DX LISTENING DIGEST 8-028, March 1, 2008
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Sun 0900 WRMI 9955
Sun 1615 WRMI 7385
Mon 0400 WBCQ 9330-CLSB [irregular]
Mon 0515 WBCQ 7415 [time varies]
Tue 1200 WRMI 9955
Tue 1630 WRMI 7385
Wed 1230 WRMI 9955
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** AFGHANISTAN. GERMAN MILITARY REACHES OUT TO AFGHANS ON AIR
An Afghan soldier smiles as he listens to the radio | 25.02.2008
Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: The soldiers
distribute radios to the people [captions]
As Germany prepares to send combat troops to northern Afghanistan, its
military also aims to win over the country by radio. Captain Sebastian
Knepper works on the radio program that the German military, the
Bundeswehr, broadcasts in Afghanistan. Last year he spent several
months producing the show on site in the north of the country.
DW-WORLD.DE: Why does the German military produce a radio program for
Afghans? Is that typical for regions where it has troops stationed?
Sebastian Knepper: It's clear to the soldiers why they're on the
mission, but it's sometimes not clear to the local people. It's their
right to know why the German military is there and we have to explain
to the people what our mission is. Our intent is to provide them with
reliable and factual information. Getting trustworthy information is
an important issue in becoming an open, democratic society. That's the
reason why the German military always deploys soldiers like me to
countries where they're involved, in order to set up the kind of
information structure that is found in developed countries like
Germany.
It all started in Somalia in 1993. The branch I work in, called
Operative Information, has grown since then. . . [much more]
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3142929,00.html
(via Dan Say, BC, DXLD) WTFK?? Never answered, probably UKW; audio
sample linked, in Dari, maybe announcing frequencies? (gh, DXLD)
** ARGENTINA. 11710.75, RAE, 2-29 0240, French vocals, orchestral
music (Sheryl Paszkiewicz, WI, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Still on DST (gh)
** AUSTRALIA [and non]. HAS RADIO BLOWN THE FUTURE?
By Jock Given - posted Friday, 29 February
Australia got a policy about digital radio in 1998, but no digital
radio services. Then it got another policy in 2005. In January next
year, it will finally get digital radio services, 14 years after the
UK. But one of the biggest commercial radio operators there has just
announced it is quitting the medium. In its view, Digital Audio
Broadcasting [DAB] “is not an economically viable platform for the
Company”. Some are interpreting this as a dreadful vote of no
confidence in digital radio by a commercial organisation uniquely
placed to understand its possibilities and pitfalls. Others are
suggesting the company is jumping just as digital radio is finally
starting to work. . .
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=7066&page=0
(via Kim Elliott, DXLD)
** AUSTRIA. 7325, March 1 at 0008 in German, obviously from Ö1
Moosbrunn as scheduled, but with distorted interference. Seemed like a
spur from some other frequency but could not find anything matching on
this band; and then it appeared the distortion peaks coincided with
the program modulation underneath, as well as not being on a slightly
separate frequency; also they would come and go. Suspect a problem at
Moosbrunn (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Not sure, but probably: In 1500-2400 slot Minsk Belarus produces
distortion here on both sides of 7390, 27,28,37N MNS 150 kW 245
degrees (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, ibid.)
** BELARUS [non]. Re 8-027, R. Racyja: Really the last one for now,
since I'm about to go to bed: http://www.racyja.com/pages/listen.html
Confirms all this; no mediumwave anymore, 7565 is the only remaining
AM outlet. 103.8 is Radio Znad Wilii in Vilnius if I recall correct.
The mention of 98.1 indicates that the project reported by
Radiojournal (30 kW ERP transmitter near the Polish border to Grodno)
has meanwhile materialized (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Feb 29, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST) see LITHUANIA
** BRAZIL. 6039.60, Radio Clube Paranaense, Curitiba, 0830-0900, March
1, Portuguese talk. Tentative. Slightly off nominal 6040. Poor to fair
in noisy conditions (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. RCI M-08: see PAPUA NEW GUINEA [and non]
** CANADA. 6160, CKZU and CKZN were taking turns dominating, Feb 29 at
0705 --- hey, maybe it`s not such a good idea to have them on same
frequency, even from opposite coasts. Two talk programs, per CBC
online schedule, CKZN would be Channel Africa from WRN after 3:30 am
local, and CKZU would be Writers & Company after 11 pm local. There
was a rippling SAH between them (unless a weaker third station was in
there to confuse the situation), maybe 15 Hz or so (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. Heritage report on CBC funding:
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/media/story/2008/02/28/heritage-cbc-report.html
(via Ricky Leong, DXLD)
** CANADA. 1150 CJRC and note to station database people:
CJRC 1150 Gatineau QC has CRTC permission to extend its operation
until March 16, 2009, in order to continue to resolve signal
difficulties. The station is looking to relocate the transmitter of
its new FR frequency of 104.7 and raise power in order to reach an
area comparable to the 1150 signal. They figure they can buy the
property and go through the process in a year. A new facility would of
course require CRTC and Industry Canada approval. So French heard in
1150 for the next year is most likely CJRC for DXers anywhere west of
the station. It packs a good signal, whereas I've yet to see Gaspé
logged by anyone, anywhere in this direction. (I would stand
corrected if anyone has heard a definitive ID). See Item #20 at
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Notices/2008/pb2008-14.htm
I might add this decision is part of a new streamlining procedure the
CRTC has implemented for relatively minor applications. Those of you
tracking station changes need to look carefully for decisions like
this. The applications under the streamlining procedure are not
gazetted in advance. You find out when the decision is made. Like I
said, these are considered MINOR matters, but can involve minor [sic]
increases in power (Saul Chernos, Ont, Feb 29, NRC-AM via DXLD)
** CHAD. 4904.97, RNT, *0429-0450, Feb 29, sign on with 10 seconds of
the National Anthem, 50 seconds of silence & opening French
announcements at 0430. Local Afro-pop music. French talk. Fair signal
(Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 5050, Voice of Strait, 1305-1317, Feb 29, thanks to the
heads up from Jerry Lenamon, heard assume VOS (scheduled for Mandarin)
and assume Guangxi FBS (scheduled for Cantonese) mixing together at
about equal strength, mostly talking; checked VOS for possible
parallel with 7280 but nothing there, clearly not // to VOS heard on
4900, with a fair signal; checked Guangxi FBS for their usual parallel
on 9820, but only heard a weak CNR-2/CBR (with "English Evening",
scheduled for 1300-1400). Fairly rare for me to hear VOS at this
level, usually it's just Guangxi FBS. Interesting reception
conditions! (Ron Howard, Monterey, CA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. Log from Adelaide South Australia, Grid PF95GA 35
Degrees South 138 Degrees East, Icom R75 and G5RV North/South, ALL
TIMES UT, February 28 2008
14610, H2, 2 x 7305, CPBS, Shijazhuang, PRC China, heard 1242 with
Chinese MA, using the AM-N filter, Domestic Service One, 100 kW
fundamental, no ID heard, other station on 7305, also broadcasting in
Chinese, at this time, V of Russia via Novosibirsk, not sure which I
heard, MA with talk, 21 MHz broadcast band was open at 1235, which
generally hasn't been the case lately, so looked for some harmonics
further down the bands. This one not new, but have not heard for
awhile. 73 de (Dave Adelaide, South Australia, SWL Report VK5001SWL,
harmonics yg via DXLD)
** CLIPPERTON [and non]. CLIPPERTON DXPEDITION 'LIVE' ON THE WEB
It's a DXpedition that you will be able to take part in, at least
vicariously. This with news that the upcoming TX5C DXpedition expects
to be active from Clipperton Island March 7th to March 17th, has
arranged to bring much of its operation into your shack over the World
Wide Web.
Thanks to the generous sponsorship of satellite phone dealer Outfitter
Satellite Inc, the TX5C operation will be able to provide DX'ers with
rich, high-bandwidth content from the DXpedition including more online
log updates, webcams and live video from Clipperton Atoll.
Bob Grimmick, N6OX, will lead the international team to Clipperton.
The major sponsors include Icom America, SteppIR antennas, Alpha Radio
Products, the Northern California DX Foundation, and the International
DX Association. Operation will be on all the high frequency bands
using C-W, SSB and RTTY plus 6 meter CW and SSB.
This happens to be the 30th anniversary of the 1978 FO0XA-XH operation
from the atoll and the goal in 2008 is to hold 100,000 or QSO's
worldwide. More is on-line at http://clipperton2008.org
Source: Amateur Radio Newsline, Clipperton 2008 via Southgate
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/march2008/clipperton_on_the_web.htm
Clipperton Island (French: Île de Clipperton and as the real French
name Île de la Passion) is a nine-square-kilometre coral atoll in the
North Pacific Ocean, southwest of Mexico and west of Costa Rica, at
10 18'N 109 13'W? / 10.3, -109.217. It has no permanent inhabitants.
It is an overseas possession of France administered by the Minister of
Overseas France. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipperton
Hot news - We've been at sea now for two days. The weather is perfect
and the seas are quite calm. On our first day out we were visited by a
coast guard cutter (see photo section) who came along side but did not
board the Shogun. The team is in great spirits and we're all well and
having a lot of fun.
We put up a vertical antenna mounted on the upper deck with elevated
radials yesterday. Within an hour or so we got our Icom ProIII setup
and operational in the galley. Bill, N2WB made our first contact on 20
meters as FO5A/MM to VE6OA at 2206utc 2/28/08. By the time we all
turned in yesterday evening, we made a total of 1000 contacts on 20ssb
and 40cw.
As of 6:00 am PST [1400 UT] this morning, our position was 27 19
north, 115 20 west, traveling at 9.5 knots.
http://clipperton2008.org/dxpedition/TX5C_dxpedition.htm
(via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD)
** COLOMBIA. 5910.07, Marfil Estéreo, Puerto Lleras, 0325-0410, Feb
29, English religious sermon with Spanish translations. Local music at
0403. ID at 0407. Fair to good (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** COLOMBIA. 6035, LV del Guaviare, 2-29 0213, Spanish ID, folk
vocals, some Andean (Sheryl Paszkiewicz, WI, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CONGO DR [non]. via SOUTH AFRICA. 9635, Radio Okapi, via Meyerton,
*0400-0420, March 1, French & vernacular talk. "Okapi" jingles. Fair
(Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COSTA RICA? 5954.20, unID mystery station (maybe ELCOR
transmitter), 2254-2232 [sic, must mean -2322], 2/28/07. Contemporary
songs - some instrumental, many mellow vocals, 2320 recording of a
live concert with applause and a Spanish introduction (almost
certainly part of the live event) - all music was seguéd with no other
talk or ID. I ended listening at 2322 to have dinner. Fair initially,
with splash from CRI via Cërrik, Albania. When I did a quick check,
about 2345 the signal had deteriorated to poor and QRM from CRI had
increased. Another quick check at 0010 indicated nothing there (Mark
Taylor, WI, NASWA yg via DXLD)
What frequency was CRI on? Albania relay on 5960 supposed to end at
2200, and I don`t find it listed on 5955 or 5950 (Glenn Hauser, ibid.)
** CUBA. Another check Feb 29 of what happens as RHC English is
closing down at 0700 on 49 metres: 6000 carrier stayed on a while, but
the audible audio seemed to be WYFR. 6060 switched abruptly from RHC`s
closing music piece to some very different harpsichord-like music for
about 10 seconds, presumably CMBF R. Musical Nacional. Huge signal
6180 was still on at 0703 check with undermodulated talk network,
still not sure which one, until 0705*. Earlier around 0640 I was
hearing the mixing product of RHC in English on 6300, i.e. 6060
leapfrogging over 6180, with a lite SAH, presumably from otherwise
inaudible Sahara (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11680, new frequency for RHC in Spanish, loud and clear, and
best of the lot when checked for parallels, March 1 at 0015. It was
synchronized with // 13760. It was not synchronized, echoing against
much weaker 11760, 9600, 6060, 5965. // 6140 was slightly out of synch
with the other two groups. This could indicate three different
transmitter sites and/or three separate audio feed routings for the
same program and/or, least likely, deliberately offset modulation on
adjacent transmitters to even out power consumption, as is done at
Bonaire and various IBB sites such as Tinian. The audio on these was
not // 6000 and 9820, which carry separate ``Mesa Redonda`` program at
this time. At 0020 the main program was identified as ``Revista
Informativa de la Noche de Radio Habana Cuba``. Also checked Rebelde
5025 just in case, and totally separate programming from all of this.
11680 is not on any of the online frequency schedules for RHC at this
hour, nor on their own frequency schedule at
http://www.rhc.cu/espanol/frecuencia/frecuencias-espanol.htm
which we have already pointed out is inaccurate in other cases.
However, 11680 is in use for the Venezuela relay at 15-16, and we also
heard it on one Sunday during the 14-15 UT hour instead of 11875 which
collides with WEWN. 11875 is on the RHC schedule above for 00-05, but
not heard now, so it appears 11680 is its replacement in the evenings,
but who knows if this is a fluke or a permanent change? Did not hear
any frequency announcements, but those are not reliably updated,
anyway, announcers being the last to know of any frequency changes.
It`s typical for RHC, once it starts using one frequency at a certain
time, to expand it to other times, of course leaving it for monitors
to discover what is happening as no notifications are made to HFCC by
this outlaw nation, which still asserts it follows international
broadcasting rules, unlike the US which dares to broadcast to Cuba
without its permission (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** DJIBOUTI. 4780, Radio Djibouti, 0304-0330, March 1, audible after
Guatemala`s Radio Coatán signs off on 4779.97 at 0304. Djibouti heard
with Kor`an. Arabic talk at 0311. Horn of Africa music at 0325. Poor.
Weak with CODAR QRM, but improved to a fair level by 0325 (Brian
Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see GUATEMALA
** DUCIE ISLAND. VP6DX went QRT from Ducie Island on 27 February at
1359 UT after logging nearly 183,700 QSOs and breaking several
records, including the record for the largest number of contacts made
by any radio expedition. The on-line log has been updated
http://www.vp6dx.com and the band/mode breakdowns are as follows:
CW SSB RTTY Band total
------------ --------- --------- ------
160m 5097 1574 0 6671
80m 9756 8592 0 18348
40m 14487 14935 1 29423
30m 10576 0 3699 14275
20m 12852 17205 3479 33536
17m 11813 16603 3073 31489
15m 12366 15526 0 27892
12m 6046 7215 0 13261
10m 4301 4490 0 8791
6m 0 0 0 0
------------ --------- --------- ------
Mode 87294 86140 10252 183686
(425 DX News 1 March via Dave Raycroft, ODXA yg via DXLD)
** EGYPT. Radio Cairo in Turkish / Russian on new 6860 in 42 mb and
also Abis 6860 Arabic and Russian in A08. More exotic and out-of-band
QRGs are 6250, 6270, 6290, 9250, 9280, 9960, 9990, 11550, 11560,
12170, 13580, and 15080. Some other stations also on 15065 to 15090
range then (Gordon Brown, UK, NWDXC Feb 29 via BC-DX March 1 via DXLD)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 6250, Radio Nacional-Malabo, *0503-0610, Feb 29,
sign on with National Anthem. Afro-pop music at 0505. Spanish talk.
Abruptly off the air at approximately 0534. Back on the air at 0543
with Afro-pop music. Spanish ballads. Spanish talk at 0601. Fair to
good signal but occasional rtty QRM (Brian Alexander, PA, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** ETHIOPIA. 7209.87, Radio Fana, Addis Ababa, *0257-0320, Feb 29, IS.
Opening ID announcements at 0301 & into Horn of Africa music. Very
weak with ham QRM. Stronger on // 6110 but with some adjacent channel
splatter (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EUROPE. Re 8-027: Please note the spelling: Euranet, not Euronet.
The latter is already taken by an existing radio organisation, and
various others including my ISP :-) Euranet is also in use, though not
in a radio context as far as I can tell.
The cause of the confusion over Radio Sweden was a comment by Erik
Betterman of Deutsche Welle, who made some unnscripted remarks at the
press conference that were picked up by my colleague Rob Kievit. He
said that Radio Sweden was getting out of international broadcasting,
apparently assuming that because they were closing their German
service, everything else was closing too.
The real reason for Radio Sweden's non-participation, I'm told, is
that under Swedish law they cannot accept funding from any
organisation other than the Swedish government. Obviously there are
ways round this, for example the EC (or Euranet) paying the Swedish
government, and this money being passed on to Radio Sweden. So they
could join the consortium at a later stage, if they and/or the Swedish
government decide they want to. But I have not spoken to anyone at
Radio Sweden about this, so there could also be other factors I'm not
aware of (Andy Sennitt, Radio Netherlands Worldwide (but not speaking
officially), Feb 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FINLAND. March 2008 transmission of SWR, Finland
Hello folks, time to warm our transmitters for 24 hours action
starting to run this evening at 22 hours UT. So Scandinavian Weekend
Radio 1602 kHz, 6170/5980 kHz and 11720/11690 kHz on whole Saturday
day 1st of March 2008.
Check our program, time and frequency tables from
http://www.swradio.net
Register yourself NOW also to our FORUM there! Please join and take
part....
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Letters and reports for QSL's (add 2 euros/2 IRC's) write to:
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Best greetings, (Alpo Heinonen, Scandinavian Weekend Radio, Feb 29, DX
LISTENING DIGEST, non-delayed on the dxldyg) Power 100 watts or so
(gh, DXLD)
** FRANCE. RFI B07 English schedule finally posted in mid-Dec, here
including changes as of March 2 until 29, all to Africa:
0400-0430 9805 7315
0500-0530 11995 13680
0600-0630 13680 15605 15160 9765
0700-0730 15605
1200-1230 21620
1600-1700 15605
(via Bernie O`Shea, DXLD) 1600 also heard on 15160 via South Africa
(Joe Hanlon, NJ, ibid.) And the morning broadcasts M-F only (Glenn
Hauser, all from my March SWBC column in Monitoring Times, via DXLD)
** GABON. [tentative] 14540 harmonic, FYI, the station s/off at 1558
UT. If it really is GAB, it should s/off & QSY to 4777 kHz, but this I
cannot observe from Lisboa, i.e. not at this time. [later] Of course,
it is French - it's on right now, 1526 UT. Now, whether it's GAB 2 x
7270 or some other station, that's something I must find out (Carlos
Gonçalves, Portugal, wwdxc BC-DX March 1 via DXLD)
Dear Wolfgang, The 14540 is Gabon after all. More below. GABON 14540
(2 x 7270) RD. TV Gabonaise, "R. Gabon", Melen, 1225-..., 01 Mar,
French, news; 15331, // 7270, i.e. confirms my 29 Feb, 1523-1558*
observation so now I look forward to checking this from the SW coast
place (Carlos Gonçalves - Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY. Winter B-07 of DTK T-Systems Media & Broadcast. Pt 4 of 4:
Adventist World Radio (AWR):
0300-0330 on 7185 WER 250 kW / 135 deg Daily EaAf Oromo
0300-0330 on 7315 WER 250 kW / 135 deg Daily EaAf Tigrigna
0330-0400 on 7315 WER 250 kW / 135 deg Daily EaAf Amharic
0500-0600 on 6045 WER 100 kW / 120 deg Daily EaEu Bulgarian
0700-0800 on 9595 WER 100 kW / 210 deg Daily NoAf Arabic
0800-0830 on 11975 WER 100 kW / 210 deg Daily NoAf Kabyle
0800-0830 on 12010 WER 100 kW / 210 deg Daily NoAf French
0830-0900 on 12010 WER 100 kW / 210 deg Daily NoAf Tachelhit
1000-1100 on 9610 JUL 100 kW / 115 deg Sun SoEu Italian
1200-1230 on 15495 WER 250 kW / 090 deg Daily SoAs English
1230-1300 on 15495 WER 250 kW / 090 deg Daily SoAs Bangla
1300-1330 on 11720 WER 250 kW / 075 deg Mon-Fri EaAs Chinese
1300-1330 on 11720 WER 250 kW / 075 deg Sat/Sun EaAs Uighur
1330-1500 on 11725 WER 250 kW / 075 deg Daily EaAs Chinese
1500-1530 on 9855 WER 250 kW / 090 deg Daily SoAs Punjabi
1530-1600 on 9855 WER 250 kW / 090 deg Daily SoAs Hindi
1500-1530 on 11675 WER 250 kW / 075 deg Daily SoAs Nepali
1530-1600 on 11675 WER 250 kW / 075 deg Daily SoAs English
1630-1700 on 11905 WER 250 kW / 135 deg Daily EaAf Somali
1730-1800 on 9640 NAU 100 kW / 210 deg Daily NoAf Kabyle
1730-1800 on 11795 WER 250 kW / 135 deg Daily EaAf Oromo
1900-1930 on 9880 WER 100 kW / 210 deg Daily NoAf Arabic
1930-2000 on 9880 WER 100 kW / 210 deg Daily NoAf Tachelhit
2000-2030 on 9805 WER 100 kW / 210 deg Daily NoAf French
1900-2000 on 11955 JUL 100 kW / 200 deg Daily NoAf Arabic
2000-2030 on 7110 WER 250 kW / 105 deg Daily WeAs Persian
2030-2100 on 9505 JUL 100 kW / 210 deg Daily NoAf Chinese
Radio Netherlands
0600-0655 on 6120 NAU 500 kW / 225 deg Daily SoWeEu Dutch
0600-0755 on 9895 NAU 500 kW / 160 deg Daily SoEaEu Dutch
0700-0755 on 7220 NAU 500 kW / 235 deg Daily SoWeEu Dutch
0700-0855 on 5955 WER 500 kW / 210 deg Daily CeWeEu Dutch
0800-0855 on 9895 NAU 040 kW / 225 deg Daily SoWeEu Dutch DRM
0800-0855 on 11935 WER 500 kW / 240 deg Daily NoWeAf Dutch
0900-1055 on 6120 WER 250 kW / 255 deg Sun-Fri NoWeAf Dutch
0900-1055 on 9895 NAU 250 kW / 255 deg Sat NoWeAf Dutch
0900-1055 on 13700 NAU 250 kW / 205 deg Sat SoWeEu Dutch
0900-1155 on 5955 WER 250 kW / 210 deg Mon-Fri CeWeEu Dutch
0900-1455 on 5955 WER 250 kW / 210 deg Sun CeWeEu Dutch
1100-1455 on 5955 WER 250 kW / 210 deg Sat CeWeEu Dutch
1100-1155 on 9895 WER 250 kW / 225 deg Mon-Fri SoWeEu Dutch
1100-1555 on 9895 WER 250 kW / 225 deg Sat/Sun SoWeEu Dutch
1200-1255 on 5955 WER 040 kW / non-dir Mon-Fri CeWeEu English DRM
1300-1355 on 5955 NAU 040 kW / 240 deg Mon-Fri CeWeEu Dutch DRM
1400-1455 on 5955 WER 040 kW / non-dir Mon-Fri CeWeEu English DRM
1500-1555 on 5955 NAU 040 kW / 240 deg Mon-Fri CeWeEu Dutch DRM
1600-1655 on 9750 NAU 500 kW / 225 deg Daily SoWeEu Dutch
1600-1655 on 9895 NAU 500 kW / 140 deg Daily SoEaEu Dutch
1700-1755 on 6010 WER 500 kW / 240 deg Daily NoWeAf Dutch
1800-1955 on 12050 WER 500 kW / 150 deg Daily EaCeAf Dutch
Trans World Radio
0745-0920 on 6105 WER 100 kW / 300 deg Sun NoEu English
0815-0850 on 6105 WER 100 kW / 300 deg Sat NoEu English
0800-0850 on 6105 WER 100 kW / 300 deg Mon-Fri NoEu English
1455-1525 on 7170 WER 100 kW / 060 deg Mon EaEu Belarussian
1455-1525 on 7170 WER 100 kW / 060 deg Tue-Sun EaEu Russian
1525-1555 on 7170 WER 100 kW / 060 deg Daily EaEu Russian
1630-1700 on 5950 JUL 100 kW / 100 deg Sat EaEu Romanian
1630-1700 on 5950 WER 100 kW / 090 deg Mon-Fri CeAs Armenian
1630-1700 on 7165 WER 100 kW / 090 deg Mon-Fri CeAs Armenian,
deleted
1700-1730 on 5950 WER 100 kW / 090 deg Daily WeAs Persian
1700-1730 on 7165 WER 100 kW / 090 deg Daily WeAs Persian
Christian Science Sentinel
1000-1100 on 6055 JUL 100 kW / 090 deg Sun CeEu German
1900-2000 on 5960 WER 100 kW / 075 deg Sat EaEu Russian
Hamburglokal Radio
1000-1100 on 6045 WER 100 kW / non-dir 1st Sun CeEu German
Radio 700 (only on special occasions)
1000-1200 on 6005 WER 100 kW / non-dir 1st Sun CeEu German
Evangelische Missions Gemeiden:
1130-1200 on 6055 WER 125 kW / non-dir Sat/Sun CeEu German
1200-1230 on 11840 NAU 250 kW / 020 deg Sat FE Russian
1600-1630 on 6000 WER 250 kW / 060 deg Sat EaEu Russian
Missionswerke Arche Stimme des Trostes
1200-1215 on 6055 WER 250 kW / non-dir Sun CeEu German
Mecklenburg Verpommern Baltic Radio
1300-1400 on 6140 WER 100 kW / non-dir 1st Sun CeEu German
Radio Joystick (only on special occasions)
1300-1400 on 6140 WER 100 kW / non-dir 2rd Sun CeEu Music
European Music Radio (only on special occasions)
1300-1400 on 6140 WER 100 kW / non-dir 3rd Sun CeEu Music
Radio Gloria International (only on special occasions)
1300-1400 on 6140 WER 100 kW / non-dir 4th Sun CeEu Music
Radio Traumland:
1400-1500 on 5965 JUL 100 kW / non-dir Sun CeEu German
Radio Huriyo:
1630-1700 on 9820 WER 100 kW / 135 deg Tue/Fri EaAf Somali
Voice of Oromiya Independence:
1700-1730 on 9820 WER 125 kW / 135 deg Sat EaAf Oromo/Amharic
Voice of Democratic Eritrea Int.
1700-1800 on 9820 WER 125 kW / 135 deg Thu EAf Tigrinya/English
Voice of Oromo Liberation (Sagalee Bilisummaa Oromoo):
1700-1800 on 9485 NAU 500 kW / 150 deg Tue-Sun EaAf Oromo
Radio Reveil Paroles de Vie:
1830-1845 on 11840 JUL 100 kW / 160 deg Tue/Thu CeAf French
Voice of Ethiopian Unity-Ethiopian Forum for Democracy:
1900-2000 on 9620 JUL 100 kW / 140 deg Wed/Fri/Sun EaAf Amharic
Pan American Broadcasting (PAB):
2000-2030 on 6020 WER 250 kW / 150 deg Fri NoAf English
1930-2030 on 6020 WER 250 kW / 150 deg Sat NoAf English
1930-2015 on 6020 WER 250 kW / 150 deg Sun NoAf English
0030-0045 on 6165 WER 100 kW / 090 deg Sun SoAs English
1400-1415 on 13645 WER 100 kW / 090 deg Wed SoAs English
1400-1415 on 13645 WER 100 kW / 090 deg Sun SoAs English
1415-1430 on 13645 WER 100 kW / 090 deg Daily SoAs English
1430-1445 on 13645 WER 250 kW / 090 deg Sun SoAs English
1400-1415 on 13750 WER 250 kW / 090 deg Tue/Thu CeAs Armenian
1400-1415 on 13645 WER 250 kW / 090 deg Sat ME English
1600-1630 on 9850 JUL 100 kW / 100 deg Thu ME Persian
1600-1645 on 9850 WER 100 kW / 105 deg Sun ME English
(DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Feb 29 via DXLD)
** GERMANY [non]. PsyOp in AFGHANISTAN: q.v.
** GREECE. ERT Liveradio Radio Filia
http://tvradio.ert.gr/radioen/liveradio/index.asp
FILIA 4th Icon from above on left column. Hopefully in A-08 again on
SW 15630 kHz, 0500-1000 UT, and also German 0900 and Russian 0930 UT
on SW again (Wolfgang Büschel, Feb 27 wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 1 via
DXLD)
** GUATEMALA. 4779.98, R. Cultural Coatàn, San S., 1/3 0217 UT ID and
info, 33333 (Maurits van Driessche, Belgium, HCDX via DXLD) v DJIBOUTI
** GUATEMALA. 4799.79, Radio Buenas Nuevas, 0400-0430*, March 1,
religious talk in local language. Local religious music. Spanish
closing ID announcements at 0428. Poor to fair with weak het from
presumed Mexico on 4800. No CODAR for a change! (Brian Alexander,
PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) cf. MEXICO
** HONDURAS. 3250.05, Radio Luz y Vida, San Luis, 0345-0355*, March 1,
Spanish religious talk. Spanish religious music. Closing ID
announcements at 0353 followed by National Anthem. Poor. Weak in noisy
conditions (Brian Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. VOI, 9526, not heard at first check 1408 Feb 29, but at
1451 could detect very weak carrier on this off-frequency; poor
propagation today, or QRP? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
9525.98 on Feb 28 + 29. Fine Bird call signal of VoINS at 1600 UT,
into Arabic around 1610 UT, on odd 9525.98 kHz, I used PBT +1 kHz, and
SYNC detection function with USB mode in Etón E1 receiver set, in
order to separate CRI (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, wwdxc Feb 28/29, BC-
DX March 1 via DXLD)
VOI, 9526, active March 1 at 1357 check in Korean with Indonesian
accent, usual good signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. Re 8-027: 6185 French instead of Bengali: ``Nor is IRIB shown
with French anywhere near this time in WRTH 2008 or the Feb update.
Big mistake, or adding Québec target? (gh, DXLD)``
Bengali service scheduled 0030-0130 on 6185, so it was a mistake by
technicians in the broadcast house to start with Kamalabad 500 kW
beast. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
IRIB Sirjan Telefunken 500 kW beast in Arabic wandered again to odd
6066.39 kHz Feb 26, 6066.87 Feb 29, but wanders oscillating around 30
Hertz (Wolfgang Büschel, BC-DX March 1 via DXLD) see also LITHUANIA
** IRAN. An off-channel station with Kor`an according to Mauno Ritola
is Iran. Mauno writes: "I just checked and I noticed that it is
Kerman, Iran, with VOIRI Arabic program that has slipped to +1 kHz
offset, exactly 1224.998 kHz, parallel 1161 and 6065 kHz." (Karel
Honzík, mwoffsets via NRC IDXD Feb 29 via DXLD)
So nominal 1224, 400 kW. I am beginning to wonder if there is some
design defect in these hi-power transmitters causing them to step 1
kHz off frequency with nobody noticing; cf Syria 782/783; Costa Rica
5965/5964 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. 6055, R. Nikkei - 1, 0852-0900, March 1, Sat. program "Let's
Read the Nikkei Weekly", with series of English phrases ("phone
rates", "get to the bottom of this", etc.), also in Japanese; program
sponsored by the Society for Testing English Proficiency, Inc.; good
reception, // 3925 & 9595, both fair; website:
http://www.radionikkei.jp/LR/
(Ron Howard, Monterey, CA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. Report of NHK foreign relays in A-08. DXers should
look out for NHK QSL's of Ekala, Gabon and French Guiana site for very
last time during March 2008. But NHK will have a lot relay broadcasts
via TDF/TDF-old DTK on powerful Issoudun and Wertachtal, like Russian,
Persian, Bengali. And also Sackville-CAN and Bonaire Antilles relays
instead of French Guiana again. Also still on U.K., SNG, ASC, and UAE
VTC-Merlin relays (Gordon Brown, UK, NWDXC Feb 29 via BCDX via DXLD)
** JAPAN [non]. I enjoy the haiku segment on World Interactive when I
catch it from NHK Warido Radio Japan --- and did so Sat March 1 at
1415 via Canada on 11705. Not the usual very strong signal, but
adequate. Unfortunately, this seems to have been the last monthly
haiku spot, as toward the end it was mentioned very casually in
passing ``for the last time`` and they did not ask for more listener
input as they normally do. Well, of course, a month from now it will
be April, and R. Japan will have undergone yet more programming
changes and cuts with the new fiscal year. Let`s hope that what little
English programming they had left after the cuts last October, will
remain even without haiku, which was something so distinctively
Japanese. Sackville could not keep the transmitter on long enough for
us to hear when the day`s next English broadcast would be, even tho it
lasted until 1429:15* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. According to NEABI in Korea, The new station of
"Voice of Freedom" for North Korea starts from Mar. 8. Unknown sked
time and frequency. I received only classical music test broadcast on
9970 kHz (presumed Yerevan) at 1400-1500 on Feb. 21-24. There is
possibility of the test broadcast of V. of Freedom (S. Hasegawa, NDXC-
HQ, Feb 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. RFA start MW service for N. Korea --- Mr. Ohtake
of JSWC obtained the following information from RFA directly. RFA is
to begin its Korean service on MW for the first time from Mar. 2.
1500-1900 1350 kHz
2100-2200 1350 kHz
de Shinya Hasegawa --- This transmitter site where I think is Mongolia
(S. Hasegawa, NDXC-HQ, Feb 29, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
RFA Korean on MW --- Mr. Toshimichi Ohtake of JSWC was informed the
following by A. J. Janitschek at his direct visit to Radio Free Asia
in Washington. RFA will commence their first MW transmission on
mediumwave directed to Korea on March 2. 1500-1900, 2100-2200 on 1350
kHz. The exact location of the transmitter is not announced. They are
asking for reception reports for this transmission from the
neighboring countries. Send the reports via http://www.techweb.rfa.org
or qsl @ rfa.org
Comment: This decision may somewhat be related to Mr. Kim Andrew
Elliott’s article in DXLD 8-027 (Takahito Akabayashi, Tokyo, Japan,
March 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
WRTH 2008 MW frequency list shows no Mongolian transmitter on 1350, so
that would be new. There is a S Korean on 1350 with 10 kW, bad luck
for it; plus China and Russia, but nothing very powerful. How about
PAL? Nothing there either; lists only three other MW frequencies in
the entire country! WRTH has only two. Could 1350 be the same 500 kW
transmitter as on 990, which is supposedly in use for only a few hours
a day? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Mongolia QTH? Somehow, I doubt. I believe it's a bit too far from a
target country for a reliable MW reception, considering that N. Korea
isn't shy about jamming foreign broadcasts. Besides, China might get
into a jamming game with two millions Koreans on their own turf. Of
course, for RFA this initiative might be more about spending the
allocated funds with a bit of good publicity than reaching the closed
society. In such a case Mongolia is as good a bet as any far-away
country (Sergei Sosedkin, IL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Distance Ulanbataar MNG to KRE is about 1100 km ! I guess Vladivostok
Tavrichanka-RUS - nominal on 1377 kHz - but to be retuned 27 kHz down
to 1350 kHz during local night time - a decade ago 75/150 kW, is in
use during that slot. 1350 which is a nearly empty channel in northern
Korea. Is 140 km distance from KRE border and 650 km to Pyongyang
capital. [or Razdolnoye-RUS site 155 km from border] (Wolfgang
Büschel, BC-DX via DXLD)
1100 km is not too far for 500 kW skywave! Oops: per my NGS Globe, it
is about 1120 MILES from UB to Pyongyang, i.e. 1800 km (Glenn Hauser,
DXLD)
Yes. I'm anxious about reception condition. Free North Korea Radio
test broadcasted on 1350 kHz via Ulaanbaatar last year. But, the
reception condition was bad in S. Korea. The RFA relay from Russia is
declined before. China is not thought about. I think with the Mongolia
or S. Korea which the President changed. Russia consented to the relay
of VOA, but I heard the information that they refused relay of RFA (S.
Hasegawa, NDXC, March 1-2, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
I see that 1350 kHz appears in the Asian frequency list on page 536 of
WRTH 2007, as 150 kW from UB, MR-1 program. But not on the Mongolia
pages. In the WRTH 2008, it has been removed from the frequency list
on page 516 (Glenn Hauser, March 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Dear DXers, These were the VOA Korean frequencies at the beginning
of B07 season:
1200-1300 UT 5890 7235 9555
1300-1400 UT 648 5890 7235 9555
1400-1500 UT 5890 7235 9555
1900-2100 UT 6060 7110 7135
Now when you go to VOA's website:
http://www.voanews.com/english/about/frequenciesAtoZ_k.cfm
you'll see the following freqs for Korean:
1200-1300 UT 1350 5890 7235 9555
1300-1400 UT 648 5890 7235 9555
1400-1500 UT 648 5890 7235 9555
1900-2100 UT 648 6060 7110 7135
Conclusion: VOA Korean expanded using MW frequencies: 648 kHz from
Russia and NEW 1350 kHz from unID transmitter. Best regards! (Dragan
Lekic from Serbia, March 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. INFORMATION AND MISINFORMATION ABOUT SOUTH
KOREAN BROADCASTS TO NORTH KOREA
"Free North Korea Radio, based in Seoul, South Korea, broadcasts news
of the outside world across the border. ... The radio program is three
hours, but ... hopes to expand to five hours daily, broadcasting
during the evenings and late at night, when he believes that most
North Koreans are able to tune in. But running a radio station is
expensive, and FNK Radio relies on donations from South Korean
citizens as well as an annual grant indirectly from Washington,
through the National Endowment for Democracy. Though funding is
sometimes a struggle, they believe that the broadcast is vital to
North Korea because the South Korean government stopped its own radio
broadcasts into the country under the 'Sunshine Policy' instituted by
former President Kim Dae Jung in 1988." CNN, 27 February 2008.
(kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD)
This is the second time in a week that we have been told that South
Korea no longer broadcasts to North Korea. What really happened is
that, in August 2007, the Korean Broadcasting System's Social
Education Service changed its name to KBS Global Korean Network. The
GKN is nominally directed to Koreans living in the northeast Asian
region, e.g. China and eastern Russia. But its 500 and 1500 kilowatt
medium wave transmitters still blanket North Korea with powerful
signals.
As part of South Korea's recent policy to minimize confrontation with
the North, KBS Global Korean Network is not Overthrow Kim Jong-il
Radio. I don't think GKN self-censors news about North Korea, but I'll
check with my Korean confederates about this
But even if GKN makes no mention of North Korea, it still offers
something very subversive to North Korean listeners: normalcy. Instead
on martial music, a Korean love song. Instead of yet another talk
praising the accomplishments of the Dear Leader, a soap opera. Instead
of a newscast consisting only of the claimed successes of the
Pyongyang regime, a newscast telling listeners what is really
happening in the world.
The other KBS radio stations, intended for South Korea, are probably
also audible in North Korea. They are even more more normal and thus
even more subversive.
It's interesting that Free North Korea Radio is receiving U.S.
government funds to broadcast news about the outside world late at
night to North Koreans. U.S. government funded VOA and RFA Korean also
broadcast news about the outside world late at night to North Koreans.
FNKR and the U.S. international broadcasting will compete
simultaneously, dividing the small North Korean shortwave audience
between them. Posted: 01 Mar 2008 Permalink (Kim Andrew Elliott, see
http://kimelli.nfshost.com/index.php?id=3448 for linx, ibid.)
VOA! KOREAN CONTENT DEAL WITH YAHOO! KOREA
Yahoo! Korea announced today that it will offer Voice of America news
covering the Korean Peninsula, international and U.S. news. The online
news service will cover breaking political, diplomatic, and
international news from hard-to-access areas of North Korea and the
Korean Peninsula. Under this partnership agreement, Yahoo! Korea will
offer VOA news in the Korean language in real time, giving Korean
users free access to news flashes on important topics such as the six-
party negotiations regarding North Korea and major policy decisions of
the U.S. Administration and Congress. The VOA news service will be
available on Yahoo! Korea mid-March. VOA press release, 27 February
2008. (kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD)
1) Is http://www.voanews.com/korean not already offering news "in real
time"? 2) Isn't "news from hard-to-access areas of North Korea"
supposed to be Radio Free Asia's specialty? 3) Does this deal change
the BBG/IBB/VOA policy of the past few years that VOA Korean is
directed to North Korea, not South Korea? If it's still North Korea
only, we know that Kim Jong-il probably has internet access. And
that's really enough to justify this new VOA Korean attention to the
internet. Also, North Koreans in China have more access to the
internet than they did in North Korea, although VOA websites are
generally blocked in China. Yahoo! Korea is definitely popular in
South Korea and among the Korean diaspora, and it will provide more
exposure to VOA Korean news items than voanews.com itself. Posted: 29
Feb 2008 (Kim Andrew Elliott, kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD)
** KOREA SOUTH [non]. See LUXEMBOURG
** LITHUANIA. Re 8-027: Received from Eric at KBC: "We are lost ---
6140 is too close to 6145, it is also possible that we are starting
this evening on 6055. We are asking listeners if they can monitor 5900
- 6200 kHz to find a free frequency between 2130 and 2230 UT. We have
to stay in this BC band." (Ydun Ritz, Denmark, Feb 29, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Ydun, Please pass on to Eric my suggestion that they shift half an
hour later to their original time, 22-23 UT, on 6055 --- or is that
definitely ruled out for some reason? (Glenn, ibid.)
Glenn, have passed your message on to Eric van Willegen. In the
meantime received this: "tonight we are starting on 6140 kHz, we have
received a confirmation for this, but we are looking for a free
frequency between 5900 and 6200, so we ask the listeners to monitor
this band for a clean and free frequency." (Ydun Ritz, ibid.)
Anyway, Glenn, those of us in the American continent can't expect that
much from the 49 mb once the Summer season takes place. In a crowded
band like 49m, few chances we'll have when that KBC schedule moves
from 0100 to 0000. 73 (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica, ibid.)
Raúl, It seems to me they were at 0100 in A-07, so maybe that weekly
transmission will not shift time. But a higher band might work better
anyway (Glenn, ibid.)
Hola. En estos momentos las 2110 UT, estoy escuchando La Voz de la
R.I. de Irán desde el Relay de Sitkunai(LTU). Nueva frecuencia al
parecer desde hoy mismo en sustitución de 6265. A la espera de las
2130 UTC para ver si también comienza KBC Radio en la misma
frecuencia. Cordialmente (Tomás Méndez, Spain, Feb 29, original font:
Trebuchet MS, logsderadio yg via DXLD)
Febr 29th: IRIB Spanish via Sitkunai 2030-2127 UT 55555 S=9+30 dB
powerful signal. \\ 7130 strong; and also on weak terrible 7350 kHz
mess channel, IRN/CHN French hit each other. Indeed 6140 is very bad,
due of RUS 6145. But I see 3 channels in 49/50 mb to look at: 6170,
6195 left by BBC-UK recently - only weak Far East BBC noted; and 5925
too, adjacent Samara 5920 is weak and no harm 5925. (wb, wwdxc BC-DX
March 1 via DXLD)
Noisy 6040 from KBC this Sat. March 1st, around 0155. Only thing
barely readable was some pop music, best on LSB but not sufficient to
be identifiable (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica, early UT March 1, dxldyg
via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
You were probably hearing something else, since:
This change is not supposed to happen until March 9
And it is UT Sundays only, not UT Saturdays.
http://www.kbcradio.eu/ KBC website still has it on 6255, as does
Eibi. Aoki has moved it to 6040 effective March 9, but strangely, both
show the 0100-0159 broadcast as daily rather than weekly! (Glenn
Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
> Received from Eric at KBC: [...]
> 5900 - 6200 kHz [...]
> We have to stay in this BC band.
What about 5815, allegedly still in use for IRIB?
>>>
UPDATED WINTER B-07 OF SITKUNAI RELAYS FROM FEB. 29: VOIROI/IRIB [...]
1430-1528 on 5815 SIT 100 kW / 040 deg to EaEu in Russian, ex 079 deg
<<<
However, I assume that this transmission is on another frequency (7565
would be likely of course) now instead, because of this change:
>>> Radio Racja in Belarussian
1530-1728 NF 7565 SIT 100 kW / 040 deg to EaEu, ex 5815 / 079 deg <<<
What's the purpose of this Radio Racja transmission anyway? Why in the
world do they sink the money they still have into something aiming at
Russia instead of Belarus, their actual target area?
So obviously the situation is such that LRTC (the Lithuanian
transmitter operator) is no longer allowed to use frequencies above
6200 and also below 5900. But this does not mean that OOB frequencies
have been banned altogether, otherwise 7545 and 7565 would be
verboten, too. I don't think that it makes any legal difference,
7545/7565 are used on the same non-interference basis than the now
banned 5815, 6255, 6265 were. It is well known that maritime services
are the problem in the 6200...6300 range, but who complained about
5815 in a way that resulted in this rigorous -5900/+6200 ban?
The big question here is if transmitter operators in other European
countries could probably face the same problem. It would be quite bad
if all the services currently operating between 5800 and 5900 on a
non-interference basis would have to be stuffed into the 5900...6200
range (Kai Ludwig, Germany, March 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Sitkunai frequency usage --- Sigitas Zilionis sent along this quick
update on the Sitkunai frequency usage, UT:
``IRIB 1430-1529 still on 5815
Racja 1530-1729 now on 7265
IRIB 1730-2029 now on 7265
IRIB 2030-2129 now on 6055
KBC 2130-2229 now on 6140, but because of Moscow QRM from 6145
we'll have to do something about it soon
1430-1729: 79 deg. beam to Russia & Belarus
1730-2229: 259 deg. beam to Western Europe. All 100 kW.``
Maybe 7265 must read 7565; on 7265 I had only very strong CRI in
Russian until 1800 and nothing but sideband splash at all after 1800,
while there is a carrier on 7565, too weak for me to get readable
audio. Perhaps somebody further away can check this out? (Kai Ludwig,
Germany, 1810 UT March 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Note that 79 and 259 are reverse beams, 180 degrees apart (gh, DXLD)
Hola: KBC Radio: Estaba difícil de encontrar --- Gracias a Wolfgang
Bueschel en DXLD, 6140 con la programación musical habitual, muy
difícil de escuchar por las emisiones en 6145 y 6135. Cordialmente
(Tomás Méndez, Spain, 2152 UT Feb 29, logsderadio yg via DXLD)
6055.0, 2107, LTU, LVRII-Sitkunai Entr Progr Nuclear Irán Nueva Freq
29/02 Esp 45444
7565.0, 1655, LTU, Radio Racja-Sitkunai, Música pop 01/03 Bel 45444.
Cordialmente, (Tomás Méndez, Spain, March 1, logsderadio yg via DXLD)
** LUXEMBOURG. From March 1st: KBS auf 1440 kHz. Michael, KBS radio
announces that they will transmit on 1440 kHz. from March 1 to 30
August 2008 at 1730 till 1800 UT. As they stated in their programs and
on their website, this is a test. The old Radio Luxembourg frequency
is well known to me from the time that they (RTL) transmitted Dutch
and English programs in the late sixties and early seventies. I used
to listen to those programs regularly (at the same time as KBS has
planned) and know that the frequency has a good reception here in the
Netherlands and far beyond. Even in daytime (Gerard Koopal, Holland,
Feb 26, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 1 via DXLD)
** MALAYSIA/SARAWAK. 7130, Sarawak FM via RTM, Kuching, 1318-1343, Feb
29, clearly parallel with 5030 (under CNR-1), pop songs and ballads,
YL DJ in vernacular, mixing with CNR-2/CBR (with "English Evening",
scheduled for 1300-1400, talking about leap year), did not hear the
usual QRM from CNR-1. In the past this was fairly rare for me to hear,
but with the unusual reception conditions, is now almost normal
reception (Ron Howard, Monterey, CA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 4800, XERTA (tentative), México City, 03/01 Spanish, 0353
maybe local music, 0356 male and female talks, 0413 music. Sounds like
Spanish by intonation and pattern speech, very weak 23322 (Lúcio
Otávio Bobrowiec, Embu SP Brasil (23 39 S, 46 52 W), Sony ICF SW40,
dipole 18m, 32m, dxldyg via DXLD)
But now we must be more careful than ever on 4800, as R. Buenas
Nuevas, Guatemala, has also been active there in last few weeks. Both
seem to be sporadic, and at least when I tune around 0630 and 1330
hear neither. RBN may be in Spanish or vernacular, while XERTA would
be only in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) E.g. así:
4800, XERTA/Radio Transcontinental de America, 0435-0527, March 1, in
Spanish, mostly talking, some songs, sounded like a radio drama, weak,
CODAR QRM, parallel to audio streaming
http://www.xertaradio.com/transmision.htm
still heard at 0909 (Ron Howard, Monterey, CA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST) See also GUATEMALA for a log of that earlier same date (gh)
** MEXICO. 9599.26, Radio UNAM, Mexico City, 2250-2315, March 1,
classical music. IDs at 2301, 2302 & into Spanish talk. Fair signal
but QRM from Vatican Radio 9600 at their 2314 sign on. Must use ECSS-
LSB to avoid Vatican Radio at that time (Brian Alexander, PA, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. AM RADIO LINK INFORMS, RECRUITS CATHOLICS [XEWR]
María Cortés González / El Paso Times Article Launched: 02/29/2008
12:00:00 AM MST http://www.elpasotimes.com/living/ci_8395454
Turned on Spanish-language radio lately? You might be surprised to
find that you can tune in to the Catholic Church -- from biblical
teachings and songs of praise to canon law -- much as you can tune in
to a Vicente Fernández ranchera, or the latest from Bella Nova. What's
more, the Catholic radio station is on the air 24/7 and available
online.
The Catholic Diocese of El Paso, in a partnership with the Catholic
Diocese of Juárez, is part of the new Catholic radio station, Radio
Guadalupana, on 1110 AM. The 3-month-old radio station is based at
MegaRadio, which has six other radio stations in Juárez.
"It's vital that the Catholic Church be a presence in the mass
media," said the Rev. Antonio Salcido, the director of Radio
Guadalupana programming in Juárez. "Both Pope Benedict and popes
before him have utilized the media as valuable tools in evangelizing
and reaching people. It's as if we have a Catholic church -- through
the airwaves."
Salcido, priest at San Pedro y San Pablo Catholic Church in Juárez,
says the station gives the Catholic Diocese of Juárez the opportunity
to evangelize, not only in the city but also along the border. "And in
a way, it brings Catholics together," he said. "We have been hearing
from people from all over, from Rome, Argentina, Canada. It's a great
audience that we have."
People can register as soon as they log on to the radio Web site,
http://radioguadalupana.org So far, 35 percent are from Juárez, and 35
percent from El Paso.
The Juárez diocese has the helm of the radio station, taping most of
the Catholic programming at the station. The El Paso-led programming
airs from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. [0030-0130 UT Tue-
Sat, soon M-F 2330-2430 with DST; but see below]
Salcido said the programming is geared to inspiring Catholics,
answering their questions of faith and informing them about the
religion.
The station also airs programming directly from the Vatican, airs
news about border churches and has programming for children. "But it's
not just for Catholics," he said.
The Rev. Raul Trigueros, who has worked with various media including
the Rio Grande Catholic newspaper, is enjoying the opportunity to
direct Radio Guadalupana El Paso, which is the El Paso diocese's
Catholic programming.
Trigueros, who has a program on Mondays, usually crosses over into
Juárez to do the show. But he also has a computer set-up in his home
at the parish, Cristo Rey Church, where he can tape shows.
A friend and former radio personality, José Luís García, helps with
taping and editing the programs. García also co-hosts another radio
show, "Ministerios y Laicos en Acción," on Thursdays.
Trigueros said the programming is a good way to reach Catholics who
may not be able to attend church. "Sometimes, people are sick or have
sick relatives at home and can't get to church," he said.
Trigueros said it's important for people to understand that being
Catholic means more than going to church and saying ritual prayers.
"How are we being Catholics at home or at work? We need to extend a
hand and reach out to others who need it," said Trigueros, adding
that some of the programming will be about these topics.
El Pasoan Reyes Siller, a parishioner at St. Jude Catholic Church on
the West Side, said he's enjoyed listening to the programming. "I
think it helps deepen our faith," he said. "And in listening to other
people, you realize that link that ties us together and makes our
religion more vibrant."
About the station
Radio Guadalupana, based in Juárez, and airs Catholic programming
24/7.
It is in Spanish on 1110 AM and also available online at
http://radioguadalupana.org
Most of the programming is led by the Catholic Diocese of Juárez. The
Catholic Diocese of El Paso has two hours of programming, 5:30 to
7:30 p.m., Monday-Friday. [in body it says 5:30-6:30 !]
Information: 591-0688.
El Paso programming
Monday: "Buenas Noticias y Liturgia" (Good News and the Liturgy) en
la vida diaria, with the Rev. Raul Trigueros.
Tuesday: "Nuestra Familia" (Our Family) with Alberto and Cecilia
Chávez. "Música y Voz" with Alejandra Torres and Alberto Chávez.
Wednesday: "El Paso en Acción" (El Paso in Action) with José Luís
Ceniceros, "Cristo Jóvenes" (Young Christians) with Jose Luís and
Diana Ceniceros and José Luís Villalpando. Ceniceros also has
"correspondents" who report news from the various El Paso parishes.
Thursday: "Ministerios y Laicos en Acción" with José Luís García and
Jesús Parra.
Friday: "Evangelización y Testimonios" with Jesús and Bertha Nieto.
(via Kevin Redding, AZ, ABDX via DXLD)
Prompted comment under USA about Catholic radio expansion. What`s the
big deal? El Paso has had a bilingual Catholic station for years,
KJES. The Times is really hit and miss with accents, too far from the
border? I had to add quite a few. At least they know one belongs on
Juárez; well, most of the time (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MICRONESIA. The Cross Radio Station --- Here we are at the end of
February and seemingly no new word on the reactivation of The Cross
Radio Station (4755 nominal) from Pohnpei, Federated States of
Micronesia. http://www.pmapacific.org/ministries/radio/shortwave.php
(Steve Lare, Holland, MI, USA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MONGOLIA. See KOREA NORTH [non]
** NETHERLANDS [non]. Radio Nederland not via Flevoland anymore, but
foreign relays in A08, some Issoudun entries instead. Also new Tinang-
PHL and Tinian-MRA in exchange to Bonaire relay. Once again still via
Deutsche Welle Sines-POR, Singapore, Russia, Moldova, UAE, Uzbekistan,
Sackville-CAN, and French Guiana (Gordon Brown-UK, NWDXC Feb 29 via
BCDX via DXLD)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. Será que nadie escuchaba a Radio Nederland en
español vía Sines, Portugal en 9895 y su rica señal alrededor de la
0100 UT, porque no he visto ninguna protesta por ese infortunado
cambio a 9430, donde lo que se percibe es una señal completamente
caída, aparte de lo ruidosa que se percibe. Pareciera que el azimuth
fue puesto más abajo de 245º y posiblemente los colegas sudamericanos
la reciban mejor. // 6165 salva la tanda desde Bonaire por estos
lados. 73 (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica, March 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
Hola Raúl y colegas de DXLD: No me gusta ser pesimista, pero quizás no
andes equivocado en tus suposiciones, pocos escuchaban y aun menos se
manifiestan. Solamente ante noticias de cierres de servicios
inminentes nos movilizamos. De todos modos se suponía que el cambio
era por evitar las interferencias de Irán. ¿Quien reportó esas
interferencias no reporta ahora la mala elección de frecuencia?
Cordialmente (Tomás Méndez, Spain, ibid.)
Ambas 9895 y 9430 emanan igualmente a 245 grados desde Portugal, es
decir hacia Georgetown y Lima; San José está a 270 grados
aproximadamente. K indices have been high lately, perhaps degrading
propagation tho Portugal usually reaches America well (Glenn Hauser,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. The Mighty KBC Radio, banned from 48m, chaotic
frequency change situation: see LITHUANIA
** NEW ZEALAND [and non]. 13840, RNZI, Rangitaiki, /1059-1259, 28 Feb,
IS, TC, English, news, Dateline Pacific followed by Pacific
Correspondent, music; 45433 except 1200-1230 when Polish R via Germany
airs its Russian program, and to a great extent overrides NZ. Very
nice signal as I write, 1245, 01 Mar, superb signal (Carlos Gonçalves,
Portugal, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PAKISTAN. Just when checked 7540 Mesopotamia Kurdish service
channel at 1600 UT, I came across of an anoying distortion signal from
Radio Pakistan on 7520 kHz, signal strength about S=9 +40 dB
tremendously. (schedule 1330-1615 UT,) but listened 1600-1615 UT
portion only. Covered about 70 kHz both sidebands range like from 7453
to 7590 kHz space. (wb, Feb 26, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 1 via DXLD)
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA [and non]. Re 8-027: 7325, Wantok R Light
(tentative), 1235-1340+, 02/29/08. Western-sounding vocal music with
occasional brief talk or announcements in between, continuing through
1300 with no obvious ID break at ToH. No QRM noted from listed *1245
sign-on of AIR FM Gold, so maybe no longer an active frequency for
them. Certainly bears further monitoring until R Canada takes over
this frequency on 3/9, as noted by Glenn Hauser. Poor signal, often
near the noise floor (Mark Schiefelbein, MO, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
WRL heard here as well (tentative) from 1230 to 1315 when it faded
into the mud. Peaked nicely at around 1245 with religious sounding
music. My local sunrise is now near 1220 or so, so I'm losing
propagation earlier now. The 2007-2008 DX season seems to be nearing
an end (Steve Lare, Holland, MI USA, ibid.)
As for RCI moving to 7325, there is conflicting info about whether
that will happen March 9 or 30. Maybe will stay on 7310 until then,
but don`t count on it. RCI still hasn`t posted their Two Sesquiweeks
of Confusion schedule. I could detect a carrier on 7325 this morning
around 1315, but that`s all (Glenn Hauser, Feb 29, ibid.)
** ROMANIA. RADIO ROMANIA INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL VIA KVITSØY
See below, it has already been identified here in Germany by pulling
the label out of it; only intermittent audio decoding was possible.
From the analogue point of view this destroys CRI German via Xian (//
undisturbed 7170 from Kashi). HFCC B07 shows a wooden registration for
such a Kvitsøy outlet 1600-2000; big hopes to attract much more
customers?
Are there really big additional costs to equip a brand-new shortwave
transmitter with a DRM modulator instead of a standard one for AM? I
can hardly imagine that these additional costs would be prohibitive.
This raises questions about the modernization of the Romanian
shortwave facilities, back in last year described as a big project,
including the installation of new transmitters. What became of this?
(Kai Ludwig, Germany, March 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.:
[A-DX] RRI in DRM --- Also http://rri.ro gibt eigentlich eine ganz
andere DRM-Frequenz an: 6160 kHz 1800-1830 UT via Kvitsøy, Norwegen
(in Zusammenarbeit mit WRN). Die Frequenz ist ja super ausgesucht.
Grüße (Douglas Kähler, Germany, March 1, A-DX via Kai Ludwig, dxldyg
via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Yes, during March 1, 2008 1800 UT broadcast R. Romania Interenational
made an announcement they began DRM broadcasts via Norway on March
1st, 6160 kHz 1700-1730 Summer time and 1800-1830 Winter time. Either
R. Romania International knows something about DRM we do not or RRI
has not gotten the latest word.
R. Romania International, March 1, 2008, 9640 [analog] kHz *1800-1855*
UT "Radio Newsreel", "The Week", "World of Culture", "Roots", "Radio
Pictures", "Letter from Bucharest" and "DX Mailbag". Close to printed
schedule I received from RRI, but not exact. SIO 322. 73, (Kraig,
KG4LAC, Manassas VA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. Log from Adelaide South Australia, Grid PF95ga, Icom R75
and G5RV North/South, ALL TIMES UTC --- Hi All, 14700 H2, 2 x 7350,
heard on February 29 at 1254, V of Russia Chita, 500 kW to South Asia,
Only heard the carrier, not strong, but hopefully will lift, bit late
in the evening, probably better earlier, Indices were F70 A24 K5 at
12z, not the best either !! 73 (Dave Adelaide South Australia Vitek,
swl call VK5001SWL, harmonics yg via DXLD)
How can you be sure of the source if you only heard carrier? From
previous logging? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 15170 - noisy BUZZ transmitter of BSKSA Holy Qur`an
on 15164 to 15178 kHz range at 0540 UT. Scheduled 0300-0555 UT. Noted
again at 1800-2300 UT today on 11915 centered, but covers 11906 to
11924 kHz area then (Wolfgang Büschel, Feb 26, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews
March 1 via DXLD)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. USA(non) Frequency changes for Brother Stair
TOM in English to SoEu/NoAf:
1900-2000 NF 5990#POR 250 kW / 220 deg, ex 6060 to avoid VOR Arabic
2000-2100 NF 6120 POR 250 kW / 220 deg, ex 6060 to avoid RFA Korean
(DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Feb 29 via DXLD)
# co-channel BBC RMP Russian Sat/Sun; BCE R Luxembourg Junglinster in
DRM mode (Wolfgang Büschel, BC-DX March 1 via DXLD)
** SPAIN. REE is still filling its ``DX program`` with music, and
earlier in the hour on UT Sundays: Radio Waves played two pieces of
pop music somehow related to radio --- I don`t remember the titles ---
and they were in English; what`s this to do with Spain? Ending at 0032
UT March 2 on 6055, and I think was already going when I tuned in
around 0020 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [and non]. RADIO TAIWAN SEEKS INTEGRATION THROUGH AIRWAVES
By Radioandmusic.com (1 March 04:10 pm)
http://radioandmusic.com/headlines/y2k8/mar/1mar/radio.php
NEW DELHI - Radio Taiwan International held its biennial Listeners'
Club Meet in Delhi on Saturday. Previously held in March 2006 in New
Delhi and Kolkata, the RTI delegates visited Chennai and Kolkata along
with New Delhi this year. Speaking to the members of the listeners'
club, RTI chairman Yu Cheng said, "We aim to achieve international
cooperation through our programming and news. Although Taiwan has a
population of over 22 million, we still haven't been granted a place
in the WHO."
Added Andrew Cheng, Director of the Information Division of Taipei
Economic and Cultural Center in New Delhi, "Taiwanese journalists
aren't even allowed to cover the World Health Assembly proceedings. We
are eager to again become a member of the WHO and we require
international support for our cause."
RTI is a national radio station and is under the Central Broadcasting
System (CBS), which is the national broadcasting system of Taiwan. CBS
was established in 1928 in Nanjing (mainland China) as the voice of
the Kuomintang (KMT) government. After the conclusion of the Second
World War which saw the surrender and withdrawal of Japanese forces,
the KMT and the Communist Party of China (CPC) resumed their civil
war. The KMT retreated to Taiwan in 1949 and the Central Broadcasting
System moved with them.
The RTI currently broadcasts in 13 languages over various regions of
the world. Among the broadcasting languages include French, German,
Indonesian, Thai and Japanese. The language for broadcast in India is
currently English.
"We have been suggested by listeners over our tour across India to
broadcast in Hindi, Tamil and Bengali. It is too early for me to give
you concrete information but I will make sure I put this forward to
the relevant Government agencies back in Taiwan," said Cheng.
"Currently, we look at Thai, Indonesian and Vietnamese as very
important languages for broadcast as we have about 300,000 immigrant
workers in Taiwan from the South-East Asian region and many of them
have married Taiwanese locals," said Carlson Huang, Chief of Foreign
Languages section and English Program host in the RTI.
"The RTI is government owned and works similarly to the way the BBC or
the Deutsche Welle networks run. Our main aim in broadcast is to
provide information to listeners about Taiwan, its culture and its
people. We look to establishing international cooperation through our
work," said Huang on the fuctionalities of the RTI.
Although, the members of the club were generally very happy with the
programming content, there was an issue that most of them brought up.
The issue of there being disturbance in the signals between 0930 and
1000 Hrs and that there are times when the signals just fade away at
those times. The station currently broadcasts at two frequencies viz.
9785 kHz and 11550 kHz and the problem was experienced at the 9785 kHz
frequency.
"This is a serious problem as we see it. We will talk this over with
our technical team when we get back and we certainly would want to
rectify them at the soonest. Also, although we have got many positive
response on our programming content, we will not rest on our laurels
but will work towards making the content even better," promised Cheng
(via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, DXLD)
** TINIAN. Don`t usually hear anything here, but Feb 29 at 1445, good
signal in Vietnamese on 15470. This is RFA at 280 degrees, 14-15. No
jamming audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. Very surprised to hear unmistakable VOT IS on 6175, Feb 29
at 1456 with flutter. This is scheduled as Emirler site, S of Ankara,
about to open two-hour Arabic service at 168 degrees. That azimuth
aims toward Al Quds, down the Red Sea, across Ethiopia, and the
southern tip of Madagascar, hitting Antarctica at the Mac Robertson
Coast. However, the long-path to Enid would be a bit further east,
right across the Arabian Peninsula, and then totally over water all
the way to Culiacán, Sinaloa, after tangenting 62 degrees south near
the Adélie Coast. This seems more likely than short path, which would
reach 62 degrees north where it is noon at the southern tip of
Greenland (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 28 February
follow. Solar flux 70 and mid-latitude A-index 24. The mid-latitude K-
index at 1500 UTC on 29 February was 4 (48 nT). No space weather
storms were observed for the past 24 hours. No space weather storms
are expected for the next 24 hours (SWPC)
Whew, Glenn, you actually heard Turkey just before an hour after
sunrise, considering where you are located. I looked up
sunrisesunset.com and found out that sunrise in OKC for today was 7:01
am CT. Thus, further east, hearing 6175 at 1500 would be useless --
though as I reported a few weeks ago I heard Tinian on 41 mb at around
9:30 am. As it is, it's all about luck, propagation, location, and
receiving equipment, and you never know what will come up on various
frequencies from top to bottom on HF (Joe Hanlon, NJ, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
Sunrise in Enid Feb 29 was axually 7:03 am CST, which is 1303 UT:
http://www.gaisma.com/en/location/enid-oklahoma.html
So this was almost *two* hours after LSR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. Some changes for Voice of Turkey:
1200-1257 NF 11750 EMR 500 kW / 072 deg, ex 12050 Chinese from Feb. 25
1600-1657 on 9705*CAK 500 kW / 104 deg, new language-Pashto Mar. 21+
*co-channel La Voix du Sahel in French+Radio Romania International in
Russian (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Feb 29 via DXLD)
** TUVALU. I am watching an interesting program on BBC World on Tuvalu
and Global Warming. They panned the Funafuti town including a large
radio station tower, presumed to be T2U2, 621 that is now silent,
because of equipment failure. The tower may be doubling for the FM
(100.1 MHz 200 watts), but at the rate it is going, in another 40-50
years Tuvalu will be under water. It is always interesting to see
areas, where I have logged and QSL'd the stations. But it is sad to
see the ocean covering the islands. Kiribati is also in danger, plus
several other islands. But what a beautiful location.
One side note. Tuvalu has planes that arrive from Fiji twice a week
and everyone comes out to see them land. A place free of crime,
pollution, traffic. I guess you can still find places like that, if
the ocean doesn't swallow it up. 73, (Patrick Martin, Seaside OR, near
sea level, March 1, IRCA via DXLD)
** UKRAINE. RUI Lviv tentatively listed at 0500-1200 UT on 21510 kHz
in A08, at 96 degrees towards former USSR, lots of Ukrainian nationals
in Kazakhstan. Wooden registration? Maybe Alexander Yegerov can tell
us more on this matter (Gordon Brown-UK, NWDXC Feb 29 via BCDX via
DXLD)
** U K. Additional frequency for BBCWS in French to NoAf:
0700-0730 on 12065 SKN 300 kW / 180 deg \\ 15105 ASC and 17695 MEY
(DX Mix News, Bulgaria, Feb 29 via DXLD)
** U S A. WYFR BROADCAST SCHEDULE 30 Mar 2008-26 Oct 2008 A-08
Note: Schedule information showing languages for transmissions
carried by WYFR for other broadcasters will have to be obtained
directly from the other broadcasters.
LANGUAGE SCHEDULE
LANG TIME FREQ AZ ZONE PWR
ARAB 0400-0500 9355 44 27,28,39 100
ARAB 0500-0600 9930 87 37,46 100
ARAB 0700-0800 11530 87 47,52,57 100
ARAB 1600-1645 15770 44 27,28 100
ARAB 1900-2000 17750 44 27,28 100
ARAB 2000-2045 21525 87 47,52,57 100
ARAB 2100-2245 18930 44 27,28 100
ARAB 2200-2245 17845 87 37,46 100
CANT 0600-0700 5985 315 2 100
ENGL 0000-0045 17805 142 15 100
ENGL 0000-0100 11835 285 10 50
ENGL 0000-0445 6985 355 4,5,9 100
ENGL 0000-0445 9505 315 2 100
ENGL 0200-0245 11835 285 10 50
ENGL 0200-0300 5985 181 11 50
ENGL 0200-0300 11855 222 11 100
ENGL 0300-0400 11740 222 12 100
ENGL 0300-0400 15255 151 15 100
ENGL 0400-0500 7780 44 27,28,39 100
ENGL 0400-0500 9715 285 10 50
ENGL 0400-0600 6915 355 4,5,9 100
ENGL 0500-0600 9355 44 27,28,39 100
ENGL 0600-0700 5850 181 11 50
ENGL 0600-0700 9680 315 2 100
ENGL 0600-0700 11530 87 47,52,57 100
ENGL 0600-0700 11580 44 27,28,39 100
ENGL 0600-0745 7520 44 27,28,39 100
ENGL 0700-0800 9505 222 11 100
ENGL 0700-0800 9715 285 10 50
ENGL 0700-0845 9930 87 37,46 100
ENGL 0700-1100 6915 355 4,5,9 100
ENGL 0700-1245 5985 315 2 100
ENGL 0800-0845 5950 285 10 100
ENGL 0900-1145 9755 285 10 100
ENGL 1000-1245 5950 355 4,5,9 100
ENGL 1100-1145 9550 160 14 100
ENGL 1100-1200 7780 222 12 100
ENGL 1100-1200 9625 140 13 100
ENGL 1200-1300 17555 160 16 100
ENGL 1200-2145 17795 285 10 100
ENGL 1300-1400 11865 315 2 100
ENGL 1300-1600 11910 355 4,5,9 100
ENGL 1300-1645 11830 315 2 100
ENGL 1400-1500 13695 355 4,5,9 100
ENGL 1500-1545 15770 160 16 100
ENGL 1600-1645 11865 315 2 100
ENGL 1600-1700 6085 181 11 100
ENGL 1600-1700 13695 355 4,5,9 100
ENGL 1600-1700 21525 87 47,52,57 100
ENGL 1600-1800 21455 44 27,28,39 100
ENGL 1600-2145 18980 44 27,28,39 100
ENGL 1700-2000 13690 355 4,5,9 100
ENGL 1800-2145 13615 315 2 100
ENGL 1800-2200 17845 87 37,46 100
ENGL 1900-1945 6085 181 11 100
ENGL 1900-2000 18930 44 27,28 100
ENGL 2000-2045 17750 44 27,28 100
ENGL 2000-2100 17725 140 13 100
ENGL 2100-2200 11565 44 27,28 100
ENGL 2200-2245 15770 87 47,52,57 100
ENGL 2200-2345 11740 315 2 100
ENGL 2300-0000 15255 151 15 100
ENGL 2300-0000 17750 160 15 100
FREN 0000-0100 15255 151 15 100
FREN 0500-0600 11530 87 47,52,57 100
FREN 0500-0600 11580 44 27,28,39 100
FREN 0600-0700 9355 44 27,28,39 100
FREN 0600-0700 9930 87 37,46 100
FREN 0800-0845 11530 87 47,52,57 100
FREN 1000-1100 9625 140 13 100
FREN 1000-1100 11970 151 15 100
FREN 1200-1300 13695 355 4,5,9 100
FREN 1300-1400 11970 151 15 100
FREN 1600-1645 11910 355 4,5,9 100
FREN 1700-1745 17885 87 37,46 100
FREN 1800-1900 18930 44 27,28 100
FREN 1800-2000 21525 87 47,52,57 100
FREN 1900-1945 21455 44 27,28,39 100
FREN 2100-2200 17725 140 13 100
FREN 2200-2245 11565 44 27,28 100
FREN 2300-0000 6985 355 4,5,9 100
GERM 0404-0500 9985 44 27,28,39 100
GERM 0500-0600 7780 44 27,28,39 100
GERM 1700-1800 17750 44 27,28 100
GERM 1800-1900 21455 44 27,28,39 100
GERM 2000-2145 15695 44 27,28 100
ITAL 0600-0700 9985 44 27,28,39 100
ITAL 0700-0745 11580 44 27,28,39 100
ITAL 1600-1700 21670 44 27,28 100
ITAL 1800-1900 17750 44 27,28 100
MAND 0500-0600 5985 315 2 100
MAND 1300-1400 13695 355 4,5,9 100
MAND 1500-1600 11865 315 2 100
PORT 0000-0100 17725 140 13 100
PORT 0000-0100 17750 160 15 100
PORT 0000-0345 15190 142 15 100
PORT 0100-0145 7520 142 15 100
PORT 0100-0200 17845 160 14 100
PORT 0400-0500 11530 87 47,52,57 100
PORT 0700-0745 9985 44 27,28,39 100
PORT 0800-1000 9625 140 13 100
PORT 0800-1045 9605 142 15 100
PORT 0800-1045 11770 142 13 100
PORT 0900-1045 6175 160 15 100
PORT 1200-1245 9625 140 13 100
PORT 1300-1400 17555 160 16 100
PORT 1400-1500 15770 160 16 100
PORT 1500-1545 18980 142 15 100
PORT 1700-1800 21525 87 47,52,57 100
PORT 1700-2000 17725 140 13 100
PORT 2100-2200 15770 87 47,52,57 100
PORT 2200-2245 15695 44 27,28,39 100
PORT 2200-2300 15190 142 15 101 [sic]
PORT 2200-2300 17725 140 13 100
PORT 2300-0000 17805 142 13 100
RUSS 0304-0400 7780 44 27,28,39 100
RUSS 0500-0600 7520 44 27,28,39 100
RUSS 1600-1800 18930 44 27,28 100
RUSS 1900-2000 15600 44 27,28 100
SPAN 0000-0100 15440 285 10 100
SPAN 0100-0145 17725 140 13 100
SPAN 0100-0200 11835 285 10 50
SPAN 0100-0245 17750 160 15 100
SPAN 0100-0300 15255 151 15 100
SPAN 0200-0300 11740 222 12 100
SPAN 0300-0345 11580 160 15 100
SPAN 0300-0400 9680 315 2 100
SPAN 0300-0400 9715 285 10 50
SPAN 0300-0400 11855 222 11 100
SPAN 0300-0445 5985 181 11 50
SPAN 0304-0400 6915 355 4,5,9 100
SPAN 0400-0445 11740 222 12 100
SPAN 0400-0445 15255 151 15 100
SPAN 0500-0600 5850 181 11 50
SPAN 0500-0600 9985 44 27,28,39 100
SPAN 0500-0700 9715 285 10 50
SPAN 0504-0700 9505 222 11 100
SPAN 0600-0700 6915 355 4,5,9 100
SPAN 0700-0745 9355 44 27,28,39 100
SPAN 0700-0745 9680 315 2 100
SPAN 0700-0945 5850 181 11 50
SPAN 0800-0945 9505 222 11 100
SPAN 0800-1000 11970 151 15 100
SPAN 0800-1100 9550 160 14 100
SPAN 0800-1145 9715 285 10 50
SPAN 0800-1145 11855 160 16 100
SPAN 0900-1000 5950 355 4,5,9 100
SPAN 1000-1600 6085 181 11 100
SPAN 1100-1145 6915 355 4,5,9 100
SPAN 1100-1145 9355 160 15 100
SPAN 1100-1300 11970 151 15 100
SPAN 1100-1345 9605 222 11 100
SPAN 1200-1345 7780 222 12 100
SPAN 1200-1400 15770 160 16 100
SPAN 1200-1545 13800 160 15 100
SPAN 1200-2345 15130 285 10 50
SPAN 1400-1500 11865 315 2 100
SPAN 1400-1500 18980 142 15 100
SPAN 1400-1545 11670 222 11 100
SPAN 1400-1545 11970 151 15 100
SPAN 1400-1545 17555 160 16 100
SPAN 1500-1600 13695 355 4,5,9 100
SPAN 1700-1800 13615 315 2 100
SPAN 1700-1845 21670 44 27,28 100
SPAN 1700-1900 6085 181 11 100
SPAN 2000-0200 5985 181 11 50
SPAN 2000-0200 11855 222 11 100
SPAN 2100-2200 15600 44 27,28 100
SPAN 2300-0200 15215 160 14 100
SPAN 2304-0100 17845 160 14 100
WYFR BROADCAST SCHEDULE 30 Mar-26 Oct 2008 A-08 FREQUENCY SCHEDULE
FREQ TIME LANG AZ ZONE PWR
5850 0500-0600 SPAN 181 11 50
5850 0600-0700 ENGL 181 11 50
5850 0700-0945 SPAN 181 11 50
5950 0900-1000 SPAN 355 4,5,9 100
5950 1000-1245 ENGL 355 4,5,9 100
5950 0800-0845 ENGL 285 10 100
5985 2000-0200 SPAN 181 11 50
5985 0200-0300 ENGL 181 11 50
5985 0300-0445 SPAN 181 11 50
5985 0500-0600 MAND 315 2 100
5985 0600-0700 CANT 315 2 100
5985 0700-1245 ENGL 315 2 100
6085 1000-1600 SPAN 181 11 100
6085 1600-1700 ENGL 181 11 100
6085 1700-1900 SPAN 181 11 100
6085 1900-1945 ENGL 181 11 100
6175 0900-1045 PORT 160 15 100
6915 0304-0400 SPAN 355 4,5,9 100
6915 0400-0600 ENGL 355 4,5,9 100
6915 0600-0700 SPAN 355 4,5,9 100
6915 0700-1100 ENGL 355 4,5,9 100
6915 1100-1145 SPAN 355 4,5,9 100
6985 0000-0445 ENGL 355 4,5,9 100
6985 2300-0000 FREN 355 4,5,9 100
7520 0100-0145 PORT 142 15 100
7520 0500-0600 RUSS 44 27,28,39 100
7520 0600-0745 ENGL 44 27,28,39 100
7780 1100-1200 ENGL 222 12 100
7780 1200-1345 SPAN 222 12 100
7780 0304-0400 RUSS 44 27,28,39 100
7780 0400-0500 ENGL 44 27,28,39 100
7780 0500-0600 GERM 44 27,28,39 100
9355 0400-0500 ARAB 44 27,28,39 100
9355 0500-0600 ENGL 44 27,28,39 100
9355 0600-0700 FREN 44 27,28,39 100
9355 0700-0745 SPAN 44 27,28,39 100
9355 1100-1145 SPAN 160 15 100
9505 0000-0445 ENGL 315 2 100
9505 0504-0700 SPAN 222 11 100
9505 0700-0800 ENGL 222 11 100
9505 0800-0945 SPAN 222 11 100
9550 0800-1100 SPAN 160 14 100
9550 1100-1145 ENGL 160 14 100
9605 0800-1045 PORT 142 15 100
9605 1100-1345 SPAN 222 11 100
9625 0800-1000 PORT 140 13 100
9625 1000-1100 FREN 140 13 100
9625 1100-1200 ENGL 140 13 100
9625 1200-1245 PORT 140 13 100
9680 0300-0400 SPAN 315 2 100
9680 0600-0700 ENGL 315 2 100
9680 0700-0745 SPAN 315 2 100
9715 0300-0400 SPAN 285 10 50
9715 0400-0500 ENGL 285 10 50
9715 0500-0700 SPAN 285 10 50
9715 0700-0800 ENGL 285 10 50
9715 0800-1145 SPAN 285 10 50
9755 0900-1145 ENGL 285 10 100
9930 0500-0600 ARAB 87 37,46 100
9930 0600-0700 FREN 87 37,46 100
9930 0700-0845 ENGL 87 37,46 100
9985 0404-0500 GERM 44 27,28,39 100
9985 0500-0600 SPAN 44 27,28,39 100
9985 0600-0700 ITAL 44 27,28,39 100
9985 0700-0745 PORT 44 27,28,39 100
11530 0400-0500 PORT 87 47,52,57 100
11530 0500-0600 FREN 87 47,52,57 100
11530 0600-0700 ENGL 87 47,52,57 100
11530 0700-0800 ARAB 87 47,52,57 100
11530 0800-0845 FREN 87 47,52,57 100
11565 2100-2200 ENGL 44 27,28 100
11565 2200-2245 FREN 44 27,28 100
11580 0500-0600 FREN 44 27,28,39 100
11580 0600-0700 ENGL 44 27,28,39 100
11580 0700-0745 ITAL 44 27,28,39 100
11580 0300-0345 SPAN 160 15 100
11670 1400-1545 SPAN 222 11 100
11740 0200-0300 SPAN 222 12 100
11740 0300-0400 ENGL 222 12 100
11740 0400-0445 SPAN 222 12 100
11740 2200-2345 ENGL 315 2 100
11770 0800-1045 PORT 142 13 100
11830 1300-1645 ENGL 315 2 100
11835 0000-0100 ENGL 285 10 50
11835 0100-0200 SPAN 285 10 50
11835 0200-0245 ENGL 285 10 50
11855 0800-1145 SPAN 160 16 100
11855 2000-0200 SPAN 222 11 100
11855 0200-0300 ENGL 222 11 100
11855 0300-0400 SPAN 222 11 100
11865 1300-1400 ENGL 315 2 100
11865 1400-1500 SPAN 315 2 100
11865 1500-1600 MAND 315 2 100
11865 1600-1645 ENGL 315 2 100
11910 1300-1600 ENGL 355 4,5,9 100
11910 1600-1645 FREN 355 4,5,9 100
11970 0800-1000 SPAN 151 15 100
11970 1000-1100 FREN 151 15 100
11970 1100-1300 SPAN 151 15 100
11970 1300-1400 FREN 151 15 100
11970 1400-1545 SPAN 151 15 100
13615 1700-1800 SPAN 315 2 100
13615 1800-2145 ENGL 315 2 100
13690 1700-2000 ENGL 355 4,5,9 100
13695 1200-1300 FREN 355 4,5,9 100
13695 1300-1400 MAND 355 4,5,9 100
13695 1400-1500 ENGL 355 4,5,9 100
13695 1500-1600 SPAN 355 4,5,9 100
13695 1600-1700 ENGL 355 4,5,9 100
13800 1200-1545 SPAN 160 15 100
15130 1200-2345 SPAN 285 10 50
15190 2200-2300 PORT 142 15 101 [sic]
15190 0000-0345 PORT 142 15 100
15215 2300-0200 SPAN 160 14 100
15255 2300-0000 ENGL 151 15 100
15255 0000-0100 FREN 151 15 100
15255 0100-0300 SPAN 151 15 100
15255 0300-0400 ENGL 151 15 100
15255 0400-0445 SPAN 151 15 100
15440 0000-0100 SPAN 285 10 100
15600 1900-2000 RUSS 44 27,28 100
15600 2100-2200 SPAN 44 27,28 100
15695 2000-2145 GERM 44 27,28 100
15695 2200-2245 PORT 44 27,28,39 100
15770 1200-1400 SPAN 160 16 100
15770 1400-1500 PORT 160 16 100
15770 1500-1545 ENGL 160 16 100
15770 1600-1645 ARAB 44 27,28 100
15770 2100-2200 PORT 87 47,52,57 100
15770 2200-2245 ENGL 87 47,52,57 100
17555 1200-1300 ENGL 160 16 100
17555 1300-1400 PORT 160 16 100
17555 1400-1545 SPAN 160 16 100
17725 1700-2000 PORT 140 13 100
17725 2000-2100 ENGL 140 13 100
17725 2100-2200 FREN 140 13 100
17725 2200-2300 PORT 140 13 100
17725 0000-0100 PORT 140 13 100
17725 0100-0145 SPAN 140 13 100
17750 1700-1800 GERM 44 27,28 100
17750 1800-1900 ITAL 44 27,28 100
17750 1900-2000 ARAB 44 27,28 100
17750 2000-2045 ENGL 44 27,28 100
17750 2300-0000 ENGL 160 15 100
17750 0000-0100 PORT 160 15 100
17750 0100-0245 SPAN 160 15 100
17795 1200-2145 ENGL 285 10 100
17805 0000-0045 ENGL 142 15 100
17805 2300-0000 PORT 142 13 100
17845 2304-0100 SPAN 160 14 100
17845 0100-0200 PORT 160 14 100
17845 1800-2200 ENGL 87 37,46 100
17845 2200-2245 ARAB 87 37,46 100
17885 1700-1745 FREN 87 37,46 100
18930 1600-1800 RUSS 44 27,28 100
18930 1800-1900 FREN 44 27,28 100
18930 1900-2000 ENGL 44 27,28 100
18930 2100-2245 ARAB 44 27,28 100
18980 1400-1500 SPAN 142 15 100
18980 1500-1545 PORT 142 15 100
18980 1600-2145 ENGL 44 27,28,39 100
21455 1600-1800 ENGL 44 27,28,39 100
21455 1800-1900 GERM 44 27,28,39 100
21455 1900-1945 FREN 44 27,28,39 100
21525 1600-1700 ENGL 87 47,52,57 100
21525 1700-1800 PORT 87 47,52,57 100
21525 1800-2000 FREN 87 47,52,57 100
21525 2000-2045 ARAB 87 47,52,57 100
21670 1600-1700 ITAL 44 27,28 100
21670 1700-1845 SPAN 44 27,28 100
WYFR BROADCAST SCHEDULE 30 Mar 2008-26 Oct 2008 A-08 TIME SCHEDULE
TIME LANG FREQ AZ ZONE PWR
0000-0045 ENGL 17805 142 15 100
0000-0100 ENGL 11835 285 10 50
0000-0100 FREN 15255 151 15 100
0000-0100 SPAN 15440 285 10 100
0000-0100 PORT 17725 140 13 100
0000-0100 PORT 17750 160 15 100
0000-0345 PORT 15190 142 15 100
0000-0445 ENGL 6985 355 4,5,9 100
0000-0445 ENGL 9505 315 2 100
0100-0145 PORT 7520 142 15 100
0100-0145 SPAN 17725 140 13 100
0100-0200 SPAN 11835 285 10 50
0100-0200 PORT 17845 160 14 100
0100-0245 SPAN 17750 160 15 100
0100-0300 SPAN 15255 151 15 100
0200-0245 ENGL 11835 285 10 50
0200-0300 ENGL 5985 181 11 50
0200-0300 SPAN 11740 222 12 100
0200-0300 ENGL 11855 222 11 100
0300-0345 SPAN 11580 160 15 100
0300-0400 SPAN 9680 315 2 100
0300-0400 SPAN 9715 285 10 50
0300-0400 ENGL 11740 222 12 100
0300-0400 SPAN 11855 222 11 100
0300-0400 ENGL 15255 151 15 100
0300-0445 SPAN 5985 181 11 50
0304-0400 SPAN 6915 355 4,5,9 100
0304-0400 RUSS 7780 44 27,28,39 100
0400-0445 SPAN 11740 222 12 100
0400-0445 SPAN 15255 151 15 100
0400-0500 ENGL 7780 44 27,28,39 100
0400-0500 ARAB 9355 44 27,28,39 100
0400-0500 ENGL 9715 285 10 50
0400-0500 PORT 11530 87 47,52,57 100
0400-0600 ENGL 6915 355 4,5,9 100
0404-0500 GERM 9985 44 27,28,39 100
0500-0600 SPAN 5850 181 11 50
0500-0600 MAND 5985 315 2 100
0500-0600 RUSS 7520 44 27,28,39 100
0500-0600 GERM 7780 44 27,28,39 100
0500-0600 ENGL 9355 44 27,28,39 100
0500-0600 ARAB 9930 87 37,46 100
0500-0600 SPAN 9985 44 27,28,39 100
0500-0600 FREN 11530 87 47,52,57 100
0500-0600 FREN 11580 44 27,28,39 100
0500-0700 SPAN 9715 285 10 50
0504-0700 SPAN 9505 222 11 100
0600-0700 ENGL 5850 181 11 50
0600-0700 CANT 5985 315 2 100
0600-0700 SPAN 6915 355 4,5,9 100
0600-0700 FREN 9355 44 27,28,39 100
0600-0700 ENGL 9680 315 2 100
0600-0700 FREN 9930 87 37,46 100
0600-0700 ITAL 9985 44 27,28,39 100
0600-0700 ENGL 11530 87 47,52,57 100
0600-0700 ENGL 11580 44 27,28,39 100
0600-0745 ENGL 7520 44 27,28,39 100
0700-0745 SPAN 9355 44 27,28,39 100
0700-0745 SPAN 9680 315 2 100
0700-0745 PORT 9985 44 27,28,39 100
0700-0745 ITAL 11580 44 27,28,39 100
0700-0800 ENGL 9505 222 11 100
0700-0800 ENGL 9715 285 10 50
0700-0800 ARAB 11530 87 47,52,57 100
0700-0845 ENGL 9930 87 37,46 100
0700-0945 SPAN 5850 181 11 50
0700-1100 ENGL 6915 355 4,5,9 100
0700-1245 ENGL 5985 315 2 100
0800-0845 ENGL 5950 285 10 100
0800-0845 FREN 11530 87 47,52,57 100
0800-0945 SPAN 9505 222 11 100
0800-1000 PORT 9625 140 13 100
0800-1000 SPAN 11970 151 15 100
0800-1045 PORT 9605 142 15 100
0800-1045 PORT 11770 142 13 100
0800-1100 SPAN 9550 160 14 100
0800-1145 SPAN 9715 285 10 50
0800-1145 SPAN 11855 160 16 100
0900-1000 SPAN 5950 355 4,5,9 100
0900-1045 PORT 6175 160 15 100
0900-1145 ENGL 9755 285 10 100
1000-1100 FREN 9625 140 13 100
1000-1100 FREN 11970 151 15 100
1000-1245 ENGL 5950 355 4,5,9 100
1000-1600 SPAN 6085 181 11 100
1100-1145 SPAN 6915 355 4,5,9 100
1100-1145 SPAN 9355 160 15 100
1100-1145 ENGL 9550 160 14 100
1100-1200 ENGL 7780 222 12 100
1100-1200 ENGL 9625 140 13 100
1100-1300 SPAN 11970 151 15 100
1100-1345 SPAN 9605 222 11 100
1200-1245 PORT 9625 140 13 100
1200-1300 FREN 13695 355 4,5,9 100
1200-1300 ENGL 17555 160 16 100
1200-1345 SPAN 7780 222 12 100
1200-1400 SPAN 15770 160 16 100
1200-1545 SPAN 13800 160 15 100
1200-2145 ENGL 17795 285 10 100
1200-2345 SPAN 15130 285 10 50
1300-1400 ENGL 11865 315 2 100
1300-1400 FREN 11970 151 15 100
1300-1400 MAND 13695 355 4,5,9 100
1300-1400 PORT 17555 160 16 100
1300-1600 ENGL 11910 355 4,5,9 100
1300-1645 ENGL 11830 315 2 100
1400-1500 SPAN 11865 315 2 100
1400-1500 ENGL 13695 355 4,5,9 100
1400-1500 PORT 15770 160 16 100
1400-1500 SPAN 18980 142 15 100
1400-1545 SPAN 11670 222 11 100
1400-1545 SPAN 11970 151 15 100
1400-1545 SPAN 17555 160 16 100
1500-1545 ENGL 15770 160 16 100
1500-1545 PORT 18980 142 15 100
1500-1600 MAND 11865 315 2 100
1500-1600 SPAN 13695 355 4,5,9 100
1600-1645 ENGL 11865 315 2 100
1600-1645 FREN 11910 355 4,5,9 100
1600-1645 ARAB 15770 44 27,28 100
1600-1700 ENGL 6085 181 11 100
1600-1700 ENGL 13695 355 4,5,9 100
1600-1700 ENGL 21525 87 47,52,57 100
1600-1700 ITAL 21670 44 27,28 100
1600-1800 RUSS 18930 44 27,28 100
1600-1800 ENGL 21455 44 27,28,39 100
1600-2145 ENGL 18980 44 27,28,39 100
1700-1745 FREN 17885 87 37,46 100
1700-1800 SPAN 13615 315 2 100
1700-1800 GERM 17750 44 27,28 100
1700-1800 PORT 21525 87 47,52,57 100
1700-1845 SPAN 21670 44 27,28 100
1700-1900 SPAN 6085 181 11 100
1700-2000 ENGL 13690 355 4,5,9 100
1700-2000 PORT 17725 140 13 100
1800-1900 ITAL 17750 44 27,28 100
1800-1900 FREN 18930 44 27,28 100
1800-1900 GERM 21455 44 27,28,39 100
1800-2000 FREN 21525 87 47,52,57 100
1800-2145 ENGL 13615 315 2 100
1800-2200 ENGL 17845 87 37,46 100
1900-1945 ENGL 6085 181 11 100
1900-1945 FREN 21455 44 27,28,39 100
1900-2000 RUSS 15600 44 27,28 100
1900-2000 ARAB 17750 44 27,28 100
1900-2000 ENGL 18930 44 27,28 100
2000-0200 SPAN 5985 181 11 50
2000-0200 SPAN 11855 222 11 100
2000-2045 ENGL 17750 44 27,28 100
2000-2045 ARAB 21525 87 47,52,57 100
2000-2100 ENGL 17725 140 13 100
2000-2145 GERM 15695 44 27,28 100
2100-2200 ENGL 11565 44 27,28 100
2100-2200 SPAN 15600 44 27,28 100
2100-2200 PORT 15770 87 47,52,57 100
2100-2200 FREN 17725 140 13 100
2100-2245 ARAB 18930 44 27,28 100
2200-2245 FREN 11565 44 27,28 100
2200-2245 PORT 15695 44 27,28,39 100
2200-2245 ENGL 15770 87 47,52,57 100
2200-2245 ARAB 17845 87 37,46 100
2200-2300 PORT 15190 142 15 101 [sic]
2200-2300 PORT 17725 140 13 100
2200-2345 ENGL 11740 315 2 100
2300-0000 FREN 6985 355 4,5,9 100
2300-0000 ENGL 15255 151 15 100
2300-0000 ENGL 17750 160 15 100
2300-0000 PORT 17805 142 13 100
2300-0200 SPAN 15215 160 14 100
2304-0100 SPAN 17845 160 14 100
(Evelyn Marcy, WYFR Okeechobee FL, Feb 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Note: the TAIWAN relays for A-08 already appeared in 8-027. The above
is only a fraxion of YFR output, now in many additional languages,
using lots of overseas relays. Those schedules are not availablized
from Okeechobee (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. The Catholic church seems to be buying up AM stations across
the country. Yet another religious format on a dying band. I have
found the overwhelming majority of religious formats - including
Catholic - to be spectacularly uncreative and boring.
When the band is populated by uninspired religious stations, brokered
ethnic, tired old talk shows, sports rants, and the like - is it any
wonder people are tuning out and going to FM? The only bright spots on
the band to me are Radio Disney, a local standards station, some rim
shot oldies (which were mainly in mono anyway). I am hard pressed to
even find 6 AM stations for my presets. If I were a country fan, there
are probably half a dozen really creative, rim shot rural outlets that
have a lot of local color (Bruce Carter, TX? Feb 29, ABDX via DXLD)
Not only are they boring, they are Mistaken, from the git-go (Glenn
Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. National Public Health Radio Network Thursday check-ins:
[is Thursday significant? gh]
4442.0, KGC253, possible GSA, Washington D.C.: 1329 USB ALE. Also
active on 5820.0 same mode (28/FEB/2008) (JLM)
12164.0, WGY9032, FEMA at unID location & 119CDCS05, CDC station: 1558
USB ALE (28/FEB/2008) (JLM)
9414.5, 123CDCS27, unid CDC station & WGY9030, FEMA @ unid location:
1658 USB ALE (28/FEB/2008) (JLM)
4757.0, FR5FEM, FEMA Chicago, IL & WGY9030, FEMA at unID location:
1753 USB ALE & AMD. FR5FEM also ID'ing as WGY9865 (28/FEB/2008) (JLM)
8023.0, 087CDCS51, Virginia Department of Health, Richmond: 1822 USB
ALE & AMD (28/FEB/2008) (JLM)
10202.0, 001CDCS36, New York Department of Health, Albany: 1938 USB
ALE & AMD (28/FEB/2008) (JLM)
4780.0, FR5FEM, FEMA Chicago, IL: 2023 USB ALE (28/FEB/2008) (JLM)
10202.0, KGD825, EPA Boston, MA: 2034 USB ALE (28/FEB/2008) (JLM)
Other stations in the NPHRN today:
494FEMAUX - FEMA Auxiliary
WGY9441 - FEMA
WGY993 - FEMA
WNG981 - Unid (possible Texas Health District)
KEY798 - EPA
051CDCS41 - CDC
Miscellaneous activity:
9043.0, A08 & 091, unid stations: 1746 USB ALE & AMD (28/FEB/2008)
(JLM)
5351.5, INGEZ, Indiana National Guard at Shelbyville Municipal
Airport: 2010 USB ALE. Other frequencies in use: 2540.0 & 2816.0
(28/FEB/2008) (JLM)
8184.5, BDETOC & 24TOC, US Military stations: 2051 USB ALE
(28/FEB/2008) (JLM)
5833.5, TX18NG, Texas National Guard: 2151 USB ALE. Other frequencies
in use: 5351.5, 7650.0, 9081.5 & 10275.0 (28/FEB/2008) (JLM)
2540.0, T1Z137, AL NG & 34M: 2235 USB ALE (28/FEB/2008) (JLM)
8184.5, 34TOC & 2996, US Military stations: 2335 USB ALE (28/FEB/2008)
(JLM)
3267.5, NNN0BTG, USN/USMC MARS Net: 0022 USB Voice (29/FEB/2008) (JLM)
3299.0, AFA2XZ, USAF MARS Net: 0024 USB Voice (29/FEB/2008) (JLM)
3315.0, AFA1HS, USAF MARS Training Net: 0024 USB Voice (29/FEB/2008)
(JLM)
2711.5, T12, US Army: 0034 USB ALE (29/FEB/2008) (JLM)
2259.5, AASF2, US Army Aviation Support Facility, unid location: 0151
USB ALE (29/FEB/2008) (JLM)
2341.5, T12, US Army: 0204 USB ALE (29/FEB/2008) (JLM)
2306.0, AAT7WE, US Army MARS: 0213 USB Voice. Switched to 2305.0 USB
Voice at 0214 (29/FEB/2008) (JLM)
---------------------------
(Jack L. Metcalfe, Stanford, KY, RFSpace SDR-IQ, Icom IC-R75 (x2) &
IC-R8500, Icom IC-R5, Uniden BCD996T & AOR AR8200, 200' Longwire & 45'
EF-SWL Sloper Antennas, Diamond D-130J Discone & SAMCO UHF Yagi, UDXF
yg via DXLD)
** U S A. Re 8-026, KPNP item, What`s LID? Glenn, I’m sure someone
else already mentioned this, but just in case: LID is local ID (Sheryl
Paszkiewicz, Manitowoc WI, March 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Only you (gh)
** U S A. FCC BACKS DECISION TO DROP MORSE REQUIREMENTS FOR AMATEUR
OPERATOR LICENSES --- Radio World 29 February, 2008
http://www.radioworld.com/pages/s.0100/t.11628.html
In December 2006, the FCC decided to drop the Morse code requirement
for all Amateur Radio license classes.
This week, the agency said it's sticking by that decision and denied
two requests from individuals who asked that Morse Code proficiency
continue to be a requirement for ham licensees.
At the time the commission decided to drop the Morse Code exam, it
said knowing Morse is not necessarily indicative of an individual's
ability to contribute to the advancement of ham radio. The agency also
said emergency communication today is performed using voice, data or
video modes - all much faster than telegraphy.
Two petitioners asked the FCC to reconsider; one said the requirement
should be retained so ham operators can act as a strategic reserve in
case of an emergency. The commission was not persuaded that
eliminating the telegraphy exam would affect national security or
emergency communications.
Another petitioner wasn't sure the commission actually saw his request
because he had trouble filing electronically. The FCC said all
comments were considered, no matter how they were filed, before it
made a decision. The FCC said it received roughly 100 comments,
"overwhelmingly" negative (via Mike Terry, UK, dxldyg via DXLD)
Negative to the change or to requiring CW? (gh, DXLD)
** VENEZUELA. YVTO, 5000, has moved up its ID announcement ahead of
WWVH, perhaps in order to be in the clear. Good idea. Feb 29 at 0647-
0651, heard ``Observatorio Naval Cagigal, Caracas, Venezuela`` at
approximately :41-:44 past each minute. The axual time announcement
just before minutetop still mixes with WWV. Could not detect any spur
on 5100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM. 6020 with hi-pitched hum, on the modulation, not an
unstable transmitter, at 1406 Feb 29, talk did not sound like
Vietnamese. This defective emission is thought to be Vietnam, QRMing
Australia before 1400; WRTH has it as 20 kW, minorities network from
Buon Me Thuot. HFCC shows site as DAL = Daclac 12N41 108E03.
DX Asiawaves by Alan [note spelling of surname:] Davies
http://www.asiawaves.net/vietnam-radio.htm
shows: 6020 VOV-4 Buon Me Thuot, Dak Lak Province 20 320 2200-1600
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Good Morning Glenn, Thanks for pointing this out. Today (March 1) was
checking on 6020 from time to time (1306-1503). Seems not to be
Vietnam (VOV-2). On 5925 heard two stations mixing, one of which was
VOV-2, as it was clearly parallel to their audio streaming
http://www.vovnews.vn/?page=175&rid=2
Not // to 6020. Maybe you can also check to confirm that it is not //.
Could the station on 6020, with the het, be Vatican Radio via
Philippines, on a new schedule? I wonder because at 1308 heard what
sounded like a church service and organ music, in an Asian language,
under R. Australia. Could have been a Catholic service. Also at 1456
it sounded like preaching, again in Asian language. Overall it did
have the feel of a religious station and as you noted, did not sound
like Vietnamese. Needs more monitoring to know for sure what this is.
Thanks again for the heads up (Ron Howard, CA, March 1, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
Ron, Per the info I found, Davies at least, 6020 is supposed to be
VOV-4, not 2; the minolities service. So that would affect your
streaming // chex.
Vatican via RVA has been on 6020 until 1315 for a long time, QRMing
RA. I am seldom monitoring that early, but I used to hear and probably
will notice it again once DST kix in. I don`t know about 1456.
[Later:] I now see that YFR via Samara, Russia is scheduled on 6020 at
14-15, 140 degrees in Telugu. Normally would think that too far west,
but with the LP I was also getting from Turkey, maybe possible. 73,
(Glenn to Ron, via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Thanks for the information, Glenn. I noticed that EiBi says VOV-4 on
6020, while Aoki has VOV-2 on 6020. Do not see audio streaming for
VOV-4, so that will not work to confirm this. Will keep checking. Not
sure if WYFR is possible (Ron Howard, CA, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** YEMEN. 9780.05, Republic of Yemen Radio, San`a, 1805-1900, Feb 29,
English programming with Euro-pop music and English talk. ID at 1819.
English news at 1830. Euro-pop music at 1835. Some local music. Even a
Billy Joel tune. News headlines at 1855 & local music at 1857. Arabic
at 1900. Fair signal strength but an overall poor signal in noisy
conditions and muffled audio making if difficult to understand (Brian
Alexander, PA, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6074, 8GAL, did not show up Feb 29, at 1359-1401 with
V/CQ marker, bad propagation today; however at 1401 I think I briefly
heard traces of it. Also distracted by much stronger Spanish SSB 2-way
around 6072 at 1359, whose first words heard were ``puta madre``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Sadly, that's a two word term commonly used to define in a rude mode
when something is remarkable or big and you need to exalt it. Nothing
strange that this transmission came from fishermen or drug trafficker
usually operating in the outskirts of the 41 or 49 mb. BTW, that's
something like motherf... or motherb...h. These people really thing
they're alone in the bands (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Or more politely, literally, ``[your] mother [is a] whore`` [ergo, you
are a bastard, altho they probably would never say ergo] (gh, DXLD)
Checked this morning (29 Feb.), and was hearing some long key down
sequences at 1353. Possibly tuning up? Then I did not hear 8GAL until
almost one minute past TOH (1400). Sorry at this end as my local
sunrise is now at 1221 and I'm losing propagation (Steve Lare,
Holland, MI, USA, UDXF yg via DXLD)
6074, 8GAL: was listening closely for it March 1 at 1359 until 1403,
but only trace of it for a few seconds was something chirpy which may
have been the CW transmitter malfunxioning. Meanwhile the Spanish 2-
way SSB was back on 6072 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Nothing heard of 8GAL today, monitoring from 1350Z to 1405Z. 6075
Russia was quite audible, heard the time pips at 1400Z, but no CW at
all. The path to Asia was very open, as I could also hear the usual
Chinese jammer on 6030 easily, and Radio Australia on the band as
well. I'll monitor tomorrow morning as well to see if it returns
(Brendan Wahl, WA7HL, Bellingham, WA, March 1, ibid.)
Hearing it down here, but Moscow on 6075 splatters it at times. It was
reported briefly as Radio Sawa resuming transmission but this proved
to be incorrect. Here it`s best at 0515 Z with "V/CQ" signal.
Personally think it`s an Indonesian setup testing. As all my searches
can`t find an "8GAL" but do turn up "8A" to "8I" allocated to
Indonesia, and it`s similar to Indonesian Army calls used on 40 MHz.
But I could be completely wrong (Andrew D, ZL3DX, South Island, New
Zealand, ibid.)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6145, 1321-1340+, 02/26/08. reported by Mark
Schiefelbein: Sorry Mark, on Feb 29 checked on this but nothing heard
here during same time period (Ron Howard, Monterey, CA, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
6145, 1341, 02/29/08. Third day in a row of non-reception of the
Indian-sounding station logged here on 2/26, perhaps just a one-time
frequency punch-up error somewhere (Mark Schiefelbein, MO, ibid.)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7260, good signal with 30-second loop announcement
lasting 23 seconds + 7 seconds pause, paraphrased: ``BBC World
Service, currently no service on this channel, but you can hear
English and Arabic 24 hours on one of this satellite`s nearby
channels. Details of all our services at bbcworldservice.com`` with
BBC theme music bed. Heard from tune-in 0005 UT March 1, still at
0015, and at 0050 rechecks. No Merlin/BBC/VTC usage during this hour
on any of the online schedules. Is no one paying attention at Bush
House/VTC master control? Obviously not, and we SWLs are further
insulted by being addressed as satellite listeners. Site? Planning a
new service from where to where? Checked 24 hours later: gone (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Geophysical Alert Message # Solar-terrestrial indices for 29 February
follow. Solar flux 70 and mid-latitude A-index 29. The mid-latitude K-
index at 0000 UTC on 01 March was 5 (93 nT). Space weather for the
past 24 hours has been minor. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G1 level
occurred. Space weather for the next 24 hours is expected to be minor.
Geomagnetic storms reaching the G1 level are expected (SWPC via DXLD)
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I went through a period of not following DXLD as I should have. But in
the past few months, I've Seen The Light, printing out DXLD, 8 pt
type, two columns on landscape orientation, half-inch margins all
around, and reading it on my Metro ride home. I especially enjoy the
Hauserisms, such as "inbooming." 73 (Kim Elliott, DC [non], DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
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I am finding the R-390A to be an excellent DX machine even though it
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which gave me some control over the audio and this has renewed my
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Hi amigos radio aficionados around the world and orbiting Planet
Earth; welcome to the weekend edition of DXers Unlimited, reaching you
while the Sun is in a very quiet state, zero sunspots, a blank Sun
once again, after a lonely solar cycle 23 sunspot vanished behind at
the edge of the solar disk. By the way, this sunspot group, number
983, forms part of cycle 23, something that can be affirmed because of
it`s very near the solar Equator position. So once again we are
entering into another period of very, very low solar activity that
belongs to the tail end of cycle 23.
Item two: for those of you located at latitudes above 40 degrees
North, there are chances of geomagnetic disturbances caused by a high
speed solar wind, and it those disturbances do happen, AM medium wave
broadcast band Dxing enthusiasts will once again be able to pick some
really nice DX stations located South of your location.
Item three: Ionospheric oblique incidence sounders of the type known
as chirp sounders, have confirmed that during the extended periods of
very low solar activity, the nighttime maximum useable frequency has
gone down to around 5 megahertz, yes, you heard it right, 5 megahertz
for several hours, something that only happens during extremely low
solar activity.
Item four: QSL on the air, QSL on the air to DXers Unlimited´s
listeners that have sent e mail messages to arnie at rhc dot cu asking
when we are going to see better propagation conditions for the high
frequency short wave bands.
AND THE ANSWER IS : probably, not before the end of 2008, and if you
discuss this topic with some solar experts, they will tell you that
the end of cycle 23 is extending much further than any of the many
forecasts made during the past two years. So, as the 2008 Northern
Hemisphere spring equinox approaches, we will definitely still be
experiencing very low solar activity and poor HF propagation
conditions... And now, amigos, as always at the end of the program,
here is
YOUR FRIEND’S ARNIE CORO CO2KK HF PROPAGATION UPDATE AND FORECAST
It`s freely available for distribution, of course. Solar activity
again at rock bottom levels, some surprising and not expected Sporadic
E events have happened during the past week at a time that according
to past records they are much less frequent, so keep a good watch on
frequencies above 20 megahertz for signs of short skip that indicate
the presence of Sporadic E clouds. Solar flux hovering around 70
units, no sunspots in sight and the high speed solar wind hitting the
Earth´s magnetosphere is now slowing up, so the geomagnetic
disturbance indicator is now moving back to normal values (Arnie Coro,
CO2KK, RHC DXers Unlimited March 1 via DXLD) ###