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** ALBANIA. R. Tirana: it seems unlikely to me that a feed problem
would result in all services being off the air for so long. I wonder
if there are budget problems. Relays of CRI via Albania on MW & SW
continue as normal (Dave Kenny, DX News, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via
DXLD) But they don`t go thru the R. Tirana studio or budget at all
(Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
[the following news came too late to include in WOR 1585,, but was
included in DXLD 11-40:]
Unfortunately, I did not check 13625 for R. Tirana Oct 6 at 1430, but
this just in from Drita Çiço (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.:
Today Radio Tirana back on air on SW via Shijak radio-station. My
monitoring staff has just informed me that Radio Tirana in English
to NoAm at 1430-1500 UT via Shijak r-stat is back on air. This after
its interruption that started on 30 July 2011 and fully interrupted
at the beginning of August up today, 6 October 2011.
Radio Tirana in Greek on MW via Fllaka R-stat at 1545-1600 was not
broadcast. My staff informed me that Fllaka r-station has an order to
not broadcast Radio Tirana programs on MW, yet.
Please, check the next programs according to A11 ALR schedule. Keep in
touch, (Drita Çiço, R. Tirana, 1621 UT Oct 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
So here`s the full previous SW schedule:
ALBANIAN
0630-0900 daily Eu 7390
2030-2200 daily Eu 6165, 9860
2300-0030 daily NAm 7425, 9860
ENGLISH
0030-0045 .twtfss NAm 9860
0145-0200 .twtfss NAm 7425
0230-0300 .twtfss NAm 7425
0330-0400 .twtfss NAm 7425
1430-1500 mtwtfs. NAm 13625
1845-1900 mtwtfs. Eu 7520, 13735
2000-2030 mtwtfs. Eu 7465
2000-2030 mtwtfs. NAm 13735
FRENCH
1730-1800 mtwtfs. Eu 7465
1900-1930 mtwtfs. Eu 7465
GERMAN
1930-2000 mtwtfs. Eu 7465
ITALIAN
1700-1730 mtwtfs. Eu 7465
1900-1930 mtwtfs. Eu 7520
SERBIAN
1800-1815 mtwtfs. Eu 6015
(WRTH May update via DXLD, WORLD OF RADIO 1586 [English portion])
Glad to hear R. Tirana again. I could not hear any signal at 1850 Oct
6 on 13735, but I was using the portable receiver. Greece 15630
however could be detected. From 1959, on the main receiver, 13735 was
heard with opening in English altho poor signal, undermodulation, and
still announcing wrong frequency 13640 for 2000 (Glenn Hauser, DX
WORLD OF RADIO 1586, LISTENING DIGEST)
** ALBANIA. Radio Tirana shortwave back on schedule as of today Oct 6
at 1430-1457 UT.
7464.981 kHz S=9+20dB in CeEUR and S=9+35dB in U.K., in Italian 1700
UT, and now till 1758 UT in French too.
All MW outlets of Radio Tirana on MW 1458 kHz ceased for interim til
Oct 29, except - probably? - Serbian language section at 2015-2030 UT.
In B-11 winter season schedule some multiple repeat broadcasts will be
deleted in future. All mediumwave relays of Radio Tirana programmes
will be deleted then
EXCEPT
Serbian 1458 kHz at 2115-2130 UT, as well as TWR and CRI Beijing
Relays on mediumwave via Fllake 1215, 1395, and 1458 kHz. 73 wb
(Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 6, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Bis 1943 UT störte ein ute Flötensignal bei 7463 kHz. RT Deutsch jetzt
mit einem Landwirtschaftsbericht von Ibro und deutscher Ansagerin auf
7464.983 kHz, ein starkes Signal von S=9+35dBm um 1945 UT Oct 6. 73 wb
7464.982, Radio Tirana shortwave back on air Oct 6th, noted French at
1900 UT, and German 1930-1957 UT, S=9+35dBm powerful signal. This
morning from 0630 UT RT in Albanian on 7389.981 kHz, female announcer,
S=8-9 in Germany and Netherlands, S=9+30dBm in Vienna and Italy, on
various remote SDR units (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 7, wwdxc BC-DX
TopNews, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
7464.982, Radio Tirana shortwave back on air Oct 6th, noted French at
1900 UT, and German 1930-1957 UT, S=9+35dBm powerful signal. Bis 1943
UT stoerte ein UTE Floetensignal bei 7463 kHz. RT Deutsch jetzt mit
einem Landwirtschaftsbericht von Ibro und deutscher Ansagerin auf
7464.982 kHz, ein starkes Signal von S=9+35dBm um 1945 UT Oct 6.
RT Albanian language heard tonight 2030-21.58:40 UT on 6164.984 and
9859.971 kHz, both at S=9+30dBm level here in Western Europe.
7389.981 kHz, This morning Oct 7 from 0630 UT RT in Albanian, female
announcer, S=8-9 in Germany and Netherlands, S=9+30dBm in Vienna and
Italy, on various remote SDR units.
13624.962, R Tirana in English to U.K./IRL/NoAM at 1430-1458 UT Oct 7,
S=9+15dBm, nx noted from 1432-1438 UT, like architecture projects of
Italians in 1934. Press report at 1439 UT.
7464.982, R Tirana in Italian at 1700-1730 UT Oct 7, S=9+25dBm signal
strength.
7464.979, R Tirana at 1900-1928 UT Oct 7, S=9+40dBm powerhouse,
excellent condition tonight. (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 6/7, dxldyg
via DXLD)
6164.983 / 9859.968, Radio Tirana in Albanian to all-Europe at
2030-2200 UT Oct 8: much better signal on 49mb, despite Chad Radio
deep on background co-channel, S=9+15dBm.
9860v Signal on 31 mb suffers by low modulation level, only S=7
signal, weak signal on remote SDR units in eastern and western Europe
tonight.
Also CRI Beijing MW relay in Polish language at 2030-2127 UT Oct 8th
at Fllake-ALB MW site heard on usual odd channel 1457.796 kHz and
accompanied by 204 Hertz tone against nearby 1458 kHz even broadcast
from South Asian emigrants radio in London-GB (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc
BC-DX TopNews Oct 8 via DXLD)
Drita Çiço notified that R. Tirana was back on SW as of Oct 6 at 1430
on 13625. I could not hear any signal from the next 1845 English
broadcast at 1850 Oct 6 on 13735, but I was using the portable
receiver. Greece 15630 however could be detected. From 1959, on the
main receiver, 13735 was heard opening 2000 in English altho poor
signal, undermodulation, and still announcing wrong frequency 13640!
Did not check further in the evening until 0254 Oct 7 when there was
nothing on 7425, nor at 0330+; the 0230-0300 & 0330-0400 English
broadcasts should have been audible if on.
Tuned 13625 Oct 7 and heard a weak carrier until 1405*, maybe a pre-
tune-up by Shijak? Nothing else ever scheduled on 13625. 1429 on with
IS, 1430 sign-on, S4-S9 averaging S7 but too weak to copy, the sounds
of fading louder than the modulation. So it appears not all the former
broadcasts are back on yet. For B-11, R. Tirana plans to eliminate the
15-minute English transmissions, among other reduxions and
rescheduling.
13735, Oct 7 at 1841 open carrier, 1842 R. Tirana IS, 1845 English
sign-on, so confirmed resumed, but too poor to copy. Is daily except
Sundays.
7425, altho still missing UT Oct 7, was on Oct 8 at 0353 check with
music, to conclude the 0330 English broadcast UT Tue-Sun.
[and non]. Is one R. Tirana transmitter/antenna down again? Monday Oct
10 at 2020, no signal on 13735. Altho 13640, the old frequency still
being announced, bears India in French. And Romania in well starting
13800 at 2027 after QSY from 11970 until 2026:30*. Not much audible on
22m from the E Hemisphere except 13660 Arabic, which is BBC via
Austria.
Also at 0033 Oct 11, no signal on 9860 for R. Tirana in English.
Instead, 7425 is on with poor/fair signal. It`s supposed to go off at
0030 after Albanian // 9860. So 7425 now substitutes for 9860? 7425
was on again as scheduled for the 0230 English. At 1431, 13625
audible, but poor signal with flutter altho modulation good this time
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hello All, Very happy to hear Radio Tirana is back on shortwave. Fair
signal here in Montreal this morning on 13625 Khz at 1430 UT slightly
distorted audio but good copy (Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, Canada,
Oct 11, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
After the Germany - Belgium football match LIVE coverage in German TV,
I switched on media from Albania:
1457.797 kHz, S=9+35dBm signal from Fllake-ALB at 1801 UT RT in
German, at 1830 Turkish, heard Turkish at 1831 UT pop mx song heards,
Turkish female announcer 1833-1838 UT. Transmission hit by co-channel
Romanian station on even 1458 kHz.
1394.854 kHz, S=9+40dBm powerhouse from Fllake too, TWR Hungarian
program in progress at 1837 UT, religious fanfare and organ,
undoubtedly typical Hungarian religious female announcer.
7519.980, RT interval signal at 1845 UT, this TX unit must be wrong at
present, not on normal signal strength level. Audio started suddenly
late with many feeder audio breaks at 18.45:53 UT. Much, much better
signal level noted, when switched to 13734.960 kHz at 1847 UT Oct 11,
S=9+5dBm, heard on various remote rx units in Netherlands and U.K. 73
de (Wolfy, 1857 UT Oct 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
6164.976 and 9859.971 kHz Deep nighttime program of RT in Albanian
to all Europe with different signal strength on both meter bands.
On 9860v at 2130 UT Oct 11, S=8-9 fair signal of RT shortwave,
contained modern popular music songs of 60ties or 70ties in Hodsha
[Hoxha] dictatorship era. In contrast poor signal on 6165v kHz at 2145
UT, only S=5-6 in peaks. My strong guess is that one of the two units
on Shijak site operates on lower power level of 20 to 30 kW range only
these days. regards de Wolfy. btw. German team won 3:1 against
Belgium, but Albania played only 1:1 remis against Romania's team at
Tirana stadium tonight (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.)
R. Tirana monitoring: 13735, Oct 11 at 1856 confirmed on air, poor
with music concluding English quarter-hour.
9860, Oct 11 at 2157 NA, IS and off circa 2200 concluding Albanian
sesquihour, which R. Tirana plans to eliminate in B-11.
9860, Oct 12 at 0031, English quarter-hour is back on correct
frequency instead of 7425 where it was 24 hours earlier.
13625, Oct 12 at 1430, Only S7-8, JBA and undermodulated but I could
recognize Klara`s voice with transmission schedule. On contrary,
Wolfgang Büschel says it was ``powerful, S9+30`` in Germany (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
7389.983, Radio Tirana Albanian morning feature program logged at
0834 UT Oct 12, S=9+35dBm, powerful signal here in central Europe.
Extended interview about R Tirana TX program history at 0835 UT, also
about TV sports coverage history, at 0839-0840 UT. \\ 1394.856 kHz at
0845-0850 UT, which latter mediumwave signal heard in Bologna-Forli-
Rimini Italy remote software defined radio receiver units. regards de
Wolfy.
13624.961, RT, Shijak transmission in English, S=9+30dBm powerful
signal this afternoon Oct 12. An extended information feature about
Albania's EU contacts, economical figures with the Euro currency
countries heard around 1438 to 1444 UT Oct 12.
About Albania`s efforts on passport design strategy, EU market
figures, total trading export figure from Albania is 80% to EU. About
73% in total is the import figure from EU states in 2010. Albania has
got a lot of Million EUROS in past decade. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Hi Glenn, I'm happy to report that I have my broadband back. I'm
checking Radio Tirana, in order to record Albanian for Carrie Hooper.
Today I recorded them at 2030 UT, which is a more convenient time for
me than 23:00. I observed a few things.
From 2015, though the schedule said English, they had been having
Serbian. Today they had English. I don't know if it started at 2000 or
2015. I will try to check tomorrow.
The frequencies and times for the Albanian transmissions, which had
been read by a man, are now read by a woman. My grasp of rapidly
spoken Albanian numbers is not good enough to get all the times, but,
I did notice that, in addition to 1395 and 1458, they are announcing
shortwave frequencies, sometimes two at a time. As we know, these are
mostly "mythological" at this time. Carrie will be here this weekend,
and I shall get her to translate all times and freq's for me, and I'll
send them to you. This announcement does seem a bit shorter than
before, but, I can't tell what is left out.
The news readers seem to be different from those I usually heard at
2030. This is, of course, not conclusive, shifts may merely have been
changed around. the voices I heard on the English, just before 2030,
seemed to be the same ones I have heard before. More later, (Tim
Hendel, AL, Oct 12, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Your news about Radio Tirana active again on SW made me very happy!
After hearing KBC, a commercial station on 531 kHz Medium Waves,
closing down there today to open tomorrow on short waves, I turned my
attention to Radio Tirana with this result:
Transmission for Albanians abroad 2100-2200 UT, 2300-2400 our local
summer time. 6165 kHz with SINPO from 54544 at first, deteriorating to
43533 as interference came up stronger. 9860 kHz with SINPO 55544
excellent reception. Audio quality fine on both channels. Listening on
Sangean ATS 909 (small receiver) and indoor vertical 60 m antenna,
thin wire tightly wound on 1.5 m wooden pole in my bedroom. Programme
heard [Friday]:
2100 Calendar
2102 Albanian pop music
2105 Commentary on Albania and Europe
2112 Hip-hop style Albanian tune
2116 Message
2118 Light music tune
2122 Cultural news
2128 Light music tune
2131 Songs from the Second Albanian Radio-TV Song Festival in 1963,
including tunes like "Ëndrra ime" with Vace Zela and "Flakë e borë".
2158 Closing with the National Anthem.
I will appreciate QSL cards for the two frequencies. We have a QSL
competition in the Swedish DX Federation and I collect all QSLs I can
get! I will keep listening, especially to the Albanian broadcasts.
Will try also the morning transmission when I have time. Kind regards
from Sweden to you and all who know me at Radio Tirana (Ullmar Qvick,
Oct 7, via Drita Çiço, DXLD)
Reception of Radio Tirana morning transmission
Dear Drita: Attempts to listen to Radio Tirana at 8.30 your and our
local time were not successful [0630 UT]. On 7390 kHz the signal was
not very strong and the modulation level was a bit weak too. I had to
rely on the German relay service on the web, which works very well. I
am glad I could listen there; the programme was interesting:
Religious tolerance among Albanians. In the debate participated
representatives for the religious communities in Albania, Kosova and
Macedonia, also a link to Deutsche Welle was in action. There was
general consensus, only with regard to the position of the Orthodox
Church in Albania there was some debate, but Aleksis, representative
of the Albanian Autocephalous Church, declared very clearly: Never
utilize religion for political aims.
This statement of his is a sharp accusation against the Greek and
Serbian Orthodox church, which always have and still very much use
religion and orthodox institutions for their political aims. The
leaders of the Greek Orthodox Church have always been enemies of
Albania, they have also caused serious problems in Macedonia. Church
leaders in Serbia are among the most aggressive forces against the
Albanians of Kosova. So the principle not to mix religion and politics
is excellent but regularly broken against.
This was a very interesting programme, I would have liked to hear it
on the radio, but I am still grateful for the web service (Ullmar
Qvick, Sweden [who understands Albanian], Oct 8, via Drita Çiço, DXLD)
** ALBANIA. Hello, Drita, this question from a Danish journalist:
I have a question which someone at the technical department probably
can help with. When in Tirana - on 74.08 MHz (possibly 74.075) - I
heard Radio Tirana /RTS – but it was not in parallel to Radio Tirana 1
or Radio Tirana 2 or to 1458 kHz. Is it the audio frequency of a TV
programme or is it a special service? Me respekt (via Klara [R. Tirana
English announcer], Oct 10, via Drita Çiço, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
There are some local frequencies such as 95.8 with program 2 listed in
WRTH. Not exactly, but maybe it was a receiver 2 x IF image, normally
21.4 MHz below the real frequency (gh, DXLD)
** ALBANIA [non]. PRESIDENT TOPI OF ALBANIA RECALLS LISTENING TO "REAL
NEWS" ON VOA DURING COMMUNIST ERA --- Posted: 08 Oct 2011
President of Albania website, 6 Oct 2011, President Bamir Topi's
speech marking the 20th anniversary of the re-opening of the United
States Embassy in Tirana: "Of course, those years when hope came back
to Albania are unforgettable. Close to me there is a voice which has
been engraved in the memory and minds of the Albania, an unmistakable
voice, that of Dr. Biberaj who through the Voice of America
wavelengths awoke among the Albanians that feeling of hope which they
had looked forward for about fifty years. I was a small boy when I
watched my father at home, [in] a confidential setting, placing his
ear close to the radio to listen to the real news broadcasted by the
Voice of America. We heard the real news about what was happening
around the world; we listen to the most important events of world
politics. I remember very well when we heard about the first man
setting foot and landing on the Moon and other events as well. But the
events accompanying the establishing of democracy in the former
communist countries enabled us to fly and wonder around that space
that was forbidden to Albanians: on the space of freedom. This is the
reason why we are so grateful to the United States.
(kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD)
-- Elez Biberaj, originally of the VOA Albanian Service, is now
director of the VOA Eurasia Division (Kim Andrew Elliott, ibid.)
** ANGOLA. R. Nacional de Angola heard on 7216.8 from tune-in at 2135
UT 24 Sept using a global tuner in South Africa. English-speaking DJ
with fast music including dance and reggae, chat with listeners by
phone in English and several IDs as ``the international service of
Angolan National Radio from Luanda``. In Portuguese from 2200. Fair to
poor signal in South Africa (Dave Kenny, ed., DX News, Oct BDXC-UK
Communication via DXLD)
** ANGOLA [non?]. Re the British Council English-teaching program
reported by Angop via Media Network 10 September, M/W/F 1100-1115 UT
until 5 Oct:
The SW frequency or time seems to be wrong; 9530 unheard when checked
several time on a remote receiver in South Africa. R. Nacional de
Angola used to use 9535; however, this transmitter has been defunct
for several years (Dave Kenny, ed., DX News, Oct BDXC-UK Communication
via DXLD) Did anybody ever hear this, anywhere? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD)
** ANGUILLA. 11775, Oct 8 at 1317, missing, uncovering weak Asian
signals instead; next check 1514, DGS is back on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** ANTARCTICA. 15476, Oct 6 at 1234, no signal from LRA36. However, I
retuned to 15475 with BFO at 1243 and heard the 15476 carrier cut on
at *1244:07 along with traces of modulation, so it`s on again this
Thursday. By 1308 inaudible, nor at 1328, 1358, so may have gone right
back off if not outfaded.
15476, Tuesday Oct 11, no show from LRA36 at chex: 1243-1248 (as the
Mexican national anthem was still flowing thru my brain after an hour
of MW DXing); nor at 1315, 1323, 1358. Maybe Thursday (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15476, Tuesday Oct 11, as Glenn also noted, LRA36 was off the air
today during good propagation; at 1408 hear both 15470 and 15480; at
1431 heard 15470 with good reception, while 15480 had signed off (Ron
Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO
1586, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ARGENTINA. Subject: [radioescutas] Se inauguró oficialmente el
nuevo transmisor de LS11 Radio Provincia de Buenos Aires
El gobernador Daniel Scioli inauguró el pasado 05 de Octubre el
nuevo transmisor de 100 Kilowats, cuya inversión demandó $3.698.535 y
le permitirá brindar a Radio Provincia una mejor calidad de sonido y
mayor cobertura en todo el territorio provincial. Continúe leyendo
esta nota en http://gruporadioescuchaargentino.wordpress.com/
(Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, 6 out radioescutas yg via DXLD)
Arnaldo, Rudolf, colegas: O novo emissora eliminou o harmônico em 2540
kHz que era regularmente sintonizado à noite no Brasil? Estou sem
condições de testar por hora, mas estou curioso! (Huelbe Garcia,
ibid.)
Huelbe e amigos: Eu cheguei a sintonizar este harmonico em 120 metros
aqui em casa por algumas vezes. 73 e boas escutas! (Michel Viani -
Osasco - SP, ibid.) before or after new transmitter?
** ARGENTINA. 15345.05, RAE, 1836, Oct 5. In English; news and sports;
travel segment about bird watching; 1845 dramatic tango music; 1853
requests reception reports; IS and “RAE Argentina” IDs; mixing badly
with assume Morocco (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15345.07, 5/10 2317, RAE, national music and songs, Spanish program,
good (Giampiero Bernardini, Milan, Italy, RX: G33DDC Excalibur Pro -
ANT: T2FD, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Today, 12 October 2011, RAE Argentina is on 15345 exactly at 23:00z,
rather than the recent 15344.2. Had not noticed this before. Fair to
Good in Spanish (Bruce Jensen, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
A fluke? They had been pretty close: see above two logs (gh, DXLD)
** ARMENIA. Trans World Radio observed since June on 1350 kHz with a
revised schedule 1800-1915 (ex 1815-1930): 1800 Kurdish, 1815 Turkish
(part English), 1845-1915 Hebrew, but on Fridays in Russian.
Transmitter on 1377 has now been repaired and no longer transmits any
motorboating sounds, for relays of Voice of Russia in Farsi 1600-1700
and TWR in Farsi, Arabic and other languages (Rumen Pankov, Sofia,
Bulgaria, Medium Wave Report, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD)
** ASCENSION. 21795-21800-21805, Oct 11 at 1249 DRM noise, fair signal
and not sure if would decode here, again at 1402. DRM Consortium press
release (via Alokesh Gupta; see DIGITAL BRODCASTING --- DRM below)
tipped us on this ``First DRM Transmission for Southern Africa``,
French at 12-13, English at 14-15, from a two-day conference by EBU at
Brussels. Content was to be discussion of DRM from the conference,
broadcast only on Oct 11. I believe Ascension has had DRM capability
for a long time, but has not been using it. Nothing from ASC is on
schedule here:
http://www.drm.org/broadcast_schedule
Remember several years ago, for a while, Ascension was DRMing of all
things, BYU Radio from Utah (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Ascension. DRM Consortium. 21800 English Bay. Oct 11, 2011, Tuesday.
*1200-1500* I've never heard DRM and don't have a DRM receiver. But
having read in DXLD about the interference it causes and the wide
range of adjacent frequencies it wipes out, following the lead from
Alokesh Gupta I tried to hear it. At my location the (presumably)
unmodulated carrier at switch on appeared to make little difference to
the background noise of hiss and buzz. It simply seemed to reduce the
noise level by about 1 division on the s meter. The actual DRM noise,
when it started, at first sounded a bit like a fax modem cutting on
and off, but soon settled into a deep(er) hiss, just above the level
of background noise on neighbouring frequencies.
If I hadn't known it was there I might have tuned right through it
without knowing there was a transmission taking place. It covered
approximately 21790 to 21807 kHz (it did not seem symmetrical about
21800), and it had no effect at all on Deutsche Welle via Kigali on
21780. By about 1430 the DRM signal level had increased somewhat,
varying rapidly up and down from s6 to s9+10. The transmission was
presumably aimed at a specific professional target audience, because
it had zero advance publicity in my part of the world. I would be
interested to hear if this was a successful DRM transmission from
start to finish. Received on Drake R8. Jo'burg sunset 1613 (Bill
Bingham, RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRIA. Giovedì 6 ottobre 2011. 0546 - 6149.7 kHz, R. AUSTRIA INT.
- Moosbrunn Musica classica. Segnale molto buono, 6155 empty: surely a
tech problem. Battimento con R. Habana Cuba 6150 (Luca Botto Fiora,
G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, bclnews.it yg via WORLD
OF RADIO 1586, DXLD)
Austria - Ö1 on 6149.4v --- Yes, 6149.4 (it's not a typo, not 6154.9)
Frequency varied continuously between 0527 and 0615 s/off. As
previously mentioned, English and French are no longer aired (JM
Aubier, France, Oct 6, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
Moosbrunn was wandering in 49mb on Oct 2nd too --- 6155.033, ORF OE1
Moosbrunn program seldom on odd frequency, much Moericke and Rilke
poet coverage, just heard with news and local Austrian weather at 0505
UT Oct 2, prediction on Indian summer weather 19 to 27 cC temp today.
(Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 2; Stuttgart sunrise at
0522 UT, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DX LISTENING DIGEST) but only
+33 Hz vs -5600 (Glenn Hauser, DXLD)
Back on 6155 this Friday at 0515 (Jean-Michel Aubier, France, Oct 7,
WORLD OF RADIO 1586, ibid.) Yes Jean-Michel, ORS/ORF Mossbrunn was
back on even 6155.000 this morning (Wolfgang Büschel, 0520-0610 Oct 7,
dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AZORES. AÇORES, 828, Antena 1 Açores, Monte das Cruzes, Flores
island, reactivated (after an antenna breakdown back in June last),
2236-..., 07/10, relaying Antena 1 Lisboa, comments on the football
match POR vs. ISL; 44433, QRM de E. I had recently reported on its
reactivation scheduled for Thursday, 06/10, and it seems things did
run well for the RTP. This small 1 kW transmitter served by a folded
monopole with the VHF-FM antennae on top is back and with regular,
strong signals. 73. (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 4750, Bangladesh Betar, Khabirpur, Dhaka, heard around
0127, Sep 25, talk in Bengali about eye lenses, good signal (Gautam
Kumar Sharma, Abhayapuri, Assam, India, DSWCI DX Window Oct 5 via
DXLD)
4750, Bangladesh Betar, 1358, Oct 11. No trace of RRI Makassar at this
time; only QRM from CNR1. Subcontinent music; distinctive bagpipes
(marching band?); 1405 “Assalamu alaikum. Bangladesh Betar” and into
the news in assume Bengali; poor. Edited MP3 audio
http://www.box.net/shared/7pano3kjo58utge6gpkl
(Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
4750, Bangladesh Betar, 1323, Oct 12. Another day in which I had no
hint of RRI Makassar; just QRM from CNR1; subcontinent music; BoH
“Bangladesh Betar”; same format as yesterday at 1403 with distinctive
bagpipes (marching band?); “Assalamu alaikum. Bangladesh Betar” and
into the news in assume Bengali; poor to almost fair. What happened to
RRI Makassar? Not that I am complaining, as it is very nice to be able
to have some decent reception from Bangladesh (Ron Howard, Asilomar
State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** BHUTAN. Listen to live coverage of Royal Wedding by BBS on 6035 kHz
tomorrow, 13th Oct 2011, 0200 UT onwards. They are still using old SW
txer at 30 kW. Also BBS TV & radio live at http://www.bbs.com.bt
Related Links:
Bhutan's King to tie the knot tomorrow
http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/bhutans-king-to-tie-the-knot-tomorrow/854524.html
Royal Wedding Fever Hits Bhutan
http://abcnews.go.com/International/royal-wedding-king-bhutan-makes-plans-marry/story?id=14707772
---
(Alokesh Gupta, VU3BSE, New Delhi, Oct 12, dx_sasia via DX LISTENING
DIGEST) Also in advance via the dxldyg; I tried around 0400 but no
connexion, no doubt overloaded (gh)
** BOLIVIA. 6134.79, 6/10 0140, Radio Santa Cruz, nice songs,
commercials, fair (Giampiero Bernardini, Milan, Italy, RX: G33DDC
Excalibur Pro - ANT: T2FD, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BOLIVIA. ATT CLAUSURÓ 35 RADIOS “PIRATAS” ENTRE ENERO Y SEPTIEMBRE
DE ESTE AÑO
Entre enero y septiembre de esta gestión, la Autoridad de
Fiscalización y Control Social de Telecomunicaciones y Transportes
(ATT), clausuró y decomiso equipos de 35 radios “ilegales” a nivel
nacional, de las cuales casi un 80 por ciento operaban en la ciudad de
El Alto, urbe en la que mas irregularidades se registraron debido a la
proliferación de estas emisoras que generan la saturación del espectro
electromagnético, además de interrumpir la normal difusión de las
frecuencias legales. . .
FUENTE: http://bit.ly/q108j2
(Tomado de GAIA Noticias, La Paz, 10 octubre 2011, via Yimber Gaviria,
Colombia, DXLD) Apparently none of them were onda corta
** BRAZIL [non]. Re 11-40: C. Miranda report. Do you know she was
actually Portuguese, not Brazilian?
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Miranda
73, (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, Oct 5, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Says she was born in Porto, but family moved to Rio shortly after she
was born, and she never returned to her native country (gh, DXLD)
** BRAZIL. 9564.91, 6/10 0157, Súper Rádio Deus è Amor, usual sermons,
weak
9645.38, 6/10 0149, Rádio Bandeirantes, sport talks, songs,
commercials, fair // 11925.22. Stopped at 0159 by Radio Romania
International starting in Spanish
9675, 5/10 2355, Canção Nova, Brazil, long religious talk in "Deus é
Amor" style not Catholic! fair/good (Giampiero Bernardini, Milan,
Italy, RX: G33DDC Excalibur Pro - ANT: T2FD, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST) Pentecostal, then? No, Carlos below heard rosary (gh)
9675, Radio Cancão Nova, 2315-0015, Portuguese religious talk.
Portuguese inspirational music. ID at 2333. No //s heard. Fair to
good. Thanks to tips from Al Muick and Glenn Hauser. Oct 5-6. (Brian
Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest)
9675, R. Canção Nova (recently reactivated on this fq), Cachoeira
Paulista SP, 2128-2142, 08/10, rosary followed by program Novo Tempo,
talks, songs; 45422. 9675 ditto, 1027-f/out 1045, 09/10, songs; 15331.
73. (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 9819.76, R. Nove de Julho, 0106-0113 Oct 4. ID, then man
with religious talk in Portuguese, lots of "Espíritu Santo", etc..
Fair signal but a strong carrier came on at 0113 on 9820 wiping out
9deJ (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Drake R-8, 100-foot RW,
Cumbre DX via DXLD) Greenville warming up for Special English 0130
9819.758 at 0530 UT Oct 7, undoubtedly Portuguese, R Nove de Julho,
Sao Paulo-SP program. S=6 signal in southwestern Europe (Wolfgang
Büschel, Oct 7, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 10000, 5/10 2334, Observatório Nacional, Brazil, IDs, weak
(Giampiero Bernardini, Milan, Italy, RX: G33DDC Excalibur Pro - ANT:
T2FD, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL [and non]. 11735, Rádio Transmundial (presumed). Seeing
as Zanzibar has not been heard on 6015 for a while now, thought I
would double check this frequency for any new activity, but only
heard this in Portuguese at 1803 on Oct 5 (Ron Howard, Asilomar
State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11749.86, Rádio Voz Missionária, Camboriú, São Paulo. 2353
October 8, 2011. Braso-Portuguese male preacher. No ID, just a
transmitter source log. Clear, low modulation.
11854.94, Rádio Aparecida, Aparecida, São Paulo. 2346 October 8, 2011.
Braso-Portuguese male preacher. No ID, just a transmitter source log.
Clear, fair (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N,
82.46.08 W, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL [and non]. 11925.22, 5/10 2327, Rádio Bandeirantes, Brazil,
talks about São Paulo, (some QRM from HCJB via Chile in Portuguese on
11920 kHz with real strong signal 9 +20) (Giampiero Bernardini, Milan,
Italy, RX: G33DDC Excalibur Pro - ANT: T2FD, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST) Great frequency choice (gh, DXLD)
** BRAZIL. 15189.963, R Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte MG, in
Portuguese, poor S=4-5 signal, just on threshold level at 0548 UT Oct
7 (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 7, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
6010 / 15189.95, Rádio Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais.
2240 October 8, 2011. Male with play-by-play presumed soccer. 6010
clear and fair, 15189.95 very good, but with weak, unidentified nearly
co-channel on 15190. Any rumors of 15190v being dead are not true
(yet). (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08
W, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15190, Radio Inconfidência 0236 song “Georgia”, announcer in
Portuguese talking about the program as “musica bonita” (beautiful
music), into a Portuguese ballad. Good. 10/12/11 (Harold Sellers,
Vernon, British Columbia, Listening from my car with Eton E1 and Sony
AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. SDR-COM and Brasil, this morning --- with an SDR and
software SDR-COM plus a station list (e.g. EiBi), it's easy to filter
e.g. "BRASIL", and to click all entries. By this, the following
Brazilians were heard this morning from 0620 to 0640 UT:
15189.960, Inconfidência, O=3-4
11815.031, Brasil Central, O=3
11765.011, Deus é Amor, O=4
9819.754, Rádio 9 de Julho, O=2-3
9715.041, just an unmodulated carrier (Guarújá?) [no exist more - gh]
9675.002, Cancão Nova, O=3-4
9645.381, Bandeirantes, O=3-4
9564.911, Súper Deus, O=3
-- 73, (Nils DK8OK Schiffhauer, DK8OK, Germany, Excalibur, SDR-IP/GPS,
Perseus, W-Code, 2 x 20 m active quad loop (90 ), 42 m windom, DX-One
prof, Oct 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BULGARIA. 9695-9700-9705, Oct 7 at 0518, DRM noise I had not
noticed before. That`s because R. Bulgaria DRM here is scheduled
Fridays only, in Bulgarian 0400-0700, 50 kW, 306 degrees from
Kostinbrod. Not a good day to hear anything on 9695 or 9705. Now
please tell us how many Bulgarians abroad have DRM receivers? At 0529,
RB IS on analog 9600 prior to German service.
11600, Oct 12 at 0510, there R. Bulgaria goes again, kilowasting
kilowatts with open carrier already 20 minutes before 0530 German
service. But // 9600 not on yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** BULGARIA. Non-stop music isn’t the future --- James Cridland's blog
--- A radio futurologist writing about what happens when radio and new
platforms collide -- Posted on Monday, October 10th, 2011 at 9:33pm.
http://james.cridland.net/blog/bulgaria-non-stop-music-isnt-the-future/
73 (via Kim Elliott, DXLD)
** BURMA [non]. 11595, 5/10 2340, Voice of Democratic Burma [sic], via
Gavar, Armenia, long talks, interview, fair/good (Giampiero
Bernardini, Milan, Italy, RX: G33DDC Excalibur Pro - ANT: T2FD, dxldyg
via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CAMBODIA [non]. KAMPUCHEA/ PALAU, 9960, Khmer Post Radio via T8WH
Palau, Oct. 7. 11, 1210 to 1259 sign-off UT. Noted with extensive
talks about Kampuchea, Vietnam, UN Resolution, Pakistan's support, the
Communist regime of Vietnam and influence, both by male and female
speaker. Noted to 1253, possible sign-off announcements and a closing
selection of Cambodian music played till the program was cut and went
off the air, in mid-son. This was followed with a massive carrier from
the Korean clandestine which came on after. Reception was one of the
best this morning, after repeated attempts. Clearly good propagation
to the Pacific rim (Edward Kusalik-Alberta, Canada, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) Do you understand Khmer? (gh)
** CAMBODIA [non]. 9960, KPPM Radio (Khmer People Power Movement) via
T8WH PALAU, *1200, Oct 8. A Saturday only program in assume Khmer; no
pre-program ID this week for World Harvest Radio; 1201 usual “w-w-w
dot k-p-p-m radio dot org”; assume Khmer song. Also checked at 1256 to
catch another song; 1258 covered by strong open carrier from WYFR
(*1300 in Vietnamese), so unable to make out their sign off
announcement (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg
via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. Just returned from my almost annual visit to Rochester, NY.
the multilingual station in Toronto on 1430 seems to have a stronger
daytime signal than it did one year ago. Don't know if this is power
increase or pattern change. Also, 1650 is not exclusively in English,
as it had been. Sub-continent languages heard, maybe Hindi, Urdu, or
who knows what. Some English still heard, however. didn't hear any
blatantly Jamaican announcers, though didn't listen a full day round
(Tim Hendel, AL, Oct 12, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1430 CHKT, 1650 CINA
** CANADA. The CBC website has a search tool where you can find
frequencies for their radio/TV outlets
http://www.cbc.ca/frequency/index.html
Unfortunately, you have to enter the city name to find out the
frequency, and not vice versa. And if you click on "show all", it
lists a couple hundred places in BC. Not particularly useful for us
DXers, unless you want to see if those LPRTs in your NRC log are still
on 860 (Bruce Portzer, Oct 11, IRCA via DXLD)
** CANADA [and non]. 6070, 9/10, CFRX, Toronto, under Belarus, waiting
when Belarus fading down, talks, poor, // CFRB via internet. Stopped
at 0359 by DW starting on 6075 kHz (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano,
Italia, RX: Excalibur Pro, ANT: T2FD, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. PIRATE, 6924.66 AM, Radio True North, 0433 to 0502 s/off
Oct. 9. 11. Heard with a great program of music from 'Video killed the
Radio Store' / 'Centrefold' (J. Gilles Band) 'More then a feeling',
'Tomorrow' and 'I promise You' Noted ID's and e-mail address, and said
'hello to Hector in California' (at 0441).
Mentioned that there was another pirate on 6925 at 0502 so he
mentioned that he was switching to 6035(?) [6305] and went off the
air. Signal was one of the best and audio was up there as well, best
heard on a Trap-sloper cut for 6955 kHz. Also noted him earlier at
2345 to 0000+ on 6924.70 AM with strange Techno and Hip-Hop/Indian
music. Noisy band conditions made copy rough (Edward Kusalik-Alberta,
Canada, WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
That matches my observations of the 0502 collision, when I did not get
any IDs (gh, DXLD)
** CANADA. 6305-, Oct 10 at 0507 rock music, soon to live DJ thanking
us for reports; says he is having fun, mostly playing vinyl tonight,
timecheck for 0507 UTC and this time clear ID as ``Free Radio, Radio
True North``. S9+5 with occasional lite SSB QRM; 0508 ``Thank God, I`m
a Country Boy`` by Denver; 0511 ``The Keeper of the Stars``. 0515
outro Keeper as by Tracy Byrd; says song reminds him of his
girlfriend.
Meanwhile I had compared frequency to Cairo 9305 and found RTN
slightly on the low side; but Cairo is a filthy blob. Also on low side
compared to WWV 5000 BFO zeroing on YB-400. RTN carrier is also
slightly unstable. 0516 TC as 0514 approx. At one point I heard a
brief echo of his voice a few sex later; messing with tape recording,
brought up playback head?
``If you live in Canada, it`s our Thanksgiving Day``, two hours or one
and a half until Monday now. (RTN has been reported many times before
as Canadian, and seems definitely near west coast, but this could be a
deception; nevertheless, I am filing it under CANADA instead of non-
committal North America.)
0517 Mamas & Papas, ``Monday2``, a favorite of DXers; record skips
briefly lending credence to the vinyl claim. 0520 ``Against the
Wind``, by Bob Seger. 0524 ID again and approx. TC as 0523, thanks for
reports, having lots of fun tonight, spinning a lot of vinyl which he
loves to share. Then Peter Schilling`s ``Major Tom``. 0530 fading down
if not out. Please QSL? To Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702
USA or wghauser @ yahoo.com Never heard RTN`s e-mail address.
Tnx also to Bryan Clark, NZ, who confirms my Oct 7 log as RTN when it
was on 6924.65 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) viz.:
Glenn, Regarding your UNIDENTIFIED, I logged and positively identified
Radio True North on 6924.65 from 0616 until 0633 closedown on 7
October. Earlier at 0530 there had been an open carrier on the
frequency (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai (Northland) New Zealand, AOR7030+
and EWES to North, Central & South America, Google Earth - 36.1170 S,
174.5670 E, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 6190, Oct 10 at 0542, the usually very good signal from CRI
English via Sackville now has a squeal around the edges. Another
transmitter on the verge (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) And
also following nites
** CANADA [and non]. (((THE INTERNATIONAL RADIO REPORT)))
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90.3 FM in Montreal this month, is available via the Internet live
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Eastern (1430 UT). The show`s co-hosts, Janice Laws and Sheldon
Harvey, present a weekly half-hour of news, information and
developments in radio broadcasting.
Visit the CKUT web page for full CKUT programming details.
http://www.ckut.ca
The International Radio Report is also rebroadcast on shortwave each
week on Area 51 on WBCQ-The Planet, Sundays at 10:30 PM Eastern (0230
Monday UT) on 5110 kHz. You may also listen to archived editions of
the programme through the CKUT web site. Send your comments or
questions to the International Radio Report, by e-mail, to
radioreport @ yahoo.com
international radio report 128 kbps Podcast:
http://ckut.ca/cgi-bin/ckut-grid.pl?action=showaudio&show=sunday,10:30
(Via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, 11 Oct, playdx yg via DXLD)
** CHAD [and non]. 6164.961, French language football report from
N'djamena noted at 0524 UT Oct 7. Selection by Chad, Mali national
teams. Station ID at 0529 UT. On same channel also monitored N'djamena
at 2158:40 UT Oct 6th, when Radio Tirana, Albanian co-channel hit each
other on nearby 6164.984 kHz \\ latter 9859.971 kHz, both S=9+20dBm.
(Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
6164.96, RNT, 2200-2229*, French talk. Afro-pop music. National
Anthem at 2228. Poor to fair with some adjacent channel splatter.
Oct 9 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest)
** CHINA. 5050, Beibu Bay Radio (BBR), 1230-1339, Oct 6. Special
music concert with bilingual coverage (YL in Chinese and OM in
Vietnamese); a few words in English: “thank you” and “excellent
show”; background sounds of the audience applauding; usual IDs;
almost good reception. Oct 7 continues to have more Chinese
programming than the normal Vietnamese as a result of it being
their National Day Golden Week Holiday. No Ozy Radio yet (Ron
Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST) [more below]
4940, Voice of Strait, 1500-1530, Oct 8 – Saturday. Ex: 1505-1535.
Pips; a few words in Chinese then into English; starts with multiple
“Voice of Strait” IDs, but with one clear overlay of “Voice of
Shanghai” included (strange!); Saturday only program: “Hello. Welcome
to another edition of Focus on China”; news stories from the past
week; US Congress considering legislation about China’s currency,
increase in value of Yuan, trade imbalance, People’s Bank of China,
segment about National Day, etc.; 1516 IDs for both Voice of Strait
and Focus on China; poor with light AIR Guwahati QRM; best at 1500 and
fading down. In another 2-4 weeks should have much better reception.
5050, Beibu Bay Radio (BBR), Oct 8. With the end of the Golden Week
Holiday they no longer had Chinese programming, but went back to their
normal Vietnamese; noted at 1324 and 1424; fair to good.
6035, PBS Yunnan/Voice of Shangri-La, 1225-1235, Oct 8. Announcer and
songs in Vietnamese; signal has steadily been improving the last few
weeks; if and when Bhutan increases power here (DXLD 11-40) it will be
a challenge to hear them clearly. So far no trace of BBS (Ron Howard,
Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 15225v. Unidentified Chinese program station - against WHOM?
Now in Aoki list as "15225 CNR 1 Jamming 0100-0300 daily Chinese".
Strange carriers visible on Perseus browser display, like 15225.000
kHz, plus 15225.034 and 15225.068 kHz. Accompanied by 68 Hz buzz tone.
CNR commercial advertisments at 0236-0238 UT (Wolfgang Büschel,
Germany, Oct 3, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 8 via DXLD)
** CHINA. 8400, Firedrake music Oct. 4, 1030. Very strong, with noted
// s on 7970 (good) , 10300 (VG), and 11500 (good). (Rick Barton, El
Mirage AZ, Hammarlund HQ-200, Drake R-8, Slinky and Inverted "L", ABDX
via DXLD)
Firedrake, Oct 7, before 1300: NOTHING found from 1247 to 1253, 7-19
MHz! Very unusual. See also TAIWAN 7970
After 1300, only a few:
14970, poor at 1324, none higher
14700, poor at 1324; none in the 13s, 12s, 11s; nor at 1358
10300, fair at 1326, 1359
7970, very poor at 1326; JBA carrier at 1359
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
I believe I heard my first Firedrake at 14700 at 1350 at signal of 444
(Linda Powers, Gladwin, MI usa, Oct 7, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
11500, Firedrake Oct. 8, 0930. Crashing and banging with no //
audible.
10300, Firedrake, Oct. 8, 1020. VG, but with none of the usual //s
audible at this hour (Rick Barton, El Mirage AZ, Hammarlund HQ-200,
Drake R-8, Slinky and Inverted "L", ABDX via DXLD)
Firedrake Oct 8, before 1300:
7970, poor at 1248
10300, good at 1252
11500, open carrier with hum, at 1252, i.e. not Firedrake but
perpetual TAJIKISTAN SNAFU; no FD on 11510 either
11990, poor at 1253, underneath CNR1 jammer, // 10300
13920, JBA at 1256
14700, very good at 1256
16100, very good at 1258
After 1300:
16100, very good at 1324, none in the 17s, 18s
15900, very good at 1318
15285, very poor at 1323, vs het from 15288 V. of Tibet
14700, good at 1325
12230, good at 1326 --- a new spot, first log here, but first reported
Oct 1 & 2 by Rick Barton, AZ, and Giampiero Bernardini, Italy
11990, no FD at 1327, just CNR1 echo-jamming now
10300, absent at 1328
7970, poor at 1329
After 1400:
17560, poor at 1413: vs V. of Tibet via Madagascar: unheard
Firedrake Oct 9 in the ChiCom noon hour:
13920, fair at 0447, none others found 10-18+ MHz until 0450
Before 1400:
10300, poor at 1351
13920, fair at 1351
14700, fair at 1352
15900, fair at 1353
16100, very poor at 1353, none higher
After 1400:
15795, fair at 1424 // 14970. Altho before 1315 AIR Mandarin service
steady on 15795, gets hit by ChiCom jamming, at this semihour the
target is Sound of Hope via Tajikistan, per Aoki jumping 15750-15795
14970, fair at 1424
13960, fair at 1424
12600, fair at 1426
10300, poor at 1426; no 7970
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISGTENING DIGEST)
Hi Glenn, Here are some Firedrake logs from today 10-9-11
10300, JBA 1320, 1335
11500, JBA 1322
12500, Strong 1249
13130, Weak 1249
12230, Strong 1355 New Frequency for me
13920, Good 1320, 1336
13960, Weak 1250
14700, Fair 1251, Strong 1323, 1335
15285, Fair-good 1324, 1336 along with weaker “propeller” jamming on
frequency at both 1324 and 1336 but signal gone when checked at 1338
15525, Good 1337 with het
15900, Strong 1251, 1325, 1337
16100, Fair 1252, Weak 1326, 1338
Hi Glenn, Today's Firedrake Log (10-10-11)
7970, Weak 1126, Good 1149
10300, JBA-Weak 1124, Good 1148
12230, Weak 1056, JBA 1119, Fair 1150 s/off 1200, Strong at 1256
15515, Weak 1358
Good DX (Steve Handler, IL, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 10, big holiday in China, before 1300 a dozen:
17815, poor at 1252, first one heard today, unexpectedly right smack
dab in the middle of the 16m band // 16980, vs what? All Aoki has on
17815, besides long-gone R. Cultura, Brasil, is CNR1 jamming at 11-12
only
16980, good at 1252
16700, very good at 1253, with flutter, like most of them
16100, very poor at 1254
14970, good at 1255
14700, very good at 1255
13920, very good at 1256
13130, very poor at 1256
12230, very good at 1257
11500, good at 1258
10300, very good at 1258
7970, very good at 1259, FD cuts to M&W announcements in Chinese
about 1259:30, cut off at 1300* after 3 pips of timesignal
After 1330, eleven: [but see also TIBET [and non] 15443]
17170, good at 1330; none in the 16s
15900, good at 1330
15525, good at 1330, vs 15528 VOT het
15285, good at 1330, vs 15288 VOT het
14970, very good at 1330
14700, very good at 1331
13960, fair at 1332
13920, very good at 1332; none in the 12s
11500, fair at 1333
10300, good at 1333
7970, good at 1333
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Firedrake, 10 Oct 2011, 1332-1348 UTC, memory scan then manual scan on
Eton E5 + indoor random wire antenna, 7000-14000 kHz
7970: good
10300: poor
1420-1423 UT, memory scan
10300: good
13970: good
(Eric Weatherall, San Francisco, CA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
8400, Firedrake Oct. 11, 0925. Fair, with noted // on 7970, also fair.
Only 7970 remained on recheck after 1030 (Rick Barton, El Mirage AZ,
Hammarlund HQ-200, Drake R-8, Slinky and Inverted "L", ABDX via DXLD)
Firedrake Oct 11, before 1300, all with heavy flutter:
16980, very good [strong] at 1253; none in the 18s, 17s, 15s
14970, very good at 1255
13920, very good at 1255
13130, very good at 1256
12230, very good at 1256
11500, very good at 1257
10300, fair at 1258
7970, very good at 1259. I stuck here again today, and at 1300:07-
1300:20* approx., cut from Firedrake to Chinese talk before cutoff
Before 1330:
15285, very good at 1320, vs VOT het on 15288
Before 1400:
18180, poor with flutter at 1357; no 17170
16100, very good at 1357; none in the 15s
14970, very good at 1358
13920, very good at 1358
13130, very good at 1358; none in the 12s, 11s, 10s, 7s
After 1400:
17570, good at 1408, vs what? Maybe V. of Tibet via Madagascar jumped
from 17560, nothing heard there
15560, good at 1410 with additional noise jamming; presumably vs V. of
Tibet via Tajikistan 15557 as in Aoki
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also EAST TURKISTAN
Hi Glenn, Here is today's Firedrake log Oct 12
7970, Weak 1229, 1250
12230, Strong 1224, 1251
12500, Strong 1225, 1251
13130, Fair-Weak 1225, 1251
13970, Strong 1226, 1252
14970, Strong 1226, 1252
15900, Stong 1227, 1253
16980, Strong 1228, 1254
Good DX (Steve Handler, IL, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Firedrake Oct 12, before 1300, all with flutter:
16980, very good at 1256; none higher
15900, very good at 1257
14970, very good at 1258
13970, good at 1258
13130, good at 1259
12230, good at 1259, heard a syllable of Chinese before 1300*
Started too late so none lower checked before 1300
After 1300:
15285, fair plus noise jamming at 1312 vs 15288 presumed V. of Tibet
Before 1400:
14970, very good at 1351; none higher
14700, very good at 1351
13130, very good at 1352
12230, good at 1353; none in the 11s, 10s
12105, good at 1352, new spot! ACI from WTWW 12100 Arabic. Target
apparently KSDA Guam, all Chinese 11-16 (also KTWR 0930-1100)
7970, fair at 1357
After 1400:
17570, very good plus noise jamming at 1407, vs. V. of Tibet via
Madagascar, neither on 17560 today; gone at 1420 recheck
14970, very good at 1422; none higher
13970, good at 1420
12500, very good at 1422
12150, good at 1424, unusual FD spot, first time here? 250 kW VOA is
scheduled with degrees, but only in English:
12-13 daily, 270 from Tinang
13-14 Sat/Sun, 349 from Tinang
14-15 M-F, 270 from Tinang [but unheard]
15-16 daily, 315 from Iranawila
No FD in the 11s or 10s now
7970, good at 1427; none in the 9s, 8s; // 13970, 14970
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [non]. 11730, CHINA, China Radio Int’l (unID transmitter),
1411 to 1446, English. 1411 China Drive program in progress, including
a segment about OCB (obsessive compulsive behavior). This frequency is
not listed on CRI’s web site schedule, nor is it listed in HFCC, AoKi
or EiBi. Anyone have any idea of the transmitter site? Fair. // 13740
via Habana. Good but distorted audio. 10/2/11 (Steven Handler, Buffalo
Grove IL, Icom IC-7200, Tecsun PL-660 and Sony ICGF-7600GR using wire
antennas, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD)
Since R. Habana itself is supposed to be and is normally heard on
11730 at this hour, presume it was a mixup by them. I`ll bet it was
synchronized with 13740 (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) But not necessarily, as
not all RHC programming is synchronized (gh)
** CONGO DR. CONGO-Kinshasa, 5066.3, R. Télé Candip, Bunia, 1720-1745,
08/10, French, unreadable talks, music; 35321. 73. (Carlos Gonçalves,
PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CONGO DR [and non]. VOA LAUNCHES CITIZEN JOURNALISM PROJECT IN
CONGO --- Washington, D.C. — October 11, 2011 —
One hundred VOA-trained citizen journalists will fan out across the
Democratic Republic of Congo in the coming weeks in a pioneering
social media project that will enhance news coverage of the November
presidential election and provide a grassroots forum for key issues
facing the country.
The citizen journalists, who are being trained by VOA project
coordinators working throughout the French-speaking country, will use
inexpensive mobile phones to post photos, videos and stories directly
to special Facebook and Twitter pages set up for the project. . .
http://www.insidevoa.com/media-relations/press-releases/VOA-Launches-Citizen-Journalism-Project-in-Congo------131536623.html
(VOA press release via Dr Hansjoerg Biener, DXLD)
** CROATIA. 24945-USB, Oct 11 at 1350, today`s token 12m DX log is
9A2YM calling CQ 12 for a several minutes before he gets a reply from
W9UAL who has moved to Florida. 9A2YM never gives his location, but
name is spelt Steve. Alternates fonetix Alfa and Mike with America and
Mexico, but Y always stays Yankee; shouldn`t that be Yemen? QRZ.com
lookup shows he misspelt his own name:
9A2YM
STEVAN KNEZEVIC
MIRNA 5
33520 SLATINA
Croatia
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 1620, CMKX, Radio Bayamo, unknown location; behind Rebelde,
“Ésta es CMKX, Radio Bayamo, cadena provincial de Granma”; at first I
thought of CMKD Juvenil, but HK had doubts about this. Further
research reveals Bayamo is CMKX and has been heard in Sweden; personal
first W[eak?] 0500 27/8 (Andrew Brade, Holme-on-Spalding Moor, East
Riding of Yorkshire, UK, AOR AR 7030 plus and Perseus SDR, Wellbrook
phased array 290 , 305m beverage at 220 . Recording on Sony MZ-NH1
minidisc + Total Recorder, Oct Mediumwave News via DXLD)
** CUBA. 11760, Oct 8 at 1309, RHC open carrier, unlike modulated
11690, 11730, 11830, 12040. Still OC at 1316, 1328, as it vies with
Indonesia (9525), Tajikistan (11500), Morocco (15345) et al. for
honors in who-can-waste-the-most-watts contest (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. Bauta - Corralillo (Revealing its re-incarnation) --- Hi all,
Really pleased to see, in the latest GE imagery, the RHC Bauta site
with 2011 imagery - finally!! Comparing the GE 2011 imagery to 2003
imagery we now positively see this site has been completely
redeveloped. This is what I thought must have happened based on
researched & DXer supplied notes, old GE imagery & in particular
recent Panoramio images.
Looks like the early work for the antennas (land prep) began circa
2003. I think if memory serves me correctly it was 2002-2004 era that
some of the RHC SW sites were upgraded. Though I think there are
historical accounts of upgrades & reconstruction of sites (from
hurricane damage) during the 2002 to 2006 era of Bauta & San Felipe
sites primarily.
And Bauta is a larger site than I expected in terms of the number of
antennas (mostly curtain arrays) 3 banks of curtain arrays & three 3
mast antennas.
WRTH Bauta GE ref: 22N57 082W33 - to the east of here.
Oh yes. Latest GE is now available re 5/10/2011 update :-)
(Ian Baxter, NSW, shortwavesites yg via DXLD)
Re Bauta SW site. See the old antennas before 2003y marked in YELLOW
colour, and the new antennas from 2006y marked in PINK colour.
maybe azimuth is also used for opposite direction
340 Winipeg / 160 BuenosAires degr,
310 Portland / 130 Belo Horizonte etc.
In addition 4 curtains at Quivicán/San Felipe site:
additional 010 degr Washington/NY/Boston,
backwards 190 degr towards Caribbean,
centered CTR and surrounding GTM, Panama, Kolumbien. 73 (Wolfgang
Büschel, with a jpg, DX LISTENING DIGEST
New photos of the Bauta-Corralillo Tx site, RHC.
[DSC02488]
[DSC02491]
[DSC02492]
[DSC02497]
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[DSC02510]
(Lev Lytovchenko. 2009. Shortwavesites yg Oct 8, 2011 via DXLD)
** CUBA [and non]. Wiggle that patchcord! RHC with strong carrier on
13680, Oct 12 at 1428, but no modulation except for an undertrace of
presumed R. Japan in Persian via France about to open at 1430. RHC
13780 also out of order but with barely audible traces of distorted
modulation cutting in and out. Meanwhile, quick check of other RHCs
found them modulating normally with frequency announcement at 1430:
15360, 15230, 11830, 11760, 11730, 11690. The 13s were still dead-air
at 1447 and just before closing at 1459. Just another day at the
incompetent RHC. It`s always something.
If you want to see the antennas providing this disservice, Lev
Lytovchenko has posted a number of photos of the Bauta-Corralillo site
via the shortwavesites yg: [as above]
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [non]. Release of one of ``The Cuban Five`` from a US prison
throws a monkey wrench into RHC and websites such as this, which will
have to be renamed/numbered? But they`re still not satisfied:
http://thecuban5.org/wordpress/2011/10/07/rene-gonzalez-released-from-marianna-prison/
Meanwhile, RHC never mentions all the political prisoners IN Cuba; and
they don`t have a relentless US government propaganda campaign in
their favor (Glenn Hauser, OK, Oct 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS. 21840-21865, Oct 10 at 1249, OTH radar pulses, presumed
from here, not far enough away from QRMed 21840 DW German via
Portugal.
Further confirming propagation on mostly vacant 23-25-MHz band:
24585-24610, and 23775-23810, Oct 10 at 1348, more matching OTH radar
pulses. See also UNIDENTIFIED CODAR
24788-24813, Oct 12 at 1414, OTH radar pulses, presumed from here; no
others heard between 23 and 26 MHz, but there was CODAR above 25; see
UNIDENTIFIED (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** DENMARK. Discussion of merits of longwave: see U K re Radio 4
** DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. 1640, Radio Juventus Don Bosco, Santo Domingo;
very weak and crackly, “la voz de la ?, Radio Juventus 1,640 AM”
W[eak?] 0400 28/8 (Andrew Brade, Holme-on-Spalding Moor, East Riding
of Yorkshire, UK, AOR AR 7030 plus and Perseus SDR, Wellbrook phased
array 290 , 305m beverage at 220 . Recording on Sony MZ-NH1 minidisc +
Total Recorder, Oct Mediumwave News via DXLD)
1640, Radio Juventus Don Bosco, Santo Domingo; “Evangelista Don
Bosco “ by man [SIO] 222 0401 31/8 (Maurits van Driessche, Zele,
Belgium. Perseus and R&S EK07/D2, Super Kaz 275 and 75 , MFJ 1026, 2
x preamp 20 dB, DBX 1215, Edirol UA-25EX (new, works great), Oct
Mediumwave News via DXLD)
** DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. 1680, HISV, Radio Senda, San Pedro de Macorís;
I could just about hear “… República Domincana, ésta es HISV 1,680
Radio Senda”; at 0401 the National Anthem “Quiqueyanos valientes” was
heard; vW [very weak?] 0400 28/8 (Andrew Brade, Holme-on-Spalding
Moor, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK, AOR AR 7030 plus and Perseus SDR,
Wellbrook phased array 290 , 305m beverage at 220 . Recording on Sony
MZ-NH1 minidisc + Total Recorder, Oct Mediumwave News via DXLD)
1680, HISV, R Senda, San Pedro de Macorís; “En San Pedro de Macorís,
República Dominicana, ésta es HISV ….. Radio Senda, la emisora de la
unidad Cristiana” W/F [weak/fair?] 0400 28/8 (Paul Crankshaw; Troon,
Ayrshire, UK, Perseus SDR, EWE antenna (300 degrees), RPA-1 preamp,
Oct Mediumwave News via DXLD)
1680, HISV, Radio Senda, San Pedro de Macorís; ID “ Radio Senda “ by
man 222 0401 31/8 (Maurits van Driessche, Zele, Belgium. Perseus and
R&S EK07/D2, Super Kaz 275 and 75 , MFJ 1026, 2 x preamp 20 dB, DBX
1215, Edirol UA-25EX (new, works great), Oct Mediumwave News via DXLD)
** EAST TURKISTAN. Altho the higher bands were just about dead before
sunrise here, then they opened up including lots of very fluttery
Chinese signals, besides Firedrake, which I associate with likely
Kashgar site, like listed CRI on 17490, 17690, etc., such as: 17545 //
17705 at 1252 Oct 11, triumphal orchestral music, probably still a
centennial ceremony on CNR1, 1252 Chinese announcements. Aoki says
17545 is CNR1 jamming at 1200-1300 only, but unknown against what,
while 17705 is blocking AIR Mandarin service, of course.
15330 at 1321, also CNR1 jamming, // weaker 21590, both vs BBC Uzbek
semihour, via Oman and Cyprus respectively per HFCC and Aoki (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [and non]. 15189.97, 5/10 2308, Rádio
Inconfidência, Brasil, long talk, music, commercials, web address,
fair
15190, 7/10 0711, Radio Africa, Bata, Equatorial Guinea, nice African
songs, English, fair (Giampiero Bernardini, Milan, Italy, RX: G33DDC
Excalibur Pro - ANT: T2FD, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Giampiero, Whenever I see a log of R. Africa on 15190, I want more
details, something definite. It`s been missing since April or May, and
some (all?) of the logs since then have surely been mistaken.
Going by lists, one could easily pick it from the 15190 entries: not
in HFCC, of course, and nothing else at 0711. Aoki shows it as daily
at 0530-1200 and 1415-2300, but we know how irregular it was when
active, and how Aoki keeps in outdated info. EiBi has it at 06-12 and
14-23.
What else? EiBi has R. Inconfidência as 24 hours, and Aoki has it as
09-06 which means it would have been off at the moment, but which is
right? That`s missing too from HFCC, of course.
``Nice African songs, English`` ?? Previously R. Africa specialized in
playing tapes of widely variable quality from nothing but American
gospel huxters. Did you hear some announcement, anything tying this to
R. Africa, even an ID??
If it is making a comeback, conceivably it may be, perhaps testing,
with something else. I check the frequency just about every night, tho
not after 0700, and many afternoons, and there has still been no sign
of it here.
As for the frequency, ZY is well-known to be off to the low side and
you have it on 15189.97 at 2308 (when WYFR is also on), but did you
measure the frequency of R. Africa as 15190.00, so that would rule out
the ZY? (Glenn Hauser, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Agree with Glenn, only the Brazilian station noted in past weeks,
never religious Equatorial Guinea 15190!
15189.963, R Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte MG, in Portuguese, poor
S=4-5 signal, just on threshold level at 0548 UT Oct 7 (wb, wwdxc BC-
DX TopNews Oct 7)
But very weak signal, even could only identify Portuguese language and
program format, though. Similar co-channel difficult identification
happens on 9820v Eritrea and Brazil, but both signals a little bit
stronger and HoA and Brazilian program format differ much.
15189.939 wandered to 15189.933 kHz at 2124 UT Oct 8 in Brazilian
Portuguese, S=7 signal, of football game live coverage by female and
male reporter. Calibration checked against 15 MHz WWV, Fort Collins,
Colorado. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Furthermore, some Brazilian music could easily be mistaken for
African. And Inconfidência has been known to make an occasional
English announcement. (And WYFR even when in Portuguese service.) 73,
(Glenn Hauser, ibid.) See also USA: WYFR. No reply from GB about this
** ERITREA. 9720.03, Voice of the Broad Masses of Eritrea, 0308-0330,
Horn of Africa music. Vernacular talk. Poor to fair with occasional
adjacent channel splatter. // 7130.03 - weak but readable. // 7174.99
- good. Oct 5 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest)
Hi Glenn, some bits and pieces deriving from my recently much reduced
DX activity:
On Tuesday, Oct. 4, there was quite an instructive anomaly: Seems the
engineer was late for sign-off or, if this was scheduled, audio was
much too low or missing. After 1800, five fair/weak empty carriers
were noted on 4770, 5955, 7130, 9720 and 9820, all signing off at
1844. ERI-2 on 7175 signed off as usual at 1800, being // to at least
9820 before. On Wednesday, back to normal 1802 sign/off (7130 missing,
5955 see UNID), Thursday 4770 and 7130 off at 1805, but 31m carriers
remaining til 1810 at least. 7205 seems to be as usual, makes it seven
ERI transmitters at least. Old 5060 not heard recently, also no others
on 40m. If there's more transmitters, 5945 or 5980 would be a guess,
but unconfirmable here. But wait a minute --- there was an unid 11510
log in DXLD 11-38 Sept. 21. That might fit, however ERI never heard on
25m as far as I know.
Also, after several months of inactivity, africalist is back to
regular updates now. 73 (Thorsten Hallmann, Münster, Germany,
http://africalist.de.ms Oct 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ERITREA [and non]. ERITREA/ETHIOPIA/SUDAN 7130v/7175v/9820v, Voice
of the Broad Masses of Eritrea, same program at 04-05 UT slot.
Report from the ERI / ETH to be at radio war front:
Log Oct 2nd:
9820.030, Horn of Africa music at 0409 UT Oct 2. \\ 7130.027 kHz at
0416 UT, no jamming from ETH heard at 0420 UT, but jamming came on air
later at 0450 UT, mostly 9 to 12 kHz broadband noted here in Europe,
but seemingly on HoA target much stronger interference occur.
Voice of the Broad Masses of Eritrea much strongest signal on \\
7174.992 kHz on 41mb, S=9+10dB strength at 0421 UT, at 0450 UT also be
jammed. At 0556 UT still visible on SDR unit screen on 7174.989 kHz.
7204.983, Voice of Broad Masses, Dimtsi Hafash in Tigrinya from Asmara
Eritrea, at 0454 UT.
Strongest 41 mb signal from SDN/HoA area at 0423 UT is R Omdurman
Sudan on 7200.003 kHz on-the-air. Ethiopian Radio Fana on adjacent
7210.002 kHz at 0427 UT.
Log Oct 3rd:
Voice of the Broad Masses of Eritrea much strongest signal on 7174.992
kHz on 41mb, S=9+20dB strength at 0318 UT Oct 3. No signal noted on
7130v kHz today Oct 3. But noted a very poor signal of S=3-4 and peak
on 9720.030 kHz at 0329 UT instead. Usual Eritrean program on 9820.031
kHz at 0325 UT, hefty interfered by Brazilian station on 9819.761 kHz
nearby.
7204.981, Voice of Broad Masses Dimtsi Hafash in Tigrinya from Asmara
Eritrea, at 0319 UT Oct 3 (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Oct 2/3, wwdxc
BC-DX TopNews Oct 8 via DXLD)
9720.03, Voice of the Broad Masses of Eritrea, 0303-0315, vernacular
talk. Horn of Africa music. Weak. // 9820.03 - fair. // 7130.03 -
weak. // 7174.99 - fair to good. Oct 9 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX
Listening Digest)
7175, 9/10 0325, Voice of Broad Masses, Horn of Africa Music and
talks, good (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italia, RX: Excalibur Pro,
ANT: T2FD, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
and 9820.038 S=7-8 signal and 7174.990 S=9+20, VoBroad Masses Asmara
ERI in Arabic, both total jamming FREE tonight at 1730 UT Oct 12.
All heard of remote SDR units in western Europe. 73 (Wolfgang Büschel,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ETHIOPIA. 6030, Radio Oromiya, *0322, Oct 11 (Tuesday). On with
repetitive xylophone/marimba sounding IS till 0329; poor due to R.
Martí QRM, but Cuban jamming not a problem. Good propagation. Unusable
after 0329. Normally I can only make this out on a Monday (UT) when
R. Martí and Cuban jamming are off the air after 0300 (Ron Howard,
Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ETHIOPIA. 7210, 9/10 0320, Radio Fana, talks & music, fair // 6110
good (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italia, RX: Excalibur Pro, ANT:
T2FD, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ETHIOPIA. 9560.10, Radio Ethiopia, Geja Jewe. 1415 October 9, 2011.
Clear, fair on peaks with language female briefly (listed as Arabic in
the 1400-1500 block), lots of Horn of Africa vocals with flutes,
pretty much fading to useless by 1440 (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater,
Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ETHIOPIA [non]. ESAT LAUNCHES SHORTWAVE BROADCAST TO ETHIOPIA
October 7th 2011 ESAT Press Release
http://www.ethsat.com/ESAT_Radio_Launch_Press_Release_07_Oct_2011.htm
The Ethiopian Satellite Television is pleased to announce the launch
of a daily shortwave radio broadcast to Ethiopia. In the past few
weeks, ESAT has successfully transmitted test broadcasts.
With a view to overcoming the illegal jamming and airwaves piracy that
the Meles regime has continued with utmost intensity, ESAT’s
management made a decision to transmit ESAT’s programs on multiple
platforms. ESAT’s shortwave radio, which will have a significant reach
to the people of Ethiopia, will be another addition to ESAT’s
unwavering efforts to reverse the information blackout deliberately
created by the Meles Zenawi regime.
ESAT firmly believes that freedom of expression is a powerful means of
ultimately defeating tyranny, corruption, abuse of power, human rights
violations, inequality and bad governance. With a conviction to reach
the people of Ethiopia with quality content, ESAT’s shortwave
broadcast will be on air daily on 15370 kHz, 19 Meter Band, 8:00 pm to
9:00 pm (Ethiopian local time). Additional frequencies will be
available subject to the effect of signal interference.
ESAT is also finalizing preparations to launch multiple broadcasting
platforms. ESAT will be available soon on IPTV, a system that will
deliver our broadcast on TV sets around the world. Our viewers will
also be able to watch our broadcasts on smart phones.
ESAT’s online transmissions will soon be upgraded with a new user-
friendly website that will not only webcast our live broadcasts 24/7
but will also have video-on-demand with our huge collection of
archives. Our online transmissions via ESAT’s website will also be
available in Flash Player, which is compatible with all the major web
browsers.
Most importantly, ESAT is making unrelenting efforts to resume its
satellite TV broadcast to Ethiopia. ESAT is committed to delivering
its promise to serve as a conduit for citizens to express their
opinion freely, to access reliable information and to play its part in
the struggle to build a democratic country with Ethiopia’s first
independent satellite television service. As Al Jazeera has changed
the media and socio-political landscape in the Arab world, ESAT will
also be opening new avenues for Ethiopia with the power of 21st media
technology.
With the continued support of our people in and outside of Ethiopia,
ESAT will fulfill its missions.
We shall prevail! ESAT Management (via gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DXLD)
Unless Ethiopia`s weird clock system confuses us, that would be 17-18
UT. 15370, what site, what broker? (gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DXLD)
15 MHz from Moldova or Armenia to Horn of Africa is too high in our
winter season, which site does TDP prefer? Issoudun would be the
better match on 15 MHz. Ivo in Bulgaria mentioned Moldova and Armenia.
9 or 11 MHz would be the better solution in winter B-11, but they
speculate to AVOID Ethopian JAMMING sound, when using higher 15 MHz
channel. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Transmission on 15360 is Voice of Asena in Tigrinya 1700-1800
Mon/Wed/Fri. Transmission on 15370 is E-SAT Radio in Amharic 1700-1800
Daily and 1830-1930 Sat or Sat+Sun. Check on Oct. 9
FYI, Tentative winter B-11 schedule of E-SAT Radio in Amharic via
MOLDOVA:
1500-1600 on 15730 KCH 100 kW / 180 deg to EaAF, alt.15460 & 15700
1700-1800 on 15700 KCH 100 kW / 180 deg to EaAF, alt.15660 & 15680
Also tentative via ARMENIA:
1500-1700 on 11755 ERV 300 kW / 192 deg to EaAF
1600-1800 on 15360 ERV 300 kW / 192 deg to EaAF
73! (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, via Büschel, DXLD)
IBB monitoring in Amharic:
2011-10-06 17:06:53 capture: AM 15370 (XXX) TDP AMHA
2011-10-06 17:07:14 email: 1110061706@ADDI15370TDPAMHA.mp4
2011-10-06 17:36:53 capture: AM 15370 (XXX) TDP AMHA
2011-10-06 17:37:14 email: 1110061736@ADDI15370TDPAMHA.mp4
and also IBB monitoring in Tigre:
2011-10-07 17:37:16 capture: AM 15360 (XXX) TDP TIGR
2011-10-07 17:37:37 email: 1110071737@ADDI15360TDPTIGR.mp4
2011-10-07 17:07:16 capture: AM 15360 (XXX) TDP TIGR
2011-10-07 17:07:37 email: 1110071707@ADDI15360TDPTIGR.mp4
(Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15370, Oct 9 at 1700, quite weak signal but something is there, now
scheduled daily 1700-1800 as new clandestine broadcast by ESAT
(Ethiopian Satellite Television, radio side). See
http://www.ethsat.com/ESAT_Radio_Launch_Press_Release_07_Oct_2011.htm
Last month it had tested various frequencies in the 15.7s. Site
uncertain now; Wolfgang Büschel suggests via TDP, Issoudun, France?
Ivo Ivanov suggests Armenia or Moldova. Weaker here than e.g. 15380
listed as IBB, 250 kW via Nauen, Germany. France should be more
audible here if 15370 be thence. 15370 is bound to be jammed, and ESAT
say they will add more frequencies if necessary. Wolfgang says there
may be an additional transmission on Saturday and/or Sunday at 1830-
1930.
15370, Oct 9 circa 1900, no signal detectable, so assume ESAT
clandestine did not have an extra 1830-1930 broadcast this Sunday; cf
previous report. Anyway daily at 1700-1800 via ??
15370 checked again Oct 10 at 1702, very poor signal with talk but
can`t copy anything; much better tho only fair signal from 15300 RFI,
which is certainly Issoudun, with Aoki and HFCC more or less agreeing
it`s 500 kW at 155 plus another 500 kW at 190 or 195 degrees.
15370, another check Oct 11 at 1700 for ESAT Radio clandestine, again
too weak to copy but now there is some noise/hash on the low side,
jamming started? Or maybe local. Nothing on website yet about
additional frequencies. This page has audio of the last three
broadcasts: http://www.ethsat.com/index.htm
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ETHIOPIA [and non]. Re 7200: 7205 Ethiopian white noise jamming hit
Asmara Eritrea and also co-channel Radio Liberty Lampertheim in
Russian service. 1400 UT, Oct 8. Above logs all on remote SDR receiver
reception in Finland and Russia. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
ERITREA/ETHIOPIA, Ethiopian white noise jamming at present on 7130 kHz
(7119-7141) and similar on 7205 kHz against Asmara Eritrean services
like V of Broad Masses, on 7204.985 kHz, as well as 7130.026 kHz and
much stronger on 7174.990 kHz, latter is in the clear - no jamming at
present. 73 wb (Büschel, 1549 UT Oct 8, ibid.)
** EUROPE. Hi Gents, These loggings are from our Baker’s Island-Salem,
MA DX-pedition Attendees: Chris Lobdell, John Fisher [the
Massachusetts one].
Europirate-Ireland, Irish Music Radio, 6930 AM, 2123 fade in-2140+,
10-08-11, SIO: 121. Pop mx, ID by OM, jingle. Went downhill shortly
after fading in. [Lobdell-MA]
Europirate-Holland. Radio Powerliner Intl, 6305 AM, 2142-2343*, 10-08-
11. SIO: 232/343, “I Walk The Line” by Johnny Cash 2139, Dutch Pop and
polka tunes. Mentioned the “original Snapple Man” from Finland?! Full
ID, email 2200. [Lobdell-MA]
Europirate-UNID. 6310 AM, 2250-2312 10-08-11. “Roxanna” by Toto at
2309. Faded and never caught ID. Ideas anyone? [Lobdell-MA]
Europirate-Holland. 6290 AM, 2327-0014+, 10-8/9-11, SIO:444 Killer
signal with “Call Me” by Blondie.. Borderhunter giving email
borderhunterradio@hotmail.com [Lobdell-MA]
Location: Bakers Island, Salem, MA; Receiver: Eton E1; Two random long
wires (Chris Lobdell, Box 80146, Stoneham, MA 02180, Cumbre DX via
DXLD) See also NORTH AMERICA
** EUROPE. 6290, EUROPIRATE, Radio Borderhunter. 2305 October 8/9,
2011. Starting weak, SSTV mode sent at 2319, accented English male DJ
ID at 2326, 2334 "The Final Countdown" by Europe; SSTV send again at
2344, "Ring Of Fire" by Johnny Cash at 2346; 0001 Supertramp
"Dreamer"; 0016 "Call Me" by Blondie. Fairly decent signal at peaks.
6303, EUROPIRATE, Radio Powerline. 2310-2316* October 8, 2011. Euro-
pop music, accented English male DJ, off at 2316. Clear but poor.
6305, EUROPIRATE unidentified. 2337-2343* October 8, 2011. This one
seemingly popped up not long before discovery with "Same Old Song" by
The Four Tops, into "Mony, Mony" by Tommy James & the Shondells, then
male with a quick "This is (not copied -- seemingly two syllables --
"C" or "Sea" something?)" and abruptly off. Good.
6420, EUROPIRATE, Radio Papagayo. 2300-2302* October 8, 2011. Tune-in
to music fill, male ID at 2302, "You're listening to... Radio
Papagayo..." and transmitter off. Fair (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater,
Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EUROPE. 6970, 8/10 0000, LHH, Laser Hot Hits, Pirate, nice songs,
some talks in English, fair (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italia, RX:
Excalibur Pro, ANT: T2FD, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
ESTAÇÕES PIRATAS: 6970, Laser Hot Hits, G?, IRL?, 1202-..., 09/10,
English, talks, pops; 15331. 73. (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg
via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EUROPE [non]. AN ITEM ABOUT R.E.M.'S "RADIO FREE EUROPE" THAT
ACTUALLY REFERS TO RADIO FREE EUROPE. Posted: 08 Oct 2011
Long Island Herald, 6 Oct 2011, Scott Brinton: "Then there was my
favorite group, R.E.M. The alternative-rock band was formed in 1980 by
four 20-something University of Georgia undergrads –– lead singer
Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer
Bill Berry. Their first hit single, 'Radio Free Europe,' was released
in July 1981, when I turned 14. It caught my attention during my
junior year of high school, in 1984. I wasn’t sure what Radio Free
Europe was at the time, but I loved the song’s frenetic, jangly sound,
and the group performing it appeared normal to me. That is, the four
seemed nerdy, and they weren’t promoting sex and drugs as an integral
part of rock ’n’ roll.
I later learned that Radio Free Europe was the news/propaganda
broadcast that the U.S. government beamed from West Germany to Eastern
Europe during the Cold War to encourage people to overturn communism
and seek democracy. In 1991, at 24, I joined the U.S. Peace Corps. I
count listening to Radio Free Europe in a democratic Bulgaria, where I
served in the corps, as one of the great moments of my life. Now
turning 60, Radio Free Europe is based in the Czech Republic and still
going strong. But I digress." (kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD)
I've heard "Radio Free Europe" [see YouTube video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icGOLDJv08c&feature=related
a few times over the years, and could never understand why it was a
hit. But that's just the geezer in me. And as for the lyrics
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/r/rem/radio+free+europe_20115285.html
my reaction would be similar to that
http://vivblogs.blogspot.com/2009/07/vogon-poetry.html
of Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect in Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy, tied up on a Vogon spaceship, forced to listen to
Vogon poetry ("the third worst poetry in the Universe"), then
compelled to offer a critique of the poem in a bid to save their
lives:
"Ford: I liked it… Vogon Captain: Good… Arthur: Oh yes, I thought that
some of the metaphysical imagery was particularly effective. Vogon
Captain: Yes? Arthur: Oh…. and um, interesting rhythmic devices, too,
which seemed to counterpoint the, er… Ford: Counterpoint the
surrealism of the underlying metaphor of the, um… Arthur: Humanity of
the er - Ford: Vogonity. Arthur: What? Ford: Vogonity. Arthur: Oh. Oh!
Vogonity. Sorry. Of the poet’s compassionate soul which contrived
through the medium of the verse structure to sublimate this, transcend
that and come to terms with the fundamental dichotomies of the other.
And one is left with a profound and vivid insight into… err… Ford:
Into whatever it was … Ford: …that the poem was about… Arthur: That
the poem was about!"
-- But that's just the carbon-based ape-descendant in me (Kim Andrew
Elliott, ibid.)
** FALKLAND ISLANDS [non]. ARGENTINA: VETERANOS DE MALVINAS CON
PROGRAMA DE RADIO http://www.cecim.org.ar
El Centro de Excombatientes de Malvinas de La Plata, CECIM, pondrá al
aire mañana a las 22 su primer programa de radio. Se llamará
“Malvinas: memoria, presente y futuro” e irá los miércoles por AM 1390
Radio Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Con la producción periodística
y conducción del periodista Duilio Ferro, la audición se podrá
escuchar por internet en http://www.radiouniversidad.unlp.edu.ar
FUENTE: http://bit.ly/nAqey9 (Via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, DXLD)
** FINLAND. 08/10/2011 1143, 25000, MIKES Time Signal, ESPOO, bip bip
time signal (Mauro - Giroletti, -Swl 1510-, -IK2GFT-, bclnews.it yg
via WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DXLD)
25000, Center For Metrology & Accreditation MIKE [Standard Time &
Frequency Station], Espoo. 1258-1315 October 8, 2011. Co-logged here
in Clearwater and with David Crawford in Titusville, FL while on live
chat, we both being very surprised to hear this one, and I must wonder
if these are the first-ever North American logs. Russian taxis on
several 26 MHz channels in FM were in, prompting a check of 25 MHz.
Listed as a mere 100 watts, AM, but seems to be USB plus carrier or
some variant. No voice announcements noted, seemingly doesn't have
any, just 1000-cycle pulses and carrier shifts, and very weak mostly.
Completely lost here by 1315.
WRTVH 2011 states this is "intended for local service only. Projected
to move to 2500 kHz, subject to international frequency coordination."
So, my apologies to MIKE for hearing it beyond their locale. I wonder
why they wouldn't just move it to FM BCB at say 100-250 watts, if they
really want it to be local, instead of 2500 kHz which -- gasp! --
might be heard too far away. No trace of it the next day, same circa.
Very happy to catch this one (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida
USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Axually, 100 watts is plenty, as we hear lots of European hams on 10
and 11 m now. As long as there is no WWV on 25 MHz, it should have a
clear shot (except on the FRG-7/Wadley loop design with birdies every
exact MHz (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DXLD)
** FINLAND. Scandinavian Weekend Radio last transmission of the year
Re 11-40: ``SWR now on air --- 11690, Scandinavian Weekend Radio,
Virrat, 1550-1557, 01-10, SWR now on air with the last program of the
year. Listened with pop music program, comments in Finish by male and
identification: "Scandinavian Weekend Radio". At 1557 CRI began
transmission on the same frequency and eclipsed SWR. SINPO 24322.
On the air till 2100 UT, frequencies: 11720, 11690, 6170 y 5980 kHz,
depending of the hour. Web: http://www.swradio.net/index2.htm
(Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Log in Friol, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
Did they say it was the last of the year? Normally first Saturday
every month plus some holidays. I don`t see anything about that on
website (gh, DXLD)``
Hi Glenn. Yes, before the 30 September-1 October transmission began,
in the SWR website announcing that it will be the last program of the
year. Now this information has been removed from the website. 73,s
(Manuel Méndez, Spain, Oct 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) a little too cold?
** FRANCE. 5915.008, TWR Monte Carlo program from transmitter site Mt
Agel-Fontbonne in France, endless TWR interval signal from 0539 UT to
0545 UT Oct 7, when TWR Polish service started. Powerful in western
Europe on S=9+30dBm level (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 7, wwdxc BC-DX
TopNews, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Also on 7220 (gh)
** FRANCE. Frequency change of Radio France International in Russian:
1500-1530 NF 11670 ISS 500 kW / 080 deg, inregistered freq, ex
15215//13630 (DX Mix News, Bulgaria, 10 Oct via DXLD)
** GAMBIA. GÂMBIA: 648, GRTS, or more commonly known as R. Gambia, in
Bonto, is still putting a dreadful audio as observed on 08/10, 2208-
..., talks in vernacular, possibly a news bulletin, very strong, but
hardly readable; 44433 reflecting the signal only, not exactly the
content, QRM de E as usual. 73. (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg
via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY. Erinnerung: KBC-Tests --- Guten Abend, Kleine Erinnerung,
ich hatte nämlich alles vergessen: Morgen startet KBC mit seinen
mysteriösen Testsendungen auf 6095 kHz um 0900 UTC. Stream und mehr
Details unter http://www.kbcradio.eu/ darunter jedoch nicht die Angabe
des Senderstandorts. Schönen Abend & schönes Wochenende! 73, (Douglas
Kähler, Germany, Oct 7, A-DX via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD)
KBC-Tests start tomorrow a music program via Wertachtal 6095 kHz at
0900-1600 UT, in Winter season 1hr later at 1000-1700 UT, Saturdays
and Sundays. http://www.kbcradio.eu/ (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 7, WORLD
OF RADIO 1586, ibid.)
** GERMANY. EMR + Radio Atlantic 2000 This Sunday!
European Music Radio This Sunday Radio Atlantic 2000
Date 16th of October 2011 - 16th of October 2011
Time 1200 to 1300 UT - 0800 to 0900 UT
Channels 9480 khz - 9480 khz
EMR Programmes:
1200 Tom Taylor programme
1225 Mike Taylor programme
EMR Internet radio service on Sunday and Monday
Programme repeats are at the following times:
1500 - 1800 - 2100 UT
Please visit http://www.emr.org.uk and click on the “EMR internet
radio” button which you will find throughout the website (see the menu
on the left). Please send reception reports to: studio @ emr.org.uk
Good Listening 73s Tom
NEW EMR Postal Address:
European Music Radio,
c/o M.V. Baltic Radio,
Seestraße 17,
D-19089 Göhren,
Germany
(Tom Taylor, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY. QSL: 15445, NHK/Radio Japan, Japanese broadcast to ME via
Wertachtal transmitter. Full data (with site) 'Autumn Flowers' (Kochi
Prefecture) QSL Card, with schedule, report form, for a postal report.
Reply in 38 days (Edward Kusalik-Alberta, Canada, Oct 9, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. 15620, Oct 7 at 1837, Hausa broadcast suffers from
squeal de WEWN 15610 spur around 15619. It`s DW, 250 kW, 295 degrees
from Kigali, RWANDA and also USward at 1800-1857 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. New frequencies B11 --- Hi guys, Some weeks after I
protested to DW about the imminent closure of two of its major SW
relay stations (at the end of Oct) I've just now received a second
response from DW with attached schedule of possible English language
broadcasts receivable in Australia for the B11 period. Broadcasts are
via the Kigali site. Regards, (Ian Baxter, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.:
Dear Mr. Baxter, Please find attached the new frequency list of our
English transmissions directed to Africa. If you are able to listen to
a DW broadcast your reception report will be highly appreciated.
Kind regards
Adelheid Lucas
DEUTSCHE WELLE
CRM / Customer Service
53110 BONN
GERMANY
T: +49.228.429-3244
F: + 49.228.429-154000
(via Baxter, ibid.) Viz.:
Winter Schedule 2011/2012, 30.10.2011–24.03.2012
Australien, CIRAF: 51 55 56 58 59, English
0400-0500 UT: 7350 kHz Kigali
0500-0530 UT: 9855 kHz Kigali
0600-0630 UT: 12045 kHz Kigali 15440 kHz Kigali 17800 kHz Kigali
2000-2200 UT: 9655 kHz Kigali
2100-2200 UT: 11865 kHz Kigali
For technical reasons transmission on certain frequencies may be shut-
down up to 5 minutes earlier than scheduled (via Baxter, DXLD)
Every little bit helps, but DW always had this annoying policy of
sending monitoring schedules out showing only one target (gh, DXLD)
[continued from POLAND non] Which leads to the next question: This
Babcock file does no longer show any Deutsche Welle slots. Are they
just missing or has DW indeed quit altogether after first intending to
keep a few transmitter hours a day at the UK sites, Ascension, Al-
Dhabbaya and Singapore? If the latter the question arises if they will
still have Chinese radio at all. At an earlier stage they still
planned a 30 minutes transmission on a single frequency from
Singapore, to be played out separately as the only occasion when more
than a single broadcast would be on air. But originally it was
supposed that a one hour broadcast was to be kept, so it would be no
big surprise to me if they now just throw away Chinese radio
altogether, following the example of the BBC World Service.
Ernst Vranka of ORF/ORS, who hopes to keep Moosbrunn in operation
until 2013 or 2014, recently coined the word of an "avalanche effect"
that has meanwhile set in and throws shortwave broadcasting away in
Europe. Quite true it seems (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 12, dxldyg via
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [and non]. AUSTRIA/FRENCH GUIANA/FRANCE/GERMANY
MEDIA BROADCAST GmbH (formerly T-SYSTEMS - DTK)
B-11 period (30/10/2011 - 25/03/2012)
Tentatively B-11 operational DTK schedule of October 07th, 2011.
Times are in UTC.
frq star-stop ciraf loc pow azi type day from-to broadc
17725 1700-1715 48SW ISS 250 140 217 7 301011-240312 ABA
5975 0400-0430 28E WER 100 120 201 1234567 301011-240312 AWR
6100 1600-1630 28E WER 100 120 201 1234567 301011-240312 AWR
7315 0300-0330 48 WER 250 135 215 1234567 301011-240312 AWR
7370 0300-0330 48 WER 250 135 217 1234567 301011-240312 AWR
7370 0330-0400 48 WER 250 135 215 1234567 301011-240312 AWR
9535 1900-2000 37,38W NAU 100 215 216 1234567 301011-240312 AWR
9595 1730-1800 37,38W WER 100 210 217 1234567 301011-240312 AWR
9610 1000-1100 28W NAU 100 180 216 1 301011-240312 AWR
9805 2000-2030 37,38W WER 100 210 216 1234567 301011-240312 AWR
11760 1900-1930 37,38W WER 100 210 216 1234567 301011-240312 AWR
11760 1930-2000 37,38W WER 100 210 216 1234567 301011-240312 AWR
11795 1730-1800 48 WER 250 135 217 1234567 301011-240312 AWR
11860 1900-1930 46W WER 250 210 217 1234567 301011-240312 AWR
11975 0700-0800 37,38W WER 100 210 217 1234567 301011-240312 AWR
15125 0800-0830 37,38W WER 100 210 217 1234567 301011-240312 AWR
15145 0800-0830 37,38W WER 100 210 217 1234567 301011-240312 AWR
15145 0830-0900 37,38W WER 100 210 217 1234567 301011-240312 AWR
15255 1500-1530 41N WER 250 75 217 1234567 301011-240312 AWR
15255 1530-1600 41N WER 250 75 217 12347 301011-240312 AWR
15255 1530-1600 41N WER 250 75 217 56 301011-240312 AWR
15270 1500-1530 41N WER 250 90 217 1234567 301011-240312 AWR
15270 1530-1600 41N WER 250 90 217 1234567 301011-240312 AWR
15480 1300-1330 42,43W NAU 250 70 218 17 301011-240312 AWR
15480 1300-1330 42,43W NAU 250 70 218 23456 301011-240312 AWR
15480 1330-1500 42,43W NAU 250 70 218 1234567 301011-240312 AWR
17510 1200-1230 41NE NAU 250 85 218 1234567 301011-240312 AWR
17510 1230-1300 41NE NAU 250 85 218 1234567 301011-240312 AWR
17575 1630-1700 48 ISS 250 125 217 1234567 301011-240312 AWR
5950 0400-0430 39NE,40 WER 100 105 205 127 301011-240312 BVB
6030 1900-1915 28,29 WER 100 60 215 56 301011-240312 BVB
6030 1915-1945 28,29 WER 100 60 215 7 301011-240312 BVB
6030 1900-1930 28,29 WER 100 60 215 3 301011-240312 BVB
6030 1900-2000 28,29 WER 100 60 215 1 301011-240312 BVB
6100 0500-0530 3738,4647 NAU 125 195 216 1234567 301011-240312 BVB
6110 1800-1900 39,40 WER 100 120 215 7 301011-240312 BVB
6110 1830-1900 39,40 WER 100 120 215 1 301011-240312 BVB
7220 0800-0830 27,28N WER 100 ND 926 1 301011-240312 BVB
7220 0800-0845 27,28N WER 100 ND 926 7 301011-240312 BVB
7325 0300-0330 39S WER 125 120 201 1234567 301011-240312 BVB
7355 1715-1800 39,40 WER 100 120 215 246 301011-240312 BVB
7365 1830-1900 39,40 WER 100 90 215 1 301011-240312 BVB
7365 1800-1830 39,40 WER 100 90 215 246 301011-240312 BVB
7365 1800-1900 39,40 WER 100 90 215 35 301011-240312 BVB
7365 1800-1815 39,40 WER 100 90 215 7 301011-240312 BVB
7395 0030-0100 41 WER 250 90 215 123456 301011-240312 BVB
7395 0030-0115 41 WER 250 90 215 7 301011-240312 BVB
7410 0500-0515 39,40 WER 250 120 201 6 301011-240312 BVB
7410 0500-0530 39,40 WER 250 120 201 5 301011-240312 BVB
9440 1700-1730 39S WER 125 120 217 1234567 301011-240312 BVB
9460 1630-1915 39,40 NAU 100 130 216 1 301011-240312 BVB
9460 1645-1800 39,40 NAU 100 130 216 7 301011-240312 BVB
9460 1645-1715 39,40 NAU 100 130 216 6 301011-240312 BVB
9460 1645-1700 39,40 NAU 100 130 216 24 301011-240312 BVB
9460 1645-1745 39,40 NAU 100 130 216 5 301011-240312 BVB
9460 1645-1720 39,40 NAU 100 130 216 3 301011-240312 BVB
9460 1800-1900 39,40 NAU 100 130 216 3 301011-240312 BVB
9470 1915-1945 39,40 WER 250 105 205 1 301011-240312 BVB
9470 1900-2000 39,40 WER 250 105 205 7 301011-240312 BVB
9715 1900-1930 3738,4647 WER 125 180 217 1234567 301011-240312 BVB
9925 1630-1830 39,40 WER 100 105 205 1234567 301011-240312 BVB
11875 1630-1730 47,48 WER 100 150 217 1234567 301011-240312 BVB
11915 1700-1720 39,40 WER 250 120 217 2356 301011-240312 BVB
11915 1700-1735 39,40 WER 250 120 217 4 301011-240312 BVB
11965 1530-1545 39,40 WER 250 105 211 1 301011-240312 BVB
13670 1515-1530 40,41 WER 100 90 217 7 301011-240312 BVB
13670 1515-1600 40,41 WER 100 90 217 6 301011-240312 BVB
13670 1530-1600 40,41 WER 100 90 217 45 301011-240312 BVB
13740 1500-1515 41,49NW WER 250 90 217 1 301011-240312 BVB
13810 1600-1830 3839,4748 ISS 100 131 206 16 301011-240312 BVB
13810 1630-1830 3839,4748 ISS 100 131 206 7 301011-240312 BVB
13810 1630-1800 3839,4748 ISS 100 131 206 34 301011-240312 BVB
13810 1600-1800 3839,4748 ISS 100 131 206 25 301011-240312 BVB
15470 1400-1430 41 WER 250 90 217 1st Sun 301011-240312 BVB
15470 1430-1500 41 WER 250 90 217 1 301011-240312 BVB
15470 1430-1500 41 WER 250 90 217 7 301011-240312 BVB
17545 0900-1000 38,39 WER 125 135 217 6 301011-240312 BVB
5960 1900-2000 28E,29 WER 100 75 205 7 301011-240312 CHW
6055 1130-1200 27,28 WER 125 ND 926 17 301011-240312 EMG
9605 1600-1630 29,30 WER 250 60 217 7 301011-240312 EMG
13730 1200-1230 19-26 NAU 250 45 216 7 301011-240312 EMG
7215 0030-0130 40E,41NW WER 250 90 217 1234567 301011-240312 GFA
7240 2330-0030 41,43,49N WER 250 75 217 1234567 301011-240312 GFA
11645 1530-1630 40E,41NW WER 250 90 217 1234567 301011-240312 GFA
15235 1330-1530 41,43,49N WER 250 75 217 1234567 301011-240312 GFA
15285 1230-1500 41 NAU 250 89 218 1234567 301011-240312 GFA
6045 1000-1100 27E,28 WER 100 ND 926 1st Sun 301011-240312 HLR
7375 2300-0400 11-16 WER 100 240 215 1234567 301011-240312 HRT
7375 0000-0200 6-10 WER 100 300 215 1234567 301011-240312 HRT
7375 0200-0400 2-4,6-10 WER 100 315 215 1234567 301011-240312 HRT
7375 0400-0600 2-3,6-7,10WER 100 325 215 1234567 301011-240312 HRT
5930 1500-1530 30S WER 250 75 226 1234567 301011-240312 IBB
6105 0400-0600 28E,29W WER 250 60 206 1234567 301011-240312 IBB
6120 0400-0500 28E,29W WER 250 60 216 1234567 301011-240312 IBB
7220 1600-1800 ? WER 250 60 ? 1234567 301011-240312 IBB
7260 1600-1700 30SE WER 250 75 206 1234567 301011-240312 IBB
7265 0230-0330 40 WER 250 105 226 1234567 301011-240312 IBB
7390 1600-1700 29SE WER 250 90 226 1234567 301011-240312 IBB
9485 1730-1800 48 NAU 100 140 216 23456 301011-240312 IBB
9485 1800-1900 48 NAU 100 140 216 1234567 301011-240312 IBB
9485 1900-1930 48 NAU 100 140 216 23456 301011-240312 IBB
9495 1830-1900 29SE WER 250 90 226 1234567 301011-240312 IBB
9520 1700-1800 29S WER 250 90 226 1234567 301011-240312 IBB
9565 1400-1500 40E,41NW WER 250 90 216 1234567 301011-240312 IBB
9595 1400-1500 30S WER 250 75 206 1234567 301011-240312 IBB
9760 0500-0600 39N,40W NAU 100 105 216 1234567 301011-240312 IBB
9770 1530-1730 40E,41NW WER 250 105 226 1234567 301011-240312 IBB
9780 2030-2100 46,47 WER 250 180 216 23456 301011-240312 IBB
9805 1800-1830 47,48 WER 250 150 216 1234567 301011-240312 IBB
9815 1700-1800 29SE WER 250 90 206 1234567 301011-240312 IBB
9815 1900-1930 47,48 WER 250 150 216 1234567 301011-240312 IBB
11675 1800-1900 48 WER 250 135 206 1234567 301011-240312 IBB
11765 1500-1600 29SE NAU 250 103 216 1234567 301011-240312 IBB
11790 1500-1530 30SE,31SW WER 250 75 216 1234567 301011-240312 IBB
11905 1630-1700 47,48 WER 250 150 216 23456 301011-240312 IBB
11905 1730-1800 48 WER 250 150 206 23456 301011-240312 IBB
11995 1400-1500 30S WER 250 75 226 1234567 301011-240312 IBB
13580 0500-0900 40E,41NW NAU 250 94 156 1234567 301011-240312 IBB
13580 1400-1500 39N,40W WER 250 105 226 1234567 301011-240312 IBB
13635 1630-1700 47,48 WER 250 150 216 23456 301011-240312 IBB
13680 1230-1600 40 WER 250 105 226 1234567 301011-240312 IBB
15535 0430-0700 40 WER 250 105 226 1234567 301011-240312 IBB
15620 1630-1700 48 WER 250 135 206 1234567 301011-240312 IBB
15670 1630-1700 46,47,52 WER 250 180 216 6 301011-240312 IBB
17895 1600-1700 ? WER 250 150 226 1234567 301011-240312 IBB
6095 1000-1700 18,27-2837WER 100 ND 930 17 301011-240312 KBC§
9800 1830-1900 46S,47SE WER 500 180 217 1234567 301011-240312 LWF
6045 0900-1100 27E, 28 WER 100 ND 926 3rd Sun?301011-240312 MSM+
6140 1400-1500 28 NAU 100 126 156 1 301011-240312 MVB
6140 1000-1100 27,28 WER 100 ND 926 1 301011-240312 MVB
6055 1200-1215 27,28 WER 250 ND 926 1 301011-240312 MWA
9620 2200-2300 38,39,40 WER 500 135 217 1234567 301011-240312 NHK
15445 1700-1900 38,39,40 WER 250 135 217 1234567 301011-240312 NHK
6040 1930-2000 37,38 WER 250 150 201 1 301011-240312 PAB
6040 1930-2030 37,38 WER 250 150 201 7 301011-240312 PAB
13645 1400-1430 41 WER 100 90 217 1 301011-240312 PAB
13645 1415-1430 41 WER 100 90 217 234567 301011-240312 PAB
13645 1430-1445 41 ISS 250 83 217 1 301011-240312 PAB
15535 1529-1627 47-4852-53WER 500 150 217 1234567 301011-240312 PNW%
7350 0530-0600 46SE WER 100 180 215 23456 301011-240312 RMI
11760 1600-1630 47E,48 WER 500 135 217 1 301011-240312 RMI#
11865 1930-2000 46SE WER 100 180 217 1234567 301011-240312 RMI
5955 0657-0757 27,28,37N NAU 500 220 146 1234567 301011-240312 RNW
5955 0757-1100 18S,27,28 WER 500 ND 930 1234567 301011-240312 RNW
5955 1559-1757 ? WER 500 ND 930 1234567 301011-240312 RNW
6120 0859-1100 27S,37N WER 500 240 215 23456 301011-240312 RNW
9750 1559-1657 28S,38,39NNAU 500 143 146 1234567 301011-240312 RNW
9830 0559-0657 28S,38,39NWER 500 120 201 1234567 301011-240312 RNW
9895 0657-0800 27,28,37N NAU 500 220 146 1234567 301011-240312 RNW
9895 0800-0900 27,28,37N NAU 500 220 146 1234567 301011-240312 RNW
9895 1559-1757 36E,37 WER 500 240 216 1234567 301011-240312 RNW
11810 1700-1800 38E,39S,48NAU 100 144 216 14 301011-240312 SBO
9460 1400-1500 18,27,28 WER 100 300 216 1234567 301011-240312 TOM
13810 1500-1600 28-2938-39NAU 100 130 218 1234567 301011-240312 TOM
17580 1500-1600 38 WER 100 165 217 1234567 301011-240312 TOM
5915 0645-0700 28 ISS 100 60 146 1234567 301011-240312 TWR
6105 0800-0850 27 NAU 100 285 216 1234567 301011-240312 TWR
6120 1100-1130 28 WER 100 105 201 7 301011-240312 TWR
6120 1629-1659 28 WER 100 105 201 7 301011-240312 TWR
7220 0645-0700 28 ISS 100 60 146 1234567 301011-240312 TWR
7300 1500-1530 28,29,30 WER 100 60 215 2 301011-240312 TWR
7300 1500-1530 28,29,30 WER 100 60 215 3456 301011-240312 TWR
7300 1500-1600 28,29,30 WER 100 60 215 17 301011-240312 TWR
9430 0930-1000 28 ISS 100 85 146 1234567 301011-240312 TWR
11700 1629-1659 29S,39N WER 100 90 217 23456 301011-240312 TWR
7335 0200-0500 6,7,8 GUF 250 318 156 1234567 301011-240312 VOR
9875 0000-0200 12,14,16 GUF 250 195 151 1234567 301011-240312 VOR
11605 2200-2400 12,13 GUF 250 181 151 1234567 301011-240312 VOR
5960 2200-2300 37,38W NAU 250 210 216 1234567 301011-240312 YFR
6010 2100-2200 37,38W WER 250 210 215 1234567 301011-240312 YFR
7305 2100-2200 46E,47,52NNAU 500 180 216 1234567 301011-240312 YFR
7360 2200-0100 12,13,15 GUF 500 170 151 1234567 301011-240312 YFR
7395 0000-0100 12, 14 GUF 500 215 146 1234567 301011-240312 YFR
9465 2300-2400 12, 14 GUF 500 215 146 1234567 301011-240312 YFR
9465 2200-2300 12, 14 GUF 500 215 146 1234567 301011-240312 YFR
9500 1900-2000 37E,38 WER 250 150 201 1234567 301011-240312 YFR
9515 2000-2100 37,38W NAU 250 210 146 1234567 301011-240312 YFR
9595 2000-2100 46E,47,52NNAU 500 180 216 1234567 301011-240312 YFR
9695 1900-2000 37,46 WER 500 210 217 1234567 301011-240312 YFR
9800 1700-1800 40 NAU 500 95 216 1234567 301011-240312 YFR
9810 1700-1800 39 WER 250 120 216 1234567 301011-240312 YFR
9840 1800-1900 37E,38 WER 250 150 217 1234567 301011-240312 YFR
9925 1900-2200 46,47,52 WER 500 180 217 1234567 301011-240312 YFR
11665 1800-1900 46SE WER 500 180 217 1234567 301011-240312 YFR
11690 1700-1800 37,38 WER 100 180 217 1234567 301011-240312 YFR
11885 1600-1700 40 NAU 500 95 216 1234567 301011-240312 YFR
11935 1500-1600 41SE NAU 500 94 217 1234567 301011-240312 YFR
11995 1600-1700 39 WER 250 120 217 1234567 301011-240312 YFR
12140 1800-1900 57 WER 500 165 217 1234567 301011-240312 YFR
13605 1400-1500 30S,40N WER 250 75 217 1234567 301011-240312 YFR
13630 1500-1600 41E NAU 500 100 217 1234567 301011-240312 YFR
13655 1400-1500 41S WER 500 90 217 1234567 301011-240312 YFR
13655 1500-1600 41S WER 500 105 217 1234567 301011-240312 YFR
13660 1600-1700 48 ISS 500 125 167 1234567 301011-240312 YFR
13700 1400-1600 41 NAU 500 95 218 1234567 301011-240312 YFR
15160 1600-1700 47,48 ISS 500 131 227 1234567 301011-240312 YFR
15315 1400-1500 41S WER 500 105 217 1234567 301011-240312 YFR
15325 1400-1500 41E WER 500 90 217 1234567 301011-240312 YFR
17510 1300-1500 41E NAU 500 85 218 1234567 301011-240312 YFR
15470 1500-1600 41NE,41S WER 500 90 217 1234567 301011-240312 YFR
*) 1st Sunday of the month Day 1 = Sunday ... Day 7 = Saturday
List of Broadcasters using MEDIA BROADCAST technical equipment
ABA = Radiyo Y'Abaganda (Ababaka)
ADM = internal name (not "Abu Dhabi Media Company")
AWR = Adventist World Radio
BVB = High Adventure Gospel - Bible Voice Broadcasting
CHW = Christliche Wissenschaft
CVC = Christian Vision - deleted
DVB = Democratic Voice of Burma
EFD = Ethiopeans For Democracy
ELF = Eritrean Liberation Front
EMG = Evangelische Missionsgemeinden in Deutschland
FEB = Feba Radio UK
GFA = Gospel for Asia
HCJ = Voice of the Andes - deleted
HLR = Hamburger Lokalradio
HRT = Hrvratska Radio Televizija
IBB = International Broadcasting Bureau
KBC = internal MBR customer
KBC§= Dutch-based KBC Radio
LWF = Lutheran World Federation
MBR = MEDIA BROADCAST (ex Deutsche Telekom, DTK)
MSM = internal name, MBR customer
MSM+= probably XVRB Radio - The Music Museum, see below.
MVB = Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Baltic Radio
MWA = Missionswerk Arche
NGO = [see below]
NHK = Nippon Hoso Kyokai
PAB = Pan Am Broadcasting
PNW% {"Press Now". wb.}
PRW = Polskie Radio Warsaw - deleted
RHU = Radio Huriyo (Xoriyo) - deleted
RMI = Radio Miami International
RMI# [Voice of Oromo Liberation Front]
RNW = Radio Netherlands World Service
RRP = Radio Reveil Paroles de Vie - deleted
RTR = Radio Traumland (Belgium)
SBO = Sagalee Bilisummaa Oromoo, Voice of Oromo Liberation.
TOM = The Overcomer Ministry
TWR = Trans World Radio
VOR = Voice of Russia
WRN = World Radio Network - deleted
YFR = WYFR Family Radio
Michael Puetz
MEDIA BROADCAST GmbH
Order Management & Backoffice
Josef-Lammerting-Allee 8-10
D-50933 Cologne, Germany
Please send your inquiries and reception reports to:
E-Mail:
% "Press Now"
Witte Kruislaan 55
1217 AM Hilversum
The Netherlands, Europe
T +31 35 62 54 300
website: E-mail:
§ For reception reports please mail to
or write to
The Mighty KBC
Argonstraat 6
6718 WT Ede
The Netherlands, Europe.
+ XVRB Radio - It's The Music Museum, see
E-mail: not marked correct, probably 3rd
Sunday of the month? (MBR Media & Broadcast, Oct 7, via ADDX Andreas
Volk Munich-D transformed by Michael Bethge-D via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews
Oct 7, via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD)
Puzzle in MBR. NGO - unknown bc organization. Is meant for Nippon Hoso
Kyokai foreign relays? Domestic Yamata called KDDI transmitter
organization:
http://wikimapia.org/5153986/KDDI-Yamata-Transmitter-Site
(Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
NHK already has its own entry in above sked. NGO commonly means in
English, generic non-governmental organization (gh, DXLD)
** GOA. AIR Panaji SW Audio OK --- AIR Panaji has sorted out their
audio problems of their SW transmitter, it seems. Now they are noted
with good quality audio. (Earlier lot of problems were there with
their audio.) However, only one of their 250 kW SW transmitters is
noted on air. The other one is still off air. The present schedule is:
11715, 2045-2230 English (Australia/NZ)
11740, 2300-2400 Hindi, 0000-0045 Tamil (SE Asia), 0045-0115 Sinhala
(Sri Lanka)
11775, 1215-1330 Tibetan (Tibet), 1330-1430 Nepali (Nepal)
12025, 1615-1730 Hindi, 1730-1830 Malayalam (W. Asia )
15175, 1515-1600 Gujarati (E. Africa)
15210, 0400-0430 Persian, 0430-0530 Arabic (W. Asia)
15210, 0530-0600 (Urdu) (Haj Service to Saudi Arabia 9 Nov 2011 to 7
Dec 2011)
73 (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Raj
Bhavan Road, Hyderabad 500082, India, Mobile: 91-80993 70625, Tel: 91-
40-2331 0287, 91-40 6516 7388, Fax: 91-40-2331 0787
http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos http://www.niar.org Oct 7, dx_india yg via
WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DXLD)
** GREECE. Last QSLs received: ERT Thessaloniki, 9935, QSL and view
card in 3 weeks for e-report to ttsioli @ ert3.gr and programc @
ert3.gr (Artur Fernández Llorella, Catalonia, Spain, You can see some
images in my blog: http://maresmedx.blogspot.com/ Oct 7, HCDX via
DXLD)
** GREECE. On 29 Sep at 1530 UT non-stop instrumental music with
pieces from Demis Russos songs observed on 9935 kHz and 1044 kHz \\
9420, 15630, 666, 729, 792, 981, 1008 kHz and many others or all their
transmitters. Strike? But from 1630 UT on 792, 981, 1008 kHz and
others - sport reportages were (Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, Oct 2, wwdxc
BC-DX TopNews Oct 8 via DXLD)
** GREECE. V. of Greece, ``Radio Filia`` schedule observed 5-18 Sept:
Tuesday 0900-1000 – 11645 off the air
Mon-Fri 0500-0550 on 11645, 0555-0600 17705 in Bulgarian; 0800
German, 0900 Russian or English, 0930-1000 French -- 11645
Saturday 0502 Bulgarian, 0515 BBCWS relay [meaning English], 0532
French, 0545-0550 Spanish on 11645; 0555-0600 Spanish on
17705, 0900-1000 Filipino on 11645
Sunday 0500 Albanian, 0532-0550 English on 11645, 0555-0600 English
17705; 0600 French, 0630 Spanish, 0700 German, 0730-0750
Russian on 17705; 0755-0800 Russian on 11645, 0800-0900 R.
Filia in Greek on 11645
Exceptions: 8 Sep 0900 on 11645 was in English, 9 Sep in Russian.
On 16 Sept at 0500-0800 on 11645/17705, the ``Cosmos`` home service
was heard, then 0800 German, 0900 Russian, 0930-1000 French – on 11645
(Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, Oct BDXC-UK Communication, retyped by gh for
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
And since then, probably totally different if at all, with curtailed
transmissions. Interrupting a single language for a 5-minute frequency
change several times as observed above, indicates what a disconnect
exists between programming and SW transmission (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Greece ?? Voice of Greece ?? 9420 Avlis ?? Oct 9, 2011, Sunday. 1635-
1717. Must be Greek language (it sounds just like our local 1422 kHz
Pan Hellenic Voice for the Jo'burg Greek community). OM's talking, and
very hip-hop music, some of it sounding quite greek although not on
traditional instruments. Whilst others are debating in DXLD whether it
is still on air or not, this is the first time I have received it in
Jo'burg. Clearly an id at TOH, but it was so quick I couldn't make it
out. Talk and music continued after the id, some of the songs in
english. Fair. Sudden very severe whistle (or het) from 1711 onwards
made it un-listenable, fortunately it could be almost entirely removed
by the Drake notch filter. Jo'burg sunset 1612 (Bill Bingham, RSA,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This is my reception report for Sunday and Monday UT October 10, 2011:
[showing no reception on usual frequencies 2000-0200+ UT, 7450, 15650,
15630, 7475, 9420] Last week, same time, Voice of Greece was off the
air; are they on a 6-day week now? Regards, (John Babbis, Silver
Spring, MD, USA, daily reception report to VOG, cc to DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** GUAM. 13362, 7/10 0629, AFRTS, Barrigada, talks, then reports, USB,
weak/fair fading. Better at 0702 news (Giampiero Bernardini, Milan,
Italy, RX: G33DDC Excalibur Pro - ANT: T2FD, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO
1586, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
09/10/2011 0725, 13362, AFRTS-Barrigada USB, relay AFN (Mauro -
Giroletti, -Swl 1510-, -IK2GFT-, bclnews.it yg via WORLD OF RADIO
1586, DXLD)
** GUATEMALA. 4055, Radio Verdad – Chiquimula (Presumed), 1040, in
Spanish. Male with religious talk, "Leaning on the Arms of Jesus" in
Spanish. Fair. 10/8/11 (Mark Taylor, Madison WI, WinRadio g313e,
Grunding G1 & G5, Satellit 800; EWE, Flextenna, NASWA Flashsheet via
DXLD) Another anomaly as normal sign on is *1100 or later; unless
Mark`s clock was off again (gh, DXLD)
4055, Oct 10 at 1155, R. Verdad hasn`t faded out yet, in non-Spanish
language; intonation sounds rather like Korean, but maybe the local
vernacular. Could even be Korean as has been multi-lingual including
Japanese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH. 9735, Oct 10 at 0537, hum and unstable carrier at
S9+5. Strongly suspect Montsinéry has left the exciter on after
finishing Voz de Rusia until 0500 with usual extremely strong signal,
but not so spurry this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** HAWAII [and non]. 13282, 7/10 0622 & 0650, Auckland Volmet, New
Zealand, Airport info, USB, weak signal but clear
13282, 7/10 0625, Honolulu Volmet, Hawaii, airports info, USB, weak
(Giampiero Bernardini, Milan, Italy, RX: G33DDC Excalibur Pro - ANT:
T2FD, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 4970, AIR Shillong, 1245-1316, Oct 11. YL DJ in English with
the usual Tuesday program “Heart to Heart” playing EZL love songs
(“You Took My Heart Away” MLTR, “Unbreak My Heart” Toni Braxton, “From
the Bottom of My Broken Heart” Britney Spears, etc. ); local IDs; 1317
into Hindi; fair-poor with their normal hum (Ron Howard, Asilomar
State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. AIR Itanagar on Irregular 4990 kHz!! HEARD AIR Itanagar on
4990 kHz at 1715 UT on 9th October!!!!!!!!! Tabla and classical
instrumental heard. SINPO 25222. This AIR Itanagar frequency is an
irregular one, and so very happy to catch it today. For confirmation
watch the video on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1F16I-IT50
Thanks & Regards, (Prithwiraj Purkayastha, Jorhat, Assam, dx_india yg
via WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DXLD)
** INDIA. 9425, AIR Bengaluru - National Channel, 1830-1835, Oct 5.
News bulletin in English; into Hindi; nice to find their signal here
this late (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
[and non]. 9425, AIR Bengaluru - National Channel, 1503, Oct 9.
"SAARC" news in English; a fortnight long joint military exercise
between India and Bangladesh to begin; India Foreign Secretary Ranjan
Mathai will review developmental projects in the war ravaged northern
province in Sri Lanka; “and that’s the end of this SAARC news
bulletin”; into Hindi and subcontinent music. This news is perhaps
only on Sunday?
It was back in September 2009 that I first heard a SAARC news bulletin
via AIR. Ever since I have wondered about their status, so am pleased
to hear this again. SAARC is the South Asian Association for Regional
Cooperation.
Tentatively I also once heard SAARC news via Bangladesh Betar on 4750,
with a Monday only broadcast. Their website news schedule shows: “1835
(SAARC News Bangla) 1850 (SAARC News English) in every Monday”,
although I heard the reverse, with English at 1235 UT, followed by
Bengali (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA [and non]. 9870, Oct 7 at 1402, AIR VBS music with flutter,
but well over CCI this time from CRI English, which deliberately
collides from Xi`an at 13-16 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 15050, AIR, Khampur. 1213-1216:27* October 9, 2011. Very
good with nice subcontinental vocals, language male and female, listed
as Tamil 1115-1215. Transmitter off after male closing announcements
(Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 3325, RRI Palangkaraya, 1241-1330+ Oct 3. YL with long
phone chat or interview; then from 1300 to 1330 a mix of chat, ads, I
think, with Palangkaraya telephone numbers given, and short interludes
of piano music. Ridiculous level, S9+30 dB, maybe the strongest ever
here. (Wilkins-CO)
4749.95, RRI Makassar, 0959-1020 Sep 30. Qur`an to 1004, then vocal
music with Arabic/East African flavor. Fair/good signal (John Wilkins,
Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Drake R-8, 100-foot RW, Cumbre DX via DXLD)
3325, Oct 12 at 1251, usual programming from RRI Palangkaraya,
Kalimantan, i.e. M&W conversation in Indonesian. Peaks S+18, nice
signal today; no PNG frequencies audible on 90m, and nothing else but
a bit of WWRB 3185 BS at this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
Re DXLD 11-38, Preaching in English via RRI Palangkaraya
Hi Glenn, It turns out that the preacher I heard via RRI Palangkaraya
was in fact Peter Youngren and he is not African-American as I first
thought from listening to his preaching. Was rather surprised by the
large number of people who attended the “Palangkaraya Friendship
Festival”. “View Photos” at
http://www.peteryoungren.org/
Full story of the event and all the daily happenings is posted at
http://www.peteryoungren.org/impact/festivals/palangkaraya-indonesia-2011/full_story/
(Ron Howard, Monterey, CA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
He`s a faith-healer too; guess that appeals to the uneducated masses
(gh, DXLD)
** INDONESIA. 9525-, Oct 8 at 1250, dead air with flutter, a VERY long
IAD during Japanese hour from VOI; still DA at 1303, 1316; 1318
finally English modulation comes up for a minute or so, gone again, on
and off; by 1336 more or less stayed on during music portion as signal
weakened.
9525-, Oct 11 at 1305, VOI is in slow special Chinese talk by YL, not
English `Exotic Indonesia` with RRI Banjarmasin this Tuesday. Poor
signal and didn`t check it later in the hour, but once again VOI is
way off schedule.
9525-, Oct 12 at 1303, VOI back in English after having been off-
schedule in Chinese yesterday; long item about trade with Slovakia,
then oil from Nigeria; ASEAN university exchanges. I guess this was
the newscast made up of government press releases. Altho rather
undermodulated, S9+22 signal made it sufficiently readable, with some
hum, IADs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INTERNATIONAL INTERNET. SOUTH HERTS RADIO SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Hello Everyone, SHR will not be broadcasting the live stream this
Sunday. However any shows I intended to air will be hosted on the
interactive player from the home page which will be updated in time
for this coming Sunday.
I am sorry SHR has been having some breaks recently due to some
personal circumstances but SHR should resume broadcasts for at least
every Sunday up until Christmas with the regular schedule as from
Sunday 16th October from 1200 to 2000 UT as usual. That is my
intention anyway. As always in the event of any live stream failure,
most shows will be hosted on the home page player or the listen again
page.
Thanks for your continued support of this service which is provided
free of charge as a hobby station to provide something different and
in support of DX and international broadcasting with a small amount of
local interest for the communities of South Hertfordshire United
Kingdom. Wishing you all 5 and 9's and 73's. (Gary Drew, Oct 6,
http://www.southhertsradio.com dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 11620, Oct 8 at 1307 Qur`an, 1310 cut abruptly and rudely to
announcement, news theme and items starting with Iran, then other
countries in the area. Is VIRI Urdu service, 1300-1427, 500 kW, 178
degrees from Kamalabad, and thus not aimed at Pakistan, or us.
17560, Oct 7 at 1248 Indonesian/Malay talk, poor signal, raising hopes
that R. Free Sarawak had extended past 1200. Dashed when uplooked in
Aoki to find it`s VIRI, 1230-1327 in Malaysian [sic], 500 kW, 109
degrees from Kamalabad. Anyhow, RFS is mainly in Iban rather than
Malay. I wonder if RFS picked the frequency knowing that Malay
listeners were already tuning to it for Teheran? (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
17560 / 21670, Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Kamalabad and
Sirjan respectively. 1227 October 8, 2011. Checking this after reading
Glenn Hauser's log of 17560 post-Radio Free Sarawak time. Listed as
Indonesian 1230-1327 in the WRTVH 2011 (and no Malay service listed),
but Malay on short-wave.info. Already on at tune-in with nice Persian
classical instrumental, into VoIRI chimes and theme 1230, orchestral
and possible anthem, then male "Suara --- Islamiq Republik Iran" and
mention of "kiloHertz" twice, brief Qur'an poetry from 1233. 17560
very good, the "other" kHz quickly looked up, it being 21670, and in
the clear but barely audible (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida
USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
21670, Oct 10 at 1248, very poor signal, first time heard here, but //
17560, i.e. VIRI Malay service (``Melau`` in HFCC), 500 kW, 115
degrees from Sirjan on 21670 at 1230-1327. Tnx to Terry Krueger, FL
tip (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN [and non]. IRAN SAYS IT CAN JAM AND "REDIRECT" MILITARY AND
ESPIONAGE SATELLITES Posted: 08 Oct 2011
Zawya, 5 Oct 2011, citing Tehran Times: "Iran unveiled three new types
of electronic warfare (EW) equipment -- an EW simulator, a radar
system tester (RST), and a satellite jamming system -- on Tuesday. All
of the new equipment has been designed and manufactured by Iranian
engineers. ... Farzad Ismaili, the commander of the Khatam-ol-Anbiya
military base ... Ismaili said that Iran is now capable of jamming
satellites used for military and spying purposes. Iran can also
redirect military and espionage satellites, the commander added."
(kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD)
-- "Redirect," as in move them to a different orbit? Or out of orbit?
This news item pertains to satellites used for other than
broadcasting, but the technology can probably apply to broadcast
satellite jamming (Kim Andrew Elliott, ibid.)
** ISRAEL. 9235, Galei Zahal 0248, Hebrew, pop songs, woman announcer.
Fair, // 15850 fair. They had been on 9236 for a short period of time,
but are definitely back on 9235. 10/12/11 (Harold Sellers, Vernon,
British Columbia, Listening from my car with Eton E1 and Sony AN1
active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ISRAEL. No more Spanish even on webcasts? REFERENTE A KOL ISRAEL,
Por mucho tiempo he escuchado las emisiones de Kol Israel a través de
su página web en Español, pero desde hace varios dias, sólo escucho un
mensaje en inglés de forma repetitíva. La página a que hago referencia
es:
http://www.iba.org.il/world/
Si alguien tiene alguna información, gracias anticipadas. 73 (Oscar de
Céspedes, FL, condiglist yg via DXLD)
It`s still there if you click on the right linx --- on demand,
espanol, 2015; I`m hearing the 12 Oct broadcast of 2015-2030 [local]
already at 1958 UT Oct 12 (gh, DXLD)
** ITALY [non]. via ROMANIA. 15610, IRRS, *1257-1305, abrupt sign on
with English program in progress about medical marijuana regulations
in California. Opening IRRS theme music at 1258:37. IRRS ID at 1300
and into religious programming by Brother Stair. Good. Oct 9 (Brian
Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest)
Sounds like another of those old KQED programs. Maybe previous
appearances after 1300 were simply a matter of running late with
webcast schedule of IRRS? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD)
** KASHMIR. 3975 Khz Radio Pakistan's subsidiary channel Azad Kashmir
Radio Trarkhel --- Hi Glenn, I hope you are well. I was on a long
holiday to Japan; now I am back to Pakistan. Reference to e-mail by
Rumen Pankov from Bulgaria in edition number 11-40 of the World of
Radio. It is to clarify that the frequency of 3975 khz is used by
Radio Pakistan subsidiary channel Azad Kashmir Radio Trarkhel.
However English and Urdu News are relayed from Radio Pakistan directly
by Azad kashmir Radio. Some current affairs programmes of Radio
Pakistan National Broadcasting Service are also relayed by Azad
Kashmir Radio Trarkhel on this frequency.
The reason for finding different programmes on 3975 khz and 11590 and
15265 khz at 1740 UT is that 3975 is used by Azad Kashmir Radio
Trarkhel for its local programming while 11590 and 15265 khz are used
by Radio Pakistan external service for Europe at that time. Regards
(Aslam Javaid, Lahore, Pakistan, Oct 12, WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** KAZAKHSTAN. 9950, at 1430 9 Sept, V. of Orthodoxy via Almaty,
faulty transmitter, demodulated sound, Russian, SIO 454 (Rumen Pankov,
Sofia Bulgaria, HF Logbook, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) What
do you mean by ``demodulated sound``?
** KAZAKHSTAN. 15560, Oct 7 at 1249, Bible quotations in American
English, fair with flutter; 1258 Family Radio ID, Sound of the New
Life to 1259:45* cutoff. Of mild interest only because the site per
Aoki is ``Almaty-Nikolayevka``, YFR English at 11-13 since Sept 12.
I sure don`t hear them saying anything about October 21, when the
suppressed Camping faxion is positive the world will really, really,
really end. Minus two weeks and counting. Even so, what in the world
is Kazakhstan thinking, propagating this Christian stuff? $$$. After
all, they also serve as a launchpad for Russia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** KIRITIMATI. 28485-USB, Oct 9 at 2112, T32C contest working N`s, a
ZP5, etc., saying ``up five``. At first final fonetik sounded like
Johnny instead of Charlie. I was just random tuning, not chasing what
turned out to be a DXpedition to a rare country, per QRZ.com:
``T32C
Kiritimati DXpedition C/o Neville Cheadle G3NUG
Lower Withers Barns
Middleton on the Hill, LEOMINSTER, HR6 0HY
England
Lookups: 113045
Email: (Ham members only) QSL: G3NUG
[the -ti- in native spelling represents S, so it really sounds a lot
more like ``Kirismas``, just like Kiribati is really pronounced
Kiribas. Don`t ask me why -- gh]
The FSDXA DXpedition to Kiritimati (Christmas Island) will take place
in September-October 2011. There is a huge amount of detail on our web
site http://www.t32c.com This has been developed FOR YOU.
- When to work us
- How to work us
- How to QSL.
So please visit our website. Thanks`` Continues until 26 October.
BTW, most of the 10m hamband continues to be unoccupied even when
propagation obviously opens it. Virtually nothing ever to be heard
28.5 to 29.7 MHz; yes, I know, there are some HF repeaters at the
upper end, but haven`t even heard them lately. Perhaps the hams risk
losing 1.2 MHz to another service which would axually use the
spectrum? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. RSF EVALUATES LEVEL OF PRESS FREEDOM IN NORTH KOREA
Reporters Without Borders visited the South Korean capital of Seoul in
July to evaluate the level of media freedom and freedom of information
in North Korea. It met with many specialists, human rights activists,
North Korean refugees and South Korean officials in order to assess
the changes that have taken place since October 2004, the date of its
last investigation.
It has just published the results of this fact-finding visit. Entitled
North Korea: Frontiers of Censorship, it looks at the regime’s media
control and censorship and the attempts being made by others to
increase freedom of information.
Foreign radio stations continue to be the main source of independent
information for the North Korean population. Broadcasting two or three
hours a day in Korean on shortwave, they are listened to by people who
have managed to obtain shortwave radio sets. The flow of information
is also reinforced by NGOs that send material and multimedia content
across the border by various methods.
The authorities seem incapable of stopping the growing smuggling and
contraband trade, especially in the estimated 300 markets throughout
the country and near the Chinese border, or the flow of information
via mobile phones and contraband DVDs, USB flash drives and other
digital media whose availability is growing rapidly.
Seven years after its first report entitled “Journalists in the
service of a totalitarian dictatorship,” which described the regime’s
“permanent information plan,” Reporters Without Borders has found that
the government media have evolved little and continue to act as Kim
Jong-il’s propaganda outlets. The regime is currently paving the way
for Kim Jong-un to succeed his father and next year’s centenary of Kim
Jong-il’s father, Eternal President Kim Il-sung, will probably be a
key step in this process.
Since 2009, Reporters Without Borders has been supporting Seoul-based
radio stations operated by North Korean refugees such as Free North
Korea Radio, Radio Free Chosun and Open Radio for North Korea. It
urges the South Korean government to support the activities of these
radio stations, which are crucial, and to get the international
community to support them too. These exile radio stations are now the
main guarantors of North Koreans’ right to diverse news and
information. --- Read the report (PDF)
http://fr.rsf.org/IMG/pdf/rsf_north-korea_2011.pdf
(October 11th, 2011 - 14:25 UTC by Andy Sennitt, Media Network blog
via DXLD)
** KOREA NORTH. 9665.36, KCBS, P'yongyang. 1250 October 9, 2011. Fair
with Korean female, joined by man at 1253 (Terry L Krueger,
Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
11710, Oct 9 at 1315, super-pompous VOK announcer concluding news
mentions a string of other countries, but does not pronounce Austria
as ``Austriar`` even tho he pronounces Korea as ``Korear`` --- what`s
with that? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Dear Glenn, 11710, DPRK, VOK, 1401, French, After s/on at 1400 heard
Song of General Kim II Sung twice in a row. This during French
service. Yesterday during English service. Their same systemic
problem. 73, (Frank Mezek, Sun City AZ, Oct 12, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5985, Saturday Oct 8 at 1330, Shiokaze from JSR
Tokyo, JAPAN, opening in Korean with piano music, poor with usual
Myanmar 5986v het (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. CLANDESTINE - 9950, Furusato no Kaze, *1330-
1357* Oct 2. Usual M&W talks in Japanese, with a one-song music break
at 1347; at 1351 a list of names was read, all with Japanese surnames;
1353 closedown routine, with e-mail address, sked, etc.; off abruptly
at 1357*. Good signal; presume via Taiwan (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge,
Colorado, Drake R-8, 100-foot RW, Cumbre DX via DXLD)
** KOREA SOUTH. 6015, KBS Hanminjok Bangsong 1 (presumed), 1206-1248,
Oct 7. A rare occurrence with no North Korea jamming; chatting in
Korean; 1236 series of phone calls; 1248 start of heavy jamming (Ron
Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH [and non]. Updated summer A-11 of KBS World Radio:
Arabic
2000-2100 on 9620 SIN 250 kW / 105 deg to Middle East/Africa
Chinese
1130-1230 on 9770 KIM 250 kW / 225 deg to Southeast Asia
1130-1230 on 6065 KIM 250 kW / 290 deg to China
1300-1400 on 7275 KIM 250 kW / non-dir to China
2200-2300 on 7275 KIM 250 kW / 275 deg to China
2300-2400 on 9805 KIM 100 kW / 205 deg to Southeast Asia
English
0200-0300 on 9580 KIM 250 kW / 081 deg to South America
0800-0900 on 9570 KIM 100 kW / 205 deg to Southeast Asia
1100-1130 on 9760 WOF 100 kW / 102 deg to Europe Sat DRM
1200-1300 on 9650 SAC 250 kW / 268 deg to North America
1300-1400 on 9570 KIM 100 kW / 205 deg to Southeast Asia
1600-1700 on 9515 KIM 100 kW / 205 deg to Europe
1600-1700 on 9640 KIM 250 kW / 225 deg to Southeast Asia
1800-1900 on 7275 KIM 250 kW / 305 deg to Europe
2100-2130 on 3955 SKN 250 kW / 106 deg to Europe
French
1900-2000 on 6145 SKN 250 kW / 150 deg to Europe
2000-2100 on 5950 ISS 250 kW / 185 deg to Middle East/Africa
German
2000-2100 on 3955 SKN 250 kW / 106 deg to Europe
Indonesian
1200-1300 on 9570 KIM 100 kW / 205 deg to Southeast Asia
1400-1500 on 9570 KIM 100 kW / 205 deg to Southeast Asia
2200-2300 on 9805 KIM 100 kW / 205 deg to Southeast Asia
Japanese
0100-0200 on 9580 KIM 250 kW / 081 deg to Japan
0200-0300 on 11810 KIM 250 kW / 081 deg to Japan
0800-0900 on 6155 KIM 100 kW / non-dir to Japan
0800-0900 on 7275 KIM 250 kW / non-dir to Japan
1000-1100 on 9805 KIM 250 kW / 081 deg to Japan
Korean
0300-0400 on 11810 KIM 250 kW / 081 deg to South America
0700-0800 on 9860 SKN 300 kW / 110 deg to Europe
0900-1000 on 15160 KIM 250 kW / 290 deg to Middle East/Africa
0900-1100 on 9570 KIM 100 kW / 205 deg to Southeast Asia
0900-1100 on 7275 KIM 250 kW / non-dir to Japan
1200-1300 on 7275 KIM 250 kW / non-dir to Japan
1400-1500 on 9650 SAC 250 kW / 268 deg to North America
1600-1800 on 7275 KIM 250 kW / 305 deg to Europe
1600-1800 on 9705 KIM 250 kW / 290 deg to Middle East/Africa
1700-1900 on 9515 KIM 250 kW / 285 deg to Europe
Russian
1800-1900 on 15360 RMP 250 kW / 062 deg to Europe
Spanish
0100-0200 on 11810 KIM 250 kW / 081 deg to South America
0200-0230 on 9560 SAC 250 kW / 277 deg to North America
0600-0700 on 6045 SAC 250 kW / 060 deg to Europe
1100-1200 on 11795 SAC 250 kW / 176 deg to South America
Vietnamese
0100-0200 on 9690 KIM 250 kW / 225 deg to Southeast Asia
1030-1130 on 9770 KIM 250 kW / 225 deg to Southeast Asia
1500-1600 on 9640 KIM 250 kW / 225 deg to Southeast Asia
(DX Mix News, Bulgaria, 10 Oct via DXLD)
** KURDISTAN [non?]. 3928, 0330 18 Sept, V. of Kurdistan, ID in
Kurdish at 0334, closedown, without jamming, SIO 252.
3970j [sic], 0320 18 Sept, V. of Iranian Kurdistan, ID in Kurdish //
4870 at 0407, jammed, SIO 232 (Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria, Tropical
[sic] Bands Logbook, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD) both jammed?
** KURDISTAN [and non]. IRAN/IRAQ {KURDISTAN target in Turkey, Syria,
Iran and Iraq} From dswci DBS - list:
3930v Radio Voice of Kurdistan,
0145v-0300, 1245-1400 UT Kurdish, ID: "Era Radyo Dengi Kurdistana",
Sulaimaniya, Northern Iraq.
0300-0330v, 1400-1430 UT Farsi, ID: "Im Radyo Sedaye Kordestane" to
Iran. Produced by the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran.
3970v Voice of Iranian Kurdistan,
0225v-0400, 1200-1300 UT Kurdish, ID: "Ere Denge Kurdistana Irane",
Salah Al-Din, Northern Iraq.
0400-0430 1300-1330 UT Farsi, ID: "In Seda-ye Kordestan-e Iran", \\
4870, but delayed 30 seconds. Produced by the Democratic Party of
Iranian Kurdistan, Canada/France.
4870v Voice of Iranian Kurdistan,
0225v-0400, 1200-1300 UT Kurdish, ID: "Era dengi Kurdistani Irana",
Salah Al-Din, Northern Iraq
0400-0430, 1300-1330 UT Farsi, \\ 3970 (ID's), ex 4775 kHz.
Log of Oct 3rd: two Iranian jamming bubblers on 4865-4874 kHz,
stronger carrier at 0256 UT on 4868.970 kHz. Voice of Iranian
Kurdistan clandestine program in Kurdish on 4869.890 kHz. Both
S=9+10dBm signal strength here in western Europe.
Two Iranian jamming bubblers on 3925-3934 kHz, stronger carrier at
0300 UT on 3929.040 kHz, S=9+10dBm. {different} Radio Voice of
Kurdistan clandestine program in Kurdish on 3931.075 kHz, latter
clandestine program on S=8-9 signal level strength here in western
Europe.
Two Iranian jamming bubblers on 3967-3974 kHz, stronger carrier at
0307 UT on 3969.059 kHz. Voice of Iranian Kurdistan clandestine
program in Kurdish on 3970.009 kHz. Both S=9+10dBm signal strength
here in western Europe (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 3, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews
Oct 8 via DXLD)
** KUWAIT. 15540, Oct 8 at 1930, R. Kuwait starting `Kuwait in the
Heart of History` until 1942 UT back to Western pop music. Discussed
border issues with Iraq (or whatever it was previously) since 1750y.
That reminds me, in map perusal of the 1960s, one could see two
``Neutral Zones``, one a diamond on the W side of Kuwait between Saudi
Arabia and Iraq, and another parallelogramish on the S side between
Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. IIRC, hams tried to activate these as
separate radio countries, natch. Should be interesting to research.
Googling includes:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/785/whats-up-with-the-neutral-zones-near-saudi-arabia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi-Iraqi_neutral_zone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi-Kuwaiti_neutral_zone
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 15090, Radyo Azadi. 1114-1213 October 9, 2011. Clear, fair
with presumed Pashto male and female chatter, sparse sound effects,
including a few telephone rings, past top-of-hour but ID just after,
maybe quick news headlines, back to bantering. Listed as 250 kW at 70-
degrees on short-wave.info (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA,
27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT [and non]. 17840, Oct 10 at 1243, YL vocal pop music with
heavy beat, 1245 another YL with Arabic akhbar headlines punxuated by
one-or-two-note stingers every few sex, 1246 already back to music;
good S9+10 signal not often audible, but the bands from the ME are
really hopping today. It`s R. Sawa, 250 kW, 285 degrees from Kuwait at
11-13. R. Kuwait itself was also the SSOB on 21540, second being
Sa`udi on 21505. Meanwhile USIB continues to entertain Arabs rather
than inform, having abolished VOA`s formerly respected Arabic service
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LESOTHO. Radio Lesotho. 639 Maseru. Oct 8, 2011, Saturday. Not
there at 1819. Surprising, because equidistant Radio Botswana on 621
kHz is coming in really well tonight, and so is Family Radio from
Maseru (albeit on 1197). Jo'burg sunset 1611. (Bill Bingham, RSA,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LIBYA. The former Libyan Jamahiriya Radio was heard here on 20
August, still under the control of the Gaddhafi government, with
programming in Arabic heard past 2200 on both 972 (Sirt) and 1053
(Tripoli) in parallel. Rebels entered Tripoli on 21 August and 1053
kHz was noted back on the air by 26 August, now under rebel control,
with programming in Arabic (Dave Kenny, England, Medium Wave Report,
Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD)
1251, at 2150 20 August, V. of Africa, Tripoli, Arabic talk, full ID
2200 `Sawt Afriquiya mi Jahiriya till Ozma`` [sic], followed by pro-
Gaddafi national anthem, close. Almost certainly the very last time
this station was on the air; heard on Global tuner in Italy, good
(Dave Kenny, MW Logbook, ibid.)
V. of Africa was last observed on SW 17725 on 15 August (altho MW 1251
continued until 20 Aug). Relay of LJB on 8500 continued until 18 Aug.
No SW transmissions have been observed since the overthrow of the
Libyan government by rebel forces last month (Dave Kenny, ed., [SW] DX
News, ibid.) I continue to keep an ear on 17725 after 1400 in case the
newbies resume a similar schedule (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
More old info gh just retrieved:
Onderwerp: (bdx) NATO Psy-Ops in Arab and English on 10125 kHz at 1233
UTC, 3 Sept. 73, (Ary Boender, Netherlands, bdx mailing list via DXLD)
Vandaag ook weer in de lucht maar nu op 10404 kHz USB. NATO met psy-
ops uitzendingen naar Libya. Ik hoorde hen voor het eerst om 1209 UTC
en nu om 1405 UTC zijn ze nog steeds actief. Als je gaat luisteren heb
even geduld want er zit soms een pause van enkele tot 10 minuten
tussen de berichten (Ary Boender, Sept 4, ibid.)
** LUXEMBOURG. RTL LUXEMBOURG MARNACH TRANSMITTING SITE
Hello from Luxembourg. According to an article in the local press
http://www.lessentiel.lu/fr/news/luxembourg/story/24982716
it has been decided to close Marnach transmitting site at the end of
2014. RTL Group / CLT will then convert the site into a "data center",
which will be environment- friendly ("green IT").
This is the result of lobbying and legal action taken over the last
few years by local residents, who consider the transmitting site as
the source of various nuisances. The article also adds that a
spokesperson for the government said that there were "no appropriate
site in Luxembourg" where to reinstall the antennae. Best 73 de
(Francis Mougenez, Oct 7, MWCircle yg via DXLD) 1440 kHz, 1200 kW, but
also at Marnach: 4 x 100 kW FM frequencies; those closing too? (gh,
WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DXLD)
Re: Closures: Marnach 1440 kHz
``Reports of RTL closing Marnach transmitter are premature
June 24th, 2011 - 12:18 UTC by Andy Sennitt.
Reports are circulating in Germany that RTL will close down its high
power mediumwave transmitter (1440 kHz) in Marnach, Luxembourg, when
its current licence expires in October. This follows a story in the
newspaper Luxemburger Wort. However, something seems to have been lost
in translation. I checked with Media Network contributor Benny Brown,
who works at RTL. He tells me that “This is a citizens’ initiative,
and no definite answers have been given for anything.”
The story apparently arose after some cows escaped through a metal
fence that had been weakened by a combination of fog, moisture and RF
from the mediumwave transmitter. Benny adds that “Marnach itself is a
sleepy village in the far north of the country, where escaped cows
form the bulk of the news.” (via gh, dxldyg via DXLD)``
A meeting was held October 3, the end of the permit for the Marnach
site, with Luxembourg Government Ministers, local representatives and
CLT-UFA and it was confirmed that Marnach 1440 will close within three
years. CLT will then convert the site into a data centre which will be
environmentally friendly.
http://www.gouvernement.lu/salle_presse/actualite/2011/10-octobre/03-marnach/
A Luxembourg newspaper contacted the Ministry as to whether the
antennas could be re-located. Jeannot Berg, spokesman for the
Department of Communications and Media, said there is no suitable site
in Luxembourg. [as above]
http://www.lessentiel.lu/fr/news/luxembourg/story/24982716
(Mike Barraclough, Oct 12, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DXLD)
** MADAGASCAR. 5010, Radio Madagasikara, 0213-0300, carrier + USB.
Still on this frequency. Tune-in to Afro-pop music. IS followed by
National Anthem at 0228. Lite instrumental music and Malagasy talk at
0230. Afro-pop music. African choral music. Weak. Poor in noisy
conditions. Oct 5 (Brian Alexander, PA, DX Listening Digest)
** MADAGASCAR. Radio Madagasikara. 4910, Antananarivo. Oct 2, 2011,
Sunday. Not there at several checks between 1800 and 1900. Jo'burg
sunset 1609.
4910, Antananarivo. Oct 3, 2011, Monday. 0225-0238. Not there. Should
be on-air by now (EiBi). Jo'burg sunrise 0346.
4910, Antananarivo. Oct 4, 2011, Tuesday. Not there at 1826 check,
Jo'burg sunset 1610.
5010, Antananarivo. Oct 4, 2011, Tuesday, from 1820 to 1909. Malagasy,
and music. ID at 1834 (twice) "Radio Madagascar" and back to music,
another ID at 1839 "Radio Madagascar" and back to music. At 1849 ID
"Radio Madagascar", at 1858 "Madagascar". At 1902 "Malagasy", at 1903
"Madagasikara". At 1905 "Radio Madagascar" and a couple more
"Madagascar"s then YL talking. Being fairly certain of the ID, I
stopped listening at 1909.
Very poor in AM mode, almost unreadable. I had to use "sync" mode on
the Sony ICF2001D and tune in the USB, reception was then excellent.
In contrast to previous reports by Ron Howard in California, by
myself, and by others, referring to the 4910 transmissions, on 5010
now there is little sign of AM transmission, although I suppose there
must be some for the "sync" facility to lock on to. How are the poor
sods in Madagascar supposed to receive this (presumably experimental?)
stuff on their AM radios? Jo'burg sunset 1610.
Two days later on Thursday Oct 6, from 1805 to 1822, Malagasy, still
on 5010. Could tune it in on AM, but it was unreadable due to
distortion. As on Tuesday 4th, to hear it properly I had to use "sync"
mode on the Sony ICF2001D; it could then be heard very well on the
upper sideband. Jo'burg sunset 1610 (Bill Bingham, RSA, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
MADAGÁSCAR, 5010 usb, R. Madagasikara, Ambohidrano, 1713-1742, 08/10,
Malagasy, talks, music; 34432, QRM de IND (AIR, Thiruvananthapuram,
rated 34432) until 1741. 73. (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Radio Madagasikara. 5010 Antananarivo. Oct 8, 2011, Saturday. 1920-
1927. Malagasy, with music. Saturday night is party night, so long as
you have a radio with USB or a sync facility. Very good. Jo'burg
sunset 1611 (Bill Bingham, RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
5010, 09/10/2011 1535-2002, R. Madagascar, news e corrispondenze
telefoniche, musica oldies in FF, bella musica locale, alterna FF e
malgasho ascoltata sino alle 2002 (poi ho chiuso per mal di schiena!).
Sulla stessa frequenza Air Thiru.... con talk ed indian songs, s/off
1740. Da notare in Usb Madagascar, in Lsb India. (Questo perché il
Madagascar modula solo la parte superiore della portante e qui è più
forte dell'India, in LSB quindi c'è solo l'India) Entrambe con segnali
suff
Qualche ascolto di Paolo Serena fatto provando la nuova antenna, il
loop 1530S+ della Wellbrook, che sembra andare molto bene. Ciao
(Giampiero Bernardini, Rx Drake R8B, ant. Wellbrook ALA 1530s+, QTH
Mestre, playdx yg via DXLD)
** MADEIRA. 1530, PEF, Poiso, 1222-..., 09/10, advertisements, weather
report, station slogan "Posto Emissor do Funchal - a sua rádio
regional", later shortly after 1300 their songs program A Gosto do
Ouvinte; 45454. Just 3 kW out the nominal 10 kW via a folded monopole.
73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MALAWI. MBC Radio One. 756, Blantyre. Oct 8, 2011, Saturday. 1820-
1831. OM giving a lecture or posh talk, mentions "Your Excellency the
President of Malawi", various MP's and the Archbishop of Cantebury.
Presumably a very formal gathering! Later, 1828 he thanks the
Archbishop of Canterbury [Church of England] for agreeing to be the
guest of honour. Seems to be something to do with the Church of God.
(Note added later, October 9: It appears the Archbishop is doing a
three-country tour of Southern Africa. The first I heard of it was via
MBC Radio One in Blantyre. Viva shortwave! Well, actually, viva medium
wave!) Poor, and no sign of // 594 kHz. Jo'burg sunset 1611 (Bill
Bingham, RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MALAYSIA. 6049.52, Asyik FM via RTM continues to use this off
frequency transmitter; in vernacular with pop songs at 1140 on both
Oct 6 and 7 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
6050+, Oct 10 at 1153, no audible het with HCJB Spanish, instead a
fast SAH, so RTM must be back on 6050+ instead of 6049.5v (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Asyik FM on 6049.52 had transmitter problems on Oct 8. Off the air Oct
9. As Glenn heard, they returned to 6050.02 again on Oct 10 with
series of phone calls at 1335. Oct 11 another day on 6050.02, but
early sign off, gone by 1510 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA,
Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
6050.02, Salam FM via RTM, 1500*, Oct 12. Seems they have an earlier
sign off time now. Had just started the singing “Salam FM” jingle when
they suddenly went off the air (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA,
Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MALAYSIA. 9835, Sarawak FM via Kajang 1300-1330 Oct 4. Usual ten-
minute news bulletin, then usual mix of lite pop music, YL announcer,
and occasional jingle; YL took a couple of phone calls at 1318. Fair +
(John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Drake R-8, 100-foot RW, Cumbre
DX via DXLD)
Hi everyone, 9835 kHz, 1905 UT 8/10/11, RTM presumed; could anyone
help me to see if there is an ID. I can hear "Radio" at about 12 secs,
then mentions of FM later but cannot quite get what is being said.
Help much appreciated
http://www.box.net/shared/ayrx2atyuk42n8pjfz7i
Thank you very much in advance (Mark Davies, Anglesey, Wales, dxldyg
via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hi Mark, It's a promo in Malay or Bahasa Malaysia for various events
during October, which is designated "Bulan Bahasa Kebangsaan"
("National Language Month"). There are mentions of "Majlis Pelancaran
Bulan Bahasa Kebangsaan Tingkat Negeri Sarawak Dua Ribu Sebelas"
(roughly: "The Council for Launching National Language Month, Sarawak
State Level, 2011") at 42 secs, 53 secs and 1 min 45 secs.
Around 58 secs, there is a mention of an event sponsored by "Dewan
Bahasa dan Pustaka, Radio Sarawak dengan kerjasama (somebody)" ("The
Institute of Language and Literature (and) Radio Sarawak in
cooperation with somebody)". I couldn't catch most of the venues where
events are being held, but one of them is Politeknik Mukah in Central
Sarawak (1 min 27 secs).
The slogan "satu bahasa, satu bangsa, satu negara" ("one language, one
nation, one country") appears at 1 min 16 secs and 2 mins 3 secs, and
the jingle at the end says "Bahasa Malaysia, bahasa kita" ("Bahasa
Malaysia, our language"). Best regards (Alan Davies, Asia, ibid.)
** MALI. 5995.002, ORTMalienne Bamako starts before 0600 UT, noted
today at 0553 UT in French service, S=9+15dBm, today fluttery signal
from Sahel zone. Program break at 0555-0557 UT, heard a 1093 Hertz
measurement tone instead, measured right on Perseus SDR screen. Flute
music interval signal started at 0557:30 UT til 0559:30 UT, when
Malian National Anthem started, played by military brass band til
0600:30 UT. At exact 0601 UT heard 5 time pips in background of the
Anthem music. ID by female at 0601 UT, followed by all frequencies
announcement. At 0605 UT Holy Quran prayer (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 7,
wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. 7245, Oct 8 at 0603 chanting, IGIM had just come on,
and not abutting 7250 VATICAN [q.v.] for a change.
7245, Sunday Oct 9 at 0452, IGIM is already on in Arabish squeezed
between 7240 DW Rwanda English and 7250 Vatican French [q.v.]. You
never know when IGIM will turn on its transmitter; last night not
until 0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
4845, Radio Mauritanie, 0630-0640, in Arabic. Male announcer with
chanting, excellent reception. 09-October-2011 (Ed Wlodarski, N2ED,
New Jersey, Ten Tec RX340 & 100 Ft Long Wire, NASWA Flashsheet via
WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DXLD)
!? Must resume checking 4845 for IGIM if possible vs WWCR 4840 ACI,
especially when unheard on 7245, but this very same date I reported:
``7245, Sunday Oct 9 at 0452, IGIM is already on in Arabish squeezed
between 7240 DW Rwanda English and 7250 Vatican French. You never know
when IGIM will turn on its transmitter; last night not until 0600``.
So apparently they went back to 4845 AFTER a while on 7245. The old 2-
frequency/1-transmitter schedule had them shifting from 4 to 7 around
0800. Has anyone else heard them at all on 4845 lately?
Checking out a report that IGIM had been heard on 4845 again, which
had been inactive for many months: Oct 12 at 0502, not on 4845 or 7245
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Re: Who's off frequency on 940? I'm playing around with my
Misek phaser and am noticing 940 to be an interesting channel. The
main station, semi-local is pretty much exactly on 940, but I'm also
able to hear an oldies station ("Tell Laura I love her,``, etc.) is on
940.174 playing Big Bad John right now (0611 UTC). I'm seeing another
carrier on 939.878 as well, and some faint traces on 939.989 and
939.962. Seemed to ID simply as "Oldies" at 0612. Who??? (Walt
Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, IRCA mailing list via DXLD)
Walt - I think your 939.878 may be Mexico City [XEQ]. Last time I
heard them they were on 939.88 (David Yocis - Harpers Ferry, WV, USA,
Oct 4, ibid.)
Yes, I also heard XEQ on 939.880 last month which could fit with your
939.878 (Sylvain Naud, Portneuf, QC, ibid.)
** MEXICO. Pre-sunrise MWDX Oct 7, UT: These DX sessions are done with
the DX-398 handheld for quick nulling and peaking, internal antenna
only on AC inside. Reference: http://www.mexicoradiotv.com/frec_am.htm
580, Oct 7 at 1203 UT, talking about rain along highway 57 to San
Antonio; correlates with yesterday`s log of San Antonio ads on:
580 XEMU La Rancherita del Aire Piedras Negras, Coah. 5,000 2,500
630, Oct 7 at 1156 UT, promo for flu shots courtesy Grupo Radio
México, noticias 6-30 AM, 1157 XEFB program promo:
630 XEFB FB La Estación Que Da Las Noticias Monterrey NL 10,000 10,000
660, Oct 7 at 1211 UT, ``Radio 6-60, La Tremenda, Número Uno`` IDs,
6:11 timecheck, ads:
660 XEACB Radio 660, La Tremenda Cd. Delicias, Chih. 3,000 1,000
670, Oct 7 at 1203 UT, mentions Grupo Radio México, 1205 mañanitas.
Poor signal. I am trying, so far unsuccessfully, to hear the slogan
Richard Allen reported from XETOR, ``La Voz Consuelo``. Anyhow it was
XETOR:
670 XETOR Radio Ranchito Torreon, Coah. 1,000 250
This version of Cantú lists by state also shows Grupo affiliation:
http://www.radiotvmexico.net/contenido.php?edo_id=7&seccion=estacionesEdo
800, Oct 7 at 1214 UT, full ID from ``XEZR, La Traviesa`` in Spanish
only, amid CCI from the very distorted talker (XEDD?) and KQCV OKC:
800 XEZR La Traviesa Zaragoza, Coah. 2,000 2,000
Wayne Heinen in CO says he also heard an English ID from XEZR at 0401
UT Sept 24. My Random House dixionary says traviesa means sleeping car
(as in a train), rafter as in architecture, and the distance between
two points, none of which make much sense for a radio station. Instead
we have to check the masculine travieso: transverse, crosswise,
mischievous, willful, debauched, clever, subtle, ever-moving (of
streams, etc.). Take your pick; I wonder which sense was intended. Do
they use an English slogan in ID? Wayne also heard ``Channel 80``
1000, Oct 7 at 1218 UT, weather, 6:19 TC, fast SAH with KTOK OKC
(which I have a hard time nulling, unlike sharp nulls on WKY 930 ---
maybe because WKY is more groundwave being on N side of OKC while KTOK
is further on the S side?). Keeps referring to ``nuestra ciudad``
which is NOT helpful, but we assume it is
1000 XEFV La Rancherita Cd. Juárez, Chih. 1,000 D
altho there are three other XEs in the UT-6 zone, in Chih, Sin.
1100, Oct 7 at 1224 UT, heavy beat music with drums, 1228 5:28 TC,
full ID but tough copy of details, XE–AF[?], mil watts, address and
phones, ``24 horas contigo``, Grupo Rasa[?[ Comunicaciones, www site,
also plugs availability on Canal 69(?) in New York. So it`s:
1100 XENAS Unica + FM 96.1 Navojoa, Son. 1,000 500
(There is one other UT-7 in BCS but call XEBAC does not match.)
Per a Cantú link to http://www.larsavision.tv/ it`s Grupo Larsa, more
about music TV than radio, on 39.3 in NY. Has linx to listen to their
radio stations, mostly FM and not including this one as it`s just
simulcasting 96.1. Hmm, 96.1 is not among the logos either. Anyhow.
V. also UNIDENTIFIED 1410
Post-sunrise MW DX Oct 8, UT; woke up too late:
1040, Oct 8 at 1237 UT, ``Frecuencia Mega, número uno`` between news
items. Cantú likely leads to this one, heard several times before:
1040 XEGYS La Primera + FM 90.1 Guaymas, Son. 5,000 250
Back in May, fellow MexDXer John Wilkins in CO thought the call had
definitely changed to XEGIS, also heard ``Frecuencia Mega`` as in DXLD
11-27
For Mexican national anthem info, played all over the dial circa 1200
UT in two basic versions, orchestral and choral, some sources with the
lyrix and English translations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himno_Nacional_Mexicano
but for only a few of the original ten stanzas; since on some stations
it goes on and on for some 5 minutes, it`s multi-stanzaed but haven`t
counted them. It would be nice to know when to anticipate the final
beat to be prepared for sign-on/ID.
more lyrix here:
http://www.inside-mexico.com/anthem.htm
again skipping some of the stanzas; have they been withdrawn?
http://www.nationalanthems.info/mx.htm
It`s really war-mongering, but then so is the Star Spangled Banner. In
the case of Mexico the inspirational enemy was the unnamed USA.
Mexicans sure are patriotic and proud of their NA, playing it two or
four times a day on every (?) radio (and TV??) station. Finding ours
on a US station is just about impossible anymore, no excuse being 24h
operation, nor do daytimers bother with it either.
SW stations with limited/fragmented schedules could play it
frequently, but WINB uses it as produxion/talkover frequency-change
ID, background music. It`s just like disrespecting the flag.
Pre/sunrise MW DX Oct 9, UT:
610, Oct 9 at 1158 UT, mañanitas but talkover about XEBX Sabinas
celebrating its 65th anniversary, also mentioned Monclova, which is
the next city down Hwy 57 to Monterrey. Cantú:
610 XEBX La Primera Sabinas, Coah. 5,000 500
Homepage http://www.radioxebx.com/ does not give exact date, but:
``ACERCA DE RADIO XEBX 610AM
XEBX es la estación más tradicional en el norte del estado de
Coahuila; grandes artistas y locutores han desfilado por los pasillos
de esta emisora desde el día en que su primera transmisión salió al
aire para la región carbonífera más importante del país.
La Primera, empieza sus transmisiones en el año de 1936 en Sabinas,
Coah. y desde ese momento esta radiodifusora es ya un símbolo de
arraigo cultural e histórico de la región.
XEBX la Primera, es de las pocas estaciones en el norte del país que
continúan desde sus inicios con el mismo formato en su programación.
Sus ondas radiales llevan la música mexicana a través de sus 5 mil
watts de potencia; esto mismo permite poder escuchar los mejores
intérpretes del género ranchero, grupero y el ritmo de los grupos
vallenatos.``
Original text lax axents except tildes, in the strange priority so
many SS employ, so inserted by gh, and spelling and comma splices also
corrected with semicolons, etc.
1000, Oct 9 at 1209 UT, KTOK OKC is surprisingly off, so I hunt for
anything else. From N/S, Ciudad de México is mentioned weakly,
probably really remnant of XEOY, and from E/W, unfortunately the only
station heard was the one I get anyway by nulling KTOK:
1214 polca music, Spanish interviews talking over polcas; 1222 IFE et
al. PSAs; 1223 ``La Rancherita, Mil A-M``; 1235 still in with same ID,
program `La Polca del Domingo`. It is:
1000 XEFV La Rancherita Cd. Juárez, Chih. 1,000 D
1030, Oct 9 at 1242 UT, Mexican NA at very odd hour; Sunday morning
operator overslept? Then R. Fórmula ID but not sure if from same
station. Once again the only such station listed by Cantú is the
often-heard one:
1030 XEYC Radio Fórmula Cd. Juárez, Chih. 5,000 500
1200, Oct 9 at 1222, some Mexican music is making it instead of WOAI.
Of the seven listed, probably one of these two:
1200 XEWT W Radio + FM 97.7 Culiacán, Sin. 1,000 250
1200 XEYF Radio Fórmula Hermosillo, Son. 1,000 250
WRTO Chicago is also conceivable but I certainly have not been getting
much from the north in the mornings.
Trying some MW DX other than pre-sunrise, Oct 10 at 0550-0602 UT, I am
tuning around for Mexican National Anthems, but none lead to IDs:
760, at 0558 UT Oct 10, choral NA
810, at 0602 UT Oct 10, choral NA
920, at 0550 UT Oct 10, orchestral NA, but too much CCI; ends at 0553
with ID = sign off? by super-hype voice actor, but can`t copy it
Pre/sunrise DX Oct 10, UT:
680, Oct 10 at 1216 UT, PSAs, mentions Guasave, noticiero, ``en punto
6:17``, YL with news of Huracán Jova. Cantú shows:
680 XEORO La Mera Jefa + FM 93.7 Guasave, Sin. 1,000 500
Later in the hour, KNBR was dominant with sports unlike Sundays
770, Oct 10 at 1233 UT, gobierno federal PSA crediting the unnamed
president for progress, ``40 Principales`` promo, Los Mochis ID for
XH--- 104.3, 6:35 time:
770 XEREV Los 40 Principales + FM 104.3 Los Mochis, Sin. 5,000 100
900, Oct 10 at 1225 UT, ad for Vancouver Travel by YL speaking
*German* in strange accent, presumably Low, for the Mennonites, back
to Spanish for Radio Vida promo, PSA for Cámara de Senadores, 1226 un
programa de la Suprema Corte de Justicia.
Yes there is a travel agency by that name in Cuauhtémoc! But search
sites are loathe to link to its own website, if any. IIRC there are
also Mennonites in BC, so maybe this is a very specialized agency; I
guess flying machines are allowed.
Once again, the R. Vida slogan is heard, not La Reina as in Cantú:
900 XEDT La Reina Cd. Cuauhtémoc, Chih. 5,000 1,500
1100, Oct 10 at 1159 UT, self-promotion by ``Radio Cañón, líder en
publicidad``, phone starting with 95-, singing ID and music. Cantú:
1100 XETGO Radio Cañón Tlaltenango, Zac. 5,000 400
Nice to get something deeper and easter than the usual NW ones now, a
Zacatecan.
Pre/sunrise MW DX Oct 11 UT; this time instead of Cantú I am
referencing the excellent 2010 IRCA Mexican Log, whose only drawback
is that it`s on paper and can`t be copied and pasted. Info on ordering
this and other IRCA publications:
http://www.ircaonline.org/bookst.htm
560, Oct 11 at 1204 UT ``en Monclova se oye ... XE-- presenta
noticias``. IRCA: XEGIK, Monclova, Coahuila, 5000/500, La Acerera,
24h, format VAR, net RASA, transmitter at Ciudad Frontera, Coah.
(despite the name it is not on the border but just west of Monclova)
620, Oct 11 at 1205 UT, orchestral NA, 1207 ID as ``XEBU, La
Norteñita, 10 mil watts, para todo el estado``. IRCA adds: Chihuahua,
Chihuahua, 5000/1000, 1200-0500, VAR, MEGA, v/s Reyna Salmón de Boone
Cantú and WRTH also list as 5 kW, so exaggerating or really upped?
It`s strong enough at peaks to believe 10 kW
720, Oct 11 at 1203 UT, XEDE with promo including phone number. IRCA:
Saltillo, Coahuila, 5000/250, La Kaliente, 24h, TRO/NWS format, net
OIR, // XHEBC [FM]
760, Oct 11 at 1209 UT, choral NA from WSW, 1210 Antena 7-60, 6:10 TC,
not a full ID, into music. IRCA: XEES, Chihuahua2, 1000/500, 1300-0500
[sic], CLA [sic] format, MEGA net. CLA means classical music, but not
so now nor ever heard from this one here.
800, Oct 11 at 1201 UT, XEZR IDs, including vocal jingle, QRM from the
unID distortion-station. IRCA: XEZR is 2000/250, Zaragoza, Coahuila,
La Traviesa de Coahuila, 1200-0400, CIMA net, Radiofónica del Norte.
810, Oct 11 at 1212 UT, Radio Rey, Noti-Rey, Reynosa mentioned, 7:12
TC, 22 grados, also Fahrenheit conversion. IRCA adds: XERI,
Tamaulipas, 1000/100, 24h, BAL/NWS, SOMER, stereo
1180, Oct 11 at 1221 UT, romantic music from WSW vs IBOC KFAQ 1170 OK;
1224 segué from OM to YL song. Based on format and previous log, very
likely as per IRCA: XEDCH, Ciudad Delicias, Chih., 5000/250, Romántica
1180-AM, 1300-0700 [sic], ROM format. [Skeds, like 760, may be one
hour off due to DST]
1300, Oct 11 at 1236 UT, 6:36 TC, ``Radio México Noticias``, current
delays in international bridge crossings including the one at Zaragoza
near Juárez. Not any more news now! Into ``The Power of Love`` by Huey
Lewis & The News. With 50 kW, this one is capable of punching thru QRM
such as Tulsa a bit past sunrise. IRCA: XEP, Ciudad Juárez, Chih.,
50000/500, Radio Trece, Radio Centro, 24h, VAR, GRM/RAMA, notes: Woody
Woodpecker theme (which I have yet to hear on it).
Pre/sunrise MW DX Oct 12 UT:
710, Oct 12 at 1234 UT, announcements about Ciudad Guerrero, 1235
``Noticias 7-10``, 6:33 = 27:7 TC, news of Hurricane Jova threatening
Jalisco. The latter is national news, but Cd. Guerrero is just west of
Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, so once again this must be, per IRCA:
XEDP, 7000/-5000 [sic: the - means presumed, suspected or estimated],
La Ranchera de Cuauhtémoc, RAN/NOR, RAMA, possibly 24h on weekends
760, Oct 12 at 1236 UT, promo for R. Centro (I thought) mixing with
another SS; but IRCA has no R. Centro on 760, nor any station a member
of the GRC group. Nothing found in Cantú either nor WRTH
790, Oct 12 at 1230 UT, ``Radio Fórmula, XENT-AM, 5 mil watts``. IRCA:
XENT, La Paz, BCS, 5000/750, 13-07, Formats: ROM/NWS, Nets: ORF1/RSA
1100, Oct 12 at 1223 UT ``Radio Cañón [illegible]. . . Número Uno`` by
superhype voiceactor (SHVA). IRCA has this slogan for:
XETGO, Zacatecas, Zac., 5000/400, 1200-0600, Formats: NOR/RAN, Net: PM
[the abbrs. explained in the IRCA Mexican Log introduxion]
(Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENIING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6009.96, R. Mil, 1209-1232 Oct 4. D.F. ads, CDT (UTC-6 [you
mean -5]) time check, then back to news-talk, with long phone calls -
sounded like correspondents' reports or maybe short interviews; more
ads at 1232. Generally fair, with an occasional good peak (Wilkins-CO)
MEXICO - 6184.98, R. Educación, 1017-1059 Oct 3. Segued marimba tunes;
no announcements until 1031 ID mentioning 1060 AM with 100,000 watts,
website http://www.radioeducacion.edu.mx and 6185 SW; more non-stop
marimba music followed to 1059, at which time a strong Chinese-
language station came onto 6185. Excellent signal (John Wilkins, Wheat
Ridge, Colorado, Drake R-8, 100-foot RW, Cumbre DX via DXLD)
6185, MÉXICO, XEPPM (XEEP) Radio Educación, México DF. 1353-1450
October 9, 2011. Tune-in to classical-ish music, suddenly and
amusingly breaking into "Dixie (I Wish I Was In Dixie/Dixie's Land)"
by the same orchestra, Spanish female just after 1400, male ID, back
to eclectic music, another ID at 1410. Fair to weak, and on way later
than usual. But seemingly off at 1505 and 1605 rechecks (Terry L
Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, dxldyg via
WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Looked for it after 1230 Oct
10, but no (gh)
** MEXICO [and non]. RADIOS UNIVERSITARIAS SON BÁSICAS PARA LA
DEMOCRACIA --- ENCUENTRO. La primer charla del evento, “Realidades y
retos de la comunicación en América Latina”, fue protagonizada por los
especialistas Armand Mattelart y José Zepeda (Foto: PAOLA BERNAL EL
UNIVERSAL)
Especialistas de varios países analizaron la situación de la
comunicación actual e invitaron a los ciudadanos a “despertar su
espíritu crítico”
Sábado 08 de octubre de 2011 | Alicia Portillo | El Universal
La Sala Miguel Covarrubias fue la sede seleccionada para llevar a cabo
el primer encuentro de Radio Universitaria de Latinoamérica y el
Caribe “Desde Nuestros Acentos”, la cual fue mediada por Rita Abreu,
quien anunció el enlace con más de 100 radios universitarias, entre
las que destacaron Radio UNAM y Radio UAM.
El evento, que se llevó a cabo en el Centro Cultural Universitario,
tuvo como invitados a los representantes de las redes de radios
universitarias de diversos países, entre los que destacaron Argentina,
Cuba, Paraguay, Chile, Honduras, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Colombia,
Ecuador, España y México.
Wim Jansen, director del Departamento Latinoamericano de Radio
Nederland; José Morales Orozco, rector de la Universidad
Iberoamericana; Katherine Grisby, directora y representante de la
oficina de la UNESCO en México; Enrique Fernández Fassnacht, rector
general de la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana; Guillermo Gaviria,
presidente de la Red de Radio Universitaria de Latinoamérica y el
Caribe (RRULAC); y José Narro, rector de la Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México (UNAM), estuvieron presentes en la ceremonia
inaugural de este evento.
Durante el encuentro, Rita Abreu parafraseó al ex director general de
la UNESCO, Federico Mayor, para señalar la importancia de la radio
universitaria: “El mar puede guardar silencio, nosotros no”.
Durante su discurso, Wim Jansen aseguró encontrarse “emocionado”
debido a que existen buenas razones para ello. “Hay una emoción para
quienes trabajamos en radio Nederland. Tenemos buenas razones para
ello, hace cerca de 30 años, amigos de la UNESCO, especialmente
Alejandro Alfonso desde América Latina y Federico Mayor desde Europa,
alentaron la creación de una red de radios universitarias. Los
acompañamos en esta empresa, pero los obstáculos económicos fueron el
factor principal que impidió la conclusión de la idea, pero hoy
gracias a las facilidades tecnológicas, se han sumado las voluntades
de unos cuantos de México, Colombia, Argentina y Chile; como motor de
partida de este vínculo colectivo de comunicación”. . . [mucho más]
http://bit.ly/rpbfRP
(Via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, DXLD)
** MICRONESIA. 4755.47, The Cross R., 1240-1335+ Sep 30. Religious
music, interspersed with occasional inspirational messages. Fair at
tune-in, poor by 1330. Guess they once again "forgot" to turn off the
SW transmitter (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Drake R-8, 100-
foot RW, Cumbre DX via WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DXLD)
** MONACO [non]. [MONTE CARLO site]. Trans World Radio Autumn
Listening World shows they will move from 9800 to 7220 from October 30
for the morning English broadcasts, listed as 0800-0850 daily, no
variations to times at the weekend as at present. Presumably this is
via the Monte Carlo transmitter, 6105 currently via Nauen remains in
parallel (Mike Barraclough-UK, WDXC-UK Contact magazine via BC-DX Oct
8 via DXLD)
Rather 7310 Moosbrunn Austria 100 kW and 6105 Nauen-D in winter season
(Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.)
** MOROCCO. MARROCOS, 595 SNRT-"A", Oujda, has been off channel at
least since the 3rd October; 2148-..., 07/10, interview; 54554,
adjacent QRM only. Yesterday's evening, however, Oujda was back on the
right frequency, 594. 73. (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO [and non]. 15341, Oct 8 at 1302, IMM missing from here and
not on 15345v either, allowing HCJB Australia to be clear for a change
on 15340 during S. Asian song, presumably with Christian lyrix
imposed. At 1509, 15345 had come on, but unmodulated (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15345.16, Radio Morocco, Nador. 1810 October 9, 2011. Fair with almost
jazz instrumental music, then Arabic male reading not Qur`an stuff.
Checking for Argentina, but no trace of (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater,
Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOZAMBIQUE. A new Centre opened Oct 02 at R Mozambique, Matutuíne
district, Maputo province, which will facilitate the change from
analogue technology to digital. The Prime Minister, Aires Ali, who
carried out the inauguration of the new infrastructure, considered the
work to be a great pride for the Mozambican nation, ranking it the
highest building and one of its kind built since the proclamation of
independence for the sector broadcasting. As part of the celebrations
of 36 years of that station and the first 78 years of radio emission
in Mozambique, the inauguration of the project was witnessed by
members of the Government, civil society representatives, staff of R
Mozambique, and numerous popular ...
Original in Portuguese at:
http://www.jornalnoticias.co.mz/pls/notimz2/getxml/pt/contentx/1312158
("Notícias" newspaper from Maputo via Fernando Ferreira, Leiria,
Portugal, translated by Google Translator, DSWCI DX Window Oct 5 via
DXLD)
** MYANMAR. 5985.832, Very weak signal on threshold level at 1308 UT
Oct 6, heard on remote SDR unit in southern Finland. Signal will be
stronger in coming winter months in eastern Europe (Wolfgang Büschel,
Oct 6, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MYANMAR/BURMA. 5985.83, Myanma Radio via Yangon, 1432-1453*, Oct 7.
The North Korean jamming that was used against Shiokaze (1430*) ended
at 1436. Myanmar continues with their long standing practice of
switching transmitter sites during their evening broadcast.
5985.0, Myanma R. via Naypyidaw, *1453, Oct 7. Switched over to this
frequency after closing down Yangon’s 5985.83.
Both 7185.84 and 7200.02 have been missing for some days now; must
have changed their schedule again (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach,
CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See
UNIDENTIFIED 5835
By chance I heard some Burmese (?) station mostly with music on 7290
kHz this morning (8 Oct 2011) around 0100 to past 0200 UT. Myanmar on
new freq? 73 (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, India, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
Re. 7290 - engineer typo of 7189v? 7290 at present 1358 CNR 1 Beijing
in Mandarin heard.
5985.831 ...x.834 wandered Female voice heard with Myanmar frequency
announcement around 1350 UT Oct 8. Typical gongs at 1355 UT. Nothing
heard on 5835 kHz now.
MDF Myanmar Defence Forces, Taunggyi, at present 1410 UT on 5770.016,
just above threshold in Eastern Europe. above logs all on remote SDR
receiver reception in Finland and Russia (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.)
** MYANMAR/BURMA. Checking at 1419, Oct 8.
5770, with pop song.
5835, clearly not broadcasting today during checks from 1200 to 1420.
5915, certainly sounded like the usual Distance Learning Service
lecture under CRI.
5985.83, was here, but covered by Shiokaze, but no jamming today. What
was strange was that it sounded like N. Korea jamming on Shiokaze’s
former 6135. Why? Totally covered Madagascar there!
Both 7185.83 and 7200.02 continue missing during checks around 1200
(their usual sign off time had been about 1220 or so) on Oct 8. Must
have moved, but where?
5915, Myanma R., 1323, Oct 11. EZL pop songs; BoH usual indigenous
theme music before the start of the lectures from the Distance
Learning Service; weak under CRI, but one of their better receptions.
Myanma Radio, both 7185.83 and 7200.02 (they had been switching back
and forth between these two frequencies before they changed their
schedule); continues missing during checks around 1200 (their usual
sign off time had been about 1220 or so), as of Oct 11. So where is
it now and what time are they broadcasting? (Ron Howard, Asilomar
State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
5985.0, Myanma Radio via Naypyidaw. A first for me to note Buddhist
chanting from 1518 to 1527, Oct 12 followed by small bell being rung
three times; BoH usual indigenous theme music before the start of
their last English segment of the day; ID; news of the activities of
government officials; 1537 “This news comes to you from Myanma Radio”;
I did not hear the usual anti-VOA, BBC, RFA and DVB slogan that had
been used here for years; non-stop EZL pop songs (Reba McEntire and
Kelly Clarkson “Because of You”, etc.); 1600 covered by strong sign on
of CRI, but Myanmar did not sign off. Normally they are severely
bothered by adjacent splatter/QRM, but not today. In another 2 to 4
weeks this might have a chance for some decent reception if the QRM
stays off. Edited MP3 audio at
http://www.box.net/shared/lmbr22d1zuqrgro375zd
Interesting story about the rapid changes going on within Myanmar:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-12/is-myanmar-giving-democracy-a-try-the-ticker.html
(Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** NETHERLANDS [and non]. RNW Sites on Panoramio
http://www.panoramio.com/user/2130923?with_photo_id=13804636
New all clear GE 2011 Imagery of RNW Talata-Volonondry txer site now
available. [included above? No separate link]
RNW Panoramio - Bonaire [1]
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/1245304.jpg
(Ian Baxter, NSW, Oct 10, shortwavesites yg via DXLD)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. 6125, Oct 11 at 0538, Cuban music, soon IDed as
RNW, in English! Continued with Cuban jazz, mostly piano and
percussion, 0549 outro as the Ramón Valle Trio, and continued with
Lecuona`s ``Siboney`` in quite a different version. Seems Valle is a
Dutch Cuban (this autolaunches music, beware):
http://www.ramonvalle.nl/index2.html
Then I dozed but I think it ran past 0600 until 0602*. Quite an
improvement over the awful DentroCuban signal on 6150 from RHC.
At 0540, 6125 was not // 9895 RNW in Dutch with poor signal. 6125 is
250 kW, 114 degrees via VATICAN at 0500-0557 daily, supposedly also in
Dutch. SMG CVA brought up wrong feed channel? Nice to hear RNW in
English again during this hour when it once broadcast to W North
America via Bonaire until they abandoned us.
6125, Oct 12 at 0530, RNW via VATICAN, item about the weather in
Croatia, back in Dutch instead of English by mistake almost 24 hours
earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. Re 11-40: KBC to use 6095 --- Could it be that
the 6095 frequency has been chosen deliberately to stay in the talks
by triggering these speculations that it would be Junglinster
[LUXEMBOURG]? It is of course not, instead as assumed Wertachtal [see
GERMANY], running 100 kW into a quadrant antenna (Kai Ludwig, Germany,
Oct 8, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
GERMANY, New station via MBR - Mighty KBC Radio in
Dutch/English/Music:
0900-1600 on 6095*WER 100 kW / non-dir to WeEU Sat/Sun from Oct. 8/9
1000-1700 on 6095*WER 100 kW / non-dir to WeEU Sat/Sun from Oct. 30
* strong co-channel CRI in English from 1500
(DX Mix News, Bulgaria, 10 Oct via DXLD)
KBC-Tests 6095 Wertachtal 9-16 UT --- >>>> ``KBC-Tests start tomorrow
a music program via Wertachtal 6095 kHz at 0900-1600 UT, in Winter
season 1hr later at 1000-1700 UT, Saturdays and Sundays.``
Nothing heard in Copenhagen this Monday, Oct. 10. 73, (Erik Koie,
Denmark, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) As expected
** NIGER. 9704.99, LV du Sahel, *0500-0515, test tone at 0459:37. Sign
on at 0500:10 with choral National Anthem. Ten second flute IS at 0502
and into talk in unidentified language. Qur`an at 0503-0507. Talk at
0507. Indigenous vocals. Poor, mixing with Radio Ethiopia 9705. Oct 5
(Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA, Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot
longwires, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
9705, Voice of Sahel (tentative); 2107-2131+, 6-Oct; M in Arabic
talking over chant; 2109 went into lengthy commentary in Arabic --
mentioned Niamey. SIO=3+52+, cleanest in LSB (Harold Frodge, Midland
MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed
RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
NIGER/ETHIOPIA, A 1000 Hertz measuring tone started at 0458 til exact
0500 UT from Niamey Niger transmitter site, 0500 UT when time pips
noted and Niger National Anthem play started. Voix du Sahel Niamey hit
the R Ethiopia program on 9705.003 kHz. Both programs on very same
signal strength level S=7-8 much fluttery, at 0500-0551 UT Oct 9
(Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 9, HCDX via DXLD)
** NIGERIA. FRCN KADUNA ON REDUCED SCHEDULE DUE TO DISRUPTED POWER
SUPPLY
Damage to the Power Holding Company’s (PHCN) armoured cable that
supplies electricity to the Jaji main station of the Federal Radio
Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) Kaduna is the reason the station was off
the air for about seven days.
Speaking to the Daily Trust yesterday, the Acting Zonal Director of
the station, Alhaji Muhammad Sani Suleiman said,”I am telling you
sincerely that the damage of that cable is the reason we are on and
off. It is not that we are not operating completely, we reschedule our
programmes since we cannot afford buying diesel to run our usual
programmes. You know how diesel is now in Nigeria. This is why we
transmit in the morning and go off for sometimes before we resume
transmission to enable us manage the little diesel we can afford.
“Money for the repairs of the damaged cable has been released and the
men of the PHCN are right now doing everything possible to fix it
back. It is not surprising how the cable got spoiled now as it has
been there for quite some time,” Alhaji Suleiman said.
(Source: Daily Trust)( October 12th, 2011 - 13:37 UTC by Andy Sennitt,
Media Network blog via WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DXLD)
** NIGERIA. 15120, Oct 7 at 0522, VON is the SSOB tho R. Australia is
audible again on 15160, 15240. But as usual, 15120 has big hum marring
discussion of debt crisis; S9+12 would be adequate if it weren`t for
VON`s incredible self-inflicted technical problems.
15120, Oct 9 at 0442, S9+15 hum and whine on VON carrier; 0449 in
drumming, other native instruments, tweeting in IS vs hum.
15120, Oct 10 at 0452, VON is the OSOB at S9+10 with drumming, etc. IS
(or prélude); hum not too bad today, but higher-pitched whine. 0500
recheck has already faded to S6-S9 and now very undermodulated; can
barely hear YL ID, 0500 timecheck, introducing news. By 0541 recheck,
carrier is JBA, but Australia and Botswana are now BA on 19m (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Voice of Nigeria testing in DRM mode ?
http://www.drmrx.org/forum/showthread.php?t=2359
(via Alokesh Gupta, VU3BSE, New Delhi, Oct 12, dxldyg via DXLD) Viz.:
11770 kHz, "VON" --- Something new! Label says "VON" and it is
supposed to be "Oldies Music". Any clues? S7 - S9+5 dB with Fading,
country is "BW" and the sound is missing.
Suddenly there was some kind of music during the second log. The
signal disappeared at 1519 UTC.
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Regards, (Terje, HED362, a.k.a. digger, Switzerland, 11 Oct, DRMRX
forum via DXLD)
http://www.omnirep.se/drm/
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Wow, is this really Botswana?
Just caught the last minutes upon Terje's report.
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Friedrich.....DK6QI.....52 N 07 E
http://www.mar1386.com
(FritzWue, Location: 40 km west of Muenster, NRW, Germany, ibid.)
Friedrich, good point. (OMG, I did not see THAT label!!)
ISO3 ISO2 Name
BWA BW Botsuana
I thought it was Baden-Wuertenberg !! But fair enough, it said "Other
language". Some of the songs were in English. I caught 28 minutes of
sound on HDD. The SNR peaked at 30 dB here - I wonder where the TX
was. This label I saw, but I was not here at the end of the
transmission.
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Regards, (Terje HED362, ibid.)
Terje, as you can see from my screenshot the label showed "Hausa" as
language. As far as I understand from Wikipedia Hausa is spoken in
Ghana, Nigeria etc.. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausa_(Sprache)
...very strange... (Friedrich.....DK6QI.....52 N 07 E, ibid.)
At a guess this may be the Voice of Nigeria testing one of their new
transmitters at Abuja. Regards, (Kevin, radioeng, ibid.)
@ Kevin, probably you are right, VON and Hausa match.
Here is the station, copy and paste into Google Earth:
8.964701, 7.362996
Obviously they have ambitions going digital: "The Director-General
said that on completion, the project would produce a radio station
with capability to broadcast in digital and analogue systems on the
short wave band."
11770 kHz is also listed as one of their frequencies:
http://www.voiceofnigeria.org/freq.htm
(Friedrich.....DK6QI.....52 N 07 E, ibid.)
Yes, that's why I said "OMG, I saw that now". The last 10 minutes I
was out of the office - all the time before that it only said "Other
language" and "BW". VON - Voice Of Nigeria - makes sense. And, during
my first log there was absolutely NO sound at all - not even any
residue of hum or anything. Regards, (Terje, HED362, ibid.)
Are the tests connected to this?
http://kimelli.nfshost.com/index.php?id=12238
(drmdab, northern Germany, ibid.)
Hi all,
AM on this frequency this morning. Same kind of music as during the
afternoon yesterday mixed with carrier only, some talk, 1000 Hz test
tone and sometimes just a carrier wave.
One give-away was a male voice mentioning "Book Fair in Nigeria" just
before 0930 UT. Regards, (Terje, HED362, 12 October, DRMRX fora via
WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DXLD)
Now 1110 UTC DRM: "TEST TRANSMISSION VON". But from where? (The second
line never showed up). The receiving conditions were not so good
today, or they beamed in another direction. China chewed in the upper
part of the DRM spectrum and a co-channel carrier did not help either.
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Regards, (Terje HED362, 12 Oct, ibid.)
Bodo - der Ingenieur von Thomcast Turgi Schweiz ist seit anfangs
Oktober wieder vor Ort, testet die 3 neuen Sender in Abuja jetzt auch
im DRM mode. Die Sender stehen ja ready seit 22 Monaten im
afrikanischen Busch bereit, aber organisatorisch und pekunär hat sich
die Angelegenheit noch nicht erledigt.
Bodo Fritsche, jetzt DF8DX {ex DL3OCH} über seine e-mail Adresse
df8dx @ gmx.de erreichbar.
Heute höre ich auf 11770 VoNigeria kein DRM mode signal. 73 wolfgang
http://www.drmrx.org/forum/showthread.php?t=2359
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(Wolfgang Büschel, via DXLD)
GERMAN CONTRACTOR PLUGS HIS AMATEUR TRANSCEIVER INTO GIANT ROTATABLE
VOICE OF NIGERIA ANTENNA. Posted: 11 Oct 2011
Amateur Radio Newsline, 7 Oct 2011, Bill Pasternak: "In down to Earth
DX news, DL3OCH will be active as 5N7Q from Abuja, Nigeria, through
October 15th. His operation will be on 40 through 10 meters using one
of the largest fully rotatable short wave broadcast antennas in the
world. It has a gain of over 20 dbi on all bands." This German radio
amateur is in Nigeria "for maintenance of broadcasting station in
Abuja. ... I have not more than 100W" See QRZ.com, 8 Oct 2011.
Voice of Nigeria, 6 July 2011: "Director-General, Voice of Nigeria,
Malam Abubakar Jijiwa, who conducted the minister around the site,
said the facility stood on 120 hectares of land. ... The VON Boss,
said that all the equipment procured were digitally compliant. [I]n
his words; 'the facility is yet to be officially handed over by the
contractor since full payment has not been made for the job done.' He
noted that the Ministry of Finance had approved the payment of the
next stage of the project and that VON was in the process of paying."
QRZ.com, 21 Jan 2011, Bodo Fritsche: "It's a fully rotatable curtain
antenna with 32 stocked dipoles. Each 16 for lowbands (6-16MHz) and
highbands (16-26MHz). Its 80m high, more than 20dBi gain on each band,
weight 280 tons, rotated by 20kW motors, completely remote
controlled." (kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6925.1, 9/10 0030-0141* Commander Bunny, WBNY,
pirate, strong American accent, a lot of talks and some songs, like a
show, mentioning New York several times, weak, my first North American
pirate.
6950, 9/10 0150, Wolverine Radio, pirate, USB, old jazz songs, then
rock and other, IDs, good (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italia, RX:
Excalibur Pro, ANT: T2FD, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. -------- Domestic-NA pirates---- Hi Gents, These
loggings are from our Baker’s Island-Salem, MA DX-pedition.
Attendees: Chris Lobdell, John Fisher [the Massachusetts one].
UNID, 6935 AM, 0042-0046*, 10-09-11 SIO:454. Played the song “Nights
In White Satin” by The Moody Blues And then off. No announcements, on
again with one song at 0122-0125* [Lobdell-MA]
Wolverine Radio, 6950 USB, 0149-0241, 10-09-11, SIO: 555. Killer
signal out at the Island, Started with old song from The 1940s, then
into more modern tunes all about lies and lying as the subject. Is
Wolverine trying to send a message to someone? Into slow scan TV at
0241 after ID. [Lobdell-MA]
Location: Bakers Island, Salem, MA; Receiver: Eton E1; Two random long
wires. Hi gents, a few more recent logs:
Pirate-NA. Ann Hoffer Live, 6925 USB, 2350-0006*, 10-9/10-11, SIO:
343. Ann with guitar on lap singing/strumming her favs including
"Nights In White Satin" twice. [Lobdell-MA]
Pirate-NA Radio Paisano, 6925 AM, 0008-0042*, 10-10-11, SIO: 343. This
Columbus Day Themed pirate came on right after Ann with IDs by OM
w/fake Italian accent, playing Italian tunes and comedy bits.
[Lobdell-MA]
RX: Eton E1, 40 meter dipole (Chris Lobdell, Box 80146, Stoneham, MA
02180, Cumbre DX via DXLD) See also EUROPE; see also CANADA
Hi Gents: Pirate activity continues with OK conditions ---
PIRATE-NA. RADIO RONIN, 6925 AM, 0104-0135*, 10-11-11. SIO: 232.
Ronin playing guitar blues/jazz Santana like at times. ID and talk by
OM. [Lobdell-MA]
PIRATE-NA. VOICE OF CAPTAIN RON SHORTWAVE, 6930.25 USBv, 0140-0302+
10-11-11 SIO: 333. Captain Ron playing at show from 2001 with a story
about monkeys, ID, email address. Occas. someone else would come on
over him saying not so nice things about Ron. [Lobdell-MA]
(Chris Lobdell, Box 80146, Stoneham, MA 02180, RX: Eton E1, 40 meter
dipole, Cumbre DX via DXLD)
IIRC, there is at least one lady in Cumbre (gh, DXLD)
** NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS. QSLs: 7390, Radio Free Asia, Burmese
broadcast via IBB/VOA Tinian transmitter site. Full data (with site
indicated) Special RFA / Hamfest 2011 Tokyo Japan QSL card, for e-mail
report. Reply in 24 days.
9715, Radio Free Asia, Vietnamese broadcast via IBB/VOA Tinian
transmitter site. Full data (with site indicated) Special RFA /
Hamfest 2011 Tokyo Japan QSL card, for e-mail report. Reply in 29 days
(Edward Kusalik-Alberta, Canada, Oct 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 780, Oct 10 at 0557 UT, KSPI Stillwater carrier is still
on all-night, evidenced by groundwave DF and the fast SAH it makes
with WBBM. Many others could log the 250-watt ``daytimer`` by this
method. I should try to count the Hz offset (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD
OF RADIO 1586, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1000, Sunday Oct 9 at 1209 UT, I find that KTOK OKC is
OFF, allowing stations from Mexico [q.v.] thru unimpeded. Very
unusual. Still off at 1251 check; not checked again until 1545 when it
was back. BTW, KTOK never runs IBOC any more, whew (Glenn Hauser,
Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1580, Oct 9 at 1227 UT, KOKB Blackwell has lost feed from
Stillwater again, open carrier only, atop some other station with
music. // 1020 KOKP Perry is nominal. By 1248, KOKB has started
modulating sports talk (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OMAN. 15140.52, Sultanat al-Uman Radio, Thumrait. 1425-2201*
October 8, 2011. Noted something here at 1425, seemingly not in
English during the often English block, and chimes just after 1430.
Recheck at 1807, still there in what appeared to be Arabic. Recheck
2057, clearly Arabic, chimes just past 2100, male and female happy
Arabic chat and funny/joy laughs between somewhat traditional Arabic
vocals, mentions of Oman, with very good signal at this point. Faux
Big Ben chimes 2201:23 (can't Big Ben sue for copyright
infringement?), Arabic male ID, then transmitter abruptly off at
2201:23 (listed as 2200 closing in the WRTVH). Hmmm. a 23-second delay
pattern established here. Nothing heard in the 1400 hour the next day,
October 9, much less anything off-frequency. Corrected already? And
see 15355.52, same technical issue there.
15355.52, Sultanat al-Uman Radio, Thumrait. 0240 October 9, 2011. Big,
nearly local signal with nice Arabic vocals, male and female Arabic
chipper announcers. Why are seemingly all Radio Oman channels suddenly
0.52 kHz off-frequency on the high-end now? Faux Big Ben chimes, ID at
0259:52, then female, "It's [?]'O'clock" into accented English female
world news. "This is the news from the Radio Sultanate of Oman" at
0305 by same female news reader, into next news item. News ended at
0309, then Arabic pop vocals, male UK-accented DJ, mentioned an FM
frequency (not copied, ninety-something I think). (Terry L Krueger,
Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, dxldyg via WORLD OF
RADIO 1586, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15140.4, Radio Sultanate Oman. I was hunting many years for R.
Sultanate Oman Station, but here in Western Canada it wasn't possible.
Now when the propagation is much better I started to hear at 15-22 UT
very weak signals but on 15140.4 MHz, not on 15140 MHz [sic]
Because you're living closer to the transmiter site of the station,
could you be so kind to check the frequency, is it really 15140.4 kHz?
Regards, Lev (Lev Lytovchenko-CAN, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 8 via DXLD)
15140.511, See the screenshot of late, last broadcasting hour of the
day from Oman, 2100 til 2200 UT Oct 8th. Exact frequency is 15140.511
kHz, to the remote Software Definded Radio screen. Calibration center
tuning of the rx unit against basic time signal on 15.000 MHz from Ft
Collins, Colorado, USA (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 8,
ibid.)
R Sultanate of Oman, Thumrait transmitter seems is now back on even
frequency, 15140.000 to x.001 kHz at 1414 UT Oct 12. ID at 1417 UT in
American English accent (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15140.0, Oct 10 at 2018, poor signal with music, presumed R. Sultanate
of Oman. Was checking this since Terry Krueger in FL had found it off-
frequency to 15142.52, all day Oct 8 1425-2201*. Not any more. He also
had their other frequency 520 Hz high on 15355.52 at 0240-0309+ with a
``big, almost local signal``, in English after 0300, but I could not
hear that Oct 11. At 1413 Oct 11, it`s also on 15140.0, very poor M&W
talking, can`t be sure if English instead of Arabic, mixing music
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15140, R. Sultanate of Oman. 1446-1450, Oct 11 in English with advice
about personal finances (credit cards, etc.); into pop music till 1459
in Arabic. Heard daily (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15365, OMAN, BBC, 0338 English, program “Click” reporting on a
museum’s new website. Good. 10/12/11. (Sellers-BC) Overshadowing:
15355, OMAN, Radio Sultanate of Oman, 0302 English, woman with news,
ID “This news comes to you from Radio Sultanate of Oman.”, 0309 end of
news and into announcements, but too weak to understand. Poor.
10/12/11 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening from my
car with Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** PAKISTAN. Here is what I heard recently in Skovlunde on my AOR
AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire:
3975, 0047-0110, 06.10, Rawalpindi III, Islamabad, Kashmiri (presumed)
talk after Qur'an recitation, 0059 ann: "Studio...", jingle, time
signal, ID in Urdu: "Yeh Radio Pakistan-he", public service ann about
flooding in Pakistan and telephone number, 0101 news, 0105 mixed choir
sang about "Talibani"! Strong signal S9+25 dB, 55444 (Anker Petersen,
Denmark, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) See also KASHMIR
** PAKISTAN. 15265, Radio Pakistan, Islamabad, Rawat. 1701-1749
October 9, 2011. Tune-in to accented English female world news, though
mostly Paki-centric, with lots of mentions of Pakistan. "This is Radio
Pakistan" at 1705 by same female and back to news items, URL (not
copied) then male "Radio Pakistan" at 1710:30, apparently resuming
Urdu programming, into Paki-Islamic vocals with flute accompaniments,
seemingly Urdu man briefly at times. No audible parallels. Fair, and
this would have been in the clear if not for what sounded like
moderate level TV interference (shifting buzzing), probably from
someone in the neighborhood watching NFL. First Radio Pakistan log
here in forever. Thanks Rumen Pankov, Sofia, Bulgaria log in the
October Australian DX News via World Of Radio 1585, DXLD (Terry L
Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, dxldyg via
WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also KASHMIR
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3205, NBC Sandaun. As of October 7, they continue
to be off the air (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES. 9395 // 11720 // 15190, DZRM Radyo Magasin simulcast
via R. Pilipinas. Oct 5 had problem with the audio feed, as they were
about a half an hour late starting. 1726 open carrier; no 1730 sign
on; o.c. went off the air at 1741; by 1809 was on the air in Tagalog
with program about overseas Filipino workers (OFW) in Jordan; probably
about the recent arrest of 39 undocumented OFW there; countless
mentions of “O-F-W”; some pop songs. This was the Wednesday only
simulcast of “DZRM Radyo Magasin 1278 kHz”; 11720 best; 9395 and 15190
fair to poor. 15190 with no Radio Africa. Audio streaming working
well. Here is a direct link http://www.pbs.gov.ph/dzrm/ (Ron Howard,
Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES [and non]. 9920, PHILIPPINES vs. VIETNAM, FEBC Bocaue,
Bulacan / Viet jammer. 1135 October 8, 2011. Christian scripture
readings, gospel vocals in non-Chinese Asian language, all under big
Vietnamese siren jammer (first log of it here in ages). All still
present though much weaker past 1300, with no sign of KNLS, Anchor
Point, Alaska making it in here at 1300 sign-on (Terry L Krueger,
Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES [and non]. 11710, R Veritas Asia (RVA), Palauig, 0033,
Sep 24, Bengali was facing strong co-channel interference from AIR
General Overseas Service with news and news commentary in English. But
later monitoring around 0054, I heard signal of RVA-Bengali was free
from co-channel interference of AIR. Perhaps it was on different
frequency (technical problem) during 2245-0045 AIR-GOS English
transmission to NE Asia. As per Jose Jacob's information sheet of AIR
schedules, the 25 mb frequency should be 11645 (250 kW) via Delhi
(Khampur). (Gautam Kumar Sharma, Abhayapuri, Assam, India, DSWCI DX
Window Oct 5 via DXLD)
** PHILIPPINES [and non]. Radio Veritas Asia B11
SHORTWAVE TRANSMISSION SCHEDULE 30 October 2011 to 25 March 2012
TIME (UTC) FREQUENCY (kHz)
Bengali
0030–0057 11710 PUG
1400–1427 11870 PUG
Myanmar
2330–2357 9720 PUG
1130–1157 15450 PUG
Filipino
2300-2327 9720 PUG
1500-1553 15350 SMG
Hindi
0030–0057 11850 PUG
1330–1400 11870 PUG
Hmong
1200–1227 11935 PUG
Kachin
2330–2357 9645 PUG
1230–1257 15225 PUG
Karen
0000–0027 11935 PUG
1200–1230 15225 PUG
Khmer
1000–1030 11850 PUG
Mandarin
2100–2257 6115 PUG
1000–1157 9615 PUG
Sinhala
0000–0027 11850 PUG
0000–0027 15460 PUG
1330–1400 9520 PUG
Tamil
0030–0057 11935 PUG
1400–1427 9520 PUG
Telugu
0100–0127 15530 PUG
1430–1500 9515 PUG
Urdu
0100–0127 15280 PUG
0100–0127 17860 PUG
1430-1457 15435 SMG
Vietnamese
2330–2357 9670 PUG
0130–0230 15530 PUG
1030–1127 11850 PUG
1300–1327 11850 PUG
Chin
0130–0157 15255 PUG
1430-1500 9620 PUG
PUG = Palauig, Zambales, Philippines
Transmitters: 3 x 250 KW
Antenna Type:
3x HRS 4/4/0.3
4x HRS 4/4/0.5
8x HR 2/2/0.5
SMG=Santa Maria di Galeria, Vatican City
(via Alokesh Gupta, VU3BSE, New Delhi, dxldyg via DXLD)
** POLAND [non]. BIG CHANGES AT POLSKIE RADIO FOREIGN SERVICE
Just in is the new operational schedule from Babcock for the B11
season, and it should be definite now also for Polskie Radio after
they were busy evaluating various scenarios during the last weeks.
The big surprise: They will use 1296 from Orfordness, and I suspect it
was primarily the operator who successfully convinced them of doing
so. It could become the only remaining analogue transmission from
Orfordness, RNW no longer shows up in the new Babcock schedule. There
may still be a slim possibility that it is an omission at this point,
but if not now it would happen in next year anyway.
What Polskie Radio will carry on 1296 is English, and for that they
will throw it off shortwave altogether. How is the reception of 1296
in the UK and Ireland, behind the beam that goes during darkness out
over Germany to the area from Poland to Hungaria? Using 1296 for
German would make more sense I think.
Of the considered overseas shortwave services only Polish via
Sackville will be implemented. Kranji will not be used, and the
existing transmissions via Al-Dhabbaya and Moosbrunn will be
terminated as well. All that remains besides the new Sackville
transmission are some Woofferton slots, and they will be cut back
considerably. Two of the four slots for Russian will, as already
reported, be terminated, and so will be two of the three slots for
German. Belarusian will be cut back from 2.5 to 1.5 hours and
Ukrainian from 3.5 hours to a mere 30 minutes.
The schedule in all its glory, PRW:
1296 1800-1900 Orfordness UK 300 96 English UK/WeEUR
15260 2200-2300 ......s Sackville CAN 250 285 Polish NoEaAM
15260 2200-2300 smtwtf. Sackville CAN 250 285 Polish NoEaAM
15770 1400-1430 Woofferton UK 125 70 Russian Russia
15245 1400-1430 Woofferton UK 125 62 Russian Russia
15245 1430-1500 Woofferton UK 125 75 Belorussian NoEaEUR
9580 1500-1530 Woofferton UK 125 78 German WeEUR
9580 1530-1600 Woofferton UK 125 66 Russian Russia
11905 1600-1630 Woofferton UK 125 78 Ukrainian NoEaEUR
6050 1630-1730 s...... Woofferton UK 125 82 Polish NoEaEUR
6050 1630-1730 .mtwtfs Woofferton UK 125 82 Polish NoEaEUR
9545 1730-1800 Woofferton UK 250 105 Hebrew EaMed/NE/ME/NoAF
5920 1900-2000 Woofferton UK 125 70 Belorussian NoEaEUR
5920 2000-2100 Woofferton UK 125 70 Polish NoEaEUR
7330 2200-2300 ......s Woofferton UK 250 282 Polish NoEaAM
7330 2200-2300 smtwtf. Woofferton UK 250 282 Polish NoEaAM
And if there was still a doubt about Rampisham going dark on Oct 29:
It will definitely, the site no longer shows up in the B11 schedule.
(Kai Ludwig, Germany, Oct 9, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
> Rampisham going dark ...
7330 2200-2300 ......s PRW Woofferton UK 250 282 Polish NoEaAM
7330 2200-2300 smtwtf. PRW Woofferton UK 250 282 Polish NoEaAM
but Babcock is limited in right NoAM azimuth now via 282 degrees at
Woofferton. Better main lobe angle would be 295 to 320 degrees towards
CAN & USA. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
I guess the 7330 direct from UK, is to fill the hole around Sackville.
Why have they suddenly become interested in broadcasting to North
America, altho only in Polish? Note the ONLY English left is MW 1296
from UK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hi Kai, If the Poles thought they could use 1296 to cover the UK they
are in for an unpleasant surprise. 648 from Orfordness does (did)
provide an (unintended) service to south-east England (including
London). But:
1. The beam on 1296 is much tighter than the one on 648.
2. The power on 648 was 500 kW, but they are registering "only" 300 kW
on 1296.
3. As 1296 is half the wavelength of 648, so the groundwave goes that
much less far. (This is probably the main factor.)
4. 1296 has a co-chanel 10-kW station in Birmingham.
Listeners very close to Orfordness will hear Polish Radio, as will
those across the Thames Estuary in Kent. But for the rest of the UK it
won't work. They'd be better off using 1296 for German, Polish,
Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian, especially if they could have the
full 500 kW. That's the target area the aerial was designed for!
I should add that my comments above were purely from the technical
point of view. There are other considerations. If Polskie Radio wishes
to transmit from Orfordness to an intended UK audience, they will need
an OfCom licence. They don't need such a licence for the proposed use
of 1296 as any UK reception of that will be minimal and "accidental".
But why run an English service to Europe, and yet not beam it to the
largest English-speaking country in the region?! (Chris Greenway,
England, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
My guess is that there will be some coverage of 1296 in the south-east
of England, but off the back of the antenna would be 276 deg which
would not please listeners to XL Radio from Langley Mill (B) north-
east of Birmingham, which also uses 1296 with 10kW. There are two
other MW transmissions from Langley Mill on 1151 and 1458, and these
are directional. But there must be a second (B) site, and I don't know
how directional that antenna is on 1296, but there is a good signal to
my location at 'night' that would spoil any signal that came this way
from Orfordness, as I'm sure it would in other parts of the UK.
If PRW were really serious in wanting to cover some of the UK on MW
they would use the other transmitter at Orfordness on 648 plus
the 'standby' omnidrectional antenna that gives reasonable results up
here in the NW of England. But at 1800-1900 I would recommend a
3 MHz channel from either SKN or WOF for best results in the UK and
utilise 1296 towards the European mainland, where it's intended
to be heard (Noel R. Green, ibid.)
Hi Chris, to answer your view from the technical point, - some
meditation:
> If the Poles thought they could use 1296 to cover the UK they are in
for an unpleasant surprise.
Babcock FMO is the broker for all these PRW activities European- and
now even NoAM/AS wide. Babcock quarried out the Poles of contract with
French-German firm DTK/MBR Deutsche Telekom/MediaBroadcast two years
ago.
> was primarily the operator who successfully convinced them of doing
so...
The Poles have nothing to do with a selection of such former cold war
propaganda station at Orfordness TX site, close to Ipswich, a former
Anglo-American OHR - Over The Horizon Radar system "Cobra Mist" area.
After closure of Rampisham site Babcock will be rather very LIMITED in
disposable shortwave transmitters amount on prime time of the day.
> But why run an English service to Europe...
PRW - if ever - will reach millions of English speaking listeners far
behind of GB&IRL borders in EU states too, mostly in Holland, northern
Germany, Poland and Scandinavia.
1296 kHz was never as strong here, in southern Germany. Mostly on top
of 1296 kHz channel is COPE Valencia, Castellar service program after
decline of BBC European Service.
300 kW of power will reach financial objectives on a mixed cost
calculation with the power-lowered 125 kW units in Woofferton.
> they will need an OfCom licence
that`s absurd, PRW use the U.K. tx sites at least 3 seasons. I guess
Babcock will do the brokery job well, and OfCom will "stand at
attention".
I guess a 1296 kHz signal at local 18 hrs nighttime will even reach
Ireland, the Orkney and Faroe Isls in the North perfectly. Without
question during daytime the 648 kHz offer would be the better
solution.
> 1296 has a co-channel 10-kW station for emigrants close to
Birmingham area.
Maybe OfCom will replace registration of this low power to another
MF channel.
There will be remaining three registrations for 1296 kHz Orfordness
site, after the Dutch ceased their morning broadcast probably for
winter season.
1296 0500-0600 BBC Orfordness UK 35 96 English UK/WeEUR - DRM test
1296 0600-0700 BBC Orfordness UK 35 96 English UK/WeEUR - DRM test
1296 1800-1900 PRW Orfordness UK 300 96 English UK/WeEUR - AM mode
In A-11 season PRW English service reached the target area between
Eastern Hungary up to Faroe Isls perfectly by using two txs crosswise
(one in U.K./Norway and the other at Vienna):
ENGLISH 1200-1259 11675Vienna 11980woofferton
1700-1759 7265Norway 9770Vienna
in B-11 Babcock FMO plan to use Orfordness and - probably - Babcock
managed Al Dhabbaya-UAE site from the East. The latter will only reach
Eastern EUR and Balcan states perfectly, UAE signals were on rather
low strength in Germany and western Europe, we learnt in past winter
seasons. 73 wb
btw. the only remaining PRW German sce will be 'lonely' 9580 kHz at 15
UT from Woofferton with limited 125 kW power. More 'hair cuts' could
follow...
Re 1296 kHz mediumwave from Orfordness on daytime ...
Hi Chris, this Oct 10th morning at 0758 UT to 1001 UT I checked the MW
band on DAYTIME condition in southern England by access to 3 remote
SDR receiver units between Blackpool and Cornwall location area.
1296 kHz HOL program in Dutch powerhouse signal of S=9+40dB at 0758
and 0959 UT - latter program end. At 1000:03 Babcock control room
`CELLO music took over audio feed line, followed by TX switch-OFF, at
1000:24 UT, afterwards at 1001 UT heard the local 10kW Birmingham stn
co-channel, but very tiny signal just under threshold (Wolfgang
Büschel, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Re: Big changes at Polskie Radio foreign service
> But why run an English service to Europe, and yet not beam it to the
largest English-speaking country in the region?!
I suspect they just had been offered the 1296 kHz transmitter and
believed it would be ideal for serving the very country where it is
situated, lacking background knowledge of the antenna system. This
would explain why they chose it for English and in the same moment
threw it off shortwave altogether.
Babcock for its part could meanwhile have reached the point of
frantically searching customers for the Orfordness transmitters. RNW
has quit, if it is not just missing from the schedule the German ADDX
club received, but even in this case they would quit next year anyway.
The DRM pilot project of the BBC is budgeted only for one year each,
and it could soon come to an end. If so this Polskie Radio broadcast
would soon be all that's left at Orfordness.
Is someone familiar with the English service of Polskie Radio and
where it may announce schedule changes? It would be interesting how
they sold the change themselves, which they probably did last week.
The German service did so, calling the termination of two thirds of
its shortwave slots a "little reduction" and pointing out the
satellite-only repeats, including one at 1230 that will still be
played out but no shortwave transmitter be switched on for it anymore.
http://www2.polskieradio.pl/zagranica/de/news/artykul161941.html
In fact it is this announcement which I take as confirmation that the
schedule posted here, as sent out to ADDX, is the definite one and
that we can just forget all the other Woofferton or even Rampisham
(which, it seems, will definitely go dark the week after next),
Moosbrunn, Al-Dhabbaya, Singapore, Sackville registrations that have
been filed for Polskie Radio as well.
Which leads to the next question: This Babcock file does no longer
show any Deutsche Welle slots [see GERMANY [non] to continue] (Kai
Ludwig, Germany, Oct 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PORTUGAL. Re my complaint that RDPI online schedule was still
displaying UT = Lisboa time instead of one hour difference: (gh)
Glenn, As you can see below, I compiled a text for the RDPi director,
Mr Jorge Gonçalves, who replied to me today. Unfortunately, the
checking on this within the RDPi is in practice of not much help... as
the mistake on Local Time & UTC remains unchanged - I've just checked
it. And as you well know, Glenn, this is simply too frequent.
You'll notice too, that I not only referred to the local time / UTC
issue but also an item that, unfortunately, is not an issue for the
time being, viz. the lack of inserting the new (A or B) schedule in
time, or even a few days' time earlier, just like R.New Zealand Int'l.
does for instance. I'd rather have this persistent mistake, but with
HF still running instead of having it idle as it is since early June
last.
I take you'll experience none difficulty dealing with the texts in our
language,.. even if certain portions thereof are, unfortunately,
written acc. to the new (and dreadful) orthography which admittedly
may puzzle some, particularly foreigners like who know the language.
73, (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, Oct 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
De: Carlos Rebelo
Enviada: quinta-feira, 6 de Outubro de 2011 14:01
Para: Jorge Goncalves
Assunto: RE: RDPi... via internet.
Exmº. Sr. Diretor, Em devido tempo, conforme mail que anexo, a
multimédia da RTP foi informada das alterações a fazer na nossa página
na internet. Sobre o pormenor da diferença entre a hora de Portugal e
a hora UTC na grelha de programas, foi-nos informado verbalmente que a
alteração se produziria automaticamente, o que aconteceu.
Inexplicavelmente, nesta data, não se encontra correta. Vamos de
imediato e uma vez mais, pedir à multimédia a respetiva retificação.
Cumprimentos, Carlos Rebelo, Chefe de Departamento (via Carlos
Gonçalves, ibid.)
Exmo. Senhor: Fico-lhe grato pela v/ resposta, pese embora a situação
da equivalência H local / HUC se mantenha errada, situação esta que
não é - de todo! - única, pelo contrário: tem sucedido demasiadas
vezes.
E tão-pouco a outra questão do horário em onda curta era algo raro.
Faço votos p/ que a correcção seja feita quanto antes, mesmo se a
algumas semanas da mudança p/ a hora dita de Inverno. Atentamente,
Carlos Gonçalves (Oct 6 to Jorge Gonçalves, RTP, ibid.)
The time lineup anyway had been fixed as of Oct 7 (gh, DXLD)
** PRIDNESTROVYE. 9665, MOLDOVA, Voice of Russia, Kishinev-
Grigoriopol. 2256-2305 October 8, 2011. Big, nearly local signal
(shortwave-radio.info lists as 500 kW at 309 degrees) with Old School
Commie 1000 cycle tune-up tones on and off, into opening bells, male
ID, world news (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N,
82.46.08 W, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. QSL: 15610, Overcomer program via IRRS (broker) via
Tiganeshti transmitter. Date/Frequency/Transmitter Relay (IRRS, Italy)
Multi-scene QSL Card, with verie letter, schedule in 14 days, for a
postal report to Waterboro address. v/s: Brother Stair (Edward
Kusalik-Alberta, Canada, Oct 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) So you are saying
he did, or did not specify true Romania site? (gh, DXLD)
** RUSSIA. 7325, 1702 16 Sept, Adygey Radio, announced [without the
http] http://www.adigey.ru --- sign-off 1800, vernacular, SIO 555
(Rumen Pankov, Sofia Bulgaria, HF Logbook, Oct BDXC-UK Communication
via DXLD)
Website is unfound. Did they spell it that way in Roman? Try adygey
instead and get a site about ``car parts: tips and secrets``! (Glenn
Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This must be it:
Glenn - What about the following?
http://www.adygtv.ru/
http://www.adygtv.ru/radio.html
(Ron Howard, CA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 9850, 7/10 0820, Voice of Russia, DRM, 2 programs at the
same time: "DRM RUVR 1A" & "DRM RUVR 1B" changing button, the first in
English, the latter in Russian. Some audio stops (Giampiero
Bernardini, Milan, Italy, RX: G33DDC Excalibur Pro - ANT: T2FD, dxldyg
via DX LISTENING DIGEST) You mean you could select one or the other,
or they mixed? (gh)
** RUSSIA. 9995, RWM Moscow; 2147-2201+, 6-Oct; Tuned in to 1 second
pips with occasional double pip; 2150 went into continuous rapid
pippage; 2200-2208 went into continuous tone; 2208-2209 nothing; 2209-
2210 RWM code (last dash in W & M shorter than preceding dash); 2210
back to 1 second pips. Clear & not on 9996 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI,
USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW,
All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
9996, Oct 11 at 0524, binary bits in RWM Moscow time service. Not now
on 9995, as reported by Harold Frodge, MI, Oct 6 at 2150 during
``rapid pippage``. Can also be heard beating against 10000 WWV/H,
altho signal centered on 9996 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 15812, Oct 11 at 1324 I am looking for WWCR 15810v spur,
but instead I hear hand-keyed CW here, rather slow but not slow enough
for me! I do copy DE RIT at one point, and some strange characters
which must be Cyrillic. Stopped at 1327 after A R, not runtogether AR.
This time consulting the UDXF yg archive pays off with this ID:
15812.0 RIT Russian Navy HQ Severomorsk, per a log from Wolfgang in
Munich this August. It`s near Murmansk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 24080, Oct 8 at 1454, open carrier, so suspect 2 x 12040
harmonic as first reported 25 Sept by Juergen Lohuis, Germany,
heralding the return of SWBC harmonics 23+ MHz! Unfortunately it is
fading down; at 1458 I can barely hear the typical Russian tone go on
and off, 1500 modulation starts but JBA.
At 1458 also checked fundamental 12040, but it`s still infested by
Cuba and the Chinese radio war. HFCC shows 12040 at 15-22, 250 kW, 260
degrees from Moscow site with VOR; Aoki shows 12040 starting at 16,
same parameters for VOR in English, and BTW, both agree that VOA
Tinang in Chinese was supposed to finish an hour earlier at 1500
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [non]. VOICE OF RUSSIA FROM THE WORLD RADIO NETWORK BRINGS
NEWS AND VIEWS TO LONDON --- Monday, 10 October 2011
London, UK – 10 October 2011 – WRN Broadcast (WRNB) has worked with
Voice of Russia, the oldest Russian broadcasting company, to launch
Voice of Russia from the World Radio Network, a new DAB (Digital Audio
Broadcasting) radio service providing a wide range of programmes about
Russia and Russia’s viewpoint on world events to listeners in London,
ranging from the most important political events on the global agenda
to arts, culture, science and sports. The new service, broadcast in
English, is available on DAB throughout London. . .
http://www.responsesource.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=67619
(via kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD)
Re: DAB London II Voice of Russia
Press release just issued about the new service, they are setting up
studios and production facilities in London to increase the London
based content on the channel and will also have some segments from
other world broadcasters:
http://www.responsesource.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=67619
The Spectrum Radio DAB channel, which used to carry Voice of Russia
for much of the day, has now replaced all of the Voice of Russia
programmes with the Russian Music Show (via Mike Barraclough, Oct 11,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Voice of Russia has appeared today on its own London 2 DAB channel at
48kpbs mono. At the moment it's also still being carried on Spectrum's
London 2 DAB channel (Mike Barraclough, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD)
I have noticed that in London, the rearrangement of Spectrum
scheduling on DAB gives Voice of Russia airtime of 0600 to 1800 UK
time and not the 24 hour coverage initially promised so long ago.
Spectrum is carrying other stations during the other 12 hours.
73's (Dan Goldfarb, Brentwood, England, ibid.)
Schedule on Spectrum's website also shows Voice of Russia 2300-0400 UK
time, so 17 hours per day in total on Spectrum.
http://www.spectrumradio.net/schedules
(Voice of Russia website also says 6am-6pm and 11pm-4am) (BDXC UK yg
moderator, ibid.)
** SAN MARINO. 24940-USB, Oct 8 at 1450, T77C with quick contest
contacts, kept asking for ``Number One`` -- meaning US call area 1 =
New England? Anyhow, several of his contacts were from there. 12 and
10m were full of signals, and I luckily picked this one to log from a
rare country. QRZ.com shows:
T77C
TONY CECCOLI
VIA A. BELLUZZI 7/B CAILUNGO
47893 BORGO MAGGIORE -REP. SAN MARINO
How many active HF hams are there in SM, anyway? He also warns to look
out for a pirate using his call; anyhow, the accent sounded authentic,
and no one was questioning him (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1586,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SARAWAK [non]. 17560, 5/10 *1000, Radio Free Sarawak, vernacular,
start broadcast, ID "Radio Sarawak!" repeated, fair (Giampiero
Bernardini, Milan, Italy, RX: G33DDC Excalibur Pro - ANT: T2FD, dxldyg
via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Sabato 8 ottobre 2011, 1010 - 17560 kHz, pres. RADIO FREE SARAWAK -
Yangi Yul (Tajikistan), Interviste OMs e musica locale. Segnale
sufficiente-insufficiente. Mi sembra che dopo le 10.00 per alcuni
minuti non c'è stata modulazione (Luca Botto Fiora, G.C. 09E13 -
44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, playdx yg via DXLD)
17560, TAJIKISTAN, Radio Free Sarawak, Dushanbe. 1152-1200* October 8,
2011. Malay or a similar-sounding language man, clear mention of
Sarawak, into two soft vocals in presumed Malay, the last abruptly cut
with transmitter shutoff at exactly 1200. Surely them. Very good and
in the clear, however only a weak carrier at 1040 and 1100 check,
assuming it was this one them. Not as strong, fair, at 1128 check the
next day, October 9, mostly male and female talk, three
mentions of Sarawak at 1157, light jazz instrumental fill from 1158 to
abrupt 1200* again (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83
N, 82.46.08 W, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
17560, Radio Free Sarawak, ueber Yangi Yul-TJK tx Zentrum. Etwas raue
Audio, nicht sehr stark, S=6, aber sehr schoen in BahasaMalay zu
erkennen, viele ID's, jetzt sitzen zwei Interviewpartner in einem
hohen hallenden Raum, - mit sehr schlechter Aufnahmetechnik (Wolfgang
Buschel, Oct 4, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 8 via DXLD) Ooops, no time but
it`s between 10-12 UT (gh)
** SARAWAK [non]. AIRING WOES IN DEFIANCE OF S’WAK AUTHORITIES | Free
Malaysia Today
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/2011/10/10/airing-woes-in-defiance-of-swak-authorities/
Lone wolf broadcaster 'Radio Free Sarawak' is offering native
listeners a chance to air their grievances.
COMMENT
The team from Radio Free Sarawak have had their first week back on air
after their break from broadcasting and the general feedback is that
although it has been exhausting the comeback was also fun.
RFS is a small outfit, broadcasting out of the United Kingdom in
defiance of Sarawak’s licencing authorities. The station aims to pack
a big punch.
The experienced journalists behind the show are managing a double
workload, but loving the freedom of being able to chase real stories
on merit, instead of churning out boring propaganda.
The existing state-approved Sarawak media only allows programmes which
fawn over the elderly Chief Minister Taib Mahmud and his cronies and
deny their opponents a fair platform.
So, RFS makes sure that the station covers all the issues that the
Taib stations have been busy suppressing all these years and speaks
frequently to the other political parties.
Land grabs, corruption and the many forms of oppression in Sarawak
form a large part of the story. These issues never get a hearing
elsewhere and they are the daily concern of the poor people of the
interior.
Grievances from people
But with RFS, its different. The most important part of the station’s
remit is its commitment to airing the voices of the people themselves.
There are, of course, the interviews and debates with politicians and
experts, but each day the show takes care to try and reach out to
locals facing the issues on the ground.
It is important that these people feel empowered to speak out and
become part of the national debate. And it is important too for
listeners to realise that people like them also have a voice that
ought to be listened to.
This first week the show aired some of the villagers who are being
pushed out of their homes by the Bengoh Dam and palmed off with
compensation packages that turn out to be far less attractive than
they were made to sound.
It is a story repeated all over the state.
Greedy Taib family
Another group of villagers who are being evicted from their lands to
make way for a plantation which Taib has handed to his sister Raziah
Mahmud were also given the chance to publicize their plight.
Greedy Raziah has acquired native land areas greater than the size of
Singapore over the past few years. One huge plantation has even been
given out by Taib in the name of her (Raziah’s) socialite daughter, a
girl in her early 20s.
In the week of yet another federal budget that took huge sums from
Sarawak and handed little back, local people were also featured
talking about their frustration over the failure to produce decent
roads and development projects promised by their local elected
representatives.
One such BN assemblyman had taken RM500,000 of public money to build a
bridge (there is much mixing of contracting and politics in Sarawak),
yet some eight years on not a stone has been turned.
No accountability
There is a shocking dearth of public accountability in Sarawak, of
course. But at least such people can now get named and shamed on Radio
Free Sarawak!
Also, the outrageous dilapidation of the state’s medical service and
the failure to produce enough decent public hospitals; the pernicious
use of the Emergency Ordinance to arrest and banish ‘trouble-makers’
(i.e. people who have been protesting about the seizure of their lands
by Taib’s cronies) and the persistent failure to provide identity
cards (MyKads) and voting rights to the people of the interior are all
subjects that RFS has visited over the week and will continue to visit
over coming months.
Of course a two hour daily show that tries to give a voice to the
dispossessed can hardly redress the balance in a state where so much
money and so many resources have been sucked into the pockets of a
handful of people.
But, it is better than nothing and good fun, as I said before.
[Radio Free Sarawak can be heard daily from 6 to 8 pm on 17560 kHz
(shortwave) and also via podcast available online on
http://www.radiofreesarawak.org from about the same time.]
Clare Rewcastle Brown is the editor/founder of Sarawak Report. She is
also a FMT columnist (via Kevin Redding, Oct 10, ABDX via DXLD)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 11820 // 11915, Oct 10 at 2024, poor signals with
Qur`an, i.e. HQS from BSKSA Riyadh, 500 kW at 320, 295 degrees
respectively per HFCC, both at 1800-2300. Aoki shows more likely spans
as 1755-2255 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SIKKIM. [Re DXLD 11-38:] 4835, AIR Gangtok, 1407-1432, Sep 18,
during my several checking after the earthquake, I found AIR Gangtok
along with AIR Kurseong on 4895 were off the air. But later around
1525 when I checked again, I found AIR Gangtok airing National News
relay from AIR Delhi with good signal and after that I heard News in
English. But again further checking around 1600, I did not find any
signal. I could not check AIR Gangtok on 4835 on Sep 19 morning, as I
overslept due to heavy rains plus no electric power supply till noon,
as around 0200 AM Indian Standard Time a tree fell on the electric
power supply cable and resulted a fault. Later in the night, I found
AIR Gangtok on 4835 as usual. And also on Sep 20 morning I heard AIR
Gangtok on 4835 usually signing on around 0100 (Gautam Kumar Sharma,
Abhayapuri, Assam, India, DSWCI DX Window Oct 5 via DXLD)
** SLOVAKIA. RSI correspondent gets global airplay. Anka Dragu, the
correspondent mentioned below from Radio Slovakia International, has
been heard on the English service of Polish Radio as well as the
public radio program "Marketplace" talking about Slovakia's role in
the European debt crisis. Interesting that on "Marketplace" her
organization was referred to as "Slovak Public Radio" and not "Radio
Slovakia International".
Google Alert: Slovakia blocks rescue fund --- thenews.pl
Anka Dragu, journalist of the English section of Radio Slovakia
International talks about the situation on Slovakia's political scene.
(Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA USA, Oct 12, swprograms via DXLD)
See also INDONESIA; TINY TRAP
** SOUTH AFRICA. Channel Africa. 3345 Meyerton. Oct 3, 2011, Monday.
0325-0331. The ANC's mouthpiece with news about Zambia and the re-
naming of an airport there after Kenneth Kaunda, then on to human
rights in Syria (or rather the lack of them, which the ANC openly
supports as it does with Burma and did with Libya), followed by an
item about the trans-Atlantic slave trade, which was abolished over
200 years ago. Fair. Local transmission to Southern Africa. Jo'burg
sunrise 0346 (Bill Bingham, RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH AFRICA. QSLs: 9960, Bar-Kulan (Meeting Place) Radio via
Meyerton transmitter. Full data (with site and station name)
verification letter, 51 days after 2nd follow-up, for a total of 8
months. V/S: Sikander Hoosen, HF Coverage Planning Operations &
Maintenance, SENTECH.
11740, IBRA Radio, Somali broadcast to East Africa via Meyerton
transmitter. Full data (with site and station name) verification
letter, in 51 days, after 2nd follow-up, for a total of 11 months.
V/S: Sikander Hoosen, HF Coverage Planning Operations & Maintenance,
SENTECH (Edward Kusalik-Alberta, Canada, Oct 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH AFRICA. 11875, Oct 12 at 0513, dead air or maybe just barely
modulated, when SENTECH is supposed to be broadcasting DW in English
at 0500-0530. Stronger than adjacent 11870 WEWN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Channel Africa ganz schön daneben, odd 9674.966
9675 1700-1800 46,47,52 MEY 500 335 0 146 Mon-Fri Eng AFS CAF SNT
SÜDAFRIKA, auf 9674.966 kHz zugange, Englische politische Nachrichten
um 1700-1720 UT. Um 1721 UT feature on sexual partnership. ID "listen
to Channel Africa" at 1722 UT.
Ich dachte erst, es wäre der Brasilianer mit En NX, wegen der krummen
Frequenz, aber es ist eindeutig Südafrika. S=6-7. Und drei mal ist der
Sender zusammen gebrochen, aber nach einer halben Minute wieder on
air.
and from same TX location DWL French 17-18 from MEY on 9735.029 kHz
S=5-6 poor signal. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 5890, Oct 8 at 0552, WWCR is extremely strong
this time with Brother Scare, but I can still hear pulse jamming in
the background. That`s what they get for using the same frequency as
VOA Spanish earlier, vs the incompetent DentroCuban Jamming Command
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 9780, 7/10 0828, REE, Spain, DRM, no label! Spanish, talks
about el Prado museum, science; Some voice stops (Giampiero
Bernardini, Milan, Italy, RX: G33DDC Excalibur Pro - ANT: T2FD, dxldyg
via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
17850, Sunday Oct 9 at 2055-2055, REE`s `Mundofonías` featured fados,
especially appreciated since even when Portugal had SW it turned off
the transmitters during their fado show. Via COSTA RICA.
BTW, tnx to my complaint and Carlos Gonçalves` forwarding, RDPI has
finally corrected the program schedule time conversion on website with
less than a month left of DST (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. 7189.75, 6/10 0110, SLBC, slow Asian songs, weak but
clear modulation (Giampiero Bernardini, Milan, Italy, RX: G33DDC
Excalibur Pro - ANT: T2FD, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
7189.745, SLBC Colombo Ekala in Hindi noted at 0104 UT Oct 12.
Subcontinent songs heard, poor S=6-7 strength tonight. Slightly
UNDERMODULATED. 73 and Good Night wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
Wolfgang, Grussen von Tasmanien! Sri Lanka also heard on this channel
at 1200 last evening and also appears to be undermodulated. However I
think it is in Tamil. The carrier usually is heard but no modulation
but propagation has dramatically improved of late (Robin VK7RH
Harwood, Norwood, Tasmania, Icom R70 to indoor antenna, dxldyg via
WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 7330, 9/10 0315, Afia Darfur Radio, via São Tomé, in
Arabic, news, id, music. Good (Giampiero Bernardini, Milano, Italia,
RX: Excalibur Pro, ANT: T2FD, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. via Sines, PORTUGAL. 17745, Sudan Radio Service,
*1500-1620, local music. Indigenous vocals. Occasional Arabic
announcement but mostly continuous local African music. No English
heard. Fair to good. Oct 9 (Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA,
Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SWEDEN. Radio Nord, 9940 kHz, QSL in 3 months for report to Vita
Huset, SE-17995 Svartsjö, Sweden. v/s Ronny Forslund. Sent 1 $ (Artur
Fernández Llorella, Catalonia, Spain, You can see some images in my
blog: http://maresmedx.blogspot.com/ Oct 7, HCDX via DXLD)
** TAIWAN. 7970, Oct 7 at 1253, poor signal in talk, presumed Sound of
Hope, in total absence of Firedrake during this semihour; see CHINA.
Should have listened at 1223, when Ron Howard says SOH reliably IDs
spelling out its website. Maybe playing the same recording every day?
That would match Firedrake jamming playing the same music every, every
hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
[and non]. Venerdì 7 ottobre 2011. 1452 - 14650 kHz. prob. SOUND OF
HOPE TAIWAN, Cinese, reportage YL, Segnale sufficiente-buono,
Jamming not heard.
-
1455 - 10300 kHz, FIREDRAKE vs. SOH TAIWAN, Segnale sufficiente-buono,
Tk OM in background not in // to 14650. Does SOH have two separate
channels? (Luca Botto Fiora, G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) -
Italia, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) 14650 could be 2 x 7325 CRI but
Japanese
** TAJIKISTAN. ?? Voice of Tajik ?? 7245 y-Yangi Yul (Dushanbe) ?? Oct
3, 2011, Monday. 0238-0247. Tajik ?? Central-Asian type music. No ID
heard, but the type of music fits the location, and it is the only
time fit for EiBi. Poor. To Asia. Jo'burg sunrise 0346 (Bill Bingham,
RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** THAILAND. 17820, 5/10 *1000, Radio Thailand, starting broadcast, ID
in English, bells, then program in Thai. Good (Giampiero Bernardini,
Milan, Italy, RX: G33DDC Excalibur Pro - ANT: T2FD, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** TIBET. 6200, Xizang PBS via Lhasa, 1530-1600, Oct 7. The “Holy
Tibet” show in English; “This is China Tibet Broadcasting”, “This is
Holy Tibet”; special show about the National Day Golden Week Holiday;
transportation figures on how many people will be traveling during
Golden Week; played many traditional Tibetan songs. In another 2-4
weeks this will again return to an enjoyable level for listening to
one of my favorite shows (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón
E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TIBET [and non]. 15443, Chinese talk, poor at 1325, vs het on
15445. I suspect the latter is Firedrake or CNR1 jamming with the
split frequency being V. of Tibet. Closest in today`s Aoki is 15442
(maybe that was it, did not measure), VOT in Chinese via TAJIKISTAN
but at 1300-1312. 15443 cut off in mid-word at 1327:30* while 15445
carrier continued (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. Got a nice bright white cap with bill in the mail from TRT;
in the left front quadrant (from the wearer`s POV), TRT logo in red
diamond with blue border on left, green border on right (as seen from
an outside POV). Adjustable strap on back says www.trt-world.com.
No other enclosure, but must have been my prize for answering a
Question of the Month correctly and being drawn. Envelope bore no
postage but penned 5.85 as the amount which should have been paid.
Partially illegible rubber stamp/postmark for 26.09 or 28.09. Perhaps
as a government agency, TRT does not have to bother with postage
stamps. I am wearing it as I type this; not a summer item as I don`t
want to sweat-stain it. Thank you very much!
15450, Oct 11 at 1322, VOT closing English with headline, unengaged
brain still! announcing wrong time and frequency, 1330-1430 on 15520,
15450, only one play of IS and off at 1322:50*. But if you`ve heard
one, you`ve heard them all as there are no more variations on the tune
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K. 7325, Oct 8 at 0540 Arabish interview between M on the phone
and W in the studio; stronger than Russia 7320. 0559 BBC sounder and
``BBC Arabiya`` ID, off just before 0600. Is 250 kW, 168 degrees from
Rampisham at 04-06 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 15370, Oct 8 at 1510, no signal from BBC via CYPRUS as
scheduled Saturdays only at 13-16 in Somali (or English, or French).
Did not look for it earlier; in case it has just been curtailed,
closing earlier rather than deleted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U K. BBC cuts - the full details, including MW, LW
The full details of the cuts announced this morning are at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/review_report_research/dqf/dqf.pdf
(a 57-page pdf document).
Two particular point of interest for readers of this list:
1. Medium Wave transmissions for BBC services in England to end where
there is already FM coverage. BUT - MW will continue for Radio 5 Live,
Asian Network, and Radios Jersey, Guernsey, Gloucester, Derby,
Scotland, Wales and Ulster/Foyle. (So, it is to be assumed that all MW
services NOT in that list will close.)
2. Transition away from Long Wave to begin. There will be no further
investment in LW once the current transmitters come to the end of
their lives. They won't be turned off yet, but if they fail they won't
be replaced. There will be a contingency plan to allow for LW-only
services (e.g. cricket) to be carried on other BBC analogue stations
if the LW transmitters fail before the planned switch-off. (In
practical terms, it seems that LW will remain until at least the end
of the current Royal Charter in 2016.) (Chris Greenway, UK, Oct 6,
dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Last time they tried to mess with LW, i.e. replace R4 with rolling
news, there was a sufficient outcry to stop it. Guess the same could
happen again. What about the shipping forecast? Regards, (Gareth,
BDXC-UK yg via DXLD)
There seems a lack of logic here; what of areas where FM is severely
affected and therefore often UHF TV (Free view radio) and who decides
when 'current [LW] transmitters come to the end of their lives' - has
the BBC understood the fact that 1,000s of radios are (still) in use
which only cover MW/LW and what of national emergencies where nation-
wide coverage is essential and can only be guaranteed from the 3
existing LW R4 transmitters. We in UK are not free of public
disturbance; have the well shod salaried brass hats at Auntie lost the
script? (Rog Parsons (BDXC 782) Hinckley, Leics., Lowe HF 225 Long
Wire 17metres S to N, ibid.)
Hello, The BBC has announced cuts in radio and TV budgets both locally
and nationally. With the exception of Radio 4 and BBC1 the cuts will
be 19% for the nationals and 20% for local radio. Locally, here on
Merseyside, BBC Radio Merseyside's managing editor Mick Ord announced
that the station will probably lose its mediumwave frequency as a
result of the cuts. Details here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15186116
Regards (James Welsh (Birkenhead Merseyside), ibid.) (also via Terry
Krueger, DXLD)
It's well worth reading the full BBC consultation document. In
particular section 4 has significant implications for MW.
http://consultations.external.bbc.co.uk/bbc/dqf/consultation/subpage.2011-09-18.8948401403/
e.g.:
* Medium Wave transmission for BBC services would end in areas of
England where coverage duplicates FM. Subject to further technical
analysis, across the UK the stations which BBC management would expect
to continue to transmit in Medium Wave include Radio 5 Live, BBC Asian
Network, BBC Radio Jersey, BBC Radio Guernsey, BBC Gloucester, BBC
Derby, Radio Scotland, Radio Wales and Radio Ulster/Foyle. 73 (Steve
Whitt, MWC yg via DXLD)
** U K. RADIO 4'S LONGWAVE GOODBYE
Article just published on The Guardian website:
A handful of specially crafted glass valves each measuring one metre
high are all that is stopping the historic home of Test Match Special,
Yesterday in Parliament and the Daily Service going suddenly and
permanently off air.
BBC Radio 4 long wave, which transmits on the 198 kilohertz frequency,
relies on ageing transmitter equipment that uses a pair of the valves
– no longer manufactured – to function.
The valves, at Droitwitch in Worcestershire, are so rare that
engineers say there are fewer than 10 in the world, and the BBC has
been forced to buy up the entire global supply. Each lasts anywhere
between one and 10 years, and when one of the last two blows the
service will go quiet.
Full article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/oct/09/bbc-radio4-long-wave-goodbye?INTCMP=SRCH
(Mike Barraclough, dxldyg via DXLD; also via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia,
DXLD) Plus 140+ comments including:
151151, 9 October 2011 10:01PM
This is just a smoke screen for removing the LW service. If the BBC
wants to terminate it for whatever reason, then why don't they just
say so, rather than blaming "obsolete technology". As Arthur999CEng
points out there are modern devices that can do this and its simply
beyond belief that there is no manufacturing facility in the world
that could produce these valves. This is a very poor article from the
Guardian.
Compaid 9, October 2011 10:08PM
The 198 KHz signal is widely used in Europe for listening to BBC news
etc whilst in a car. When driving through Europe its the only signal
that just about reaches the Spanish border. Loosing this service will
be a great loss to people in the EU who are mobile and have no other
options for receiving UK radio. Its not always about money BBC its
about service. The use of valves is of course a red herring, there are
many ways to create powerful transmitters other than these historic
valves especially at such a low frequency. Perhaps sharing an EU wide
repeater network would work using Internet provided radio, but off
course thats beyond the mindset of the morons currently in charge at
the BBC (via DXLD)
Re: Radio 4's longwave goodbye. See also
http://www.radiowavesforum.com/rw/showthread.php?t=23731&page=2
The transmission equipment is there and elsewhere as well described as
two Marconi B 6042 transmitters, inaugurated in 1985. Interestingly I
have not found a single photo of these presumably unimpressing boxes
so far, only the old gear is everywhere featured in great detail.
I proceed from the assumption that this transmitter shares
similarities with the B 61** series of shortwave equipment Marconi
made at the same time, in particular the PA tubes. If so the Droitwich
sets need, like these shortwave transmitters, a TH 537 or perhaps its
larger sister, the TH 558, to refer to the Thomson designators. This
is basically standard equipment, used in transmitters of various
manufacturers.
The other way round: If the statement is true and certain parts for
the B 6042's are hardly to obtain anymore this could as well apply to
the mentioned Marconi shortwave equipment, with obvious consequences.
Thus it may indeed be worth to further research the matter, something
for which I'm here in Germany of course not in the right position.
Beyond that the Guardian article claims that the BBC would put the
longwave specials on FM once 198 kHz goes dark. I went through the
presentation of their "Delivering Quality First" campaign, and therein
they refer to "analogue frequencies". That could as well be
mediumwave, and the quoted explanations meanwhile given on Radio 4
indeed point out that they have 693/909 kHz in mind.
Another detail I saw nowhere considered so far: The transmitters (it's
not only Droitwich but also Burghead and Westerglen in Scotland) are
not owned and operated by the BBC anymore but by a company called
Arqiva, and this apparently concerns also studio equipment, at least
outdoor broadcasting vehicles and their uplinks, as I saw in summer at
Dresden where no outsider was able to identify the apparent BBC
broadcast as such at all, because only the Arqiva brand prominently
showed up.
Probably Arqiva is still rather closely associated with the BBC (and
the outsourcing primarily made them paying sales tax for using its
"own" studios, as it is the case after such a clever move at
Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk), but generally it is their responsibility to
invest in new equipment or not. For that they would require a binding
transmission contract for a certain amount of years. And it should be
this what the BBC is no longer willing to agree.
Now one would need to know who has talked to the Guardian author, but
I have an impression that this sweet article is basically an attempt
by the BBC to prepare the public for the final closure of 198 kHz,
maintaining the possibility to close it down in spite of the official
statement that this is not planned until 2017 (Kai Ludwig, Germany,
Oct 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
See in particular the 4th comment from Russell Barnes, Senior
Transmitter Engineer Skelton under a picture of the previous
transmitter valves:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/russell_w_b/152501639/
Picture of the current transmitter valves posted by BBC Technology
Correspondent Rory Cellan Jones on Twitter a couple of days ago:
http://yfrog.com/z/khlkgehj
Some discussion from transmitter engineers in this thread, including
at post 16 someone who worked or works at Droitwich:
http://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/showthread.php?t=74940
and some general discussion on longwave transmitters:
http://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/showthread.php?t=75108
(Mike Barraclough, UK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
RADIO 4'S 198LW IN DANGER – A NATION MUST MOURN | Radio Times
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2011-10-10/radio-4's-198lw-in-danger--a-nation-must-mourn
Longwave's days are numbered and one radio fan sees the end of the
world coming
Nobody remembers frequencies any more. Radio stations are listed by
names on DAB or by URLs online. They're a tap of your finger away if
you're listening over an iPhone app. And if you choose to burn up
electricity by listening to radio on your TV set, then stations are
arranged by spurious, unfeeling channel numbers.
But back in the old days, frequencies mattered. Frequencies were your
home. Now it's like when your parents start talking about selling the
family house and downsizing: we're going to lose BBC Radio 4 on 198
longwave. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow. But sometime - and the
BBC isn't quite sure when, because it depends when the equipment next
breaks down. There's something so very British about that.
The BBC say: "Radio 4 longwave transmissions will continue for many
years to come - and beyond the current Charter period".
But longwave Radio 4 hangs on in there using glass valve-based
technology of the kind that must've been patented by Heath Robinson or
Professor Branestawm. Nobody makes these things any more but the BBC
has been round all the supermarkets buying up what it can - but those
supplies can't last forever.
Yes, of course there's FM and that's a gorgeous thing, right up there
with bread that comes in slices and wheels that go round and round.
Midlanders, for instance, know that BBC Radio 4 just does not sound
the same if you aren't listening to it on 92.7 FM. Londoners have
their fancy 93.5 FM and Glasgow has taken a liking to 95.8 FM, but it
takes all sorts and that's fine.
We could still bond together over 198 longwave. All of us. Everywhere.
Everywhere. Forget your online rubbish, I've sat in the centre of
Paris listening to BBC Radio 4 longwave, amazed that the signal could
reach that far and distraught only because I wanted Woman's Hour and
it was the cricket instead.
Then, you know this is true: one day you'll be out there on the seas
in the gales - "becoming fine later..." - of Viking, North Utsire, or
Cromarty, and how will you cope without 198 longwave's shipping
forecast?
FM is great but short range: you need to be near a transmitter. DAB
can be great but you're nowhere near anyone who's bought one.
Ask a DAB manufacturer when FM switchover is and they'll probably say
Tuesday. In truth, nobody really knows, but it's unlikely to be before
2015 and not very likely to be before 2020.
It's coming, though, and it will be the end of days. Frequencies are
going and they won't come back.
First it was the BBC World Service losing frequencies around the
world. Next it's our very own Radio 4 longwave. One day it will be all
of them and it will be too late to mourn (via Kevin Redding, ABDX via
DXLD)
Couldn't have said it better in this article.
I think that there's too much emphasis on streaming to phones and
computers and using localized (FM) digital radio or satellite anymore.
They have their place; but (except for iBOC or DAB), they will always
cost the listener something per-month to be able to listen. Long-range
radio services (LW/MW/SW) ought to be emphasized services because of
ease of access wherever you are, especially in an emergency. But these
services are being stifled by the point-and-click-only generation who
do not mind "artifacty" sounding choppy streams and paying monthly
data access fees and subscriptions for them. I'm not saying these
services are bad - I use them too - but they shouldn't become
replacements for traditional LW, MW, and SW radio services.
I don't understand why BBC-4 can't obtain a modern transmitter by
Nautel and the like that uses high-powered mosFETs for the finals -
would be a lot cheaper than hunting down rare tubes. Ganging a couple
hundred modules in-phase can give superior output with very high power
input efficiency in the order of hundreds of kilowatts. Most AM
broadcast transmitters are made this way nowadays, and many are also
used on the high-powered in-route multi-kilowatt NDB's. The mosFETs
don't blow out easily.
Recently in the last 15 years, Iceland went the opposite route, and
shut down all their government-run FM outlets, replacing them with a
single 189 kHz signal covering the entire country.
Radio makes far more sense, especially in areas not necessarily
connected to the Internet or where there is no 3G. Poor and rich alike
can tune in. If you have bad credit (I'm not one of those), and you
can't get a cellphone contract, than that cuts out a big chunk of the
public that can listen via Smartphone. Likewise for Internet. Anyone
with a radio can tune in, though, and radio stations need to
understand that those other mediums should serve as a SUPPLEMENT to
the main radio broadcast (and should BTW be permitted by law to
broadcast EXACTLY what is going out over the air, not some modified
set of commercials or program lineup for a different 'online' target
audience - listen to a stream of any Canadian radio station and hear
what a radio station's Internet stream SHOULD sound like).
I've said it before, and will reiterate it - one day, if total
reliance on net-streams and satellite radio replace that of
traditional LW, AM, SW, or even FM, and a huge solar flare or cloud of
micrometeorites knock out satellites, the oversight will suddenly
become abundantly clear (Darwin Long, Empire, LA, ABDX via DXLD)
Very good points Darwin. Nautel doesn't have a line of LW
transmitters, but they started in the beacon business 40 plus years
ago and I'll bet they would work with the BBC to find a solid state
solution and come up with a limited LW line. I suspect that a lot of
the LW transmitters worldwide are old and power hungry. I'd also
venture a guess that with a modern, high modulation capability solid
state transmitter, half the power would out-perform the ancient tube
transmitter. Of course, since Nautel makes MW transmitters up to 2
Megawatts, I suspect the BBC could get the full power if they wanted
to.
Another factor to keep in mind is that the smart phones and other such
hand held wonder devices use tiny batteries that drain fast, have to
be recharged, and their charge holding performance sags over time.
Leave them in a hot car for a while and this accelerates the process.
How do you reach your listener while their iphone is charging?
Personally, I know of lots of folks ith smartphones - texting, sending
emails, surfing the web but I don't know of anyone listening to the
radio on them. Just turn on a radio, rather than drain your
smartphones battery charge.
For low cost, near-universal access to large swaths of territory, SW,
LW and MW make a lot of sense. They shine in rural areas and small
towns and falter in built up areas with rebar filled concrete, steel,
and tonnes of RFI. FM shines for urban and suburban areas, although
lately I've noticed more marginal FM stations taking a pounding from
WiFi and LED traffic lights. Internet based broadcasting is very
important, shouldn't be neglected, but shouldn't be viewed as the only
medium - rather, it is a very important supplemental medium.
My 'rant' for the day :) (Phil Rafuse, Stratford PE Canada, ibid.)
Long Wave cheaper, more efficient - Danmarks Radio
from The*Watlingfen*
A spokesman for Danmarks Radio, (now back on 243 kHz LW) interviewed
in an item on the BBC Radio 4 'PM' yesterday (11th) on the continued
use of valves to transmit R4 198 kHz (500 kW) from Droitwich, said he
admired the ability of the BBC to maintain using valves, the DR
station at Kalundborg, which formerly broadcast on Medium Wave but
moved to Long Wave for better coverage and range, uses a new Nautel 50
kW 'transistorized' transmitter.
When asked why Denmark with a number of transmitters of their service
using DAB and FM was reverting to AM (they had been testing DRM on
this 243 kHz frequency) the spokesman said 'long wave was more
efficient and reliable than FM and DAB which had blank areas' he added
their new transistorized long wave transmitter was also cheaper to
run. DAB uses low power to run its senders but needs so many to cover
even a small area.
Since the 200 kW Erzurum (Turkey) transmitter on 243 kHz ended
transmissions in 2008, DR was the only European country using this
frequency so the former 300 kW transmitter has been replaced by much
more cost effective / transmission efficient equipment.
A BBC spokesman said they had 'ample' stocks of the transmitter valves
for the foreseeable future. Personally I recall hearing DR on 1062
(283 meters MW) years ago but for the 243 kHz freq my location is
probably too far west and too much 'splash' from RTE1. May Aunties
'bottles' glow forever! (Rog Parsons (BDXC 782) Hinckley, Leics. Oct
12, (Lowe HF 225 17 metre LW (cooker earth wire) going S to N at 22ft
height with balun to 19 metres RG 58/U), BDXC-UK yg via DXLD)
JOBS THREAT IN 'SMALLER' BBC PLAN
* Press Association, Thursday October 6 2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/feedarticle/9882295/print
A plan for a "smaller" BBC will see the corporation lose thousands of
jobs, sell off offices and show [sic] more repeats. The proposals
include "a small reduction" in new programmes on BBC One, which will
be replaced by repeats, fewer chat shows and panel shows on BBC Two,
and digital channels BBC Three and Four will become feeder channels
for BBC One and Two respectively.
Around 2,000 jobs are expected to go by 2016 and around 1,000 more
staff will move to the new BBC base at Media City in Salford.
There will be "a phased but full exit for the BBC's public services
from their current home in West London" including its White City
offices. The plan is expected to lead to savings of -L-670 million a
year by 2016/17.
Director General Mark Thompson said: "It's a plan for a smaller BBC,
but a BBC which uses its resources more effectively."
The BBC HD channel will be closed and replaced with an HD version of
BBC Two and all new daytime shows will be moved to BBC One with more
repeats on Two.
There will also be less original programming on radio, with cuts to
comedy on Radio 2 and Radio 5 Live and fewer lunchtime concerts on
Radio 3.
The report states that BBC bosses considered "the possibility of
shutting one or more services entirely" but rejected the idea on
value-for-money grounds: "The decision to share Formula One motor-
racing rights with BSkyB, for example, will save the BBC more cash
between now and the end of the Charter than we would have saved by
shutting one of the smaller TV channels."
The corporation is holding a series of meetings with its staff across
the UK to reveal details of its Delivering Quality First initiative,
but has already come under attack from unions.
Gerry Morrissey, general secretary of the technicians' union Bectu,
said the programme should have been called Destroying Quality First.
Mr Morrissey accused Mr Thompson of doing the Government's "dirty
work" by making such big cuts in spending and jobs, accusing the
corporation of "salami slicing".
The National Union of Journalists condemned the spending and job cuts,
saying they had come on top of many years of other cutbacks across
news and programme-making. The union said more than 7,000 jobs had
been lost at the BBC since 2004, adding that the situation "isn't
sustainable". Copyright (c) Press Association Ltd. 2011, All Rights
Reserved (via Mike Cooper, DXLD)
1 Comment on “BBC confirms plan to cut 2,000 jobs”
#1 Robert (from Kent) on Oct 8th, 2011 at 19:46
This story merits a lot of thought. In the modern era, what exactly is
the role of a publically (i.e. taxpayers) - funded broadcaster, when
there are many commercial broadcasters fulfilling demand for all the
popular formats (classic rock, pop, etc) and the new technology of web
radio etc coming along. Consider the example of Concertzender in NL,
there was a furore when its public funding was cut (and I supported
the protest at the time), but nowadays it seems to go from strength to
strength with its new funding arrangements and many many listeners. I
have long wondered why exactly it is that here in the UK the BBC
spends money on 1Xtra with its relentless focus on black music which
is probably the most over-represented music format on the airwaves
today. I think it should be closed down. Then I thought about it a bit
more, and began to wonder what is the point of the BBC spending large
sums on Radio 1 itself. What is the point of that station in 2011? It
certainly fulfilled a purpose when it was launched in 1967, it might
have had a purpose during the 1990’s, but these days it does nothing
more than duplicate what is available through myriad other sources on
air and online. Why do we spend tax pounds on it? I now think that
this too should be closed down and the money saved reinvested in
public service broadcasting - whatever that means in 2011. As a mere
listener, I would genuinely like to know what the media professionals
on this site think about this (MN blog comment via DXLD)
HOW THE BBC BUDGET CUT WILL AFFECT WORLD NEWSGATHERING AND BBC WORLD
SERVICE. Posted: 10 Oct 2011
Most of the announced changes as a result of the BBC budget cut
concern domestic operations. (See previous post.) In this e-mail, BBC
World News Editor Jon Williams provides details about the impact of
the cuts on BBC world newsgathering and BBC World Service.
Below is an e-mail from BBC World News Editor Jon Williams to staff,
dated 6 October 2011, with details of the changes to BBC world
newsgathering and BBC World Service due to the BBC budget cuts:
----
By now, I hope you’ll have had the chance to see or read the proposals
from Mark, Helen & Fran. I'm sorry for the length of this email, but I
want to set out in more detail what this means for us.
Across the News Group, integration is at the heart of “Delivering
Quality First”. For World Newsgathering, from April 2014, it will mean
a transformation of what we do, and how we do it. Working with our
language service colleagues, our goal is to build a single, multi-
lingual, multi-location, multi-platform newsgathering operation,
telling the big stories for audiences in the UK, and around the world.
It’s quite an ambition. Our proposals will mean big changes. But the
prize at the end is a team that is more….
Diverse: we look & sound more like the audiences we serve, rather than
the place we broadcast from.
Agile: a more flexible operation that is ahead of where the stories
are, not tied into legacy locations with long leases.
Capable: a single team serving audiences in UK & around the world, in
English & other languages, through video, audio & text, for commercial
& public services.
From April 2013, World Newsgathering will save £7m from its licence
fee budget of around £35m – a target of 19%, in line with other parts
of the BBC. However, recognising the importance of the operation to
the whole of the BBC’s journalism, it’s also a priority for
reinvestment. Over the same five year period, £3.5m will be invested
to help us build the World Newsgathering of the future I’ve outlined
above. It will mean by 2017, we will look and sound very different to
the way we do now. We’ll have fewer UK national “foreign
correspondents” and a more diverse reporting pool.
Around the world, that will mean different things in different places:
In some, with the help of the language services, we'll create a team
of bilingual reporters serving English & local output.
In others, we'll invest in places like China & Brazil to reflect the
world as it will be, rather than the world as it was.
And we'll need to change the mix between “overseas” & “local”
reporters to ensure we can maintain our footprint around the World.
We plan to close 44 current posts in World Newsgathering – 25% of the
total 170 posts in the department. At the same time, we will create 22
new roles: 13 of them overseas on full UK contracts, a further 9 on
local staff terms.
Overseas bureaux:
The primary “English” Newsgathering presence will remain in our hub
bureaux. We will appoint a China Editor to lead our reporting of the
world’s biggest nation, and appoint a correspondent team in Brazil to
cover its growing place in the world ahead of the 2014 World Cup and
2016 Olympics. We’ll create a total of 9 new OCS correspondent posts,
including upgrading our operations in Cairo, Shanghai & Tokyo. We
intend to remain in all of our key hub locations, but in order to meet
our aspirations to better report the emerging stories, we’ll need to
reduce the size of our current operations elsewhere, saving a total of
10 existing “on-air” OCS posts.
Across the rest of the world, we propose moving to a different model.
We will close all our existing sponsored & unsponsored reporter posts.
Earlier this year, I announced our intention to appoint a new
bilingual reporter in Baghdad, working to both BBC Arabic &
Newsgathering, alongside our existing “pilot” role in Mexico. From
April 2014, with the support of the relevant language services,
they’ll be joined by bilingual reporters in Islamabad, Lagos, Jakarta,
Nairobi, Beirut, Gaza/Ramallah & Havana, replacing the existing
sponsored & unsponsored posts in these locations.
In addition, we plan to change the remaining roles in Paris, Berlin,
Rome, Istanbul, the United Nations, Los Angeles, Bangkok, Seoul &
Sydney. We propose using reinvestment funds to replace the sponsored &
unsponsored posts with locally recruited staff reporters, sharing
locations where practical with other news organisations. For several
years, we have employed local reporters in the United States, while
across Europe UK nationals have the right to work. We believe we can
deliver significant savings by moving to a more flexible model,
without damaging our presence around the world. Reluctantly, it does
mean that we have decided to close our operation in Colombo, Sri
Lanka.
Alongside our business bureaux in Singapore, New York, Dubai & Mumbai,
and the current language service bureaux, this will give the BBC a
presence in more than 30 countries around the World – still
comprehensively the biggest of any British news organisation and in
the global media “Premier League”
London operations:
The move of the World Affairs Unit to TVC last April has allowed us to
make more coherent deployment decisions across domestic & global
services. The move to W1 during 2012/13, should allow us to become
more coherent still – joining up the planning and newsdesk operations
at Bush House and TVC. From April 2013, we plan to close a further
four reporting roles in London. Once the operations have settled down
in W1, we propose closing a further four posts from the combined
planning teams as well as closing the Newsgathering Features Unit,
with the loss of a further two SBJ posts. We also want to explore
running a more integrated “shared” UK/World overnight newsdesk once
the teams are co-sited in Broadcasting House.
Additional non-staff savings will come as a result of reducing the
number of agencies we subscribe to, as well as a small reduction in
the coverage budget, reflecting the proposed reduction in staff.
However, these are not envisaged before April 2014.
World Service:
It’s worth remembering that part of the reason we need to make the
savings is because, from 2014, the licence fee is going to begin
funding the World Service – including the £10m received by World
Newsgathering. But for the next two years it continues to be funded
through Grant-in-Aid. Last year, the Government announced it was
reducing the amount the World Service received – and while protecting
Newsgathering, the World Service has asked for savings over the
remaining two years of the current GIA settlement. From April 2012,
most of these will be achieved by the changes in our Baghdad operation
I announced in the summer. Additionally, we have decided not to
replace the Moscow SBJ role, which is currently vacant following
Daniel Fisher’s return to London earlier this year.
I don’t underestimate the impact these proposals will have – on
individuals, on the way we work in the UK, or on our operations
overseas. However, this is a five year programme – some of the changes
may not be introduced until 2017. None of the planned overseas changes
will happen before 2014. It’s unlikely this will impact on anyone
currently posted abroad during their existing tour.
The challenge facing us is immense – and I appreciate that some of the
decisions I’ve outlined are difficult. But the prize is real: a World
Newsgathering that is more diverse, agile & capable, better able to
meet the challenges of the commercial & public service world, one that
is multi-lingual, multi-location and multi-platform.
It is a prize worth having – one I hope you will support. J
Jon Williams
World News Editor (via kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD)
** U S A. I didn`t notice anything amiss, but I heard that Greenville
lost power for two hours, so was off the air at 1240-1440 UT Oct 12.
That would only have affected R. Martí and some VOA Spanish (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. COMMITTEE FOR U.S. INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING FORMED,
SUPPORTS "JOURNALISM IN DEFENSE OF MEDIA FREEDOM AND HUMAN RIGHTS"
BBG Watch, 5 Oct 2011, BBGWatcher: "BBG Watch has learned that
individuals associated with U.S. human rights, labor, and media
freedom organizations have formed the Committee for U.S. International
Broadcasting (CUSIB) with the aim of working with the Administration,
Congress and media to promote free flow of uncensored news from the
United States to countries in which journalists are threatened or lack
sufficient resources. Many of CUSIB members have been active in
defending Voice of America radio and TV broadcasts to China, which the
Broadcasting Board of Governors tried to eliminate until it met with
strong bipartisan opposition in Congress.
The CUSIB website — http://cusib.org/cusib or http://cusib.org —
describes the Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting is a
nonpartisan, nongovernmental organization working to strengthen free
flow of uncensored news from the United States to countries with
restricted and developing media environments. CUSIB supports
journalism in defense of media freedom and human rights and intends to
work closely with the executive branch, Congress, and media to promote
effective multi-channel delivery of news and information to overcome
press censorship." (Posted: 09 Oct 2011, kimandrewelliott.com via
DXLD)
-- OK, but I'm concerned about "in defense of media freedom and human
rights." As noble as those causes are, real journalism informs rather
than advocates. This ambiguity on the matter of information versus
advocacy has been, over the decades, a major factor in preventing US
international broadcasting from reaching its potential (Kim Andrew
Elliott, ibid.)
** U S A. BBG EMPLOYEE TIPS LED TO ‘MOST IMPROVED’ AGENCY
When less than half of your employees say they’d recommend your agency
as a great place to work, you have a problem that’s not easy to fix.
But faced with poor ratings year after year, the Broadcasting Board of
Governors, which runs US government-financed international
broadcasting, decided to do something about it. Their efforts paid off
in this year’s employee viewpoint survey, officials said.
In the Partnership for Public Service’s “Best Places to Work in the
Federal Government” rankings, the agency was named one of the two most
improved, based on employee ratings of leadership, work culture and
talent management. Read the story from federalnewsradio.com
http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=148&sid=2586194
(October 11th, 2011 - 9:09 UTC by Andy Sennitt, Media Network blog via
DXLD)
** U S A [non]. F2 logs 4-6/10/11 --- A couple of good days for F2
prop so I thought I'd copy my website log to the list and add some
recordings while it's quiet. [many utility logs 30-40+ MHz, from NAm,
SAm, Middle East; I excerpt the only SWBC harmonic included, and a
correlating neighbour --- gh]
5th October 2011
1555 E2 Boom TV Cameroon. Weak and fluttery video.
1609 31.16 VOA AM spur, report from Addis Ababa
http://www.ukdx.org.uk/tv/audio/31160_voaspur_051011.mp3
(Paul, Sussex coast, UK, http://www.ukdx.org.uk
http://www.youtube.com/Aceblaggard WTFDA via WORLD OF RADIO 1586,
DXLD)
31160 = 2 x 15580, which at 1600+ is via: BOTSWANA, 100 kW on
fundamental, 350 degrees (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 25990 kHz Feeder USA --- Weee, questa sera ottima
propagazione in 11/10 [meaning 2011 October?] vs gli USA mt, ascoltato
feeder stazione USA su 25990 kHz 2000 UT, in FM musica country slang
U.S.! peccato molta evanescenza nel segnale no ID (peccato)!!! Ciao e
buoni ascolti. NB: se qualcuno sa di quale stazione si tratta mandi il
post!
[Later:] Dopo un controllo: la stazione potrebbe essere questa visto
il tipo di musica: 25990, KSCS in Arlington, TX (Country Music) -
Vedremo nelle prox serate se la propagazione tiene e se ascoltiamo
l'ID!!!!! Ciao e buona notte! (Mauro - Giroletti, Italy, -Swl 1510-
-IK2GFT- -JRC525Nrd - Lowe HF150-, playdx yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1586,
DXLD)
25990 kHz USA in FM anche oggi ! [Archivo adjunto 1] Hola, anche
questa sera presente il feedr USA su i 25990 khz alle 1630 UT, allego
piccolo stralcio dell'ascolto; purtroppo come sempre al momento
dell'annuncio è arrivata l'evanescenza del segnale peccato! Ciao e
buoni ascolti 73 :D (- Mauro - -Swl 1510- Giroletti, Italy, -IK2GFT-,
Oct 7, ibid.)
later: Weee, riascoltando più volte la registrazione fatta in vari
punti 2 ore di recod, l'annuncio è New Country, dovrebbe confermare
che la stazione è la KSCS New country 96,3 MHz: http://www.kscs.com/
Ciao e buoni ascolti!
Ciao Mauro! ho trovato questo sito con un elenco di feeders dai 25 ai
30 MHz: http://users.skynet.be/dx/
Quella frequenza non c'è quindi non so quanto sia aggiornato però.
Roby (Robert Rizzardi, ibid.)
Ciao, se date un'occhiata al file su http://www.eibispace.de/
aggiornato al 1/10 vedete che la frequenza c'è, così come le altre USA
attorno ai 26 MHz. Buoni DX, (Alessandro Groppazzi, ibid.)
Grazie Alessandro, adesso speriamo che risponda con la QSL! Ciao e
buoni DX! (Mauro, ibid.)
Ciao, incrociamo le dita; puoi provare qui via e-mail:
http://www.kscs.com/goout.asp?u=http://my.kscs.com/asp2/contactus.aspx
Certo non puoi allegargli lo spezzone con l'ID, che si sente
chiaramente anche con il fading.
Ah, un suggerimento, prova a sentire se arrivano anche le altre due
texane, soprattutto WBAP sui 25910 che è "sorella" di KSCS. Buoni DX!
Buon week-end, (Alessandro, ibid., via WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DXLD)
Anche, oggi dalle 1400 UT segnale presente ma con evanescenza; mix con
TAXI dall'EST Europa, la propagazione non era delle migliori verso
ovest. Vediamo più tardi -No segnale a 25910- Tentativo di richiesta
QSL fatto. Vediamo se almeno rispondono alla e-mail! Ciaooooo (Mauro,
Oct 8, ibid.)
07/10/2011 1630, 25990, KSCS Arlington, TX USA Relay FM 96.3 MHz
country music, ID "New Country" (Mauro - Giroletti, -Swl 1510-, -
IK2GFT-, bclnews.it yg via DXLD)
** U S A. 25950, COLORADO, KOA, Denver. 1329 October 9, 2011. End of
one canned gospel program, local spot, into "Good morning and welcome
to Peace To You" Christian program. NBFM, local level. Still fantastic
local level at 1601, with female mentioning that the local [sic] Wolf
Creek ski resort is the first to open for the season, low 37 tomorrow,
41 degrees currently. into the second hour of "Broncos Warmup" pre-
game coverage at 1604. And still local level, 1840 check. And still
local level 2145 recheck! (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA,
27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 3195, Oct 7 at 0359, thought just in time to check this
frequency at tail of the UT Friday 0330 airing of WORLD OF RADIO 1585
on WWRB 5051 which as usual started after a minute of respectful
silence at 0331, and yes, at 0359, 3195 is now on in //. Since August,
WWRB website has claimed that 3195 would be starting Sept 1, but I
tired of hunting for it with no results.
Maybe it really started Oct 1; and maybe 5051 will subsequently be
phased out? 5051 has been only fair here, and 3195 should be better at
closer range. 3185 was also on with BS, unlike last night when stuck
to 9385. After WOR, traces of some audio on 5051, but couldn`t tell
what, a sign-off? Cut off the air at 0401*. Dead air on 3195 until it
went off a semiminute later. [WORLD OF RADIO 1586]
WORLD OF RADIO also confirmed on WTWW 9479, after 2100 Thursday Oct 6.
Always huge signal here, and we consider this the prime airing for
early listeners. Thank you, George.
Could not hear WRMI 9955 at same time, and just missed the 0500 UT
Friday play, but at 0530 Oct 7 in R. Praga, fair signal with no
jamming audible, so hope there was no/less jamming during WOR this
week. Also confirmed on webcast before 1500 Friday.
Further airings of WOR 1585:
WRMI 9955: Saturday 0800, 1500, 1730; Sunday 0800, 1530, 1730; Monday
1130, 1530, 2130; Tuesday & Wednesday 1530
WTWW 5755: UT Sunday 0400
WBCQ Area 51 5110v-CUSB: UT Monday 0300
WRN via SiriusXM channel 120: Sat & Sun 1730, Sun 0830
Hamburger Lokal Radio 5980: Tuesday 0930
Full schedule: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
WORLD OF RADIO 1585 monitoring: Saturday Oct 8 at 1517 trying WRMI
9955, but can only hear JBA signal(s), not enough to be certain my
voice is on one of them. One often wonders whether besides aiming the
other way, WRMI is also on its 5 kW backup instead of 50 kW.
Further repeats on WRMI: Saturday 1730, Sunday 0800, 1530, 1730,
Monday 1130, 1530, 2130, Tuesday & Wednesday 1530.
On WRN via SiriusXM 120: Sat & Sun 1730, Sun 0830
On WTWW: UT Sunday 0400 on 5755
On WBCQ: UT Monday 0300v on Area 51 5110v-CUSB
On Hamburger Lokal Radio: Tuesday 0930 on 5980
WORLD OF RADIO 1585 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW 5755, UT Sunday Oct
9 after 0400, VG signal. Some further airings:
Sun 1530, 1730, WRMI 9955
Mon 0300v, WBCQ 5110v-CUSB via Area 51
Mon 1130, 1530, 2130, WRMI 9955
Tue 0930, HLR 5980 Germany [how about some reports on this?]
Tue & Wed 1530, WRMI 9955
Full schedule updated: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 9954.965, FLORIDA, WRMI Radio Miami International,
Miami-Hialeah Gardens. 1450 October 9, 2011. "AWR Wavescan" DX program
hosted by Jeff White, with audio from speakers at the HFCC Conference
in Dallas last month. Jeff White WRMI ID in English and Spanish at
1459, into Spanish (Jeff White, again) with similar DX programming
[Viva Miami], also the HFCC Dallas discussion by he and a chica [wife
Thaïs]. Very good, but Cuban pulse jammer present underneath (Terry L
Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, dxldyg via
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3195, Oct 8 at 0354 check, WWRB is still on this
reactivation with preacher // weaker 5051 with het. Maybe will be
turning off 5051 after transition period. Full extent not explored,
i.e. when 3195 comes on but it goes off after 0400 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST) And still on both 0211 UT Oct 13 (gh)
** U S A. 9330/USB, WBCQ Monticello ME (presumed); 2140-2146+, 6-Oct;
Supplicative English huxter music; no preaching. SIO=4+54-; // spurs
on 9296, SIO=252+ in LSB & weak one on 9364 (Harold Frodge, Midland
MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed
RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 7555, Oct 10 at 0459, WEWN is on again with Regina Cœli IS;
believe I forgot to log that it was missing again 23+ hours earlier.
BTW, I discovered quite by accident that the way to produce combined
oe is control-shift 7, then o, apparently because it sort of looks
like an ampersand (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15809.4 and // 15840.6, Oct 8 at 1506, gospel huxter in
American, perfectly readable at S9+5 level; you`d easily assume these
were intentional stations if it weren`t for the huger S9+20 matching
signal between at 15825 from WWCR, which apparently has improved the
signals and modulation on its WWCR-1 +/- 15.6 kHz spurs. Used to be
tough to hear much more than just carriers. Three frequencies for the
price of one! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) See also SOUTH CAROLINA [non]
15809.42v, TENNESSEE, WWCR, Nashville. 1638-1700 October 9, 2011.
English male preacher spending a lot of time telling us that only God
knows where Moses is buried, but we know where Mohammed is buried, for
whatever importance that is. Closing at 1656 states this is a program
via the Calvary Baptist Church, NYC, into nice oldie gospel male vocal
"Peace in the Valley" then male canned ID. Drifted down to 15809.40.
At 1800 check, noted in parallel with 15825.025 (stable), and 15840.58
which was also slightly drifty. Into "The Golden Age of Radio" at
1805, apparently no preacher brokers to fill the gap. Can't they
operate just one transmitter at 100%? Lots of radio Wwbig junk up in
TN (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
15640-15870 approx., Oct 10 at 2009, splatter from WWCR 15825 extends
this far, worst around 15670-15700, confirmed by comparing modulation
peaks to 15825 on another receiver. But this time, the +/- 15.6 kHz
spurs are missing. Think I`d rather have them; it`s always something.
Wonder if WWCR had swapped transmitters for the #1 service, as the one
normally used for #4 is available after 2000 when 9980 is off.
At 1324 Oct 11, 15825 was pretty strong, but no splatter or spurs
audible; instead heard RIT on 15812, see RUSSIA. But by 1349 the 15825
signal had built up enough to audiblize the 15810v/15840v spurs (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
7520, Most likely WWCR in English spitting spurious signals with noisy
audio quality in the 7502 to 7538 kHz range at present 0115 UT Oct 12,
I see also two sideband peaks at 7504.381 and 7535.617 kHz. Some
addresses given, hard to understand and to follow here in Europe. 73
and Good Night wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1586,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12100, Oct 12 at 1352 I notice WTWW is on as usual in
Arabic, when Firedrake is unusually on 12105, but at 1424, 12100 is
off to check out another interference problem. 9479 is still on.
FCC has prevailed upon WTWW to shift from 12100 to 12105, since BBC
has complained about interference to its long-used 12095. So from 1300
Oct 13, look for WTWW-3 on 12105. This would not seem to be a very
good idea, since just today Oct 12, I was hearing Firedrake on 12105
at 1352, and 12105 is already occupied for several hours by KSDA in
Chinese and KTWR. 12100 itself had not been used by any other station.
However, 12105 is not on the B-11 schedule for AWR/KSDA so that
collision and perhaps Firedrake should go away in a few weeks. But IBB
Iranawila will be using 12105 some and still KTWR (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. On shortwave, the contrast to listening in Europe was huge.
Virtually every station heard on the HF bands was broadcasting in
English, whereas they are in the minority at most times of day when
listening from home. [you weren`t trying very hard if the only SW
stations you logged were from USA, plus Anguilla and IRRS --- gh]
Perhaps the most astonishing and disturbing piece of radio I heard was
Scriptures for America on WTWW 9480 [sic] kHz. A character named
Pastor Peter J Peters was preaching religiously, but incorporated into
his sermon was a stinging attack on the levels of crime in America
committed (according to Peters) by the black community at a rate way
above their proportion of the population. He declared that we need to
pray for the white skinhead kids. Back home, a Google search about
this programme threw up the phrase ``white supremacist`` in two of the
top three search results! Further research (Glenn Hauser, World of
radio) revealed that Peters died in July 2011 but that his ministry
still has many hours of his programming yet to release.
Other eyebrow-raising (but less alarming) content could be found on
the AM talk radio shows. My eldest son Jimmy was really surprised to
hear a phone-in host proclaiming President Obama to be ``a liar and a
con man``, as you just wouldn`t get that sort of line on British
radio. I didn`t actually know before I went, but it was soon clear
from listening to the radio that Florida is a very Republican state –
and the Obama administration (Democrat) is very unpopular there! (Tom
Read, M1EYP, Holiday Report – Davenport, Florida near Orlando on his
family`s first ever venture stateside, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via
DXLD)
** U S A [non]. 17580, Oct 8 at 1504, Harold Camping lives! There he
drones, pontificating about I Corinthians XIII: 12, fair with some
hum. Certainly nothing about May 21 or October 21. Hadn`t heard him in
many weeks of random tuning across YFR frequencies. HFCC shows this
English hour is 250 kW, 114 degrees from hummy Ascension; ascending,
of course, being exactly what the rapture-eligible are counting on
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
HAROLD CAMPING SAYS RAPTURE, END OF WORLD IS OCTOBER 21
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/227622/20111008/harold-camping-rapture-end-of-world-october-21-judgment-day-may-21-god-family-radio.htm
(International Business Times via Kevin Redding, Oct 9, ABDX via DXLD)
[and non]. 15190, Oct 9 at 2225 check, WYFR Portuguese talking about
tribulação; lite het presumably from off-frequency R. Inconfidência,
BRAZIL. Just in case anyone forgot, WYFR is still here at +2200-0045*
in Portuguese, sometimes with English elements. We keep seeing
occasional reports of R. Africa, Equatorial Guinea on 15190 without
any definite ID, which was last certainly heard in April or May (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
[non]. Frequency and time changes of Family Radio in Marathi:
1400-1500 NF 13695 ERV 300 kW / 125 deg to SoAS from Oct 4 // 9595 DHA
1500-1600 on 13690 DHA 250 kW / 100 deg to SoAS cancelled from Oct. 4
(DX Mix News, Bulgaria, 10 Oct via DXLD)
TP for 11 Oct 2011 from Victoria: Meager, but improved. All Asia.
Listened this morning from 1405 and conditions, unlike for Bill in AZ
were pretty poor. Some of the first tier stations from Japan
propagated quite well, but were highly variable and of short duration.
Now, I'm going to amend my findings, since as I started to type this
report, things really picked up, especially in the upper half of the
band, and after 1400 (more like after ~ 1410). It just came alive. In
fact, WYFR from Taiwan was just booming in with Dr. [sic] Harold
Camping at 1408 at 9 level, better than HLAZ!
1557: 9 level WYFR at 1408 with Dr. Harold Camping (?reruns). Better
than HLAZ for a while. Best ever here. He's still there at 1424 as I
type this, still at about 8 level. DU was a washout today, though. By
the way, SF 126, A 3 , K (12:00) 0 - *haven't seen a K of 0 for a
while! *No space weather storms past, nor predicted for next 24 hours.
73s ([Dr. {medical, Ob-Gyn}] Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, Oct 11, IRCA
via DXLD)
Harold Camping is not a Dr., but admittedly a layman (not that there`s
anything wrong with that) so no collegiality necessary (gh, DXLD)
** U S A [and non]. 9955, Oct 7 at 1359, KTWR IS making fast SAH, weak
signal mixing about equally with WRMI. Scheduled Cantonese semihour M-
F only, so tough luck for those who would like to hear R. Prague via
WRMI. It`s about time the FCC quit putting other US stations on 9955!
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. AWR B11 (2011-10-30 to 2012-03-24)
Site Start Stop Language Service Area kHz m kW Days
-----------------------------------------------------------------
SDA 0000 0200 Mandarin NE-China 12035 25 100 1234567
SDA 0000 0200 Mandarin C/N-China 17880 16 100 1234567
SDA 0000 0030 Burmese Myanmar 17635 16 100 1234567
SDA 0030 0100 Karen Myanmar,Thailand,China 17635 16 100 1234567
SDA 0100 0200 Mandarin S-China 17635 16 100 1234567
TAI 0100 0200 Vietnamese Vietnam 15445 19 100 7
MOS 0200 0230 Urdu Pakistan 5970 49 300 1234567
MDC 0230 0330 Malagasy Madagascar 3215 90 50 1234567
MOS 0230 0300 Punjabi Pakistan 5970 49 300 1234567
WER 0300 0330 Oromo S-Ethiopia 7370 41 250 1234567
WER 0300 0330 Tigrinya Eritrea 7315 41 250 1234567
SDA 0300 0330 Russian E-Russia 17635 16 100 1234567
MOS 0330 0430 Farsi Iran 6145 49 300 1234567
WER 0330 0400 Amharic Ethiopia 7370 41 250 1234567
MEY 0400 0600 Arabic Egypt,Iraq,ArabPeninsula 15480 19 250 1234567
WER 0400 0430 Bulgarian Bulgaria 5975 49 100 1234567
MOS 0430 0500 French Morocco,Algeria 6045 49 300 1234567
WER 0700 0800 Arabic Morocco,Algeria 11975 25 100 1234567
WER 0800 0830 French Morocco,Algeria 15145 19 100 1234567
WER 0800 0830 Kabyle Morocco,Algeria 15125 19 100 1234567
WER 0830 0900 Tachelhit Morocco,Algeria 15145 19 100 1234567
SDA 1000 1100 Mandarin S-China 15260 19 100 1234567
SDA 1000 1100 Mandarin C/N-China 11955 25 100 1234567
NAU 1000 1100 Italian Italy 9610 31 100 1
SDA 1030 1100 Ilonggo Philippines 11870 25 100 45
SDA 1030 1100 Cebuano Philippines 11870 25 100 67
SDA 1030 1100 Ilocano Philippines 11870 25 100 1
SDA 1030 1100 Tagalog Philippines 11870 25 100 23
SDA 1100 1130 Indonesian W-Indonesia 15495 19 100 1234567
SDA 1100 1200 Mandarin S-China 12035 25 100 1234567
SDA 1100 1200 Mandarin C/N-China 11825 25 100 1234567
SDA 1100 1200 Mandarin NE-China 11730 25 100 1234567
SDA 1130 1200 Javanese Indonesia,Malaysia 15260 19 100 2 4 6
SDA 1130 1200 Sundanese Indonesia,Malaysia 15260 19 100 1 3 5 7
NAU 1200 1230 English NE-India,Bangladesh 17510 16 250 1234567
SDA 1200 1300 Korean Korea 9880 31 100 1234567
SDA 1200 1300 Mandarin NE-China 11855 25 100 1234567
SDA 1200 1300 Mandarin S-China 12035 25 100 1234567
SDA 1200 1300 Mandarin C/N-China 11825 25 100 1234567
NAU 1230 1300 Bangla NE-India,Bangladesh 17510 16 250 1234567
SDA 1300 1330 Khmer Cambod,Viet,Thai, Laos 11935 25 100 1234567
SDA 1300 1330 Karen Myanmar,Thailand,China 11860 25 100 1234567
NAU 1300 1330 Mandarin W-China 15480 19 250 23456
NAU 1300 1330 Uighur W-China 15480 19 250 1 7
SDA 1300 1400 Mandarin C/N-China 9920 31 100 1234567
MDC 1300 1400 Vietnamese Vietnam 17670 16 250 1234567
SDA 1300 1330 Bangla Bangladesh 15660 19 100 1234567
SDA 1330 1400 Russian E-Russia 9655 31 100 1234567
SDA 1330 1400 Thai Cambod,Viet,Thai,Laos 11935 25 100 234 6
NAU 1330 1500 Mandarin W-China 15480 19 250 1234567
SDA 1330 1400 Malay Malaysia 15660 19 100 23 7
SDA 1330 1400 Khmer Cambod,Viet,Thai,Laos 11935 25 100 1
SDA 1330 1400 Hmong Thailand 15660 19 100 56
SDA 1330 1400 Lao Cambod,Viet,Thai,Laos 11935 25 100 5 7
SDA 1330 1400 Assamese NE-India 15660 19 100 1 4
SDA 1400 1430 Sinhalese Sri Lanka 15255 19 100 1234567
SDA 1400 1500 Mandarin S-China 11915 25 100 1234567
SDA 1400 1500 Mandarin C/N-China 9920 31 100 1234567
MOS 1400 1430 Urdu Pakistan 15440 19 300 1234567
SDA 1400 1430 Chin Myanmar 11940 25 100 1234567
SDA 1430 1500 PWO WKaren Myanmar,Thailand,China 11940 25 100 1234567
MDC 1430 1528 Malagasy Madagascar 3215 90 50 1234567
MOS 1430 1500 Afar Djibouti,NE-Ethiopia,Somalia 17605 16 300 1234567
SDA 1430 1500 Burmese Myanmar 15660 19 100 1234567
SDA 1500 1530 Telugu S-India 11675 25 100 1234567
WER 1500 1530 Nepali Nepal 15255 19 250 1234567
MOS 1500 1530 Turkish Turkey 11955 25 300 1234567
SDA 1500 1530 Mizo NE-India 15215 19 100 1234567
WER 1500 1530 Panjabi N-India 15270 19 250 1234567
SDA 1500 1530 Kachin Myanmar 15660 19 100 1234567
SDA 1500 1530 Tamil S-India 11685 25 100 1234567
WER 1530 1600 English Nepal, Tibet 15255 19 250 1234 7
SDA 1530 1600 Kannada S-India 11690 25 100 1234567
SDA 1530 1600 Hindi C-India 15215 19 100 1234567
WER 1530 1600 Tibetan Nepal, Tibet 15255 19 250 56
WER 1530 1600 Hindi N-India 15270 19 250 1234567
SDA 1530 1600 Marathi C-India 15495 19 100 1234567
SDA 1530 1600 Malayalam S-India 11955 25 100 1234567
SDA 1600 1630 English S-India 11690 25 100 1234567
SDA 1600 1630 Urdu N-India 11720 25 100 1234567
MOS 1600 1630 Urdu Pakistan 15250 19 300 1234567
WER 1600 1630 Bulgarian Bulgaria 6100 49 100 1234567
SDA 1600 1630 English C-India 15215 19 100 1234567
ISS 1630 1700 Somali Somalia 17575 16 250 1234567
MOS 1630 1730 Farsi Iran 11645 25 300 1234567
SDA 1630 1700 English N-India 11935 25 100 1234567
MEY 1700 1730 Kiswahili Tanzania,Kenya,Uganda 11925 25 250 1234567
MEY 1730 1800 Masai Tanzania,Kenya,Uganda 11925 25 250 1234567
WER 1730 1800 Kabyle Morocco,Algeria 11860 25 100 1234567
WER 1730 1800 Oromo S-Ethiopia 11795 25 250 1234567
MOS 1800 1830 Col English S-Sudan 11690 25 300 4
MOS 1800 1830 Moro S-Sudan 11690 25 300 1
MOS 1800 1830 Acholi S-Sudan 11690 25 300 7
MEY 1800 1830 English SW-Africa 3215 90 100 1234567
MEY 1800 1830 English Botswana,S.Af,Zimbabwe 3345 90 100 1234567
MOS 1800 1830 Dinka S-Sudan 11690 25 300 5
MOS 1800 1830 Juba Arabic S-Sudan 11690 25 300 3
MOS 1800 1830 Bari S-Sudan 11690 25 300 2
MOS 1800 1830 Zande S-Sudan 11690 25 300 6
MEY 1830 1900 English E-Africa 11830 25 250 1234567
MOS 1830 1900 Arabic Libya 11860 25 300 1234567
MEY 1900 2100 Arabic Egypt,Iraq,Arab Peninsula 15480 19 250 1234567
WER 1900 1930 Arabic Morocco,Algeria 11760 25 100 1234567
MEY 1900 1930 Fulfulde Cameroon,Ghana,Senegal 15240 19 500 1234567
NAU 1900 2000 Arabic Morocco,Algeria 9535 31 100 1234567
WER 1900 1930 Wolof Senegal,Gambia 11860 25 250 1234567
MOS 1900 1930 Hausa Nigeria 11690 25 300 1234567
MEY 1930 2000 Ibo E-Nigeria 11750 25 250 1234567
MOS 1930 2000 French C-Africa 11690 25 300 1234567
WER 1930 2000 Tachelhit Morocco,Algeria 11760 25 100 1234567
MOS 2000 2030 Dyula Burk.Faso,Ivory Coast,Mali 9770 31 300 1234567
WER 2000 2030 French Morocco,Algeria 9805 31 100 1234567
MEY 2000 2030 French Cameroon,Niger 11755 25 250 1234567
MOS 2030 2100 French W-Africa 9805 31 300 1234567
MEY 2030 2100 Yoruba Nigeria 11755 25 250 1234567
SDA 2100 2200 Mandarin C/N-China 9720 31 100 1234567
SDA 2100 2200 Mandarin W-Japan,S-China 9565 31 100 1234567
SDA 2100 2200 Korean Korea 9890 31 100 1234567
MOS 2100 2130 English W-Africa 9830 31 300 1234567
SDA 2200 2300 Mandarin NE-China 11685 25 100 1234567
SDA 2200 2230 Javanese W-Indonesia 11850 25 100 1 3 5
SDA 2200 2300 Mandarin C/N-China 15370 19 100 1234567
SDA 2200 2230 Indonesian W-Indonesia 15320 19 100 1234567
SDA 2200 2230 Sundanese W-Indonesia 11850 25 100 2 4 67
SDA 2230 2300 English W-Indonesia 15320 19 100 1234567
SDA 2300 2400 Mandarin NE-China 11700 25 100 1234567
SDA 2300 2400 Vietnamese Vietnam 15320 19 100 1234567
SDA 2300 2400 Mandarin C/N-China 15370 19 100 1234567
Sites :
ISS = Issoudun
MDC = Madagascar
MEY = Meyerton
MOS = Moosbrunn
NAU = Nauen
SDA = Agat
TAI = Taipei
WER = Wertachtal
Days:
1 = Sunday
2 = Monday
3 = Tuesday
4 = Wednesday
5 = Thursday
6 = Friday
7 = Saturday
Version 01/2011-10-06/pub, AWR Frequency Management Office
--- (via Alokesh Gupta, VU3BSE, New Delhi, Oct 10, dxldyg via DXLD)
** U S A. UNIDENTIFIED. 17211-USB approx., Oct 11 at 1406-1407* YL
robot with marine weather in English, but frequency and thus pitch of
voice fluxuates with modulation! Another out-of-whack maritime
transmitter; is anyone paying attention? Could not catch closing ID as
it was too far off-pitch at the moment. Can`t find anything listed or
reported recently 17210-17212, except for a 1987 log of 17211 as KFO
San Francisco in SITOR. Maybe it`s also off-frequency from further
away.
17211 approx., Oct 12 at 1358 I am QRX for the unID marine weather YL
robot I heard yesterday until 1407*, out of whack USB with frequency
and consequently pitch varying with speech making copy very difficult,
no way to tune it in properly; if it had been on AM, the same
frequency instability would have been tolerable.
Comes on at *1359 with same defect, so this time I look for nearby //
in case it is spurious. Yes! There `she` is on 17260-USB which is loud
and stable; furthermore with matching spur circa 17309, i.e. 49 kHz on
the other side. Giving G.C.s, knots of storms, cites NHC Miami; 1405
ID as WLO, holding traffic for a list of vessels by number, not
callsign or name. Sign off as ``whisky lima oscar, and kilo lima
bravo, standing by for calls; end of broadcast`` and off between 1406
and 1407*. No replies heard here, as no doubt paired with an unknown
duplex frequency. But is it really WLO, or KLB on 17260 putting out
the spurs? UDXF yg hits lead to WLO (Mobile AL), not KLB (Kent WA)
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 28285.8, FLORIDA, WA4ROX, Largo. 1308 October 9, 2011. This
amateur radio HF beacon remains active, and still slightly warbly,
with CW calls cycling just under 60 seconds. Registered to: EDWARD G.
VOGENEY, WA4ROX, 10570 114TH TER N, LARGO, FL 33773, 0.75 watts, A1
mode. I'll have to drop in on him some day, as he's just a little SW
of me. Google Streetview doesn't show any obvious sticks (Terry L
Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, Abridged
pile of junk [partly applying to all logs in this issue]: JRC NRD-535;
ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Aqua Guide 705 Radio Direction
Finder; Sangean PR-D5; Sony ICF-7600GR; GE SuperRadio III; RadioShack
DX-399; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X in-room random wire, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 570 / 910, FLORIDA, WTBN, Pinellas Park and WTWD, Plant City
respectively. 1849 UT October 9, 2011. Two Christian talk program
audios feeding through the board on both stations, almost equal audio
level. Brilliant (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA, 27.55.83
N, 82.46.08 W, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 680, Oct 9 at 1200 UT, KNBR is dominating with ID
as ``The Sports Leader`` but same announcer then blithely introducing
`The Commonwealth Club`, breaking format, but who cares at 5 am
Sunday?? [Also had Mormon Tabernacle Choir again after 1230 on KNX
1070.] Is hour-long discussion with CEO bigwigs about public vs
private partnerships. C.C. originates in San Francisco and is mostly
heard on public radio stations, such as KQED which was mentioned in
the intro. Mexican NA dimly audible underneath. There are 8
possibilities west of Yucatán, 3 in NW México (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 770, Oct 10 at 1220 UT, KKOB ID in passing during news,
making SAH with Spanish music, maybe one logged later from MEXICO,
q.v. When I hear KKOB before its sunrise switch to non-direxional from
Albuquerque, I suspect it`s really the 230-watt night-only non-
direxional co-channel repeater in Santa Fe, but hard to be certain as
some signal may still leak out from 50 kW in the North Valley despite
null toward WABC and close to us. FCC still qualifies SF as
``experimental synchronous operation``, and oddly enough does not have
a separate callsign! October SR/SS times are 1315 and 0030 UT between
which only the 50 kW ABQ should be on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 870, Oct 8 at 1241, Spanish ad with 1-800 number, ID ``8-70,
Radio [algo]``, perhaps Variedades, KLSQ Nevada; making SAH of about 7
Hz with XETAR(?) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 930, Oct 9 at 1206 UT, PSAs for Alcoholix Anonymous, charter
schools, then ID for ``930-AM, KCCC, Carlsbad``. Tnx to sharp null
possible with WKY OKC during its weekly English semi-hour. This New
Mexican may be `personal first` from OK; is non-direxional 1000 W
daytime, 60 watts nite, but 500 watts PSRA which would have started at
1200 (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 990, Oct 9 at 1253 UT, ``Radioexitosfm.net en KFCD, gracias
al Metroplex``, as previously researched, but good to get a definite
call letter ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Tonight, try for WKCE-1120 Maryville, TN with Fox Sports
Radio. They started night operations for Friday night HSFB and are now
24/7, despite being licensed for daytime operation only. I helped put
this facility on the air in 1985. Wish now that I hadn't. Don't hold
out for a ToH legal ID from WKCE-1120 at night. All you'll get is
eight seconds of dead air (Steve Francis, Alcoa, Tennessee, UT 6 Oct,
IRCA and WTFDA-AM via DXLD)
** U S A. 1140, Oct 9 at 1245 UT, ``W [doble-u], la más mexicana,
[URL] en su Blackberry`` by super-hype voice actor. Nothing fits on
Cantú`s Mexican listings, so default to USA, where we google KLTK in
Centerton, northwest Arkansas, http://www.lamasmexicana1140.com/
But I don`t know where the W comes from; some affiliation with that
even more Mexican group? Overrides OKC for a while (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1190, Oct 9 at 1230 UT instead of a Mexican, Spanish here is
``La 11-90`` from WSW, 1231 temp ``en el aeropuerto de Phoenix``, time
as 5:31, so KNUV, COL Tolleson AZ. NRC AM Log shows it as ``Grupo
Fórmula``. Website confirms slogan I heard: http://www.onda1190am.com/
with wide variety of programming, radio-locator.com coverage map,
street view of building, etc.
FCC AM query shows 5 kW day, 250 watts nite, contrary to KNUV`s claim
of 400 watts nite. No PSRA info nor in NRC AM Log, so must have been
on nite power, whatever that is (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 1440, ALABAMA, WLWI, Montgomery. 1105 October 8, 2011. Tune-
in to a male canned listing of concerts and open-to-public events at
Auburn University, then local spots, including Dixie Electric. Then,
Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street" bumper music into, "Live from Houston,
it's the Dave Ramsey Show." Presumably a previous day show replay,
being that they apparently have no live-and-local gardening, swap shop
or bass fishing show to slot in at this time. Trivia: Wiki lists
Ramsey's opening themes (bumper music)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dave_Ramsey_Show_%28radio_program%29
First log of this one here (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida USA,
27.55.83 N, 82.46.08 W, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1510, Oct 9 at 1226, Yahoo Sports Radio; KCTE Independence
MO is a listed affiliate but there is no het and not from the NE, so
must be the other one in NRC AM Log, KCKK Littleton CO. (It`s the odd
station with 25 kW night, 10 kW day, aside from pattern changes.) At
1248 there is a het on 1510+ as off-frequency daytimer KCTE has come
on and is now dominant (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1620 South Bend format change? Noted 0657-0703 EDT this
morning - WDND(?)-1620 IN with country influenced rock mx, news
headlines with Kim Ryan (?), weather with Fox 20 Meteorologist Ken
Garcee(?); Only ID seemed to be an FM slogan "U93" or similar. Are AM
call letters still WDND? Any help appreciated (Marc DeLorenzo, South
Dennis, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Oct 12, WTFDA-AM via DXLD)
You haven`t seen DXLD 11-40 (gh, DXLD 11-41)
Yep, Marc, it's South Bend. Format change took place on September
23rd, according to Wikipedia, and several DXers have reported it to
various listservers in the past few weeks. CLs still seem to be WDND.
With 1490 in South Bend now silent, there are no local all-sports
stations on AM in a market where sports is a pretty big thing. 73,
(Rick Dau, South Omaha, Nebraska, Oct 12, IRCA via DXLD)
** U S A. "College Radio Day" today --- Today's the day...fans of the
genre might be interested in checking this out:
http://www.collegeradioday.com/
(Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA USA, Oct 11, 2011, Internetradio
mailing list via DXLD) which says:
COLLEGE RADIO DAY 2011 IS OVER! MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR OCT 9, 2012,
THE NEXT CRD! (Glenn Hauser, DXLD)
** URUGUAY. Visita fotográfica (Phototour) XMTR Site Radiodifusión
Nacional, SODRE, Santiago Vázquez. Last entry in my blog, "La Galena
del Sur". Última entrada en mi blog "La Galena del Sur"
----------------------------------------------------------
Visita fotográfica a la Planta Emisora de Radiodifusión Nacional,
SODRE, en Santiago Vázquez (Uruguay) --- Photo tour to Radiodifusión
Nacional, SODRE, transmitter site of Santiago Vázquez.
http://lagalenadelsur.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/los-trasmisores-del-sodre-en-santiago-vazquez/
(Horacio Nigro Geolkiewsky, Montevideo, Uruguay, dxldyg via DXLD)
In Spanish language, but lot of pics! You can visit via Google
translation (somewhat raw, BTW, but rather readable)
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=es&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Flagalenadelsur.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F10%2F07%2Flos-trasmisores-del-sodre-en-santiago-vazquez%2F&act=url
(Horacio Nigro Geolkiewsky, Montevideo, Uruguay, shortwavesites yg via
DXLD)
** VANUATU. 7260, Radio Vanuatu, 0815-0830, in Tok Pidgin. English C&W
and ballad type music, poor reception. 09-October-2011 (Ed Wlodarski,
N2ED, New Jersey, Ten Tec RX340 & 100 Ft Long Wire, NASWA Flashsheet
via DXLD)
Last reported on 7260 from NZ, July 13 as in DXLD 11-33. All reports
since have been on 3945, mostly by Bobrowiec, Brasil. So 7260 is
reactivated? Watch out for Ulaanbaatar and Urumqi, both also scheduled
on 7260 after 0655, per HFCC and Aoki, but may be too early for them
at 0800, especially Wulumuchi. Vanuatu has its own local English-based
lingua franca, Bislama, related to Tok Pisin on other islands:
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/bislama.php
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. 8535, 0517 7 Sept, Vatican Radio, Reports, ``English
service of Vatican Radio,``, spur? SIO 252 (Alan Pennington, UK, HF
Logbook, Oct BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD)
Sure, leapfrog of 5965 over 7250, another 1285 kHz higher (Glenn
Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
7250, what`s become of Vatican Radio? Absent from reliable frequency,
Oct 8 at 0538 check when noticed BBC 7255 with no ACI; still gone at
0603 when IGIM 7245 also had no ACI.
7250, Oct 9 at 0452, VR is back in French; was absent 23 hours earlier
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM [and non]. PROTEST SUPPORTS TWO VIET BROADCASTERS FACING
TRIAL --- Epoch Times Staff Created: Oct 4, 2011 Last Updated: Oct 5
In a related event, protesters at the Vietnamese consulate in San
Francisco on Oct. 3 advocate for freedom for broadcasters Vu Duc Trung
and Le Van Thanh. (Jan Jekielek/The Epoch Times)
NEW YORK -- Vu Duc Trung, a 30-year-old tech executive, and Le Van
Thanh, his 35-year-old brother-in-law, are due to stand trial in Hanoi
on Thursday for airing shortwave radio broadcasts [WTFK???] from
Vietnam into China. The two downloaded Chinese-language programs from
the Sound of Hope Radio (SOH) network about human rights abuses,
official corruption, protests, and the persecution of Falun Gong in
China.
On Tuesday, New York Falun Gong practitioners gathered across from the
Vietnamese Consulate General on United Nations Plaza to support the
two men. They were protesting the prosecution, saying it was a result
of pressure on Vietnam by the Chinese regime.
"Please do NOT follow the instructions of the Chinese government and
sentence innocent Vietnamese citizens to jail for their courageous
deeds," said a letter the practitioners delivered to the Consulate
General in New York.
The Chinese regime takes strict measures to control all information
that reaches the Chinese people. On May 30, 2010, the Chinese Embassy
sent a memo to various Vietnamese government departments demanding the
broadcasts stop and those responsible be charged. Trung and Thanh were
arrested just three weeks later and have been held in jail ever
since -- for more than 15 months.
"What Mr. Trung and Mr. Thanh did wasn't for themselves," the letter
explains. "They did it all because they want to save other people's
lives. They did NOTHING that hurts Vietnam or the Vietnamese
government."
It concludes, "These people are very respectable citizens of Vietnam
who are courageous and put other people's interests above their own.
They do not belong in jail and should not be tried."
Trung and Thanh had been scheduled for trial originally on April 8;
however, the trial was postponed. The protesters say this was due to
international pressure, as Reporters Without Borders and other press
freedom and human rights groups publicized the case.
"We want to show the Vietnamese government that these two Falun Gong
practitioners have freedom of speech, and that we will pay close
attention to this incident," Chen Yue, deputy director of the New York
SOH branch, said on Tuesday.
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New York Falun Gong practitioner representative Sun Zhenyu said, "We
call on the Vietnamese government to comply with the international
covenant and safeguard humankind's freedom of speech and freedom of
religion, and not to yield to the CCP's pressure and become its thugs.
The Vietnamese government must unconditionally release these two Falun
Gong practitioners immediately." Protests have also been held in Los
Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, and Australia (via Mike Cooper, DXLD)
** WALES. 24962-USB, Oct 8 at 1855,``MW0ZZK in a small village on the
west coast of Wales``, making numerous contest contacts such as a W6,
among many other TA signals on 12m. Along with several photos of his
antennas on the QRZ.com lookup page:
MW0ZZK
Steve Redmond
QSL via EB7DX [Spain]
Abersoch
Wales
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 06/10/2011 2054, 1550, RADIO NACIONAL DE LA
RASD, ALGERIA Rabouni, px in locale better [sic] (Mauro - Giroletti, -
Swl 1510-, -IK2GFT-, bclnews.it yg via DXLD)
ESTAÇÕES CLANDESTINAS: 1550, Polisario Front station, Rabouni,
ALGERIA, 1030-1300*, 09/10, Arabic, talks,..., music, newscast at
noon, songs, anthem at closure; 25443. Still no parallel HF outlet,
it's silent during both daily brpadcasts. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves,
PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
IN WESTERN SAHARA PRISON, "RADIO BECAME A KIND OF INTELLECTUAL
NOURISHMENT." Posted: 09 Oct 2011
Pambazuka News, 5 Oct 2011, Nikolaj Nielsen: Brahim Sabbar, recalling
his detention in the Seguiat al Hamra prison in Western Sahara: "We
created a lot of committees, committee of theatre, of culture, of
coordination with the leaders, and tried to emulate the organized
structure of the Polisario from inside the prison. Finally we got the
right to get a radio with a single medium wave. However, we figured
out how to get short wave so we could listen to the BBC and Radio
France Internationale. The radio became a kind of intellectual
nourishment." (kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD)
** ZAMBIA. ZNBC2. 6165 Lusaka. Oct 8, 2011, Saturday. 2014-2035. Real-
time relay of the VOA's "Music Time in Africa", with music from the
Central African Republic. Confirmed // 909 and 4930 VOA via Botswana.
Fair-good signal, but with a whiney, constantly changing, whistle in
the background. Jo'burg sunset 1611 (Bill Bingham, RSA, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZANZIBAR. Radio Tanzania Zanzibar. 6015 Dole. Oct 2, 2011, Sunday.
Not there, at least between 0330 and 0340. Jo'burg sunrise 0348.
6015 Dole. Oct 3, 2011, Monday. Not there at several checks between
0300 and 0400. Jo'burg sunrise 0346.
6015 Dole. Oct 4, 2011, Tuesday. Not there at several checks between
0320 and 0340. However, it is sunrise here in five minutes and already
getting light. Zanzibar is one hour ahead of us, so it is a complete
light path to Zanzibar by now. Even the Zambian stations are poor, and
their transmitters are due north of Jo'burg. Jo'burg sunrise 0345.
6015 Dole. Oct 5, 2011, Wednesday. Not there at 0340, but it is
already daylight here, although just before sunrise. Jo'burg sunrise
0344.
6015 Dole. Oct 6, 2011, Thursday. Not there at several checks from
0255 - 0320, but it is just starting to get light here by 0320.
According to http://www.timeanddate.com today's sunrise in Zanzibar is
at 0306 and here in Jo'burg it is at 0343. With an *0300 sign on and
sunrise at 0306, the daily window to catch Zanzibar from Jo'burg will
be fully closed soon. There now seems little point in checking on a
daily basis until our southern winter comes around again (A12 season),
bringing with it a total dark path. So I will check periodically for
another couple of weeks just in case I get it via greyline, but will
no longer log no-shows. Jo'burg sunrise 0343 (Bill Bingham, RSA,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
6015, Radio Tanzania Zanzibar. As of Oct 11 they continue to be off
the air in the 0256 to 0320 time period; was not a matter of poor
propagation (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg
via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZIMBABWE. Voice of Zimbabwe. 4828 Gweru. Oct 5, 2011, Wednesday.
1945-2020. I haven't heard Voice of Zimbabwe regularly for some time
now. I heard it several times in April (DXLD 11-18) and others have
reported it sporadically since then. I last logged it on Sept 8 (DXLD
11-37) during an early morning over-run, some time after it should
have signed off, but reception then was very poor. I found it coming
in well tonight (armchair quality), with a good strong signal. Several
OM's in a discussion about education in Zimbabwe and its problems,
especially in Harare. Then at 1950, ID "Voice of Zimbabwe", and a
discussion on democracy there. News at 2000 (all about Zim) read by
YL, but didn't hear an ID at TOH. At 2005 mentioned "ZBC News" and at
2009 "You are listening to the news from the Voice of Zimbabwe",
followed by brief afro music. Then at 2011 an OM said "Welcome to the
indiginisation [sic] debate", which turned out to be a discussion
about foreign ownership of the mining industry there and the likely
benefits of its transfer to local ownership. That's when I lost
interest. Good, to Southern Africa. Jo'burg sunset 1610.
4828 Gweru. Oct 6, 2011, Thursday. Not there at various checks from
1805 to 1902. In total contrast to last night, Wednesday 5th, nothing
at all tonight. Presumably not a propagation thing, because ZNBC1 &
ZNBC2 (5915 & 6165 from Lusaka, Zambia) are almost hopping directly
over Gweru to give a fair signal here in Jo'burg. Jo'burg sunset 1610.
4828 Gweru. Oct 7, 2011, Friday. 2014-2031. Tuned in to a programme of
mbira / marimba music. ID at 2017 "ZBC". Good. Not as good as Oct 5,
it is more fadey tonight. But it is a bit better than the Zambians on
5915 and 6165, so I conclude it was definitely off-air last night.
Jo'burg sunset 1611.
4828 Gweru. Oct 8, 2011, Saturday. Not there at 1920, but Zambian's
ZNBC1 and ZNBC2 (5915 and 6165) are hopping over Gweru to give fair-
good reception in Joburg. Voice of Zim must be off-air again. Jo'burg
sunset 1611.
4828 Gweru. Oct 11, 2011, Tuesday. 1917-1924. OM (apparently some
ambassador or other) talking about sanctions against Zimbabwe; there
seems to be a modulation problem, it keeps cutting out, but OK by
1919. YL announcer at 1922 then afro music, followed by OM with news
of what some "comrade" or other has to say about sanctions. Strong
signal but distorted and quite fadey, difficult to hear what is being
said. Jo'burg sunset 1613 (Bill Bingham, RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** ZIMBABWE [non]. South Africa. SW Radio Africa. 4880 Meyerton. Oct
8, 2011, Saturday. 1732-1755. The end of "News Roundup". OM's talking
about the "CIO" and its role in torture and disappearances in
Zimbabwe. ID at 1734 "SW Radio Africa", followed by YL and OM singing
an afro song. Another id at 1740 "SW Radio Africa", followed by "You
are listening to Clifford's Corner on SW Radio Africa --- Zimbabwe's
Independent Voice". At later check, 1812, one OM interviewing another
in Ndebele. Very good, armchair listening. I have never received SW
Radio Africa so well. Jo'burg sunset 1611.
4880 Meyerton. Oct 11, 2011, Tuesday. 1848-1858* "Newsreel". Talking
about indiginisation, then about problems at the University of
Zimbabwe. As it signed off at 1858* there was a snippet of the
irritating Family Radio music loop for about 5 seconds till the
carrier was cut. Even though Family Radio is not scheduled on this
frequency at any time. Armchair listening again. Only 15 kHz below
Zimbabwe Community Radio on 4895, but a far stronger signal with no
fading. Jo'burg sunset 1613 (Bill Bingham, RSA, dxldyg via DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZIMBABWE [non]. South Africa. Zimbabwe Community Radio. 4895
Meyerton. Oct 11, 2011, Tuesday. 1800-1850. Lots of talk and IDs, but
doing other things at the time I didn't really listen to it. Generally
good, although a much weaker signal than SW Radio Africa on 4880 and
with some deep fades to noise level. Interesting that SW Radio Africa,
15 kHz lower, was exceptionally good on October 8, and just as good
tonight with no fading at all. I thought all Meyerton transmitters
were 100 kW, but maybe not (or rather, maybe not any more) Jo'burg
sunset 1613 (Bill Bingham, RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 530+, Oct 10 at 0605 UT, R. Enciclopedia, Cuba, music is
marred by tooting sounds every few sex irregularly on the upper side,
different notes from one time to the next; briefly suspected it was a
defect on Cuban transmitter, but still hearing it at 1158 after Cuba
is gone. Very strange (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1210, Oct 10 at 1230, KGYN OK has a low/het rumble from
something in Spanish, first time noted that. Don`t necessarily blame a
Mexican, with super-lax standards unenforced by the FCC (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Mystery BBC WS heard in South Africa. Country ?? BBC WS.
1296 kHz. Transmitter location ?? Oct 8, 2011, Saturday. 1831-1856*.
Discussion of guinea worm, a parasitic worm which lives in humans in
Africa. Then moved on to the side effects of anti-psychotic drugs. I
heard this same programme on the BBC WS a few days ago, but whence is
it coming on this medium wave frequency at this time? Aoki and EiBi
list BBC WS on this frequency from Orfordness in England (I thought it
had closed down?), but at 0400-0600, and Aoki adds that it is DRM. The
Euro-African Medium Wave Guide agrees, although it differs one hour on
timing. In any case, surely not? I have had BBC and French local
stations on medium wave before, but in the wee small hours of our
local morning (circa 0100 UT), never at this sort of time. But it IS
the BBC WS - ID at 1849 "You are listening to Science in Action on the
BBC World Service". None of my guides (including any of the A11
DXLD's) lists a likely African candidate to be relaying this
programme. Noted that 1296 is 2 x 648 kHz, another common medium wave
frequency, but still no likely relay there either. Suddenly went off-
air in mid sentance at 1856*. I am mystified. Heard on Sony ICF2001D.
Fair reception. Jo'burg sunset 1611 (Bill Bingham, RSA, Oct 9, dxldyg
via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Maybe test transmissions for the coming winter season B-11 ?
see enclosed Babcock file under 1296 kHz like Polish Radio Warsaw,
via Orfordness TX site, close to Ipswich. Former Anglo-American OHR -
Over The Horizon Radar system "Cobra Mist" area.
300 Kilowatt and azimuth of 96 degr let out some back lobe signal out
also to all England area. 52 06'04.61"N 01 34'44.07"E
6 masts for 1296 kHz max 500 kW, reduced to 300 kW at
http://maps.google.de/maps?q=52%C2%B006%2704.61%22N++01%C2%B034%2744.07%22E&hl=de&ie=UTF8&ll=52.101242,1.579121&spn=0.001249,0.003484&sll=51.151786,10.415039&sspn=20.953177,57.084961&vpsrc=6&t=f&z=19&ecpose=52.10073753,1.57908956,218.48,2.17,14.431,0
73 wb wwdxc germany (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
It might have been Orfordness testing. As Kai Ludwig has reported,
Polish Radio will be using 1296 at this time (1800-1900) in the B11
period. The sudden cut at 1856 is consistent with a test (Chris
Greenway, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Thanks Chris, I spotted your reply after sending my second post. I
must say, if it was being generated within the Sony I wouldn't expect
it to cut off whilst the // 3255 and 6190 continue, so I should think
you are correct. Many thanks (Bill Bingham, RSA, 1835 UT Oct 9, dxldyg
via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
At 1819 I am hearing the BBC WS on 1296 kHz again, // 3255 and 6190
from Meyerton. But I am only hearing it upstairs on the Sony, not
downstairs on the Drake (using the same long wire). Possibly being
generated somehow within the Sony? Strange coincidence that it falls
right on a common medium wave frequency (Bill Bingham, RSA, 1828 Oct
9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
The BBC WS transmission on 1296 kHz went off air again at 1856, whilst
the two parallels continue from Meyerton. Chris's Orfordness test
transmission theory has a lot going for it! (Bill Bingham, 1905 UT,
ibid.)
The sign-off time points to 4895 Zimbabwe Community Radio via
Meyerton. One possibility could be 6190 BBCWS via Meyerton (if there
is such transmission at that time) minus 4895 is 1295. That is 1 kHz
off the 1296 you mentioned. Or maybe it's just Sony making tricks. 73,
(Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, ibid.)
Surely someone in Europe, even UK could confirm whether 1296
Orfordness has been on and off at this time or not (Glenn Hauser,
ibid.) See also POLAND [non] for related discussion
Glenn, checked 1296 kHz channel on remote SDR units in GB, HOL, GER,
ITA, FIN at 1800-1840 UT Oct 10. Nothing of BBCWS transmissions heard
this morning, and tonight.
Re 1296 kHz mediumwave from Orfordness on daytime --- this Oct 10th
morning at 0758 UT to 1001 UT I checked the MW band on DAYTIME
condition in southern England by access to 3 remote SDR receiver units
between Blackpool and Cornwall location area.
1296 kHz HOL program in Dutch powerhouse signal of S=9+40dB at 0758
and 0959 UT - latter program end. At 1000:03 Babcock control room
`CELLO music took over audio feed line, followed by TX switch-OFF, at
1000:24 UT, afterwards at 1001 UT heard the local 10kW Birmingham stn
co-channel, but very tiny signal just under threshold.
But at 1800-1840 UT Oct 10 on 1296 kHz, heard nothing from Orfordness-
GB tx site. Rather strong in England: COPE Spain sport program at 1830
UT and RXL Birmingham Asian emigrants Radio program.
In Eindhoven, the Netherlands both COPE Spain and RXL Birmingham on
top, also very strong Omdurman Sudan in Arabic! In Italy noted COPE
Spain very strong. And Serbian Radio program too. 73 wolfy (Wolfgang
Büschel, ibid.)
Thanks Glenn and Jari for your inputs. I am going back to my suspicion
of the Sony ICF2001D, because I know they are famous for putting
things where they shouldn't be. I think I was just thrown off course
by it being right on a common medium wave frequency.
The mystery BBC was there again tonight, but once more only on the
Sony; nothing at all on the Drake or Hallicrafters. Reception was poor
tonight though, I couldn't tell exactly what time it disappeared but
it had definitely gone by 1856, as before. BBC is still going strong
as I write this at 1918 UT, on 3255 and 6190 from Meyerton. I doubt
that Zimbabwe Community Radio on 4895 is part of the problem; it is a
rare catch in Jo'burg, I haven't logged it since last March, and it
certainly wasn't audible tonight. It must go right over my head on its
way to Zim. I also doubt it could be a mixing product at Meyerton,
because then it would surely appear on all the receivers? I think I'll
just put it aside until someone can hopefully confirm whether
Orfordness is active or not at this time. Many thanks (Bill Bingham,
ibid.)
Bill, look at e-groups harmonics. We had a lot of intermodulation
signals to report in the past decade. Also report previously in co-
operation with ham radio intruder watch group activities and German
frequency control management. I agree with Jari's mathematic
calculation, 6190 minus 4895 = 1295 kHz --- and symmetrical in most
cases also on upper side 6190 plus 1295 = 7485 kHz.
So, at next {southern winter} time, when 4895 and 1295 kHz BBCWS
signal from Meyerton is very strong on your Sony set ! - check also
7485 kHz on upper side then! As usual you should hear the ZCR program
of 4895MEY on upper 7485 kHz channel then.
> Re: nothing at all on the Drake or Hallicrafters
Some Intermodulation products are often heard only on one set at same
monitoring post location, i.e. I noted IP-intermodulation products
often on very sensitive Eton E1 set only, but never on AOR7030, Drake
rx, or three different SONY ICF2001 sets at same location. 73 wolfy
(Büschel, ibid.)
Bill, 4895 would not necessarily have to propagate in order to produce
a transmitted mixing product from 6190 on 1295. But if you are
positive it was 1296.0, 1 kHz away is enough to scuttle this theory.
And all the way from UK on 1296 is a bit of a stretch for regular
good(?) reception. What about Sudan? Not that they would be involved
but with very high power ought to be a significant signal (Glenn
Hauser, ibid.)
Glenn, Re: Sony ICF2001D rx set --- you use this set with 'fiddling'
the continuous VFO knob, and in normal-wide or small AM mode position
be n o t aware to hear the signal center frequency of 1295 or 1296
kHz either. Only you use instead CW or synchronous detection mode, you
will see the properst signal strength diode shining ...
4895 1755-1855 BAB Meyerton 100 0deg English SoAF LP=log periodig ant
6190 1800-2200 BBC Meyerton 100 15deg English SoAF LP
Seemingly both transmissions coming from the separate 100 kW
transmitter domestic transmitting part at Meyerton Bloemendal, via log
periodic antennas, to serve shorter distances with high angle.
See enclosed screenshots of both former RSA sites, the international
one further north, and the more domestic and neighbouring countries in
SoAF menat site, more southerly. In G.E. see picture of 11 August 2009
only, at least seven horizontal log periodics are visible.
It's easy to listen to two separate receivers and check the broadcast
start-and/or end-time of ZCR on 4895 kHz at around 1755 UT or 1855 UT,
and compare it with 1296/1295 kHz reception. 73 wolfy (Wolfgang
Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hi Wolfie, I wonder if this is tx site mixing product, should there
also be something on 6190 plus 4895 = 11085? 73, (Jari Savolainen,
Finland, via Büschel, DXLD)
Hi I guess not, only on the difference of both given frequencies, i.e.
4895 and 6190 difference.
And only between LP types on the MEY station, on other TX sites there
is mainly a problem between MW and SW antennas, i.e. at Armavir
Krasnodar for example. Or Sitkunai / formerly Deanovec too.
But could be also happen on the LPs, i.e. 3255 kHz / 6190 mixture ???
3230 1900-2000 smtwtfs YFR Meyerton 100 5 English S AF LP
3255 0300-0400 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 0 English S AF LP
3255 0400-0600 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 0 English S AF LP
3255 1600-1800 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 0 English S AF LP
3255 1800-2200 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 0 English S AF LP
3955 1900-2000 smtwtfs YFR Meyerton 100 76 Portuguese S AF LP
4895 1755-1855 smtwtfs BAB Meyerton 100 0 English S AF LP
6100 1700-1800 smtwtfs YFR Meyerton 100 76 French SE AF LP
6190 0300-0600 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 15 English S AF LP
6190 0600-1400 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 0 English S AF LP
6190 1400-1600 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 0 English S AF LP
6190 1600-1800 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 15 English S AF LP
6190 1800-2200 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 15 English S AF LP
7435 1400-1600 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 15 English S AF LP
9860 0600-0700 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 15 English S AF LP
12095 0700-1400 smtwtfs BBC Meyerton 100 15 English S AF LP
Will - probably - not happen on Curtain antenna, half-wave dipole
array, multi centre/end aperiodic screen types at Meyerton site.
vy 73 de wolfy (Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD)
Hi Glenn and Wolfy, thanks for your informative comments.
Wolfy, the way you describe it makes sense. I was particularly
interested in your comments about the differences between various
receivers at the same site; I have always assumed that an
intermodulation product transmitted from any given transmitter would
be received on all receivers, albeit with variable quality, as just
another incoming signal. [I agree with you on that --- gh]
Glenn, I should know by now - never say that something is a rare
catch. Zimbabwe Community Radio is coming in quite well tonight,
albeit with some deep fades to noise level. Maybe I'm just usually in
the right place at the wrong time. According to the Sony, on either
LSB or USB, it zero-beats on 4895.2 kHz. I'm also getting the mystery
station on 1295.2kHz, which would bear out Jari's theory. Well done,
Jari!! Have also checked on 7485 as Wolfy suggests, and there is
nothing there.
Re your comments on Sudan; I don't often hear Sudan on 1296. I logged
it on four almost consecutive nights in February and March this year
with one "fair" and three "poor", but interesting (or perhaps not !)
that I logged it again - on the Drake - on September 25, from 2125-
2150 UTC. My log notes show "Fair at first, but faded to JBA quite
quickly at 2145" (see dxldyg 55673, Log from South Africa 25/9-29/9,
2011).
The lesson seems to be that, good as the ICF2001D is for shortwave and
medium wave listening, one should be very cautious about using it to
log a new station that is not already on the lists. But that is
probably already well-known to dxldyg members. My apologies to anyone
who has been misled and inconvenienced by this log; and thanks to
everyone who responded to it with suggestions (Bill Bingham, Oct 11,
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hi Glenn, I was only able to listen at 1930z and all that was there
was a faint Arab station. I also suspect mix products from Meyerton.
The BBCWS stations from Meyerton are
3255
6190 off at 1900z
6005 on at 1900
12095
Will try again for a listen at 1830z. My DX friend Vashek may be
better placed to help you from his QTH in Joburg. Regards (John
Plimmer, Montagu, Cape Province, South Africa, Oct 11, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
Dear John / Glenn, Tonight no BBCWS heard here in Johannesburg on
1295/6: there's a good signal from Sudan on my AR7030 on 1296, and the
same on Sony ICF-7600GR but weaker. Not even a carrier on 1295. By the
way John, some great catches in Seefontein - wish I was there!
Hopefully the next time. Cheers, (Vashek Korinek, Oct 12, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
In retrospect, with SW Radio Africa on 4880 from Meyerton coming in so
well on Oct 8, I should perhaps have anticipated problems. I'll know
for next time, unless I forget! (Bill Bingham, Oct 12, ibid.)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1360, Oct 9 at 1254, Spanish mentions Arizona, soon
losing to Catholix from KS or TX. NRC AM Log has KPXQ Glendale, 50/1
kW, ``The Christian Station`` but not as Spanish. Nor does own
website, English only:
http://www.kpxq1360.com/ProgramGuide/?channel=ProgramGuide&parent1=root
so the Arizona mention must have been a false lead.
Only SS listed in NRC-AM Log anywhere around here is KMNY Hurst TX
(Metroplex), which would have been on 50 kW day power since 1230 UT in
Oct, but with null towards us accounting for poor signal (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Glenn, I`m sure that I have heard Spanish before on this station
[KPXQ], and it caught me by surprise. I think they have like one hour
of some Spanish programming, weekends only, and at odd hours. I`m
going to look into it (Rick Barton, AZ, ABDX via DXLD)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1410, Oct 7 at 1242 UT, after sunrise I venture into the
upper regionals as the lower MF channels are outfading, and find some
Spanish here, looping E/W briefly surpassing KQAM Wichita N/S.
Searching the 2011-2012 NRC AM Log for SS stations near and westward,
I find only two possibilities other than Mexicans, KHCH Huntsville TX,
R. Amistad, religious for Houston, but it`s a bit late for that and
not E-W; and a longer shot, KCAL Redlands CA, Radio Tricolor, La
Mexicanísima, address in San Bernardino (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) Mexicans were previously hypothesized
UNIDENTIFIED. Some Japanese Dxer receives the UnID SE Asian station on
5835 kHz from around 1100 to now (1500UT). Mainly local pops,
sometimes short announcement by female. Sound like Burmese?
http://ani.atz.jp/FBDX/NowBBS/img/1935.mp3 by peace J at 1421UT on
Oct. 7 (S. Hasegawa, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
I wondered where they went. They obviously shifted from 7186.7. Yes,
it is Myanmar (Robin L. Harwood VK7RH, Norwood, Tasmania 7250, Oct 8,
WORLD OF RADIO 1586, ibid.)
UNIDENTIFIED. 5835.00, 1612, Oct 07, faint traces of local pop songs
flanked by RFA Korean 5830. Was too weak for me to be able to pull out
announcements, if any. Still there at 1706 recheck, not beyond S6;
frequency is clear except for occasional ute QRM. Could well be the
UNID first reported here by Sei-ichi Hasegawa and which Robin Harwood
says is Myanmar ex 7185v. Seems very late for them to be still on air,
test or what? (Martien Groot, Schoorl, Netherlands /TenTec RX-340, 30
m. longwire, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See
MYANMAR for more definite logs, but did not last long on 5835 (gh)
UNIDENTIFIED. 5955: This channel had a weak carrier recently, after
18xx, when the stronger presumed ERITREA-carrier disappeared, but on
Wednesday Oct. 5 there was a fair AM signal at 1800+ with talk in
presumed French, several male and female speakers, but no details.
gone at 1945 recheck. Probably also there on Thursday, but weaker.
Nothing listed there in eibi or AOKI. 73 (Thorsten Hallmann, Münster,
Germany, http://africalist.de.ms Oct 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6050, Oct 8 at 1331, still hearing a het, one of which
has to be off-frequency MALAYSIA [q.v.] on 6049.6 or so, but would 10
kW HCJB still be propagating 6050.0 so long after 1058 UT sunrise
there? I have heard it as much as a sesquihour later but this is an
additional hour, also an hour past sunrise here.
Only other thing listed (besides discounted Brazilian in full day) is
PBS Xizang which Aoki says is 100 kW, 85 degrees from Lhasa-Baiding
602 site, while HFCC says is 100 kW, 290 degrees from Lhasa, both as
continuously from 2000 until 1800 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6923-AM, Oct 8 at 0543 rock music, 0547 ID as 6925 kHz
shortwave, this is Radio --- (something, North?), fades, and by 0551
fading weaker, out or off? Maybe R. True North. I wish the pirates
would make more effort to ID clearly, like slow it down, repeat it a
few times in a row to compensate for fades, don`t have music in
background, etc., etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6923+, Oct 9 at 0455, music on AM, from some pirate;
*0458:30 hit by het from a stronger pirate on 6925+ until one of them
went off at 0502; no announcements heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) See CANADA, Radio True North
UNIDENTIFIED. 6924.6 AM, S9+8 pirate Oct 7 at 0533 with music,
announcement mentions ``102 FM Chicago``, then disco, some talkovers
making copy difficult; 0537 ``I want my radio`` sung several times.
(So do I.) Gave a g-mail address which I could not copy either,
sounded like Radio Two @. Dozed during more music past 0603 and heard
no more announcements (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
[non] Glenn, Regarding your UNIDENTIFIED, I logged and positively
identified Radio True North on 6924.65 from 0616 until 0633 closedown
on 7 October. Earlier at 0530 there had been an open carrier on the
frequency (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai (Northland) New Zealand, AOR7030+
and EWES to North, Central & South America, Google Earth - 36.1170 S,
174.5670 E, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7225-7230-7235, Oct 8 at 0601, DRM noise has started
here, and also:
7425-7430-7435, Oct 8 at 0601, DRM noise. I can`t positively ID them
without a DRM receiver, and since they are listed from different
countries, ROMANIA and AUSTRIA I conveniently file them both here:
7230, RRI in German at 0600-0630, 300 kW, 307 degrees from Tiganeshti
7430, BBC in English at 0600-0700, 40 kW, 300 degrees from Moosbrunn
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Really 300 kW full AM power??
UNIDENTIFIED. 17701, Oct 12 at 1409, intruder, poor signal in CW, not
hand-keyed, with ACI from Saudi 17705 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 17820, Oct 8 at *2018 big open carrier on and off, like
Greenville does around 1308 UT pre-VOA Portuguese 1700, but this?
Could still be GB for some reason, but the next big broadcast on 17820
is DW via WHRI at 22-23, due to expire at end of A-11 along with many
other DW transmissions, making Furman into even more of a white
elephant (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Further evidence that the higher frequencies are
propagating now, besides ham DX on 12m, Russian harmonic on 24080:
23280-23305, 23577-23602, 23927-23952, Oct 8 at 1455, same-sounding
OTH radar pulses, all 25-kHz bandwidth associated with CYPRUS, but it
seems there are too many possible sources to be sure.
24450-24840, weak CODAR pulses audible thruout this range Oct 8 at
1456, stronger at the low end (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 25330-25480, and weaker 25580-25650 CODAR pulses, Oct 10
at 1350, along with OTH Radar below 25 MHz, see CYPRUS.
25330-25475, and weaker 25545-25650, Oct 12 at 1416, CODAR pulse
ranges audible; none in the 24-25 area this time. Are these all the
way from Europe, as 10 and 12 m hambands are open? Too bad no
broadcasters are even trying their 11 m band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 30689, 30692, Oct 7 at 0519, still detecting JBA
carriers in the nightmiddle, so I must conclude these are of local
origin, not faraway harmonix. Quite a coincidence, as the 30-31 MHz
range is vacant except for another one around 30.1. Anyhow we did get
confirmation from Buenos Aires that RAE 15345v can be heard on 30690v,
so it remains a propagational possibility. Look for that whenever 10m
is full of LUs, and 15345 is active as in previous report`s schedule
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS
++++++++++++++++++++++++
Acknowledged on WORLD OF RADIO 1586:
Thanks to Rodney Scribner, Pittston ME, for a check in the P-mail to P
O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702, ``in memory of Rocky`` (gh)
To be acknowledged in following WORs:
Thanks for DXLD every week, Glenn. Always enjoy. All the best a (Andy
Reid, with a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com)
In memory of Gigi Lytle (Tom McLaughlin, Lubbock TX, 7 Oct, with a
contribution to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702)
Gigi was an enthusiastic SWL collaborator in Lubbock who died several
years ago and another anniversary has arrived (gh)
TINY TRAP
+++++++++
Tiny Katty Kay, who resumed her anchorette duties on BBC World News
America Oct 11, after a fortnight`s holiday (?), voiced a headline at
2201 UT mentioning ``tiny Slovakia`` re its reluctance to help bail
out Greece, being such a small, poor country itself. In terms a Brit
might understand, let`s compare UK subdivisions to the size of
Slovakia, square km:
48,834 Slovakia
14,148 Northern Ireland
20,779 Wales
78,772 Scotland
130,395 England
244,820 GB & NI total [different sources; do not add up precisely]
So Slovakia is somewhere between Wales and Scotland in extent. Would
she qualify either of those as ``tiny``? Population-wise Slovakia was
only 5,455,000 in 2008, but tiny?????
O, o, she`s at it again: Oct 13 at 2225 Katty Kay kalls Bhutan a
``tiny country``, etc., etc. It`s no Monaco, horizontally or
vertically! Area = 38,394 sq km, so bigger than NI plus Wales (Glenn
Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
MUSEA
+++++
RADIO MUSEUM OPEN HOUSE FOR TEACHERS OCT. 13
The Bellingham Herald, By Kira M Cox, October 5, 2011
The American Museum of Radio and Electricity is having an open house
for teachers on Thursday, Oct. 13. During the open house, teachers
will be able to tour the museum, view demonstrations and see the Mega
Zapper, the museum's large Tesla coil. The open house is free for
teachers, who can bring along two additional people. The open house is
from 3 to 6 p.m. at the museum, 1312 Bay St., Bellingham, WA.
Read more:
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2011/10/05/2215750/radio-museum-open-house-for-teachers.html#ixzz1ZxIJ3W4i
(via Mike Terry, dxldyg, in advance, via DXLD)
FORMER VOA BETHANY TRANSMITTER BUILDING IS "THREE SEPARATE MUSEUMS
UNDER ONE ROOF" Posted: 06 Oct 2011
TV Technology, 4 Oct 2011, James E. O'Neal: "Cincinnati is something
of a U.S. broadcast Mecca, with a great deal of pioneering taking
place in the region. Located just north of the city in the former home
of the VOA's Bethany shortwave transmitting plant is a relatively new
entry in broadcast equipment collections—it's actually three separate
museums under one roof. The first of these is the Gray Museum of
Wireless History, which contains artifacts that trace the evolution of
radio from its 19th century beginnings. Its holdings include a number
of television artifacts, including a klystron that powered Washington,
D.C. station WDCA in its early years, racking up nearly 48,000 hours
of service before it was retired.
The National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting, while devoted
strictly to HF [shortwave] broadcasting, features a remaining 250,000
Watt Collins transmitter and the control room used until the facility
went dark in 1994. The third entry, the Media Heritage Museum, is
devoted to Greater Cincinnati and Ohio radio and television
broadcasting and houses such artifacts, including an Ampex quad
videotape machine, RCA studio camera, Grass Valley switcher and
monitoring gear, as well as a good representation of audio equipment.
This collection is unusual in that it's more focused on the 'software'
side of broadcasting—the content or programming without which the
'fifth estate' would never have succeeded." See previous post about
the VOA Bethany site (kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD)
RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM
+++++++++++++++++++++
Re: [dxld] Occupation Movement Needs Amateur Operators
Thanks, Glenn! We still need amateur operators as we can expect police
and other authorities to interfere with communications by cutting off
internet, cell phones, etc. as the crowds grow larger and media
coverage picks up. Building goodwill is what amateur radio has always
been about. Providing communications if and when needed has always
part of what we are here for. Thanks for anyone who can, will, and
does step up in whatever city they are closest to (Shortwave America,
Oct 7, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
jWin Radios
Unfortunately, I have owned 2 jWin radios in the past - I would never
buy a third. My 1st was the 9-Band portable AM/FM/SW JXM-14. After a
week or so of "casual use," the push-detent band selector button and
the accompanying slide switch failed. It would have cost more to send
the radio back than the purchase cost, so it sits in the box
collecting dust.
Wanting to give the company a second chance (my mistake), I purchased
a second jWin radio from a different vendor. This was a later model,
the JXM-17 portable AM/FM/LW/SW. Again, after a week or two the rotary
band switch on the front of the radio failed. Again, returning it
would have been cost-prohibitive, so It sits alongside my other jWin
radio, collecting dust.
I'm REALLY hoping that the inclusion of DSP technology has forced jWin
to take a long, hard look at their QC and improve their radios.
As always, my opinions are my own and, hopefully, reflect only my
experiences and not the experiences of other DX'ers with jWin
products. 73 & Great DX'ing (Steve Ponder, N5WBI, Oct 9, AMFMTVDX
mailing list via DXLD)
ID THAT TUNE
Often we might be mystified by an unfamiliar song heard on the radio.
One good reference source has always been the Guinness Book of British
Hit Singles and Albums. Now I have a recommendation from Hans Knot:
“Suddenly I had an idea. I'd recently bought a smart phone and had
added an app called Shazam. This identifies tracks from a vast data
bank simply by one holding the phone next to the audio equipment in
question playing the mystery record. It’s a very clever application.
Holding my breath, I switched on the tape deck on my now acquired mini
hi-fi system, started playing the quarter century-old tape of Radio
Monique and held the phone close to the unit. Alas, no luck. Shazam
was unable to identify it. Oh no. Disaster! I also have a similar
application on my phone called ‘Track ID’. One more chance, I thought,
although I was not very confident of this identifying it either.
But to my great surprise and delight it came up trumps immediately!
The mystery disc was by Donna Lynton - (That's Why) I Will Always Love
You. The next and final thing was to see if it was on YouTube. I had
previously searched the site by putting in the title, but nothing came
up. Now I had the artist's name as well. Would I find it this time?
Had anyone even uploaded it? Bingo! Up it came. Someone had posted it
last year.
So I was able to hear it for the first time in all its stereo glory.
And not only that; another YouTube member had uploaded a clip from
TROS TV in 1986, showing Donna Lynton singing the song on stage as
the finale to a live music show.”
Apparently Shazam can work with less than perfect audio – it claims it
can identify tunes being played in the background of a noisy bar.
Sounds like a powerful piece of software. The inventors write:
“We have developed and commercially deployed a flexible audio search
engine. The algorithm is noise and distortion resistant,
computationally efficient, and massively scalable, capable of quickly
identifying a short segment of music captured through a cellphone
microphone in the presence of foreground voices and other dominant
noise, and through voice codec compression, out of a database of over
a million tracks. The algorithm uses a combinatorially hashed
timefrequency constellation analysis of the audio, yielding unusual
properties such as transparency, in which multiple tracks mixed
together may each be identified. Furthermore, for applications such as
radio monitoring, search times on the order of a few milliseconds per
query are attained, even on a massive music database.”
Here is the full technical insight:
http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/papers/Wang03-shazam.pdf
(Oct MW News via DXLD)
Re: Why Did The FCC Allocate NDB's on LW Broadcast Channels?
> My question is does anybody still use the long wave
> beacons (besides DX'ing them) for any useful purpose?
> If they aren't being used then they should all be turned
> off permanently & the frequencies never reused so we
> can finally DX whatever is there.
If this happened, what would there be to DX between 280 thru 285 and
326 thru 529 kHz? There are around 11,050 NDBs on-air worldwide today.
Most of the world uses 190-529 for NDBs, and some countries even
intersperse them among AM broadcast stations up to 1700kHz. I frankly
would have liked to see LW broadcast used in the USA; however, that
would also mean not being able to use the 1750 Meter band (160-190
kHz) for Part 15 and Part 5 amateur beacons. There are always going to
be pros and cons.
NDBs are still used in conjunction with other modes of navigation.
Pilots do not like to rely on just one mode of navigation (i.e. only
GPS or only VORs) because:
A. GPS is susceptible to interference (both intentional,
unintentional, and natural-caused - happens to all of us occasionally
using car navigational devices). GPS is vulnerable to failure (only a
matter of time - not IF, but WHEN) due to a huge X-class solar flare,
or a wave of micrometeorites physically damaging them. Also, heavy
precipitation can interfere with GPS.
B. LORAN-C is dead as of 2 years ago due to some very unwise decisions
in Washington. Without LORAN-C, you'd definitely want SOME SORT OF
backup system for LONG-RANGE navigation beyond standard VHF-based VORs
if GPS gave out for whatever reason. Nowadays, one giant solar flare
or mass meteorite hit to the GPS constellation, and we're going to be
back to all-ground-based navigation. Better to be ready instead of
scrambling to get something in place - without LORAN around, NDBs
would neccessarily be ready to pick up that slack as they're already
in place. And mariners would be able to have something to turn to
besides the stars, sun and compass.
C. NDBs are very cheap and easy to construct and operate, and can be
placed at even the most primitive or budget-strapped airstrips in very
remote areas.
NDBs are worth the extra navigational peace-of-mind they offer a pilot
unable to use VORs or GPS if equipment on the ground or in the air
fails (Darwin Long, Empire, LA, Oct 10, ABDX via DXLD
THE POWER BLACKOUT OF SEPTEMBER 8
The widespread power outage on September 8, 2011 gave us an
unprecedented opportunity to see how the San Diego County - Imperial
County Regional Communications System (RCS) would behave when
confronted with the total loss of commercial power. The RCS is a large
800 MHz trunking system that spans two California counties and handles
critical public safety radio communications such as police and fire.
Last week, the RCS office released its Preliminary Report on system
performance during the power outage. The report (available at the URL
below with specific transmitter site names deleted for security
reasons) gives us our first real look at system-wide behavior during
the power outage. We believe that the issue of power generator
reliability is one of the key questions that will come out of the
event. Without reliable long-term backup power, critical sites will
go dark.
Following is the RCS office's paper entitled, "Preliminary Report: RCS
Performance During September 8, 2011 Regional Power Outage."
Congratulations to the many skilled individuals who pooled their
talents and resources to compile this report on short order.
http://earthsignals.com/add_CGC/2011-10%20RCS_Rpt.pdf
(CGC Communicator Oct 11 via Kevin Redding, ABDX via DXLD)
FREE – BAND
The unlicenced people who work this end of the HF radio band call
themselves Free-banders. A Website with much detail about the band can
be found at:
http://cmdxgroup.tripod.com/fr-freeband.html
The band is loosely defined as above and below the 40 channel CB
band in North America.
26000 kHz to 26965 kHz
27405 kHz to 28000 kHz
TRANSATLANTIC DX 27635 kHz
On Sept 24 at 1305 EDT [1705 UT] I picked up my Sony ICF-2010 from my
garage workbench and turned it on. For some unknown reason the screen
read 26000 kHz. So I decided to slowly scan up to the 30 MHz limit,
something I do rarely these days of low sunspot numbers. Much to my
surprise there was a loud and clear back and forth civilized
conversation on 27400 kHz LSB going on between northern California and
‘Kentucky 140’, presumably by the latter’s comments, in or near
Kentucky. The conversation was still in progress and quickly faded out
about ten minutes later.
The next day, the 25th, at 1145 EDT [1545 UT], hoping my luck would
hold, I again scanned the upper reaches of the dial. On 27635 kHz USB
there was a conversation between the Loire region of France and
somewhere in the Saguenay region of Quebec. The France end of the
conversation was as clear as a local signal; the Saguenay side was
clean but weak and noisy. The Frenchman had been to Quebec earlier in
the year as a tourist and was more than happy to contact someone in
his own language from these parts. Thankfully he had nice things to
say about his trip and the people he met here. There was a civilized
breaker from Texas who just wanted to trade names and locations who
came in at the same time as the signal from the Saguenay. The
Frenchman, who did speak English, pushed him aside. A little
consideration and sharing of the airwaves can go a long way to promote
one’s and one’s country’s PR, but that’s just me (Robert Ellis, QC,
World Utility Column, October CIDX Messenger via DXLD)
DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
TV DX Test
WAND Channel 17 is now on the air with the new 1,000 kW system. Those
interested in TV DX, we would love to hear from you. It would be
especially helpful if you could look at RF 18, and see how it compares
to the new RF 17 signal. Reports can be sent to:
Frank Brannock, Chief Engineer
WAND Television
904 W South Side Drive
Decatur, IL 62521-4022
or frank.brannock(at)wandtv.com
The stations will be // for about 30 days, then channel 18 will go
off. Feel free to cc: me with any still shots, or WMV files that I can
share with our corporate office.
(Frederick R. Vobbe, Director of Engineering
Block Communications, Inc
1424 Rice Ave
Lima OH 45805
fvobbe(at)wlio.com 10 Oct, NRC-AM via DXLD)
Appears to be on the air with full power // ch. 18 and same signal
strength (Jeff Kadet, Macomb, IL, 0500 UT 12 Oct, ibid.)
I scanned the girlfriend's Vizio set just now and two additional
channels popped up, now I get WAND-TV as 17-1, 17-2, 17-3 and 17-4.
The last two are providing a fine signal, nothing received on the
first two according to this set. Here's the announcement on what WAND
plans on doing:
http://ftpcontent.worldnow.com/wand/Channel%20change%20annoucement.htm
(Curtis at Paxton, Illinois, Sadowski, ibid.)
Did you say: "Digital TV" ?!!
10/12, at 4:00 EDT --- All sorts of undecodable digital signals
tonight (Quebec City, Ottawa); Getting tired of watching low signal
levels and waiting for PSIP! Ironically, the most fun I'm having with
this event is watching three Canadian analogs fighting it off on
channel 11 with local quality:
CKWS-11 Kingston ON
CBFT1-11 Mont-Laurier QC
CBVE-11 Quebec City QC
I'm seriously considering going back to FM DXing which I've neglected
this year. But I guess I'm gonna have to wait till next year, I have a
feeling that this is gonna be the last tropo event for quite a while.
Weather's been very nice, record braking actually, but now it's back
to rain and cold temps for the rest of the week. 73, (Charles
Gauthier, Brossard, QC, WTFDA via DXLD)
Pretty sad, isn't it Charly? For me, anyway, this is what DTV DXing
amounts to: watching signals in the "bad" box and hoping, mostly in
vain, for a PSIP to decode. I even took down my VHF antenna and
replaced it with a Winegard 7-13 model which works better on high band
than the old one. Who needs low band anymore except for maybe 6 weeks
in the summer (and you could even dispute that statement). You're just
going to end up receiving the same handful of lowband DTVs over and
over again. And the same 2-3 analogs over and over. And if you're
lucky you may get one new logging over the summer.
I could live with the IBOC [on FM]. I guess I have to. But the lack of
any good tropo is a killer. I've lived here since 1974 and we would
get huge openings to Norfolk and coastal NC. We'd get huge openings to
Nova Scotia. Where are they now? We'd even get monster tropo to NYC
at a lousy 100 miles and even those don't even happen anymore. So
without propagation, what's the point? (Mike Bugaj, Enfield, CT,
ibid.)
Charles, I know DTV reception can be very limited and tricky, but yet
it can be more amazing than analog TV reception (in my opinion). I've
been DXing TV for over 50 years and the best UHF distances I've
recorded have been with digital, not analog. I've been messing with
DTV reception since 2001 and I've found that it is all about location,
location, location. During those ten years, I've experimented with the
CM 4221 4-bay, the CM 4228 8-bay, a large unknown model Antennacraft
UHF/VHF combo, three different models of UHF Yagis from Antennas
Direct and Triax as single antennas and doubles (two antennas)
horizontally stacked and a Finco P-7 (7 ft. parabolic). I've done
mobile testing at various locations, mobile reception while in a
moving car, and other home reception tests besides at my own home
location.
I've reported before that a friend who lives out in the country near
Quincy, IL can receive St. Louis, MO DTVs at 99-104 miles almost
anytime day and night with a rather short Radio Shack UHF Yagi less
than 20 ft. AGL. Meanwhile, I live in a suburban area about 11 miles
north of downtown Indy, surrounded by large trees and two-story houses
with high-pitched roofs, plus I'm 3-5 miles from most of the Indy
TV/FM towers. If I used the same setup he uses near Quincy, I'd do
okay with the locals but I'd never receive stations out around 95-100
miles (Fort Wayne, IN; Dayton and Cincinnati, OH) almost anytime I
wanted them. Even with the Yagi stacks and the 7 ft. parabolic, I can
receive stations in that range only when there is some tropo
enhancement in the area. As a recent comparison, I set up my CM 4-bay
with a CM 7777 at about 24 ft. AGL last weekend. Yesterday morning,
with some tropo to the northeast, I tried to compare reception between
the 4-bay setup and the 7-ft. parabolic with a Winegard HDP-269 at
just under 40 ft. AGL, and there was no comparison. A number of
stations showing up with strong signals from the parabolic were not
even showing up with the 4-bay. But a few weeks ago I tested the same
4-bay setup out in the country near Quincy, IL and I was receiving DTV
stations over 200 miles and even over 300 miles.
I don't know, or don't remember, what kind of antenna setup you are
using for DTV reception. Since you too are in a metro/suburban city
area, I would only suggest that you attempt to get your antenna as
high as possible above the surrounding buildings, trees, clutter, etc.
Using Doug's website to look up the station info for Ottawa and Quebec
City, it appears they have good height and power for the area.
Checking distance, it looks like Ottawa is about the same as several
of my area stations, approximately 100 miles, while Quebec City is
around 145 miles. Under the right conditions, I would think the Ottawa
stations would be a fairly easy catch.
Sorry to be so windy here, and I'm not an authority on this by any
means, but I thought I'd pass along a few of my experiences (Steve
Rich, Indianapolis, IN, ibid.)
DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
"FM DIGITAL APPLICATIONS FOR DIGITAL NOTIFICATION
PETITION TO RESCIND" dismissed
A new category of applications appeared in today's Broadcast Actions
Public Notice ---
Stations wishing to add IBOC are not required to ask for FCC
permission, but they are required to *notify* the FCC that they have
done so. As you might guess, these are called "Digital Notifications".
This petition to rescind was filed last May by All Pro Broadcasting,
against CBS's KRTH-101.1 Los Angeles. All Pro owns KATY-FM 101.3
Idyllwild - which you might well imagine might suffer from IBOC
interference from KRTH. One would presume if the FCC were to rescind
KRTH's Digital Notification, the station would lose authority to use
IBOC.
We won't find out though, as the FCC has dismissed the petition (Doug
Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, Oct 6, WTFDA via DXLD)
DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See also ASCENSION; BULGARIA; KOREA SOUTH
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ NIGERIA; POLAND non; RUSSIA; SPAIN; UK;
UNIDENTIFIED 7230 7430 = ROMANIA, AUSTRIA
Update on MSway Receivers
http://drmna.bcdx.org/wp/?p=1016#more-1016
(via drmna list via Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, dxldyg via DXLD)
DRM: FIRST TRANSMISSION FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA
The DRM Consortium will make its first ever DRM transmissions for
Southern Africa in French and English on October 11th on the occasion
of the Digital Radio Conference organised by the European Broadcasting
Union (EBU) at the headquarters of the European Parliament in
Brussels.
The two day conference will include two live studio discussions on the
possibilities and future of digital radio from the multimedia radio
studio of the European Parliament. The programmes aim to showcase
multiplatform and distribution techniques in front of a studio
audience of Digital Radio Conference delegates.
The live show in French from 1200-1300 GMT will be followed two hours
later (1400-1500 GMT) by a Digital Radio Show in English with
international participation including the chairpersons of the DRM and
WorldDMB Consortia.
Both the French and English programmes will be carried live on DRM SW
21800 from Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean and should be heard
in countries like South Africa, Angola, Zambia, Lesotho, Namibia,
Zimbabwe, Botswana, Mozambique. The English programme will also be
carried at 1800 GMT into Southern Asia on DRM SW 12085, at the end of
the daily regular BBC/DW transmission.
Ruxandra Obreja, DRM Chairperson, says: “This is an exciting and
imaginative undertaking that will demonstrate practically, even if for
a short while, to European MPs and radio enthusiasts at thousands of
kilometres apart the capacity of DRM to cover huge areas with
excellent audio quality programmes. We are grateful to the EBU for the
opportunity to showcase, alongside other platforms, that part of DRM,
the only standard for all bands below and above 30 MHz, that could
offer so much to the radio lovers in Africa.” (DRM Consortium Press
Release via Alokesh Gupta, VU3BSE, New Delhi, Oct 10, dxldyg via DXLD)
DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DAB See RUSSIA [non]
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
PROPAGATION
+++++++++++
TP for 10 Oct 2011 from Victoria: Yuk!
What a difference a day makes, and what NOAA says about propagation is
of little value, it seems. A real crap shoot every morning, going from
one of my best mornings on Sunday, to one of the worst on Monday. Go
figure! (Walt Salmaniw, IRCA via DXLD)
Walt, I've noticed that weather conditions have as much effect as
solar/geomagnetic for overall reception and it varies with location.
What killed reception this morning, and is still fairly bad, is a cold
front moving in when the humidity is already low. After the winds die
down there still seems to be quite a charge in the upper atmosphere,
I'm guessing stratosphere or maybe the D layer picks up an induced
charge. Dunno for sure.
The noise level goes way up and more distant signals either aren't
reflected or are absorbed. Since right now my receiver and antennas
are going through almost daily changes I checked with my DX-440 and
longwire just to make sure I hadn't forgotten to solder or fried
something.
The noise peak moves down in frequency as it clears. at 20:00 local
WWV at 5 MHz is still noisier than usual but 10 MHz is in the clear,
better than usual and 2.5 is buried in the mud. MW is still trashed
and I haven't bothered to check LW.
The only place I've noticed this pattern is in eastern SD and south
western MN. Maybe Rick down in Omaha has noticed the same thing or
someone in the prairie Provinces. Spring and fall are the most common
times for this to happen. By morning at least the X-band should be
clear (Tim Hills, ibid.)
Who knows, Tim. Goes to show that we still only know a fraction of
what there is to know about propagation, other than some general
rules. I'm not sure whether I've noticed local weather having that big
of an impact on MW propagation. Still, interesting to think about
(Walt Salmaniw, ibid.)
Geomagnetic field activity was at quiet to unsettled levels during
03 - 04 October. Activity increased to quiet to minor storm levels
on 05 October following a geomagnetic sudden impulse at 05/0742 UTC
(19 nT, Boulder USGS magnetometer), with major storm levels observed
at high latitudes, due to multiple CME passages at Earth. Activity
decreased to quiet to unsettled levels during 06 - 08 October. An
increase to quiet to (briefly) active levels occurred on 09 October
associated with a solar sector boundary change.
FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 12 OCT - 07 NOV 2011
Solar activity is expected to be at very low to low levels during 12
- 17 October, with a slight chance for moderate levels. An increase
to low levels is expected during 18 - 23 October, with a chance for
moderate levels and a slight chance for high levels; due to the
returns of old Regions 1302 and 1305 on 18 October and 20 October,
respectively.
No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. There will be
a slight chance for a proton event at geosynchronous orbit during 18
- 31 October due to the return of old Region 1302.
The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is
expected to be at normal to moderate levels during 12 - 27 October.
Flux levels are expected to increase to moderate to high levels
during 28 October - 01 November in response to coronal hole
high-speed stream (CH HSS) effects. Flux levels are expected to
decrease to normal to moderate levels during 02 - 07 November.
Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at quiet levels during
most of the period. However, quiet to unsettled levels are expected
during 15 - 17 October, 28 - 30 October, and 03 - 05 November due to
CH HSS effects.
:Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt
:Issued: 2011 Oct 11 1854 UTC
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# 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table
# Issued 2011-10-11
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# UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest
# Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index
2011 Oct 12 125 5 2
2011 Oct 13 120 5 2
2011 Oct 14 120 5 2
2011 Oct 15 120 8 3
2011 Oct 16 115 8 3
2011 Oct 17 115 8 3
2011 Oct 18 120 5 2
2011 Oct 19 125 5 2
2011 Oct 20 125 5 2
2011 Oct 21 125 5 2
2011 Oct 22 125 5 2
2011 Oct 23 125 5 2
2011 Oct 24 125 5 2
2011 Oct 25 125 5 2
2011 Oct 26 125 5 2
2011 Oct 27 125 5 2
2011 Oct 28 125 8 3
2011 Oct 29 125 8 3
2011 Oct 30 125 8 3
2011 Oct 31 125 5 2
2011 Nov 01 125 5 2
2011 Nov 02 125 5 2
2011 Nov 03 120 8 3
2011 Nov 04 120 8 3
2011 Nov 05 120 8 3
2011 Nov 06 125 5 2
2011 Nov 07 125 5 2
(SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1586, DXLD) ###