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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1648 HEADLINES: *DX and station news about: Bangladesh, Bolivia, Burma non, Chad, Colombia, Cuba, Cyprus, Ecuador, Germany, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Myanmar, North America, Oklahoma, Peru, St. Kitts, Sarawak non, Somalia non, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Tristan da Cunha & Gough, UK, USA, Yemen, Zimbabwe non SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1648, December 20-26, 2012 Thu 0430 WRMI 9955 Thu 2200 WTWW 9479 [confirmed] Fri 0429v WWRB 3195 & 5050 [confirmed at 0434] Sat 0230v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 [confirmed] Sat 0630 HLR 7265 Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 0900 WRMI 9955 Sat 1600 WRMI 9955 Sat 1630 HLR 7265 Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1830 WRMI 9955 Sun 0500 WTWW 5830 Sun 0900 WRMI 9955 Sun 1630 WRMI 9955 Mon 0530 WRMI 9955 Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 Thu 0430 WRMI 9955 [or maybe 1649 if ready in time] Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html WRN ON DEMAND: http://www.wrn.org/listeners/#world-of-radio WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN [updated]: http://www.wrn.org/listeners/customize-panel/addToPlaylist/98/10:00:00UTC/English OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org DAY-BY-DAY ARCHIVE OF GLENN HAUSER`S LOG REPORTS: Unedited, uncondensed, unchanged from original version, many of them too complex, minutely researched, multi-frequency, opinionated, inconsequential, off-topic, or lengthy for some log editors to manage; and also ahead of their availability in these weekly issues: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser DXLD YAHOOGROUP: Why wait for DXLD? A lot more info, not all of it appearing in DXLD later, is posted at our yg without delay. When applying, please identify yourself with your real name and location, and say something about why you want to join. Those who do not, unless I recognize them, will be prompted once to do so and no action will be taken otherwise. Here`s where to sign up: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxld/ ** ALGERIA. Algerian Radio has joined most broadcasters in creating its own Radio player which has embedded Shockwave Flash live streaming. There are 8 tabs directing listeners to Jil FM, Algiers Bahdja local radio, Radio Algérie Internationale, Radio Culture, Koran channel, Chaîne 3, Chaîne 2, and Chaîne 1. The web address based on Chaîne 3 is: http://www.radioalgerie.dz/live/tab-ch3.html Samir Elacene's renowned Radio & TV Stations of Algeria website has dead WMP based links which no longer work. 73's and 88's (Dan Goldfarb, Brentwood, England, owner of mwmasts Yahoo Group, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANGUILLA. 6090, Dec 14 at 0615 just as I tune by there is no signal, then PMS cuts back on. How long was she off? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA. FOUNDER OF KOLD (ANTARCTICA) TURNS 90 The founder of the world's most remote radio station, Radio KOLD Antarctica, turned 90 this week. Steve Grimsley, VK2ZP set up Radio KOLD at Wilkes Base in 1961, and the station is still broadcasting. Family, friends and former colleagues gathered in the NSW town of Binalong to celebrate Steve's birthday. Radio KOLD was notorious for beginning its broadcast day very early in the morning. "Well, the object of that, of course, was to get everybody out of bed and get them off to breakfast, but it wasn't very well received" Mr Grimsley laughed. Professor Mark Hunt, the Casey Research Station Leader, called in to wish Mr Grimsley a happy birthday and tell about the state of Radio KOLD today. "Radio KOLD is on an FM frequency these days, 102.5, and it still keeps the station in music all through the day," Professor Hunt said. "We share it around so that different people get to choose the music each day and that can either be an education, or it can be something of a pain," Professor Hunt added (No source attributed, Dec NZ DX Times via DXLD) KOLD --- not to be confused with the real, ironic, KOLD, in of all places, Tucson (gh) ** ANTARCTICA. PART OF ANTARCTICA NAMED 'QUEEN ELIZABETH LAND' AS GIFT FOR DIAMOND JUBILEE ``The new name is likely to increase tension with Argentina, already simmering because of its long-standing claim on the Falkland Islands. Argentina does not recognise Britain's sovereignty of the British Antarctic Territory, and has a counter-claim that overlaps Britain's territory. All claims on Antarctica are held in abeyance under the Antarctic Treaty of 1959, which neither confirms nor denies competing claims but prevents new claims being made.`` http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/queen-elizabeth-II/9752856/Part-of-Antarctica-named-Queen-Elizabeth-Land-as-gift-for-Diamond-Jubilee.html (Telegraph via DXLD) Maps with this much longer article show QE Land includes quite a sector, with all of the Antarctic Peninsula, i.e. Base Esperanza and LRA36. Maybe this will encourage the Argies to hurry up and get with LRA36 reactivation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA [non!]. Re: ``x 15476,0 1408- ATA 25.10 LRA 36, Radio Nacional Arcangel San Gabriel, Base Esperanza Spanish GH-USA`` (Dec DSWCI SW News via DXLD) I did *not* hear this station. I did report about it, making clear (?) that I had tried to hear it without success. The editor of this sexion strips out all the details we take so much trouble to include, even turning a non-log into a log! This was my original report: ``ANTARCTICA. 15476, Oct 25 at 1408, pro-forma non-log of LRA36 on another Thursday a year after last heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` ** ARGENTINA. 1629.99-U, 07/12 0304-, R Diagonal, La Plata; px mx e ID ``Transmite, de la Ciudad de La Plata, Provincia de Buenos Aires, República Argentina, emisora en categoría IV con frecuencia 1630 kHz, otorgada por decretos 1577 del Poder Ejecutivo Nacional 2009 y 1281 del Poder Ejecutivo Nacional 2001``. 24422. Buon fine settimana (Saverio de Cian, presumably Italy, playdx yg via DXLD) I guess the -U means he tuned using USB, rather than transmitted in USB. Another MW log of his is shown as -L (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** ARMENIA. 9395, Dec 16 at 0055, at least three SS announcers, one W and two M, taking turns with narration about churches, fair with lite flutter. HFCC shows V of Russia, 500 kW, 305 degrees from ERV = Gavar site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 4835, Dec 16 at 1412, VL8A is still audible a semihour after sunrise here, bass-baritone with ``Joy to the World`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 5982 & 6008, Dec 16 at 1415, the 5995 100 kW Shepparton transmitter of RA is again putting out distorted FMy spurs plus/minus 13 kHz or so, during the Sunday-night talkshow about religion including the ``Inquisition`` quiz demonstrating how ignorant so many Aussies are about basic facts. 5995, Dec 19 at 1416, RA has VG signal and no spurs this time around 5982 or 6008. At 1435, also on 11660, which is 329 degrees toward Asia, sufficient but much weaker than // 11945 and 9580. 21740, Dec 14 at 2155, VG signal from RA morning news magazine is rudely interrupted for about a minute at 2156-2157, modulation cut off. Someone else recently reported this happens every day. The carrier stayed on. No change in transmission is scheduled, just 100 kW, 70 degrees from Shepparton, straight thru 21-01 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF ABC SERIES ABC Radio National will broadcast a weeklong series highlighting the history, development, key moments and future of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on the occasion of its 80th Anniversary, from December 24 to 28. Details from: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/specialbroadcasts/abc-80th-anniversary/4373618 There is a 16-hour difference between New York and Melbourne during our standard time winters; 19 hours between Los Angeles and Melbourne. "Live" broadcast, therefore, will be at 2 am, Dec. 23-27; repeated at 9 am, Dec. 24-28. No word yet on whether or for how long a podcast of this series will be made available (John Figliozzi, Halfmoon, NY, Dec 18, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) So which timezone are you using? Website says 6 pm and 1 am, local time in Australia, so in AEST of UT +11 that converts to 0700 and 1400 UT. From Queensland stations on UT +10, 0800 and 1500 UT. From WA stations on UT +8, 1000 and 1800 UT; interpolate for +9.5 zone (gh) ** BANGLADESH. AUDIOCLIP, BANGLADESH BETAR: broadcast in English on 15105 at 1230 UT with strong signal and bad modulation. The audioclip is available here: http://blog.libero.it/radioascolto/11774474.html 73 (Francesco Cecconi, Central Italy, Dec 16, condiglist yg via DXLD) ``Trasmettitori potentissimi e modulazione pessima con forte rumore di alternata sul parlato. Potrebbe sembrare che si parli di Radio Cairo e invece è il servizio per l'estero in lingua inglese di Bangladesh Betar in onda giornalmente sulla frequenza di 15105 KHz alle 12.30 UTC. La clip vi ripropone gli ultimi minuti di trasmissione della stessa.`` Recorded 8 December (caption via DXLD) ** BANGLADESH. Frequency changes of Bangladesh Betar Updated winter B-12 of Bangladesh Betar: 1230-1300 NF 7250 DKA 250 kW / 140 deg to SEAs English, ex 15105 [CRI English is also listed on 7250 at 12-13 via Kashgar, surely audible in Europe if on --- gh] 1315-1345 on 7250 DKA 250 kW / 320 deg to SoAs Nepali 1400-1430 NF 7250 DKA 250 kW / 290 deg to WeAs Urdu, ex 15505 1515-1545 NF 7250 DKA 250 kW / 305 deg to SoAs Hindi, ex 15505 1600-1630 on 7250#DKA 250 kW / 290 deg to N/ME Arabic 1630-1730 on 7250#DKA 250 kW / 290 deg to N/ME Bangla 1745-1900 on 7250*DKA 250 kW / 320 deg to WeEu English 1915-2000 on 7250^DKA 250 kW / 320 deg to WeEu Bangla # co-ch All India Radio in Persian to N/ME 1615-1730 * co-ch All India Radio in Malayalam to N/ME till 1830 ^ very, very strong co-ch Voice of Russia in Russian (Georgi Bancov & Ivo Ivanov, DX Re Mix News, Dec 19 via DXLD) 15505, Dec 18 at 1427, still no signal from Bangladesh Betar, and here`s why: Ivo Ivanov says all the BB external services between 1230 and 2000 are now on 7250. Why doesn`t BB notify us of such changes? Note: this is a NON-LOG, not to be transformed into a log by inattentive editing. Possibly 7250 can make it to parts of N America on a very good winter morning, such as English 1230-1300. Or not: beware! CRI English via Kashgar, East Turkistan is also on 7250 at 12- 13 per HFCC, EiBi and Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) From Dec. 19 Bangladesh Betar is back to normal frequencies: 1230-1300 15105 DKA 250 kW / 140 deg SEAs English, ex 7250 Dec. 15-18 1315-1345 7250 DKA 250 kW / 320 deg SoAs Nepali 1400-1430 15505 DKA 250 kW / 290 deg WeAs Urdu, ex 7250 Dec. 15-18 1515-1545 15505 DKA 250 kW / 305 deg SoAs Hindi, ex 7250 Dec. 15-18 1600-1630 7250 DKA 250 kW / 290 deg N/ME Arabic 1630-1730 7250 DKA 250 kW / 290 deg N/ME Bangla 1745-1900 7250 DKA 250 kW / 320 deg WeEu English 1915-2000 7250 DKA 250 kW / 320 deg WeEu Bangla -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Hard-Core-DX mailing list Dec 19 via WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DXLD) ** BHUTAN. 6035.06v, BBS, Dec 19. 1236-1300: segments of talking in vernacular divided up by 1-2 minute selections of Bhutan's unique indigenous chanting/singing. Lost to QRM after 1300. Note chanting at https://www.box.com/s/f57ejveqxzycsukie6k0 1340-1400: program in vernacular with EZL pop songs and YL with phone calls. 1358 definite theme music as heard before on BBS. Language clearly not PBS Yunnan's Chinese or Vietnamese. 1400 again lost to QRM; by 1408 heard solo PBS Yunnan (in Vietnamese), so BBS sign off today was between 1400 and 1408. Perhaps someone “saw” the time the signal went off the air? Seemed almost 6035.07 at tune in, later down to 6035.04. Anyone confirm drifting today? (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 3310.00, Radio Mosoj Chaski, Cochabamba, 12/13 at 0935, fair to good signal tho noisy 90 mb, OM and YL announcers, bilingual program with CP folklorica music segments. YL seems to handle the Spanish most of the time, while OM handles the indigenous language announcements. Short bursts of music punctuating their ongoing dialogue. Left it 0946 (Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Illinois, Drake R8B; Japan Radio NRD-545; Eton E1; Hallicrafters SX100, Dentron Super Tuner + Ameco PLF-2 + Palomar P-408 +Quantum Phaser antenna unit (customized for tropical bands), 335-foot bidirectional BOG 150 deg/330 deg for LA/SE Asia, DX Engineering RPA-1 preamp, Phased Longwire + Small Loop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4700 kHz, Rádio San Miguel, Riberalta, Bolívia, 2347 UT, quarta-feira, 12 de dezembro. Comunicados em espanhol. SINPO 25232. 4716 kHz, Rádio Yatun Ayllu Yura, Yura, Bolívia, 2324 UT, quarta- feira, 12 de dezembro. Músicas andinas interpretadas por crianças; locução em quéchua, mas menção a um número de telefone celular em espanhol. SINPO 45343 (Célio Romais, Escutas feitas em Porto Alegre (RS), Receptor Degen 1103; Antena Loop Blindada by Alexandre Deves Sailer, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4699.61, R. San Miguel, Riberalta 1003-1013 Dec 11 SS; M announcer with jingles & announcements; brief talk between music bits; fair-poor in ECCS-USB (Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale, N.H. USA, NRD- 545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4699.95, Radio San Miguel, Riberalta, caught them just signing on, fine signal at *0900 12/13. Usual “bottom of the barrel” sound with boomy echo as OM greeted listeners: “Amigos oyentes, muy buenos dias! Transmite Radio San Miguel . . . esta mañana, ustedes [están] escuchando . . .” Into program of CP-flavored melodies, romantic guitar selections. 0927 still fine, OM: “Las 5 de la mañana 27 minutos, amigos oyentes” and then into ads. Still good at quick recheck 0945 with 2 OM in discussion (Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Illinois, Drake R8B; Japan Radio NRD-545; Eton E1; Hallicrafters SX100, Dentron Super Tuner + Ameco PLF-2 + Palomar P-408 +Quantum Phaser antenna unit (customized for tropical bands), 335-foot bidirectional BOG 150 deg/330 deg for LA/SE Asia, DX Engineering RPA-1 preamp, Phased Longwire + Small Loop, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4716.65, R. Yura, Yura, 0943-1002 Dec 11 SS; "Live", animated announcer; sounds religious; music at 0944; brief W announcer at 0952 then music thru ToH; poor in ECCS-USB (Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale, N.H. USA, NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. CHASQUI DX PFA – DICIEMBRE 2012 --- CQ, CQ, CQ. Aquí Pedro F. Arrunátegui para compartir algo con los que disfrutan y aman el DX latinoamericano, todas las horas son UT. Desde la tierra de los incas, les informo mediante este Quipus lo siguiente: 4699.96, R. San Miguel, Riberalta, 5/12 1042-1105, 22222, news, Informan sobre la central campesina, ID “6 y 47 de la mañana en Radio San Miguel” 4795.93, R. Lípez, Uyuni, 30/11 1018-1050, 33333, mxf, ID "Radio Lípez", mxf, ID "Radio Lípez, Radio Lípez, una emisora que quiere a su pueblo, propiedad de la Federación Regional del Sur.... del altiplano boliviano..", mxf, ID "Usted escucha Radio Lípez", mxf. NOTA: solo lo pude escuchar en LSB, imposible en AM, luego a las 1040 se presentó QRN, la estación la escuché muy bajo y de fondo. (tnx R. Perry) 6105.52, R. Panamericana, La Paz, 29/11 1030-1105, 33333, mxf, ID "La hora Panamericana 6 y 35 minutos", px Bolivia Corazón", mxf, ID "6 y 50 minutos en Panamericana para todo Bolivia" NOTA: imposible escucharlo en AM, pues una transmisión en chino me lo impide, solo la pude escuchar en USB (tnx R. Perry). 6134.80, R. Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, 11/12 2351-0020, 44444, mx moderna, mejor la escucho en LSB, ID “Radio Santa Cruz su insuperable compañía” px Santa Cruz en la noche, con música y noticias hasta las 9 de la noche” NOTA: la señal está fuerte (4++) 6154.94, R. Fides, La Paz, 8/12 1125-1205, 33333, news sobre la visita del presidente Morales a España, NOTA: hay QRN y paso a escucharlos mejor en LSB. Px La Voz del Pueblo, ID “Por Radio Fides” ads Defensoría del pueblo, vela por usted. La recepción la he efectuado del 26/11al 17/12 en compañía de mi sabueso Icom IC R72 acompañado del Mizuho KX-3, una grabadora Alesis Palm Track, una antena de hilo largo de 20 metros y una antena loop. Muchos 128´s PFA (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. BOLÍVIA, 4700, R. San Miguel, Riberalta, 2326-2325, 16/12, castelhano, prgr de propag. relig. e canções a condizer; 25332. 4716.7, R. Yatun Ayllu Yura, Yura, 2312-2322, 16/12, quíchua, música pop' índia; 25332. 5952.4, R. Pio XII, Siglo XX, 2349-2357 13/12, quíchua, texto; 34432, ARM adj. 6134.92, R. Santa Cruz, St.ª Cruz de la Sierra, 2238-2248, 14/12, castelhano, noticiário; 33431, QRM adj. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 6134.82, Radio Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, absolutely blaring signal 12/13 at 0953 with criolla music. ID toward top of the hour by OM, “Radio Santa Cruz . . . su companión” (Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Illinois, Drake R8B; Japan Radio NRD-545; Eton E1; Hallicrafters SX100, Dentron Super Tuner + Ameco PLF-2 + Palomar P-408 +Quantum Phaser antenna unit (customized for tropical bands), 335-foot bidirectional BOG 150 deg/330 deg for LA/SE Asia, DX Engineering RPA-1 preamp, Phased Longwire + Small Loop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6134.8, R. Santa Cruz, Dec 15, beginning to fade in at 0943 with talk in Spanish and lively music; steadily improving by 0950 with what sounded like a remote connection to a public meeting, brief ID at 0952; beginning at 0953 talk by man and bright folkloric music; several full IDs at 1000 (Jim Ronda, Tulsa OK, NRD-545, R-75 + two PAR EF-SWL slopers, NASWA Flashsheet Dec 16 via DXLD) 6134.82, Radio Santa Cruz, interesting programming noted on Sun morning 12/16. At 0910 playing very rustic CP folkloric music but with all announcements in indigenous vernacular language. ID easily picked out at 0912 as simply “Radio Santa Cruz”. 0915 started what seemed a radionovela, but also in non-Spanish indigenous language of E Bolivia [Aymara?], with a hysterical woman weeping and moaning and relating her sad story. Must have signed on at approx. *0900 as nothing on the channel at 0855 check. Great big, lusty signal just pounding in, reminiscent of high-powered international broadcasters on 49 meters, back in the day, like Deutsche Welle or Radio Nederland! (Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Illinois, Drake R8B; Japan Radio NRD-545; Eton E1; Hallicrafters SX100, Dentron Super Tuner + Ameco PLF-2 + Palomar P-408 +Quantum Phaser antenna unit (customized for tropical bands), 335-foot bidirectional BOG 150 deg/330 deg for LA/SE Asia, DX Engineering RPA-1 preamp, Phased Longwire + Small Loop, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6134.82, R Santa Cruz, 0857:42, Dec 18, carrier came on, frequency is clear, no audio but can't be anything else. Also heard them opening at the exact same minute and always around :40 on Dec 4, 7, 12, 13, 17 (Martien Groot, Schoorl, Netherlands, ibid., WORLD OF RADIO 1648) ** BOLIVIA. MEDIO MILLAR DE RADIOS SALDRÍAN DEL ESPECTRO by gruporadioescuchaargentino Los representantes de la Asociación Boliviana de Radiodifusoras (Asbora) se reunieron con Clifford Paravicini para encontrar una solución técnica al problema del espectro de radios comunitarias y estatales junto a las privadas que ven el peligro de salir de los anchos de bandas. El presidente de Asbora, Raúl Novillo, informó a la opinión pública a través de radio Fides que se pone en peligro la existencia de medio millar de emisoras radiales y ahora se pretende encontrar una solución técnica para que no se vean perjudicados cientos de locutores y empresas comerciales de radio que viven de la publicidad. Explicó que con la nueva Ley, que destina sólo el 33% del espectro radial a las empresas privadas y el resto para el Estado, radios comunitarias y campesinas se está poniendo en riesgo a un gran número de radios. “33% del espectro a futuro (para emisoras privadas) significa a futuro la desaparición del alrededor de 480 radios en el país, cosa que nos parece insólito”, dijo en el programa 'Hombre invisible'. “Los siguientes pasos que darán serán que la nueva normativa sea planteada ante la Unión Internacional de Telecomunicaciones para que nos asesoren y orienten y se pedirá una ampliación de plazos para que los cambios no sean tan bruscos ni económica ni técnicamente”, destacó Novillo en la entrevista. Por su parte, el director de la Autoridad de Telecomunicaciones y Transportes (ATT), Clifford Paravicini, indicó que sólo están cumpliendo la nueva Ley Nª 164 de Telecomunicaciones que dispone una distribución equitativa de los medios radiales y televisivos en partes iguales, es decir 33% para comerciales, 33% estatales, 17% indígenas y 17% campesinas, por ello la nueva distribución. (tomado de El Diario) gruporadioescuchaargentino | 15/12/2012 en 7:14 | GRA blog via WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DXLD ** BOTSWANA. Hi everyone, I found the discussion of Botswana in DXLD 12-50 very interesting, particularly the bit about Northern Mmathethe which seems to be causing confusion. I can't find either of the Mmathethes on any of my paper maps, but that isn't surprising as many of the smaller towns in Botswana are not shown. At the risk of causing even more chaos, whilst Northern Mmathethe might exist (and I really don't know) I am wondering if there might be confusion with a shopping centre. I believe the Maru-a-Pula shopping centre in the Broadhurst district of northern Gaberone is commonly referred to by the locals as the "No Mathatha" shopping centre. The "No" bit could have been misconstrued by someone as "North" and the rest of the name is just very similar. This coincidence may have nothing to do with the problem, but I suspect it is worth considering. I last logged 945 on October 31, and seem to recall having heard (but not logged it) since then. I just assumed it was still coming from Gaberone / Sebeli. I do not recall ever hearing 972, and certainly have not done so since I computerised my logs in A10. Incidentally, the 621 frequency listed by Wolfy [621 kHz 100 kW, 21 56'59.37"S 27 35'48.25"E (wb, ibid.)] is from Selebi Phikwe in the north east of Botswana (also home to VOA on 909), not to be confused with Sebeli which I always list as Gaberone in my logs, being unsure of its exact location. Regards, (Bill Bingham, RSA, Dec 16, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi everyone, In DXLD 12-50 Glenn reprinted a discussion taking place within the mwmasts Yahoo Group, about medium wave in Botswana. In that discusion, Dan Goldfarb wrote "I am appealing for help from those of you in South Africa or indeed others to explain to me why the perfectly adequate facilities at Sebele were delisted and as a result 945 was allocated to Mmathethe" (Dan Goldfarb, mwmasts yg via DXLD)`` This discussion was the first I had heard of the change, and as usual I just have to speculate; I can't help myself. There is no doubt in my mind that, as Dan states, the Sebeli installation on 945 was perfectly adequate for its purpose; at night it reached well into South Africa. The rest of Botswana is also well covered by other medium wave transmitters at Maun, Muchenje, Shakwe, Gansti, Jwaneng, Mahalapye and Tsabong, so a more pertinent question might have been "Why is Botswana installing any new medium wave transmitter sites at all?" The answer could be that, as usual in this part of the world, it is all down to politics and ego. As I recall, all 15 of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries are committed to a changeover from analogue to digital broadcasting. It seems the changeover to digital television is to come first, followed by radio at a later and still unspecified date. South Africa is struggling with the television changeover at present, and doing it so badly that the changeover date keeps getting pushed further and further into the future. So where does Botswana fit in? Well, Botswana is a member of SADC, and what's more, the Headquarters of SADC are situated in a beautiful modern building in Gaborone, the capital city of Botswana. I don't know how they are getting on with their television changeover, but it could be that, being the hub of SADC, the Botswana government feels the need to be at the forefront of the rush to digital. It is said to be a well-governed country, and is probably one of the few SADC countries that can actually afford the new technology. So can I suggest (remember, this is pure speculation) that moving the 945 transmitter to Mmathethe could be part of the forthcoming digital changeover. If it is a brand new transmitter it could be digital- ready. I can't guess why they moved away from Gaborone; could it be a better position and/or distance from Gaborone for digital transmission? I don't know where Mmathethe is, but judging from Wolfy's description as being close to Kanye and Lobatse it must presumably also be close to Jwaneng, which already has a Radio Botswana transmitter on 1071. It too seems more than adequate, giving a good signal well into South Africa at night, so why the apparent duplication? Perhaps Jwaneng is also due for closure. I guess it will be necessary to do regular checks on the Botswana transmitters to make sure they are all still present and correct. Regards, (Bill Bingham, RSA, Dec 17, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi everyone, Further to the debate about what is happening to medium wave in Botswana, here is a trawl of all the Botswana medium wave stations known to me. Tuesday, December 18, 2012, 1745-1835. Jo'burg sunset 1658. ALL Radio Botswanas are in //, and I use 1215 Mahalapye as reference (purely because it`s my favourite). Radio Botswana, 531 Maun. Very poor - poor. Radio Botswana. 558 Muchenje. Good. Radio Botswana, 621 Selebi Phikwi. Good. Radio Botswana, 648 Mopipi. Very poor; it is within the splash-zone of adjacent channel Radio Pulpit on 657 from Meyerton. Pulpit splash is too strong to null out, but 648 Mopipi is definitely there. Radio Botswana, 693 Shakawe. Not heard, but that is not unusual. I have only logged it once before, on March 10, 2012. Never before, and never since. Radio Botswana, 873 Ghanzi. Present, but poor. Squashed by co-channel Mozambique (Beira) as usual. Radio Botswana, 945 Gaborone or Mmathethe?? Now believed to have been moved from Gaborone to Mmathethe. Fair. Radio Botswana, 972 Gaborone or Takatokwane?? Not heard. I certainly have not logged this one since before A10 and I believe it to be inactive. Although apparently supposed to be moving from Gaborone to Takatokwane at some unspecified time, I presume the transmitter is still in Gaborone - purely on the basis that surely if they have taken the trouble to move it they would be using it? Radio Botswana, 1071 Jwaneng. Good. Radio Botswana, 1215 Mahalapye. Very good. Radio Botswana, 1350 Tsabong. Very poor, as usual, but definitely there. And finally, don't forget: Voice of America relay. 909 Selebi-Phikwe. Dec. 18, 2012. Tuesday. 1745-1835. Very good. Jo'burg sunset 1658. Regards, (Bill Bingham, Dec 18, ibid.) re 972: Maybe the antenna in Takatokwane is not ready yet? 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, ibid.) ** BRAZIL. Em 15/12, as emissoras OM brasileiras surgiram bastante cedo; pelas 2000+, já havia indícios, e menos de 1/12 h mais tarde, um sinal, de 34443, destacou-se, o qual julgo ser da R. Itaí, Iúna ES, em 1380, retransmitindo a SRDA; incluo gravação (15DEZ'12_20;25;57_774 kB) na qual se pode comparar o sinal em 1380 com o da SRDA, em 11764.9, bom, embora não muito melhor. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. CHASQUI DX PFA – DICIEMBRE 2012 --- CQ, CQ, CQ; Aquí Pedro F. Arrunátegui para compartir algo con los que disfrutan y aman el DX latinoamericano, todas las horas son UT. Desde la tierra de los incas, les informo mediante este Quipus lo siguiente: 4885.00, BRASIL, R. Difusora Acre, Rio Branco, 4/12 2305-2340, 44444, news, había interferencia de otra radio brasilera, fue necesario escucharla en LSB, ID “Radio Difusora al día con las noticias” La recepción la he efectuado del 26/11al 17/12 en compañía de mi sabueso Icom IC R72 acompañado del Mizuho KX-3, una grabadora Alesis Palm Track, una antena de hilo largo de 20 metros y una antena loop. Muchos 128´s PFA (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. BRASIL, 4915, R. Dif.ª, Macapá AP, 2304-2315, 16/12, canções; 34422, QRM de portadora vazia, presum. da R. Daqui, B, e de sinal telegráfico (vide 4915 R. Daqui). 4915, R. Daqui, Goiânia GO, 2323-2331, 16/12, canções; 44332, QRM da R.Dif.ª de Macapá, B, + sinal telegr. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 6059.80, Super Radio Deus é Amor, Curitiba, fair sig but poor in mess on this frequency at 0850 on 12/12 with accordion music. Also // 6120.03 heard weakly and // 9565.06 with very nice signal, in the clear (Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Illinois, Drake R8B; Japan Radio NRD- 545; Eton E1; Hallicrafters SX100, Dentron Super Tuner + Ameco PLF-2 + Palomar P-408 +Quantum Phaser antenna unit (customized for tropical bands), 335-foot bidirectional BOG 150 deg/330 deg for LA/SE Asia, DX Engineering RPA-1 preamp, Phased Longwire + Small Loop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 9695.3, R. Rio Mar, Manaus AM, 1912-2025, 14/12, conversa e música durante a rubrica A Tarde é Nossa, notícias locais e regionais, ID e anúncio das freqs. (1290, 6160, 9595); 35433. Pouco antes das 2100, o sinal desaparecera. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 9819.32, Radio Nove de Julho, São Paulo, this one noted with moderate signal tho het, best in ECSS-LSB, 12/16 at 2218, OM vocalist in Portuguese with YL chorus and orchestra in background. Announcements by YL at 2221, “Estamos apresentando a musica de . . .“ And then, nice musical ID at 2222, sung by YL chorus, simply “Radio Nove . . . de Julho!” Signal fading in better toward BOH. Tnx to tip from Prof. Ronda on this! (Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Illinois, Drake R8B; Japan Radio NRD-545; Eton E1; Hallicrafters SX100, Dentron Super Tuner + Ameco PLF-2 + Palomar P-408 +Quantum Phaser antenna unit (customized for tropical bands), 335-foot bidirectional BOG 150 deg/330 deg for LA/SE Asia, DX Engineering RPA-1 preamp, Phased Longwire + Small Loop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 10000, Time Signal Station Observatório Nacional, 0800- 0805, 12-12, time signals, identification and time by female each 10 seconds: "Observatório Nacional, 6 horas, 1 minuto, 30 segundos". 22322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol and Lugo, Sony ICF SW 7600 G, cable antenna, 10 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 10000 - QSL Recebido - Observatório Nacional - Rio de Janeiro - RJ - B - Recebido cartão QSL e carta com informações sobre a estação e contendo um selo comemorativo dos 185 anos do Observatório Nacional. 20 dias. V/S: Ricardo José de Carvalho (Chefe - Divisão de Serviço da Hora - MCTI - Observatório Nacional do Brasil). Informe enviado por e- mail: carvalho @on.br QTH: Rua General Bruce, 586 – CEP.: 20.921-030 – São Cristóvão – Rio de Janeiro – RJ (Leônidas dos Santos Nascimento, São João Evangelista - MG, 17 Dec, Grundig YB 80, Antena: Telescópica, radioescutas yg via DXLD) ** BRAZIL. 11815, Rádio Brasil Central, 0242-0320, Dec 13, pop music program hosted by a man with Portuguese talk, IDs and some jingles noted. 60 meter band signal [4985] missing tonight. Poor to fair (Rich D’Angelo, 2216 Burkey Drive, Wyomissing PA 19610, Ten-Tec RX-340, Drake R-8B, Eton E1, Eton E5, Alpha Delta DX Sloper, RF Systems Mini- Windom, Datong FL3, JPS ANC-4, NASWA Flashsheet Dec 16 via DXLD) ** BULGARIA. QSL: 'NETHERLANDS', 9500, The Mighty KBC Radio via Kostinbrod (Sofia) Transmitter. Full data (with site) KBC QSL Card for a Postal Report, $2 US, to Netherlands address, with reply in 18 days (Edward Kusalik, Alberta, Canada, Dec 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA [and non]. DIGITAL TEXT THIS WEEKEND ON THE MIGHTY KBC AND WRMI Because of poor propagation in many parts of the world last weekend, The Mighty KBC, via Bulgaria, will repeat last week's digital text transmission. This will be during the KBC broadcast UT 16 Dec, 0000- 0200, on 9450. At about 0130, MT63-1000 (long interleave) will be centered on 1000 Hz, PSKR125 centered on 2200 Hz. Decode one from your radio, decode the other from your recording. At just before 0200, MT63-2000 (long interleave) will be centered on 1500 Hz. This second transmission will be an html-formatted Flmsg message. Download Fldigi and Flmsg from http://www.w1hkj.com In Fldigi, go to Configure > Modems > MT-63 > check 64-bit (long) interleave, 8-bit extended characters, and Allow manual tuning. Also, go to Configure > Misc > NBEMS > check Open with flmsg and Open in browser and, below that, indicate where your flmsg.exe file is located. If everything works, a shortwave transmitter in Bulgaria will open a new window of your web browser. Also, WRMI, 9955, will transmit IDs in digital text modes this weekend. Saturday 0500 to Sunday 0500, the mode will be BPSK63F (also known as PSK63F). Sunday 0500 to Monday 0500, the mode will be Olivia 64-1000 (a non-standard mode that will require a custom setting in Fldigi; unlike most digital modes, this one sounds pleasant). The WRMI IDs are, of course, mostly on the hour and half hour. In Olivia 64- 1000, the ID will appear a few seconds after you hear the tones and see the waterfall (Kim Elliott, http://www.kimandrewelliott.com Dec 14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) The Mighty KBC via Bulgaria, is now transmitting to North America on 9450 and will continue to do so until 0200 UT (9 pm EST). At about 0130 UTC MT63-1000 (long interleave) will be centered on 1000 Hz, PSKR125 centered on 2200 Hz. Decode one from your radio, decode the other from your recording. At just before 0200 UT, MT63-2000 (long interleave) will be centered on 1500 Hz. This second transmission will be an html-formatted Flmsg message. Download Fldigi and Flmsg from http://www.w1hkj.com In Fldigi, go to Configure > Modems > MT-63 > check 64-bit (long) interleave, 8-bit extended characters, and Allow manual tuning. Also, go to Configure > Misc > NBEMS > check Open with flmsg and Open in browser and, below that, indicate where your flmsg.exe file is located. Also, WRMI, 9955 kHz, is transmitting IDs in digital text modes this weekend. Saturday 0500 to Sunday 0500, the mode is BPSK63F (also known as PSK63F). Sunday 0500 to Mon 0500 UTC, the mode will be Olivia 64- 1000 (a non-standard mode that will require a custom setting in Fldigi). We are experimenting with digital text modes via analog shortwave as a possible method to provide information via text when the internet is blocked by disasters or dictators (Kim Andrew Elliott, 0022 UT Dec 16, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9450, Dec 16 at 0029, The Mighty KBC, Netherlands via Kostinbrod, modulation is somewhat distorted. Ad for antennas from kbcimports.com, says SW reception was bad last week and hope better this week --- yes it is, good signal altho still much weaker than 9420 Greece and 9490 Guiana French, and too bad about the modulation. Is this an ex-jamming transmitter, or what? Recheck 0131 just in time to hear a few tones in another Kim Andrew Elliott digital text test, immediately followed by jingle, still distorted and I wonder if that detracted from the digital (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, recognized that bad distorted audio quality also tonight 00-02 UT Dec 16. Amateur Radio oerators would say "direct current", in German 'reines Gleichstrom signal' --- seemingly used one or two combined older 20 kW units at Bulgaria installation? (Wolfgang Büschel, BC-DX Dec 16 via DXLD) From 0130 received in SW Wisconsin USA using fldigi. Propagation is very good with some fading: THE MIGHTY KBC Special broadcasts on 22, 23, 25, and 26 December 1500-1600 UTC Europe: 9835 kHz North America: 21600 kHz Asia: 15470 kHz 1600-1700 UTC Europe: 9755 kHz DRM The next text transmission, just before 0200 UTC, will be in the MT63- 2000 mode, long interleave, centered at 1500 Hz. ================================================================== (Mike Mayer, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) What he decoded? (gh) Kim, Fair to good signal when I started listening at 0100+ but signal seem to begin deteriorating around 0130 just as the "test" was introduced. Coincidence? After the 59 second test, the signal continued to rapidly decline making the last 30 minutes or so awful. 73, (Rich d`Angelo, PA, 0205 UT, NASWA yg via DXLD) Thanks for tuning in, Rich. Fair, at best, signal here, but 100% copy here for both text transmissions, with the second opening a new window on my browser (Kim, VA, 0218 UT, ibid.) 9450, The Mighty KBC, 0107-0200*, Dec 16, playing mainly oldies music (Simon and Garfunkel, Moody Blues, Kinks, etc.), several IDs, usual ads with male DJ hosting program in English. At 0129 mentioned a repeat of digital test from last week because reception was poor for last test. Kim Andrew Elliott with announcement about the digital test and then 50 seconds of digital transmission. Returned to standard musical format after the test. Fair to good signal at tune in but starting to deteriorate around 0130 and steadily deteriorating until sign off (Rich D’Angelo, 2216 Burkey Drive, Wyomissing PA 19610, Ten- Tec RX-340, Drake R-8B, Eton E1, Eton E5, Alpha Delta DX Sloper, RF Systems Mini-Windom, Datong FL3, JPS ANC-4, NASWA Flashsheet Dec 16 via DXLD) ** BURMA [non]. TAJIKISTAN. 6225, FMO broker of Democratic Voice of Burma via Dushanbe Yangi Yul replaced 11560 by deep winter Dec/Jan frequency from Dec 10. Power 100 kW 125 degrees (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) But Democratic Voice of Burma in Burmese noted on Dec 13: 1430-1530 on 11560 DB 100 kW / 125 deg to SEAs, not on new 6225 73! (Ivo Ivanov, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Democratic Voice of Burma via Dushanbe Yangi Yul --- I can receive on 11560 kHz continuously on Dec. 14 at 1430 UT. de Hiroshi (S. Hasegawa, Japan, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) DVD QSY to 6225 kHz from today on Dec. 15 at 1430 UT, receive it on 11560 kHz yesterday (S. Hasegawa, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Frequency change Democratic Voice of Burma from Dec 15 1430-1530 NF 6225 DB 100 kW / 125 deg to SEAs Burmese, ex 11560 2330-0030 on 7510 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg to SEAs Burmese unchanged (Georgi Bancov & Ivo Ivanov, DX Re Mix News, Dec 19 via WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DXLD) ** CANADA. Re: 750 CKJH SK Melfort – 11/18 0718 – “CK classic hits;” events calendar for today, ad for Northeast Ab Chop Shop (?? that`s what it sounded like; chop shops don`t usually advertise), Prince Albert Shopper, “CK-750” program promo for something at 7:40 am Thursdays. By 0722 losing to Mexican music, but no Usonians. Why would a station abbreviate its call to the least distinctive part of it? 25/25 kW U3, i.e. non-directional day and all-north at night ; yeah, sure. (GH-OK) Glenn, “U3” means directional with same pattern day and night – DY. (David Yocis, NRC DX News Dec 10 via DXLD) So it does; but I was also referencing the NRC Pattern Book of 2005 which at that time showed ND Day, Dir-North at night. Anyhow, it must have been non-direxional at night when I heard them (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** CANADA. 2054/USB, Tofino Coastguard, Amphitrite Point, BC. (Presumed) - 0058 12/9 - Maritime weather broadcast for Canadian west coast, presumed Tofino based on the scheduled broadcast time 0050-0110 UT (Tim Tromp, Muskegon MI, MARE Tipsheet 14 Dec via DXLD) ** CANADA. 6070, Dec 14 at 0617, something is wrong with CFRX --- at first I suspect it is off, but then fades in a very weak signal with English talk, presumably the usual all-night comedy. It`s not a propagation problem, as CHU 7850 has a fine signal. CFRX may be on exciter only. 6070, Dec 15 at 0619, CFRX is back with sufficient signal, unlike 24 hours earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 6159.97, CKZU – Vancouver on Dec 16 found off the air at 0420, leaving Newfoundland with their best reception yet and still off frequency (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) CKZU, 6159.95, 19 Dec, 0158z (5:58 pm local PST) with relay of CBU Vancouver BC. Local headlines about a missing snowboarder, traffic report (Hwy 99 blocked), weather report (10-15 cm of snow), PSA for Vancouver charities followed by "The World at Six". I miss the RCI of old, with relays of CBC domestic programs. Someone suggested that CBC/RCI simply move one or two of the Sackville transmitters to an existing CBC MW site. Add a nice vertical or quadrant antenna, run 50 or 100 kW to save on the hydro[electric power, not water per se --- gh] and relay CBC1 to all of North America. Excellent idea (Jerry Lenamon, Waco, TX, Drake R8A, sloper, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) As we have dreamt for sesquidecades, never to be fulfilled (gh) ** CANADA. 105.9, CHPD Aylmer ON; Dec/06 1345 [UT or EST?]; GERMAN / English, FAIR-GOOD, ID by Male DJ in English as "This is CHPD 105.9 FM in Aylmer, Ontario, with some Christmas Music". Into traditional Christmas music. Some talk was in GERMAN. This is a low powered Mennonite community radio station in a small town southeast of London at 17.4 Miles! My closest FMer unheard is finally bagged after 10 years of trying! NEW STN, 250 Watts (Robert Ross, London ON, MARE Tipsheet 14 Dec via DXLD) ** CANADA [non]. ROMANIA/ITALY, 7290, Radio City via IRRS Milano, *1900-1910, 15-12, tuning music, male, identification: "Radio City, the station of the cars", "Radio Ciudad, la estación de los coches", pop music, male, English, comments. 34433 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol and Lugo, Sony ICF SW 7600 G, cable antenna, 10 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHAD. 6165, RTV du Chad (presumed); 2130-2205+, 11-Dec; M&W discussion in French to 2154:31 drum chant into Hi-Life music; 2200:10 another drum chant into news in French. SIO=33-2+ in USB needed to minimize 6160.8 CKZN (presumed) splash; also buzz & pulse bursts. May be slightly below 6165.0 (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) 6165, Radio National Tchadienne, N'djamena, 2220-2250*. Talk in French by two men and a woman. Announcements by a man at 2231 followed by what appeared to be news headlines. Local French language pop vocals at 2232. Transmission terminated abruptly at 2250. Good signal with some fading at tune-in, declining slowly over time. 12/13/2012 (Jim Evans, Germantown TN, RX-340, IC-R75, Perseus, ALA100M Loop, Eavesdropper Dipole, Random Wire (90'), NASWA Flashsheet Dec 16 via WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DXLD) ** CHILE. 17680, CVC/La Voz 'The Last Transmission Broadcast' from Calera de Tango Transmitter site. My postal report sent to this address: Christian Media Ministry, Casilla 395 de Calera de Tango, Santiago, Chile, was returned with this stamped on the over-size envelope "no corresponde' and 'refusado'. Have forwarded my report to CVC in UK and will see what happens (Edward Kusalik, Alberta, Canada, Dec 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 5075, Dec 14 at 1422, poor carrier but seems just barely modulated. Surely the only station in the world on 5075, V. of Pujiang, 15 kW southward from Shanghai at 1130-1600 as in Aoki. Weaker than the only other Asian signal audible on 60m, 4940 V. of Strait (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 5990 / 5989.983, Qinghai PBS? You reported reception of Myanmar on 5985.817 and mentioned strong interference from Qinghai PBS & CRI on 5990 kHz. On a few occasions I noted a possible SAH (in Glenn's terminology, a subaudible heterodyne) on 5990 which might very possibly be due to QPBS being slightly off frequency, for instance on Nov 28 at 1402 and Nov 29 around 1359 UT. I was wondering if you can actually see and hear QPBS on 5990 kHz and, if so, could you perhaps measure their exact frequency? (Martien Groot, Holland, Dec 6, BCDX Dec 16 via DXLD) Hi dear Martien, I don't remember heard and have no logs anymore the QHEBS Radio 1413 AM, 107.5 FM, 2255-1600 UT QINGHAI Traffic & Music Broadcasting Station: Chinese 1377 AM, 97.2 FM, 2255-1500 UT outlet, but instead measured the frequency peaks 5990 only, when logged nearby Myanmar Radio Yangoon on 5986v. Today at 1220 UT Dec 6 I see two peaks on 5990 kHz, like exact 5990.000 and 5989.983 kHz, but BOTH are COVERED by Korean jamming spurious from 6003 kHz!! Jamming spur occurs on lower side 5987 to 6003 kHz, but very small 6003 to 6004 kHz on upper side, like LSB mode transmission!! All heard on Nara-Osaka Japan and Brisbane Australia remote SDR units. 73 wolfy df5sx (wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 16 via DXLD) ** CHINA. 9520, PBS Nei Menggu - Hohhot (Presumed), Dec. 10, poor but readable at 0128 with animated conversation in Mandarin between two women; occasional male voice; no break at 0130 and continuing past 0140. Also noted on 12/14 in the same time period. I list this as Probable since there was no recognizable ID at 0130 (Jim Ronda, Tulsa OK, NRD-545, R-75 + two PAR EF-SWL slopers, NASWA Flashsheet Dec 16 via DXLD) ** CHINA. 11970 crash and bang music, 0128 12/2, poor (Larry Russell, Flushing MI, MARE Tipsheet 14 Dec via DXLD) EAST JAMMERSTAN: 6970 AM, Firedrake - 1142 12/8 - Crashing & bangin' away with a 20 kHz wide signal, very strong. Noticed off at 1210 revealing a very faint AM carrier on the frequency - presumably the signal they are trying to jam? I don't see anything listed on 6970. Switching over to a remote Perseus receiver in Japan and I can hear a weak Asian talker, so there is something there - but who? (Tim Tromp, Muskegon MI, MARE Tipsheet 14 Dec via DXLD) Frequencies in xxx70 are among the favorite spots for Sound of Hope and consequently Firedrake; something numerologically significant among the Chinese? And as a matter of fact, 6970 is in Aoki, a list you do not consult? ``6970 SOH Xi Wang Zhi Sheng 0000-2400 1234567 Chinese 0.1 ND ? TWN 11955E 2610N SOH b12`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Lunedì 10 dicembre 2012, FIREDRAKE 0837 - 17300 + 17080 SF-IN 0841 - 14800 + 14700 SF-IN (Luca Botto Fiora, G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) Have not heard the 8-kHz galaxy of spurs around 11760 or other frequencies lately from the defective CNR1 jammer; have they fixed it or merely rescheduled it? 11775, Dec 14 at 1426, instead of a het from 11776, PMS has Firedrake underneath her. According to Aoki, the only thing jammed here is the AIR Tibetan service via GOA at 1215-1330, but the ChiCom must have kept it going for the Nepali service which follows until 1430. Then searched for other Firedrakes, starting with a 7 and a 9 MHz channel where they are often heard, and there they are again: 9315, very poor at 1427 vs: VOA Tibetan via Thailand at 14-15 7390, poor at 1427 mixing with: VOA Cantonese via Tinang at 13-15 None of the usual 10-19 MHz out-of-band FDs found by 1437 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake scan from 0020 to 0035, Dec 16. All were good. 12500 12670 13820 13850 13970 14400 14700 15385 15800 15970 16100 16920 17645 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also TAIWAN Firedrake with musical jamming 12/16/12: 12670, 0036. I believe that Firedrake was jamming the Mandarin broadcast of the Sound of Hope (not heard) which uses this frequency 24/7. Strong signal. 14400, 0039. I believe that Firedrake was jamming the Mandarin broadcast of the Sound of Hope (not heard) which uses this frequency either 24/7 or 2000-1700. Weak and fading signal. 14700, 0040. I believe that Firedrake was jamming the Mandarin broadcast of the Sound of Hope (not heard) which uses this frequency either 24/7 or 2000-1700. Fair signal. 15800, 0042. I believe that Firedrake was jamming the Mandarin broadcast of the Sound of Hope (not heard) which uses this frequency either 24/7 or 2000-1700. Fair signal. 15970, 0043. I believe that Firedrake was jamming the Mandarin broadcast of the Sound of Hope (not heard) which uses this frequency either 24/7 [sic]. Fair and fading signal. 16100, 0039. I believe that Firedrake was jamming the Mandarin broadcast of the Sound of Hope (not heard) which uses this frequency either 24/7 or 2000-1900. Very Weak signal. 16920, 0044. I believe that Firedrake was jamming the Mandarin broadcast of the Sound of Hope (not heard) which uses this frequency either 24 [sic]. Very Weak signal (Steve Handler, Buffalo Grove IL, Icom IC-7200, Tecsun PL-660, wire antennas, NASWA Flashsheet Dec 16 via DXLD) ** CHINA. 9470, Dec 16 at 0032 rock music, heavy flutter, 0033 uncertain language. Was wondering if AIR National Channel would be back on its nominal frequency. 0053 Chinese language lesson, and thought I heard some Russian, but scheduled as CRI Mongolian service, 500 kW northwards from Xian; and off at 0058 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non]. 9580 & 9590, Dec 16 at 0058 surprised to hear same music on both frequencies, 9590 weaker. Must be the prélude/interlude music from CRI altho different services are scheduled: 9580 is about to start English via CUBA; 9590 is amid Spanish services via Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA. RCN is advancing and the Super network is history --- Cadena Super in Colombia has been bought by RCN (the owner of the Super family perhaps had a feeling that now was the time to gear down since one of the most enterprising brothers of the Pava Camelo trio, the wheel chair tied Henry, passed away earlier this year). What the newly purchased stations will be called, etc., so far is not known. (Henrik Klemetz, Sweden, ex-Colombia, ARC mv-eko 10 Dec via WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DXLD) ** COLOMBIA. CHASQUI DX PFA – DICIEMBRE 2012 --- CQ, CQ, CQ. Aquí Pedro F. Arrunátegui para compartir algo con los que disfrutan y aman el DX latinoamericano, todas las horas son UT, desde la tierra de los incas, les informo mediante este Quipus lo siguiente: 5909.92, Alcaraván radio, Puerto Lleras, 11/12 2320-2345, 44444, px religioso, ID “En Alcavarán Radio 1530”, mx, ID “Esta es la hora 6 de la tarde con 36 minutos en Alcaraván Radio”, mx, ID “Continúe en Alcaraván Radio” La recepción la he efectuado del 26/11al 17/12 en compañía de mi sabueso Icom IC R72 acompañado del Mizuho KX-3, una grabadora Alesis Palm Track, una antena de hilo largo de 20 metros y una antena loop. Muchos 128´s PFA (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CONGO. Mercoledì 12-12-12 - 1914 - 6115 kHz, Francese, talk OM. Segnale sufficiente-insufficiente, R. Congo? EiBi B12 s/off 1900 (Luca Botto Fiora, G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) ** COOK ISLANDS. FURTHER INTRIGUES IN THE COOK ISLANDS [continued from 12-50, where filed under DX-PEDITIONS] We’ve been around the island perhaps 20 times, and for the first time, I noticed something very interesting directly south of the 630 transmitter tower at Matavera. I don’t know how I could have missed it, except that I was probably focused entirely on the MW tower. On the road, perhaps 100 m south, there’s a very large tall dipole array which spans across the road with one wooden support (a good twice as tall as the power poles) on the water side, and the other across the road. The wire is still in place with the lead-in in the center between the poles and the lead in (looks like coax) coming down and now tied to a guard rail. On top of that, right on the water line in the same vicinity are two more tall poles, same height, and parallel to the beach, but without any wires strung between them. Clearly, they were for SW, and judging from the height, something very official. I started to wonder whether these, perhaps were originally for SW transmitters as well, or another receiving station at that end of the island. I would sure like to hear from others who might have more information about this. I’m hoping to go out there tomorrow. The store that we wanted to see there was closed today, so we didn’t get off. Talking with the bus driver, there’s precious little that is publicly funded these days. Even the bus service (a very important essential service) is privately owned. Apart from the airport, police, and schools, I can’t see much evidence of any other public service (water and power, too, I suppose). With all this happening back in the 80s, over half the population left the Cook Islands for greener pastures in NZ, Australia, the other Pacific islands, and even North America. There are two or three times the number of Cook Islanders elsewhere, than at home. I earlier mentioned the large court house where Guy had seen the burned remains of RCI, presumably the SW transmitter(s) years ago. Both this very large court house, and equally opulent central police station 100 or 200 meters down the road were constructed by the Chinese. A contentious issue, it seems here. Parliament is in session until today and that’s all that’s heard on RCI from the late morning to later in the afternoon, and I’ve heard mentions of “being paid off by the Chinese”, or “the honourable member will have to check with his Chinese bosses” about this or that! In any case, time is quickly drawing to a close for our time here in Rarotonga. It’s been an extremely relaxing trip! 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Rarotonga, Dec 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Walt, Klingenfuss lists a coastal (maritime) station in the Cook Islands with the call sign of E5R on frequencies in the 2, 8 & 13 MHz bands with SSB modulation. I don't know any more about it beyond that listing, but it could conceivably belong with the array you're seeing. (Bruce Portzer, ibid.) Cook Islands locations? Matavera Cook Isl ? E5R ? location ?? 21 13'11.87"S 159 43'58.70"W http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=-21.219898~-159.733254&lvl=19&dir=0&sty=h&form=LMLTCC Matavera MW 630 kHz http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=-21.218112~-159.735849&lvl=19.4&dir=0&sty=h&form=LMLTCC http://binged.it/TYy2lt 73 (Wolfgang df5sx Büschel, ibid.) Well, I did go back to those dipole antennae, and they're still active! In fact there are 3, but they aren't from a broadcast station, but a very fancy ham station. Furthermore, the place is for sale as well, so the person has moved on, or passed away. The poles are not very old, and at least 2 times higher than the power lines. Hard to believe that the power authority would allow two of them to cross the power lines! The lead in, instead of being tied to the guard rail, actually continues via coax underground. I couldn't follow it any further than into a ravine. Interesting, but obviously beyond the scope of my exploration! Last day in Rarotonga, so I'll be on my way home tonight. PS: MW conditions for the past 2 nights have not been good. The many distant stations were no where to be heard lately. 73 to all! (Walt Salmaniw, Dec 15, ibid.) Very interesting reports from the Cooks! But how about a photo or two of the dipoles and other interesting looking antennas? 73, (Erik Koie, Copenhagen, ibid.) Can do, but uploading is $$$$ here, so it'll have to wait until I'm home. We're spoiled in the first world re our internet access, that's for sure! 73, (Walt Salmaniw, ibid.) Hi Walt, Thanks for your really interesting account of tracking down the current location of RCI. Evidently their situation has changed dramatically, and not for the better. In 1993 I found their studios to be a pleasant, low-slung building with a colorful "Radio Cook Islands" banner and artwork painted on the side. It was definitely not an unmarked building as you described. A photo from 1993 is included in the link I posted yesterday: https://www.box.com/s/54f9bd67h9mso23h0fvy 73, (Guy Atkins, Puyallup, WA, Dec 12, IRCA via DXLD) You made me curious, so I checked my photo from 2001, and Radio Cook Islands was in the same building then as in 1993. As Guy says, a pleasant building and location. It had lost the banner and artwork by then, but had signage identifying the radio and TV stations. 73, (Nigel Pimblett, Dunmore, Alberta, ibid.) ** CUBA. 5040, R Progresso [sic] with ID and into Spanish "Radio Caribe" program with several mentions of 'territorio libre en América', and frequencies (theirs?) including such phrases as 'onda tropical' and the various metre bands by both OM & YL. A DX programme maybe? Between the noise and my limited Spanish, hard to say! RHC have apparently changed times for English on this channel. 4+53+43 2345- 2400 9/Dec (Ken Zichi, Williamston MI, MARE Tipsheet 14 Dec via DXLD) Of course, this English always shifts with DST; now one hour later than before, 00-01; RHC with program from Progreso? They used to be and probably still are in the same building, thus close relations altho everything belongs to the Castros (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 11635-AM, Dec 14 at 2137, ``Atención --- 81401 02231 23861`` repeated over and over by YL in Spanish. At 2143 I notice that the body of the spy message has begun with other groups of five numbers. Good signal, but less than RHC 11880 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Mysterious Cuban Code "Numbers Lady" --- Accidentally tuned the famous (or infamous) Cuban "numbers spy lady" this afternoon at 2126 GMT on 11635 kHz. I listened devoutly until 2140 GMT. The signal was steady, strong & clear, registering a "4" out of "5" on my S-Meter. There were the typical runs of numbers in Spanish followed by intervals of electronic noise/signal that would vary in length from sequence to sequence. I am sure her friends, agents & diplomats in the U.S., Central America & South America were attentive, as usual. I am also hopeful that she included a "merry Christmas" to them all -- in code of course (Grayson Watson in Dallas, Texas using a Grundig Satellit 750 with an Apex 700DTA active antenna, Dec 17, NASWA yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DXLD) I'll be honest, Grayson, I've never heard someone use the word "devout" in connection with stumbling across a numbers station! Numbers stations are certainly enigmatic operations in these days where governments can apparently remotely "infect" the computers of industrial centrifuges half a world away; I'm amazed at their longevity. Best wishes for a happy Holiday season! (Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA, ibid.) Cuban numbers lady on 9330? 12/17/12 at 0700 UT, and I check it out on two different radios in two different locations in my house. Digital transmission followed by the Cuban number lady. 9330. What is happening is the Cuban numbers lady is saying 5 numbers, followed by some kind of digital transmission, followed by 5 more numbers, then digital transmission, and repeats. I wonder what WBCQ deserved to get this kind of jamming? (Pat Blakely, 0719 UT, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9330 and 9.330 not found in searching the Nov ENIGMA 2000 Newsletter (gh, DXLD) 11710, Dec 18 at 0612, steady open carrier at S9+15, weaker than Brasil 11780, but much stronger than Brasil 11765, Ascension 11800, the only other signals on 25m. Mystery solved at 0620 when 5-digit YL SS numbers are going, without any preliminary ``Atención``. 0621 modulation stops, carrier continues; 0621 now breaks in transmission, off and on; 0623 a few more numbers mixed with digital noises, off again. Unusual to intrude this far inside an SWBC band; mistake? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11710 and 11.710 not found in searching the Nov ENIGMA 2000 Newsletter (gh) ** CUBA [and non]. Interfieren a Radio Rebelde. Saludos cordiales amigos diexistas. Espero se encuentren muy bien. Amigos ya en varias oportunidades he escuchado a Radio Rebelde en los 5025 kHz ser interferida por una señal digital que me parece RTTY que prácticamente anula a la emisora cubana. Aquí les dejo este archivo para que vean y escuchen. http://youtu.be/XCmhw_Jk-ico Un fuerte abrazo. Atte: (José Elías Díaz Gómez, Venezuela, Dec 15, condiglist yg via DXLD) ** CUBA. 17580, Sunday Dec 16 at 1437, Manolo de la Rosa is back on RHC `En Contacto`, after time off for hernia surgery, plugging the Colombo-Venezuelan DX Meeting in January with Rafael Rodríguez` contact info. As usual on Sundays, 13780 is off after 1400 for no particular reason. I was also looking up the Esperanto schedule on RHC website http://www.radiohc.cu/eo/interesaoj/frekvencoj.html to find: ``GEOGRAFIA REGIONO FREKVENCOJ MHZ [sic] BANDO METROJ HOROJ Norte, Centro y Suramérica 11760 Khz 25 16-16:30 UTC San Francisco 6010 Khz 49 05-07:00 UTC Suramérica 15370 Khz 19 22:30-23 UTC`` The middle one is totally wrong, of course; presumably meant to be 0700-0730 UT as before, and all of these are Sundays only, not specified either. 9504 approx., Dec 17 at 1354, approx. center of spurblob from weak 9540 RHC transmitter again; could not find one to match at +36 kHz, i.e. 9576 between very strong CRI/Cuba relay 9570, and RA 9580. 11760, Tuesday Dec 18 at 1322, RHC is in English instead of Spanish! Checked all other frequencies and found this also on 13780, but not on 9540, 11690, 11750, 11860, 15230, 15340, 17580, 17730 which all remained in Spanish. ``Ed Newman`` is mentioning their new English to Africa at 22-23 on 11880, which can also be heard in Europe (not to mention N America!!), but he doesn`t know about the present transmission. BBC is in the background on 11760. 1330 RHC ``news`` but it all sounds the same and no specific clues whether it`s today`s or yesterday`s. All about wishing Chávez well, enumerating US shootings since New Town, as always must include something negative about US. So is this a first new airing of today`s English hour? No! At 1335 mentions ``for this Monday``; 1400 reopening English for Monday still on both frequencies, and 1423 repeats plug for 11880, goes to a music break, but then RHC operator wakes up and smoothly shifts back to Spanish, becoming // all the other frequencies. So yet another mistake adding to their ever-growing anomaly roster, instead of sensibly starting to broadcast some English propaganda intentionally in our mornings (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Habana Cuba en ingles. Saludos amigos. Radio Habana Cuba en ingles a las 2022 UT. En EIBI aparece servicio en portugués. Atte: (José Elías Díaz Gómez, Venezuela, condiglist via WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DXLD) En qué frecuencia? Hay inglés en 11760 de 20 a 21 y portugués en 15340 de 20 a 2030. Pero suelen mezclar las frecuencias o/e idiomas. 73, (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1648, ibid.) Saludos amigos. Radio Habana Cuba en inglés a las 2022 UT en 15340 khz. En EIBI aparece servicio en portugués. Atte: (José Elías, ibid.) 11760 & 13780, Dec 19 at 1357 check, RHC is back in Spanish unlike English on these two frequencies only, 24 hours earlier. Meanwhile, José Elías Díaz Gómez in Venezuela also heard English on the wrong frequency, Dec 18 after 2000 UT, on 15340 instead of Portuguese, when English is supposed to be on 11760 only. On Dec 19 after 2030 check I found 15340 in Arabic as it is supposed to be (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CYPRUS [and non]. 17845-17870, Dec 15 at 1435, OTH radar presumed from here, totally invading the 16m SWBC band. Does ITU approve? This is NOT a clear spot, QRMing broadcasters on 17850 and 17870, i.e. 17850 RFI Pashto from Issoudun; and 17870 BBC Somali via CYPRUS! Does BBC acquiesce? At 1456 the OTHR is off, uncovering another weak signal on 17860, which would be DW Urdu via UAE, all as per HFCC. 15457-15482, Dec 18 at 1505, OTH radar pulsing, presumed from here; take that, any possible signal from 15476, LRA36 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CZECHIA. Radio Prague --- Nice to receive a stylish T shirt as a prize in their listeners` competition, I also won one a few years ago. (Mike Terry, England, Dec 15, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) DXing, while fun, isn't what these stations want. They want dedicated listeners to listen, rather it be mp3, streaming, satellite, or shortwave. Like I've said before, if you guys really care about the future of shortwave radio, focus more on the content of programming then DXing around. And the time to save Radio Romania, Voice of Russia, and others is now, not when they announce they are leaving the air, which is the only time when people petition to "save a station" (Pat Blakely, ibid.) ** DIEGO GARCIA. OCEANO ÍNDICO, 4319, AFN, Diogo Garcia, 1914-1940, 15/12, inglês, canções, música pop'; 34443, QRM adj. de sinal ponto a ponto. Sinal em BLS. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4319-USB, BRITISH INDIAN OCEAN TERRITORY. AFRTS, Diego Garcia, Chagos, 2254-2307. Pop music. News in English by man at 2300 followed by more music at 2303. Poor to moderate signal strength at 2254, quickly becoming weaker. Just above noise level by 2307. 12/11/2012 (Jim Evans, Germantown TN, RX-340, IC-R75, Perseus, ALA100M Loop, Eavesdropper Dipole, Random Wire (90'), NASWA Flashsheet Dec 16 via DXLD) [and non]. 4319 USB, AFN, 1322-1342, Dec 17. Heard in the clear till 1342 covered by QRM start up; 1335 nice ID: “24 - 7. This is Gravity”; per AFN website Gravity plays “Urban and Club hits . . . and the rest of today's hot rhythmic artists.”; certainly not the usual pop hit songs one hears so often. AFN Guam still AWOL (or is it MIA?) as of Dec 19 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. Re 3380 unID: The station has a contact form on their website. I filled it out in English, maybe they'll respond. JL (Jerry Lenamon, Dec 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3380.8, Unid, 2330 weak signal gone by 2345 11 December (Wilkner) 3380, Unid, 0000 to 0030 with drift to 3380.8, weak signal 14 Dec (Bob Wilkner & XM, South Florida, WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn: In regards to the unidentified on 3380, I could hear this station too with folk music at approximately 1026 and peaking to a good signal level. The music sounded typical of the Ecuadorian region. Couldn't ID due to noisy conditions - the announcements sounded recorded. Regards, (Mike Beu, KD5DSQ, Austin, Texas, Dec 17, WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. 4781.69, Radio Oriental, seems to be signing on later these days. No longer promptly at *1100 but rather, *1130, by which time the band is almost gone for Latins. Heard with OM announcer in Spanish eco announcements at 1130 12/12 despite 60 meters being already well faded down (Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Illinois, Drake R8B; Japan Radio NRD-545; Eton E1; Hallicrafters SX100, Dentron Super Tuner + Ameco PLF-2 + Palomar P-408 +Quantum Phaser antenna unit (customized for tropical bands), 335-foot bidirectional BOG 150 deg/330 deg for LA/SE Asia, DX Engineering RPA-1 preamp, Phased Longwire + Small Loop, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. 4814.98, tentative Radio El Buen Pastor, Saraguro, noted 1104 on 12/14, OM bassy voice and muffled audio, into string of unmistakably Ecuadorian music selections on guitar – pasillos, pasacalles. Signal still there but fading down by 1115. No ID but perfectly fits the DNA for this one, based on many past IDed receptions (Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Illinois, Drake R8B; Japan Radio NRD-545; Eton E1; Hallicrafters SX100, Dentron Super Tuner + Ameco PLF-2 + Palomar P-408 +Quantum Phaser antenna unit (customized for tropical bands), 335-foot bidirectional BOG 150 deg/330 deg for LA/SE Asia, DX Engineering RPA-1 preamp, Phased Longwire + Small Loop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. 6049.931, Odd signal from Quito, Spanish language songs of Latin American flavour via Pichincha site, at 0415 UT Dec 13 (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 16 via DXLD) ** ECUADOR [non]. U.K., 7335, HCJB Arabic service to W Africa via 250 kW powerful Woofferton-UK unit, scheduled daily 2100-2145 UT, hit heavily by co-channel CNR2 China Business Radio from Baoji-Sifangshan tx site #724, logged at 2130 UT Dec 15 (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 16 via DXLD) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, Radio Africa, 0750-0822, 12-12, male, English, religious comments. Bad modulation. 13321 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Logs in Friol and Lugo, Sony ICF SW 7600 G, cable antenna, 10 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) GUINEA. 15190, Radio Africa (presumed); 1547-1605+, 12-Dec; English huxterage; Voice of Truth from Trinity AL to 1602 right into the Bible ? B'cast with Bro. Barry May. SIO=333 with het from R. Inconfidência (presumed) on about 15191.2 -- no copiable audio there though. Been a while since I've heard these folks (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) ** ERITREA. 7175, Voice of the Broad Masses-2, Asmara, Dec. 11, poor- fair at 0407 with talk by a man in a vernacular language. “Vernacular” is a catch-all too often used when we don’t know the name of the specific language being spoken. I don’t like to use it but I’m stuck here (Jim Ronda, Tulsa OK, NRD-545, R-75 + two PAR EF-SWL slopers, NASWA Flashsheet Dec 16 via DXLD) ERITREIA, 7185, Voz das Massas, Selai Dairo, 1731-1752, 14/12, árabe, texto; 45433; observada em 7190, em 02/12, pelas 1730. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA. Mercoledì 12-12-12 1918 - 6110 kHz, R. FANA - Gedja (Etiopia), Musica HoA sotto a CRI Russian. Segnale buono-sufficiente - 1922 - 6030 kHz, Musica HoA e tk YL. Segnale sufficiente- insufficiente, R. OROMYIA? EiBi B12 s/off 1900. - HoA = Musica e/o parlato area Eritrea-Etiopia. - 1926 - 5950 kHz, pres. V of TIGRAY REVOLUTION, Parlato YL in lingua apparentemente HoA. Segnale buono-sufficiente. Anche qui EiBi B12 s/off 1900. - E' ovvio che l'orario di chiusura delle emittenti locali può essere variabile (Luca Botto Fiora, G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. 17630, OPPOSITION, Radio Horiyo (Xoriyo), Ogadenia in Somali from Issoudun, France to Ethiopia, 1611-*1630 sign off. Male and female presenters with musical bridges/cuts. Poor and increasing to fair. Possible jamming but not positive if jamming or unusual atmospheric interference. 12/15/12 (Steve Handler, Buffalo Grove IL, Icom IC-7200, Tecsun PL-660, wire antennas, NASWA Flashsheet Dec 16 via DXLD) ** EUROPE. Borderhunter Radio (Dutch pirate): 15515, 1508 12/9 - With Alice Cooper Poison, Dire Straits, shout-outs to various listeners over the music. Good signal, probably the best I've heard from BHR (Tim Tromp, Muskegon MI, MARE Tipsheet 14 Dec via DXLD) ** FALKLAND ISLANDS. The Voice Of The Falklands Recalls Invasion - [video name link] --- Patrick Watts recalls his time at the Falkland Islands Br. Station during the 1982 Falklands War - 30th anniversary 1982 - 2012. 2m 47s duration http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1nMpeLEEj8 (Ian Baxter, NSW, Dec 16, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GABON. 9580, Africa Number 1 – Moyabi, Dec. 10, fair at 2218 with a nice mix of modern African songs; occasional announcements in French; ID at 2229 and into an extended conversation in French between two men (Jim Ronda, Tulsa OK, NRD-545, R-75 + two PAR EF-SWL slopers, NASWA Flashsheet Dec 16 via DXLD) ** GERMANY. Hi there, Just would like to let you know we've a little nice NordAM broadcast now on 3955 kHz via Kall-Krekel (plus 1593 kHz) with 1 kW. Would be interesting to hear where the transmission can be picked up, so you are invited to listen and send a quick report or log to nordam @ shortwaveservice.com Probably there will be some QSL cards ;-) NordAM is a little student's free-radio project which was first broadcast in May 2011 and we're happy to have some listeners from all around the globe. Live streaming is available at http://www.shortwaveservice.com/ click play and choose 3955. Happy listening! (Daniel Kähler, 2232 UT Dec 16, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) It now appears there is also a Douglas Kähler, and in last issue I ``corrected`` Daniel to Douglas (gh, DXLD) ** GERMANY. Mercoledì 12-12-12 0945 - 7265 kHz, HAMBURGER LOKALRADIO - Göhren (Germania) Tedesco, talk OM/YL, musica soft e ogni tanto...un cane che abbaia!!! Segnale sufficiente-insufficiente (Luca Botto Fiora, G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) ALEMANHA, 6190, R. Local de Hamburg, Göhren, 1239-1315, 15/12, alemão, texto, música; sinal com portadora+BLS; 15331. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) = CUSB ** GERMANY. HHLR and EMR DX Transmissions --- HHLR: is on the air tomorrow the 19th of December: All reports to: m.kittner @ freenet.de The Transmissions are on 7265 and 6190 at the same times every Wednesday. EMR DX: This Sunday the 23rd of December on 9480 between 0200 and 0300 UT. More Details on EMR DX will soon follow! Good Listening! 73s (Tom Taylor, Dec 18, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dear Listeners, European Music Radio DX is on the air this Sunday the 23rd of December 2012 on 9480 between 0200 and 0300 UT with 1 kW via MV Baltic Radio from Göhren in Germany. More Information will follow very soon. 73s (Tom Taylor, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DXLD) ** GERMANY. NDR on shortwave again! German public broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk NDR will air its special X-mas program "Gruss an Bord" for German sailors on merchant ships. Here is the schedule for Mon December 24, 2012: Part 1: 1900-2100 on 9850 WER 100 kW / 285 deg to North Atlantic Ocean 1900-2100 on 11720 NAU 100 kW / 163 deg to SoEaAf, Indian Ocean, SWAf 1900-2100 on 11840 WER 100 kW / 120 deg to Western Indian Ocean 1900-2100 on 11840 NAU 125 kW / 200 deg to South Atlantic Ocean 1900-2100 on 11965 WER 125 kW / 090 deg to Eastern Indian Ocean 1900-2100 on 13780 NAU 125 kW / 235 deg to WeAf, Atlantic Ocean Part 2: 2100-2300 on 7335 WER 100 kW / 270 deg to North Atlantic Ocean 2100-2300 on 9490 NAU 125 kW / 200 deg to South Atlantic Ocean 2100-2300 on 9490 WER 100 kW / 120 deg to Western Indian Ocean 2100-2300 on 9650 WER 125 kW / 090 deg to Eastern Indian Ocean 2100-2300 on 9735 NAU 100 kW / 163 deg to SoEaAf, Indian Ocean, SWAf 2100-2300 on 11655 NAU 125 kW / 235 deg to WeAf, Atlantic Ocean (Georgi Bancov & Ivo Ivanov, DX Re Mix News, Dec 19 via WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DXLD) German public broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk will air its special X-mas program "Gruss an Bord" for German sailors on merchant ships, also on shortwave. Formerly this was done by Deutsche Welle, but this year NDR hired SW airtime. Schedule for 24 December 2012 [as above] vy 73 (Harald Kuhl, BDXC-UK yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DXLD) Why not via Internet on board? 6 shortwave frequencies at Wertachtal and Nauen to be used. Felix Riess dl5xl - out aboard the "Meteor ship (DBBH)" at present 12 degr South 78 degr West. Was 10 years ago as a radio operator at the research station in the DP1POL Neumeier station at Antarctica was, - wrote yesterday by the research vessel Meteor DBBH, that the upload / download speed on Internet is annoyingly slow, and the antenna dish often, depending on the direction, hidden by other ship structures and thus an Internet access on ship isn't so easy (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 13 via WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DXLD) Google translator automatic translation Ge/En: Christmas surprise: NDR Hamburg returns back on shortwave 14th December 2012, 14:05 hrs The NDR Hamburg - North German Radio will return on Christmas Eve for four hours on shortwave and his traditional mission radiate "greeting on board" world that was already its 59th Issue will be to hear. Greetings it be made available either to sailors around the world and broadcast Christmas melodies as well as wishes for a Merry Christmas in different languages of the world. Sent it like was in past years. Not only via FM frequencies on the NDR Info, NDR 90.3 MHz in Hamburg and on the Internet and on satellite and DAB+, but also on the medium-wave frequencies of the North German Radio NDR1. For the first time since the shutdown of "Norddeich Radio" in late 90s now come this year added several Shortwave frequencies, so the NDR will be the first ARD institution that will again be heard in this SW frequency range. Bayerischer Rundfunk, Suedwestrundfunk radio and the Deutsche Welle radio had ceased shortwave shows and partly dismantled the transmission technology. Now uses the facilities of the NDR Media Broadcast to spread out the program, after first was planned - possibly - spread over one maritime radio transmission station. Used, six shortwave transmitter in Nauen near Berlin and Wertachtal in Bavaria. According to the shortwave transmitter operator services come at a level of 100 to 125 kilowatts. In a press release of the NDR Hamburg, which was distributed in the A- DX Mailing List to many Shortwave listener, called the station the exact times, reception areas and frequencies that were substantiated upon request by the Media Broadcast GmbH now: Part 1 - Gruss an Bord - Greet on ship board, Dec 24, 1900-2100 UT kHz Azi ant power tx target degr type kW location 9850 285 HR 4/4/0.5 100 Wertachtal NoAtlantic 13780 235 HR 4/4/1.0 125 Nauen WeAF / Atlantic Ocean 11840 200 HR 4/4/0.5 125 Nauen SoAtlantic Ocean 11720 163 HR 2/4/0.5 100 Nauen SoEaAF, Indian Ocean, SoWeAF 11840 120 HR 4/4/0.8 100 Wertachtal Western Indian Ocean 11965 90 HR 4/4/0.8 125 Wertachtal Eastern Indian Ocean Part 2 - Weihnachtsgottesdienst aus St. Johannis-Harvestehude in Hamburg und Gruss an Bord - Christmas service in St. John's Harvestehude Church Hamburg and greeting on board. Dec 24, 2100-2300 kHz Azi ant power tx target degr type kW location 7335 270 HR 4/4/0.3 100 Wertachtal NoAtlantic 11655 235 HR 4/4/0.5 125 Nauen WeAF / Atlantic Ocean 9490 200 HR 4/4/0.5 125 Nauen SoAtlantic Ocean 9735 163 HR 2/4/0.5 100 Nauen SoEaAF, Indian Ocean, SoWeAF 9490 120 HR 4/4/0.8 100 Wertachtal Western Indian Ocean 9650 90 HR 4/4/0.8 125 Wertachtal Eastern Indian Ocean (BCDX Dec 16 via WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DXLD) ** GERMANY [non]. Deutsche Welle in English, 9800 at 0400z 19 Dec, 250 kW at 30 via Kigali. Usually good but degraded a bit by CRI splash from 9790 relayed via Havana (Jerry Lenamon, Waco, TX, Sony 7600 with whip, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 9420, Dec 16 at 0032, VOG has very good signal, and with a noise envelope peaking about 9426, not so much on the lo side 9414. I was trying to detect if India was on 9425; no way to tell. 7475 & 9420, UT Sun Dec 16 at 0552, Greek Ortho harmonious canting in // from ERT. 0600 split into R. Filia on 7475 in presumed Albanian, and 9420 into news in Greek. By 0608, GO music had resumed on 9420. Did the priests really pause for the news? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Winter B-12 of ERA-5 Voice of Greece / R Filia in different languages: 0600-0700 on 7475 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Mon-Fri Albanian 0600-0630 on 7475 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Sat/Sun Albanian 0630-0700 on 7475 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Sat/Sun Spanish 0700-0730 on 7475 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Sat/Sun German 0730-0745 on 7475 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Sat/Sun Russian 0745-0800 on 7475 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Sat/Sun Polish 0800-0830 on 7475 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Sat/Sun Bulgarian 0830-0900 on 7475 AVL 100 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Sat/Sun Serbian Programs in different languages are 5-7 minutes, during the rest time - music! 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Dec 16, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) But subject to variation! (gh, DXLD) ** GUAM. 9650, Dec 15 at 1357 VG signal in Russian with jazzy music, had not noticed before; and giving a .ru website or address but no ID caught. HFCC shows it`s AWR, KSDA at 1330-1400, 100 kW, 345 degrees from Agat, but plenty signal USward too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9650.023 Odd frequency of AWR Agat in Russian, scheduled at 1330-1358 UT, S=9 signal on remote unit in Russia, identification and all addresses as well as website addr given at 1358 UT, nice audio modulation (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 11 via DXLD) Upcoming frequency change of AWR/KSDA in Khmer from Jan. 1 1300-1330 NF 15675 SDA 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs, ex 17680 Daily 1300-1400 NF 15675 SDA 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs, ex 17680 Sun (Georgi Bancov & Ivo Ivanov, DX Re Mix News, Dec 19 via DXLD) ** GUATEMALA. 4055, Dec 14 at 0607 tune-in, TGAV, R. Verdad just in time for last minute of NA: modulation is rather distorted and with BFO, carrier is also slightly unstable. In dead air which follows from 0608, now the carrier is stable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUIANA FRENCH. 9490, Dec 16 at 0026, R. República is so strong that it`s splattering up to plus/minus 20 kHz, rather than the discrete spurs of before. Way over jamming too, but bad for EMR on 9480, CRI on 9470; see UNID and CHINA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 4850, AIR Kohima. Dec 17 late signing on; first noted at 1344 with news in Hindi, followed again in English; 1403-1404 off the air, but came back with show of pop songs till 1418*; usual Xinjiang PBS QRM. Kohima off the air Dec 18 and 19. 4990, AIR Itanagar, 1420-1425, Dec 19. Local news and weather in English; 1428*; almost fair (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 9425, Dec 17 at 1353, AIR ``banshee blob`` wanders across here from 9435 a minute earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Or maybe not; see UNIDENTIFIED ** INDONESIA. 3325, RRI Palangkaraya, 1418-1450 Dec 15. Assorted talks by M&W; several mentions of "berita" - maybe local announcements; 2 or 3 "Radio Republik Indonesia Palangkaraya" ID's; into indigenous "singing" at 1432 after some opening comments. Good S9+20 dB signal, actually topping my S-9 local noise level. Tuned out at 1450 as signal was weakening (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Drake R-8, 100- foot RW, dxingwithcumbre yg Dec 18 via DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 9525.893, Voice of Indonesia from Cimanggis, 14-15 UT in Indonesian, news at 1406 UT Dec 11, observed at S=9 in eastern Europe. But suffered by 50 Hertz BUZZ HUM either side. 9525.891, Voice of Indonesia from Cimanggis tx site noted broadcast Balinese Gamelan music at 1442 UT Dec 15, S=8-9 here in Germany. 9680.051, RRIndonesia 4th program in Indonesian language from Cimanggis at 1420 UT Dec 15, S=9+15dB signal strength. Hit co-channel by RTI Mandarin service + China mainland jamming (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 16 via DXLD) ** IRAN. Frequency changes of VOIRI/IRIB in Japanese from Dec. 9 1330-1427 NF 9585 SIR 500 kW / 060 deg to EaAs, ex 9785 1330-1427 NF 9665 KAM 500 kW / 060 deg to EaAs, ex 9540 2100-2157 NF 5990 SIR 500 kW / 060 deg to EaAs, ex 6145 // 7395 SIR (Georgi Bancov & Ivo Ivanov, DX Re Mix News, Dec 19 via DXLD) 5990, new frequency of IRIB Tehran in Japanese via Sirjan site 500 kW 60 degrees (ex 6145), noted also on backlobe signal in Germany with S=9+10dB strength. Morning service 21-22 UT Dec 13, now at 2130 UT HQ prayer. \\ 7395 Sirjan 500 kW 53 degrees. Also night service in Japan at 1330-1430 UT replaced KAM 9540 and SIR 9785 kHz, by new 9585 kHz SIR 500 kW 60 degr, and 9665 kHz 500 kW 60 degrees (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6165, Voice of the Islamic Rep. of Iran: 2116-2130:34*, 11-Dec; Sked in Albanian; M&W sounded like Italian, Portuguese & Afro-language at times. English VoIRI ID at 2130:03 into sung anthem & off abruptly. SIO=3+33 w/co-channel Chad (presumed) in French & buzz bursts (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) ** IRAN [non]. 13680, Dec 16 at 1429, open carrier; what will ensue? 1430 starts R. Farda. HFCC shows this is only a semi-hour transmission, from Lampertheim, GERMANY, 100 kW, 108 degrees, to be followed by a sesquihour via Wertachtal, 250 kW, 105 degrees. It so happens that IRIB itself also uses 13680 elsewhen, the 0400 sesquihour. 12005, Dec 16 at 1458 techno music, 1500 timesignal and fading. This too is R. Farda per HFCC, 0700-1530, 100 kW, 80 degrees from Lampertheim (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRELAND [non]. Mercoledì 12-12-12 - 1929 - 5820 kHz, WRN - Meyerton (Sud Africa), Inglese: 1929 - IDs R. Slovakia Int. e jingles WRN 1930 - RTÉ Dublin (notizie OM) Segnale buono (Luca Botto Fiora, G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) ** ISRAEL. [INTRUDER ALERT] am on 14000 is KOL Israel 14000, Army radio program Galei Zahal Israel was heard on 14 MHz for the first time on Sunday 16th approx. 11 UTC/z, heard that day also in Wolfsburg and Freising Munich Germany at same time slot. Not heard on December 18th at 1015 UT anymore. vy73 wolfy df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Back to 15850?? (gh) ** ISRAEL. Another frequency change for Kol Israel Persian from Dec 14 1500-1600 NF 11595 ISR 250 kW / 090 deg WeAs Fri/Sat, ex 13850 // 9985 1500-1630 NF 11595 ISR 250 kW / 090 deg WeAs Sun-Thu, ex 13850 // 9985 (Georgi Bancov & Ivo Ivanov, DX Re Mix News, Dec 19 via WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DXLD) 11595 weakly heard here, but at least not 5 kHz away from WWCR like the others. Listen for trumpet & drum KI IS before 1500 (gh) ** ITALY. 15000, Unidentified Time Signal Station, 0855-0906 and 1104- 16-12, classic music and male announcements in Italian 1104: "dodici e quattro, quattro secondi", "dodici e quattro, ... secondi", "dodici e quattro, ventinove secondi", "1112: "dodici, dodici e diciassette secondi", "dodici, dodici e trentuno secondi . Seems like Italcable on 10000 kHz but different because no identification at 00 and the beep seconds announcement are erratic, not at 00, 10, 20 seconds, but at 04 17, 31, seconds, etc. Good signal. 34333 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This IS Italcable (see 10 MHz). The owner has reported the activation of 15 MHz yesterday to http://www.mwlist.org Contact: info @ associazioneitalcable.it From their web page http://www.associazioneitalcable.it --- "Segnale Orario S.IP 15 E' attiva la stazione amatoriale e sperimentale della radio trasmittente sulla frequenza 15 MHz Modulazione d'Ampiezza, 24 ore su 24 il segnale orario Italiano, Locator: JN53DV." 73, (Günter Lorenz, ibid.) Come on, get off both frequencies and leave them to the scientifically accurate SFTS stations which already have enough interference among themselves (gh, WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Re 10 / 15 MHz Italian Pirate time signal, but both have an inaccuracy of amateurish minus 5 Hertz. The of at least 50 percent task must indeed lie in the standard frequency accuracy rate like US WWV, WWVH, or RMW 4996, 9996, or 14996 kHz down. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DX LISTENING DIGEST) What do you mean about 50 percent?? (gh) Re inaccuracy. At least half of the will must be - unequivocally - in the accuracy of the emission frequency. Which commands the honor of the radio hobby. The two inaccurate time signals are in German newsgroup mocked as fun radio only. {like frolic, spoof, joke ...} The daytime propagation signals from Italy also interfere to the very US/Hawaii WWV signals too, when need for alignment hardware gear. 73 wolfy (Büschel, WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I think they are operated by a radio amateur operator and he has a license from the regulation committee in Italy. I also have a QSL card from them. 73 (Georgi Bancov, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I think only a bad pirate station - I think (Roberto Scaglione, ibid.) ** ITALY [non]. ROMANIA Updated winter B-12 on NEXUS IRRS Shortwave: NEXUS-IBA/EGR/IPAR in English: 0900-1000 on 9510 SAF 150 kW / 290 deg to WeEu Sat 1030-1300 on 9510 SAF 150 kW / 290 deg to WeEu Sun 1900-2000 on 7290 SAF 150 kW / 290 deg to WeEu Fri/Sun 1900-2000 on 7290 SAF 150 kW / 290 deg to WeEu 2nd/4th Sat Radio Joystick in German: 1900-2000 on 7290 SAF 150 kW / 290 deg to WeEu 1st Sat Radio City in English: 1900-2000 on 7290 SAF 150 kW / 290 deg to WeEu 3rd Sat Universal Life (Radio Santec) in English: 1500-1530 on 15190 TIG 300 kW / 100 deg to SEAs Sun Brother Stair TOM in English: 2000-2100 on 7290 SAF 150 kW / 290 deg to WeEu Daily (Georgi Bancov & Ivo Ivanov, DX Re Mix News, Dec 19 via DXLD) Note most of these are via Saftica. WRTH 2013 says the single transmitter there is 100 kW, not 150. But these must be two different transmitters as the times overlap with full schedule of RRI under ROMANIA, e.g. at 2000 (Glenn Hauser, dxldyg via DXLD) ** JAPAN. Hi Everyone: Any help much appreciated. Listening on 3945 kHz this AM in the hope for Vanuatu, recorded this. The audio went off at 0800. A sight carrier did remain. Nikkei 2 also listed here but to go off sooner, and Vanuatu later. Perhaps propagation dropped at that time to seem as though off air. The recording is up to 0800 when disappeared. OM audio better after 1.05 on recording https://www.box.com/s/w82ftf1pgt58zublw3ro Thanks in advance (Mark Davies, Anglesey, Wales, Dec 14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Dear Mark, It's a closing announcement of Radio Nikkei 2. At 01:35 recording audio "...."....JOZ4 3.945 MHz kuchusen-denryoku 10kW, JOZ6 6.115 MHz, JOZ7 9.76 MHz kuchusendenryoku 50kW de ohkurishimashita" (S. Hasegawa, Japan, ibid.) Dear S. Hasegawa, thank you very much; this is a new one for me. The time I received it was different to my listing which show it goes off at 0605z. Perhaps the carrier which remained was Vanuatu. Thanks again (Mark Davies, Anglesey, ibid.) Although WRTH 2013 (page 251) has Nikkei 2 schedule for 3945 Mon-Thurs 2300-0605 UTC and Fri & Sat 2300-0900 UTC, the sign-off you heard on Thursday 13th does correspond with schedule on the station website for that date at: http://www.radionikkei.jp/timetable/sw2/2012-12-13.html which shows 0800-1700 local time i.e. 2300-0800 UT (the entry on the grid 1700-1800 local time is not for a programme but translates as "inactive broadcasting") Nice catch, Mark! 73 (Alan Pennington, BDXC- UK yg via DXLD) 9760, Dec 14 at 0628, poor signal, some classic Queen with ``Bicycle``, and more after 0630. Soon pegged as JOZ7, R. Nikkei-2, as it`s // weaker JOZ6, 6115 already audible, but not // Nikkei-1 on 9595, 6055. WRTH 2013 shows -2 closes at 0605, except Fri & Sat extended to 0800 on 9760, 0900 on 6115. Why is the Japanese stock market running a SW station that plays classic western rock? I guess it must be profitable, somehow. 6055, Dec 16 at 1414, R. Nikkei with Xmas medley including ``Greensleeves`` with orchestra and traditional instruments such as shakuhachi; poor signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [non]. 13725, Dec 14 at 1429, NHK IS, good signal, 1430 opening Persian but as always pronouncing ``NHK World`` as in English. It`s 500 kW, due east from Issoudun, FRANCE, and now marred by the new CODAR swisher which has further invaded the 22m SWBC band. 11880, Dec 16 at 2128, NHK IS, I think I can barely still detect under RHC French, as both are about to start Portuguese at 2130. I keep expecting NHK to move its GUIANA FRENCH relay frequency, as Arnie`s incompetent frequency management choices have proven to be non- negotiable in several other instances. But it takes an agonizingly long time for some victims to react (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KASHMIR. 4950, R. Kashmir, *0118 and 0207*, Dec 16. Usual format (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 6135, Dec 14 at 1356, Shiokaze at first seems Japanese, but then at 1357 my brain can lock into an English ID with heavy accent, as usual for Fridays. Has het on hi side, no doubt Madagascar off-frequency again by long path. Both still audible but both weaker by 1425 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 7390, 1948, UKRAINE, Belgian Radio good in Kurdish with comment – KAB 29/11 (Ken Baird, Christchurch, New Zealand, Kenwood R5000, R1000, 18m Wire, SW Eavesdropper, Dec NZ DX Times via DXLD) BRB ex-TDP that is, not anything officially Belgian. Site is uncertain (gh, DXLD) ** KURDISTAN [non]. CLANDESTINE, No program from Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish on Dec. 13: from 1600 on 7390 secret transmitter site WeAs, only strong carrier. 73! (Ivo Ivanov, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Today Dec. 14 zero signal from Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish: 0500-0550 on 11510 KCH 250 kW / 116 deg to WeAs, scheduled 0400-1600. 73! (Ivo Ivanov, DX LISTENING DIGEST) On Dec.14 Denge Kurdistan in Kurdish back on SW: from 0800 on 11510 KCH 250 kW / 116 deg to WeAs, scheduled 0400-1600 73! (Ivo Ivanov, ibid.) 11510, Dec 16 at 1424, Denge Kurdistan better than usual with wailing/plucking/droning music, and IADs; presumably via PRIDNESTROVYE. 12035 TURKEY was still on with IS at 1426, weaker than DK, but itself better than usual. 11510, Dec 17 at 1415-1450+, Denge Kurdistan via presumed PRIDNESTROVYE, nice continuous concert of mostly vocal Kurdish music. Latest HFCC still claims this is 300 kW, 129 degrees from SMF = Simferopol, Ukraine, from BRB (ex-TDP), but NOT to be construed only as ``Belgian Radio`` as per a log in NZ DX Times on 7390. For 11510, Aoki goes with 100 kW, 100 degrees from Kishinev-Grigoriopol, MDA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KYRGYZSTAN [and non]. "Western" language b'casts from Kirghizstan (from 9-Dec Aoki) 0000-0020 4795 KYRGYZ RADIO 1 12..... Kyrgyz/Russian 0000-0020 4795 KYRGYZ RADIO 1 ..34567 Kyrgyz/Russian/Eng 0115-0120 4010 KYRGYZ RADIO 1 .23456. English 0200-0220 4795 KYRGYZ RADIO 1 12..... Kyrgyz/Russian 0200-0220 4795 KYRGYZ RADIO 1 ..34567 Kyrgyz/Russian/Eng 0415-0420 4010 KYRGYZ RADIO 1 .23456. English 0430-0500 4010 KYRGYZ RADIO 1 .2..... Ukrainian 1100-1110 4795 KYRGYZ RADIO 1 1.34567 Russian 1300-1320 4795 KYRGYZ RADIO 1 .234567 Kyrgyz/German 1300-1330 4795 KYRGYZ RADIO 1 1...... German 1410-1420 4010 KYRGYZ RADIO 1 .23456. German 1420-1450 4010 KYRGYZ RADIO 1 ...4... Dutch 1600-1630 4795 KYRGYZ RADIO 1 1234567 Russian 2300-1900 4050 R. Rossii* 1234567 Russian *Listed //s via Russia: 5905 1530-2100 6195 2057-1700 5930 0100-2100, 1700-1300 6230 1900-1500 5940 1700-1300 7310 1230-1500 6010 1700-1300 7320 1700-1300 6085 2100-1700 9840 0400-0700 6160 0057-2100 12075 0730-1200 (via Harold Frodge, MI, Dec 17, DXLD) ** LIBYA. Radio Libia --- cierre abrupto de emisión en 11600 kHz a las 2059 en medio de una comunicación con un corresponsal; lo único que pude entender en la trasmisión que la estaba escuchando desde las 2030 UT es varias veces "Radio Libia`` y algunas veces ``Aljazzira`` (Ernesto Paulero, Argentina, Dec 15, condiglista yg via DXLD) Re DXLD 12-50 under ARGENTINA, my remark --- it`s not Eduardo Peralta who is having kidney surgery, but Ernesto Paulero. My apologies to both for confusing their similar names, and it`s to Ernesto that we wish a successful operation and recovery! (gh, DXLD) ** MALI. NORTHERN MALI RADIO STATION IN "SURVIVAL MODE" - Radio Netherlands Text of report in English by Radio Netherlands website on 17 December [Headline]: Northern Mali: A radio station in survival mode Journalism in northern Mali has become a high-risk job. Since radical Islamists took over the region, keeping the public informed has become extremely difficult and, at times, dangerous. But so far, Radio Hania, in the city of Gao, is staying on air. Amid equipment failure and political intimidation, station director Abdoul Kader Toure [sic thruout: really Touré?] and his three colleagues are struggling to do their job. In fact, one could say that Radio Hania is in survival mode. "Running a radio station here is a real nightmare," says Toure. The journalist, who in the 1990s celebrated the liberalization of Mali's media, must now cope with a lawless country. What's more, businesses are waning. NGOs, network operators, insurance companies and government officials they have all left. Radio Hania used to broadcast round the clock. Today it can only offer two to three hours of programming a day. And that's subject to the availability of electricity, which is supplied only between 6 PM and midnight. "Entertainment shows and music used to make up 80 per cent of our content. But with the prohibition of music broadcasts, that's no longer a possibility," says Toure, referring to the Shari'ah law implemented by the Islamists who took over. Now it's straight to essentials: the news. The line-up includes local news, followed by news from capital city Bamako and finally syndicated programming from Radio France International (RFI). Worse pressure Toure laments having had to watch his commercial revenues vaporize. "In the past, we used to air adverts for various companies based in Bamako. Network operators in the area, businesses, international NGOs and social services used to air their ads through our station," he explains. Yet, the station director faces a pressure that's even worse than broadcasting cutbacks or loss of revenue. "I am often taken to task by the Islamists," he says, recalling what happened to a fellow journalist a few months ago. According to Toure, the unfortunate man was severely battered for inviting people to protest against an amputation sentence passed by the Islamists. Next thing he knew, the man was evacuated to Bamako in critical condition. Despite the tense times, his sacrifice is acknowledged and appreciated by the local community. At every food parcel distribution, he and his colleagues get served. But one might guess Toure would persevere even without the acknowledgement. "Informing people is a calling. I do it on a non-profit basis," he says. Source: Radio Netherlands website, Hilversum, in English 0500 gmt 17 Dec 12 (via BBCM via DXLD) ** MEXICO. 720, Dec 14 at 1328 UT, a couple of federal PSAs, about safety and the laudable Cámara de Diputados, 1329 ``Regresamos: 7-20 Extremo`` a bit of `Mona Lisa` tune as theme? Then talk about Ixtapaluca (I think, or similar Aztec place). This is XEJCC in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, which WRTH 2013 shows as 1 kW fulltime, while Cantú still lists as 1,000 watts day, 1,0000 [sic] watts night. Anyhow it is dominant on frequency for the moment close to sunrise here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 730, Dec 17 at 0631 UT, ``La Ke Buena`` with full FM & AM IDs on the half-hour, mentions 25 kW, Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, time as 11:31, back to lively music. Not sure if the 25 kW referred to FM 107.1 or AM. But Cantú shows XHEHB on 107.1 with 25 kW; and on AM: 730 XEHB Ke buena + FM 107.1 Hidalgo del Parral, Chih. 50,000 1,000 and with their dominant signal, we strongly suspect a lot more than 1 kW at night. Yet new IRCA Mexican log shows only 1000/300 watts and schedule at 13-01 UT only, from former location San Francisco del Oro. What about WRTH 2013? 50/1 kW, H del P. Cantú shows zero radio stations in SF del Oro now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. HELP FOR MEXICALI --- Information from three independent sources received in the past week lead us to believe more than ever that the 940 kHz station in Mexicali, Baja North, Mexico, is indeed off frequency by about +173 Hz. The station is shown in the FCC's database as XEWV (1 kW day, 100 watts night, non-D) and is better known as XEMMM. The alleged off-frequency operation of XEMMM even appears on a published list of such anomalies, see the first URL below. We hope one of our engineering friends in Baja will verify the problem, contact XEMMM and lend a hand in cleaning up the situation. XEMMM's Website indicates it is an ABC Radio affiliate. http://www.myradiobase.de/mediumwave/mwoffset.txt http://tunein.com/radio/940-Oldies-s44051/ http://940oldies.com/ (CGC Communicator Dec 16 via Kevin Redding, ABDX via DXLD) ** MEXICO. 1040, Dec 17 at 0602 UT, ``Chihuahua, Chihuahua`` mentioned in WHO null, so safe to assume it`s the usual per Cantú: 1040 XEHES Romántica + FM 94.1 Chihuahua, Chih. 5,000 250 The new IRCA Mexican Log 2012 has arrived, so I will be comparing Cantú and WRTH info with it. For XEHES, IRCA shows: 5000 250 Radiorama Siglo 21, 24h irreg, ROM format, CIMA net, // 94.1 FM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 6184.986, Radio Educación Mexico City, talk in Spanish at 0423 UT Dec 13. Rather tiny poor signal here in Germany, after recent power reduction in mid 2012 (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 16 via DXLD) What power reduxion? From what to what? (gh, DXLD) ** MEXICO. Channel A2, NTSC, Dec 17 at 0155 UT, Spanish signal fades in from south after observing 6-meter sporadic-E openings on map across east-central USA with MUF estimated of 74 MHz. Large net-7 bug in upper right, perhaps the easiest Mexican one to identify, just the number 7 with high contrast; and heavy ghosting at times makes it look like 77, i.e. two distinct propagation paths arriving out of phase. 0207 ads, 0208 IFE PSA; 0214 another fade-up in a suspense/horror film, still with 7 bug UR, and finally one more glimpse at 0230. There are five full-power Azteca 7s on channel 2, three of them generally southward, but the prime suspect is always XHTAU in Tampico (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MONGOLIA. 12085, V of Mongolia --- Hi Everyone, Nice signal this AM, 1030z, V of Mongolia in English, YL opening now (Mark Davies, Anglesey, Wales, Dec 15, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MOROCCO. 9579.1, Dec 14 at 0626, at first seems Médi Un is not on the air, since the <1 kHz het we usually hear with Gabon or whatever on 9580 is missing. But with BFO I find the M1 carrier is still there, and it`s 9580 that is off the air (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MYANMAR. [Re 12-50: 5985.83, Myanmar Radio, 1539-1553, Dec 12.] email from Myanmar - Re: Myanmar Radio with VOA special English --- Received from nptradio.eng @ gmail.com : "Dear Ron Howard, Greeting from Myanmar Radio, English Department. I've received your mail and read with great interest and happy. I'd like to appreciate for your attention to our station. It is to be hoped that our radio programs including (VOA Special English Program) will be so arranged as to satisfy the various sections of our people. And we'll try our best for our dear listeners. I'd like to say again "Thanks a million" for your kind attention to us. Warm regards, Myanmar Radio, English Department." (via Ron Howard, CA, Dec 16, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5985.83, Myanmar Radio, 1537, Dec 19 (Wednesday). Start of “This is America in VOA Special English” with repeat of the same show I heard last Wednesday; VOA show was not heard yesterday, so probably only on Wed. 7110, Thazin Radio on Dec 19 from 1435 to 1441 in English with local and international news and local weather; Myanmar’s Vice President yesterday observed International Migrants Day; fair (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. From the KBC Forum dated way back Nov 16, 2012: http://www.kbcradio.eu/forumwp/?p=1641 December 2012: The Mighty KBC Blasting Out Of Your Tranny!! The extra frequencies and transmitters for 22, 23, 25 and 26 December are: EU (German time) UT +1 9835 kHz, 1500-1600 UT, Non Directional, 125 kW USA (East Coast time) UT -5 21600 kHz, 1500-1600 UT, 300 , 250 kW Asia (Vietnam time) UT +7 / Australia (Sydney time) UT +11 15470 kHz, 1500-1600 UT, 75 , 250 kW And on 22, 23 December we also have our 6095 transmitter on the air as well with 100 kW 0900–1600 UT. During weekdays we also have The Mighty 6095 on the air between 0900– 1100 UT with 100 kW. And on December 23 we also use 9450 kHz from Bulgaria beamed to the USA, Canada and South America between 0000–0200 with 100 kW (via gh, DXLD) Site for 21600, 15470, 9835, surely GERMANY, Wertachtal or Nauen The Mighty KBC, with digital tests on 9450: in this issue filed under transmitter site BULGARIA for a change (gh) ** NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR. Does anyone know what the signal of CKZN is? http://www.short-wave.info/?station=CKZN%20St.Johns They are only running 1,000 watts. Are they directional? I am just North of Boston, and don't have an easy time pulling them in during the day. I would think 1,000 watts must get them trampled at night (Lou Gawab, Dec 13, dxldyg via DXLD) I believe it's an omnidirectional antenna but they are a regional service. Their target is Labrador and they put a reliable signal into there. I get them fairly reliably from our late local afternoons until before our local sunrise in Central Ontario (Mark Coady, ODXA yg via DXLD) CKZN has a directional bearing of a couple of degrees west of north. I live about four kilometres east of the CKZN transmitter, just down over the lip of a hill. It is usually difficult for me to pick it up at night, but sometimes clearly in the day. I often go to a spot in Trinity Bay, about 75 km just west of north of it, and pick it up much better, fairly regularly in the day, and somewhat less so at night. At this minute (8 am local time in Nfld; 6:30 am EST), I am listening to it (from my home four km from the site) and it is fairly clearly coming across. It is weak and there's a kind of whistle het blowing like a polar signal over the top of it. It carries, by the way, the CBC Radio One signal, not from St. John's as often listed, but from Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador. This is because its historical coverage has been the Coast of Labrador (Philip Hiscock, Nfld., ibid.) Thanks for the responses on CKZN. Couple of more questions from someone who doesn't know the geography too well. 1.) CKZN broadcasts from St. John, Newfoundland? 2.) With the target of Labrador Newfoundland? (All of Labrador, or just Labrador City?) 3.) DO they QSL and does anyone have the address where they would acept QSL requests? Thanks! David (a.k.a. Lou Gawab, ibid.) Yes, the antennas are just on the northwest outskirts of St. John's. That's St. John's (not St John which is a different place in Canada). [and the latter, city in New Brunswick, is normally spelt out Saint John --- gh] Labrador City is actually quite a bit west of the target, which is right along the coast of Labrador. Do they QSL? That I do not know, but I imagine they would. Since the transmitter is operated by the technical staff of CBN St, John's, I'd suggest sending a report there: Radio Station CBN/CKZN, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, University Ave., St. John's NL Canada (Hiscock, ibid.) I received a QSL from them in 2010, so I know they do, or at least did. I posted to the following address and included return postage that was sent back unused: CBC Transmission + Distribution Dept., P.O. Box 12010 Station A, St. John's, NF A1B 3T8, Canada (Dave Pete, ibid.) I QSLed them via the same address last year. It took about 5 months for the card to arrive (Bruce Portzer, WA, ibid.) NEWFOUNDLAND. CKZN. Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Color Newfoundland & Labrador folder card. Back of the card includes the date, call sign, frequency, transmitter power and CBC Network. Verification signer is W. Ante?. Report sent by post to CKZN, Attn: Mr. Terry Brett, Box 1029 Station C, Goosebay, NL A0P 1C0, Canada. QSL received in about 3 months. Source: http://shortwavereport.com/swbc-qsl-cards/swbc-qsls/ 73, (Georgi Bancov, http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com ODXA yg via DXLD) The address posted is a good address. It is from my web site and it worked for me. CKZN can be heard here in the USA (Great Lakes Region). In fact I was listening to them last night a little after 2200. The CBC News is usually heard at the ToH at 2200 (Steve Handler, ibid.) CKZN is co-located with CBN St. John's but it relays CFBG-FM Happy Valley/Goose Bay and carries local Labrador programs in addition to regional and national CBC programs. Tune in around 0945 UT for "Labrador Morning" which is their local breakfast show (Mark Coady, ibid.) You mean: CFGB (gh, DXLD) I have this as a successful QSL address: CKZN / CBC Box 1029 Station C, Happy Valley - Goosebay, NL A0P 1C0, Canada Attn: Engineering (Bruce Jensen, California, USA dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) When writing to them now, be sure to tell them to put their transmitter back on 6160.0! (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) 6160.784 CKZN, St. Johns, NF 6159.979 CKZU Vancouver (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 13/16, via DXLD) So het should be 159 Hz (gh, DXLD) The CKZN array is at ' 47 34 10n 52 48 52w ', a few miles south-west of the St John's airport, adjacent to CBN 640. Bing Bird's eye has a better image than Google Earth. The four masts are clearly visible but not the antenna wire. I'm not familiar enough with the tools on Bing to calculate an exact azimuth but the masts seem to confirm Aoki's listing of 323 degrees which puts the beam along the mainland coast. Aoki lists the power at 300 watts (but they show an incorrect longitude). Considering the low power and the reduced power away from the beam it's surprising that CKZN is so regular here in the lower 48. JL (Jerry Lenamon, Waco TX, Dec 17, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Not just the lower 48. They are well heard on the west coast of Canada. I've just returned from the Cook Islands, and the het there was very loud. My little portable didn't have the selectivity to separate the signals, though. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, ibid.) ** NEW ZEALAND. 17675, Dec 14 at 2145, RNZI with poor signal is the OSOB; after 2200 some Up Over signals come on, 17705 RHC, WYFR 17575. Guess what: current schedule shows: 2051-0458 15720 AM 17675 DRM Pacific Daily So 17675 was supposed to be in DRM but I certainly was hearing it in AM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NICARAGUA. NICARÁGUA (presumed), 8989, O Bom Pastor, 2330-..., 15/12, castelhano, propag. relig.; 35343, sinal em BLS. QRM pontual da emissora VOLMET de Judá, Arábia Saudita. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. Pirates: 15020A, Mustang Radio, 12-16-12, 1314- 1320+. Just at the noise floor here in inland USA. Have him as an S5 on the Syracuse Remote playing Radio GAGA, 1314 ID and shout out the Olddxer, 1317 playing Michael Jackson's "Thriller" 1320 signal has improved somewhat here in Columbus using the RX340 to squeeze eveyrthing out of it that I can. 15040A/15840A, BlueStar Radio, 12-16-12, 1352. 25333, Have him on a pretty clear frequency, a steady signal on a somewhat cooperative noise floor. 15840 is much better than the previous freq. of 15040. 15650A/21460A, Cupid Radio, 12-16-12, 1429-1446. 35333, Fair signal just above the noise floor here. ~1440 moved to 21460, then off at 1446 to go to a birthday party. 21460 was the better of the two frequencies (Mike Rohde, Hilliard OH, NASWA Flashsheet Dec 16 via DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. Hey everyone, Pirate Radio Casablanca with strong signal over Montreal at 2225 UT on 6940 AM mode with old time music. I'll post a video on youtube later on about it. 73! (Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, Quebec, Dec 16, http://www.youtube.com/officialswlchannel dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Brilliant programing as usual from Radio Casablanca. Really strong signal all over US. http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,9174.0.html (Dave Hughes, 2313 UT, ibid.) 6939.7-AM, Dec 16 at 2238 a pirate signal is here, 2240 ID as Radio Casablanca, e-mail; playing old WWII tunes at the same time as `Marion`s Attic` on WBCQ 7490, but no BBCCCI here. Bits sound like old-time radio, then song about the Maginot Line; 2245 ``Animal Crackers`` by Shirley Temple; 2248 ``Three Little Fishies``; 2250 flash from United Press: Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; 2251 another Radio Casablanca ID, FDR`s ``day which will live in infamy`` address to Congress; 2259 ID and ``Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition``; 2304 ``Remember Pearl Harbor``; 2307 ID email as radiocasablanca1@gmail.com and 2313 ``Bugle Boy``; 2316 ID & e-mail; 2318 ``I`ll Be Seeing You``; 2328 ID and e-mail again, dramatic bit; 2345 still on but at next check 2355 it`s off. Nothing about Casablanca or Morocco heard other than the name. Sufficient signal of S9+12, and making C# above middle C het with 6940 reference = 278 Hz, so about 6939.72 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DIGEST) I did not see any of the other reports about it until later (gh) Hearing what sounds like 40s music on 6939.75 kHz at 2350 but it's quite weak. SINPO 25222 in Seattle (Bruce Portzer, Dec 16, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGSET) ** NORTH AMERICA. Re: ``UNIDENTIFIED. 6955.3-AM, Dec 16 at 2239, a much weaker pirate is here at same time as R. Casablanca on 6939.7; see NORTH AMERICA. Only thing copied here was at 2246 ``My Favorite Things`` maybe Sinatra; off by 2259 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` DXLD yg member Gilles Letourneau was listening at the same time Dec 16 and IDed it: ``another pirate with fair signal in Montreal, WMPR on 6955 kHz AM mode, 2235 UT with Xmas music`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. Received a full data card (#763) from Undercover Radio for the April 1, 2012 broadcast on 15070. Signed by Dr. Benway. First arrived an electronic version, followed a few days later by the hard copy. Very pleased with this one, but the same goes for all pirate stations as so very few make it all the way to Johannesburg (Vashek Korinek, Free Radio Weekly Dec 15 via Joe Talbot, AB, DXLD) 15 MHz Pirate heard and QSLed from South Africa!!! When will NA and Euro Pirates get the message, 40 m (6 MHz ) is NOT the way to go!!!! (Joe Talbot, Alberta, ibid.) Unless they are more interested in close- in North American coverage (gh) ** OKLAHOMA. Request to extend existing STAs was filed by: WKY-930 Oklahoma City OK (U1 5000/1000 due to antenna problems) (AM Switch, NRC DX News Dec 3 via DXLD) Special temporary authorization from FCC. i.e., currently non- direxional day and night and reducing power at night. Instead of: 5 kW day and night, directional N/S at night. This may explain why I can rather easily null it and pull in some other stations. So not looking forward to resumption of 5 kW direxional toward Enid at night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1240, 15.11 0800, KOKL Okmulgee OK OJS/K 1420, 14.11 0700, KTJS Hobart OK. “You are listening to Great Plains Country 1420 - KTJS Hobart" mens WOC-IA var stille i noen sekunder. OJS/K 1430, 15.11 0800, KTBZ Tulsa OK. Massivt signal med ”KTBZ Tulsa” og ”Sports Radio 1430 Buzz!”. ”Very impressive recording” var meldingen fra CE som svarte på rapporten min. OJS/K Odd-Jørgen Sagdahl 26.11.2012: Da er det tid for et nytt Eko. Det ble noen fine dager i midten av november med den 15. som beste hittil. Stasjoner fra sørlige sentrale USA er alltid velkommen ;-) Vedlagt et par eksempler på hyggelige signaler. http://www.thomasn.sverige.net/ARC/2012-11-15_08.00_1430_KTBZ_Tulsa_OK.mp3 (ARC mv eko 29 Nov via DXLD) OJS: Hundhamaren is a small village just a few miles north of Trondheim. He does not DX from that location but from Kongsfjord located near Vardö and from Smöla, an island west of Trondheim, NORWAY (Thomas Nilsson, ARC mv eko editor, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1340, KJMU, OK, Sand Springs – Notified FCC that it resumed operation 11/27 (having been silent since 11/29/2011). (NRC DX News Dec 10 via DXLD) 1340, KJMU, OK, Sand Springs – Applies for another silent STA; silent 12/2 (after resuming operations only on 11/27) due to loss of transmitter site; has applied for a CP to move to a new permanent site (AM Switch, NRC DX News Dec 17 via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. 1520, KOKC, OK, Oklahoma City – Granted STA for antenna pattern out of tolerance due to tower accident – tower was being painted prior to station sale, and a bucket of paint fell and broke through the roof of the antenna coupler building, damaging the RF feed line. I hate it when that happens, hi! (AM Switch, NRC DX News Dec 17 via DXLD) I wonder just how it is out of tolerance?? Has plenty of QRM from KOLM Rochester MN (I think), out of tolerance too (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. 1640, KFXY, OK, Enid – 12/8 1959 [EST] – Poor to good with Southern Gospel music, legal ID including slogan “Faith 1640” into SRN news at ToH. Needed call change dating back to 3/2005, ex- KFNY. This has indeed been a rare one over the years, with my close proximity to WKSH (58 miles). Now, however, the Double Kaz nulls WKSH down to near nothing at night, making hearing this station much easier (Bill Dvorak, Madison, WI, Drake R8B, Double Kaz bearing 280 degrees, NRC DX News Dec 24 via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. Local paper has yet to mention the 89.5 MHz singing Xmas trees, which I have already seen set up again, but in the daytime before the show began, but has mentioned the other thing which I have also not yet been out to see and hear this year (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: Home features Christmas lights synced to music --- Enid residents can watch Christmas lights flash in sync to music at 5701 Pheasant Run. The display is on every weeknight 5:30-10 p.m. and every weekend 5:30- 11 p.m. [UT -6] Viewers are invited to tune their radios to 99.9 FM to watch [sic] the holiday display. The show encompasses 10 songs, or about 35 minutes (Enid Eagle Dec 14 via WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DXLD) Not that anyone elsewhere could hear these, but a reminder to look around your city for similar temporary FM transmitters (gh, ibid.) ** OKLAHOMA. 93.1, Dec 15 at 2035 UT, sucking-straw sounds originating with totally out of order translator K226BR Enid are also heard at somewhat open spots on the dial as far away as 95.3 and 87.9. 92.1, Dec 15 at 2035 UT, KAMG-LP Enid is on the air and modulating at the moment, gospel rock in Spanish, but rather distorted. 94.1, Dec 15 at 2035 UT, KLGB-LP Enid with gospel rock in English. I was tuning by on the DX-398 with headphones, so couldn`t help but notice that it`s in stereo but on right channel only. BTW, any resemblance to anything gay is surely coincidental, tho I don`t know what the call letters were intended to signify (hmm, Keep Lauding God`s Boy?) 96.1, Dec 15 at 2035 UT, KXXY OKC is playing Xmas music; could this mean a format change in the offing? Or at least current format, whatever it be, is not strong enough to override seasonal temptation, especially with that X-y call (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. FCC Actions: OK, Alva, 105.7, CP, KRDR (Dec WTFDA VHF-UHF Digest via DXLD) Which means that KROU Spencer/OKC on 105.7 will soon be blocked worse than it is already in Enid by that 105.5 translator which I can`t get KGOU HQ to object to; I also urged OU to apply for the 105.7 Alva frequency while they had a chance (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. FCC has granted dozens of new digital LPTVs [including] OK Enid: 36, 42, 48 (Nov WTFDA VHF UHF Digest via DXLD) ** OMAN. 15560, Dec 14 at 1434, YL with news in English, poor signal, presumed R. Sultanate of Oman; het on the lo side, not sure if V. of Tibet on a split frequency or from a local device (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. CHASQUI DX PFA – DICIEMBRE 2012 --- CQ, CQ, CQ, Aquí Pedro F. Arrunátegui para compartir algo con los que disfrutan y aman el DX latinoamericano, todas las horas son UT. Desde la tierra de los incas, les informo mediante este Quipus lo siguiente: 1019.98, R. Bambamarca, Bambamarca, Cajamarca, 12/12 0520-0550, 33333, mxf huayno, Amor Serrano, ID “Con la frecuencia que nos caracteriza, Radio Bambamarca, solicite la música que desee al 962906046”, mxf, ID “Frecuencia Lider, lo nuestro es primero``. NOTA: llamé al teléfono que indican y logre comunicarme con ellos. 1139.98, R. Chami, Otuzco, La Libertad, 3/12 0350-0420, 33333, mx, ID “Radio Chami señal de la Libertad”, mx chicha tropical andina, mxf huayno, ID “En Chami radio, 11 de la noche y 16 minutos” 3329.50, R. Ondas del Huallaga, Huánuco, 17/12 1105-1135, 33333, mxf huayno, ID “Desde Huánuco Ondas del Huallaga con noticias locales, deportivas y música”, ads panetones Celis, les desea Celis [Feliz?] navidad” 4747.05, R. Huanta 2000, Huanta, Ayacucho, 17/12 1140-1220, 44444, mxf huaynos, ID “6 de la mañana y 41 minutos en Radio Huanta 2000”, news, ID”, Muy buenos días, amigos de Radio Huanta 2000” ads SPA Susy, mejora su imagen. Artesanía Huanta, lo mejor en carpintería, muebles de todo tipo” 4789.87, R. Visión, Chiclayo, 7/12 1135-1215, 33333, px religioso, ID “Por la cadena de Radio Visión”, mx himnos religiosos, px La Voz de la Salvación, mx, ID “Radio Visión 4790 kHz desde Chiclayo para el Perú y el Mundo”, mx 4810.00, R, Logos, Chazuta, Tarapoto, 6/12 1110-1145, 33333, mxf con temas religiosos en forma continua, programa en dialecto de la selva, ID ``Por Radio Logos, 4810 kHz.” 4824.48, R. La Voz de la Selva, Iquitos, 30/11 10:55-11:2 [sic], 3333, pasan el ángelus, ID. "R. La Voz de la Selva, es una estación de la Iglesia Católica del Perú``, px El Informativo news. Mejor los escucho en LSB. TAMBIÉN: 5/12 1140-1145, 33333, ID “Muy buenos amigos de la Voz de la Selva”, mejor los escucho en LSB. 4939.98, R. San Antonio, Villa Atalaya, Ucayali, 5/12 23:2-00:03 [sic], 44444, px religioso sobre la problemática de la iglesia Católica. NOTA: no dan el ID, luego tocan música en forma continua, dan la hora sin indicar ID a las 23:57 sin aviso alguno suspenden la señal, espere hasta la 00:03 y no salió nuevamente, supongo que sin aviso previo efectuaron el s/off. NOTA: muy buena señal por momentos llegan bien fuerte (4 +++) [WORLD OF RADIO 1648 this item only] 4954.98, R. Cultural Amauta, Huanta, Ayacucho, 2/12 1250-1310, 44444, px grabado con personas con acento centroamericano (cuidado, tener presente) sobre temas religiosos. No dan ID. 5039.15, R. Libertad, Junín, 6/12 1208-1245, 44444 (señal muy buena 4++) ads, TS ID “7 y 10 de la mañana en Radio Libertad” px El Noticiero Libertad, tratan sobre el turismo en la zona. 5120.00, R. Ondas del Sur Oriente, Quillabamba, 4/12 2345-0025, 44444, mx romántica LA por Isabel Pantoja y de Manuel Otero, ads En Hora Buena por Jorge Henderson // con Radio Felicidad de Lima 900 kHz. NOTA: al termino del px ellos recién dan el ID “Radio Sur Oriente”. (Estación con fuerte señal, por momento llega casi a 5) ads Consejo Provincial de la Convención, participemos de la limpieza de la ciudad. Marca la diferencia con motos Yamaha, somos diferentes, px Noticiero informando sobre las fuertes lluvias que se están presentando en la zona. 6173.90, R. Tawuantisuyo, Cusco, 10/12 1115-1203, 44444, px El Informativo, news sobre el aniversario de la batalla de Ayacucho, Slogan “Radio Tawantisuyo la voz de la expresión andina, transmite desde Cusco, Perú”, mxf. La recepción la he efectuado del 26/11al 17/12 en compañía de mi sabueso Icom IC R72 acompañado del Mizuho KX-3, una grabadora Alesis Palm Track, una antena de hilo largo de 20 metros y una antena loop Muchos 128´s PFA (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4774, R. Tarma, Dec. 15. Despite persistent zipper CODAR, surprisingly good between bursts beginning at 1005 tune-in with lively songs and occasional talk in Spanish; IDs at 1017 and 1021. Now if I just knew the guy with his hand on the CODAR switch! (Jim Ronda, Tulsa OK, NRD-545, R-75 + two PAR EF-SWL slopers, NASWA Flashsheet Dec 16 via DXLD) ** PERU. 4775, R. Tarma, Tarma, 1014-1031 Dec 11 SS; M announcer with talk & indigenous music; ID in passing; good in ECCS-USB. (Barbour-NH) 4789.9, R. Visión, Chiclayo, 1044-1055 Dec 12 SS; M preaching to congregation; W announcer with occasional commentary of sorts; bit of music followed by M announcer at 1055; fair-poor in ECCS-LSB and rapidly fade/out. (Barbour-NH) 5039.22, R. Libertad Junín, 1033-1037 Dec 11 SS; Music at tune/in; ID over music at 1035; M announcer with talk; poor in ECCS-USB (Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale, N.H. USA, NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4789.90, Radio Visión, Chiclayo, 12/14 really blasting in, one of strongest Andes signals this morning on 60 meters. OM at 1055: “Las 5 de la mañana y 55 minutos en la cadena radial de Radio Visión. . .” and gave frequencies, including onda corta “cuatro mil…”. Then charming rendition of hymns by local choir of young men, off-pitch, with guitar accompaniment (Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Illinois, Drake R8B; Japan Radio NRD-545; Eton E1; Hallicrafters SX100, Dentron Super Tuner + Ameco PLF-2 + Palomar P-408 +Quantum Phaser antenna unit (customized for tropical bands), 335-foot bidirectional BOG 150 deg/330 deg for LA/SE Asia, DX Engineering RPA-1 preamp, Phased Longwire + Small Loop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 6173.90-.94v, Radio Tawantinsuyo, Cusco, tnx to Don Jensen tip that this one again coming through. Signal noted 1020-1047 on 12/14, fair but wobbling frequency, drifting between 6173.90-.94. Clear, but just barely, of the big Asian QRM on 6175. Sports recap program with taped segments and studio announcer in Spanish. Needs ECSS, narrow bandpass and notch for het. Mentions of “la Victoria . . . Los Andes . . .” at 1039, studio announcer mentioned “. . . les indicamos la hora de Perú, las 5 de la mañana, las cinco y 39 minutos . . .” Very difficult reception; am hoping for a better morning soon! (Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Illinois, Drake R8B; Japan Radio NRD-545; Eton E1; Hallicrafters SX100, Dentron Super Tuner + Ameco PLF-2 + Palomar P-408 +Quantum Phaser antenna unit (customized for tropical bands), 335-foot bidirectional BOG 150 deg/330 deg for LA/SE Asia, DX Engineering RPA-1 preamp, Phased Longwire + Small Loop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. 9400, FEBC Iba, 1152-1206 Dec 12 Chinese; W announcer with talk; talk over music from 1156, sounded like contact info; ID at ToH into M announcer; ad at 1202 into W announcer; good; booming signal (Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale, N.H. USA, NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. 9581.766, Odd whistle signal heard around 0550 to 0555 UT Dec 13, noted on remote units in Australia and Japan. Probably PBS DZFM Radio ng Bayam, or DZRM Radyo Magasin FM in Filipino language, from older VoA tx site near Marulas, Quezon City (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 16 via DXLD) ** ROMANIA. 15735, RRI, 1534-1558* sign off. Female speaking in Romanian? then at 1538 male presenter then music. At 1539 heard ID and mention of Bucharest. At 1558 full ID and web site info and then into RRI interval signal. Good signal. 12/15/12. Although RRI uses this frequency for Russian until 1500 GMT there is nothing on the HFCC schedule for this time slot. Any comments? (Steve Handler, Buffalo Grove IL, Icom IC-7200, Tecsun PL-660, wire antennas, NASWA Flashsheet Dec 16 via DXLD) Updated winter B-12 schedule, Radio Romania International: Arabic 0730-0756 on 15155 GAL 300 kW / 245 deg to NoAf 0730-0756 on 15330 TIG 300 kW / 142 deg to N/ME 0730-0756 on 17500 GAL 300 kW / 245 deg to NoAf 0730-0756 on 17810 TIG 300 kW / 142 deg to N/ME 1500-1556 on 9655 GAL 300 kW / 140 deg to N/ME 1500-1556 on 11620 GAL 300 kW / 140 deg to N/ME 1500-1556 on 15280 TIG 300 kW / 247 deg to NoAf 1500-1556 on 17540 TIG 300 kW / 247 deg to NoAf Aromanian 1530-1556 on 6060 SAF 100 kW / 210 deg to SEEu 1730-1756 on 5960 SAF 100 kW / 210 deg to SEEu 1930-1956 on 7345 SAF 100 kW / 210 deg to SEEu Chinese 0500-0526 on 17870 TIG 300 kW / 067 deg to EaAs DRM 0500-0526 on 21500 TIG 300 kW / 067 deg to EaAs 1400-1426 on 9725 TIG 300 kW / 067 deg to EaAs 1400-1426 on 11825 TIG 300 kW / 067 deg to EaAs English 0100-0156 on 6145 GAL 300 kW / 310 deg to NEAm 0100-0156 on 7325 GAL 300 kW / 310 deg to NEAm 0400-0456 on 6130 GAL 300 kW / 320 deg to NWAm 0400-0456 on 7305 TIG 300 kW / 337 deg to NWAm 0400-0456 on 15220 GAL 300 kW / 100 deg to SoAs 0400-0456 on 17870 TIG 300 kW / 097 deg to SoAs 0630-0656 on 7310 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to WeEu 0630-0656 on 9600 GAL 300 kW / 300 deg to WeEu DRM 0630-0656 on 17780 GAL 300 kW / 100 deg to SEAs 0630-0656 on 21600 TIG 300 kW / 097 deg to SEAs 1200-1256 on 15460 GAL 300 kW / 307 deg to WeEu 1200-1256 on 17530 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to WeEu 1200-1256 on 17765 GAL 300 kW / 165 deg to EaAf 1200-1256 on 21570 TIG 300 kW / 157 deg to EaAf 1800-1856 on 7300 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to WeEu 1800-1856 on 9780 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to WeEu DRM 2130-2156 on 6030 GAL 300 kW / 300 deg to WeEu DRM 2130-2156 on 7310 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to NoAm 2130-2156 on 7380 GAL 300 kW / 300 deg to WeEu 2130-2156 on 9435 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to NoAm 2300-2356 on 6015 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu 2300-2356 on 7220 GAL 300 kW / 290 deg to WeEu 2300-2356 on 9530 TIG 300 kW / 052 deg to EaAs 2300-2356 on 11810 TIG 300 kW / 052 deg to EaAs French 0200-0256 on 5975 GAL 300 kW / 310 deg to NoAm 0200-0256 on 7325 GAL 300 kW / 310 deg to NoAm 0600-0626 on 9650 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu DRM 0600-0626 on 9690 TIG 300 kW / 217 deg to WeAf 0600-0626 on 11740 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu 0600-0626 on 11790 TIG 300 kW / 217 deg to WeAf 1100-1156 on 15150 TIG 300 kW / 292 deg to WeEu 1100-1156 on 15255 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu 1100-1156 on 17820 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu 1100-1156 on 17870 TIG 300 kW / 247 deg to NoAf 1700-1756 on 9690 TIG 300 kW / 292 deg to WeEu 1700-1756 on 11635 TIG 300 kW / 292 deg to WeEu 2100-2126 on 6030 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu 2100-2126 on 7370 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu DRM German 0700-0726 on 9450 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to WeEu DRM 0700-0726 on 11810 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to WeEu 1300-1356 on 9810 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to WeEu 1300-1356 on 11700 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to WeEu 1900-1956 on 6010 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to WeEu 1900-1956 on 9805 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to WeEu DRM Italian 1500-1526 on 7390 SAF 100 kW / 270 deg to SoEu 1700-1726 on 7415 SAF 100 kW / 270 deg to SoEu 1900-1926 on 7345 SAF 100 kW / 270 deg to SoEu DRM Romanian 0100-0156 on 5910 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to NoAm 0100-0156 on 7340 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to NoAm 0200-0256 on 5910 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to NoAm 0200-0256 on 7340 TIG 300 kW / 307 deg to NoAm 0500-0556 on 6145 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu 0500-0556 on 7220 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu 0800-0856 on 15370 TIG 300 kW / 142 deg to N/ME Sun Curierul romanesc 0800-0856 on 15430 GAL 300 kW / 110 deg to WeAs Sun Curierul romanesc 0800-0856 on 17850 GAL 300 kW / 110 deg to WeAs Sun Curierul romanesc 0800-0856 on 17860 TIG 300 kW / 142 deg to N/ME Sun Curierul romanesc 0900-0956 on 15380 GAL 300 kW / 175 deg to EaAf Sun Curierul romanesc 0900-0956 on 15430 TIG 300 kW / 142 deg to N/ME Sun Curierul romanesc 0900-0956 on 17745 GAL 300 kW / 175 deg to EaAf Sun Curierul romanesc 0900-0956 on 17775 TIG 300 kW / 142 deg to N/ME Sun Curierul romanesc 1000-1056 on 15260 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Sun Curierul romanesc 1000-1056 on 17780 TIG 300 kW / 247 deg to NoAf Sun Curierul romanesc 1000-1056 on 17870 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Sun Curierul romanesc 1000-1056 on 21500 TIG 300 kW / 247 deg to NoAf Sun Curierul romanesc 1300-1356 on 7420 SAF 100 kW / 300 deg to WeEu 1300-1356 on 11870 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu 1300-1356 on 15170 GAL 300 kW / 290 deg to WeEu 1400-1456 on 11870 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu 1400-1456 on 15170 GAL 300 kW / 290 deg to WeEu 1600-1656 on 9655 GAL 300 kW / 290 deg to WeEu 1600-1656 on 11870 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu 1700-1756 on 5995 GAL 300 kW / 140 deg to N/ME 1700-1756 on 7325 GAL 300 kW / 140 deg to N/ME 1800-1856 on 5990 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu 1800-1856 on 7350 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu 1900-1956 on 5990 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu 1900-1956 on 7430 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu 2000-2056 on 5990 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu 2000-2056 on 7380 GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to WeEu Russian 0530-0556 on 6175 TIG 300 kW / 037 deg to EaEu DRM 0530-0556 on 7210 TIG 300 kW / 037 deg to EaEu 1430-1456 on 11690 TIG 300 kW / 052 deg to CeAs 1430-1456 on 15735 TIG 300 kW / 052 deg to CeAs 1600-1656 on 7300 TIG 300 kW / 037 deg to EaEu DRM 1600-1656 on 9810 TIG 300 kW / 037 deg to EaEu Serbian 1630-1656 on 6030 SAF 100 kW / 270 deg to SEEu 1830-1856 on 6030 SAF 100 kW / 270 deg to SEEu 2030-2056 on 7425 SAF 100 kW / 270 deg to SEEu Spanish 0000-0056 on 7315 GAL 300 kW / 280 deg to SoAm 0000-0056 on 9525 GAL 300 kW / 280 deg to SoAm 0000-0056 on 13590 TIG 300 kW / 247 deg to SoAm 0000-0056 on 15110 TIG 300 kW / 247 deg to SoAm 0300-0356 on 9765 GAL 300 kW / 310 deg to CeAm 0300-0356 on 9870 TIG 300 kW / 247 deg to SoAm 0300-0356 on 11825 TIG 300 kW / 247 deg to SoAm 0300-0356 on 11850 GAL 300 kW / 310 deg to CeAm 2000-2056 on 6010 TIG 300 kW / 277 deg to SoEu 2000-2056 on 9895 TIG 300 kW / 277 deg to SoEu 2200-2256 on 9790 TIG 300 kW / 247 deg to SoAm 2200-2256 on 11870 TIG 300 kW / 247 deg to SoAm Ukrainian 1600-1626 on 5960 SAF 100 kW / 030 deg to EaEu 1800-1826 on 6090 SAF 100 kW / 030 deg to EaEu 2000-2026 on 6170 SAF 100 kW / 030 deg to EaEu (Georgi Bancov & Ivo Ivanov, DX Re Mix News, Dec 19 via DXLD) Note that many of these are shown as SAFtica site now rather than the two main sites TIG and GAL. WRTH 2013 page 471 shows TIG but when asterisked really means Saftica (Glenn Hauser, dxldyg via DXLD) See also ITALY [non] Frequency changes of Radio Romania International, Spanish: 0000-0056 NF 9460 TIG 300 kW / 247 deg to SoAm, ex 13590 0000-0056 NF 11955 TIG 300 kW / 247 deg to SoAm, ex 15110 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Hard-Core-DX mailing list Dec 19 via DXLD) [and non]. 9810, Dec 17 at 1355, RRI closing German hour with IDs, IS, but heavy CCCCCCI, as CNR Chinese, 150 kW, 155 degrees from Nanning site is also here per HFCC; any problem in Europe? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTEING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Although Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy is listed in WRTH on 5930 kHz for a Summer period only, this morning I heard 2 transmitters with Radio Rossii (respective regional programs) on this frequency. At 0550 there were two different programs, one from Murmansk/Monchegorsk, the other was Petropavlovsk with its own program of a different R.R. edition (?). The Murmansk signal was in // 5940 Magadan. At 0600 there was Radio Rossii news with a slight echo on 5930 (so both TXs were carrying this news). There was nothing heard on 6010 kHz (Petropavlovsk winter frequency). So it seems Petropavlovsk-K. uses this frequency also in winter? (Karel Honzik, CZECHIA, Dec 14, Hard- Core-DX mailing list, via DXLD) Did you mean Pet-Kam was // 5940 Magadan? They are in same or close timezones and I`ve always found that the case when I hear both (gh, DXLD) 5930 0100 2100 19 MUR 50 339 902 RUS RRS GFC 5930 1245 1530 41 IRK 250 224 218 RUS TWR GFC 5930 1700 1300 35 P.K 100 30 218 RUS RRS GFC #218 AHR(S)4/4/1.0 shows 4 dipols horizontal + 4 dipols vertical rows Requested 6010 kHz on the Paris conference in August, but changed the request to 5930 kHz on September 26. ... and summer data A-12 5930 1700 1300 25,26,35 P.K 100 15 158 RUS RRS GFC #158 AHR(S)2/4/1.0 shows 2 dipols horizontal row 73 wolfy df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) ** RUSSIA. Lunedì 10 dicembre 2012, 0815 - 5930 R. ROSSII Murmansk // 7230 Yakutsk. SF-IN. Mercoledì 12-12-12, 0801 - 5930 kHz, R. ROSSII - Murmansk + Petropavlovsk, Annunci e notizie YL. Segnali buoni-sufficienti. Petropavlovsk in sottofondo con un leggero ritardo (Luca Botto Fiora, G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) 5930, Dec 18 at 1258.5, WWCR has just gone off 5935, so I listen to the last sesquiminute of R. Rossii via Pet/Kam, some music, closing ID, but no timesignal finale as we used to hear --- and no CW from 8GAL or 2MTL like we also used to hear on 6074 when this was on 6075, now abandoned. At 1301 I also check 6075 area and hear no CW. However, E Asian reception is poor today, even the multiple Chinese outlets weaker than normal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Chita 7205, Dec. 10 at 0950, heard classical music show at fair level. ID at 0959 was for Voice of Russia WS in EG, announcing MB use to Asia, Au/NZ; then hourly opening at 1000 with ID in English, then news. Aoki has this as 09-12 and 13-14 English, 12-13 Vietnamese, at 250 kW, 200 degrees from Chita. Also heard test tones before 1000 on 7260 when VOR opens in English; after 1000 had open carrier or was barely audible. Site for this frequency is Vladivostok, 500 kW, 230 degrees. Rx used was long- running Sony 2010 with whip (Joe Hanlon, NJ, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RWANDA. 6055, Radio Rwanda, 0232, Dec 16. Surprised to find them on so early (Dec 12 observed *0306); 0232-0255 with non-stop pop songs in English (Marvin Gaye, et al.); after 0300 the usual slow tempo African music and songs till 0332; IDs for “Radio Rwanda” (often with echo effect); 0414 long item about their “Prosperity Expo” being held now; several English sound bites, otherwise all in either French or vernacular; after 0400 almost fair till 0418 tune out. Indeed this is now heard regularly on WCNA. https://www.box.com/s/9e4x6pdheqrijjgbl4ns contains an MP3 recording of ID and item about “Prosperity Expo” (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6055, Radio Rwanda. Thanks to Dan Sheedy (southern Calif.) and John Wilkins (Colorado) who confirmed to me they also are having good reception of Rwanda; heard from about 0235 to 0350 the last few days. Goodbye Spain, hello Rwanda! (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Dec 19, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAINT HELENA. Robert Kipp says that Radio Saint Helena will be closing down after a final broadcast (and we hope webcast, but not SW), December 25 at 1800-2400* --- ``The new St. Helena Broadcasting (Guarantee) Corporation , Ltd. (SHBC) (Darrin Henry (CEO)) has promised to make a live-audio-stream of the "Last Day" broadcast from Radio St. Helena, and Ralph Peters, the RSH Station Manager, has put together a special program with many interesting audio clips with greetings from people around the world.`` SHBC`s own replacement stations may not be on the air until January (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAINT KITTS. 555, ZIZ, I can confirm that ZIZ St. Kitts is back on 555 kHz after having been off the air on this frequency for several months. Power is 5 kW and the transmitter is on the air 0600-2400 LT which is the same as 1000-0400 UT (Stig Hartvig Nielsen via mwcircle 29.11.2012 via ARC mv-eko 10 Dec via WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DXLD) ** SARAWAK [non]. Following item dated 18 Dec refers vaguely to deliberate interference preventing reception at some times. Have legitimate DX listeners noted any such? Palau site was probably off the air for two or three days due to Typhoon Bopha (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ON SOME DAYS CERTAIN DISTRICTS HAVE COMPLAINED THAT THERE HAS BEEN NO RECEPTION AT ALL OF THE PROGRAMME. Written by Sarawak Report “Downloads of our daily podcasts have more than tripled over the past few months, both onto laptops and also mobile devices, indicating that people are starting to listen to the show in their cars, but we are pretty convinced that the real core listenership for Radio Free Sarawak are the longhouse folk”, comments the station’s chief web manager. The show has suffered these disruptions since the middle of November, prompting fears of deliberate interference in many quarters. The major concern has been that the station might have been taken off air following a barrage of criticism from politicians and even some of BN’s top ministers in the state. Out of mobile phone range, but the Penan blockaders at the Murum Dam site were able to hear what was going on by listening to the daily RFS show. There have been a number of nearby storms and atmospheric disturbances that could have caused some of the difficulties. However, there have been separate reports of intrusion by nearby broadcasters into the station’s SW 15420 kHz waveband, including Indian and Chinese speaking stations that should not be venturing into the Radio Free Sarawak frequency. Poisoning minds? Fears of deliberate government interference are not groundless on the other hand. BN YBs in particular have been raising complaints about the show and in some cases going so far as to ask the regulatory authorities to jam broadcasts. Clearly, such figures are concerned that they are finding it difficult to answer the various criticisms of the state government’s record over the last 50 years with regard to the well being of rural people. The show broadcasts daily reports from local communities describing their problems and the litany of broken promises experienced at the hands of BN. Newsreader – veteran Radio Presenter Christina Suntai has joined the RFS team Most serious are the growing concerns about native land grabs and the planned displacement of tens of thousands of people as a result of SCORE. These are all issues that are suppressed by the rest of the broadcast media, which is licensed and tightly regulated by the government itself. But, whereas the authorities may not like this new voice for the people and freedom of discussion the listeners clearly feel otherwise. “We are so fearful they have stopped our favourite programme” explained one caller last week. “to miss Radio Free Sarawak feels like losing a member of our family” Other callers have expressed that the show has helped them understand for the first time that their community has not been alone in its problems, which are in fact facing traditional villages across the state. “Radio Free Sarawak has helped us to understand what is going on. We are being cheated of our wealth”, commented another. “We need to keep listening to these alternative opinions to what the government has always been telling us” Service resumed --- for now The good news is that from Sunday the show has again been available state wide in its usual slot from 6-8 pm with good reception. One caller, Kassim ak Aji from Bukit Begunan (in Sri Aman parliamentary seat) called last night to inform that at last reception was clear: ”He is really happy. He said his whole longhouse was so miserable for the past few days where there was either no reception at all or there were serious interruption” said the RFS staff member taking the call. “Another caller from Batang Lupar said inhabitants of his 41-door longhouse of Kg Putat, Batang Lupar missed the radio programme deeply and were unusually quiet when they could not hear RFS”. However, the station remains vigilant, given the open hostility of a government that seems unwilling or unable to tolerate even 2 hours of free speech even on community radio each day. Longhouse communities have started gathering to listen from 6-8 pm. The producers have received information that the relevant federal authorities have now been approached to attempt a nationwide jamming of the show during the imminently expected general election campaign. Politicians are believed to be canvassing what ‘electronic counter- measures’ might be available to them. One major problem Malaysia has to take into account, when considering any disruption of RFS’s radio frequencies, is that such action would be highly illegal under international law. The station has been allocated a frequency and to interfere would be a violation of the International Telecomunications Union Charter which regulates all radio frequencies globally. Perhaps a wiser approach by BN would be to learn to accept what the rest of the democratic world has to put up with on a daily basis, which is that healthy criticism makes for healthier government. SOURCE: http://www.malaysia-chronicle.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=45345:lawless-bn-disrupting-radio-free-sarawak-shows&Itemid=2 Website: http://radiofreesarawak.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/radiofreesarawak Twitter: https://twitter.com/radiosarawak (Via Yimber Gaviria, Colombia, twitter.com/Nxdelaradio Dec 18, DXLD) ** SARAWAK [non]. [17815, R. Free Kenyalang test:] Log of remote Brisbane Australia Perseus receiving post: At present since tune-in at 13 UT - in progress strong signal in peaks up to S=9+5dB fluttery from Tiganesti Romania site, in - I guess Malaysian Iban, Malay pop music of the 60ties/70ties, after that "SWB" mentioned, also Iban Association. From 1313 UT Dec 13 phone-in program about Vice President, Radio Free Kenyalang in Iban mentioned. 1313-1323 UT phone-in program by female, and male vice president in radio studio. At same time slot some different broadcaster noted in 16 mb, mostly EGY, UAE, ARS, IRN are much most powerful stations at this night slot in target. GUM, MDG, RRW and CHN jammer were weaker: 17550 IRN Ar 17605 GUM AWR 17615 17625 17705 ARS Riyadh Ar 17650 IRN Ar 17670 MDG AWR Vietnamese 17680 GUM AWR 17715 IRN Malay 17735 UAE YFR 17790 CHN Firedrake against BBC Uighur 17800 RRW Kigali 17870 EGY Cairo 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 13 via DXLD) 17815, Friday Dec 14 at 1316, 1359, 1436 chex, no signal today from R. Free Kenyalang via Romania, following yesterday`s seemingly successful test by IRRS. We await some definite schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Nor on Dec 15 or 16 (gh) It seems that WRN was chosen over IRRS by Radio Free Kenyalang after testing both, but not via a previous frequency or time. It will start on Dec 17, daily 0900-1000 on 15360, 100 kW, 270 degrees from PALAU. I expect this will be unlikely to be heard in North America (Glenn Hauser, Dec 16, WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Free Kenyalang started now on 15360 kHz via T8WH at 0900 UT. Fair conditions and slight QSB. Add: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ia5JSaezv4&feature=youtu.be by DFS in Shimane-pref (S. Hasegawa, Dec 17, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Probably PALAU, 15360, Noted floor dance music of the 60ties / 70ties at remote Nagoya SDR unit on Dec 18th at 0950 to 1000 UT. S=9+10dB signal level, weaker in Europe, but heard on S=7 level on Mauno's unit in Finland too. Sharp TX OFF cut at 1000:03 UT. 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Free Kenyalang is relayed in T8WH WHR-Angel 4. Angel 4, QSY to 15420 kHz from 1000 and relays Raduo Free Sarawak http://www.leseanet.com/stations/dsp_home.cfm (S. Hasegawa, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DX LISTENING DIGEST) That webpage has streaming linx for each WHR transmitter (or non) (gh) MALAYSIA (non), New time and frequency for Radio Free Kenyalang [as first reported by DXLD]: 0900-1000 NF 15360 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs Iban from Dec. 17 via T8WH -- according IBB RMS. Strong signal in Jakarta, Manila, Singapore History of changes: 1200-1400 15650 TAC 100 kW / 132 deg to SEAs Iban Dec 1-Dec 4 via WRN 1300-1500 17815 TIG 300 kW / 100 deg to SEAs Iban test Dec 13 via IRRS (Georgi Bancov & Ivo Ivanov, DX Re Mix News, Dec 19 via DXLD) 15360, Radio Free Kenyalang via Palau. On new frequency, very good signal 0915, tuned into to indigenous music, phone-in 0917 which included ID. All in Iban on 19/12 (Craig Seager, Bathurst NSW, Racal RA-6790/GM, Loop Skywire, ARDXC via WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DXLD) ** SARAWAK [non]. MALAYSIA. 6050.0, Salam FM via RTM, via Kajang, 1500, Dec 17. Fair with 1+1 pips, Salam FM jingle; choral National Anthem (Negaraku – Lagu Kebangsaan Malaysia); Islamic programming till 1503*. Dec 18 had 1508*, leaving Tibet in the clear (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) MALAYSIA. 9835, RTM, 1529 7 Dec with nice songs, S9 max (one of the best receptions). At 1758 there were two QRMers from RFI/Russian and Overcomer Ministry of S10 and S20 respectively, thoroughly diminishing RTM (Zacharias Liangas, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9835, MALAYSIA, RTM Sarawak FM, Kajang, 1104-1125 Dec 12; W announcer in listed Malay with (Presumed) news; brief ID over music at 1107 and back to news; talk over music at 1111 followed by pop ballads and W announcer between selections; ad/announcement at 1125; fair at tune/in; faded to unusable by tune/out (Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale, N.H. USA, NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SERBIA [non]. /BOSNIA, 6190 International Radio Serbia via Bijeljina Bosnia site, in English heard with powerful signal at 0200- 0230 UT Dec 16, meant scheduled Sundays only!, see full schedule below. S=9+35dB signal in all over western Europe remote SDR posts. WRTH p474 mentions the Tue-Sat portion only. Program contained touristic report of Serbia, new skiing, climbing, fishing, hiking facilities in Serbian mountain resorts. From 0228 to 0230 UT interval signal signature heard on various instruments, like guitar, xylophone, piano til off at 0230:06 UT. BEO - Stubline Serbia; BIJ - Bijeljina Bosnia (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 16 via DXLD) Viz, to NAm: Winter B-12 schedule of International Radio Serbia 0100-0130 6190 BIJ 250 kW 310 deg to NoAM Serbian Mon-Sat 0100-0200 6190 BIJ 250 kW 310 deg to NoAM Serbian Sun 0130-0200 6190 BIJ 250 kW 310 deg to NoAM English Mon-Sat 0200-0230 6190 BIJ 250 kW 310 deg to NoAM Serbian Mon-Sat 0200-0230 6190 BIJ 250 kW 310 deg to NoAM English Sun (DX Re Mix News, Bulgaria, ibid.) ** SOMALIA [non]. UNIDENTIFIED. Hi Glenn, I was listening to a broadcast in what I thought was Arabic with chanting from shortly after 1900 to 1929 sign off today [Dec 16] on 11615 kHz. HFCC shows this as a broadcast brokered by Babcock in Somali with an unidentified broadcaster. Any idea who the broadcaster was and whether it was Arabic as it sounded or Somali has listed in HFCC? (Steve Handler, IL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Steve, I searched my e-mail and consequently DXLD and found nothing recently to explain this. I do see that EiBi has it in his list as an unknown station, 1830-1930 via Woofferton. Nothing in WRTH 2013 either under target broadcasts to Somalia, Ethiopia, or even Eritrea. On a hunch I also checked out the schedule for IBRA Radio (WRTH 2013, under Sweden). They do have an Arabic broadcast at 1900-1930 daily via Woofferton on 9535. Should check whether that is // (or moved). Something for further monitoring (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) answer follows: 11615, Dec 17 at 1918, HOA music, poor signal. Checking this out following inquiry from Steve Handler yesterday, as HFCC shows only: ``11615 1830 1930 48E,48SW WOF 300 122 0 216 1234567 171112 310313 D 13650 Somali G BAB BAB 18238`` Note since 17 November, but whose Somali service? EiBi says it`s an unknown station. Wolfgang Büschel has the answer: R. Damal, replacing 11970, and ``Radio Damal, The Voice of the Somali People. WRTH 2013 p507: produced in the studios of KBC in Kenya. Financed through Peoples Republic China government funds``. Now as of Dec 18, Aoki has just added the correct ID as R. Damal (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, So it's Radio Damal in Somali brokered by Babcock? I want to try to QSL them directly. I have QSLed them via Babcock before but never direct. I have plenty of details from yesterdays reception. The 2012 WRTH has a postal address in Kenya as well as email addresses. Have you every seen any reports of success direct? (Steve Handler, IL, ibid.) Not that I recall, but don`t follow QSL details closely (gh, DXLD) U.K./UAE, Frequency changes of Radio Damal, Voice of the Somali People: 1830-1930 NF 11615 WOF 250 kW / 128 deg to EaAf Somali, ex 11740 1930-2130 NF 11955 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Somali, ex 11970 0400-0700 on 15700 DHA 250 kW / 205 deg to EaAf Somali unchanged (Georgi Bancov & Ivo Ivanov, DX Re Mix News, Dec 19 via WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DXLD) ** SOMALILAND. QSL: 7120, Radio Hargeisa. Full data studio card plus a second ham QSL card with a group photo featuring Minister of Post & Telecommunications, Baldur Drobnica, H. E. President Dahir Rayale Kahin, and DL1QW. This for a Postal Report with a MP3 CD, $2 postage. Reply in 18 days. v/s: Baldur Drobnica, Consultant. Address used was Zedernweg 6, D-50127 Bergheim, Germany. Thanks to tip from Jerry Berg (Edward Kusalik, Alberta, Canada, Dec 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Proxy 7120, Totally bad overmodulated program from Hargeisa Somaliland, 0425 till 0428 UT Dec 13. Read S=9+20dB signal strength here in southern Germany (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 16 via DXLD) 7120, Dec 14 at 1353, HOA music at S9+18, good signal for R. Hargeisa considering it`s long-path; first checked a semihour earlier and found only JBA carrier, so went to MW DXing in the interim. It had really built up in the meantime. 1359 announcement, 1400 more music, 1401 announcement, 1402 anthem starts with 4 notes down, 4 notes up, and both again, before body of tune includes drumming until 1403 OC, off at 1403.5*. Was stronger than Myanmar 7110, but subject to constant CW QRhaM, mainly on the hi side from an automatically keyed N0 station. 7120, Dec 16 at 1340, soul music, poor signal but any signal is still welcome from R. Hargaysa, long path. 7120, Dec 18 at 1506, JBA carrier and traces of modulation with usual CW QRhaM, presumed R. Hargeisa; had not much from it before 1400 so checked now after usual 1500 resumption. 7120, Dec 19 at 1358, R. Hargeisa playing anthem with fanfare, drumming, poor signal, CW QRhaM, and off by 1400* -- same as heard a minute or two later on previous dates (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH AFRICA. 15480, Dec 16 until 2101* BaBcoCk music loop; more slipshod operation by SENTECH, as this had been the two-hour Arabic broadcast of AWR via Meyerton, 250 kW, 19 degrees, but per HFCC you would not know that BaBcoCk is involved (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. SITE? Brother Stair heard (lamenting lack of people attending his services) on 5900 at 2000 UT on 18 Dec. Not shown in AOKI, EiBi or HFCC. http://www.overcomerminsity.org shows 5900 on air from 2000-2300 daily. Anyone know the site? I'm thinking perhaps Bulgaria (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Probably replaces 9700, which I was just hearing a day or two ago, at 19-22 from Bulgaria. I see that is not on the Overcomer homepage while 5900 is now (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Turned on the radio shortly before 2200 while he tried to sing on a music bed from CD, too baffling to get tape rolling until this interlude was over. So yes, 5900 is still on beyond 2200. I also think that it originates from Secretsite, the town that was until recently named after the Stalinist Kostin (Kai Ludwig, ibid.) New time and new frequencies of Brother Stair TOM in English: 1700-2000 NF 9625 ERV 300 kW / 090 deg to N/ME, ex 1500-1800 on 11900 2000-2300 NF 5900 SOF 100 kW / 306 deg to WeEu, ex 1900-2200 on 9700 2100-2400 NF 9905 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm, ex 2000-2300 on 9990 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Hard-Core-DX mailing list Dec 19 via DXLD) ** SPAIN [non]. 5965, Dec 16 at 0553, dead air from REE via COSTA RICA. This one frequency normally runs until 0800 for insomniax in South America. It would be more productive to maintain at least one frequency via CR for those awake in North America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Updated winter B-12 of REE with some corrections of azimuth: Arabic 1700-1900 on 21610 NOB 250 kW / 110 deg to NEAf 1900-2100 on 7265 NOB 250 kW / 170 deg to NWAf Mon-Fri 2000-2200 on 7265 NOB 250 kW / 170 deg to NWAf Sat/Sun English 0000-0100 on 6055 NOB 250 kW / 290 deg to NoAm back on SW from Dec 4 1900-2000 on 9605 NOB 250 kW / 168 deg to NWAf Mon-Fri [1900-2000 9665 to Europe M-F also confirmed as in DXLD 12-50 --- gh] 2200-2300 on 6125 NOB 250 kW / 038 deg to WeEu Sat/Sun SW back Dec 4 French 1900-2000 on 9590 NOB 250 kW / 168 deg to CeAf Sat 1900-2000 on 12030 NOB 250 kW / 110 deg to NEAf Sun 2000-2100 on 9570 NOB 250 kW / 168 deg to NEAf Mon-Fri 2000-2100 on 9605 NOB 250 kW / 110 deg to NEAf Mon-Fri [2300-2400 on 6055 to NAm also reconfirmed here since Dec 3 --- gh] Portuguese 2100-2200 on 11680 NOB 250 kW / 230 deg to SoAm Mon-Fri Russian 1700-1730 on 11755 NOB 250 kW / 038 deg to EaEu Mon-Fri Sefardi 1425-1455 on 15385 NOB 250 kW / 092 deg to N/ME Mon 0115-0145 on 11780 NOB 250 kW / 248 deg to SoAm Tue 0415-0445 on 9690 NOB 250 kW / 290 deg to CeAm Tue Spanish 0000-0100 on 11815 CRI 100 kW / 110 deg to SoAm DRM 0000-0200 on 9630 CRI 100 kW / 340 deg to NoAm DRM 0000-0400 on 9765 CRI 100 kW / 110 deg to SoAm 0000-0400 on 9620 NOB 250 kW / 230 deg to SoAm 0000-0500 on 6125 NOB 250 kW / 242 deg to SoAm 0000-0500 on 9535 NOB 250 kW / 272 deg to CeAm 0200-0600 on 3350 CRI 100 kW / 000 deg to SoAm 0400-0800 on 5965 CRI 100 kW / 150 deg to SoAm 0500-0700 on 11895 NOB 100 kW / 098 deg to N/ME 0500-0900 on 9780 NOB 050 kW / 050 deg to WeEu DRM 0900-1500 on 21540 NOB 250 kW / 161 deg to WCAf 1100-1300 on 13720 NOB 250 kW / 000 deg to WeEu DRM 1100-1700 on 21610 NOB 250 kW / 110 deg to NEAf 1200-1400 on 11910 BEI 500 kW / 138 deg to SEAs 1200-1500 on 9765 CRI 100 kW / 000 deg to CeAm Mon-Fri 1200-1500 on 11815 CRI 100 kW / 110 deg to SoAm Mon-Fri 1200-2300 on 9765 CRI 100 kW / 000 deg to CeAm Sun 1200-2300 on 15125 CRI 100 kW / 110 deg to SoAm Sun 1300-1500 on 17595 NOB 250 kW / 248 deg to SoAm Mon-Fri [I hear no trace of the 13-15 17595 M-F broadcast. Are some of these others still missing too?? --- gh] 1500-1700 on 15385 NOB 250 kW / 161 deg to WCAf Mon-Sat 1500-1700 on 17595 NOB 250 kW / 248 deg to SoAm Sat/Sun 1500-1900 on 17715 NOB 250 kW / 230 deg to SoAm Mon-Fri 1500-2200 on 17755 NOB 250 kW / 161 deg to WCAf Sun 1600-2300 on 9765 CRI 100 kW / 000 deg to CeAm Sat 1600-2300 on 15125 CRI 100 kW / 110 deg to SoAm Sat 1700-1900 on 17715 NOB 250 kW / 230 deg to SoAm Sat/Sun 1700-1900 on 17755 NOB 250 kW / 161 deg to WCAf Mon-Fri 1700-2200 on 17755 NOB 250 kW / 161 deg to WCAf Sat 1800-2000 on 9765 CRI 100 kW / 000 deg to CeAm Mon-Fri 1800-2000 on 15125 CRI 100 kW / 110 deg to SoAm Mon-Fri 1900-2300 on 11940 NOB 250 kW / 242 deg to SoAm Sat/Sun 2200-2300 on 7265 NOB 250 kW / 170 deg to NWAf 2200-2300 on 11625 NOB 250 kW / 161 deg to WCAf Sat/Sun 2300-2400 on 6125 NOB 250 kW / 242 deg to SoAm 2300-2400 on 9535 NOB 250 kW / 272 deg to CeAm 2300-2400 on 9620 NOB 250 kW / 230 deg to SoAm (Georgi Bancov & Ivo Ivanov, DX Re Mix News, Dec 19 via DXLD) ** SRI LANKA. 6004.787, Weak 10 kW power signal - probably - from SLBC Colombo Ekala site, in English at 0202 UT Dec 16. Only tiny signal S=4-5 just on threshold level. Hit heavily by TRT Turkish from Emirler on adjacent 6000 kHz at 01-03 UT, and weak RHC program underneath. 7189.791, Male talk in - probably - Hindi language of SLBC Colombo Ekala site, scheduled 0200-0230 UT, S=6-7 signal in Germany. 9770.204, This channel had the best signal of three Ekala broadcasts, heard this night. Enjoyable very British Empire slow fox music program at 0220-0226 UT Dec 16. S=8 fair signal here in Stuttgart Germany (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 16 via DXLD) ** SRI LANKA. 7460, R. Aap ki Duniyaa-VOA [sic] – Iranawila, Dec. 10, fair-good at 0113 with talk in Urdu by man and woman presenters; short music bridges between items; short VOA ID at 0115 and return to talk (Jim Ronda, Tulsa OK, NRD-545, R-75 + two PAR EF-SWL slopers, NASWA Flashsheet Dec 16 via WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DXLD) 7460, Radio Ap Ki Dunyaa [sic] – Iranawila, 0129, 12/14/12, in Urdu. Woman and man announcers with long section. QRM from VoA (Greenville) S/on 7465. Fair until VoA s/on (Mark Taylor, Madison WI, Microtelecom Perseus, WinRadio g313e, Eton e1, Grunding G5 & Satellit 800; EWE, Flextenna, 40 meters dipole, NASWA Flashsheet Dec 16 via WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DXLD) I hear that some high winds damaged the curtain antennas at Iranawila, so there may be some substitute transmissions instead of those listed. (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN. 9505, Dec 14 at 0623, Sudanese music similar to Horn-of- Africa, from V. of Sudan, fair signal; has QRM from weak SSB slightly off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWEDEN. SAQ transmission on Christmas Eve Dec 24, 2012 A message from Lars Kalland Sunday, 16 December 2012, 9:26: There will be a transmission with the Alexanderson 200 kW alternator on VLF 17.2 kHz from Grimeton Radio/SAQ on Christmas Eve, Monday, December 24th, 2012. The message transmission will take place at 0800 UT. The transmitter will be tuned up from around 0730 UT. There will be no activity on amateur radio frequencies with the call SK6SAQ this time. QSL-reports are kindly received: - E-mail to: info@alexander.n.se - or fax to: +46-340-674195 - or via: SM bureau - or direct by mail to: Alexander - Grimeton Veteranradios Vaenner, Radiostationen, Grimeton 72 S-432 98 GRIMETON S W E D E N Also read our web site: http://www.alexander.n.se/ Yours, Lars Kalland, SM6NM (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DXLD) ** TAIWAN. 9624.915, R Taiwan International in Vietnamese service via Tainan site noted at S=9+5dB level at 1427 UT Dec 15, Vietnamese lady singer, scheduled 14-15 UT. No VTN jamming heard on this channel (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 16 via DXLD) This used to het CBCNQ which was also off-frequency (gh, DXLD) ** TRISTAN DA CUNHA AND GOUGH ISLANDS, ZD9. Gerard, ZS1KX is QRV as ZD9KX from Gough Island, IOTA AF-030, until October 2013. He is active on the specific frequencies of 14175, 18145, 18155 and 21210 KHz. This may soon include being active on 7078 kHz. QSL via ZS6KX (QST de W1AW, DX Bulletin 51 ARLD051, From ARRL Headquarters, Newington CT December 13, 2012, To all radio amateurs, via Dave Raycroft, ODXA yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DXLD) I might mention more ham radio if it included specific frequencies, and this one does (gh) ** TURKEY. Via Ydun's Mediumwave Info comes a report from Mustafa Cankurt (or should it be Çankurt?) --- As a seeming by-product of the war in Syria, TRT has used the Çukurova Mersin transmitter on 630 (300 kW) to broadcast in Arabic 1800-2000 UT. At 36 49 29.53N 34 44 28.67E there are 4 masts. The obvious azimuth would be 75 / 275 which would miss most of Syria. An alternative of 165 would actually run nicely into Western Syria. Bearing in mind that the masts are otherwise only used during daylight, are TRT changing array patterns during the evenings? There is also the possibility that a significant target for the broadcasts would be the thousands of Syrian refugees who have moved to Southern Turkey. 73's and 88's (Dan Goldfarb, Dec 18, mwmasts yg via DXLD) Thanks Mustafa and Dan for the news. ITU requested direction for Ankara 1 program was 255 degrees westwards in 1999year. This bearing can also be confirmed easily by Lineal Spacer optional feature in G.E. Low 630 kHz mediumwave will cover refugee camps and Aleppo/Homs areas too. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) ** U K. [Re 12-50]. Re: Rampisham [England] 4 Sale --- Update on this message, The RMP site has been sold by Babcock International to a company who plan to install a solar farm on the site. There are a few of the ex-RMP staff still on the site during the transition period and they will be moving out shortly to accommodation in the nearby town. (Dave G4OYX Porter, Dec 16, shortwavesites yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DXLD) Thanks Dave, Do you have any knowledge of where the SW transmitters are going? Regards (Ian Baxter, NSW, ibid.) Hi Ian, They have all been scrapped. We have had some pickings for spares for the MCSL 300 kW senders at WOF. Some other bits, mainly control system parts have been sent abroad to the other ex-BBC stations. I guess that the same fate as RMP will befall BEMRS when that shuts [CYPRUS]. 73 Regards, (Dave Porter, WORLD OF RADIO 1648, ibid.) ** U K [and non]. CYPRUS/U.K., 7325 Bad two path signal echo of BBC London in Arabic, used on combined service via Zygi-CYP and Woofferton-UK at same time slot 04-06 UT; underneath co-channel CRI Kashgar in Russian (Wolfgang Büschel, Dec 13, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 16 via DXLD) BBC WS, 9460 at 0300-0400z 19 Dec, 250 kW at 280 via Seychelles. Most nights this is very listenable. Occasional co-channel interference from Turkey (Jerry Lenamon, Waco, TX, Sony 7600 with whip, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. BBG LAUNCHES RUSSIA REVIEW, RECOGNIZES JOURNALISTS AND DEPARTING SENIOR MANAGERS, ADOPTS NEW TRAVEL GUIDELINES December 16, 2012 Washington, D.C. - During its final meeting of 2012, the Broadcasting Board of Governors launched an extensive review of its efforts in Russia, recognized BBG journalists and senior managers for extraordinary service and adopted new travel guidelines. After a day-long meeting of its Strategy & Budget Committee that examined agency strategy in Russia and Iran and included the views of outside experts on human rights, the Board discussed next steps. It commissioned a six-month review of the situation in Russia to be led by IBB Deputy Director Jeffrey Trimble. Board members also made plans to travel to Russia in early 2013 to meet with officials and civil society and to explore distribution options for programming by Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. . . [more] http://www.bbg.gov/press-release/bbg-to-hold-final-2012-meeting-dec-14/ (BBG PR via Dr Hansjoerg Biener, DXLD) ** U S A [non]. Frequency changes of IBB: Voice of America 0330-0400 9485 SMG 250 kW / 146 deg to EaAf, ex 11990 Somali 1730-1800 9755 BOT 100 kW / 010 deg to EaAf, ex 13625 AfarOromo M-F 1800-1900 9755 WER 250 kW / 135 deg to EaAf, ex 13625 Amharic 1900-1930 9755 SMG 250 kW / 139 deg to EaAf, ex 13625 Tigrigna M-F 2100-2130 9695 WOF 300 kW / 182 deg to CeAf, ex 9435 French Mon-Fri Radio Free Asia 1400-1500 15310 TIN 250 kW / 267 deg to SEAs, ex 9400 Vietnamese Radio Liberty 1500-1600 9480*BIB 100 kW / 063 deg to EaEu, ex 15130 Russian * strong co-channel Voice of Russia in Serbian (Georgi Bancov & Ivo Ivanov, DX Re Mix News, Dec 19 via DXLD) ** U S A. 15580, BOTSWANA, VOA-Moepeng Hill, Dec. 15, very good at 2000 with “Music Time in Africa”, perhaps the most interesting program currently on the VOA; a real education in new African music (Jim Ronda, Tulsa OK, NRD-545, R-75 + two PAR EF-SWL slopers, NASWA Flashsheet Dec 16 via DXLD) Agreed, except this hour only on 15580 is via Greenville instead, good for us centrists, not so good for those too close to GB (gh, DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. World of Radio via HLR on 7265 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yURmqzXR7jw 73! Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1-minute sample, at 0652 UT Dec 1, sufficient, apparently as received in Bulgaria (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) Dear Glenn, That's video is from our DX Camp (Nov 30-Dec 2) with my friend and DX-er Georgi Bancov in village Patreshko, near city Troyan in Bulgaria. More videos on swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com section VIDEO and DXPeditions. Next DX Camp will be on Dec 21-26, 2012. 73! (Ivo Ivanov, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thanks, Ivo. Glad to know it`s coming in that well (Glenn, ibid.) A chuckle for you --- 9479, WTWW Lebanon TN; 2201-2231+, 13-Dec; Glenn Hauser's World of Radio #1647; sed there's a new Brasilian on 5015 (not listed in the WRTVH), Rádio Brasil Tropical, relaying Radio Cultura AM, from Cuiabá, Mato Grosso. (I checked at 2334 and no hint of a carrier). WOR till 2330 into WTWW spot -- announcer said I had just heard another "timeless truth" from Pastor Pete Peters -- sure sounded like Glenn Hauser to me. 2230+ into English Biblical Antiquities program. S35 peaks (Harold Frodge, MI, Dec 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Ha, I have noticed same things other weeks; seems the cutaway from the automated SFAW programming is timed just right to pick this up (gh) 5110v-CUSB, UT Sat Dec 15 at 0231 instead of WORLD OF RADIO, Area 51 on WBCQ starts playing a Ravi Shankar concert. Larry Will tells me he promised to play this tribute to the late sitar master on a request, inserted after AWWW, so WOR 1647 did not start until 0255, confirmed. Next: Sat 1600, 1830, Sun 0900, 1630, Mon 0530, Tue 1200 on WRMI 9955. The Sat 1830 airing axually comes from WRN, also via SiriusXM 120. Also: Sat 1630 on HLR 6190 (but reported blocked by China in Europe) Also: UT Sun 0500 on WTWW 5830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO 1647 monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday December 16 at 0500 on WTWW-1, 5830. VG signal this week, no fading down like last week. Next: on WRMI 9955, Sun 1630, Mon 0530, Tue 1200. BTW, during `Studio DX` in Italian, at 0550 UT Dec 16, WRMI had quite a good signal and no jamming audible. We can only hope for the same 24 hours later. WORLD OF RADIO 1648: ready for first airing UT Thursday 0430 on WRMI 9955; repeats are Sat 0900, 1600, 1830, Sun 0900, 1630, Mon 0530, Tue 1200. Other stations: Thursday 2200 on WTWW 9479, UT Sunday 0500 on WTWW 5830 UT Friday 0430v on WWRB 3195 and 5050 UT Saturday 0230v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB [last week: 0255-] UT Saturday 0630 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265; 1630 on HLR 6190 [and some special HLR broadcasts following week including WOR; TBA] Saturday 1830 on WRN via SiriusXM 120 Full schedule including many more webcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9479, WTWW Lebanon TN with a Pastor Peter J Peters talking about "Wrastling" when he was in school and he even admitted he is a criminal 'white supremesist' [sic] and claiming that this makes him a "thought criminal" akin to George Orwell's definition, not a real 'criminal'. In well, 2245-2255 8/Dec (Ken Zichi, Williamston MI, MARE Tipsheet 14 Dec via DXLD) [In more southerly climes...that would be "rasslin".] (someone`s editorial comment, ibid.) 5085, UT Sunday Dec 16 at 0552, WTWW-2, Rod Hembree mixing science with his wacky religionist views, to try to lend them some credibility (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Frequency change of WTWW-2 in English from Dec. 17: 2000-2400 NF 9905 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg to SoAm, ex 9990 Brother Stair TOM will be on air daily 2100-2400 (Georgi Bancov & Ivo Ivanov, DX Re Mix News, Dec 19 via DXLD) As first reported in DXLD and WORLD OF RADIO (gh) ** U S A. 9329.957, WBCQ Monticello ME, poor S4-5 fluttery trans- atlantic signal into Germany, sermon on God and the monkey ... "Where is God?", ID at 0445 UT, Dec 13. Address given twice, POBox 7100, 91109 CA, USA. "Bible Radio Network" asked for donations, played "Holy Night" Christmas song (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 16 via DXLD) 9330-CUSB, Dec 15 at 1401, open carrier/dead air from GFRN on WBCQ; next check at 1459 it`s remodulating (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7490, Dec 16 at 2106, no signal from WBCQ, nor at 2127; 9330 is on as usual, but 15420 is a JBA carrier, maybe just WBCQ in a pause leaving its reduced carrier, as it`s OK in CUSB at 2127. Checking sked later, only on Sundays does 7490 start at 2200 instead of 2100. At 2233 recheck, it`s on with `Marion`s Attic` and heavy QRM from BBC as usual, also producing SAH. 9330, Dec 17 at 1352 check, WBCQ in dead-air again instead of GFRN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9955, Dec 18 at 1317, WRMI with pulse jamming, against a rock music documentary in Spanish. Could that be a R. Martí program? They certainly do that, but not now, not // 11930 more heavily jammed with a sports discussion. 1328 ID as R. Praga on 9955 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7506.354, WRNO New Orleans, played well known Christmas songs at 0437-0445 UT Dec 13. Modulation not bad. S=9+15 fair signal observed in southern Germany (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 16 via DXLD) ** U S A. 15550-USB, Dec 14 at 2200, WJHR is still going past nominal close time, usual hyperhuxter oozing with misplaced self-confidence. George Scott Mock, or his automation, wakes up and at 2203:30 cuts him off for ``Rock of Ages`` theme, sign-off announcement as ``WJHR Radio International`` only contact info as wjhr @ usa.com. More clumsiness ensues as ``ROA`` is cut off at 2205* before playing out (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7400, 0827, WWCR good in English with religious message from James – KAB 26/11 (Ken Baird, Christchurch, New Zealand, Kenwood R5000, R1000, 18m Wire, SW Eavesdropper, Dec NZ DX Times via DXLD) ??? Never a WWCR frequency; however, TWR Europe via AUSTRIA is in English during this hour on 7400 (gh, DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. Updated winter B-12 schedule of WYFR Family Radio: 1100-1200 on 6220 HUW 100 kW / 265 deg to SEAs Burmese* 1100-1200 on 11520 BAJ 100 kW / 180 deg to SEAs Tagalog 1100-1300 on 6240 BAJ 100 kW / 310 deg to EaAs Chinese 1100-1300 on 9280 PAO 100 kW / 335 deg to EaAs Chinese 1300-1400 on 7540 TAI 100 kW / 250 deg to SEAs Vietnamese 2200-2300 on 17575 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg to SoAm Portuguese, ex 22-2245 2300-0100 on 13695 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to SoAm Spanish, ex 2300-0045 2300-0100 on 11565 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg to SoAm Portuguese 2330-0400 on 6115 YFR 100 kW / 355 deg to NoAm English, ex 2300-2400 0000-0200 on 5985 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg to SoAm Spanish, ex 0000-0145 0100-0200 on 11730 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to CeAm Spanish 0100-0200 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to SoAm Spanish 0200-0400 on 6875 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to CeAm Spanish 0200-0400 on 9930 YFR 100 kW / 222 deg to CARB Spanish * but no transmission on Dec. 16, maybe cancelled, please check 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) That`s all (gh) ** U S A. SPECIAL EDITION ON LAX AIRADIO --- This special edition CGC Communicator newsletter looks into the reasons behind the demise of the 530 kHz Travelers Information Station at Los Angeles International Airport. We begin with the story from CGC #1175 which sets the stage, then turn to our interview with Nancy Castles, Public Relations Director for Los Angeles International Airport ("LAX") and Los Angeles World Airports. An invited letter from Burt Weiner and a reply from Nancy conclude the showing. (Burt participated in the construction of the TIS station and had strong feelings about the facility, as many of us did.) Our appreciation to both Nancy and Burt for providing a wealth of new information. Editor L.A. AIRPORT'S TRAVELERS INFORMATION STATION IS HISTORY (Extract from CGC #1175 for November 19, 2012) Thanks to the efforts of a sharp-eyed CGC Communicator reader, we now know why the 530 kHz Travelers Information Station at Los Angeles International Airport is silent. Mark Nodine writes, "Los Angeles World Airports canceled their recently renewed license for WNHV296 effective October 1, 2012. They no longer have a license." WNHV296 consisted of two transmitters, one to fill the Sepulveda Blvd. tunnel under the runways (10 watts of power), the other to broadcast to the general public (100 watts). An FCC waiver was necessary in order to run 100 watts with the above-ground transmitter. That power level was granted back in 2004 with some fanfare, the extra power being deemed necessary to communicate with the general public in case of a terrorist attack, see the first URL below. You can read about the demise of WNHV296 at the second URL. http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-03-3843A1.doc http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/license.jsp?licKey=1224481 THE TRAVELERS INFORMATION STATION AT LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT HAS BEEN REPLACED WITH A NEW FORM OF COMMUNICATION As reported in CGC #1175, the 530 kHz Travelers Information Station ("TIS") at Los Angeles International Airport ("LAX") is off the air because the airport operator requested that the license be cancelled, and the FCC honored that request. The station, known locally as "LAX AiRadio," is now history along with its grandfathered 100 watt FCC license. Not Many Listeners To discover the reasoning behind the license termination, we contacted Nancy Castles, Public Relations Director for LAX. Nancy indicated that except for rare emergency situations, an exhaustive 2007 survey showed that only about 1% of those passengers who said they arrived at LAX by personal vehicles had listened to AiRadio while driving to the airport. Good Reporting and Promotion -- No Problem There At the time of the survey, the broadcast studio was staffed live eight hours a day and gave up-to-the-minute, real-time status of vehicular traffic conditions in and around LAX, parking availability in all parking facilities, and any unusual weather or flight operations (which are generally driven by weather conditions at other airports in the U.S.). LAX also pro-actively promoted the AiRadio station because it provided the two most requested pieces of information: real-time flight operations and real-time road traffic. High Cost Unfortunately, this intense form of journalism was expensive. The 2008 contract resulted in a $200,000 annual contract for all content programming/announcing/operations/maintenance/repairs and eight hours of daily "live" staffing that covered the morning and mid-day peak travel periods. The evening peak travel period was not covered. Budget Reduction When management asked AiRadio to return to the pre-911 cost of operations, the budget was slashed to $58,000/year by going to pre- recorded 'canned' programming. AiRadio then failed to provide the two most sought-after items, real-time flight operations and road traffic info, so the number of listeners plummeted. Then a key piece of equipment failed and, with no budget for repairs, AiRadio fell silent. Advancing to Text Messaging On the positive side, it seems that more and more travelers are equipped with Internet-type devices and prefer to receive bulletins that way, so LAX has re-tooled their advisories for that method of delivery although it has one drawback – namely that drivers should not drive and read text messages at the same time -- but that problem may eventually be solved by the advent of text-to-speech converters. Cultivating Strong Relationships With Traditional Media Nancy added that, "It's been surprising to me personally that during each [major event since AiRadio went silent], that through other media forms, we have been able to directly reach hundreds of thousands more passengers, airport visitors, airport workers and others with our advisories than we ever did during the peak listenership years of the LAX AiRadio. And by building stronger relationships with the traffic reporters at commercial all-news radio stations to ensure they receive accurate and timely information as soon as possible, in a sense, we have stopped competing with those radio stations for listeners during airport emergencies." For further information, media inquiries may be directed to Nancy Castles at ncastles (at) lawa.org or (424) 646-5260. COMMENTS ON THE DEMISE OF LAX AIRADIO Just a few comments from what I know: LAX AiRadio was created because airport officials were looking for a way to communicate directly to the public, and at any time, with no intermediate systems or people involved. Regular radio station news items are fine, but any particular story is only carried for a few moments and may not be repeated for an hour or more, if ever. LAX AiRadio was more than a PR tool for L.A. International Airport -- it was a way to continuously communicate not only emergency airport information, but parking information and airport traffic conditions, as well as where to find your airline. Speaking for myself, I would often tune into AiRadio when taking or picking up family or friends at the airport because I didn't know what terminal many of the different carriers were in. It was easier and safer listening to the radio than trying to read all the signs and drive at the same time. It seems to me that an important lesson should be learned from the recent storms back east. The Internet and cell phones were not reliable. Broadcast AM and FM was where many people tuned for emergency information. In a number of cases, radio broadcasts were the only thing that was reliable. One broadcast signal can feed an unlimited number of receivers at the same time. I work in the broadcast engineering field and have it on good authority that the reason AiRadio ultimately fell silent is because of loss of primary power at its main transmitter site. A nearby billboard was taken down and the power meter was removed. AiRadio was fed from that circuit. It is reasonable to believe that after AiRadio's UPS ran out of battery, the transmitter went off the air. AiRadio's main transmitter facility on Century Boulevard contained two transmitters: a LPB 100 Watt transmitter and a backup 30 Watt transmitter. The antenna was a top-loaded Valcom with a real ground system, not just a ground rod. The processor was an Orban 9100B and the system had an Inovonics AM modulation monitor. While the site didn't have a generator, it had a transfer switch that could switch between DWP power and a panel-mounted male U-plug for connection to an external generator. On a few occasions, I ran the system on my Honda EU2000 generator. A separate ten Watt transmitter was used to feed the long wire antennas on the ceilings of the Sepulveda tunnels. Although that transmitter has been shut off, you can still see the wire today, a testament to a very well built AM booster system where the transition between the main and boosted signals at the tunnels' entrances and exits were undetectable to the public. I feel very disappointed that airport management has turned their back on such a time-proven and reliable way to communicate with the public at any time of the day or night. Turning in their specially-negotiated license for cancellation was a shame. --- Burt Weiner, Burt I. Weiner Associates, December 7, 2012 biwa (at) att.net LAX RESPONDS Thank you for sending me your [subscriber's] comments. I guess he must be part of the group described as "less than one percent of those who drive to the airport." We agree with his comment that Internet and cellphones may not be reliable during an emergency, and the fact that AM and FM radio seems to be where many people will tune in for emergency information. So, our focus has been to ensure the commercial, region-wide- reaching, all-news radio stations, as well as other media, receive this information in a timely manner. Our decision to cease broadcasting the LAX AiRadio station was not an issue of the type or reliability of the equipment. It was due to significantly declining listenership, which we recognize was in large part driven by the lack of daily or up-to-the-minute/real-time program content. Nancy Suey Castles Public Relations Director Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) Los Angeles World Airports ncastles (at) lawa.org (424) 646-5260 December 11, 2012 (all: CGC Communicator Dec 13 via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) FOLLOW-UP ON THE LAX AIRRADIO STORY (CGC #1180) DESIGNING AN AM BOOSTER As a follow-up on our LAX AiRadio story (CGC #1180), it is worth mentioning that Ben Dawson of Hatfield & Dawson served as the consulting radio engineer on the booster system that illuminated the Sepulveda tunnels with AiRadio signal. The seamless transition between the main site signal and the tunnel radio (booster) signal was particularly memorable. Ben thought about that feature long and hard in the design phase, and was gratified that it worked so well. We understand that Ben Dawson and Burt Weiner worked closely on the final tunnel antenna design. Ben said, "The most amusing thing about the tunnel system was that the FCC form calls for antenna height AGL, and of course it is negative. The FCC computer program choked on that, and we had to get them to modify their software to get the application filed. We had not encountered the problem with earlier software in other "below ground" situations, such as the 800 MHz system for the Port of Seattle at Seatac airport." (CGC Communicator Dec 16 via Kevin Redding, ABDX via DXLD) ** U S A. 880, Dec 14 at 1404 UT, no signal today from KLRG 50 kW in next state AR when I wanted to hear `Canada Calling` like 24 hours earlier; instead KRVN NE is dominant and in its null only some weak music, probably KHAC AZ/NM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 960, UT Friday Dec 14 at 0600-0605 UT, KGWA Enid provides another dead-air break, during which the dominant understation this time has ABC News, which I always assume is KMA Shenandoah IA. KGWA continues to be sporadic, silent most midnites, but occasionally plugged with Fox `News`. 960, Dec 16 at 0602, ABC News with echo, so presumably KMA IA and WERC AL (unless WERC is no longer with ABC, as someone reported them with Fox `news` at some other hour). 0602 was the first commercial break, but it was a PSA for Habitat for Humanity, so ABC could not sell this spot; during local KGWA Enid dead-air pause (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn, If I remember correctly, WERC 960 carries FOX TV 6 news from 2200 to 2230 local. I believe they are FOX at the hourly news also. (Kevin Redding, Crump, TN, ABDX via DXLD) ** U S A. 1010, KXEN, MO, St. Louis – Applies for STA for U1 350/125 at the studio of KDNL (TV) in downtown St. Louis (38-38-09/90-11-45); this is preferable to the previously applied for STA for similar parameters at the site of WGNU-920; the STA is a contingency plan for when KXEN loses its transmitter site, which could happen at any time but has not yet occurred (AM Switch, NRC DX News Dec 17 via DXLD) SPECIAL TEMPORARY AUTHORITY (STA): 1010, KXEN, MO, St. Louis – Granted STA for U1 350/125 if needed; see #80-12 for details (AM Switch, NRC DX News Dec 24 via DXLD) ** U S A. 1060, Dec 14 at 1407 UT, Spanish opening ``el mejor informativo de los Estados Unidos``. Probably 10 kW, non-direxional daytimer KXPL El Paso TX, as would not expect Spanish gospel-huxter KIJN Farwell TX to be broadcasting news, tho a fast SAH revealed its presence too. Official FCC sunrise for KXPL in Dec and Jan is 1400 UT. It also has a PSRA of 150 watts starting at 1300 UT in Dec & Feb, the limiting station being ``XENVA2`` but in Jan reduced to only 8 watts due to XEEP. These NVA entries in FCC database are not real calls, but mean `new` station, i.e. not necessarily anything really on the air. Does this mean SCT will never assign a real callsign XENVA to anystation? There are a few other SS on 1060 in the USA, but at this time, KXPL is most likely and the only one in NRC AM Log with NWS/TLK format. BTW, I`ve read that there is a movement in Mexico to eliminate ``Estados Unidos`` from the official name of that country, which was adopted long ago to match the other United States country abutting it. 1060, Dec 17 at 1235 UT, KIJN Farwell TX on NM border, gospel huxter in Spanish with shall we say, Chicano accent, mentions ``en el nombre de Jesús``, which is what the call letters mean in English, and introducing ``Noticiero Semanal desde Jerusalén`` in good Spanish; so KIJN does have ``news`` after all, as long as it is from the future. Usual more than sufficient signal before local sunrise, and making fast-ripple SAH with whatever else on 1060 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1070, WCSZ, SC, Sans Souci – Granted program test authority for CP for U2 50000/1500 (licensed for U4 50000/1500); FCC also granted modification to adjust coordinates to 34-55-12/82-27-25 (AM Switch, NRC DX News Dec 10 via DXLD) This is the station which was being heard all over, apparently running 50 kW at night (gh, DXLD) 1070, WCSZ SC Sans Souci – Adds // W235BM-94.9 (Wayne Heinen, NRC AM Log editor, NRC DX News Dec 10 via DXLD) A request to extend an existing STA by WCSZ-1070 Sans Souci SC was dismissed (AM Switch, NRC DX News Dec 17 via DXLD) ** U S A. KCOH Radio moving to 1230 AM --- By Cindy George | December 14, 2012 | Updated: December 14, 2012 9:47pm http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/KCOH-Radio-moving-to-1230-AM-4118588.php KCOH, now at 1430 AM, will move down on the dial, but its legacy as the voice of Houston's black community will endure. Tom Petrizzo, majority owner of the station, announced the change on air Friday. The station's sale to a Catholic foundation remains in process, he said, and KCOH will bounce to 1230 AMunder a lease agreement. Businessman Jesse Dunn, who had tried to buy KCOH outright, has an agreement with the owners of 1230 AM to continue the current KCOH programming at that frequency. Another deal will let Dunn lease the "looking glass" studios on Almeda and the legacy station's call letters for the new KCOH 1230 AM. Billed as the state's oldest black-formatted radio station, KCOH signed on at 1430 AM in 1953 and moved into its Third Ward studios in 1963. Once black-owned, too, the majority of the station's shares have not been controlled by black individuals or families for many years. The Midland-based La Promesa Foundation plans to relaunch 1430 AM in February as part of the Guadalupe Radio Network. Petrizzo said the KCOH switch will happen around the same time. Listeners elated Friday morning callers to "Person to Person" hosted by Michael Harris expressed jubilation that the KCOH format would continue in Houston. Dunn, a black businessman who could not be reached for comment Friday, made two offers over the years but could not secure financing, Harris said. Later Friday, U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston, held a "Save KCOH" news conference with Enos Cabell, a former Houston Astros player who is now a special assistant to the team's general manager, to explain continuing efforts by black investors to acquire KCOH and all of its assets. John Stanford and Michael McCall (who is KCOH personality Wash Allen's son), have been trying to buy the station since 2009. Cabell said he joined the investing group after learning of the sale announced in mid-November. The partners made a verbal offer larger than the reported sale price to Petrizzo and his radio broker, John Saunders. "I thought we could make money in the station but also, we could save it and have it grow," Cabell said. A bank letter sent Wednesday to Saunders confirmed the cash offer, but Cabell said the investors have not received a response. On Thursday, Jackson Lee and five other members of the Congressional Black Caucus sent a letter asking the Federal Communications Commission to adopt proposals addressing the decline in black radio ownership that would "ensure that a situation like KCOH's never happens again." The congresswoman said the black investors and their supporters want "to have the historic building in the same hands, all of the equipment plus the tower at 5,000 watts." Broadcast power Jackson Lee, Cabell and callers on the radio Friday voiced concern about the reach of the new KCOH. The current frequency is a 5,000-watt station, but the 1230 dial position has 1,000 watts. Power depends on multiple factors including signal quality and strength as well as processing equipment. "Radio stations often don't operate at their full capacity. A station that's 5,000 watts doesn't necessarily have more power than 1,000 watts. There may be some who hear no perceivable difference," said Ernie Jackson, a former vice president and general manager of Majic 102 and 97.9 The Box. "In general, if all things are equal, the 5,000- watt is going to be heard farther." Harris rejected assertions that "there was an attempt to deny the black community" ownership of KCOH and criticized the group of black investors for making a verbal offer. Even through a lease, Dunn will still have the ability to save KCOH in its current format, he added. "His commitment to the cause, his persistence - winning people over - has given him the opportunity to have this new signal and the call letters," said Harris, who has worked at KCOH since 1975. "The negotiations may be done politically in the news, but people don't want their business done like that." (via Blaine Thompson, ABDX via DXLD) Then there is the little matter of what happens to the present Houston station on 1230, KQUE, which has an Ethnic/Asian format according the NRC AM Log 2012-2013. Totally ignored in this story. 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** U S A. 1320, KXYZ TX Houston – Format remains ETH/SS/Brokered, contrary to some other published reports (Steve Ponder, AM Switch, NRC DX News Dec 3 via DXLD) ** U S A. 1330, Dec 14 at 1346 UT, KNSS Wichita KS and KCKM Monahans TX are making fast SAH slightly more than the one on 1480. KCKM was going from country music to local ad (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1350, Dec 19 at 1402 UT, CBS News, but only one minute, 1403 optional cutaway employed by KMAN Manhattan KS which just can`t wait to get on with local news; briefly atop channel (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1480, KLVL TX Pasadena – Format remains Asian contrary to some published reports (Steve Ponder, AM Switch, NRC DX News Dec 3 via DXLD) ** U S A. 1480, Dec 14 at 0050 UT on caradio, fast SAH again like before with KBXD vs other stations, so my previous comment about their moving closer to 1480 appears incorrect (unless it varies, unlikely). The 1.47 Hz SAH I computed Dec 13 at 1420 UT may have happened to be beating with something other than KQAM, which was closer to KBXD. Next morning around 1338 UT I again find the fast SAH of 10-12 Hz on 1480, but KQAM is dominating for a change. KBXD is unusually weak; on reduced power? Domestic MW propagation is strange this morning, much inferior to yesterday morning, despite trans-Pacific carriers being audible; see UNIDENTIFIED. At 1412, on 10 kHz DX-398 steps with BFO, KQAM pitch matches adjacent frequencies so I continue to think KBXD is the one that is slightly off. Next time it is dominant I will try the same thing with it and maybe determine whether it is plus or minus. 1480, Dec 19 at 1405 UT, paranoid preacher on Tru News show who claims we aren`t getting the real story from mainstream media and things are much worse than they seem. Again mentions at 1410 expanding audience as now covering N Texas and as far as Stillwater OK on 1480 --- this is KBXD Dallas --- and also on four SW frequencies. I estimate the SAH as about 7 Hz, and on the low side compared to BFO pitches of neighboring frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. During my spare time (?), I run Oldies Radio 1620, a low- power AM station and internet station. I purchased an up-to-date transmitter, modified the audio driver and now operate it 24 hours NSP playing oldies. The range is about 1 mile but I have heard it up to about 7 miles away. The feed on the net is http://www.oldiesradio1620.com (Dave Schmidt – P O Box 126 – New Freedom, PA 17349, Musings, NRC DX News Dec 3 via DXLD) ** U S A. TIS: 1620, CBP, TX, El Paso – 11/24 2350 [EST] – US Customs and Border Protection TIS at The Bridge of The Americas. Alternating Spanish and English using 10 watts (Robert Vance, El Paso, NRC DX News Dec 24 via DXLD) ** U S A. RAY BRIEM From the Orange County Register; 12/13/2012: By GARY LYCAN / FOR THE REGISTER Ray Briem, a pioneer in Los Angeles talk radio, most notably overnights on KABC/790 AM, has died at age 82, his daughter Debbie announced Wednesday. Briem was on KABC from 1967 to 1994 following seven years at KLAC/570 AM. He was considered a conservative, but enjoyed meaningful debate with liberals. Los Angeles talk-radio pioneer Ray Briem has died, his daughter Debbie announced Wednesday. Briem was the overnight host on KABC/790 AM from 1967-1994. Service plans are to be announced. He is seen here at a Rotary Club appearance in Santa Monica. He loved big band music and interviewed hundreds of celebrities about the golden age of music, movies and radio. More than 1,000 listeners were at his retirement party, where artists such as Frankie Laine, Tony Martin and the Mills Brothers performed. Briem received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was honored by Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters in 2008. After retiring from KABC, he did a brief afternoon talk show on KIEV-AM. Service plans are pending. (There will be more coverage on Ray Briem’s broadcasting career in Gary Lycan’s weekly radio column). (via Greg Hardison, WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DXLD) RAY BRIEM DIES AT 82; ALL-NIGHT RADIO HOST IN L.A. One of the first conservatives to establish a beachhead in radio, Ray Briem consistently attracted the largest ratings of any overnight talk show. He championed Propositions 13 and 187. December 13, 2012 | By Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times Ray Briem, the longtime KABC-AM talk show host who ruled all-night radio for nearly three decades with his phone calls to the famous and the quirky and his opinionated banter slamming liberals, championing conservative causes and extolling the big-band music he loved, died Wednesday at his Malibu home. He was 82 (via Kevin Redding, ABDX via DXLD) AND, Ray Briem occasionally did a show about shortwave listening. Even I may have been a guest (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. Courtside picks up Laura Ingraham | Radio & Television Business Report http://rbr.com/courtside-picks-up-laura-ingraham/ (via A J Pelt, Dec 13, DXLD) ** U S A. ANOTHER WTFDA MEMBER PASSES --- John E. Ebeling passed away on November 22, 2012 after fighting cancer for 9 years. He was born in St. Paul, MN on April 6, 1932. John grew up in Duluth and graduated from Duluth Central High School in 1950. After moving to the Twin Cities he worked as a T.V. repair man. Longtime employee of Control Data Corporation as a project engineer. In July of 1974 he became a member of Certified Electronic Technician, being the 64th member in MN. John enjoyed spending his summers at the cabin in Alborn, MN. His main hobby was FM DXing. After retirement he enjoyed traveling to various destinations around the world with his wife. John married his love, Ira, in Thunder Bay on Nov. 3, 1956. They enjoyed 56 years together. Survived by wife, Ira; children, Wayne (Linda) and Marla Rolsing; grandsons, William and Grant and half brother, Clarence [apparently from official non-DX obit] I talked to John many times on chat. I knew he was ill but I really was not expecting this. He loved FM DXing. He loved going south to the Caribbean with his wife in the winter. He was a great friend to the late Bruce Elving. He was a great guy and we’ll miss him (Mike Bugaj, CT, ed., Dec WTFDA VHF-UHF Digest via DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. It seems that some New England FM pirates are part of an international network! The following stations all run in parallel for some programs and the programs originate in Brooklyn, NY (at a pirate station). The stations are Energy Radio Hartford (101.7), Energy Radio Springfield (101.5), Energy Radio Ft. Lauderdale, Big City Radio Boston (101.3) plus stations in the UK: London, Birmingham, Leeds plus one more. And they stream on the internet. My, how times change (Mike Bugaj, CT, ed., Dec WTFDA VHF-UHF Digest via DXLD) ** U S A. Interesting FCC map --- The user can zoom into this FCC map to see possible LPFM channel opportunities in some detail: http://tiles.mapbox.com/fcc/map/map-3q2ywazg (Bennett Kobb, Dec 17, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Huge mass of overlapping coverage areas (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. As some of you know, WA2XMN is an experimentally licensed wideband FM station, at the Armstrong tower in Alpine, NJ, operating on 42.8 MHz in what was the original FM broadcast band. See: http://www.wa2xmn.ar88.net/ Due to operational realities, this historic station is on the air only sporadically. When it is on the air it can be heard as much as 100 miles from Alpine. To give you a better chance of logging WA2XMN, we have established an email reflector to provide notification and feedback. The reflector is on qth.net, the same organization that hosts the DVHRC and NJARC reflectors. To subscribe visit: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/wa2xmn (via Karl Zuk, Dec WTFDA VHF-UHF Digest via DXLD) ** U S A. So no more I.D. on NOAA Weather Radio? Denver, (Franktown-- repeater of Denver) & Boyero are not broadcasting I.D. info (Frequency, NWS Office, etc.) I noticed it at around 9 pm tonight that no ID info was being broadcast as I was driving home. Instead there is a more detailed forecast for the Denver Metro Area & Boulder Area. Can anyone else in Northeast Colorado (in the Boulder NWS broadcast area) confirm this? And I thought it was law that radio stations had to give I.D. at the bottom of the Hour. Am I wrong on this? Is NOAA Weather Radio exempt? (Paul Armani, CO, Dec 13, ABDX via DXLD) Top of the hour for IDs. I don't know of any exemptions for NOAA or anyone else, except it seems reasonable to assume that any top secret government traffic would be exempt, but a NOAA public broadcast doesn't qualify. It has literally been years since I have heard an actual ID on the Denver chain of NOAA stations. They used to do legal IDs, but that has been way back. Maybe they "think" they are exempt, but a complaint to the FCC would undoubtedly prove otherwise. 73, (Kit W5KAT, CO, ibid.) Maybe it's just the way that particular NOAA station is operated, I don't know. KIH61 and KZZ52, two of my locals, give IDs every four minutes at the end of each loop in addition to the one at the ToH. 73, (Rick Dau, South Omaha, Nebraska, ibid.) In the NOAA Eastern Region, the station ID is given at the beginning of each cycle; this is important as it is used as the 'heartbeat' to verify that the station is on the air, and it is the only thing that uses the original 'Perfect Paul' voice, while the other products use the newer male & female synthesised voices. I'm amazed that they (Colorado) don't ID every couple of minutes, and certainly every hour; WOW - where's the FCC? How hard it is to leave one ID file that states "This is NOAA WX Radio originating at the NWSFO in Cleveland, Ohio, broadcasting over station KHB-97 in Castalia, Ohio on a frequency of 162 point four zero zero Megahertz". I always thought if I was 'lost' in an aircraft without navigation, I would use NOAA WX Radio stations as my 'beacon' and use the station ID's to tell where I'm at (actually, back in the 80's, I did listen on a scanner and logged dozens of NWR stations from Chicago to California). (toledohamradio, ibid.) I'm in the Eastern Region, and they around here tried the female voice some and then gave up on it. It is much harder to understand than the male voice. At least they don't use the Mr. Roboto voice except for a very few things (it's really DECtalk...) (Powell E Way III, W4OPW, SC, ibid.) I listened again today for like 25 min and no frequency info was given, that is typically what is on there. I have never actually heard a legal ID on Denver's chain of stations. I got my first WX radio as an X-Mas gift in 2003 (Paul Armani, CO, ibid.) Yes, although they do usually mention the frequencies of the xmtrs in the area, they weren't even doing that today while I was listening. As I mentioned earlier, KVCU Boulder (1190) never seems to ID during their "Ambient Overnights" that I usually listen to when I go to bed. It is just music all night, no voices at all. I like the music, but it sure would be frustrating for a DXer who wanted to figure out where the signal was coming from, as well as being illegal. 73, (Kit W5KAT, CO, ibid.) If I might chime in --- The "legal ID" requirements most of us are familiar with apply only to broadcast stations (radio and TV) licensed under Part 73 of the FCC rules. The specific rule section is 73.1201. NOAA weather radio is *not* a Part 73 broadcast service. I'm not even certain if it's licensed by the FCC; as a federal government service, I suspect it's licensed instead by the NTIA. I'm not sure what, if any, ID rules would apply there. s (Scott Fybush, ibid.) Since the NOAA transmitters operate with FCC-issued call signs, I think it is safe to say that they are regulated by the FCC. Their bureaucratic status may place them under other agencies for administrative purposes, but the licensing and operation of the radio service would fall under FCC jurisdiction. Although ID regulations vary with the type of service, all transmitters are required to ID periodically, and at the beginning and ending of a transmission period. Again, the rules vary with specific services, but IDs are required for every transmitter. 73, (Kit W5KAT, ibid.) As I understand it, the FCC is NOT responsible for licensing or overseeing any US government stations, just private stations (gh) ** UZBEKISTAN. 7505, Dec 18 at 1309 open carrier with flutter, (not 7506+ WRNO!), even here suffering from 7490 WWCR splatter and overload. 1337 now weaker but there`s talk modulation. HFCC shows TWR, 100 kW, 131 degrees via Tashkent at 1315-1615. EiBi and Aoki have the details: starts M-F at 1315 with Dogri, 1330 Hindi, and Sat/Sun Hindi from 1315 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN. 7250, 0340, Vatican Radio good in Spanish with 2 OMs in discussion followed by music – KAB 29/11 (Ken Baird, Christchurch, New Zealand, Kenwood R5000, R1000, 18m Wire, SW Eavesdropper, Dec NZ DX Times via DXLD) VR is not supposed to be here in Spanish; instead Voice of Russia in English (gh, DXLD) ** VATICAN [non]. Interesting broadcast on 225 --- I am currently holidaying in Berlin. At 18.40 CET this evening [1740 UT, date not specified] I heard Vatican Radio (interval signal and all) broadcasting in what I presume was Polish on 225 kHz. Is the broadcast coming from Vatican Radio or is it replayed by Polskie Radio? Is it a regular thing? Kind regards, (Mark Forsyth, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via Eike Bierwirth, ibid.) Hi Mark, interesting catch! Indeed, this is Vatican Radio via Polish Radio 1. I found this entry in the program grid of Polish Radio 1: "18.40 - Aktualnos'ci z Watykanu" (News from the Vatican) within the "SOBOTA Z JEDYNKA;" program on http://www.polskieradio.pl/Portal/Schedule/Schedule.aspx This is listed every day of this week, so likely daily. Remember that due to the previous Pope's popularity in Poland, there is a deep connection between Poland and the Vaticane. So that's daily on 225 kHz longwave, 1740-1800 UTC in winter, and 1640-1700 in summer. 73, (Eike Bierwirth, Dec 15, ibid.) ** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. CLANDESTINA, 1550, Frente POLISARIO, Rabouni, ALG, 1200-1302*, 15/12, árabe, texto, ID, prgr em castelhano logo às 1203 (costuma ser pelas 1215), texto, canções, fecho abrupto, sem ID, anúncio ou hino; 35443. Incluo gravação: 15DEZ'12_12;59;18_1,81MB. 702 Polisario Front, Rabouni, ALGERIA, 1940-..., 18/12, Arabic; 24432, QRM de R. Algérienne/R. Al-Aghwat, Al-Aghwat, on same frequency. The station was absent on 1550 this morning, so they were probably using 702, but not audible up here in Lisbon. The last time I spotted them on this low frequency channel was on 09 Nov, then went back to 1550, so maybe they do the same tomorrow. Very poor reception this time, at least since I'm observing them this evening; possibly better later. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** YEMEN. 9780.086, Odd frequency footprint, Yemen RTV Sana'a in Arabic, a little bit under-modulated, poor carrier and tiny S=5-6 signal at 1418 UT Dec 15 (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 16 via WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DXLD) ** ZAMBIA. ZÂMBIA, 5915, ZNBC-R. 1, Lusaka, 1838-1855, 15/12, dialecto, texto, prgr, aparentemente, sobre agropecuária; 34433, QRM adj. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZANZIBAR. 6015, ZBC Radio. Quick check at 0335, Dec 16 found them in a different format than usual; played Islamic type songs till 0341; reception better than normal (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11735, V of Tanzania Zanzibar, 2014-2054* Dec 18. Usual exotic music, uninterrupted except for short Swahili announcements by YL at 2031 and 2045. Suddenly off at 2054*. Nice signal, S-9 on the meter but sounding stronger (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Drake R-8, 100-foot RW, dxingwithcumbre yg Dec 18 via DXLD) ** ZIMBABWE. 6045, ZBC/R. Zimbabwe not heard Dec 16 (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZIMBABWE [non]. Radio Dialogue FM 12105 kHz 1600 GMT 12-16-12 I listened to the 1600 GMT broadcast today on 12105 kHz of Radio Dialogue FM (formerly Zimbabwe Community Radio). Has anyone had any success in QSLing this station and if so to what postal or email address? I thought about trying via the transmitting station which is MGLOB – Malagasy Global Business, S.A. (they took over the RNW transmitter site in Madagascar). However I can't find an address (postal or email) for them. Can anyone help? Thanks (Steve Handler, IL, NASWA yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DXLD) Steve, As far as I know these email addresses are still valid up to the end of December: Mr. Tovo Razananaivo Frequency Manager MGLOB (MGB) Email: tovo @ rnw.mg MGLOB S.A. Lotissement Bonnet 88, Ivandry Antananarivo 101 Email: rad.ned @ moov.mg (Andy Sennitt, ODXA yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DXLD) It is also listed in WRTH 2013, p. 465 (Mauno Ritola, Finland, ibid.) They are on 12105; in the morning (here, that is) at *1600 to 1700* hours, with programming, but lately their signal is QRM'ed by WTWW with Arabic to the Middle East, at the same time, to past 1700 hours. The propagation path is directly over the Northern route to my location (Edward Kusalik, still at the dials, WORLD OF RADIO 1648, ibid.) WTWW-3 is not always on during that hour, but most likely to be on Saturdays, I think, following the weekly Russian (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. Domestic MW reception was below normal today, and was not getting much from Korea on 2850, but around sunrise at 1332-1337 UT Dec 14, tried some trans-Pacific MW frequencies anyway, and to my surprise there were several carriers as I then stepped thru the entire band: 594, 693, 747, 774, 1566, 1575 (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 970, UT Sunday Dec 16 at 0605, trying again to ID the station with oldtime radio as heard 168 hours ago: it`s there but this week with very heavy QRM. Mentions ``classic radio``, but starts with current report from Hollywood about Beyoncé, of all things. It seems that `Radio Classics` is the 24/7 SiriusXM 82 version by the same entrepreneur as `When Radio Was`, Greg Bell; packed schedules here http://gregbellmedia.com/ShowSchedules.html for those who can`t get enough, but no affiliate list found, if there are any at ground level. 970, Dec 17 at 0606 UT, local ad with phone 493-4050, no area code; Google points to LFM car repair in Louisville KY, so WGTK is a good bet there. Whatever became of WAVE, an ideal radio-station call with their sine-wave logo? Ha, FCC shows that call ended on Nov 1, 1981, and there were two others before WGTK since August 9, 2000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. While trying to minimize 1280 WFYC splash to log who the talker was on 1290, I detected a het from about 1289.43. No detectable modulation there. 1753, 11-Dec (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) UNIDENTIFIED. 1310, Dec 18 at 1354 UT, still trying to ID KKNS Corrales NM: at first dominant is KZRG Joplin MO mentioning Route 66 in English, but it soon fades leaving weak music in Spanish, not enough to hear any ID around 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Hi Glenn: In regards to the unidentified on 3380, I could hear this station too with folk music at approximately 1026 and peaking to a good signal level. The music sounded typical of the Ecuadorian region. Couldn't ID due to noisy conditions - the announcements sounded recorded. Regards, (Mike Beu, KD5DSQ, Austin, Texas, Dec 17, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. SURINAM? - 4989.99, unID, likely Radio Apintie, Paramaribo, weak signal 0901-0915 and still barely holding up at 0950 quick recheck on 12/12. OM announcer sounding, at times, probably in English. Fadey signal, similar pattern to that for Guyana 3290 in past. Orchestral music (Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Illinois, Drake R8B; Japan Radio NRD-545; Eton E1; Hallicrafters SX100, Dentron Super Tuner + Ameco PLF-2 + Palomar P-408 +Quantum Phaser antenna unit (customized for tropical bands), 335-foot bidirectional BOG 150 deg/330 deg for LA/SE Asia, DX Engineering RPA-1 preamp, Phased Longwire + Small Loop, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6904.5-SSB, Dec 16 at 2237 sounds like a MARS net, or the like (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6955.3-AM, Dec 16 at 2239, a much weaker pirate is here at same time as R. Casablanca on 6939.7; see NORTH AMERICA. Only thing copied here was at 2246 ``My Favorite Things`` maybe Sinatra; off by 2259 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi again, another pirate with fair signal in Montreal, WMPR on 6955 AM mode, 2235 UT with Xmas music. 73 (Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, Canada, Dec 16, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Glenn, Agora logo após as 2100 em 7215 eu ouvi uma emissora em claro francês e uma Yl apresentava notícias, mas precisei sair e quando voltei agora as 2135 a emissora não estava mais no ar. Pesquisei na Aoki, Eibi e HFFF e não vi nenhuma transmissão em francês nesse horário. Eu também pesquisei em meu Outlook e não vi nenhum comentário dessa frequência em francês. Eu não publiquei a escuta mesmo como UNID porque tive poucos dados, mas o sinal chegava aqui com 24432. Você tem alguma informação? Grato, (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana, Bahia, 12 14´S, 38 58´W - Brasil, Dec 16, DX LISENING DIGEST) Jorge, Não, sòmente há China em árabe via Albânia -- se não escutava isso, pode ser uma transmissão errada deles? Amanhã (Glenn to Jorge, via DXLD) No further follow-ups by either of us (gh, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 9420v, Dec 18 at 0616, slowly moving upward noisy blob, like an ionosonde, really too strong to be coming from India, altho in the same frequency range as the ``banshee blob`` previously heard elsewhen. By 0616 it`s at 9440, and at 0619 crosses 9460 BBC Ascension. At 0633, it`s crossing Greece 9420 on the way up again. Dec 18 at 1312, it`s the banshee going up more quickly from 9430 to 9460. At 1436 it`s crossing 9330 WBCQ upward; at 1438 across 9370 WWRB, at 1439, 9395, at 1441, 9430, etc. 9420v, Dec 19 at 0617, the banshee blob is crossing Greece going upward, and at 0619 is crossing 9480, VOA French via SÃO TOMÉ. I only hear this in the 9.3-9.5 MHz range, but am now less than positive that it is not something local. So is anyone else hearing it around this time or elsewhen? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 9480, Dec 16 at 0030, JBA carrier, with splatter from 9490 Guiana French. European Music Radio was publicized with a `DX to the World` special during this hour, but needs a bit more power than 1 kW if it is really on from Germany. Propagation from Europe VG, with Greece inbooming on 9420, KBC Bulgaria sufficient on 9450. At least WTWW is now off 9479 by 0000, but 9480 could more likely be CNR`s 100 kW Tibetan service from Beijing site. Another EMR broadcast on 9480 is scheduled later this Sunday at 09-10, plus 08-09 on 7265 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED [non]. Hi Glenn, I was listening to a broadcast in what I thought was Arabic with chanting from shortly after 1900 to 1929 sign off today [Dec 16] on 11615 kHz. HFCC shows this as a broadcast brokered by Babcock in Somali with an unidentified broadcaster. Any idea who the broadcaster was and whether it was Arabic as it sounded or Somali has listed in HFCC? (Steve Handler, IL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Steve, I searched my e-mail and consequently DXLD and found nothing recently to explain this. I do see that EiBi has it in his list as an unknown station, 1830-1930 via Woofferton. Nothing in WRTH 2013 either under target broadcasts to Somalia, Ethiopia, or even Eritrea. On a hunch I also checked out the schedule for IBRA Radio (WRTH 2013, under Sweden). They do have an Arabic broadcast at 1900-1930 daily via Woofferton on 9535. Should check whether that is // (or moved). Something for further monitoring (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) U.K./UAE Was also Somali via WOF same data on 11740 kHz in A-12 season. In WRTH spring 2012 .pdf supplement 11740 WOF under Radio Damal in Somali. Radio Damal, The Voice of the Somali People. WRTH 2013 p 507: produced in the studios of KBC in Kenya. Financed through Peoples Republic China government funds... In B-12 was once requested also, but on 11970 kHz, but now moved to 11615 1830-1930 48E,48SW WOF 300 122 from 17 Nov 2012 Somali BAB=Babcock FMO similar Radio Damal broadcast via Al Dhabbaya UAE site was requested on 11970 kHz too, but later at 1930-2130 UT. Still wrong on Aoki list. 11970 1930-2130 48,52NE,53NW DHA 250 225 Somali UAE BAB but now changed to 11955 kHz, also from 11 Nov 2012: 11955 1930-2130 48E,48SW DHA 250 225 Somali UAE BAB 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 17536-USB, Dec 15 at 2009, weak 2-way in Spanish, intruders except there are hardly any broadcasters on the 16m band at this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1648: Many thanks to Gerald T Pollard, NC, for a solstitial check in the mail to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED FUTURELY: Thanks to Keith Weston for a US $ contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com (gh) Glenn, enclosed is a donation (Kent D Murphy, New Martinsville WV, with a check to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702) Thanks to Chuck Ermatinger for a contribution via PayPal (gh) Glenn, Thanks very much for ALL you do (and have done) to promote the SWL hobby! Here`s hoping that the Core Fundamentals of the hobby will endure somewhat despite ever-chaning alternate technologies (Joe Smith Jr, WPE1HRA, Sandown NH, with a contribution to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ WORLD RADIO TV HANDBOOK My copy of the new 2013 WRTH, 672 pages, arrived December 7. It`s an absolutely essential reference. For quickest service, suggest ordering it direct from the publisher, via http://www.wrth.com (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DX LISTENING DIGEST) SPACE FREQUENCY RELATED LINKS https://www.sfcgonline.org/links/default.aspx (via Alvaro Ricardo, radioescutas yg via DXLD) 'WHAT'S FAIR ON THE AIR? COLD WAR RIGHT-WING BROADCASTING AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST' --- H-Net Review Publication: Platt on Hendershot JHISTORY@H-NET.MSU.EDU Heather Hendershot. What's Fair on the Air? Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest. Chicago University of Chicago Press, 2011. 272 pp. $27.50 (paper), ISBN 978-0-226-32678-8; $91.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-32677-1. Reviewed by Daniel Platt (Brown University) Published on Jhistory (December, 2012) Commissioned by Heidi Tworek "I'm not just an entertainer," the songwriter-turned-television- demagogue Lonesome Rhodes crowed in the 1957 film _A Face in the Crowd_: "I'm an influence, a wielder of opinion, a force--a force!" Alas, Rhodes's celebrity proves transient and his grand ambitions a touch too grand, and this begs a question: what status is due to history's underachieved zealots? In _What's Fair on the Air?_ Heather Hendershot examines the careers of four such mid-century figures whose extremist conservative harangues on radio and television anticipated the New Right that would rise after their own stars had faded. Seeking to shed light on the relationship between media and political change, Hendershot, a professor in the Department of Media Studies at Queens College, argues that these broadcasters -- H. L. Hunt, Dan Smoot, Carl McIntire, and Billy James Hargis -- not only tilled "the ground ... for the eventual triumph of [Ronald] Reagan" but also "were the embarrassing nuts who had to be left behind for a more legitimate and effective conservative movement to emerge" (pp. 7, 206). In part, the book is a study in the evolving art of political persuasion. The first chapter, for example, profiles Hunt, a quirky Texas oil tycoon whose postwar conservative radio and television shows would serve as the model against which William F. Buckley Jr. would develop _Firing Line_ in the 1960s. Drawing on newspaper accounts, business records, and episode transcripts, Hendershot details how Hunt experimented with style and format to disseminate his vehement anti-Communist politics while benefiting from the free airtime accorded to public-interest programming. _Facts Forum_, which Hunt produced and distributed to hundreds of radio and television stations in the early 1950s, featured retired Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent Smoot rehearsing the Left and Right takes on such issues as foreign aid, intervention in Korea, and appropriate punishments for American dissidents. While Smoot tried to maintain the appearance of balance, his flimsy case for liberal opinions left little to the imagination. _Answers for American_s, another Hunt program from the 1950s, staged a weekly debate between two liberals and Buckley, giving the young conservative his first taste of television and a primer in the shortcomings of contemporary right-wing tactics. Among Hunt's flaws were his limited interest in movement building, his unwillingness to bankroll conservative candidates, "his eccentric understanding of public affairs, his yahoo bigotry, and his appallingly bad manners," emblematic of the repellant and unmarketable "right-wing lunatic fringe" (p. 28). Through these failings, Hunt demonstrated the inadequacy of extremism, provoking a turn toward the civil and refined style of the coming generation of conservative leaders, like Buckley, who would in some ways eclipse and in other ways complete the battle against liberalism that Hunt and his compatriots began. In addition to illuminating the rise of more modern right-wing mouthpieces, _What's Fair on the Air?_ explores the relationship between secular and religious conservatisms and the history of broadcast regulation. Chapters on the Christian fundamentalists McIntire and Hargis, for example, make the case that, like Hunt, such extremists served as opposing reference points for neo-evangelicals like Billy Graham who fashioned more respectable public images. The "assumptions and tactics" that these zealots shared with such broadcasters as Hunt and Smoot reveal that "if secular and religious conservatives have had an on-again, off-again love affair since Reagan's election, the cold war secular and religious conservatives had a more stable -- if largely unconsummated -- relationship" (p. 12). Hargis is also central to Hendershot's discussion of the Federal Communications Commission's Fairness Doctrine, which was used to revoke the fundamentalist's broadcasting license in 1973 but which Hendershot believes was ultimately a poor device for enriching public discourse. _What's Fair on the Air?_ is a lively and well-researched contribution to the literature on U.S. political culture. Its chief achievement is the recovery of the Cold War media mavens who, in all their eccentricity, gave sanction to the nascent New Right backlash and, like lighthouses, helped emerging conservative leaders avoid the shoals of American extremism. Yet it is as a model of sound interdisciplinary scholarship, however, that the book's more enduring significance may lie. Several excellent studies notwithstanding, historians of post-1945 America have been slow to address the impact of radio and, particularly, television on the political process, despite ample signs of its influence on, for example, the business of campaigning. From image management and interviewing to debate preparation and the complicated (and expensive) tactics of political advertising, television has had a dramatic effect on how modern campaigns are organized, what kinds of people run, and how much money they have to raise. Sorting through this history will require looking at new sources -- both transcripts and actual audiovisual materials -- and making sense of the complex business practices and regulatory regimes that structured twentieth-century television. In _What's Fair on the Air?_ Hendershot has provided much of this information and has demonstrated, in punchy, energetic prose, how to incorporate such diverse histories into a judicious and highly readable narrative. Citation: Daniel Platt. Review of Hendershot, Heather, _What's Fair on the Air? Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest_. Jhistory, H-Net Reviews. December, 2012. URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=37672 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. ------------------------------------------------------- jhistory@H-NET.MSU.EDU http://www.h-net.org/~jhistory ------------------------------------------------------- (via Jim Leonhirth, Dec 13, DXLD) CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES +++++++++++++++++++++++++ FOUR DX CLUBS TO HOLD JOINT CONVENTION NEXT AUGUST IN MINNEAPOLIS National Radio Club - 80th Anniversary Minneapolis, Minnesota 2013 ! August 1st thru 4th, 2013 Our 80th Anniversary - National Radio Club, founded in 1933 DX Clubs Announce Minneapolis Convention The National Radio Club and the International Radio Club of America, in conjunction with the Minnesota DX Club and the Worldwide TV-FM DX Association, take great pleasure in announcing their joint “DXer” convention will be held in Minneapolis, August 1st through the 4th, 2013. Called LEARNING AND SHARING: 2013, the conference will combine formal tutorials and technical sessions, gab gatherings, a DX’pedition and ideas on how to enhance radio listening. Show-and-tell, new antenna designs and DX stories will be combined with information on receiver improvements and propagation. The highlight of the convention will be one of its venues: The Museum of Broadcasting. There we’ll see first-hand more than a century’s worth of communications artifacts, operate a live Spark-Gap transmitter, learn about the history behind our hobby and see how broadcasts were made from the Museum’s vintage radio studio. The combined auction is going to be a big one this year; the Museum and others will be auctioning some nice communications gear. Optional tours during the three-day Convention include area radio stations and the Mall of America. The hotel selected for the 2013 Convention is the Holiday Inn Bloomington South Airport Mall in Minneapolis. Reservation and Registration information will be published shortly. SAVE THE DATE: the first weekend next August! Further information will follow. If you have questions please contact Host Mark Durenberger at http://www.durenberger.com/ http://www.nrcdxas.org/ (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) WORLD OF HOROLOGY +++++++++++++++++ DAYLIGHT SAVINGS [sic] TIED TO BUMP IN HEART ATTACK RATES * Health >> Sun Dec 16, 2012 6:57pm EST http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/16/us-heart-daylightsavings-idUSBRE8BF0LB20121216 (Reuters) - Setting the clock ahead for daylight savings [sic] time may set the scene for a small increase in heart attacks the next day, according to a U.S. study - which suggests that sleep deprivation may be to blame. Researchers at two hospitals in the U.S. state of Michigan, whose findings appeared in the American Journal of Cardiology, reviewed six years of records and found that they treated an average of 23 heart attacks on the Sunday when the United States switched to daylight savings time. That compared to 13 on a typical Sunday. "Nowadays, people are looking for how they can reduce their risk of heart disease and other ailments," said Monica Jiddou, the study's lead author and a cardiologist at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak. "Sleep is something we can potentially control. There are plenty of studies that show sleep can affect a person's health." A 2008 Swedish report, for instance, found that the chance of a heart attack increased in the first three weekdays after the switch to daylight savings time, and decreased the Monday after the clocks returned to standard time in the autumn. Jiddou told Reuters Health that her team wanted to see if their respective hospitals experienced the same increase and decrease in heart attacks seen in the Swedish study. For the new study, she and her colleagues reviewed records for the 328 patients who were diagnosed with a heart attack during the week after a time change between 2006 and 2012, and for the 607 heart attack patients who were treated two weeks before and after the time shifts. They found that except for the small increase on the Sunday that daylight savings time kicked in, there were no significant differences in heart attack rates in the first week after the spring clock change or in the fall, when people set clocks back. The authors note, however, that the small trends they observed suggest shifts to and from daylight savings time may be linked with small increases in heart attacks in the spring, and small decreases in the fall. They speculate that sleep deprivation resulting from the time changes could raise levels of stress hormones and inflammatory chemicals just enough to trigger a heart attack, especially in those already at high risk. Though the slight increase in heart attacks in the days following time shifts were so small they could have been due to chance, Jiddou told Reuters Health that she believes the problem was the size of the study population. "The numbers weren't necessarily striking, but the trends make you stop and think," she said. But Steven Nissen, a cardiologist who is chair of the Robert and Suzanne Tomsich Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, said that people should be carefully interpreting the findings. "We haven't generally thought that missing an hour of sleep causes heart attacks. This may or may not hold up," Nissen said. He added that while the study looks at a good question and he applauds the researchers' efforts, but stressed the limitations of the results and noted that the size of the effect is not huge. SOURCE: http://bit.ly/W391bW (Reporting from New York by Andrew Seaman; editing by Elaine Lies) (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) LANGUAGE LESSONS ++++++++++++++++ NEW YORK, A GRAVEYARD FOR LANGUAGES By Dr Mark Turin Linguist and broadcaster 15 December 2012 Last updated at 19:13 ET Home to around 800 different languages, New York is a delight for linguists, but also provides a rich hunting ground for those trying to document languages threatened with extinction. To hear the many languages of New York, just board the subway. . . http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20716344 (Via Gerald T Pollard, DXLD) with 2:15 audio samples MUSEA +++++ NATIONAL ELECTRONICS MUSEUM, BALTIMORE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpg03CShpPY (via José A Kucher, Argentina, Dec 14, condiglist yg via DXLD) 4+ minute video intro. Evidently it is little known but well worth a visit, with a considerable ham radio component (gh, DXLD) LEASE AGREEMENT FOR THE MUSEUM AT THE FORMER VOA BETHANY (OHIO) TRANSMITTING SITE. Posted: 14 Dec 2012 Middletown (OH) Journal, 10 Dec 2012, Hannah Poturalski: "A board of directors at the National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting is a step closer to more autonomous operations at the historical structure. West Chester Twp. trustees approved Dec. 4 a lease agreement with the museum’s executive board. Pending final approval by Secretary of the Interior of the United States, the museum board of directors will be responsible for its development, management, programming, use, operations and maintenance of the facility and grounds. ... The township will continue ownership of the building, while the museum board will cover the costs of utilities and maintenance, according to Barb Wilson, township spokeswoman. The township has been in control of the facility since the 1990s when the federal government decommissioned and donated the facility. On the National Register of Historic Places, the National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting features the collections of the Grey History of Wireless Museum and Media Heritage Inc., as well as the West Chester Amateur Radio Association." National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting, 7 Dec 2012: "About $12 million is needed to build the former VOA Bethany Station building into a first-class museum." (kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD) -- This is the former VOA Bethany (Ohio) shortwave transmitting station (Kim Andrew Elliott, ibid.) DX-PEDITIONS ++++++++++++ Wayback machine: narrated highlights of 1975-1976 DX season (+ more) I've been playing around with some free or cheap large-file web storage providers. Today I uploaded some material to a newly-created 'box.com' account. One file is a narrated account of some of my 1975-1976 transatlantic medium wave loggings made at the "Willis Pond Beverage Site" in Sudbury, MA. A few of you may have ancient cassette copies that I distributed shortly after the account was taped. Some of the DX audio clips therein are a bit muddy and compressed because of the less-than-professional Panasonic cassette recorder employed. Nonetheless some of the clips, like the crusher German signal on 1586, blast right through at near-entertainment quality thanks to the R-390A and Beverages in use at a pine-forest location looking downhill northeastward into a sizable open marsh at the west end of the pond. Link = http://www.box.com/s/orbdv6uru6ty4156ikm0 For those who haven't seen this previously, here are some links to big files uploaded to another storage site 'MediaFire.com': Telephone interviews that occurred during and right after the 1991 Newfoundland DXpedition: Live from Cappahayden, Newfoundland phone interview (Nov. 1991) http://www.mediafire.com/file/omdbj4zw84imzb4/live_from_cappahayden_nov1991.mp3 post-Newfie-1991 interview (Karl Zuk and Mark Connelly) http://www.mediafire.com/file/ddutyct7yov2igz/post_newfie91_interview_zuk_connelly.mp3 RF capture files (these require appropriate decoding software): Perseus file of 630-1430 kHz : Duxbury, MA : 11 NOV 2010: 2200 UTC http://www.mediafire.com/file/k0zxvd3do1yevdd/P_20101111_2200z_630-1430.wav SDR-IQ Spectravue file of 675-865 kHz : Rockport, MA: 23 APR 2008: 0100 UTC http://www.mediafire.com/file/ai6tw7f1fi7kajl/S_20080423_0058-0107z_675-865.wav SDR-IQ Spectravue file of 530-720 kHz : Rockport, MA: 8 OCT 2008: 2300 UTC http://www.mediafire.com/file/89djv01kklct2zt/S_20081008_2256-2305z_530-720.wav Have fun! (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, South Yarmouth, Cape Cod, MA, Dec 13, 2012, NRC-AM via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See BULGARIA; NEW ZEALAND; ROMANIA; ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SPAIN DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See also OKLAHOMA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ WHO GETS WHAT IMAGINARY CHANNEL IN TOPEKA? KSQA in Topeka, Kansas has filed an unsuccessful must-carry complaint against Cox Cable. KSQA broadcasts on RF channel 12, but their PSIP major channel assignment is 22 (they held a permit to broadcast in analog on that channel; the analog facility was never built, KSQA went on initially as a digital station.) Over-the-air stations are entitled to must-carry on cable, and they are entitled to be carried on their over-the-air channel or another channel mutually agreeable to the station and the cable operator. KSQA argues that by their over the air channel, the FCC means either their RF channel or their PSIP major channel. KSQA would be entitled to be carried on either channel 12 or 22. Cox argued that a station is only entitled to be carried on its PSIP channel – in KSQA's case, 22. KSQA, of course, would be easier to find on a lower channel. It would, presumably, be between WIBW-TV (Topeka's largest station) on 13 and Topeka PBS outlet KTWU on 11. On channel 22, it would be separated from other popular stations and harder to find. Cox, on the other hand, is currently carrying WIBW-TV on channel 12 and doesn't want to move them. I would imagine WIBW has been on channel 12 on cable for a very long time, to avoid ingress interference in the analog era. WIBW broadcasts on RF channel 13 – and did so in the analog era as well – which means their PSIP channel is also 13. The FCC has ruled in Cox's favor; that a station is entitled to carriage on its PSIP major channel, not on its RF channel. However, while KSQA's petition was dismissed, it was dismissed “without prejudice” (against refiling). KSQA has another petition on file which asks that the FCC to allow them to use major channel 12. This petition is still under consideration. The Commission told both parties that, if KSQA's request succeeds, the station may refile its must-carry-on- 12 petition. They also suggest such a petition should be unnecessary, as Cox should in that case begin carriage of KSQA on channel 12 (Doug Smith, Nov WTFDA VHF-UHF Digest via DXLD) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ CODAR SITES, WEST COAST FLORIDA A half-assed update on CODAR is on the below link, with a couple of new photos: https://sites.google.com/site/floridadxn/codar-florida (Terry Krueger, FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) He can modestly call it that since he did it (gh) TRICKS OF THE TRADE On the bbceng.inf website are many more and all on there are pertinent to BBC, etc., broadcast operations. Here is a link to the collection http://www.bbceng.info/Technical%20Reviews/technical_reviews.htm I am a member of The UK-based Vintage and Military Amateur Radio Society and they have agreed to permit relevant ToTT to be on the bbceng.inf site. Regards, (Dave G4OYX Porter, ex BBC/VoA Woofferton, Dec 18, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) NOISE WRECKS THE AM BAND Last year, I went out on an adventure to track down line noise problems in this area. One source I found was an automatic night light; when it came on, the band was ruined, located at a store in front of our building. I talked to the owner, told him the dimmer was bad and might start a fire. He let me change it out and end of noise. Now another store installed some noise generating lights that really wreck the band with noise. Again, it’s another store located in the same building. I talked to the guy, said the lights were bad and may catch on fire. Apparently it hasn't worked; they're still making noise, to the point that the AM band is worthless while they're on. Now the other apartment has added some low level noise generating lights which make things pretty bad. So I've made my mind up that I'm going to move, find a place that is RF quiet, no noise. Think it`s possible? We'll see. I did catch WHB-810 a few nights ago topping WGY at 5:45 PM, last heard as KCMO in the 60's. Everyone please have a safe and happy holiday! (Dave Schmidt – P O Box 126 – New Freedom, PA 17349, Musings, NRC DX News Dec 10 via DXLD) BEST HEADPHONES FOR DX APPLICATIONS Headphones that perform best for DX applications can be hard to find. I've been using Sony MDR-G45 for a couple years, the best I've found since my old '70s Radio Shack headphones disintegrated from decades of abuse. I've tried all types over the years, from dollar store specials to $100 professional models and various types sold by 'shortwave / amateur radio' retailers. The Sony headphones always beat the rest in terms of readability of hard-core DX signals. However, still not completely satisfied, the search for the perfect headphones continued. Now I may have found the penultimate. Headphones were advertised on sale for $15 in a Guitar Center mailer; "Powerful and accurate studio headphones, $29.95 list," Sennheiser model HD 201. The sale price made it worth a try. So far, I'm impressed. Dare I say the best I've found for DXing in decades (Bruce Conti, Nashua NH, Musings, NRC DX News Dec 10 via DXLD) RECORDING IDEAS I would highly recommend a used SONY Minidisc recorder for recording your DX sessions; used in mono mode you get double the time (160 minutes+) on a sub $2 digital media disc (reusable & removable) and it is easily editable WITHOUT any computer and you can add text. Only caveat: keep it away from your BCB antenna as it may add a 'spray' sound every 5 seconds if too close. Used one for airchecks and it does not have any digital artifacts like MP3's (toledohamradio, Dec 16, ABDX via DXLD) Last year at Christmas I got a Sansa SanDisk. I don't have the specs handy but it has enough memory for recording DX. And you can add a microSD card. Just add an external mic and record away. To move the files to a computer, just hook up the USB cable it comes with and it looks like another device (i.e. another drive). It's battery operated and the same cable charges the battery. I use it regularly and then dump it into my laptop. I also have Total Recorder that I can use for editing and converting the MP3 from WAV. The SanDisk is 2.5" x 1.5" x 5/8" with the belt clip. It's really an MP3 player so you can load songs on it to listen to. I bought one for my wife so she can do that when at the gym. Cost was about $50 (Martin Foltz, ibid.) Re: // NO SATISFACTION // Recording Ideas2 Guitar Center also sells a handheld digital recorder from TASCAM; it has built-in stereo mics, and it can record directly to WAV files so you don't get the MP3 compression. The jack input however is for a microphone level and not a line level. You can take the WAV file directly to your computer if need be. Runs on MicroSC cards. IF you wait for a sale you can get one for $50, else it's $100. John (toledohamradio, Dec 17, ibid.) Most of those little digital recorders can handle either mic or line level; there's usually a menu setting for that. I have had very good success with the Zoom H2 "Handy Recorder," which is now a few years old. It records on standard SD cards and has very good sound quality and battery life. A more compact newer model is the H1, which typically retails for $100 or a little less from Guitar Center and other music places. (I'm partial to Sweetwater Sound, which is based in my wife's hometown of Fort Wayne and which has built a tremendous mail-order business.) I also use a Marantz PMD620, which is a little bigger and a little pricier. It's typically used by news reporters in the field, which is why I have mine. It's about the size of a cigarette pack, and it has more options for recording quality and a somewhat better display and control setup. The key is to go for a recorder designed for music or newsgathering, rather than one of the very inexpensive Olympus or Sony "voice recorders." Those typically have non-defeatable automatic level control and do not have line inputs. I've found that when I try to use a patch cord to run a radio output into the mic jack of one of those recorders, I get a very audible "pumping" of the audio. You really want a recorder that has manual level control and a line input. Another option is the C. Crane "Witness," which is now out in a new "Plus" version. I have several of these (by way of disclosure, C. Crane is an advertiser on my website, and if you're going to order one of these, it wouldn't hurt if you did it through my site!), and they're very good little recorders with timer functionality - but the quality of the radio receivers in them leaves something to be desired. They're very easily overloaded by nearby FM signals, and they have very little selectivity on AM. I'd love to see them find a way to put a better receiver in the package. I sometimes use mine as a recorder only and feed it by patch cord from a better radio. s (Scott Fybush, NY, ibid.) The old fashioned Boom Box was convenient. (cassettes). The popular one is the Sony still sold at many places. http://www.walmart.com/ip/Sony-CFD-S05-CD-Radio-Cassette-Player/14017714 I tried one once and I was very disappointed in the radio receiver. (what happened to Sony products?) (then the ratings talk about cheap quality). Here to get a radio for nevertheless FM and have it only receive a couple stations? A 25kw one a few miles away ? (WEZN) A 50kw one line of sight ? (WEBE) Ya know, come on?? I am not sure if the strategy is cheapness or the whole market is in a high urban area? Like go down towards NYC and even the car radio on AM goes into overload. I see a new Memorex pocket AM/FM radio in Wal-Mart and a GPX ear plug style radio. I do not bother to even test them. The small digital recorders as noted seem fine for just recording 'a mess' but as to music quality—grrrrrrrrrrrr. Yes. Quality costs money (normally) The H1/H2 (zz4a, ibid.) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ GEOMAGNETIC INDICES --- GEOMAGNETIC SUMMARY NOVEMBER 2012 Via Phil Bytheway – Tabulated from email status daily. Date Flux A K Space Weather 1 98 17 3 no storms 2 97 5 1 no storms 3 93 3 0 no storms 4 95 2 0 no storms 5 97 2 0 no storms 6 99 4 1 no storms 7 102 10 2 no storms 8 104 3 1 minor, R1 9 115 2 0 no storms 10 122 2 2 no storms 11 133 3 1 minor, R1 12 144 5 3 minor, R1 13 146 15 3 moderate, R2 14 142 33 1 moderate, G2, R1 15 141 3 1 no storms 16 138 5 1 no storms 17 135 7 1 no storms 18 141 5 1 no storms 19 134 4 1 no storms 20 141 11 3 minor, R1 21 140 7 1 minor, R1 22 128 2 1 no storms 23 126 7 4 no storms 24 118 13 1 no storms 25 121 4 1 no storms 26 122 5 1 no storms 27 117 4 1 minor, R1 28 114 2 1 minor, R1 29 113 3 1 no storms 30 111 2 0 no storms Sx – Solar Radiation Storm Level / Gx – Geomagnetic Storm Level / Rx – Radio Blackouts Level (via NRC DX News Dec 17 via DXLD) SOLAR CYCLE PREDICTION (Updated 2012/12/10) ssn_predict.gif (2208 bytes) Click on image for larger version. The current prediction for Sunspot Cycle 24 gives a smoothed sunspot number maximum of about 72 in the Fall of 2013. The smoothed sunspot number (for 2012/02) is already nearly 67 due to the strong peak in late 2011 so the official maximum will be at least this high and this late. We are currently well over three years into Cycle 24. The current predicted and observed size makes this the smallest sunspot cycle since Cycle 14 which had a maximum of 64.2 in February of 1906. The prediction method has been slightly revised. . . http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/predict.shtml (via Bill Smith, W0WOI, DXLD) P.I.G. Bulletin 121216 Solar & Geomagnetic activity forecast for December 18 - January 13 Solar activity will continue to fluctuate at solar flux levels between 95 - 125 s.f.u. in next few weeks, depending on present activity of regions on solar disc (low about January 1, next high about January 15). Occurrence of C class and sporadically M class flares is expected. X flares are unlikely. Geomagnetic field will be: quiet on December 19, 24, 26 - 28, 30 - 31, January 2 - 5, 8 - 9. mostly quiet on December 22 - 23, 25, January 1, 10. quiet to unsettled on December 18, January 7, 11 - 12. quiet to active on December 20, 29, January 6. active to disturbed on December 21, January 13. developing the positive storm phase is possible on December 20 or 21. High probability of changes in solar wind which may cause changes in magnetosphere and ionosphere is expected on December 20, 22 - 23, 30 - 31, January 4, 12. Remarks: - Present type of development in solar active regions and its configuration reduces the reliability of predictions. - This bulletin is delayed due to the author's flu. F. K. Janda, OK1HH, Czech Propagation Interested Group (OK1HH & OK1MGW, weekly forecasts since 1978) e-mail: ok1hh(at)rsys.cz (via Dario Monferini, WORLD OF RADIO 1648, DXLD) ###