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Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1704: *DX and station news about: Antarctica, Argentina, Barbados, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada non, Chile, Congo, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea and non, Ethiopia non, Europe, Germany, Guam, Japan, Kashmir, Laos, Liberia, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, Oklahoma, Peru, Russia, Solomon Islands, Taiwan non, Tajikistan, Turkey, USA, Yemen SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1704, January 16-22, 2014 Thu 0430 WRMI 9955 [confirmed on webcast] Thu 1330 WRMI 9955 [confirmed but truncated] Thu 2201 WTWW 9475 [off the air!] Fri 0426v WWRB 3195 [confirmed at 0429; do tune in early] Sat 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 2130 WRMI 7730 [special maybe temporary; something else aired] Sun 0030 WRMI 9495 [special maybe temporary; confirmed] Sun 0030 WTWW 5085 [confirmed] Sun 0501 WTWW 5830 Mon 0400v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 Wed 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Thu 0430 WRMI 9955 [or 1705 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: [no longer available] WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN: [no longer available; shall we set up our own podcasting?] OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org DAY-BY-DAY ARCHIVE OF GLENN HAUSER`S LOG REPORTS: Unedited, uncondensed, unchanged from original version, many of them too complex, minutely researched, multi-frequency, opinionated, inconsequential, off-topic, or lengthy for some log editors to manage; and also ahead of their availability in these weekly issues: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser DXLD YAHOOGROUP: Why wait for DXLD? A lot more info, not all of it appearing in DXLD later, is posted at our yg without delay. When applying, please identify yourself with your real name and location, and say something about why you want to join. Those who do not, unless I recognize them, will be prompted once to do so and no action will be taken otherwise. Here`s where to sign up: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxld/ ** ALGERIA. ARGELIA está reemplazando los equipos de Onda Larga de Tipaza (252 kHz) que daban una excelente señal prácticamente en todo el Mediterráneo (1500 kW de potencia durante el día y por la noche se reducía a la mitad). Las antenas serán adaptadas para hacerlas compatibles con la DRM y, al final, puede que esa frecuencia también quede sin oyentes y nadie la escuche como cuando LA VOZ DE RUSIA pasó la emisión en español a DRM y nunca más los españoles pudieron seguir esa emisión dirigida a la península Ibérica. Uno recuerda, con nostalgia, aquellos años setenta en que esta frecuencia era empleada por LA VOZ DE CANARIAS LIBRE (MPAIAC) y cómo una decena de jóvenes veinteañeros disfrutábamos en la Barcelona del momento, de aquellos encendidos programas de Antonio Cubillo que, finalmente, fue víctima de un atentado y quedó en silla de ruedas hasta su desaparición ya en las Islas Canarias. También se utilizó para programas de La Resistencia Chilena o el servicio Español de Radio Argel… Quizá ya sea el definitivo adiós a la popular emisora del otro lado del Mare Nostrum. CORDIALES SALUDOS / GOOD LUCK / (JUAN FRANCO CRESPO * STAMP JOURNALIST (AIPET), SÀLVIA 8 (MAS CLARIANA), E- 43800 VALLS-TARRAGONA (ESPAÑA-SPAIN-ESPAGNE-SPANIEN, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANGOLA. Still a strong signal from Angola in our local evening. Much stronger than usual at this time, but largely unreadable because of almost continuous lightning QRN (not local to Jo'burg). Radio Nacional, 4949.7, Mulenvos. Jan 9, 2014 Thursday. 1740-1812. Portuguese, with bouncy music (not Afro). At 1800, time pips and ID “Radio Nacional d'Angola”, followed by talk (news?) by YL. Sounded like two more IDs at 1808, another at 1811. Strong signal but almost wiped out by lightning QRN. Jo'burg sunset 1705 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4949.75, RNA-Canal "A", Mulenvos, 2235-2305, 09/1, português, notícias, sinal horário das 2300 (meia-noite local), texto, canções; 45333, modulação normal. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4949.7, Rádio Nacional de Angola, Mulenvos, 0358-0407. Afro pops. Announcement in Portuguese by a man at 0359. Time pips (4?) on the hour followed by talk by a woman, joined by a man at 0407. Weak, threshold level signal with fading. Bouncing around at noise level, but intelligible enough to identify type of music and sex of announcers. 1/10/2014 (Jim Evans, Germantown TN, Perseus, IC-R75, Wellbrook Loop, Eavesdropper Dipole, Random Wire, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) Radio Nacional, 4949.7, Mulenvos. Jan 10, 2014 Friday. 1705-1746. After really good reception yesterday (Jan 9), tonight we are back to normal, barely readable at times. Jo'burg sunset 1705 (Bill Bingham, Johannesburg RSA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ANTARCTICA. Tragedia en Base Esperanza. http://www.continental.com.ar/noticias/sociedad/fallecio-un-suboficial-del-ejercito-tras-una-explosion-producida-en-la-base-esperanza/20140114/nota/2054741.aspx Fuerte razón para que LRA36 quede más tiempo fuera del aire. No ha sido reportada activa por un tiempo (Horacio Nigro, Uruguay, Jan 14, condiglista yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DXLD) Acabo de leer la nota. LRA36 había vuelto al aire hace unos 3 meses y estuvo en el aire por unos 30 días. Seguramente debe haber salido del aire por razones técnicas (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, ibid.) Viz.: FALLECIÓ UN SUBOFICIAL DEL EJÉRCITO TRAS UNA EXPLOSIÓN PRODUCIDA EN LA BASE ESPERANZA El siniestro se registró en el único asentamiento civil permanente que la Argentina tiene en la Antártida. Continental | 14 de Enero de 2014 A pocos días de iniciarse una nueva campaña antártica, se registró un incidente en la Base Esperanza, donde una persona resultó fallecida tras una explosión. Se trata del suboficial Alberto Ramírez, de 39 años, perteneciente al Comando Antártico. Según un comunicado del Ministerio de Defensa, la muerte del suboficial se produjo por "una explosión ocasionada por restos de material inflamable, durante las actividades de repliegue del material de residuos de la base" (complete story linked above, via WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DXLD) ** ARGENTINA. Radio Madres. En 530 kHz está fuera del aire, lo cual deja un nuevo canal abierto para DX. Enviado desde mi BlackBerry de Personal (Arnaldo Slaen 1148 UT Jan 13, condiglista yg via DXLD) Like: FIRS! Malvinas remaining a very sore point with the Argentines (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. RAE, Radiodifusión Argentina Al Exterior, images: http://jshort.blog.163.com/blog/static/20971528920135291026852/ Mail from RAE, Chinese section on October 2, 2013, enclosed a QSL card and a letter from Chinese host Ji Lina, answering my reception report of its first Chinese broadcast dated May 13, 2013 time 1000-1100 UT on 15345 from site Pacheco with power of 100 kW. Reception report was emailed to rae(at)radionacional(dt)gov(dot)ar conexionraerae(at)radionacional(dot)gov(dot)ar rae(at)radionacional(dot)com(dot)ar & conexionraerae(at)radionacional(dot)com(dot)ar but no reply, then sent out an airmail to RAE and on July 18 received an email from Chinese hostess LinaJi Oviedo (Jonathan Short, from China QSL report Sep.-Dec. 2013, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. 103.1, VORTERIX, 09/01 2031 UT. Comerciales del Partido de la Matanza de Capital Federal y se continúa con un programa de revisión de rock de los años 70's y 80's, haciendo una comparación de los principales grupos de rock: Kiss, AC/DC, U2, et al. SINFO: 55444, para pasar a desvanecerse 10 minutos después (Claudio Galaz, RX: Golone RX-221UAR, Antena: Telescópica, QTH: Quebrada de la Mina, Sector de Barraza, Comuna de Ovalle, IV Región, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) Distance? Very important in evaluating VHF DX. Approx. 810 statute miles = 1303 km from Buenos Aires to Ovalle, a bit close but good for sporadic E (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 4BI Brisbane 1197 Capacitance Hat Hi Dan, Got the information from another group I'm in: You may be interested to learn what 4BI 1197 Brisbane - Long Pocket (Queensland) 27 30 54S, 152 59 52E is using as their Capacitance Top Hat. It is actually a Hills Hoist revolving clothes line. It looks as though it is the Hills Heritage Model http://www.hillshome.com.au/our-product/fixed-head-hoists/ The attached photo was sourced from http://www.mediaspy.org/forum/index.php?app=core&module=attach§ion=attach&attach_id=46481 Forum post where the picture came from is here http://www.mediaspy.org/forum/index.php?/topic/20672-radio-towers-and-station-buildings/page-2 membership is required but that is free. There might be some other stuff that could be of interest. Attachments with this message: 1 of 1 Photo(s) Image Switch 1197 AM Hills Hoist Tower.JPG (mwdx yg via Paul, NZ, Jan 9, mwmasts yg via DXLD) ** AUSTRALIA. 9475, Jan 12 at 1157, RA playing ``Simple Gifts`` during `Sunday Night` religion show, strangely better here to Asia than on // 9580 to Pacific & North America. Odd propagation today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9580, Wed Jan 15 at 1355, RA is no longer simulcasting a TV newscast during this hour, but instead wrapping up something called ``ABC Open 500 Words``. ABC Radio National presents a seemingly complete Summer Schedule grid http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/linkableblob/5133584/data/rn-2013-14-summer-schedule-data.pdf date by date from Dec 23 to Jan 26, but for 12:00 midnight local time merely says ``Summer Features`` M-F. Nothing anywhere on it about ``Open 500 Words``. Nor anything like that on the A-Z Quick-Find list. Finally a more general search of the site finds it`s a sub-title: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lifematters/abc-open-500-words3b-failure/5125288 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 11700, HCJB Kununurra 1157-1215* Jan 15; M announcer in listed Rawang with religious talk; ballad at 1209; brief W announcer at 1212 with wind instruments; ID in English and off at 1215; fair at best in ECSS-LSB (Scott R. Barbour, Jr., Intervale, NH, NRD-545, MLB- 1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Aoki shows this transmission 1130-1215, including English the first third, Sat-Sun-Mon (gh, DXLD) ** AZERBAIJAN. 9677, Ictimai per Eibi, 1315 6 Jan, again heard with garbled audio and signal S6. Couldn`t even understand that there was a song (seemed as Turkic) (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, Jan 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BAHRAIN. 9745 at 1653 Jan 4 with Arab songs and USB only; Bahrain is now back??? Mixed with a carrier of S20 that gradually lowered to S7 on 1720, Also Sun 2113 good in USB with S5 and continuous jazz music for at least 15 minutes (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, Jan 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 4750, presumed Bangladesh Betar, Shavar, 1144-1202 Jan 8; M & W announcers in listed Bengali; music bridge at 1145 & brief W announcer into SC vocal music; brief announcer at 1151 & back to ballads; filler music at 1159 into W announcer with (presumed) ID at ToH; p-f in ECCS-USB (Scott R. Barbour, Jr., Intervale NH, NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. A log in short at our breakfast time. Checked this channel 4750 against Brisbane-AUS and Victor's Colombo SDR network receivers this morning at 0948 to 1050 UT, Jan 9. Three peaks on 4750 kHz channels visible 4750.000 undoubtedly BGD, typical subcontinental mx at Colombo 4749.996 on threshold, probably CHN stn 4749.985 should be weak station from INS - RRI Makassar BANGLA DESH / CHINA2x / INDONESIA -- terrible 4750 kHz. a very very bad mixture on 4750 kHz channel at 1400 UT, probably as follows: 4749.954 INS 4749.986 PBS Qinghai CHN 4749.996 CNR1 Huhot CHN 4750.000 BGD (Wolfgang Büschel, Jan 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) BANGLADESH --- Thanks very much Wolfy for checking on these frequency measurements. Appreciated! Jan 7 at 1530 on 4750.00 in English - audio https://app.box.com/s/dea5yv3575jtjlhhg4ab (Ron Howard, California, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 11505 [sic], Bangladesh Betar, 1426 Jan 5 with playback problems, songs of 50s or 60s, ID etc in Urdu (= noticing Pakistan) and addresses, S7 (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, Jan 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Should be 15505; your mistake or theirs? (gh, DXLD) 15105, Bangladesh Betar, Jan 09 *1228-1238, 25442 English, 1228 sign on with IS, Opening music, Opening announce, News (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121, ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This has not been propagating here for months, nor at 1400 on 15505; presumably will start showing again come spring (gh, OK, DXLD) ** BARBADOS. Relatório da TEP Caribe - 11/01/2014 --- Amigos, ontem a BBS 90.7 MHz chegou 3 vezes: A primeira abertura foi entre 22:07 e 22:30 local ou entre 0007 e 0030 UT. A segunda abertura foi entre 22:55 e 23:05 local ou entre 0055 e 0105 UT. A terceira abertura foi entre 23:17 e 23:35 local ou entre 0117 e 0135 UT. Segue um pequeno trecho da primeira abertura: http://youtu.be/x5330doX8ew 73's (Fran Jr, - São Paulo SP, 12 Jan, Sony XDR F1HD, Antena interna direcional Yagi 5 elementos, radioescutas yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DXLD) Distance Bridgetown to SP SP: 4318 km or 2683 statute miles. I have no doubt about the reception, but only music on this clip; an example of TE propagation, where you never get a fully quiet signal, altho it`s quite steady. Probably also has some ACI on very crowded dial. Sidebar linx to several other recordings of same, including one with an ID at the very end of 3:27 after ``Silent Night``, Dec 23, 2013 (gh, DXLD) ** BELGIUM. Enric Roca: NEW BOOK --- 100 years Belgium Radio by RTBF Ciao, RTBF has edited a book featuring the 100 years of the Radio in the Belgium. There are 200 photos and documentations of historical logos (Europa1, Contact, Luxemburg... ), Price : 29 â‚ [Euro?] You may order on line from the boutique of RTBF : http://boutique.rtbf.be/product/100-ans-de-radio-en-belgique http://www.renaissancedulivre.be/index.php/societe/hors-collection/item/7071-100-ans-de-radio-en-belgique http://www.rbf.be/radio/article/detail_100-ans-de-radio-en-belgique-un-livre-une-expo?id=8135127 The book has been edited in connection with the Expo 100 years Radio; for details see WEB: http://www.exporadio.be Enric Roca (via Dario Monferini, 14 Jan, playdx yg via DXLD) ** BERMUDA. 1/7/2014 at 2315 EST [0415 UT Jan 8], I heard "Bermuda weather radio" on 2682-USB giving instructions on navigating in Hamilton Harbor. I cannot find any identification anywhere on line for this station. thanks (Jim Balle, WA1EDN, New England? http://www.fhu.com ABDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 3310, R. MOSOJ CHASKI, 09/01 0105 UT. Música folklórica en quechua. SINPO: 33333 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 5 metros, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. PERU [sic; oops]. 4699.9, R. San Miguel, Riberalta, 2256- 2309, 11/1, castelhano, texto, muito pouco inteligível mercê da sobremodulação, música índia; 35332; melhor sinal em 12/1, pelas 2245. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4699.94, R. San Miguel, Riberalta, 1003 Jan 13 Spanish; M announcer with Spanish talk; sounds like a "live" sermon; poor & weak (Scott R. Barbour, Jr., Intervale, NH, NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4717-, Jan 16 at 0057, very poor signal but presumed R. Yura, starting to propagate again. Around this time, the 60m band is full of carriers matching Asian and Latin American usage (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. BRASIL (bastantes!) 4785, R. Caiari, Pt.º Velho RO, 2225- 2229*, 09/1, canções; 35332. O tx desligou-se ou foi desligado abruptamente, às 2229. Observada em 11/1, pelas 2300, com sinal bom. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4865, R. Verdes Florestas, Cruz.º do Sul AC, 2300-2315, 11/1, padre estrangeiro com sermão, música de órgão; 44443 (!), QRM de CODAR. ** v. 08 Jan ** 4866.8, idem, 2211-2223, 09/1, missa; 23431, QRM de CODAR de sinal de emissora ponto a ponto. ** v. 11 Jan ** 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4985, R. Brasil Central, Goiânia GO, 2246-2257, 11/1, canções; 43432, QRM de teletipo. // 11815 fora do ar. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Ding dong the witch is dead! (Or maybe just sleeping) 4985.01 -- The long-running utility signal has been absent the past two nights, leaving a weak station audible on this frequency. Monitored 0158-0215 -- male announcer and vocals, sounds like Portuguese, presumed Rádio Brasil Central, but too weak to be sure. Nothing audible on 11815, so can't check for parallel. 1/15/14 (Art Delibert, North Bethesda, MD, AOR 7030+, Pennant Antenna with DX Engineering pre-amp, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DXLD) 4985+, Jan 16 at 0054, very poor signal seemingly in Portuguese, slightly on the hi side, and totally clear in the absence of that huge RTTY signal normally blocking all broadcasters here; hope it`s gone for good. So presumed R. Brasil Central. No signal on // 11815 to compare with. Nor any het from 4985.5, Perú`s Radio Voz Cristiana, also uncovered if and when it be on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RTTY back on by Jan 17-18 ** BRAZIL. BRASIL (um bom punhado de emissoras). 5939.85, R. Voz Missionária, Camboriú SC, 2304-2315, 09/1, propag. relig.; 45433; // 9664,8 pior. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 5970, R. Itatiaia, Belo Horizonte MG, 2256-2312, 09/1, futebol, notícias, às 2300, anúncios comerc., "slogan" "R.Itatiaia - a Rádio Divina"; 44422, só QRM adj., até às 2300, e só QRM na mesma freq., após essa hora. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5970, Jan 16 at 0101, Brazuguese here no doubt R. Itatiaia, but with very heavy flutter. The equatorial ionosphere is really dynamic tonight (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 6010, presumed R. Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte, 0905-0920 Jan 13 Portuguese; M announcer with what sounded like a call-in program; ads/promos at 0913; poor-fair in ECSS-LSB (Scott R. Barbour, Jr., Intervale, NH, NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 6135, R. Aparecida, Aparecida, 0855-0900 Jan 13 Portuguese; Music/ads at tune/in; passing mention "Aparecida``, pips at ToH then battling for dominance with presumed R. Santa Cruz-Bolivia *0900 s/on; fair-poor (Scott R. Barbour, Jr., Intervale, NH, NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 9664.8, Jan 10 at 0109, predicating in Portuguese, or rather Brazuguese, no het, but ZYE890, R. Voz Missionária, SC, has started varying lately; for a long while it was around 9665.6 on the hi side of 9665, but Jan 6 at 0820, Wolfgang Büschel found it way down on 9662.377!!! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11765-, Jan 16 at 0107, SRDA Curitiba with Davi Miranda wailing away in portunhol, slightly wavering het against something because ZYE726 is off-frequency to the lo side (is there *any* Brazilian SW station accurate to point 0, let alone point 00?). Nothing else on 11765 in EiBi, Aoki or HFCC to het against, and EiBi shows 11764.8 for SRDA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11780.1, Jan 10 at 0113, RNB is still off-frequency to the hi side. No signal here from R. Australia, Burmese via Singapore to het it as scheduled this semihour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11780, RNAMA, 10/01 1849 UT. Conversación telefónica con el locutor acerca de las comunidades indígenas. Luego se pasa a un pequeño espacio musical. SINPO: 54454 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 5 metros, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) So apparently on air all day altho usually not making it here at mid-day (gh, OK, DXLD) [and non]. 11780.1, UT Tue Jan 14, make a point of checking QRM during RNB`s main collision with another station, Spain`s Sephardic service which stupidly stays on 11780 instead of alternate 11795 or some other clear frequency for its weekly broadcast at 0115-0145: at 0112, there they are with the REE IS making a LAH circa 100 Hz against RNB. This is hardly an improvement over colliding directly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA. QSL: Radio Miraya, 11560, QSL-card in 6 days for reception report to info@hirondelle.org (QSL came from Fondation Hirondelle, Avenue du Temple 19C, CH-1012 Lausanne, Switzerland). VS: Mr. Jean-Luc Mootoosamy (Kurt Enders, Bickenbach, Germany, Jan 12, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** CAMBODIA. CAMBODIA MINISTRY SPURNS PRIVATE BEEHIVE RADIO'S EXPANSION PLAN | Text of report by Voice of America (VOA) website on 15 January The [Cambodian] Ministry of Information has rejected an application by independently-run Beehive Radio to expand its operations nationwide. Beehive, which carries Voice of America and other international programming, currently serves Phnom Penh through an FM frequency. It had applied to expand radio relay stations throughout the country and to start a TV station. In a letter, Information Minister Khieu Kanharith rejected the proposal saying there are "no remaining frequencies" to fulfil the request. A representative of Beehive owner Mam Sonando said the station will call for demonstrations by its own supporters beginning January 27 to demand permission for the expansion. Source: VOA Khmer website, Washington D.C., in English 15 Jan 14 (via BBCM via DXLD) ** CANADA. Not a lot of CRTC news this month, but I did notice one interesting item on the agenda for the hearings in Gatineau on 26 February. South Fraser Broadcasting has applied for a new ethnic AM station in Edmonton, to use the 580 kHz frequency recently vacated by CKUA. In Montreal, Dufferin Communications has been given the green light to move their proposed station CHRF from 990 kHz to 980 kHz, which they claim is a clearer frequency, better able to reach the target audience. That station is, of course, not yet on the air, and they are applying for an extension to October 2014 to launch the service [and also reduce power to 10 kW at night] Also in Montreal, TTP Media, the company of three Montreal businessmen who have three licences for AM radio stations asked for a one-year extension on their first radio station (a French-language news-talk station at 940 AM), whose deadline to launch had been Nov. 21, 2013. The extension was granted. With this extension, the deadlines to launch both stations (940 kHz in French and 600 kHz in English) are now November 2014, which all points to both stations launching some time next fall. No further target date has been announced for their all-sports French language station for 850 kHz. This summer, some people in the native reserve of Kanesatake, northwest of Montreal, put the community’s radio station back on the air. CKHQ-FM 101.7 was first licensed in 1988 at a paltry 11 watts. Its license expired in 2004, after the CRTC failed to receive an application for a renewal and gave the station a one-year extension to apply. The station went into disarray and was effectively abandoned after the former station manager died. When it did go on the air this summer it was operating without a license. Within weeks, CRTC staff was working with James Nelson on an application for a new license. Nelson is the applicant, on behalf of a company to be incorporated, which would have him as the president and three other people on the board of directors (Shawana Etienne, Mike Dubois and Tahkwa Nelson, all from the community). According to the application, the station would have the exact same technical parameters: 11 watts, from a transmitter on the reserve, reaching its few thousand residents but not much farther. But the correspondence between James Nelson and the CRTC suggests the plan is to, as part of a separate application down the line, increase that power to 50 Watts. Programming-wise, the station would broadcast 83 hours of programming a week (or about 12 hours a day), all of it local, of which 68 hours would be music and 15 hours spoken word with 95% in English and 5% in the Mohawk language. The station has also launched a Facebook page. Speaking of extensions, Touch Canada was originally given the authorization for a new Calgary AM station on 700 kHz back in April 2009. It is still not on the air; however, it may be getting closer. After two other proposed tower sites fell through, they have acquired a new site in an industrial area north of Black Diamond, and held an open house to discuss the project on December 5th. If approved, the station could be on the air by late summer of 2014 (Nigel Pimblett, Broadcast Band, Jan CIDX Messenger via DXLD) ** CANADA. 740, Jan 16 at 0141 UT, commercial mentions KHDH.com, apparently something to do with winter travel rather than a radio station, despite the `calls`. No such website. Expecting to hear CFZM Toronto here mixing with KRMG Tulsa as usual, and so it is, onward to ads for what`s on CBC Television tonite, more Canadian stuff, and ``AM-740`` ID. Still, what`s this KHDH? Maybe a clue or ad on their website, http://www.zoomerradio.ca/ Nothing found for a travel biz to get out of Toronto; maybe I didn`t copy the letters correctly. Searching on KHDH, I find that there is such a radio station, in Alberta, obviously not a real Canadian callsign: http://www.yelp.com/biz/khdh-97-7-fm-the-nation-station-siksika-146 What nation would that be? A First one, a.k.a. Blackfoot. Is there a real KHDH in the USA? Unknown to NRC AM Log, WTFDA FM Database, nor to FCC AM or FM Queries (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA [non]. Radio City will be on the air on Friday 17th January at 1900 to 2000 UT via IRRS on 7290 and on 1368 kHz via Challenger Radio in Italy, with a repeat on Saturday 18th January at 0900 to 1000 UT on 9510 kHz [the SW being via ROMANIA] As usual there is a weekly transmission via Radio Merkurs, Riga, Latvia on 1485 kHz Saturdays at 2000 to 2100 UT. The 4th Saturday of the month (January 25th) there is a transmission via Hamburger Lokalradio on 7265 kHz carrier and upper side band at 1300 to 1400 UT. Please send all reports to: citymorecars @ yahoo.ca Thank you! (Tom Taylor, Jan 13, WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHILE. RCW Informa: Hoy sábado efectuaremos una emisión experimental a las 21:00 hora de Chile y Argentina (0000 UT Sunday). Por Ondas Cortas: 7550 kHz. Banda de 41 Metros. Por Internet en UStream. Esperamos que esta programación sea de su agrado. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/rcw-radio-compañia-worldwide Avíso vía página de facebook: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=232040656967515&id=578178758867184&stream_ref=10 -- Atte, (Claudio Galaz, Jan 11 = UT Jan 12, condiglista yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DXLD) 7550 canal ocupado por una emisora en japones (José A. Kucher, Jan 11, ibid.) Por Cuchilla Alta, URUGUAY, bajo mucho ruido local a eso de las 0000 UT se escuha una emisora muy bajito con música y a las 0000 una señal de intervalo totalmente desconocida para mi, siempre muy bajo. Nada más. BTW, qué puede ser esa señal de intervalo? No encuentro nada en short-wave.info ni shortwaveschedule.com en esa frecuencia y hora. 73 (Moisés Knochen, 0012 UT, ibid.) Definitivamente es RCW; las campanas son el tono de un carillón de cierto lugar de Chile, del que presumo es el QTH de la emisora. Los mails de la emisora son: cartasrcw @ gmail.com y rcwradio @ gmail.com Yo sólo confirmo a Cooperativa en onda corta, por ahora. Saludos! (Claudio Galaz, Chile, ibid.) The RCW pirate in Chile I talk about starting WOR 1703 was reported active again tonight (UT Sunday instead of UT Saturday) on 7550, heard in S America from 0000, still at 0100 but may be off by now (Glenn, 0214 UT Jan 12, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Siendo 0220 UT, la recepción es mejor. Entrevista sobre LU23. Mucho ruido local pero igual se escucha (Moisés Knochen, Uruguay, ibid. WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DXLD) 7550, RCW, 12/01 0304 UT. Desde Región Metropolitana con QTH especifico desconocido. Música de los años 60’s en inglés con identificaciones esporádicas de la emisora y de sus campanadas usadas como identificación. SINPO: 45444, aunque en algunos momentos cercanos a las 0315 el SINPO: 44343 debido a cierto ruido ambiental o condiciones de propagación de la banda, para luego tener SINPO: 44444. Cabe destacar que no comenzó a las 00 como estaba previsto debido a un problema técnico, informado vía Facebook, comenzando a las 01. Además la emisora al contestar mediante el email: rcwradio [at] gmail [dot] com manda la siguiente información técnica: “Control de frecuencia: Cristal; Modulación: 807x2 Push Pull; Final RF: 6DQ6 (1); 50 Watts; Antena: G5RV (V invertida)” (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 5 metros, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, Chile, condig list via DXLD) ??? there were several reports in the condig lista that it did start at 0000 (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) 7550, RCW [Pretendida], 14/01 2342 UT. Música de los años 80’s sin ID. SINPO: 23222, con bastante ruido atmosférico en la frecuencia (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 5 metros, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) Tue ** CHINA [and non]. Sat 4 January: 17830, 1617 with HoA song, co channel QRM with carrier. Then carrier changed into noise!! S4 (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, Jan 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CHINA against BBCWS 17830. White noise hum buzz jamming on UT evening against BBC English, to protect Chinese nationals who grow much to understand English language now more and more (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) 9690, now that WRMI/BS has moved off in the evenings, Jan 10 at 0100 we hear a weak mix of two timesignals, a few seconds apart, then at least one station in Chinese. Per Aoki, we have: 0100-0200 KBS World Radio in Vietnamese (and also 0200-0300 English, news to me; is confirmed? At 225 degrees, no help for North America, // 9580 also useless here); and: 0100-0200 R Free Asia in Uyghur, 500 kW, 50 degrees from UAE, which is of course jammed. I suspect the two timesignals were both coming from CNR1 jammers, unsynchronized, not expecting timesignals from the others. 9355, Jan 12 at 2056, Firedrake fair-good, much better than on 9455, very poor; both against Radio Free Asia via Saipan. 11945, Jan 13 at 1504, Firedrake is fair with flutter, vs RFA Chinese via Tajikistan. 9315, Jan 13 at 1441, Firedrake is good here. Still no target in Aoki, but HFCC shows VOA Tibetan via Thailand. 6145, Jan 13 at 1442, Firedrake fair, 1534 poor. Still no target in HFCC, since it`s Taiwan, banned by the ChiCom from HFCC, but in Aoki. With all this FD already, I take the time circa 1445-1450 to do a full out-of-bandscan for more, or CNR1 jamming, but find none in the 7s, 8s, 10s, 11s, 12s, 13s or 14s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 21770, PHILIPPINES. VOA - Tinang. S/on 0500 for the Tuesday Tibetan service WITHOUT jamming! Good clear signal until 0504 CNR 1 came on at equal strength. Seemed to be // 21570 and with CNR1 jamming as well, but at a weaker level there, Jan 14. 73, (Rob Wagner VK3BVW, ARDXC via DXLD) 12045, Jan 14 at 1438, Firedrake good with flutter, vs 12050 WEWN and its lower spur. No other FD, nor CNR1 jamming found in the 12-18 MHz OOB areas. About 24 hours later on Jan 15, no FD music heard on 12045, just Chinese, presumably switched to CNR1 jamming. 9315, Jan 14 at 1444, FD fair-poor mixing with IBB Tibetan via Thailand per HFCC; Aoki now has CNR1/FD jamming listed for this hour on 9315, but nothing about the target. Usually Aoki just puts a * to indicate such jamming, but far too many users ignore it and report logs incorrectly as the target station rather than the jamming! 6145, Jan 14 at 1445, Firedrake here against RTI, but on 6075 no FD heard, just Chinese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 6060, Jan 12 at 1147, song almost like an hymn, very poor with flutter, but better than 6055 with very little signal from Nikkei, Japan. 1149 announcement with repeating phrases, website, mentions RCI? Then song with phone-tones; recheck after 1200 it`s gone. Consulting the Big 3 schedules, I think this must be CRI in Tagalog/Filipino via Beijing site, at 1130-1157. PBS Sichuan, Chengdu in Tibetan is also scheduled, but continues on air until 1515 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 9410, CNR-5 Beijing, 1126-1135 Jan 14, Chinese; Recorded speech of very animated M speaker; studio announcer at 1129 with ballad thru BoH; ID over mx at 1132; W announcer with (Presumed) news; good (Scott R. Barbour, Jr., Intervale, NH, NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. UNIDENTIFIED. Glenn, bom dia. Escutei agora apouco uma emissora em inglês em 9665 que eu não a identifiquei. Não há registros em Eibi, Aoki, HFCC e nem na lista de Dan. Às vezes parecia que eu ouvia China. O meu dispositivo de gravação direta está com um problema no adaptador e eu gravei a escuta pelo telefone celular. As 1030 a ID, mas eu não a identifico, pois estava sem os fones de ouvido. Após as 1046 entrou o sinal da Rádio Voz Missionária que sobrepôs completamente o sinal. Segue o link da gravação: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/75006/29594407 Abaixo meu log dessa manhã. Depois de seus comentários da UNID, pode publicar juntamente todo o log para a lista, caso deseje. 9665, 12/Jan 1016, UNID in English. Nothing in Eibi, Aoki, HFCC and Dan list. OM and YL present a news bulletin with excerpts from interviews and comments. At 1027 OM talks about musical background. What seems to be ID, but I do not understand. The signal is degrading. At 1046 R. Voz Missionaria totally occupies the frequency. 35333. Um grande abraço, (Jorge Freitas, Feira de Santana Bahia, 12 14´S, 38 58´W - Brasil, Degen 1103 - All listening in mode of filter Narrow the 4 kHz. Dipole antenna, 16 meters - east/west Escutas (listening, my blog): http://www.ipernity.com/doc/75006 The best of Brazilian music: http://www.novabrasilfm.com.br/ A bit of my city: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1443186 DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Jorge, It`s CRI. They keep talking about China, and with a Chinese accent. A few minutes in (circa 1030?) there is a break in programming and they mention cri.cn or something like that. I agree this frequency is not in the schedules. You could further confirm it next time by comparing to other CRI English frequencies during that hour. 73, (Glenn to Jorge, via DXLD) Re CRI English, Could it be, as a precaution, the Chinese disturb one of the four WOODEN? channels of Radio Pakistan in Nepali? R Pakistan Nepali - also ? 9850 kHz selected by R Pak ? 9615 1000 1030 41 ISL 100 118 NEPALI PAK PBC 9665 1000 1030 41 ISL 100 118 NEPALI PAK PBC <<<<<<<<<<<<< 11870 1000 1030 41 ISL 100 118 NEPALI PAK PBC 15620 1000 1030 41 ISL 100 118 NEPALI PAK PBC In the past also AIR Mandarin, Tibetan a n d Nepali services were object of heavy jamming by CHINA 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, Jan 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) KOREA D.P.R./BRAZIL --- Nothing heard from CHN this Jan 13 morning at 0955 til 1020 UT. Only heard North Korean chorus of KCBS Pyongyang program on even 9665.0 kHz, and unstable 9664.749 kHz signal R Voz Missionária, Camboriú, SC Brazil, producing a 250 hum buzz audio on the receiver. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschell, Jan 13, DXLD yg via DXLD) ** CHINA. Another strange frequency of China R International Indonesian 0830-0927 17735 KUN 100 kW / 175 deg to SEAs + new 17705.0, ex 17707.0 0830-0927 15135 KUN 500 kW / 177 deg to SEAs and nothing on 15115 -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire. Jan 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. A log in short at our breakfast time. Checked this channel 4750 against Brisbane-AUS and Victor's Colombo SDR network receivers this morning at 0948 to 1050 UT, Jan 9. Three peaks on 4750 kHz channels visible 4750.000 undoubtedly BGD, typical subcontinental mx at Colombo 4749.996 on threshold, probably CHN stn 4749.985 should be weak station from INS - RRI Makassar BANGLA DESH / CHINA2x / INDONESIA -- terrible 4750 kHz. a very very bad mixture on 4750 kHz channel at 1400 UT, probably as follows: 4749.954 INS 4749.986 PBS Qinghai CHN 4749.996 CNR1 Huhot CHN 4750.000 BGD (Wolfgang Büschel, Jan 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CONGO. 6115, Rdiff. TV Congolaise, Jan 07 1800-1823*, 33333-34322, French, Talk, ID at 1805,etc, ID as "Radio Congo", 1823 sign off, Jan 08 1825 sign off (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121, ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CONGO. Maybe a chance to listen to 6115 Congo over there: s/on currently around 0557, monitored by Christoph Ratzer (Thorsten Hallmann, Germany, Jan 12, WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CONGO. -Brazzaville, 6115, R. Congo, Brazzaville, 1928-2010, 11/1, francês, música pop' africana, texto, noticiário desportivo, notícias das 2000; 55443, bloqueada às 2030, pela R. Interncional da China. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Maybe it usually stays on later on Saturdays only? (gh, ibid.) ** CUBA. 650 Cuba? In Palm Coast, FL on the car radio I seem to hear a very low tone warble like Cuba uses to jam. It's very subtle, and akin to wiggling a medium gauge wood saw blade or sheet of metal. Anyone else notice this? ("Ron Charles" = Ron Gitschier, 0239 UT Jan 11, ABDX via DXLD) The low warble is more likely over-the-horizon radar. The U.S. has drug surveillance operations in Puerto Rico and Florida operating at low frequencies using OTH (Emmett, K2ADK, ibid.) Surely not on MW! (gh) It`s Cuban, pops up all over the dial and its called the wobbler. (Kevin Redding, Crump, TN, ibid.) It is pretty well agreed among many DXers that the low warble on 650 AM is coming from a Cuban broadcast station. The most likely cause is defective frequency control from an East European transmitter that for some reason the Cubans have never bothered to fix. The interference is nicknamed "The Cuban Warbler". I can hear it almost nightly in South Carolina at night and it interferes with my reception of WSM in Nashville, TN. Similar interference can be heard on 840 AM also. As far as I know it is not deliberate jamming from Cuba, just defective transmitters. This past summer I set up an outdoor broadband loop antenna and now I am able to mostly null out the Cuban warbler and hear WSM in the clear at night. 73 - (Todd WD4NGG Roberts, ibid.) ** CUBA. 4765, R. Progreso, 13 Jan, 0135-0145 UT. Wonderful older LAm music. M in Spanish with lots of echo. ID and gave out postal and web addresses for "your requests." I see where this has been on since Oct, but first I've heard it because I haven't been listening in a while. This station sounds great! Reminds me of the days when 60mb was chock full of stations like this. A real bright spot in an otherwise dimming SWBC landscape (Paul Brouillette, Geneva, IL, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. QSL: Radio Rebelde, 5025, E-QSL in 5 days for reception report to web@radiorebelde.icrt.cu (QSL came from yirian @ radiorebelde.icrt.cu VS: Yirian García de la Torre, Editora (Kurt Enders, Bickenbach, Germany, Jan 12, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) 5025, Jan 12 at 1139, R. Rebelde, good carrier level, but modulation very suppressed, audible only at distorted peaks. Wiggle that patchcord? May take more than that. 5025, Jan 15 at 0051, R. Rebelde back on the air in the evening as well as 5040 RHC English, so after a few weeks, both these transmitters and antennas are back in use, after obviously sharing one facility causing RR to cede to RHC in the 22-07 UT span. Also at 0627 check, both very good level, except there is some hum and distortion on 5025. Once I have mentioned this on WORLD OF RADIO 1704, shux, it`s gone again 24 hours later at 0057 Jan 16, just a JBA carrier, presumably Quillabamba, Perú. 5010.0, Jan 16 at 0114, weak signal in French --- this could be interesting, possibly Madagascar on all night? Compare to 5910 in case it`s a 2 x IF image from 5910 Romania, but no match there. And with the DX-398 BFO on, it`s still on 5010, not 4 kHz offset so not an image. Listening closer no, it`s Kriyol, with lots of -la`s, which points to the RHC hour on 5040. Could be a leapfrog mixing product over 5025 Rebelde another 15 kHz lower, but that`s off as per log a few minutes ago --- not now! It is indeed back on, so leap away! There could be an equivalent landing on 5055, in that case with Rebelde audio (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Latest RHC SNAFU roundup: 11880 & 13680, Jan 9 at 2123, both are bigsigs but OCDA = open carrier dead air. At this time, 11880 is supposed to be in French, 13680 supposed to be off. 11760 is in fact in French, marred by audio breakup noise in the background. Finally at 2135.5, RHC Portuguese modulation in progress cuts on 11880. 11970, Jan 10 at 0114, pointless pulse jamming against nothing, heavier and faster here than on 11930, also against nothing. 12010, Jan 10 at 1401, RHC Spanish is suddenly here, and no spur either. Quickly check known 25m channels and only 11690 is missing, so must be a move from there. This is immediately confirmed by announcement at 1403 that 11690 has moved to 12010 in the mornings, no time specified but probably entire 12-16 span like 11690 was. And repeated before 1500 as effective today Jan 10. Finally RHC escapes the continuous RTTY from NAA on 11687.5 or so; now it`s twice that far away from continuous RTTY on 12015, from what? Per Aoki, the only other broadcaster on 11690 RHC might have needed to escape was CRI English at 12-13, WNW from Xian. There`s no other broadcast on 12010 besides ChiCom-jammed BBC English via Singapore, earlier at 09-11. First impression of 12010 is that it seems stronger than 11690 was, so maybe some transmitter/antenna change too. Furthermore, comparing the two 16mb signals at 1453 Jan 10, 17580 now sounds louder than 17730, but may be just different audio processing: lo-fi boosted compared to hi-fi normal. Now 17580 has more of an edge over the IBB CCI. Also, these two are an echo apart from different sites. 15230 & 15370, Jan 10 at 2354, RHC in Portuguese on both but not //. Apparently same program, but far from synchronized due to separate playouts; not taking my time to find how far apart, which will probably also vary from day to day. 6060, Jan 11 at 0626, RHC English modulation is suppressed and distorted; better on 6100 but still undermodulated; 6000 and 5040 OK; 6165 also full modulation but with lite squeal. 13780, Jan 11 at 1437, RHC is missing, but back here at 1517 check. New 12010 is again on today (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Missingness of 13780 above may be explained by this:! (gh) It is 1452 and I have been listening to Radio Habana Cuba using the Cuban Intelligence Services (DI) station HM-01's 14375 kHz frequency for about twenty minutes. HM-01 uses this frequency which is just above the 20 meter ham band for its 0500 and 0600 GMT broadcasts Tue/Thu/Sat. Radio Habana Cuba using HM-01's frequency Ceases at 1501 GMT. hey cut the signal abruptly at 1501 GMT several minutes after I posted this on the Yahoo Groups! (Steve Handler, IL, 1507 UT Jan 12, NASWA yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DXLD) 13680, Jan 11 at 2114, RHC open carrier/dead air. I think they tend to leave the transmitter on during one-hour break in the `European` service after Arabic until 2100, until Spanish from 2200. Standard remark about starving Cubans vs wasted energy. (During DST season Spanish starts at 2100, so no break then.) At 2114, 11760 // 11880 properly in French. 6165, Jan 12 at 0053, RHC English carrier for 0100 is already on, along with squeals but no other modulation; they seem to peak around 5-6 kHz away from center carrier. 9850, Jan 12 at 1205, no signal from RHC, but it`s on by 1330 recheck. 13780, Jan 13 at 1525, RHC is very strong but with IADs and spur- spikes out to plus/minus 20 kHz. At 1530, I compare all the RHC frequencies and find two groups, an echo apart from each other, ergo from two different transmitter sites: 9540, 12010, 17580, synchronized with each other, not synchronized with: 11750, 11760, 11860, 13780, 15230, 15340, 17730, synchronized with each other (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Frequency change of Radio Habana Cuba from Jan. 10: 1200-1600 NF 12010 HAB 250 kW / 315 deg to WNAm Spanish, ex 11690 (Ivo Ivanov, DX RE MIX NEWS# 834 January 14, 2014, via DXLD) [as I originally reported --- gh] 9570, Jan 15 at 1349, CRI relay has a big buzz atop the program modulation. 13680, Jan 15 at 1951, RHC French, fair signal and very undermodulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. 9490, Jan 15 at 0100, Cuban NA (same as played on RHC), is audible under the DentroCuban Jamming Command`s attempt at a wall of noise, i.e. R. República is still here via FRANCE at 0100-0300. WRMI conveniently leaves a gap in its usage of 9495 during that bihour, presumably ready to shift it to Okeechobee, whenever the TDF contract run out (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 11825, USA / CUBA. WRMI and Cuban bubble jamming, 1557, 1/12/14 in English. Overcomer programming with non Br. Stair man talking about how it is hard to be a prophet, to canned Br. Stair with contact information, 1600 WRMI ID and contact information, Overcomer theme then picking up with earlier speaker. Only interesting because it was jammed by the Cuban bubble jammer the whole time. Didn’t know Br. Stair was a threat to the Cuban regime (Mark Taylor, Madison, Wisconsin, Perseus, WinRadio g313e, Eton e1, Grunding G5, Tecsun PL 660; 40 meter dipole, EWE, Flextenna, NASWA Flashsheet Jan 12 via DXLD) I`ve yet to hear any jamming on this or any others of the `new` WRMI frequencies, just 9955. There is residual jamming on 11845 ex-Martí (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** CUBA [non]. U S A. 6030, R. MARTI, 14/01 1103 UT. Noticias acerca de las condiciones de la libertad religiosa en Cuba, con una entrevista corta al Pastor Mario Félix Lleonart de una Iglesia Bautista quien nombra los problemas por parte de Pentecostales, Testigos de Jehová, Et. Al en el establecimiento de congregaciones. Exactamente la misma información entregada a las 1045 y que fue leída por un locutor ¿Insistencia en la promoción de religiones no católicas en Cuba? ¿O respuestas diarias a la emisión de un foro sobre religión dado por el programa “Mesa Redonda”, hace unos meses atrás, sobre la labor del Consejo de Iglesias de Cuba, controlado por el Partido Comunista, acerca de las denominadas “sectas influenciadas por el imperialismo” ? Señal con SINPO: 45444 con Cuban Noise Jammer // 5980 con SINPO: 52342 sobre Chaski en la misma frecuencia (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 5 metros, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** CUBA [non]. 7210-LSB, Jan 11 at 1410-1420, the unmistakable N1NR, Nelson Roig in Pennsylvania in contact with a cohort in Miami, pseudo- broadcast denouncing communist Cuba, about poverty, corruption, people getting apartments at a specific address in Habana, hunger, etc. As usual zero-beat with a weak broadcast carrier; and also some occasional jamming from a strong offset AM carrier, another ham, dentro-Cuban? The 7210 carrier would be either CRI Japanese from Xian, or the ChiComs QRMing themselves with PBS Yunnan also scheduled during this hour per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CZECHIA. QSL: Cesky Rozhlas Station Topolna, 270, Special Topolna QSL-card in 19 days for reception report with 40 kr Czech mint stamps to Transmitter Station Topolna, Oblast Jizni Morava, RKS AM1 -- Topolna, 687 11 Topolna, Czech Republic (Kurt Enders, Bickenbach, Germany, Jan 12, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** DIEGO GARCIA. 4319-USB, BRITISH INDIAN OCEAN TERRITORY. AFN/AFRTS, Diego Garcia, Chagos, 2249-2301. Pop music vocals with male announcer in English. Program change on the hour into different sounding music. Possible talk at 2303 as signal faded into the noise. Very weak, threshold level signal with fading, but occasionally a good peak. 1/8/2014 (Jim Evans, Germantown TN, Perseus, IC-R75, Wellbrook Loop, Eavesdropper Dipole, Random Wire, NASWA Flashsheet via DXLD) ARQUIPÉLAGO DAS CHAGOS, 4319=BLS, AFN, Diogo Garcia, 2204-2238, 12/1, música pop'; 34342, QRM de sinal adj., de emissora ponto a ponto. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EAST TURKISTAN. Checking for Xinjiang PBS, Urumqi`s different language services around the 60mb, Jan 10 at 0053: 4500 with JBA carrier, which would be Mongolian; 4850 also JBA for Kazakh; 4980 Uighur a little better with trace of modulation; and 5060 Chinese not checked. 7205, Jan 12 at 0105, very poor signal in unknown language, fading. Per HFCC and Aoki at this hour it can only be Uighur, from Xinjiang PBS, Urumqi, at 230 degrees. Aoki says 50 kW at 2310-0300, HFCC says 100 kW at 2330-0257. EiBi agrees with Aoki on the timespan, but is noncommittal on the power and azimuth. 5060, Jan 16 at 0059, Chinese from PBS Xinjiang, Urumqi, better than 4980 in Uighur, the only Asian signals making it on 60 m with some audio; per Aoki exactly same parameters, 100 kW at 230 degrees, but of course Chinese comes first and unequal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. 6050, HCJB, 11/01 0235 UT. Música folklórica y cristiana con sobremodulación de los bajos de las tonadas y voces afectando la calidad del audio. SINPO: 55454 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 5 metros, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) 6050, HCJB, Pichincha, *0825-0840, 12-01, tuning music, Anthem, female, Quechua, identification: "HCJB Quito, AM 690, 6050 onda corta". Time signals at 0830, Andean music and comments by male in Quechua. 34433 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, logs in Reinante, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6050, Jan 12 at 1143, HCJB with anti-science sermon in Spanish, denigrating Richard Dawkins; basically, ``look at all the stuff around us, so there must be a god``. Fair signal compared to very little from 6055 Japan today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6050 HCJB 14/01 0315 UT. Estudio sobre el libro del profeta Amos en el programa “A través de la Biblia” desde una perspectiva actualizada criticando el liberalismo teológico, el ecumenismo, y la combinación entre política y religión. Señal con buena modulación y SINPO: 55454 6050, HCJB, 14/01 0330 UT. Pitidos horarios y comienzo de un programa en idioma inglés acerca de los museos y los elementos relacionados que hay en ellos. SINPO: 55444. El uso del idioma inglés está indicado por la lista EiBi: 6050 0330-0345 Tu-Sa EQA HCJB Voice of Andes E SAm c (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 5 metros, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) The show is `Spotlight`, 15 minutes each (gh, DXLD) ** EGYPT. 9720, R. Cairo, 13 Jan, 0046 UT. Traditional local music, M and W in Spanish. Weak, noisy, and poorly modulated, but at least it's still actually there! (Paul Brouillette, Geneva, IL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 12080, Jan 15 at 0046, R. Cairo news theme, fair with flutter, Spanish, distorted but almost readable. This one is 250 kW, 241 degrees from Abis at 0045-0200 for CIRAF 13 & 15, i.e. eastern 2/3 of Brasil, half the Guianas and part of Paraguay, i.e. the only SS portion of the nominal target! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. GUINÉ EQUATORIAL, 5005 RNGE, Bata, 1947-2004, 10/1, dialecto local, música pop' africana; pelas 2245, a emissão foi em castelhano; 45433, modulação algo débil. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [non]. 17790, Jan 10 at 1415, R. Africa Network ID via WRMI, this time calling itself Radio Africa Two, and with address P O Box 414, Gokwe, Zimbabwe, spelling not only the town but the country as if anyone literate in Africa would not know how to spell it! ``Zee``, not zed. Onward to gospel music. At other times they direct mail to Radio East Africa with a box in Kenya, and also another one in Ghana, just plain Radio Africa. WRTH shows those two but not Zimbabwe (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [sic]. 15190, Radio Africa, 2100-2115, 11-01, male, English, identification: "Radio Africa", "Radio East Africa, P. O. Box...", "This is Radio Africa", "This is Radio East Africa", "Thank you for listening to Radio Africa", "This is the Radio Africa Network", religious comments and songs, English. 24322 (Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain, logs in Reinante, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) If you had no co-channel interference on 15190, I believe you were really hearing WRMI, not Bata, as this year we hear WRMI almost every day after 2000 and no sign of EqG before or after 2000. IDs mentioning WRMI usually show up at 2 minutes past the hours (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DXLD) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [sic]. 15190, R. AFRICA, 12/01 2250 UT. Himnos en inglés cantados de forma gospel. SINPO: 55444 con algo de fading (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 5 metros, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, Chile, condig list via DXLD) At that hour it was surely WRMI`s R. Africa, not Equatorial Guinea`s any more (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [non]. 17790, Jan 13 at 1420, open carrier/dead air from R. Africa via WRMI. At 1432, a YL preachess starts with good- morning from a Miami address; sounds off-mic and/or in echoey chamber, talking about Right to Choose. 17790 supposed to switch to 15190 at 2000, but at 2037 there is no signal; at 2051 now on, and in French, good signal but undermodulated, and still no Bata. It seems that Okeechobee is too remote for good local internet access, for all these different program feeds, also messing up PCJ on Sunday, but that`s being replaced with microwave. How about satellite? 15190, Jan 15 at 2122, ``Doctor Jesus, Operate on Me`` gospel tune, hee hee, from R. Africa via WRMI; no second signal. 15190, Jan 15 at 1948 check, still no signal from Bata or Okeechobee, while Africa is propagating with 15120 Nigeria DRM. Recently I`ve seen at least two logs of 15190 after 2000 as if they were really Equatorial Guinea. Not since December 31; people must not be paying attention to our reports about this (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA. ETIÓPIA, 5950, Voz da Revolução do Tigrê, Geja Dera (ou Geja Jawe?), 1901-1921, 11/1, tigrínia, canções do Corno de África; 34432, QRM adj.; melhor sinal em // 1359 kHz Mekelle. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA. 6110, R. Fana, Addis Ababa, 0335-0351 Jan 7; M in listed Ahmaric; joined by different M, sounded like phone interview; HoA music bits with M & W announcers, mostly M; indigenous vocal music at tune/out; poor-fair with studio announcer sounding best; // 5950-weak (Scott R. Barbour, Jr., Intervale NH, NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. Dear Glenn, Oromo Voice Radio [Monday] 13 Jan 2014; 17850; 1600 utc with strong signals into South India in Afaan Oromo. No English Segment in OVR. Broadcast ended 1630. Kenwood 570D; Long wire antenna (Manikant Lodaya, Hubli, Karnataka India, WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DX LISTENING DIGEST 17850, QSL {to Ethiopia}, Oromo Voice Radio verified an electronic report with an electronic reply in about an hour from v/s Fekadu Megersa to the e-address. The target audience is the Oromia, Ethiopian region. Fekadu mentioned that he did not know where the transmission was broadcast from although he indicated from other monitors he thought perhaps Issoudun, France. Nevertheless, he promised to check. Oromo Voice - the latest opposition station targeting Ethiopia - finally made it to air on 17850 kHz at *1600 UT opening. A little rough at first but fair with some fading (Rich D'Angelo-PA-USA, DXplorer Jan 4 via BC-DX 10 Jan via WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DXLD) re: Oromo Voice --- Just got another e-mail from Oromo Voice Radio responding to my question about the location of their transmitter site. Quoting Fekadu Megersa: "To be honest, I do not know where it is being transmitted." Yes, very responsive from a Fekadu Megersa who was waiting to hear from folks in Oromia region of Ethiopia. Turns out the folks at Oromo are very friendly, already e-QSLed my report in about an hour. Sent them two MP3s, from the beginning and at the s/off (via Rich D'Angelo- PA-USA, DXplorer Jan 5, ibid.) 17850, Oromo Voice Radio (via Issoudun) 8, 13, 15 Jan. *1600+ Always a good signal from OVR & the middle word in the ID sounds like "seda-ye / sadal-je" to me, too, Glenn. Aoki still shows Oromo/English for languages, but no English heard yet (Dan Sheedy, Swami's Beach, CA G5/PL380 + 6m X wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. Just two pirates of countless other`s he`s logged: [gh] [Laser Hot Hits] 4029.00, 0101 2225 LHH, E, pop rock, ID, ballad 24232 4029.00, 0201 2230 LHH, E, ballad, talks, ID, pops 24232 4029.00, 0301 1845 LHH, E, funky pop 24322 4029.00, 0401 2340 LHH, E, ballad, ID, pops 24332 4029.00, 0601 1945 LHH, E, rock ballad, jingle, ID, pops, Christmas comments 24332 4029.00, 0701 2225 LHH, E, ballad, ID, pops 24232 4029.00, 0801 2158 LHH, E, electrodance, ID, talks, 24432 4029.00, 0901 2255 LHH, E, ballad 24322 4029.00, 1001 1925 LHH, E, rock ballad, ID, email, The Clash 24322 4029.00, 1101 2215 LHH, E, rock ballad, ID, jingle, surfing rock 24332 4029.00, 1201 1900 LHH, E, dance in session, jingle, ID 24232 6265,00, 0401 1720 R. Tango Italia, It, tango non stop 24432 6265,00, 0601 1610 R. Tango Italia, It, tango non stop 34433 6265.00, 1201 1640 R. Tango Italia, It, tango non stop 24432 6266.00, 1101 1720 R. Tango Italia, It, tango non stop 34443 6270.00, 0101 1530 R. Tango Italia, It, tango non stop 24432 6270.00, 0401 1715 R. Tango Italia, It, tango non stop 24332 6280.00, 0101 1710 R. Tango Italia, It, tango non stop 24432 6285.00, 0301 1850 R. Tango Italia, It, tango non stop 24232 6285.00, 0501 1635 R. Tango Italia, It, tango non stop 24322 6285.00, 0601 1855 R. Tango Italia, It, tango non stop 24332 6285.00, 1201 1755 R. Tango Italia, It, tango non stop 24432 6290.00, 0601 1645 R. Tango Italia, It, tango non stop 24432 SILVERI GOMEZ, FRAGA PONENT CATALAN, RX: ATS 909 SANGEAN, ANT : hilo externo 18 metros (via Dario Monferini, playdx yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DXLD) Amazing frequency control; presume just default readings 9270, R Tango ????? 1647 Jan 4 with old tango songs, S2 (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, Jan 13, WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Same one as on 48m band? (gh, ibid.) ** EUROPE. 12257, 12/1 0940, Wrekin R. Int., Pirata radio @ wrinternation al.co.uk English ID e music, buono (Roberto Pavanello, Italy, playdx yg via DXLD) Wrekin Radio International is back today with live broadcasts on 12257, schedule 0900-1200 UK time. Nothing here due to skip but good signal on the Twente online receiver. "As you may be aware WR International has not been on air since the end of August, this is what I hope will be the first of many transmissions for 2014." Online stream at the link. http://radio.wrinternational.co.uk:8003/listen.pls (Mike Barraclough, England, 0940 UT Jan 12, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. 7390, Jan 10 at 0636, RFI French news from Bamako, under open carrier making fast SAH, but it soon goes off. Second Issoudun transmitter test? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. Don't forget the Mighty KBC 0000-0200 UT Sunday, January 12, 2014 7375 kHz via Nauen, Germany. On tonight's "Forgotten Song", around 0145 UT, I feature a song from September 1968 (Kraig, KG4LAC Krist, Jan 11, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hello everyone, Great reception of Mighty KBC at 0030 UT on 7375; signal is very strong into Montreal tonight. 73 (Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, Canada, http://www.youtube.com/officialswlchannel dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Unusable on the west coast though (Walt Salmaniw, BC, Sent from my iPhone, 0254 UT, ibid.) Here is a picture of the Nauen, Germany shortwave antenna. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sendeanlage_Nauen_Drehstandantenne.jpg How would you like living nearby the antenna and seeing this beast every day? 73, (Kraig, KG4LAC Krist, Jan 11, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) No more in use, museum! (it is ok, but without transmitter) 1964 - 1998 100 kW Tx ===> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gro%C3%9Ffunkstelle_Nauen 4 x of this: !!! http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antenne_Nauen.jpg (roger, Germany, ibid.) Where is the transmitter in Nauen currently being used? 73, (Kraig Krist, ibid.) From the ground with the newer system (build 1995-1997): It consists of four rotatable shortwave antennas of the company Thomcast (now Thomson Broadcast GmbH)) and four 500-kilowatt transmitters, of the "Telefunken Sendertechnik" http://www.rhci-online.de/nauen.jpg (roger, ibid.) What was the Nauen Germany SW transmitter used for (outside of the Mighty KBC?) What the site's original purpose? (Deutsche Welle?) What do they broadcast when they are not broadcasting the Mighty KBC? Thanks! D (B-T-M, ibid.) Look up the complete MBR schedule which appears periodically in DXLD, DXLDyg, or search on NAU in HFCC. Lots and lots of relay clients now. Or search on Nauen in the Aoki list where the clients are a little more obvious than in HFCC. It`s in Eastern Germany; thus original purpose was main site of Radio Berlin International. Kai or Wolfgang could say a lot more, but the story has already been told (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Nauen station was home to the submarine Navy radio station in the Kaiser Wilhelm, German Empire era time from 1906 to reach to the radio traffic with the German colonies in Africa and China, and Pacific till 1918 year. Then used for German Reichspost radio 1918 till Nazi era up to 1945 year. After 1945 dismanteled all hardware by the USSR Russian occupants, silenced till 1954 under GDR government, and newly erected from 1955 year: 10 SW TXs, antennas, a 5 kW Time Signal stn on 4525 kHz from 1917-1995year in Nauen near Berlin (call DIZ, on LW 77 kHz, from 1935 year on shortwave 4525 kHz) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauen_Transmitter_Station http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gro%C3%9Ffunkstelle_Nauen see Open Door Day video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYwz7bW1lS8 see also the attached description of former GDR RBI radio Berlin antennas A1 to A10 for communist Germany radio propaganda to the whole world. an excursion to the NAUEN-Germany tx site. G.C. 12E52:89,6 52N39:00,9 taken on the SW center I - old Marconi/Telefunken/Reichspost site, built up in 1906 til 1945 era. TX house 1 and 2, built up in 1920 and 1923. SW center II - GDR era from 1955-1989, RBI building. Horizontal and vertical revolving antenna of 1964, unique in the world. Same antenna type erected in the Netherlands in 1939 [PCJ Huizen or PCV Kootwijk site?]. 70 meters height, two antenna arrays, of 40 and 70 tons weight. Vertical use lobe switchable/moving between 5 and 50 degrees. Horizontal revolving in any direction, 360 degrees around. TX house I of 1923. Located at the very old Reichspost, and now home of the very new DTK T-systems[since 1990] tx site. 4 x 500 kW Telefunken transmitter. TX house II of 1923. Located at the very old Reichspost, and now very new DTK T-systems[since 1990] tx site. access_road called Dechtower Damm. GDR RBI Revolving Antenna of 1964, and integrated tx house nearby, 100 kW. RBI tx building, built up in 1972 and extended 1981. Now used as horse farm, see the horses in foreground. 2003-12-12 [captions] (via Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) Have they indeed secured a second transmitter from Jülich, as the main control screen suggests? And has perhaps the audio processing for the ex-Jülich transmitter(s) been moved to the sub-site itself, it seems that only four Optimods are left in the control room racks? For comparison: http://senderfotos-bb.de/bilder/nauen30.jpg http://senderfotos-bb.de/bilder/nauen31.jpg http://senderfotos-bb.de/bilder/nauen32.jpg (Kai Ludwig, ibid.) Friends, I've uploaded the first batch of pictures of my recent visit to Nauen. 70 Photo'va be found in an album called : #75 Nauen March 2013. Also a new video has been uploaded to Youtube. It's about the present steering of the old RBI rotatable antenna. This is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI_Q3qCXJH8 Enjoy and should any questions arise please contact me (Jan Oosterveen, shortwavesites yg via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) So again the Nauen story very briefly: http://senderfotos-bb.de/nauen.htm Line 1: Never any broadcasting transmitters were installed in this building, always utility gear only. Line 2: New transmission units, inaugurated in 1997, with transmitters installed in the base of the antennas, with no connections (other than mains power, audio, remote control) whatsoever, i.e. the transmitters can only work with the antenna where they sit. These units were subject of a transmission contract compulsory for 20 years, which DW choose to cancel prematurely in 2007, accepting a compensation payment of more than 10 million Euros (was Babcock so much cheaper that this was economical? I doubt it). Line 3: Antenna from 1964, adjustable not only in azimuth but also in elevation, built as a prototype with no further ones ever followed because the design was deemed too complicated. This unit was in use with the original Funkwerk Köpenick transmitter until 2000, then out of use until it was revived with a S 4001 transmitter, moved in from Jülich, in 2006. After the closure of the Flevoland/Zeewolde site the S 4001 transmitter from there (known around ten years ago for DRM transmissions) was moved in, too. The transmitters sit in the white building next to the antenna, the old buildings of the Nauen broadcasting transmitters are completely abandoned. Transmissions from this unit can be identified in the operational schedule by way of the antenna code 35****. Line 4: One VM of the former utility operations, kept as an example. Line 5: Equipment in one of the new units. They are of the design installed in larger quantities at Issoudun and would almost contain the same Thomson transmitters, what was back then still Telefunken just barely managed to at least get the order for the transmitters. They have been newly developed for the Nauen project, only a single further one have been sold later, for the Sveio site in Norway where, I suspect, it has been scrapped without a whimp since. Line 6: Control room in the big, otherwise almost empty ex-utility building. These pictures have been taken in 2005, while the old RBI antenna was out of operation, thus it does not show up on the control display yet. Line 7: Collection in the empty hall, including the 50 kW transmitter from 1958 which was the first broadcasting transmitter at Nauen. And already on the next open house day in 2006 there was no longer a Deutsche Welle presentation. Would really have been quite impudent, after cancelling the transmission contract. Line 8: The three last of these posters feature the Soviet curtain antennas from the mid-seventies and the former SWBC transmitter buildings plus the construction of the new antennas. Anything else shown there is utility gear (Kai Ludwig, Germany, Jan 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. Radio Gloria and Hamburger Lokalradio Relays Radio Gloria 12th January 2014 0900-1100 UT, RGI on 6190 kHz (repeat broadcast) Please send all reports to: radiogloria @ aol.com Thank you! Hamburger Lokalradio (HLR) introduces an additional Shortwave transmission slot via Goehren, starting January 12, 2014: Sundays, 1200-1400 UT, 9480 kHz. HLR is very interested in reception reports for this new slot & frequency and will confirm correct reports with a special QSL card. Postal address: Hamburger Lokalradio, c/o Kulturzentrum LOLA, 21031 Hamburg, Germany. (Return postage, e.g. 1 US-Dollar, is appreciated.) SWEDEN (non) The first radio program in a series of three, produced by SDXF - Sveriges DX-Förbund, will air via Hamburger Lokalradio (transmitter Goehren, Germany) on Saturday, January 11, 2014, from 1200-1300 UT on 7265 kHz. More information can be found on the SDXF website at: http://www.sdxf.se/WP/?p=2446 Good Listening 73s (Tom Taylor, Jan 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. European Music Radio Relay on 19th January 2014 EMR 0800 to 0900 UT Göhren / 7265 Stewart Ross EMR 0900 to 1000 UT Göhren / 9480 Tom & Mike Taylor EMR 0900 to 1000 UT Nauen / 6045 Tom & Mike Taylor Please send all E.M.R. reports to: studio@emr.org.uk Thank you! EMR Internet repeats on Sunday and Monday: Programme repeats are at the following times: 0800, 1300, 1700, 2000 UT. Please visit http://www.emr.org.uk and click on the “EMR internet radio” button which you will find throughout the website (see the menu on the left). Good Listening! 73s (Tom Taylor, Jan 13, WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. QSLs: Hamburger Lokalradio, 6190, QSL-card in 5 days for reception report with SASE to Hamburger Lokalradio, c/o Kulturzentrum LOLA, Lohbrügger Landstr. 8, 21031 Hamburg, Germany. DCF77, 77.5, QSL-card in 15 days for reception report to ekkehard.peik@ptb.de NDR ("Gruß an Bord"), 6125, QSL-card in 16 days for reception report to WRTH address. QSL-card gives the following address: Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Technische Teilnehmerberatung, Hugh-Greene-Weg 1, 22529 Hamburg (E-Mail: technik@mdr.de ) (Kurt Enders, Bickenbach, Germany, Jan 12, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** GERMANY. Germany seems to be another international broadcaster that seems to want to hide the fact that it offers live programming. I cannot find any link on the DW site that would allow me to listen to DW English programming live as it is beamed to Africa. Would it kill them to offer one? I'd listen via satellite, but the only satellite channel available in North America is in German, according to their posted satellite listings (Mike Cooper, GA, Jan 12, WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DXLD) Mike, try this: http://www.publicradiofan.com/cgibin/station.pl?stationid=2224 {I got to listen in English right away} (Glenn to Mike, via DXLD) Mike, Glenn, Here's the direct link from the DW website WMA format: http://www.dw.de/popups/mediaplayer/contentId_15975394_mediaId_15894298 MP3 format http://www.metafilegenerator.de/DWelle/dw-radio-english/mp3/webs.m3u Not easy to find: From the home page go to PROGRAM in the blue bar, then select AfricaLink under Radio Programs, then either click on the live stream link here for WMA, or click on "DW radio for Africa" link to get an additional MP3 option. These links also stream French, Kiswahili, Hausa, Portuguese and Amharic, so English may not always be streaming in parallel with shortwave. I've not found (yet) a streaming schedule. Unaccountably, these are missing from the hitlist - I'll add them shortly. I hope that this helps. 73 - (Alan Roe, WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Glenn and Alan: Thank you both for your prompt reply. I thought I'd looked everywhere on the DW site. I saw the Public Radio Fan link for DW, but I have trouble with these links working with Windows Media Player. The "wrap.pl" URL that Public Radio Fan now adds at the beginning of the stream links seems to cause me problems, even if I try to edit the link to remove it. Here is the Public Radio Fan link: http://www.publicradiofan.com/cgi-bin/wrap.pl?f=mp3&s=http://dw-radio-english-mp3.akacast.akamaistream.net/7/779/135362/v1/gnl.akacast.akamaistream.net/dw-radio-english-mp3 Even if I delete the first part, up to the "http://dw-radio...," it doesn't play for me in Windows Media Player. I haven't explored further on different computers or players to see where the problem lies. Curiously, another relatively comprehensive list of European radio station streams at http://www.listenlive.eu/germany.html doesn't even list DW. Seems like it gets harder and harder to listen to radio, even with these newfangled inventions. And, Alan, I did have a URL I was using that included English and French and paralleled the SW broadcasts in both languages. So, I assume the links you provided are probably the same feed, primarily for Africa. Thank you for your efforts on the Hitlist. It's crazy how the DW site is so geared to TV and "audio" and down- plays the idea of "radio." Regards, (Mike Cooper, Atlanta, ibid.) ** GERMANYS. MAN WINS COLD WAR RADIO COMPETITION, 44 YEARS ON The Local 13 January 2014 An East German teenager who was listening illicitly to a West German radio station and sent a postcard across the Iron Curtain to try to win a record will receive the prize on Tuesday, 44 years later. Günter Zettl was still at school in 1969 when he decided to enter the write-in competition being staged by the West German Saarlandische Rundfunk radio station. Then 18, he had been listening to the radio from his home in Waren an der Müritz, in what is now Mecklenburg Western Pomerania. The show "Hallo Twen" was staging a competition to win a record by the band The Creation. "I thought: you know that group," said Zettl. But he did not hear anything from the radio station, and figured he had just not got lucky. Now it turns out, his postcard had been intercepted and confiscated by the East German secret service, the Stasi. Zettl eventually left East Germany for the West, and in 2010 decided to look at his Stasi file. His aim was to learn more about why he was forbidden to work as a teacher in the East - a ban which led to his leaving. He had always assumed it was because he had failed to vote in a parliamentary election. But he was stunned to find, among the papers the Stasi held on him, a photocopy of his radio competition postcard. "I didn't have it in my mind at all," he said, but called in the original from his file. "I sent it, 44 years later, to the Saarländische Rundfunk." Even though the "Hallo Twen" show was cancelled 40 years ago, the radio staff hunted down a copy of the prize record, and will present it to Zettl. http://www.thelocal.de/20140113/east-german-wins-cold-war-era-radio-competition (with photos) (via Mike Terry, Jan 13, dxldyg via DXLD) ** GREECE. End of ex-ERT Athens MW transmissions. In Greek language Loot transmitters medium NRA Sport at Megara (#ERT). Submitted by on Sun, Jan 5. Burglary and theft occurred in broadcasting in Pachi Megara, at the two transmitters medium ERT NRA spores (981 kHz) and friendship (666 kHz). The contractor's technician "Greek Public Radio" (named for the competent) arrived on site to operate the transmitter, found broken doors and looting of electronic equipment and had removed more than a ton of copper from the transmitter. To place the transmitter off, but also damaged thousands of Euros. The theft seems to have been known by gangs which remove metals and marketing. The transmitters ERT at Megara had sustained staff and storage until the closing day of the ERT, when turned off. Employees ERT demanded from June to November to occur due process handover, which never happened due to poor - to - nonexistent organization of intermediary and understaffing. Such phenomena reportedly exist in other parts of the territory, the abandoned property of ERT. Megara ERT had extremely expensive facilities consisted of two high power transmitters, which covered a range throughout the Mediterranean. The 2012 were in danger with closure under cuts transmitters middle of the NRA, but after protests from listeners who could not take the NRA Sports on FM, were again operational. It is unknown if Neritan, which is now the owner of the premises, has the intention and the economic and technical potential to reopen the two transmitters. "The loot ERT, after the invasion of the MAT radiomegaro been anticipated, and indeed we had asked for the intervention of the prosecutor for smooth delivery, not only the building, but ..., and all assets of ERT throughout. This was not the presence of workers, and the various transmitters broadcasting and other assets that were guarding the redundant ERT were left at the mercy of thieves and crooks. Thus, unattended property ERT fell into hands of unscrupulous burglars." Sources: ERT Open, Fimotro (via exERT Solidarité website, Jan 5 via BC-DX 10 Jan via DXLD) ** GREECE. 7475, ERT, 09/01 0333 UT. Música pop en idioma griego, inglés y otros idiomas con SINPO: 44444 // 9420 con SINPO: 22232 // 15650 con SINPO: 22121 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 5 metros, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** GREECE. This is my reception report for Saturday and Sunday, January 12, 2014 SATURDAY 1/11 | SUNDAY 1/12 1900 2000 2100 2200 2300| 0000 0100 0200 kHz Az. kW Station 00000 15241 25242 25242 XXXXX|XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 7450 323 100 AVL1 ERT3 15241 15241 15241 15241 XXXXX|XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 15630 285 100 AVL2 ERA 25242 35243 45244 35243 35343|45244 35333 25242 9420 323 170 AVL3 ERA XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 00000|00000 00000 00000 15650 226 100 AVL1 ERA XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 25242|55344 35344 55344 7475 285 100 AVL2 ERA (John Babbis, MD, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9420, Jan 12 at 0109, Helliniki Radiophonia playing song in English, ``I cried a river over you``, good signal, and // very poor 7475 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This is my reception report for Sunday and Monday, January 13, 2014 SUNDAY 1/12 | MONDAY 1/13 1900 2000 2100 2200 2300| 0000 0100 0200 kHz Az kW Station 00000 15241 35323 35243 XXXXX|XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 7450 323 100 AVL1 ERT3 15241 15241 15241 15241 XXXXX|XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 15630 285 100 AVL2 ERA 15241 25242 15241 45344 55555|55455 55455 55455 9420 323 170 AVL3 ERA XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 00000|00000 00000 00000 15650 226 100 AVL1 ERA XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 55455|55455 55455 55455 7475 285 100 AVL2 ERA This is my reception report for Monday and Tuesday, January 14, 2014 MONDAY 1/13 | TUESDAY 1/14 00000 00000 00000 00000 XXXXX|XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 7450 323 100 AVL1 ERT3 00000 00000 00000 00000 XXXXX|XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 15630 285 100 AVL2 ERA 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000|00000 00000 00000 9420 323 170 AVL3 ERA XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 00000|00000 00000 00000 15650 226 100 AVL1 ERA XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 00000|00000 00000 00000 7475 285 100 AVL2 ERA (John Babbis, MD, DX LISTENING DIGEST) so nothing heard, off the air? ** GUAM. Mike Sabin from TWR Guam informs: "We are doing another DRM test. This time the main target is Kuala Lumpur, although the bore sight of the beam is toward Singapore. To make sure that it can be heard in the areas that have tall buildings, we will use mode C at 90 kW on 15150 kHz. This will be on the air Jan. 16th – 23rd at 0858- 0930. We believe that there will be a good sidelobe toward Taiwan and southern Japan. That sidelobe may also be decodable in Russia and Northern Europe. I don’t have a good idea about the backlobes. Reception observations are welcome to: ktwrfcd@twr.org We will probably do a DRM test to Japan next month. That would be for testing a new receiver and preparing for regular broadcasts in Japanese that we hope to have on the air next month. Stay tuned. via - WRTH - World Radio TV Handbook fb page (via Drita Çiço, Albania, Jan 15, WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DXLD) ** GUATEMALA. Radio Verdad copied last nite 4055 kHz about 0215z - good signal - Spanish talk and music (Rich Ray, Burr Ridge, IL USA, Jan 10, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See PUBLICATIONS for a totally wrong schedule discussion (gh) ** INDIA. 11985, Jan 10 at 0115 tune-in, S Asian instrumental music stops, to open carrier continuing with flutter; while 11740 is already off. Seems the AIR Sinhala service at 0045-0115 is starting to propagate again, via Delhi/Khampur and Goa respectively, so we may soon be able to find them failing to parallel, filling with Für Elise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. AWR via FM stations in India Info from Adventist Media Centre. Pune: Adventist World Radio is currently broadcasting from Indian stations on FM as follows: 1. Bengaluru, All India Radio, FM Rainbow, 101.3 MHz, 10 kW, English, Fri, Sat, Sun, 1645-1700 IST & via AIR DTH 2. Hyderabad, All India Radio, Vividh Bharathi, 102.8 MHz, 10 kW, Telugu, Daily, 1730-1745 IST 3. Pune, All India Radio, Vividh Bharathi, 101.0 MHz, 10 kW, Fri, Sat, Sun, 1845-1900, IST 4. Shillong, All India Radio, FM Rainbow, 103.6 MHz, 10 kW, Fri, Sat ,Sun, 1645-1700 IST 5. Thiruvanathapuram, Big FM, 92.7 MHz, 5 kW, Fri, Sat, Sun, 1330-1345 IST I have heard some of these broadcasts. These are not religious programs but secular programs. In Hyderabad they are even playing popular Telugu Film songs in their programs! Reception reports may be addressed to wavescan @ awr.org (attn. Dr.Adrian M. Peterson) with copy to adventistmediacentre @ gmail.com Yours sincerely, (Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, Jan 11, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India, Mobile: +91 94416 96043 http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos dx_india yg via DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 1350, 25.12 *2046-, RRI Tarakan --- They have a very distinctive interval signal, which comes through noise very well. Most QRM from the Filipino. First noted by Guido Schotmans in Belgium and IDed by Maxim Ivanov. MR (Mauno Ritola, presumably, ARC mv-eko 7 Jan via DXLD) ** INDONESIA [and non]. A log in short at our breakfast time. Checked this channel 4750 against Brisbane-AUS and Victor's Colombo SDR network receivers this morning at 0948 to 1050 UT, Jan 9. Three peaks on 4750 kHz channels visible 4750.000 undoubtedly BGD, typical subcontinental mx at Colombo 4749.996 on threshold, probably CHN stn 4749.985 should be weak station from INS - RRI Makassar 4789.841 RRI Fak Fak(not), but I guess strongly is rather PRU station 4869.920 RRI Wamera, fair S=4-5 signal, SouthSea like music singer BANGLA DESH / CHINA2x / INDONESIA -- terrible 4750 kHz. a very very bad mixture on 4750 kHz channel at 1400 UT, probably as follows: 4749.954 INS 4749.986 PBS Qinghai CHN 4749.996 CNR1 Huhot CHN 4750.000 BGD (Wolfgang Büschel, Jan 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. 4005, 11/1/2014 from 1915 in French, id Est [sic; Mideast?] issues, as of 1920 mostly instrumental, piano; as of 1923 station ID "Govorit Iran" in Russian. 73 (Nick VK2DX Hacko, Sydney, Australia http://nickvk2dx.blogspot.com.au/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Another SNAFU at VIRI: 4005 is supposed to be on only for the Russian hour starting at 1920 (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) 11675, Jan 9 at 1513, YL in Russian, fair signal; a bit of music reminds me of Iran, and per Aoki it`s exactly that, VIRI at 1420-1520, 500 kW, 320 degrees from Sirjan. In fact, it`s the only station at any time on 11675, also for one other sesquihour at 1250 in Urdu, in that case via Kamalabad. 12015, Jan 13 at 1425, Qur`an with pauses, flutter, and no RTTY aside RHC on new 12010; 1430 in S Asian language. MO fits IRIB, now getting mandatory opening Q out of way before the hour or semi-hour. Aoki shows VIRI Hindi at 1420-1520, 500 kW, 102 degrees via Sirjan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 21510, VOIRI - Kamalabad. English news to SAs at 1035 with a rather raspy old audio quality, running // 21640 (also Kamalabad and also to SAs) which had much clearer audio. Both were strong signals, Jan 12. 73, (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, ARDXC via DXLD) 6155, Jan 16 at 0121, VIRI piano IS, fair with flutter; 0123 brief sign-on announcement and NA, no doubt to be followed by mandatory Qur`an. It`s Kazakh, scheduled via Sirjan. No QRM at all from Bolivia or anything else. Just before this, a signal on 6165 until 0120* was apparently BBC; see OMAN. 11675 // 11720, Jan 15 at 1406, VIRI talking about Afghanistan, Taliban, and exactly synchronized indicating same transmitter site: yes, both Kamalabad in Urdu, 178 and 118 degrees respectively; 11720 slightly stronger here, but less ACI on 11675 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. MOLDAVIA, 7480, R. PAYAM-E DOOST. 09/01 0305 UT. Hombre habla en idioma persa con algunas cortinas musicales entre medio. Señal con SINPO: 34343. Desde las 0312 en adelante comienza una especie de despida con música instrumental y salida del aire a las 0315 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 5 metros, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** ISRAEL. 1224 MW, Galei Tzahal, Mishmar HaNegev, 1731, Jan 04, Hebrew, talks, 33333 (Omar Cheishvili, St. Petersburg, Russia, DSWCI DX Window Jan 15 via DXLD) Still on the air on MW! (Anker Petersen, Ed, ibid.) ** ITALY [non]. 7290, ROMANIA. IRRS Shortwave – Tiganeshti, 1917-1930* Jan 11, music until man spoke about NSA, technology and surveillance issues in English. Man announcer with IRRS ID at 1930 including mention of writing for QSL. Poor to fair but steadily improving. (D’Angelo-PA) [I wonder what station/program that was? -- -gh] 7290, ROMANIA. Echo de l’Europe – Tiganesti, *1930-2000* Jan 11, IRRS brokered program opened with man announcer with ID and opening announcements in French. News followed and program segment closed at 1945 with more announcements. English segment opened with “Echo of Europe” ID asking listeners to contact them through their website or contact@echoofeurope.eu News features about European Union with parliamentary question and answer session. Program closed with brief music. This apparently is an EU sponsored support station, interesting. Transmission closed at 1959 with final IRRS ID inviting listeners to write for special numbered QSL but announcements was cut off when carrier was terminated. Fair signal. Echo of Europe’s website has a map of where listeners heard them and where the transmitter is located. Their map shows the transmitter as “Sa(ftica, Baloteshti, Ilfov, România” (Rich D'Angelo, Wyomissing, PA 19610, Ten-Tec RX-340, Drake R-8B, Eton E1, Eton E5, Alpha Delta DX Sloper, RF Systems Mini-Windom, Datong FL3, JPS ANC-4, NASWA yg via DXLD) See also EUROPE: Tango pirate ** JAPAN. Save your $ --- QSL request to NHK World by air mail, accompanied with $USD 3 for the return postage netted a bunch of full- color QSL cards. And a note: "We understand you had enclosed bills as for returning. However since NHK as a public broadcaster is unable to receive them, we are returning them to you. We kindly ask you to send only the reception report(s) hereafter, in order to avoid clerical complication. We thank you in advance for your understanding and cooperation on this matter." Signed NHK World Radio Japan. In this case, web requests are obviously preferred; they work as well (if not better!) than paper requests. It goes without saying: Radio Japan is now my favourite station :-) The level of care for listeners and the public relations of NHK World are unparalleled and unmatched by any broadcaster I've dealt with so far. 73 (Nick VK2DX Hacko, NSW, Jan 14, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. QSL: Radio Nikkei, 9595, QSL-card in 8 days for reception report to webmaster@radionikkei.jp (Kurt Enders, Bickenbach, Germany, Jan 12, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** JAPAN. RBC i-radio (Okinawa) via R. Nikkei-1 --- Radio Nikkei-1 on 3925, 6055 and 9595 kHz rebroadcasts at 1000-1100 UT (Mon-Fri) Okinawan music program in Okinawan and Japanese, "Minyoh de Kyu Ura Nabira" of RBC (JORR MW 738 kHz) at 0600-0700 UT. The longevity program that this program lasts 52 years in RBC (S. Hasegawa, Jan 9, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KALININGRAD [and non]. Russia-Bolshakovo 171 kHz sign off for good 2100 Jan. 8. Played the former U.S.S.R. national anthem with vocal chorus followed by three time pips. The carrier was cut during the third pip. Medi Un Morocco in French left on the frequency, and is still all alone on 171 at 0800 on Jan. 9 (Brock Whaley, Ireland for DXLD) See also RUSSIA ** KASHMIR. Please – need some help from Indian DXers, et al. UNID – Possibly AIR Leh - Jan 15 from 1319 to 1420 UT, heard a solid open carrier on 4660, but as was formerly the case here when Leh was on the air, was unable to dig out any audio. Ex-4760? Checked 4760 at 1414 UT, only to find that AIR Port Blair seemed to have tx problems today, as they were briefly off the air. Was hearing nothing at all on 4760, not Port Blair and no open carrier from Leh. So I think there is a good chance 4660 is indeed AIR Leh. Can someone please confirm that they have moved back to their former frequency? Appreciate any help (Ron Howard – California, USA, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Yes, it definitely sounds like an AIR station. At 1510 UT they were playing Indian music (Tudor Vedeanu, (Gura Humorului, Romania), ibid.) Yes, is AIR Leh on 4660. Reports coming in now: From: Darbhe Vijaya Krishna Bhat : "Yes..!! 4660 kHz is heard here with advertisements before Hindi National news." From: Sudipta Ghose, VU3TKG: "Yes! AIR Leh back on 4660 kHz with much stronger signal than before." Thanks to all for their help! (Ron Howard, 1521 UT Jan 15, ibid.) ** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 9665, Jan 9 at 1416, two stations mixing, one with piano music, the other talk, making SAH of 112/minute = 1.87 Hz apart. 1424 both are in music, one obviously North Korean style choral. KCBS Pyongyang, of course, and Aoki shows during this hour the other one must be CRI in Sinhala, 500 kW, 258 degrees from Jinhua 831 site --- Commies vs Commies! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 9775, RF Chosun 1415+ Jan 5 with discussions between OM and YL, possibly a theater play; 1422 with a possible ID "Radio Kpon Kmo" S7 (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, Jan 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9775, Jan 9 [not 8 as typoed in original log] at 1351, R. Free Chosun prélude, mostly-girl group with nice harmony in love song, so a fourth piece if on and heard early enough, before 1352 usual YM singing ``I`m here for the long run``, etc. Good signal, not transpolar (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 11860, 11/1 1340, Voice of Wilderness - Seoul, Clandestina, Coreano talk OM buono (Roberto Pavanello, Italy, playdx yg via DXLD) Totally blocked by RHC here, commies vs Christians, for Aoki shows it`s part of Bible Voice Broadcasting Network, 250 kW, 45 degrees from Trincomalee, SRI LANKA (gh) QSL: Voice of Martyrs (Clandestine) images: http://jshort.blog.163.com/blog/static/209715289201393072728351/ E-QSL of Voice of Martyrs received on October 24, 2013, 4 days after a follow-up email to Tim Dillmuth < tdillmuth(at)seoulusa(dot)org >, emailed back from Susette Ryan < sryan(at)seoulusa(dot)org >, answer my emailed reception report dated July 13, 2013 time 1600-1620 UT on the frequency of 7515 kHz. The correct address is provided by Jurgen Waga Pastor Tim Dillmuth, Voice of Martyrs, Seoul USA, 14960 Woodcarver Road, Colorado Springs, CO 80921, USA. At 2013-10-24 00:21:38,"Susette Ryan" wrote: ``Dear Jonathan Short, Please find your confirmation letter attached. Kind Regards, Susette Ryan, Seoul USA`` (Jonathan Short, from China QSL report Sep.-Dec. 2013, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See his blog for *many* more QSL reports and illustrations. For propagational reasons, it looks like some of them must result from remote receivers, webcasts, or travelling rather than direct reception in China, but this is never specified (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Welcome to visit my DX-blog: http://jshort.blog.163.com/ & my QSL manager page: http://jshort.blog.163.com/blog/static/209715289201272210056197/ (Jonathan Short, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11995, fair Jan 13 at 1433, news about Baghdad, Kurdistan. It`s VOA Kurdish via Lampertheim, GERMANY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 21580, R. Kuwait, with a nice signal in Filipino (and with a liberal sprinkling of English words in there as well) at 1047, Jan 12. 73, (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, ARDXC via DXLD) ** KUWAIT. From what I can see in the charts, Radio Kuwait is supposed to be broadcasting in English to America at 1800 on 15540. Do they still broadcast at this time (on this frequency)? Is there still an afternoon transmission in English to America? Listening in Boston. Thanks! (D, Jan 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) This transmission is still on the air. I heard them about a week ago with fair signals on Cape Cod. However most of the time the signal is poor to unusable at this time of the year. Summertime seems to provide the best reception (Stephen Wood, Harwich, Mass., ibid.) Radio Kuwait is still broadcasting in English on 15540, but it is almost impossible to hear in North America during the winter months. It's a much easier catch during the summer months (Tim Rahto, ibid.) Back in the 80's RK were around 11620 KCs and were heard daily in NAm. They were one of my favorite stations to hear during the long cold winter afternoons here in PA after school. Radio Kuwait also sounded very nice on my big console vintage tube radios. They regularly pounded quite the S-20 signal into my QTH here in Western Pennsylvania. I think it was English from *1800-2100*. It was a very enjoyable staton, both the English and the Arabic service that is. From what I have been reading on Glenn's DXLD, reception of Radio Kuwait is not even close to what it was 25 years ago, pre Gulf War (Steve Price, Central PA, ODXA yg via DXLD) Radio Kuwait used to be fairly regular when they used 11990. Since they changed to 15540 some years ago we are reduced to listening to them during the summer months when propagation on that frequency between the Middle East and North America is most favourable.(Mark Coady, ibid.) I had old recordings of Radio Kuwait from back in the 1982-1986' ish era from when they were on 116xx frequencies. reception was extremely powerful and well in the clear. the couple different 116xx KHz frequencies that they used over the years were well in the clear and far from adjacent channels. they were always easy to find on my Radio Shack analog portable and antique radios because there were no other stations around them. when they used 11990 KHz, it was good, but no way near as good as the 116xx frequency (Steve Price, ibid.) ** KYRGYZSTAN. 4010, Kyrgyz Radio 1, Bishkek, 11/1/2014, 1700-1800 in Kygryz, two male, mostly talk. Slightly undermodulated, noisy but on a clear channel. Best around 1710 on USB. [Country #78] 73 (Nick VK2DX Hacko, Sydney, Australia http://nickvk2dx.blogspot.com.au/ dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LAOS [and non]. A check at Victor's site in Colombo: 6129.983, LNR, Vientiane, once again on odd channel, played typical Lao/Thai/Cambodian music type. S=5-6 at 1045 UT Jan 9. Probably they have two transmitters at their disposal, one odd frequency on lower side some 10-20 Hertz down, and at later time in afternoon mostly on even 6130.000 kHz channel. Or maybe the engineers at Vientiane ALIGN the transmitter later the day against even CHINA station?? LAOS/CHINA, Once again LNR Vientiane slightly odd lower side on 6129.980 kHz at 1351 UT on Victor's post in Ceylon. And CHN station PBS Xizang [TIBET] on even 6130.0 kHz Tibetan/Chinese phone in program at 1348 UT. vy 73 wolfy (Wolfgang Büschel, Jan 9, WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LATVIA. QSL: Radio Merkurs, 1485, QSL-letter in 44 days for reception report to rni@apollo.lv Address in WRTH was confirmed, although a letter to this address had come back before with postal remark "Unknown", VS: Raimnonds Kreicbergs, Radio Merkurs Director (Kurt Enders, Bickenbach, Germany, Jan 12, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** LIBERIA. 4760, ELWA: Also heard at 2240-2305, Jan 06, tune from Mauno's Perseus site in E. Finland. Sounded news in English to 2245, ann, gospel vocals. Decent signal at S2 improving slightly to S3 with overall 25532. After 2300, QRM from Tajikistan on 4765 and an occasional utility just below 4760 increased. This should be audible in ECNA at this time and if they're on at the nominal *0600, in WCNA as well (Bruce Churchill, CA in DXplorer via DSWCI DX Window Jan 15 via DXLD) 4760, ELWA (presumed): *0530-0544+, 9-Jan; Spooky tune IS started at 0527:03 & voice s/on at 0530:03 with M in English -- tough copy; gave frequency 0530+ brief drum & chant into English religious program with commentary & hymn. Heard "kilo-hertz" & "God". SIO=352+ Presume them 2333-2401*, 9/10-Jan with continuous religious music -- variety of styles, from traditional to poppish. M in English at 2358:49 mentioning "47-60 kHz"; anthem at 2359:20 to s/off at 2400:34. About the same quality as the previous log but with more QRN (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! WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4760, Jan 10 at 0529, JBA carrier and also 0600, as I am struggling to hear reactivated ELWA; just too hi noise level here vs low power. Should also check before 2400*, as Harold Frodge in MI has been successfully hearing it both at sign-on and sign-off. 4760, Jan 10 at 2356, JBA carrier from presumed ELWA in the noise level; kept with it to catch a turnoff expected circa 2400, but still there past 0010 Jan 11. Do they ever run over? Could also have been a DX-398-produced overload image from something higher (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LUXEMBOURG. RE 14-02: The power levels probably change based upon A.) Intended audience and B.) Whatever the program producer is paying for (Paul B. Walker, MWDX yg via BC-DX via DXLD) I did make a few field strength registrations in the not so distant past and can confirm that the Marnach transmitter runs at full power for the religious programs and CRI. But this power is more likely 300 than 600 kW. Power drop for normal RTL RADIO was always 8-9 dB, not 3 dB/half power. 73 (Walter, Jan 12, mwmasts yg via DXLD) On this next recording, they were probably using their full power. The following was recorded two years ago here at my home QTH, in Portneuf, Quebec Canada and it was HUGE: http://www.quebecdx.com/luxembourg_1440a_cri.mp3 It begins with the end of a CRI French broadcast, followed by full ID and English broadcast resuming (Sylvain Naud, mwdx yg via DXLD) Sylvain - To describe that signal as HUGE is an understatement! It is OUTRAGEOUS! Well done, mon ami! (Marc DeLorenzo, South Dennis, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, ibid.) If you say so, Marc :-) But it hasn't been too much impressive since, as far I can remember at least (Sylvain, ibid.) ** MADAGASCAR. MADAGÁSCAR, 5009.5, R. Madagasikara, Ambohidrano, 1847- 1858*, 10/1, malgaxe, música pop' africana, fecho abrupto; 35332. Sinal com portadora e supressão de BLS. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALAYSIA. 9835, Sarawak FM via RTM at Kajang. Thanks to a tip from Dave Valko, found this one back on the air Jan 13, after being off all or most of 2014. Randomly from 1535 to 1651; in vernacular with usual variety of music; promos and ads; good signal strength but choppy audio (IAD) and het/hum. At 1600 singing National Anthem (Negaraku – Lagu Kebangsaan Malaysia), which was // Wai FM (11665) till they went off the air about 1602. Audio at https://app.box.com/s/3ac8tfajdmmn5ycjwpss (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9835, Sarawak FM (via RTM-Kajang) 1440-1540+ 13, 14, 15 Jan. They're baaaack! First heard 13 Jan. at 1440 JBA; don't know if it's propagation or what, but the signal never really gets going until 1500 on any of the last 3 days. News runs 1500-1510 or so, Malay pop/metal with M DJ, frequent jingles/government PSAs. 11665, Wai FM also mostly JBA before 1500 lately & closing a minute or two after the 1600 switch to Sarawak FM (Dan Sheedy, Swami's Beach, CA G5/PL380 + 6m X wire, WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Sun 5/1/14: 11665, supp Wai FM? 1325 with very marginal signal and pop song (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, Jan 13, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALI. 5995, R. Mali, Kati, 1922-1947, 12/1, dialecto local, canções tradicionais; 54444, QRM adjacente, modulação muito fraca. 9635 idem, 1320-1530, 11/1, francês, noticiário,..., segmento em dialecto local, música tradicional; 25442. SINPO de 34443, às 1530. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 650, Jan 9 at 1320 UT, correspondent crediting self as for Fórmula Noticias, then several mentions of Guamuchil, and discussion of carne de puerco market prices. Guamuchil is a place in Sinaloa, so no doubt the usual sunrise dominator, XETNT Los Mochis (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 700, Jan 9 at 1325 UT, hypo announcer atop another station in Spanish, kept referring unhelpfully to ``esta emisora``; 1327 introducing music in Yaqui and some other language. Surely it`s the indigenous outlet, XEETCH, Etchojoa, Sonora, which the 2013 IRCA Mexican Log now received reminds us broadcasts in Spanish, Yaqui, Mayo and Garijio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 870, Jan 11 at 1335 UT, XETAR, YL in Spanish again enumerating all the rules about what kind of PSAs will be aired and what not; 1336 switch to Tarahumara language for OM talking about Universidad de Chipango(?) with web address; 1337 back to YL in Spanish with slow 6:34 TC, `El Mensajero de la Sierra` segment. Still in at 1350 recheck, mentioning events in Guachochi, bits of rustic music. I notice there is some hum only when her mic is open (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1700, Jan 13 at 0659 UT, Mexican NA, choral version, dominating E/W, but I might not have noticed XEPE with just more sports talk nonsense in English mixed vs different sports nets from Brownsville and Des Moines to the N/S. 0700 English ID as ``ESPN Radio 1700``; did not hear any call letters in any language, but maybe they were swallowed. It`s 10/10 kW from Tecate BCN; studios in San Diego, Alta California Sur. But how come they are playing NA at 11 pm local instead of midnite? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Answer: may have been just after mandatory (even for border stations in English?) `La Hora Nacional del Gobierno Mexicano`, UT Mondays, which in Central zones is at 10 pm local, delayed here? It`s customary to play NA after it at 11 pm local on Sundays (gh, DXLD) Also, 0600 UT should be a good time to DX XEARZ, 1650 in the DF, reported by numerous Arctic Radio Clubbers with NA then, really local midnite (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** MEXICO. 6185, Jan 12 at 2058, carrier with poor signal, no modulation detectable, but presumed XEPPM on the air during daytime contrary to known schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. COMMUNITY RADIOS, DOOMED TO DISAPPEAR BEFORE DIGITAL TRANSITION --- By: Ana Cristina DXers Mexico, 11 Oct. (Notimex) -. Faced with the impending transition to digital technology in broadcasting, community radio situation becomes more complex and condemned to disappear by the lack of resources to enable them to change their infrastructure, considered the Executive Coordinator AMARC Mexico, Maria Eugenia Chavez Under the Communication forum and democracy in the digital environment, organized by the AMEDI, emphasized that no community has half the financial support that allows them to make the change necessary infrastructure to move from analog to digital transmissions. 'So Legislature intervention is as necessary, to ensure within the Mexican legal framework the existence of community media and its necessary economic sustainability that places them on equal footing with the other means', said The executive coordinator of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) emphasized that the needs of community radio in the country ranging from training and updating of those who work in stations until the fulfillment of the obligations under the permit to operate granted them by Cofetel 'The community radio stations will survive between efforts to stay on the air with programming that meets their social objectives and the urgent need to respond to the obligations imposed by authority', highlighted [is that the translation of señaló or subrayo? -gh] Chávez said that only the installation of a analog community radio requires an investment of 150 billion [sic] pesos, of which about 30 thousand dollars are earmarked for the development of technical studies required for the permit application, security and development docket. On the operational side, the installation of an average transmitter 150 watts of power at a cost of around 50 billion [sic] pesos, while the deployment of antennas and cabin equipment such as microphones and monitors about 70 thousand dollars add more, he said 'This investment may seem small ero for a community represents a lot of money and people make important efforts to install a station, plus all the equipment requires annual maintenance that has to hold' explained Chavez said that community radio does not receive funding from any state organ or are in a position to transmit commercial that would allow them to generate income, so its operation is kept of economic cooperation of the communities in which they arise and some projects social development. (via Juan Franco Crespo blog via DXLD) I decided to have Google translate this into English instead of Catalan, to see how it come out: http://www.natureduca.com/radioblog/radios-comunitarias-condenadas-a-desaparecer/ There is a slight problem. The references in the translation to 150 billion pesos, and 50 billion pesos might seem a bit high, altho the Mexican peso is worth considerably less than the US dollar. The original says ``150 mil pesos``, ``50 mil pesos``, but the other figures, originally 30 mil pesos and 70 mil pesos, somehow get converted to 30 thousand dollars, and 70 thousand dollars, right amounts but wrong units, tho a lot closer than changing mil (thousand) to billion! The title is also misleadingly translated, ``before`` the transition. In this case ``ante`` means ``confronted by``, not ``before`` in a timeline sense. What`s going on here? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MICRONESIA. A log in short at our breakfast time. Checked against Brisbane-AUS SDR network receiver this morning at 0948 to 1050 UT, Jan 9. 4755.556, PMA, FSM, Cross Radio, S=9+15dB powerful in Queensland (Wolfgang Büschel, Jan 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MOROCCO. 9575, R. Medi Un, Jan 09 0728-0740, 45444, French, ID at 0728 and 0729, News (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD- 9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121, ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MYANMAR. Now at 1345 til 1420 UT noted 5985.000 today on EVEN frequency TX unit !!! Myanmar R Rangoon. 1345 UT. 5915.000, Naypyidaw, Myanmar, S=9+25dB in Ceylon at 1410 UT Jan 9. 6164.992, Pyin U Lwin, Myanmar, S=9+20dB. nothing visible approx. 7200v (Wolfgang Büschel, Jan 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thanks very much, Wolfy, for checking on these frequency measurements. Appreciated! Jan 7 at 1349 on 5985.8. Jan 8 at 1546 on 5985.00 in English with "VOA Learning English - Science in the News" program. http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/fitness-exercise-health/1686004.html Jan 9 at 1530 on 5985.00 in English - audio https://app.box.com/s/lqd7gnxc5122m6k1vfm2 (Ron Howard, California, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5985, Myanmar Radio 1526-1600+ 9 Jan. Doing well this morning with Burmese pop/romantic songs, chimes/organ at :30, partial English ID "we are broadcasting on 50.12 metres, 576 kiloHertz", news in English, local weather, review of headlines, government PSA for (Myanmar) National Congress then W DJ with US pop/C&W ("All My Life", "Summer Wine", "The Heart Won't Lie"), then some modern dance/hip-hop tunes from :52 to past TOH. ACI from CRI's 15-1557 Japanese program via Xian and usual buzz-kill CRI-5985 (Beijing) *1600 in Swahili was dust under the iron chariot wheels of Myanmar Radio today (Dan Sheedy, Swami's Beach, CA PL380/6m X wire, WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9730, Radio Myanmar, Yangon, 1011-1016. Talk in Burmese by a woman. Slow, rather haunting Burmese vocal music at 1012. Talk resumed at 1014. Music returned 30 seconds later. A few bars of theme music at 1016, a quick announcement, then more upbeat music. Weak signal strength with fading and lots of noise. 2/10/2014 (Jim Evans, Germantown TN, Perseus, IC-R75, Wellbrook Loop, Eavesdropper Dipole, Random Wire, NASWA Flashsheet Jan 12 via DXLD) presumably means Jan 10 ** NETHERLANDS. HOLANDA ha lanzado una fuerte campaña para tratar de acabar con la piratería en la FM , en un principio los “ilegales” en el espectro eléctrico recibirán un aviso. Si no cesan en su actividad pueden ser multados con 45.000€ y la confiscación de los equipos. Otra de esas gansadas de los “burócratas” que pensaban que desmantelando los servicios públicos de control hertziano podrían tranquilamente ahorrarse unos euros en los presupuestos y han acabado sembrando el caos en todo el continente, al menos radialmente hablando. Aunque todavía uno se pregunta cómo la gente escucha la FM [o mejor decir, determinada programación de la FM]. Personalmente es una banda “muerta” ya que apenas queda espacio para el divertimento, así que está una emisora fija y lleva en el viejo receptor Grundig Satellit 2.000 nada menos que 30 años. CORDIALES SALUDOS / GOOD LUCK / (JUAN FRANCO CRESPO * STAMP JOURNALIST (AIPET), SÀLVIA 8 (MAS CLARIANA), E- 43800 VALLS-TARRAGONA (ESPAÑA-SPAIN-ESPAGNE-SPANIEN, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. Mighty KBC: see GERMANY in this issue ** NEWFOUNDLAND. Canadian Coast Guard Weather Station VOJ, 2598 kHz, F/D friendly personal letter from Ron Bygott, Officer in Charge in 5 weeks. He said they don't get as many reports as they used to and enjoy sending out verifications. They also sent a packet with station info (John Fisher, MA) John says their postal address is: Officer In Charge Canadian Coast Guard Radio VOJ Port aux Basques MCTS PO Box 99 Port aux Basques, NL A0M 1C0 Canada (Verie Interesting, Jan CIDX Messenger via DXLD) ** NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR. Editor: Sue Hickey 9 Mayo Street Grand Falls-Windsor, NL A2A 1L4 E-mail: sue.hickey@nl.rogers.net An open forum for members’ views, comments, opinions, comments, questions, suggestions and criticism Happy New Year to everyone, though I am now “in between” jobs. There were cuts at my paper and I was one of the ones let go because I was a senior employee who got paid too much. And Transcontinental doesn’t have a union for its journalists. What else to mention? CBC Radio, where I had worked before in Gander, is closing its station in Grand Falls-Windsor, where I live now. Here is copy from the Beacon, a newspaper in Gander. “CBC’s presence in central Newfoundland is taking a hit, and one employee says stories in Grand Falls-Windsor will likely slip through the cracks. “The CBC building in Grand Falls-Windsor will be closed and three editorial positions will move to Gander. “The public broadcaster announced earlier this week its plan to close its office in central Newfoundland’s largest community. No jobs will be lost, but three editorial positions will be moved a one-hour drive down the Trans-Canada Highway to Gander. “We’re being told that the intent from the management perspective is to maintain the same level of coverage within the community,” said Harry Mesh, a transmission technician based in Grand Falls-Windsor. “My personal feeling is that will be difficult to do from 100 kilometers away. I’m sure the major stories will be covered. I guess what you might consider to be the smaller, but interesting, human interest stories, I think will inevitably be lost.” Mesh, who is also Atlantic director for the CBC branch of the Canadian Media Guild, said the change had been anticipated for quite some time. “I suppose we were a little bit surprised by getting the final word of it,” said Mesh, one of two technicians who will remain in Grand Falls- Windsor in a yet-to-be-determined office. On-air staff will move to leased office space inside a Gander shopping centre, including those who currently work in the CBC building on Sullivan Avenue in Gander. “For them personally, it will mean, I guess, making a decision of whether to transfer, commute or leave their positions,” said Mesh, who doubts any of the affected employees in Grand Falls-Windsor will choose the latter option. “It’s a rough commute, this time of year especially,” he said. According to Mesh, CBC’s presence in Grand Falls-Windsor dates back to Confederation. Unfortunately I figure all of CBC Radio One is going to be in St. John’s, where important rural stories and reportage will not be adequate. Then again, Mother Corporation was pressured to give up its valuable shortwave station, which was essential to me and others overseas for years. We hope that attitudes in relation to national broadcasting won’t be erased because some find it irrelevant. (Sue Hickey, Jan CIDX Messenger via DXLD) ** NICARAGUA. NICARÁGUA, 8989-BLI, O Pescador Pregador, QTH?, 2244- ..., castelhano, texto e propaganda religiosa, maioritàriamente, bênçãos aos pescadores que comunicavam com a emissora; 35342. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. Radio Nigeria Abuja Shortwave --- I was just listening to the main 10 pm news (2100 UT) on Radio Nigeria Abuja on their 'Kapital FM 92.9' webstream when they mentioned an upgrading of their medium and shortwave transmitters. The acting director general was visiting the transmitter site and told staff that more money would be given to solve the chronic electricity shortage that caused frequent breaks in transmitting of local and national programmes. Nothing was actually said about new shortwave transmitters but he did say that although two new FM transmitters would be installed that shortwave remained 'vital' for people in the rural areas and would continue to expand (Robert Wilson, Jan 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi there, announcements of that kind seem to be quite frequent in Nigeria, but do often not have direct (audible) consequences. For example this one: http://mt-shortwave.blogspot.de/2008/03/shortwave-and-am-remain-priority-for.html 73 (Thorsten Hallmann, ibid.) Thanks for the link Thorsten. Yes reading that is almost exactly the same as I heard on the Abuja service of Radio Nigeria last night. Hopefully they will get the work on the transmitters done as, in theory, the Federal Government of Nigeria has unlimited funds due to the countries oil wealth but I guess that corruption is widespread in Nigeria so we will have to see what happens. As for the service itself I found it more professional than other public broadcasters in Africa so it would be very much to the advantage of people in the region to get these transmitters working. (Rob, Glasgow, Scotland, Sent from my iPad, dxldyg via DXLD) Members, Richard Burr [sic] in the USA was listening to Radio Nigeria. This led him to report on DXLD that the Acting head of Radio Nigeria visited the Gwangwalada site. Thank you to Richard Burr. The Acting Director General has promised that both medium and shortwave transmitters (in Abuja) would be modernised. As long as it isn't turned into a DRM-only station, we should all be happy that another country believes in the usefulness of both MW and SW. We shall watch to see if Abuja on 909 is possibly given a more powerful transmitter in the coming months or years. 73's and 88's (Dan Goldfarb, mwmasts yg via DXLD) Today's post in DXLD and mwmasts is relevant to swsites as well. The observation of Richard Burr from Illinois was that Radio Nigeria in Abuja was visited and the Acting DG promised that the MW and SW transmitters would be "upgraded"; This implies more reliability and possibly more power for 7275. 73's (Dan Goldfarb, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) Thanks Dan, Yes maybe, assuming accurately referring to the older Abuja - Gwagwalada transmitter site. Or, or perhaps in addition, maybe that full capacity of the Abuja - Lugbe SW site and full power to the transmitter/s would be realised when the electrical power supply problems are sorted - this problem with electricity supply was reported a long time ago (Ian Baxter, swsites yg via DXLD) Re: new or refurbished TX equipment, who really believes that? two times each decade we hear SUCH PROPAGANDA news from Nigeria... - - - FYI Bodo DF8DX or 5N7Q or exDL3OCH 5N7 at Adamawa State, Nigeria Also: 5N7Q, HB9EHJ, HL5ZEB, KT3Q Ex: 4O6EME, 5H1DX, 5N0OCH, 5N50Q, 5N51Q, 5N7OCH, 8Q7QX, 9H3QX, AJ4JR, C6AOC, DG1OBJ, DL3OCH, HE8EHJ, T00CW http://www.qslnet.de/member/dl3och/ Unfortunatelly the audio cut out of the video at Abuja revolving antenna with 250 kW AM, and maybe less in DRM mode http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sztmmg7FJLs http://www.qslnet.de/member/dl3och/index_e.htm and click DXPEDITION and click under 2009 year 5NØOCH or click under 2009 year 5NØEME refurbished 7275 kHz in summer 2010. in mid December 2009 ! <<<<<<<<<<3 curtains antennas<<<<<< and finished work on Christmas 2011 Bodo finished work on the Ampegon Thomcast-Thales tx, at Abuja Lugbe estate, Alliss like revolving antenna, at 08 58'04.70"N 07 21'55.24"E http://files.qrz.com/h/5n0och/rca_2.jpg and two fixed SW curtains in 000/180 and 105/285 direction 08 57'58.98"N 07 21'39.15"E http://files.qrz.com/h/5n0och/antenna_2.jpg Since then summer 2010 the broadcast site is ready for service. He went again from Thales-Thomcast Switzerland to Abuja half year later, and managed the REFURBISHING of Gwagwalada 7275 kHz 100 kW installation, some 32 km westwards at FRCN Abuja (Gwagwalada) SW 7275 kHz 2mast 08 55'44.42"N 07 04'22.33"E and this 7275 service doesn't heard or reported in past years or so (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 15120, V. of Nigeria, Jan 05 0705-0715, 35433, French, News, ID at 0708. Also Jan 09 0708-0728, 35433-35333, French, News, ID at 0725 (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121, ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9690, V. of Nigeria, Ikorodu, 2039-2056* Jan 5; W announcer with brief talk between Afropop-style music selections; M announcer at 2056, bit of music then pulled the plug; fair with usual bad modulation (Scott R. Barbour, Jr., Intervale NH, NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9690 is now blocked by Brother Scare on WRMI until 2100* But we can hear the off-frequency het from Nigeria on the low side (gh, DXLD) Today, Jan 12 at 0630+ : strong signal with good audio, not distorted or undermodulated, just a slight hum and very little interference by Chinese station. Good enough to listen with old valve radio and stay in bed. This armchair listening quality can be reached with the old transmitter on 15120 more or less throughout the year, but happens one once in 20, 50 or 100 days nowadays. 73 (Thorsten Hallmann, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 13960-USB, PIRATE-NA. Undercover Radio, 1738-1800+, 01-05-14. SIO: 232/454. Dr. Benway doing very nicely up here with a couple of tunes by Shinedown, Rage Against The Machine, IDs, a lecture on apathy (Chris Lobdell, Stoneham MA 02180, Eton E1, NRD-545; G5RV, 40 Meter Dipole, NASWA Flashsheet Jan 12 via DXLD) I suppose this was deliberate, but also easy to tune up here, as second harmonic from the pirate-band <7 MHz (gh, DXLD) ** NORTHERN MARIANAS. 9825, VOA relay heard at 1345 GMT on 1/6/14. talks in listed Mandarin. Good (Bob Brossell, Pewaukee WI, JRC NRD- 545; Eton E1; Sony ICF SW77, NASWA Flashsheet Jan 12 via DXLD) 9825, Radio Free Asia, at 2235, on 11 Jan. Female and male talking in what sounds like news report (presumed) in listed language of Chinese. At 2336 a short musical interlude with male and female talking as the music plays in the background. At 2340 it sounds like a commercial or public service announcement with music and more talk by both a male and female speaker. Fair (J. Cooper, Lebanon, PA, WR-G33DDC Excalibur Pro, RF Space-SDR-IQ, Grundig Satellit 750, Tecsun PL-660, Wellbrook ALA 1530+, All Band Tuned Super Sloper, PARS- SWL End Fed, NASWA Flashsheet Jan 12 via DXLD) In both cases, upon what basis do you identify these as VOA and RFA rather than CNR1 Chicom jamming, which is surely upon them and normally atop them over here, if not rendering the victims totally inaudible? (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** NORWAY. 5895-USB, R Northern Star, Bergen, 1510-1535, Dec 31, English and Norwegian, jingles, ID, anns, address for reports: P.O. Box 100, N-5331 Rong, Norway, location in Lat/Long (60deg50min N, 05deg12min W), 35433 (Alexander Beryozkin, St. Petersburg, Russia, DSWCI DX Window Jan 15 via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. Just noted (14 JAN 14 2300 CST) KFAQ-1170 has their IBOC OFF; not sure how long it's been off. Pigs do fly!! KSL loud and clear on 1160. 1179 TA carrier noted on the waterfall with fairly weak audible het against 1180 that has a presumed Mexican in Spanish. 73, (Bruce Winkelman AA5CO, Tulsa, OK, ABDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DXLD) Yay; now if we can get KSL to turn off their IBOC. 1179 -- watch out for Cuban off-frequency rather than TA. Check angle. And 1180 Spanish would most likely be Rebelde jammer(s) against Martí (unless from west of Cuba, of course). I`ve heard Delicias here. 73, (Glenn Hauser, Enid, ibid.) KSL IBOC on good western nights is quite bothersome here near Chicago even though I have basically local WYLL on 1160. To better get past IBOC from 1160 it is best to listen to 1150 in USB and 1170 in LSB as the main IBOC QRM is from +/- 10 to 14 kHz. 73 KAZ (Neil Kazaross, IL/WI, ibid.) Out here where KSL is basically local, I have a hard time even listening to 1180 and 1140 when it's on, like during SSS. I remember the good old days listening to KOFI 1180 from Kalispell. Very hard to do these days because of the hash. 1170 and 1150 are pretty much toast. However, methinks they may shut it off at night. I was doing some dashboard DX Friday night on the way home from Utah and was listening to 1150 from Las Vegas and also KFAQ. Normally KSL's hash would wipe them right out. Or maybe it was just an isolated instance where they didn't have it on (Michael n Wyo Richard, ibid.) ** OKLAHOMA. 1580, Jan 12 at 2104 UT, just noise on the carrier from KOKB Blackwell, maybe dead/open STL, whilst sibling stations 1020 KOKP Perry and 105.1 KOSB Perry (originating in Stillwater) are nominal. Not unusual for something to go wrong with 1580 or 1020, unmanned? Such as dead air for hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 88.3, Jan 12 at 2109, I note that Family Radio satellator in Enid, K202BY, is back on the air, including stereo pilot with a young Harold Camping preaching, belying his current status. Later the signal seemed to be breaking up again, so hope for another failure opening up the channel for MS or other DX (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. FCC News: Ringwood, 104.9, KEUC, New Class A station signs on with 400 W-H/78 m at 36-23-19/98-18-00 (Jan WTFDA VHF-UHF Digest via DXLD) Ringwood is not far from Enid, but I haven`t noticed it. So Jan 12 at 2105 UT I try to hear it. Manipulating the DX-398 whip, there is a weak signal at certain positions against stronger 105.1 KOSB Perry; rap music in stereo, with a very heavy bass beat --- almost sounds like a transmitter fault, but stays with the music. 2108 ``Wild 104 - 9``. Don`t know this station, so search on the frequency and slogan in the WTFDA FM Database, which leads right to KKWD, Bethany OK, 6 kW H & V, 100m H & V, has HD, PI Code 8FFO, PS info WWLSFM, Radiotext Artist/Title, Slogan WILD 104.9, Format Rhythmic-CHR. ``Rhythmic`` must mean that awful bass beat. They don`t say ``point``, just pause between 104 and 9. Bethany is a westburb of OKC, a lot further than Ringwood from here, but about what you would expect at that distance with those facilities. (And it so happens there is one other ``Wild 104.9``, KBWX in Columbia IL, per WTFDA, surely not the one I am getting) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. In Doug Smith`s FCC news column, Jan WTFDA VHF- UHF Digest: Oklahoma Enid 48 KUOC-LD PR<4kw; PG; NW Hi Doug, NW means new station on the air? No, it isn`t. Never seen it and just checked 48. Nor is K45EJ tho it has been listed as such forever, even on the KSBI ID slide. 73, (Glenn, Enid, Jan 5, to Doug, via DXLD) Most interesting & good to know about. Of course I can only go with what I get from the FCC unless a local has better information -- which of course, you do! I've seen this kind of disagreement before :), we have a digital LPTV operating here on channel 41. The station is licensed to operate in *analog* on channel 41; it *had* a permit for a digital facility on channel *42* but that permit has expired. At this point, the FCC is aware of the situation. I have no idea what if anything they'll do about it (I suppose you can assume it's not interfering with anything as the only thing authorized on 41 in Middle Tennessee is their own analog signal). Thanks for the info! Yes, "NW" means new station on the air. What it actually means is that the station has filed for a license to cover their construction permit. That can only happen if they've done a proof-of-performance (which requires the transmitter be turned on at full power) and it obligates the station to comply with minimum operating schedule rules. (although there are no such rules for LPTVs). In some cases the station comes on the air just long enough to get a license to cover & then files for Special Temporary Authority to go silent (Doug Smith, TN, Jan 8, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN [and non]. 6165, Jan 16 at 0115, surprised to hear heavy CCI to RHC English, from something in S Asian language talking about Pakistan, but it cuts off at 0120* --- that timing smax of Iran, but HFCC shows no IRIB, but BBC in Hindi via OMAN at 0100-0130, to be followed by Urdu. The band is open from that area, however; see IRAN anyway (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. A log in short at our breakfast time. Checked Brisbane-AUS and Victor's Colombo SDR network receivers this morning at 0948 to 1050 UT, Jan 9. 3259.996, R Madang, PNG S=8-9 nice signal at 1019 UT in QL-AUS 3324.999, only carrier seen at 1022 UT, prob NBC Bougainville PNG? 3344.865, UNID mx in peaks, on threshold level 3364.985, R Milne Bay, PNG, S=9+15dB powerful 3384.996, NBC East New Britain, PNG S=9+15dB powerful (Wolfgang Büschel, Jan 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Recording of unusually strong Radio NBC Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea on 3365 kHz, actually the strongest since I've started chasing BCs in Nov http://nickvk2dx.blogspot.com.au/ 73 (Nick VK2DX Hacko, NSW, Jan 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PARAGUAY. Amigos, hoy por la madrugada me encontré tratando de hacer dormir a mi beba de 4 meses, mientras tanto estaba escaneando la banda de AM, y me encontré con la siguiente sorpresa: en la frecuencia de 760 kHz se escuchaba música paraguaya. Pero lo interesante es que era una señal local. Una señal tan perfecta como si fuese FM. Ya acostado me acordé que el presidente Lugo, durante su gobierno había fomentado la activación de varias emisoras de AM, entre ellas ZP5, Radio Encarnación. Será posible que puedan verificar uds. también esa frecuencia? Ojalá también vuelva ZPA5 11940 kHz Se acuerdan? -- (Julio César Anzoátegui, Posadas, Misiones, Argentina, Jan 14, radioescutas yg via DXLD) WRTH 2014 has no ZP on 760 (gh, DXLD) ** PERU. 4774.91, R. Tarma, Tarma, 1007-1023 Jan 14, Spanish; LA music with M announcer between selections; fair & clear in ECCS-USB (Scott R. Barbour, Jr., Intervale, NH, NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 4940, R. SAN ANTONIO, 09/01 0505 UT. Música cristiana de adoración i.e.: Marcos Witt, Jesús Adrían Romero, et. al. SINPO: 45444. Cabe destacar que la emisora está al aire fuera de su horario habitual según EiBi y Aoki. Además sale del aire a las 0512 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 5 metros, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DXLD) ** PERU. In a sort-of follow-up to Art Delibert`s observation [BRAZIL] PERU, 4985.5, R Voz Cristiana. Surprised to find this on in the evening coming in fairly well. Equal to Brasil Central!! 2330-2335 lively revival religious music. W preaching mentioning Madre de Dios, corazón, palabra. M took over at 2335. Gave time at 2337. 2339 apparent lively religious music with same M and W doing the singing. 2341 back to preaching by W with many ments of palabra. 2346 M, then W nearly screaming at times. 2348 another rapid-paced song with M vocalist shouting Halleiuia once, then W doing the same at 2352:05. 2352 W again mentioning familia. Program break at 2356 with what sounded like the same canned announcements/promos as heard in the mornings. Second one had mentions of internacional and address in Huancayo. 2357:55 W with several mentions of Voz Cristiana and Francisco. 0000:25 another mention of Voz Cristiana. Promo with nice IDs at 0001:20 and 0001:40. Program before 2356 continued at 0003. ID at 0050:30. Finally found their website at 0055 and indeed // but lagging behind by 30 seconds. 0056 horn blowing and nice "R. Voz Cristiana" ID by M (14-15 Jan.) 73 (Dave Valko, Dunlo, PA, USA, Perseus with Wellbrook AL1530S+, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DXLD) Link to an MP3 is here: https://app.box.com/s/61zkmas7434j59mb4xkt (14-15 Jan.) 73 (Dave Valko, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** PERU [and non]. 5980, R. CHASKI, 09/01 0045 UT. Retransmisión de Red Radio Integridad. Programa el “amor que vale” con avisos de contacto con SINPO: 55343 con sobremodulación y algunos cortes de señal. No hay QRM por parte de la mixtura entre CNR-1/VOA. Sin embargo, a veces hay algunos siseos leves desde CRI en 5990. Además mientras se leen mensajes por parte de los oyentes de aquel programa, se produce un corte de señal por 10 segundos. A las 0057 hay otro leve corte de señal, emitiéndose un himno y música instrumental posterior a esto. A las 0101 ID de Red R. Integridad y avisos de solicitud de literatura a la emisora, mediante email y carta. Sale del aire cerca de las 0102 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 5 metros, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) 5980, Jan 10 at 0057, JBA carrier from R. Chaski, suffering from pointless pulse jamming out of Cuba, and splash from CRI 5990 via Cuba. 5980 cuts off at 0103:06.5* as the jamming continues. That`s 11 seconds later than last check Jan 8, 48 hours earlier. BTW, per Ivo Ivanov, VOA Tibetan service at 00-01 via Sri Lanka has moved off 5980, so that hour should now be clear for Chaski, with the ChiCom jamming also trailing it. But now this service is adopting the probably doomed tactic of switching frequencies depending on UT day of week, as monitored starting Dec 25: 5750 on Mon & Fri; 5760 on Sun; 5770 on Tue/Wed/Thu; 5805 on Sat. Do they really adhere to this every week? It would be slightly more trouble for the jamming monitors (and the audience!) if the jumparounds were random. And also nothing else on 5980 after Turkey until 2156* (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5980, R. Chaski, Cuzco, 2242-2254, 10/1, castelhano, propaganda religiosa; 34433, QRM adjacente. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5980, Jan 12 at 0051, R. Chaski carrier vs splash from 5990 Cuba, and separate occasional noise bursts, not jamming, but this time seeming to be on the Chaski carrier itself. Claudio Galaz, Chile, who also monitors this almost every evening, has been reporting frequent transmission/modulation problems. Cutoff at 0103:18* which is 11.5 seconds later than 48 hours ago. 5980, Jan 14 at 0103, R. Chaski carrier tracked until cutoff at 0103:30.5, which is 12.5 seconds later than last check 48 hours before (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5980, R. CHASKI, 14/01 1050 UT. Audio de R. Martí sobre los cánticos en quechua transmitidos desde R. Chaski con anuncios en el mismo idioma. A las 11, debería acallarse Martí; sin embargo persiste en la transmisión unos 20 minutos aproximadamente, sumándose el QRM de CNR-8 desde 5975. 5980, R. CHASKI, 14/01 2201 UT. Comienzo de la transmisión de la emisora que consiste en canciones en quechua sin identificaciones hasta las 2304, en donde un locutor manda saludos en español y quechua, mayormente en este último idioma, identificando a la emisora y diciendo que el espacio estará hasta las 7 de la noche en hora local (00 UT). A las 2327, el mismo locutor comienza a leer varios versículos bíblicos en quechua, entre ellos Efesios 5:18-19. Es decir, con programación propia, dejando fuera la retransmisión de Red Radio Integridad. Señal con algo de sobremodulació n y SINPO: 55444 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 5 metros, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DXLD) 5980, R. CHASKI, 15/01 0020 UT. Retransmisión de Red Radio Integridad con 3 minutos más tarde al compararse con el 700 AM, desde Lima con SINFO: 43343. Señal con algo de sobremodulación y SINPO: 55444 (Galaz, ibid.) 5980, Jan 15 at 0103, R. Chaski goes off circa 0103:36: unclear since strength drops but still hearing a carrier, perhaps a mixing product. Time fits for 5.5 seconds later than last night (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5980, R. CHASKI, 15/01 2202 UT. Comienzo de transmisión con música en quechua y aymara cantada por conjuntos corales, principalmente por mujeres. SINPO: 45343. Se monitorea nuevamente a las 2350, y hay un hombre predicando en quechua, con ID como Radio Chaski con lecturas de las frecuencias. SINPO: 55454 con un poco de sobremodulación. 5980, R. CHASKI, 16/01 0003 UT. Comienzo de la transmisión del final del programa “Alimento para el alma”, como parte de la retransmisión de Red Radio Integridad con SINPO: 55444. La señal produce un corte por dos segundos y vuelve nuevamente al aire con la ID de Red R. Integridad. ¿Se obtendrá la señal de Integridad vía microondas? Probablemente, eso explicaría el atraso de 3 minutos con respecto al 700 AM, vía Lima, y la distinta modulación entre Chaski como tal e Integridad después de las 0003 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660 Antena: hilo largo de 5 metros, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) 5980, Jan 16 at 0100, R. Chaski carrier with some modulation detectable, very poor, until cutoff at 0103:40*, which is 4 seconds later than last night, considerable variation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** POLAND [non]. PR Polskie Radio --- images: http://jshort.blog.163.com/blog/static/209715289201351802019614/ QSL card from Polskie Radio Russian Service on November 20, 2013, with image of "Warsaw-Palace of Culture and Science", answer my emailed reception report attached with an audio-clip of their Russian programme dated October 22, 2013 time 1300-1330 UT on the frequency of 12095 kHz [BULGARIA], stamped and write in Russian and English " 21 - 26.10.2013 THE LAST WEEK OF OUR BROADCASTING ON SHORTWAVE". Report was emailed to ru(at)polskieradio(dot)pl and polska(at)polskieradio(dot)pl (Jonathan Short, from China QSL report Sep.-Dec. 2013, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. 7310, Radio Romania International, USB mode, 2138 to 2146. An ID at 2144, SINFO=4,5,5,4,4, I heard about the country’s new health plan that starts this March, the 1000A and the 637’ long wire antenna. 12/23 (John Davis, Our facility is located northeast of Columbus, Ohio in the USA. One inside antenna is a Windom 42 feet long. The other is an end fed antenna 16 feet long. Our receivers include, but are not limited to a number of R-390As, R-391s, a Mackay 5050A, and a Watkins- Johnson HF-1000A. Our portable receivers include a Kaito 1103, a Radio Shack 440, and a Sangean 803A. Our transceiver is an ICOM IC-706 MK IIG (my wife is a ham) and it also works well on the shortwave broadcast bands; NASWA Flashsheet Jan 12 via DXLD) 7345, Jan 10 at 0642, RRI English making this announcement just about verbatim as copied from website: ``Dear friends, you can listen to us on your mobile phone, in the US. Our programs in English are available live or on demand, at the following call-to-listen phone number: 716.274.2526. This incurs no extra charge and is the equivalent of making a standard mobile call in the US.`` AC 716 is western NY, around Buffalo. Why would anyone pay anything to listen on a phone when one can simply turn on a SW radio? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RRI desde su móvil en los EEUU --- Queridos amigos, pueden escuchar losprogramas de RRI desde su teléfono móvil en los EEUU. La emisión en español es disponible en directo o "A La Carta" al número de teléfono 716.274.2518. Costará igual que una llamada normal en los EEUU. (RRI newsletter Jan 12 via Juan Franco Crespo, Spain, DXLD) ** RUSSIA. 4996 / 9996 / 14996, RWM Moscow, Time and Standard signal station. In letzter Zeit habe ich des oefteren gelesen, dass RWM Moskau Empfangsberichte mit QSL-Karten bestaetigt. Ich hatte allerdings nie Glueck und bekam keine Antwort. Gibt es da irgendwelche Tricks oder eine bestimmte QSL-Adresse bzw. E-mail? (Sebastian Arndt, A-DX Jan 5 via BC-DX 10 Jan via DXLD) QSL address: Russian State Time & Frequency Service Institute of Metrology for Time & Space Mendeleevo 141570 Moscow Region Russia (Juergen Waga--D, A-DX Jan 5 via BC-DX 10 Jan via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. 5900, Jan 9 at 1339, ``Moscow Nights`` tune playing, then Chinese announcement, poor-fair. This is one of the remaining Voice of Russia frequencies still on the air. Until Dec 31 it was Mongolian this hour via Vladivostok, but per HFCC since Jan 1 it`s Chinese at 10-14, 152 degrees from Irkutsk. If we could hear it after 1500 it would be in English due south from Irkutsk, the only non-DRM SW site remaining for VOR in any language (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5900, Radio VR/VOR (Irkutsk) *1500+ 8, 13, 14, 15 Jan. Opens with VOR piano theme, "Radio VR...the Voice of Russia" IDs, news/weather (temps in F)/features. JBA/poor but readable most every morning (Dan Sheedy, Swami's Beach, CA G5/PL380 + 6m X wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Now gone, but will not soon be forgotten! Was always very enjoyable listening to them. ``5930, “Radio Rossii Kamchatka”/GTRK Kamchatka, via the Yelizovo transmitter site on the Kamchatka peninsula. Good reception (slight audio hum) on Sept 3, 2013 from 0710 to 0800 with their local/regional programming (not // to the other R. Rossii sites); local IDs; “Radio Rossii Kamchatka”; chimes/bells; interviews; BoH sounded almost like “This is Kamchatka”; local news; at 0800 joined the other R. Rossii stations and again became //. A three minute recording at https://app.box.com/s/28ldp2uz650q9o7iaux2 (Ron Howard, San Francisco at Ocean Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` No R Rossii on 261 or 171 at 0300. Kavkaz 171 starting at 0300. Echoing Russian signals on 873. At 0830 no carriers on 5930, 5940, 6160, 7230, 7320. At 1000 nothing on 5930, 6160, 12075 Looks really bad for the SW activities. With a reservation for propagational effects on the long distance signals and possible maintenance for 5930 Murmansk (Olle Alm, Sweden, 9th January 1037 UT, DX LISTENING DIGEST) In fact I had intended to tape 5905 last night at 2100, but was back from Leipzig only more than a hour later. The same here now after getting up: Only an awful buzz from a TV in the neighbourhood anymore on 12075, and only static with sideband splash from the Zehlendorf transmitter on 171. It's always a nice effect: Yesterday still a transmitter was here. Already last night at 2120 Christoph Ratzer wrote: "171, 5930, 5940, 6085, 6195, all dark". So it appears that everything has been turned off at midnight Moscow time, also the transmitters in Siberia and the Far East (Kai Ludwig, Germany, 1107 UT Jan 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radiokanal Kavkaz on 171 kHz started broadcasting at 1200 UT, with news in Russian followed by a program in Chechen. Very good signal here, as always (Tudor Vedeanu, (Gura Humorului, Romania), Jan 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I heard time pips at 1300 under Medi Un on 171 kHz. Speech followed but it is very weak. Radiokanal Kavkaz in Tbilisskaya is 2,213 miles from me, but they do run 1,200 kW. I heard a greater distance in Hawaii daytime, but it was a water path, 180 kHz with 150 kW. The speech does not match any other long wave station at present, so it is not the "Luxembourg effect." This station is on 1200-1600, and 0300- 0600. It may gain strength closer to 1600 (Brock Whaley, Ireland, 1316 UT Jan 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also KALININGRAD 171 Members, I have carried out a very quick SDR scan of LW and MW from Mauno's receiver in Finland. The result is that the normal daytime concentration of Russian stations has gone. I ask for help here from those who can monitor the bands to detect what is left. I believe that only Radio VR and Radio Kavkaz remain from the VGTRK stations. Any correction would be useful for the Group to have. 73's and 88's (Dan Goldfarb, 1009 UT Jan 9, mwmasts yg via DXLD) Hi Dan, I think for MW you did your scan a bit too early and most R. Rossii stations hadn't yet faded in. Looks like for MW it is almost as it used to be here, only some low power txs nationwide have been closed. 73, (Mauno Ritola, Finland, ibid.) [and non] short log at 1130-1250 UT at Moscow unit: 585 RUS - Radio Rossii, Perm, low modulation 593 RUS - R Rossii odd channel, ? Radio Rossii, Izhevsk 612 RUS - Narodnoye Radio: 0400-1600, Kurkino 20kW, S=9+55dBm 621 RUS - R Rosssi, ? Makhachkala or Syktyvkar 657 RUS - Kavkaz Radio/Voice of Russia, Grozny, S=3-4 in Finland 738 RUS - World Radio Network, Kurkino 5kW, Pol/Ru 1143 UT S=9+55dB 765 RUS - Radio Rossii / Radio Karelii, Pedaselga, S=9+5dB in MSK S=9+30dB in FIN 810 RUS - Voice of America, VOA Learning English report, Kurkino 10kW US history in Learning En, in 1808 year President Madison, trade with Britain and France stopped. S=9+45dB signal, l little buzzy audio underneath some 100 Hertz peaks fence 828 RUS - Radiogazeta Slovo / Pravoslavnoe Radio, St-Petersburg 855 RUS - Radio Rossii, Kamenka, S=4 in FIN bad echo at : 873 RUS - Radio Rossii, St.P.Olgino, and Moscow Lesnoy 250 kW at S=9+50dB 918 RUS - Radio Rossii, Arkhangelsk, weak signal in Moscow, S=9+30 in FIN 936 ??? Ukraine R ? 972 UKR - Ukrainske Radio 1, Nikolaev, weak on threshold level. 999 MDA - Russian program, Not R Rossii, rather Radio Pridnestrovye 1035 EST - Radio Eli, Tartu (200 kW) - 24h in Russian (Tartuiskoye Semeinoye Radio) S=9+25dB 1053 RUS - Radio Mariya, Sankt-Petersburg (10 kW), S=9+20dB 1080 RUS - Radio Rossii / Radio Mordovii, Kovylkino 100kW 1089 RUS - Radio Teos, Popovka S=4-5 in FIN 1134 RUS - Radio Teos, Kurkino 5kW, nice rel singer, S=9+35dB 1395 ARM - Radio Rossii, Gavar 1485 LVA - Radio Merkurs, Riga, probably ? "unter der roten Laterne von St. Pauli..." 1246 UT 1521 CHN - CRI Russian from Urumqi, S=3-4 poor but understand progr S=6-7 in FIN at 1248 UT. Gloomy now in Russia - no LW service at present on air anymore at Moscow, only Polskie Radio 225 kHz S=6. BUT at 1200 UT heard LW 171 kHz R Rossii again, S=6 in Moscow, S=9+15dB in Finland, so seemingly Armavir Krasnodar is on air for a noon political magazine? Mentioned a lot of Grozny, Sotschi and Chechen Rep. 171 RUS - Kavkaz Radio, Tbilisskaya (1200) Russian at 1200 UT, but seemingly Chechen telephone interview about Islam at 1252 UT S=9+5dB in Stockholm Perseus unit. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, 1253 UT Jan 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Radio Rossii takes over Yunost`s FM transmitters --- One unexpected consequence of the Radio Rossii LW/W shutdown is that Radio Yunost (or Yu-FM as it has been calling itself for a while) is now an internet- only station. Yunost's FM transmitters (or at least some of them) were switched to relay Radio Rossii this morning. Yunost left LW in 2010 (Chris Greenway, England, Jan 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) RADIO ROSSII CLOSE DOWN ON SHORTWAVE No signal from Radio Rossii in Russian on Dec. 9 0400-0900 UT slot 0400-0700 on 5930P.K; 5930MUR; 5940OKH; 6085KRS; 6095MSK; 6100KRS; 6160MUR; 6195IRK; 7230IAK; 7320OKH 0700-0730 on 5930P.K; 5930MUR; 5940OKH; 6085KRS; 6100KRS; 6160MUR; 6195IRK; 7230IAK; 7320OKH 0730-0900 on 5930P.K; 5930MUR; 5940OKH; 6085KRS; 6100KRS; 6160MUR; 6195IRK; 7230IAK; 7320OKH;12075MSK -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, New email: ivo.observer@gmail.com, 0916 UT Jan 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Sure sorry to see the last of them go. Had a wonderful week in Masset listening to most of these frequencies, several with local programming, and at armchair levels. Too bad! 73, (Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) BBC MONITORING REPORTS END OF RUSSIAN LONGWAVE http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-25683656 (with two photos) Russia has quietly switched off nearly all of its long-wave transmitters, ending almost nine decades of broadcasting - as cost finally catches up on the medium. At 1 am on 9 January, state-run Radio Rossii wound up its broadcast as usual with the national anthem. There was no mention that long-wave transmissions were coming to an end, and the following day listeners found they had to rely on local FM broadcasts and the internet to hear the station. The only state radio station with truly national coverage, Radio Rossii can be compared to BBC Radio 4 with its mix of news, drama and educational programmes. Long-wave suited Russian broadcasters because a single transmitter could reach a wide area at all times of day and night. But they are expensive, and as most listeners have begun listening on FM, or through cable, satellite and the internet, the authorities decided to bring the service to an end.. Long-wave radio played a role in the Cold War, with the United States building a powerful transmitter near Munich and broadcasting its Russian service on the same frequency as Moscow's programmes. Listeners in parts of the Soviet Union found state radio drowned out by the Voice of America - the US equivalent of the BBC World Service. Now only one LW transmitter remains in the country, broadcasting Radio Kavkaz to the North Caucasus region on a limited schedule. The BBC says that although it is planning to end its use of long-wave radio at some time in the future, there is no specific date for the closure of its Radio 4 transmissions on 198 kHz, much loved by listeners of the shipping forecast and Test Match Special (via Chris Greenway, BBCM, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DXLD) Last May, we visited far eastern Russia. Very abbreviated band scans during out trip gave a good idea of the widespread coverage of several of the Radio Rossii LW stations. At a stop in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, we visited a park that I'm sure was the site of the 279 kHz transmitter tower (unmarked, of course). Another stop was in Petropavlovsk- Kamchatsky; the home of the 180 kHz station. Hearing both stations "up close" was a real treat since i heard them in Arizona (at a much more quiet location) several years ago (John Sampson, Jan 11, ABDX via DXLD) All R. Rossii transmissions on short wave and long wave have stopped. R. Rossii continues on FM as normal and on medium wave except for the following transmitters, which have been closed: Kochubey 621 kHz, Gusinoosersk 963 kHz, Salsk/Volgodonsk 1134 kHz, Balashov/Ershov 1197 kHz, Kyahta 1287 kHz, Pleshanovo 1314 kHz, Livny 1449 kHz, Tyumen 1485 kHz, Tigil 1584 kHz, and Chumikan 1602 kHz (WRTH via MediumWave.info via NRC IDXD Jan 10 via DXLD) 09/01, R. from Yakutsk Russia shut up (yesterday everything worked) on SW 7230 and LW 171 kHz I thought LW is not touched - it was broadcast homing beacon in the Yakut airport, but it seems now they do not need. In Yakutsk LW-MW have only NEC - Sakha 864 kHz o , but they work in the sample clock mostly in the Yakut language on the Republic, the same clock broadcast on 107.1 FM. And for example in the morning from 10 to 12 local broadcasting goes on Yakutsk and its surroundings in Russian, this time broadcast on 864 kHz is cut off only FM. R. Russia Yakutsk only 91.3 FM and 70.4 FM. More Lighthouse at 72.08. And in Yakutia now nor any Beacon R. Russia will not hear, VHF -FM, not to each reaches for same village and everywhere nearby probably is. Will listen to the news of China and Japan, North Korea, they have not tested bad :)) (Andrew, Yakutia , deneb-radio-dx via MIDXB via RusDX Jan 12 via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. Jonas, que tragédia se transformou a Voz da Rússia! Uma programação, aparentemente, feita no Brasil, portanto, nada a ver com a cultura e política russa. Desgosto total! Além disso, novamente os crápulas tiraram da página da emissora o link que informa frequências e grade de programação. Um pessoalzinho burro pra caramba. Não existe mais os links de programas gravados. Por exemplo, procurei o "Clube de amigos" de outra data para escutar e não existe. Mas os idiotas colocaram um texto escrito que confunde o internauta. Eu não quero ler sobre os programas, quero escutá-los de novo. A emissora desapareceu das ondas curtas de 31 metros, que aliás, funcionam muito ruim nesta época. Como o site dos perfeitos idiotas não consta a lista de frequência, estou perdido sem saber onde está a Voz da Rússia. Por que isso? Que brincadeira é essa de fazer rádio? Se você encontrar um desses idiotas que bagunçou com o site da emissora e com a qualidade da programação, de a ele minha saudação de ano novo: que ele vá pro inferno (Acir da Cruz Camargo, Ponta Grossa - PR, Jan 11, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Sinal dos tempos do fim da radiodifusão comercial e internacional via ondas curtas. O relaxo das diretórias das emissoras vem matando o rádio há muito tempo. O rádio teve seus dias de glória. Pouquíssimas emissoras têm programação de qualidade. Dá pra contar nos dedos e, ainda, sobram dedos. 73 (Luiz Chaine Neeto, Limeira SP, 13-1-2014 ibid.) ** RUSSIA. Paul Dobosz: from this week`s ARRL Newsletter: Shortwave Listening: VOICE OF RUSSIA TO CONTINUE SHORTWAVE BROADCASTING IN 2014. To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the demise of the Voice of Russia (VOR) may have been greatly exaggerated. Earlier this year the Voice of Russia -- the former Radio Moscow during the Soviet Era -- appeared poised to cease shortwave broadcasts as of January 1, 2014. In the wake of a December decree signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin that merged the Voice of Russia with several other state-run news agencies, SWL Tom Witherspoon, K4SWL, contacted VOR. "We are glad to let you know that the Voice of Russia will stay on the air in 2014, however, considerable changes in our frequency schedule are expected," the broadcaster told Witherspoon and as he reports on his blog. The posted VOR schedule, which runs through March, indicates 38 aggregate hours of shortwave broadcasts to all parts of the world, most beamed at the Middle East and Asia. Shortwave broadcasts to Europe, Latin America, Oceania, and Africa account for just 15 aggre- gate hours. VOR, which claims to be the first radio station to broad- cast internationally, also broadcasts online, via satellite, on FM, and via three medium-wave transmitters. In 2003 VOR was among the first major international radio broadcasters to launch daily broad- casts to Europe in Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM). Ken Zichi retorts: Don't You Believe the ARRL. They are using outdated info -- if you look at the schedule they actually post at the link listed they have a total SW output of 9 frequency hours of programming to Australasia only. If you add in DRM (which nobody can receive since there are no radios made to get it) you get broadcasts to Europe for an additional 11 frequency hours per day. There are NO broadcasts left on SW for the Mid East, Africa or either of the Americas. In other words, bupkiss is left on SW unless you happen to reside in Australia. The "considerable changes" mentioned by the VoR schill who contacted Tom Witherspoon is apparently code for 'we don't broadcast on SW any more except for some unexplainable reason to Australia.' These hams should either learn what they are talking about or just keep quiet about such topics and leave it to us 'pros'. :) (MARE Tipsheet Jan 10 via DXLD) See also USSR, re jamming ** RWANDA [non]. 17540, CLANDESTINE, Radio Mara – Talata-Volonondry [MADAGASCAR], 1720-1755* Jan 7, a lot of musical selection with some brief talk in listed Kinyarwanda language. Music fanfare at 1745 followed by news items with music fanfare between items. Off with long song by a male singer. After song carrier was terminated. Anyone find a website for this “station” yet? (Rich D'Angelo, Wyomissing, PA 19610, Ten-Tec RX-340, Drake R-8B, Eton E1, Eton E5, Alpha Delta DX Sloper, RF Systems Mini-Windom, Datong FL3, JPS ANC-4, NASWA yg via DXLD) ** SAO TOME. QSL: VoA São Tomé, 4960, E-QSL in 10 days for reception report to hmenezes@sto.ibb.gov (QSL came from hmenezes@bbg.gov ). VS: Victor Guadalupe, Assistant Transmitter Plant Supervisor + QSL-card in 31 days for same reception report (Kurt Enders, Bickenbach, Germany, Jan 12, Hard-Core-DX mailing list via DXLD) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 17660, Jan 13 at 1421, open carrier/dead air with flutter, no doubt BSKSA French service which is 500 kW due west from Riyadh for North Africa. By 1454, now there is some music modulation, poor with flutter; while Arabic frequencies from same site, 17615 and 17705 are always better and without flutter, 190 and 310 degrees respectively (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SERBIA [non]. 6100, BOSNIA. International Radio of Serbia – Bijeljina, *2158-2230* Jan 7, IS followed by opening of English service with woman announcer giving ID followed by news. Music feature from 2220. Poor to fair (Rich D'Angelo, Wyomissing, PA 19610, Ten-Tec RX-340, Drake R-8B, Eton E1, Eton E5, Alpha Delta DX Sloper, RF Systems Mini-Windom, Datong FL3, JPS ANC-4, NASWA yg via DXLD) ** SINGAPORE. 9580, Radio Australia International, Kranji transmitter Site, at 1614, on 5 Jan. Two males and a female were talking in English as listed. At 1620 an instrumental song came on until 1625. A male announcer gave an ID on the song and a new song, instrumental played at 1626. At 1629 the station went off the air without any ID or announcement. Poor (J. Cooper, Lebanon, PA, WR-G33DDC Excalibur Pro, RF Space-SDR-IQ, Grundig Satellit 750, Tecsun PL-660, Wellbrook ALA 1530+, All Band Tuned Super Sloper, PARS- SWL End Fed, NASWA Flashsheet Jan 12 via DXLD) Typical rude closing; this semihour only is via Singapore; I wonder why they bother? At all other times 9580 is direct from Shepparton. Since when is it called R. Australia International? (gh, DXLD) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 9545, SIBC, Jan 09 0656-0705, 35443, Pidgin, Music, ID at 0659 and 0700, IS at 0700, News (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121, ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) A log in short at our breakfast time. Brisbane-AUS and Victor's Colombo SDR network receivers this morning at 0948 to 1050 UT, Jan 9. 5019.872, SIBC Honiara, S=9+15dB proper signal, many local police and law news read. \\ 9545.000 more powerful modulation here, also a bit stronger at S=9+25dB signal (Wolfgang Büschel, Jan 9, WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5019.882, SIBC, 14 JAN 2014 1130-1200. In English / Pisin, male, talkback, S8 on a clear frequency. 73 (Nick VK2DX Hacko, NSW, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Talkback = call-in? (gh) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 17790, Jan 9 at 1410 check, Brother Scare is ranting here, as RAN is running him again, but nowhere near the minimum two-hour stretches he prefers; presumably filler (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11825, Jan 9 at 2133, after dead air and WYFR theme (see U S A), Brother Scare cuts back on this WRMI frequency, as he is proclaiming that ``radio broadcasting is going to be curtailed`` in These Last Days (except for his own, of course). 9955, the main RMI frequency, is supposed to be with BS also all day long, but instead Jan 9 at 2136 I find the fill-music loop is running, Greek at the moment, later German song, 2140 polka, etc., etc. Some songs in Spanish, 2155 fado. Still music fill until 2159 when there is a bit of BS during switching, Zanotti ID, cut from strong NW signal to weaker SSE signal at 2200, and resuming music loop with German song. How about 7730? Barely audible, that`s still BS at 2136. Meanwhile, we are also deprived of BS on 9930, as WTWW-2 is off, and until 2200, 9980 WWCR is in its one-hour break for other programming. By 2201, both 9930 and 9980 are back on BS, but not 9955. 7490-, Jan 10 at 0638, BS with wacko prophecies, as I note WBCQ is again slightly on the lo side. 11825, Jan 10 at 1520, BS on WRMI is saying that from Saturday February [sic] 11, he will be on 25, 25, 25, shortwave transmitters, make that 31 with the six WHR units, frequencies ``too numerous to mention``. So far the WHR website has no listings when searching on Overcomer, or Stair at http://www.whr.org/Program-Schedules.cfm#DETAILED_SCHEDULE_SEARCH Nor does the Overcomer Ministry website, but we can be sure than when it does, it will be full of errors. 7570, Jan 10 at 2348, BS on WRMI, with a national anthem audible underneath --- of course, it`s the DPRK`s, VOK signing off, as already scheduled here, per Aoki overlapping at 2200-2350. Take your pick of cults. (Plus: VOA Tibetan via Kuwait on 7570, and consequently jammed, Tue & Thu only at 00-01). 7490, Jan 11 at 0624, BS on WBCQ is saying he *will* be on three WRMI transmitters starting Dec 31; old tape. I.e. averaging three at a time to add up to 72 transmitter-hours per day instead of only 48 in Dec. 9690, Jan 11 at 1425, I am forced to stop and keep listening to 80- year-old Brother Scare via WRMI, since he is talking about his further expansion plans. Says the bill just arrived from his new station #8, three months to be paid in advance = $253,344. Implies the deal is not final quite yet? 1428 interrupts himself as of Friday night Jan 10. Going from 25 SW transmitters/frequencies worldwide to 31 with the six more on World Harvest Radio. Will add up to over 200 hours per day for the next 3 months, until Passover in April. Now again says to start today Sat Jan 11 on WHR. Meanwhile at 1437-1442 I do a complete bandscan from 49m thru 13m and find zero WHR signals, let alone WHR with BS. Finally at 1519 I find one WHRI, on 21630 as usual on Saturdays, with some other huxter. Could be on T8WH 9930 hiding under WTWW! I haven`t heard him mention Palau as two or three of the six WHR transmitters; is he aware of that? BS is making a big deal of Ariel Sharon dying today, since he was an Israeli, somehow connecting this with the End Times. Numerology is also a big deal with this wacko. BS goes on to a further plan: some friendly US SW broadcaster (where he is apparently not on yet), has offered to acquire, install and operate another transmitter to be dedicated to TOM only, and let it be owned by TOM (unlike all the others so far, apparently). This would cost from $50K to $100K and would become the ``Seventh Angel``. Would take a few months to set up; more about this in a few days. He also says some seven more SW transmitters are available abroad, and their rates are coming down. The LDPOG apparently has no concept that buying up time on more and more US SW stations is only duplicating coverage over and over. Just one or two of them at most, running 24 hours on at least one day and one night frequency would give him total coverage of the continent. But none of the stations are going to explain this to their cash-cow. Perhaps his goal is to be on every band at every hour, so random tuners cannot avoid running into him, even 4 or 5 frequencies on a band, like 31m already infested. At 1435 I notice that BS on WRMI 11825 is dead air, and by 1443, so is 9690, while meantime I have switched to 9930 for a better, and modulated signal via WTWW. Both 9690 and 11825 resume modulating by 1459 for the live Sabbath service. Now Jan 11 searching on Overcomer at the WHR program schedule, it`s all shown, unlike yesterday: A1 Mon-Fri 1800-2030 17610 A2 Daily 0700-0800 11565 Daily 1600-1800 9840 Mon-Fri 2000-2100 9840 Sun-Fri 2200-2300 9840 A3 Daily 0700-0800 9930 Daily 1500-1800 9930 A4 Mon-Sat 0100-0300 15680 [meaning UT Tue-Sun?] Daily 1600-1900 9955 [same as WRMI! Listen for echoes, CCI] A5 Daily 0700-1100 9955 [same as WRMI! Listen for echoes, CCI] A6 Daily 1600-1900 17705 Note that from scheduling, Angel 3, 4 and 5 must all be T8WH. 17705 is indeed on at 1650 check Jan 11, but not audible on 9840. I total those hours up to 154.5 per week, which averages 22.07 per day, close, but not quite 24 hpd. Ivo Ivanov has come up with a different schedule contradicting WHR`s website, including some more BS on A1, 5920 and 9495; A2 on 7305, 9505 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I received a very strong signal (9+30dB) of TOM on 9955 kHz at 0945 (tune-in) to 1100* on Jan. 11. Not Okeechobee, Probably I think that it is from Taiwan (S. Hasegawa, Japan, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) no, it`s Palau, as above (gh, DXLD) TOM via WHR --- The Overcomer Ministries 0100-0300 15680 via PLW Angel 4 0700-0800 9930 via PLW Angel 3, 11565 via HRI Angel 2 0700-1100 9955 via PLW Angel 5 1500-1800 9930 via PLW Angel 3 1600-1800 9840 via HRI Angel 2 1600-1900 9955 via PLW Angel 4, 17705 via HRI Angel 6 1800-2030 17610 via HRI Angel 1 2000-2100 9840 via HRI Angel 2 2200-2300 9840 via HRI Angel 2 de S. Aoki (S. Hasegawa, Jan 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Not all these are 7 days a week, some 5 or 6, according to the WHR schedule I previously quoted. And further adjustments, below & below (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) 17705, Jan 12 at 1621, Brother Scare via WHRI is VG here, but nothing on scheduled // 9840. Both these are supposed to be daily at 1600- 1800, unlike certain other transmissions at 5 or 6 days a week. See also USA: WRMI. 17610, Jan 13 at 2036, Brother Scare VG here on new WHRI frequency and also on weaker 9840. This contradicts the sked I first copied from WHR website on Jan 11 showing 17610 M-F at 1800-2030. Now it`s 1800-2100. 9840 among other times, during the 20-21 hour is also M-F only; Angels 1 & 2. So that makes SIX frequencies and five stations at once on 31m during this hour, along with: 9370-WWRB, 9690-WRMI, 9930-WTWW, 9955-WRMI, 9980-WWCR. Plus two more WRMIs: 7730 very poor, 11825 very good (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Jamming on 11825? See CUBA Brother Stair via World Harvest Radio (registered frequencies): [an updated version is further below] WHRI-1 0600-0700 5920 HRI 250 kW / 173 deg SoAm English 0700-0800 11565 HRI 250 kW / 245 deg AUS English confirmed Jan. 11 1900-2000 9495 HRI 250 kW / 173 deg SoAm English 2000-2100 17610 HRI 250 kW / 085 deg CeAf English WHRI-2 0600-0900 7315 HRI 250 kW / 152 deg SoAm English no signal Jan. 11 1900-2000 15665 HRI 250 kW / 152 deg SoAm English 2000-2300 9505 HRI 250 kW / 047 deg WeEu English 2300-2400 9505 HRI 250 kW / 047 deg WeEu English T8WH-3 without registered additional or new frequencies T8WH-4 1500-1600 9930#HBN 100 kW / 270 deg SEAs English, ex registered 9905 1600-2000 9930#HBN 100 kW / 270 deg SEAs English, ex registered 9955 WHRI-5 [-5 is obviously T8WH PALAU, not HRI South Carolina! --- gh] 0000-0700 9965 HRI 100 kW / 345 deg NEAs English 0700-1100 9955*HRI 100 kW / 345 deg NEAs English confirmed Jan 11 1100-1300 9950 HRI 100 kW / 345 deg NEAs English no signal Jan 11 1600-1900 9955*HRI 100 kW / 345 deg NEAs English, ex registered 9905 1900-2400 9965 HRI 100 kW / 345 deg NEAs English WHRI-6 1600-1900 17705 HRI 100 kW / 315 deg NWAm English confirmed Jan 11 # 9930 T8WH-4 with 9 sec delay from 9930 WTWW * 9955 WHRI-5 with 9 sec delay from 9955 WRMI (Ivo Ivanov, DX RE MIX NEWS #833 January 11, 2014, via DXLD) TOM apparently via WHRI super power on 17705 kHz when tuned after VOA Radiogram around 1630 UT). By far strongest signal on the band (Bob LaRose, San Diego, Jan 11, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Updated schedule of Brother Stair via World Harvest Radio: WHRI Angel 1 1800-2100 on 17610 HRI 250 kW / 085 deg to CeAf English Mon-Fri WHRI Angel 2 0700-0800 on 11565 HRI 250 kW / 245 deg to AUS English 1600-1800 on 9840 HRI 250 kW / 025 deg to ENAm English 2000-2100 on 9840 HRI 250 kW / 025 deg to ENAm English Mon-Fri 2200-2300 on 9840 HRI 250 kW / 025 deg to ENAm English Sun-Fri T8WH Angel 3 0700-0800 on 9930 HBN 100 kW / 318 deg to EaAs English 1500-1800 on 9930 HBN 100 kW / 318 deg to EaAs English T8WH Angel 4 0100-0300 on 15680 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs English Mon-Sat 1600-1900 on 9955 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs English WHRI Angel 5 [this is HBN, not HRI! --- gh] 0700-1100 on 9955 HRI 100 kW / 345 deg to NEAs English WHRI Angel 6 1600-1900 on 17705 HRI 100 kW / 315 deg to WNAm English (Ivo Ivanov, DX RE MIX NEWS# 834 January 14, 2014, via DXLD) Updated winter B-13 schedule of Brother Stair TOM from Jan. 11: [thrice again, the 9955 entries at 07-11 below, as also above are HBN/T8WH, not HRI --- gh] 0000-0100 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg ENAm English 0000-0100 5110vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm English CUSB Tue-Sat 0000-0100 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English 0000-0100 11565 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg BRAS English 0000-0100 13695 YFR 100 kW / 151 deg NSAm English 0100-0200 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg ENAm English 0100-0200 5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg SoAm English 0100-0200 5110vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm English CUSB Tue-Sat 0100-0200 7490 BCQ 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm English Mon-Fri 0100-0200 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English 0100-0200 11565 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg BRAS English 0100-0200 13695 YFR 100 kW / 151 deg NSAm English 0100-0200 15680 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg SEAs English Mon-Sat 0200-0300 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg ENAm English 0200-0300 5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg SoAm English 0200-0300 5110vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm English CUSB Tue-Sat 0200-0300 7490 BCQ 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm English Mon-Sat 0200-0300 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English 0200-0300 11565 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg BRAS English 0200-0300 13695 YFR 100 kW / 151 deg NSAm English 0200-0300 15680 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg SEAs English Mon-Sat 0300-0400 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg ENAm English 0300-0400 5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg SoAm English 0300-0400 5110vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm English CUSB Tue-Sat 0300-0400 7490 BCQ 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm English Mon-Sat 0300-0400 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English 0300-0400 9495 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg CARR English 0300-0400 11565 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg BRAS English 0400-0500 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg ENAm English 0400-0500 5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg SoAm English 0400-0500 5110vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm English CUSB Tue-Sat 0400-0500 5890 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg ENAm English Tue-Sat 0400-0500 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English 0400-0500 9495 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg CARR English 0400-0500 9840 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg NCAf English 0400-0500 11565 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg BRAS English 0500-0600 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg ENAm English 0500-0600 5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg SoAm English 0500-0600 5110vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm English CUSB 0500-0600 5890 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg ENAm English 0500-0600 7490 BCQ 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm English 0500-0600 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English 0500-0600 9495 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg CARR English 0500-0600 9840 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg NCAf English 0500-0600 11565 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg BRAS English 0600-0700 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg ENAm English 0600-0700 3215 WCR 100 kW / 046 deg WeEu English Mon-Sat 0600-0700 5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg SoAm English 0600-0700 5110vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm English CUSB 0600-0700 5890 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg ENAm English 0600-0700 7490 BCQ 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm English 0600-0700 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English 0600-0700 9495 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg CARR English 0600-0700 9840 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg NCAf English 0600-0700 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm English 0700-0800 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg ENAm English 0700-0800 3215 WCR 100 kW / 046 deg WeEu English Mon-Sat 0700-0800 5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg SoAm English 0700-0800 5110vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm English CUSB 0700-0800 5890 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg ENAm English 0700-0800 7490 BCQ 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm English 0700-0800 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English 0700-0800 9495 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg CARR English 0700-0800 9840 YFR 100 kW / 087 deg NCAf English 0700-0800 9930 HBN 100 kW / 318 deg EaAs English 0700-0800 9955 HRI 100 kW / 345 deg NEAs English [really HBN/T8WH gh] 0700-0800 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm English 0700-0800 11565 HRI 250 kW / 245 deg AUS English 0800-1000 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg ENAm English 0800-1000 3215 WCR 100 kW / 046 deg WeEu English Mon-Sat 0800-1000 5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg SoAm English 0800-1000 5110vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm English CUSB 0800-1000 5890 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg ENAm English 0800-1000 7490 BCQ 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm English 0800-1000 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English 0800-1000 9495 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg CARR English 0800-1000 9955 HRI 100 kW / 345 deg NEAs English [really HBN/T8WH gh] 0800-1000 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm English 1000-1100 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg ENAm English 1000-1100 5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg SoAm English 1000-1100 5110vBCQ 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm English CUSB 1000-1100 5890 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg ENAm English 1000-1100 7490 BCQ 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm English 1000-1100 9495 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg CARR English 1000-1100 9955 HRI 100 kW / 345 deg NEAs English [really HBN/T8WH gh] 1000-1100 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm English 1000-1100 11825 YFR 100 kW / 355 deg ENAm English 1100-1200 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg ENAm English 1100-1200 5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg SoAm English 1100-1200 5890 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg ENAm English 1100-1200 9495 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg CARR English 1100-1200 9690 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg WNAm English 1100-1200 11825 YFR 100 kW / 355 deg ENAm English 1200-1300 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg ENAm English 1200-1300 5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg SoAm English 1200-1300 5890 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg ENAm English Mon-Fri 1200-1300 9495 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg CARR English 1200-1300 9690 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg WNAm English 1200-1300 11825 YFR 100 kW / 355 deg ENAm English 1300-1400 3185 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg ENAm English 1300-1400 5085 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg SoAm English 1300-1400 9690 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg WNAm English 1300-1400 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg ENAm English Mon-Fri 1300-1400 11825 YFR 100 kW / 355 deg ENAm English 1400-1500 9370 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg ENAm English 1400-1500 9460 NAU 100 kW / 270 deg WeEu English Mon-Fri 1400-1500 9460 MOS 100 kW / 285 deg WeEu English Sat/Sun 1400-1500 9690 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg WNAm English 1400-1500 9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg SoAm English 1400-1500 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg ENAm English Mon-Fri 1400-1500 11825 YFR 100 kW / 355 deg ENAm English 1400-1500 13810 ISS 100 kW / 120 deg N/ME English 1500-1600 9370 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg ENAm English 1500-1600 9460 NAU 100 kW / 270 deg WeEu English Mon-Fri 1500-1600 9460 MOS 100 kW / 285 deg WeEu English Sat/Sun 1500-1600 9690 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg WNAm English 1500-1600 9930 HBN 100 kW / 318 deg EaAs English 1500-1600 9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg SoAm English 1500-1600 9955 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English 1500-1600 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg ENAm English 1500-1600 11825 YFR 100 kW / 355 deg ENAm English 1500-1600 13810 ISS 100 kW / 120 deg N/ME English 1500-1600 15420 BCQ 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm English CUSB 1600-1700 5895 SOF 050 kW / 306 deg CeEu English DRM 1600-1700 6000 SOF 100 kW / 306 deg CeEu English 1600-1700 9370 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg ENAm English 1600-1700 9690 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg WNAm English 1600-1700 9840 HRI 250 kW / 025 deg ENAm English 1600-1700 9930 HBN 100 kW / 318 deg EaAs English 1600-1700 9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg SoAm English 1600-1700 9955 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg SEAs English 1600-1700 9955 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English 1600-1700 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg ENAm English 1600-1700 11825 YFR 100 kW / 355 deg ENAm English 1600-1700 15420 BCQ 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm English CUSB 1600-1700 17705 HRI 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English 1700-1800 5895 SOF 050 kW / 306 deg CeEu English DRM 1700-1800 6000 SOF 100 kW / 306 deg CeEu English 1700-1800 9370 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg ENAm English 1700-1800 9690 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg WNAm English 1700-1800 9840 HRI 250 kW / 025 deg ENAm English 1700-1800 9930 HBN 100 kW / 318 deg EaAs English 1700-1800 9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg SoAm English 1700-1800 9955 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg SEAs English 1700-1800 9955 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English 1700-1800 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg ENAm English 1700-1800 11825 YFR 100 kW / 355 deg ENAm English 1700-1800 15420 BCQ 050 kW / 245 deg ENAm English CUSB 1700-1800 17705 HRI 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English 1800-1900 7730 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg WeEu English 1800-1900 9370 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg ENAm English 1800-1900 9690 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg WNAm English 1800-1900 9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg SoAm English 1800-1900 9955 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg SEAs English 1800-1900 9955 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English 1800-1900 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg ENAm English 1800-1900 11825 YFR 100 kW / 355 deg ENAm English 1800-1900 17610 HRI 250 kW / 085 deg CeAf English Mon-Fri 1800-1900 17705 HRI 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English 1900-2000 7730 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg WeEu English 1900-2000 9370 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg ENAm English 1900-2000 9690 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg WNAm English 1900-2000 9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg SoAm English 1900-2000 9955 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English 1900-2000 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg ENAm English 1900-2000 11825 YFR 100 kW / 355 deg ENAm English 1900-2000 17610 HRI 250 kW / 085 deg CeAf English Mon-Fri 2000-2100 5895 SOF 100 kW / 306 deg CeEu English 2000-2100 7730 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg WeEu English 2000-2100 9370 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg ENAm English 2000-2100 9690 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg WNAm English 2000-2100 9840 HRI 250 kW / 025 deg ENAm English Mon-Fri 2000-2100 9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg SoAm English 2000-2100 9955 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English 2000-2100 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg ENAm English 2000-2100 11825 YFR 100 kW / 355 deg ENAm English 2000-2100 17610 HRI 250 kW / 085 deg CeAf English Mon-Fri 2100-2200 5895 SOF 100 kW / 306 deg CeEu English 2100-2200 9370 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg ENAm English 2100-2200 9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg SoAm English 2100-2200 9955 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English 2100-2200 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg ENAm English Sat/Sun 2100-2200 11825 YFR 100 kW / 355 deg ENAm English 2200-2300 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English 2200-2300 9370 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg ENAm English 2200-2300 9690 YFR 100 kW / 222 deg CARB English 2200-2300 9840 HRI 250 kW / 025 deg ENAm English Sun-Fri 2200-2300 9930 TWW 100 kW / 180 deg SoAm English 2200-2300 9955 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg CeAm English Mon-Fri 2200-2300 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg ENAm English Mon-Fri 2300-2400 7570 YFR 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English 2300-2400 9370 WRB 100 kW / 045 deg ENAm English 2300-2400 9980 WCR 100 kW / 090 deg ENAm English Mon-Fri v=5109.75 (Ivo Ivanov, DX RE MIX NEWS# 834 January 14, 2014, via DXLD) New frequency of Brother Stair via World Harvest Radio WHRI Angel 2: 2200-2300 NF 9505 HRI 250 kW / 047 deg WeEu English Sun-Fri, ex 9840 (Ivo, January 15, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9955, WRMI (Okeechobee) 1510, 1603 14, 15 Jan. BS with another BS audio track in the background. Isn't one LDPOG per frequency enough? At least on T & Th, BS is moshed up by CNR1 jamming RFA (Tinian Isl) in Tibetan 15-16 (Dan Sheedy, Swami's Beach, CA G5/6m X wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The other one is T8WH; see above (gh) 9840, Jan 15 at 1953, WHRI with some other gospel huxter, but 2000 after Onward Christian Soldiers, cut to join Brother Scare in progress (the only way to join TOM, since there are no ID breaks provided!). For a while there is a medium SAH, from some other transmitter --- maybe overlap of two Cypress Creeks? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: WWRB ** SPAIN. 21540 & 21630, Jan 9 at 1412, for the record in another year, REE is *still* colliding with other stations on the otherwise almost-vacant 13m band: Kuwait on 21540 and BBC Ascension Hausa on 21630, which is on top at the moment. Third REE channel 21610 remains in the clear. This monumental case of frequency mismanagement continues in 2014 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [and non]. 11780.1, UT Tue Jan 14, make a point of checking QRM during RNB`s main collision with another station, Spain`s Sephardic service which stupidly stays on 11780 instead of alternate 11795 or some other clear frequency for its weekly broadcast at 0115-0145: at 0112, there they are with the REE IS making a LAH circa 100 Hz against RNB. This is hardly an improvement over colliding directly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA [and non]. Broadcast battles --- Tracing the fascinating story of the rivalry that raged between All India Radio and Radio Ceylon between the 1950s and 1970s. More at: http://www.thehindu.com/features/magazine/broadcast-battles/article5562685.ece?homepage=true --- (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, Jan 11, dx_sasia yg via DXLD) ** SUDAN. 7205, presumed Sudan RTVC, Al-Aitahab, Jan 7, Arabic; Call to Prayer at tune/in; M announcer with talk; Kor`an-like chanting at 0315; poor/weak with a few inaudible periods (Scott R. Barbour, Jr., Intervale, N.H. USA, NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SURINAME. 4990, R. Apintie, Paramaribo, 0943-1000 Jan 13; M announcer over music in listed Dutch; M & W announcers with promos & several IDs, "...always (on?)..always will be.. Radio Apintie!" ; lite misc. at 0955, into M announcer; losing it to local QRN at ToH; weak but clear in ECSS-USB, best heard here in quite some time (Scott R. Barbour, Jr., Intervale, NH, NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SYRIA. INAUGURAN EMISORA DE RADIO EN SIRIA by gruporadioescuchaargentino Dos nuevos medios de difusión, uno televisivo y otro radial, se abrieron en las provincias sirias de Latakia y Sweida. “Ugarit”, el nuevo canal de televisión del Centro de Radiotelevisión en Latakia, programará espacios para tratar asuntos políticos, culturales y sociales, además de publicar boletines informativos durante 12 horas diarias en un periodo inicial. Omran al-Zougbi, ministro de Información de Siria, resaltó el valor de su salida al aire en medio de las difíciles circunstancias que atraviesa el país y los desafíos que enfrenta, los cuales imponen a todos trabajar y emplear todas las capacidades. Al destacar los esfuerzos realizados para el lanzamiento del nuevo canal, al-Zougbi dijo que constituye un logro para todo el pueblo, e hizo un llamamiento a los trabajadores de Ugarit para emplear un discurso mediático “aceptable y patriótico” que una a todos los ciudadanos. El titular de Información anunció que comenzarán, además, las primeras trasmisiones de la emisora radial “al-Karamah”, en la sureña provincia de Sweida. Esa radioemisora, detalló el Ministro, cubrirá las actividades y sucesos que acontezcan en la Región Sur del país. De esa manera, según comunicadores locales, se contribuye a enfrentar la guerra mediática desatada por grandes órganos de prensa internacionales que, desde el inicio del conflicto hace tres años, distorsiona la realidad de lo que ocurre realmente en Siria. (Con información de Prensa Latina) (GRA Blog via DXLD) WTFK? This blog never provides a direct link to the original source. Since it`s Prensa Latina, Cuban communist, these stations are obviously part of the Assad regime, as Cuba reflexively allies itself with any bloody despot. There is a link to Cubadebate, which is already a secondary source quoting PL, from which a search finds the story here: http://www.cubadebate.cu/noticias/2014/01/01/inauguran-un-canal-de-tv-y-una-radioemisora-en-siria/ (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN [non]. 9895, Jan 15 at 1954, music on poor signal, sounds somewhat African; the only frequency on 31m I don`t recognize at the moment; 1956 YL announcement in French, web address, au revoir, but can`t catch any details; bit of vocal music at 1958-1959.6*. HFCC shows this is BaBcoCk, 315 degrees from UAE to Europe, so also aimed USward. That`s a big help, but what station, is it, really? Go to EiBi: R. Taiwan International at 1900-2000. BTW, Jeff White informs that RTI will be testing via Okeechobee, in Spanish this Saturday and Sunday night, UT Sun & Mon Jan 19-20 at 0300-0400 on 7730. Reports wanted especially from Mexico, Central America and Caribbean; results will determine whether they resume relays they once had by WYFR. I asked Jeff, what about English?: And he says RTI are also considering testing that for North America! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN [non]. PCJ Radio International to North America on 11880 kHz: Today from 1330 to 1430 UT we will be live to North America on 11880. Program schedule: 1330 UT - Focus Asia Pacific with Andy Sennitt 1345 UT - Media Network Plus (LIVE EDITION) 1415 UT - Switzerland In Sound with Bob Zanotti Regards, (Keith Perron, PCJ, 1113 UT Sat Jan 11, dxldyg via DXLD) Pretty much flying over me here, just 90 minutes driving time from Okeechobee, but I can hear snippets of audio with signal strengthening to listenable level by 1355. Then, at 1400, an unidentified station came on that covered PCJ enough to ruin reception. Checking my resources, I see no other station listed for 11880 at that time; so further research will be needed to decipher the interloper (John Figliozzi, Sarasota, FL, Sent from my iPad, 1430 UT Jan 11, ibid.) As I already reported when it first appeared Dec 29 and in DXLD 14-01, the `interloper` is, as now listed in Aoki: 11880*VOICE OF AMERICA 1400-1500 1.....7 Tibetan 250 70 Kuwait KWT 2931N 04741E IBB/VOA b13 Dec.29 So it`s Saturdays & Sundays only, just right to QRM both PCJ broadcasts. Apparently your resources do not include DXLD or Aoki? I wonder if Keith or Jeff noticed my report either? Since they have stayed on 11880. Of course, it`s not too much of a problem here in central N America. And --- I forgot all about checking for PCJ on Saturday, just waking up (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) I suppose I should've written "Checking the resources I currently have on hand..." as I was in a remote location with a portable receiver and my cellphone, trying to get away from all the RF noise and hash in my condo. I do have access to DXLD and Aoki, but I lack a photographic memory and total recall of everything I read and see. :) My humblest apologies (John Figliozzi, near Sarasota FL, ibid.) And mine: Nor do I, but I remember better stuff that I have logged myself or edited into DXLD, which is a lot, spending too many hours putting it all together for easy reference(?) later. I use *no* mobile devices, so almost always have access to data only via the desktop when on (Glenn, ibid.) Decent reception of the PCJ Radio transmission here in Northern Virginia on 11 January, using an NRD-525 AOR LA-390 indoor loop. I received equally decent copy on an Eton E5 with its whip antenna. Thankfully no interference experienced here on 11880 kHz during the one hour transmission, from 1330-1430. As for the content, there was some nice shortwave nostalgia material midway through the broadcast, and toward the end Bob Zanotti had an interesting piece on the Swiss tourism industry (Jon Mulcare, Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android, Jan 11, ibid.) PCJ via Okeechobee 12 Jan 2014 --- Transmitter on at 1326, followed by TOM's Brother Stair at 1328, interrupted mid-speech by station ID and contact info for WRMI. This was followed by Keith Perron's PCJ station ID in mid-sentence announcing the FM frequency (in Port Moresby, PNG) and time after the pips (1330), followed by news. The signal is not quite as strong as yesterday but almost as strong as local FM with some deep fades (including one during the WRMI info). (Brett Martin, from Virginia (+37.34-79.2, Sangean ATS909-X, whip antenna), dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) PCJ Radio International on January 12 on 4 frequencies: from 1330 9335 TRM 125 kW / 045 deg EaAs English, as scheduled from 1330 9690 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg WNAm English, instead of BroStair from 1330 11825 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg BRAS English, instead of BroStair from 1330 11880 YFR 100 kW / 355 deg ENAm English, as scheduled from 1400 Brother Stair on 9690, 11825 and 11880, instead of PCJ Radio International -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Promptly at 1400, while Keith Perron was mid-sentence requesting reception reports, Brother Stair comes on mid-speech, followed by part of a song, then Brother Stair again by 1402. Still going at 1404 on 11880 kHz until the middle of an Indian song, and then Keith Perron speaking (Brett Martin, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) And again PCJ Radio International on 9690, 11825 and 11880 at 1404 UT (Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Brother Stair back on at 1410 interrupting "Rescue Me" by Aretha Franklin. Still on after three minutes. Need to refund and rebill another customer for the airtime! (Brett Martin, ibid.) from 1330 9690 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg WNAm English PCJ, instead of TOM from 1330 11825 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg BRAS English PCJ, instead of TOM from 1330 11880 YFR 100 kW / 355 deg ENAm English PCJ 1400-1404 9690 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg WNAm English TOM 1400-1404 11825 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg BRAS English TOM 1400-1404 11880 YFR 100 kW / 355 deg ENAm English TOM, instead of PCJ from 1411 9690 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg WNAm English TOM from 1411 11825 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg BRAS English TOM from 1411 11880 YFR 100 kW / 355 deg ENAm English PCJ (Ivo Ivanov, 1416 UT, ibid.) I *THINK* it was PCJ Radio that came on air at c1330 on 11880, but the signal was too weak and in noise to positively ID. At 1400 the VOA via KWT (listed) came onto the frequency in Tibetan - not jammed. This frequency in use on Sat/Sun only according to Aoki. 11825 = nothing heard until R. Romania International started at 1400- 1427 in Chinese. What sounds to be AIR is using 9690 with no trace of PCJ or TOM (Noel R. Green (NW England), 1436 UT, ibid.) 11880, Jan 12 at 1329 tune-in I`m hearing Brother Scare instead, but soon switch a bit late to PCJ program, mentioning FM in Port Moresby, and timesignal 30 seconds late, which is worse than no timesignal at all. `Focus Asia Pacific` first with several stories in depth; 1345 only commercial, again for Tecsun (sounds like Texan; not) and into `Happy Station`, live. Including mailbag acknowledgments and mention that Victor G has just reported that CNR1 is QRMing, presumably meaning on 9335; is it deliberate jamming again? As usual, nothing audible here on that from Sri Lanka or China. OK until 1400 when 11880 suddenly switches to Brother Scare, becoming // 11825 and 9690. This goes on for four minutes while we miss PCJ. 1404 back to PCJ not only on 11880, but now that`s also on 9690 and 11825 instead of BS! (Meanwhile 9955 continued with separate programs) Keith Perron says the PCJ SW broadcasts will be taking a break until after Chinese New Year as he has other stuff to do, but will definitely come back. A transmitter from RIZ in Croatia is anticipated to arrive shortly for his own SW station in Taiwan, after lots of red- tape import delays. Keith is also again promoting giveaway of a SW receiver. But before we can hear the call-out for that (my phone never rang), at 1421 another feed switch on 11880, not to BS this time, but to the YFR themesong loop which WRMI has on standby as filler. And so that continued for the rest of the hour until 1430* (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DX LISTENING DIGEST) As for the problems with transmission yesterday. You can publish this what I got from Jeff: ``Yes, I know what happened. But it took us several hours today to figure out what was going on. At 4:00 am local time this morning, two of our computers lost Internet connection, but the others were working. We tried to figure out what was going on until 6 am, when one by one the two computers regained their Internet connections. We thought everything was OK. Then at 8:00 am (1300 UT), we noticed there was no Internet connection on the computer which runs the audio for the special transmission at 1330-1430. It went on and off for the next 20 minutes. I decided that was not very reliable, so we switched the computer that has the Brother Stair audio (the Internet was working on that computer) to transmitter #8, which we use for the 1330 PCJ transmission. I reprogrammed the automation to drop out of Brother Stair at 1329, play an ID, and then play the PCJ audio stream for the next hour. Everything was OK for the first half-hour (I don't know why someone might have noted "low gain"; everything was normal here as far as the transmitter was concerned), but at the top of the hour I had forgotten to take out the ID and the reconnection to the Brother Stair stream. When I heard that happen, I quickly reprogrammed the automation to pick up the PCJ stream again (thus the switch to Brother Stair audio for two minutes), which it did. The problem was that since we were using the Brother Stair audio computer to air PCJ, we essentially had to pre-empt Brother Stair for an hour and air PCJ audio on his two frequencies (9690 and 11825 kHz) in addition to 11880. So your show ran on all three frequencies. Later on today, we found that the WYFR Internet service was switched off today by the telephone company. We had some of our computers connected to that Internet service and some connected to our own Internet line (T1 service from the phone company). When WYFR's service went off, all equipment started using the WRMI Internet, and it overloaded the T1 circuit, causing these intermittent dropouts. We have another Internet service scheduled for connection this coming week (this one comes via microwave), and that, together with the T1, should be more than enough to handle all of our operations. We are in a very rural location, so the Internet options are extremely limited here and installation can take some time. We were hoping that WYFR's line would not go down until the new service got connected. So that -- if you could follow all of that -- is what happened. Sorry for the short dropout at the top of the hour, but at least you got the two extra frequencies as a bonus!`` 73, (Keith Perron, Taiwan, Jan 12, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN [non]. Prueba Especial de Radio Taiwan Internacional via WRMI Okeechobee --- Este fin de semana WRMI Okeechobee Florida transmitirá dos transmisiones de prueba para el servicio en español de Radio Taiwan Internacional. Las transmisiones serán de 0300-0400 UT enero 19 y 20 (son las noches de sabado 18 y domingo 19 de enero en las Américas) en la frecuencia de 7730 kHz en [sic] la banda de 41 metros. Agradeceríamos informes de oyentes en América Latina, y en especial de México, Centroamérica y el Caribe, avisándonos cómo está la recepción en su área. Los resultados determinarán si las transmisiones serán regulares en el futuro. Como recordarán, Radio Taiwán Internacional transmitía regularmente via Okeechobee en el pasado cuando la emisora perteneció a WYFR Family Radio. Muchas gracias por su cooperación e información (Jeff White, WRMI Radio Miami International, Jan 14, WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Jeff, Muy bien, pero no les interesa probar en inglés? 73, (Guillermo Glenn to Jeff White, via DXLD) Sí, están pensando en inglés para Norteamérica también (Jeff to Glenn via WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAJIKISTAN. Regarding Voice of Tajik: ``Voice of Tajikistan transmits on 7245 in English for one hour from 0100-0200 UT -- Ken Reitz, Spectrum Monitor`` ``GH: I think English at 01 is on their web schedule, but 7245 does not come on until 0200, tsk2. WRTH does show English at 13-14 on same, hardly ever reported and also needs to be confirmed.`` I can confirm Voice of Tajik does have an English broadcast at 1300- 1400 UT on 7245 kHz. It's a tough catch here in Romania because of interference from PBS Xizang (7240 kHz), CNR2 (co-channel 7245 kHz) and Bangladesh Betar (7250 kHz - unlisted broadcast between 1300 and 1400?). Therefore I can barely understand what the Tajik lady presenter is saying but their program contains information about Tajikistan (history, culture, geography) alternating with lots of Tajik music. Too bad it's unlistenable; it could be interesting (Tudor Vedeanu, (Gura Humorului, Romania), Jan 9, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DX LISTENING DIGEST) No problem, a friend of mine is working in Ovozi Tojik. Here is the podcast of the English programming: http://radio360.eu/index.php/english-podcasts/70-tajikistan The Schedule (All Times Local Time Dushanbe) [UT +5 yearound per WRTH] 7.00-9.00 ????? ??????. (Tojik) 9.00-11.00 ????? ?????. (Farsi) 11.00-13.00 ????? ????. (Dari) 13.00-15.00 ????? ????. (Russian) 15.00-16.00 ????? ??????. (Uzbek) 16.00-17.00 ????? ?????. (Hindi) 17.00-18.00 ????? ?????. (Arab) 18.00-19.00 ????? ???????.(English) 19:00-07:00 is repetition of 07:00-19:00. And the webstream: http://broadcast.funkhaus.info/ovozitojik.m3u Best regards, (Christian, Germany, WORLD OF RADIO 1704, ibid.) So that leads to English repeat on webcast only at 01-02 UT (gh) ** TANZANIA (non). re: DXLD 14-02 "5985 1630 4 Jan. TZA??" yup, probably CRI (Beijing) in Swahili -- sked 16-1657, 17-1757 and heard here daily, causing grief to Myanmar-5985/5985.8a (depending on the Myanmar site being used that day) (Dan Sheedy, Swami's Beach, CA G5/PL380 + 6m X wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. Voice of Turkey have revamped their programmes for 2014, as follows from: http://www.trtenglish.com/trtworld/en/newsDetail.aspx?HaberKodu=e4cb83ce-e083-4839-92f2-3a5164cda1ab A LOOK AT FEATURE PROGRAMS ON THE VOICE OF TURKEY IN 2014 The Voice of Turkey will present a number of new feature programs in the year 2014, on a range of issues, such as culture, history, education and politics. Posted 26.12.2013 15:15:35 UTC - Updated 26.12.2013 15:29:41 UTC Should you like to know more about educational activities in Turkey, please tune in to the Voice of Turkey on Mondays in 2014 to listen to our new program, TURKEY'S EDUCATIONAL PORTFOLIO. In 2014, Voice of Turkey’s new feature program, HEALTH, TOURISM AND TURKEY will be broadcast on Mondays, promoting services offered as part of medical tourism in Turkey. Turkey attracts medical tourists from Europe and the Balkans, the United States, Eurasia and the Middle East, and hosts about 200 thousand patients annually. Tune in to the Voice of Turkey on Tuesdays in 2014 to listen to our new history program about TURKS AND THE EUROPEAN HISTORY. It tells how European and Turkish history are connected and how great the impact of the Turks on Europe was. If you are looking to learn more about Turkey’s historical, cultural and touristic assets, then lend an ear to our TURKEY IN A NUTSHELL on Wednesdays in 2014 on the Voice of Turkey. Turkey’s past and present relations with the European Union are the main theme of our new feature program in 2014, THE EUROPEAN UNION. Tune in on Thursdays to know more about what direction ties between these two actors will take in the future. NOTES FROM EURASIA is Voice of Turkey’s new feature program to be broadcast on Sundays in 2014. In this programme, we will be sharing with you political, economic and cultural developments in the Middle East, Balkans, Caucasus and Central Asia. Please tune in to the Voice of Turkey on Sundays in the second term of 2014 to listen to our feature program TURKEY FROM FORTRESS TO FORTRESS to know more about historical fortresses across Turkey. Voice of Turkey’s feature program HAREM will be broadcast on Sundays in the first term of 2014, recounting truths about the sphere of women and their enclosed quarters in Ottoman Sultan’s household. TURKEY’S LEGENDARY FIGURES is a feature program from Voice of Turkey’s archive to be broadcast on Thursdays in 2014. It tells the lives and work of legendary personas in Turkish history, and their influences on our lives. Tune in to the Voice of Turkey on Tuesdays in 2014 to listen to our archive program HEADING TOWARDS TURKEY, which aims to inform our listeners about the least visited spots and sites, unbeknownst to many tourists. Our best-loved feature program LETTER BOX will meet you once every two weeks on Saturdays in 2014. We share the letters and e-mails we receive from our listeners, and answer in the best way possible to their questions about a number of topics, such as Turkey and our radio. Voice of Turkey’s fortnightly feature program the DX CORNER will be aired on Saturdays in the new term, to bring you the latest from the world of radio and bring about a stronger relationship between you and us. Make sure you tune in to the Voice of Turkey on Fridays in 2014 to listen to TURKEY AND WORLD AGENDA to learn more about Turkey, international relations, Turkish foreign policy and listen to political analyses from socio-economic and cultural perspectives. The Voice of Turkey will broadcast THE TURKISH ALBUM on Fridays in the new term to bring you current, social, cultural and scientific developments as well as significant achievements of Turkish people around the world. All these feature programs will be downloadable on our website (via Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, Jan 12, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DXLD) Notable for our DX/SWL/MEDIA programs schedule is that the mailbag has been moved from Wednesdays now to alternate with DX Corner on Saturdays. That certainly makes sense (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE. [Re 14-02:] The IS of RUI, mentioned to be the same as during Soviet times is indeed true, but easily explained: The tune is from the first verse from Taras Shevchenko's (the national bard who lived in the 19th century) "Reve Ta Stohne Dnipr' shyrokyi" (The Dnipro River moans and cries..., or something like that), which completely pre-dates the Soviet Union, and has nothing to do whatsoever with communism, and is a very patriotic Ukrainian poem/song. So makes sense that it continues after the fall of communism in Ukraine. 73, (Volodya Walt Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, Jan 13, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) The news with Tatiana in English : http://schedule.nrcu.gov.ua/grid/channel/period/item-listen-popup.html?periodItemID=340850 (Dario Monferini, playdx yg via DXLD) ** U S S R. Jamming history: see MUSEA below ** U K. [Cf RUSSIA]. Minutes of a meeting of Elexon last February show that the proposed BBC Radio Teleswitch contract was to be until March 2020, was due to be signed last June. "The BBC's expectation is that there is no obvious reason why, with appropriate maintenance and care, Radio 4 Long Wave at Droitwich [198 kHz] should not continue until at least January 2018, and bidders are being asked to agree to this as part of any contract; If necessary, investment may be required past 2018 to maintain services." Full minutes see page 10 and 11. http://www.elexon.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/SVG144-Minutes_v1.0.pdf (Mike Barraclough, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. BBC unveils a season of hard-hitting investigative programmes in Freedom2014 :: Media Update --- New documentary series on various BBC platforms including the World Service http://www.mediaupdate.co.za/?IDStory=58885 (Richard Cuff, internetradio via DXLD) Full details of Freedom2014 programming, as well as images and video content can be found here. http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2014/freedom2014.html (via DXLD) ** U S A. Re: Program 41, 11-12 January 2014: This is a "set it and forget it" program. All content, include the program preview, will be in MFSK32, on the usual 1500 Hz center frequency. You won't have to worry about mode changes. And there won't be any Flmsg. You can tune in this program, set your software to MFSK32, make sure the first few line decode correctly, go do something else for a half hour, then look at the results later. The two images will be stored in the folder \fldigi.files\images somewhere on your hard drive. Program 41 will consist of press releases from the Broadcasting Board of Governors, parent agency of the Voice of America (Kim Elliott, Dec 30, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) The transatlantic data reception was again without any problems. The text was free of errors and the images were usable. And the content: Yes, "Video killed the radio star" - this is also now obvious for broadcasting abroad. At the end of my html again a few Easypal images. And where I had received my first DRM picture? - yes, via the 17860 kHz VoA-Radiogram: http://www.rhci-online.de/VoA_Radiogram_2014-01-11.htm 73+55 (roger, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. Frequency change of Voice of America: 1700-1800 NF 9705 LAM 100 kW / 108 deg to WeAs Kurdish, ex 11820 (Ivo Ivanov, DX RE MIX NEWS #833 January 11, 2014, via DXLD) ** U S A. 15570, Jan 15 at 1949, good open carrier, no doubt Greenville B warming up for 2000 transmission when it will jump to proper 15580. Meanwhile, VOA Botswana on 15580 until 2000 gets no QRM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 26110/FM, KMK282, KOVR-TV Sacramento CA studio relay; 1636- 1705+, 5-Jan [Sunday]; "Live from across the valley, this is Good Day Sacramento" with Lorrie Wallace; "8:38 Stretch" playing Take Me Out to the Ball Game; feature on a robotic hair cutter. Local news at 1702+. OC stayed on during breaks with some off-mike talk. Very good peaks with some 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. 9955, WRMI, 09/01 0430 UT. Programa “World of Radio” con Glenn Hauser hablando de curiosidades y anormalidades DX ocurridas la semana de cambio de año o en año nuevo. Son interesantes las informaciones sobre BBC y de un par de emisoras peruanas desde Cusco, en onda tropical ¿Estarán activas? [4780 & 4800 per WRTH 2014] El programa finaliza a las 0459. SINPO: 55454 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 5 metros, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, Chile, condiglista yg via DXLD) WORLD OF RADIO 1703 monitoring: again not completed in time for first airing at 0430 UT Thursday Jan 9 on WRMI 9955. So first airing is ready for 1330 Thursday on 9955. Once again, our 29-minute show won`t fit into the slot available. This time rather than music fill, R. Prague hasn`t quite finished talking by 1330:05 when cut off for WRMI ID by Andy Sennitt, delaying start of WOR playback until 1330:37. As I am starting the last item before propagation, about two additional times on WRMI itself, cut to `Scoreboard` at 1359:06, then surprisingly skips any ToH ID and 1400 right into next preacher. So 29:00 minutes of WOR would have fit into the slot if the ID hadn`t run before it. That`s progress. Also: transmitter/antenna switch from 160 to 315 degrees happens early today at 1353:03, very smoothly as I am talking, with hardly a glitch, and suddenly the pulse jamming is greatly suppressed and WRMI comes in much louder. Further: Thu 2201 on WTWW-1, 9475 UT Friday 0430v on WWRB, 3195 [tune early; last week already at 0426-] Saturday 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Sat 2130 on WRMI 7730 toward Europe UT Sun 0030 on WRMI 9495 toward S America [both these maybe, as experimented last week] UT Sun 0030 on WTWW-2, 5085 UT Sun 0501 on WTWW-1, 5830 UT Mon 0400v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Tue 1200 on WRMI 9955 Wed 0730 & 1530 on HLR 7265-CUSB WORLD OF RADIO 1703 monitoring: confirmed from 2201 Thursday Jan 9 on WTWW-1, 9475, very good signal as always here, and playing until completion at 2230. Also confirmed on WWRB, 3195, good signal UT Friday Jan 10 at 0449 check, after first monitoring webcast: screaming preacher is stopped, faded out at 0429:16; respectful 20-second pause until WOR 1703 starts. (These are the times as heard delayed on web; subtract several seconds for the SW times.) Still no // 5050. 3195 good loud signal, but verging on overmodulation distortion. Next: Sat 0730 & 1530 on HLR 7265-CUSB Maybe, as tried last week: Sat 2130 on WRMI-1, 7730; UT Sun 0030 on WRMI-14, 9495 UT Sun 0030 on WTWW-2, 5085 UT Sun 0501 on WTWW-1, 5830 UT Mon 0400v on Area 51 via WBCQ, 5110v-CUSB Tue 1200 on WRMI 9955 Wed 0730 & 1530 on HLR 7265-CUSB WORLD OF RADIO 1703 monitoring: last week`s additional airings on WRMI recurred this week; tnx, Jeff: confirmed Sat Jan 11 at 2130:10 on 7730, poor signal here, but aimed toward Europe, where reports I have seen during other programming also indicate poor reception; and confirmed at 0031 UT Sun Jan 12 on 9495 toward S America, fair signal with some fading, but no jamming --- until 0055 when I can hear the pulses ramping up for adjacent 9490 about to start R. República via France at 0100 (which however was inaudible, just jamming). This time only a few of my words after ``concluding`` were cut off at 0059 for YFR theme and Zanotti ID, 9495 off at 0100:10*. WOR 1703 also confirmed on WTWW-2, 5085, VG starting shortly after 0028 UT Sunday Jan 12. By 0500, WTWW-1, 5830 was very weak but I could make out the carrier, and confirmed WOR on webcast. Next: UT Monday 0400v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB. Tuesday 1200 on WRMI 9955 (hope better than Jan 12: inaudible then) Wednesday 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB WORLD OF RADIO 1703 monitoring: confirmed at new time shortly after 0400 UT Monday Jan 13 on Area 51 webcast, and also sufficient at 0427 check on 5110v-CUSB. WBCQ 5110 schedule http://schedule.wbcq.com/main.php?fn=sked&freq=5110 still doesn`t show WOR then, nor Brother Scare overnight on UT Monday, as audible at 0648 check. Heard at 0358 tune-in before WOR, Allan Maxwell monolog was signing off. This website http://www.worldmicroscope.com/ is much more accurate insofar as Area 51 content which varies from week to week; on UT Jan 13, KIPM at 03-04 & 0430-0500. Next WOR times: Tuesday 1200 on WRMI 9955; Wednesday 0730 & 1530 on HLR 7265-CUSB. WORLD OF RADIO 1703 monitoring: Tue 1200 broadcast on WRMI 9955 is confirmed at 1209, generally atop the pulse jamming; tnx a lot, Arnie! Six hours earlier, no signal audible on 9955. WORLD OF RADIO 1704 monitoring: this week I finish in time for preferred first airing on WRMI, UT Thursday Jan 16 at 0430 on 9955. It does air, complete, as confirmed on webcast, but the 31m band is dead, with a JBA carrier at best on 9955. I hope it`s doing better southward as targeted. I hardly ever hear from South America, so I was pleased to see a log last week, Jan 9 at 0430 on 9955, by Claudio Galaz in Chile, rating it SINPO 55454! Further schedule of WORLD OF RADIO 1704 times: Thursday 1330 on WRMI-10 9955 Thursday 2201 on WTWW-1 9475 UT Friday 0426v on WWRB 3195 Saturday 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Saturday 2130 on WRMI-14 7730 (as aired past two weeks) UT Sunday 0030 on WRMI-11 9495 (as aired past two weeks) UT Sunday 0030 on WTWW-2 5085 UT Sunday 0501 on WTWW-1 5830 UT Monday 0400v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Tuesday 1200 on WRMI-10 9955 Wednesday 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. 11825, Jan 9 at 2124, WRMI is competing with RHC 11880 in the dead-air sweepstakes; see CUBA. Usual very good signal. Just before 2128, modulation starts, not with scheduled Brother Scare, but the old WYFR theme on a loop, orchestral version. 2133 suddenly cuts back to BS, which is the only thing supposed to be on 11825. 9955, the main RMI frequency, is supposed to be with BS also all day long, but instead Jan 9 at 2136 I find the fill-music loop is running, Greek at the moment, later German song, 2140 polka, some songs in Spanish, 2155 fado. See SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. Still music fill until 2159 when there is a bit of BS during switching, Zanotti ID, cut from strong NW signal to weaker SSE signal at 2200, and resuming music loop with German song. 11825, Jan 10 at 1520 as BS is talking about adding six transmitters from World Harvest Radio ``Feb 11``, meaning tomorrow, I hear some CCI underneath, from what? Aoki shows VOA Radio Ashna at 1430-1630, first from Woofferton until 1530, then switching to Kuwait. 9955, Fri Jan 10 at 1359, checking WRMI behaviour again: `Scoreboard` now starts later than before at 1359:10, ID again skipped this hourtop, 1400+ right into preacher. This gives a little more time for the 1330 program to finish, but being `Wavescan` today, there was plenty of fill music at the end. Remember to check whether last week`s extra airings of WOR recur on WRMI: Sat 2130 on 7730 to Europe, UT Sun 0030 on 9495 to S America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also SOUTH CAROLINA [and non] ESTADOS UNIDOS: la emisión de WRMI-TRANSMISORES DE WYFR por los 7730 (que reemplazó a los 15190 [sic; it was ex-15440 --- gh]) de 18 a 22 UT no da señal en mi QTH, al menos durante la primera hora en esta semana de enero. Sugerimos un cambio a los 9 MHz que parece tiene más apertura en ese horario. CORDIALES SALUDOS / GOOD LUCK / (JUAN FRANCO CRESPO * STAMP JOURNALIST (AIPET), SÀLVIA 8 (MAS CLARIANA), E-43800 VALLS-TARRAGONA (ESPAÑA-SPAIN-ESPAGNE-SPANIEN, Jan 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9955 and 9690, Jan 12 at 1155 check, no signals from WRMI; off the air? Odd for it not to be propagating at all. Back to sleep until alarm at 1329 for PCJ Radio International, to find things are all mixed up at WRMI: [see TAIWAN [non] (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9955 & 9840, Jan 14 after 0600 check, WRMI inaudible, maybe just a plunged MUF despite its southerly status. Reaudible after 1200 for WOR on 9955, q.v. Next night Jan 15 at 0631, only pulse jamming audible on 9955, JBA carrier on 9840, maybe BS on WRMI, while 2 MHz down, 7570 BS is at very good level. At this time on 31m, hardly anything but poor signal on 9420, presumably Greece. 9495, UT Wed Jan 15 at 0051, Keith Perron talking about Nauen, closing `Media Network Plus`, a pre-2014 show judging from his comments; 0053 ``73s & 88s to the ladies``, implying some kind of gender selectivity if not bias, music fill; fair-poor on this WRMI transmitter aimed southwards; open carrier until 0100*. Perhaps a new time for that at 0030; worth checking 9495 other days between 00 and 01 for additional airings of other WRMI shows, as WORLD OF RADIO has also been appearing there the past two UT Sundays. 9495, UT Thursday Jan 16 at 0055 check, in Spanish about Venezuela, presumably `Acontecer Venezolano`, quarter-hour show from 0045; only jamming so far is ACI from 9490 ramping up against R. República via France; see CUBA [non]. 9690, Jan 15 at 2007, BS via WRMI now running longer hours, so it blox not only AIR GOS at 1330-1500, but now I hear a low audible heterodyne, no doubt the always off-frequency to low side, Voice of Nigeria. 9955, Wed Jan 15 after 1400, this edition of AWR Wavescan has a substitute presenter, Michael Méndez, I think he said, since Jeff White has laryngitis. See also USA: WINB (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also TAIWAN [non]; USA: WORLD OF RADIO ** U S A. WTWW: AC unit shut down --- The far AC unit under the # 2 transmitter would shut off when the # 2 transmitter was on 5085 khz. It could only be restarted by killing power to the AC unit. Chokes were added in the thermostat line to reduce RF into the ""AC computer. AC unit runs normally on both frequencies (George McClintock, WTWW, Jan 10, with photos, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Air conditioning = cooling 12105, Jan 11 at 1437, WTWW-3 is off again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15420.0-CUSB, Jan 15 at 1948, BBCWS Seychelles atop WBCQ, but no audible het for a change, just a subaudible one of a few Hz, as WBCQ has tweaked its frequency, like it did from 7491+ closer to 7490 (a tad below now). I expect 15420 will eventually drift off like it has time and again. Neither station gets it, that they should be at least 5 kHz apart, permanently! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 3185, Jan 16 at 0105, TOM is missing from WWRB, no signal; while 3215 is on with organ music; by 0134 recheck, BS is back on 3185, and still Bach on 3215 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9975, KVOH, 12/01 0405 UT. Programa “Saturday Night Jazz Session” con música de jazz de los años 40’s y mensajes cristianos intercalados cada 10 minutos aproximadamente. SINPO: 55454 (Claudio Galaz, Rx: Tecsun PL-660, Antena: hilo largo de 5 metros, QTH: Poblado de Barraza Bajo, Comuna de Ovalle, Chile, condig list via DXLD) ** U S A. 7505.81, presumed WRNO New Orleans 0404-0433 Jan 7 English; Classic & contemporary Xmas music; continuous with no ID/announcements at BoH; several years ago, after some outfit in TX-USA took over, I heard WRNO with the same format. Sent my report to the New Orleans address & received a QSL reply from TX-USA address saying at the time they were broadcasting with a low powered, ham unit (Scott R. Barbour, Jr., Intervale, NH, NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 13570, Wed Jan 15 at 2010, WINB with AWR Wavescan, interview or presentation from NASB meet by Jerôme --- of TDF about the Issoudun, France site, but between the accent and the hum on the recording, he was hard to follow. After that, routine JSWC logs from early December, so it was an earlier January episode (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 11550, Jan 10 at 1524 tuneby, the squeal from WEWN Spanish is louder than ever, just about intolerable if one really wanted to listen to it; it`s also a higher pitch than the squeal on // 12050. These are parasitic spurs circa 4 kHz away from main carrier beating against it, and varying depending on modulation; an awful longtime fault at Radio Católica Mundial which they are unable or unwilling to fix. 5810, Jan 14 at 0106, WEWN briefly in English and Spanish, crackly audio and squealspurs. Spanish scheduled 00-05, this is the same transmitter as used overnight on 7555, morning on 11550, afternoons on 12050, westward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. Updated winter B-13 schedule of World Harvest Radio from Jan. 11: WHRI Angel 1 0000-0100 7335 HRI 250 kW / 173 deg CeAm English Sun/Mon 0100-0200 9605 HRI 250 kW / 167 deg SoAm Spanish KBS World Radio 0300-0330 6175 HRI 250 kW / 173 deg SoAm Spanish Voice of Vietnam 0330-0400 6175 HRI 250 kW / 173 deg SoAm English Voice of Vietnam 0400-0430 6175 HRI 250 kW / 173 deg SoAm Spanish Voice of Vietnam 0430-0530 6175 HRI 250 kW / 260 deg MEX Vietnamese Voice of Vietnam 0900-1100 11565 HRI 250 kW / 245 deg AUS English Sun 1400-1500 21600 HRI 250 kW / 059 deg NoAf English Sun 1500-1600 21630 HRI 250 kW / 085 deg CeAf English Sat/Sun 1600-1800 21630 HRI 250 kW / 085 deg CeAf English Daily 1800-2000 17610 HRI 250 kW / 085 deg CeAf English Sun 1800-2030 17610 HRI 250 kW / 085 deg CeAf English Sat 1800-2100 17610 HRI 250 kW / 085 deg CeAf English Mon-Fri Bro Stair 2130-2200 17540 HRI 250 kW / 152 deg SoAm Portuguese Radio Japan NHK 2300-2400 7315 HRI 250 kW / 173 deg CeAm English Sun-Fri WHRI Angel 2 0000-0100 5920 HRI 250 kW / 047 deg WeEu English Tue-Sat 0100-0130 9895 HRI 250 kW / 173 deg CeAm Spanish Tue-Sat R Netherland 0130-0200 9895 HRI 250 kW / 173 deg CeAm English Mon 0200-0300 5920 HRI 250 kW / 047 deg WeEu English Tue-Sat 0300-0330 7520 HRI 250 kW / 047 deg WeEu English Sat 0330-0400 7520 HRI 250 kW / 047 deg WeEu Russian Sat 0400-0430 6195 HRI 250 kW / 167 deg SoAm Spanish Radio Japan NHK 0430-0500 9830 HRI 250 kW / 047 deg WeEu English Sat 0445-0500 9830 HRI 250 kW / 047 deg WeEu English Sun 0500-0600 9830 HRI 250 kW / 047 deg WeEu English Sat-Thu 0700-0800 11565 HRI 250 kW / 245 deg AUS English Brother Stair 0800-0900 11565 HRI 250 kW / 245 deg AUS English Mon-Fri 0900-0930 6195 HRI 250 kW / 152 deg SoAm Portuguese Radio Japan NHK 0930-1000 6195 HRI 250 kW / 152 deg SoAm Spanish Radio Japan NHK 1100-1200 7315 HRI 250 kW / 173 deg CeAm English Sun 1300-1400 9840 HRI 250 kW / 025 deg ENAm English Sat 1300-1600 9840 HRI 250 kW / 025 deg ENAm English Sun, ex 1400-1700 1600-1800 9840 HRI 250 kW / 025 deg ENAm English Brother Stair 1800-1830 9840 HRI 250 kW / 025 deg ENAm English Sun, ex 1730-1830 1830-1900 9840 HRI 250 kW / 025 deg ENAm English Thu/Sat 1900-2000 9840 HRI 250 kW / 025 deg ENAm English Mon-Sat 2000-2100 9840 HRI 250 kW / 025 deg ENAm English Mon-Fri Bro Stair 2000-2115 9505 HRI 250 kW / 047 deg WeEu English Sun 2200-2300 9840 HRI 250 kW / 025 deg ENAm English Sun-Fri Bro Stair 2200-2400 9505 HRI 250 kW / 047 deg WeEu English Sat T8WH Angel 3 0700-0800 9930 HBN 100 kW / 318 deg EaAs English Brother Stair 0800-0900 9930 HBN 100 kW / 318 deg EaAs English Sun-Fri 0800-0900 9930 HBN 100 kW / 318 deg EaAs Japanese Sat 0900-1000 9930 HBN 100 kW / 318 deg EaAs English Daily 1000-1200 9930 HBN 100 kW / 318 deg EaAs English Sun 1130-1300 9930 HBN 100 kW / 318 deg EaAs English Sat 1200-1230 9930 HBN 100 kW / 318 deg EaAs Vietnamese Fri Radio Que Me 1200-1300 9930 HBN 100 kW / 318 deg EaAs English Sun 1300-1430 9965 HBN 100 kW / 318 deg EaAs English Radio Australia 1500-1800 9930 HBN 100 kW / 318 deg EaAs English Brother Stair T8WH Angel 4 0100-0300 15680 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg SEAs English Mon-Sat Bro Stair 0130-0300 15680 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg SEAs English Sun 0300-0400 15680 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg SEAs English Sun-Fri 0400-0500 17840 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg SEAs English Radio Australia 1115-1200 9625 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg SEAs Indonesian Radio Japan NHK 1200-1300 9960 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg SEAs Khmer Khmer Post Radio 1315-1400 11925 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg SEAs Indonesian Radio Japan NHK 1400-1430 11925 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg SEAs English Radio Japan NHK 1430-1500 11980 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg SEAs English Sat/Sun 1500-1530 9905 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg SEAs English Sat, ex 1600-1630 1600-1900 9955 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg SEAs English Brother Stair WHRI Angel 5 [once again: Angel 5 is NOT WHRI, but HBN=T8WH!! --- gh] 0700-1100 9955 HRI 100 kW / 345 deg NEAs English Brother Stair 1300-1400 9930 HRI 100 kW / 345 deg NEAs English Sat/Sun 1430-1500 9960 HRI 100 kW / 345 deg NEAs Japanese Furusato no Kaze 1500-1530 9975 HRI 100 kW / 345 deg NEAs Korean Nippon no Kaze 1530-1600 9965 HRI 100 kW / 345 deg NEAs Korean Nippon no Kaze WHRI Angel 6 0100-0200 7385 HRI 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Sun 0100-0215 7385 HRI 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Mon 0200-0300 7385 HRI 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Tue-Sat 1200-1300 7385 HRI 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Mon-Fri 1300-1400 7385 HRI 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Sun 1600-1900 17705 HRI 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Brother Stair 2200-2300 15180 HRI 100 kW / 315 deg WNAm English Fri Additional registered frequencies Jan. 9, but not active at present: [twice again, Angel 5 entries below are obviously T8WH, not WHRI! gh] 0600-0900 7315 HRI 250 kW / 152 deg SoAm English WHRI Angel 2 0700-0800 5920 HRI 250 kW / 173 deg SoAm English WHRI Angel 1 1100-1300 9950 HRI 100 kW / 345 deg NEAs English WHRI Angel 5 1600-1900 9905 HRI 100 kW / 345 deg NEAs English WHRI Angel 5 1900-2000 9495 HRI 250 kW / 173 deg SoAm English WHRI Angel 1 1900-2000 9955 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg SEAs English T8WH Angel 4 1900-2000 15665 HRI 250 kW / 152 deg SoAm English WHRI Angel 2 1900-0700 9965 HRI 100 kW / 345 deg NEAs English WHRI Angel 5 (Ivo Ivanov, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. Trans World Radio schedules [filed here since HQ is in Cary NC USA, tho divided into regions - gh] AUSTRIA [and non] Winter B-13 schedule of Trans World Radio Europe: 0645-0700 5910 MOS 100 kW / 030 deg EaEu Polish Mon-Fri 0645-0700 7300 MOS 100 kW / 030 deg EaEu Polish Mon-Fri 0800-0820 6105 NAU 100 kW / 285 deg NoEu English Sat/Sun 0800-0820 7400 MOS 100 kW / 300 deg NoEu English Sat/Sun 0800-0850 6105 NAU 100 kW / 285 deg NoEu English Mon-Fri 0800-0850 7400 MOS 100 kW / 300 deg NoEu English Mon-Fri 0930-1000 6105 NAU 100 kW / 135 deg CeEu Hungarian 1500-1530 7300 NAU 100 kW / 065 deg EaEu Belarussian Mon 1500-1530 9850 MOS 100 kW / 055 deg EaEu Belarussian Mon 1500-1530 7300 NAU 100 kW / 065 deg EaEu Russian Tue-Fri 1500-1530 9850 MOS 100 kW / 055 deg EaEu Russian Tue-Fri INDIA [non]. Winter B-13 schedule of Trans World Radio India: 0030-0045 7545 KCH 250 kW / 116 deg SoAs Bengali Mon-Fri 0030-0115 7545 KCH 250 kW / 116 deg SoAs Hindi Sun 0045-0115 7545 KCH 250 kW / 116 deg SoAs Bhojpuri Mon-Fri 0045-0115 7545 KCH 250 kW / 116 deg SoAs Nepali Sat 0115-0130 7545 KCH 250 kW / 116 deg SoAs Dzonka 1245-1300 9790 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg SoAs Kui/Santhali Sat/Sun 1300-1315 9790 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg SoAs Ho/Kumaoni Sat/Sun 1315-1330 9790 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg SoAs Mewari Sun-Thu 1315-1330 9790 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg SoAs Bhasha/Bengali Fri/Sat 1315-1330 15755 TAC 100 kW / 131 deg SoAs Dogri Mon-Fri 1315-1430 15755 TAC 100 kW / 131 deg SoAs Hindi Sat/Sun 1330-1345 9790 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg SoAs Bondo/Maithili Sun-Tue 1330-1345 9790 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg SoAs Kasmiri/Tibetan Wed/Thu 1330-1345 9790 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg SoAs Haryanvi/Garhwali Fri/Sat 1330-1400 15755 TAC 100 kW / 131 deg SoAs Hindi Mon-Fri 1345-1415 9925 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg SoAs Kuruk/Kharia Sun 1345-1415 9925 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg SoAs Maithili Mon-Fri 1345-1415 9925 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg SoAs Bundeli Sat 1400-1415 15755 TAC 100 kW / 131 deg SoAs Hindi Mon/Wed-Fri 1400-1415 15755 TAC 100 kW / 131 deg SoAs Awadhi Tue 1415-1430 9925 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg SoAs Magahi Sun/Mon 1415-1430 9925 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg SoAs Mundari/Kuruk Tue-Sat 1415-1430 15755 TAC 100 kW / 131 deg SoAs Garhwali Mon-Fri 1430-1445 7505 TAC 100 kW / 131 deg SoAs Hindi 1430-1500 9925 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg SoAs Sadri/Chodri Sat/Sun 1430-1500 9925 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg SoAs Sindhi Mon-Fri 1445-1515 7505 TAC 100 kW / 131 deg SoAs Punjabi Sun 1445-1515 7505 TAC 100 kW / 131 deg SoAs Hindi Mon-Sat 1500-1515 9670 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg SoAs Bhili Sat/Sun 1500-1515 9670 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg SoAs Gamit/Vasali Mon-Fri 1515-1530 9670 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg SoAs Mouchi/Dhodiya Mon-Thu 1515-1600 7505 TAC 100 kW / 131 deg SoAs Punjabi Sat/Sun 1515-1615 7505 TAC 100 kW / 131 deg SoAs Punjabi Mon-Fri 1530-1600 9670 ERV 300 kW / 100 deg SoAs Urdu SINGAPORE [sic; the station is on GUAM! --- gh] Winter B-13 schedule of KTWR Trans World Radio Asia: 0850-0930 15200 TWR 100 kW / 263 deg SEAs English Tue-Fri 0900-0930 15200 TWR 100 kW / 263 deg SEAs English Mon 0930-1000 15200 TWR 100 kW / 248 deg SEAs Balinese Sat 0930-0945 15200 TWR 100 kW / 248 deg SEAs Madurese Mon-Sat 0930-0945 15200 TWR 100 kW / 248 deg SEAs Madurese Sun 0945-1000 15200 TWR 100 kW / 248 deg SEAs Balinese Sun 1000-1020 11840 TWR 100 kW / 165 deg AUS English Mon-Fri 1000-1015 15235 TWR 100 kW / 305 deg EaAs Chinese Sun 1000-1030 11840 TWR 100 kW / 165 deg AUS English Sat 1000-1030 15200 TWR 100 kW / 248 deg SEAs Indonesian Sun-Fri 1000-1030 15200 TWR 100 kW / 248 deg SEAs Javanese Sat 1000-1100 15235 TWR 100 kW / 305 deg EaAs Chinese Mon-Sat 1030-1100 15200 TWR 100 kW / 248 deg SEAs Sudanese 1100-1230 9910 TWR 100 kW / 305 deg EaAs Chinese Sun-Fri 1115-1145 12105 TWR 100 kW / 315 deg EaAs Chinese Mon-Fri 1130-1230 9910 TWR 100 kW / 305 deg EaAs Chinese Sat 1145-1200 12105 TWR 100 kW / 320 deg EaAs Chinese Mon-Sat 1200-1215 11580 TWR 100 kW / 285 deg EaAs Chinese 1200-1245 15390 TWR 100 kW / 293 deg SoAs Burmese Mon-Fri 1200-1300 15160 TWR 100 kW / 263 deg SEAs English 1200-1300 15390 TWR 100 kW / 285 deg SoAs Burmese Sat/Sun 1215-1245 9975 TWR 100 kW / 320 deg EaAs Chinese Mon-Fri 1230-1300 15240 TWR 100 kW / 290 deg SoAs Kokborok Mon-Fri 1245-1300 15240 TWR 100 kW / 290 deg SoAs Kokborok Sun 1245-1330 11580 TWR 100 kW / 278 deg SEAs Vietnamese Sun-Fri 1245-1345 11580 TWR 100 kW / 278 deg SEAs Vietnamese Sat 1300-1315 15240 TWR 100 kW / 290 deg SoAs Santhali 1300-1330 15390 TWR 100 kW / 293 deg SoAs Sgaw Karen 1315-1330 15225 TWR 100 kW / 290 deg SoAs Santhali Sun 1330-1345 9975 TWR 100 kW / 320 deg EaAs Chinese Sun-Fri 1315-1345 15225 TWR 100 kW / 290 deg SoAs Assamese Sun-Fri 1330-1345 15225 TWR 100 kW / 290 deg SoAs Manipuri Sun 1345-1415 11580 TWR 100 kW / 335 deg EaAs Korean Sat 1345-1445 9975 TWR 100 kW / 320 deg EaAs Chinese 1345-1430 11580 TWR 100 kW / 335 deg EaAs Korean Sun 1345-1500 11580 TWR 100 kW / 335 deg EaAs Korean Mon-Fri 1330-1400 9940 TWR 100 kW / 315 deg EaAs Cantonese Mon-Fri 1330-1400 9940 TWR 100 kW / 315 deg EaAs Hui Sat/Sun 1400-1435 15190 TWR 100 kW / 285 deg SEAs English Sun/Wed 1400-1430 15190 TWR 100 kW / 285 deg SEAs English Thu 1400-1420 15190 TWR 100 kW / 285 deg SEAs English Mon/Tue/Fri 1445-1500 9975 TWR 100 kW / 320 deg EaAs Chinese Mon-Fri SWAZILAND [and non] Winter [sic] B-13 Trans World Radio Africa: 0300-0330 3200 MAN 050 kW / 003 deg ZWE Ndebele Mon-Sat 0300-0330 3200 MAN 050 kW / 003 deg ZWE English Sun 0300-0345 3240 MAN 050 kW / 003 deg ZWE Shona/Ndau 0330-0345 9530 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg EaAf Amharic Sum/Mon/Fri 0330-0345 9530 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg EaAf Oromo Tue 0330-0345 9530 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg EaAf Sidamo Wed/Thu 0330-0400 3200 MAN 050 kW / 233 deg SoAf English 0345-0400 4775 MAN 050 kW / 003 deg SoAf Lomwe 0400-0500 3200 MAN 050 kW / 233 deg SoAf English Mon-Fri 0400-0500 3200 MAN 050 kW / 233 deg SoAf German Sat/Sun 0400-0500 4775 MAN 050 kW / 233 deg SoAf English Mon-Fri 0400-0500 4775 MAN 050 kW / 233 deg SoAf German Sat/Sun 0400-0445 5995 MAN 100 kW / 005 deg SoAf Chewa Sat/Sun 0500-0800 4775 MAN 050 kW / 233 deg SoAf English Sat/Sun 0500-0800 6120 MAN 050 kW / 233 deg SoAf English 0500-0800 9500 MAN 100 kW / 005 deg EaAf English 1300-1315 13660 KIG 250 kW / 030 deg EaAf Afar Thu-Sun 1400-1415 15360 MAN 100 kW / 043 deg SoAs Urdu 1430-1600 7315 MAN 050 kW / 005 deg SoAf Makhuwa/Portuguese/Lomwe 1430-1630 6025 MAN 100 kW / 003 deg ZWE English/Shona/Ndebele 1500-1530 9585 MAN 100 kW / 064 deg MDC Malagasy/French 1600-1630 15105 MAN 100 kW / 013 deg SoAf Kirundi Mon-Fri 1600-1700 4760 MAN 050 kW / 003 deg SoAf Shangaan/Portuguese/Ndau 1630-1645 11635 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg EaAf Somali Sun 1630-1700 11635 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg EaAf Somali Mon-Sat 1630-1800 11700 MAN 100 kW / 013 deg EaAf Amharic/Oromo/Kambaata 1700-1730 7300 MAN 100 kW / 003 deg SoAf Yao 1700-1745 9475 MAN 100 kW / 005 deg EaAf Swahili Mon-Fri 1700-1815 9475 MAN 100 kW / 005 deg EaAf Swahili Sat/Sun 1745-1900 6130 MAN 100 kW / 312 deg CeAf Umbrundo/KiKongo/Fiote 1745-2045 3200 MAN 050 kW / 233 deg SoAf English Mon-Fri 1800-1815 5935 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg EaAf Tigrinya Mon-Thu 1800-1830 5935 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg EaAf Tigre Sat 1800-1830 5935 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg EaAf Kunama Sun 1800-1900 9500 MAN 100 kW / 013 deg EaAf English 1900-2000 6130 MAN 100 kW / 312 deg CeAf Portuguese 1900-2000 9940 MAN 100 kW / 343 deg CeAf Lingala/French (Ivo Ivanov, DX RE MIX NEWS #833 January 11, 2014, via DXLD) ** U S A. 750, Jan 11 at 1344 UT a slow mariachi, then show name `Sábados Rancheros`, restaurant ad in 773 area code, La Condesa. Unseems N/S from KMMJ NE, which would minimize heavy talk-splash from 740 KRMG Tulsa, on 50 kW day pattern already from 1330. 773 gives it away as Chicago, i.e. the multi-lingual WNDZ Portage IN which I have also heard in Ukrainian, and which per NRC AM Log is ETH/brokered 15 kW daytimer with AM stereo (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 880, KRVN, Lexington NE; 2309-2330+, 6-Jan; This Day in History; H:12 KRVN News Center--weather is delaying Union Pacific skeds up to 48 hours; How cold is it? feature; H:25 Sports Time with Jason Jorgenson; ads for Omaha Boat, Sports & Travel Show, Cargill Crop Insurance Agency, My Closet in Broken Bow, Western Sprinklers in Colby, VerMeer Balers, Landmark Water ex-The Pivot Man, Buzz's Marine, Amish Furniture Outlet in Grand Island, Planter Paradise, plus ads by KRVN ancr Dave Therell. No manure hauling ads -- I guess it's too hard to scoop & fling in winter. Well over WCBS! (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. [1200] LONGTIME BIG-BAND STATION WAMB CHANGES FORMATS IN THE WAKE OF OWNER BILL BARRY`S DEATH http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashvillecream/archives/2014/01/10/longtime-big-band-station-wamb-changes-formats-in-the-wake-of-owner-bill-barrys-death (via Blaine Thompson, IN, Jan 10, ABDX via DXLD) I hope everyone will take the 2012 photo essay tour of the station that is within the provided link. It made me hark back to my days at WTND, 920 AM, in Orangeburg, SC. Evidently, there were other stations that did what we did, that is, coded the LPs by type with colored tape, gave each album a number, and typed the individual song titles on an index card and filed them in a vast array of drawers. It was a laborious operation, but you could find any selection you needed in a matter of minutes (Bob Smoak, Bamberg, SC, ibid.) ** U S A. 1290, Jan 11 at 1404 UT ``Saturday Morning Mission Gospel Train`` is starting, whence? Mentions Wichita Falls and taking requests to 940-763-1290, so obviously KWFS, which I thought was news- talk. First guess at a website leads to ``The domain name KWFS.COM is for sale - Price US$9700`` No, thanks. I can see why they went with http://newstalk1290.com which sort of implies the format is News/talk. Their so-called schedule for Saturday skips this part, nothing displayed between C2CAM at midnight, and American-Liberty at 11 am [17 UT]. Admitting they broadcast gospel music would tarnish their image of far-right talk shows --- Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin and Cain! and thus their ``news`` is also unavoidably tainted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1660, Jan 10 at 0645 UT among the CCI, ID for some station on ``1660 AM dial and 99.1 FM dial``. That should be easy to match, but no such FM // for the 1660 stations in the 2013 NRC AM Log. So I search the WTFDA FM Database for 99.1 stations in the same towns as 1660 stations: the only match is translator K256BW in Waco TX, but unlike some FCC FM Query listings, does not show what station it relays. Then I go to KRZI website, http://www.1660espn.com/ which does show 99.1 also, so that`s it. BTW, the WTFDA FM DB now includes Mexico as well as Canada. BT2W, on 1660, one often hears True Oldies music matching local 1640 KZLS, and in that case it`s KQWB West Fargo ND (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. IN NEW YORK, SEARCHING FOR MUSICAL GOLD ON AM RADIO - http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303370904579298614118348226?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303370904579298614118348226.html It was the kind of ingenious playlist that strings together unexpected songs—familiar but not overplayed—skipping genres and eras in the name of a greater musical logic, the perfect soundtrack to a weekend road trip outside the city. Except this wasn't a well-crafted iTunes mix or recommendations spit out by Spotify, but an AM radio station in the Hudson Valley and a reminder that even in this digital age, the scratchy radio band still offers some musical gold, though it may take some digging to find. Radio listeners long ago decamped for FM, and of those still tuning in to AM, few are there for the music. Only two of the New York area's 11 AM radio stations have music formats, as opposed to talk, news and sports, and their audiences are decidedly niche: the gospel station WLIB and Radio Disney. "News and talk are dominant, because they're the easiest ways to make money," said Ron Simon, curator of television and radio at the Paley Center for Media in New York. "But there are other little pockets that can do their own thing." Venture out of the city and you'll find them. These small, independently owned stations tend to play an idiosyncratic mix that reflects their owners' personal interests and, in some cases, record collections. The music leans toward jazz, blues and country of a vintage that somehow sounds better over the crackle of AM—the kind of music you might hear in a retro-minded bar in Bushwick or the Lower East Side. These stations may be few and far between, but where else would you hear Dusty Springfield&# 39;s "I Only Want to Be With You," followed by George Jones's "When the Grass Grows Over Me" and Cleo Brown's "Boogie Woogie"? The following are three New York-area AM stations to tune in on your next road trip. All of them broadcast from beyond the five boroughs, but are within a few hours drive of the city, or a click away on the Internet. WHVW, 950 AM Hyde Park, N.Y. (whvw.net) [yes, the one recently discussed here as relayed on WBCQ --- gh] Listening to WHVW can be a dislocating experience, as if through some snag in the time-space continuum, you've stumbled on a station broadcasting from a sepia-toned past. The tiny station, powered by just 500 watts during the day and 57 at night, only plays music recorded before 1970, much of it on vinyl and dating back to a time before television. "Digital sucks, especially when you get into MP3s," said owner J.P. Ferraro, 65, who also prefers reel-to-reel tape for prerecording shows. (In addition to his hyperbolically named afternoon show, "Pirate Joe's Country Music Radio Show and Old Blues and R&B Extravaganzo," he hosts a classical-music program in the evenings.) An AM radio station devoted to early 20th-century music might not be a recipe for commercial success, but Mr. Ferraro has always broadcast from the fringes. In the early 1970s, he ran a pirate radio station in Yonkers, N.Y., that earned him his nickname and a year's probation. "I' m one of those people who find it hard to engage in something they don't like," he said in a phone interview from the station, which operates out of a former department store on Poughkeepsie&# 39;s faded Main Street. Although he has struggled to keep the station going, working with a minimal budget and volunteers, it has allowed him to combine his twin passions for old records and radio. "It' s the history of American music," he said, "keeping a great part of the American culture alive." WRIV, 1390 AM Riverhead, N.Y. (1390wriv.com) When WRIV began broadcasting in 1955, listeners in the Long Island town of Riverhead tuned in to hear big band hits. Today, the station' s programming has crept up through the decades, if only slightly. " Taylor Swift is a very talented woman," said owner and morning host Bruce Tria, 57, "but you're not going to hear her on this station." Mr. Tria, who previously worked at an FM oldies station in Sag Harbor, bought the station in 1987 with his father Vincent for $220,000 ("cheaper than a house," as he put it). He takes inspiration from the radio days of his youth in Commack, when he listened to WNEW, the influential AM station out of New York best known for playing standards by artists like Frank Sinatra and Lena Horne. "All I ever wanted was to be the guy on the radio," he said. WTBQ, 1110 AM Warwick, N.Y. (wtbq.com) A red barn is the appropriately rustic setting for WTBQ. Broadcasting out of rural Warwick, it's the home of shows like "Hootenanny Café," which features local folk musicians, and an equestrian-themed Saturday-morning talk show. Still, owner Frank Truatt points to the station' s diverse programming, from jazz to underground '80s music. "I wanted to treat the listeners intelligently, " said Mr. Truatt, 59. A longtime local radio DJ, he bought the station in 1994 from owner and polka star Jimmy Sturr, who still has a popular syndicated show on the station. Despite the addition of an FM translator in 2008 that allows the daytime station to play around the clock, Mr. Truatt said many listeners tune in on AM. "They like the sound of it," he said. "The FM sounds like you're listening to a CD in your living room. AM sounds like radio used to sound" (via Kevin Redding, ABDX via DXLD) ** VATICAN [and non?]. 21740, VR - site unknown. Special broadcast from the Sistine Chapel of Mass with Baptisms, led by Pope Francis and first noted at 0930, in Latin with English commentary. Also noted on 21760 with Portuguese commentary, and 17830 with French commentary! All freqs aimed towards Africa, although 21760 appeared to be somewhat better than 21740 which leads me to believe that there might have been different sites involved in the transmission….not sure though. The service concluded at 1015 and then followed uninterrupted classical music till 1024. At this time, 21760 kHz was the first to leave, then 17830 went off a minute later, while mysteriously 21740 carried on till 1030 with dialogue in Italian between two announcers until that txer was also switched off. Jan 12. 73 (Rob Wagner VK3BVW, Victoria, ARDXC via DXLD) 21560, VR -- SM Galeria. Beautiful booming signal with the Sunday service in Italian at s/on 1050, starting with long frequency anncts in a variety of languages including English. Then the Angelus with Pope Francis began from 1100. Also runs // 15595 - fair to poor there, and 11740 to Eu - but very much underneath CNR 2 (Lingshi) on Jan 12. 73, (Rob Wagner, VK3BVW, ARDXC via DXLD) ** VENEZUELA. VENEZUELA INCREMENTA LA CANTIDAD DE MEDIOS RADIALES OFICIALES --- by gruporadioescuchaargentino Un Estado-Comunicador, así cataloga el director de estudios de Posgrado en Comunicación Social de la Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB), Marcelino Bisbal, el producto de la acción gubernamental que apunta a plenar los espacios comunicacionales. Este año -sostiene- parece continuar la tendencia, con la creación del canal de la Fuerza Armada Nacional Bolivariana (TVFANB) y el de la Juventud, anunciado por el presidente de la República Nicolás Maduro. "Va en la línea de los que ellos llaman la hegemonía comunicacional, y configura la tesis del Estado-Comunicador: empezar a tener cantidad de medios, sin audiencia", dice el catedrático. Andrés Cañizález, investigador de la Comunicación y profesor de la UCAB, dice al respecto: "Estamos ante la consolidación de un modelo mixto-autoritario, mixto porque se mantiene la propiedad privada a pesar de que ha crecido mucho el Estado. El mayor número de medios de radio y televisión siguen siendo privados, pero no hay que perder de vista que en el hemisferio occidental el Estado venezolano es el que tiene mayor capacidad comunicativa, el que tiene más medios de comunicación a sus servicios, el que interrumpe cada vez más la programación con las cadenas. Es la herencia de Chávez que se ha consolidado en este contexto". La baja audiencia de los múltiples medios estatales no parece preocupar al Gobierno. "Si todos los canales públicos en función de Estado apenas llegan a 7 u 8% de audiencia y el que más tiene audiencia es VTV con entre 13 y 14%, me imagino que la audiencia de estos canales que están creando va a ser escandalosamente baja", acota Bisbal. Explica que desde 2002, después del golpe de estado, el Estado venezolano comenzó a dotarse de una amplia plataforma mediática. Añade que para 1999 el parque público de medios apenas contaba con la señal de Venezolana de Televisión, una señal radial en amplitud modulada (630 AM) para el centro del país y una señal en frecuencia modulada (91.1FM), además de la agencia de noticias Venpres. Actualmente forman parte de la plataforma de medios estatales las televisoras: VTV, Vive TV, Asamblea Nacional TV, Ávila TV, Telesur, Televisora Social , Colombeia TV, Conciencia TV y ahora TVFANB y el canal de la Juventud. En el sector de radio existe Radio Nacional de Venezuela (RNV) que posee tres emisoras: una en amplitud modulada mota en frecuencia modulada y la otra en banda internacional. Además el Estado cuenta con cuatro emisoras que forman parte del circuito YVKE Mundial, más la Radio del Sur y Tiuna FM, emisora de la FANB. A todo esto hay que sumar unos 400 estaciones de radio comunitarias, aunque según Conatel solo 244 tiene permiso, 36 estaciones de televisión de este tipo y 100 periódicos. Pero en la medida que se avanza en la amplificación de la voz gubernamental, a través de medios estatales y paraestatales -como los llama Bisbal-, las voces críticas son limitadas. "En los impresos no se han metido con un proyecto de ley, pero hay mecanismos que están viviendo, como la falta de divisas para comprar papel, para comprar insumos e infraestructura, y eso los va ahogando poco a poco", comenta el director de posgrado en Comunicación Social. Añade que según cifras de la Cámara Venezolana de Periódicos Regionales , 25 impresos tuvieron que cerrar el año pasado por falta de insumos. A esto se suma la asignación de las pautas publicitarias del Estado a medios complacientes con la visión del Gobierno. Además, las presiones llegan al plano judicial, como amenazas con multas por colocar fotos de sucesos en la primera página de los diarios, mientras medios de comunicación, antiguos críticos del Gobierno, cambian de dueño y por consiguiente de política editorial. (tomado de El Universal via GRA blog via DXLD) Note the lie amid this that Radio Nacional has three stations, an AM, an FM, and another in the ``international band``, i.e. shortwave --- well, only imaginary, so far, the long-delayed project to set up the SW station at Calabozo, about which we have heard of no progress at all last year (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** YEMEN. 6135 Yemen Radio, Sana, Yemen. 22 DEC 2013. In Arabic, audible form 14:06 UTC to closing down, at 15:02. Last two minutes under V of A from Thailand. Male and female speakers, until 14:25 then a music / vocal. Second half of program containing mostly what sounded like religious segment, perhaps Koran reading. Overall weak and noisy. Best at S8 with very fast QSB. [Country #79] Sorry for delayed report. 73 (Nick VK2DX Hacko, NSW, Jan 16, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** YEMEN. UNIDENTIFIED. 6135.00, 1822, Jan 11, non-stop pop songs at tune-in, 1830 English? announcement preceding 3-minute news headlines?, back to pop songs, 1837 "Amazing grace" cut short 1839 by flute intro, female talk did sound like English now, interrupted by musical bridges with a M Eastern? flavour, to sudden 1842 s/off. Faulty audio and annoying rattle made ID impossible, frequency otherwise clear. R Madagasikara seemed the one on stable 5009.92 and was not // and, besides, they wouldn't be in English, so who was this? Anyone any ideas? 73, (Martien Groot, Schoorl, Netherlands, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) IDed as "Yemen Radio" at 1900 tonight! (Thorsten Hallmann, Germany, Jan 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) The General Program does have English at 18-19, per WRTH 2014. SW 6135 not usually/previously on air at this hour. But with a Christian hymn??? (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) 6135.00, Rep of Yemen Radio, Sana'a, 1830, Jan 12, English 5-minute news in the clear after persistent rattle / splatter had suddenly gone off, western pop song, 1840 "Historical landmarks in Yemen throughout the ages" (or something very similar), 1846 back to pop songs, 1856 "News summary", definite ID to 1900:31 carrier off. Quite strong but poor audio as noted yesterday. Tnx also to Thorsten Hallmann for helpful suggestion. 6135, Rep of Yemen Radio, Sana'a, 1759, Jan 14, carrier appeared in mid-song, Ar announcement included ID, then into English opening 1800. No rattle or whatever today unlike yesterday but poor audio and splatter from VOIRI 6140 made it difficult to give any relevant details as to program contents. 73, (Martien Groot, Schoorl, Netherlands, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZAMBIA. 5915, Zambia Nat. BC, Jan 09 1600-1611, 23332, vernacular, fish eagle IS, repeated blows of the drum, Announce by man, local music and talk (Kouji Hashimoto, JAPAN, RX, IC-R75, NRD-525+RD-9830, NRD-515, NRD-345, Satellite 750, DE-1121, ANT, 70m Sloper Wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZANZIBAR. 11735, ZBC Dole, 1825-1902 Jan 5; W announcer in (Presumed) Swahili between Bollywood style music selections; M announcer at 1846 with talk & music bits; almost sounds like some sort of "devotional" program; percussion & 5 pips at ToH; W announcer into (presumed) news with no discernible ID noted; f-g; always enjoy logging this one (Scott R. Barbour, Jr., Intervale, NH, NRD-545, MLB- 1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11735, Jan 11 at 2113, pop/rock music, poor signal, presumably ZBC on late until cutoff at 2114* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZIMBABWE [non]. ÁFRICA DO SUL_clandestina: 4880, SW R. Africa, Meyerton, 1848-1857*, 10/1, emissão em inglês dirigida ao Zimbabué, entrevista telefonada, principais temas do noticiário, música; 55444. 73 (Carlos Gonçalves, PORTUGAL, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1090, Jan 11 at 1356 UT, only weak signals, but one of them has a tone turning on and off every 20 to 25 seconds until 1400 when it`s fading or stops doing so. Maybe a Mexican or American daytimer`s prélude to the west of here? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 2975 kHz, At 0700 EST [1200 UT] on 1/9/2014 I heard two guys communicating on USB with general talk and using a lot of profanity on 2975 khz. No mention of any call signs. Does anyone know what radio service uses this frequency? (Jim Balle, WA1EDN, New England? http://www.fhu.com ABDX via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 9420, 0242-0303 Jan 7; M talk in unID language and Middle-Eastern flavored music, some ballads and some with "yipping" vocals; (Presumed) ID with wind instruments at ToH followed by brief M & W announcers between music bits; fair; Voice of Greece or whatever they call it these days?? (Scott R. Barbour, Jr., Intervale, NH, NRD- 545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Surely it`s Greece; they play all kinds of music these days. The ``ID with wind instruments`` sounds like their longtime IS (gh, DXLD) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1704: Thanks for some cash in the mail from the proprietor of former pirate drop in Merlin, Ontario. Preferably by check or MO in US$ on a US bank to World of Radio, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 USA Good day Glenn. May I wish you a healthy and sound 2014 year. I must thank you for the wonderful job you do on taking time for your postings (always good ones) and information and for keeping such a great faith on shortwave. If you ever plan to drop by on vacation to Puerto Rico, let me know; it will be very interesting on meeting you and chatting for a while. Cordially (Héctor (Luigi) Pérez Díaz NP4FW) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ On-line frequency database? I'm trying to get back to the habit of twirling the dial looking for broadcast station DX. A Google search for on-line web sites that one can enter a frequency and get back a list of possible stations produced quite a few out of date sites. Can someone suggest sites that are regularly updated/accurate? (Andy O`Brien, NY, Jan 12, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) See below for one which is not accurate. I have frequently described the plusses and minuses of the three major ones, Aoki, EiBi and HFCC, and all of them are linked from http://www.worldofradio.com homepage - -- look for B13 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Andy, I keep a list here on my blog https://swlistener.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/shortwave-broadcast-information-sources/ (Tony Molloy, Winter Hill, UK IO83ro, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) www.shortwaveschedule.com In checking Radio Verdad's broadcast hours listed on www.shortwaveschedule.com, one can get confused by the conflicting information that they show there, as well. If "F" is to represent "not on air" and "T" is to represent "on air" (as their URL suggests), then it appears that, one on hand, Radio Verdad doesn't broadcast in Spanish at all (which would make the 0930-0605 line completely unnecessary), while on the other hand, their Spanish broadcasts are limited to just Saturdays at 1255 UT to Sundays at 0605 UT. So which do we believe? Regardless, it needs to be updated, since you are hearing them post-0930 on Sundays. And I, for one, hope that they would air Spanish broadcasts more than just on the weekends. Any opportunity I have of hearing Central America on shortwave at THIS QTH is most welcome. 73, (Rick Dau, South Omaha, Nebraska, ABDX via DXLD) If this is typical of what that website provides, it`s worse than useless. I don`t understand why anyone goes to the trouble to build such a site, or anyone to use it, when it`s GIGO. I wonder who is really behind it? BTW looking thru the drop down for stations, I see this ``shortwave`` site has lots of MW-only stations in it too, why? As well as some SW stations which don`t exist. Radio Verdad is primarily in Spanish seven days a week, with certain blox in English and a few other languages at other brief times. Sign- on around 0930 and off around 0605. May still be a shorter schedule on Sundays, but obviously on by 1148 when I heard them. It`s easily heard here any evening on 4055, and in the mornings if up earlier enough before sunrise. It is in fact, the ONLY Central American SWBC station left, but just got a 20-year license renewal. 73, (Glenn Hauser, OK, ibid.) Re: PopComm CAN'T EVEN KEEP ITS OWN STORY STRAIGHT NOW I called in early December and they mailed a replacement copy of the missing November issue. I called in late December for the missing December issue and was told Pop Comm was being folding into CQ Plus and the December issue was digital only. They did provide information on getting that issue. I'd been considering going to the digital format for some time except I'm not a fan of proprietary formats. If the company that hosts the magazine goes under then we lose our content. The now defunct Monitoring Times used PDF for their content and I found that useful for my needs. It was nice that I could use search functionality to find information and so on. Also, there are multiple PDF readers for every popular platform including my android phone and Linux. In short, I don't like or trust closed, single-source formats and readers. PDF, while not a panacea, works well enough. As it stands, I will allow my subscription to CQ (they converted it from PopComm at the end of 2013) to lapse. I will miss Bruce Conti's column as well as Shannon Huniwell' s radio nostalgia work. Also, a respectful nod to Gerry Dexter's longstanding shortwave work (Mark Clark, Jan 9, ABDX via DXLD) I suspect "Shannon Huniwell" is about as real as "Alice Brannigan". 73, (Kraig Krist, ibid.) [SPOILER ALERT; read on only if you dare! --- gh] Quite so. "She" is really Peter Hunn, who's owned radio stations and now teaches radio at a high school near Syracuse. I hope "Shannon" finds a new venue for "her" work. It was fun stuff (Scott Fybush, NY, ibid.) I never understood the "Alice Branigan" mystery -- I mean, there were many REAL actual female writers willing to write for PopComm, and I was one of them. But I stopped because while the editor was very kind to me and fun to work with, the magazine paid very little and very late. It got to be too much aggravation (Donna Halper, ibid.) Because "she" was print eye candy for a majority male hobby. Same reason for female sports reporters. Eye candy. 73, (Kraig Krist, ibid.) Bet photo was not really her (anon., ibid.) I'll add my two cents there as well, Mark. Zinio is a great example of "Our software for reading our proprietary format might be slow, but it's inconvenient, too!" I was never too thrilled when CQ bought out World Radio and reneged on the lifetime subscriptions that some of us WR readers had. Now they're screwing up PopComm as well *and* going to a proprietary format that I hugely dislike. My subscription to PopComm (going since 1988 or so) won't be renewed. (I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop and for the ARRL to try to force the reader base to switch solely to their Zinio e-format next... They must be panting to do away with the hard copy version!) (Lee Reynolds, ibid.) I've been Zinio for a while now and "if" the magazine is written properly to take advantage of the features of the reader, it's not bad. However, CQ and PopComm don't take advantage of any of the features so it creates a real pain. I was at B&N bookstore the other day (first time in a LONG time) and I couldn't find QST, PopComm, or CQ. Times are changing quickly (Don N3MK, Chincoteague Island, VA, ibid.) Might want to call CQ to cancel and get a refund while they are being cooperative. I did so last week. 73, (Kraig Krist, ibid.) The "Alice Brannigan" photo was actually Tom Kneitel's niece. They owned up to that one in Tom's obituary. I don't think we've seen a picture of "Shannon" yet (Scott Fybush, ibid.) From the YG ABDX: Free November 2013 and December 2013 Popular Communications in pdf format. Free. Doesn't matter if one subscribes, or not. Details http://www.popular-communications.com/ 73, (Kraig, KG4LAC, Krist, dxldyg via DXLD) MALI IS NOT EQUAL TO MALAWI, RADIO WORLD ¿Hasta dónde nos llevará la ignorancia de los medios de comunicación escrita? En España son habituales las meteduras de pata en la prensa [ya me cansé de documentar mi base de datos y ante la reiteración y la falta de compromiso de las cabeceras decidí olvidarme de esa realidad, de ese mundo de analfabetos que entre todos hemos creado y donde cualquiera puede publicar sin importar para nada la veracidad o la calidad], una de ellas era situar el pingüino en le Atlántico Norte (clásicas de EL PAÍS Y LA VANGUARDIA), por ejemplo]. Acabo de leer, edición diciembre 2013, que CAÍAN ASESINADOS EN MALAWI dos periodistas de Radio Francia Internacional. Bien, creo que todo el mundo conoció aquella noticia, menos, al parecer, los editores de la prestigiosa RADIO WORLD que titularon a doble línea: TWO RADIO JOURNALIST KILLED IN MALAWI (después en el desarrollo de la noticia arreglan el titular). Sí, Malawi y Mali son dos países africanos, pero están separados por miles de kilómetros. Uno, en el que cayeron los dos periodistas de RFI, asesinados por la guerrilla ¿? En una zona de grandes intereses mineros estratégicos para Occidente; y el otro, Malawi situado en África Austral, sumamente tranquilo y a su aire siempre y cuando no descubran algún recurso valioso en su subsuelo. CORDIALES SALUDOS / GOOD LUCK / (JUAN FRANCO CRESPO * STAMP JOURNALIST (AIPET), SÀLVIA 8 (MAS CLARIANA), E-43800 VALLS-TARRAGONA (ESPAÑA-SPAIN-ESPAGNE-SPANIEN, DX LISTENING DIGEST) LANGUAGE LESSONS ++++++++++++++++ THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG Amgos, vejam a filmagem que fiz do inicio das transmissões da PWZ-33 Rio de Janeiro, em 8583 khz, USB, hoje às 12:00 [UT, or local, one must always query Brazilians] Transmissão no modo Pactor-1. Achei interessante a frase de teste que diz: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" http://youtu.be/sIWHoG3Ff2w (João Araújo, São Paulo - SP, 13 Jan, radioescutas yg via DXLD) Oi João. Esta frase em inglês é padronizada desde os tempos do surgimento da maquina de escrever. Ela possui todos os caracteres do alfabeto, um ótimo teste! --- Sent from my iPhone using Mail Ninja (Huelbe Garcia, ibid.) João, Huelbe e demais, Também há uma versão em Francês: "VOYEZ VOUS LE BRICK GEANT QUE J EXAMINE PRES DU GRAND WHARF". 73 (Ivan Dias Jr. - Sorocaba/SP, http://ivandias.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/ivandiasjr ibid.) MUSEA +++++ USSR jamming history. Author. Rimantas Pleikys (“open_dx”) ---------------------------------- From the note of the Secretary of the CPSU Leonid F. Ilicheva the CPSU Central Committee "On blocking out foreign radio broadcasts," March 30, 1963 1. "Voice of America" - Russian, Ukrainian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Armenian, Georgian languages (in Russian being selectively mute). 2. "Bi-Bi-Si" - Russian language (being selectively mute). 3. "Vatican" - Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian languages (solos transmission). 4. "Voice of Azerbaijan" (Iran) - Russian (solos transmission). 5. "Canada" - Russian language (solos transmission). 6. "Deutsche Welle" (German) - Russian (being selectively mute). 7. "Paris" - Russian language (being selectively mute). 8. "Rome" - Russian language (being selectively mute). 9. "Voice of Zion" (Israel) - Hebrew (solos transmission). 10. "Tyrant" [sic] ( Albania) - Russian (hindered music programs). List of radio stations, which is proposed to replace the mute making it difficult musical programs : 1. "For the liberation of great Russia" ( Spain) - Russian language. 2. "NTS" (South Korea) - Russian language. 3. "NTS" (the island of Taiwan) - Russian language. 4. "Freedom" (Germany). 5. "Freedom" (Spain) - Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Avar, Adygea, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Bashkir, Georgian, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Karachay - Balkar, Ossetian, Tajik, Tatar, Turkmen, Uzbek, Chechen and Ingush. 6. "Freedom" (o.Tayvan) - Russian language. 7. "Free Russia" (o.Tayvan ) - Russian language. 8. "Voice of Zion" (Israel) - Hebrew. 9. "Madrid" (Spain) - Russian, Ukrainian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian. List of radio stations , whose transmission is not currently muted: 1. "Belgrade" - Russian language. 2. "Voice of Israel" ( Israel) - Russian language. 3. "Kabul" (Afghanistan) - Russian language. 4. "Quito" (Ecuador) - Russian (religious programs). 5. "Luxembourg" - Russian language (religious transmission) 6. "Monte Carlo" (Monaco) - Russian, Ukrainian, Estonian, Latvian languages (religious transmission). 7. "United Nations' (UN) - Russian language. 8. "Omega" (Germany) - Russian (religious programs). 9. "Beijing" (China) - Russian language. 10. "Tehran " (Iran) - Russian language. 11. "Tokyo" (Japan) - Russian language. RGANI . F. 3 . Op. 16. D. 263. L. 24-25 . Copy. (via RusDX Jan 12 via DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See also ALGERIA; EQUATORIAL GUINEA; ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ GERMANY; GUAM; NIGERIA; RUSSIA; SOUTH CAROLINA non, USA Dream DRM: "No CODEC available" ?? And while I am getting back in the swing of things: I'm receiving strong DRM signals with station ID displayed but the DRM software says "no codec available", thus no audio. Station ID is nice, but I would like to actually get decoded audio. Is the codec a separate file that I need to acquire and install? I am using version 2.1.1 (Andy o`Brien, K3UK, Jan 12, dxldyg via DXLD) Follow this link for instructions on how to "build" the missing file: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/drm/index.php?title=Instructions_for_building_the_AAC_decoder Unfortunately it is very convoluted due to licensing issues. This link gives a simpler way: http://www.rtl-sdr.com/tutorial-drm-radio-using-rtl-sdr/ As I recall I've done it both ways. Here in WCNA there are few chances/choices left for DRM signals! Good luck! (Bob LaRose, CA, ibid.) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CRAWFORD OFFERS AM IMPROVEMENT SUGGESTIONS http://www.radioworld.com/article/crawford-offers-am-improvement-suggestions/223066 (via Dennis Gibson, Jan 8, ABDX via DXLD) The interesting thing about these suggestions is that they were penned by Crawford DoE Cris Alexander, who is, or was, an AM IBOC zealot. And yet, his submission makes no mention whatsoever of IBOC. Yet another indication that AM IBOC is dead as a doornail. I like this part, though: "For co- and adjacent-channel interference, he said, the interference picture on AM remains much as it was two decades ago". Absolutely not true, as long as the remaining IBOC stations stay on the air! (Barry McLarnon Ottawa, ON, ibid.) Yes, many Crawford AM stations run IBOC, including its newest. Actually that was a transmitter site change. I think zealot is a little strong but he is certainly a believer (I couldn't resist that one). (Dennis Gibson, Sent from my iPad, ibid.) Re: Digital radio news, 14-02: A personal take on the "drive for digital"... (Catchy, eh?) Ibiquity arguably has the best technology solution here because it alone addresses the blackout problem that occurs when the digital signal degrades below threshold. However, like its digital brethren (DAB, DAB+ and DRM, there's really minimal interest and demand for it. That's partially due to the fact that every survey I've seen shows that listeners are perfectly satisfied with analog FM and flummoxed by the additional roadblocks presented by transitioning to digital -- including cost, reception issues and -- in the case of Ibiquity -- availability of portable and home receivers. The other reason is that -- with the exception of public radio in the U.S. -- the decision-making process about what to program on the additional FM channels offered by the Ibiquity technology (termed IBOC for "in-band, on-channel") in the commercial radio realm is as restrictive as a Politburo policy statement. The commercial sector is so afraid of cannibalizing the primary stations that the formats available for the secondary HD2 and HD3 channels are weak, pale derivatives of what's already arguably too widely programmed. When FM first emerged in the mid to late '60s in the U.S., it benefited from a farsighted FCC policy and a more or less noblesse oblige attitude from station owners (multiple individual, not corporately concentrated as today) preoccupied with their competitive, but profitable AM stations. While they weren't looking, significant experimentation with program format, presentation styles and content occurred. Free form and progressive rock were two highly popular formats that emerged on FM that had never been heard on AM. Nothing approaching that free, energetic attitude is coming out of commercial radio today. So, what's the point, what's the attraction for listeners to go out and buy an (often more expensive) new radio? The improved audio argument doesn't seem to fly on its own. Even in the UK where DAB radios have made a significant dent in the market, any discussion of shutting down or de-emphasizing FM engenders rage. (John Figliozzi, wwlgonline.com Sent from my iPad, FL, Jan 9, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST Reminds me of the term "dark fiber" - from the telecommunications industry. When long-haul fiber optic cable was first laid into the ground, expectations were that its transmission capacity would be sufficient for a reasonable number of years, allowing for a reasonable period of cost amortization. However, the manufacturers of fiber optic components soon discovered ways to squeeze more throughput out of a given circuit, which significantly increased the transmission capacity of a given cable - far beyond demand. As a result, parts of the cable weren't "lit up" with optical transmitters (or receivers), hence the name "dark fiber". Digital audio broadcasting, too, significantly increases the transmission capacity of a given frequency (or given frequency band), but there isn't sufficient demand for stations to invest in any sort of "useful" format for these additional channels, as John suggests.. Perhaps what we need is some sort of "use it or lose it" requirement: If stations do nothing other put these "placeholder" formats on the subchannels, they lose their access to the channels, which are then offered up at auction. Sure, the existing station could bid for the spectrum space and thus close out others, However that would overall increase the cost for the stations to "defend" their turf. Unfortunately I don't see the NAB or other lobbyist organizations willing to support such a rule; their interest is to protect their current members. RC (Rich Cuff, swprograms via DXLD) Is there a prohibition for stations to lease their HD-2 and HD-3 in a manner similar to FM subcarrier stations? Otherwise, that could be a model. On the public radio side, HD is actually a good fit for stations that had bifurcated formats. Transition to single formats in public radio has been a very strong trend over the past twenty years...often to the great dismay of fans of the replaced programming. Now, a public station can have news on the main channel, classical or jazz on HD-2 and BBC or similar on three. I like HD from a listener's (not a dx'ers) standpoint. The ease of flipping through WNYC's three stations on one freq is cool. Plus, the Sony XDR series HD radios are wonderful. They're no longer made, bec. it didn't turn into a viable product for Sony as there is very little awareness of HD among listeners. In my own highly scientific personal poll, I have never encountered a non-radio person who knew what HD was (outside of my beleaguered family.) (David Goren, ibid.) David, I surmise that stations aren't interested in doing that unless a gun were held to their heads. SCA is different - it doesn't directly compete with the principal station's programming. Look at the situation up in Buffalo - Entercom is the dominant player, and parks ESPN on its 50 kW WWKB transmitter at the same time it operates its own locally-originated sports format on 5 kW WGR. You'd think the squandered opportunity to put a meaningful format on WWKB would annoy shareholders, but Entercom is loath to sell the 1520 WWKB frequency as it would introduce a new competitor or strengthen an existing one. As our colleague Mr. Figliozzi would point out, this points out a significant flaw in our commercial radio licensing model - the fact that spectrum space is a publicly owned asset, and should be managed to maximize the public good, is lost on the FCC and the rest of our government. RC (Richard Cuff, ibid.) There are a couple of HD-2's in NYC that are ethnic and wildly different from the main channel. There's a South Indian format, and a Caribbean Gospel one last time I checked. Mostly, though the HD-2 format is a slight variant of the main format (David Goren, ibid.) I'm surprised nobody has already pointed out the perils of defining what constitutes a placeholder format. Everybody seems to have an agenda these days, and it would appear all too easy to define any given programming as unnecessary (Scott Royall, Conch Republic, ibid.) Heh - you're right, Scott; that definition would be difficult to impossible, and the prevailing concept would be to simply let market forces have their way, and we can see how well commercial HD radio has done. In this region KYW Philadelphia is simulcast on an HD2 FM channel in addition to its clear channel AM status, though up here in Allentown we're at the fringe of HD2 reception for the station in question. RC (Richard Cuff, ibid.) I don't believe there is an FCC regulation that would deny this possibility, which means it is more flexible than second-channel audio. However, a station will have license expenses with iBiquity, the licensed owner of the technology. For sure you'd have issues of annual costs/fees for technology licensing, which I believe is 3% of the incremental net annual revenue on digital content. Here in Iowa, our statewide public radio network, Iowa Public Radio, has three programming streams. They've started to use the HD-2 channel on some of the transmitters to send a second stream instead of investing in an entirely different frequency. I personally would only use digital AM/FM if I am GIVEN a receiver, as otherwise I wouldn't spend the money (Kevin Anderson, Dubuque, Iowa, Swprograms mailing list via DXLD) > You'd think the squandered opportunity to put a meaningful format on WWKB This comes up against Scott Royall's comment, as you're implying that sports talk is somehow not meaningful. (Ever since the New York ESPN Radio affiliate went FM only, I haven't been able to pick one up here in the Catskills. And I wouldn't mind having a competitor to WFAN.) > and should be managed to maximize the public good, is lost on the FCC and the rest of our government Are networks not in the public good? Or are they only in the public good when they've got the government imprimatur like the CBC in Canada or the BBC in the UK? -- (Ted Schuerzinger, ibid.) I think you've misunderstood, Ted. The criticism of government policy regards allowing (in fact fostering) concentration of control over a public resource -- not a public vs. private broadcasting argument. So, as to the sports talk situation, in Buffalo at least WGR is already widely heard on its 5kW regional AM frequency. So why simulcast it on an HD2 frequency that has a lesser reach? Absent such concentration of control that HD2 frequency would be more likely to offer something other than a rather useless repeat of something already available (John Figliozzi, ibid.) P.S.: I think it's WEPN that's transitioned to FM from AM in NYC. WFAN is on both 660 AM which should be reaching into the Catskills even in daytime, and FM (John Figliozzi, ibid.) One of the points I was trying to make is that having that 800-pound gorilla with the government imprimatur is also a form of concentration of control. Not that I particularly care for the state of broadcasting here in the US. I wouldn't necessarily mind some good spoken-word broadcasting that wasn't of the call-in variety; after all, I listen to the various international broadcasters. But one of the impressions I get from discussions like this -- not just here, but in the game show forum I mentioned in responding to Rob, as well as the TCM boards -- is that a lot of the complaining comes down to, "How horrible it is that there's not more of the format of programming *I* like!" (You should see on the TCM boards whenever they run more recent movies.) I don't have any good answers, though. I must not have made my previous post clear; yeah, I fully know that it's WEPN that went Spanish-language sports. Just this week WFAN's station IDs went to mentioning the FM frequency first, which makes me wonder when they're going to leave AM (Ted, ibid.) Ted, I noticed that "gotcha" also. Really, who should decide such things. The free market model does suck, until you look closely at the alternatives (Scott Royall, ibid.) But by what definition is one company owning 700, 800, 900 stations including up to a dozen or more in the same city a "free market"? Sent from my iPad (John Figliozzi, ibid.) For many years, Ibiquity imposed rules on licensees that restricted them from duplicating formats in a given market but the rules were so broad it often restricted entire genres. The good news is they dropped that restriction several years ago. I don't believe the FCC has any rules on it aside from the fact you cannot duplicate your primary broadcast signal on anything other than HD1. This is to insure that the "rollover" to and from digital happens as the signal strength changes. That put aside, I think the problem with the radio HD channels is like the problem with the digital sub-channels for broadcast TV. The industry organizations and the vendors promoted the possibilities of many alternative programming formats and all of the new and exciting opportunities for listeners/viewers. The holes in the argument were many. Here is one: the stations really didn't have a plan on what to program. Tripling or quadrupling your "bandwidth" to send out programming sounds awesome but you need to know what you are going to do that is interesting to the audience. Another is: the stations also hadn't worked out how to pay for it. With the small number of viewers/listeners to those sub-channels, the rate book was out the window. Neither the TV nor the radio stations can charge for advertising on a sub-channel what they charge for their main channel. Largely they remain a financial loser. Two examples of this come to mind. A few months before the digital changeover I had a meeting with an executive at one of the Columbus TV stations. Ostensibly, I was there to talk sports programming and promotion. I asked him: "so what is W***-TV going to do with their sub-channels?" Answer: "We have no idea so we'll probably just temporarily fill it with old shows and news feeds for now." Three and a half years on, "temporarily" is now "permanently" and this is a locally owned and well-run station. The other involves radio and my recent time at a broadcast engineering meeting. (I was covering the meeting for an industry publication.) I was the bystander in a conversation between two station engineers (not programmers!) who were lamenting how their HD sub-channels were being filled with whatever the corporate office was force-feeding them even though there was no market interest. Apparently, the corporate people had decided that a couple of their in-house formats had to be used. Public radio and TV is about the only area where stations have consistently made sensible programming decisions for their digital feeds. However, even there, there is much duplication and few stations that radically alter the programming. Moral of the story: Original programming is hard (really new ideas are few) and often does not generate revenue right away. It's the antithesis of today's Wall Street philosophy. Ironically, when it works, it works spectacularly well. – (-Rob de Santos, ibid.) One of my other interests is game shows, and I'm a member of an internet board dedicated to game shows, both new and old. There's a substantial percentage of the membership there that likes the nostalgia TV channels like Me-TV and Antenna TV. I also like having a digital subchannel that cycles through various weather/radar maps, which I find particularly useful any time there's a thunderstorm and I don't really want to fire up the computer, or a heavy enough snow storm that I worry about the satellite internet getting blocked. – (Ted Schuerzinger, ibid.) Ted, it's not that there is anything wrong with services like Me-TV or Antenna TV per se. I occasionally get some amusement out of watching old shows myself. It's simply that after nearly 43 months, the station has yet to come up with **anything** better to put on the sub-channel. Moreover, there probably isn't a major market where those services and similar ones don't dot the sub-channels landscape. Not because they get ratings, they don't (they don't generate enough viewers that Nielsen will even bother rating them). They are there because station programmers can't figure out what to put there that significant numbers will watch. For that matter, my cable provider (TWC) stuffs the cable feeds up in the 990's above the music channels where nobody will find them unless they accidentally go down from the HD channels. With a few exceptions, such as MHz in Washington, DC the HD sub-channels are a wasteland. Ask yourself, if they gave any of us on this thread a channel to program, what could we come up with to put there? I'm betting 9 out of 10, it's not Me-TV. – (-Rob de Santos, ibid.) Content. That's what it all comes down to. The content distributors (stations, etc.) do not perceive enough benefit in providing better content for secondary streams. They're just bright enough to realize they might someday so they stick junk on it as a placeholder. The real problem is that nobody has come up with an accurate and socially acceptable method of measuring content consumption, ever. Nielson? Don't make me laugh. I did say accurate, not voodoo sampling. Advertising has reached such a feeding frenzy that content sponsors are starting to demand the specific demographics of the audience consuming that particular programming. Since there's still no measuring approach accurate enough to placate advertisers, content distributors continue to be unaware who, if anyone, is partaking of the secondary content. Doesn't this situation all seem so very familiar? Think of SWBC 30 years ago. Question is, how to avoid repeating that exodus? Distributors won't keep those secondary streams lit forever without some sort of return (Scott Royall, ibid.) Re: IBOC Updates, Part 2 I just did a quick band scan in the Denver area. Here is what I found for stations still using it: 560 KLZ 670 KLTT 810 KLVZ 910 KPOF 950 KRWZ 1220 KLDC 1340 KVOQ 1490 KCFC 1600 KEPN 1690 KDDZ Additionally, 1090 KMXA sounded like it could be using it, but there was a lot of noise on the band and I am pretty far from their transmitter site. 73, (Kit, W5KAT, Jan 9, ABDX via DXLD) This is sickening isn't it? But recently KOA dropped IBOC, didn't it, and hopefully forever. I don't think KMXA is IBOC; they blast in here at sunset like a local on western antennas and don't bother adjacents. 73 KAZ (Neil Kazaross, IL/WI, ibid.) Yes, Clear Channel dropped it from KOA and KHOW. I'm pretty sure they used to use it on KKZN as well, but none have had it for a while. It seemed to be off at KHOW for a while before KOA totally ditched it. KOA was hit and miss with it for a while when I checked. Crawford stubbornly clings to it here. Why they even bother on their peanut whistles (810 and 1220) is hard to figure, given the very short range of those signals. Same with the public stations on the graveyard frequencies. It would be nice if the former C-QuAM stations would turn on their exciters again, but KRWZ 950 and KEZW 1430 are the only ones left still playing music in English, unless you also count Radio Disney. There is an AM in the market for sale, and I have a feeling that is it. 73, (Kit W5KAT, ibid.) That wouldn't surprise me. The Salt Lake Radio Disney outlet (KWDZ 910) is dark and has been for a while. I think both KWDZ in Salt Lake and KDDZ there in Denver are Radio Disney-owned. I have an aircheck from around 2002 or 2003 that I made while in Denver of KDDZ in c-quam AM Stereo before they went IBOC. That takes Salt Lake's IBOC count down to 2 (KSL and KUTR) I was amazed to see such a long list for Denver (Michael n Wyo Richard, ibid.) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ DLR to FCC: No More New AMs http://www.radioworld.com/article/dlr-to-fcc-no-more-new-ams/223188 (via Dennis Gibson, wb6tnb, Jan 14, Sent from my iPad, ABDX via DXLD) Viz: by Leslie Stimson on 01.14.2014 The engineering consulting firm of du Treil, Lundin & Rackley says there’s a lot the FCC can do to improve AM. DLR says the AM band is mature and the agency should not allow more applications for new AMs, given the numerous delivery options available today. “Existing AM stations should be encouraged to improve their service to their actual audiences with as much flexibility as possible in choosing their transmitter site locations and the details of their technical facilities — or get out of the way to let other stations make improvements subject to agreements submitted to the FCC for that purpose,” states DLR in comments filed with the FCC. Specifically, the agency should not hold any more filing windows for short-form applications, according to the engineering consulting firm, which notes “Much harm has been done to the prospects for improving AM stations in recent years because filing windows were held to allow in short-form applications for new stations and major changes that effectively blocked improvement possibilities for existing stations for years because of the need to protect the new short-form applications based on their assumed facilities. This should never happen again.” Many of AM’s woes are caused by rising noise levels from items like computers and fluorescent lights. Adopt daytime protected contour levels that are more noise-resistant, advises DLR, suggesting 2.0 mV/m, up from the current 0.5 mV/m for Class B, C and D stations “is more representative of the signal levels needed to overcome present day noise levels.” Additionally, the 0.1 mV/m daytime protected contour for Class A stations should be raised to 0.5 mV/m, “a change that recognizes the historic wider area coverage of Class A stations for listeners amenable to listening through noise while giving approximately the same decibel increase.” Further, DLR proposes: “We believe that the rules should be changed to make the protected contour for daytime co-channel overlap, daytime first-adjacent channel overlap, daytime critical hours protection and nighttime overlap from co-channel skywave signals the 0.5 mV/m groundwave contour for Class A stations. In the daytime, this will replace the presently protected 0.1 mV/m contour — which we believe should not be considered a coverage contour under today’s noise conditions. At night, it will replace the 0.5 mV/m skywave contour — which we believe to be obsolete.” The firm discusses 20+ proposals in its filing. Several proposals concern skywave protection and how that needs to be reconsidered in the modern age. Of the proposal suggested above, DLR adds: “The proposed daytime change will allow increased flexibility for daytime coverage improvement by co-channel and first-adjacent channel AM stations while still providing a greater degree of protection to Class A stations than what we have proposed for Class B, C and D stations. The proposed 0.5 mV/m protected level will provide for listeners who might be motivated to listen through receiver noise to Class A stations’ programming content, in recognition of Class A stations’ historic role in providing such content to the public.” Of skywave protection in general, DLR says the radio industry has had a difficult time acknowledging that Class A station 0.5 mV/m nighttime coverage has become obsolete, “because of our own tendency as well as that of others to romanticize listening to distant signals fade in and out overnight and the hobby aspects of ‘DX-ing’ distant signals.” However, the wide area programming that used to be carried overnight by Class As exclusively is distributed to listeners wherever they are with consistent audio quality using other modern technologies like satellite and Internet Protocol delivery, according to the firm. Much of the overnight programming that has historically been provided by Class As has migrated to satellite distribution and IP delivery is threatening to overtake satellite delivery someday soon. The connected dashboard coming to more vehicles allows more choices of audio programming delivered from more sources. The reality, according to DLR, is listeners who remain for AMs will be there for the programming. AMs need to focus on finding what programming that is and delivering it in a way that competes as well as possible with the other modern-day delivery methods, “meaning with signals optimized for quality reception — something that nighttime skywave service cannot provide.” We hope that “by proposing replacement of obsolete Class A standards with a plan to protect 0.5 mV/m groundwave service, giving Class A stations enhanced protection relative to other classes of stations, we can avoid a situation where lesser protection might be enforced someday,” states DLR. DLR also discusses FCC proposals and proposals that DLR has offered previously. It’s behind the proposal discussed this fall to open an FM translator window specifically for AM applicants, in a “one per customer” offering. However DLR cautions the commission that FM translators alone are not the solution. “FM frequency availability will limit the extent to which AM stations are able to use FM translators, particularly in and near larger radio markets.” The engineering consultants say the daytime community coverage standard should be eliminated and AMs should not be licensed to cover communities, calling the requirement “an obsolete relic” dating from the time when the agency was responsible for rationing frequencies “to be used by the very limited number of radio stations that would provide 100% of the over-the-air entertainment and information available to the public at the time.” The AM landscape today is far different, “with AM stations providing a very small segment of the electronically-delivered audio content available to the public from an increasingly diverse number of over- the-air sources.” Thus a “radical” change is needed to allow AMs flexibility to see normal business forces guide them in how to best serve their actual audiences, according to DLR. DLR favors elimination of the so-called “Ratchet Rule,” and wider use of Modulation Dependent Carrier Control technologies. The engineering consulting firm also favors killing the minimum AM antenna efficiency requirements, noting that the 1930s’era justification for ensuring a minimum amount of service was provided for each of the “scarce AM channel assignments at the time” is no longer enough to justify impairment for flexibility in choosing antenna locations. “AM stations should have complete flexibility in choosing tower height and ground system dimensions and normal business forces can be relied upon to influence their owners to seek optimum locations for serving their audiences,” states DLR. Comments on AM revitalization are due to MB Docket 13-249 next week. Read DLR’s filing. http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7521065403 Watch our page radioworld.com/amcomments for summaries of other comments to the FCC NPRM. See more at: http://www.radioworld.com/article/dlr-to-fcc-no-more-new-ams/223188#sthash.qFzfFHSD.dpuf (via DXLD) One improvement to AM radio I never see mentioned is tighter frequency control for AM stations. Much of the noise and fading is caused by many stations sharing the same channel but being off-frequency perhaps by 5, 10 or even 20 Hz or more from each other. This causes flutter, fading effects and interference well beyond the service area of the stations. The effect is very strong especially at night. One glaring example of this is the Cuban Wobbler on 650 AM that causes very strong interference to WSM at night at my location, but the voice and music programming on the Cuban station is practically inaudible. A weak carrier in the distance maybe 5Hz off-frequency can cause a very noticeable ripple and fading effect on a much stronger signal. If both stations were exactly on the same frequency the weaker station would be hardly noticeable. The European medium wave broadcast band has much tighter frequency standards than the U.S. and you don't hear all the flutter, fading and garbage that you hear in the U.S. at night. In fact some countries like the U.K. have chains of several medium wave stations all on exactly the same frequency to cover a large area seamlessly. They use very accurate frequency control to pull this off. The U.S. standard of +/- 20 Hz is hopelessly out of date when most stations relied on simple crystal control back in the 50's and 60's. Nowadays it is easy to lock a station to well within 1Hz using GPS or inexpensive atomic standards. Many hams are doing this already for not much cost. The U.S. standard should be updated after 50-60 years. I wonder why no one else mentions such a simple solution to a major source of co-channel interference in our crowded AM band especially at night? Hello NAB? 73 - (Todd WD4NGG Roberts, ABDX via DXLD) One of the nice things about an FCC NPRM is that anyone can file a comment. I'm working on a fairly extensive set of comments that I hope to file Thursday, and perhaps I'll include this one. But don't wait for someone else to do it - go to the FCC's electronic comment filing system and make the suggestion yourself! It's not hard to do, and I can provide some assistance if you need it. s (Scott Fybush, ibid.) N.S.A. DEVISES RADIO PATHWAY INTO COMPUTERS By DAVID E. SANGER and THOM SHANKERJAN. 14, 2014 The headquarters of the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Md. “We do not use foreign intelligence capabilities to steal the trade secrets of foreign companies,” an N.S.A. official said. Jim Lo Scalzo/European Pressphoto Agency [caption] WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world that allows the United States to conduct surveillance on those machines and can also create a digital highway for launching cyberattacks. While most of the software is inserted by gaining access to computer networks, the N.S.A. has increasingly made use of a secret technology that enables it to enter and alter data in computers even if they are not connected to the Internet, according to N.S.A. documents, computer experts and American officials. The technology, which the agency has used since at least 2008, relies on a covert channel of radio waves that can be transmitted from tiny circuit boards and USB cards inserted surreptitiously into the computers. In some cases, they are sent to a briefcase-size relay station that intelligence agencies can set up miles away from the target. [. . .] One, called Cottonmouth I, looks like a normal USB plug but has a tiny transceiver buried in it. According to the catalog, it transmits information swept from the computer “through a covert channel” that allows “data infiltration and exfiltration.” Another variant of the technology involves tiny circuit boards that can be inserted in a laptop computer — either in the field or when they are shipped from manufacturers — so that the computer is broadcasting to the N.S.A. even while the computer’s user enjoys the false confidence that being walled off from the Internet constitutes real protection. The relay station it communicates with, called Nightstand, fits in an oversize briefcase, and the system can attack a computer “from as far away as eight miles under ideal environmental conditions.” It can also insert packets of data in milliseconds, meaning that a false message or piece of programming can outrace a real one to a target computer. Similar stations create a link between the target computers and the N.S.A., even if the machines are isolated from the Internet. http://www.nytimes.com/pages/nyregion/index.html?module=SectionsNav&action=click®ion=TopBar&version=Shortcuts&contentCollection=New%20York&pgtype=article Or, copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://nyti.ms/1amLZ5C (via David Cole, OK, DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2014 Jan 13 0717 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 06 - 12 January 2014 Solar activity ranged from low to high levels during the period. Low levels were observed on 06 January and again from 09-12 January with the majority of the solar flare activity originating from Regions 1944 (S09, L=101, class/area Fkc/1560 on 08 January), 1946 (N09, L=103, class/area Dkc/530 on 10 January), and 1947 (N11, L=180, class/area Cro/030 on 06 January). High levels were reached on 07 January due to an M1/1n flare at 07/0353 UTC from Region 1946, an M7/2b flare at 07/1013 UTC with an associated Tenflare (Castelli-U) radio burst (409 sfu) from Region 1944, and an X1/2n at 07/1832 UTC also from Region 1944. The X1 flare was associated with a Type II radio sweep (1064 km/s), a 8300 sfu Tenflare, and a partial halo coronal mass ejection (CME) with an approximate speed ranging from 1800 km/s to 2100 km/s. Model output of the CME indicated an Earth-directed component; however the impact on the geomagnetic field was significantly less than expected (see geomagnetic field activity below). By 08 January, solar activity decreased to moderate levels due to an isolated M3/Sf flare from Region 1947 at 08/0347 UTC on the west limb. The M3 flare was accompanied by a Type II radio sweep (697 km/s) and a non-Earth directed CME. Region 1944 was one of the largest sunspot groups in solar cycle 24, maintained a Fkc spot class with a complex beta-gamma- delta magnetic classification for the majority of the period, as well as reaching an impressive 1,560 millionths of areal coverage. By 09 January and through the rest of the reporting period the sunspot group was in a slow decay phase. The period began with the greater than 10 MeV proton flux recovering from last weeks enhancement likely associated with an M4 flare from Region 1944 late on 04 January. At 06/0820 UTC, both the greater than 10 MeV and 100 MeV proton flux levels began to rise in response to flare activity beyond the west limb from old Region 1936 (S15, L=225) which rotated off the visible disk on 04 January. The greater than 10 MeV protons crossed the 10 pfu (S1 Minor) threshold at 06/0915 UTC and reached a maximum of 42 pfu at 06/1600 UTC before slowly declining to 10.1 pfu by 07/1930 UTC. The greater than 100 MeV protons crossed the 1 pfu threshold at 06/0830 UTC and reached a maximum of 4 pfu at 06/1005 UTC. The event ended at 06/1710 UTC. By 07/1935 UTC, another influx of energetic particles was observed by GOES 13 related to the X1 flare from Region 1944 at 07/1832 UTC. The 10 MeV proton flux levels were still above the 10 pfu threshold at this time and increased to a maximum of 1033 pfu (S3-Moderate) at 09/0340 UTC before slowly returning below the 10 pfu threshold by 11/2020 UTC. However, there were some fluctuations in the greater than 10 MeV protons early on 12 January with a couple readings above the 10 pfu threshold. The greater than 100 MeV proton event associated with the X-flare reached the 1 pfu threshold at 07/2030 UTC, reached a maximum of 4 pfu at 07/2240 UTC, and ended at 08/1225 UTC. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at mostly normal to moderate levels during the period with high levels (2690 pfu) briefly reached on 07 January before the instrument became contaminated due to high proton flux levels late on 07 January through 09 January. By 10 January, electron flux levels recovered and remained in the normal to moderate range for the rest of the period. Geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to active levels during the period. The geomagnetic field began the period at quiet levels until after mid-day 07 January when a sudden increase in temperature, speed, density, and total field measurements were observed in ACE SWEPAM data indicating the arrival of the 04 January CME. Solar wind speed increased from approximately 350 km/s to 435 km/s with the total field increasing from 3 nT to 7 nT at 07/1428 UTC. This small shock and CME resulted in several periods of unsettled levels late on 07 January through early on 08 January. Quiet to unsettled levels continued through 09 January. Late on 09 January, the anticipated arrival of the CME associated with the X1 flare on 07 January arrived at the ACE spacecraft at 09/1932 UTC with a less than expected solar wind increase of from approximately 400 km/s to near 527 km/s. Total field measurements increased from 6 nT to 16 nT with the Bz component mostly north between -4 nT and +10 nT. A small sudden impulse (12 nT) was observed in the Fresno magnetometer data at 09/2010 UTC. An isolated unsettled period was observed late on 09 January as a result of CME activity. Nominal solar wind condition continued through late on 12 January with mostly quiet conditions observed. By late on 12 January, a negative polarity coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS) began to impact the geomagnetic field. Solar wind speeds increased from approximately 480 km/s to near 680 km/s by the end of the period. The geomagnetic field responded with unsettled to active levels by late on 12 January. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 13 JANUARY-08 FEBRUARY 2014 Solar activity is expected to be at low levels with a chance for M- class flare activity until Region 1944 rotates off the west limb on 14 January. Very low to low levels are expected from 15-16 January. Low levels with a chance for M-class flare activity is expected from 17 January through 08 February as old Regions 1936 and 1944 return on 17 January and 26 January, respectively. There is a chance for a greater than 10 MeV proton event from 26 January through 08 February when Region 1944 returns on the visible disk assuming it retains its magnetic complexity. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at normal to moderate levels with high levels possible from 14-17 January, 29 January, and 03-05 February due to CH HSS activity and recurrence. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be mostly quiet with unsettled to active period possible on 13 January, 23-24 January, 28-30 January, and again on 07-08 February due to recurrent CH HSS activity. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2014 Jan 13 0717 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 2014-01-13 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2014 Jan 13 155 8 4 2014 Jan 14 145 5 2 2014 Jan 15 140 5 2 2014 Jan 16 140 5 2 2014 Jan 17 145 5 2 2014 Jan 18 140 5 2 2014 Jan 19 140 5 2 2014 Jan 20 130 5 2 2014 Jan 21 125 5 2 2014 Jan 22 125 5 2 2014 Jan 23 125 10 3 2014 Jan 24 125 8 3 2014 Jan 25 130 5 2 2014 Jan 26 135 5 2 2014 Jan 27 145 5 2 2014 Jan 28 155 10 3 2014 Jan 29 155 18 4 2014 Jan 30 160 8 3 2014 Jan 31 170 5 2 2014 Feb 01 175 5 2 2014 Feb 02 180 5 2 2014 Feb 03 180 5 2 2014 Feb 04 180 5 2 2014 Feb 05 180 5 2 2014 Feb 06 175 5 2 2014 Feb 07 165 8 3 2014 Feb 08 155 8 3 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1704, DXLD) ###