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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1554 HEADLINES: DX and stations news about: Antarctica, Cuba, Egypt, Europe, Germany and non, Guatemala, Guinea, India, International Vacuum and non, Iran non, Liberia non!, Libya, Madagascar, Micronesia, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, UK, USA, Western Sahara non SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1554, March 2-8, 2011 Wed 1630 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Wed 2211 WBCQ 7415 [NEW; only time on WBCQ; confirmed] Thu 0430 WRMI 9955 [confirmed, jammed] Thu 1600 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Thu 2200 WRMI 9955 [jammed] Fri 0430 WWRB 2390 and/or 5050 [NEW][confirmed on both] Fri 1530 WRMI 9955 Fri 2130 WWCR1 7465 Sat 0900 WRMI 9955 Sat 1500 WRMI 9955 Sat 1700 WWCR2 12160 Sat 1830 WRMI 9955 Sat 1900 IPAR/IRRS/NEXUS/IBA 6090 1566 1368 [tested 9435 last week] Sun 0730 WWCR1 3215 Sun 0900 WRMI 9955 Sun 1630 WRMI 9955 Sun 1830 WRMI 9955 Mon 1230 WRMI 9955 Mon 2230 WRMI 9955 Tue 1630 WRMI 9955 Wed 0200 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 or http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html WRN ON DEMAND: http://193.42.152.193/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=24 WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN: http://www.wrn.org/wrn-listeners/world-of-radio/ http://www.wrn.org/listeners/world-of-radio/rss/09:00:00UTC/English/541 OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org DXLD YAHOOGROUP: Why wait for DXLD? A lot more info, not all of it appearing in DXLD later, is posted at our yg without delay. When applying, please identify yourself with your real name and location, and say something about why you want to join. Those who do not, unless I recognize them, will be prompted once to do so and no action will be taken otherwise. Here`s where to sign up: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxld/ ** ALASKA. 9615, KNLS, 1001, Feb 27, IS, woman and man signing-on in English. Useless (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074, W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, Editor of World English Survey and Target Listening, available at http://www.odxa.on.ca in dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALBANIA. Hello Drita, Here I am again. Well, for the past month or so, reception of Radio Tirana has varied some, but, in general, it has been better. Mostly this is because the modulation has been improved. I sometimes receive the Albanian program at 2130 on 7435, and at 0000 on 7425 and 6130. I have been recording these for Carrie when I can. I should let you know that Spain is now on 6125 at 0000 UT and its signal is very loud, causing strong interference to Tirana on 6130. Your faithful listener, (Tim Hendel, with Carrie Hooper, Huntsville AL, Elmira NY, USA, Feb 25, via Drita Çiço, R. Tirana, DXLD) ** ANTARCTICA. 15476, Feb 25 at 1355 and 1425 chex, not even a carrier, so LRA36 apparently did not meet its target date for reactivation. Maybe Monday Feb 28? Assuming its schedule will again be M-F 12-15. Should also check for it at other hours including previously used 18-21, so I did at 2032 Feb 25: nothing, altho 15345 had a hefty het between Argentina and Morocco. Back At 1355, weak signal on 15480, presumably Turkey about to close. Also beware of an unID and unlisted transmitter on 15475 which Ron Howard heard recently. See also CYPRUS [non] Replying to our non-log of LRA36 on Feb 25, Roberto Scaglione of http://www.bclnews.it says, ``Our contributor Marcello Caneva in Misiones contacted today Base Esperanza; broadcasting could be resumed next week, they hope 1100-1800 UT. Radio staff are not yet there. Last year staff at: http://www.bclnews.it/pictures/P3280014.JPG However, Harold Frodge in Michigan reports a very weak carrier centered on 15476, Feb 25 at 2002 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA? 15476, 2002, 25-Feb; Very weak het [carrier] centering here; no audio (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, logged by ear in real time! Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15476, RN San Gabriel. February 25 at 1415 and 1918, no signal from Antarctica. 73’s (Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, Embu SP Brasil, SW40 - Dipoles and Longwire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15476, Feb 28 at 1334, still no carrier from LRA36, tho there was a weak one on 15480 from Turkey. Roberto Scaglione reports they plan to start this week on an 11-18 UT schedule, so we need to keep checking until 1800. At 1710, I could almost imagine I was hearing a carrier, but this was on DX-398 portable outside with reel-out since household noise sources were on by then. 15476, still no signal detectable from LRA36, supposed to reactivate this week, checked March 1 at 1439, 1522, 1536. At least nothing on 15475 to impede it (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15476, still no signal from expected reactivation of LRA36, March 2 at 1358, 1438, 1513 chex (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) And still missing March 3 (gh) ** ARGENTINA. RAE on 11710 at 0058 Feb 24 with 8-note interval signal followed by announcements in various languages and then into Japanese programme. Not heard on this frequency for many months. SINPO 25342 (Roger Tidy, London, UK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11710.732, 0200-, RAE, Feb 26, One of my favourite interval signals. Harkens to a time long past, with multiple language IDs, and then into their English program. Sure happy they didn't leave shortwave at the end of last year! (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) 15345, 23/2 1945, R.A.E. - Buenos Aires, IT, Attualità DX OTTIMO!!!! (Roberto Pavanello, Vercelli / Italia, via Roberto Scaglione, shortwave yg via DXLD) ** ARGENTINA. Feeder, 13363 kHz, 27/02 0227 UT, R Rivadavia, Buenos Aires - USB tx jogo boca, ID feeder estudio // 630 kHz forte - 35444. Sangean 909, ant externa unifilar 10m + balun fatma para oc e om (Sarmento Campos, Rio de Janeiro, radioescutas yg via DXLD) ** ARMENIA. 4810, Armenian National Radio, 1452 Feb 26, underneath India, but in clear when India left the air. Man speaking in language which could have been listed Farsi. 1459 woman, tentative ID and address. Poor (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074, W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARMENIA. 15275-DRM, Radio CJSC DRM im 19m Band. Habe gerade Radio CJSC im 19mb auf dem Schirm, ich glaube es war 15275 kHz. SNR lag so um 14 dB. Jetzt ist es allerdings schon wieder verschwunden. Weiss jemand mehr darueber? Um mal selbst darauf zu antworten: wenn die Bezeichnungen stimmen, ist das ein Provider aus Armenien, der offentlichtlich jetzt auf DRM umruestet bzw. testet. War mir so nicht bekannt (Stephan Schaa, Germany, A-DX Feb 21 via BC- DX Feb 25 via DXLD) ** ASCENSION ISLAND. 7415, 0447-, BBC, Feb 27, Instead of WBCQ The Planet, the only transmitter audible was from the BBC in French at good level, although there is some ute interference on the high side (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. New transmissions. READ THIS! Well, as luck would have it, there is apparently in Northern NSW is a pirate operating on 1386 kHz. I've tried to hear it but Radio Tirana [sic] in Auckland is too strong. Good luck! Aussie music there. Maybe 3210 2355 5050 all playing Aussie music so have a listen from say the end of March onwards, so the whisper says (John Wright, Peakhurst NSW (Icom R8500 + EWE antennae), March Australian DX News via DXLD) I believe R. `Tirana` was previously debunked as a misunderstanding. The NZer on 1386 is Radio Tarana, Auckland, 10 kW. There is no Aussie listed on 1386 in WRTH 2011 As/Pac MW list (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 2368, Radio Symban, 1100-1123, 23-February-2011, In Greek. Typical Radio Symban programming, Greek Music and talk by male announcer, fair signal (Ed Wlodarski, N2ED, New Jersey, Ten Tec RX340 & 100 Ft Long Wire, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) (NON) 2368.5, 1330-, Radio Symban, Feb 26, For the second morning in a row, no signs of either Radio Symban or the 3210 station. 2368.462, 0837-, Radio Symban, Feb 27, After an absence the last couple of days, Radio Symban first appeared around 0800 (thanks to sharp ears, Harold Sellers for noticing this). Measured frequency is 2368.462 on the Perseus. Still too early for anything but threshold audio, though. Greek music at weak level at 1019 recheck. As for the other Australian on 3210, there appeared to be an open carrier earlier, but I don't see anything there now (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) 2368.5, Radio Symban, 0815-0916 Feb 27, Greek music, male and female announcers, 0916 man talking to caller on phone. Very poor improving to poor. 1047 Feb 27, Greek folk music, male announcer. Strong (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074 W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 2485, ABC Northern Territory, Katherine, 1412 Feb 25, Australian press review. Fair, //2310 poor, 2325 fair. Feb 27 0852, announcer and man on phone discussing weather. Poor, just starting to come in, 0912 call-in show with female guest answering callers’ questions about breathing. // 2310 fair, 2325 poor, 2485 fair. 4835, VL8A Alice Springs, 0818 Feb 27, pop song, 0819 announcer speaking to listener on telephone. //4910 fair slight fax QRM, both off 0829. Strong, QRM and fading. 4910, ABC Northern Territory, Tennant Creek, 0819 Feb 25, two men talking, conversation with listener on telephone, TC, pop song. Off suddenly at 0829 as they moved to 120 meters. Very poor, 4835 Alice Springs, poor, 5025 Katherine occasionally detectable under Cuba (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074 W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 2325, 0906-, ABC Tennant Creek, Feb 25, Already present at this early hour at fair to good level. // 2310 Alice Springs at weaker level, and 2485 Katherine just barely audible. 4835, 0819-, ABC, VL8A, Alice Springs, Feb 27, Good reception with a caller. // to slightly weaker 4910 VL8T Tennant Creek. 5025, of course is obliterated by Radio Rebelde. Scheduled to change to 120 meter band shortly (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) 2485, ABC Northern Territory, Katherine, 1413, March 1. Commentary; ID for the relay: “More of what you love. All day, on-line and on-demand, 105.7 ABC Darwin”; financial news; fair before my sunrise; // 2310 and 2325 (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 15400, Feb 25 at 1355 hymn, 1356 W&M speaking Chinese, ergo HCJB Kununurra making a rare appearance via longpath. And also on 15340 as a big het against Morocco 15341. 15400, Feb 27 at 2353 an unusual mix of Harold Camping, asserting that Jesus returns May 21 and all (well, almost all) graves will then be opened for whatever remnants of the corpses are left to fly into heaven --- and with SAH some hymnic-sounding music underneath. Aoki shows HCJB starts Indonesian at 0000 and WYFR ends at 2400, but obviously there is really an overlap: HFCC has HCJB from 2345, and WYFR until 0100. 15340, HCJB longpath making big het against Morocco 15341, March 1 at 1438; it`s atop Morocco at 1455 in slow English, then at 1459 RTM dominates in Arabic until off at 1500:20*. We`re in luck, Morocco QSYing at its nominal time instead of an hour late! Its 15345+ carrier was already on a minute later. Meanwhile HCJB in the clear on 15340: suspected it was `Spotlight` show, stealth evangelism thru English learning, and so it was, running a bit late, with outro contact info at 1501, plugging http://www.radio.english.net and 1502 offering weekly texts by e-mail. Then Oz-accent, presumed local break from Melbourne as I break for breakfast of raisin bread and unprocessed red grapes, from Chile? [Who needs Twitter?] 1520 recheck, signal a lot weaker (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA [non]. 6140, RA via Singapore, 1220, Feb 25. In English with interview about multiculturalism in Australia; fair; // 6020, 9560, 9580 and 9590 (all four via Shepparton); 6140 off after 1300 (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BAHRAIN. 9745 c+usb, Radio Bahrain. 0104 February 26, 2011. Arabic popular and techno-pop, 0120 youthful Arabic female hottie DJ. Clear and fair. First log here in ages (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BELARUS [and non]. 7255, 0504-, RS Belarus 1st Program, Feb 27, Excellent reception with ?Belarussian (or Russian) modern pop music, well over cochannel BBCWS from Ascension Is. Note that Belarus is in dawn grayline now. Belarussian DJ at 0506. Back into music at 0508. Rechecking at 0515 already shows Belarus fading rapidly, and the BBC starting to dominate, as Belarus emerges into daylight (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) 7255, Radio Belarus, 0512 Feb 27, Belorussian, man talking, possibly news until 0514, then woman. Co-channel BBC Ascension. Fair (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074 W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 5952.44, 27/2 0110, Radio Pio XII, talks, fair. [intro, once:] Ciao, With some Ham friends I organized a DXing night meeting, here in Milano city at the city section of ARI, the Italian Radio Amateur Club. We used 2 Perseus, SDR-14 and AOR 7030. As antenna we could use a Folded Dipole 40 meters long, 20 meters high. Here the group: Giulio Fiocchi I2FGT (secretary of ARI in Milan); Mauro Giroletti IK2GFT; Francesco Baratti IK2YRF; Enrico Guindani IZ2NXF; Michele D'Amico IZ2EAS; Giampiero Bernardini swl I2-51099. You can find some photo on my Info blog: http://radiodxinfo.blogspot.com/ (Giampiero Bernardini, et al., Milan ARI DX night, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 6134.821, Radio Santa Cruz, 1030-1045 Feb 25, Initially noted a male and female in some kind of lesson, possibly language? Male says something and the female repeats in a slower pace like she is spelling a word. They continue at this during the period. The signal remains poor (Chuck Bolland, Clewiston FL, 26N 081W, WR-G31DDC, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOTSWANA. 4930, VOA, 1544 Feb 25, English, ID, “Border Crossing” with Green Day song for listener. Fair, //9930 via Sri Lanka good (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074 W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4929.997, 1544-, VOA, Feb 26, 3 Hz low, with good to very good reception with modern American music (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. BRASIL, 3355, R. Dif.ª Acreana (?), Xapuri AC, 2247-2309, 25 Feb, songs, A Voz do Brasil at 2300; 35332. Stronger at around 2215 on Sat 26/2 & Sun 27/2. In the latest DXWindow bulletin, n.º 422, I read a note sent by H. Klemetz on how to pronounce the [Indian] name "Xapuri" whereby he explains it's like "sha-poor-REE", but if the way the last syllable is written indicates it's stressed, then it's wrong, none is stressed, they're all at the same level, and the -a- in "sha" sounds very much like the -u- in "church", so it's not an open vowel. 3355, Rádio Difusora Acreana (tentative), 0955-1010, 23-February-2011, In Portuguese. Ballad type music, male announcer at 1002 with commercial then back to ballad type music, poor signal. 3375, Rádio Municipal, 1020-1030, 21-February-2011, In Portuguese. Male announcer with commercials, followed by station ID at 1026 then local music, fair at first, fading to poor by 1030 (Ed Wlodarski, N2ED, New Jersey, Ten Tec RX340 & 100 Ft Long Wire, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 4754.9, Rádio Imaculada Conceição – Campo Grande, 0202, 2/25/11, in Portuguese. ID at tune in, woman announcer continued with extended talk. Fair (best I’ve heard them in quite a while.) (Mark Taylor, Madison WI, Winradio g313e, Eton E1, Satellit 800, Kaito 1103; Flextenna, EWE, attic mounted Eavesdropper, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. BRASIL, 4915, Radiodifusora Macapá seems to be out of air. One of the strongest Brazilian Stations here in the early morning, and I can't listen it for various months (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Feb 27, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4915, 26/2 2310, R. Difusora - Macapà, PP MX buono (Roberto Pavanello, Vercelli / Italia, via Roberto Scaglione, shortwave yg via DXLD) Or the other Braz on 4915, R. Daqui, Goiânia? (gh, DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 5055, Brasil, R. Difusora, Cáceres, Mato Grosso. February 23, 0900-0910 sign on, canned ID by male “Difusora”, “igreja apostólica apresenta, programa..”, religious music, “reuniões da igreja apostólica em Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, à avenida..domingo as 19 horas”; 44343. February, 25 0857 carrier on, 0859 canned ID, just after abrupt sign off, recheck at 0903 still silent, 34343 (lob-B). ** BRAZIL. 5939.83, Voz Missionária, 2358-0100+ Feb 24/25. YL with "Hallelujah," "Glória a Deus, etc., followed by excited preaching in Portuguese by same YL; man took over around 0030; a series of spoken and sung ID's at 0057 with telephone numbers was followed by more talks. Fair at best; // to 9665.10 which was good. Both frequencies still going at 0300 (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Drake R-8, 100-foot RW, Cumbredx mailing list via DXLD) 5939.85, 26/2 2320, Voz Missionária, // 9665 Brazil, religious music, fair (Giampiero Bernardini, et al., Milan ARI DX night, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 10000, 26/2 2145, Observatório Nacional, continuous IDs, fair (Giampiero Bernardini, et al., Milan ARI DX night, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11815, nice nightmiddle opening from R. Brasil Central, Goiânia, steady S9+20, March 2 at 0716 with song outroeod as ``Paixão Proibida``, live DJ with 4 e 16 timecheck, madrugada jingle, 0718 singing ID, lively DJ greets listeners wherever we are, more upbeat wake-up songs. Previously there have been a few other 25m Brazilians all-night, but not a single other frequency showing now, and RNA 11780 does not sign on until sometime between 0730 and 0800. Could not hear RBC on // 4985. There were bits of Cultura Pará on 5045, now clear of 5040 CubaRM after its 0600* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11854.94, 26/2 2218, Rádio Aparecida, QRM Family R, religious songs, poor/fair (Giampiero Bernardini, et al., Milan ARI DX night, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 15190.01, Radio Inconfidência, 2330-2355, Feb 25, very poor in noisy conditions with Portuguese talk. Poor on // 6010 with adjacent channel splatter and co-channel QRM (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** BULGARIA. 15700, Sunday Feb 27 at 1457, I am always amused when I hear a bit of Lalo Schifrin`s ``Mission: Impossible`` theme on R. Bulgaria, some episodes set in that country thinly disguised. It`s amid the DX program in Bulgarian with items about YFR via Sri Lanka, Libya, R. Free Sarawak via Palau (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 6929.933, 0120-, Northern Relay Service, Feb 27, Nice ID for the Northern Relay Service at 0120. Then into the song, 'Know when to fold them'. Very variable transmitter tonight. Left the recorder going and went out to dinner with Bill, Harold, and Guy (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) So sure it`s not really in USA? Harold`s log is under NORTH AMERICA (gh) ** CANADA. Propagation conditions were quite disturbed morning of March 1, with 13m almost dead, many signals fluttery, even trans- equatorial ones like Australia on 9590. Quite a contrast between two Sackville frequencies at 1424: 9610, RCI strong and steady, aimed thisaway; 9625, CBCNQ weak and fluttery plus Doppler causing frequency to wobble as it bounces off the auroral zone, aimed thataway (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. Dr Brian Goldman, host of CBC's White Coat, Black Art --- Why this MD and broadcaster lives beneath his means Dr. Brian Goldman, host of CBC radio's "White Coat, Black Art." TARA WALTON/TORONTO STAR By Emily Mathieu | Sun Feb 27 2011 http://www.moneyville.ca/article/943831--why-this-md-and-broadcaster-lives-beneath-his-means?bn=1 (via Fred Waterer, ODXA yg via DXLD) ** CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC. REPÚBLICA CENTRO-AFRICANA. 5035, R. Centrafrique, Bimbo, not heard despite recent reports on being active on this frequency. Same situation as that of R. Guinée on 7125 (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, March 1 dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Meaning you think it is on sporadically, and you just haven`t caught it? (gh) ** CHAD. 6165, RNT, 2220-2231:40*, Feb 25, Afro-pop music. French announcements. National Anthem at 2230:30. Fair (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** CHINA. 4750, Voice of China, Xi’an, 1420 Feb 26, Chinese, easy- listening popular song, woman announcer, soft and romantic music. Another Chinese station occasionally heard weakly in background could have been PBS Qinghai. Good (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074 W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 4800, 1521-, CNR 1, Feb 26, CNR 1 dominates over AIR Hyderabad. Generally at good level (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** CHINA. 4940, Voice of Strait, Fuzhou, 1548 Feb 26, Mandarin, male announcer, Chinese soft ballad. Very good. 1515 Feb 27, English, “Focus on China”, man and woman talking about micro blogging, medical issue for Chinese factory workers, repairs to reservoirs, and other items. 1534 ending program with address. English sked only on Sundays, 1500-1530. Back to Chinese at 1535. Good (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074 W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Harold, Excellent variety of receptions, as usual. Always nice to see reports from another beach DXer. Especially pleased to finally have someone else reporting on the “Focus on China” show. Seems that once a year they do indeed change their Sunday schedule. You heard their new time. In December I was still hearing their ex: 1530-1600. Thanks to your new information, I can understand why I did not hear them on February 6 when I tuned in at 1530. They must have already concluded their show, as sometimes they only run a 25 minute English program, instead of the full half hour. The earlier time actually makes it easier to hear them now (Ron Howard, San Francisco, ibid.) 4940, 1547-, Voice of Strait, Feb 26, Good to very good reception in Chinese. On frequency exactly (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) i.e. 4940.000, might as well say, a matter of significant digits (gh) 4940, 1510-, Voice of Strait, Feb 27, Excellent reception in English with the program 'Focus on China'. I had it listed on 1530 Sundays, so I might have incorrectly listed it later. 300 Hz hum audible. Otherwise very powerful with excellent modulation and excellent enunciation. Continued to 1526. Short musical bridge, then continued with English. Gradual fading with post dawn here. Continued until 1534. Gave postal address as well, and program ID. Back into Chinese at 1535 with Chinese female vocal. Still very strong (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** CHINA. 4950, 1548-, Voice of Pujiang, Shanghai, Feb 26, Very good reception in Chinese. On channel exactly (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** CHINA. 4980, 1530-, Xinjiang PBS, Urumqi, Feb 26, Good reception with the CNR 3 Minority service. May be in Uighur? Seems a tad low on 4979.994 kHz (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** CHINA [and non]. 5000.000, 1530-, BPM, Xian, Feb 26, Three time signal stations audible here. Just before 1530 one hears WWVH, then BPM, and finally WWV. The Hawaiian is extremely strong, followed by BPM (fair/good), and finally WWV. Interesting! (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** CHINA. 5050, 1530-, Beibu Bay Radio, Feb 26, Excellent reception in Vietnamese. Must have announced frequencies, since lots of 'FM' and 'kHz' heard. Nothing in English. Right on frequency. 5050, 1432-, Beibu Bay Radio, Feb 27, Listened carefully at 1430, and sure enough, it sounds like they ID as 'BBR' briefly in English, with the rest being in Chinese. The IDs sound multilingual, though. Excellent reception. Transmitter breaks at 1434 revealing a weak cochannel. Another superb 60 meter (and 90 meter) morning (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** CHINA. 5059.985, 1530-, Xinjiang PBS, Feb 26, Tentative logging. Transmitter seems a little variable, and audio very weak. Could possibly also be Voice of Oromo Liberation (according to EiBi)? (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** CHINA. 5075, 1530-, Voice of Pujiang, Shanghai Feb 26 Excellent reception, and // to 4950 in Chinese (4950 just a bit stronger). (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** CHINA. 6165 / 9170, CPBS6 Voice of Shenzhou, Beijing. 1144 February 26, 2011. Nice traditional Chinese instrumentals, Chinese female announcer 1146, back to instrumentals. 6165 clear and weak, 9170 clear and good. No RHC blocking 6165 today, at least at this time (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I Guess you mean RNW Bonaire in Spanish on 6165 earlier and later? No RHC on 6165 that I know of, not even a spur (gh, DXLD) ** CHINA. 7290, Feb 25 at 1145, Chinese language lesson, urok presented in Russian, VG signal, per Aoki is CRI, 500 kW, 37 degrees from Shijiazhuang site for DVR, but also USward. Aoki also shows CNR1 on 7290, 100 kW, 222 degrees from Beijing 572 site. Do CNR1 and CRI really operate co-channel? No sign of any QRM. There are many other such internally conflicting registrations (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Crash & Bang Chinese Opera Music Jammer, a.k.a. Firedrake From 2011 posted logs (various sources). All broadcasts originate from East Jammerstan. * Not reported on this frequency during 2010. 6030 13 7415* 17 7445* 17 8400 10, 12, 13, 23 9355 13, 14, 17, 19 9380 13 9455* 17, 19 9905 17, 19 10300 12, 13, 23 10970* 01 11540 13 11940* 17 11945 19 13130* 01 13960* 23 13970 01 14700 07 14720* 01 14950* 23 15900 01, 23 16100 01 16970 01 17170* 01, 23 --Updated 25-Feb-11 (Harold Frodge, MI, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake, Feb 25: 8400, VG but fluttery at 1147; no Sound of Hope or anything else audible under, even during brief pauses in music. Gone at 1209 check. 10300, JBA at 1154. No others encountered in bandscans during next four hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 7540, Feb 25 at 1513 oscillating whoop-whoop jammer against something in Chinese. BBCWS Chinese is here a bit longer, to be terminated in one month on March 25, M-F 1300-1530, 250 kW, 20 degrees from THAILAND, but unfortunately overlaps a semihour with V. of Mesopotamia via Ukraine, which ought to stay on 11530 thirty minutes longer at least on weekdays. The Chinese I heard had an echo, so presumably additional CNR1 jamming rather than BBC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 7105, Sound of Hope R, Tianshui, TAIWAN, 2245-..., 26 Feb, Mandarin, talks; 22431, jammed by CHINA using a regular BC program (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 17495, fluttery Feb 27 at 0029 pop music, sounds Brazilian, so might be something interesting; but at 0031 announcement in Chinese. Different Chinese stronger on 17645 at 0032. The real story emerges from HFCC and Aoki listings: 17495 is CRI via Beijing site at 0000-0300 in Cantonese first hour, rest Amoy, 500 kW, 193 degrees. 17645 lists only VOA Mandarin at 0000- 0100 via Tinang, PHILIPPINES, 250 kW, 349 degrees, but *jammed, probably CNR1 being heard here. Firedrake Feb 28: 7470 at 1257; not on 8400 at this time 9360 at 1330, still not on 8400 Aoki shows 7470 is RFA in Tibetan at 11-14 via Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, and of course *jammed. RFA also on 7470 from other sites at 14-17, 22- 24, 01-03, all jammed except lucky/insignificant Cantonese at 14-15. Nothing specific on 9360 except Sound of Hope jumping around between 9300 and 9380, so 9360 its presumed landing spot today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake March 1: 8400, fair with flutter at 1422; not audible at 1526 10300, fair with flutter at 1427; just barely audible at 1526 14700, good with flutter at 1434 In next hour did complete bandscan 8-22 MHz and only found this too: 13970, poor at 1532. Was not heard an hour earlier. 13725, March 1 at 1533, huge collision of Chinese vs Chinese, with flutter: CNR1 jamming vs R. Free Asia, 1500-1700, 250 kW, 295 degrees via TINIAN, per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1/3/11, 13500, 14h12 Chinese Jammer - unsure what it's jamming due to no station conflicting. Haven't heard the firedragon for some time (Robb Wise, Tasmania, ODXA yg via DXLD) Aoki shows: 13500 SOH Xi Wang Zhi Sheng 2000-1700 1234567 Chinese 0.1 ND ? TWN 11955E2610N SOH b10 So it`s one of the numerous 100-watt Sound of Hope frequencies where one never hears the target, but succeeds in tying up a jammer. You call it ``Chinese`` --- do you mean talk or not? ``Haven`t heard the firedragon for some time`` --- do you mean that now you have, and this was it, or that you still have not? 73, (Glenn Hauser, OK, ibid.) ** CHINA [and non]. 9605, heavy echo-jamming in Chinese, March 2 at 1447, i.e. CNR1 vs BBCWS via Singapore, M-F 1300-1530. No Firedrake found this morning on usual frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGET) ** COLOMBIA. 5910, 26/2 2315, R Alcaraván, romantic songs, fair - at 0530 good (Giampiero Bernardini, et al., Milan ARI DX night, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA. 6035, Feb 25 at 1117, bits of rather distorted Spanish on peaks, vs bleed from 6030 DentroCuban Jamming Command; presumed La Voz del Guaviare, known to be active, and which I never hear during my preferred monitoring windows earlier and later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) LV Guaviare, S.J. Guaviare, 6035, several IDs in Spanish by male, 0007. Also several Colombian stations heard on MW (Maurits Van Driessche, Belgium, UT Feb 27, HCDX via DXLD) 6035.06, 27/2 0115, La Voz del Guaviare, talks, songs, QRM poor/fair (Giampiero Bernardini, et al., Milan ARI DX night, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CONGO DR. ? CONGO, 5066.426, 1530-, Radio Candip, Feb 26, Highly tentative. Note on the waterfall a transmitter with perhaps threshold audio. No dark in Congo for a while yet. If not them, then who? (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) 5066.35, 27/2 0342, Radio Candip, Bunia, talks, weak, fair at 0402 (Giampiero Bernardini, et al., Milan ARI DX night, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COSTA RICA. 5954.26, 27/2 0105, Radio República, talks, weak (Giampiero Bernardini, et al., Milan ARI DX night, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hear any jamming? (gh) ** CUBA. CHE WAS A MURDERER, NOT A HERO The real Ernesto “Che” Guevara was far from the “youthful idealist” celebrated in film and transformed into a global icon, said Nick Gillespie in Reason.com. posted on January 28, 2010, at 2:30 AM “Che” lives, said Nick Gillespie, but what lives is a lie. The real Ernesto “Che” Guevara was far from the “youthful idealist” celebrated in film and transformed into a global icon, his “beret-bedecked” visage plastered on everything from beer labels to T-shirts. The Argentine revolutionary was in reality a rigid Marxist ideologue who believed in—and practiced—murder, torture, and censorship. After gaining power in Castro’s post-revolutionary Cuba, he oversaw the execution of hundreds of political prisoners, becoming known as the “butcher of La Cabaña” prison. As the “effective czar of the Cuban economy,” Guevara’s dogmatic approach was a disaster, engendering the “economic basket case” that is modern Cuba. And despite his status in leftist culture, Che’s cultural influence was as illiberal as his economics; he banned both rock music and jazz as “imperialist.” Yet the “romantic martyrdom” of his death at 39 still fuels a gauzy Che mythology. A sardonic T-shirt young Argentines have taken to wearing says it best: “‘I have a Che T-shirt, and I don’t know why.’” (via The Week, Feb 5, 2010 via DXLD) ** CUBA. LOS RADIOAFICIONADOS Y RADIO REBELDE 2011.02.23 - 08:45:59 / Fundación de Radio Rebelde, por el Che. [caption] Santa Clara, Cuba. - “….Cuando llegó el Che le dije: Bueno ya tenemos aquí los equipos”. Y puse a funcionar la planta de radio tratando de ver si se oía afuera. Me ponía en la banda de radioaficionados y cuando oía que éstos hablaban entre ellos, me ponía en la misma frecuencia y trasmitía el Himno Invasor. Y ellos decían: Vámonos de aquí que se está oyendo música. Ya yo sabía que la planta estaba saliendo….” Este relato de Eduardo Fernández, el técnico que instaló la estación guerrillera en Altos de Conrado poco antes de que saliera al aire su primera transmisión el 24 de febrero de 1958, nos confirma que ese fue su primer reporte de sintonía. Por razones obvias debieron estar los radioaficionados entre los primeros en escuchar la Radio Rebelde, por el hábito de sintonizar las señales audibles en el espectro radioeléctrico en que operan sus equipos y muy pronto sus transmisiones encontraron en ellos, no solo su simpatía como oyentes sino su colaboración activa como sucedió en muchos casos. . . http://www.radiorebelde.cu/noticia/los-radioaficionados-radio-rebelde-20110223/ (via Yimber Gaviría, Colombia, DXLD) ** CUBA. RADIO HABANA CUBA CELEBRA PRIMERA TRANSMISIÓN EXPERIMENTAL La Habana, 24 Feb (RHC). - Como parte de las actividades que realiza Radio Habana Cuba por su aniversario 50, fundadores y trabajadores destacados celebraron la Primera transmisión experimental por onda Corta desde el Centro de Transmisión Internacional en el municipio bauta de la actual Provincia de Artemisa. En el encuentro se reconoció de manera particular la labor desempeñada por el ingeniero Luis Mir, primer jefe del centro de Transmisión Internacional, al Doctor José Altshuler, padre del diseño técnico, Pedro Costa y Dictinio Díaz Viñas, fundadores con responsabilidades durante varios años en la emisora. El periodista de Radio Habana Cuba, Pedro Martínez Pirez destacó la correspondencia recibida de oyentes desde varios puntos del planeta que envían elogios y mensajes de solidaridad con la Revolución cubana. El acto, donde también se celebró el día del comunicador en saludo a la creación de Radio Rebelde en la Sierra Maestra, contó con la presencia de Ulises Guilarte De Nacimento, primer secretario del Partido Comunista de Cuba (PCC) en la provincia de Artemisa, Isidro Betancourt, director de Radio Habana Cuba y Justo Moreno García, director general de Radio Cuba, entre otros funcionarios. La emisora de onda corta Radio Habana Cuba transmitió sus primeros mensajes experimentales el 24 de febrero de 1961 desde un pequeño trasmisor en idioma español dirigido a la zona de América Central, abriendo la primera brecha en el cerco informativo a Cuba. [¿¿WTFK??] El 1ro de mayo de 1961, con la transmisión del desfile de la victoria desde la Plaza de la Revolución José Martí, entonces Plaza Cívica, se constituyó Radio Habana Cuba de manera oficial. FUENTE: http://bit.ly/hbSqUJ (via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, Feb 25, noticiasdx yg via DXLD) ?? No mention above of Arnaldo Coro; to hear him tell it, he was an important `founder` of RHC (gh, DXLD) ** CUBA. 4690.034, SPUR, Radio Rebelde, 1146-1200 Feb 25. Noted a male and female in Spanish language comments which continue to the hour and after. This is parallel on 5025. Signal was fair (Chuck Bolland, Clewiston FL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4690 = seventh harmonic of 670! 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid., WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DXLD) Easy to complete Medium Wave list for Cuban AM, 530 to 1600, with direction amplified ferrite antenna. Need to get past Cuban medium wave for DX (Bob Wilkner, ibid.) Am not sure what your point is; a seventh harmonic of anything from MW *is* DX. 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Glenn, That frequency being a harmonic never crossed my mind. I have seen some of Cuba and Martí stations being "spurs or whatever they are called and that's what I thought I had? Okay - I will try and remember that. No point (Chuck Bolland, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Chuck, My remark was in reply to Bob, about what the point of his comment was. Harmonics and spurs are MORE interesting than ordinary catches, I keep trying to maintain. Please report any such that you hear. All harmonics are spurs, but not all spurs are harmonics. R. Rebelde is a longtime source of various harmonics from MW (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 1080, Radio Cadena Habana, Güines, Matabeque. 1215 February 26, 2011. Caught off guard hearing Radio Havana Cuba's interval signal X 1 here. Turned out to be a promo for some upcoming Radiocuba coordinated networks link-up event, mentioning said along with Radio Mambí and (I swear) Radio Martí. If the latter was heard correctly, is there really a Radio Martí domestic/local station using this name in Cuba? If so, what took 'em so long reclaiming the name? (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Another day, another anomaly on RHC: Feb 27 at 0554 I notice that 6150 is open carrier, while the other English frequencies are musical, 6010, 6050 and barely-audible on the other side of Spain, which has not quite signed off, 6060 aimed toward Europe. RHC`s Sunday-morning mode again in effect, i.e. certain frequencies off, even tho the ``Aló, Presidente`` channels were not on to replace them. These were off at 1445: 12040, 13680, 13750, 15370, 17750. These were on at 1445: 11760, 13780 with `En Contacto` in progress, missed first dekaminute. Will next repeat be an hour+ later again than 2240? Reading another listener essay on the topic ``¿Qué le ha traído a Vd. el diexismo?``, by Daniel (not Camporini) in Argentina. Then `info-postal` quick acknowledgments of a few reception reports, ended at 1449 in time for some RHC promos before doctor show. These were on at 1531, 1534 with RHC: 11730, 15120, 15360; and 11760 open carrier presumably after switch to Esperanto but not confirmed, 1533 resumed with RHC `news`. Not on: 11690 or 15370; not on either, 11680 which other days of week has RNV at 15-16. 15120 however, was on obliterating any signal from Nigeria; usually RHC has it off before 1500, VON-time. Still no 13750 or 17750 El Hugazo at final check 1723. 15370, checking RHC for the weekly 2230 Esperanto service to S America, Sunday Feb 27 at 2246: ``Bésame Mucho`` song, but is it in Esperanto? Yes! ``Kisu Min Multe``, I think the title goes in Esp`o. 2249 announcement I thought about the next conference to be in São Paulo, but Google finds: ``La 96-a Universala Kongreso de Esperanto okazos de la 23-a g^is la 30-a de julio 2011 en Kopenhago, la c^efurbo de Danio``. Note: the circumflex really belongs atop the g and the c, but MS Word conveniently separates them to forestall garbling. Reception declined from fair to poor, audio not too distorted. 11770, Feb 27 at 2252 checking whether `En Contacto` has reappeared at its old timing --- no, RHC is playing a song with Jew`s harp boinging, outroed as by exiled Chilean group during the Pinochet dictatorship. (Ever notice how RHC never refers to the `Castro dictatorship`, or of any other farleftist??) Also on // 12010 and an echo apart on 12040. Unfortunately, I missed checking an hour later when E.C. probably showed. What must have happened is that since RHC started signing on at 2200 instead of 2100, this Revista`s contents are generally one hour later than before, and naturally the online program schedule has still not been updated for at least a biyear; anyway, the contents of that magazine are not shown, must be ascertained by axual monitoring. So I made a special point of catching the final repeat of `En Contacto` which started UT Monday Feb 28 at 0234.6 on 9770 et al. After more birthday greetings than usual, Manolo had a report from Julián Santiago about the new Mexican X-bander, XEANAH, R. Anáhuac on 1670, corrected info of a few weeks ago about the timings for E.C. to Sunday 1435, 2240, 0235 [Monday]. Unfortunately, as above, 2240 is no longer correct either. And now we must be prepared for another one-hour shift earlier by UT when DST starts March 13, to compensate for one-hour later when DST went off last fall; or not? He also gave my correxion on the website for the Spanish DX program audio archive; and into the ``what has DXing brought to you`` essay, which is where I came in earlier on airing #1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 9955, Monday Feb 28 at 1230, nothing but DentroCuban Jamming Command`s wall of noise blocking WORLD OF RADIO on WRMI. Tnx a lot, Arnie! Next WRMI chances are Mon 2230, Tue 1630, Wed 0200, 1630 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Re RHC sites, 11-08: gh`s translation: Dear Glenn, I read in your publication [sic] 1552 of Feb 18, about the photos published by Lev Lytovchenko about the antennas in Quivicán. In reality it is not Quivicán, it`s near San Felipe and La Julia where a railway line passes and the highway further north, on the say to San Antonio de las Vegas. I had to find some correspondence between the satellite images and one of the photos I am sharing with you. I remember when I was in Cuba and traveled on the train (southern line) seeing that antenna field. My greetings and best wishes (Oscar de Céspedes, FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dear Oscar, thanks, haven`t heard from you for a while. The four towers indicate that they are for directional MW, not SW, where there would be more towers with curtains among them (gh, ibid.) Greetings, Glenn, yes I have been away from collaborating. First was the death of my mother, and recently of my father, both in Cuba. I am now resuming collaborating. I`ve found in Google Earth these images from 2005, where the curtain towers can be seen in the zone between San Felipe and La Julia. You said that the satellite photos in my previous message show antennas for directional MW. Therefore we could assume that they could be those of Radio Rebelde, 710 AM, which WRTH lists as 250 kW from La Julia. Thanks for your prompt reply (Oscar, ibid. for shortwavesites yg, via DXLD) ``In reality it is not Quivicán, it`s near San Felipe and La Julia where a railway line passes and the highway further north, on the say to San Antonio de las Vegas.`` We talk a l l about the very same location, - called TITAN in the 90ties, east of Quivican, Arnie Coro calls it in his last e-mail complaint letter as San Felipe. see screen-snap. It's the site with the typical China-antenna-mast-DESIGN. The t w o 4-mast arrays are typical NVIS antennas... [See DXLD 1-140 of 9+ years ago] 73 wolfy (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) As for the 4-tower antennas, maybe they are NVIS, but I was under the impression that those would be low to the ground, while these are obviously quite high. I can`t see from the views whether there are any wires between them, or just individually guyed to the ground. Such 4-tower groups are extremely common in the US for direxional MW arrays. Of course the Cubans may not bother with much direxional MW, which certainly simplifies matters. If they were only interested in broad coverage of the island, higher-powered units would be direxional along its length (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** CUBA. 15330, R H Cuba, ca 1730 1 March with S3 signal and talks in Spanish about revolutionary, Cubans and a telecommunications sub- structure in Caribbean area or in USA (also for fibers!) (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, Standard rig : ICOM R75 / 2x16 V / m@h40 heads Sennheiser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Neither RHC nor R. Martí would be very happy that you have mixed them up, nor anyone advocating referring to online schedule resources (gh) ** CYPRUS [non]. 15478-15503, OTH radar pulses, presumed from here, Feb 25 at 1426, uncomfortably close to the LRA36 frequency 15476, q.v. 13855-13880, OTH radar pulses, also presumed from here, Feb 25 at 1503 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DIEGO GARCIA. 4319, 1328-, AFN, Feb 26, Good reception this morning with NPR programming. // 5765-USB excellent via Guam (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) 4319 also USB, I assume (gh) ** DJIBOUTI. 4780, Rdif. TV de Djibouti, 1446 Feb 26, pop and Middle Eastern music continuous through top of the hour. Very poor, improving to poor, CODAR QRM (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074 W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4780, 1516-, RTV Djibouti, Feb 26, Fair, almost good reception (if not for CODAR) with talk by a male. Possibly in French. I'm measuring 4799.999 on the Perseus (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. 2280 harmonic, Radio Anacaona, 1117-1120, 21- February-2011, In Spanish. Male announcer with local announcements, very bassy audio (logged thanks to NASWA Flash Sheet) harmonic of BCB signal, fair (Ed Wlodarski, N2ED, New Jersey, Ten Tec RX340 & 100 Ft Long Wire, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ** DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. R Amanecer, Santo Domingo, on 6025.140 at 0009 with gospel songs (Maurits Van Driessche, Belgium, UT Feb 27, HCDX via DXLD) ** ECUADOR. 3810-LSB, March 2 at 0728, HD2IOA, Guayaquil in clear with no QRhaM, timesignals every 10 seconds (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. Radio La Voz de los Caras --- Gracias por el interés de nuestra emisora y efectivamente hasta el año 1998 se transmitió en onda corta dado que en ese año se produjo un terremoto de 7.1 en nuestra ciudad y perdimos entre otras cosas nuestro equipo transmisor. Motivo por el cual quedamos solo transmitiendo en FM y en Internet en real audio. Esperamos que siga escuchándonos en estas modalidades. Attos. saludos. RADIO LA VOZ DE LOS CARAS, Ing. Marcelo Nevarez Faggioni NOTA: Usaron hasta el año 1998 la Onda Corta 4795 KHz. Sitio Web: http://www.lvcradio.com/ Facebook: http://es-la.facebook.com/people/Lvcradio-Bahia-Ecuador/1455307222 (via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, DXLD) ** ECUADOR. 4814.984, Radio El Buen Pastor, 1110-1120 Feb 25. At tune in, noted a male in steady Spanish religious comments with words like "Dios" mentioned often (Chuck Bolland, Clewiston FL, 26N 081W, WR- G31DDC, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR [non]. 12160, WWCR2, Sat Feb 26 at 1731 with `DX Partyline`, confirmed on lofi webcast. Having lost the `DX Block` timing a few weeks ago, apparently it was off WWCR for a few weeks; Rumen Pankov heard it last week at this time, right after 1700 WORLD OF RADIO. DXPL still does not appear anywhere on the WWCR program schedule, instead `Calvary Hour` [sic] at 1730-1800 Sats, but presumably DXPL will be added to the March update in a few days. Like everything else, will shift one UT hour earlier from March 13, due to silly DST, i.e. starting March 19 at 1630. So in effect, we have a new ``DX Block``, with` Ask WWCR` scheduled in the final quarter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. Cairo in Arabic, 9305 at 2105 Feb 23. News about Libya. 25332. Presumed Radio Cairo also heard on 6270 at 0052 Feb 24 with blank carrier (Roger Tidy, London, UK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 6270, Radio Cairo, 0313 Feb 26, modulation so low that I could barely hear Arabic instrumental music and for much of the time so audio heard. Carrier producing S-9. Useless (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074, W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, I have noticed Radio Cairo back on 6270 kHz on Sunday February 27 for their European service in various languages starting at 1800 UT in Italian. I am not sure whether Abis or Abu-Zaabal is the site, as a different transmitter is being used. The previous one only suffered from weak modulation, but this transmitter has hum and some distortion as well. All the time and expense they put into producing their programmes is just gone to waste because they cannot maintain their transmitters properly. They might as well give up and close down shortwave altogether. I do remember hearing Radio Cairo's South Asian service in English at 1230 UTC with clear, but rather low modulation back in the 1970s. In those days they operated on 17920 in the aeronautical band. Best wishes, (Alan Holder, Isle of Wight, UK, Feb 28, WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6270, 27 Feb - R. Cairo noted signing-on at 1800 in (I presume) Italian, though difficult to tell. I haven't checked for English later at 2115 for the last few nights, but nothing has been heard at that time for a while. I'll try and check later this evening to see if English has resumed (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Still limited schedule of R Cairo? At 2030 UT only 3 outlets noted: 6270 terrible modulation, nx in French S=6 probably old Abis site. 9280 S=7 9305, strongest S=9+15 dB signal. nothing heard here on 6290 6860 9250 9295 9855 9900, and 11540 kHz. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Feb 27, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Cairo back on 6270 kHz --- Radio Cairo's European service which has been missing for the past month is back on the air. I heard it yesterday (27 Feb) on 6270 kHz for the first time since late January, and it`s on the air again today. Strong signal, but poor modulation. The schedule is: 1800-1900 Italian 1900-2000 German 2000-2115 French 2115-2245 English 73s (Dave Kenny, Feb 28, BDXC-UK yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DXLD) ** EL SALVADOR. CELEBRAN EN EL SALVADOR ANIVERSARIO DE RADIO NACIONAL San Salvador, 28 feb (PL) La estatal Radio Nacional de El Salvador celebra sus 85 años de vida inmersa en un proceso de cambios para consolidar sus noticiarios y programación, afirmó hoy su director, Óscar Venancio Ramírez. La emisora fue fundada el 1 de marzo de 1926 con el nombre de Radio AQM, las siglas del entonces presidente de la república, Alfonso Quiñones Molina, representante de una de las familias más ricas de la nación. . . FUENTE: http://bit.ly/graReM Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/radionacional.elsalvador?sk=wall Sitio Web: http://www.radioelsalvador.com.sv/ (Prensa Latina [Cuban Communist] via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, DXLD) Rather superficial, no SW mentioned; YSS was on 9555 for a number of years (gh, DXLD) ** ERITREA. 4760, 27/2 0302, Voice of Broad Masses, talks weak //7175 (Giampiero Bernardini, et al., Milan ARI DX night, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4770.00, 0310-0320 24.02, Voice of the Broad Masses of Eritrea-2, Asmara Afar (presumed) talk, Horn of Africa songs 35333 // 7175, back from 4760.00 where it was heard on Feb 22 at 0310-0405 in Arabic and vernacular (Anker Petersen, here in Skovlunde, Denmark, on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) 7175, 0330-, Voice of the Broad Masses of Eritrea 2, Feb 26, Tentative reception with non-stop talk. My lists show them signing on at 0355, but they were clearly on much earlier. Brief Horn of Africa music at 0359, then a musical bridge, and back into talk at 0400. Strongest of the channels from that part of the world (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) 7175, 26/2 0520, VOBME - Asmara, Amarico MX buono (Roberto Pavanello, Vercelli / Italia, via Roberto Scaglione, shortwave yg via DXLD) ERITREIA, 7175, Voice of the Broad Masses, Selai Dairo, 1739-1800*, 27 Feb, Arabic, interviews, some music, natl. anthem; 45444, only occasional amateur QRM (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA. 5950, 27/2 0355, Voice of Tigray Revolution, Horn of Africa songs, very good (Giampiero Bernardini, et al., Milan ARI DX night, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [and non]. 6090, 27/2 0540, R. Nigeria, Kaduna & Amhara State Radio fighting together, both with talks, good signals but jam (Giampiero Bernardini, et al., Milan ARI DX night, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA. 7130, Uli, heute morgen um 0500-0700 UT auf der einzelnen Frequenz 7130 kHz ein breitbandiges digital-Rauschen - hoechstwahrscheinlich aus Ethiopia. Feb 23 (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Feb 23 via BC-DX Feb 25 via DXLD) Wideband digital noise ** ETHIOPIA. 7235.190, 0404-, Voice of Peace and Democracy, Feb 26, Tentative reception at poor to fair level, with a het audible from an on-frequency station (?Belarus). Low level talk, but not much else audible. Listed // is also off frequency on 9560.335 and also very weak (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) [and non]. 7235, Feb 26 at 1431, after hearing the MADAGASCAR long- path het on 6135, I check here for Ethiopia`s always-off-frequency transmitter, and there it is, a het of a different pitch, against VOA Korean via Tinang, PHILIPPINES (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA. 9705, Radio Ethiopia, 2050-2101*, Feb 25, local Horn of Africa style music. Possible Amharic news at 2057. National Anthem at 2059. Fair (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** EUROPE. At long last Sunday February 27th 2011 the final & 3rd FRS 30th Anniversary broadcast will take place. We will complete the FRS Anthology! Next Sunday 27th February we will feature the period 1998- 2010. Mind you: we will kick off at already 0752 UT = 08.52 CET. In contrast with our previous mail, a change has taken place. 6085 will be on for the complete 6 hours 08-14 UT. No alternative 48 mb frequency will be used. March 6th could see a repeat of part of the shows lasting 2 or 3 hours. We are understandably curious to receive your letters and mails. That's very important for us and that's the only way in which you can show your respect and interest. Here's the schedule: 0752-1400 UT 7600 // 5800 kHz 0752-1400 UT 6085 kHz Of course we have special QSLs for this broadcast. With the ones issued for the previous two broadcasts, it will form the FRS 30th Anniversary QSL Series. Hope to have your company on the 27th; it will be great fun: 30 Years of FRS-Holland on SW! 73s, on behalf of the FRS staff (Peter V., Jan van Dijk, Paul Graham, Dave Scott, Brian & Bobby Speed) (via Roberto Scaglione, Feb 25, shortwave yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DXLD) HOLLAND?, 7600, 6085 and 5800, Free Radio Service Holland, 7600, *0752-0820, 27-02, signing on at 0752, male, English: "This is the Free Radio Service Holland on 7600, 6085 and 5800 kHz Short Wave, international program in Dutch, German and English, a very good morning. The Free Radio Service Holland 30 anniversary." Good signal on 7600 and 5800, and fair on 6085 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DX LISTENING DIGEST) FRS Holland 6085? Feb 27. Unsure if on 0838 were transmitting but signal was just S2 level with talks. At 0841 with music. Recording: http://www.mediafire.com/?yvub2i6cheviiec As for 7600 with just a marginal signal at 0844. Nothing on 5800 At 0910+ there is a strong local noise across the band. Recording http://www.mediafire.com/?bix2by8j288bael (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, ICOM R75 / 2x16 V / m@h40 heads Sennheiser, WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DX LISTENING DIGEST) EUROPE. 5800.2, Free R Service Holland, site?, 1113-, 27 Feb, English, FRS advertisements, music; 24442. 6085, FRS Holland, site?, 1119-, 27 Feb, cf. \\ 5800.2; 15431. 7600.1, FRS Holland, site?, 1111-, 27 Feb, cf. \\ 5800.2; 34443, RTTY QRM (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. 15605, RFI at 1611 Feb 25, in English with news. Slight dual path echo. Good (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074 W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15605, 1614-, Radio France International, Feb 25, Thanks again to Harold Sellers for pointing out RFI in English at very strong level, but with short path/long path echo. 500 kW listed from Issoudun (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** GERMANY. 6005, Radio Gloria at 0904 Feb 27 with nearly no signal, but just a very poor signal trace on SSB 0931 with a rock music followed by talks by OM Also on 1019! With old rock songs and ID as R Gloria!! and a signal S2 max and clear 'underground' Recording: http://www.mediafire.com/?9a8wxzev8mgj9o8 (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, ICOM R75 / 2x16 V / m@h40 heads Sennheiser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. Radio 6150 test --- Low power test from Radio 6150 Friday from Munich: Low-Power-Test auf 6.150 kHz. Start: Ca. 7.30 MEZ, bis ca. 17.00 MEZ. [0630-1600 UT] Reports an: qsl @ radio6150.de (Andree Bollin, Germany, 1247 UT Feb 25, BDXC-UK yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DXLD) New shortwave station in Germany starts (very low power) tests. Hello everybody! A new shortwave radio station with the Name "Radio6150" starts - big surprise- on 6150 kHz. Frequency seem already be approved by the "Bundesnetzagentur", but additional measurements have to be done before using more power. 6150 is testing now with 5 Watts (!) only, but wants to broadcast up to 6 kW. They play a short testloop in three languages, English, Dutch and German. This is now the fourth frequency used by private - more or less - low powered stations: 5980 (Hamburger Lokalradio), 6005 (Radio 700), 6085 (Radio Gloria / diverse Stations, right now Free Radio Service Holland) and now 6150 kHz. Let`s wait and see how shortwave develops in Germany. :-) 73, (Stephan Schaa, Germany, Feb 27, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Amazing reception in northern Italy right now at 1210 UT. Is that really 5 watt? Outdoor reception with Tecsun pl380 on the hills south of Alessandria (Andrea Lawendel, Feb 27, ibid.) From "qsl@radio6150.de": Hello, we're sorry to bother you again with our test loop, but today we are running the 5 watts TX modulated by the Optimod AM system, to increase the audio signal. We need reports, to compare this signal to the one without signal processing; please send us a few lines, maybe with an audio recording; thank you! Our signal is on 6.150 kHz, location north of Munich. Radio 6150" 73 from (Salzburg, Christoph Ratzer, Austria, -- http://www.ratzer.at http://a-dx.at/facebook/ http://www.facebook.com/christoph.dxer dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [and non]. Winter B-10 schedule of Media Broadcast (MBR). Part 2 of 4: Adventist World Radio 0500-0600 on 5975 WER 100 kW / 120 deg Daily to EaEu Bulgarian 1600-1630 on 6100 WER 100 kW / 120 deg Daily to EaEu Bulgarian 1000-1100 on 9610 NAU 100 kW / 180 deg Sun to SoEu Italian 0700-0800 on 11975 WER 100 kW / 210 deg Daily to NoAf Arabic 0800-0830 on 11975 WER 100 kW / 210 deg Daily to NoAf Kabyle 0800-0830 on 12010 WER 100 kW / 210 deg Daily to NoAf French 0830-0900 on 12010 WER 100 kW / 210 deg Daily to NoAf Tachelhit 1730-1800 on 9595 WER 100 kW / 210 deg Daily to NoAf Kabyle 1900-1930 on 11760 WER 100 kW / 210 deg Daily to NoAf Arabic 1930-2000 on 11760 WER 100 kW / 210 deg Daily to NoAf Tachelhit 2000-2030 on 9805 WER 100 kW / 210 deg Daily to NoAf French 1900-2000 on 9535 NAU 125 kW / 215 deg Daily to NoAf Arabic 0300-0330 on 7370 WER 250 kW / 135 deg Daily to EaAf Tigrigna 0300-0330 on 7315 WER 250 kW / 135 deg Daily to EaAf Oromo 0330-0400 on 7315 WER 250 kW / 135 deg Daily to EaAf Amharic 1630-1700 on 17575 ISS 250 kW / 125 deg Daily to EaAf Somali 1730-1800 on 11795 WER 250 kW / 135 deg Daily to EaAf Oromo 1200-1230 on 15495 NAU 250 kW / 085 deg Daily to SoAs English 1230-1300 on 15495 NAU 250 kW / 085 deg Daily to SoAs Bangla 1500-1530 on 11955 WER 250 kW / 090 deg Daily to SoAs Punjabi 1530-1600 on 11895 WER 250 kW / 075 deg Daily to SoAs Hindi 1500-1530 on 11675 WER 250 kW / 075 deg Daily to SoAs Nepali 1530-1600 on 11675 WER 250 kW / 075 deg Daily to SoAs English 1300-1330 on 13755 NAU 250 kW / 070 deg Mon-Fri to EaAs Chinese 1300-1330 on 13755 NAU 250 kW / 070 deg Sat/Sun to EaAs Uyghur 1330-1500 on 11725 NAU 250 kW / 070 deg Daily to EaAs Chinese (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, 1 March via DXLD) Bible Voice Broadcasting Network BVBN 0800-0830 on 7220 NAU 100 kW / 280 deg Sun to WeEu English 0800-0845 on 7220 NAU 100 kW / 280 deg Sat to WeEu English 1900-1930 on 6030 WER 125 kW / 060 deg Tue to EaEu Russian 1900-1915 on 6030 WER 125 kW / 060 deg Thu to EaEu Ukrainian 1900-1915 on 6030 WER 125 kW / 060 deg Fri to EaEu Russian 1915-1945 on 6030 WER 125 kW / 060 deg Sat to EaEu English 1900-2000 on 6030 WER 125 kW / 060 deg Sun to EaEu English 1800-1830 on 7425 WER 100 kW / 240 deg Sun to SoEu Spanish 0900-1000 on 17545 WER 125 kW / 135 deg Fri to NEAf Arabic 1930-1945 on 9510 WER 125 kW / 180 deg Sat to WeAf French 1945-2000 on 9510 WER 125 kW / 180 deg Sat to WeAf Adja 1830-1845 on 9510 WER 100 kW / 150 deg Sun to WCAf Swahili 2045-2115 on 6145 WER 125 kW / 210 deg Daily to CeAf French 1630-1700 on 11875 WER 100 kW / 150 deg Daily to EaAf Nuer 1700-1730 on 11875 WER 100 kW / 150 deg Daily to EaAf Dinka 1600-1630 on 11965 ISS 100 kW / 131 deg Mon/Thu to EaAf Oromo 1600-1700 on 11965 ISS 100 kW / 131 deg Mon/Fri to EaAf Amharic 1700-1730 on 11965 ISS 100 kW / 131 deg Mon/Tue/Fri to EaAf Tigrinya 1730-1830 on 11965 ISS 100 kW / 131 deg Mon/Tue/Fri to EaAf Amharic 1630-1700 on 11965 ISS 100 kW / 131 deg Tue to EaAf Amharic 1630-1800 on 11965 ISS 100 kW / 131 deg Wed to EaAf Amharic 1630-1830 on 11965 ISS 100 kW / 131 deg Thu/Sat/Sun to EaAf Amharic 1600-1630 on 11965 ISS 100 kW / 131 deg Fri/Sun to EaAf Oromo 1800-1830 on 11965 ISS 100 kW / 131 deg Fri-Sun to EaAf Somali 1800-1900 on 6110 WER 125 kW / 120 deg Sat/Sun to N/ME English 1715-1730 on 7355 WER 100 kW / 120 deg Mon/Wed/Fri to N/ME Arabic 0430-0500 on 7410 WER 250 kW / 120 deg Tue/Wed/Thu to N/ME Arabic 0500-0515 on 7410 WER 250 kW / 120 deg Fri to N/ME Arabic 1645-1700 on 9460 NAU 100 kW / 130 deg Mon/Wed to N/ME English 1645-1720 on 9460 NAU 100 kW / 130 deg Tue to N/ME English 1800-1815 on 9460 NAU 100 kW / 130 deg Tue to N/ME English 1815-1900 on 9460 NAU 100 kW / 130 deg Tue to N/ME Hebrew 1645-1745 on 9460 NAU 100 kW / 130 deg Thu to N/ME English 1645-1715 on 9460 NAU 100 kW / 130 deg Fri to N/ME English 1645-1830 on 9460 NAU 100 kW / 130 deg Sat to N/ME English 1630-1915 on 9460 NAU 100 kW / 130 deg Sun to N/ME English 1700-1720 on 11915 WER 250 kW / 120 deg Mo/Tu/Th/Fr to N/ME Arabic 1700-1735 on 11915 WER 250 kW / 120 deg Wed to N/ME Arabic 1800-1830 on 7365 WER 100 kW / 090 deg Mon/Wed/Fri to WeAs Persian 1800-1900 on 7365 WER 100 kW / 090 deg Tue/Thu to WeAs Persian 1800-1815 on 7365 WER 100 kW / 090 deg Sat to WeAs English 1830-1900 on 7365 WER 100 kW / 090 deg Sun to WeAs Persian 1530-1545 on 9410 WER 250 kW / 105 deg Sun to WeAs Persian 1900-2000 on 9470 WER 250 kW / 105 deg Sat to WeAs English 1900-1915 on 9470 WER 250 kW / 105 deg 1st Sun to WeAs English 1915-1945 on 9470 WER 250 kW / 105 deg Sun to WeAs English 1630-1830 on 9925 WER 100 kW / 105 deg Daily to WeAs Persian 0030-0100 on 5950 WER 250 kW / 090 deg Mon-Thu to SoAs Hindi 0030-0100 on 5950 WER 250 kW / 090 deg Fri-Sun to SoAs English 1500-1515 on 12035 WER 250 kW / 090 deg Sun to SoAs English 1430-1500 on 13635 WER 250 kW / 090 deg Sat to SoAs English 1345-1415 on 13635 WER 250 kW / 090 deg 1st Sun to SoAs English 1415-1430 on 13635 WER 250 kW / 090 deg Sun to SoAs English 1530-1600 on 13670 WER 100 kW / 090 deg Wed-Fri to SoAs English 1515-1545 on 13670 WER 100 kW / 090 deg Sat to SoAs English (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, 1 March via DXLD) ** GERMANY [non]. DW A-11, ENGLISH: 0000 - 0058 TRINCOMALE South-East Asia daily 250 09885 kHz (31 m) TRINCOMALE Far East daily 250 13780 kHz (22 m) - 0100 KABUL Kabul daily 50 001 00090. MHz (FM) 0300 - 0358 TRINCOMALE South Asia daily 250 12005 kHz (25 m) - 0400 TRINCOMALE South Asia daily 400 01548 kHz (MW) TALATA VO. South Asia daily 250 15595 kHz (19 m) 0400 - 0457 KIGALI West Africa daily 250 07240 kHz (41 m) - 0459 DHABAYYA East Africa daily 250 13840 kHz (22 m) - 0500 KIGALI Kigali daily 00 002 00096. MHz (FM) SINES West Africa daily 250 06180 kHz (49 m) TRINCOMALE East Africa daily 250 15400 kHz (19 m) 0500 - 0530 SINES North & West Africa daily 250 06180 kHz (49 m) RAMPISHAM West Africa daily 500 07430 kHz (41 m) KIGALI South Africa daily 250 09480 kHz (31 m) - 0600 KABUL Kabul daily 50 001 00090. MHz (FM) KIGALI Kigali daily 00 002 00096. MHz (FM) 0600 - 0630 SINES West Africa daily 250 09545 kHz (31 m) KIGALI West Africa daily 250 15275 kHz (19 m) - 0700 KIGALI Kigali daily 00 002 00096. MHz (FM) 0700 - 0800 KIGALI Kigali daily 00 002 00096. MHz (FM) 0900 - 0959 KRANJI Far East daily 250 15640 kHz (19 m) - 1000 KIGALI Kigali daily 00 002 00096. MHz (FM) TRINCOMALE Far East daily 250 17820 kHz (16 m) 1100 - 1200 KABUL Kabul daily 50 001 00090. MHz (FM) KIGALI Kigali daily 00 002 00096. MHz (FM) 1530 - 1600 KABUL Kabul daily 50 001 00090. MHz (FM) 1600 - 1658 TRINCOMALE South Asia daily 250 06170 kHz (49 m) - 1659 RAMPISHAM South Asia daily 500 15410 kHz (19 m) - 1700 KABUL Kabul daily 50 001 00090. MHz (FM) TRINCOMALE South Asia daily 400 01548 kHz (MW) 1800 - 1900 KIGALI Kigali 7 00 002 00096. MHz (FM) 1900 - 1930 KIGALI South Africa daily 250 06150 kHz (49 m) TRINCOMALE East Africa daily 250 09735 kHz (31 m) RAMPISHAM Africa daily 500 11795 kHz (25 m) SINES Africa daily 250 17610 kHz (16 m) - 2000 KIGALI Kigali daily 00 002 00096. MHz (FM) 2000 - 2057 KIGALI South Africa daily 250 06150 kHz (49 m) - 2100 KIGALI Kigali daily 00 002 00096. MHz (FM) 2100 - 2200 KIGALI Kigali daily 00 002 00096. MHz (FM) 2200 - 2300 KABUL Kabul daily 50 001 00090. MHz (FM) 2300 - 0000 KABUL Kabul daily 50 001 00090. MHz (FM) KIGALI Kigali daily 00 002 00096. MHz (FM) (From the complete DW A-11 schedule via Jaisakthivel, Feb 28, dxldyg via DXLD) Drastic cutbacks in SW usage, as expected. These schedules have long had a lot of FM mixed in, of limited interest only around Kigali and Kabul, but now there is a lot less SW, so I have left the FM in for comparison. North Americans who have been enjoying sufficient reception from Rwanda on the 20 or 21 UT broadcasts on 9, 11 or 15 MHz should prepare to lose them, as 20`s only SW frequency will be 6150, and at 21 only on local FM! We might still have a chance at 1900-1930 on 11795, 15610 via Europe (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DX LISTENING DIGEST)) As far as North American listeners go, the West Africa English beam from Kigali at 0400 on 7240 is back for another A-season. But I don't see anything in English on shortwave at 2100, which used to include a Kigali 19 meter frequency for West Africa (that also did well to NA.) Is this transmission gone or just inadvertently left out of this particular schedule? Will need time to digest the rest, but it seems there have been a few transmitter-hour trims elsewhere (Steve Luce, Houston, TX, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 4874.92, 2330-2345 27.02, Harmonic of Greek Pirate, Greek announcement, Bouzuki music 23232 heard // original on 1625 MW (35433) (Anker Petersen, latest loggings done on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire here in Skovlunde, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) 4988.55, 27/2 0525, Greek pirate, songs, good, drifting 5097, 27/2 0310, Greek pirate, 3 x Harmonic, slow songs, drifting, fair (Giampiero Bernardini, et al., Milan ARI DX night, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) = 1699 ** GUAM. 5765-USB, AFN still missing another day, Feb 25 at 1228 and some later chex (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5765-USB, AFN, 1147 + 1353, Feb 25, third day off the air. 5765-USB, AFN, 1051, Feb 27. “Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour” with bluegrass music from Kentucky; Rhonda Vincent, et al.; unable to confirm if it’s a standard AFN program, as was too early for AFN Diego Garcia, but at 1325 was // DG with regular AFN programming; fair-good (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5765-USB, AFN still AWOL, Feb 28 at 1255 check. 5765-USB, AFN is back, March 1 at 1412 during phone conversation with YL in studio about taxes, public employees, health costs, probably Dr Joy Browne show as usual at this hour when AFN has not switched to country music format. Better signal than usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. 11690, in absence of RHC since it`s Sunday and there is no `Aló, Presidente`, at this hour, another weak signal losing out to perpetual RTTY on the low side, Feb 27 at 1534, music I tentatively qualified as ME, but not quite, listed as KSDA in Kannada at 1530- 1600, 100 kW, 285 degrees from Agat. 15320, KSDA with AWR Wavescan in progress, UT Sunday Feb 27 at 2240, sufficient signal, Jeff White interviewing Oldrich Cip [with a hook over the C] at HFCC Praha. They would still like to meet in Tunis sometime when things settle down; next one will be in Dallas TX, August. Also noted there has not been much reduxion in number of registrations in the HFCC database, despite some stations going off the air, which really didn`t have that much frequency usage. (Also, major existing stations, notably BBC and IBB, have unnecessarily fragmented themselves more and more into one-hour blox on different frequencies, I moan.) 2245 program ID by Allen Graham, who I seriously doubt is an Adventist any more than Jeff White or Oldrich Cip are, 2246 on to some downunderite, but I`d already had my nap so QSYed 50 kHz up to CUBA, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. 9975, Feb 28 at 1231, KTWR IS, 1232 ID pronounced in English as KTWR, Agana, Guam, into Chinese. She said Agana, not Agaña. I wonder what the percentages are for each among natives/residents of Guam, or should I say Guahan. HFCC shows `cmn` presumably meaning Chinese Mandarin, daily 1230-1330 at 305 degrees. Aoki refines this to Sun-Fri in Chinese at 315 degrees, Saturday at 1230-1300 in Hui at 305 degrees. EiBi misses the latter, but all three show strange variations in the 1130-1500 period (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. 4052.479, Radio Verdad, 1130-1145 Feb 25, Noted a program of religious English comments and music. Signal was armchair (Good) during the period (Chuck Bolland, Clewiston FL, 26N 081W, WR- G31DDC, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4052.5-, R. Verdad, Feb 25 is on earlier than sometimes, at 1124 with sermon in English mentioning Jesus Christ, resurrexion. 1130 outro of `Thru the Bible Radio` with program contact info. 1131 local ID in English as Radio Truth, asking for reports and offering banner and QSL, accompanied by organ(?) music. Then hymn medley, local performance? With small choir and piano, such as `Blessèd Lord Jesus`, `Softly & Tenderly`, `Faith of our Fathers`, 1139 `He Walks with Me`. S9+12, SIO 333, BFO helps; it`s atop a lite het from 4050, probably KWMO x 3, and with not very tight unmodified FRG-7 selectivity, after 1130 also some USB from the 4045 marine weather net based in Florida. Fortunately, the bonker around 4040 was far enough away. Recheck at 1156, still audible with `Let My People Go`, 1202 `Swing Low, Sweet Chariot`. BTW, at this hour, TGAV had a better signal than the finale of BBC Mundo in Spanish on WHRI 9410! see UK [non]. 1222 still playing hymns but weakening vs the 4050 het. BTW, with such specific program details, I am more interested in documenting what I heard than suppressing info in order to thwart phony QSL-hunters. DXers are hereby notified that they are on their honor to pick up and report the station themselves; and station QSLers are equally on notice to beware of false reports suspiciously matching mine. R. Verdad is celebrating its eleventh anniversary Feb 26, with special programming in the afternoon/evening (also webcast), congratulations. And has a new QSL card. See and hear: http://www.radioverdad.org/ and DXLD 11-08, at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1108.txt We broke news about this new station to the DX community in 2000, so have always had a fondness for TGAV and its generosity to and appreciation of SW listeners, now the last remaining active SW station in Guatemala. 4052.5-, trying to hear R. Verdad`s eleventh anniversary show, Feb 27 at 0138, but not making it, so I bring up the webcast via http://www.radioverdad.org --- just in time! As they are reading my greeting in translation, then one from Manolo de la Rosa of RHC. Reconfirms they are now running 210 watts, and that Satan was responsible for the breakdown of part of their 500 watt transmitter in December. 0147 played the ``Himno a R. Verdad``, also on website via http://www.radioverdad.org/node/164 0157 another greeting from Rafael Rodríguez in Bogotá, and more studio discussion between Dr. Madrid and another announcer, as they introduced more staff members, one of whom was sick and could not be there for the celebration. By 0549, 4052.5- had become audible, hymn with piano, S9+12, some het from 4050. Earlier, Dr Madrid replied by e-mail Feb 25 to my greeting: ``Dear Glenn: Thank you for your new report, and congratulation for our anniversary. Our present current power is 210 watts. Engineer Ralph Borthwick just informed me today that our two other PA amplifier modules are working fine already. We just need them to be sent to Guatemala, and probably have to pay a large amount of tax again for them. As soon as I receive one of those two modules, we'll raise power up to probably 500 watts or more. We have the crystal on hand for changing into 4055 kHz, but we don't have the equipment to measure the exact frequency for the time of changing the crystal. Whenever we do it, we'll inform you. Our transmitter, with only one PA amplifier module, is operating very fine, and the strength power is very high. However, we are facing a constant trouble: The Control Card is working badly, and we have to wait from two to three hours every time we put the power on, and the radio frequencies raise up so delayed. The card is stuck in its sockets, and I am afraid to force it out, because that may cause some damage, and we could go off the air for a long time again. So, I prefer to continue with such a difficulty. And, electricity fails many times in Chiquimula, and a slight failure will put our transmitter off the air for about three hours every time it happens. May God bless you, Dr. Édgar Madrid, Radio Verdad`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glen[n], I was also listening to Radio Verdad online till 0300 UT on 27th Feb. Heard you message being mentioned several times during the program. Regards, (Alokesh Gupta, VU3BSE, New Delhi, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4052.46, 27/2 0435, Radio Verdad, talks, music, weak (Giampiero Bernardini, et al., Milan ARI DX night, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4052.5, Radio Verdad, 0454 Feb 27, church organ music, 0500 chimes, man with announcements, hymns back to back. Listened to 0540 and no announcements heard. At 0602 re-check, heard woman giving address in Guatemala in Spanish. Poor, improving to fair and back to very poor (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074 W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4052.5, Radio Verdad, Chiquimula, 0543-0609*, 27-02, religious songs in English and comments by man, identification: "Radio Verdad, Chiquimula, Guatemala". Anthem and close down at 0609. 15321- (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, 27 Km. W of Lugo, Grundig Satellit 500 and Sony ICF SW 7600 G, Cable antenna, 10 meters, faced WSW, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUINEA. GUINÉ-Conacri, 4899.95 Familia FM, Timbi Madina, 1912-1955, 25 Feb, Vernacular, talks, interviews, local songs; 35333 (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUINEA. 7125, RTG shows up again, Feb 26 at 0646 check in French with drumming, about Libya; no QRhaM at the moment, as the AROs avoid this AM intruder in astonishment (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7125, R. Guinée, Sonfonya, 1901-1957, 25 Feb, French, songs, announcements, more songs, news at 1945; 55444; noted off at 2150. Silent on Sat 27/2 at 1955,and not heard at any other time after this observation... so unlike previous reports, this is far from being active on a regular basis (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7125, Radio Guinea, Conakry, 0733-0745, 27-02, African songs. 23322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, 27 Km. W of Lugo, Grundig Satellit 500 and Sony ICF SW 7600 G, Cable antenna, 10 meters, faced WSW, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7125, RTG, intruding March 2 at 0720, S9+18 but just barely modulated so I can`t even be sure it`s French, but probably. Some ACI from ARO SSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HAWAII. Besides THAILAND [q.v.] as I was tuning down from 9765 to 5765, Feb 25 at 1229, I also passed a US marine weather broadcast on 8764.5 in the usual distorted SSB transmission --- is anyone paying attention? Any ham running overdriven SSB like that would be ashamed, and quickly advised of it by his peers. Did not hang around to ID it, or pin down the frequency but seemed 8764.5 instead of 8764.0, as listed here: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/marine/hfvoice.htm for three US Coast Guard stations, NMN Chesapeake VA, NMC Pt Reyes CA, and NMO Honolulu. Schedule does not show end times, but the one starting most recently at 1200 is NMO, so presumed this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HONDURAS [and non]. 3250.0, Feb 25 at 1223, weak Spanish, no doubt HRPC, with SAH, no doubt Korea North, both very close to nominal frequency, and matching MW 1250 stations (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) N Korea measured steady on 3250.04: Honduras, when on, has been measured at 3250.06v (Jim Young, CA, Feb 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) So they are 20v Hz apart (gh, DXLD) ** INDIA. 4760, 1508-, AIR, Feb 26, I'm hearing weak audio from AIR. On the waterfall there are two transmitters: 4760.000 and 4760.011, so presumably both AIR transmitters? ** INDIA. 4775.009, 1515-, AIR Imphal, Feb 26, Presumably them at poor to fair level under CODAR interference with talk (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** INDIA. 4810, A.I.R. Bhopal, 1451 Feb 26, Indian music, woman in Hindi with announcement at 1452, then no audio for three minutes, when heard again it was very weak. Had been on top of Armenia, but after 1455 it was well under. Very poor (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074 W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4810, 1523-, AIR Bhopal, Feb 26, Two stations cochannel, with the dominant on 4809.988 and another on 4810.000. Presumably one is AIR Bhopal and the other Armenian National Radio. Fair reception (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** INDIA. 4840.004, 1533-, AIR Mumbai, Feb 26, Fair reception with news in I'm sure English. Slightly on the high side at 4840.004 (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** INDIA. 4879.997, 1534-, AIR Lucknow, Feb 26, Poor reception slightly below frequency (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** INDIA. 4895.036, 1535-, AIR Kurseong. Feb 26. Fair to good reception in English. Note: they're quite off frequency! (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** INDIA. 4895, Feb 25 [not 20 typoed in original report] at 1327, best of several weak 60m frequencies matching AIR outlets, YL in S Asian language past 1330. Was hoping for an English newscast. Probably AIR Kurseong with Kolkata programming. I was thinking this had been reported slightly off, but measured right on 4895.0 now. Only other possibility is Mongolia. Most AIR stations have a long English newscast at 1530 but that is too late for us in deep North America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non] Glenn, I would say you do have AIR Kurseong, and possibly Mongolia at the same time. They are both measured at 4895.00, however careful listening suggests they are some two to three cycles off from each other. After 1500, Mongolia disappears (// 4830), and Kurseong is still predominant. Campo Grande Brazil is nearest station at 4894.92, but not there in the morning, of course. In December, Mongolia and Kurseong both in early PM on some days, but hampered by Campo Grande at that hour (0030-0130 +/-) when Brazil on (Jim Young, CA, Feb 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Tnx, Jim. On this occasion there was no sign of a second station on 4895; I would be quite surprised to get Mongolia here (gh, DXLD) ** INDIA. 4910.005, 1539-, AIR Jaipur, Feb 26, Just at threshold level, slightly above nominal frequency. Carrier relatively strong, but modulation very weak (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** INDIA. 4965, 1549-, AIR Shimla, Feb 26, Decent carrier, and on- frequency, but with very low modulation (we are getting well after dawn, though). Potentially also could just be an OC (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) 4966.00, AIR Shimla (tent), found here at 1506 check, with no to little audio (as observed on 4965.0 this last week). Could not ID as no TS heard at 1530 due to lack of audio. With several AIR stations observed off frequency for short periods this winter season, I suspect this may also be the case. AIR on 4840, 4920, 5010, and 5040 heard, but little audio with them as well. Heard past 1600, with nothing else noted on 4965.0. 2-27 (Jim Young, Wrightwood, CA, ICOM IC756ProIII + 40-M yagi + antenna tuner NASWA yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DXLD) 4965.0, AIR Shimla, 1430, March 1. Checking on yesterday’s reception by Jim Young (CA) of probably Shimla on 4966.0, but today found them on their usual frequency; news in English; // 9425 till 1435. One of their better receptions. AIR Jeypore (5040) noted off the air (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 4970.008, 1551-, AIR Shillong, Feb 26, Fair to good reception with music. Slightly on the high side (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** INDIA. 4989.989, 1530-, AIR Itanagar, Feb 26, Tentative at best. Very weak, and marred by CW interference. Low on frequency. Could also be the Chinese (PBS Hunan) (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** INDIA. 5040, 1530-, AIR Jeypore, Feb 26, Fair reception, and right on frequency. CODAR interference. Into English news at 1530 (I'm fairly sure) (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** INDIA. The following special broadcasts are scheduled by AIR: 25 Feb 2011, Special programs in connection with Railway Budget 2011 presentation in Parliament: 0600-0800 UT 6190 9595 15185 15260 all via Delhi. 28 Feb 2011, Special programs in connection with General Budget 2011 presentation in Parliament: 0500 to 0730 UT 11620, 15020, 15205 all via Delhi. All the stations of AIR will relay these special broadcasts (including regional stations operating on 6 & 7 MHz at that time) 73 (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, Feb 25, dx_india yg via DXLD) ** INDIA. All India Radio, 6280 at 2100 Feb 23 in English. News about Maoists releasing captives. 45444. Also heard, but much weaker, on 7550, 25342. On 6055, heard with programme of Indian music at 2250, 45343 (Roger Tidy, London, UK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 3325, Feb 25 at 1316, usual Indonesian chat show, ergo RRI Palangkaraya, peaking now after sunrise, as not much audible an hour earlier. 1332 still going with conversation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3325.008, 1359-, RRI Palangkaraya, Feb 25, Very good reception with an IS I didn't recognize at 1359 and then into Bahasa Indonesian programming just before the TOH (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) 3325, 26/2 2228, RRI Palangkaraya, talks, like ID on 30 [= at 2230?] woman, talks like news, weak to fair, fade out around 2250 (Giampiero Bernardini, et al., Milan ARI DX night, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3325, RRI Palangkaraya, 1414 Feb 27, instrumental music, 1415 woman in Indo with mention of Radio Republik Indonesia, male announcer, mention Kalimantan. Very good (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074 W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 3345, at 1334 Feb 25, talking going to music while 3325 is also in, so I presume RRI Ternate, rather than PNG Poppondetta believed inactive (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3345, RRI Ternate, 1407 Feb 26, man in Indonesian, took phone calls from listeners which were very brief, may have been a contest. Very good. 1023 Feb 27, pop Indo songs, almost Arabic sounding. Strong (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074 W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 3995.015, 1404-, RRI Kendari, Sulawesi, Feb 25, Good reception with Indonesian music. A ham cochannel same frequency marred things a bit, so best using USB (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** INDONESIA [and non]. 4750.00, RRI Makassar, 1157-1205 Feb 25, Noted a female in Indonesian language comments up until the hour. On the hour music heard, which was probably the theme. News by a male on the hour. There's a second station on 4749.959 mixing in. It's probably Bangladesh Betar? RRI Makassar was threshold (Chuck Bolland, Clewiston FL, 26N 081W, WR-G31DDC, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Right after first getting 3325, checked 4750 for RRI Makassar, Feb 25 at 1317, YL song, CCI from second carrier slightly offset, 1322 announcements after heavy-beat rock, 1325 kids` voices, ads? S9+20 but fighting the hi local noise level, which I fear prevents my hearing the other more exotic 60m Indonesians (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RRI Makassar is on 4749.95, +/- 0.02 daily, and mixing with China and Bangladesh. The two latter measured (when Makassar off) right on 4750.00 (Jim Young, CA, Feb 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4750, RRI Makassar (Sulawesi), 1559 Feb 25, going from pop Indo music into announcements by man and at 1600 Love Ambon music, 1602 open carrier and then off. Fair (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074 W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4749.95, RRI Makassar, 1346-1406+ Feb 26. MoR music, hosted by gal, continuing past ToH. Good signal with negligible QRM from 4750 stations (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Drake R-8, 100-foot RW, Cumbredx mailing list via DXLD) 4750, 1456-, RRI Makassar, Feb 26, A very good morning for 60 meters with the most stations I've seen in a good long while (a welcome change!). Starting with 4750 with RRI dominating. Earlier it was a real mishmash with China and probably Bangladesh cochannel. Now the cochannels are much weaker. Nice RRI ID just after TOH. Could hear time pips underneath as well. I can see 4 transmitters: 4749.955, 4749.990, 4749.000, and 4750.011. Interesting for sure! (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) [and non]. 4750, some music audible half a sesquihour after sunrise, March 2 at 1343, presumably RRI Makassar. Also some signals left on 4920, 4950 from China and/or India (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. Re DXLD 11-08, Reception on 4920 of RRI Biak: At my location would be extremely difficult (impossible?) to hear RRI here. On Feb 25 at 1413 both PBS Xizang/Tibet and AIR Chennai were equally strong, but mixing together to eliminate any chance of hearing a much weaker station underneath (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9525.968, Voice of Indonesia, 1206-1215 Feb 25, Noted a female in Japanese language comments in possibly news. Many mentions of Indonesia, ID in English at 1209, "Voice of Indonesia ...." Signal was good (Chuck Bolland, Clewiston FL, 26N 081W, WR-G31DDC, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9525.960, 1511-, Voice of Indonesia, Feb 25, Fabulous signal from VOI in English, as pointed out by Harold Sellers. Not normally here in English at this time. News, then into a commentary on why Qadaffi has to leave. At 1514:15, 'That ends commentary'. Very strong modulation, with clipping, as well as a transmitter hum (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) Normally starts English at 1500 and cuts it off anywhere from 1 to 30+ minutes later (gh, DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 9526, Voice of Indonesia, 1458 Feb 25, English, IDs, website, address. “Voice of Indonesia, the Sound of Dignity.”, freqs, 1500 man with program lineup, news. Slight hum on transmitter. Occasional IAD, but not frequent. Not a listed time for English. Excellent, but at 1527 check, CRI in English 9525 dominating. 9526, Voice of Indonesia, 1858 Feb 25, beginning English with frequencies, web address, ID, program lineup, news. Poor. 9680, RRI Jakarta, 1504 Feb 25, Indonesian, male and two female announcers with chit-chat, music, numerous mentions of Jakarta and Indonesia. Excellent (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074 W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9526-, VOI is back in force, after missing three mornings in a row. Feb 25 at 1152, VG signal with music marred by IADs, Chinese? 1218 check, in usual slow Japanese, talking about Brunei Darussalam, IADs. I was too busy logging lots of other stuff to check during the 1300 English hour, or 1400 Indonesian, but at 1508 I found 9526- still on with the bonus broadcast on borrowed time in English: YL with news, lite het, lite hum, not too many IADs. 1511 `Commentary` about Libya, call off the mercenaries, etc. 9680 RRI had gone off by now. 1514 `Today in History` including something about Nasser in 1964, Marcos later. Just as TiH was ending, cut off the air at 1518:25* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9525.96, Voice of Indonesia, *0955-1010, Feb 26, abruptly on in listed Korean talk. Into English at 1002 with IDs and contact information. News at 1002:40. Fair (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) 9526-, VOI on the air today, Feb 28 at 1323 about folk traditions, YL in halting English, subject not clear, maybe tatooing. IADs but VG signal. Toward end of this `Indonesian Wonder` segment, IAD of at least 5 seconds. 1326 on to `Let`s Speak Bahasa Indonesia` easily and carefully, repeat after me (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. WRN has sent their summer programme schedules in effect from March 27, confirming the usual timeshifts concerning WORLD OF RADIO; except the North American service already shifts March 13 with our earlier start of silly DST. So WOR will then be: to NAm Sat & Sun 1730, Sun 0830. To Eu/Af/As/Pac, Sat 0800. DXing With Cumbre, on the Eu schedule only, shifts from 1600 to 1500 UT Sundays. I was wondering whether it still exists, as neither WRN nor Cumbre has any shows in their archive since October, but WRN says they are still getting fresh shows each week (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM [and non]. As of March 1, the timeline for the current Space Shuttle Discovery Mission shows landing will be Tuesday, March 8: DISCOVERY DEORBIT BURN 15:33 UT MILA C-BAND RADAR ACQUISITION OF DISCOVERY 16:23 KSC LANDING 16:36 For this and the remaining two SS missions, we urge listeners to check for the anomaly we had in April 2009, when the glidedown occurred over the western and central USA, coinciding with extremely abnormal ``nighttime`` mediumwave propagation conditions 6+hours later in the daytime, which we hypothesize resulted from the shuttle`s passage thru the ionosphere disrupting the D-layer which normally absorbs MW signals in the daytime, and allowing the E-layer to reflect as it normally does at night, but in a restricted geographical area. We don`t yet know the path of this landing, and is subject to last- minute changes due to surface weather, but should it be over the same area, or still in the daytime over any other inhabited area with MW radio stations and DX listeners within 1000 km, we urge them to tune for a repeat of this anomaly! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM. ALHURRA BROADCASTS JAMMED ON POPULAR SATELLITE --- Alhurra Television’s broadcasts of the historic events in Libya have been jammed on the Nilesat satellite system since Feb. 23. The Nilesat system, one of the most popular satellite systems in the region, also carries Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya. The radio signals on Nilesat of Radio Sawa (in Arabic), Radio Farda (in Persian), Radio Free Iraq (in Arabic) and Voice of America (in Kurdish) have also faced intermittent interference in Nilesat. “The right to freedom of information is universal and essential amidst the tumultuous events in the region,” said Walter Isaacson, chair of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), which oversees all U.S. international broadcasting including Alhurra TV, VOA and RFE. “Efforts, including satellite jamming, to prevent people in the Middle East and North Africa from getting much-needed accurate news and information are abhorrent." Al Jazeera and Deutsche Welle have reported similar, deliberate and harmful interferences with satellite transmissions. The jamming of the satellite system comes at the height of U.S. international broadcasting’s extensive coverage of the uprising and violence in Libya. Alhurra has provided live, continuous coverage since protests began Feb. 16. Surge broadcasting has included first person accounts from Tripoli, Benghazi, Tubruk and Misratah. Alhurra is also soliciting feedback from viewers in Libya and asking them to call in and report what they are witnessing, as well as sending video and still images through Facebook and YouTube. Alhurra’s correspondents in Benghazi are interviewing protesters who say they are demonstrating because they want Libya to be a free country and their children to live in a democracy. Alhurra is also providing viewers with the American perspective through talk shows and analysis from American experts on Libya and the Middle East. The coverage of Libya follows Alhurra’s in-depth reporting from Egypt, where surveys showed that 25 percent of Egyptian adults were tuning into Alhurra for the latest news on the demonstrations in Tahrir Square and across Egypt. Intermittent but sustained interference to Alhurra Television meant viewers first lost images and then their screens went black between Feb. 23 and 27. Radio channels continued to be jammed on Nilesat as of Feb. 28. Jamming this month has also affected TV and radio broadcasts to Iran for VOA’s Persian News Network and Radio Farda (BBG press release 28 Feb via Clara Listensprechen, DXLD) ** IRAN. 3965, Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Zaheden, 0131- 0228* February 26, 2011. Very good in presumed listed Urdu. Male announcer, brief Qur'an recital 0133-0134, female announcer, man with news items 0139. No parallels audible. Still audible, but poorer by 0215. Good enough to make it through closing (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. IRIB, 7250 at 0127, Feb 27. Closing news heads of English programme that, according to IRIB's schedule, should only be heard on internet and Hotbird satellite. Then into usual interval music and start of Voice of Justice in English to North America at 0130. 32442. QRM Voice of Russia. Better heard on 6120, monitored from 0131 with SINPO of 35443. Programme consisted of chanted verse from Qur'an, followed by English translation, and well-read news bulletin by American-accented woman (Roger Tidy, UK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. 15515, Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Kamalabad. *1230 February 27, 2011. Just signed on, with anthem in progress, Indonesian ID and frequencies by female, news headlines, Qur'an 1235- 1238. Good and in the clear, parallel very poor 17690 which was under Radio Japan via Madagascar (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. New daily schedule of Radyo-e Rahoya Iran in Farsi from Feb. 21 1630-1730 5825 ARM 100 kW / 104 deg WeAs, ex Mon/Wed/Fri till Feb. 24 1630-1730 NF 5810 A-A 075 kW / 250 deg to WeAs, ex 5825 effective from Feb. 25. 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ARM = `Armavir`, Russia; A-A = Almaty, KAZAKHSTAN (gh) ** IRAN [non]. New daily schedule of Radyo-e Rahoya Iran in Farsi from Feb. 21 1630-1730 5825 ARM 100 kW / 104 deg WeAs, ex Mon/Wed/Fri till Feb. 24 1630-1730 5810 A-A 075 kW / 250 deg WeAs, ex 5825; new effective from Feb. 25 (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, 1 March via DXLD) ** IRAN [non]. BELGIUM(non) Frequency changes of TDP st'n Gunaz Radio in Azeri: 1430-1930 NF 7610 SMF 250 kW / 130 deg to CeAs, ex 7510* Feb.21-Feb.24 1430-1930 NF 7510#SMF 250 kW / 130 deg to CeAs, ex 7610 Feb.25-Feb.27 1430-1930 NF 7610 SMF 250 kW / 130 deg to CeAs, ex 7510* Feb.28 till ? *to avoid R. Pakistan in English 1600-1610 and FEBA in Silte 1730-1800 #co-channel R. Pakistan in English 1600-1610 & FEBA in Silte 1730-1800 (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, 1 March via WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DXLD) SMF = Mykolaiv Luch Ukraine site, location 255 km west of SMF Crimea. (Wolfgang Büschel, BC-DX via WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DXLD) ** IRAN [non]. Radio Farda, 7520 at 2310 Feb 23. Iranian music followed by ID. Heard at 0042 Feb 24 on 5820 playing music. Both via Sri Lanka? (Roger Tidy, London, UK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7520 is, but I don`t find any listing for it on 5820 (gh, DXLD) ** IRELAND. 6959.81, 27/2 0143, Atlantic Radio, Irish pirate, pop songs, fair (Giampiero Bernardini, et al., Milan ARI DX night, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ISRAEL. 6973, Galei Zahal, 0218 Feb 26, jazz song and other music. Poor (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074, W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ISRAEL. 13850, Kol Israel, 1625 Feb 25, Persian, into prayer singing, “Israel” at end of prayer, into Israeli folk music, 1628 woman in Persian mentioning Iran and giving frequencies, website, “Shalom” and ended broadcast. Fair (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074 W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 13850, Feb 25 at 1502 poor in Persian from Kol Israel, 250 kW, 90 degrees from Tel Aviv-Yafne, plus a low het. Could be Iranian jamming, but per Aoki, Sound of Hope may also be here 21 hours a day, and consequently ChiCom jamming. Did not seem to be Firedrake (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ISRAEL. 15850, Reshet Bet with mixed audios. Main audio carrier with relatively dull audio. Second carrier was with very distorted audio (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, ICOM R75 / 2x16 V / m@h40 heads Sennheiser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Feb 27, no time. And it`s Galei Tsahal, not Bet; or did you hear a Bet ID on one of the carriers? (gh, DXLD) 15850, Galei Zahal. 1652 February 26, 2011. Very good and in the clear with mostly Hebrewtalk, time sounders, news for a couple of minutes, Hebe pop vocals in the 1700 hour, but gone 1802 recheck (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY [non]. IRRS cancellation of 5775 tests, new tests on 9510 and 9435 --- Hi There, Following my email yesterday, I apologize but due to technical problems we had to cancel all tests on 5775 kHz at the very last moment. In the meantime we are announcing these additional tests: Feb 25, 2011 from 0930-1230 UT on 9510 kHz to Europe Feb 28, 2011 from 0930-1230 UT on 9510 kHz to Europe Feb 25, 2011 from 1800-2000 UT on 9435 kHz to Europe Feb 26, 2011 from 1800-2000 UT on 9435 kHz to Europe Feb 27, 2011 from 1800-2000 UT on 9435 kHz to Europe We will appreciate your reception reports for all of our tests by email at reports at nexus.org Our regular broadcasts continue also on AM/Medium Wave daily on 1368 kHz in North/Eastern Italy (covering Padua, Venice, Vicenza, Verona and Bologna) and on 1566 in Rome, daily from 20:00-01:00 Central European Time [1900-2400 UT]. (in Vicenza we have a large US military base, and we know that we have many listeners there). These times may be extended later on. We received several reports from 1368 kHz from Italy and outside of Italy. Our sincere thanks to all who tuned in, and wrote us. All will be getting a personal reply soon, please bear with us while we are very busy in setting up and verifying coverage for all tests. Some of you asked about TX location, however: it is our policy that while we always make public the target area(s), the exact transmitter location(s) may change over time, and always remains strictly confidential. Thank you again, and stay tuned (Ron Norton, IRRS, 1126 UT Feb 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) No one heard the publicized IRRS test on 5775 (not 5975, apparently, as in original message subject line) on Feb 24, and Ron Norton now says that had to be canceled at last minute due to ``technical problems``. Instead, they are testing Feb 25-27 at 18-20 on 9435 to Europe, reports wanted. That presumably includes WORLD OF RADIO Saturday at 1900, but it`s not clear whether they are still using Slovakia 6090 as well. They will continue on MW axually from Italy, 1368 and 1566. I checked 9435 at 1900 Feb 25, and heard only a very weak carrier, but certainly not for NAm, anyway. Presumably the new frequency will replace the Slovakia site about to close. Wolfgang Büschel thought Gavar, Armenia would be most likely on 5775. It`s up to astute monitors to figure out the real sites, since Ron also says, ``Some of you asked about TX location, however: it is our policy that while we always make public the target area(s), the exact transmitter location(s) may change over time, and always remains strictly confidential.`` Nevertheless, WRTH 2011 says it has been: SLOVAKIA. An additional test is 0930-1230 on 9510 to Europe, Feb 25 and 28 (Friday and Monday). IRRS was already running 9510 at 09-13 Sat & Sun, presumably Slovakia so far (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The IRRS test on 9435 which I could barely detect, is reported by Harold Frodge, MI, at 1929-1945+, 25-Feb; SIO=253 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: SLOVAKIA*. 9435, IRRS; 1929-1945+, 25-Feb [Friday]; UNI News in English; "You are listening to I-double-R-S Shortwave" at 1934. Religious spot with Pasadena addy at 1938, into headbanger music, then a gospel tune by Johnny Cash! SIO=253. *Presumed QTH; e-mail broadcast announcement sed they do not disclose xmtr sites (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, logged by ear in real time! Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, DX LISTENING DIGEST) IRRS test 9435 kHz on air! Ottimo segnale per IRRS in onda ora sui 9435 kHz. – (Roberto Rizzardi, SWL I/0216/GR, Porto S. Stefano (GR) Italy, 1819 UT Feb 25, playdx yg via DXLD) Qui arriva qualcosa, ma è piccolino (Robert Scaglione, Sicily, 1836 UT, ibid.) Da me arriva con un SINPO 54434 con Icom IC-R71 e loop Grahn (Rizzardi, 1843 UT, ibid.) 9435, 1935-2001* ??? 25.02, IRRS, Milano test from new transmitter, English UN report, songs, Dan Roberts SW report, requests reports. Replied my e-mail report the next day, 45444. Best 73, (Anker Petersen, latest loggings done on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire here in Skovlunde, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) 9435, again Sat Feb 26 at 1850, just barely audible carrier presumed from IRRS test via secret site. Should include WORLD OF RADIO 1553 at 1900. Would monitors circa Europe please check and compare reception with 6090 via Slovakia, if still on, and speculate on the site; also on MW from Italy itself 1368, 1566 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yesterday we got two reports from New York and near Chicago with very good reception on 9435 from 18 to 20 UT. You may want to try if you can. You're on the air now on 9435 in parallel with 6090, 1368 and 1566 kHz. Both 6090 and 9435 are booming in NW Italy at the border with France where I am listening now. 1368 is also listenable with an S2-3, 73s, (Alfredo E. Cotroneo, CEO, NEXUS-Int'l Broadcasting Association, 1904 UT Feb 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) No word yet of any further tests in March on 9435. Maybe it will prove to be the A-11 frequency from somewhere (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. 3945, Radio Nikkei 2, 0705 Feb 27, Japanese, two men talking, with frequent “hi” (=“okay”). Poor, QRM de Vanuatu. // 6115 very good, also // on Nikkei 1 3925 fair, 6055 very good. No longer // as of 0715 (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074 W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. 5006.000, 1530-, JG2XA, Feb 26, Weakly audible with CW ID just before 1530. Not very often reported, but always there when I check (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) Propagation research station (gh) ** JAPAN. 5985, 1401-, Shiokaze, Feb 26, Excellent reception with jamming just audible in the background. Not in English today (it's either Japanese or Korean). Multiple mentions of Shiokaze with their usual theme music (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) See also KOREA NORTH [non], alternate filing place for this ** JAPAN [non]. 17690, MADAGASCAR, Radio Japan (relay), Talata Volonondry. *1228 February 27, 2011. Interval signal, into French from 1230. Poor, and shortly thereafter weak co-channel Iran underneath in Indonesian (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. NHK World Radio Japan often have some interesting programming. Their weekend programme of 6 February on 9790 kHz via Wertachtal from 1200 to 1230 UT. On tune-in at 1210, "World Interactive" and their Mailbag segment was in progress with a very pleasant song request entitled "Coffee Shop". This was followed by a regular segment called World of Haiku with Shokan. I had to look up exactly what Haiku is. Wikipedia to the rescue, which introduces Haiku as follows: ``Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry, consisting of 17 moras (or "on"), in three phrases of 5, 7, and 5 moras respectively. Although haiku are often stated to have 17 syllables, this is not completely accurate as syllables and moras are not the same. Haiku typically contain a kigo (seasonal reference), and a kireji (cutting word). In Japanese, haiku are traditionally printed in a single vertical line and tend to take aspects of the natural world as their subject matter, while haiku in English often appear in three lines to parallel the three phrases of Japanese haiku and may deal with any subject matter. In contrast to English verse typically characterized by meter, Japanese verse counts sound units (moras), known as "on". Traditional haiku consist of 17 on, in three phrases of five, seven, and five on, respectively. [...] Some translators of Japanese poetry have noted that about 12 syllables in English approximates the duration of 17 Japanese on. So, Shokan presents and discusses a number of Haiku that have been sent in, including these three examples: 1 Slowly, death sneaks closely, autumnal equinox. 2 A mild spell tricked snowdrops, but closed. 3 Priority seat, working girls, nodding off. However, Shokan thinks that the last one would work better as: Working girls, nodding off in priority seat. An interesting feature about an aspect of traditional Japanese culture that I previously knew nothing about, though I did wonder if sometimes haiku loses something in the translation. I'm not sure how often this feature airs - possibly monthly - but if you get the chance, well worth a listen (Alan Roe, UK, March World DX Club Contact via DXLD) Yes, first week of each month, tho whether it will survive into another fiscal year from April with its program and personnel changes, is unknown (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JORDAN. 11960, Jordan Radio Al Karanah in Arabic noted Febr 23 at 0548 UT till close-down at 0558:02 UT, off midst on Arabic music by female singer. S=9 up to S=9+20dB, in excellent sound quality. Probably Libyan forces clashes news in Arabic 0550-0552 UT, then traditional "Egyptian" like music of R Cairo of the 60ties (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Feb 23 via BC-DX Feb 25 via DXLD) ** KASHMIR [non]. INDIA, 4870, Voice of Kashmir, 1514 Feb 26, sub- continental vocals, man in Asian language (Kashmiri ?). 1515 woman talking in a new program. Quickly deteriorating, very weak by 1528. Checked back at 1532 and nothing heard, which would agree with their 1530 listed s/off. Fair (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074 W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Above is the 100 kW service transmitted by AIR from the Khampur site near New Delhi, per Aoki. Azimuth shown as 174 degrees, however, which is in the wrong direxion unless they are trying for long path records (gh, DXLD) ** KASHMIR. 4950, R. Kashmir, Srinagar 1730 25/2/11, YL English AIR news, cricket results, then "Radio Kashmir Srinagar" ID http://www.box.net/shared/2cq4nin0jp (Mark Davies, Anglesey, Wales, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KASHMIR [non]. 3975, Azad Kashmir Radio (Presumed). Moving from 7100, noted on 8/2 at 0115 and 1445-1730 on 9/2 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF 2001, 16m Marconi), March Australian DX News via DXLD) 3975.00, 0220-0250, PAKISTAN, 24.02, Azad Kashmir R, Rewat, Islamabad, Urdu ann, Pakistani songs, ID, signal strength indicates 100 kW, new schedule 45343 (Anker Petersen, here in Skovlunde, Denmark, on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** KAZAKHSTAN. 5835, Family Radio via Alma Ata, 1336 Feb 26, English, man preaching, ID, address. Very poor with jammer on frequency (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074, W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) What kind of jamming? Nothing else scheduled to account for that (gh) ** KAZAKHSTAN. 6225, Bible Voice, 1405 Feb 26, s/on in English (weekends only) “Welcome to today’s program...on Bible Voice....”, phone number, intro “Call to Worship” program. Very good (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074, W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KAZAKHSTAN. 7515, 1530-, Golos Pravoslavya (Voice of Orthodoxy), Feb 25, Good reception except for some serious splatter from 7520 (VOA special English from the Philippines). Open carrier about 10 minutes before start. Church bells briefly at 1500 and into an orthodox hymn, and then into Russian sermon. A bit under modulated, but otherwise well heard. Tuesdays and Fridays only (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH. 3958.9 tent., KCBS, Kanggye, 1041 Feb 27, woman in Korean. Fair (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074, W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5985, quick check Feb 25 at 1413 amid LIBYA and other monitoring, to reconfirm that Shiokaze is still here and in English on Friday, along with het from MYANMAR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CLANDESTINE, 5985, Shiokaze, *1400-1430* Feb 25. Usual Friday English with "Today's News Flash," i.e. news stories focusing on Korea. Noted 26 Feb (Sat) with Korean and 27 Feb (Sun) in Japanese (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Drake R-8, 100-foot RW, Cumbredx mailing list via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5985, March 2 at 1401, Shiokaze = Sea Breeze very poor opening in English on this Wednesday, via JSR Tokyo; het de Myanmar (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also JAPAN, alternate filing place for this (gh) ** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 4450, Voice of the People (presumed), 1336, Feb 27. Strong signal; in Korean broadcasting from South Korea with 50 kW. Also heard faint signal underneath from assume Korean Nat. Dem. Front; per Aoki is 15 kW; recheck at 1437 to hear only one strong station (VOP); corresponding to Korean Nat. Dem. Front having probably signed off at scheduled 1403 (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN. 4870.64, *0255-0320, CLANDESTINE, 24.02, Voice of Iranian Kurdistan, via Salah Al-Din, No. Iraq, Kurdish talk about Kurdistan, Iran and Peshawar, martial song, best heard in USB, strong CODAR QRM, 33433. No jamming in the beginning, but later it came on (Anker Petersen, here in Skovlunde, Denmark, on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** KUWAIT. 9750, Radio Kuwait, Kabd. 1300 February 27, 2011. Arabic female news summary, piano fill 1301, into Arabic kiddie chorus, male, Arabic pop-ish vocals. Weak and slight co-channel presumed Radio Japan, Yamata, though slight improvement a few minutes later. Parallel better 21540. Thanks Glenn Hauser log in dxld 11-08 (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 21540, Feb 25 at 1457 fair signal in Arabic, 1459 ID, mentions of Islamiyah, no CCI from SPAIN now which may be off, tho still on 21570, 21610, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KYRGYZSTAN. 4009.99, *0000-0020 27.02, Kyrgyz R 1, Bishkek, Kyrgyz opening ann mentioning Bishkek, National Hymn by choir, 0003 local pop songs. New schedule this Sunday, ex *2300, 44344 utility QRM, // 4795.00 (43333 QRM China 4800) (Anker Petersen, latest loggings done on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire here in Skovlunde, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) 4795, 1519-, Kyrgyz Radio, Feb 26, Only just at threshold, with a possible logging. Still lots of CODAR interference (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** LIBERIA [non]. Re 11-08: ``LIBERIA. 5470.01, 1915-2200* 19.02, R. Veritas, Monrovia (presumed), vernacular talk 1915-1925 24232. Later heard 2120-2200* in French with a conversation programme like: "Le Monde comme moi", talks and interlude music, 2200 closing announcement, but ID not caught. Deep fades, but when best: 35323. R Veritas has been off since Oct 2007. French is a new language (Anker Petersen, on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire here in Skovlunde, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1553, DXLD) Inactive, but expected to return: 10 kW, 0445-0900 on 6090, 1745-2300v on 5470, in English, local languages (WRTH 2011 page 259 via WORLD OF RADIO 1553, DXLD)`` In French, really? From Liberia? (gh) 5470.00, 1940-2120 24+25+28.02, R Veritas, Monrovia (presumed) French interview, 2000 news about Libya, Nigeria, Europe, hymns, talk, audio disappeared at times, when best: 33333 Utility QRM (Anker Petersen, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) 5470, 26/2 2155-2201*, Radio Veritas, music, end talk woman, off, poor (Giampiero Bernardini, et al., Milan ARI DX night, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DX LISTENING DIGEST) There's every now and then VOR mixing product on 5470. Possibly 11600 minus 6130 Moscow scheduled 1700-2200 in French. Could it be them instead of Liberia? 73 (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Everyone, Could anyone translate to help me ID this station recorded on 5470 kHz http://www.box.net/shared/pchuhgxk8o Thank you (Mark Davies, Anglesey, Wales, BDXC-UK yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DX LISTENING DIGEST) In this clip, I found no clues. The announcer is talking about a "haute couture" creator. The French spoken sounds European because to my ears, there's no special accent in there. If you have more, I can try but please, keep the bandwidth at the best setting. Don't change it throughout the recording (Sylvain Naud, via Mauno Ritola, ibid.) It's Voice of Russia spur. 73, (Mauno Ritola, ibid.) I think this is the answer. Yes, audible every now and then. Possibly mixing product of 11600 - 6130 Moscow (Jari Savolainen, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This has happened before, mixing product of a major broadcaster being mistaken for an exotic African way out of band. When hearing a mystery like this, start hunting for an answer like this unless you have a definite ID (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** LIBYA. 1251, 22/2 2135 LJBC - Tripoli, Arabo urla di slogan PRO Gheddafi, buono (Roberto Pavanello, Vercelli / Italia, via Roberto Scaglione, shortwave yg via DXLD) Are Benghazi, Al-Beida & Tobruk still on air, and if so what programs are they carrying? (Tim Bucknall-UK, mwoffsets/dswci Feb 22 via BC-DX Feb 25 via DXLD) Benghazi is on 675.007 kHz carrying R. Free Libya. El-Beida is off today, but carried separate programming of R. Free Libya yesterday [Feb 22]. Tobruk has been off for many years (Mauno Ritola, Finland, mwoffsets Feb 23 via BC-DX Feb 25 via DXLD) [later:] Also El-Beida is again on the air, on 1125.005 kHz. (Feb 23) 1449 kHz is definitely off for a couple of days already. The old site was Misurata 20 kW, lately it should have been from Al-Assah with higher power. 1251 kHz is on exact, but with rather thick carrier. Should have 400 kW according to reliable info, but is either on backup transmitter or running lower power, probably in 50 kW range. 1053 is now on much lower than it used to be: 1053.014 kHz. It's 100 kW. 972 is on exact. 711 has been off since yesterday afternoon. Judging by reception it was probably Jefren, and only one transmitter was active. It was V of Africa/Main program \\ 1251 kHz. 675 and 1125 carry different programming, although it sounds similar. All ?'s [sic] are off (Mauno Ritola, Finland, mwoffsets Feb 23/24 via BC-DX Feb 25 via DXLD) Yes Tim, 1449 looks like being "OFF", nevertheless it's worth to check offsets: f.i. 1125 yesterday shown huge signal before 19z, then I almost lost them for a couple of hours. Later at 21z+ back to normal broadcasting with "Libya Al'Hurr" yet it looked like with reduced power. I did not notice other odds, if trust my ears & Greece / Sicily / Kremenchuk receivers, the services from Libya were as described here: (Vlad Titarev, Ukraine, mwoffsets Feb 24 via BC-DX Feb 25 via DXLD) Misurata has fallen, apparently; can anyone hear 1449 kHz or see a trace from it? (Tim Bucknall, UK, mwoffsets Feb 23 via BC-DX Feb 25 via DXLD) Libya State TV (Asiasat 5 outlet) is having many technical problems today. The picture keeps going out of vertical sync every few seconds and the ticker has been getting stuck. Their programming has now become very focused when compared to what they were broadcasting a few days ago. The hours of music videos are now replaced with hard hitting pro-Gaddafi speeches and guests with many appearances from Gaddafi family members. There are also "confessions" given by "trouble-makers" that have been captured. They are also spending a lot of time showing citizens cleaning up their neighbourhoods that have been "vandalised" by "cockroach protesters who are on drugs". Another common theme is TV crews showing shops open, full of food, etc. to highlight normal life continues. I was shocked last night to see a young, attractive (25-30 year old) female news reader present the news. Surely this is unusual; typically men anchor the news on the channel. This young lady looked just like the anchors you typically see on Al Jazeera Arabic or the channels based in Dubai. Cheers, (Mark Fahey, NSW, UT Feb 25, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Libya's Radio (Libyan Jamahiryia Broadcasting Corporation) from El Beida, received and uploaded for the sake of people who can understand Arabic but cannot receive radio from where they are. This transmission was captured in the morning of February 22, 2011 (1030 UT) via a radio closer to Libya for clearer reception. Some announcement was made regarding frequencies (AM MW & kHz) about 1' 40" of the recording, always in Arabic as this is a Libyan domestic station. (DorsetRadio, UK) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5ZaOq1qfjs Audio en 1125 kHz del 22 febrero 2011 a las 2300 horas UT, en arabe, traducción al español por Guillermo Klapka, de Venezuela: "QUE AGUANTE LA BELLA LIBIA QUE VA A LLEGAR LA LIBERTAD, LA PLAZA VERDE VA LLAMARSE LA PLAZA DE LA LIBERTAD Y DE LOS CAIDOS Y SE LLAMARA LA VOZ DE LA LIBERTAD LIBIA LA LIBRE" ...LO DIJERON VARIAS VECES (Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, DX LISTENING DIGEST) AT RADIO FREE LIBYA, CHANGE IS ON THE AIR - World Wires - BY HANNAH ALLAM MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS TOBRUK, Libya -- Before going live for the first time since this eastern Libyan city broke free from Moammar Gadhafi's rule last week, staff members of the local radio station took a moment to calm their nerves. They agreed to speak in sober and reassuring tones, but Anwar Sherif, the station's main announcer, couldn't contain himself once he took the microphone to deliver the city's first free broadcast in 42 years. "There was a fear barrier broken that day. I sounded sentimental, even hysterical," Sherif, 36, recalled Thursday. "We let loose all the words we could never say. I said, 'Down with the tyrant!' and then all the other suppressed words came spilling out." Tobruk's Radio Free Libya was among the first three stations in the country to offer uncensored updates on the revolt against Gadhafi's regime, which still controls the capital, Tripoli, and most of the western part of this restive North African nation. Once supervised by in-house intelligence agents who had the final say over every program, the radio station is now the mouthpiece of anti- government rebels who have few other conduits to the masses because the old state-run newspapers have stopped publishing, and the regime has shut down the Internet and most cell-phone service throughout the country. A month ago, the most controversial topic on air was the locals' frustration over the lack of promised development projects, residents now call in to ask where they can donate food and medical supplies - their contributions to the struggle to unseat Gadhafi. On Thursday, Radio Free Libya aired security updates, along with pleas to stand in solidarity with the besieged people of the capital, Tripoli. Another program took aim at price gouging, with the announcer declaring that any driver or merchant who overcharged people because of the crisis "has no sense of patriotism." The imam of the city's biggest mosque issued a plea through the station for young men in the area to return all the heavy weapons they'd seized in clashes with security forces. He said Libyans were grateful to the youth for their bravery, and urged prayers for the dead. "I hail the people who were martyred in this revolution, and may God give them mercy," the imam said over the crackly airwaves. "Paradise awaits all those who received bullets in their chests." This sudden, free flow of information is still hard to absorb for the radio station's 32-person staff, which saved the most vital equipment only hours before the station's old headquarters was torched on Feb. 18. They began broadcasting again Sunday in a ramshackle building near a communications tower, the location of which they don't want revealed in case of government retaliation. "Radio Free Libya" is scribbled in black marker on the front door. The studio is a dingy room furnished with only a soundboard and a desk for the microphones. Nobody's receiving a salary anymore. But for the journalists who no longer have to stick to Gadhafi's party line, this new space is a laboratory for their long-crushed dreams. "We're going to be the fourth estate," said Khaled Mahmoud, 36, an announcer. "Before February 17, it was a one-sided game. But we will build a free media that broadcasts events in a neutral, objective way." Before the uprising, the university-educated, politically astute staff members said they were stifled by the regime's strict edicts on suitable programming. That mostly meant praise for Gadhafi and his family interspersed with a smattering of folkloric music and cultural shows. When the seeds of the uprising began a month ago, around the time of similar revolts in Tunisia and Egypt, the government banned all live broadcasts in case a dissident announcer attacked Gadhafi on air. "The intelligence officers would say, 'You have to go with the policy of the country, and don't ever criticize the regime,'" said programming coordinator Abdullah Idris, 42. "They were in our building, watching everything." When protests in the downtown square turned into violent clashes with the security forces on Feb. 17, the station's employees immediately sided with the demonstrators. The opposition, backed by army defectors, overwhelmed Gadhafi's forces that day, and the old radio format ended overnight. The station was off the air only one day before returning as Radio Free Libya. The staff members, who come from six of the area's most prominent tribes, said their goal is to create a station that promotes national unity and gives voice to the grievances of the people. And they said they wouldn't go easy on whatever government emerges from the current turmoil. "Libya will surprise the whole world with our media," said Saleh Wafi, 42, a producer. "We are cultured and educated. All we lacked was freedom." Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/02/24/2084014/at-radio-free-libya-change-is.html#ixzz1Ew8Osc3u (via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, Feb 24, DXLD) 21695, 1415-1555* 22.02, Voice of Africa, Sabrata, Swahili ID's, pop music and talk about Muammar Gaddafi and Tunisia (scheduled English 1400-1600), 1502-1555 English talks about "The Illusion of the Problem of Democracy" referring to Gaddafi's "Green Book", talk about the African Union and its Human Rights, but no newscast! A very strange programme! 45544 heard // 17725 (55544), but misinformed to be on 17850 and 21695 kHz! Best 73, (Anker Petersen, here in Skovlunde, Denmark, on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) Superb reception from Voice of Africa in English this afternoon from 1400 UT tune-in on both 21695 and 17725 kHz. The signal on 21695 is the strongest I have heard it for a very long time, thanks no doubt to the recent increase in sunspots. 73s (Dave Kenny, Feb 24, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) It's worth noting that the SW transmitters are at Sabrata, about 50 miles west of Tripoli. Violence was reported in the town of Sabrata on Tuesday, with protesters destroying government buildings, but it doesn't seem to have affected the SW site, which may be some way out of town. Some MW transmitters outside Tripoli have either fallen into the hands of the rebels or gone silent. The 1251 transmitter in Tripoli is still in government hands and is often quite easily audible here in southern England (after dark, of course). (Chris [Greenway?], WORLD OF RADIO 1554, ibid.) Voice of Africa in Arabic, 1251 at 2334 Feb 23, mixing with Dutch station, SINPO 23332. Heard again at 0050 Feb 24 with SINPO of 34333. No other Libyan mw stations audible here (Roger Tidy, London, UK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1125, heard on 25.2 at 1921 with clear carrier. Again 1722 27.2 with S9 and Arab folk music then talks by OM and YL in Arabic (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, Feb 27, ICOM R75 / 2x16 V / m@h40 heads Sennheiser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Libyan no-show on HF --- Nothing on either frequency today. I guess that means the Colonel is pretty much finished. Just some weak African French on 17725 from another station (Tim Bucknall, Congleton UK, Various receivers and various bodged [?] aerials, 1419 UT Feb 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Not exactly! See my report of same date: V. of Africa monitoring Friday Feb 25, for the scheduled 1400-1600 English on 17725, 21695: 1405 tune-in, no signal on 21695, and Spain is JBA on 21610, 21570, but I still think Libya is not on the air. 17725 at 1406 but not in English, think it`s Swahili, talking about Africa, Fatah. 1408, 17725 goes to open carrier, 1410 English ID beginning late, drumming, usual pompous announcer, says something about ``ending the conflict``, mentions 9-9-99, a significant date? Yes: see below. Rough copy with deep fades. 1412 YL ID and drumming. 1414, frequency announcement claiming this is ``17850``. 1424, 17725 is even weaker during music. Still nothing on 21695. Break for breakfast. 1457, 17725 is too weak to copy, and no 21695, tho Kuwait in Arabic is OK on 21540, Spain on 21570, 21610. 1520, I check 13m once again and guess what, 21660 is now on with the easily-recognizable VOA OM English announcer, instead of 21695. It cuts off the air for a split second now and then, but copy is better now than 17725. 1524 I start rolling tape --- you never know, when this could be the final broadcast, forever. (Elsewhere on real news sources, fighting is reported west of Tripoli, which we know is not far from the Sabrata SW transmitter site on the coast about halfway between Tripoli and Tunisia.) 1524 another boring canned talk on the African Union, 1528 music; 1535 I resume listening after a phonecall, now it`s the YL speaking and copy is tough again, fading down. 1537 canned frequency announcement again, one of which is the imaginary 17850. 1543, repeat the canned frequency announcement, yes, now with BOTH of them wrong. Could it be sabotage, at the studio and/or transmitter site, to minimize listenership?? Still saying ``21695 and 17850``. 1545, ``special program on the unity of Africa, thanks to the great revolution of Al-Fatah``, history starting in 1969y; now fading in much better. 1546 mentions Nasser, Nkrumah, Mobutu, and repeatedly, ``the leader of the revolution of Al-Fatah``, presumably referring to Q`Daffy, but I never hear him mentioned by name in these talx. Is that usual? A ``declaration`` of some significance was made on 9-9-99 --- I assume in the Western calendar, tho Libya has a different one where that date would have no such numerological significance, or did they just change the names of the months and keep the numbers the same? 1555, outro program claiming ``the unity of Africa has been achieved``. Several more momentary transmitter breaks in a row during music. 1556 ID, music; 1559, closing English ``until tomorrow, Voice of Africa from the Great ---`` and modulation cut before ``Jamahiriyah``, more sabotage? Probably just usual incompetence. After a few sex of dead air, opening French, but it`s muffled and distorted, plus the music with it. After confirming at 1604 that 17725 is still running //, I quit and start compiling today`s lengthy log report which will take a few more hours, starting with this which I am releasing in advance. Refer later to the final version in case I make any changes or additions. Such as this: don`t know how long 21660 would stay on, and not rechecked until 1900, when there is a very weak carrier. Could be a birdie of some local source; nothing now scheduled at any time on 21660, an ex-BBC frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Libië is vanavond goed te ontvangen op 1251 kHz (2015 UT) 73, (Hugo Matten, Belgium, Feb 25, bdx mailing list via DXLD) Synopsis of radio station status as the rapidly changing political situation continued to evolve: Voice of Free Libya (Libya al Hurra) monitored on 675 and 1125 kHz as Qathafi was losing control to the popular opposition. Voice of Africa on 17725 and 21695 kHz remained on the air as scheduled 1400-1600 UT programming in English with commentaries from the Green Book about the problem of democracy. Some of the Libyan Jamahiriya stations while still operating were noted re-broadcasting old speeches about the Revolution. 675, 972, 1053, 1125, 1251, and 1449 kHz have all been noted off the air sporadically, some returning to the airwaves at apparent reduced power. 73 and Good DX! (Bruce Conti, NH, NRC IDXD Feb 25 via DXLD) Libyan rebel radio IN ENGLISH A YouTube user in Hungary heard Voice of Free Libya from Al-Baida on 1125 last night (25 February) with a segment in English. The clip is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpLE7Up37vU From the clock on the receiver (a Sangean ATS-909), the English segment began at 2222 GMT. ID: "This is the Voice of Free Libya from Al-Jabal al-Akhdar [the Green Mountain]". Reception then deteriorates, but picks up later, with another very clear ID at 2225 GMT. The announcer then sets out a political stance, warning against "any kind of international interference" and saying the coming government "will be built on freedom and democracy respecting the human values" (Chris Greenway, Feb 26, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) Hello DXers, As usual monitoring Libya till late night around 0100UT on Fri night. The most important note was noticing that 1053 and 972 are not having the same programs (thanks for the tip of Mauno Ritola in Finland) it turned out to be that 1053 is having the audio of the Libyan Jamahirya TV, as the announcer was saying ``to all our viewers world wide``. According to the latest info I managed to get from Libya, Radio Misrata on FM band frequency 88.8 and 88.9 MHz is IDing as Radio Libya al Hurra (Radio Free Libya). Radio Libya al Hurra on 675 kHz confirmed that piece of information this morning. On 1125 kHz around 1820, started sending some coded messages they claimed it's for the Army of the Liberated Libya, the Army of 17th of February. Chris Greenway mentioned a YouTube record of an English transmission by 1125; actually this is not the first time, as I recorded an English message to Obama and H. Clinton on 20th of February. Will try to upload all that stuff soon. More to come (Tarek Zeidan, Aalborg, Denmark, 1831 Feb 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Africa, 1251, Feb 27 at 0208. Still heard on this channel despite uprising. Arabic music. Dominated channel with SINPO of 34333 (Roger Tidy, UK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) While VOA from the GJ jumped to 21660 yesterday [Feb 25], on Feb 26 it`s back on 21695, which is just as well since on weekends Portugal is running on 21655. Tune-in at 1435 to poor signal in English. At 1436, I find 17725 is a bit better but tough copy due to undermodulation and fading. Talking about legislation, then Beethoven`s Ninth riff, so it`s the `Problem of Democracy/Green Book` segment, ID. Then African geographical statistics; their almanac must really be getting worn. Such as longest river of 20,000 km --??? Maybe adding up all the Niles? Still seems too much. Then about bananas, mangos for us ``Dear listeners``. 1500 reception improves on 21695 with music; 1529 it`s better than 17725 with reggae. 1544 stuff about Mali, Ivory Coast. 1557 still geographic, weakening. 1559 has already switched to French, and now 17725 is better. At 1638 no more 21695, and 17725 still undermodulated. At 1659 clashing with UGANDA [non], q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 21695, Voice of Libya, 1415-1425, Feb 26, English programming with IDs. African folk music. Talk about the government’s system of committees, unions and the “Peoples Congress”. // 17725 - fair to good on both frequencies (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) Back on 21695 today (Saturday), though not until around 1425. Before then, heard on 17725 only. Fine signals on both frequencies. 21695 has the best audio (Chris Greenway, Feb 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Abrupt transition into French language at 1558 UT on 21695. Then off the air at 1600Z. I listened to the entire two hours English transmission from 1400 to 1600, on 17725 early and then 21695 later. Signal improved dramatically after 1500 on 21695. Nothing revolutionary heard in the programming. There was a long editorial that seemed to express the position of the government in regards to the uprisings. There was a reading from the Green Book, and there was a program about Cities in Africa. I must complement them on their choice of music during the interludes. They use very nice world beat / Afropop type selections (Scott Walker, New Cumberland PA USA, Feb 26, dxldyg via DXLD) Hi Glenn, Here in Johannesburg, South Africa I too have been struggling to resolve the Voice of Africa FTGJ. Suddenly, on 26-2-11 it came in quite well on 17725, and I listened from 1505 to 1605. Programming was as you describe, with the Problems of Democracy and Cities from Africa etc. The African Union slot came through quite well, and I can confirm that according to this programme 9-9-99 was the date of formation of the African Union. During this entire period 21695 was still very poor and almost unreadable. But at 1559 both 17725 and 21695 suddenly changed to French, and at 1600 the 21695 carrier was abruptly cut off. Hope this is useful. Sincerely, (Bill Bingham, Feb 28, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Africa from the Great Jamaheriyya, 1405 Gmt, 21695. Opening ID's and frequencies with music. "The Jamaheri System, The Ideal Form of Governing" program aired. Very strong S-9 to S-20 signal with clear modulation. Easily heard throughout the house like a local. At 1600 abruptly into French language and at 1601 left the air. Parallel 17725 much weaker. Did not hear 21660 as Glenn did, 17850 announced on air but not heard. Piped it into the CD recorder as any day it may be gone. I pulled out one of my recordings of Radio Jamaheriyya in 1986 on the infamous 11815 frequency. Quite interesting as well back then, as they talked about the CIA (Stephen Price, Johnstown, PA, February 26, 2010, ODXA yg via DXLD) This is very strange, as I was hearing 21660, not 21695, after 1520. Since I was taping 21660, maybe I did not check 21695 again, assuming it would stay off. Were 21695, 21660 and 17725 all on at the same time, i.e. three transmitters? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [Later: not so strange: 21660 was in use only on Feb 25, and Stephen`s report above was about the next day, Feb 26] Hello Glenn. Yesterday I only heard 17725 which was poor and 21695 was just a-pounding in. There was NOthing from 21660 (Feb 26, 2011). Today (Feb 27, 2011), I also only heard 17725 which was much better than 21695 but 17725 had low modulation. 21695 had decent modulation but the signal was in the tank, only S-8 with very deep and long fades almost down to nothing at times. I gave up on both channels today (Feb 27, 2011) because reception was very irritating and I had no patience to deal with it. Despite today's not so good turnout, I did get an excellent recording their English transmission on Feb 26, 2011. Are these transmitters from Sabrata or France? (Stephen Price, Jonstown, PA, Feb 27, ODXA yg via DXLD) The transmitters are in Libya (Mark Coady, Ont., ibid.) Benghazi on 675: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgiBQGKKa18 (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) Several other clips are suggested aside (gh) Hello Glenn: My warm thanks to you and all other reporters for an excellent coverage of the Libyan radio front! I can only bring a couple of items of interest: 1251 kHz, Tripoli, Voice of Africa has not been reported but it is active, was heard on my small SONY with ferrite antenna when I woke up at 0030 February 25. While in bed I heard demonstrators shouting, no doubt pro-Khadaffi people, followed by what must have been Moammar Khadaffi's telephone speech earlier that night, lasting for about 20 minutes. Some music and clear ID 0100: "Saut Afrikiya min al- Jamahiriya al-Ozma" - Voice of Africa from the Great Yamahiriya. Today February 27th I heard Voice of Africa Sabrata again, for a couple of days inaudible due to poor condx I guess, now English heard 1540 on 21695 kHz but on 17725 kHz almost inaudible, until just before 1600 UT, signal went down at the end completely. Sounded like normal programming, and usual IDs, possibly rebroadcasts. This is what I have found out here so far. All the best from Sweden (Ullmar Qvick, 1611 UT Feb 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Africa [1251] has been reported twice in the past week by me (see London logs). (Roger Tidy, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Picture of Radio "Free Libya" --- Radio "Free Libya": Die Regimegegner senden ihr eigenes Programm aus Bengasi. http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-65128-7.html (Martin Schoech - PF 101145 - D-99801 Eisenach, 1630 UT Feb 26, crwatch yg via DXLD) The link for the picture changed, it is now picture 11 http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-65128-11.html It would be best to open the main page of the foto series and then search for the picture ... http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-65128.html (Martin Schöch, 1755 UT, ibid.) Above labelled as showing the Benghazi broadcasting and revealing the use of a fly-away set in some workshop (Kai Ludwig, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) "Radio Free Tobruk" article --- Of course, no mention of a frequency... http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/945805--from-toronto-to-libya-live-to-air?bn=1 (via Fred Waterer, Feb 27, dxldyg via DXLD) EX-RADIO ENGINEER FOR GADDAFI REGIME USES NEWFOUND FREEDOM TO BROADCAST ENCOURAGING MESSAGES TO REBELS IN TRIPOLI Radio Free Libya operates in the same building from which Moammar Gaddafi's regime broadcast official messages. It has been on the air since Feb. 21, when rebels took control of the coastal city. (Leila Fadel) [caption] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/27/AR2011022703873.html By Leila Fadel, Washington Post Foreign Service, Monday, Feb 28, 2011 IN BENGHAZI, LIBYA When Benghazi fell into the hands of the opposition a week ago, Saleh Zayani grabbed two sound mixers and a microphone and headed to the radio transmission building. His friends were too afraid to join him, so Zayani went with an armed guard, plugged in his equipment and began to speak. "This is free Libya, and Tripoli is our capital," he proclaimed at 2 p.m. on Feb. 21. Radio Free Libya has been broadcasting uninterrupted every day since. Zayani found his voice in the same place he had worked, stifled and fearful, for two decades as a sound engineer, transmitting the messages of Moammar Gaddafi's regime. Slowly others joined him, and now a group of 20 that includes engineers, revolutionaries and broadcasters keeps the station operating. The work never stops, and the message - which reaches Tripoli and beyond, as far west as Zawiyah - is as important as the forces being sent to Tripoli to support the uprising there, Zayani said. He weeps when he talks about what drives him. "It was the blood. I saw them killing the people. I saw people I knew that were killed," he said, dropping his face in his hands. At least 220 people were slain in the battle with Gaddafi forces for control of the town, doctors here say. But Zayani is also overwhelmed by his newfound liberty. "I feel free. For 41 years we were prisoners." Every day, he uses that freedom to proclaim progress in the push to topple Gaddafi. When Misurata, just outside Tripoli, fell into opposition hands, he screamed into the microphone, "God bless you!" As rebels took other cities he did the same. He keeps cough drops in his desk, his voice hoarse from barking words of encouragement on the air. "We need to give them courage in Tripoli," he said. "They are still afraid of the regime. We need to give them more power to attack the regime. In Benghazi we know revolutions. All uprisings have started from here." On Sunday, in the makeshift studio with two microphones, two phone lines and a few cellphones, the station broadcast the afternoon prayer, timed to coincide with prayer time in Tripoli. Then Ahmed al-Mjreesi, 45, another sound engineer, spoke softly into a microphone: "Here is the voice of the free. The voice of the truth." The station played a patriotic song. In a bit of irony, it was over Radio Benghazi that a young army officer named Moammar Gaddafi announced the bloodless military overthrow of the Libyan monarch on Sept. 1, 1969. Gaddafi took over the station that morning, ordered a technician to open the broadcast with verses from the Koran, and announced, perhaps over the same aged equipment, "From this moment on, Libya is a free and sovereign republic." Gaddafi rose to power with a promise of social justice and unity. Now Zayani revels in his own announcement of Benghazi's freedom from Gaddafi. Throughout the day, broadcasters here encourage Libyans in Tripoli to keep fighting and attack the barracks of Bab el-Azzizya, Gaddafi's main base. Callers from across the country share stories of suffering and victory. When they can't get through on regular phone lines, they call the cellphones, which Mjreesi and others hold up to the microphones. "We are waiting for them" to achieve victory in Tripoli, Mjreesi said anxiously. "We're one voice, one capital, one Tripoli." A colleague, Mohammed Saghir, began to weep, unable to speak. Zayani hugged him and wept, too. "We are so tired," Zayani said. "We're not scared, but [Gaddafi] needs to stop this. We will keep going until Gaddafi falls." Omar Ali, 63, an engineer, said: "We have more freedom than ever before. Our thinking is free now. Our words are free now. It's a feeling you can't transfer and you can't explain." (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) I notice it says the radio began broadcasting at 2 p.m. local time on 21 February. This neatly matches Tarek Zeidan's observations at the time. Tarek reported to this group that he heard 675 under Qadhafi control on the morning of the 21st but that it had switched sides by the time he listened again in the evening. On the precise name of the station, although it was initially IDing as Radio Free Libya, at BBCM we are listening to 675 each evening and now consistently hear it ID as Voice of Free Libya. It is carrying all sorts of very interesting programming. Anyone can phone in, including pro-Qadhafi callers, who are put on air but politely told by the presenter that they are wrong. There are messages to the people of Tripoli telling them not to despair because victory is near. It's all fascinating material. One announcement tonight said: "Benina airport will be re-opened soon to receive aircraft carrying relief and aid products. Citizens are requested to refrain from opening fire on the airport, except in coordination with the relevant parties." (Chris Greenway, England, March 1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DX LISTENING DIGEST) LIBYAN PRO-FREEDOM RADIO STATION BOMBED BY REGIME, reports suggest --- Posted: 28 February 2011 By: Sarah Marshall http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/libyan-pro-freedom-radio-station-bombed-by-regime-reports-suggest/s2/a543010/ Libya Arabic news channel Al Arabiya is reporting that a local radio station in Misurata, 125 miles east of Tripoli, has been bombed by military helicopters. It is unclear at this stage whether anyone has been injured. The radio station has reportedly been broadcasting pro-freedom messages since Misurata fell into the hands of Libya's anti-government rebels last week. Reports suggest that the bombing began in the early hours of this morning, and that a military aircraft thought to have been part of the attack has been shot down by anti-Gaddafi rebels. The Financial Times has an eye-witness report from Misurata, which says that an aircraft was shot down while attempting to land at 4 am (Online Journalism News via Artie Bigley, DXLD) Andy Sennitt adds: Later reports indicate that the aircraft was firing on the station’s transmission tower rather than the studios. It’s unlikely that the aircraft crew would have known the exact location of the studios. I haven’t seen any reports indicating how serious the damage was, or if the station is still broadcasting. (Media Network blog via DXLD) 1 Comment on “Libyan pro-freedom radio station bombed by regime, reports suggest” #1 Tarek Zeidan on Mar 1st, 2011 at 09:17 Hey mate, According to a Libyan source in Libya, this is the FM station which used to transmit on 88.8 and 88.9 MHz. As this morning 1/3 I was picking up the Voice of Free Libya on 675 kHz signing in around 0711 UT. B.Rgds, Tarek Zeidan (Media Network blog comment via DXLD) [and non] Poor propagation impeded reception of VOAFTGJ on Feb 27: at 1425, no 21695 audible, and only weak signal on 13m was 21630, i.e. BBC Hausa via PORTUGAL; no Spain. 1428, can make out a carrier on 17725, but undermodulated and beneath bubble-jamming from my cable DTV converter module. 1459, now 21695 is audible with music, much better than 17725, but it`s time for `real news` from Tripoli, as Christiane Amanpour, ABC-TV has been allowed in to interview two of MAQ`s sons, so over to KOCO-7. 1556 check, 21695 again, now S9+8 with JBM music, about the same as 17725. 17725, Feb 28 at 1404, very poor signal, unseems English, probably Swahili running late again. Not checked again until 1439, now English with usual announcers, and 21695 also audible better. 1449 usual half- wrong frequency announcement claiming 21695 and 17850; stuff about Africa, 1457 Morocco mentioned. All that I heard sounded placid and normal, not yet any rebels breaking in and taking over the station. How much longer? VOAf from the GJ, still normal canned programming about Africa, March 1 --- when will the rebels ever capture the Sabrata transmitter site and/or the Tripoli studios? Like many external SW services, it may go unnoticed in its own country, skip-zone, with domestic MW takeovers understandably a much higher priority. 17725, March 1 at 1446 poor and undermodulated, about Bamako; 1448 nothing making it on 21695 during disturbed propagation, and just a trace of Spain on 21570, 21540. 1451, ``end of this program, thank you for listening, and goodbye``. 1453 on to geographical stuff about Sénégal. By 1525, 21695 has a JBA carrier, while the SSOB is Camping/Ascension 21840, then Spain 21570. 1541, 17725 with ID, African music, and 21695 still JBA carrier. 21695, V. of Africa from the Great Jamahiriyah, still chugging along with usual canned stuff, oblivious to the forces of revolution approaching, March 2 at 1403 pompous OM imagining that the ``United States of Africa`` is a reality, or even in the making, since 9-9-99, ``the era of the masses``. 1405 frequency announcement as 21695 and 17850, but still on // 17725 which is weaker now while 21695 is the SSOB (strongest station on band). 1428 stuff about African Union, 1430 ID, 21695 now weakening. 1512 both are about the same level (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LIBYA. US CONSIDERING JAMMING LIBYA http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2055984,00.html Above link provided by Artie; below different linx inserted themselves when I copied a few lines (gh) WILL OBAMA ORDER U.S. INTERVENTION IN LIBYA? By Massimo Calabresi / Washington Tuesday, Mar. 01, 2011 Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2055984,00.html#ixzz1FOlOTgMt This long article includes: ``The U.S. has discussed the possibility of NATO air forces imposing a no-fly zone over Libya, and is also considering radio-jamming measures, senior U.S. officials say.`` Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2055984,00.html#ixzz1FOl3MiTr (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) LIBYA’S LJBC WEBSITE IN ENGLISH UPDATED AGAIN The English website of the Libyan state broadcaster LJBC has been updated today for the first time since 17 February. However, there are only a few new items, and a lot of old ones. For example, ‘latest news about Libya’s oil industry’ actually links to stories from 2008 (March 1st, 2011 - 11:28 UTC by Andy Sennitt, Media Network blog via DXLD) LIBYAN OPPOSITION TV CHANNEL TO GO ON SATELLITE Libya Alhurra (Truth Libya), http://www.livestream.com/libya17feb an Internet TV channel opposed to the Gadaffi regime, is currently broadcasting pre-recorded material, but a scrolling message in English says “Tomorrow morning we will have a live feed on the satellite frequency.” No other details are given. More info when we have it. NB: This has nothing to do with the US-operated channel Alhurra. (Source: Monitoring by Ehard Goddijn, RNW)(March 1st, 2011 - 10:38 UTC by Andy Sennitt, Media Network blog via DXLD) M o n i t o r i n g L i b y a The Voice of Africa service in English from Libya was still operating as of deadline (February 28) at 1400-1600 on 17725 and 21695. On one day it was heard on 21660 instead of 21695. 17725 has been heard daily since the anti Government protests, 21695 has been very strong some days but is more dependent on propagation conditions, it was inaudible on February 28. Programmes largely consists of canned programming and African music. The programming includes a series on African cities and Readings from the Green Book. One of these readings addresses the Problems of Democracy. It says that one man one vote leads to a situation where a party could come in power with only 51% of the vote. This means that 49% of the people had not voted for the government which was the essence of a dictatorship. Many of the canned programmes and musical selections are repeated in subsequent broadcasts, the station has trouble with it's audio levels and on one day went into Swahili programmes at 1415, returning to English at 1500. They are carrying a short news bulletin, the times of this vary. On most days it has appeared between 1405 and 1415, on one day however it appeared at 1505. This largely consists of details of quotes from speeches by the leader of the revolution Colonel Gaddafi, or his son Saif-al-Islam, and spontaneous pro-Government demonstrations that follow them, often referred to as "great processions". These are said to continue for many hours with crowds shouting slogan and waving green flags. There is also condemnation of reports from Al-Jazeera (Mike Barraclough, England, March World DX Club Contact via DXLD) + quotations of info above/already in DXLD, nor repeated here (gh) ** MADAGASCAR [and non]. 5010.006, 1530-, Radio Madagasikara, Feb 26, Another fascinating frequency. Time pips just before 1530 and time check and into English news from AIR Thiruvananthapuram, but under a stronger Madagascar. Interesting stuff! Both quite strong, but the African is dominant. Madagascar is in grayline zone at this time (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) 5010, R. Madagasikara, Antananarivo. February 26 2150-2204, Malagasy (listed) local Hilife selections, short talks on top of the hour by male and female. Some saturated audio but strong, 35443. 73’s (Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, Embu SP Brasil, SW40 - Dipoles and Longwire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5010, RTVM, 1417-1426, Feb 27. In USB + carrier mode; in French; playing Hi-life/Afropop music; almost fair; continues // with 6135.28, which was again weak with heavy adjacent QRM, but intermittently clearly // till lost to BBC at 1426 (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6135.28, RTVM, 1418-1427, Feb 25. Ex: 6134.9. Recently I noted a carrier here, but today can confirm it is them; in French; playing EZL songs; // 5010 (USB + carrier mode); weak via long path; totally blocked at 1427 by BBC (Singapore) sign on (6135.0), with their recorded pre-programming loop; 7105 has not been heard in a long time (mainly used for coverage of the World Cup last year) (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6135, Feb 26 at 1428 a het between two weak stations on slightly different frequencies. This is prime-time for longpath from E Africa, and correlates with report from Ron Howard in California 24 hours earlier that RTVM was on 6135.28 ex-6134.9, the other station being BBC Singapore, just starting at 1427 on 6135.0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALAYSIA/SARAWAK. 5030, RTVM Sarawak, 1538 Feb 25, romantic ballad and easy-listening vocals. Fair, strong but modulation seemed low. // 9835 very good. Both strong on S-meter, but 9835 by far the better audio (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074, W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALAYSIA. 7295, Traxx FM, 1645 Feb 26, English pop songs, woman DJ in English between songs, mentions of FM freq “90.8”. Strong, but QRM (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074 W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MAURITANIA. MAURITÂNIA, 783, R. Mauritanie, Nouakchott, 1930-..., 25 Feb, Arabic, chanting; 33441, QRM de Espanha. Weaker than usual; \\ HF (4845 or 7245) off (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1090, unidentified. 115[sic]-1207 February 26, 2011. Under KAAY's 1-888-Bible-44 canned program (that seems to be daily this time) with XE choral anthem repeatedly cycling (I gave up after four plays). Proof that weekend Mexican board ops are just as bad as their US counterparts (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MICRONESIA [and non]. 4755.44, The Cross Radio, Pohnpei. Reactivated, fair with English religious program at 0844, 9/2 (John Adams, Beech Forest Vic (JRC NRD-535 Ewe and Folded Dipole), March Australian DX News via DXLD) English religious songs before an English announcement at 1000 “It’s 9 o’clock at The Cross Radio on 88.5 FM”. Then more religious songs on 6/2 (Dennis Allen, Milperra NSW (Icom R75, Dipoles), ibid.) ID's as the The Cross and 88.5 FM. Religious station heard a few times previous but tried to work out what was happening. Heard 0830 2/2 good level through static, fair to good levels (John Wright, Peakhurst NSW (Icom R8500 + EWE antennae), ibid.) Reactivated, religious talk in English 0905 tune/in. Had been off midweek when I checked, after reactivation at the beginning of February. Quite strong and mysteriously disappeared without trace in 2007 after some brief but undistinguished initial broadcasts, 5/23 [sic] (Craig Seager, Bathurst NSW (Icom R75, Folded Dipole), March Australian DX News via DXLD) Date must be a typo, but 2/23 was mid- week = Wednesday (gh, DXLD) 4755.44, Cross R., Feb 18 0856-0908, 34443, English, music and talk, ID at 0900 (Kouji Hashimoto, Japan, Japan Premium via DXLD) 4755.4, The Cross at 0718 Feb 25, English, “The Connection” Christian program with interview, 0726 “The Cross Radio” ID. Fair (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074 W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA, 4755.449, 0646-, The Cross, Feb 25, Nice reception already with religious style vocals, but marred by a weaker het originating from 4754.846. Not sure who that might be. 4755.47, 1000-, The Cross, Feb 25, ID at 1000 as, 'It is 9:00 o'clock, and this is the Cross on 88.5 FM'. Marred by a presumed fishermen's network co-channel, as well as a possible Brazilian station just below 4755. Also CODAR evident as well. Not as strong as it was earlier in the evening. I was hoping to hear the sign-off, but no luck so far. Listened as long as I could before succumbing to the need for sleep. Left the Total Recorder Pro running. They signed off this morning in mid-song at 1035 UT at good level. 4755.466, 0724-, The Cross, Feb 27, Best reception yet, with sermon at good/very good level. Kept an eye on them all evening. Finally cut transmitter at 0959:30 without any announcements at all. Darn! (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DXLD) Nothing for The Cross Radio today, 27-02 on 4755.4. I try between 0720-0805 UT and I can't pick it up. No signal, no carrier, and Vanuatu only weak carrier today (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol, 27 Km. W of Lugo, Grundig Satellit 500 and Sony ICF SW 7600 G, Cable antenna, 10 meters, faced WSW, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4755.4, just barely audible carrier, March 2 at 0725, carefully compared to WTWW 5755.0. Walt Salmaniw reported PMA The Cross pulling the plug at 1035* a few days ago, another day at 0959:30* both without any ID or sign-off; how rude (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MONGOLIA. 4895, Mongolian Radio. NA heard at 0158 on 8/2 and same Anthem was noted at 1458 on 18/2 and // on 4830, 7260 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF 2001, 16m Marconi), March Australian DX News via DXLD) MONGÓLIA, 4895, Mongoliin R, Murun, 2307-2316, 25 Feb, Mongolian, newscast (presumed), jingles; 34432; \\ Altay 4830 very poor (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MONGOLIA [non]. DRUB-German Radio Ulanbataar (Mongolia) is transmitting a German programm on short-wave 6085 kcs since 24-01- 2011. Monday, Wednesday and Friday 1300-1400 UT and Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from 0900 to 1000 UT with 1 kW power. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Deutsches-Radio-Ulaanbaatar/163998840312568 (Uwe Sennewald via Dario Monferini, Feb 24, playdx yg via DXLD) ** MOROCCO. MARROCOS, 1150 SNRT-"R", site?, 1133-, 28 Feb, Arabic, talks; 15441, extremely weak modulation; \\ 540, so surely not a new site, but Tahadart's faulty transmitter (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MOROCCO. 15345v, RTVM missing Feb 26 at 1548, nor on 15341v. I must have caught them during QSY, much later than nominal 1500, since at 1555, 15345 was on in Arabic, with echo, long-path or at least multi- path (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15341, RTV Marocaine, 1853 Feb 26, Arabic, songs, woman and man announcers. Fair (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074 W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) But see my report before, same date, when they were on 15345 by 1555, so they went back to 15341?? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15341v, RTM is still here at 1537 Feb 27, not yet switched to 15345v. Nominal QSY time used to be circa 1500, but really when they get around to it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MYANMAR. 5985.7, Radio Myanmar, 1440 Feb 25, Burmese, easy- listening indigenous songs. Good. 1529 Feb 26, woman in Burmese, music, 1530 woman in English, heard “Myanmar”, news. Heavy splatter from China 5980. Poor (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074 W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5985.87, R. Myanma 1321-1359+ Feb 27. Amazing signal peaking S9+15 dB with Burmese music to 1329, then usual IS on Burmese instruments, chimes, and news at 1330 by gal. Alternating guy/gal talks 1340-1350, then vocal music. QRM-free until 1359 s/on of Shiokaze on 5985 (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Drake R-8, 100-foot RW, Cumbredx mailing list via DXLD) ** MYANMAR. 5770, Defence Forces BC Unit, 1346 Feb 27. Snippets of music audible with signal at at very low level. Was hoping for better, given the strength of 5985.87 on this day but not much better than usual and basically unusable (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Drake R-8, 100-foot RW, Cumbredx mailing list via DXLD) ** MYANMAR/BURMA. They continue to switch transmitter sites during their evening broadcast. Why? 5985.84v, Myanma Radio via Yangon, noted before 1400, March 1; with Shiokaze on 5985.0 for a half hour (1400-1430). 5985.0, Myanma Radio via Naypyidaw heard with an almost a fair signal (much better than via Yangon!) at 1442 with pop songs and in vernacular; 1449 seemed to be their usual anti-VOA, BBC, RFA and DVB slogan; 1450 into indigenous singing (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. Frequency change of RNW in Dutch from Feb. 23: 0000-0027 NF 6110 BON 250 kW / 180 deg to SAmN, ex 6145 (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, 1 March via DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. MADAGASCAR: 11655, Radio Netherlands Worldwide; 1955-1957*, *1959-2001+, 25-Feb; English close of Africa program; sed on 9855 but not there. Back on at 1959 with ID & into English Africa in Progress at 2000 (repeat program?). SIO=453+, no discernible change in signal quality (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, logged by ear in real time! Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Scheduled on 9895, not 9855, via Sri Lanka until 2000 (gh, DXLD) ** NEW ZEALAND. 5950, Feb 25 at 1345, someYL named Russell with a contemporary blues/dixieland song, 1348 health and welfare phone numbers for Christchurch, IDs as ``Radio New Zealand`` (not National, nor International), and certainly not the Maori music show scheduled Fridays at 1330 on RNZI. Rescue stories, including a couple who managed to complete their planned marriage ceremony despite the quake. See also VATICAN [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGER. 9704.99, LV du Sahel, 2101-2259:35*, Feb 25, audible after Ethiopia 2101 sign off. Local rustic tribal music. Vernacular and French talk. Qur`an at 2255. Flute IS and National Anthem at 2258 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6925 USB, PIRATE, KARR, 0030-0115 Feb 26, rock music, no announcements heard. 0214 re-check as he gave an ID. Very good (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074 W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) U.S.A., 6925, 0132-, KARR Mobile, Feb 26, Very strong pirate in USB with excellent punchy modulation playing rock music. Also sounds like Northern Relay Service is on at this time just above 6930.234 kHz in AM mode, but not as strong. ID'd as 'KARR Mobile from the west coast of the U.S.A. Hello from KARR' just after 0135 UT. Many thanks! Unfortunately, no internet access at Grayland so will have to wait to post until I get home on Sunday. Nice mp3 file (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6930, PIRATE, presumed Northern Relay Service, 0126- 0212 Feb 26, British comedy. Fair. 0119 Feb 27 with ID and e-mail address, into a variation of Kenny Rogers “The Gambler” song. Good. [Walt reports it as in CANADA; q.v.] 6940, PIRATE, tentatively Renegade Radio, 0548 Feb 27, pop song “The Rain Coming Down”, 0552 quick ID (missed), more music: rock, pop and Country. 0600 ID (missed), “underground.com” was probably “hfunderground.com” 0608 mention “renegade radio broadcaster”, Ponderosa theme music and off 0609. Poor to fair. 6950, PIRATE, Radio Ronin Shortwave, 0032 Feb 26, pop song, 0037 ID, mention FRN, more music. 0057 another ID, song. 0114 “This is Radio Ronin Shortwave.” and off. Poor (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074 W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. PIRATE, 6925, 0300-, Wolverine Radio, Feb 27, Fair reception, but too close to the very powerful pirate on 6930 in AM, but ID'd at 0300 as Wolverine Radio. Left the air right after that. Other station was the Northern Relay Service on 6930.172 (much stronger than last night). That made three pirates heard while at Grayland (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) PIRATE, 6925, 0313-, unid, Feb 27, Another weak pirate came on at 0313:20 with 60s music. Suffering from some splatter from 6930 (Northern Relay Service). NRS signed off at 0320 with 'Up from the ashes, reborn, and rising like the phoenix. Northern Relay Service gmail.com. You know who we are’. 6925U pirate became much stronger after NRS signed off, and especially after 0325:30. No ID so far to 0339 (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) PIRATE, 6930, 0340-, Radio Ga-Ga, Feb 27, Unid pirate signed on at 0340:30 on 6930 USB at fair level. Transmission seemed intermittent with dead air, then into music pieces, sometimes at good level (like at 0351:10). Sounds like the Doors at that time. Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire at 0426. Finally ID'd at 0430 as, ‘Radio Gaga, transmitting live from the center of ? Lake.' Reception reports to Radiogaga6925 @ gmail.com Thanks! (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. TCS Sunday: Testing New Frequency! Gooday, eh? The Crystal Ship is plannning to be on the air at about 2200 UTC (Sunday), 5 p.m. EST. We will be testing a new frequency of on or about 6816 kHz AM. – (John Poet, The Crystal Ship, The TCS Blog http://tcsshortwave.blogspot.com/ 2149 UT Feb 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi everyone, The Crystal ship pirate on 6815.5 kHz AM mode, heard with weak to fair signal here in Montreal at 2212 UT with ID and Eight Miles High from The Byrds at 2216 UT on February 27th (Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, Canada, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6815, Feb 27 at 2352, weak music on AM, presumably The Crystal Ship. As happens too often, it was not until well after its start that I turned on computer and opened e-mail notifying us of a TCS broadcast around new 6816 from around 2200. Anyhow, there was too much T-storm noise with tornado warning two or three counties away (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. Re 11-08, OK and vicinity MW beacons: LW beacons: From The MARE Log Summary; LW & MW Utes & AROs (26-February-11) 242 CUH +0.94 Cushing OK, Municipal A/P 264 HN +1.02 Shawnee OK, Shawnee Regional A/P 267 HET +1.0 -1.0 Henryetta OK, Henryetta Municipal A/P 275 GUY +1.01 Guymon OK, Guymon Municipal A/P 299 --- 200 Bd Sallisaw OK, DGPS 314 GGU Prague OK, Prague Municipal A/P 338 TU -1.05 Tulsa OK, Tulsa Int'l A/P 350 RG +1.0 -1.0 Oklahoma City OK, Will Rogers World A/P 375 DW +1.0 -1.1 Tulsa OK, Owasso NDB 384 PVJ +1.04 Pauls Valley OK, Pauls Valley Municipal A/P 388 OFZ -1.04 Fort Sill OK, Trail NDB 406 OK Oklahoma City OK, Tulakes NDB 425 PFL +1.0 -1.1 Fort Sill OK, Post NDB [ex-308] 512 HMY +1.0 -1.0 Lexington OK, SE OK Medical Ctr heliport 515 PN +1.0 -1.0 Ponca City OK, Ponca City Regional A/P 242 CUH +0.94 Cushing OK, Municipal A/P (via Harold Frodge, MI, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. Saturday AM Tulsa Radio --- Quick look around this morning: 1050, KGTO dead air OC all morning long 1120, KEOR no where to be found, still silent 1270, KRVT/1530, KXTD/1570, KZLI the new Spanish programming trio NOT simulcasting this morning. While running errands this morning heard a "Que Buena" semi-ID at 1720 UT on 1570. 1530 sounded like religious music and 1270 had Spanish vocal music. I can't recognize the various Spanish music formats (tejano, ranchera etc.) so no help there. 1380, KMUS the Radio Disney space-holder Broadway musical still going strong (Bruce Winkelman, Tulsa, 1758 UT Feb 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Tulsa monitoring: Bruce Winkelman there found KGTO-1050 dead air, open carrier, all morning Feb 26, but had resumed when I tuned in at 1945 UT, KGTO ID with good-time oldies. At 1720 UT he found 1270, 1530 and 1570 not in //, with different Spanish music; but at 2105 UT, 1570 and 1270 seemed // to me, switching back and forth on one caradio, while 1530 was buried by KOKC splash. He and I agree that 1120 KEOR remains off the air for weeks (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. LAWMAKER WANTS OK TO BE A HAVEN FOR UNLICENSED RADIO http://www.radiosurvivor.com/2011/02/08/lawmaker-wants-oklahoma-to-be-a-haven-for-unlicensed-radio/ (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) Axually published in 2010y ** OKLAHOMA. NEW KGOU SIGNAL IN ADA IS ON THE AIR === KGOU's signal expansion project in Pontotoc County near Ada is nearing completion; we are testing the signal at 91.9 FM to make sure it conforms to the parameters set by the FCC license. This is the final construction project that KGOU has undertaken in recent years and may be the last opportunity for expansion for many years to come. KOUA at 91.9 is a 2-kilowatt station which will provide service to areas near Ada, and will also stabilize the existing translator signal in Ada at 97.9 FM. Our Ada listeners know that service from the translator has been problematic because of its distance from the main transmitter in Norman. The new 91.9 signal will allow KGOU to provide more consistent service to Ada on both signals. Fundraising is ongoing specifically for our recent signal expansion projects in Chickasha, Woodward and Ada, and we thank those who have already contributed to them. See more details in our Signal Expansion pages at KGOU.org (Signal Expansion Update, KGOU e-newsletter Feb 24 via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. Re gh, 11-08: > Of the Big Three commercial DTV stations in OKC, I`ve noticed that only KWTV-39 IDs as `KWTV-DT`, visually including on its lower-right bugs with a white 9 on a red background, alternating with News9.com. >This is confirmed at FCC TV Query: KWTV-DT is the official call, while the others are KOCO-TV and KFOR-TV even tho they are just as Digital as KWTV is. Perhaps it was 39`s choice to keep the -DT since TV is already part of their four-letter callsign. At least that will reduce ignorant broadcast media references to it as ``KWTV-TV``, which happened frequently in the analog era! DS: A few months after the end of the digital transition, the FCC, on its own motion, changed every DTV station's callsign to what their associated analog station's call was before the transition. Digital WSMV-DT became WSMV-TV, the pre-transition analog calls. Digital WVTV-DT became WVTV - their analog station didn't have the -TV suffix, and neither does their post-transition digital. The Commission allowed stations to choose to keep the -DT suffix if they wished, as long as they notified the FCC of their intention. Obviously KWTV was one of the stations that chose to keep -DT. The VAST majority of stations did NOT elect to choose -DT. (however, most Entravision stations - most of them either Univision or Telefutura affiliates - did elect to keep -DT.) > While looking at the FCC info about these I see that: > KWTV-DT on 39 has a direxional antenna with full 100% power only headed due south, and reduced power of 81% at 320 degrees, which is not too far from Enid`s direxion, where we also get reduced power; why? Is there something else on ch 39 that must be protected out here? Not that I know of. DS: Good question. Was there anything analog out that way that had to be protected before the transition? Can't think of anything offhand. > KOCO-TV 7 is licensed with 47 kW at 370 meters AAT. But has a CP modification for 65.7 kW at 451 m. And an application for 101 kW back down at 370 meters DS: The 101 kW facility is an auxiliary (backup) transmitter. 65.7 kW is for a circularly-polarized facility. My experience in analog was that circular polarization works VERY well, I'm surprised more DTV stations, especially on VHF, didn't use it. > The 65.7 kW CP mod is also non-direxional; but the app for 101 kW has the same direxional null toward Lawton which is no longer necessary, so perhaps the `final` version will be the 65.7 kW one. Fortunately, Enid is getting about 96% of the signal as long as it`s direxional. DS: I'm sure the 101 kW auxiliary facility proposes to use the same antenna as the existing 47 kW facility. What I suspect they're planning on doing... 1. Remove old analog channel 5 antenna from top of tower. (existing digital channel 7 antenna is side-mounted) 2. Replace it with circularly-polarized channel 7 antenna. 3. Install more powerful transmitter (circular polarization means 65.7 kW H and 65.7 kW V for a total of about 132 kW; I doubt the existing transmitter can make enough power to achieve that much ERP) 4. Leave existing side-mounted channel 7 antenna in place. 5. Install coaxial switch, allowing the more powerful transmitter to feed either antenna. Because of the higher transmitter power, the ERP on the side-mounted antenna will increase. > KOCO-TV also has a Grant for KOCO-DR on channel 7, ``Service Designation: DR. Petition for rulemaking to add or modify a digital allotment -- see Docket for details``, whatever that means. The docket is not linked from this Query search page. DS: This is the application to change KOCO's DTV allotment from some other channel to channel 7 (I sure don't remember them being allotted a different channel -- but my memory is shot...) -- (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, Feb 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Tnx, Doug, for sorting this out. No, I don`t think KOCO ever had any other channels than 5 and 7, certainly not a different transition channel. And no analog on 39 anywhere around here (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** OKLAHOMA. Lately 48, KWDW-LP, OKC, Univisión still in analog, has been too weak to lock in, but morning tropo-enhanced March 2 at 1524 UT so I check for the other low-power analogs: 21 home shopping KTOU- LP also in, but 19 KUOT-CA is mostly black screen, with video occasionally cutting on for a split second, while gospel-huxter audio in English continues uninterrupted. Is anyone paying attention? Not enough enhancement to decode Univisión 36 KCHM-CA, but 46 KOCM [no suffix per W9WI.com] Daystar from Norman was making it, these two DTV. 19 fading out and the others down by 1540 (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAKISTAN. Radio Pakistan on February 16 had news in Urdu at 0900 hours and new in English at 0905 hours and the identification “This is radio Pakistan External Service” on 15100 and 17700 kHz (Rumen Pankov, R. Bulgaria DX Feb 25 via Yimber Gaviría, DXLD) English news used to be at 1100-1105*; is that replaced? (gh, DXLD) 7510, Radio Pakistan, 1600 Feb 26, looking for English, but seemed to be in language until 1602, then heard mention of Pakistan and occasional word in English. Needed to listen in USB. QRM de FEBC Philippines 7505. Pakistan went off at 1608. Very poor (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074 W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Frequency change of Radio Pakistan in Urdu WS: 1700-1900 NF 9720 ISL 250 kW / 313 deg to WeEu, ex 9340 // 7530 to WeEu (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, 1 March via DXLD) ** PAKISTAN. FOREIGN BROADCASTING SERVICE OF RADIO PAKISTAN TO RESUME THE TRANSMISSION IN RUSSIAN. About this pfzdbk [sic] the other day, speaking at the National Radio House in Islamabad, Director General of Radio Pakistan Solangi Murtaza (Murtaza Solangi). He said: "Radio Pakistan" is broadcasting programs in different languages, but also soon will launch the program in Turkish, Russian and Arabic. Reputed experts, broadcast in these languages can be resumed as early as March or April, with the transition of international radio stations broadcasting to the summer season. There is no information about which platforms will be broadcast again produced by Russian office of the Pakistani state inoveschatelya. Note that the "Radio Pakistan" led the program in Russian language in the period from 1997 to 2007. Then sorokapyatiminutnaya Russian channel broadcast along with the gears in the Uzbek language in the translations by the CIS shortwave transmitter center of Radio Pakistan, near the Pakistani capital - Islamabad. In 2007, the Russian translations were closed as part of large-scale reductions broadcasted this country, held by the military government of Pervez Musharraf. Currently, Radio Pakistan broadcasts to foreign countries in English, Chinese, Hindi, Persian, Pashto, Dari, Sinhala, Tamil, Gujarati, Nepali and Bengali. In the past year has been expanded English- language radio broadcasts in the Pakistani part of the new round the clock information and music channel Planet in English, which is also available through the official website of the broadcaster at http://radio.gov.pk Source: http://telecom.cnews.ru/news/line/index.shtml?2011/02/21/428777 (Konstantin Aseev, Kursk , Russia / "open_dx" via RusDX via DXLD) ** PAKISTAN [non]. Re 11-08: ``PAKISTAN. 7615, R Pakistan, 1718 Feb 19 with religious type Hindi songs. At 1730 man with Islamic type talks. Found to be // 7530. audio file: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?dy4j6ttz9dkifjj (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, WORLD OF RADIO 1553, DX LISTENING DIGEST 11-08) see IRAN [non]: Gunaz, 7610! TDP station Gunaz Radio in Azeri from today Feb. 21: 1430-1930 NF 7610 SMF 250 kW / 130 deg to CeAs, ex 7510* *to avoid R. Pakistan in English 1600-1610 and FEBA in Silte 1730-1800 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, WORLD OF RADIO 1553, DX LISTENING DIGEST 11-08) i.e. via UKRAINE 7610, Gunaz TV, 1643 with talks by YL in Azeri with short music intervals. Too many mentions of Iran after the short musical breaks that made me thinking if this program came from VoiRI. Also mentioned Amnesty Intl, etc. Dull audio, S10, 44544 with co channel QRM from FSK (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, Feb 21, WORLD OF RADIO 1553, DX LISTENING DIGEST 11-08)`` 7609.4, R Pakistan spur at 1744 1 March with S3 and very under modulated carrier // 7530. Supposedly R Gunaz should be found there (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, Standard rig : ICOM R75 / 2x16 V / m@h40 heads Sennheiser, WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3275, NBC Southern Highlands, 1314-1402*, Feb 25. In Tok Pisin; DJ playing island songs, plus at 1330 played “Waka Waka” (This Time for Africa/Esto es Africa) by Shakira; this must be popular throughout PNG; as this is the third station I have heard it on in the last three days. 3290, NBC Central, 1150-1209, Feb 25. DJ with island songs. 1301 clear ID for “Radio Central”, but most IDs are I believe still “N-B-C Central”; 1302 “11 o’clock”; as usual their time is not accurate; unique bird call; “Good night Papua New Guinea. The News Roundup”; news in English till 1306; news // 3365 NBC Milne Bay, but news was not // 3275 NBC Southern Highlands. 1402 brief National Anthem and off. For folks who have not heard the very distinctive bird call, I have my best audio clip at http://www.box.net/shared/yx4ncvd315 Is an easy way to ID several of the PNG stations (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. Feb 27 had above average PNG reception. 3275, NBC Southern Highlands with the best PNG reception today; intermittent checking from 1107 to 1136 found island songs. 1206 series of speeches; 1225-1305 phone interview with someone from the “National Gas Corp. of PNG” about a LNG project; 1305 into pop songs in English (“We Are The World”, etc.) till 1323 tune out; many mentions of “Southern Highlands”. One of their strongest receptions to date; even better than 3385, which is normally the best. 3290, NBC Central. Intermittent checking from 1107 to 1136 found island music and long conversation in Tok Pisin. No “News Roundup” at 1302 (because it was Sunday?); instead played music; almost fair, but mushy audio. 3365, NBC Milne Bay with the poorest PNG reception today; 1057 in English with Christian sermon and prayer (“I pray for the people of PNG”); 1100 religious music; poor to very poor. 3385, Radio East New Britain, 1203-1223*. Their normally heard Sunday syndicated Christian religious program “Beyond Today” with Steve Myers; in English; produced in USA, with toll free number and website (“Beyond Today dot TV”); did not complete the show; as usual suddenly ended transmission in mid sentence; so there is some variation from the recently noted 1225* [NO, see below] (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3260, Radio Madang, 0813 Feb 27, audio coming through. At 0824 woman in Tok Pisin. At 0833 man in Tok Pisin. Poor. 1014 Feb 27, man in Tok Pisin, mentioning he would be taking phone calls and then did take one, mention of Happy Birthday, couple mentions of Madang. Fair. 3365, Radio Milne Bay, 0758 Feb 27 audio appearing. 0809 woman announcer. At 0823 check, woman preacher in English. Weak. 1032 Feb 27, impassioned preacher in English with prayer, then continued preaching. Fair-good. 3275, Radio Southern Highlands, 0836 Feb 27, Western pop music. Poor. 1008 Feb 27, man with news in English. Headlines repeated at 1011. “That was the NBC news.” then into Tok Pisin. Good, // 3365 very good strength but muffled audio, 3290 fair if tuned to 3292. 3290, Radio Central, 0839 Feb 27, male chorus with local song. Understandable if tuned away from ute on 3290, nothing audible if tuned to 3290. Fair. 3325, Radio Buka, 0748 Feb 27, trace of audio, at 0757 improving with music playing. At 0832 still very weak, with speaker, possibly religious, possibly Tok Pisin. 3385, Radio East New Britain, 0737 Feb 27, English, man talking about the Bible, 0738 publication offer, 0739 program “__ Today”, song. 0744 woman in Tok Pisin. 0754 English Christian songs, 0802 woman in Tok Pisin with “NBC” ID and program lineup, 0803 mixed chorus with anthem (?), 0807 promo for “has all your Gospel music needs”, 0808 man in Tok Pisin with welcome to religious program, possibly from a church. Poor- fair (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074 W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3385, 0911-, Radio East New Britain, Feb 27. Very strong reception. The first to be heard over an hour ago, and now with English news (presumably from Port Moresby?). Appears to be the case, as they mentioned 'NBC, Port Moresby'. Final item regarded M. Gadhafi. Into a ukulele vocal at 0913 and Pidgin (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3275, NBC Southern Highlands continues to have better than normal reception on March 1. They do not seem to carry any of the news segments that the other PNG stations do; play a lot of music, but also provides a good number of spots for local speeches in vernacular; 1228 speech about the government, importance of education and mentions “Southern Highlands” (which sounds funny to me, as it’s almost like “Southern Islands”). 3290, NBC Central. 1301-1305, March 1. In English; ends with “and that has been the News Roundup for tonight”; news only // 3365. Radio Gadona relay at 1314 with program of mostly nice island songs; very few IDs, but at 1337 caught “Radio Gadona … radio station for PNG, 95.5 FM”, so they do in fact still carry this relay; no sign off announcement; cut off the island music and suddenly at 1402 started National Anthem; 1403*. 3365, NBC Milne Bay better reception on March 1. 1301-1305; in English; ends with “and that has been the News Roundup for tonight”; news only // 3290. Not // 3275. 3385, NBC East New Britain, 1202, March 1. News in English; 1207 ends with “N-B-C ..?.., bringing you local and international news, and current events happening around you”; this news only was // 3290 and 3365. “Good night. Robin … in time for news from N-B-C East New Britain” in Tok Pisin with news and sports; 1217 promo for “N-B-C East New Britain .. super music request .. half past nine to eleven o’clock … Thursday night … 98 FM, 104.3 FM, 3.385 MHz shortwave”; DJ with “special dedications” and pop songs; fair to almost good. My Feb 27 comment was INCORRECT; there is NO variation in their sign off time; is still consistently 1225* (my E1 clock let me down) (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4746.972, Radio Huanta Dos Mil, 1037-1050 Feb 25. Noted traditional Huaynos type music with a male commenting between the music. Too much noise on this band to allow clear copy. Signal remained poor. 6019.199, Radio Victoria, 1046-1100 Feb 25, Noted a male in an excitable comment. At 1047 canned ads heard. Lots of splatter heard from Martí on 6030 while Victoria begins to drop into the noise, which results in her being a poor. 5039.171, Radio Libertad, 1050-1100 Feb 25, At tune in noted music in progress. At 1052 a male in canned ads while music continues to be heard. Again at 1054 live Spanish comments from a male. This is followed with huayno music after the ads. Signal was good, covering the noise at times (Chuck Bolland, Clewiston FL, 26N 081W, WR-G31DDC, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5024.910: No sign from Rebelde on 5025 at 2330, So I heard Radio Quillabamba from Peru. Noisy talks; Rebelde was back on 2339 UT. R Santa Rosa, Lima, Peru on 6049.610 with religious program at 0003 (Maurits Van Driessche, Belgium, UT Feb 27, HCDX via DXLD) ** PERU. 6019.19, 27/2 0452, Radio Victoria, talks woman, weak, fair at 0530 (Giampiero Bernardini, et al., Milan ARI DX night, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 18057.6, 2106, 20-Feb; Weak, peaky audio -- sounds like a sing-song preacher. Presume 3 x 6019.2 Radio Victoria, Peru. About the same during 20Z next day (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, logged by ear in real time! Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. VOA Delano transmitter move to Tinang-PHL in May 2009. (via BC-DX Feb 25 via DXLD ** PHILLIPINES. 11730, R. Pilipinas *1730-1810+ Feb 26. Opening music and s/on routine with ID's in several languages, including English; mentioned also 11880, 15285, and one other 15 MHz frequency; none of those heard but did hear 11890 in parallel with 11730, with 11890 fair and 11730 good. Sign-on was followed by YL with Tagalog news; English ID's again at 1800, followed by more talk (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Drake R-8, 100-foot RW, Cumbredx mailing list via DXLD) 15190, Radyo Pilipinas, 1803 Feb 25, man in Tagalog with news. No English as listed. Re-check at 1816 and playing Mission Impossible theme music, man with ID “Radyo Pilipinas, the Voice of the Philippines.”, but still in Tagalog. Poor. 1806 Feb 26, woman in Tagalog with English words in a talk about breast feeding, immunization, etc. Fair (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074 W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES [non]. 15350, Feb 26 at 1549, RVA in Tagalog talking about this and that ``bishop`` (English word), interspersed with video game ``firing`` SFX, sending the wrong message? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also SAUDI ARABIA [and non], for the other RVA VATICAN relay ** PORTUGAL. 15520, RDPI, Feb 26 at 1554 Portuguese song // much stronger 15560. 15520 is registered Sat/Sun only at 08-17, 300 kW, 144 degrees, while 15560 is to NAm (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. 6130, 0416-, Radio Romania International, Feb 26, Superb reception with English to North America with commentary about a Russian gas pipeline. No other parallels heard. Once again, an example of a small country doing very good work. A lesson for others! Perhaps relay arrangements should be considered for other stations? (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) 6130, Radio Romania Int’l, 0450 Feb 27, English, mailbag program. Excellent here and on // 7305. Romania seems to have the best signal, by far, of any European, in the Pacific Northwest (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074 W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7220, 2314-, Radio Romania International, Feb 26, Fair to good reception in English, // to 7300 (also fair/good). Amazing, since it's only 3:15 pm local, and the transmission is direct from Europe (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** ROMANIA [non]. 9440, Radio Armonia from Iasi, Romania. Romanian 1100-1130 on Saturdays and reported from 1629 on 6120 on Sat. Heard on 19/2. Armonia is renting airtime from TWR (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF 2001, 16m Marconi), March Australian DX News via DXLD) Via Monte Carlo / France, then -cs (Craig Seager, ed., ibid.) ** RUSSIA. 4996, 1647-, RWM, Moscow, Feb 26, Presumably them. Tone noted at top of the minute. Fair reception (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. 6005, Adygeyan Radio, Krasnodar. From the Caucasus, Russia in vernaculars from 1800 without any IS or ID just playing the NA, followed by ID, addresses on 28/1. By the way the other station from there – Kabardino-Balkarian is not on the air since October 2009 or earlier with previous schedule Wed, Thu, Sat 1830-1900 on 6005 in B09 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF 2001, 16m Marconi), March Australian DX News via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. 6075, R. Rossii, Petropavlovsk. Weak and noisy here with Russian announcements and heavy metal songs at 1050 until an ID at 1100, before being swamped by CRI on 17/2. R. Rossii not scheduled for this time (Dennis Allen, Milperra NSW (Icom R75, Dipoles), March Australian DX News via DXLD) Says who? Yes, it is, straight thru 18-14 per HFCC, despite some other Russian usage of same frequency here and there (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** RUSSIA [non]. MOLDOVA, 7290, 0145-, Voice of Russia World Service, Feb 26, Excellent reception of their English service. Parallel to 7250 (a mess with cochannel Voice of Justice, also in English) (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. 9677.7, Voice of Justice, Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh. In Azeri from 0605 s/on as QRM for Canção Nova, Brazil on 9680 both heard on 29/1 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF 2001, 16m Marconi), March Australian DX News via DXLD) That Brazilian is on 9675v (gh) ** RUSSIA. 9840, VOR English to WNAm via Pet/Kam, DVR sometimes makes it here, sometimes not. Feb 27 it was good at 0600, much better than 9855 Vladivostok which also seems weakerly modulated, and an echo apart. However, 9840 was atop some lite CCI, presumably R. Rossii, Moscow site which they have foolishly scheduled to collide between 05 and 07. This should get worse further east (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [non]. Earl Higgins in MO, was hearing an unID language Feb 17 on 9965 before the V. of Russia Portuguese service at 2300 listed as via ARMENIA; nothing scheduled before then. I finally remembered to check this on Feb 24: 2255 some very weak and fluttery talk, but cannot determine the language, also with residual Cuban pulse jamming since 9965 is the R. República daytime frequency altho by now it is on 5954.2v instead; and also splatter/overload from WWCR 9980; 2259 VOR IS starts. Anyone else with better luck by now? KHBN = T8WH Palau is also registered on 9965 from 2200 past 2300 but the two transmitters there are really on 9930 and 13590 per WHR sked, and the unID language does seem to be from the same VOR transmitter (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. 11610, 27/2 0925, Voice of Tatarstan - Kazan, Tataro, talk OM, buono (Roberto Pavanello, Vercelli / Italia, via Roberto Scaglione, shortwave yg via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. 15520, V of Russia, Chita-Atamanolva. Good in English at 0500 on 24/2 (John Adams, Beech Forest Vic (JRC NRD-535 Ewe and Folded Dipole), March Australian DX News via DXLD) English ID at 0545, 8/2, then a talk about copyright laws in Russia. Not listed for this frequency in WRTH, AOKI, or HFCC (Dennis Allen, Milperra NSW (Icom R75, Dipoles), March Australian DX News via DXLD) Then how does Adams know the site is Chita? HFCC in fact shows Chita at 02-06, but there are lots of wooden regs from Russia (gh, DXLD) ** RWANDA. 6055, R. Rwanda, Kigali. Weak level signal of speakers in vernacular. Still at weak level at 1907 re-tune 1822 [sic], 15/2 (Charles Jones, Castle Hill NSW (Sony 2001D with 7m. vertical antenna or 70m long wire antenna), March Australian DX News via DXLD) News in English from 1831 and from 1845 with sport reportage in French on 9/2 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria (Sony ICF 2001, 16m Marconi), March Australian DX News via DXLD) News in English at 0515, 1830; More in English, Thursday 2000-2045 (WRTH 2011 via DXLD) Is the latter still heard? What programming is it? (gh, DXLD) ** SAO TOME. VOA - 4940 kHz new frequency --- 4940.00, VOA, São Tomé on 3/1, *0359 YDD, English newscast, African flavor // 4930. 4960 kHz not heard. (Heard some o/c testing here 2/27 between 0218-32, on/off. Away from radio on 2/28 at this same time). English ID at 0500, and into Hausa as announced (Jim Young, Wrightwood, CA, ICOM IC-756ProIII + 40-M yagi + antenna tuner, NASWA yg via DXLD) 4940 is their night frequency, 4960 morning. Probably forgot to change it in the meantime. Bet it`s back on 4960 next time (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) 4960.00, VOA, São Tomé back here from 4940.0 yesterday at 0457 March 2, with African related story, and item about baseball. F anouncements about VOA, 'VOAnews.com', English ID at 0500, and announcement of the following program in Hausa. Was yesterday's (3/1) a mistake of frequency choice? (Jim Young, Wrightwood, CA, NASWA yg via DXLD) ** SARAWAK. MALAYSIA, 5030.025, 1530-, RTM Sarawak, Feb 26, Superb reception, strongest of the stations on the band. Very enjoyable music mix. Best thing that CNR1 did was to leave this frequency! (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** SARAWAK. Malaysia makes het-DXing easy by offsetting several of its frequencies, e.g. 5965v and 6050v. Feb 27 at 1420 I am also hearing a het on the hi side of some much stronger Chinese on 7270. On Feb 23, Ron Howard in California had measured Wai FM on 7270.48v at 1113, // 11665. Pulling any identifiable audio here is another matter. The Chinese at 14-15 is jamming against V. of China, Taibei, per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SARAWAK [non]. PALAU. New schedule of Radio Free Sarawak in Bahasa Malay: 1000-1200 on 15420 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs, ex 1000-1100 on same 1200-1300 on 6205 DB 100 kW / 117 deg to SEAs, cancelled from Feb 18 (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, 1 March via DXLD) ** SARAWAK [non]. Re 11-08: Relative of former British PM behind Radio Free Sarawak http://www.abu.org.my/abu/index.cfm/elementid/67423/Relative-of-former-British-PM-behind-Radio-Free-Sarawak (via Alokesh Gupta, dxldyg via DXLD) Summary of previous story ** SAUDI ARABIA [and non]. 15435, Feb 26 at 1456, CCI and SAH between BSKSA on early in Arabic, and tail of R. Veritas Asia in Urdu via VATICAN. From 1457 BSKSA alone; had some nice seemingly secular music later in the 1500 hour, and still buzzless (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SERBIA [non] 6190, 0147-, International Radio Serbia, Feb 26, Nice English ID then back into Serbian music. Not bad, as the sun hasn't set yet in Grayland (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** SIKKIM. 4835, INDIA (SIKKIM), A.I.R., Gangtok, 1508 Feb 25, woman in Hindi, possibly news. Poor (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074 W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4835, 1531-, AIR Gangtok, Feb 26, Fair to poor reception. On frequency exactly (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** SINGAPORE. 6676, 1423-, Singapore VOLMET, Feb 26, Excellent reception with English VOLMET for various airports in the Singapore area. 'Broadcast ends, Singapore Radio out' at 1424:45. American accented rather than British accented computer generated male voice. Can't quite make out who came on next (very weak) (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** SLOVAKIA. 9435, IRRS - Rimavska Sobota, 1948-2000* Feb 27 [Sunday]. Test transmission with Dr. Earl and Word for the World program. Off suddenly without ID. Fair (Rich D'Angelo, Wyomissing PA 19610, Ten-Tec RX-340, Drake R-8B, Eton E1, Eton E5, Alpha Delta DX Sloper, RF Systems Mini-Windom, Datong FL3, JPS ANC-4, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) Why do you think this is Slovakia? Likely anywhere but, getting ready for a site switch as Rimavská Sobota closes down; but don`t bother asking IRRS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See ITALY [non] ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5020, S.I.B.C., 0729 Feb 25, pop music, 0730 man and then woman in vernacular, 0731 man with talk in vernacular, 0739 woman with ad, man with TC, ID, song. Fair (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25- 27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074 W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5019.894, 0741-, SIBC, Feb 27, Very strong, with excellent modulation with some English announcements, and then into what sounds like a South African vocal. Best heard in LSB to avoid the splatter from Cuba. News in Tok Pisin and English at 0800. Continued to 0814. Mentioned a program coming up at 'Half past seven'. Into a religious program. 0845- Very good reception with shipping information. // 1035 weakly heard as well. Into children’s choir at 0846 then into a children's religious program. 945 tentatively also in // (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** SOUTH AFRICA. 9675, 1624-, TWR, Feb 25, Listed as 250 kW from Meyerton until 1627, but off suddenly in mid-song African at 1624. Was watching a bizarre sick transmitter varying between about 9670 and 9685, but that too disappeared. Don't think it was anything local, since it was too narrow to be a noisy wall wart, etc. (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** SPAIN [and non]. Re 11-08: Hi Glenn, You reported: ``9765, as I tuned by REE via COSTA RICA in Basque, Feb 23 at 1333, multiple gunshots rang out, and then talk re Rey Juan Carlos; I assume the gunshots may have been unrelated, from Libya? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` Feb. 23 was the 30th anniversary of the attempted coup led by Civil Guard Lt. Col. Antonio Tejero. We have been force-fed here all week long with special TV and radio programmes and newspaper special supplements. What you heard was the re-broadcast when Tejero and his men stormed Congress on Feb, 23, 1981, began firing shots in the air, and held lawmakers hostage for 17 hours. RNE and SER had reporters there and were broadcasting live because parliamentarians were voting on a new prime minister, Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, until the transmissions were cut off. The king's address was also part of the historic event when he went on the air and asked the military to respect the constitution. 73s, (Marty Delfín, Madrid, Spain, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 21570 and 21610, REE, Feb 25 at 1458 with BFO on I notice that both signals are slightly unstable, unusual for Noblejas. I am reluctant to report as such, since who am I to say my FRG-7 BFO is more stable than their 350 kW transmitters --- except, I compare to e.g. Sackville 9610, and other 13m frequencies, and their pitch does not vary a bit, unlike 21570 and 21610, warbling slightly. It could also be caused by Doppler effect thru the ionosphere, except in this case there is no significant fading. It might also be caused by extremely strong signals overloading my receiver, but these are not. It would be nice if some other monitors took note of these and other apparently unstable transmitters. They are easy to see with Perseus. 17850, as expected, RFI is buried by REE via COSTA RICA, Saturday Feb 26 at 1640. REE is playing contemporary classical music // direct 15385, 17595, 21570, 21610, with RFI just barely audible underneath. RFI is daily 16-17 in French from Issoudun, while REE starts 17850 at 1600 on Saturdays, 1500 on Sundays, 1800 M-F. With plenty of free frequencies on 16m, e.g. 17860, why does RFI subject itself to this? Yes, targets are very different, REE to NAm, RFI to Af, but that`s no excuse. It`s gone again --- the nominal M-F 1330-1400 Basque service from REE. 17595, Monday Feb 28 at 1335 still in Castilian, no explanation, as if programming is normal, so I am forced to listen to a language I can understand: about Academy Awards, 1336 sports capsule, 1337 REE ID, 1338 `Heliotrope` talk on subject ``la música es una terapia para todo ser humano``, mentioning handicapped achievers such as el ciego Maestro [Joaquín] Rodrigo, 1342 song in Spanish, ``Te Amo`` by an English performer who can`t walk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Missing Monday, not checked Tuesday, REE`s Basque is back, Wednesday March 2 at 1338 on 15170 via COSTA RICA, interspersing lots of stingers. See also UNIDENTIFIED 9765 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. 7189.78, 27/2 0138, Sri Lanka BC, songs, weak/fair (Giampiero Bernardini, et al., Milan ARI DX night, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. 12130, Feb 25 at 1429, fluttery signal in Vietnamese, 1430 mentioning Washington. Is R. Free Asia, Iranawila, 14-15, 250 kW, 73 degrees. No jamming noted; do the VietCom ever try? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA [and non]. 13585-13590-13595, DRM noise mixing with musical AM modulation, Feb 25 at 1431, still at 1505. Scheduled as BBC, or is it DW? Via Trincomalee, 1400-1658, 90 kW, 5 degrees, versus CVC ZAMBIA, 100 kW AM, 315 degrees USward. Great coördination! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. 11905, 1543-, Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation, Feb 25, Good reception with Hindi sounding music. No sign of Polish Radio in Ukrainian via Woofferton (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) [and non]. 11905, SLBC, have been wanting to catch this service others have been reporting: Feb 26 at 1605, S Asian music over CCI, good with lite flutter, then romantic crooner, in Hindi? And other pop music. 1615 YL announcement sounds like Hindi. 1625 she abruptly switches to English but I don`t realize at first since the accent still sounds like Hindi intonation. Is interviewing guest, ``thanks for being here today``, 1626 OM replies in English about a sillyballgame involving ``runs`` so probably cricket. Got the impression SL is doing well vs Pakistan. Still conversing when cut off the air rudely at 1628:05* uncovering weak co-channel station which itself went off at 1629:33*. That would be Poland in Ukrainian via Woofferton, which most of the time is blocking SL which starts at 1530. If this were not a weekend, we would then be hearing on 11905, VOA to Sudan, or is it Ethiopia, via Wertachtal, Germany, which is M-F only from 1630 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA [and non]. After catching 11905 from here, I tuned up to 19m and the 15209.3v off-frequency relay of YFR via Ekala, Feb 26 at 1632, just in time to hear ``Family Radio``, mentioned, then open carrier to 1636:13*. Meanwhile with BFO on, I heard the frequency shift slightly. WYFR Okeechobee blox this until 1600, Camping on the same channel, slightly different frequency to het, 15210.0. 15209.3v, YFR via Ekala, March 1 at 1436 is making more of a het than usual against WYFR via Okeechobee 15210.0, and along with it some audio, but can`t split it off with my receivers lacking really tight bandwidth. Besides, who wants to listen to Family Radio content? Yet I tried the ICF SW-07 with sync detexion, but not enough signal from the loop in a south window to lock it in on LSB. WYFR was in Portuguese about what else? May 21 rapture. It`s incredible how many language broadcasters Brother Camping has persuaded of this nonsense. What will they all do May 21 when nothing happens? Or is their delusion so pervasive that they will imagine something happens? Trans-polar signal was enhanced by propagation disturbance, but also Dopplering, and further at 1436 made one of its characteristic shifts of about 0.1 kHz as the defective SL transmitter jumped frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN. 7200, SRTC, *0235-0320, Feb 26, sign on with Qur`an. Arabic talk at 0237. Chirping birds. Local pop music. Middle Eastern style music. Poor with HAM QRM (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest) ** SWAZILAND. Clearer, Stronger Medium Wave from Swaziland http://www.twrafrica.org/0344.asp ---- (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1170 kHz, so what is the power now? Do they tell us? Of course not! Just this about the range with a curious differential between night skywave in city and country: ``The replacement transmitter reaches a distance of 80 km during the day (called: ground wave) and up to 1600 km after the sun sets in the countryside, and 500 km in the city. The first broadcast took place at 18:30 on 1 February 2011 in Zulu, followed by English.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWEDEN. Radio Nord Revival, Sweden on SW! A short item about the Swedish Radio Nord Revival project We just got the confirmation from The Swedish Post and Telecom Agency (PTS) that our application for MW 1512 kHz and SW 6060 kHz has been approved. On March 8 at 0848 UTC/GMT (0948 CET) we will start by broadcasting the opening of offshore station Radio Nord just as it was aired on this date in 1961. We will also make some short test transmissions on these frequencies before our regular programme starts. Power will be 1 kW on 1512 kHz and 10 kW on 6060 kHz. The MW tx is located at Kvarnberget, Vallentuna some 35 km from Stockholm city and the SW tx outside the town of Sala. If you catch our signal please comment in our blog http://www.radionordrevival.blogspot.com and let us know how well you can hear us in your area. QSL cards will be available later. (Ronny Forslund, ARC/Radio Nord Revival, March 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWITZERLAND. Re: SWITZERLAND Voice of Russia aims to start using the transmitter on 558 on Monte Ceneri from March 1 following the granting of permission by the Swiss Federal Office of Communications. (Wolfgang Thiele via Wolfgang Bueschel, March World Club Contact via DXLD) L'avvio di Monte Ceneri rinviato al 1 aprile Misterioso rinvio al 1 aprile, a causa di non meglio precisati problemi tecnici, per l'inizio delle trasmissioni della Voce della Russia da Cima di Dentro. Malgrado nessun cenno al rinvio nella rubrica della posta degli ascoltatori di ieri ne sul sito internet dell'emittente, secondo quanto pubblicato dal portale Italradio , il rinvio sarebbe da ricondurre a "questioni tecniche, legate al necessario coordinamento tra le strutture interessate". Più o meno nota comunque quella che dovrebbe essere la scheda di massimo del trasmettitore, che prevede spazi in italiano alle 18.00 UTC, in tedesco dalle 11.00 alle 13.00 UTC e dalle 16.00 alle 18.00 UTC, e in francese tra le 19.00 alle 21.00 UTC. Le trasmissioni in tedesco sono già diffuse da più frequenze in onda media, una novità in quegli orari invece per i servizi in italiano e francese. Nessun test è stato effettuato nella giornata di oggi dal trasmettitore di Monte Ceneri. (source? via Roberto Scaglione, Sicily, shortwave yg via DXLD) Mysterious reference to April 1, due to unspecified technical problems for the start of broadcasts of the Voice of Russia from Cima di Dentro. Despite no mention of the reference in the heading of listeners' mail to them yesterday on the website of the issuer, as published by the portal Italradio, the reference is due to "technical issues related to the necessary coordination between the facilities concerned." More or less known, however, what should be the top card of the transmitter, which provides space in Italian at 1800 UT, in German from 1100 to 1300 UT and from 1600 to 1800 UT, and in French between 1900 to 2100 UT. The broadcasts in German are already widely used by most medium wave frequencies, a novelty in those times but for services in French and Italian. No test was carried out during the day today by the transmitter Ceneri (Google translation via DXLD) I just read somewhere (sorry, I really can not track it back in all the things I have read tonight) that the launch has reportedly been postponed to April 1st, citing "technical problems" as reason. I think it indeed sounded like meant to hint at some equipment-related thing, whatever it could be; the transmitter has been tried and tested extensively with a continuous 500 Hz tone, and it cannot be that much of a problem to screw on a satellite dish, set up the receiver and plug it in (Kai Ludwig, Germany, 1925 UT March 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAHITI. FRENCH POLYNESIA, 738, 0517-, RFO Tahiti, Feb 27, Probably the best reception I've heard from Tahiti, on an otherwise uninspiring MW session these past 3 nights and 2 mornings at Grayland, WA. French talk, then into music at 0520. No TA activity was noted at all during our stay, and TP activity was modest only. The first night (Thursday) yielded fairly good DU reception during the late evening and after midnight, while last night failed to do so. This morning TP activity on MW was very subdued, but 60 m activity to Asia and Africa was probably the best noted in a number of seasons (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) If this seem early, remember that Tahiti is in the same timezone as Hawaii, UT -10, so it`s almost sundown (gh, DXLD) ** TAIWAN. Radio Taiwan International - Frequency change for listeners in South Asia --- Starting March 7th, 2011 our English transmission to South Asia from 1600 to 1700 UT on 11550 will be replaced by 9435 kHz. While we do notice the occasional problem of noise and interference in certain parts of India, the new frequency has a stronger signal than 11550 kHz. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank listeners for monitoring the reception condition for us in India. (RTI via Alokesh Gupta, VU3BSE, New Delhi, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DXLD) The QRM being CRI via Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN in English at 298 degrees. Is Taiwan`s site still Taiwan? (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN [non]. Taiwan: February Edition of Media Network Plus Coming up in the February edition of Media Network Plus. We will present an editorial on the cuts the BBC World Service and the Voice Of America are planning to make. We also look at the upcoming SWL Festival, which will take place on March 4th and 5th in Plymouth Meeting, PA in the US. Canada's Minister Of Industry will be on the show to talk about the lack of competition in the mobile market in Canada. And finally a US journalist in Taiwan giving up [sic] the back story about reporting on a Chinese spy number station. The first transmission will be February 26th at 0200 UT on 9955; if you`re out of this region you can tune to the WRMI website. Other transmissions to other regions follow. SOURCE: February Edition of Media Network Plus http://bit.ly/higjoi (via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, Feb 24, noticiasdx yg via DXLD) ** TAIWAN [non]. Re 11-08: ``No, it would be original programming working with different producers in different countries (Perron, ibid.) How is that a `no`? (gh, DXLD)`` No, in that the producers would be working as freelancers for PCJ. The contact of the programs would come from PCJ. We won't be selling air time or acting as middlemen (Keith Perron, Taiwan, Feb 25, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAJIKISTAN. 4765.075, 1514-, Radio Tajikistan, Feb 26, Good reception with central Asian music. Note off frequency (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) 4975.004, 1554-, Voice of Russia, Feb 26, English broadcast (I think) from VOR at fair level. Better earlier when checking the Perseus .wav file (yes definitely English with probably an interview with an American accented male at 1513). Later suffered from utility interference. ID'd at 1530, after 'Goodbye', then 'You're listening to the Voice of Russia' (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** THAILAND. 6765-USB, Feb 25 at 1229 I have zero beat 9765 REE/CR in order to be tuned right on AFN Guam 5765-USB, which is not heard, and as I am tuning down in 1.000-MHz steps, I hear a bit of music on 6765! No doubt it`s Bangkok Meteorological Radio, one of those rare utilities which does play music/IS along with its quasi-broadcasts. Very poor signal, and nothing further heard in next few minutes, so either faded or in a break. Not listed in Aoki, but EiBi is more amenable to utility stations, showing it has 2-hour broadcasts in English and Thai thruout the day, separated by 1-hour breaks. Their other frequency is 8743, both deserving deliberate pursuit. I don`t see BMR in WRTH 2011, tho it seems like it used to be? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6765.1-USB, Bangkok Meteo, 1255-1308 Feb 25. Weather in 3 languages, with usual IS between segments. Fair signal and // to 8743-U, poor. Checked an hour later and both freqs had improved a bit (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Drake R-8, 100-foot RW, Cumbredx mailing list via WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DXLD) ** THAILAND. 7255, QSL, Voice of America via Udonthani verified an electronic report sent direct to the International Broadcasting Bureau transmitting station (P. O. Box 99 A. Muang, Udonthani 41000, Thailand) in 30 days with a full data postal reply from an illegible verie signer (Rich D'Angelo, PA, DXplorer Feb 20 via BC-DX Feb 25 via DXLD) ** TIBET. 4820, 1525-, Xizang PBS, Lhasa, Feb 26, Good reception with Chinese programming. No sign of the AIR station in Kolkata. Frequency right on 4820.000 (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) 4820, Xizang PBS, 1504 Feb 26, man in Chinese, possibly news to 1505 announcements over music background. Het possibly from AIR Kolkata. Fair. 4905, Xizang PBS, 1535 Feb 26, English, woman with travelogue type program talking about trees, describing Tibet, occasional breaks for Chinese songs. 1545 ID for “PBS Xizang”, then a “welcome back” and into Chinese music. Fair, // 4920 poor with AIR Chennai QRM, 5240 poor with CODAR, 6110 very poor with QRM, 6130 poor with QRM, 6200 poor with QRM (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074 W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glad to see you caught the “Holy Tibet” program in English (scheduled: 1530-1600). I find their programming about Tibet very interesting, especially their “Tourism of Tibet” segments. Nice that they also play some traditional songs too. Thanks for sharing! (Ron Howard, San Francisco, ibid.) 4905.003, 1537-, Xizang PBS, Lhasa, Feb 26, Chinese music at good/very good level. Very slightly on high side of 4905 (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) [and non]. 4920, 1541-, Xizang PBS, Lhasa, Feb 26, Both Lhasa and AIR Chennai are here in English at this time. Both are right on channel, and both are in equal strength. English news from India, and Tibetan music at the moment. One [sic] of the strongest on the band this morning (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** TIBET [non]. Log: 13638 kHz, Unid, probably Voice of Tibet on odd frequency via Al Dhabbaya UAE? Hier ein Mitschnitt von 1330 UT mit ID Jingle. Vielleicht versteht jemand mehr... Sign off tent 1340 UT oder fade out, Feb 22 (Ralf Ladusch, Germany, A- DX Feb 22 via BC-DX Feb 25 via DXLD) ** TUNISIA [and non]. WRN adds Arab stations in English Radio Tunis International in English --- Posted: 25 Feb 2011 WRN (London) website: "Radio Tunis International is the foreign- language broadcasting service of Radio Tunisienne which is owned and operated by the Tunisian government. Radio Tunis International broadcasts programmes in more than 5 languages and aims to inform listeners around the world about news and current affairs and other developments in Tunisia." Audio streams available in English. -- Friendly and fashionable sound, much like Radio France International (Kim Andrew Elliott, kimandrewelliott.com via WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DXLD) Seems WRN has added not only R. Cairo, but this, and R. Damascus to its list of ``stations``, not necessarily relayed on its own schedule, but with audio files available OD. What next, Voice of Africa? (Glenn Hauser, Feb 27, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DXLD) ** TURKEY. Glenn, I got this a few days ago and I thought I would share it with you. I`ve always enjoyed Voice of Turkey, but recently I can`t hear it. I don`t know if it is weather, sunspots, etc., or if they have redirected or weakened their signal. On Mondays, I note the `Harem` program. If this is a repeat of the `Harem` program I heard a few years ago, I highly recommend it – even if you have to listen on the internet. It`s very fascinating, particularly the role of the Sultan`s mother – very evil. All the best, (Kent D Murphy, New Martinsville WV, Feb 22, forwarding the VOT schedule folder, and a pocket calendar, via DXLD) The NAm services at 2300 and 0400 have both been reported as undermodulated, and 5960 at 2300 also has ACI from the DCJC on 5955. 9655 at 0400 may or may not be above the MUF, but should be improving on average in March. Old habits die hard: The new 1 Jan to 1 July 2011 schedule has two pages of ``Daily Programme Schedules``, for I.Term, and II.Term, presumably meaning Jan-Mar and Apr-Jun --- but now they are identical, as I compared them line by line. That`s because there are no longer any `Live from Turkey` call-ins preempting different programs on different days of the week! Yet in the past there have been one or two changes in feature programs from one quarter to the next, but not now: DAILY News, Review of the Turkish Press, and then: MONDAY Atatürk: Re-birth of a Nation Harem / Food of the Court [`/` meaning alternate weeks] TUESDAY Turkish People for Beginners* [sic, not language lesson; see Sunday] This World is Ours WEDNESDAY Review of the Foreign Media Letter-box THURSDAY Middle-East through the Eyes of Turkey Agenda FRIDAY The Balkan Agenda The Turkish Album SATURDAY DX Corner / Turkish Customs and Traditions [alternating] Turkish Pop Music from Past to Present SUNDAY Let`s Learn Turkish Turkish Folk Music *The folder says a little about the new programme, Turkish People for Beginners --- ``Will get you acquainted with the living styles, perceptions, reactions, living quarters, traditions, linguistic richnesses and hopes of the people living in Turkey.`` [including Kurds, Armenians??] ``Turkish Album continues delving into the social, cultural, economic and scientific aspects of Turkey and Turks in 2011.`` Feature article in fanfolder this semester is ``The Meeting Point of Religions: Turkey``, which I am not going to retype, unlike the above. English schedule: 1330 12035 11735 1930 6050 2130 9610 2300 5960 0400 9655 7240 [repeat of previous UT day in above listings] Live streaming: http://www.trt.net.tr/Canli/canli.aspx?kanal=RDVOT On demand, one day at a time, usually, lower left corner of: http://www.trt-world.com/trtworld/en/news.aspx (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Voice of Turkey, 5960 at 2300 Feb 23. Start of English programme Low modulation and hum. 45444. Voice of Turkey (VOT) on 6050 in English at 1928, Feb 26, with Int Sig and ID, followed at 1930 by opening announcements, news, press review and DX Corner. SINPO 45343. Newsreader difficult to understand because of irritating habit of dropping her voice excessively at end of each sentence. DX programme easy to follow: contained timely info about FRS Holland broadcast the following day. VOT is using a new version of its Int Sig, which has a more treble sound than previous one (Roger Tidy, UK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKMENISTAN. 5015.000, 1527-, Turkmen Radio, Feb 26, Tentative here. Strong carrier, on frequency, but with a loud hum. Unable to make out any audio though. Suspect this is Turkmen Radio, but can't confirm. Does not have utility characteristics (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) Not right on frequency: 5015.45, 0025-0230 28.02, Türkmen R, Asgabat, Turkmenann [sic], Turkmen instrumental music, interview, distorted modulation, 35433 (Anker Petersen, latest loggings done on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire here in Skovlunde, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) not SSB this time? (gh) ** UGANDA [non]. 17725, checking for weekly 15-minute clandestine R. Y`Abaganda, via Issoudun, FRANCE, Saturday Feb 26 at 1659 tone mixing with Libya, 1700 mixture of music and French, hard to sort out, but RYA surely needs to avoid Libya which has extended past previous 1600* and the source of French QRM others have reported previous weeks (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Via FRANCE. 17725, Radio Y’Abaganda, *1700-1715*, Feb 26, sign on with local group singing. Talk at 1711. Mostly continuous group singing. Sat only. Poor with strong co-channel QRM from Libya’s Voice of Africa in French with IDs and Afro-pop music. Libya heard past 1734 (Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA, Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE. 21/02/2011, accept RUI the Ukrainian language from 1700 UT on the frequency 7435 kHz. SINPO: 22332. Very strong interference from IRRumyniya in Romanian. Ukraine broadcasts to Russia, and Romania in the direction of Israel. Still IRR fully scored RUI. 22/02/2011 receive radio Promin (UR-2) in the Ukrainian language from 1500 to 1545 UT on the frequency of 783 kHz. Reception-44344 (Dmitry Kutuzov, Ryazan, Russia / "deneb-radio-dx", Receiver: Degen 1103, Antenna: Internal, ferrite, via RusDX via DXLD) ** UKRAINE. I wonder who hears the 5-th harmonic of 3915 kHz from "R. Promin" 783 kHz? In Kiev heard (Alexander Yegorov, Kiev, Ukraine / "deneb-radio-dx" via RusDX via DXLD) ** U K [non]. There had been lots of publicity among Spanish DX groups lamenting that BBC Mundo would make its final shortwave broadcast on Feb 25, 1200-1215 via WHRI 9410 and Guiana French 11860. Since I was awake, I made a point of catching it. Thought about taping it, but would have to get out of bed to find my patchcord, so never mind: anyway, it`s available online! Per Horacio Nigro, at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/servicios/2009/03/000000_podcast.shtml for a while, anyway. At the outset, both 9410 and 11860 were rather weak, 11860 slightly better despite 25m having been virtually dead a few minutes earlier, except for plenty of Anguilla 11775, and a bit of WEWN on 12050. At 1200, anchor Claudio Rojas mentioned that this would be the last broadcast after 63(?) years of BBC in Spanish. At 1209, 9410 still weak and fadey. At 1213 they were really despeding themselves, also from Miami bureau, someone named Álvarez; said they will still produce a weekly podcast in Spanish on jueves. After seven decades, ``Desde Londres, Claudio Rojas les dice, hasta siempre``. (``Until forever``, the Spanish way of saying a final farewell). A long play of the beeping BBC news sounder, and 1215 cut to English, joining in progress news of, Libya! Only now has the 9410 signal built up to good strength. Of much less note, this was probably also the final BBCWS SW broadcast in English from and to ANY part of the Americas, M-F 1215-1300, which has always seemed to be nothing but fill for the rest of the hour. BBC is also canceling its specific Caribbean service in English, but not for another month, and it`s extremely strange that they never bothered to put it on these SW frequencies when they were available. We`ll have to check next week whether the 12-13 M-F transmission is still on the air only in regular BBCWS English on either frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Último programa BBC --- El amigo Dino Bloise ha podido escucharla, grabarla y subir el audio a la Web: http://diexismoyondacorta.podomatic.com/entry/2011-02-25T04_38_56-08_00 Gracias, Dino! Este es el audio original (de estudio) de la emisión: http://bit.ly/bbcmundo_radio_ultimo (Horacio A. Nigro, Montevideo, Uruguay, Feb 25, condiglist yg via DXLD) LA BBC MUNDO DEJA DE TRASMITIR EN RADIO PERO MANTIENE SU SITIO WEB Entrevista con: Hernando Álvarez, editor general de noticias en español en BBC Mundo. Por: Elespectador.com http://bit.ly/fX2pOb (via Daniel Camporini, Argentina, via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, DXLD) In which he tries to rationalize this as an improvement, on web only instead of radio, not even on local FM relays (gh, DXLD) ** U K. Re 11-08: The Caribbean service has been given another four weeks of life and will now close on Friday 25 March. This followed requests from partner stations, according to the BBC staff newspaper Ariel. As already reported by Mike Barraclough, money has been found to allow the Great Lakes service (in Kinyarwanda and Kirundi) to continue on shortwave. The Serbian, Portuguese for Africa and Spanish for Latin America services all made their last transmissions yesterday (25 February). I assume that all of the remaining closures will now go ahead as planned. We await the appearance over the next week or so of the A-11 schedules to see the extent of the cutback to SW for Arabic and English (Chris Greenway, UK, Feb 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, the final BBC Serbian program aired on February 25, 2011 at 1700- 1730 GMT. The program was pretty emotional, as you can hear the last 2 minutes [in attachment]. The last show was about a 71 years history of the Yugoslav section of the BBC WS. Show aired on satellite, internet and FM affiliates. 73 (Dragan Lekic, Serbia, ibid.) From Our Own Correspondent --- Catch the February 26th Radio 4 version if you can; the last segment is a poignant piece on the close of the BBC Serbian service (Scott Royall, Conch Republic, Feb 27, swprograms via DXLD) Audio of final BBC WS broadcasts in Albanian, Spanish, Portuguese and Serbian have been posted to this blog. At the moment two have full translations posted. Comments welcomed: http://blog.stuart-pinfold.co.uk/ (Mike Barraclough, March 1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. THE LAST BROADCASTS TO A WIDER WORLD Regarded as a treasure by millions in often desolate regions, the BBC's World Service is facing the cold winds of cutbacks and changing ambitions, writes MARK HENNESSY, London Editor --- More at : http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2011/0226/1224290904711.html (via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, Feb 26, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U K. BEHEADING BRITAIN, SHAFTING SOUTHASIA --- By Daniel Lak Mourning recent cuts to the BBC World Service http://www.himalmag.com/component/content/article/4311.html (Thanks to Naleen Kumar for the link) -- (Himal South Asian via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, Feb 28, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DXLD) Excellent article (gh) ** U K. 5790, BBC in Arabic at 1800 1 March with signal S40, 55523 (very fast fading) WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY DOING THERE ????????? (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, Standard rig : ICOM R75 / 2x16 V / m@h40 heads Sennheiser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN? BBC Arabic is duly registered on 5790 in HFCC B-10, 18-21 via Skelton, and must have been there for four months now (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** U K [and non]. 11770, Feb 26 at 0642, poor signal in African English, about Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Zimbabwe. I briefly entertained the idea of V. of Nigeria reactivating this frequency, but 0645 BBCWS ID. Scheduled as via Meyerton, SOUTH AFRICA, 05-07, 100 kW, 335 degrees USward. 17780, Feb 26 at 1532, sports(?) commentary in African language, over crowd yelling, whistling and singing, but thank animist gods, no vuvuzelas. Good signal, same stuff an hour+ later at 1639. Wonder what it`s really about. This is a Saturday-only Hausa broadcast from BBCWS at 1430-1700, 500 kW, 169 degrees from Rampisham. See also USA [and non] WBCQ 7540, Feb 28 at 1257, B-B-C- chimes, good but with flutter and no QRM. 1259:30 BBC signing on in Chinese --- dare we hope the service to follow will be equally clear? Of course not! At 1300 a second timesignal starts mixing, and then a second broadcast in Chinese. Aoki shows BBC as 1300-1530 M-F, 250 kW, 20 degrees via Nakhon Sawan, THAILAND, so also USward, with *CNR1 jamming. Why not just give up? 21550, first check of 13m today finds this the OSOB, and then as Spain fades in, the SSOB, Feb 28 at 1346 in Hausa with DW jingles, 1350 ID. Is via PORTUGAL at 13-14, 145 degrees, following French at 12-13, 170 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. Enhanced BBC i-player radio features approved by BBC Trust Not perhaps the most significant news in a week of world-changing events, but welcome nevertheless. This comes from the weekly BBC Radio 3 newsletter sent to e-subscribers (including me): "Good news this week - series catch-up for speech-based radio programmes is here. The BBC Trust has approved plans to introduce 'series catch-up' for radio and we will implement it over the coming weeks. This means all episodes of a selected range of series will be available on our websites and via the BBC iPlayer until 7 days after the final instalment has gone out. Find out more here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio/2011/02/series_catch-up_for_speech-based_radio_programmes_is_here.html Sadly, I don't think this will apply to such ongoing series as "Archive on 4" which have often produced interesting pieces, but it could be particularly useful, for example, on documentary series or on musical feature series broadcast late night on Radio 2, for instance. I don't know whether the policy will apply to BBC Nations and Regions, World Service and local programmes, but I would imagine it would (Mark Savage, Feltham UK, Feb 25, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) OK outside? ** U S A [non]. INTERVIEW: RFA ON EDGE AS VOA HEADS FOR THE CHOPPING BLOCK By J. Michael Cole / Staff Reporter Sat, Feb 26, 2011 - Page 3 Proposed budget cuts at Voice of America (VOA), which could spell the end of all its Mandarin shortwave broadcasts and cost dozens of jobs, are leaving Radio Free Asia (RFA), the US' other main broadcaster to China, hoping for the best. Earlier this month, the US' Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) -- which is responsible for all US government or government-sponsored, non-military international broadcasting -- announced a US$8 million restructuring plan for VOA, a move that, if approved by Congress, would see the elimination on Oct. 1 of traditional radio and TV broadcasting in Mandarin -- and an end to all Cantonese operations -- by the almost seven-decades-old broadcaster. As VOA employees reel at the news, the Taipei Times asked RFA, another US broadcaster with a long history of supporting freedom and human rights in China, to share its views on those -developments and what they mean for the future of broadcasting into China. "The proposed cuts send the message that VOA is changing its strategic approach to Chinese distribution in a challenging economic environment," RFA president Libby Liu said in an interview from Washington on Wednesday. "If there was an unlimited budget, I'm sure VOA and RFA would be increasing rather than reducing the resources we dedicate to bringing accurate news and information to those who seek it in all of our markets -- including China." Asked about the vacuum that would be created if the cuts at VOA were approved by Congress, Liu said RFA would be in a position to pick up some of the responsibilities. "The cuts of VOA, if approved, will create an opportunity for RFA to move our shortwave broadcast hours to higher listening hours, which is what is proposed in the FY [fiscal year] 2012 president's budget submission" by the BBG, she said. However, the budget proposal does not altogether spare RFA, which would face constraints of its own. "Even as RFA could benefit by moving to better listening hours, the RFA Mandarin effort would sustain significant reductions in both broadcast hours and frequencies," Liu said (Taipei Times via Mike Cooper, DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. 17740, big open carrier with some hum, Feb 25 at 1521 and still/again at 1604, presumably IBB Greenville warming up for 1700 transmission. 15460, Feb 26 at 1635, fair signal in VOA Spe-cial Eng-lish news. Is via Lampertheim, GERMANY, daily 16-17 only, 100 kW, 132 degrees. 11750, good with VOA news, including backgrounder by André de Nesnera on Libya, Feb 28 at 1235. This is the only hour for VOA English on this frequency, 250 kW, 21 degrees from Tinang, PHILIPPINES, so also USward. 11775, talk in Persian, March 1 at 1530, unseems R. Farda, no music, fair but clear in absence of ANGUILLA. Yes, it`s VOA Persian service per Aoki, 1530-1630, 100 kW, 105 degrees via Biblis, GERMANY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5109.76, 0230-0245 28.02, WBCQ, Monticello, Maine, English feature about signs, ID-jingle and "This is WBCQ, Monticello, Maine", strong in AM and USB, but very weak in LSB, 45344 (Anker Petersen, latest loggings done on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire here in Skovlunde, Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** U S A. 9330, WBCQ, 1336, Feb 24th. Preaching program in English. SINFO 43544. At 1337 GMT the program was interrupted in progress with the announcement "You are listening to 6640" Anyone know what 6640 is referring to? WBCQ in this frequency earlier than published schedule (Steve Handler, IL, Yaesu FT897D with a horizontal dipole wire antenna and a Sony ICF7600GR with a whip antenna, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) The answer was in DXLD 11-04, http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1104.txt --- At 1346 on 13570, some preacher, unseems Radio 2:11 style, but WBCQ 9330-CUSB inaudible and presumably not yet on for comparison. 1358 outro as Call to Worship, http://www.calltoworship.org and Michigan address. 1359 WINB ID, 1400 to another preacher. Not checked again until 1508 and now WINB is in Spanish! Not previously at this hour, Bible reading, also from YFR? At 1553, ``welcome to 66-40`` gospel huxter in English, mentions Psalms, so name derives from such a verse? No, this explains it, at http://www.khouse.org/6640_cat/ --- ``66/40 with Chuck Missler, Getting Serious about the Bible The great discovery is that the Bible is a message system: it’s not simply 66 books penned by 40 authors over thousands of years, the Bible is an integrated whole which bears evidence of supernatural engineering in every detail!`` Yeah, right. (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. 15420-CUSB, Saturday Feb 26 at 1455, WBCQ IS and ID loop, which I have never encountered on any of the other three frequencies; do they ever run it on them? There is a het on the low side, circa 15418: suspect V. of Tibet and/or jamming, which used to operate around here altho currently not shown by EiBi or Aoki on any 15 MHz channels. I assumed WBCQ would join Brother Scare`s Sabbath Service as usual, but tuned on before 1500. Maybe they did, but at next check 1551, WBCQ was off 15420, audiblizing weak BBC in Saturday sports, still with het. BBC is via Cyprus at 14-17. Meanwhile BS was nominal with S.S. on WWRB 9385 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. Allan Weiner notified me Feb 28-March 1 that the 2000-2030 weekday slot on WBCQ 7415 has been sold, so he is moving WORLD OF RADIO to Wednesdays at 2215, instead of Tue/Wed/Thu at 2000. Being two hours closer to sunset should improve reception initially, altho sunset moves inexorably later. CRI English via Kashgar to Europe is on 7415 at 2100-2200, which means that after DST starts here March 13, WOR will be colliding with that at 2115 Wednesdays, so enjoy the clear frequency for two weeks at least. This also means we must hustle to get WOR done by early UT Wednesdays instead of Thursdays, lest the only WBCQ airing remaining be a week old by the time it appears. `Frecuencia al Día`, which has been running Mondays at 2000 must also be moved or dropped. These changes have not yet been made on http://schedule.wbcq.com/main.php?fn=sked&freq=7415 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WBCQ, Tuesday March 1 at 2005: inaudible on 7415. On webcast, lo-fi hymn, and gospel huxter later in the semi-hour already replacing WORLD OF RADIO. 2245, no signal on 7415, assumed off the air temporarily if not also at 2005. Remember new time for WORLD OF RADIO is Wednesday 2215-2245 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) World of Radio on WBCQ shifted or shorted? So did anyone hear the entire WOR broadcast on WBCQ 7415 today [Wednesday March 2]? I couldn`t get the whole thing, but at 2230 check, #1554 was playing OK. However at recheck 2240 there was dead air until sign-off announcement at 2243. I think it may have started as early as 2211, and thus would have ended by 2240 if played to completion. `Amos `n` Andy`, now scheduled for 2200, as I recall, used to run shorter than 15 minutes. Anyhow, to be safe, we`ll change the schedules to show 2211 (Glenn Hauser, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 2390, WWRB Manchester TN; 0230-0246+, 24-Feb; "Greetings in the name of Yahweh." English huxter waxing about the Mid-East problems, the coming rapture, etc. SIO=454-, // 5050, SIO=4+54. Not on 5745. TN #45 [MW & SW & LW??]. Tnx Glenn Hauser for ID as test broadcast. Not there at 0517 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, logged by ear in real time! Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, DX LISTENING DIGEST) While last week's WoR on WWRB *was* hearable on 5050 kHz here in St. Louis, the quality was poor and much inferior to the former 3185 kHz signal. (Stair on 3185 booms in fine, not that that's worth anything...) But does this recent exchange about WWRB bringing up 2390 kHz mean that WoR will be on *that* frequency on Thursday nights (UT Fridays) as soon as the antenna issues are fixed? It wasn't explicitly stated in those postings... I ask because last night's signal on 5050 kHz was completely worthless, nothing but noise here in St. Louis. At the time I didn't know about the 2390 possibility so I didn't check that. Was WoR actually on that frequency at the regular time? 73, (Will Martin, MO, Friday Feb 25, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Will, As you may have seen by now in my today`s log report, yes, 2390 was on with WOR this Thursday night, excellent here, as well as 5050. I hope he will keep it on 2390, but we`re never quite sure how this will all play out (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WWRB on new 2390 // 5050 during WORLD OF RADIO 1553, UT Friday Feb 25 at 0433, after announcement by Dave Frantz asking for reports, saying results on 2390 have been very good. Here, it`s much better than 5050. I check the webcast at 0500 when WOR should still be on, having started late, but that is already in Bible-readings. I assume our program was allowed to finish on at least one of the SW frequencies, as it did once before on 3185 when this happened. Dave says he plans to bring 3215 back on shortly with station promotions, and will run 2390 all-night. However, not yet, as it was off at 0604 check. George McClintock tells me that WWCR left 2390 about a decade ago because there were not enough receivers tuning that band, and because of ``ducting`` causing the signal to reach Australia, but not much in North America beyond 500 miles; up to 500 miles, it was great. As for receivers, [gh says], where the signal is extremely strong, and where there are cheap AM radios, this should break thru as a 2xIF image on 1480 or 1490 --- a deliberate tactic of the late, lamented Radio Huayacocotla, Veracruz, México when it was on 2390 and denied a real MW frequency. Of course, there are plenty of stations in USA on 1480 and 1490 already (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re: WWRB moving to 2390 --- I heard nothing on a check of 2390 at 0545 UT Feb 25 here in Houston. WWRB's 60 and 90 meter frequencies usually do quite well at my location. Guess regular use of 2390 hasn't started yet? I recall WWCR came booming in when it used 2390 a few years back. (Steve Luce, Houston, TX, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 2390, WWRB Manchester TN with Pastor Larry Cain in Anderson SC who, more than anything else sounded like an announcer calling a horse race. Really -- listen to the attachment and tell me what YOU hear. (Meadowbuster and Rocketsled are neck and neck. It is Meadowbuster by a nose, Meadowbuster by a head, and at the finish line it is MEADOWBUSTER by a head. Meadowbuster takes first, followed by Rocketsled and way back in the pack is Dryfus ...." :) ) SIO 4+44 0125-0131 26/Feb (Kenneth Vito Zichi, MI, MARE Tipsheet via DXLD) 2390, WWRB, Feb 27 at 0027 preacher talking about Yahweh, VG signal, much better than // 5050, but 2390 accompanied by buzzy envelope out to 2375-2405, worst peaks circa 2380 and 2400. This happens at times to WWRB on 9385, presumably same transmitter. 2390 still not on all- night, at 0550 check, probably closing at 0500. Dave Frantz`s latest Feb 26 comments to me: ``Greetings: Some tidbits: Most everyone by now owns a digital shortwave radio that can tune the 2390. We are receiving GREAT reports. We are VERY pleased. Don't forget the 2.390 MHz, 340 degree rhombic antenna is almost 200 feet high; trying to use a rhombic antenna less than 160 feet high is a waste of time on these frequencies. We are changing 5050 antenna to our 045 degree rhombic, in anticipation of the longer daylight hours coming up. WWRB has come a L-O-N-G way from our first station in Georgia [WGTG], that's for sure. In a nutshell, We have WISED UP. It took some time, but we no longer allow ourselves to be taken advantage of. We have been concentrating on the Aviation side of the house for the last 5 years: What would you concentrate on? A one hour program on shortwave for $80.00 per hour [if you`re lucky], or --- Fly all day long, 8 hours a day, 6 days a week, watching the world go by, inspecting a pipeline or powerline &/or right of way, for $300.00 per hour and get this: GET PAID!! Our Patrol aircraft are booked solid, adding two airplanes next week. To see one of our Patrol aircraft visit: http://www.wa4sze.com That airplane 59Q can stay in the air for OVER 10 hours!`` In his YouTube video, I see that in his pilot`s uniform, Dave has four bars on each shoulder. What rank is that, as a civilian? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WWRB, 5050 at 0155, Feb 27. Religious talk in English followed by ID. WWRB, 2390, 0202, Feb 27. Religious program in English. 15231 (Roger Tidy, UK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9955, WRMI, with WORLD OF RADIO 1553 at 1850 check Saturday Feb 26, poor signal but not jammed. Next WRMI chances are Sun 0900, 1630, 1830; WWCR, Sun 0730 on 3215. See also ECUADOR [non]; ITALY [non] WORLD OF RADIO on WRMI: UT Wednesday March 2 at 0215, only wall-of- noise jamming audible on 9955 --- tnx a lot, Arnie! WOR 1553 confirmed on WRMI webcast. March 2 at 1645, first airing 1630 Wednesday of WOR 1554 confirmed on webcast, JBA on 9955 tho not jammed; also RTTY around 9960. WRMI is now well into the second year of its NW antenna being out of service. Next on WRMI: Thursday 0430, 1600, 2200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7455, WWCR Nashville TN (presumed); 2233, 25-Feb; Spur-spur? Spanish religious program with `Frecuencia al Día` promo at BoH. SIO=4+22 fighting ute clatter. // 7465, S40; // usual 7480.6 spur. 7449.4 spur may be there, as there is a het with strong Greece (presumed) on 7450. 7475 covered by Greece (presumed). (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, logged by ear in real time! Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow- tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WWCR homepage has this surprising note: ``WWCR will broadcast on 3.195 MHz from 2300-0200 UTC, 5PM-8PM Central on Monday, February 28th 2011 until further notice.`` But WHICH of the four WWCRs? That change is still not entered on the full schedule: http://www.wwcr.com/transmitter-sched.html and there was no previous 23-02 block on any of them, so 3195 must replace more than one frequency. As of March 1, the pdf program guide was still dated 1 Feb (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WWCR on new 3195 --- not tuned in UT March 1-2 at 2300-0200, but March program schedule had been uploaded by March 2 showing it`s WWCR-1, preceded by 7465 and followed by 3215. 3195 thus replaces another hour of 7465, and then 7490. Look for the usual spurs now landing around 3179.4 and 3210.6 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WJHR --- I haven't heard this one before but, then again, I wasn't exactly looking for another Bible thumping broadcaster. 15400, WJHR in LSB at 1610 Feb 25 with a fair to good signal of Carl Lackey with excited fire and brimstone preaching then ID as "Fundamental Voices Broadcast" at 1649 and back to preaching then program closing announcements and WJHR ID at 1700. That Carl Lackey fellow makes Brother Scare seem like Mr. Congeniality (Mark Coady, Peterborough, ON K9J 6X3, NASWA yg via DXLD) 15400? Is that correct? Ever since they started in Dec 2009, WJHR has been on 15550-USB and continue to be shown there in all current references. BBC via Ascension is on 15400 at this time; any sign of it? I haven`t heard WJHR on 15550 for several days but that is not unusual, as seems to be sporadic, or needs a sporadic-E boost. Another station with gospel-huxters in SSB around here is WBCQ on 15420-CUSB. 73, (Glenn Hauser ibid.) My finger slipped. The frequency was 15500. According to Glenn Hauser they have been missing from 15550 for a few days (Mark Coady, ibid.) 15500-USB, Feb 28 at 1711, WJHR Milton FL (NOT CA = California as in Aoki and copiers), on new frequency ex-15500. No ID but usual gospel huxter, and missing from 15550-USB where it had been since starting in December 2009. Tnx to a tip from Mark Coady, Ontario, who first reported 15500 (altho typoed at first as 15400), Feb 25 at 1610 and on LSB, but it`s definitely still USB, no carrier when I hear it. QSY escapes the collision with 500 kW from Iran on 15550 until 1630, and nothing else at all scheduled on 15500 between 1400 and 2200. 15500-USB, looking for WJHR on new frequency March 1 at several chex including 1536, but no trace of it here or on original 15550-USB. However, there was a very weak carrier on 15500 at 1440, which would not be pure-SSB WJHR, but nothing else is supposed to be there. Another check at 1733 March 1: WJHR is BACK on original 15550-USB, good signal with usual gospel huxter, so was 15500 a mistake? A test? Or will WJHR just be there before 1630 until Iran clears 15550?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15550-USB, WJHR still back on original frequency, March 2 at 1513 with usual gospel huxter. No problem from Iran CCI today, poor propagation from Eurasia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. 15485, Harold Camping infests yet another frequency, March 1 at 1522, poor signal from unknown YFR relay in English as I was checking for LRA36 on 15476. Nothing listed yet on 15485. Guess maybe GERMANY which I think has used this frequency previously (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. 17680, CVC La Voz, Miami via CHILE, hunting around for some music to help me nap, I landed here, Feb 27 at 2215-2240. Strangely enough, it was gospel-rock in English, occasional Spanish announcements. I couldn`t really follow the lyrix when I tried briefly, so can only hope they did not penetrate my subconscious! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 18530, on a whim I tried this frequency for the second harmonic of WINB, which I had not heard in a while, and there it was, Feb 27 at 2300 with ID ending in ``United States of Americuh``, and quickly // to 9265, as both went into a screaming gospel huxter. It was so bad that I had to listen on the fundamental for a while to decide whether he was screaming in English or Spanish; I thought Spanish was not scheduled at this hour, but it was Spanish, as confirmed on their program schedule at http://www.winb.com/schedule.htm which has been updated! As of Feb 20: 06:00P / Sun-2300...Templo Trinidad Presents Jesus Christ [until 2330; there`s another Spanish ministry Mon at 2300-2400, but other days in English until Fámily Radio starts at 0000]. However, these numbskulls show their own fundamental frequency as 9625 instead of 9265, and no mention of the harmonic. 18530 was very poor, fading to JBA. If we can otherwise believe it, sked shows ``9625`` no more used in the mornings at all, just 2200-0330 converted to UT so also the limitations of 18530; 0330-1130 9405, 1130-2200 13570. As an overnight channel 9405`s harmonic 18910 is unlikely to propagate, but might this summer at peak or with Es help. Those who can bear the crap on CB when there`s a short-skip opening, or let us imagine F2, might hear the other WINB harmonic on 27140. Just listen for a weak, warbly carrier matching the fundamental (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9479, WTWW, Feb 28 at 2150 has pre-empted Pastor Pete Peters; instead I am hearing Ted Randall interviewing some gospel huxter about an evangelical TV network to Africa and the Mideast, all atop crowd-noise background. Could be live, from the National Religious Broadcasters convention, always in Nashville, yearly at this time. Never identified him by name, even at conclusion, but brief word from his companion Dennis called the first guy Rex. No ID at TOH, and 2202 into gospel music. Checking the WTWW website, it says ``We are live from NAB`` and autolaunch of audio --- beware going to http://wtww.us if you are already listening to something else! It`s NRB, not NAB! Later that evening and next morning, WTWW was back to PPP. NRB 2011 dates are Feb 26-Mar 1, so it`s almost over. Ted Randall`s own site http://www.tedrandall.com also autolaunches audio now with QSO show. However, at next check 1734 March 1, 9479 has BOTH PPP and Ted Randall at the con, at about equal levels; is anyone paying attention? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15385.3, KJES Vado NM; 1950-2004+, 22-Feb; M&W alternating Bible? readings; 1958 robo-kids--a tad more exuberant than usual; VYL ID at 1959+ with usual, "Please let me know if you can hear me." All in English till 2000 Spanish ID and continued in Spanish. SIO=452, QRN & fady. 15385.3, KJES Vado NM (presumed); 2003, 25-Feb; English, robo-kids, about condemning The Great Prostitute (they did not provide a location or address -- bummer). SIO=4+53, fady. On 2/22, they switched from English to Spanish at 2000 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, logged by ear in real time! Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11714.9, KJES, near Vado NM, steady S9+20, March 2 at 1442, modulation sufficient but not full, threatening Bible verses about sin, evil- doers read in alternation by two females and one male who sounded like they were post-children. Probably HF sporadic-E enhanced, as 13845 WWCR was also much stronger than usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Re 11-08: Special News: The early edition had comments on a possible bust and visits by the FCC [WEAK, et al., then also mentioned on World of Radio]. This information is incorrect. The exact status is not known. At this time, I do not know what is true. I apologize to all affected parties. It was my mistake to not confirm the information. At the time of writing this, the FCC has no information on its official web site of the FCC Enforcement Bureau for unauthorized operations: http://www.fcc.gov/eb/sed/ulo.html My mistake was assuming an email was public information. It was an honest mistake and I will try to ensure it does not happen again. I am sorry if I cause anyone discomfort. Here is a good independent site that provides summary information by year: http://www.diymedia.net/fccwatch/ead.htm (Greg Majewski, Free Radio Weekly Feb 26 final edition via DXLD) Here is the audio of the FCC bust: http://shortwavepirate.info/RFPrograms/wordpress/?p=1808 At about 8 minutes on the show (Artie Bigley, Ragner says, ``FCC visited studios of well-known pirate two weeks ago,`` in the 2/27 Pirates Week. Recorded off air, 6930 kHz, UTC 2230 UT 15 Feb (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Music interrupted by a few buzzes, then, ``Attention, Attention, this is Matt(?) Miller, from the Atlanta office of the Federal Communications Commission. A station operating on 6930 kHz identifying itself as WEAK, is closed. I repeat. This station is closed.`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) So where is it? (gh, DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. 17952-USB, Feb 26 at 1538, ``New York Center``, air-traffic-control YL contacting various planes, most of which were inaudible, assigning flight levels, taking position reports. One contact heard was with Alitalia 630. 1540 selcalls, automated CW ID went past (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 2097/CW, A, hifer beacon; 0247, 24-Feb; ``A`` sent about every 9 seconds. Can hear in CW & USB, but not in LSB. 15 watts in Arizona per hfunderground (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, logged by ear in real time! Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1320, Feb 25 at 1400 UT, checking out the Spanish unID, but by this hour a US station in English is dominant, KOLT ID, and KOLT.com, into Fox News Radio, looping NW/SE, from Scottsbluff NE. 1403 cut to local weather, hi 19, lo 9 [F], the ``Hometown Family Radio News forecast``, 1404 mentions west Nebraska. KOLT used to be in Spanish on weekends only, and noted as such in NRC AM Log 2010-2011, but their website which is really http://www.koltam.com now says ESPN Radio on weekends, instead of farrightwingnuts weekdays, such as Glenn Beck calling George Soros a Communist at final check 1420. Also shows new(?) slogan I have not yet heard spoken, `The Talk of Wyobraska` --- I guess that`s sexier than `Neoming` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1470, GEORGIA, WRGA, Rome. 1152 February 26, 2011. "Northwest Georgia... green Georgia... Rome Garden Expo..." promo, into possible gardening show this Saturday morning. Over very weak local WMGG, Dunedin's Spanish format, which was mostly back to a big rumbling audio blob and throwing spurs once again on 1462 and 1468 kHz (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1530, Feb 25 at 1310 UT rock music, and DJ announces ``no school today at Northern Valley``, repeated. Name is a bit generic but let`s hope for some good Google hits. Yes: near the top of 39,300 of them is this: http://www.nvhuskies.org/ which is in the small town of Almena KS, Norton County, along the Nebraska border, and guess what, there is a 1 kW/500 W psra 1530 in Norton, KQNK, so that`s it! Strangely enough, the Northern Valley website has nothing about school being canceled; they should listen to KQNK like I do. Temps very low (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** URUGUAY. URUGUAI (?), 6045, R. Sarandí (?), Montevideo, 2153-2201, 24 Feb, Castilian, talks; 23431, adj. QRM only until being blocked by CHINA at 2200. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VANUATU. 7260, R. Vanuatu, Port Vila. February 23, 0843-0852 male and female talks in an uncertain language. //3945, 33333. 3945, R. Vanuatu, Port Vila. February 25 0840-0849 male and female in English discussion with male outside. Weak, 25432. 73’s (Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, Embu SP Brasil, SW40 - Dipoles and Longwire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7260, 0710-, Radio Vanuatu Feb 25 Good reception with news sounding program in Bislama. Fair amount of static crashes (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) 3945, Radio Vanuatu, 1036 Feb 27, man in Bislama with preaching, mention “Holy Spirit”, “praise, glory and honor”, 1038 hymn. Good, //7260 not audible thru QRM. 7260, Radio Vanuatu at 0655 Feb 25, with reggae music, 0657 man and woman in Bislama with announcements, 0700 man with news in Bislama, including mention of earthquake in Christchurch. Fair, // 3945 barely audible (Harold Sellers, Feb. 25-27, DXing on the Pacific Coast at Grayland, Washington State, N 46 48.074 W 124 05.746, Eton E1, Dual Flag Antenna within 100 meters of the pounding surf and pointed west to ocean, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 7260, 0649-, Radio Vanuatu, Feb 27, Great reception with a long talk about upcoming programming after a long lively light musical piece. Mentioned Radio Vanuatu, 6:00 o'clock, news. All in Bislama. Back into music at 0650:30. Lots of commercials at 0655, many in English. At 0700, time check for '6:00 o'clock'. Then drums and conch shell, then into news... 'People are celebrating', etc. News until 0710, and then into sports. Very good at times, although with deep fades at times. News from Radio Vanuatu at 0712, then into a jingle: 'Radio Vanuatu, good for you'. Then mentioned frequencies, i.e. 1179 kHz, and 1165 kHz, as well as others. Back into islands music at 0715. Very enjoyable! Checked // 3945 at 0718, and it's way over Radio Nikkei 2 cochannel. Also very strong! (perhaps even stronger than 7260). Rechecked at 0943, and noticed that they were well over another cochannel. Both transmitters are off frequency: 7259.949 (Vanuatu) and 7259.989 (possibly Mongolia or PBS Xinjiang). At 0956, 3945 is stronger and in the clear vs. // 7260 with a hymn (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** VATICAN [non]. After so much effort on my part to get schedule- providers to show Vatican Radio correctly as Spanish instead of English at 1200 on 9865 via Sackville, including the latest WRTH Update --- NOW, it`s back to English! As it should be, of course, according to VR`s own schedule. Maybe my frequent and latest reports about this finally got back to HQ and/or Montréal and/or Sackville. 9865, Feb 25 at 1149, Spanish is weak suffering QRDRM from NZ 9865- 9870-9875. Fortunately for English listeners, that`s off at 1200 as signal is also improving. Recheck at 1209, in English re pope meeting visiting president of Lebanon (let`s see, is he mandated to be a Christian?), refers to http://www.vaticanradio.org for more info, ``this morning``. Then NASA audio of the liftoff of Discovery (which was at 2153 UT Feb 24, including the carefully scripted hype which, as a great proponent of space exploration, I do not begrudge them). Finally mentioned again that it is ``this morning, February 25``, and plugged the saint-of- the-day, whose name I missed, but did not sound like St. Donatus, the one listed on VR`s handy slick 2011 Catholic Calendar received in the P-mail. Since it`s now 13:12 in The City/State, I suppose this was a playback of one of the earlier shows, perhaps the 0250 UT to North America previously relayed by Sackville, and which had been bumped for months by a playback of the longer broadcast in Spanish. Now, will the 1200 English stick? 9600, at 2315 Feb 27, VR praising Jesus Christ in Latin, and signing- on in Vietnamese, sending far too much signal USward direct from SMG; I just missed hearing whether they still run an English fragment before it. And also with buzzing QRM extending from about 9590 to 9615, the latter worst/clearest around 9605. It`s sort of halfway between DRM and OTH radar, both of which have no business in the middle of the 31m broadcast band, but tell that to The Consortium. I had also noticed that noise when I tuned past 9600 about an hour earlier. It`s probably not DRM. Bulgaria is scheduled with DRM on 9600, and BBC/Portugal on 9610, but at very different hours. Re whether VR is in Spanish or English at 1200 on 9865 via Sackville. Rechecked Feb 28 at 1209 and it`s still back in English, clip of PBXVI and then announcer both in English. Since I have only checked this sporadically, not every day by any means, who knows whether it might be equally sporadically in either language (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM. 7210, VOV-1, 1352, Feb 27. In Vietnamese with ballad; 1358 brief IS and pips (5+1); here is another station without accurate time; poor-fair with adjacent QRM; // 5975 (fair), 7435 (poor with QRM) and 11720 (fair – have not heard this frequency recently). Not often I hear all four of these so clearly in // (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. The Polisario Front stationn at Rabouni, Algeria, is not to be found on 700 parallel to 6297.15 because --- it's now on 702, co-channel with R. Algérienne/R. Al-Aghwat, Al- Aghwat. I found them missing on 700 a few days ago, and got them on this new frequency yesterday, 25/2. QRM from ALG can be avoidable, all depending on one's antenna, but the usually stronger Algerian signal may still be audible underneath even with an antenna beamed south. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, 2304 UT Feb 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) CLANDESTINAS, 702 Polisario Front, Tindouf, ALG, 2318-2330*, 25 Feb, Castilian, the usual polit. propag., anthem; 54444, QRM de ALG; \\ 6297.15 good (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZIMBABWE. 4828.00, 0125-0140 10.02, Voice of Zimbabwe, Guineafowl, Gweru, vernacular ann, native singing by choir, 25332 (Anker Petersen, here in Skovlunde, Denmark, on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) 4828, Voice of Zimbabwe, Gweru. February 22, 2129-2145 African music (xylophone – like and choral), male in English talks, back same kind of music. Statics, some het 33333. 73’s (Lúcio Otávio Bobrowiec, Embu SP Brasil, SW40 - Dipoles and Longwire, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4828, 1528-, Voice of Zimbabwe, Feb 26, Decent carrier, but too weak yet for audio. I see it's still over an hour until LSS at the transmitter, so quite impressive reception. Right on frequency (Walt Salmaniw, visiting Grayland WA, Cumbre DX via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. Tran-Pacific MW carrier bandscan just before sunrise Feb 25 at 1255, in USB mode on DX-398: 594, 648, 747, 774, 828, 972, 1566, not in that order. At 1302 detected 1593, 1566, 1134, 1053, 972 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific MW carrier search, Feb 28 starting precisely at sunrise in Enid, 1304 UT on DX-398 in offset USB mode: 1314, 1305, 1296, 1242, 1134, 1116, 1053, 972, 882, 828, 774, 747, 666, 612, 594. Then I went up from 1314: 1566 and 1611 --- The last looped WSW instead of NW like the others, which fits for Australia, where WRTH lists 17 ``high-power open narrowcast stations``, HP meaning max 400 watts! And there are no Asians or other Pacificans on 1611. I double-checked the frequency and it was right on 1611, so unlikely to have been a US TIS variant. Still, it`s hard to believe I would even be getting such a carrier. The 100 kW VL8s on 120m were not audible today. In my scans there may be others only 1 kHz from 10-kHz channels which I simply can`t detect due to the QRM; thus those logged above end in - 2, -3, -4, -5, -6, -7, or -8. But 1610, of course, has no broadcasters of normal power in the US, just HAR/TIS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1320, Kirk Allen in OK asked me to check out his unID Spanish as ``La Poderosa`` but never any real ID, which he has been getting as late as 1500 UT, so he thinx it`s likely a domestic rather than a Mexican such as XECPN in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, which sometimes uses that slogan. I`m not sure where that info comes from, as not shown as such in WRTH 2011 or IRCA 2010, but rather Radio Noticias, ergo a news format rather than music. Feb 25 I start checking at 1250 UT and 1320 has Spanish music dominating, and hard to null for a fix. At 1253 announcer mentions ``7 minutos``, a timecheck before some hour or other, not caught; heavy CCI. 1308 music and DJ, and now it seems to be coming from the bearing of Piedras Negras or vicinity. Chex at 1400 and later brought only Americans in English such as KOLT; see U S A (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1711.5, 0023 February 24, 2011. Fair-poor, threshold audio, music fills. Unable to confirm language. Slight, fast carrier wobble (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, Florida DX News and "Florida Low Power Radio Stations" are at: http://sites.google.com/site/floridadxn/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED [non]. 4665, 26/2 2245, Spanish, calcio [football [[soccer]] (Giampiero Bernardini, et al., Milan ARI DX night, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Mixing product from higher frequencies, B minus A? Not a likely MW harmonic. See if REE has any fits; frequency seems familiar. Yes, quick search of DXLD archive finds hits in 8-121 and 9-018: 11940 minus 7275 = 4665 (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 6074, 2MTL or 8GAL inaudible March 2 at 1400, and R. Rossii 6075 also JBA, as we are getting too far into daylight now. These mysterious CW markers probably not to be heard again until November (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 7755, DSB Chinese Number Station - New discovery? Very quick two voice automated Chinese numbers, 3 numbers per second - rapid speaking (?). The Chinese Number Station is now uploaded to youtube and can be viewed at this address: Chinese Number Station "Chinese Robot" VC01 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNJmYNcSKCE Cheers, (Robb Wise, Tasmania, ODXA yg via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 9530, 1200-1230+ Feb 25, Have a female in unknown language, possibly Tibetan commenting and presenting local music. This could be CNR Two which is listed on this frequency earlier, but not during the 1200 hour. Signal was at a fair level. Anyone with more details, please pass them on (Chuck Bolland, Clewiston FL, 26N 081W, WR-G31DDC, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 9670, unIDed (Amharic?) with horn of Africa song 0528 to 0533 tune out. Also 24th with talks in unIDed lang, Fair in both days (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) If you check the schedules, you will find the likely source, Aoki: 9670 R. MIRAYA FM 0300-0600 1234567 Arabic/English 150 145 Rimavska Sobota SVK 02000E 4823N UNMISS b10 Nov. 9 (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED. 9760-9765-9770, strong DRM noise March 2 at 1334; still at 1415 when it`s mixing with AM Spanish from REE/COSTA RICA, ditto still at 1448, and 1519. Aoki shows REE AM 9765 M-F only at 1200-1400, all day Sundays. Is DRM-capable Cariari QRMing itself by mistake? 9765 is also an RNZI AM frequency at 0659-1058 and 1751-1850, but not scheduled at any time in DRM. 1159-1551 is supposedly the silent period for DRM, so that transmitter is available to be run somewhere. Inquiry is out to RNZI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Later: Yes, RNZI confirms it was them by mistake UNIDENTIFIED. 9955. Blank carrier at 2234-2258, Feb 26, then into song "Let's Form a Union", followed abruptly at 2301 by announcement ending with words "Guang Bo Dian Tai" (first words lost in fading)and news in Chinese. First item in bulletin mentioned "Zhongguo Zhengfu" (Chinese government). Other items mentioned CNN and Facebook. Probably Radio France International via Taiwan, in which case full ID should presumably be "Faguo Guoji Guang Bo Dian Tai". 35242 (Roger Tidy, UK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) So no QRM from DCJC or WRMI (gh) UNIDENTIFIED. 13715, nasty noise blob centered here, March 1 at 1432, still at 1533. Sounds rather like low-rate DRM, and it pulses slowly, but no DRM is listed any closer than NZ 13730, and not at this hour. May be just an utility intruder, or a malfunxioning SWBC transmitter tho none scheduled (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Hi Glenn, Thanks for all you do (Harry in Montana, March 1) Dave White was thanked amid WOR 1554, for providing lots of bandwidth at w4uvh.net for our audio and text archives (gh) CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES +++++++++++++++++++++++++ REPORTAGE EDXC 2010 ANKARA & NEW PHOTO GALLERY Dear friends! I have finally organized the reportage of my partecipation to the EDXC 2010, you may see the complete story and many good photos souvenirs: http://www.playdx.com/foto/edxc2010/index.htm http://www.playdx.com/html/creta2010edxc2010/creta2010edxc2010.htm Enjoy the story & photos. Waiting for the next EDXC 2011. Best regards! (Dario Monferini, March 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) MUSEA +++++ AER QSL GALLERY http://aer-dx.org/listas/qsl.php (via Yimber Gaviria, DXLD) INTERVAL SIGNALS AND RADIO MUSEUM FOR UTILITY DXERS Hi Glenn, There is good news on the Interval signals front as Dave's Interval signals site will be back early March as he states on his web site http://www.intervalsignals.net His site was off line for almost a month, but he'll be back What DXers do not know is that there is another great site for collectors of voice mirrors of PTT stations, maritime stations and other utility stations. I help Rainer Branolte with his radio museum on http://www.utilityradio.com On this site there are many many exotic recordings. What to think of Tristan Da Cunha Radio or the Antarctic Davis station. There are over a thousand clips on this site but we need to fill some white spots and we can use all the help we can get!! Could you play an example Glenn, in order to save time I've included 2 MP3's but it'll be nice if you could have a quick look and mention the utility site and that Dave will be back. Another nice one to play is the C&W station on the Falkland Islands. Now that Greenland is gone on HF there's the nice memory of the old PTT station with an ID in English. 73's (Rudy van Dalen, PA3GQW, Feb 24, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Sorry, I did not get to this in WOR 1554, but here`s the news in DXLD (gh) BBC'S ORNATE ROYAL MICROPHONE FROM THE 1930'S REVEALED Interesting 2 minute video just posted to the BBC website spotted by Roger of the Radio Caroline Yahoo group; Anyone who has seen the film, The King's Speech, will know that the microphones used for broadcasting by the Royal Family in the 1930s didn't look anything like those used by ordinary mortals. That's because the BBC designed special "royal microphones", in ornate art deco cabinets. The BBC still has one, locked away in a cupboard - and this weekend it was dusted off and taken into the studio of Radio 4's Broadcasting House by BBC Heritage collections manager Rory O'Connell. Nick Higham had a sneak preview - and the big question is, does it still work? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12580470 (Mike Barraclough, Feb 27, dxldyg via DXLD) LANGUAGE LESSONS ++++++++++++++++ RADIO STREET NAMES En Gotemburgo creo que se llevan la palma. Miren http://maps.google.se/maps?q=kortv%C3%A5gsgatan&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=Kortv%C3%A5gsgatan,+G%C3%B6teborg&gl=se&ei=q_poTcj0LY7CswaZlej2Dg&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CBwQ8gEwAA donde la calle de Longitud de Onda sirve a la calle de Onda Corta, la calle de Onda media, la calle de Onda larga, la calle de Onda espacial, la calle de Onda terrena y la calle del Electrón. Para alejarse de la zona se hace por la calle de la Chispa (Henrik Klemetz, Suecia, condiglist yg via DXLD) Acá en Argentina, en Salta, hay un barrio con nombres de Radios y diarios 24 50'55.73"S 65 26'59.91"W http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=es&geocode=&q=+24%C2%B050'55.73%22S++65%C2%B026'59.91%22W&aq=&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=53.87374,76.025391&ie=UTF8&z=17 de hecho, marqué la intersección de Radio El Mundo esquina Radio Belgrano. También están Splendid, Rivadavia y muchas más. Saludos, (Marcelo Filipo, ibid.) There is a ``Radio Road`` intersecting Oklahoma 3 NW of OKC, probably leading to the KZUE-1460 El Reno transmitter site (Glenn Hauser, Enid) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ RADIO IDENTIFICATION QUESTION Off-topic, but related: I've been seeing a GE commercial on regular broadcast American TV that opens and closes with a closeup of a big commercial digital-readout radio in a silver-color plastic case, showing a person adjusting the whip antenna and implying that the large number of dancing people in the ad are hearing the sound from that radio. It looks vaguely like a Grundig/Eton S350 or S450, but this being a GE ad, I can only think that this is actually a GE product. Is it? What IS this radio? Is it something being currently produced and sold? Or perhaps is it not on the US market? Is it only AM/FM or is it SW too? Anybody out there actually have one? I remember when GE produced decent radios -- I have some GE SuperRadios models II and III, and recall a briefly-marketed digital-readout version of those from many decades back; this is NOT that. It's never on-screen long enough to examine or ID; maybe somebody who records digital TV signals these days can see a freeze-frame of this commercial and solve this mystery. 73, (Will Martin, MO, Feb 25, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) TRANSMITTER MASTS AND BROADCAST TOWERS On Wikipedia recently I ran across a link with photos and info on some broadcast sites. http://www.mds975.co.uk/masts/mastphotos1.html (Jerry Lenamon, TX, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) Thanks Jerry. I had seen the site many years ago, but new to me is the images of the RCI Sackville site - nice! http://www.mds975.co.uk/masts/sackville.html The Canadian branded Nortel telephone on the control desk is also recognisable this end. BTW New GE imagery as of past few days. Cheers (Ian Baxter, NSW, ibid.) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See OKLAHOMA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See ARMENIA; SRI LANKA; VATICAN; ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ UNIDENTIFIED 9765; UNIDENTIFIED 13715 PROPAGATION +++++++++++ Hi Glenn, Here is the March BDXC propagation report PROPAGATION REPORT with James Welsh propagation @ bdxc.org.uk Links: http://www.jameswelsh.org.uk ______________________________________________________________________ Propagation Summary The Solar Flux has actually hit the 100 mark in mid February, but had dropped back to 80 by the beginning of March. The Solar Flux should rise to 95 by mid March. The Boulder A index peaked at 25 on the 18th February, dropping back to 5 by the 20th then after peaking at 10 at the beginning of March, it should settle back to the 'norm' of 5. The Boulder K Index seems to be the best indicator of SW conditions. If it reaches 5 (like on February 18th) conditions are usually disturbed but, if it drops down to 2, conditions are generally steady. A 24 day forecast can be found at: http://www.wm7d.net/hamradio/solar/27d_forecast.shtml The Solar flux trend charts at www.solarcycle24.com/flares.htm show that the dip in progress during mid 2010 has recovered but numbers are still well below predicted levels. The Solar flux would need to be averaging at around 110 to reach it's predicted peak in the first quarter of 2013. There were 260 spotless days in 2009 (70%) compared with just 51 in 2010 (14%). First X-flare of the New Solar Cycle Earth-orbiting satellites have detected the strongest solar flare in more than four years. At 0156 UT on Feb. 15th, giant sunspot 1158 unleashed an X2-class eruption. X-flares are the strongest type of x- ray flare, and this is the first such eruption of new Solar Cycle 24. The explosion that produced the flare also sent a solar tsunami rippling through the sun's atmosphere and, more importantly, hurled a coronal mass ejection toward Earth. This is likely to have caused the disturbance on February 18th. A Radio Blackout Indicator can be found at www.solarcycle24.com as well as pictures and video of solar activity. Sunspot Data (Royal Greenwich Observatory) Sunspots appear as dark spots on the surface of the Sun. They typically last for several days, although very large ones may live for several weeks. Sunspots are magnetic regions on the Sun with magnetic field strengths thousands of times stronger than the Earth's magnetic field. Sunspots usually come in groups with two sets of spots. One set will have positive or north magnetic field while the other set will have negative or south magnetic field. The field is strongest in the darker parts of the sunspots - the umbra. The field is weaker and more horizontal in the lighter part - the penumbra. The Royal Greenwich Observatory (RGO) compiled sunspot observations from a small network of observatories to produce a data set of daily observations starting in May of 1874. The observatory concluded this data set in 1976 after the US Air Force (USAF) started compiling data from its own Solar Optical Observing Network (SOON). This work was continued with the help of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) with much of the same information being compiled through to the present. Unfortunately, the more recent data is given in a different format from the original and there are definite changes in the reported parameters from the different sources. In an effort to append the RGO data with the more recent data I have reformatted the USAF and NOAA data to conform to the older RGO data format. The entire data set is available below as ASCII text files containing records for individual years. Each file consists of records with information on individual sunspot groups for each day that spots were observed. The series of data files from 1874-2004 are also available in a single 5.1 Mb ZIP file at: http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/greenwch/RGO_NOAA1874_2004.zip Solar Activity Monitor A Solar Activity Monitor can be found at: http://www.n3kl.org/sun/status.html If you have a website, you can also display the monitor on your web pages. Acknowledgements to Mike Terry and Ken Fletcher for articles and updates. Regards, James Welsh (via DXLD) SOME SOLAR MOVIES FROM FEBRUARY 2011 Several new Space Weather / Solar movies: 1. Watch the progression of sunspots during February 2011 as they move across the solar disc - especially during the middle of February (the very active and large sunspot groups)... 2. Stunning solar activity, as seen at the 304-Angstrom Wavelength: this magnitude M3 X-ray flare released a huge plasma cloud into space just after 0700 UTC on 24 February 2011. 3. Here's a movie of the Sun from Feb. 14 through 16 (2011) showing the many flares (even the X2-class) that erupted that week. Cool stuff! Click on the YouTube link, then maximize it fullscreen and run in high-resolution... -- 73 de (NW7US, Tomas David Hood, Hamilton, Montana and Feb 27, swl at qth.neet via DXLD) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2011 Mar 01 2122 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # Product description and SWPC contact on the Web # http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/weekly.html # # Weekly Highlights and Forecasts # Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 21 - 27 February 2011 Solar activity ranged from very low to moderate levels during the period. Numerous C-class flares were observed on 21 February. The largest of these was a C7 x-ray event at 21/1012 UTC from Region 1158 (S21, L=036, Ekc/600 on 15 February). Activity decreased to very low levels on 22 February, with a few B-class events from Region 1161 (N11, L=331, Ekc/260 on 20 February). Activity increased to low levels as Region 1161 produced a C1 x-ray event at 23/1223 UTC. Activity increased further to moderate levels when Region 1163 (N17, L=177, Dai/120 on 25 February) was numbered on 24 February and produced an M3 event at 24/0735 UTC. Associated with this event was a Type IV Radio Sweep, a 180 sfu Tenflare, and a Type II Sweep with an estimated shock velocity of 1283 km/s. Activity decreased to low levels on 25 February with three C1 events observed during the day. Region 1164 (N28, L=162, Hkx/250 on 25 February) was numbered on 25 February. A 24-degree filament (centered near N34E40) was observed lifting off the disk at 25/0637 UTC, as viewed on SDO/AIA171 imagery. Activity remained at low levels with a few C-class events from Region 1164. New Region 1165 (S22, L=181, class/area Bxo/020 on 26 February) emerged on the disk on as a simple bi-polar spot group. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at high levels on 21-22 and 24 February. The flux was at moderate levels on 23 February and 26-27 February. Geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to active levels during the period. Activity was at predominantly quiet levels, with isolated active periods observed at high latitudes on 21 February. This elevated activity was due to residual effects from the CMEs associated with the M and X-class events of 13-15 February. During the period, solar wind velocities reached a peak of 444 km/s at 22/1158 UTC. The Bz component of the interplanetary magnetic field did not vary much beyond +/- 5 nT during the period. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 02 MARCH - 28 MARCH 2011 Solar activity is expected to be at predominately low to moderate levels through the forecast period. A slight chance for high-level activity is possible from 05-22 March due to the return of old Regions 1158 (S21, L=31), 1161 (N11, L=334) and 1162 (N17, L=338). No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at normal to moderate levels on 02 March. High levels are expected from 03-13 March due to a recurrent coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS). A decrease to normal to moderate levels is expected through 18 March. Another increase to high levels is expected from 18-23 March due to a second CH HSS. Normal to moderate levels are expected for the remainder of the period. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be unsettled to active with a chance for isolated minor storm periods from 02-05 March due to a recurrent CH HSS. Mostly quiet levels are expected from 06-07 March. Quiet to unsettled conditions are expected from 08-09 March due to another CH HSS. Mostly quiet levels are expected for the remainder of the period. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2011 Mar 01 2122 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # Product description and SWPC contact on the Web # http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wwire.html # # 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table # Issued 2011-03-01 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2011 Mar 02 95 15 4 2011 Mar 03 98 15 4 2011 Mar 04 98 12 3 2011 Mar 05 98 10 3 2011 Mar 06 100 5 2 2011 Mar 07 100 5 2 2011 Mar 08 100 8 3 2011 Mar 09 98 8 3 2011 Mar 10 100 7 2 2011 Mar 11 105 5 2 2011 Mar 12 105 5 2 2011 Mar 13 110 7 2 2011 Mar 14 110 7 2 2011 Mar 15 110 5 2 2011 Mar 16 110 5 2 2011 Mar 17 105 5 2 2011 Mar 18 105 5 2 2011 Mar 19 100 5 2 2011 Mar 20 95 5 2 2011 Mar 21 95 5 2 2011 Mar 22 95 5 2 2011 Mar 23 95 5 2 2011 Mar 24 95 5 2 2011 Mar 25 90 5 2 2011 Mar 26 90 5 2 2011 Mar 27 90 5 2 2011 Mar 28 90 5 2 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1554, DXLD) TIPS FOR RATIONAL LIVING ++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Fight Continues | 170 Million Americans Dear Glenn, In the past few weeks we have asked you to reach out to your Members of Congress to tell them how important public broadcasting is to you. 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