DX LISTENING DIGEST 14-13, March 26, 2014 Incorporating REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING edited by Glenn Hauser, http://www.worldofradio.com Items from DXLD may be reproduced and re-reproduced only if full credit be maintained at all stages and we be provided exchange copies. DXLD may not be reposted in its entirety without permission. Materials taken from Arctic or originating from Olle Alm and not having a commercial copyright are exempt from all restrictions of noncommercial, noncopyrighted reusage except for full credits For restrixions and searchable 2014 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html For restrixions and searchable 2013 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid13.html [also linx to previous years] NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1714: *DX and station news about: Albania, Asia non, Australia, Brazil, Cameroon non, Canada, Canary Islands non, China non, Cuba, Ethiopia and non, India, Israel, Korea North non, Madagascar, México, Mongolia non, Nigeria, North America, Oman, Romania, Russia, Sarawak non, Seychelles, Somalia non, Spain, Taiwan non, Turkey, Ukraine, UK, USA, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, unidentified SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1714, March 27-April 2, 2014 Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Thu 1230 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Thu 2101 WTWW 9475 [confirmed] Fri 0326v WWRB 5050 [confirmed, ex-3195] Sat 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 2330v WTWW 9930 [we hope, as presumably scheduled now] Sun 0030 WRMI 9495 [could be previous edition] Sun 0401 WTWW 5830 Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 Wed 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 1300 WRMI 9955 [on northwest antenna] Wed 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or 1715 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 WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS HAVE RESUMED starting with #1701: Tnx to Dr Harald Gabler and the Rhein-Main Radio Club. http://www.rmrc.de/index.php?option=com_podcast&view=feed&format=raw&Itemid=156&lang=de 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/ ** ALASKA. 9615, March 26 at 1251, `Creation Moments` anti-science nonsense, fair signal in English from KNLS as per ID at 1252, music by the Naughty Boys featuring Sam Smith, with la-la-la and clips of others --- o, this is just a promo: ``new music from your New Life Station, KNLS``; 1254 more music and wrapup with English schedule as 9615 at 10 & 12, 9655 at 15, then ``Hey, Brother``. All this will change March 30 for A-14, HFCC registered for English: 08, 10 and 12 on 11870; 12 also on 7355; 14 on 11765 --- but we`ll be surprised if this schedule prove accurate (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALBANIA. Radio Tirana - A-14 (30.03.2014 bis 25.10.2014): ALBANISCH (täglich) 0700 - 0800 UTC 7390 kHz Westeuropa 0801 - 0900 UTC 1395 kHz Westeuropa 7390 kHz Westeuropa 1400 - 1530 UTC 1458 kHz Westeuropa 2300 - 2400 UTC 9850 kHz Nordamerika DEUTSCH (Montag bis Samstag) 1931 - 2000 UTC 7465 kHz Deutschland ENGLISCH (Montag bis Samstag) 2000 - 2030 UTC 7465 kHz UK, Irland [WORLD OF RADIO 1714] ENGLISCH (Dienstag bis Sonntag) 0130 - 0200 UTC 9845 kHz Nordamerika FRANZÖSISCH (Montag bis Samstag) 1730 - 1800 UTC 7465 kHz Frankreich GRIECHISCH (Montag bis Samstag) 1545 - 1600 UTC 1458 kHz Griechenland ITALIENISCH (Montag bis Samstag) 1700 - 1730 UTC 7465 kHz Italien SERBISCH (Montag bis Samstag) 2015 - 2030 UTC 1458 kHz Serbien TÜRKISCH (Montag bis Samstag) 1830 - 1900 UTC 1458 kHz Türkei Mittelwelle: Sender Fllaka - 500 kW Kurzwelle: Sender Shijak - 100 kW (via Wolfgang Buschel, Drita Çiço, DXLD) Good morning from Tirana, According to an earlier order of our Director, all transmissions via Shijak site, should be made by Tx. 1; thus we can use only antenna A-10 310 degrees for these frequencies. Thank you very much! Drita Çiço, R. Tirana, March 24, WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz., all dated 300314 to 251014: FREQ STRT STOP CIRAF ZONES LOC POWR AZIMUTH SLW ANT DAYS MOD AFRQ LANGUAGE ADM BRC FMO REQ# 7390 0700 0900 27,28 SHI 100 310 0 146 1234567 D Sqi ALB ALR ALR 4448 7465 1700 1730 27,28 SHI 100 310 0 146 234567 D Ita ALB ALR ALR 4449 7465 1730 1800 27,28 SHI 100 310 0 146 234567 D Fra ALB ALR ALR 4450 7465 1931 2000 27,28 SHI 100 310 0 146 234567 D Deu ALB ALR ALR 4451 7465 2000 2030 27,28 SHI 100 310 0 146 234567 D Eng ALB ALR ALR 4452 9845 0130 0200 7-9 SHI 100 310 0 146 1 34567 D Eng ALB ALR ALR 10001 9850 2300 2400 7-9 SHI 100 310 0 146 1234567 D Sqi ALB ALR ALR 4454 (via Drita, DXLD) Hello Drita, This arrangement should work okay, and it will give a good signal into the >main< target areas, and there is certain to be some "stray" RF going elsewhere too. Greetings from a dull and wet Blackpool (Noel Green, England, via DXLD) ** ALBANIA [and non]. Monitoring of always off-frequency MW relays of CRI via Fllaka, and R. Tirana broadcasts, March 25-26: From: Wolfgang Bueschel_DF5SX ; To: Drita Cico - RTSH Monitoring ; Cc: Noel R. Green_zz ; Subject: Fw: CRI via Fllaka (2) Sent: Tue, Mar 25, 2014 5:15:47 PM 1457.645 kHz, S=9+30dB -43.4dBm signal on Zakynthos Greece, Radio Tirana Greek service with Albanian folk music til 1658 UT. Underneath still Romania 1458.0 even frequency. CRI Bulgarian service from Fllake started at 1700 UT. Same signal strength. In Germany only Romania 1458.0 kHz heard though instead. But in Warsaw Poland heard Fllake 1457.645 kHz at S=7-8 signal at - 74.4dBm. At Zakynthos Greece CRI Esperanto service on 1215.348 kHz stronger at S=9+35dB level, some -37.4dBm signal at 1705 UT March 25. At Nuremberg Germany, Kaliningrad Russia's Vesti FM radio 1200 kW powerhouse heard on 1215.0 kHz instead. regards de Wolfy 1458 / 1215 kHz some logs of this afternoon, March 25. VERY ODD frequency 1457.645 kHz of Fllake transmission in Albanian language in 1530-1600 UT slot. Minus 355 Hertz oddity of frequency!!!!!!!!!!!! Maybe the Chinese engineers should made a proper alignment at the Fllake mediumwave station soon? Alignment against exact zero Hertz outlets of 810.000 kHz Macedonia or DLF Heusweiler 1422.000 kHz site! S=9+10dB signal of -65dBm strength on remote PERSEUS receiver units at Bologna-Rimini-Forli-Italy area, also same at Messina-Sicily southern Italy. At 1600 UT S=9+15dB signal increasing a little bit. Signal strength in Greece remote post on Zakynthos island: Fllake S=8- 9 at -75dBm signal. But co-channel QRM interference ahead of Romania on 1458.0 kHz at S=9+5dB. Comparison of Russian radio at same time slot: Moldova 1548.000 kHz, Moldova 1413.000 kHz, both S=9+30dB. Moldova 999.000 kHz, S=9+5dB. In Switzerland and southern Germany the 1458.0 kHz signal from South Asian Radio at London England is heard with Indian film music instead. 1215.348 kHz, CRI Fllake Albanian language relay from 1600 UT March 25, S=9+15dB, -60.4dBm signal at Bologna-Rimini-Forli remote SDR unit post. But due of the QRM interference of +348 Hertz, annoying BUZZ audio tune signal heard accompanied! At Messina Sicily in southern Italy and Zakynthos Greece posts weaker at S=9+5dB -65dBm level. regards de Wolfy 1215.170 ... wandered down to 1215.159 kHz {at 2247 UT} CRI Fllake Serbian language relay from 2200 UT on March 25, S=9+25dB, -48.4dBm signal at Udine-Trieste Italy remote SDR unit post. S=9+5dB, like -68.4dBm signal strength at Warsaw Poland remote SDR Perseus unit. S=9+15dB, like -56.4dBm signal strength at Zakynthos Greece remote SDR Perseus unit. CRI Fllake Serbian language relay from 2248 UT on March 25, S=9+30dB, -42.4dBm signal at Bologna-Rimini-Forli Italy remote SDR unit post. 1457.638 kHz {bound, not wandered anymore}, CRI Fllake relay in Polish language at 2222 UT March 25, and CRI Fllake Czech at 2234 March 25. S=9+20dB, like -54.4dBm signal strength at Udine-Trieste Italy remote SDR Perseus unit. S=9+15dB, like -58.4dBm signal strength at Warsaw Poland remote SDR Perseus unit. S=9+10dB, like -61.4dBm signal strength at Zakynthos Greece remote SDR Perseus unit. S=9+10dB, like - 62.4dBm signal strength at Udine-Trieste Italy remote SDR Perseus. CRI Fllake Czech language relay from 2250 UT on March 25, Chinese- Czech language lesson, S=9+25dB, -48.4dBm signal at Bologna-Rimini- Forli Italy remote SDR unit post. regards de Wolfy 1394.836 at 0915 UT on March 26 Radio Tirana Albanian morning service via Fllake, S=6 weak signal, -87.4dBm signal at Bologna-Rimini-Forli Italy remote SDR unit post. Nothing heard in Genoa, Udine-Trieste, Messina Sicily and Zakynthos Greece posts, signal is too weak in 200 meterband during summer season. You should make you thoughts instead to use longer 247 meterband wave 1215 kHz? 7389.981, R Tirana Albanian from Shijak tx site, S=9+5dB, -65.4dBm in southern Germany at 0945 UT on March 26. S=9+15dB, -59.4dBm at Bologna-Rimini-Forli, Udine-Trieste Italy, S=9+10dB, -63.4dBm signal at Messina Sicily Italy, S=9+5dB, -68.4dBm Genua Italy and Zakynthos Greece, S=9+5dB, -69.4dBm in central Switzerland, tiny weak S=5, or -98.4dBm at Warsaw Poland remote SDR unit post. Transmission switched OFF at exact 0956:34 UT on March 26. regards de Wolfy (all via Drita Çiço, R. Tirana, DXLD) ** ALGERIA [non]. FRANCE, 5865, R Algierenne, Mar 26 0406 - Arabic news mentioning Mubarak and Morsi, followed by Qur`an at 0407. Excellent signal. 73, (Brandon Jordan, http://www.swldx.us Fayette County, TN EM55gc, WinRadio G33DDC, WinRadio G313-e, RFSpace SDR-IQ, Icom R75, Eton E1, DX Engineering NCC-1 Phased Dual Active Verticals, Array Solutions AS-SAL-30 Shared Apex Loop, Wellbrook FLG100 Double KAZ Loop (21'×60'), dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. Radio Mitre sigue siendo la radio más escuchada de la Argentina --- Radio Mitre sigue siendo la emisora más escuchada del país con una cifra con la ubica con un número tres veces superior a su competidor inmediato, de acuerdo a los datos de la consultora Ibope correspondientes al mes de febrero. Lea la nota completa en http://gruporadioescuchaargentino.wordpress.com/ (Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina, March 24, condiglista yg via DXLD) Y para quienes lean este artículo y no lo sepan, hay que aclarar que Radio Mitre es una emisora opositora al gobierno nacional. Le sigue otra que estuvo 12 años en el primer puesto del ranking, Radio 10 que también era opositora hasta que la compró el ultra-oficialista Cristóbal López. Es muy fácil sacar conclusiones (anon., Enviado desde mi BlackBerry® de Claro Argentina, ibid.) ** ARMENIA. Armenian National Radio (not to be confused with Armenian PUBLIC Radio) broadcasts on several FM frequencies throughout Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. Their website at http://www.anr.am offers a live audio stream and on-demand audio files. There's also a list of regional FM outlets - hover over the symbol to the left of the Search box to find both this and the audio links (David Kernick, Interval Signals Online, March 22, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) only in Armenian? (gh, DXLD) ** ASIA [non]. RFA A-14 - some reduxions --- Hello Glenn, I do not see any RFA Cantonese frequency registration yet. Moreover, IBB has disarmed some services by 10 - 15 %: Palau is no longer used at all. One of the Sitkunai LTU releases is also reduced? The Tinian plantations of Mandarin, Lao and Khmer services are also reduced out. This kiddy frequency hopping per day of broadcasting is no longer visible in HFCC table yet. The Taiwan releases I once updated, which one can only confirm with the monitoring from March 30 season then. Russian sites, including Irkutsk and Vladivostok Razdolnye I once included [WORLD OF RADIO 1714] USA [non] A-14 RFA Daily Broadcast Frequencies. GERMANY/KUWAIT/LITHUANIA/MARIANA ISL_Saipan/MARIANA ISL_Tinian/ MONGOLIA/RUSSIA//SRI LANKA/TAIWAN/TAJIKISTAN/THAILAND/UAE All times in UT. Burmese (4 hours daily) 0030-0130 9940IRA 12115KWT 15700TIN 1230-1330 7390IRA 9335TIN 13870TIN 1330-1400 7390TIN 9335TIN 12140SAI 1400-1430 7390TIN 9335TIN 1630-1730 9940IRA Cantonese (2 hours daily) 1400-1500 no inform given yet 2200-2300 no inform given yet Khmer (2 hours daily) 1230-1330 12140SAI 2230-2330 13740SAI Korean (5 hours daily) 1500-1700 648RAZ 5820TIN 7210IRK 7455TIN 1700-1900 648RAZ 5820TIN 9975TIN 2100-2200 648RAZ 7460MNG 9610TIN 11945SAI Lao (2 hours daily) 0000-0100 15690TIN 1100-1200 9325SAI 15120TIN Mandarin (12 hours daily) 0300-0400 13710SAI 17495TIN 17615TIN 17855SAI 0400-0500 13790SAI 15615TIN 17855SAI 21505TIN 0500-0600 13790SAI 15615TIN 17855SAI 21690TIN 0600-0700 13790SAI 15615TIN 17495TIN 17790SAI 1500-1600 9455SAI 13675TJK 15205TIN 15430SAI 1600-1630 9455SAI 13675TJK 15560SAI 1630-1700 9695SAI 11685TIN 13675TJK 15560SAI 1700-1800 5890TIN 7395TIN 9355SAI 9745SAI 1800-1900 5890TIN 9355SAI 9745SAI 11555SAI 1900-2000 1098KOU-TWN 5890TIN 7260TIN 7385TAI-TWN 9355SAI 9745KWT 2000-2100 1098KOU-TWN 5890TIN 6140TIN 7260TIN 7355TAI-TWN 7435TJK 9355SAI 9745KWT 2100-2200 1098KOU-TWN 5890TIN 7355TAI-TWN 7435TJK 9335TIN 9690KWT 2300-2330 9440KWT 11785TIN 15570TIN 2330-0000 9440SAI 11785TIN 15570TIN Tibetan (10 hours daily) 0100-0200 9680KWT 9885TJK 11695UAE 17510TIN 17730MNG 0200-0300 9885TJK 11695UAE 11745KWT 17730MNG 21540TIN 0600-0700 17490KWT 17510TJK 21550TIN 21690UAE 1000-1100 13680KWT 15620TIN 17495TIN 1100-1200 7470MNG 13830TJK 15195UAE 17895KWT 1200-1400 7470MNG 11605TIN 13795KWT 13830TJK 15195TJK 1400-1500 9920UDO 17570LAM 17740UDO 1500-1600 9370TJK 11580TIN 11795UAE 2200-2300 7505TJK 9370SAI 9585UDO 2300-0000 6075KWT 9805UAE 9815KWT 9875TJK Uyghur (2 hours daily) 0100-0200 9350TJK 9400SIT 11640UAE 11945UAE 17540TIN 1600-1700 9370TJK 9555UAE 9975TIN 11560TIN Vietnamese (2 hours daily) 0000-0030 7370KWT 11605TSH-TWN 13850SAI 15675TIN 1400-1430 1503FAO-TWN 1400-1500 9720TIN 11605TSH-TWN 12130TIN 13825SAI 2300-2400 1503FAO-TWN 2330-2400 7370KWT 11605TSH-TWN 13850SAI 15675TIN (Radio Free Asia, via William Hague-UK, NWDXC March 15 via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) ** AUSTRAL ISLANDS. (ham), TX6G, 21283-USB, 0213 23 March. DXpedition to Ravaivae, Tubuai (IOTA OC-114). Listening 10 kHz up for the crowd (Dan Sheedy, Encinitas, CA, G5/6m X wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 640 km south of Tahiti (wikipedia) ** AUSTRALIA. Radio Symban - returns to SW --- Presently listening to Radio Symban with usual programming on 2368.5 kHz. Current schedule unknown. Reception Reports for eQSL are available to dxer12yy34 (at) gmail.com [ remove the yy letters from the email address.] (Ian Baxter, NSW, 0750 UT March 21, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 3540, 1203, Astronomical Society Victoria, VK3AH propagation forecast + log in reports, every Saturday. 15/2 (Roger Pryde, Dunedin, New Zealand, Sangean ATS 803A, Digitech, multi band, USB etc, model AR 1945, National DR 49, Aerials, 1x30 meter E/W LW 1x15 meter WWII Field Telephone connection Twin Pair Enclosed, NE/SW, LW, Utilities, March NZ DX Times via DXLD) So it`s a ham net? Mode? ** AUSTRALIA. 12065 VG // much weaker 12085, Thursday March 20 at 1407, R. Australia is repeating the author interview exposing Sarah Palin I heard a few days ago, to the chagrin of her acolyte (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 15400, HCJB-Australia, 1238-1300* 18 March. Aoki says this is in Rawang (Tibet-Burma language group) but sounded like Indonesian/Malaysian--casual chat with many mentions of Sarawak, Miri, Sibu + phone #/web info for a business (?) in Denpasar, Bali, "Make Life Better" at :52 (program name in English), (presumed) pop-style hymn in Malay to closing announcement in English with ID and next program at 2345 UT on 15400 (sked Indo then, & also 12-1230 Mon-Sat in Indo as well; perhaps that program got extended until 1300* today?) (Dan Sheedy, Swami's Beach, CA, PL380/6m X wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRIA. Relays via ORS Moosbrunn transmitter site in A14 season. 7355 0100-0130 40E,41NW 300 95 211 1234567 Pashto BBC BAB 9690 0200-0230 40E,41NW 300 90 211 1234567 Urdu AWR AWR 9690 0230-0300 40E,41NW 300 90 211 1234567 Panjabi AWR AWR 7310 0300-0315 39S 250 120 211 1234567 Multi MBR MBR 9505 0330-0400 40 300 100 211 1234567 Farsi AWR AWR 9455 0400-0430 29S,39N,40W 300 115 218 1234567 Turkish AWR AWR 6155 0430-0500 37,38W 300 220 211 1234567 French AWR AWR 11955 0500-0530 46SE,47W 300 190 217 1234567 Hausa AWR AWR 6155 0500-0615 18,27-29,37-39 300 n-d 926 1234567 Deutsch ORF ORS 5910 0544-0559 28 100 30 800 .23456. Polish TWR TWR 7320 0544-0559 28 100 300 211 .23456. Polish TWR TWR 11880 0600-0700 38 300 190 217 1234567 Arabic AWR AWR 7400 0700-0750 27 100 300 800 1234567 English TWR TWR 15260 0800-0830 39NE Feba/IBRA 100 115 218 1234567 Arabic IBR BAB 17780 1200-1230 37 300 225 218 1234567 French BBC BAB 9800 1400-1428 28,29,30 100 55 218 1234567 BelaRus TWR TWR 15440 1400-1430 40E,41NW 300 90 217 1234567 Urdu AWR AWR 9655 1400-1600 18,27,28 100 285 805 1.....7 Multi TOM MBR 17605 1430-1500 48 300 145 217 1234567 Afar AWR AWR 11935 1500-1530 29S,39N,40W 300 120 217 1234567 Turkish AWR AWR 15290 1530-1600 40E,41NW 300 90 217 1234567 Panjabi AWR AWR 13650 1530-1630 29S 100 95 218 ......7 Russ? HCJ MBR 13800 1530-1630 29S 100 95 218 ......7 Russ? HCJ MBR 15260 1600-1630 40E,41NW 300 90 217 1234567 Urdu AWR AWR 13590 1615-1900 39 100 115 218 1234567 Farsi? MBR MBR 15215 1630-1645 41S 125 95 218 .....6. Multi MBR MBR 15215 1630-1645 41S 125 115 218 1...... Farsi? MBR MBR 15150 1630-1700 40 300 100 217 1234567 Farsi AWR AWR 9625 1700-1730 27N 100 300 800 1234567 English VOV BAB 13590 1700-1800 37,38,46,47,52 300 175 217 1234567 English TOM MBR 15215 1700-1900 39 100 115 218 1234567 Multi MBR MBR 9625 1730-1830 27 100 300 800 1234567 Vietnam.VOV BAB 9430 1800-1830 39,40 300 n-d 926 .234567 Multi MBR MBR 12055 1800-1900 38 300 190 217 1234567 Arabic AWR AWR 9625 1830-1900 27SE 100 300 800 1234567 French VOV BAB 11955 1900-1930 46SE,47W 300 190 217 1234567 Hausa AWR AWR 15220 1930-2000 47,48W,52,53W 300 170 217 1234567 French AWR AWR 11955 2000-2030 46 300 210 217 1234567 Dyula AWR AWR 15155 2030-2100 46 300 210 217 1234567 French AWR AWR 11955 2100-2130 46 300 210 217 1234567 English AWR AWR (BC-DX 21 March via DXLD) Comment: DRM 7325 0600-0800 UT English BBC BAB drmmix has been ceased now (Wolfgang Büschel, March 15, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 21, ibid.) ** BAHRAIN. Radio Bahrain, Abu Hayan, 9745 kHz. 0210 UT March 20. Middle Eastern style music with OM singing/chanting. Talk by OM in Arabic at 0219, then non-stop music until after 0300. No TOH or BOH IDs. Fair signal with noise. S-5 (Nick Rumple, Kannapolis, North Carolina, Yaesu FRG-100, Drake R8, Antenna: Homebrew 1 Meter MagLoop, Cumbre DX via DXLD) 9745, Bahrain again here 2345 March 22 mixed with Kuanghua but Bahrain is clear in USB and the Chinese clear in LSB S4 (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 15505, March 20 at 1357, Bangladesh Betar carrier is on, 1359 IS, very poor but easy to copy the 5+1 timesignal ending today at 1359:46.5, opening Urdu. 15505, March 21 at 1357, Bangladesh Betar with tone, 1358 IS, mistimesignal ending 2 seconds earlier than 1400:00; very poor with flutter. 15505, March 22 at 1357, BB is very poor with tone, 1358 IS, 5+1 timesignal ends at 1359:43, way early. 15505, March 26 at 1355, BB with open carrier, then tone; 1358 IS; timesignal ending at 1359:42, only 18 seconds fast; just barely audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. Radio Yura, Yura, 4716.72 kHz. (Off from 4717) 0130 UT March 20. Latin Pop music with numerous breaks between songs with talk by OM in Spanish. Finally caught an ID just before the 0200 s/off. Very weak signal. S < 3 (Nick Rumple, Kannapolis, North Carolina, Yaesu FRG-100, Drake R8, Antenna: Homebrew 1 Meter MagLoop, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ** BOLIVIA. 6134.78v, R. Santa Cruz, 0209*, March 26. Better than usual reception; no het (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6134.8, Radio Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, 2350-2358. Spanish language ballad music (Santa Cruz) heard under Portuguese talk by a man (Rádio Aparecida). Both signals of similar moderate strength with some fading, interfering greatly with one another. 3/16/2014 (Jim Evans, Germantown TN, Perseus, IC-R75, Wellbrook Loop, Eavesdropper Dipole, Random Wire, NASWA Flashsheet March 23 via DXLD) ** BRAZIL [and non]. 5999.6, March 21 at 0520, RHC again has het to 6000, presumed 4 kW Brasília transmitter of RNB; meanwhile, ``Ed Newman`` was for the umpteenth time misrepresenting RHC`s streaming as ``Real Audio``, maybe treating it as a generic name for any format. 5999.6, March 25 at 0052, RNB is poor-fair but definite, // and synchronized with very good 6180, as RHC is not on, yet there is another weak signal on 6000.0 to cause a het. I suppose the sporadic `Mesa Redonda` TV simulcast from RHC is typically ending earlier now when it`s on. BTW, 6180 was atop some CCI; what would that be? Evidently CRI English via Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN, this hour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See CUBA 5999.60, R. Nacional de Brasília, Mar 26 0240 - Ballads, talk between songs, // 6180. Not too bad in LSB, with distorted Arnie Coro bleeding over from 6000. 73, (Brandon Jordan, http://www.swldx.us Fayette County, TN EM55gc, WinRadio G33DDC, WinRadio G313-e, RFSpace SDR-IQ, Icom R75, Eton E1, DX Engineering NCC-1 Phased Dual Active Verticals, Array Solutions AS-SAL-30 Shared Apex Loop, Wellbrook FLG100 Double KAZ Loop (21'×60'), dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 9663.0, March 25 at 0112, way off-frequency is Voz Missionária, ID heard in passing; also carrier is wavering audibly with BFO. Sounds OK on AM (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11855a/9630a, R. Aparecida, 0055+ 22 March. During the usual near-TOH list of stations, R. Pioneira Teresina ("ondas tropicais") was mentioned -- but I don't believe they're active, so the list is probably more historical than accurate (Dan Sheedy, Swami's Beach, CA PL380/6m X wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CAMBODIA [non]. The new station, Voice of Khmer M'Chas Srok, has only been on the air for a few days, as perhaps noted by other ARDXC members. I monitored it's broadcast last night for the full 30 min transmission, and it puts a very solid signal into Mount Evelyn. Here is the entry from my logbook: 17860, TAJIKISTAN (perhaps….) Voice of Khmer M'Chas Srok. Site is unconfirmed at this time. Hummy transmitter on at 1125 then s/on 1130 in Cambodian with ID and opening announcements. Then a short burst of instrumental music before long talks with occasional mentions of Kampuchea, Khmer and Phnom Penh. Later, another short burst of music before ID, website and email addresses, then music to s/off at 1200. Big signal throughout with some slight transmitter hum from the beginning of the broadcast until 1150 when the hum just disappeared! I guess they must have found the fault!! The sound of the transmitter does smack somewhat of Dushanbe. Mar 22. I have the audio of the last few minutes of the transmission on the MEDXR website if you're interested. http://medxr.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/new-voice-of-khmer-mchas-srok-audio-clip.html 73 and have a great weekend everyone! (Rob VK3BVW Wagner, ARDXC mailing list via WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DXLD) It seems that Rob never acknowledges where he gets his tips: in this case, the existence of this station was first reported exclusively by yours truly on WORLD OF RADIO, and identified by David Kernick on the DXLD yg (gh) 17860, TAJIKISTAN (perhaps...) Voice of Khmer M'Chas Srok is powering into Eastern Australia again tonight and is S9+ and basically noise free at my place in the Hawkesbury region near Sydney. On my WinRadio Excalibur I measure the actual frequency as 17860.130 kHz. While I keep monitoring on my Excalibur I have also just had a multi- stop jump around the world using my Perseus in remote mode. The signal is being received at good strength in Vorenezh and Moscow in Russia, but the strength is significantly less than what I am receiving here. The signal remains very solid in Western Europe Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain, France, England. It's a bit weaker in Finland and Sweden, and it ranges from low signal or inaudible across the USA (East, Mid, West), Canada and Japan. Cheers, (Mark Fahey, Sydney Australia, 1157 UT march 24, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DXLD) Dear DXers, Heard this clandestine station from via Dushanbe Tajikistan. 17860, 1130 till 1135 and 1151 UT. Clandestine Voice of Khmer in Khmer signing on with opening announcements by male and female announcers talking till 1135 UT. SIO 444. At 1122 carrier was heard till 1129 UT sign on. Regards, (Costa Constantinides, Cyprus, Mar 26, via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) TAJIKISTAN, 17860.0015, On March 26 transmitter sign-on exact at 1119:36 UT, noted S=9+10dB -66.4dBm signal here in Germany. Program started just crash type into air at 1130:02 UT, few tones of string instrument, ID by female voice, and followed then by male voice, mentioned Washington. 1131:21 UT more string instrument again. At 1133 UT short piece of roaring speech held audio to crowd. At 1158:20 UT short piece of Khmer typical music orchestra of SE Asian style played. Time, frequency, e-mail and internet addresses given 1158:56 till 1159.20 UT. Program end at 1159:50. TX switched OFF at 1200:49 UT March 26. Some 3 years ago Dushanbe unit was also used for Voice of Russia outlet on 9475 and 11500 kHz and others, and was always odd frequency, some separate 50 kW shortwave units were put together to a pocket of 100/500 kW unit - I guess(?). Today the frequency channel used is rather even frequency from tentatively Dushanbe-TJK site. 73 wb df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, Mar 26, WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. SPECTRES OF SHORTWAVE: RCI TOWERS FALL ADChristie 2014 HD - DSLR back up footage from amanda dawn christie Plus 5 days ago Not Yet Rated In the spirit of the founding principles of the CBC and public access to information, I am sharing the back up videos I shot this week of the RCI shortwave towers falling. I retain the copyright to these images, but I do want to share them with anyone who would like to watch them sooner rather than later (given that my film will still be a few month in post production before release). I would also like to thank the CBC for giving me permission to film, and all of the workers on site for being so cooperative and supportive. These images are a quick and dirty upload of DSLR back up footage. This was shot just in case there is a problem with my 35 mm footage. I didn't get DSLR footage for every tower, because sometimes I only had enough time to get the film camera rolling. For the film, I am shooting Fuji 35mm on an Arri BL4, and I shot this DSLR back up footage just in case something goes wrong with the film. Audio note: in this compilation video, the audio is from the onboard dslr camera mic, which is always shit. Actual audio that was recorded for the film was recorded using Neumann and Sennheiser shotgun mics and a sound devices mixer recorder and a zoom recorder. The finished film, Spectres of Shortwave, will be a 90 minute documentary about the RCI shortwave transmission site in Sackville and will be finished for theatrical release in 2014. I began pre- production for this film in 2010 and began actual filming in 2012. The film will include stories and interviews (audio only) in English, French, and Mi’kmaq. Erected in 1938, the site was transmitting by 1942. RCI broadcast to Europe, Africa, South America, and the Arctic. In addition to Canadian broadcasts, this site also served as a relay for Radio China, Radio Japan, Radio Korea, Voice of Vietnam, and Vatican Radio. It was the only high power shortwave relay station in Canada. In 2012, they announced that the site would be shut down. The last Canadian international shortwave broadcast was sent in June of 2012, the final international relays were sent in October 2012, the last Arctic broadcast (and the final broadcast to ever transmit from this site) was sent in November 2012. The curtains (wire antennae between the towers) came down in February 2014 and the towers were dropped in March 2014. The documentary is being filmed on 35 mm film, another disappearing medium as film labs around the world are closing down, film manufacturing companies are declaring bankruptcy, and theatres are selling their 35 mm projectors for scrap metal. Since the first two film shoots, the lab I was using stopped processing 35 mm film, and I am now processing at one of the last film labs in North America. Even more recently, Fuji film stopped producing filmstock (which was my stock of choice for this film) and I am now trying to stock up on filmstocks before they disappear as well. Ironically, I find myself documenting a dying medium with a dying medium. The film is currently over budget, because when I started there was no hint that the site might be dismantled, so I hadn't budgeted for the film stock, rentals, and processing to cover documenting this stage. I felt it was very important to document and include the dismantling, and so I went ahead and captured images and sound anyway, and am now over budget. As such, a second fundraising campaign will be launched soon, and I would gladly accept any and all financial contributions to help me cover the cost of the sound mix. This has been (and continues to be) a very long journey. thank you for watching and sharing it with me. http://vimeo.com/89630404 (via James Niven, Austin, Texas, March 21, shortwavesites yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DXLD) ** CANADA. 6160, Mar 26 0255 - CKZN on 6159.978 with Vinyl Cafe and CKZU on 6159.972 with a talk program, with the directional SAL-30 allowing me to peak each signal over the other: CKZN dominant on NE loop and CKZU dominant on the NW loop. Parallel for CBC news at 0300 with echo, then back to separate programming at 0304. 73, (Brandon Jordan, http://www.swldx.us Fayette County, TN EM55gc, WinRadio G33DDC, WinRadio G313-e, RFSpace SDR-IQ, Icom R75, Eton E1, DX Engineering NCC-1 Phased Dual Active Verticals, Array Solutions AS- SAL-30 Shared Apex Loop, Wellbrook FLG100 Double KAZ Loop (21'×60'), dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) So making a 6 Hz SAH mutually (gh) ** CANARY ISLANDS [non]. Pirates: --Euros: Horizon FM: 6255/AM, 0407- 0430+, 15-Mar; M in English with IDs & pop/rock; "Horizon FM, the place to be..."; W in English with some sort of PSA at 0423+ about providing a "free" service. SIO=343 with occasional brief pulse, hiss & trill bursts. 0111, 17-Mar; Lite pop tune and ID at 0116+. SIO=1+52+ No sign of them MTuW nights, so maybe it's a weekend only thing, or maybe they bump weekend power (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) 6245 AM, PIRATE-AFRICA. Horizon FM Relay - Tenerife, 2210-0130+, 03- 17/18-14. SIO: 454. Ad for water heater at 0058, world news in English 0100. IDed as "radio made in The Canaries, Horizon FM" Ex 6255, 6205, 5785 kHz (Chris Lobdell, Stoneham, MA 02180 USA, Eton E1, JRC NRD-545; G5RV, 40 Meter Dipole, NASWA Flashsheet March 23 via WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DXLD) Horizon FM relay noted on 6255 from tune in at 1730 UT; SIO 443 - S9 + 40db. 73's (John Hoad, Faversham Kent UK, JRC NRD-515 + ALA1530LF, Sent from my iPad, Thursday March 20, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) HORIZON FM: Pirate(?) USB --- 6255 kHz. 0438 UT March 21 Tuned in to American Pop music like "Relax" by Duran, Duran, and others. Very strange that they ID as "America's Best Music", but all of the announcers have British accents. Found it listed as being in Tenerife. Good signal. S 7/8 (Nick Rumple, Kannapolis, North Carolina U.S.A., Receiver: Yaesu FRG - 100, Drake R8, Antenna : Homebrew 1 Meter MagLoop, cumbredx yg via DXLD) Also noted here yesterday (21-3-14) in Germany on 6245 kHz around 1800 UT with good signal. 73 (Harald Kuhl, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC. US NGO AIMS TO BOLSTER RADIO'S REACH IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC | Text of report by website of US-based media advocacy organization Internews on 21 March The current crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR) has severely compromised the capacity of local media to do their job and is starving communities of one of their most precious assets, local radio and news. In a country with no more than a few hundred kilometres of paved roads and with mobile connectivity limited to the main cities, local radio stations have historically been a lifeline - what people use to find out what's going on around them. French broadcaster Radio France Internationale (RFI) is very popular across all French speaking Africa, but people in CAR are hungry for news about what's happening in their local communities and in other places around the country. This has proved very challenging as the vast majority of local radio stations in the most affected areas were looted and stopped broadcasting almost a year ago, including the national broadcaster, Radio Centrafrique. "People live in fear and are victims of rumours and misinformation," said Jacobo Quintanilla, Internews director of humanitarian communication programmes, who recently spent three weeks in CAR launching a new programme. "In our field visits we have seen how people literally come to the main road for the basics and then return to the bush as they feel that it is not safe to go home; there are many rumours around. We need to help break this spiral of fear and give people a voice. We must provide people with reliable information they can trust about what is and what is not happening and help them make informed decisions," said Quintanilla. Status of radio stations Before the crisis there were 29 functioning community radio stations in CAR. Today only 15 are operational, six of those located in the capital Bangui, including the very popular Radio Ndeke Luka. However, the broadcast signal of these stations doesn't go beyond 25 km outside the capital. Ndeke Luka is broadcasting 30-minutes daily in shortwave (SW). The rest of the stations are either in the west or in the southeast of the country - none but one, Radio ICDI, a shortwave station in Boali, are in the regions encompassed in between the axes Bangui-Paoua and Bangui-Birao. This region hosts the largest concentration of internally displaced people (IDP) and has witnessed innumerable atrocities committed by both Muslim and Christian militias. Need for information people can trust The people in CAR want to communicate among themselves, within their own communities and with aid providers. They also need information on rights and abuses, inter-community issues and social cohesion, as well as civic education to prepare for the upcoming elections scheduled for early 2015. "CAR is on the brink. The massive exodus of Muslims has literally vanished their presence and also their voices from the country, including in the local media. There have been reports of highly polarized speech against Muslims," said Sylvain Ricard, country director for Internews. "A strong, vibrant local media is going to play a vital role to prevent further manipulation of communities along religious lines and accompany the country, all communities, in the restoration of peace, security and stability in the CAR." Internews' new programme Internews in conjunction with Freedom House is working with the local Association of Journalists for Human Rights (RJDH by its French acronym), and its network of community correspondents to produce daily news bulletins that are distributed to radio stations and to a distribution list of 1,500-plus recipients. The RJDH also shares its content on Twitter and Facebook. Internews and the RJDH will also start producing daily radio shows in French and Sango as part of a strategy to strengthen a multi-media national news service with news and information from across the country. Internews is providing training and mentoring to journalists of the RJDH and local correspondents with a special focus on conflict- sensitive journalism and gender issues. Internews is also procuring and will distribute wind-up radios with shortwave that will allow people to listen to the radio in groups and have discussions centred around specific topics. From 2010 to mid-2013, Internews and RJDH successfully worked in the CAR across rebel occupied territory and in the most remote, inaccessible regions of the country. Internews' project in CAR is funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID). Source: Internews website, in English 21 Mar 14 (via BBC Monitoring, March 25 via DXLD) ** CHINA. 9350, March 20 at 1135, Firedrake jamming music, poor with flutter, and some CCI. Aoki shows at 11-14 it`s RFA Tibetan via TAJIKISTAN. 15545, March 21 at 1508, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter, slight ACI from presumed target during this semihour only, VOA Uzbek via Sri Lanka, as the ChiCom interfere in the internal affairs of Uzbekistan; strong enough to bother 15550-USB WJHR. No search for other CNR1/FD jammers this morning. March 23 at 1330, first noting Elgar`s ``Pomp & Circumstance March #5`` on 25m frequencies, I start looking for more CNR1 jammers with the same obvious music: 13130, at 1331 March 23, poor with flutter; none in the 12s, 14s 15265, at 1333 March 23, fair, ending the Elgar, other talk and music 15970, at 1333 March 23, very poor with flutter 16100, at 1334 March 23, good with flutter 16160, at 1334 March 23, JBA 17080, at 1336 March 23, good with flutter; none in the 18s 13530, March 25 at 1348-1400*, CNR1 on fair signal, a traditional Sound of Hope jamming frequency. No others noted, but not thoroly searched (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. CNR1, Mar 26 0503 - Quick check of CNR1 16/19 meter band transmission per Aoki: 17890-fair, 17605-fair, 17595-fair+, 17580- poor, 17565-fair, 17550-fair, 15550-poor, 15380-poor, 15370-poor. 73, (Brandon Jordan, http://www.swldx.us Fayette County, TN EM55gc, WinRadio G33DDC, WinRadio G313-e, RFSpace SDR-IQ, Icom R75, Eton E1, DX Engineering NCC-1 Phased Dual Active Verticals, Array Solutions AS- SAL-30 Shared Apex Loop, Wellbrook FLG100 Double KAZ Loop (21'×60'), dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Some I suppose may not be jammers (gh) ** CHINA. 4940, Voice of Strait with "Focus on China," 1500-1530, March 15 (Saturday). News and political commentary; fair-good and very readable (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 7410, March 20 at 1130, CRI opening Filipino service with strange mixture of Spanish and English words as required in Tagalog: station is called ``Radio Internacional de China``, day is ``jueves``, year is ``fourteen``, Malaysian flight is in English, ``M-H three seven zero``, in the ``Indian Ocean``. Filipino semihour is aimed south from Jinhua, but from 1200 we hear the CRI Russian service with a much solider signal, since 7410 is then USward from Shijiazhuang. 9460, March 20 at 1135, YL speaking Esperanto slowly with clear enunciation, as if she`s not a native speaker. Espo is easy to spot with lots of words ending in -ay or -oy, spelt -aj and -oj making them plurals of adjectives and nouns. Seems to be talking about a `drono`. This is CRI at 1102[sic]-1157, southward from Kunming per Aoki, also on 7210 & 9450 via Urumqi, East Turkistan at 1100-1157 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non]. All transmissions of China Radio International via Issoudun will be discontinued from March 30. The current B-13 schedule of CRI is: 1800-1857 on 9535 ISS 500 kW / 055 deg to EaEu Russian 1900-1927 on 7305 ISS 250 kW / 085 deg to SEEu Romanian 1930-1957 on 7305 ISS 250 kW / 065 deg to CeEu Czech 2000-2057 on 6145 ISS 500 kW / 060 deg to CeEu Polish 2100-2127 on 6145 ISS 250 kW / 105 deg to SEEu Albanian 2130-2157 on 6145 ISS 250 kW / 085 deg to CeEu Hungarian Same time and frequencies has been in previous summer A-13 period (DX RE MIX NEWS #844 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 26, 2014 via WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DXLD) With Russia ending SW one has to wonder whether The Powers That Be in Beijing are taking a harder look at their own SW output (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) China has a *long* way to go to catch up with Russia`s abandonment of SW. Above does not necessarily imply any reduction in tremendous total output (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DXLD) ** COLOMBIA. Radio Nacional, Bogotá, 4955 kHz. 0052 UT March 20. Tuned - in to Latin style music by YL vocalist, followed by station ID at 0054. Full station ID and supposed information at 0100. Good music on this one. Fair signal. S-5 (Nick Rumple, Kannapolis, North Carolina, Yaesu FRG-100, Drake R8, Antenna: Homebrew 1 Meter MagLoop, Cumbre DX via DXLD) Nick, This station has been off the air for decades. Did you get a recording or could you quote exactly what they said as ID? Certainly have not heard it on my frequent 60m bandscans around this time. A one-off??? It`s in Aoki list as if it were active, 22-02 UT, 50 kW ND. Beware: Aoki is full of long-gone stations, especially Latin Americans. 73, (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) Hi Glenn, Yes, certainly the following log in dxldyg would be more logical. Nick mentions no QRM? (Ron Howard, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.: ``4955.00 PERÚ, R. Cultural Amauta, Huanta; 16/03 1116-1135 44444+ mx huaynos con mensajes religiosos px en quechua saludos y mensajes ID “Radio Amauta" (1600 en quechua). (Pedro F Arrunategui, Lima, Peru)`` from DBS dswci pdf file: ``4955 5 kW PRU R Cultural Amauta, Huanta, 1100-1400 2100-0100v S/Quechua rlg, S ID: "Radio Cultural Amauta Ayacucho en los 4955 onda corta y 99.9 FM Stereo", "Desde la ciudad de Huanta, en la Cordillera de los Andes, esta es Radio Cultural Amauta" MARCH 2013`` (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) ** COLOMBIA. 5910, March 20 at 1107, sermon in Spanish with consecutive translation to English! From Alcaraván Radio. What happened to the nice music? Presumably off-frequency as usual, but nothing to het it and no attempt to pinpoint it now. A few minutes earlier I think I heard the last notes of the Colombian NA on the other HJDH, 6010. 5910, March 21 at 0522, Alcaraván Radio back to nice music, rendition of `El Condor Pasa`, fair signal, no QRM. Altho Puerto Lleras is in the lowlands, beyond the Andes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 5025 & 5040, March 21 at 0103, both R. Rebelde and RHC tropical frequencies are back on simultaneously, so the resumed share- time arrangement Ivo Ivanov reported March 18 and I mentioned on WOR 1713 did not last long. Now Rebelde sounds like a SBG; both still on at next check 0520. see BRAZIL 5025, March 22 at 0548 check, R. Rebelde is off again, while 5040 RHC is still on. March 23 at 0558, both are on, but at 0601, RHC has gone off 5040, while 5025 dead air is broken by announcement about ``problemas técnicos`` at Rebelde (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5025, Great music selection of Radio Rebelde heard this Sunday morning 07-09 UT slot. Wideband signal, seen on Perseus browser screen on 5014.7 to 5035.2 kHz range in peaks. Set small bandwidth window on Perseus to 25 kHz wide. 5025 kHz R Rebelde 0700-0730 UT S=9+25dB on remote unit in BC-CAN, AB-CAN and AZ-USA S=9+30dB on remote unit in KY-USA, NY-USA, NJ-USA and MA-USA S=8 in England S=5-6 in Germany RHC English closed at exact 0700 UT, before 0700-0702 UT heard RHC Spanish transmission program, on 6060 6100 6165 kHz. TRANSMISIONES EN IDIOMA ESPERANTO, Sunday only [to:] San Francisco 6000 kHz 0700-0730 UT S=9+35dB on remote unit in BC-CAN and AZ-USA S=9+30dB on remote unit in AB-CAN S=9+15dB on remote unit in KY-USA, NY-USA, NJ-USA and MA-USA S=5-6 in Europe 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, March 23, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6000, March 20 at 1105 RHC ending NA and sign on with outdated frequency list in typical Soviet-style disorder: 12-16 on 17580, 17730, 15230, 11760, 11860, 12010, 9540; 12-14 on 9550, 9850, 6000; 14-16 on 15340, 13780, 11750. Since March 9, sign-on and sign-off are an hour earlier; I think everything here should be one hour earlier than announced. Will this go on for another 6+ months? This early at 1117, RHC is VP on 11860, JBA on 11760 and inaudible on 12010, band just not open yet from Cuba; by 1140, 9850 & 9550 are very good. 6000, March 24 at 1256, RHC is poorly audible, but not after 1300, probably closing time, altho a JBA carrier remained from something. We have yet to see a new transmission schedule from RHC since the March 9 imposition of DST changes. 6000 not on March 25 at 0052, opening channel for new RNBrasil transmitter, but RHC English is on at 0120 check, with het still audible. See also BRAZIL 11760, March 25 at 1924, RHC English is audible at modulation spikes only, mostly dead air; wiggle that patchcord! 15230, March 27 at 0236, good signal, one of best on band, except RHC is just barely modulated, plus periodic noise bursts. 11840, March 27 at 0237, RHC modulation also suppressed here, but not so bad as 15230, and still readable; tho why would one listen to this instead of loud & clear // 11760, or even less loud and less clear 11670? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. RHC on 29130? S7 into Oregon at 2245z! Really? Is this the 3rd Harmonic of 9710? (digitalham, March 22, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Sure, what else could it be? [unclear whether there was any ID]. How did the signal level compare to 9710 itself? (Glenn to him, ibid.) Signal was S5 to S7 on 29130 and I could hear nothing on 9710 at all. I thought it was a fun find on 10M - even though it is inside the ham band (Christopher K6FIB "Fibber" [Rumbaugh] in Salem, Oregon, drmna.info and drmna Yahoo Group admin, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CYPRUS. 9505-9533, March 25 at 0110, strong OTH radar pulses, presumed from here, seemingly in a gap amongst broadcast stations, edging Oman 9500 and Spain 9535, if not totally blocking weakies; before 0100 if on then, would have been a major problem for Romania in Spanish on 9525 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EAST TURKISTAN. 17650, March 22 at 1354, fair with flutter, CRI French about to close broadcast; site Kashgar toward Europe. This has been quite regular lately, and the only one in this range (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR [and non]. 6050, March 20 at 1102, national anthem; must be a 6 am thing, as sign-on is circa 0830. Right into `A través de la Biblia` show, fair with some CCI, which would be Asyik FM, Malaysia and/or PBS Xizang, Lhasa, Tibet, per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6049.996, HCJB, Mar 26 0341 - Surprised to hear HCJB with English programming, albeit with a very s-l-o-w cadence, giving http://www.radioenglish.net web address. Back to Spanish at 0344. Fair. 73, (Brandon Jordan, http://www.swldx.us Fayette County, TN EM55gc, WinRadio G33DDC, WinRadio G313-e, RFSpace SDR-IQ, Icom R75, Eton E1, DX Engineering NCC-1 Phased Dual Active Verticals, Array Solutions AS-SAL-30 Shared Apex Loop, Wellbrook FLG100 Double KAZ Loop (21'×60'), dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) It`s the `Spotlight` program at 0330-0345 weekdays, long on the domestic service (gh, DXLD) ** EGYPT. 11905 at 0215 3/25, Sri Lanka. Sounds of Hindu chants in what is probably the worst example of a propagated radio show I've ever heard. Man, these guys have some serious problems. Someone needs to send these people some pointers on how produce a radio show and signal. 73's (Captain Marlow, Bayside, CA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) You`re at least the second after Walt to mistake Radio Cairo for SLBC. Cairo is the one with awful modulation, comes on 11905 by 0200 covering SL which starts at 0115 as I have been reporting (gh, ibid.) 15345.117, Oddly frequency of Abu Zabaal registered Radio Cairo English service at 16-18 UT, now with heavy DISTORTED audio quality at 1720 UT, always female announcer, hard to understand English spoken content. And some 50 Hertz 6x peaks either side, like a garden fence. Time pips ended at 1729:43 UT. At 1744 UT hopped to odd 15345.076 kHz, 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, Mar 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [non]. 9955, March 25 at 1333, `Viva Miami` on WRMI has Jeff White mentioning that R. Africa Network is on 9840 at 04-08, but from 30 March that will change to 15190. Yes, HFCC A-14 shows WRMI registered on 15190 straight thru from 21 to 08 UT. Another nail in the coffin of R. Africa = Bata. The 04-08 transmission consisting of nothing but Brother Scare one might assume is just an RMI transmission but it`s apparently a sub-lease via RAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA. 6109.996, Radio Fana, Mar 26 0314 - Distinctive back to back Ethiopian pop vocals, male DJ, fair. 5950, Voice of Tigray Revolution, Mar 26 0356 - Nice HoA vocal and instrumental, ID at 0402 followed by what sounds to be news. Fair signal but slowly fading as it is 30 minutes past sunrise in Addis Ababa. 73, (Brandon Jordan, http://www.swldx.us Fayette County, TN EM55gc, WinRadio G33DDC, WinRadio G313-e, RFSpace SDR-IQ, Icom R75, Eton E1, DX Engineering NCC-1 Phased Dual Active Verticals, Array Solutions AS-SAL-30 Shared Apex Loop, Wellbrook FLG100 Double KAZ Loop (21'×60'), dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. BELGIUM(non), New frequencies of BBN Radio (Berekah Broadcasting Network): 1900-1930 15170 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg EaAf Amharic Fri March 21 1900-1930 15175 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg EaAf Amharic Sat March 22 1900-1930 15180 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg EaAf Amharic Sun March 23(tent.) And the frequencies of BBN Radio for previous two weeks: 1900-1930 15155 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg EaAf Amharic Fri March 14 1900-1930 15160 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg EaAf Amharic Sat March 15 1900-1930 15165 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg EaAf Amharic Sun March 16 1900-1930 15155 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg EaAf Amharic Fri March 7 carrier 1900-1930 15160 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg EaAf Amharic Sat March 8 carrier 1900-1930 15165 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg EaAf Amharic Sun March 9, air Probably the full schedule of BBN Radio will be as follows: 1900-1930 15155 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg EaAf Amharic Fri 1st/2nd weeks 1900-1930 15160 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg EaAf Amharic Sat 1st/2nd weeks 1900-1930 15165 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg EaAf Amharic Sun 1st/2nd weeks 1900-1930 15170 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg EaAf Amharic Fri 3rd/4th weeks 1900-1930 15175 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg EaAf Amharic Sat 3rd/4th weeks 1900-1930 15180 ISS 250 kW / 130 deg EaAf Amharic Sun 3rd/4th weeks Transmissions are jammed by Ethiopia with white noise like broadband DRM (DX RE MIX NEWS #844 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 26, 2014 via WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DXLD) ** ETHIOPIA [and non]. FRANCE/ETHIOPIA? Another powerhouse signal of BVB Issoudun in Amharic and Tigre on 15335 kHz, BUT TOTALLY COVERED BY DIGITAL broadband jamming, S=9+5dB strength in 15309 to 15347 kHz range. Scheduled 1630-1800 UT. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, March 26, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DX LISTENING DIGEST) BULGARIA/ETHIOPIA, 15385, ESAT Radio in Amharic to ETH, 17-18 UT noted at 1733 UT March 26; and broadband digital noise 15371-15397 kHz jamming. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, March 26, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EUROPE. 11401, 23/3 0835, R. Waves International - rwaves@free.fr Tedesco ID e MX, buono (Roberto Pavanello, Italy, playdx yg via DXLD) ** FRANCE [and non]. 11995, March 25 at 0559, ~5 Hz SAH between two colliders, but should only have been brief, as VOA Kurdish via Biblis, GERMANY is ending, and RFI Hausa via Issoudun is starting, with 3-pip timesignal, ID, and then alone a poor signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. Channel 292 on 6070 kHz is back testing this morning, heard at 0650 UT tune in with a fair signal continuous music & ID's. (Russ Cummings, AOR7030+, 60ft long wire, North Ferriby, East Yorkshire, UK, March 26, BDXC_UK yg via DXLD) ** GERMANY. 3995, HCJB Germany, Mar 26 0414 - Talk in what sounds to be Russian language. Weak level, in USB to avoid ARO on 3995 LSB. 3985, Deutsches Radio 700, Mar 26 0420 - Fair signal with light pop vocals, male announcer between songs. Poor to almost fair levels. 73, (Brandon Jordan, http://www.swldx.us Fayette County, TN EM55gc, WinRadio G33DDC, WinRadio G313-e, RFSpace SDR-IQ, Icom R75, Eton E1, DX Engineering NCC-1 Phased Dual Active Verticals, Array Solutions AS- SAL-30 Shared Apex Loop, Wellbrook FLG100 Double KAZ Loop (21'×60'), dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. Die Ausstrahlungen von Radio Vatikan, Radio Prag, RUI Kiew und Polskie Radio ueber Radio 360 auf 3985 und 6005 kHz enden am 16. Maerz 2014, da sich nicht genuegend Sponsoren oder Spender fuer die Finanzierung finden liessen. Die Ausstrahlungkosten belaufen sich zwar auf einen Bruchteil im Vergleich zu den grossen Sendezentren, doch ist es auch aus organisatorischen Gruenden nicht leicht, Sponsoren und Unterstuetzer fuer dieses Projekt zu akquirieren. Weiter auf Sendung auf Kurzwelle bleiben die Ausstrahlungen von RSI Bratislava und Radio Belarus. Ausserdem bleiben die Podcasts auf http://www.radio360.eu erhalten. Ueberdies gibt es fuer die Kurzwellenfrequenzen nun neue Livestreams, alle Infos unter http://www.shortwaveservice.com (Bernd Seiser-D 28.2.2014; via ntt Dr. Hansjoerg Biener-D, March 1, March WWDXC DX Magazine via DXLD) ** GERMANY. MV Baltic Radio Transmission Information --- The transmitter of MV Baltic Radio will be silence on the following dates: 26th of March 2014; 9th, 12th and 13th of April 2014. All other Transmission dates and times are normal. 73s (Tom Taylor, March 23 & 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Why? Not exactly Easterish (gh, DXLD) ** GREECE. 11645, March 22 at 0136, soft rock music, fair-good signal now from Helleniki Radiophonia. We seldom hear Greek music any more on these frequencies. 9420 // 7475 // 11645, March 25 at 0109, Helleniki Radiophonia playing Greek music for a change; that`s more like it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This is my reception report for Tuesday and Wednesday, March 25-26: TUESDAY 3/25 | WEDNESDAY 3/26 1900 2000 2100 2200 2300| 0000 0100 0200 kHz Az kW Station 00000 00000 00000 25242 XXXXX|XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 7450 323 100 1 00000 00000 00000 45444 35243|XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 15650 105 100 2 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000|00000 00000 00000 9420 323 170 3 XXXXX XXX3X XXXXX XXXXX 55555|55555 55555 55555 7475 285 100 1 XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX 00000|25242 25242 25242 11645 226 100 2 (John Babbis, Silver Spring MD, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. 15190, March 20 at 1403, gospel huxter in English, fair with flutter. For a brief moment I envisioned R. Africa reactivated from Equatorial Guinea, till I remembered that KTWR is really here from 1400; per EiBi, duration varies as I unravel it: 23 minutes on Monday, Thursday and Friday; 30 minutes on Tuesday and Saturday; 35 minutes on Wednesday and Sunday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. Facebook: Alokesh Gupta 11 hours ago --- KTWR Guam has introduced a weekly DRM transmission in Japanese language for A14 season effective 30th March 2014: 1100-1200 UT on 12120 kHz (Sunday) towards Japan (via Drita Çiço, DXLD) ** GUAM. STATION EXPANSION COMPLETED September 10, 2013 15:23 by Shelly Nolan Freesland Adventist World Radio welcomed international and local guests to a rededication ceremony at its Guam shortwave station on September 3, to mark the completion of a major expansion of the station. The increased capacity of approximately 25 percent is comparable to adding a whole new station to AWR’s operation. This upgrade enables AWR to improve its broadcasts to numerous countries in Asia in several ways: by transmitting over frequencies that better reach its target audiences by scheduling simultaneous broadcasts to multiple countries, in order to reach listeners during their respective peak listening times by having more options to shift scheduling The theme of the event was “From this tiny island … to the world.” During the ceremony, the Honorable Eddie Baza Calvo, governor of Guam, picked up on the theme, saying, “There’s something I learned when I was in the retail business. You had three reasons for success: location, location, location. As I look at where Guam is … and then I look forward, and I see that map of Adventist World Radio and where it reaches, you’re looking at nearly 3 billion people. Then you look at the contact with 3 billion people, and what is that contact all about? It is about spreading the good news. What greater mission can any human being or any enterprise have than to spread the good news? “There are a lot of things happening all over the world. … We are in very complicated times. Why I’m so blessed to be here, and why I’m here to congratulate you all and to give thanks for all you’re doing, is because in the midst of a contemporary world that is filled with a lack of spiritual direction and meaning to what life is all about, there’s this: there’s … Adventist World Radio, there’s a voice and a message for eternity, and it is about bringing life to all of us, an eternal life.” The ceremony was held directly on the antenna field, at the base of the newest tower, which enabled attendees to experience close up the massive size of the broadcast equipment. They came away with a greater appreciation of the enormous effort that was required to complete the two-year project. Phase one of the expansion, which took place last year, involved the relocation of one of the station’s existing towers, to accommodate the replacement of a low-frequency antenna with a higher-frequency one. The second and final phase consisted of erecting a new tower and adding a new, high-frequency curtain antenna. This phase was even more labor-intensive, as it required staff to move countless tons of soil, fill in a steep ravine, bury 4-foot-diameter run-off culverts for erosion prevention, and pour 822 tons of concrete, before the 229-foot tower could be erected. The average size of the station’s curtain antennas is 236 by 260 feet – approximately the size of two football fields. During the construction, some broadcasts were shifted to commercial shortwave stations in Sri Lanka and Europe for several months, so that listeners could receive uninterrupted service. AWR board member Don Martin said, “In 30 years of my practice as a communications attorney working with FCC [Federal Communications Commission] licensing, this is about the most exotic project I’ve had the pleasure of being associated with. We worked under a lot of very tight schedules – we had suppliers, we had companies coming and going, we had the weather to deal with, we had the rainy season.” Dowell Chow, AWR president, said, “This project was completed in record time: only two years. On average, it usually takes five years to install a project of this scope. Enormous appreciation goes to our staff on Guam, as well as our board members Loney Duncan and Don Martin, who were heavily involved in the entire process. All of them put in countless hours and tremendous effort to ensure that we could meet the ambitious deadlines and resume operations.” The weather was a huge factor, as all construction had to be completed during Guam’s six-month-long dry seasons, and the core AWR staff team was very small. But as AWR Guam chief engineer Brook Powers said, “This construction happened essentially with five guys – Gordon Garner, Ben Stern, Donaldo Storey, David Hendrick, and myself – an incredible amount of equipment, and a whole lot of blessing by God. All through the process, I [saw] the hand of God leading in this project.” Elder Ted Wilson, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, also paid tribute to God’s leading: “What really powers this station is the Holy Spirit. It is technologically-driven, it is information-oriented, but AWR Guam and AWR itself are not necessarily in the information business, we are in the inspiration business. … God wants us to ask for miracles, He wants us to ask for something extraordinary. As we stand here today underneath all of the infrastructure … we can truly say that this is an answer to prayer, and we thank God in an absolutely marvelous way.” From AWR’s shortwave station on the tiny [sic] island of Guam, listeners in countries such as China, North Korea, Myanmar, Vietnam, Indonesia, Nepal, and more can hear the Adventist message of hope in their own languages. Currently, the station is broadcasting programs in 34 languages, for 287 hours/week. It is the only station AWR owns; in other parts of the world, AWR leases broadcast time on commercial shortwave stations. “The funding for this $3 million upgrade came from two major sources,” Chow says. “We were fortunate to have reserves that could be used, but the bigger portion came from our many generous donors. We thank them many times over for the passion and commitment they continue to show for AWR’s ministry and for carrying the voice of hope to the hardest- to-reach people of the world.” Worldwide, AWR broadcasts programs in nearly 100 languages, through shortwave and AM/FM radio, on demand, and podcasts. The advantage of shortwave radio is that the signals can travel for thousands of miles, reaching listeners in areas that are geographically-remote or closed to local Christian broadcasts, and this continues to be a key component of AWR’s service (source? via Juan Franco Crespo, March 26, 2014, DXLD) ** GUATEMALA. 4055, March 20 at 1123, R. Verdad is still playing its cute banjo-theme around this time, variations on ``I`ve Been Workin` on the Railroad``, along with SFX, bells, other instruments, 1125 segué to a hymn, presumably in Dr. Madrid`s signature show ``El Tren del Evangelio``. Compared frequency to 6055 Nikkei, and found Truth to be very, very slightly on the lo side, certainly closer to 4055.00 than to 4054.90 as some have reported (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Like 6 Hz low: 4054.994, R Verdad, Mar 26 0434 - Spanish religious vocals, great signal. 73, (Brandon Jordan, http://www.swldx.us Fayette County, TN EM55gc, WinRadio G33DDC, WinRadio G313-e, RFSpace SDR-IQ, Icom R75, Eton E1, DX Engineering NCC-1 Phased Dual Active Verticals, Array Solutions AS-SAL-30 Shared Apex Loop, Wellbrook FLG100 Double KAZ Loop (21'×60'), dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 4055, March 26 at 0556, R. Truth with multilingual IDs and contact info, pre-sign/off, going from Swedish to Japanese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HAITI [non]. [Re 14-12:] In response to the report of Port-au- Prince on MW from Jack A in Florida, in TipSheet #773 Glenn Hauser responds that "Anything from Haiti on MW is quite a rarity, even in FL. Watch out for the FL 1030, WONQ Oviedo/Altamonte Springs, 45/1.7 kW, in NRC AM Log as Spanish/Tropical/Ethnic --- possibly Kriyol too? Its night pattern from central FL favors the south." Jack says he may have jumped the gun on the ID and Glenn may well be correct in his assumption. He heard "Radio Tele" and assumed (you know what happens when you assume!) .... Further ear time would be entered into to see what he's really hearing here (MARE Tipsheet via DXLD) My response provided considerably more evidence about WONQ being in Kriyol at night, and 1030 Haiti being off according to WRTH (gh, DXLD) ** INDIA. 4990, AIR Itanagar, 1415-1425, March 19. Had been off the air recently and/or only broadcasting erratically. Back today with normal news in Hindi followed by same news in English; poor (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA [and non]. 11985, March 21 at 0116.5, AIR Delhi/Khampur is still on the air post-Sinhala service until 0115: big humwhine atop JBM music. I suppose the rest of the transmission from 0045 also sounded like this. // 11740 Goa is properly off the air. There was another report of 11985 running overtime, until 0129* March 6, by Jim Evans, TN, NASWA Flashsheet. More slipshod operation by AIR, not ready for prime time. (And 11905 SLBC just started at 0115, good with flutter) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 11985, March 22 at 0114, AIR Sinhala service modulation via Delhi-Khampur is OK tonight, march music, much stronger than // 11740 fluttery via Goa and never synchronized. Music stops just after 0115 but 11985 carrier remains past 0117+ with hum level boosted way up (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. [probably wb`s projected A-14 DRM AIR schedule:] AIR Delhi (Vividh Bharati) DRM 6100 0900-1200 Hindi/En 50 ND Delhi (Khampur) AIR Delhi (DRM) 9950 1745-1945 English 50 312 Delhi (Khampur) 9950 1945-2045 Hindi 50 312 Delhi (Khampur) 9950 2045-2230 English 50 312 Delhi (Khampur) 11620 2045-2230 English 250 120 Bangalore 11645 2245-0045 English 250 132 Delhi (Khampur) 11715 0130-0230 Nepali 250 124 Delhi (Khampur) 13605 2245-0045 English 250 58 Bangalore 15050 1300-1500 Sinhala 250 174 Delhi (Khampur) 15140 1615-1715 Russian 250 132 Delhi (Khampur) 15795 1145-1315 Chinese 500 58 Bangalore 17715 0315-0415 Hindi 250 245 Delhi (Khampur) 17715 0415-0430 Gujarati 250 245 Delhi (Khampur) 17715 0430-0530 Hindi 250 245 Delhi (Khampur) 17895 1000-1100 English 500 65 Bangalore (via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) ** INDONESIA. 3325-, March 20 at 1236, fair signal, but open carrier, no modulation audible, nor in further chex before 1300. Presumed RRI Palangkaraya. (CHU 3330 already faded out by 1236.) Compared to 7325 CRI Jinhua, 3325 is slightly on the lo side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Ron Howard agrees on the OC, below ** INDONESIA. 4750, March 24 at 1255, presumed RRI Makassar, surprisingly good which means poor-fair. Tried to // 9680 Jakarta, but too much China radio war atop it; might be // but not synched (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 4869.90v, RRI Wamena, 1237-1307, March 20 (Thursday). Another edition of Kang Guru Indonesia (KGI) in English; distinctive voice of Greg; poor and only able to pick out a few words here and there; played some pop songs; 1307 RRI jingle. BTW - RRI Palangkaraya on 3325 heard with only open carrier March 20; no audio (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9526-, Tuesday March 25 at 1336, VOI is JBM with heavy ACI from 9530, and also a lite het from something on 9525 during the presumed `Exotic Indonesia` Tuesday show with RRI Banjarmasin. Are they still doing that? Haven`t been able to hear it for months, and still unusable. In A-14 we look forward to the China radio war vacating 9530, but RVA Sinhala will still be on 9520 from 1330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. (BORNEO) (ham), YC7DLR, 7146-LSB, 1512 16 March. Op located in Pontianak, West Kalimantan working AF6TC (Dan Sheedy, Swami's Beach, CA, G5/6m X wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. 17650, VoIRI. Mar 26 0448 - IS from tune in until 0453, Russian service, "Govorit Tegeran" ID, brief NA, Qu'ran, news. Excellent signal level but modulation is a bit low. 73, (Brandon Jordan, http://www.swldx.us Fayette County, TN EM55gc, WinRadio G33DDC, WinRadio G313-e, RFSpace SDR-IQ, Icom R75, Eton E1, DX Engineering NCC-1 Phased Dual Active Verticals, Array Solutions AS- SAL-30 Shared Apex Loop, Wellbrook FLG100 Double KAZ Loop (21'×60'), dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Remains a mystery to me why the Russians convert `h` in other languages to `g`, rather than the much closer sound `kh` = [x] (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. 11620, March 20 at 1408, S Asian song on very poor signal, seems same as on stronger 13710 but not in synch and with CCI, so AIR? No, 1409 announcement not in English, so instead it`s the double- whammy CCI from VIRI`s Dari service via Kamalabad and Ahwaz respectively, per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAQ [and non]. KILLING OF RFI BAGHDAD BUREAU CHIEF PROMPTS SHOCK, OUTRAGE AMONG BBG BOARD --- March 22, 2014 RFE/RL Baghdad Bureau Chief Mohammed Bdaiwi Owaid Al-Shammari [caption] WASHINGTON -- The senseless death today of the Baghdad bureau chief of RFE/RL's Radio Free Iraq has shocked the members of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, who called for the immediate arrest of the Iraqi presidential guard accused in his shooting. "Dr. Mohammed Bdaiwi Owaid Al-Shammari was a committed journalist working to ensure that the people of Iraq received reliable, unbiased news," said BBG Chairman Jeff Shell. "In so doing, he faced many risks, making this final and apparently random act of violence all the more difficult to bear. With a mixture of sorrow and outrage, we extend our condolences to this brave soul's family, friends and colleagues, and we call on the government of Iraq to spare no effort to bring his killer to justice." Witnesses say an Iraqi presidential guard shot Al-Shammari at the gate of the compound housing his office after the two men exchanged words over whose vehicle should pass through the checkpoint first. After the shooting, the officer fled. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki met briefly with members of Al- Shammari's family at the compound gate and promised them swift action. Al-Shammari, 46, is survived by his wife and three children. He had been working for RFI since 2006 and became its Baghdad bureau chief in 2012. A journalist for two decades, he served on the editorial boards of several Iraqi media institutions and was an associate professor at Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad. He was the third RFI journalist to be shot dead since the service began broadcasting in 1998. In a statement issued today, Nenad Pejic, editor in chief of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, called the incident "inexplicable" and a "profound loss." RFE/RL, headquartered in Prague, operates and is the home base of Radio Free Iraq (BBG PR via Clara Listensprechen, dxldyg via DXLD; and via Hansjoerg Biener, DXLD) obit WRTH 2014 says RFI was on satellite and internet only and yet ``inactive at time of publication``. You`d think the PR might have mentioned this (Glenn Hauser, DXLD) ** ISRAEL. There has been talk about closing the Israel Broadcasting Authority and creating a new structure to replace it. When I read the first article a week ago, I didn't take it too seriously. From the follow up articles and communicating with someone in the field, it does seem to be pretty serious. http://www.jpost.com/National-News/Erdan-announces-closure-of-Israel-Broadcast-Authority-344495 "Communications Minister Gilad Erdan announced on Thursday he is putting into motion measures to close the Israel Broadcasting Authority and Educational Television and replace them with a new structure."..."The eight radio stations currently operating will remain, but the news departments will be amalgamated into a single division for radio and television. Radio commercials will be eliminated. The IBA’s assets are to be sold." [I don't know any plans regarding English news, if this occurs.] http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Int-Federation-of-Journalists-calls-on-Israel-not-to-shut-down-Broadcasting-Authority-345771 "...Finance Minister Yair Lapid announced at the same media conference that he had come to sign the death notice..." By the way, they have been talking about a smartphone app for quite a while and it has yet to come to fruition. I noticed that on iOS at least, if you use Chrome (not Safari) and go to http://www.iba.org.il/world and click on IBA News, it does work. The Kol Israel English audio does NOT work. The audio itself is wma, but they use Flash and Silverlight to get there. While there are a number of Flash browsers for iOS (mostly virtual / cloud), the only one which I have seen work for the IBA website's audio / video is VirtualBrowser for Chrome (Xform Computing). Their cloud platform "AlwaysOn PC" also works if you load the Chrome browser. The Firefox browsers don't work. VirtualBrowser for Chrome is $4.99, plus .99 a month to get flash access for more than a few minutes per session. AlwaysOnPC is $18.99 a year. I just had those clarified by the company (I thought it was $18.99 forever). I believe that there are versions of both products available for Android. BTW, with VirtualBrowser Chrome and AlwaysOn PC, make sure to use Video mode so that video is smooth. the lips are still slightly out of sync. There is also a free 5 day demo via your PC's web browser for AlwaysOn PC. Unfortunately, WRN no longer has Kol Israel podcasts, although they still do have KI in their streams. IBA News is no longer on Shalom TV, MHz Networks or Link TV. It seems that the ways of listening / watching become fewer and fewer (Doni Rosenzweig, March 25, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DX LISTENING DIGEST) [Later:] The IBA News does work with Safari on iPhone/iPad now (Doni, March 20, ibid.) The IBA closure/restructuring sounds very similar to the shutdown / overhaul of ERT in Greece (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, ibid.) ** JAPAN [non]. 11975, March 25 at 0600, NHK opening Arabic with ID, typical sounders, news, poor. This is via Issoudun, FRANCE, like RFI on 11995 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [and non]. [ASCENSION ISL/FRANCE/GERMANY/LITHUANIA/MADAGASCAR/PALAU/ RUSSIA/SINGAPORE/SOUTH AFRICA/TAJIKISTAN/UAE/U.K./USA/UZBEKISTAN] NHK World - Radio Japan Tokyo - March 30 - October 26, 2014. A-14 summer season file, according final NHK World Radio Japan leaflet. Arabic 0600-0630 ME/NoAF 11975iss 2000-2030 ME Ramallah 87.8 MHz in Ramallah Palestine, +3 cities Bengali 1300-1345 SoWeAS 11685sng 1500-1545 SoWeAS FM Dhaka 104.0 MHz + 6 cities Burmese 1030-1100 SoEaAS 11740sng 1430-1500 SoEaAS 11740sng 2340-2400 SoEaAS 13650 Chinese 0900-0930 AS 6090 1200-1230 AS 6090 1300-1330 AS 6190 1400-1430 AS 6190 1530-1600 AS 9540 2230-2250 AS 9560 English 0500-0530 EUR 5975wof 0500-0530 AF 11970iss 1000-1030 OCE/Hawaii 9625 1100-1130 EUR 9760wof, Fris only DRM mode 1200-1230 SoEaAS 11740sng 1400-1430 SoEaAS 11705pal 1400-1430 SoWeAS 15735tac 1800-1830 CeAF 9755mey French 0530-0600 WeAF 11730iss 0530-0600 CeAF 13840mdg 2030-2100 WeAF 11950mdg Hindi 0100-0130 SoWeAS 11590tac 1430-1515 SoWeAS 15745mdg Indonesian 1115-1200 SoEaAS 9625pal 1315-1400 SoEaAS 11705pal 1406-1451 SoEaAS FM Jakarta 89.2 MHz + 36 INS cities 2130-2200 SoEaAS 9560 Japanese 0200-0500 AS 15195 0200-0500 SoWeAS 15325 0200-0500 SoEaAS 17810 0300-0500 CeAM 5910iss 0300-0500 SoEaEUR/NE/ME/NoEaAF 11680nau 0700-0800 EaAS 11710 0800-0900 SoEaAS 13650 0800-1000 So/CeAM 12015asc 0800-1000 SoWeEUR/WeAF 15290iss 0800-1700 AS 9750 0900-1500 SoEaAS 11815 1500-1700 AF/SoWeAS/SoAS 12045 1700-1900 SoEU/AF 11945iss 1700-1900 SoEaEUR/NE/ME/NoEaAF 15445nau 1900-2100 CeAS/ME/NE/NoAF 11965 1900-2100 CeAF 15130iss 2000-2100 OCE/Hawaii 9625 2100-2300 SoEaAS 13680 2100-2400 AS 11910 Korean 0915-0945 AS 5950 1130-1200 AS 6090 1230-1300 AS 6190 1330-1400 AS 6190 1430-1500 AS 6190 2209-2230 AS 9560 Persian 0400-0430 ME 15140tac 1430-1500 ME 13680iss FM Kabul/Herat 88.0 MHz 1630-1700 ME MW927tjk Portuguese 0900-0930 SoAM 6195hri 2130-2200 SoAM 17540hri MW1370spa MW1520 Mogi das Cruzes MW1370 Campinas FM 96.5 MHz, Brasília FM 94.1 MHz A partir de 31 de março, a transmissão das 06h00 (hora de Brasília) passará a ser feita na frequência de 6195 kHz. A transmissão das 18h30 por sua vez, vai ser feita na frequência de 17540 kHz. Russian 0330-0400 EU MW738msk MW1386sit 0430-0500 EU 6165sit 0530-0600 EaAS 11710 1100-1130 EaAS 6090 1130-1200 EU 9760wof, Fris only DRM mode 1600-1630 EU MW738msk MW927tjk 1730-1800 EU MW1386sit Spanish 0400-0430 CeAM 5985rmi 0400-0430 So/CeAM 12015hri 0930-1000 CeSoAM 6195hri Swahili 0315-0400 EaAF 7395mdg 1729-1800 EaAF 13730mdg 1730-1800 TZA FM Dar es Salaam 94.6 MHz, Mwanza 98.2 MHz + 22 cities of TBC FM. COD FM Kisangani 97.9, Kivu 88.6, Goma 88.7 BDI FM Bujumbura 88.6, 107.5 MHz. Thai 1130-1200 SoEaAS 11740sng 1230-1300 SoEaAs 11740sng 2259-2320 SoEaAS 13650 Urdu 1515-1600 SoWeAS 13870uae 1700-1745 SoWeAS MW927tjk Vietnamese 1100-1130 SoEaAS 11740sng 1300-1330 SoEaAS 11740sng 2320-2340 SoEaAS 13650 Relays: asc Ascension Isl hri via HRI Furman-SC, South Carolina, USA iss Issoudun, France mdg Madagascar mey Meyerton, South Africa msk Moscow, Russia nau Nauen, Germany pal KHBN Palau rmi via WRMI Okeechobee-FL, Florida USA sit Sitkunai, Lithuania sng Kranji, Singapore spa Sao Paulo, Brazil tac Tashkent, Uzbekistan tjk Dushanbe, Tajikistan uae Al Dhabayya, UAE wof Woofferton UK-GBR FM relays in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Brazil, Burundi, Congo DR, Indonesia, Palestine West Bank, and Tanzania (NHK Radio Japan, leaflet transformed by wb wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Mar 15/24, via Wolfgang Büschel, March 25, DXLD) ** KOREA NORTH. Hello! On Sunday, 30 March 2014, 03:00 UTC, VOICE OF KOREA, the official external broadcasting service of the DPR Korea (North) from Pyongyang, will be introducing the A14 Summer schedule. There are no changes to the A13 Summer schedule. 3250 kHz only used for Voice of Korea Japanese broadcasts and Pyongyang Broadcasting Station (Pyongyang Pangsong) in Korean at all other times. Please refer to Word documents attached for full details. Please address all reception reports and letters to: VOICE OF KOREA, PYONGYANG, DPR KOREA (NORTH) Website: http://www.vok.rep.kp/CBC/english.php eMail: VOK@star-co.net.kp 73s, (Arnulf Piontek, Berlin, Germany, March 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST via dxldyg) tnx, but ho hum. Waiting for someone to make these text ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 9775, March 23 at 1351 open carrier, tone and off, 1353 cutting back on and then adding usual romantic musical prélude in English before R. Free Chosun in Korean from 1400; via RVA Palauig, PHILIPPINES. VG signal but fluttery (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5910, March 24 at 1331, very poor signal smax of Shiokaze, can`t determine which Asian language, while no signal on 6135, so QSYed again? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 5910, Shiokaze/Sea Breeze via Yamata, *1330, March 25. In Chinese; after 1400 in Korean. Thanks to Glenn for first finding this new alternate frequency yesterday. Ex 6135 was still jammed by N. Korea today (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldy via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Frequency changes of Shiokaze Sea Breeze from March 24: 1330-1430 5910 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg KRE, ex 6135 Japanese Mon/Wed/Thu 1330-1430 5910 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg KRE, ex 6135 Chinese/Korean Tue 1330-1430 5910 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg KRE, ex 6135 English Fri 1330-1430 5910 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg KRE, ex 6135 Korean/Japanese Sat 1330-1430 5910 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg KRE, ex 6135 Japanese/Korean Sun 1600-1700 6135 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg KRE, ex 5910 Japanese Mon/Wed/Thu 1600-1700 6135 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg KRE, ex 5910 Chinese/Korean Tue 1600-1700 6135 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg KRE, ex 5910 English Fri 1600-1700 6135 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg KRE, ex 5910 Korean/Japanese Sat 1600-1700 6135 YAM 100 kW / 280 deg KRE, ex 5910 Japanese/Korean Sun (DX RE MIX NEWS #844 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 26, 2014 via WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DXLD) ** KOREA SOUTH. 15575, March 22 at 1342, KBS World Radio is very poor with heavy flutter, so still no good for the Saturday mailbag/DX program (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MADAGASCAR. Llevo muchos años en la escucha de Onda Corta, desde 1979 para ser más exactos, y siempre alguna emisora me es esquiva, como a todos, por muchas razones. Esta vez se dió, luego de tanto tiempo: la primera vez que escucho Radio Madagasikara en 5010, ayer a las 0246 UT: http://youtu.be/QNREDwZQVMU (Rodolfo Tizzi, Uruguay, March 24, condiglista yg via DXLD) 6135.0, R Madagasikara, 1434-1457, March 15. For some time now, with the kind assistance of Mauno Ritola, I have been monitoring an UNID here. Finally we both heard this on the same day, at the same time, with better than normal reception. Mauno was listening via the remote Brisbane Perseus and recorded a clear ID; while I was able to recorded some of the same classical music he heard, but my recording dropped off just at the ID, but comparing it to Mauno's recording I am positive we were listening to the same station. Has been a long time since I last heard them here. Thanks also to the help from Jari Savolainen. Strong VOA transmission on from 1445 to 1446 and finally on again at 1457, blocking Madagascar [18 degrees via Thailand]. March 19 found North Korea jamming of the post-Shiokaze (1430*) broadcast still going on past 1511, causing moderate interference for VOA and of course blocking any chance of Madagascar reception. Will be happy when Shiokaze moves off this frequency, taking the jamming with them! [now accomplished the Shiokaze move back to 5910 --- gh] Antananarivo sunset at 1504 UT and my local sunrise was at 1418 UT. Is about 17753 km from Antananarivo to here in Monterey! (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, near Monterey, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALAYSIA. 7295/9835/11665, RTM FM relays unheard after 1500 18 March. 19 March at 1350+, everyone accounted for except 6050. 20 March, 11665 MIA, everyone else on at 1350+ (Dan Sheedy, Swami's Beach, CA, G5/6m X wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 3/25, 540, XEWA at 1340. Station in Spanish with no Spanish stations listed in all four neighboring states of OR, NV, WA, or ID on 540. At 150 kW this would be my bet. Will put this frequency in memory. 73's (Captain Marlow, Bayside, CA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Bayside is near Eureka & Arcata in northern California. Need more to go on than a power listing. 1340 UT is pretty late for SLP. I have repeatedly noted that XEWA doesn`t have the punch it used to, seriously doubt it`s anywhere near 150 kW now. XETX in Chihuahua gets out better to here, especially mornings. There is also a station in Los Mochis. Hope you can hear it again with a definite ID (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** MEXICO. 650, March 21 at 1314 UT, XETNT Los Mochis is still propagating during `Fórmula Noticias`, 6:15 TC as still on UT -7 in Sinaloa until April 6; 1316 promos for Fórmula Noticias with Radio 65 ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. 1700, March 20 at 1240-1250 UT, I am closely monitoring for signs of XEFCSM, after hearing the Mexican national anthem March 18 at 1245 under KVNS and KKLF --- but no sign of it today. At this hour, on this day, conditions from north are more favorable, with KBGG Iowa and KKLF mixing more than KVNS. Explaining my [sic] about a 2013 licensing date for XEFCSM, Julián Santiago Díez de Bonilla says, ``Glenn, efectivamente el permiso para esta emisora es a partir del 30 de abril del 2013 al 29 de abril del 2025, es decir lleva casi un año de haber obtenido el permiso, saludos, Julián``. So it`s been almost a year since then. I also summarize what he said earlier: Authorized for 50 kW day, 1 kW night. Licensee is the Cultural Foundation for Mexican Society (whose initials in Spanish match the callsign XEFCSM). However, Catholic Radio Update claims it as one of their own, in the Radio María group, which is why I assumed on WORLD OF RADIO that the `SM` refers to ``Santa María``. The CRU Catholic Travel Guide station listing previously linked shows several others in Mexico with obviously related calls, all on FM: MEXICO (In Spanish) Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua XEWR 1110 Cuernavaca, México XHFCSM † . 94.1 Culiacán, Sinaloa XHFCS . 90.3 Guadalajara, Jalisco XELT . 920 Mérida, Yucatán XEFCSM † . 1700 Puebla, Puebla XHPBP † . 106.7 Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco XHFSM . 100.7 San Luís Potosí, SLP XHCSM † . 107.9 Villahermosa, Tabasco XEVA . 790 Villahermosa, Tabasco XHVA . 91.7 The daggers indicate ``† Station is not on the air but may soon be`` and another symbol which won`t copy means all except XEWR are with Radio Maria. Overt religious, including Catholic broadcasting is supposedly prohibited in México, which makes their radio and TV dials a breath of fresh air compared to the USA, but gospel huxters are working around this obstacle. If there were no restrixions, you can bet that there would be dozens/hundreds of such stations, not just the dizaine above. Israel González Ahumada`s comments said: remember that the Mexican government has been very restrictive, so it is probable that this station is registered as a civic association, not a religious association. Several religious organizations in the past invested in cultural groups in order to operate without governmental harassment. Anyhow, further monitoring of 1700 is essential! I`ve yet to see any other logs of XEFCSM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Later: Israel González Ahumada in Mérida has not heard any local station on 1700. Terry Krueger in FL not either (gh) XE Radio Website Link --- I found a website the other day that those of us who "chase" XE radio stations may want to add to their bookmarks/favourites: http://enmedios.com/movil/radio/radiopda.htm The page has links to stations in: - Distrito Federal - Guadalajara, Jalisco - Monterrey, Nuevo León - Guanajuato, Guanajuato Another page on that same website is dedicated to XE Radio Networks: http://enmedios.com/radio/R_Radio_Cadenas.htm The page has links to major networks, such as: - Grupo Radio Centro - Grupo ACIR - Grupo Radio Alegría - Núcleo Radio Mil - Organización Radio Fórmula - and many others Enjoy! 73 and Good DX, (Steve Ponder, N5WBI, Houston, TX, March 22, ABDX via dXLD) I put network websites into the Mexical Log so others can look at them. Some contain old data like OIR and W Radio. Others are more up to date. There is always conflicting information for some stations. Powers and formats are always the hardest items to identify. I have a document that I found recently that lists the stations authorized to use IBOC. I'll try to find it and post it in the Files section. There were only a few stations on the list on MW. Logs, corrections and comments are always welcome. Thanks (Martin Foltz, ABDX via DXLD) Viz: XERM 1150 Mexicali BC XEKAM 950 Rosarito BC XEYC 1460 Cd Juárez Chih XEHF 1370 Nogales Son XENLT 1000 Nuevo Laredo Tamps XEQIN 1160 San Quintín BC XESURF 540 Tijuana BC XEOQ 1110 Rio Bravo Tamps XEFD 590 Rio Bravo Tamps XEO 970 Matamoros Tamps But how many if any are really running IBOC? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 6185-, March 21 at 0524, XEPPM is mostly dead air, bits of distorted audio bursts, scratching noises, obviously problem with program feed, as modulation is supposed to last until 0600. Also at 1513 March 21 in full daytime, carrier still on the lo side of 6185, but cannot make out any audio. 6185, March 24 at 0234, open carrier, dead air from XEPPM --- can`t detect any modulation during prime time. At 0530, now it`s improved to just barely modulated, balalaika? Then YL in Spanish mentions ``departamento de La Paz`` -- Bolivia, I suppose rather than Baja California Sur which I don`t think has departments (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. In April, 2008 Scott Fybush, Chris Carmichael and I toured the XETV and XEWT TV station transmitter site in Tijuana. We also went further south to see a number of the AM transmitter sites. My photos are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcgibson55/sets/72157622413948943/ Sent from my iPad (Dennis Gibson, ABDX via DXLD) ** MEXICO. MANDAN AL SENADO EN MEXICO EL PROYECTO DE LEY FEDERAL DE TELECOMUNICACIONES Y RADIODIFUSIÓN by gruporadioescuchaargentino El apagón analógico podría retrasarse 2 años y concluirse por completo el 31 de diciembre de 2017. Esto, de acuerdo con el actual proyecto de Ley Federal de Telecomunicaciones y Radiodifusión. La reforma constitucional aprobada el año pasado por el Congreso, indica que el proceso de Transición a la Televisión Digital Terrestre (TDT), conocida como apagón analógico, culminaría el 31 de diciembre de 2015. Sin embargo, de acuerdo con el artículo 16 transitorio del borrador de leyes secundarias del Ejecutivo, del cual Reforma tiene copia, se dará una prórroga en algunas localidades y canales. “Las estaciones de televisión radiodifundida que operen con una potencia radiada aparente menor o igual a un kilowatt (kW) para canales VHF y 10 kW para canales de UHF, deberán finalizar sus transmisiones analógicas a más tardar el 31 de diciembre de 2017”, indica el documento. Las frecuencias VHF (Very High Definition [¡sic!]) son a través de las cuales corren los canales 2 al 13, mientras que las de UHF (Ultra High Definition [¡¡sic!!]) son por las que corren los canales 4 [¡¡¡sic!!!] al 83. Sin embargo, al menos 168 canales cumplirían con la potencia establecida en el articulado, de acuerdo con la tabla de Infraestructura de Estaciones de Televisión del Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones, en la que se indica la potencia en kilowatts que tiene cada canal. Estos canales corresponden a transmisoras gubernamentales, patronatos y pocas a televisoras como TV Azteca. “Esto es una contradicción a lo que establece la reforma constitucional, donde se establece la fecha del 31 de diciembre de 2015 para concluir el apagón, sin excepcionalidades”, comentó Gabriel Sosa Plata, experto en radiodifusión. Dentro del mismo artículo, además, se establece que se procederá al apagón en cada localidad una vez que el 90% los hogares de bajos recursos que no podrán cambiar su televisión para recibir la señal digital hayan recibido una de las televisiones que dará la SCT a los beneficiarios de programas de la Secretaría de Desarrollo Social. Entre las consecuencias que podría tener un retraso en las fechas del apagón, es que generaría una dilación en la creación de la red pública compartida, a través de la cual se ampliaría la cobertura de banda ancha. Ésto, debido a que, una vez concluido el apagón, se liberarían 90 megahertz de espectro de la banda de 700 MHz, en la que se construiría esta red pública, misma que de acuerdo con la reforma constitucional deberá estar en operación antes de concluir el 2018 (tomada de la Agencia Reforma via GRA blog March 20 via WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DXLD) They're delaying the analog shutdown from the end of 2015 to the end of 2017 but only for stations of 1 kW ERP or less VHF, 10 kW or less UHF. There are at least 168 such stations. These are mostly governmental, charitable and a few like TV Azteca. The analog blackout will proceed only once 90% of the low-income homes in each locality have received digital TVs [or converters?] under the benefit program of the Department of Social Development. When complete, the switch will open 90 MHz of spectrum in the 700 MHz band for a public safety radio network to be in operation by the end of 2018 (Summary translation by Doug and gh) ** MICRONESIA [and non?]. 4755, March 20 at 1155, I am monitoring with BFO to catch the autocutoff of PMA The Cross, but I am hearing two very weak carriers on slightly different frequencies. One goes off at 1156:44* and the other at 1157:33*. A few weeks ago, Dave Valko was also reporting a second unID station on 4755; did anything come of that? Could PMA possibly be running two equally weak transmitters, each with a separate timer? 4755+, March 22 at 1155, once again two extremely weak carriers on almost but not quite the same frequency, at least one of which is surely PMA The Cross. One cuts off the air at 1156:44*, and the other, weaker at 1158:16*. Following my previous log of two such carriers March 20, Ron Howard asked Dave Valko, ``Hi Dave, I have checked a few times for the UNID, but so far all I hear is the Cross closing down and nothing after that on lower 4755.00. Do you still "see" the UNID and the Cross? Thanks. Ron`` And Dave replied (via Ron): ``You know Ron, I've checked it a few times in the last 2 weeks and haven't seen a thing except The Cross. Now I didn't check it this morning but did note a decent signal from The Cross. I'm glad someone else was getting that 4755 thing. So I'm not crazy after all!! I'll have to look at it more closely again. Dave`` And Ron Howard reported next: ``March 21, on about 4755.54, heard PMA- The Cross Radio sign off at 1156:42*. Nothing at all on 4755.00. When at the beach, I measure sign off time by recording the sign off and then tuning to 5000 to record the next minute. In this case the tx went off just after the DTMF tones. With Audacity software, I "saw" the tx go off and 18 seconds later the pip for 1157:00. Ron``. Altho it`s a very long shot, I note that three WWCR transmitters all are currently scheduled to go off just before 1200: 4840, 5890 and 5935; possibly a spur or mixture altho I can`t figure out any formula to relate them to 4755, nor including MW 1300 WNQM. One could try to match the exact cutoff of the second 4755 signal with the time WWCRs go off. If not WWCR, it could still be a spur/mixture of some other closeby transmitters (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MONGOLIA. 12084.900, Voice of Mongolia, 0900-1200 UT morning service towards East Asia noted at 1025 UT March 16, local music item, on exact 12084.900 kHz, S=8 here in western Europe. 12084.877, Japanese service endless talk by woman and male at 1045 UT March 19, proper signal in downunder in QL AUS at S=9+25dB signal level (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 21 via DXLD) ** MONGOLIA [non]. Voice of Mongolia pirate retransmission on 6949.2 kHz AM with fair signal into Montreal at 0122 UT with news items from Voice of Mongolia and music. 73 (Gilles Letourneau, Montreal, Canada http://www.youtube.com/officialswlchannel UT March 23, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MYANMAR. 5985.8, Myanmar Radio, 1537-1542, March 19 (Wednesday). Shorter than normal edition of "VOA Special English," talking about the meanings of "feel the pinch," "up against it" and "throw in the towel." Transcript at http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/a-23-2007-02-04-voa3-83135352/128042.html March 20 at 1153, Myanmar Radio was on 5985.00, but by 1310 was back to normal, being off frequency. Myanmar Radio on March 25 with unusual situation; 1309 was on 5985.00. At 1333 & 1344, just as John Wilkins was also hearing, they were on both 5985.00 and 5985.81, at the same time. Has happened in the past like this, but is certainly very rare. Some years ago they routinely switched tx in our mornings (going from off-frequency transmitter to exact frequency transmitter) and sometimes they would overlap. Never understood why they bothered to switch them like that, but for a long time they did. John and I have been monitoring a weak carrier on 5983.0, but never any audio or anything that would be IDable. Just a curious little carrier below threshold level (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldy via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Myanmar Radio, Yangon, 9730 kHz. 1113 UT March 20. Long talk by OM in Burmese(?) with music in background, several mentions of Myanmar. Music at 1115. Station ID and frequency information by YL at 1129, then s/off at the BOH. Good signal. S7 (Nick Rumple, Kannapolis, North Carolina, Yaesu FRG-100, Drake R8, Antenna: Homebrew 1 Meter MagLoop, Cumbre DX via DXLD) Shortwave schedule from Myanmar: [all ``to SE Asia``] 2300-2330 5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 2300-2330 5986vYAN 025 kW / 176 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 2330-0030 5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 2330-0030 5986vYAN 025 kW / 176 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 2330-0030 6030 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Thazin Radio Gen. Sce 2330-0030 6165 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Chin Thazin Radio Reg. Sce 0030-0130 5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 0000-0130 5986vYAN 025 kW / 176 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 0000-0130 6030 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Thazin Radio Gen. Sce 0030-0130 6165 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Karen Thazin Radio Reg. Sce 0030-0130 7200 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 0030-0130 9730 YAN 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 0130-0200 5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 0130-0200 6030 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg English Thazin Radio Gen. Sce 0130-0200 7200 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 0130-0200 9590 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Wa Thazin Radio Reg. Sce 0130-0200 9730 YAN 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 0200-0230 5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 0200-0230 7200 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 0200-0230 9590 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Wa Thazin Radio Reg. Sce 0200-0230 9730 YAN 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 0230-0300 5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 0230-0300 7200 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 0230-0300 9590 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Pa-O Thazin Radio Reg. Sce 0230-0300 9730 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 0300-0330 5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 0300-0330 9590 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Pa-O Thazin Radio Reg. Sce 0300-0330 9730 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 0330-0430 5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 0330-0430 9730 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 0430-0530 5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 0430-0530 9460 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Thazin Radio Gen. Sce 0430-0530 9590 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Lhao Vo Thazin Radio Reg. Sce 0430-0530 9730 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 0530-0630 9460 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Thazin Radio Gen. Sce 0530-0630 9590 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Po Thazin Radio Reg. Sce 0530-0630 9730 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 0630-0700 9460 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg English Thazin Radio Gen. Sce 0630-0700 9590 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Kayah Thazin Radio Reg. Sce 0630-0700 9730 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 0700-0730 9460 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Thazin Radio 0700-0730 9590 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Kayah Thazin Radio Reg. Sce 0700-0730 9730 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg English Myanmar Radio 0730-0830 5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 0730-0830 9590 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Shan Thazin Radio Reg. Sce 0730-0830 9730 YAN 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 0830-0930 5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 0830-0930 9730 YAN 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 0930-1000 5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 0930-1000 5986vYAN 025 kW / 176 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 0930-1000 5986vYAN 025 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 0930-1000 6165 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Thazin Radio Gen. Sce 0930-1000 7200 YAN 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 0930-1000 7345 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Kachin Thazin Radio Reg. Sce 0930-1000 9730 YAN 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 1000-1030 5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 1000-1030 5986vYAN 025 kW / 176 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 1000-1030 5986vYAN 025 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 1000-1030 6165 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Thazin Radio Gen. Sce 1000-1030 7200 YAN 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 1000-1030 7345 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Kachin Thazin Radio Reg. Sce 1000-1030 9730 YAN 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 1030-1130 5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 1030-1130 5986vYAN 025 kW / 176 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 1030-1130 5986vYAN 025 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 1030-1130 6165 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Thazin Radio Gen. Sce 1030-1130 7200 YAN 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 1030-1130 7345 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Pwo Kayin Thazin Radio Reg. Sce 1030-1130 9730 YAN 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 1130-1200 5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 1130-1200 5986vYAN 025 kW / 176 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 1130-1200 5986vYAN 025 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 1130-1200 6165 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Thazin Radio Gen. Sce 1130-1200 7200 YAN 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 1130-1200 7345 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Sgaw Thazin Radio Reg. Sce 1200-1230 5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 1200-1230 5986vYAN 025 kW / 176 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 1200-1230 5986vYAN 025 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 1200-1230 6165 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Thazin Radio Gen. Sce 1200-1230 7345 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Sgaw Thazin Radio Reg. Sce 1230-1300 5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 1230-1300 5986vYAN 025 kW / 176 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 1230-1300 5986vYAN 025 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 1230-1300 6165 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Thazin Radio Gen. Sce 1230-1300 7200 YAN 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 1230-1300 7345 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Mon Thazin Radio Reg. Sce 1300-1330 5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 1300-1330 5986vYAN 025 kW / 176 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 1300-1330 5986vYAN 025 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 1300-1330 6165 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Thazin Radio Gen. Sce 1300-1330 7345 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Mon Thazin Radio Reg. Sce 1330-1430 5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 1330-1430 5986vYAN 025 kW / 176 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 1330-1430 5986vYAN 025 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 1330-1430 6165 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Thazin Radio Gen. Sce 1430-1500 5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 1430-1500 5986vYAN 025 kW / 176 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 1430-1500 5986vYAN 025 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 1430-1500 6165 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg English Thazin Radio Gen. Sce 1500-1530 5915 NAY 050 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 1500-1530 5986vYAN 025 kW / 176 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 1500-1530 5986vYAN 025 kW / 356 deg Burmese Myanmar Radio 1530-1630 5986vYAN 025 kW / 176 deg English Myanmar Radio 1530-1630 5986vYAN 025 kW / 356 deg English Myanmar Radio 1630-1700 5986vYAN 025 kW / 176 deg Unconfirmed lang Myanmar Radio 1630-1700 5986vYAN 025 kW / 356 deg Unconfirmed lang Myanmar Radio 5986v=5985.85 (DX RE MIX NEWS #844 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 26, 2014 via DXLD) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. Latest News!! The Mighty KBC is not moving to 9925 kHz, but staying on 7375 till May. This is only for our broadcasts to the USA, Canada and South America. Please spread the word. (This show is recorded, so we are mentioning the wrong frequency). -- Kind regards, (Eric van Willegen, http://www.kbcradio.eu DX LISITENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. 3261, 2030, Canterbury Mountain Radio s/on and then mountain weather for the South Island. 2035 hrs took calls from a number of huts. Good 20/2 (Arthur De Maine, Kakanui, New Zealand, Drake R-8, Icom R71E, 25m EWE, Utilities, March NZ DX Times via DXLD) 3261, 1935, Canterbury Mountain Radio, fair, with field sets at Jagged C[ree?]k, (very poor), Godley Head (v poor) and Kaipo (poor), 1/3 (Jonathan Wood, Mosgiel, New Zealand, Lowe 150 and 34m and 46m dipole, ibid.) SSB perhaps? Any nets in the evenings when we might hear them? ** NEW ZEALAND. 17675, RNZI DRM, Mar 26 0430 - RNZI News with excellent DRM audio quality. 73, (Brandon Jordan, http://www.swldx.us Fayette County, TN EM55gc, WinRadio G33DDC, WinRadio G313-e, RFSpace SDR-IQ, Icom R75, Eton E1, DX Engineering NCC-1 Phased Dual Active Verticals, Array Solutions AS-SAL-30 Shared Apex Loop, Wellbrook FLG100 Double KAZ Loop (21'×60'), dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 15120, poor March 22 at 0537, presumed V. of Nigeria with music, and CCI, presumably China (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) V of Nigeria: 15120 kHz 0915 UT 23 March. Audible with English programme (of Nigerian pop music) - again past its normal 0900 UT frequency change to 9690. Is extension of 15120 to 1000 now a regular time for VON? EiBi (but not AOKI) now has VON scheduled 15120 from 0900 to 1000 (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Alan, I don't know if it's "regular" or "official" (whatever that means), but it keeps being observed and reported by DXers so I added it to the list. I do not have any additional information, definitely not from the station itself. Reports such as yours in DXLD, HCDX, etc. are valuable *input* for my list, especially in the case of stations with such unreliable schedules as that of VoN. Best, (Eike Bierwirth, Wiesbaden, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Thanks Eike, and thank you for your invaluable resource, which I use as a constant reference whilst scanning round the bands. Best regards (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, ibid.) Updated shortwave schedule of Voice of Nigeria: 0500-0700 on 15120 IKO 250 kW / 007 deg NoAf English 0700-0800 on 15120 IKO 250 kW / 007 deg NoAf French 0730-0800 on 7255 AJA 250 kW / 248 deg WCAf Hausa (7254.9) 0800-0900 on 15120 IKO 250 kW / 007 deg NoAf English 0800-0900 on 9690 AJA 250 kW / 248 deg WCAf Hausa (9689.9) 0900-1000 NF 15120 IKO 250 kW / 007 deg NoAf English, ex 9690 / 248 deg WCAf 1000-1200 on 9690 IKO 250 kW / 248 deg WCAf English 1500-1600 on 15120 IKO 250 kW / 007 deg NoAf English 1600-1630 on 11770 IKO 250 kW / 248 deg ECAf Swahili 1630-1700 on 9690 IKO 250 kW / 248 deg WCAf Yoruba 1700-1730 on 9690 IKO 250 kW / 248 deg WCAf Igbo 1730-1800 on 15120 IKO 250 kW / 007 deg NoAf Arabic 1800-2000 on 7255 IKO 250 kW / 248 deg WeAf English 1830-2000 on 15120 AJA 250 kW / 007 deg NoAf English DRM (15119.9) 2000-2100 on 7255 IKO 250 kW / 248 deg WeAf French 2000-2100 on 9690 AJA 250 kW / 248 deg WCAf Hausa (9689.9) 2100-2200 on 7255 IKO 250 kW / 248 deg WeAf Fulfulde 2100-2200 on 11770 AJA 250 kW / 248 deg WCAf Hausa (11769.9) 2200-2300 on 7255 IKO 250 kW / 248 deg WeAf Hausa (Ivo Ivanov, March 25, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 11769.880 kHz at 2140 UT March 25, low modulation, signal aimed westwards to WeAF. Carrier stronger than modulation level. In peaks S=7 at -80.4dBm. Hardly to understand or identify the language spoken tonight. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, DX LISTENING DIGEST) At last a superb signal from Nigeria on 15120 from tune in at 1550, SIO 554 (slight fading). No hum and very good modulation. Great African music; sadly, very abrupt cut off at 1558. One to look out for in the coming days. 73's (John Hoad, Faversham Kent UK, JRC NRD-515 / ALA1530LF, Sent from my iPad, March 26, BDXC-UK yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DXLD) Evidently not DRM in this case (gh, DXLD) ** NORTH AMERICA. 5840, R/S YHWH, 0001* 17 March. Just caught the end of their "creepy" song tonight. Nothing heard on further checks at 0220-0230 on 3200-3500, 5700-6000, 6900-7150. Also unheard during checks at 2330 21 March, 0030, 0100 22 March, and 0130, 0215 23 March (Dan Sheedy, Swami's Beach, CA, G5/6m X wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) March 20 at tune in of 0200 found "radio station YHWH" back in the ham band on 7175-LSB, till off at 0205*. Then later from 0223 to off at 0310*, heard him with another broadcast, but this time down on 5870-AM (Ron Howard, CA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) FYI - Have reported all the YHWH activity in 40m band. Heard three times so far. Ron Response: "Have you been able to establish a typical time frame when you hear YHWH on 40 meters? I work with a monitoring group here that I would like to have help check this out. We appreciate your reports. Chuck Skolaut KØBOG Field & Regulatory Correspondent " (via Ron, ibid.) Just got home and after checking for YHWH on the 40 meters; found them with usual lecture in progress on 5800 at 0345 UT March 22 (Friday evening PDT). Relatively strong with good modulation (Bob LaRose, CA, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) March 24 - Monday (UT) from 0245-0341, on 5870, starting and ending program with usual strange music and song. After final ID at 0341, instead of turning off the transmitter as usual, heard a tone and theme music started up again and started the same program over again. Perhaps a full two hour program till 0441? (Ron Howard, CA, ibid.) Ron - do you have any recordings of the "strange music and song" he ends with? Thanks, (Rich Ray, Burr Ridge, IL, ibid.) Hi Rich - Audio of a portion of his broadcast, with song at 01:26, at: https://app.box.com/s/xgeif5rjuak4kmfgf8uu Good luck with finding him (Ron to Rich, ibid.) Ron - thanks a million - I've been following your logs and the logs of others since fall. I have yet to catch this but hopefully --- Here's a list of logs I've seen (many are yours): I'm going to have to keep my email near me and the radio as I see that you often post to this group WHILE this station is on air which is much appreciated but hasn't helped me yet (drats). YHWH: FREQ TIME (UT) DATE DAY 6925 0145 5/18/13 SAT 6950 0115 7/27/13 SAT 3845 0415 8/18/13 SUN 5990 *0220 9/ 7/13 SAT 6010 <0440-0502* 9/11/13 WED 6010 <0120-0204* 9/15/13 SUN 9775 0133* 9/28/13 SAT 9775 2330 10/ 7/13 MON 9775 *0105-0145+ 10/ 8/13 TUE 3235 0139 10/14/13 MON 3235 0255 10/18/13 FRI 3235 0247* 10/21/13 MON 3235 <-0240-0336+ 10/24/13 THU 6075 0100 11/23/13 FRI 6150 0100 11/25/13 SUN 5820 <0256 2/10/14 MON 5785 <0235 2/24/14 MON 14350 <2345-0005* 2/25/14 TUE 5730 <0302-0349* 2/25/14 TUE 5730 <0239-0335* 2/26/14 WED 5770 NOT KNOWN 3/ 1/14 SAT 6995 <0033-0048* 3/ 2/14 SUN 7125 <0316-0332* 3/ 3/14 MON 5770 <0121-0140* 3/ 5/14 WED 5770 *0210-0316* 3/ 5/14 WED 11130 <2315-0020* 3/ 9-10/14 SUN-MON 5785 *0222-0325* 3/10/14 MON started on 5758 0220-0222* 7125 0142-0245* 3/14/14 FRI 7180 ?-0108* 3/17/14 MON 7180-LSB *0202-0308* 3/17/14 MON 5865 <0224-0319* 3/18/14 TUE 7175-LSB <0200-0205* 3/20/14 THU 5870 <0223-0310* 3/20/14 THU 5800 0345 3/22/14 SAT 21440-USB <1738-1750* 3/23/14 SUN 21450-USB 1923-2016* 3/23/14 SUN 5870 *0245-0341* 3/24/14 MON 5870 *0341-0441* 3/24/14 MON THANKS AGAIN, (Rich Ray, IL, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DXLD) New frequency 9835 AM, "Radio Station YHWH" (religious pirate), 0246- 0335*, March 26. Unusual frequency even for him! Poorer than usual reception. At 0322 reception went to very poor when covered by a type of white noise? (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. On 25 March 2014, I received a parcel in the mail from Pseudo Radio for my reception report to the BRS address [maildrop at Blue Ridge Summit PA]. Inside was a walnut stained plaque containing a genuine Western Electric 400B mini Compactron vacuum tube made in the USA and an engraved plate with my name on it. Below my name was inscribed PSEUDO-RADIO QSL #6. Also enclosed was a CD of their program. Before mounting it in my shack, I decided to seal it with polyurethane and it looks great. Thank you, Pseudo Radio! More information and images available at http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,15973.0.html 73's, (Ed Insinger, Summit, NJ, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. My local, 1340 KJMU is silent, first noted off Tuesday morning 3/18; have no idea when it went silent. KJMU has been broadcasting Spanish language programming, came back on the air this past winter. FCC correspondence says they commenced operation 11/29/13. No correspondence on file documenting going silent (Bruce Winkelman, Tulsa, OK, March 22, NRC-AM via DXLD) ** OKLAHOMA. 1640, Saturday March 22 at 1329 UT, KZLS has another talk show instead of True Oldies, `Under the Hood`, automobilistic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 96.5, March 22 at 1659 UT, rock and ``KRXO HD3, now 96``, but same KRXO classic-rock format also on 104.5 translator. This was the original KRXO on 107.7 until main channel was converted to yet another stupid sportstalk station. 96.5 is K243BJ, and 104.5 is K283BW. These two still do not add up to anywhere near the coverage of full-power 107.7, but at least reach most of The Metro. 97.3, March 22 at 1700 UT, something Catholic; at 1716 talkshow is ``St. Joseph Radio Presents``; from KKNG Blanchard OK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN. 15140, March 21 at 0109 Qur`an, still fair signal registering 32-47 dB on the PL-880, as RSO has missed *two* frequency changes this time: 15140 to 15355 at 2200, 15355 to 9500 at 0000. 15355, March 22 at 0135, Qur`an on fair-good signal, as RSO has once again failed to make scheduled frequency change to 9500 at 0000. 9500, March 25 at 0110, RSO with Qur`an, fair signal, at last back on proper frequency after 0000, instead of sticking to 15355 or even 15140 earlier frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. QSL manager de R. QUILLABAMBA y R. LA HORA de Cusco. Me llegó el siguiente mensaje (¿Estará activa R. La Hora en 4855 kHz?): Hola amigos: Si desean confirmar sus escuchas de R. Quillabamba y R. La Hora, ambas de Cusco, Perú - Esta es su dirección: adalidcusco @ hotmail.com (Claudio Galaz, Chile, March 24, condiglista yg via DXLD) Al parecer, según reportes y listas, no, a menos que sólo sea escuchada allá en el Cusco y que tengan muy baja potencia y antenas poco adecuadas para la escucha extranjera; pero lo de Radio Quillabamba, ojalá confirmaran via QSL física por correo normal, pero quizas lo más probable es una eQSL? O confirmacion hablada del dueño del email (Marcos Cox, ibid.) Sobre La Hora, hay QSL físicas y banderines. Sobre Quillabamba hay E- Qsl. 73! (Claudio Galaz, ibid.) They always spelt it Quilabamba (gh) ** PERU [and non]. 5980, March 21 at 0103, R. Chaski, Urubamba, with hymn; not much CCI this time from BBC/UAE. The hymn is cut off the air at 0105:58* which is 17 seconds later than last log a trinite ago. 5980, March 22 at 0058, music from R. Chaski, very poor; after 0059 hit by SAH from weaker BBC/UAE. Hymn continues across hourtop, 0101 Spanish announcement presumably for Red Radio Integridad as relayed, until cutoff still during talk at 0106:03*, which is 5 seconds later than yesterday, while the BBC carrier continues. Having surpassed the 0106 mark, it`s high time for Urubamba to reset its autotimer closer to 0100. 5980, March 25 at 0051, R. Chaski with VP carrier, some audio; shortly after *0059, second carrier added from BBC UAE, slightly offset. One of them goes off about 0106:21*, i.e. Chaski, 18 seconds later than a trinite before (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. Hello Glenn, I am a long time listener of your shows, always informative. I listen to shortwave every night and am not real happy how stations are going dark or the mindset that seems to prevail that shortwave isn't a good means of communications. Off my soapbox as I saw yesterday that Radio Romania International came out with their latest English shortwave schedule that is valid from 30 March 2014. It includes SW broadcasts to North America (east and west coasts)! 73 (Randall Shreve, KD7PCW, Hooper, Utah, March 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Randall, Tnx for your comments. Yes, RRI is one of the remaining SWBC services, and with good signals out of Europe. However, they have implied it will last only two more years now (Glenn to Randall, ibid.) A-14 schedule of Radio Romania International: ARABIC 0630-0656 9770GAL 11650TIG 11790GAL 15400TIG 1400-1456 9830TIG 11945GAL 13860TIG 15130GAL AROMANIAN 1430-1456 ^5910SAF, not Macedonian 1630-1656 ^5910SAF, not Macedonian 1830-1856 ^5910SAF, not Macedonian CHINESE 0400-0426 *15220TIG 17780TIG 1300-1326 15435TIG 17860TIG ENGLISH 0000-0056 9700TIG 11955TIG 0300-0356 7350TIG 9645TIG 11825GAL *15220GAL 0530-0556 *7330TIG 9700GAL 17760GAL 21500TIG 1100-1156 15130TIG 15400GAL 17670GAL 17680TIG 1700-1756 9540TIG *11810TIG 2030-2056 *9800GAL 11975GAL 15170TIG 17510TIG 2200-2256 7430GAL 9765GAL 9790TIG 11940TIG [WORLD OF RADIO 1714] FRENCH 0100-0156 9700TIG 11955TIG 0500-0526 *7330GAL 9700GAL 15340TIG 17780TIG 1000-1056 11650GAL 15380TIG 15400GAL 17680TIG 1600-1656 9500TIG 11950TIG 2000-2026 *9800GAL 11975GAL GERMAN 0600-0626 *7435TIG 9700TIG 1200-1256 9675GAL 11875GAL 1800-1856 *7300TIG 9540TIG ITALIAN 1400-1426 ^9520SAF 1600-1626 ^5910SAF 1800-1826 *^5910SAF ROMANIAN 0000-0156 7335GAL 9520GAL 0400-0456 5920GAL 7350GAL 0700-0756 13750TIG 15400GAL 15700TIG 17750GAL "Curierul romanesc" Sun only 0800-0856 13750TIG 15400GAL 15700TIG 17750GAL "Curierul romanesc" Sun only 0900-0956 11650GAL 15400GAL 15700TIG 17680GAL "Curierul romanesc" Sun only 1200-1256 ^9520SAF-100kW 11700TIG 15130TIG 1300-1356 11700GAL 15130GAL 1500-1556 11950GAL 15130GAL 1600-1656 7315TIG 9810GAL to Israel 1700-1756 9500GAL 11975GAL 1800-1856 9500GAL 11975GAL 1900-1956 9500GAL 11975GAL RUSSIAN 0430-0456 6180TIG *7390TIG 1330-1356 13640TIG 15160TIG 1500-1556 9500TIG *11870TIG SERBIAN 1530-1556 ^5910SAF 1730-1756 ^5910SAF 1930-1956 ^5910SAF SPANISH 0200-0256 9520GAL 9645TIG 11945GAL 11955TIG 1900-1956 9540TIG 11625TIG 2100-2156 15300TIG 17745TIG 2300-2356 9740TIG 9765GAL 11795GAL 11955TIG UKRAINIAN 1500-1526 ^5910SAF 1700-1726 ^5910SAF 1900-1926 ^5910SAF ^ Saftica 100 kW, all other Galbeni and Tiganesti 300 kW. * DRM via Saftica 100 kW; Galbeni or Tiganesti 300 kW. (RRI-RRO schedule; via Radiocom facilities at Saftica, Galbeni and Tiganeshti; via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 11 via March WWDXC DX Magzine via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. ***** VOICE OF RUSSIA LIQUIDATING SW ***** Voice of Russia to close down shortwave broadcasts by 1st April, 2014 After several online stories & predictions about closure of shortwave services by Voice of Russia, received this official response today: ``Dear Mr Gupta, This is just a short message to thank you for your letter and let you know that the Voice of Russia is closing shortwave broadcasts as of April 1st. Our programs will be available online at http://voiceofrussia.com/play/ We hope you will stay with the Voice of Russia and hope to hear from you soon again. Sincerely yours, Elena Osipova, Letters Department, World Service`` (via Alokesh Gupta, India, March 20, WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Full current schedule of Radio Voice of Russia may be found here http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2014/03/dx-re-mix-news-843.html (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Could it be that some services will remain on SW? Maybe they mean only English broadcasts. – (Aleksandr Diadischev, Ukraine, ibid.) Voice of Russia @VORMoscow https://twitter.com/VORMoscow The last day of shortwave from Voice of Russia has been confirmed April 30, 2014 (via Tony Molloy, nr Winter Hill, UK, dxldyg via DXLD) The fact that VOR shortwave is being eliminated at a time when Russia needs positive media spin over the Crimea situation is a pretty good indication that SW has fallen into total irrelevance as far as the Russian government is concerned. Thus will end, what, 85 years of transmissions on SW for a station that once had the most extensive schedule in international broadcasting. How times and technology have changed, for better or worse (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DX LISTENING DIGEST) It has more to do with money. VOR is going to phased out over the next little while (Keith Perron, Taiwan, ibid.) Ahora sí se vino la noche en Moscú --- "podmoskovnye vechera" (Horacio Nigro, condiglista yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DXLD) Darkness has fallen on Moscow --- literally ``Moscow evenings``, but the tune is loosely translated as ``Midnight in Moscow`` (gh, DXLD) Pésima y esperable noticia conforme los sucesos de los últimos tiempos. Va a salir un programa de La Rosa de Tokio sobre el tema en breve! Saludos! (Arnaldo Slaen, condiglista yg via DXLD) Mala Noticia; una de las pocas grandes que ya van quedando; de aquí a 10 años más, ¿cuántas desapareceran? Así como vamos, quizás queden CRI de China y otras radios que transmiten a nivel local en OC, lamentable (Marcos Cox, ibid.) Alguien con muy buena ironía comparó el vaciamiento del espectro de la onda corta destinada a la radiodifusión como un océano sin barcos (creo haberlo leído en el interesante blog de Horacio Nigro). Tanto el amplio espacio electromagnético como la inmensidad de los mares existen; son escenarios naturales que están allí al servicio de la humanidad. Pero el hombre decide (Rubén Guillermo Margenet, Argentina, ibid.) Succeeded by "Voice of Russia" new agency "Russia Today" does not intend to continue broadcasting on medium and short waves. Thus, all broadcasting in these bands should be discontinued from 1 April 2014. Later broadcasts will be organized through local VHF repeaters in some regions (most likely where they already have now), as well as via the Internet. Although the date of writing this report I found out that some Internet projects will also be closed. I note that this information has not been confirmed by official sources, as is currently the structure of the new broadcasting agency "Russia Today" has not been formed, contracts with potential employees have not been concluded. Earlier, the head of the new agency "Russia Today" Dmitry Kiselev said that the structure of the broadcast will be initially stored maximum established for many years, the brand will not change, mass layoffs of staff are also planned. But in fact 10 days before the end of the existence of the "Voice of Russia" all his employees have received notice of dismissal, but no one received a formal invitation to become an employee of the agency "Russia Today." In the team go to various rumors and unsubstantiated promises fire someone completely, and someone to take a new job. (Ed.) Just learned that "the general director of the agency "Russia Today" Dmitry Kiselev" hit the new sanctions list of Russian officials, who published the EU. More [in Russian]: http://onair.ru/main/enews/view_msg/NMID__49159/ (Moscow Information DX Bulletin, Weekly electronic publication #885, March 18, 2014, Editor of the current issue: Vadim Alexeyev, Moscow, Russia, via RusDX March 23 via WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DXLD) VOR tweeted on March 19 that the SW shutdown date was now April 30, so the info in the previous post is probably out of date (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Below, the tweet about April 30 is believed to be fake: (gh) So it turns out that the BBC closing the Seychelles transmitter isn't the only bad news this month in addition to this column closing down, as the Voice of Russia is finally doing what they threatened to do last year – that is to abandon shortwave! Check Thomas Witherspoon's blog for the entire story. http://swling.com/blog/2014/03/voice-of-russia-to-abandon-shortwave-on-april-1-2014/ The actual end date seems to be up in the air but several reports mention that it lies between April 1st and 30th. Keith Perron lends some truth to the April 1st date as he has reported that the Voice of Russia's relay contracts with domestic US and UK broadcasters have not been renewed. So, we lose three radio countries this month in the Seychelles, Russia, and Asiatic Russia. When will it all end or, at least, stabilize? Sheryl Paskiewicz posted on her Facebook page that Robert Montgomery has passed away. Robert served as the coordinator for submissions and loggings for NASWA's Journal and had supported this column with his own loggings in the past. He was just short of his 68th birthday. Sleep well, my friend. You will be missed! (Mark Coady, ODXA YRX March 24 via DXLD) VOICE OF RUSSIA TO ABANDON SHORTWAVE IN APRIL 2014 Posted on March 20, 2014 by Thomas Voice-of-Russia-Logo It appears that after all of the rumors from last year, and after the cuts to shortwave broadcasts earlier this year, the Voice of Russia has decided to stop broadcasting on shortwave entirely. 2nd Update: Shortly after publishing this original post, SWLing Post reader Stephen Cooper, noticed a VOR twitter account announcing the final date as April 30, 2014–I now believe this account to be fake: [WORLD OF RADIO 1714] VORTwitter Update 2 (10:00 UTC on March 21, 2014): I just received the following message from Elena Osipova at the Voice of Russia World Service Letters Department: ``Dear Mr Witherspoon, This is to thank you for your message and confirm the information about the upcoming cancellation of the Voice of Russia’s short- and medium wave transmissions as of April 1, 2014. Best regards, Elena Osipova Letters Department World Service Voice of Russia`` I remember when the Voice of Russia and Radio Moscow absolutely dominated the shortwaves, especially in my early years as a radio listener. Times have changed for this broadcaster who has been the mouthpiece for Russia and the Soviet Union. On a side note, if you have the ability to record the Voice of Russia in its final days on the air, please consider submitting and sharing your recordings on the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive. Please contact me if you have any questions. Many thanks! 6 Responses to Voice of Russia to abandon shortwave in April 2014 TP Reitzel says: March 21, 2014 at 4:33 am Although the VOR hasn’t targeted North America in years, they still had one of the most reliable configurations for their digital (DRM) broadcasts to Europe. Regardless, other broadcasters will fill the void left by VOR and other public broadcasters. It’s ironic, however, that as VOR apparently leaves broadcasting on the shortwave bands in favor of the Internet, I’m leaving the Internet in favor of shortwave broadcasting. ;) Lee says: March 21, 2014 at 7:05 am This is sad news indeed. Another giant of SW bites the dust. Almost everyday now you hear of some station or other closing down or some shortwave service closing down. Not everybody wants to or can, listen via internet.for me it just isn’t the same, although at times I admit it is very handy. Still, you can’t beat that feeling of trawling the SW bands trying to tease out that signal. That was always the fun of it for me as much as the listening to programming. I will be holding onto my gear because there is still plenty to go at if you care to scan the bands. Not just broadcast stuff. Those mysterious places between broadcast sections are wonderful! (swling.com blog via DXLD) ** RUSSIA. "And Liz Wahl said she could not work for a broadcaster that "whitewashes the actions" of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Wahl resigned live on air." http://rt.com/usa/neocons-stage-attack-alternative-media-965/ (via Leo Barmaleo, Moldova, March 20, dxldyg via DXLD) Oh what a bull**it explanation from RT. Back to the bad old days of the cold war and unadulterated propaganda from the Kremlin. A sad day (Volodya Salmaniw, Victoria, BC, ibid.) FWIW, the 'BS explanation' doesn`t come from RT as such; they explicitly credited Truthdig as the source. And of course, it`s a mere accident that FPI are capable of foreseeing what`s gonna happen 'right time, right place". FPI must stand for 'Future Predicting Intelligence' then, or a bureau of crystal(-clear?)-ball(ed) fortune- tellers (Leo Barmaleo, Moldova, ibid.) ** RUSSIA. 25900, March 21 at 1407, it`s another Friday morning, so another try for the 400-watt student station in Moscow, Radio Magic Eye. On the FRG-7 I am getting a JBA carrier slightly on the lo side compared to weak signals on 11900, 9900 and 900 (none of which are exactly the same offset either). Signal no better by 1446, so I move to the porch with PL-880 and DX- 398. Now I am axually hearing some music on a very weak, choppy signal. PL-880 is better with short reel-out wire than DX-398 with longer wire around eaves which gets higher line noise level. BUT, the PL-880 is much more subject to overloading/images with any external antenna, and tuning around the 11m band, I hear various broadcast ghosts from no telling where lower on the bands. Also lots of freebanders and CODAR-like noises. I have to switch attenuation down a notch to help, even tho the MTUCI signal is very weak: averages 21 dB, while with no ATT it`s about 23 dB. No recognizable music, except at 1458 sounds like steel drums: could be WWCR transition music overloading from 7490 to 12160! 1500 announcement, 1501 mentions ``dot com`` so could be in English; 1503 still on. I suspect by now I am really hearing some image. Dave ``glimmer twin`` Hughes had reported Magic Eye was making it to North America today per several logs on: http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,16064.0.html Apparently the schedule is now 13-16 UT instead of 12-15. At least there was propagation from Europe, with a German DF2- ham on 24971 at 1506; one of few signals on 15m earlier was someone in German; Spain & Kuwait broadcasts in well on 13m. BTW, the latest issue of SW Bulletin illustrates QSL on page 10: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/swb/1793.pdf (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 25900 AM Radio MTUCI: No trace of them here in Germany today (21-3- 2014) at usual start of program at 1300 UT. Anybody else hearing them? They announced plans for a new frequency, maybe they QSYed already? The rest of the band as usual is filled with strong signals from taxi and other pirate communications from Russia. [later:] And they are active there with S9 again here in Germany. But they have some audio problems every now and then. 73 (Harald Kuhl, 1341 UT March 21, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) I am stuck at work & am listening via Twente but it is being heard by many in North America as per HFU postings: http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,16064.0.html 400 watt student station from the Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics (MTUCI). QSL address is arb @ radiostation.ru DH KCMO (Dave Hughes, Kansas City, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) RADIO MTUCI 25900. No sign of this on March 21 at 1300 or for the few minutes I continued to listen for it. But at 1435 recheck, presumably MTUCI was heard with a poor signal with "Hit the Road, Jack". I could only listen briefly, and when I rechecked at 1450 nothing was heard (Wendel Craighead, Prairie Village, Kansas, USA, DX LISTENING DIGEST) They’re into London with a decent-ish signal – S5 on Flag (Stuart Satnipper, 1417 UT, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** RWANDA. 6055.003, R Rwanda, Mar 26 0335 - Local ballads, female announcer taking call between songs, French. Good signal despite slop from RHC on 6060. 73, (Brandon Jordan, http://www.swldx.us Fayette County, TN EM55gc, WinRadio G33DDC, WinRadio G313-e, RFSpace SDR-IQ, Icom R75, Eton E1, DX Engineering NCC-1 Phased Dual Active Verticals, Array Solutions AS-SAL-30 Shared Apex Loop, Wellbrook FLG100 Double KAZ Loop (21'×60'), dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SARAWAK [non]. 15420, RFS (Palauig-Zambales), 1225-1230* 21 March. Enthusiastic speechifying guy with crowd response with tone jammer giving him a fit. Close/down announcement at 1229 (tone jammer off) with ID & "salaam malam" ("hello/good? night") and brief instrumental theme (Dan Sheedy, Encinitas, CA, G5/6m X wire, WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SEYCHELLES. 15420 BBC; 1807-1816+, 19-Mar; English discussion of ethnic minorities, focusing on Kosovo & Crimea. Under WBCQ(presumed) with English huxtress. // 12095 via UK, SIO=343 with minor 12105 splash; listed 15400 via Ascension uncopyable; listed 11810 via Ascension missing; listed 9915 via UK completely covered by strong hiss (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) 12095 is also Seychelles at 15-20, per HFCC (gh, DXLD) [and non]. 15420, March 27 at 1405, JBA signal, presumed BBC Indian Ocean Relay in Somali as scheduled 14-15; certainly not // BBC English 9740 Singapore. WBCQ not yet on 15420, currently scheduled 17-21 UT daily from Fence Lake NM, plus 14-17 Saturdays with BS, but may not be accurate. BBC English from IORS is scheduled 15-20 on 15420 and 12095, as this station is in its last few days, to be closed down after March 29. So best to try in the 15-17 UT period, but March 27 around 1610 I can hear nothing but noise on 12095 or 15420. When closure was first announced months ago, we compiled this full Seychelles sked as in DXLD 13-48: 04-06 12095, 15420 06-08 15420, 17640 11-11.5 15530 [Somali] 14-15 15420, 17690 [Somali] 15-20 12095, 15420 If you hear BBC on same frequencies at any other times, it`s some other site. In A-14 BBC plans this usage of 15420, English u.o.s.: 04-08 UAE; 14-15 Somali via South Africa (Sat from 13-). And A-14 BBC on 12095, English u.o.s.: 00-02 Singapore; 02-05 Oman; 05-06 South Africa in Kinyarwanda; 06-07 South Africa; 07-08 Ascension; 15-17 South Africa; 20-22 Ascension (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Excerpted from Ivo`s complete BBC B13 schedule in 13-47, here`s all we have from Seychelles. Note only two languages, two transmitters, always //, and only on air 4 hours in morning, 6 hours evening (gh) Winter B-13 shortwave schedule of BBC: 0400-0500 12095 SEY 250 kW / 285 deg CEAf English 0400-0500 15420 SEY 250 kW / 270 deg CEAf English 0500-0600 12095 SEY 250 kW / 285 deg CEAf English 0500-0600 15420 SEY 250 kW / 270 deg CEAf English 0600-0700 15420 SEY 250 kW / 270 deg CEAf English 0600-0700 17640 SEY 250 kW / 280 deg CEAf English 0700-0800 15420 SEY 250 kW / 270 deg CEAf English 0700-0800 17640 SEY 250 kW / 280 deg CEAf English 1100-1130 15530 SEY 250 kW / 295 deg EaAf Somali 1400-1500 15420 SEY 250 kW / 285 deg EaAf Somali 1400-1500 17690 SEY 250 kW / 295 deg EaAf Somali 1500-1600 12095 SEY 250 kW / 280 deg CEAf English 1500-1600 15420 SEY 250 kW / 270 deg CEAf English 1600-1700 12095 SEY 250 kW / 280 deg CEAf English 1600-1700 15420 SEY 250 kW / 270 deg CEAf English 1700-1800 12095 SEY 250 kW / 280 deg CEAf English 1700-1800 15420 SEY 250 kW / 270 deg CEAf English 1800-1900 12095 SEY 250 kW / 280 deg CEAf English 1800-1900 15420 SEY 250 kW / 270 deg CEAf English 1900-2000 12095 SEY 250 kW / 280 deg CEAf English 1900-2000 15420 SEY 250 kW / 270 deg CEAf English (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, DX RE MIX NEWS #808, Nov 18, via DXLD 13-48 via 14-13) ** SOMALIA [non]. FRANCE to SOMALIA, 15180 kHz, 1700-1730 UT, at present March 26: Identification in tentative Somali as "Radio Hillaac", powerful -32.4dBm or S=9+45dB signal at 1707 UT. 73 wb (Wolfgang Büschel, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Same here in Cairo, with a slight buzz in the background! 15180 kHz, 1718 UT an interview with OM by YL. 73 (Tarek Zeidan, Sent from my iPad, March 26, ibid.) ** SOUTH AFRICA. 6155.022, Channel Africa, Mar 26 0310 - English program with report on South Sudan, fair. 73, (Brandon Jordan, http://www.swldx.us Fayette County, TN EM55gc, WinRadio G33DDC, WinRadio G313-e, RFSpace SDR-IQ, Icom R75, Eton E1, DX Engineering NCC-1 Phased Dual Active Verticals, Array Solutions AS-SAL-30 Shared Apex Loop, Wellbrook FLG100 Double KAZ Loop (21'×60'), dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 5890, WWCR, Brother Scare pontificating about how "science is a lie" including such gems as the "fact" that dinosaurs never existed because the Bible doesn't talk about them, therefore the bones scientists display are fakes and they are just LIARS trying to confuse people. Hmmmm... Does the Bible mention koalas or pandas? Are they fake? And people give him money? I'm confused! It was like a car crash--just had to listen! 5554+4+, 0615-0635 20/Mar— (Kenneth Vito Zichi, MI, MARE Tipsheet March 21 via DXLD) The Bible also doesn't mention yoyos or Vegematics (Harold Frodge, ed., ibid.) 11565, March 22 at 0138, BS via WRMI says he needs $50K to take up offers on two stations; hey, why not send him a million? he prompts. Missed any details; SW? as he went on to further blah, but probably to be repeated & repeated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I've just done a 31m band scan on my SDR. I recorded the whole band for about 6 minutes from 1757 to 1803 GMT. I've played it back and recorded the following logs from Southport UK using an RTL-SDR and a 5m wire. 9930, 1830 25 MAR - BROTHER STAIR (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA) in ENGLISH from KOROR [PALAU]. SINPO = 33333. Received at Southport, United Kingdom, 12162 KM from transmitter at Koror. Local time: 1830. Audio: http://9930.khz.mobi/b (Stephen Cooper, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Good punch to the modulation, more so than the WRMI frequencies; not that that`s a good thing, with The Overcomer (gh) ** SPAIN [and non]. Informacion facilitada por Antonio Buitrago de Radio Exterior de España. Se puede descargar en diversos formatos en la página de Programas DX: http://programasdx.com/ree_a14.html Saludos (Jose Bueno, Córdoba, España, DX LISTENING DIGEST) RADIO EXTERIOR DE ESPAÑA, SECRETARÍA TÉCNICA Y DE PROGRAMAS 30 de Marzo de 2014 a 26 de Octubre de 2014 [English: WORLD OF RADIO 1714] FRECUENCIAS BANDA AZIMUT HORA UTC IDIOMA PERIODICIDAD EUROPA 9780 31 m 50º 0500-0900 ESPAÑOL Diaria DRM 15585 19 m 60º 0900–1100 ESPAÑOL Diaria DRM 13720 22 m 0ª 1100–1300 ESPAÑOL Diaria DRM 15585 19 m 60º 1400–1600 ESPAÑOL Domingo 15585 19 m 60º 1400–1700 ESPAÑOL Sábado 7275 41 m 50º 1600–2200 ESPAÑOL Domingo 7275 41 m 50º 1700-2200 ESPAÑOL Sábado 15325 19 m 68º 1700–1730 RUSO Lunes a Viernes 9665 31 m 50º 1800–1900 FRANCÉS Lunes a Viernes 9665 31 m 50º 1900–2000 INGLÉS Lunes a Viernes 9660 31 m 38º 2100–2200 INGLÉS Sábado y Domingo 6155 49 m 50º 2300–0000 FRANCÉS Sábado y Domingo ORIENTE MEDIO 21610 13m 110º 1100-1700 ESPAÑOL Diaria 15385 19m 92º 1425-1455 SEFARDÍ Lunes 21610 13m 110º 1700-1900 ÁRABE Diaria 12015 25m 110º 1900-2000 FRANCÉS Domingo 9685 31m 110º 2000-2100 FRANCÉS Lunes a Viernes ÁFRICA 21515 13 m 161º 1100–1500 ESPAÑOL Lunes a Viernes 21515 13 m 161º 1100–1400 ESPAÑOL Sábado 21515 13 m 161º 1100–1700 ESPAÑOL Domingo 17755 16 m 161º 1400–2200 ESPAÑOL Sábado 15385 19 m 161º 1500–1700 ESPAÑOL Lunes a Viernes 17755 16 m 161º 1700–2200 ESPAÑOL Domingo 17755 16 m 161º 1700–1900 ESPAÑOL Lunes a Viernes 9570 31 m 170º 1900–2000 FRANCÉS Sábado 11615 25 m 168º 1900–2000 INGLÉS Lunes a Viernes 15385 19 m 161º 1900-2000 PORTUGUÉS Lunes a Viernes 9570 31 m 170º 1900–2100 ÁRABE Lunes a Viernes 11615 25 m 168º 2000–2100 FRANCÉS Lunes a Viernes 9570 31 m 170º 2000–2200 ÁRABE Sábado y Domingo 9570 25 m 170º 2200–2300 ESPAÑOL Diaria FILIPINAS 11910 25 m 138º 1200-1400 ESPAÑOL Diaria (Desde Xi’an)[sic: changed to Beijing site years ago --- gh] AMÉRICA NORTE 6055 49 m 290º 0000-0100 INGLÉS Diaria 9690 31 m 290º 0415-0445 SEFARDÍ Martes 6055 49 m 290º 2300-0000 FRANCÉS Diaria AMÉRICA CENTRAL 21640 13 m 272º 1300-1600 ESPAÑOL Lunes a Viernes 21640 13 m 272º 1300-1700 ESPAÑOL Sábado y Domingo 17850 16 m 272º 1700-2300 ESPAÑOL Sábado y Domingo 17850 16 m 272º 1800-2200 ESPAÑOL Lunes a Viernes 9535 31 m 272º 2300-0600 ESPAÑOL Diaria AMÉRICA CENTRO-SUR 11795 25 m 248º 0115-0115 SEFARDÍ Martes [we hope! ex-11780 --- gh] 6125 49 m 248º 0200-0600 ESPAÑOL Diaria 15160 19 m 242º 2300-0200 ESPAÑOL Diaria AMÉRICA SUR 17715 16 m 230º 1200-1800 ESPAÑOL Lunes a Viernes 17715 16 m 230º 1400-2200 ESPAÑOL Sábado y Domingo 17595 16 m 230º 2100-2200 PORTUGUÉS Lunes a Viernes 9620 31 m 230º 2300-0500 ESPAÑOL Diaria [are bits of Catalan, even Galician, Basque still hidden somewhere within the Spanish hours??? -- gh] VÍA SATÉLITE Astra 1M: COBERTURA: Europa, Canarias, Norte de África y Oriente Próximo y Medio. Posición orbital 19,2º Este. Frecuencia 11.656 MHz. Polarización vertical HISPASAT 1 C: COBERTURA: América Posición orbital 30º Oeste. Frecuencia 12.015 Mhz. Polarización vertical. ASIASAT 5: COBERTURA: Asia y Australia Posición orbital 100’5º Este. Frecuencia 4.055 Mhz. Polarización vertical ATLANTIC BIRD 3: COBERTURA: África, Oriente Medio y parte de Europa. Posición orbital 5º Oeste. Frecuencia 3.727 Mhz. Polarización circular derecha. GALAXY-23: COBERTURA: América del Norte y Hawái Posición orbital 30º Oeste. Frecuencia 3.780 Mhz. Polarización vertical (via José Bueno, Spain, DXLD) [and non]. 11780, UT Tue March 25 at 0114, REE IS is slightly stronger than very strong RNB BRAZIL; another week, another collision for the unfortunate Sephardic service for South America, ruined by incompetent frequency mis-management (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. CARMEN FM TEST TRANSMISSION --- After several months of preparation, designing the project, selecting songs and developing the web content, Carmen FM project finally becomes truth. Carmen FM is an online radio 24 x 7 oldies sung in Spanish are issued. I mean songs that have been mostly successful in the second half of the twentieth century. In our files there are more than 4,500 songs, which means that the songs are not repeated until four weeks after (*) and styles ranging from boleros or ballads to rock & roll, singer-songwriters, flamenco, ranchera, tangos, twist, pop, salsa, etc... Always well-known songs. Carmen FM is designed to be pleasing to most listeners in Spain and South America, but also for those from listeners in the rest of the world who like Latin music or want to practice with the Spanish language. Carmen FM have her own QSL card Carmen FM team is made up of people with extensive experience in professional radio and music industry, which ensures the quality and standard of programming, but also in the world of DX. It is for this reason that from day one and although it is not common in the online stations, Carmen FM has its own electronic QSL card that can be achieved by a reception report to carmenfm@carmenfm.com On the Web (carmenfm.com) you will find a complete dossier with station information and a promotional video. We look forward to your hearing. Greetings from Spain & 73’s Carmen FM http://www.carmenfm.com (*) During the test transmisión, we broadcast a 13 hour playlist (Luis Segarra, Carmen FM General Manager, March 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I got a malware warning, apparently only based on this being a new website (gh, DXLD) ** SRI LANKA. 11905, March 22 at 0114, open carrier from SLBC, good with flutter, starting vocal music 4 seconds before 0115 with no timesignal; just as well, as they never get it right. Presumed Hindi opening before 0116. 11905, March 25 at 0114 open carrier from SLBC; music starts a few seconds before 0115, then stops, skipping time signal --- no, here it comes! Three pips with final prolonged, finally ending at 0115:35, then opening in Hindi (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. UAE, 15530, R Tamazuj in Arabic/Sudanese of Dutch PNW/FPU organization, ID at 0428 UT March 21, also frequencies given. Peaks on SDR unit screen looked like only on lower LSB side flank (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 21, dxldyg via DXLD) ** SWAZILAND. 11699.982, Letzte Nacht gab es hier in A-DX einen Tip ueber TWR Manzini im 60 mb. Aber auch jetzt 1630-1800 UT ist TWR Manzini-SWZ schoen zu hoeren, im 25mb auf 11699.982 kHz mit 1630-1645 12 Amharic 11700 100 10B 13 Ethiopia 1630-1700 34 Oromo 11700 100 10B 13 Ethiopia 1645-1700 12 7 Oromo 11700 100 10B 13 Ethiopia 1630-1645 56 Kambaata 11700 100 10B 13 Ethiopia 1645-1700 56 Hadiya 11700 100 10B 13 Ethiopia 1700-1730 123456 Amharic 11700 100 10B 13 Ethiopia 1700-1715 7 Amharic 11700 100 10B 13 Ethiopia 1715-1745 7 Oromo 11700 100 10B 13 Ethiopia 1730-1800 12345 Oromo 11700 100 10B 13 Ethiopia 1730-1800 6 Amharic 11700 100 10B 13 Ethiopia (Wolfgang Büschel, March 16, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 21 via DXLD) ** TAIWAN. 18870, Sound of Hope (list log); 1435, 15-Mar; M&W in Chinese, mentioned Taiwan. SIO=554; // 15940, SIO=454-. No hint of crash & bang Chinese music jammer on either (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) ** TAIWAN. 9734.86, March 20 at 1116, good signal on the USward beam toward Japan, ``Taiwan Hoso`` measured off-frequency, 3.5 x 40 Hz clix on the DX-398 below 9735.00; nothing to het it but on 5-kHz steps also obviously low compared to neighbors. I did not check this exactly on my previous log March 12; Ron Howard says RTI was on 9734.84 March 16 and 17 and also today 20 at 1204, so I will concede 20 Hz to him; but March 18 he and Wolfgang Büschel found it on exactly 9735.0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 9734.84, 1204, March 20. Why the changes in frequency? March 17 was also off frequency. March 18 on 9735.00. Strange (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN [non]. PCJ Radio International are changing frequency again for their Sunday hour-long broadcast (targeting SE Asia from Trincomalee, Sr Lanka): "From Sunday March 30th our new time is 1230 to 1330 UT on 13655 kHz" (Keith Perron on PCJ Media Facebook 25 March) Note, time is an hour earlier than previous broadcasts. 73 (Alan Pennington, England, March 25, BDXC-UK yg via WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DXLD) Re A-14, 13650-13660 kHz slot: 13655 may work fine in East Asia instead, but further westwards CRI and Kigai Rwanda are also on these adjacents. 13650 kHz is used by CRI Cërrik, Albania relay and also Urumchi, China 500 kW relay; 13660 kHz registered for TWR Kigali Rwanda 250 kW relay. 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) ** TAJIKISTAN. Voice Of Tibet, Dushanbe-Yangiyul, 2 x 15568 As received in Scotland on the 19/3/2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU9MSr7eM6k cheers David, Ayrshire, Scotland RTL Dongle & sdr# Uniden Bearcat UBC 9000 XLT Maas DX 5000 Powerline v6 Indoor 28 MHz off center fed dipole 33 MHz 1/2 Wave Vertical @ 10 Meters 37 - 108 MHz home made Log Periodic @ 12 Meters Via ICDX list (via Alokesh Gupta, March 22, Cumbredx yg via DXLD) So: 31136 kHz; no time given even on the YouTube! IIRC, it`s David Hamilton. 15568 schedule per DX Re Mix News Feb 22 was: 1230-1245 UT only (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. 17755, March 20 at 1226, VOT IS on fair signal, prior to German service, also aimed USward, and far better than we can hear English in our mornings at 1330 which is way down on 12035. In A-14 as usual, English will shift to 1230 and to 15450, which will be slightly better for us than 12035 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Summer A-14 schedule for Voice of Turkey: Shortwave Broadcasting Schedule of VOICE OF TURKEY Radio between 30 March 2014 - 25 Oct 2014 dates kHz UTC tx kW deg language target 7260 0000-0200 EMR 500 72 TURKISH AS 9770 0100-0200 EMR 500 290 SPANISH NoWeAF/AMs/SoEUR 9870 0100-0200 EMR 500 270 SPANISH AMs/SoEUR 9465 0200-0300 EMR 500 72 UYGHUR AS 6165 0300-0400 EMR 250 138 ENGLISH AS 9515 0300-0400 EMR 500 325 ENGLISH AMs/EUR 6040 0400-0600 EMR 500 138 TURKISH AS 11980 0400-0600 EMR 500 310 TURKISH EUR/AM 11750 0600-0900 EMR 500 97 TURKISH AS 11955 0600-1155 EMR 250 150 TURKISH AF/AS 13635 0600-1300 EMR 500 310 TURKISH EUR/AM 11730 0700-0800 EMR 500 95 AZERBAIJAN AS 11795 0830-1000 EMR 500 95 PERSIAN AS 11750 0900-1000 EMR 500 210 ARABIC AF/AS 9855 1000-1030 EMR 500 32 TATAR AS 9655 1000-1100 EMR 500 72 GEORGIAN AS 13650 1030-1100 EMR 500 72 UZBEK AS 7210 1100-1130 EMR 250 290 BULGARIAN EUR 15240 1100-1200 EMR 500 62 CHINESE AS 13760 1130-1230 EMR 500 310 GERMAN EUR 11825 1200-1230 EMR 500 90 TURKMEN AS 13710 1200-1300 EMR 500 92 URDU AS 11700 1230-1330 EMR 250 72 UYGHUR AS 15450 1230-1330 EMR 500 310 ENGLISH EUR/AM 11965 1300-1400 EMR 500 20 RUSSIAN AS/EUR 9840 1300-1600 EMR 500 310 TURKISH EUR/AM 11880 1330-1400 EMR 500 62 KAZAKH AS 9540 1400-1500 EMR 250 150 ARABIC AF/AS 9610 1400-1425 EMR 500 290 ITALIAN EUR 17770 1400-1500 EMR 500 252 ARABIC AF/SoEUR 9765 1500-1600 EMR 250 105 PERSIAN AS 11765 1500-1630 EMR 500 92 DARI-PASHTO AS 9530 1530-1630 EMR 500 95 AZERBAIJAN AS 5960 1600-2100 EMR 500 150 TURKISH AF/AS 9460 1600-2100 EMR 500 310 TURKISH EUR 15520 1630-1730 EMR 500 95 ENGLISH AS 11930 1630-1730 EMR 500 270 SPANISH AF/EUR 7360 1730-1830 EMR 500 190 FRENCH AF 11835 1730-1830 EMR 500 310 GERMAN EUR 9785 1830-1930 EMR 500 310 ENGLISH EUR 7360 1930-2030 EMR 500 252 FRENCH NoAF/CeAF/WeAF new fq 9635 1930-2030 EMR 500 300 FRENCH EUR 7205 2030-2130 EMR 500 105 ENGLISH AS/AUS/NZL 9830 2200-2300 EMR 500 310 ENGLISH AMs/EUR (TRT xls transformed to frequency sorted form file by wb, March 4, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 21 via DXLD) 11750 0900 1000 37N,38N,39N40 500 210 216 ARA TUR TRT 9540 1400 1500 38E,39,40 250 150 205 ARA TUR TRT 17770 1400 1500 37,38W,46 500 252 211 ARA TUR TRT 11730 0700 0800 29SE,39NE,40N 500 95 215 AZE TUR TRT 9530 1530 1630 29SE,39NE,40, 500 95 215 AZE TUR TRT 7210 1100 1130 28S 250 290 210 BUL TUR TRT 13760 1130 1230 28 500 310 205 DEU TUR TRT 11835 1730 1830 28 500 310 205 DEU TUR TRT 9515 0300 0400 3-5,6E,7-11,1 500 325 219 ENG TUR TRT 6165 0300 0400 38E,39,40W 250 138 215 ENG TUR TRT 15450 1230 1330 18S,27,28W 500 310 205 ENG TUR TRT 15520 1630 1730 30S,40E,41N,4 500 95 215 ENG TUR TRT 9785 1830 1930 27,28 500 310 205 ENG TUR TRT 7205 2030 2130 39-41,49,54,5 500 105 219 ENG TUR TRT 9830 2200 2300 5,8,9,11N,17, 500 310 215 ENG TUR TRT [ENGLISH: WORLD OF RADIO 1714] 11795 0830 1000 39N,40NW 500 95 215 FAS TUR TRT 9765 1500 1600 30S,40 250 105 205 FAS TUR TRT 7360 1730 1830 38,47,48 500 190 205 FRA TUR TRT 9635 1930 2030 27,28W 500 300 205 FRA TUR TRT 7360 1930 2030 37,38,46 500 252 211 FRA TUR TRT new fq 9610 1400 1430 27S,28S 500 290 210 ITA TUR TRT 9655 1000 1100 29S,30SW 500 72 211 KAT TUR TRT 11880 1330 1400 29-31,42NW 500 62 211 KAZ TUR TRT 11765 1500 1630 29S,30S,40-43 500 92 211 PBT TUR TRT 11965 1300 1400 19-22,29,30N 500 20 205 RUS TUR TRT 9870 0100 0200 12S,13-15,16N 500 270 210 SPA TUR TRT 9770 0100 0200 8E,10SE,11,12 500 290 219 SPA TUR TRT 11930 1630 1730 27S,28,37 500 270 210 SPA TUR TRT 9855 1000 1030 19-21,29,30 500 32 215 TAT TUR TRT 11825 1200 1230 29SE,30S,40N 500 90 219 TUK TUR TRT 7260 0000 0200 42,43 500 72 211 TUR TUR TRT 11980 0400 0600 18S,27,28 500 310 215 TUR TUR TRT 6040 0400 0600 39 500 138 215 TUR TUR TRT 11750 0600 0900 29S,30S,40-43 500 97 205 TUR TUR TRT 11955 0600 1200 38E,39,40W 250 150 205 TUR TUR TRT 13635 0600 1300 27,28 500 310 215 TUR TUR TRT 9840 1300 1600 27,28 500 310 215 TUR TUR TRT 5960 1600 2100 38E,39,40W 500 150 205 TUR TUR TRT 9460 1600 2100 27,28 500 310 215 TUR TUR TRT 9465 0200 0300 42,43 500 72 211 UIG TUR TRT 11700 1230 1330 42,43 250 72 211 UIG TUR TRT 13710 1200 1300 40,41N 500 92 211 URD TUR TRT 13650 1030 1100 30S,40N 500 72 211 UZB TUR TRT 15240 1100 1200 30-32,42-44 500 62 211 ZHO TUR TRT [Chinese] (hfcc March 4 via BC-DX March 21 via DXLD) ** UGANDA. 4976, 2044 March 21 with hilife song, OM with funny talks, S9, undermod (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, March 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE. http://www.rrt.ua/presscenter/index/actualone/lang/uk?id=137 The site also has a RRT Concern interesting advertisement: "For their potential customers RRT Concern can offer: 1. For the dissemination of commercial radio programs on shortwave may be involved 11 transmitters BRT Concern capacity from 100 kW to 1.2 MW radio centers located in Mykolaiv, Lviv and Kharkiv regions. The total radiation power transmitters can be 3 MW. Availability transmitters, antenna towers gives you the opportunity to broadcast on almost every continent and most countries of the world." (Alexander Yegorov , Ukraine / "open_dx" via (Moscow Information DX Bulletin, Weekly electronic publication #885, March 18, 2014, Editor of the current issue: Vadim Alexeyev. Moscow, Russia, via RusDX March 23 via WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DXLD) RUI quite SW two or three years ago, and there have been no known relays from Ukraine either, but apparently the facilities still exist, and now they are looking for relay customers (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) ** UKRAINE. 11980.089, the dubious rather amateur radio station of the transmitter engineering in 25 mb listed 0800-1000 UT as UKR Radio Dniprovska Hvylya Ukr Zaporizhia is now on air, heard at 0825 UT on 1st March, with S=7 here in western Europe, in eastern Europe and Russia a bit stronger like S=8 on air. But sounds more like a preserve program of religiosity, ideology, literature, tradition. But I don't understand anything anyway; now at 0826 UT a piece Ukrainian pop music (Wolfgang Büschel, March WWDXC DX Magazine via DXLD) ** UKRAINE. Pirate broadcast: In air, a new Ukrainian pirate on 6325 ... 6326 kHz ("float") in the evening (March 18 - 1835 UT; March 20 - 1757 UT), Voice Ukrainian Crimea (Voice of Ukrainian Crimea). Lviv signal at 4 on a 5-point scale SINPO. Hear whether other regions of Ukraine or Russia? Presumably transmitter in southern Ukraine, but not in the Crimea, I think so. Zaporizhia, Kherson, Odessa region - perhaps the transmitter there. If you have ideas, you comment, I will be grateful. --- DX- Portal user falnaf777 - http://dxing.ru/forum.html?func=view&catid=21&id=8083&limit=8&start=296 # 26294 Today I also heard this station (Voice of Ukrainian Crimea) or something like that. Any patriotic songs airplay. But the problem was that these "broadcasters " passed on the 40 meter amateur band (7055- 7056 kHz)! And in SSB. Soon came running disgruntled amateurs and tried to reason with these fellows. Discussion ensued serious... --- DX- user Portal The Radio Hobbyist - http://dxing.ru/forum.html?func=view&catid=21&id=8083&limit=8&start=296 # 26301 (via RusDX March 23 via WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DXLD) ** UKRAINE. 13527, Ukraine Black Sea (Crimean peninsula) Channel Marker "D"; 2213, 16-Mar; pipper QRM (Frodge-MI) 16331, Black Sea (Crimean peninsula) Channel Marker "D"; 1724, 16-Mar; covered by strong trill QRM; nothing heard on 20047, 13527, 10871 or 8494. (Frodge-MI) 20047/USB, Black Sea (Crimean peninsula) Channel Marker "D"; 1455, 20- Mar; USB only; seems to have been off a few days (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 K. International broadcasting --- Foreign losses SWEEPING CUTS HAVE NOT KILLED THE BBC WORLD SERVICE. STEADY NEGLECT MIGHT --- Mar 29th 2014 | From the print edition http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21599833-sweeping-cuts-have-not-killed-bbc-world-service-steady-neglect-might-foreign-losses?frsc=dg|c IT IS “perhaps Britain’s greatest gift to the world”, says Kofi Annan, former boss of the UN. Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev and Aung San Suu Kyi all listened in. Yet the success of the BBC World Service, which broadcasts to nearly 200m people a week, was not inevitable. “Don’t expect too much in the early days,” warned John (later Lord) Reith, its founder, in 1932. “The programmes will neither be very interesting, nor very good.” The World Service is still the most popular and best known of all international broadcasters—a cheap and sturdy buttress of Britain’s image abroad. Yet it is increasingly harried by competition, technological change and budget cuts. From April 1st it will no longer be funded by the Foreign Office, which has propped it up for years, but by a share of the BBC licence fee, a levy paid by all British television viewers. Cynics fear this will speed its decline. In part the World Service’s woes are those of any incumbent media outfit, but more severe. Barriers to entry in broadcast news, colossal in the days of short-wave radio, are collapsing as FM radio and mobile phones proliferate in poor countries. In India and much of Africa, local upstarts are taking on the World Service. Particularly in cities, satellite television and the internet have left audiences fragmented. Rival state-backed broadcasters such as Al Jazeera and Iran’s Press TV crowd in. The World Service will never again marshal the loyalty it enjoyed in its heyday, when it was the only source of plausible news for many people. But cuts have made its task more difficult still. In 2005 it provided services in 43 languages. That is down to 28. Chinese state journalists, by contrast, pump out propaganda in more than 60 tongues. In 2010 the Foreign Office cut its funding by 16%, leading to the departure of about a fifth of its staff. It has weathered this bloodletting better than many expected. The World Service’s audience grew last year, thanks to its Arabic and Persian TV stations (see chart). It has adapted to growing competition by creating more programming for local partners to air. Its online audience, though small, is picking up. The BBC pledges to be a benevolent guardian. Tony Hall, the corporation’s boss, talks about doubling the Beeb’s international audience to half a billion people. From April the World Service’s budget will rise by £6.5m to £245m ($406m). The licence fee might prove a more stable source of funding than government handouts, which are subject to three-yearly reviews. And the World Service’s reputation for independence should be bolstered now that it no longer relies on government cash. Digesting the World Service could also boost the BBC’s domestic broadcasting. Accounting rules have made it difficult for the organisations to share technology and staff. Gaining better access to the World Service’s reporters ought to lessen the temptation to fly “white men in suits” to hotspots, says Mark Galloway of International Broadcasting Trust, a charity. Yet assimilation risks stripping the World Service of its distinctiveness and thus its edge, says Richard Sambrook, an academic who used to run it. Others fret that—in common with many of the BBC’s international ventures—World Service radio schedules will increasingly feature ads. And the World Service’s budget might be slashed further. The licence fee has been frozen, yet it is still resented: on March 25th MPs voted in favour of a plan to decriminalise non-payment. As belts tighten, executives will find it hard to convince Britain’s fee-payers—who currently see little of the World Service’s output—that Hindi or Hausa services should be spared at the expense of domestic programming, says Nic Newman, another former staffer. MPs complain that the World Service’s boss will not sit on the BBC’s most senior management boards. In January the Foreign Affairs Committee warned that “a steady erosion” of its influence within the BBC could starve it of resources, damaging Britain’s interests in foreign lands. Cheap at the price That would be a mistake. The World Service looks cheap compared with the £600m the government spends on free TV licences for the elderly, and its budget is less than half that of BBC Two. Considering its reach and reputation, this is peanuts. From April the BBC will still have to seek the Foreign Secretary’s approval to close an existing language service or launch a new one. That grants the World Service some protection from wider BBC cuts, even if this odd separation of funding from decision-making seems unsustainable in the long run. But safely guarding its international network will also hand the corporation a bargaining chip when next negotiating its royal charter, in 2016. Though critics of the licence fee would happily smash the BBC’s soaps and game shows, only its fiercest opponents want foreign broadcasts further squashed. While the World Service remains a national treasure, it is also a valuable ransom (Economist via David Cole, OK, DXLD) ** U K [non]. DRM 7325 0600-0800 UT English BBC BAB drmmix has been ceased now (Wolfgang Büschel, March 15, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 21, via DXLD) was via AUSTRIA I understand that BBCWS DRM transmissions to Europe may cease from the start of the A14 schedule period at the end of March, but that there are unlikely to be any other substantial cuts to shortwave transmissions until next year (ed). (presumably Dave Kenny, March BDXC-UK Communication magazine / dxld via BC-DX via WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DXLD) BBC World Service in English has a new hour of DRM on 17820 scheduled on HFCC. It broadcasts from 0859 to 1000 every day from the BBC Asia Relay Station in Nakhon Sawan, Thailand. http://hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=A14&broadc=BBC (Stephen Cooper, March 26, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [and non]. Additional broadcast of BBC from March 22: 1500-1600 on 15310 NAK 250 kW / 300 deg to WeAs Farsi 1500-1600 on 17745 WOF 250 kW / 082 deg to WeAs Farsi (DX RE MIX NEWS #844 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov, March 26, 2014 via DXLD) I don't understand your e-mail. On Jan 22 still registered as from Feb 1st: 15310 1500-1600 40 NAK 250 300 010214-300314 Farsi THA BBC BAB and new entry from today March 22 17745 1500-1600 40 WOF 250 82 12 218 220314-300314 Fas G BBC BAB 17786 BBC Persian in A-14 9500 0230 0330 40 KIG 250 30 Fas RRW BBC BAB 7250 0230 0330 40 DHA 250 45 Fas UAE BBC BAB 9425 0230 0330 40 KCH 300 116 Fas MDA BBC BAB 11895 0230 0330 40 TAC 100 236 Fas UZB BBC BAB 9425 0330 0430 40 DHA 250 35 Fas UAE BBC BAB 11895 0330 0430 40 SLA 250 350 Fas OMA BBC BAB 13825 0330 0430 40 TAC 100 236 Fas UZB BBC BAB 6195 1500 1600 40 TAC 100 236 Fas UZB BBC BAB 15310 1500 1600 40 NAK 250 300 Fas THA BBC BAB 15310 1600 1700 40 NAK 250 300 Fas THA BBC BAB 6195 1600 1700 40 DHA 250 335 Fas UAE BBC BAB vy73 (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) This transmission/frequencies in Farsi till 21 March was registered as a wooden. Actually first broadcast was on 22 March. Very strong signal on both frequencies (Ivo Ivanov, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. 17780, March 20 at 1220, French report on Russie, fair signal, from BBCWS via Woofferton at 1200-1230. See also UNID 17745. 5975, March 24 at 0528, B-B-C- chimes, 0529 opening Hausa; new frequency? Had not noticed it before. Is // but an echo apart from 6135 and 7305 which are synchronized with each other. HFCC shows indeed 5975 only started 21 January, via Woofferton, while the other pair are ASCENSION (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. BBC Radio 4 LW Interruptions to Transmission --- My contacts tell me that the BBC Radio 4 transmitter at Droitwich on 198 kHz is scheduled for maintenance over the next three months, during which it will be off air for extended periods during the daytime between 10:00 to 17:30. The maintenance works are "to ensure the continued viability of the Radio 4 LW service". This will probably be more of a frustration for the DXer or listener than a blessing, but it will give us the chance to see how strongly the other two transmitters in the UK are at our respective locations (anon., March 25, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) Royal Yachting Assocation article on this from last October http://www.rya.org.uk/newsevents/news/Pages/EssentialtransmittermaintenancecouldaffectBBCShippingForecast.aspx (Mike Barraclough, ibid.) Viz.: Essential transmitter maintenance could affect BBC Shipping Forecast The BBC’s Droitwich transmitter will undergo essential maintenance during 2014. From approximately April to mid-August the 12:01 2014 shipping forecast will potentially be transmitted at a lower power or maybe inaudible on LW for that period. Other shipping forecasts will be unaffected. This is due to essential maintenance work taking place on the BBC’s Droitwich transmitter which will be shut down during the daytime from Monday to Friday. The Burghead and Westerglen LW transmitters will be unaffected. There may also be occasional dates outside this period when power is lowered or shut down. We will keep you updated when we receive further information. Image: Very large transmitter aerial - near junction of South Norwood Hill and Church Road London (via DXLD) A statement about the planned work at Droitwich is on the BBC website, 5 Live Medium Wave will also have periods of reduced power. http://www.bbc.co.uk/faqs/help-receiving/droitwich_planned_work (Mike Barraclough, March 26, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) Viz.: BBC Radio 4 LW & Radio 5 Live MW - Droitwich The BBC's Droitwich transmitter will be subject to daily shutdowns on BBC Radio 4 LW, between 10:00-17:30 [BST?], from Saturday 29 March until Summer 2014. There will also be periods of reduced power for BBC Radio 5 Live MW. This is to enable engineers to work safely, while refurbishing the long wave antenna, and the two masts which support it. You can use the reception postcode transmitter checker on the BBC Reception Advice website which will give more information on this work, on a day by day basis. http://www.bbc.co.uk/reception Radio 4 LW will continue to be available on Sky, Freesat and via BBC iPlayer Radio. Yesterday in Parliament and The Daily Service will continue to be transmitted normally each day. Radio 5 Live will be available on DAB - subject to a postcode prediction check at the BBC Reception Advice website. The station will also be available on Freeview, Sky, Freesat, Cable and via BBC iPlayer Radio. Droitwich is moving to a temporary mast in Kenilworth "it is possible, but by no means certain, that some people may experience some interference to fixed line phones due to the phone line acting like a receive antenna." http://www.kenilworthweeklynews.co.uk/news/local-news/interference-expected-from-giant-transmitter-1-5919481 (via Mike Barraclough, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ** U K. IT’S ALIVE! BBC RADIO 5 LIVE CELEBRATES ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY One of the station's former producers recalls how the network was written off prematurely --- Simon Calder Thursday, 20 March 2014 It’s a fair bet that no sooner had Eric Gill sculpted the finishing touches to the Broadcasting House façade a lifetime ago, than gossip began among the staff about the Corporation’s imminent demise due to inept decision-making by BBC bosses. But early in 1994, a particularly well-sourced rumour did the rounds at “BH”. A leading advertising agency, the story went, had been invited to pitch for promoting the pioneering 24-hour news-and-sport radio network, 5 Live. After studying the plans for the station, the firm politely declined to bid for the business. It had concluded that the BBC’s new venture was an impossible sell – a marketing disaster with no obvious audience or appeal, nor even memorable frequencies: 693 and 909kHz AM (and even, in Cardigan Bay, 990). . . http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/its-alive-bbc-radio-5-live-celebrates-its-20th-anniversary-9206016.html?printService=print (Brock Whaley, Ireland, for DXLD) ** U S A. 4755-USB, UT Tuesday March 25 at 0047, AF MARS net including AFF4AL, AFD4SE and AFE4TN. AFF4AL is the generic/billet call of AFA4JA, the State MARS Director (SMD) for Alabama; AFD4SE is the generic/billet call of AFA4BF in FL, Deputy Divison MARS Director (DDMD), Southeast Division; AFE4TN is the generic/blilet call for AFA4PM in TN, State Emergency Coordinator (SEC) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 4802-USB, March 22 at 0108, with lite CODAR QRM, Navy MARS net, NNN0GFE discussing a conference, and a ``digital transition`` as of 1 June, then to the NCS, NNN0SXN; one of the contacts is in Wisconsin. I had three logs last year at same hour on same frequency as Navy MARS Wisconsin. But I don`t find either call on the rosters I have. But Googling NNN0SXN leads to Richard Peter in Milwaukee; and NNN0GFE to Rush J. Williams (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. USA/HAWAII 10 MHz standard frequency broadcast. Male voice audio sounds rather distorted scratchy from WWV Colorado, but female outlet from WWVH Hawaii is smooth and ready. At 1115 UT March 23. 73 (Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 26110/FM, KMK282, KOVR-TV Sacramento CA studio relay; 1729- 1745+, 16-Mar; Usual chit-chat pgm (Good Day Sacramento); 61 in Sacramento going to a high of 81. Audio off during 3 minutes break at 1737+ with OC off/on. Excellent peaks with brief scratchy QSBs. Gone at 1933 check (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. Snippets from BBG Budget Request released 25 March 2014 "Younger generations, who make up the bulk of the population across the continent, increasingly access information via television, FM radio, and mobile devices rather than the shortwave radios used by their parents." "A precipitous decline in shortwave use among English speakers worldwide means that long-form programming once distributed on that platform has little reach or impact in 2013." "Without a shift in resources and strategy, audiences are likely to decline as users migrate away from shortwave radio to online platforms, particularly mobile phones and tablets." "VOA's long-standing role as a shortwave broadcaster remains at the forefront in markets where shortwave is still viable, including the Sahel, where Islamist extremists have carried out terrorist attacks in the past year, and in information-deprived societies such as North Korea and Tibet." "Satellite radio is now among the most cost-effective ways to reach many millions of satellite dish owners in China and elsewhere, at just a fraction of the cost of shortwave or medium wave broadcasting." "Capitalizing on current research on audience media habits, TSI will continue taking steps in FY 2014 to move away from less effective legacy distribution systems, such as shortwave and medium wave transmission, toward use of more modern technologies, where appropriate, to reach larger and younger audiences. Where shortwave remains important, TSI is building a more cost-effective transmission infrastructure to support continuing broadcast requirements." "RFA will also address religious and ethnic divides, and more programming will be targeted toward Burma's rural population, providing basic education in areas such as health, agriculture and basic human rights. Shortwave radio, which still dominates in rural areas where most of the population lives, is the best medium to present such programs." (via ambientgoody, March 26, dxldyg via DXLD) [comments to the Voice of Russia closing story, supra:] LYNN KELLY says: March 21, 2014 at 10:27 am More SW towers soon to fall in Russia and I am not even mildly surprised. Why? I have seen it to many times is why. When the VOA began sending PSK 31, MT 63 and the like for people to decode with a PC and free ham radio software, some people on this blog where happy to see it. I was not. I saw a VOA site seeking a reason to exist and that will not provide that reason to the powers that be to spend the huge sums required to keep the Greenville site in existence. The radiograms were and are a very ill omen for the continued existence of the Greenville SW site, a once huge cold war mission to millions reduced to fun radio signals to a handful in relative terms. Thus no surprise at all when the last tower and transmitter at Greenville goes to the scrapyard. No government will expend the huge sums required to keep a large SW site in existence just so a handful of people can play with a PC and ham software. Just the facts that no hyperbole will change nor will wishful thinking. LYNN KELLY says: March 21, 2014 at 10:34 am As for comments to the BBG about the radiograms, two points. First, the BBG will see those comments as more reason to close the Greenville site, second that is a moot consideration because the decision to scrap the Greenville site has already been taken BEFORE the fake poll on SW relevancy by the BBG. All congressman Jones did was delay the decision to scrap Greenville. His claim to have saved the site and the jobs in Pitt County was just the usual political hot air (swling.com blog via DXLD) VOA Radiogram, March 22-23 2014, will again be all MFSK32, but a bit more colorful with six images included with the text. Details: http://voaradiogram.net/post/80254963909/voa-radiogram-march-22-23-all-mfsk32-with-6-images (Kim Elliott, March 21, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Report ===> KBC + VoA - Radiogram 2014-03-22: http://www.rhci-online.de/VoA_Radiogram_2014-03-22.htm The use of csv formats for tabular overviews in the penultimate radiogram (KBC & VoA) is also a great way to save transmission capacity. For tables in plain text format always all gaps must be sent with. In csv: One structure/pattern-character replaced sometimes a multiple of space-characters (roger, Germany, March 23, ibid.) ** U S A. Re Greenville Site A - To be sold --- Details below: https://resourcecenter.secure.force.com/pbs/SurplusNotices There is a more detailed doc available on the website above. (Ian Baxter, NSW, March 15, shortwavesites yg via DXLD) This also bodes very ill for Greenville B --- the last IBB SW transmitters inside the USA (gh) I still think that as long as Radio Martí is around, Greenville B will remain on air, unless the IBB decides to purchase time on private U.S. SW stations, for which there is a long-ago precedent. Any long-term future for Greenville would require new transmitters and other updates but I've heard nothing about that (Steve Luce, Houston, Texas, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. 15620, March 22 at 1344, poor signal with Horn of Africa music. It`s VOA Somali, 100 kW, 10 degrees via BOTSWANA during this hour. QRM from the 15618 WEWN spur out of its much stronger, always-defective 15610 transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) VATICAN CITY. 6080, VOA via Santa Maria di Galeria, Mar 26 0330 - English service with report on Crimea, fair. 73, (Brandon Jordan, http://www.swldx.us Fayette County, TN EM55gc, WinRadio G33DDC, WinRadio G313-e, RFSpace SDR-IQ, Icom R75, Eton E1, DX Engineering NCC-1 Phased Dual Active Verticals, Array Solutions AS-SAL-30 Shared Apex Loop, Wellbrook FLG100 Double KAZ Loop (21'×60'), dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) VOICE OF AMERICA'S MUSIC TIME IN AFRICA. Para quem gosta de música folclórica da Africa, o programa Music time in Africa da Voz da América é único! Transmitido pela The Voice of America desde 1965, inicialmente pelas ondas curtas, e agora também pela web. A alguns anos atrás eu tive o prazer de visitar a The Voice of America em Washington DC, USA e, entre vários estúdios que estive me foi possível conhecer o estúdio de programas em inglês para Africa e, nele estava o estúdio do criador do programa Music Time in Africa, Mr. Leo Sarkisian. Fui por ele muito bem recebido e pudemos conversar sobre o programa, foi uma experiência única. Tenho até hoje alguns rolos de fita com música Africana que ele me presentou! Music time em Africa pelas ondas curtas vai ao ar aos sábados e domingos, via serviço em ingles da VOA para Africa e também se pode ouvir direto pela internet. Programação em ondas curtas para Africa da VOA http://www.voanews.com/info/frequencies_and_schedules/2218.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-IIjyWhg4k https://www.facebook.com/MusicTimeInAfrica WEB SITE DO PROGRAMA MUSIC TIME IN AFRICA - COM OS PROGRAMAS GRAVADOS PARA SE OUVIR http://www.voanews.com/archive/music-time-in-africa/latest/672/1456.html http://tunein.com/radio/Music-Time-in-Africa-p51788/ ENTREVISTA COM LÉO SARKISIAN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw_hPAtbJkY http://www.pri.org/stories/2012-12-27/music-time-africa-founder-leo-sarkisian-retires Abração, 73's! (Wilson Siqueira, Jacareí, SP, 21 March, radioescutas yg via DXLD) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1713 monitoring: confirmed first broadcast on WRMI 9955, Thursday March 20 at 1230:03 following WRMI ID by gh, which followed R. Prague fill music. Atop lite pulse jamming. Recheck at 1250-1259, I don`t hear any overlap between WRMI-10 and WRMI-11, which may have switched earlier today. 1259 `Scoreboard` is back to including scores. Further WOR airings: Thursday 2101 on WTWW-1, 9475 UT Friday 0326v on WWRB, 3195 [we hope: missing last two weeks] Saturday 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB Saturday 2330 on WTWW-2, 9930 [we hope: off the air last week] UT Sunday 0030 on WRMI-14, 9495 UT Monday 0300v on Area 51 via WBCQ, 5110v-CUSB Tuesday 1100 on WRMI-10, 9955 Wednesday 1300 on WRMI-11, 9955 UT Thursday 0330 on WRMI-10, 9955 [or maybe new 1714] Full schedule including many webcasts, AM, FM, satellite: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html WORLD OF RADIO 1713 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-1, 9475, from 2100:55 Thursday March 20. Also confirmed on WWRB, 3195, UT Friday March 21 from 0328, following the preacher who sounds like he is having some kind of attack every few seconds. Resumed after missing the past two weeks. Monitoring also on the WWRB webcast, which was very low-level, but modulation OK on 3195. Next: Saturday 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB Saturday 2330v on WTWW-2, 9930 (we hope; has been off air a lot including last week) UT Sunday 0030 on WRMI-14, 9495 UT Sunday 0401 on WTWW-1, 5830 UT Monday 0300v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; etc. WORLD OF RADIO 1713 monitoring: missed again March 22 the presumed Saturday 2330 airing on WTWW-2 since 9930 is off the air (and so is 5085 after 0000); however confirmed on WRMI-14, UT Sunday March 23 at 0030. Hope it aired next at 0401 UT Sunday on WTWW-1 5830 which I missed confirming. Next: UT Monday 0300v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v- CUSB; Tuesday 1100 & Wednesday 1300 on WRMI 9955; Wednesday 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB. WORLD OF RADIO 1713 monitoring: confirmed on Area 51 via WBCQ, 5110v- CUSB, UT Monday March 24 at 0300, also on webcast. Next: Tuesday 1100, Wednesday 1300, Thursday 0330 on WRMI 9955; Wednesday 0730 & 1530 on HLR 7265-CUSB. WORLD OF RADIO 1713 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday March 26 at 1300, upcut after gh ID, on WRMI 9955. WORLD OF RADIO 1714 monitoring: confirmed first airing UT Thursday March 27 at 0330 on WRMI 9955, sufficient and atop the pulse jamming. Next: Thu 1230 on WRMI 9955 Thu 2101 on WTWW 9475 UT Fri 0327v on WWRB 5050 [and/or 3195, but neither on 24 h earlier] Sat 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Sat 2330 on WTWW 9930 [we hope: missed last 3 weeks!] UT Sun 0401 on WTWW 5830 UT Mon 0300v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB, etc. Tue 1100 on WRMI 9955 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5050, March 24 at 0232, WWRB has made its spring move from 3195, YL preacher in progress, VG signal. Also on 5050-AM, March 25 at 0050. This should also apply to WORLD OF RADIO, UT Fridays at 0328v, but just in case, check both for a while (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9955, Thursday March 20 at 1142, WRMI atop pulse jamming as `Viva Miami` this week is ending in Spanish, Thaïs & Jeff in mailbag segment. 7570, March 25 at 0056, WRMI Brother Scare channel is open carrier / dead air. At 0120 I notice that all these WRMI frequencies are off the air: 5850 leaving some weak ute noise, Denmark? 7455 uncovering the constant RTTY; 7570; 9955; and 11565. Major power failure at Okeechobee, or major maintenance? 0435 check, back on the air at least are 5850, 7455, 7570, 9955 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Al momento 0010 por los 11165 kHz, Brother Stair; nueva frecuencia o error de transmisión?? Debe ser la emisión desde WRMI (YFR) que debería salir por los 11565, según este horario publicado por Glenn Hauser en el mas reciente DXLD 0000-0100 11565 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg BRAS English Brother Stair 0000-0100 13695 YFR 100 kW / 151 deg NSAm English Brother Stair Buenos DX (Rafael Rodríguez R., UT March 26, condiglista yg via DXLD) ** U S A. 5110-CUSB, March 22 at 0131, WBCQ ID and Area-51-like liners, presumably following `Allan Weiner Worldwide` which now starts at 0000 UT Saturdays and may last up to a sesquihour. Since Brother Scare departed 5110, Area 51 had remained on Sat and Sun evenings only, but now it`s also back on Fridays = UT Saturdays. The A51 website has also been redesigned: http://www.worldmicroscope.com It shows A51 schedule this weekend March 21-23: UT Sat 0000-0400 on 5110; Sat 2300-0400 Sun on 5110 AND 7490; Sun 2300-0400 Mon on 5110. UT Sat 0130 it was the `Lost Discs Radio Show #32` for an hour. WORLD OF RADIO remains UT Mondays 0300, so we still have no broadcasts on Friday evenings. Also the previous week`s A51 sked for March 14-16 said ``Live broadcasts from the SWL Winterfest will happen randomly this weekend!`` The first we had heard of this with no advance publicity and no details; too bad. 7490-, March 22 at 0134, Brother Scare via WBCQ; I notice that this frequency has drifted off again, approx. 7489.85. 5110v-CUSB, March 25 at 0106, WBCQ with `Allan Weiner Worldwide`, this time the most recent one from March 21, the-year-of-our-lord-2014, first day of spring, still plenty snowy in Monticello, but 80 degrees from Florida where Allan says he is running the entire operation. The WBCQ schedule for 5110 http://schedule.wbcq.com/main.php?fn=sked&freq=5110 still doesn`t show *any* broadcasts on weekdays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5085, March 22 at 0548, WTWW-2 is off; and so is day frequency 9930 whenever checked later on March 22, including when WORLD OF RADIO should have aired at 2330 Saturday. But at 0558 check March 23, 5085 is back on with BS. 5830, March 22 at 0550, WTWW-1 is on but modulation suppressed, audible at peaks only and unreadable talk; wiggle that patchcord? OK at next check 1200. 9475, March 23 after 0000 UT, still on day frequency instead of 5830, supposedly switching at 0000. 5085, UT Monday March 24 at 0233 on WTWW-2, Ted Randall is doing his Sunday evening country-music request show, start and end times unknown. 24 hours earlier it was off the air for WORLD OF RADIO, Amateur Radio Newsline, etc. 5830 & 5085 night frequencies are still on March 24 at 1257, but at 1304 both have switched to day frequencies 9475 & 9930 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9265, UT Monday March 24 at 0237 I noticed that WINB is off the air already. Seems a bit early; program schedule at http://www.winb.com/schedule.htm was updated March 2, a week before DST began, but not since; thus all the time conversions from ET to UT are wrong, which are now 4 hours apart instead of 5. For Sunday evenings, the final program listed, appropriately, is `End Times Coming` at 10:30 pm ET / 0330 UT, which should now be 0230 --- but less than 7 minutes long? I think not (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. ¡Frecuencia Al Día! Al Aire!!! Escúchanos ahora "Nuevo Horario" lunes y viernes a las 1500 UT en: KVOH, 17775 kHz. Tunein: http://tunein.com/radio/KVOH---Voice-of-Hope-s213093/ 73 (Dino Bloise, March 24, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) 17775, March 25 at 1350 UT, KVOH is in well, DJ giving time check of ``10 para las 11 en el Pacífico``!! Is he looking at the wrong clock on the old studio wall? Or is it really not live? PDT is 6:50 am, and 10:50 am would be ADT, or, say, Argentina (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi, Glenn. As shown on the program schedule on our website, Lorenzo Martínez is live in the studio for two hours every day, from 1700 to 1900 UT. But, the first hour (1300-1355), and other times when he may appear on the schedule, are not live. They are repeats of his programs taken from the last few weeks. Schedule: http://kvoh.net/wp-content/uploads/KVOH-Program-Grid-English.pdf (Ray Robinson, KVOH Operations Manager, DX LISTENING DIGEST) OK; then it`s inadvisable to include timechex (gh, DXLD) ** USA [non log]. 7506.57, WRNO not heard March 26 at 0224 and subsequent checking (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldy via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 11870, March 26 at 0552, WEWN Spanish is just barely modulated, while the whine continues; 11520 English with OK modulation. 12050, March 26 at 2049, WEWN Spanish with suppressed modulation, occasional surges; like somewhere in the audio chain, stereo channels are out of phase in mixdown to mono; unusable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Hi Glenn, In a letter received from Dr. E. C. Fulcher, Jr., Global Shortwave Club, P. O. Box 973, Abingdon, MD 21009, the latest shortwave program schedule as of 17 March 2014: Monday through Friday via WWCR at 50 [sic!] kW Transmitter 4 on 5890 kHz at 0200 UT. Sunday via WWCR at 50 kW [sic!] Transmitter 2 on 12160 kHz, replacing 9350 kHz at 2000 UT. The letter also states: "Every GSWC member represents a town and/or state and your frequency reports are vitally important to our outreach. We want to thank those who have taken the time to mail us their reception details and look forward to all QSL's." Further details available at http://www.truthhouse.org 73's, (Ed Insinger, Summit, NJ, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. 17670, March 22 at 1350, Vietnamese folk music, not recognizably Christian, but doubtless Seventh-Day-Adventist theology during much of the hour, as it`s AWR, 250 kW, 60 degrees via MADAGASCAR, but still penetrating to hear way off-target (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Silent KEWI 690 profiled in latest Arkansas Business (online edition).Wednesday, March 26, 2014 7:10 AM Mark as Unread Flag this messageFrom: "Fritze Prentice" To: "Glenn Hauser" Full Headers Printable ViewA recent history of KEWI 690 Benton AR and the station's failure to be profitable and going silent earlier this year. While the article mentions that KEWI is the only radio station in Saline County (AR), it fails to mention that KEWI is the only radio station programmed and currently having studios in Saline County (AR). KHKN 106.7 is licensed to Benton (owned by Signal Media and broadcasting from a Little Rock studio), and KKSP 93.3 is licensed to another Saline County town: Bryant (also broadcasting from a studio in the Little Rock area and not targeting a hyper-local audience in Benton/Saline County). http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article/97756/what-happened-to-saline-countys-only-radio-station-kewi-am?page=all (Fritze H. Prentice, Jr, KC5KBV, Star City AR EM43aw twitter.com/fritzehp (@fritzehp) facebook.com/fritze.prentice March 26, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 730, March 26 at 1319 UT, ``Full Service Radio, KLOE`` IDs twice during regional newscast from Goodland KS in the NW corner. Seldom heard in the clear like this, except some splat from 740 KRMG Tulsa; then at 1320 UT, Korean QRM fades up from KKDA in The Metroplex (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 750, March 20 at 1210 UT, YL in Ukrainian with news about – Ukraine and Krim, what else; occasional music liners. Has the frequency to itself for the moment, no KMMJ (or KSEO, ha2). Of course it`s WNDZ, Portage IN (Chicago market). Its ratings must be way up lately, but probably not so much in Oklahoma (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. The nearby city of Murray, Utah runs NOAA Weather Radio (from Salt Lake City) on a low-powered transmitter on 760 AM, which is a bit unusual. Just a quick note to let everyone know that my midwinter move to the Salt Lake City, Utah area was a success (Garrett Donley, MARE Tipsheet March 21 via DXLD) ** U S A. 1120, March 23 at 0121 UT, Mexican music vs KMOX; the music loops southward, partial Spanish ID as ``11-20 AM`` so apparently KTXW Manor TX (Austin market), rather than KEOR Catoosa OK (Tulsa market), daytimer which ought to be off now. But then a stronger open carrier comes on atop KTXW, making SAH of about 4.5 Hz in KMOX null, and this appears to emanate from KEOR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Re [dxld] KCKM 1330 TX DX test imminent at 0501 UT March 22: [selected reports, among many others] Hurray! Easy to hear sweeps, then "busy signal", then sweeps at 0504:30 UT!!! (Walt in Victoria, BC Salmaniw, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi all, Hearing KCKM DX Test on 1330 from a remote receiver in San Antonio as at 0526 UT. 73 (Tony VK2IC Magon, NSW, ibid.) 1330, KCKM, TX, Monahans 2200 (Local) Mountain Standard. Sweep tones, one second in length, submarine shipfire alarm, Price is Right theme, phone off the hook sound. Excellent reception in El Mirage, AZ. Deep fade at 2222, back up with more sound effects. I also fired up little RadioShack DX-375, the test could be heard loud/clear on that radio also (Rick Barton, El Mirage AZ; Hammarlund HQ-180A, Grundig Satellit 750, ibid.) KCKM is reaching Sweden right now! I'm hearing clear sweep tones, morse code and the telephone sounds right now at 0531 UT on a remote Perseus SDR located way up in Haparanda, Sweden. Amazing! I made some video captures of the reception that I can post to Youtube if anyone is interested. The test also heard well here on my own Perseus in Michigan. New station here, thanks to all involved. 73, (Tim Tromp, West Michigan, ABDX via DXLD) Video capture I made of the remote receiver located in Sweden during reception of the KCKM DX test. Credit goes to the receiver's owner, SM2GHI. Please feel welcome to forward this to the station (or SM2GHI for that matter): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myLHSyZ0MVs 73, (Tim Tromp, Muskegon, West Michigan, WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DXLD) It's excellent and nice if you've never seen a Perseus screen. On Facebook Tim recommended listening with headphones. That made a big difference for me. Sent from my iPhone (Dennis Gibson, ibid.) KCKM-1330 Monahans, TX DX test made it all the way out here to Bowie, MD, 1850 miles from KCKM, with various code ID's, sweep tones, distinctive music, and alarm sounds, came in surprisingly well towards end of test. Test was heard nation-wide apparently and also in Canada. Used to be a regular in CO for me when I lived there and in NM when I lived there as well. Receiver used was a C-Crane with no other external antennas (Bob Wien, Bowie, MD, ibid.) KCKM 1330 DX test was logged here in Long Beach CA under local KWKW on my G.E. Superadio portable, so truly a coast to coast success! Much appreciation to those who arranged this one. The sweep tones and sound effects really cut through the mess. Maybe they could be convinced to run a second DX test in April!!?? (Mike Sanburn, ibid.) 1330, March 22 for the DX test from KCKM, Monahans TX: I expect to hear it easily as I do when on 12 kW non-direxional day pattern around sunrise. 0500 UT ID as ``the west Texas powerhouse, KCKM``, sung ID and some music, nothing about a DX test yet. It`s already atop my nearest, KNSS Wichita, whose ID I hear at 0503 UT; then at 0504 UT sweep tones start from KCKM. I monitor and record the entire semihour, as KCKM remains atop with only a few brief fades. Consists of alternating sweep tones, always from low pitch to high, busy signals [rather: ``phone off the hook`` as Rick Dau mentioned], fire-alarm siren & bells; Morse code IDs and other brief DX messages I am yet to copy in detail until I recheck the digital recording; ``on the radio`` jingles; musical piece apparently a TV theme I don`t quite recognize. I logged the repeated times for all these to the minute; there were *no* voice IDs during the test; why not? As the DX test started late, it also ended a bit late, 0533 UT back to another voice ID like at 0500 UT and power drops as music resumes with ``West Virginia``. Tnx to Bob Souza for running this test, after offering to do so in an unsolicited email I received after logging it last April, and then arranged by Paul Walker, who also supplied the test content. I understand it got out very well across the continent and even to Europe. KCKM did not have a QSL card last year, so I will be reporting for one offered now. Turning on the radio again at 1320 UT March 22, still tuned to 1330, there`s KCKM atop on regular schedule, discussion of when hereford cattle were introduced to Albany, Shackelford County, which is not around Monahans but northeast of Abilene; then about Robert E Lee at some camp around the Civil War. Program is `Cowboy Corner`, probably syndicated; plug for Western Heritage Awards, April 12 at the Cowboy Museum in OKC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) The TV theme you weren't able to ID is "The Price Is Right" and the fire alarm sirens and bells was the clangs and whoops from The Price Is Right when there's a big winner. As to why there was no voice announcements --- just because, really. They would've wasted the precious 30 minutes we had and wouldn't have cut through the mud as well as morse code/sweeptones or the Price is Right theme song did (Paul Walker, NRC-AM via DXLD) Hi Bob, Many tnx for running the DX test, which I gather has been quite successful. I`m glad that our contact eventually led to it. Also, I wonder if you have started C-QUAM stereo as you said you planned to last year. And could you clarify whether the antenna is 5/8 or halfwave? There has been contradictory info. Thanks, (Glenn Hauser, to Bob Souza, via DXLD) Glen[n], The C-Quam equipment is installed but not operational yet. My tower is just a foot or two above 1/2 wave, maybe 181 degrees but I just round it down when people ask. So far 37 reports, 33 have MP3 audio attached (Bob Souza, KCKM, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Due to "operator error" (I screwed up!), I didn't record 1330 for the KCKM test. They are a relatively common morning visitor here. On the way to work this morning found them on top of 1330, 0820-0830 CDT 22MAR14 with "Cowboy Corner" program, ad for "Cowboy and Indian" magazine and ads for businesses in west Texas (Pecos, Midland and Monahans), nice jingle call letter ID at 0830 CDT. Nice to hear them on their regular schedule in place of the DX test. I'm really glad they were heard so widely on the test. Thanks to all that worked to get the DX test on the air last nite (Bruce Winkelman, Tulsa, OK, Ford Focus radio (no HD/IBOC option from Ford--I asked), ABDX via DXLD) Heard amazingly well with sweep tones, code, telephone busy signal and whoop-whoop-whoop tones. The sweeps were actually topping WYRD's basketball game at 1:15 and 1:25 EDT. Far West Texas is super-rare here; thanks to Paul and everyone else who made the test possible! (Steve Francis, Alcoa, Tennessee, March 22, NRC-AM via DXLD) Checking my timed recording, found nothing at first, but then was relieved to hear sweeps starting just past 0104 EDT. A longer period of sweeps was heard at 0116-0117, and then finally some readable code starting at 0125:42 [EDT], with the text "MONAHANS TEXAS" sandwiched between sweeps. At 1750 miles on a crowded regional channel (dominants here were WFNN and WSPQ), KCKM would certainly never be logged here when running normal programming, so many thanks to all concerned for arranging this test! (Barry McLarnon, Ottawa, ON, ibid.) Sweep tones, code, and "off-hook" busy signal made it in under constant Greenville pest, WYRD at their basketball game. New one here for me as well. As Steve said, West Texas falls into a tough spot with skip zones, so this one is much appreciated! Congrats to all involved in the test. It was heard coast to coast, so a very successful test. -- 73, (Les Rayburn, N1LF, Maylene, AL EM63, ibid.) The test started a couple minutes late, but when there was morse code, sweeps and alarm sounds, those all did well - the sweeps the best by far. I taped the first 20-somethiongt minutes. I had the web stream running for a short while and checked the two in tandem for the fun of it. Web reception was even better ;-) I looked Monahans up on a map thinking it would be in the DFW area, and I was suprised to see it's well past Odessa, near NM. I know it's higher powered than most regionals, but to hear it here at 1588 miles makes my day. A big thank you to Paul Walker, who arranged the test and put together the test material, and to Bob Souza at the station, for running it (Saul Chernos, Burnt River ON, ibid.) Last night's very successful KCKM test only reinforces the importance of using the proper test material programming. In the early 2000's, we need a double blind experiment to determine what material worked the best in cutting through the noise of a cluttered channel at various signal levels. Hands down, the clear winner were the sweep tones used in last night's KCKM test. These were followed by the "Off-Hook telephone sound", "slide whistle", and finally Morse Code at around 900-1000 Hz. This was true at all signal levels, but especially at the weakest levels. Some material that did not test well: 1.) Christmas Music 2.) Voice announcements with either male or female voice. 3.) Marching Band Music 4.) Classical Music 5.) Sound effects like roosters, bells, etc. One musical source that scored higher than any other were TV show theme songs. I think this is due to the fact that they stand out from other clutter, and are recognizable patterns to our brains. Some stations just are not willing to run only "Sweeps & Codes" for extended times, and TV theme songs make a good alternative. But to the extent possible, a scientific test and lots of on-air experience proves that nothing beats sweep tones if a station wants to be heard. While I've retired from CPC duties for now, I'm happy to provide the material for DX Tests. In fact you can download them yourself at: http://www.highnoonfilmclient.com/AMCPC/ The sweep tones and other sound effects are in a ZIP file, and the WinMorse software (Freeware) is also mirrored here. It makes it easy to convert text files into Morse Code .WAV files. Follow Paul Walker's example, and ask your local station about doing a test today. -- 73, (Les Rayburn, N1LF, Maylene, AL, EM63, Member NRC, IRCA, & Medium Wave DX Circle, Former CPC Chairman for NRC/IRCA, ABDX via DXLD) I concur with Les' observations about what works best as content in a DX test. I wowuld add that I still think there should be music and other of the usual content - or unusual content. It's more interesting when tests vary in content, and also there's some element of challenge. I look forward to going through my recording to see if I've caught any of the music or any voice announcements, because catching this more difficult content would be neat in and of itself. I think it's awesome the test made it to Europe. This is a perfect example of a test done perfectly. Lots of lead notice time. It came off exactly as planned. And the content was meticulously and thoughtfully put together. Paul Walker and Bob Souza get an A++ IMO. The only thing that sent a very slight jitter down my spine was that it seemed to start a couple of minutes late. That's when I went online to the webstream, and when I heard music my heart sank for a second. But within a moment or two the sweeps were happening. In retrospect, I really like this - I don't think a test should completely come off as expected or predicted by DXers. Each should have its own unique fingerprint, because it's more fun and challenging that way and because it makes it more QSLable and verifiable. So the late start by a couple minutes was IMP a strong positive. Yeah, I know any one of us can tune in on the web and hear it, if there's a live stream. But it's harder for the tiny few in our midst who report what they haven't legitimately heard to falsify an actual distant recording (though of course I can think of multiple ways it can be done by someone so determined). I'm still reeling from how far this one got out (Saul Chernos, Burnt River ON, NRC-AM via DXLD) ** U S A. We were previously told this test had been rescheduled for UT Saturday March 22 at 03-04 UT, so announced as such on WORLD OF RADIO. But now --- (gh) If you heard the DX Test from WWXL-1450 intially scheduled for last Saturday, March 15th, you DID NOT hear it. However, good news: Regrets for the late notice, but the schedule of station personnel is very fluid at the moment, so we take what we can get (and are EXTREMELY grateful for the re-schedule of this test). For TONIGHT/early tomorrow morning: March 21, 2014. 12:00-1:00 PM EDT (0500-0600 UTC) [sic: surely means 12-1 AM EDT = 04-05 UT -gh]. WWXL-1450, Manchester, Kentucky will conduct a DX test at a power of 1,000 watts non-directional. The test will include Morse code, other sound effects and voice announcements. Reception reports may be sent by email to jodypritchie@gmail.com. Please include a mp3 audio clip with your e-mail submission. Snail mail reports may be sent to: WWXL-AM Radio, ATTN: Jody Ritchie - Chief Engineer, P.O. Box 449, Manchester, KY 40962-0449. Many thanks to Jody Ritchie for continuing this great series of DX tests! (Arranged by J. D. Stephens, 0105 UT March 21, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Kevin Redding, ABDX, also received from the tester: WWXL am 1450 will be doing a DX test tonight at midnight till around 1 am eastern time. Since this past Saturday night the test did not get to run. Test will consist of morse code and voice. please send all mp3 audio files to jodypritchie@gmail.com. all regular mail is wwxl, att jody ritchie, 103 3RD street Manchester ,ky 40962-1119 - Jody Ritchie (via gh, 0157 UT March 21, dxldyg via DXLD) Confusion reigns about the DX test from WWXL 1450 Manchester KY. It was a no-show at original time, UT Sunday March 16 at 0300, because the engineer`s car broke down on the way to the station. He then said it would run one week later, UT Sunday March 23 at 0300. But early UT Friday March 21, we got word from arranger J. D. Stephens that on very short notice the test would run ``tonight`` at midnight which should equal 0400-0500 UT. So I tried it then for the first half-hour, but nothing definite heard, monitoring part of the time on 1450, and partly on 1452-USB for sweep tones or code IDs. Huge jumble in this graveyard, with the only thing recognized somestation playing ``Jump`` at 0411. A couple times there could have been code IDs at imaginary level. DXers closer to KY also report a no-show again, so perhaps it will still be appearing March 23 at 0300. There was also confusion about time and day, due to incorrect conversions between EDT and UT, which are now 4! Hours apart (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) On other hand, sat on 1450 for 2 hours here, no sign of anything from WWXL test if it was even on, gave up at 1 AM EDT to try for KCKM. Perhaps WWXL test will indeed be Saturday night/Sunday morning, wasn't apparently on Friday night/Saturday morning. Rcvr used was a C-Crane with no other external antennas (Bob Wien, Bowie, MD, March 21, ABDX via DXLD) Don't know what to say about the WWXL-1450 test except that during a chat session late yesterday (Thursday) to try and reschedule the test I was told it would run "tonight" . Just reviewed my chat log from yesterday and it does indeed say it was going to run last night. Anyway, all are wise to try for it TONIGHT/TOMORROW MORNING between midnight and 1 AM Eastern, or 0400-0500 UTC for WWXL-1450 DX tests. Judging from the posts on the DX lists, looks like several are ready. Good luck and 73, (J. D. Stephens, March 21, ABDX via DXLD) WWXL try again --- Please remember, I'm only the messenger. From the WWXL station CE. I asked him if the test happened on March 21st. "no just before the DX test was to start the station audio mixer did stop working. i have it repaired so the DX test will be om Sunday morning from 12 a till 1 a.the test will be of Morse code and voice. Thank you in advance. If you do hear the station please try to record and send me a mp3 of it. Take care and GOD Bless you. A big ol 73." I replied, "OK. Will do. That's Sunday March 30, 2014 midnight until 1AM EDT." His reply, "yes.." So, the WWXL test is Sunday, March 30, 2014 midnight until 1 AM EDT (that's March 30, 2014 0400-0500 UT). 73, (Kraig, KG4LAC, Krist, VA, March 24, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Strange Jody emailed me to say it would be 11 pm Eastern Saturday March 29! Best wishes and 73's (Barry :-) Davies, Carlisle UK. Lat. 54.9795N Lon. 02.8745W, ABDX via WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DXLD) ** U S A. 1450, WLEC Sandusky OH (presumed); 2204-2209+, 19-Mar; News item about an increase in tobacco tax, "This will be a win for Ohio"; into nostalgia music; "The station that plays America's best music every day of the week." (Frodge-MI) 1450, WNBY Newberry MI; 2222, 16-Mar; Call ID before & after local ad string into C&W. On top for 4 minutes. MI #125; EWTN station on top before, maybe Fort Wayne IN. 2258, 18-Mar; Up suddenly covering NCAA game; "14-50 WNBY, Newberry's information leader" into ABC News. 1450, WPGG Atlantic City NJ; 2330, 17-Mar; Out of political call-in program to BoH ID, "WPGG 14-50 Talk Radio", "South Jersey Weather"; Fox News headlines. Main peaker for several minutes in the mix. NJ #8. 1450, WPSE Erie PA; 2259, 15-Mar; On top for 2+ minutes at ToH! Out of talk show to ToH "WPSE Erie" into Chariots of Fire theme. Eventually gave way to oldies station. I'm pretty sure ESPN WIBM Jackson MI was part of the mix. PA #62 (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. 1550, March 22 at 1330 UT, ad for Fairview Golfcourse, but no research needed, as then ID for ``the New ESPN Radio, St. Joseph``. What`s new about it? KESJ in MO as listed in the 2013 NRC AM Log (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1690, KYOK, Conroe TX, currently licensed on 1140 kHz with a CP to move to Katy TX, applies for STA to broadcast from a temporary site near Katy to establish ground conductivity, operating 0830-1630 CST with 5 kW on 1690 (NRC DX News via March NZDX Times via DXLD) With regular programming in addition to 1140? Experimental? (gh) ** U S A. 1700, March 20 at 1158 UT, I am paying close attention to this frequency following yesterday`s discovery of a new Mexican presumably in Mérida. At this time, KVNS is dominant with Hidalgo County items from ``Channel 5 News`` atop KKLF Tejano music. 1200 UT ``KVNS, Brownsville and the Rio Grande Valley, 1700``, into Fox sports (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1700, March 20 at 1158 UT, Tejano music from KKLF Richardson TX mixing with KVNS Brownsville news/sports; music plays right thru houtop, 1205 UT non-ID, ``By popular demand, Tejano returns to Dallas on Kick-1700``, right back to music. And at 1240 UT, ``Rockin` the Metroplex with a totally Tejano sound, Kick-1700``. Seems they run an English non-ID between every two or three songs which are always in Spanish. How bi-cultural! Does not believe in legal IDs? At 1241 UT beating against KBGG to the tune of 1.7 Hz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1700, March 20 at 1241 UT, traffic report ``on the 35``, i.e. KBGG Des Moines IA, since the other station on I-35, KKLF, is mixing with Mexican --- oops, Tejano if not Tejana music, at a SAH of 102 per minute = 1.7 Hz. 1243 UT, CBS Sports promo, which is the current net on KBGG (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. THE PIRATE OF COLLINGSWOOD: THE PREACHER, THE FCC AND RADIO FREE AMERICA The Rev. Carl McIntire, a fiery preacher from Collingswood who engaged in a protracted battle with the FCC over his conservative radio show, took his views to the airwaves aboard a ship off the coast of New Jersey in 1973. Ted Sherman/The Star-Ledger By Ted Sherman/The Star-Ledger on March 24, 2014 at 7:00 AM, updated March 25, 2014 at 7:28 AM The 135-foot former Navy minesweeper — a leaky, World War II-vintage vessel with myriad mechanical problems — sat anchored three miles off the coast of Cape May. A 100-foot radio mast had been rigged amidships of the wood-hulled craft and, as a broadcast engineer tried to power up the 10,000-watt transmitter, an antenna feed line began arcing, causing the oak deck to smolder. Pirate radio had come to New Jersey. "I really made a stand out there. I was standing up for freedom." In the fall of 1973, the Rev. Carl McIntire, a fiery conservative fundamentalist preacher from Collingswood, with a penchant for employing a bullhorn, and who thundered mightily against apostasy, Communism and the forces of Satan on Earth, stood on the deck of the good ship Columbus in steadfast defiance of the government’s long legal battle to silence him, preparing to launch what he called Radio Free America. . . [much more] http://www.nj.com/inside-jersey/index.ssf/2014/03/the_pirate_of_collingswood_the_preacher_the_fcc_and_radio_free_america.html (via Dennis Gibson, ABDX via DXLD) ** URUGUAY. Amigos, saludos desde Mar del Plata. Estoy escuchando bastante bien a CXA4, Radiodifusión Nacional del Uruguay en 6125 kHz y quisiera saber si hay alguna dirección en especial para confirmar ésta emisora. Hace muchos años que no la escuchaba y quería saber si alguno de Ustedes ha podido confirmar. Me refiero a una QSL real, nada de e- QSL ni nada por el estilo. Por supuesto que estaría mandando el correspondiente franqueo, pero tienen alguna dirección o algún QSL manager quizás? (Luis Paredes, LU2EMH, March 23, condiglista yg via DXLD) Escribe a lmoreira@montevideo.com.uy Él es quien hace el diseño sonoro del programa "Radioactividades". Me contó que estaban planeando la confección de tarjetas. Pero haz tu la solicitud expresa de tu interés (Horacio Nigro, Uruguay, ibid.) ** UZBEKISTAN. CVC Voice Asia will probably leave shortwave from March 30 --- I know that many stations are missing in the public version of HFCC. But CVC has never been lacking so far (Ivo Ivanov-BUL, March 20, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 21 via WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DXLD) Ivo, public file misses ALWAYS some few hundreds Asian and Australian entries like Radio Australia and others. Unfortunately WRN broking bookings contain only entries at ISS and SOF-Spaceline guys. WRN:: 6260 0000 0400 41N TAC 100 153 902 1234567 3003-251014 Hindi UZB CVC 6260 1400 2000 41N TAC 100 153 902 1234567 3003-251014 Hindi UZB CVC 9660 1100 1400 41N TAC 100 153 902 1234567 3003-251014 Hindi UZB CVC 9975 0100 0400 41N TAC 100 186 880 1234567 3003-251014 Hindi UZB CVC 13630 0400 1100 41N TAC 100 153 902 1234567 3003-251014 Hindi UZB CVC (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) ** VANUATU. VTBC has been absent from 3945 - but news from RNZI's Adrian Sainsbury on 17 March advises: "Last week repairs were carried out at Port Vila. VBTC is back on air on both SW frequencies running a power of 1kw. I can hear 3945 at fair signal and 7260 very weak. Cheers Adrian" (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai NZ - AOR7030+ and EWEs to North, Central & South America, dxldyg via DX WORLD OF RADIO 1714, LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Bryan, Thanks for your informative posting! March 18 on 3945 heard non-stop EZL pop songs from 1402 to 1454, but never heard any announcements (no ID). So tentatively Radio Vanuatu. Do they have an extended schedule now? Testing the newest repairs to their transmitter? Caution to others - During weekdays do not suggest checking on Vanuatu on 3945 till AFTER "RN2" (Japan) signs off at 1400. Their signal is just too strong for the weaker Vanuatu to cut through. Appreciate any feedback! (Ron Howard, California, dxldyg via DXLD) 3945, R. Vanuatu (presumed), 1401-1424, March 25. RN2 (Japan) had signed off, leaving Vanuatu in the clear, except for some ham QRM; playing non-stop EZL pop songs; no ID or announcements; another day of their extended schedule (24 hours?). My local sunrise was at 1404 (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, Etón E1, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM. 12000.000, Only test tone of exact 945 Hertz noted from Son Tay site at 1052-1056 UT March 19. Followed by an Opening music like the Vietnamese National Anthem from 1057-1059:57 UT. Strong S=9+15dB signal in remote unit downunder QL-AUS. VOV ID in Chinese lang at 1100:20 UT (Wolfgang Büschel, March 18/19, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 21 via DXLD) ** VIRGIN ISLANDS BRITISH. (ham), VP2V/SP9FIH, 18150-USB, 2332 21 March. One of several Polish hams operating from Anegada Island in late March. Working JA0RUG, JR7DXE among others (Dan Sheedy, Swami's Beach, CA, G5/6m X wire, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZANZIBAR. 6015.004, ZBC, Mar 26 0350 - Swahili talk, fair signal but best in LSB to avoid extremely powerful Albania signal on 6020. 73, (Brandon Jordan, http://www.swldx.us Fayette County, TN EM55gc, WinRadio G33DDC, WinRadio G313-e, RFSpace SDR-IQ, Icom R75, Eton E1 DX Engineering NCC-1 Phased Dual Active Verticals, Array Solutions AS- SAL-30 Shared Apex Loop, Wellbrook FLG100 Double KAZ Loop (21'×60'), dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Re: ``Trans-Atlantic carrier search, March 17 at 0131- 0135 UT: I`m mainly trying the new PL-880 on SW, but altho it can tune in 9 kHz steps on MW, detecting TA carriers is easier on the DX-398 with offset BFO, so back to it: 541, 891, 909, 1044, 1053, 1152, 1206, 1215, 1503, 1512, 1521. Especially strong is 1521, but still can`t peel off any Saudio next to 1520 KOKC it hets (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` Glenn, The frequency of "541" immediately struck me as odd, not being a multiple of 9 as all other TA/TP mediumwave stations use. Did you really mean 541 or did you mean 540 (or 531 or something else)? (Earl Higgins, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, NRC-AM via DXLD) Earl, You`re right, of course. Went back and checked my log, and 541 is what I wrote down. I don`t think it was 531. May have meant 549 (Algeria?). (Glenn Hauser, ibid.) UNIDENTIFIED. 3230, March 20 at 1237 and earlier, very poor signal with AM carrier, only one on 90m besides 3325 Indonesia and 3185 WWRB; but NO broadcasters are listed anywhen, anywhere on 3230; ute? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. About unid Chinese on 7530 at 2100-2130 UT. According to the Chinese DXer, the first half (15 min) is the program in Cantonese or Hakka, the last half is in standard Chinese. The signal seems to be from Taiwan. No station identification was given at all. Some Japanese DXers suggested the program of the last half seemed to be religious one (Takahito Akabayashi, Japan, dxld [sic] March 20 via BC-DX March 21 via WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DXLD) 7530, ??, 2107 March 21 heard Chinese-like prorgram which is not Mandarin. But after 2114 the language is clear as Mandarin. Mentions on the second half about Li She Guan, Russian. Still no ID. Open carrier after 2130 for 6 minutes, then sign off (Zacharias Liangas, Thessaloniki, Greece, March 26, WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 7615+ SSB, March 21 at 1415 as I tune in, paramilitary net mentioning ``caps`` (Civil Air Patrol?) in several states including LA, KY, FL, and then ``the net is moving to NRD``, fonetikally. Geez, gotta keep the frequencies secret even tho the contacts are in the open once you find them. May have been more like 7615.5, as I didn`t have time to pinpoint it. No, 7615.0 USB was logged with Louisiana CAP et al. by Jack Metcalfe, KY, in UDXF yg, Jan 27, 2014 at 2007 UT when they were also about to QSY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 7633.5-USB, March 25 at 0058, phone patch being arranged on behalf of Bryan, 319 area code? Intermittent 2-way, did not catch any calls. At 0102 the call goes thru but reaches an automated message system, so Bryan leaves a pro-forma greeting from his plane with engine noise. Seems I have one previous log on this frequency in December, 2008, DXLD 8-125, identified as AF MARS. Don`t hear phone- patches on SW much any more by MARS or hams (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 12160-12195, peaking around 12170, March 26 at 1305, extremely distorted FMy spurblob, seems oriental language, not // CNR1. Nothing is scheduled above 12160 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. UNKNOWN SITE, 15721 kHz, station was around 0400-0415 UT March 21 on air. Came across of a Russian language 5-digit number station on JPN and AUS remote posts, obviously from the Asian Far East, not Moscow or WeEUR area. 0400-0403 UT string of 4-1-0, cetyre odin nol heard over and over again, read by male voice. S=7 signal in Tokyo Japan. At 0404 UT started with 5 digit groups of espionage data (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews March 21, dxldyg via DXLD) UNIDENTIFIED. 17745: report I sent to the address mentioned: ``As requested in announcement, I am reporting the test transmission I heard today on 17745 kHz. I had just tuned in at 1221 UT March 20 for some music, with a good signal, one of the best on the band, little fading and no interference about 10 minutes before sunrise here, when the music stopped and ``You are listening to a test. Please e-mail your report to transmissiontest@gmail.com`` --- then a few notes of the standard Babcock music loop before cut off the air abruptly at 1221:40. Since you ask for reports, I wonder if you would also verify by QSL card or letter. I am also very curious about such tests, as I have heard several before, showing up on unexpected frequencies. What is the purpose? Was this one from Woofferton, and are other sites ever tested in this way? I and other listeners really like the ``Babcock music``. Could you tell us something about it? Was it specially composed for this purpose, or from some previously existing piece of music? What are the instruments? Does it have a name? I was listening on my old FRG-7 receiver, with long-wire antenna of about 100 feet running east-west. Looking forward to your e-mail response, and if you wish to send me a QSL by postal mail, the address is: Glenn Hauser P O Box 1684 Enid OK 73702-1684 USA`` I got an *immediate* autoreply, even before the cc to myself appeared: ``Hello and thank you for taking the time to email us your transmission test report. We will send you a QSL shortly`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Hi Glenn, I had the same auto-reply last year (28 July 2013) for e- mail report with short mp3 clip attached. Still waiting for the QSL confirmation (Alan Roe, Teddington, UK, March 20, dxldyg via DXLD) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ACKNOWLEDGED ON WORLD OF RADIO 1714: Dear Glenn, a long-overdue expression of appreciation for continuing to help us enjoy an ever-changing hobby. Happy Spring (and an early happy birthday)! Very 73 de (Anne Fanelli, Elma NY, with an equinoctial donation check to PO Box 1684, Enid OK 73702) TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED FUTURELY: Dear Mr Hauser: Enclosed please find a contribution via money order. Thank you for being one of the few outlets left that provide timely information to the shortwave listening community! Your weekly World of Radio program along with DX Listening Digest provide a wealth of information for a hobby that apparently some believe to be dead. While the internet has some great tools to assist with the shortwave hobby, nothing can compare to tuning around the radio dial. Sincerely (Robert W. Gruska, Glendale NY) Greetings! With continuing appreciation for WOR! Peace & health! (Jim Gershman, K1JJJ, with a contribution via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to woradio at yahoo.com) Thanks to Kevin Crouch, Northridge CA, for a check in the mail to P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 (gh) Thanks to John Carson, OKC, for gift of a Superadio III modified for SCA/SCS (gh, DXLD) PUBLICATIONS ++++++++++++ LISTA DE PAÍSES QUE ABANDONARON LA ONDA MEDIA No sólo la Onda Corta deja de tener interés para ciertas entidades.... Bruce Conti, DXer de EE.UU. ha publicado una página con una compilación de países que han abandonado la Onda Media. Vean el enlace: http://www.bamlog.com/darkcountries.htm Working on a new project to list MW radio countries no longer active on the AM broadcast band, primarily listing the last known station(s) to broadcast from each country including date(s) and details of closure. It's now available online at http://www.bamlog.com/darkcountries.htm (Conti, USA, en DX'ing - Sponsored by the National Radio Club, Facebook, via Nigro, Uruguay, mar 20, condiglista yg via DXLD) CQ AND CQ PLUS SITUATION I had received the February issue of CQ Plus back on February 4. But now it is March 13 and have heard nothing. On QRZ.com there is a lengthy video interview with the editor of CQ. Basically what he is saying is: There will be a combined March/April issue of CQ Plus out soon, then nothing until May. For CQ paper subscribers they still hope to print the missing January and February issues along with a combined March/April print edition. Reason given is that PopCom and the other publications were not carrying their weight financially mainly due to reduced advertising revenue which then impacted their ability to publish CQ (Allan Dunn. @k1ucy, March 13, NRC AM via DXLD) Print publishing is in a very tough place right now, and a lot of print publications haven't had an easy time figuring out financially rewarding web models either. I have considerable sympathy for media outlets. On the other hand I think there's been a lack of vision from the outset. I remember back in the early 90s - I'd recently been laid off as part of cuts by a major Canadian daily newspaper chain. This was mostly due to recessionary times. But a year later, with the internet beginning to take baby steps, I met up with one of my previous publishers with that chain and suggested to him he get a plan in place to somehow deal with the coming world wide web. He just laughed. He's moved on to another paper, but the paper he was at then now pales to what it was, though it does have a web presence. I think the online world has demanded a complete rethink of business plans. Hindsight is like telling football players what they should have done in the thick of the game, but the paper might have done well maintaining the paper and launching entirely different but somewhat related products and services. The paper could have emerged as the first internet provider to serve the community, for instance, charging a fee, and leveraging its news and other editorial content, and also cross-branding. It could have gotten into online discussion boards and forums, even as these were coming into being and evolving. Had periodicals not been so stuck with staying in a purely printed world, the landscape by now might be quite different and more profitable for them. As it stands, the print world has stiff new competition and is still working on ad models. As for commercial broadcast and ham-related magazines - and by commercial I mean those with some degree of capital resources - I think the same could have been attempted / accomplished, even on a modest scale. But OTOH it's become a challenging environment. Platforms are constantly evolving and even changing rather substantially. It can get expensive playing in this space. And it takes a good degree of smarts. (Saul Chernos, Burnt River ON, Mar 13, NRC-AM via DXLD) "It's dead, Jim." I hate to be cynical, but as a writer, I've written for publications that have gone out of business, and what I'm seeing here is a clear death rattle. We know (though nobody wants to talk about it) that they stopped paying their writers quite some time ago. But while (some) writers will work for free, at least for a while, there's no printer in the world that will print a glossy magazine if it's not being paid to do so. It sure looks to me as though CQ isn't paying its printer, and that's the route to a death spiral. Without a printed magazine, advertisers aren't going to keep paying for ads, and subscribers aren't going to renew. (Worse yet, some of them - like me - will ask their credit-card companies for refunds on undelivered issues, which leads to chargebacks, which eventually leads to the credit card processors refusing to do business with the publisher.) From the outside, I see a company that's in crisis and doesn't want to forthrightly address the issue. They're essentially out of business, only they won't admit it. I will be very surprised to see anything in print from them again. Assuming (as seems likely) that they have unpaid bills to their printer, they'll eventually be forced into bankruptcy. That's not a completely bad thing; the remaining asset of the company at that point will be the "CQ" and "PopComm" names, and someone could theoretically buy those out of a bankruptcy sale and revive them as online-only publications. But that assumes there's any goodwill remaining to those names, and the longer they plod along making unfulfillable promises, the more that goodwill will be damaged. It's a shame - but it's also not at all unusual in today's media landscape (Scott Fybush, Rochester NY, March 13, ibid.) Wonders Never Cease --- Received the January, 2014, issue of CQ (Magazine) in the mail today (John Sampson, March 22, ABDX via DXLD) Me too and I believe Powell Way got his as well (Kevin Redding, ibid.) Yes I got mine on Friday, yipee! (Jerry WWØE Rappel, ibid.) Me, too!! YE HAAA!!! (Joe-WA9LAE (Chicagoland), ibid.) MORE ON MERGERS It's interesting to read the thread about merging the clubs. A merger won't help the clubs. It will only postpone the inevitable. There is no future for organized, dues-paying DX organizations offering products or services for purchase. These are the clubs those of us in our 50s, 60s (me), 70s and 80s+ are accustomed to. The clubs that are growing today and will do well tomorrow are the groups (clubs) on Yahoo and Google. For example, ABDX on Yahoo with 320 members is a club (Many of you are already there. You know this). Then there are the groups on Facebook. Do you have a Facebook account? Then you have no idea how many DX groups are there. No doubt some of you post on the Facebook groups and many of them are pretty good and many of the members on those groups have left the organized DX clubs and post there. Your pool of future DXers is there. They don't need to pay dues. A club publication is unnecessary for them. They post there. Their make DX friends there. They learn there. Everything they need or want is free and can be easily found. Some of you guys even help them out. DX clubs will end up just like those groups. Free; no rules, no dues, no board of directors just a list owner or a group admin or two running the show. No doubt some of us will try to fight it but the future is already here. Have a great weekend (Mike Bugaj, Enfield, CT, March 14, NRC-AM via DXLD) I am largely in agreement with Mike on this. It gets back to what I was saying near the start of this thread: any customer-facing organization, whether it's a for-profit business (like CQ/PopComm) or a non-profit hobby group (like NRC or IRCA or WTFDA) has to decide at some point whether it wants to keep doing what's best for its leaders, or what's best for its customers. The strong tone that's been coming through in the last couple of days from leaders and established members of both NRC and IRCA is "we like doing what's been working for us, and we don't want to change." So be it: to the extent that each club's board has to respond to each club's existing membership, if that's what the masses want, that's what the board should do. But as Mike so ably points out, that doesn't lend itself to much of a future. I'm still "that kid" in NRC, or at least it feels that way from the traffic on the lists and the faces I see at conventions. If I wasn't the youngest person at Minneapolis, I was close. And I just turned 42. There are DXers younger than I am, some of them much younger. It's not a big crowd, but it's there. I know these guys. I cater to them in one of my other roles as a co-creator of the messageboards at radioinsightcommunity.com. I see them on the DX threads on FB and on some other, looser, mailing lists. A few of them dipped a toe in the NRC or IRCA mailing lists and didn't get a great reception. One of them went on to start a FB group about radio which now boasts - no kidding - 4,000 members. . . . (Scott Fybush, ibid.) WORLD OF HOROLOGY +++++++++++++++++ DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME IS WASTING PRECIOUS SUNNY HOURS It's been a sesquiweek since daylight saving time began. For people who woke up at 6:30 a.m., the rising sun had just begun to warm the day when we arose. Since then, we've been plunged back into morning darkness. The change has been a drag. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 extended DST by about four weeks, beginning in 2007. This was supposed to save energy on the theory that burning lights in the morning is better than burning them in the evening. The Bush administration estimated that this provision saved 0.03 percent of electricity usage, but some academic research found that higher heating and cooling costs overwhelm these savings. A week before the vernal equinox, when DST begins, daylight lasts 11 hours and 40 minutes, compared to 12 hours and 39 minutes when it used to begin. When DST ends on Nov. 2, there will be only 10 and a half hours of daylight. Can't we admit our mistake and go back to the more humane DST schedule? James Klumpner, Silver Spring. (c) The Washington Post Company (via Mike Cooper, March 20, DXLD) Mar 25, 1:12 PM EDT == BILL TO END DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME IN TENN. FAILS NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- An effort to exempt Tennessee from daylight saving time has failed by one vote in the state House. The House State Government Committee on Tuesday voted 6-5 against the measure sponsored by Republican Rep. Curry Todd of Collierville. Several lawmakers from the part of the state in the eastern time zone raised concerns that the measure would have caused their region's time to be mismatched with neighboring states like Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia during part of the year. Todd amended the bill to exempt East Tennessee from the bill, which caused other lawmakers to raise concerns about possible confusion over only part of the state adhering to daylight saving time (via Mike Cooper, DXLD) POWERLINE COMMUNICATIONS ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Over the past few months I've noticed a very strong, wideband (20 kHz, or so) buzz on a number of HF frequencies. It's about S9+40dB here in Reading. I had assumed it to be something local to me. However, the other day, something made me switch in the receiver attenuators. The lower part of the S-meter scale is much more responsive to signal strength changes and I was able to observe some fading. So it's propagating! Sure, enough: I was able to hear it on one of the Nederland-based SDR receivers. So, does anyone hear this and or know where this is coming from? Yesterday I heard it on 18050 and 11400 kHz for hours at a time, as far as I can tell (Martin Peters, 1604 UT, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) Powerline adapters probably. Most spikes on these are all in the same places no matter what adapter you buy. Anyone in any conurbation is likely to get this interference. Carries for 100s of meters on ground- wave and propagates as well (Steven Overall, ibid.) I'm truly amazed that nothing has been done about this menace. Not only do the BBC recommend them via its subsidiary Freesat the Gadget Show now give them away as part of their weekly competition. Regards, (Gareth [Foster?] Sent using BlackBerry® from Orange, ibid.) The PLC powerline "signals" I have seen are much wider than 20 kHz, sometimes 20 MHz wide and more. Using an SDR, yesterday (Friday 22-3- 14) at exactly 1500-1510 UT I saw an extremely strong 20+ kHz wide signal on 25870 kHz. It started with a strong S9 carrier, so I was hoping for an AM broadcast, but after a few seconds the noise started (S9, some fading). No, it was not DRM in 20 kHz mode. Maybe it was a data broadcast or (more likely) a hf radar system. 73 (Harald Kuhl, Germany, ibid.) Just came across another 20 kHz wide radar signal(?) on 20410 kHz (22- 3-14; 1158 UT; S9+10 dB with some fading) 73 (Harald Kuhl, ibid.) Do you have any Office Blocks, “Organizations” or Hospitals in your near proximately as it may be “Computer Communications between buildings (Tony Boreham, ibid.) There was much said of it when they first started to be used by BT on their TV service. In fact my neighbor below me had a powerline adapter on her own private network that destroyed my HF listening totally. As a licensed ham and keen SWL who does not much else, but I took it upon myself to report her to OFCOM over the matter. I often wish I didn't do so later on. I was like a bull with my shortwave blown to dust and nothing to listen to but VHF. So I did what was recommended by this club in Communication and on this group. An OFCOM field man came around on appointment and carried out tests of my own QTH and looked at my station very hard. He questioned me as to see if I was competent as well. And not just a bluffer who could hear no more Moscow. In the end he was satisfied that my complaint was genuine and that I was a dis enabled ham and SWL. So he set off with his gear to locate the culprit device. It only took him about 10 minutes to have the location and all the details he needed to do his stuff. He made me sign some forms and then said that he would put some powers he had into action that would force BT to de install the network from the premises. I was impressed. He said that there would be no communication with me on the matter and that my shortwave would come back in about two weeks as though by magic. All I had to do was sit back and wait. What did happen in fact is that she was bullied by BT who told her that they were coming round to sort her home out if she liked it or not. One day I was laying on my bed dreaming of shortwave when a big BT van pulled up outside. Several huge BT operatives stepped out with wrecking gear. They knocked on her front door and said that they had come to do the work. There was the sound of pieces of furniture being forcefully moved and her distress below me. Followed by a lot of hammering and banging that lasted for 15 minutes. I found that they left her with a hard wired system and confiscated her PLA but left her viewing gear alone. And this was not her wish at all but what they did inside her home on their legal orders. Big thick wires nailed around the perimeter of her whole home and sockets in every room. They probably did ask her where the sockets should go to her preference, judging by the sound she was making. She is a very nice Eastern European lady and I later found that she had her own national TV and private stuff streamed to her flat via internet. There was some kind of subscription with her own state TV company. And her partner who secretly has a brain the size of a planet built up her whole viewing and comms system for her out of old BT vision gear PlayStation and computer parts for her. All she was doing in reality was sitting in her flat with her scraggy smelly old pet cat watching TV, listening to the radio via the web and dashing away with a smoothing iron as she from time to time nattered with her ex-pat pals and girlfriends who were located distantly across London. She will seldom ever leave her home alone and never has done so, not even to the shops and her English is not 100%. She was always such a nice person to me before. And now she will barely look at me. And others treat me with suspicion at well. Even the other London Cockneys that live on the estate were and are shocked at what happened. You have to think and consider that if you do this. something big will happen to the other party involved. It`s far more serious than saying something like your neighbor`s dog growled at your little nephew or children to the local bobby. That alone will cause something like the intro to Alice in wonderland to happen. But as hams and SWLs we can make this sort of thing happen. And reporting to OFCOM works 100%. I got my short wave back and I will be trying on 6 meters in an hour or so. Then I will most likely go down to 40. Then spend the afternoon monitoring the broadcast bands. But you must think that at the end of the day you will get your satisfaction. But someone else will be affected as well and probably in a nasty way with it (Steven 2E1HFH Overall, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD) ! That indeed is a sad story, but rest assured you did nothing wrong; the blame is all BTs. You have every right to pursue your chosen hobby without it being ruined by a selfish brute like BT. They should never have installed the evil gear in the first place, and their reaction when asked to remove it was way overtop. I think an aptly worded letter to their CEO is in order. BT still installs PLT so it seems they have not learnt their lesson. Rgds, (Gareth, Sent from my iPad, ibid.) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DTV See MEXICO ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- DRM See also AUSTRIA; ETHIOPIA; GUAM; INDIA; ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ JAPAN; NEW ZEALAND; NIGERIA; ROMANIA; RUSSIA; SPAIN; UK; POWERLINE COMMS NEW DRM TRANSMISSIONS FOR A14 KTWR Guam has introduced a weekly DRM transmission in Japanese for A14: 1100-1200 UT on 12120 kHz DRM (Sunday) towards Japan ----- Radio Romania International has resumed its DRM transmission in English towards India for A14: 0300-0400 UT on 15220 kHz (Daily) towards India ----- BBC has added one hour DRM towards South Asia for A14: 0900-1000 UT on 17820 kHz (Daily) towards South Asia Via Nakhon Sawan --- (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, March 22, DX_SASIA yg via DXLD) Hier alle Registrierungen zusammen gefaßt. Alles Übrige soll ja nur die Registrierung reflektieren. Ob die je in die Luft gehen, kann ich gar nicht loggen. Dass die HFCC Tabelle viele Leichen und Unkorrektheiten enthält, ist bei 5500 Zeilen nicht verwunderlich. > Beware, there are a lot of "flashcards corpse" wooden registration > entries, would be never realized in A-14. Ich versuche mal die neuesten AIR Frequenzen heraus zu suchen und Euch dann zu schicken. Ich weiß auch gar nicht, was bei den Russia entries noch real in der Luft ist. Da wurde nur der Zustand aus A-13/B-13 fort geschrieben. Die Ingenieur-Damen vom GFC Frequenzbüro wussten Mitte Februar bestimmt nicht, wie es mit ihrer Firma und den Kurzwellendiensten weiter geht ... Die Olympiade Sochi muss ja bezahlt werden. vy73 wolfgang DRM mode transmissions, registration on HFCC file, A-14 season, as of March 17, 2014. 6115 1600 2204 28SE,29W MNS 75 0 925 1234567 Bel BLR BTC SDT res 7360 1200 2400 27,28 MNS 75 270 902 1234567 Bel BLR BTC SDT res The BLR entry in the list, says not necessarily mean that Belarus DRM a reality behind. 6000 1630 2000 28 SOF 25 0 933 1234567 Eng BUL NEW SPC 9400 0900 1400 39,40 SOF 50 90 618 1234567 Eng BUL NEW SPC 9400 1400 1500 28 SOF 50 306 618 1234567 Eng BUL NEW SPC 9400 1500 1800 29,30 SOF 100 30 618 1234567 Eng BUL NEW SPC 9445 0700 0900 39,40 SOF 50 90 618 1234567 Eng BUL NEW SPC 9600 1800 1900 29,30 SOF 100 30 618 1234567 Eng BUL NEW SPC 9610 0700 1100 28,27 SOF 50 306 618 1234567 Eng BUL NEW SPC 9820 1600 1900 29,30 SOF 50 15 618 1234567 Eng BUL NEW SPC 11600 0300 0900 40,41 SOF 50 90 618 1234567 Eng BUL NEW SPC 11700 0800 1100 27,28 SOF 50 305 298 1234567 Eng BUL NEW SPC 11850 2100 2200 19,29,30 SOF 50 30 618 1234567 Rus BUL NEW SPC 12000 0900 1100 19,29,30 SOF 50 30 618 1234567 Rus BUL NEW SPC 15515 0900 1200 27,28 SOF 50 306 885 1234567 Eng BUL NEW SPC 9400 0500 0900 28,27 SOF 50 306 618 1234567 Eng BUL TOM SPC 5870 1900 2000 27,28 SOF 100 320 618 1234567 Eng BUL WRN SPC 17500 1530 1600 41,42S,43SW SMG 125 90 217 1234567 Eng CVA VAT En 26060 0000 2400 28SW VAT 1 0 975 1234567 Mul CVA VAT Mul 26040 0000 2400 28 BLN 1 0 975 1234567 DEU D NEW FNA 26070 0000 2400 28 MUN 1 0 975 1234567 DEU D NEW FNA 26080 0000 2400 28 MUN 1 0 975 1234567 DEU D NEW FNA 9780 0500 0900 18,27,28 NOB 350 50 145 1234567 SPA E REE REE 13720 1100 1300 27,28W NOB 250 0 145 1234567 SPA E REE REE 15325 1730 1800 18,27,28 NOB 350 68 218 1234567 RUS E REE REE 15585 0900 1100 18,27-29 NOB 250 60 146 1234567 SPA E REE REE 3965 2200 2000 27 ISS 1 0 925 1234567 Fra F RFI TDF 3975 1500 1630 27,28 ISS 40 260 146 1234567 Mul F MBRX.305 3955 0459 0600 27S,28W,37N WOF 100 114 100 1234567 Eng G BBC BAB sweur 5845 1359 1800 41 NAK 100 290 151 1234567 Eng THA BBC BAB SoAS 17820 0859 1000 41 NAK 100 290 151 1234567 Eng THA BBC BAB SoAS 9760 1100 1130 28NW WOF 100 105 216 ......7 Eng G KBS BAB 9760 1100 1130 28W WOF 100 105 216 .....6. Eng G NHK BAB 9760 1130 1200 28W WOF 100 105 216 .....6. Rus G NHK BAB 6135 1545 1845 61S,62,63W RAN 35 35 148 1234567 Eng NZL RNZ RNZ 7285 1545 1800 61S,62,63W RAN 35 35 148 1234567 Eng NZL RNZ RNZ 7330 1545 1800 61S,62,63W RAN 35 35 148 1234567 Eng NZL RNZ RNZ 9630 1745 2000 61S,62,63W RAN 35 35 148 1234567 Eng NZL RNZ RNZ 9890 0645 1200 61S,62,63W RAN 25 35 148 1234567 Eng NZL RNZ RNZ 9890 0645 1200 51,56,64S,65S RAN 25 325 148 1234567 Eng NZL RNZ RNZ 9890 1830 1900 61S,62,63W RAN 35 35 148 1234567 Eng NZL RNZ RNZ 11675 0500 0800 61S,62,63W RAN 25 35 148 1234567 Eng NZL RNZ RNZ 11675 0500 0800 51,56,64S,65S RAN 25 325 148 1234567 Eng NZL RNZ RNZ 11675 1945 2100 51,56,64S,65S RAN 25 325 148 1234567 Eng NZL RNZ RNZ 11675 1945 2100 61S,62,63W RAN 25 35 148 1234567 Eng NZL RNZ RNZ 15720 2045 2145 51,56,64S,65S RAN 25 325 156 1234567 Eng NZL RNZ RNZ 15720 2045 2145 61S,62,63W RAN 25 35 156 1234567 Eng NZL RNZ RNZ 17675 2145 0500 51,56,64S,65S RAN 25 325 156 1234567 Eng NZL RNZ RNZ 17675 2145 0500 61S,62,63W RAN 25 35 156 1234567 Eng NZL RNZ RNZ 5910 1800 1830 28SW TIG 100 270 812 1234567 Ita ROU RRO ROU 7300 1800 1900 28NW TIG 300 307 205 1234567 Deu ROU RRO ROU 7330 0500 0530 27SE GAL 300 285 206 1234567 Fra ROU RRO ROU 7330 0530 0600 27N TIG 300 307 206 1234567 Eng ROU RRO ROU 7390 0430 0500 29 TIG 300 37 288 1234567 Rus ROU RRO ROU 7435 0600 0630 28NW TIG 300 307 205 1234567 Deu ROU RRO ROU 9800 2000 2030 27SE GAL 300 285 286 1234567 Fra ROU RRO ROU 9800 2030 2100 27N GAL 300 300 206 1234567 Eng ROU RRO ROU 11810 1700 1800 27N TIG 300 307 288 1234567 Eng ROU RRO ROU 11870 1500 1600 29 TIG 300 37 288 1234567 Rus ROU RRO ROU 15220 0300 0400 41 GAL 300 100 286 1234567 Eng ROU RRO ROU 15220 0400 0430 43,44 TIG 300 67 288 1234567 Zho ROU RRO ROU [RUSSIA, q.v., never mind as of April 1] 6155 2000 2100 37NW MSK 40 261 218 1234567 Spa RUS VOR GFC 6155 2100 2200 37NW MSK 40 261 218 1234567 Eng RUS VOR GFC 7300 1300 1400 41 IRK 15 224 287 1234567 Hin RUS VOR GFC 7300 1400 1500 41 IRK 15 224 287 1234567 Urd RUS VOR GFC 9445 1500 1600 41 IRK 15 224 218 1234567 Hin RUS VOR GFC 9820 1700 1800 41 IRK 15 224 287 1234567 Rus RUS VOR GFC 9850 0800 1000 27,28 KLG 15 220 143 1234567 Eng RUS VOR GFC 9850 1000 1200 27,28 KLG 15 220 143 1234567 Deu RUS VOR GFC 9850 1200 1500 27,28 KLG 15 220 143 1234567 Eng RUS VOR GFC 9880 1600 1700 27,28 KLG 15 220 143 1234567 Rus RUS VOR GFC 9880 1700 2000 27,28 KLG 15 220 143 1234567 Fra RUS VOR GFC 9880 2000 2100 27,28 KLG 15 220 143 1234567 Rus RUS VOR GFC 12035 1300 1400 41 IRK 15 224 287 1234567 Hin RUS VOR GFC 12035 1400 1500 41 IRK 15 224 287 1234567 Urd RUS VOR GFC 12035 1500 1600 41 IRK 15 224 287 1234567 Hin RUS VOR GFC 12035 1500 1900 28NW MSK 40 261 218 1234567 Deu RUS VOR GFC 13800 0600 0900 27,28 MSK 40 261 218 1234567 Eng RUS VOR GFC 12120 1100 1200 44,45 TWR 32 345 218 1...... Cmn USA TWR FCC Beware, there are a lot of "flashcards corpse" wooden registration entries, would be never realized in A-14. What's about RUS entries soon? (HFCC, via BC-DX TopNews March 17 via Wolfgang Büschel, DXLD) DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- IBOC See also MEXICO +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ AM RADIO "NEEDS STRONG MEDICINE" Radio World has a nice article out about comments filed with the FCC by the National Alliance of AM Broadcasters. While DX'ers may not agree with all of them, I think we would favor the majority. I also applaud their response pointing out that "half measures" (which the FCC is very fond of) will only prolong the demise of the AM Band. Saving it will require some bold action. The elimination of corporate influences such as IBOC would be a great place to start. Time to admit that the emperor has no clothes (IBOC won't work on AM) and move on to another digital solution, or better analog fidelity. http://www.radioworld.com/article/am-%E2%80%9Cneeds-strong-medicine-to-survive%E2%80%9D/269227 (Les Rayburn, NRC-AM via DXLD) I know, I know, I've said this 200 times before :) What AM needs is to leave the existing technical rules in place. Let the stations that can't afford to comply go dark. That'll thin things out & improve the chances the stations that *do* have resources will be able to reach their audience. More specifically to this article, I do certainly concur that AM direly needs proper enforcement of Part 15. However, compliance with Part 15 costs money. IMHO it's more likely we'll see Ted Cruz join the Communist Party than that we'll see the consumer electronic industry allow enforcement of these regulations. And that doesn't even count the huge quantity of non-compliant equipment already in the hands of consumers. Can you imagine what would happen if FCC agents started knocking on doors & demanding people surrender their non-compliant computers & cellphone chargers? (Doug Smith W9WI, Pleasant View, TN EM66, March 8, NRC-AM via DXLD) AM IBOC does need to go, as it is utterly useless on AM. While I also believe that the FCC has already gone too far in relaxing the technical standards in some ways, if there is no budget to enforce even those watered-down standards, then there is really no point in restoring some of what was removed. Another way to thin the herd would be to take a tougher line on stations who repeatedly cause interference to other stations by either failing to repair defects or by repeatedly violating the terms of their licenses. But that too would take resources which don't exist today and likely wouldn't going forward. The era of government agencies actually regulating what they are charged to under the law is long past (Russ Edmunds, 15 mi NNW of Philadelphia, ibid.) RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM +++++++++++++++++++++ ARRL to FCC: ``GROW LIGHT`` BALLAST CAUSES HF INTERFERENCE http://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-to-fcc-grow-light-ballast-causes-hf-interference-violates-rules (via Dennis Gibson, March 21, ABDX via DXLD) Just put the word on the street these Grow Lights making all of that RF hash makes it Super-Easy for the Feds to find the Pot Farms, THAT will get rid of 'em (Kevin Raper, KJ4HYD, CE WCKI WQIZ WLTQ, ibid.) I understand they replaced the large inductor in the older grow light ballast and replaced them with Triac and SCR devices and unless the AC line is properly filtered they will turn into extremely bad broadband noise generators that can literally cover blocks with strong broadband noise. I'm glad they are making this problem with grow lights known. 73 (Todd WD4NGG Roberts, ibid.) CARADIOS WITH SHORTWAVE Quiero hacerles saber mi sorpresa al tener que cambiar mi Autoestereo que fué robado. Empecé a buscar y no pude creer que hoy en día se sigan fabricando Autoestereos con ONDA CORTA como es es caso del PIONEER DEH-1550UB. Se ve que la onda corta aún sigue vigente sino no se explica como compañías como Pioneer y tengo entendido que también Sony siguen fabricando autoestereos con onda corta! A quien le interese le comento que no será un SDR pero anda bastante bien. Estoy muy contento con mi estereo con SW!!! Está bueno para cuando uno va al campo, y escuchás Onda Corta sin los ruidos característicos de la ciudad. Saludos cordiales (Luis Paredes, LU2EMH, March 23, condiglista yg via DXLD) BEGINNER'S CLASSROOM FOR APRIL 2014: Recent Shortwave Portable Receivers In an era where we've been told that shortwave radio is dying or dead, it's nice to know there are a few companies who still understand that there are stations out there to be heard. This month's classroom is devoted to a few new and recent shortwave portable receivers that have hit the market. Please note that I have not posted any receiver reviews with the description of the portables, but you can view them on a number of online websites. ETON Traveller III The relatively new ETON Traveller III receives LW, MW, SW and FM. The receiver has ATS or Auto Tuning Storage and on FM has RDS, or Radio Data System. This allows an FM station to send more than just the broadcast, but data which contains the station's call letters, song title and artist, and other digital information. The LW is restricted to 150 - 285 kHz, which really only covers the broadcast part of the band but not the beacon section. The SW portion covers 3150 - 21950 kHz, so the 120 meter and 11 meter bands are not available - but no one is really on the 11 meter band anyway, save for two low power stations! This small travel portable also contains a clock, a buzzer alarm and sleep timer systems, and there is a place to insert a plug for your headphones. The readout on this portable is digital and can be converted to 9 or 10 kHz steps for MW reception. For power, you can either use a USB cable that is included with the radio, or 4 AA batteries or a 6V adapter which are sold separately. The receiver costs $69.95 USD; I have yet to see them being sold anywhere in Canada -- but that could change soon. ETON MINI 400 This receiver began being sold about the same time as the Traveller III, and is also considered to be a "travel portable". Much like the Traveller III, the Mini 400 features MW, FM-stereo and SW reception, but unfortunately not LW. The shortwave section is divided into two bands: 3200 - 10 000 kHz, and 11650 - 18000 kHz. Compact, this radio is less than half the size of the Traveller III, yet has a readable digital display, a jack for headphones/earphones, and has a clock, alarm and sleep timer. This radio can truly fit in your pocket, and runs on either a provided USB cable or you can purchase 2 AAA batteries. Finally, not only is it less than half the size of the Traveller III, it is also less than half the price, at $29.95 USD. ETON FIELD Two regular sized portables recently released by Eton are the Field and the Satellit. The Eton Field has continuous coverage between 520 and 30000 kHz, plus has FM with RDS, 50 memories, external antenna connections, jack for headphones, RF gain control, wide and narrow bandwidth selections, and a digital frequency display. This radio resembles the Grundig S450DLX, and has a sleek look and good-sized tuning knob for scanning the bands. The receiver operates on a 6VDC power adapter or 4 D batteries, both of which are sold separate from the receiver. Although I haven't seen many reviews so far for this model, if it operates like the Grundig mentioned above, it should be a good receiver to add to your portable collection, or as a great starting receiver for a SW newcomer. The Eton Field sells for $149.99 USD. ETON SATELLIT The Eton Satellit receiver boasts LW (150 - 285 kHz), MW (520 - 1710 kHz in 9 or 10 kHz steps), SW (1711 - 30000 kHz), FM (87.5 - 108 MHz) and an AIR band (118 - 136 MHz). For SW the receiver includes SSB mode and for FM the RDS is available. A bunch of other bells and whistles include a dual time display (local/UTC), 700 memories, PLL synthesized dual conversion, clock and alarm with sleep timer, and a synchronous detector with selectable sideband. This receiver appears to be a true top-end portable, but again, I haven't seen very many reviews on it yet. I do love the way Eton describes some of these radios as "receiving every wavelength"; I wish they would change the ad to "receiving every major wavelength". I've never seen a receiver that actually goes from 10 Hz - X-rays, which I would consider to be just about every wavelength! The Satellit sells for $229.99 USD. MELOSON S8 I did not know that Kaito Electronics is responsible not only for the Kaito receivers, but for Meloson and Tecsun radios as well. The Meloson S8 is an improvement over the S7 in that it includes SW coverage as well as MW and FM. The S8 also has an MP3 playback component, with an option for a 16 GB MicroSD card that you can buy -- so when the above-mentioned bands are not enough, you can play music to your heart's content. MW covers 520 - 1710 kHz, two SW bands range 2.3 - 11.99 MHz and 12 - 23 MHz, and the FM band goes from 64 - 108 MHz. This 8 oz. radio contains a plug for earphones, has a great speaker, and is powered either by a Lithium-ion battery or a 5V DC USB. Although some companies sell the S8 for $59.99, the suggested price is $39.99 USD. TECSUN PL-880 This newest offering of the Tecsun line is a dual conversion receiver with LW/MW/SW/FM, with AM and SSB modes and fine tuning available in 10 Hz increments. This portable will become the top of the Tecsun line, offering great sensitivity and selectivity. The Tecsun has an earphone jack, a good speaker for casual listening, and has a spot to plug in an external SW antenna. The coverage of the receiver is as follows: LW 100 - 519 kHz, MW 520 - 1710 kHz, SW 1711 - 29999 kHz, and FM 64 - 108 MHz. This receiver retails for about $160 USD. I do notice a lot of reviews online for this relatively new receiver, and it seems to be a reliable radio if you're looking for a good mid-range portable to add to your SW arsenal. That's all for April. Happy Easter, a Blessed Passover, and I hope you are ready, willing and able for the Spring thaw!! 73, keep smiling and keep listening (J O E Robinson, Beginner`s Classroom, April, ODXA via DXLD) PROPAGATION +++++++++++ MAJOR COLLAPSE OF CIVILIZATION BARELY AVOIDED IN 2012 Several readers (thanks to M0VNG in Worcester, England, N1IN, KA7RJO, and several others) sent in news reports on the monster solar flare of July 2012, which was aimed squarely at our Earth's orbital path. Fortunately, our planet would not be in position to receive the disturbance for a week (or perhaps nine days earlier was the disaster point, according to some sources) and we missed another Carrington event, like the one in the 19th century which set telegraph offices on fire. Read about it at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/19/ and http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140318/ncomms4481/full/ncomms4481.html and http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2014/03/18/fierce-solar-magnetic-storm-barely-missed-earth-in-2012/ I am not an alarmist, but if that solar blast had struck Earth in the most geoeffective position in 2012, I am convinced that the result would have been a major collapse of civilization worldwide, just from effects on the power grid, let alone everything else. And without power or internet access for an extended period, I would not even be able to report it, and I don't know if I would even realize what had happened. Here is another article about the event, this time from National Geographic: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/ (QST de W1AW, Propagation Forecast Bulletin 12 ARLP012, From Tad Cook, K7RA, Seattle, WA March 21, 2014, To all radio amateurs, via Dave Raycroft, ODXA yg via DXLD) :Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts :Issued: 2014 Mar 24 0438 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 17 - 23 March 2014 Solar activity was at low to moderate levels. Low levels were observed from 17-19 March with the majority of the C-class flare activity originating from Regions 2010 (S15, L=202, class/area Dac/180 on 23 March) and 2014 (S14, L=169, class/area Dsc/190 on 23 March). Solar activity reached moderate levels on 20 March due to an isolated M1/1f flare at 20/0356 UTC from Region 2010. The event was associated with a Type II (572 km/s) and Type IV radio sweeps as well as a non Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME). Solar activity was once again at low levels on 21 March. By 22 March, moderate levels were reached again with an impulsive M1/1f flare at 22/0702 UTC from Region 2011 (S07, L=280, class/area Dho/300 on 22 March). Low levels returned on 23 March with multiple C-class flares observed including a long duration C5/Sf flare at 23/0348 UTC from Region 2014. Associated with this flare was a CME (estimated speed of 768 km/s) with the majority of the ejecta directed off the east limb, however there appeared to be an Earth-directed component that is expected to arrive late on 25 March to early on 26 March. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at normal levels throughout the period. Geomagnetic field activity was generally at quiet levels throughout the period with quiet to unsettled periods observed on 21 March due to prolonged periods of southward Bz. By 22 March, a rise in solar wind speed and temperature was observed at the ACE spacecraft just after a solar sector boundary change into a positive (away) sector. This was indicative of the onset of a positive polarity coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS). Solar wind speed increased from approximately 350 km/s to 530 km/s and remained near 480 km/s through the end of the period. Total field measurements reached 10 nT initially during the onset of the CH HSS, however it decreased to near 5 nT by 23 March. Only quiet conditions were observed on 22-23 March. FORECAST OF SOLAR AND GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY 24 MARCH - 19 APRIL 2014 Solar activity is expected to be at low levels with a chance for M-class flares through 25 March and again from 15-19 April. From 26 March through14 April, moderate levels are likely with a chance for X-class flares as old Regions 1996 (N14, L=052) and 2002 (S19, L=326) return to the visible disk. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at normal to moderate levels. Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at quiet to unsettled conditions on 24-25 March, 30 March-01 April, 09 April, and again on 17 April due to CH HSS activity and recurrent prolonged periods of the southward Bz component. Late on 25 March to early on 26 March, the 23 March CME is expected to deliver a glancing blow to the geomagnetic field causing quiet to active conditions on 26 March. :Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt :Issued: 2014 Mar 24 0438 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 2014-03-24 # # UTC Radio Flux Planetary Largest # Date 10.7 cm A Index Kp Index 2014 Mar 24 155 10 3 2014 Mar 25 155 8 3 2014 Mar 26 160 12 4 2014 Mar 27 155 5 2 2014 Mar 28 155 5 2 2014 Mar 29 150 5 2 2014 Mar 30 145 8 3 2014 Mar 31 145 8 3 2014 Apr 01 150 8 3 2014 Apr 02 150 5 2 2014 Apr 03 145 5 2 2014 Apr 04 145 5 2 2014 Apr 05 150 5 2 2014 Apr 06 155 5 2 2014 Apr 07 160 5 2 2014 Apr 08 160 5 2 2014 Apr 09 155 10 3 2014 Apr 10 150 5 2 2014 Apr 11 145 5 2 2014 Apr 12 140 5 2 2014 Apr 13 145 5 2 2014 Apr 14 145 5 2 2014 Apr 15 150 5 2 2014 Apr 16 150 5 2 2014 Apr 17 150 8 3 2014 Apr 18 145 7 2 2014 Apr 19 140 7 2 (SWPC via WORLD OF RADIO 1714, DXLD) ###