DX LISTENING DIGEST 7-131, October 31, 2007
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FIRST SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1380
Thu 0600 WRMI 9955
Thu 1430 WRMI 7385
Thu 1500 KAIJ 9480
Thu 2330 WBCQ 7415
Fri 0630 WRMI 9955
Fri 1100 KAIJ 5755
Fri 1100 WRMI 9955
Fri 2030 WWCR1 15825
Sat 0800 WRMI 9955
Sat 1630 WWCR3 12160
Sat 2130 WRMI 9955
Sun 0230 WWCR3 5070
Sun 0630 WWCR1 3215
[Note: this year, the DST/UT time shift occurs Nov 4; WRMI times not
yet confirmed]
Mon 0400 WBCQ 9330-CLSB [confirmed Oct 15]
Mon 0515 WBCQ 7415 [time varies to 0600]
Thu 0000 WBCQ 18910-CLSB
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** AFGHANISTAN [non]. R. Solh, 15265 via Rampisham UK, Oct 29 at 1346-
1349 reconfirmed still with sticking music CD, as had been heard any
day in A-07 on 17700, so this anomaly has survived the QSY (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AFRICA. Africalist updated!!! Take a look at:
http://www.africalist.de.ms
or without popup: http://www.muenster.org/uwz/ms-alt/africalist/
73 (Thorsten Hallmann, Münster, Germany, Oct 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ALBANIA [and non]. VOA threw a monkey wrench into the worx, moving
Spanish to 6110 for a sesquimonth, and thus drawing Cuban jamming,
while R. Tirana already planned to use 6110 to NAm starting in B-07.
VOA is gone, but not the jamming. The DentroCuban Jamming Command will
eventually catch on, but it usually takes a while. While on UT Oct 28
I could not hear Tirana at all, on Oct 29 it was there at 0113 with
nice Albanian music, the jamming not too severe at the moment, //
7425. This is the Albanian transmission scheduled 0000-0130; however
at 0130 check, when both signals had weakened a lot, they kept going
in Albanian instead of English, that being the day off for English,
but Albanian is still nominally ending at 0130.
The retimed morning broadcast at 1530 on new 13640 is now running Mon-
Sat, so not heard Sun Oct 28 but Mon Oct 29 at 1530 with transmission
schedule, still announcing old 13750 and 13720 frequencies and old
times of 1300 and 2000 respectively; tho the correct new transmission
schedule was already heard Oct 28 at 0330 on 6110, as I reported.
Reception on 13640 was only poor, and at first I thought it had
unforeseen co-channel QRM, since I heard Chinese mixing, but this
turned out to be cross-modulation, receiver overload from the huge CRI
signal via Sackville on 13675. Attenuating got rid of it, and I hope
when and where Tirana has a somewhat stronger relative signal, this
will not be a problem. The new 9915 broadcast at 2100 was not heard
Sunday either, but should be on Mon-Sat.
R. Tirana`s new 9915 at 2100-2130 in English to NAm was barely audible
here during first broadcast Oct 29; both on portable at a store
parking lot at 2108, and on the home rig at 2126, when the signal
barely surpassed the local S9+15 noise level, unlike several other
Europeans on 31m which overrode it. The good news is that there was no
interference at all on 9915 [not 9515 as typoed in original post], nor
on adjacent or even second-adjacent channels, so with a bit better
propagation, and as usual a location a bit further east, it should be
usable.
Similar situation for the 1530 broadcast on 13640; Oct 30, poor signal
and not listenable, but no interference.
R. Tirana, new 1530 broadcast on 13640; Oct 30, poor signal and not
listenable, but no interference. How is it doing further east? Same
for 2100 on 9915, not 9515 as I typoed in previous report (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1380, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Oct. 29 monitoring includes:
2100 2120 9915 310 SHI 1 100 2-7 English 1 44444 9+20
2120 2130 9915 310 SHI 1 100 2-7 English 1 24322 4 Due to weak signal;
propagation? (Siegbert Gerhard, Frankfurt, Germany, to R. Tirana, via
Drita Çiço, Head of Monitoring Center, ARTV - Albanian Radiotelevision
via DXLD)
** ALBANIA. CRI outlets are REALLY the well known spurious from Cerrik
0730 UT 11715 and 11925, nominal Cerrik Albania 11855 70 kHz away
(Wolfgang Büschel, visiting Spain, Oct 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ALBANIA. I have tuned in to your 2100 UT broadcast and I hear you
quite well on 7430, with good reception here in Melbourne. Quite good
reception for English news. Some items mentioned the UN security
council, the European Union, read by a man, then a female, (YOU??)
some very slight interference but not causing any problems here. I can
hear your news cast quite well.
I am able to monitor any of the frequencies or languages you have if
you want?? I hear the Radio Tirana news followed by the mailbag
program. Actually a few weeks ago I was able to see into Albania. I
was on holiday on the island of Corfu with my wife Christine. We could
see Albania across the sea, just a short distance from Corfu, Greece.
Unfortunately, I was unable to visit your country; perhaps next time I
am in the area. Best Wishes from Australia, (Don Rhodes, Melbourne, to
and via Drita Çiço, R. Tirana, DXLD)
Dear Don, Thank you so much for your interesting reception report from
far Australia. I am kindly suggesting to our Directors and journalists
to give their names in their programs. No, I do not speak in Radio
Tirana English Program, it is Klara, the man speaking is Artan, but I
think they will introduce themselves in their programs. They are very
nice people, indeed. As a matter of fact, I would be happy to give an
interview in our English program, to talk about my 27 years activity
at Monitoring Center of Radio Tirana and its perspective in the frame
of digitalization of Radio Tirana, which in fact, has a very
prestigious place in the Radio world. As for monitoring of our other
frequencies, please do, especially on all frequencies of our English
programs. All the best from lovely October in Tirana, (Drita Çiço -
Head of Monitoring Center, RADIO TIRANA, via DXLD)
29 Oct 30
1530 13640 English 555
1945 6135 English 433 322
7465 English 555 555
2100 7430 English 444 444
9915 English 353 353
2130 6005 Albanian 433 443
7430 Albanian 555 555 (From Erik Køie`s monitoring report to
R. Tirana, from Denmark, via Drita Çiço, WORLD OF RADIO 1380, DXLD)
** ALGERIA [non]. Under PMS, 6090 Anguilla, Oct 29 at 0538, muezzin.
This was right on frequency so not Nigeria or something. Must be a new
service --- yes, Rampisham UK is now on 6090 at 0400-0600 due south.
Must presume this is RTA Algeria Qur`an service, which the Brits are
happy to propagate, since the casual listener will assume it`s axually
direct from Algeria (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
We had an unexpected local power outage for over two hours the morning
of Oct 31, so instead of sleeping in, I couldn`t pass up the
opportunity to monitor on battery power without all the line noise we
have been subject to. Most, but not all of it was gone, resulting in a
much lower noise floor. Unfortunately, it was too late for much axion
on the trop bands, but a number of 60m signals could be detected
around 1330 before fadeout, such as 4605, 4750, 4790, 4870, 4900,
4920. Also something in Spanish on 4820, which turned out to be 2-way
SSB, Mexican? riding along on an unID carrier (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ANGUILLA. DGS was still audible on 6090 as late as 1335 UT Oct 31,
tnx to lowered local noise level during power failure, and even more
tnx to the scheduled switch to 11775 at 1000 being long overdue. Yes,
nothing on 11775 then or as late as I checked, 1507, facilitating
reception of NIGERIA, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ASIA. DXAsia back in business --- I'm pleased to inform you that
DXAsia, run by Alok das Gupta and Victor Goonetilleke, is back in
action after being forced to suspend activities for most of this year
for personal reasons. Updating of the schedules by country has
commenced for the B07 season, and will continue as quickly as possible
following monitoring checks.
Alok's son, who is a computer expert, is writing a program that will
enable Alok to update the site directly from a database, so in the
future updating will be quicker and easier. It's hoped to implement
this arrangement early in 2008. http://www.dxasia.info/
(Andy Sennitt, Oct 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 6080, R.A., 1539-1616, Oct 28, non-stop Waltzing Matilda
loop (no programming), fair, // 5995, fair-good. (Ron Howard, CA,
Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRIA [and non]. VERY FINE STRONG SIGNALS - both from Moosbrunn
AUT, ORF 13730 100 and BBC relay to Africa 300 kW 195 degrees at 0630-
0700 UT !!! (Wolfgang Büschel, visiting Spain, oct 31, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** AUSTRIA. 17610 at 1454 Oct 31, repetitious singing with primitive
string instrument, brief talk in unID language, some more music, cut
off abruptly at 1458:30. This must be AWR in Afar daily via Moosbrunn
as scheduled from 1430. I wonder how many Afars aspire to be
Adventists? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BELARUS. 6090, noted Belarus advertisements in Russian /
Belarussian, and English news at 2100 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, visiting
Spain, WORLD OF RADIO 1380, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
"I called Junglinster [LUXEMBOURG, DRM]: At present both frequencies
[5990, 6095] are on air around the clock until ... [ellipsis as in
original] another decision will be made. Concerning 5990, it is
supposed to later go out via Wertachtal, too. A new antenna for 25795
has been installed at Dudelange. Last night after 1900 they were
worried about Radio Belarus on 6090."
http://forum.mysnip.de/read.php?8773,451822,537273#msg-537273
No surprise that they were worried, after 2000 I found 6090 at times
overriding the Junglinster signal to an extent that it became
listenable, but at other times it still got clobbered. This is the 250
kW transmitter which so far used to operate on various 41 metre
frequencies, like the co-located 15 x 5 kW (on 7360, not so good
signal) and old 150 kW (on 7390, signal not so good as well and
modulation quite low) transmitters. Who in the world had this bad idea
to move to 6090 now? (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 30, WORLD OF RADIO
1380, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BELGIUM [and non]. RADIO VLAANDEREN INTERNATIONAL B-07
South and Southeast Europe:
0700-0800 UT 13685 St. Petersburg 400 kW 215 degrees
1800-1900 UT 5960 St. Petersburg 400 kW 215 degrees
South and Southwest Europe:
0800-0900 UT 9790 Skelton 250 kW 180 degrees
1900-2000 UT 6040 Skelton 250 kW 180 degrees
0500-2310 UT 1512 MW Wolvertem (via José Miguel Romero, Spain,
dxldyg via DXLD) site, power, azimuth added by gh (DXLD)
** BRAZIL. BRASIL – Após voltar a transmitir por breve período em 4825
kHz, a Rádio Canção Nova, de Cachoeira Paulista (SP), estava
ausente de tal canal em 27 de outubro, conforme constatação do
colunista, em Porto Alegre (RS).
BRASIL – A Super Rede Boa Vontade de Rádio, de Porto Alegre (RS), está
presente em ondas curtas, atualmente, em 9550 e 11895 kHz. Em Sorocaba
(SP), o Ivan Dias Júnior captou a emissora, em 11895 kHz, em 22 de
outubro, às 1730, com sinal bom. Em informação remetida a Édison
Bocorny Júnior, de Novo Hamburgo (RS), o engenheiro da emissora,
Arnaldo Infanti Júnior, informa que a freqüência de 6160 kHz está
inativa, uma vez que passa por reformas em seu sistema irradiante.
BRASIL – A Rádio Brasil Central, de Goiânia (GO), voltou a ser captada
em 4985 kHz. Quem observou primeiramente tal retorno foi o Thiago
Machado, de Brasília (DF). Em 27 de outubro, também em Brasília (DF),
George Cunha captou a estação, na mesma freqüência, às 2100, com sinal
bom (Célio Romais, Panorama, @tividade DX Oct 29 via DXLD)
** CANADA. 9625 heard IDing as ``CBC North, Radio One``, Oct 29 at
2136 in the half-hour Northern news and feature show, which seemed to
be mostly in English; report about how removing children from parents`
custody is handled; weather conditions. Usual muffled undermodulation
and frequency a tad on the low side, as the sub-harmonic catchers have
noted. Should shift to 2230 M-F from next week (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC. Checking 6030 for CAF --- There was a
carrier, fading in and out. At times with "decent" strength. But for
some reason I couldn't get any audio. 6025 Hungary with another
(Arabic?) station was a bit of a problem. At 0600 another station on
6035 started and I gave up (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, UT
Monday Oct 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CONGO DR. Richard McDonald of Radio Kahuzi provided Cumbre DX with
the latest news on his station by email: "We have been using a changed
schedule Mondays and Fridays lately. We broadcast on 6210 from 9 to 1
PM and from 6 to 10 PM. Other days it is 9 to around 5 PM with no
pause (Congo is UTC +2.), we close 5 or 5:30 pm most days of the week,
Sunday 5:30 or 6 PM. We have up to 1050 watts [but] usually running
at 80%. We have added Kinyarwandan to reach the warring, raping and
peace-loving in all directions. Last week 16 stations signed on to
pick up and relay in FM some of our shortwave programmes for four
provinces in the East of RDC. Meanwhile we are trying to install ten
solar powered relay stations in three provinces." (Hans Johnson,
October 25, Jihad DX via WDXC Contact via DXLD)
So Mon & Fri 07-11 & 16-20 UT. Other days 07-15 or 1530 UT, Sunday to
1530 or 1600 UT. Per WRTH, eastern Congo DR including Bukavu is UT +2,
but western including Kinshasa is UT +1 (gh, DXLD)
** COSTA RICA. TIRWR on frequency 9725: see THAILAND
** CROATIA. I just saw a mention of Glas Hrvatske 2200-0500 on 3985,
and indeed it's there with quite weak signal, // mediumwave. Must be
their first intentional use of a frequency below 49 m, away from the
notorious Deanovec mix of 49 m minus 1125, landing on 60 m. The poor
signal clearly indicates the use of a 10 kW transmitter, perhaps even
running reduced power into some cheap kind of antenna. Otherwise
Deanovec is supposed to use 6165 0500-2400 now, i.e. both 3985 and
6165 should be on air 2200-2400. Only other signal on 75 m besides
3985 is now, shortly after 0200, another station on 3945 I don't
bother to identify because I'm about to go to bed. IRIB? Good night,
(Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 29, WORLD OF RADIO 1380, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
No, it`s supposedly 100 kW, non-direxional, to almost all of Europe
(gh, DXLD) 3985 2200-0500 100 kW non-dir to all-Europe daily (Wolfgang
Büschel, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1380, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CROATIA [non]. Glas Hrvatske, ex-9925, confirmed back in 40m
hamband on 7285 via Germany for B-07 to Americas (oops, Iceland!),
0137 Oct 29 three transmitters from two sites synchronized OK, no echo
noticeable (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1380, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. Confirmed back on UT-5 a week ahead of the yanqui
imperialistas, as just when I tuned across 11800, Oct 29 at 2134, RHC
was giving timecheck for 4:34, hora normal de Cuba, = 2134 TU.
Another filthy transmitter here relaying China, on 13650, Oct 29 at
2259, open carrier with crackling noise also audible out to plus/minus
15 kHz, 13635-13665. 2300 promptly into IS, ID in Chinese, and opening
in Portuguese as R. Internacional da China, with distorted modulation.
This is 250 kW at 135 degrees from one of the Habana sites.
RHC normally has a huge signal on 13680, must be aimed uswards, but
Oct 31 at 1412 it was not enough for Fidel to overcome the ACI from
CRI via Sackville 13675. Commies vs Commies! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Another reactivated frequency for R. Martí is 5745, heard Oct 29 at
1318 in Spanish // 7405, but no jamming yet on 5745, now scheduled
1100-1400. At 1506, big jamming still going on 11845, no longer
occupied by Martí, but instead 15330 still in the clear, tho // 11930
and 13820 are jammed as usual.
[Later:] DentroCuban Jamming Command has found 5745; R. Martí now
jammed at 1235 check Oct 30, along with 5980 which is now scheduled
0700-1300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. R. Amanecer, presumed, 6025.1, Oct 29 at 0127
hymns with piano accompaniment, perhaps from local studio or church,
followed by Spanish announcement. Bad splatter from CRI 6020 via
Albania, much more of a problem than adjacent DentroCuban jamming and
Martí on 6030. On the DX-398 tuning in 5-kHz steps with BFO on, it was
easy to tell this one was off frequency, and hence rule out a major
broadcaster, except Sackville (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ECUADOR. HCJB GLOBAL VOICE - Ecuador B07 BROADCAST SCHEDULE
(28 October 2007 - 29 March 2008) Rev. 21 October 2007
UTC UTC Freq Power Ant. Azimuth Target
------------------------------------
COFAN
0000 0030 6050 50 18/172 S America
1100 1130 6050 50 18/172 S America
GERMAN (High)
0230 0300 9780 100 325 Mexico
0700 0730 9740 100 36 Europe
0700 0730 21455 1 35/225 Eur/S Pacific
2300 2400 12040 100 131 S America
GERMAN (Low)
0300 0330 9780 100 325 Mexico
0630 0700 9740 100 36 Europe
0630 0700 21455 1 35/225 Eur/S Pacific
2230 2300 12040 100 131 S America
KULINA
2250 2300 11920 250 126 Brazil
PORTUGUESE
0900 1030 9745 100 100 N Brazil
0900 1030 6160 110 100 N Brazil
1530 1800 15295 100 139 Brazil
2300 0230 11920 250 126 Brazil
2300 0230 12020 100 100 Brazil
QUECHUA
0900 1030 6125 100 155 S America
2100 2300 9745 100 155 S America
QUICHUA
0800 1100 690 50 000/180 Ecuador
0830 1300 3220 10 90(Vert) S America
0830 1300 6080 10 90(Vert) S America
0800 1100 21455 1 35/225 Eur/S Pacific
2100 0300 6080 10 90(Vert) S America
0000 0300 3220 10 90(Vert) S America
SPANISH
0030 0500 6050 50 18/172 Ecuador
0100 0500 9745 100 323 Mexico
1100 0500 690 50 000/180 Ecuador
1130 1500 6050 50 18/172 Ecuador
1100 1300 11960 100 355 Cuba
1100 1500 11690 100 150 S America
1300 1500 11960 100 330 Mexico
1100 1600 21455 1 35/225 Eur/S Pacific
1900 2330 6050 50 18/172 Ecuador
2000 0500 21455 1 35/225 Eur/S Pacific
2100 2300 12000 100 150 S America
2300 0100 12000 100 157/330 N/S America
WAODANI
1030 1100 6050 50 18/172 S America
2330 2400 6050 50 18/172 S America
Mailing Address:
HCJB Global Voice
Casilla 17-17-691
Quito, Ecuador S.A.
FAX: +593 2 226 4765 Frequency Manager: Allen Graham
Note : a) All above are daily transmissions. b) Site : Ecuador. Relays
not included. (Via Allen Graham, 23rd Oct 2007 via Alokesh Gupta, New
Delhi, India, Oct 29, HCDX via DXLD)
** EGYPT. Re 7-130: Around 2300 Oct 28, still clean but very low audio
on 6290. After reading Tarek's initial post I tried 6290 at 1230 and
got only a carrier, quite faint but strong enough that audio should
have been audible if transmit with regular modulation depth. This
indicates that it was during daytime as undermodulated as it is right
now (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
6290: 1916 today at S30 with ID, 'huna alkahira'. I think bad choice
(Zacharias Liangas, Greece, Oct 29, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
At 0040 check on Oct. 31 heard Cairo's home service on new 6290,
strong signal with traditional music. Why Cairo can't look into a
channel in the 5800-5900 range, and not tread on the marine
broadcasting area, is a big question for those responsible for
frequency management; there's also some open gaps inside the 49 mb
with fewer stations broadcasting there in prime time (Joe Hanlon, NJ,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
R. Cairo, 7270, Oct 29 at 0136, and also when checked earlier in that
hour, just open carrier, or if there was modulation, it was too low to
register. Supposed to be in Spanish 0045-0200 until English starts.
Trying to confirm R. Cairo is on 9465 in B07 for English to NAm at
2300-2430: Oct 29 at 2302, very undermodulated woman talking,
interrupted every so often by a blast of disco music. Listening
intently, I finally decided an occasional word was understandable as
English (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1380, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ETHIOPIA [non]. 11900 *1500-1600* CLA 28-10 Voice of Unity - Tensae
Ethiopia scheduled here by TDP Amharic test programme with non-stop
Ethiopian songs except for ID every 15 minutes sounding like: "Yeh ye
sait ou Gandenes Radio" - whatever that means ? Abrupt s/off. No
jamming yet, but QRM 1500-1530 from a religious station on 11895
33443, after 1530: 35434. Former 15645 was no longer heard AP-DNK Best
73, (Anker Petersen, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, DXLD)
** ETHIOPIA [non]. Tensae now supposed to be on 11900 at 15-16, but
Oct 29 at 1500 nothing audible, not even jamming. I miss the
excitement of ex-15645 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE [and non]. Radio France International heard in English this
(local) morning:
0400-0430 : 7315 9805
0500-0530 : 9805 11995
0600-0630 : 7315 11995 13680
These broadcasts are Monday to Friday. Best regards (JM Aubier,
France, Oct 30, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1380, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
RFI in English, possibly incomplete, need to be confirmed:
0400-0430 7315 9805 [M-F]
0500-0530 9805 11995 [M-F]
0600-0630 7315 11995 13680 [M-F]
0700-0730 11725
1200-1230 21620
1600-1700 11615 15160-RSA
[confirmed: 11725, 11615 as scheduled – Wolfgang Büschel, Spain DXLD]
RFI has deleted two of its daytime Spanish broadcasts via Montsinéry;
had been on 17630 at 1600-1630 and 1800-1830, but now only the third
one remains, 17630 at 2100-2130, 250 kW at 295 degrees. Also 0100-0130
on 5995, 250 kW, 295 degrees, and 9800, 250 kW, 295 degrees.
Checking whether RFI has really canceled two of its Spanish
broadcasts, Oct 30 at 1557, a weak station, presumably Gabon, went off
17630, but no sign of RFI at 1600 as previously scheduled via Guiana
French; nor on 17860 as one report had it. At 1800, also nothing on
17630. Spanish should still be going at 2100 on 17630; 0100 on 5995,
9800.
RFI can`t be bothered to put even a semihour in English on SW to NAm,
even tho they still produce English for Africa, but they still do
Spanish to NAm, noted Oct 29 at 0118, VG on 5995 with sports report
including what`s going on in LAm and France. This is 295 degrees from
Guiana French, and the eastern 3/4 of the USA, CIRAF zones 7 and 8 are
part of the official target area! Ditto for // 9800, unchecked.
However, RFI has just abolished 2/3 of its daytime Spanish semihours
on 17630 via GUF, the ones at 1600 and 1800, retaining only 2100
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1380, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
5995 kHz, RFI (French Guiana relay) in Spanish with good signal, SINPO
44444; not heard on // 9800. Heard on a Grundig YB 400 PE with long
wire (Roger Chambers, Utica, NY, Oct 30, ODXA yg via WORLD OF RADIO
1380, DXLD)
** GERMANY [and non]. 5955 kHz, Jülich site --- Two days ago:
``And today at 1045 I found a completely different situation: 5955 via
Wertachtal almost three seconds behind 6035 from Hörby which was
first, a third of a second ahead of 1296.``
It has again changed, either yesterday or today: 5955 is now almost in
synch with 6035. This change of audio source also eliminated the issue
of somewhat tiny and low modulation I noted on Sunday. And re. the
given 210 deg. azimuth: No such beam heading here, both antennas used
for 5955 now are quadrant antennas with omnidirectional radiation.
Presumably this was also the case at Flevo until Saturday, when the
antenna type for 5955 was specified as 926 which should be HQ 1/0.5. I
assume it was the antenna in the foreground right of the first picture
here: http://members.home.nl/hermasteigstra/fotoalbum01.htm
The press release Christian Vision issued in March 2006 to announce
their purchase of the Jülich station mentioned that T-Systems would
continue to use the site until yearend 2007. This would mean that only
eight more weeks are to go, but that's not the case, instead
transmissions will continue as scheduled, at least for now. (At
present I have no time to dig further into this matter.) (Kai Ludwig,
Germany, Oct 31, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. RWANDA, 11690 kHz, Deutsche Welle Relay, 2100 UT
with booming SINPO 54444, best reception from DW in English since
North American beamed broadcasts ceased. Apparently replacing 11865
kHz for the winter season. Likely well heard in much of the Eastern
US. October 28. Heard on Grundig YB 400 PE with long wire antenna
(Roger Chambers, Utica, NY, ODXA yg via DXLD)
Yes, but still the RTTY on the low side; generally DW is strong enough
to escape it by off-tuning, but why do broadcast stations keep on
choosing 11690? Are they not aware of the constant RTTY, like a few
other frequencies we have outpointed?? Oct 29 DW was doing OK, but
Oct 30 shortly after 2100, it was less strong versus the RTTY. I still
found on the DX-398 in narrow bandwidth I could escape almost all of
the RTTY by stepping up 1 kHz to 11691, but DW was losing out as the
semihour progressed (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. GRECIA, 11645, Voz de Grecia, 0900-0903, escuchada el 28 de
octubre en español, sintonía, ID, locutora con titulares, segmento
musical, sin señal en 12105, SINPO 24232. 73 (José Miguel Romero,
Burjasot (Valencia), España, Sangean ATS 909, Radio Master A-108,
dxldlyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1380, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Radio Filia back on its winter frequency 12105 kHz (was on 11645
yesterday). Heard in English at 0755 and in French at 0800, weak
signal (Jean-Michel Aubier, France, Oct 29, ibid.)
** GREECE. Glenn: Last night I went to bed early and was awakened at
UT 0323 Monday when the timer went off on my Sangean ATS-909. I heard
English and looked at the dial and saw that it was set on 9420 which
is a Voice of Greece frequency. I continued listening and saw that it
was an interview with a man discussing automobile manufacturing in
America and Germany. The interviewer was definitely not Katerina, and
I suspect that it was a repeat from the Greek domestic network as
before. The Voice of Greece's web site detailing the Daily, Saturday,
and Sunday broadcasts in Greek and English is still down; I guess that
they are changing it to reflect the B-07 broadcasting season. Perhaps
Babis or Apodimos can give us a clue as to the times of the English-
language broadcasts from the Voice of Greece (John Babbis, Silver
Spring MD, Oct 29, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. Macedonian Station on 7450 with Greek music, Oct 29 at
2211, fair signal and much better than V. of Greece on 7475. Both are
transmitted from Avlis, but 7450 is at 323 degrees toward us while
7475 is really at 285 degrees toward Latin America. At 2220, however,
noticed that 7450 had a het on the low side, becoming annoying, maybe
from a utility as no other broadcasters are known on 7450 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1380, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. VOG keeps its options open with both 15630 and 15650
available much of the day, but currently is on 15650 until 1550, then
switching beams and frequency to 15630 from 1600. Oct 31 at 1407,
Greek vocal music on 15650 instead of 15630 as in A-07 season, easily
IDed by // 9420 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH. TDF DRM, 17870-17875-17880, has been missing for a
couple of weeks, and still missing Monday Oct 29 and Tuesday Oct 30 at
1402 check; fine with me, tho Libya is gone from 17870 to 17725 for
14-16 English.
TDF DRM, 17870-17875-17880, Oct 31 at 1452, but it was not there
during an earlier bandscan at 1402. Maybe it has kept running, but on
a shortened schedule I hadn`t noticed. Per DRMDX sked, it is supposed
to be 13-20 daily, and I think I have also found it absent in the 19
UT hour, and we know it is intentionally only M-F.
DRM DX also shows azimuth as 363 degrees, which seems unlikely. Or
does that mean a rotatable antenna was past maximum clockwise
position? Some rotors for ham or TV antennas have a range exceeding
360 degrees, which is certainly convenient (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUINEA. R. TV Guinéenne heard on Oct. 27 at 2007, 7125, OM ending
news in French. Followed with complete ID, then brief instrumental
music bridge, into program of Afro hip-hop music. Best signal I've
heard from them in years (Steve Wood, So. Yarmouth, MA, Drake R8B, 135
foot dipole, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** HUNGARY [and non]. R. Budapest, 5980 in Hungarian to NAm, Oct 29 at
0117 was atop co-channel in Arabic, which must be Morocco, missing
from HFCC and perhaps assumed not to exist. This was also a problem
last winter, but thankfully, it matters little now as Budapest has
abolished English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. Dear Friends, The official Home & External Service Schedule
(MW, FM, SW) of All India Radio for B-2007 season is now available in
http://www.allindiaradio.gov.in/schedule/fqsch.html
(Jose Jacob, Hyderabad, Oct 29, dx_india yg via DXLD) AIR 11620
blocked by PORTUGAL: q.v.
** INDIA. Many audio breaks 9620 AIR Aligarh in Sindhi, 1215-1600 UT
(Wolfgang Büschel, visiting Spain, oct 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA [and non]. AIR GOS, 9690, has an interference problem here,
and surely also in the SEAs target zone. Oct 31 at 1418, AIR in
English with ID, slightly atop hymns. KTWR Guam is scheduled in Korean
after 1400 also on 9690 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 11785.00, 2020-2040, V of Indonesia in English with
music, ID at 2030, followed with commentary on trade with China and
Asia, noted on 11784.80 slightly off from the nominated 11785 KHz, 29
October 07. Melbourne, Australia, Kenwood R-5000 & National DR-49,
(John, HCDX via DXLD)
11784.88, Suara Indonesia/Voice of Indonesia, 1555-1616, Oct 28, they
seem to have settled into this frequency. Usual loop of gamelan
orchestra music and English IDs, 1603 into Arabic programming,
reciting from the Qu'ran, fair (after WHRI 1558*). Seems they have
abandoned 9524.96 for the time being.
9526.0, VOI, on Oct 30, noted open carrier at 0713, causing a het for
Star Radio/Cotton Tree News, programming in English started at 0800.
They have returned here yet again, after being on 11784.88 for a
while. Assume they are not there now? (Ron Howard, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg
via WORLD OF RADIO 1380, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INTERNATIONAL. ARMENIA. B-07 for CVC International via ERV=Erevan:
English to South Asia
0400-0700 on 15515 ERV 100 kW / 125 deg >>>>> tent.
1300-1600 on 15735 ERV 100 kW / 125 deg >>>>> tent.
AUSTRALIA B-07 for CVC International via DRW=Darwin:
Chinese to China
2200-0200 on 15170 DRW 250 kW / 340 deg
0400-0600 on 15250 DRW 250 kW / 340 deg
0600-1200 on 17635 DRW 250 kW / 340 deg
1200-1800 on 13685 DRW 250 kW / 340 deg
English to Indonesia
0600-1000 on 15360 DRW 250 kW / 303 deg
1000-1100 on 15270 DRW 250 kW / 303 deg
1100-1800 on 13635 DRW 250 kW / 303 deg
Indonesian to Indonesia
2300-0200 on 15250 DRW 250 kW / 290 deg
0400-1000 on 17820 DRW 250 kW / 290 deg
1000-1300 on 15365 DRW 250 kW / 290 deg
1300-1700 on 15185 DRW 250 kW / 290 deg
AUSTRIA B-07 for CVC International via MOS=Moosbrunn:
English to West Europe
1000-1100 on 11815 MOS 035 kW / 295 deg DRM
CHILE B-07 for Voz Christiana via SGO=Santiago:
Portuguese to Brasil
0000-0700 on 11745 SGO 100 kW / 060 deg
0700-1000 on 6050 SGO 100 kW / 060 deg
1000-2400 on 15410 SGO 100 kW / 060 deg
1800-2000 on 17860 SGO 015 kW / 045 deg DRM
Spanish to Mexico
0100-0400 on 11970 SGO 100 kW / 340 deg
Spanish to South America North
0100-0800 on 11805 SGO 100 kW / non-dir
0800-1100 on 6185 SGO 100 kW / non-dir
1100-0100 on 17680 SGO 100 kW / non-dir
Spanish to South America South
0000-1200 on 6070 SGO 100 kW / 030 deg
1200-2400 on 9635 SGO 100 kW / 030 deg
GERMANY B-07 for CVC International via WER=Wertachtal:
English to West Africa and Nigeria
0500-0600 on 9430 WER 125 kW / 180 deg till Nov.30
0600-0700 on 11720 WER 125 kW / 180 deg till Nov.30
0700-0900 on 15640 WER 125 kW / 180 deg till Nov.30
1500-1800 on 15680 WER 125 kW / 180 deg till Nov.30
1800-2000 on 9490 WER 125 kW / 180 deg till Nov.30
2000-2100 on 7285 WER 125 kW / 180 deg till Nov.30
English to West Europe
0900-1200 on 7120 JUL 040 kW / 300 deg DRM > tent.
Russian to East Europe
0600-0900 on 11825 JUL 100 kW / 060 deg >>>>> tent.
0900-1700 on 15450 JUL 100 kW / 060 deg >>>>> tent.
UZBEKISTAN B-07 for CVC International via TAC=Tashkent:
English to India
0100-0300 on 9480 TAC 100 kW / 153 deg
0300-0600 on 13685 TAC 100 kW / 141 deg, cancelled
Hindi to India
0000-0400 on 6260 TAC 100 kW / 153 deg, ex 0000-0200
0200-0400 on 9975 TAC 100 kW / 153 deg, cancelled
0400-1100 on 13630 TAC 100 kW / 153 deg
1100-1400 on 9500 TAC 100 kW / 153 deg, ex 1100-1300
1400-2000 on 6260 TAC 100 kW / 153 deg, ex 1300-2000
ZAMBIA B-07 for Christian Voice via LUS=Lusaka:
English to South and Central Africa
0500-1500 on 6065 LUS 100 kW / non-dir
1500-0500 on 4965 LUS 100 kW / non-dir
English to West Africa and Nigeria
0600-1400 on 13590 LUS 100 kW / 315 deg from Dec.1
1400-1700 on 13650 LUS 100 kW / 315 deg from Dec.1
1700-2100 on 13590 LUS 100 kW / 315 deg from Dec.1
(DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Oct 30 via DXLD)
** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. Comet Holmes position --- It forms an almost
equilateral triangle with two stars in Perseus. Follow a line from two
stars in Cassiopeia to find it. Comet is at the lower left of the
triangle. Seems like tonight it was a little less equilateral, more
isosceles than last night, so slight motion can be detected from night
to night. With sharp vision you can tell it`s fuzzy, and binoculars of
even 7x help a lot. Best around 2-4 hours after sunset, high in the
northeast sky, before the moon rises, but it`s waning and latening.
Astronomy websites are collecting lots of amateur photos, such as
http://www.skyandtelescope.com and also http://www.spaceweather.com
73, (Glenn Hauser, OK, Oct 31, IRCA via DXLD)
OT?!?! Hmmm, wonder if radio signals could be bounced off it, or
wouldn`t it be neat to plant a transponder on it?? (gh, dXLD)
** IRAN. TWO SEPARATE SPURIOUS SIGNALS in 22 mb, both IRIB Arabic, but
INDEPENDENTLY. Noted around 0600-0730 UT. Fundamental Kamalabad 13790
kHz had two more or less symmetrically peaks 13724.3 and 13852.6 kHz.
The stronger other Zahedan 13800 kHz outlet had two spurious on v13768
and 13831.8 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, visiting Spain, Oct 31, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** ISRAEL. The Israel Radio Winter 2007-2008 (B07) schedule is now on
the IBA's website -- all times are Israel Time [UT +2] and not UTC
http://www.iba.org.il/reception/
http://www.iba.org.il/doc/shortwaves.pdf
(Doni Rosenzweig, Oct 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ISRAEL [and non]. 9345, two stations co-channel ISRAEL Hebrew and
Abis-EGYPT in French 2030-2230 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, visiting Spain,
Oct 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
7420, Kol Israel, Persian, Nooooo jamming by IRAN; but 9985 KI Persian
jammed. On Sunday IBB Sri Lanka to Afghanistan next door 9980
!!!(Wolfgang Büschel, visiting Spain, Oct 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ITALY [non]. NEXUS-IBA IRRS Shortwave Schedule effective Oct. 28,
2007, from UNID site:
0900-1000 9510 150 kW / non-dir Eu/ME/NoAf UNL German Sunday
1000-1300 9510 150 kW / non-dir Eu/ME/NoAf EGR English Sunday
1300-1330 15750 150 kW / 095 deg SoAs/India UNL English Sunday
1300-1600 9825 150 kW / 160 deg EaAf/Sudan MIR Eng/Ara Dly till Nov 1
1500-1800 9825 150 kW / 140 deg EaAf/Sudan MIR Eng/Ara Dly from Nov 2
1800-2000 7285 150 kW / non-dir Eu/ME/NoAf EGR English Fri-Sun
EGR=European Gospel Radio MIR=Miraya FM Radio, Southern Sudan
UNL=Universal Life (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Oct 30 via DXLD)
IRRS-Shortwave new B07 program and frequency schedules
Dear listeners and friends, The B07 program and frequency schedules
for IRRS-Shortwave from Milan, Italy, have been published to our web
site. Please check them online at :
http://www.nexus.org/NEXUS-IBA/Schedules/ and on :
http://www.egradio.org/
Here is an excerpt:
B07 schedule from IRRS-Shortwave (operated by NEXUS-IBA, Milan, Italy)
======================================================================
7285 1800-2000 Fri, Sat(*), Sun Europe, M East, N Africa
9510 0900-1300 Sun Europe, Mid East, N Africa
15750 1300-1330 Sun Far East
9825 1500-1800 Daily Africa
Times are UTC. CET=UTC+1
(*) Sat broadcast on 7285 are on an experimental, not regular basis.
As always your comments and reception reports are welcome to reports
(at) nexus (dot) org. Take care and best 73s, Ron
-- (Ron Norton, NEXUS-Int'l Broadcasting Association ron @ nexus.org
http://www.nexus.org Oct 31, WORLD OF RADIO 1380, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
The 9825 transmission of course is Miraya FM for Sudan. And as always,
it is up to us to point out that these are NOT coming from Milan, or
even from Italy. Bulgaria is thought to be the site, but the
Bulgarians keep denying it. So maybe somewhere else in eastern Europe.
There could even be more than one site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) see also SUDAN [non]
** KOREA NORTH [and non]. Strange 9325 KRE, and IBB IRA PHT and
Strange 9335 KRE, and IBB KWT, IBA (Wolfgang Büschel, visiting Spain,
Oct 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Well, KRE (North Korea) is not in HFCC, so its usage is easy to
forget, unless you axually monitor or pay attention to DX sources! IBB
Tinang is indeed scheduled now on 9325 at 1300-1530; On 9335, IBB
Kuwait at 0030-0430 & 1130-1830, plus Sri Lanka 1900-2130.
As usual we await Pyongyang`s always-late frequency schedule update,
from Arnulf Piontek in Berlin but per Aoki S07 they were using 9325 in
A07 at 1300-2050 at 325 degrees to Europe. And 9335 at 1300-1750 at 28
degrees, while VOA was already colliding on 9335 at 1430-1830 from
Kuwait to Afghanistan.
Or it could well be that bureaucratically, IBB is well aware of North
Korea on 9325 and 9335, but for political reasons they choose to use
the frequencies anyway, figuring they have the upper hand in desired
target areas. Sort of like who`s got the bigger bombs (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5985, Shiokaze/Sea Breeze via Yamata, Japan,
*1400-1405, Oct 28, on with piano IS, seemed to be in Japanese, very
poor. Will need to monitor this to see if Yamata has better days (Ron
Howard, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. Korean Clannies: 30 Oct at 1232, Radio Echo of
Hope (from KOR to KRE) on 6003 in parallel with 6348 (latter jammed).
Maybe also on 3985 but that was blocked by CNR.
30 Oct at 1314, Voice of the People (From KOR to KRE) on 6518 in
parallel with 6600. I guess also on 3912, but that was too weak at
this time. I didn't bother to wait for the spoken ID, parallels
checked (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, Oct 30, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Het from 6003 is perpetually audible here around 1300 against RHC,
which is also squeezed by Brandon DRM, 5995+; tsk, tsk (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Jari, I receive both here in northern Tasmania as early as 1130 but
6348 rarely makes it here because of said jamming. 6003 is clear for
now. The second station is best on 6518 also, although 6600 is audible
for now. It's usually swamped by jammers/utility signals (Robin L.
Harwood, VK7RH, Norwood, Tasmania, Oct 31, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** KURDISTAN [non]. Re 7-130, V. of Mesopotamia, 7540: This signal is
extremely loud here in northern Tasmania from 2130 until s/off at
2157, then open carrier for a minute. Mentioned website and an address
I think in Bonn, Germany. All music and no speech until end when I/D
given and channel list. Wonder where sender is? Are they pro PKK?
Website is in Kurdish presumably and impossible to get in unless
you're registered. Google only brings up Kurdish language sites (Robin
L. Harwood, VK7RH, Norwood, Tasmania, AUSTRALIA, UT Oct 29, dxldyg via
WORLD OF RADIO 1380, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
11530, 1330-1500* CLANDESTINE, 28-10, Voice of Mesopotamia, via Maiac,
Moldova. Kurdish talk about Kurdistan, Kurdish folksongs, 45444.
Continued on new 7540.
New 7540, *1500-1945, CLANDESTINE, 28-10, Voice of Mesopotamia, via
Maiac, Moldova, Kurdish talk, ID, Kurdish folksongs, new frequency ex
7590 (not heard), 55444. The carrier was on at 1457 before the
transmitter on 11530 signed off! (Anker Petersen, Denmark, via Dario
Monferini, WORLD OF RADIO 1380, DXLD)
V. of Mesopotamia, via Moldova, now scheduled on 11530 all the way
from 0500 to 1500, but as usually happens, blocked by inconsiderate US
station much of the time. Oct 29 at 1330 WYFR in Portuguese atop; at
1407 recheck, VOM in the clear, poor with flutter. WYFR now scheduled
on 11530, 05-08 & 12-14. At least WEWN does not come on 11530 until
1500. So that leaves 08-12 & 14-15 clear for VOM (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WORLD OF RADIO 1380, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
11530 terrible co-channel QRM ONCE AGAIN as every winter season, crazy
selection: YFR 5-8 and Kurdish station from Moldova !!!! (Wolfgang
Büschel, visiting Spain, Oct 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) So it`s a
problem over there in Spain too, but maybe not in Kurdistan? WYFR
azimuth 44 at 05-08 but 160 at 12-14 (gh, DXLD)
** KUWAIT. 13670, NOT DRM Arabic 5-9 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, visiting
Spain, Oct 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) It`s scheduled on 13620: (gh,
DXLD)
0900-1315 daily 13620 310 Europe 120 Radio Kuwait KWT Arabic
Sulaibiyah Kuwait (DRMDX schedule via DXLD) 13620 13-16 NOT DRM Kuwait
(Wolfgang Büschel, visiting Spain, Oct 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LIBERIA [non]. 9525, Star Radio via Ascension, 0713-0730, Oct 30,
in English and vernacular, live report from Monrovia via phone call,
YL with "Star Contact", read messages and also plays recorded
messages, "You are listening to Star Radio", fair/QRM (het from Voice
of Indonesia's open carrier on 9526.0) (Ron Howard, CA, Etón E1,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LIBYA. VOICE OF AFRICA (unknown transmitter site), 11835, 1929-1940
tune out with African news, extended items on Darfur, mention of a UN
envoy to Darfur; male announcer had deep bass voice (reminiscent of
Earle Fischer of CBC Radio), one of the most pleasing, easily readable
announcers I have heard in a long time. At 1933, ID as “Voice of
Africa from Nigeria,” fanfare, into talk, drums, then more talk in
likely Arabic. SINPO 44334, October 27 (Roger Chambers, Utica NY, ODXA
yg via DXLD)
Altho Libya not mentioned in above, and I can`t explain ``Nigeria``,
unless they really said ``Jamahiriyah``, surely this is Libya, which
has been using 11835 from Sabrata at this time, supposedly in Hausa,
but apparently one of their multi-lingual broadcasts including brief
English segment; now on 11860 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LIBYA. B-07 V. of Africa, from Sabrata Site, 500 kW, daily, with
azimuths from 32-47 N, 12-29 E:
1200-1600 21695 130 & 1600-1700 15660 230 & 1700-2000 11965 230
1200-1700 17725 180 & 1700-1900 15215 180 & 1900-2000 11860 180
(via Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1380, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LUXEMBOURG. DRM 6095 getting QRM from BELARUS: q.v.
** MEXICO. XEYU reactivated after a few weeks, and with better signal
than ever, Oct 31 at 0642 as I scanned the 31m band. Steady S9+20,
during discussion of NY and DF music and arts scenes; good modulation
and no het, tho still off-frequency around 9599.3. Rechecked during
power outage at 1341 and also VG, with relay of R. France
Internacional during news hour. I keep hitting them when they are not
playing classical music (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1380, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Desde ayer se corrigieron algunas fallas y después de casi tres
semanas se encuentra de nuevo al aire XEYU Radio UNAM 9600 kHz, se
escucha con buena presencia en la Cd. de México, Saludos, (Julián
Santiago, DF, Oct 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MICRONESIA. Re 7-130: Glenn, checks here around 1130 to 1200 UT,
10/21 - 10/28, have produced nothing on 4755 or near that freq.
Previously, at minimum I could detect a carrier, sometimes with audio.
For the last week, though, it's been missing. Bad prop, or problems on
Pohnpei, no way to tell. I did not check on 10/27 (Gerry Bishop,
Niceville, FL, Oct 28, WORLD OF RADIO 1380, DX LISTENING DIGEST) No
sign of it here either, checked most mornings around 1230-1300 (gh,
OK, ibid.)
** MONACO [non]. Monte Carlo Radiodiffusion. Le Diffuseur Radio de la
Principauté de Monaco --- Centre de Fontbonne (06) :
TransWorld Radio
0615-0630 : 6230 kHz en polonais
0615-0630 : 7380 kHz en polonais
0700-0715 : (L,M,J,V) 5910 kHz en tchèque
0700-0715 : (L,M,J,V) 7335 kHz en tchèque
0745-0920 : (dim) 9800 kHz en anglais
0800-0850 : (L-V) 9800 kHz en anglais
0815-0850 : (sam) 9800 kHz en anglais
0930-1000 : (dim) 5910 kHz en hongrois
0930-1000 : (dim) 7210 kHz en hongrois
1100-1130 : (sam) 9795 kHz en roumain
Polskie Radio (Varsovie)
1630-1700 : 7105 kHz en allemand
Centre du Col de la Madone (06) :
Radio Chine Internationale
0800-1300 : 702 kHz en français
1300-1500 : 702 kHz en chinois
1500-1800 : 702 kHz en italien
1800-2300 : 702 kHz en français
Centre de Roumoules (04) :
RMC Info 0330-2305 : 216 kHz en français
TransWorld Radio 2000-2045 : 1467 kHz en slovaque et tchèque
2045-2315 : 1467 kHz en arabe
2315-2400 : 1467 kHz en anglais (via Christian
Ghibaudo, France, via Dario Monferini, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MONGOLIA. Could someone send me a recent sked for the Mongolian
Home Service, including Radio Blue Sky? I was looking though a 1988
WRTH (I rarely buy them now, hence my request) and came across a
mention of Radio Station Tsonkor, under the Mongolian HS. Has anyone
here heard it? I didn't-just the V of Mongolia. Thanks and 73/Liz (Liz
Cameron, MI, Oct 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEPAL. Couple of interesting pieces on a recent visit to Radio
Nepal: Nepal: Why digital?
It looks as if the station could break down any moment and its
director general is aware of this. The reason is that spare parts for
most of the equipment aren't available anymore. Radio Nepal still uses
quite a lot of reel-to-reel machines and has not really succeeded in
making the transition to digital technology. Some of the production is
done on PC's with the network dysfunctional due to software issues
(they had bought a server-client solution in Italy and now don't get a
new software key after changing the hardware following two hard-disk
crashes)...
Even though its operation should be funded by the government,
allegedly no payments have been made. Consequently the state owned
broadcaster has to rely on revenue from commercials which seems to be
just about enough to keep the place running.
Full article with photos:
http://radio.hirschler.net/2007/10/09/nepal-why-digital/
Also on their audio archives:
http://radio.hirschler.net/2007/10/12/audio-archives-anyone/
(via Mike Barraclough, England, dxldyg via DXLD)
Other pictures I saw in print back in the nineties made it really
obvious that the Radio Nepal studios are of Japanese origin: They are
almost identical clones of NHK installations in Tokio, not just the
equipment but also the soundproofing, the windows between control room
and announcers room etc. The thumbnail with the mic reveals a little
bit of this.
Btw, beware of the buzzword "digital" in regard to radio studios.
Digital installations use digital signal processing from the first
stage. This does not mean that analogue audio sources can not be used
("you can't play vinyl records in state-of-the-art digital studios" is
a common misconception), they will simply be digitized as first stage
of the console. Devices like CD players will be connected digitally
and these signals synchronized with anything else in the building (not
just the particular studio). If this is not the case and actual audio
on the faders of the console, then it's not a digital studio, no
matter which automation / on air assist systems are in use (Kai
Ludwig, Germany, Oct 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. Half of the four daily English hours to NAm from
RNW via Bonaire make a DST one-hour shift, half do not. Why? 0000 and
0100, now on 6165, stay the same regardless of DST, but 0400 on 6165
shifts to 0500, and 1100 on 11675 shifts to 1200. And this happened
already Oct. 28. As a result, for this Week of Confusion only,
Central-timers such as myself can more conveniently hear RNW at 7 am
and midnight local time = CDT, then back to 6 am and 11 pm CST.
Especially in the morning, 7 am means a much larger potential awakened
audience than at 6 am. If the shifts must be made, why aren`t they on
NAm dates? Doing them on European dates only adds to the confusion of
listeners. I suspect the shifts are not really for our benefit, but to
accommodate studio/transmitter scheduling of higher-priority
broadcasts, such as Dutch. English broadcasts to other worldparts do
not make any timeshift.
Anyhow, this gave me a chance to listen to the new Curious Orange
until 0557 UT Tuesday, and The State We`re In, until 1257 UT Tuesday
Oct 30 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
A reminder to North Americans who find RN`s morning broadcast too
early at 1200-1257: we can get fairly good reception of the Asian
service at 1400-1557 via Madagascar, now on its B-season frequency
12080, as checked Oct 31 at 1509. // 15595 not checked.
The Talata station is the most distant major SW broadcaster from here,
our antipodes being further out in the Indian Ocean. The actual
antipodes of Talata is roughly halfway between Revillagigedo and BI
Hawaii, so anyone sailing out there should have great reception from
Madagascar, all beams converging (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO
1380, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. Glad to hear Radio New Zealand strong and in the clear
past 0700 without the DRM contamination from DW Moonsbrunn on adjacent
9620. Has the Austrian transmitter taken the day off? Let's hope it
will stay that way. 73s. (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica. Sony ICF7600GR +
T2FD, Oct 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
The current DRMDX schedule does not show any DRM at all scheduled
between 9405 and 9750. It looks like they are trying to group most of
this on 31m in the 9750-9925 area. But forget 9615 anyway overnight --
- (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Viz.:
** NEW ZEALAND. RNZI, which said it went to `summer schedule` early,
in mid-October, is changing schedule again already after barely two
weeks, to a quite different one, not on Oct 28 for B-07, but as of
October 31, now posted at http://www.rnzi.com/pages/listen.php
The old schedule is still there for the moment, supposedly expiring
Oct 28, leaving RNZI in limbo for two or three days!
[NOTE: as Noel Green comments below, this sked is already outdated
before going into effect! But I`m leaving it here for the historical
record and because I wasted my time fixing it up. The new new one is
further below --- gh]
31 Oct 2007 - 31 Dec 2007
UTC kHz Target Azimuth
0559-1058 9890 AM, 9870 DRM Pacific 0
1059-1258 13840 AM, 9870 DRM NW Pac, Bougainville, PNG, Timor, As 325
1300-1550 5950 AM [no DRM] Pacific 0
1551-1750 5950 AM, 7145 DRM NE Pac, Tonga, Fiji, Samoa, Cook Is 35
1751-1935 9615 AM, 9890 DRM NE Pac, Tonga, Fiji, Samoa, Cook Is 35
1935-1950 9615 AM, 11675 DRM NE Pac, Tonga, Fiji, Samoa, Cook Is 35
1951-2235 17675 AM, 15720 DRM NW Pac, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands 325
2140-0558 15720 AM, 17675 DRM Pacific 0
2240-0558 15720 AM, 17675 DRM Pacific 0
They are finally off 9655 at 11-13, which besides being directed NW,
is totally squeezed here by Sackville and Furman, at least after 1200,
but 13840 may be too high to propagate this way (fixed up by Glenn
Hauser, for DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hi Raúl, But if you listened today (31st) you wouldn't find them on
9615. They have yet another new, new schedule that starts the 31st,
and 9765 replaces 9615 (and the intended 9890). Their complete sched
is up on their web-site. 9765 was fair strength here after 0700 (Noel
R. Green (NW England), Oct 31, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Our direct broadcasts can be heard on short-wave as follows:
31 Oct 2007 - 31 Dec 2007 UTC kHz band Target Azimuth Days
0459-0658 17675 AM, 15720 DRM Pacific 0
0659-1058 9765 AM, 9870 DRM Pacific 0
1059-1258 13840 AM, 9870 DRM NW Pac, Bougainville, PNG, Timor, As 325
1259-1550 5950 AM, [no DRM] Pacific 0
1551-1750 5950 AM, 7145 DRM NE Pac, Tonga, Fiji, Samoa, Cook Is 35
1751-1935 9615 AM, 9890 DRM NE Pac, Tonga, Fiji, Samoa, Cook Is 35
1936-1950 9615 AM, 11675 DRM NE Pac, Tonga, Fiji, Samoa, Cook Is 35
1951-2235 17675 AM, 15720 DRM NW Pacific, Vanuatu, Solomon Is 325
2136-0458 15720 AM, 17675 DRM Pacific 0
(RNZI website Nov 1 fixed up by gh for DX LISTENING DIGEST) How long
can we believe this one? Surely not until Dec 31 as claimed (gh, DXLD)
NOT LONG. Note the times:
1951-2235 17675 AM, 15720 DRM NW Pacific, Vanuatu, Solomon Is 325
2136-0458 15720 AM, 17675 DRM Pacific 0
73, (Erik Køie, Denmark, ibid.)
[Re not on 9890 after all:] But powerhouse RNW Nauen next door 9895
kHz, 6-11 UT too: 0559-1058 9890 AM, 9870 DRM Pacific 0 73 wolfy
(Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 11770, Oct 31 at 1507, talking drums, then YL in Swahili
with an accent; good modulation and helped by absence of Anguilla
11775. V. of Nigeria as scheduled in Swahili at 1500-1530, per
Thorsten Hallmann`s Africalist
http://www.muenster.org/uwz/ms-alt/africalist/
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Looked for MW harmonix during power outage, but nothing
heard beyond the usual locals, including on 2780 KCRC 1390x2, and on
2880 KGWA 960x3, but KCRC audio was also audible under KGWA on 2880,
which doesn`t make sense. Lo noise also uncovered 3280, KFXY 1640x2,
which I don`t normally hear; it is 10x the power of the other two in
daytime, but probably at least 10x the distance to site (Glenn Hauser,
Enid, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PAKISTAN. FREQUENCY CHANGES B07 RADIO PAKISTAN EXTERNAL SERVICES
Hi Glenn, Radio Pakistan B07 reveals some interesting changes in
frequencies. Radio Pakistan frequency management cell has taken care
of those frequencies where interference and propagation problems were
noted. The comparison and comments are as follows
A07 B07 Comments
Arabic 6235 6280 Propagation problems during A07, change might
help
Bengali I 9340 7445 Better reception noted for 41mb in the past.
II 9350 7445 Chances of good reception during B-07.
Chinese 9380 9380 Transmitters API-4 and API-5. No problem faced.
11570 11570
Dari 4835 5050 Propagation problem. Change may help.
Gujrati 9350 9350 25 meterband could have helped improvement.
Hindi I 9340 7445 New frequency may help improve reception.
II 9350 7445
Nepali 9350 7445 New frequency may help improve reception
Pushto 6235 6235 25 meterband would have been appropriate.
Russian 9300 9395 Reported by Noel Green that IRIB broadcasted
in Russian at 9300 via Lithuania at 1430 UT.
Sinhali 17480 15620 19 mb is appropriate. Otherwise 17 mb is mostly
poor. Change might help.
Tamil I 15620 15620 The choice of 19 mb for both times is
II 17480 15620 appropriate.
Turki 4835 5050 Propagation problem during A07. Change may help
Turkish 6215 6240 Propagation problem in A07. Change may help.
On the whole the selection of new frequencies appear to be
appropriate. We hope for better reception in B07 (Aslam Javaid,
Lahore, Pakistan, Oct 29, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
31 Oct at 1623 came across a station on approximately 4835.4 with
buzzy modulation (PAK style) but strong signal in English. First a
lady telling several number ratings and at 1630 a male voice with some
kind of excited speech, also in English. Frequent mentions of
Pakistan. Sudden sign-off mid-sentence at 1635.I recall this is R
Pakistan freq for some broadcasts during UT afternoon with languages
other than English but never heard the signal so loud and not in
English. A mix up or a new B07 schedule? (Jari Savolainen,
Kuusankoski, Finland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Jari - in B-07 season Radio Pakistan is using 4835 for the Current
Affairs (domestic) programme at 0200-0400 and 1300-1800 (instead of
5080) and for Urdu to Iran, ME and Africa at 1915-0045, all according
to schedules received. In A-07 season 4835 was used for Turki 1330-
1400 and Dari 1515-1545, but these two services - as well as Iranian
1715-1800 - are now using 5050 (Noel R. Green, England, ibid.)
** PERU. PERÚ --- En respuesta al pedido del colega Milton de
Curitiba, desde Perú el diexista Alfredo Cañote -Space Master-
respondió vía [Lista ConDig]:
Hola Milton: Acá tienes la lista actualizada a la fecha, de las
emisoras en MW de Lima, Perú:
kHz QRA
540, R. INCA
560, R. ORIENTE
580, R. MARIA http://www.radiomariaperu.org
600, R. CORA http://www.radiocoraperu.com
620, R. OVACION http://www.peru.com/ovacion
640, R. DEL PACIFICO http://grupopacifico.org
660, LA INOLVIDABLE
700, R-700 http://www.r700lagrande.com
730, R.P.P. http://www.rpp.com.pe
760, R. MAR
780, R. VICTORIA http://ipda.com.pe
820, R. LIBERTAD http://www.radiolibertad.com.pe
850, R. NACIONAL http://www.radionacional.com.pe
880, R. UNION http://www.unionlaradio.com
900, R. FELICIDAD http://www.felicidad.com.pe
930, R. MODERNA http://www.modernaradiopapa.com
960, R. PANAMERICANA http://www.radiopanamericana.com
990, R. LATINA http://www.radiolatina.com.pe
1010, R. CIELO http://www.radiocielo1010.com
1040, OBX-4O http://www.onda-medios.com/index2.html
1060, R. EXITO http://www.onda-medios.com/index2.html
1080, R. LA LUZ http://www.radiolaluz.com
1110, R. ANTARKI http://www.radioantarkiperu.com
1130, R. BACAN http://www.radiobacan.com
1160, R. PANAMERICANA http://www.radiopanamericana.com
1200, R. CADENA http://www.radiolaluz.com
1250, R. MIRAFLORES http://ipda.com.pe
1300, R. COMAS http://www.radiocomas.com
1320, R. LA CRONICA
http://www.radionacional.com.pe/programacion_cronica.asp
1340, R. BENDICION http://www.radiolaluz.com
1380, R. NUEVO TIEMPO http://www.nuevotiempo.org.pe
1400, R. CALLAO http://www.radiocallao.com
1420, R. SAN ISIDRO
1440, R. IMPERIAL 2
1470, C.P.N. RADIO http://www.cpnradio.com.pe
1500, R. SANTA ROSA http://www.radiosantarosa.com.pe
1530, R. MILENIA http://www.radiomilenia.com.pe
http://www.corporacionimpacto.com
1550, R. INDEPENDENCIA
1590, R. AGRICULTURA http://www.laperuanisima.com
Espero sea útil la información. 73 DXSPACEMASTER (Alfredo Cañote,
Conexión Digital Oct 28 via DXLD)
** POLAND [non]. 9525 kHz, Radio Polonia, 1221-1240 UTC tune out.
Features on Inside Central Europe, with item on smoking laws in
Europe. Web site mentioned as "incentraleurope.com"; ID as "The
external service of Polish Radio" by YL, more talk, item on Poland
having no viable leader of the left since 1989, into music. This is
likely the best ever reception of Polish Radio, which is actually
rarely heard here with any readable signal. Overall a fairly readable
SINPO 33222, with peak of SINPO 44334. October 27 (Roger Chambers,
Utica NY, ODXA yg via DXLD)
That was Wertachtal at 300 degrees, favorable for us. Now one hour
later at 13-14, and moved to 9450. How is that? (Glenn Hauser, ibid.)
9450 kHz, Radio Polonia, in English on new B-07 frequency at 1314 UT
in English with item on a man suing German Government for injuries
from attacks by Nazis during the war. SINPO 34223; did not hold up the
entire hour, however, by 1350 SINPO 24122. Still, much better than
hardly ever heard in the past on 9525 or 11820 kHz. Heard on a Grundig
YB 400 PE with long wire (Roger Chambers, Utica, NY, Oct 30, ODXA yg
via WORLD OF RADIO 1380, DXLD)
** PORTUGAL. RDPI, 11620, VG signal but distorted in silly bolagame
coverage, Monday Oct 29 at 2133. Contrary to the tentative B-07
schedule in DXLD 7-125, apparently 11620 is instead of 15540 to NAm at
19-24, more or less (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1380, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
I have also heard RDPI on 11620 at about 2000 or 2100, it's most of
the late afternoon here when AIR used to be on that frequency. I
heard Portuguese, strong enough to be an American religious
broadcaster, but no mention of Jesus or Deus, finally an ID of RDP
which eliminated Brazil as a possibility. Too bad, as I enjoyed AIR
when I could hear them, and Bollywood music was different than I
would get on my local FM station. (Dan Malloy, KA1RDZ, so probably in
New England, Oct 30, ODXA via WORLD OF RADIO 1380, DXLD)
O yeah, 11620 is a major AIR frequency, at many hours, including 1745-
2230, 500 kW, 325 degrees from Bangalore, so also favoring NAm. Not a
good move by RDPI, against whose monster signal AIR has no chance
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1380, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Re 7-125, tentative sked; here is the final one with changes:
RDPi - Rádio Portugal B07: 28 Outubro 07 ~ 24 Março 08
UTC days area kHz/site kW
0000-0300 .twtfs. B 11655lis 300
0000-0300 .twtfs. NAm 9544lis 300
0000-0300 .twtfs. VEN 9855lis, ex-13700lis 100
0600-0700 mtwtf.. Eu 7130lis 300
0700-1300 mtwtf.. Eu 9815lis, delete 11875lis 300
0745-0900 mtwtf.. Eu 11660sin 250
0800-1200 .....ss Eu 12020lis 300
0800-1500 .....ss Af 17590lis, ex-21830lis 300
0800-1055 .....ss B/Af 15555lis, ex-17710lis 300 ex-1100
0930-1100 .....ss Eu 9815sin 250
1100-1300 mtwtf.. Af 17745lis 300
1100-1300 mtwtf.. B/Af 21655lis 300
1100-1700 .....ss B/Af 21655lis 300
1200-1500 .....ss Eu 11855lis, delete 15475lis 300
1300-1700 * mtwtf.. NAm 15560lis 300
1300-1700 * .....ss NAm 15560lis 300
1400-1600 mtwtf.. Ind/ME 15690lis 100
1500-1700 .....ss Eu 11635lis 300
1500-2100 .....ss Af 11985lis, ex-17620lis 300
1700-2000 mtwtf.. Eu 9455lis 300
1700-2100 .....ss Eu 9455lis 300
1700-2000 mtwtf.. Af 13720lis, delete 17620lis 300
1700-2000 mtwtf.. B/Af 15465lis 300
1700-2100 .....ss B/Af 15465lis 300
1700-1900 * mtwtf.. NAm 17825lis 300
1900-2100 .....ss NAm 11620lis, ex-15540lis 300
1900-2400 * mtwtf.. NAm 11620lis, ex-15540lis 300
2000-2300 * mtwtfss Eu 9795lis, ex-7380lis 300 ex -2400
2000-2400 * mtwtf.. Af 11825lis 300
2000-2400 * mtwtfss B/Af 11960lis 300
2100-2400 * .....ss NAm 11620lis, ex-15540lis 300
2300-2400 * .twtfs. Eu 7145lis new 300
*) special broadcasts only, usually for sport. All transmissions via
RTP HF centre, CEOC, São Gabriel: 4 x 300 kW, 4 x 100 kW (reserve),
except 250 kW Pro-Funk GmbH, Sines, 3 x 250 kW (Compiled by Carlos
Gonçalves, 30 Out 07, WORLD OF RADIO 1380, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PORTUGAL. 15690 Lisbon RDP with intermodulation two spurious faulty
signals on 15522 and 15859 kHz at 14-16 (Wolfgang Büschel, visiting
Spain, Oct 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PORTUGAL. DRM on 13585-13590-13595 at 1410 Oct 31 mixing with
CODAR. Interesting to hear two unwanted noises clashing; I wonder how
CODAR affects DRM reception, or vice versa. DRM sked shows this is DW
Sines aimed east (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 15235 bad audio, 15-16 Galbeni (Wolfgang Büschel, visiting
Spain, Oct 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15235, very bad audio, Tiganesti
Arabian, 15-16 UT. 11870 very low audio ROU GAL, Romanian [no time]
(Wolfgang Büschel, visiting Spain, Oct 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 5960, R. Tikhiy Okean, Vladivostok, *0935:16-0951, Oct 28,
open carrier already on at 0918, // 7330 (fair). This is their winter
changeover from ex: 9765 // 12065 and ex: 0835-0900 UT.
6075, R. Rossii via Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka, 0800-0822, Oct 29, 5+1
pips, IS, Russian programming, "Radio Rossii" IDs, strong reception
(Ron Howard, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. VOICE OF RUSSIA ON GLOBAL AIR
http://ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=eng&q=18029&cid=59&p=29.10.2007
Today the Voice of Russia Radio Broadcasting Company is marking 78
years to the day it launched regular broadcasts to foreign countries.
Foreign listeners heard the Voice of Russia signature tunes on October
29th 1929. The first radio programs from Moscow were in German, right
afterwards opened the English and French services. BBC started
broadcasting three years after and the VOA came on the air yet several
years later. Now the Voice of Russia can be heard on all continents.
It broadcasts in 33 languages carrying information on domestic and
global events to about one million listeners worldwide. The Voice of
Russia is among the top three broadcasters along with BBC and VOA.
An undisputable broadcasting guru, the Voice of Russia was the first
to launch digital broadcasting, the format of the future. Since 2003
it has been broadcasting in digital format to Europe and since
recently – to China. The Voice of Russia today is a multimedia
broadcaster boasting a 10-year experience in Internet broadcasting.
And due to an ambitious project it joined not long ago its programs
have become available to readers of Britain’s “Daily Telegraph”,
America’s “Washington Post” and India’s “Times of India”.
As a priority project to support Russian speakers in former Soviet
republics the Voice of Russia launched a frequency in 2000 to
broadcast in Russian to the whole of post-Soviet space. Plans for the
near future provide for opening radio services in CIS and Baltic
countries that would broadcast in local languages. Oleg Kulinich is
Deputy Chief Editor for the Voice of Russia’s Commonwealth channel.
The response surpassed all our expectations, he said. The young
generation on post-Soviet space, though knowing no Russian, wants to
know more of Russia by virtue of family customs and traditions.
So fast-moving in changing the broadcasting format, the Voice of
Russia stays loyal to its traditions and style, which the audiences
find particularly attractive. On its schedule are more than 400
programs telling of present-day Russia, its history, culture, domestic
and foreign policies. Listeners from 160 countries view the Voice of
Russia as an efficient, democratic and unbiased channel to obtain
information on Russia and on what it thinks about the developments
worldwide. Lada Korotun 29.10.2007 (via Fred Waterer, dxldyg via DXLD)
** RWANDA. 6055, presumed R. Rwanda, 2055-2100*, Oct 28, French. OM
over music; hosting phone-in program. Pulled the plug during short
techno-mx bit at 2100. Good/fair (Scott R. Barbour. Jr., Intervale,
NH, R8, R75, NIR10, MLB-1,200' Beverages, 60m Dipole, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST) Heard Rwanda yesterday on 6055, which becomes clear
at 2025 UT. 73, (Erik Køie, Copenhagen, Oct 30, ibid.)
** SAUDI ARABIA [and non]. 21775 spur ARS. 9555 terrible 3 stations,
CRI CER [ALBANIA], RCI Vat Russian, and BSKSA Arabic all on 9555. 16-
18 slot. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, visiting Spain, Oct 28, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) THE ONLY BUZZY signal of BSKSA Riyadh is every day BENGALI on
17820 at 1200-1500 UT. 73 de wolfy (Wolfgang Büschel, visiting Spain,
Oct 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15285 no audio, but strong carrier at
0600-0700 UT BSKSA Riyadh Swahili. BSKSA 0600-0900 UT in Arabic, much
stronger nominal 17730 a little bit lower around 17729.8 ... .9 kHz,
less signal on \\ 17740 even (Wolfgang Büschel, visiting Spain, Oct
31, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA [and non]. The sparsely-occupied 16mb should be clear
of collisions, but we still have them: Oct 31 at 1402, VOA in English
17895 mixing with a weaker station in Arabic. Yes, BSKSA Riyadh
deliberately overlaps with VOA Botswana for an hour at 1400-1500.
Botswana aims north and Riyadh aims west, so the real collision is in
north Africa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SERBIA [non non?]. Programme schedule Period: October 28th 2007
UTC Language Target Day Freq. w/l Power(KW)
1400-1430 English Europe mon-sun 7240 41.408 250 ND
1430-1500 Serbian Europe mon-sun 7240 41.408 250 ND
1500-1530 Spanish Europe mon-sun 7240 41.408 250 ND
1530-1600 Arabic Europe mon-sun 7240 41.408 250 ND
1600-1630 Russian Europe mon-sun 7240 41.408 250 ND
1630-1700 French Europe mon-sun 7240 41.408 250 ND
1700-1730 German Europe mon-sun 7240 41.408 250 ND
1730-1745 Chinese Europe mon-sun 7240 41.408 250 ND
1745-1800 Albanian Europe mon-sun 7240 41.408 250 ND
1800-1815 Hungarian Europe mon-sun 7240 41.408 250 ND
1815-1830 Greek Europe mon-sun 7240 41.408 250 ND
1830-1900 Italian Europe mon-sun 7240 41.408 250 ND
1900-1930 Russian Europe mon-sun 7240 41.408 250 ND
1930-2000 English Europe mon-sun 7240 41.408 250 ND
2000-2030 Spanish Europe mon-sun 7240 41.408 250 ND
2030-2100 Serbian Europe sun-fri 7240 41.408 250 ND
2030-2130 Serbian Europe sat 7240 41.408 250 ND
2100-2130 German Europe sun-fri 7240 41.408 250 ND
2130-2200 French Europe mon-sun 7240 41.408 250 ND
(via José Miguel Romero, Spain, Oct 30, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO
1380, DXLD)
But I assume they are really still using the low-power unit near
Belgrade, having promised to get the 250 kW unit at Bijeljina, Bosnia
back on air by December 1. How is the interference situation now on
7240 in B-07? (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1380, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
No signal here in south Italy, yesterday and Sunday (Roberto
Scaglione, Sicily, Oct 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) So maybe
they are really on 6100? (Glenn, ibid.) Hard to know. Only DRM noise
here and 7240 has several stations on it. 73, (Erik Køie, Denmark,
ibid.) No Serbia also on 6100 but I'm trying again (Scaglione, 1744
UT, ibid.)
6100 at 1100-0100 UT: CRI from various places within Chinese soil, and
from Meyerton AFS relay too. And RCI Sackville heard underneath around
2105 - 2400 UT scheduled too, 250 kW 268 deg. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel,
Spain, Oct 31, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1380, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SIERRA LEONE [non]. 9525, Cotton Tree News (CTN) via Ascension,
0730-0756*, Oct 29, drums, news in English, CTN IDs, into "The news in
local languages", started out poor, but steadily improved to fair.
Their website is http://www.cottontreenews.org Nice that the Voice of
Indonesia has presently abandoned this frequency. Am grateful to Brian
Alexander for sharing his log with us.
9525, Cotton Tree News (CTN) via Ascension, 0730-0800*, Oct 30, drums,
news segment in English (items about results of a study regarding
smoking, proposed subsidy for the University cafeteria, about the ICC
Secretary-General), news in local languages, gives 9525 frequency,
"This is CTN from Freetown", fair/moderate het from VOI on 9526.0 (Ron
Howard, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1380, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SLOVAKIA. RSI, still on 7230 to NAm for English at 0100, despite
this being in an exclusive hamband in Region 2; Oct 29 at 0110 in
mailbag replying to Ted Schuerzinger in NY, but not at all sure how to
pronounce his name; must not know much German there in Bratislava.
OTOH, the presenters seemed not to be Slovax (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. REE`s website is not exactly user-friendly, mixed in with
RTVE, but I finally found they have put up a handy new program
schedule grid dated Oct 29, but beware: not specified but must be in
local time since I heard La Hora de Asia Sun at 1405 UT, not 1505 as
on the sked! And co-official languages are in the 1330 UT semihour
now, not 1430.
http://www.rtve.es/archivos/70-6806-FICHERO/ParrillaReeInvierno2007.pdf
I was looking for La Bañera de Ulises, the Mediterranean-music show
from Radio 3, but it`s no longer on the REE schedule, and if you go to
Radio 3, you are redirected to REE for it! However, it is still on the
R3 schedule Sat at 14 local, which from now on should be 13 UT,
perhaps the only way to hear it, as an audio archive, also hard to
locate, only linx to a couple of months of shows from (last?) Nov &
Dec.
A new show on the REE schedule may be its replacement, ``La Costa de
las Tormentas``, Thu 06, Sat 09, Mon 01, for 50 minutes within these
hours. Could not find anything about this show, even whether it`s
musical or not, but need to check it out. Thu at 05 UT was a previous
time for LBdU on REE.
Amigos de la Onda Corta has also changed scheduling, probably 5
minutes later than: Fri 0730, Sat 1100, Sun 0400, Mon 0330, apparently
no longer Sun at 0105. The grid says nothing about frequencies, so you
have to look elsewhere for those (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SUDAN. 4750, R. Peace, 0331-0346, Oct 30, vernacular/English.
Ballad and talk in language announcing URL but I only copied the
"www..." part of it. Full English ID announcements and short "This is
R. Peace" IDs at 0337 and 0339 with announcer between both with what I
presume were IDs in local language. Poor, fading under QRN by tuneout
(Scott R. Barbour. Jr., Intervale, NH, R8, R75, NIR10, MLB-1,200'
Beverages, 60m Dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. Re 7-130, missing time for earlier 9825 unID log: Just
returned from very tiring holidays and looked again in my handwritten
texts : ?? 9825 unIDed Arab station with mainly Arab songs, dull and
under modulated, S5, 34443, Liangas 20-10-7, Thessaloniki Greece. Here
is a typo: date is 19-10-07. Missing time: 2226 and I do not
understand how the 19-10 has been typed after several logs of 20th. Do
you think that Miraya was testing that time too? (Zacharias Lilangas,
Greece, HCDX via DXLD) I doubt it at that time of day, but we`ll
probably never know (gh, DXLD)
New 9825, 1258-1405, CLANDESTINE, 28-10, Miraya FM, via ? Sudanese
Arabic/English announcements, ID's, western and Sudanese pop songs. It
had not signed on when checking at 1252. 55555 (Anker Petersen,
Denmark, via Dario Monferini, DXLD)
9825 Miraya FM, 1310-1315, escuchada el 28 de octubre, emisión de
música pop y rap, canciones étnicas africanas, SINPO 44444 (José
Miguel Romero, Spain, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
If Miraya FM, 9825 via ? stays at 13-16 UT instead of 15-18, they now
confront VOA Tinang at 14-15, which is what I heard here signing off
at 1500 Oct 29. There was a slight SAH and very weak signal there
afterwards. Also heard VOA signing on Oct 30 at 1359. Not a chance for
Miraya (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1380, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
9825, Oct 29 1500-1532 Radio Miraya Sudan. ID, News headlines in
English, short sequence in Arabic + Afro-pop, Interviews about Darfur
political situation, again in Arabic + Afro-pop. Very strong signal,
quite much fading. 43323 (Jonne Naarala, Finland, HCDX online log via
DXLD)
This is now on the IRRS schedule, as 15-18 UT; see ITALY [non] (gh)
9825 VERY STRONG U.K. relay at 1500- UT, English and Horn of Africa
music (Wolfgang Büschel, visiting Spain, Oct 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
How do you know it`s UK? Has IRRS done business with VTC/Merlin? (gh)
It`s not from the UK (Noel Green, DSWCI DX Window via WORLD OF RADIO
1380, DXLD)
** SUDAN [non]. Looking again for Miraya FM, 9825, Oct 31 on battery
power. At 1356, open carrier with flutter, VOA Tinang about to come
on, so did not try again until 1500 as it was signing off. Heard an
NHK-style timesignal, then very poor signal with some singing, but
nothing left by 1504. If Miraya is such a big signal in Europe you`d
think a bit more of it would reach here. Unclear when Miraya hours
will be corrected from 1300-1600 to 1500-1800, but in any event, 1500-
1600 should catch them either way. Whatever the site, IRRS now has it
on their schedule as 1500-1800 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1380,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SWEDEN [non]. Surprised to hear Swedish from R. Sweden on 11690,
Oct 30 at 1304, and very strong, must be Sackville, but not on
schedules. RTTY on low side avoidable by tuning slightly upward. No
trace of HCJB underneath, which in B-07 is still on 11690 to SAm in
the mornings; 1332 recheck, Sweden off, HCJB audible // much stronger
11960. The Sweden via Sackville transmission at 1300-1330 is supposed
to be on 11670! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [non]. New TDF transmissions in English via Issoudun are
scheduled: 16-17 on 9785, 17-18 on 11850, 18-19 on 3965. From
Issoudun, Spanish is at 2000-2100 on 3965, 500 kW, 215 degrees.
Probably not RFI, but what? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
3965 at 1800-1900 transmits R. Taiwan Internationale too, booming here
(JM Aubier, France, ibid.)
And 0200-0300 a new broadcast in Spanish, which may not be RFI, is
scheduled on 9800 via Guiana French, 500 kW, 195 degrees (Glenn
Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
No período radial, o B07, que entrou em vigência em 28 de outubro, a
Rádio Taiwan Internacional usará também a freqüência de 9800 kHz,
entre 0200 e 0300, para transmitir em espanhol para as Américas. A
dica é do Francisco Iglesias, de São Paulo (SP). (Célio Romais,
Panorama, @tividade DX Oct 29 via DXLD)
See below the complete, expanded use of Issoudun by RTI. 2020 check
confirmed also Spanish on 3965, quite weak here since of course
antenna Gange*) aims at Spain for this transmission.
*) cf. http://perso.orange.fr/tvignaud/am/rfi/e1991-2001.htm
** TAIWAN [non]. Winter B-07 of Radio Taiwan International via TDF:
1400-1500 on 15430 ISS 500 kW / 060 deg to EaEu Russian
1600-1700 on 9785 ISS 500 kW / 085 deg to SoAs English till Mar. 1
1600-1700 on 11995 ISS 500 kW / 085 deg to SoAs English from Mar. 2
1700-1800 on 6120 ISS 500 kW / 055 deg to EaEu Russian till Mar. 1
1700-1800 on 7135 ISS 500 kW / 055 deg to EaEu Russian from Mar. 2
(7315*)
1700-1800 on 11850 ISS 500 kW / 160 deg to SoAf English
1800-1900 on 3965 ISS 250 kW / 345 deg to WeEu English
1900-2000 on 9365 ISS 500 kW / 190 deg to NoAf French till Mar. 1
1900-2000 on 11615 ISS 500 kW / 190 deg to NoAf French from Mar. 2
(11670*)
2000-2100 on 3965 ISS 500 kW / 215 deg to SoEu Spanish
2100-2200 on 3965 ISS 250 kW / 050 deg to WeEu German
2200-2300 on 3965 ISS 250 kW / 345 deg to WeEu Chinese
*alternative frequency (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Oct 15 via DXLD) (via
Kai Ludwig, Oct 30, dxldyg via DXLD)
** THAILAND [non non]. We had hoped the relay via USA would continue
at least at 0200-0330 on 5890 via Greenville, once Delano was deleted,
but nothing heard UT Oct 29, so apparently we may only hear Thailand
direct via Udorn. On the tentative schedule but as yet unconfirmed are
attempts to broadcast to NAm from there, even over the Arctic polar
darkness to ENAm:
0030-0200 12095 ENAm
0200-0330 15275 WNAm
It may be a while before we can hear these at all in NAm, so can
anyone elsewhere confirm whether they are on the air? First semihour
in English, last hour in Thai. Let`s hope these have no problem
keeping the audio feed running, unlike the disastrous final broadcast
via Delano (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1380, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
Radio Thailand on 12095 at 0032 Oct 30 in English with OM & YL reading
news, features on rising oil prices, IDs, some type of promo for 40th
anniversary of ASEAN organization, several other promo/ad type
announcements, then into sports program. Lots of fading and flutter on
the signal; local QRM didn't help, either, with only about 60%
intelligible (Steve Wood, So. Yarmouth, MA, Drake R8B, 135 foot
dipole, WORLD OF RADIO 1380, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Dear Glenn, I've been hearing Radio Thailand this morning on 15275
kHz, in English until 0230 and then in Thai past 0300. Best wishes
(Alan Davies, Surabaya, Indonesia, Oct 30, WORLD OF RADIO 1380, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Thanks to you both for quickly confirming both of these new
broadcasts. It will be interesting to follow how well they make it to
NAm as intended. Perhaps the 1230 on 9810 and 1400 on 9725 broadcasts
for SEAs/Au will actually do better with more favorable propagation.
That`s when they ought to be aiming a frequency toward us, but
transmitter time is probably scarce in local evening (Glenn Hauser, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
12095, Radio Thailand via Udorn, 0043-0103, Oct 30, OM & YL in
English, Thailand regional weather forecast (mostly rain), ID for R.T.
English Service, gives website, music till ToH, pips, choral anthem,
bells chiming, into Thai, poor. Also heard R.T. on 15275 at 0200, in
English with better reception, announced broadcasting to WCNA, "News
Hour" with segments for "National News" and "Global News", ID that
Radio Thailand was being broadcast by the "Public Relations Department
of the Royal Thai Government", by 0226 was poor (Ron Howard, CA, Etón
E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1380, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UT-Oct. 30: R. Thailand, direct from Udorn site, heard at headphone
level on 12095 at 0035 with news and features. Sorry about the VOA
relays coming to an end; now it's about getting a decent signal from
Asia for B07 with low solar levels (Joe Hanlon, NJ, WORLD OF RADIO
1380, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Checked R. Thailand`s English service on 9725 to As/Au, Oct 31 at
1421. Quickly heard with ID, but only tnx to a long pause in the
discourse of DGS Costa Rica, with a much stronger signal. Fortunately,
TIRWR 9725 is often down for days at a time; it had been off-
frequency, hetting anything else on 9725.0, but now it perfectly
matched Udorn (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TIBET. CHINA-TIBET, 4920, Xizang PBS-Lhasa, 2107-2120, Oct 28,
vernacular. OM and YL with talk and pop-like music. Poor. // 4905-
fair, // 5240-poor (Scott R. Barbour. Jr., Intervale, NH, R8, R75,
NIR10, MLB-1,200' Beverages, 60m Dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 15450 was doing fine most days in Oct from VOT, English at
1230-1325, but they go and change it for B-07, now 1330-1425 on 12035
and 11735, same as B-06. And also same as B-06, on first check Oct 29
at 1407 in Turkish music, 11735 tho poor with flutter, was much better
than barely audible 12035. This is anomalous, since 12035 is aimed at
WEu and NAm, and 11735 is aimed eastward. Unless the antennas are
messed up, as we frequently suspected, apparently long-path is working
better than short-path.
Opposite of the day before, on Oct 30 the 1330 VOT English broadcast
was barely audible on 12035, and inaudible on 11735, when checked at
1335. 11735 also has QRM de VOA on 11740.
VOT, IS at 1327 Oct 31, before English, found 12035 much stronger than
11735. You never know which will be better from one day to the next
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 9765, Albanian down to 9705 Intermodulation Çakirlar
73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, visiting Spain, Oct 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
9765, TRT Çakirlar in Albanian at 0700-0730 UT, spurious distorted
signal down to 9705 and up to 9781 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, visiting
Spain, Oct 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** UGANDA. BIBLE VOICE BROADCASTING NEW!!! Dunamis Shortwave 4.750 mhz
– 60 meter band 6 – 10 p.m. local Uganda time! Broadcasting from
Mukono, Uganda (via Jaisakthivel, India, dxldyg via DXLD)
This is again at the top of the complete (?) BVBN sked, for B-07,
which is too big a mess for me to attempt to clean up for DXLD. It`s
in the yg if you need to search thru it. Dunamis not so new!!! any
more, but note the time which would be 1500-1900 UT on 4750 (Glenn
Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** UGANDA. I guess for several days Uganda has been off the air on
4976 and 5026. That's not unusual for them being off a day or a two,
but I wonder if the Chinese engineers are working at the transmitter
site. It was reported some time ago that there'll be some upgrading
with the help of China (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland Oct 31,
WORLD OF RADIO 1380, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** UKRAINE. RUI signal lobes towards Iberian peninsula are very POOR,
7440 kHz 6-9 UT is like a 20 to 50 kW unit (Wolfgang Büschel,
visiting Spain, oct 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. BBCWS--B07 to Caribbean --- Hi, Glenn -- Guess we should
take the BBCWS online frequency schedule for the Caribbean with a
grain of salt. No trace of 11675 during the 21-22 UT hour. I thought
it would be the frequent late start from Greenville, but the
transmission turned out to be a complete no show. However the now
unlisted 5975 via Montsinery from 22-23 UT is actually still there.
9525 via WHRI on for the entire 21-23 UT time period as listed.
[Later:] Glenn, as a followup to my e-mail yesterday, BBC has now
fixed the online schedule to include 5975 at 22 UT. We shall see if
11675 shows up today at 21 UT (Stephen Luce, Houston, TX, Oct 30, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) Missing Oct 29, but back on Oct 30 (gh, DXLD)
** U K [non]. BBCWS relays in the Americas, B-07:
WHRI:
1100-1200 5875 173
1200-1300 9660 173
2100-2300 9525 173
GUIANA FRENCH:
1100-1200 13760 305 [probably Spanish]
1100-1300 9750 295
2200-2300 5975 295
GREENVILLE:
1100-1200 6095 183 [probably Spanish]
2100-2200 11675 146 [however, missing during the entire hour Oct 29,
as monitored here; deleted, or another transmitter problem? It was
back Oct 30 at 2126 check] (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1380, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. VOA`s music hour at 2100 via Greenville is back on 15580 for
B-season, as Monday Oct 29 at 2148 caught last fifth of American Gold
with Doug Levine, playing Li`l Stevie Wonder`s first hit, ``Fingertips
Part Two``, then Ruby & the Romantix --- theme seemed to be first or
only hits.
Schedule for this hour is:
Mon American Gold
Tue Roots and Branches
Wed Classic Rock
Thu Top 20 Countdown
Fri Hip Hop Connection 1
Sat Hip Hop Connection 2
Sat Fusion
[or maybe not: noticed later that this schedule at
http://www.voanews.com/english/english-radio-schedule.cfm
was effective 2 April 2006! And still shows e.g. Talk to America]
Earlier and at all other times except this single hour, 15580 is via
overseas sites, but at 21-22 it`s 250 kW from Greenville aimed 94
degrees, which means it also puts a huge signal, at least S9 +25, into
CNAm, the opposite direxion. (Don`t tell Smith or Mundt!)
Even so, there was slight interference from KTBN on 15590, whose dirty
transmitter and big signal of its own is always accompanied by a
distinctive buzz out to at least plus/minus 10 (not heard on other
strong signals), plus splatter out to 15570-15620 or so. I could
actually hear KTBN splatter below VOA 15580; only the big signal from
VOA saved it, most of the time. The 15580 carrier stayed on until
2205:30* so no hurry to get that transmitter to some other frequency.
[However, 24 hours later, as if to belie my comments, 15580 was much
weaker compared to KTBN, not a solid signal at all; yet K was 3 at
2100 on Oct 29 and only 1 on Oct 30. Tue had a bluegrass music awards
show, via Roots & Branches?]
Another Greenville transmission to Africa, which should also serve NAm
well, is at 1800-2000 on 11975.
The interim hour 2000-2100 on 11975 changes to São Tomé. Unfortunately
this is the hour carrying African Beat on weekdays, two different
editions of Music Time in Africa on weekends. Other SW frequencies at
20-21 are 4930 4940 6080 13710=Botswana with 4940 stopping at 2030 on
weekdays (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1380, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Oct 30 at 1444 came upon big S9+25 open carrier on 15480,
then played VOA-sounding synthesized jazzy music until cut off
abruptly at 1506, and carrier off around 1508:40. No announcements. I
am quite confident this was Greenville testing (assuming Delano will
not even test any more). The music came in cuts of roughly one minute
with pauses, as if playing a CD of VOA production music. Some of it
may well have been themes for unfamiliar shows, past or present. It`s
one of those frequencies IBB uses only for testing purposes, not
scheduled for any public broadcasts. It would have been a good
opportunity to record all this production music intact with no voice-
overs. Perhaps they will do it again another day, or another Tuesday?
Not sure when it started (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1380, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. This week`s Hablemos con Wáshington call-in will invite
listener comments about the cancellation of Buenas Noches América, and
the despedida/farewell to BNA would be around 0145 (Leônidas dos
Santos Nascimento, MG, via Célio Romais, Brasil, Oct 30, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
HcW was at 0100-0200 UT Wednesday Oct 31 on 5890, 5940, 9885, but all
three frequencies were poor, so I listened to the last part in the
archive at http://www.voanews.com/spanish/webcasts.cfm
Buenas Noches, América had been on the air for 46 years. It is going
off its weekday schedule, but a ``more dynamic`` program of the same
name will now be heard on weekends. They also discussed the new show
which we had already found planned for a new separate transmission, M-
F 2300-2315 from Nov 5: It`s ``Crónicas del Día``, allegedly at 7 pm
Wáshington time, but at 2300 UT it will then be 6 pm in DC (Glenn
Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1380, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WWCR B07 Schedule, November:
Transmitter #1 - 100 KW - 46 Degrees
Oct 28, 2007 Nov 3, 2007
Time (CT) Time (UTC) Frequency
12:00 AM - 04:00 AM 0500-0900 3215
04:00 AM - 05:00 AM 0900-1000 9985
05:00 AM - 05:00 PM 1000-2200 15825
05:00 PM - 07:00 PM 2200-0000 7465
07:00 PM - 12:00 AM 0000-0500 3215
Nov 4, 2007 Nov 30, 2007
12:00 AM - 04:00 AM 0600-1000 3215
04:00 AM - 05:00 AM 1000-1100 9985
05:00 AM - 04:00 PM 1100-2200 15825
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM 2200-0000 7465
06:00 PM - 12:00 AM 0000-0600 3215
Transmitter #2 - 100 KW - 85 Degrees
Oct 28, 2007 Nov 3, 2007
12:00 AM - 07:00 AM 0500-1200 5935
07:00 AM - 08:00 PM 1200-0100 13845
08:00 PM - 12:00 AM 0100-0500 5935
Nov 4, 2007 Nov 30, 2007
12:00 AM - 07:00 AM 0600-1300 5935
07:00 AM - 07:00 PM 1300-0100 13845
07:00 PM - 12:00 AM 0100-0600 5935
Transmitter #3 - 100 KW - 40 Degrees
Oct 28, 2007 Nov 3, 2007
12:00 AM - 07:00 AM 0500-1200 5070
07:00 AM - 09:00 AM 1200-1400 9985
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM 1400-2200 12160
05:00 PM - 12:00 AM 2200-0500 5070
Nov 4, 2007 Nov 30, 2007
12:00 AM - 07:00 AM 0600-1300 5070
07:00 AM - 09:00 AM 1300-1500 9985
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM 1500-2300 12160
05:00 PM - 12:00 AM 2300-0600 5070
Transmitter #4 - 100 KW - 90 Degrees
Oct 28, 2007 Nov 3, 2007
12:00 AM - 09:00 AM 0500-1400 5890
09:00 AM - 01:00 PM 1400-1800 9985
01:00 PM - 05:00 PM 1800-2200 9975
05:00 PM - 07:00 PM 2200-0000 9985
07:00 PM - 11:00 PM 0000-0400 7465
11:00 PM – 12:00 AM 0400-0500 5890
Nov 4, 2007 Nov 30, 2007
12:00 AM - 09:00 AM 0600-1500 5890
09:00 AM - 01:00 PM 1500-1900 9985
01:00 PM - 04:00 PM 1900-2200 9975
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM 2200-0000 9985
06:00 PM - 10:00 PM 0000-0400 7465
10:00 PM - 12:00 AM 0400-0600 5890
(via José Miguel Romero, Spain, dxldyg via DXLD)
** U S A. At least one of the WEWN transmitters puts out a constant
squeal. (We have discussed this before --- something to do with cards
in the modulators needing replacement), and it has been going on for
years. Apparently WEWN counts on highly-motivated listeners who will
put up with it, or they just don`t care. Currently at 1345 it`s 7540
with this problem, noted in Spanish Oct 31 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. ``Laudetur Jesus Christus`` heard on 5965 as soon as I
tuned in, Oct 29 at 0540, and into French, a fast SAH mixing with REE
Costa Rica, which is scheduled 0400-0800. 5965 is new for Vatican, and
they are making extensive use of it, damn the QRM. Perhaps they think
they have inherited rights to it from Rai. Vatican on 5965 now 0400-
0805, 0900-1015, 1100-1215 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hello, some B07 logs from a late autumn holiday in Spain. 5965 is the
daytime channel of Vatican, ex 5885 due of DRM Norway 5895. VERY
DISTORTED Vatican Radio on 9645 kHz, noted up to 9770. at 0700-0805
and 1530-1730 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, visiting Spain, Oct 28, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
[and non] 9555: three stations at once, around 16-1800 UT, CRI CER,
CVA SMG Ru, RCI RMP Ru; BSKSA RIY Ar starts before 1800 UT (Wolfgang
Büschel, visiting Spain, oct 31, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN [and non]. At 1328 Oct 31 on 11740, two stations mixing
about equally, Vatican the one in Italian, and WYFR the one in French.
Catholix vs Protestants! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VENEZUELA [non]. RNV CI via Cuba, reconfirmed still on 11680 at
1505 Oct 29. Not like they observe any HFCC seasonal change dates.
RNV CI via CUBA, Oct 30 at 1257 on 11705, ending `De Primera Mano``
talk about something going on in Barcelona (Spain, I think, not
Venezuela), then still giving 3.5-year-old, out-of-date transmission
schedule, but with nice piano background, iffy Apartado 3979 address,
not finished until 1303, plus open carrier for a while. These
transmissions often run a few minutes late (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM [and non]. When listening to the VoV Mailbag this
Wednesday, Oct. 31, they only mentioned that the Austrian relay in
English has been changed to: 18 UT on 5955. Listeners are encouraged
to report the other (unchanged) frequencies. Am listening via their
RealAudio stream which is at: 10, 1230, 15, 16, 19, 2030 and 0330 UT.
73, (Erik Køie, Copenhagen, Denmark, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Voice of Vietnam in German is easy: 2030-2100 and 2100-2130 (yes, a
second playout immediately follows the first one) via Skelton on 3985.
Apparently no transmitters in Vietnam are in use for German anymore
(Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 6300, RASD missing Saturday, but back on
Sunday/Monday (credit lost, probably Büschel in Spain, Oct 30, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
En el aire en estos momentos R. N. Saharaui con su programa en
castellano vía la frecuencia habitual de 6300 kHz. (2300 UT) con un
sorprendente sinpo de 45444 con el DEGEN 1103 y su antena telescópica,
no es casual que la recepción sea buena pues estoy observando unas
condiciones de propagación bastante aceptables. Cordialmente, (Tomás
Méndez, Spain, playdx yg via DXLD)
** YEMEN. 27/10 at 0517 - 6135 kHz (R7) YEMEN RTV - Sana'a, Arabo, tk
OM/YL. Segnale sufficiente- buono.
0538 - 9780 kHz (R7) YEMEN RTV - Sana'a, Musica locale in // 6135 kHz.
Segnale buono-molto buono (SWL I1-0799GE, Luca Botto Fiora, Rapallo
(Genova), Italy, G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, playdx yg via DXLD)
** ZIMBABWE. 4828, presumed ZBC, 0203-0233, Oct 29, vernacular.
Continuous Hi-life music thru tune-out. Poor/fair at best (Scott R.
Barbour. Jr., Intervale, NH, R8, R75, NIR10, MLB-1,200' Beverages, 60m
Dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6020, R. Australia now has more QRM, after Vatican via
Philippines closes at 1315; Oct 29 at 1319 mixing with a big buzz,
like one of those defective Russian or North Korean transmitters; but
I see nothing listed to account for it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. v7168.1 at 1700 and at 0700 UT, seemingly N African
Saharan station ?? (Wolfgang Büschel, visiting Spain, Oct 28, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 27/10, 0525 UT - 7285 kHz (R7), Musica del corno
d'Africa. Segnale sufficiente-buono Jamming? (SWL I1-0799GE, Luca
Botto Fiora, Rapallo (Genova), Italy, G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, playdx yg
via DXLD) An IRRS frequency; see ITALY [non] but not at this hour (gh)
UNIDENTIFIED. Cut numbers, spy groups of 5, Oct 29 at 2226 on 7481 CW.
Altho the carrier was clearly cutting on and off, when on it was
transmitting a tone as well. Probably Cuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7515, at 1630 UT Uighur or similar ?? Not scheduled yet
(Wolfgang Büschel, visiting Spain, Oct 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9880 DRM noted 1600, 2000 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, visiting
Spain, Oct 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
1315-2115 daily 9880 282 N Africa 120 Radio Kuwait KWT Arabic
Sulaibiyah Kuwait (DRMDX schedule Oct 30 via DXLD)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9962.9 Slavic accent English number station noted at
1600 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, visiting Spain, Oct 28, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 11490, lite pulse jamming vs nothing, possibly a Cuban
spur, but it was at a slower rate than the heritage jammer on 11845,
so not from that transmitter; Oct 31 at 1352. Gone when checked a few
minutes later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 12110, Indonesian at 1430 UT ?? (Wolfgang Büschel,
visiting Spain, Oct 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15054-15082, peaking around 15066, motorboating noise,
1405 UT Oct 31. Perhaps a maladjusted Russian transmitter as Wolfgang
Büschel previously noted, but no intelligible modulation in the mix,
and nothing to match above 16 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
DIGITAL BROADCASTING DRM: BELGIUM; GUIANA FRENCH; INTERNATIONAL;
++++++++++++++++++++ KUWAIT; NEW ZEALAND; PORTUGAL; SERBIA; VATICAN;
UNIDENTIFIED 9800
PROPAGATION
+++++++++++
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:Issued: 2007 Oct 30 1823 UTC
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# UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest
# Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index
2007 Oct 31 67 8 3
2007 Nov 01 67 5 2
2007 Nov 02 67 5 2
2007 Nov 03 67 5 2
2007 Nov 04 67 5 2
2007 Nov 05 68 5 2
2007 Nov 06 68 5 2
2007 Nov 07 68 5 2
2007 Nov 08 68 5 2
2007 Nov 09 68 5 2
2007 Nov 10 67 5 2
2007 Nov 11 67 5 2
2007 Nov 12 67 5 2
2007 Nov 13 67 5 2
2007 Nov 14 67 10 3
2007 Nov 15 67 12 3
2007 Nov 16 67 15 4
2007 Nov 17 67 8 3
2007 Nov 18 67 5 2
2007 Nov 19 67 5 2
2007 Nov 20 67 10 3
2007 Nov 21 67 15 4
2007 Nov 22 67 20 5
2007 Nov 23 67 10 3
2007 Nov 24 67 8 3
2007 Nov 25 67 10 3
2007 Nov 26 67 15 4
(SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1380, DXLD) ###