 0196-EX-PL-2007 NG 074702 ACCEPT May 25 2007 Jun 18 2007 4010. WE2XEV 0196-EX-PL-2007 NG 074703 ACCEPT May 25 2007 Jun 18 2007 4080. WE2XEV 0196-EX-PL-2007 NG 074704 ACCEPT May 25 2007 Jun 18 2007 12110. WE2XEV 0196-EX-PL-2007 NG 074705 ACCEPT May 25 2007 Jun 18 2007 12180. WE2XEV 0196-EX-PL-2007 NG 074706 ACCEPT May 25 2007 Jun 18 2007 22010. WE2XEV 0196-EX-PL-2007 NG 074707 ACCEPT May 25 2007 Jun 18 2007 22080. WE2XEV 0196-EX-PL-2007 NG 074708 ACCEPT May 25 2007 Jun 18 2007 26110. WE2XEV 0196-EX-PL-2007 NG 074709 ACCEPT May 25 2007 Jun 18 2007 26180. WE2XEV 0196-EX-PL-2007 NG 074710 INCOMP May 25 2007 Jul 10 2007 12410. WE2XEV 0196-EX-PL-2007 NG 074711 INCOMP May 25 2007 Jul 10 2007 12480. WE2XEV 0196-EX-PL-2007 NG 074712 INCOMP May 25 2007 Jul 10 2007 4010. WE2XEV 0196-EX-PL-2007 NG 074713 INCOMP May 25 2007 Jul 10 2007 4080. WE2XEV 0196-EX-PL-2007 NG 074714 INCOMP May 25 2007 Jul 10 2007 12110. WE2XEV 0196-EX-PL-2007 NG 074715 INCOMP May 25 2007 Jul 10 2007 12180. WE2XEV 0196-EX-PL-2007 NG 074716 INCOMP May 25 2007 Jul 10 2007 12410. WE2XEV 0196-EX-PL-2007 NG 074717 INCOMP May 25 2007 Jul 10 2007 12480. WE2XEV 0196-EX-PL-2007 NG 074718 INCOMP May 25 2007 Jul 10 2007 22010. WE2XEV 0196-EX-PL-2007 NG 074719 INCOMP May 25 2007 Jul 10 2007 22080. WE2XEV 0196-EX-PL-2007 NG 074720 INCOMP May 25 2007 Jul 10 2007 26110. WE2XEV 0196-EX-PL-2007 NG 074721 INCOMP May 25 2007 Jul 10 2007 26180. WE2XEV That gives us the SW frequencies and another callsign applying to all of them. Back to FCC to search on WE2XEV and we find similar information for Chilocco OK and Flying H NM, each with the same list of frequencies, modes USB, LSB and AME, all 1 kilowatt. The frequencies above are actually the bottom edge of a 10-kHz band, so expressing the frequencies by the center, they would be: 4015, 4085, 12115, 12185, 12415, 12485, 22015, 22085, 26115, 26185 kHz But as of July 18, 12415 and 12485 had not been accepted by NTIA (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAINT HELENA. Radio St. Helena, 11092.5 USB, heard here at 1900 sign on with announcement by man, "This is Radio St. Helena". Poor signal her this afternoon, though with two hours tentatively scheduled it may improve. I received a very quick email back from Laura Lawrence after I inquired about antenna direction: "Antenna pointing towards Europe at the moment 014 bearing. Thanks for your report". They really dropped down into the mud here at 2000. Either an antenna direction change or propagation died (Steve Lare, Holland, MI, USA, July 17, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hello DXers, did anyone manage to catch R. St. Helena. It's 1915 UT and I tried 11092.5 in Cairo, Egypt, but no luck so far. Maybe within the next hour or so. All the best from Cairo (Tarek Zeidan, ibid.) Also Audible here on 11092.46 with pops and numerous IDs after each song, S3 I3 O3, slight occasional QRM from utility (Ray Browell, Blackpool UK, ibid.) Fair to good - 35333 Repeated announcements "This is test transmission on SW`` followed by frequency & e-mail ID announcements by male announcer. Regards, (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, India, ibid.) Recibiendo Radio St. Helena, 11092.50 USB, desde las 1910 UT con SINPO 45333 (José Bueno, Córdoba, España, ibid.) Glen[n], Saint Helena received in London at 1930 playing sixties pop music at reasonable signal strength considering the QRM. Equipment JRC 545, ATU + Long Wire 73s (Colin Ember, UK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17/7/07, Fellow SWLs, Saint Helena Received here in London at 1930 on 11092.5 USB playing sixties pop music with male DJ, reasonable sig strength despite the QRM. 73s (Colin Ember, HCDX via DXLD) Same here, Colin. Reception was fair in South Holland for the first hour. Plenty of IDs and as you say 60's music. I too suffered a fair amount of QRM and the signal disappeared under the noise after 2000. Nice to get it though. My first logging of it since the Coorong in South Australia back in the 90's. I always seem to forget it's on. Dave (David Onley, Rijswijk ZH, The Netherlands, ibid.) Amigos, Radio Sta. Helena, 11092.5 kHz, SIO 444, 17/07/07, UT 1927, ID, anuncio de locutora, música oldies años 60´ 70´. 73 (Enrique Wembagher, Argentina, Icom R75 + mfj1045c / T2FD, ibid.) No te perdes nada en estos momentos por 11092.55 1947 UT están pasando música, señal muy baja pero audible (Nicolás Eramo, Argentina, condig list via DXLD) Intenté escucharla aquí en la Cd. de México pero lo único que logré recibir fué un ruido, utilicé varios radios y antenas y no lo logré. Espero mejor suerte, (Julián Santiago Díez de Bonilla, DF, condig list via DXLD) I was busy with WOR 1367, but turned everything off around 2030 UT, heard nothing but the ute weakly on 11090; tried multiple combinations of receivers and antennas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio St Helena, begint sterk op 11092.50 kHz, 1900 UT met mooie popmuziek Mvg. (Maurits van Driessche, Belgium, BDX via DXLD) Uitstekende ontvangst nu van de testuitzending van Radio Saint Helena op 11092.5 kHz. SINPO 45433 tot 55444. De audio is wel een beetje 'muffled'. Groeten, (Herman Boel, ibid.) Hier nu (1928 UT) een mooie S= 9 op de meter met muziek van Mungo Jerry "In the summertime" 73 (Hugo Matten, ibid.) Have given it away at 2000 as it has started to fade. Too much local QRM. Modulation a bit muffled. Not too bad. Very consistent through the first hour. But only a S3 here. Some great old music. Had me dancing in the shack (Dave Onley, Netherlands, ibid.) Ik hoor Helena in Reeuwijk met een heel aardig signaal om 2043 UTC Gr, (Ary Boender, ibid.) St-Helena zwak, maar nog steeds in de lucht om 2135 (Maurits van Driessche, Belgium, ibid.) Radio St. Helena test transmission on 17th July --- Fair to good - 35333 at 1901 UT. Repeated announcements "This is test transmission on SW followed by freq & e-mail ID announcements by male announcer. Music & announcement by YL after 1918. Faded out after 1940 at my location. Two audio clips uploaded at: http://alokeshgupta.googlepages.com/rsh1_11092.5_17july2007.mp3 http://alokeshgupta.googlepages.com/rsh2_11092.5_17july2007.mp3 Regards, (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, India, Icom R71A with 30' longwire N-S, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RSH has been heard in Thessaloniki with good signal, 35444 (1900) to 35333 (ca 2000 )and 22332 (2020) as and maximum signal of S9 at 1900 to S-6 at 2000 and no on 2026 [sic]. NO significant QRM/N except some very low level DSL line hash and a carrier of S1 on 16 db pre- amplification. Program was based with music (oldies) and reports from abroad, referred after each song. I heard the name of Anker Petersen at 1947. Later there were reports from Japan, S England, Scotland, Finland, Switzerland. At 2006 there was a short news program followed by announcement. Then again 2020 back to the music program, under a very poor signal, nearly marginal. So that I stopped listening. But again on 2040 signal seems staging up to S5 with program continuing under oldies and IDs/reports in between with nearly same signal till a sudden fade out at 2052:10. I found that program stayed at least 15 minutes after 2100. I have uploaded a file for the 1900-1917 transmission: http://rapidshare.com/files/43480926/RSH_11092.5_1900__17.7.7..mp3.html [sic with double_underscore, double dots; seems to be a marketing opportunity] (ca 2 MB ) And http://www.savefile.com/files/896033 for test purposes, for the time 2020 or 2030, about 7 minutes (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Fair signal from the Radio St Helena test at present (1920 UT 17 July) on 11092.5 usb. Only problem is rapid deep fading. SINPO 35433. According to announcement from DJ Gary, signal currently beamed to Europe (Alan Pennington, Caversham UK, AOR 7030+, longwire, BDXC-UK via DXLD) Superb reception here [of R St Helena]on the Isle of Anglesey, there is fading though... not much (Mark Davies?, ibid.) Just tuned in at 1918. Signal is S7-S8. Fairly clear but rather noisy signal. ID just given "You`re listening to Radio St. Helena on 1548 kHz, 194m" asking for e-mail reports (Russ Cummings, Hull, East Yorkshire, AOR7030+, 60' long wire, ibid.) It's now 2018 and the signal is barely audible. I assume they have turned the beam? The noise is running at S-7 (Russ Cummings, ibid.) Also very weak here in Caversham now so presumably have changed their beam as planned. But was weakening anyhow as darkness approached before 2000 here. Maybe can be heard better in North America now? (Alan Pennington, ibid.) 17th at 1930 onwards very strong, but a bit distorted signal here from RSH on 11092.5U. Played "Mr. Tambourine man" etc. 73 (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, HCDX via DXLD) RSH test transmission nil here 1900-2100 UT, except for bare traces of signal at beginning. Then after 2100 faded up dramatically to fair level by 2143 QRT. Heard briefly again about 2207. Got e-mail reply from Laura Lawrence, asking about audio quality, which wasn't too bad. Had local QRN in addition to the bad propagation [Zanzibar-11735 wasn't much good until after 2000] (John Cobb, Roswell, GA, R75 / 80' Windom), DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SERBIA. RADIO NOVI SAD NOW AVAILABLE FOR STREAMING Dear web listeners, Radio Novi Sad, Serbia (public service in Vojvodina - northern half of Serbia) from now on has a web streaming for all of it's three channels [mp3/56kbps/22kHz]: RADIO NOVI SAD - first network in Serbian 24/7: http://82.117.194.13:9020/listen.pls RADIO NOVI SAD - second network in Hungarian 24/7: http://82.117.194.13:9010/listen.pls RADIO NOVI SAD - third network in Slovak, Romanian, Rusin, Romani and Ukrainian: http://82.117.194.13:9030/listen.pls First network of Radio Novi Sad (in Serbian) is also relayed on AM 1269 kHz, TX Srbobran, 10 kW. (was 750 kW but destroyed in 1999 by NATO bombarder). There is also a fourth program of Radio Novi Sad "Radio Stotka", broadcasting on FM, but it's planned to be discontinued, because in broadcasting law stays: Broadcasting Corporation of Vojvodina has 3 radio-networks... By the end of the year Radio Stotka will be cancelled. RADIO NOVI SAD IV (Radio Stotka) [mp3/96kbps/44kHz]: http://82.117.194.13:9040/listen.pls Pleasant listening! SEVERAL LISTENING PROPOSALS [UT hours]: RNS1 ---- 1105-1200 Mon-Sat POP EXPRESS 1500-1600 Mon-Fri Serbian folk music 1620-1700 Mon-Fri RANDEZVOUS WITH MUSIC 1805-2000 Sat JAZZ SCENE 1205-1300 Sun 80s AT 2 1500-1600 Sun FIESTA LATINA RNS2 ---- 1435-1530 Mon, Tue, Thu-Sat AFTERNOON CONCERT (excellent classical music) 2105-2200 Mon, Wed-Fri PEARLS OF CLASSICAL MUSIC The website of Public Broadcasting Service of Vojvodina (Radio Televizija Vojvodine) is: http://www.rtv.co.yu Best regards from Subotica, Serbia! (Dragan Lekic, July 17, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SIERRA LEONE [non]. 9525, Cotton Tree News (CTN) via Ascension, 0730-0758*, July 18, starts with drums, "This is CTN", into news segments in different languages, very faint audio after the clear ID, sign-off with: "You have been listening to CTN with the news in Krio, Limba, Mende and Temne". Poor/fair, with QRM from VOI, with their recorded loop of music and IDs ("You are listening to the Voice of Indonesia") (Ron Howard, Monterey, CA, Etón E5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also LIBERIA ** TAJIKISTAN. Re DXLD 7-082, "gives a revised tentative schedule for V. of Tajik (ex- R. Tajikistan), all on 1143 and 7245 from Dushanbe rather than the variety of frequencies registered and just rementioned in DXLD. Includes English at 0900-1100 CAs/SAs and 1730-1800 CAs/ME. Anyone hear these?" A Russian DXer (via open_DX yg) checked on 7245 yesterday at 1745 and heard local popmusic, with a short announcement in a "Persian" language at 1754 and ID "Ovozi Tojik" at 1757, at 1759 the transmitter switched off. There was no programming in English (Bernd Trutenau, Lithuania, July 18, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Bernd, that was actually the day before. Yesterday a Finnish DXer (me!) checked it at 1728 and heard English. So the programme starts earlier now, maybe 1715. What is heard at the end, may be a closing announcement for the day in Tajik. But the schedule still seems to be unsettled: in the beginning of June English was heard at 1600. The other English transmission has been heard 0900-1000, not -1100. 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, ibid.) Why was that not reported then? (gh) A mystery situation with Tajik Radio: Checking on Fri July 13th on 7245 I didn't find Tajik Radio in English at 1645 UT on 7245 kHz but later at 1724 UT till 1758 was program in English mainly with disco music in presumed Tajik. By the way, just after closing of DRM on 7240-7245 kHz when I checked the new IS of Serbia and program in Russian from 1500 UT on 7240 kHz I heard end of Russian speaking station on 7245 kHz at 1458 UT. Thanks great to Mr. A. Klepov - Editor of RUS-DX weekly - who sent me the new schedule of Voice of Tajik Radio featuring English 0900-1000 and 1730-1800 and Russian 0600-0700 and 1400-1500 all on 7245 and MW 1143 kHz. For time 1700-1730 is given as in Farsi, but seems English is 1700-1800 UT. All broadcast time of V of Tajik is 0200-1800 UT [RUS-DX, A. Klepov and me]. (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, wwdxc BC-DX July 16 via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) In the end of June English was heard from 1730 onwards. But confirming Rumen's observation, English heard today from 1701 onwards. I am still not sure if the announcer says: "Welcome to the English programme from Ovoji Tajik" or " ... the Voice of Tajik". 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) On Wednesday, 18th of July the English program of Tajikistan on 7245 was 1700-1800 UT. The transmitter was switched off at 1800 (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. TURKEY MEDIA OVERVIEW - JULY 2007 | Overview by Lewis Macleod of BBC Monitoring on 17 July Background The Turkish media scene currently features an abundance of newspapers, television and radio channels, offering a range of points of view. The media market is growing fast in Turkey with several foreign companies entering, or trying to enter, the sector. The state broadcaster, Turkish Radio and Television (TRT), operates four national networks. TRT was established in 1964 and for 20 years enjoyed a monopoly position. Since radio was introduced into Turkey in the 1920s, the government has tried to use electronic media to further its objectives of fostering cultural homogeneity and support for a secular, Westernized state. Reflecting a history of state sponsorship until the 1990s, the electronic media in particular continue to be heavily regulated by the government, specifically by the Radio and Television Broadcast Authority (RTUK). To keep up with industry growth and public demand, the government is developing infrastructure, such as digital and satellite broadcasting. The airwaves are lively with some 300 private TV channels, some 30 of which have national reach, and more than 1,000 private radio stations. The media is highly nationalistic in tone. An article in the Turkish penal code makes it a criminal offence to "insult Turkishness". This provision has been used on occasions to prosecute journalists and publishers. Television Television is by far the most influential news medium in the country. According to a 2004 government survey, 92 per cent of the population have television sets in their households; 97 per cent over the age of 15 view television on a regular basis, with each individual watching approximately 4.5 hours a day, while each person listens to radio three hours per day on average. Satellite systems and cable TV networks are gradually expanding in metropolitan centres. The state broadcaster TRT currently broadcasts on seven different channels. Today, TRT is frequently cited as the most widely respected broadcaster in Turkey and it broadcasts around the world, especially in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. TRT International is a channel broadcasting a selection of TRT's programming. All television channels can be watched via Turksat 1-C. The state's monopoly over Turkish airwaves came to an end in 1990, giving rise to the emergence of private broadcasters. A new radio- television law, which regulates both public and commercial radio and television broadcasting, was adopted in 1994 and TRT's audience fell significantly with the deregulation and privatization of the media environment. At present, there are some 30 national TV channels (of which 16 are privately owned), 15 regional channels, and 230 local channels. The TV audience is approximately 56 million viewers and TV's share of the relatively small advertising market of one billion dollars is expanding. In 2005, TV had a 56 per cent share. In recent years, Turkish TV channels have produced an increasing number of news contests, talk shows, panel discussion programmes, and Turkish soap operas, which have attracted considerable audiences. In addition, private radio stations and TV channels are required by law to include educational and cultural programming as a fixed proportion of their broadcasts. In addition, both government-owned and commercial TV channels target Turkish linguistic and ethnic diaspora communities across national boundaries, particularly in Europe and Central Asia. In Germany, nearly a million television viewers tune into various Turkish TVs via satellite during prime time every night. Selected television channels Turkish Radio and Television (TRT) - state broadcaster, operates four national networks Star TV - private, the first station to break state TV's monopoly Show TV - private, widely-watched network Kanal 7 - private, widely-watched network with Islamic orientation ATV - private TGRT - private NTV - private, popular and respected news channel CNN Turk - Turkish offshoot of US news channel Roj TV - Kurdish TV that broadcasts from Europe via satellite, despite government attempts to silence it because of alleged "separatist" content Radio According to the Netherlands-based European Journalism Centre (EJC), as of July 2007 the number of private radio stations currently broadcasting in Turkey was 1,100, with 100 of these also available on cable. Of these, 36 are national, 102 are regional and 950 are local. Radio's share of the advertising market was only 3 per cent in 2005. Selected radio stations Turkish Radio and Television (TRT) - state broadcaster, services include cultural/educational network TRT 1, popular music network TRT 3 and Turkish folk/classical music station TRT 4 Show Radyo - commercial Capital Radio - commercial, pop music Radyo Foreks - news station Radio and TV authority The 1994 Radio-Television Law established the Radio and Television Council (RTUK) to license and regulate stations. The council monitors private broadcasts to ensure they conform to Turkish laws and culture and compares the technical capabilities of private stations to determine which will be permitted to broadcast on the limited national spectrum, which will stay regional, and which will be closed down. Kurdish broadcasts There is a significant Kurdish minority in Turkey who live mainly in the south-east of the country. Until 1991, speaking Kurdish was outlawed in Turkey. When the ban on speaking Kurdish was lifted that year, radio stations were also allowed to play Kurdish-language music. The Turkish government introduced some Kurdish broadcasts as part of the EU harmonization process and reforms passed by parliament in 2002. But RTUK regulations adopted in December 2003 restricted such broadcasting in both time and content. Private stations are permitted to broadcast in Kurdish on television for four hours per week, and on radio for three hours per week. They can broadcast documentaries, news and music programmes in local languages and dialects, but not debates, panels or television films. In addition, they are required to vet programming in advance, provide Turkish subtitles, and release Turkish translations immediately after Kurdish broadcasts. A BBC correspondent in Turkey said that since the Turkish Republic is founded on the idea of ethnic homogeneity, the introduction of Kurdish broadcasts was "little short of revolutionary". But the government has made it clear that it wants to retain control over the sensitive issue of broadcasting in Kurdish. Print media According to the EJC, the total number of newspapers in circulation was estimated at 2,124 in 2007. There are 40 national papers, 23 local papers and over 2,000 local titles. Istanbul and Ankara are the main media centres, where all the national newspapers are based. Selected press titles Hurriyet - leading mass-circulation daily Milliyet - centrist mass-circulation daily Cumhuriyet - left-wing daily Turkish Daily News - English-language The New Anatolian - English-language Today's Zaman - English-language version of daily Yeni Asir - daily Sabah - daily Media ownership Powerful business groups control and operate major media outlets in Turkey, including newspapers, television, and radio channels. The ownership of media organizations change frequently as a result of shifting economic and political fortunes. Dogan Group Led by Aydin Dogan, Dogan Yayin Holding is Turkey's leading media conglomerate, with operations in newspaper, magazine and book publishing, television and radio broadcasting, printing and new media. Dogan controls about 70 per cent of the market, and it claims to control over 40 per cent of advertising revenue. Its television and radio holdings include Kanal D, one of the most popular of the private TVs; news channel CNN TURK; Star TV; Bravo TV with a mainly cultural focus; Kanal D Europe; radio stations Radyo D, Radyo Klup, Foreks and Hur FM; and the Dogan News Agency. The Dogan group also leads the way in the digital and pay-TV markets. Of its 22 media companies, DYH, daily papers Hurriyet and Milliyet, and the magazine company, Dogan Burda Rizzoli, are publicly traded on the Istanbul Stock Exchange. Dogan Group bought Star TV in September 2005. Cukurova Group Owned by the Eliyesil and Karamehmet families, Cukurova currently owns Show TV; Sky Turk; MEPA, the first media marketing company in Turkey; and the Aksam Media Group, including daily newspapers, weekly magazines, and ALEM FM and Show Radios. In 2000, the group entered the media sector by buying the daily Aksam and soon became the fourth biggest media group. Dogus Group Dogus operates NTV, Discovery Channel, NTV radio, Radio N101, and CNBC-E, which provides local coverage of business and financial markets. The Dogus Group is one of the top four holding companies in Turkey. It was founded by Ayhan Sahenk and his son, Ferit Sahenk, is now chief executive. According to Balkananalysis.com, the net worth of the Sahenk conglomerate in 2005 was some 2.5bn dollars, with a turnover for 2005 of 6bn dollars. It employs about 18,000 people. Ihlas Group Ihlas Group is the leading representative of a moderate Islamic business group in the country. It operates Ihlas Publication Holding, Turkiye newspaper, IHA (Ihlas News Agency) , and Ihlas Net. The group, owned by Enver Oren, operates companies in a number of sectors, including media, marketing, construction, health care, education, insurance, and real estate investment. Ihlas has its own finance organization (Ihlas Finans), which claims to operate according to Islamic rules, without charging interest. Ciner Group Ciner Group was known as Park Group until December 2004. Turgay Ciner, Turkey's youngest billionaire, expanded his media holdings in 2002 by purchasing the popular television ATV, the daily Sabah, magazines, and a distribution company. Source: BBC Monitoring research in English 17 Jul 07 (via DXLD) No mention above of the V. of Turkey external SW service. It must be inconsequential (TRT International apparently refers to TV) (gh, DXLD) ** TURKEY. Turquia: 5980 Voz de Turquiía. ¿nuevo o accidental? 5980, Voz de Turquía, 1750-1755, escuchada el 17 de julio en idioma sin identificar, probablemente ruso o idioma balcánico, locutor con despedida del programa, segmento musical, música de sintonía, SINPO 43433. No he encontrado listado este servicio; quizás nuevo o emisión accidental. Hay un servicio en ruso de 1700 a 1800 en 9840 según última actualización del WRTH. 73 (José Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), España, Sangean ATS 909, Radio Master A-108, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5980 is scheduled from ÇAK site at 1800-1830 in Bosnian. They must have brought it up too early. Besides Turkish on four frequencies, the other languages at 1730 are Russian and German, one other frequency each (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Saludos cordiales Glenn, todo parece indicar que se trató de alguna emisión accidental, probablemente del servicio en bosnio, aunque a las 1800 lo transmitieron normalmente, sin embargo en el día de hoy no e encontrado transmisión alguna en ese segmento horario. 73 (José Miguel Romero, July 18, ibid.) ** UKRAINE. Re 7-083, ``aeronautical beacons in the MWBC band. I heard: 617 with dah-dah-dit [G], 721 with dah-dah-dit-dit-dit [7], and 1155 with dit-dah-dit dit [L], then dit-dit-dit [S]. I recall rarely hearing these on the west coast of North America during DXpeditions. During the night, of course, the MW remains alive with stations all over Europe and Asia well heard (Walt Salmaniw, Luhansk, Ukraine, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Maybe LS = Luhansk itself`` My 1999 edition of the European NDB Handbook lists LS 1155 kHz as an enroute beacon in Krasnyi Luch N48.1100 E38.5500 Nothing with the mentioned ID on 617 and 721 listed. So maybe a newer edition would be helpful ;-) 73, (Patrick Robic, Austria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE. Fellas, what do you make of this antenna array located at 49deg 35'40.58"N and 23deg 58' 06.42"E in an area south of Lviv in Ukraine. Supposedly was a military establishment, but no longer in service. Quite an interesting array very well visualized with Google Earth. I immediately considered this to be a woodpecker receiving site. Any other guesses? (My theory has not been verified by Google searches on the woodpecker in Ukraine, though). You can go to those coordinates using Google Earth (Walt Salmaniw, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. BBC D-G SAYS “WE MUST PUT OUR HOUSE IN ORDER” BBC Director-General Mark Thompson today announced a package of tough measures to address the discovery of further serious breaches of editorial standards across some areas of BBC programmes and content. The further emerging breaches, revealed following a BBC-wide search of around one million hours of output since January 2005, were reported today by Mr Thompson to the BBC Trust, and the Director-General announced the new measures in response to demands for action from the Trust. The measures include a total suspension of all competitions. Phone-related competitions on BBC television and radio will cease at midnight tonight, and interactive and online competitions will be taken down as soon as possible. . . http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/?p=8446 (Media Network blog July 18 via DXLD) Mentions fraud on BBCWS too http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/19/1982141.htm The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has suspended all phone-in and interactive competitions after admitting faking a string of them. The revelations come in the wake of high-profile embarrassments for the flagship British broadcaster last week involving Queen Elizabeth II and a long-running children's show. The BBC admitted faking the winners of phone-in competitions on three televised charity events: *Children In Need*, *Comic Relief* and *Sports Relief*. The BBC also said similar practices went on at three other programs, with the set- up usually involving members of the production team ringing in, or the reading out of fictitious winners on air. - (AFP via Wayne Bastow Wyoming, NSW, Australia, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A. Re 7-083: Update 1750 UTC: Wolfgang Bueschel reports that the frequencies in the VOA press release are wrong. At 1630 UT he hears VOA Somali on 11530 and 15675 kHz (Media Network blog July 17 via DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. GÜNTER JACOB in Germany reports in with the challenges he has faced in QSLing VOA. He writes “Regarding VOA’s QSL policy, which had been very good over long periods until the late 1990s, I tried to get verifications for my detailed reports of 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and sent a long letter to VOA Director David Jackson on November 25, 2003. A reply dated January 12, 2004 came on an IBB letter head from Kim Andrew Elliott and said: “Usually, we issue only one QSL card per reception report. However, because of your special interest in our transmissions, enclosed are QSL cards for each of the transmissions you listed.” Needless to say that I never request more than one QSL card per reception report. Disappointing was, however, that 28 QSL cards were not enclosed. Countless reminders since then are only ignored! As the Jackson era is over now, I will soon try to contact Director Dan Austin, who hopefully will keep Mr. Jackson’s promise after 3 1/2 years. Just like Roger of Dunedin (‘Mailbag’ of May 2007) received only a useless piece of waste paper from VOA, it seems that VOA Washington does not want to send proper verifications any more. They use QSL cards prepared to insert either “Date” / “Time” / “Frequency” / “Transmitter” or “Date” / “Time” / “Frequency” / “Site”, but they do not fill in these particular cards; on the contrary they put a sticker upon the cards without the transmitter site (also no name). In case you do not want to waste your time and money, here is how to get VOA verifications from Kuwait, from the Philippines, and from Sri Lanka: Write to Kuwait Transmitting Station, George Miller, Transmitter Plant Supervisor, c/o American Embassy-Bayan, P. O. Box 77, Safat, 13001-Kuwait, Kuwait. Mr. Miller last year sent an A4 size verification about one month later. Write to International Broadcasting Bureau, Philippines Transmitting Station, American Embassy, P. O. Box 151 CPO 1099, 1050 Manila, Philippines. I received a card “Verification of Reception” for 11885 kHz after 40 days and another one for 12080 kHz after 35 days. Write to George O. Miller, Station Manager, IBB-Sri Lanka Transmitting Station, c/o The U. S. Embassy, 210, Galle Road, Colombo 3, Sri Lanka. I received a very nice “Verification Card IBB Sri Lanka Transmitting Station” (14 x 11 cm) for 7480 kHz after 40 days.” [Thanks Günter – is it possible Mr Miller has moved from Kuwait to Sri Lanka? BC] (Bryan Clark, July NZ DX Times via DXLD) ** U S A. Re WCMA: Apparently, I was very wrong about a few pieces of information that I stated concerning this station and its operations. I've since been corrected, and I owe an apology to its owner John H. Beebe and Perihelion Global. Sorry guys. I know this takes up space, but I`m man enough to admit when I'm wrong, and this is one of those times. -- Sincerely, (Paul B. Walker, Jr., NRC-AM via DXLD) Exactly what was wrong? Items about WCMA were quoted in DXLDs 7-080, 7-081, 7-083 (gh, DXLD) The owner emailed me and corrected me. They are at 50 kW and on the air (Paul B. Walker, Jr., July 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Since '94 move to FL, listen mostly to melifluous baritones of Cuban announcers. Occasionally, am treated - so to speak - to stateside 'talent', via radios blaring, in local businesses, like psychotic diaphones. Is it the announcer's frenetic delivery? His wispy little alto? A few minutes of this blithering aural insult makes one want to rip receiver from dash, or stuff oneself down tire shredder - The Sadaam Hussein Final Solution. Would rather listen to a welter of busted chainsaws than the stiffs that vacant-eyed BigKorpseorate polyester-suits hire as 'talent'. Notice how Limbaugh burps when he talks? Why can't he control that relentless pie-hole stuffing? Has he heard of the Cough Button? Or does he think we live to hear him clear his throat? Why so much phlegm? Poor diet? His blustery, soupy oxy-tenor offends my teutonic sensibilities almost as much as his sellout to KronyKaster slavemasters. No serial Limbugs heard from Manasoviet Key. When lived in RI, although not seriatim, Pillpop the Self-Anointed blatted on at least ten stations. Blimpjaw lost credibility ca. 1990, when he gassed off about stuffing Cuban cigars into his big, fat pie-hole. This was when he forgot about Ed McLaughlin. Had McLaughlin not discovered The Formerly Listenable Bimbo, el Flushbowl would spend mornings spinning Mantovani Plays Metallica, then trying to pimp off air time, afternoons, in futile hope of scratching out a pathetic existence. This last stab at mediocrity would shortly be followed by Laennec's cirhhosis. They'd find him, full rigmo, curled around some bodily-fluid-stained lamppost flanking radio's Gutter of The Starz. Thanks to greedy-guts who run radio, this horrid fin de siecle is the all too common end for fine talent whose shoes station ownership isn't fit to buff - with their toupees. But not our Flushie, no sireebop! He's 'a national obsession', as legend & great talent, Bob Grant termed him, ca. 1989. Cuba is about the closest we gits to serial killers on Manasota Key. Nites, you can hear Progreso on 630 & 640, and Reloj on 930, 940, 950, 960. I tried. I did. Well meaning friends periodically implore, 'Limbaugh is different, more organized, less narcissistic ....' Right. And the psycho butcher who married our dear friend, (.....), has 'changed...he's really nice now'. Yeah They've always 'changed'. Sooner than later, they'll find chunks of her beneath some seedy long- abandoned trailer on the outskirts of Loxahatchee...because her beau is different...just like el Flushbowl. Today was a great day. Tomorrow, better still. I feel great. hope you do, too! Good health! Yours in choleric joy, Dr. Zecchino "The radio business is a long, shallow, money trench, a cheap plastic tunnel where whores and pimps run free and good men die like dogs in a ditch. There's also a negative side." - Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (PV Zecchino, T.D., Managasbag Key, FL, NRC-AM via DXLD) ** VANUATU. The two new Radio Vanuatu transmitters [1125/1179] are both confirmed as being 10 kW units according to RNZI Technical Manager Adrian Sainsbury who was in Vila and Santo lately and has seen them both! He also adds that a joint NZAID, AUSAID and EU Aid program will deliver new SW transmitters to Vanuatu as it’s been decided that a full SW service should be reintroduced as soon as possible. The existing SW aerial system is in good condition, as is the aerial system for MW in both Vila and Santo. The new head of VTBC in Vila is the ex Radio Australia head - Jean-Gabriel Manguy. His job is to oversee the installation of all the new transmitters, studio upgrades etc. (David Ricquish, July NZ DX Times via DXLD) And SW is back ** VENEZUELA. CONTINUA PERSECUSIÓN CONTRA RCTV EN VENEZUELA. Informó William Lara. Reformarán "Ley Resorte" http://www.notitarde.com/pais/pais3.html Caracas, julio 17 (Janet Yucra).- El ministro del Poder Popular para la Comunicación e Información, William Lara, anunció este martes una propuesta de reforma para la Ley de Responsabilidad Social de Radio y Televisión, y la Ley de Telecomunicaciones "para que quienes operen televisión por cable y televisión de señal abierta se vean obligados a respetar la ley venezolana, a transmitir el himno nacional y conectarse a las cadenas de radio y televisión del Ejecutivo, del Consejo Nacional Electoral y de los Poderes Públicos del país". "Esta propuesta la vamos a introducir en lo próximos días ante la Vicepresidencia de la República, que es el órgano coordinador de la Ley Habilitante, y luego depende de la dinámica del trabajo cuando esta Ley es sancionada por Consejo de Ministros y es publicada en Gaceta Oficial", adelantó el titular de la cartera comunicacional en el programa La Ventana, transmitido por la emisora radial YVKE Mundial. Señaló que la propuesta tiene como objetivo que la señal de radio y televisión que se transmite en Venezuela cumpla con lo señalado en las leyes nacionales. Adelantó que el Presidente de la República, Hugo Chávez Frías, manifestó su apoyo a la reforma. ------------ --------- --------- --------- ------ Amigos de la lista: Para los que no saben que es la Ley Resorte, ó Ley de Responsabilidad de Radio y Televisión, es el mamotreto jurídico que inventó el gobierno de Hugo Chávez para poder controlar en su totalidad las transmisiones de radio y TV en Venezuela. Ahora resulta que como RCTV sale al aire por algunas operadoras de cable en Venezuela, para tratar de tapar la cruda realidad que existe en Venezuela y que precisamente el canal Radio Caracas Televisión se lo presenta a la población todos los días; el gobierno no se le ocurrió una mejor cosa que tratar de regular a las operadoras de cable por suscripción, imponiendole a sus usuarios las "Largas Cadenas del Presidente", que no son más que las largas charlas "obligadas" que transmite por radio y TV el presidente Chávez, cargadas propaganda gubernamental. Esto simplemente es la continuación de la persecusión que el gobierno le hace a RCTV. Esta posición desesmascara al régimen, y le desmonta el argumento tecnisista por el cual la salida del aire de RCTV por señal abierta por que "se le expiró su concesión", y por ende como no había más frecuencias disponibles en el espectro había que concedersela a una "Televisora de interés social como lo es TVES", el nuevo canal pro gubernamental que ni siquiera los propios afectos del presidente lo ven. Desde la apertura de RCTV el pasado lunes 16 de Julio por cable y satélite, se han incrementado las colas de ciudadanos de escazos recursos organizados, frente a los puntos de venta de las operadoras de cable, tratando de adquirir los paquetes de servicios de televisión más económicos, no solo para ver a RCTV sino también para ver la amplitud de canales internacionales que le ofrecen otra visión del mundo. Para los pocos habitantes en las zonas populares que tienen el lujo de poseer un plato de recepción satélital, se les pueden ver invitando a sus vecinos a observar por las mañanas los programas de opinión, ó por las noches sus novelas favoritas que les ofrece RCTV. En otras palabras, gracias al cierre de RCTV por el gobierno de Hugo Chávez ha logrado unir familiares, amigos y vecinos en torno al televisor, tal como se hacía a los comienzos de la televisión venezolana en la década de los años 50. Saludos, (Jorge Garcia Rangel, Venezuela, July 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST) OTOH: RCTV AL AIRE A TRAVÉS DEL CANAL 103 DE DIRECTV... Hola Glenn, Saludos desde Catia La Mar, VENEZUELA. La siguiente nota sólo confirma lo que HE REPETIDO DESDE ANTES DEL 28 DE MAYO: LO DE RCTV NO ES CIERRE. Es VENCIMIENTO de la CONCESIÓN. Nada de expropiación, colega Glenn. No se confiscó ni se quitó nada, tan sólo llegó a su término una figura administrativa que existe en muchos países, incluyendo Estados Unidos. Lo único que no acerté - a pesar de los rumores - fue con el canal: no es el 117, es el 103. Una vez más, la DISOCIACIÓN PSICÓTICA sufre una gran DERROTA. Advertencia: si el SACHA (Síndrome de AntiChavitis Aguda) puede más que su sensatez, usted está PERDIDO. Nota: a pesar de que no se menciona en el artículo de Aporrea, el canal en cuestión es el 103, de DIRECTV. Tengo entendido que DIRECTV Latinoamérica fue comprada en su totalidad por SKY, hace ya unos meses. Algún colega podrá ahondar más que yo, con respecto a dicha adquisición y sus detalles. 73s y buen DX (Adán González, Catia La Mar, VENEZUELA, July 15, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: RCTV DISPONIBLE POR DIRECTV ¿Y DÓNDE QUEDÓ EL "CIERRE"? Por: Aporrea.org Caracas. A partir del sábado 7 de julio, la televisora RCTV, a la cual el estado venezolano no le renovó su concesión para transmitir en el canal 2 VHF de señal abierta, comenzó a transmitir en período de prueba a través del satélite de DirecTV. La salida de RCTV por DirecTV y quizá en el futuro cercano a través del cable, contradice lo afirmado por sus dueños, por opositores al gobierno y por organismos internacionales, que calificaron la medida de no renovación de la conseción como "el cierre de RCTV". La imposición de ese término a escala nacional e internacional, les permitió a opositores del gobierno del Presidente Hugo Chávez, afirmar que en Venezuela supuestamente dejó de existir la libertad de expresión ya que se "cerró" un medio privado opuesto al gobierno. Según representantes de la televisora, cuyos dueños mantienen una virulenta oposición al gobierno venezolano, RCTV estará en prueba como parte del proceso necesario para cumplir con el protocolo exigido por Directv para el ingreso de una señal a su parrilla de programación. DirecTV en Venezuela y Latinoamérica es propiedad del magnate mediático y billonario venezolano-cubano Gustavo Cisneros, cuyo canal Venevisión es el principal competidor de RCTV. La tardanza de RCTV de negociar su salida por DirecTV, puede atribuirse a la rivalidad comercial de ambas empresas y a la rivalidad personal entre los dueños de las mismas. A RCTV no se le renovó la concesión debido a, entre otras cosas, su rol protagónico en el golpe de Estado de 2002 en contra del gobierno democráticamente electo del Presidente Hugo Chávez. RCTV, luego de que cesara sus transmisiones en señal abierta, ha continuado transmitiendo dos emisiones de su noticiero a través de internet por el sitio de videos YouTube, pero el número de televidentes por ese medio ha experimentado una estrepitosa caída en comparación con los primeros días de transmisión, llegando incluso a sólo 144 televidentes en un día. RCTV y sus empresas afiliadas han continuado con la producción de telenovelas, las cuales son exportadas a diversos países del mundo, generando un gran porcentaje de los ingresos de la empresa (via González, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 1610, 0500, UNID Spanish station here, poor. Reasonably clear though and mixed with Caribbean Beacon. Only heard on Latin aerial. Heard here at Easter too and much better then. Possibilities?? XEUACH or Argentina?? One of life’s mysteries. 10/7 (Stu Forsyth, West Melton, using an AOR 7030+ connected to Paul Ormandy’s longwires at Waianakarua (North Otago), NZ, July NZ DX Times via DXLD) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES +++++++++++++++++++++++++ ENCUENTRO DIEXISTA EN LA CIUDAD DE MEXICO Hola a Todos, Les informo que el encuentro diexista mexicano de este año es organizado por el señor Florentino Mazariegos quien vive en la ciudad de Puebla. Por problemas que tuvo, fue auxiliado por el grupo Hombre Nuevo de la Ciudad de México y se realizará en esta ciudad capital. Según me informan: EL PRÓXIMO ENCUENTRO DIEXISTA SE REALIZARÁ LOS DIAS 27, 28 Y 29 DE JULIO EN LA CALLE DE BOLIVAR #8 EN EL CENTRO DE LA CIUDAD. A UNOS METROS DE LA ESTACIÓN DEL METRO ALLENDE. Saludos y espero verlos en este encuentro -------- __@ ----- _`\<,_ ---- (*)/ (*) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (M.I. Héctor García Bojorge, DF, condig list via DXLD) LANGUAGE LESSONS ++++++++++++++++ YIDDISH [Re 7-083, ISRAEL] Interesting that Yiddish was included in the WRN Deutsch lineup, but where else would they list it? Although it certainly is a Germanic language, it is based on Middle-High (early) German but contains a lot of Hebrew words as well as other vocabulary added according to where it is spoken (e.g., Slavic, English, etc.), and is obviously quite different in pronunciation, grammar, and idiom from modern/standard German. I suppose standard German speakers can understand much of it, though they would also be missing quite a bit. I grew up speaking it with my grandparents, who immigrated to the USA from the Ukraine in the early 20th Century (Saul Broudy, W3WHK, Philadelphia, PA USA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Linguae lectiones --- re 7-083, "PNG divisa est *en* partes sex" Beware that unlike modern Spaniards, ancient Italians used to spell "in", not "en". PNG est omnis divisa in partes sex, quarum unam Novi Hibernici incolunt... should be a more precise paraphrasis. Hope I'm still getting all my declensions right... Ave atque vale, (Andy Lawendel, Italy, July 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST) AUDIBLE ATROCITIES ++++++++++++++++++ 0118 UT July 18 on History Channel, The Planets, about Venus, said you may see ``Venus twinkling like a star``. Planets do not twinkle, especially Venus, because they are (slightly) more than a point source unlike real stars at an incomparably greater distance. Search on Venus twinkle, however, and you will find reports of Venus twinkling, when very low to the horizon and seeing it thru a lot of turbulence, but that`s very much the exception. This threw into question all the other facts about Venus purveyed on this show! They also keep saying ``Venusian`` instead of ``Venerian``, almost as bad as the treatment Uranus gets among the sniggering (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) DIGITAL BROADCASTING DRM: see NEW ZEALAND; TAJIKISTAN ++++++++++++++++++++ PROPAGATION +++++++++++ COASTAL STATION ANTENNA PATTERNS ON 'RADIO-LOCATOR.COM' (from part of a discussion on another e-mail group) I thought this would be a good time to mention the US-station coverage maps available online from 'radio-locator.com'. Maps show "local" (2.5 mV/m), "distant" (0.5 mV/m) and "fringe" (0.15 mV/m) groundwave signal strength contour curves. [and are for entertainment purposes only -gh] If you want to see how directional a "non-directional" single vertical antenna can get, check out the following maps from 1 kW stations going from south to north along the Massachusetts coast. Over water distance for a given amount of attenuation is running as much as ** 10 times ** the distance for the same amount of signal drop-off over land. Remember that the pattern of the antenna for transmitting should closely resemble its directionality for receiving. Case #1: WBUR-1240 West Yarmouth, MA (Cape Cod south side) http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WBUR&service=AM&status=L&hours=U Looking at this pattern, could there be any doubt that West Yarmouth is a superlocation for DXing Latin America ? Case #2: WJDA-1300 Quincy, MA (metro-Boston South Shore area) http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WJDA&service=AM&status=L&hours=D Connecting a receiver to WJDA's stick during a silent period would put you in good shape to scoop up DX from Europe and the Middle East. It boggles the mind how far some high power and a big array aimed in the "natural" best direction would do from there. Case #3: WLYN-1360 Lynn, MA (metro-Boston North Shore area) http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WLYN&service=AM&status=L&hours=D The sweet spot from here would be Africa. Indeed, even on the car radio on the nearby Lynn Shore Drive, Africans and eastern tip Brazilians have been noted on better semi-auroral nights. Case #4: WESX-1230 Salem, MA (metro-Boston North Shore area) http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WESX&service=AM&status=L&hours=U Similar to WLYN, this one really lays down the fire to the east and southeast. Creating these patterns in a homogeneous-ground-conductivity area would take an array of very many towers. At these shore sites "one stick does the trick". Seeing how wildly directional these "non-directional" stations are, one can easily imagine the type of DX that can be obtained from these sites when a highly-directional antenna such as a terminated Beverage (or phased verticals, SuperLoops, etc.) is brought into play. Sort of like "squaring" the curves shown for the non-directional antenna. I hope to get over to Granite Pier next week for a little fun along these lines. Obviously the location itself is already "juiced" for foreign DX, like those broadcast sites shown on radio-locator, but the car-top cardioid array is the extra toy that helps in a big way to deliver the goods (Mark Connelly, WA1ION - Billerica, MA, July 13, NRC-AM via DXLD) CHANGING MEDIUMWAVE CONDITIONS Is it just conditions? I've noticed, for a number of years now, a big reduction in the reach of a lot of Latin American stations that used to get out really well (Colombians for instance). Hasn't the trend for a number of years been to go for SKYWAVE-REDUCING transmitting antennas on the AM band? If so, wouldn't that have even more serious effects than conditions alone? I wonder how prevalent they are around the world, and if stations upgrade their facilities, are they installing new skywave-killing antennas too? (Randy Stewart, Springfield MO NRC-AM via DXLD) Randy, I feel the conditions have changed. There are many things that could have affected it, but through history there have been periods of time where DX was not as good as in other times. Of course, the urban DXer has to deal with much more noise today, but out where I live on the rural coast, the noise level is close to what it always have been. The DU signals are not there like they used to be. I remember moving back to the coast from the Portland are in 1979. I did not even have a decent antenna. I lived a half block from the beach, and I had my old EH Scott RBO 2 receiver. I moved into the bottom part of a duplex and ran a wire out the window, around the back of the duplex to a neighbor`s woodpile. Hardly anything much except a random wire. No ground system. I don't even know if I had any ground connected to the radio. Well, night after night after night, the dial was full of DUs. More DUs than TPs, but even 2 KW Aussies & Zedders were armchair copy with the receiver in the 3 khz AM mode. The receiver did not have SSB. No special filters, just L/C. No upper or lower sideband, no ECSS. None of that, just AM mode. 4MK MacKay Q, Aust. on 1026 (5 KW) was S9+10-20 DB night after night. I corresponding with a DJ there (Robbie Broadfield), and I would listen to his Top 30 countdown each week and comment on the different music compared to the U.S. Randy, I thought those days would never end. It was right after the switch to the 9 kHz plan (1978) and I was in DX heaven. I logged over 200 new DUs in a year, hands down. Piece of cake. But by the mid 80s, that all changed. Gone were the powerhouse DU signals. Today, they are 10% of what they once were, if that. I have better antennas, Ground systems an R8, SPR4, and yet the signals are not there. I wish I would have known then what I know now sort of thing, but it was only a couple years later out here (1 km from the shore), I installed my first EWE (1981). The only explanation I have are conditions. Hopefully they will return in time. But I am glad I was there when DUs were everywhere. 73, (Patrick Martin, Seaside OR, ibid.) Conditions change with the sunspot activity levels. And consider there may not be as many foreign MW stations as before. There's other solar factors in addition to the 11 year cycle. Even in this solar minimum so to speak, conditions won't stay quiet long enough for the Ionosphere to recover to give superb conditions (Powell E. Way III, SC, ibid.) I am of the opinion that the sun spot minimum has come and gone and that the direction has changed. We are not yet getting auroral conditions but neither are we getting good long distance conditions. We are in between. TAs have been poor in this area for a while although our New England listeners have been getting better results due to being located much further Northeast. This is typical of the sort of reception I have encountered between every other 11 year cycle and I have been DXing these cycles since the late 1950's. I do think we will still find some good periods of long distance reception this fall and that auroral conditions will also return. My take (Ben Dangerfield, Wallingford, PA, ibid.) The geomagnetic field was quiet at all latitudes until 10/2100 UTC, then increased to unsettled levels as a recurrent high-speed stream commenced. A further increase to quiet to minor storm levels occurred on 11 July with major storm periods observed at high latitudes as the high-speed stream continued. Field activity decreased to quiet to unsettled levels on 12 - 13 July. Field activity increased to quiet to major storm levels on 14 July as another recurrent coronal hole high-speed stream affected the field. Activity decreased to quiet to active levels on the final day of the period. ACE solar wind data indicated the onset of a recurrent coronal hole high-speed stream late on 10 July. Velocities increased to a peak of 602 km/sec at 11/1743 UTC. Proton densities increased to a peak of 72 p/cc at 10/2341 UTC in advance of the high-speed stream while total IMF intensity peaked at 20 nT at 11/0208 UTC and Bz reached a minimum of -15 nT at 10/2336 UTC. Another recurrent coronal hole high-speed stream was evident in the ACE data as velocities began to increase on 14 July and eventually reached a peak of 631 km/sec at 15/0332 UTC. Proton densities increased to a peak of 17 p/cc at 14/1713 UTC in advance of the high-speed stream while total IMF intensity peaked at 14 nT at 14/1412 UTC and Bz reached a minimum of -12 nT at 14/1755 UTC. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 18 JULY - 13 AUGUST 2007 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 reach high levels during 18 July, 22 - 23 July, 03 August, and 12 - 13 August. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at quiet levels during 18 July. An increase to quiet to active conditions is expected during 20 - 21 July due to recurrent coronal hole high-speed stream. Mostly quiet conditions are expected during 22 - 30 July. Activity is expected to increase to quiet to active levels on 31 July due to a recurrent coronal hole high-speed stream. Mostly quiet conditions are expected during 01 - 06 August. Activity is expected to increase to quiet to minor storm levels on 07 August due to a recurrent coronal hole high-speed stream. Quiet to unsettled conditions are expected during 08 - 09 August. Activity is expected to increase to unsettled to minor storm levels on 10 August due to a recurrent coronal hole high-speed stream. Quiet to unsettled conditions are expected for the rest of the period. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2007 Jul 17 1923 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Environment Center # Product description and SEC contact on the Web # http://www.sec.noaa.gov/wwire.html # # 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table # Issued 2007 Jul 17 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2007 Jul 18 70 5 2 2007 Jul 19 70 10 3 2007 Jul 20 70 15 4 2007 Jul 21 70 15 4 2007 Jul 22 70 10 3 2007 Jul 23 70 5 2 2007 Jul 24 70 5 2 2007 Jul 25 70 5 2 2007 Jul 26 70 10 3 2007 Jul 27 70 5 2 2007 Jul 28 70 5 2 2007 Jul 29 70 5 2 2007 Jul 30 70 5 2 2007 Jul 31 70 15 4 2007 Aug 01 70 5 2 2007 Aug 02 70 5 2 2007 Aug 03 75 5 2 2007 Aug 04 75 5 2 2007 Aug 05 75 5 2 2007 Aug 06 75 10 3 2007 Aug 07 75 20 5 2007 Aug 08 75 8 3 2007 Aug 09 75 5 2 2007 Aug 10 75 20 5 2007 Aug 11 75 10 3 2007 Aug 12 75 8 3 2007 Aug 13 70 8 3 (http://www.sec.noaa.gov/radio via WORLD OF RADIO 1367, DXLD) ###