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Thanks, Glenn SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1420 Wed 2100 WBCQ 15420-CUSB Thu 0530 WRMI 9955 Thu 1430 WRMI 9955 Thu 2330 WBCQ 7415 Fri 0100 WRMI 9955 Fri 0800 WRMI 9955 Fri 1930 IPAR/IRRS/NEXUS/IBA 7290 Fri 2030 WWCR1 15825 Sat 0800 WRMI 9955 Sat 1630 WWCR3 12160 Sun 0230 WWCR3 5070 Sun 0630 WWCR1 3215 Sun 0800 WRMI 9955 Sun 1515 WRMI 9955 Mon 0415 WBCQ 7415 [time varies] Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 Tue 1530 WRMI 9955 Wed 0530 WRMI 9955 Wed 1130 WRMI 9955 Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html WRN ON DEMAND: http://new.wrn.org/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=24 WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN NOW AVAILABLE: http://www.wrn.org/listeners/stations/podcast.php OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org ** ANGUILLA [and non]. No sign of DGS, 11775, Aug 6 at 1221 or 1323, just Firedrake. From past experience, we must not jump to any conclusions that Caribbean Beacon has broken down permanently, it is getting so irregular. Believe it was on 6090 as usual the night before, and it could have been on 6090 now tho inaudible. PMS on 11775 was audible 24 hours later, under Firedrake (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 17830 with some non-jammed Chinese, Aug 6 at 0530; listed as CVC Darwin (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BHUTAN. 6035, BBS, 1405-1422, Aug 7, clearly in English, news by man and woman, another tentative ID at 1410: "You are listening to the news from the Bhutan Broadcasting Service", after news played EZL piano music, "Bhutan Broadcasting Service invites …", gives phone number, mentions a festival, 1421 woman talking, poor, moderate-heavy QRM. Aug 6 at 1434-1443 pop songs and on-air phone calls in English (conforms to schedule at their website), poor. Each day the reception slightly improves and I am able to make out a few more words, but still tough to understand much (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. Bolivia August 5 band scan from 2330 to 0030 on 6 August 3310, Radio Mosoj Chaski, Cochabamba 4409.7, Radio Eco, Reyes -- after 0000 to avoid Florida medium wave harmonic. [i.e. WWNN 3 x 1470, which was also my nearest local transmitter when I lived in Tamarac for two sesquiyears but it wasn`t 50 kW day power then, and calls were, something else! --- gh] 4451.8, Radio S. Ana, Santa Ana de Yacuma 4699.30, Radio San Miguel, Riberalta 4716.77, Radio Yura, Yura 5580.23, Radio San José, San José de Chiquitos 5952.4, Radio Em Pio XII, Siglo Veinte 5996.5, Radio Loyola, Sucre ------------------------------------------------------- 6 and 7 August. 73s (Bob Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Flórida, US, Aug 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 2379.85, Brasil, Rádio Educadora, Limeira with Portuguese OM, no sign of harmonic on 2380.3v, 7 August 73s (Bob Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Flórida, US, Aug 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) No time ** BRAZIL. Re 8-089, R. Cidade on 3140: Procurar Radio Cidade em 1570 kHz, x2 = 3140. Diz WRTH 2008: 1570, ZYL344, Corinto MG, 1/0.25 kW! 73, (Glenn Hauser, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Note que o espúrio caiu na faixa de Ondas Curtas de 3 MHz, uma banda onde propagação estadual e inter-estadual é comum. Não é imagem. É um espúrio gerado pelo transmissor, casualmente um harmônico (freqüência fundamental multiplicado por um inteiro). --hg (Huelbe Garcia, ibid.) Olá, Jorge Olha, pela frequência, e por não conhecermos (acho) nenhuma rádio brasileira por essa QRG, aposto que se trata de um harmônico de duas vezes de alguma emissora AM daí de perto (1570 kHz x 2 = 3140). Encontrei uma AM em Corinto, Minas Gerais, chamada Rádio Cidade. Posso estar falando bobagem, pois não sei se Corinto fica mais ou menos próxima de Feira de Santana... Também não sei o quanto o fator distância interfere na recepção de harmônicos de emissoras AM. Será que não era essa Rádio Cidade, de Corinto (MG) no seu segundo harmônico???? 73 (Marcelo Xavier Vieira, ibid.) Jorge, Acredito que você tenha captado um harmônico (2 x 1570). Nessa frequência há duas emissoras que se identificam como rádio cidade, segundo a lista de emissoras de ondas médias do DX Clube do Brasil: Rádio Cidade - Corinto/MG Rádio Cidade - Aparecida do Taboado/MG Pelo slogan citado por você, infelizmente não consegui uma identificação conclusiva sobre qual das emissoras a captação está relacionada. De qualquer maneira, esse tipo de escuta é bastante interessante. 73 (Ivan Dias - Sorocaba/SP, Membro do DX Clube do Brasil, ibid.) Uma harmônica na cidade de Corinto no estado de Minas Gerais com uma potência de 0,25 KW? Imaginava que as harmonicas tinham um pequeno alcance do ponto de irradiação! Corinto: Povoado surgido de um pouso de tropeiros que vinham de Montes Claros, Nordeste Mineiro e Bahia no rumo de Pitanguinho e do Caminho Novo que levava ao Rio de Janeiro, o município começou chamando-se Curralinho, lugarejo a porta da fazenda de Antônio Araújo do Santos, que em 1705 já possuía um engenho de açúcar, "que foi o primeiro que se levantou nestas Minas". Uma imagem do rádio ou da rádio? Alguém pode me explicar? (Jorge Freitas, SWL1023B, Feira de Santana, Bahia, ibid.) Jorge, Acho que sim, se transmissor mal ajustado. 73, (Glenn, ibid.) Assunto explicado e entendido. Mas não deixa de ser interessante, acho que em linha reta deve ter uns 600 km entre Feira ou uma das duas cidades: Corinto e Aparecida do Tabuado. E o interessante é a potencia de transmissão destas emissoras. Vou enviar uma correspondência a eles. Obrigado a todos pelas explicações. Abraços, (Jorge Freitas, SWL1023B, Feira de Santana Bahia, Degen 1103, Antena Long Wire 10 mts, ibid.) Aconselho não enviar correspondência às emissoras harmónicas. Quando tenham conhecimento da irradiação harmónica, podem reparar o problema, e assim frustrar a captação pelos colegas dexistas. 73, (Guilherme Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Mensagem captada e obedecida, mestre. Tem toda a razão. Obrigado pela dica. Um forte abraço, (Jorge Freitas, SWL1023B, Feira de Santana, Bahia, ibid.) ** BRAZIL. No dia 18/07 às 1618 sintonizei em 12085 kHz a Rádio Globo (?) com um sinal forte s=5 mas com uma distorção muito grande na modulação; estava passando o programa Roberto ..., imaginei até que fosse defeito do rádio, solicitei aos colegas a confirmação e ninguém logou (Jorge Freitas, SWL1023B, Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brasil, Degen 1103, Antena telescópica/ferrite, radioescutas yg via DXLD) de 11805? ** CAMEROON. Larry Colton says that one of his favorite QSLs is from Radio Garoua, 5010. It took him 10 years to verify the station, of course, after many follow-up reports (Sam Barto, ed., QSL Report, Aug NASWA Journal via DXLD) ** CANADA. It's getting interesting at the end of the AM dial --- some tentative launch dates for CJLO 1690 were released today. Direct from the CJLO march to AM blog: "I'm going to go out on a limb here and put down some TENTATIVE on-air dates. I repeat. TENTATIVE. Things change, bad things happen, etc. Just remember that. With the radio inspector coming on August 25th, I expect that our government mandated and approved testing period will start that week. Towards the third week of September, we should be able to switch over from the MP3-based testing period to our live content. This will be our soft-launch (when we're sort of on air, but not officially). The way things are shaping up now, we should have a full press conference on October 6th. Our full official launch date will be in the days after that, depending on how things shape up around the (Canadian) Thanksgiving holiday. And then, to make things all that much more awesome, full parties and shows on the weekend of the 17th." That's all I have for now, 73's for everyone, may you all be safe and in good health (Neofoodog, Aug 5, ABDX via DXLD) CJLO is at Concordia University, Montréal, neofoodog might have mentioned; but then he(?) doesn`t even give us his own real name or location (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CJLO 1690AM BEGINS EARLY UNOFFICIAL TESTING Thought some of you here would be interested in this read as CJLO on 1690 am has some early testing going on, here is a statement from the station manager via http://www.cjlo.com/am At 4:59pm EST [sic] on Monday, July 28th, 2008, a signal was broadcast on 1690 AM in Montreal, Quebec. This is the first time that it has ever happened in a legitimate, city-wide capacity. Brian and I were at the site when the AM guy finalized the connection between the antenna and the transmitter. There is still some minor tuning to do, but it's working as is. We broadcast a tone at 440 Hz on CJLO for about 5 minutes. We listened to it in my car the whole way back to the radio station from the site. Let me tell you, a 4-minute car ride listening to a piercing A is not a pleasant experience. However, we were able to confirm that the signal is very strong at the school. We also had a friend downtown check it out and it was loud in clear, even in his underground parking garage. Now for the bad news. The radio inspector, the fellow who works for Industry Canada, is currently on his unionized month-long vacation and won't be able to inspect our operation until he gets back. This means that we won't have any official approval from the government until August 25th. It also means that, legally, we won't be able to start our official testing period until then. We're going to make the best use of our time between now and then. We'll be able to test in short spurts, never more than 5 minutes. It'll let us know if everything is connected properly, but won't let us see how the signal interacts with the terrain or other broadcast signals. I'll have some more info on how we're going to tackle the testing period and full launch in my next post. Check back in a day or two! Then on Wednesday they relayed this message: As we'd stated in the AM blog, we've been broadcasting a tone (440 Hz) off and on over the last few days. We started at 200 watts of power on Monday. Today, we went beyond our 1 kW goal and sent the tone out at 1,200 watts. We confirmed reports of the tone coming in loud and clear downtown, in NDG, and from the West Island. If you're curious about the tone, feel free to turn your radio to 1690 AM. We can't be on the air all the time, as we're still in an early testing phase. If you're lucky, you might just hear CJLO's pirate broadcast tone! (steverockamaniac, July 31, radioinmontreal yg via DXLD) Funny, I just tried listening today (August 1st) at 12:35 PM, and the only thing I can hear on AM 1690 is programming from CJRS AM 1650 (Radio Shalom, who I work for as the community reporter, oddly enough), which is 40 kHz to the left of CJLO on the AM dial. When I tuned in, they were broadcasting news from Israel in Hebrew, as opposed to anything that might be CJLO-related. I wonder why this is (Mark David, ibid.) ** CANADA. In Banff there was an interesting radio station, 101.1 CFPE Park Radio, http://www.friendsofbanff.com/parkradio It was a community format station, which often had environmental discussions and talks about the area. Other stations heard in Banff [meaning local repeaters?]: 93.3, CKRY Country 105 95.1, CJAY // 92.1 95.5, CHLB Country 95.5 96.3, CBC Radio 1 98.9, Z99 100.1, CFGQ, Q-107 104.3, CKUA 106.5, CHMN Mountain FM 107.7, CKUA (Tim Ritchie, UK? Holiday Reort from Canada, 23-25 June, Aug BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** CHINA. Re 8-088, ALBANIA: Olle Alm told the DXworld recently, that Chinese SW site SZG Shijiazhuang CHN 38N04, 114E28, 2 x 600 kW, acted as a feeder to Cërrik-Albania relay for Radio Peking's English service relay to North America with 2x600 kW units during hot war time in Vietnam from late 60ties. R. Peking in English fed the Cerrik-Albania relay on 7120, 9457 and 9780 kHz towards North America. See Google Earth imagery, most likely via HFCC SZG 500 kW 315 degr entry towards Europe. tx center-A 38 13 16.75 N 114 06 21.84 E tx center-B 38 13 09.50 N 114 06 15.67 E (comments by Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews July 27/Aug 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 4940, Voice of Strait (Channel 1), Fuzhou, 1300 + 1325, Aug 7, usual English IDs: "This is the Voice of Strait News Radio", for the first time noted moderate QRM from assume AIR Guwahati in Assam, with subcontinent music and singing, in vernacular (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. Late-night opening on 16m, August 6 at 0528 brought RFA Tinian in Chinese on 17880 // 17615, slightly unsynchronized with a reverb between them, mixing with Firedrake. Only far out of band Firedrake found between 8 and 18 MHz after sunrise Aug 6 was 10250, both at 1212 and 1323 recheck, presumably against Sound of Hope. One can only conclude that all the SOH operations OOB with tiny Taiwan ham transmitters serve only to tie up some jammers (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Re 8-089, TAIWAN: Harmful interference by "Sound-of-Hope" - Reply from Taiwan Telecoms --- Hi Uli: SOH causes harmful interference to pretty much nobody. So this reply is no surprise. The matter to push with BV is the very presence of SOH. That is something that is "on their plate". The jamming most certainly is not. 73 (VR2/KBrett7Graham/p, Hong Kong, DX LISTENING DIGEST) So, using the logic of the NCC, as long as no 'harmful interference' is being caused by an illegal operation, all is OK, and there is nothing they can do? Idiots (Glenn, VK4DU, Aug 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The Chinese won't waste energy and transmitting time if SOH is not present. The Dragon Opera jamming is so strong that NCC would find it hard to find SOH underneath anyway. The Chinese do their monitoring very well. A couple of years ago when a broadcaster like the Voice of Tibet, Radio Free Asia and the broadcasters that the Chinese jammed moved a frequency, it took the Chinese a week to find the new frequency and get the jammer on it and with that the jammer on the old frequency was taken off. However, all that changed in the last two or three years when the Chinese have done it within a few hours to a day. Jamming has been in existence since the beginning of broadcasting to a foreign country. From open carriers, to modulated tones, diesel engine type of the Soviet block to car horns by the Mugabe regime on 4880 kHz 1700 UT. But none has been complete in its effort than the Chinese with their dragon opera music jamming since they started to use their transmitting station in Kasgar Kashi. When the Chinese do something, they mean business, be it the Olympics or Jamming. If we are to get the jamming off the Amateur Bands, we have to get SOH off our bands. That`s the reality. 73 (G. Victor A. Goonetilleke, 4S7VK Frequency coordinator South Asia: Voice of America British Broadcasting Corporation, Vatican Radio, R. Veritas. National Secretary Radio Society of Sri Lanka, Disaster Communications Coordinator RSSL Sri Lanka Rep. International Amateur Radio Union. "Shangri-La", 298 Madapatha Road, Piliyandala. Sri Lanka. E-mail: victorg @ slt.lk victor.goonetilleke @ gmail.com Skype: victorgoonetilleke Tel +9411 2614098. Mob: +94 774013775 Aug 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake example: see PUBLICATIONS below ** CHINA. OKLAHOMA VOICES: PRESS FREEDOM IN CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES Monday, August 4, 2008 from 11 am to noon http://www.kgou.org/ok_news.php?ntype=Oklahoma%20Voices#599 With the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics set to begin on Friday, the world’s spotlight is directed at China. In recent months, the nation has faced increased, international scrutiny for its poor human rights record and historically lax environmental regulations, but perhaps the loudest criticism has been reserved for China’s tight control of information on the web and in the press. Just last week, the country backtracked from its earlier promise to allow journalists covering the games unfettered access to the internet, and that freedom has never been granted to China’s own citizens. But Orville Schell says that to fully understand what’s going on, you need examine the different roles the media play in a democracy versus in a Communist state. Schell is Director of the Asia Society Center on US-China Relations and Former Dean of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. We listen back to a speech he gave to journalism students at the University of Oklahoma last February on the topic of press freedom and censorship in China and the United States, as well as coverage of the war in Iraq. [one hour; stalled several times but would resume if I pressed pause, and then play:] MP3 http://www.kgou.org/content/mp3/20080804_china-press-freedom.mp3 WEB EXTRAS: The journalist advocacy organization Reporters Without Borders has launched an advertising campaign aimed at various regimes, including China, it considers hostile to press freedom. We’ve posted a picture of one of the ads above, but click here to see a larger version. Read updates on the status of Chinese press freedom leading up to the Beijing Games [linx] Update: As of Friday, Reporters Without Borders reports some of the restrictions appear to have been lifted for foreign journalists in select areas (via Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA. Radio Reloj - Cali (1110 kHz) cambia de Nombre --- Sí, esta emisora de la cadena Caracol cambia su nombre a Oxígeno 1110, a partir del lunes 11 de agosto de 2008 a las 0500 horas UT. EMISORAS DE CARACOL RADIO. http://www.caracol.com.co/emisoras.aspx Info via Q`Hubo (Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, playdx yg via DXLD) ** CUBA. 5025, R. Rebelde, 1000-1040 August 7. Checked this frequency and Rebelde was nil heard until 1030 or so. However, at 1030 a weak Rebelde showed up on the air, but not the usual armchair copy. Signal was poor to fair (Chuck Bolland, Clewiston, Florida, NRD545, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. RHC-La Habana, 11750 kHz. 2233 UT 6 Agosto, Revista Iberoamericana, Noticias sobre actualidad en Bolivia, Espacio musical, final de emisión en español con primeras notas del Himno (cierre habitual), se corta el audio y prosigue portadora. Continúa la emisión a las 2300 con el programa en inglés hasta las 2317 con corte abrupto, 35333. Cordialmente, (Tomás Méndez, QTH: El Prat de Llobregat- Barcelona España, Coordenadas 41º 19' 26" N- 02º05'25" E; RX: GRUNDIG Satellit 700, SONY ICF-SW7600GR, ICOM IC-R2. ANT: L.W. exterior 10 mts. y telescópicas, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FINLAND. 11690, 0655-0715 Sat 02.08, Scandinavian Weekend R, Virrat, Finnish announcements, pop music 22332, heard under Croatian R via Nauen 11690. 11720, 0815-1130 Sat 02.08, Scandinavian Weekend R, Virrat, Finnish songs and English Hard Rock with announcements in Finnish and English, 25343. Slight QRM from UNID on 11720 at 1130. Not heard on 49 mb. Best 73, (Anker Petersen, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, Aug 5, playdx yg via DXLD) Ha, their monthly August broadcast escaped us as there was no publicity reminder circulated (gh, DXLD) ** GABON. 9580, presumed Afrique No. 1 Moyabi, 1951-2016, Aug 4, French. Two M with French talk at tune-in, battling with co-channel station IDed as R. Australia by IS at 1958; Gabon in the clear with talk; pips at ToH followed by lengthy interview between two M; fair at best; no discernible ID noted (Scott R. Barbour Jr., Intervale, NH- USA, R8, R75, MKII8600, CLR/DSP, 200' Bevs, MLB1, 60m Dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. DW, 6075 at 0118 August 7 was overridden by two US stations in English, which I soon determined were WWCR as on 7465, and local KCRC 1390 sportstalk in Enid producing a 10 Hz SAH. 7465 minus 1390 = 6075. This was a local overload problem since I had clipped on a longwire to the DX-398 whip, and it disappeared as I turned down the RF gain, but that was too low for much of a signal from DW. I mention this only because others might encounter similar anomalies, not because anyone else would be able to hear it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HUNGARY. Magyar Rádió confirmed on new 5940 to NAm, August 7 at 0113 in Hungarian during 1-hour broadcast, with QRM from WWCR/DGS 5935, but at least no longer co-channel collision with Cuba on 5965, which had been going on for months. Cuba in Spanish still there // 6140 at 0123 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA [and non]. VOI again dominating 11785, but not enough to avoid QRM, especially since it`s responsible for making a het from 11784.9 or so: Aug 6 at 1216 in Indonesian hour when the problem was mainly Firedrake on 11785.0 talking about Mahendra and korrupsi. At 1217 Suara Indonesia ID and YL with This Day in History feature on Aug 6 being Independence Day for Jamaica, and then something about Nueva Granada, = Colombia/Venezuela/Ecuador, mentioning Bogotá, Santa Fé, and Simón Bolívar. A brief side-tune to RHC in Spanish on 11760 found them also saluting Jamaica! Recheck at 1306 when 11784.9 was in English news, still dominant but with that awful self-inflicted het while nearby frequencies such as 11770, 11790, 11795 were vacant. 1307:30 commentary on eradicating corruption, 1311 This Day in History about --- you guessed it, Jamaican independence, where Liz is still Queen. Aug 7 at 1300, 11784.9 VOI was beneath 1) VOA, and 2) Firedrake, but at 1331 check VOI was somewhat intelligible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11784.87, Voice of Indonesia, 1057-1105 August 7. Noted a weak signal here with male and female giving URL for the station's web page in English. A female continues to talk into the new hour, but can't ident the language. Signal was very poor (Chuck Bolland, Clewiston, Florida, NRD545, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Should be English now during that entire hour (gh, DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 9552, Aug 5 2153-2158, RRI Makassar. SINPO 34433 (Cleiber Andrade, Jr., Brazil, HCDX online log via DXLD) This has not been a reported in a long time. Interesting to see it is active, especially since 4750 is so irregular. Could you include some program details in your logs? (Glenn Hauser, HCDX via DXLD) Searching DXLD archive, last reports of this were in Nov-Dec 2005. Apparently he is relying on Aoki list, where this does appear: 9552 RRI Makassar 0000-0745 1234567 Indonesian 7.5 ND Makassar(UJU) INS 11925E510S RRI But not at the time he reports it, and Aoki has lots of outdated listings unreconfirmed lately. Can anyone confirm Makassar on 9552 at any time now? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See POLAND ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. RRI monitored via satellite: see ROMANIA RFA and VOA on Chinese satellite: see U S A ** IRAN. 15530 with Qur`an, Aug 6 at 0533, then into Spanish about the ``amigos de Alá``, fair with flutter. Then gave complete schedule of Spanish broadcasts including this one for NAf/SEu, also on 17785 where there was a barely audible signal; mailing address, spanishradio@irib.com 15530 is 289 degrees from Kamalabad. There were lots of other signals on 15 and 17 MHz, not so many on 11, 12 and 13. V. of Justice [sic], Aug 7 at 0131 on 9495 giving schedule on SW and satellite, also mentioning 7235 so I checked that: a bit stronger there but with lite ham QRM on the sides. 0132 into Qur`an, as always, before getting on with the business of America-bashing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY [non]. Sirs, this is just to let you know that I've listened to IRRS on 7290 kHz yesterday July 25 at 1930-2000 UT with the World of Radio programme, and today July 26 at 1845-1900 with Allen Graham and the DX Party Line, who also mentioned some reports by Italian DX- er Luigi Cobisi. I listened with a Sangean ATS 909 with built-in telescopic aerial. Reception was good, with strong signal and only slight interference. I find your re-broadcasts of these programmes very useful, I know they are on the air also on other stations but either the broadcast times are not convenient for me or reception is not good. So thank you very much and keep up with the good work. Best wishes, (Stefano Valianti, 40124 Bologna, Italy, via Ron Norton, IRRS, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. NHKWNRJ in English on 9625, August 6 at 1207 making 5 Hz SAH atop poor CBCNQ, // 9695, 165 and 240 degrees respectively from Yamata (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. KOREA D.P.R.. More KRE stations at 2100 UT: 4404.89 6250.18 6398.74 9345 9650 9974.97 11535 11677.03 11865 13760 15245.39 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Aug 4, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 7 via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH. Given that the regime is a totalitarian nightmare, with no regard to the misery for the majority of its citizens, and in spite of the fact that they were directly responsible for me and thousands of others having to fight a particularly nasty war 12,000 miles [sic] from home, I have to admit a sneaking admiration for some of the music broadcast from NK. One must, of course, ignore the ludicrous propaganda which the VOK churns out but given reasonable reception conditions, some of the choral and solo vocal renderings are musically quite delightful --- although I dread to think what some of the lyrics mean! (David Gascoyne, Kent, Open to Discussion, Aug BDXC- UK Communication via DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH. KBSWR, full/data card in 45 days. Also received a 17 x 34 inch towel or wall hanging with Korean script and email addresses on it; transmission schedule and a receiving log (Mike Rohde OH, QSL Report, Aug NASWA Journal via DXLD) ** KURDISTAN [non?]. IRAN/IRAQ V. of Kurdistan (from Iraqi Kurdistan) not hard on 6335 for the past week. Another VOK (of Socialist Kurdish Party of Iran) noted *0245-0320 on 3920 and from 0305 on 4840; 4840 also heard at 1600 18 July. V. of the Communist Party of Iran observed 1428-1538 and 1558-1738 on 3881 and 4336. All above jammed (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, 22 July, Aug BDXC-UK Communication via dXLD) ** KUWAIT. 14125 kHz - taeglich gegen 1800 UT oder spaeter - BC aus Kuwait (Ansage 1902 UT). Peilung hier: 120 - 130 Grad. Programm in Arabisch. Wie kommt das Ding dahin? Vermutlich wieder IM. Bitte mithelfen, Uli ist schon informiert. BFA-FNA hat einen neuen Vorgang. (Wolf Hadel, DARC bandwatch, Aug 3 via BC-DX Aug 7 via DXLD) Radio Kuwait InterModulations, das ist eine ganz einfache Formel. 11990 und 9855 kHz Basisfrequenzen, Differenzen 2135 kHz, IM auf 14125 und 7720 kHz. 9855 1815-2400 6-8,27,28 KBD 500 kW 310 degr Arabic KWT RKW MOI 11990 1800-2100 6-8,27,28 KBD 500 310 Arabic/Eng KWT RKW MOI (Wolfgang Büschel, Aug 4, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 7 via DXLD) ** MALI. 7284.48, 1727 3 July, R. Mali, Bamako, presumed, OM talk in French, static crashes, local storm (Steve Calver, Herts., HF Logbook, Aug BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) 7285.5, 1640 UT 17 July, R. Mali, Bamako, talk in vernaculars, Malian music, // 9635, SIO 232 (Dave Kenny, Berks., ibid.) So in the course of a fortnight it varied about 1 kHz (gh, DXLD) 9635, 0800 UT 1 July, R. Mali, Bamako, tuning signal, French ID ``vous écoutez RTM, Bamako``, 0801 into vernaculars, SIO 232 (Kenny, ibid.) ** MAURITANIA. R. Mauritanie is sporadic, and could not hear it around 0600 August 6 on 4845. Then Chris Greenway reports that a coup is in progress, so worth looking for this or daytime frequency 7245. Coincidentally, the July/August issue of Saudi Aramco World has an excellent illustrated and audible article about the history of the station; see DXLD 8-089 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: A coup is in progress in Mauritania. The president has been abducted. State radio and TV appear to have been shut down. DXers on coup alert, please! (Chris Greenway, England, 1010 UT Aug 6, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UPDATE: After interruptions to transmissions during the local morning, Mauritanian TV and radio on the Badr 4 satellite at 26 degrees east are now back on the air, though only with music, patriotic songs and a brief repeated announcement from the coup leaders. The TV has been showing National Geographic-style archive film of the country's landscape, wildlife, etc. (Chris Greenway, 1634 UT Aug 6, ibid.) Listening to this online via wifi radio and the Reciva web site (John Figliozzi, Halfmoon, NY, ibid.) Radio works here but not Tele: http://www.publicradiofan.com/cgibin/statsearch.pl?country=Mauritania I listened for a few minutes around 1800. It was mostly in vernacular, but a bit of French, and then Arabic, mentioning Muhammed Abdul-Aziz. A few hours later no connexion, and at 2358 UT connected but with stuttering and strange noises. Circuit may be getting overloaded. Typical music; 0007 brief French announcement about the coup, sounded like the same one as 6 hours earlier. Ditto 0059 UT. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I listened to R. Mauritanie`s webcast off and on Aug 6 via http://wm-live.abacast.com/radio_mauritania-wm-32?.wma Heard segments in vernacular, French and Arabic at unpredictable intervals, as well as characteristic music. The French seemed to be repeating an announcement about the coup, mentioning Muhammed Abdul Aziz. Stuttering feed perhaps caused by overloaded circuits, 16 kHz/16 kbps says the Winamp. At 0104 UT Aug 7 I looked for 4845 but heard nothing but the ute QRM. Even before the coup it was quite irregular. Webcast still funxioning at 0420, no 4845 around 0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This story is far from the top Aug 7 in US news websites, so I had to search out some stories, such as this one: MAURITANIA JUNTA PLEDGES FREE POLLS Thu Aug 7, 2008 12:38 PM BST By Vincent Fertey and Ibrahima Sylla NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Leaders of a military coup in Mauritania promised on Thursday to hold a "free and transparent" presidential election as soon as possible, defying foreign calls to reinstate the country's first freely elected president. Soldiers ousted President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi on Wednesday after he tried to dismiss military chiefs widely believed to have supported the president's opponents in a political crisis in Africa's newest oil producer. It was Africa's first successful coup since some of the same soldiers ousted the Islamic republic's previous president three years and three days earlier, and it drew international condemnation and demands for Abdallahi's return. The ousted president's daughter called on the United Nations to open talks to restore democracy but many local politicians threw their weight behind the coup. Some joined hundreds of people who marched across the capital on Thursday in support of the "High State Council" set up by presidential guard chief Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz, who launched the coup after Abdallahi sacked him. The junta, composed of 11 generals and colonels, vowed to work with civilian leaders to organise a presidential election "to renew the democratic process on a sustainable basis." "These elections, which will be organised in as short a time as possible, will be free and transparent," it said in a statement published by national news agency AMI. . . http://tinyurl.com/6zgaxk (via Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** MEXICO. Esta tarde (2300 UT) capté nuevamente y después de varias semanas a XEXQ, Radio Universidad de San Luis Potosí en los 6045 kHz. A esta hora (0100 UT [sic, received before this, may mean 0000]) sigue escuchándose, en ambos casos con un SINPO general de 3. Con programación tanto musical como hablada. Ojalá que muy pronto ya esté adecuadamente instalada su antena y asimismo obtengan el permiso de la Secretaría de Comunicaciones de México para aumentar su potencia a 1 kW. 73´s (Julián Santiago Díez de Bonilla, DF, Aug 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Me envió un correo la coordinadora general de Radio Universidad de San Luis Potosí, México, informándome que desde ayer miércoles 6 de agosto colocaron una antena en "V" invertida para su transmisor de los 6045 kHz en espera de pronto tener los materiales adecuados para darle más altura a la misma. Nuevamente he escuchado el día de hoy a XEXQ en los 6045 kHz con un SINPO general de 2. 73´s (Julián Santiago Díez de Bonilla, DF, 0057 UT Aug 8, ibid.) I look for it most mornings, including Aug 6 around 1200, but nothing heard then (Glenn Hauser, OK, DXLD) ** MEXICO [non?]. Super Mystery Time-Delayed DX UnID --- Yes, it really has taken me close to a year to edit down the IDs I was taping as I was driving to and from the WTFDA/NRC convention in Boise. And lo and behold, I have a mystery on my hands - somewhere in the vicinity of Jerome/Twin Falls, Idaho, I taped an FM station (I think it was FM) that was relaying top-hour news from "91.5 Estereo Plata," which is a Mexican FM station (in Zacatecas, perhaps?). There was no US legal ID on that part of the tape. Anyone have ANY clue at all who might have been relaying "Estereo Plata" in that part of Idaho? s (Scott Fybush, NY, Aug 7, WTFDA via DXLD) Any clue on the WTFK? (gh) ** MONGOLIA [and non]. /RUSSIA. VOM on 12085: English heard at 1030- 1057 with the same program repeated at 1530. Reception reports sent separately to the English and Russian services were confirmed by the Russian service with two QSLs, a kind letter and sticker. V. of Russia is carrying three broadcasts from Mongolia: Mon, Tue and Thu via R. Kanal Sadruzhestva [sic] (Commonwealth). Confirmed on Monday at 1548 on 7285, 9480, 11830; also announced to Europe on 936, 1089 and 1431, and to Asia 900, 9865, 9875 and 1503. Seems the others are at 0633 or at 2020 on Tue and Thu. Not mentioned is the VOM Russian program via VOR WS (Vsemirnaya Russkaya Sluzhba) which is heard on Wednesdays after the DX Club program at 1247 (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, 22 July, Aug BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** MOROCCO. 9575, R. Mediteranée, Nador, 2252-2305, Aug 4, Arabic. Arabic music at tune-in; ID at 2301 followed by news; fair (Scott R. Barbour Jr., Intervale, NH-USA, R8, R75, MKII8600, CLR/DSP, 200' Bevs, MLB1, 60m Dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, A few days ago (no note made of time and date) I noted 9575 totally empty sometime during midday, and since Médi I normally is ever-present it must have been off temporarily (Olle Alm, Sweden, Aug 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [Re Médi-1, 9575]: Hola Moisés, esta emisora continúa llegando bastante bien por el Rio de la Plata. No estoy en casa en estos días, pero la semana que viene te paso los datos para que pruebes. Justamente la semana pasada, creo que en la tarde, la escuché bastante bien. Idioma francés y música, mucha música. Aquí en Curitiba también la he recibido, junto al amigo Marcelo Bedene, en su casa, con muy buena senhal. Un abrazo (Victor Castaño, Brasil, Aug 7, condiglist yg via DXLD) Víctor, Gracias por la noticia. Anoche creo que la escuché pero muy pobre como a las 0200 UT. Las noches anteriores ni rastro. Antes llegaba mucho mejor. Cuando vaya para afuera probaré en un ambiente menos ruidoso. Nunca tuve paciencia para hacerles un informe, más vale que lo haga antes que bajen la cortina. Saludos (Moisés Knochen, Uruguay, ibid.) Siendo alrededor de las 0000 UTC la estoy escuchando con un QRK de 3. Bueno, parece que aún está en el aire. Por cierto que hoy la propagación está MUCHO mejor que los días pasados, donde era realmente miserable. Hoy se escucha incluso REE en 9620, de la que no tenía ni rastros las noches pasadas. Aclaro que estoy dentro de casa y con antena telescópica, por lo que dependo críticamente de una buena propagación para vencer el ruido digital 73, (Moisés Knochen, Montevideo, Uruguay, UT Aug 8, ibid.) ** MYANMAR. 5985.77, 2315 UT 22 July, R Myanmar, Yangon, presumed, exotic sounding music, YL talk in presumed Burmese, mentioned Myanmar, off 2330, SIO 232 (Dave Kenny, Berks., HF Logbook, Aug BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) Not a time we would likely ever hear it in NAm, nor is 1300-1500 a time they would likely hear it in UK (gh) ** NETHERLANDS. Announcement on Big L website 5 August 2008 http://www.bigl.co.uk/news/medium-wave-update As you may have noticed, 1395 kHz is currently off air at present but rest assured, it will be returning as soon as it can. During this period of it being off, we hope to improve the signal to reach more of the United Kingdom and make your favourite station even bigger than before. Don't forget of course, that you can still tune in via Sky Digital Channel 0190 and via our website using the 'Listen Live Now' feature. Many thanks for all of your messages of support and keep checking the Big L website for details of when we'll be back on 1395 medium wave (via Mike Terry, UK, Aug 5, dxldyg via DXLD) ** NEW ZEALAND. 3935, August 5, 0927-1000. Heard a signal which sounded like R. Reading Service from Levin, male and female talks seems to be in English. Weak signal like S=1, poor reception (Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, Embu SP Brasil - Sony ICF SW40 - dipole 18m, 32m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3935.04, ZLXA, R. Reading Service, Levín at 0900 to 0930 with weak audio, per Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec tip. 6/7 August; also noted KM-Cedar Key and at the beach location in Brevard County. 73s (Bob Wilkner, Pómpano Beach, South Flórida, US, Aug 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4835, R. Marañón, Jaen. August 6, Spanish, 1010-1020. OM talks "...los logros alcanzados como organización cocalinera...", 1012 local pop music, 1016 seems ads, OM and YL talks. First time heard in the morning this year, fair to weak signal 33433 (till 1016) (Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, Embu SP Brasil, Sony ICF SW40, dipole 18m, 32m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4991, R. Manantial, Ancash/Huancayo. August 5, Spanish, 2250- 2302 sounded like a religious ceremony from a wide place, male and female voices amplified and saturated, 2256 canned announcements, music and return to ceremony. 4885 QRM, 23232 (Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, Embu SP Brasil, Sony ICF SW40 - dipole 18m, 32m, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I guess you mean 4985 QRM. I hope this isn`t being confused with SURINAME, cf 8-089 (gh, DXLD) ** POLAND [non]. 7135, Aug 5 2102-2107, French Guyana: R. POLONIA via Montsinery (GUF). SINPO 54544 (Cleiber Andrade, Brazil, HCDX online log via DXLD) This is relay via Nauen, Germany, 250 kW, 220 degrees, not French Guiana. 73, (Glenn Hauser, HCDX via DXLD) 7135 R.POLONIA- 2100-2200- 1234567- Polish- 250- 40-Montsinery- GUF- 5300W0500 PRW a08. Foi dai que tirei todos os logs, se tá errado não é problema meu, e sim de quem fez esta listagem. Não ponho mais logs nem mais merda nenhuma, não me responda o e-mail, vai encher o saco de outro (Cleiber, to gh, via DXLD) He says it`s not his problem if the info was wrong in the list where he `pulled` all his logs from. That format looks like Aoki, and indeed there is such a listing there now, minus the hyphens. But in other sources, e.g. WRTH May Update, site is shown as Nauen, Germany. It probably was GUF at some point, but changed. I think, but am not 100% positive, that the WRTH info is more up-to-date than Aoki in this case. No, it`s not his problem, unless he would like to have accurate info in his logs. He says he won`t be posting any more shitty logs, and don`t bother to reply. I wish people wouldn`t take offense like this. I am only trying to help and improve the overall accuracy of SW information published. But I`m not sure what he means by ``tirei``. Is this an admission that he was list-logging without benefit of tuning? See also questionable log under INDONESIA of 9552. BTW, if somebody sends me their logs directly and I find something questionable, I will reply to them privately, and maybe get it cleared up before publishing --- or not publish. But this was already posted on a list, and likely to mislead many readers, so I replied on the same list. BTW2, my objective in going thru all these logs on other lists is to find NEWS, and it would be news if 9552 is active. Unfortunately, this sometimes leads to incorrect info, which would be news if it were true (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PORTUGAL. 08/05/2008, RDPI Lisbon, 21655.0 kc, 1805-1830 UT, SIO 444. Feature program in Portuguese with man and woman alternating. ID by man "R. Nacional Portugal" at 1813 & 1828. 1814 music programming with woman announcer. LP propagation bearing 236 degrees, 33387 km per VOAProp (Thomas F. Giella, KN4LF, Lakeland, FL, Rig Icom IC-746 Pro. Antenna, 90-11 meter doublet up at 35 feet, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thomas, Why should this be longpath when you have a clear day-path shot at Portugal which is much shorter? Surely 21+ MHz MUF would be far more likely over short sunlit path rather than partial darkness long path. Transmitted azimuth from Lisboa is 226 degrees toward Brasil, but plenty of signal off toward you, and I sometimes hear it too tho usually earlier in the day, and certainly expect it to be short path. 73, (Glenn Hauser, OK, ibid.) Hi Glenn, In Summer the MUF on the short path between Florida and Portugal at 1600 UT is only around 18 mc. This path would be open in winter time with the usual higher MUF's. I see the same thing on 17 and 15 meters when I'm hamming. Using my EWE antenna the signal from the ENE was nil but very copyable from the WSW. Often times long propagation path will include ducting between the E and F layer (chordal hop) so the MUF is not as important along the circuit. At times I was hearing some snippets of the signal via SP on my 80-10 meter doublet but the SP though was via sporadic E (Es). not the F layer. 73 & God Bless, (Thomas F. Giella, KN4LF, Lakeland, FL, USA, ibid.) That`s very interesting, but I must say counter-intuitive. ``The short-path MUF between Florida and Portugal at 16 UT in summer`` implies that`s theoretically computed, rather than measured, but do you know what the MUF actually was at 18+ UT on the date in question? MUFs sometimes take unexpected spikes which the prediction programs don`t anticipate. Also would be great if you would include your directional antenna findings in logs like that. If this happens with Portugal, perhaps it would also happen with other 21 MHz signals from Europe, notably Spain, or those close to the long- path route, such as Libya and Saudi Arabia. But the only other one currently on the air after 1800 is Spain in Arabic on 21610 at 1700- 1900. Could you check for it and see if it`s also coming long-path? After that it`s pretty much over water, but close to Perth, Shepparton and Rangitaiki. Unfortunately there are no 21 MHz SWBC operations from Australia or New Zealand in their early morning hours. Maybe you could raise some hams in the area on 15m, altho if chordal hops are involved, they might not get into the mode anyway. When I hear Portugal, Spain, Libya or Saudi Arabia on 13m in summer around 13-15 UT, and I do occasionally, do you think I`m also getting them by longpath? I don`t have directional antennas to give any clues there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** QUEBEC [and non]. A few things you can do with French unIDs --- 1. I've been listening to Radio Energie for 15 years now and don't have much problem understand Quebecois French - I've been listening to radio from up there since I was little when I lived in New Hampshire. 2. On websites... I'll use CFOU http://cfou.ca as an example since I visit their site every day or two. Look for "Écoutez en direct sur le web" (top right), then choose your streaming program. Other helpful things on this menu include "Programmation," which is programming (the schedule). You might see this on other sites too ('cause I don't think many of you will get flea-powered CFOU while DXing). On Energie http://radioenergie.ca Choisir votre station (choose your station) -- I always listen to 94.3 since that's what I've always listened to, and it's the flagship station for Energie pretty much. Just look for "Écoute en direct" in the menu to stream the station. If you hear a DJ name you can't ID, click on "Animateurs". For a schedule: "Horaire des émissions." (more commonly seen as compared to "Programmation"). The days usually start with Monday on the schedules in French, and not Sunday like with English. Lundi is Monday and from there you can figure it out (Samedi is Saturday, etc.) 3. I think one of the best radio sites for Québec DXers and those who hear Québec is http://pages.globetrotter.net/gtrudel/ You can click on the FM or AM or TV links and the pages are updated very often. It's probably the most useful website for me when I DX while visiting family and start hearing stations I don't know. It's in French, but pretty much anyone can understand all the info on the site. It's a priceless resource I think and has come in GREAT use in the past. I just save the FM page in an offline-readable format or print it out and take it with me while DXing in the car. I have about 100 DXing links that I keep on my website and in my favourites list that could probably help a lot of you. I just haven't quite taken the time to post this list separately from my other links. Maybe I'll do that one day soon. It sure does save hours of time while searching for unIDs (Chris Kadlec, Frémont, MI, WTFDA via DXLD) ** ROMANIA. RRI - 9755 --- Hola: La emisión de R. Rumania de las 2100 comenzó con la sintonia a las 2059 fuerte y claro pero tras un par de cortes a 2101 y 2103 ha estado fuera del aire hasta 2108 que regreso solo la portadora y unos segundos más tarde con el audio y ligeros microcortes, seguiré a la escucha pero tal parece que este transmisor es el que está fallando desde su puesta en marcha (no hay señal en 11965) Cordialmente, (Tomás Méndez, QTH: El Prat de Llobregat- Barcelona España, Aug 5, playdx yg via DXLD) Si como entiendo ese es el nuevo 300 kW de Galbeni, escuchando su servicio en español de las 2300 por 9745, no encuentro que sea una gran cosa con respecto a la regular para pobre recepción que corrientemente he experimentado en Tikizia. Nada audible en 9655. También puede depender del azimuth para esta transmisión, que no lo tengo muy claro. 73 (Raúl Saavedra, Costa Rica, Aug 5, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11790, R. Romania Int'l, Galbeni, *0000-0016, Aug 6, English. New 300 kW Continental transmitter with IS; ID & URL at sign-on; W with "Radio Newsweek" program re Romanian economic growth; investment opportunities along the Danube; ID at 0010; "Business Press" program re Romanian banking sector; fair-good with occasional prop QRN (Scott R. Barbour Jr., Intervale, NH-USA, R8, R75, MKII8600, CLR/DSP, 200' Bevs, MLB1, 60m Dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) German was heard this morning (the 6th) at 0600-0630 via 9740 only - 7125 not on air. The signal was very strong with slightly 'muffled' sounding audio (Noel R. Green (NW England), dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) RRI`s new 300 kW Continental transmitter at Galbeni was doing well on 15220, Aug 6 at 1226 in English to Europe but also toward us farther on. Nice clear modulation for a change, about a museum in Bucharest. 1230-1233 brief Romanian lesson about vacationing on the Black Sea coast. 1233 pick of the week(?). 1239 Romanian musician playing Beethoven on piano. Seems their broadcast is made up of a string of mini-features. Problem was some RTTY on the hi side about 15223, which has no business inside the 19m SWBC band, but evitable by tuning to the lo side. 15220 at 12-13 was previously registered as Tiganeshti site at 307 degrees. Signal comparable to Turkey 15450, Bulgaria 15700 [however, next morning Aug 7 at 1255, 15220 was JBA]. I checked out a number of RRI transmissions August 6 into UT August 7, now that new 300 kW Continental transmitters are operating from Galbeni. Reference to the schedule compiled by Wolfgang Büschel. During some of the broadcasts two good frequencies were audible, so apparently both new transmitters are funxional, altho the previously cited apology on their website still appears. 22-23 English: at 2242, poor on 9790, too close for comfort to Sackville DRM 9795-9800-9805. Others inaudible: 11940, 9645, 7185 --- the latter was reported yesterday with the new transmitter, good in Europe but too early to make it here in summer. 23-24 Spanish: 9745; 9655, 11880, 11935 – I missed this one {but next day Aug 7 at 2342 check: 9655 slightly stronger than // 9745, nothing on the others --- originally 9655 was Galbeni at 280 degrees, 9745 Tiganeshti at 247 degrees, so if the azimuths hold true, that would explain the difference now} 00-01 English: at 0017, 11790 was G to VG with wonderful folk music, ID. No CCI or ACI. A winner. Not audible on 9775. 00-01 Romanian: at 0018, 9525 G, M&W talking in Romanian. No 11960. 01-02 Romanian: at 0105, 9525 still good, RRI ID, nothing heard on 11960. 01-02 French: at 0106, 6130 VG with news about Romania. No ACI or CCI. Something too weak to ID on 9575 squeezed between two different programs in English of CRI and CRI. 02-03 Spanish: at 0235, G on 5975; something else on 9645; not heard on 9520 or 11945. 03-04 English: at 0330, VG on 6150, eclipsing BBC Ascension 6145, but some side QRM from it so helps to tune slightly to hi side. Doesn`t sound like RRI --- because it`s Network Europe, as announced in mid- program after a segment on human rights. To be positive it was really RRI, I caught the closing at 0355 mentioning broadcasts to North America an SE Asia, IS and off. Nothing heard on 9645, 9735 or 11895. I can`t find any program schedule on the website http://www.rri.ro and the page ``what`s on this week`` is blank. Furthermore, winter timings one hour off are still shown for the English broadcasts on the right margin! For that matter, there`s no frequency schedule either, truncated as it may be during the transition period, not even a link to one on the English page. There is a link to one on the French page but it`s blank. Nor anything about Network Europe on the English page, tho there is a link to Euranet on the Spanish page. Their website needs a lot of rectification! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RUMANÍA, RRI-Galbeni, 11965 kHz. 2120 UT 6 Agosto. Noticias y comentarios económicos, en paralelo con 9755, nuevo transmisor por problemas resueltos, en español, 45444. Cordialmente, (Tomás Méndez, QTH: El Prat de Llobregat-Barcelona España, Coordenadas 41º 19' 26" N- 02º05'25" E; RX: GRUNDIG Satellit 700, SONY ICF-SW7600GR, ICOM IC-R2. ANT: L.W. exterior 10 mts. y telescópicas, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Heute morgen habe ich mal die Daten von RRI besorgt und das Galbeni Signal mit dem Hotbird verglichen. RRI program also be heard via Hotbird.13.5 satellite Freq 11623V, TP GCP/HB6/156, SID 10752, NID-TID 261, 27500V Audio sound nearly 2 seconds behind Galbeni signal on my satellite rx equipment. \\ single tx 15380 French 1000-1056 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 5/7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) New unit at Galbeni usually ceases around xx.56, and appears after 2-3 minutes around xx.59 hrs. Still only a single Galbeni tx on air, even Aug 7th (Büschel, BC-DX Aug 7 via DXLD) So Hotbird is obviously not the audio source in use by the Galbeni station (BTW, what means this name? no map reveals a village called Galbeni, thus the name of the site appears to be of other origin, as is the case with Wertachtal). Would be a surprise anyway. It is literally forever the operational practice for RRI to run two program outputs for two different services, being carried on shortwave simultaneously. It is possible that they are both on satellite now, if the separate "Romania in direct" channel is this second output and not something else, like Romanian programming around the clock. It appears that both radio channels are originally uplinked in Romania to Eutelsat W2 at 16 deg. East (a popular satellite on the Balkans), from where GlobeCast takes the radio programs to relay them on Hotbird. Here they are 96 kbps mono like on W2, so it appears to be a mere remux and no reëncoding. This bitrate is quite decent (for a single audio channel, of course), so possible quality issues would have other reasons. We got at this topic because the modulation of the new transmitter still leaves something to be desired. Could be already a problem of the studio facilities (quite unlikely, but perhaps a qualified opinion on their Hotbird signal will either deny or confirm this), could be a problem of the feed to the transmitter site (either W2 or, more likely, another distribution system, probably new and with Harris- delivered equipment, since the 1179 kHz programming is not on W2 anyway; quality issues are rather unlikely here either), or it is simply a matter of the audio processing for the new transmitters (and that's presumably most likely). Meanwhile Paul Gager quoted in a posting to the A-DX list some remarks made on RRI's German service mailbox show last Sunday, which indicated a rather bleak situation of the station, no matter that Radiocom installs new shortwave transmitters (probably these two matters have little or even nothing to do with each other): What they do is rather honorary work than a serious employment (it seems on earlier occasions they called the salaries a "shame"), everybody who gets another job leaves without any look back. All the best, (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Aug 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RRI Galbeni --- Checked the German service at 1100-1156 in total, and discovered two new female announcers, undoubtedly German nationals from NBL-new bundes laender (former GDR), one of the young ladies - called Peggy - undoubtedly from Greiz-Plauen region, where my cousin lives at present. [you can tell by their accents?] Another (Romanian national) announcers of ID and frequencies gives the wrong 9515 kHz channel instead of real 9525 kHz. Both Galbeni txs on air? Despite Tomás Méndez, Spain gives two Galbeni frequencies in dxld yesterday [and gh too, later], 2100-2156 11965 and 9755 kHz, I catch only a SINGLE frequency each broadcast slot yet. Hotbird Satellite quality: P e r f e c t Chinese segment sound via Micro and Music slots from 1300 UT on RRI program also be heard via Hotbird.13.5 satellite Freq 11623V, TP GCP/HB6/156, SID 10752, NID-TID 261, 27500V Audio sound nearly 2 seconds behind Galbeni signal on my satellite rx equipment. \\ single tx 9790 Ch 1300-1326 UT. Satellite closing-announcement Chinese at 1526:00, IS over and over again from 1526:15 UT till 1530:04 UT, when "Romanian Rapsodie" melody appeared, ID in Russian given from 1530:19 UT. Followed by news in Russian language. But two news reader on different signal level: female reader on much lower quiet micro level, than the male news reader afterwards. Fixed the problem of second Continental transmitter now! Noted RRI new Galbeni transmitter, 1400-1456 Arabic on 11945, S=9; and ROMANIAN on 11965, latter towards W Europe, powerhouse S=9+20 dB. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Aug 7, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Already last night between 0100 and 0200 both 6130 (French) and 9525 (Romanian) were noted by Glenn. But could it be that now, in the 1500...1530 period, again only one transmitter is in use? I heard only 7325 (not really identified in the slope of stronger 7330 from Bolshakovo, but what else should this be?) while there was no trace of any signal on 9760. At the same time there is a faint carrier on 7210, presumably RRI Ukrainian via the weakish Saftica transmitter. It seems to me that it should again be summarized what's going on: The last old shortwave transmitters of the Galbeni site had been closed down on May 18, apparently to allow a complete removal to make way for the new Continental installations. Since then only two transmitters of the Tiganesti site were still in use, the remainder of the elder units (four ones were installed there) had already been shut down earlier. Now on Monday the new Continental equipment of the Galbeni station has been inaugurated and at the same time Tiganesti went off for a similar refitting procedure, supposed to last two months. One of the new Galbeni transmitters failed, but at this point either all Tiganesti equipment was already disconnected or Radiocom simply did not bother to throw it in again. Then there is Saftica, another shortwave plant, literally across the street from the Tiganesti site, thus in HFCC both are thrown into one "TIG" basket. Saftica transmissions can be identified by a power level of 50 instead of 250 kW. At a later point this site is supposed to get a new 100 kW transmitter, too, but so far only one old transmitter is still in use for quite poorish transmissions of Italian, Aromanian, Serbian and Ukrainian only. In short, RRI transmissions are limited to the poor Saftica transmitter and two high power transmitters since May, and this will be the case until the transmitter replacement at Tiganesti is done (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Aug 7, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Refitting procedure on all three transmitter sites consist not only the transmitter replacement. Installations at the sites erected once in the range 35 to 50 years ago. Also the 52 antenna tower masts, the 45 curtain dipole arrays, as well as the log-periodic REMOVABLE antenna (like Swedish ALLGON AB type once erected on DWL Malta and DWL Sines site) at Saftica site visible on Google Earth: 44 38 12.18 N 26 04 27.22 E http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&hl=de&geocode=&q=44+38+12.18+N++26+04+27.22+E+&ie=UTF8&ll=44.636717,26.074228&spn=0.002775,0.005085&t=h&z=18 need urgent refurbishing and coordinated matching. This log-periodic REMOVABLE antenna is only visible on G.E. and Google Maps, but not on older images of Yahoo Maps http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=44.636717&lon=26.074228&z=17.2&r=0&src=yh or Microsoft Virtual Earth http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=44.636717&lon=26.074228&z=17.6&r=0&src=msl When you look the Galbeni image carefully, you'll miss the typical 37 degree and 67 degree arrays towards Russia and China. There was always a lack of dipoles to this part of the world from Galbeni. Only Tiganesti consist of 6 dipoles eastwards in 37 and 67 degrees. And when I check the HFCC registrations in the past decade, all entries towards Ukraine, Russia and China originate from Tiganesti/(Saftica-Ukr.) Log of this Aug 7th afternoon: ARABIC 1400-1456 11945 S=9 ROMANIAN 1400-1456 11965 S=9+20dB RUSSIAN 1500-1556 7325 S=2 tiny weak in Germany FRENCH 1600-1656 9680 S=9+30dB powerhouse ROMANIAN 1600-1656 9690 S=9+20dB ENGLISH 1700-1756 11735 S=9+30dB powerhouse ROMANIAN 1700-1756 11865 S=9+30dB powerhouse 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) e-mail to Radio Romania International Bucarest: Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, seit Montag dem 4. August sind die Sendungen von Radio Rumaenien International sehr gut ueber die neuen Sendeanlagen in Galbeni-Bacau zu hoeren. Siehe unten stehende Tabelle der gehoerten Sprachdienste. Ich bin ein Hoerer Ihrer Sendungen seit 1966, habe im Jahr 1968 den Feriensender in Mamaia besucht, sowie im August 1969 Ihr Bukarester Funkhaus in der rue Berthlot no. 64, ich wurde dort von dem deutschen Redakteur willkommen geheissen. Ich wuensche Ihrem Sender und der deutschen Redaktion erfolgreiche Aussendungen mit dem neuen Anlagen zum Nutzen und Wohl Ihres Landes und Ihrer Hoerer. Mit freundlichem Gruss Wolfgang Bueschel Stuttgart, Germania (Aug 6) answer e-mail from Radu Ianculescu, HF Planning Engineering. Re: new Radio Romania Int. transmitter Galbeni-Bacau Sehr geehrter Herr Wolfgang Bueschel, Schoenen Dank fuer Euere Bemerkungen und Wertschaetzungen. Wir haben lange Zeit diese Tage erwarten. Doch nun ist die Lage nicht die gluecklichste: Nur ein Sender funktioniert und muss man noch eine Zeit Geduld haben. Wir sind zufrieden weil, der eizige der funktioniert, hoert man als sehr gut moduliert und hoffen auf eine gute Funktionierung der anderen. Nochmals Danke schoen fuer den Brief. Radu Ianculescu, HF Planning Eng., R.R.I. (to Wolfgang Bueschel on Aug 6th) (BC-DX Aug 7 via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Re: IM 14285 / IM auch auf 14366 / Mix 15455 mit 1170 / 1089 kHz. VoR sked changes. Hi Michael, Here are a couple of changes in VoR Summer A08 sked. From Aug. 1 frequency 12030 kHz is deleted for 1700- 1900 UT broadcast in Arabic. From Aug. 4 for programme in French at 2000-2100 UT, 15455 will be replaced by 13675 kHz. Best 73! Vadim Alexeew, VoR Russian WS, DX programme editor (Moscow-RUS, Aug 1) Seit sechs Wochen ist ein Vorgang von Intermodulationsprodukten in Armavir Krasnodar (15455 kHz) in der Eruierung zwischen DARC Bandwacht und der deutschen FCC/Bundesnetzagentur (exRegTP). Jetzt haben die Russen reagiert und entziehen der Intermodulation die Grundlage im Amateurfunkband. So, die Russen werden in Krasnodar einfach die Grundlage fuer die IM Mixtur entziehen, und das Franzoesischprogramm ab morgen 4. August auf 13675 kHz ausstrahlen. Ob es dann eine IM auf 12505 kHz gibt? Wer weiss, muesste man mal checken. Ist schon schwierig an Standorten mit 1000 und 500 kW Beastern die daraus sich ergebenden Mischprodukte zu beherrschen. Stoerungen im Afu-Band. Armavir Krasnodar. 15455.0066 kHz minus 1170 kHz = 14285.0068 kHz 15455.0066 kHz minus 1089 kHz = 14366.0068 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, Aug 2, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 7 via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. VOICE OF RUSSIA - VOR website http://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=eng&w=129&p= Changed 0300-0500 NAm 9800 to 5900 (Ernest Riley, Aug 4, primetimeshortwave yg via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. VOR, 15425 via Pet-Kam, August 7 at 0111 was quoting the station`s head about Olympic coverage, in English, Russian and Chinese via their portal. Good signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) É interessante ver o investimento que a Radio Voz da Rússia está fazendo para atrair ouvintes. Um site muito bem organizado, sem excesso de informação e de fácil navegação que tem como objetivo principal a interação com o ouvinte. Sinceramente ainda não visitei um site tão bom como o deles. Tão pouco vejo uma preocupação tão grande em agradar os ouvintes como faz a Voz da Rússia em outras emissoras. A seção de Podcast contém programas de excelente qualidade, me faz até lembrar dos tempos áureos das transmissões internacionais. Confesso que de agora em diante serei ouvinte assíduo da Radio Voz da Rússia, pois tanta dedicação a nós ouvinte tem de ser retribuída com a nossa audiência e participação. Já enviei um e-mail para eles hoje, apenas fiquei triste com o tempo de envio do QSL conforme relatado pelo colega Rubéns Ferraz Pedroso. Bem, o importante é a atenção que eles nos têm dado e também enviarei uma carta com postais, selos e outras informações da minha cidade e estado. Até a postagem é de graça! É isso aí, como sugestão vamos relatar as nossas preferências de escuta e dicas para melhorar os nossos hábitos de ouvir rádio, para isso enviem suas dicas de programas e sites. Um forte abraço, (Jorge Freitas, SWL1023B, Feira de Santana Bahia, radioescutas yg via DXLD) viz.: CARTAS GRATIS a la Voz de Rusia --- Una interesante propuesta de La Voz de Rusia para que sus oyentes les envien cartas sin coste, leer el texto obtenido de la web de la emisora, adjunto en el mensaje el pdf con la dirección que hay que imprimir. Cita: CARTAS GRATIS --- Estimados oyentes: En adelante puede usted enviar su carta gratis a “La Voz de Rusia”. Para ello imprima en un sobre esta dirección, péguelo y deposítelo en un buzón. No es necesario pegar estampilla alguna. Le rogamos no hacer inscripciones algunas en la cara del sobre. Si desea puede escribir su dirección en el reverso. De esta manera es posible enviar solo cartas e impresos. Si se le presentan problemas a la hora de imprimir el sobre puede simplemente imprimir esta dirección en un papel corriente y a continuación pegarlo en un sobre. Una advertencia, a la hora de imprimir la dirección conserve sin falta el tamaño de la imagen. A escribirnos con gusto. Fin de cita === Cordialmente, (Tomás Méndez, El Prat de Llobregat- Barcelona, España, Aug 5, playdx yg via DXLD) Apparently you can DIY international business reply mail, i.e. print it out and send postal mail to VOR without any postage, i.e. stamps of your own country. Seems to me this could be problematic; from any country, anywhere? UPU only? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [and non]. 5920, Radio Rossii, 0906-0920 Aug 6. Noted a male in Russian Language comments. This is happening while WBOH is mixing in with their religious music and comments. Rossii's programming continues with a female in Russian comments. Both signals (Rossii's and WBOH's) are equally strong which is noteworthy I think. Rechecked this frequency at 0938 and Rossii was nil heard (Chuck Bolland, Clewiston FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5920, Radio Rossii, 1008-1030 August 7. At tune in noted a male in Russian language comments. At 1009 a female talks briefly. At 1010 canned ID heard in Russian. Missed it however. This is followed with a long discourse by a male. At 1026, heard a live ID as ".... Rossii ..." by a woman. Can't hear WBOH very well this morning. It's possible that Clewiston may be in the skipzone for WBOH due to propagation this morning. At 1047 after a recheck of this frequency, noted that WBOH was covering everything on the frequency with their Spanish language broadcast. They must have turned their antenna to a southerly heading? (Chuck Bolland, Clewiston, Florida, NRD545, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I think their antenna is fixed (gh, DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Tuned across 5945 at 1159 August 6 just as Bible Voice was IDing in English, with addresses, and now with its own website, http://www.biblevoice.org and 1200 into Mandarin. Per Aoki, on Wednesdays this is amid a Chinese block from 1130 to 1215, via Khabarovsk, 100 kW, 218 degrees. It was squeezed by Magadan in Russian on 5940, Okeechobee in English on 5950. On 5970, Aug 6 at 1157, SAH against very undermodulated REE Costa Rica, and typical intermittent Russian tune-up tones, 1201 recheck YL in Korean and Family Radio theme. This is YFR via Komsomol`sk/Amure, 250 kW at 213 degrees (Glenn hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Caucasus external services observed during A08 on 7325: Kabardino-Balkar Radio, Nalchik: 1730-1800 Wed, Thu, Sun Adygey Radio, Maykop: Mon 1700-1800 in Adygey, Turkish, Arabic Fri 1700-1800 in Adygey; Sun 1800-1900 in Adygey (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, Aug BXDC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** SAINT VINCENT & THE GRENADINES. NBC Radio now has a webcast: http://nbcsvg.com/players/nbcradio.asx `full service` local programming except for BBCWS relay 0400(Mon 0300)-0930. Program schedule in UT -4: http://nbcsvg.com/programming/index.php (via PublicRadioFan.com via DXLD) Now 700, ex-710, ex-705 kHz --- or is it? Website only shows three FM frequencies, and the about us history http://nbcsvg.com/about/history.php concludes with this: ``In January of 2002, NBC RADIO, started the process of changing its transmission to the FM Band. We now broadcast on 107.5, 89.7 and 90.7 FM. Although the 705 kHz transmitter has been switched off, plans are in the pipeline to operate an AM as well as FM Service to better serve the public service components of our broadcast.`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) MW log from Trinidad: 700 kHz, 1024 UT 24 March 2008, R. St Vincent & the Grenadines, ID, gospel program, news, English, SIO 333 (Robin Tancoo, Fyzabad, Trinidad, Yaesu FRG 7700, Realistic DX200, MW Logbook, Aug BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** SAUDI ARABIA. BSKSA, 15380, qontinuous Qur`an, Aug 6 from 1245 to 1300, then timesignal about one second fast, news in Arabic. Is Riyadh, 310 degrees, intended to go no further than Turkey at 12-14, but reliably onward toward NAm (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAUDI ARABIA. English and French currently observed on SW: English 0750-0800 17785 (press review ``From the Press`` [accidental] 1000-1225 15250 (QRM from Taiwan and Chinese jamming -1200) French 1800-09550 [sic, must mean 0800-0955! -- gh] 17785, 0955-1000 15250 [accidental again, preceding English broadcast above? -- gh], 1400-1555 17660 (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, Aug BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** SERBIA. Serbia's new internet domain .RS will replace in coming months old domain .YU. You can already visit for example: http://www.radiobeograd.rs http://www.rts.rs [RADIO TELEVIZIJA SRBIJE (TV Beograd)] http://www.rtv.rs [RADIO TELEVIZIJA VOJVODINE (Radio Novi Sad & TV Vojvodine)] http://www.radiosubotica.co.rs (Dragan Lekic, Serbia, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 7 via DXLD) ** SINGAPORE. Re 8-089: R Singapore Intl programs still available for streaming! --- Here we can not listen in that link. Site were not working, may be in Serbia, it is working. 73's (Jaisakthivel, Chennai, India, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I've just tried to listen to it, at 1205Z Aug. 6, and it works just fine! (Dragan Lekic, Serbia, ibid.) Above link works well on Aug 7th at 0745 UT, on both Firefox and MS IE link to Windows Media Player. Takes 24 seconds to start the audio (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) But will these last more than one week? (gh) ** SWAZILAND. TWR Swaziland hat die 15 Jahre alten Halteseile an den beiden Masten seiner Mittelwellenanlage ausgetauscht. Schaeden vor allem in der obersten Abspannebene wurden bereits im Juli 2006 von Chad Creed bei einer Inspektion entdeckt. Ein erster Austausch bestaetigte, dass die Schutzschichten verwittert waren und der Kern angegriffen war. Am 4. Und 5. Juni 2008 wurden alle Halteseile der zweiten, dritten und ersten Ebene ausgetauscht. Nach Angaben der Homepage sendet TWR Swaziland auf der Mittelwelle 1170 kHz 02.00-03.30 Uhr in Englisch, 16.30-17.00 Uhr in Zulu und 17.00-21.05 (Sa 21.35) Uhr in Englisch (TWR 15.7.2008, von Dr. Hansjoerg Biener, Germany. ergaenzt, ntt Aug 3 via BC-DX Aug 7 via DXLD) Translation: German » English TWR Swaziland has the 15-year-old holding ropes at the two Masts its medium wave facility exchanged. Damage, especially in the top-level credits were already in July 2006 by Chad at a Creed Inspection discovered. A first exchange confirmed that the Weather protection layers were attacked and nuclear war. On 4 and 5th June 2008, all the ropes holding the second, third and first level exchanged. Suggest a better translation (Google language services via DXLD) ** THAILAND. 11625, R. Thailand, Udon Thani, 1300-1315*, Aug 4, listed Japanese. Carrier noted at listed sign-on; music at 1302 followed by W until different announcer at 1314 with very weak ID and distinct IS; poor-weak (Scott R. Barbour Jr., Intervale, NH-USA, R8, R75, MKII8600, CLR/DSP, 200' Bevs, MLB1, 60m Dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) This continues at 1315 in Chinese after antenna switch, both well heard here. Did it really drop off for you at 1315? (gh, DXLD) ** THAILAND. DRM on 17835-17840-17845, Aug 6 at 0530. This is BBC, testing? 35 kW, 25 degrees at 0300-0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. Re ROMANIA`s new transmitters: I think TurkishRT should also think of investing in some new equipment. The poor and distorted signal on 9700 until 0626 was unidentifiable until I heard the strains of their IS at close down. Albanian is listed (Noel Green, England, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes Noel, noted distorted TRT Albanian too. That's from Çakirlar site, transmitters some 35-40 years in action. Regards de Wolfy (Büschel, ibid.) ** U K. BBCWS now has 32 language services including English. The other languages are (*only on FM, others still on SW): Albanian*, Arabic, Azeri, Bengali, Burmese, Cantonese, French for Africa, Hausa, Hindi, Indonesian, Kinyarwanda/Kirundi, Kyrgyz*, Macedonian*, Mandarin, Nepali, Pashto, Persian, Portuguese for Brazil, Russian, Serbian*, Sinhala, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese (AP, CGB[?], Aug BDXC-UK Communication) ** U K. Articles on Woofferton online -- New on the bbc.eng.info site: A visit to Woofferton - Two articles resulting from a visit arranged and hosted by David Porter: Wonderful Woofferton - Celebrating 60 years on air in October 2003, this article from Short Wave Magazine (now Radio User) provides a good description and includes many interesting pictures. Diamond Jubilee - This article from Practical Wireless magazine is based on a visit by the editor Rob Mannion together with Kevin Nice the editor of SWM (see above). The two articles inevitably have much in common, but Diamond Jubilee has more on the history of the station, whereas Wonderful Woofferton has more on the technology. Several other articles on BBC transmitter sites at: http://www.bbceng.info/Operations/transmitter_ops/specific_tx_sites.htm (via Mike Barrraclough, BDXC-UK via DXLD) ** U K. Here`s some cool BBC Engineering movies! Droitwich Longwave http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hr4xwpZYJ0 Glencairn and Divis stations. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yd3_zcCfZg&feature=related BBC Aiming at the future http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2ukPx6y9-Q&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1-LqoDhUDk&feature=related BBC Equipment Department http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5pMURlJ0SQ&feature=related (Kevin Redding, TN, Aug 5, ABDX via DXLD) ** U K. Colin Watson, in Cumbernauld, has been in correspondence with the BBCWS and received a two page reply --- where a précis is more than adequate: ``The carbon footprint of the BBC`s DRM broadcasts is quite low, but would be eliminated were we to stop transmitting. The DRM broadcasts are not 100% reliable but they are about as reliable as the equivalent AM broadcasts and would be significantly more reliable than AM if we were to move up to a full two or three-frequency schedule as we would prefer. The key point with regard to DRM is the issue of receivers. If we want DRM to succeed, we should not stop. Whether we need DRM is a question. As the BBC is a major funder of DAB and digital TV and makes much content available via them in order to make the platforms more attractive [sic]. The lack of access to these platforms is disappointing and if you have any suggestions to improve this access, I`m sure they would be very welcome at Ofcom. Globally, the biggest proportion of our audience is still on AM shortwave, and we are spending money to maintain our shortwave transmission facilities.`` (Open to Discussion, Aug BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) see also THAILAND ** U K. Ofcom update: OFCOM PUBLISHES ILLEGAL BROADCASTING FACTSHEET 6 August, 2008 --- "Illegal broadcasting is a menace which can cause interference to safety of life communications services and legal radio stations, denying listeners their choice of service. Ofcom, together with the police and local authorities takes swift action against this illegal activity. Ofcom today published a factsheet on its work in tackling illegal broadcasting, which contains information on how to contact Ofcom to report illegal broadcasters." The factsheet can be found at: http://www.ofcom.org.uk/radiocomms/ifi/enforcement/illegalbroadcast/factsheet.pdf (via Mike Terry, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. Recently I asked if the IBB mux on Asiasat 3S also contains RFA, although the system is co-owned by the People's Republic of China. The answer appears to be "yes", cf. http://www.satcodx4.com/1055/deu/ (4.040 GHz). All the best, (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Aug 7, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. On 08/05/08 at 0100-0300 UT, I picked up WRNO from New Orleans LA. The signal was 4 over 7 with heavy skipping. But, I could hear Gospel music and station ID. News followed at 0200. Frequency 7505 kHz. Using Radio Shack AM,FM, SW Travel Radio (Al Parker, Danbury CT, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn: Been listening to WRNO WW testing on 7505 the past few nights. They provide a S9 +10db signal into the Boston area on my Icom R75 with clean and smooth audio. The programming consists of Dr. Mawire's preachings, an ad for his book, ID's by both a young announcer as well as what sounds like Janet Mawire and religious music; some light and some hard rock. Also interspersed is some classical music. In all, an interesting mix. 73 (Dan Brown, W1DAN, Natick, MA, 2130 UT Aug 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WRNO, 7505, August 7 at 0125 check, Mawire preaching. Good audio, but who wants to listen to yet another egocentric preacher who imagines he`s in touch with God? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re 8-089: ``Or e-mail us at wrnoradio at mailout.net`` (YL as transcribed by gh, not sure if `mailout` is correct, for DX LISTENING DIGEST) It´s wrnoradio @ mailup.net See at http://www.wrnoworldwide.org/contact.htm 73, (Patrick Robic, Austria, DX LISTENIG DIGEST) Hi Glenn, Per your logging in the latest NASWA Flashsheet, I tuned in last evening to 7505 kHz from 0250 to 0330 and picked up WRNO. Program consisted of religious music and several ID’s, including this one: “This is WRNO Worldwide broadcasting on frequency 7505 kHz from transmitter site in New Orleans, Louisiana .” Also provided e-mail address of wrnoradio @ mailup.net Wow, I can remember logging them from the last time they were active (1970’s) so here they are back on the air. Good signal, despite annoying fading throughout time slot, to the point of washout at 0325, but then came back with a more readable signal. (I believe that I am probably hearing the backwave, being in close proximity to the transmitter site. (Do not believe it is possible for an ionospheric skip?) I actually used their old QSL for an entry into the AWR Alphabet Contest, since I had no other logging for the letter “O” and call station last letter was acceptable to use. I have logged Oman, but the “Sultans” haven’t answered my letter going on 18 months (plus a follow-up!). Guess they are busy with other things. Hope all is well and best 73’s, (Ed Insinger, NJ, Aug 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I would not consider NJ in close proximity to LA. By backwave do you mean backscatter, or long-path? I would say just fluxuation in short- path, maybe some sporadic E coming and going (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) Glenn, I think what I meant was the sporadic E you described. That would explain the fading I encountered (Ed Insinger, ibid.) See old WRNO QSL of the 80ties: http://home.wolfsburg.de/elbe/usa1 (BC-DX via DXLD) Plus WLW 11m, VOA-BY, KGEI, KUSW, via Martin Elbe ** U S A. WWCR, 7465, had talk show a few minutes earlier, but Aug 7 at 0126 for at least a minute or two was broadcasting a telephone busy signal at the rate of approximately two per second. Huge signal also contributed to receiver overload mix on 6075; see GERMANY [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Brother Scare may have pulled out of 5110 and 9330, but he`s still at odd times on WBCQ 7415, e.g. UT Thursday Aug 7 as I tuned by at 0127 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. AFTER 60 YEARS, OAK RIDGE SPORTS LOSES RADIO SIGNAL Scott Fraker [photographer] After 60 years of providing sports broadcasts for Oak Ridge, the owners of WATO AM have decided it's not worth repairing at this time. [caption] By Tank Johnson | The Oak Ridger Posted Jul 24, 2008 @ 10:00 PM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — Oak Ridge High School sports will not be heard on WATO radio this season. For 60 years, the AM radio station has been the voice of the Wildcats, but a spring storm knocked the station off the air. Horne Radio, the organization that owns WATO AM, has not replaced the equipment that would get the station back on the air. But there are options and all is not lost for loyal listeners of Oak Ridge sports . . . http://www.oakridger.com/sports/x1346892019/After-60-years-Oak-Ridge-sports-loses-radio-signal (via Howard Box, Oak Ridge, DXLD) i.e. webcast. WATO was on 1290, and per NRC had been silent since April of this year (gh, DXLD) Glenn, My listening totally 91.9 [WUOT Knoxville, public radio] and down, with a bit of SW. Don`t think there has been any other local programming on WATO in years. Once said some strong things on a discussion program, but nobody could have been listening. Owner Horne Radio surely can still be heard on 3 or 4 other area stations (`Box`, KF4ATA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) somebodys gotta say it --- 2 weeks ago I was wondering how the Cat Fans would be able to hear the games this year. Nice to know there will be a continued way to hear the live action and that Mr. Clary will be providing the calls as he has done, quite well now for many years as I understand. On the other hand, it appears that yet another heritage A.M. station has gone dark (the last standing radio station in Oak Ridge no less) and it appears that it will stay that way. I'm not really too shocked by that. In driving by the station and looking at it's 1960's era appearance, (neglected would be a better word) it appears that it would be in need of LOTS of equipment upgrades in addition to the obvious of repairing the downed tower. (I wonder when the last tower inspection was done???) or the last inspection of anything for that matter. I am a retired broadcaster having spent 30 years of my life in radio up north before deciding to get out back in 2005. I came to the local area shortly after. I really hate to see an area such as this have no real local radio service. To his credit Ron Meredith, over at WYSH does a good job of servicing Anderson County as a whole but it's just not LOCAL radio. I would like to see someone that is really interested in providing that service pick up this historic station and do something with it. It would be better than the 'absentee' operation that the place has endured in the past with all the programming being shot over here from Farragut. Heck, I might even be persuaded to get back in and get involved and put my years of programming and knowledge into the effort (comment appended to the Oak Ridger story, via DXLD) ** U S A. It's getting interesting at the end of the AM dial A couple of changes are in the mix. WDSS 1680 Grand Rapids has dropped Radio Disney. They are running a taped loop stating that Radio Disney is no longer available on 1680 AM and is directing its listeners to either Sirius or XM or the Radio Disney website. The announcement goes on to say that the calls are changing to WPRI on the 18th of August and in September they are launching what they are calling Public Reality Radio. I have no idea what that's about but they said details are forthcoming (Neofoodog, Aug 5, ABDX via DXLD) ** U S A. Has anyone maybe heard my local on 87.9? It has dance music (disco, techno, or even a dance instruction recording). It's on nearly all the time. Never heard any announcement except once "87-9-9-9". If this is running 10 watts or so (common power for pirates), it's probably covering a 10 mile radius. I can't imagine this generating any complaints to the FCC until broadcasters get licensed for the expanded band, so this may be around for awhile. P.S. I haven't had a chance to try to receive it from another location, but if it's the same guy that had "Revolution Radio" on 97.9 it's probably in SW metro (73, George Sherman, MN, WTFDA via DXLD) Location not stated, but I think he means in the Twin Cities (gh) ** VATICAN. 4005 kHz, 2329 UT 4 June, VR presumed, classical music, weak, nothing heard afer but carrier still present, SIO 252 (Stephen Howie, Berks., Aug BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) ** VIETNAM [non]. VOV, head on 5955 via Austria. Full-data verification folder for report on 26 Dec 2007 between 1800 and 1827 UT. Verisigner was Va Hai, Director of Vietnam World. No reply postage was sent. QSL folder was received in 161 days along witth a station schedule and a postcard of a Hmong girl in a Sapa (Edwin Southwell, Hants, QSL Report, Aug BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 5048.39, 2035-2100, 28.07, UNID African (?) Men talking in UNID language, 35211. Best 73, (Anker Petersen, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, Aug 5, playdx yg via DXLD) Cf DXLD 8-084, 8-085, for the unID 5050, 5060 reported only on July 22 and 23. Apparently no one else kept checking the frequency, and it still bears checking! (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED [non]. 9565, R Maarifa via unidentified site, *2000- 2100*, daily. Intro music, Arabic ID, long Arabic talks. At 2015 clear ID in French as "Radio Maarifa" and URL http://www.maarifa.org which unfortunately is all in Arabic. More Arabic talks with French IDs at 2030, 2045 and 2100. Mixing with R Marti slightly off frequency producing a rumbling heterodyne. Maarifa, meaning "knowledge and wisdom" seems to relate to Arabic speaking Africans, principally those connected with north Africa, and their culture and antecedents. While not actually a religion, Maarifa appears to promote an “attitude for life” emphasising self affirmation, constructiveness and consideration for others which flows down into their education, culture and music. According to several websites, in the USA entire schools teach in the Maarifa philosophy which offers an African centred cultural curriculum rich in self-affirmative and constructive activities including the sciences and chess (Michael Ford, Newcastle, United Kingdom, DSWCI DX Window August 6 via DXLD) Scheduled here is a CVC Arabic broadcast via Jülich, 190 degrees to Algeria, so is it stealth Christianity? (Glenn Hauser, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, re: Radio Maarifa - found the following: https://www.givengain.com/cgi- bin/giga.cgi?cmd=cause_dir_project&project_id=5401&cause_id=1187 Arab World Ministries (AWM): http://awm.gospelcom.net/int/article.php?pageid=55 English translation of http://www.maarifa.org/ is at: Also at the bottom of the page, click on "Who are we?". Clearly Christian (Ron Howard, CA, ibid.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Hi Glenn, Really enjoy listening to World of Radio in mp3 format. Keep up the great work. Enclosed is a check to help support. 73, (Dave Ewing, Freeport IL, to gh at PO Box 1684, Enid OK 73702) Thanks, Dave! PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ REMLAP VIDEOS AND AUDIOS An individual named Remlap [is that Palmer backwards? gh] has 23 videos, mostly of a SW radio tuned to various stations with audio. includes VOA, BBCWS: http://www.youtube.com/user/remlap An example of what the Firedrake jammer sounds like can be heard and seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwJgM595p4w amongst others. There is a separate Remlap blog at http://www.tvclosedownblog.com/ which contains international TV channels sign-on and sign-off videos. The Lao National TV clip is superb (Ms Chrissy Brand, Webwatch, Aug BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING DRM: see ROMANIA; THAILAND; UK ++++++++++++++++++++ DTV BREAKS UP Let me share what I consider a grating unhappy discovery. My current ``radio`` project has been getting the TV converter(s) connected. The result is very unsat! With an old VHF-UHF antenna on the roof, and a clear passage (no real mountains) to K`ville, I get all the available channels, yes, with sound breaks, and frequent (at least a few each program) picture distortion. Looks like little icecubes are dumped on the scene. I am also noticing the new TV sound break (like a glottal stop destroying half a word or half sentence, while picture freezes) on NPR voice from overseas! I conclude that those ``lines`` are now digitalized and result is worse than old SW. If this is the ``new age``, save your old TVs and of course old AM/SWs --- this is dreadful for serious voice, music, cinama (or sin-a-ma). You heard that last the first (?) here. Seriously – consider. Hope I`m wrong. But *all* of the stations misbehave, not just weak ones! Cheers (Howard Box, Oak Ridge TN, DX LISTENING DIGEST) DTV is certainly an imperfect system. I think you may need more gain, more signal into the converters to minimize the breakups even on seemingly strong semi-local signals. Maybe replace the old antenna with new separate VHF and UHF, since combined VHF/UHF antennas are always a compromise (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ BLUEBIRD MIRROR RADIO 154B The most desirable Sparton [AM radio, made in London, Canada], is this from the 1930s [illustrated], a beautiful looking art-deco style piece with blue glass and chrome. It was designed by American Walter Teague, who also stylishly designed Kodak cameras and Texaco petrol stations. You can read all about a fully restored version at Phil`s Old Radio website http://www.antiqueradio.org/spar04.htm and also at Paul`s http://www.tuberadioland.com You may have to win the lottery to afford an original Bluebird. The current market value price appears to be around US$3000. At an eBay auxion in 2006 a seller in Seattle received $7877 for one of these sought-after and expensive icons. The Spartan sleigh radio is a different shape but the same idea and era, and is also highly prized. Better news is that reproduxions of both Bluebird and Sleigh are sometimes available. To find one requires a little luck and some research through Google, or other search engines (Ms Chrissy Brand, Collectors` Corner, Aug BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) MUSEA +++++ 1925 RECORDING MAKES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS REGISTRY Presszoom, College Park, Md., August 8, 2008 http://presszoom.com/story_145603.html Radio was coming of age in March, 1925. For the first time ever, the inauguration of a President (Calvin Coolidge) was broadcast live on March 4th. And on March 14th - the first trans-Atlantic broadcast made history. The New York Times reported on March 15 that "While hundreds of English couples danced to American jazz music last night in the ballroom of the Hotel Savoy in London, thousands of radio enthusiasts in the United States from the eastern seaboard as far west as Milwaukee listened to the same music, brought to their home by the first successful experiment in double radio relaying." RCA's president - David Sarnoff - said, " The people of the United States have received a new gift from radio, the culture and music of London have come to them through the air." The broadcast is part of the extensive holdings of the Library of American Broadcasting at the University of Maryland. Recently, the Library of Congress included that broadcast on its 2007 National Recording Registry, writing that: "The First Trans-Atlantic Broadcast (March 14, 1925) representing a technological breakthrough, this early orchestral broadcast originated in London, traveled by land line to station 5XX in Chelmsford, crossed the Atlantic where it was picked up by an RCA transmitter in Maine, and relayed to stations WJZ in New York and WRC in Washington, D.C. Although the fidelity is low, the recording is significant as a documentation of a technical achievement and a very rare instance of an extant example of a complete radio broadcast of the 1920s. The entire 37-minute broadcast survives on discs in the collections of the University of Maryland's Library of American Broadcasting." LAB Curator Chuck Howell says, "Recordings of actual radio broadcasts from the 1920's are extremely rare, and recordings from before the formation of the NBC and CBS networks (in 1926 and 1927 respectively) are even more so. Technology was the main reason, as electrical (as opposed to acoustic) recording was not perfected until 1925. Because of this scarcity, this recording, transcribed on one side of a series of thick discs on March 14th 1925, would be of historical interest no matter what the content. The fact that it is a recording of the first scheduled transatlantic broadcast via shortwave, converted and sent to the listening public on the AM band, makes it truly important. Though the static-laden music from London has little value as entertainment, its significance as an invisible link between Britain and the U.S. was tremendous." The National Archives annually selects 25 recordings that it says are "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant' to preserve for all time. Registry recordings must be at least 10 years old. The selections for 2007 bring the total number of recordings in the registry to 250. A copy of the LAB recording, and the 24 others placed on the 2007 registry, will be housed in the Packard Campus for Audio- Visual Conservation, the Library's state-of-the- art preservation facility in Culpeper, Va. About the Library of American Broadcasting The Library of American Broadcasting holds a wide-ranging collection of audio and video recordings, books, pamphlets, periodicals, personal collections, oral histories, photographs, scripts and vertical files devoted exclusively to the history of broadcasting. There are a number of items listed in its holdings for 1925, for example. Founded in 1972 as the Broadcast Pioneers Library, it was housed in the headquarters of the National Association of Broadcasters in Washington, D.C., until 1994, when it became part of the University of Maryland Libraries. For more information about the Library of Congress, see http://www.loc.gov online (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?format=Sound+Recording and search for radio (Horacio Nigro, Montevideo, Uruguay, ibid.) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ NEW MEXICO FIREBALLS On Aug. 4th, a bright fireball streaked across the skies of New Mexico. Amateur radio astronomer Thomas Ashcraft not only photographed the meteor, but also recorded the "sweet stereophonic shimmering" echoes of distant radio stations bouncing off its ionized trail. Click to listen. at http://www.heliotown.com/Fireballs_August_04_2008_Ashcraft.html (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) WTFK? Radio spectrogram of the time of the above meteor. 61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line. Meteor above occurs during the 0836-0837 UT minutes. All other dots are space dust particles (above site via DXLD) So not radio stations, but 61.25 = channel 3 video; 83.25 = channel 6 video. No IDs! TV analog video buzz doesn`t normally sound like that on a radio, so not sure how he may have manipulated it. Coördinates of ``Heliotown`` put him west of Taos (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) COUNTDOWN TO THE PERSEID METEOR SHOWER From our friends at: http://spaceweather.com COUNTDOWN TO THE PERSEIDS: The annual Perseid meteor shower peaks one week from today, on Tuesday, August 12th. The best time to look is during the dark hours before dawn on Tuesday morning when forecasters expect 50 to 100 meteors per hour. Get away from city lights if you can; plan a camping trip! The darker the sky, the more meteors you will see. FM, TV, and VHF DXers should be on the lookout for meteor trail DX. The source of the Perseids is Comet Swift-Tuttle, which has littered the August portion of Earth's orbit with space dust. The dusty zone is broad and Earth is already in its outskirts. As a result, even before the peak on August 12th, you may see some "early Perseids" streaking across the night sky. Photos of these early arrivals will be featured in the days ahead on http://Spaceweather.com as part of our full coverage of the Perseid meteor shower (via Mark Coady, ODXA yg via DXLD) CAN OUR TV SIGNALS BE PICKED UP ON OTHER PLANETS? Gliese C is a very long way away WHO, WHAT, WHY? The Magazine answers... A television company has joined forces with a social networking site to send a message to the nearest theoretically inhabitable planet. But can our television and radio broadcasts already be picked up in space? There is no widely accepted evidence of intelligent extraterrestrial life. And yet the idea of sending messages to whoever is out there has been a recurrent theme over the years, whether it has been the plaques on Pioneer 10 and 11, Blur's call-sign for Beagle 2, the Arecibo message of 1974 or the Soviet "Mir" message of 1962. Early television broadcasts will have reached planets around other stars. The latest is a collaboration between RDF and Bebo to send a signal to the planet Gliese C, more than 20 light-years away, carrying 500 messages from earth. . . http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7544915.stm (via Kim Elliott, DXLD) PROPAGATION OUTLOOK FROM BOULDER, AUGUST 5 Normally posted on Tuesdays, and a notification that the PRF had been posted was received, yet only last week`s info accessible still on Thursday Aug 7, so below sources were used to conclude WOR 1420 (gh) PROPAGATION OUTLOOK FROM OTTAWA JULY 29-AUGUST 24 Space Weather Canada 27 - Day Magnetic Activity Forecast http://www.spaceweather.gc.ca/forecast27days_e.php (via WORLD OF RADIO 1420, DXLD) SOLAR-ACTIVITY FORECAST FOR THE PERIOD AUG 1 - 7, 2008 Activity level: very low Radio flux (10.7 cm): a fluctuation in the range 64-72 f.u. Flares: weak (0-3/day) Relative sunspot number: in the range 0-25 Astronomical Institute, Solar Dept., Ondrejov, Czech Republic e-mail: sunwatch(at)asu.cas.cz (RWC Prague) _________________________________________________________________ Geomagnetic activity forecast for the period Aug 1 to Aug 7, 2008 quiet: Aug 2 to 6 quiet to unsettled: Aug 1 and 7 unsettled: 0 active: 0 minor storm: 0 major storm: 0 severe storm: 0 Geomagnetic activity summary: geomagnetic field was quiet on Jul 25, 26, 28, 29 and 30, quiet to unsettled on Jul 24 and 27. RWC Prague, Geophysical Institute Prague, Geomagnetic Dept, Czech Republic e-mail: geom(at)ig.cas.cz _________________________________________________________________ Geomagnetic activity forecast for the period of one solar rotation [Condensed version of next three lines is what goes onto WOR] unsettled to active: Aug 1, 11, (19-)20 active to disturbed: Aug 8-10, 23 quiet: Aug (2,) 3-5, (6-7,) 12-18, 21-22, 24-27 Survey: quiet on: Jul 25-26, 28-30 quiet to unsettled: Jul 24, 27 unsettled to active: Jul 23 Notice: Days in brackets refer to a lower probability of possible solar activity enhancements depending on previous developments on the sun. F. K. Janda, OK1HH, Czech Propagation Interested Group e-mail: franta.janda(at)quick.cz (via WORLD OF RADIO 1430, DXLD) Meanwhile a new one came out Aug 7: SOLAR-ACTIVITY FORECAST FOR THE PERIOD AUG 8 - 14, 2008 Activity level: very low Radio flux (10.7 cm): a fluctuation in the range 64-70 f.u. Flares: weak (0-3/day) Relative sunspot number: in the range 0-25 Astronomical Institute, Solar Dept., Ondrejov, Czech Republic e-mail: sunwatch(at)asu.cas.cz (RWC Prague) _________________________________________________________________ Geomagnetic activity forecast for the period Aug 8 to Aug 14, 2008 quiet: Aug 12, 13 and 14 quiet to unsettled: Aug 11 unsettled: Aug 8, 9 and 10 active: 0 minor storm: 0 major storm: 0 severe storm: 0 Geomagnetic activity summary: geomagnetic field was quiet from Jul 31 to Aug 6. RWC Prague, Geophysical Institute Prague, Geomagnetic Dept, Czech Republic e-mail: geom(at)ig.cas.cz _________________________________________________________________ Geomagnetic activity forecast for the period of one solar rotation unsettled to active: Aug 20, 31 active to disturbed: Aug (8,) 9, (10,) 19, (24) quiet: Aug (11,) 12-18, 21-22, (23,) 25-30, Sep 1-3 Survey: quiet on: Jul 28-31, Aug 1-2, 4-6 mostly quiet on: Aug 3 Notice: Days in brackets refer to a lower probability of possible solar activity enhancements depending on previous developments on the sun. F. K. Janda, OK1HH, Czech Propagation Interested Group e-mail: franta.janda(at)quick.cz (via DXLD) ###