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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1692: *DX and station news about: Australia, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Cuba and non, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea non, Germany non, India, International, Ireland and Northern, Japan and non, Korea South non, Myanmar, North America, Romania, Rwanda, Somaliland and non, Sri Lanka, Taiwan non, Thailand, USA SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1692, October 24-30, 2013 Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [confirmed on webcast] Thu 2101 WTWW 9479 [confirmed] Fri 0326v WWRB 5050 [confirmed at 0328] Sat 0200v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 [confirmed] Sat 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1500 WRMI 9955 [confirmed on webcast] Sat 2330v WTWW 9930 [confirmed] Sun 0401 WTWW 5830 [confirmed] Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 Wed 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or maybe 1693 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: 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/ ** AFGHANISTAN [non]. 11565, Oct 21 at 0204, M&W in presumed Dari, poor signal, as HFCC shows IBB, 250 kW, 70 degrees from KUWAIT at 0130-0200 in Pashto & 0200-0230 in Persian, but what is it really? Radio Ashna, per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALBANIA [and non]. 9850, Oct 20 at 0122, R. Tirana is already on with IS; WHRI 9860 remains very strong, but no spurs bothering 9850 at this time. 0130 Klara signs on with correct A-13 schedule of the only two English broadcasts left. In one more week, for B-13 we know this will shift to 0230 on 7425, and the other one shifts to 2100 on 7465, daily except Sun/UT Mon (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANGOLA. 4849.8 [sic], RNA-Canal "A", Mulenvos, 2231-2243, 17/10, emissão nacional em português, revista de notícias; 35332. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I often note this off-4950 frequency carrier when 5-kHz stepping thru the 60m band around 0100 (gh, DXLD) Just checked some of these broadcasts via remote units in Switzerland and at Victor's post on Ceylon island. Log of 1730-1815 UT tonight Oct 22: Usually a powerful signal at Ceylon, nothing heard tonight, but 4849 is a keyboard slip? Noted Mulenvos-AGL just on threshold very tiny on exact 4949.762 kHz at 1830 UT Oct 22. {btw. German DXer HFD will leave next week to NorthWestern Namibia touring, and will check the bordered Angola, Malawi and Congo local signals.} 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) 4949.76, Oct 20 1910, RNA, Angola, talks man & YL, weak (Giampiero Bernardini, RX: Excalibur Pro – Ant: Windom (60 m long) by A. Capra & 30 m long wire; QTH: Pescia (Pistoia) Toscana, Italy. I was 3 days in Tuscany, Tips also on http://radiodxsw.blogspot.it/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANGUILLA. 11775, Oct 19 at 2117, open carrier/dead air from The [so-called] University Network, whilst PMS is unobstructed on 13845 WWCR; by 2121, she starts cutting on and off 11775 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA. 15476, LRA36, R Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, ATA, Base Esperanza, 2015 16-17 Oct, mx local, 12112. 73! (Mauro Giroletti, Italy, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) [and non]. 15476, Oct 17 at 1948, JBA carrier almost at imagination level from presumed LRA36, as who else would be on 15476? Closest thing to compare it to is RAE, LRA## on 15345, not close enough in General Pacheco/Buenos Aires, and it`s a BA carrier. (I assume this frequency/transmitter has a callsign, but not in WRTH; 6060 is LRA31 as R. Nacional) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) LRA36, 15476.03 kHz --- Escuchada hoy (22 de octubre 2013) a las 1900 UT, como siempre con bastante QRM de la BBC en 15480 kHz: http://youtu.be/F1eLRYEH6C8 -- (Rodolfo Tizzi, Uruguay, http://cx2abp.blogspot.com/ condiglist yg via DXLD) ** ARGENTINA. 6060.00, RAE, Buenos Aires, 1/10 2234-2256 44444+ mx, ID "RAE Radio Difusora [sic] Argentina", news comentarios sobre la recuperación de huacos peruanos, mx peruana (lando), programa Actualidad Latino América RAE. Sobre el valor de los hidrocarburos de Bolivia, ID “RAE Radio Difusión Argentina al Exterior" (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, en compañía de mi sabueso Icom IC R72 acompañado del Mizuho KX-3, una antena de hilo largo de 12 metros y una antena loop, Chasqui DX, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15345.076, Oct 19 2045, R. Nacional Argentina, economics, good (Giampiero Bernardini, RX: Excalibur Pro – Ant: Windom (60 m long) by A. Capra & 30 m long wire; QTH: Pescia (Pistoia) Toscana, Italy. I was 3 days in Tuscany, Tips also on http://radiodxsw.blogspot.it/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Language? 15345, RAE. 22/10 1915 UT. Emisión del servicio italiano con tangos y explicaciones de los mismos, y de las interpretaciones de Piazzola con SINPO: 54444 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 25 metros, QTH: Sector sur de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** ASIA [non]. USA [non] B-13 RFA Daily Broadcast Frequencies. GERMANY/KUWAIT/LITHUANIA/TINIAN MARIANA ISL/MONGOLIA/PALAU/RUSSIA/ SAIPAN/SRI LANKA/TAIWAN/TAJIKISTAN/UAE All times in UT. Some Cantonese and Mandarin broadcasts from Tinian, Mariana Isl. vary in frequency from day to day of the week. Burmese (4 hours daily) 0030-0130 12115IRA 15700TIN 17835TIN 1230-1330 11795TIN 12105SAI 13735TIN 1330-1400 11795IRA 12105SAI 13735TIN 1400-1430 11795KWT 12105SAI 1630-1730 9940TIN Cantonese (2 hours daily) - TIN hopping on different days ... 1400-1500 7330TINSuTuThSa ?7475/7555TINMoWeFr 9705SAI 13630TINSu 13765TINMoWe 13785TINTuFr 13855TINThSa 2200-2300 7250TINMoWeFr 7330TINTuTh 7510TINSaSu 9780SAISu 9785SAITuFr 9795SAIMoWe 9815SAIThSa 11550TINMoWe 11565TINTuFr 11585TINThSa 11600TINSu Khmer (2 hours daily) 1230-1330 15160TIN 17735SAI 2230-2330 5885IRA 11850SAI Korean (5 hours daily) 1500-1700 648RAZ 5855TIN 7210IRK 11585TIN 1700-1900 648RAZ 5855TIN 9720IRA 2100-2200 648RAZ 7460MNG 9385TIN 11995TIN Lao (2 hours daily) 0000-0100 15690TIN 17770SAI 1100-1200 9325IRA 15120SAI Mandarin (12 hours daily) - TIN hopping on different days ... 0300-0400 13710TIN 15665SAI 17880TIN 21540TIN TIN hopping: 21755Sun 21765Mon 21775Tue 21785Wed 21700Thur 21710Fri 21745Sat Wed only 11980TIN. excWed 11980TJK 0400-0500 13710TIN 15665SAI 17880TIN 21540TIN TIN hopping: 21765Sun 21775Mon 21785Tue 21700Wed 21710Thur 21745Fri 21755Sat Wed only 11980TIN. excWed 11980TJK 0500-0600 13710TIN 15565SAI 17880TIN 21540TIN TIN hopping: 21775Sun 21785Mon 21700Tue 21710Wed 21745Thur 21755Fri 21765Sat Wed only 11980TIN. excWed 11980TJK 0600-0700 13710TIN 15150TIN 15665SAI 17880TIN 21540TIN Wed only 11980TIN. excWed 11980TJK 1500-1600 6025TIN 7445TIN 9605SAI 9790SAI 9905PAL 11945TJK 13725TIN 1600-1700 6020TIN 7415TIN 7445TIN 9455SAI 9605SAI 9905PAL 11945TJK 13725TIN 1700-1800 6020TIN 7415TIN 7445TIN 9355SAI 9455SAI 9905PAL 11945TJK 11965TIN 1800-1900 6025TIN 7385TAI-TWN 7415TIN 7445TIN 9355SAI 9455SAI 9905TIN 11790SAI 11945TJK 11965TIN 1900-2000 1098KOU-TWN 5860TIN 6025TIN 6095TIN 7385TAI-TWN 9355SAI 9455SAI 9875PAL 9905TIN 11790SAI 11945TJK 2000-2100 1098KOU-TWN 5860TIN 6025TIN 6095TIN 7355TAI-TWN 7495TIN 9355SAI 9455SAI 9875PAL 11945TJK 2100-2200 1098KOU-TWN 6025TIN 6095TIN 7355TAI-TWN 7495TIN 9355SAI 9455SAI 9875PAL 11945TJK 2300-0000 7540TJK 9585SAI 9825TIN 11775TIN 11975SAI 15550TIN Tibetan (10 hours daily) 0100-0200 9670TJK 11695UAE 13620KWT 15610TIN 17730MNG 0200-0300 9670TJK 9700KWT 11695UAE 15520TIN 17730MNG 0600-0700 17515TJK 17675KWT 21610TIN 21695UAE 1000-1100 9690SIT 15140LAM 17810BIB-Fri only! 1100-1200 7470MNG 9350TJK 11545KWT 15375UAE 1200-1400 7470MNG 9350TJK 11590KWT 13625TIN 15375TJK 1500-1600 5825TJK 9955TIN 11640KWT 11865UAE 2200-2300 6005TIN 7470TJK 9835LAM 2300-0000 6010UAE 7470TJK 7550KWT 9875SIT Uyghur (2 hours daily) 0100-0200 7480TJK 9480KWT 9645UAE 9690UAE 17805TIN 1600-1700 5830TJK 7310IRA 9725UAE 12015SAI Vietnamese (2 hours daily) 0000-0030 ?9920TIN 11605TSH-TWN 11805TIN 15170TIN 1400-1430 1503FAO-TWN 1400-1500 11605TSH-TWN 12130IRA 13735SAI 15310TIN 2300-2400 1503FAO-TWN 2330-2400 9920TIN 11605TSH-TWN 11805TIN 15170TIN (Radio Free Asia, via William Hague-UK, NWDXC Oct 23, via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. Radio LMS - Long Absence --- Radio LMS on 2368.5 kHz off-air for 3 weeks now. They are still streaming on the Internet though (Ian Baxter, Oct 18, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Ian, Radio Symban/Radio LMS - For all of August, September and through October 17, nothing heard on 2368.5 kHz, with frequent checking from about 1200 to 1430 UT. From your location you of course have a much better chance to hear them, but I am not even getting an open carrier here in California (Ron Howard, ibid.) ** AUSTRALIA. Glenn, I can't recommend highly enough listening to Radio Australia on Saturdays from 20-22 (it might start before 20, but that is when I have been tuning in). It's Sunday morning in Oz, and a bloke named Macca serves up a delicious brunch of tunes, yarns, banter, sports, satire, bird songs, comical phone calls, and irreverent Aussie-ness at its very, very best. If you want a breath of fresh air, it would be hard to imagine it getting any better than this. Must be heard to be truly appreciated. Macca. Here's a link: http://www.abc.net.au/australiaallover/ All the best, (Kent Murphy, WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 21740 booms in starting at 2100; where do you listen before then? (gh, DXLD) Being in West Virginia, I'm a little further east than Oklahoma, but I am able to get 21740 fairly well at 21, but not before, but I have to admit that I'm recently on the internet and listen on a CC-WiFi, which I like for the clarity, of course, even if it does buffer sometimes. I would still prefer to use the SW, if the reception was good, because the tuners on digital models make it very easy to change between multiple channels. Unfortunately, there are fewer and fewer multiple channels that can be heard clearly. The CC-WiFi takes a lot of time to change channels, and it requires the use of a remote that is a little problematic. If they ever get WiFi radios to operate like the tuners on SW radios, they will have something good. By the way, the program, Australia All Over, runs for 4-1/2 hours, from 1730-22. The website has 1/2-hour archival highlights of each week's show, and is at this link: http://www.abc.net.au/australiaallover/podcast.htm All the best, (Kent Murphy, WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 15340, Oct 19 at 1256, just before RHC comes on, nothing audible from HCJB; it`s active on both 15340 and 15490 at 1230-1300, and only hear something JBA on 15490 --- in contrast to good reception most of the time during our summer, longpath? Now like it`s dropped off the face of the earth (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) AUSTRALIA: HCJB Global Australia B-13 27 October 2013 to 29 March 2014 Frequency schedule 2230-2330 e Asia 15525 2345-0115 se Asia 15400 0030-0115 se Asia 17760 0115-0230 s Asia 17760 0730-0830 Pacific 15490 1000-1115 e Asia 15400 1115-1125 e Asia 15400 1130-1215 se Asia 11700 1215-1300 se Asia 15400 1230-1530 s Asia 15340 English 0100-0115 se Asia 15400 17760 Sat to Mon 0730-0830 Pacific 15490 daily 1100-1115 e Asia 15400 Mon/Wed/Thu 1130-1145 se Asia 11700 Sat to Mon 1230-1245 s Asia 15340 Sun only 1500-1530 s Asia 15340 daily English/Hindi 0145-0215 s Asia 17760 Fri only 1330-1400 s Asia 15340 Fri only (Reformatted into text format by Alan Roe from HCJB Global pdf file via Shelley Martin, HCJB in Asian DX League Facebook page, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 4750, Bangladesh Betar - Home Service, 1346, Oct 20. Subcontinent music till at 1403 with the usual marching band music (today without the bagpipes!); ID; news in assume Bangla; still decent signal shortly after 1500. Audio at https://app.box.com/s/s5syw14d36luol1jjhuy No hint of RRI Makassar; light CNR1 QRM (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4750, Bangladesh Betar - HS, 1403, Oct 21. Same format as heard yesterday; marching band music followed by news. Earlier at 1329 was only hearing CNR1 and nothing else (no RRI Makassar). So the unfortunate development here is that RRI Makassar has been silent yesterday and today. Confirmed by Atsunori Ishida - http://rri.jpn.org/ (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 15105, Oct 20 at 1245, S Asian music, 1249 talk in presumed English, very poor signal from Bangladesh Betar. 15505, Oct 20 at 1357, BB is on with tone, 1357:28 IS starts; off- timesignal ends at 1359:53, opening Urdu; very poor with flutter. 15505, Oct 21 at 1356, Bangladesh Betar open carrier is on, poor with flutter; at 1356:19, 1 kHz tone; 1357:48, IS past 1400; timesignal ends at 1400:13, opening Urdu in time for me to retune to 7120 for SOMALILAND, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15105, Bangladesh Betar, 1233 English, news about Bangladesh underway, 1239 talk by man, 1243 ID “This is the External Service of Bangladesh Betar.” and into indigenous music. Poor, Oct 23. 7250, Bangladesh Betar presumed, 1315 tone, time pips, woman with announcements in Asian language (Nepali listed 1315-1345), music bridge and then man at 1317. Poor, Oct 23 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening from my car, parked along a country road, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna. Editor of World English Survey and Target Listening, available at http://www.odxa.on.ca dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 5952.50, R. Pio XII, Siglo XX, 1/10 2300-2335, 44444, news y ads en quechua y español. La defensoría del Pueblo vela por sus derechos humanos (en español y quechua), ID “Por Pio XII, Pio XII”, ads Censo Agropecuario. 6025.00, R. Patria Nueva (Illimani), La Paz, 1/10 2340-0010, 33333, px Bolivia informa, news de diferentes departamentos que entran en cadena con la emisora. 6105.35, R. Panamericana, La Paz, 7/10 1105-1140, 44444, News sobre Dólares lanzados desde un avión pasado 29 de setiembre, tiene origen paraguayo. ID "Panamericana desde Sucre”, a continuación tenemos el análisis económico. Ads con el pago sus tributos Bolivia estará mejor. ID “Por Radio Panamericana”, px El Parlamentario. NOTA: Antes 6105.50 ahora 6105.35. [WORLD OF RADIO 1692] 6154.90, R. Fides, La Paz, 2/10 2335-0007, 44444+, px El Invisible, mxf, ads Banco Sur, la mejor cadena de cajeros. ID “El Grupo Fides presentó..” ID “Radio Fides, la voz amiga…” ID “Radio Fides (escuchar grabación), ads La vuelta a Bolivia, inscríbete en las oficinas de Radio Fides. ID “Radio Fides presenta noticias...”, px En Contacto por Fides (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, La recepción la he efectuado del 24/09 al 19/10 en compañía de mi sabueso Icom IC R72 acompañado del Mizuho KX-3, una antena de hilo largo de 12 metros y una antena loop, Chasqui DX, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BONAIRE. 800, PJB, Radio Trans Mundial, Kralendijk. 0038 October 17, 2013. Spanish preacher in passing, some WPLK, Palatka, FL co- channel. Anyone remember hearing Radio Netherlands relayed here early evenings decades ago? (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR- D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes! ** BRAZIL. AS RÁDIOS AM IRÃO MIGRAR PARA FM: UMA BOA NOTÍCIA Compartilho o Blog do Geraldo Nunes --- QRV http://blogs.estadao.com.br/geraldo-nunes/ (Ulysses Galletti, Oct 22, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Ótimo negócio as emissoras de AM migrarem para a faixa de FM, pois é a faixa de maior a audiência. Mas para isso, terão que desembolsar certo capital, pois terão que ser trocados os transmissores e antenas, e a disputa em um local alto para a instalação da antena, já que grande parte das antenas de AM são instaladas em lugar que não exige altura. Não sei se é folclore, mas ouvi dizer que algumas antenas de AM estão instaladas em terrenos com certa umidade, como exemplo brejo, nascente, pois dizem que o alcance fica maior. Com a palavra o pessoal que entende o assunto (César Augusto Merlin - PY2HC, ibid.) Bom dia. Concordo com a parte que fala da qualidade do som, mas e como vai ficar o alcance? Sabemos que o alcance na faixa de FM é bem mais restrito do que AM. Fica a pergunta. 73 (Paulo Labastie, 22 October, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Há alguns dias vi essa notícia acerca da migração de emissoras AM para a FM no Correio Braziliense. http://goo.gl/QnW4mm Acredito que o custo para a migração não deva ser um empecilho, pois apesar do alcance restrito, eu acredito que o parque transmissor é bem mais simples e econômico que o necessário para a transmissão em OM. Quem acaba perdendo, são aqueles que moram nas regiões periféricas das cidades, onde muitas vezes as "FM" chegam com o sinal ruim. Algo que aqui em Brasília frequentemente acontece com algumas emissoras (de grande audiência), as quais focalizam a recepção somente na região central da cidade. E claro, nós radioescutas/dexistas. 73's! (Thiago P. Machado, Brasília-DF, Brasil [GH54XC], ibid.) Péssima notícia! Pra quê qualidade de som? Se quisermos qualidade é só ir pra internet e escutar rádio lá. FM só funciona em capital, é crítico e tem baxíssimo alcance!!! A Anatel e o MC deveriam se preocupar com o combate à interferência isso sim!!! Agora sim, acabam de vez com a escuta a longa distância no Brasil. As pessoas que moram nos mais longínquos rincões ficarão privadas da maravilha das ondas curtas!!! Daqui a pouco nós radioamadores também seremos obrigados a migrar também por causa das interferências. Brasil, um país de tolos, inconsequentes, dos corruptos e INCOMPETENTES legisladores de fiscalizadores!!! Falta de respeito com as pessoas. Lastimável! (PY4DH - Luiz Augusto, Rio Doce - MG, ibid.) Cesar, As antenas de onda média são instaladas em geral, nos locais baixos e que contem umidade, pois a propagação das ondas é melhor, alcançando maiores distancias. A condutividade elétrica so solo é fator importante na propagação das ondes médias e longas. As antenas de OM são monopolos verticais, de preferencia com um quarto do comprimento de onda da frequencia utilizada. Quando este comprimento não é alcançado, usa-se o "chapeu capacitivo", que são os estais que ficam no topo do mastro e eletricamente ligados a este ponto e que possuem isoladores no seu percuros saindo da antena. Para fazer o "espelho" do monopolo, com o se fosse um dipolo, usa-se um conjunto de cabos radiais saindo da base da torre, com copriemnto de um quarto de onda (um pouco maior que isto). Este conjunto fica enterrado e que inculusive serve para o aterramento do sistema. O mais certo seria estes cabos radiais ficarem sobre o terreno e não enterrados, porque a perda na irradiação é menor. 73 (Pedro - PY2TNX, ibid.) Olha, essa euforia pode ser tristeza depois, pois existe tecnologia para o AM ser multicast, analogo e digital e na faixa de FM proposta é em 76 até 88 MHz, e digital sòmente, cade os radios ??? e ai como vai ficar isso sair de um abismo e cair num precipício; vamos esperar para ver no que dará, mas dará muita radio am pirata pois teremos muitos rádios am pronto para ouvir alguma coisa. 73 py2ari (Ariovaldo Lobrito, ibid.) Representará um investimento fora do comum para as AMS e não reduzirá o alcance? (Acir PR, ibid.) ** BRAZIL. BRASIL: 4755, ZYG207, Rádio Imaculada; 2241-2303+, 21-Oct; Tuned in to "Cristo"; mostly singing but occasional enthusiastic huxter. No ToH break, but Imaculada spot at 2303 after song end. Poor at QRN level, but definitely improved toward ToH; best in LSB (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4785.00, BRASIL, R, Caiari, Portho Velho, 24/09 2340-0004 44444 news varias y entrevistas s/off 0003 4865.00, BRASIL, R. Verdes Florestas, Acre, 8/10 1035-1105 44444 advs campaña sobre la malaria advs gobierno de Acre sobre el apoyo social, 6 y 54 de la mañana en Acre, ID “Verdes Florestas” (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, La recepción la he efectuado del 24/09 al 19/10 en compañía de mi sabueso Icom IC R72 acompañado del Mizuho KX-3, una antena de hilo largo de 12 metros y una antena loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. BRASIL, 5035 R. Educação Rural, Coari AM, 2212-2223, 20/10, texto, música; 23331, QRM da R. Aparecida. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Rarely reported I think (gh) ** BRAZIL. 9819.16, R Nove de Julho, São Paulo, 0430 14 Oct, px loc mx, 23333. 73! (Mauro Giroletti, Italy, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) 9820, Radio 9 de Julho, São Paulo, 0541-0603, 19-10, Portuguese, religious, male, "Obrigado pela sintonia", "Santuário Nacional, Com a Mãe Aparecida", religious songs. 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Sony ICF SW 7600G, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 10000, Time Signal Station Observatório Nacional, 0544- 0557, 19-10, time announcement in Portuguese each 10 seconds, female: "Observatório Nacional, 2 horas, 44 minutos, 50 segundos". 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Sony ICF SW 7600G, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11780, Oct 19 at 0459, RNA overnight show with usual very good signal level easily believable as 250 kW here (tho Brazilians in the skip zone think it`s much less) --- but modulation distortion is even worse than last time I checked; and carrier is slightly wobbly. This unit certainly needs attention, before it resume totally out of whackiness, QRMing many other stations across the band as has happened before (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11855, R. Aparecida, Aparecida SP, 2225-2240, 17/10, 2.ª parte de A Voz do Brasil; 35433. // 9629,9, 5035; 6135 inaudível, certamente devido a forte QRM. Em 20/10, o sinal em 11855 esteve ausente nas várias vezes em que tentei observá-lo. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11855.03, 2015-2025 18.10, R Aparecida, Aparecida, SP. Portuguese ann, Brazilian pop songs, 35233. One of their new transmitters? Not yet audible on 5035, 6135 or 9630 kHz (Anker Petersen, Denmark, heard in Skovlunde on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** CANADA. 1610, CHHA, Toronto, Ontario. 0057 October 17, 2013. Techno-ish Spanish vocals. 0059 female clear mention of “Voces Latinas” and back to eclectic vocal, chatter between male and female after (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 6160, Oct 22 at 1236, CBC wake-up show with PDT timechex, temps as 4 degrees in Chilliwack, 8 in Vancouver. Nice to hear CKZU making it again; fair signal, but pales compared to 6150 Ustralia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA [non]. ROMANIA/ITALY, 7290, Radio City via IRRS, 1845-1858*, 18-10, pop music in English and German, male, English, identification: "Radio City, the station of the cars", "This is Nexus IRRS, Milano, Italy signing off". 34433 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Sony ICF SW 7600G, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA [non]. 21480, Oct 21 1116, Bible Voice, via Madagascar, Chinese talks, weak but clear (Giampiero Bernardini, RX: Excalibur Pro – Ant: Windom (60 m long) by A. Capra & 30 m long wire; QTH: Pescia (Pistoia) Toscana, Italy. I was 3 days in Tuscany, Tips also on http://radiodxsw.blogspot.it/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHAD. 6164.96, RNT, TCD, Ndjamena, 0510 17 Oct, px mx + ID in F, better il LSB, 33333. 73! (Mauro Giroletti, Italy, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) 6165, Oct 23 at 0055 before Cuba is on, no sign of RNT tonight. Not checked for a few nights, so wonder if still sporadic or finished the the all-night broadcasts? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 6135, CNR 1 jammer, 1238, 10/17/13, in Mandarin. Man talking at length. Something barely audible under jammer. I was not able to make out the language. There isn’t anything the Chinese would seem to want to jam on this frequency (Radio Madagasikara or usually off- frequency Radio Santa Cruz listed.) Maybe a flea power Sound of Hope? // 6110 jammer (Mark Taylor, Madison WI, Perseus, WinRadio g313e, Eton e1, Grundig G5, Tecsun PL 660; EWE, Flextenna, NASWA Flashsheet Oct 20 via DXLD) Firedrake [non], CNR 1 jamming, Oct 18 before 1400: 12370, very good at 1249, with flutter This one really outstix, since there were no others in a scan down from 18 to 12 MHz, nor in the 10s or 8, except: 13830, poor at 1348; and the usual 11, 9 and 7 MHz inbanders. Firedrake [non] CNR1 jamming October 19 before 1300: 9200, poor at 1240; none in the 8s, 10s; skipping 11 MHz inbanders 12320, poor-fair at 1252 13970, good at 1254 with flutter None in the 14-19 MHz range except weak ones in usual 15 MHz spots Firedrake [non], CNR1 jamming Oct 20 before 1300: 17250, JBA broadcast at 1246, presumed this 13130, good at 1250 with flutter; not synch with weak 13830 which is a few seconds ahead of 13130 12230, fair at 1253 with flutter 9200, poor at 1256 No others found in the 16 and 14 MHz bands (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 5890, Oct 20 *1700, Radio Free Asia, Tinian, Mariana, start BC in Mandarin, ID in English too, fair, jammed by Firedrake beneath (Giampiero Bernardini, RX: Excalibur Pro – Ant: Windom (60 m long) by A. Capra & 30 m long wire; QTH: Pescia (Pistoia) Toscana, Italy. I was 3 days in Tuscany, Tips also on http://radiodxsw.blogspot.it/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Firedrake [non] CNR1 jamming, Oct 21 before 1400: 16100, fair at 1340 with flutter; none higher 15575, poor at 1342 with flutter: // 16100 so NOT KBSWR, buried 15545, very poor at 1343 with flutter 15265, fair at 1343, lo het from Taiwan off-frequency 15115, good at 1343 with flutter, CCI 13970, fair at 1344 with flutter; none in the 14s 13830, poor at 1344; none in the 12s Firedrake [non] CNR1 jamming Oct 22, before 1330: 17510, fair with flutter at 1320 mixing with algo, i.e. BBC Uzbek semihour via OMAN, as the ChiCom continue to interfere in the internal affairs of a neighbor 15575, poor at 1320 15545, poor at 1320 12980, poor at 1324; none in the 14s, 13s except maybe 13830 Before 1400 Oct 22: 16110, open carrier only at 1350, fair-good with flutter until cutoff at 1400:25*. I seriously suspect this is such a jammer on standby 15570, poor at 1352, het on lo side, i.e. V. of Tibet, Tajikistan 15550, very poor at 1352, het on hi side, ditto; both shifted 5 kHz from a semihour earlier as above. Firedrake [non] CNR1 jamming, Oct 23 after 1300: 7310, good at 1301 but with echo and CCI from LAH, vs SOH 7365, good at 1301 with echo jamming too, vs VOA 7385, good at 1301 with echo jamming, vs RTI 7445, good at 1301 with echo, CCI, and SAH, vs RTI No other chex today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) EAST JAMMERSTAN: 13675, No crash & bang CC music jammer heard, as noted here recently during 1900. No audio evident. 1908, 1930-32, 23- Oct (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) ** CHINA [non]. Survey to the radio program of CRI on medium wave 1440 kHz Radio Luxembourg === Umfrage zum Radioprogramm von CRI auf der Mittelwelle 1440 kHz über Radio Luxemburg Liebe Hörer, seit dem 23. September 2013 sendet Radio China International für die deutschsprachigen Hörer in Europa ein 10- stündiges Radioprogramm auf der Mittelwelle 1440 kHz über Radio Luxemburg. Hiermit laden wir, die deutsche Redaktion von Radio China International, Sie zur Teilnahme an einer Umfrage zu unserem neuen Programm ein. Die Umfrage finden Sie auf der Webseite unter http://contest.cri.cn/Show.aspx?surveyid=1388&Type=Template&TemplateName=Default--20131014 Mithilfe Ihres Feedbacks können wir uns ein Bild von Ihren Hörgewohnheiten und Interessen machen und darauf aufbauend Programminhalte anpassen und das Angebot für Sie weiter verbessern. Vielen Dank für Ihre Teilnahme! (CRI via Akbar Indra Gunawan, HCDX via DXLD) Here's a short audio recording of yesterday, 11:17 CEST local time - 43 minutes before high noon - of the 1440 kHz Distance: ~ 450 km (Boomerang antenna + antenna tuner/IC-R75) 4 minutes C-Pop: http://www.rhci-online.de/CRI-Lunchbox_1440kHz_1117mesz.m4a (roger, Germany, dxldyg via DXLD) ** COLOMBIA. 570.00, R. Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, 18/10 0850-0920, 22222, ID "Radio Nacional de Colombia," px Campo Agrario, comentan sobre la luna pero que hay mucho frio en Bogotá. ID “Radio Nacional de Colombia fue nominada”, mx, ID ”Radio Nacional de Colombia con su música” mx (Pario La Luna), anuncian el eclipse lunar que será visto en vario lugares de la tierra. NOTA: ellos también dan como ID “Radio Colombia” 1160.00, Candela, Bogotá (Reactivación), 13/10 0540-0610, 22222, mx, ID, “Estamos en la fiesta Candela”, mx, ID “Candela”, mx tropical, ID “Estamos en la fiesta Candela”, mx, ID "Candela”, mx, ID “Estamos en la fiesta Candela”, mx, ID “Candela solo Éxitos”, mx en forma continua y entre mx dan el ID en // Stereo 101.9 FM de William Vinasco, otra emisora de la Cadena Caracol y Radiópolis (tnx H. Klemetz) 1190.00, R. Cordillera, Bogotá, 12/10 0910-0940, 22222, ads, px sobre curanderismo y chamanería, ID “Los admiro y los respeto, yo siempre los escucho a través de La Voz de Bogotá, Radio Cordillera, Radio Uní” 1229.97, R. Calidad, Cali, 12/10 0815-0840, 33333, mx, ads, muy pronto en los dos más grandes se unirán en será futbol. ID “Les habla en padre Alfonso Hurtado Gálvez, yo no cambio a radio Calidad…, la más buscada de Cali”, mx. 5909.92, Alcaraván Radio, Puerto Lleras, 13/10 1025-1045, 44444, mx, ID "Desde Colombia, Alcaraván Radio, música 100% colombiana", mx, ID “5910 0nda corta Alcaraván radio” y continúe con nuestro folclore, mx, px Variedad Musical radio en Alcaraván Radio. 6010.01, R. La Voz de tu Conciencia, Bogotá, 17/10 0010-0040, 44444++, mx, ID “Desde Colombia tenemos una radio diferente.. La Voz de tu Conciencia, 6010”, px religioso (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, La recepción la he efectuado del 24/09 al 19/10 en compañía de mi sabueso Icom IC R72 acompañado del Mizuho KX-3, una antena de hilo largo de 12 metros y una antena loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5909.95, Alcaraván R, Lomalinda, 0450 20 Oct, px mx +ID "ALCARAVAN RADIO", 23333. 73! (Mauro Giroletti, Italy, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) 6010, Oct 21 at 0152, weak YL in English, sounds a lot like RHC 6000 mailbag, but not //, but then into Spanish religious discussion. Presumably a bilingual broadcast from The Voice of Your Conscience, Puerto Lleras (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CONGO. 6115, Oct 20 1705, Radio Congo, Brazzaville, Congo Rep., reports about Africa in French, fair, fading (Giampiero Bernardini, RX: Excalibur Pro – Ant: Windom (60 m long) by A. Capra & 30 m long wire; QTH: Pescia (Pistoia) Toscana, Italy. I was 3 days in Tuscany, Tips also on http://radiodxsw.blogspot.it/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CONGO DR. CONGO-Kinshasa, 5066.3, R. Télé Candip, Bunia, 1819-1832, 18/10, programa em francês, texto; 25331. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Just checked some of these broadcasts via remote units in Switzerland and at Victor's post on Ceylon island. Log of 1730-1815 UT tonight Oct 22: 5066.330 footprint poor S=4-5 signal, very weak, 1730 UT Oct 22. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) 5066.33, Oct 20 1858, Radio Candip, Congo Dem. talks, weak/fair, better then usual (Giampiero Bernardini, RX: Excalibur Pro – Ant: Windom (60 m long) by A. Capra & 30 m long wire; QTH: Pescia (Pistoia) Toscana, Italy. I was 3 days in Tuscany, Tips also on http://radiodxsw.blogspot.it/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COSTA RICA. Re: Cierre de Cariari Costa Rica relay closing --- Do any of our Spanish members have close contact with REE? Would love to see some pictures of the Cariari SW transmitter site before it closes or is demolished. Also, not firmly established are the Google Earth coordinates of this shortwave transmitter site. Anyone who can procure any material to preserve our memories of this SW transmitter site would be much appreciated (Ian Baxter, NSW, Oct 18, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) REE - Cariari: YouTube Video --- To my surprise I discovered this excellent YouTube video of the REE Cariari SW TX site. Inside pics of transmitter building & shots of Net Style LP & Curtain antennas. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2HLasX0ayQ (Ian Baxter, Oct 18, swsites yg via DXLD) From 2012; they had built a fourth antenna the year before to reach further into North America as far as California, but it was not yet in service; never was, and never will be now (gh, DXLD) Must be same vid: Me enviaron esta dirección con un video de Cariari http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2HLasX0ayQ Pendiente de recibir contestación del Departamento Técnico de REE para que envien fotografías. Cuando se reciban las publico. ______________________________________________ I sent this direction with a video of Cariari http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2HLasX0ayQ [Hey Google, correct translation is: They sent me this address for a video of Cariari --- gh] Slope of answering REE Technical Department to send pictures. When receiving the public. [Hey Google, correct translation is: Waiting to receive an answer from Technical Department of REE about sending photos. When they are received, I will publish them --- gh] Saludos - regards (José Bueno, Córdoba, España, dxldyg via DXLD) RESUMEN DEL PROGRAMA: CIERRE DEL CENTRO EMISOR DE CARIARI Cierre de Cariari: Veintiún años después de su inauguración, el centro emisor de Cariari de Pococí, en Costa Rica, desde el que Radio Nacional de España distribuía la señal de Radio Exterior de España para toda América, cerrará sus transmisiones el próximo 28 de octubre. Las razones son estrictamente de tipo económico debido al alto coste que suponen las emisiones por onda corta. Sigue también la estela trazada anteriormente por otras emisoras internacionales que han clausurado sus campos de antenas en el exterior. El cierre de las transmisiones desde Cariari implica que el centro emisor de onda corta de Noblejas, Toledo (España) asuma las frecuencias y la cobertura que se realizaba desde la antena de Costa Rica. Para ello, se amplía en 300 horas más las transmisiones mensuales en onda corta desde España (preview of this week`s Amigos de la Onda Corta, via José Bueno, Spain, Oct 19, playdx yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DXLD) Says in compensation, Noblejas will augment its transmissions by 300 hours per month = about 10 transmitter-hours per day, takes over the frequencies and coverage of Cariari --- I don`t think so. Same frequencies will not necessarily work from a different transmitter site (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Tnx also to Elmer D. Escoto R. for forwarding the notice about this from the REE website (gh, DXLD) [and non]. 3350, 0205-0215 19.10, R Exterior España, Cariari de Pococí. I tried their frequency which a couple of years ago was heard strongly, but now only had a weak carrier without audio! Their // on 9765 was heard only with 15311, but // Noblejas on 6125 heard with 55555 women talking in Spanish about Spanish culture. NB: REE will close the Cariari de Pococi transmitter on 28.10 2013! I passed this transmitter on 21 Feb 2012, when I last time visited Costa Rica (Anker Petersen, Denmark, heard in Skovlunde on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) 5970, Oct 19 at 1226, no signal from REE relay nor on 11815 at 1324 check, just NHK. Has Cariari been closed down already? No, it`s just the inexplicable Saturday scheduling variations: per Aoki, 5970 is 12- 15 Sun-Fri but no broadcast on Saturday. 11815 starts at 1200 only on Sundays, 1800 M-F, and 1600 Saturdays. 9590-9670, Oct 20 at 0124, DRM noise bleeding from 9630 REE relay can be heard out to plus/minus 40 kHz, gradually declining, but really bad far beyond the alleged 10-kHz DRM bandwidth of 9625-9635. We can hardly wait for this to be turned off in a week, good riddance! (Tho we don`t yet know whether REE will attempt to replace it with DRM direct from Noblejas.) I would not say that, if the DRM Consortium had restricted DRM to unoccupied fixed-band ranges instead of invading the middle of AM SWBC bands causing untold collateral damage (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3350, Radio Exterior de España, Cariari, 0540-0600*, 20-10, female, Spanish, comments, at 0600 time signals and close down. 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, Sony ICF SW 7600G, cable antenna, 8 meters, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) And now closed down forever 11815, Oct 21 at 1234, Spanish about Japan`s economy, but NHK itself is way under this, i.e. REE relay. My previous note about its schedule from Aoki as not starting weekdays until 1800 was obviously incorrect, not aided by REE`s confusing and changeable scheduling depending on day of week. Aoki axually shows 11815 as: 1200-1500 Mon-Fri 1200-2300 Sunday 1600-2300 Saturday 1800-2000 Mon-Fri EiBi also has 11815 on from 1200 Mondays, but differs otherwise: 11815 1200-1500 Su-Fr E Radio Exterior España S SAm /CTR 11815 1500-1600 Su E Radio Exterior España S SAm /CTR 11815 1600-1800 SaSu E Radio Exterior España S SAm /CTR 11815 1800-2000 E Radio Exterior España S SAm /CTR 11815 2000-2300 SaSu E Radio Exterior España S SAm /CTR HFCC A-13 registration merely shows 11815 available from 1000 to 2300 every day. Within that span, REE can jumble it however they wish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Last chance to hear REE Spain via Costa Rica Radio Exterior de España via Costa Rica in Spanish 3350 0200-0600 Daily 5965 0400-0800 Daily 5970 1200-1500 Sun-Fri 5995 0100-0400 Daily 9630 0000-0200 DRM Daily 9765 1500-2300 Sun 9765 1600-2300 Sat 9765 1800-2000 Mon-Sat 11815 0000-0100 Daily [DRM!] 11815 1200-1500 Mon-Sat 11815 1200-2300 Sun 11815 1600-2300 Sat 11815 1800-2000 Mon-Sat Snarfed from Aoki. No more Costa Relays beginning 10/28 (Harold Frodge, WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. PRESENTAN LIBRO SOBRE LA RADIO EN SANTIAGO DE CUBA by gruporadioescuchaargentino El libro “Al Santiago de Siempre. Testimonio de un sueño en la radio”, de la autoría de Gerardo Calderín, fue presentado en esta ciudad, donde se desempeñó como director provincial de ese medio durante casi 20 años. Con 231 páginas y 45 fotografías, el texto recoge testimonios de periodistas, asesores, ingenieros y otros especialistas que trabajaron en la creación del sistema en Santiago de Cuba, actualmente con 11 emisoras, una en cada municipio y tres en el cabecera. Al referirse a la publicación, Calderín señaló que está escrita en un lenguaje sencillo y noble, donde se exponen aciertos y desaciertos y relata también el avance de la radio en el territorio en medio de serias limitaciones, gracias al empuje de todos los trabajadores. Baste decir que con la llegada del Período Especial solo había cinco emisoras y poco a poco se fueron abriendo más, con el apoyo del ICRT y las máximas autoridades de la provincia, recordó. Benigno Rodríguez, de Radio Coral en el municipio de Guamá, rememoró su ubicación como periodista y la posterior creación de esa casa radial en la Sierra Maestra, donde aún se mantiene y cuya denominación fue propuesta por él por su cercanía al mar. José Emilio Oliveros Seisdedos, corresponsal de Radio Habana Cuba, destacó que el libro es una herramienta de trabajo para las nuevas generaciones, para conocer la evolución de ese medio, con una rica historia en el territorio de donde es oriundo el destacado escritor Félix B. Caignet. Colegas que trabajaron con el autor de libro desde 1982 hasta el 2001 asistieron a la presentación, y también personalidades como Vitelio Ruiz y Eloína Miyares, prestigiosos estudiosos de la lingüística, con un valioso aporte profesional y académico a la radio santiaguera. Natural de Baracoa, Gerardo Calderín estudió Historia en la Universidad de Oriente y acumula 30 años de trabajo ininterrumpidos en la radio. Fue, además, subdirector del periódico Sierra Maestra, director del Centro de Monitoreo y Análisis del ICRT, director general de la emisora Radio Rebelde y cumplió tareas en el Centro de Investigaciones Sociales del ICRT (Agencia Cubana de Noticias) (via GRA blog via DXLD) ** CUBA. 650, Radio Progreso, Ciego de Ávila, Ciego de Ávila. 1059 October 19, 2013. Still rapidly 'sheet metal noise' wobbling. Fix it, Arnie! 910, Radio Cadena Agramonte, Camagüey, Camagüey. 0859 October 20, 2013. Male canned, “Transmite Radio Cadena Agramonte, Camagüey, Cuba” into soft Cuban vocal. (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; NRD-515 (borrowed); ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1350, Radio Ciudad del Mar, Aguada, Cienfuegos. 0018 October 17, 2013. Very good with romántico vocals, clearly canned male and female reverb at 0027, ID. Deteriorating after 0030 (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF- 7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 1450, Radio Mayabeque, Güines, Mayabeque. 1124 October 20, 2013. Very poor under WSDV, Sarasota, with Cuban flute solo, parallel not much better 1140 (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; NRD-515 (borrowed); ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 4765, Oct 20 at 0058, NO signal from R. Progreso, but a JBA carrier from Tajikistan and/or Brasil, blocked since the beginning of October. Arnie Coro called this ``experimental``, so is it over now, or the fine old ``pristine`` Ukrainian transmitter failed? Same situation at 0127 check. After another spurt of activity on his blog, Arnie has again failed to post any DXUL scripts since the end of September. 4765, Oct 21 at 0146, R. Progreso is back after missing last night. Seems weaker than before, maybe nursing transmitter back to health (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 5025, Oct 23 at 0539, R. Rebelde with song, considerably undermodulated compared to 5040 RHC. RadioCuba failed to turn CRI off 5990 by 0057 Oct 20, kept it on past 0100 opening English, additionally splashing 5980; see PERU. 6165, Oct 20 at 0108, RHC is in wrong language, Spanish instead of English, which is on 6000 only; 0122 still Spanish on 6165. Not rechecked until 0554 when 6165 is in English. Meanwhile some RHC frequencies are off the air besides 4765 Progreso: At 0108, no 6100 or 9810, while Spanish remains on 5040, 11760, 11840- distorted. 5040 off the air at 0554 check, while English remains on 6165, 6125, 6060, 6000; that`s enough, in fact overkill without 5040. 15230, Oct 20 at 2225, RHC in Portuguese is JBM [just barely modulated] on stronger signal than usual here; much better on 17720 & 11840 in Spanish, 11880 in French. 15370, Oct 20 at 2231, open carrier/dead air from RHC; finally at 2232:10 joins Esperanto in progress with opening frequency announcement including this one. 5040, Oct 21 at 0146, final airing, last few minutes of RHC `En Contacto` is plugging next week`s big event, version of H. G. Wells` ``War of the Worlds`` for which a special QSL is available, as has been publicized for the past couple months. Images of that QSL Manolo sent me as a sample, front and back: http://www.w4uvh.net/RHCWOTWQSL1.jpg http://www.w4uvh.net/RHCWOTWQSL2.jpg (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. 9490, R. REPUBLICA, 19/10 0203 UT. Programa “Encuentro informativo” con noticias sobre Cuba como la preparación de microempresarios por parte de la Iglesia Católica y también informaciones internacionales. Señal con SINPO: 43343 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: 5 metros de cable de cobre, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DXLD) Supposed to stop at 0200; maybe not turned off in good time (gh) [and non]. 9490, Oct 22 at 0247, wall-of-noise jamming still running altho R. República via FRANCE is supposed to be on only at 00-02 UT; HFCC: ``9490 0000 0200 11 ISS 250 275 0 216 1234567 310313 261013 D 8500 Spa F RMI TDF 10272``. RR is often inaudible under the jamming and am not sure if it is really on now, extended, but the DentroCuban Jamming Command thinx it is. Usually, like a cat pissing on the door, they leave lighter pulse jamming markers on 9490 all night (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Beats me, Glenn. It should only be on from 0000 to 0200 (Jeff White, RMI, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9810, Oct 22 at 0249, weak RHC Spanish is bothered by pulse jamming from 9805 against nothing, since R. Martí is on 9805 only at 10-13 UT. Cuba vs Cuba! Get your act together, Arnie (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. 6030, R. MARTI, 21/10 0111 UT. Programa «Archivo Musical» con un especial de Foreigner con sus principales éxitos. Señal con SINPO: 54454 con un leve QRM del Cuban Noise Jammer con ruido blanco de fondo // 6030 con SINPO: 44444 con QRM un poco marcado del Cuban Noise Jammer. También se puede agregar que Rodolfo Palma, desde Osorno en Chile, escuchó este especial hace algunos fines de semanas atrás ¿repetición debido al juego de béisbol anoche; ya que este sábado no se emitió el programa debido a ello? (Claudio Galaz, Tecsun PL-660, 5 metros de cable de cobre, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) Lots of reruns on R. Martí ** CZECHIA. 7039.4/CW, OK0EPB time station from Prague, Czech Rep. running all of 10 watts! Sending pips, the call sent once at second 10, "4.2" (the f0F2) was sent at the BoM then at second 40 "UTC 05xx" where 'xx' was the minute coming up, a pause then five dits leading up to a dash at the minute. Weak but clear, 0520-0540 11/Oct (Ken Zichi, Port Hope MI2, MARE Tipsheet 18 Oct via DXLD) ** DIEGO GARCIA. 12759-USB, Oct 20 at 0122, trace of music here on VP signal, ergo AFN still active (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DJIBOUTI. 4780.00, 2035-2045 18.10, R Djibouti, Doraleh. Horn of Africa songs, no ann. Only audible in LSB, because USB and AM were disturbed by a strong digital noise 33243 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, heard in Skovlunde on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) See UNIDENTIFIED 4780! (gh) ** EAST TURKISTAN [and non]. 17630, Oct 18 at 1342, big hole where CRI English is normally heard via Urumqi, while the two French frequencies, 17560 and 17650 via Kashgar are in well, playing rock song in English, why not? Something wrong at Urumqi? No Mali either. And no ACI to 17625 BSKSA, // 17615 both weak. 17630, Oct 19 at 1258, CRI English with Chinese lesson filler, poor signal much weaker than French service with music on 17560 & 17650. French are via Kashgar, 17630 via Urumqi which I could not hear at all yesterday at 1342. Does the somewhat further north Great Circle path from Urumqi to Enid make all the difference? On the NGS Globe I see that both pass within 5 degrees of the North Pole, Kashgar on ``this`` side, and Urumqi, which is northeast of Kashgar, on the ``other`` side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. 4781.70, R. Oriental, Napo, 17/10 2340-0005, 44444, news sobre la visita del embajador de Indonesia al Napo ID “A nombre de Radio Oriental”. ID “Oyentes de Radio Oriental AM Y FM” ads, 20% de descuento en Farmacias Económicas, ID “A través Radio Oriental” news, ID “Radio Oriental como siempre entregando importantes comunicados” (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, La recepción la he efectuado del 24/09 al 19/10 en compañía de mi sabueso Icom IC R72 acompañado del Mizuho KX- 3, una antena de hilo largo de 12 metros y una antena loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. 6050, HCJB, La Voz de los Andes, 0455 Spanish, music, 0457 Ecuadorian national anthem, man with closing announcement to 0500. Fair, Oct 19 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening beside the lake, in my car, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6050, HCJB, 20/10 0047 UT. Programa “Ñukanchikkawsay” con un hombre que habla en idioma quechua con cantos de niños en el mismo idioma. Señal con SINPO: 53453 con QRM de PBS [China?] en la misma frecuencia (Claudio Galaz, Tecsun PL-660, 5 metros de cable de cobre, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** EGYPT. 10/23/2013 03:26: 9965 kHz, presumably Radio Cairo, open carrier, for at least an hour. Sincerely, (Tony Massey, Denver CO, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005, R Difusión de Guinea Ecuatorial, Bata, 2155 14 Oct, px afro music, 33333. 73! (Mauro Giroletti, Italy, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, 2123-, Radio Africa, Oct 13, Nice reception with some fading, with American preaching in English. Modulation not very strong, and somewhat muddy audio (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, Oct 20, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15190, Radio Africa at 1853 with "The Seat of Abraham" with an impassioned female preacher then closing announcements at 1855 and brief OC and repeating promos for "The Hour of Decision" - Fair to Good Oct 14 (Mark Coady, Selwyn, ON, Alinco DX-70, Drake SPR-4, inverted vee or delta loop, ODXA YRX via DXLD) 15190, Radio Africa, Bata. 2120 October 16, 2013. Presumed the one, excellent with US blackccented boring fundamentalist preacher. I don't recall hearing them at this signal level, when active, in ages (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 15190, Oct 17 at 1945, R. Africa starting `The Truth, Light & Life Broadcast` (or was it Life & Light?) with OK modulation on this one vs JBM on some others recently, making me wonder if unit is about to crash again. Maybe not. Fair signal with flutter. Meanwhile, DRM from VON is blasting in circa 15120 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15190, Radio Africa, 1517, Oct 22. Ken Lewis presenting "Gospel of the Kingdom" show. Has been many years since I actually heard a local "Radio Africa" ID, so was rather surprised to hear - "You are listening to Radio Africa. Thank you for listening to Radio Africa's inspirational programs"; into "Hope for Today" show; poor, but nice to catch them this early and with local ID. Audio at https://app.box.com/s/buiirovcfb5xp27bcams (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15190, Radio Africa (presumed); 1450-1501+, 23-Oct; Very low-key English huxterage to abrupt stop at 1459:26 into otherhuxter. SIO=2+52+, sig dropped off noticeably after 1500. 1636 recheck; more English huxterage; about same quality as before 1500. 1910 recheck; now SIO=3+43; W huxter in explaining what "everlasting" means and talking a lot about water. Co-channel QRM possibly Pilipinas (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) presumed means no ID of any sort heard ** ERITREA [non]. Voice of the Forum of Eritreans --- This new clandestine observed in progress with Tigrinya programming on 15245 kHz at 1720 UT, with good reception via Global Tuners remote rx in Odenwald, Germany. No ID was noted, but their incidental music was the same as in these recordings of the first two broadcasts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNSQIi0GwOM&list=UUMKaCcIDaPJc7ELfP75UeYA Thanks to Chris Greenway for the heads up on this (David Kernick, Interval Signals Online, Oct 19, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Heard poor/fair in Missouri with S/O music into OM talk. Very noisy & weak. Does anybody know the transmitter site? http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,13256.0.html (Dave Hughes, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Nice copy here - on at 1700z with music into man in Tigrinya language - music interspersed throughout show - chanting to music last few minutes into sudden sign off at 1758z. 15245 kHz, Saturday Oct 19, 2013. Recording available. Thx Chris!! V of Forums of Eritreans --- Very good copy here - up at 1700z with music into talk in Tigrinya language - music interspersed throughout show - song then chanting to music last few minutes into sudden sign off at 1758z. Format similar to yesterday's. 15245 kHz, Sunday Oct 20, 2013. Recording available (Rich Ray, Burr Ridge, IL USA, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA. 5950, Voice of Tigray Revolution, 0336 vernacular, indigenous music and male announcer. Fair, Oct 19 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening beside the lake, in my car, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA. 6030, Oct 21 1630, R. Oromiya, Ethiopia, long talks by woman, low modulation, fair signal (Giampiero Bernardini, RX: Excalibur Pro – Ant: Windom (60 m long) by A. Capra & 30 m long wire; QTH: Pescia (Pistoia) Toscana, Italy. I was 3 days in Tuscany, Tips also on http://radiodxsw.blogspot.it/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA. Hi all, Spent the last few nights DXing at Waianakarua and have two mysteries I'd like to solve. 2. 7234.6, Possibly Horn of Africa station/target. Heard from just after 1800 till s/off some time between 1820 and recheck 1845. Any ideas?? Cheers, (Paul Ormandy, ZL4PW, NZ, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) Paul, R. Ethiopia external service is known to vary around 7235; also clandestines for Eritrea, such as V. of Eritrea at 1800-1830 as in WRTH page 503; // 9560v. 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Many thanks, Glenn, Makes sense. Need to buy a 2014 WRTH; been many years since I bought one! Cheers, (Paul Ormandy, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ETHIOPIA/CHINA, 7235.955, Oct 20 afternoon at 1430 UT scheduled R Ethiopia in Arabic via Addis Ababa-Gedja, poor S=4-5 signal, usual 20 Hertz up and down wandering, very unstable transmitter traced lately in wide range 7234 to 7236 kHz. Hit heavily by 950 Hertz interference whistle tone. On even 7235 kHz nearby CRI Chinese service from older Kashgar sw center with 100 kW only. Not on air \\ R ETH in 9565v kHz range in past weeks. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ETIÓPIA, 7236.1, R. Etiópia, Geja Dera (ou Geja Jawe?), 1449-..., 20/10, texto em idioma não identificada; 24331. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Just checked some of these broadcasts via remote units in Switzerland and at Victor's post on Ceylon island. Log of 1730-1815 UT tonight Oct 22: 7236.696 to 7236.726 kHz wandering/hopping 20 Hertz up and down, unstable TX unit. At best on Victor's unit at 1748 UT, S=8, little undermodulated, much stronger than in Germany and Switzerland posts, increased up to S=9+20dB at 1810 UT. Hit by CRI English on Kashgar 100 kW broadcasts on even 7235.0. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) ** EUROPE. Hello, A pirate station in Dutch on 6250 with OM in Dutch and traditional German and Dutch music was talking about a reception report from Afghanistan (0718 UT), then mentioned the word moonlight in English. Can't catch the ID, but was told it's called Radio Pelkaan from Northern Holland. All the best, 73 (Tarek Zeidan, Cairo, Egypt, Sent from my iPad, 0722 UT Oct 17, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hello, DXers, A new pirate station on SW called Bad Radio transmitting on 13810 kHz from 1800 UT. You can get a QSL card by writing to badradiostation @ gmail.com 73 (Tarek Zeidan, Cairo, Egypt, Sent from my iPad, 1834 UT Oct 17, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. 9905.00, 13 Oct, 1500, Baltic Sea R, E, pops, Sweeet Caroline, jingle, ID, email, Mi Amigo tune, Man of action, on LSB, 24322 (SILVERI GOMEZ, PONENT CATALAN, RX : ATS 909, Antena: hilo 16 metros, playdx yg via DXLD) He reports only on huge lists of pirates and pseudo-pirates, mostly on 6 MHz band but here`s one which is not - (gh, DXLD) ** FINLAND. 25000, 19/10 1330, MIKES - Espoo, Finland, timesignals pip pip, buono (Roberto Pavanello, Italy, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) 25000, Oct 21 1110, Mikes, Espoo, Finland, pips, fair (Giampiero Bernardini, RX: Excalibur Pro – Ant: Windom (60 m long) by A. Capra & 30 m long wire; QTH: Pescia (Pistoia) Toscana, Italy. I was 3 days in Tuscany, Tips also on http://radiodxsw.blogspot.it/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. QSL: VOICE OF OROMO LIBERATION via ISSOUDUN 13830. Full- data e-card from Walter Brodowsky at walter.brodowsky @ media- broadcast.com in 5 days. A very strong WEWN usually opens on 13830 shortly before 1700, but on October 16 it didn’t come on until 1717 (Wendel Craighead, Prairie Village, Kansas, USA, Cumbre DX Oct 22 via DXLD) ** FRANCE. 27554.95-USB, 14KB094 (Manu Goarzin), Paris. 1335 October 17, 2013. Loads of Euros coming in well. This guy, in accented English, appears to be quite active and often on this channel. Googling his calls, there's quite a few hits including his YouTube and Facebook page where it is clear he's very much into the pirate scene (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. 6070, Oct 19 2101, Channel 292 (presumed), Rohrbach, Germany, The Era of the Cat & other non stop songs, fair/good good modulation (Giampiero Bernardini, RX: Excalibur Pro – Ant: Windom (60 m long) by A. Capra & 30 m long wire; QTH: Pescia (Pistoia) Toscana, Italy. I was 3 days in Tuscany, Tips also on http://radiodxsw.blogspot.it/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Channel 292 on air --- Buon segnale per Radio Channel 292 ex Radio 6150, sui 6070 kHz in onda, ora con buona musica. Rapporti a info @ channel292.de E-QSL ricevuta nel giro di un'ora. Per chi non la visualizza nella email http://diarioradio.blogspot.it/2013/10/e-qsl-radio-channel-292.html Segnale più debole ora, ma ancora ricevibile. Roby (Roberto Rizzardi, SWL I/0216/GR, Porto S. Stefano (GR) Italy, Oct 20, playdx yg via DXLD) ** GERMANY. MV Baltic Radio Relay Service: MV Baltic Radio are still working on their aerial system and will not return to the air until the 27th of October 2013. 73s (Tom Taylor, Oct 17, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Kurzwellenfrequenzen / Short Wave Frequencies --- 16.10.2013 http://www.dw.de/frequencies-and-customer-service/a-1777509 Language Time/UTC Frequency / Band Transmitter Site Target Area Valid from - to 27.10.13 - 29.03.14 Kurzwellenfrequenzen / Short Wave Frequencies [gh removed clutter of same dates with every entry, kHz, UTC, meter bands] AMHARIC 1600 - 1700 09800 / KIGALI Ethiopia AMHARIC 1600 - 1657 12070 / KIGALI Ethiopia AMHARIC 1600 - 1700 15275 / KIGALI Ethiopia AMHARIC 1600 - 1700 17800 / DHABAYYA Ethiopia DARI 0830 - 0900 15640 / DHABAYYA Afghanistan DARI 0830 - 0900 17800 / KIGALI Afghanistan DARI 1330 - 1400 09440 / EREVAN Afghanistan DARI 1330 - 1400 15640 / DHABAYYA Afghanistan DARI 1330 - 1400 17800 / KIGALI Afghanistan ENGLISH 0400 - 0457 07425 / KIGALI Africa ENGLISH 0400 - 0500 09470 / KIGALI Africa ENGLISH 0405 - 0500 09800 / KIGALI Africa ENGLISH 0500 - 0530 07425 / KIGALI Africa (south) ENGLISH 0500 - 0530 09470 / KIGALI Africa (west) ENGLISH 0500 - 0527 09800 / KIGALI Africa (central, east, south) ENGLISH 0500 - 0530 12070 / KIGALI Africa (south) ENGLISH 0530 - 0557 07425 / KIGALI Africa (south) ENGLISH 0530 - 0557 09470 / KIGALI Africa (west) ENGLISH 0600 - 0630 15275 / KIGALI Africa (west) ENGLISH 0600 - 0630 15700 / KIGALI Africa (west) ENGLISH 0600 - 0630 17800 / KIGALI Africa (west) ENGLISH 0630 - 0700 15700 / KIGALI Africa (west) ENGLISH 0630 - 0700 17800 / KIGALI Africa (west) ENGLISH 1900 - 1930 11800 / KIGALI Africa (central, east, south) ENGLISH 1900 - 1930 12070 / KIGALI Africa (central, east, south) ENGLISH 1900 - 1930 15275 / KIGALI Africa (central, east, south) ENGLISH 1930 - 2000 11800 / KIGALI Africa (central, east, south) ENGLISH 1930 - 1957 15275 / KIGALI Africa (central, east, south) ENGLISH 2000 - 2100 09800 / KIGALI Africa ENGLISH 2000 - 2100 11800 / KIGALI Africa (central, east, south) ENGLISH 2000 - 2057 12070 / KIGALI Africa (central, east, south) ENGLISH 2100 - 2200 09800 / KIGALI Africa ENGLISH 2100 - 2200 11800 / KIGALI Africa (central, east, south) ENGLISH 2100 - 2200 12070 / KIGALI Africa FRENCH 1200 - 1257 09800 / KIGALI Africa FRENCH 1200 - 1257 15275 / KIGALI Africa FRENCH 1200 - 1257 17800 / KIGALI Africa FRENCH 1200 - 1300 21780 / KIGALI Africa FRENCH 1700 - 1757 09800 / KIGALI Africa FRENCH 1700 - 1757 15275 / KIGALI Africa FRENCH 1700 - 1757 17800 / KIGALI Africa (west) HAUSA 0630 - 0700 12070 / KIGALI Africa (west) HAUSA 0630 - 0700 15275 / KIGALI Africa (west) HAUSA 0630 - 0700 21780 / DHABAYYA Africa (west) HAUSA 1300 - 1400 12070 / KIGALI Africa (west) HAUSA 1300 - 1400 15275 / KIGALI Africa (west) HAUSA 1300 - 1400 21780 / DHABAYYA Africa (west) HAUSA 1800 - 1857 12070 / KIGALI Africa (west) HAUSA 1800 - 1857 15275 / KIGALI Africa (west) HAUSA 1800 - 1857 17800 / MADAGASCAR Africa (west) HAUSA 1800 - 1857 21780 / KIGALI Africa (west) PASHTO 0800 - 0830 15640 / DHABAYYA Afghanistan PASHTO 0800 - 0830 17800 / KIGALI Afghanistan PASHTO 1400 - 1430 09440 / EREVAN Afghanistan PASHTO 1400 - 1430 15640 / DHABAYYA Afghanistan PASHTO 1400 - 1430 17800 / KIGALI Afghanistan PORTUGUESE 0530 - 0557 09800 / KIGALI Africa (south) PORTUGUESE 0530 - 0557 12070 / KIGALI Africa (south) PORTUGUESE 1930 - 1957 09800 / KIGALI Africa (south) PORTUGUESE 1930 - 2000 12070 / KIGALI Africa (south) SWAHILI 0300 - 0357 05905 / KIGALI Africa SWAHILI 0300 - 0400 06040 / MEYERTON Africa SWAHILI 0300 - 0400 07425 / KIGALI Africa SWAHILI 0300 - 0400 09800 / DHABAYYA Africa SWAHILI 1000 - 1100 09800 / KIGALI Africa SWAHILI 1000 - 1100 11800 / KIGALI Africa SWAHILI 1000 - 1100 15275 / KIGALI Africa SWAHILI 1000 - 1100 15700 / KIGALI Africa SWAHILI 1000 - 1100 17710 / MEYERTON Africa SWAHILI 1500 - 1600 09800 / KIGALI Africa SWAHILI 1500 - 1557 11800 / KIGALI Africa SWAHILI 1500 - 1600 15275 / KIGALI Africa SWAHILI 1500 - 1557 15700 / KIGALI Africa SWAHILI 1500 - 1600 17800 / DHABAYYA Africa URDU 1430 - 1500 09440 / EREVAN Pakistan/India URDU 1430 - 1457 15275 / KIGALI Pakistan/India URDU 1430 - 1500 15640 / DHABAYYA Pakistan/India URDU 1430 - 1457 17800 / KIGALI Pakistan/India (via Abid Hussain Sajid, Pakistan, Oct 18, dxldyg via DXLD) GERMANY: Deutsche Welle B-13 schedule 27 October 2013 to 29 March 2014 Amharic 1600-1700 Ethiopia 9800ki 12070ki(-1657) 15275ki 17800dh Dari 0830-0900 Afghanistan 15640dh 17800ki 1330-1400 Afghanistan 9440er 15640dh 17800ki English 0400-0457 Africa 7425ki(-0457) 9470ki Africa 9800ki 0500-0530 Africa 7425ki 9470ki 9800ki(-0527) 12070ki 0530-0557 Africa 7425ki 9470ki 0600-0630 Africa 15275ki 15700ki 17800ki 0630-0700 Africa 15700ki 17800ki 1900-1930 Africa 11800ki 12070ki 15275ki 1930-2000 Africa 11800ki 15275ki(-1957) 2000-2100 Africa 9800ki 11800ki 12070ki(-2057) Africa 2100-2200 9800ki 11800ki 12070ki [WORLD OF RADIO 1692] French 1200-1257 Africa 9800ki 15275ki 17800ki 21780ki(-1300) 1700-1757 Africa 9800ki 15275ki 17800ki Hausa 0630-0700 wAfrica 12070ki 15275ki 21780dh 1300-1400 wAfrica 12070ki 15275ki 21780dh 1800-1857 wAfrica 12070ki 15275ki 17800md 21780ki Pashto 0800-0830 Afghanistan 15640dh 17800ki 1400-1430 Afghanistan 9440er 15640dh 17800ki Portuguese 0530-0557 sAfrica 9800ki 12070ki 1930-1957 sAfrica 9800ki 12070ki Swahili 0300-0400 Africa 5905ki(-0357) 6040me 7425ki 9800dh 1000-1100 Africa 9800ki 11800ki 15275ki 15700ki 17710me 1500-1600 Africa 9800ki 11800ki(-1557) 15275ki 15700ki(-1557) 17800dh Urdu 1430-1500 Pakistan/India 9440er 15275ki(-1457) 15640dh 17800ki(-1457) dh = Dhabayya er = Erevan ki - Kigali md = Madagascar me = Meyerton (Converted to text format by Alan Roe from DW pdf file via Abid Hussain Sajid in dxldyg, via dxldyg via DXLD) ** GREECE [and non]. 9420, UT Sunday Oct 20 at 0125, Ellenike Radiophonia presumed, but no longer classical music during this hour from Programma 3, instead Greek song. No ID heard, so can`t be certain whether this is the rump service which survived so long after everybody got fired by the government, or the EDT replacement at last. At least Romania is still playing classical music (operatic/choral at the moment) on 9535 // 7335. 9420, UT Monday Oct 21 at 0157 classical music again from Ellenike Radiophonia, altho it was back to Greek songs during this hour the night before (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. 5765-USB, Oct 19 at 1234, still no signal from AFN, so now it`s been absent for a full month. I am about to inquire of my AFN contacts about this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. 15360, 1607-, AWR, Oct 20. Thought I was hearing things, when I heard the IS for Radio Sofia, Bulgaria, then realized it was Wavescan with Jeff White. Seems a bit overmodulated, but otherwise good reception (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. 4055, Oct 20 at 1150, piano hymn from TGAV; used to sign-on late Sundays, but now early enough to propagate before sunrise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HONDURAS. 610, Radio América, Tegucigalpa. 1108 October 23, 2013. Very poor, parallel to strong 630 for just a moment during telco female news item. Radio Rebelde, Cuba and the unidentified Mexican co- channel. No other América parallels located. 630, HONDURAS, Radio América, la Ceiba (and/or) Choluteca. 1044 October 22, 2013. Transmitter abruptly up at 1044 mid-song, and continuous Spanish ballads segued. Faded and local noise by top of hour, back in with ballads, then male announcer around 1124 but blocked by local 620 WDAE's iBOC at 1130. The next day, October 23, transmitter up at 1043, segued ballads until 1100 then nice "Radio América, HRN... 23 de Octubre..." into vocal, news and commercials 1103-1108, ID, back to vocals. Very good signal until killed by 620 iBOC at 1131. October 24: 1044 transmitter up, same format till 1100. Sign on must be with automated timer that's lost time or isn't set correctly; well, at least the WRTVH-2013 lists 610 flagship as 1030 GMT sign on. But their schedule appears to indicate 0500 local http://radioamericahn.net/programacion/ and this link http://radioamericahn.net/cobertura/ which I think I shared years ago shows their alleged current channels on AM/FM. Also audible on October 24 was a very low growl, low side. Looking at a September 4, 2012 log of mine, I had the second transmitter audible slightly delayed. So suspect that is the source of this (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 4840, Oct 19 1623, AIR Mumbai, India, Indian music, fair //4860 Shimla (but they are reported to carry different programs !?) 4860, Oct 19 1624, AIR Shimla, India, mx, fair/good // 4840 even if they are reported to carry differen programs (Giampiero Bernardini, RX: Excalibur Pro – Ant: Windom (60 m long) by A. Capra & 30 m long wire; QTH: Pescia (Pistoia) Toscana, Italy. I was 3 days in Tuscany, Tips also on http://radiodxsw.blogspot.it/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. Oct 20 listening on and off to the following Northeast India stations: 4775, AIR Imphal not heard today. 4990, AIR Itanagar, 1308-1314. Strong signal with the usual indigenous chanting/singing of the region. Audio at https://app.box.com/s/2xdn9n912v5rbnp9mq6e 5050, AIR Aizawl, 1152-1226. First indication that something was out of the ordinary with subcontinent reception; heard doing fairly well underneath Beibu Bay Radio (China) with religious (Christian?) songs; 1220-1225 news in English; well above the normal reception. Today certainly favoring NE India (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Oct 21 listening on and off to the following Northeast India stations; similar excellent conditions as heard yesterday: 4775.10, AIR Imphal (in NE India) back on the air today; off frequency; rather poor compared to Shillong and Itanagar (both also in NE India). At 1323 with subcontinent music with almost fair reception, but by 1346 and subsequent checks was poor. 4990, AIR Itanagar, 1420-1425 with 1429*. Poor reception of the news / "weather forecast" in English. Brief audio at https://app.box.com/s/z21pl89mr8dnl3mz7z6b (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [4970 logs from above regrouped together here for WOR]: 4970, AIR Shillong, Oct 20, 1230 - News in English; security PSA; 1235 the Sunday C&W music show ("Blue Bayou," etc.); ID "The North Eastern Service of All India Radio and we are broadcasting tonight from our studio in Shillong on shortwave 60.36 meters, corresponding to 4,970 kHz." Audio the best heard in a long time; 1335 Beatles song "Paperback Writer" and into interview with author talking a lot about Shillong; 1436 sports news in English. Enjoyable listening when their audio is up to normal levels. 4970, AIR Shillong, Oct 21, 1439 with end of sports news; into rock & roll music show (Chuck Berry, etc.) and talking about the R&R Hall of Fame in English; very good audio level, as also heard yesterday. Nice! 4970, AIR Shillong, 1441-1454, Oct 22. "Special radio report"; the President of India attending the convocation of North-Eastern Hill University at Shillong; series of speeches by President Pranab Mukherjee, by Chancellor Prof. Andre Beteille, et al. Interesting program! Audio at https://app.box.com/s/vubvy2c9k0ksl19xi69z (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 11740, AIR, Panaji, Goa. 0004 October 18, 2013. Very good in presumed Sinhala, female and male talk, nice Hindi tunes from 0030. No trace of reported sometimes parallel 11985 (well, weak carrier detected, if them). (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR- D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Per Aoki, 11740 is in Tamil at 0000-0045, then Sinhala 0045-0115 (gh) ** INDIA [and non]. 11985 // 11740, Oct 18 at 0048, AIR in S Asian song, Sinhala service really running on both scheduled frequencies; both poor but this time more flutter on 11740 GOA than on 11985 Khampur. Also there is CCCCCCI on 11740 I haven`t noticed before, making a fast SAH, per Aoki from CNR1, 100 kW, 286 degrees from Lingshi 725 site at 2055-0100. I wonder how much this messes up AIR in Sri Lanka during the first half of their broadcast? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) OK, CCCCCCI = Chinese Communist, Chinese language, co-channel interference, not necessarily in that order; 601 for short ** INDIA. 11985, Oct 19 at 0055 yet another SNAFU at AIR: open carrier with some hum, from Delhi-Khampur site, instead of Sinhala semihour. Might have played IS at 0058 prior to wrong language Sindhi, but not tonight; still OC/hum past 0100, 0102; meanwhile 11740 via GOA is apparently in correct Sinhala show at 0055; it`s poor with flutter, and music after 0100. I wonder if anyone in Sri Lanka (let alone AIR HQ) is listening and noting the same messups. I am the only one known to report them, worldwide (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 11985, Oct 20 at 0057, poor signal with talk, and seems // 11740 this time, the latter with CCI, i.e. AIR Sinhala service back in whack. 0102 the music seems // and by now 11740 is CCI-free and slightly stronger from GOA than 11985 is from Delhi-Khampur (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA [and non]. 3325+, Oct 19 at 1228, RRI Palangkaraya, surprisingly good S9+18 signal in Indonesian talk. At 1232 check, 4750 RRI Makassar is quite a bit weaker than 3325 which is playing music. 3325 even better at 1242 (Enid sunrise 1243 today). At 1243 I compare to 7325 CRI Japanese and find 3325 a tad on the hi side by comparison; 1244 traditional instruments and Radio Republik Indonesia ID, plugging its audio streaming, mentioning Surabaya and Jakarta, Berita Nasional; 1245 song. By 1305, 3325 is still audible in music; 4750 better than before with talk. Meanwhile by 1228 already there was nothing showing on 90m frequencies from PNG, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The unfortunate development here is that RRI Makassar has been silent yesterday and today. Confirmed by Atsunori Ishida - http://rri.jpn.org/ (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Oct 21, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3325, Oct 22 at 1228, very poor signal with music, presumably RRI Palangkaraya, not PNG. I got a late start today with this the first morning log. 4750 at 1232 Oct 22, two very poor signals hetting, one of them maybe RRI Makassar, which was still on at 1200 today per Ishida, altho he and Ron Howard found it missing yesterday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9525.93, Voice of Indonesia; 1350-1355+, 19-Oct; Lite music to 1354+ W in English with ID, freqs & back to music. SIO=2+3-2 with wind-blow QRM, LSB helps (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) 9526, Voice of Indonesia, 1321 English, woman talking about Indonesia and ID at 1326, modulation seemed weak but carrier quite good. Poor, Oct 23 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening from my car, parked along a country road, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna. Editor of World English Survey and Target Listening, available at http://www.odxa.on.ca dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL. Reductions in SW/MW output by international broadcasters --- Sean Gilbert just posted on the WRTH Facebook group: I have just been looking at the reductions in SW/MW output by international broadcasters ans SW output by domestic broadcasters (where possible) in a language-by-language form. I have been keeping records of the top 19 languages used by broadcasters, since the B10 season, and I can see a reduction in output on 18 of those 19 languages. The only language to show an increase is Tibetan. The languages that have suffered the most reduction (since the B10 season) are: #1 German (-53%); #2 Russian (49.6%); #3 Farsi (-48.8%); #4 Spanish (-45.7%); #5 Portuguese (-43.7%); #6 Indonesian (-36.9%); #7 French (-32%); #8 English (-31.2%); #9 Arabic (-28.5%) #10 Vietnamese (-22.5%) This is based on the schedules we use in WRTH and, as the data is processed in the same manner each season, this does give a reasonable portrayal of the situation. In contrast to this, Chinese is only down by -5% and Korean 1.1%, while Tibetan is UP 7.3%. The Far East languages, to be fair, tend to have a much slower decline than the more Westerly languages. The table below shows the top languages in order of popularity (i.e. frequency of use). Chinese is the language that stands out as being the one with a noticeably slower decline. This is borne out when you tune the SW broadcast bands! I will fill in the B13 data after WRTH has been published. The table is tabbed, but FB doesn't do wonders for formatting Language B10 A11 B11 A12 B12 A13 B13 last fm B10 % change English 1384 1251 1230 1150 1127 953 - -431 -31.14% Chinese 736 711 749 737 749 699 - -37 -5.03% Spanish 477 434 383 332 296 259 - -218 -45.70% Russian 456 424 328 281 274 230 - -226 -49.56% French 357 331 315 281 256 243 - -114 -31.93% Arabic 323 288 298 274 251 231 - -92 -28.48% Portuguese 252 213 187 167 157 142 - -110 -43.65% German 219 224 143 122 118 103 - -116 -52.97% Korean 177 162 172 176 180 175 - -2 -1.13% Pashto 134 134 122 122 110 110 NIL -24 -17.91% Farsi 123 109 79 75 83 63 - -60 -48.78% Vietnamese 120 116 112 100 98 93 - -27 -22.50% Hindi 117 100 97 109 105 102 - -15 -12.82% Indonesian 114 104 92 85 76 72 - -42 -36.84% Urdu 113 104 102 105 106 98 - -15 -13.27% Tibetan 110 111 113 113 116 118 + 8 7.27% Japanese 104 102 103 100 93 94 + -10 -9.62% Dari 96 102 98 98 88 78 - -18 -18.75% Overall 5412 5020 4723 4427 4283 3863 - -1549 -28.62% https://www.facebook.com/groups/wrthgroup/ (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DXLD) ** INTERNATIONAL WATERS [non]. 14300/USB, Maritime Mobile Net with N4DNO control; 1914-1922+, 23-Oct; No maritime emergencies; just check-ins with idle chit-chat from mainly land-locked states (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. 12080.0, Oct 18 at 0105, very poor signal but enough to tell that the VIRI 13-hour Arabic service via Zahedan site is on-frequency tonight instead of a sesqui-kHz higher. Oct 13 & 15 it was also correct, but on Oct 11 & 14 it was off; not checked on 16 or 17 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [and non]. 11660, Oct 22 at 0250, Qur`an with sexey reverb added, good with flutter. HFCC shows IRIB, 500 kW, 289 degrees from Zahedan now shifted to 0220-0520. Meanwhile, 12080 Arabic from same is quite weak but at least on-frequency tonight. (I misspell the word before reverb in order to foil spam filters?) 11700, Oct 22 at 0250, VIRI IS, good with flutter; 0254 retune, in Qur`an, then announcement in unknown language. HFCC shows 0250-0320, 500 kW, 320 degrees from Sirjan in the ``AXM`` language --- huh? Probably means Armenian, which used to start at 0300. Yes, note in far-right HFCC column easily overlooked says Armenia. Not synch or // with 11925 opening another service, q.v. 11925, Oct 22 at 0253, VIRI IS, Russian sign-on, NA, Qur`an; has heavier flutter than 11700 in Armenian, and also a het on 11925, presumably always-off-frequency R. Bandeirantes, Brasil. 11925 is 500 kW, 58 degrees from Kamalabad (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) IRIB engineering sent me a notice about their TX alignment on Zahedan tx site: Thank you so much for your consideration on our frequencies. Yesterday (Oct 13) I called Zahedan site to check 12080 & 15150 kHz. They told me everything is OKAY by now again. (SW IRIB SW-Design Office, Oct 14) ** IRAN. IRAN Tentative B-13 for The Voice of Islamic Republic of Iran (VOIROI / IRIB winter schedule) ALBANIAN 0620-0720 13820kam 15490sir 1820-1920 5925sir 9420kam 2020-2120 5935sir 9655kam ARABIC 0220-0520 7380kam 9810kam 9895zah "Al-Quds TV" 0520-0820 13780kam 0520-1020 17820sir 0520-1420 17840zah 0820-1020 15630sir 0820-1420 13750kam 1020-1120 11760ahw 13620kam 1020-1620 17500kam 1420-1720 9870kam 1620-0220 6060zah 1720-2020 7285kam ARMENIAN 0350-0320 6145sir 7300sir 0920-0950 11825sir 15220sir 1620-1720 5940kam 7230sir AZERI 0320-0520 7260sir 1420-1650 7360zah BENGALI 1420-1520 7320sir 9620kam 11760kam 1620-1750 7375kam 9740kam BOSNIAN 0520-0620 13690kam 17540sir [Se-Cr] 1720-1820 6140sir 9850kam 2120-2220 5950sir 9590kam CHINESE 1150-1250 15140kam 15360sir 15525kam 17560sir 2320-0020 5915sir 6110sir 7325kam DARI 0250-0620 9740kam 11740ahw 0820-1150 15300kam 0820-1420 13710ahw 13820ahw 1150-1450 11620kam ENGLISH 0320-0420 9710kam 11770sir "Voice of Justice" 1020-1120 21510kam 21640kam 1520-1620 13785sir 15525kam 1920-2020 6040kam 7325sir 13640sir 15460kam FRENCH 0620-0720 17540kam 17865kam 1820-1920 6080kam 7380sir 13620kam GERMAN 0720-0820 15250kam 17690sir 1720-1820 6205kam 7425sir HAUSA 0650-0650 17810sir 1120-1150 21520sir 21600sir 1820-1920 7425kam 9570sir HEBREW 0420-0450 9755kam 11780sir 1150-1220 13740sir 15240kam HINDI 0150-0250 9800sir 11740sir 1420-1520 9800kam 12015sir ITALIAN 0620-0720 15085kam 17660sir 1920-1950 6135kam 7450sir JAPANESE 1320-1420 9585sir 11600kam 2050-2150 5965sir 7365sir KAZAKH 0120-0220 6155sir 7430sir 1520-1620 7380kam 9740sir KURDISH 0420-0520 7350kam 9610sir Sorrani dialect 1320-1620 5920kam Kirmanji dialect MALAY 1220-1320 15450kam 17715sir 2220-2320 9445kam 11830sir PASHTO 0220-0320 6065sir 7250kam 0720-0820 11810sir 13730sir 1220-1320 7435sir 9580zah 1420-1520 Mashhad progr via Sirjan site deleted. 1620-1720 6155sir 7345ahw RUSSIAN 0250-0320 9510sir 11925kam 0450-0520 11825kam 13680sir 17650sir 21600sir 1420-1520 7340kam 9515ahw 11675sir 1650-1750 3965kam 5920ahw 1750-1850 6170kam 7305sir 1920-2020 4005kam 7425sir SPANISH 0020-0220 7420kam 0220-0320 6010kam 0520-0620 15310sir 15550kam 2020-2120 6165kam 7450sir SWAHILI 0350-0450 13680sir 15260sir 0820-0920 21510kam 21640sir 1720-1820 9515kam 11830sir TAJIK 0050-0220 5950sir 7370kam 1550-1720 6200sir 7435kam TURKISH 0420-0550 6085kam 7400kam 1550-1720 6175kam 7310kam URDU 0120-0220 3965zah 5990ahw 6100kam 1250-1420 9715sir 11720kam 1520-1620 5940m Mashhad program via Sirjan site. UZBEK 0220-0250 6175kam 7300sir 1450-1550 6070kam 7350sir Saut Falestin "Voice of Islamic Palestinian Revolution" ARABIC 0320-0420 7220kam 9500sir IRIB German service site shows still the summer schedule. IRIB Russian, I note the present B-13 winter time schedule IRIB Spanish, website has wrong link of Sept 2012 (IRIB via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 23) [another version by language, order not all as in English names] 7380 0220-0520 39 KAM 500 178 ARA 9810 0220-0520 37-39 KAM 500 250 ARA 9895 0220-0520 38,39 ZAH 500 289 ARA 13780 0520-0820 39 KAM 500 178 ARA 17820 0520-1020 37-39 SIR 500 270 ARA 17840 0520-1420 38,39 ZAH 500 289 ARA 15630 0820-1020 39 SIR 500 198 ARA 13750 0820-1420 39 KAM 500 178 ARA 11760 1020-1120 39 AHW 500 0 ARA 13620 1020-1120 37,38,39 KAM 500 238 ARA 17500 1020-1620 37-39 KAM 500 259 ARA 9870 1420-1720 39 KAM 500 178 ARA 6060 1620-0220 37-39 ZAH 500 289 ARA 7285 1720-2020 39 KAM 500 178 ARA 7260 0320-0520 29S,40NW SIR 500 328 AZE 7360 1420-1650 29S,40NW ZAH 500 289 AZE 7220 0320-0420 38E,39W KAM 500 250 Ara 9500 0320-0420 38E,39W SIR 500 282 Ara 6145 0250-0320 29SE,39NE,40NW SIR 500 328 Axm [Armenian] 7300 0250-0320 29SE,39NE,40NW SIR 500 320 Axm 11825 0920-0950 29SE,39NE,40NW SIR 500 320 Axm 15220 0920-0950 29SE,39NE,40NW SIR 500 322 Axm 5940 1620-1720 29SE,39NE,40NW KAM 500 304 Axm 7230 1620-1720 29SE,39NE,40NW SIR 500 320 Axm 7320 1420-1520 39 SIR 500 235 BEN 9620 1420-1520 41NE KAM 500 94 BEN 11760 1420-1520 41NE KAM 500 100 BEN 7375 1620-1650 41NE KAM 500 100 BEN 9740 1620-1650 41NE KAM 500 94 BEN 13690 0520-0620 28S KAM 500 304 BOS 17540 0520-0620 28S SIR 500 310 BOS 6140 1720-1820 28S SIR 500 300 BOS 9850 1720-1820 28S KAM 500 298 BOS 5950 2120-2220 28S SIR 500 295 BOS 9590 2120-2220 28S KAM 500 298 BOS 15140 1150-1250 42-44 KAM 500 65 CMN 15360 1150-1250 42-44 SIR 500 65 CMN 15525 1150-1250 42-44 KAM 500 64 CMN 17560 1150-1250 42-44 SIR 500 76 CMN 5915 2320-0020 42-44 SIR 500 68 CMN 6110 2320-0020 42-44 SIR 500 75 CMN 7325 2320-0020 42-44 KAM 500 64 CMN 15250 0720-0820 27,28 KAM 500 310 DEU 17690 0720-0820 27,28 SIR 500 313 DEU 6205 1720-1820 27,28 KAM 500 304 DEU 7425 1720-1820 27,28 SIR 500 320 DEU 9710 0320-0420 7-10 KAM 500 333 ENG 11770 0320-0420 7-10 SIR 500 330 ENG 21510 1020-1120 41 KAM 500 105 ENG 21640 1020-1120 41 KAM 500 112 ENG 13785 1520-1620 41,49,50,54 SIR 500 105 ENG 15525 1520-1620 41,49,50,54 KAM 500 105 ENG 6040 1920-2020 27,28 KAM 500 304 ENG 7325 1920-2020 27,28 SIR 500 313 ENG 13640 1920-2020 52,53,57 SIR 500 216 ENG 15460 1920-2020 52,53,57 KAM 500 205 ENG 17540 0620-0720 27,28 KAM 500 302 FRA 17865 0620-0720 27,28 KAM 500 302 FRA 6080 1820-1920 27,28 KAM 500 304 FRA 7380 1820-1920 27,28 SIR 500 313 FRA 13620 1820-1920 46,47 KAM 500 259 FRA 17810 0550-0650 46,47 SIR 500 263 HAU 21520 1120-1150 46,47 SIR 500 263 HAU 21600 1120-1150 46,47 SIR 500 256 HAU 7425 1820-1920 46,47 KAM 500 259 HAU 9570 1820-1920 46,47 SIR 500 257 HAU 9755 0420-0450 38E,39W KAM 500 250 HEB 11780 0420-0450 38E,39W SIR 500 282 HEB 13740 1150-1220 38E,39W SIR 500 282 HEB 15240 1150-1220 38E,39W KAM 500 259 HEB 9800 0150-0250 41 SIR 500 102 HIN 11740 0150-0250 41 SIR 500 95 HIN 9800 1420-1520 41 KAM 500 118 HIN 12015 1420-1520 41 SIR 500 102 HIN 15450 1220-1320 49,54 KAM 500 109 IND 17715 1220-1320 49,54 SIR 500 115 IND 9445 2220-2320 49,50,54 KAM 500 109 IND 11830 2220-2320 49,50,54 SIR 500 102 IND 15085 0620-0720 28S KAM 500 289 ITA 17660 0620-0720 28S SIR 500 300 ITA 6135 1920-1950 28S KAM 500 289 ITA 7450 1920-1950 28S SIR 500 300 ITA 9585 1320-1420 45 SIR 500 60 JPN 11600 1320-1420 45 KAM 500 60 JPN 5965 2050-2150 45 SIR 500 60 JPN 7365 2050-2150 45 SIR 500 53 JPN 6155 0120-0220 30,31 SIR 500 16 KAZ 7430 0120-0220 30,31 SIR 500 5 KAZ 7380 1520-1620 30,31 KAM 500 58 KAZ 9740 1520-1620 30,31 SIR 500 18 KAZ 7350 0420-0520 39 KAM 500 0 KUR 9610 0420-0520 39 SIR 500 310 KUR 5920 1320-1620 39 KAM 500 0 KUR 9740 0250-0620 30S,31S,40E KAM 500 79 PRS 11740 0250-0620 30S,31S,40E AHW 250 84 PRS 15300 0820-1150 30S,31S,40E KAM 500 94 PRS 13710 0820-1420 30S,31S,40E AHW 250 84 PRS 13820 0820-1420 30S,31S,40E AHW 250 84 PRS 11620 1150-1450 30S,31S,40E KAM 500 85 PRS 6065 0220-0320 40E,41W SIR 500 60 PUS 7250 0220-0320 40E,41W KAM 500 94 PUS 11810 0720-0820 40E,41W SIR 500 60 PUS 13730 0720-0820 40E,41W SIR 500 65 PUS 7435 1220-1320 40E,41W SIR 500 68 PUS 9580 1220-1320 40E,41W ZAH 500 0 PUS 6155 1620-1720 40E,41W SIR 500 60 PUS 7345 1620-1720 40E,41W AHW 250 84 PUS 9510 0250-0320 29E,30,31 SIR 500 18 RUS 11925 0250-0320 30,31 KAM 500 58 RUS 11825 0450-0520 28E,29,30 KAM 500 358 RUS 13680 0450-0520 28E,29,30 SIR 500 320 RUS 17650 0450-0520 30-33 SIR 500 40 RUS 21600 0450-0520 30-33 SIR 500 46 RUS 7340 1420-1520 30,31 KAM 500 58 RUS 9515 1420-1520 30,31 AHW 250 26 RUS 11675 1420-1520 29,30 SIR 500 320 RUS 3965 1650-1750 29-31 KAM 500 0 RUS 5920 1650-1750 29-31 AHW 250 26 RUS 6170 1750-1850 29,30 KAM 500 358 RUS 7305 1750-1850 29,30 SIR 500 320 RUS 4005 1920-2020 28E,29,30 KAM 500 0 RUS 7425 1920-2020 28E,29 SIR 500 340 RUS 7420 0020-0220 11-15 KAM 500 274 SPA 6010 0020-0320 13-16,37,38 KAM 500 259 SPA 15310 0520-0620 27S,28S,37,38 SIR 500 300 SPA 15550 0520-0620 27S,28S,37,38 KAM 500 289 SPA 6165 2020-2120 27S,28S,37,38 KAM 500 289 SPA 7450 2020-2120 27S,28S,37,38 SIR 500 298 SPA 13820 0620-0720 28S KAM 500 289 SQI 15490 0620-0720 28S SIR 500 310 SQI 5925 1820-1920 28S SIR 500 300 SQI 9420 1820-1920 28S KAM 500 298 SQI 5935 2020-2120 28S SIR 500 295 SQI 9655 2020-2120 28S KAM 500 298 SQI 13680 0350-0450 39S,47,48,52,53 SIR 500 223 SWA 15260 0350-0450 39S,47,48,52,53 SIR 500 216 SWA 21510 0820-0920 47,48,52,53 KAM 500 206 SWA 21640 0820-0920 47,48,52,53 SIR 500 231 SWA 9515 1720-1820 39S,47,48,52,53 KAM 500 210 SWA 11830 1720-1820 47,48,52,53 SIR 500 216 SWA 5950 0050-0220 30SE,31SW,40E,41NW,42W SIR 500 50 TGK 7370 0050-0220 30SE,31SW,40E,41NW,42W KAM 500 58 TGK 6200 1550-1720 30SE,31SW,40E,41NW,42W SIR 500 65 TGK 7435 1550-1720 30SE,31SW,40E,41NW,42W KAM 500 58 TGK 6085 0420-0550 29S,39N KAM 500 289 TUR 7400 0420-0550 29S,39N KAM 500 289 TUR 6175 1550-1720 29S,39N KAM 500 289 TUR 7310 1550-1720 29S,39N KAM 500 298 TUR 6175 0220-0250 30S,31S,40NE KAM 500 58 UZB 7300 0220-0250 30S,31S,40NE SIR 500 18 UZB 6070 1450-1550 30S,31S,40NE KAM 500 58 UZB 7350 1450-1550 30S,31S,40NE SIR 500 30 UZB 3965 0120-0220 40E,41N ZAH 500 0 Urd 5990 0120-0220 40E,41N AHW 250 84 Urd 6100 0120-0220 40E,41N KAM 500 94 Urd 9715 1250-1420 40E,41N SIR 500 80 Urd 11675 1250-1420 39 KAM 500 178 Urd 11720 1250-1420 40E,41 KAM 500 118 Urd 5940 1520-1620 40E,41N SIR 500 90 Urd (via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) ** IRELAND. 27601 NFM, Church of the Immaculate Conception, Castlecomer, Co Kilkenny, 0915-0925, Oct. 20, mass, 34433. 27605 NFM, St. Mary´s Church, Ballyheigue, Co. Kerry, 0847-0850, Oct 20, mass, 33333. 27618 NFM, Holy Trinity Abbey Church, Adare, Co. Limerick (tent.), 0910-0925, Oct 20, mass, 34333. 27631 NFM, St. Joseph´s Church, Glenville, Co. Cork, 0915-0925, Oct 20, mass, 32332 (Patrick Robic, Austria, WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRELAND NORTHERN. UK, 27811 NFM, St. Patrick´s Church, Ballinderry, Co. Tyrone, 0915-0925, Oct 20, mass, 34433. 27901 NFM, Church of St. Malachy Armagh, Co. Armagh, 0920-0928, Oct 20, mass, 34333 (Patrick Robic, Austria, WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ISRAEL. 6885, Galei Zahal (presumed); 0357-0403+, 12-Oct; Trumpet blares before ToH, into presumed news till 0402 into lite music. Presume in Hebrew but sounded more like Spanish. Poor. Much better at 0219, 14-Oct; W in HB talking over music; mentioned John Lennon. Familiar pop tunes in HB. SIO=353- (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, 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) 6885, Galei Zahel 0405 Hebrew, woman announcer, old US pop tune “Sloopy”. Poor, Oct 19 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening beside the lake, in my car, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6885, Galei Zahal (presumed); 2231, 22-Oct; Lengthy commentary in Hebrew by M, then W--maybe a call-in program. SIO=2+42+ in USB needed to minimize 6875 splash from WWCR(p) English huxter trying to save me (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) No more 6875 now (gh) ** ITALY [non non]. I posted the coordinates several months ago (July 2013 in fact) to both SWSites YG & DXLD via the 10th anniversary 3 part article on IRRS I did in cooperation with Bob Zanotti-SUI. It was through Bob, via my direct questioning that I discovered the correct SW TXer site of the former IRRS of that era. Part 3, page 1 I show the dipole location - exactly (Ian). On page 2 I give the coordinates - exactly. I'm surprised, bemused & a bit puzzled why this should "suddenly" become news. Don't people read the messages & documents I produce? Here's Part 1 & Part 3 (Part 3 has the coordinates). All three parts of the document can be found in the FILES section of the Yahoogroups SWSITES. Full crediting to myself & Bob Zanotti (Ian Baxter-AUS, SW TXsites Oct 10 via BCDX Oct 22 via DXLD) ** ITALY. Domenica 6 ottobre 2013, 1750-1830 - 6210.4 kHz, R. TANGO ITALIA - Tanghi non stop. (:-0 Alle 1830 fermo *40* minuti di registrazione? ):-0 Alle 1832 mandano l'annuncio di identitificazione! Segnale sufficiente-buono (Luca Botto Fiora, QTH G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, playdx yg via DXLD) 6205.43, Oct 20 1655, pirate no ID, songs non stop Tango, good (Giampiero Bernardini, RX: Excalibur Pro – Ant: Windom (60 m long) by A. Capra & 30 m long wire; QTH: Pescia (Pistoia) Toscana, Italy. I was 3 days in Tuscany, Tips also on http://radiodxsw.blogspot.it/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY [non]. ROMANIA, 15190, 1550-, ? European Gospel Radio, Oct 20. Fair to good reception with slow speech in Italian, and piano music in background. Sounding religious. Not 100% sure who this is, although SWSked list shows IRRS with either 'ANTI' or European Gospel Radio. What exactly is ANTI? Listed via Tigneshti in any case. Pretty sure I heard 'Anti' at 1558. Into an English song after this. English ID for ?IRRS at 1600 and transmitter cut a few seconds later. Became a bit more difficult to copy by sign-off (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. 5985, Oct 19 at 1330, Shiokaze with usual sad-piano-music theme; 1332 alarm SFX, 1335 news sounders. I had lost track of it since spring, when the 1330-1430 broadcast became too late to propagate into deep North America on 49m. But today I look for it again on previously known frequencies, as it should remain audible for another semiyear. Usually I can distinguish Japanese from Korean, but not so easy now: since I never hear an ``imnida``, it must be Japanese. Presumably English remains only on Fridays and this is Saturday. 5985 infected with the characteristic het from off-frequency Myanmar [q.v.] 5985.3 or so. By 1356, 73 minutes after sunrise here, JSR has become JBA. In fact, I find no mentions of Shiokaze in DXLD since 13-32, as Wolfgang Büschel had it August 5, when it was previously on 5985 --- but must have rotated thru two or three other 49m channels in the meantime. This is ``Sea Breeze``, alternately also in Chinese, the service dedicated to getting Japanese kidnapped by North Korea back (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, Occasionally I do continue to monitor Shiokaze. They do indeed still have English on Friday. Recent English intro at https://app.box.com/s/tgp07kmeeo00nr69e1pm For some reason they have been on 5985 for a long time now without changing frequency. Certainly is time for them to un-block Myanmar! (Ron Howard, CA, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. NHK World, B-13 English: 0330-0400 738-Moscow and 1386-Lithuania to Eu 0500-0530 9770-France to SAf 0500-0530 13640-UAE to Eu 1000-1030 9625 to Oceania 1200-1230 11740-Singapore to SEAs 1400-1430 11925-Palau to SEAs 1400-1430 11695-Uzbekistan to SWAs 1800-1830 11800-South Africa to CAf (from pdf of full schedule, R. Japan Monitoring Section, Oct 23 via Wolfgang Büschel, WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DXLD) JAPAN: NHK World Radio Japan English B-13 English 0500-0530 Eu 13640dh 0500-0530 Af 9770fr 1000-1030 Oceania 9625 1200-1230 seAs 11740kr 1400-1430 seAs 11925pw 1400-1430 swAs 11695ta 1800-1830 Af 11800me dh = Al Dhabbaya, UAE fr = Issoudun, France kr = Kranji, Singapore me = Meyerton, South Africa pw = Palau ta = Tashkent, Uzbekistan (PDF file from NHK via Wolfgang Bueschel, English portion extracted and retyped by Alan Roe, dxldyg via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH. COREIA DO NORTE, 2850, Emissora Principal, Pionguiangue, 2040-2050, 20/10, texto, alguma música; 15331. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 2850, Oct 22 at 1229, very poor carrier from presumed Pyongyang KCBS. Frequently check this, still awaiting a good showing this season {or as they say in Portugal, Pionguiangue} (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. 13760, VOK, 23/10 0541 UT. Locutora anuncia, en español, música coral con temas patrióticos o Juche con títulos como: “Adelante, jóvenes en pos del partido” e informaciones de inteligencia militar de Corea del Sur, para finalizar a las 0556 con la lectura de las señales para Centro y Suramérica. Queda la portadora abierta desde las 0556 hasta las 06 UT cuando comienzan las identificaciones del servicio en francés. Señal con SINPO: 54454 // 11735 con SINPO: 43333 // 15180 con SINPO: 54444 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 25 metros, QTH: Sector sur de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5985, Oct 23 at 1329 OC with het, 1330 piano theme and Shiokaze signing on, very poor. The het from Myanmar on the hi side is not 5985.3 as I misstated previously but close to 5985.8; Ron Howard measured it recently as 5985.77v (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH [and non]. Checking the clandestines vs N Korean noise jammers at 1135-1140 Oct 18: 6600, pop song is atop the jamming, V. of the People 6518, jamming is heavier here vs V. of the People 6480, Korean talk over jamming, MND Radio 6400, Korean, no jamming of course* since it`s Pyongyang BS itself 6348, Korean with echo, music, over jamming, Echo of Hope 6270, Korean talk, no jamming, MND Radio *I shouldn`t say ``of course`` since the Juche are capable of jamming themselves on VOK mixtures. IDs as per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH [and non]. 5150, Oct 22 at 1226, YL talk in Korean, fair and no jamming; // 6360, Oct 22 at 1236 atop Juche jamming noise, i.e. MND Radio, in Aoki as 100 kW, ND from ChunCheon on both during this hour and at 0400. On 6360 also RTTY QRM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH [non]. KBS WORLD RADIO IS FIRST TO USE INNOVATIVE DRM/AM HYBRID TRANSMISSION THROUGH WRN BROADCAST Vauxhall, London, 15 October 2013 – WRN Broadcast has today announced that the company will be enabling KBS World Radio to provide a one hour daily transmission in German using an analogue-digital 20 kHz simulcast mode of the Digital Radio Mondiale system via a shortwave transmitting station in Sofia, Bulgaria. Broadcasting from 27th October 2013, the daily transmission will be at 1900 to 2000 UT (2000 to 2100 local time, in Germany) when listeners with a DRM receiver will be able to hear the broadcast in high audio quality on 5875 kHz while listeners with a conventional analogue set will be able tune their radio to 5885 kHz. David Treadway, CEO, WRN Broadcast, says "This mode of transmission was defined early in the development of DRM but has seemingly never before been operated for a regular broadcast service. This is another great example of how WRN Broadcast’s world-class expertise continues to support our clients’ broadcast ambitions." Based in Seoul, KBS World Radio has been working with WRN Broadcast for the past 20 years. KBS discussed the possibility of providing a DRM transmission to Germany but WRN Broadcast believed it would gain a larger audience if it could use both analogue and digital transmission and saw the efficiency of placing both within 20 kHz. The transmission, targeted at Germany, Austria and Switzerland, will be made from Sofia, Bulgaria where WRN Broadcast first installed DRM transmission hardware in 2003. The station is owned by Spaceline, which has subsequently invested in further DRM equipment. WRN Broadcast has also previously operated a local trial DRM transmission in the London area on 26 MHz. KBS broadcasts globally in 11 languages and 2013 marks its 60th anniversary. _ _ _ _ About WRN Broadcast: WRN Broadcast _is a global broadcasting company, facilitating worldwide service delivery and content management solutions for broadcast clients. It provides Multi-Channel Playout, Content Management and Distribution Services for some of the world¹s greatest networks and channels including Viacom, Top Up Tv and Zuku. WRN Broadcast has been enabling broadcasters and media owners to deliver their content to audiences worldwide from our London Media Centre, since the early 90’s. They offer tailored and cost-effective solutions to some of the world’s leading broadcast companies, through our state-of-the-art facilities and equipment, intelligent use of the latest technology and over 20 years experience of meeting and exceeding their clients’ needs around the world. WRN Broadcast provides end-to-end, premium solutions for: Content Management; Archiving and Storage; SD, HD and 3D playout; Data Centre solutions; Over The Top (OTT) services and Fibre and Satellite Distribution (WRN PR Oct 18 via WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DXLD) KBSWR hybrid DRM/AM B13 --- By ``hybrid`` does this imply or require that both AM and DRM signals are coming out of a single transmitter? Or is it really two separate transmitters which are deliberately tuned 10 kHz apart? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Here is a great explanation of DRM in Simulcast mode. Regards, (Christopher K6FIB "fibber" of , dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Not plowed thru all 37 pages of this yet, but searching on ``hybrid``, the term appears nowhere in it. ``Simulcast`` instead, not exactly the same thing? Explains how one transmitter will do it, but I understand that for the KBS broadcasts, there are two separate 100 kW transmitters, which could be tuned on any two separate frequencies, not necessarily 10 kHz apart (Glenn Hauser, Oct 21, dxldyg via DXLD) From Oct 22, WRN will be informally testing this at 1900-2000 UT on 5870 DRM and 5880 AM (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENIG DIGEST) Hi Glenn, From 22 through 26 October, KBS World Radio will be testing on 5880 kHz (analogue) and 5870 kHz (DRM) in German for Europe 1900- 2000 UTC. This will be relayed from Kostinbrod, Bulgaria. Starting October 27, the frequencies will be 5885 kHz (analogue) and 5875 kHz (DRM). With just 10 kHz separation, I reckon the DRM will splash over the analogue signal. At least 15 kHz separation would be desirable. Maybe these relays will replace the long-established 3955 kHz from Woofferton UK. No news yet on the KBS English frequencies for B-13, and in particular, if they plan to stick with 15575 kHz for North America. Regards, (Alan Holder, Isle of Wight, UK, Oct 21, WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 21540, Oct 21 at 1353, R. Kuwait fair signal is the SSOB as usual, but now it`s JBM, Arabic cutting on and off during drama (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KYRGYZSTAN. 4795, Kyrgyz R1, Kransaya [sic] Rechka, Bishkek, 1620- 1710, Oct 01, Kyrgyz talk, local music and songs, low modulation and noises, 32322. Better reception on 4010 (33333). (Kyriakos Dritsas, Thessaloniki, Greece, DSWCI DX Window Oct 16 via DXLD) ** KYRGYZSTAN. 5130, SW Relay Service, Kransaya [sic] Rechka, Bishkek, 1715-1745, Oct 01, talk with light music in the background. Strong QRM by a local 2-way station on the same frequency. I used USB to avoid the interference, but it was impossible. After 1742 many static noises interfered very hard, so I couldn’t listen to the station. (21221). On Oct 03, I listened again to the station at 1600-1705 with much better reception, clear Farsi talk with light music and songs, 33333 (Kyriakos Dritsas, Thessaloniki, Greece, DSWCI DX Window Oct 16 via DXLD) ** LUXEMBOURG. See CHINA [non] ** MALAYSIA. MALÁSIA, 5964.7, R. Klasik FM via RTM, Kajang, 1613-1623, 20/10, malaio, canções; 23431, QRM adjacente. 7295, Traxx FM via RTM, Kajang, 1610-1824, 20/10, inglês, conversa, música pop'; 45433. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Just checked some of these broadcasts via remote units in Switzerland and at Victor's post on Ceylon island. Log of 1730-1815 UT tonight Oct 22: 5964.704 kHz RTM Klasik Nasional program, interview of lady in Malay, S=9+20db, on Ceylon post at 1755 UT Oct 22. Others stronger 7295 and 9835 kHz are both on exact even frequency. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) 5964.7, Radio Klasik, 1250 Bahasa Malay, light popular Malaysian music with female announcer, 1300 man with news. Poor, Oct 23. 7295, Traxx FM, 1301 English, man with news, 1310 news ended and woman commented about next news from the “R-T-M Radio News Center”, a “Radio Malaysia R-T-M” ID and into pop music. Poor, Oct 23. (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening from my car, parked along a country road, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 540, W Radio, San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí. 0850 October 20, 2013. Fair under domestics with nonstop techno beats, parallel excellent 900. No Nicaragua het (not on yet). (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; NRD-515 (borrowed); ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 610, MEXICO, unidentified. 1118-1131 October 23, 2013. Pointing central/south-ish Mexico, nonstop schmaltzy Mexican band (tuba-intensive) instrumental covers of goofy old songs such as "Man On the Flying Trapeze" until blocked by local 620 WDAE's iBOC at 1131. October 24: Mexi-tunes vocals and instrumentals from 1103 tune-in, 1117 male and female chatter, bad local noise (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ- 180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 640, XENQ, Tulancingo, Hidalgo. 1059 October 14, 2013. End of male talk, abbreviated anthem from 1100, call and slogan not copied and into ballad from 1102. At 1110, “N-Q, N-Q...” and at 1112, “N-Q, 90 punto 1...” Another new XE for me (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF- 7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 660, Oct 23 at 1214 UT, Nuevo León state PSA, then ID as ABC Radio, Monterrey, with FM and AM frequencies, phone numbers, but did not hear any callsigns; then news headlines. Cantú shows: 660 XEFZ ABC Radio Monterrey, N.L. 10,000 1,000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 690, XECS, La Mejor, Manzanillo, Colima. 1110-1137 October 19, 2013. An XE with anthem at 1100, too weak to ID, then another with anthem from 1103. Which if either was this is unknown, but this one faded up to decent level with Mexi-tunes, male canned “la Mejor” between songs. Eventually crushed by my local 680 splatter as this one also began fading (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; NRD-515 (borrowed); ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 700, Oct 20 at 1203 UT, big hum on open carrier again, previously tracked to: 700 XEGD La Poderosa + FM 90.3 Hidalgo del Parral, Chih. 5,000 1,000 700, Oct 21 at 1159 UT, music right across hourtop, no NA, 1203 finally ID as ``La Poderosa`` and again at 1205, more music. Making SAH of 76/minute = 1.27 Hz with WLW roughly opposite. So XEGD in Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua has decided to modulate with something other than hum as 24 hours ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 720, Oct 18 at 0457 UT, full ID for XHDE FM 105.7 & XEDE AM, 0458 NA, mixing WGN with SAH of 192/minute = 3.2 Hz. No sign of the real KSAH at the moment. Cantú: 720 XEDE La Kaliente + FM 105.7 Saltillo, Coah. 8,000 250 Kudos to XEDE for holding its own with 250 watts vs 50,000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 720, Oct 18 at 1231 UT, Fox-logo fanfare, then YL talking about someone who took off their clothes; phone keeps ringing in background; WGN almost nulled. Seems further west than Saltillo, ergo XEJCC, Extremo 720, Ciudad Juárez (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 770, Oct 18 at 1200 UT, Fórmula promo with an 866- phone number to hear it ``en la Unión Americana`` from 7 to 8 am Mexican central time. I.e. a US toll-free number. Cantú: 770 XEACH Radio Fórmula Primer Cadena Monterrey, N.L. 25,000 1,000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 780, XESFT la Poderosa, San Fernando, Tamaulipas. 1124 October 18, 2013. Mexi-tunes, the usual male canned ID with FM and AM frequencies, female canned time checks (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF- 7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 800, Oct 20 at 1208 UT, Donald Duck is really bad this morning vs KQCV OKC, except where I can get a tight null on it pointing right at XEDD Montemorelos, Nuevo León, previously traced to La Voz del Pato Donaldo; {it`s so distorted that I am not sure if it`s talk or music now, but lean toward the latter.} Strangely, not much from XEROK with KQCV nulled (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also UNID 750 ** MEXICO. 850, Oct 23 at 1229 UT, with KOA nulled, Brazuguese is startling, but it`s a clip during news, soon followed by Pres. Obama in English, and someone in English with a French accent, none of it directly translated, probably about spying; then to narration in Spanish during Milenio Noticias, 7:30 TC, so from DF TV feed {and visibly subtitled}? Then ID as Milenio Radio listing FM frequencies in several cities: including 103.7 Monterrey, 99.5 ---, 95.3 Tijuana, 99.3 Saltillo, 103.7 Chihuahua; followed by further promos for the last one, as we already knew this would be XEM Chihuahua city, where it`s only 6:30 am. Next week will be confusing, as most of Mexico goes off DST a week before we, and the border cities do (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 860, Oct 20 at 1211 UT, Radio Recuerdos jingle, auto time & temp as 7:11, 16 grados, then ranchera. Loops almost N/S, and there is another SS song further west with this nulled, too many possibilities for that; no problem from KKOW KS at the moment. Per Cantú: 860 XENL Radio Recuerdo Monterrey, N.L. 5,000 2,000 IRCA and WRTH agree it`s singular, so did I mishear it? Means memory/memories (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 940+, Oct 20 at 1224 UT, usual het looping E/W always audible around sunrise here, but never with any audio, no doubt XEMMM in Mexicali, per mwoffsets as of 3.5 years ago: 940 940.174 MEX XEMMM-AM 940 Oldies (Mexicali/Santa Isabel)[939.9839-] 20100406 [not explained what the bracketed frequency means] Cantú shows nite power of only 100 watts! 940 XEMMM 940 Oldies Mexicali, B.C. 1,000 100 And not to be confused with 50 kW XEQ in the DF which is always off to the lo side of 940 by a similar amount (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1030, Oct 23 at 1235 UT, ID for 98.9, time as 6:35, so the match on UT -6 timezone and FM frequency in Cantú is: 1030 XEMPM Exa + FM 98.9 Los Mochis, Sin. 10,000 1,000 altho they also mentioned California; no BCS on 1030, but they should have listeners across the Sea of Cortez (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1320, Oct 20 at 1236 UT, from SSW, ``La Poderosa, Radiorama``, with teléfonos en cabina, federal PSAs including one from Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos; 1238 teléfonos again including an 800-number, song. Dominating vs the CCI. It`s per Cantú: 1320 XECPN La Poderosa + FM 101.7 Piedras Negras, Coah. 10,000 100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1530, XEUR, Radio Fiesta, México DF. 1031 October 20, 2013. Spanish pop vocals, female canned slogan 1034 and 1040 (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; NRD-515 (borrowed); ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. This evening (Oct 17 UT), during my listening at Asilomar State Beach, R. Mil on 6009.96 with decent reception - https://app.box.com/s/umg4saoyqy1rp68lbclj enjoying their nice ranchero(?) music (Ron Howard, California, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 6185, XEPPM, R. Educación – Ciudad Colón, 0113, 10/18/13, in Spanish. Recording of a live concert of New Orleans style jazz sung in Spanish through top of hour until about 0245. Very good signal – Armchair. Listened to the whole concert. Fun to hear U.S. originated music played to a Mexican crowd in Spanish (Mark Taylor, Madison WI, Perseus, WinRadio g313e, Eton e1, Grundig G5, Tecsun PL 660; EWE, Flextenna, NASWA Flashsheet Oct 20 via DXLD) Ciudad Colón? How did that get in there; certainly not location of XEPPM. Was location of Radio for Peace International, Costa Rica, long gone. The word Colon appears nowhere in Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MICRONESIA. Been away from the radio traveling for about a week, but I noticed this morning that the het [carrier] has reappeared on 4755.5, suggesting that The Cross is back on the air after its recent absence. Not strong enough to get any audio out of it today, so this is just tentative (Art Delibert, North Bethesda, MD, 10/24, Hard-Core- DX mailing list via DXLD) Time? ** MYANMAR [and non]. 5915, Oct 19 at 1236, some weak music is here, but no doubt it`s CRI via Hohhot 694 site, Inner Mongolia, as per Aoki starting at 1200 with 4 hours of Russian and Mongolian alternating, 100 kW at 345 degrees. Myanmar Radio at 0730-1530, so better try for it before 1200. I have a very hard time getting anything readable from Myanmar, but at least one frequency for certain: 5985.3 [sic], Oct 19 at 1240, very poor signal but surely Yangon on its signature off-frequency; no het as nothing on 5985.0 --- until Shiokaze at 1330: see JAPAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5915, Oct 20 0000, Myanma Radio, talks and slow music, weak in LSB to avoid QRM. 5985.78, Oct 20 0005, Padauk Myay R, Myanmar, talks, weak (Giampiero Bernardini, RX: Excalibur Pro – Ant: Windom (60 m long) by A. Capra & 30 m long wire; QTH: Pescia (Pistoia) Toscana, Italy. I was 3 days in Tuscany, Tips also on http://radiodxsw.blogspot.it/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5915, Oct 20 at 1153, JBA carrier, possibly 50 kW, 356 degrees from Naypyidaw, if the 100 kW, 345 degrees from CRI Hohhot scheduled in Mongolian from 1200 hasn`t come on yet. This 5915 signal is quite weaker than something on 5910, presumably CRI Filipino service, 500 kW, 165 degrees from Beijing site until 1157 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MYANMAR/BURMA. 5985.77v, Myanmar Radio, 1530-1555, Oct 23 (Wednesday). Theme music for their segment in English; "This is Myanmar Radio"; news headlines followed by the news in detail; weather; nationalistic slogans; 1539 - VOA Special English with informative program about Stephen Foster; born on July 4, 1826; played many songs that he wrote ( "Oh! Susanna," "Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair, " which he wrote for his wife, etc.). Very nice to find they still carry this VOA program on Wednesdays! http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/stephen-foster-americas-first-popular-songwriter/1364907.html contains a transcript of today’s program (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS. 828 MW, R 10 Gold closed! Just to let you know that your DSWCI member in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, ordered the MW- frequency 828 (20 kW daytime; 5 kw nighttime) to be closed down on Sep 30. The Sunday the week before programming of R 10 Gold ceased to be aired through this MW-frequency. For a week, a message was aired on the MW that R 10 had moved to FM-frequencies throughout the country. For 7 years I've been running the Dutch national FM-station 100% NL. Recently we acquired another national FM-network; also acquired the well known Dutch radiostation R 10 Gold (which was broadcasting on MW 828 in the last 3 years); changed the name of ”Radio 10 Gold” into ”Radio 10”; put the station on the national FM-network; and closed down the MW transmitter. MW DX-ers in the Netherlands are now able again to listen to the German station NDR on 828; as well as Magic AM from the UK, which is also broadcasting on 828 MW (Herbert Visser, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Oct 2, DSWCI DX Window Oct 16 via DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS. 24958-USB, approx., Oct 19 at 1401, PA1CC calling CQ and then making contacts with Russia and USA. The upper hambands are hopping, some contest benefiting from upward MUFs, altho not much showing yet today on 10m. QRZ.com listing: PA1CC Ton van Tuijn Noord Besterdstraat 16 5014 JG Tilburg Netherlands Tuned up to 25000, but no sign of that Finnish MIKES timesignal which ought to make it to N America if Eurohams can on 12m (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 7375, THE MIGHTY KBC, 20/10 0131 UT. Vía Nauen, Alemania. Música en inglés con ID permanentes [meaning canned?] de la emisora, además de transmisión de datos [Radiogram] hasta las 02. Señal con SINPO: 54454 (Claudio Galaz, Tecsun PL-660, 5 metros de cable de cobre, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR. CANADA, 6160 CKZN - CBC NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR, e-QSL, V/S Terry Brett - Systems Technologist, Transmission. Informe enviado por via postal a: P.O. BOX 12010, Station A, St Johns NF A1B 378 Canadá. Demoro: 203 días. En el correo electrónico recibido me comenta que le fue devuelto el sobre donde me envió la QSL física, y que por eso me hace llegar "escaneada`` la imagen. Hasta cuando nuestros correos tan ineficientes (Rafael Rodríguez R., Bogotá D.C. - COLOMBIA, Oct 17, condiglista yg via DXLD) Hola Don Rafael, gracias por las noticias. Hay una muy pequena correccion: el código postal de la emisora de Canada es St. John's NF A1B 3T8. Lo señalo porqué el correo postal de Canadá es muy ordenado y si falta escribir el código postal correctamente el correo no llega a su destino. 73's (Dario Monferini, Italia, ibid.) ** NICARAGUA. 539.83, Radio Corporación, Managua. *1056 October 13, 2013. Carrier up abruptly, this on a Sunday. Pretty sure they are there well before most days so maybe an anomaly or Sunday-only opening time (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 539.86, R. Corporación, Managua, OCT 18 0500 - Loud het against WLIE *R. Adonai*. Off at 0501 UT. Measured 539.864 kHz (Bruce Conti, WPC1CAT, Nashua NH; WiNRADiO Excalibur, MWDX-5 phasing unit, 15 x 23-m variable termination SuperLoop antennas 60 northeast and 180 south, MWDX yg via DXLD) ** NICARAGUA. 600, Radio Ya, Managua. 1040 October 14, 2013. Radio play with sound effects till 1045, “Ya, Ya, Ya, Ya” reverb, marimba and fiddle fills, back to animated talk, “Ya, Ya, Ya, Ya” again at 1053. Tight Radio Rebelde nulled about 95% (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ- 180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 6089.85, Oct 21 1835, Radio Nigeria, Kaduna, talks, vernacular, poor audio (Giampiero Bernardini, RX: Excalibur Pro – Ant: Windom (60 m long) by A. Capra & 30 m long wire; QTH: Pescia (Pistoia) Toscana, Italy. I was 3 days in Tuscany, Tips also on http://radiodxsw.blogspot.it/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 7255, Voice of Nigeria (p); 2148-2200, 18-Oct; W in unknown language with brief commentaries, drum chants & Afro tunes. Poor with continuous raspy buzz--SSB no help; also there was an S10 OC with occasional tones. At 2159 ham splash started, requiring LSB and at 2200 covered by splash from 7250 "CRI" in Spanish signing on via China (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) Ciao! 15120, 19/10 1520, Voice of Nigeria - Abuja, English ID e news, buono (Roberto Pavanello, Italy, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) 9689.9, Oct 20 2018, V. of Nigeria, Abuja, songs, talks in African language, fair good. 15120, Oct 20 0612, Voice of Nigeria, Ikorodu, reports in English, good (Giampiero Bernardini, RX: Excalibur Pro – Ant: Windom (60 m long) by A. Capra & 30 m long wire; QTH: Pescia (Pistoia) Toscana, Italy. I was 3 days in Tuscany, Tips also on http://radiodxsw.blogspot.it/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. Hello, nice to be in this group now. I'm Thorsten, editor of the africalist directory to subsaharan shortwaves: http://www.muenster.org/uwz/ms-alt/africalist Just a quick note this morning: some of you, including Glenn, might have been wondering about Voice of Nigeria 15120 broadcasts recently, as you might have successly tried to receive them in the mornings. In fact, the 1500-1600 AM segment was on air quite regularly, while the morning segment was missing most days, at least during my regular checks from 0600 onwards. Only two catches within ten or so days: Sunday Oct. 20, woke up late and only caught the last few minutes until 0858*, English, Theatre on the air, audio strong but slightly distorted. Wednesday Oct. 23 (just now), not audible at 0550, strong with English News at 0610, off again a few minutes later and returning with blank carrier just for another few minutes, caught again around 0740 in French, "musique africaine", strong but slightly distorted again. The afternoon segments widely varied in audio quality recently, also the 9690 segment from 1630-1730, if active at all. The DRM broadcast from Abuja was also noted 1830+, but irregular. 73 (Thorsten Hallmann, Münster, Germany, Oct 23, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. This evening (Oct 17 UT), during my listening at Asilomar State Beach, Looked all over for station YHWH (3235, 9775, etc.), but nothing found (Ron Howard, California, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) YHWH, Right now on 3235 kHz with same type of Bible lecture as heard on 9775. 0255 UTC 18 October (Thursday evening PDT). Readable with big swings in strength. ID at 0304 (Bob LaRose, W6ACU, WORLD OF RADIO 1692, ibid.) 9775 & 3235, Oct 18 at 0059 and 0104, no signals from Radio YHWH. I was going to quit noting these non-logs, but later that evening, Bob LaRose, W6ACU in S California had them again on 3235, at 0255-0304+, but by the time I saw his tip to the DXLD yg at 0350, nothing was there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3235.00, station YHWH, 0240-0247*, Oct 21 (Monday UT). On exact frequency today, unlike my Oct 14 (Monday UT) reception on 3234.95; poorer reception today; usual preaching about the truth of "Yahweh"; music/singing; off with "Thank you so much for tuning into station YHWH. Goodbye and I love you. Until next time. Station YHWH now signing off the air." Four minute audio posted at https://app.box.com/s/9eixf45db13xdy81w05q (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6850-AM, Oct 20 at 0103, very poor signal with music past 0107; 0112 talk, 0113 music including chimes, 0114 a little stronger. I tuned down to here since there was *no* pirate activity above 6900; 6850 off at next check 0131, and then found Wolverine on 6945-USB. Per several logs at HFU, 6850 was Radio Free Whatever: http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,13280.0.html and signed off at 0117 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. Radio Paisano: 6925.1/AM, 2350-2406, 11/12-Oct; English tunes & comedy re Italian courtship, weddings, dining & related activities, including Italian version of Hava Nagila. ID at 0005 with radiopaisano@gmail.com addy. SIO=343 w/buzz bursts (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, 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) Following my log of 6925, R. Paisano, e-QSL received Oct 20 with this note: ``Radio Paisano is a novelty shortwave pirate station that only broadcasts on Columbus Day weekend and features the music of Lou Monte and the comedy of Pat Cooper. This was the eighth year that we were on the air. Attached is your e-QSL. Grazie, Luigi`` Nice with three ships of Columbus. And here it is added to my gallery: http://www.w4uvh.net/2013PaisanoQSL-GHauser116.jpg (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Paisano: e-QSL in about 1-1/2 days for FRW posted log; with my name, date, time & frequency. Picture looks suspiciously like the Niña, Pinta & Santa Maria; but I could be wrong. It could be the Luigi, the Guglielmo and the Sofia (the one with the largest sails). (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6925 USB, New Jersey Pirate Radio, Talking about special election tonite in NJ, Mentions "Governor Fred Flintstone Christie". Strong here at 0115z (Rich Ray, IL, UT Oct 17, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6925-USB, Oct 21 at 0148, pirate playing ``Down on the Corner``, soul music; 0149 ``Hello all you ----? Out there,`` e- QSL address something-radio @ yahoo.com. Then reverbed YL Sunshine gives info again, sounds like grasscutterradio at yahoo.com and ``back to our joint show``, some hard rock. Good signal and no other pirates around at this time. Several posts agree it`s Grasscutter Radio, http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,13338.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. This evening (Oct 17 UT), during my listening at Asilomar State Beach, I was also listening to an interesting pirate on 6940-USB - Red Mercury Lab - https://app.box.com/s/8svrdxhuygp5hol4fmww Rare that I check on pirates, but this one doing well and rather enjoyable (Ron Howard, California, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6945-USB, Oct 20 at 0133, good signal with novelty song, must have come on shortly before as earlier there were no pirates to be heard except 6850. Shortly quick ID between songs only as ``Wolverine Radio``. 0134 song is ``Breakin` Up the House``; 0137 segué to some blues. This one consistently has one of the best signals here; after 0144 for supper, I could even hear it on the kitchen table DX-390 with whip, a little better with reel-out clipped on. 0151 ``Going Up the Country`` by Canned Heat, more segués, 0157 another ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 13890.00, 13 Oct, 1835, Undercover R, E, ballad, ID, email, offering QSL, Dr Beway comments on freedom, on USB, 24232 (SILVERI GOMEZ, PONENT CATALAN, RX: ATS 909, Antena: hilo 16 metros playdx yg via DXLD) He reports huge lists of pirates and pseudo-pirates, mostly on 6 MHz band but here`s one which is not. I assume some were tipped off, as who would be looking for a pirate here? (gh, DXLD) 13890-USB, PIRATE-NA. Undercover Radio. 1912-1935+, 10-13-13. SIO: 232. Dr. Benway up here playing tunes by Shinedown, Dead Can Dance, Rush. Weak but clear. (Lobdell-MA) 13890-AM, PIRATE-NA. Undercover Radio, 1901-1930+, 10-20-13. SIO: 121. Heard talking by Dr. Benway, IDs and email address. Music was played. Very weak here. Faded after 1930 (Chris Lobdell, Stoneham MA 02180, USA, Eton E1, JRC NRD-545; G5RV, 40 Meter Dipole, NASWA Flashsheet Oct 20 via DXLD) Both those were Sunday, so a regular? Try on 10-27, onward. I don`t copy all pirate logs I come across by far, but this is notable on such an unusual frequency (gh, DXLD) ** NORWAY. LKB/LLE, Heard 1430-1500, Oct 03, on 5895 with weak CW- signals through the noise in Holte. I also listened near Faaborg on Oct 08 and 09 on 5895, but heard nothing. 1314 MW was totally covered by Romania (Erik Koie, Holte/Faaborg, Denmark, DSWCI DX Window Oct 16 via DXLD) ** NORWAY. 22 October 2013; Svenn Martinsen just wrote on Facebook: LKB/LLE now on the air on AM 1314 and 5895 USB carrying Radio Northern Star IDs and jingles. Reports to: PO Box 100, N5331 RONG, Norway or 1000 @ northernstar.no (Mike Terry, 0605 UT Oct 22, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 23 October 2013; Svenn Martinsen just posted on Facebook: LKB/LLE on the air again until @0800 UT on 1314 and 5895 USB carrying Radio Northern Star IDs in English and Norwegian and jingles. Reports to: PO Box 100, N5331 RONG, Norway or 1000 @ northernstar.no (Mike Terry, 0546 UT Oct 23, ibid.) ** OKLAHOMA. 930, Oct 21 at 1214 UT, WKY OKC airing long string of commercials for Mundo-Fox, plugging various programs, including ``The Breach en Español``, ``José de Egipto``, in a loop such that Breach comes around again at 1219. Always branded as ``45.2 digital``, so is it only available as an off-the-air subchannel? They tell would-be viewers to ask their cable or satellite providers for it, a clue. RF 45 and virtual 45 in OKC is KOHC, a 15 kW digital class-A station per W9WI.com. Mundo-Fox is also branded as 45.2 in Spanish newspaper ads; and IIRC, Azteca América is on another subchannel, none indicated in W9WI.com. KOHC doesn`t make it to Enid, unlike full power 45s KOTV in Tulsa and KSNW in Wichita, and can only wonder how much these rip up KOHC close to OKC with a little tropo enhancement. Meanwhile, in Enid, KXOK, RF31 and its inter-city relay on RF32 continue to provide 31.2 as Mundo-Fox, except it`s been nothing but silence and full color bars for weeks now (and 31.3 as Azteca, silence and black screen, whenever checked) (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Oct 17 at 1420-1427 UT on caradio, KEOR Sperry is open carrier/dead air, but silent signal seems still up to the 7 kW level. 1120, Oct 17 at 1944 UT check, KEOR Catoosa/Sperry/Tulsa has managed to modulate, with praise music, following at least a pentaminute of deadair 5.4 hours earlier. Oh oh, back to deadair again, Oct 18 at 1212 making usual SAH with KMOX (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [non]. 1230, Oct 23 at 0511 UT, I finally have the computer on past local midnite, enjoying `Map Is Not Territory` on KSFR webcast, so also check the WBBZ Ponca City webcast --- it`s music, not Coast to Coast AM, so scratch that as possible source of my previous unID on 1230 --- must have been some graveyarder much further (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1380, Oct 21 at 1224-1229+ UT, Spanish with norteña, M&W DJ chatter, steady signal and partly readable when nearest local 1390 KCRC splatter abates, and nulling it as much as possible. Presumably is KMUS ex-Muskogee, now officially Sperry meaning Tulsa market. Some sunrise skip enhancement as it hardly can make it here on groundwave (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. KYAL-OK 1550 possibly on day facilities --- A few minutes ago was booming into St. Louis Missouri with "The Sports Animal". Seems to be in a football game, possibly one of the teams is Denver. Getting out really well if indeed 40 Watts. #1043 heard (Earl Higgins, St. Louis Missouri, 0017 UT Monday Oct 21, IRCA via DXLD) I think this happens a lot. KYAL usually the night time dominant on my westerly oriented antennas. 73 KAZ Barrington IL (Neil Kazaross, ibid.) ** OKLAHOMA. 1640, Oct 18 at 1221 UT, market reports including hogs and grain, with ``KZLS True Oldies Channel`` ID superimposed, lest the music fans tune away too quickly during this break from format; came from the Radio Oklahoma Ag Net. So ex-KOAG is still partly-ag, part- of-the-time --- and they also break away for stupid ballgames. Reactivated FCC AM Query still thinx this is in Enid, despite IDs deleting Enid for Hennessey (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1650, Oct 18 at 1147 UT, weather for northern OK (rain coming, altho this station is in far eastern OK), despite this being from ``News on 6, Radio Oklahoma Network``, i.e. meteorologist at KOTV-45 Tulsa; then Sallisaw ads which is the real town of KYHN studios and transmitter, despite CoL as Ft Smith AR. They compromise with references to ``Arklahoma`` which certainly has more of a ring to it than ``Oklansas (Oklasaw?)``. At the moment atop KCNZ in Iowa, tho should still be on 1 kW nite power instead of daytime-dektupling it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN. 15140, Radio Sultanate of Oman; 1418-1430+, 17-Oct; "All the stars with all the hits...Radio Oman"; English pop music to 1429+ "Radio Sultanate of Oman News", chimes into English news at BoH. SIO=3+53 (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, 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) 15140, Radio Sultanate of Oman, Thumrait. 1451 October 17, 2013. English rapper, into jazz piano/tabla/strings instrumental “Run Away With Me” by Omar Akram per SoundHound. Male canned “ FM 91.3” at 1455, into instrumental fill, then “Our listeners, now it's time for Call to Prayer...” but into rap, cut abruptly for faux Big Ben chimes from 1500:13, Arabic ID, Arabic news headlines. Very good and in the clear (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15140, 1601-, Radio Sultanate of Oman, Oct 20. Must be a very good morning. Oman booming in at 1601 tune-in with mention of Oman. Armchair copy, which is unusual in Victoria. Should have listened to their English broadcast at 1400 (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3905, Oct 17 at 1243, JBA carrier amid the LSB QRhaM. Maybe R. New Ireland, Kavieng, sporadically active lately. We`ll see if Ron Howard had it today (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1691, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, Monitoring NBC New Ireland on 3905: Oct 12 from 1135 to 1241. Oct 13 from 1337 to 1404*. Oct 14 from 1149 to 1238. Oct 15 from 1158 to 1402*. Oct 16 unable to hear them; extremely poor propagation; cannot confirm if on or off today. Oct 17 again with poor conditions, but able to ID per 1202 distinctive PNG bird call before the start of the news; otherwise totally and completely unusable (Ron Howard, CA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 3905, Oct 19 at 1233, JBA AM carrier among the SSB QRhaM, so apparently NBC New Ireland, Kavieng remains active. Replying to my previous log on Oct 17, Ron Howard says he confirmed it that day at 1202, and also heard it Oct 12-15 as late as 1404* but unconfirmed on Oct 16 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. CQ, CQ, CQ…Aquí Pedro F. Arrunátegui para compartir algo con los que disfrutan y aman el DX latinoamericano, todas las horas son UTC, desde la tierra de los incas, les informo mediante este Quipus lo siguiente: 809.94, PERÚ, R. Cusco, Cusco, 19/10 0650-0615, 22222, mx tropical andina, ID "Radio Cusco, la voz del pueblo", mx, ads, aviso preventivo de Defensa Civil sobre los sismos, mx, ID "En Radio Cusco presentamos aprendiendo el quechua" NOTA: Por momento cubierta por R. Caracol (809.97 kHz) 1234.98, PERÚ, R. Nor Andino [Andina?], Santiago de Chuco, La Libertad, 11/10 1120-1155, 22222, mxf, ID "Radio Nor Andino", mx, ID "Radio Nor Andino la insuperable”, saludos a los amigos de Alto el Paraíso, San Jerónimo, Santa Polonia, ads Universidad Cesar Vallejos le brinda la oportunidad de tener la maestría en Gestión Pública, mxf, NOTA: 1150 la pierdo, ya no la escucho. 1540.48, PERÚ, R. Turbo Mix, Cajamarca, 12/10 0845-0905, 33333, ID, “Turbo Mix”, ads, ID “Turbo Mix AM la sintonía está que revienta”, mx pasillo, ID “En tu fin de semana Turbo Mix” 100 [sic], mxf, huayno (mentirosa), px Fin de semana por Turbo Mix AM” 1599.99, PERÚ, R. Nuevo Tiempo, Huancayo, 13/10 0618-0640, 33333, mx, religiosa ID Nuevo Tiempo", ads, ID “El color que jamás desaparece es el verde, verde es la Voz de Nuevo Tiempo, la voz de la esperanza", ID “Nuevo Tiempo” 3329.54, PERÚ, R. Ondas del Huallaga, Huánuco, 9/10 2330-0010, 22222+, mx, ID "Ondas del Huallaga", mxf huayno, mx en forma continua, ID "Si te pregunta responde, yo escucho Ondas del Huallaga", ads Agropecuaria Falcón, SENASA Huánuco. TAMBIÉN: 13/10 1005-1015 y no hay señal alguna. 13/10 1050-1110, 33333, s/on 1100, de frente colocan mx y después dicen ID "Ondas del Huallaga, la radio tridimensional", ads frente a Radio Ondas del Huallaga", mx, Slogan "Ondas del Huallaga, cultural, musical, deportiva, informativa, divertida, px Escuela Nueva. TAMBIÉN: 16/0 1030-1038 33333+ los escucho, ya están en el aire. Aparentemente están regularizando progresivamente su s/on como antes lo hacían. 4747.05, PERÚ, R. Huanta 2000, Huari, 16/10 1115-1150, 33333+, Hoy se celebra el día de la persona discapacitada, px news y ads, participa en la vacunación canina, lleva tu perro, todo es gratuito. Más de 14000 hectáreas serán tecnificadas con riesgo más moderno, ads Cooperativa Huanta. 4810.00, PERÚ, R. Logos, Tarapoto, 16/10 0010-0040, 44444, px religioso en dialecto amazónico, mx, ID "7 y 39 minutos en Radio Logos" en español. 4955.00, PERÚ, R. Cultural Amauta, Huanta, 16/10 1040-1105, 44444++, px religioso en quechua y español, mx, ID “Radio Cultural Amauta”, mx, ID “Radio Cultural Amauta” quechua y español. Px saludos de cumpleaños en quechua. 6173.90, PERÚ, R. Tawantinsuyo, Cusco, 11/10, 1035-1054, 44444, news sobre la problemática en la universidad San Antonio Abad del Cusco. NOTA: mejor la escucho en LSB. Programa, El informativo el pueblo, ID "A través de Radio Tawantinsuyo” (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, La recepción la he efectuado del 24/09 al 19/10 en compañía de mi sabueso Icom IC R72 acompañado del Mizuho KX-3, una antena de hilo largo de 12 metros y una antena loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4955, R. CULTURAL AMAUTA, 19/10 2354 UT. Avisos en idioma quechua sobre cooperativas de ayuda agraria con apoyo de World Vision y de la municipalidad de Huanta sobre un concurso cultural. Señal con SINPO: 54444 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: 5 metros de cable de cobre, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** PERU [and non]. 5980, Oct 16 until 0100:12.5*, R. Chaski cutoff (overlooked in that day`s report as I was so focused on Chile 12365). Not checked Oct 17 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5980, R. CHASKI 17/10 2358 UT. En la frecuencia no hay absolutamente rastro de la emisora ¿problema de propagación? ¿Tormenta solar? (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Beverage de 20 metros con balun 9:1, QTH: Centro de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) 5980, Oct 18 at 0057, JBA carrier from R. Chaski (meanwhile 5990 CRI/Cuba is already in open carrier and soon off). Chaski cutoff comes at 0100:23*, which is 10.5 seconds later than a biday ago. 5980, Oct 19 at 0056, R. Chaski JBA carrier, with 5990 splash; cutoff at 0101:28.5 which is 5.5 seconds later than yesterday, as time marches on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5980, R. CHASKI, 19/10 1048 UT. Portadora abierta sin nada de modulación, con ruido de fondo hasta las 11 UT, en donde pasa a escucharse de fondo el siseo de CNR-8 en 5975. No obstante, sigue la portadora abierta hasta cerca de las 12. 5980, R. CHASKI, 19/10 2336 UT. Programa “Jungla Semántica” con la explicación de términos del griego koiné utilizados en el nuevo testamento, de manera literal, comparado con los términos utilizados en español, según la revisión Reina-Valera con el tema de la perseverancia. Así también hay avisos de otros programas producidos por Radio Transmundial y el Seminario Bíblico de Fe. Señal con un poco de sobremodulación, pero no tan marcado y SINPO: 55555 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: 5 metros de cable de cobre, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) 5980, Oct 20 at 0100, JBA carrier from R. Chaski, until cutoff at 0101:34* which is 5.5 seconds later than yesterday. Meanwhile, Cuba failed to turn CRI off 5990 by 0057, kept it on past 0100 opening English, additionally splashing 5980 (Glenn hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5890, R. CHASKI. 20/10 1112 UT. Transmisión de Red Radio Integridad con SINPO: 53443 con QRM de CNR-8 en Coreano (Claudio Galaz, Tecsun PL-660, 5 metros de cable de cobre, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) 5980, Oct 22 circa 0100: no check for Chaski, but Oct 23 at 0052, no signal detectable, in heavy music splash from 5990 China via Cuba. I can just about always detect at least a JBA carrier, so suspect it is off tonight. Another quick check at 0058, brief JBA carrier, maybe this or not, but gone again. Instead I have something more interesting on 4780: see UNIDENTIFIED (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5980, R.CHASKI, 23/10 2307 UT. Programa “El camino de la vida”. Señal con SINPO: 54343 cortes sucesivos de audio y un poco de sobremodulación aunque va mejorando a partir de las 2310 en adelante con SINPO: 54444 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 25 metros, QTH: Sector sur de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** PERU. NOTICIA: RPP Noticias cumplió 50 años bajo la misión de unir a los peruanos. Fundada el 7 de octubre de 1963, inició sus transmisiones en Lima y a través de emisoras locales afiliadas en las ciudades de Tumbes, Piura, Chiclayo, Trujillo, Chimbote, Barranca, Ica, Arequipa, Cusco, Pucallpa y Huancayo. En la actualidad, RPP Noticias posee su propio canal de televisión por cable: RPP TV que junto al portal web; conforman sus plataformas informativas de radio, televisión e internet (Pedro F. Arrunátegui, Lima, Chasqui DX, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** POLAND [and non]. Polish Radio External Service abandons shortwave The SWLing Post By Thomas October 20, 2013 Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Dominik, who writes: Polish Radio has recently announced closure of their remaining shortwave services. Currently they are on air two times a day with programmes in Polish, Belarussian and Russian. They are going to abandon those transmissions at the beginning of B13 season. http://external.polskieradio.pl/8/86/Artykul/150501,Nasze-audycje-27-pazdziernika-znikna-z-fal-krotkich says: "Mamy dla Pa?stwa komunikat - od 27 pa?dziernika 2013 roku nasze audycje przestan? by? nadawane na falach krótkich." We have an announcement for you - from 27th October 2013 we will no longer broadcast our programs on shortwave. There is a similar announcement on the Belarussian service's webpage. Lithuanian mediumwave relay of Polish Radio isn't mentioned anywhere, so it may remain on air. Polish Radio is now heavily promoting its DAB+ transmissions, so they are even advising listeners of their external service to listen on digital radios. Funny thing is that digital signal is currently available only in two cities in Poland, not to mention horribly poor audio quality on the external programme (72kbps AAC+). This reminds me that it was only in March 2012 when the Polish Radio External Service stopped their English language broadcasts over shortwave. URL: http://wp.me/pn3uc-1Z9 (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) Their Belarusian service says it will continue broadcasting on 1386 kHz in B13. http://www.radyjo.net/4/73/Artykul/51299 -- (Aleksandr Diadischev, Ukraine, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PORTUGAL. Re 13-42: R. Sim MF txs --- This is the current situation according to R.Renascença/R.Sim and my own data: 594 Muge_1x100 kW + 2x10 kW reserve units, all HARRIS >> RR info: reduced to 2~3 kW via one of the 10 kW txs. One will notice the modulation is still low, regardless of the tx used, and this is due to saving costs but also some other reason I prefer to omit in this report. 891 Vilamoura_1x10 kW (ex-2x10 kW): >> RR info: reduced to 2~3 kW. Frankly, the coverage doesn't seem to be severely affected as observed at the SW coast. Maybe it was in different areas of the Algarve province, but I lack information on this in particular. 963 Seixal_1x10 kW + 1 kW reserve unit, both HARRIS: >> RR info: about 2 kW being used. This is still quite audible in the SW coast, but one notices the obvious power level drop. The modulation emanating from this site was plagued by too much splatter at times which acc. to RR./R.Sim was mainly due to the signal carried over a line directly to the txs, and this was (clearly?) Portugal Telecom's fault. remaining 10 kW txs elsewhere, viz. Coimbra 981, Valongo & Viseu 1251: >> RR info: reduced to about 3 kW Others: Braga 576 kHz 10 kW switched off in Apr'13 Évora 927 kHz 1 kW switched off in Apr'13 (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PORTUGAL. 1035, StarFM, Belmonte, St.º Estêvão, is silent since, what, end February or so. I was then explained, that a certain aluminium core, modulation transformer had to be replaced, not simply rebuilt, so there was expectations for resuming operation in April. By the time this tx was operating, the output was 15 kW instead of just 10. After all these months, I decided to get more information from my contact within the stn, and he explained his dpt. was not allowed that expense, especially when along with the transformer certain other peripheral items should be replaced too. A 100~120 kW unit operating at a fraction of its power, e.g. 10 kW, does not mean power consumption is about the same as that of an ordinary 10 kW - it's somewhat higher. This made my contact try to convince their adm. To "freeze" the 100 kW unit for some time and install a 10 kW unit as it would at least save on electricity costs, but on the other hand a new 10 kW tx would push the expense over the amount needed for modulation transformer. The answer was "no." So 1035 will be on the air again only if & when conditions allow it. 73, (Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, Oct 24, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. 7430, Radio Romania International, at 2250, on 19 Oct. program talking about 85 year anniversary for broadcasting coming up and how they are asking listeners to answer the following question: How do you see the future of international radio stations in the coming years? Please send in comments before 3 November 2013 which is the 85th Anniversary. Good (John Cooper, Lebanon PA, WR-G33DDC Excalibur Pro, RF Space SDR-IQ, Grundig 750 Satellit, Tuscan PL-660, All Band Tuned Super Sloper, PARS SWL End Fed, NASWA Flashsheet Oct 20 via DXLD) ** ROMANIA. Winter B-13 schedule of Radio Romania International ARABIC 0730-0756 11660G 15200G 15330T 17810T 1500-1556 9655G 11620G 15300T 17530T AROMANIAN 1530-1556 6040S 1730-1756 6090S 1930-1956 5940S CHINESE 0500-0526 15220T 17870T-DRM 1400-1426 9725T 11825T ENGLISH 0100-0156 6145G 7325G 0400-0456 6020G 7305G 11710T 13730T 0630-0656 7345T 9600G-DRM 17780G 21600T 1200-1256 15460G 17530T 17765G 21570T 1800-1856 5940T-DRM 9780T 2130-2156 6030G-DRM 7310T 7380G 9435T 2300-2356 6015G 7220G 7395T 9620T [English: WORLD OF RADIO 1692] FRENCH 0200-0256 5975G 7395G 0600-0626 7360G 9650G-DRM 11790T 13740T 1000-1056 15260G 17870G Suns only 1100-1156 15150T 15255G 17820G 17870T 1700-1756 7400T 9690T 1800-1856 7350G 2000-2056 7430G 2100-2126 6030G 7370G-DRM GERMAN 0700-0726 7345T 9450T-DRM 1300-1356 7335T 9810T 1900-1956 6010T 7405T-DRM ITALIAN 1500-1526 6040S 1700-1726 5955S 1900-1926 5940S-DRM ROMANIAN 0100-0156 5910T 7340T 0200-0256 5910T 7340T 0500-0556 6145G 7220G 0800-0856 15370T 15430G Suns only "Curierul romanesc" 17850G 17860T 0900-0956 15380G 15430T Suns only "Curierul romanesc" 17745T 17775T 1000-1056 17780T 21500T Suns only "Curierul romanesc" 1300-1356 9880S Saftica transmission opens earlier 1300-1456 15170G 17840G 1600-1656 9655G 11870G 1700-1756 5995G 7370G 1800-1856 5990G 1900-1956 5990G 7430G 2000-2056 5990G RUSSIAN 0530-0556 6120T-DRM 7210T 1430-1456 11795T 15735T 1600-1656 5930T-DRM 9715T SERBIAN 1630-1656 5955S 1830-1856 6180S 2030-2056 6030S SPANISH 0000-0056 7315G 9525G 13590T 15110T 0300-0356 7345G 9650G 9870T 11800T 2000-2056 6010T 7235T 2200-2256 9790T 11870T UKRAINIAN 1600-1626 5955S 1800-1826 6090S 2000-2026 6030S G=Galbeni 2 x 300 kW, S=Saftica 1 x 100 kW, T=Tiganesti 3 x 300 kW (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 21 via DXLD) 5910 0100-0300 8 TIG 300 307 288 AM Rum 5930 1600-1700 29 TIG 300 37 205 DRM Rus 5940 1800-1900 27N TIG 300 307 288 DRM Eng 5940 1900-1930 28SW TIG 100 270 812 DRM Ita 5940 1930-2000 28SE TIG 100 210 812 AM Rup 5955 1600-1630 29SW TIG 100 30 812 AM Ukr 5955 1630-1700 28SW TIG 100 270 812 AM Srp 5955 1700-1730 28SW TIG 100 270 812 AM Ita 5975 0200-0300 4,8 GAL 300 310 286 AM Fre 5990 1800-2100 27SE GAL 300 285 206 AM Rum 5995 1700-1800 39NW GAL 300 140 206 AM Rum 6010 1900-2000 28NW TIG 300 307 205 AM Ger 6010 2000-2100 37NW TIG 300 277 288 AM Spa 6015 2300-2400 27N GAL 300 285 206 AM Eng 6020 0400-0500 6 GAL 300 320 286 AM Eng 6030 2000-2030 29SW TIG 100 30 812 AM Ukr 6030 2030-2100 28SW TIG 100 270 812 AM Srp 6030 2100-2130 27SE GAL 300 285 206 AM Fre 6030 2130-2200 27N GAL 300 300 206 DRM Eng 6040 1500-1530 28SW TIG 100 270 812 AM Ita 6040 1530-1600 28SE TIG 100 210 812 AM Rup 6090 1730-1800 28SE TIG 100 210 812 AM Rup 6090 1800-1830 29SW TIG 100 30 812 AM Ukr 6120 0530-0600 29 TIG 300 37 205 DRM Rus 6145 0100-0200 8 GAL 300 310 286 AM Eng 6145 0500-0600 27SE GAL 300 285 206 AM Rum 6180 1830-1900 28SW TIG 100 270 812 AM Srp 7210 0530-0600 29 TIG 300 37 205 AM Rus 7220 0500-0600 27SE GAL 300 285 206 AM Rum 7220 2300-2400 27N GAL 300 290 286 AM Eng 7235 2000-2100 27S TIG 300 277 288 AM Spa 7305 0400-0500 6 GAL 300 337 286 AM Eng 7310 2130-2200 8 TIG 300 307 288 AM Eng 7315 0000-0100 12NE GAL 300 280 286 AM Spa 7325 0100-0200 8 GAL 300 310 286 AM Eng 7335 1300-1400 28N TIG 300 307 205 AM Ger 7340 0100-0300 8 TIG 300 307 288 AM Rum 7345 0300-0400 10 GAL 300 310 286 AM Spa 7345 0630-0700 27N TIG 300 307 288 AM Eng 7345 0700-0730 28NW TIG 300 307 205 AM Ger 7350 1800-1900 27SE GAL 300 285 206 AM Fre 7360 0600-0630 27SE GAL 300 285 206 AM Fre 7370 1700-1800 39NW GAL 300 140 286 AM Rum 7370 2100-2130 27SE GAL 300 285 206 DRM Fre 7380 2130-2200 27N GAL 300 290 286 AM Eng 7395 0200-0300 4,8 GAL 300 310 286 AM Fre 7395 2300-2400 45 TIG 300 52 288 AM Eng 7400 1700-1800 27SE TIG 300 292 205 AM Fre 7405 1900-2000 28NW TIG 300 307 205 DRM Ger 7430 1900-2000 27SE GAL 300 285 206 AM Rum 7430 2000-2100 27SE GAL 300 285 206 AM Fre 9435 2130-2200 8 TIG 300 307 288 AM Eng 9450 0700-0730 28NW TIG 300 307 205 DRM Ger 9525 0000-0100 12NE GAL 300 280 286 AM Spa 9600 0630-0700 27N GAL 300 300 206 DRM Eng 9620 2300-2400 45 TIG 300 52 288 AM Eng 9650 0300-0400 10 GAL 300 310 286 AM Spa 9650 0600-0630 27SE GAL 300 285 206 DRM Fre 9655 1500-1600 39NW GAL 300 140 286 AM Ara 9655 1600-1700 27SE GAL 300 290 286 AM Rum 9690 1700-1800 27SE TIG 300 292 205 AM Fre 9715 1600-1700 29 TIG 300 37 205 AM Rus 9725 1400-1430 43,44 TIG 300 67 288 AM Chi 9780 1800-1900 27N TIG 300 307 288 AM Eng 9790 2200-2300 14 TIG 300 247 288 AM Spa 9810 1300-1400 28N TIG 300 307 205 AM Ger 9870 0300-0400 14 TIG 300 247 288 AM Spa 9880 1300-1400 28N TIG 100 300 812 AM Rum 11620 1500-1600 39NW GAL 300 140 286 AM Ara 11660 0730-0800 37 GAL 300 247 286 AM Ara 11710 0400-0500 41 TIG 300 97 286 AM Eng 11790 0600-0630 46 TIG 300 217 288 AM Fre 11795 1430-1500 31S TIG 300 52 288 AM Rus 11800 0300-0400 14 TIG 300 247 288 AM Spa 11825 1400-1430 43,44 TIG 300 67 288 AM Chi 11870 1600-1700 27SE GAL 300 285 206 AM Rum 11870 2200-2300 14 TIG 300 247 288 AM Spa 13590 0000-0100 14 TIG 300 247 288 AM Spa 13730 0400-0500 41 TIG 300 100 288 AM Eng 13740 0600-0630 46 TIG 300 217 288 AM Fre 15110 0000-0100 14 TIG 300 247 288 AM Spa 15150 1100-1200 27SE TIG 300 292 288 AM Fre 15170 1300-1500 27SE GAL 300 290 286 AM Rum 15200 0730-0800 37 GAL 300 245 286 AM Ara 15220 0500-0530 43,44 TIG 300 67 288 AM Chi 15255 1100-1200 27SE GAL 300 285 286 AM Fre 15260 1000-1100 27SE GAL 300 285 286 AM Fre Sun only 15300 1500-1600 37 TIG 300 247 288 AM Ara 15330 0730-0800 39NW TIG 300 142 288 AM Ara 15370 0800-0900 39NW TIG 300 142 288 AM Mul Sun only 15380 0900-1000 38E GAL 300 175 286 AM Mul Sun only 15430 0800-0900 40W GAL 300 110 286 AM Mul Sun only 15430 0900-1000 39S TIG 300 142 288 AM Mul Sun only 15460 1200-1300 27N GAL 300 307 286 AM Eng 15735 1430-1500 31S TIG 300 52 288 AM Rus 17530 1200-1300 27N TIG 300 307 205 AM Eng 17530 1500-1600 37 TIG 300 247 288 AM Ara 17745 0900-1000 38E GAL 300 175 286 AM Mul Sun only 17765 1200-1300 48 GAL 300 165 286 AM Eng 17775 0900-1000 39S TIG 300 142 288 AM Mul Sun only 17780 0630-0700 55,58,59 GAL 300 100 286 AM Eng 17780 1000-1100 37 TIG 300 247 288 AM Mul Sun only 17810 0730-0800 39NW TIG 300 142 288 AM Ara 17820 1100-1200 27SE GAL 300 285 286 AM Fre 17840 1300-1500 27SE GAL 300 285 206 AM Rum 17850 0800-0900 40W GAL 300 110 286 AM Mul Sun only 17860 0800-0900 39NW TIG 300 142 288 AM Mul Sun only 17870 0500-0530 43,44 TIG 300 67 288 DRM Chi 17870 1000-1100 27SE GAL 300 285 286 AM Fre Sun only 17870 1100-1200 37 TIG 300 247 288 AM Fre 21500 1000-1100 37 TIG 300 247 288 AM Mul Sun only 21570 1200-1300 48 TIG 300 157 288 AM Eng 21600 0630-0700 55,58,59 TIG 300 97 288 AM Eng (HFCC excerpt of ROU transmissions, Oct 21 via BCDX Oct 22 via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. RUSIA, 9996, RWM, estación de señal horaria, QSL, V/S ilegible. Informe enviado a: office at vniiftri.ru, logp at irk.ru. Demoro: 106 dias. La confirmación corresponde al último reporte de escucha del pasado mes de Junio, aunque desde hace un par de años les había escrito en varias oportunidades por correo postal y electrónico sin repuesta (Rafael Rodríguez R., Bogotá D.C. - COLOMBIA, Oct 17, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. 5930, Oct 19 at 1301, R. Rossii via Petropavlovsk / Kamchatsky finished at 1300 but good carrier is still on with some hum until 1301:37*. No CW markers followed like used to on ex-6075 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5940, Magadan Radio, Magadanskya Oblast, Russia heard at 2301 GMT on 10/14/13. Talks (presumed news) in Russian. I've been trying to verify this station since 2006; most recently, a priest in Magadan assisted me by getting my report to the station manager. Unfortunately, the priest told me that the language barrier is so extreme that they just ignore his and my requests. I guess I'll need to have my report translated into Russian (Bob Brossell, Pewaukee WI, Equipment: JRC NRD-545; Eton E1; Sony ICF SW-77, NASWA Flashsheet Oct 20 via DXLD) Couldn`t hurt; what if someone kept trying to communicate with you in Russian? (gh, DXLD) ** RUSSIA. 6100, Radio Rossii – Kyzyl, 1230, 10/17/13, in Russian. Light music to 1230, man talking for about 3 minutes then back into light music. Fair. // 5930 – Petropavlovsk, also Fair (Mark Taylor, Madison WI, Perseus, WinRadio g313e, Eton e1, Grundig G5, Tecsun PL 660; EWE, Flextenna, NASWA Flashsheet Oct 20 via DXLD) There was a previous log of this from someone else I took issue with because, referring to Aoki, at 12-13 there is also a Russian broadcast from CRI, Beijing, 500 kW on 6100, and that was apparently overlooked. However, // to 5930 clinches this must have really been R. Rossii, since on 5930 there is nothing coming from China. However2, the question remains, how did this get past CRI 500 kW; was that really off the air? Kyzyl is listed as only 500 watts! (Other lists, a heftier but still puny 5 kW.) Better try to nab it before 1200, except that AIR DRM from Delhi-Khampur is allegedly on 6095-6105 at 09-12 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. 29650, R. Rossii, Murmansk, 5 x 5930 – (Tim Bucknall, Congleton, UK, Twitter #KresySiberia, Oct 20 6:36 AM timestamp (zone?), harmonics yg via DXLD) I do wish people would state times explicitly inside every log reported (gh, DXLD) ** RUSSIA [non]. 11530.045, TAJIKISTAN, Voice of Russia, Dushanbe- Orzu. 1210 October 19, 2013. English service, interviewing some US chick about living in India and traveling. Hummy audio (shocker). (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; NRD-515 (borrowed); ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7505, Oct 22 at 1246 open carrier, fair signal; ¿qué será? A semiminute before 1300, finally starts modulating with ``Chariots of Fire`` theme and opening Hindi, so it`s VR as scheduled until 1600, 100 kW, 137 degrees from Dushanbe, TAJIKISTAN. While it`s a nice piece of music, every time I hear it, I ask myself, what has that got to do with Russia? I envision British marathoners. But then, the Great Gate of Kiev had nothing to do with Russia either, strictly speaking. Why not a more appropriate theme, like, say, Moscow Nights? BTW, WRNO is entitled to blow this away if they ever expand beyond three hours a day in the evenings on 7506.4+, with ``7505`` registered all the way from 22 to 16 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. 27665 NFM, Cheboksarskoye Avtoradio Klub Volgar, Oct. 19, every hour at xx.53, promotion announcement including announce of webpage radiofan.rf, which works only if you use cyrillic letters and you get redirected to ci-bi.net (Patrick Robic, Austria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RWANDA. 6055, Radio Rwandaise, 0253 on with male choir singing national anthem, 0256-0300 woman and then man with sign-on and announcements all done with echo effect, 0300 presumed news in French by man. Fair to good with co-channel splatter, Oct 19 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening beside the lake, in my car, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6055, Radio Rwanda (presumed). Thanks very much to an excellent tip from Dan Sheedy (Calif.), I was able to hear Rwanda via long path at 1504 (then clear of Japan) on Oct 18. News in several languages; 1505 "Listen to our English language ..." news headlines in English (heavy accent makes for difficult listening); nice calypso style music. Audio at https://app.box.com/s/q18yvtisut9ehevapypc (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thanks for the heads up, Ron. I'm hearing the same speaker between 1505 and 1518, but at much weaker levels than you, yesterday, and with rapid deep fades. It was very difficult for me to identify the language! Pretty much faded into oblivion by 15:20 on 6055 kHz. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, Oct 19, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Rwanda. 6055 Kigali. Oct 19, 2013 Saturday. 1520-1640. Listening on and off since 1520, hearing a mixture of (presumed) KinyaRwanda and occasional French. No formal id heard, but lots of mentions of Rwanda and Kigali. Thanks to Ron Howard for suggesting this one. Surprisingly strong signal into SA tonight, almost equal to Zambia 5915 although with more fading and atmospheric QRN. Don't think I've ever had it so good in this time slot. Jo'burg sunset 1617 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thanks, Walt and Bill, for checking on this. Oct 19 at 1500* Japan signed off on 6055, leaving Rwanda in the clear; no news today; instead non-stop coverage of sports event (soccer?); at times announcer excited; background sounds of the fans at the stadium and at times they were singing; mostly fair. Four minute audio at https://app.box.com/s/te60c91km2qqqtlx5wfi Still decent signal at tune out at 1522 (Ron Howard, CA, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Once again, Rwanda was heard with better signal strength than yesterday. Radio Nikkei signed off a few seconds after 1500, leaving Rwanda in the clear. Some African style music a few minutes later, and also French, slowly fading up to peak about 1510, before the slow slide as sunrise continues here in Victoria. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, Oct 20, ibid.) Hi Walt, Seems they do not have news on the weekend. Today as you also found, heard with a music program; seemed to be in two languages (vernacular/French). Perhaps news is only on during weekdays? Worth checking (Ron Howard, ibid.) Hi Walt, Yes, I can confirm the news headlines are given on weekdays, not on the weekend. Oct 21 (Monday) started the news headlines at 1503; seemed to be given in FOUR languages (vernacular, French, English and again in vernacular); 1508 - "Good evening. Here is the news headlines at this hour on Radio Rwanda. The President of the Republic of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, on Monday received the new representatives of the countries of Sudan, Lesotho, Gabon, South Sudan and Burkina Faso"; African singing; almost fair. Very enjoyable listening! Audio at https://app.box.com/s/wpz7x1sgrpg0ta6yl9yq (Ron Howard, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Interesting this morning (Tuesday). Radio Nikkei signed off at 1500, replaced with a very strong China in English briefly, before they pulled the plug. No sign of Rwanda here in Victoria this morning. All on 6055. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Oct 22, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Walt, CRI from *1500 to 1501* ("Beijing Hour every Saturday") was certainly a surprise today. An anomaly for sure. Radio Rwanda was in fact on today (Oct 22), but much weaker than recently heard; 1502 start of the series of news headlines. Could make out vernacular, French and again vernacular, but unable to confirm a segment in English. Did I somehow miss it? (Ron Howard, CA, ibid.) Hi Ron, Normal reception of Rwanda tonight in SA. Radio Rwanda, 6055 Kigali. Oct 22, 2013 Tuesday. 1640-1654. Presumed KinyaRwanda, with Afro music. At 1645, YL singing a western pop song (in English) which I recognise but can not name (Every little thing`s gonna be alright?) At 1648 back to KInyaRwanda? and Afro music. Fair-good, normal reception at my location for this time after sunset. Jo'burg sunset 1618 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Nothing heard from Rwanda tonight. Usually present by now, some 20 minutes after our local sunset. 6055, Kigali, Oct 23, 2013 Wednesday, 1625-1640. Nothing heard. AWOL. Jo'burg sunset 1619 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) (Almost) neighbouring Zambia ZNBC1 on 5915 all present and correct with fair-good reception at 1645-1650 on Oct 23 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Bill, Perhaps off the air early? Oct 23 heard Radio Rwanda at 1502 with series of multi-language news headlines (today able to clearly make out English); later with excited soccer coverage; “Gooooal, Yah, Yah, Yah, Yah”; almost fair reception, per audio at https://app.box.com/s/k4h8ozvk4i67ks9csmqz Daily the reception varies a great deal! (Ron Howard, CA, ibid.) Hi Ron, Yes, possibly. Although at 1855 and right through TOH there is something poor on 6055; talk, sounds like a radio play, and at 1906 someone said "Rwanda". Possibly a temporary transmitter problem earlier, or even lousy propagation. Certainly nowhere near as readable as usual at 1910 (Bill Bingham, RSA, Oct 23, ibid.) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 15120, SA'UDI ARABIA, BSKSA, Riyadh. 1419 October 17, 2013. Quran reciting, language male announcer at 1423. Listed as Bengali 1200-1500. Clear and fair (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF- 7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Was anything but clear when I heard it: (gh, DXLD) 15120, Oct 21 at 1401, hi-pitched continuous ``propeller`` noise, no intelligible modulation. Presumably malfunxion of the scheduled BSKSA Bengali service at 1200-1457, 500 kW, 70 degrees from Riyadh, per Aoki. HFCC shows span as 1200-1600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SERBIA [non]. 6100, Oct 19 2100, Int. R. Serbia, via Bosnia, English news, good (Giampiero Bernardini, RX: Excalibur Pro – Ant: Windom (60 m long) by A. Capra & 30 m long wire; QTH: Pescia (Pistoia) Toscana, Italy. I was 3 days in Tuscany, Tips also on http://radiodxsw.blogspot.it/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5019.88, SIBC, Honiara, 0853-0901, Oct 03, hit songs in Solomon Islands(?), now in Japan it's possible to receive well at this time, 34333 (Tomoaki Wagai, Wakayama, Japan, DSWCI DX Window Oct 16 via DXLD) ** SOMALILAND [and non]. 7120, Oct 18 at 1354, very poor signal with some music, no doubt R. Hargeisa, with CW QRhaM. Finding 15505 Bangladesh JBA, instead of straining for its off-time signal, I decide today to track Hargeisa to its expected cutoff circa 1400, which indeed happens at 1401:35.5*. It takes a 1-hour break before resuming circa 1500 until circa 1900. Those further west might hear it come back on then, by long path. Today`s Hargeysa sunset was 1446 UT per http://www.gaisma.com/en/location/hargeysa.html Ron Howard and Dan Sheedy in CA even heard Rwanda 6055 LP today after 1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7120, SOMALIA, Radio Hargeisa presumed, coming on at 0331 with anthem for 30 seconds, then man speaking. Weak, Oct 19 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening beside the lake, in my car, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7120-, Oct 21 at 1355, R. Hargeisa, JBA AM carrier with CW QRhaM including a V-test; slightly on the lo side compared to 1120 KEOR, which is within 4 Hz of KMOX, and this is further off than that. Able to just-barely hear it until cut off at 1401:07* for one-hour break before evening transmission 15-19v UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. Dear Glenn: Can you check the english@rtve.es e-mail address is not working are This another sign of changes at REE, Spain? Best regards, (Richard Lemke, Alberta, Canada, Oct 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. QSL: SLBC via TRINCOMALEE 11905. Full-data “Up Country Railway to Badulla” card in 17 days for a report to Victor Goonetilleke. Since my interests include railroads, I sent Victor an e-mail thanking him for his card selection (Wendel Craighead, Prairie Village, Kansas, USA, Cumbre DX Oct 22 via DXLD) ** SRI LANKA. TAIWAN, 15645, PCJ RADIO INTERNATIONAL, pruebas DRM via Sri Lanka, e-QSL, V/S Victor Goonetilleke. Informe enviado a: pcjqsl at pcjmedia.com. Demoro: 4 días. Corresponde a las pruebas realizadas en modo DRM para el SE Asia, y aunque la señal llegó hasta mi receptor, este necesita una mayor fuerza en la señal (SNR 13dB) para decodificar el audio. Más en http://dxdesdecolombia.blogspot.com/ Buenos DX (Rafael Rodríguez R., Bogotá D.C. - COLOMBIA, Oct 17, condiglista yg via DXLD) Otherwise, see TAIWAN [non] ** SUDAN. 7205, Sudan R & TV Corporation, Al-Aitahab, Khartoum, 0300- 0330, Sep 30, Arabic talk, Quran songs, ID: “Huna Omdurman”, 34343. I sent to this station a reception report via email to the address bakhit02bb@yahoo.com and few hours later I received an e-mail with the following information: “This wave is in Arabic, but we have another short wave 9505 kHz for foreign languages in English, French, Hosa (Hausa ? Ed), Ki-swahili and other African languages. It is the Voice of Africa from Sudan National Radio. It works in the morning and evening from 7-10 in Sudan local time. Hoping you hear it and report us. Best wishes, Adam Bakhit, Director of French section.” (Kyriakos Dritsas, Thessaloniki, Greece, DSWCI DX Window Oct 16 via DXLD) 9505, Voice of Africa, Al-Aitahab, Khartoum, 1445-1830, Sep 30, English talk, Afro-music. Strong signal 44444. After 1830 vernacular language (Kyriakos Dritsas, Thessaloniki, Greece, DSWCI DX Window Oct 16 via DXLD) 9505, Oct 20 1745, Voice of Africa, Sudan, interview about Malawi in English, good in upper AMS [?] (Giampiero Bernardini, RX: Excalibur Pro – Ant: Windom (60 m long) by A. Capra & 30 m long wire; QTH: Pescia (Pistoia) Toscana, Italy. I was 3 days in Tuscany, Tips also on http://radiodxsw.blogspot.it/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 7205, Oct 22 at 0244, good signal but very undermodulated Arabic, no doubt Omdurman; then K4DSA, Alvin C. York in Clinton TN per ARRL, starts calling CQ on LSB; he`s slightly off-tuned from the AM carrier, but close enough to be readable; apparently oblivious to Sudan`s presence (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [and non]. 15400, Oct 18 at 0450, tone jammer is way atop barely audible R. Dabanga, via MADAGASCAR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Then moves to 7315 for B-13 ** SWEDEN [non]. 11875, Oct 17 at 1952, fair signal in tonal African language mentioning Nigeria, Hausa? No, Aoki shows at 1900-2000 its IBRA Radio`s ``Radio Ibrahim`` service, this quarter hour in Malinke on Wednesdays & Thursdays, otherwise in Jula, 300 kW, 182 degrees from Woofferton UK. I assume the ``Ibrahim`` name is designed to trick Moslems into listening to something designed to convert them from one Abrahamist sect into another (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAHITI. Fairly decent RFO Tahiti 738 tonight --- I could actually make out some French speech tonight at 0450 UT from Tahiti on 738, so might be worth a try for others. 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, UT Oct 21, IRCA via DXLD) Remember, Tahiti is in the same timezone as Hawaii, UT -10, so it`s already after sunset there by 0450 UT (gh, DXLD) ** TAIWAN. 7200, Oct 19 2200, Sound of Hope, Taiwan, many IDs, talks in Chinese, good (Giampiero Bernardini, RX: Excalibur Pro – Ant: Windom (60 m long) by A. Capra & 30 m long wire; QTH: Pescia (Pistoia) Toscana, Italy. I was 3 days in Tuscany, Tips also on http://radiodxsw.blogspot.it/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN [non]. Domenica 13 ottobre 2013, *1330 - 11835 kHz, PCJ MEDIA - Trincomalee (Sri Lanka), Inglese, int/sig, IDs OM e telefonata. Segnale buono-sufficiente (Luca Botto Fiora, QTH G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, playdx yg via DXLD) ** TAIWAN [non]. 9265, PCJ Int'l via WINB Red Lion, PA. Broadcast was supposed to start at 0200, but after ID at 0157 they played a few Jesus Pop tunes, then into a EE/SS Bible bumper based from WNQM 1300 in Nashville, EE OM saying something, then SS YL repeating what he just said. Finally, at 0213 they switched to PCJ programme with the PCJ IS & ID into News, Focus Asia/Pacific & Switzerland in Sound all in English. Switzerland in Sound was rather interesting as they discussed the history & development of Swiss Music Boxes & played lots of samples. Reminded me a lot of Swiss Radio Int'l -- I miss that station! ID at 0312, into a North Carolina brokered Bible Bumper. 353+43 LOTS of static from the storms in the plains & as usual from WINB just kind of ‘weak’. Based on the comments Keith Perron has made, I doubt they’ll use this station for a relay again. 0156-0316 11/Oct (Ken Zichi, Port Hope MI2, MARE Tipsheet 18 Oct via DXLD) 9265, Oct 18 at 0200, PCJ Radio test via WINB succeeds this time after a no-show six nights ago. Keith Perron himself is already voicing the news, circa 0208 into Andy Sennitt`s show, and 0227 Bob Zanotti`s. Reception would have been sufficient, if not very good, on WINB`s seemingly underpowered transmitter, but since the computer was on, I confess to listening mostly to the stream. If there`s nothing better available, that other Taiwan station should do this too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) PCJ Radio Special --- On October 27 2013 PCJ Radio International will not be presenting Focus Asia Pacific or the Happy Station Show. In it's place we will be broadcasting the original 1938 production of War Of The Worlds by the Mercury Theater with Orson Wells. Time: 1330 to 1430 UT Frequency: 11835 kHz Date: October 27 2013 There will be a special QSL for those to tune in to this broadcast. http://www.pcjmedia.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/253-pcj-radio-special-october-27-2013 (via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) Keith Perron writes on Facebook: On November the 9th at 1330 UT PCJ Radio International will do a live open line show as an experiment. Details to be published soon. (Mike Terry, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** THAILAND. 9390, Oct 22 at 1247, W&M alternating with news about Malaysia, Maldives, Kurdistan, etc., fair with flutter, i.e. HSK9 semihour for SE Asia/Australia. I see in HFCC B-13 that the 1230 & 1400 English from NBT = R. Thailand will continue on 9390. The rest: 1900-2000 9965 (oh oh, `KHBN` also registered but maybe wooden) 2030-2045 9535 0000-0100 13745 (with usual slew-switch at 0030 from E to W NAm) 0200-0230 13745 0530-0600 12015 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET [non]. CNR1 jamming, Oct 21 after 0200: 11695, good at 0205, but with heavy rumble 11745, good at 0205, with echo on this jammer Both frequencies are in HFCC as IBB in ``bod``, 11695 500 kW, 75 degrees from DHA = UAE, and 11745 250 kW, 78 degrees from KUWAIT. Bod means a dialect of Tibetan, of course. And Aoki shows the jammees are really R. Free Asia in the Amdo dialect of Tibetan. Are those the same? EiBi lists no Bod, but 800,000 speakers of Amdo. The other main dialect is Kham (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LSITENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY [and non]. Re Rumen Pankov`s obs on 1350 vs ARMENIA: V of Russia in Turkish should properly be called "Haberin Sesi", see page - unequivocally, Rumen Pankov heard after months of interruption Radio Republic Abkhazia on SW Sukhumi 9535 kHz on Oct 6th and 7th once again. Noted at 04-05 UT, with the various descriptions of the local coloring Abkhazia, national hymns, music etc. - and additionally as previously noted too \\ on mediumwave Sukhumi 1350 kHz, on local low power, - and at Sofia receiving post noted co-channel from Gavar Armenia also 1350 kHz, but powerhouse 500 kW via sidefire antenna 8-mast 232 degrees mainlobe (ex-Radio Moscow) and newly RSFM program - "Haberin Sesi" according broadcaster schedule 04-06 UT - co-channel signal is covered or is not made distinguishable for him. The angular difference of the incident signals at 1350 kHz in Sofia are naturally very low, for a SONY ICF-2010 with built-in ferrite antenna, is very little - all 8 degrees, direction Sukhumi Riviera 84 degr, direction Gavar Armenia 92 degr. Radio Republic Abkhazia heard by Y.T. on 9535 kHz at latest on 4 Febr 2013, Ivo in Sofia reported RRA silence on SW 9535 kHz from 10 April 2013 (Wolfgang Büschel, Oct 9, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews 22 Oct via DXLD) Wolfy was in the hospital lately with heart problems but is back at the dials now. We wish him well! (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** TURKEY. 9770, Oct 19 at 0053, TRT IS and then ID starting ``Burasi`` = Turkish for here is, but then speaking Chinese! Normally, the Spanish service at 0100 on 9770 isn`t on this far before the hour. Emirler must have turned on early, and plugged in some program feed from webcast, as there is no Chinese from VOT on SW schedule anywhere near this hour. Might also have been one of multi-lingual IDs interspersed with IS as they used to do with old IS, except this Chinese talk was more than just an ID, maybe sign-off of previous program; 0054 back to IS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11980, Oct 17 at 0519, TRT good signal with flutter, Turkish pop music and talk. Recently this had been very poor as to be expected as we get into fall and winter darkness (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 15450, Voice of Turkey, Emirler. 1301 October 17, 2013. Tune-in to nonstop nice Turkish pop/rock vocals, ID at 1322 and quick news headlines, contact info, traditional Turkish instrumental fill, abrupt off 1326:39. Listed as 500 kW at 310-degrees, so no wonder the good signal here, 1230-1325 in English (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF- 7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) It`s all over now: B-13 back to 12035 at 1330+ (gh) WINTER B-13 SCHEDULE FOR VOICE OF TURKEY ANKARA Shortwave Broadcasting Schedule of VOICE OF TURKEY Radio between 27 Oct 2013 and 29 March 2014 dates kHz UTC tx kW deg language target 6000 0100-0300 EMR 500 72 TURKISH AS 9410 0200-0300 EMR 500 252 SPANISH AMs/SoEUR 9650 0200-0300 EMR 500 290 SPANISH NoWeAF/AMs/SoEUR 9460 0300-0400 EMR 500 72 UYGHUR AS 7240 0400-0500 EMR 500 138 ENGLISH AS 9655 0400-0500 EMR 500 335 ENGLISH AMs/EUR 9700 0500-0700 EMR 500 310 TURKISH EUR/AM 9820 0500-0700 EMR 250 138 TURKISH AS 11925 0700-1000 EMR 500 97 TURKISH AS 15480 0700-1300 EMR 500 120 TURKISH AF/AS 15350 0700-1400 EMR 500 310 TURKISH EUR/AM 11835 0800-0900 EMR 250 72 AZERBAIJAN AS 11795 0930-1100 EMR 500 105 PERSIAN AS 11955 1000-1100 EMR 500 210 ARABIC AF/AS 15360 1100-1130 EMR 500 32 TATAR AS 9840 1100-1200 EMR 250 72 GEORGIAN AS 13625 1130-1200 EMR 500 72 UZBEK AS 7245 1200-1230 EMR 250 290 BULGARIAN EUR 11805 1200-1300 EMR 500 72 CHINESE AS 17755 1230-1330 EMR 500 310 GERMAN EUR 11965 1300-1330 EMR 250 72 TURKMEN AS 11985 1300-1400 EMR 500 92 URDU AS 12035 1330-1430 EMR 500 310 ENGLISH EUR/AM 13685 1330-1430 EMR 500 72 UYGHUR AS 9410 1400-1500 EMR 250 20 RUSSIAN AS/EUR 11815 1400-1700 EMR 250 300 TURKISH EUR/AM 9785 1430-1500 EMR 500 62 KAZAKH AS 6185 1500-1530 EMR 500 290 ITALIAN EUR 9665 1500-1600 EMR 250 150 ARABIC AF/AS 15200 1500-1600 EMR 500 252 ARABIC AF/SoEUR 9530 1600-1700 EMR 500 105 PERSIAN AS 11680 1600-1730 EMR 250 92 DARI-PASHTO AS 5965 1630-1730 EMR 500 90 AZERBAIJAN AS 5980 1700-2200 EMR 250 310 TURKISH EUR 6120 1700-2200 EMR 500 150 TURKISH AF/AS 11730 1730-1830 EMR 500 105 ENGLISH AS/AUS/NZL 9495 1730-1830 EMR 250 270 SPANISH AF/EUR 9620 1830-1930 EMR 500 180 FRENCH AF 7205 1830-1930 EMR 250 310 GERMAN EUR 6050 1930-2030 EMR 250 290 ENGLISH AMs/EUR 5970 2030-2130 EMR 500 290 FRENCH EUR 6050 2030-2130 EMR 500 247 FRENCH NoAF/CeAF/WeAF 9610 2130-2230 EMR 500 105 ENGLISH AS/AUS/NZL 5960 2300-2400 EMR 500 310 ENGLISH EUR (HFCC transformed to time sorted form file by wb. wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UGANDA. 4750, Oct 20 1758, Radio Dunamis, Uganda, nice Afro songs, jingle at 1804, weak to fair (Giampiero Bernardini, RX: Excalibur Pro – Ant: Windom (60 m long) by A. Capra & 30 m long wire; QTH: Pescia (Pistoia) Toscana, Italy. I was 3 days in Tuscany, Tips also on http://radiodxsw.blogspot.it/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UGANDA. 4976, Oct 19 1635, UBC, Kampala, Uganda, afro songs, fair (Giampiero Bernardini, RX: Excalibur Pro – Ant: Windom (60 m long) by A. Capra & 30 m long wire; QTH: Pescia (Pistoia) Toscana, Italy. I was 3 days in Tuscany, Tips also on http://radiodxsw.blogspot.it/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. Kismat Radio on 1035 --- Hearing them now between nothing and fair with Indian chant and talk probably in Hindi by the participants of a phone-in program. It is // to their webstream http://www.kismatradio.com/ A relog, but not so frequent (I guess it's the 2nd time). It is listed at 1 kW (Sylvain Naud, Portneuf, QC, Perseus + 1500ft Beverage @ 35 degrees, 0026 UT 22 Oct, IRCA via DXLD) Where in the world is this? I already gave it away unlike Sylvain; UK, London (gh, DXLD) ** U K [non]. 5980, Oct 17 at 1236, BBCWS an echo apart from // 9740 Singapore as quickly confirmed rather than a major English SW broadcaster such as CRI; 1250 about formula factories trying to discourage ---ugh--- breast-feeding by humans in Venezuela. It seems these day-of-week jumparounds from original 5875, have not made it into HFCC, still shown as daily 12-14 5875 via THAILAND. I was thinking the Thursday-only frequency was 5975, but Aoki today does have it on 5980 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5875, Oct 23 at 1259, good signal from BBCWS ending `From Our Own Correspondent`, one of their best showwes. I assume it is still split and scattered in 10-minute segments to fill out semihours of other shortened feature programmes. 5875 is the Sunday & Wednesday frequency of the THAILAND relay at 12-14 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) SEYCHELLES, 15420, 1608-, BBCWS, Oct 20. Good reception with sports program. Austria is one of the teams playing. Presumably a soccer match? A good choice for BBC at this time of the day for us on the west coast (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. 4 Extra Debut. To celebrate its 75th anniversary, the Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcast that caused panic in America on Halloween in 1938. ---- Sunday 18:00 BBC Radio 4 Extra This week marks the 75th anniversary of the most infamous hoax in the history of radio - Orson Welles' production of H G Wells' The War Of The Worlds. The drama, disguised as a dance music programme punctuated by a series of fake news broadcasts telling of a Martian invasion, played out at a time when the USA was in the grip of pre-WW2 invasion anxiety, fearing that Nazi Germany would make an attack on mainland America. Public reaction was seemingly extreme with widespread panic and isolated groups of people fleeing their homes. The police raided the Mercury Theatre Company offices after the broadcast and seized copies of the script. The scandal ensured that Welles became a household name and led to his famous Hollywood career. Adolf Hitler cited the crisis as evidence of 'the decadence and corrupt condition of democracy'. The event was reported all over the world and has become part of broadcasting legend. But just how real was the panic? Some now believe that the newspapers of the time, fearing the growing power of radio, exaggerated events in order to discredit the new medium. Nevertheless, when the War Of The Worlds dramatisation was repeated in Ecuador in 1949 it lead to a dramatic and tragic series of events when the radio station was burned to the ground. This programme also reveals how Welles and his collaborators may have been influenced by a lost 1926 BBC programme called Broadcasting From The Barricades, in which Ronald Knox caused a similar stir with a programme of music from the Savoy, interrupted by reports of revolution in the streets and the hotel being flattened by mortars. Presented by Christopher Frayling Producer: Nick Freand Jones A Hidden Flack production for BBC Radio 4. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03f86lh (In the UK you can listen to Radio 4 Extra in many ways: on a digital (DAB); on digital television; online through a computer; on a mobile phone; on an MP3 player.)(via Mike Terry, dxldyg via DXLD) ** U S A. 5779.5-USB, Oct 23 at 0056, MARS contacts between NNN0TD and NNN0GBI who is state director for New Mexico; and they discuss their other ``billet(?) calls``, whatever that means, and I am not sure which one applies to which, AFE6TM and NNN0TSO; also mention Navy/Marine Corps MARS. Now starts the post-research. http://navymars.org/south/reg6/nmwtx/nmwtx.htm shows NNN0GBI apparently as general call for the NM/West Texas MARS. NNN0TSO is the individual Richard Norton, State Director (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7290.0, Oct 22 at 0245, huge AM signal from ham instead of broadcaster, W0VMC who is laughing at his own humor. ARRL shows: Smith, Robert M, W0VMC, New Richmond, WI 54017. Then over to contact K9VAI(?) also AM, but much weaker. See also SUDAN [and non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see INTERNATIONAL WATERS [non] ** U S A. Meeting of the Broadcasting Board of Governors Scheduled for October 23 --- October 17, 2013 BBG Meetings logo WASHINGTON, DC - The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) will meet on Wednesday, October 23 at the BBG headquarters in Washington, D.C. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 9:15 a.m. The Board's agenda includes reform of the Board's committee structure, including establishment of special committees on a Chief Executive Officer and on shortwave. The Board will also consider the organization of the Boards of Directors of BBG-funded grantee networks, a Board travel policy, and proposed meeting dates for 2014. The public may attend this meeting in person as seating capacity permits, and there will be an opportunity for public comment. Members of the public seeking to attend the meeting in person must register here by 12:00 p.m. on October 22. This meeting will also be available for public observation via live- streamed webcast and afterwards on-demand at http://www.bbg.gov Information regarding this meeting, including any updates, can also be found at http://www.bbg.gov The members of the BBG will also meet in a closed session to consider the appointment of a General Counsel. For more information, please contact BBG Public Affairs at (202) 203-4400 or by e-mail at pubaff@bbg.gov (BBG PR via Clara Listensprechen, dxldyg via DXLD) BOARD WELCOMES WEINSTEIN, STREAMLINES STRUCTURE, ANNOUNCES LEADERSHIP CHANGES === October 23, 2013 Members of the BBG sit around the table Jeff Shell chairs the Oct 23 meeting of the BBG [captions] WASHINGTON, DC - As a new member joined its ranks, the Broadcasting Board of Governors today announced a series of restructuring efforts to improve the way the bipartisan board operates. "The work this agency does is vital, and we must do everything in our power to make sure we as a Board are doing the best we can - not only for our employees, but for the millions of people who depend on the news and information our networks provide," said the Board's chair, Jeff Shell. Shell introduced and welcomed to the Board Kenneth Weinstein, who was confirmed by the Senate in September and sworn in on October 18. He also welcomed Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Douglas Frantz, who was designated by Secretary of State John Kerry - a BBG board member - to represent him at today's meeting. Governors Weinstein and Crocker at the Oct 23 meeting of the BBG Among the changes that the Board adopted is a simplified structure that includes an Advisory Committee and special committees focused on specific strategic issues. Two such special committees were immediately established - one dedicated to defining the responsibilities of and initiating a search for a Chief Executive Officer of U.S. international broadcasting and another to examining the efficacy of shortwave radio transmissions. The Advisory Committee is made up of Governors Shell, Armstrong, Meehan and Weinstein. Governors Shell, Armstrong, McCue, and Weinstein will serve on the Special Committee on the Creation of a CEO, while Governors Armstrong, Crocker, Meehan, and Weinstein now constitute the Special Committee on Shortwave Broadcasting. With this meeting, the Board began using a consent agenda to adopt items of business that are non-controversial or routine. From now on, Board members will consider and vote on items of business as a group, though any member can request that an agenda item be considered separately. The use of the consent agenda, as well as a revised Board travel policy that was also adopted, were among the recommendations of the Office of Inspector General in its January 2013 inspection report. The Board also announced the selection of Paul Kollmer-Dorsey as the agency's General Counsel. Kollmer-Dorsey joined the BBG as Deputy General Counsel and Acting General Counsel in June 2009. Prior to joining BBG, he served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Global Relief Technologies and worked for a dozen years in the international satellite communications industry. He earned his law degree from the Stanford School of Law. And after three years with the BBG and decades of distinguished public and private sector service, International Broadcasting Bureau Director Richard Lobo announced his retirement, effective on November 30. Board members expressed their gratitude for his service and leadership during a period of budgetary challenges. "The agency and, in fact, the country owes Dick a debt of gratitude for what he did at the IBB," Shell said. "Dick was instrumental in developing the proposal for establishing a CEO to streamline the agency as well as leadership of the IBB during a challenging period of uncertainty and tightening budgets." Lobo thanked Shell and the other Board members and read from the letter he had just sent to President Barack Obama: "The proposed implementation of the plan, which I helped formulate, to create the position of CEO and to subsequently abolish the IBB Director's position creates the ideal time for me to step aside. After more than five decades in broadcasting, I intend to retire and return to my native state of Florida." Turning to the latest events affecting U.S. international media, Shell acknowledged the hard work and sacrifice required of BBG employees during the partial government shutdown that ended on Oct. 17. Despite the furloughing of approximately 40 percent of the agency's federal workforce, programs were produced and distributed around the world uninterrupted. In addition to the administrative challenges of operating during the shutdown, Shell took time to acknowledge how in recent months, journalists across the BBG's broadcast regions have been harassed, threatened, and wrongly detained as a result of their work. The simple act of reporting on public demonstrations or events has brought physical attacks on a Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reporter and a Voice of America (VOA) reporter in Herat province of Afghanistan, the detainment and release of correspondents for RFE/RL in Astana and in Minsk, and the arrest and beating of a VOA correspondent in Angola. In Iran, officials have continued harassment against VOA and Radio Farda journalists and their families, and in an attempt to intimidate the press and control coverage of elections, Azerbaijan's ruling political party has targeted RFE/RL and VOA broadcasts with complaints of illegal electioneering. The Board also called for the immediate release of Alhurra TV reporter Bashar Fahmi as well as other journalists being held incommunicado in Syria. Fahmi has not been seen or heard from since he went missing while reporting in Aleppo, Syria in August 2012. "The people who make up this agency are some of the most dedicated, courageous and selfless people I have ever known," Shell concluded. "No hardship, whether it is a partial government shutdown, or unjust incarceration can stop the good work of our workforce. And for that we thank you." The Board paused to pay tribute to two distinguished colleagues who recently passed away - Jack Payton, an esteemed and accomplished newsman and senior editor at VOA, and Dave Strawman, recently retired manager of the BBG transmitting station in Tinang, the Philippines (BBG PR via Hansjoerg Biener, Germany, DXLD) ** U S A. DICK LOBO ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT, CAPS AWARD-WINNING BROADCASTING CAREER --- October 23, 2013 Richard Lobo standing in a control room IBB Director Richard Lobo [captions] WASHINGTON, DC - Looking back on decades of distinguished public and private sector service, and capping an award-winning career as a broadcast executive, International Broadcasting Bureau Director Richard M. Lobo today announced that he will retire on November 30. "The proposed implementation of the plan, which I helped formulate, to create the position of CEO and to subsequently abolish the IBB Director's position creates the ideal time for me to step aside," Lobo wrote in his resignation letter to President Barack Obama. "After more than five decades in broadcasting, I intend to retire and return to my native state of Florida." "The agency and, in fact, the country owes Dick a debt of gratitude for what he did at the IBB," said Jeff Shell, chair of the agency's board. "Dick was instrumental in developing the proposal for establishing a CEO to streamline the agency as well as leadership of the IBB during a challenging period of uncertainty and tightening budgets." Shell made particular note of Lobo's steady leadership during the BBG's most recent challenge: maintaining crucial news and information programs for audiences worldwide in spite of a partial government shutdown that included furloughing approximately 40 per cent of the agency federal workforce. The White House has not announced its intent to nominate a successor. Shell had asked Lobo to remain on the job for a few weeks more so the Board could work out an interim leadership plan for the IBB. President Obama appointed Lobo to the post in September 2010. He is the longest-serving IBB Director in the agency's history. Lobo provides day-to-day management of agency operations including oversight of the technical, professional, and administrative support, as well as strategic guidance and management of other programs. In addition, he serves as the principal liaison for the Board with other U.S. government agencies, foreign governments, and private-sector organizations. Among his signature accomplishments has been to implement the Board's vision to step up innovation throughout the BBG and its grantee networks by establishing and cultivating the IBB's Office of Digital and Design Innovation. Before moving to Washington, Lobo was president and CEO of WEDU (PBS) Tampa/St. Petersburg/Sarasota and chairman of the Florida Public Broadcasting Service. Lobo also served as president of WTVJ in Miami, where he began his career as a reporter. He was station manager of WNBC-TV in New York, and vice president and general manager of NBC stations in Chicago and Cleveland. He has served as director of the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, appointed by President Clinton. Under his direction as president of WTVJ, the station won the Peabody, the duPont, and the Edward R. Murrow Awards for its coverage of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Andrew. Lobo was honored in 2012 with the Gold Circle Award by the Suncoast Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for outstanding service to broadcasting. He has also won an Emmy Award for broadcast editorials, and was honored with the New York Black Citizens for a Fair Media's Community Service Award, the Wall Street Chapter of IMAGE's Hispanic Executive Award, and the Leadership Award of the Chicago Latino Committee on the Media. Lobo has served as a member of the TV Board of the National Association of Broadcasters and on the board of the Florida Association of Broadcasters. He is a recent inductee into the Tampa Bay Business Hall of Fame. The Sarasota Chapter of the American Jewish Committee presented Lobo and his wife with its Civic Achievement Award. He is an Alumnus of Distinction of the University of Miami School of Communication, where he majored in journalism/radio-TV-film. Lobo is a Captain (Retired) in the U.S. Army Reserve. A second generation Floridian, grandson of Cuban immigrants, he is married to Caren Lobo and has three children and five grandchildren. The IBB manages a global network of transmitting sites and an extensive system of leased satellite and fiber optic circuits, along with a rapidly growing Internet delivery system servicing the 61 language services of the BBG networks. For the agency's federal components, the IBB provides research, manages the evaluation of broadcasts and is responsible for VOA editorials, along with support services including human resources, Equal Employment Opportunity, procurement, security, administrative, and graphics (via Hansjoerg Biener, DXLD) ** U S A [non]. 12150, Oct 20 at 2230, VOA `International Edition`, poor with flutter. HFCC A-13 as of Oct 8 showed this hour 22-23 is Sun-Thu only (local M-F mornings), 250 kW, 313 degrees from TINIAN; while the following hour 23-24 is daily, 250 kW, 349 degrees via Tinang, Philippines (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 25950, COLORADO, KOA, Denver. 1331 October 17, 2013. Good with local news by man and woman, FOX News Radio segments, Accuweather forecast for Denver. NBFM mode I suppose, but fine and best in USB (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, WORLD OF RADIO 1692, WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 25950/FM, KOA studio relay, Denver CO; 1554-1600+, 22-Oct; Local talk program with commentary how our government is making citizens sub- serviant. 1557 ad/promo string; Monster Vac, Broncos spot, appliance recycling spot, Divorce Matters, "Home of the CO Buffaloes ...8-50 KOA". 1600 Fox News. Copyable but scratchy with QSBs. Only hints of audio at 1750 recheck -- could be outbanders. Back up 2218-2230+ better than this morning; "8-50 KOA". ad/promo string; Williams Jewelers, Gold Works, United Health Care, American Financing by local talk host Mike Rosen & CSU FB promo. Into Dave Logan call-in show about a silly new NFL rule that you can't push or climb on a teammate during a field goal attempt. Can you during an extra point attempt or punt? No BoH break. Excellent peaks with QSBs (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 26110/FM, KOVR-TV audio, Sacramento CA; 1635-1702+, 13-Oct; "Live from across the valley, this is Good Day"; Chit-chatty M&W on remote from a car show. Ments of Sacramento & Sacramento Kings. Good peaks. ToH news by chi-chatty W. Off during breaks, sometimes with OC, sometimes not. 1446, 16-Oct; Morning chit-chat program; 2W having way too much fun talking about birds on remote from State St., "right here in Sacramento". VG peaks with some QSBs. Last heard in February. Nothing on 25910, 950 or 990 either time (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, 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! WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5110, WBCQ at 0222 with Glenn Hauser's "World of Radio" talking about PNG stations - Very Good Oct 12 (Joe Robinson, Scarborough, ON, Sony ICF-2010 and 150' perimeter antenna, ODXA YRX via DXLD) UT Sats from 0200v, soon 0300v presumably WRN DST ending warning --- Glenn, I'm surprised you have NEVER mentioned this, but on the Podcast of WOR after the next one, if things have not changed in the last three years, WRN will change the URL for the WOR Podcast. 73 (Larry Nebron, CA, Oct 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Since I myself never need to listen to WOR podcasts, I tend to overlook this, so reminders would be appreciated. I assume this refers to the time embedded in the URL, when the podcast becomes available (not the time of transmission) (gh, DXLD) [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1691 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-1, 9479, at 2101 Thursday Oct 18. Next airing also confirmed on WWRB 5050 at 0350 check, having been monitored first on webcast starting at 0328. Next: UT Saturday 0200v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; Sat 0630 & 1430 on HLR 7265-CUSB; Sat 1500 on WRMI 9955; Sat 2329v on WTWW-2 9930; UT Sun 0401v on WTWW-1 5830. WORLD OF RADIO 1691 monitoring: confirmed on Area 51 webcast, and presumably WBCQ 5110v-CUSB, UT Saturday Oct 19 after 0200. Also confirmed on WRMI webcast, and presumably 9955, Saturday after 1500. Next: Saturday 1730 on WRN to North America; Saturday 2329v on WTWW-2 9930; UT Sunday 0401v on WTWW-1 5830. WORLD OF RADIO 1691 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-1, 5830, UT Sunday Oct 20 starting at 0401:36. I missed checking the Oct 19 Sat 2329v airing on WTWW-2, 9930. Did anyone hear it? Ted Randall`s QSO show was still running on next frequency, 5085 at 0128 Oct 20. WORLD OF RADIO 1692: ready for first airing UT Thursday Oct 24 at 0330 on WRMI 9955; Thursday 2101 on WTWW-1 9479; UT Friday 0327v on WWRB 5050; UT Sat 0200v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; Saturday 0630 & 1430 on HLR 7265-CUBS; Saturday 1500 on WRMI 9955; Saturday 2329v on WTWW-2 9930; UT Sunday 0401 on WTWW-1 5830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9479, Oct 18 at 1352, open carrier/dead air from WTWW-1, past 1400 with no ID inserted either; I failed to keep a receiver on 9479 to detect when it started, but modulating at 1725 check. 5830, Oct 20 at 1152, open carrier/dead air again from WTWW-1. This is happening a lot, lately. 1254 check, modulation has resumed as late PPP is trying to get a Tennessee Ernie Ford song to play; but after 1300 change to 9479 some more OC/DA before resuming. 12105, Oct 20 at 2229, WTWW-3 is off the air; not a propagation issue, since neighbor WWCR is VG on even higher 13845. 5085, UT Monday Oct 21 at 0147, bigsig WTWW-2 playing country music, presumably Ted Randall`s Sunday night show breaking away from Brother Scare; I`ve never found out the timespan for it. 5830, Oct 21 at 1348, WTWW-1 still on night frequency past 1300 instead of 9479, with SFAW. 5085, Oct 21 at 1350, WTWW-2 still on night frequency past 1300 instead of 9930, with TOM/BS. 12105, WTWW-3 not on the air at 1350. 5830, Oct 23 at 0540, WTWW-1 is off, but WTWW-2 is on 5085; at 1258, 5830 is also/still off; at 1305, WTWW-1 is off 9479 as is -2 off 9930. But at 1324, WTWW-3 is on 12105 in Russian, and now 9930 is on with BS (Glenn Hauser, oK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7490, Oct 20 at 0117, WBCQ is on with old tape of RNI, as Allan must have decided to resume playing stuff from his archives during unsold airtime Saturday night, altho online sked still shows nothing on 7490 Saturdays/UT Sundays except Heart & Soul at 2300-0100. M&W were discussing fishing from a pier in Lower Manhattan; toll-free phone number for mailbag, 1-800-73-69-RNI (ha ha); then talking about using a phone modem (remember those?), to contact Steve Cole for his Crossband show (remember him and that?), 918-495-6996, a service provided by Isle-Net (sp?); repeated number starting with 908 instead. Plugs advertising on Radio Newyork International, cut off abruptly, other announcers said that had been Randi Steele (remember him/her?), contact P O Box 270, Flushing NY 11352. (I assume all these numbers and addresses are long defunct.) 0120 referring to a report from Gary Poopers in Rockford IL, joking about his name. Etc., etc. Checked 5110 and not //. Newer RNIs with John P Lightning appear fortnightly UT Mondays at 0000-0300 on Area 51 via 5110v-CUSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. QSL: PILIPINAS DX NEWS via AWR “WAVESCAN” via WINB 13570. Full-data color “Maningning Island, Antique, Philippines” beach scene card in 7 months from Engineer Henry L. Umadhay for a report to Pilipinas DX, San Pedro, San José, Antique, Philippines 5700 (Wendel Craighead, Prairie Village, Kansas, USA, Cumbre DX Oct 22 via DXLD) WINB: also see TAIWAN [non] ** U S A. 5975, Oct 18 at 0057, *image* of 6875 WWCR on the DX-398 with 450 kHz IF; quite weak and had never noticed it before; just in time, as in a sesquiweek it will vanish along with 6875 from the schedule, to be replaced by image on 5215. Often-noted carrier on 5035 aside huge 5040 RHC may well be another such, 900 kHz below 5935 WWCR, rather than Aparecida. 11825, Oct 24 at 0251, sum mixture of WWCR 5890 BS plus 5935 DGS/PMS, on the DX-398. Fundamentals are extremely strong, probably making receiver overload breakthru, but haven`t noticed this combination before. Possibly could also be transmitting a few watts here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 13830, WEWN, 17/10 2341 UT. Programa “Criterios” de Alejandro Bermúdez con el tema de la fe con obras y la salvación desde un punto de vista católico. Señal con SINPO: 55454 con ruido de fondo ¿Jammer? // 12050 con SINPO: 54444 sólo con algo de ruido de portadora (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: Beverage de 20 metros con balun 9:1, QTH: Centro de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** U S A. 15550/USB, WJHR Milton FL (presumed); 2132, 18-Oct; Tuned in to hear huxter say, "...tearing down the tissue of the buttocks." This was in response to a crying caller about child abuse. I'm sure that was very consoling. SIO=3+53 with usual very tinny audio. Aoki continues to list this incorrectly from CA (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, USA, Drake R8B + 125 ft. bow-tie; 85 ft. RW & 180 ft. center-fed RW, All logged by my ears, on my receiver, in real time! DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 570, Oct 18 at 1225 UT, far-right comments, then ``The Home of News New Mexico, KSNM 570``. Talkhost asserts since Clinton was caught lying, Obama must be too. About something. Thus making a very bad first impression as obviously extremely biased. There was info recently that KSNM was changing ownership; is this before or after? NRC AM Log shows 5000/155 watts with 250-watt PSRA but sounds more like 5 kW to me. Yes, NNM originates at KSNM. About it with affiliate list: http://newsnewmexico.blogspot.com/p/radio-affiliates.html ``News New Mexico Inc.. is an independent content production company headquartered in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Our flagship product, News New Mexico is a news, news commentary, and sports program that airs live from 6:00am to 9:00am in the Mountain Time Zone on a number of stations throughout the state. The show is also replayed in a number of areas and aired on a tape-delay basis. The News New Mexico Scoreboard Show also airs live as well as on tape delay. The live broadcasts air at 10:00pm - 11:00pm on Friday nights. News New Mexico Weekender is a compilation program that airs on weekends around the state. Newsbreak New Mexico is a two minute hard newscast that airs from 6:00am to 6:00pm. Below is a list of stations carrying our programming: KSNM AM 570 - Las Cruces KIVA AM 1550 - Albuquerque KATK AM 740 - Carlsbad KSVP AM 990 - Artesia KLMX AM 1450 - Clayton KINN AM 1270 - Alamogordo ESPN 101.7 - Albuquerque KPCL 95.7 - Farmington KEND 106.5 - Roswell`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 620, Oct 18 at 1158 UT, ``If you want football in Arizona`` [hardly!], then BSA PSA, some XE QRM. So it`s KTAR Phœnix, now with ESPN. At least they kept the heritage calls. NRC Pattern Book 2013 shows night pattern with a pretty deep null toward me, but non- direxional daytime, 5 kW both (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 630, Oct 19 at 0505 UT, solo M voice with hymn, from NE/SW, no doubt the St Louis station ex-KXOK (vs KHOW Denver from the NW/SE with I-70 traffic report: close to right angle apart, they are mutually nullable). Apparently 630 STL was off the air for a while: NRC AM Log 2013 lists this as KJSL, 5/5 kW U4, religious ``Truth Talk``. Eric Bueneman, IRCA who keeps close track of his local radio scene, says in the Oct 5 DX Monitor, ``Bible Broadcasting Network signed my local on 630 back on the air September 25 as KYFI; the format is better than the fundamentalist talk that had been on the frequency for the last 19 years``. His further comments: ``The fundamentalist Christian talk shows are gone from the station, replaced with a mix of Christian Easy Listening music and teaching from Bible Broadcasting Network. The studios for the station were moved out of St. Louis to Charlotte, NC (BBN's flagship is WYFQ 930). KJSL had its local studios in Creve Coeur. Crawford acquired the station (the former KXOK) in 1994. Crawford still holds onto KSTL 690, broadcasting an Urban Gospel format as "Shine 690"; for how long is another question. KSTL is back to 24-hour operation after selling the 630 outlet``. Looks like it will now be harder to hear XEFB Monterrey NL, never a bigsig here unlike many other Mexicans. NRC Pattern Book shows it throws westward, while St Louis` major lobe is to the SSW, and KHOW to the SE and SW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 720, Oct 21 at 2005 UT, from squirrel haven north of Enid in a lo-noise area, very weak signal on caradio, but at 2006 I do make out ``Your Money on WGN``; also SAH of about 5 Hz, San Antonio? Long before sunset, but is it residual skywave or groundwave at almost 700 miles from Chicago? Again no sign of WSCR on 670, just KLTT Denver (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 810, ALABAMA, WCKA, Jacksonville. 0834 Charlie Pride “Kiss An Angel Good Morning” then male canned “Coast to coast Classic Country on Alabama's 810 and 94.3 FM” into a song by, uh, Alabama. Local spots. Big local signal, surely running their 50 kW day power and not night 500 watts (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; NRD-515 (borrowed); ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. [From DXN 85-01] ``820 WWBA FL Largo – 10/7 0207 – Redeye Radio from WBAP has a slight reverb echo on it, especially when nulled, no doubt from other 820 affiliate, WWBA in Largo FL, 50/1 kW. I wonder if they make an effort to synchronize, compensating for a satellite delay to FL from originating TX, minimizing echo which could be a lot worse between them than here. (GH-OK)`` That's a great log from Okie. I don't see it logged on night power / pattern often. This one is, sadly, virtually walking distance from the house. Daytime it puts out plenty of harmonics, the first on 1640 is audible for 30+ miles (Terry L Krueger, Clearwater FL, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 840, Oct 19 at 1220 UT, main station here is not WHAS or KTIC, but something NW/SE, speaker with strange accent answering questions fed by unaccented person about whether Arabs are descended from Abraham. In fact his accent was so heavy at first I thought it was some unEnglish language. The only thing which fits by format and direxion is KWDF in Ball LA, street address in Pineville, per NRC AM Log as REL: K-Love, 8 kW non-direxional daytimer, 7 am to LSS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 880, Oct 23 at 1245 UT, Navajo syllables heard with KRVN nulled, another pre-sunrise appearance by KHAC Window Rock AZ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 910, Oct 18 at 1205 UT, Fox `news` into ``91 Classic Country KCJB Minot`` ID, where it`s 35 degrees; promo pasta giveaway trivia quiz coming up. Quite dominant 5 kW signal from ND, nothing much audible with it nulled. NPR Pattern Book shows day pattern goes SW, night pattern NE. Guess which one they are really on now, long before Oct official sunrise of 1300 (November: 1345). Nothing about a PSRA in their FCC file (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 920, Oct 20 at 1216 UT, from NW/SE, dominant signal goes from Michael Medved far-right talkshow to a break with ID for KVEL, Vernal UT, also on 104.5 (translator), adstring including a security system, Laity Lodge referring to Tom Landry, some football coach, thehighcalling.org, local sheriff vs texting & driving; ad for something in Roosevelt [UT], local reference to ``The Basin``, steak dinner for only $22.99 in Fort Duchesne, Palmer`s American Car Care also in ``The Basin``. Vernal is in exotic NE Utah`s scenic dinosaur country. 1 kW night pattern goes mostly NNE, while 5 kW day pattern is non-direxional, surely already on now, way before sunrise. KYFR Iowa is barely audible with KVEL nulled (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 930, Oct 23 at 1247 UT, in tight WKY OKC null, country music, English announcement, TC as 5:47, 1250 segué. Only fit in the UT-7 zone per NRC AM Log is: KAFF Flagstaff AZ, C&W, 5000/31 watts, PSRA 500, always non-direxional. But PSRA start-time of 6 am local MST would not come until 1300 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WONQ 1030 Oviedo, Fla., this evening 10/19, solid signal 40 miles SW of Chicago with unrecognized language, perhaps Portuguese. ID in EE at 19:00 CDT [0000 UT Oct 20] "WONQ OVIEDO". Thanks to Saul for the tip from last night (Tom Jasinski, Joliet, IL, IRCA via WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DXLD) Heard on the car radio with huge signal here in Alabama. Language seemed more like French to me. Haitian? ID at 20:00 CDT [0100 UT] was clearly an insert over program audio, male voice IDing, "WONQ OVIDEO". New one here. Thanks for the tip, Saul! P.S. Last night I brought a nearly new Kiwa Loop with instructions for $100. Looking forward to getting back into AM DXing in a more serious way. Hope to get ALA-1500 up during Thanksgiving week. 73, (Les Rayburn, N1LF, Maylene, AL, 35114 EM63nf, 0144 UT Oct 20, WORLD OF RADIO 1692, ibid.) Having just logged WQSE-1030 as a new one here a few minutes ago (my 2nd new logging on 1030 today!), I'm trying for WONQ as this moment. Hearing Spanish, but can't make out if it's them, or possibly Memphis, or maybe a Mexican. ?Will keep working at it. 73, (Rick Dau, South Omaha, Nebraska, Kenwood R-5000 + Quantum QX Pro loop, 0146 UT Oct 20, IRCA via DXLD) I actually have something under WBZ, I'm approx 40 miles West of them and they're very hard to null. I'm certain it's the same station you guys are hearing as it too is an unidentifiable language for me, I'm not hearing Spanish though. I just heard a WONQ English ID on the top of the hour at 10:00 ET [0200 UT] (Bob Young, Millbury, MA, KB1OKL, SP-600 2 160M dipoles, Misek Phaser, UT Oct 20, IRCA via WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DXLD) FWIW, it's definitely Haitian Creole. I only had one year of college French, but that's at least good enough to confirm the language. Deep voiced male announcer with occasional long monologues between somewhat unusual/exotic sounding dance music. Vaguely salsa or Caribbean jazz, but distinctly different from what one might hear on Radio Progreso or other Cuban stations. They are at times absolutely DOMINATING over Boston here in St. Louis Missouri. It looks like the station recently switched from Spanish to Haitian French/Creole. Right now the deep voiced DJ seems to be going through a list of upcoming concerts in Central Florida, he keeps mentioning band names and town names. Incidentally, they do stream at http://cc.net2streams.com/tunein/maarroyo.asx Thanks to Saul Chernos, Tom Jasinski, Rick Dau etc. for the tips on this one (Earl Higgins, RX-321 and end fed outdoor antenna less than 50 feet, 0256 UT Oct 20, IRCA via WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DXLD) I am now hearing French here as well, mixed with Spanish, at times on top of the channel but dips. Kind Regards, (James Niven, Austin, Texas, 0146 UT 20 Oct, WORLD OF RADIO 1692, ibid.) WONQ 1030 FL heard on Cape Cod --- WONQ 1030 battling it out with WBZ here on Cape Cod: http://chowdanet.com/markc/dx_audio/wonq_and_wbz-1030_20131020_0300z.mp3 After WBZ ID's you can hear "WONQ Oviedo" ID, then Haitian music mixing fairly evenly with WBZ's news. Reception time 2300 EDT / 19 OCT (0300 UTC / 20 OCT). Thanks to everyone who reported this on the various lists (Mark Connelly, WA1ION, South Yarmouth, MA, Perseus, north-null SuperLoop, ABDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DXLD) Mostly Spanish music on 1030 has been covering up WBZ for the last 2 or 3 nights here in Eastern North Carolina. Note that WBZ is often the loudest AM signal on the dial at night here. I did not hear any French or Portuguese, but heard the music at about 4-6 am. Thought it may have been the Wake Forest, NC station on day power, or the Cubans, but looks my guess is wrong. Does WONQ have any Spanish programming? 73 (Mark Casey K1MAP, Hampden, Mass., at Cedar Island, NC for another week Oct 20, amfmtvdx at qth.net via DXLD) 1030, WONQ, FL, Oviedo - 10/19 2222 [EDT = 0222 UT Oct 20] - Fair to good with deep-voiced male speaking in Creole French. Odd type of music at 2229 that sounded like a squeaking clarinet or a pungi (instrument used by snake charmers). I counted it after Earl Higgins in St. Louis said he matched this up with WONQ's webstream, which never would come up on my lapper. My thanks to Tom Jasinski, Saul Chernos, Jim Renfrew and Earl for tipping me off, as WONQ was most definitely using the full 45 kW day torch at the time. Florida logging #3 here (Rick Dau, South Omaha, NE, Kenwood R-5000, Quantum QX Pro loop // 857 total heard here, ABDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DXLD) Apparently was on non-direxional ~50 kW for only two nights; making up for Florida being deprived of a single class 1-A ``clear channel`` when those were being set up (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DXLD) ** U S A. Nothing else really noteworthy on the band tonight, just miffed that ESPN Radio has the exclusive rights to the World Series, thus eliminating any attempt I could make at going after affiliates on the St. Louis Cardinals radio network. DXing baseball will have to wait 'til spring now (Rick Dau, NE, Oct 23, NRC-AM via DXLD) Rick, there's still baseball to be heard on Cards and Red Sox radio affiliates. They continue to get to carry the games - but the ESPN/MLB deal requires that they be fed the ESPN coverage with Dan Shulman and Orel Hershiser instead of the home calls from KMOX or WEEI. Only KMOX and WEEI get to carry the home announcers. (Though in Boston, apparently WEEI is being allowed to carry the Sox broadcast on both WEEI-FM 93.7, the usual flagship, and WEEI 850, which is otherwise 24/7 ESPN Radio now.) s (go Sox!) (Scott Fybush, NRC-AM via DXLD) ** U S A. 1210, Oct 16 at 1245 UT, remnant of KGYN easily nulled, so from N/S, I hear school lunch menus starting with Woonsocket (?! Can`t be Rhode Island as there are no 1210s anywhere in New England in deference to Philadelphia), then for Huron schools, 7:47 TC, 30 degrees, KOKK, to join the American Ag Network in a few minutes. Yes, there is a Woonsocket in SD south of Huron (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Not KKOK as I misspokke on WOR 1690 ** U S A. 1280, Oct 18 at 0515 UT, Spanish sports talk from SE/NW, no doubt WODT New Orleans LA with its major 5/5 kW lobe to the NW, now with ESPN Deportes, as the original WDSU is long-gone (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1290, Oct 20 at 1233 UT, Spanish music and SHVA announcement, but can`t copy anything identifiable; loops N/S vs sports talk in English. The only SS which fits in NRC AM Log 2013 is KRGE, 5/5 kW in Weslaco, RGV, TX, tho it`s supposed to be religious. There are no northeast XEs on 1290 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1300, FLORIDA, WFFG, Marathon. 0032 October 16, 2013. Mixing with all the others post-sunset, promo mentioning “...mornings on the Florida Keys and beyond, WFFG...” into local insurance agency spot, then sat-fed Obama Care opponent talk. Also logged October 16, from 1056 with live read Buffalo Wild Wings ad, Rob's Car Wash spot, ID, into FOX Radio News. Local nursery plants spot. 1300, FLORIDA, WQBN, Temple Terrace. 2100-2300 October 16, 2013. Oscar de Céspedes, FL reports in Glenn Hauser's DX LISTENING DIGEST 13-41 that Radio Martí announced they are now carried on 1300 AM Monday through Saturday 2100-2300 GMT (1700-1900 local at least while we are on EDT), and he apparently logged this. Speculation is it's via WFFG, Marathon, but they remain all English news/talk when I can hear them. From my Clearwater, FL venue, I am thus far unable to hear WFFG until at least after 2300 GMT when WQBN shifts from day power/pattern, and pre-sunrise, where they remain in English news/talk. I can however at least confirm it's not via WQBN, the Tampa radio market station with a nearly straight shot to western Cuba. They are still airing local programming in Spanish at this time. Sadly, we appear to have no extreme SE Florida and/or Florida Keys MW DXer's remaining to step up and confirm. Seems highly unlikely, with the recent report that funding was cut for the “Air Martí” contracted flights and the plane(s) grounded in Cartersville, Georgia, that they would have reactivated flights and activated on MW at 1300 kHz. I just throw that out there for fun. At least this gave me an excuse to log stations on this channel. 1300, FLORIDA, WFFG, Marathon. Per my request, Paul V. Zecchino, Manasota Key, monitored this one from 2100 to 2300 GMT October 19 and confirms Oscar de Céspedes' original report of Radio Martí here, with programming up from 2105, canned “WFFG, Marathon” ID at 2159:30, into second and final hour of Radio Martí. It surely won't be long until we have a flamethrower from Cuba on 1300, one that will remain here long after Martí rebroadcast is gone. A signal that will decimate not just WFFG, but WQBN, Temple Terrace and countless others on 1300. Way to go. 1300, GEORGIA, WIMO, Winder. 0005 October 16, 2013. Tune-in just out of net news with local weather by telco audio female, “AM 1300, WIMO” canned ID, into sat-fed Affordable Health Care opponent talker. Amazing signal for 650 watts day power (50 watts if they really flipped down when they should have before my tune-in, which seems highly improbable). Located a bit east of metro Atlanta. Looks like a very community-based station, per their little web page. May actually warrant a reception report. 1300, TENNESSEE, WNQM, Nashville. 2259 October 16, 2013. Just as WQBN, Temple Terrace gave a female canned legal though Spanish-only ID and their day power/pattern dropped, this one present with male canned, “You're listening to WNQM... 1300 AM... 50,000 watts... a Christian... Ministries Station... Memphis, Tennessee...” into male Christian inspirational talk. Lots of co-channel rumbling. 50000/5000, listed as Spanish REL “La Vida” in the 2013 NRC AM Log (maybe updated since in DX News editions I am not looking at). Parallel http://tunein.com/radio/WNQM-1300-s21530/ Something Spanish vocals weak under, not WQBN when pointing the same direction as WNQM. Same owner as WWCR shortwave, as it would happen, as WNQM's shoddy website lists the same mailing address of 1300 WWCR Avenue, Nashville, TN 37218 and F W Robert Broadcasting Co. Inc. (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Reference to Memphis is their other station WMQM, 1600, CoL Lakeland TN, which thru some deft manœvering managed to get 50 kW day power (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. 1680, Oct 18 at 1149 UT, KRJO Monroe LA with country music barely audible. Seems not only now but at other chex, KRJO is not up to full power of even 1 kW night. Much weaker than other X-banders. Reactivated FCC website AM Query shows its Oct SR/SS times are 1215/2330 UT; should monitor then whether there`s a bump. In Nov, 1230/2315 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. “NEW YORK, NY, September 4, 2013 – Dial Global, the largest independent national audio media company in the U.S., today announced that it has changed its name to Westwood One.” So from now on anything that was “DG” in the Log will now be referred to as “WW1.” (NRC DX News Oct 21 via DXLD) As it was WW1 before Dial Global (gh) ** U S A. DFW 104.1 permanently silent --- It's reported KTDK 104.1 Sanger, Texas (just north of Dallas) has surrendered its license to the FCC for cancelation. Cumulus tried to sell the station so it could get under the multiple- ownership cap & take control of KESN-103.3. The FCC denied the license transfer (because Cumulus was trying to sell the station to a media broker for $100, with a requirement that he resell the station and pass most of the proceeds back to Cumulus. A C3 FM station in a suburb north of Dallas is obviously worth a whole lot more than $100! Doesn't look like a "sale" to me, and it didn't look like a sale to the FCC either.) (Doug Smith, W9WI, Oct 21, WTFDA via DXLD) What difference does it makes who sells the station for Cumulus? Not sure I get this (Saul Chernos, Ont., ibid.) The point is that, until it does sell, it still belongs to Cumulus. But they can't control both KTDK and KESN at the same time, because that would put them over the limit for how many FM stations one firm can control in the same market. Apparently they felt waiting to take control of KESN would cost them more money than KTDK is worth (Doug Smith, ibid.) Thanks. Guess it's only sold if they no longer control it. Makes sense (Saul Chernos, ibid.) Discussed earlier here in connexion with WBAP changing FM outlet, etc., etc. (gh, DXLD) ** U S A. FCC: CREATION OF A LOW POWER RADIO SERVICE; AMENDMENT OF SERVICE http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2013/db1017/FCC-13-134A1.pdf (via Dennis Gibson, WB6TNB, Oct 17, Sent from my iPad, ABDX via DXLD) FCC REAFFIRMS THAT THERE WILL BE NO 10-WATT LPFM STATIONS | Radio ... radiosurvivor.com/.../fcc-reaffirms-that-there-will-be-no-10-watt- lpfm-stati... 22 hours ago - The group Let the Cities In (LTCI) argued that the very low powered LP10 service would still reach a substantial audience in densely populated “urban core” ... (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) FCC EXTENDS LPFM FILING WINDOW, NEW DATES FOR LPFM WEBINAR ... http://www.broadcastlawblog.com › FM Translators and LPFM 4 hours ago - The deadline for filing applications in the LPFM window has been extended as a result of the Federal government shutdown - with the new ... http://www.broadcastlawblog.com/2013/10/articles/fm-translators-and-lpfm/fcc-extends-lpfm-filing-window-new-dates-for-lpfm-webinar-and-changes-in-lpfm-protections-to-fm-translator-inputs (via Artie Bigley, DXLD) extended to NOVEMBER 14 (gh) The filing window for new LPFM stations was supposed to open on October 15th & run through the 29th. It would appear the window automatically opened on the 15th as scheduled, but was not available to the public because of the government shutdown. When the FCC website came back up on Thursday, it automatically began accepting LPFM applications. The Commission announced yesterday that the window will be extended; it will remain open until November 14th. As of this morning, no LPFM applications are showing up in CDBS (except the archive records from previous windows). I'm supposing some kind of manual step is necessary & we won't actually see any until early next week (Doug Smith, Oct 19, WTFDA via DXLD) ** VATICAN. ITALY, 15570, 1610-, Vatican Radio, Oct 20. Superb reception in Swahili. Mentions of Uganda and Tanzania. Long path/short path echo audible (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 7250, Oct 21 at 0528, VR has turned on early, not with IS, but picking up the end of the English non-broadcast, Veronica with closing announcements, ``until next weekend,`` concluding as always with ``Laudetur Iesus Christus``, 0529 right into bells; fair-good signal but better on 9645 after 0530 opening Latin mass with prefaces in various other Eurolangs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [non]. Domenica 13 ottobre 2013, *1230 - 15470 kHz, R. VATICANA - Palauig (Filippine), Mandarino, int/sig e annunci. Segnale buono- sufficiente. Il segnale d'intervallo è suonato non più dalla celesta digitale ma da un'orchestra classica. Chissà se è così per tutte le lingue (Luca Botto Fiora, QTH G.C. 09E13 - 44N21, Rapallo (Genova) - Italia, playdx yg via DXLD) ** VIETNAM. 7435.58, Voice of Vietnam-1, Son Tay. 1145 October 20, 2013. Presumed the one, fill music, soft Asian female. Low modulation (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; NRD-515 (borrowed); ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM. 7906-USB, Oct 18 at 1306, very poor signal, briefly hear YL in Vietnamese, i.e. Ho Chi Minh City Radio, also with more nearby SSB QRM, and losing it before any English. 7906-USB, Oct 19 at 1307, Ho Chi Minh City Radio, YL in accented English mentioning ``one person overboard`` in notices to mariners; other SSB QRM from the hi side; into Vietnamese. Check // 8294-USB but it`s much weaker; 1314 in English again citing lots of numbers, like positions of vessels or obstruxions, 1315 back to Vietnamese. Ends at 1318:15* after a long series of very rapid tones at same pitch (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM [non]. 12005, Oct 18 at 0104, very poor signal from VOV English to NAm, 250 kW, 282 degrees from Woofferton UK (and also at 0230). This is the usual situation now; we can hardly wait for the B- 13 switch to 9640 on same parameters [later: axually moved WOF to 6175 too] --- by then, REE Costa Rica and its QRDRM from +9620 to 9640+ should be kaput. Really, 7 MHz would be better for the winter. Remember that the 282 azimuth from WOF misses most of the USA, crossing central FL and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Is that the best BaBcoCk can do for us via that site? Also remember that the next VOV English repeat at 0330 will continue to be on WHRI 6175, and altho aimed south, provides an incomparably stronger and more reliable signal, and to the rest of North America too. It could of course be even better if on a NW antenna like WHR`s gospel-huxter frequencies (so is this during the WHR promos and OCS abutting VOV transmissions; how come the Viet Cong put up with that?) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIRGIN ISLANDS BRITISH. Transmitter co-ordinates ZVBI-780 A few weeks ago, I received this information: --- quote --- Hello: I use your Radio AM en América Latina frequently and really appreciate it. I have recently learned the location of station ZBVI in Tortola, British Virgin Islands. The coordinates are 18:25:26.77N and 64:36:15.15 W. It can be seen on Google Earth in the January 3, 2012 and August 29, 2012 views. It was knocked over by a drunk driver earlier this year but has since been rebuilt at the same location. Cheers! --- unquote --- 73, (Günter Lorenz, Oct 18, mwmasts yg via DXLD) From whom? ** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 1550, R Nacional de la RASD, ALGERIA, Rabuoni, 2025 14 Oct, px loc, 32233. 73! (Mauro Giroletti, Italy, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) ** ZANZIBAR. 6015, TANZANIA (ZANZIBAR), ZBC Radio, 0301 Swahili, tuned in after 0300 s/on, man and woman briefly, then Islamic Call to Prayer to 0306, followed by what sounded like a preacher, probably extolling Islam, 0315 man closed the preceding program and woman introduced the next, which was indigenous music. Fair, Oct 19 (Harold Sellers, Vernon, British Columbia, Listening beside the lake, in my car, with the Eton E1 and Sony AN1 active antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) TANZANIA: 11735, Radio Tanzania-Zanzibar (tentative); 1844-1916+, 1956-2002+, 16-Oct; Arabic music to 1900 news in Swahili? M with world news to 1910 then W with local? news mentioning Dar es Salaam, to 1916 Arabic chant. 1956 tune in to Afro Hi-Life music; 2000+ tones into W in SW [SH is the `proper` abbr. for Swahili – gh]? With world news. SIO=323 with strong pulse QRM centering about 11743; LSB helps (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, 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) 11735, ZBC R, TZA, 2044 17 Oct, px local vernacular, 2100 OFF, 44444. 73! (Mauro Giroletti, Italy, bclnews.it yg via DXLD) 11735.00, 2025-2035, TZA, 18.10, Zanzibar Broadcasting Corp., Dole. Swahili talk, long Afropop song 45333 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, heard in Skovlunde on my AOR AR7030PLUS with 28 metres of longwire, via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic carrier search, JBAs Oct 20 at 0055: only 783, Mauritania? And 882, Canary Islands? I lean toward the latter rather than Europeans due to the lower-latitude paths, and they seem to come together (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. TA carriers noted Oct 22 at 0552, now still before sunrise in W Europe: 909 and 774 kHz, looping NE/SW. The bigsig on 909 easily heard further east is BBC Radio 5 Live, synchros adding up to 400+ kW; on 774 the bigsigs are too far east in Egypt and Iran (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. TP carrier search, Oct 18 at 1152, JBA on 774; at 1153, JBA on 882 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific carrier search, JBAs Oct 20 at 1147 on 747, 774, likely the 500 kW NHK Japanese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. TP carrier search Oct 23 at 1237-1242: 693, 774, 828, 873, 972, 1053 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 700, Oct 20 at 1918 UT on caradio at a hotspot for MW in a mall parking lot, I am hearing not only Spanish from KHSE in The Metroplex, but something very weak underneath making SAH of about 2 Hz. Looking at 700 map, it has to be the further Texan, KSEV in Tomball (Houston market), 15 kW day power, altho not much toward us in either station`s pattern. Short for SEVen hundred, I suppose. Could those between Dallas and Houston confirm the SAH? Otherwise, less likely would be remnant sky- or even groundwave from WLW, a bit far and this is only half a sesquihour after local mean noon, Sun at zenith. This would be a slightly more possible in Dec or Jan. Without KHSE in the way, almost same direxion, KSEV might have a better chance here on groundwave. (KTRH 740 is of course totally blocked by KRMG --- and I rarely hear anything but KRMG at night on 740 except CFZM Toronto). (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 740, Oct 23 at 1226 UT I finally manage to hear some Spanish briefly under KRMG Tulsa before it goes to day power/tower. May have mentioned ``Radio Santa Fe`` or similar syllables. Don`t find any Mexican or US station with such a name; NRC AM Log does show KIDR Phoenix AZ as Spanish religion, but I can`t find a website for it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 750, Oct 20 at 1205 UT, Rosary in Spanish --- obsessed with Mary`s bellyfruit over and over and over (BTW, confusing the womb with the stomach suggests an appalling lack of knowledge of physiology among SS Catholix {and confusing animal with vegetable}); loops about WSW/ENE, suggesting KAMA El Paso which is SS, but supposedly not religious, but2 it`s Sunday morning and anystation might do that temporarily. However, NRC Pattern Book shows both day and night it`s all-westward from there. Don`t see any other likely US SS stations even eastward. Rarely hear any Spanish on 750. The most likely Mexicans in Cantú: 750 XEOH La Jefa + FM 96.1 Cd. Camargo, Chih. 1,000 750 750 XECSI Éxtasis Digital + FM 89.5 Culiacán, Sin. 5,000 250 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 760, Oct 20 at 1920 UT on caradio at a hotspot for MW in a mall parking lot, I am hearing not only the religiBott from KCCV Overland Park KS (Kansas City market) as usual, but something very weak under, making SAH of about 4 Hz. The second and third nearest 760s are KMTL 10 kW ND Sherwood AR, and KTKR 50 kW San Antonio TX, but direxional mostly west and east-southeast. So which one is 4 Hz from KCCV? There is no reference for such needed information. Closest is http://www.myradiobase.de/mediumwave/mwoffset.txt but woefully incomplete when it comes to US stations, on 760 listing only WJR, KFMB and WCHP, and some info there dates back more than a decade. Non-direxional 50 kW WJR remnant skywave would be another remote possibility, but it`s only half a sesquihour before {sic: I mean after!} local mean noon. Another possibility for such trace signals would be local overload or mixing products, but in Enid we have only three MW locals which could be easily ruled out if I had enough on the traces to compare them. FWIW, I always check 670 and 720 for Chicagoans in the daytime, which have made it before. Now at 1925 UT, 670 bears only KLTT Denver, and a very weak signal on 720 could be WGN, or KSAH San Antonio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 940, Oct 20 at 1225 UT after noting the 940+ het from XEMMM (see MEXICO), partial ID in its null as ``94 [something] Country`` --- nothing similar in the NRC AM Log 2013 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 990, Oct 20 at 1226 UT as I tune in, 4? chimes, but not all-descending as with XEW/XEK. This is mixing with XET La T Grande, and other CCI, and unthink it`s from Mont`y as never heard when surely listening to XET (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 4780, Oct 23 at 0053, starting my almost-nightly 60m bandscan with DX-398 on the porch, next up from 4765 Cuba is ---- Qur`an! on 4780, poor signal. Never anything like this heard before at this hour. Keeps going without break thru 0100 hourtop. This version is quite melodic with some reverb added, like I have heard on certain other stations, but which? Both on the DX-398 and separate G8 I quickly start searching for a // on the 6, 7, 9, 11, 13 and even 15 MHz bands, but none found. Definitely *not* // 9760 Oman, 12080 Iran, 9965 Cairo. The only Islamic-world station ordinarily on 4780 is of course Djibouti, normally not on the air until 0300 or so and IIRC has also been missing lately. Not being Ramadan, it`s much too early for it to be on the air unless something special is ongoing. Checked Djibouti holiday references and none now, altho there was one a week ago. 4780 is weakening by 0113, 0117, but still audible at 0123. The signal sometimes fades below a threshold, which is suspiciously like a receiver image, but to produce one, there would have to be a very strong signal on a higher frequency (like 5680, = 2 x 450 IF) which there certainly is not. By the time I get inside to check it on the FRG-7, it`s inaudible. It could be a one-off, some transmitter totally mistuned, punching in a wrong number, unlikely to show up again. We`ll certainly keep checking. I`d say Djibouti off-schedule is the most likely source. Did anyone else hear it and with anything identifiable? Another possibility is a difference mixing product radiating between two higher SW frequencies at the same site, and neither one of them would necessarily be audible, e.g. somethings on the 11 and 7 MHz bands, 4780 kHz apart. Or, a leapfrog mixing product from the 7 MHz band over same-site transmitter on the 6 MHz band, solely as an example: 7220 leaping over 6000 to land on 4780, another 1220 kHz lower. Yet another possibility would be a subharmonic of 9560, one half that frequency, from a mistuned or unfiltered transmitter generating 9560 from a lower frequency --- but nothing Arabic heard or scheduled there, just some Chinese, presumably Kashgar. No, 4780 does not work out either to be a possible harmonic of any exact 9- or 10-kHz MW channel (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4780 - UN-ID station at 0024 UT, Oct. 23. Weak signal with definite Koranic recitations. Possible announcements at 0030, then back to recitations. Heavy static throughout listening period. Few if any details could be pulled out of the noise. Continued until TOH, 0100; by this time the static level was nearly completely covering the signal and any audio was extremely sporadic at best. Djibouti is about the only thing listed here; if there is something else I missed any reports (Stephen Wood, Harwich, Mass, Perseus SDR W / 25 x 50 N/E terminated superloop antenna, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) btw. Jörg KLingenfuss in Tübingen Germany noted: !!!YESTERDAY!!! Oct 22 was the most previous solar maximum NOAA 228 ;-)) Sunspot Cycle 24 reached its peak. Is there a correlation ? vy73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I doubt it (gh, DXLD) Currently (1930) there is "something" on 4780 that would fit quite well for Djibouti. Strong QRM, best in LSB. melodic local instrumental music but not common HOA style, but similar instrumentation, it seems. Also some talk in unID language, no European language for sure. 73 (Thorsten Hallmann, Germany, Oct 23, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4780, Oct 24 at 0047-0109, no sign of the Qur`an station heard 24 hours earlier, maybe Djibouti. A weak carrier on 4782-, however, no doubt Ecuador, which was not even hetting the 4780 last night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Frequência não identificada --- Caros colegas, hoje às 01:47 da madrugada estava fazendo algumas escutas e deparei com a frequência 5215 kHz, cuja transmissão tratava-se de um diálogo entre vozes masculina e feminina, com SINPO 25322. Não consegi de maneira alguma identificar essa emissora, inclusive na net. Alguém conhece ou, já ouviu? Gostaria de identificá-la. 73, (Joviniano Furtado neto/PW8001SWL, ALTA FLORESTA D' OESTE - RO, Brasil, UT Oct 20, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Are you implying without saying it that this is a broadcaster on AM rather than communications on SSB? Timestamp on item in the digest is Oct 19, 8:06 pm, zone? Refers to early morning, so maybe he means 0147 local time = UT -4 = 0547 UT? I do wish people would state times explicitly in their log posts. Any idea of the language? Has he ruled out an image from 49m, 6115 or 6125? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 6911-LSB, Oct 20 at 0132, intermittent Spanish (?) and some singing, extremely distorted, sounds like an artificial larynx; same later at 0138 on about 6917 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 7194.98, Oct 20 2040-2104*, nice African songs (Not Horn of Africa style), some talks in Vernacular, mentioning Tibao... antenna..., fair (not heard the day after) (Giampiero Bernardini, RX: Excalibur Pro – Ant: Windom (60 m long) by A. Capra & 30 m long wire; QTH: Pescia (Pistoia) Toscana, Italy. I was 3 days in Tuscany, Tips also on http://radiodxsw.blogspot.it/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 7390, Oct 21 at 0527-0529*, open carrier good signal. Nothing scheduled now; Romania in DRM until 0500; Albania in AM from 0700 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 7535.4, 1152 October 20, 2013. Something threshold here, no idea who. Presumed Asian (Terry L. Krueger, Clearwater, Florida, USA, JRC NRD-535; NRD-515 (borrowed); ICOM IC-R75; Hammarlund HQ-180A; Sony ICF-7600GR; Sangean PR-D5; Aqua Guide 705 RDF Marine Radio; GE Superadio III; JPS NF-60 Notch Filter; JPS ANC-4 Noise Phase; 1 X roof dipole; 1 X room random wire; Terk Advantage non-active portable loop, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 7735 approx., Oct 18 at 0453-0500* good open AM carrier with flutter; smax of broadcast behavior, off promptly at hourtop. Remember when WYFR used to have a frequency way up in this range? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED [and non]. 10000, WWV Ft Collins CO time stn 232+ 0513- 0515 11/Oct; 10000, WWVH Hawaii time station 3+44 0513-0515 11/Oct. 10000, UNID pipper with one beep every 4.5 seconds --- this one has been around for a while -- is it a legit station of some kind? Any one have ideas? 0513-0515 11/Oct (Ken Zichi, Port Hope MI2, MARE Tipsheet 18 Oct via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 13605.8/USB, 2003-2119+, 13-Oct; Poor, can just tell there's music--nothing to copy. Presume this is WAZU per JTArt's tip. (Harold Frodge, Midland MI, 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. 14920.2/AM, 1429, 21-Oct; Woman's voice with long commentary. Too buried to copy. Mixing product? I see SoH is sked. No jamming evident. 1626 UT Oct 21 (Harold Frodge, MI, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Later refined to: 14920.2/AM, 1429, 21-Oct; Woman's voice with long commentary. Too buried to copy. Sound of Hope via Taiwan scheduled here at this time. No jamming evident, unless what I hear is actually the CNR "jammer" (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. [Re 13-41:] Did anyone identify where the station on 22819 is located, or what its purpose might be? It's often audible here around 1700 / 1730 UT - never very strong, but easily distinguished from the local noise level. This seems to suggest somewhere west of my location (Noel R. Green (NW England), Oct 17, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ``car-alarm`` sound Hi Noel, this station is thought to be either WLO in Mobile, Alabama or WPG in Indiana. there has been a couple of lengthy discussions about the signal in HFU & UDXF. Here is the HFU thread: http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,12608.0.html (Dave Hughes, ibid.) You apparently did not see this item in latest DXLD, which asserts a high degree of certainty: ``This is the signal from SuperDARN Polar Radar. Here is the link to one of the transmitter sites: http://superdarn.jhuapl.edu 73, (Kevin Raper, KJ4HYD, CE WCKI WQIZ WLTQ, ABDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1690, DXLD)`` But the term SuperDARN appears nowhere in the cited HFU thread. (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ``The Wallops Island radar is part of the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN), and is operated by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.`` (part of above link, i.e. Virginia coast, via gh, DXLD) Well heard in Copenhagen, right now at 1505 UT, Oct. 17. 73, (Erik Koie, Denmark, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) It's audible here, best in USB, since about 1330 UT, just starting to fade a little now. The SuperDARN site Radar Finder http://vt.superdarn.org/tiki-index.php?page=radarFinder would suggest it's the Azores East radar that we're hearing in the UK. 73 (Tony Molloy, Winter Hill UK, CCW SDR4+ and CCW HF Active Antenna, 1526 UT Oct 17, ibid.) As for the signal on 22819, I don't think its superdarn, but I'm no expert on utility signals. I rely on the experts at UDXF YG & the WUN IRC for answers & the consensus is that it's not superdarn radar but is a UNID data (or no data) signal from WLO/WPG (Dave Hughes, ibid.) This signal is not SuperDARN. SuperDARN has a very well defined and well documented waveform. It uses a pulse transmissions with a 100 to 300 microsecond (300 most common) long pulse in a repeated 7 position pulse group. It also typically changes frequency often. (Block diagrams and partial schematics of the SuperDARN transmitters can be found online from several sources.) The SuperDARN transmitter uses a pulsed waveform of less than 10% duty cycle, the early transmitters limited to ~4% and the latest transmitters appear capable of greater than 7%. The 22819 kHz signal is 100% duty cycle and the SuperDARN transmitters would probably not be capable of this, although possibly if the transmitted power was greatly reduced. The latest SuperDARN transmitters also have a 20 MHz low pass filter after the final amplifier, I have no idea if the earlier versions share this filter but think it likely. I do know I have never seen a SuperDARN signal above about 18 MHz. I have been watching this 22819 kHz signal (and the other frequencies it can be found on, about a dozen) off-and-on for over a year. I cannot tell you what it is, but I can tell you several things it is not, and with very high confidence a radar is one of those "nots", a sounder (ionosonde) is another "not". If anyone is interested, and because with the new Yahoo format searching these forums is so tough, I have started a thread over at Radioreference with the goal of narrowing down what it might be. That thread might not go anyplace at all, but it could be fun to try. The thread has a complete list of frequencies I have seen the signal on and also other signals that have been seen associated with it. Thread: http://forums.radioreference.com/utility-listening/276543-mystery-22819-khz-signal-what-thread-inquiry.html (T! [T O K E N], Mojave Desert, California, USA, Oct 21, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 22819: Different signal type today, appeared on frequency at 1410 UT today, still on air now at 1720 UT, but starting to fade a little. Today it is a drifting, warbling tone rather than the sweeper one that has usually been present in recent days (Tony Molloy, CCW SDR4+ & CCW HF Active Antenna, Winter Hill, UK, IO83ro, @swlistener http://swlistener.wordpress.com/ 22 Oct dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1692: Thanks to Tom McLauglin, Lubbock TX, for an annual contribution to P O Box 1684, Enid OK, 73702, in memory of Gigi Lytle. She died on Oct 17, 2000. The local newspaper obituary is still available: http://lubbockonline.com/stories/101900/obi_101900044.shtml And these DXLD issues contain some mentions of her passing: http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/dxld0127.txt [Tom`s address in the first one is no longer correct] http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/dxld1103.txt http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/dxld1160.txt (Glenn Hauser, Oct 18, 2013, DX LISTENING DIGEST) TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED FUTURELY: Thanks to Philip Hiscock, for a contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com Thanks for the show (Thomas Hunt, with a contribution via PayPal) Hello. I would like to? start submitting logs from my SWL catches on the weekends assometimesihaeherdstationsthatothrs [sic] have not logged. How doi go about this and would I be allowed to? One such station was: [sic] 6135 - AFIA-DARFUR/ Hello Darfur- at 03:00-03:30 udt 9/29/13 (32322.) Talk in Arabic and songs. Last song before 03:30 sign off was rap style song. Heard Sudan and Darfur mentioned several times by male voice,sounded like news report. Please let me know if I can contribute.? Thanks (John c., Sent from my iPad Sept 29, HCDX via DXLD) John, I am sure we would all welcome your logs. Please always include your location as that has a bearing on reception and whether others can hear what you report. Also should include transmitter site, in this case Vatican. And proofread for errors before posting. Sept 29? There was quite a delay until Oct 19 before this came out of the HCDX list! Perhaps because a new contributor had to be moderated/approved. 73, (Glenn Hauser, Oct 21, ibid.) Yes. I don't have cycles to do daily checking and there's so much spam coming in that finding real emails is sometimes taking time. Anyone wants to volunteer to help? 73! (Risto Kotalampi, Hayward, CA, HCDX owner via DXLD) Open message to Mr. Houser [sic], I hope you post this, like my other message was posted. I feel a need to reply about my message on September 29, 2013. I sent this message out just to see if I would be able to post logs on this web site on an occasional basis, with an example of a catch I had made on the airwaves. It was not meant to be posted officially. I did not expect to have it posted over and over again on the web site along with the garbled message content. One of my reasons for wanting to share is that I rarely see any logs from the East Coast where I live. I am not really interested in Mexican Stations or TX DXing as I am not able to receive stations from Mexico from my location. I do realize that this is part of the DX hobby. My interest is more on Shortwave DX. Furthermore, I do proof read everything I send out. This particular message came from my I-Pad and when it transposed to your message system it was all garbled. That is not how I sent it out or what it looked like when I observed the screen prior to hitting "send.!" Also on the real logs I submit I always put down my location and transmitter site if known. by consulting AOKI or WRHB among other resources. I strongly suggest that Mr. Houser take a look at his own message logs for proofing as " malfunxion " is spelled wrong unless I am mistaken. This could be a case of "do as I say not as I do?" or is he making up new words as he does abbreviations? One of my Graduate school Professors told me to" Always take my own inventory before I take the inventory of others." Thank you in advance for letting me vent. I will not bother you any further. I have other sites I can post logs to with a lot less hassle (Cooper, PA, ibid.) That`s what I get for trying to be welcoming and helpful (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Maybe you should get off your Parent/Child kick when you try to be helpful and address people, because that's the way I took it. I am 61 years old, not a kid. It's like you attack and you don't know it. Glen, I am a professional and I know how to proofread, the message came through weird when it got to the Hard Core DX Server from my I- Pad. That is not the way it was sent. I have learned to format my logs properly, thank you. Plus, I was still a little resentful about how you answered my question in the past about the meaning of "Non." You made it sound like I was a dummy for not figuring out for myself and I ran the message by others to see if I had a wild hair up my but, and they said it made them feel the same way. I wish you could flashback to when you were new in the hobby and trying to learn. (John c., ibid.) John, I regret having offended you. Thank you for explaining how I may be misunderstood. In case it is not clear, I am merely a participant on the HCDX list and have nothing to do with managing it, so whether you participate there should have nothing to do with me (Glenn to John, via DXLD) NON: http://www.worldofradio.com/non.html Perhaps my matter-of-fact replies and correxions are taken as put- downs? It is true that I am usually not one to massage people`s egos, but everyone makes mistakes including myself, and we`re (mostly) grown-ups. How I deliberately improve the wacky English spelling system and coin needed new terminology are not mistaxe. Sorry you don`t get or appreciate it (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Mr Hauser, Just a quick note sprinkled with a little nostalgia. I would to thank you for the years of dx'ing that I have been forced to endure because of the passion you show. I have been involved with DX listening since the early 1970's beginning with a nice Hallicrafters S-38 which I purchased from my uncle for a then massive sum of $5. I took the radio with me in the military, and still have it. It is square in the middle of my shack, and in operation. What does this mean to you and me? It all started with "Glen Hauser's World of Radio". Thank you, thank you, thank you. I cannot say it enough. [tagline] "Hey...this stuff is pretty good.... .......what is it?.....". ---Socrates. 399bc Warmest regards, (Don Fox, kk4rif, Oct 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Don, Thanks, altho ``forced to endure`` sounds a bit negative, hi. I almost started with an S-38E, my first `real` SW radio, after finding the SW band on my family`s old 1942 Philco console. 73, (Glenn to Don, via DXLD) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ AT&T AND THE RADIO NETWORKS After several years of work the E-book: "CONNECTING THE CONTINENT: AT&T AND THE RADIO NETWORKS" is now available for free download. We chronicle AT&T's early history, the emergence of "Wired Radio" and the company's pioneering in commercial broadcasting. There's detail on how the radio networks were built out and operated; the story enriched with audio, video and photos. We follow AT&T Long Lines as they developed the technologies for network-broadcast transmission through the 1940s---from early voice to RF Carrier. The e-book should be of interest if you ever dealt with 'the phone company' in your broadcast work. It should also be a good read for the Hopelessly Curious. Regards, (Mark Durenberger, Oct 17, NRC-AM via DXLD) Mark, I would love to read the book as I am an incurable radio history buff. Where can it be downloaded? (Dave Marthouse, ibid.) OOOOPS, forgot to mention: if you want this, contact me OFF-LIST (from Mark4 @ durenberger.com IRCA via DXLD) Hi all, Thanks to Mark D for making this available as a pdf download. You can find a link to download the file at http://www.nrcdxas.org at the upper right hand side of the main page. 73 (Wayne Heinen, NRC-AM via DXLD) MUSEA +++++ AN UPDATE ON THE VOA BETHANY, OHIO BROADCAST MUSEUM From the Hamilton (Ohio) Journal-News ... October 17th: http://www.journal-news.com/news/news/west-chesters-voa-museum-embarks-campaign-to-raise/nbQzG/ The museum details its vast history at www.voamuseum.org. It’s open to the pubic from 1 to 4 p.m. on the third Saturday of each month. There is no required entrance fee, but suggested contributions are $5 per adult and $1 for children younger than 12 years old. From the Hamilton (Ohio) Journal-News ... October 19th: http://www.journal-news.com/ap/ap/travel/fundraising-effort-planned-for-voa-museum-in-ohio/nbSH5/ (via Bill Matthews, Ohio, Oct 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Part of it: For now, it is open to the public for tours the third Saturday afternoon each month. Admission is free, with donations suggested of $5 per adult. Online: http://www.voiceofamericamuseum.org (via DXLD) HISTORICAL FILM FROM 1939 REGARDING MEDIUMWAVE AND SHORTWAVE IN/OUT OF NZ Here is a film made by the government of New Zealand in 1939 about communications in and out of New Zealand by way of mediumwave and shortwave radio gear. This radio history is rich with adventure and successes that are profound. Our modern communications all stems from this historic work... http://g.nw7us.us/1cIn92f (Tomas David Hood (Amateur Radio, NW7US) http://NW7US.us/ Contributing editor, Propagation Column: CQ Magazine, CQ VHF, Popular Communications, dxldyg via DXLD) CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES +++++++++++++++++++++++++ EDXC REPORT ABOUT THE CONFERENCE IN PORTUGAL For those who do not receive the Shortwave News September/October, you can also read my report from the latest EDXC Conference at homepage: https://app.box.com/s/sds7whbi8z2nzizuimq9 (Anker Petersen, Denmark, Ed., DSWCI DX Window Oct 16 via DXLD DX-PEDITIONS ++++++++++++ AIH29 DXpedition reporting on DXing.info Nice conditions and surprising catches on the AM dial! You can follow the ongoing AIH29 DXpedition in the Finnish Lapland for 11 more days at http://www.dxing.info/community/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=2763 73 (Mika Makelainen, Oct 22, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See oKLAHOMA: WKY+ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See COSTA RICA; *EQUATORIAL GUINEA; KOREA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SOUTH; NIGERIA; ROMANIA; *RUSSIA; SRI LANKA; *VIETNAM; UNIDENTIFIED 7390 *=only mentioned in passing, QRM RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ WebSDR for smartphones and tablets http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/m.html This is an experimental version of the University of Twente's WebSDR receiver for smartphones and tablets (Tony Molloy, Winter Hill, UK IO83ro, CCW SDR4+ & CCW HF Active Antenna, @swlistener http://swlistener.wordpress.com/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) C-quam question (OT ?) Not sure if this is straying off-topic or not since it is radio- related but really not DX-related. I noticed something the other day; I was listening to an online stream and had a song come on (Lowdown by Boz Scaggs) and heard something I hadn't heard before considering I play the song at least once every week or so. It's got a continuous hi-hat cymbal that's on the left; and occasionally another one jumps in on the right. Listen to the song; you'll see what mean. Anyways, what I'm getting at is when I'm in the studio playing it I don't hear that separation on the cymbals. They are more in the middle. Yet lower frequency stuff, like the voice and guitars and things, there`s great separation. I mean if I play California Dreaming, it's separated like it should be, Mamas on the right, Papas on the left. So is this something going on with our processing? Is it something on our end? The exciter? Is it a property of C-quam where the higher the frequencies, the less separation? I'm thinking about getting a CD with some test tones, run 5 kHz, 6 kHz, even 10 kHz test tones in just one channel or the other and see if I need to peak the L-R and L+R to increase the separation there at the higher frequencies too. I'm hoping some of the engineers on the list here might be able to help shed some light on this. My curiosity has been piqued! (Michael n Wyo Richard, Oct 22, ABDX via DXLD) To keep this thread going, you need to listen to "I'm Over Here" by the Ray Charles Singers from the LP, "Something Wonderful". It's on You Tube if you don't have the album. Sorry, Powell, I just couldn't resist (Bob Smoak, Bamberg, S. C., ibid.) Thanks, Bob!! I had never heard that. That's pretty cool! Now that's separation! I can just imagine how screwed up that would sound on some of those AM stations out there that are only feeding one channel of audio down their air chain (MJR n WYO, ibid.) RFI SOLUTION Just wondering what fellow SWL's (and AM BCB listeners) are doing to solve RFI/EMI from all the digital hash produced by your neighbours` Plasma TV, Rogers Cable digital power supply, etc. We bought a home specifically high on a hill and so located to enhance Line of Sight and HF reception. So I am upset when I find AM radio is even affected by RFI and digital noise; so wide and loud it makes everything from AM BC band up to UHF almost useless. No DX baseball games all summer, now no DX hockey. Even the strongest of signals are beating against the offending RFI- making listening a hardship. Pulled our power and still the same RFI. Suspect it`s from houses on both sides and have found our own Rogers Digital cable box (PSU wall wart) also an offender. The worst hash seems to run all the time, though once it was gone for a few hours, leaving a lower, but still bad, RFI noise level. No interest in cooperation from neighbours, no interest in help from Industry Canada. Where does this leave BC listeners? Being unlicensed, we may not have same RFI protection as licenced radio services such as the Amateurs? Is starting personal legal action or going to a Justice of the Peace with a claim for interference under the radio act and doing what IC should be doing the only solution? (after finding the offending devices/owners) Seems a priceless natural environment (the radio spectrum) is being allowed to be polluted by bad regs, and allowing inferior imported electronic. Is the hidden agenda to make "pay for use" digital communication the norm? The "free`` and public radio AM broadcast service becoming so unusable that it will get auctioned off and eventually used for more "pay to use" systems? It was interesting to see "Zoomer Radio 740's" last attempt for a new FM radio station was based on the growing AM bands destruction by non- intentional radiators and complaints from listeners. Seems the licencees are not interested in fighting the problem at the source? My rant must be that of others; when will we at least push for European noise limits on devices and a minimum amount of enforcement? (Greg VA3VFO, Oct 23, ODXA yg via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ 25 MHZ AND UP Hello everyone, If you have not listened to frequencies above 25 Mhz in a while today is really a great time to do it. A lot of signals FM repeaters on 29680 and 29640 are coming into Montreal from the US 27555 usb: lots of European CBers calling 28512 usb: just heard OH6OS from Finland and PA3DOB from the Netherlands with excellent signals. I suggest a band scan from 25 to 30 Mhz. 73 (Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, Canada, http://www.youtube.com/officialswlchannel 1414 UT Oct 18, dxldyg via DXLD) 27555: Calling frequency of the AT group These are NOT regular CB-Radio Guys http://www.alfatango.org Prefix List: http://www.oocities.org/siliconvalley/campus/4871/atprefix.html 13AT111 means OP from Germany/AT-Group/membership number Here is an older channel index: http://www.rhci-online.de/11mb_Kanaele.pdf here is a receiver in Hungary on the frequency: mms://media.molag.hu/live (roger, Germany, ibid.) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2013 Oct 21 0329 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # Product description and SWPC contact on the Web # http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/weekly.html # # Weekly Highlights and Forecasts # Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 14 - 20 October 2013 Solar activity ranged from low to moderate levels. Low levels were observed on 14 Oct with C-class activity from Regions 1861 (S10, L=168, class/area Dho/480 on 15 Oct), 1865 (S22, L=145, class/area Dkc/270 on 13 Oct) and 1869 (N19, L=085, class/area Dso/040 on 13 Oct). The largest event of the day was a C8/1f at 14/1315 UTC from Region 1865. 15 Oct saw activity increase to moderate levels with a pair of M-class flares from Region 1865, the largest an M1/Sn at 15/0838 UTC. Numerous C-class activity was also seen from Regions 1861 and 1865. No Earth-directed CMEs were observed with the 15 Oct activity. Activity levels dipped to low levels on 16 Oct with Region 1865 producing the largest event of the day, a C8/1n at 16/1432 UTC with an associated asymmetric, partial halo coronal mass ejection (CME). Analysis determined that the relative slow speed (386 km/s) of this CME was unlikely to produce significant effects at Earth. Region 1861 produced a C1/Sf event at 16/0920 UTC with associated Type II (548 km/s) and Type IV radio sweeps. C-class activity was also observed from Regions 1867 (N24, L=183, class/area Dao/050 on 13 Oct) and 1870 (S13, L=143 class/area Cro/030 on 14 Oct). Activity increased to moderate levels on 17 Oct with Region 1861 producing an M1 flare at 17/1541 UTC. Additional C-class flaring was observed from Regions 1861 and 1865. Activity levels decreased to low on 18 - 20 Oct with C-class events observed from Regions 1861, 1868 (N23, L=102, class/area Cao/040 on 19 Oct) and Region 1975 (N08, L=026, class/area Esi/150 on 19 Oct). No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at moderate flux levels on 14 - 15 Oct and at high levels 16 - 20 October. Geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to active levels. The period began with quiet levels, but field activity ramped up to unsettled to active with the onset of a recurrent coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS). The field remained elevated through early on 16 Oct when predominately quiet levels persisted through the remainder of the summary period. ACE wind signatures indicated an increase in wind speeds from 320 km/s at the beginning of the period to a peak of about 575 km/s at 15/2036 UTC. Corresponding increases in temperature and density accompanied the speed increase. The interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) total field (Bt) reached a peak of 12 nT at 14/0856 UTC with the Bz component reaching a maximum southward extent of -10 nT at 14/0854 UTC. The phi angle switched from a negative (towards) to a positive (away) orientation at 14/0835 UTC and remained predominately positive through the remainder of the summary period. By late on 15 Oct, Bt and Bz closed up with Bz not varying much beyond +/- 3 nT through the balance of the period. Wind speeds slowly decreased to end-of summary period values of just under 300 km/s. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 21 OCT - 16 NOV 2013 Solar activity is expected to be at low levels with a chance for isolated moderate level events through the forecast period. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at moderate to high levels on 21 Oct, normal to moderate levels on 22 Oct - 10 Nov and moderate to high levels on 11 - 16 Nov. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at quiet to unsettled levels on 21 - 22 Oct and unsettled to active levels on 10 - 13 Nov due to recurrent CH HSS effects. Predominately quiet levels are expected for the remainer of the outlook period. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2013 Oct 21 0329 UTC # Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # Product description and SWPC contact on the Web # http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wwire.html # # 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table # Issued 2013-10-21 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2013 Oct 21 130 10 3 2013 Oct 22 125 8 3 2013 Oct 23 120 5 2 2013 Oct 24 120 5 2 2013 Oct 25 115 5 2 2013 Oct 26 115 5 2 2013 Oct 27 110 5 2 2013 Oct 28 110 5 2 2013 Oct 29 105 5 2 2013 Oct 30 100 5 2 2013 Oct 31 100 5 2 2013 Nov 01 105 5 2 2013 Nov 02 115 5 2 2013 Nov 03 120 5 2 2013 Nov 04 120 5 2 2013 Nov 05 120 5 2 2013 Nov 06 125 5 2 2013 Nov 07 125 5 2 2013 Nov 08 125 5 2 2013 Nov 09 125 5 2 2013 Nov 10 125 12 4 2013 Nov 11 130 15 4 2013 Nov 12 135 10 3 2013 Nov 13 135 8 3 2013 Nov 14 130 5 2 2013 Nov 15 120 5 2 2013 Nov 16 115 5 2 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1692, DXLD) Yesterday, there was a high-powered Solar event (Magnitude M9 Region 1877) with a long-limbed Coronal Mass Ejection. This event is headed directly at Earth. The next 24 to 60 hours may produce a strong auroral condition, and it might be a moderate to strong effect. DXing to the South is enhanced due to "auroral losses" to the North, while stations generally to the South are unaffected (Paul S. in CT, Oct 24, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###