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Thanks, Glenn SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1372 Wed 2200 WBCQ 7415 [first airing of each edition] 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 0800 WRMI 9955 Sat 1630 WWCR3 12160 [irregular; confirmed 8/25/07] 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 [irregular; not 8/27/07] Mon 0415 WBCQ 7415 [time varies] Mon 0830 WRMI 9955 Tue 1030 WRMI 9955 Tue 1530 WRMI 7385 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 ** ANGOLA. 4949.96, (tentative) R. Angola 'Canal A', Mulenvos, Aug 28 0350 - decent strength signal but poor modulation, very little audio heard. Transmitter off at 0354 and back at 0407. No 0511 UT sunrise at transmitter enhancement noted, and carrier faded below noise floor at 0600 (Brandon Jordan, Memphis, TN USA (35.106764,-89.898027), Receiver: RFSpace SDR-14, WinRadio G313e; Antenna: Wellbrook ALA-100 Loop (60/240 , 3m x 9m, 1m elevation); Accessories: GAP Hear IT DSP, Datong FL3, Ratzlaff 2.25 MHz High Pass Filter, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA. La emisora LRA36, 15476, de 1820 a 1900 UT, 21 de agosto, con fuerte interferencia de emisora en francés [AN1 Gabon] desapareciendo prácticamente la señal por la interferencia y un fuerte fading. Volviendo luego de 1900 UT con SINPO 44333. 73! (Alejandro Linconao, Argentina, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Europe, 15476, Aug 29, 2016-2030, PORTUGAL: LRA36. Barely audible with music being played, signal disappearing below noise level at 2030. RX NRD 545 + LONG WIRE (Colin from London, HCDX online log via DXLD) ???!!! I always thought it was in Antarctica, but Portugal is pretty close. Another marvel from the DIY online log community, where nobody ever gives their full real name. Will this ever be corrected there? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. Premian a AM 530 La Voz de las Madres El próximo 27 de agosto, AM 530 La Voz de las Madres recibirá de manos del Consejo Profesional de Radio de Argentores el premio Susini, que consiste en una réplica del micrófono utilizado en 1920 en la primera transmisión de radio. Nora Massi y Mabel Loisi, responsables del Consejo, serán las encargadas de entregar la distinción, que será recibida por la directora general de la radio y presidenta de la Asociación Madres de Plaza de Mayo, Hebe de Bonafini. El premio se constituye como una forma de reconocer el trabajo que La Voz de las Madres realiza, desde hace casi dos años, en pos de la construcción de una nueva comunicación. La ceremonia de entrega se realizará a las 19.30 horas en el auditorio Gregorio de Laferrere de la sede de Argentores, Pacheco de Melo 1820, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. (20-08-07) http://www.amplitudmodulada.com.ar/ (via Nicolás Eramo, Argentina, Aug 29, condiglist via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. RA lost program feed Aug 29, with 9590, 9580 and 9560 all running fill music, presumably from transmitter site, and periodic apologies for ``break in transmission`` they hoped to fix ASAP. This lasted at least from 1305 to 1336 when talk programming had resumed, so ``Asia-Pacific`` listeners were out of luck. But they were still off schedule, now monitoring 9590, with multi-frequency QSY announcement normally running at 1357 or 1358, this time after 1400 when they should have been in news. Then more fill, including promo for RA now being on FM in Maldives (if they can do that, why not Minivan?), and RA (not ABC) news finally started at 1403, but it was interrupted at 1405 to join another feature show from ABC. This was not a break in ``transmission`` as the transmitters stayed on the air as usual. It was a break in program feed from Melbourne studios to Shepparton; satellite problem? Whatever the reason, we can only wonder why they apparently have no backup! A dialup phone link would have been adequate for the time being. Or it could be the studio was unable to send out programming by any means due to some kind of electrical or mechanical or computer breakdown. Loyal listeners want to know exactly what happened, but stations never tell them such details (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BAHRAIN. 6010.0, 2340-0040 23/24-08, R. Bahrain, Abu Hayan - British romantic songs non-stop, no announcements heard, 33443. Heterodyne Colombia on 6009.5, so heard best in USB (Anker Petersen, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** BENIN. 5024.94, (tentative) R. Parakou, Parakou, AUg 28 0447 - perhaps the one here turning transmitter on at 0447 while Rebelde was off. Unfortunately Rebelde back at 0500 with OC until 0510, then into broadcast (Brandon Jordan, Memphis, TN, details at ANGOLA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BHUTAN. 6035.00, *0000-0035 fade out, 24 & 26-08, Bhutan Broadcasting Service, Sangaygang. Dzongkha announcement, horns and drums, intoning monks, nearly totally covering Colombia! 44444 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg WORLD OF RADIO 1372, via DXLD) ** BIAFRA [non]. Biafra #2 imminent? A reminder to check for the other V. of Biafra International transmission, per WHRA schedule, Wed 1915- 1945 on 13710. If missing there, might be on some other WHR frequency, as they list the wrong frequency for the other transmission, Fri 20-21 on WHRI 15665, not 17650. Tnx, Glenn Hauser, 1701 UT Aug 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Checked WHR`s listed other broadcast of V. of Biafra International, Wed at 1915-1945 on WHRA 13710: Aug 29 tuned in at 1914 to gospel rock music, which continued past 1915; 1918 WHR website promo, more such music. I forced myself to persevere until 1924, then vamoosed from that nonsense. No sign of VOBI. So much for the WHR website. Other WHR programming on 9840; 17650 not audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Saludos Glenn, cuando son las 1920 del 29 de agosto, por la frecuencia de 13710 se aprecia una emisión musical con locutor en inglés, WHRA GREENBUSH. No se aprecia ninguna emisión de la Voice of Biafra. Estoy escuchando esta emisión desde las 1909. 73 (José Miguel Romero, Spain, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOTSWANA. 4930.00, VOA, Selebi-Phikwe, Aug 28 0350-0602* - fair signal with English VOA programming. Carrier still visible above noise floor to verify 0602* s/off (Brandon Jordan, Memphis, TN, details at ANGOLA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Rádio Cultura AM+OT+OC Caros, Por ocasião de uma visita à Rádio Cultura hoje cedo, fui informado que o Parque Transmissor deles, que fica no Parque Edu Chaves, bairro da Zona Norte/Nordeste de SP, será desativado e transferido para as margens da Represa de Guarapiranga (to odiando esta parte Rs) entre 1 e 2 meses. O transmissor (Harris) de AM já está operando aqui (eu moro em Guarapiranga!) 24 horas por dia, no regime de 50KW dia, 20 KW noite. Detalhe: o sistema automático da rádio opera o transmissor e tira a modulação ao término da programação, à meia- noite, mas não desliga o transmissor (acabamos prejudicados por ocupação do canal, e o meu dinheiro é gasto mantendo um transmissor ligado!). Antena Omnidirecional de 72 metros (Posteriormente será instalada uma segunda unidade diretiva cujo projeto não ficou pronto. Tive a oportunidade de conversar longamente com o Sr Moreno, chefe da Engenharia da Rede Cultura - Rede Interior/Transmissão, e fui informado que todas as faixas estao operantes e que inclusive os 16 metros tem estado no ar regularmente. E é aí que está a questão que me foi colocada por eles próprios. Onde o sinal está chegando? Frequências da R Cultura: 1200, 6170, 9615 e 17815 kHz Por estas razões, até por uma coincidência de interesses, gostaria de pedir aos colegas de td o Brasil que reportem como chega o sinal da Rádio Cultura em suas cidades, seja em AM ou OT e OC. Eu vou juntar estes dados e repassar a eles pessoalmente, já que as antenas de Ondas Curtas e Tropicais novas não foram definidas ainda, e por questões de verba, pretende-se instalar antenas de alto ganho, possivelmente Delta Loop. Pedi que eles paguem as informações com carta-QSL mas isso não foi confirmado ainda. O importante é que quem sai ganhando somos nós, porque podemos ajudar literalmente uma emissora entrar no ar com mais qualidade. Quem puder ajudar, por favor, me reporte e-mails sempre com o assunto Rádio Cultura, porque eu vou repassar sempre para um determinado contato na Rádio, que recebendo os informes vai fazer um mapa de abrangência. Se puder informar dados sobre o rádio utilizado, etc é sempre bom. Só posso agradecer, contando com a ajuda de todos vocês, e quando possível, postarei fotos dos equipamentos velhos e novos. Um grande 73, (Denis Zoqbi, Aug 28, radioescutas yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. Re: IBOC Oi pessoal, boa noite. Achei um texto interessante do Sr. Higino Germani que fala da adoção do rádio digital aqui: http://www.sulradio.com.br/destaque_radio_digital_higino.asp Embora relativamente curto, o texto do Sr. Germani possui boa fundamentação para explicar sua opinião contrária a adoção do rádio digital da maneira que está sendo proposta, ou seja, uma tentativa de "digitalizar" a estrutura atual (seja da emissora, seja dos ouvintes). Ele é a favor do Rádio Digital, mas não desta maneira. Germani relembra os grandes custos de emissoras AM tradicionais: a torre é gigantesca, é necessário uma quantidade de terreno considerável, consumo de energia importante, problemas de liberação de estruturas próximos a aeródromos. A proposta de Germani é feita partir de uma constatação: com a adoção das freqüências de 87,5 e 87,7 e 87,9 MHz para FM comunitárias está em andamento uma organização no espectro a fim de (pelo que entendi) desativar o uso do canal 6 de TV, VHF-baixo (as três freqüências acima fazem parte da banda alocada para o canal 6). Germani, então, propõe que os 6 MHz do canal 6 seja alocado exclusivamente para Rádio Digital. ------- Seguindo o conceito de Germani, podemos imaginar algumas situações: - Se cada emissora utilizar 100 Khz para emitir seu sinal digital (um exagero pois a medição de Roland Zumerly mostra que o IBOC usa 40 Khz), a banda de 6 MHz permitiria abrigar 120 transmissões simultâneas! - Emissoras poderiam compartilhar a mesma torre e o mesmo transmissor (uma espécie de condomínio) e assim diminuir seus custos, - Possibilidade de utilizar e aprimorar a plataforma tecnológica da TV digital brasileira - segundo o Governo, pesquisadores brasileiros terão acesso à plataforma digital originalmente desenvolvida no Japão. Além de desenvolver novos serviços e aprimorar a interatividade, nossos pesquisadores poderão ter a chance de inventar um sistema de rádio digital econômico, eficiente - e, quem sabe, - aberto e acessível a qualquer um (estudantes, hobbystas e fabricantes). - O DX ainda é possível! :) A diversas situações que sinais na banda de 80 a 148 MHz (ou mais) se propagam a distâncias surpeendentes! --hg (Huelbe Garcia, Brasil, Aug 28, radioescutas yg via DXLD) ** BURKINA FASO. 5030.01, R. Burkina, Ouagadougou, Aug 28 *0538 - s-on with traditional African vocal then into news by man in French at 0542. More local music/drums at 0550. Female announcer at 0600 with Radio Burkina ID and announcements. Surprisingly good despite co- channel University Network on 5030.02 (Brandon Jordan, Memphis, TN, details at ANGOLA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, I often hear them mixing with that SAH, 10 Hz in this case (gh, OK, DXLD) ** CANADA. Move of CFFX-960 and CKLC-1380 both Kingston ON to FM approved by CRTC The move of both Kingston ON AM stations to FM has been approved by the CRTC: CFFX-860 moves to 104.3 MHz, 4 kW CKLC-1380 moves to 98.9 MHz, 8.7 kW http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Decisions/2007/db2007-334.htm Conversions to FM band and licensing of a new radio station to serve Kingston The Commission approves the applications by 591989 B.C. Ltd. and 1708479 Ontario Inc. for broadcasting licences to operate new English- language FM radio programming undertakings in Kingston to replace their respective AM stations, CFFX and CKLC Kingston. The Commission also approves the application by K-Rock 1057 Inc. for a broadcasting licence to operate a new FM radio programming undertaking to serve Kingston. For CFFX: The station will operate at 104.3 MHz (channel 282B) with an average effective radiated power of 4,000 watts. 5. The licensee is authorized to simulcast the programming of the new FM station on CFFX for a transition period of three months following the commencement of operations of the FM station. For CKLC: The station will operate at 98.9 MHz (channel 255B) with an average effective radiated power of 8,700 watts. 5. The licensee is authorized to simulcast the programming of the new FM station on CKLC for a transition period of three months following the commencement of operations of the FM station. 73, (Deane McIntyre VE6BPO, Aug 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Deane, Do you know what, if any, plans the CBC and CRTC has for CBEF 540 in Windsor? There's a new French speaking station on FM for Windsor (400 kHz away from two major Detroit stations). (Joe Miller, KJ8O, IRCA via DXLD) I presume that you are referring to CJBC-FM-1 on 103.9 MHz, which carries the second CBC French service Espace Musique. There has been an ongoing project over the past few years to expand this service, and also the second English service, Radio 2, across Canada. Both networks have always been FM only. I know of no plans for CBEF-540 (the Première Chaîne station) nor CBE-1550, the Radio 1 station, to move to FM. I think the probe is a lack of FM frequencies in the Detroit-Windsor area, otherwise like almost all CBC AM stations in eastern Canada they would have moved some years ago. 73, (Deane McIntyre VE6BPO, ibid.) See MOHAWK NATION ** CHINA. Re 7-103, 9890: Check on August 27 I heard CRI IS at 1157 ending interference to VOA better signal (Tony Ashar, Indonesia, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake, 10300, Aug 29 at 1308, much stronger than // 9200; sounded like a ram`s horn for a moment. Have they changed the musical content? Not audible on 13970 or any of the higher frequencies, where reception in general was much attenuated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. COMMUNIST REGIME CLAMPS DOWN ON MEDIA BEFORE 17TH NATIONAL CONGRESS --- By An Pei, Radio Free China http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/7-8-27/59113.html According to the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy, China has further tightened its control over media in the run-up to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s 17th National Congress. It is estimated that over one hundred radio stations throughout the country have been shut down. In Nanjing City alone, there have been 12 radio stations that have been shut down, as authorities are concerned that the contents of their programs could possibly incite politically-fueled incidents in the run-up to the 17th National Congress --- local radio talk show listeners cited recent topics regarding sex and the supernatural. Radio Free Asia (RFA) reporters placed international calls to multiple programs of the Nanjing Radio Station, yet the only person they could reach was an advertising executive. A resident of Nanjing City stated that she was unaware whether local radio stations' programs had changed, but recently she did notice significant changes in the television programming, as she could no longer view the programs of various channels. "It seems that some channels are shut down, and the programs of other channels are different from before. The Phoenix 3 Channel is not available, and there are only about ten channels available at the moment," she observed. Ex-China Ocean News reporter, Zan Aizong from Zhejiang Province, said that whenever there was an important meeting convening in China, the government would tighten its media control before and after the event. "Some programs would be heavily edited in the run-up to every CCP National Congresses, often by adding many advertisements," said Zan. "But after the National Congress concluded, programming would return to normal. Before the 16th National Congress convened, a friend of mine working at a radio station once informed me that programming would be cleaned up." The Hong Kong-based Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy added that since last July, the Chinese government has stepped up efforts to jam the broadcast of programs from overseas radio stations. It is believed that the Chinese military has been involved with this large-scale jamming operation, and the operation is expected to last until the end of the 17th National Congress. "The jamming operations have been around for a long time," said Zan. "For instance, when I lived in Beijing a couple of years ago, I couldn't access programs from overseas radio stations whatsoever. It was impossible to tune in to these stations. Only those who live in remote farm villages may be able to tune in to them, as the space is so vast and so expansive that the jamming would be less effective. As a result, people might be able to access the on-line programs, yet the jamming is always there. As much as they are able, they will never let the so-called 'unwanted voices' be heard in China." In terms of the effectiveness of the Chinese government tightening its control over media in the run-up to every important meeting or holiday in China, Zan thinks it is limited. "The Chinese people are not idiots. The Chinese authority has lied for so long. At this point, people wouldn't believe anything it said even if it wasn't jamming these signals," said Zan of the Chinese authority's effectiveness in controlling the media. "People are fed up with the programs broadcast by China National Radio and the China Central Television as well as the coverage of the People's Daily and the Xinhua News Agency. The Chinese people have awakened." Zan added that nowadays with the Internet, text messages and simple word of mouth have become popular methods of conveying information in Chinese society. He says that people now find out what's important through their computers and cell phones. As a result, they no longer rely on the official government media (via tribby2001, dxldyg via DXLD) ** CONGO DR. (KINSHASA). 5066.34, (presumed) R. Candip, Bunia, Aug 28 *0402 - S-on with traditional African vocal by female into talk by man in possibly French at 0405, inaudible from 0410. Threshold audio, best at sign-on and steadily fading as Bunia sunrise was 0357 UT (Brandon Jordan, Memphis, TN, details at ANGOLA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. RHC, 15370, missing Aug 29 at 1316 check, until it cut on and off briefly a few times (Glenn Hausere, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Location of R. Reloj, 1020? Seems the main man with the plan down there in the keys has sworn himself to secrecy, so I'll just have to look elsewhere for my info on Cuba MW stations. Can ANYONE tell me with any degree of precision where the Reloj station on 1020 kHz is? I know it must be an easy 5 kW and I'd judge probably 10 kW. I've said it once, and I'll say it again: The man with the plan who has taken LOBS to these station won't tell me, so maybe someone will... CAT the Curmudgeon Man (Charles A Taylor, WD4INP, Greenville, North Carolina, IRCA via DXLD) Uh, Victoria de las Tunas? About year or so ago, fellow came up on another net, provided enlightening info. IIRC, there was RR outlet in Victoria. When fido learned of plans to locate 1020 Marti relay in Grand Turk, he went absolutely ape and blew his bag. He ordered 1010 slewed up to 1020. He'd show those Yanqui running dogs of Imperialism, the gusanos, those parasitos and sons of parasitos, yes sireebop. Days, here, it's 1020 Guama, but our 1020 nites are loaded with ticks, courtesy of hewho croaked, but whose legacy carries on. z (Paul V. Zecchino, FL, ibid.) As Dr. Z. has reported on this list previously, suspicions based on knowledgeable sources, 1020 RR is former 1010 RR Jobabo/Victoria, Las Tunas, moved up a notch to counter past R. Martí plans/rumors. RR 1020 has been heard here on the Atlantic coast, but day times competes unsuccessfully with WRHB Kendall. Most likely to be noted as a Wobbler. WRTH lists 1010 RR as 5 kW. Beyond mystical divinations, no other info is available (W. Curt Deegan, Boca Ratón, (southeast) Florida, USA, http://ScooterHound.com/WWWR/wobbler ibid.) My logging from last season shows up as CMAP, Bahía Honda. Not sure right now of the source of that info - haven't time to check further right now (Russ Edmunds. Blue Bell, PA ( 360' ASL ), [15 mi NNW of Philadelphia], ibid.) Charles, 1020 is in Las Tunas in the province of Las Tunas in the eastern third of the country. Several years ago 1010 changed frequency to 1020 as a result of 1020 doing a relay test for Radio Martí (Jerry Kiefer, NM, ibid.) Jerry, Thank you. At least it is on the official RR listing, but still listed as 1010. WRTH-07 is no help, but probably will never be until someone takes a positive interest in up- dating the Cuba data. That isn't me because I have too many miles between me and Cuba to observe correctly what is actually going on MW there. Few of you know that I essentially supplied all the Philippine data for WRTH back in the 70s, but then I actually resided in the Philippines for some years (Charles Taylor, NC, Aug 29, ibid.) Days, here, 1020, R. Guamá dominant, QTH Bahía Honda. RR Las Tunas owns the night. z (pv zecchino managuama key, fl, Aug 28, IRCA via DXLD) 1020, CUBA, Las Tunas, Las Tunas. Radio Reloj: Logged at 2003 [must be EDT = 0003 UT 8/29 --- gh] 8/28 on top of KDKA and a Haitian-sounding French fpeaking station (Anyone know who?). Nice signal during KDKA (with Neil Boorz in a fade. One more Reloj caught (Charles Taylor, NC, IRCA via DXLD) WRHB Kendall, FL (Pete Taylor, Tacoma, WA, ibid.) Thanks to all who provided the location and power of Radio Reloj-1020. In the case of Radio Reloj, I require hearing vocal "Radio Reloj" ID before I'll log it. "RR" in morse code doesn't make it with me: this is a BC station. However, I'm not too good: If I had heard KXTO-1550 via the morse ID, I'd have logged it like everyone else (Charles Taylor, NC, Aug 29, ibid.) ** CUBA. 990/1020/1070, R Guamá (reportedly San Luís, Guane and Pinar del Río respectively), Pinar del Río; 0048-0058 24 August, 2007. Cuban vocals, ID. 990 and 1070 fair, 1070 very good. 1020, Radio Reloj, unknown site; 24 August, 2007. About equal level as co-channel Guamá. 1100, Radio Cadena Habana, unknown site; 24 August, 2007. Really mostly just a big wobbler, little audio making through the wobble. 1140, Radio Rebelde, unknown site; 24 August, 2007. Fair, parallel 530, 1180, 5025. 1140, Radio Cadena Habana, Pastora, Ciudad de la Habana; 26 August, 2007. Tune-in to "Noticiero Nacional de Radio" feed, but most interestingly, the program (which is normally 1300-1330 local) continued till 1745, followed by Radio Cadena Habana ID and Cuban vocals. Rebelde 530, 1180, 5025 also came out of NNdR at 1745. Extended time for NNdR now? Weekends only? Optional 1730, 1745 (and maybe 1800?) exit times? Clear (in LSB to escape semi-local 1150 kHz) and fair. 1181.00: see UNIDENTIFIED (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. I observed something tonight that I hadn't observed on 1180. That is Radio Martí over Radio Rebelde It seemed that the two were duking it out on the Radio. I wonder if R. Martí got their 100 k transmitters? (Richard Lewis, UT Aug 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Please include your location with reports, unless in deep cover. According to my records, he is in Forest MS. I don`t think the 100 kW could have been purchased and installed yet. From several other reports, it does appear Marathon is ``loosening up`` its once-tight direxional pattern (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** CYPRUS. LINCOLNSHIRE POACHER (SPY NUMBERS) Hola compañeros: Uno no está muy ducho en esto de las emisoras de números y ayer me resultó curioso encontrarme a las 1905 UT en el 6959 kHz una musiquilla machacona que se repetía 12 veces, dando paso a una identificación de números en inglés (47492) que se repetía 10 veces, para volver a la musiquilla. Me resultó extraño lo de la música y además que los números no variaran de una vez a otra, siempre los mismos. Puestos a investigar por la fuente inagotable de Google y de la Wikipedia, me topo con que se trata de una emisora de números al parecer del MI6 británico y que emite desde una base que tienen en Chipre. La emisión tiene el nombre de Lincolnshire Poacher, que es el nombre de la canción folclórica inglesa a la que corresponde la sintonía musical. Os pongo los enlaces de la página de wikipedia donde se habla del tema (en inglés) y de la sintonía musical, para que la identifiquéis sin os la topáis alguna vez. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincolnshire_Poacher_(numbers_station) http://irdial.hyperreal.org/the%20conet%20project/disc%201/tcp_d1_6_the_lincolnshire_poacher_mi5_irdial.mp3 Saludos (Jorge Trinado, Spain, Aug 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) This 4+ minute mp3 says ``39715``, then a variety of numbers, so I guess this is not his own recording on 6959 (gh, DXLD) ** DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. 6025.08, R. Amanecer, Santo Domingo (presumed), 0240-0400:45* August 29, religious programming in Spanish, segments of preaching and religious music/singing, mostly poor, brief periods of fair reception. Did not note any sign-off announcements. Was anticipating their usual ID and choral anthem at sign-off, but was just non-stop religious singing from 0347 till suddenly off). Could not make out any ID, but am fairly certain it's them. I last heard this one over two years ago, so this was a nice surprise (Ron Howard, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005.00, R Bata, Bata, Aug 28 - no sign of R. Bata here at listed 0500 sign-on or after (Brandon Jordan, Memphis, TN, details at ANGOLA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. American religious broadcast heard at 1030 Aug 29 on 630 kHz, mixing with a domestic station. Believe this is the Guam station which was going to move from 612 kHz (Chris Hambly, Victoria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) That`s KUAM. Checking http://www.kuam.com we find radio barely mentioned, mainly about TV channels 8 and 11. BTW, I see the CBS ``Evening`` News is scheduled at 6:30 pm local! That`s 0830 UT, 10 hours after original airing (or maybe 9.5 hours if they take the repeat a semihour later). So it is the CBS Morning Olds, as far as Guam is concerned. Why in the world do they delay it instead of just running it when it is live, or at least fresher, at 12:30 noon local? By 0830 they could be picking up the CBS overnight news show live. Getting back to 630, I can`t find any mention of what frequency their AM station is really on! But it is still called ``Isla61AM`` which will surely have to change. Should have been ``Isla61.2AM``, anyway, since they are expressing the frequency in myriahertz. And does that name mean they broadcast in Spanish? Doesn`t anybody document the axual date such changes go into effect? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 612: KUAM, Agaña GU moves to 630, allowing digitally-tuned radios with 10 kHz (North American) spacing to tune the station more clearly. (PUBLIC LISTINGS COURTESY OF THERADIOJOURNAL.COM AND 100000WATTS.COM, Broadcasting Info, via Robert Wien, IRCA DX Monitor Sept 1 via DXLD) ** INDIA. 4965, *0025-0045, 26-08, AIR Shimla Hindi/English Reactivated! Indian hymn, news in Hindi and 0035-0040 English including State of Emergency in Greece due to fires, 0040 Hindi ID and talk - not reported heard since FEB 2007! 43443. 10330, 1330-1735* 24-08, AIR, Khampur. Hindi announcement, Bollywood songs in Vividh Bharati Service 45434 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1372, DXLD) ** INDIA. All India Radio, 9690, 1330z Aug 29, with top of the hour news in English to SE Asia (not aimed our way). Not exactly grayline but definitely a mixed path of daylight and dark. // 11620 & //13710. (Jerry Lenamon, Waco, Texas, Drake R8B with sloper, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL INTERNET. Wifi to pass wired Ethernet --- So says the Burton Group. Should add further impetus to these WiFi audio appliances. (don't have the heart to call them radios) See http://news.com.com/Report+Wi-Fi+to+supersede+wired+Ethernet/2100-7351_3-6205010.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&subj=news or http://snipurl.com/1q2vb (Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA USA, Aug 29, swprograms via DXLD) Amusing that the one comment filed in response to the article says simply and succinctly, "Not gonna happen." Prescient prediction or wishful thinking (John Figliozzi, NY, ibid.) In the home environment -- different from the corporate environment -- I believe it's already happening. In the corporate environment, it's a tougher call. The development of all-IP communications (VoIP phones plus computers connected to externally-provided applications as well as the Net) emphasizes a quality of connection that WiFi doesn't deliver yet, based on my own experience (Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA, ibid.) [Swprograms] WiFi, WiMAX, & Internet "Radio" In all the discussion of these "wirelessly accessing Internet audio" devices and facilities, I have still *never* read or heard of anyone taking one of these "Internet radio" devices and pulling an assortment of programming out of the air off the net WITHOUT using a home-computer-controlled local network or the like. I really want to see a report from someone who walked into a Wi-Fi- equipped coffee shop or is in a city with a region-wide WiFi or WiMAX and, using *just* an Internet-audio device, listened to gh's "World of Radio" and science programs from RN, RA, CBC, and the BBC. That is, was able to access specific programs, not just tune in a continuous web stream of a broadcaster. Is this yet possible or not? If not, what will it take to make it happen? If it IS available, what should I buy to get this capability? Is this ever envisaged to happen without "logging in" or making some sort of payment for the service? 73, (Will Martin, Saint Louis, MO (where there is publicity that we *will* have some sort of city-wide WiFi eventually somehow...), ibid.) Will, it depends on the broadcaster and the database provider that the WiFi receiver uses to make programming easier. The Reciva-enabled units (including the one C. Crane sells for $300) has links for all the on-demand programming available on the BBC services (including the World Service) but not others, from a quick scan I did. You can use a website to manually add Internet addresses (URLs) for on-demand programs to a preferred "list" that your "receiver" accesses when it logs into the Internet. It is much easier to do that than to manually enter URLs on a device without a keyboard. We successfully fired up the AE-1 receiver at the SWL Fest without having a home network, using the hotel's WiFi network. The guy who presented the forum we ran on these says that the list of stations that one maintains on the web for their radio is the handiest way to tune in. You should be able to do this with any "open" WiFi network, or any network that you have the password for. Our WiFi network here at the office is WEP password encrypted, and worked fine once I entered the password on the unit itself (not an attached computer). The problem with most region-wide WiFi networks is that they ain't free --- so you have to have an established account with them. I honestly don't know if you could then register the receiver as one of your computers on the WiFi network. Philadelphia, which was one of the first cities to announce a city-wide WiFi network, has this network roughly 50% built out, and claims to be on schedule to have it completed this calendar year. The base subscription rate to Wireless Philadelphia is $20 / month, or $10 / month if one receives public support (e.g. Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps). Most folks that get these units already have a WiFi network set up at home, or convert their wired broadband network to a WiFi network. The hardware required for that conversion is cheap -- a $29 WiFi router would be all you need. People that live in establishments with free WiFi would also theoretically be able to simply plug in & turn on. Alas, I don't see WOR on the list of on-demand programs in the Reciva directory (that the AE-1 uses as its base list of stations). You could easily past the podcast URL for WOR into your custom web list and thus listen to each new edition as it becomes available. You could do that for any station that offers podcasts. Will, I hope this is helpful even though there is a fair amount of Internet jargon one has to deal with in using these units. Don't hesitate to ask if you have any additional questions. Keeping on the WiFi theme, here's an interesting item from Jonathan Marks regarding WiFi technologies (among other things) and how broadcasters need to change their thinking. See http://www.ebu.ch/en/technical/trev/trev_307-jmarks.pdf (Richard Cuff, PA, ibid.) I've got a laptop and am thinking about a broadband connection to see how that works. if I like it, I'll consider a dedicated "radio" (Mike Wolfson, ibid.) If you're like me, you'll never go back to dialup once you get used to the Internet being "always on". If you listen while you travel, an MP3 player in tandem with your laptop may be a more effective combination. Besides, a suitable MP3 player sets you back as little as $30 - $50 (Richard Cuff, ibid.) ** IRAN [non]. Irán. Ha vuelto al éter, tras un largo paréntesis, la emisora del Partido Comunista de Irán, La Voz de la revolución. La emisora fue captada en la capital de Bulgaria, Sofía, en la frecuencia de 4380 kilohercios, a las 15.30 y a las 17.30 horas. La emisora cambia de frecuencia cada dos o tres minutos con el fin de evitar el jamming por parte de las autoridades de Irán (Rumen Pankov, R. Bulgaria Spanish DX program Espacio Diexista Aug 27 via DXLD) ** ISRAEL. Glenn- I just received the updated Kol Israel shortwave schedule, effective since July 29, 2007. All times are local ISRAEL time. I have yet to fully analyze the schedule, I wanted to pass it on. Thanks (Doni Rosenzweig, Aug 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: Israel Local Time = UTC +3 Summer Time 30.3.07 - 15.9.07; UTC+2 = 16.9.07 - 27.10.07 English 06:30-06:45 N. America/W. Europe 9345 N. America/W. Europe @ 11590 7530 Central America/Australia 17600 12:30-12:45 N. America/W. Europe 15760 N. America/W. Europe 13855 20:30-20:45 N. America/W. Europe 9345 N. America/W. Europe 13675 N. America/W. Europe 11590 Times are local, UT +3, so really 0330, 0930, 1730 UT. The @ means that 11590 is in use until 31 August, then back to 7530 (Glenn Hauser, excerpting English portion only for WORLD OF RADIO 1372, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [later:] So, from the schedule I sent you this morning, it seems that Reshet Bet gained about an hour on shortwave at 18:25-19:30 (Israel Time) on 15760, 11605, 9345 to NAm and WEu, since the studio cutbacks left open transmitter time. No other languages gained anything and no languages were cut entirely. The previous schedule is here, for comparison: http://www.iba.org.il/doc/shortwaves.pdf (Doni Rosenzweig, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Here is the July 29 2007 - Oct 2007 Israel Radio shortwave schedule. ALL TIMES ARE LOCAL ISRAEL TIME - not UT [subtract 3h for UT now; 2h when Israeli DST is over] Hopefully it doesn't look like too much of a mess after it gets posted. There were quite a number of cutbacks. All that comes out of the Reshet Hey (Israel Radio International) studio at this point is Persian. The rest are relays of the domestic REKA network (besides Reshet Bet of course.) Reshet Bet gained about an hour of shortwave relay out of all this. As of now, this schedule hasn't been posted on the IBA or israelradio.org websites. Hebrew (Reshet Bet relay) 07:00-08:00 N America/W Europe 9345 08:00-12:30 N America/W Europe 15760 13:30-17:00 N America/W Europe 15760 18:25-19:30 N America/W Europe 15760 N America/W Europe 11605 N America/W Europe 9345 21:00-22:00 N America/W Europe 13675 (Mabat TV news) 23:00-24:15 N America/W Europe 9400 S America/Spain 15615 23:00-02:00 N America/W Europe 9400 02:00-06:30 N America/W Europe 9345 @ 11590 English 06:30-6:45 N America/W Europe 9345 N America/W Europe 7530 @ 11590 C America/Australia 17600 12:30-12:45 N America/W Europe 15760 N America/W Europe 13855 20:30-20:45 N America/W Europe 9345 N America/W Europe 13675 N America/W Europe 11590 French 06:45-07:00 N America/W Europe 9345 @ 11590 N America/W Europe 7530 13:00-13:15 N America/W Europe 15760 N America/W Europe 13855 20:00-20:15 N America/W Europe 9345 N America/W Europe 13675 N America/W Europe 11590 Spanish & Ladino 18:00-18:25 Spain/S Europe 15640 N America/W Europe 11605 (Saturday only) N America / S Europe 15760 Ladino 12:45-13:00 N America/W Europe 15760 N America/W Europe 13855 Russian 23:00-24:00 Russia 9345 Persian 17:00-18:25 Iran 13850 15640 @@ (Sun-Thurs) N America/W Europe 15760 Iran 11605 9985 @@ 17:00-18:00 Iran 13850 15640 @@ (Fri & Sat) N America/W Europe 15760 Iran 11605 9985 @@ Yiddish 20:45-21:00 Europe 11590 Europe 13675 C America/S Europe 9345 Spanish 20:15-20:30 S America/S Africa 9345 N America/W Europe 11590 N America/W Europe 13675 Romanian 19:30-19:45 Romania 9345 Romania 11590 Romania 15760 Amharic 21:00-21:30 N Africa 11590 N America/W Europe 9345 Tigris 21:30-21:45 N Africa 11590 N America/W Europe 9345 Hungarian 21:45-22:00 S America/S Africa 9345 Central Europe 11590 Central Europe 13675 (via Doni Rosenzweig, Aug 29, DXLD) ** ITALY. IBF TORINO: VINTAGE QSL AND AUDIOCLIP --- For all the interested: I have add in my blog the picture of QSL and the audioclip with phone and CW id. of IBF, the old Italian Standard Time and frequency station operating from the "Istituto Elettrotecnico Galileo Ferraris" Torino. The QSL card and the audioclip has been taped in 1977. http://swli05639fr.blogspot.com/ 73's (Francesco Cecconi, Noticias DX yg via DXLD) ** JAMAICA. Jamaica-720 - new slogan? Jamaica-720 was in well this morning 0845-0900 UT with Chris De Burgh's mid 80's hit "Lady in Red" and MANY program promos "on Nationwide Radio" which is apparently their new slogan. Heard on Grundig S-350 barefoot while getting ready for work. With the radio pointed west, WGN was weak-fair but with radio pointed south, Jamaica was loud. Once WOR goes IBOC 24/7 on Sept 14 this type of reception with a small portable radio will be a thing of the past. – (Marc DeLorenzo, South Dennis, MA, Aug 29, http://hometown.aol.com/midcapemarc/myhomepage/profile.html NRC-AM via DXLD) Hurry not to sing Jamaica Farewell. Appreciate slogan update. Check out HD tidbit. Are they are worried? Many harbor serious concerns, at long last, re HD AM, particularly nite ops. http://radiomagonline/digital_radio_update/digital-radio-update-082207/#nytimes "Every criminal scheme, carries the seeds of its own undoing." - Steve Hodel, Ret., LA PD Homicide (paul vincent zecchino, manalog purity of essence key, fl, ibid.) Marc and Crew, I was hearing Jamaica-720 a few weeks back with NO RJR94 (or anything like it) during the half hour or so that I tracked the station --- frustrating. I DID hear "Nationwide Radio," and maybe as far as we're concerned, that's going to have to be acceptable amongst us as an ID. Ideas? Comments? Questions? Answers? (Charles Taylor, ibid.) Dis heah mus' be's it. 700 Jamaica, for years is in here days until appx. 1200L. Of late, much music & lilting accented YL's & OM's - but shocking paucity of ID's, similar to 720 description (Paul Vincent Zecchino, Manasota Key FL, ibid.) ** JAPAN [and non]. Dear Glenn, Attached are details of Radio Japan's new times and languages for Europe effective Oct 1 to Oct 28 2007. Some frequencies may be adjusted will occur at the start of B-07. Best regards, (Alan Holder, Isle of Wight, UK, Aug 28, WORLD OF RADIO 1372, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: Radio Japan changes EU (Europe) UTC JST LANGUAGE FREQUENCY(kHz) START CLOSE START CLOSE 00:00 00:20 09:00 09:20 ENGLISH 5960 04:30 05:00 13:30 14:00 RUSSIAN 11970 05:00 05:30 14:00 14:30 ENGLISH 5975 11:30 12:00 20:30 21:00 RUSSIAN 11710 12:00 12:30 21:00 21:30 ENGLISH 17600 14:00 14:30 23:00 23:30 ENGLISH 13630 18:00 18:20 03:00 03:20 RUSSIAN 11970 (via Holder, ibid.) ** KUWAIT. 11990, Radio Kuwait; 1827-1840 26 August, 2007. Techno/rave instrumental into old reggae vocal, English male announcer with ID, mentioned 11990 kHz and North America target, 5 + 1 time sounders at 1830, news headlines and details by same man, into rap vocals. Excellent but annoying 50 cycle hum (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LATVIA. 9290, 1940-2000* Sunday 19-08, Latvia Today via Ulbroka. English talk about a successful Latvian who started his career abroad by a stay in Denmark. He now works in the EU and has visited 57 countries. He is 28 years old! 55555 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** MADAGASCAR. 5010.7v, (presumed) R. Malagasy, Antananarivo, Aug 28 0350 - easy going island sounding vocals, male announcer in [unknown] language at 0400. Mainly poor, transmitter steadily drifting from 5010.79 at tune in down to 5010.72 by 0500. Station stayed on past listed 0500 sign-off (Brandon Jordan, Memphis, TN, details at ANGOLA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALAYSIA. 15295, VOM, 1203-1230*, Aug 27, Mandarin. OM at tune-in. ID string at 1210 including tentative English ID. Pop music and ballads with YL between selections. URL at 1222; only partially discernible. OM and YL until NA at sign-off. Poor-fair at best, gradually fading to barely audible at sign-off. (Scott R. Barbour, Jr., Intervale, NH, R8, R75, NIR10, MLB1, 200' Beverages, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. XEYU active again on 9599.2v, Aug 29 at 1258 producing strong het against amazingly weak Cuba on 9600.0 (as was // 9550 mixed with FE SAH); in the clear after Cuba off at 1301:40, with Noticias del Día, ID; still talk rather than classical music at 1322 recheck (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Solar-terrestrial indices for 28 August follow. Solar flux 70 and mid- latitude A-index 15. The mid-latitude K-index at 1200 UTC on 29 August was 1 (5 nT). The mid-latitude K-index at 1500 UTC on 29 August was 2 (15 nT). No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours. No space weather storms are expected for the next 24 hours (SEC via DXLD) ** MEXICO [non]. SLIGHT FORMAT CHANGE FOR XEPE-1700 I just noticed that XEPE is now identifying itself as "San Diego's 1700 AM," and has a new web site http://sandiego1700am.com/ They have acquired longtime San Diego radio host Mark Larson, who recently "retired" abruptly from KOGO-600 after being moved from Noon- 3pm to 6-8pm, as their morning show host (5-9am) [PDT = UT -7], replacing those ridiculous stock-pimping shows they used to run in the morning. The station is setting up studios at "The Grand Del Mar", a new luxury hotel, and feels compelled to promote the hotel in every other sentence. The station is still LMA'd by Mr. Lynch who runs XEPRS-1090 / XHBCE- 105.7 "Double X Sports Radio" so the "double X" slogan is mentioned frequently in promos and sports reports. So far I don't hear them using the "cash 1700" slogan anymore. XEPE runs USD Toreros football, LA Galaxy Soccer, and Lake Elsinore Storm minor league baseball. I imagine they'll continue to run HS FB on Friday nights. 73, (Tim Hall, Chula Vista, Aug 27, ABDX via DXLD) The 1700 change was first reported in DXLD 7-086 of July 22, from sdradio.net (gh) ** MOHAWK NATION. 097.3, CKON ON Akwesasne | 97.3 CKON Seaway Valley / Mohawk Nation, no CRTC licence | good variety - 69 mi, positive ID (Chris Kadlec in Burlington, VT, AUSABLE CHASM, NEW YORK (PLATTSBURGH/BURLINGTON) FM BANDSCAN AUGUST 18, 2007 SAT 1430 (63?F), 1800 (63?F), 2300 (61?F) AUGUST 19, 2007 SUN 2000 (62?F). All distances are from Port Kent, New York (3 mi east) Elevation: Ausable Chasm DX site (370 ft), Port Kent (137 ft), WTFDA via DXLD) 0907, 97.3 *CKON, ON, Cornwall, school lunch announcements, 613 area code ... from the Akwesasne native community that straddles the US- Canada border. 50 watts! I'm glad Larry woke me up! (Jim Renfrew, NY, Aug 29, WTFDA via DXLD) Jim, that one's a bonafide pirate station. The feds won't touch it. I first heard it in 1982 when I went to school in Cornwall (William Hepburn, Grimsby, ON, CAN http://www.dxinfocentre.com ibid.) I have a feeling this is more than 50 watts. I've heard it often enough at Burnt River (Saul Chernos, Ont, ibid.) I just researched CKON a few days ago as it was part of my Plattsburgh NY bandscan (posted on the list yesterday afternoon). The general manager of the station did not reply to me when I asked him technical details of the station last week. It is reported to run at 250 watts unofficially and broadcasts from St-Regis, Québec, but is licenced to Akwasasne, across from Cornwall, Ontario (and lists Rooseveltown, NY as a contact as well). The station has an official licence from the Mohawk Nation, which is really all they need. The CRTC has stayed away from this station, likely due to the government's poor relations with the First Nations lately. The station can be heard in New York, Québec, Ontario, and Vermont. By no means is this a great low-powered catch, but it instead has coverage equal to a 50 kW station (Chris Kadlec Buffalo NY, ibid.) Ah, Chris, wouldn't that be an unofficial licence. Unless you want me to show you the 1,000,000 watt licence for 108.1 I have from the Grand Duchy of Hepburn Land. (; Cheers, (Bill Hepburn, ibid.) ** PERU. 29 August, 4790.20, Radio Visión, Chiclayo seems to have returned. 1000 noticed in band scan of 60 meters (Robert Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, Southeast Florida, HCDX via DXLD) ** PHILIPPINES. Filipino station clips uploaded --- I've just uploaded 3 clips recorded on 27 August 2007 from Masset, BC on the Queen Charlotte Islands off the north coast of British Columbia. They can be found at http://www.dxer.ca under the download section. The first is 999 DYSS, the next is 1062 DZEC, and the final 1026 DZAR. The latter is a longish clip, but very interesting with letters being read, etc. Enjoy! (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, Aug 28, IRCA via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Those hi-latitude sites prompt VOR to make some out-of- season frequency changes as from 2 Sept; those affecting English, per http://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=eng&w=129&p= are all to Europe: 15-16 9810 ex-12040 17-18 S/S 7320 ex-11675 18-19 9480 ex-11630 19-21 7195 ex-12070 There was also a change in the NAm, service, already as of 1 August: 0300-0500 5900 ex-9880 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1372, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Checking motorboating Magadan, 7320, again, Aug 29 at 1250, seems to have cleared up, during music; this time in shadow of stronger RCI Sackville in Spanish on 7325 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAINT KITTS & NEVIS. 895, AUG 14, 0240 – The carrier was easily spotted on the SDR-14, and the G313e was able to pull in threshold audio with reggae-flavored music (Brandon Jordan, Memphis TN, DX Worldwide, IRCA DX Monitor Sept 1 via DXLD) 555 | ST. KITTS & NEVIS | R. ZIZ, Basseterre, AUG 22, 0009 UT - Caribbean accented male DJ; occasionally poking over massive WGAN slop. [Connelly*R-MA] 895 | ST. KITTS & NEVIS | V. of Nevis, Bath Village, AUG 22, 0105 UT - soca female vocal; fair (Mark Connelly, Rockport MA, NRC-AM via DXLD) Some WinRadio logs: Receiver: WinRadio 313e, times = UT Antenna: 15 x 30 flag peaked due East Location: Nauset beach, Cape Cod Some logs from my FIRST mobile WinRadio DXing session from about a half hour before to a half hour after local sunset. From what I can tell from the home QTH, the WinRadio is every bit as sensitive as the Icom 756 Pro II, so, at this stage of the season, I am not too worried about the signal levels. I will be trying out other locations and antennas in the coming weeks. Conditions definitely favored Europe, but the France Info stations, usually quite strong, were down. Also not much propagation from Latin America and the Caribbean. 555 | ST KITTS & NEVIS | ZIZ Brasseterre, AUG 27 2326 – with female talk; poor to fair 895 | ST KITTS & NEVIS | V of Nevis, Bath Village, AUG 27 2351 – good (Chris N1CP Black, Aug 28, ABDX via DXLD) 555, ZIZ, ZIZ Radio, Basseterre, St Kitts; filler music between announcements and election news – waiting for results; ID “You’re listening to VON Radio in the Federation of Saint Kitts Nevis”, // 895 kHz F/G 0607 28/8 mah 895, Voice of Nevis, Charlestown, Nevis; // 555 kHz, filler music, waiting for election results; announcements, ID “This is the powerhouse from the eastern Caribbean – VON Radio - VON. It is 16 minutes after 2 o’clock …”; personal first Weak peaks, 0613 28/8 mah 73s (Martin A. Hall, Clashmore, Scotland. NRD-545, RPA-1 preamp, beverages: 513m at 240 degrees, terminated; 475m at 265 degrees, terminated; 506m at 290 degrees, terminated. http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/clashmoreradio/ MWC via DXLD) Excerpted from much longer reports, to compare with the others. So there are a couple of splits left in the Caribbean, but for how much longer?? (gh) ** SAO TOME. 4960.00, VOA, Pinheira, 0350 - OC at tune-in, Yankee Doodle IS at 0359 into English VOA programming, Hausa at 0500, French at 0530 and still weakly audible at 0630*. Transmitter back on at 0638 with OC but much too weak for audio at listed 0700 Hausa (Brandon Jordan, Memphis, TN, details at ANGOLA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SIERRA LEONE [non]. New 13760, 0730-0750, G, 21 & 27-08, Cotton Tree News, Freetown, via Rampisham. English news about the recent election: "Sierra Leone belongs to the Sierra Leoneans!", 0736 Vernacular news, 53543. QRM Voice of Korea 13760 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** SPAIN. Hola Amigos de la lista PLAY DX. Un mensaje muy rápido. En este momento (2230 UT 28 agosto) 1260 kHz DRM de la SER desde Madrid. En 1251 kHz llega Libia. Parece que el ultimo esquema es 1260 kHz las 24 horas con DRM y han abandonado 1251 kHz. Creo que nos tendremos que acostumbrar a sufrir el DRM. Saludos (Juan Arranz, Mostoles, Madrid, via Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) Hola Juan Antonio, en los 1260 kHz pude sintonizar 2 noches, el pasado 21 y 22 agosto a las 0030-0130 UT, el "RUIDO" del DRM; esos locos de la SER Madrid estàn utilizandolo allì. No comprendo la utilidad de eso.....???? ?????? Gracias por tu noticias al respecto. Muchos 73's (Dario Monferini, Milano, JRC 525, ibid.) ** TURKEY. Dalla Turchia sempre la stessa musica Hi Glenn, Italian service of Voice of Turkey is missing since 2-3 weeks. Music and multilanguage ID on air every day at 1630 UT on 9610. La Voce della Turchia continua a trasmettere musica e identificazioni al posto della trasmissione giornaliera in lingua italiana. Non è ancora chiaro se si tratti di una momentanea sospensione dovuta al periodo estivo o se Un altro servizio in Italiano se ne sta andando in punta di piedi (Roberto Scalgione, Sicily, Aug 29, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UGANDA. 4975.97, R. Uganda, Kampala, Aug 28 0350-0533* - English programming from tune-in, lots of monologues by male then female. Slowly fading down beginning 0415, possible Swahili. Carrier still visible above noise floor to verify 0533* s/off. (Jordan-TN) 5026.00, R. Uganda, Kampala, Aug 28 - no sign of R. Uganda here in quite a while (Brandon Jordan, Memphis, TN, details at ANGOLA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U A E. 1539 | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | R. Aap Ki Dunyaa, Al Dhabbaya, AUG 22, 0014 UT - Urdu news by woman; to good peak, alone on channel. Thanks to Mauno Ritola for ID help: exact same program was found stored in IBB/VOA online archives. Possibly first USA reception of this. [Connelly*R-MA] 1575 | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | R. Farda, Al Dhabiya, AUG 21, 2249 UT - talk by man & woman, Farda ID, then dance music; fair, building in strength. + AUG 22, 0015 - kid hit "Bye Bye Bye" by Nsync (Mark Connelly, Rockport MA, NRC-AM via DXLD) ** U K. Salaam Shalom --- Mon 27 August 2007 11:00-11:30 (Radio 4 FM) Gerry Northam reports from Radio Salaam Shalom, a Muslim-Jewish online radio station launched in Bristol earlier this year. He explores the reasons behind the project and asks whether the volunteer presenters are changing their perceptions of each other's faith and culture. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/pip/nimrg/ (via Fred Waterer, Ont., DXLD) Presumably available OD for one week ** U S A. UNION WINS ARBITRATION Dateline: WASHINGTON, 08/28/07. AFGE Local 1812 filed an arbitration request regarding the matter of the BBG hiring non-U.S. citizens despite the fact that there were suitably qualified U.S. citizens who had applied. On August 27, 2007, Arbitrator George E. Marshall, Jr. ruled in favor of the Union. According to Arbitrator Moore: The Agency, by interpreting and applying the statutory term "suitably qualified" to mean "equally or better qualified" to U.S. citizen members of the Union employed pursuant to a NLMA with the Agency, did violate the NLMA and the United States Information and Education Exchange Act of 1948, as amended (Act), in requiring U.S. citizen employees to be "equally or better qualified" than a non-U.S. citizen, in order to fill a vacant position, thereby depriving employee members employment and promotional opportunities under the NLMA and the Act. The parties have been instructed to determine a remedy and the Arbitrator Moore retains jurisdiction to assist the parties with the determination and implementation of the remedy including "the extent and calculation of damages suffered by the Union and its members as a result of the violations." (AFGE Local 1812, Aug 28 via DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. DX MIX NEWS # 483 28 August 2007 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Summer A-07 for Voice of America. Part two of two: GEORGIAN 1530-1600 11945 15475 HAUSA 0500-0530 1530 4960 6045 9600 0700-0730 4960 11785 17490 1500-1530 9710 11905 13750 2030-2100 4940 9815 9830 11720 12080 15185 Mon-Fri HINDI 1600-1700 7260 9320 INDONESIAN 0000-0030 9535 11805 13705 1130-1230 9700 9890 12010 1400-1500 13620 15105 Thu-Sat 2200-2400 7225 9535 11805 KHMER 1330-1430 1575 5955 7155 2200-2230 1575 6060 7130 15340 KINYARWANDA 0330-0430 6095 7340 11905 1600-1630 11905 15430 17725 Sat KOREAN 1200-1300 5890 7235 11625 1300-1400 648 5890 7235 11740 1400-1500 5890 7235 11740 2000-2030 6060 7125 9510 KURDISH 0400-0500 9845 15460 17490 1300-1400 1593 11635 15390 17730 1600-1700 9805 11705 15130 1800-1900 7205 11520 11705 1900-2000 1593 LAOTIAN 1230-1300 1575 9510 11930 NDEBELE 1800-1830 909 4930 13755 15775 Mon-Fri PASHTO 0030-0130 1296 9335 11605 Radio Ashna 1430-1500 1296 9335 15090 15120 1530-1630 1296 9335 15090 15120 1730-1800 1296 9335 11565 11580 1830-1930 1296 7555 7595 PASHTO 1300-1600 9310 11510+additional new 9405 UDO 250 kW / 300 deg Deewa Radio 1600-1900 7510 9310+additional new 9395 BIB 100 kW / 105 deg PERSIAN 0230-0330 9695 17855 1530-1700 1593 6040 11520 11780 1700-1730 1593 6040 9760 11520 1730-1800 1593 6040 9760 11925 1800-1830 648 1593 6040 9760 11925 1830-1900 648 1593 5860 6040 11925 1900-1930 5860 6040 11925 1930-2030 5860 9310 9725 PORTUGUESE 0430-0500 1530 6095 7340 1000-1030 17740 21590 Sat/Sun 1700-1730 1530 9565 12080 1730-1800 1530 9565 9815 12080 15730 1800-1830 1530 9565 9815 17785 Mon-Fri RUSSIAN 1300-1400 9465 11725 15130 15565 1700-1800 6110 7215 9520 11805 1800-1900 6110 9520 11755 11805 SERBIAN 0530-0545 9460 1930-2000 9785 2100-2130 7210 Mon-Fri SHONA 1700-1730 909 4930 13755 17730 Mon-Fri SOMALI 1600-1630 1431 11530 15675 Mon-Fri 1630-1800 11530 15675 Mon-Fri SPANISH 0030-0200 9560 9885 11815 1100-1230 7370 9535 13790 SWAHILI 1630-1700 9815 13670 15730 1700-1730 9815 13670 15730 Mon-Fri TIBETAN 0000-0100 7255 9855 11690 0400-0600 15265 15490 17685 1400-1500 6030 11520 11975 TIGRINA 1900-1930 9875 11500 11675 11905 13870 Mon-Fri TURKISH 0330-0400 7205 Mon-Fri 1045-1100 15205 17565 Mon-Fri 1830-1900 11865 12025 Mon-Fri UKRAINIAN 2000-2015 7230 11840 Sat/Sun 2000-2030 7230 11840 Mon-Fri URDU 0100-0200 972 1539 7145 11805 AapKiDunyaa 1400-1500 972 1539 9510 12005 1500-1700 972 1539 1700-1800 972 1539 9320 9780 1800-0100 972 1539 [see also U A E] UZBEK 1500-1530 801 7280 9695 11595 15265 VIETNAMESE 1300-1330 1575 5955 9720 1500-1600 1170 5955 7455 9780 2230-2330 6060 15340 (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Aug 29 via DXLD) ** U S A. I was checking out Boston`s classical station, WCRB, on webcast, for the Landmark Concert on their website, Wed Aug 29 at 2305, supposed to start at 7 pm local. But I heard a Haydn symphony instead, not on that program. Guess what, the Landmark Concerts, altho sponsored by the station, are NOT broadcasts, but just live performances for those who can fit into the hall. This is NOT made clear in the info about them, and not the first time I have run into this ambiguity from (commercial) classical stations. At 2314 there was an ID break (too loud compared to music), and into Nessun Dorma instrumental, but neither one was identified on the air! Better keep an eye on the playlist http://www.wcrb.com/music/playlist.php Finally at 2318 the last two pieces were identified, plus commercials. Funny way to run a radio station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. In just the past week, Radio Free Nashville’s potential listenership increased by more than tenfold. Under an agreement with the Metropolitan Educational Access Corporation (MEAC), which operates Nashville’s arts and education Comcast Channels 9 and 10, the city’s scrappy low-power community radio station is now broadcasting over iQ TV-10’s secondary audio program, or SAP. That’s a huge upgrade from Radio Free Nashville’s previous pool of potential listeners. With its weak 100-watt signal piping from a transmitter in Pasquo, on a hill near the Natchez Trace Parkway, the low-power underdog barely reached White Bridge Road. The airwaves narrowed its audience to the approximately 175,000 people in the area. By broadcasting over Channel 10’s SAP channel, however, Radio Free Nashville stands to reach an estimated 750,000 Comcast households in Middle Tennessee. . . http://www.nashvillescene.com/blog/pitw/archives/00001881.shtml (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) Church & State Today is my favorite program on WRFN; just listened to it today, Wed 20-21 UT on webcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 500 RALLY IN SAN DIEGO TO SAVE AIR AMERICA STATION Senators, Presidential Candidate & a Republican Mayor Support Keeping Progressive Radio Format in 6th Largest American City Carlisle Group Rumored to Seek Acquisition of Clear Channel... Guest Blogged by Miriam Raftery BLOGGED BY Miriam Raftery ON 8/28/2007 12:12AM SAN DIEGO - “We believe dissent is patriotic. We believe in the constitution and we believe in the United States of America,” AM 1360 KLSD talk show host Stacy Taylor said on his morning show in San Diego on Monday, drawing cheers from a crowd of more than 500 listeners who showed up at 7am to rally in protest of Clear Channels’ plan to convert San Diego’s only progressive radio station to an all-sports format. Over 1,100 people have signed a petition calling on Clear Channel to keep KLSD’s progressive format since word of the planned format change leaked out late last week. Clear Channel executives have also been deluged with thousands of e-mails, virtually all in favor of keeping Air America on the air in America’s sixth largest city. . . http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5013 (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) See also MEXICO [non] for XEPE ** U S A. WLPO 1220 kHz La Salle, IL DX Test --- We have our first DX Test firmly scheduled for this season. Please give this announcement the widest possible dissemination. Here are the details: WLPO 1220 kHz La Salle, IL DX Test. Date: Saturday morning (late Friday night), Oct. 27, 2007. Time: 3:00 - 3:30 a.m. Central Time [CDT = 0800-0830 UT]. 1,000 watts using their normal daytime pattern. Programming will consist of phonetic voice IDs, Morse code, sweep tones and unique music. Reception reports may be sent to Steve Vogler, Chief Engineer, WLPO Radio, 1 Broadcast Lane, Oglesby, IL 61348. The station will accept recordings by e-mail or on disk (.mp3 or .wav OK but no cassettes please). Address for e-mail reports is steve @ wlpo.net. NOTE: All requests for verifications must be accompanied by return postage in order to receive a reply. Out sincere thanks to Chief Engineer Steve Vogler for agreeing to conduct this test (Jim Pogue - KH2AR@comcast.net http://www.dxtests.info IRCA/NRC Joint BTC Coordinator, HCDX via DXLD) Fantastic, Jim!!! Well done, my friend. A great frequency and time. Great going! I can't wait for this one! 73, (Patrick Martin, OR, KAVT Reception Manager, ibid.) ** URUGUAY. 2nda VUELTA DX CONO SUR AMERICA 28 JULIO-19 AGOSTO 2007 27 PARTE MONTEVIDEO, 2 GIORNO 16 AGOSTO 2007. Giovedi 16 Agosto, 2a giornata dedicata alla visita alle emisoras, sempre in compagnia di Horacio Nigro e di Antonio Tormo, il tempo continuava ad essere sereno, ma molto freddo +3 C alle ore 0900 locali. Operano inoltre dalla sede di CX 8 le seguenti emisoras : CX 18 Radio Sport 890 kHz 50 kw/10 kW WEB : http://www.sport890.com.uy/ alcuni decenni orsono era attiva su 6045 kHz ma l'attuale tecnico Sr. Juan Ribas ci ha assicurato che il vecchio TX è danneggiato in modo irreparabile /out of service, pertanto potete togliere i 6045 kHz dagli elenchi. Email settore tecnico : juan.ribas @ elsitio.com oppure juanchribas @ gmail.com Una rapida visita, e trovavamo il Secretario del settore tecnico e Jefe Dpto Plantas Pedro Ramela Email : organizacion @ sodre.gub.uy al quale chiedevamo notizie sulle trasmissioni in onda corta su 6125 kHz e 9620 kHz. Dalle sue risposte capivo che il Tx è uno solo, attivo su 9620 kHz. Suggerivo di operare su 9622.5 kHz, ma dalla sua risposta "tenemos la frequencia oficial del gubierno en 9620 kHz" capivo che al buon Pedro, di farsi sentire all'estero non interessa molto, daltronde le 4 emisoras del SODRE hanno un buon servizio di audio link in internet. Se qualcuno desidera ascoltarle può farlo li, quando vuole. Questa "logica" del XXI siglo, ormai è un dato di fatto che, in pochi decenni farà scomparire molte emisoras dalle onde corte. Buenas noches !!!!!! (Dario, Roberto, Horacio & Antonio, playdx yg via DXLD) ** VENEZUELA [non]. RNV CI confirmed here on 15290, recently discovered by Liz Cameron, at 1911 UT check Aug 28, with ID amid usual Bolivarian fare. Quite strong signal, and may well be on Habana`s ``San Francisco`` antenna, as originally at 1900 UT on 13740 when this started in April 2004 as shown at ``11:00-12:00`` in the grossly outdated but colorful map, which was misleading even when new, at http://www.rnv.gov.ve/noticias/uploads/ondacorta1.jpg (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1372, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Nacional de Venezuela has a program called Aló Presidente that's scheduled for Sunday at 1400-1800 on 11670, 11875, 13750, and 17750. Not that I've ever been able to receive it here. Tonight, however, I got an out-of-schedule surprise: Aló Presidente, with words of wisdom from President Hugo Chávez Frías, was on from 2320-2335 on 13680, and fairly strong here as well. Navigating their website to find if this was planned is a chore, as nothing seems to be there, and it's not clear what time they're using for the international times and frequencies (Dan Malloy, KA1RDZ, Aug 29, ODXA yg via DXLD) As I reported recently, the Sunday morning show often runs late and I recently heard it until 1950 UT. What you heard must have been one of the regular one-hour daily broadcasts of RNV including material from A,P. This one is 23-24 UT on 13680, 15250. There are others at 10, 11, 12, 19, 20, 22 UT on a variety of frequencies, all via Cuba. It seems neither RNV nor RHC ever publishes a complete and accurate schedule of these; however, they have been covered in DX Listening Digest. Possibly there are others yet to be discovered. Occasionally there are English segments. I don`t know where you are, but some of these signals are very good here; others aimed toward S America not so good. 73, (Glenn Hauser, OK, ibid.) ** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 1550 | ALGERIA | RASD Clandestine, Tindouf, AUG 21, 2325 UT - man in Arabic; good, sometimes over WNTN's Haitian program. Best received on upper sideband to dodge 1548 Kuwait het. Some evidence of jammer in background (Mark Connelly, Rockport MA, NRC-AM via DXLD) ** WESTERN SAHARA. SAHARA OCCIDENTALE: ONU; NOMINATO NUOVO COMANDANTE MISSIONE Il segretario generale delle Nazioni Unite Ban Ki-moon ha nominato il generale cinese Zhao Jingmin nuovo comandante della missione dell'Onu per il referendum per il Sahara Occidentale (Minurso). Lo ha annunciato la portavoce di Ban, Michelle Montas, che ha aggiunto che e' 'la prima volta che le Nazioni Unite hanno nominato un comandante cinese per una loro missione'. Zhao, che sostituisce il danese Kurt Mosgaard, ha lavorato nell'ufficio per il peacekeeping al ministero della difesa cinese ed stato consigliere militare del governo di Pechino in Tunisia. Tra il 1996 e il 1997 il generale cinese ha lavorato per la missione di osservazione dell'Onu tra Iraq e Kuwait (Unikom) e dal 1991 al 1992 era tra gli osservatori del Palazzo di Vetro proprio in Sahara Occidentale (ANSA via Roberto Scaglione, bclnews.it yg Aug 27 via DXLD) Will this make any difference? (gh) ** ZAMBIA. 4965.00, Voice Africa, Lusaka, Aug 28 0350-0556* - English with various music and African news at 0400 and 0500. Fair to poor as signal began slowly fading from 0500. CODAR less bothersome in LSB (Brandon Jordan, Memphis, TN, details at ANGOLA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1181 | unID | AUG 22, 0135 UT - weak het. Thought by some to be of Cuban origin, or a bit farther east in the Caribbean (Mark Connelly, Rockport MA, NRC-AM via DXLD) Would have been nice if you could have taken a bearing on it (gh) 1181.00, late local morning 26 August, 2007, using the Scotka ferrite bars active loop coupled to the NRD-535, looped at 150-degrees, close to what Paul Zecchino gets at 153 [from Manasota Key, which BTW is not in the Florida Keys --- gh]. Not anywhere near the one Orlando person reporting 68/248 that would put the latter side in my back yard! (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I wonder if our friend in Havana could give us a reception report on our mysterious 1181 kHz tone? Merely reporting on it, with no political commentary or mention of Radio Marti shouldn't get him in trouble (Bruce Carter, Aug 28, ABDX via DXLD) More on Martí: CUBA [non] Believe it or not, this is the first time that Arnie has been mentioned in connexion with this. From past experience, we know better than to bother asking him about such things (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. Hello... I was listening to a low strength open carrier waiting for it to sign on this morning on 6140 kHz. It opened in the fashion that we have had to get used to these days at 0930 UT with no interval signal that I could tell and straight into programming. Unfortunately the signal was so weak that I could not hear the language, although it was not English. Anyone know what it was? (Andrew Tett, Shoreham-by- Sea, England, Aug 27, BDXC-UK vixa DXLD) Tuning around today shortly after 1000 UT I also noted something on 6140 but assumed it was RAI Italy and quickly moved on. However, I believe that RAI should have already been on by 0930 rather than signing-on (the schedule is 0700-1300 in Italian to Eastern Europe/Russia according to their website), so perhaps it was another station (Tony Rogers, Birmingham UK, AOR 7030+ / LW, ibid.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FRAUDULENT RECEPTION REPORT COPIED FROM DXLD ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Re 7-103: Glenn, I just scanned through the latest edition of DXLD and particular found the FRAUDULENT RECEPTION REPORT COPIED FROM DXLD for Radio Tirana rather humorous and disturbing at the same time. It is rather disturbing to me, that a person would go that far to get a QSL from Radio Tirana .I mean it's not that difficult to hear them, or is it? To copy the details and then submit them! In particular with details that he/she didn't hear. Now just imagine, what can happen in the future with Radio Tirana, getting 'bogus' reports. This could really back fire and result in a 'non-QSL' policy resulting out of this (and it's happened before with other stations, and could happen again) That is why sometimes I really limit on what I send as for details on a particular logging. Just How far should one list information in a logging? One could take this information and submit his/her own version, spice it up a bit, add a bit of QRM & QRN (just enough to make reception possible) and whoa, a reception report. And the BIG surprise if the person gets a 'real' QSL for this.... Anyway just my 2-cents worth on this (Edward Kusalik (who has been QSL'ing since 1965 with 'real' reports), AB, DX LISTENING DIGEST) LANGUAGE LESSONS ++++++++++++++++ PRESUMED, TENTATIVE, S/ON AND S/OFF? I have been trying to define these terms for myself for more consistent usage, and have defined the first two as: Presumed: nothing conclusive heard, but frequency, time and propagation points toward reception being the presumed station. Tentative: more conclusive than presumed, with additional clues such as language, music, format, etc., but still not 100%. Regarding s/on and s/off, I have been doing a lot of DXing lately using the SDR-14 to record a 190 kHz chuck of bandwidth overnight then demodulating the signals the next day. The visual aspect of the FFT display has really pointed out that many stations are running an open carrier for a while before they actually began broadcasting programming. Also, to a lesser extent, they may run an open carrier for a while after the programming stops. Is s/on and s/off when programming starts or ends, or when the transmitter is turned on or off? If the former, then another issue is that the FFT can display carriers long before and after the signal is strong enough to deliver audio, so many times it is unclear when the programming actually starts. I would be very interested to hear others views on the above. 73, (Brandon Jordan, Memphis, TN USA, Aug 28, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Brandon, Yes, this technique requires some new definitions and terminology. I wonder if others will start doing this. Is it not extremely time-consuming afterwards to listen to and analyze everything? How many hours do you put in after such a 190-kHz, 8-hour overnight session is recorded? For me, presumed has always meant more conclusive than tentative, the opposite of what you are saying. Is this not so with others? With the ability to monitor carriers precisely, we should use carrier- on and carrier-off, c-on, c-off, altho that might be confused with cut-on, cut-off (abruptly) in which case cut should still be spelled out. Even so, we still have the question of whether sign-on and sign-off mean a formal announcement that the station is starting/stopping broadcasting, or just the beginning or the termination of modulation. I tend to favor the former, i.e., signing means an announcement of some kind. So we could also have a third pair of /on/offs, m/on, m/off, which would not necessarily coincide with s/on/off. BTW, since the slant symbol confuses some computers and printers, I am habitually replacing it with hyphens in abbrs like s/off, or better, writing them out, sign-off, not s/off. And of course we have the * way of indicating sign-on and sign-off. Before a time it means sign-on; after a time it means sign-off. Location is everything. Sometimes I see it in the wrong place where it doesn`t make sense. This too is sometimes ambiguous, really applying to carrier (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Glenn, I agree with your definition of Presume and Tentative. If we were to use alphabetic characters to shorten those we could list them as follows: Excellent - A Good - B Presumed - C Tentative - D Doubtful - E The above list was used in the USN years ago (Chuck Bolland, FL, ibid.) Hi everyone, Sorry-this is long. Presumed or (p) is a classy way of saying listlogged without looking at a list. We all know who Mother Angelica is. Why bother to wait for an ID in that case? I will admit to not always writing (p) after such logs. I also thought that tentative or (t) meant that a DXer thought s/he heard and ID but wasn't sure of it. Of course, there is no scientific way of defining these terms. I've used s/on and s/off to denote when programming begins or ends, not the carrier. I simply describe the time, etc. of the carrier in cases of RHC or other Cuban stations where the carrier is often on for quite awhile before or after a broadcast. The timing of these things can also be disputed, since not everyone's clocks are the same, down to the second. It is however, easier to be more precise about carriers than presumed or tentative. The latter are simply in the ears of the beholder and also depend on their honesty. This is all kind of like the SINPO code. I hate it and refuse to use it because it may mean nothing to another DXer. But the irony is that I use its descriptive words (excellent, good, moderate, fair, and poor), none of which are tied to the S-meter reading. Clear SW transmissions are rarely above S-9, unlike local MW, so I trust my ears instead. There is also, of course, no way of making the SINPO (or SIO) code scientifically precise. There are two problems with a revised jargon. (I have read the other e-mails thus far on the subject). First, in the effort to be more precise, we might add so many new terms to the jargon that it becomes confusing. It may end up taking as much time to type and read many new terms as it is to type it longhand. Second, I would hate to see competitiveness brought into the hobby. It is only a hobby, after all, and I would not like to see debates every time a person doesn't, won't or incorrectly use new terms. I think we all understand each others' logs pretty well. Enjoy the hobby! 73/Liz (Cameron, MI, ibid.) Yes, but it would still be helpful to have some agreement on terminology (gh) Many EU DXers are embracing these wide band recordings, although it appears that the majority of them are MW DXers. From a SW and MW broadcast DX perspective, it appears that EU DXers are embracing this technology much more rapidly than NA DXers, MW or not. Yes, it can be time consuming, depending on how thoroughly one goes through the recordings. Fortunately, the SpectraVue software allows for very efficient operation in both the time and frequency domain, and it only takes a few seconds to fast forward or reverse to any frequency and time in the recording session with nothing but mouse clicks. It takes but a few moments to find and interesting signal, determine to likely target(s), determine the sunrise/sunset at transmitter(s) and fast-forward to the enhancement period(s). I personally am ramping up for employing this method to its full extent for the upcoming DX season especially for DXpedition usage. I am likely going to liquidate some of the analogue DX equipment in the shack to fund one or more of the new RFSpace SDR-IQ receivers before the season gets into full swing. The visual component of this process also speeds up the process tremendously. It is more time consuming to fully exhaust all signals [in a] recording session, but much more efficient in the long run than sitting at a receiver all night DXing one frequency/signal at a time. There is no real hit and miss here, and you don't waste any time setting on an unproductive signal. This method really shines in making the best of DXpedition situations. A few of these SDR's and a weekend's DXpedition can provide a month's worth of outstanding recordings to dig through at one's convenience. ``For me, presumed has always meant more conclusive than tentative, the opposite of what you are saying. Is this not so with others?`` To my mind this was the opposite, but after looking at the definitions of these words along with Chuck and your views, I have been converted. ``With the ability to monitor carriers precisely, we should use carrier-on and carrier-off, c-on, c-off, altho that might be confused with cut-on, cut-off (abruptly) in which case cut should still be spelled out.`` This sounds good. Perhaps use t-on and t-off for transmitter on and off and reserve c-on and c-off? ``Even so, we still have the question of whether sign-on and sign-off mean a formal announcement that the station is starting/stopping broadcasting, or just the beginning or the termination of modulation.`` I would prefer that s-on and off refer to the beginning and termination of modulation. Many times with poor signals it is unclear if an actual formal announcement is made, but modulation is no where near as ambiguous. 73, (Brandon Jordan, Memphis, TN USA, http://bcdx.org ibid.) MUSEA +++++ HERITAGE OPEN DAYS, Sept 8-9, ENGLAND Many buildings are open on the Heritage Open Days; website is http://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/ The London Open House event is the weekend after, the 15th and 16th September. Searching under Media tours of BBC Broadcasting House (needs pre- booking) , Bush House (studios not included) and Channel 4 Television are available on Saturday, BBC Television Centre Sunday (needs pre- booking) , note these are primarily architectural tours, there's over 600 buildings open, all tours free. Website: http://www.londonopenhouse.org/ (Mike Barraclough, England, BDXC-UK via DXLD) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ For All you Radio Station Jingle Fans... I recently dug through my collection and put together a montage of jingles. Feel free to download them or share them with others. The montages were from stuff I've personally airchecked or collected off the internet for years. http://www.walkerbroadcasting.com/PaulJingleMix.mp3 The link above is 15 minutes and 30 seconds long, encoded at 128K Stereo/44hz. A lower bitrate (48K/22hz) is found here: http://www.walkerbroadcasting.com/PaulJingleMix1.mp3 http://www.walkerbroadcasting.com/oldradiodjjingles.mp3 These were airchecked from a podcast of a morning show from Washington state when they discussed "Inetta The Moodsetta" from WBLX-FM Mobile, AL. http://walkerbroadcasting.com/southfljingles1.mp3 http://www.walkerbroadcasting.com/bigd103.mp3 These two links are of jingles from different radio stations, but they all sound alike! http://www.walkerbroadcasting.com/wabvabbeville.mp3 And finally, The WABV in Abbeville Theme song Enjoy, everyone... :) -- Sincerely, (Paul B. Walker, Jr., http://www.walkerbroadcasting.com IRCA via DXLD) FROM RIO TO THE RIO GRANDE : CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN LATIN America --- By Kenneth D. MacHarg Published by Global Village Press Paperback – 190 pages ISBN: 978-9-5882855-6-6 Order from: http://www.atlasbooks.com/marktplc/01969.htm or call toll free 1(800)247-6553 Price: $16.25. Shipping US: $4.95 + $1.00 handling. Shipping Foreign: $12.00/item Why we MUST pay attention to Latin America --- New book explores challenges and opportunities facing the U.S. in Latin America Americans are understandably concerned about the flood of Latin American immigrants into our society. Yet, to our peril, we ignore the conditions and developments in our neighboring nations of Central and South America that contribute to that migration. Political instability, leftist governments, environmental problems, poverty, corruption and open borders that allow drugs, terrorists and millions of immigrants into the United States are challenges that we must confront. Events south of our border are affecting us daily and changing our society, yet we ignore this region at our doorstep. Now, Kenneth D. MacHarg writes in an easy-to-read, journalistic style about Latin America, its people, issues and opportunities. And, he helps us to understand the unique characteristics Latin American immigrants bring that are changing our culture. . . http://www.atlasbooks.com/marktplc/01969.htm (MacHarg via DXLD) Above URL also leads to his personal site, with archive of lots of articles he has written, many of them for Christian publications, some of them about radio stations, surely with a Christian angle. Not much this year, I suppose since he has been working on the book. Some of his titles appear to deal with secular issues, as does this new book, but the question is whether his writing is skewed by his perspective as a Protestant missionary and ordained minister. Is there any way it could not be? This title seemed a bit strange to me at first, but I guess the first `Rio` must be understood to be de Janeiro, rather than Rio Gallegos in Argentina near Tierra del Fuego, nor the other Rio Grande, the town on Tierra del Fuego itself. So the book doesn`t deal with anything south of Rio de Janeiro? Well, there is plenty of concern northward. You may recall Ken hosted DX Partyline on HCJB for a few years, and he is one such host we met in person many years before. After hosting, he kept contributing ``Tips for Real Living`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) DIGITAL BROADCASTING IBOC: BRAZIL ++++++++++++++++++++ 26 MHz DRM in the U.S. website is up: http://www.26mhz.us (Bennett Z. Kobb, its setter-upper, Aug 29, drmna yg via DXLD) Includes item about skywave-suppressing antenna which will be required of all such stations, i.e. anti-DX (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) Hi Glenn, The logs indicate that someone from Enid browsed my http://www.26mhz.us site today. If that was you, thank you for visiting. The 26 MHz train may be slow moving, but it appears to be leaving the station. Of course no one knows where it will take us. Probably the next step will be experimental operations in the U.S., followed by specific, proposed FCC rule changes. This is where everyone interested will have a chance, perhaps multiple chances, to ventilate their views before the Commission. I am concerned that the FCC may decline or unnecessarily restrict this service as can happen when some group or other is deemed too important to offend or too weak to support. Advocates will have to show that there is a constituency for these licenses. They will need to deal with the notion that we "don't need" more radio stations, or the presumption that no HF band could be suited to local broadcasting. A former FCC commissioner once suggested that instead of bothering the agency with license applications, people should just buy existing stations or use "bulletins and flyers" or "plain old-fashioned speech" -- sound waves -- if they want to communicate. Hopefully more innovative minds will prevail and this band will become something more than the dead air it is much of the time. I will soon add to the site some material on the Brazilian 26 MHz tests (Benn Kobb, DX LISTENING DIGEST) DRM: SPAIN RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ Eton E1 user reviews Nick Hall-Patch and I have put together separate user reviews of the Eton E1 as a medium wave and short-wave receiver - here - http://www.dxer.ca/content/view/50/1/ and here - http://www.dxer.ca/content/view/51/1/ Good DX, (Colin Newell - Victoria B.C. Canada, Aug 29, IRCA via DXLD) Very nice and detailed reviews, Colin! You and other E1 owners might like to be aware of a nifty accessory for the E1. http://www.fingerdimple.com sells an inexpensive, stick-on "dimple" or "spinner" that works great with the E1. I've had one attached to my E1's knob since the first week I've owned the radio. I feel it greatly increases the ease of use of the knob. The available gray color dimple is the closest to the gray shade used on the Etón (Guy Atkins, Puyallup, WA, ibid.) QTH Shortwave Shortcomings!!! Greeting from Sacramento once again, Glenn! Am listening to your latest World of Radio via internet!!! Recently replaced auld p.c. with Mini-Mac, & just added your WOR url. Hate to agree with Jeff White about North American shortwave audiences dwindling! Roughly two years ago, Sacramento County's Communications Centre relocated about a mile northeast of this QTH, from Bannon Street downtown(around the corner of State Printing, where I've since retired). They moved because there were dead zones for their digital transmissions in southern parts of the county. So all that digital rfi hash has made shortwave reception damn-near non-existant during day-time hours(not that it greatly improves @ night)! Radio Netherlands' East Asia & Africa feeds are buried in buzzy hash! Sweden's 15.240 mhz is a no show as well [even via Canada?]. Medium wave reception suffers similar spurious buzzes! Receivers are ICOM R-75 & Sony 2010, so it aint the equipment! Thanks to this Mini-Mac & AOL/ATT broadband, can get nice audio via computer- room vintage hi-fi set-up(Concept 4.5D receiver into ESS Model 10s, with Jensen P10R woof replacements, for retro Pacific Stereo vibe). But it's still not as enjoyable as auld analog shortwave. Recently sent Auntie Beeb a missive complainin' about those damn time-outs on their archived audio. Told 'em that Marshall & Vox amps are "antiquated technology" also, yet both are still sought after! BTW, was recently certified as KVMR broadcaster. Thanks for lettin' moi pontificate once again, Glenn! 73s from (Sactown-n-Ed Gardner!!! Aug 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) REPEATERS ON BALLOONS Imagine a low cost amateur radio repeater well above the Earth’s stratosphere. It is perfectly possible to assemble one such high altitude repeater from readily available components and put it as the payload of a high altitude balloon. Here is a very recent example of that unique way of providing over the horizon VHF and UHF communications, at least for the lifetime of the balloon. The news comes from Finland and it explains that after what was considered to be a successful maiden flight two weeks ago, there will be another IIlmari balloon flight next weekend. The flight is scheduled for 06 UT on Sunday, September 2nd, 2007, from Sappee, Finland, grid square locator (KP21GJ). The high altitude Ilmari balloon should be workable from many parts of north-eastern Europe, if it goes as high up as the previous flight (30 km), yes you heard it right, the Finnish radio amateurs were able to make their experimental high altitude repeater go up 30 kilometers, thus giving it a really wide coverage area. They do recommend potential users of the Illmari high altitude balloon repeater to keep the effective radiated power at low levels, saying that even 1 watt is plenty for working Ilmari's 2m/70cm ssb/cw transponder! The balloon will have APRS(-IS) callsigns that probably will be assigned as OH2SIX-11 and/or -12. A URL site with the information about the Illmari high altitude balloon repeater experiment is available at http://wiki.ham.fi/Ilmari-2007b providing detailed operating instructions and another site with the URL http://www.kolumbus.fi/michael.fletcher/ilmari.htm has pictures and information from the maiden flight. Many amateur radio clubs around the world have done similar experiments with high altitude balloons carrying not only amateur radio repeaters, but also equipped with TV cameras transmitting back to Earth via 70 centimeters band Amateur Television. A possible future high altitude repeater may form part of tests of a unique solar powered aircraft, capable of staying up for long periods while flying at altitudes of around 20 to 22 kilometers above the Earth. These “robot” solar powered planes use highly efficient electric motors and large size propellers capable of providing enough lift even at such high altitudes where the air has a very low density. The electric robot planes can lift smaller payloads, but present day technology makes possible designing and building very compact and lightweight repeaters with 2 meters band input and 70 centimeter band output frequencies (Arnie Coro, CO2KK, RHC DXers Unlimited Aug 28, HCDX via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ OUR EXCLUSIVE AND NOT COPYRIGHTED ARNIE CORO’S DXERS UNLIMITED HF PLUS LOW BAND VHF PROPAGATION UPATE AND FORECAST Here is item one: Still no signs of the expected jump in solar activity that will signal the start up of cycle 24. Scientists keep watching the Sun in search for reverse polarity sunspots Solar activity will continue at very low levels, solar flux around the 70 units baseline, and the daytime maximum useable frequencies are still well below the figures I expect them to go in about 2 more weeks when we enter into the autumn equinox period of much better short wave propagation (Arnie Coro, CO2KK, RHC DXers Unlimited Aug 28, HCDX via DXLD) METEOR SHOWER ACTIVITY There has been mention of some meteor shower activity recently. Some have even mentioned it. There are still some decent periods of meteor scatter during the mornings and midday. Here is what is falling from the sky right now: Iota Aquarids, peaked Aug. 26, with 10 pings per hour at peak. Runs until second week of Sept. Alpha Aurigids, also peaked on the 26th, with 15 pings per hour at peak. Is almost toast. Alpha Cameloperids, peaked Aug. 27, which varies in pings per hour. Not known to 'storm'. UpComing Months.... Best Pick of the Month September 9th, Piscids, with 10 pings per hour at peak October 21st, Orinonids, with 35 pings per hour at peak. You might want to mark your calendars for November 9th. Space dot com & the AMS are watching this one closely, to see if it transpires. Probably no one will write about it until it has happened. Cassiopeides, a minor shower which typically peaks on November 9th (but not every year) and typically accounts for only 5 pings per hour at peak, is looking like the Earth will track directly through the comet debris field. If it does, Space dot com & the AMS are predicting radio pings of 120 per hour on the 9th. If it transpires, it will most likely be a 'once in a lifetime' meteor shower (Jim Thomas, wdx0fbu, Milliken, Colorado, (40 miles north of Denver), WTFDA via DXLD) Geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to unsettled levels during most of the period. ACE solar wind data indicated a recurrent coronal hole wind stream occurred during 25 - 26 August. Late on 25 August, the field responded with unsettled to active conditions at all latitudes, while minor to major storm levels were observed at high latitudes mid-day on the 25th. A co-rotating interaction region (CIR) preceded the onset of the stream and was associated with a solar sector boundary shift (away [+] to toward [-]) as well as a short- lived density increase (peak 36.5 p/cc at 25/1115 UTC). The CIR was also associated with increased IMF Bt (peak 10.3 nT at 25/1438 UTC) and increased IMF Bz variability (minimum -8.1 nT at 25/1135 UTC and maximum +8.3 nT at 25/1216 UTC). The recurrent wind stream commenced mid-day on 26 August and reached a peak of 519.7 km/sec at 26/2307 UTC, and was still rising at the close of the summary period. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 29 AUG - 24 SEPT 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 29 August - 10 September, and again on 24 September. Quiet to unsettled conditions are expected during 29 August - 01 September. Activity is expected to increase to active to minor storm levels on 02 - 03 September due to a recurrent coronal hole high-speed stream. Activity is expected to decrease to quiet to unsettled levels during 04 - 05 September. Unsettled to active conditions are expected during 06 - 07 September as another recurrent high-speed stream disturbs the field. Activity is expected to decrease to quiet to unsettled levels through 21 September. Unsettled to active conditions are expected 22 - 24 September due to another recurrent high-speed stream. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2007 Aug 28 2024 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 Aug 28 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2007 Aug 29 70 8 3 2007 Aug 30 70 5 2 2007 Aug 31 70 5 2 2007 Sep 01 70 5 2 2007 Sep 02 70 10 4 2007 Sep 03 70 20 5 2007 Sep 04 65 8 3 2007 Sep 05 65 5 2 2007 Sep 06 65 15 4 2007 Sep 07 65 15 4 2007 Sep 08 65 5 2 2007 Sep 09 65 5 2 2007 Sep 10 65 5 2 2007 Sep 11 65 5 2 2007 Sep 12 65 8 3 2007 Sep 13 65 8 3 2007 Sep 14 65 5 2 2007 Sep 15 65 5 2 2007 Sep 16 65 5 2 2007 Sep 17 70 5 2 2007 Sep 18 70 8 3 2007 Sep 19 70 5 2 2007 Sep 20 70 5 2 2007 Sep 21 70 8 3 2007 Sep 22 70 10 4 2007 Sep 23 70 10 4 2007 Sep 24 70 10 4 (http://www.sec.noaa.gov/radio via WORLD OF RADIO 1372, DXLD) ###